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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
Globe Sights
By THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

A good many town people let the
weeds take their corn.
Becoming reconciled is the easiest
thing some people do.
To get this right, we rise to inquire
if a camp chair was meant to sit up.
The summer cold has the greatest
difficulty furnishing satisfactory ex-
cuse.
Doubtless many Of the missing
maidens the police hear about could
flnd themselves.
The bull snake is the farmers
friend, but it is rarely possible to
convince the farmer of this fact.
Don't devote your forethought to
worrying all summer for fear there
may be a coal famine next winter.
Resolve to be so useful that In the
course Of time you can tell your crit
les to go to hell and get away with 1t.
In the light of the other garments
women now wear, kimona is the
height of responsibility. In the light
is right.
If she doesn't wear enough clothes
to pad a crutch, mere man infers she
is fashionable. although there may be
other ways of telling.
If it were as hard to get into debt
as it is to get out. there would be
considerably less credit business in
our complicated commerce.
Speaking of versatility, I used to
know a resourceful young man who
led a choir Sunday morning and ran a
poker game In the afternoon.'-Rufe
HOskins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
Jayhawker Jots

Whenever a boy says he is not hun
cry, it Is sign he is polite, argues
the Sedgwick Paragraph.
Such dissipation. The Antioch cor
respondent of the Howard Courant
reports: Flats ball pitcher attended
an ice cream supper, Satul day and
Sunday night.
AS Tom Thompson of the Howard
Courant suggests: The man who
puts in all his time trying to get even,
works harder and accomp.ishes less
than anybody in the world.
You can joke at her expense all you
please, says Mrs. Kelley in the Tor
onto Republican, but the woman who
can hang the most Of her hair on the
dresser certainly has distinc: advan-
tage these hot nights.
Editor Gilmore OF the Wilson Coun-
ty Citizen insists that Henry Allen
added to his reputation as a humorist
the other day when he gravely re-
marked hat the fight in Kansas poll
tics this year was to be between the
Democrats and the Progressives.
Observations by the Mary*ville Ad-
vocate-Democrat: Give the devil his
due and humanity would go into in
what sacrifices man makes for love
Of money. The dealer in facts
has no complaint to make abou.
competition. What a splendid
campaign manager old Ananias would
have made. You rarely hear
of a divorce being sought by those
who are welded to their idols.
When it comes to creating and
sustaining interest you have t. give
it to the mortgage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

within that state 30 az to advantage
the merchants of Dallas and Houston In
their competition with the wholesalers
OF Shreveport and other louisiana
cities An opinion by the interstate
commerce commission. written by
Franklin X. Lane (now secretary Of the
interior), declared against this policy
two years ago. and Mr. Lanes position
is now sustained by the supreme court
in verdict written by Justice Hughes
This decision does much more than
merely 20 check an attempt at local pro-
tective favoritisn. or bounty. by means
Of freight rates. It strongly vindicates
the national authority over the great
national service of transportation. and
the inference is plain that for the future
our railroads must he regarded as aerv-
ing the national welfare rather than the
specific interests Of separate communi-
tics. The way is thus cleared for the
road policy en- scale 70 ut the United
States. The railroads can 90 ahead and
do the work relieved. to a very great
extent, from the intolerable burden Of
conflicting regulation. The revised
rate structure win be built upon one
foundation, not on forty-ocd. The com
munities that want to foster home in
dustry can de- so by the straightforward
subsidy method instead Of the old Re-
publican party method Of misusing the
law. The state commissions will find
their true field of usefulness in working
out the local requirements Of service
and safety in harmony with national
policy. The supreme court decision
marks the beginning of the new era in
regulated American railrOading.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
HUMAN vITALIzATION.

