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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
Porcupines and Alaskan Trees.
From the Cordova North Star.

the COfuOya
Milo Kelly says that porcupines kill
more timber on the coast of Alaska
than is used for commercial purposes.
Wherever you go along the coast" said
he, "you will notice dead standing tim
Der. There are whole patches of these in
places In nine cases out of ten the
cause can be traced to the work of por-
cupies. They ring the trees in hunting
for the soft bark next the sap. The gov
eminent is going to lots of trouble and
expense to conserve the timber along tho
west coast, but is overlooking the most
destructive OF all agents. The thing for
the government to do if ii wants to save
the timber is to find some method OF kill
ing the porcupines."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
Music for the Insane.
Prom the AIassillon Independent.

The gift of 5000 to the Massillon State
Hospital for the purchase of pianos will
enable Supt. II. c. lyman and his staff
to carry out to fuller extent than has
yet been possible a policy in the treat
ment of the wards of the state which has
for its object the substitution OF diversion
for restraint methods Where music will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

take the place of drugs or the straight
jacket, it should be substituted by all
means. If cures are effected by the
use of the pianos to be purchased with
the generous donation which DR.. lyman
has just received, the donor may feel
that he has contributed to one of the
most valuable as well as one of the most
unique charities on record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
A Voter at Least.

From Human Life.
Aunt Spinsterly-I hope that your opin-
ions uphold the dignity of our sex. Mamie,
and that you believe that every woman
should have a vote?
Mamie-I don't go quite SO far as that,
auntie: but 1 believe that every woman
should have voter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
His Trademark.
ne Cleveland Plain Dealer

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
''I wish you didn't have such a fiat and
plebeian nose papa" said the aristocrstic
young daughter of the plain old mer-
chant.
THAT'S the mark of the grindstone.
my DEAR" replied the ploddins old man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
The Real Facts.

From the Chicago Tribune.
\ woman went to a bank. She noticed
there was a new face behind the window.
HAS the cashier gone away to take a
rest?" she inquired.
No replied the new man, "he has
gone away to avoid it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
Welcome at Chattanooga.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, January 20
With reception committee to meet him
at some east Tennessee point Sunday
afternoon, public reception at the ter
minal station Sunday night, a citizens
banquet at one of the hotels Monday
might, a members reception and lunch
con at the Elks' home Tuesday night, and
with other affairs contemplated by the
United Confederate Veterans, Capt. JOS
f. Shipp will be royalty welcomed upon
his return to Chattanooga.
Luther Williams and Nick Nolan and
also jeremiah Gibson. Henry Padgett
and VIM Mayer, co-defendants of Shipp
previously released, will all participate
in the welcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
Regarded as Happy Omen.

Justice Day. in assuming the chair, re-
ferred to the fact as happy omen that
the meeting had assembled on the natal
day of William Mckinley He briefly re-
counted it's object. and said the large
gathering which had responded to the
call presaged a successful organization.
1t would be the first time. he said, that
Ohio had a state organization at the
National Capital There was room and
reason for one and SO long as there were
offices to hold there would be found
Ohioans willing and competent to fill
them. He proposed the selection of Mrs.
Wilcox as secretary, but she declined. Mr..
Granger was then elected temporary sec
rotary. He gave a brief account of the
plan of organization of the Ohio society
In New York and recalled some notable
events connected with its functions.
Former Lieut.. Gov. Hart was then in
vited by Justice Day to address the as
semblage. His remarks We're confined
largely to the reasons for the formation
of an Ohio state society in Washington,
He said there was a large Ohio popula-
ton in this city, and the time was ripe
for it to come to the front, where Ohio
had been for some time past. President
Taft was mentioned and brilliant trib-
ute paid him. Gov. Hart said when a
man left home and came here as So
journer he becomes political orphan. He
wanted a specific gathering place for such
men and women, without regard to poll
tics religion or other qualifications, eX-
cept that they were Ohioans.
Justice Day then requested the Ohfoans
present to write their names and their
Ohio and Washington addresses and sub
nit them to the secretary as a nucleus
for the membership roll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
Adjourns Subject to Call.

