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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-02

ar. and Mrs. Gordon 3. Late, OF
Bridgeport. visited friends here sun
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
WOMAN AND HER 4sHAPE.,,

Editor Edward Box, who is making
such brave fight to get American
women to wear clothes and hats Of
American design and make, will have 20
do lot Of educational work in the
neighborhood of Morgantown. w. Va,
and, as feminine nature is not especial
~ strange there, in many other spots
on the map.
Mr.. Box, along with the majority of
men who haven't his advertising slant
on the, idea hold Partisan fashions i'm
modest, suggestive. and standing so
close to the line of indecency, in some
cases, that it's hard to tell which side
they are on. With a paradoxical twist
of the masculine mind, a man may like
to feast his eyes on the other fellows
wife and sisters in revealing garments
but he has Puritan objection to their
adoption by his own womankind.
Unfortunately, women-good, pure,
women-have different ideas and the
voice which sounds from Morgantown
could just as well have been raised in
any other burgh of the land.
These West Virginia danes are
proud of their lines and curves and are
not ashamed of this vanity. They have
signed an agreement-at least forty of
tho most prominent have taken such a
stand-that they will not wear full
skirts. Those are too inartistic. "A
woman's gown" they say, Should fit
her form fully and in contour
1t is we'll for man to recognize this
trend of the usually modest feminine
mind and accept its illogic. It is almost
universal and certainly it is primevaI.
Every age has seen its manifestation
and heard it's masculine protests. And
those of the past have been just as I'M
availing as the renunciations OF today.
Bossuet Numbered against the feminine
exposures of the French court in his
time; ever since then ministers and
priests have Illuminated, and all to no
avail
Women have always been proud of
their shapeeinlss. They always will be.
They have never been ashamed of the
fashions that gave ocular proof of their
beauty of line and curve, and they
never will be. Man may just as well
admit that, for feminine nature in all
the whirligigs of it's changes, has re-
manned constant and insistent in this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Whatever fate may send you, You
can't complain if you play the mouse
when the roll is called for men. 1t
is the worlds need of men that creates
opportunity. There is no opportun-
ity for him who cannot do a man
part, none for him who cannot rise
to an emergency, none for him who
counts too long the cost. And the
worlds rewards are to him, and to
him only, who answers it's demand.
There are many times when oppor-
tunity comes in the guise of duty.
Whatsoever may be your abilities,
once determine your duty and your
chance to make good. There never
was truer parable spoken than that
of the Improbable servant who bur
led his one talent in a napkin rather
than put it to commercial use. The
world is full of one-taIent men who
might be ten-talent men, or even rul-
ers over cities, if they but made use
of their one talent-if they but an
swered the roll call for men.
He who neglects an obligation loses
an opportunity. The only chance the
world offers any man is the chance to
work. The rich, but occupationless,
man is an abomination to his neighbor
and in his own sight. He that is
exalted unto high place that his wit
and his good right arm have not won
is the most unfortunate and the I'M
happtest of men. He has but been
eminence consists in working qualities
of brain and hand. Beside these, the
artificial distinctions of wealth and
birth are but shadows. The one is
a curse and the other mockery to
him who is not capable of justifying
by his labors the position and privi-
lege he assumes.
You may rob your neighbor and
pile up untold millions. You may in
hertz wealth and family name and po-
sition. You may vaunt yourself to
the envy or disgust of your neighbors
and call yourself the elect of earth
But you have never really achieved
happiness, have never really attained
a place among earth's great until you
have done something with head or
hand that is of use.
So it behooves you to play the man
when the roll is called for men. The
mouse with a feathered nest and fat
stores is still a mouse. And fate was
never kind to mice; the world has too
much need of men.-(Copyr1ght 1912,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08

