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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some people would rather be polite
than tell the truth.
Adam had no pedigree. but he had
a family tree that gave him a lot OF
trouble.
No. Maude. dear: the minstrel show
make both ends meet.
Matches may be made in heaven.
but there are lots Of matchmaking
mamas here, too.
You never can tell. The cornet
player may be more apt % 90 on a
toot than the tutor.
The average man finds it less trou-
blesome to discharge a duty than to
discharge a cook.
Hamlet had just eaten a Welsh
rarebit. ITO sleep. perchance to
DREAM he soliloquized.
A quarrelsome man shouldn't drink
whisky. He should remember that
rye is the first syllable Of riot.
It's all right for a widow to culti-
waite weeds, provided she doesn't let
them grow on her husbands grave.
Talk is cheap" quoted the Wise
Guy. 'Huhi" snorted the Simple
Mug. my wife Just talked me into
buying her a new SIS hat"
Tommy: Pop. what is obscurity?''
Tommy's Pop: "Obscurity, my SON. Is
|-er-well. it's like being the husband
of successful woman"
Nell: II don't think she IL quite
conversant with social usages-" Belle:
mo. she always listens to the music
when sha goeo to the ope~A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
Globe Sights
By THE ATCHIsON 0xoHn

If you must tell all you know, get paid
for it.
The average girl usually gigg1es because
there isn't much to giggle about
You can't fool all the people all tho time,
but the book agent continues to do well.
When the men want to humiliate q
man they start story that his wife
whips him.
Do women walk on the sunny side Of
the street just accidentally. or just on
purpose?
If there are only two sides Of the arxu-
ment. that indicates only two persons are
engaged in it.
An Atchison man is so grouchy that he
employs physician by the year to at
tend to his sore spots.
Most men are vandals, to an extent
For instance, the average man takes de-
light in marking the walls in a telephone
booth.
By the time a man realizes that the
young folks aggravate him. he might az
well come through with the admission
that he is getting old.
A great deal of the talk of political cor
ruption comes from the losers, although
1t isn't safe to assume that they have a
monopoly OF the virtues.
Looking for an actress who looks better
of the stage than on it probably repre-
sents the most difficult effort to prove
there are exceptions to all rules.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
SYMPATHY, A GREAT TONIC.

Some years ago there appeared In the
newspapers an open letter in which .
suffering and helpless woman asked aid
in securing q law to permit invalfds
pronounced incurable after a medical
consultation to be painlessly put to
death. Naturally the letter attracted
attention and reawakened the old ques-
ton whether or not physicians are ever
justified in shortening life. 1t Is OF IN
terest, then. to note that the writer OF
the letter now rejoices at the nonful-
fillment of her wish. She has lived to
experience how much life may hold
even in the face of bodily helplessness
and how greatly hope brightens pros
poets which seem at first so unfavor-
able She tells of having received
thousands of letters from all over the
world containing messages Of sympathy
and appreciation for her daring attempt
to secure a modification of present-day
invalids, she says. have since written
her of their cure and of their gladness
that conservatism and old-fashioned
legislation had interviewed between
themselves and their impatience. One
Of these correspondents. who was sure
that hope was dead for her and who
eagerly desired the "finis'' at the end
OF the chapter. has written of her COM
plete recovery and how much more life
now means to her since she has passed
through the shadow of the valley of
dcsolation.'' This correspondence has
proved. as might well be expected. a
10 nd 20 hn inv
She feels not only that her contact with
others has given them a renewed in
terest in life, but also that even her
mistaken suggestion Of a revolutionary
change in law has not been without its
good effect, since it has drawn together
in bonds Of deep human sympathy. in
valids who felt their kelplessness yet
were helped by the knowledge of their
common lot. 1t was the touch Of nature
that makes the whole world kin-and
kind, says the journal Of the American
Medical Association. Probably nothing
is more stimulating and genuinely tonic
to sufferers. especially those with
chronic ailments. than the feeling that
in spite Of their own helplessness they
themselves can still be helpful to Others
The Shut-ir society in this country has
made life more bearable for many per-
sons who are confined to their rooms Or
their houses. Nothing disturbs a GER
tain class of patients SO much as to be
constantly in contact with those who
are in good health and strength and
whom they can scarcely help but envy.
To be brought into touch with those for
rtvv <xrnNr Ronl se, q
precious source of consolation and up
lift. Pity is a luxury to be enjoyed. but
no human being likes to be pitied or to
feel that he is an object of pity. To be
conscious of some advantage in ones
situation over that of others Is of itself
an alleviaticn for many sicknesses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
Journal Entries

