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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01
Signs OF Hhe Times.

lotte was a married lady,

NudIlOtte was a married lady,
And a moral man was Werther,
And for all the wealth of Indies
would do nothing for to hurt her.
Thackeray's rhymed version
OF The Sorrows of Werther."
the letters Of Thackeray to Mrs.
Brookfield. which are to be disposed
of at the Lambert sale, form a love
story of curiously romantic interest.
Such of the correspondence of the
novelist with the English clergyman's
wife as has appeared in print was
called by the late Gen. James Grant
Wilson lone of the best collections Of
epistolary literature published during
the last century," But the letters SO
long kept private and now about to be
sold at auction are more than that.
They are an photographed record
of Thackeray's deep and devoted at
tachment for a married woman-con-
stttuting, in fact, the novelist's own
Werther and Charlotte romance.
Thackeray met his Charlotte not
cutting bread and butter" but at a
dinner of cold mutton and twopenny
tarts at her home. to which her hus-
vited him. His immediate interest in
Mrs. Brookfield ripened into an af-
lection the warmth Of which is shown
by his statement In a letter written in
1913: Il swear the best thought have
is to remember that I shall have your
love surviving me and with a constant
tenderness blessing my memory 1t
occasioned high words between me
and MONSIEUR" caused a rupture Of
friendly relations. and led to subse-
auent reflections byThackeray on being
made a fool Of" But the passion
dominated his life. and inspired a
depth Of feeling that make the letters.
in their intensity of self-revelation. a
remarkable chronicle of the sorrows
Of another Werther.-New York
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Her admirer swallowed hard. pulled at
his collar. and finally made up his mind.
Lillian" he said desperately, lets get
married." IAllian's bored expression
vanished. "An right" she agreed; but
who can you marry ?'-Judge.
Pop. tell me one thing what is 1t.
my SOM" rs q suspended sentence a
hanging matter?"-Baltimore American.
$50 you turned him down. eh?'' Eyes,
loved himT 'T do. I'm just Grassy about
him. Then why did you refuse hfm?''
Zone Of my girl friends refused him once.
and I can't have her saying that / took
one Of her cast-o6fS. Houston Post
Harold-"She sid she would be willing
to 20 to the ends of the world with me."S
Jerrold-s'Oh. any girl would. But how
about settling down in . fiat up in the
Bronx PUCK.
'I done intends ter make q stronomer
out er my son." said one colored man.
'.You done toll me dat befo'," replied tho
other. but what's he gwine ter do in
de daytimeT'-Kansas City Star.
Mrs. Kawler-"And IL Henrietta's par
lor wen furnishedr' Mrs. Biunderby-
Indeed it II. my dear. She has one Of
the most comfortable ortolans / ever -
upua."-Boston Tranocyipt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01
Journal Entries

In the efforts to become popular many
persons attain just the opposite.
Possibly the most common failing IL
the taking OF too much for granted.
The man who gets a lot Of sympathy
usually 70 In need OF something more
substantial.
Most Of the poor stories are kept
alive by those who try to reciprocate
when somebody tells a good one.
.
Children's questions are often foolish
but not any more so than some OF the
answers given by their parents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01
Globe Sights
nv THE ArcHIsoN GLOBE,

Honest mistakes are made by bone
heads.
One rabbit in a household is
enough.
A fool is a tall man trying to keep
step with a hobble skirt.
Patriotism sometimes shows itself
in a desire to wear a uniform.
+ Colts which have mover had to do
much work do most of the prancing.
+ If you have time to open your mail
you don't know what being real busy
is like.
Less medicine and more exercise is
the best health advice. and you needn't
go to a doctor to get 1t.
. If a boy Is injured, he doesn't mind
it so much IL the doctor has to take a,
large number of stitches.
When a man reads the sign. This
Means YOU" he is sure it means
everybody else except him.
While the average Young Thing
feels she u a princess. she rarely
claims for Father prominent place
in the king row.
Nature knows her business; a dog
exercise but for the explorations of
the enterpr.sing f1ea.
Jude johnson was overcome by the
heat this afternoon while working in
his garden and has turned over all
of his garden interests to his wife.
While girls conceal their ears by
modern methods of hair dressing,
with v necks and diaphanous drapery
they make other exposures to Offset
the conceament.
Jude johnson often PUSHES home at
noon and demands dinner at once, on
account of pressing business engage
ments. Then having eaten dinner he
will lounge around the house for an
hour.
II don't wish to discredit persever-
ance, although the fact remains that
I am only one of many who has de-
voted considerable time to trying
again where there wasn't much use.'
l-Rufe HOskinS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01
Jayhawker Jofs