TO the village postoh1ce. She had
cautioned her mother over and over
not to give her address, and here she
was walking to town and wagering
postoffice would yield her up letter
from her young man. The lovers saw
each other when still 40 rods separated
them.
Miss Nanny began to be interested
in the flowers by the roadside.
Mr.. Bennett paused to look into the
treetop in search of stray cows
Miss Nanny thought she saw a
snake and almost screamed.
Mr.. Bennett saw a frog in the ditch
and threw a stone at it.
Miss Nanny recovered her courage
and began to hum the air Of a new
song.
Mr.. Bennett decided that frog-kill
ing came under the law in some way
Nearer and nearer, and they were
about to pass each other when:
why, Miss Clydei"
Mr.. Bennett
Who'd have thought of seeing you
here!'
"Or your
"Ahem!'
"Ahem!"
Fine weather we're having, Miss
Clyde?'
Yes, Mr.. Bennett!"
1t was too bad that just then
boy came running down the road
from the railroad station with a tel
egram in his hand for Mr.. Bennett.
1t read:
Dad is alive and doing WE'LL"
Too bad, because the lovers might
not have made up, after all, and thus
have proved an exception to the rule.
As it was, old Dad had rot lived
and died and come back to life again
without doing the world good.-(Copy-
right, 1912, by McClure's Newspaper
Syndicate)
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Bears, Exebrows Cor ..F1Ies.,,

The makers of "fiies'' for fishermen
are constantly devising new and in
genious forms Thereof All manner of
queer materials enter into the manu-
facture of these "hies." such as, for in
stance, bears eyebrows and mouse
wkiskers. The business done in mouse
whiskers l. very considerable, for
these are an important factor in the
making of a fly known as "the gray
gnat.' Trout rise very much better.
it is claimed, at mouse whisker flies
than at the same "gnat" dressed in
jungle-cock hackles although they look
very much alike. Bears eyebrows, for
the reason that they are stiff, and have
exactly the right hue. are employed in
the making of a fly that is extensively
used in salmon fishing. These eyebrows
are taken from the Himalayan brown
bear, they are quite expensive, Fly
makers employ agents all over the
world to look for birds that will supply
material for the best fly hackles. One
OF the most sought-after skins is that
of the rare ''screamer," an African
bird, about the size of a hen, that shows
a. tiny bunch of feathers on each
shoulder worth about SO a bunch to the
fy1naker. One of these birds will. it IS
estimated, supply feathers in sufficient
quantity to make only a half dozen flies.
London Globe.
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EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAKERON.

A man whom L used to know re-
Gently committed suicide.
No, it wasn't a case of unrequitod
love. Nothing so romantic as that.
1t was simply a case of unpaid bills.
This man had health, a good wife
and fairly good prospects. There was
no reason on earth why he shouldn
have lived to a ripe old age in enjoy
ment of all these blessings, if it hadn't
been that early in life he drifted into
the habit of spending just little more
money than he had. Instead of bas-
ing his expenditures on his earning
powers, he based them on his wishing
powers. Marriage only made him
worse. Agencies which had loaned
him money at eXOrbitant rates were
constantly bounding him, every mail
brought him dunning letters, he Dor
rowed from Peter to pay Paul, he
passed sleepless nights trying to find
a way out, he agonized over his con-
dition, and yet all the time-such Is
went on living beyond his means.
Finally things came to crisis, and
driven half crazy by it all, he killed
himself, leaving his wife with good
insurance and a broken heart.
We often see people who seem TO
have more of the good things of life
than are commensurate with their fin
ancial condition; and sometimes we
envy them. 1t is a foolish envy. Be-
Iieve me, anyone who lives beyond his
and a troubled mind for all the pleas
ure he may get out of his luxuries
For every man who is driven to
suicide by extravaganza living L don't
doubt that there are hundred who
live on the brink of it.
It is said by those who have good
reason to know, that a great many OF
the people who own automobiles are
constantly on the very edge of ftnan-
cial ruin. Their homes, their salaries
and their peace of mind are all heav-
lily mortgaged to maintain the wretch
ed things. Decidedly the savages who
used to call the automobile a devil
wagon spoke better than they knew.
And decidedly we tortoises, who plod
along afoot and enviously watch the
hares in their autom obiles, are really
much more likely to win out in the
race for happiness than we realize.
When a young couple starts ouc
spending money in a haphazard way
without attempting to reckon Just
how much per week they can afford TO
spend for each item, they start on the
road to trouble. Loan sharks and
charge accounts make such conditions
possible, and I think anyone with
limited means should avoid the latter
as carefully as the former. Even
checking accounts, unless one is very
strong minded, have a tendency to
make one careless about spending
money. 1t seems so much more real,
you know, when you part with an ac-
tual five dollar bill than it does just
to sign ones name to scrap of pa
per. especially when one has plen-
tifu1 supply Of just such scraps in ones
check book.
Spending money is the easiest ami
most pleasant thing in the world-ex-
cept when you don't have it. Even
sooner or later it will spoil your whole
life
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QUAKER fluctuations.
From the Philadelphia Record. ]

