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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-10-26
Coal buckets and shovels at Tener's.

LosT-Laoies' black hand satchel
between Highland and Dunkard
church. Contained between s8 and so
and gold glasses. Finder please re-
turn to III. II. Mingus, Highland, and
receive reward.
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Notice!

John Pfarr VIII clean and press and
mend that suit until 1t will look as
good as new. l also do dry cleaning.
Give me call. Brunner's Shoe Shop
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-10-26

Father You mustn't cry for 1t;
wait till you get older.
Tommy--Then IN be too old to
cry.--Harper's Bazaar.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-10-26
For Sale.

Pure bred White Plymouth Rock
and White Wyandotte Cockerels.
Mrs. Leslie Parshall, Hillsboro, Ohio.
Bell Phone 274R3.
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Cook, DID you stay long In your last
placer"
II never stays nowhere long enough
to be discharged. rs one of these
here fireless cookers. Judge.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-10-26

The Constitutional Convention to BE
Requested to Amend the constitu-
ton SO That the State May Issue
Bonds to One Per Cent Of the Grand
Duplieate-An Educational Cam
paign BY the Federation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20
GovERNNlENT AND coon ROADS

There is just one really essentia:
thing. writes H. II. Windsor in the
November Popular Mechanics Maya
zine. in which we Americans are far
behind Europe, and that is our city
paving and country highways: There
YOU have to search for a poor road,
while here, outside of a few states, one
must buy guide books and hunt for
the occasional good ones. Apparently
this discrepancy against us is due to
the fact that there national govern
ment has a controlling influence while
here it has none, in regard to roads
We have donated nearly 200, 100000
acres of public lands to assist in build
ing railroads. against whose excessive
rate charges we now require an inter
state commerce commission. We have
spent nearly $500. 900 600 in river and
harbor improvements and lighthouses
to safeguard commerce. 1t is coming
to be understood that drainage of
large tracts should be done by the fed
eral government and not by states.
The logical solution of national good
roads is likewise under government
supervision and with aid.
The French government contributed
1912 100000 to good roads construction
and supervises their maintenance to-
day, with the result that it has the
best roads in the world
Residents in agricultural districts
naturally assume that good roads are
for the city man with an automobile.
This is anything but true. On the con-
trary 40 per cent of the population OF
the United States live on farms or in
towns of $500 inhabitants or less. OF
the billion dollars spent yearly to run
our government, rural free delivery
and the agricultural department are
the two things which are of immediate
benefit to the farmer and these cost
sec, 000, 600, or only 6 per cent. AS to
the constitutional right of federal gov
eminent to do this work there appears
to be no question. In fact, early in the
1S00's it was done, but when railroads
came into existence the building of
highways was dropped. However, por-
tons of these roads, now a century
Old are still in use and bear witness
to the excellence of their construction.
The high character of the work of our
army engineers in irrigation, drainage.
and on the Panama canal. warrants
confidence in a good-roads movement
under federal direction, which shall IN
sure a permanent construction and
what is quite as necessary-proper
maintenance. One plan which seems
to be generally approved is for a di-
vision of the costs into thirds; the gov
eminent, the state, and the counties
so improved, each paying an equal
amount. AS this cost would be spread
out over a term of years, the increased
value of farm land affected would be
much more than the cost to the coun-
ties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20

