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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

There has been some argument con-
corning the proper appellatfon of female
police officers. Various newspaper wrt-
tiers have offered to call them copettes,
policettes and copesses. Filling Fuller
says they should be called practical
Jokes.
But Fuller is one of those low-browed
zobs who has no soul. He could not I'M
derstand the beauty and sentiment of
adornment, such as lady on the other
wise homely police force. or the artistic
possibilities of a bouquet of gardenias
on top of well-filled garbage can.
Every man has his weak spot. Be
cause a man is SO strong for prohibit
ton that he will not drink hard water,
il is no sign that he may not give way
to some little personal weakness, suc-l
as porch climbing, widow-robbing or
other breach of etiquet. That he has
these little weaknesses is no reflection
on the principles of the virtue he ad-
vertises in bold type.
But it is a fact that it is almost
impossible to corral all the virtues in
one pen.
1t is reported from Germany that an
army aviator of that country fell more
than a mile. Our correspondent, with
that regular German attention to minor
detail, adds that the aviator in ques-
ton was killed.
Dodd Castor is an authority on
baseball, but he has undertaken hope
less task-that of explaining the game
to fans. This department is not fan.
Dodd could explain the game to this
department so that it would be grasp
ed at every grasp; he cannot explain
it to one of those nuts. We are willing
to admit that we know not the game,
and are therefore amenable to teach
ing. The fan is misguided cook who
mistakes his own erratic ideas for know
ledge of the game.
AS we understand it, the Topographic
cal error was in the headline when it
was advertised as police raid 1t
was merely a police ride in a city auto,
propelled by city gasoline.
Certain prominent attorneys of the
city have requested this colyum to
name MAZE Harvey's auto. The matter
has received our careful consideration
and according to the evidence the
Males wagon should be christened
Marie Ooch." Marie. as we remem-
Der the once popular song. was dark
lady who performed the ''hooch- ma
cocch."
While attempting to visualize the
size of a town he had visited. Jack
Supp said: 1T is one of those towns
where woman thinks she is being
'follered' if a man walks on the same
side of the road in the same direction
at the same time and isn't 100 yards
ahead of her when she starts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
MY CONSCIENCE.

vi SoN6SlE&NAE1s
Sometimes my Conscience says, say he,
| Don't you know me?"
And I. says I, skeered through and
through,
Of course / do.
Your air nice chap ever way,
I'm here to say
You make me cry-you make me pray,
And all them good things hathaway
That is, at night: Where do you stay
Durin' the day.?
And then my Conscience says, onc't more,
You know me-shore?"
"Oh, yes" says l. a-trimblin' faint,
You're jes a saint.
Your ways is all so holy-right,
l love You better ever night
You come aroupd-'tel plum daylight,
When you air out o. sight,''
And then my Conscience sort O. grits
His teeth, and spits
IN his two hands and grabs. of course,
Some old remOrse,
And beats me with the big butt-end
o. that thing-'tel my closest friend
I'd hardly know me. NOW" says he,
BE keerful you'd orto be
And allus think O. met
james Whitcomb Riley, in the Century
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago Record1

IFrom TIE chicago RecOrd.I
talllatiVe wife maketh a silent nus
band.
The older We get the more it hurts us
to be scolded.
Many a mans wishbone is where his
backbone ought to be.
Never judge the value of article by
the price asked for it,
We often wonder if some self-made men
do not suffer from remorse.
1t is easier to check the baggage tina n
1t Is to check the baggage smasher.
Wise is the man who puts his ears on
the job and gives his tongue vacation.
Men who boast that their souls are their
own might not know soul if they saw it
It's surprising how much news people
can give a reporter that is not intended
for publication
1t doesn't take a bride long to discover
that no woman can live in absolute con-
tent and a vine-clad cottage with a tight
wad husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
HUAOR or THE DIP

The elements can be made to serve a
useful purpose" remarked the philosO-
prer. Yes; IL one casts bread upon the
water and throws care to the Winds
Baltimore Express
Harold, you mustn't eat all the pea
nuts. even If you are pretending to be a
monkey You must give sister some"
But, mother. I'm pretending she's some
kind O. animal wot doesn't eat peanuts"
Life.
Men are really too mean for any
thing What's the trouble now"
why. asked John for an automobile
today. and he said that ] must be content
ed with the splendid carriage that Nature
has given me.~-Judge-
Tourist banding on small island in
here. my friendi'' oh, just me and the
wife and my brother-in-law'' And what
sort of place is it?" ''Oh, an awfu' placs
for scandal Punch.
Jack-'I hear that you called on your
girls father. How did you come out %
Tom-"So So l said to him: Mr. X I
love your daughter He said: so do 1;
now let's talk of something else" lack
And then Toul-'Then-welI we
talked of something else."-Boston Trans
cript-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
MISPLACED SYMPATHY.

