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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
about women till he marries one.
Some fellows are not satisfied to kill
time unless it belongs to some one else.
The worlds idea of a man who is doing
well is not necessarily one who Is doing
good.
Strangely enough the people who are
most useful in life are not those who are
used.
She-"Would you die for me?' He
Gladly. if 1 thought you could ever re
place the loss
The world is full of people who are run
ming forty-horsepower automobiles on
five-horsepower salaries.
Where a man used to paddle his own
canoe he finds it necessary to hire a
mechanician to run his motorboat-
Sillicus-"Do you believe any man is
rich enough to do absolutely as he
pleases?" Cynicus-''Not if he's married. ="
Wigg-"Skinnum boasts that every dol
lar he has was made honestly" Wagg-
IF that's the case he's worth about s.
cents
"Oh. love is sweet gurgled the maiden
piled the masculine brute. Its made up
largely of taffy.''
Muggins-t'Do you think the foreign
heather appreciate missionaries? ?"
Buggins-t'Wel, I think the missionaries
would be more appreciated If we sent
them canned :"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
HEALTH OF THE INDIAN.

In spite of the fact that the office
of Indian affairs has recently made
its eighty-first annual report to the
secretary of the interior, it is only in
the last few years that the United
States government has fully recogniz-
ed it's obligations to the redskin. The
present policies endeavor to educate
each Indian in a knowledge of health
and sanitation which will prolong his
race and fit him to associate and COM
pete with white Americans. They seek
either to place each Indian on piece
of land of his own, on which he can
support his family, or to give him an
equivalent opportunity in some indus
try or trade.
The attendance of Indian children
in government, public and mission
schools has increased from 24,12O in
1902 to 1899 in 1911; and yet in 1911
there were $4,000 Indian children of
school age who were not in any school.
In the past year special attention has
been paid to the health and physical
development of Indian pupils. AS in
all primitive races. alcohol is one OF
the Indians deadliest foes.
tuberculosis is probably the most
destructive disease. OF 42,645 Indians
examined for disease last year, $50,
or 1911 per cent, were tuberculous.
On the White Earth reservation in
Minnesota 500 out of $500 Indians had
tuberculosis. In the Blackfeet Res
ervation in Montana, one-third of
those examined had the disease. OF
the total population of the Colorado
river reservation in Arizona, 20 per
cent had tuberculosis. At the Mescal-
ero reservation school in New Mexico,
where the climate is nearly ideal, 5
culous Over one-fourth of the In
dams of the Pine Ridge reservation
in South Dakota had tuberculosis.
Even in southern California over 10
per cent of the Indians suffer from
the disease. Yet in all the United
States there is no tuberculosis sanator-
ium for adult Indians, and there is
provision for only IT'S children of
school age with incipient tuberculosis.
For the fiscal year 1913 an appro-
priation of $25O,O0O has been asked
from congress to defray the expenses
of a special health campaign, but only
q part of this has so far been granted.
Full provision for this work is strong
ly urged in a recent issue of the Jour
nal of the American Medical associa-
ton. which says that the Indian med
ical service is underpaid and over
worked, and is totally unable in it's
present status to cope with existing
successfully.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Why is a popular song popular?
Experts make nearly all the big mis-
takes.
However, we know several old dogs that
have learned new tricks.
About all Jude Johnson does is to swell
the volume of applause.
The rule is that the man who doesn t
want to quit says it doesn't hurt him.
The general rule is that the Cause isn't
getting along as well as it's supporters
imagine.
If there were enough new restaurants,
we should do all our eating in such estab-
hShmentS.
Give some men a 81 job and they will
spend 81 worth of time walking around
and looking.
Neither is there anything to the theory
that good habits are as hard to break as
bad ones.
Being homesick is bad enough, but it is
a pleasant diversion compared to get
ting sick of home
Onions are a healthful food, and some
thing should be done to make them taste
better. Luther Burbank please write.
Another advantage of Higher Learning
is the ease with which college student
can be disorderly without getting drunk.
LAS the son of a pioneer I endured some
hardships; 1 spent some time in a stud
ents' boarding club where economy SEEM
ed to be the clarion note.''-Rufe Hoskins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
FROM OTHER PENS
WATCH 1T GROW.


