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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
A LAUNDRY FOR THE FARM.

In an extended article recently pre-
pared for the State Dairy and Food
Commission of Missouri by Professor
r. NJ Washburn, who was then COM
missioner, and to which attention is
called in a recent farmers bulletin is
sued by the federal department of
agriculture, valuable suggestions are
made for the planning and convenient
construction of barns with reference
to location, hygienic conditions, in
terror arrangement, and conveniences.
Special stress is laid on the use of
power for running a feed mill and
other appliances, and the use of
boilers for supplying hot water and
other similar equipment essential for
satisfactory dairy farms. The mod
ern Clearly, convenient, and hygienic
dairy barn means a great deal of ad-
ditional work for the farmers wife
and her helpers, for white suits must
be washed and there is a general in
crease in laundry work and similar
work. 1t is only just that these added
burdens should be offset by more
conveniences and labor-saving de-
vices. In general. it is not true that
the farm house has kept pace with
the rest VI the III the dQOpIlOn
of improved methods of labor-saving
devices and other conveniences.
Professor Washburn's plans for a
model dairy barn include a laundry,
and interesting figures on the cost of
equipment, the length of time the
equipment may be expected to last,
and similar matters are given. 1t has
been suggested that a laundry such
as he proposes might be used by a
number of families in the neighbour
hood on the payment of a small fee
and prove of great value to the ada
cent farm community. Such ideas of
cooperation applied to rural life are
interesting as well as valuable and an
indication of a means by which the
farm housewives labors may be les
sened in a number of ways. A cooper
alive bakery OF laundry seems as
practical as the cooperative creamery
which is now so common.
Professor Washburn writes on the
subject of the farm laundry as fol-
lows.
A laundry provided with stationary
washtubs. with washer and wringer
for power use, is an innovation. But
why should not the woman of the
farm be provided with modern ap-
planes? Why should she be COM
PEELED to toll as her great-grand-
mother did? The farmer no longer
, reaps with a sickle, or even with a
cradle. He rides his pillow, and often
his harrow. He rides his grain drill
and corn planter and corn cultivator
He rides his grain harvester and his
corn harvester. He loads hay by ma
chinery and pitches it into the barn
by horse power. The time is come
when it Is positive cruelty to compel
or even allow, the woman to toll or
without running water or machine
power in the house. The same steam
: water, and sewage system that must
Abe present for the dairy will take care
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

TFrom the Chicago News.l
When Father Time hangs up his scythe
he'll be no mower.
Those who dwell in other peoples menu
cries ought to live cheaply.
A mob always thinks with it's sympathy,
never with it's reason.
/, When a man gets lonesome he begins
to realize what poor company he Is.
Ever notice that most of the things you
are prepared for neglect to happen?
If you would find out what the wild
waves are saying you should go to sea.
It's surprising how many otherwise SEN
sible men believe in signs and omens.
The butter of courtesy should be thickly
spread upon the bread of Independence.
And every man has a right to his own
opinion--as long as he remains bachelor.
Riches never roost upon the shoulder of
a man who is engaged in playing a slot
machine.
You should practice self-denial by deny
ing yourself the pleasure Of saying unkind
things of Others
And now a scientist says that tears will
kill disease germs-and every woman
knows they will destroy a makeup.
Even a married man can always manage
to have the last werd-if he is willing to
make it his name at the bottom OF
check.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
CUBAN ANNEXATION.

In view of the fact that a resolution
was introduced the other day in con-
gress which seeks to pave the way for
the annexation of Cuba by the United
States some recent utterances on this
ernor general of Cuba during the last
period of occupancy Of the island re-
public by the United States, cannot
| fail to be OF interest.
The annexation resolution was in
troduced by Representative Helm of
Kentucky and it provides that when
ever a majority of the voters of Cuba
shall vote in favor of annexation to
the United States the territory Of the
island shall be annexed on such terms
and conditions as the proper author
| tiles of both countries may agree upon.
| 1t is the opinion of Mr.. Magoon
that such a condition of affairs will
never develop and his ideas on the
subject were expressed, not in con-
nection with the resolution in ques-
ton, but sometime before it was pre-
pared and made public, in a paper
written by him which was read before
the American Academy of Political
and Social Science of Philadelphia.
OF Cuban annexation, he said: at is,
and for a number of generations will
continue to be. an iridescent dream"
st look toward the future of the
Cuban republic with confidence and
hope" the address said. 1.-THE conf
dence is inspired by experience and
observation during the existence of
the provisional government, during
which 1t clearly appeared that the
overwhelming majority of the Cuban
people are sober, industrious, peace
loving, law-abiding citizens. inspired
by the love of family and love of
country, passionately DESTROYS that
Cuba should be a free and indepen-
dent state"
Mr. Magoon had no hesitation in
declaring that the Cubans are ca
pable of self government.
On the question of annexation he
said that the United States will not
and can not annex Cuba. except with
the full consent of the Cubans. The
numbers of Cubans now favoring an
nexation is very limited, probably less
than 1 per cent of the electorate be-
ing for it.
ITO annex the island of Cuba
against the will of the large majority
of its people, he added, sis to secure
for the United States an acquisition
which would be to it what Ireland is
to England, for it would be idle to
expect that the Cubans, who strug-
gled so long and arduously against
Spain, although Spain was the moth
er, would submit without resistance
to the dominion of foreign and alien
A a.
| ers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
lFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

