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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Gossip never dies from lack of circula-
ton.
Mushrooms grow best in the dark. So
do wild oats.
Don't envy the buffer. He isn't always
as happy as he looks.
The man who waits to be given chance
has a life job as a waiter.
Many fellow is broke because some
rich friend has dropped him.
1t doesn't seem quite natural that pull
ing a mans leg should make him short.
A fellow shouldn't sit in hammock
with a fat girl unless he knows the ropes.
What a silent place this world would be
if we should all think twice before we
speak.
Sillicus-'I thoroughly believe the drama
is still in its infancy. Cynicus-"Or in
its second childhood"
Blobbs-''It's hard to be poor" Slobbs
Yes, but on the other hand, it's about
the easiest thing in the world
Tottie Twinkletoes-''The leading lady
thinks she's a world beaten" Polly Pink
tights-'Why, she couldn't beat an egg
Never look gift horse in the mouth,
but on the other hand it is just as well to
look gift automobile in the gasoline
tank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
THE woNfAN-TANIER.

THE WONfAN-TAMER.
He said, 'She shall be my slave!
Lesser in all than 1;
Feeble of body and brain,
She shall carry a golden chain,
And dwell until she die
In the golden cage l gave"
And he found a treacherous feature OF
hate and fear,
With teeth and claws that were ready
when he came near!
He said, "She shall be my star!
I will set her high above
This dusty world of mine.
I will bow me down at her shrine,
Pray for the light of her love,
And worship her from affair.".
But he found that the light of her love
had been withdrawn,
Leaving only a faint chill pity, faint
chill scorn.
He said, ''She shall be my friendt
Side by side let US stand.
For I need your help and you.
Comrades true and true,
With my hand in your dear hand
We will see life out to the end" --.-.
And she turned and her eyes met his;
and 1 think she cried
(But she laughed through her tears;
and she came to her place at his side.
Thomas O'Meara in the Englishwoman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
HYHAWKE.R JOTS

The Chanute Tribune issued a "a
page booster edition last Saturday
that was a credit to the office and to
the town.
A Wichita pastor terms the 1913
model of a mother a 'runabout-" The
Manhattan Nationalist wonders what
he would call a touring car.
Every girl has king in mind whom
she will some day meet and wed, says
Bert Walker, but most of them finally
compromise on four-spot.
By mutual agreement the sweet
girl graduates of the Arkansas City
high school have put a limit of 81 on
the cost of their commencement
gowns.
A woman farmer down in Woodson
county evicted tenant because his
wife insisted on cooking onions on the
place. Now the owner of the farm is
defendant in a law suit.
Charles Wright, a 13year-old boy
of BrunStOn, Mo-, who is visiting his
grandparents at Thayer found a pock-
etbook in a creek containing 500.
This leaves the inference that the
creek still has the 500.
While Leavenworth is anxious to
have the troops from almost any Of
the abandoned army posts stationed
other posts to have those from Arma-
geddOn.-LeaVenWOr Times.
Time was when we rented a house
that we thought new paper should be
put on all the walls. We have changed
our mind about the necessity of such a
proceeding-we do a little renting to
other people now. 1t is queer how
some people change their minds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
says UNCLE CIV

! Don't worry too much about the
prosperity of your wicked neighbor.
It's just possible that he isn't so bad as
you imagine. TItSnnay not be his SIN
fulness that causes him to flourish like
the green bay tree. Doubtless those
who love and trust him and do bust
ness with him and contribute to his
success have found in him something
worth while that you have over
looked.
The chief obstacle in the way of
spreading most creeds is the pure
cussedness of some of the folks who
profess them. We have quit burning
heretics, but the world is just getting
over the notion that those who dis
agree with us in matters of politics
and religion still have a right to live
and prosper. Some of us are so far
behind the times that we are chock
full of the old bigotry which denies
to its unorthodoX neighbor the privi-
lege of pursuing happiness in his own
way. That's about the meaneSt brand
of cuSSedneSS on earth-the kind that
is continually lamenting the success of
the man who can't see things as we
see them.
We are so busy patting ourselves
upon the back and Wanting the
creedS that we disgrace that we for
get to draw the beams of intolerance
from our own eyes, but we continue
to howl about the notes of wicked
ness" in the eyes of those who can't
accept our reading of the riddle of
existence. We make assinine nuis-
ances Of ourselves and go hungry
while the wicked hustle and wax fat.
If you still have this notion of
Things, you are a monstrosity-a
were born a thousand or two thou
sand years too late and when you
aren't menace to your community,
you are an object of pity. The old
notion that the man who doesn't be-
long to your particular gang has no
right to enjoy the privileges upon
which you believe that you hold a
political or a divine patent has played
out and you are left very much in the
position of the imbecile who looks for
eggs in last years nest.
Nowadays we know that the very
fact of your birth gives you a right
to earn a living, pile up a bank ac-
count, join the Republican party, the
Democrats or the Bull Moose, go to
any church you please, and enjoy life
according to your capacity for human
service. We would much rather you
would be of use to your fellows than
that you would spend your time howl
ing because the good things of earth
are not taken away from the "'unde-
serving and handed to you upon a
platter.
You can accept it as a matter of
good horse sense that there is some
virtue in the man who makes good.
He may have faults that cry to heav-
en-, and he may occasionally have
hard shedding to keep out of the
clutches of the law. These things
are not to his credit. But if he builds
up big business, gathers about him
a host of friends and seems to be en-
joying life, you can bet your few
paltry, hard-squeezed dollars that he
is doing something for somebody else
and is growing opulent upon the re-
turns Copyright 1913, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
KANSAS COAAENT
APPROACHING MEAT WAR.