Before adjournment Mrs. Wilcox an
nounced that Mr.. Taylor had kindly
offered the use of the banquet hall for
the next meeting. The meeting then
adjourned subject to the call of the chair
man.
Among those present were Rev. DR..
Abram Simon and Mrs. Simon, Mrs. Ellen
Spencer Mussey, w. v. Cox, James H.
Grew, j. w. Bell, president of the Ohio
Republican State Association; Rudolph
kauffmann, Gus J. Karger. Jules Guth-
ridge, Charles II. Heating, deputy auditor
for the Post Office Department: John w.
Hollyday, chief clerk to the second as
sistant postmaster general: Col. Selden A.
Day, L. S. A, and Rev. Zed III. Copp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
TO FORM SOCIETY
Preliminary Steps by 0hioans
in Washington.
MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT
Justice Day of U. S. Supreme Court
Presides-Committee to Draft
Constitution.
MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT

Several hundred sons and daughters
of Ohio gathered in the large banquet
hall of the Arlington Hotel last night
to take the preliminary steps towards
the formation of an Ohio State Society
in Washington.
The meeting was called TO order by
former Lieut.. Gov. -Alphonso Hart. JUS
tice William r. Day of the Supreme
Court was elected temporary chairman,
and J. T. Granger of the Ohio Society
in New York was designated as secre-
tary.
A committee consisting of ". Y. Cox,
chairman: Lieut.. Gov. Alphonso Hart,
]. T. Granger. r. I. Hough and R. +.
Doan was appointed to draft a consti-
tutor and bylaws. After addresses by
Justice Day and Lieut.. Gov. Hart and
a vote of thanks to Mrs. Helen NJ. c.
Wilcox, through whose efforts the pro-
ject was put under way; to Peter
Taylor jr., manager of the hotel, for the
use of the meeting hall, and Joseph f..
Amin, for services rendered. the meet
ing adjourned to reassemble at the call
of the chairman.
Mrs. Wilcox is the widow of Aaron
NJ Wilcox, a manufacturer Of Cleveland
Ohio Since 1896 she has been endeav-
oring to interest Ohioans in the city IN
the project
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

Your attention is especially directed
to our splendid showing of pearl col
lars. We fit them to your neck per-
fectly. They are different from others,
perfect in every detail. Both plain
and gold bars and bars set with
Lucios' diamonds, and some with
pearl bars. $500 values, s4.9S. s17.OO
values, S99S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25
FOR SOBER ENGINEERS

1t IS safe to say that no other union.
or club or organization of any sort an
plies quite such heroic treatment to I'M
desirable citizens as the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, writes Charles
frederick Carter in the September
Century. One thing that the brother
hood most strenuousIy insists upon is
that its members shall not drink
Thirty-five members were expelled for
getting drunk in 1909, and their shame
was publicly proclaimed in the journal
The treatment does not stop here by
any means. The brotherhood will no.
risk the lives of its members and the
general public by permitting a drink
ing man to run an engine. When a
man has been duly convicted of drink
ing, and punished according to the laws
of the order. the facts are laid before
the proper authorities on the road that
employs him, and his discharge is de-
manded. In one notable instance the
engineer of fast train got drunk dur
ing his lay-over and disgraced himself.
He was tried, convicted and expelled,
the management was informed. and the
offenders discharge requested in regu-
lar form. But as the engineer had been
a good man, the railroad company de-
INJURED. saying that he had not been
drunk while on duty.
But" said the brotherhood, there
is no telling when man who gets
drunk off duty. may take a notion to
get drunk on duty: and we do not in
tend to take any chances on having
drunken man tearing through the
country at sixty miles an hour, en-
dangering the lives of others. 1t is
unfair both to the employees in your
service and to your patrons"
The culprit was discharged. He can
never be employed on railroad again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25
THE PHILOSOPHY OF DEFEAT.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF DEFEAT.
have lain in the dust with the van
quished
When my banner went down in despair.
And l thought in my woe that I never
might know
The day of success, oh, how fairl
And yet when the sun on the morrow
Shone forth with its comforting light,
With a new-kindled zeal and heart
brave and leal
l went forth again to the fight!
The world cannot judge me my motive
nor love me IL thus have failed;
But <pehold! there's an Eye that can see
And knows that never have quailed.
And I think of that glorious heaven,
= And of Him who sits on its throne.
Who will chide not at all if we rise or we
fall.
So long as right purpose is shown,
Not for aye shall 1 pine in the shadow
Nor sulk in the gloom of defeat;
For the promise is sure to the hearts that
endure
All the more is the victory sweet!
douglas Dobbins, in the Pittsburg Ga
zette-Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25
FREIGHT RATES.