[From the Atchison Globe.l
The great secret of life is not to make
many important mistakes.
No woman, who has a house that is
clean, need ever be ashamed of her
furniture.
The man who begs your pardon
means about as much as you do when
you grant 1t.
Il wonder if 1 look as nasty when
I eat" said a man the other day. ''as
other people look to me?"
We wish we could hibernate during
summer and winter. and live only dur
ing the spring and fall.
So many men carry large life insur-
ance these days that getting rich by
marrying widows. is becoming quite an
industry.
1t is all right in books for a girl
to have a lover who worships her from
afar, but outside of books, she wants
him to come a little nearer.
Another thing to be called in is the
sentiment about sleeping in a valley
so sweet" every cemetery We ever saw
was perched on top 2 high hill.
What explanation do the women give
when they refuse to wear big stacks
of false tufts on their heads? Or what
explanation do the women give who dc
wear them?
When a woman hears that the school
teacher says her boy is bad boy. she
goes to the school house to scratch the
teachers eyes out. But. when wo-
man hears that her husband is a bad
man, she accepts it as confirmation OF
what she has long suspected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Nine-tenths of all the advocates of free
speech are women
The man who makes up his mind to
stand up for his rights will never get
a seat.
Many a young man with a brilliant fu-
ture before him turns around and goes
the other way.
The trouble with the fellow who is al
ways ready with an answer is that he ism {
always ready to stop
The chronic borrower will tell you that
some fellows are so fragile they pretend
ed to be broke IL you touch them.
The chap who used to have money to
burn signs with regret as he thinks of the
girls who were once his old flames.
Blobbs-'Bjones is queer fellow You
never know how to take him. Slobbs-
Yes. he ought to come like a bottle of
medicine, with directions for taking Ay'@
Wlgg-They say Harduppe fell in love
with Miss Gotrox at first sight Wagg-
Nonsense. He didn't wait for first sight.
He fell in love with her the minute he
heard Of her."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
ADJUSTMENTS.


ter Betty. Why, I've known you by
reputation since you wore pinafores.
BY Jove. this is worth coming for"
At dinner Betty,of course, was seat
ed at the other end of the table from
Burnham, but he sought her side the
moment they returned to the drawing
room, and remained there till he had
missed two trains. When he said good
by he held her hand little longer
than was necessary.
Il shall see you very soon, you
know" he said. I'm only fifty miles
off, so L can run down almost any
time. You didn't know Ernest gave
me the picture in the little silver
frame, did you? I've got 1t in my
room now"
When Billy Randolph, a day or two
later, asked Betty to take dinner with
him at the country cub on the fol-
lowing Saturday, he was disappointed
when she shook her head.
Thank you, Billy" she answered.
blushingly. but have a previous en-
| gagement." -(Copyrighted. 1903, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

Something OF novelty in newspaper
dom is the Sunday Telegraph of St
Louis. a Sunday afternoon newspaper
the first issue of which was published
last Sunday. 1t is devoted entirely to
sports and theatricals and it is pro-
posed to issue it but once a week. Per-
haps there is a field for such a news
paper in the larger cities, and if there
is. the demonstration of the fact by this
publication will be watched with inter.
est thror ghout the newspaper world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

DR.. Eliot, soon to retire as president of
Harvard university. has not made up
his mind as yet on accepting the one to
Great Britain. and now Mr.. Harvey w
Scott. editor of the Portland Oregonian,
is not sure that he wants such a distin-
guished post at Mexico, which has been
offered to him. But then think of the
number of gentlemen in the United
States who would fall all over them
selves in accepting such opportunities
if they were only offered to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The bald-headed man who doesn't
care about it is a rarity.
4
Persons with real strength of char
acter seldom talk of their accomplish
ments.
It's the married women who insist
that the fair sex Is superior to the
male variety.
A girl shows considerable wisdom in
marrying for a title If it concerns
some valuable real estate.
X
Because a fellow is fond of outdoor
exercise 1t doesn't necessarily follow
that he would like farm work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

