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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record
a new leaf is really the same OLD
one, with just another turn.
You don't have to play poker with
a man to win his friendship.
Success always gets applause, but
it doesn't always respond to an encore.
Feed a woman on fiattery, and she
won't miss your bread and cheese and
kisses.
Many a man who says he studies to
please eXpendS most of his efforts on
himself
A course in an agricultural school
isn't absolutely necessary in sowing a
crop of wild oats.
Self-conceit is a good asset. A man
can't hope to be popular with his
friends unless he is popular with him
self
Lay something by for rainy day.
and some fellow will come along and
borrow it just as soon as the clouds
begin to gather.
"All the worlds a, STAGE quoted
the Wise Guy. And a continuous
performance. at that, replied the
Simple Mug, YEARLY.
Even the study of physiognomy
won't always help US in sizing up a
man who can be crooked with a per-
fectly straight face.
Blobbs-''It is mighty difficult to de-
termine a mans value Slobbs-
That's right. You can't tell much
about it until he is dead, and his life
insurance is paid
Harduppe-''There's Bjones- He
looks lonesome" Borrowed Then
his looks belle him. Harduppe-
What do you mean?" Borrowell-
Il just struck him for a loan, and
didn't get it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
EVENING CHAT
DenendabiIitY.
BY RUTH CAMERON,

Molly. the little Stenographer-Lady was
going to dance. For this Important oc-
casion she was to have a new gown an
event quite important as the oance
itself She was telling us all about 1t on
the night before and we asked II we
"But it isn't done" said Molly: Mrs.
Martin is going to bring it around tomor-
row afternoon" , .,
said the Author Mans wife. aghast. How
do you dare leave it until them?
because 1 know Mrs. Martin, answer,
ed Molly serenely. eff she says she VIII
have it done 1 know she Will. l am no
more anxious about it than II han IL IN
my own clothes press.
What a very splendid quality depend
ability is, to be Surei
How much more useful and valuaple II
makes other good qualities. ~
How many talents, what great abilities
what fine qualities of character are weak
ened and made infinitely less valuapLe pc
pendablity!
We all know workers of one sort or an
other who are capable of brilliant things.
hut who are passed by in favor of others
less gifted because they cannot be de-
pended upon.
Unrelia bility is the rotten place at the
heart which spoi1s the fairest seeming
fruit. While a reputation for dependable
ity is like the mark sterling which fixes
an Interchangeable value on all which 1t is
stamped. -
and so said tt
III course IT VIII We uOilc AAohe, ~ CIV
so is going to do it"
.'Of course she'll do it, she promised
What splendid things these are to have
said about onei
Occasionally something occurs to bring
one of the popular songs OF h1teen or
twenty years ago to my mind Whereupon
l am inclined to think the world Is de-
teriorating, for surely the cheapest or
them are never such absolute meaningless
trash as the popular songs of today.
No, kind reader, 1 have not suddenly
taken leave of my senses and forgotten
my subject. These reflections are more or
less apropos because I'm going to quote a
popular song of fifteen twenty years
ago. / wonder how many of you remem-
Der when Maggie Dooley Sweeps the Floor.
You Can Bet that Floor Is Clean. That
used to be thought trash, didn't it? But
it certainly sounds sensible beside Il
should worry like hen and scratch all
day without pen" or half dozen others
l could name.
But why mention Maggie Dooley now?
Because / like the way that funny little
song celebrates the quality of dependa-
bility.
Somehow Maggie Dooley was always
more of a reality to me than "Sweet Rosie
O'Grady'' or Seeing Nellie Home, or
any of her more sentimental sisters.
have a sub-conscious picture of her as a
hearty Irish lassie, with bright blue eyes
and a wide, pleasant mouth, and her
"When Maggie Dooley Sweeps the
Floor. You Can Bet that Floor Is Clean"
Despite the slang, it's a very good thing
to have said of one isn't it?
I'd like to have its counterpart said of
me and my work, wouldn't you?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

/ the ravine at the brooks grassy edge she
| had built littl stove of stones. She had
| picked up dry brushwood and was build
| ing fire, when Pierre gave a great growi
| and the brush cracked. The girls eyes
widened as she saw a 1.-the mans figure
| jerry" She said. Jerry Priestleyr'
She had some ado to convince Pierre that
went bodily over to the enemy, fawning
upon him.
| Jerry come over to the girl with the air
| of child joining In game. He trim
med the fire little, and casually sat
down near her.
he asked. This was the first time in two
years that he had had free speech with
ousiy an" under his gaze. u The They were We're com
rades, these two-they had been neigh
ion ion boarding School and he to college.
I'm going to cook eggs, and roast Pc,
basket He got them and kneeling be-
gan wrapping the eggs in wet paper
with i her III under TT the light of a rising moon
and sat cousin Annie's porch. And the
| next day he roamed with the girl, and the the
Mrs. Trent and Mr.. Grantley knew where
the time had gone.
bIoomed Doris went to meet Jerry in the
orchard. and when he put out his arms
she rar etrasnt fna9 he said
are you going to marry h mel n,,le a0u away Ma!
from from him me- and do looked at him with loving
"of-course-you knew would; But"
coined byeMamma-not at first
He took her and held her close os,e. a mo mo
m Isnt An Strange me a that DON'T Want
body but you to welcome me?, he askeu
IT found my way to your heart. l eneSi1
that every man sooner or later folloWs;
Copyright. 1913, by the Mcclure News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
AXHAWKER JOTS

