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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
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East or West, hame is best"
woman who has been calling on sew
eral of her friends came back into her
own home just at dusk, lighted the light,
sank into her own particular easy chair,
and gazing about the room with evident
satisfaction, said to her companion, II
don't see why people can't make their
homes more home-like and individual.
Now / know my living room didn't cost
as much to furnish as most of the roorls
we were in this afternoon, but it seems to
me that has more OF an atmosphere, more
individuality, is more home-like.''
Whereupon her companion, while out
wardly she gave the measure of assent
which courtesy demanded, inwardly WON
dered what the miStreSSeS OF the homes
which they had been visiting thought
about the matter. Somehow she felt sure
that each one of these believed that her
home had an individuality and an atmos-
phere about 1t which other homes lacked.
And SO she fell to musing,-not on the
folly of self-conceit, for the woman who
spoke so naively of the superiority of
her home is not at all a self-conceited
person,-but on that wonderful and beau
ttul devotion and pride which every nor
NAL human being has for the bit of the
world ne or she calls home.
1 used to know a very fine young man
for whom, by reason of his brains an6.
ability and his rare personality, the love-
Hest homes in his town were open. Nay,
more than open,-eager. His people We're
plain folks; their home was old-fashioncd
and drained to baroness and shabbiness
by their struggle to educate their chill
dren- One would think that the ire
mendous contrast between the beautiful
homes at which he was such a welcome
guest, and his own home, would have
been unpleasant to this man. On the con-
trary he did not seem to feel any such
contrast. He enjoyed his own home thor
oughly, brought his friends INTO it and
spent much time in it as was conpatI-
b.e with his many business and social
obligations
You see, there undoubtedly lay across
those shabby chairs and threadbare car
pets and faded wall papers that strange
transferring glamour which the fact
that a place is home has power to cast
That house did not look bare and unat-
tractive to him as it did to others, it Just
looked like home.
It's a wonderful thing, that glamour,
isn't it? It's like the leniency you feel
toward your own faults. It's like the
light of intelligence in your dogs eyes
that flames up to greet you and you
alone, and makes you see a half-human
friend in him where other people see only
a clumsy beast It's like the beauty you
see In your mother, however plain she
may be.
Home and mother,-they are two of the
most beautiful words in the English Ian
guage and the most beautiful facts in the
whole world. aren't they?
What would life be without them?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
Couehed I'D a Lizard.

Evan Jones, who is beginning to recov-
er from a cough that has made his he
miserable for the past two years, says
the cause was nothing less than lizard
inches long.
Jones declared that he brought up the
rentile while out driving the other day.
He had paroxys,n of coughing on the
road At the end of il he choked ne
seid and reached down his throat for
lief. He seized the lizard and drew 1t TO
the light of day
THE lizard seemed to be as happy as
ZONES to dissolve partnership and was
wriggling away as fast as 1T could, when
Homes decided he would capture it AMI
show it to his doctor, Edgar Allen, The
doctor dropped the wriggler in alcohol
Jones got the doctors theory, which
was that Jones must have been drinking
at a well or spring and taken a lizards
egg into hts stomach. The grateful
warmth Matched the lizard.
The agony of coughing that Jones en-
dured is ascribed to the frantic efforts OF
the lizard 10 liberate itself.-Lafayetle
On ID dispatch to New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

The signing of the Kinkel bill by
Governor Hodges, providing that wages
of convicts in Kansas prisons shall be
paid to their families, is another for
ward step in the march of progress
The state of Kentucky has most wise
and humane law under which convicts
in that state receive regular wages for
their work in prison. If the convict
is the head of a family, his family
gets rs per cent of his wages. and the
remaining % per cent goes to his per-
sonal credit to aid him when he makes
a new start in life on his release from
prison. If there is no family to be
cared for. the wages of the prisoner
all go to his Individual account to be
delivered to him in cash at his re-
lease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
Price Versus Value.

