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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
by TIE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

| The three ladies who run this So
called city. have decided that the COM
mission form of government is not good
Tor the state. Hence Governor Hodges
may turn his activity into other chan
neis and let it go at that. The ques-
tlon OF state government having been
decided, We may now turn over page
and take a slant at the latest thing
| in suffragette outrages.
The ladies have also decided that the
city mas nothing to do with the ''tu-
berc' camp. One more bucket of relief
from civic responsibility has been re-
moved from our cellar full of gloom.
So why be sad? Sit tight and let the
lady commissioners fix it.
Scutari has lost it's standing as a
geographical point. Press date lines
read: Washington, Lunnon, San Fran
cisco. Scutari is batting below PIP.
And the Lunnon correspondent has
the best of it. because the foolish work
or one woman gets more space
than any amount of real news.
The new Montenegrin cabinet in
war between the Russian 'ich'es'' and
the German "atz'es" may be the next
excuse for paying cable tolls.
Ray Mtllman is still printing the Lib
eral News but he has lost his prestige
IN the southwest. In days agone. the
COWBOYS could not celebrate unless
they could get Ray to fiddle and call
their dances. Now there are no cow
boys, and the hayseeds who have taken
their places have nothing to celebrate.
Really bright para grap pliers get atleast
stick Of see from the grammat-
zeal errors and other faux pas COM
mitted by baseball reporters. 1t is our
contention that the baseball writer, if
a grammarian when he begins, soon
RECEIVERS from his temporary aberra-
ton and begins to write baseball as
she is spoke. And
That no one mistakes his meaning
unless he falls into straight DanI Web
ster English.
a passage thus? MIR. Henry Jones OBJ
structed the spheroid, grasped it in his
right hand and hurled it to Mr.. jump
son, who was at that moment, stand
ing near the spot called first base,'-
in the parlance of the fanatics COM
monty called fans Mr.. Jimpson re-
tanned the globule, and thus according
to the rules of the pastime, induced
Mr.. Hoppenheimer to refrain from
further physical exercise for the time
being, and retire to the resort provided
for visiting gamesters.''
If two printers can come down here
wearing straw hats, there is no reason
outside of physical ability to whip
all corners, for this department. to
wear real store clothes outside of our
b. v. DIS. The answer seems to be
that man, physically competent to
take care Of himself, can do as he
blamed pleaSeS, regardless of the rule
that sets Decoration day as the OPEN
ing of the straw hat season
When a girl is the objective point of
some young mans attentions. she gets
flowers. When she dies she gets more
flowers. And in the interim she gets
an awful bunch of weeds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

One is surprised to find that in the
mental storehouses of many pupils lie
hidden quaint and curious ideas, dis
torted historical truths. popular falla-
cies, and false beliefs which modern
historical criticism has long since ban
ished to the realms of the historical
novelist, the newspaper writer, and
the maker of almanacs.
To suggest a few of these old
friends: The Church of England was
founded by Henry VIII because the
pope would not allow him to marry
Anne Boleyn, meets one constantly.
Another interesting item is that the
puritans were so much purer and bet
ter than the members of the Church
of England that they were prosecuted
for religion.
Only the children of the rich plant
ers were ever educated in Virginia or
in the other southern colonies, and
these children were sent to England
or had tutors at home, for there were
no schools of any kind in the south.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.

Picking had good reason to make a
festival of the formal recognition of
the Chinese republic by the United
States, and it is well that this country
took the lead among the great nations
of the world in such acknowledgment
of the success of the revolution which
transformed China from one of the
most despotic of empires into a nation
with a modern constitution guarantee
ing popular government and free insti-
buttons.
No other great power stood in so
The attitude of the United States dur
ing the troubles which the boxer re-
bellion brought on China was more
generous and helpful than that of any
European nation and the course of this
country since that crisis has been SO
friendly and So important to the safety
and welfare of China that it's value has
often been publicly acknowledged by
Chinese statesmen of the highest rank.
Moreover, the greatest republic ought
to lead in the encouragement and sup
port of all sane and reasonably direct
ed movements for the spread and up
building of free institutions. 1t is the
impressive example of success under
freedom, the world over, turn for proof
of the practical success of liberty and
its power to benefit mankind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
THE PRICE OF FEAR.

