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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29
ON TIE SPUR
or The MOMENT
III ROY 8. 1GOUIWON.

Recreation.
When I would rest my weary bones
and my dull ivory head.
nit down with a magazine ere de-
part for bed.
A good lucent pasazine, that Is tine
And then 1 hunt an hour or two Tor
something I can read.
I labor through the beauty ads until
I'm sick and sore;
When l think I've perused them all,
ind full twenty more.
And then strike the auto ads and
till the midnight hour.
1 pore DER differentials and transmis-
sion and horsepower.
Then come tho correspondence schools
and in page after page
They tell me how I've missed my
chance upon this old worlds
stage.
read Of fancy barbed wire fence and
jag cures that are great,
OF breakfast foods and now windmill
until my tired pate
Refuses to hold any more advice on
what to buy
And then to find some reading In the
goldum thing I try.
I find q lot Of Actorines and scenes
from New York plays:
They smile upon me from the thing
whichever way gaze.
And when I've searched until can't
hold up my old bone head
For something that like to read.
quit and go to bed.
Accortling to Uncle Ahuef.
Lem Purdy has invented q substi-
tute for work. He has married 9
school teacher.
Deacon Stubs duck pond has dis
appeared. 1t II thought somebody
who had a grudge agin the deacon
bored q hole in tho bottom Of the
pond and let tho water out
A Teller who kin make calf drink
out'n q pail fer the first time ought
(, to succeed in anything he undertakes
| in after life.
Lem Higgins has been saving up fol
Christmas presents ever since last
June and has got @z-s6- Inasmuch a.
presents for. he thinks he will come
through with flying colors.
| Lem Higgins q writing his own cpl.
taph and will have 1t carved upon his
| tombstone before he dies. He 10 moi
going to take any chances ON any Of
tho local poets.
Hod Peters il going to hold an auc
ton and sen on everything he own,
!, excepting his wife, He expects to *
/ west and blow mp with the country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anse Frisby expect Il
90 and hear grand opera this spring
on . photograph over ut West Hickey
Vile.
Money isn't everything In thi
world, not IL you have got plenty OF Il
Ansel Jinkey says he hopes some
day to be the best mandolin playel
in the world. which i our idea OF ,
punk ambition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

sOcrAy. COST OF BALKAN WAR.
Awful az the cruelty and barbarian
Of the Balkan war have been, The Sur
vey tells of the even more appalling
social cost. az set forth by Mrs Toritza'
who has come to America as a repre-
sentative Of the Protestant churches Of
Rulearia to raise money for the suf-
ferers.
During the last eleven months Bull
xaria has placed 100000 men on the
battlefield. OF these 1882 have been
killed, 7.744 are missing and 10000 have
been crippled for life. in many cases
horribly mutilated. Practically all OF
these men were stalwart wage-earners
in the prime OF life. and. since In Bull
earia a man marries at the age of ID
or 20. most Of them are survived by
wives and large families Of young chill
dren.
In addition to the burden Of her own
losses. Bulgaria must shoulder certain
other responsibilities OF war. There are
90, 900 Turkish prisoners who, to quote
Mrs. Furnajieff, must be fed well. Dis
tress is even more acute because severe
storms have partially ruined the crops
the winters food supply-and in some
regions earthquakes have destroyed
buildings and driven the people into
| fimsy tents.
The work has been organised on q
systematic basis by a central Red
Cross COMMITTEES. composed OF repre-
sentatives from every philanthropis
agency with the queen at the head.
The work in the capital city. Sonia
which is sheltering 1900 of the Mace
DOMAIN refugees. y similar to that un'
dertaken on a smaller scale by every
Bulgarian city. Sofia has been divided
into six sections. each in charge OF q
| committee Of citizens responsible to tho
| central Red Cross committee.
Each district committee has made 9
house to house canvass Of its district
to ascertain the exact status Of ever,
| inhabitant.
While the relief workers have neces.
sarily centered their time and mean
on alternating immediate distress. thu
Bulgarians have not forgotten tina
| there must be some constructive plaI
for future action. There y plenty o.
work to be done everywhere. especial,
in the country. where the farms havt
been abandoned and the Agriculture
| products allowed to 20 to waste.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29
Harper's Weekly publishes two in.