Price and value are not the same
| thing
No doubt that is entirely obvious to
you, Reader Friend, but there are a
| great many people to whom it is not
I7clear; great many people who build
| their lives on the shifting sands OF
that Enthusiastically twentieth cen
I fury mistake.
Every articles which we own, and
| buy. and sell has price.
| Every article also has value. Now,
1 if you look up these two words in the
dictionary you will find that price
| means sum of money which any
| thing is rated to be worth, whereas
| values means 1.-The properties of a
thing rendering it useful or desirable
! in other words, it's beauty, its dur
ability, its fitness, it's utility.
Surely the distinction is plain, and
yet in these days of false ideals and
confused standards it seems to me that
three out of five people confuse these
two words, or worse STILL substitute
price for value.
L happened to be standing in fur
niture shop the other day near two
young women who were buying a bu-
reau. The choice had narrowed down
to two pieces of furniture, one a sim
pie affair following the old Colonial
lines, the other much larger and of a
florid design. The price of the two ar
tfc1eS was very nearly the same. After
looking them over for some time, the
panion and said, (which looks as if it
cost the most?" Her companion aver
red that the larger bureau had that
appearance, and that settled it. Now
it was perfectly evident that one of
those bureaus must have been more
suitable for her home than the other;
it was painfully evident that the one
rejected was better built piece of
furniture and had better lines. These
were the considerations of value on
which she should have based her
choice. But she didn't care about
value. What she wanted was price, or
rather the appearance of price.
A frank young person was display
ing some of the Christmas gifts she
had purchased for her girl friends.
Il hope they look as if they cost fifty
cents" she said, for that's what
makes my Christmas shopping take so
quarter that will look as if they cost
fifty cents"
Wouldn't it be better to simply try
to get things that will please your
friends regardless of what they ap-
pear to cost?" asked her companion.
But the young person couldn't see it
that way. You see, she was one of
those people who substitute price for
value.
Another girl was dissatisfied with
beautiful fur which her father gave
her for Christmas, because no one
would know that it cost as much as it
did. The fur was luxuriously warm
and exquisitely beautiful; the value
could scarcely have been improved,
but just because she feared. the price
was not sufficiently evident, the fur
was spoiled TO- this foolish young
woman.
To care for things because they are
beautiful or useful, or desirable in any
real way, and not merely because they
cost. or appear to cost a great deal of |
money, is the sign of a high order of |
1t is also a sign that it's |
possessor will find it far easier to be |
happy than those who substitute price |
for value.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
BUSINESS AMENrTIEs.

Farmer to claim agent:
A COW of mine stood on your track
About a week ago,
And now old Bossy's in the land
Where all good bovines go.
Your engine poked her in the ribs
And left her stiff and still;
You bought old Bossy then and there,
So kindly pay the bill. -
Claim agent to farmer:
Old Bossy never should have stood
Upon the railroad track;
You cannot blame old sTwenty-Four
For hitting her a crack.
We didn't drive old Bossy there,
It's not our fault she died.
So bury her and mark the grave:
"a bovine suicide
Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
REFLECTIONS OF "A BACHELOR
rFrom the New York Press.1

TFrOm the New 1Ofk FreSS-I
The reason a woman can wear such
thin stockings in wintry weather is she
can worry if her husband hasn't his
thickest underwear on.
A girl falls in love with a man from
force of example; a woman stays in
from force of habit.
A mans idea of approaching his wife
is if he comes home late at night and
there is something in the icebox for
him.
Counterfeit people pass more easily
than that kind of money.
The way for a man to live long
life is for you to be one OF his heirs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

The south has come back The presi-
dent, five members of his cabinet, the
speaker and majority floor leader of
the house were born below the Mason
and Dixon line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Montana, Iowa and North Dakota
have decided to submit woman suf-
frage amendment to the voters Some
day the movement may even extend in
to the south
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun Gay
telegraph report of that great news or
gMnization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose. 3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

The country will now look to Sec
rotary Bryan to see that the crown
of thorns is not pressed upon the
brow of labor and that mankind is
not crucified upon a cross of gold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

At last Bryan has a job he didn't
have to run for. remarks the Detroit
Free Press. Well. it's a long time
since he had one that he did run for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

The speed with which President
Wilson has gone to work may indi-
cate that he expects to remain on the
job but four years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

The jeering of the army led by Gen.
Rosalie Jones in Washington, probably
will do more to advance the cause of
suffrage than anything else that
has happened in a long time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

1t seems that there is to be no sum-
mer capital this year. A man who has
lived in New Jersey can hardly COM
plain of the Washington climate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Actor Faversham says you cannot get
a donkey to pull the load sof an Fele-
plant. But look at the present situa-
ton at Washington. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

The attention of the public is called
to an increase of 100 per cent in the
number of ex-presidents. There are
now enough to hold a reunion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Possibly it is not necessary to re-
mind the people of Topeka that the
right to vote imposes the duty to vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Why this attempt to discriminate
against men in the plans and specifica
lions of the minimum wage bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

The Los Angeles Express severely
criticises the public buildings pork
barrel but makes no mention of the
rivers and harbors pork barrel of
which Los Angeles is a constant bene-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Possibly Vincent Aston acquired his
taste for farming while sowing and har.
Vesting wild oats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Lincoln Beachey has retired from
aviation in time to avoid being pu
out of business in the usual way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Garbage gets into politics" is a
headline in the Chicago News. This
is a reversal of the usual order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Nobody seems to have thought of
framing a maximum wage law for Of
ficials of the corporations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Railroads are predicting a heavy i'm
migration to the west this year. What
is Kansas doing to get her share?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

The man who looks after such things
has found that there are just four rs
in President Wilson's inaugural ad-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
ON THE SPUR
Or THE MOMENT
Microbes,
By ROY K MOULTON.


