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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.


1t is our notion that the man who
throws the first shovelful of dirt gets
too much credit for building the rail
road.
A Tom Cat with a good tenor voice
probably complains good deal be-
cause people have no appreciation OF
music.
Neither do we regard the corner
stone as the most important feature
of a twenty-seven story skyscraper or
courth ouse.
We are willing. however. to con-
cede that a naval expert is shade
more important than an expert at
balk-line billiards.
Pastors can, in these syndicate
days. exchange pulpits without add
ing greatly to the variety which is the
spice of life.
Literary note: Hawthorne's Twice
Told Tales" have stood the test of
time pretty well, in spite of lot OF
competition.
1t may also be said for the crouch
that he doesn't care if the converse
ton drags. as much as he may regret
everything else.
Choosing the manner of death
comes, a farmer boy probably would
name ennui as an early selection.
1t used to cost twenty-five cents to
send a letter, and men of that time
didn't have to lie SO much about
being too busy to write.
Preachers who have some trouble
collecting their salaries, must occa-
sionally wish they were missionaries,
sent where there is no i. C. for l.
Our thirst for knowledge also prompts
US to inquire the location of the fac
tory which makes the Indian mecca
sins and sichlike sold to travellers.
A choice collection of prickly heat
| does a good deal to substantiate the
theory that hades' horrid habitat is
right here on earth. even in times OF
peace.
A rich mans son so often realizes
that his father will be able to get
larger dividends from other invest
ments than from the money spent OF
the sons education.
Link Preston always has an excuse
Il wouid have given him sounc
threshing,' Link said this morning in
speaking Of any enemy, IF the wealth
er wasn't too hot to fight"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
AcRrOUITURE IN THE SCHOOLS.

E. T. Fairchild. state superintendent
of public instruction, is decidedly on
the right tack in urging the county su-
perintendents to see to it that courses
in agriculture are placed in the cur
riculums Of the rural schools This
means practical education for the boys
and girls Of the farms. And towards
the training of school children in mat
ters that will be of real value to Them
is being Bonded all OF the efforts of
the discerning educators of today.
The study of agriculture in the rural
schools will be helpful in more ways
than one It can be combined with
all Of the ordinary studies. And be-
sides being intensely interesting of
itself it could be made to awaken the
interest OF the children in many Of
their other studies which they are
often too apt to look upon as being
dull.
Then, too. if the children of the farm
are interested in the study of agricul-
ture. thew will be awakened as to its
wonderful possibilities. They Will find
out that a careful and proper culture
Of the soil and the variety OF crops ana
fruits that are indigenous to it, is Ger
tain to yield larger and surer returns
than any other field of human en-
deavor. There are bad seasons for
farming And there are also bad sea
sons in all other business. But under
the new and modern methods of agri-
culture, with its diversified farming
and the like, an untoward season that
has not yet presented itself viii have
to put in an appearance to make faru-
ing even for one year an absolute fail
ure.
And when the children of rural Kan
sas have been taught these important
facts, it is not indulging in undue OPP
tinism to state that something ap-
preaching a solution of the grave ques-
ton as to how to keep the young folk
on the farms will have been reached
Certainly such an end is worth striving
after. The way has been opened There
, has been the necessary legislation fol-
the addition Of agricultural courses no
only to the curriculums of the rura
grammar schools but also to the cur
ricuIums of the high schools in rGra
districts Books for these courses hav'
been selected by the state tex booi
commission. All that remains is 70
the county superintendent to take ad
vantage of their opportunities IN tn
premises. They should do so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
HYHAWKER JOTS