While reading his newspaper, the
American business man grabs his
noonday meal from a crowded lunch
counter, in ten minutes, to hurry back
to the office or to keep an appoint
ment, never allowing his stomach
even five minutes to take care OF
what he has eaten, writes Orison
SWEET Marden in July Nautilus. He
forces his blood to the brain to 60
mental work when it should be in
the stomach .digesting his food. He
hurries about all day as if his very
life depends upon his speed. He
crowds into a day what European
would take several days to accom-
plish. ana then he wonders why he
suffers from dyspepsia and insomnia,
why he is nervous, irritable, prema-
turely old VIZ re should be just in
his prime.
Very few people ever learn the art
OF mental and physical economy. l
know men who dc almost everything
with a great unconscious nervous re-
sistance. They do not come in per-
feet freedom to the thing they wish
to do. They are worrying, they ara
thinking. there is a constant subcon-
scious anxiety about something else
than tnat which they are doing
Their minds are on a stretch and
strain, wondering how something else
will turn out or will be dome.
In other words, they are uncon-
sciously expanding a great deal of
surplus energy. And with this un-
dercurrent of trouble, leakage is
going on all the time. which exhausts
the vitality and prevents vigorous
concentration Of mind upon the thing
in hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

Oreke OF willow tree he carried it,
ana laid his burden ON the grass at
4onA's feet.
Two weeks later he had talked with
noon. with the models ON the table in
1.ont OF him: The youngster was still
vl..lonafy and eager, but Jerry left him
wItn the feeling that at least he had
peneved In his own dreams and was
gincere. So he had left him playing
With the models. and had gone out to
meet MONA ON the narrow little coast
patrol path that circled the shore line
OF the Island. Since the night OF the
ilre they had been his guests, and
had come forgiveness for Bob.
Sne was not riding this time. He
watched her from the top Of the hill,
as she came slowly up the rise from
the salt marsh left dry by the outgo-
ing tide. She had marsh marigolds in
her hands and daisies, longstemmed
clusters Ct them. jerry thought he
had never seen her look 20 appealing
and adorable. He stood at the top Of
the little path with. outstretched
hands, ana she laid the flowers in
Il don't want them. I want you"
he said. "Mona. don't you know love
She looked away from him out to
"How could 1 know. You've never
told me SO. You've only been dear
ana kind to me always, and saved a
poor broken life because 1 loved it,
and taken in two waits to care for.
How could I even guess such q thing,
Jerry Paxton ?"
His IL not q broken life," Jerry told
her. wen work and find some new
way altogether, Bob and 1, and my
wife will help us, won't she?"
His arms folded around her and
turned her to him. Mona leaned her
head back with wistful, half-teasing
eyes.
Are you allowed to kiss people on
the coast patrol path 20
But Jerry's response might have
been called an experimental one, and
1t was quite wordless. Only the lady
OF the marshes understood.-(Copy
right. 1914. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
Journal Entries

Few explanations can qualify az
good and sufficient reasons.
4
Doing a thing Is often easier than
making up ones mind to do it.
= .
An exchange that's satisfactory to
both parties is not necessarily a fair
one.
=
1t Is also true that there are mighty
few people who don't live in glass
houses.
= = .
You hear much more about the bad
luck that people have than you do
concerning their good luck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

EN8B TIDE.
o to 20 back to the desolate spaces
Sea-btown mist over long low sand
A tapping tide. and . wind In our faces
And. dusk behind ~. the blowthy land.
Sultry stars, and . beacon naring.
Sheartng the dusk with q blade Of hight.
Paving = way for my true loves fax1ng-
golden way. through . silver night.
You came from the west with . star
above you,
Came. straight ~ the Hight where It Glove
the mist,
To swear in the dew ana tho dusk: II
love your
The tide ran fun. - we kept our tryst.
Ebb tide waits ON the full Of the flowing
Death waits on the wind, II 1t veer not
and turn
In the daylight stark We must reap otif
sowing;
Nor reck OF the mfsts, where the soft
stars burn.
Martha McCunoch- Williams, in April
Ainslee's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
CORN PROSPECTS GREAT.

