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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
AYHAWKER JOTS

! Ever notice how many friends you
have when they need you? naively
asks the Neodesha Register.
! If there is anything in a name Mr..
Alfred Courage, of south of BelIeville,
! ought to be an exceedingly brave man.
Says the Liberal News: One or two
of the newspapers are threa tening to
reduce freight rates on broomcorn. We
have not heard from the railroads as
yet.
News from Mule Creek in the Barber
County Index: H. c. Hull is building a
fine COW shed. Henry says he is going
to quit milking on the north side of
the barn.
According to the Pratt Union, a gen.
tlenan said recently when a lady of
his acquaintance was mentioned: THE
only physical exercise that woman
takes is jumping at conclusions
Little Saw Larity is so bowlegged,
reports Jay B. Iden in the Usage City
Free Press-Public Opinion, that he and
Miss Ferbe loves dachshund can't play
in the same yard without quarreling
with each other.
Some MIXED Pickles. from the
Leavenworth Resubmissionist. We love
our fu1l-LikewiSe abi1or.-The morning
after-The night before Little
drops of water.-On the garden Seeds
Mixed with April showers-Make a lot
of weeds.
There is nothing like being fore
handed. With the mercury down
around the zero mark the other day,
and several inches of snow on the
ground, one of the citizens of Blue
Rapids purchased q package of water
melon seeds at one of the corner gro
ceries.
Smiling Ikey. of the Dresden Sun
flower, gets in the Sherlock Holmes
class, with the following: Carrie
Cooper was an Oberlin visitor Monday.
We caught him in the act of putting
a couple of large bundles in his buggy
which much resembled a New Years
dress for the woman.
An Ohio mother lulled her baby to
sleep by singing a lullaby over the
phone. She was attending a bridge
party Papa held the little fellow up
to the receiver. We suggest that mother
leave a prepared photographic record
of the lullaby at home. Then papa
can remain seated while the absent
treatment is being given.-Peabody
Herald.
When the cold day comes and the
customer is just happenstance, re-
ports the Mayetta Herald, the clerks,
bosses and general coterie of Mayetta's
men about town gather round the red
hot stoves in each Of our business
houses and gas, wind, hot air and all
that thereunto appertains, floats forth
as freely as the tides Of the old ocean.
The Herald then goes into details con-
corning the run of the talk in the sew
era1 stores, and a sample of which
follows: At Slattery & Smiths they
were shooting pigeons, and say, the
boys around that stove can shoot some.
Course it amt all pigeons they shoot
there Some kill rabbits, others quail,
and once and awhile a bear, deer or
badger is r1assacred. Each and all can,
however, shoot off their mouths till Jim
comes round and is willing to bet that
the best man in the house can't climb
the pole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TF'ronl the Chicago News.1
Health is wealth-except for the doc
tor.
Perhaps a mollycoddle is male mani
cure artist.
When a has failed at everything
else he poses as d critic
It is easy to forgive your enenies-after
getting square with them.
When a woman looks at her watch she
guesses what time it is
The girl who has a chronic case of the
ideal is apt to develop into a spinster.
Complexion remedies that most women
reco.nrn end they wouldn't use themselves.
Almost any woman is apt to feel badly
run down after her neighbors get through
discussing her.
1t takes woman to imagine that an
old man is signing for lost love, when III
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
IRON OTHER lens