Don't expect every one to think as
you do. urges the Morganville Trib-
une. II they did you would be the
first one to want to move out of the
community.
Bert Forbes, proprietor of the .Irv-
ing Leader. is next akin to the genus
editor-postmaster that Is common in
Kansas. He's q rural route carrier
on the side.
Some men. says the jamestown
Optimist. bore their friends by brae-
ging on themselves. Others bore their
friends by Dragging on their children.
Still others bore their friends by doing
both.
Some folks whoop'er up for the
heather, remarks the Glen Elder Sem
tinel. and wouldn't know anything
about It IL the stranger who has
someness.
Presumably the boys attending the
rural schools in Kansas are not wildly
enthusiastic over the fact that school
closing time IL at hand. For many Of
them it means q long spring and sum-
mer Of hard work on the farm. and
without pay.
Here follows an example of the
alertness of the commercial mind,
says the Cassoday Times: shrewd
business man was being driven in a
crowded thoroughfare, when his
horses took fright and ran away. He
called to his goodman: Can you stop
them?' mo-" replied the man.
Then" said the other, run them into
something cheap"
A pure food inspector was looking
over q grocery store owned by Jew.
relates the Concordia Kansan. He
found everything in excellent condi-
ton until he ran into a corner where
there was q very bad smell. what
Ia the matter here?" inquired the in
spector. Everything in this store is
all right but this corner. What makes
it smell 80 bad?" That's business.
It's rotten" replied the proprietor.
|. Observations by Editor Henrie Of
the Lansing News: The average re-
former has no other job. No two
faced person has any real claim to
beauty -. It's hard for man to
face the world If he il fiat on his
back. -. Never judge woman's
mind by the time it takes her to make
II "A bachelors idea of real
misery is being left alone with a noisy
gagged a half a dozen times looks as
careworn as a married woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Rubbing 1t In.

Rubbing It In.
OF all the undignified, useless, irritating
themselves think there is none more un-
dignified, more useless, more irritating
than rubbing it in.''
I happen to know family. one Of
whose members frequently INDUCES in
this unpleasant trick. When any other
member OF the family circle makes some
foolish mistake or Is guilty Of some trifl-
ing folly, this man not only leases the I'M
fortunate one about his slip at the time.
but also tuckS 1t away in his memory
cupboard to be brought out on every OPP
perfume and inopportune occasion and
rubbed In t
Once upon a time tho mother Of the
family gave away to "a tramp her hus-
bands best coat instead Of his old one
as wives have been doing ever since wives
and husbands and tramps existed. That
was twenty-eight years ago. Since that
time the story Of her mistake has prob
ably been told to two or three hundred
people. For whenever anyone inviting
ly touches a certain catch in that mans
mind that story jumps to the surface just
baby's jack-in-the-box. Or. rather. much
more so. For the spring in the baby's
jack-in-the-box sometimes gets broken
this one never does.
This Is but one sample Of his habit,
but it will give you an idea Of the way
he perpetuates all the little mistakes and
foilies OF his unfortunate family.
performed by the person who has been
proved right.
Suppose you are the person who has
been proved right. You have advocated
a certain course OF conduct; someone has
argued against 1t and refused to take it.
Circumstances have proved that your ad-
vice was right.
What then? Will you bring the success
of your course OF conduct to the attention
of the unbeliever and let the facts speak
for themselves? VIII you drop the seed
in the soil and let it alone to take root?
Or will you keep referring to your tri-
umph and reiterating. II not the actual
phrase. at least the spirit Of II told you
so?' Will you keep prodding the seed
to make it grow?
Which?
Let me tell you little fable. Once there
was aperson-who- was-proved-right. When
this person first announced his triumph
to the man-who-had-thought otherwise,
the latter, being reasonably open-minded.
was convinced. Unfortunately the person.
ad-been-proved-right wasn't salts
fled with this. but kept rubbing his tri-
umph in. Finally the man-who-had
thought-otherwiee couldn't stand 1t any
longer and he rose up in his wrath and
said, II admitted you were right and
meant to do likewise in the future but
this settles it. Too much rubbing II in
has soured my good intentions I'd rather
do my own way and be wrong than yours
and be right"
AS the moral OF this fable IL fairly
obvious I WON'T rub It In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01
By ROY K. MOULToN.

