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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08

the fairy Stepmother will live happily
forever and ever, just as it happened
to little Michael in the story
Toms face suddenly grew radiant.
May have Miss Anne for my fairy
stepmother, daddy?" he cried to a
tall. broad-shouldered young fellow
in the aisle
Anne flushed and looked up to find
the sweetheart, the Michael of her
own lost girlhood, smiling down at
her.
Anne" he said, sitting down be-
side her, dear, dear Annet 1 stopped
just back of you and heard your
story Won't you make it come true
for my boy?"
Your boy!" Anne had been weav-
ing magic story out of the threads
of her own desire. 81 didn't know
you had a son."
May I have her, daddy; my beau
tiful Miss Amer" begged Tom.
Il married. said big Tom, his eyes
misty with tears over his own lost
dreams, hoping to find some sort of
happiness. I might have known that
could never be happy-giving an
other woman so much less than 1 had
always given to you. She died two
years ago and left me Tom
Daddy, daddy" interrupted little
Tom, please say yes. 1 want Miss
Anne
so do I, son. j think that L must
nave always wanted her. Won't you
make your story come true for my
boy and for me, Anne DEAR"
Anne saw her home in the noun
ta1ns. She seemed to sit once again
in the big apple tree, quivering with
Its pink blossoms, and to look down
IN the brown eyes of a boy who rode
a white horse. The long, empty years
passed in review and then she was
conscious of the warm, throbbing lit
tie boy on her breast.
Don't stay but a little while with
Aunt Molly" she whispered to the
boy. II can't do without you very
long"
Big Toms hand closed over hers
where it held one of little Toms.
Even in this workaday world of
facts, dreams can come true. my
princess" he said.-(Copyright 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

We fear the chief characteristic of
all of us is looking wise.
So many patriots talk for the Old
Flag who wouldn't fight for it.
Few fortunes are made in ostrich
farming, considering the prices paid
for plumes.
There are also men who have made
fortunes without keeping the first dol
lar they earned.
Be fair to some people and they
will express their appreciation by
kicking you in the ribs.
Alb Adkins tells about an uncle of
his in New York who is so rich he
punctuates his sentences with dollar
signs.
Your family tree dips far into the
past, and is considera bly, less impor-
ant than saving wood right here and
now.
Many people who are honest in 9TH
er respects are in favor of padding
the census Still, the size of a town
is considerably less important than
the quality.
A small town young lady is apt to
think she is qualified to become a
member of New York's Four Hundred
when she has mastered the art of
stepping into carriage with ut
humping the top of her head.
An Atchison widow who, it is said,
suffered several matrim onial disap
pointments last year, has resolved
that she will hereafter refrain from
chasing any man unless he uses
crutches or has wooden leg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08
AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH.

The educational value of the bull
lat;ns issued by the Department of
Agriculture has been generally recog-
nized. A list recently issued by the
Department of Agriculture contains
the names of the new publications is
sued during a single month. me list
shows the manifold activities of the
department and it's intimate contact
with the daily lives and needs of our
farming population. Among the
pamphlets listed are advance reports
of field operations OF the Bureau of
Soils Separate pamphlets contain re-
ports of soil surveys of Jackson coun-
ty, Ala, Windham county, Conn,
Lowndes county, Miss, and Laclede
county, Mo Among the new bulle-
tins are pamphlets on THE Manufac-
ture of Butter For Storage" Feeding
Beef Cattle in Alabama, THE Cow
pea WeeviI," Forest Fires, Their
Causes, Extent and Effects THE
Weed Factor in the Cultivation of
Corn" etc. Circulars on Chicken
Fat Hints to Poultry Raisers,' 'Di-
rections for Constructing Watts and
Dipping Cattle to Destroy Ticks, I'm
sects Injurious to Mushrooms" Hog
Raising in the South" ''Cockroaches
and CIOtheS-M0JnS, all containing luS
observations and conclusions of ex-
perts on these various subjects, are
printed by the department and can be
had for a few cents by any one inter
ested. The variety of topics covered
by the various bureaus and divisions
of this department is almost bewilder-
ing No one complains that the gov
eminent is exceeding its functions or
that the preparation and distribution
of these pamphlets in any way inter-
fere with religious or civic liberty.
Yet the scientific facts on which these
pamphlets are based are exactly the
same as those which form the foun-
dation of our present knowledge of
disease. Chemistry is responsible for
our knowledge of the human body
and the way in which it works. The
same chemistry is the basis of soil
analysis and modern methods of fer
tiiizing Bacteriology, which gives
the farmer information regarding
cheese. fermentation and the diseases
of animal and plant life, is the source
of our knowledge regarding prevent.
able diseases of man. If the federal
government can analyze the soil of
Jackson county. Ala, and issue a re-
port on the conditions which it finds,
why can it not inspect the physical
conditions of the citizens of Jackson
diseases which prevail there and the
best means of preventing them asks
The Journal of the American Medical
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SAYS UNCLE CIV