People seem to be doing a little fig
uring of late on their own hook con-
corning freight rates. At any rate,
many analyses of freight rates are ap-
pearing in the public prints these days.
They show for the most part that the
freight rate on articles common in
trade are but a fractional. in many in
stances, an almost infinitesmal part of
the purchase price. And because of
this newest kind of publicity on the
freight rate question, there are not so
many people nowadays who are will
ing to take for granted the general
charge of certain politicians that all
freight rates are outrageously high. No
doubt there are many injustices in the
matter of existing freight rates, and
particularly as they favor one locality
as against another These discrimina-
tions are the cause of much of the dis
satisfaction. They should be adjusted.
A party of Topekans who were dis
cussing this subject the other day ar
rived at that conclusion after they
had told some personal experiences
with few freight rates One of these
is worth repeating. A barrel contain
ing two sets of dishes. worth $50 at re-
tail. arrived at Topeka freight depot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25
JAYHAWKER JOTS

A fat man is usually a cheerful man
says the Williamsburg Star, and he
was cheerful before he was fat.
According to the Salina Journal,
jamestown is so proud of its new wat
ertank that a movement Is on foot to
lights.
The Ottawa Republics idea of a per-
fectly safe venture is offering to fly
across the Atlantic with Walter Well
man. 1t points out that Walt has
never taken any chances yet.
The Bel1it Gazette tells this one on
a stingy farmer CT it's acquaintance: He
went on a trip to the Thousand Islands
and insisted on counting them to be
sure he was getting his moneys worth.
Not only is the oat crop this year
the biggest on record, says the Hal
stead Independent, but one gathers
from all this talk about extravaganza
that there must be large crop of wild
cats, too.
I'VE noticed reports the Jewell
County Republican, that many girls
left their big hats at the check stand
during the celebration. They had to
get rid of their hats in order to show
their store hair"
If the pictures that the newspapers
are printing of Florence Nightingale
are good nkeneSses, says the Chanute
Tribune, it is no wonder she was still
an old maid at 80 years of age, and
devoted herself to hospital work.
An advertisement in the Clay Center
Republican, of recent date, runs:
''Wanted-A lady or gent to represent
us, who will work for 500 per month"
hear of a real lady or a real gent
who would work for any wage, let alone
for such trif1ing sum as 800 per
month.
Should a person. asks Anna Carl
in the Lindsborg News, Nv ffo
spends from 10 to 15 hours in exacting
brain work six day cut of the week
be expected to attend four church SER
vices Sunday" Withou, admitting or
denying that he should be. expected to,
answers the Beloit Call, we would re-
spectfuily call attention to the fact that
he does not. 49,
Sure" says the Great Bend Tribune
to the following = notice. said a
Kansas man the other day, shat it
now turns out that the prisoner in the
Missouri penitentiary who had discov-
cred how to square the circle and what
algebraical symbol .pi' is, was former
ly a Kansas man" Easy replied
Tom Morgan Of ottawa. IN bet Two to
one that he got his mathematical train
ing in the old grasshopper days trying
TO figure cut how to make a living
A man can capitalize almost any
thing in the world. A number of years
ago the manager of the Grange store
at Ola:ne capitalized his laugh. He
had the most wonderful laugh ever
known. He laughed on slight provo
cation also. The farmers all over John
son county used to lay themselves out
to make Livermore laugh And he
did laugh. but while he was laughing
at the. farmers the farmers wives were
buying goods. The store was a big sue
cess and it was Livernores laugh more
than the quality of the goods sold that
made the reputation Of the store.-Law-
renee Journal.
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chew it because it tastes sweet, many
persons chew in the belief that they
are aiding their digestion. but most
people chew because they have got the
habit, Probably final analysis would
reveal an intimate connection between
nerves and habitual gum chewing.
There have been attempts at estab-
lish gum in Europe. The results are
as yet inconsiderable. However, the
demand right here in the United states
calls for the manufacture OF 5000 ,O00,-
600 pieces of gum per year and gives
prosperity to healthy eleven-year-
trust. If one DOCTOR says gum chew
ing is harmless, another declares that
it overworks the salivary glands. But
to the stranger within our gates the
wonder of the busy jaws remains
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.l
There are just as good fish stories a 8
nave ever been caught.
The great drawback to a long life
is that 1t neceSsitates old age
Luck doesn't amount to much nm
less II Is mixed with little brains.
The early bird gets the worm but
on the other hand the early WORN cots
eaten. se'S
Teacher-"Why are the DAYS longer
IN summer than in winter? '' Rohhv
Bright Because heat expands
The prospects of a Prohibition can
dloate are generally so poor it's won
der they don't drive him to drink.
Inc man who complains that he
never has a chance Is the one who o.
lows some other fellow to take il first.
Sillicus-"The trouble with the ave.
age woman Is that she has NOTHING to
DO. Cynicus-"The greatest tro,,bIe
is that she refuses to do it," '-'
Blobbs-"Do you think the problem
OF perpetual motion will ever ba
soived?" Slobbs-"Sure; the gas meter
VIII eventually do the trick"
Wigg-"How did poor old Rionas
ever happen to get engaged to Miss
Antique? Wagg-"I believe thew
were sitting in a hammock and q.
caterpillar got down her back. The
ment."
Muggins-"I believe every cir, :,
the country is reading Scribbier's new
novel: How do you account for e. ~,
Buggins-"He pulled his wires with
the leading critics, who announced
that 1t was a book no woman sbo,,id
De allowed to read"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25
Gum Chewing industry.

