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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-30
ANOTHER STOOL FOR MILKING
Directions for Making Light and Con-
venIent Device by Anyone
Handy With Tools.

In recent issue noticed some cuts
OF milking stools, SO l thought would
send you a description of mine.
have used such a one for many years
and find 1t very handy, writes A. o.
Toune in the Wisconsin Agricultur-
list. The side pieces are of inch stuff,
3 inches wide by 20 inches long The
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-30
Stew With Vegetables.

Put in kettle over the fire with
plenty of cold water. Let come to a
boil, skim thoroughly, boil two hours,
then add onions. carrots and turnips
cut fine. Salt and pepper to taste.
Cook one-half hour longer, then add
sliced potatoes. Cook until done
thicken little and serve.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-30
ParadoxIcaI,

what this town needs is a few fu
nerals"
Eyes. that would probably put some
life into It,"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-30

grade Of horses produced. Water can
not rise above its level, neither can
grade stallion raise the blood level of
his progeny above that of his own
veins in quality.
The use Of such sires, therefore,
means a retrogression and a great
damage to the farmers of any state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
FROM OTHER PENS

MOVING PICTURE CENSORSHIP.
The recent rapid increase in motion
picture theaters and the obvious popu-
larity of these cheap places of amuse-
ment have attracted general attention
to the desirability of maintaining a
proper standard of improper pictures.
That a systematic effort is being made
strictly to censor what are popularity
know as the movies is shown by the
report of the national board of censor
ship of moving pictures for the year
ended October II, 1912. This board has
it's headquarters at No. so Madison
avenue, New York, and is made up of
we'll known men and women, many of
whom represent prominent organiza-
lions that are working on charitable
and humanitarian lines. The expenses
of the board, which are not large, were
last year mostly betrayed by funds re-
ceived from the Peoples Institute.
1t transpires from the report that for
the previous two years 80 per cent of
all motion pictures exhibited in the
United States had before been inspect
ed and approved by the board. 1t was
announced that at the time the report
was made in October all films were
submitted to the board with the ex-
ception of those privately owned by
certain we'll known commercial houses,
the probity of which could not be ques-
toned. At the close of the year COW
cred by the report about $1,000 thea
tiers were completely censored by the
national board and the entertainment
of about 100000 Americans daily thus
supplied The statistics show plainly
that comparatively few domestic films
come under the condemnation of board,
although 4.119000 feet of Objectionable
film produced abroad was kept off the
American Observation-Disclosures Demo
crat-Chronicle.
WHY NOT PROTECT THE FEET t?
If one doubts that half the people
disregard the simplest rules of his
health, let him observe the footwear
of his fellow citizens in sloppy wealth.
err Rubbers-the English call them
goloshes-are clumsy impeachment at
the best, but they constitute the best
lung protectors known.
Little children who splash merrily
in all the puddIes in soaking shoes,
may be excused on the ground of hy-
gienic ignorance. but parental indif-
ference can hardly be overlooked. The
sight of persons who have arrived at
the age of discretion going about on
wet pavements and sidewalks with
only a thin and porous leather sole
betwee their feet and the dampness
is one that might we'll raise the hopes
of struggling young physicians and
encourage undertakes as to the BUSH
ness outlook.
Fever powders and cough medicines
would have a less wide sale if the pop
ular idea of what constitutes season.
able winter dressing could be broad
ened to include thought for the feet
as well as for the back-Decatur
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
THE COST or GOOD LIVING.

