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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
AYHAWKE.R JOTS

If the farmers got the blues on ac-
count of unfavorable weather as quick
" as the town people, thinks the Mar
quette Tribune, they would sell out
and quit the business within SIX
months.
The Abilene Reflector tells of a down
trodden farmer in Ellsworth who want
ed a motor car but the best he could
afford to buy was a six-cylinder Pack
ard at a cost of $5,5Uv. The neighbors
are thinking of taking up a collection
for him.
Told by the Halstead Independent:
After I wash my face l look in the
mirror to see if it's clean. Don't your
asked a sweet little girl of Bobbie.
Don't have to- replied Bobbie, Il
just look at the towel
A man in Iowa was soundly thrashed
last week by his wife for not paying
his newspaper subscription after she
had given him the cash to do it, notes
the Wester Times, and it adds: May
her crown be trimmed TO order, and
her harp have an extra string.
a great many men don't attend
church services because it is too warm.
explains the Pratt Republican, and. it
continues: Why don't the preachers
warn them that they should get ac-
customed to the heat, as the sudden
change will some day be severe?
One of our lady subscribers, tells the
Jennings Echo, vowed that she would
teach her husband to pick up things.
So she let everything lie just where
he dropped it and at the end of the
week she called US in to see the room.
Everything he had was on the floor
but his plug of tobacco.
There was a strange young lady in
Lebo for short time one day this
week, reports the Lebo Star, and two
of our young men tried out filtration
with her. But she knew so many
signs, winks and bIinks that the To-
calities were soon at sea and took to
the inside of a store, remaining under
cover until the fair one drifted out of
town.
1t is said that there are only five
old maids in Mulberry. One of the
quintet declared all the desirable mas
culine timber had been picked up and
that the five didn't propose to take
'leavin's.' Which would cause one
to surmise that the five weren't on the
job early enough. Picking out promim-
ing husband material isn't so different
from other kinds of marketing. The
girl who gets up early in the morning
and does her skirmishing before the
rush. usually lands a choice speci-
men.-Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
HIGH SCHOOL AND CITIZENSHIP

"High-school teachers of social
science and history have the best OPP
portunity> ever offered to improve the
citizenship of the land" says DR..
Thomas Jesse Jones of the United
States bureau of education. DR.. Jones
believes that the 100000 boys and
girls now in American high schools
form the largest group of persons any
where in the world who can be guild
ed into acquiring the social point of
view" by means of the subjects of So
cial science and history taught in the
modern way.
Good citizenship should be the d.
rect aim of the high-school courses in
social science and history" he de-
clares. Good citizenship is the test
that must be applied to every topic in
these courses. Facts, conditions, the
cries, activities which do not contrib
ute directly to the appreciation of
methods of human betterment have
no claim on the time of the high
school pupil
DR.. Jones points out that under
this test civics must not be merely
a study of government machinery, but
a study of all manner of social efforts
should know, of course, how the pres
ident of the United States is elected !:
but he should also understand the
duties of the health officer in his COM
munity. 1t is the things near at hand
and socially fundamental that should
be taught first of all. Comparatively
few persons have any need of know1-
edge of congressional procedure, but
every citizen should know what are
the chances of employment for the
average man.
Proposed topics in this newer high
school civics are: Community health,
housing and homes, pure food, pub
lie recreation. poverty and the care of
the poor. crime and reform, family
income, savings banks and life insur-
ance, human and material resources
of the community, human rights
versus property rights. impuIsive ac-
ton of mobs and the selfish conserva-
ton of tradition, public utilities, like
street-car lines. telephones, and light
and water plants.
THE purpose is not to give the pu-
Pill an exhaustive knowledge of any
of these subjects, but to give him
clue to the significance of these things
to himself and to the community, and
to make him want to know more
about the conditions under which he
lives. 1t is to help him to think civ
ically, and, If possible, to live civ
ically.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