Back to the Soil.
used to kim o. think I'd sort o. like
to settle down.
An mebbe quit this farmin' an enjoy
q house in town,
An clean fursit the atmosphere Of
That seems to settle round you when
you're tillin' Of the soil.
I've tried it an I'm satisfied. I'm
goin' home agin.
Compared to all them snow drifts.
country mud is slick an thin;
An when the fuels gettin' low twill
do my feelin's good
To know the az is handy fur to chop
q load o. wood.
I'm goin' home agin: out where there
isn't any law
To keep a man from sittin' down an
wattin' fur a thaw.
used to think twas hard to spade
the ground; but dunno.
It's easier diggin' garden than 1t Il
to shovel snow.
I'm goin' hack to where the pantry's
allus full o. pie
An the bacon from the rafter to
a-hangin'. not too high;
Where all you've got to do Is lit your
rations from the peg,
An the hens don't want a nickel every
time they lay an egg.
An Incomplete Work.
We have just received from the per-
sonal hand OF our old friend. Governor
parcel post, the first biennial report of
! the Kentucky game commission. The
work, which is about the size of an
average city directory and fully as in
teresting, recommends several improve
| ments in game laws.
We wish to thank the governor
| for his thoughtfulness, but we don't
know just what we are going to do
| with the work. It might do to throw
| at the cats or to bolster up a three
legged sofa, but az game report. 1T
| does not interest US. 1t does not deal
with the only sort Of game that We
| know anything about-draw poker.
There are many improvements in
the laws OF this game which might
well be mentioned by the governors
commission. We would respectfully
| suggest the following:
Any man playing bob-fush pat
| shall receive ten years in the state
penitentiary.
Opening a pot on king and a
| other king or queen shall be punish
| able by a sentence of 10 years in
Jail or fine of 5000. or both. in dis
erection of the court.
Any man who passes three kings
and waits for the next man to open
| on pair of Johns and then boosts.
shall lose his license for four years.
Any man holding. threes shall draw
two cards and not draw one only in
an effort to make people believe he has
got only two pairs.
Any man holding four Fights twice
in succession shall be obliged to play
the rest of the evening in his under
clothes without sleeves or nockets.
Any man who stands BOOST on a
pair OF mines when there are a full
house and a np1& out against him
shall be committees to the Home for
the Feeble Minded
Signs OF The Times.
General Villa cahnot read or write.
but he has qualified as one of the
greatest conversationalists in the his
tory Of the world.
Federal: Friendly to the principle
of federal government with strong CEN
tralized powers."-Century Dictionary.
Try this alongside Of league and see
| what you get.
General Villa borrowed a book on
| Military Customs from a United States
army officer and then proceeded to
break all the military customs he could
| find in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01
Kansas Comment
THE STATES Bus1Nrss.


