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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
AYHAWKER JOTS

Advice from the Linn Digest: The
doormat, not your neighbours reputa-
ton, is the place to wipe your feet
Not the cost of food, argues the
Burns Citizen, but the cost of folly
gives the pocketbook that vacant look.
Chautauqua county asks for a little
additional recognition because one of
her citizens is said to resemble Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Taking a firm grasp of times fore
lock, the Cassoday Times advises: If
you do your Christmas shopping now,
you will avoid 1.-The rush" later on.
AS the Erie Sentinel points out: The
man who tries to hide behind a wom-
ans skirts in this year of grace must
be thinner than his own yellow streak.
A family man inquiries of the Leav-
enwOrth Post if going on a picnic on
a hot DAY with a lot of women and
children can be construed as sane
Fourth"
Noting that Chicago says it's MUIR
ders are done by Apaches the Wichi-
ia Beacon adds: This another word
for criminals which the police are I'M
able to capture.
Will Palmer of the Jewell County
Republican wants to know why some
body doesn't invent a seedless rasp-
berry and a mulberry that won't drop
on the sidewalk.
Cincinnati is in the ice business,
notes the Hutchinson News, and 1t
adds: 1t is a rather SocialiStic thing
to do. but it gives people ice when
many Socialists are on a strike.
An opinion is expressed by the Nc
PherSon Republican that no young
gent in a track suit will ever win a
beauty prize although he may COM
pete successfully in other events.
Pears to me-" ventured Bill Sliv-
ers. as he spat at a knothole in the
floor, "'pears to me they're carryin'
this woman's right business a leetle
too fur. 1 see they are passin' an or
dinance at Manhattan to prohibit old
roosters from CROWN Toronto Re-
publican.
Some evidence collected by the
Leavenworth Post to substantiate the
theory that there's nothing in a name:
One of the busiest politicians in Kan
sas is named Doolittle, and one of the
most successful farmers is Mr.. Bum
gardner, and the most faithful abstain
er is named Casebier.
1t is a sad joke but a sort of a joke,
nevertheless says the North Shawnee
paper and an insurance business at
Reserve lost his plant by fire, without
insurance. Mr.. Huff ran a mighty
good paper in a small town. He also
did good insurance business. But he
didn't take his own medicine and
when half the town burned he lost his
plant without the sign of an insurance
policy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
ENCOURAGING CONDITIONS.

There has been considerable pessi-
mism of late in financial centers over
the business prospects of the nation
during the immediate future. Most of
it has been fostered by the fact that
the stock market has been woefully
weak for many months. But Wall
street has long since ceased to be con-
sidered as the exclusive barometer by
which the prosperity of the country
is measured. And as a matter of fact
the many conditions which make for
activity in business are not nearly as
black as some selfish interests would
paint them. Indeed, they are such as
should stimulate business men gener-
ally in the belief that nothing like real
hard times are in sight. Among the
economic authorities who call atten-
ton to these important facts is Henry
Clews. the New York banker. In his
current Weekly Financial Review, he
writes:
Outside of the financial district
conditions are really more encourag
ing. The crop outlook is still very sat
isfactory, beneficial rains having fall
en- freely where most needed during
the past week. The winter wheat crop
is already harvested, showing a yield
of 100. 100000 bushels greater than a
year ago. The government report on
grain will shortly be out and will be
watched with close interest While
general trade shows the usual sum-
mer quiet, merchants are anticipating
g much more active business as soon
as the tariff is settled. In many cases
shelves are bare and active buying will
be necessary for replenishment. This
means reStarting of many idle mills.
From many sections of the country
trade reports are decidedly encourag-
ing, and a good harvest will insure
good business for another six months.
Steel orders are being stimulated by
slight concessions. There is only one
spot that requires serious caution; that
is the money situation. Bankers are
still very conservative and are inclined
to enforce contraction and moderate
readjustment. liquidation has been
prolonged and severe in securities; it
has made considerable progress in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
IFrom the Chicagn Neus-1

IFrom the Chicago News.J
Not every ideal lover makes a good hus-
band.
Luck may be merely case of not being
found out.
But there is little marrow in the bone of
contention
1t takes a clever child to keep from
saying smart things.
Two is company. but three is a multi
tude when father butts in.
Perhaps whisky really does improve
with age-when it gets the chance.
Would you try to flatter- a married man
by telling him that he doesn't look it?
There would be more popular songs If
some people wouldn't try to sing them.
After dreaming they were soul mates an
Ohio couple got married May they never
wake up
More women might be able to save
money If the dry goods stores would cease
having bargain sales.
If marriages are made in heaven we re-
fuse to hazard guess as to the place
where divorces are manufactured.
An ordinary piano contains about a mile
of wire American genius will yet benefit
humanity by inventing wireless piano
for amateurs.
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FROM OTHER PENS
BANKS SHOULD BE REPE