THE BLACK-SKINNED SOLDIER
Protests from the Philippines and
Hawaii against the presence of negro
regiments as permanent garrisonS
brings the Question of the black
skinned soldier to the point of serious
discussion at the next conference of
generals on war department matters
soon to be held at Washington. IL
the negro regiments can't be sent TO
the insular posts what is to be done
with them? The south doesn't want
them, and communities in the vicin-
ity of northern posts, while confess
ing no backsliding in their faith of
equality of human rights without re-
gard to race, color, etc, reserve the
right to their own preference as to
their local military side-shows. That
the colored troops did some good
fighting in the Civil war, and again
in Cuba and the Philippines in the
troubles of 1898, is not to be ohal-
lenged. Generally the colored regi-
ments of the United States army earn
good reports at inspections. The rate
of desertion last year was less in
these commands than in any other in
the entire organization. Brownsville
is a black spot on an otherwise clean
record, but there is a suspicion that
some one unnecessarily spilled most
of the ink that caused that dfsfigure-
ment. There is no question that if n
WoA WCiS " Out ana
there were an emergency call for
arms, black and white would look
alike at the recruiting office. The
negro is good soldier for the fight
ing line. Why turn up noses at him
on dress parade? The protest from
the insular possessions appears to be
taken seriously at Washington, but
only because these posts were the last
resort and made necessary by preju-
dice around army posts in the
United States. 1t is another evidence
that the nation is losing its fancied
grip on an exalted ideaL-Philadei-
phia Bulletin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

People talk about Seeking the Truth as
if it were hard TO find.
No man likes to have his thermometer
accused of dishonesty.
All lace looks a lot alike to mere man
who has to pay for most of it,
1t is hard for a man whose life has
been a busy one to learn the art of loaf
ing.
mere are a good many romances along
the main travelled road TO the divorce
court.
Blood will tell. of course, but it is
fortunate it doesn't always tell its history
in detail.
There are many poor people, and none
of their poverty is due to dearth o.
good advice
Indians are very fond of gambling, but,
considering what they had to start witr,
they haven't won a great deal.
Link Preston needs money, but hasn't
shoveled any snow because people won
pay him 10 cents an hour.
Every speaker feels he would have to
address an overflow meeting if people
had proper q appreciation OF his talent.
There are places, possibly, where ad-
vertising is superfluous, and we don't ex-
peet to see ankle bracelets generally
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
Shortest TriaI ON Recoyd-

In these days of criminal trials long
Drawn out it may not be unintcresting
10 glance back at a time when in
England at least, complaint ran in the
opposite direction. Such were the
earlier years of Queen Victoria, when
the old criminal code still survived In
much OF It's archaic barbarity and the
plcturesqueness of legal procedure in
adequately compensated for its cruel
w. The late Lord Brampton better
known as Sir Henry Hawkins, refers
IN his "Reminiscences to the scandal Of
what he calls the after dinner trials
of that period. 1t was then the GUS
tom for the court to adjourn for din
ner at O'Clock, at which meal there
was no lack of conviviality. so that,
when bench and bar returned to their
duties, they were in no mood for prac-
teal toll. In Lord Brampton's own
words, Judges and counsel were ex-
hflarated and business was proper
tfonately accelerated" In confirna-
ton of this he notes that these latter
dinner" trials did not occupy, on an
average, more than minutes apiece"
ana, in illustration, cites an actual
case, the paltry nature of which com
trasted with the enormity of the nun
lshment involved, throws a lurid light
on the inhumanity of the times.
The case was that of a pickpocket,
in which the prisoner had, inconsider-
ately pleaded mot guilty" and. there
fore, had right to be heard we
may quote Lord Brampton's account.
beginning with the examination of the
witness for the prosecution by the
prosecuting counsel.
think you were walking up I.ud-
gale hill on Thursday. the 25th, about
2:3o In the afternoon. and suddenly
felt a tug at your pocket and missed
your handkerchief, which the con-
stable now produces?"
Yes, SIR
suppose you have nothing to ask
him % says the judge. Next wit
ness Constable stands up.
Were you following the prosecutor
on the the occasion when he was
robbed on Ludgate Hill, and did you
see the prisoner put his hand into the
prosecutors pocket and take this
out of it?''
Yes, sir
Judge to prisoner: Nothing to say,
l suppose ?" Then to the jury: Gen
tlemen, I suppose you have no doubt?
L have none"
jury: Guilty, my lord"
Judge to prisoner: Jones. we have
met before-we shall not meet again
for some time-seven years transpcr-
case"
Time: Two minutes 50 seconds AS
this seems to be record" it is only
fair to add that the judges name was
York Evening Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
NEVER MIND.

