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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

An ultimatum, however, is less serious
than declaration of war.
No man is so homely that he doesn't
want his picture taken occasionally.
Possibly, however, the pessimist has the
best system for lodging disappointment
Boys shouldn't rob birds nests; milliners
must make a living and other luxuries.
I'm so hard up an Atchison man said
today, that L may have to pull my gold
teeth"
srandstand isn't an effort to encore the
umpire.
1t always makes a man angry when his
wife says she does not want their daugh-
ter to marry
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who thought Bertha NJ. Clay a
great author?
A former citizens claim of prosperity
will not go far if his trousers are shiny In
the seat
A boy wants a new suit If the merchant
gives a baseball n1itt with each purchase
of boys clothing.
rowing about trading horses, doesn't care
much how he lives
II once knew a cobbler who was a noted
linguist, and could cuss the loafers in his
shop in seven different languages -Rufe
HoSkins-
A girl who was described a peach
during the bloom of her early g1rlhood,
frequently becomes one of the picked
variety later on in life.
Be 1t ever so fine, a man can't enjoy a
meal in strange house where there are
more forks and spoons than he knows
what to do with
woman who wore two petticoats? Or one,
then, If you don't want to be so blamed
conservative?
You may have to work pretty hard, but
peopl. generally will never again be as
Industrious as in those halcyon days when
bicycles were fashionable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

knowing that you wanted him enough
to get him a new license and collar,
returned Gilroy.
Peter himself seemed highly pleased
at the discussion. He remained seated
on his great launches between them,
nor did he indicate by so much as an
impatient wag of the tail a desire to
separate his new and old owners
And on the other hand" continued
Gilroy because Patricia had not spoken
and the silence was beginning to pal
pitate with new sensations Il know
that Peter will not go home with you
now and he would drag you every step
of the way to my bachelor home-that
is he laughed, "if you succeeded in
hanging on to his leash.''
Patricia smiled a trif1e wistfully
I'm that case 1 will have to ask you
music also of nature that will draw
to walk home with me-if you do not
mind. Peter, I am sure will be will
ing to go if you are along
Peter seemd to like the idea. He first
begged for his masters walking stick.
and having got it walked sedately
ahead of Gilroy and Patricia.
The sun had come out and Gilroy
again lit his pipe Also he had ceased to
glover at those who passed him with
either feminine or canine companions.
ct have got them all one step bet
ter" he ruminated, and cast a pleased
Si1hSe dl the girl DcS1OS HILL. L ACCls
he said before he left her, that We
can come to satisfactory under
standing regarding Peter. He and
generally like the same people and I
see that he already likes you.'
Patricia flashed him a sweetly mock
ing glance.
Peter and also have tastes in COM
mon," she said.
He is inordina tely fond of me-"
laughed Gifroy.
Il refuse to take back my state
ment,' Patricia told him.-(Copyright
1918 by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

ates happiness and happiness is what
we're after
So the world is indebted to the man
who whistles over his work. We may
become impatient with him because of
his cheerful noise, but we love him just
the same, and in the end call him bless
ed. We may curse him for a blind,
good-natured fool, and we justify our
selves in the eyes of our neighbors. We
may look down upon him for an OK,
and despise him for spineless being,
but if he is happy he has the edge on
US, having gained that for which we
vainly strive.
The whistling man may get the worst
of 1T, upon any number of counts, but
he has drawn the grand prize, for a
that. He puts the joy of a healthy,
capable body and the inspiration of an
undisturbed mind into the thing that he
does, and is, therefore. whether he
work in mud Or in pigments. your true
artist. The peace that passeth under
standing is in his shrill racket and the
joy of creation in the grip of his fingers.
His is the one unalloyed solace that
is within the gift of earth-the know
ledge that he is fulfilling his mission.
The great work before the world
today is the education of competent,
happy men. We do not need rich men
or poor ones. The amount of wealth
in any particular corner of the world
Is uHiiiipoFtdHl Inc Dig tnlnS is the
amount of happiness. 1t makes little
difference whether you or your son
piles up millions or wears twenty
dollar hand-me-downs, but it is worth
while to consider whether you shall be
efficient factor of society and peram-
bulatins plants for the generation of
joy.
Hence our big task is to teach men
to take joy of their tasks to find in
their labor the answer to all yearnings,
the healing for all unrest. For the
whistling man is chief among earth's
treasures.-(Copyrigh 1913, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22
HOPEFUL SIGNS.