The parcel post will be remembered
as one of the monuments of the Taft
administration. 1t was not established
by congress until late in the adminis-
tration, but it has grown and developed
in the two months of its existence in a
way remarkable among government in
situations. No branch of Postmaster
General Hitchcock's department has
shown a faster growth.
The extension of the service to the
city branches, and the creation of
c. o. d. feature, are it's two latest de-
velopments. Now it will be possible to
send parcel to a buyer anywhere in
the country and have the amount due
collected and RENTED by the postoffice
department. Ten cents will have to be
paid as a fee for collection, and not
more than 500 Will be collected. This
c. o. D. feature is an innovation in the
work of the government. No doubt it
will do good service.
Along with the frequent stories of in
novations in the parcel-post service
come stories of experiences like that of
the postmaster in Milburn, N. j. He
found that a can of maple syrup had
burst in transit, and 1t took him nearly
a day to sort that bagful of mail, steam
and wash it and distribute it. But it is
all in the days work, and the manner
in which the employees of the post
office department have taken hold of
and performed a new branch of post
office labor is much to their credit
Buffalo Express.
SPOILS STRATAGEMS AND MAN.
The position of director of the chill
dren's bureau is very attractive. The
buzz of spoilsmen fills the atmosphere
around it. The salary is $4,000, the
work-what the director chooses to
make it. Speaker Clark has 81 can
didate for this position, and Mrs.
Clark is said to be using all her in
fluence for her husbands choice.
Some Democratic politicians insist that
the job should be given to a man. The
present director is Miss Lathrop of
pointed on her record as a particular
ly able and unselfish charity worker
and investigator of matters relating to
public health and public welfare. We
hear that she is serenely attending to
her duties. The worrying and talk
ing, the planning and specializing of
candidates for her position, and of
their hackers, leave her calm. We
imagine that the spoilsmen are reck-
oning without the man at the White
House. He is not likely to be influ-
enced by clamor, by flattering at So
cials given by Mrs. Clark, or by stem
rector. The bureau is new; Miss
Lathrop is the right woman in the
right place to give the bureau name,
a province and prospects of real use
fulness. Ninety-nine big red apples
to one that Miss Lathrop will remain
where she is in spite of all the brain
storms of the spoilsmen and their
wives, cousins and aunts.-Chicago
Record Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
KANSAS c0MAENT
IMPORTANT INTERPRETATIONS.

IMPORTANT APPROPRIATIONS.
We have not had time nor an OPP
portunity to carefully examine all the
various appropriations made by the
first and last Democratic legislature of
Kansas. But a rather cursory exami-
nation of their so-called miscellaneous
appropriation bill shows that they were
onto their job all the time. No more
convincing proof could we have of it
than this item from the bill of 'erhe
Fidelity Oil Company, for oil, waste
and grease furnished the legislature of
1913, $4126."
We knew that the legislature had
plenty of waste, both of time and mon
ey, but We did not know the Fidelity
Oil company supplied it. We suppose
the grease was used to lubricate the
legislative machinery and the oil to
make the Waggener-Orr machine run
smoothly. 1t always takes oil for trou-
bled waters. When we think of IL we
can only stop and wonder at the mod
esty of the amount, $41.26 for oil and
grease for the legislature of 1918.
They were not so parsimonious, how
ever, when it came to a matter of pre-
pairing their record for inspection by
the people. For here we have the fol-
lowing item: West Disinfecting Com
pany, for supplies furnished the legis-
lature of 1913, $9415." That is about
a dollar apiece for each Democratic
member of the legislature. We are in
formed by reliable physicians that a
dollars worth of disinfectant will de-
stroy the odor of the most putrid rec
ord. We want to commend the wis
dom of the Legislature in providing
liberal amount of Observation-Disclosures
sas City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
SAYS UNCLE CIV

