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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
AROUND THE CIRCLE.

| The eastern railroads have refused
the demand of the trainmen for an
advance in wages on the ground that
they cannot afford it unless the pa
irons can be made to pay the bill, and
are again confronted with the posi-
bilitv of q strike. The burden of
added expense cannot be shifted I'M
less they are permitted to, advance
their rates. They are about to make
another combined attempt to do this.
The prospects of success can be
gathered only by examination of the
record on the subject. The first at
teun+ was made in 1903 on the plea
that the railways wanted means to I'M
nrove their properties dedicated to the
service of the public. The answer OF
the commission was that the stock
holders were not entitled to name rates
which both should earn them d1v1-
dends and improve their property IL
thew wanted to improve their property
they should borrow the money. Bor-
rowing money would necessarily IN
volve the payment of interest with no
added facilities for getting the money.
In 1905 the railways made another at
tempt on the plea that everybody else
was prospecting and that the roads
wanted their share. The stony hearted
commissions reply was that "the
freight rate is not a comm odity the
price of which ordinarily should vary
with the price of the commodities
which are transported" The doctrine
then announced was that the railways
should absorb their prosperity from
the country's prosperity, taking their
increase of profits from the growing
density OF their traffic.
1t was then that Mr.. Hill published
his calculation that the theory was
more true in the reverse sense, and
that the country took its profits at the
expense of the railways rather than
that the railways profited at the ex-
pense of the country. Mr.. Hills way
of proving it was by stating the econo-
mics to the country by the reduction
of rates on his lines alone to a total
of $676,9S3,S2O between 1881 and
1905. But the roads which had con-
ferred this boon on shippers were not
allowed to advance rates as they asked.
asked.
The last attempt was made so re-
Gently that it is only necessary to re-
call the commissions unyielding reply
that the roads could not be entitled to
advance rates until they proved their
efficiency in operation and their econ
Omy in wages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
THE DAYTON PLAN.

That good may come out of a great
calamity has again been demonstrated.
1t will be recalled that the commission
form of government was a result of
the Galveston flood. The disaster at
Dayton has brought into prominence
the idea of a hired manager of mu-
nicipal business.
Two little cities of North Carolina
have recently adopted the plan, first
tried in Sumter, S. c., of appointing
city managers to conduct their mu-
nicipal business. This is the latest de-
velopnnent of the commission govern
ment idea, the intent being to hand
over the administration of lnu-
nicipaI affairs to a paid expert, just
as those of a corporation are to it's
executive officers, the function of the
city councils being merely that of a
board of directors. Dayton was prac-
ticaIIy put in the hands of a manager
when it's city government had been
wiped out by the flood; and it is pro-
posed by the Daytonians to continue in
ordinary times plan which worked
so satisfactorily to themselves in a
time of stress and confusion.
The Youngstown, Ohio, city commits
sion is also making brisk fight for
the adoption of the plan, and in the
Wisconsin legislature bill is pending
to enable any city council or commits
sion to advertise for a "hired man
to run their business for them. He
would not even have to be a resident
of the city or the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Croquet has started back several times,
but it never seems to arrive.
There are arguments on both sides; in
fact, there are too many arguments on
all sides.
Among the continuous performances,
may be listed the crusade against the cor
set.
Spring poem: Oh, the fish worms are
calling and calling, and to work is appall-
ing, appalling.
When she is a bride, woman doesn't
want to leave her husband long, and after
that she is afraid to.
Alb. Adkins says his life is so monoton-
Gus he is grateful for the great variety of
weather Kansas has to offer.
There are times when one should play
it alone, and we have little use for the
person who joins suicide club.
You are apt to travel too far for an eX-
cuse, without. however, equalizing the
record of the six-day bicycle race in that
particular.
Knowing a poet might be disappoint-
ment. One should hate to learn that the
author of deathless song was fond OF
liver and onions.
1t was man, you may have observed,
who couldn't talk after being kicked in
the face by bay steer. You can finish
this paragraph.
No, Evaline, 1t is not the dugong or sea
COW which gives the watery milk some
times discovered on the family boarding
house table.
When I want prescription, go to a
doctor, regardless of the fact that other
friends suggest remedies for all the ills
flesh is hear to.''-Rufe Hoskins.
When a bank cashier gets away with
the goods, it pleases the heartless heather
to learn that the missing man was super
intedent of a Sunday school,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
Early Men in South Africa.

