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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS.

Definite instruction concerning the
nature and methods of prevention of
tuberculosis is being given to less than
6 per cent of the public school children
of the United States according to a
bulletin issued today by the National
Association for the Study and Proven
ton of tuberculosis.
Recent investigation has shown that
III only nine cities. Washington, D. c.,
Dallas, Tex, Richmond, Va, Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. Detroit. Mich, Maiden,
Mass, Salem, Mass. Saginaw, Mich,
and Knoxville, Tenn, are special text
books being used or lectures being Civ
en- about tuberculosis. In three states
and one territory. Michigan, Massa-
chusetts, North Carlonia and Porto
Rico, laws have been passed requiring
that instruction about the nature and
methods of prevention of tuberculosis
be given in all public schools. In Ten
nessee, the state department of educa-
ton has requested that such instruc-
ton be given, and has issued circu-
lars for this purpose. In New Jersey
| and West Virginia wall cards giving
instruction are hung in every school
room and the attention of all children
| Is called to them. The actual number
Of children, however. who will this year
| be taught by their teachers that tuber-
| culosis is a communicable, infectious
disease. and that it can be prevented,
will not exceed one million. If the
| state laws requiring such instruction
were strictly enforced. at least 2,000, 900
children would be reached.
| While tuberculosis does not cause as
many deaths among school children as
it does among workingmen or among
| infants under five years of age, the
| National Association gives some fig
ures to show how serious the disease
| is among his class. Based on the CEN
sus of 900, it is estimated that nearly
| 100, 900 children now in school will die
of tuberculosis before they are is years
| years of age. or that about 6,400 die
annually from this disease. Estimating
that on an average each child who dies
| of tuberculosis has had six years of
| schooling the aggregate loss to the
country in wasted education each year
amounts to $1,152, 900. According to in
vestigations made in New York, Bos-
| ton and Stockholm. the percentage of
children who are afflicted with tuber-
1 culosis is much larger than the death
rate would Indicate.
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
declares that there are two ways of
checking the ravages of tuberculosis
among school children. The first way
is to instruct every school child about
the dangers of the disease, and to
show them how they themselves may
prevent tuberculosis in their homes
The second method is to establish open
air schools for all children who have
tuberculosis or who are suspected
cases, segregating them from the
healthy children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21

| a thing or two about tariffs. We must
ooost the luxuries, that's what's need
ed Let's put them up to the top notch
Let men who want to smoke tobacco
grown outside of this country pay for
it. Let women who want to wear
Partisan modes pay for them. Let
folks who are addicted to foreign wines
pay for them. Those people can afford
at-not as matter Of protection. you
| understand, but as matter OF reve-
nue."
That is just exactly what the new
tariff law aims to do. And as Mr.. Taft
explained in his recent New York
speech with indisputable facts and fig
ures, that is just what the new law is
doing. At the same time it is lowering
the tax on the imported necessities of
life to an extent never reached before
| except during one or two of those dis
astrous periods of free trade. No one
contends that all of the reduc-
lions made by the new tariff law on the
necessities of life are as great as they
should have been in many instances.
But as Mr.. Carnegie points out, as Mr..
Taft points out and as other less dis
tinguished gentlemen would admit, II
they were disposed to be fair, the re-
v1sed tariff law is a great step in the
right direction in that particular. 1t
is an epoch-making step as far as the
Republican party has been concerned
with tariff legislation, and President
Taft is to be commended for bringing it
about rather than be accused of partici-
pating in "bunco" games and "treach-
cry" because he could not accomplish
the impossible, and because he did not
see fit to accept Democratic propa-
ganda on tariff legislation which has
not been very strongly recommended by
the voters Of the country at the last
two or three national elections.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21