Since his dramatic dash for liberty
from the Matteawan Asylum for the
Criminal Insane, Harry Thaw has
been the object of a much larger
measure of public sympathy than is
usually accorded to he escaped in
mates of such institutions.
This sympathy has not found eX-
preston in the newspapers, but it
has been heard with surprising fire.
quency in the home, on the street
and in other public places. GLAD he
got away" is a phrase which has
been on many a tongue.
The question might be asked
whether those VINO are now lavishfng
their sympathy upon Thaw and wish
ing him success in his latest attempt
to regain his freedom have very
carefully considered every aspect of
the case.
Either Thaw is a lunatic or he
isn't. If he is-and competent courts
have repeatedly so held-then the soon
er he is again placed under lock and
key the better. No one will be rash
enough to say that the safety of any
community is enhanced by the pres
ence in it of a lunatic who has com
mitted murder.
If, on the other hand, as Thaw and
his friends so earnestly insist, he is
sane now and always was sane up I'M
til about the time he murdered stan
ford White, what has he ever done
to deserve the sympathy of his fell
low men?
Reared in a home of refinement
and wealth, it was easily within the
power of Harry Thaw, assuming that
he was sane, to become an honored,
respected and valued citizen of the
community in which he lived. Every
advantage of good training, clean
environment and education was his.
Every advantage of wealth was his.
With this start how miserably he
failed.
Those who are friendly to Thaw
have sought in vain to discover one
noble deed that he has ever done, one
worth while thing that he has ac-
complished. Expelled from college
becaue of his evil associates and gem
eral worthlessness. he spent his large
income on riotous living in New York
and Paris. He had no time for useful
abor or for life's legitimate pleasures.
Perhaps some shred of sympathy
might be extended to him had his
love for Evelyn Nesbit been pure. But
it will be recalled that he twice tour
ed Europe with her before he married
her. He knew just what she was.
Sometimes young men who have
led wild lives settle down after mar
riage. But from the day Thaw mar
ried until the day he killed Stanford
White he led an aimless, useless ex-
istence. He was a parasite on society.
In the light Of these facts, all so
we'll known, it seems strange that so
many persons now should be extend
ing sympathy to Thaw and hoping
that he will regain his freedom. If
he is insane he may be q worthy OBJ
ject of pity. But if. on the other
hand, he is in his right mind, the
possibility of his regaining his free
dom should excite rather than sym
pathy the envy of others situated like
him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
HOME News WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away from home during the summe
may have the paper mailed resuiaS
each day to any address at tne ane
Of ten cents q week or thirty Genus
n month (by mali only. Address
changed az often as desired. Mhie
out of town the State journal VIII NC
90 you like a daily letter from NONE
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping eXDenSeS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Hope is also a pretty strong spur to
action.
+ r +
its easy enough TO see the silver lin
ing to some one else's cloud.
i +
Not a few people expect favors with
out giving any IN return.
d Z. D
A mans faults are seldom as numer-
Gus as his wife imagines.
T. u T.
The smartest financier is the one who
can make little money go a long way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
Beads Tone White Costumes.

inexpensive glass beads can be worn
to give the right tone of color to the
all white costume. Opaque beads are
sold in chains sufficiently long to go
about the neck and drop in a V line in
front-a line which is artistic and
much more becoming than the round
neck line-for prices varying from 80
cents to $3.50. These beads come in
various shades of green and are
especially effective in jade color They
are also sold in yellow. red and blue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
TELEPHONES.
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
telegram report OF that great news IL
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The state Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puE-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

Colonel Roosevelt appears to be TAX
ing needless chances. Notwithstand-
inG his pet aversion to the popular
''sTake-bite'' cure he is going to par
t;oipate in the annual snake dance of
the NaVajos
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

Egyptian wheat is said TO thrive in
Kansas regardless of heat or drouth
But Kansas would be more interested
in an Egyptian. or any other variety,
of corn with similar characteristics.
Dry weather seldom visits Kansas until
after the wheat crop has been har-
N-aSfah
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

while often used as the instrument of
INSCRIPTIONS financiers in the past, it
really deserves better treatment of our
law makers than has been accorded
in these latter days.-H. w Windsor
in the September Popular Mechanics
Magazine. --s II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
ANY Maiden.