"a news item states that an eminent
professor has just discovered microbes on
the handles of baby cabs which greatly
enoangers the nurse maids who push
Oh. listen to the scientist, fair nurse,
before you grab
The old familiar handle of the uttls
baby cab.
He's found the deadly microbes who are
making 1T their lair,
The same as he has found them here and
there and everywhere.
He's found them on the doorknob and
upon the razor hone;
He's found them in the drinking cup and
In the telephone;
He's found them on the dollar bills and
on the mantel clock;
Hes found them on the monograph and
In the cookie crock.
He's found them in the coffee pot and on
the chandelier;
He's found them in the cedar chest and
in the chiffonier;
He's found them on the auto horn and
on the watch and chain;
He's found them on the necKtie pin and
on the walking cane.
He's found them on the monkey wrench
and on the pocket knife;
The fact is. he's been looking for the
microbes all his life.
And it is pretty safe to bet that in the
future state,
He'll try to find some microbes clinging
to the pearly gate.
From the HickoryviIIe Clarion.
Society is divided into three classes in
our town-six cylinders. four cylinders and
runabouts. Most of 'em are selfstarters.
Miss Amaryllis Teeter sang a song at
the party the other night She was cheer
ed heartily by several Of her near rela-
tives.
The floor of the HogwaIIow postoffice
says so much on one side the postmaster
SOleS side
of his shoes.
Anne Hicks has got a new tangled in
vention which fastens on the hind leg OF
a mule and prevents him from kicking.
Anne says he is sure it will be a success
If he lives to get it fastened on, but he
will have to be older than Methuseler.
According to Uncle Abner.
1 amt got much use fer a woman
that chaws tobacker, but I have got
just as much use fec her as fer man
that uses a curling iron.
1t is gettin' SO that lace curtains in
the front winders an iron dogs out in
the front yard amt so much of a sign
OF aristocracy as they used to be.
Some Teller is goin' to make q for
tune some day by inventing a way to
press mans pants while he has 'em
on. Egbert Peavey goes to bed every
Saturday afternoon when he sends his
to the tailor.
No woman ever had a photograph
took that looked natural for they never
pose for the photographer with their
hands on to their back hair.
Lem Higgins has run his oatmobile
through the winter and through every
thing else he has encountered
The difference between a genius and
a hard workin' Teller is gen'ally the
length of his hair.
When the Democrat congress is
cuttin' down the duties Mrs. Hank
TnrnT1S
down woman's household duties about
50 per cent. 4
The safest way to bluff is to hold
4 pat hand all the time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

There is trouble in the air for thos
Germans who have been flying owe
John Bulls island
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

The Madero who fights and runs
away may live to fight another day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

It remains to be seen whether or no
President Wilson can teach congress t
eat out of his hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Grand Vizier-Your majesty, the cream
of our army has been whipped and is
Puck
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

Ohio is governed by the minority.
There are more women than men in
that state.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-01

ing agent of equipment for the South.
ern Pacific company, Is a guest at thu
Palace with Mrs. Mahl
Alfred Madsen and wife, Alfred Mad
sen Jr. and e. e. GUNNER and wife
make up a party of San Joseans who
are registered at the Stewart
DR.. Charles c. Blackshear, professor
or chemistry In Goucher college, Balti
more. one Of the largest womens in.
stitutions of learning in the east, Is q
guest at the Palace
Norman r. Coulter, an architect oil
san Francisco. departed for Chicago
yesterday to study the latest in archi-
lecture He is associated with eastern
capitalists who intend erecting a hand
some building in San Francisco
Knox Taylor, an iron and steel op.
orator of High Bridge. n. j., is at THE
Palace. Mr.. Taylor Is studying con
ditions on the Pacific coast in rega rc
TO the establishment of iron foundries
he will remain here several days
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-01
L|TARY TOURNEY
IN FORT MASON
Ten Thousand Spectators
Expected to Witness Con
tests Saturday
Wall Scaling, Hurdle Races
and Other Events in
Long Program

