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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY The ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Chickens always look more comedy IN
pictures than in pens.
What has become of the old-fashioned
clerk who slept in the store?
1t is hard for the ordinary man and i'm
possible for the actor to hide his egotism.
Probably you always think your con-
clusion is logical. Most of us are like
that.
If a man insists on wearing wh1skers
he should carry a vacuum cleaner to in
sure sanitation.
A ringleader must win or be punished
for the effort; even the bossy engaged
girl proves this rule.
Time waits for no man, but a trifle like
that doesn't bother the loafer equipped
to do his own waiting.
tent, but usually give them blame little
credi. for taste in selecting names.
Somehow shoveling the snow Off of
mothers sidewalk doesn't exactly appeal
to the boy who bankers to be an athlete.
A perfect gentleman won't use the SAME
kind of language in speaking to his wife
that he might in addressing golf ball.
Occasionally man sizes up the valua-
bles in his household, and wonders how
an enterprising burglar makes a living.
Jude Johnson believes in sprinkling in
stead of immersion, and judging from his
persanl appearance he practices his pref
erence.
Link Preston: I'm my long life 1 have
found out only one thing for certain and
that is If you want to be sure to find
gratitude look for it in the dictionary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
uROoTTNG A PLAGUE.

| China, like Mexico, is witnessing
bloody work by the government. Hun
dreds of people are being killed by
the troops for disobeying the laws
and orders of the central authorities
of the republic. But in China this is
being done to uproot an old and dead
ly plague.
The warfare of the government
upon opium is being carried on so
relentlessly that in provinces like
| Fu-kien, where the cultivation of the
opium poppy is defended by many of
the inhabitants because it is the most
profitable crop they can grow, con-
ditions have been created akin to
civil war. In districts where poppy
fields are common the owners of the
land have taken up weapons to fight
for their forbidden means of getting
their livelihood, and there the gov
eminent forces have slain by whole
sale those who resist its DEGREES.
This is a strong medicine for an old
and deep-rooted disease and the way
it is being administered shows that
the Chinese government is in deadly
earnest Its determination is sufficient
assurance of it's ultimate success in
making an end of the cultivation OF
the opium poppy in China, and when
that shall have been accomplished
the Anglo-Indian authorities will be
bound by treaty obligations to stop the
expectation of Indian opium to China.
One of the oldest of the nations is
apparently sure of its final emancipa-
ton from an ancient curse which has
retarded for many generations the
physical, mental and moral progress
of ira DeoDIe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
.AYHAWKER JOTS

The Olathe Register suggests that IN
landing the state fair Hutchinson USED
| the Topeka Kan.
After an existence of five years Clay
Center's company of militia has been
mustered out of the service
The Kinsley airline railway has gone
into the hands of receiver. TOO
much air and not enough line.
The Catholics are to spend $4,000
on Soule college, on the hill northwest
of Dodge City, to make 1t ready Tor
their uses.
Just because a widow COPIED a
wealthy Plainsville man stenog-
rapher in Hutchinson is asking for
$25, 900 heart balm.
That story about wild ducks freez-
ing to death, printed by the Wichita
Eagle arouses a suspicion that Dave
Leahy is back in the newspaper field
Jake Decou, claim agent for the
Santa Fe for the past twenty-five
years, will retire on a pension OF 500
a month next September. He then
will be 81 years old.
An ordinance abolishing pool halls
at Cherryvale will go to the people
for a vote at the regular city election,
the commission having failed to act
upon it in the specified time.
Garnett has been added to the list
of commission governed cities in a
special election. The new forms ma
jority was 240. About 80 per cent of
the total vote, both sexes, was polled.
One engaged Howard young couple,
says the Courant. got that way as the
result of a case of love at first sight.
But the fact that their engagement has
been hanging fire for more than three
years indicates they are taking an
other look around.
Thieves had a habit of pilfering the
smokehouse of a farmer near Kim ball.
He set trap consisting of a shotgun
loaded with wads, in the smokehouse.
Later he thoughtlessly walked into the
trap himself. A physician removed
the gun wads from his left wrist and
he is minus finger on his left hand.
Ottawa has been having trouble in
getting the snow removed from her
and the city administration
has finally reached what it hopes will
be a solution of the problem. 1t is
proposed to establish a time limit,
and in case the walk is not cleaned
within the prescribed time, the work
is to be done by the city street force,
and the expense charged as a tax
against the property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
THE LATE BISHOP HOGAN.