BANKS SHOULD BE REPRESENTED
Among the four principal suggestions
for amendment of the Owen-Glass bill.
one at least is nontechnical and NAV
be comprehended by any one however
ignorant of banking or economics. This
is the appeal for direct banking repre-
sentation upon the central reserve
board. The appeal is just and ration
al The bill as introduced provides
that this all powerful board shall con-
slst or members ex-officio or appoint
ed by the president. On behalf of the
banks 1T is proposed that they be given
direct representation by the selection
by the president of four members from
list of twelve associations. Objection
to this will hardly be made except by
demagogues or men Historically fearful
OF the power of money" The board
as SO organized, would consist of two
officials appointed to the cabinet by the
president with the consent of the SEN
ate, the controller of the currency.
similarly appointed, four others ap-
pointed by the president from twelve
elected by the banks of twelve districts
representing all sections of the country.
II the proponents of the Owen-Glass
Dill are SO distorted in their thought
and Keeling as to refuse such minority
representation to the men who repre-
sent the millions invested in banks
the country, who represent
also the interest of every section of the
country in sound banking, then these
proponents are not the men to shape
the legislation of the nation on finance
or anything else.-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
HYMN TO THE NIGHT.

I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls.
1 saw her sable skirts all fringed with
light
From the celestial walls!
felt her presence. by its spell of might,
Stoop DER me from above;
The calm majestic presence of the Night,
As Of the one L love.
1 heard the sounds of sorrow and delight,
The manifold, soft chimes,
That fill the haunted chambers of the
Night
Like some old poets rhymes.
From the cool cisterns of the midnight air
My spirit drank repose;
The fountain of perpetual peace flows
there
From those deep cisterns flows.
o holy Night, from thee 1 learn to bear
What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy fingers on the lips OF
care
And they complain no more.
Peace! Peace! Oresteslike. 1 breathe this
prayer
Descend with broad-winged flight.
The welcome, the thrice-prayed for. the
most fair,
The bestowed Night!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

I was to get him into the nearest house
and telephone for a DOCTOR
with him when he travels! There's a
creek just below the hill. When YOU reach
It you'd better lay him at full length in
the water for a time
hope he won't die on my hands"
that,''
mile Mr.. Kenison sat up. The chauffeur
was ready for him with: Il don't know
what your game is, old man. but you
didn't fool that girl for a red cent
Il think detected touch of sympathy
in her voice.
Then you've got another think coming.
She was half grinning all the time, She
acted as if she had seen you before"
Ignored again, and this time there was
a cruel heartlessness in it,
Three days later, at an early forenoon
hour, he rode a horse out of the village
and to within half mile of the Winters
manor. Then he dismounted, loosened the
saddle, took off the bride and sent the
horse onward with a slap. When Miss
1mray came driving past on her way to
the village postoffice she found man
lying beside the road. She got down and
took a look at him, and then drove off, say
ing in voice that could be heard by the
dead man:
It's the same one that had the brain
storm the other day. Poor young mani
How did it happen that his guardian ever
let him mount horse!'
But desperation has its reward as well
as integrity. few days later Mr.. Kent
son had the luck to meet Miss Imray on
the highway just after a wheel of her
phaeton had been smashed by collision
with a rock. He advanced, hat in hand,
but she waved him back and said:
You'll be late at the hospital II you
stopr'
1.-The hospitaI?'
Yes. Aren't you taking daily treat
ment?"
For what?"
For your stupendous conceit"
It was months later before he could get
a formal introduction to her, and though
he lost no time in pleading his love a full
year passed before she would yield.
Copyright, 1918. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHsON GLOBE.
logical result is the one you expect.

A logical result is the one you expect.
A sane Fourth also is tame Fourth.
dog which won't chase cat has very
little enterprise.
Every married man should carry a line
of quick action alibis.
The money a man marries can't be
classified unearned increment.
1t is difficult for an outlaw to retire and
live happily ever afterward.
Sucn snake charmerS as We have seen
couldn't have charmed anything else.
About the only exercise Alb. Adkins takes
Is putting on his athletic underwear.
1t IS queer there is no law against con-
cealed hammers, of which there are many.
When a man says he'll think 1t over
that's another sign he wants time to
dodge.
Alb. Adkins once ran for office, and has
since tried to dodge work in several other
ways.
Neither are gardeners the only ones who
fuss when a town man goes into the
chicken business.
Although they say a woman can't keep a
secret husbands are frequently slow
about finding out.
Down town man may be outspoken
but in his home he is out-talked, unless
his wife is a mute
True Sport sometimes finds 1t difficult
to make his family understand that he
doesn't fish fer fish.
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says UNCLE CIV