much concern for over year that 1t was
dying. 1t is 20 feet in circumference at
it's base. 1t had bravely withstood the
disease that has destroyed most OF the
chestnut trees throughout the east, ana
IT is probably the last to die in the
Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown sections.
This monarch of the forest is known IN
history the tree under which the last
treaty was made between the whites ana
Wequasqueek Indians. Under its roman
tic shade also Irving wrote his famous
The HeadIess Horseman," with scenes
laid at Philipse manor
Although the treaty tree is practically
dead, it will not be felled and destroyed
like hundreds of its fellows there. 1t is to
be preserved, and long trailing, Towering
vines have been planted about its base to
cover it completely in the future. II
stands almost in the center of the Phil
ipse manor property, close to the Hudson
River, in full view from Broadway or the
old Albany Observation-Disclosures IN. ~
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

he told her quickly. THE world has
not grown wonderfully big and
bright-to me-"
Caroline glanced wistfully into
Jimmy's eyes, but remained silent
until the taxi stopped and she and
Jimmy stood together within the
daintily furnished apartment that
was his masterpiece.
Perhaps you have never ques-
toned yourself about being in love,
Jimmy" Carolin said. and her voice
was deep and true. ''I did not know
that 1 was until 1 questioned myself
thoroughly, and
Her fingers had twined about his
arm and Jimmy went rather white.
"Don'ti'' he said swiftly. 1T is
too late for me to question myself
1 love you, Caroline"
The girl laughed softly and
slipped into his arms.
Il knew it, she cried joyfully.
Now let's look at our housed" And
when Jimmy let her speak again she
added. You might have known there
would never be any man but you
in my life. ''-(Copyright 1913 by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
The Diary of a Bonehead.

Genius is grand thing If you can make
it work, but today feel IKE Slx-cylln YIN
two cylinders and getting only about four
miles out of a gallon where L should be
getting fourteen.
one week ago today I committed muir
der I didn't exactly do it myself, but
hired my neighbor's hired man to do it, |
was an accessory after the fact, or
the cat, for the victim was Caruso of the
Alley Fence, my. wife's- favorite feline
songbird, who had caused US to fall into
disgrace in our neighborhood.
saw Caruso properly murdered and
buried out back of the barn under ton
When nv wife discovered that the cat
was missing she put up wall which
brought back fond recollections of the
late lamented-
AHA said I. and here was where the
genius came in. AHA" said L your
cat has probably wandered away. 1 will
offer a reward of $25 for his return
myself and giggled inwardly for 1 knew
Caruso was buried in five feet of earth
under a ton of cobblestones-
This morning fourteen boys arrived,
each with a cat and each hoping to win
the reward. There were cats of every
race color and previous conditions of
servitude I looked on in mild amusement
while my wife examined the cats. l was
content 1 would never have to remove
that SIS reward money from the bank.
Suddenly, to my horror, she identified
one of the animals as Caruso. The strange
cat and the late lamented Caruso looked
as much alike as two Republicans in Ala
bama. You couldn have told them apart.
The happy lady Rugged the strange cat
to her breast and handed $25 to the
grimy patriot who had brought him.
1 learn one thing every day. Today
learned that the art of getting rid of a cat
does not call for genius. 1t calls for stold
indifference and grim determination.
Caruso 1 is still buried among the cob
blestones and CaTuso II Is making night
hideous for the neighbors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFrom the Phfladelphfa Record.l

CFrom the Philadelphia Record
The pfous girl is not always a church
belle.
Even an undertaken likes to settle in a
live town.
Procrastfnation is a big word to accom-
plish so little.
It doesn't make a fireman mad to tell
him to go to blazes.
Some men impress their friends as being
too good to be true.
Even the girl with clocks in her stock
ings may miss a train.
People who give advice must expect to
take a lot of blame.
You can flatter many women by calling
them desperate flirts.
1t is possible for man to hove more
gold in his teeth than in the bank
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
ON FEE SPUR.
OF The AOMENT
Your Town.
By ROY K. MOULTON