| There is to be a meat war.
| Usually We may be counted on the
side of peace. if there is a conflict
| in sight We deplore strife when side
is arrayed against side and battle Is
| in the air. But this time we are for
war. We pine for it. 1t can't come any
| too soon.
The war threatened is a war between
the meat men in the United States and
the packers in Australia and Argentine.
The meat men here have been getting
what they asked. Everyone seems 20
be aware of this. They have asked
plenty, also. while they were about
it.
Now the Australians and Argentin-
ians are coming to America to get In
the game, once the tariff lets them
come. They are going to sell the port
ly porterhouse for a mere song and the
ultimate consumer is to have an op-
portunity to join in the chorus, or may
be sing the air himself, now and thsn.
In other words, meat is to come down
where the average man, though poor,
can again make it's acquaintance.
This will be joyous news. 1t win
be gladstone day when meat is cheap
err 1t will give us chance to buy
some other things we have wanted but
which have been denied us because of
the high price of living. blamed on the
meat men of the world.
And this war will be perfectly salts
factory to everyone, almost, IL it doesn't
| lOWeT the price OF the COW on the moor,
the farmers will receive. If 1t does that,
1T will be a horse of another color
Hutchinson News.
PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS.
The other day, in a Kansas City court,
mother was separated from her children,
one boy of years of age and the other
a girl of 4. The mother begged that she
be allowed to keep them and the little boy
threw himself into her arms and sobbed
out: "Oh, Mamma! don't want to leave
you.' But 1t was no use. The mother was
not very strong and she was too poor TO
care for the children properly, SO the I'M
feeling arm of the law tore them apart.
A crime was committed when that was
done. To rob a mother of the children
she bore is a worse crime than to rob her
of an estate her husband left her. To
ROB little children Of the love and care of
their mother is crime almost as bad as
of man has Joined the mother to her chill
dren and what God hath Joined together
let not man put asunder."
what should be done in all such cases
as that cited above is for the state to pay
the mother a pension and leave the chill
pacitated in any way except through pow
erty, to care for her children the most
clVlllzed thing, the most economical thing,
the sanest thing. for the government 10
90, is to enable her to bring them up.
The most economical, we saw: for
though it might cost less money to bring
them up in asylums they will not be worth
SO much when brought up. And SO the
edftor of the Times believes that Kansas
should quickly follow the example of some
otner progressive states and pass laws for
the penSfoning of mothers who are left
with dependent children and who are un-
able properly to care for them without
Observation-Disclosures Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

in the real estate field and decline in
the erection of large buildings; also
to the difficulties which the railroads
are having in financing contemplated
improvements
manufacturers to reduce wages have
ceased since the administration called
that bluff. 1t is just as well to give the
Democrats credit for enough patriot
ism to prevent them from doing any
thing that will seriously injure the bus
mess of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
PURE POLITICS.

