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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-09-16
west End Twin Fails Land
Opening

At Bull, Idaho Sept %, 1909 For
She above occasion the round trip fare
rom Richfeld viii be $500. Tickets
on sale Sept %, rs and a. Return
limit Oct. 1st. F. A. Wilcox, Agent.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-09-16
FALSE ARGUMENTS.

The Recorder is confidentiay informed that if Lincoln
county goes dry there Will be more drnng all the nom
two to times dunkfor prohibition doesn
hibt and did and will; che
the next BREATH says that the towns viii be deserted
bankrupt because prohibition Kills the rODng
that the man who wants drink can get
the next town Tor it. Taxes be raised 80 cent least
crushing burden on the man who owns home and IS yns
to oil tire mortgage ms children
decent clothes The absurdiy Of the first arguments,
which Numerically opposed to each other and neither
true, renders further unnecessary They
of the frontier evangelist who working through furious
revival and the people evells in then interest Finally
in OF his he declared with clarion Ia te
day Of judgement there shall be wang and gnasig Of teeth
One old lady, worked up to the highest pitch, shouted bu
got teeth No natter said the preacher teeth
will be provided just argument Will be provided or
every who wants to believe that the liquor traffic rgh
or
The tax argument, however, is worthy Of attention.
county raised last year about 100000 in taxes; this
it Will considerably higher perhaps 10 $4,000
The saloons paid the form oi cense s. 90 each Ion
county licenses, and in at least village licenses
Shosone saloons, the license $500
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-09-16

Do not call for death because It is
hard fer you to live. The entire bur-
del of The world on the shoulders on
every mortal being comyels him to full
fill his mission The only means Of
freeing ones SELF from this burden is
in the fus1l meat Of one's mission.
You viii BE- relieved only after you
have done the work assigned to YOU
Emerson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

Wroten ed Looie .4inkenfusser. Bayou
de Taft. Texas
Bueno dias. Looie: Diss ISIS to notify
yous ~Looie. dot vile 1 atmire q liar,
oere ISIS nmmit. Too much ISIS more
den enon. und dot "buckling prorchitis''
soory you sendt oudt iss der anser.
You may peddle Won aboudt der
president riding a horse, Looie. und
get away NIT Id. Berheps dere iss horses
big enun to stand oop between hiss
feets. but no horse.mit President Taft be-
tween him und der blue sky viii efrer
buck-egsept in hiss mind Ven a bronc
bucks init him aboard, id iss nod
Luck. 1t fso brain storm.
can stand fer mosd any kind uf
q nature fake. Der sdory uf der roll
ing hcopsnake. und der miiixinr hlsct
snake viii PASS my blue pencil anv
time, but aere iss. es remarked ne
fore limmit. Ven you ship oud Won
about horse bucking NIT our presi-
dent. label i'd: JOKE Haw-haw. Hav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
QUAKER MEDTrATIONs.

From the Philadelphia Record1
Reality is a puncture In the tire Of
Hope.
Too much sympathy is apt to spoil the
under dog.
Strangely enough the hack writer can
seldom afford to ride In one.
When glue factory Is concerned It
doesn't take 10 mills to make one cent.
Many musicale would be q really en-
5oyable affair IL 1t wasn't for the music.
The fellows who blow their own horns
are naturally the ones who come to blows.
No woman really knows as much about
herself as other women know about her.
A woman sometimes sits up for her hus-
band in order that she may sit down on
him.
It's all right to call a spade a spade, but
lots of things are called diamonds that
are not.
Some people are so constituted that they
are never comfortable unless they are
making others uncomfortable.
Hoax-''The only time woman can't
talk is when she Is in the dentists chair"
Joax-"And that's what you might call a
painful silence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
WHAT COLLEGES ARE FOR.

I'VE live In an age in which no
achievement is to be cheaply had"
writes DIR. woodrow Wilson, president
of Princeton university in a vitality
interesting article in the November
Scribner on What Is a College For? ?"
"AI the cheap achievements. open to
amateurs, are exhausted and have
become commonplace. Adventure,
for example, Is no longer extraordin-
ary; which is another way of saying
that it is commonplace. Any anna
teur may seek and find adventure;
but it has been sought and had in all
its kinds. Restless men, idle men,
chivalrous men, men drawn on by
mere curiosity and men drawn on by
love of the knowledge that lies out
side books and laboratories. have
crossed the whole face of the habit
able globe in search of 1t, ferreting it
out in corners even, following its by
paths and beating its coverts, and 1t
is nowhere any longer a novelty or
distinction to have discovered and en-
joyed It. The whole round of pleas
ure, moreover. has been exhausted
time out of mind. and most of it dis
credited as not pleasure after all, but
Just an expensive counterfeit; SO that
many rich people have been driven to
devote themselves to expense regard
less of pleasure. No new pleasure. I
am credibly informed, has been in
vented within the memory of man.
For every genuine thrill and satisfac-
ton, therefore, we are apparently. in
this sophisticated world, shut in to
work. to modifying and quickening
the life of the age. II college be one
of the highways to life and achieve
ment. it must be one of the highways
to work.
'The man who comes out of college
into the modern world must, there
fore, have got out of it, If he has not
wasted four vitality significant years
of his life, quickening and a train
ing which will make him in some de-
gree a master among men. If he has
got less, college was not worth his
while. To have made 1t worth his
while he must have got such a pre-
J paration and development of his fac
ulties as will give him movement as
well as mere mechanical efficiency in
affairs complex. difficult, and subject
to change. The word efficiency has
in our day the power to think at the
center of 1t, the power of independent
movement and initiative"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

