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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-18
wINDMILLs IN sEzMIAR1D WEST.

The rainfall in the semiarid west be-
ing always light, settlement in that
section is to a certain extent hazard
Gus, but the millions of acres now bar
rem, CHI would prove rich and fertile
If irrigated, are now attracting eastern
farmers who are prone to risk failure
in view of the possibilities in years of
faVt rable precipitation, writes Joseph
A. rnold, editor and chief of the di-
vision of publication of the federal de-
partment of agriculture. Some of this
land viii be reclaimed through irriga-
ton, and the growing of drought
resisting crops and the adoption of i'm
proved methods of culture will do much
to make the farming of these lands less
hazardous. But there have been many
deplora lie failures which could have
been averted, had the settlers fortified
themselves against periods of drought
by irrigating small parts of their hold
ings
1t is with view of helping such that
the feasibility of pumping water for
the irrigation of small areas in con-
nection with dry land farming of more
extensive areas was investigated by the
irrigation office of the United State de-
partment of agriculture
Large wind movement provides a
cheap source of power for lifting un-
foreground water, and the results of
these investigations are embodied in a
farmers bulletin (No. 394) entitled THE
Use of Windmills in Irrigation in the
Semiarid West" just issued by the de-
partment, the possibility of this is set
out in simple comprehensive way,
and practical suggestions are made 20
those who are now using or are con-
templating the use of widmills for
pumping water for irrigation. The
data given for plants on the great
plains show, however that the wind
mill is not cheap source of power
, that to accomplish this result requires
capital, and that if the conditions re-
quire too great outlay, it precludes the
possibility of such a procedure.
The bulletin treats on the sources of
water supply, the quantity of water
available, well casing, sinking wells,
capacity of mills. choice of tower, erec-
ton of mills, pumps. reservoirs, main
tenance of mills, crops under windmill
irrigation, and closes with a descrip-
ton of methods and mills now in use
in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and
| California.
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TRIOIIETS.

He wants to buy a motor car,
But he. alasi has not the money
How trying our desires arei
He wants to buy a motor car,
And yet his light purse proves a bar
To him it's anything but funny.
He wants to buy q motor car,
But he, alas! has not the money.
His wife is disappointed, too,
She, too, for machine is pining.
(All. this, of course, is entire nous,
His wife is disappointed, too.
And still there's nothing he can do,
Their dark cloud has no silver lining,
His wife is disappointed, too,
She, too, for a machine is pining-
How many want a motor car.
And yet, alasi have not the money!
How vexing our desires are,
How many want motor car
And find their poverty a bar
To keep their lives from being sunny.
How many want a motor car,
And yet, alas! have not the money!
-Somerville Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-18
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.l
The dying words of King, Edward
Let George do it."
When a girl calls man a hatterer
it's his cue to say some more just
like it.
house a fellow must really like stewed
prunes.
Muggins-"Sh is such warm
hearted girl Buggins- but
when I asked her for it she gave me
the cold shoulder"
A girl always manages to use her
left hand with great dexterity after
the engagement ring is safely en-
sconced on the third finger.
even hunger is an evil" remarked
the Christian Scientist. well. it's the
cause of nearly all the industry in the
world" replied the Mere Man.
Wigg-"Is it just a Irritation. or are
YOU engaged for keeps?'' Wagg-'I
guess it's for keeps. She broke off the
engagement, but she has kept every
thing I gave her"
x-"Scribbler's book has lust
been published. and he says it is SELL
ing like hot cakes" Joax-"I don't
doubt it. Do you see anybody buying
hot cakes this time of year,"
Blobbs-"Why did Bjones drop Miss
Antique after having courted her for
five years?" Slobbs-''I believe she
sent him one of those knit notices
reading Actions Speak Louder Than
Words"
"You are all the world to mel" he
cried passionately- And you are my
SUM-" she replied with equal fervor.
Then let me give you few freckles,' IS
he said; for he was rather facetious
lover.
"What are baseballs covered with ?''
asked the new guy in the left field
bleachers WELL replied the board
ing house fan, "I shauld say that from
their elasticity. their toughness and
lasting qualities they were covered
with the beefsteaks we get at our
boarding house."
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pENsIoNs FOR JEACHERs.

