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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
by THE WAY
By Harvey PARSONS.

Feeling that he has been reasonably
patient with Hon Bryan, Hon Huerta
has decided that the time Aor hrmness
has arrived. OF course Hon Bryan Will
hurry to deliver the recognition de-
manded, and by adding an abject apoi-
ogy for the delay, may be able to dis
suade Hon Huerta from coming over
the river and slapping the Umteo
States on the wrist
Where" asks Jack Supp, can the
Indians get any green corn for their
green corn dancer" Mayhap, in the ao-
sence of corn, said Indians may worry
along with rye as a substitute. There
is really more action in rye than In
corn, anyway, which makes it more
suitable for dance purposes.
According to an exchange, music IN
Pinckneyville, Ill, includes II Trova-
ture, Poet and Pheasant and other ia
miliar overtures.
Suggestion to Capital reporters: Why
not print a little bushwa about Gene
Stotts, referring to him as former
member of the w. X. Big 3!
In making regulations for the garo
of women, tie grannies declare that
women can not expose their hosiery
above their knee. But the grannles
are mistaken,-the women can. what
is more, they frequently do,-while
boarding a street car.
Popular pastimes of the public are
becoming more and more restricted IN
San Francisco a gink was fined SloO
for knocking the hay out of news
paper manor at least that's what the
dispatch said. However, we doubt the
correspondent accuracy as to the
charge. The citizen broke a camera over
Z G
was probably for. destruction OF pro-
perty.
Great explosion shook City of Mex
leo yesterday. Everybody was afraid
to go see what caused it. and opinion
is divided as to whether it was pow
der mill or Huerta's opinion of his
Importance, which has been over infla-
ted for some time.
The judge up at Minot n. D., be
lieves in cruel and unusual punish
ment He sentenced some workers
of the World to ten days hard labor.
Making a Worker work is worse
than anything Tomas Torquemada, in
ventor of the choice implements used
by the InQuisition, ever thought of.
1t is reported that Ambassador Pat
Grove, of Omaha and Chicago, has
been handed his passports by the
Washington authorities, thus severing
diplomatic relations heretofore exist
ing between Washington and the pork
provinces. AS soon as Mr.. Bryan gets
time from his chautauqua duties, he
will send a peace envoy and three bot
ties of grape juice in an effort to square
matters His stenographer has pre-
pared the regular form of diplomatic
crawl which only awaits the sigma
ture of the great statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Reference the other day was made by
John Alexandra to the late Duke of Suth-
e-land as .'Strath.' has brought out that
many society leaders bear remarkable
nicknames.
The Marquis of Crewe is known through
out society as Robin doubtless because
OF his fondness some years ago for scarlet
waistcoats. No explanation, however. is
forthcoming for the name Blue Monkey -
commonly applied TO the Marquis de
Several.
Il is said that this extraordinary nick
name was bestowed on the former Portu-
guese ambassador by King Edward. his
intimate friend.
Lord Lonsdale answers to the name of
The Groom, while another equally we'll
know peer is known as "Porker.-Lon-
don cable to Washington Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
COUNTRY LIFE PROBLEM.

THE largest problem that faces
American civilization today is the
building up of country life." declares
Walter H. Page. ambassador to Eng
land. in bulletin on Education in
the South" just issued by the United
states bureau of education. I'VE have
just passed through a period of or
ganization of the machinery of the
modern world. making the city and
the railroad. but the country has been
left out. Now We must build it up.
We all know that in the coming cen
turtles as in the past. the character
and the vision of American life will
come from the soil.
I'm our early days the character
istic of the people of the United States
was individualism. Great as this was
for the cause of democracy. it rested
upon a false economic basis. A man s
home can not be his castle. for he is
mutually linked as his brothers keeper,
whether he will or no. A larger vision
and a large liberty and a larger OPP
portunity have come upon us as the
task for our working hours. We must
organize in the country"
Speaking of the work of the confer
ence for education in the south, TO
which the bureaus bulletin is chiefly
devoted, Mr.. Page said:
The historian of the progress of
democracy could not write a more
thrilling chapter than the events of
the past 10 or 15 years, taking as the
cue the note of the Conference for Ed
ucation in the South. We began with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,