the light shining out, and I wanted to
stop and ask your mother to take me
in; but watched and saw she wasn't
here, and so 1 crept into the other part
of the house. remembered the way
we used to get in when we were child
rem, Stephen
And it was your handkerchief I
found on the hearth" he said. Some
how I felt that it was yours, Mary"
he helped her down the stairway
and put her into his own big chair.
Then he went for Mrs. Brinkley.
Mary Dean has come back. She's
sick with a cold and she needs i'm
mediate attention" he stated. you'll
come. won't ycu?''
Mrs. Brinkley's chocolate cake burn
ed to a crisp while she went on her
errand of mercy. but she did not care.
She sent Stephen for the doctor.
Then she kissed Mary and cried over
her and lectured her, and ended by
saying. Stephen Is the very best man
in the whole world
-Oh, don't know it?" Mary asked.
1T seemed to me. Mrs. Brinkley. that
if could only get back here and see
Stephen once more I wouldn't care if I
died"
Mrs. Brinkley briskly. you're going
to get well and marry Stephen"
"Oh, mol" Mary's face famed. Hell
never forgive me. Mrs Brinkley."
on get Well said Mrs. Brinkley,
land see how quickly he'll forgive you.
stephen needs you He's a lonely man
lonely because of his love for you"
In the days that followed Stephen
and Mrs. Brinkley and the doctor
fought for Mary's life. One morning
Stephen brought her out and put her
into the big chair on the hearth.
you'll be perfectly we'll in a few
days he said, heartily.
Mary looked at him listlessly. "And
then she said, st must go away"
You are going to marry me-" he
said. quietly.
She would not, she. protested. not
after the way she had treated him. He
urged and argued until at last he
brought Mrs. Brinkley in to convince
her.
Tell her how I need her" he said.
MARY Dean" said Mrs. Brinkley,
severely, ARE you going to condemn
stephen Strong to keep house with
pussy cat for the rest of his days?"
And then Mary gave in. and Mrs.
baked the chocolate cake for
their WeG ling feast. - Copyright,
1911, by Associated Literary Press).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20
CHECK FIRE LOSSES.

Some gratifying signs of general in
terest in the great problem of waste
by fire we're shown Monday, the for
tieth anniversary of the fire which de-
stroyed much the most valuable part
OF Chicago. Enough attention wal paid
to the efforts made to awaken active
and fruitful interest in fire prevention
to encourage further work along the
same lines. But the nation is slow 20
take as seriously as it well might the
tremendous question of fire losses and
hazards. The heavy burden of fire
waste has been carried so long that it
IS accepted as a matter of course, an
evil which must be endured.
Yet if the natural resources OF the
limited states were less extraordinary
and if the struggle for living were
as hard here as it is in Europe, the
country could not stand the handicap
of its prodigious destruction of proper
ty by fire 1t could not burn up $780,
O0o, 600 every year in buildings and Their
contents without finding the waste in
tolerabIe Conservation is a watch
word of the day, but conservation IS
Knocked by the fire losses reported
month after month. Are not buildings
as well worth saving as trees much
less valuable? Is not The protection OF
merchandise as important as guarding
the fisheries ?-Cleveland Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atciison Globe.l

lF'rom the Atcl1son Globe.l
Cold cream also absorbs its share of
misplaced confidence.
man usually is mad enough when he
beats n carpet, to do a good Job.
We are slightly suspicious of a country
where kaffir corn is the main crop.
A pool hall has its uses, but it shouldn't
be mistaken for night school
Many people speak of 'crossing the
Rubicon" who couldn't locate that
stream on a map.
If a man hasn't anything but ancestors
to be proud of, he shouldn't say much
about it.
Considering their average salary. it is
surprising that preacher is ever pinch
ed for bgamy.
After man has to climb few noun
tains, he begins to lose interest in beau
tful scenery.
There are all kinds in this vale of
variety including a few men who like to
serve on the jury.
The helpful hen has such an obstinate
disposition 1t is wonder she always
lays fresh eggs
A good balloon isn't worth as much as
cost as much
While a man may tire of fried chicken.
1t is 4 WEAKNESS from which he recup-
crates quickly.
cheerful compared with a poor old man
who has lost his job.
A man must either be a firm believer
or fierce fault-finder to get much fun
out of a lecture.
What has become of the old-fashioned
with neatsfoot oil?
Nearly every one agrees that there are
plenty of dogs, but good dog continues
to bring a good price,
a silent cornet should be provided for
young men who feel they must practice
on such an instrument
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20

Aerial advertising is not a new thing
in Europe said August N Stone, of
London, at the New Willard My at
tention was attracted this afternoon to
something of this sort on behalf IF
one of your amusement places. Know
ing the enterprising spirit of the Amer
leans, especially when they have any
thing to sell or something new to bring
before the public, I am surprised that
this novel method of catching the eye
is not more often resorted to. It is a
familiar spectacle in Berlin. In that
city the Luft- Verkershgesells re
Gently inaugurated a striking advertis-
ing novelty that has become very pop
ular.
One of the large dirigible balloons
CT this company flies over Berlin every
clear evening. Magic lanterns placed
on each side of the car project adver-
tisements to a white sheet, fastened to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20
a WORD FoR DIR. NARCorTE.