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Land on their feet-People with mud on
their shoes.
There is always a sure remedy for the
ills of other people.
If you are looking for an encore all you
have to do is to lend money.
Women of fashion acquire embonpoint.
ClAer women just get fat.
Many a man has got a kink in his arm
from throwing bouquets at himself.
In her search for the ideal man a girl
always overlooks lot of real ones.
L aradoxicaI as it may seem, the left
hand is the right hand for the wedding
ring.
It is just as well to remember that the
worm will sometimes turn before you
tread on it.
1t takes more courage for a man to ad
nit that he is wrong than to insist that
he is right.
Charity covereth a multitude of sins %
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes, especially
the kind that begins at home" added the
Simple Mug.
Muggins-''You are too severe in your
criticism of the wealthy classes. have
heard of some rich men who made their
fortunes honestly" Buggins-"And you
have also doubtless heard of the needle
in a haystack."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
TILE CHARM OF MEMORY.

The charm of memorylies, 1 think,
in the quality which it gives things,
at once of intimacy and remoteness,
writes Elizabeth Woodbridge in the
October Atlantic. The fascination to
US of recalling our past selves, our
former surroundings, lies in our sense
that they are absolutely known to US,
yet absolutely out of our reach. We
can recall places, houses, rooms, until
every detail lives again. We can turn
from one thing to another and, as we
look at each, 10, it is therel 1t has
a reality more poignant than the
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hand that we touch or the flower that
we smell. Sometimes, it is true, pres
ent experiences, even as they occur,
have something of this quality. They
do not need to recede into the past to
gain this glamour. Certain places
have it: cathedrals sometimes, and
still lakes. Certain things foster it:
freight, and silence, and the steady
fall of rain. Certain moments give
birth to it: the luminous pause be-
tween shutdown and dus,z, afternoon
with its slant of light through deep
grass or across a quiet river. This, I
fancy, was what Tennyson was think
ing of when he called the lotus land
the land wherein it seemed always
afternoon" In that land these magic
moments were prolonged, and thus it
became the land of Renaissance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

TFrom the Chicago News.1
Even the man without vocation wants
a vacation.
One man who fails is better than two
men who never try.
Jealousy is the one tribute a woman
pays to a mans vanity.
1t might be well to remember that
knockers are always busy.
Ever notice that the most glaring faults
are those of others?
There's one good thing about women;
they different from men.
Poverty has helped many a young man
out after he has fallen in love.
But after a girl has been kissed once
she knows how to act as if she hadn't
been.
Every man thinks he has lot of self
control stored away-until he has occa-
sion to use it.
Sometimes it seems as if the only men
who love their enemies are those who
don't know they have any.
If you are unable to plant a few flow
ers along the path of life you might at
least pause long enough to pull few
weeds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
NOTHING WOMEN CAN'T DO.
FROM OTHER PENS
USELESS DEMONSTRATIONS.