Harper's Weekly publishes two in
tensely interesting photographs Of
Christabel Pankhurst. One Of them,
taken three years ago. shows her a
most attractive looking girl In the full
bloom Of glorious youth. The other.
taken a month ago. shows that she
now looks like a haggard old woman.
Evidently the toll Of militant suffra-
gency IL heavy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

Phya Prabhakaravonga. the new
Siamese minister at Washington. Is
probably called ,Prabby by his init
mates and only addressed as mister
by strangers. This seems to be the
only possible solution of the pronun-
ciatory problem presented by his
name
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

A record of an enormous volume Of
foreign trade was one OF the presents
Santa Claus tucked into Uncle SAM
stocking. This isn't much evidence OF
trade stagnatiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

One of the Christmas celebrations
in Los Angeles was a riot staged with
the police by a battalion of the un-
employed there, in which one man
was killed and five policemen were
seriously injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

Among other superior qualifications
as teachers, married women. accord
ing to the opinions OF the superintend-
ent of the New York city schools. are
better disciplined than their single
sisters. They must get it from their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

Another famous Spanish toreador.
Machaquito. has followed his rival.
Bombita, into retirement. Aachaquito
and his wife were together in q cafe
after a bull flght one Sunday. in which
he had particularly distinguished him
self, when she said:
why don't you rstiro. toof We ara
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

Barratt O'Hara, lieutenant governor
Of Illinois. declares that big lawyers
fees are legalized holdups. So too are
many Of The smaller ones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

Russia il about to be the scene OF
the biggest areoplane smash on rec
ord. The biggest aeroplane IN the
world has been built there ana per-
formed a successful trial flight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

Presumably General Villa has clean
ed up all the loot in the Chihuahua
district. He is making preparations to
march on the City Of Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29
Cow.

Wait until c 'onel Roosevelt re-
turns from South America. Then, and
not until then, will it be known def
nitely just what and how many mis-
takes have been made by President
Wilson. No. -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state journal II . member Of the
Associated Prees and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great news mr.
Sanitation for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka
The news 10 received In The state jour-
al building over wires for this sole puf-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

Bran and corn make the finest ma
vored milk, insists the federal depart
ment of agriculture. But. OF course.
Hortense, it has to be put through
old-fashioned milk machinery, spelled
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

1t seems highly appropriate that the
oldest twins in the world, New York
staters, who are now IS years DID,
ST. ould live near a town called Baby
Inn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

All praise to the Topekans VINO pro-
NOTED the municipal Christmas tree
in the state house square. 1t was q
happy thought that il being most de-
lightfully executed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

That powerfully built Chieagoan
who was subdued and arrested oy :
frail policewoman WIN rf0Aabay feel
like crawling into a hole and pulling
n in after him when he sobers up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-29

Reports from Washington indicate
that Admiral Dewey is 76 years
Young
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
HYHAWKER .JOTS

