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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-09-05

A man used to vicissitudes Is not
easily detected. Samuel Johnson.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-09-05
Statement of the Ownership, Manage
ment, Circulation Etc.

OF The Omeyvllle Times, published weekly
at Providence. required by the Act OF Aug.
ust "a 1912. Editor, Edward +. Sibley; Busi.
ness Manager, Edward f. Sibley; Publisher,
Edward +. Sibley; owner, Edward Y. Sibley,
EDWARD +. SIBLEY.
Sworn TO ANA subscribed before me this
18th day of August lt3.
JOHN O'CoNNELL.
My commission expires June 30, 1913
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
WHY WE DUG THE CANAL.

Why has America succeeded in
building the Panama canal, where
France failed? Was it because we had
more money, better men or better
tools? No. it was because the French
died so fast that they could not make
any progress. The French, with an
average force of 10000 employees.
lost from death during their construc-
ton period $4,000 men. We, with an
average force of $4,000 men during
about the same length of time. have
lost from death 1000. The French.
with an average of 1,60O white en-
ployees, lost during their construction
period from yellow fever 1000 men.
We, with an average of 5000 white
employees during the same length of
time, have lost from yellow fever only
eighteen. The important question,
however, is the health of the Ameri-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
GFrom the Philadelphia Record

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The only proof of the buffer is in max
ing good.
There is always sure cure for the ills
of other people.
One woman. can always make another
woman happy by envying her.
If you going to ride a hobby select
one that won't buck you off.
Don't give away all your good advice.
Save a little of it for yourself
Wigg-"Oh, he's all right in his way
Wagg-''Yes, but he is always standing i'll
his way"
The man who wastes his time doesn t
seem to realize that he will need it all
before he dies.
Fate sometimes makes hero of man,
but it generally takes more than that to
enable him to hold the job.
SiIlicus-"You never know how to please
woman" Cynicus-"What's the use
She generally pleases herself
No. Maude, dear; just because man
can't keep a straight face don't jump to
the conclusion that he is crooked.
We all have our ups and DOWNS re-
marked the Wise Guy. That's right"
agreed the Simple Mug. when we are
not being shown up we are being called
down"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Alb. Adkins says the wife is boss if the
family keeps cow.
There are also few unmarried men
who are henpecked.
Jude Johnson is boss of his household
when he isn't at home.
Chronic Dragging is as hard, to over
come as chronic drinking.
Inere isn't anything quite so hard TO
lose as worthless lead pencil.
Remember your excuses won't seem IS
logical to others to yourself.
When man is past sixty he has no
business with a private phone in mis- office.
Our notion of luxury would be fruit
which tastes as good as the California
variety looks.
So far as the longevity records show, no
woman ever gets old enough to lose in
terest in millinery openings.
Three years after the marriage the
bride can't help but laugh at the photo
graph taken an hour after the ceremony.
Occasionally there is an economist who
can fool himself into the notion that oleo-
margarine is good as creamery butter.
No. a great deal is expected of the re-
cruit. except by the recruits kin. Which
rule holds in several other games besides
baseball.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
MURDOCH OF KANSAS.

The Washington correspondent of
the st. Paul Dispatch sent out the
following estimate of the representa-
tive in congress from the Eighth dis
trict of Kansas:
Victor Murdoch was originally a
newspaper man, but he has been in
congress about ten years. He struck
there with the fiery idea that he was
going to turn things inside out, study
their smallest details and PARTICULAR
ties, turn them back again and sew
them up with the burning threads OF
thought from his boiling brain
Il shall reform the world, he said
to himself. and he meant it. He con-
fided this to me one snowy afternoon.
But he stayed in the house several
years before he reaped that national
prominence in which he now revelS.
He caught hold of the coattails of
fame by finding out that the postal
service of this country was not man
aged economically. After he had made
several speeches about that, he rose
and rose and became more and more
progressive. He is the most appro-
pirate man you could possibly imagine
to represent a section of Kansas. the
state famous for cyclones, both at
mospheric and mental. And he's
crackeriack good fellow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03