A recent writer in the New York
Times estimates that the fear of war
is costing the six great powers of
Europe $2,000,000,O00 a year in mill
tary expenditures. This makes no ac-
count of the further loss to the nations
by drafting the services of some mil
lions of young men in the prime of
life for unproductive military duty. 1t
is impossible to estimate in dollars
the tremendous total of the cost of the
present war fear.
Conditions were bad enough before
the outbreak of the Balkan war. The
unexpected blaze in the southwest in
creased the fear of Europe to a verita-
BILE panic. Austria was honestly ap-
prehensive of the establishment of a
strong Slavic confederation on her
southern border, and made prepara-
ton for struggle. Germany saw the
danger to her aIly-an ally whom she
must support and maintain in order
to hold her important position in
European politics-and began her pro-
gram of military expansion. France
on the west and Russia on the east
were compelled to meet these prepara-
tons of their additionally hostile
neighbors with equal OUTLAWS Great
Britain and Italy alone of the powers
were not directly affected, but even
these two nations have indirectly felt
the strain.
Two billions a year in money, two
millions and a half of young men com
PEELED to march about in useless
maneuvers and carry guns when they
ought to be busy raising potatoes,
manufacturing steel rails, or sitting at
their ledgersl A large price to pay for
fear!
Fortunate are we who live in the
United States OF America. And vet
there are those here who would have
us follow Europe's lead in the matter
of armament
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
EVENING CHAT
.I Guess It's Near I1nough. >,
BIZ EpTA CAMERON

The pupils in a cooking school were
making some cream sauce for the first
time. They had been told to mix one
tablespoonful of flour and one-quarter
of a cup of cold milk, stir until per-
fectly smooth and then pour in three
quarters of a cup of hot milk. Two
ously. Finally one reached for the hot
milk. What Have you got yours
smooth already?" asked the other girl,
who was still struggling with some
obstinate Jumps. Not quite" said the
first girl impatiently, but L guess it's
near enough and she poured in the
hot milk.
The other girl went on stirring a lit
tie while longer until the mixture was
really smooth.
The first girls sauce was Iumpy and
imperfect.
The second girls sauce was smooth
and right.
And IT guess it's near enough" was
responsible for the difference.
Could anything be more typical of
the attitude of mind which produces
the mediocre worker than that phrase,
Il guess it's near enough? %
1t seems like a simple matter to do
a thing just as one is told to, or exact
ly as one knows it should be done-in
other words, to do it right; and yet
how many people never rise above
mediocrity because they haven't the
ambition or the Observation-Disclosures or
the time to do a thing Just exactly
right
Especially does time seem to be
lacking in this durry-driven country of
ours. Why is it that made in Ger
many" or France, or England, or any
other country than America, is hall
mark of honor upon any article :?
Partly, of course, because of the feel
ing which some people have that any
thing which comes from a distance
must be more desira BILE than the sim
pie home product; but partly because
the foreign-made articles are more
likely to be sound and lasting. They
are made by people who have time
enough to do things not near
enough right, but right.
The very simplest thing can be
done in the makeshift way of near
enough" right, or it can be done just
exactly right, and the difference be-
tween the two methods even in this
simplest thing is very wide.
The world needs workers who have
patience, the ambition and the time
to do even the simplest thing, the
making of cream sauce or copying of
a business letter, just right. 1t will
soon find plenty of bigger things for
them to do in the same way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
THE FTJsSy MAN.