Twenty-nine students anC three pro-
fessors of the University of Commerce,
in Cologne, heartily welcome to our
city, find the gum-chewing habit loom
ing large among the wonders of Amer
lea We can not be surprised at this,
having been impressed ourselves by
the omnipresent nickel-in-the-slot gum
machine, the inexhaustible sticks of
chewing gum in jars and piles on can
dy store and drug saore counters, the
jaws almost unanimously in activity in
subway jams, trolley cars brushes, and
crowds at large.
Baseball players chew gum to keep
of thirst. children and matinee girls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25
AS TO DEsTTTUTE CHILDREN.

1t costs the state, or the people OF
Kansas, approximately So a. week to
care for an inmate of the states or
phan home at Atchison Several such
inmates are the children of destitute
parents, mothers chiefly. Or, rather,
they were destitute and unable to care
for their children when they placed
them in this institution. Some of these
parents may be in that position yet.
But others have cotton on their feet
and are now in a position to care for
their children. They cannot get them,
though. An inflexible and almost in
defensible rule of this home makes a
destitute mother sign away all rights
to such children as she is forced to
place in it. She has no claim on them
in the future. Not only that, but she
loses all trace of them as she is not
permitted to know to whom they may
be adopted out.
There would appear to be another
way to handle such distressing cases
without, perhaps the necessity of re-
vising the rules of the orphans home
or establishing a similar institution
where children of a destitute mother
might be kept until she was able to
take care of them again. Why could
not some plan be devised whereby the
state could turn over to such a mother
each week sum equal to that which
it would cost the state to care for these
children in the orphans home?
If this were done, many a poor, un-
fortunate mother, who now has to sac
rifice the delights of motherhood, bur-
densome though they may be in her
case, could keep her little family to-
gether and probably do better by them
than is done for them in the orphans
home. This would be a real charity in
its grandest form, and it would not
cost the state a cent more to thus care
for such children and give them the
boon of mothers love and attention,
than it does to maintain them in the
orphans home.
A keen discrimination would need
to be used in the extension of such aid
by the state. But the same kind of a
discrimination is now used in admit
ting fatherless or motherless children
to the orphans home. Indisputable
evidence has to be presented that a
mother is actually unable to care for
her children before they are admitted
to this institution. A case of this kind
that is deemed proper of such atten-
ton would be the kind that might be
handled by giving the aid direct to the
mother-the same amount a week for
each child that it now costs to keep
a child in the orphans home. What
happiness would such a plan bring to
many a miserable woman. who now
has no alternative but to renounce all
claims to her children.
II valid objections can be presented
10 this plan, something surely ought
to be done whereby mothers who are
In such dire predicament that they
cannot care for their children, tempor-.
arlly at least, may be enabled to Sc
cure control of them again in case they
get IN position to give them home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago New.

