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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
AYHAWKER JOTS

Why the delay in starting the an
nual argument over whether or not
the fruit has been destroyed
If your prospects are not the bright
est, don't worry. The Sabetha Herald
tells about a girl who married a dep
uty game warden.
DR.. Callen of the Pittsburg Kansan
sees another blow at the masses in the
word Grippe" The masses can't af-
ford this disease, he says and must
content themselves with bad colds.''
The LIE Roy Reporter is in for a
sad, sad. disappointment. So much
has been printed about the Bunny
Hug, Turkey Trot and Grizzly Bear
that the editor is anxious to see them
danced.
Right off the reel the trouble starts
The Olathe Register insists that the
first lady of the state is much more
beautiful than the drawing which ap-
peared in the Kansas City Star would
indicate.
Congress and the Kansas legislature
being in session at the same time
brings this proclamation of faith from
the East of Town reporter of the PEN
sacola News: Lord in Thee only will
we trust
The Lawrence Gazette's idea of
Punk Christmas package is the minor
lty nomination for Speaker of the
Kansas House of Representatives.
Why drag Christmas into it? Why not
blame 1913?
Now Swat the Fly" says the
Sharon correspondent of the Barber
County Index. The correspondent
probably means to peach buds. Flies
are never lured from their lair by the
January Thaw."
Speaking of luck, the editor of the
Marysville News has the new record.
For forty-three months he published
a daily. Then he quit. Next day his
linotype machine broke down and he
had trouble getting out weekly.
The Usage County Chronicle con-
Guided to have a little fun at the ex-
pense of the International Harvester
company and referred to it as the
Harvester trust This week it prints
two columns explaining that the COM
pany is not a trust. -ss
Lindsborg has alrea .iy begun to re-
hearse for the Messiah" The Mes
siah at Lindsbora serves the same
purpose that State schools serve IN
others. And, 1T might De ad6eI the
Lindsborg plan is just us effective and
more enjoyable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
Outlaws at Sunday School.

That there is a streak of gold in every
man, no matter how bad he is, is shown
by an early Kansas incident.
Among the desperadoeS and outlaws
who used to rendez, vous at Greenwood
who used to rendezvous at Greenwood
county, were Kinch West, Jack Tedford
William the Innocent" and many 9TH
ers. While these gentlemen fingered on
the classic banks Of the Verdigris the
Texas authorities were offering rewards
fered for Kinch West was $4,000. About
five years afterward he left the Verdigrts
and was killed at Fort Worth, Tex, by
an officer who was trying to arrest him.
Walters, one of the leading citizens:
Don't you shorthorns have what you
call a Sunday SCHOOL,"
Yes, sometimes
why don't You start one here in
Greenwood City?''
You boys would try to break it up
Not much we wouldn't. I've talked it
over with them. They think it's too bad
day. You start it, and I'll come and
Kinch West will come. Well shoot the
first man that misbehaves.'
But you must leave your six-shooters
Cant do that. Some marshal or de-
tective might git the drap on u.s.
We'll, tell the boys to come out next
Sunday afternoon at O'clock
mo, let's have it in the forenoon, the
boys will want TO git drunk in the after
noon.'
So 10 o'clock was settled on, and Sun
day school was organized. The behavior
was splendid. The exercises were car
Tied out enthusiastically, especially the
singing. At the first two or or three meet
ings the school was attended by men
only; later women and children ventureo
out This Sunday school fiourished for
years after the town had melted away
Kansas City Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
WEAyER or sHRoUDs.


She sits among the tangled briars and
bracken-
Wet with the fog yet golden with the
Weaving shroud Of red and brown and
yellow,
Fflmy and wondrous.
Sometimes a rain of leaves comes flut-
tering downwards,
Kissing her hair, her lips. her busted fin
gers;
Sometimes the river takes them, and
they shiver
Meshed in the rushes.
All the long day she dallies with her
weaving,
Choosing her colors, changeful and con-
trasted;
Through the dim lanes there comes a
sound of singing.
WistfuI and dreamlike.
Hath she no thought of question and
foreboding-
Nothing of fear when chilling rainfall
drenches?
When the swift winds come ruthless to
unravel
All she hath woven?
All she hath schemed of beauty for her
Berries and traveier's-joy and purple
heather,
Gold of the gorses, scarlet of the bram-
bleS-
Tossed to the spoilers!
Arthur L. Salmon, in the Pan Mall Ga
zette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
OPPORTUNITY OF DEMOCRATS.