GFrom the Chicago News.l
You can't satisfy a hungry man with
empty honcrs.
Tacks are also stubborn things-but YOU
can see the point.
He who waits for dead mans shoes
may get cold feet.
The wise old owl never opens his mouth
except to boot.
After reaching the top remember those
who helped hold the ladder.
But the faVors you do for your wife 5
relatives, are they appreciated?
A Jealous woman would be all right il
she could only keep the lid down
Many man who growls all day goes
homes and kicks the dog for barking at
night.
The boy who has too much pocket
money when he is growing up never has
quite enough after he reaches man S
estate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

the school and the child, and we end
with them, of course; but every step
has been toward a widening demo-
cratic ideal, to see how we could teach
one another, and we have come to
have broadening sense of all that CO.
operation means.
ITO till the soil, to train the chill
dren, to make the home, world of
continuous service, 1 count these the
greatest privileges that can fall to the
lot of man. We have worked on a
program to bring to pass the dream
of the fathers. that our Republic shall
be and remain the hope of the world. 3"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
EVENING CHAT
A New Point of View.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

"a great deal of this talk about the
tremendous debt children owe TO
their fathers and mothers is nonsense.
The children do not ask to be born;
their parents bring them into the world
of their own accord, and in doing so
they take upon themselves the duty of
caring for the children until they are
able to care for themselves.
More family happiness is wrecked
by the selfishness of older people who
try to impose their narrow and old
fashioned ways upon the younger gen
Grafton. and to interfere in the lives
of married sons and daughters, than in
any other way.
"All the return a father or mother
ought to ask from grown up sons and
daughters is love and appreciation and
of course. when that is necessary,
financial assistance. They have no
right to ask that the children shall live
with them to keep them from being
lonely or shall alter the course of
their lives for their convenience"
The above opinions We're expressed
to me by a woman the other day.
No, she is not a young wife made re-
sentful by interference from the older
generation.
Quite the contrary. For she, herself,
belongs to the older generation in
years. although emphatically not in
dren; one is just married: another is
about to marry and a third is likely to
marry soon.
If her words had been inspired by the
hot resentment of youth or by personal
inconvenience, they would not weigh
much; but they are her honest and
cool blooded opinion of the faults of
the class to which she belongs. And
because of that, 1 think they are a
point of view we'll worth considering,
although I must admit I combated
them warmly when 1 heard them.
Personally, don't believe,-as / have
said elsewhere in this column,-that a
girl needs to cease being daughter
when she becomes a wife, or that a
man needs to forget he is a son the mo-
ment he becomes husband.
Nor do I think that the young people
who trample indifferently upon the
happiness of the old folks in their race
for happiness for themselves, will find
that happiness very satisfying when
they clutch it.
But on the other hand, the older
folks certainly ought not to forget that
the young people have their own lives
to mould, and they ought to give them
every chance to do this in their own
way. If the older folks We're unham-
pered in their youth, they ought to
want to give their children as good a
selves suffered from exactions and in
references in their young married
lives, they ought to have learned from
their own suffering a sympathy that
would make them determine not to in
flict such suffering on their beloved
children.
We talk great deal about the selfish
ness in the young. Let US not forget
that selfishness in old people is even
more ugly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Boys soon get too old to cry but
girls never.
4. I.
AS a matter of fact, few men drink
enough-Water.
% j. j.
Real good conversationalists know
when to keep silent.
= + =
A comedian of the stage is perfectly
justified in being a crouch in private
life.
Some financiers are not appraised
at their true value until they are
started for prison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
HOME NEW WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
M ton cents n week or thirty cents
a month (by mail only. address
changed as often as desired. MhIe
ont of town the State Journal VIII DC
to you like daily letter from nome
Advance poyment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
hooIxkeeDing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
WHY is 1T:

