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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-03-10
2OIb Sugar for $l.OO

On every WEDNESDAY In Febru
airy and March (for weeks We
will sell 20 pounds best graduated
sugar for 800. Sugar sold at this
Price VIII not be delivered unless
hls! goods are purchased to the
{ nDuh. OF 800 We are aware
that some BlueReld people are from
Missouri" and that we will have to
show them that we can and will
save them money on ther groceries.
Come TO our store Cor phone 2G1)
and let rs help you make up that
order, and you Will wonder why you
have not been buying your groceries
from us all the time. Ods new Gus
toner TO us, means two, for they al
ways bring US another. That's why
we want you.
We don't say that "ouT loss *
your gain" but that our gain is your
gain. Think Il over and determine
to do your part in keeping The cash
banner TO the front OF the ranks.
which means a saving to you and
all who support It. You are always
welcome at our store.
STEPTOE'S The Cash Way
Phone eel SO Bluefeld avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-20
RELIGION IN WORK.

The daily task, declares a writer in
the London Nation, can not be proper
ly performed without a sort of religious
urselfishness, and to which attention is
called by the Literary Digest. To take
up the cross daily and follow the Mas
ter is what thousands of the workers
in office and factory have learned to
do. The teachers and toilers of the
world are really acting under the direct
or indirect influence and inspiration os
that gospel which works nowadays
with something of the inevitable per-
sistency of a natural force Thus we
read:
zone can not glance at the reports
of the factory or school inspectors
without realizing that most of them are
making a conscience of what they do,
that their work interests and stimu-
lates them. that they are doing much
more than the mechanical minimum,
and that an ideal of social service is
steadily in their minds. They are not
working for themselves; they are
working for their fellow men,. 1t is a
crude cynicism which assumes that
nothing but the hope Of unlimited gain
can spur to energy or evoke the man
hood of mind"
The great discoveries of the world
were not actuated by the hope OF gain
in the tolls, dangers, and night-long
vigils to which they submitted them
selves. There was a bright motive of
Christian disinterestedness In it all.
Moreover:
Gain was not the chief stimulus of
the medieval craftsman. It had even
in the nineteenth century only a sec
ondary place in the lives of scholars,
artists, scientists, architects, engineers,
and medical men. Generations of doc
tors have worked with incessant en-
ergy and self-sacrifice upon discoveries
and inventions, which the etiquette of
their caste forbade them to paten. or
monopolize. The really virile mind Is
more often an intelligence which de-
sires to fling itself into some largely
disinterested work of organization OF
reform, discovery or social service, than
a mechanism which will give forth its
best only under the stimulus of great
profit
This is true also of the public service
The mayor, the alderman, the clerk
or typewriter in government service,
declares this writer, can do his best
only when he is working under the
stimulus of a religious sense of duty,
and it is when this sense is absent that
inefficiency and disagreement begin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-20
THOSE CHERRY TREES.

Perhaps Captain Richmond Pearson
Hobson, Spanish-Amerlean war hero,
yellow peril enthusiast, politician and
erstwhile kissing-bug. has not deliver
ed himself as yet of an interview on
.he gift of thousands of cherry trees
which Japan's mikado proposes to
present to this country for planting
along the Potomac at Washington and
along the Hudson on Riverside Drive,
New York Everybody knows what he
thinks OF the entente cordiale existing
between this country and Japan. He
thinks it is a delusion and snare and
that Japan is liable to go to war on
the United States at any moment, and
vice versa. If he has not paid atten-
ton to this cherry tree incident it is
only because other duties are more
pressing
When he gets around to it, though,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-20
ALASKA DOES wEUI. BUT