Kansas is redeemed again. sings the
Leavenworth Post A Kansas girl who
was living with Chinaman in Kansas
City committed suicide.
The Herington Sun reports that a
young clerk in its town lost his job
the other day because the proprietor
claimed his thumbs didn't weigh
enough.
In a series of social notes concern
ing a young man named Clarence
Boyle, the Oak Hill Gazette spells his
first name. Clearance" Clearance" and
finally Clarence"
There was some heavenly music at
Up Greek recently as the following
item from there in the Luray Herald
shows: Several members of the Para
disc band came down Saturday and as
sisted the local band with the music.
A personal mention in the news
from Elkader in the Oakley Grapic:
George Hem left home Friday with
out telling his wife his destination, but
Mrs. Hem says she thinks he has gone
to look for work and will write as
soon as he finds it.
From the MIXED Pickles column
in the Leavenworth Labor Chronicle
and Resubmissionist Housewife
John Henry, John Henry, wake up!
The aviation collector from the install
ment house and the aviation collector
from the grocery store are here and
there ISM q QOlldT IN the uOuSe. w lA1'
shall I tell them? John Henry-gasp-
| ing-Ten them, tell them, oh, tell
them to fly.
| Editor Henthorn of the Cunningham
Clipper had an experience with a kiss
| ing bug which he graphically describes
as follows: Saturday night while the
editor of this Dispenser of Mora
Ethics was standing on the street {
kissing bug or some other inhabitan
of the insect world sneaked up behinC
us and inserted it's stinger in our neck
BY the next morning our "guzel' hat
/ assumed such alarming proportion
that we wrapped it up carefully ant
carried it up to DR.. Maxson's and ha'
it examined. BY means of liberal ap
| plications of "anti" bug juice and car
| rying our neck in sling for lev
DAYS. we feel as good as new at tn
time of going to press. Moral: Don
monkey with a kissing bug, or yol
may get bit on the neck.
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of the driving rollers of the engine
This instrument acts somewhat in the
nature OF a pillow. The effect is that
es the engine progresses, several steel
points penetrate several inches below
the surface of the road and tear II
up into the condition of a plowed field.
When the whole of the original sur
face has been so "scarified," the tarred
metal is laid upon it and rolled IN
If the surface is not scarifed, but the
tarred metal simply laid down upon the
old surface of an uneven nlacadam1sed
road. the finished road soon begins to
show unevenness of suface, and finally
it is apt to break up at various points.
Experience has also taught that
granolithic or cement foot pavements
are more satisfactory than foot pSVe-
ments made by the Walker system OF
tar-rnacadarn, although the tar-maca-
dam pavement is more agreeable 10
walk upon. 1t is observed that certain
parts of foot pavement are used py
pedestrians more than other, for exam
pIe. close to shop fronts, close to cor
ners. and, In country districts, close TO
the inner side of the pavement. The
effect of this on a tsr-1nacadam SIDE
walk is that about one-fourth OF the
surface becomes worn to such an ex-
tent as to require patching. thus spoil
ing the appearance Of the pavement
The dripping of water from the caves
of buildings also appear to have dis
integratiug effect upon tar-macadan
pavements.
In hot weather tar.macadam side
walks (and, to a lesser degree, road
wavsl become distinctly soft, an i'm
portant fact that should be seriously
considered bv road makers DESTROYS Of
introducing the tar-macadam system il
verv warm climates. The science O.
chemistry may yet discover some sufh'
GENTLY viscid substance to be use'
with or substituted for tar, which, at
ter setting. would not become undul.
soft during the heat of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
THE LOVE OF PERSONALITY.

1I1EI lfJA UT LlAhaDO-N @A4A L
1.-THE favorite case in the library
contains biography. It is repaired to
frequently by each member of the
family" writes a contributor to the
current isuse of Harper's Weekly.
There, side by side, stand volumes of
Adventurous Lives. the Legends of
the Saints Chateaubriand's great
tones of the Monks of the West,
Bonaventura's St Francis of Assist,
and Sabatiers alongside of it, and
there. too, are Carlyle's Letters and
Mrs. Carlyles. and Stevenson's and
Iafcadio Hearns, and Mills Autob bio
graphy. and Grays Letters and lives
of Keats and several Of Shelley. and
six various studies of Blake, and all
the pre- Raphaelite records; Holman
Hunts Pre-Raphaelitisln which is
nothing but an autobiography, and
the Memoirs of Burne-Jones and Will
liam Morris and Hueffer's Memories
and Impressions. and score of 9TH
I er volumes on the same group. Ev-
erybody in the house waits with in
terest to get the Life of Swinburne in
/ the same themselves.
IF one asks why this bookcase is
the best beloved. the answer is ready:
because it records heaven made in
dividualities and relieves US from the
WEAKNESS of the man-made human
herd. One hardly knows how the
idea of human conformity spread like
pestilential fog over society unless il
was the outgrowth of our most per
vasive disease, namely, inertia. Diff
ferences are exciting; they compe
some attention, perhaps even a little
effort of the understanding, and any
unnecessary effort of the understand.
ing is a thing average man avoids
And so we all go about thwarting ma
ture, who drew upon infinite re
sources of variety in molding oul
mouths and eyes and limbs. while WI
try our level best by means of uni
form clothing, manners. habits, ant
voices to be as alike as so many pea
in a pod. Then. wearied of peopl
who all say and all do exactly tn
same thing, we turn to the records o
separate and distinct personalities
They do not always prove lovable. o
virtuous in any ordinary sense, bu
they are always real and always tru
to themselves. They are never
shadow of some one else or an imi
tation humanity. They have neve
< expended energy in life on the limit
ing and binding of a soul so as t
make an inane and uniform exterior
but have invariably allowed luxu
RANT growth of personality
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.