! can employees During the year 1911
We had 10,4S9 American whites con-
nected with the commission. Their
death-rate from disease was 4.48 per
thousand. OF these 10,4S9 Americans,
6,025 were men and AGA women and
children. The death-rate from disease
among the men was 2.S2 per thou
sand. That among the women and
children from the same cause was 6.72
per thousand. These facts are taken
from a recent address. at Johns Hop
kins University by Col. VIM. Gorgas,
chief sanitary officer of the Isthmian
canal commission. His address ap-
pears in a recent issue of The Jour
nal of the American Medical asso-
citation. Speaking of the condition
of the Americans now in the canal
zone, Col. Gorgas says: 81 think a
still better way of satisfying oneself
with regard to health conditions is
direct observation of the American
employees. They as a class are rug
ged and healthy-looking, of good col
or, and energetic and active in move
ment. They look more like the farm
err and his family of the northwest
than like people who have lived in
the tropics for four or five years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
TT NEyER HAPPENED,

One time man alert and bright.
walked up to pet a NANCY mule;
He should have been kicked out of sight.
According to all lawful rule
He stepped inside the critters STALL
He walked before, he walked behind,
And not thing occurred at all
That mule was kindi
One time saw servant maid
Pour coal oil on the kitchen fire;
And l was horribly afraid
She would at once go soaring higher.
But nothing of the kind occurred,
She wasn't blown up to the sky,
But really, upon my word,
1 don't know whyi
One time I saw little boy
Fool with his daddy's loaded gun;
That foolish kid seemed to enjoy
That sort of death-defying fun.
Did not receive the heavy load;
For reasons which 1 can't explain,
Twould not explodei
One time a nervous friend of mine
Went to the mountains hunting deer;
He saw the bushes move-a sign
That doubtless game was lurking near,
With hope his huting heart thrilled,
He turned his gun loose, just for luck;
Oh, no, twas not guide he killed,
1t was a bucki
One time a sporty chap I know
Sat down to play a poker game;
thought he wouldn't stand show,
and told the others twas a shame
But when the game came to an END,
oh, heavens, what an awful crash!
Now don't misunderstood me, friend
He got their cash!
e: A. Brininstool
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
EVENING CHAT
PenduIunls.
SY RUTz CAMERON

When we try too hard for some one
thing, 1t occasionally happens that we de
feat our purpose by the blind intensity of
our desire.
In no direction is this so true as in the
bringing up of children.
Over-indulgence is not the only way to
spoil a child. OYer-intensity in trying TO
make a child develop desirable qualities
sometimes results in making child go to
opposite extremes.
Most of us are pendulums by nature
The more violently we pushed in one
direction the more violently we ultimate
ly swing in the other.
An acquaintance of mine who is the
mother of very pretty little girl of six
teen, is excessively anxious that her
daughter shall be very quiet and refined
in her intercourse with the other sex OF
course that is natural desire for any
mother, but in this woman it is a mania
and drives her to an excess of severity.
She is always scolding this lively little
vivacity. She is always forbidding her
some pleasure in which her companions
are freely permitted to join.
And of course the harvest of such Sc
verify is ripening for her sad reaping. Her
daughter is rapidly growing deceitfuI II
she cannot have a good time with her
And as everyone knows, the pleasures
that must be enjoyed by stealth are the
most dangerous and fascinating. The
walk home from school with her boy friend
would be the most natural thing in the
world If it were permitted but it be-
comes guilty adventure when II is for
hidden fruit. The step from plotting
things like this. to plotting less harmless
adventures Is not long one. and 1 am
told this little girl has already taken it.
If this is true. I firmly believe the
mother had only her mistake to blame
The girls .deceitfulness and improperly
are the violent swing of the pendulum
which has been pushed out of its orbit IN
one direction, and balances itself by
swinging too far in the other.
In another family. the mothers exces-
sive fear of fire, and her insistance upon
needless precautions, have driven her
whole family to the opposite extreme. |
never saw anyone SO careless about fire
as one of her sons who now has a home
of his own.
Again, mother who tried to dominate
every moment of her childrens lives, say
what they should eat. drink wear, read.
study, enjoy, is now struggling with an
acknowledgements daughter, who resents
even suggestions to what she shall do.
The mother does not realize that she Is
dealing with the swing of the pendulum,
but that is just what it is.
Moderation is a splendid quality in am
relation of life, but in none more so than
in this.
AS the twig is bent so is the tree in
clined, but be careful you don't bend II
so hard as to get it all out of shape.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
AYHAWKER JOTS