Said old man HaSkins, with a frown
"A man is a fool fer to knock his town.
It's easy to find faul all day long,
1t doesn't take brains fer to do that stunt;
It's simple to knock and to crouch and
grunt
And say that everything's going to pot,
Whether it's exactly true or not
And crabbin a town, fur as I kin See
Don't never bring no prosperity.
If you find that you've got to growl about
Your town it is time to git clean plumb out
And hide your disconnected face,
And let the folks stay who enjoy the
place.
Just wrap your buds in a nice round pack
And beat it down to the railroad track
When the train pulls out you kin shake
your fist,
And go your way; you will never be
missed;
For there amt no room on the old home
rooSt
For the Teller who doesn't know how to
boost.
There are lots of men who can't earn
their salt
Cause they spend all their time a'finding
fault.
The boosters the boy who knows his cue,
And he sticks right to it through and
through.
If he has kind things of his town to tell
It's dollars in his jeans and he knows 1t
we'll.
And the Teller who finds fault, day and
night,
Will never find town that will suit him
quite"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
KANSAS COAAENT
s'PEP' -

PEP"
1t is pure, unadulterated slang, is the
word pep" but IT is coming into such
common usage that one need not be sur
prised if it eventually finds it way into
the dictionary. What is pep? Pep is
energy. But 1T is even more than this.
1t partakes of grit courage, resolve, de-
termination, sticktoitiveness. Given pep
ana man has confidence in himself and
is filled with hope of the future. He In
virile, self-dependent and competent. But
eliminate this essential ingredient of
character and you have the mere shell OF
a man, the hopeless, obJectleSS huSk OF q
human being incapable of consistent effort
and therefore without possible chance Of
achieving success in anything. The man
with the pep is the man with a purpose.
He believes in others and he believes In
himself Who has the pep? Your neigh
Dor who started with nothing and built
up a business despite the difficulties that
harassed him at the outset. He's q man
who never lost his pep. And again the
woman who has reared a family of level
headed children that know how to get on
in the world and reflect credit on them
selves and their parents, never lost her
pep or there would be a different story to
tell in her declining years. Every person
who plods on doing and accomplishing
and mastering problems as they arise.
is possessed of the pep. Pep is what
makes life worth the nving.-Parscns SUM-
A SHEME FOR UNION.
News from Mexico indicates that Next
can leaders have hit upon what seems TO
be scheme to unite the wranSl1ng ele-
ments of the troubled republic Snould
any foreign foe invade Mexico 1t is very
likely that the local discussions would be
harmonized by a concerted effort against
the invader. Throughout Mexico there
has been much anti-American feeling. 1t
looks as if this is now being used IN
an effort to restore peace between the
warning factions. The United states oiI-
cially has no intention of being aggressive
against Mexico. Uncle Sam is a long
suffering and very patient spectator 10 the
ups and downs of Mexican administra-
tions If by any chance the United States
should become involved in Mexico IL
would be with the object OF bringing gov
ernmental order and peace out or condl-
tions of chaos and anarchy. II Mexico
can be harmonized and settled Down 10
the ways of peaceful business py UNI
bragg towards the United States this Will
be another way towards fulfilling exactIy
what the public on this side OF the ooTder
would like to see acknowledgements
Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
HUAOR or THE DIP

rs that man one of those lobbyists who
influence legislation?' mo. He draws
compensation by making a corporation be-
neve he is."-Washington Star.
How do you stand the heat?' Much
better" replied Mr.. Growcher, than 1 can
stand the man who insists on talking
about t."-Washington Star.
Riggs Acknowledgements is a picture
of my wife's first husband" Digs
SILLY looking guy! But say, didn't know
your wife was married before she met
you" Riggs-"She wasn't. This is a pic
ture of myself when 1 was twenty-five"-
Boston Transcript.
Quizzer-"What's the matter, old man?
You look worried" Sizzer-"I have cause
to- hired a man to trace my pedigree"
Quizzer-"Well, what's the trouble?
Hasn't he been successfuI?'' Sizzer-.'Suc-
careful! 1 should say he has! I'm paying
him hush money."-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
THE DAISY.