Smallpox continues to occupy a place
near the center Of the stage in Topeka
just now, but merely in discussions
pro and con about the vaccination Of
the school children as a safeguard
against another possible outbreak of the
disease here this winter. And all the
talk that is going on rather enpha-
sizes the fact that the city is now and
has been for seven or eight weeks prac-
tically free from smallpox cases. There
are now only g handful Of patients in
the pest house. And only a couple of
houses in the city from which the same
number of patients were taken have
the red sign tackled on their doors. The
smallpox epidemic which seriously
threatened Topeka some four months
ago has long since been a thing of the
past. Its suppression was an admir-
able piece of work which even called
forth hearty encomiums from the
state board of health.
On several occasions many words Of
appreciation have been expressed IN
the newspapers and in other quarters
of the services rendered by Commissi IN
er Stotts IN charge of the city's SAM
tary deIartmer and his assistants for
their strenuous and e1Iicacioas labor in
the smoke of the battle has cleared
away one figure looms up large as hav-
ing occupied most prominent position
in the fight. 1t is that of DR.. Narcotic,
the young Topeka physician, who did
the actual hand to hand fighting with
the disease almost alone. The out
break of the smallpox was sudden.
And it seemed to drive most of the
Topeka physicians, who were called,
into panic 1t may be pardonable for
a physician who has an extensive round
of daily calls to make to fight shy OF
a smallpox case He might develop
into an excellent agency for spreading
the disease. And at this late day there
is no need for criticizing certain doc
tors who did not do what other peo-
pie considered to be their duty. 1t is
certain that the city health authorities
were at one time hard-pressed for the
medical aid they needed, and they con-
tinued in this condition until DR.. Mar
cote appeared on the scene as 4 vol
unteer. That he was immune to the
disease does not detract anything from
the credit that is due him. He went
into the epidemic fearlessly. He work
ed energetically night and day. doing
nursing as we'll as doctoring in the
more serious cases and where it was
impossible to get trained nurses to go. |
And he got results. Undoubtedly he
was the most important factor in the
suppression of the epidemic. vote Of
thanks of the people of Topeka is duo |
him. even if its extension is d tribe
tardy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Il have been thinking today of the
undercurrents.
No. I do not mean the undercurrent
at the seashore that endangers so
many lives
But do mean a dangerous under
current just the same
The undercurrent of thought, is
what I refer to-
You are seated at your desk attend
ing to some task. Theoretically. all
your thoughts are upon your work Ac-
tually, only your top thoughts are with
your task. For all the time there is a
steady undercurrent of thought of
other matters going on in your mind.
Sometimes the undercurrent consists
of review of work done: sometimes
it relates to the good time you are go
ing to have tomorrow: often it is pom
dering upon your next seasons ward
robe; again it is concerned with some
thing that is going on outside the win
dow. In my own case, find it is most
frequently a cogitation upon what I
am going to do next.
If you think that only volatile and
hghtminded people thus divide their
thoughts. please observe yourself the
next time you sit down to some task
If you cannot discover any undercur-
rent in your mind, you may consider
yourself quite above the class for
average folks
Now, perhaps. you want an expIana-
ton of my description of the undercur-
rent of thought as dangerous Per-
haps you are asking, what harm can
it do if 1 do have an undercurrent of
thought? What objection is there to
my thinking Of two things at once if I
can? What is there dangerous about
it?"
The danger, my friend, is simply to
your capacity to do the best work of
which you are capable and to do il in
the least possible time.
That undertow carries something out
to sea. Just as surely as the ocean m
dertow does. And that something is
your concentration.
To be sure, there is no harm in your
thinking of the work you have done. or
the work you are going to DO. or of to-
morroW's pleasure, or your next sea-
sons wardrobe. They are innocent. or
even praiseworthy subjects for thought
except when they are thieves. And in
this case, that is what they are. since
they steal your thoughts from the sub
ject to which they belong.
If the volume of thought which goes
into that undercurrent could be com
bined with the volume of thought
which is upon your work, don't Won see
how much more swiftly and correctly
and thoroughly your work would be
done?
OF course, it is not the easiest thing
in the world to control this undercur-
rent. But, believe it can be done
peIleVe that II you scold yourself
severely every time you find that un-
dertow growing powerful, and try with
your whole might to bring ali vour
thoughts to bear on what you are do
ing, you can at least diminish the now
er and volume of the thought under
tow.
Here's wishing you good luck If YOU
care to try.
Please wish me the same-
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FRCaT OTHER PENS
THE SILVER LINING.