Pure" according to the late Noah
Webster, indicates a substance or
thing clear of foreign matter. And
with the accent on the Politics. the
activity of Congressman Neeley, of
Kansas, is fully described in this
adline.
Every man who has the luck or
political pull to attain a seat in con-
gress. approaches Washington with
the natural ambition to break into
print or prominence. He has no
choice, because there is none,-the
words are synonymous. If he chances
to be one of hose political accidents,
who goes to congress with no promin-
ence concealed in his baggage, his ef-
forts to harvest a full crop from a
scanty sowing will be redoubled.
In casting /: bout for some means of
breaking into print, the new congress
man has but two guesses; the first is
to grab some national appropriation foe
his "deestrfct," and the second and
easiest is to attack the railroads. There
is no closed season on railroads,
either in congress or in a state legis-
lature. The man who would introduce
bill requiring railroads to sprinkle
their fuel with cologne SO that the
smoke would smell better when it
drifted into the open chair cars, would
receive solemn attention. while the
man with a sensible bill would have to
sit back and wait his turn.
Mr.. Medley picked the easiest sub
ject. He chose railroads. That his
choice was a wise one has been demon
strated. He gets about stick of pure
reading matter each day.
OF course he Is as we'll posted on the
situation as anyone else. He knows
that the Central Branch-which has
been a losing proposition since its in
ception, was built after the railroadless
districts in Northern Kansas had lob
bied through congress. and that the
parent road had been practically sand
bagged into building it, The road has
been of great value to a few counties
and the property holders thereof, put
of little value to the company that
kept it from rusting into the landscape.
But the whole assault on the Central
Branch comes back to the farthest
point from the merits of the case,
pure politics" The Central Branch
doesn't amount to nueh-except to the
thousands of north Kansas farmers
who are benefited by it. The vague
suspicion which is growing in the
minds of Kansans, is taking shape in
editorial form; it is that the pure poll
tics of the much exercised congressman
is so pure that 1t would stand the acid
test. and that the real idea is to in
volve an honored Kansan, who chances
to be the legal head of the defendant
railroad, in a defensive campaign that
will interfere with his campaign for the
United States senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
EVENING CHAT
A Common Mistake.
Ell RurA CAMERON.


The other day 1 heard self-sufficient
young man calmly announce that all this
classical music which people make such a
people just pretend to like it," he said.
There is no real music to IT.
Nov, as ! belieye I have said =, in ~, a
world for any one who will be honest
about his preferences in such matters,
even when they differ from those of the
majority. like the honest man who ad-
mits he prefers Conan Dolye to Shake
speare and Row, row. row. to a Sc
man who insists that he is right in his
preferences, and that all the cultured and
educated people who think differently
from him are fools.
many people take in many matters.
Now of course each of us must do his
own thinking for himself, and make up
his mind what he believes and what he
likes, for himself, If his beliefs and prefer
enees are to have any real weight and
to have due respect for any opinion which
large number of educated and cultured
share it. we ought to admit that there is
probably some good in it or else they
would not hold it.
OF course the world would never pro-
greSs at all unless people thought for
themselves and had the courage to ques-
ton the established order. but there is a
te1ligent inquiry and the attitude of ig-
norant contempt which the young man L
quoted. and a great many people, young
and old, assume.
Personally I must say like the simpler
melodies, and would infinitely rather hear
a good singer sing some simple old folk
song like Coming Through the Rye"
than an aria from an opera. But believe
that this is simply because I haven't suf-
ficient musical knowledge to appreciate
the more wonderful music, and 1
take every opportunity to hear It in the
hope that some day may understand it
and enjoy 1t as should d
1t Is not right to pretend to like any
thing or believe in anything just because
other people like it or believe in it. But
neither is it right to entirely ignore the
opinion of any large class, especially when
they are educated and Intelligent people
Spencer, himself one of the most indt-
pendent thinkers OF the world. says that
when any idea or custom has persisted
for centuries you can be sure there ml:St
be some good at the root of it, no matter
how foolish 1t may appear. And so whhn
any idea or custom is approved by MIL
lions, beware how you set yourself against
it. There is one chance that you are right
and the rest of the world wrong. There
are about nine million, nine hundred and
ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and
nfnetyni chances that the shoes on the
other foot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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to you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
ON THE SPUR
OF TIE MOMENT
Mr.. Binks and the Doghouse.
By ROY X. MOULTON.


Mr.. Binks is the sort of man who
| likes to have somebody working for
him and so when he got the carpenter
to come to build a doghouse for
Queenie. he was perfectly happy.
1t was first necessary to find .he
proper location in the back yard for
the doghouse, a place where it would
not be too sunny and not too shady.
Mr.. Binks and the carpenter spent
one day picking out the site. Then
they drew the plans. 1t was not to he
anything fancy, for Queenie was only
SO dog in her palmiest days and
her palmiest day had long since pass
ed. Queenie didn't want a doghouse
any more than she wanted another
tail. A doghouse was miles beyond
her station in life, but Mr.. Binks want
ed 1t, and Mr.. Binks was the grand
exalted rural of that particular patch
of ground Mr.. Binks really didn't
want the -doghouse as much as he
wanted somebody, preferably a car
penter, puttering around. Mr.. Binks
had kept Mrs. Binks cleaning up after
carpenters for thirty years.
The plans were finally drawn and
the lumber was purchased. Mr.. Binks
went to the lumber yard with the car
penter. The lumber cost SO, the paint
81 and the hardware 81. The carpen-
ter suggested that Mr.. Binks might
make the job a little more expensive
by calling in the steamfitters and hav-
ing steam heat piped from the resi-
dence to the doghouse. Mr.. Binks
could do this for $87. Queenie was
only a SO dog, but it was a good plan
Mr.. Binks would think it over.
Mr.. Binks sat on the back steps five
days watching the carpenter build the
doghouse. In order to make 1t largo
enough they built it around Queenfe.
After it was all inclosed and painted
they found that they had forgotten to
make a door and Queenie was inside.
The doghouse had to be torn down and
rebuilt.
1t was decided after an afternoons
debate to hold Queenie down in front
of the doghouse and then mark out
the exact size of the door that would
fit her. While the carpenter was hold
ingQueenie down shegrew peevish and
bit the carpenter through the thumb,
after which the carpenter had to go
to the hospital for two weeks. Mr.
Binks called another carpenter and
had the job finished in three days. Mr.
Binks' expense for the doghouse was
as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

