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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-28
EVENING CHAT
A Suspicious Sign.
By RUTA CAMERON.

'Methinks the lady doth protest too
much
As in Shakespeare's time, so today,
overmuch protesting is a suspicious
sign.
There are a great many things which,
in the intercourse between ordinary
human beings, are taken for granted.
To make protestations about them is
more likely to arouse doubts in the
hearers mind than to reasSure him.
For instance, if a man goes out of
his way to bolster up some statement
by saying Now I'm telling the gospel
truth" instead of making me believe
in his veracity, he instills doubts of it
into my mind. 1t ought to go without
saying, that he is honest. But he evil
IDENTIFY thinks he needs to reassure me,
and being in his own confidence, he
probably has good reason for that
thought. He may be telling the gospel
truth at that moment, but it is per-
fectly patent that that isn't his habit.
One is reminded of the story of the
captain who wrote in his log, 1.-The
mate is drunk today The mate pro-
tested, but the captain said, Its true,
isn't it?" and when the mate admitted
that it was, the captain said it must
stand. A few days later the captain
sprained his hand and the mate had to
write the log. Whereupon he promptly
wrote, 1.-The captain was sober today"
at all pleased at thus having his So
briefly attested.
The subject of overmuch protesting
was brought to my mind by some new
acquaintance who have recently made
a rapid rise in the financial world
didn't know the family before the man
of the house made his money, but l
know the rise must have been recent
because of their manner of talking and
acting. Midas has apparently touched
their vocal chords, for they talk gold
all the time.
No matter which way the converse
ton turns this man and his wife in
variably bring it back to the one sub
ject in which they seem to take an in
is making in his beef business: how
much one of their friends paid for his
new automobile; the number of bath
rooms in another friends new house
and how much they cost per bathroom;
the tremendously high rate of the ho-
tel at which they stayed last summer
such is the edifying subject matter of
their talk. Though they try to make
their references casual, a child wou--
understand that they are saying as
Boldly as they dare, You see how
much money we and all our friends
have" But this is what they really
say to all who have the knowledge of
human nature as a key, You see we
aren't used to having money and so it
seems a big thing to u.s."
People who are used to wealth, re-
education, and the other good
things of life, take these things for
granted. 1t is only those to whom
such things are strange and new, who
pirate about them.
AS in Shakespeare's time, so today, |
overmuch protesting is a suspicious
sign.
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says UNCLE CIV

Old Hiram Hogan, big boss OF
Puckyhuddle politics, came stamping
his way down the sidewalk and grind
| ing his teeth almost audibly. As he
reached the front stoop of Lem
Springgins general store, Doc Houser,
who was emerging with the makings
of kidney stew under his arm
hailed him.
Whats eatin' on yuh now, HIP
he inquired.
"Madder'n tomcats," said Hi, and
proceeded by means of profane and
obscene expletives so to embroider the
self-evident statement that Doc stared
! In open-mouthed admiration.
"You see," said Hiram, when his
| language had at last simmered down
to the point where 1t had become
printable. I've been enjoying this lit
| tie roundup with those fellows over
| 'em on the road bonds, I thought we
were putin the fixin's on a bunch
of game sports. That was worth
while. It was real fun. But now
around the county court and demand
in a recount-whinin' like a passed. O.
whipped pups. That's what makes
me mad. Looks like there isn't any
body in tn whole burned county that's
worth fightin' any more. I'm goin'
to quit politics"
Doc said something here that was
intended to be soothing. Hiram sat
down beside him on the good box and
proceeded further to unburden his
mind.
THE man that can't take a nckin'
and grin amt worth kiIlin','' he said
IF he sticks around and hol1ers his
head off, it makes you feel like you've
been batting the empty air. I never
had any use for the man that de-
manded a recount after a fair fight. I
like the fellow that does his best and
then abides by the face of the re
turns. I don't care much about the
chap that appeals to technicalities.
THE wilmer never amounts to any
thing any time, anywhere, anyhow.
that gees out and raises Ned and
goes after the other fellows scalp.
There's something to him. If he
lambasts me until I see stars and am
laid up for a week, can get a little
fun out of my admiration for him. I
don't get mad at him. I've got moth
ing against him. I'm ready to shake
hands with him and join him. But
I'll be eternally dadburned if it doesn't
make me mad after I've licked a
geezer to have him hang around and
whine about what might have been
and demand that we revise the re-
turns. That makes me mad-a bowler
always makes me nader tomcatSi
Old Hi was an altogether human
proposition. Being a leader of men
in his small way his opinions are en-
titled to respect. Doc Houser thought
so and when I met him a few min
utes later, he pointed to Old Hi, who
was stamping away toward his real
estate office.
There" said Doc, "goes the world.
the flesh and the devil and the rest
of us common ordinary folks all
rolled into one disguised bundle. None
of them nor us have any use for a
wilmer
Which seemed to be conclusive
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-28