Attention eeems to be centered al
most exclusively on the Kansas wheat
crop. This Is natural because of its
tremendously unusual proportions.
But what OF the Kansas corn? Secre-
tary Coburn Of the Kansas department
of agriculture once hit a nail on its
head with his usual directness when
he pointed out that while It was the
wheat which made Kansas famous 1t
was the corn that made Kansas rich
There arc q variety of reasons Tor
this. In the first place, under the
prices that have prevailed OF late
years, the average yield Of an acre OF
corn is worth more money than the
average yield of an acre Of wheat. But
the profit to the producer is even
more pronounced. The cost of har-
vesting a corn crop is as nothing when
compared with the cost Of harvesting
wheat. Furthermore, the farmer can
get no return from his wheat except
the price for which he sells 1t. With
corn he can get a larger and more re-
munerative return by turning 1t into
pork or beef or using 1t for feed for
other stock. than he can by selling it.
Even the corn stalks are valuable
fodder.
So corn is the king Of crops regard
less Of riches that are reaped In the
wheat fields, and the notoriety that a
bumper wheat crop attracts.
And what of the Kansas corn crop
for this year? Prospects for big
yield were never better than they are
right now An agricultural maxim is
that an ideeI spring season for wheat
is bad for corn. But this seems to be
year In Kansas, at any rate. when
the rules of agriculture are to be
made notable by exceptions. Or
course, the Kansas corn crop is far
from being out of the woods. 1t is in
wonderful condition at present,
though. 1t has had the best possible
start, and a good start with corn. or
any other crop IL much more than
half the battle. Moreover. with the
ground well-soaked by the recent
heavy rains, the weather conditions
could not be improved upon to make
the corn grow as it should, even if they
are a little annoying to the jewellers In
the cities. 1t is not the hot days that
mean SO much to the corn in its pres
ent state OF development, as it is the
warm nights And just an even break
in climatic conditions from now on
will assure Kansas a corn crop OF a
size that is likely to be remarkable.
If such a corn crop natures. KAN
sas will. indeed, be a land o'erflowing
with milk and honey. And as far as
this state is concerned, the material
as well as the psychological depres-
sion in business that prevails so gem
orally throughout the country will be
a stranger to 1t. The Kansas crop, too,
will help to put a big crimp in it in
other sections of the ,3nd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
Kansas Comment
USING co16l1oN SENSE.

Secretary Of the Interior Lane has
some old-fashioned ideas which Ap-
peal During his incumbency Of h.
present office he has shown . dtstAote
for red tape which has brought about
many reforms. but he II not content
with the good work done and nov
asks for legis1ation which viii permit
OF the opening up OF the storehouse
in Alaska 20 that the people may de-
rive some benefit. Mr.. Lane has dis
covered that before permission can be
obtained to do anything in the. way OF
the development OF Alaska Il = often
necessary that twenty different bu-
means . delay of two Or more years.
the crushing of the hopes Of pioneers
and failure to develop the country to
any appreciab1e extent. In order to
remedy this he proposes that every
thing pertaining to Alaska be placed
In the hands of q commission which
would have ample powers. with this
done and the passage Of legislation
which will encourage the development
of mines and farms. ALASKA - bound
will follow the people Of the United
states Will begin to earn interest on
their investment. We are about to
build q railroad in Alaska, but IL we
are to make that road Of any real BEN
EFT 1t u up to us to encourage set
velopment of the territory. That -
what Secretary Lane desires and the
people of the country will command
MS common sense and wish him every
success In his endeavors to open up
Alaska and its Observation-Disclosures
Advocate Democrat.
INEXPENSIVE VACATIONS.
What are your plans for the sum-
mer? Are you figuring on going
away to a summer resort or boarding
at some farmhouse in the country?
II you've never done this and can af-
ford 1t. why 60 to it. It will be a
change; and a change Is what we all
need. But 1t isn't necessary to 60 to
all that bother and expense in order
10 nave change. There are lots of
easier ways. For instance, q painter
In Atchison. Kan, last year had q
complete change IN his ordinary Iiv-
ing arrangements without missing a
day at his work; and he and his wife
were as we'll rested and had as much
fun as II they'd been millionaires with
q yacht or tour Of q foreign country,
He owned a horse and q spring was-
on. At slight cost he rugged up q Kit
containing a small shelter tent, some
cooking tools and storage room for
raw foods. Near sunset, when work
was over. his wife drove up. he
climbed into the wagon, they went to
store for few supplies and then
into the country. Coming to an at
tractive spot near q spring or stream,
| they stopped, tethered the horse put
up the tent, made a fire, cooked sup
per. sat for an hour or two around
the campfire like gypsies, and then
turned in to delicious, unbroken sleep.
Up at daybreak. breakfast was like a
picnic spread, and the ride back to
| town fung-fller. Next evening they
went somewhere else. Thus they had
a new experience every day. Almost
| any plan which departs from routine
makes a useful vacation. Do some.
thing different--that's the main point.
Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

