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New-York tribune., 1912-01-14

vited largely because OF their good looks.
They do not carry any guns with them
into the garden. II Is good game for
the occldentals, the correspondent adds,
for here is a sport less brutal than many
others-harpooning whales. for instance.
II is sport in which dexterity is most
necessary, whether you have reference to
the hunters or the ducks. The small
New-York tribune., 1912-01-14

or the period, and ! took it. 80 on" seems
10 know anything about It's history. nave
an English gun that was dug up down In Al
oxandria. and another that was used for
hitching post at Yorktown. When | was
I'm cairo. Egypt, ] had an opportunity To
New-York tribune., 1912-01-14

out such slow growing trees trees that 1
cannot enjoy while live. ! want the ave
nuc TO last There viii be rows of more
rapid growing trees inside the lines of
oaks. which will disappear when ihc oaks
reach their prime. I had thought OF elms
New-York tribune., 1912-01-14
ouvs,cAL SYMPATHY WANTED

Mrs Fiatt-How can YOU look so u',s sI,n
oorned when you know / am shiver'ns ""-
the cold? ~
Mr.. Flatt-What can | dov .s,vsr.
Mrs Flatt--You might at east
ton. Boston Transcript
New-York tribune., 1912-01-14

passing a junk shop which attracted my
attention, and went in. asked j. they
knew Of any old guns. One man said he
had heard Of one that had been dug up In
Grcenpoint several years ago. went over
and looked at II. 1t was an English gun
New-York tribune., 1912-01-14

g on the morning of May 10, 1775 II Is said
that at that time there were about I'D IRON
guns. ranging in size between and y
FOUNDERS besides fifty swivels, mortars
and other types of guns, some OF Whicn'
perhaps. were intended as armament Tor
such vessels as might be built on the lake
Ethan Aliens cap-ure or Ticonderoga
served a useful purpose later in the year.
when the Boston harbor began to freeze
over and Washington's army. encirciing
that city. was in want of ordnance and
ammunition with which TO protect itself
against a sortie. Then the guns which
Mr. Pell is now replacing we're In de-
mand. and Colonel Henry Knox, Boston
bookseller who had given up his business
TO serve the insurgent cause, set out to
bring a supply from Ticonderoga. with
great care and energy and in the face OF
serious obstacles he transported, in the
winter of 1876. on sledges drawn by
New-York tribune., 1912-01-14

for this. but the elm beetle has 20; In. and
| shall have TO plant something else.
Tho dfty guns which Sir. Pell expects 10
have for Ticondcrosa will by no means
ropiacc thusc with which IL was armed
when Allen entered it so unccremonously
New-York tribune., 1912-01-14

SUNDAYS NETWORK TH'eo"
Mailed anywhere in tho on''s'
for $3.50 a year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-29
.LlYHAWKER JOTS

"A sensible man is seldom sensitive
observes the Sterling Bulletin.
As the Harrington Sun says, the av-
erage man plans a vacation every
year, but seldom gets it.
What a number of people there are
remarks the Spring Hill New Era, who
are always wise after the event.
A new religion has been invented
with only seven commandments. notes
the Sterling Bulletin, and it thinks
that if the members of the new church
keep the seven they will be pretty we'll
up to the average.
A Winfield man, according to the
Kansas City Journal, has quit kissing
his wife. He says it Is because he
believes in the germ theory; -but his
neighbors say his reason lives two
blocks up the street.
The sensational news that strapped
pantaloons are to be the fashion comes
ley Graphic, and it adds: Strapped
pantaloons have always been in vogue
for boys under 10 in the home of ev-
cry well-bred American family
A spirituahstic medium is evidently
at work in Larned, as the following
item in the Larned Chronoscope would
seem to indicate: A gentleman who
is supposed to know a thing or two
about Jay Gould's plans says that
within eighteen months thirty trains a
day will pass over the Missouri Pa
cific through Larned.
Two stories about boys, as related by
the Douglass Tribunes correspondent,
who furnishes the news from 'On the
Banks and Borders of the Walnut"
An Ell Dorado boy and a Potwin boy
took a drink of formaldehyde the first
of the week, with serious effect upon
the Ell Dorado boy. Why kids would
drink formaldehyde is hard to explain.
A barefoot boy in FL Dorado was stand
ing on the Santa Fe track with a big
toe between the split rails at a switch
when the tower man had occasion to
clamp the rails together. The end OF
the toe was pinched off, of course.
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idemic. 1t struck down the buffaloes
by thousands and left only a few sur
vivors, in many districts. to build up
the herds anew. When Colonel Roose-
welt hunted inthe region southeast OF
Lake Victoria Nyanza the buffaloes
were only getting fairly started up to-
wards their usual strength in numbers.
Similar scourges have been known
to slaughter almost incredible myriaas
of squirrels and rabbits. Last year
there were wide regions in the Cana
dian Northwest where the rabbits had
been nearly exterminated by a pesti-
lence and the wild beasts that prey
upon them were starving for want of
their accustomed food. Probably
some such epidemic killed the rem
nants of the once enormous fiocks of
passenger pigeons-not the common
wood doves or mourning doves
which have utterly disappeared from
the United States.
Nature untouched by man - not so
sound and man is not SO destructive
and demoralizing as many persons who
are fond of wild life suppose. Lifs is
a tragedy, broadly speaking. where
there is no human interference.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