! In the passing of Bishop Hogan, who
| died at Kansas City a few days ago,
the Roman Catholic church sustained
| a. notable loss. He was one of the
| oldest and most widely known mem
bers of the clergy in this country. The
New York Post pays the following
tribute to his memory:
The death of Bishop Hogan in Kan
sas City last week removes the sole
rival of Cardinal Gibbons in the dis
tinction of long years of service in the
episcopal office, leaving the cardinal as
the only survivor in the American
hierarchy of the council held at the
vatican in 1869. In 1868, John J. Ho-
gan, who had been a missionary priest
in northwestern Missouri nine years,
was consecrated bishop. Both he and
Gibbons were Irish. Both found in
hard work, simple living, and pedestri-
anism the secrets of health and long
evity. But the bishop of Kansas City
taxed his strength severely when he
was the sole priest in 80 counties, a
territory one and a half times as large
as Belgium, but then containing not
more than half a dozen Catholic fam
lilies. In after years the bishop used
to tell of the day when the first sod
was turned for a railroad in Missouri.
and when the burden of every speech
was opposition to the Roman Catholic
church. The "Know-Nothing'' move
ment had not then spent it's force.
Father Hogan saw fit to preach against
secret societies, and the stained-glass
windows of his church were smashed.
In 1865 he refused to take the states
test oath for preachers, and his arrest
was ordered. He arrayed himself in
full canonicals, and insisted on walk
ing to the court house beside the sher-
iff. himself one of Father Hogan's par
ishioners. and thoroughly ashamed. In
the bishops old age his tall figure was
familiar on the streets, and he was
accustomed to respectful and friendly
saIutes from people of every faith"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
QUAKER fluctuations,
[From the Philadelphia Record

GF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
Genius is really only eccentric when it
pays the bills.
What cinch it would be for women if
hypnotism would reduce the hips.
The office that seeks the man has the
lone fisherman stalled to a standstill.
The fellow who falls in love at first
sight would like caviare the first time he
tried it.
This is a free country, which may eS-
plain why the politicians always help
themselves.
It's the things we shouldn't do at all
that we never put off till tomorrow if we
have a chance to do them today.
There are exceptions to all rules re-
marked the Wise Guy. Except my
wifes,'' added the henpecked husband.
Few things at the bargain counter look
so cheap as man who has been waiting
for his wife for about two hours.
Alas. 1 undone,' walled the
heroine of the melodrama- The VILLAIN
smiled sardonicaIly. for, of course, she
couldn't ask him to hook her up the back.
This new joke writer seems to have
biting wit" remarked the editor. Yes"
replied the copy reader. YEARLY, IT can
tell the exact age of most of his jokes by
looking at their teeth
why are you so indolent?'' demanded
the stern parent. you don't see me leI-
ting the grass grow under my feet
No" replied the indolent son, ''if you
had let some grow under your feet you
wouldn't be SO close to the point where it
is going to grow over your head"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
Spring Came in .Jannarv.

Unseasonably advanced though spring
has this year been. the condition is not
unprecedented-as all must be aware who
have dipped on occasion into those springs
of perennial delight, the bound volumes
of old agricultural journals. Consider
for an example of early spring. the Jan
uary and February of 1923. Under date of
February 29 in that year, Robert W.
reported that in January he had eaten.
at Point Coupee, on the Mississippi, good
ripe apples and had observed blooms
on the second growth of cotton stalks
from the old roots. During January he
also noted at Mobile that 7-year-old olive
trees were beginning to blossom. On
February Is, at Cahaba, Ala, the honey
sucl1le and yellow jessamine had been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
SAYS UNCLE CIV