Let us make no more of 1.-THE
business of life'' is joy. All our hopes
and ambitions, our disappointments
and our tears, our struggles and our
hours of ease are wasted, if they do
not contribute to this one great end.
He that has not tasted of more joy
and woe is cheated, or better, has
cheated himself. He has lived unnat-
urally and his debit of gloom is a
crime against the good Mother Ma
ture that made him for joy
Let us have none of your sad phil
osophy that makes much of what
matters little. There would be little
woe in the world if we were not over
much concerned with conditions,
place, power, expedients, and a mil
lion details that steal our thoughts
from the grand theme of existence,
which is happiness.
So bent are we upon receiving the
one goal by our own particular road
that we forget that the destination is
the thing and worry ourselves gray
over the briars that grow by the way.
More often than not we regard hap
piness as a collection of material
things rather than an attitude of
mind. We attach exaggerated i'm
portance to trifles and let the loss
of an inconsequentiaI bauble sour a
life that should be the envy of all the
joyseekers in our corner of the world.
We become misery of material
things or such immaterial prizes as
influence or fame. To him who falls
into this Snare-and few there be who
escape U-happiness is impossible. He
may now and then know the frenzy
of exultation, a fever that passes and
makes his last state worse than his
first, but lasting joy is not for him.
He has let. the little, incidental, in
strumental things of life become his
master. He does not use them, but is
them
but slave and without freedom
there is no happiness. Loving that
which he possesses more than the joy
he hoped to have of it, he is incap-
able of espending with fear or of gain
ing without anxiety. He is whelmed
in a labyrinth of trifles and the hap
piness that he sought eludes him in
the tantalizing tangle. He is no
longer a man, but a creature of cir
cumstanceS.
They only possess a thing who are
Independent of it. He that loves the
slope that he climbs better than the
peak he set out to reach, never looks
down upon the clouds. The material
things of life and it's immateriaI re-
lations are important only as they
serve the end. The business of life is
joy-besides that business, all else is
empty and mean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record. ]

From the Philadelphia Record
Love never dies of old age but it is
sometimes tortured to death.
A politician seldom becomes a
statesman until after he is dead.
Speaking of knockers, pleasure is
always a louder one than opportunity
The people who buy their popular
ity generally pick it up on the bar
gain counter.
children and FOOLS Wagg-'Well, all
1 can say is Providence must be kept
pretty busy
You can generally make the average
person believe a lie when it will take
q lot of convincing argument to make
him swallow the truth
The naughty hen was watching the
upholsterer lay a carpet Anybody
can do that she sneered. I'D just
like to see him try to lay an egg"
Blobbs-s.I wonder why a girl with
no more idea of tempo that she has
ever tries to play a piano" Sloobs
-"Oh just to kill time I suppose"
Blobbs-f'I don't see why it isn't
just as possible to love rich girl as
poor one" Slobbs-''You seem to for
get that there is much more COMPETE
ton
Most things depend upon the utili-
for instance A comb without teeth
is rather a useless thing, but you
couldn't make a rooster believe it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08
AYHAWKER JOTy

As the Harrington Times says: If
"13' worries you, you're in for a
mighty uncomfortable year.
According to the Hamilton County
Republican, S. o. S. means Send On
Subscriptions. It's the newspapers
wireless call of distress.
Sam Smith, of the Herington Sun,
has arrived at the conclusion that in
spite of all the obstacles he has to
overcome a boy does pretty We'll.
Observations by Click Fockele of
the Leroy Reporter: 1t is our notion
that there is nothing so useless as
last years derby. Another rule
man ever got pair of Christmas slip
pers that fit. Don't worry about
your Easter bills. You will probably
have all your Christmas debts paid by
put up with her husbands pipe as
long as she doesn't suspect that his
pipe dreams are about another wo-
man.
My friend, help the editor in his
wildeyed search for news, urges Edi-
tor Howard of the Everest Enterprise.
Nor is he adverse to receiving other
things, as the continuation of his Sug
gestion shows: When your friends
come to see you, if you are not ashamed
of them, tell him; when your wife
gives a tea-party if you have recov-
cred from the effects of the gossip,
drop in with the news; when a new
baby arrives, fill your pockets with
cigars and call: if you go to a party,
steal some of the good things and
leave them at our office.
No one can now question the Kear-
ny County Advocates loyalty TO home
institutions. 1t says: Henry Block,
the astute (if you know what that
means) editor of the Syracuse Jour
nal, has went back to Ohio and got
2 is a
his feet under his own table, and says
it was a real love match. We can
only conceive of one excuse for Henry
falling in love with an Ohio girl and
that because he felt sorry for the ball
ance of our unmarried men and
wanted to leave all the girls possible
in this short grass country for them
to choose from. We have always
known him to be a self sacrificing
brother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08

Association. If the government can
publish a report on the bacteriology
of cheddar cheese, why can it not in
form the people regarding the bacteri-
ology of typhoid fever or cerebrospin-
al meningitis? If the preparation of
bulletin on forest fires is a proper
government function, why is not a
bulletin on epidemics of diphtheria.
their causes. extent and prevention,
also a legitimate activity of the gov
eminent? Ignorant or prejudiced OBJ
structionists cannot obscure the issue
by talking about schools of medi-
cine" and personal liberty There
are no schools in the domain of
science. Education and increased
knowledge have always made men
free and have never interfered with
their liberty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08
EVENING CEzT
When Comparisons Are odious.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.


