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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

did you have the soil of your back
yard analysed by the agricultural. de-
partment?"
Eyes. They said 1t consisted largely
OF glass, tin and putty, with traces OF
builders lime. and suggested that 1t
might do TO raise mortgage on
IouisYille Courier Journal.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

1--WE keep our own cow" explained
the hostess, proudly. SO we're sure
OF our milk"
WELL" interrupted the small son OF
the guest, setting down his cup,
somebody's stung you with sour
cow."-Toledo Blade.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

Physician have told you to take
long walks in the open air, and you
are not doing It.
Confirmed Dyspeptic-I know 1t, doc
tor, but you told me l was to take them
on an empty stomach, and l never have
an empty stomach.-Chicago Tribune.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

What is a totem pole?" his wife
asked.
"A totem pole" he said. thinking
fast. "is the rail-or pole-on which
an Objectionable citizen is ridden-or
toted-out of the community. "-Buffa-
10 Express.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

Englands birth rate last year was
the lowest on record-25.5S thousand
of population. This is nearly 10 be-
low the rate for 1908. which showed a
slight increase over 1907. the first for
MANY years
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

Squire Durnitt-I notice they's lots
more funerals in your town than we
have in Lonelyville.
Uncle Welby Gosh (of Drearyhurst)
Yes; people seem to kind O. hate the
idee Of bein' found dead in your VII
IaQe
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28
Caution.

why do you insist on my goine
with you when you ask father for my
hand again?" asked Ethelinda-
Because" answered Claude. y
Mt want to give him any more op-
..ortunities to presume because there
are no ladies' present"
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28
Heavy Snowfall In Alaska.

Probably you wouldn't believe It.
but snow fell during the past winter
in Valdez, Alaska. to the depth of SO
feet by actual measurement taken dur
ing the year" said w. M. Gilman OF
that city.-Washington Herald
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28
Hint at the Reason.

The patient is much better today.
nurse"
YES, doctor. You remember you
didn't call yesterday"
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

Snodgrass-Did you have good luck
on your last hunting tripY
Nymrodd-Better than usual; | was
shot at only four times and hit only
tWtce
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

Red, Weak, Weary, Wntery Eyes
Relieved BY Murine Eye Remedy. Try
Murine For Your Eye Troubles. You VIII
Like Murine. 1t Soothes. SOC at Your
Druggists. Write For Eye Books. Free.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28
CHOICE LOT
IN IRVINCTON

High and slightly; 5ox100; inside;
east facing; in block with beautiful
homes. East Ninth North, bet Stan
ton and Siskiyou; excellent car service.
Price $1,000, plus balance due on street
Improvements, 1896. Asphalt streets
and cement walks. Phone owner, East
1466, or call American Type Founders
Co., Second and Stark, Portland
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

"Hellol Isabel. is that your"
yes"
SAY, dearest"
"'Sh. Gerald Haven't you seen tho
new rule, that you mustn't talk over
the telephone as you would If you were
face to face?"
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28
Same old Kind.
The SUM. Heat,

The sun will continue to give out In
present amount Of heat for thirty mil
lion years
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

Mothers WIN find Mrs. winslow's Soothing
Syrup the best remedy to use for their children
during the tee thing period.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28
ATRIp TO PORTLAND FREE

Best Rubber Plate on Earth. .:.....'SI
ALL THIS WORK is GUARANTEED
Don't throw YOUR money away. A dollar saved
Is twodollars earned. Our original reliable Modern
Painless Methods and our perfected Office equip
ment saves US time and your money.
BOSTON DENTISTS. 5th q Morrison, Portland
Entrance 29flz Morrison opposite Posofce and Meier
Frank Established in Portland 10 years Open evening"
until and Sundays until 1850 for people who work
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1910-07-28

We certainly believe this, or we would
not say so. Ayers Hair Vigor, as now
made from our new improved formula,
is a great preparation for the hair and
scalp. Stops falling hair. Cures dan
druf. Promotes the growth OF hair. :
--E.ds By the J. Q. Aver Co.. Ls~sll, Mass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
FoUR YEARS, TERMS.

Serious attention should be given to
the suggestions of Bale Waggener, the
Atchison lawyer, and Joseph N. DolIey,
the state bank commissioner, both
prominent men in the Kansas political
arena and on the opposite sides of It,
that the state officers should be elected
for terms of four years. One thing is
certain. The people of this state are
tired and sick of the constant political
turmoil that they have been mixed TIP
in during the past few years, and for
which no immediate relief is promised
in the near future, unless the plan sug-
gested by Mr.. Waggener and Mr.. Dol
ley is put into operation
Things have grown worse in this re-
spect, rather than better since the
statewide primary law has been on
the statute books. It has made cam
paigning for state office almost in
cessant Or, at least, the better part of
one whole year in every two is taken
up by the candidates for nominations
for state office, and the subsequent
contest between candidates of rival
parties for supremacy on election day.
And there is no way for the rank and
file of the people, most of whom would
like to attend to their work on their
farms or in their stores and factories,
to dodge these campaigns They have
to pay attention to them, or run the
chance of unfit men walking away with
the nominations and the offices. And
that this endless campaigning is dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
AN ENGLISH WAY.