The attack in Berne yesterday on
the home of the American minister to
Switzerland by ignorant italian work.
men might have had very serious
consequences but for the prompt ar
riva of police and troops. AS it was.
the property was damaged to a con-
siderable extent. It is promised that
a repetition of the demonstration will
be followed by the expulsion of the
Italians from the country. The trou-
bic grew out of the arrest of Ettor
and Giovannitti at Lawrence, Mass,
but the rioters in Berne, 1t is said. be-
lieved that they had been executed,
not knowing that they had not even
been placed on trial. AS for the
situation in Lawrence. it is to be
pointed out that the strike of the In
dustrial Workers of the World who
were employed in the wooden mills is
in direct opposition to the expressed
wishes of Ettor and Giovannitti. They
gave out a letter a few days ago in
which they asked the members OF the
organization not to go on strike, but
1t appears that the counssls of Will
am ID. Haywood and other leaders of
the Industrial Workers have prevail
ed. The strike can profit the opera
tiVes nothing. Ettor and Giovannittf
Will be placed on trial in due time on
the charge of having been responsible
Tor the death of a woman who was
Killed in a riot during the last strike.
The law is greater than the Industrial
workers of the World and it will
prevatl.-Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Isn't the Kinsley Mercury asking the
impossible in the following suggestion:
If you believe in a square deal, prac-
tice it.
According to the Yates Center News,
no wife is quite satisfied until she
breaks her husband of hanging his
clothes on the floor.
Neatly put by the high school re-
porter of the Waldo Advocate: Some
in the algebra class, when unable to
get their problems, want to help some
one else
For a number of years Luther Bur-
bank, the wizard of horticulture, has
been trying to grow potatoes on the
vine like tomatoes, but a Kinsley man
has him backed cleared off the map by
having produced a potato with scarce
ly on vine at all. A. Barlow left a
few potatoes in his cellar last spring
and when he went to clean it out last
week found in the rubbish a perfectly
formed new potato within the peel of
one of the old ones. There was
sprout several inches long, but no 9TH
er evidence of growth except the po-
tato itself. 1t was nearly as large as
a hens egg and as solid as any potato
grown in the ground.
Two Holton boys, each aged Z, was
live in the same block, do not enjoy
entire peace and harmony according
to the Holton Recorder. When they
meet there is generally more or less
trouble. Sometimes Willie whips jim
mic and sometimes Jimmie trims Will
lie. On the whole, however, Jimmie
rather holds the record for successful
battles. Jimmie's mother and Willie's
mother are good friends. and both re-
greet the tendancy of the boys to scrap,
but so far their peace efforts have
not been very successful. Not long
ago Jimmie's mother gave him
birthday party and told him that
she wanted him to be sure and IN
vite Willie and to treat him we'll as
his guest. Jimmie promised The ev-
ening before the party she asked
Jimmie if he had invited Willie to
the party. You bet I invited him."
said Jimmie, IT dared him to come
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
BUSINESS Is BOOMING.

business is daily becoming more
active as the result of splendid
harvest writes Henry Clews, the
New York banker, IN his current
weekly financial review. And as is
generally the case with Mr.. Clews he
has substantial reasons for his asser-
tions concerning the conditions which
prevail in the realms of trade and
finance. He points out that the quick
response of business activity to the
bCui tifuI crops of this year is due to
the fact that the producers have been
mari citing their crops earlier than is
customary. This is especially true of
grain.
Receipts thus far at interior
points continues Mr.. sC1ews, ''are
moe than double a year ago and far
surpass all previous records The eff
feet of this prompt moving of the
crops will be twofold. In the first
placs, it will release earlier than ex-
pected the large sums of money lock-
ed up in the west to carry grain, and
such funds will return to the east
CORE spondingly early. Secondly, early
marketing of the crops will greatly
stimulate retail trade. The agricul-
tura' sections will have money in
hand, and will no doubt spend more
freely than if their funds were locked
up in crops. This activity in trade
vii be reflected in a further revival
of industry, also in railroad traffic.
For some time past the railroads have
been taxed to their utmost capacity
in the handling of freight. Gross
earnings are consequently showing
handsome gains, and the returns for
SepIc mber, October and November
should prove particularly gratifying
after the lean period which the roads
have been obliged to endure for the
past year or two. This relief to the
roads comes none too soon. Already
company managers were seriously
concerned as to the effect of large
increases in costs for labor and ma
terialc which seriously impaired their
ability to attract new capital. This
latter consideration was fast bringing
the railroads to a serious crisis Their
growing inability to procure capital,
exec pit on terms which they could i'll
afford, meant serious clipping in their
facilities and consequent failure
through no fault of theirs to properly
serve the public. The recent gain in
earnings will certainly afford partial
reHe.. Nevertheless, the situation is
one that demands serious and more
impartial consideration from the in
terstate commerce commission with
out unreasonable delay. Possibly
when the elections are over the sub
ject may be acted upon with less
prejudice.
''The money situation is also more
satisfactory than a week ago. Funds
for October disbursements
have already returned. In all proba-
billy the extreme rates witnessed
last week will not be repeated for
some time to come. A year ago we
were lending money freely to Europe. !
At present we have full and profitable |
for all available funds. |
firm rates are promised |
thro ughout the winter, and lending
institutions generally are enjoying a |
period of exceptional prosperity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Sometimes the price of peace is all
mony.
4 &
Nor can you always measure the
value of a thing by it's cost.
Neither does the weather ever be-
come as disagreeable as some humans
are.
!.
There is a little of the Indian in
every man when it comes to forgetting
an injury.
r
1t is no very great accomplishment
to be able to roll a cigarette with
neatness and dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
HUNOR or THE DHY