A little girl who is spending the sum-
mer in California wrote home to a
friend: 1--WE are having a fine time
here enjoying the cool weather and
fighting the fieas.'
We had been discussing a man who
works little but wears good clothes,
says the Toronto Republican. That's
easy" said Bill Rivers, THAT man
works with his head
When you see a man hurrying to the
depot it is not always a sign he is
going somewhere on a train, says the
Wilson County Citizen. He may be
going down to sign up for a case of
blue ribbons"
A few clouds have appeared in the
sky lately reports the Wilson County
Citizen. but they were not of the work
ing kind. Some of them made pre-
lenses made a few brilliant passes,
fooled some people and passed on.
Advice to mothers, from the Alton
Empire: You can feed the baby match
es now. if you want to. They are
supposed to be nonpoisonous, guaran-
teed under the pure food and drug
act, and do not contain benzoate of
soda.
An Ell Dorado man quarreled with
his wife, and exclaimed, BY God, 1
will end it ALL went into another room
and locked the door, reports the Doug
lass tribune. Inen came the TepOI
of gun, and the man was seen with
ing on the floor. The wife screamed,
her father tainted, the neighborS came,
and a doctor was called in great haste.
And then the supposed suicide got up
all unhurt-he had not shot himself at
all.
The following question and answers
were sent to US about two years ago
by a Kansas principal. They are as per
tinent and as timely now as they were
then: eff each of six college presi-
dents speaks five minutes, how much
time will they all consume % Pupil s
answer, Thirty minutes" Teachers
answer, zone hour and forty minutes.
Diagram: Each speaker was allowed
five minutes but the average taken
was about sixteen minutes. This un-
authorized taking of time is the rule
rather than the exception at every
meeting, state, district and NATIONAL
Western School Journal. :. at4,,,p
Some of Tom Thompson's Potpourri
that he dishes up for the delectation
of the readers of his Howard Courant:
No company at all is better than bad
company. Happy is the man
who likes to work-especially if he has
to work. Some women who
marry Just to be supported make
funny guesses. You have often
heard of 1.-The pace that kills" BY in
vestigating, you will find that it is
seldom devoted to hard work.
The pace of a person who works is
usually n slow walk. The kind that
kills is frequently turkey trot or a
fast gallop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19

he telegraphed his mother that it was
applause, and that having upheld the
honor and fame of the Remington
family he was ready to take down
his sign. He didn't feel a bit better
when Mr.. Black called, two hours
later, and told him that he had been
nonsuited in each case and the cost
assessed on the plaintiffs. Mr.. Black
had scarcely advised Mr. Remington
to drop the practice of law and take
up the practice of shoveling dirt, and
left the office, when old Mr.. Wig
glesby came stamping in.
you born fool!" he shouted "You
don't know any more about law than
my dog does about playing the fid-
dle,"
81 think had a touch of collie
"Cabbage-head! Here I've been
called names and welted with boss
whip, and you go and make it wuss
by making a jackaSS of yourSelf!'
The old man had hardly reached the
sidewalk when Bixby and his wife
appeared.
There he is" shouted Bixby, as
he pointed at the failure
HE hasn't got the brains of a
washboard!' added his wife.
Then the owner of the one horned
COW came in and had his say, and
when he had departed without kick
ing anybody. Lawyer Remington went
to his boarding house and rested his
weary legal brain with ten hours
sleep. Next morning he got up and
went fishing. He walked and walked
till he came to a river. Then he fished
and fished till he fell asleep. He might
have slept an hour longer than he did
had not a footstep aroused him. He
opened his eyes to find handsome
girl confronting him with a smile on
her face.
Il am Miss Carlisle she said.
81 am Mr.. Remington"
"Have you caught any fish ?"
"Not a one
81 knew you wouldn't when | saw
you pass the house"
How did you know?''
Because you have too much brains
for a lawyer and not enough for 6
fsherman!"
"Say--say-
But there's nothing to be said, ex-
cept that I want you to go up to the
house with me. Father would like tc
see you"
"See me?'
Eyes. He is engaged in gathering
curiosities for dime museum in the
city,
1t was several months later wher
| Miss Carlisle's mother whispered one
| day to her father:
James. what do you Think"
What do 1 think?" he replied
| ''Um, I'm, Why, I think that while
young Remington failed at the Law
business, as my son-in-law he'll
prove to be a bowling success!'-
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
| Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
CLOSE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