From the cave of gloom into which
it plunged some time ago, Wall street
is able yet to see a ray of sunshine in
the form of the crop prospects. The
approaching harvest constitutes the
silver lining to the cloud which over
spreads the commercial east.
Each week the government bull
letins of weather in the crop belt"
says the Bache Review, come in
bright with rain and sunshine, and
this weeks is no exception wall
street shivered when the cold wave
swept over the country, but 1t was not
the temperature, but the possibility OF
damage to growing things, which al
fected it. East of the Rockies in the
northern and middle tiers, the crop
was held back, but no damage DONE
and in the great corn and winter
wheat growing states, the most 1aVor-
able conditions continued to prevail;
also in most of the cotton growing
states.
Another good prospect is that OF
success to the railroads in their new
endeavor for raised rates II not TOO
long delayed such action would make
for a much better railroad outlook.
And with railroad improvement would
come a. long line of benefits to other
industries"
To this request of the railroads for
permission to advance rates there ap-
pears to be no opposition, If silence
gives consent The plan of the mana
gers to carry their case to the people
seams to have been successful. The
public, when it understands the ques-
ton. and is approached in the right
c0jrit iS nearly always fair.
The railways of England have just
passed through an experience similar
to that encountered in this country.
The advance of 4 per cent in freight
rates on the railroads of Great Brit
ain. to go into effect on July L, is the
outcome of the railroad strike OF the
summer of 1911, when the govern
ment prevented the tie-up of the roads
bv promising an increase OF rates TO
the companies if they would make
concessions to their employees III
wages. Parliament has now redeem
ed the governments pledge to the car
riers, in spite of the opposition OF
shippers, for parliament has the power
of railroad regulation precisely as the
American congress or any American
state has. The final effect of the in
crease in rates will be to enhance the
cost of living, inasmuch as the con-
SINNER in the last analysis pays the
freight.
The petition of the eastern trunk
lines for 5 per cent increase IN
freight rates, filed with the interstate
commerce commission, is not the re-
suit exclusively Of strikes, like the in
crease in Great Britain, although con-
cessions in wages decreed by arb1tra-
ton boards to engineers and firemen
the past year to avoid strikes have
been a real factor. The American
railroads present case much more
comprehensive than the British roads
could make out in their demand FOR
increased freight charges. Not only
have wages increased, but so nave
taxes, interest charges on borrowed
capital, and new expenditures ordered
nv legislative enactments, such as ex-
ira crew, accident compensation and
grade crossing elimination laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record 7

lFrom the Philadelphia RecOrd.1
Mailing a lie won't always keen II down
High ideals are sometimes as unpoa1
ageable as aeroplanes.
An egotist is a man whS, feels sorry FOR
the people who don't like him.
No, Maude, dear, the bald heads i'm the
front row don't always constitute a pol
ished audience.
Enough is as good as a feast. The trou-
Bile is the average man doesn't know
when he has enough.
Many man complains that things ara
not coming his way when 1t is really The
fault of his way. inc
It's a question whether the quarrelsoma
people all get married or the ma FRIED
people all get quarrelsome.
1t isn't every man who can roll in vueaI.b
and preserve sufficient euuilibriuno 70
keep from rolling out OF it.
Hoax-"Politicians are a good b,t iika
pianos Joax-' Elucidate.' Hoax-"1S
they are square, they are old fashioned
Blobbs-"I thoroughly believe man
should keep his trouble to himsaIf. =
Slobbs-"Yes. or until he meets a feIio,,
who is looking for it"
Mrs. Buggins-"Weu, 1 don't tb,,,l
much of the new minister" Mr. p,s-n lnh
Reserve your decision, my dear S.
be he practices better than he preacbas.s
Love. honor. and obey,-the MARRIAGE
vows.
Alas for vows so promising. SO nooeI,,s,
Full many bride will simply knit ber
brows, "ei
When mildly asked to darn her buhnv..
stocking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

man and French manufacturers
Against the same competition 1t sells
bridges in North Africa, pipes for mines
in South Africa, rails for transcontf-
mental Australian road, great amounts
of defective material for reworking In
China, rails. wire, sheet-iron, tin-plate,
throughout South America. Its business
extends from Iceland to the Fiji Is
lands" and from east to west covers
a belt as broad and as far as the habit
able globe. It's export business has
grown from s31, OOO, 900 in 1904 to s92.ooO,-
OO0 in 1872
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22
KANSAS COlH4ENT
HE DID HIS BEST.