Down at Altoona the glass plant is
being prepared to turn out fruit jars
and lamp chimneys.
The Santa Fe railroad is established
seventeen experiment farms in south
west Kansas, just to show what fine
things the land there will do.
State Superintendent Ross will be
able to see all the moving pictures free
of charge. But the fact is not likely
to cause any rush for his job next year.
Farm hands in Smith county are
paid $50 month and furnished a horse
and buggy on Sunday afternoons. Good
place for some city young men to go.
The talking moving pictures have
not yet reached Wellington and the
Journal consoles itself with the re-
mark that actions speak louder than
words.
The womens clubs have petitioned
the Allen county commissioners to
name woman as poor commissioner,
who also shall be police matron and
truancy officer.
Bale Waggener handed 500 to the
relief fund and ', alt Mason says:
Your Uncle Bale may always be de-
pended upon to do the large and hand
some thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
THE FARMERS CONFERENCE.

High cost of farm produce to the
consumers and low returns to the
farmers have led to the conclusion on
the part of students of farm economy.
that there is a leak somewhere that
should be stopped.
Hence there has been called a great
national conference of farmers to
meet at Chicago, April $40. 1t is eX-
pected to prove important not only to
the farmers themselves, but to the
people at large. Farm finance has
been for long far too unsatisfactory;
and methods of transportation of farm
produce, and marketing conditions in
general. entirely unsuitable for the
greatest good of both producers and
consumers of the food supply of the
nation On the opening day the sub
ject for discussion will be "Distribu-
ton" on the second day Marketing"
and on the third day Farm Finance"
This conference has been called by
the farm press of the country and
will mark another mile post in the
farmers forward movement, accord
ing to Farm and Home. At no time
has there been so much interest taken
in the cost of living. at no time have
measures which are designed to work
out the relief of the situation.
No one is accusing farmers of get
ting too much, as it is a well known
fact that the proportion of the final
price paid by the consumer that the
farmer gets is very small indeed.
What the farmer needs is better finan-
cial facilities, which will allow him
to produce with greater economic adj
vantage. What the common good de-
mands is a better system of distribu-
ton, less expensive transportation,
less waste in marketing. The
farmers believe that organized effort
is needed to bring about any inn
provement in conditions, and feel
that the financial questions should lie
settled first and then that the ques-
ton of distribution ana marketing
will be easier of solution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
says UNCLE CAV

| We become dead to the world the
moment that we cease to have a live
ly interest in its multitudinous activ-
| tiles Shortly thereafter We also be-
come dead to ourselves, and although
We may continue to move about and
exhibit other superficial symptoms OF
| life we are in need of the services OF
an undertaken.
A warm, tingling, vital contact with
| men and affairs is quite as necessary
| to normal life as is breathing, and for
very much the same reason. A heart
unhardened and quick to divine the
feelings and the needs of others is quite
as necessary as a healthy pair of lungs
capable of extracting oxygen from the
air. Without the one, a man might
as we'll be without the other, for all
the good that he is to himself or any
body else. The deadin-the-shell per-
son is merely SO much spoiled lumber
that cutters up the great workshop
of the world, where every man has
his duty, and should be doing it.
Sympathy is the red corpuscle of the
heart, and it has quite as much to do
with spiritual health as has the little
physical agent that carries life-gfving
oxygen into every artery of the body.
He that is out of sympathy with the
world is out of harmony with it, and he
that is out of harmony finds the hand
of every man against him. Moreover,
he has lost the spiritual life-absorbing
function. He has a bad pair of spir-
itual lungs. He is ready to die of that
white plague which We call, for want
of better name, dry rot
There is but one way to stay young
and that is to stay in tune with the
eternal youth and nature and our race.
Men may grow old but the race is al
ways young It's hopes. its dreams, its
ambitions, its enthusiasms. its labors-
all defy the sere and yellow hand of
age. Here is immortality, here are life
and love and achievement each mo-
ment born anew. And he that keeps
step with this unceasing rejuvenation
has found the fountain of youth. His
body may grow old and his back may
bend His face may wither and his
hand refuse to do the bidding of his
hesitant brain. But his heart is still
singing with the first bird of spring,
his soul rejoices in the light of as
pira ton hat burns anew in young
mems eyes, and though all the world
shall blindIy call him old. he knows
that he is young and Immortal |
1t is not for nothing that the day
green paths of youth This is not
ages pathetic farewell of that which
once was young-it is natures testi-
moniaI to the halt and blind that the
soul may be young forever. They who,
sitting in the warm sun, nodding over
such fancies, read them Alright. know
that withered cheeks may lie and
palsied limbs are a delusion-that they
who will may stay forever at the brink
of that fountain that SO many millions
in all times have sought and sought
in vain.-(Copyright, 1913, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
A CHECK ON PORK BARRELS.