Bargain counter marriages are sal
dom satisfactory.
A woman hates an enemy longer than
she loves a friend. 'iiaH
she who loves and runs awav NAV
nave regrets some other day.
experience sometimes teaches us how
dishonest other people are.
1t is said that high-priced foods
busy. SET
A man thinks he is in the political
swim when he buys a drink for a poll
tician. pm
The average woman is more afraid Of
in5uring her complexion than her repu-
tation.
II 1T wasn't for the lawyers there
would be a lot of trouble missing from
this old world.
The harder a man wishes for a thing
the more apt he is to get move on
himself and go after il.
4. widow no sooner gets her late hus-
bands life insurance than all her male
relatives come around and advise her
how to invest the money
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HU1NOR or THE DAY

Knicker-Where was Jones going
when arrested for speeding? Booker
To deliver a speech on the extrava-
gance Of automobiles.-New York Sun.
Pity the Neighbors.-"Brown has
given his wife handsome piano play
err and now" srWeil?' "she puts on
an awful lots of airs."-Exchange
Paw. what is the great continental
divide?" IT'S the final division of the
continent, my son. between the Nor
gans and the Guggenheims. Chicago
Tribune.
What is woman?" asked the speak
tr. Woman" replied q man in the
audience-a married man-''is AN ami
mate being, with the mower Of speech
abnormally developed, and entirely sur
rounded by a dress that button up
the back THE Sufferer.
Visitor-So your boy Is in college, il
he, Mr.. Corntossle? Farmer-I can't
say exactly. He's in their ball nine. an
in their rowin' crew. an in their jum-
Tnayzeeum. an in Their dormytory, but
whether he's ever in Their college is
n1orc'n I kin find out by his letters
Harper's Bazaar.
Census Taker-What did you say your
name is? Editor of the Century-R. U.
cOiAAAoOi- CELSIUS 4dkSl-- w nat QlIIeT-
ence does 1t --~- whether -, john
son or not? You've got to answer the
questions ask or get arrested. What
did you say your name is?-Scmerville
journal.
Mary Gagged 6)-Uncle Charlie. I wish
you many happy returns of your birth
day, end mamma said that If you gave
me a dollar not to lose it.--Lippincott's
"Bill, let's go into the sideshow.
There's man in here with a beard
five feet long, Five feet long? oh.
rats!" mo. it amt, Bill; It's all his
own beard. '-Chicago Tribune
The Usual Thing.-Friend-So Won
dined at a way station. What did Won
have for dinner? Traveler-Twenty
Observation-Disclosures.
AS in His Own Case.-Bec-Do Won
believe that marriage is a means of
grace? Peck-Surei Anything is a
means OF grace that leads to repent-
ance--Easton Transcript
There goes man could have mar
Red, she said softly. Yes" he chuck
led, and notice that he keeps on going
as though he were afraid you might try
1t again. Detroit Free Press
you have that medicine mixed rights
Druggist-No, I am not; but I'VE got il
mixed the way the doctor ordered tt
Judge.