rFrem the Chicago News1
Better poor man at large than a rich
man in jail
other to crawl out.
Did it ever occur to you that book
worms are awful bores?
The first step toward keeping your
mouth shut is to close it.
They who burn their bridges behind them
should be expert swimmers.
It is difficult to figure your expenses In
advance, as fully one-half of them are
unexpected.
If you would be happy keep your, eyes
wide open during courtship and half
closed after marriage.
It's better to deserve success and not
have It than to have success and not de-
serve it, although less pleasant.
1t is said that cat has nine lives, but
cat isn't in 1t with an old cow when 1t
comes to kicking the bucket.
Our idea of heaven is place big enough
to make IT possible for people to be with
out nefghbors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
AYHAWKER JOTS

Gossip" the Howard Courant sizes
1t up, lis the things other people tell
to you-of course you never gossip"
When the news from the Panama
libel suit reaches Africa. 1t will be
hard day on wild game. says the
Ottawa Herald.
That was a pretty expensive game
INDUCED in not so long ago. Their
court fines totalled UP to s2o4-
W. C. Palmer has discovered that
"a dog can disturb every one in the
neighborhood except the man who
owns him. He sleeps peacefully on"
The Usage county coal strike has
been settled. leaving the Dodge City
oil "strike" the only one pending in
the state. remarks Charlie Blakesley.
Deacon Walker unused the other
day in the Osborne Farmer: 1.-THE
ability of man to argue politics on
the street corners is no indication of
his ability to get votes.
A case where the joker got joked was
pulled off on the Santa Fe train No. s
last Tuesday night, says Bill Townsiey.
Two of Ellinwood's young men went to
Great Bend to take in the Elks' min
strels, and on the return trip one of the
fellows told his partner that he would
show him how easy 1t would be to beat
the conductor out of the fare. He went
into the car and after getting a good
comfortable seat pretended to be asleep.
The conductor came through the train
as usual, but noticing this man asleep
did not disturb him. The man, however,
went to sleep while In the act OF fooHng
the conductor and was carried on to
Nickerson. When he awoke and got off
the train. he was in strange place.
He asked the first party he met where
he was and when told he was In Nick
erson he realized the joke had been on
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
saved Hudson's Name for River.

"It took a railroad to bring the great
sea captain finally to his own" said
Charles H. Hull professor of American
history at Cornell university, discussing
the Hudson-Fulton celebration.
He referred to the naming of the
Hudson river, and asserted that the
Dutch had not named it thus. 1t was
known as the Ma1hattes, the Great
River, and also the North River. The
English called it the Hudson. but the
name North River chung to it, especial
ly among the people Of Dutch descent,
until well toward the middle of the
nineteenth century, and seems not to
have vanished, he said, until the in
depreciation of the caba1ist1c initials
a r, RR. forced them to mend their
WAYS. No other Dutchman contrived
so much to make the North River
Hudson's River as did Commodore
anderbilt"-Ithaca dispatch to the
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.

rF,rom the Atchison Globe.1
Don't be crazy to do lot OF things you
can't do.
Nearly anything man gets in winter
In trying to be independent" many
people are tmpolite.
Every business place is annoyed by some
particular loafer.
When a man does not believe in an Idea,
he refers to it as a menace.
It is less to your credit to be ready to
fight than to be ready to work.
With most of your friends you treasure
up things they do or say that onend you.
Most people can find something to quar-
rel about without going ninety degrees
north.
when a mans business becomes dull. as
a result of his own shiftlessness, he is
pretty apt to lay it on the town.
When people hear. of a violent kin quar-
rel they look os b as shoasn eney did
1t would surprise man II he knew how
soon after he employs man that man be-
gins to criticise his methods.
Every married woman looks as though
she needed a little more love, but what
she really needs is a little more money.
when a man marries woman older
than himself, the couple is never mention
ed without some comment on their differ
ence in age.
A noted writer "a mani says in the mat
ter of affection, q man never extinguiSheS
one fire until he has the second one
started.
Nothing makes a, man feel sillier than
to shake hands with woman who pulls
her hand away as though she had struck
a snake.
An Atchison woman is never happy ex-
cept when her husband is out of town.
She is a good woman. but somehow that
man of hers sets her crazy.
A doctor wants his friends to get sick
so that they viii send for him. He knows
his enemies would not employ him, so
does not care whether they are sick or
not.
In soliciting advertising from bank,
| we have noticed that the man can always
put us OF by saying that the directors
are considering the matter of advertising,
and have not yet come to decision.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