Speaking by and large, happiness
is a mighty coy creature. All you've
got to do to scare it over into the next
township is to start after it. 1t never
camps around the doorstep of a man
who is continually chasing it. 1t likes
to side up beside a likely-looking man
when he isn't looking. If not molested
it is likely to stay around for while.
The happiest man is he who never
gives thought to happiness, but
keeps busy at something useful. Busy
usefulness means the absence of wor-
ry, and he who has banished worry
has won won happiness. Similarly, he
who worries knows no joy. The two
are absolute incompatibles.
This explains why the habitual pur-
suer of happiness never is happy. He
worries over the, thing that seems to
elude his. When he grasps it his
deadened senses cannot recognize the
prize. And happiness depends for it's
existence upon recognition. Unrecog-
nized, it is not. 1t has many defini-
lions, but all agree that happiness lies
are merely instrumental and incident
al. One will do as we'll another.
One happiness is the absence of worry.
Another, the sense of body and mind
in heaIthful harmonious activity. An
other, peace within and without.
With these definitions we have little
to do. All that we are sure of, and all
that we really need to know, is that
ne WHO Is busy With every Lure u
body and brain intent upon his task is
happy. Idle minds are always un-
happy, just as idle muscles always
ache, and for the same reason.
He who has time to mourn for the
lack of things beyond his reach is
miserable because he is idle. The man
who desires the moon may on the
other hand find happiness in building
a ladder to reach it. He will never be
unhappy until he finds that his effort
down
wasted effort. This suggests the neces-
ment of it may be lasting.
The longest road to happiness is
som etimes the surest one. We are too
likely to believe that the object of our
striving is the important thing. Rather
the vital element is the striving, the
building, the progress toward the end.
For never a prize looks so big or SO
once it is grasped. 1t then
only emphasizes the desire for some
thing yet greater. Our joys are in
progress and effort rather than in the
idle possession of that which we have
won.
If you really want to be happy, go
after something big-not necessarily
because it is big-but because big
things require the efforts of years and
of useful activity. and there only we
find happiness. Don't go after little
things. Quit chasing rainbows. Go
after the capital prize and go after it
hard. Don't pursue happiness in the
abstract. 1t flees him who would
seize it-(Copyright, 1913, Mcclure
Syndicate
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EVENING CHIT
Some Cases for the S. p. q. q
BIT RUTA CAMERON.

Enthusiasm is wonderful thing. 1t
puts the shine into sunshine, and 1t helps
love with its task of making this old
world of ours 60 round few Infor
tunate people seem to absolutely lack en-
thuslasm from birth, and go through life
lack-lustre creatures, not much account 10
themselves or any one else-except prob
ably their mothers.
The average human being however, is
born with goodly stock of enthusiasm
AND yet the average grown person has
little. Why is 1t? Partly because life
ITSELF and the process of growing up,
Just naturally SQueezes a lot of enthus-
iasm out of us. But partly because people
who have lost their own enthusiasm de-
hberately try to rob others of theirs. I
emphasize that because, although 1t is
not a legal crime, 1 think It is Just as
bad as many which are on the statute
books And worse still, who do you think
are among the most fragrant ofenders7
Mothers and fathers. Yes, / mean II.
They who must know what a wonderful
key to happiness and effectiveness en-
thusiasm is, and therefore ought to cher
ish their children's enthusiasm with all
tenderness, are frequently guilty of doing
just the opposite.
For instance, a neighbor of mine has a
son about eight years old who is the most
enthusiastic bunch of energy 1 ever saw.
Almost every day that boy breaks out
with some new schenectady range from
raising frogs for the market to writing
a letter to the president-and with equal
enthusiasm. OF course she couldn't con-
sent to all his schemes, but she certainly
could let him follow up some Of them.
Again, shall never forget the shadow
that came across the face of a bright little
girl I know when, in answer to the out
burst, "Oh mother do come and see the
sunset. love pink sunsetsi" her mother
answered coldIy, How many times have
/ told you not to say I love about any
thing and everything. You like pretty
sunsets and love your father and me-"
If the child did love her mother, 1t was
only because the latter was her kin in
blood for she certainly was not kin to
her child in sympathy and understand
ing.
Another time I heard boy of fifteen,
suddenly conscious of the wonder of
June morning, shyly quote. Every day
is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the
earth made new" Now boys of fifteen
aren't given to quoting poetry, and 1 ex-
pected to see his father show his apprec-
tatfon. Instead he corrected curtly, "Ev-
erv morn is the world made new, Philip.
I wonder where you get your poor MEM
ory. You must have heard that dozen
times"
AS said before, enthusiasm is a won
derful thing and there is none too much
of ii in the world. So let's be very care
full not to wantcnly destroy 1t, especially
in those we love the most.
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commodities many of which have I'M
dergone sharp declines. 1t is now
making itself felt in the restraint i'm
posed upon any except the most neces-
sary plans for expansion or improve
ment. In short, the process of self
righting has been going on for nearly a
full year; many difficulties have been
safely passed and those that remain
have been well discounted. AS soon as
the crop and monetary situations get
beyond the range of uncertainty We
may look for a better stock market.
Just now pessimism is in danger of
being overdone."
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record.