When there II doubt about the quail
tty OF the seed corn. and farmers are
not sure whether the kind they have
Will sprout and grow. they may send
sample Of their corn to the State
Agricultural college, and the state viii
test it free of charge, ana make . re-
port to the farmer. When there il
danger OF hog cholera. and the farmer
wants to insure himself against loss,
he may send to the State Agricultural
college and get = supply Of vaccine by
wnich his hogs can be rendered inn
why the state should help the farmers
learn their business il because 1t -
1eit that 1t 10 . good thing for the
state Tor the farmers to be prosperous.
On the same ground, the merchant in
the small town IL entitled to state a.
sistance. II the merchant wants help
In getting up an advertising campaign,
the state should have experts who
would be ready to give this assistance
free OF charge. II there il some article
which the mail order house seems to
be Offering at a less price than the
home merchant can possibly sell the
same article. why not make provision
SO that small merchants might have
tho quality OF the mail order article
tested and matched. SO that the mer-
chant might know exactly what to tell
his customers, and what prices to
make. Tho state ia making . begin.
ming. 1t IL almost ready to offer a
correspondence. course in advertising
and salesmanship. and on May S.
and will give q short course" for
merchants at Lawrence. II merchants
show their appreciation, now, tho
work Is sure to be greatly enlarged
and improved in the future.-Mer-
chants Journal.
A KANSAS "ROBBER."
The Kansas Agricultural college has
discovered one of the robbers Of the
state. 1t Is the COW that gives back but
IS cents worth OF milk for the dollars
worth of feed she gets. The college
says the wedding out of this COW will
make the dairy business look better in
Kansas. The college maintains in
structors who declare they can locate
this cow and that farmers should also
have a way to find her, and then make
beef animal. and not milch COW of
her. There are problems in tairyine az
there are in all business enterprises, in
Guiding farming. If the cow isn't do
ing her share, in other words paying
for her keep, and some sort Of profit
besides. she ought to be given a new
diet. have different attention, or some
change brought about where she may
deliver these goods or else be taken out
OF the dairy. Efforts are daily being
made to find all Of the efficiency in q
human being, SO why not also in q
cow?-Ottawa Register
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Huerta has the City Of Mexico filed
to its teeth with the pick Of the federal
army. This force is well-armed, we'll
fed and in all around first class condi-
ton. Considering the showing that
Villa and his men have made at Tor
reon. what kind of a chance have they
to campaign with success against the
dictator's stronghold?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

And the. mere fact that there are
again two sides to the Republican party
In Kansas is all the evidence needed
that one of them is out of its proper
political place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

With Champ Clark solidly arrayed
against it. the Chicago Record-Herald
suggests that the administration may
fad itself compelled to go into the
business Of kicking "dawgs aroun'."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

In the rush and the tremendous
labor Of gathering the worlds news of
the other day there was the time and
the inclination, also, to scatter broad
cast the Information that Tito Mattel.
an Italian pianist of note. had died.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Doc Wiley says his 23-months-old
boy speaks Latin as well as English
But the pure food crusader Is foxy
enough not to state just how well the
Goungster talks English.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

provided with competent and ever
present supervision, and standardized
so that the school and the teacher may
stand the test ~ well az the pupil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

President Wilson's announcement
that he has no "mouthpiece" and does
his own talking also calls attention to
the fact that he generally does an ex-
ceedingly fine piece Of work in this di-
rection when the occasions demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Present indications are that Topeka
will soon be again in the throes of an
other Sunday closing discussion. This
10 a periodical nuisance that should be
settled one way or the other perma-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

We have always believed, says the
New Orleans States, that the man who
put the "p" in pneumonia and the m
in damn could have done something
a darn sight more useful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Clifford Pinchot is fast developing
into a paragon of political perfection
Of the proportions of his sponsor. He
calls Bristow. a. traitor. Cummins u
gutter, Borah fraud, Hadfey d self
seeker and LaFollette a tragic failure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal II . member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news NJ
Ganixatjon Tor the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news II received In The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pass"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