Walt Mason declares that Eugene
Ware was a greater credit to Kansas
than all the politicians she ever own
ed. Which is true, and yet it is no
credit to Gene that he wasn't poll
tician himself. He tried his dead level
best to be one, but never could cut 1t.
And he would have been a whole lot
better as a poet If he had never tried
being a politician. He tried several
times to break into the game, always
greatly to his own disgust. When he
was appointed commissioner of PEN
sions the writer of this wrote an edi-
torial in reference to this very thing,
and predicted that he could not and
would not stay, and gave reasons for
the belief. Long afterward, when he
had retired from office and returned
home sfilled with bitterness at every
thing that looked like politics, he
came into the office one day and pull
ed a clipping out of his pocket. II
thought you were dead wrong when
you wrote that" he said, land 1 saved
it just to prove it to you. Now 1
have come in to tell you that you are
Fighter than a rabbit; 1t was all ex-
actly as you said 1t would be. and
came in to apologize for doubling
your abilities as prophet. There is
nothing to the political game, and my
advice to every man, particularly to
every young man, is to keep hands
and feet out of it.''-Lawrence Ga
zette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

Advocates of woman suffrage have at
last struck out on the short road 20
the ballot for all the women in the
country. A resolution for a constitu-
tional amendment comforting the fran
chise on women has been introduced
In the United States senate. If it
passes both houses the remainder of
the way should not be difficult. Ratifi-
cation by all the states where women
now vote is assured. In many other
states the legislatures have acted
favorable on a state amendment of the
same kind. Probably it would be found
easier to elect i friendly legislature
than to secure endorsement by popular
vote
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

Not long ago a proposed increase of
per cent in freight rates would have
stirred the shippers to almost united
opposition. 1t is significant of a bet
ter understanding on both sides. says
the Baltimore News, that business
men are now giving respectful consid-
Grafton to the request of the railroads.
Lack of cars in busy seasons. slow
service and inadequate terminals
mean restriction for shippers when
they have their best opportunities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

A movement has been started in
Missouri to organize a school teachers
union. AS a means of obtaining bet
ter wages it's success is doubtful.
Probably in no other business are en-
ployers so willing to accept inferior
work, provided the pay is small. The
theory appears to be that anybody
who can obtain a certificate can teach
school satisfactorily. If school pa
irons were compelled to pay a fair
price to teachers. it is probable that
they would exercise more care in max
ing selections.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22
PoINTEo PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.1

From
Hunger never kicks because the table
cloth is soiled.
A woman can make pie out of almost
any old thing.
Whatsoever man reaps some other fell
low probably planted.
And a vast amount of love is adulter-
ated with genuine money.
If a girl can see but one young man in
a crowded car-t1at is love-
Birds in their little nests that don't
agree take chances on falling out.
Somehow woman never has much
faith in another woman who keeps Sc
crets.'
lazy mans affinity is woman who
Is willing to furnish his daily bread.
When man admits that he is on
fools errand you need not hesitate TO
take his word for it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22
WHO is THE TRUST?

The International Harvester company
receives a scorching in an interview
with w. L. Brown of the penitentiary
board as to its position on the high
price of Irvine. The Kansas peniten-
tiary had about one million pounds of
Irvine on hand when the Irvine plant
burned. Two-thirds of this was de-
stroyed or made worthless for wheat
harvest. The buyers find that the price
of Irvine is higher by two cents than
1t was formerly and naturally connect
the two events. The fact that every
pound the penitentiary plant could
make was sold evidences that the
farmers of the state like the state
Irvine. When the penitentiary board
sent an expert east to buy machinery
for rebuilding the plant, intending to
use secondhand machines which are
plenty because of abandoned plants
closed by the trust, he found that some
one had an option on all the second
hand machines in the country. The
chairman of the board, L. w. Morgan,
has gone to New York with instruc-
lions to buy machines, even If they have
to be built new. But when the news
was given out that the harvester trust
had been active to stihe the Kansas
product, the International Harvester
company, which is now in court try
ing to prove that it is not a trust,
jumped in the papers to demand a re-
traction. Major Brown promptly in
quired why the company considered it,
self hurt if it was not a trust and
the question is a very pertinent one.
Kansas is going to make twiEe and
while the action of the trust may de-
lay the rebuilding of the plant for a
few weeks, in the end there will be a
Irvine plant at Lansing that will fur
nish practically all the Irvine needed in
the state.-Abilene Reflector.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

The mayor of Cincinnati has asked
the court to appoint receivers for the
street railway, which is tied up by a
strike. We have become familiar with
the operation of railways and other
public utilities by the courts, through
receivers appointed by them, but here
tofore the reason for judicial interven-
ton and management through a re-
ownership has usually been the finan-
cial disability of the operating COM
pany. Physical disability, due to in
adequate police protection, has not I'M
til now been suggested as a proper
ground for imposing on the courts ad-
ministrative and executive duties
which are primarily functions of the
police power. The intent is that the
court shall open The blockade and
make terms with the men,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