The average business man, he whose
line of endeavor lies outside the boun-
Diary of contract getting, franchise
dealing and lobbying for legislation, IS
very often child in the presence OF
politics. He sneers at the thing not as
one who knows all about it, but be-
cause it is the fashion. He perceives
the men who make their livelihood in
politics and seldom is uplifted by the
sight. He experiences a mild excite
ment during the campaign, but once It
is over anu the shouting has died away
he is Obvious to- the course of politics
until his attention is called to it dis
agreeably by the discovery that he is
the butt and the victim.
It hasn't been big business which has
suffered most by the application of an
antitrust law unfit and archaic. It
has been small business, too engrossed
in its labors to behold what was going
on. Something very excellent may
grow out of the depression which has
overwhelmed business and industry. It
may get small business into politics,
force it to drop sneering for the re-
sponsibilities of citizenship. persuade il
to spend less time upon wishing the
hard times were over and more in max
ing hard times mpossible.-Toledo
Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.
From the CHICAGO Nams I

l. YIN eAAC chicago News
Back talk seldom helps a man to get 70
the front Sc 10
It isn't safe to judge the world by your
view of it. - SSNA
Occasionally chap spends his vacation
looking for a job. iOi'
The man who poses as s1adfes, man,
makes a poor husband.
Complain without cause and vo,, ,,,,,,
give others cause for complaint
BY trying to make touch MANY a man
has discovered friends sore spot
The trouble with strenuous people ls
that they nearly always make good
The line separati ting right from wrong
seems to be invisible TO a lot of peonle
A pretty girl is apt to feel sorry for
any young man who doesn't admire her
A girl is never satisfied until she Is
married-and then she doesn't always re-
main satisfied
Many a mans reputation. If placed IN
der a magnifying glass, would look like
a porous plaster.
The more often a man has failed the
more competent he thinks he is when it
comes to giving advice.
1t sometimes happens that a woman
-egains her ideals after marriage by
breaking into the widow class
Our idea of a polite man is one who
won't tell woman the truth when she
asks what he honestly thinks of her.
When you hear two men talking so
loudly that they can be heard IN the next
block. they are talking about something
they know nothing about
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oUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
IFrom the Philadeiphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Don't cry over spilled milk till the well
runs dry.
what's in name? A course dinner is
It's an i'll wind that blows the breath
of scandal.
The aviator should always be able to
rise to the occasion.
Don't give advice unless you are willing
to take it back
The aeroplane really runs over more
people than the automobile.
The fellow who never makes way for
others is pretty sure to make his own
way.
Most of US know when to stop. but the
trouble is we don't exercise our knowl-
edge
MANY a man keeps his head above wa
ter who doesn't let the grass grow under
his feets
wigwag-..I left my heart behind me at
ing. left my trunk.
Blobbs-.'Don't you know a dogs bark
is worse than his bite?" Slobbs-stWell
I'll take the bark and you can have the
lite"
Few of US live up to our ideals. The
girl who sets her heart on Reginald or
an Algernon usually marries fellow
named Bill.
Mrs Buggins-'I saw the dearest little
hat today" Mr. Buggins-"That's just
like you: always looking for the dearest
instead of the cheapest
Many a man has an idea he can't
make his mark without making a
mark of some other fellow
Don't be disappointed in your fell
bowman. Even nuts are not all they
are cracked up to be-
Don't ycu ever get homesick?' ~ ask
ed the domestic man. No" replied
the traveller, I'm never home long
enough
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20
.JAYHAWKER JOTS