Miners from Alaska are beginning
TO arrive in the states of the north
west to spend the winter and also their
gold. They are bringing with them
the first authentic reports of the gold
yield in that territory for the past
year. There is a wonderful enthusiasm
among them over the richness in yell
low metal of that land where the pri-
vations are many and severe. During
the last mining season the gold out
put in the Nome and Fairbanks fields
in the Tanana valley is estimated at
$11,00O.OO0 or 100000 more than
for the previous year. This will be
the lure for hundreds of other men
to follow the successful miners back
to the Alaskan wastes next year in
search of fortunes, regardless of the
hardships that they must needs en-
dure. Many who are not successful
in their quest in even the most meager
way Will die of starvation for there
is little to be done in Alaska these
times on a profitable basis except to
find gold or cater to the wants of the
gold seekers. Alaska may be a won
derful country. but it is young yet
and far from being developed. If 1t
were not for the gold that has at
tracted thousands thither, there would
not be many people there outside of
the semi-civilized natives. AS a coun-
try rich to a certain extent in gold,
Alaska has done and is doing we'll,
but
Well, take look at Kansas. Year
in and year out her marvelously fer
tile fields have and will continue to
yield crops that are turned into gold,
or its equivalent, in sums that make
the gold crop of Alaska look like a
pigmy in comparison, like the proven
bal thirty cents. There are valleys
in Kansas that produce each year
more gold through wheat than the
Tanana valley of Alaska has ever
produced in a similar period. or ever
will in all likelihood.
1t certainly passes the understanding
of some persons why men should tear
themselves away from their families
and friends, rush on in an almost
frenzied fashion to a place like Alaska
where gold can be washed out of
some of the soil only after the most
arduous kind of work under the most
distressing of circumstances, when
they can build up just as large and
larger fortunes by tilling the soil in
Kansas or other like-favored locali-
ties. Their work would not be any
harder. Their suffering would be nil.
To be sure their bank rolls would not
grow as fast in raising wheat and
corn and alfalfa as they would If they
struck it lucky in the gold fields. But
they would grow more certainly, and
there would not be near SO many fail
ures which would end in narrowing
death. Get-rich-quick is the fever
which sends most men to the gold
fields. 1t is also the fever which has
marked the trail to them with the
bleached bones of the thousands who
have fallen on their way.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe

Your working hours have been reduced
to eight. Then for heavens sake. work
eight hours.
This" said a young wife to her fus--
band, lis mot pie like your mother used
to make; it is better"
If a man can lay of at any time, the
temptation to lay off too much is greater
than most men can resist
After man has been married awhile.
he does hate to walk down street with
his wife hanging on his arm.
When a girl is old enough to wear a
big hat and a great big lot of false hair,
she is too old to wear short dresses.
A man cannot think to observe the reg
ular rules of health, but he can usually
think to take his patent medicine regu-
larry.
A boy was being plagued for driving
about with his girl behind the old family
nag. "We1," he said, speed amt no OBJ
ject."
student he will later encounter lot Of
problems more difficult than those of al
zebra or geometry
It is hard to be satisfactory: II you are
enthusiastic people say you are, putting
it on; If you do not enthuse they say
you are disagreeable.
New sea sick story: A woman and her
weather. Are you seasiek, dear?" the
the daughter, but I'd hate to yawn.''
Does a bride ever have a headache on
her wedding day? If she doesn't, it is
the only occasion in most women's lives
when ANYTHING unusual goes on, when
they don't acquire sick headache to
match it.
When a man decides that he must quit
smoking. be has a tragedy on his hands.
the morphine habit is not more difficult
quit the whisky habit is easy compared
with quitting the tobacco habit
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he will see in it all the earmarks of a
preliminary step to the attempted an
Inhalation of this land at the hands of
the japanese. Beware of those cherry
tire es,'' he will yell. Touch them not.
They are possible harbingers of all that
is evil" He would call attention to a
legend that is particularly pleasing to
the Japs, who are especially strong on
legends. It concerns their cherry
trees. The blossoms of them on their
native soil are of peculiarly delicate
beauty. And there's a tradition in
Japan that if the same color tone ap-
pears in the blossoms of a Japan
cherry tree planted in another coun-
try, that country can be taken and
subjugated by Japan just as easily as
a turtle slides off log.
Now what do you know about
that?' Mr.. Hobson will inquire. isn't
it as plain as the nose on your face
that the gift of these cherry trees is
crafty method which the Japs propose
to employ to find out for sure and GER
tain whether or not they can lick US
easily? 1t can be nothing else. Look
on those cherry trees as vipers and re-
turn them at once to the emperor of
Japan Will an IO1OTdOly pOllt0 nOLo
of thanks. If this should insult the
Japs and bring on war, well apd
good. We might as we'll have it now
as a few years later"
AS Is usually the case with Captain
Hobson's arguments, it is easy to re-
flute them, and none would be easier
TO quash than one he might make to
the effect as noted above. Many of
Japan's cherry trees have been i'm
ported to this country and cultivated.
The blossoms, while just as beautiful
as those which flourish in Japan, are
not like the home grown article in
color, and that's the nubbin of the
whole business. Then, too, who, out
side of Hobson and a few Japs. place
any stock in legends, anyhow?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-20
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