Members of the local board of edu-
cation are taking the proper course In
discussing plans for the creation or
pension fund for teachers. Nor should
they delay long in developing them
into a reality. This is one Of the es-
sential needs of the Topeka school sys-
tenn, as it is of every other school sys-
tenn in each and every community Of
any considerable size.
There can be little doubt that there
are several teachers in the local
schools. and the schools of every city
which has noc pension system. who
have reached an age where their use
fulness has become impaired. This is
not ii reflection on them. 1t is but a
natural consequence, an almost newt
able one. They have given of their
best for many years. They are entitled
to all honor and respect FOR the great
service they have rendered. Because
the salaries paid them have never been
large 1t is not reasonable to assume
that anv of them have been able to
save UP a competence which would
keep them from actual want in case
they should quit teaching 1t would be
unfair and unjust to them to retire
though their continued service may be
something of a handicap. if a pension
is not provided for them. For these
reasons pension fund should be Gre
ated, and the pensions should be lib
eral, too.
Now that the school board has in
creased the salaries Of the teachers,
even if the increase in most cases is
not an exceedingly large one, the time
would seem opportune for the creation
of this pension fund. 1t will have to
be raised in the main through the
levying of small per centum tax on
the salaries of all the teachers Con-
tributions should be made to it,
though, from time to time by the
school board. No protest will be made
by the taxpayers on the use of their
money in this direction The teachers
who have served a community long
and faithfully and who have reached
an age where their retirement is either
necessary or advisable. are worthy of
generous treatment. Let it be accord
ed them
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aDementia Chantecleria.' :

Just where the "Chantecler" craze
will end there seems at present to be
no telling Not content with having
invaded the fields of millinery and
dress with all sorts of weird results, it
is now actually the cause of hitherto
named "dementia chantecleria." The
first, and so far as is known the only
case of this atfliction on record was re-
ported in New York last week, and ex-
perts are now wondering how prevalent
it is likely to become. The originator
of the new disease was captured in
front of a Broadway theater and af-
forded ample opportunity for thorough
observation Of the most up-to-date
form of mental alteration. Flapping
his arms in an obvious imitation of
rooster and uttering shrill notes which
sounded much like Growing, he begged
the women il, the audience, as they
emerged froIf. the theater, to allow
him to be the bird on their "Cantecler"
hats It was learned at the hospital,
to which he was taken, and when his
complaint was diagnosed under the
new appellation, that the would-be
bird was a feather maker by trade,
that since his employer began to make
up a stock of the new style hats his
actions had oeen growing more and
more peculiar. However, sad as is his
case, it is f1a'nishing comfort to many
husbands in this city who have found
arguments Of economy worthless
against the desire of their better
halves to possess one of the new style
hats Now it will only be necessary to
simulate madness, instead of getting
mad, to prevent their wives from
decorating their heads with a collec-
ton of barnyard fowls.-Augusta
Chronicle.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
FFrom the Atchison Globe.l

A little modesty and sense go we'll
with beauty.
Every meal a dyspeptic eats is equal
to a spell of sickness.
Maudlin sentiment is a crime, but
people who talk 1t regard it as vir-
tue.
If a girl marries, and does poorly, the
other girls are discouraged for months.
There is so much bad poetry that
people have become disguised With tha
little good.
No woman ever gave a man credit
for having good taste in selecting hats
OF. wall paper.
hThere is one thing he can do well, "
a man said today of his employer: L
taught him to do that"
When a farmer comes to town on
Saturday, he tells as many old jokes
as the end man of a minstrel show.
When you call at a mans house on
an Grand and he says, "See the old
lady" that's a sign he is henpecked.
Another thing we're going crazy
about: people ask us every hour of the
day: why don't you buy an automo-
bile?"
Women have the best of us in some
ways: they are not forced to act as
jurymen or pallbearerS, or husDanos,
or fathers.
Daughters idea of an artistic ar
rangement of the furniture is to have
it where Father will fall over it when
he gets up in the night.
When a man and his mother talk to-
gether in whispers, nothing on earth
can convince the mans wife that they
are not talking about her.
When a man calls a number over the
telephone, and Central says. They're
talking" he knows how the children
feel when they are not given chance
to enter the conversation.
Have you ever noticed that people
who love, and quote poetry never quote
Longfellow, Whittier, and other respect
table poets; they love Bobby Burns.
who was a drunkard: Lord Byron, who
WAS q rake. etc.
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Desert as a Resort.