Slight as thou art. thou art enough to
hide,
Like all created things, secrets from me,
And stand a barrier to eternity.
And, I, how can l praise thee well and
wide
side?
Thou little veil for so great mystery,
When shall 1 penetrate all things and
thee
And then look back? For this I must
abide,
Till thou shalt grow and fold and be
unfurled
Literally between me and the world
Then shall 1 drink from in beneath a
spring,
book.
o daisy mine, what will it be to look
From Gods side even of such simple
thing?
Alice Meynell, in the Living Age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
THE PARKS NEED SEATS.

! OF what particular value are fine
parks to a city, If they are not pro-
vided with the facilities SO that all OF
the people can enjoy them to the full
/ est extent? Topeka has such parks
several of them real beauty spots, with
magnificent shade trees that would be
most serviceable to many during
! sweltering afternoons Yet few, compar-
atively speaking, are the people who
can enjoy the advantages of these
breathing spots either during the day
time or the evening. And this is true
because the seats in the parks are
scarcer than the proverbial hens teeth.
Perhaps it is not exaggerating in the
slightest to state that Topeka is one OF
the few civilized communities in the
whole world that hasn't its parks fiile1
with seats for the multitudes. In fact,
in most cities in this and other coun-
tries an adequate number of seats is
placed in the parks before they are i'm
proved and beautified with fiowerbeds,
or equipped with fountains, pergolas,
and things of that sort. Why even,
down in Mexico, that appears to be
about as far removed from civilization
as possible. there isn't public square
in any town whose paths and walks are
not filed with seats.
But in Topeka. the only folk who can
enjoy the delights of the parks are
the owners of automobiles and car
riages. They can drive in and around
the parks and take in their pretty
Vistas. their welcome shade and cool
ing restfulness at their ease. Numer-
NIT n
the bulk of the population, these people
are really a favored few. The great
majority of Topekans have to get about
on shanks' mares or street cars. For
them the parks are little better than
useless. After a person has walked
few blocks to a park on a hot day or
warm evening. he feels like sitting down
and resting. But that is impossible, al
most. in the Topeka parks, unless a
seat is taken in the grass. and then the
festive chigre gets busy.
What a boon it would be to count
less Topekans, for instance, if the walks
through the state house grounds We're
lined with seats. OF course, this is
state property. But the state would not
refuse the city permission to place
seats there. That much can be taken
for granted. Neither would any of he
attractiveness of this spot be destroyed
by such seats. The same sort of boon
would be conferred by seats in all The
city parks.
Topeka has spent much money on its
parks during the past few years, and
it is a shame that some of it was not
diverted to the purchase of seats.
But this is an error that can be rec
titled in short order, if the commits
sioner of parks and his conferees on the
the city commission are so disposed.
And if they can spend $500 of the city
funds to assist in the taking of a social
survey of the town, they surely ought
to be able to find a way to make a
necessary appropriation to equip the
parks with seats. Even a small he
ginning in this direction would be ap-
preciated by the people of the city.
AS a matter of fact, what's the use of
having parks. that only a small number
of the citizens can enjoy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

