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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the ChIcago News.I

TFrom the Chicago News.J
Anyway, a rolling stone scatters the
dust
Genius is more plentiful than plain
common sense.
Anything is all right-until it inter
feres with your plans
No man is so religious that he con-
siders dying a pleasure.
girls sense of humor is badly
warped If she marries for a joke.
Father Time is a great artist, but
women do not admire his line work.
Free advice is the kind people give
away because they have no use for it.
man wastes a lot of time asking
questions that ne doesn't want ans
wered.
Some men are like the wind; they
can't even raise disturbance without
blowing about it.
Tt isn't difficult to size g. man up,
but the true measure of a woman is
known only to her dress maker
There is no reason why, a woman
shouldn't have an aim in 1ife-even If
she cant throw q stone with accuracy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
FIGHTING THE LAND SHARKS.

Immigration commissioners from
nineteen states met at Chicago recently
for the purpose of forming a national
organization. Kansas was not repre-
scented because of the short-sighted
policy of the last legislature in refus-
ing to establish state immigration
bureau But Kansas ought to reap
some advantages from this new or
ganization anyhow, as viii every other
agricultural state in the central west
that is in a position to deliver the
goods to prospective settlers in farm
lands that have been tried and tested
and not found wanting.
1t is proposed by this organization
of immigration commissioners to is
sue a handbook for the guidance of
Iandseekers. This book viii contain
exact information concerning all
farm and mineral lands in the various
states so that the unwary and unin-
formed investor will not be easy prey
for the land shark. The book is going
to be compiled upon scientific investi-
CATION and will be circulated in every
state in the union as protection
against the land promotion schemes
which have little behind them but the
clever tdlk OI the IilSAl iillAS0 up III
them, and their ability to paint word
pictures of the promised land that
are not in keeping with the facts.
Such a publication ought to be most
valuable, not only to the prospective
investor, but in stimulating immigra-
ton to states like Kansas and its
neighbors in the central west where
there are stable opportunities for re-
munerative agriculture. Many a hard
earned little fortune has been dissipat-
ed over night. as it were, because its
possessor, infected with the moving
bug, has been attra cted to one of sew
eral localities in the country which
have been held up by the land sharks
as veritabie Edens.
There is much honest land promo
ton in the United States these days.
but there is equally as much if not
more in the way of dishonest land
promotion. And 1t does not seem that
any better way could be devised to
check the latter than through such a.
book as the immigration commits
Isioners have decided to issue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
.LAYHAWKER JOTS