desert sounds like a strange place
in which to camp for pleasure but
Charles Francis Saunders and his wife
spent several enjoyable weeks on one
part of our great western desert. Mr..
saunders says:
ITO the newcomer on the desert
usually the first cause of surprise is
the variety of its scenery. One hab-
itually thinks of it as fiat, verdure-
less, monotonous expanse. In reality
our western deserts present within
comparatively small areas the great
est diversity of topography-mou
tain chains and foothills, valleys and
aroyos (dry, of course, except for a
few hours after some heavy storm in
the mountains), sandy flats and roll
ing plains bowlder-piled or dotted with
green bushes set about in places like
shrubbery in an artificial park.
Spring is the most enjoyable time
of the year for the desert camp-late
April or May for the elevated Mojave
region. March or even earlier for the
more southern, low lying Colorado de-
sert of California. The mornings,
evenings, and nights are then superb
cool and bracing and more of heaV-
en- than of earth; the mid-days are
hot in the sun and made for siestas in
the shadow of great rocks or on the
shady outside of tent. The inside
of the tent is usually uncomfortable dur
ing the middle of the day, the temper
full sunshine
Mr. Saunders German guide,
Dutch Jake has become so fond of
the desert that, in taking leave of his
'tenderfoot" friends at the end of
their camping trip, he says:
New York? Humph''-he says in
his rough way-"Yes, 1 hat been in
New York, unit make Won dam fool of
mineself. No, no, Mister, I takes my
bunch of burrows, unit some beans and
bacon in de saddle bags unit always
water in the canteen, unit I shtay in de
desert It's healthy here unit dere amt
nobody vot robs you, unit L knows
places we're a man can find yet lots of
mineral. Me for der desert, Mister;
dam fools shtays in New York. Re
creation Magazine.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Love is too often adulterated with
money.
One made good is better than a
dozen bluffs.
Pride goeth before a fall; also with
spring bonnet.
And a girl raises racket every
time she plays tennis.
The average mans ship doesn't get
in until after his funeral.
He is a lucky man who can stretch
the truth without breaking his word.
If a girl trusts young man it may
be a sign that her father doesn't.
Perhaps more people would go to
church if it wasn't exactly the proper
thing to do.
Most fiat jewellers admire the jani-
tors wife because of her ability to
boss the janitor.
Invite some men to take a drink
and they measure out five fingers
just to keep their hand in.
1t may be the semi-invisible baby
ribbon that enables man to recognize
a summer girl when he sees her.
When a small boy begins to save his
pennies instead of blowing them in for
candy, it's a safe bet he has his eye
on baseball outfit.
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,g lady and tender a thousand

thanks.
One evening, therefore, after having
hlred about 20 boys to scout around
and bring back reports that some
body's goat was not to be seen, he
started out on his call.
The house was reached The gate
was reached. Miss Susie and the goat
We're reached. Miss Susie was perched
on the side fence. and the goat was
shaking his horns and venerable whis-
ker at her. He turned from her to see
the new arrival. and the light of joy
danced in his eyes. He even bleated
with happiness.
But it was not to be As some
body's goat drew a long breath and
dashed forward he met a determined
painter of landscapes. There was a
pate with crash. and he rolled over
to die game. He gave not one bleat-
ing appeal for pity. He died game.
Several months later Tommy had
come down to Medvale on one of his
weekly visits. and he and Miss Susie
had been talking and talking. when he
suddenly asked:
Haven't you always thought that
somebody's goat had a mission on
earth?'
ITO bunt folks. do you mean"
mo; to bring them together"
why, 1t does look a little that
way" she said as she blushed and be-
gan to play on the piano.
Tommy not only got somebody's
goat. but he got somebody else
copyrighted 1910 by Associated
Literary Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-18
HYHAWKER JOTS