to bear the brunt of the expense OF
this much needed public improve
ment. The large property interests
were in favor of the project to a man.
In acting as they did. the county
commissioners conferred a boon not
only on those who favored the propo-
sition but also on those who protested
the strongest against It. This is true
because Of the fact that If the terri
tory in the ever fiood-threatened dis
the property in 1t will enhance ma
terially in value. This district is
ideally located for manufacturing
purposes and there Is lots Of spare
room in It for such enterprises. If
people are assured that it is not sub
ject to possible devastation by floods
it is no more than reasonable to as
sumo that business projects of all
sorts will be attracted to It, those
that are In less desirable locations
for their purposes in the city. and those
that intended to pass Topeka by en-
tirely in their search for desirable
places. The plants already. in the
locality will increase their size. All
Of this will mean a prosperity for the
territory that has scarcely been
dreamed Of and which will be OF i'm
measurable benefit not only to that
particular locality but to the whole
city.
Considering the property values
affected. the cost OF the dixie. which
is Appropriated at $4,000 is g. mere
bagatelle. If floods come along. as
they likely will. this dixie will pay for
itself ten times over If 1t keeps just
one of them from doing any dam
age. Now that the decision has been
reached to build the dixie, 1t Is to be
hoped that no time will be lost in get
ting the work started and pressing 1t
to a conclusion. Too much time has
been frittered away already in getting
this proposition on q working basis.
II will be remembered that 1t was
only by a hairs breadth that the flood
which came along late last spring
did not develop proportions to do any
quantity Of damage to territory which
would have been absolutely safe If
the proposed dixie had been in place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
THE HILLS OF REST.

Beyond the last horizons rim.
Beyond adventures farthesf quest
somewhere they rise, serene and dim.
The happy, happy Hills Of Rest
Upon their sunlit slopes uplift
Inc castles we have built in Spain
Wnne fair amid the summer drift
Our faded gardens flower again.
Sweet hours we did not live go by.
~ 40 Sootning note on scented wing,
Inc songs we tried In vain to sing
iney all are there; the days of dream
That build the inner lives of men:
Inc silent. sacred years we deem
Inc might be, and the might have been
some evening when the sky Is gold
NJ Iouow day into the West;
1> TL pause. nor heed, till I behold
- z1n Blgeiow Paine In Harper's Maya
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

ism is broad and deep.
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Among the things popular with men
are furnaces that women can run.
y
Logic means more to the man who
is making the argument than to the
one who is listening.
n
Theirs Is little satisfaction to poor
folks in the thought that every one
cannot be rich.
80
Many persons who are not very well
known are held In higher regard than
they would be If people were better ac-
quainted with them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

Criticism is being made of DR.. Cook
in some quarters because he is going
around the, country delivering lectures
before his proofs OF discovering the
North Pole have been passed upon. It
Is pointed out that Mr.. Peary is work
Ing out reversely, fixing up his proofs
for confirmation before he takes the
lecture field. But no one can seriously
object to DR.. Cook picking up such
money as he can through his lectures
because he needs it. And it must be
remembered that Mr.. Peary, as an Of
ficer in the navy. is drawing a good
salary from the United States al. the
time Just as he has done during all the
years that he has been indulging In
private hikes to Polar regions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
A Dixie COMING Ar LAST.

certainly did their full duty in the
premises when they reached a de-
cision to order the construction of a
dixie along the south side of the
fckle.- and thereby unreliable, Kaw.
That there was as much opposition to
this plan as developed was quite re-
markable- 1t surely showed a short
sightedness on the part of the OBJ
jectors. For the most part, they
were individually the smaller property
holders in the district that will have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.1
You can civi1ize virtue out Of everv-
thing and everybody.
For good clothes for herself a woman
has desire: for the children a passion.
Baseness Is elevated when it meets wo
man; when it meets man he goes down
A woman deserves to be spoiled ana
seldom is; man never deserves IN ~
and nearly always is 20
If man ceuid invent a furnace that
would BURN without coal he'd rather havs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23
A SATURDAY. sERMoN