IFTom the PhiIadeIphla Record.I
A boil on the stove is worth two on the
neck.
shopping.
Loafing may be easy work, but it takes
all mans time.
woman is better minded when she is
not strong minded.
The fellow who considers life a burden
usually gets loaded.
It's strange how the longer an account
runs the longer it stands.
By taking up a collection You usually
get the cents of a meeting
The man who keeps a speak-easy seems
to think that Sunday is Thirst day.
How about references?'' inquired the
mistress. ''Oh. I loike yer looks, mum.
said the applicant for the position of
housemaid, IAN 1 won't ask yer for
references"
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

And the man who is willing to work
will generally get there.
= + =
Pooling the people is also one of the
most profitable of pursuits.
E r
Honest men in all other respects are
inclined to be deceitful as to the size
of their salaries.
+ = -
This is also the season of the year
when many vacationists go a trif1e
hungry at some of the summer resort
hotels.
= + +
If necessity compels, almost any wo-
man is ingenious enough to take a bath
with no more than a teacup of water
to work with.
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| for one man.
We observe that friend Macy, of
Liberal, will not be disbarred from the
, practice OF law. As we remember it.
the charge against Macy was that he
could play poker with one hand so
Well that no two-armed sport in Lib
eral could beat him with any regu-
larity.
bat up around 900, they will not
be put to the expense of feeding many
prisoners.
A tip to the administration: better
listen to the ladies'; they may not have
for sale any lots on West Eighth or
South Kansas avenue, but they bal
lots, and lots of EN-
The Johannesburg system of arbi-
trat1ng strike is crude but effective.
They first kill about half of the strik-
ers and then arbitrate with the sur
Vtvors, which requires less arbitrating.
We are reliably informed by our
correspondent that an Atchison coun-
ty man was bitten by a snake that
had been cut in three pieces, but he
neglectS to state which piece of the
snake bit the man. Unframed news
paper correspondents are VIGOROUSLY
negligent about giving essential de-
tails.
As we understand it, the idea is to
put Amrine on the carpet with the
ultimate view of taking him to the
mat, and then inviting him to beat it.
(Rotten, rotten! Excuse us while we
blush.)
Inspired reporter on Morning Gull
pable, in speaking of the moist spot in
Cages park says in part: "Topeka's
Newport, if it could be called SUCH"
1t may be called such, by anyone who
is not too conservative in the use of
comparisons.
Upon reaching Washington, Bill
Sapp had best check his three-story
kelly, and avoid being mistaken for a
lob.
Falls netted, among other plumber, a
$50 dress suit, and the principal ex-
hibit at some social function has been
lost.
Girls may go at some things in a
careless. slipshod manner, but when
they set out to harvest their freckle
crops, they show the same earnestness
and concentration of purpose as a
hound pup trying to outrun a tomato
can full of small rocks.
Lady Sackville has won her case,
and will get the five million left by
tiveS say she hypnotiZed the old man,
and testify that she had been known
to make passes at his pocketbook, but
the jury found that hypnotizing a dod-
dering old geek is not only easy, but a
womans right.
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HOME NEW WHILE AWAY.

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away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
of ten cents a week or thirty cents
month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. Wh1ie
cut of town the State journal Will be
to YOU like n daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state journal is member OF the
Associated Press and receives the ruil Gay
telegraph report of that great news NJ
ganizadon for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication IN Topeka
The news IN received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur'
pose.
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bill And the skeptical- will probably
scan it more closely than ever to see
if there is anything within or between
its lines that savors of 16 to 1.
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Tt appears that the vegetarians have
at least one advantage just now. They
are not concerned in the least over
the outcome of the tariff fight for
dutiless cattle and meat
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THE sweet girl graduate is perfect
~ certain she knows more than her
mother" But she doesn't make any
such claim on the score of kitchen
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Cabinets in Europe and even in
Mexico appear to have got into the
habit of resigning. But that of Presi-
dent Wilson seems to be resigned.