The employment Of school children
was debated recently by the associa-
ton of educational committees of
Great Britain and, at the suggestion
of Sir George White, NJ. P, a reso-
luton was adopted, providing for ad-
visory committees to exercise a sort
of guardianship over children leav-
ing school and providing also for the
cooperation of labor exchanges, says
a bulletin issued recently by the Ma
tional Municipal League. This resoIu-
ton, which suggests the aim of the
action, reads as follows:
''As 1t is most desirable that the To-
cal education authorities should main
tain the paramount influence in the
guidance and direction of children
leaving school for the labor market,
the executive committee is instructed
to urge upon the authorities to estab-
lish advisory or after-care commit
tees; also to formulate schemes as
suggested by the board of education,
and then to act in hearty cooperation
with the labor exchanges, so to pre-
vent overlapping and blind-alley en-
ployment.
THE executive committee is also
requested to make representations to
the board Of trade asking that the va
rious labor exchanges may cooperate
with the local education authorities
on the lines of this resolution, espec-
tally by placing at the service of the
local education authority or the ad-
visory committee such information in
regard to employment and employers
as they may think expedient."
This question of the employment of
children after they leave the elemen-
tary school is one of the many phases
of the National Municipal leagues
campaign for better civic conditions. II
is argued that steps must be taken to
see that the heavy cost OF training
the boys and girls of the nation is not
wasted, and that they procure en-
ployment for which they are fitted by
their attachments and character. The
labor exchange is designed to exercise
a supervision over employers, and see
that children are not placed with I'M
desirable employers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
Wants the Man She Paid For.

Commissioner Williams expects an
interesting session at Ellis Island to-
day, when the inspectors pick out a
husky shoemaker of Trieste and hold
him for the arrival of his hancee.
The commissioner received a letter
yesterday from a young woman of
Jersey City, who described herself as
an orphan, % years old, who had "to
work all my lifetime for my existence"
She wrote that she received a letter
several months ago from a young man
in her native city saying that If she
would send him the price of ticket
he would cross the seas and marry
her.
She explained that the man was ga
shoemaker and healthy" She sent a
second cabin ticket for passage on the
Red Star liner Vaderland, which ar
rived last night from Antwerp. Also
she forwarded the healthy member OF
bad soles $28.16 in cash.
She learned recently, she said, that
his relatives in this country had plan
ned to steal him as soon as he arrived
and prevent the marriage. She wants
the shoemaker herself, and asked the
commissioner to hold him and unite
them in marriage as soon a she arrives
at the island today.-New York Trib-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25

turbing to every one except the pro-
fessional politicians and a few of their
newspaper friends almost goes without
saying. What a relief it would be If
much of it could be done away with or
If it came along less frequently.
If four years terms for state officers
were put in vogue, and the right to re-
call any Of such officers, were extended
to the voters, there would be little dan
ger of any harm being done them in
the administration of their affairs of
state. Such affairs would he practical
ly just as safe as they are now under
the two years term system. And a
strong argument in favor of the four
years term is that it is the custom in
Kansas to give at least two two years
terms to almost every man who is
elected to a state office.
There is much to recommend the
suggestions made by Mr.. Dolley and
Mr.. Waggener. 1t would be well to
have a full and free discussion over
them. The people won't lose anything
by thinking them over, and If they ap-
pear to be perfectly feasible and sound
there may be much to gain by their
adoption.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
Ratprooffng San Francisco.