A most interesting discovery has lately
been made showing the existence of a
primitive race of men in South Africa.
DR.. Broom, of Germinston, whose arch
geological and geological researches have
made his name familiar to scientists in
Europe and America. told of a specially
interesting discovery recently made of a
hot spring so miles north of Bloenlfontein,
in the course of operations designed to
open up the eye of the spring To do this
it was necessary to tunnel into sand
hill, and in the course of the operations
of mammalian bones associated with hu-
man implements and a quantity of char
red wood
The significance of the discovery was
not realized by the first finders, but for
tuna tely, Dutch woman in the district
suspected they had scientific value. and
prevented the finds from being dispersed.
them. He found that the bones were
chiefly those of hippopotami: Gland: the
huge extinct buffalo of South Africa;
whose horns used to attain a span OF
twelve feet; the gigantic Cape horse long
since extinct, which far exceeded the
Clydesdale in size; an extinct variety of
wild beeste; the wart hog, and a number
of small buck, not yet identified
Previous discoveries had caused sci
entists to believe that man had lived in
South Africa contemporaneously with the
extinct giant buffalo. but the proofs avail
able were inconclusive. Dr. Broom re-
CARDS this discovery as proving their CO.
existence beyond doubt The find further
proves that extinct animals Were Killed
and their bones broken, and indicates that
their flesh was cooked by some primitive
race of human beings The implements
found included stone knives and large
spear heads. but no evidences were round
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

We? You are one of the grinders of the
poor, are We? I've been waiting a
whole year to get hold of some of you.
There's the broom; take it and sweep
the floorl"
I won'tl'
He raised his hand to box her ears.
and she picked up the stub of broom
and began to sweep. That floor had
job lasting half an hour. Then the
old man said:
Wash that winder!"
Miss Irene looked at him, but found
rag and water. Then:
There's meal and there's milk. L
want pudding and milk for dinner"
But I can't make a pudding. I
can't cook anything
When the pudding was made-if it
was a pudding-it was placed on the
table with a pail of milk, and the old
man said:
Get that yeller bowl and eat with
me-
But I can't eat." sobbed the girl.
Then I'll force it down you! l
want you rich folks to know what a
poor mans dinner tastes like
Miss Irene was commanded to wash
the dishes again, made to bring in the
wood he had cut and to peel some po-
tatoes for his breakfast. Then the old
man told her to be gone. The agent
was good to her as she reached the
depot bathed in tears. Her train had
come ana gone, but 1t would only be
six hours until the next; he ought to
have told her of the crazy old social
ist, but forgot; she might have his
coat to spread on the truck, AMI so
forth. She arrived home at 4 O'Clock
in the morning, and her mother gasp
ed at her:
For the lands sake, Irene, but
what's happened?"
1--we lost-lost-''
Lost WHAT"
.'My-my independence! Please tel
ephone Dart to come around here as
soon as ever he CAM"
But what's the haste?"
II want-want man to lean on
the rest of my lifev'-(Copyright 1913
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia RECORD. ]