The Democrat majority in congress
is busy these days preparing for a
revision of the tariff. The party has
been advocating tariff reform in It's
platforms, through the press and on
the stump for nearly half a century.
The masses generally have been in
afraid to trust it.
Twenty years ago the people gave
the Democrats a chance at revising
the schedules. The party was placed
in control of the executive and legis-
lative branches of the government.
What it did to the tariff is history.
The Wilson bill probably was the
worst measure ever passed by any
congress. 1t was SO bad that Presi-
dent Cleveland denounced it in UNI
measured terms. 1t not only added to
special privileges but it actually raised
the level of duties.
The resentment of the voters at this
betrayal of trust was manifested at
the next quadrennial election when
their unworthy servants were hurled
from power.
But the people are lenient and soon
forgive and forget. They have given
the Democrats another chance. VIII
the opportunity be improved this
time?
good reason why the party should not
retain control of the government for
a long time. If they fail their masters
again, what they will get in 1916 will
be a plenty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
A Tough Road to Wisdom.

A quaint religious ceremony, in which
priests seeking promotion had to un-
dergo a beating with a thick stick
welded by the head of their sect, is de-
scribed by Reuters Toxic correspond
ent.
The ceremony was the climax of a
five days festival in celebration of the
death of Keizaru Daishu, founder of
the Soto sect, the principal sub-sect of
the Zens, one of the most important
offshoots of Buddhism in Japan.
Zenism, which is said to be the most
abstruse and profound of all sects,
aims entirely at salvation by the elm
nation of self, and its disciples are
called upon to undergo the test of beat
ing to prove their ability to pass
through hardships in the cause of
Buddha for the development of their
endurance and spirit of self-control.
From the fact that the lord abbot
as the head of the sect is known
broke twelve sticks in the course of the
ceremony, each stick a yard long and
as thick as a well-developed thumb, it
may be imagined that the test was
eminently practical.
The lord abbot's arrival, in a gor-
geous robe, was marked by tremend-
Gus beating of huge drums and the
shrill piping of reed instruments, and
when he had taken his place in the
pulpit, the hottest place in the temple
made from a bundle of staves-the can
didates advanced one by one, with
bowed heads, and submitted to the lord
abbot questions which had resulted
from previous meditation.
The first candidate asked: What
would be the color of the maple leaves
in the mountains in the present
month";"
Up went the right arm of the lord
abbot down came the thick stick on
the shoulders of the candidate.
NV son. their color would be redder
than the tints of the flowers in May"
Up went the arm, down again came
the stick. and the candidate retired,
gratefully thanking his Holiness for
the wisdom of his reply.
The second candidate then advanced
and bowed before the lord abbot.
What he said, in a piping voice,
should we do to escape the heat in
summer and the cold in winter" Down
came the stick with a smart crack.
GO where there is neither heat nor
cold neither summer nor winter" Can
didate number three offered only an
assertion: 1.-The moon is in the blue
sky"
The lord abbot laid on with increased
vehemence as he Numbered And wa
ter is in jar" and the parting stroke
broke the stick in his hand. One can
cidate propounded the conundrum:
For what is the sword, to kill a man or
to save him?'
1t is claimed for Zenism that only the
intellectual can appreciate it's creed
London Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
EVENING CHAT
The Edge of CuItivation.
HT RUTH CAMERON

It's the edge Of cultivation,
Amt no use in going farther"
-Kipling.
| We were speaking the other day
about a queer little railroad built and
run in a very peculiar manner. when
| that road was started forty years ago"
| said a man OF sixty, everyone said 1t
would never come to anything because
| it defied all the established precedents
| of railroad building" Today that de-
| faint little railroad is the best railroad
pr OPPOSITION within a radius of several
hundred miles.
There is no edge of cultivation. Every
century has been taught that lesson.
None has learned it. What would the
men of the eighteenth century have
said if someone had told them that it
was possible to harness steam and
make carriages go hundred miles an
hour? What would the men of the
nineteenth century have said If some-
one had told them that men would learn
to fly? What DID they say? Witness
the humorous poem of Darius Greene.
Or better still, ask Wilbur Wright.
And still the lesson is not learned.
The men and women of the twentieth
century have come to accept the Won
ders of the steam and electricity and
the flying machine as commonplaces,
but if you should prophesy some new
and startling possibility-say the med
ical miracle of limb grafting-there
would be plenty of folks as certain as
their predecessors that they also had
reached the edge of cultivation.
There is no edge of cultivation in
all the world. The world is round, not
flat, and therefore you cannot come TO
any edges. You may come back into
familiar country if you travel far
enough but you cannot come to any
edges because there aren't any.
TITS the edge of cultivation is the
natural proverb of age. Youth knows
better Age is always telling youth
that this or that cannot be done and
youth is always doing it. And then
alas, youth itself passes on and says to
another generation about ether mat
ters Its the edge of cultivation"
TITS the edge Of cultivation" is the
word of the mediocre man. The big
man knows nothing so well as that
there are no edges. He recognizes that
there may be limits to his ability, but
there are none to the worlds posi-
bilities.
There is a certain make of candy re-
Gently put on the market which is in
finitely superior to all similar candies.
If you had told the manufacturers of
the old product that it was possible
to make anything so much better than
their product they would have said,
Nonsense We know all there is to
know about this subject and we are
getting out the best thing possible" In
other words, we've reached the edge of
cultivation.
But they hadn't for the other fellow
went far beyond, and someday some
one will probably go beyond him.
There is no edge of cultivation. Don't
believe anyone who tells you there Is.
There's always a use in going farther
for the man who has the grit to do it.
And who knows but that you are that
manor woman?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