Maybe the failure Of the H. B.
C1aflin company is only one Of the
larger details of the Conspiracy that
II supposed to be in existence for the
promotion Of q business depression for
the mere purpose Of giving the Demo-
cratic administration black eye. But
who would be so foolish as to believe
any such thing, with the possible ex-
ception. of course, OF some OF those
who are responsible for the Demo-
cratic Administration?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
QUAKER MEDrTATIONs.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
The grass widow IL never as green
as she sounds.
A man can't always square himself.
even with the assistance Of cube root.
Many a man rises In his own esti-
nation without getting up In the
world.
1t II more possible to read q woman
like a book than to shut her up like
one.
It's when love grows cold that a
fellow il apt to find himself In hot
water.
Even the fellow who works In q
rubber factory doesn't rise when he
gets the bounce.
Many a fellow marries . girl sim
ply because ne is afraid some other
fellow il going to.
About the only man in the world
who likes to hear other peoples trou-
bles II the lawyer.
You never can tell. Spring lamb
sometimes tastes almost ~ sheepish
a. spring poets look.
Blobbs-''Do you believe in heredi.
fary infiuence4!" S1obbs - We'll.
Mother Eve complained that she had
nothing to wear. ana her sdaughterD
have beon doing the same thing ever
aa0CA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

A New Yorker who made his living
as a chauffeur has a notion that a
spoonful of his brains is worth $780,
600. all Of which might be accepted
as proof that it takes an exceedingly
brainy man to run an automobile But
maybe the man he holds responsible
for the loss of that amount of gray
matter. and when he is suing for the
sum mentioned, is well fixed finan-
ctally
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

Prospects of being presented with a
paid-in-full life membership in the
Ananias club were evidently not to the
liking of DR.. Hamilton Rice, the, ex-
p1orer. He writes to Colonel Roose-
welt that he was mistaken when he
questioned the discovery OF the River
Of Doubt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
FULL. LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal Is member q the
Associated Press AMI receives the full DAY
teieeraoh report of that great news -
01nixation for the exclusive afternooo
Dubiica ton In Topeka
The news IL received In The STATE J01e.
nal huiIdinr ever wfres for this sole 49,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
HOME NEws WHILE AWAY.

s:..bs,Y.bc-s Of the state Journal
rwa5 from home during the summer
S.,ay have Ike paper mailed regularly
eaci, day to any address at the rate
Of ter cents q week or thirty cents
q month (hy n,Hn oniy). Address
changed as cstcn as desired. While
ont Of town .;sc state Journal VIII he
tn -osi like - daily letter from home.
Advance u,rymcrt Is requested On
these s.l,nr. tiH,c subscriptions, to save
t~"' tre.,'Tg expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

Regardless of the attitude OF the
hopeful. watchful walters at Washing
ton. General Funston may be depended
upon to sec to 1t that further sniping
OF the American outposts around Vera
Cruz will not be INDUCED in by the
Mexicans with IMMUNITY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

III you wear smile hot weather
Doesn't bother you,' is some timely
and excellent advice from Miss Mar
garet Wilson, daughter of the presi-
dent. But the jokesmiths are certain
to suggest such costume is rather
taboo except in the South Sea Is
lands. or other heather lands where
it's summer all the time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