Sound advice isn't necessarily noisy
A friend is always willing to do you
a favor-tomorrow
Tears of joy do not plow wrinkles
in a Woman's cheek.
A self made man is always ready to
monopolize the spot light
Many a man mistakes the echo of his
own voice for applause
It Is usually a mans idle curiosity
that induces him to look for work.
Perhaps more men would be glad to
pay their taxes IL it were against the
law.
The man who fools with platonic
friendship or a live wire is apt to get
a severe shock.
Would bride be any happier if she
could see herself as her husband
mother sees herr
All silver dollars are the same size
but the farther you get away from one
the bigger it looks.
But for ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain the heather Chi
nee is not in it with some women
| Our idea of a conceited woman is one
who looks in her Tnirrcr and feels sorry
for all her female acquaintances.
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HUH0R OF The DAY

Some wake and find themselves famous
but many more find themselves famous
and wake.-Puck.
Sknflint-I have no money, but via
give you a little advice. Beggar-Well, II
yer amt got no money yer advice can't
be very valuable.-christian Advocate.
'I think this indictment must be defec-
tive" declared the Judge. ''Why?" in
CURED the assistant district attorney.
Seems to make sense. w ashington
Herald
Goodman (sententiously)-It is the little
things that trouble US Rounder-Sure!
It's always easier to find the house than
to locate the keyhole.-Boston Transcript
Mrs. Callahan-Oh, fireman, PLAT ever
we do save me piana; it's on the ground
flure. Dolan-Don't be uneasy, Mrs. Cal
lahan, the piani is all right. The hose
is playing on it.-Post-Dispatch.
The Thin One-Remember. please, that
/ am a star. The Other-Oh, know you
are a star. but you would look better
dear, if you were little meteori-London
| Opinion.
KITTY" said her mother. rebudngly.
you must sit still when you are at the me
little girl I'm a fidgetarian. '-Chicago
| Tribune.
I.aborer-And hav they tall buildings in
America, Pat? Pat-Tah buildings nav
they-faith, Mike, the last one 1 worked
on we had to lay on our stomach to let
the moon pass.-Lfe-
Mrs. CIubwoman-John, 1 was positive
" beside myself at the condition you
came home in last night. Clubman-I re-
member now I did see two of you, my
ldear-Boston Transcript.
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less. her face aglow with the house"
holders pride of possession.
Great snakesl' said Prescott awe
struck I'm coming out to see It,
"Oh, yes, dol And mother VIII make
one of her cream pies for you and II
you Just wait long enough Wen have
fried chicken"
mo, won't wait. either. Don't you
know it'll take those chickens weeks
to grow UP? I'm coming out Sunday
and hoe in the garden. Say, put on
your hat and I'll run yoC out there in
the car. I'm crazy to sne that place.
Wen take out steak and things and
cook our own dinner. Whoopee!"
Poor Mrs Ward striving to cover in
hated household expenses would nave
groaned over the tragedy OF extremes
could she have seen Prescott, sWathed
in gingham cavortfng in a spotiess
kitchen and slapping q thick steak up
and down in boyish glee, while MS
stenographer washed vegetables ana
an impoverished gent1swonuan laid the
table The whole family groaned Wnen
Prescott's engagement was announceo
two weeks before the wedding, and
the present tendency of young men 70
marry beneath them.
Prescott, himself, had nothing Dus
gratitude for the Wards.
'"They at least showed me, dear
what love was not he ccnf1ded to hiA
bride. And until then did not know
that had been falling in love with you
for a year. Let me look at that ador'
able left ear of yours again. COPY
right, 1911, by the Associated Literars
Press
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QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
[F-rom the Philadelphia Record