The Pratt Union quotes Jim" as
saying: Even pretty woman aim
when she cries.
It now looks to the Burlington In
dependent as If the price of potatoes
would not be so high but what the
average family can have { mess at
least every thirty days.
A hint in the Overbrook Citizen as
to a prospective wedding at Spring
Hill: Clarence IngersoH is contem-
plating taking a domestic science
course in the near future.
Here is another way 20 earn money.
says the Americas Greeting: A coun-
mice at a penny apiece. Sometimes he
makes as much as Is cents day. He
is the official mouse catcher.
One of Burlington's young men, re-
ports the Independent, is trying to
kill it, with fine pair of white
trousers. And then the Independent
advises him thusly: If he would only
wear a pair of black trousers at night
when he is making the rounds. the
people would not know who he is
The optimistic Americas Greeting
points out that a dry year is better
than flood year. A dry year is pref
ty tough, says the Greeting. but it
beats a flood year after all. This sec
ton of the country viii raise more
stuff than it raised in a flood year, and
then be able to save it all and in some
instances get double the price for what
is raised over the price of previous
years.
The editor was busy when he was
asked: How are the markets 20 The
man was referred to the Office devil,
who looked wise and said; Young
men, steady; girls, lively and in de-
mand; papas, firm, bug declining;
mammas, unsettled. waiting for high
er bids; coffee. considerably mixed;
fresh fish, active and slippery; eggs,
quiet. but expected to open soon;
whisky, still going down; onions,
strong; yeast, rising; breadstuffs,
heavy; boots and shoes those on the
market are old and constantly going
] up and down; hats and caps, not so
J high as last year. excepting foolscap,
which is stationery; tobacco, very low
with downward tendency; silver
close, but not close enough to get hold
of.'-Delphos Republican
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ing. There should be p market bu-
reau Of the agricultural department
devoted to accommodating and distribut-
ing information on best methods and
best markets for selling The gov
eminent should spend some money to
demonstrate proper marketing, just as
1t is doing in the development of good
roads work. The good roads depart
ment has been brought up to such
high state of efficiency by mr.. Logan
w. Page. director in charge, that it is
now estimated that there is being
spent one million dollars a day in the
Improvement of our public highways.
This is good work. The government
can demonstrate proper market facil-
ties Just as it now dem onstrates the
values of different soils for production.
The government which maintains an
expensive and efficient consular service
to aid our export trade can afford to
expend a few dollars to better the mar
keting of eggs so that millions will
not be destroyed every year because
they arrive at the city market in bad
or half-bad condition. The govern
ment watches over the purity of man
ufactured food products, and it is just
as important to spend money to find
ways and means of decreasing expense
of distribution of products in order to
give the user better and cheaper food,
and the grower better and safer re-
turns for his work. This market de-
partment should be broad enough to
reach all the farmers OF the country.
The government should Systematically
trace the movement of all farm prod
ucts to the place of final use and give
the country the information. It should
give the country the benefit of thor
ough investigation of improved selling
and marketing systems. including all
means of distribution and handling.
Results will be Immediate. The farm
er will reduce his selling cost when
he learns in detail about wagon haul
costs, cold storage charges. distribu-
ton in cities, profits to dealers, losses
through deterioration and all things
which enter into marketing expense.
AS the selling expense decreases so
will the returns to the farme~ increase
and the cost of living decrease
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
HIGH COST OF SELLING.

B. F. Yoakum, head or the Frisco
railroad system, who lent such valu-
able aid to the good roads movement
with discerning and practical adj
dresses on the subject. has devoted
considerable thought and attention to
that big and important question con-
corning the high cost OF living. The
results are that he has come to the
conclusion that the crux of this mat
ter is to be found in the high cost of
selling. He delivered an illuminating
address on this subject the other day
before the annual meeting of the
Texas Farmers congress. Salient ex-
cerpts from this speech that are
worthy of the careful consideration of
every one follow:
Last years agricultural products
were worth nine billion dollars to the
farmers. The government used farm
values in getting figures for this total.
Assuming that the farmers kept one
third of the products for their own
use the consumers paid over IS billion
dollars for what the producers re-
ceived billion dollars. The cost of
getting the years products from pro
ducers to consumers amounted to the
enormous sum of Z billion dollars The
real problem to deal with is not high
cost of living. 1t Is high COST OF sell
ing.
1.-The farmers of this country, to re-
ceive better prices, do not have to ex-
pertinent with untried theories. They
only have to copy what others are do
ing successfully. For instance, the
people of Denmark thirty years ago
received II million dollars for their
butter, eggs and bacon. Then they
began the organization of market soci-
cites. Now the same character of
products brings in over 100 million
dollars a year. Nearly all their dairy
products are marketed through CO.
operative creameries and their egg eX-
port societies have $4,000 members
There is no such talk o. high cost of
living in that little country because
they have a system of economical mar
keting. The farmers there have or
ganized under trust methods. The
commercial waste in the distribution
of farm products is reduced to q mini
mum. They share in tie profits of
economical marketing.
| The government should assist in
finding way for better farm market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Other peoples troubles are always
magnified.
Some girls would rather marry well
than marry happily.
Marriage also proves that two can
live as extensively as one.
A man may be on the square and
still move in the best circles.
Most people who want money want
it bad. but they don't want it coun-
terfeit.
The political orator would rather
take the stump than have a family
tree.
It's all right to look up to others,
If you don't mind having them look
down on you.
A hairpin may be said to go to ex-
tremes when a woman converts it into
button hook.
''All things are possible quoted the
Wise Guy. Except some people, .
added the Simple Mug.
Forgive and Forget is good
motto, but most Of US would rather be
forgiven than forgotten
'.Alasl am undone," cried the he
roine of the melodrama- The villain
smiled sardonically, for, of course. she
couldn't ask him to hook her up the
hack
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
GROWING OLD.