WHY is 1T?
Said the millionaire in his auto
As he sped by a purling brook:
Say. wouldn't I like to drop in there,
With nobody near to look;
Say. wouldn't I like to be young again
And rest in that shady nook
Said freckled boy in the swimmin' hole
As the millionaire chug-chugged by:
say, wouldn't L like to own that rig
An wouldn't I make her fly!
Gee, that's somethin' most worth Twin
for;
I'll go to the city an try"
Percy Shaw, in the New York Amer
lean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Presumably the decent people of
Great Britain are as anxiously hoping
that the women of the Pankhurst
family will take UP a permanent resi-
dence in France as are the people of
the United States that Jack Johnson
will do likewise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Most interesting among the political
opinions floating around these days
are those reported to be held by Re-
publican leaders in congress. progress
sives as we'll as regulars, that Colonel
Roosevelt will enter the Republican
presidential primaries in 1915 in the
hope of capturing the Republican
nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Andrew Carnegie's attention is re-
specially called to the fact that the
American Association for Internal
tional Cancellation has taken up with
strange and original, if not sirnplified
simplified spelling. A recent favor
spelling. A recent favor from the as
ISOLATION was addressed to the Topeka
State Journal, Topeka, Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Mr.. Bryan seems to be as head
strong as he is indiscreet in one par
ticular. He reannounces that he will
continue, while secretary of state, to
lecture when he pleases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Harry Thaw's escape from Mat
tcawan came at q most opportune
time to provide his wife with some
much needed free advertising. Her
dancing act hasn't been taking New
York by storm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

1t occurs to the New York Even
ing Post that the music played by
the European concert in the Balkans
is evidently from the hand of a
futurist composer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
KANSAS COMAENT
HOW SMALL THE WORLD Isl

John Henry Mears. representing a New
York newspaper, has just comPIeteo q
covering the distance in thirty-five days
and a few hours. The previous recoro
was thirty-nine days and rev nous;
made in 1911. just think OF iI-arouhu
the world in thirty-five days! rms Is q
marvel of modern invention. IL SHOWS
how fast the world is moving. asI
trains, fast steamships and fast automo-
biles today are bringing the various ParSS
of the world close together, the Worlo
Europe are no longer considered of much
consequence. Trips across the contlneht
in a few days show New York ana San
Francisco closely connected. Distances
around the world are looked upon with
less concern than distances across the
continent were contemplated only rev
short years ago. Trains are moving IaSt-
er, steamships travelling more rapidly, arr
ships fitting about like lightningg from
center to center-thus have a rev yea -
revolutionized all travel. The record OF
thirty-five days for trip around the
world, marvellous as it is. will not stand
long. The next stunt will be to fly around
or tunnel through and establish a tube
system of transportation so a person may
take a seat in a tube, press a button ana
Anythings possible now! Verify II Is
wonderful age in which we lve!-Galena
Times.
NOTHING IN A DATE.
There's not any more In date TT tna iitt IN
Mathewson, the great New York Giants
baseball pitcher. Why compare them?
The birthdays OF both occurred the other
day. The grand duke of Russia is enter
ing upon his tenth year. He SPENDS ms
daily life in an endeavor to SURVEYOR
better. to exist, constantly guarded py
soldiers and companions. Christy MatheW-
son is IS years of age today and really
lives-enjoys life, in addition to existing
Compare the redoubtable Chrlsty, VINO
has gone upon the little mound in the
middle of the baseball lot for many years
to fight for his team, and fat salary
paid him by Manager McGraw. Christy
is more than a grand duke or the car OF
Russia. He is a king and an idol of men
Twenty-Five years from now, II nihllists
and anarchists do not get him[if his
guards and companions are faithful t.
| their trust, when Grand Duke Alexis is
| So years of age, will he be as famous then
as Christy Mathewson? Christy will be
an ''old timer" but his fame will live
after he has left the pitchers box, wheth-
er he is dead or alive, enjoying the fruits
| of his baseball labors on some productive
farm. The guess is that the average nor
NAL American boy would lot rathe1
emulate Christy Mathewson. who is 50
years old today, than wish he were the
| czarvitch of Russia.-Ottawa Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Refusing to participate in the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition seems to be the
principal summer amusement in the
European capitals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Julian Hawthorne says that upon his
release from the Atlanta prison he will
walk to New York. Evidently he has
tried riding on the southern railroads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