CFrom the Chicago News.1
If there is black sheep in your fam
lily keep it dark.
Bad luck is commonly the result of
bad Judgment.
Anyway, the wise man is less of a
fool than the average.
It's easier for love to find the way
than it is for it to pay the way.
A ragtime philosopher says that lem
ons are only fit to hand to people.
Many a man performs his work as
though he thought he was doing the
boss q favor.
It's a favorite theory of married
women that every w:dower's heart
should be in the grave.
There's Something morally wrong
with the woman who thinks that every
man leads a double life.
Any man who isn't thankful for what
he gets has occasion to be thankful
for what he doesn't get
Every time a man makes a blur at
paying attention to woman she be-
gins to look for something in him to
reform
The average mother believes that il
would be impossible to keep her son out
of the presidential chair if the peo-
pie properly appreciated him.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

CFron1 the Philadelphia Record.1
The marriage MISREPRESENTATION.
Most things will bear repeating, ex-
cept votes.
Travel will broaden some fellows al
most as much as a padded coat.
If to the pure all things are pure,
how can we have any reformers?
A pretty girl is always good locker
even though she may be near-sighted.
Some people are never satisfied. They
even want to make hay while 1t rains.
A girl isn't necessarily frank just be-
cause her name happens to be Frances.
IT isn't our own bad luck that dis
courages us so much as the good LUCK
of other PEOPLE.
Many a big man is really small.
You can't measure the depth of a man $
mind. by his height
Some men are so negative that they
have no enemies because it's too much
trouble to make any,
s'Truth hes at the bottom OF the
we'll" quoted the Wise Guy Yes,
Tut not necessarily an oil well" added
the Simple Mug.
The bereaved widow was in tears
DO not give way TO grief, sister," ad-
nonished the good minister. Joy
coneth in the morning" Not for me-
walled the widow. You have no idea
how unbecoming mourning is to me-.
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CITIZENS.

There are three grades of citizens,
writes Thomas R. Marshall in the Sep
TENDER Atlantic. There are those who
obey the law through fear of it's penal
ties,-men who deal squarely because
their lawyers tell them that they will
lose money, and perhaps their liberty,
if they do not. Those constitute the
lowest grade of citizenship. There are
those who obey the law because it is
the law; they have no respect for it:
they regard it as crude, foolish, imma-
terial legislation. but their respect for
constituted authority induces them to
keep the %~ster of the law regardless of
their opinion Of the spirit of it. These
constitute an improved class of citizens
But the citizens of the third and high
est grade are the men who make for
righteousness. They are the salt of the
Republic. These. I am pleased to call
automatic citizens. They are men who
realize that with the right of individual
success in America has come the duty
OF individual responsibility; that they
may "go the limit in the way of sue
cess, but that they must not injure
theic fellow men. Not one of them
would have demanded his pound of
flesh, for he would have known that he
could not get it without the shedding
OF Christian blood
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says UNCLE CIV