News from Oyster Bay has it that
Colonel Roosevelt is making prepara-
tiOns for one of the hardest political
campaigns that he has ever under
taken. And everybody is entitled to
just one guess as to what he is cam
DaiRning for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

President Wilson seems to be OBJ
sessed with the idea that he should be
permitted without question to do all
the thinking, not only for congress, but
also for all the people of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
EUenine Chat
Tho Anxle Of Vision.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

My little niece went to look at the
thermometer the other day and re-
ported a surprisingly high tempera-
ture. Her big brother volunteered to
see IL she had made q mistake, and 1t
once assured US that she was six de-
grees out Of the way. At this she was
highly indignant, 80 we all repaired
to the veranda. having constituted
ourselves jury to decide which was
right.
And. az my mother used to say,
Both are wrong. and both were right
And both were very impolite.'
For my little niece had been look
three feet, three, and big brother had
been looking down at the thermometer
from his five feet, eight; and the truth
was somewhere between the two.
What a big difference the angle of
vision does make in the way in which
we see many things besides the Their Z.
mometer!
Go into a shop and ask for a So
waist. The shop girl, after much rum
maging, produced a 81. This il the
nearest we have" she says. But
large
Go into another shop and try again.
Here q So IL the nearest to your size.
But they run small" the shop girl is
sure to add.
1cE1IAR0 Iucy no run 8K1All III ONO
shop and large in another. you sug-
gest.
Perhaps they do. But inasmuch as
I have been told by two clerks that
the same make of shoe ran large and
small, l have my suspicious that the
angle of vision has something to do
with the variance.
The astonishing way in which ones
definitions of words varies according
to the point of view is another strik-
ing example of what the angle Of Wis
ion can do. For instance, take the
terms young, middle-aged and old.
can remember when should never
have dreamed of calling anyone over
rs young, when 35 seemed middle
aged, and SO, old. Nowadays think
way to middle age. That's what a
change in the position from which 1
read the thermometer of time has
done for me.
The dear old lady who used to Do
our millinery often said, ''If woman
has a nice looking hat on she looks
well dressed, even If the rest Of her
Clothes are rather shabby"
"A woman cannot look well dressed
without good looking Shoes friend
of mine, whose business you may
guess. said to me the other day.
That's the first thing anyone looks
at"
Eyes, I'm glad I'm in the newspaper
business" an enthusiastic young news
paper man told me, because after all
it's the biggest and most important
business in the world today.
Each spoke with all sincerity, and
each was entirely unconscious of being
influenced by his angle of vision.
And now, that you may laugh at me
as deserve, I'm going to make con-
fession. AS 1 wrote that last example.
the thought came over me. Perhaps
that isn't a fair example of this pro-
pensity because he was really right"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

Colombia is probably wishing that
Colonel Roosevelt had remained on
the River of Doubt until Mr.. Bryan
had contaminated his plan to make it
a present of s25,O0O,O0O, with an alb
ject apology thrown in for good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

President Wilson is of the opinion
that the country is on the verge of
prosperity But it won't be brought
about by the economic Vaccinations
of the statesmen at Washington. The
bumper crops will turn the trick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

Some people are sure to say that
the terrible fire which devastated
Salem, Mass, is merely retributive
Justice for the burning of witches
there in the good old days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27
THE UNITED STATES, A NATION

THE UNIIEO STATES, "A NATION.
Az Golfers Weekly so well says, un-
der the above caption, the decision of
the United States supreme court in the
Shreveport rate case is an epoch max
ing event In the history of our country.
The Texas state railway commission
has attempted to fix rai1roal rates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

peeved golfer plays no favorites.
One Of them roundly 'cussed" the
president of the United States the 9TH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-27

Attention. disappointed lovers! DR..
Axel Werelius, of Chicago, announces
that mo injury of the heart. no mat
ter how violent, should be considered