According to the belief of the
| Leavenworth Tribune, Kansas has its
grafters and the grafters have Kansas.
An acre of rutabagas will give
plenty of roots for the COWS next win
ter, and some good roofing for the
hogs this fall, advises the Stafford
Courier.
Everyone is enjoying this cool
weather now, reports the New York
Valley correspondent of the Wood
ston County Journal. How, about the
ice man?
AS the Kanopolis Journal says: 1t
is as hard to keep any one from know
ing what you do in a little town as it
is to attract attention to what you are
doing in a big town.
Wild oats are sown quickly, says
the crop expert of the Marquette
fully and are harvested day and night
for years and years.
Dull times at Mayetta are unknown
these days. The shooting gallery is
doing a Furnishing business, reports
the Mayetta Herald. 1t sounds like
a young war all day across the street.
Growing wheat is reaching the
pasture stage, reports the Liberal
News. 1t will help solve one of the
seasons farm problems. And buffalo
grass is in the vigor of second child
hood.
w Use Ola N Is DelTS CToulteQ by
several papers with the following:
The hand that can pillow a straight
furrow in the field and keep the weeds
out of the corn can generally write a
check that is good at the bank.
A citizen of Kinsley was awakened
one morning recently by hearing voices
under his bedroom window, relates the
Kinsley Mercury. 1t was still quite
early so the party listened and gath
cred from the conversation that three
fellows had been taking a little some
thing during the night and one of
them insisted on going to the cellar
and getting some more. But they
didn't do it. The Kinsley citizen had
bunch of firecrackers. He tore
them open, touched a match to the
fuse, tossed them over the window sill
and awaited results. Talk about a
short tailed dog and a tin can. He
was not in it compared with the way
those fellows tore down the street.
With the explosion of the first fire.
cracker the fellows were off like rab-
bits and as the fuSi1lade became more
rapid they seemed to- accelerate their
speed Even Sheriff MaXey could not
disperse crowd more quickly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
HUMOQ or THE DAY

DO you believe in signs?" Certainly.
business you are in.'-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Greece was the torch-bes-er of civil
cation" declared the teacher. Were
there sunragette arson squads so long
ago?" asked the bright pupil.-Buffalo EX9
press.
Gentlemen of the jury said the law
yer, impressively. our defense is insan-
ity- L shall show that my client once
served on a jury and listened to expert
testimony for four months. Puck
Did you ever meet a lobbyist" '"Yes 3,
replied Senator Sorghum. did he offer
you money! No. / was already con
WINGED of the merits of his propositio,,
He borrowed ten dollars ''-Washingto1
Star. ''N
Did you ever really love any girl he
fore you met me?" asked the beaItiT,,&
one No" replied the titled foreienar0
you're the first girl 1 have ever Know,
who had money in her own right"
Il suppose that you are relieved of co,,-
siderable expense now that it is no IonsnI
necessary for you TO supply the noidnistt
OIL for your son college % Co s ~
contrary, explained the father .ss, .ile
commencement I have been inrrssnS
with the relatively higher cost of b,,rr5eu
midnight gasolene. Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
GIassmakinr Revolution.

Based upon recent discoveries con-
nected with the application of new
chemical formulas, Prof. Alexander
Silverman, head of the chemical de-
partment of the University of Pitts
burg, announced today that develop
ments in the glass industry in the flu
ture will be as revolutionary as those
in the manufacture of steel in the past
II believe that the chemist will COM
pletely revolutionize the manufacture
of glass within the next 20 or % years."
Prof Silverman said today, land that
effects will be produced which have
never been dreamed of. At the same
time the cost will be reduced in many
cases, and products which at present
are wasted will be utilized. "-Pittsburg
Dispatch to the New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An argument is seldom as important
as those engaged in it think.
- - =
And the best of neighbors secretly
find a whole lot of fault with each
other
j. j. Il
A doctor usually informs a patient of
the worst when he presents him with
his bill.
+ =
Liars at least have the advantage of
being equipped with healthy and Wig
orous imaginations.
y - +
Every man is obsessed with the no.
ton that he's a better player at his IA
vorite game than he is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Perhaps the state fish and game
department could also serve Kansas
we'll by cultivating and developing sea
gulls which would delight to frolic on
the plains and prairies. In erecting
a monument to their memory, the
Mormons call attention to the fact
that along back in 1S4S a flock of
these birds saved them from starva-
ton by devouring a horde of grass
hoppers that were ravaging their
crops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
FROM OTHER PENS
GREECE AND BULGARIA

