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says UNCLE CIV

sympathy is about the most beautiful
thing in the world and most of US have
a little to spare, but we don't care to
see any one attempt to establish a monop-
oily of its benefits. He who is constantly
seeking sympathy early makes the ac-
quaintance of the cold shoulder For
sympathy is to be hidden, not begged, and
he who pleads for it is unworthy Of it.
Strictly speaking, it is a mutual relation,
and the beggar for sympathy doesn' t
believe in reciprocity. He wants all the
benefits on his own side.
II you desire sympathy, earn it. If you
uon t earn 1t, all you get is pity, and no
sane man ever was anything but fighting
mad when he became the victim of pity.
and supreme contempt for another. Hate
may be a compliment, SANDER an honor,
a blow a timonial to the respect one
bears another's strength. but pity is never
anything else than, recognition of an
others helplesSness. We may despise and
pity, but we never despise and sympathize.
sympathy presupposes some sort of
equality 1t is the ground upon which
kind meets kind in mutual help. 1t knows
neither contempt nor disgust, condescen-
sion nor patronizing. 1t is whole souled.
free and untrammeled and it's quality
is not strained. 1t goes where it is bid
den. 1t is powerleSS to respond to the
whine of the beggar after heart aims.
Therefore, If you would that your neigh
Dor should sympathize with you meet him
on his own ground. He is worth while
or you would not desire his friendship.
miration and his heart and hand will be
yours in your hour of need. Quit yourself
like a man and the sympathieS of those
about you will surround you like incense.
Give rather than ask and you shall be of
that company which knows neither 1oneli-
ness nor want. Bestow richly of your
time and talent in human service and even
those who know you not shall send their
need of sympathy to sweeten your hours
of WEAKNESS and disbursement.
You must earn your way into the hearts
of your fellows. else they shall have only
pity for you. The more you whine, the
more poison there will be in that pity.
He who sits by the wayside and COM
plains that none notices him. nor under
stands him, nor cares whether he lives
or dies. is only too well understood. From
humanitarian motives he may be prevent
ed from starving to death, but he will
never really belong to the great. busy.
brave, sympathetic ranks of real men and
women until he shakes the dust of the
road from his feet and humps his back
at useful toll. Once he lays his hand
to the pillow and makes good, he'll find
the whole world kin.
If you whine for sympathy you are a
beggar at the gates of plenty, and you
shall be turned hungry away. For while
men may feed your body with unearned
food. none will thus feed your soul: You've
got to sweat for that.-(Copyr1ght, 1913
by The Mcclure Newspaper Synd1cate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

life; to project on the screen of ex-
istence figure that is Immediately
recognized.
Literature. the literature of imagi-
nation, when it rises to Its supreme
height and is really literature, is not
merely the reflection of life. 1t is
more than that, something higher.
nobler, more elevating. 1t is the bar
ing of the soul, the swiftly illuminat-
ing flash by which man sees what he
is or may become; it is prophecy as
we'll as hope. 1t is this-character
creation-that makes literature, that
has left its vital impress upon morals
and conduct. Real literature is Ymir's
well in which wisdom and wit lie hid
den, and from it's unfathomed depths
is drawn creation. Man is less inf1u-
enced by sermons than by experience.
He hears and needs not, but he sees
the created vision of the novelist, and
wonders If there has not been revealed
to himself his soul in all it's nakedness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
HUAOR or THE DIP

There's a lucky young fellow He's
never known bit of trouble in all his
life well he soon will. He's going
to marry my daughter "-Detroit Free
Press.
Not a sinner in de country but is in
favor of maxim de Gospel fly SO fur frum
home dat it'll never git back ter interfere
wild his Observation-Disclosures Constitution.
He-"As 1 was saying, Miss Maymie.
when I start out to do thing, L stay on
the lob. I'm gutter" She with a
weary yawn)-"Don't L know it!'-BaIt1-
more American.
do you think, as a physician, that ne
For example, he makes a rule never to
paw a visit after it has been demonstrated
that the patient cannot get weH.%-Life
why don't women dress sensibly2" IF
they did, half the Industries of the world
woiIlo go to smash.''-Louisyille Courier
Journal
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ON TIE SPUR
OF THE NOMENT
According to Uncle Abner.
BY ROY X MoULTON.