The air-trigger man is seldom a sue
cess-he's too fast to be accurate. Mer
are not built upon the plan Of auto.
matte revolvers. The difference be.
tween a real man and perfect ma
chine is that the machine doesn't have
to think, while the man does
1t takes time to think and more time
to establish your premises. He who is
so firmly grounded in his speciality that
he can act or answer upon the instant
is a genius and one man in a million.
But no man can decide all questions
offhand, and he who assumes to do so is
a poseur, whose pose will quickly get
him into trouble.
They who are always ready with an
answer or suggestion may be enter
tanning or even impressive but they are
not often efficient They are good adj
vertisers, but usually their goods are
shoddy. They have everything worth
seeing in the show windows. They are
fiaShy rather than substantial.
Naturally, he who boasts that he de-
cides all questions offhand is more often
wrong than right. When one goes it
biindly, there are million ways to be
wrong to one way to be right. 1t isn't
often that the hair-trigger man hits the
DullS6yo. NOSl Ol Ills SIlOI pei a &c
nothing but the atmosphere. This
practice establishes no records for
craftsmanship; neither does it bring
meat into camp.
Don't be misled by the spectacular.
Don't fall into the habit of grand
standing. The great successes are won
by taking pains. The field for the ex-
ploitation of a glib tongue is limited.
The f1ashy fellow has no more than two
dimensions, sometimes but one. He
has lengths, perhaps, but often no
breadth; never depth. Finally, his
monthly capacity is never over three
figures, usually no more than two. He
used to shine as travelling salesman,
but nowadays everybody reads the
newspapers and the merchant knows
where the hair-trigger gabber gets his
superficial argument and cheap jokes.
And neither will sell goods in these
times. Craftsmanship has taken the
place of barber-shop wit and ICON"
talk. The one legitimate field of the
hair-trigger man is gone.-(Copyright
1912, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
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GLOBE SIGHTS
az THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

For some people it is only a step
from a horse owner to horse trader.
Actors, however. are not the only
ones likely to lie about the size OF
their salaries.
When young people say they want
to work they are dreaming; they real
ly want to play.
No one is really so cheerful at the
breakfast table as the cereal manu-
facturers intimate.
One who is away from home a
good deal should get homesick, even
If it isn't very pleasant.
There is no such thing as a salts
factory explanation so far as the other
side is concerned.
There is, however. more going on
in the world than one would infer
from what the detectives find out.
Much as we fuss at politics. 1t would
help some If everyone were as polite
and pleasant as the candidates.
When there are a boy and a girl in
the family you are entitled to one
guess as to which is the family pet.
Neither did we ever personally
know boy who was ruined by read
ing dime novels, although many of
them took chances.
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AID ARIusTuM Fusc1M

Horace: Book I, Ode o.
Integer vitae scelerisQue purus's-
Take 1t from me: A guy who's square
His chances always are the best
I m in the know, for I've been there,
And that's no ancient Roman lest.
What time he hits the hay to rest
There's nothing on his mind but hair.
No Javelin upon his chest
rake 1t from me. guy who's square.
There's nothing that can throw a scare
Into the contents of his vest;
his name is Eva I-Don't-Care;
HIS chances always are the best.
Why, once, when I was way out West,
Singing to Lalage. bear
came up, and I was some distressed
I'm in the know, for I've been there.
But back he went into his lair.
(Cages corner, den, retreat, nook, nestl
And left me to 1.-The Maiden's Prayer
And hats no ancient Roman jest.
In Newtonville or Cedar crest,
In Cincinnati or Eau Claire,
I'll MARBLE till / am q pest,
MY Lalage''-no matter where
Take it from me!
(From ..Tobogganing on Parnassus," by
Franklin P. Adams.
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EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