What is the capital of Massachu-
eetts?" queries a correspondent, who
insists he has received six different
answers from as many Topeka sources
of information. including Boston,
which happens to be the correct one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Nor do the British suffragettes seem
alive to all their opportunities to at
tain notoriety and cause trouble. Why
didn't one or more of them attempt
t. spoil the Oxford-Cambridge boat
race by throwing themselves into the
Thames in front OF the rapidly travel
ing shells? Think. too. Of the moving
picture that would have made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Great Britain points with pride 20
the fact that she leads in air craft as
we'll as sea craft. But. and naturally.
she ha snothing to say about her ltad-
ership in suffragette craft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

In definitely characterizing the Pan
anna canal tolls exemption scheme as
a subsidy. President Wilson hits an
other nail fearlessly and squarely on
the head
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

As the good work goes on. I'VE
make you grow" charlatans have been
denied the use of the mails by Post
master General Burleson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

General Carranza is also distin
guished for having developed a notabl
mustache and a luxuriant bunch o
WhiSkers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Nor is there anything unusual in the
split that has occurred among the Bull
Moosers in Nebraska. 1t is mighty diff
f1cult for a Progressive to agree po-
litically with any one but himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

Villas pictures that are now going
the rounds of the, newspapers show
him with a happy and satisfied smile
on his face. They were taken. however.
before the battle Of Torreon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

What did 1t profit the Democrats in
congress, asks the New York World.
to dispense the manufacturers lobby If
they were at once to embrace the
ship-subsidy lobby?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

It appears that the white slave
act Is one law that the millionaire
have trouble in lodging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

War in Mexico is even worse thar
what General Sherman said it was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-01

fourths of which shall be for the
tuition fund. then such district may re-
ceive from the state treasurer suffi-
cient money to make up the deficiency.
Law for state aid to weak school
districts appropriates the balance of
former appropriations and the sum of
$4,000.
Law on the inspection of high
schools. The superintendent of public
instruction shall appoint two compe-
tent high school inspectors, not con-
nected with any college or university.
two public high school inspectors Sc
lected from the faculty staff Of the col
lege of education of the Ohio State
university. and one public high school
| inspector from each of the faculties of
the Ohio normal colleges at Oxford
and Athens and the Ohio normal
schools at Kent and Bowling Green.
Law providing that agriculture shall
be taught in all the common schools
of all village and rural school districts
which are supported in whole or in
part by the state. 1t may be taught in
city school districts at the option of
the board of education. Four district
state supervisors of agricultural educa-
ton are to be appointed by tho super
intendent OF public instruction.
Law on Standardization of village
and rural schools. Instead Of exam
lining the pupils for admission to high
schools, the elementary rural schools
from which they come are to be ex-
. amined in equipment. courses ct study
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-09-17
Evacuation Of The Mexican
City After Five Months
OF Occupation.
IT COST Us TWENTY LIVES. !
Soldiers and Marines To Start
Home as Soon as Trans
ports Arrive.

Washington. Sept. 16.-Evacus-z
ton of Vera Cruz was ordered yes-'
terday by President Wilson.
American soldiers and marines I'M
der Gen. Funston, who have held
Mexico's principal seaport since it
was seized by the feet April 81 last,
will embark for home as soon as
transports can go after them, and
shortly afterward all of the war
fleet except few light draft vessels
will be withdrawn. 1t is the con-
GLIDING chapter of the second armed
conflict between the United States
and Mexico, in which a score of
Americans lost their lives, nearly a
hundred were wounded and upward
of 300 Mexicans were killed or
wounded.
The reasons for the step were set
forth in the following statement
from the White House:
"The troops have been ordered
withdrawn from Vera Cruz. This
action is taken in view of the entire
removal of the circumstances which
were thought to justify the occupa-
ton. The further presence of the
troops is deemed unnecessary.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-09-17


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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-09-17
Building Addition.

West & Lee are building a brick
addition to the Eighth street front of
their carriage factory. 1t will be
two stories high and is nearing COM
pletion.