OF all the bores that roam the earth we
try to dodge whene'er we can,
The champion of the entire breeds that
tireless pest, the fussy man
He simply dotes on homework and he AZ
SO tidy and so neat,
A speck of dust upon the wall makes mis-
cry for him complete.
He never fails to get out every morning
at the break of dawn,
Armed with a broom with which he sweeps
the dust and dirt off from his lawn.
A cobweb makes him shudder and mis-
placed chair just drives him mad,
He never SwearS or smokes or cheWS,
plays cards or does a thing that's
bad.
He picks out all of his wife's gowns and
tells her how to have them made,
And he is most particular about the cut
and fit and shade.
He loves to fuss around with plants and
is an expert in point lace;
A travelling upon his coat is nothing short
of disgrace.
He dotes on Mr.. Edward Box and Mar
garet Sangster and that ilk.
And he can tell just by the feel, the
shoddy from the best of silk
He hangs around the kitchen and he
passes out expert advice
On how to cook and how to serve and
how to do things up nice.
He writes a small and perfect hand,
Spencerian in every way.
Imma culate in his attire he wears new
shirt every day.
His manicuring is immense; he spends
a lot of time at that.
When he goes out he spends a nalI an
hour in trying on his hat.
NO microbes ever get to him. He Knows
their little ways by heart.
He is a sanitary fiend and germs with
him can have no part
Trot out your freaks and line 'em up and
try to show us if you can
One who has got thing upon that tire
less pest the fussy man.
Roy K. Moulton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
.AYHAHKER IOTy

Leavenworth county claims a popu-
lation of one to every seven acres of
land.
The parcel post has put the express
companies out Of business at Moran.
Their receipts were insufficient to
maintain an office.
There are only three Kansas papers
which really are missed by exchange
editors when they fail to arrive.-Em-
poria Gazette. Instance.
Ed Howe. the famous globe trotter
of Atchison, will land in New York on
the 18th inst. on his return from his
second trip around the world.
The ConcorCia Kansan tells of a man
rs years of age who had been addicted
to the use of narcotic drugs Is years.
He must have got an early start.
Myra McHenry has been boasting to
the New Workers that she has been
in jail 81 times. It is doubtful that
even that record equals the late Garry
Nations.
These Huerta people are killers
wherever found. One of the family
stabbed man to death down at Cof-
feyville.
The late Eugene Ware was a greater
credit to Kansas than all the politicians
she ever owned, or ever will own, says
Walt Mason, but of course the idea
of placing a statue of him in Washing
TONS hall of fame never occurred to
anybody.
The University of Kansas, having
lost a number of it's best professors,
has decided to raise the salaries of it's
instructors ten per cent in order to
keep it's inferior ones.-Ottawa Herald.
ganized a historical society. Must be
feeling old out there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
says UNCLE CIV

The craving for novelty which afflicts
nine-tenths of the population of America
and threatens to attack the uninoculated
tenth is nothing less than moral and
mental indigestion. The palate that con-
stant1y seeks new dainties is not sup
ported by a stomach that knows the slim
grows tired of the old familiar things is
not drawing from anything the susie
nance necessary to mental health. This
age, we have previously remarked is
plagued with the presence of the rag
time" personality. A ''ragtime" person
ality is one who seeks always something
new instead of something better and VINO
moves through life spurred into step with
syncopated measures by unnatural de-
sires for novel sensations. Which is to
say, that 1t Is one afflicted with mental
dyspepsia which Graves every food upon
which the eye alights and is satisfied
with none.
merit. If he did, there wouldn't be so
much highpriced shoddy in the world.
The popular song" publisher would go
out of business until he produced some
torious and beloved ballads of yesterday.
The chef, educated in the Darkroom of a
neither the culinary arts of America,
England, Germany, France or Italy, but
is able to produce a cheap imitation Of
them all, would doff his white cap and
seek some less remunerative but more
honest occupation. A good many i'm
porters'' who get their stocks in Hoboken,
d.
concocters of fancy drinks would go
out of business along with faddy ply
sicians who depend largely upon them
for their patients.
We'd cease to insult our heads with
freakish hats, our tongues with foreign
phrases and new and torturous pronuncia-
tons of old and respectable words, our
backs would be free from sartorial mon
StroSitieS and our toes would get used
to certain kinds of shoes and feel at
home in them. Our religions would be
more stable, our political views less III
considered and flamboyant.
We'd live naturally upon natural food
with natural clothing, think natural
thoughts and do natural work. our health
would improve 80 per cent on the average
and the mental progress OF the race
would be astounding.
The pursuit of novelty is not only
great waste of time and money, but 1t is
a dissipater of emotion Emotion IS the
motive power of the world. 1t Is the
steam in the boiler that sets the plstons
in motion. Conviction without emotion
is fruitless, emotion equals motion of
some kind. And he whose emouons are
satisfied with sensation based upon some
novel pleasure of the flesh IS utterly
worthless as a social factor Th1s truth
came home with awful force to the Purl-
tans of old and we have some ancient
blue laws left to remind US OF that Idc1
Touritanisrn was a turning of the moral
stomach following a prolonged siege OF
moral indigestion. 1t was the voice OF
of the world that, never had substance
and no longer has taste. The Purltana
was the small boy who found that sweet
apples tasted like soap. And the pur-
suit of novelty may yet brlnS US bach IN
a circle to the round hat, sober Vlsage
and intolerant mind of our New England
forebears.-(C 1913, by the NC
Clure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
HUNOR OF THE D6Y

