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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
IMPROVING TIE EGGS.

kansas is to be the scene again this
summer of more active campaigning
on the part of the bureau of animal
industry of the federal department of
agriculture for the Improvement of
farm eggs. Announcement was made
to this effect in a preliminary report
which has just been issued by this bu-
reau on the results of the first years
campaigning in this direction. Before
thu active campaign work was under
taken it was preceded by a general
survey of the field in the middle west.
This showed, to continue in the words
of the report, that an enormous loss
was being sustained annually as the
result of spoiled and deteriorated eggs.
This loss results from the ignorance,
earelessness, or indifference of the
farmer and from the dilatory and I'M
satisfactory methods of marketing in
vogue The actual money loss is suf-
fered mainly by the farmer, while the
loss in quality is borne by the con-
sumner.
The campaign of the last summer
had for its ultimate end the improve
ent of conditions surrounding the
consequently the Improvement of the
quality of the egg itself as it reaches
the consumer Coincident with such
Improvement there will be a saving to
the farmer of a great part of the
money loss at present sustained. The
efforts have so far been directed MAIN
ly to education in better methods, CO.
operation with egg buyers and state
authorities, and experimentation. The
actual work has been done mostly in
the state of Kansas. The educational
work has beer done by department
field men going among the farmers
and impressing upon them the neces-
sity of keeping eggs intended for mar
ket in cool, dry place and of market
ing them frequently. Incidentally they
have given the farmers help whenever
possible in the practical management
and breeding of poultry, and have
urged the keeping of pure bred poultry.
The bureau sought and obtained the
cooperation of the egg buyers of Kan
sas, and as a result the loss Off or
quality system of buying was brought
into use. By this system the bad eggs
are rejected and only the good eggs
paid for. There is no measure which
has such a definite and far-reaching
influence for the improvement of tbs
commercial egg than the general adop-
tin of this system Of buying and sell
ing. The state food authorities also
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

science. So Folwell, his gray eyes
emitting sparks, battered him with
right good will. The door swung open
on the climax.
Old Tommy Slade. smiling quizzicai-
ly, and Sam, a-grin through his mus
tache. noted Tommy nursing bump
on his head as big as an egg; Court
land. sitting dazed against the wall
where he had fallen, his aristocratic
nose bleeding and his right eyes
swollen shut; Folwell, gloved hands on
hips, dominating the scene from the
center of the floor; and Grace curleo
up IN a big chair, gazing spellbouno
at the victor
This ought to make the big act for
that play" murmured old Tommy,
with an edge in his gentle tones that
made his son writhe and COurtland
bite his lips. s'I thought you bucks'd
fiirt with the jam till somebody got
bruisin'"
He turned to FolwelI. "You the
chap that's goin' to put a power dam
across Rocky crick?''
If l can get the capital" said the
engineer. unlacing the gloves.
Old Tommy's glance rasped over
the crestfallen collaborators again.
you'll get it. all right-if you argue
like you fight. BY cracxy, this makes
me think I'll back you myself! Come
over to the house. Wen talk it over"
The storm had increased and the
wind bit the perspiring Folweli to the
bone. But he seemed to float over the
drifts instead of blowing through
them, for Grace Slade was beside him.
her hands nesting confidingly into the
crook OF his arm. And he dared to
hope that her heart kept time to the
mad, sweet dance of his own.-(Copy-
righted 1911 by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TFrom the Chicago News.]
Perhaps your ship came in when you
were out.
With the beginning of the honeymoon
It begins to wane.
Marry. a crank and your life Will pc
one continuous grind.
Sometimes an innocent girl with
squint is mistaken for a flirt.
It's funn- that a funny show given
by amateurs usually isn't
Even the healthy dwarf realizes that
he isn't long for this world.
Have you more faith in a good luck
charm than in your own ability?
A woman isn't necessarily an artist
because she can draw a conclusion.
A man is never so sure of a woman's
love as when she says she hates him.
Sometimes the harder man is 10
land the less he pleaseS the woman
who lands him.
At some period in her career wo-
man imagines she is a dove and that
all men are hawks.
All men are born free and equal-but
some deteriorate until they find them
selves in the legislature.
Don't worry if you are unable to Dor
row trouble. Some one will come along
by and by and thrust it upon you.
It is said that fortune knocks once
at every mans door, but some other
knockers are not so easily discour-
aged.
After a woman has once bought
necktie that pleases her husband. you
can't make her believe that she isn't q
good Judge of human nature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
AYHAWKER JOTS