Convincing others that you're right
Is also some task.
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A sensible woman isn't any more
difficult to locate than il q sensible
man.
= =
A clever flatterer has an excellent
equipment in the struggle for personal
popularity.
Old Sport Wiseboy points out q
present similarity between sugar and
women. Both are as dear as they are
sweet.
AS a matter Of fact the mistakes
which happen in the best regulated
families are usually Of the trifing
variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
Jayhawker Jots

Self conceit hurts the owner more
than anyone else, points out the Min
neapolis Bettcr-Way.
The trouble, explains the ElDorado
Times, is that so many people konw
SO many things that are not so.
No one ever got a reputation for
having a pure-looking face who wasn't
Just as good inside, declares the VIM
field Courier.
A Sterling newspaper withholds the
name Of a popular citizen of Sterling
who beat up his wife the other day.
The paper declares that he not only
beat her up, but he had the coffee
boiling by the time she came down
stairs.
A Leavenworth woman declares that
there will be war as long as boy babies
are born, notes the Salina Journal. and
ing in of the golden age could be ac-
cOmplfshed by the simple expedient of
strangling the boy babies
So many kids ride in coaster wagons
fand propel themselves along by kick
ing with one leg that the Waverly Ga
zette sometimes thinks that the next
generation of men and women will
have only one good leg with the rudi-
ments Of what might have been an
other.
Observations. by Click Fockele in
the Leroy Reporter: Reputation is
| -. Love is both an incurable and an
| unpreventable disease. Some men
have said that all a bachelor has to
do to get married is to stop lodging.
-. Many a budding orator has ruined
himself by getting married and losing
| all chance to practice. Some men
won't cast piece of bread upon the
water until 1t is too stale to do anyone
| any good.
| According to the Clay Center Times,
a Clay Center man who claims to have
noticed, says that most of the college
graduates of the town do not read the
newspapers and do not keep up on the
| happenings Of the day at all, while the
men of town who never went to col
lege, for the most part, read the news
papers. and keep well informed. He
says he knows a college graduate OF
the city who, II some one would rush
up to him and ask who the president
OF the United States is, would be very
apt to reply: Roosevelt was the last
time I heard"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
Euening Chat
The Value OF Control.
By RUTH CANERON.

The Red Sox have bought a new
pitcher" said the Cynic to the Author
man.
$50 I saw-paid five thousand dol
AS If any man. even a pitcher, was
actually worth that much!' interpolat-
ed the Author-Man's wife.
1t always puzzles me. this baseball
talk" said Molly. the little-stenog-
prices for some of the players. why
should one pitcher be worth more than
another? Any man can throw a ball!''
It's because some pitchers can
curve the ball more than Others" ex-
planned the Author-mans wife, rather
loftily.
Not exactly" said the Cynic. with
a smile. Almost any man can throw
ball and every pitcher can curve it.
But some can control that curve and
others can't. That is the difference.
There are pitchers who can curve a
ball around a house and who have so
| much speed that they burn holes in
| the atmosphere. but they are all play
ing ball back in the bushes. simply
because they haven't got CONTROL
YES" added the Author-man, "and
| there are lots of men in other bust
| nesses than baseball, who are back
| in the bushes because of the same lack
they haven't got control. They've got
brains and energy to spare, but they
can't control them. I remember q
chap in my class at college that we all
expected great things of. He was bril-
liant and when he got going he could
| do almost anything he wanted to. But
he was as erratic as q jack rabbit. We
all thought he would settle down and
do something big. but the last time
heard of him he was just getting
by
But it seems to me as If every
pitcher could get control. IL he has the
other things" said the Author-man'a
wife.
They could" answered the Cynic.
III they went at 1t right. But they
rely on their curves and their speed
and they think, just because they have
speed and curves. that they are going
to be big-league players. About that
time their lack of control bitches them
and they land back in the bushes
somewhere"
But how do pitchers develop con-
trol?" asked Molly.
WELL" said the Cynic, they first
determine just what they want to do
and then they go out in a back lot
somewheres and practice for hours. for
days, for neutrality-suspicious. for a
year, so that they know just where the
ball is going to a fraction of an inch,
when it leaves their hands. They are
real pitchers-the kind baseball mag
| mates bid $4,000 or SO for"
| IT suppose" said the Lady-who- al
ways knowsHsomehow, speaking for
the first time-'that the moral IL plain
find out just what you want to dc
with yourself and then set yourself al
work doing it over and over again %
that you can do 1t. not just once in q
lwhile-but every time
Just So" agreed the Cynic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
ART FOR THE MODERN PURSE.