According to Uncle Abner.
1t seems as though a Teller who
wears a belt and suspenders at the
same time is trying to beat the game
by enjoying more than his share of the
luxuries.
1t takes a great deal of fortitude
for a Teller to wear a full beard all
summer because he not only makes
himself uncomfortable but makes ev-
erybody else feel like going and Jump
ing in the creek.
The folks who stick at home on
hot Sundays and sit in the shade OF
the old apple tree have got it all over
the folks who go skylarking around on
Sunday excursions.
Down in the dry belt there is a
middle-aged gentleman who had the
misfortune, some 20 years ago. to lose
one of his legs in railroad accident.
Since that time he has been wearing
a wooden leg, known in the vernacular
as a peg" Two or three years ago
he decided that the leg should be do
ing double duty. Working simply as a
leg. 1t was not exhausting it's posi-
bilities, by any means. So he hollow
ed the leg out and lined it with cop
per The leg then held four quarts OF
whisky Every time the farmer went
to some convenient oasis in the desert,
he had the leg filled. He ha- placed
small faucet in the side of the leg and
any person wishing a drink of the
stuff that made Peoria, ILL.,, famous
could get it by twisting the faucet
and paying the usual fee. One night
not long ago thieves broke into his
house in the night and stole the leg.
making a rich haul as the owner had
just had it filed the day before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
AN EDUCATIONAL HINT.

A school specially designed for chill
| dren of mill operatives is a feature of
| the industrial education system of
| Columbus, Ga, according to bulletin
| just issued by the United States bu-
! reau of education. The school was
established with the idea. of encour-
aging attendance among the large
class of mill children in Columb bus,
| many of whom were not going to
| school at all.
A handsome colonial residence in
| the mill district was purchased by the
board of education for the new school.
Special pains were taken to adapt the
course of study and the hours in the
school to the conditions of mill work
School hours are from to IL and
from 1 to $3.50. The long intermission
is to enable the children to take
lunches to parents, brothers, sisters,
and others who may be employed in
the mills. This is a regular daily task
with most of the children, some Of
them earning several dollars a week
as "dinner-toters" The school itself
is frequently termed by the children
the dinner-toters' school"
Although the aim of the school is
industrial, the "three RS" are insisted
upon even more severely than in the
regular schools, because of the limited
time the children have for schooling.
although the prescribed course con-
templates seven years." says the bull
letin, "few of the pupils continue after
the fifth and sixth year, SO strong is
the call of the mills. Not more than
one per cent finish this school and
pursue their studies further"
The three morning hours and the
first hour of the afternoon are devoted
to academic studies. while the last
hour and a half of the day is given to
practical work. All the boys are re-
quired to take the elementary course
in woodwork and gardening. The girls
take basketry, sewing, cooking, poul-
try raising, and gardening. The school
is in session all the year ruond, and
pupils are promoted quarterly. The
teachers live at the school and keep
open house" to the people of the
community at all times.
This school is only one part of a
carefully developed system of indus
trial training in Columbus that is in
tended to reach the needs OF all parts
of the population
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

THE GAS AGE.