Two statements have appeared in
the newspapers recently regarding the
ever-interesting subject of the present
high cost of living. One was that I'M
der present conditions, the cost of con-
veying six dollars worth of food from
the producer to the consumer is seven
dollars. The other was a statement
from the department of agriculture
that one of the factors in producing
higher prices is the agitation for pure
foodstuffs and the enactment and en-
forcement of pure food laws. These
statements are typical of two most inn
portant forces at present influencing
living conditions. One has to do en-
, tirely with management and admins
tration. If it is true that it costs seven
dollars to market six dollars worth of
food. and that the housewife is pay
ing thirteen dollars for six dollars
worth of nourishment, the seven dol
| lars difference going to pay middlemen
railways, etc, this need cause no dis
may. 1t simply means that our COM
merciaI machinery is receiving more
than its just due. and that it needs
overhauling and simplifying, a task to
which the American people are fully
of causing any apprehension, should
really be a reason for congratulation.
That the American public is sufficient
| ly alive to the Importance and value
of pure foodstuffs for this knowledge
to have an influence on prices is a most
gratifying sign of progress and of high
er and better standards of living The
| fact that the initial cost is greater has
no bearing on the ultimate value of the
! food product. Certified milk costs
more than ordinary dirty disease-carry-
| ing milk, but is it more expensive?
When one considers the cost of medical
services, nursing, medicines and loss of
time and life caused by diseases trans
mitted by dirty milk, it becomes evil
dent that the first cost is not a fair
| criterion, and that clean, pure milk is
| far cheaper in the end, even though
| its initial cost is a few cents higher
This is true of all pure foods. The de-
| mand for pure food materials and the
/ increase in living expenses from this
| cause can account for only small part
of the present increase in prices, but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

with a crash into the porcelain basin
Daphne was content that the steward
ess found it water soaked.
Come up on deck before We have
breakfast" put in Eileen O'Cralg.
want you to meet my brother. He is
neither Greek god nor a master OF
the arts but-adorable." Eileen had
taken a sudden fancy to Daphne.
Later when Daphne found herself
alone with a laughing Irishman who
possessed a caressing voice and surplus
of gentle batteries she smiled inward
ly.
John OCraig felt his pulses running
high as he looked into Daphne's eyes
Suddenly the world had become to him
a great forest and he was flying in hot
pursuit after the nymph Daphne. But
the modern nymph, instead of wishing
to be turned into a laurel tree with
which to crown the heads of Roman
conquerors. stopped in the chase and
turning held out her hands to him.
why do you smile? questioned
Daphne, innocent of his fancies.
I'll be after answering you in a fort
night said O'Craig, and smiled when
Daphne blushed.-(Copyright 1918, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
LURES IMMORTAL.

Sadly, apparently Illustrate. life hangs
above US.
Cruel, dark, unexplained;
Yet still the immortal through mortal IN
cessantly pierces
With calls, with appeals, and with lures.
Lure of the sinking sun, unto undreamed
Fortunate far in the West:
Lure of the stars, with speeches. news
o'erbrimming.
With language of darted light:
OF the sea-glory of opening lids OF Aurora.
Ushering eyes of the dawn:
OF the callow bird in the matin darkness
calling,
Chorus Of drowsy charm:
Of the wind, southwest, with whispering
leaves illumined,
Solemn gold of the WOODS;
OF the intimate breeze of noon deep
charged with message,
How near, at times, unto speech
OF the sea, that soul of poet a-yearu
for expression,
For ever yearning in vain!
Hoa-se DER the single with loud, unut-
tered meanings.
Hurting on cavernS his heart.
OF the summer night, what to communi-
cate, eager?
Perchance the secret of peace.
The lure of the silver to gold. OF the pa'e
unto color,
OF the seen to the real unseen;
or voices away to the voiceless, of sound
unto silence,
OF words to a wordless calm;
OF music, doomed unto wandering, still
returning
The lure of the beautiful woman through
flesh unto spirit,
Through smile unto endless light;
OF the flight of a bird thro' evening over
the marsh-land,
Lingering in heaven alone;
Or the vessel disappearing over the sea-
marge,
With him or with her that we love:
Or the sudden touch in the hand of a
friend or maiden,
Thrilling up to the stars.
The appeal of the death of a soldier, the
moon just rising,
kfndling the battlefield;
"a the cup water, refused by the thirst
ing Sidney.
With the final pang athirst;
OF the crucified Christ, let 10 those arms
extended
Wide, as a world to embrace;
And last, and grandest, the lure the in
vftation,
And sacred wooing of Death:
Unto what regions or heavens. or
solemn spaces
Who, but by dying, can tell?
stephen Phillips in the Westminster
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Gossip in a business office destroys et-
ficiency.
Very few really tough men wear SLOUGH
hats.
1t doesn't take much to bring on htiga-
ton or lip disease
A convincing argument is the one %
your side of the question.
Even if you do get the best of an argu-
ment, what good will it do you?
A woman's idea of Triumph is to induce
her husband to go to church.
It's too bad. but when poor girls sud
deny appear in loud finery they at once
become suspects.
benjamin Franklin: A learned block
head is a greater blockhead than an 1g-
norant one.
Mrs. Jude Johnson, who recently began
reading the Ladies' Home Journal, is be-
coming SO exalted in her opinions SEC
may quit taking in washings and compel
her husband to go to work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
AYHlUKER .JOTS