What has become of the o. f. boy who
was bashful?
Envy also contributes to the growth
of the Socialist party.
So many sworn statements don't
amount to a tinker's dam
If a Young Thing hasn't a fad, it in
dicates she has a steady.
Don't tell ~ secret; publish it and
get the same results quickly.
When woman puts things away,
her men folks think she hid them.
for taking a drink when he wants it!
One doctor says tobacco hurts you;
another says it doesn't. Gotamatch?
When a reporter butts into your
business, that's his business, like as
not.
Some circus should advertise that it
has the only back bone of winter in
captivity. -..'as. : g.
That important person who always
wants you to Leave 1t to Him; he also
is on our list.
When a woman's suspicious are
aroused. she has n widespread oppor-
tunity to confirm them.
While she is away vacationing, he
writes and tells her how lonely he is
If he gets home in time and condition.
Rudyard KipIing is a great writer
cigarette while getting his picture
taken.
A clever actor is one who can fool
anyone with forced smile otherwise
known N the vernacular as a sickly
grin,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,


LFrom the Chicago News.l
Envy woman if you would make
her happy.
Handsome is as handsome is photo
graphed. hardly ever.
Better to be criticised for silence than
for the lack of it.
A successful author can draw on his
ina ginetion for money.
Man wants but little here BLOWOUT
he keeps right on wanting.
If a man doesn't acquire wisdom
after marriage there is no hope for him.
Before attempting TO paddle his own
canoe the wise young man learns TO
swim.
In the language of flowers. AlonZo,
when a girl hands you a bunch it may
mean Fade away
Ananias may have been the cham
pion liar at one time, but later his
rivals began to write tombstone in
scriptions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record1
The best way to get your name into
print is to advertise.
A bachelor girl is merely what we
call an old maid to her face
You can't always Judge a man by
his clothes. It's safer to look at his
wife's.
Hook-"He says he knows no such
word fail" Nye-"Some day he'll
probably discover a synonym"
Talk may be cheap" saws the
Manayunk philosopher but the less a
man says the less he has to talk back"
I'VE should all profit by our mis-
takes unused the trolley car conduc-
tor, as he gave the passenger too little
change.
Wfgg-"B luffem poses as hustler
doesn't hep" Wagg-"weli. yes: he's
always energetic in reaching a concIu-
sion that something ought to be done,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
THE LESTER

play the part of a simpering clown
Day after day, day after day,
On stage where Fate with a tinsel
crown,
Plays the part of a King; his lowering
frOwn
Is my cue for frolic, and gibes and jests;
And being clown, in clowns own
way,
I humor the king and honor his guests,
Day after day, day after day.
And the rabble laughs at my foolish
pranks,
Day after day, day after day,
The crowd, from the King to the serf IN
ranks,
Roars out it's applause while I bow my
thanks,
And kissing my hand. retire from the
stage,
Awaiting my turn, 1 resume the play.
buffoon for majesty, prince and page,
Day after day, day after day
My hair is as white as the paint that
hides,
Day after day, day after day,
The burrows of care on my face where
Royal signet is set; in my heart abides
Shame and disgust for my part; for 1
know
As play the fool in the fools own way
Those who laugh at my jests are Tools
also,
Day after day. day after day.
Fan Boyd Heiney, in National Maya
zine for August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
EVENING CHAT
An Unfair Deception.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