AFEI FUR THE MODERN PURSE.
In these days Of admirable photo
graphic facaimiles lovers of art who
are not also wealthy will generally
and sensibly content themselves with
their favorite artists in reproduction.
writes a contributor to THE Field of
Art" in the September Scribner's.
But there is class of amateur who
must have for full enjoyment the very
touch of the masters hand. and can
not accept permanently any form of
transcription however skillful. At
first sight the case of an impecunious
amateur Il this type seems tragic
enough. Originals by the great mas
tiers apparently do not fall at small
prices, while contemporary painting
and sculpture of merit is properly
paid TO- in figures out of question for
those of small income-a class which
comprises the great majority of we'll
informed art-lovers. But this i'm
preston Of the inaccessibility of fine
originals to persons Of small means is
erroneous. Whoever can devote
hundred dollars a year to the decora-
ton of his walls or the enrichment of
his cabinets may gradually accumulate
important original works by great
masters. Whoever is limited to an
annual expenditure Of ten dollars need
not despair Of adding every year to
his collection some meritorious ex-
ample from a masters hand.
Naturally here is no question Of the
major works of noted artists. But
happily the great artists have not in
sisted monotonously on leaving only
major works. Many of them have ad
ventured in the field of etching, en-
craving. or photography, and frequent
ly such recreations. with all the SAVIOR
of the artists personality. combine the
ease and freshness proper to the
sketch From the sixteenth century
to the present day many painters and
sculptors have thus multiplied their
authentic designs, and the owner of a
print from a plate which Durer en-
graved has in every sense an original
rurer. Let us test the matter in the
case of recent artists. Few OF us
could hope to obtain the smallest
fragment that Corots or Delacroix' 8
| brush had touched. but at trifiing
expense one may buy an etching by
Corot himself, instinct with his idyllic
naturalism, or an original Autograph
I full of the peculiar nervous energy Of
DelacrOix
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
pAGEANTs AND CIVIC SPIRIT.

What a pageant means in rallying
community Is wildly described in the
Survey by Charlotte Rumbold. who
was herself one of the moving spirits
back Of the great pageant held recent
~ in st. Louis. She writes:
1.-THE significance OF the pageant
and masque of st. Louis is that q
group Of citizens tried a daring expert
ment and succeeded. Citizens first and
artists secondarily, they are not the
type to stage big shows just for the
shows sake. They tried to arouse a
city Of 100000 people to sense of
its solidarity. to a sense Of the posi-
bility Of infinite achievement by a
community under the spell Of unity
ing idealism.
Last summer, a handful Of people
decided that the city was ripe for
new expression Of its pride In past
achievements and its hope for solu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