i A---@
He that hath no rule over his own spirit
is like q city that is broken down anf
without walls. Proverbs xkV:zs.
Perhaps the smile found in the
above words of Solomon Is not SO APT
for the conditions which prevail to-
day as it was for those of the times
when the son OF David lived. Cities,
in this period of civilization, are
strangers to mammoth walls sur
rounding them. Only the most
ancient Of the cities in the old world
have anything like them, and most of
these are but remnants of the
formidable barriers which once shut
them in from the outside world. But
that was the rule in the days when
solomon reigned in all his wisdom.
Then city without a wall was merely
a thing of the Imagination. Walls
were needed to keep out the foes
which were proving around in
cessantly. And city with its walls
battered down soon became a de-
serted village.
But the point made by Solomon in
the words used for a text to the effect
that man who is unable to control
himself is q weakling of the weak is
just as forceful today as It was when
he uttered It. and probably more So
For in these times when some peo-
pies are enjoying the privileges Of
free government under which men are
pretty much their own masters. and
when most OF their less fortunate
brethren in this respect are living in
freer atmosphere than ever before
in the history OF the universe. self
control Is more necessary than It ever
was before. Indeed. the lack Of It is
responsible to a great extent for the
fact that more nations are not con-
Quoted today with-a greater degree OF
liberty for their Inhabitants. Recent
events In history. where races have
shown themselves to be unit for free
ana self-governments which have been
accorded them. substantiate this con-
tention.
As It Is with people collectively so
1t is with them individually. Those
men and women who are able to con-
troll their spirits. to control them
selves, IN other words. are the ones
who come to the front and get the
most out of life In whatever con-
ditions Of government surround them.
Nothing IN the way of argument
should be needed to demonstrate this
fact. 1t is plainly apparent on every
hand and in every walk Of life. It is
to be found in every field OF human
endeavor. In business, in society, in
work and in play. The men who have
self-control are the first to reach the
pinnacles of success. whether their
hunt be for fortunes. for happiness.
or for both. To acquire this self-con-
troll is not an easy task by any man
ner of means. Man is naturally al
most as unru1y as any of the other
animals. He has been provided,
however, with an intellect that makes
it possible for him to break himself
in. as it were. II he is properly
guided by teachers and parents dur
ing the days Of his youth. The man
who has to be curbed and taught the
ways of rectitude by the strong arm
of the law belongs to that class OF
society which Is worthless. And the
man who has not learned the lesson
of self-control and does not practice
1t, that man is seriously handicapped
in the battle of life before him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

The gentlemen who have been desig-
mated as a commission to act fo4 the
National Geographic society in passing
on the proofs OF Peary and Cook that
they discovered the North Pole are
credited on all sides as being wonder
fully wise men. There can be no doubt
about It. They know where the pole is
and how it can be located but none of
them have ever been foolish enough to
make a trip to it. That latter fact
establishes their wisdom beyond per-
adventure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

So many hotels are being closed in
the smaller towns of the state because
their proprietors do not care to COM
ply with the variety of regulations
which have been adopted for the con-
duct of hostelries, that a tent and a
camping kit will soon become a ne
cessity in every travelling mans outfit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

sall: short. viii make up the def
And the girl?'
The girl is my wife, Grey. You
shall be the first to congratulate usi"
And although the congratulations
were one hour too soon. Grey never
knew ft-(Copyrfghted. 1909, by As
ISOLATED Literary Press9 :
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

Commenting on the fact that Mr..
Roosevelt recently got behind tree in
a bout with a bull elephant, the Chi
caeo Record Herald remarks that soma
Of the people who have been engaged in
encounters with the gentleman will re-
gard It as q lucky thing for the ele-
phant that the tree was there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

An article in Van Norden's magazine
on why Tammany Wins" declares that
Mr.. Murphy is the greatest leader
Tammany Hall has ever had The edi-
tor of the magazine tells the New York
World that Mr.. Murphy prepared tho
article himself. That's most reason
able explanation in the premises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

1t is pardonable to add a grain or two
of salt to the story from Texas that
President Taft rode a bucktng bronco
on his brothers ranch the other day.
If the dispatches had said that he rode
a bucking mastodon the story would
have been easier to believe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

Silk hats and frock coats are to be
barred as apparel for the members of
the Memphis reception committee who
are going to do the honors to President
Taft when he visits that town. This
is suggestive of the fact that necessity
is not only the mother of invention but
also responsible for divers rules and
regulations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

A New York woman has advertised
for a position as -a--schauneur. one
thing is certain. She could not be any
more incompetent for such Job than
many of the men who are running
automobiles in New York and other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

New York Is now boasting that 1t
has the most marvellous geological
garden in the world. But as matter
Of fact this has been the case ever
since the Tammany Tiger settled In
that towns midst.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-23

Great Britain's army Of the unem-
ployed is growing larger all the time
and now averages 81 persons in ev-
cry 1000 of population. Just sup
nose similar conditions prevailed In
the limited States.