A little more tired at close of day,
A little less anxious TO have our way,
A little ready to scoId and blame,
A little more care for brothers names
And SO we are nearing teh journeys end
When time and eternity meet and blend
A little less care for bonds and gold,
A little more zest in the days of old,
A broader view and q saner mind
And a little more love for all mankind
And so we are faring a-down the way.
A little more love for our friends of youth.
A little less zeal for established truth.
A little more charity in our views,
A little less trust for the daily news,
And SO we are folding our tents away
And passing in silence at close OF day.
A little more leisure to sit and dream,
A little more real the things unseen
A little nearer to those ahead,
With visions of those long loved ana dead,
And so we are going to where all must go
To the place the living may never know.
A little more laughter little more tears.
And we shall have told your increasing
years.
The book is closed. and the prayers are
said,
And we are part of the countless dead;
Thrice happy then If some soul can say,
live because he has passed my way.
e. d. DAY.
Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor do the side-shows with the cir
cuses contain all the fraaks on earth
Just because you hear an anecdote
for the first time is no sign it's new
one.
And the women in a family have
little use for that part OF the Bible
where the birth records are kept
y
It is also the rule that the people
who are so exceedingly saving with
their money leave 1t for others to
enjoy.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned father who actually used to
boot out of the house an undesirable
sutton of his daughters hand?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe.J
So much time is wasted at just jok-
ing.
If you will take up an argument you
aren't a smart man.
After a man has killed a snake he
feels like a hero for a week.
Any kind of a surgical operation is
risf.y; You can depend upon that.
Don't mistake tine welcome on the
door mat for permanent position.
Justice rarely ever exceeds the speed
limit. but it never fails to get there.
There are still. we observe, a num-
Der of men who regard a napkin as a
bib.
It pleases the help to see the boss
get down to work rather late coca
sionally.
Some men remember dates in his
tory pretty well without getting much
of a salary for it.
If you are bothered with insomnia,
the London letters the big papers pub
lisn might help some.
What has be-t me of The cld-fashion-
ed woman VINO spanked her children
with an old Single?
The Importance of laying a corner
stone doesn't seem to be as great as
it was in the good old days.
The faithful watch dog is not, how
ever, the only. one to put too much
confidence in its voice
In the course Of time. however, a
good many of the ironclad agreements
are broken in one way and another.
An old-fashioned woman can get a
good deal of satisfaction out of wash
ing a boys ears. but the hoy can't.
Men Rave various ways of fooling
their wives. and a number Of them
besides the Glove, don't work very well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
THE WILD WORLD.

Not yet, in spite of a dismal voice
raised now and then bewailing the
death of romance and the passing Of
the period of adventure. las the world
arrived at respectable and uninterest-
ing middle age We go about in armor
no longer, and the number of beau
teous damsels to be rescued from the
hands of tyrants has diminished sadly
since the days of Launcelot; but there
is still q little of the witness of youth
about the planet on which We live: and
now and again, even in the twentieth
century, something happens to impress
that fact upon US with convincing
force.
Such. for example. is the news that
comes out of Bechuanaland, where
few days ago a German expeditionary
force of a men was wiped out of ex-
istence by savages. Such a story pub
lished IL newspaper Of today seems
an anacronisra. Amid the whirlirg
wheels of our factories, in our streets
agog with the business of peace, in our
easy chairs under the electric lights.
We had almost come re believe that
there were no more savages left. We
had thought of them as creatures Of
the past, as extinct today as the dodo
and the sabre-toothed tiger; CT, at the
least, we had supposed that the few of
them that remained were of very
tame and harmless sort. far too sub
dued 70 the will of the eonquering
Aryan 10 plan and accomplish nassa-
lcres.-Charieston News and Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
HUA0R or THE DAY