If the uprising in Turkey eliminates
in the way that the present indications
point to. it is evident that Abdul
Hamid. the old sultan of that benighted
land. will not have to wait until he
reaches the hereafter to get some of
the justice that is due to - melted out
to him. He'll get it here on earth and
at the hands of those whom he has op-
pressed in such terrible fashion for
so long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

So Sir Thomas Upton is going to try
again for the Americas cup. Can it be
that his teas and things are in need of
considerable and extensive free adver-
Using. Perish the thought, for Sir
Tom is a fine sportsman, and if any,
one is to cart this famous trophy of the
seas to another shore, a possibility
which 1t is hoped will never become an
actually. why the American people
would sooner that trick be turned by
Upton than by any other man,-he's
been such a good loser in times past.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

Hurrah for Mission township, Shaw
nee county. 1t has started the ball
a-rolling for the construction of good
roads in line with the legislation en-
acted by the last legislature. What
progressive community will be next,
and next and next?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New 70,

IFrom the New York Press.1
All some people need to be optimists
Is to know better.
The easier a woman can fool a man
the harder it is for him to find IL out.
1t makes a man feel pretty rich to
think what II he didn't have family
to support.
The man who knows how to make
good resolutions is the man who never
knows how to keep them.
Next to being in society a woman can
have the most joy buying the clothes
she would need If she were.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

Unless the persons on rural mail
routes keep their mail boxes in work.
ing order and locate them for the con-
venience Of the mail carrier their SER
vice will be discontinued. All of which
will strike most folks as being quite
fair enough
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

of the laundry. The same power used
for grinding feed and separating milk
and pumping water and saving wood
will turn the washer and the wringer.
Prices will vary somewhat, but the
cost of equipping such a room will ap-
proximate $40.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

In the interests of peace it is a good
thing that certain ex-president of the
United States is sojourning these days
in Africa. Ben Tillman, the irrepressi-
BILE, remarked not long ago that he
hadn't been to the White House for
more than seven years because he had
been waiting until a gentleman got
there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

A new organization in Chicago has
cut out quite task for it's promoters.
They propose to diminish juvenile
criminality through a study of the
souls of children. The material they
intend to work on is rather intangible,
to say the least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

While the rainy weather Of the past
few days may have been disagreeable
it was really the time for smiles of
satisfaction, for it meant much to the
truck gardens and the May flowers
which will soon be blushing with their
radiant blooms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press ard receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

There is good reason to doubt if the
agricultural interests of the nation
would be served to any better advant-
age with Congressman Scott of this
state in the Taft cabinet as secretary
of agriculture. than in his present posi-
ton as chairman of the agricultural
committee Of the house of representa-
4fvos
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

If, as is claimed wireless telephones
have been perfected to the degree
where they afford more privacy than
the wire system of telephony, there will
be a great demand for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

Consolation is to be found in the fact
that old Mother Nature works on re-
gardless of any old tariff or it's revision
in any old way. Prospects are good for
a bumper sugar beet crop in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

'aThis is the woman's century" says a
suffragette, and the New York Ameri-
can adds: "As every other century has
been since the appearance of Eve"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

Many Kansas towns will congratu-
late, and also be envious of, San Diego,
Cal. which Is about to realize dream
OF years-the construction of another
railroad into her midst
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

James J. Jeffries has decided to take
UP the most pressing white mans
burden of the moment. He will re-
enter the prize ring for fistic en-
counter with Jack johnson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

Just watch Topeka grow and develop.
Contracts have been entered into for
the paving of 65 blocks of the city's
streets this summer at a cost Of
S1Ta o1e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
Conyicts In Paianas.

The Floyd county commissioners, il Is
reported, have ordered ten dozen suits
Of pajamas for the county's convicts-'
Is there another county in Georgia or
another penal institution In the United
States that provides its prisoners with
the fashionable -nighties?" Who
wouldn't rather be a pajamaed prisoner
in the Floyd county chain gang than a
no nightshirt freeman on the plains Of
windy KanSas?-Savannah News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
IsCHIAr CRADT,E SONG

Where the purple seas were the yellow
sands caressing,
Where the fig and orange trees were
fruited lush and deep.
Mid the fragrant vineyards that wreathe
Mount Epomeo,
I heard an Ischian mother softly sing
her babe to sleep:
Nina, mamma hushabye, my baby;
Ninna, mamma, hush, my little son;
Naughty wolves have eaten all the lamb
kins;
Nina. mamma, sleep. my little one.''
Once again 1 heard her, in a dark low
chamber,
In the mighty city. with it's clangor
and its roar.
And her grooming took my vision back
across the shining waters
To the laden fields and orchards OF
the fair Italian shore:
Nina, mamma. .hushabye, my baby;
Ninna, mamma, hush, my little son;
Naughty wolves can never find out
mothers lambkin,
Nina, mamma. sleep, my little one'
Minnie J. Reynolds, in the New York
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
KANSAS coMMENT
THE IMPRoyEArE,Nr or MEN