The stone age, the iron age and the
steam age have all come and gone,
leaving civilization their best discov-
cries and best methods of doing things
Now the great gas age is upon us.
From speeding along rails we have
turned to speeding along public high
ways and through the air. The man
who has the money today is usually
speed king. He uses the public
highway with his gas conveyance and
travels at a higher rate of speed than
do trains propelled by steam in the
age just passing. Laws and rules OF
the road are made and in Kansas the
motor1st pays five dollars for his right
to use the public highway for drive
But the gas age will bring other
things. The aeroplane is just coming
into perfection. in fact is perfected
with the exception of the alighting
part. In time these airships will be
able to guarantee safety to the owner
and passengers and all cities will have
hangers on top of store buildings for
these aircraft to alight upon. Abe
Joshkins will touch the starter button
on his biplane and soar away to Kan
sas City for an hours sport in the
park of ball game and get back to
supper a few moments after the last
inning is played. He will take his
family with him. For a Sunday trip
he will make a little flight over to st.
Louis and back by moonlight Verify
the gas age will bring some wonderful
things.-Olatl1e Register.
FINGER NAILS AND THINGS.
An employee of a Newton concern
was heard making sport of a fellow
employee yesterday, because the letter
utilized five minutes of his time each
day taking care Of his finger nails.
He called him SISSY" and a dude"
He is no such thing. He merely gives
evidence of having that faculty for
paying proper attention to detail that
has marked the careers of all successful
men. The mere fact of a person being
particular with the nails is not mich,
but the disposition to give due i'm
portance to the little things of life dis
tinguishes the success from the failure.
The employee whose nails are trimmed
neatly and regularly will also make
sure that the office books are secure
| in the safe before he quits for the day.
| If he is a salesman, he will also give
| proper attention to the wants of every
customer with whom he is called to
| deal each day. He is also particular
about the other details of his personal
affairs. Compare him in your minds
| eye with the slothful and slovenly fell
regard for detail True a person may
make verv poor out even doinS his
best But that is no excuse for his
| failure to try. No, young fellow. don't
guy the companion who is particular
about his personal appearance. He is
giving evidence of possessing an essen
! tan trait of the successful man.-New-
| ton Kansan-Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
LAMENT OF A TELEPHONE GIRL

LAMENT OF A TESIIEPHONE GIRL
with Apologies to Edgar Allen Poe.)
After the days work am weary,
Everything seems dark and dreary,
And my very brain is weary,
As it comes to me once more
Whats the scorer"
Every minute I can hear 1t,
L almost begin to fear it,
1t has me to the core,
Whats the score?
When at night I try to sleep,
Dark the shadows round me creep,
But I cannot go to sleep
I hear it louder than before
Whats the scorer .-.
First 1 hear it as a tapping,
AS of someone gently rapping-
Now I hear it louder than before,
Whats the scorer"
When 1 have died and gone to rest.
And everything seems for the best,
And in my grave 1 am at rest,
1 still may hear it as of yore,
Whats the scorer"
1t has made on my brain such a deep
impression,
That when ST. Peter asks for confession,
1 may answer without question,
Whats the scorer"
ETHEL ZINN-BROWN.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record.l

TFrom the Philadelphia Record1
A man of many callings-the tram an
nouncer.
Many rise in this world by the skyrocket
route.
When a man has his leg pulled it makes
him 1eel limp.
It's an accommodating glove that's al
ways on hand when you want H.
It's sometimes just as bad to get what
We don't want as not to get what we
want.
ewes open and then can't find his way out.
A man will often neglect his plain duty
to indulge in a spectacular bit OF phllah-
thropy.
Cod cash isn't so cold as it sounds. It
has been known to burn a hole IN man
pocket
Hoax-..Wigwag has a good head on his
shoulders Joax-'Yes, that's wnere
most men have theirs"
..You are a genealogist, I believe" said
Mrs. Newrich. Yes, madam, he rePheaf;
Every well, then" said Mrs. NeWrich,
should like you to furnish me with the
latest thing in ancestors"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago New,