Whats the matter? Made an election
bet to let your whiskers grow?,' NO:
but / dassn't cut 'em till fall It would
be a big disappointment to the summer
boarders not to have some whiskers ON
the place to make jokes about. Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
Mr. Grump with paper)-Here's an old
case: A woman marries one man think
ing he is another Mrs. Grump-What's
odd about that? Women are doing that
all the time.-Boston Transcript.
City Chap-Own this place clear? Sub
urbanite-There's a $1,000 automobile on it.
Puck.
Architect (showing plans)-This room
will be. your library Mr.. Newrich-Afy
a place to smoke.-Boston Evening Trans
cript.
He-So young March and his father are
carrying on the business2 She-Yes. The
old man runs the business while young
March does the carrying on.-New York
Globe.
His Wife-But don't you think joining
the golf club is rather an extrayagance?
Not If we economic in other ways.
thought we might give up our pew in
church Life.
What did your wife say when you got
home the other night?" Not a word. She
Tell Me the Old, Old story New York
Evening Mail
Ieacher-Did you ever hear of the
charge OF the Light Brigade? Boy-That
must nave happened before dad was ap-
pointed to the force What was they
charged ith?-Chicago News.
II great mistake to borrow trou-
PIE. Well replied Mr.. Chuggins
there seems to be q disposition to curtail
the chance of you borrowing it. Tshev
always make you pay cash for an auto
mobile" Washington Star.
Teacher-Now. who can tell me the uSas
to which our forests are put? NiIlie
(eagerly)-Dey cut 'em up into sawdusf
for de saloon floors.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
GARDENS RECLAIM BAD BOYS.

How the naughty little boys of Day
ton, Ohio. were reclaimed from their
mischievous ways without the aid of
reform schools is told in an interesting
illustrated article in the August num-
Der of Popular Mechanics magazine.
Each boy was provided with a garden
all his own, from which he could har-
vest vegetables to supply his home
and for sale to the neighbors.
The Boys Garden is a plot of land
advantageously located in a part of
Dayton now called South Park. and
each boy has a garden 10 feet wide by
107 feet long. the whole plot being
surrounded by shrubbery. The Office
of the Boys Garden company is a very
artistic building located at the edge of
the gardens, and the officers are boys.
The hours of work in the gardens are
from $50 to 1880 in the morning, and
from 400 to Sis in the evening. If
any body wishes to work overtime he
must stop work when the rest do, re-
port to the head gardener and get per
mission to continue. Every boy must
stay in his own garden, must clean his
tools after using, and hang them in
their place. The use of bad language
is strictly forbidden. and an excuse
must be brought to the head gardener
in case of absence.
The benefits of the scheme to the
boys are remarkable, teaching them to
take care of little things as we'll as the
large ones, benefiting them mentally
and physically through work in the
open air, teaching them how vegeta-
bles grow and how to keep the ground
working all the time. and supplying
them with pocket money honestly
earned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31