eT; SO is the boob who asks: '1S-it-
hot-enough- for-you The shortage of
summers two greatest pests should be
cause for mild rejoicing.
Now that it is no longer considered
good form to punish the children, the
man OF the family gets it all.
Austin Dobson, candidate for Poet
Laureate, may not be much of a poet,
but he looks like he would take the
matter seriously, which is the princi-
pal part of being poet laureate.
can't think of any old saws tub
spring tuhday, but ruther than miss
thls,yere truthful statment: Thuh old
settler who remembers when it was
hotter is Har.-Deacon Squash.
summer here?" asked a visitor the
other day. NO" replied c. A c. sit
stays this way a while and then gets
worse
1t is to be hoped that women will
draw the line somewhere when it
comes to copying south Europe cos
TUNES. The Bulgarian blouse is bad
enough, but the Turkish skirt is only
inches long.
Until optimism goes off the job and
the supply runs out, this department
VIII print daily hot weather help
under the caption
1T NIGHT BE WORSE!
A fly may lay a million eggs, but
doesn't cackle like a blamed fool over
each one of them.
Optimistic readers of this depart
ment are invited to contribute any
brief observation that might be suit
able under the headline.
The Great American Mania takes
different forms; some men, who
would not hike the size of a fish by a
single ounce, spend their spare time
in lying about the bright things their
children say.
This is the Big Day in Northeastern
Kansas, where the relative Importance
of fixed dates may be illustrated
thusly:
'Rah for the Fourth of JULY
'Rah for the Seventeenth of Ireland!i
'RAH FOR THE EIGHTEENTH OF
BALIT WAGGENER!!!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

ANY number of men are no meaner
than women have made them.
% # -
Among the overly credulous people
are some who believe in themselves.
4. = +
It's a poor joke, indeed, that won't
get a laugh from the man who tells
it.
d j. j.
Throwing care to the winds is gen.
orally as difficult as it is desirable.
= :. +
Fortune-tellerS are popular WITH
many persons because they are such
clever fiatterers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
HOME NEW WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away from home during the summer miner
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
a month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. WINE
out of town the State journal VIII De
to you like a daily letter from nome.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Poetry, it is declared, is about the
worst paid form of writing, says the
Toledo Blade, and 1T adds: That may
be true, regarded from the standpoint
of dollars and cents, but the man who
can get a poem out of his system
should feel that he is pretty we'll paid
for his efforts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
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 NJ
Ganizatfon for the exclusive afternoon
Dubffce ton in Topeka
THE news ia received IN The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pSsT"
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Having tried the hunger and thirst
strike, why don't the English suffra-
gists try the air strike? Only a few
minutes without breathing would be re-
quired to bring results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Even if the European powers are
disposed to allow the war in the Bal
kans to continue until the Bulgarians
are practically eXterminated, they
should see to it, at least, that Turkey
rs not permitted to make reprisals on
the Bulgars. Turkey has absolutely
no right to a stack of chips in the
present Balkan slaughter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

1t is a good thing for many and
divers United States senators that talk
is cheap. If it were not, a number of
them would assuredIy go broke before
the tariff debate is concluded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

AS life moves on its way in this
square deal world. While FRITZ
Scheff. the light opera star, was trav-
cling from Chicago to New York on
an extra fare train with her poodle,
her maids. her automobile and her
chauffeur, the chorus girls of her
stranded company were passing the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Ty Cobb has finally struck his base
ball stride of other seasons. He's been
suspended from the game for disputing
too vigorously with an umpire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Topekas population is now around
the $4,000 mark AMI when the time
comes for the taking of the next fed
eral census it will be nearer $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Votes for women failed to get ;
kindergarten for children in an Illinois
town. Wonder if they blame it on tn
saloon vote?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

N-ither are there so many who will
be likely to put implicit belief in the
story that a lobbyist of the type of
Marty Mulhal would turn down $780,
600 for the suppression of the in
eliminating letters in his possession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

hat on the streets of Chicago in an
attempt to connect with the price of
a bean sandwich or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Whenever anybody buys a $6,000,o00
parcel of London real estate there
seems to be T. presumption that the
purchaser is an American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Between the grouchy and playful
wife there does not seem much to
choose. One of the latter killed her
husband the other day as an incident
to her efforts to make a noise like
an Indian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Prices paid for slaves in ante-bel-
lum days were picayunish, indeed,
when compared with those that pre-
vail today in the baseball slave mart.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18

Reformers in Denmark want to Sc
gregate the sexes at bathing beaches
Why not save time and breath by open
ly abolishing the beaches?