| One good workable, effective way
| to go to seed is to sit down and con-
graduate yourself upon what you have
accomplished. China did that some
centuries ago; untold. obscure millions
of men who had possibilities have done
the same thing and died nameless, and
if America ever dies of dry rot Wen
have only our national complacency to
thank for it. Not that we are likely to
meet that fate-there are too many
clear-headed hustlers among us to per-
nit US to block the way to glory with
self-felicitations.
Not one in a thousand of our won
derful mechanical and scientific ap-
planes is perfect. Our knowledge
and our mechanical achievements are
both in their infancy.
Do we point with pride to the loco
motive? Then, as suggested by an
editorial writer the other day, we dis
cover that is the most wasteful pro-
Queer of power from coal that we have.
Electricity, then? Certainly, but a
huge fraction of the total power is
lost in transmission. That suggests
helplessness or thriftlessness-possib
both, but hardly. We oan, if we will,
meet that problem. Is there room for
complacent contemplation of our
achievements until we have done so?
Again, we have had an inkling of
wireless transmission of electric DOW
w
OF transmission superior to the pres
ent, with it's millions of dollars of out
lay for wires-anything to be proud of
on that score?
Also, there are untolL billions of
horse power going to waste in the
water course of the country-power
easily transferable into electricity,
power holding that possibility of a rev.
olution of our Industrial system from
farm to factory. In this a point Of
pride?
Here is a series of items Of ire
mendous waste, all in the train OF
motive power. We are no farther be-
hind our possibilities in this one par
ticular than in a thousand others
AS scientists, artists and mechanics,
we are infants. The light of human
achievement only glimmers-it has yet
to shine. Into the lavish storehouse
of nature, we have only dipped-we
who are crying out at the possibility
of impoverishing the earth
As a people, we have done little to
be proud of except that We have tried
fairly shriel1s to us in eV-
cry whistle of the locomotive; in the
roar of our waterfalls is the age-old,
half discovered demand for men of
vision. Science cries in tongueless
pleading for some one who will bring
her yet a little more light. When such
things be, have we earned our ease
is it time for complacent contemplation
of the work of our hands?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
HE DID HIS BEST.

He did his best" What epitaph
Could better sum mans splendid deeds
No need to pen a paragraph,
RMS simple phrase is all he needs,
That he was honest, gentle, true,
And ever loyal to each friend,
And cheered the world he journeyed
through
Nee'. rot be penned.
He did his best" 1t follows then
That he was all a man could be,
helper of his fellow-men,
Brave in defeat; in victory
Humble always, with simple grace
Wearing his honors to the end;
His life you could not better trace
If books of praise you penned.
For he who does his best is kind.
And he who does his best is true;
The record that he leaves behind
Is fit for God to view.
And when it comes my time to go
My way I'll gladly wend
If this of my lifes work below
Can honestly be penned
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03

Miss Pickelle?' You beti wish me lick y y
'Oh. 1 wish you luck, all right: b11t il
Won't do you bit of good; I feel s1,-e
she is going to accept you.'-Houston
Post.
Bank Clerk-You must get some one TO
identity you Some one who knows that
you are Michael Clancy, Clancy-Fwat's
tn matter wild yez? Don't yez suppose OF
Wife-Why, George, whatever in the
world are you trying to do? Husband
Putting this cover on my umbrella. OF
course Wife-That isn't an umbrella
Puck.
How do you account for the lack of
enthusiasm in your district" said the
inquiring friend. well" replied Senator
Sorghum. Il had to make p LOT of car,1l
paign promises. And you know cam
paign promise is very much like a Jack
snipe. 1t doesn't look nearly so large
when you take off the feathers and get
down to the meat.'-Washfngton Star
"And did he impugn your Veracfty ?'
ponderously inquired the pin feathery
young attorney 'Sah," replied the fraz-
zled and tattered Brother Bogas. Nun
no, sab! No, sab, he didn't do nuth'n'
like dat, sab. He dess 'nounced dat / was
a contaminated black Iiah dat he could
whup less ground dan two-dollar bill
kivered.'' Then what?" ALSO he done
it, sah-"-Kansas City Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03