It ought to be a consolation to the
man with a lawn to know that If
dandelions were not so common they
would be raised in greenhouses and
sold for SIS per half dozen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

An effort is being made at Washing
ton to return the Ellen NJ. Stone ran
som money to those who subscribed it.
Miss Stone, it will be remembered,
was the missionary woman who was
picked up in the Balkan country in
1901 By a band of Bulgarians. These
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

The Pennsylvania legislature has
passed an act making it a misdemeanor
to misrepresent the physical condition
of a horse offered for sale or barter
Probably the time is not far distant
when every human action will be regu-
lated by statute and the work in the
schools will consist wholly of learning
what not to 90
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28


intelligence. The hopper army is
headed away from the Mexican trou-
bic zone.
The city is still waiting for the street
railway company's answer, and the
company has shown no unlady-like
haste in answering. In fact the COM
pany is as slow about answering as
some girls who have been asked the
vital question.
1t doesn't look like a good crop
year. The chinch bugs are shortening
the wheat crop and the prohibition
bugs are doing what they can to short
en- the crop of rye
We would never know of the graf
flying number of people who had es-
capped premature grave were it not
Tor the patent medicine testimonials.
T. r. says he doesn't like the taste
of it, and uses it for medicinal pur-
poses only. That's what they used 1t
FOR in Topeka until the drug stores
were put out of business.
As a rule. the bride doesn't get so
many berry spoons if she is married
during the berry season.
The newspaper men who tagged the
santa Fe trail officials were piled up
In ditch by their driver, and they
report it as an accident, but there is
general suspicion around newspaper
offices that the driver saw a chance
to do the world a good turn, and tried
his darndest to make good.
The assertion of advertisers that
the safety razor will not cut the face
is practically true. The principal
trouble is that they won't cut the
whiskerS either.
A generous Texas congressman has
a scheme to give Canada a chunk of
Alaska as a token of good will. He
didn't say anything about giving the
rest of Alaska to the Guggenheims
probably because it is waste of time
to give something to one who has it
already.
And now if some other generous
gtnk will make arrangements to give
California, Hawaii and the Philippines
to Japan, our possessions will be trim
med town to a size that is manage
able. 3
Kansas City man advertising for a
job as interpreter, claims that he can
speak both English and American, as
well as three other languages and
Yiddish. -A-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

eff Lister had sold his discovery of
the antiseptic treatment of wounds
would his name stand where it does
among the immortals?'' But how many
of those who reached Immortality by
this route failed to die in poverty?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

The announcement Of a government
surgeon that dirty money is not dan
gerous on account of harboring germs
is a relief. For we all had made up
our minds to take the chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

A Russian scientist says that excess
sive talking is a dangerous disease.
American politicians beat him to that
discovery a long time ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

A British scientist holds that wearing
clothes is unnatural and a bad habit
Perhaps that is the reason some wom
en- have almost abandoned the practice
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OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Associated Press and receives the fuH Gay
eeIerraph report of that great news NJ
marization for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State jour
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pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

A bald headed man in the audience
at a Denver threatre was kissed by an
actress who descended from the stage
for that purpose. He has brought suit
for 5000. 1t is a safe bet that his wife
caused the filing of that suit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

In contenting himself with free dog
licenses the French consular secretary
in Chicago is more modest than the
Japanese in California.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

A New York senator under indict-
ment asked the court to appoint a
lawyer to defend him, on a plea of
poverty. This will be easily under
stood when it is known that he owns
two automobiles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

This promises to be good year for
melons. The Standard Oil company is
already preparing to cut one valued at
$50 600 600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

The labors of sleuths are greatly
simplified by the fact that crooks are
no more proof against feminine charm
than other men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

Professor Taft is to become citizen
of Connecticut. This indicates that he
will not again run for the presidency.
It is doubtful that he wanted to make
the race the first time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

A mountain of alum has been founc
in New Mexico. The price of baking
power should now come down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

Mother-''welI, dears did you meet any
one you knew" The Three Children (who
have just returned from the morning
wa1k)-''Ye s Ruby and Derek-" Mother
Where did you meet them?" Barbara
(the youngest-''At the same place as we
was''-Punch.