day, William Pitt outshone every other
Englishman in the belief in his coun-
try's coming greatness, and to him
more than any other one man can be
given credit for an empire on whose
dominions the sun never sets.
Every pioneer who braved an Indian
and starvation on the American
frontier was a supreme optimist. The
greatest books have been penned by
those who had a firm faith in the fu-
ture.
The Christian religion itself is found
ed upon optimism, as is very other
great religion. Omit faith from any
one of them and the cornerstone is
gone.
A stock market axiom it that the
surest way to go broke is to become a
bear on America" Just imagine what
would have happened to a man who
had sold America short" in the six
tiesI For every day of hunger in the
United States there is a full week of
feast.-Philadelphi Ledger
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The Manhattan interurban is put
| ting on cars that cost over $4,000 each
The members of the postoffice force
| at Parsons have adopted a uniform
style of dress.
A Manhattan man who is fond Of
| dancing claims to have Rugged 6S diff
ferent girls in six weeks.
Woman is rapidly acquiring heI
rights. There are more women than
men IN the Jail at Hutchinson.
Ottawa citizens have organized a
company for the purpose of erecting a
fine modern five-story office building
in that city.
Natoma claims the champion long
distance weather prophet. He pre-
dicted a rain 100 days ahead and 1t
arrived on time.
The new styles in hosiery, says the
Parsons Sun, are an aid to the banks.
Coins smaller in size than dollar are
apt to sift through.
A Fredonia man is trying to locate
the largest tree in the state. The con-
test at present is between cotton
wood and q sycamore.
consideration, has come to the con-
clusion that too many mothers are
raising "SnookumSeS-"
Hard luck story from the Jewell
Republican: Last summer Jewell
City young man bought his girl a
50 hammock, and now another fellow
is swinging in it.
Not all women who marry do so
with the laudable ambition of becom-
ing good wives and homemakers.
Many of them marry because they are
too lazy to make their own way in
the world.-Lindsborg News.
st. Johns, the Lutheran college at
Winfield, is to be more than doubled
in size. The Kansas Lutheran synod
will spend $225,00O on improvements
and last week the Winfield CONNER
$1,000 cash to the institution.
A correction from the Chanute Tri-
bune: "A .Spitz dog bit Howard Lans-
says the Neodesha Register No, the
dog bit Howard on the leg while he
and the dog were both in the postoffice.
That's the way it was
Manhattan has a citizen named
always boosting. Among the things
for which he is responsible are sewers,
telephones, electric light, an ice plant,
theaters, a four-story building, NOV
ing pictures, and the SWEETEST cafe
this side of New York city.
Society item from the Manhattan
Nationalist: A Manhattan married
man is having a squally time just now.
He went off on a trip to Kansas City
the other day. When he got back
home his wife discovered in his grip a
having seen a married woman of her
acquaintance wearing here. And now
that husband is having a fierce time
explaining how the lady's coat came
to get into his grip way down in Kan
Sas City!
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QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
A rank outsider-The wrapper on a
cheap cigar.
Electric fans are putting on airs. Also
lots of people
Somehow or other it is always easier
to make a mistake than to own up
to it.
Milly-"when a woman says she
won't she WON'T Billy-"Also some
times when she says she WILL
The average woman knows the ins
and out of Irritation. She first draws
a man out, and then she pulls him in.
It may not be strictly true that wo-
men are more tickle than men, but they
certainly have more chance to show
it.
4 girl is apt to cast her bread upon
the water in the hope that it will come
back to her in the form of wedding
cake.
Tommy-'Pop, marriage is tie, isn't
it?' Tornmy's Pop-"Yes. my son; so
is the relationship that exists between
a tin can and a dogs tall
NelIE'You know you can reach a
mans heart through his stomach
BELIEVES, but that sort of man would
rather lose his heart than his appe-
tite.''
Success is largely a matter of en-
vfronment." remarked the Wise Guy.
Eyes, the surgeon, for instance, might
be a dismal failure operating on the
stock Exchange" agreed the Simple
Mug
you to Izzrry young man harmed Eugene
simply to crafty your inclination toward
the eugeuic movement
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HUNOR or TIE DIR