bear to see you in place that you
don't belong, like that lunchroom- 1t
is not the place for a lady, like you,
and that head waiter is not q gentle
man. I don't like to see you with
him and I don't think you ought to go
with him, Virginia
He spoke with d vehemence that
astonished Virginia. She had not
dreamed that Billy had it in him.
why Billy Locke she gasped. It
didn't suppose you thought about me
that way
ssI love you, and I want to marry you,
Virginia, and by fall l shall have
enough to take us both back where we
want to be. Will you wait till then,
virginia?''
she hesitated. ooh, I can't say
what I will do right now, Billy
She thought it over ard the vision
of the little home among the 1ilacs
came to her when, on the hot days,
she served luncheons to a ravenous
populace.
In vain did the head waiter whisper
in her ears dreams of future delights.
What had he to offer her that could
compare with the dreams Billy had
put into her head? Trips down the
river, and to amusement resorts
these were things of the moment. But
Billy's promises were for q lifetime
The next Sunday in the park she
told the results of her decision to
Billy Locke.
ut is because you are SO good, Bill
ly,' she said. Somehow from the
very moment I saw you standing on
the corner, I knew that I could trust
YOU
"You bet you cam said Billy fer
vently-( 1911 by the AS
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
FROM OTHER PENS
WOMEN AND MONEY.


The household economic department
of the University of Wisconsin has is
sued a bulletin which will create uni
versal establishment. and nowhere more
than in the dry goods stores. This bull
letin recites that ten billion dollars a
year are spent in general shopping,
nine-tenths of it by women and the
greater part of these know nothing Of
the value of money.
If this department will devote itself
TO teaching dressmaking. millinery and
cooking it will add greatly to the hap
piness of the state of Wisconsin and
the state of matrimony. These are
things that most women have to know,
but nature does not endow them with
skill in these arts, and they must learn
them.
But when it comes to shopping and
the value Of money the department of
household economics in Madison is in
truding upon the realm of nature. Wo-
men are born shoppers. The vast diff
ference between SO and s2.9S is a part
of their inheritance; they need no be-
nevolent university to teach it to them.
Women have been hunting bargains
ever since fig leaves went out of style
and costumes had to he bought instead
of picked off the trees Do not the
dry goods dealers know that women
are by nature gifted as choppers. and
do not their published announcements
appeal especially to the instinct of wo-
man for getting the best tnat there is
at the lowest possible price? Can the
University of Michigan teach bargain
hunting? Do the women Of Senator
La Follette's state need any instruc-
ton in the gentle art of shopping? No
mere man can get anything like as
much for $1.93 as his wife can.-PhiI-
adelphia Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
LFrom the New York Presz1

LFfOn the New York Press.
Experience is like spending money!
n-'thing comes back to you from it.
The difference between q flea ana =
liar is the liar Always gets caught.
Some men are SO naturally croolrsa
they've got to cheat themselves il they
can't anybody else.
The more coddIng a man wants tba
more he thinks he's a hero waiting For
his chance to show it.
The man who hasn't enough nron-
erty to interest the tax assessor Is a.
ways talking about the good he wouls
do if he were a millionaire. i0
A girl has a genius Tor ral.;,,-.
man think he's in love with her 49,. .
it's only how pleased he is with IN
way she makes him think she th,, si1e
now smart he ia. sAA'aAs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31

Why all this worry and excitement
as to where Colonel Roosevelt is going
TO stand in the next presidential cam
paign? A report of some time ago,
which has not yet been denied, stated
that he was going to pass the summer
and fall of 1912 in the frozen north.
chasing the festive polar bear, the
musk-ox and other beasts native to
that clirnn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31

Just because Clifford Pinchot de-
clares that President Taft has made
another big blunder in the Controller
Bay affair, that doesn't make it 50.
Not as much attention is paid these
days as formerly to the vaporings Of
the only man in the United States who
knows anything about the principles
Of conservation and their application
in his own estimation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31

the most rigorous sort OF measures
are going to stamp out this little cpl
demie. That it has not developed to
larger proportions is remarkable and
speaks volumes of praise for the city
officials and their assistants who have
had charge of the work incident to
controlling and auelIing the plague.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31

Nor does the day of miracles ap-
pear to be in the past. A Kansas City,
Kansas, man, "A years old. who has
been blind and deaf for II years, has
had the senses of sight and hearing
restored to him without medical or
surgical aid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-31
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