Aunt Cornelia," was all the answer sne
would make to the old 1ady's argu-
ments when they had left Mark ana
were in the house once more
'But you will never be HAPPY. Aunt
Cornelia's tone was tragic.
Virginia pondered for a moment.
then she said, "Are you happy, Aunt
Cornelia %
Aunt Cornelia stared. She had not
thought of it that way.
"When am with Mark" Virginia
said, 'I see beauty in everything. II
was he who first made me see the Won
derful things in my vegetable garuen-
When you wouldn't let me grow now
ers: he found me crying in the orcnard d
under the apple tree, and he showed
me then the beauty of useful things
Out of the little things of life he gets
so much that is interesting and won
derful and you never showed me any
beauty, Aunt Corne1ia-"
The old woman knew that it was
true. Things had been commonplace
to her always. To Virginia, life would
never be commonplace if she married
Mark. She rose and went to the win
dow.
well I suppose you will do as you
like, Virginia. she said, drearily.
Virginia came and stood beside her.
Cant it be as you like. too?" Sudden
ly her arms went around the old lady's
| neck. her fair head lay on the spare
hers with love in them.
| And at that look Miss Cornelia
melted. But she was not one to show
| her feelings, and although her arm
frightened about the slender form. she
said, grimly. WELL I guess you will
/ have to do as you like. Virginia. and
when you and Mark come to live with
me In this big old house we will plant
| flowers in the front garden.''-(Copy-
righted 1910 by Associated Literary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record. 7

rFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
The barber takes every man at his
face value.
Every woman is after the latest
wrinkle. till it comes on her face.
Many man marries with no higher
ideals than to have his socks darned.
If some people should only pay az
they go they would never go at all.
The greatest drawback to economy
is that we never seem to save any mon
ey by it.
When a woman has a choice bit of
gossip to tell all her friends she gives
a bridge party.
The beauty about statistics is that
you can make them prove anything you
want them to.
It's the easiest thing in the world
for a SIS q week critic to roast a S40 :
600 a week actress.
Mrs. Muggins-"Does your husband
take you into his confidence concerning
his business affairs?' Mrs Buggins-
only when he isn't making any mon
ey.'
Youngpop-T often wonder what
that boy of mine will grow up to be. He
already has wonderful conversational
powers" oldbach-''Maybe he's ambi-
tious to be a barber
Wigg-"Iarduppe isn't such a had
sort of fellow. There's lots that he
doesn't get credit for" Wagg-"Yes.
the grocer told me this morning he had
to pay cash for everything" - -'+'''
Mr.. Talkalot-"AIl men are horn
they don't stay that way" Uncle Enb
-"Da's right, sab. da's right Some OF
'em soon gifts ter be a powerful SIGHT
equalizer dan de cdders."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
HOGS.

Pork chops will soon be placed on
the bills of fare along side of terrapin,
and none but the wealthy will be able
to enjoy them. This is situation that
is bound to develop if there isn't some
thing of a material decline in the
prices that hogs are bringing. And
there is not much to indicate that
such a decline will come along in the
near future. On the other hand. ex-
perts In the buying and selling OF
hogs are Of the opinion that the pres
ent record breaking prices for porkers
are going to continue to climb until
well. they are unwilling to prophesy
what the end will be.
Hogs have now reached a selling fig
ure that even the oldest inhabitants
have to stretch their memories some to
recall its equal. During the closing
days Of last week in some of the large
live stock markets of the country they
were selling for from $9.371z to $9.45.
This is the highest price that live hogs
have brought since 1870, when his ex-
treme exalted majesty. the $40 hog,
held the center of the stage.
On this one commodity, which plays
such an important part in foodstuffs
and their preparation for eating. there
is general agreement that the high
prices are a result of an unusual short
age of supply. A year ago the record
figures in hog prices reached Sc IS and
ten years before that the figure was
1915. At this latter figure the farm
ers who had gone into the hog rails
ing business were not making enough
money off their hogs to pay them for
their trouble in raising them. Then,
too, why feed corn to hogs when it
also can be sold at remunerative fig
ures? Naturally enough, many of
these farmers went out Of the business
Of hog culture. And they have kept
out of it. That is the chief reason for
the shortage of hogs at the present
day.
1t is reasonable to suppose, though,
that the present fancy prices hogs are
bringing will reawaken the energies of
the farmers in the art of hog raising.
Almost every farmer now is probably
making his plans for the installation
of a hog pen or an increase in the
size of the one he already has. This
means that a couple of years from
now there will probably be more than
enough to go around and the prices
they will bring will make pork and its
many valuable and almost necessary
by-products reach prices which are
within sight of the average consumers
pocket book. Two years is a long
time to wait for such halcyon days, but
there seems to be nothing else to dc
except grin and bear it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
CARNEGIE ON THE TARIFF.

