The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-06

All no, it's not these
uIdnat VIII give our hearts ease
| When life sinks low in the west;
| But the passing sweet thought
Or the good we have wrought,
Inc saddened lives we have best
And the love we have won.
And the love reckoning on,
From his island far and dim;
s SIM out inf of the the Light light
The night which leadeth to Him
Boston Transcript.
! Have Never-Work Bug.
Under the greenwood tree in Bat
terry park the department of com
merce and labor. through it's New
YORK inspector. c. L. Green. has dis
covered the true and ultimate germ
| OF tdleness. Inspector Green has lust
| reported to his chief. T. " Powderly,
| that from his own observation. cor
| New York parks. with the Battery
| spec1hed particularly, are the breed
| ers of sloth and encouragers of the
Doctrine OF Never Work.
A constant and exclusive colony of
zoo 1dlers lies at its ease in the shade
near the custom house. This colony
| is Jealous of the advantages afforded
| by the Battery park award, and pre-
vents to the fullest possible extent the
entrance of single additional fdler
within the lazy circle, unless by a
freak of industry one of the number
departs for pay envelope field and
leaves an opening.
once man gets under the spell
OF Battery park his working days are
done for said Mr.. Green in his Of
fee in the Maritime building yester-
day. Many times I've got work for
men who had applied to me only to
find the charm of the Battery park
stesta too strong to resist. Back
they come and under the trees they
stay until the November winds make
it trifle too uncomfortable to re-
main there. longer
1.-THE business depression of a year
ago had the most to do with changing
the parks from places of healthful
and uplifting recreation to idleness
breeders. Men out of work during
the first winter following the depres-
sion and continuing into the summer
found they had been able to get along
without employment They consider
viving upon a small salary. They
lost the initiative for work. They ap-
peared to think their difficult dodg-
ing of starvation during the winter
ing place had been their worst prob
lem in winter. The Battery and other
parks solved the problem for the
summer. Once they stretched out un-
oculated with the won't-ever-work-
again germ, and it has been in the
system of a great many Of them ever
since. "-New York World.
Cost of Cheap Glory.
SPANS little war; for the asser-
ton of national dignity and the win |
mig of cheap military glory. is devel- |
oping, in the usal way, into an ardous |
and costly campaign. More troops |
are all the while being sent forward. |
the demand of the military authori- |
ties is that $4,000 recruits be called |
out for drill, and the rumor Is that |
the Treasury will soon be forced to |
expenses of the campaign. Thus the |
the "merited punishment" which was
to be inflicted upon the KabyIes,
turns out to be really a punishment
having a short-sighted and inept gov
eminent If the Riff campaign had
simply been a military parade, it
might have been attended with easy,
but meaningless, enthusiasm. AS 1t is
the army has. in general, shown dis
cipline and a good spirit but there
are few signs that the war is popular
in Spain. Even the soldiers who have
been sent to fight they know not
where or why, might be excused if
they took on their lips the words of
the Captain in Calderon's "Alcade de
Let who will go kill the
Moors, but they have never done me
any harm."-New York Post.
Switzerland's Pure Food Law.
H. E. Barnard, state food and drug
has just received a GER
titled copy of pure food and drug
law recently enacted by the national
body of Switzerland,
which imposes the most exacting PEN
alties yet declared in legislation de-
signed to promote purity and sani-
.ation in food production and distri-
button.
The law became effective on July
and is being enforced to the letter.
For the first offense of manufactur-
ng or selling adulterated foodstuffs .
Dr. for manufacturing or selling an
imitation of pure food, the maker or
dealer faces a Jail sentence of one | I
year, together with a fine of 1000
'rancs, or approximately $500. For a
offense the punishment is
.wo years in jail and fine of 5000
francs, or approximately $500.
''If we had such a law in the Uni
ed States, and it were enforced as
he law is enforced in Switzerland"
said Mr.. Barnard, every Jail in the
would need to be enlarged to
AXE care of the violators." -Indian-
apolis News.
What Rio JaneriO Has Done.
Some years ago when 1 first went
% Rio Janerio to live, it was a most
lnsanitary place, and it had every
own 1 had known distanced in the
natter of pests,'' said Mr.. H. ]. For ]
oian formerly of San Francisco, at {
he New City Hotel.
"Petss in the shape of annoying and
filthy insects were there in myriads.
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