why did the driver of the wafer
wagon stop just after he had got under
way for the second day of the trfp?''
some enthusiastic spectator yelled
that the reference was to some OF the
passengers. Buffalo Express
She-"There's always a crowd round the
dear old professor. He's such a wonder
full conversationalist" He-'Ior'! You
every possible topic-hounds, bridge, golf
music halls, everything-and he was sim
ply useless."-Punch.
Mr.. Millions died intestate." Her Pal
expected it the minnit heard them doc
tors was goin' to operate on him."-Puck
Jinks-'.There is nothing in man who
is not willing to push his way onward"
Binks-'Does your wife make you use the
lawn mower, too?"-Baltimore American.
Mother reprovingly)-''when was
young girls never thought of doing the
that's why they didn't do them. Boston
Transcript
Friend-"Is your son still pursuing his
studies at coIlege! Father (regretfullyo-
He must be, for he doesn't seem to be
catching up with any of tbem."-Balti-
more American.
opinions" yes" replied Mr.. Growcher.
but what lot of people mistake for an
opinion is simply the mental echo of some
other mans loud vofce-"-washEngton
Star.
A connofsseur Is a man who buys NV MIC
lures; a Philistfne Is the man who buys
yer&-Puck-
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practical shape through the medium
of the income tax. AS passed by the
house, the income tax exempted all
incomes of $4,000 or less. The senate
finance committee propose that the
exemption shall be only $4,000 in the
case of unmarried men or women.
That makes it tax against both old
maids and bachelors. Married per-
sons are entitled to an exemption OF
$4,000, and if they have children an
additional exemption of $500 for each
child, provided this additional exemp-
ton does not exceed $1,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-28
FROM OTHER PENS