Oh joy! The ice harvest is finished,
| reports the Jetmore Republican. and
our ice men report that they are now
ready for the ice cream season.
AS Verd Napier, of the Blue Mound
Sun, explains it: Possession is nine
tenths of the law, and the lawyers
get nine-tenths of the possessions.
Among the Prairie Ridge items in the
Irving Leader: Why don't the young
men go to church? Perhaps they would
answer: There are no girls there"
On the theory that it is cheaper to
move than to pay rent, no doubt, re-
marks the Sedgwick Paragraph, some
men figure that it is cheaper to get a
divorce than to pay grocery bills.
Some real truth, from Miss Anna
Carlson, of the Lindsborg News: OF
course, life is full of woe and tribula-
tions, but it doesn't help matters any
to keep talking about them all the
time.
Art Suhr is moving his household
goods to Paradise. He is at present
painting the M. E. church. Thus re-
reasonable to suggest that if Brother
Suhr is working on a charity job his
trip to Paradise will be made easier if
prayers will turn the trick.
Although there hasn't been much
cold weather in Kansas. so far this
WIHleIs Ildily OI the newspapers III
various sections of the state report
that excellent crops of ice have been
harvested already in their neighbor-
hoods. AS a crop producer in any old
field, Kansas is, indeed, in a class by
itself.
A North Carolina negro was brought
out on the gallows to be hanged, re-
lates the Harper Advocate: Henry"
said the sheriff, have you anything
to say?" Yes. suh," said the con-
demned man, Use got a few words to
say. 1 merely wishes to state dat this
suttinly is goin' to be a lesson to me-
Related by the Oberlin Times: Little
Walter Pettis, one of the most original
youngsters in the county, came rush
ing into the Times office Monday and
said he had some news for us he
wanted printed in the paper. He said,
e. came to school today with his
pants on wrong-side backwards" We
have noe been able to figure out what
condition the boy was in, but we are
satisfied Walter had it right, alright.
The Thimble Bees We're delightfully."-
entertained Wednesday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Perry Crouch, re-
ports the Goodland Republic. There
can be no doubt about this organiZa-
ton being a needle-work or sewing So
ciety for the Republic is particular to
add: There were sixteen busy bees pres
ent who never failed to buzz. Spon-
taneous wit quick repartee and bub-
bling mirth seemed to be the order of
the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
"SPOONING."

After that well-meaning woman
philanthropist has invested her 49,
900 in spoon parlor in New York
for the use of young folk who are not
believed to have proper facilities for
counting, her next and greater diff
Guilty will be to rustic up patrons.
"Spooning' is anything but a cut-and-
dried affair. Lets go and spoon"
would probably be about the last pro-
posal a young fellow would think of
making to his girl, or her to him
should Leap Year be on the calendar.
"Spooning is a gentle and spontaneous
outburst of the tender passions when
the moods are right and the occasion
and place propitious. For a couple to
hike deliberately to a special place
set apart for "spooning' would rob it
of all its joys
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
EVENING CHIT
On Simple Pleasures.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