one was saying. breathlessly, you're
not done with love. DrexelEdon't you
| dare say it-not while 1 live to show
you how much I love you"
Ami"
yes" Her cheek was against his
shoulder now. It's Ann. 1 heard all
about it at the club, and 1 came here
| and made your man let me in
There was long silence as he held
her to him. ct won't have it, Ann
WHAT"
oh, l know what you're going to
offer You're going to, be sorry for
me now that | am-blind-and you'll
try to make UP for my trials by offer
ing me something that y>u couldnt
give when I was WE'LL
Listen she said, gently. ooh,
don't let US have more misunderstood
1ngs, Drexel. When you asked me to
De your wife I was the happiest wom-
an in the world. No other man
me how fortunate was how rich you
were, how you could give me every
thing, how I ought to be grateful, and
nnally-ft seemed to me that some
thing in your manner seemed to say
that 1 ought to be grateful. And my
pride f1ared up, and that's why 1
seemed so frivolous. I did it to hide
my hurt, and when you couldn't I'M
Decentralization you blamed me
things grew worse and worse. I
NO0lu1Al SAOW you HedTI. But
now-why, Drexel, there's something
that l can give up-you need me. I,
oh, don't you set? I couldn't come
back and tell you how 1 have missed
you, though my heart has cried out
for you. couldn't come to you, could
1, when you were well and happy?"
He gathered her into his arms.
Ann, my Ann he whispered.
"And you'll let me stay" sobbing,
"let me stay-Drexel ~
How could he refuse that plea? He
tried to be strong, tried to hold out,
but he could not. His awakened I'M
Outstanding of her heart showed him
that he must not wrest this happiness
from her.
They were married, and he could
not see her in all her bridal beauty.
But the day came when he saw her.
Months of rest and travel brought
back strength to wearied nerves, and
it was when the SHOWS melted in the
April suns that Drexel beheld his wife.
His sight came suddenly, and she was
kneeling on the rug playing with Kim.
Ann" he said. sharply, you've
grown thin, dearest
She looked up. "Drexel!' she cried,
and there was wonder in her voice.
You can see me?'
She chung to him, and his eager
eyes took in all the tender beauty of
her saddened face.
ST see you with my eyes now, Ann"
he said, and his voice broke, but my
heart first looked into your heart that
day when you came to my rooms and
found nd."-(Copyright. 1918,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
EVENING CHIT
Subjective or Objective.
sY RUTH CAMERON.

| Did you ever realize to what an aston
ishing extent pleasure and plain, desire
| and dislike, are subjective rather than
objective, that is, produced by own
by external objects?
| Suppose I make that more concrete. For
| two or three years l have been telling
everyone about the indescribably delicious
| orangeade which I once bought at lit
| tie corner grocery store in a small coun-
| try town. A few weeks ago l CHANGED to
visit that town again and, of course L
fastened to the little corner grocery
store to see If they still had the magic
waited eagerly, but when 1 lifted it to
my lips what was my establishment to
| find nothing but very ordinary orangeade,
| not so good as that 1 could buy in the
city any time. Surely this was not the
same thing I had had there two years
ago, I asked They insisted it was the
the same materials, and brought on wit
| nesses to convince me, while 1 listened in
unbelief.
Since then I have been thinking about
the matter, and I have found this solu-
ton of the mystery. The day 1 drank
that orangeade two years ago was
trem endously hot day. 1 had been walk
ing in the blazing sun along dusty coun-
try road. l was unspeakably hot and
tnat put the magic in the simple drink.
not its maker. And so three-quarters Of
the pleasure took in that orangeade was
subjective and not objective.
Again, at the end of a vacation at a
primitive summer resort where the mat
tresses were of the kind that seem to he
making an effort to push up through your
anatomy, I spent long day, journeying
in the open air, and stopped at night at a
rather nice little inn. 1 never slept in
such soft and luxurious bed as that
little inn afforded me. So impressed was
l by its comfort that 1 actually asked the
manager of the hotel the make, and was
surprised to find that it was a most IN
expensive affair, far inferior to those in
my own home. oYu see the softness and
luxury were in my mind and in condition
of WEAKNESS rather than in the bed
Surely you have had similar expert
ences, when you attributed great charm
or lack of it to some object and found
after all that most of this feeling was
subjective.
And don't you imagine that very often
the same thing is the case when we don =
find it out or admit it to ourselves2 For
instance our admiration and desire for
some expensive article we think is caused
by the beauty and desirability of thu
article. Isn't it often merely subjective
and inspired by our knowledge that inc
article desired by other people in othe..
words, is in the style?
And again L wonder how offer love
itself Is subjective, and is inspired moro
by the lovers desire to love- than nv anv
wonderful charm in the beloved But / |
am afraid that is a dangerous slIbisc+
and had better stop right here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03