During his recent trip across the con-
tinent for a few weeks of recreation
along the shores of the Pacific, Andrew
Carnegie, the steel baron and publicist,
delivered himself of interviews on the
various questions of the day to such
newspaper reporters who happened to
catch his private car rolling through
their town is. In one of these interviews
he discussed the new tariff law, which
has been used as a basis for so many of
the unjust attacks on President Taft.
Referring to this statute. he said:
Let me tell you that bill was q step
in the right direction and think know
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrcm the Chicago News.l

People with the complaint habit in
variably slop over.
A lazy man is always whining about
his tough luck.
You hear a lot about 'blushing
Brides but did you ever see one?
The man who dislikes you nearly al
ways likes those you dislike.
Many a man who knows himself is
for that reason suspicious of others
Anyway, girl looks better in an au-
tomobile than she did on a bicycle.
The meekness of a sleeping car por-
ter is conspicuous because of its alb
Eence.
1t is more or less difficult for a man
to be kindhearted when his liver isn't
working properly.
Even If you stand on your dignity it
will not enable you to see over the
heads of the crowd.
Somehow the average girl exercises
better judgment in choosing her friends
than she does in choosing a husband
When a man is at home and the tele-
phone bell rings his wife makes a dash
for 1t to see II 1t is some woman who
wants to talk to him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Education is wonderful thing but it
never made a man wise.
X x \
The most patriotic of people generally
have the least to say about it.
y =
A fellow who is known to be absent
minded is conveniently fixed for ex-
cuses.
n 4
There may be nothing new under the
sun but there's any number of existing
things which have not been discovered
as yet.
X X X
An individual who shutters has an ad-
vantage over other folks in that he has
plenty Of time to think over what he
says.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.
There are so MANY ways of being
no account.
busy man is not busy with his own
work: his principal task is getting rid
of bores.
The easiest thing in the world is to
make $50 promise that is to be filed
in the indefinite future.
If all the inventive genius wasted
on excuses we're exerted along more
practical lines, an extension would
have to be built on the patent Office.
We have a great curiosity to see a
certain Atchison girls true complex
ion: we would like to take a look at
her some time after she washes her
face.
Clothesline etiquette: In airing an
Oriental rug, it is proper to put up
the clothesline in the front yard, but
1t is in better taste to air rag car
pet in the rear.
In real shiftless families it is pos
sible to hear clear and convincing
arguments why. since brooms have
gone up to SO cents, it is cheaper to
buy vacuum cleaner.
There is this to be said for the man
who behaves like a Cold Wave: he
doesn't interfere with your work as
much as the enc who thinks he has a
monopoly in Scattering Sunshine.
An Atchison man says that no man
really knows what grief is until he has
gone home, and finds that his wife
has invited a woman lecturer to stay
at their house during her stay in town
Some day 4 philanthropic rich mar
will get revenge by leaving his fortune
| to the lawyers, SO his kin can have
| the satisfaction of Watching them
waste it in fighting among themselves
Our belief is taht the apple which
caused so much trouble in the Garder
| of Eden. was Ben Davis. 1t would
| have been a sin and a shame to throw
the hooks into Adam for biting a iona
/ than or a Wine Sap.
The boys dc lots of things that tn,
grown people frown at, but inward,
| applaud. One is when they clap ant
| stamp for a delayed entertainment t.
begin. The Older people are tired O
waiting, but don't dare show it.
The great objection to women play
| ing cards in the daytime is not it
| immortality, but its loafing Womel
should have something to do in tn
daytime and If they have not they ar
| imposing on some one. Women hav
no more right to loaf than men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
HU1MOR OF THE Day