Some superior advice from Verd Ma
pier in his Blue Mound Sun: Don't
knock on your competitor It gives
the impression that you realize his su-
periority.
"Oh joy. oh packages of rapture
sings the Burlingame Enterprise. as it
makes the announcement that a long
deferred pie social is to be held in
the near future.
Nearly everybody roared at their
gas bills last month, says the Sedgwick
Paragraph, and it continues: Less
gas and higher bills at least make a
man warm under the collar.
r. K. Putnam, the new editor and
proprietor of the Oakland Blade. has
transformed the publication from a
small quarto sized paper of six pages
TO the regulation newspaper folio size,
with six columns to page. The Blade
is now full-f1edged eight page news
paper that is credit to Oakland, and
of which many other Kansas cities of
much larger size would be mighty
proud.
Who wouldn't be a boy? asks the
Sabetha correspondent of the. Seneca
Tribune. and he continues: AS Tuny
Van Brunt's sheep. 5000 head, came
out of the cars Sunday morning in
good shape and started up the street
two little boys, Irwin Stewart and Cliff
-
ing's milk. carefully set the milk by
the roadside and Joined the parade. At
the south limits of town they were
Joined by Bill Morriss and his brother
Clyde. The men Tunis had hired to
help struck On the job and the little
boys were employed forthwith and
soon devoured the lunch provided for
the drivers. No breakfast had they
had. While their fathers. mothers and
brothers searched all day the little fell
lows chased sheep over the frozen
roads for the twelve miles to Capioma
besides all the lateral trips after stray
lambs. At p. m. they ate dinner
there and then with a dollar clutched
in their fist they started for Jake Raj
ston's emporium at Capioma. where
each bought five cents worth of candy
and as the sun went down they start
ed on their return home. Two miles
this side of the store they were met by
the carriage sent by their parents at
the nominal cost of four dollars. When
the parents dug them out of the robes
and blankets in the bottom of the car
riage they were fast asleep, but each
still had his ninety-five cents in change
and proudly displayed their hire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
1t is dangerous to compliment cheap
people.
You can't beat the fellow who works
when you are asleep.
All that seems to be expected of a
young girl is that she get married.
Why doesn't some one establish a
fund for a new way of serving eggs?
A party is never as important as it
seems to the person who is getting it
up.
To hear some men talk. one gets the
impression that their whole life is a
crisis.
When a woman says she is tired of a
man it usually means that he is tired
of her.
You can't tell how much a student
knows by the noise he makes with the
class yell.
A fan who is interested in midwin-
ter baseball news is carving his 10y
atty Too Far.
A gossip dearly loves to say that
where there is so much smoke there
must be some fire"
An old-timer says there hasn't been
much Improvement in ferryboatS or
liver pills in 40 years.
An ornery boys idea of a good time
is to whip some mammals boy who
wears curls and good clothes.
While people generally are honest,
there may be some exaggeration in the
pictures q fruit agent shows you.
Speaking Of the improvement of art
on nature, one might suggest the shoe
as compared with the average foot.
Some men, like a well-educated mule,
display their Intelligence by the man.
ner they kill time to get out of work.
If you are in business you probably
can make a living in eight hours, but
if you lay up anything you will have
to put in overtime.
You may figure out that your de-
feat is Great Moral Victory, with the
moral on your side, but don't expect
anyone else to look at it that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Fame is scarcely worth while that
has to be reached by the starvation
route.
y X
Among the lightweights are the folk
who pose as having artistic tempera-
ments.
Many plans are being made these
days for elaborate kitchen gardens
which will never materialize.
X y X
If there were nothing but happiness
in life it would become SO monoton-
Gus as to lose most of its charm.
r y
Some people are continually hunt
ing for sympathy. They seldom get it
for the very good reason that they
don't deserve it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
KANSAS COAAENT