Don't Care is no friend of mine;
I don't care" for him.
When he comes it is a sign
Sense is growing DIM
He is not the thing of pride
Some folks seem to think;
Folly is his friend and guide,
Bread, and meat, and drink.
Not to care when things go wrong,
Not to care when i'll
Rises up to check your song
And your heart to chill
That were foolshneSs indeed
OF an arrant sort;
Nothing is too slight to heed
On the way to port
But the sunny Never Mind
He's a different wight
Helps us when the days inclined
Not to treat us right;
Softens every bitter blast,
Warns US when were cold;
When our troubles come too fast,
Keeps us blithe and bold.
Bids all sorrow so its way,
Helps us stay our tears;
And when life seems drear and gray,
Quiets all our fears.
When it comes to share and share,
I shall be resigned;
If some other takes Don't Care"
I'll take Never Mind"
John kendrick Bangs, in the House
keeper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A breach of promise suit also indi-
Gates that the man in the case has
money.
1. !. +
Another impossibility is for any
two normal human beings to agree all
the time.
= !. =
Believing all you hear is an excel
lent way to accumulate lot of wrong
ideas.
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It's generally in the imagination of
their friends that bald headed men
are sensitive about it,
= j. +
Considering the fact that men are
measured almost solely by their
faults, they make pretty good show
ing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

| Surely every man has suffered ex-
periences that convince him OF the
truth of this assertion. And yet, re-
/ CARELESS of the way he has been
wounded in this fashion, he is quite
! likely, when the occasion offers, to be
among those who will inflict wounds
of the same sort In fact, 1t seems
to be an almost inherent frailty with
most humans to indulge in TINS sort
| of thing. Many do it in an unthink-
! ing sort of a way. They have no IN
tention of harming others by the tales
about them that they spread broad
cast. But they do so just the same.
And 1t is the tale-bearing, the gossip
ing, the scandal-mongering which
creates a good deal of the misery that
makes this old world a less desirable
place in which to live.
There are no statistics on the sub
1ect, of course. But it is safe to state
that the bulk of the conversation that
all persons indulge in concerns in
some way or another the affairs of
their acquaintance, their neighbors
or their friends. Nor does it often
relate to the good points of which
they may be possessed. Rather does
it revo1ve around their faiiings and
their vices. Every little act of theirs
of the untoward variety is enlarged
upon and magnified. A story about
one of them, depicting a fault or
showing him in an unsavory light, is
repeated without end and often gloat-
ed over as though it were a cholce
morsel for thought. With every rep
etition, it assumes larger and more hid
cons proportions. Every handler of
the tale calls on his active imagina-
ton to make it a better, more in
teresuins one. The eventual result on
the victim is a black eye or wound
that even the relentless claws of time
cannot cover up or mark out.
Unfortunately, there is a basis of
truth for much of the gossip that is
peddled about, Notwithstanding the
further and more distressing fact that
considerable of it is manufactured out
of whole cloth. But just because
tale about a man or woman may be
true. that is no excuse at all why it
should be considered fruit for endless
If anything of real ad-
came to any one through the
telling or hearing of such stories,
there might be some excuse for the
excessive activities in this line. Such
is not the case. Some folk with minds
of the peanut caliber may satisfy their
personal spites in this way. But even
then, nothing OF real gain comes to
them, regardless of their delusions in
the premises.
And there is so much that is worth
while to talk about, it does seem
pity that so much good time should
be wasted in efforts, Intentional or
otherwise, to blaeken the names of !
others or destroy their regulations.
This is the season of the year when
new resolutions are in order. Would
Mt it be great, if everybody should re-
solve to show something of righteous
consideration and forethought for
others by hesitating about peddling
tales concerning them There is no
more despicabie a person than the one
who makes it a practice of carrying
tales. He is properly despised even
by the little children. The outcast of i
the school yard is the "tattler.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