in and hold hand or push back the
hair from fevered brow. And the
nurses are right, as usual. The sick
man is entitled to a certain amount of
protection. Sometimes he is too sicS
to know whether the girl on the JOB
is taking his temperature or his
watch. He may not recognize, until
1t is too late, the difference between
the carbolic acid the doctor left as a
sanitive precaution. and the medicine
prescribed for the case in question. A
responsibility rests upon the nurse,
and the ability to meet that respon-
sibility comes from study and practice,
and not from willingness to tackle the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

six cents. If they went to another Of
flee inside the 50-mile zone, it would
cost eight cents.
If the cartons are to be returned an
additional cost, not of two cents as
was suggested, but of the charge for
not more than a pound-at least five
cents, would be made unless more than
one carton was returned at a time.
Perhaps 1T would be cheaper in the
end, but the expense is greater than
some would have you believe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

After all the world is pretty good
place, with lots of joy to make UP for
it's sorrows.
A. - d
Hope that springs eternal in the
human breast is quite useless without
an infinite capacity for work.
= = +
Next to a young father, a young
bridegroom is the happiest young per-
son the old world has ever seen.
j. j.
The man with a crouch never gets
anywhere, for his very presence is
repugnant to others, and drives away
both friends and business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

joyfully; without that prospect. can do
it but sorrowfully, if at ALL
When he dared to look at her she was
bending low over the keyboard OF ner
machine. 1t was some time before she
spoke.
by all means embrace your opportuni-
ty, Stephen, she said.
"Joyfully sorrowfully? was mas
eager question.
well. If you insist on having my ad-
vice, I should say do it joyfully, was
her barely audible reply.-(Copyright 1915
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
DAFFYDHS
BIZ q. NoALL.

If a tree broke window would the
window say Tremendous?
(Auctioneer, please stop that sale.)
If there is no grass in the Arctic
circle what does the Eskimo?
(Hey, Doci Please pass the gum
dropsO
When a big wind blows in central
Kansas does Great Bend?
(BeIieve US, Percy. There's no time
like pastime.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Senator Simpsons proposed shoe in
spection law if enacted would create
another state job. What the voters
probably would appreciate more.
would be some means of reducing the
number of state employees, rather
than any provision for increasing the
number
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.1
Man wants but little here below, and
he keeps ON wanting it.
a red-headed girl can tone down it's
color a great deal by being an heiress.-
The most becoming way to wear your
hair is the way rich uncle wears his.
Women may not be angels in the next
world, but wives they have to be in
this.
Sooner or later a woman gets to Judge
her husband by the way he acts about
his collar buttons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

The steel trust is trying to square it
self with the Democrat tariff reformers
by announcing that it is about to adj
vance the wages of its employees to the
amount of a million dollars annually.
This is a fine thing for the workers, but
is not likely to deceive anybody The
trusts action probably is intended to
emphasize the much talked of differ
ence in wages paid here and in Europe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

The perennial attempt to regulate
marriage has made it's appearance in
Kansas this year in the form of a bill
by Senator Malone. Observation leads
to the belief that if two people once
determine on marrying each other all
the laws in the universe will not stop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
ON PEE SPUR
OF The MOMENT
The Wet Blanket,
BY ROY K. MOULTON


Old Uncle Peter never had
A single happy day,
Because you see old Uncle Pete
Just wasn't built that way.
whene'er the sky was cloudless ana
The sun came out real bright,
"a weather breeder" he would say
you'll see that / am right.
When anybody had the sand
To open up a store
Or go in any business
Old Uncle Pete would roar:
by gravy, but that mans cnump'
Times are so gol ding tight
That he will never make his salt'
You'll see that l am right.
When folks began to figger on
A railroad for the town,
Old Uncle Peter was dead set
On turnin' of it down.
He said a railroad is all bosh,
Won't help this town a mite.
Twill only kill our sheep and hawgs,
You'll see that / am right"
One day old Uncle Peter died,
A cynic to the end.
He kicked until the very last
And never would unbend.
But still he was contented as
With death he made his tryst,
Because he never really knew
How much of life he'd missed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