ONE WAY NOT TO LEGISLATE.
we note that as the end of the ses-
sion OF the legislature draw near that
tnere IS tendency among the mem
pers TO scoop up bundle oe twenty or
so oils and pass them IL a bundle in
order to clear up the calendar. Some
OF them perhaps are meritorious. but
no doubt a. good many of them are
worse than worthless. 1t would ap-
pear that If there is really any freak
ABOUT fellow it will come out when
he gets to be member of the legisla-
ture. He often has a desire to be the
one that is noticed in the crowd of leg
lslators and he will often introduce a
freak bill in order to get little men
tlon. Then at the last when few of
the more important measures occupy
the attention of the brighter minds of
the two branches the other fellows
Will bunch their bills and pass them in
a lot 1t is evident to many that there
are too many laws on the statute book
or Kansas now, vet with each session
fifty or more of these laws pass. Then
we are admonished to retain a certain
amount of respect for the sacredn ess
OF an existing law We hope that we
are not getting to be a less desirable
citizen, but we must confess that as
we grow older we appear to have less
Colby Free Press.
GET RID OF WORRIES.
1t is easy to have a cheerful smile
for the troubles of others, the pessi-
mist will say but our own troubles are
not so easily gotten rid of.
Well, that's not true. Our own
troubles are chiefly of yesterday and
tomorrow. We borrow them mostly
OF imagination and fear.
Real troubles are easily borne; it
is the imaginary ones that are intol-
cradle.
True. life has its real tragedies and
pains from which there is no escape.
When death takes those we love, or
when disease seizes u.s. or misfortune
apportions us a pinched face and Ia
borious old age, more than cheer
ing maxims are required to bring us
happiness.
But it is still true that happiness
and discomfort are entirely state of
mind that can be controlled.
Nine-tenths of the little ills and
worries would disappear if the will
were resolutely set against them.
Actual Affections we learn to bear.
The crippled, the hopelessly diseased
and the poor have, since time began,
taught us our best lessons in patience
and cheerfulness.
But unhappiness that comes of alb
sorption in self fills the world with
doleful meanings.
1t is the gloom of self-absorption
that darkenS lives.
We can get out of it, and keep out
OF it, If we will.-Atchison Champion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
A WEDDING GIFT.

We confess to a feeling of sadness in
serving the list of wedding presents
given the Hon. Hugo Charters on the
occasion of his marriage to Lady VIC
let Manners, daughter of the Duke and
Duchess of Rutland. With Mr.. A j.
Balfour. Mr.. Herbert Asquith, the
Duke of Connaught, Lord Lytton, the
Marquis of CRANKY, etc, as contribu-
tors we might have hoped to escape
from the seeming inevitability of the
tie pin, the gold ink stand, the cigar
cite box and kindred unhappinesses.
But Mr.. Balfour's great genius led
him no further than a set of books.
Mr. Asquith's ingenuity and daring
produced nothing more than a ''set of
Balzac," the Marquis of CRANKY sue
cumbed hopelessly with a "set of
Chaucer," Lord Lytton had a fight of
fancy and got as far as an s'old silver
bell" Mr.. Eddie Marsh confessed de-
spair with poems of Shelley" Lord
Middleton was exhausted with -four
tall silver cand1esticks." the Duke of
Rutland threw in a stpearl tie pin,' -
and fed, and Mrs. Arthur Sasoon made
it diamond tie PIN" the Duchess of
Rutland contributed "set of pearl
studs" and then in a wild imaginative
flight added a t.picnic basket and the
Duke of Connaught groaned in fail
ure, threw up his hands and ex-
claimed, "Oh, send him a pair of
guns."-Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
HUAOR OF The Day