TFrorn the New York Press.1
Innocence doesn't have to prove it oy
the clothes it wears.
Some men speak of the family in the
same tone of voice they do of jury duty
When a. girl is going to become engaged
to a man it's a sign she won't let him
know about it till everybody else does.
What comforts woman about reading
the Bible is how sweet natured women
always did have to put up with unreason-
BILE men.
When you see a man getting up long
before his usual hour, he isn't going u
work early; he's got to clean his pipe,
and it will make him late at the office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
HUNOR OF THE DAY

"Oh, Harold said Mrs. New1ywed "a
strange man was here today and he said
he wished to read our gas meter" well
did you let him imp Mercy, no. He
used very poor grammar. and I felt sure
that he would not read it properly
Judges Library
-fHow's Wilbur getting along with his
new automobile?' Finely. He's got so
now that he can almost tell what's the
matter when it won't go."-Detroit Free
Press.
Dear me, think I'm the most rnfser-
able creature in the world Whats the
matter?'' I'm trying to follow the mag
azine's advice on how to be happy
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
DAFFYDNS
BY u. NoALL,.

Isn't it all right to call a woodshed
a. chop house?
Clock out for that guy. He's the
boob that put the ICON" in the con-
tract-)
If a gar lived in the sea would you
call it a seagar?
q hate 20 talk about myself. but
when 1 was a boy
If a professors daughter did not
know how to swim could he teacher?
(That'I be about all from you, Bold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

No wonder the members of the
banking and brokerage houses are re-
luctant to tell the Pujo committee
how their clients can turn neat profits
without putting up a cent of money
or taking over any stock. Such testi-
mony would put the common herd
next to the way of Acknowledgement
in a safe and sure fashion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

In opposing a Union of the Bull
Moosers and the Republicans. Colonel
Roosevelt wishes it to be understood
that he is simply speaking as one in
the ranks. But in such position, he
could also be at the head of the pro-
cession, and that's just where he is all
right in matters pertaining to the Bull
Moose Marty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

100000 a year, sum just double the
capital employed. Some Kansas
economists think it is perfectly proper
to tax railroads not alone on their
actual property valuations, but on
their earning ability. If this is a cor
rect position, why not tax the banks
ON the same hasiS2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

No matter how thorough the probe
of the gas situation may be, it prob
ably won't result in providing supply
that will be adequate for heating pur
poses in cold weather. Such thing
borders on the irnpossihle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

Inasmuch as doctors have found a
way to keep the organs of dead ami
mails alive, it may be possible for the
farmer to preserve indefinitely the
squeal of his favorite pig after the
animal has long since been turned into
hams and bacon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

A state and a national campaign is
scarcely out of the way when city poll
tics begin to boom in Kansas. This
is one more argument in favor of
lengthening the terms of state and
county officers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

As Professor Blackmar of the Uni
versity of Kansas says: "It is neces-
sary to discriminate between the cost
of living arising from a higher stand
ard, and that arising from high
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

There is also this consolation for the
jewellers on the kerosene circuits They
are not annoyed by the gentlemen who
get into the vaudeville game on the
regulations they make on the baseball
diamond
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

How the hungry horde of profess
sional politicians who are ever on the
lookout for public places at almost
any old rate of pay must gaze with
envy on the managers of the major
league baseball teams who rake in
from $4,000 each year up to
SOC 0O0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

the world at large if he occasionally
unbent and ''tripped the light fantas-
tic," and one would forgive Mr.. JUS
tice Hughes his formal whiskers if he
were once to romp with them in a
Virginia reel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

Neither is it so difficult now to
figure out where the money goes. On
a capitalization of $500, coo, the First
National bank of New York cleaned
up profits of $21.o0O.0o0 in brief
quarter of a century, or almost ST.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

WHAT the use of the American
League teams taking all the trouble
to play a long and arduous schedule?
Frank Chance makes a definite state
ment that the New York team, of
which he is now the active head, will
win the pennant of next season. And
how discouraging this must be to the
other managers in the league, includ-
ing j. Garland Stah1 of Evanston, H.,
the head of the Boston Red Sox, who.
Incidentally, happen to be the cham
pion ball players of the world at the
present writing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