A maiden left her downy couch one
m orn not long ago and she put a little
powder on her face. She made her
toilet slowly, fixing everything just 50,
and she put a little powder on her
face. She ambled down to breakfast
and she dropped into her seat. She
passed her plate to papa and she got Il
little meat. She finished up on coffee,
CO Ike and predigested wheat and she
put a little powder on her face. She
took walk to go downtown and shop
Il little bit, and she put a little powder
CT her face. At noon she ate a lunch
con, paying ) cents for it, and she
put little powder on her face. That
afternoon she spent a, dime for ice
cream at the store and when she'd
finished eating it she longed for just
one more, but thinking of the dime
'twould cost she started for the dooE,
and she put q little powder on her
face. She took a taXicab at back to
her home to go. and she put a little
powder on her face. She ate her din
ner with the folks and went to call up
Joe, and put a little powder on her
face. Joe came that night and sat
around till midnight, it is said. and
when he'd gone the maiden fair de-
dared that she was dead. She hustled
Il, her room upstairs and tum bled into
bed, and she put a little powder on
he1 face.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

Joe Bristow goes right along smash
ing presidents. He is the first MEM
Der of congress from Kansas to devote
his leisure hours to golf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

With the bankers protesting most
vigorously against the proposed cur
rency law. the plain people are likely
to arrive at the conclusion that there
is much merit in the measure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

AS was to have been expected, there
was considerable speech making and
posing for photographs during the two
days work on the Missouri roads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

Now come the statistical experts on
the all-around stability and prosperity
of Kansas to prove conclusively that
the drouth has done no more than place
a freckle on the fair face of the Sun
fInvNer- state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

Presumably the black sheep" will
continue on their way rejoicing re-
gardless of any old kind of wool
schedule that the Democrats may
frame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

Rural districts in Denmark show
less than 1-20 of 1 per cent illiteracy.
In the United States the correspond
ing figure is 10 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

After centuries of effort and expert
ment. it has remained for the congress
of these United States to develop the
only thing that approaches perpetual
motion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

That wise injunction, Feed the
brute" is to be given a new test. Chi
cago contemplates giving a monster
dinner is means of getting the ele-
plant and the bull moose together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

undisputed sway in the distribution of
the federal patronage that falls to
Kansas. He voted right" or in ac-
cordance with President Wilson's de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

We'll, I certainly will support
Gardner" says Senator Lodge cor
corning the Massachusetts guberpa-
tcriaI fight. And at that. Gardner
won't be the first man TO be supported
by his father-in-la
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

Considering the fact that they can't
even practice on skunks, the Kansas
sharpshootcrs are making a remark
able record at c mp Perry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

At any rate, as soon as the crops are
ready to be moved, the railroads won't
he busy hauling Chautauqua lecturers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

sires. when the sugar schedule came vi
for test vote in the senate the Other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

Newark, y. J., has a woman hack
driver And the News of that city is
unkind enough to refer to her as n
cabaret
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

Again the double standard for the
sexes Women are required to wear
stockings at some bathing beaches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

There is just one thing that can be
said in behalf of the mule, insists the
Louisville Courier-JournaI He doesn't
skid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
Signs of the Times.