From the Philadelphia Record
The Reformer-"I vote as prav
The Practical Politician-"About once
a year, Ell ?"
Any girl can wiring her hands. but
she much prefers some fellow to sup
ply the ring.
For one man who can't stand pros
perity there. are a hundred who never
have chance to try.
The music. teacher, if a pupil has
no voice. devotes his energies to cul-
tivating the Imagination.
Better late than never" is one
or those wise saws that are re-
sponslole for many mans failure.
Would girl be safe in acceptine
advice about marriage from a woman
who has had four husbands?
Love is blind" quoted the Wise
Guy. mot self love-" remarked the
Simple Mug. THAT has plenty of
it," oA
Wigwag describing banquet)-
The wine flowed like water" Colonel
bluegrass, OF Kentucky-sLike water !?
Do you mean to say that nobody
drank it,"
when lam acting / lose myseIf in
the part I am portraying," remarked
the transforming tragedian. ct lose
sight of my audience compIeteIy
well, you won't have much tro,IhJe
losing sight of them tonight" said the
stage manager, peering through the
peephole. There are exactly IL neos
pie in the house."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-20
AYHAWKER JOTy

- Have you," inquiries the Manhattan
Mercury, ordered your winter supply
of whale blubber, pemmican and tai
low?"
Righteous indignation is defined by
the Pratt Union as getting mad with
out saying any cuss words above your
breath"
st am sorry for the North Pole" the
Globe quotes an Atchison man as say
ing. ST know what it is to be discov-
cred myself"
The Concordia Kansan can not un-
dcrstand why man should want to
commit suicide unless he owns and
tries to run gasoline engine.
Yates Center is fast getting into the
class of real cities. The town has an
electric light plant and expects to have
a sewer system and paved streets be-
fore long.
A little advice from Mack Gretchen:
BE young as long as you can. Your
time to sit in the shade and talk about
the good old times will come soon
enough at the best"
The controversy between Stubs and
Curtis is one in which both are win
ming glorious victories, according to the
papers representing the opposing sides,
says the Ottawa Herald.
Clay Center's Dragging about its vol
unteer fire department strikes the
Wichita Eagle as a mighty good way
to keep the boys working for glory and
the fun Of attending the annual con-
ventions.
Because the Garden City Telegram
has shown signs of being for DR.. Cook,
the Emporia Gazette thinks that fact
makes it appear that Governor Stubs
and j. N. Dolley have declared for
Peary.
It's an i'll wind, etc. A wreck occur
red near Lindsborg not so long ago.
One of the cars which was smashed
was filed with cantaloupes and the
railroad company invited the citizens
to help themselves.
There was a serious predicament in
Salina the other day. Three weddings
in high life occurred on the same date
and it was impossible for all of the So
ciety folks to attend each of them.
That must have been distressing.
The Kansas City Star notes that tenn
perance beverages also are sometimes
risky, because Coffeyville man died
suddenly after taking a drink Of sweet
cider: and in Larned a can of cream
on the depot platform exploded and
ruined the gowns of two fashionably
dressed women.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

from the Chicago News.1
Many large man INDUCES in small
talk. ga
The average man is poor Judge of
Conscience is something those who
need it haven't got "--o
wise man suppresses fully two
thirds of his opinions.
Occasionally thin woman ACQUIRES
the art of not showing It,
Some people are more afraid NJ
germs than they are of a mad dog.
How a woman does hate women
with whom she can't get square in
any other way.
Never judge the taxes man navs
by the size of the diamond in his
shirt front. as
No, Alonzo, all men are not grafters
opportunities are not so plentiful as
they might be. a.
Frenzied financiers are men who
ADVISE you to save money SO that thew
can advise you how to invest If for
their benefit. - ioi
when man tells a young widow
snat she is the only woman he ever
loved she is sure he is eligible for,
membership in an Ananias club.
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I'm willing to pay for what