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record
Why should awnings come in diff
ferent shades?
It doesn't take an egotist to make
eyes at the girls.
The less some people have to say
the more they say it.
Even the fortune hunter sometimes
has to pay a guide.
Money talks. and when we give il
20 charity it positively yelis
Time may be money, but it makes a
poor sort of bank account.
The man of few words doesn't have
to take many of them back.
The debt man owes to himself een-
orally makes him a preferred creditor.
It is extremely difficult to have a
light heart and a dark brown taste at
the same time.
The fellow who never raises a hand
to help himself should keep out OF
poker games.
Nell-'"rhat complexion Of Maude,r
makes her look fast" Believe
even the color runs"
Hoax-"My feet feel like two acres =.
Joax-'.Bow's that2'' Hoax ba~s
corn on each one"
Boys viii be boys" quoted the Wise
Guy. Yes, assented the Simple ME-
especially the gay old boys of abosSt
u W.
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Real Babes in Wood.

In dark, gloomy wood, along the
Little Fails road, near Paterson, n. j.,
William Pennington, a lawyer, heard
the crying of children on his way
home the other night At the time he
did not pay attention to it, and it was
not until he had reached home that
the plaintive wailing began to make an
impression on him. There was some
thing about the cries that made him
lose much sleep that night.
When MIR. Pennington went to his
office he stopped at the home of the
superintendent of the Passalc county
Children's home and asked him to IN
vestigate the cries. Mr.. Gallant. the
Superintendent, himself went into the
woods to see if there were any grounds
| for Mr. Pennington's fears that some
one was in trouble, and there founo
lying, hidden in the thicket, whimper-
ing weakly, 13-year-old boy ana MS
sister, II years old.
| Mr. Gallant stopped to ask no ques-
| lions then. He picked up the young
sters and bore them off to the home.
THE boy tried to choke back the sobs
when he saw Mr.. Gallant, but the CIR
went wildly in the superintendent
arms. At the home it took lots OF
warm water and soap to show what
1.-THE children really looked like after
lthey had been fed. Then they were
questioned, the boy acting as spokes-
man for the girl
I'm Frank O'Rourk,' he said, "ano
lshe's my sister, Mamie"
His eyes filled with tears when ne
was asked where his mother was
81 don't know he said. Papa
never tells us about her. She died
Iyear ago."
Hes gone" said the boy. 81 dom
know where. We ran away from hin
| because he beat us. He used to leave
lus cents a day for bread, and thati
, lall we've had to eat since four week
) ago, when we got some chicken
l A fist from which not quite all tn
CRIME had been cleansed passed owe
, 1.-THE boys eyes often as he continues
to tell about his life in the woods Wit
= his sister.
e I'VE picked up some bread crust
S in the woods and once in a while W
] found something we could eat lying i
/ the roadways. That's all we've ha
e for four days, and we have slept i
j the woods, hiding from papa l cues
t he didn't look for Us, though.
n There could not have been man
= crusts in the highways or woods, 70
o the two little faces were peaked an
lsunken from lack of food.
Hugh O'Rourk, the father, was tax
en- before Justice Cohen.
# ssI thought cents a day ought to b
} enough to buy bread for them
said, and that was about all he woul
le In default of $1,000 bail Justic
20 Cohen committed O'Rourk to jail on
= charge of neglect of his children
" New York Herald.
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Iirhtning,s odd Pranks.