Topeka is not alone in the matter of
a public satisfied with the plan of
stopping cars, as the following
from the Boston Globe will show: 'Ob-
lection is made to the prepayment cars
because they usually stop with the
rear platform over the cross walk, SO
that passengers required to leave by
the front door have to step off in the
mud. One way to straighten that out
would be to make the roadways so good
and keep them so clean that there
wouldn't be any mud"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.

the CnlcdSO
Small talk sometimes begets big trouble.
The man who is really smart doesn' t
act that way.
Be sure you are right, then go ahead
and ask your wife.
Mony leap year girl after getting a
look declined to leap.
Absence of the long green has caused
many man to feel blue.
The father of a new baby is soon cor
WINGED that it is yell spring of joy.
On his wedding day a man should close
the lid on his past life and nail it down.
During courtship kissing may be over
done, but after marriage it is usually un-
derdone.
A young man should learn to paddle his
own canoe. even if his father does own a
motor boat.
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but
the latter commands a higher price in the
magazine field.
A clever woman is one whose cleverness
is never unpleasantly felt by those with
whom she frequently comes in contact.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03

stage replaced, until further prepara-
tons in the way of warm stations
are provided as gasoline motor
can not be. left out at 80 to SO de-
grees below zero and be expected to
start when required. 1t has been dem
onstrated, nevertheless, that with bet
ter roads and warm rooms in which
to place the machines at stopping
places, they could be operated with
success on the winter mail trail and,
in fact, all over the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
ON TEE SPUR
or The AOMEWT
The Old Woodshed.
BY ROY K. MoULToN.

The Old WOOdShed.
How dear to my heart are the scenes OF
my childhood
When fond recollections presents them
to view.
The orchard, the meadow, the deep
tangled wildwood,
And cen the old woodshed my infancy
knew
The oaken woodshed,
The moss covered woodshed
The doggone old woodshed
Ny infancy knew.
How oft in the cleaning we have jour
neyed to 1t,
My father and 1 back in dear old ST. Joe:
And never a journey but what did rue 1t.
For pa was mighty hard hitter, you
know.
The old oaken woodshed,
The moss covered woodshed,
The lively old woodshed
That / used to know.
But when we contemplate our troubles at
present
In making living as grown up
folks do,
The old-fashioned punishments looks sort
of pleasant,
1t was but a moment ere it was all
through.
The old oaken woodshed,
The moss covered woodshed,
The easy old woodshed
My infancy knew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03

The legislature is not far from ad-
tournment and scarcely a thing has
been done in the line of swatting the
railroads. So the full crew. bill has
been decided upon as the measure
best calculated to satisfy the clamor
of the railroad baiters. Some members
probably are afraid to go home and
face their constituents with nothing
in the way of anti-railroad legislation
TO their credit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-03
FROM OTHER PENS
AFTER MADERO, WHAT?

With the death of Madero and the Sc
lection of Gen. Huerta for president.
there is at least truce in the troubled
affairs of Mexico.
The affairs of that unhappy country
must still be viewed with extreme pes
simism." If the Mexicans were incapable
of maintaining constitutional form OF
government under Madero, it is yet to be
shown that they are capable of maintain
ing the makeshift form of government
that the two warning factions set up in
fear of American Intervention.
Tomorrow another dissatisfied adven-
turer may start a new rebellion.
All that the United States asks of Mex
leo is a government that can protect the
lives and property of Americans and 9TH
er foreigners. If the new government
can do this, the United States has no
just cause for complaint. If it fails, the
problem of establishing such a govern
ment is one with which this country Is
seriously concerned
The outcome of events abundantly JUS
titles Mr.. Taft's policy of noninterven-
ton. 1t shows that if the United States
had interviewed, in response to lingo
clamor, the American troops would have
been confronted by a united Mexico. All
differences between federals and rebels
would have been buried instantly in
common war against the invader.
This is something to think about for
the future. The Mexican question is not
yet settled. 1t is one of the perplexinS
problems that must be passed along to
the Wilson administration, and it is likely
to require all the tact and firmness and
foresight that the new administration
can command.-New York World.