If you had to take a very long jour
ney into a distant land to be gone a
long, long time, perhaps forever, how
would you like not to be told that you
were to go until a day or even a few
hours before the time to start? Els
pecially when every one about you
had known for a much longer time
that you were going to take that jour
ney, or at least were likely to take it.
Wouldn't you say, But how can
get ready in this little time? Why,
l ought to have had weeks to arrange
my affairs for my absence, make all
my preparations, and say goodbye to
my friends?" And wouldn't you be
very much displeased that your fam
lily and friends had kept this impor-
tant information from you?
Or, worse still, Supposing, if it were
possible, that even while you slept
you were carried aboard a ship, and
, without chance to make the least
preparation, to leave a single instruc-
ton on the winding up of your bust
ness. to say one farewell, were start
ed off on a journey. SO long that no
one knew when it would end.
Such things are almost unsuppos-
able, aren't they?
And yet, just this thing is being
done every day. Or rather. some
thing far worse. And done by people
who dearly love those whom they
treat so treacherously and unfairly.
In a hospital not far from here a
young girl lies on her death bed. The
nurse and doctors, and her family
have known for at least a week that
she cannot possibly live, and yet no
one has told her that she is about to
start on the long, long journey to that
far off shore from which no traveller
returns. She is not suffering any
pain, she thinks she is going to get
better, and they do all they can to
encourage her in that thought. They
make agonizing efforts to appear
cheerful when they are with her.
They tell her she is looking better and
they make plans for the coming win
ter. The doctor says she will soon
lapse into unconscfousness, and they
are determined to keep this up until
then.
Do you know. whenever 1 think of
that poor girl being so deluded, and
about so important a matter, 1 am
sick at heart. Undoubtedly they
mean the best, but don't you think
they are making cruel mistake?
We cannot tell a soul that it is to
be born, and it has always seemed to
nifty is rather a terrible responsibility.
But when that which draws from
out the boundless deep turns again
home" we can tell the departing soul
the eternity from which it came and
I think that when We fail to do it we
shirk a solemn duty.
p. S.-Since writing the above I
have talked with two or three friends
on the matter, and I wonder if 1 have
not been too emphatic. One woman
said she had done just this same
thing; that her motive was to save
her mother from suffering as she
would if she had known that death,
which she greatly feared, was at
hand. Of course this point of view
must be taken into account, but I'M
less there is some such extreme fear
of death it still seems to me II is fair
er to let the traveller know of the
tourney he is to take
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
SAYS UNCLE CAV

Neither your mental attitude nor
your spiritual experiences count for a
continental in this world if they do
not bear fruit in deeds. 1t is not enough
merely to refrain from eviI-the mere
ly respectable citizen and the man of
whom you say Hes not a bad fellow
are twin denominations. Likewise he
who withdr&ws himself from the wick
e6ness and error of the world and who
puts forth his hand to correct neither
is deserter in the face of the foe.
There is an old story of a hermit
who spent long years in fasting and
prayer upon the top of a pillar lament
ing the fact that the world was evil.
After the patience of men and angels
HAD been exhausted, saith the tale,
along came a particularly vigorous an
gel, yanked the hermit from his pillar
and set his feet in a road that led to
the cottage of a gooseherd. After talk
ing to the pumpkin for a few minutes,
the hermit got the big idea. While he
had been praying for the redemption
of a world too wicked for him to live
in the gooseherd had rescued a little
child and reared her to a life of use
fulness. The hermit went home, suck
ed his robe of barren righteousness,
put on his street clothes and got busy
in the martS of men.
If you're so ALFRED much better
than the rest of humanity it's up to
you to get down among US and show
US the light.
There are too many intellectual and
spiritual hermits among us. We don't
so much need folk who are uncannily
good as we do folk who know how to
work out their goodness in deeds COM
prehensible to those of us who walk
in darkness.
II you know so much more than the
rest of U.S. teach us. If you are in
every way superior, point out to us the
road to general superiority. Don't be
stingy. Don't be a crab. Warm up
your icy blood with little useful ex-
ercise, get into touch with us and lend
hand. All of US mean pretty we'll
and few of us bite.
You may stand in chilly isolation
upon your pillar to the end of time,
You may gloom in your chamber until
the crack O. doom, but you'll never
make the rest of us any better. Come
off your perch, get rid of that robe of
and give US a lift. Possibly you can't
better than you. If you can't. we may
the good of your soul and your effort
won't be wholly lost. And you'll feel
warmer and fuller and more human
and less lonesome. Also you'll be use
full, which is more than can be said
for you now. You're only picturesque
and an object of pity when the world
thinks of you at all.
Be human. Be worth while. Get off
your perch. Get busy-(Copyright
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Judging by appearances is about the
surest way of getting fooled.
+ i.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed girls and boys who were modest?
= j. +
Almost every man will toss principles
to the winds to get on the winning side.
- - j.
1t is also true that a nagging wife
occasionally has good reason to stage
her speciality.
+ I. I.
With two roads to take, it is gen.
orally a matter of luck for man to
choose the better one.