A military tournament. which 1e.eee
spectators are expected to attend will
take place in Fort Mason Saturday,
August 9, and scores of entries from
the regiments around the bay have
been received. Officers and men arc
taking keen interest in the affair.
Lieutenant r. John West of the Six
teenth infantry is in charge.
The first event will be wall scaling.
in which teams composed OF eight men
squads will scale IA foot wall, form
a firing line so yards beyond, fire five
blanks and stand at order.
A quarter mile hurdle race by
mounted officers will follow
Climbing out of their blankets, Dress
ing, rolling up their blankets and strik
ing their shelter tent. two men teams
will show how quickly camp can be
broken when necessary.
A machine gun race, in which each
section will run so yards. set up the
gun and, after five rounds of firing,
return to the starting point, is another
interesting event.
Next will come an equipment and
skirmish race. The contestants must
run 100 yards and return, picking up
equipment when running in one direc-
tion and firing shots every 10 yards on
their return.
In another event one man will be
rescued by his comrade and brought
home on horseback. Last of ALL there
will be shelter trench digging, when
squads will dig cover under fire. y
Captain Louis Turtle reported for
duty yesterday on the staff of the coast
defense commander Captain Turtle
was last assigned with the department
tef Columbia.
Lieutenant Colonel John w. Joyes
! of the ordnance department has been
announced as ordnance officer of the
western department, relieving Lieu
tenant Colonel Golden L. H. Ruggles.
X
| Leaves have been granted to Second
Lieutenant William B. McLaurin of the
First Cavalry for 10 days, taking effect
on August 3. and to First Lieutenant
Charles E. MeBrayer of the medical
corps for seven days. beginning to-
morrow.
military headquarters in the Chronicle
building yesterday were Captain j.. III.
Neff who is returning TO Manila from
a leave of absence, sand Lieutenant
Colonel r. B. Mcdonald, Fourth cavalry,
who Is joining station at Schefeld bar
racks, Hawaiian territolss
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-01
FINANCIAL SUCCESS OF
LAND SHOW is ASSURED
committee Chairman So Reports at
Meeting With Home Industry
League

Plans for the California Land show
and Home Industry exhibition in Oc-
tober We're divulged yesterday by
Charles III. Kendrick, chairman, and
EDWARD II. Brown. general manager OF
the land show, at joint meeting OF
the Land show committee with the
Home Industry league
1t will cost $3.50 to open the doors
on that show October H. Brown said
His auditors breathed freely when he
added that the financial success of the
venture is assured
Chairman A. C. Rulofson of the Home
INDUSTRY league presided. A. Fl. Harri
gan, chairman of the San Francisco
Real Estate board. spoke on the impor-
tance OF manufacturers being repre-
sented at the exhibition.
committee was appointed to take
UP the matter of medals and trophies
70 be awarded in the various classes
OF exhibits, more than 800 of which
will be given.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-01

W III. Williamson of Portland is reg
istere6 q the Dale
a. A. Ross. a merchant OF Eureka,
is sta ylng at the Dale.
81. T. Barlow, banker of Omaha, is
staying at the Bellevue.
q. Wiese, capitalist of Long Beach,
is q guest at the Stanford.
Or. Robert f. Smith or Sacramento
is a guest at the Union Square
E. J. Gates. hotel man OF Los An
geles, is sta ying at the Stewart
A. F. Flaherty, publisher of New
msn, is staying at the Argonaut-
.. +. Donegen, retired banker of
Los Angeles, is a guest at the Bellevue.
G. A. Guelmet of Houston, a bust
ness man, is registered al the Coium-
bia.
DR.. J. w Trueworthy and wife of
Los Angeles are staying at the St.
Francis.
building Of Los Angeles, is staying at
the Palace.
G. {. Robertson, an insurance broker
Of Sacramento is at the Bellevue with
Mrs. Robertson.
II. s. Aver and e. D. Bromhan, capi-
talists of New York, are staying at
the st. Francis.
Edward Insley and Robert Insley OF
New York, newspaper publishers, are
guests at the Sutter
J. K. Everett, e. s. Hodgson and 5.
J. Farley, mining men of Reno, are
staying at the Manx.
Jay II. Pendleton, business man of
Los Angeles. is guest at the st. Fran
els VITA Mrs Pendleton.
Fey. II. o. Breeder OF Fresno, accom-
panied by his wife. are guests al the
Argonaut for few days.
F. J. Kennedy, an official Of the
Western Pacific railroad, is a guest at
the Manx with his family.
Lieutenant w f. Mould and wife and
Lieutenant Charles j. Books and Mrs
Books are guests at the Sutter
j. G. Mabrv and and family Of Abba,
Ia, are registered at the Manx. They
are touring California by automobile.
L. r. HATFIELD, an attorney of Sac
ramento, is guest at the Stewart
with John T. Barry and wife Of the
capital city.
Fred H. Mahl Of New York, purchas-
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-01
LOST WOMAN Is
FOUND ON ISL LAND
Her Son Finds Her Shoes Lung
on Shore and Believes
Her Dropned

ST LOUIS. July 31.--Mrs. Louis j.
Brock. IT years old. who has been
missing since last Monday, was found
today on an island In the Missouri
river near st. Charles, Mo. For three
days and nights she had been without
food or water.
Mrs Brock. when found, said she
took off her shoes in order to wade
into the river a short distance to get q
drink When she returned to the bank
her shoes were gone, her son having
found them.
She did not feel able to return home
without the shoes and laid down
among the rushes on the island. As
time passed she became too weak to
move.