Every crouch stands in somebody s
sunlight, but particularly in his own. =
remarks Will Palmer.
when you are down in the mouth,
remember JONAH" advises the Great
Bend Tribune and it adds: He came
out all right
Miss Anna Carlson is of the opinion
that hunting up your winter fiannels
III May is almost as humiliating as haV-
ing to apologize to an old friend.
While the public is being warned
against other counterfeit notes, says
the Parsons Sun, the keynotes should
rot be exempt from a careful scruti-
Ey.
Love and life make strong team.
says the Garden City Telegram, but 1T
advises that if you have to give up
one of them, hang onto the pole
horse"
People will soon forget all about the
Hyde case, if Mrs. Logan o. Swope can
be persuaded to keep away from the
lecture platform, thinks the Emporia
Gazette.
When a young lady teacher announces
to the board OF education that she does
rot want her position another year be-
cause she has "other plans" you can
bank on it that the day has been set,
says Paul Lovewell.
One of the secrets of the newspaper
inson Gazette as follows: Possibly you
have noticed that when reporter asks
for your initials he really has forgot
ten your name, and the request is a
hint to supply the whole Of it.
My eyes are brimmin DER with grief,
NY ncart IS full of woe, an old time
friend went UP the 1ume a day or two
ago. Kate Bender was this naiden's
name, you've heard it DER and DER;
the hand Of death has laid her low a
dozen times before. 1 know 1 should
rot weep or wall nor shed the briny
tear, for Kate will come back to earth
and die again next year.-Albert Stroud
in independence Star.
What a kind, old world this is, re-
marks the Lawrence World, and then
it proceeds to prove the point by re-
Iating the following: A man in this
county came to the last years of his
life without any means of providing
for himself. He was not church
member. but he had lived near the
Dunkards for many years. When he
became old and infirm they took charge
of him rather than send him to the
county hospital. He had no claims
upon them but it was just their kind
ness of heart.
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NEEDS OF BACKWARD CHILD

The greatest need of the average
backward child, after his physical de-
fects have been removed and his body
given decent chance to develop, is a
moral awakening, says Rheta Childe
Dorr in the course of an article de-
scribing the public school work for
backward children in the June Hamp-
tons. Virtually all such children are
selfish, passionate, and malicious. They
love to destroy. They love to inf1ict
pain. They delight in disturbing the
order of classroom. Almost always
are they untruthful, and very frequent
ly are they thievish.
Why not? They live in a state Of
constant struggle with the world-an
unequal struggle in which their rniser-
able lite souls are daily and hourly
crueified. Around them is a world Of
normal children who learn easily things
beyond the power of the backward 20
acquire; who are praised and loved and
rewarded. In the playground the back
ward children enviously watch the ota-
ers perform feats of strength and skill
Sometimes the dullard or the handi-
capped child tries to break into a game
or a contest, and is pushed aside or
chased away by the strong. A child not
feeble-minded, but merely dull, and on
that account behind the procession. re-
sents with a bitterness not to be COM
pretended this constant pushing aside.
Exactly like rat fighting for life in a
corner he strikes back viciously, des-
perately.
Far more than their brains the emo
ttonaI natures of such children need
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

The way of the transgressor is not
Eard-to follow.
A man who is ever ready to bet IS
always short on argument.
u
Things seeming impossible on yes
terday and today will be accomplished
tomorrow.
r.
When so much of 1t is false, can 1t
row be said that a woman's hair is her
great glory?
n X
Happiness does not seem to prevail
among the very rich and the same is
surely true of the very poor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-18
IL UNOR OF THE Day