| The Public Buildings and Rivers
and Harbors'' bills, which have just
become law. call for a total federal ex-
penditure of over ninety million dollars.
The former carries appropriation of
$47, 473, $50, and the latter demands $47,-
SOS, 1874 from the treasury of the United
| States. Some of the appropriations are
undoubtedly necessary, but others are
demanded merely by the constituents of
individual congressman. The latter
naturally wish to meet the demands up
on them, for the representative who is
successful in milking the federal COW
into his own districts pail knows that
it increases his chances of reelection.
His fervent efforts for a large amount
of the public money are perfectly nat
ural.
know whether the money is expended in
the wisest possible way from the stand
point of the general government. He
is inclined to wonder whether federal
buildings costing 100000 and over are
really needed in such places as Globe.
Arizona; Chadron. Nebraska; Kalispell.
Montana; Jasper, Alabama; Tulsa, Ok
lahoma, and Elyria, Ohio, for which
they are provided; and whether costly
improvements to waterways, such, for
example, as those on Woodbury. Creek.
New Jersey, s3S, 900; Black Warrior,
Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Ala
bama, 81, 33S, 500; Big Sunflower river.
Mississippi, $4,000, and Port Arkansas,
Texas, $500, 900, should really be made
at national expense.
Under our system of government,
where appropriation bills originate in
the house, it seems almost impossible
to put things on the right basis with
out the introduction of some new prin-
ciple which would check extravaganza
automatically, says Anton Phelps
Stokes, Jr., secretary of Yale univer-
sity. Along this line Mr.. Stokes sug-
gests that ten per cent of the total
cost of such improvements be raised
locally before the government is called
upon to contribute.
Such an arrangement if it could be
brought about doubtless would put an
effectuaI check on many of these ex-
travagances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03

In the lower house of the North Da-
kota legislature has been introduced a
measure which would apply the short
ballot to the state government By
the provisions of this. the governor S
term of office would be extended from
two to four years, and he would have
the appointment of a secretary of
state, auditor. treasurer, superintend-
ent of public instruction, commissioner
of insurance, three commissioners of
railroads, and attorney general and
one commissioner of agriculture and
labor To effect these changes con
sti1utional amendment would be re-
quired. Similar amendments have been
proposed in the legislatures of Cali
fornia, Colorado, Ohio, Washington,
New York. Idaho. Michigan. Iowa and
New Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
HUAOR or THE DAY

whats the trouble now, demanded
his employer, when the office boy came in
half an hour late. The ice on the pave
ments." said the lad. Every step 1 took.
/ slipped back two You did. Ell?
Then how did you ever gets here?" Il
started back home. Judge
Young Popps-''Dearest, what did your
father say when you told him of our en-
gagement?e' Daphne Sweet-..Darling, Il
was too funny. He gulped a few times.
and then turned to the parrot Polly,
said he appealingly, please help m,
outi Judge.
.Teacher-sswhat days of the year are
most dear to us? You may answer.
Willie" Wfllie--'Christmas an April TO-
Teacher-.April 10. Why, what happens
them wtllie-"Gee. don't You know
that's the day tn baseball season opens ~
cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.I