FINANCING BUSINESS EXPANSION
At a recent dinner in London Sir
| Owen Phillips stated that since the
South African gold fields were opened
| the vessels of the Royal Steam Packet
company had carried from Cape Town
| to London for delivery to the Bank of
England, fS70.0OO,OO0 in new gold.
In round numbers this was the
equivalent of more than $500, 000,0 900
| of new gold placed in that bank in
| but little more than twenty years.
Last Monday morning the weekly
arrival of new gold from South Africa
amounted to f75O,OOO, and every
Monday morning brings it's reinforce
ment of hundreds of thousands of
pounds sterling in the yellow metal
AT Seattle on Monday there arrived
the first gold of the season from Cape
Nome, S1,0O0,00O, to be followed now
with additional sums each week until
ice closes the trails and the rivers
By January 1 next, the world will
have S2OO,000,OO0 more gold to do
business with than it possesses to-
day-new gold, fresh gold, dug from
the mines of the world.
Since 1897 more than $4,000, 100000
value in new gold has been added to
the worlds circulation, and what a
transformation in business conditions,
what a remarkable expansion in
every line of finance, commerce, and
industry has resulted from this in
CREASE III the WOrIQ 5 clrCuIatlOn or
money!
The next seven years will add fully
as much gold to the worlds circula-
ton as the past fourteen have done,
and t will all be needed to carry out
the marvellous engagements in inter-
national and national commerce
which are all eady planned or in
progress.
1t is safe banking the world over
on gold reserve of SO Ia per cent.
Our national bar kers regard 20 and
20 per cent reserves as equal to ordf-
nary stress or demand.
Three billions in new gold for the
world during the next seven years, il
placed with careful precision, would
carry s9,0OO,OG0,O00 of paper cur
rency safely and comfortably in ac-
cordance with accepted rules of ex-
pert banking
Between the splendid output of
gold that is assured from the gold
mines of the world, and the use of
the yellow metal as a basis of paper
currency, or liquid credits, as such
currency may be termed business
can be safely expanded annually for
many years to come.-Washington
Post.
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KANSAS CONAENT
THE HARVEST FICTION.

Among the summer fiction which
doesn't receive the attention that IL
its due from the busy book reviewers
is the artistic work of the harvest
liar. He isn't a pernicious person like
the crop killer, this fiction factory
of the fields of growing grain. Instead,
he adds greatly to the gaiety of ma
tions, besides giving his home town
much far-flung advertising alongside
m. or !. pure reading matter. And he
does this without any emoluments
from the Commercial club. SO he
should be encouraged and his name
become household word in the com
munity where he lives and has his be-
ing.
From this source, under the mod
est mask of news, one hears from
time to time of predatory plutocrats
taken from their palace Pullmans to
CLEAN the fields of Boaz or some other
Kansas agriculturist. From the same
source come clever tales of large in
ducementS offered, such as Joy rides
in the evening with the farmers buX-
ON daughters, and a chance TO marry
into the family; of keen competition
among the wheat growers as to who
snau secure the services of narrow
chested clerks eager for a chance to
work out in the open air. Frequently
we are told how these and other
gatherers of the golden grain are sold
to the highest bidder after the cele-
brated custom of ante-bellum days
down in the sunny Southland.
Also there are tales of abla-bodied
daughters of farmers who are doing
the work of three men in order to save
the crop and secure currency to pay
for the new limousine. There are
tales of harvesting by moonlight be-
cause the crop is too large to do all
the hay-making or matchmaking
while the sun shines, even in these
longest days of June. There are
squibs concerning the great and near
great scholars and statesmen who
have sought the harvest field as a
summer training. camp, and of Iner-
chants closing their stores in order
that the clerks can go to the country
and assist in bringing in the sheaves.
All this and much more drifts in
with the dispatches, and some of it
may be facts and some Of it fiction.
But, even the fiction is the harmless
sort which leaves no bad taste in the
mouth. and shows that the garnering
of a Kansas wheat crop is a large
task, and strenuous. Besides, .he cor
respondent needs the money, and
feels that he should keep busy during
this rushing harvest STANDARDIZATION
Globe.
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STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP
MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION,

MANA0IEEhE4N1y O1ISSOA1AAAOANI
ETC,
of The Topeka State Journal, published
daily except Sunday at Topeka Kansas,
required by the Act of August "a, 1917
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send one copy to the Third Assistant
Postmaster General division of Class1t1-
cation) Washington, D. C. and retain the
other in the files of the post office
Editor, Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka,
Kansas. ,.
Kansas.
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peka, Kansas
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peka, Kansas . I'D
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None. 49,.
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ing the date of this statement, Z06So.
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lSeA'l Notary Public.
INV commission expires December 4,
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Optimism.