The speed of Halley's comet is nearly
10000 miles an hour" Gee, how Barney
oldfields heart must ache whenever he
He-Why not give me your reply now7
It is not fair to keep me in suspense.
me in suspense!-M. A. p.
Farmer Grayneck-s'pose you are goin'
everybody else? Farmer Hornbeak-Nope!
I've been vaccinated in the pocketbook,
and 1t took.-Puck.
Methuselah celebrated his five hun
dredth birthday. THE office boys have
played" he said.-New York Sun.
Hes actually the squarest man l
the umpire is right when he decides
against the home team. "-Detroit Free
Press.
Grand Vizier-Shades of Shushan, Zerky,
DO you think you can get an army into
Greece without T srousiIg suspicienf
has quietly spread the report that It Is
the Bagdad baseball squad going south
for spring training.-Puck.
Muriel Gust back from the Continent)-
Well, Tom, I'm engaged to seven dukes,
dees of the first class Cousin Tom
What? Muriel-Oh it's all one fellow.
He's Spaniard, you know.-Illustrated
Bits.
81 got black hand 1etetr from a Phil
anthropist today. Says he is determined
to die poor" What's the rest of it?.
why, he states that he has hidden $1,000
in hollow tree and demands that 1 go
get it!'-Kansas City Journal.
why do you want to be a -nighter
any good reason for going on first
nights?" Yes, / have, if you insist on 1t.
/ thus escape the laxative man who has
seen the show.''-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
mo man can serve two masters" said
the priest to one of his Pensioners. IT
know that, yer reverence. Me brother
tried it, and now he's doing time for big
amy" Everybody Magazine.
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Sunfiower Siftings.

GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY.
Last week we failed to collect much
news so we sent in little poem,
never thinking Editor Block would
give us such a compliment, for which
he has our thanks, but we borrowed
the poem from our sister" Rebekah
and all credit belongs to her for the
composition of the poem, for
If I'm ever a poet
The people will know 1t,
And the good book says
How the truth we must tell,
Or be banished forever
Into eternal Chicago.
Prairie View correspondent, SYRIA
cuSe Journal.
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cultivation. Far more important than
learning to read is learning to love and
trust. Vices of temperament must be
unlearned, bad habits must be over
come, a whole garden full of weeds
must be cleared away before the soil is
ready for planting. After that, the
task is not fraught with serious diff
ficulties.
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81


This department regrets that owing
to other pressing business, 1t can spare
no time to enthuse over the fourth an
nuaI resurrection of the Topeka South
western Railroad.
The striking coal miners have our
sincere thanks for postponing their
strike until after zero weather. As our
residence is equipped with natural gas
burning appliances, 1t follows that we
are compelled to burn coal in the win
ter time. Therefore, let us give thanks
that the coal miners and Scfpio seldom
strike at the same time.
In the contest for the man who gets
his name in print with the greatest
frequency, we submit the name OF John
Kleinhans, food inspector, During the
last ten days his batting average has
been 1000.
After carefully considering the mat
| ter for some time. we have decided that
Kansas is not such dry place while
| 1t is raining.
| There is never a cloud without a
silver lining. Ballinger has been con-
siderably annoyed by the alleged in
got a, lot of satisfaction out of firing
Kerby?
! OUR MIGHTY THEODORE.
| we 90 not claim ne cOulQ move inc
| stars or turn the moon,-far from IL,
! But think he could comb the cockle-
burs from the tail of Halley's comet.
To those who feel that DIR. Hyde
should be hanged: "Penitentiary for
life" does not sound like much,-but il
| is quite a while.
| Reports from California indicate two
recent disturbances, a slight eartll-
| quake, and an eruption of Grant Gill
| lette.
A woman in Quincy, Mass, claims the
record high jumping in the petticoat
| class. There is 30 great competition
for female high jumper, but plenty OF
| them are high-fliers.
CURRENT TOPIC.
20. Father, 1 see cleaning light;
o say what may it be?''
| 1.-THE chances are, it's that HALEY
| thing
Says the maiden's dad, says he.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
LFrom the New York Press. ]

IFrom the New York Press.1
A happy life is a great temptation to
death to step in
Most of the nonsense in the world
G. mes so near being sense you can't
tell it isn't when it's yours.
An old maid woman can get over il
any minute by marrying, but an old.
maid man stays so forver.
Before a mans wife tames him from
being a wild animal he's a nightmare.
and asterward bore.
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Presumably Mr.. Glenn H. Curtiss,
the noted aviator, will have a few
aeroplanes for the market before long.
He says that by the time the next big
war breaks out the monstrous battle
ships of the Dreadnaught type will be
useless because of the ease with which
they can be put out of business by
bombs dropped from airships.