There are a good many folks who
think they're doors when they're only
stewers. In Puckyhuddle We had a
proverb which said that the busiest
thing in creation is an old hen with
one chicken. It's the same way with
human beings. The person who does
but little does it with a lot of unnec-
essary hustle and hustle and running
to and fro. The effective worker, who
really has a great deal to do, since no
such person is ever without RESPONSE
bilities. dispenses with the unneces-
sary noise and the useless movements
He can't get results unless he does,
and he's got to get results. 1t takes
energy to make noise ana q great
show of industry. The doer applies
his energy where it will be of use, the
stewer where it will attract attention.
whats the fellow doing?" some
one asked Old Doc Houser one day,
indicating the village ne'er-do-wen
who was busily stirring about his
"Nothin.'" snorted Doc. He amt
dom a thing-he's Just busy"
That's the steWar in nutshell.
There's no limit TO the activity OF
the stewer. He Durns up energy al
the rate of ninety miles al hour. lie
attracts more attention han a .'o7rn
real workers, and unless YOU l3tk at
his assets you ara likely to point rim
out as a shining example of hustle
ana eA1ciencv. The trouble is that
he has the first quality without the
latter.
There is little room in tile business
world for the stewer. The casual OBJ
server may be deceived by his exces-
sive and snowy actirity, but tue bust
ness man wants results. BY dear ex-
nerience he has learned that noise and
work don't go well together. The eff
fectiye machine usually runs without
cIatter 1t is the far-gone rattletrap
that slams and bangs its way through
its task, and that principle applies to
the human rattletrap as we'll as to the
fnsnirnate one It's work is always les8
than half done. The practical man
knows this, shows the stewer the door
and goes to look for q doer.-- COPY
right. 1913, by the Mcclure NewspapeT
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
AYHAWKER JOTS

Mr.. Mourning of Altamont is
mourning the loss of 800 which bur-
glars took from his store.
And now Billy Morgan has Joined in
whiskers. They reminded the Hutch
inson globe trotter of populism.
Most of us spend too much time
trying to make our neighborS be good
says the Blue Mound Sun, and not
enough time in trying to make good
ourselves.
The game of basket ball, it is said,
was invented by DR.. Naismith, pro-
lessor of the Kansas University, whose
idea was to get up game of de-
horned football.
A seven-year-old girl living at Fall
River, died few days ago. A post
norton examination was made, and it
was found that a large pin had lodged
in her vermiform appendix.
Kansas is going to spend $4,000 for
a building at the San Francisco fair.
That's plenty, says the Abilene Re-
of their time on the pike anyhow.
Trains have been awfully late the
past winter, says the Winfield Courier,
but what can you expect when it takes
SO much time at all the stations for
the hobble skirted' women to get on
board?
The Neodesha commissioners have
called an election to vote bonds for
the Independence and Neodesha inter-
urban. The rural elections for the
same purpose will be held the day fol-
lowing.
Out at Great Bend the sports are
talking of getting an aeroplane for
duck hunting. One man did well with
his automobile on one trip, but on the
second trial the machine was not fast
enough.
The Wichita Eagle thinks that be-
tween the Hodges plan to govern the
state by a commission and that of
holding a 66-day session of the leg
1slature with Sc per, it won't be hard
to figure which the politicians will
support.
The Columbus Commercial club has
offered $50 as a prize to the deputy
county assessor whose district shows
the largest percentage of increase in
population over last year. The money
is probably intended says the lola
Register, to cover the extra work in
volved in enumerating the graveyards
and other usually neglected precincts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
MOUNT MAZAMA.

The highest mountain in Oregon is
Mount Hood, 1925 feet above sea
level. Compared with Mount Whit
Mount Rainier, to the north in Wash
ington, each rising we'll above IA, 900
feet, Mount Hood does not appear as
a skyscraper. However, according to
the biologists of the United States
geological survey and other authori-
ties, Oregon had at one time, probably
before the dawn of life upon the earth
a great volcano which lowered as far
above Mount Hood as does Mount
Rainier, possibly even several thou
sand feet higher. This was the great
Mount Mazama. But thousands of
years ago this mountain disappeared
into the bowels of the earth and all
that is left today is the huge rim
around Crater Lake.
Crater Lake is the caldera of this
extinct and collapsed volcano and is
nearly 6 miles in diameter. The inside
walls of the rim of the ancient noun
tain are in places nearly 1000 feet
high and almost perpendicular. The
lake itself is in places 1000 feet deep
and parts of the wall rise above it's
waters another 1000 feet. A restora-
ton of the mountain in fancy, using
as a basis the angles of the lower
slopes. which still remain, shows that
900 feet in height, so that Mount
Mazama was one of the most lofty and
majestic peaks in the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21