Shelf Ingalls, needn't feel particu-
larry peeved because the Denocra tic
majority in the senate has decided to
dehorn him of the one-time lieutenant
governors privilege to name the SEN
ate committees. Dick Hopkins was
treated to the same medicine two
years ago, and it was dished out TO
him by members of his own party
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

At least one of the New Year re-
forms that will stick is the parcel
post. Even after so brief a trial, the
people wouldn't be without it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

If Kansas doesn't land a berth IN
the Wilson cabinet, it certainly won't
be because Kansas has not the requi-
site material.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

If woman's weapon is her tongue,
what's the use of trying to enforce
the law against carrying concealed
weaponS2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
KANSAS COMMENT

PARTNERS IN TOWN BUSINESS.
A village, a town, city is part
nership. All of us here are in pusl-
ness together. Ownership of property
is individual, but our prosperity as
whole is closely bound up in each otn-
er's interests. If you have mouse
to rent, goods to sell, labor to sell,
YOUR success in getting a good price
for such service depends on the pros
perity of your neighbors. If they are
doing well, they will pay fair prices,
and as times go, these prices tend 10
rise. On the other hand, IL your
neighbors are not succeeding, they will
haggle for the last cent for your
house, your goods, your labor Inc
prices for these services Will tend TO
fall. When you buy goods away from
home, you work to reduce the pros
perity of your neighbors. Thereby
they become less able to do any thing
to help you, and you have failed TO
build up business ties with them SO
that they feel no personal interest in
you. When. you buy goods at home
you increase the prosperity of your
neighbors. They are not merely bet
ter able thereby to help you along IN
return, but you have created business
friendship that make them want TO
help you. Buying at home pays!-
Miami Republican.
o
EXPENSIVE Discomfort.
Our discomfort causes us to squander
more money than anything else. The
slim woman wants to be fat and the
stout lady wishes she were slender. The
man who lives in the sunny south
thinks how nice it would be to get away
from the heat and walk in the snow.
and the northern man longs for the
warm sunshine of the south. The strip
ling wants something that will make
whiskers grow and the man searches
the advertisements for something that
will remove them. The country man
imagines he would be perfectly happy
in the city and the city man Graves
the green fields fresh air. The brunette
wants to be a blond, and dissatisfied
people everywhere are squandering
much time and money in trying to
make themselves what they are not If
we are doing fairly well as it is we
had better take what the good Lord
has given us and do the best we can
Blue Mound Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

All of the new counterfeit money
being in the form of $40 and $40 bills,
that let's a good many folk out of
n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

Wrinkles, says another college pro-
fessor, are the result of experience
That's true of trousers, anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

No need for speed laws in Guate-
mala. Gasoline costs so cents gal
Ion there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11

Now look out for new breakfast
food. Prehistoric wheat has been dis
covered in Palestine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
FULL LEASED WTF1E REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Jotrnsl "a a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
Telegraph report of that great news or
gan1zAfion for the exclusive aftcrnooa
publication in Topeka
The news is received In The State JGGr-
mai building over wires Ter this sole ptss~
eose-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
A sATURDAY SERMON.

The words of talebearer are as wound:
Proverbs XVI %.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-02-22

The starting of the new mill
at tie Newhouse portal Dy the
.Argo Reduction and Ore Pur-
chasing company will mark what
is believed to be the beginning OF
a aew era in mining in this sec
tion. Both the practical and sci
eniihc sides have been carefully
considered in the construction
and equipment of this mill. The
latest and bes; methods Of treating
ores by cyanide have been re-
sorted TO. The sampling depart
nIent is already working success
fully and il is hoped by Manager
A. II Roller 10 have the entire
mill in operation within couple
OF weeks. ii it does the work
that he has the right to expect,
il will mean that the mining in
dustry will receive a wonderful
impetus and accomplish great re-
ults.