Beauty either fades or rubs off.
Nature is probably too busy to turn out
handsome men.
The man who kicks himself gets back
at his best friend.
It's only a matter of time until white
lie becomes dirty.
Any mans talk makes sweeter sort OF
noise after a good dinner.
Some folks so financially weak they
are unable to stand a loan.
Many a smart girl has caught a hus-
band by posing as man hater.
Make your words palatable when you
can. You may be forced to eat them some
day.
If a young man can't tell when he is in
love, the girl should break the news to
him.
Glory be, there is nothing to keep a thin
woman from cultivating a broad outlook.
Isn't it terrible the way a girl manages
to look like her own mothers sister by tbs
time she has been married four years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
the foreign department.

The attention of those persons who
still uphold private ownership of public
utilities, is called to the following ex-
tract from report of an American
consul at Manchester, Eng, on the
operation of the city owned railway.
The average distance Travelled for ?
cents on workman's ticket in Man.
chester is over 212 miles. Since the
system was taken over from private
ownership the average fare per passen-
ger has been reduced from 4 cents TO
2-3S cents, and s3.406.55O has been paid
out of receipts in relief of the civ
rates. The drivers wages have been
increased by 43 per cent and those of
ehe guards by 63 per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03

The fourth Biennial convention of
the Young Women's Christian associa-
lions of the United States of America
VIII be held in Richmond, Virginia.
April s-15. The convention is a gather
Ing for the purpose of enacting legis-
lation which will make more effective
the work of associations all over the
country, and of influencing the policies
of association work in foreign countries
where American secretaries are placed
by the foreign department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03

Woodrow Wilson is a thin, skinny
person, but he hath a long leg and g
largish foot. Several "hurrytouch'
job seekers can verify this statement
But far be it from us to name the
seekers; that would be adding insult
to swift kick.
Anent this election: about 6.66S OF
us were April-fooled, but having vot-
who ever wore whiskers, we should
try to emulate him and make a noise
like game losers.
No one will ever hear a squeak of
protest from Mr. Billiard He was
forced into the first and second races,
and won; he was forced into the third
and lost. And if Topeka ever es-
tablishes a. hall of fame, the clean,
square, unobtrusive little gentleman
may look down from above and see
his chin whiskers embalmed in marble.
AS little Peterkin's grandparent
might have observed: "It was a fam
Gus victoree." They used hammers
instead of swords, but they scored.
In re the chin whisker: Henry
George wore them, and was kicked
in the face by people who after
ward proclaimed him the equal of
Gladstone and Bismarck. Grant wore
them and conquered half a nation;
j. Ham Lewis wore them when he
was elected to the United States SEN
ate, and Uncle Andy Carnegie wore
them while he was trying to spend
his millions. Joe Cannon retired with
his whiskers and politics intact, and
Mayor Gaynor of New York is still on
the job with his chin-warmers.
And it might be added that Harri-
son Parkman, who looks like Jour-
net, the grand opera basso, hath a
state job, and Mr.. Billiard will not be
qualified to sleep in the poor house
for several years to come.
Addenda: The whisker may not be
an asset, but it is not a hoodoo.
Forty-one babies were born in the
Dayton flood district. From which
one might gather the pathological
information that the stork is a bird
that does not fear water.
At Louisville, KY, 5000 barrels of
booze went down the Ohio. The Ohio,
at present is what one might term
some chaser" AS Kentuckians avoid
the chaser as much as possible, this
may be termed a bluegrass disaster.
But, honestly, gents, it would take
an expert plumber to pipe any adj
vantage in the results of this fool
election.
Jess Willard is advertised in coast
papers as the Kansas COWBOY Jess
was handicapped in the cowboy bust
ness by being raised in a farming
district where a lariat was a novelty,
but it is said that he used to milk
them twice a day.
Mayhap we got bumped in guessing
Billiard, but we expect to live long
enough to recoup by guessing Bale
Waggener for United States senator