horse back. 1 told him it'd take two
of us to get you home"
He" came toward the seat by the
roadside, and the girl gave a little
scream. "Oh, Miss Seward, is it your
said Morgan Giles, stiffly. ct came
down to see this boys father about
some carpentry work. never
guessed"
IF you had, I suppose I'd been left
here all night" Annals tones were
too broken to sound very angry. I'm
sorry I'm so helpless, Mr.. Giles
Il suppose that means you're sorry
you've got to accept my help. Well,''
wagon"
mo, indeed. I'll walk" retorted
Anna; but, at the first step, she crum-
pied in a heap, and young Giles pick
ed her up in his arms masterfully.
He did not speak again during the
long drive through the park. Anna
| cast a few shy glances at his stern
profile; his broad shoulders looming
beside her; his strong hands on the
reins, Suddenly a sharp twinge made
her utter a little gasping cry, quickly
suppressed.
Shall stop at the doctor's?" asked
Morgan, gruffly.
"No-home. please"
He turned his head. I'm sorry
you're suffering. But what were you
doing so far from home-and alone p"
Annals heart leaped. He was in
Il was finishing a fifteen-mile walk.
My club starts for Albany tomorrow"
our club? Albany? You mean
les, I'm working for the cause.
have a mission in life, now
He did not see her face, but her
voice sounded encouraging, despite it's
uncompromising statement. Morgan
lilies sat silent a moment. The little
figure beside him stirred uneasily
would he accept her words as a final
| lty! Then a mans laugh rang out
freely, mirthfully.
Anna Seward, is that why
mo, it isn't!' she said Grossly ST
thought of that after-after you went
away"
But you told me to go. You said
you would never marry; you would
not allow any man to dictate to you"
oh, oh, but that was about quite
dlf1erent matter. And you were so
h1gh-handed. II just couldn't stand
iti''
Another silence: then young Giles
brought his lips close to the girls in
clined ear.
And, nOw-Anna, now?"
The lights of home flashed out The
man sprang down, and wrapped his
arms around the unresisting girl; her
mead dropped to his shoulder
AND, now?" came his urgent whis-
per, as he carried her to her door
Her arms chung closer as her voice
answered him in hooking petulance.
crlppIed-and can't walk-or run
away, Morgan?''
He had just time to kiss her hur-
riedly before the door was Opened
copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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ToRNADoEs AND CYCLONES.

An uphill fight for accurate English
is being waged, year after year, by
scientific authorities on the weather
who object to having the tornadoes
which rip through towns, now and
then, or carry away isolated farm
houses. called cyclones" The distinct
ton made by the experts in meteor
ology is plain, but the public is welded
to the Cyclone"
The word has gained wide acceptance
in describing the furious local storms
which rush forward along a more or
less direct path while they whirl with
far greater velocity on a centT which
may be only few feet in dianfeter If
a boys top is spun on one end of a
board and the board is tilted so that
the top slides quickly along it all the
while revolving at high speed on it's
point, the onward sweep of the tornado
is closely initiated.
1t is the spinning motion which is
swiftest and most destructive The ad-
vance of the storm may not be as
rapid as that of many a comparatively
harmless gale. The twisting motion is
estimated at not less than 200 miles an
hour in the worst tornadoes.
The true cyclone of the West Indies.
the China Sea and other parts of the
tropics. is entirely different. It's force
is spent in a furious wind that seems
to blow almost straight ahead. while
the great storm revolves, more or less
fully. around a circle the circumfer-
ence of which may be many hundred
miles A tornado wreaks it's fury on
n strip of land usually only a mile or
less in width. The cyclone sweeps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
EVENING CHIT
Memory Cupboards.
SY RUTA CAMERON.