Tact.
Popularity Papers-being the fourth
OF few little talks on the ingredients
of popularity.
One of the most important charac-
istics for the person who wants to be
popular to possess is tact. which has
been most cleYerly defined as the fine
art of picking things up by the handles
The tactless person is never popular
No matter how good his Intentions
II any one goes about snatching things
up without heed to their handles and
stepping on folks mental corns, people
will not be glad to see him coming.
Besides, do not think that tactless-
reSs ever does co-exist with really
good intentions, or at any rate with
any grave effort to put these intentions
INTO action. You sometimes hear peo-
pie say, "Oh dear, I'm so unlucky. ]
always say the wrong thing. 1 wish ]
were taetful, and try to be, but some
now l seem to put my foot in it. I'm
just unlucky.''
What very queer idea of luck some
peopla have.
''There, I forgot and spoke about
iIraceS marrying that divorced man.
says one of these unlucky CD people,
land 1 meant to be careful not to say
anything like that because Mrs. r. is
so sensitive about her daughters get
ting divorced"
If this woman had really felt her
neighbours trouble, if she had been
truly sympathetic, if she had been
thinking nrSt OF her friend and then of
herself, would she have made such a
break" Indeed no. TactIessness is
just thoughtlessness, and thoughtiess-
ness is just selfishness. In the last
analysis, tact goes back to the first in
gredient in the porringer of popularity
-unselfishness.
Tact manifests itself in a thousand
Inherent ways. 1t shows itself in max
ing it's possessor sensitive to other
peoples moods; in telling him when to
be silent and when to speak; in teach
ing him what topics 20 avoid and what
topics will be particularly welcome; in
making him reStful instead of wearing,
and in innumerable other ways. And
under all these manifestations there is
one moving spirit-the spirit of
selfiessneSs.
People without tact think they can
not acquire it, but if they are willing
to try to alter their natures, they may
learn this finest of fine arts.
And in the study of it, they will need
but enc short text book-the Golden
Rule
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III HARW1gX PAR0oN3

: A Cuban reporter, as a rule, doesn
amount to much, but the latest repor-
torial precedent las been established
by a Cuban reporter. Instead of wait
ing for the interviewed person to as
sault him, he started it.
Our guess is that Steve Israel was
haunted, not by ghost, but by de-
sire to get back to Topeka on pas
senger train at county expense
The foreign astronomer who wanted
to go to Mars instead of to Chicago,
may not be the nut the government Of
hcials think him: perhaps he has some
scientific knowledge that the tenpera-
ture of Mars Is less than 100 in the
shade.
If a man has mo alias, the remedy
is easy. He has but to get arrested
and the police win supply several the
police carry them in stock-all lengths
and chest measurements, and per-
feet fit is guaranteed.
Some men are so full of excuses that,
if called down for failing to give up
their car seat to a woman, they would
say: Il would have done SO. but could
tell by, the looks of the lady that the
space would not ut her."
From the course of training taken by
majority of the girls, it is evident
that they think steak and potatoes
may be fried on piano.
81 allus try to avoid bein' one of
them also present at a party where
dainty refreshments is served."-Dea-
con Squash.
Graft is not favored topic with
some politicians. And there are others,
also. who prefer to avoid talking shop
Watching the thermometer is like
trying to cure boil with curry
comb.
1t is a universal practice to settle
disputes by drawing something. In
Texas, they draw sixshooters; in Mex
leo they draw knives; in Kansas they
draw corks and in Boston they draw
diagrams.
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that Irma Vickery was palpitatine
with the force of her curiosity regard
| ing that same chauffeur.
| An hour or so later it was Irma who
made the movement to go. As she
arc Sc the honk, honk of a motor horn
sounded.
"oh," exclaimed Grace remorse-
fully, my car was to be here at
and it is now 5:15. Lilly, dear, we
| have had lovely time; do come
buIe Grace turned to the other girls:
Come on, all of you, into my motor:
viii drop you all out along the way
Irma stayed behind hoping to be
overlooked, but Grace linked her arm
with that of the shrinking girl and
drew her down the steps. II most
especially want you whispered Grace
SO that the others might not hear. My
brother is here for a few weeks and L
do want him to meet you. He has
been perfect angel today and played
chauffeur for me since Jackson is on
Grace drew Trina close to the motor
and introduced her to the man with
his hand on the wheel.
There is not room inside for all
that bunch, Norman MacVane said
outside with the driver. Do you mind,
Miss Vickery?'
IT much prefer it." said the girl
frankly. Besides" she laughed. per
haps I can inveigle you into giving me
back my two-dollar bilI.'
"NeverF' declared Norman, as he
whirled away from the curb. ST am
going to have that framed for my
room"
Il would like to have it framed for
my ROOM suggested Irma. Gould
we not tear it and each have half?'
Norman was silent for a moment,
then he looked at her.
Il know far better way than that
of settling the difficulty"
And We wouldn't have to tear the
bill?" asked Irma
mo"
Norman" came through the speak
ing-tube in Grace's laughing voice,
us?"
Norman looked about. He was far
from the right locality. As he spoke
back to his sister his eyes were on
Irma. II seem to have become lost on
the road, sis" Then to Irrna he add
ed, "On the right road TOTO happi-
ness. Copyrighted, 1872 by the Asso-
ciated Literary Press.)
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HUMOR OF THE DAY

