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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-01-19

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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-01-19
We Are Not In
Business for Our
Health

But for yours. Of that you may
be assured And to best Safe
guard that your most valuable
asset it behooves you to be care
ful in the selection of your medi-
cines. EVERYTHING we handle
is STANDARD in its line. WE
WOULD N oMoRE COMPOUND
YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS WITH
CHEAP, LOW-GRADE DRUGS
land they are made and soId),
THAN YOUR DOCTOR WOULD
GIVE YOU LESS THAN HIS
BEST SERVICES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
PROGRESS WORTH WHILE.

Child labor, writes Anna Rochester In
a striking article in a recent issue of
Churchman on this social and economic
evil, is menace to the industrial
world; for the present. because it drag;
down the wages of adults, and for the
future, because it is preparing a race
of unskilled workers, doomed to in
efficiency and physically exhausted be-
fore maturity. The situation, she saws
calls for immediate action. Will it be
forever the American way sIothfully to
ignore the facts till a disaster startIes
us alive? The first child labor law was
passed by Massachusetts in 1876, only
after factory fire had cost the lives
of tiny children. Legislation has trav-
eled far since then and accomplished
much, but chiefly it points the way
for the future. For child labor laws
are at present chaotic, and not alike In
any two states. Since the formation
Of the national child labor committee
eight years ago, five states have pass
ed their first labor law. of any kind.
10 have established the 14-year age
limit for employment, IL have instituted
the eight-hour day for children. 81
states have prohibited night work to
children under 16 (nine states already
had such law in 1000, and five have
forbidden night messenger service tc
minors under 81. Last month Arizona
passed child labor law embodying the
more important points of the uniform
law, drawn up by the national child
labor committee and endorsed by the
American Bar association. A few
states have a law better in one or
another respect than the uniform law
but this may fairly be considered tc
place Arizona at the head of the list
of states for fair. complete and en-
forceable legislation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENS AGAIN.

In the latest issue of the able and
by no means narrow-minded Scientific
American, editorial ridicule is heaped
upon the Frenchmen who undertook
to win a prize offered for flying
meter-about three inches more than
a yard-at the height of not less than
ten centimeters, or about four inches
on a bicycle lifted experimentation
by human muscles only. 1t was ex-
planned at some length just why such
a feat was necessarily impossible and
utterly hopeless to undertake
But the impossible happened. AL
most on the day when the issue of the
Scientific American appeared with its
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

| at an evening hour this time, Mr..
Bingham was Sauntering about the
neighborhood smoking his cigar. Inc
streets were very quiet, but as he pass
| ed a fine mansion, the front door or
which stood open, he heard woman
| scream. In a moment he was through
the gate and up the steps and in the
| hall he found two tough looking young
men, each having a bundle under his
arm, fighting to free themselves from
the grasp of a young woman.
| Fred Bingham took hand in the
game at once, and it was bad for the
sneak thieves who had entered the
house during the dinner hour, and had
| been discovered just as they were
making their exit.
1t was only when the fellows had
been turned over to the police that
Fred felt sure of the identity of the
damsel in distriss. 1t was the rich
Miss Gladys, and that was the house
of her aunt. The affair had tried her
nerves. but not SO greatly that an IN
PRODUCTION was not made and Mr.
Bingham effusively tharked for his
services and invited to call. He wait
ed two or three evenings before so do
ing, and one of these evenings call
was made by James Whitney. The
matter of the attempted robbery came
up, and as soon as he heard the name
of Fred Bingham he replied:
'Why, know him. He is one of the
workmen at the shops
But a gentleman as well, and
81 didn't know he went about play
ing the gentleman after working
hours"
at seems to come perfectly natural
to him.
The next morning the elder Whitney
left for the west on business, and at
noon the younger called Fred into the
office and fired him point blank, not
withstanding a contract, and further
said to him:
"A lot of cheek. you've got, to force
Miss Humphrey. Better drop that at
once, if you don't want trouble with
me-
Fred Bingham reached out and
caught the others nose between thumb
and finger, and after holding it for a
few. seconds let go and walked out
That evening he called on the rich
Miss Gladys, and she insisted that it
be a visit. She wanted to know many
things, and she made the young man
talk, and by and by she said:
ST am the second largest stakeholder
in the Barrett Iron Works and we need
you there"
A month later, when the elder Whit
ney returned and found his mechanical
genius gone he threw up his hands
and exclaimed;
Gone to our strongest rival, and
that means a loss of $4,000 a year to
usI"
HE was getting in my way socially
was the sullen reply.
why, you idiot, he'll marry that
Humphrey girl within a year, and
within two she'll buy out the rest of
the stockholders and hand him the
business copyrighted, 1912, by As
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ArcHIsoN GLOBE.