isn't it the strangest thing in the
world how long it takes US to learn
to accept the joys of simple pleasures?
and some of us never learn at all.
Boot says the neighborhood, and we
are instantly frightened into doing a
thousand unnecessary and unpleasant
things, or prevented from doing (.
thousand beguiling things. david
Grayson.
! Once upon a time I knew a grown
up, married woman who. when she
was asked what she wanted for
Christmas, said that her chief desire
was a doublerunner.
At first her friends and family
thought she was merely testing. When
they realized that she was serious they
were much amused. What would
you do with a double-runner? they
asked. What do people usually do
with a double-runner? ?" she responded
defiantly. GO coasting on it of
! course"
what would people say?" they
came back at her, with an air of hav
ing settle the matter II don't know"
she answered we ;ifn I don't very much n
double-runner. When 1 was a child
I couldn't have one because we were
too poor, and now I'm grown up and
can afford it, I'm going to have one.
and buy it for myself, and every time
1 get a chance I'm going coasting. L
work hard all day and I'm going to
have some exercise and amusement at
night, besides EN- broidering and MAX
ing CALLS
In spite of this eloquence, Santa
Claus, being rather a conventional old
fellow and sad respecter of persons,
as we Know all too well, refused to
bring her the double-runner. Where
upon she carried out her threat and
proceeded to haugurate the style of
coasting r grown-ups.
/ hi Il hot
very wise ~son?
1 do. And Furthermore, I was both
pleased and proud to have a seat on
that double-runner offered me, and I
Jack Robinson.
Is there so much healthy happiness
so much inexpensive p1easuI in the
world, that we can afford to set aside
a goodIy share of it as the exclusive
property of children? I don't think
so. 1t seems to me that if anyone
could afford to do without these rich
sources of happiness, it is the children
themselves, who have such wells of
happiness bubbling UP inside them,
that they don't so much need the out
side sources; surely not we sadder,
grown-up folks who need everything
we can possibly have to make us
happy.
1t isn't anything to be ashamed of
that one can still enjoy the pleasures
of child when one is no longer young
III oH the COHlTdFy, II IS some
thing to be proud of, since it means
that the child-heart which is always
to be found in the greatest men and
women is still alive in you.
So don't be afraid to go out and
coast or skate or build snow forts
Don't apologize when you take your
grandchild to the circus and saw that
you are going Just for his sake. Don't
feel self conscious and stiff when the
youngsters ask you to sit down on the
floor and romp with them. It is moth
ing to be ashamed of that your heart
is still simple and unspoiled enough >
take pleasure in these things. on the
contrary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record ]

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.
It's all right to stand up for your rights,
but don't tread on other peoples toes.
The fellow who is fired with enthusiasm
is seldom the one who is fired by the boss.
''All the worlds a stage quoted the
Wise Guy. les, it's pretty much a
continuous performance added the Sim
pie Mug.
Intimate knowledge may be magnify
ing glass, but some men positively
dwindle under it.
There must be some sort of middle
ground between a married mans warning
and a bachelors advice
No, Maude, dear; there is little similar =
itv between the milk of human kindne SIS
and the cream of society.
it would take nothing less than brass
knuckIes and a blackjack to knock the
conceit out of some people.
Wigg-"Why don't you go to the dentist
waiting for So-cent gas
History discloses but one woman who
had positive proof that she was the only
woman her husband ever loved, and tina
was Eve.
..All men are FOOLS exclaimed the
pessimist. True agreed the optimist,
but .they- are not reminded so often of it
if they remain single
Blobbs-''I feel like the oldest man in
the world Slobbs-"What are you talk
ing about? You're not a day over 50. >
Blobbs-"Yes, but I've just been listening
to a boy of Is tell about the things he
used to do when he was a kid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.1


And lazy man can't because he won +
Where there's a will there Is one O,
more lawyers.
Society is a fence that shuts some peo-
pie in and others out.
No man can understand WHY women LET
tears flow at weddings.
OF course your way of earning a Twin :
is the hardest way there is.
Science tunnels mountains while faith
is figuring on moving uneJn.
Any thin woman can get plump will.
the right kind of a dressmaker
There's always a chance for a man II
become famous if he isn't dead one.
Many girl who starts out to mako n
name for herself can't make a loaf OF
bread.
If man is always making new friends
it's generally sign that his old friends
are onto him.
Lightning may not hit twice in the san.a
place, but it is different with the chronic
borrower.
A girls air castle falls to earth when,
she realizes that the man she married is
just an ordinary mortal like her father
brother.
1t is said that some insects reach ma
turity within thirty minutes after birth
but some specimens of mankind do NOT
mature in thirty years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
HUAOR or THE DIP