THE IMPROVEMENT OF MEN.
mere is lot of nonsense in all this
laih OF artincial Improvement in the
vegetable and brute world to the neg
iect of man. Some idealists believe
tnat the same sort of art that makes
peter head of cabbage will make a
better man. The mistake is in not con-
sioering the act of the dual constitution
oI the human being-the body and the
SOUL If a cabbage had a soul, as a
man has. as well as the attributes of
intellect mad will, Mr. Luther Burbank
the wizard of California, might have
his hands full bringing it up to ex-
pectations.
Man can be improved by artificial
process just as well as cabbages, but
not by the same sort of treatment. AL
the Burbanks on earth could not i'm
prove the human race except through
the very means that has been uni
versally adopted by man himself-intel-
lectual development. The time Is not
likely to arrive soon when nations can
Gull out their weak citizens and place
them outside Of the reproductive class
The survival of the fittest must assert
policy. That which is in man, and not
in the head of cabbage-the soul-will
not stand for 1T.
When the human mind is sufficiently
developed the less important physical
imperfections- will disappear and the
characteristics of the human body will
be shaped in better fashion. The mind
will ever remain the friend of the body
and as 1t shapes itself the body viii
finally shape itself in that way also.
In two or three generations among
American institutions the physical
characteristics Of the Russian, the
Irishman and the Jew are so modified
that it is hard to distinguish one from
another or all three of them descend
ants of the Puritan and, Cavalier.
ant hot t- 1-fi
fetal, but not the sort that makes the
better potato or ear of corn. Educa-
ton and environment do the business
AS mems minds change so will their
bodies, and that is the secret that must
be attended to in order to develop the
best results in the improvement of hui
manity.-Wichita Eagle.
THE GOOD OLD FALLS.
1t is gratifying to learn that the
captains of industry who have built
greasy factories at Niagara, reducing
the noblest cataract in the world to
hard labor, have sustained a loss OF
nearly S2,000,000 by the recent ice
jam.
The Niagara river, rebelling against
the numerous humiliations which
have been heaped upon 1t, backed wa
ter until it was forty feet higher than
usual and 1t flooded a lot Of the mills
and factories. spelling the machinery
and doing other damage. 1t may be
hoped that the river VIII manage to
perform the same trick every spring
hereafter, until the Disguised captains
of industry move their dirty old junk
works away, and leave the falls as the
God of the Waters designed them
Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
american Anthem Won.

At the close of performance of
Aida at His Majesty's theater here
by the Abrahamson italian Opera
company, of New York, the visiting
members of the orchestra, who were
mostly. Italians, started to play 1.-THE
Star-Spangied Banner" The local
musicians started the customary God
Save the King" with which all public
performances terminate here.
For several minutes there was keen
rivalry to see which song should pre-
dominate, the audience participating.
The Americans present sang 1.-THE
Star-Spangled Banner" and the Ca
nadians the British national anthem.
The American air won out, having the
larger number of musicians.
1t is explained by the management
that when the visitors were asked to
play the national anthem no tune was
stipulated. The Italian members evil
IDENTIFY believed they were still under
the American fiag.-Montreal dispatch
to New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
The Farming That Pays.

Here is a report in one of the indus
trial papers of recent date that makes
good food for reflection for many or
the farmers Of Alabama:
ION 10 acres of land William Steph-
ems, of Cupa, Ala, wrew 81 900 worth
of truck and eight bales of cotton last
year, and this year he's trying to
coax $4,000 of truck from the same
piece of soil, in addition to ten bales
of cotton"
1t is clear that this sort of farming
pays, and pays we'll, because it was in
telligently done. The so-called "cot-
ton habit has done great deal to
impoverish the farmers of Alabama.
They are sending millions Of dollars
out of the state every year for the
food products they ought to raise at
home Not only would 1t be a great
advantage to them to keep this mon
ey at home, where the people would
get the benefit of it, but by raising
their food products 1t home they
would reduce the cotton acreage and
thereby encourage the increase of the
price of cotton-Birmingha News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

Mother-Alice, did / not see you kiss MI
Brace when you came home from til
theater last night? Alice-Yes ma, but
was through my veil-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

Peculiar. isn't 1t, how ambassador
ahlps are going a-begging these days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

You say, girl, that you wish to become
engaged?" Il do" Then let your waist
line stay put, louisville Courier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

What makes that fellow so popular %
He'll listen to funny story without in
sisting on telling another. kansas City
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22

Mrs. Knicker-What did you do when
she stole your cook? Mrs. Subbubs-Stole
her dresSmaker.-New York Sun.