THE MELON COLLIE DAYas
The melon collie days have come
Which children love 20 dear
When parents oft are stricken dumb
And paralixed with fear!
On apples green the children chew
Their hunger to abate-
And big wafermelons, too,
Their thirst to satiate.
They also green cucumbers eat
And gorge on Roasting ears
Thus gormandize the band to beat
For kids OF tender years.
Yet they enjoy a pain and ache
A little now and then
To show that for the stomach's sake
They're martyrs-same n men.
And doubtless they will all pull through
And minor ills defy
For they've an antidote in view
The luscious pumpkin pie.
NJ. B. NICHOI.
Frankfort. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
Hurr,or of the Day

Woman Election Inspectress-'srhere are
three spoiled ballots" Ditto-"Oh. dear:
but then. suppose we can make them
over into something else."-Puck.
Sympathetic Friend-'There's wan COM
fort, Mrs. McHinnery. Moo that yer puir
man has gone to a better ward. yet ken
where he is O. nights Mrs. McHinnery
(grimly)-'I still haze ma doots."-Judge.
Ibid you hear about George3 Hurt hts
leg sliding to third and can't play in the
permanent" .:Tm afraid TO-" Isn't isn't
that dreadful?" 1T might be worse. Hes
got the cutest limp you ever saw. When
doing the dip"-Cleveland plain Dealer.
Bobble (who has been sent over for
the fifth time to find out how Mrs. Brown
is)-''An right. ma: she's dead."-Balti-
Alas for the poor fly, He has few
friends nowadays. One Of the last to be
kind to him was :: the dear old Countess ties.
noticed one buzzing around the window
and giving himself a headache butting
the glass Julis; open the windSw and let #
pouring rain" You are very thoughtful,
Julia Show the fly into the ante-room
and let 1t sit down till the shower 10 over;
This open letter ITO John,'' in the
personal column OF q weekly paper:
John. promise not to run for ohrIce-
II git q chanst-and not to search your
pockets when you como home as usual.
you more'n what's necessary for your
own good, and not to throw up to you
any more bout me havn' to pay for the
family ID better'n your'n-thoush Lord
knows 1t Is. So close, hoping these
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

oubscribers Of tho state Journal
away from homo during the summer
eoch day to any address 1t the rate
a. ten cents . Week or thirty cents
. month (by mail only. Address
Obeneed ~ often ~ desired. While
ont Of town the State Journal viii bo
% you like . daily letter from home.
Advance payment u requested ON
shese short dime subscriptions, 70 aavo
Bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

Austria and Belgium have also TAX
en- the trouble formally to declare
war against each other. But how can
their armies. or any parts of them, get
together for a scrap? The territory
between these two countries il SO
thick with the contending forces of
Germany, France and England as to
make 1t impossible for any other SOL
raiara
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
From, Other Pens
BALANCE orLABoR.

There IL an international balance AZ
trade and an international balance Of
labor. The former invariably runs
against this country and the latter In
favor of 1t. Each year the United
states has been drawing on European
markets for a million men or more.
until we have scattered over the states
13.OOO,OOO foreign born. OF those 4s
per cent. or 100000, are naturalized.
In June immigration dropped 80 per
cent. In July it was cut in half. Aug
ust Will show q heavy outward move-
ment and a big balance against US. II
all of the unnaturalized having resi-
dence here should be called home to
strengthen army reserves q gap in the
labor market OF 100000 men would
result. This is more laborers than
the country wants to lose or can II.
ford to spare. The evils Of immigra-
ton are as one to twenty compared
with the advantages Of foreign labor
to q nation busy with building and ex-
banding and working up its raw ma
teria1s. We lose $25O,0O0.O00 in gold
each year which these hard. struggling
people send home to the Impoverished.
but we gain many times that amount
from their toll. Those of the foreign
born who are here will want to stay.
for when the war Is over 1t Is a safe
prediction that many Of their com.
patriots who have witnessed the deo.
truction OF farms. villages and indus
tries will ask to come within the pro-
lection of the American flag. To
them the Promised Land Of Mary
Antin will be more promising than
eyer.-Ncw York Mail.
UNDER OUR FLAG.
One hundred ships of about five huDp
dred thousand tons gross register came
under the American flag yesterday. They
are all ships of foreign build. but they
are now and for long time have been
owned exclusively by Americans. BY rea-
son OF our barbaric navigation laws they
and Italian flags. These ships are the
property OF the Standard Oil company,
the United Fruit company and the United
States Steel Corporation. War in Europa
the high rates of insurance on bellfgerent
commerce and the recent enactment e
Washington permitting Americans to gain
a United States registry for ships bui1t
or purchased abroad are the reasons why
these strictly American corporations nov
transfer their shipping. While this - .
II IL relatively Of small importance and
1t has no bearing upon the main problem
affecting our merchant marine. which
involves the purchase by Americans oG
foreign ships and their use under our laws
and our flag. A law which ENCOURAGES
ships to use the flag OF their own country
certainly ought to stimulate other citixeno
to buy ships and put them into our oer.
vice: The aggresate shipping Of The
ships il about 1000. Over % per cent oe
our deep-sea commerce has been transact.
ed under foreign nags. Az against thooo
figures yesterdays accesaion0 to Ameri-
are noteworthy ~ an inspiration TO othoGu
who az yet own no ships OF any kind an1
do not care to own them unless they can
have q subsidy.-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago

from the Chicago News
1t never rains but somebody forgets
his umbrella
Procrastination increases the de-
lights Of anticipation.
Cain did not invent war. He was
merely the first murderer.
Some people marry In haste and
then live to have golden weddings
Birds of feather have reason to be
thankful to the Audubon people.
The fly in the ointment shows that
the apothecary has been negligent In
his swatting.
Early to bed and early to rise would
put tho theatrical industry entirely out
OF business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

Andrew Carnegie seems to have ac-
quired the habit of that familiar spe-
cies of the American candidate for
office who endeavors to stand on all
sides of every question. A week ago
he insisted that the German emperor
should be held accountable for the
war. Now he declares that the guilt
Of the German emperor for bringing
on the war has not been proven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

One of the few reasonable recent
news dispatches from the seat of war
tells that the armies which have been
battling so furiously for 80 many days
are suffering from exhaustion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

No blame can surely attach to Kaiser
Wilhelm for being in the peevish mood
he exhibited when he tore off the
medals and decorations that have been
conferred on him by Great Britain and
tossed them violently to the floor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

Advancing prices for wheat is given
az the reason for increases in the price
OF flour. When there was a drop in
the price of wheat during the several
months before the harvest of this sea-
SONS wheat crop, from $1.05 q bushel
to 81 and 81 cents, was there q cores
ponding reduction in the price of
flour? There wasn't in Topeka, at
a0v rate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

Congress is probably envious of even
the little vacation that President Will
son has found time to take. But IL
congress would work more and talk
less. 1t too. might be able to enjoy a
reRt OccasiOna1ly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

Without doubt there il going to be
dishonor a-plenty for all the nations
engaged in the European war. The
sacking and burning of Louvain by
tho Germans is an indication along
that line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

This cloudy and rainy season that
Topeka is experiencing just now may
also mean that there won't be any
thing like 1t during the Topeka fair
week. Here hoping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

In California the Bull Moose candi-
dates for Office have pulled of the old
trick for which the politicians of that
clan are famous. Several of them
worked the primaries for places on
the Republican ticket as we'll as on
their own.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

And the fact that Kansans have
paid only $4,000 under the income
tax law is further evidence that the
wealth in this state is pretty generally
distributed and sizeable incomes are
pxceDti0na1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

Most Kansans are also free from one
Of the worries that Is now adding mis-
cry to the life of New Workers. The
latter are in the terrible throes of an
imported beef famine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IL q member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegrap report Of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publicatiCn in Topeka.
The news u received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur>
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

Nor must 1t be overlooked that none
OF the citizens of the United States
who are at home and where they be-
long Is in any danger of being forced
to do duty with the German army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-31

Kaiser wilhelm is sending words of
consolation to his east Prussian SUBJ
jects. But they won't help much as
stumbling blocks to the advance of the
Russian hordes.