When there is a mystery people believe
the worst
If praise is overly extravagant people
not only stop listening but apply muflers.
Our notion of sweet disposition is one
which doesn't sour in hot weather.
Doc Robinson thinks the Free Beer
party ought to put a ticket in the fled
this fall.
1t is hard to make consumption of green
corn on the cob dignified performance
People who don't teach devote good
deal of time to finding fault with the
schools.
Post card philosophy: The pretty women
get all the praise and the clever women all
the husbands.
No man can(spend more money than ne
earns without arousing some suspicion,
not to say distrust
Still, the per capita circulation is COLI
siderably less important than what you
happen to hold as it flows by.
While the Boy Evangelist may mean
we'll he has a hard time convincing poo
pie that he knows what he is talking
about.
Although the critics kick good deal.
many people are easily amused; indeed,
many of them find lodge initiation en-
tertaining.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There are not as many good listeners
as there should be.
y
A little more work and less cheering
will help any cause along faster.
&
If more men were treated like some
dogs they wouldn't have much cause
for complaint.
4 *
Unusually hot weather is also boon
in that it makes most folk forget their
other troubles.
Any number of people never knew
what popularity was until they became
owners of automobiles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

L
Fly-tine is the airship' season.
Powder doesn't necessarily blast a woTn-
ans reputation.
The average income of many a married
man is about a. m
Cheerful sinner is more entertaining
than melancholy saint.
Every man has an idea that he is either
clever or good looking
Some men are as crooked as the dollar
mark that stands for their wealth
Learn to keep your aches and pains IN
der cover If you would be popular.
Most men who play the races never go
broke, but they often come home that
way.
The man who is satisfied to take things
as they come evidently doesn't expect
much.
Ever notice how easy it is for people to
give advice about things they don't under
stand?
If you are polite to some men they
nearly always think you are merely paw
ing the way for touch.
If you are inclined to worry today, stop
and think of the worrying you did yesteF-
day and how little it really amounted to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
FROM OTHER PENS
NO SPEAKING rouR.

President Taft has decided to not
undertake a speaking tour during any
part OF the time between now and next
november. 1t is wise resolve. He
felt that he must take the stump in
the canvass for the nomination by
reason of novel and unexpected condi-
lions that developed after the cam
palgn had gotten well under way. He
is now the candidate of the Republic
can party for reelection, and is also
the president of the United States.
There are men enough in the party
who are capable of presenting the
principles for which it stands with eio-
quence and convincing power. To
leave to them this feature of the cam
paign is both wise and polite. 1t is
known that the president went on the
stump before the convention with ex-
treme reluctance. If it was a mistake
that he surrendered to the wishes of
others, it was an error that he will not
repeat. It is therefore no surprise to
learn that he is absolutely opposed to
going out in the actual campaign. The
fight is to be made on principles rath-
err than men, and the cause of good
government will not lack for able adj
vocates as the campaign progresses.
The president will suffer no loss of
prestige by remaining silent during
the four months previous to the cleo
ton. He will maintain the dignity of
campaign to trusted friends.-Lynn
Item.
TO BE THOUGHT PROGRESSIVE.
One of the most noteworthy signs
of the times is the practically univer-
sal desire of men in public life to be
given credit for progressive principles
and inclinations. They strive eagerly
to convince the people that they cher
ish such visions and they do their best
to escape the faint which is felt to
cling to the name of reactionary. This
is true of the newest and most doubt
full converts as well as the older and
proved leaders. The force of the adj
vanced movement is so great that
scarcely any politician or public man
cares to defy its might and risk the
How else could such a
country as this stand in such an age?
Science, industry, commerce-all the
higher activities of life-are filled with
the spirit of change and progress. The
times clamor for tests of new ideas,
methods, instruments and system.
The country is in sympathy with the
world in that respect. It's position is
more advanced, but it is moving the
same way and animated by much the
same ideas, aspirations and forces. The
in public affairs work
with the vast cosmic forces which
the age, They are in har-
mony with the spirit of the times. The
dreams and visions of humanity urge
them on and the quickened conscience
of the nations bids them be of good
faith and unfaltering resolution
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

demonstrations of the folly of attempt
ing anything so manifestly absurd the
feat was actually accomplished, not
merely once but repeatedly, before a
big crowd of spectators and again
scientific reasoning was brushed aside
by mans unwillingness to accept limi-
tations imposed by anybody's finite and
possibly faulty logic.
The world owes more than 1t Will
ever know to the men who have det1eo
high authorities when warned that
they would only waste their time and
if they undertook to do what
learned and able gentlemen had con-
WINGED themselves was impossible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
QUAKER MI1DrTATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