ION what lines is your new piscatorial
work protector"
Il rather think on fishing lnes'-Balti-
more American.
why did you get one of those old
fashioned pepper and salt suits?"
We'll, it's good for at least two sea-
sons, anyway."-Smart Set.
,waggs-''why did Henpeck leave the
Somebody told him marriages
were made in heaven."-Judge.
II flatter myself I've made hit with
this song. Er, by the way, who was the
gentleman that was moved to tears and
went out?' THAT was the composer
London Tattler.
Mrs Gramercy.If he married her for
Mrs. Parks-1 don't think 50. The way
she doles it out to him it will last about
fifty years.-smart Set
"They tell me- said the fair widow.
that you are student Of human
''and have learned a few things about
women, also. Chicago News.
How'd the candidate come to git beat
after he hired the best brass band in the
county," THE other fellow got closer
to the people He'd come right into the
meiodeon.' '-Washingto Star.
weary Walter-I lost 'arf a crown yes
terday. Tired Timotheus-Did " ave a
ole in yer pocket?
Weary Walter-N0; the Hl9ke wOt drop
Your husbnd draws SO well. think"
said the caller, land he seems to be just
as clever at landscapes as at figures"
eyes," replied the wife of the amateur
artist. He draws well at everything
except a salary. Judge. 81
village Druggist-Lucas, how do we
stand In pills?
Assistant-We haint got none for spring
epizootic.
Village Druggist-Take some o. them
white ones and dye 'em green.-Judge.
81 don't like my new gown very well,
said the young lady. The material is
awfully pretty and the style is all right.
but it needs something. to improve the
shape of it, why" suggested her
dearest friend, don't you let some other
girl wear it?''-Boston Globe.
Mr.. Scrappington-There would be fewer
divorces if more men were like William
G Differdaffer.
Mrs. Scrappington-Why so?
Mr.. Scrappington-He is a bachelor
Smart Set.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
Mr.. Gardner,s Conscience.

Representative A. P. Gardner of
Massachusetts, made an epigram that
convuIsed the house committee on
rules.
He was arguing for a rule to bring
his immigrant illiteracy bill up for a
vote in the house when some one
asked him if the members wouldn't
vote such a rule down and satisfy their
consciences by maintaining that the
session was too short for its consid-
Grafton.
Some of us unfortunate persons
find that our consciences aren't half
as hard to satisfy as our constituent
cies.'' returned Mr.. Gardner.
Let me congratulate you upon the
best epigram of the session. said
Champ Clark, who is a, member of the
mmittee.-Washingto dispatch to
the New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
THE CITY GARDEN.

Come into my garden, Maud!
It's sixty inches square.
The clotheslines stretch about it, and
The wash excludes the air.
Look outi I pray don't trample on
My carrot or my peal
Come into my garden, Maud,
And I will spoon with thee.
Come into my garden, Maud
If we don't stand too far apart,
AS lovers should not do.
Take care! my cabbage not to crush,
Or tread upon my corn!
Come into my garden, Maud,
And we will spoon till morn.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New J

[F'rom the New York Press.1
In spite of men most women's souls
stay pure.
roses.
Most of the words the baby can say
he can't, but you fib about them.
The more woman deserves to have
a man love her the more she can love
him.
If you can hold an umbrella over a
girl so the rain will not trickle down
inside her collar she will think you are
a hero.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

Reno is living up to it's reputation
as being just the kind of place it
should not be. Great rejoicing was in
dulged in there the other day when
the news was made public that the
Nevada legislature had refused to pass
q reform divorce bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

If this thing of calling a special ses-
sion of congress to sit between each
of the regular sessions continues, that
hunt will have been in vain which was
made by Senator Bristow for a $500
federal position which would permit
him to remain around home a consid-
cradle time each year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
FROA 07EER PENS
LITERATURE IN INDIANA.