An interview with President facet c,.,,rz
frni man, OF Cornell university, just back
rom years service as minister TO
Greece, confirms many impressions il, +bio
SSoGntry of the Balkan wal: President
Scnurfnan points out how Bulgaria. a
prime mover against the mower Of tba
Moslem in Europe, valiant nation breast
ig, practlcaily alone at first. the hitherto
conqueror's claim upon vast areas of what
had Deen Ottoman territory lost through
greed nearly all that had been won by the
now must be content with but a narrow
strip of territory and bear the burden of
sisting that Greece and Servia Should give
up to her what thee had taken from tbe
Turks, turks, destroyed a. once her prestige and
was put In the position of accepting
crumbs from the table instead of sharing
at the banquet. In contrast, the course of
greece from the beginning of hostilities
TO the close has been such as to win the
admiration of the civilized world for the
soldiers OF the late King George and the
patton of all governments for the states
men who guided Greek destinies through
the time, of stress: The Greeks fought
IKE the heroes of Platea, Marathon and
Salamis must have fought: as the Spar
tans OF old must have battled in their
austere bravery The enhanced position
now taken by Greece among the nations
of the world is largely due to her splendid
soldiers. King Constantine: succeeding to
the crown on the battlefield it might be
said, showed himself to be more than a
trained soldier. He comes out of the war
acknowledged military genius. Greece
must be reckoned with among the powers
of Europe. hereafter. Her statesmen of
whom Prime Minister Nenizelos the peer
of any in Europe. is a type: her soldiers.
through Turkish pride, and her king, a
general as well as a monarch. give her the
nations of the globe. A nation which
promises her allies to put $4,000 soldiers
in the field and actually puts in 100000 and
in the future.-SChenectady Union-Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

walking and the city had hundred
pairs of stills made for them. Compel
tive athletics for the boys brings very
complete organizations in many cities.
At Jacksonville, Fla, regular athletic
meets and an annual circus are held
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
According to Uncle Abner.

The Teller who says he kin stop
drinking any time he wants to never
wants to.
In a few years there will be
enough different brands of breakfast
food so that every Teller kin have one
brand for himself.
The only trouble with the nicotine
absorbin' pipes is that they don't alb
Sorb the nicotine.
1 never saw a newspaper man who
wasn't loyal to his paper. If he
wasn't loyal he want a newspaper
man, that's all.
It takes a lot more nerve. conf
dence and optimism to be an employ
er than to be an employe.
You never have to lie awake nights
thinking up schemes to get even with
q crook. Let him alone and he will
get even with himself.
1t is believed that the two-passenger
porch swing has done more to pro-
mote matrimony in this country than
any other piece of machinery that has
ever been invented.
Hank Tumms says he hopes he will
get his last winters coal paid for by
Oct. 1st., so he can stand 'em off for
some more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

1t seems no more than reasonable
that the states receipts from hunting
licenses should fall off this year in
comparison with what they have been.
About the only thing that it is permits
sible to hunt in Kansas nowadays is
fish. and the recent drouth put seri-
Gus crimp in the current fish crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
ON TEE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
A Lament,
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

1 shot an arrow into the air, 1T fell
in the distance, I knew not where, till
a neighbor said it killed his calf, and
had to pay him six and a half ($6.5O).
1 bought some poison to Stay some
rats and neighbor swore it killed
his cats and rather than argue across
the fence L paid him four dollars and
fifty cents ($4.50). One night 1 sat
sailing a toy balloon and I hoped it
would soar till it reach the moon, but
the candle fell out on a farmers straw
and he said l must settle or go to law.
And that is the way with a random
shot. it never hits the proper spot; and
a joke you spring that you think so
smart may leave a wound in some fell
lows heart.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Crime is becoming more prolific in
Boston, and particularly in respect to
drunkenness. Maybe this is due to
the increasing price of beans which is
likely to have deprived many Boston
ianS of their favorite fruit. It's a
failing with many foolish people to
attempt to drown their sorrows in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Huerta is Spanish for garden And
the one that has been in the limelight
so much of late seems to be of a va
riety that produces nothing but Bleed
ing Hearts,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Ex-King Manuers bride has been re-
ported as having fallen ill, been pois-
oned and attempted suicide. Can it be
that the lady is not supremacy happy?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Maybe the earthquake rang the
church bells in the vicinity of the
Panama canal as a mark of Natures
appreciation of the success that has
attended mans effort in that monu-
mental undertaking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
TELEPHONES.
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or-
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole puI-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

That count who claims he was to
be paid $500 a year for marrying a
New York girl can be called at least
man of much commercial spirit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
KANSAS COAAENT
THE FARM BOYS CHANCE.