Father-You seem to have no idea or
the value of money. Son-No ideal Why
dao can mention a hundred different
ways of spending money you never
dreamed of.-Boston Transcript.
Why don't you marry him; he's rich
ana oldT" "Old2 He may live for ten
years YETI Marry him and do your
own cooking. Houston Post.
Cholly-There's always something to
laugh about when / tell joke She-Yes,
and you're always so nice about It. You
never get mad.-Puck.
Jack-HoW very easily Kitty gets eni-
barrassed. Ever notice IT? Fred-Ohi nv
yes Why she'd blush crimson II she saw
q pile of undressed lumber.-Boston Rec
The Evidence-"I thought you told me
you were paying for an autoZ'' $50 I was. .
Il don't see any auto?' You haven't
looked in the right place. Go look in INV
grocer's garage.-Houston Post.
1T is said that Indians never laugh. Il
that true?" Il believe so.' What he
the explanation-or is there any7'' ssVVeli
for one thing, their women never come ont
in the latest styles from Paris. "--hicago
Record-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-08
FARMERS AND LONGEVITY.

An interesting question was intro
duced at the Congress of Hygiene and
Oemography last week when DR.. ]. N
Hurty discussed the health of farm
ers- BY contemporaneous statistics
on the subject gathered from various
sources he shattered the tradition
that farmers and their families are
the heaithiest people in the land. He
SAID farmers are not only unhealthy
but live in unsanitary houses and re-
fuse to mend their ways. Most farm
houses are unsanitary," he said. I'm
them the farmers and their families
experience frequent illness and early
death. The natural duration of life
is only about one-half realized on
the farm" There were ages in the
history OF human development when
the heathfest people were on the
farm, but the progress of sanitary
science has improved the conditions in
cities and as yet has hardly reached
the country. Undoubtedly, however.
it will. Give the farmer time.-Mfl-
waukee Wisconsin.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcH1sors GLOBE.

Hospitality is a great boon to the gro
Gerry business.
A real newspaper man gets kind OF
peeved when he is called a journalist.
A monographs throat trouble is never
serious enough to make it stop talking.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who called his glasses spectacles?
1t often happens that a policema7s
white gloves aren't as white as they
ought to be-
Putting it another way, one can't tell
much about a motor car by the noise its
bora makes.
You understand English of course, but
you might not understand and English
man, for all that.
On a Big Day. the mother of a large
family spends most of the time getting
the children ready.
You are not very conceited if you can
feel, OCCASIONALLY. that you get the worst
of argument.
Doc Robinson looking at the corn Oh
the Commercial street pavement: Amt
it - amt a hog?'
Trade marks frequently costs a good
deal more than the government charges
for registering them.
Your busiest day IS the day you haze
the most company although it isn't the
day you get the most work done