lFrom the Philadelphia Record
1t takes considerable diplomacy to dis
tinguish between polite applause and an
encore.
May a man is a good husband simply
because he hasn't the nerve to be any
thing else
have to have either a peacemaker or a
pacemaker.
No man should put up a bluff unless he
feels that he has the strength to surmount
it, If necessary.
There wouldn't be SO many sinners If
people struggled to get into heaven as
they do to get into society.
Nature is sometimes unkind. Many a
pate de foie gras appetite and milk toast
stomach are combined in the same man.
Cynicus-"Dashaway lost a good friend
the other day" Sillicus-"How did that
happen?" Cynicus-"He married her."
''Silence is golden quoted the Wise
Guy. Are you sure it isn't sometimes
geologically speaking, ironical?" asked the
Simple Mug.
Salvation is free" quoted the Wise
Guy. Guess you never stacked up against
a church fair, did your asked the Simple
Mug.
Many a mans religion is based on the
assumption that dollar will make more
noise when it drops into the collection
plate than dollar bill.
Wgg-"Dashaway's wife puts every
thing they can scrape together on her
back" Wagg-"Yes, and by a strange
coincidence a S. dog he owned was stolen
the other day for a $50 collar 1t had on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
EVENING CHAT
On Hurting Oneself.
RY RUTA CAMNRoN.

A young travelling man, whose firm
had broken faith with him on prom
Use to raise his salary, was telling how
he evened things up by padding his
expense account.
When someone criticized the ethics
of this, he answered at once that he
would never do it if he felt he were
being fairly treated, but he considered
he was only taking what rightfully
belonged to him; his employers had
not treated him honorably in break
ing faith with him, and therefore he
felt quite justified in not treating
them honorably-
I think he made a mistake as old as
life itself. -<s j.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Dishonesty never justifies dishon-
esty.
Meanness never justifies meaness.
Selfishness never justifies selfish
ness.
And so on down the whole line.
The firm which broke faith with
this young man was doing him a
wrong. But not half SO great as the
wrong he did himself. What they did
affected the conditions of his outward
life; what he did affected his char
acter-himself.
No one can really hurt you except
yourself.
There is a certain verse in the Bible
which almost inspires in me the wish
that L might be a minister for a day
in order that 1 might preach upon it.
1t is this:
There is nothing from without a
man, that entering into him can defile
him; but the things which come out
of him, those are they that defile the
man."
Doesn't that mean that the sights
you receive, the dishonesty that is dis
played towards you, the meanness you
suffer from-all these are really out
side of you and cannot do you any
lasting hurt? 1t is only the unkind-
nesses which you show to others, the
dishonesty in your own heart, the
meanness to which you stoop, 1.-The
things that come out of YOU, that can
really hurt you.
In other words, no one can really
hurt you but yourself.
Somehow that is very big thought
to me.
81 am the master of my fate,
am the captain of my SOUL
I cannot prevent other people from
treating me dishonorably, but I can
keep my own hands clean as white
flame. I cannot prevent other people
from being rude and mean and deceit
full and unkind to me, but within my
own heart where 1 may enjoy it, I can
keep a fair garden in which the flow
ers of kindness and courtesy and hon
or grow, unchoked by weeds of any
kind.
And no one can possibly rob or de-
face that garden.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
From the Hickeyville Clarion.

Three second-handed settler sfphone
from the Golden Nugget saloon and buffet
have been added to the equipment of the
Wide Awake fire department, which is
now prepared for big conf1agrations. The
hook and ladder has been rented to James
Purdy.. the house painter. In case of a
fire village president will mail James a
postcard notifying him and James will at
once drive to town with the hook and
ladder.
Jed Frink and Hod Peters got all mixed
up the other day. Jed started to give
gave him the Pythias by mistake and
Hold got excited and answered him with
the Odd Fellers Jed was SO taken by
surprise that he began feelin around and
gave Hold the Macabbee and Good Tenn
plar, and Hold, who was completely at sea-
came back strong with the EIks ami
SO long the constable interfered, thinkin'
it was a rassling match
T. Egbert Peavey, who is the George NJ.
Cohan of these parts has got some new
spats of which he is very proud. Hank
Tumms says him and his wife have had
spats for fifteen years, but never found l.
necessary to brag about them. Arson
Frisby says he is going to have a new
colonial house with pillars on the front.
ought to be nice restful place to live.
Hank Tumms expects to get out writ
find any pettifogger in this town or West
Hickeyville who knows what it means or
how to spell it.
Uncle Ezra Harkins, aged one hundred
and seven years, has returned from West
Hickeyville, where he has been visiting
his grandfather Old Cal Harkins Uncle
Ezra says his grandpa is doing nicely, but
is some feeble. Hold Peters asked Uncle
Ezra how he explained his grandpa's
longevity and Uncle Ezra says he never
knowed his grandpa had the longevity or
anything else except the rheumatism
Hank Tumms' kitchen pump friz last
night because he forgot to raise the
handle and let the water outn it.
Elmer Jones is quite pop'ar with the
ladies since he got his new motorcycle
with the seat behind. Amy Stubs says
she could just die ridin' with Elmer and
probably she will if he hits a few more
telephone poles and milk wagons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.J