There is also this satisfaction to the
vegetarians. News of increases in the
prices of fresh beef doesn't add to
their worries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Will the diaphanous skirt last? asks
n fashion paper. Not II 1t is sent TO
the laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

This is also the season when the
kill-joys get busy by calling attention
to the fact that the school bell will
ring in a few weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Evidently the droutn didn't hit
Atchison very hard. She has had lit
tie trouble in floating a new bond is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Fortunately the high cost of living
doesn't embrace everything. a gen
tleman caught after midnight on a
fire escape testifies that the Jimmy in
his possession cost only ) cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

General Sherman defined war. Now
will not somebody evolve good defl-
milton of peace in the BALKANS?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

And the escapades of gay young
Lotharios that are so amusing in light
opera take on an entirely different
aspect when the finale is staged in a
criminal court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

"Clothe women with the ballot" ex-
horts a suffragist speaker. Why not
considering the nature of the clothing
they now wear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Nature sometimes INDUCES IN
pranks. The smallest pair of feet
have been discovered in Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TIE stare journal is e member OF the
Associated Press and receives the fuN DAY
feierraph report of that great news ~
Ganization for the exclusive AFTERNOON
ntbfication II Topeka
The news is received in The State jour
nsl building over wires for this sole pcr'
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Wasn't it reasonable to expect that
Harry Thaw would sooner or later
melt away?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

More yellow peril The japanese IN
California have hired a press agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

All mans are more or less faulty
but none more so than the Weathei
map.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

ANYWAY, Mexico didn't interfere
during our last presidential campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
FROM OTHER PENS
THE RETURN o. CASTRO.

Castro vindicates his critics. His re-
turn to Venezuela and his attempt to
rouse another revolution il that coun-
try may or may not be successful In
either case they demonstrate his char
acter and political principles.
Even he would not have the bra zen
effrontery to suggest that he has the
slightest constitutional claim upon the
presidency or that there is any consid-
cradle demand on the part of the Ven
eZuelan people for his return. Some
royalist pretenders have professed to
be responding to a popular call. And,
of course, they have had certain hered-
itary claims to thrones. But Castro'S
course is piracy. pure and simple. He
is trying by force to grab something to
which he has no title and which no
body wishes him to have save the
sordid mercenaries and professional
marauders whom his wealth may at
tract to his standard.
1t will be hoped that President Gomez
VIII be able summarily to suppress this
impudent troubler of the land. 1t is
true that he has himself developed
Castro-like inclinations toward uncon-
stitutfonal retention of power and Of
flee. Apart from that propensity how
ever, he has apparently tried to give
Venezuela a decent government. Also
his military strength should be consid-
cradle, for he has paid much attention
to the development of an efficient
army. The chief element of doubt lies
in the question whether his well drilled
troops Will remain loyal to him in spite
of Castro's temptations of actual brides
and prospective loot.-New York Tri-
bune.
AFTER THEY ARE DEAD.
Recently in the old city of Norwich,
England, there were exercises in COM
Inemoration of the life and genius of
George Borrow. Borrow's Temporal
ment is reflected in his books, and so
one may safely say that he would
have liked to be present at the com
memoration exercises. For from the
account of them they must have been
of kind to appeal to the Wanderer.
1t was not until after he was dead
that the author of THE Bible in
SPAIN was appreciated by his fellow
countrymen. Some time in England
they viii hold commemorative exer-
cises for Richard Jefferies, who also
was not appreciated until after he
was dead. Jefferies' worth as a ma
ture essaytst was first discovered by
americans. The Englishmen, save
for a few who when they did speak
ala not say much about him. passed
MIN by Today England acknowI-
edges that it was guilty of oversight
and ingratitude to q man who pic
tured the beauties of the home land
masterfully. Jefferies was. perhaps
the greatest of the English nature
essayists. 1t is the way of the world
to overlook the greatness of living
men, unless the great one is a war
rior or politician. Byron, however,
woke one day in London to find him
self famous. Some other poets, a
with them some prose writer's, have
been obliged to wait for the waking
in heaven before they knew that fame
had come or was TO come-Chicago
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
ON THE SPUR
or The NOMENT
Good Old DAYS the Best.
BY ROY K MOULTON.