IFrOm the Chicago News.1
Too many quarrels are picked before
they are ripe.
When a guest boasts of his honesty,
keep an eye on your spoons.
Time is money. but it is easier to make
up lost time than lost money
1t costs more to quench a full grown
thirst than it does to feed a family.
Blessed be the man who is in hurry !;
he never stops to tell his troubles.
1t is we'll to be able to talk, but there
are times when silence is more valuable.
Many a woman regrets that she didn't
change her mind before she changed her
name.
Some men are SO busy with their ham
ners that they are unable to hear the
knock of opportunity.
With most of it isn't a question of
where to go this summer, but rather how
we are going to raise the price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many people are having difficulty
these days in making even one end
meat.
= + +
Every man throws away many more
good opportunities than he takes adj
vantage of.
r
If a man could only hear what the
neighbors have to say about him he'd
be surprised at the number of mis-
faults.
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AS a matter of fact it doesn't ia he
the man who knows it all such a long
time to impart the information in his
possession.
= i =
What has become of the old fashion
ed man who displayed his Familiarity
with Latin by quoting "multum in par
vo," on every possible occasion?
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ny THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

maybe the spread of equal suffrage
viii change the good oId-fashioned
System Of of blaming the male of the
species with every little thing. Hang
ing it onto the he-thing has been
sucn popular sport that when he
spoke of the destruction of birds,
FroI. Dyche not only charged the
gent cat with the crime, but spelled
it all in one word-"tomcat'E
Ilke that. In the case of his inter-
view, as well as in general practice,
no consideration was given the fact
that one lady cat-the natural bread
Cor mea) winner for a family of
seven assorted catlets, will catch
elgnt times as many lovely sparrows
and other sweet song birds as any
gentleman friend of her acquaintance.
Let us nope that suffrage will put
an end to this system of giving the
male of the species-whether biped
stick.
When one of those peculiar booze
fighters whose tongues work straight
after acute char1eyhorse has at
tacked his legs, stumbles around for
rev minutes, he cusseS the rheu-
matlsm and thinks he has fooled the
spectators.
The mother who can raise a pet
without raising a pest can qualify as
an expert parent
Some mems idea of a successful Eu-
ropean trip is to heres-how their
ways through all the foreign wine
lists, and to remember the names of
the different brands when they get
back home.
A Cornell girl who eats nothing but
bread and peanut butter lives on so
cents a week. Jack Supp says it's
nothing to brag about, as if he could
do that he could do still better. He
would cut out the peanut butter.
Suggestion to reporters: Why not
print little something about the
Topeka police ladies'?
Consider the ways of the chinch
bug. Cor purposes of considering
nearly any time you look.) He has
the right idea. When things dry up
or are eaten up in the country, he
moves into our justly celebrated VII
lage, where some things are green all
the year round
We are informed by Walt Mason
that they still resort to that "is-it-
hot-enough-for-yo greeting in EN-
pory and other. tank towns. 1t is not
only out of style, but dangerous here
With T. r. in the Bad Lands and
Bryan on the chaw-talky circuit the
nation is left without expert advice
on the Mexican situa ton. so you are
entitled to your own ideas on the
subject. !a.'
III
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
FROM OTHER PENS
SKYSCRAPERS.

A curious difference between Ameri-
can and English ways is revealed in
the statement of Toronto paper that
that city boasts the highest building
in the British empire" From pic
ture and description of this towering
structure of great architectural white
ness which has been erected by the
Canadian Pacific railroad for Office
purposes, we learn that it is 236 feet
or 16 stories high. This would not be
regarded as a particularly Impressive
skyscraper in Philadelphia, and in New
York it would be viewed as rather
shrinking little flower among the giants
of Manhattan. And yet it is the tall
est building in that vast domain upon
which the sun never sets. 1t has stu
to he demonstrated that the skyscraper
is to be a permanent institution. and II
is by no means certain that England
Canada and other parts of the British
ennnire have not acted wisely in cling
ing to structures of only moderate
height-Philadelphi Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
WHAT MAKES A STORY GREAT?