What did Miss Peacher say when
Cholly Chumply told her he would like to
make himself solid?" "She replied that
SO far as his head was concerned he
would have nothing to do.''-Birrningh ham
Age-Herald
The better kind of a front we put up.
the more people want to know what is
behind it.-Puck.
Hunting trouble is hard work. but it's
to take.-Atlanta Constitution.
"Have you seen Nantes engagement
ring?'' "Of course. Did you have an
idea that she was making an effort to
hide it?''-Detroit Free Press.
You say the prisoner scared you by
pointing a pistol at you Now, was that
pistol ioaded?" II don't know about the
pistol, but he was."-Baltimore American
Browns a LUCKY dog What's he he
he inherited a year ago?'' YES" wei,
he still has it.''-Detroit Free Press.
IT am glad to see your husband at
tends my sermons regularly, my good
woman" Eyes, sir. He says they're the
best thing he's tried yet for his insomnia -
Baltimore American.
Belated Sportsman CARRYING as hounds
are moving off after breaking up their
fox)-"Pve seen your hunted fox; he's be-
THE united fox is inside rly 'ounds, sir
Punch.
For a thing that springs mostly from
badly digested nnisinformation, public
sentiment is amazingly often right-Puck-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
COUNTY INSTITUTES.

Just now the county superintendent
of public instruction arc issuing their
circulars for the annual county insti-
tutes. These institutes are required by
law, are held during the summer in
each county and for a month during
get ready for the examination for GER
tificates to teach. 1t strikes us that it
is time Kansas should abandon this an
tiquated and insufficient method of pre-
pairing her teachers. In the days when
the state was struggling for existence,
when teachers were scarce and it was
necessary to take such material as
offered the county institute was help
fut but now it is a hindrance. Today
the state is well supplied with normal
schools and high schools and teachers
should not depend upon a months
"cramming" to prepare them for ex-
aminations. If the month were spent
in learning how to teach, If competent
instructors were provided and the
teachers given the benefit of their ex-
perience and were required to prac-
tice the art of teaching under their
supervision the time might be well
spent But as it is now the time is
largely spent studying and reciting just
those things that the teachers will be
expected to teach in their schools and
very little technical instruction is
given. 1t is time to cut it out. Kansas
is too old for that sort of thing
Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

The plan for aiding widows with
dependent children has taken a new
form in Havre, France. A municipal
home Or tenement house has been op-
ened by the board of charities. Each
family has an apartment of three large.
well-lighted, and well-ventilated rooms
The only charge made is SIS cents per
month, which each widow is required TO
pay toward meeting the expenses of
superyision
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
IFrom tine Chicago News. /

OF two evils choose something else.
Many things are well done that are not
worth doing.
In after years, some society buds be-
come wall flowers.
You can blind some men by throwing
gold dust in their eyes.
A cynic may be one who has discovered
the bitterness in stolen sweets
The man who is only as honest as he
has to be is as dishonest as he can be.
No doubt you may be able to fool lot
of people but there is always some wise
guy.
A man may feel sorry after stealing a
kiss from a pretty girl-sorry that he
didn't begin sooner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

CUP AND THE LIP.