1OCu OlU DAYS tie Best.
An eastern scientist cllims thar
the people CT this world didn't begin
to really live until forty years ago
and that life up to that time was not
worth while. This is an open ques-
ton and many will disagree with the
tions of the last forty or fifty years
are what makes life bearabIe.
We don't agree with him and if
You think it over you will have to
admit that in those good old days a
lot of our preSent-day nuisanceS were
unheard of. Following are a few of
the things the people of those times
didn't have to stand for:
Microbes.
Appendicitis
Squawking monographs
Reckless automobile drivers.
Bubbly drinking fountains.
Leaky fountain pens.
Wheezy furnaces with tremendous
appetitec.
Sawdust breakfast foods
Peg top trousers with cuffs.
Vaudeville yodlers.
F'ifty-cent butter.
Soreechowl automobile horns
Musical comedies.
According to Uncle Abner.
A Teller who wears a celluloid collar
in the middle of the summer is apt
to be the victim of an explosion at any
moment.
Mrs. Lem Higgins has saved I'D al
most enough soap wrappers to get
parlor table Lem says it pays to have
your wife take in washing
Any Teller who kin .figger out time
table amt got any business staying
in the ordinary walks in life. He ought
to be a professor in mathematics in
some college or other.
Reginald Hickey, who graduated
from college in 1900 with the idee of
reforming the world, amt done it vet,
but still has hopes.
1t seems like a day lost when the mail
does not bring three or four advertising
letters from old Doctor Hubbard of East
Aurora
Those Foolish Questions.
You need not ask the question,
For I know what it will be:
Do not waste your conversation
Yes, it's hot enough for me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

Those Foolish Questions.
You need not ask the question,
For 1 know what it will be;
Do not waste your conversation,
Yes, it's hot enough for me.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-25
NO. l..

Resenting the charges that he. was
a punchless champion fancy box
er VINO caught Abe AttelI at the right
moment and outboxed him-Jo Johnny
Kilbane is making his detractofs eat
their words. IA r-.s.-- -.--.
,Kilbane has been knocking them
cold in his late bouts, just as he did
when he began climbing the ladder.
1t was only when he became Clever"
that Kilbane ceased dropping oppo-
nents, and his recent exploits are
but a return to his early form.
Kilbane and his pTotege, Cal De-
laney, one of the most promising
feathers in the ring today, posed for
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-25

first baseman with a mark Of 1892,
played II more games than Chase,
but had eight fewer assists. -.
That would show that Chase was
more alert than McInniss. He ex-
celled McInniss in every way except
a purely mechanical guardianship of
the first stop. Stuffy could get things
which came his way, but Hal went
more than half the distance to meet
Old Man Opportunity.
Then slant the figures of Buck
Weaver, which, in the light of dry
statistics, are sad things to contem-
plate.
Buck operated in ISL games, Bill
KLEIN not being an American League
umpire. He had 800 put-outs, $50
assists and 20, errors, for the lowly