y yoTsni HUSBAND soand is dead? You say you
year 20 You consider that mes reas snan
proof r., that he has passed out of exist
alive he'd be asFin h1n e f. a II he n was stu
ey'-Chicago Record-Herald
againi The Mlster-Mabel, m dear. I
cannot tell He-I- The Missus-Good-
though @ to bed n be otSss than
Cleveland Leader.
you want some of my candy? THANK
you. dear" was the reply. "sugared
pinF Or he wts Of a m the %
tot THE white ones, please" There
was silence INT. gntil the last piece had dis
aunty.. remarked Constance.-Succes
He-,Pon my word. I should hardly
much. She taEehiyjNFr the better or a1 the he
for the better.-Chicago Examiner. ~
The Reoa aa sastS well is Just
| Woman-And one man is just as bad as
another, if not worse.-Illustrated Bits.
Whats the latest in the meat boycott?'"
The butchers are delivering it in I'M
lettered wagons, I believe."-Pittsburg
knicker-Do you think women would
| vote for the best man? Rocker-CertainIy;
the bridegroom wouldn't be noticed at
all.-Judge.
Ever been locked up?" demanded -coun-
sci. 81 have been,'' admitted the witness
Aha! And what had you been doing to
get yourself locked up?" "I had been do
ing jury duty.''-Louisville Courier-Jour-
| nal.
| Mrs. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., we are out of
| coal. Is your credit at the dealers bad
again? Mr.. Hewligus-Not again"
Amanda. Stilli-Chicago Tribune.
Now they have perfected mechanical
well, WE'LL What next?' "Oh, 1 sup
! pose a device for knocking them down.
| Pittsburg Post.
| Sisters Young Man Cat the celebration
| of the engagement)-Now, Karl, wouldn't
you like to taste some Champagne? Karl
| Oh, I know what it's like This isn't the
Batter.
Postoffice Clerk-You've put two penny
| stamps your letter. The postage is
! only one penny. Old Irishman-Sure,
/ niver mind. My sons in the postoffice so
it'll all hip towards his wages.-Tit-Bits.
did you remember what I told you
about being kind to dumb animals?" ask
Jiggs LAS soon as 1 got home 1 took
the blanket and blue ribbon off mas pet
poodle and turned him loose and let him
chase cat up tree."-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
The Waste of Water.

The engineer who has been brought
from Cleveland to assist the water
commissioner of New York in solving
the problem of waste regards this as
really the one problem of the water
service. He believes that As per cent
of the water supplied to Manhattan
and the Bronx is wasted, and that If
the waste were checked the new aque-
duct from the Catskills would not be
needed The average daily supply in
New York is 135 gallons for each in
habitant. If As per cent of this be
waste, it follows that rs gallons per
capita would be sufficient. London
uses only SO gallons, but American
cities cannot get down to the London
standard In Philadelphia the water
supplied last year averaged 210 gal
Ions per capita daily, and most of
this was filtered. While Philadelphians
doubtless use more water than the in
habitants of any other city, there can
not be any doubt that an enormous
preparation of this is sheer waste.
either in the service or by misuse
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
FROM OTHER PENS
THE NAVY GIRL.