John D. Rockefeller 40 years ago be-
lieved in the future of this country,
bought oil on big scale and became
the worlds richest man. Andrew Car
negie says he borrowed every cent he
could get to invest in his steel mill
and later sold out for something like
800 millions. ]. P. Morgan himself
avowed that he was always bull on
the country" and he died leaving a
great name in the financial world and
a monumental fortune.
Washington was an optimist even at
valley Forge, and he created the
worlds greatest republic. Grant an
noyed his enemies constantly because
he refused to be anything but an op-
timist. and his armies saved that same
republic from disunion. Bismarck was
the prince of optimists, and the Ger
man empire is the sequel In his own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-28
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
ayyay from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
Of ten cents a week or thirty cents
n month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the State journal Will ne
to you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-28
MELODY.


Now summer returning
There rises the yearning
For youths tender learning
OF passions first sigh;
The springs old, sweet madness,
The springs old, wild gladness
When knowledge and sadness
Were far as the sky.
The first bird that's winging,
OF rapture is singing,
The first bud is bringing
The lure of the green
That swiftly is flying
Ger mountains, and dyeing
Each valley low lying
With verdure's frail sheen.
The sweet breeze that passes
Athwart the pale grasses.
Sings soft of the lasses
Whose beauty was gold.
How strange the same longing
To springtime belonging
Our winter is wronging,
These days we are old!
Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-28

Secretary Bill of the department of
state loves Kaiser Bill as a promoter
of universal peace. But Kaiser Bill
uses cannon and battieships instead Of
grape Juice,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-28

The president has signed the sundr1
civil appropriation bill and now, may
he. Topeka can get that addition tc
her postoffice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-28

Presumably that maiden MRS" of
Chicago who is going to pay her back
taxes as soon as she gets the vote will
also Join the militia
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Johnson has flown tho coop; in
stead of trying to bring him back. the
authorities should take steps to make
his absence permanent.
OF course, the United States is not
at outs with any foreign nation al
present and might hesitate to inflict
Mlstah Johnsfng upon them, but it
would be worth all the ill feeling it
engendered
A Georgia doctor thinks all artists
are insane; but does he include the
bunko artist?
1t is the consensus of opinion that
II the blanket injunction is successful
IN preventing Bee Adams from selling
booze in this county, the county will
lose him.
Different collectors have different
fads. That of Attorney General Nc
Reynolds seems to be collecting cor
dial invitations to jump the Job.
The North-Shawnee Chief. a weekly,
scooped the dailies on the fire station
story. and the reporters are not peev-
1sh about that. What gets their hol-
low-horned ruminant is that Tucker
seems to have kept the story ON ice
FOR several days to save the trouble
OF getting out an extra in the middle
of the week.
my wife is always willing 70 settle
family differences by arbitration" says
Jack Supp, but she insists on being
the whole Hague"
The trouble with an amateur VOL
mist is that it keeps a fellow worried
trying to tell whether he is playing a
tune or merely tuning the DANCED
thing.
There is only one thing more ex-
hausting than taking a summer vaca-
ton, and that is listening to the gink
who has taken one.
The woman with thin legs has the
over the man with the same
she gets on a street
car.
The higher you climb on the social
find when you have to slide down.
Some mems idea of the right way
to live is to be star boarder at a
boarding house run by friend wife.
From a woman's standpoint, there
is but one right time to finish packing
a trunk, and that is when the express
man is waiting for 1t.
We have figured out why so many
poor people harbor about dozen as
sorted dogs; it is to keep the wolf
from the door.
Some men have to be forced to do
what is best for them. Many men,
who were married while papa-in-law,
armed with A acted as best man.
got excellent wives and lived happy
ever after.
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As result of that grape Juice diplo-
matte dinner. somebody is already re-
ferring to Secretary Bryan as the
peerless leader"
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'sThere Is no nation under heaven"
says q London paper, ''that sets q
higher value on royalty than the
United States" But even here, aces