[From the Philadelphia Record.I
With the people who can't forget tae
past is always present
Many a man of nerve is never embar-
raised, except financially.
One way to bring a girl to time is 20
carry her picture in your watch.
Some people keep their virtues locked
up for high days and holidays.
It is never too late to mend, but some
of US seem to think it is always too early
It isn't every man who has the knack
of stretching the truth without breaking
his word.
You can't convince the superstitious
man that there is just as much luck in q
hare lip as in rabbits foot.
Sillicus-.I am thoroughly convinced
that man descended from the monkey"
won't work both ways"
Wigg-"Adam must have been primitive
indeed to allow an apple to influence his
downfall" Wagg-"Oh, I don't know.
Many a modern man can trace his down
fall to q peach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

Hon. Pete Pyle asked Stubs where
he stood. After a week of profound de-
| liberation, the askee made answer, but
neglected to add that he stood also
upon the Brink.
TT was MY fight and MY victory,
says T. r. anent the canning of Hon
Lcrimer. But, up to a late hour this
afternoon, T. r. had neglected to claim
also the credit for having defeated
Hon. Bonaparte at Waterloo.
The dilatory actions of the ultra-rich
should be viewed with alarm. Helen
Story, most recent grass widow of the
upper crust, waited nearly five hours
after her husband had secured a d.
vorce decree on the only grounds recog-
nized in New York, before wedding the
correspondent. Why, might one ask.
this wasteful delay?
This department had a birthday yes
terday. For birthday presents we re-
ceived one perfectly good cigar and a
pair of the wop neckt1eS affected Dy
this department and numerous other
near artists. The cigar was velvet, but
being the ultimate goat as well as the
ultimate consumer of the neckties, we
are glad the intrafamily present was
not a fve-passenger touring car.
Link Steffens, who wrote all about
the Mcnamara case, has been request
ed to tell all about it on the witness
stand Bets are nine to five that the
result will equal the testimony of Hon.
Forty-drink Norris, of Topeka, who
told about drinking in forty joints, and
when on the witness stand remembered
just one thirst parlor.
The Prohibition party has been hold
ing hot convention at Seagirt. It has
been DANCED hot that the subject of
prohibition has not been mentioned up
to date.
Running for president on the Prohibi-
ton ticket is purely an honorary job,
but it beats four of a kind how many
heroes are willing to do honorary work.
About the only consolation the under
crust of Denver can get out of the re-
cent overflow of Cherry creek is that it
put the golf Inks,-the habitat of the
upper crust,-on the Pittsburg Fritz.
Whenever we get a chance, we point
with pride: There is ladies' swimming
hole in Topeka, but as yet, the local
papers have not printed half tones of
our society leaders. posed in BV-dees
and advertised as "our fair society
DANES and damsels of aquatic taste"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
EVENING CHIT
BIZ RUTH CAKERON

A college president who was lectur-
ing on the type of girl who succeeds,
and the type of girl who fails, declared
that one of the most common members
of that latter class is the girl who
always tries to blame anything unto
ward that happens to her, upon some
one else. This kind of girl, he said, if
she was passing through a gate and
there was nobody else in sight, and she
should tear her gown, would still think
that the accident was somebody's fault.
We all know people like that-peo-
pie who regard every unfortunate hap
pening in the home or outside of it as
somebody's fault, and are perfectly
frantic if they cannot find someone to
blame for anything that dtsturbs or in
conveniences them.
When anything disagreeable occurs,
these folks must Immediately let off
steam by blaming someone, and when,
as sometimes happens, the disagree
able occurrence cannot really be
traced to anyone, these people become
absolutely explosive with pent-up
blame.
For instance, in an office in which
once worked, the head man was of
TINS type. One summer day when all
the windows were open as a matter of
course, the whole Office force hap
pened to be out of the room. One girl
was at dinner, by his permission; an
other had gone downstairs with him to
take down an important interview;
and the office boy had been sent on an
errand. During this period a quick
summer shower came up and some
important papers were injured by the
rain. 1t was really impossible for that
man to blame anyone for this unfor-
tunate happening, and we almost fear
ed that his pent-up irritation would do
him physical injury.
In all too many households, where
some of the family have this desire to
blame someone for everything that
troubles them, the patient mother is
every irritation.
why wasn't the telephone answer
ed today?" demands the son of the
family. 81 tried six times to get the
swer. It's too bad, mother. don't
see any use in our having a telephone
if you can't answer it," Whereupon
the patient Mrs Griselda attempts to
palate her sons irritation by explain
ing that it was the maids afternoon
out, that her daughter was making
candy in the kitchen, and that she
herself had gone out on an errand for
father.
"why can't we ever have dinner
ready on timer" raves father The
meat didn't come until late? Why
didn't you tell him what time you
wanted 1t? You did? 1 don't believe
you made it very plain. You're always
telling about some thing or other being
late / should think you could man
age to have things delivered when we
want them. 1 pay enough for them"
great many things happen in this
world that are nobody's fauIt-some
things just plain happen, and others
are unfortunate accidents or mistakes
1t is relief to have someone to blame
when any of these things irritates one.
but a relief of which only selfish and
unjust people avail themselves: and in
the truly generous persons dictionary,
fault is an entirely obsolete word
the words mistake or "accident,
have quite taken its place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
SAYS UNCLE CAV