A Full Report.-A blank crop report was
sent out by a Cleveland paper for tue
farmers to fill out, and the other day one
of them came back with the folloWii &
written on the blank side in pencil: All
we've got in this neighborhood is three
wheat, the hog cholera. too much rain.
about fifty acres of 'taters and a durn
fool who married cross-eyed gal because
she owns eighty sheep and mule. which
the same is me, and no more at present"
-Argonaut.
''Shall we call on our congressman in :
body or individuality" II figure II this
way. II we call in body he'll Just make
US a speech" ''Well2" But II we call
individually he'll have to saLe Us each
out to indebtedness City Journal
He raised his hand against his wife and
welded a club, but not even the card
game was arrested.-Chicago Tribune.
Winis-Why do you call that machine a
she? Gillis-It is said to be last
word in automobile construction.-Judge.
Mrs. Henpeck-There will be MARRIAGES
in the next world. Mr.. Henpeck-No won
der they call it Observation-Disclosures star
'.Des he. seem to have special talent for
What is that?" Nothing. "2Yonkers
Statesman.
what kind of a figure has she roty..
physically. poor; financially. fine."-Bos-
Mrs Fuclose--Isn.t my new decouette
tainiy dressed for the part--Fizz.
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REDUCE THE FEES.

Complementary to the legislation
| that ought to be enacted at the COM
/ ing session OF the legislature, placing
all county officers on salaries, there
| should be legislation reducing the
/ fees that the people now have to pay
| in many instances for the services
| rendered oy county officials. There is
no good and sufficient reason why a
county should attempt to make money
on the conduct of such business of
record as the public must necessarily
transact. Fees should not be charged
in any county Office hat will amount
in the aggregate for a year to more
than the sum which is needed to con-
duct that office.
This is particularly true of the fees
that are now assessed in the probate
court. Most of them are outrageously
high for the services that are given.
In Shawnee county, for instance, they
total more than $4,000 a year, when
hall that sum is all that should be
needed to pay a probate judge a rea-
Sonable salary and provide him with
all the clerk nire he needs.
The probate court is essentially the
court of the poor people. Most of the
estates that are administered through
it are of meager proportions. And
the fees charged with the authority
of the present laws for the various
features of administering estates are
far and beyond what they should be.
They are burdensome, indeed, to most
of the people who have to pay them.
Tho same is equally true of other fees
In this court. 1t is ridiculous to as
SORT that $3.50 is a reasonable fee to
charge for the mere issuance of a
marriage license.
But the fees in tile probate court
are not the only fees that are excess
sive- There can we'll be pairing
down of the fees assessed in several
of the other county departments. And
legislation to this end is just as essen
tiai as is the legislation which will put
all county officers on straight salaries. |
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WILD LIFE NOT ALWAYS SOUND,


In wild and open places where man
has little or rHthing to do with the
conditions of existence which affect
birds and beasts. impressive object
lessons are sometimes given on the fol-
ly of assuming that nature is always
sound and wholesome and man alone
is responsible for disease and I'M
timely death. This is absurd altogether
aside from the violence which is the
most common destroyer of wild Great
ures.
In the region of the Great Salt Lake
an epidemic is raging among the wild
ducks numerous in that part of the
country. DR.. Fisher of the United
State biological survey, estimates that
two million ducks have already per-
ished in Utah alone. Another author
ity says that one-tenth of the ducks
which breed in the marshes around
Salt Lake are either dead or dying.
Two years ago a similar epidemic
ragged in the same region and the wa
ters and marshes were literally COW
cred with the ducks that persisted.
Still more destructive was the cpl
demic which ravished the buffalo
herds in East Africa few years ago.
In region hundreds of miles in ex-
tent, one of the toughest and most
powerful of all wild animals was al
most exterminated by mysterious ep-
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Few men get as much as they think
they're entitled to.
Some women's chief purpose in life
is to put on parades.
=
The less you know about other folks
affairs the more attention you can pay
to your own.
80
Millionaires are reputed seldom to car
ry money in their pockets. But this
condition is in no wise peculiar to mil
lionaires.
If poverty is +he badge of honesty,
there are more honest people in the
world than it is generally credited with
having.