San Francisco is being 'ratproofed,"
The word has become part of the San
Franciscan vocabulary, like water
proofing," and refers to a style of
brick and concrete architecture that is
enforced by condemnation proceed
ings in portions Of the city until how
the centers of rat population.
Eighteen months have passed since
the last capture of rat afflicted with
the bubonic plague-the BLACK
death" of history. which feas borne
by the rats spread to human hosts.
But the fight to exterminate the ro-
dents goes on. According to the re-
port of DR.. G. M. Converse, OF the
United States public health and ma
rine hospital service, the sewers are
being poisoned and the rats are be-
ing caught in cages and snap traps at
the rate of $500 monthly. In Butch
erstown, in the congested Japanese
quarters, and in the wholesale fruit
and produce section of the town, the
ramshackle buildings are being rat
PROCEED in their Easements or entire
ly replaced with solid structures.
BY and by every American city
may be ratproofed, tickproofed and
mosquftoproofed, until these death
dealing verTnin are utterly destroyed.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
A fellow is generally broke when a girl
drops him.
The Canon is of course one of the big
guns of the church.
The forger can't say that he doesn't
know write from wrong.
There are no lack of opportunities to do
the things we shouldn't
Almost any fellow is a match for the
man who has MONEY to burn.
Deafness is "a terrible anlictinn to the
people who Tx: to hear themselves talk.
There are times when you don't have to
be an acrobat to take a Gunbie 20 your
self.
No. Maude dear; a shiny coat is not al
ways the Distinguishing marx of a polish
ed gentleman.
Why should a man make a fool of him
self when there are SO many women will
ing to do the job?
Wagg-"Ts that the reason he can never
make both ends meet?"
Blobbs+''He's man of considerable
rank isn't hep Slobbs-'"Well, he sup
plies our boarding house with butter"
Liquor is a curse!' exclaimed the tenn
perance lecturer. How shall we get rid
of it?'' Drink it all up" replied a
husky voice from the rear seat.
The Ame-ican-''Those Dashaway girls
are as like as two peas in pod The
Englishman-"H my deah felliw
there's only one p in pod. y'know."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25

how really beautiful money looks. A
Corot is nothing by the side of the line
drawing on a dollar bill, and when It
came to gold eagles and hundred dol
lar bflls-diamonds are not in it with
them. I can say this from experience.
had beefsteak for dinner that night
oeefsteak smothered In onions.
Among those bank notes was that
last SIS bill on which 1 had written my
farewell two years before.
Back again, are your" said. You
won't be so slippery next time" felt
that had got the tail of my fortune in
my hand again, and proposed to pull it
back to me.
Five years later, as the fluffy dream
and were seated in this same cottage,
she asked me for money to buy rattles.
or something, for our boy, and I gave
her that S. bill. AS her eye caught the
lines I had written seven years before,
she exclaimed:
Poor fellow. This is some ones last
dollar. How I wish I could give IT
back to him"
You did that five years ago.
And then I had to tell this story
copyrighted. 1870 by Associated LII
erary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.1


It's a rare man who can loaf. and not
become a nuisance.
When some men are not smoking they
are fixing their pipe.
Every cat belonging in a house where
there is a baby. finally hunts a new home.
Some men are like Photographs; every
day, they reel off exactly the same rec
ords.
A mans conscience is frequently assist
ed a good deal by the work of a good
detective.
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who had a little knot of hair on
the back of her head?
When two of your friends are in quar-
rel, they will usually make it up quicker
if you let them alone, and do not mention
it.
Some people think that If they do not
eat with a knife or drink coffee out of a
saucer, that is enough to know about
etiquette.
A lazy man takes great satisfaction in
saying, well, the BIBLE says, Consider
the lilies of the field. They toll not,
neither do they spin -
You are conceited of course but for
heavens sake don't show it. People are
easily disguised, but nothing disgustS
them quickly as conceit-
While ignorance of the law is not an
adequate excuse, it has been observed
that q thorough knowledge of the law
sometimes works that way.
A man ran for street car, and caught
it. When he entered the car, he was puff
ing. That's age or fat" a woman who
was sitting in the car said, Which Is it?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
LIGHTING KANSAS AVENUE.

Indications are not lacking that the
agitation which has been started for
turning Kansas avenue into a brilliant
ly lighted thoroughfare at night will
result in some definite accomplishment
along this line before long. 1t will be
a great thing for the town, and the
business men along this magnificent
street. It will tell the stranger and the
visitor within our gates that Topeka
is one Of those wide awake cities that
leaves no stone unturned to add to its
attractiveness.
Hand in hand with this movement to
place large clusters of lights every lit
tie way on the avenue. should go an
other one looking towards having all
the merchants along this street keep
their store windows lighted at night,
or until 1920 or IL o'clock. This will
help in the illumination of the avenue
in a most material way, and also can =
not fail to be of profit to the mer-
chants. For when the weather is pleas
ant any number of folk like to do their
window shopping at night. This is
about the only chance many a woman
has to inviegle her husband down
town and point out to him some of the
things she would like to have.
At the present time, some of the
merchants do keep their windows light
ed for a couple of hours or so after
the hour for the closing up the stores.
But the practice is not general. Win
dows in the couple of contiguous stores
may be kept lighted. and then those
in the next two or three may be dark.
This results in an effect that is not
very desirable.
To keep the windows lighted is quite
an expense to the merchants. That is
the only objection to it that many of
them have. Such an objection would
undoubtedly be removed if the lighting
companies would give the business men
q fiat and reasonably low rate for their
window lights for so many hours each
night. This is done by electric light
and gas companies in other cities, and
the merchants in them are not slow to
take advantage of such rates. Such
rates in the aggregate would likely
bring in much more money to the light
ing companies than they now receive
for Illuminating only a few of the bus
mess houses at night. And because
this system is followed by lighting
companies in other cities it does not
appear to be unreasonable to ask the
lighting companies of Topeka to do
likewise. 1t would, no doubt, be great
ly appreciated by the merchants who
are large patrons of the lighting COM
panies, and the people of the city in
general as well whose business or
pleasure takes them on Kansas avenue
during the early hours of the evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
THE ULTRAVIOLET RAYS.