THE FARM BOYS CHANCE.
The young man who learned now TO
produce a beef steer economically has
knowledge that is of more practical
value to the world and the means OF
making more profit than he who
learns how to write shorthand, keep
books or run street car. He is mead
ed on the road toward that financial
independence which will enable him
to employ a stenographer quicker than
by any other method. The farm boy
always did have an advantage over
every other boy in the race of life, ana
now he is getting a better advantage
than ever, owing to the highest prices
of beef and the promise of yet higher
prices that are bound to come. There
is no danger that the business OF
farming will ever become overcrowded,
and right now you may pick up any
city paper you please and read the
pitiful little ads that plead for work
for those who learned how to do the
soft things. The boy who leaves the
farm these days for the city gives up
a certainty of a profitable occupation
for one in which there is small chance
of success. To be sure the farm boy
needs education as much as any other;
perhaps more. If there is a way of
producing more wheat to the acre, or
making lands generally more produce
tive, or ways of producing fat beef an
imals quicker than at present the farm
L.
to have the best knowledge there is 60
ing, for he will need it in the coming
days.-Wilson World.
CAN HE DO 1T AGAIN?
A real test of President Wilson's con-
troll over the party policy is coming in
the currency bill legislation. Great
party leaders in the Democratic party
surrendered without much of a con-
test, to President Wilson's defined
views on the tariff question because
those views all lay along the line of free
trade, and free trade is the traditional
policy of the Democratic party The
Democratic party has no traditional
policy which touches this new currency
measure and the question directly par
amount in congressional circles TODAY
is IN regard to the presidents potential
control or the currency reform situa-
tlon IN the senate. Will he be able to
lnuuce the senate to act on the Owen
Glass Dill without delay and without
material alteration in its provisionsP
MS ABILITY to put the tariff bill through
the senate, Notwithstanding the narrow
party majority, shows that in that mat
ter at least he had absolute party con-
trol and this new test of that control
VIII be watched with interest bv the
country-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

San Francisco would have shown
better sense if she had abolished her
Barbary coast before the turkey trot
grew Up and left home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

A Pennsylvania man who held five
aces may not live long to profit by the
lesson of the wisdom of moderation in
all things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

One mans judgment is just about as
good as another's regarding the out
come of the series of games for the
worlds baseball championship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Soon the United States supreme court
will be in a position to plead in self
defense that the incubator was I'M
known in Solomon's time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Republicans and Bull Moosers in
New York city are united again for
the time being at any rate in the cam
paign against Tammany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Another certainty. That Indian
apolis society girl who caught a thief
after a mile chase wasn't wearing one
of the new-fangled narrow skirts, or
else it had a tremendous slit in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Nor must it be supposed that every
body who voluntarily lives a dual life
dies a single death by choice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

He's a forceful citizen who can per-
suade his wife to postpone buying her
fall hat until the new tariff takes
effect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

To reduce the cost of living, eat less
meat and more cereals, advises DR..
Wiley. But probably breakfast food
three times a day would stall even
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

But perhaps the St. Louis men who
bought lots in New Jersey swamp
under the name of "Spottswood Manor
were not originally from Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Without doubt, the Japanese are
much peeved because the Panama
canal structures withstood a severe
earthquake shock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
CHEAPER GASOLINE.

A word of cheer for automobile owners
comes from Findlay, o. new process
for refining oil is announced to the world.
reduction of four cents a gallon in the
price of gasoline is among the benefits
which it is claimed will result from the
discovery. the new process. 1t is said
breaks up the ro-carbonS of petroleum
into whatever combination is needed and
then condenses under pressure. It is
stated that it will be possible to convert
IS per cent of crude oil into gasoline. The
fact that a new 81 100000 plant has been
built apparently indicates that the pro
cess is beyond the experimental state. 1t
has been recognized for the last few years
that science must be looked to for any re-
source Of supply has been diminishing be-
cause of the smaller production of pc
troleum. and demand has been increa sing.
The only solution of the problem was to
get greater percentage of gasoline from
petroleum than is obtained by dis
tillation. 1t would appear that eXpecta-
tions have been exceeded in the new pro-
cess.-Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

There is one sane man in Mexico
He's the Mexican legislator who says
that the rank and file of American
people are not interested in Mexican
affairs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

Equal rights for the women also
appears to be the popular program
these days with the fraternal insur-
ance organizations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

1t may help any who do not fee
fully satisfied with current offerings
in autumn weather to remember that
the worst is yet to come.