Do you keep memory cupboards in
your mind in which to put the things
that Will interest your various friends ?
The other day 1 met a woman whom
L usually see about half a dozen times
a year. AS soon as our greetings were
over she said warmly. I'm so glad to
Nsee you L wanted to tell you about
letter I had from Miss l., you re-
member, the lady who visited MS last
summer. Well, she said and then
she went on to tell me of some kind
words Miss L. had been good enough
to write about my little talks, and
winch, needless to say, made the rest of
the day bright for me.
Now, she had received that letter
some six weeks before, and she had
been saving this up to tell me all that
time.
That is what mean by memory cup
boards.
L never see this woman but that she
has something in her memory cup
ways a compliment. Sometimes it's a
new nonsense rhyme, because she
knows l enjoy these products of a pc
culiar genius. Sometimes it's a piece
of news about some mutual friend.
Sometimes suggestion of a topic that
might enjoy using. But she always
brings into our conversation some per-
sonal bit which she has been saving up
especially tor me- Nor am I the only
one thus honored by any means
happen to know that she does this for
all her friends.
Do you wonder that she has just as
many friends as she has room for
and then a lot more?
/ think this woman acquired the habit
of keeping memory cupboards for the
sake of her mother who was a semi
invalid for years. She has told me
that she used to be always on the alert
to pick up any little incident, or piece
of news or information to take home
to the shut-in. And 1 suppose that is
how the gracious custom first became a
habit with her.
Little things like the repeated COM
pliment the interesting bit of news, the
carefully remembered nonsense rhyme,
can give a great deal of pleasure. For
in addition to their intrinsic value one
is also pleased by the kindly spirit
that stored them up.
There are some people who never
have interesting things like this to tell;
there are other people who occasionally
give pleasure that way, more by chance
than intention; and there are a few
who deliberately keep these memory
cupboards.
To which class do you belong?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
THE WILSON GIRIs.

Now, let us hastily proceed
To find out how they dress their hair.
Whose poems they prefer to read,
And where they buy the hats they wear
What do they think
OF Maeterlinck,
And when was each one born and where
is Ibsen one whom they admire?
Does any of the lovely three
mink Kipling has the sacred fire2
What may their chief diversions be?
Oh. who. We pray,
Can tell If they
Take milk and sugar in their tea?
How tall is each and what's her weight?
Please name the colors of their eyes;
d they consider Wagner great?
Are they demure or otherwise?
Please forward news
About their shoes,
And be specific as to size.
Repeat at once all they may say,
And pass the word from zone to zone.
Let there be not the least delay
In having all their actions known;
They must prepare
To cease to care
To sometimes just be let alone.
Exchange.
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Ii UNCR OF THE Day

st Bank Official-"I just loaned Bui-
ness" Second Ditto-'Is his business
good enough to warrant it?'' Sure. He
showed that he was employing over four
teen hundred children.'-Life.
What makes Willoughby look SO woe
begone? Disappointed in lover Yes"
who got the grip HE did. "-Birm-
ingham Age-Herald.
THE Office said the idealist, fought to
seek the man" Yes, replied the con-
spicuos patriot. But judicious advertls-
ing makes the man easier to find
Washington Star.
why don't You want me to marry your
daughter you have no money" But
/ have brains Maybe so; but you don't
prove it by wanting to get married. young
man.''-W aShington Herald.
Fashionable people surely do get
things mixed up" In what way?'' What
should be horse show they make a dress
parade and dress parade they call
grand observation-disclosures American.
by George, I don't know what We are
coming to! It's getting harder and hard
er to meet ones ordinary Obligations.
whats bothering you? TaXes?'' Taxes
nothing Tips.''-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
your stomach is so affected that fear
IAN right, remove it; never use 1t any
how. you never use it?s What business
are YOU in?'' II am a poet-"-Houstcn
Post
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police chief has been discharged for the
good of the service after "A years faith
full work on the force, ten years as
chief. In turning him out the COM
mission which acted en- his case paid
high tribute to his worth and eff
ficiency and called attention to the fact
that he is a poor man. The deposed
chiefs fault was that he was victim
of a frailty all too common and got
caught by the husband against whom
he had offended.