Has your friend any histrionic aspira-
tions?" oh he don't bother any about
history. He wants to be an actor."-B.sl-
tinore American.
Lawyer-My retaining fee will be 5000
Prisoner Tin cell for murder)-Gee, IT costs
a lot to live, nowadays.-Puck.
Mrs. Justwed-Just think of it. dearest
one. Twenty-Five years from day before
yesterday will be our silver anniversary
Judge.
What do you do when you forget your
hnes?" 81 just repeat the MULTIPLICATION
table in a muffled voice. said the emo
tional actress. IT had the house in tears
the other night over nine times nine are
eighty-one. "-Washington Herald.
A lovely woman is dangerous but not
SO dangerous as her hatpin-CharIest N
News and Courier.
Il want nice book for an invalid
something religious, madam "Er-no-
he's convalescent."-B Transcripts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
THE THOUGHT.

had a golden thought today:
Q happy thought, it set me smiling!
I turned it over every way,
Then tossed it high, as 'twere ball.
Alas! Alas, My. golden thought.
Where have you flown? Where VIII you
fall?
I searched my little garden plot
Till even-time, all unavailing,
Until at last I quite forgot
The treasure 1 had been bewaihng:
But 'twixt the lights of night and day
I leap the wall, with you to play,
And there 1 found my wllful stray
Had flown from me TO you.
Then lovely looks of shy surprise
That lowered in your dancing eyes
Explained how one thought mult1plles
When it is shared by two.
Max Plowman, in Westminster Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

hand to do it. Proverbs III q.
If more people were disposed to
follow this excellent and reasonable
good old world would take on added
charms for the multitudes.
1t is peculiar, but nonetheless true,
that countless men and women do just
the opposite. Innumerable deserv-
ing people plod their way along
through life without getting even a
modicum of the good things to which
they are entitled, of the help that
should be extended to them. No Won
der they become soured and embit-
tered. No wonder their burdens be-
come heavy. No wonder they become
filed with an envy that oftimes de-
velops into hate. And much of this
is the result of pure carelessness on
the part of others.
Few are the humans, as matter or
fact, who are so wantonly selfish that
they would grasp everything within
reach for themselves. Indeed, the ay-
erage run of folk are kind, generous
hearted and sympathetic. They
wouldn't injure any one or rob him
of his desserts for anything under the
sun. That is, they wouldn't do so In
tentionally Nor would they fail to
say an encouraging word. nor lend
helping hand, nor neglect to discharge
their full duties to every one, II they
happened to think about 1t.
But they don't think. That's the
trouble. They travel along on the sur
face, wrapped up entirely in their own
affairs They pass by opportunities ga
lore to do a little good in the world
for their fellow men, to see that they
get the good that is theirs. They are
quick to send flowers to funerals, when
the same kind of consideration would
have been better placed beforehand.
Nowadays almost every one, who
sees, or imagines a social or even an
economic sore, at once rushes to
law-makins body and insists on the
ado ption of some sort of a measure
designed to effect a cure. But the
idea that law is the panacea for most
of the ills of society is entirely wrong.
The statute books could be loaded
down with every possible kind of a
measure that the ingenuity of count
conditions in the world would not be
materially improved thereby.
In mans duty to man as one is will
ing of his own volition to discharge it
to another is to be found the only
remedy for bringing about that peace
and happiness which should prevail on
this earth. And just to the extent
that each one takes it upon himsNf to
show a more and deserved apprecia-
ton of the rights of others, just so
far will the civilization of today turn
in the direction of Righteousness. AS
the words of Solomon, quoted above,
suggest, it is almost always within the
power of ones hand to do good by his
friend, or his neighbor or the stranger
who may cross his path. And why
doesn't every one avail himself of
the opportunities?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A rolling-stone at least develops into
pretty smooth article.
II II +
Lack of confidence is likely to be
more disastrous than over-confidence.
+ d
Many folk would become even more
discouraged if they could look into the
future.
+ + =
People do foolish things in love, all
right, and also under all other sorts of
conditions.
T. 10 j.
Too many self-made men evidently
didn't know when to stop in construct
ing the size of their heads.