ideas will pop into your head because
you have your mouth open.
In the short name contest, Joe
Cyr, who has taken charge of a store
at Bala, ought to win at least an hon
orable mention.
Mrs. Moffet, of the Cherryvale
Journal insists that women are as
boastful of having had a surgical op-
Grafton as men are of being 32nd de-
gree Masons.
At the recent Kansas City horse
snow one exhibitor had ten men to
take care of thirteen horses. And the
Baldwin Ledger wonders if his child
rem receive like consideration.
Cheering words for the smaII-head-
ed persons from Mrs. Tom Thomson
IN the Howard Courant: 1t is not so
much the size of the head as what
there is in it that counts to the good
Abraham Lincoln had a small head.
VIII Palmer wants to know if a
man who has once lived a good life,
but in his old age backslides into
Wlckedness, gets any credit for the
good he has done, or is he like a
bad egg-if it is bad now, nobody
cares how good it once was
Paul Wiley of the Neodesha Regis
ter has married one Of his printer
girls and announces that she will
keep right on working until other ar
ranSementS are made Tom Thomp
son of the Howard Courant imper-
tinently inquiries: VIII her pay go
right on?''
A waist and arm social is one
of the popular society stunts at West
Bear Creek. The correspondent at
that place of the Syracuse Journal
describes it to this effect: The ladies
attending measure their waists and
bring along q penny for each inch.
The gentlemen on the job measure
their arms and bring along a penny
for each inch. But that is as far as
the stunt is described except that re-
freshments are served during the
course of the evening. There can be
no need for guessing, though. as to
why such a party is popular. Pre-
bly, there is pairing off and
a union of the waists and arms that
M easure about the same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20
REER ESHM ENT.

When we reach the place where a
measure of happiness is, We must not
overpass it, thinking we shall some
day return in fuller leisure. We shall
not pass this way again, and II we
did we could not find that hidden
place Nor must we hasten on with
hot desire, deeming we shall reach
some other spot of more satisfying
happines further down the way We
may reach that place at the begin
ming of the journey, while we are still
keen for the quest, or it may be after
toilsome years. But whenever be the
time, it behooves us to pause and
consider well the spot. One finds
cloistral retreat and place of happi-
ness in art or research, in-rewarded,
unacclaimed; in perfecting know
ledge: in achieving beauty Another
finds it in one woman. Happiness Is
found in the home, in devotion to pur-
poses larger than the individual life,
wherever there is space for the heart
to overspread other lives. There is
refreshment in the majesty and ten
derness of the natural world-in the
turbulence Of the sea, the rapid light
touching the waves, in the plenty of
auturnnal harvests, in the calm Of in
finite hills.=Collier's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Only those secrets are kept which
are not worth telling.
X X
Nor are many people in agreement
as to what constitutes a joke.
x X
If every man was paid for what he
knows, many would be drawing small
er wages.
y
Big words are all right in their
places The trouble is that so few
folk know how to place them.
X
The dove of universal peace among
nations is getting a taste these days of
the only experience known by the dove
of domestic peace.
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WHEN 1 AM DEAD.

When I am dead, make no plea
For wakeful immortality
Among the spirits of the blest,
Nor would I, an unbidden guest,
Return to earth, once being free
But I would lie beneath the lea,
Know not hope nor memory
What matter then the futile quest
When I am dead?
Yet should the silence broken be
Fen thus: 'Thy son, whom thou dldst see
A baby at his mothers breast, -
Unto thy ungained goal hath pressed -
All that were bliss enough for me
When 1 am dead.
Edmund Kemper Broadus, in the Attain
tic Monthly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-20

The quondam Kitty Gordon, at
present the Honorable Mrs. Henry
Beresford. but who is hoping to
change her name to something else
if the divorce courts are kind to her,
says a woman is always in a stew of
trouble If she marries a handsome
man. She is all the time wondering
if some other woman is not trying
to get him. Where in the world,
though, is there a woman with a
handsome husband? As a matter of
fact. there isn't any such thing.