How times have changed! A few
years ago a large number of people
wanted free coinage of silver to make
prices higher. Now many or these
same people complain that prices are
too high and are seeking some means
by which they may be reduced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

er the end be accomplished by the drug
dispensers, the Christian Scientists, the
Osteopaths. the Chiropracters or by the
old women of the neighborhood. 1t Is
results that is wanted and by them
will be judged the merits of the heal
ing system Without cures to It's
credit no cult can long stand in the
business of healing the sick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

After reading the testimony of the
head of the steel trust. given in the
dissolution suit, it is easy to understand
why that concern is making no outcry
over the reduction in the tariff. 1t has
provided the steel for every steel struc-
ture built in Buenos Ayres in the last
eight years. and it has done this in
open competition with English, Ger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

British workingmen object to Mr..
Page as ambassador to their country
on the ground that he is not in sympa-
thy with organized labor. 1t may be
that American diplomats will be COM
PEELED to form union and carry
working card.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22
Full, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal is. a member OF tne
Associated Press and receives the full day
felexraph report of that great news T-
sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
qualification in Topeka
THE news is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole puf-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22
holds out.

1t is becoming common, it is said,
for Chicago young men and young
women to elope for the purpose of
avoiding fuss at formal weddings.
Why can't the divorces be arranged in
the ga r1e WaY?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

Down in North Carolina it has TAX
en- 16 years to obtain a two years
sentence for a bank wrecker. And he
is not in jail vet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

Now it is said that Friedman
stole his consumptive cure from an
other scientist. Judged by what 1t
has accomplished, he did not get
much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

The German doctors with consump-
ton cures are likely to go on increas-
ing in number as long as the supply
of turtles and American easy marks
holds out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

The Cleveland Plain Dealer compares
California to the bad boy who breaks
q window and lets his daddy pay for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

But 1T is our guess that the line will
not be built. Property owners on each
of the proposed routes will tie up the
other lines with injunction, and save
the railway company the expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

When Walt Mason announced thai
only three Kansas papers were really
missed from the exchange table, he
started something. All the papers II
the state are inviting,-yea, daring
him to name the three.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-22

There was some talk of a cessation
of hostilities in the tortilla district
but it's all off now. H. erta has ar.
ranged to borrow a hundred millions
and they can't stop fighting till they
spend that.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-01-04
TAKES NAP IN WRONG HOUSE
Bewidered Intruder Is Arrested After
Alarming Occupants Of Building
in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Ohio--It was six o'clock
In the morning, when Police Operator
Abel received telephone call from
a woman living in the fiat building at
the northeast corner Of York and
Freeman avenues. She was very
much excited and declared that a
burglar was in the place.
One minute after Lieutenant Couver
sent Knapp, Fifth district station
house keeper to the place, and three
minutes thereafter the cause Of the
trouble was in the hands of the police
The alarm resulted when Sam Bea-
bout, fifty-four years old, who says
his home is at the Kings Mills hotel
at Kings Mills, Ohio, wandered into
the place some time in the night.
There is heating stove in the hall
and Sam curled up behind the stove
and took nap. The place looked
just like his home, he said
When he woke up he was Devil
dered and in order to get his bearings
he raped on the various doors he
encountered. When the occupants of
thu rooms peeped through a crack in
the door and saw the invader they
were frightened. The next step was
to call for the police.
Sam says his mind is a blank as to
his involuntary visit.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1913-01-04

him that he is not in Europe. The
country is fiat, it has many trees, it is
cut up into small fields and very close
ly cultivated. 1t is the human element
unlike Europe-the women "swathed
in crimson muslin" the children "eith
er naked or Enthusiastically dressed up,
the thin walnut colored men, with
white turbans and bare legs, the big
loose limbed donkeys who pass in a
kind of ambling gallop,' the hump
backed cattle, mild miniature beasts"
the STRAIGHTFORWARD lead colored buff
faloes. Then comes a railway station
and a fresh "riot Of color and fancy"
Opposite the carriage stands vener.
able gentleman in bright green flower.
ed silk dressing gown, with a pink tur.
ban and white pajamas; near him
there is a woman "in a shapeless mass
of orange cotton" tiny child, with
embroidered coat and absurd little
buff trousers ending in red Shoes -
and an old man who crowns a gray
frock coat with a crimson turban, and
wraps his legs in "a careless swathe
of white muslin Mr.. Spender's train
was delayed for ten minutes because a
party of ladies had to be got out. An
immense sheet was held in front of
their carriage, in which they were
somehow enwrapped, and the group
was left standing like great, white
box in the middle Of the platform"