1t seems almost a sin for so many
people to flock TO summer resorts
when Kansas is in urgent need OF
40, 600 harvest hands.
Once again we hear that Mr.. and
Mrs. Alphonse Rubber of Missouri
their home. Probably it is n bouncing
baby boy.
We see by the. pa pers that New
York man has been shot in the tender
loin. Not necessarily fatal place to
be shot, probably.
People are very particular about
automobiles, but they don't think any
car
ANY stranger who comes into this
town. says a pceVed exchange. can
organize an Atlantic and Pacific Life,
Cyclone, Lightning. Plate Glass, Acct
dent and Suffra gette Insurance com
yet somebody who was born and raised
among US can't sell a half dozen
clothespins to one of US without an
investigation as to where they came
from and all about it. He wouldn't be
BILE to sell them then, if there was
any stranger in town selling the Sam
thing" That is true of every locality
however. 1t is the stranger who
knocks off the persfmmons.
Boston man haSfbeen fined for leaV-
ing his automobile unattended for
more than twentyIminutes, but 1t is 4
remarkable automobile that can go
without the attention of an expert 1oT
that length of time.
1t is u real instruction to read the
following sign in store window;
Half Ladies' Hose We don't know
exactly what a half lady is unless it
is one of those male ginks who wear
handkerchief in their coat sleeves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

If beef scars as high as is predicted
the obituary of more than one aviator
will read: Cow on the track
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

"A good. hard look will repel mash
ers" Yes. a fard-looker usually does
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

In all probability It will soon become
too cold for rain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25

When money talks, points out the
Cincinnati Enquirer, nobody Slssles
about the grammar it uses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
KANSAS COMMENT
KANSAS BANK ACCOUNT.

The Latest report of the state bank
commissioner shows deposits OF aDvua
two HUNDRED million dollars in the
Kansas banks. 1t is huge sum- Nan
sas has the money. No agricultural
community on the earth has sucn iarse
sums, per capita, as kansas. ana IniS
money has been made nearly aItU
gether by things grown out or the SOIL
To be sure, there are other resources;
but the big things are agriculture ana
stock raising, the latter depending
altogether on agriculture TO MAKE II
profitable. And this tale of big bank
deposits is proof that the farmers VINO
make this money are well to 40. "A
short crop may come, T''iN ana then,
hut at that there is some other crop
to bring mp the average. There was
much shOutirg about a shortage IN
wheat, but the figures prepared py
the government show that this year .
WELD is far ABOVE the average for ter
years and brings in much money TO
the state. Kansas hasn't as many
people as some of the states tartner
cast, much older, but she creates
any of the others. And it is because
CT her wonderful agricultural re-
sources that's this is possible. Every
season there is proof of this. In the
year 1912 more than a half billion dol
lars. in new money, were produced on
the farms of Kansas. And this money
is not thrown away, either. Much OF
it goes into farm improvement anu
extension and much of it is in the
banks, ready for the needs of the state.
year after year. In live stock alone
last year, the state produced more
than a quarter of billion dollars4and
this is backing that tells of the worth
OF agriculture, the foundation of stock
raising. So there is reason for the
money in the banks. If there is a de-
post of nearly two hundred million
dollars in the banks of the state ii is
there because the farmers, mostly,
have placed it there.-Hutchinso'-
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
THE SILO IDEA.

If1E SILO IDEA.
Perhaps the only cheering feature
about the unprecedented drouth that
has afflicted the Mississippi valley this
season is the fact that man has
learned in some measure how to miti-
gate the damage that these catas-
trophies can cause. The lessons of pre-
vious years have not gone UNDECIDED.
The thousands of silos that are scat
tered over Kansas have gone far to
rob the drouth of some of it's terrors.
The dry weather and heat of 1901
taught many a lesson; most farmers
prepared against just such other sum
mers. They built deeper and bigger
ponds; they protected them from the
eVaporating sense of the sun with will
low trees They kept their heads and
only the comparatively few became
panic stricken with the beginning of
the rainless period and hurried stock
to market. Disastrous shipments, in
the main, have been checked by warn
ings from reliable sources. Thus the
application of brain-power as well as
horse power to the necessities of ag-
riculture is shown again to be worth
while. The silo is particularly note
worthy. Europe knew the silo as
long ago as 1900, but it was not until
about 1875 that the United States
adopted it. For the intelligent and
widespread use of the silo at the pres
ent time the various agricultural COL
leges and the United States depart
ments of agriculture deserve much
credit.-Ottawa Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

There has been some argument con-
corning the proper appellation of female
police officers. Various newspaper wri-
policettes and copesses. Filling Fuller
says they should be called practical
Jokes.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1913-10-30
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