any: I'm willing to pay for what
ate"
And who are you. please 2"
I'm the young lady stopping with
Grandpa Wiltshire. I came out to
row. and got wrecked Go right away
nowi''
The men were so close that she
could hear them laughing, but after a
moment the sound of oars proved that
they were rowing away. When they
could no longer be heard the girl re-
turned to the cabin and the cot and
when she awoke again it was morning
and the sun was half an hour high
The skif containing the two young
men was only quarter of a mile
away, and five or six clammers were
also coming up.
It was a whole month later that
Miss Mollie left grandma's. It may
also be said that the yacht didn't do
any great amount Of cruising during
that month. Its owner was ashore so
that he offered to pay board. Grand
ma was wise enough to say nothing
until the very last 1t was on the
morning that Miss Mollie went away
that the good old dear whispered in
her ear:
"Mr. Wakeman is a splendid young
man. and If I'm not blind he'll soon
be down to see your father. It's a
heap better than going on the stage
All pirates don't turn out as well as
you have. Maybe you'll come up dur
ing the honeymoon"
Grandma Wiltshire, what on earth
are you talking aboutr' answered the
blushing girl as she ran out of the
house to join grandpa in the buggy
and be carried to the depot.-(Copy-
righted. 1902, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-20
HUNOR or THE DAY

Illn-Would you scream il I kissed you?
Iesste-I suppose you fIatter yourself that
Ia be speeches. with joy!-Mobile Regis
..w fogr . PIcturss are Inconsistent
With a wash drawing. kansas City
enc gan os IN d a9ps nv 1s rsstops
have taken up aeroplaning. Detroit
snce1e ,o DO yo Of knew those people are
replied Miss Cayenne, that thew COM
PEELED their youngest boy to stop irving
to learn to play the piano."-washingto
Mrs. Bacon-And does your cook do
IN! I! n Washing s , too? Mrs; Egbert-Oh. yes.
stews clothes beautifully.' = Workers
Statesman.
with hallucination that am being fol-
,o~Gd 6 by, s, man. What sort of cure
mirror.ucl eses1 L aones' physlc'an-
if " Pa, w Ssg you up in an aeropIane
to pay your mothers expenses to Reno.
New, and let her become widow that
way'-Chicago Record-Herald.
Anxious Friend-Gayn1an. you ought to
DO something for that Uncomfortable thirst
Ct yours. and you ought to do it quick
Gayman Quitting on his hat)-I'm ready
70 go and join you in one right now. old
cnap!-Chicago Tribune.
q, FATHERS have been much maligned''
on suitors. On four different Occasions I
nave been referred by a young lady to
ner father, and every time found 1t was
TOR the purpose of letting me down easy 5.
-Pittsburg Post. 80 = -.
Visitor (passing through dining-room
with little Tommy, discovers mince pie on
sideboard)-Heigho. but that's a fine piei
Who made it? Tommy-Gran'ma: she al
ways makes the pie. Visitor-Does she
indeed? Well, I'd like to get my teeth
In that one. Tommy-You would eh9
Wen, gran mas got ahead of you: don't
you see the prints of her'n all around the
edges?-Boston Courier.
Ev1cted.-WOuld-Be Contributors sent
IN few contributions to you a day or
Two ago, sir, which I am sure would i'm
prove your paper. Have you carried out
any of my ideas? Editor-Did YOU han
pen to notice red-headed office boy with
q ste-paper basket going downstairs?
contributor did, sir. Editor-WeII he
was busy carrying out your ideas
Sketch.
The .Seasick Christian Scientist-Dear
me! L never knew an error of mortal
mlnd to take such disagreeable form
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's a cinch that there is no such
thing as a perfect human being.
4 n y
A woman who can't cook is bad
enough, but one who thinks she can
and can't is considerably worse.
Men who pose as women haters
generally succumb to the first girls
that really go after them.
y y =
Many folks would get along good
deal better If they would cultivate the
faculty of foresight.
X y
People usually find no difficulty in
believing the most atrocious stories
about other persons-if they want to.
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KAKSAS CONMENT
A GOOD ROADS Ir1.rEp