While giving due credit to that old
quip, There's many slip 'twixt the
cup and the lip it is still very enter
tanning to the believer in Kansas agri-
culture to consider a recent set OF fig
ures. Grain men, who are specialists
in finding out the facts about the cul-
ture and the yield of wheat have re-
Gently made the statement that, from
present prospects, Kansas should have
129,OOO,0O0 bushels of the golden
grain this year, providing there is no
slip 'twixt May day and Harvest day.
This is one huge statement. 1t is
the chances of the Kansas wheat
crop. Never has there yet been a
yield of a hundred million bushels of
wheat, though the total has gone
little bit beyond ninety million bush
els at one time. And while admitting
there is chance for change in the
present figures, before the wheat is
laid away in the bin and the harvest
chickens Matched, it is at that, de-
lightful morsel of figures to roll over
the tongue. One can say Hundred
and twenty-nine million bushels
with such a confident air. 1t is such
an easy combination of vowels and
consonants to handle, especially If a
stranger is a listener. 1t is admitted
that it reminds one of a fable, to talk
in such large amounts of such a valu-
able crop, but that could be possible
nowhere excepting in Kansas.
Kansas may not have such crop
as these advance figures show at this
time, but she has an excellent oppor-
tunity to break some records and
break them with neatness and dis
patch If the state feels like she
should go beyond the hundred million
mark this season, she will find the
publicity features of this great grow
ing contest will be we'll taken care of.
Wheat isn't always wheat until IL
is in the bin, but the great promise
this year is a fine thing to talk about.
some weeks in Hutchinson
News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

drawn when gas jet is lighted. A
flock of 10000 sheep is required each
year to repair the gas meters used in
the boroughs of Manhattan and The
Bronx. These skins cost about $4,000
a year. To repair the meters in use
throughout the United States during
the course of a year requires about
300, 900 sheep. 1t seems that all is not
lost even if congress should place wool
on the free list
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

Three deaths from heroin, a substi-
tute for cocaine, have occurred recent
", and already there is a cry for 1egis-
lation against the drug. One law
which would do away with all the
fools might serve the purpose of dis
pensing with large amount of mod
ern legislation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

A negro applicant for the position of
minister to Haiti has taken a posi-
tion as janitor in the state house at
Springfield. ILL.,, while waiting for. the
appointment. This and the fact that
he was once a candidate for the presi-
dency, shows that he is not at all par
ticular, so he has the job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

Consumers of gas are usually so I'M
familiar with the operation of a gas
meter-as simple as it is-that it win
be rather surprising to most persons
to learn that sheepslSin plays an i'm
portant part in the meters operation
says Gas Logic. 1t is used in connec-
ton with the "diaphragms, or the
two bellows, from which the gas is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

The royalty on sand taken from the
rivers, is an additional tax on the man
who improves his property. OF course
nobody expects any one but the house
builder to pay it. In the case of street
paving, the added cost will come out
of the taxpayers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

Secretary Lane declares that money
can be handled more safely by women
than by men, AS he is married, it is
not difficult to tell how he got his
idoa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

The National Suit. Cloak and Skirt
association, meeting in Toledo. decides
that fall styles for women will include
tighter skirts. The Boston Traveller
declares it can't be done
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

The "sweet girl graduate" is making
ready to take her customary place il
the middle of the stage and Italy i
still beyond the Alps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

Percentage of Evelyn Thaw's child is
disclaimed by her husband. It is not
so very long ago since she denied hav-
ing q child. Is it a scheme to get a
whack at the Thaw money?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

Too close association with the fight
ing colonel appears to have cost DR..
Lyman Abbott his membership in the
American Peace society.