WHAT NAMES n SIOR1 GREAT?
What constitutes the vital in the
literature of imagination? asks A.
Maurice Low. in Harper's Magazine
for August, and he continues: What is
the Understandable power that makes
one book great and another common
place? Not style, not plot, not anal
ysis. Neither Thackeray nor Dick
ems is master of style; neither is strik-
ingly original in plot; but both live.
The answer to the question that has
so often perplexed writer and reader
who attempt to find the source of the
mysterious power that eludes discov-
cry but reveals itself in a great book
is to be found in one word-crea-
ton.
The vital in literature-the litera-
ture of imagination-is originality.
Not the meretriciouS originality of
trick or dialect or forced contrast; not
the sordid parade of vice or the re-
finement of virtue; not the Haunting
of passion or the subjecting of emo
tion-these do not constitute original
ity as the test applied to literature.
Originality - creation - means some
thing more than a mere catalogue of
motives: it means the power to ere
ate reproductive type; to visualize
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
HOME NEW WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away from home during the summer summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
of fer, cents a week or thirty cents
n month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired: Whiic
out of town the State Journal VIII De
TO you like a daily letter from nome.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
A TEST FOR WILLS.

Disputed wills are prolific source
of litigation and cases involving them
consume a considerable amount of time
in the courts To remedy this evil il
has been proposed that statute be
passed providing that a testator may,
if he pleases, file his will in court
during his life and give due notice OF
the fact to persons affected, and that
if any one wishes to question the val
idity of the will he must appear within
a certain time or forever be barred.
If. under this plan, a contestant APP
peared, he could be required to prove
his interest and then be permitted to
inspect the will. If he still desired to
contest it he could be required to raise
the issues while the testator Is yet alive
to demonstrate capacity and to explain
his action. Any measure which Will
help the testator to carry out his
wishes and which will prevent dis
graceful litigation should be encour-
aged.-New Orleans Picayune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

At least the Cinnamon in the country
should be pleased with the tariff re-
vision efforts of the Democratic states
men. In the Underwood-Sim bill
joss sticks and joss lights are given
a place of prominence on the free list.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

the popular approval of the plain pee
pull. like most of the other government
employees do. AS an instance, they
are now predicting an immediate re-
turn of intense heat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

LII Russell. at any rate. has no cause
to worry about her birthdays. She an
nounces that she has signed CONTRACT
calling for S150,O0O next year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

DR.. Cook has been sighted again.
France has conferred the decoration CT
grand officer of the Legion of Honor
on Explorer Peary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

President Wilson seems to have over
looked something. Senator Smoot de-
clares that a foreign lobby has been
influential in shaping the Democratic
tariff hill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

Germany has finally been given
good shaking. But Kaiser Wilhelm will
probably point with pride to the fact
that it took an earthquake of consider
able force to do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

Surely there is one way congress can
get even with President Wilson-start
an investigation to find out why MS
golf scores are kept secret.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

Carnegie hero medals should be pro-
vided for the worms that have come
to the front with voracious appetltes
for Russian thistles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

Certainly there is nothing unusual in
the reports of an impending crisis In
Mexico. Such has been the situation
there for. three or four years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

1t is hard to tell whether there hai
been the biggest fighting or the nara
est living in the Balkans within the
mast few weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

There is one thing to the credit of
the professional weather men. They
don't spend all their working hours
devisinS ways and means of attaining
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

Mrs. Comeup-'I like our minister De-
cause he talks right out in good old Angu-
lar Saxon Cynicus-''That probably &C
counts for his lack of rounded periods -
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

If Colonel Mulhan thought he coulo
control Colonel Roosevelt he must nave
thought himself a world beater as
contrOller.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and resolves the run o@y
frierraph report OF that great news IT
wanfsat4on for the exclusive arternoon
qualification I'm Topeka
The news IS received in the State JOLT.
nai building over wires for this sole p0r-
p0s@
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

Still a secretary of state ought no
to have to resort to such measures u
advertise his lectures
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Something is wrong in Plttspurs
One of its rnillionaires has come to tine
front. but there is no chorus girl at
tached to him.