A wife either makes or breaks a home.
When a man gets all he thinks he needs
he has large surplus
The chap with the loudest voice doesn't
always win the argument.
Young man, beware of a girl who says
she intends to be a Spinster.
We once knew a weather forecaster who
sometimes forgot his umbrella
Some enterprising tailor should invent a
wife proof pocket for married men.
One way to keep the boys on the farm
is to install motor to turn the grind
stone.
Lots of uncles and aunts forget that
children are born to make a noise in the
world
Some men work one day during the
week, rest six, and then wonder why they
feel tired
The more man learns the more he
realizes that this is a highly complicated
little cosmos.
A Kansas judge has decided that a man
is the owner of his wife's clothes. If her
new bonnet costs too much to suit him he
can wear it himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
by TEE WAY
By HARVEY PARsONA

The straw hat, like malaria, comes
on by degrees. We have spotted sew
eral of the vintage of 1911 or 1917,
but only one, and that Monday morn
ing under a dripping umbrella, that
was Brand New
I'VE are roasters of good coffee" "
announces local concern. Maynap
that store has a monopoly in the
roasting of good coffee, but nearly any
boarding house habitue will qualify
when it comes to the other kind.
Some argument anent color of uni
form for the soon-to-be-lady police:
We vote for copper" color. But OF
course they will be green when they
start, and blue later.
Virginia girl has beaten the worlds
female record for broad jump, with
mere hop of 1 5 feet 2 " inches. But
nearly any woman can beat that when
it comes to jumping at conclusions.
The Japanese is domestic animal,
according to DR.. Emeritus Eliot. SO
is the William goat, but the average
American does not care to meet him
on terms of social equality.
The season of Cordial Invitations is
vited to take sarSaparilla and several
other forms of stomach bath.
Alfalfa beats clover for anything
but a popular song, but it may come
to the front as a sentimental form of
vegetation as soon as some boob can
discover a rhyme for it.
Suffragettes and policemen were
given an egg and vegetable shower in
Lunnon 'tother day which accounts, to
some extent, for the higher cost of
living in the tight little isles. Re
creation and ammunition are listed on
the grocery bills.
Some French scientists claims that
man is the descendant of the frog
(mayhap he got the idea from observ-
ing some citizen who was full or
"hop")-but from the number of
knockers extant we are inclined to
hold that as a progenitor, the wood
pecker is not above suspicion.
1t was some other fool scientist who
claimed that cold blooded persons
have criminal tendencies. It's good
thing the courts do not make decisions
along that line, as every person in
dicted, whether guilty or innocent, US
ua1iy has cold feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