The chances appear to be good that
bills providing for the repeal of a.
number of laws of the Kansas statute
books will be Offered during the pres
ent session of the Legislature. Several
of the measures, almost anybody will
admit, might as well be repealed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Hundreds of persons, believing that
work for the legislature is more or less
of graft, made application for posi-
tons. Some of the clerks and steno-
graphers will tell you that the work is
anything but a graft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Don't say that impeachment carries
a light penalty until you stop to con-
slider what it means to Judge Arch
bald. for instance, to be thrown out
of office and publicly disgraced for
life. The effects of a fall are init
mately related to the distance down
to the place where bottom is struck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Mayor Jost wants Kansas City 10
own the public utilities and is having
an enabling act submitted in the Mis-
souri, legislature. Another case where
a city must ask the farmers for per-
mission to do what it wants to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Democratic members of the upper
house are proposing wholesale reduc-
tons of the various boards of Kan
sas. Senator Waggener would place
penal institutions under a board of cor
rectiOnS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Every now and then something hap
pens to point to pre-eminence of Amer
lean civilization. They opened the ma
tional congress of France with an insult
to the premier. and arrangements were
made forthwith for a duel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

little water, used to advantage on
the various city streets, would not be
amiss just now to clean off a little of
the accumulated mud and slime we
have been wading through.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Now comes an expert who says
automobile riding gives a person flat
feet. But that probably isn't as an
noying as flat tires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

The nurses of the state want some
protection. They hold that the S RI
who serves several years as an ap-
prentice in a hospital should have
more prestige in the sick room than
any pretty girl who is willing to core
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Last night they gave Harrison Clark
son, of this city, some flowers while he
lived, at the reception at the First
Methodist church, proving the saying
that the world does move
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

If Castro were candid he would
acknowledge that there is some con-
nection between his deporting and his
department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

1t is to be hoped that Woodrow
Wilson has succeeded in getting pos
session of all the negatives showing
him in the act of riding a bicycle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

They defeated the proposal to allow
the members of the house $50 each in
cash for postage. But will the measure
stay defeated? Some of the old timers
think not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Now they have discovered that there
is such a thing as "adulterated shoes"
What next?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Hereafter, when dinner is late, don't
be too quick to blame wife or COOK
Perhaps it was the postman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

Some of the wise ones already ar
beginning to ask how many womel
will be seated in the next legislature
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

'rweIl, 1 was the defeated candidate,
wasn't II" You were II have con-
graduated the successful candidate,
thanked the voters. taken all the joshing
and smiled a cracked smile for month -
s.What about it?'' Simply this: am
woods and cuss."-Pittsburg Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal q . member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
gRnfxAtion for the exclusive afternoon
pubitcation In Topeka
The news Is received IA The state 5o1f.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

er Picture.-'This photograph makes
me look years older she said To which,
the photographer replied, well, then you
won't need to be taken again for some
time ''-F'liegende Blaetter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
According to Uncle Abner.

If you want to know how some
people get their automobiles, ask their
grocers and butchers.
There is one thing in favor OF the
fuzzy hat. Nobody will ever steal it
or take it "by mistake after ban
quet.
Lem Higgins allows as how he ex-
poets to go to work next summer If
he kin find something to do that will
allow him to spend most of his time
out in front of Hilliker's gruc'ry on a
soap box.
Abe Hicks says he amt daffy about
havin' prosperity. 1t makes him work
too hard.
Every time his wife's relatives want
to take a ride, there's suthin' the mat
ter with Anse Frisby's oatmoDiie.
Luke Tibbitts is stuck on his job.
He works in a fly paper factory.
Any man who does business with
shyster lawyer, ought to get the worst
of it and he generally does.
If they can't find anything else for
the Digger Indians to do why not set
them to work on the Panama canal?
There have been q great many in
,ventors in this world. but the Teller
who invented compound interest was
MT so slow.
Kickin' on the street car service is
the oldest form of amusement in this
country.
When a man starts TO goin' down
hill there are plenty of friends ready
A Teller who has got the gift of
CAB gen'ally lands somewhere even if
it is only in Jail.
The trouble in this country at the
present time seems to be that the
dinner pals are too large.
Some of the poetry a young Teller
writes to his gal certainly sounds
fine and dandy when she pulls it on
him ten years after they are married.
Like a 81 horse, a pettyfoggin' law
yer is a vain thing for safety.
The man who used to have a barn
has put a gasoline can behind it
and called it a garage.
There is one thing that no man
ever made a success of, and that is
the drink habit.
They tell us that civilization is ad-
vancing by leaps and bounds, but
we note there are still good many
men who wear red neckties.
When a couple kin agree when to have
the bedroom window up and when to
have it down there amt much danger OF
a divorce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18

It's the edge of cultivation,
Amt no use in going farther"