All the world loves a good fighter,
but the human bobcat overdoes the
job. A certain amount of well-placed
belligerency always commands admi-
ration and a following, but the hu-
man animal that spits and scratches
every time its feelings are hurt is a
dangerous fanatic and leads only those
who are more insane than he. SINH
larly, the man who will fight at the
drop of the hat Is. a victim either of
passion or bad judgment and makes
a poor general.
Revenge is the poorest of motives
for a fight. Let anger inspire a blow
and it is not only a mistake, but a
crime The best belligerent smites
without passion and for cause. Let
it be remembered that there is a vast
difference between striking to establish
your supremacy and striking to hum
BILE a foe. One is good business and
is far from being bad morals; the 9th.
err is neither good business nor good
morals. 1t is only surrender to brute
passion or brute cruelty.
Most of our heroes are "scrappers. !"
1t will be so while life is a struggle,
and life will probably be a struggle
admire is not him that cherishes a
lust for revenge, nor him that strikes
in the heat of sudden passion. 1t is
rather him that raises his hand only
in self-defense or in behalf of a good
cause, personal or impersonal. Among
those who fight for personal causes are
the conquerors of individuals and of
nations, and whether their battles
bring good or evil we seldom withhold
our praise. We are more generous
to the fighter than he sometimes de-
serves. but we draw the line at the
bobcat. All the world loves a good
fighter, but the good fighter knows
when to fight and when to withhold
his hand.-(Copyright, 1912 by w. E
VViIliamS.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
HUAOR or THE DAY

He-Shan we bunny? She-No; let's Just
sit down and hug.-Harvard Lampoon.
ST have got to perform a very distaste-
full operation this morning." remarked the
eminent surgeon. What is that?' "One
of my patients wants me to cut little
something off his bill."-Washington
Herald.
81 used to think would know Just how
to manage my wife when I got her"
Has your system proved to be a fail
ure? mo; the system may be all right,
as far as know. She has never let me
try it-"-Chicago Record-Hera1d.
An Irishman just landed got work on
the New York Central as flagman at
Tarrytown. His first day on the job he
waved the red danger signal before the
Empire State Express. The brakes
screeched down, the train stopped and
the crew ran up. Whats the matter7
Why did you stop this trainf' the con-
ductor demanded. well began the
flagman. Don't you know it's a states
prison offense to stop train without
cause? the conductor explained. why,
were twenty minutes late now" That's
jist it, was the answer. "Where have
you been the last twinty minutes?'-
Argonaut.
There is nothing that women cannot do
as well men, 'Of course" assented
Mr. Meekton earnestly. But, Henrietta,
/ do hope that none of you will insist
pitching for the home team in close
game."-Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
KITCHEN COMFoRT.


There's kitchen comfort in plenty,
If the rooms only tidy and bright,
And wife, in her clean Bingham apron,
Cooks the ham and potatoes just right.
An oilcloth covers no hardship,
II bowl of hot drink holds it down,
And stonewares as pretty as china,
If the corn cakes the right shade Of
brown.
The cat, stretching there in the corner,
And the young ones all eager for food,
And the clock marking time on the
mantel-
tell you it looks pretty good.
1t doesn't trouble me, not a minute,
Because the folks over the way
Have motor car and keep helpers
And use their front door every day.
No sign, cause he isn't doing my way,
My. neighbours fool or a Ounce;
There are lots of good ways to be happy,
But we can't do 'em all, all at once.
And if I should ever try his way,
(No knowing what people may dob
I'd certainly miss the old kitchen
And I'd miss 1t mighty bad, too.
Carroll Long in Farm and Home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

Would you say, now that she is mar
ried again. that we love Lillian Rus
sell Moore?
(Strike up the music, boys. Here
comes our old friend, Jack, the sailor.>
If you found a button in the cigar
you were smoking would you say it
came from the wrapper?
(Oficer! Call for me a policeman.)
If the general in the army has a
family tree would his youngest off .
spring have an infantry?
kiss me again, darling. Nothing
makes me sick.l