The subject of ultraviolet rays and
their effect upon the human nerve
system has been one of no little dis
cussion of late years. Heretofore, it
had been discussed with various mys-
teal references to certain varieties of
electric lamps not commonly known
and, in short, the whole topic was
tinged with indeiniteness in regard to
the real cause and the actual effect.
Experiments on a large scale, just con-
cluded in one of the foreign labora-
tories, indicate that the danger from
ultraviolet light may soon assume
proportions formerly undreamed of.
The principal source of danger is said
to be in the ordinary species of carbon
arc light, like that formerly in general
use for street illumination. The dan
ger from the other known lamps is
very small, and their effect is said to
be overshadowed by the detrimental
effect OF even the glare from artificial
light upon the eyes. There have been
attempts made at one time or another
to have the globes inclosing the street
arc lamps removed on account of the
greater amount of light that would
then be available; but when it is real
lied that the lead glass entirely inter
cepts the dangerous ultraviolet rays
which proceed from the arc in great
abundance, the wise policy which has
retained them in place will be appre-
ciated.-Manchester Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
KANSAS COMNENT
OH, THE PITY OF IT.

49, OH
The other day at Fort Scott, in the
federal court, two boys were called
before the court to receive sentence
Tor stealing mail from the depot at
Osawatomie. The boy said that he had
gone to the depot to steal whisky
and as the judge told him to stand
up to receive sentence the sobs of
woman in the rear of the court room
arrested his attention, and making
her way to the bar of justice she told
her story, pleading with the court for
mercy for her boy She and her hus-
band had been divorced and the court
had given the boy to his father, and
then few years later there was
stepmother, and the boy and she did
not get along together, and it was a
story of neglect almost from baby
mood to young manhood.
The story of that mother told in
the court room, is the tragedy of the
divorce court, and where there are
children these divorce courts become
the recruiting stations of the criminal
courts. 1t is bad enough when there
are no children, but when there are.
then the tragedy reaches down
through the years to come and the
sins of the fathers and mothers are
visited upon the children. From
these wrecked homes and out from
beneath their debris come the GRIM
inals of after years; they make up the
Jetsom and folsom of humanity, and
IoVeless, homeless childhood leads
to the criminal courts and upon the
heads of the mother and father must
rest. to large degree, the blame.
The man and woman who bring
children into the world can't escape
the responsibility and there is no place
in the long journey from the cradle
to the grave where it can be shifted.
The father may cry out in an agony
worse. than death. "Oh, my son, my
son, Absalom, would that I had died
for thee" but the responsibility is still
his, and knowing this it becomes the
sorrows crown of sorrow" The
touch of baby fingers upon the moth
er's cheek and the first low cry which
announces to the father that unto
you child is born" brings respon-
sibil1ty which no court can dissolve.
1t is decree issued by Divinity it.
self and that court alone can dis
solve it with the decree of death.
No amount of trouble between hus-
band and wife can justify them In
doing that which threatens the fu-
ture of those for whom they stand
responsible, and they must know that
the trouble they are seeking to evade
will come to them in after years with
all the intensity of the pains Of
death, as that mother at Fort Scott
learned when the boy was sentenced
for a crime for which she and her
husband were at least in a measure
to blame-Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-25
LOVES RITUAL.


Breathe me the ancient words when
shall find
Your spirit mine; If, seeking you. Life
wins
New Wonder, with old splendor, let US
bind
Our hearts when Loves high sacrament
begins.
ESaIt my soul with pomp and pageantry,
sing the eternal songs all lovers sing;
lea, when you come, gold let our vest
mentS be,
And lamps of silver let US softly swing.
But If at last Clark how I whisper, LoveD
You from my temple and from me should
turn,
I pray you chant no psalm my grief above,
Over the body of Pain let no light burn.
Go forth in silence, quiet as a dove
Drift, with no sign, from our exultant
place;
We need no tie at the death of Love
And none should come to look on Love s
white face.
Charles Hanson Towne, in Smart Set.