A Kansas Industrialist contributor
submits the following explanation of
the high cost of beef: 1.-The steer
comes originally from the range in
Colorado or Texas, and is shipped to
Kansas City. There it is sold to some
one in western Kansas or Oklahoma
and stays on pasture during the sum-
mer. In the fall, this animal is again
shipped to Kansas City or perhaps
to Chicago. Here it is bought by some
feeder and sent to a farm in Iowa or
Kansas and put on full feed, and then
shipped to Kansas City or Chicago
and sold to the packing house. Then
the meat is shipped to the local con-
sumner. Each of these several rail-
road trips costs money. The railroad
does not charge excessive rates for
the shipment, but shipping the steer
around the country so much causes
the big increase in the price, and the
consumer has to pay the bills
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

of the presence of what are regarded as
typical Bushman stones.
AT present there is some doubt as to the
race to which the human beings who
hunted these giant buffalo belonged In
this connection it has been noted that the
bones of an extinct buffalo and horse pos
sibly identical with those discovered In
South Africa have been found in Algeria
1t is thought possible. therefore, that the
tribe which hunted them migrated south
along with these extinct animals during
the last ice age. 1t is further thought that
those ancient people were probably white
and of European stock. DR.. RGoom mas
sent a representative collection of the
bones to Cape Town.-London Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

independence has voted bonds for the
interurban line to Topeka. Chanute
will take action in a few days. The
majority favoring aid to the enter
prise has been large in every instance.
Rural trolley lines have been a paying
investment wherever built and it seems
strange that there is nobody to take up
the enterprise at this end of the line.
Why doesn't Topeka go out and meet
the Syggins people on the way? In
terurban roads are town builders, a
fact which our southern neighbors ap-
pear to understand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
KANSAS COAGAENT
THE UNDER DOG.

1
With the ponderous powers poised
to kick the Montenegro hound
around, and burly Austrian war dogs
straining at the leash, there is con-
siderable sympathy for the smallest
kingdom. From this distance, also,
it may be said that there seems some
thing more than its insignificant size
to arouse sympathy for Montenegro;
there is a record of fierce fighting
against great odds, and hard-earned
fruits of victory which should not be
| grabbed by greedy bystanders. If that
isn't the Austrian position in the con-
| troversy, we see mirage born of dis
| lance.
But, whatever the merits of the
crisis, the sympathy which goes to the
underdog would be Montenegro's,
anyhow. The outsider is apt to be for
| the lesser contender, regardless of the
| merits of the contest. For example,
sob squad screeds of great length
have set forth how the greedy pale
| face robbed the Noble Red Man of his
heritage, and the savage warriors
have frequently been painted as pa
triots bleeding and dying for their ma
tive land. Still, had the n. r. NJ. won
out, Kansas wouldn't have been in a
| position to break the worlds wheat
record, and progress would have sus-
tanned other jolts.
Likewise, when the busy Beers
were throwing kopjes and things at
substantial support was showered on
the followers of Dom Paul. and ]. Bull
was regarded as an interloping usurp-
er and shorter and uglier names.
But British arms were finally trium-
plant by force of numbers, and now
no one doubts that the United Com
monwealth of South Africa is doing
better than the Transvaal could have
done playing a lone hand.
Japan, being smaller, was the fav-
nrif n 1cc{o to h. ia
the matter of Manchuria, and there
was general rejoicing when she won
by the luck of long distance, and pos
Sibly some other reasons. To make
the preceding sentence palmer, be it
said that Russias distance from base
with a single line of railways as a
source of supply came near being the
deciding factor in that conflict. And,
after it is all over, there are many
who feel it might have been better
mad the white men won, even if they
were barbarous white men, given to
whiskers and vodka and other evil
ways. Japan, victorious, has become
arrogant and spends much of its time
making noise like a menace to the
white race.
From which it will be seen that,
while might isn't essentially right. it
may be, and by the same token the
sympathy for the under dog may be
misguided. Which, as previously
SIdeeu, may OF may not apply TO
Montenegro. Probably it does, to this
extent: If Montenegro has influence
enough with an European power, saw
Russia, to precipftate a great Euro
pean war, she had better sacrifice a
score of Scutaris than to use it. Her
own gain in such a clash would be
doubtful, and the incalculable dam
age to the world overshadows all
probable profit to any puny princi-
pality. While the price of peace is
high, it is usually worth it.-Atchi-
son Globe.