The ominous report of the formation
of q Literary Trust dominated by Wall
street has been received in Indiana
with a becoming spirit of resolution.
more and better literature than any
other. What would happen to its
present prosperity with it's leading in
dustry stricken down it is impossible
to contemplate unnoved. For a light
er menace people have risen in revolt
Indiana will not do that. Careless
both of her own comfort and of the
literary prestige of the Anglo-Saxon
nations, she will, If worse comes to
worst, starve the trust into surrender
by Withholding her accustomed supply
of raw material. The extent of this
sacrifice can be comprehended only
when 1t is considered what an amount
of denunciation, arising from a lack
of appreciation of her motives, the
self-sacrificing comm onwealth will
bring down upon herself by her pru-
dent, but too ideal. course. Deprived
of her daily Hoosier novel, the rest Of
the people will lose sight of the moral
issue involved and will clamor for
government ownership and operation
of literary production Neverth eless,
it is to be earnestly hoped that no In
diana author will permit himself to be
driven into writing a line for the Lit
erary Trust.-New York Evening Post.
WEALTH AND CIRCULATION.
An absurd paragraph has been sent
out from Washington purporting to
give the per capita wealth of the coun-
try at something between $50 and
$40. OF course, this is the per capita
circulation. 1t is the result of divid-
ing the total amount of the circulating
medium by the population, and it is
not very significant, anyway The
country may be prosperous with a re-
stricted circulation; it may have a
very large circulation much of which
is lying idle. A dollar may change
hands in the trade of a year 40 times,
or it may change 80 times. From
the business of a railroad company
you may be able to infer the number
of cars it ought to have, but you can
no. infer the volume of its traffic from
the amount of its rolling stock; it hap
pens sometimes that a good part of
the cars are idle.
The per capita wealth OF the coun-
try is a more interesting fact. The
last census showed it to be $1,164.79.
1t was estimated in 1904 to have in
creased to $1,310.11, but this is guess
work; it assumes that the wealth of
the country increased 10 billions in
four years. while it had increased only
% billions in the previous 20 years.
When the census of last year shall an
nounce what the probable aggregate
wealth of the country was at the time
of the enumeration we shall be able
to estimate the per capita wealth a
little more closely.-Philadelp
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

This calling of names ought to stop.
A Washburn professor in an address
before a Kansas audience the other
night declared that man is essentially
"a gregarious animals" and he got
away with it. There is this consoIa-
tion, however, birds of prey are not
creRarious
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

There will probably be an epidemic
of small boys losing themselves in New
York City in view of the fact that one
lad who accidentally got into such a
difficulty recently was picked up on
the streets and taken care of by Col
oneI Roosevelt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

The recent brutal murder in this
city of old Benjamin Plat seems to be
going the way of most of the murders
that happen in these parts and other
sections of the country-unsoIved
And most of those which are solved
go unpunished. Criminal activity
seems to be unusually safe in this day
of grace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

Several of the dignihed Kansas
newspaper men who participated in
last nights mock session of the senate
have frequently taken occasion to
heap all kinds of ridicule on the ac-
tivities of the Gridiron club of Wash
ington for the pranks its members cut
I'D from time to time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

There is more to this being a king
or an emperor than some people i'm
agine. Kaiser Bill of Germany has an
exclusive 'honk, honk' horn for his
automobiles. On pain of death, or
something worse, no other Individual
in Germany can use similarly
sounding tooter on his motor car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

1t does seem to come with pretty
poor grace for any set of residents of
Crooksville, Ohio to characterize An
drew Carnegies monty as being
TAINTED"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

From the newspaper reports of the
sessions of the legislature during its
closing days, it would appear that a
new seal ought to be provided for this
institution. Something appropriate
would have on it the figure of an ami
NAL of some sort rampant"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

An answer to some of the railroad
economists who insisted that unless
the railroads were permitted to in
crease their freight rates they would
be unable to float any new issues of
stocks and bonds is to be found in a
recent cable dispatch from England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

It states that London's share of So
100000 of the $1O.oO0.o0O issue of
first mortgage 4 " per cent gold bonds
of the st. Paul and Kansas City Short
Line Railroad company was over
subscribed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

Good news for the chorus girls of
England and France. The republic OF
Portugal is likely to turn over the
jewels that belonged to the former
king Manuel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
PERMANENr HOME
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is q member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.