The true story of the Aud naval
courtmartial is said not to have been
told, and as regards the testimony
taken. this may be. But it has required
very little reading between the lines to
discover that the true story is the old
one of the havoc wrought by the navy
girl with the hearts of the nations sea
defenders.
1.-The bravest are the tenderest," and
sailors in particular have been cred
tied with a peculiar susceptibility to
feminine charms. Was there ever be-
fore such a conquest of a heroic heart
as that of Nelson's by his dear
Emma? That was the Trafalgar of
a series of triumphs by navy girls
which have extended from the Vic
tory's quarterback to the wardrooms
of Atlantic fleets and been paralleled
only by the similar conquests of the
army girl from the Brussels ballroom
before Waterloo to the waxed floors of
Old Point.
There exists, indeed, a feminine arm
of the service, the subtle but far
reaching influence of which over line
and staff raises a question of the pro-
priety Of it's official regulation. How
many vision occurs on the firing line
or on the bridge in action of a ball
| room tete-a-tete at Old Point or of ro-
mantle intimacy in post or barracks?
1t does not appear that army and navy
| girls excel their sisters in civil life
either in beauty or in the arts which
enchant. They rule largely by reason
of the monopoly of attention they en-
| joy, and a con gress hostile to monopoly
| in any form might properly take up
the question for consideration.-New
| York World.
| BENEATH THE SURFACE.
| Three items of news Wednesday
dealt with the suicides of a young girl,
aged %, in Philadelphia, and a dis
couraged salesman, aged 81, in New
York, and, finally, the attempted sui
/ eide of another girl, little over %, in
London. All three were discouraged.
| The father of the Philadelphia girl had
| killed her mother and then himself
| exactly six years before, and she had
brooded over the double tragedy. The
| New York salesman owed a hotel bill
of $12S, and felt that he would never
regain his lost comfort. The girl in
London had drunk the dregs of a fast
life, and her equally fast husband had
deserted her.
1t has been a long mooted question
whether suicide is cowardly or cour-
| ageous. 1t involves, perhaps, physical
courage but moral cowardice. In all
cases it is foolish. The three persons
who tried to find relief in suicide might
have found a less drastic remedy for
their woe. In neither case, at any rate
was there any excuse for cutting of
life and leaving the burden of respon-
sibility to others.
If those who are lonely and without
relatives or friends would get hobby
they would not be SO anxious to leave
life. The serious study of anything in
life will make life and the subject in
teresting. The trouble with many
wou1d-be suicides is that they merely
/ skim the surface.-Washingto Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
THE BIRD MEN.

Swift are our pinions, swift and true,
Faster than upper winds that follow;
Blithely we wheel in the vault of blue,
Brothers In blood to the dipping
swallow.
List to the song of our motors whirr;
Never shall aught Of harm befall
thee;
Bear US, then, over the mountains fir;
Come and earths pleasures in vain
shall call theei'
Towns in their sordidness sink affair."
Close to our aircraft the hawk Is wing
ing;
Here is contentment that naught shall
mar
And now at our side the lark is singing.
Well may men rub their eyes and stare;
Speeding like dreams DER the cloud
streWn courses,
We are the saddlemen Of the air;
Distanced at last are the Valkyrs'
horsesi
Arthur Chapman. in the Denver Repub-
Ican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21

II the state law seeking to provide
q guaranty for all bank deposits is
knocked out by the federal courts of
last resort, as manv state bankers are
inclined to believe it will be, it is prob
able that a mutual insurance company
will be formed by the state bankers
similar to the one which has been put
in operation by the national bankers
here. This will be good news for the
depositors in the state banks. They
are not particular how deposits are
guaranteed Just so long as the guar
antee is an adequate one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New YORK Press !

lFrom the New York Press1
To most people responsibility is nine
parts clothes and one part manners.
Some men are SO lucky that when
an umbrella is stolen from them tbev
get a chance to steal a better one.
Remember that two Quarters =,
your own pocket jingle more merrifa
Tor you than two eagles do for Won n,
another mans. Ia
A man Is cross with his family ar
age on how amiable he was with hi.
friends at supper the night before.
A woman can have more sen+inor+
aroused in her by stopping to look az
going to the most thrilling plav -, y
ever was acted. eA3s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21

This is almost the limit. The sale
of those paraffine coated eggs from
foreign countries has been stopped by
governmental authorities in New York
until the eggs can be analysed and it
can be ascertained if they are all that
eggs should be. The only objection to
these foreign eggs, it appears, is that
they are sweeter and milder as COM
pared with the strong taste of the
ordinary American egg after it has
been in cold storage. If these Euro
pean eggs had been stronger than the
American variety there might have
been some good reason to kick against
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21

A half century of conscientious work
well done is the history of the First
Presbyterian church Of this city which
has been celebrating it's fftieth ami
versary with appropriate exercises. Its
work, too, has been of the kind that
has meant a great deal in the making
Of Topeka a better place to live in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21

A man who has failed to properly
provide for children dependent upon
him has been given good stiff fine
and a sentence in jail by the probate
court of Shawnee county under the
provisions of the new Juvenile court
law. That's business, and if this law
was more generally administered in
this fashion in all of the counties of
the state there would be even fewer
public charges than now develop. A
few sentences Of this kind would serve