On one of it's news pages TODAY The
t peacon prints an interesting letter on
zig sooo roads movement 1t was
M!itten by a farmer who lives a few
LIES south OF Wichita. The Beacon
lssrets that the writer insisted on
signing the letter "a User of Roads.
II is like this said the writer
u Tue communication, when he was
asked TO sign his name to it, next to
my farm lives a man who plowed up
i liv ioao IN the most disgracefu1 way
IaSl summer because he was mad at
the road overseer. / don't want any
pody TO get mad over what 1 have
name"
Inc. Beacon mentions this bit of
conversation, confidentially, of course,
70 SHOW the broad spirit in which the
farmers of this county are taking up
the work for better roads. They don't
want TO put obstacles in the way of
good roads by getting personal.
one good thing about the better
a a movement is that it win help
everybody. Another thing: It is big
enough and worthy enough for every
oody TO taket hold of and help push.
II all are going to be the winners in
the end they should be helpers along
the way Being a good roads man is
slanoing Tor the best for the whole
community. Talking for good roads
and working for good roads is exem-
plifyfng the golden rule. It is one
way TO help yourself and your neigh
DOT at the same time.-Wichita Bea-
con.
LAUNDERING YOUR THUMB.
DO not be too hard on Mr.. Peary.
In attempting to nail DR.. Cook, he ap-
pears to have hammered his own
thumb rather severely" philosophers
the washington Herald.
There is a good deal in that to ap-
ply to others than grouchy polar ex-
plorers. Perhaps the world isn't as
polite as it should be, and, in gen
eral way 1t knocks considerably. But
Just the same it admires and appre-
ciates politeness, and something is apt
to happen to the man who tries to
monopolize the hammer market. 1t
has happened to Peary, and further
affidavits and charges but make the
reaction worse. And it will happen to
anyone who endeavors to prove
point by calling names. Universal
peace may still be distant, but that
fact doesn't make quarreling popular,
and everyone who is nursing a grudge
should consider the danger of ham
mering his thumb.-Atchison Globe.
RELATIVES, A CALAMITY.
1t is a great calamity for a states
man to have any relatives. Nc
people who limited that his relatives
were in on fat steals. Nothing was
ever proved of course. Now the same
cry is made about the brothers of
Taft. There is no evidence of any
crookedness, but that makes no diff
ference. The story is possibly all the
better for that.-Lawrence Journal.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press.1
Anything can seem natural to most wo-
men unless it really is
The smartest trick woman can have
is to flirt with her own husband.
Expectations are as valuable assets as
when you foot up your bank balance more
than It is.
When man holds a girls hand in the
dark she can think he is talking poetry
if it is about how long he likes his eggs
boiled.
A woman can admire her husband be-
cause she ought to; a man can admire a
woman who isn't his wife because he
ought not to-
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Anarcly's flag of red has been toss
ed to the breeze by mobs in several
European capitals because of the
political assassination of Professor
Ferrer, the Spanish revolutionist in
theory. Little Alfonso has stirred up
hornets nest that will probably re-
suit in the splitting Of much blood.
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animals.

Surely is Mr.. Wickersham, the federal
attorney general a great man. With a
couple of fourishes of his pen he has
settled a dispute between the army and
ravy departments. But perhaps this is
too optimistic a view to take of the
situation. The chances are that the
dispute has been settled only temper
ri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-20

Mayor Green declares that he has
not been able to find single good ar
gument which can be used against the
commission form of government. He is
a most ardent supporter of changing
Topeka's government to the commits
sion system, and he has been in a po-
sition to know whether or not the pres
ent method of administering the city's
affairs can be improved upon and
how
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Regardless of the great pomp at
tending it the meeting between Pres
idents Diaz and Taft did not amount
to SO very much after all. With the
crowds on the streets in the various
cities of this country there was con-
siderably more interest in Johnson
Ketchel meating
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-20

Tacoma, Washington. has adopted
the commission form of government.
All of the progressive cities in the
country should do likewise and Tope-
ka should take advantage of the OPP
portunity soon to be presented to get
into this procession.
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In order to guard himself against
any possible criticism from the mem
bers of the Peary Arctic club, Professor
L. L. Dyche. of the University of Kan
sas. ought to equip himself with a few
substantial notaries public for the trip
he proposes to take to the frozen
north in quest of specimens of polar
o,;r,o1S