Lightning struck the home of Prof.
]. B. Doty and set it on fire in five
places. tore plaster from every room in
the house, loosened the st1dding' turn
ed a clock around, and moved lamp
to where the clock had BEEN broke
three mirrors and printed fern leaves
on another, killed a cat and only
stunned her kittens, killed one chicken
and melted the chicken yard wire.
None of the family was touched, but
burned streaks showed that the light
ming ran within a few inches of where
Prof. Doty and two Of his daughters
stood A bucket brigade, in which the
women were the chief actors, saved the
horse with a loss Of not more than
s5OO.-vineland IN j. dispatch to Phil
adelphia Record.
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:" GARDEN.

There is a garden Of my heart,
Where bloom the flowers OF song;
At eventide, the world apart.
1 walk my buds among:
Within the deepening dark OF night,
Flames forth the roses red love-hght.
The lily, on her slender stem,
Bends in the gentle breeze
Caressed by watt OK trailing hem
My vision never sees,
The filrny fringe OF robe Of day
Gliding into the far away.
When all my little urns of gold
Are brimmed with wells Of sleep.
And Swallowed bowls of verdure hold
The draught the moonrays steep,
lie where mods, by murmuring streams,
My poppy from the Isle of Dreams.
Samuel Abbott, in the Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Good dispositions are among the
things that are difficult to keep.
Misery often loves company so sue
cessfully that a marriage results.
y
Men are considered rude only by the
girls who do not get their attentions
So many ills are imaginary that when
a real one comes along it is not recog-
nized.
Charitys cloak is not so impenetra-
BILE that the sins it covers are conceal
ed from view for all time.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press
It may take two to make family
quarrel, but one can keep it going.
Re content and you'll become used
to somebody else getting your share.
Your own little angel children
could become limbs of satan by be-
ing somebody else's.
It's just like man, when his wife
is gone to visit her mother, to be will
ing. to come home early every night
A woman who sets out to make a
man better generally winds up being
thankful if he doesn't get any worse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24

VIXEN Chester I. Long was a United
States senator from Kansas, and pur-
chased a $4,000 home at Washington,
the square dealers in the state wink
ed their eyes knowingly and inquired to
know: Where did he get it?" United
States Senator Bristow of Kansas has
just purchased a $500 home in Wash
ington. Any question concerning the
same is out Of order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24

John D. Rockefeller must be plan
ming to entertain some heightened
friends He is going to add ten guest
rooms to his PocanticO Hills home
which will cost 100000 each. His
home will then make the gilded pal
aces of the gaudy rich at Newport look
like the proverbial thirty cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24

DR. Dudley a. Sargent, the physical
culture expert of Harvard university,
insists that the usual fortnightiy vaca-
dion is harmful in many cases; that
the vacationists would be better off
# they stayed at work. L is to be
presumed, of course, that DR.. Sargent
is hard at work from dawn to dark
during the two months and more of
each year when Harvard is closed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24

superhuman strength. He was picked
from the floor, strapped back in the
chair, and a larger voltage was turned
through his body. It finally killed him.
Why doesn't Kentucky beat its convict
ed rnurderers to death with clubs?
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

ar,s-.cribz=s Of the state Journal
u,1-Iv FrnT1a home during the suE l,.l.1s-
may have the paper rnsaAlS1 49, -
- ,,-nta a week or thirty cents .
month (by mail only). Azores
.-V,~s-~5 AZ oftan as desired. Whlte
-Srt al town the State Journal VIII oO
30 you MIze daily letter rom A no150. ~,
sy,-s~ short dime subscriptions % save
Bookkeeping expenses.
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According to Representative Mann,
ahe Republican leader in the house, the
Democrats, in trying to put the presi-
dent in a hole with tariff revision leg
hslation, had been hoist by their own
petard" But maybe they haven't been
blown UP so high that their inevitable
Nan will be wholly disastrous.
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states and Canada, who are in attend
ance at the eighth annual Apple Grow
ers' congress, being held at St. Louis,
express the opinion that this years ap-
pie crop will be the largest by far that
has been produced in five years. IN
all likelihood, though, the cold storage
men can be depended upon to take
care Of It and thereby keep the price
Of apples at a reasonably high figure.
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Carl Morris. the white hope" is
really a poor aspirant for the highest
honors in the pugilistic arena 1t ap-
pears that he is the owner of a large
aouring automobile. And he has never
get been arrested for excessive speed
Ding