When in Rome do as the Romans do
Is one of the old proverbs whose invari-
apie WISDOM l have sometimes doubted,
but L am glad it exists, because it gives
me foundation for a new proverb of my
own-.When in Rome, don't run Rome
down.
A thoroughly charming woman from a
distant part of the country has been Wis
iting our neighborhood the last few
weeks. That is, We all thought her thor
oughly charming the first time we met
her Later several of us modified our
opinions and at least left out the thor
oughly," if didn't actually eleminate
the Charming" For sooner or later WITH
all of us, our visitor seized an oppof-
tunity to compare our section of the
country with the corner from which she
came And needless to say, the COM
parison was not in our favor
Our climate-always the first topic OF
dlscussion-and our diet, our amusemen.s
and our newspapers, our shade trees and
our morals, our architecture and our dis
position, our clothes and our time of going
to bed and getting up, were all com
pared with the vastly superior condition
of things that prevailed in that part OIL
the world whence she came.
In other matters she appeared to be a
person of taste and tact, but somehow in
this one thing she seemed to have lost
all sense of courtesy or modesty.
Now this girl is extreme example.
but have known a great many people
who have this habit in some degree. They
own personal attachments, or belittlirg
other people in comparison with them
selves, and yet they are always making
opportunity to praise UP their home
land at the expense of that corner of the
world where the other fellow lives
To my mind there is only one habit Il
worse taste, and that is to run down your
own home The jingoisn of the American
Abroad is deservedly condemned by our
more cultured countrymen; and even
though we laugh at the imam from
home" who. when confronted with the
most beautiful architecture in Europe
only says But you ought to see the
T<Nr Toll fr, I-nly rIr19A
that this sort of thing is bad tas' e.
Nevertheless I don't think the very worst
case of genuine jingoism is half SO bad
as the perverted jingoism of the disloyaI
American who is always running down
his own country. The jingoist lacks
taste and discretion; the traitor lacks
heart and human feeling.
However, one need not choose between
these two extremes because one need n ii
go to either There is, always. a
golden mean between them. When in
Rome don't run Rome down or your own
country either. Neither is necessary nos
in good taste, and neither will really en-
dear Won to YOUR host.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08
HUNOR or THE DNY

1.-The postmaster at Plunkvllle says tha1
if he doesn't handle more mail they'll
close the Office" Tell him to put an ad.
in the local paper stating rich widow
wants usband.'-LouisvilIe Courier-J our
nal.
His Guess.-''Wot's inflated currency
BilI?'' Dunno. less it's money wots
been blown in Boston Transcript.
"Sir. are you opposed to votes for wo-
ment2" Certainly not; but IL women
had the ballot. then suffragettes would
want it, too."-Illinois Siren.
Inquisitiveness ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Old Gentleman-And what are you digging
ormy good man? Knight of the pick -
Money! i. o. G.-You don't saw And
when do you expect TO find It X. of p
Saturday night.-JudSe.
On Sure Ground.-'Are you going to
turn over a new leaf next year," Yes
And this time will not break my resolu-
ton L am going to promise myself faith
fully not to keep diary."-Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08

Mr.. Underwood, the chairman of the
house ways and means committee that
will have charge of the tariff revision,
points with pride to the fact that if the
bill rearranging the chemical sched-
ule which was vetoed by President
Taft had become a law it would have
effected a saving to the people of no
less than ST, 100000 a year. Dividing
that sum, which looks mighty big, be-
tween 100000 persons, means that
the per capita saving would have
amounted to a fraction less than 10
cents. Great, indeed, is tariff reform
as it is engineered by the Democrats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08
AN ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK.

The new year opens under conflict
ing but more hopeful circumstances
| than it closed, writes Henry CIews,
the New York banker in his current
| weekly financial review. and he con-
tinues: 1.-The main source of improve
ment is the monetary outlook at home.
The strain incidental to the first of the
year passed almost without notice. Our
banks, owing to recent liquidation are
in much stronger position than for
some weeks past. The zenith of the
crop demands has been successfully
passed. Very soon funds will begin re-
turning from the interior with increas-
ing freedom, and there will be little,
if any, prospect of stringency until
preparatio for the April settlements
are in order a similar situation ex-
lists in Canada. Large sums of Cana
dian money were withdrawn from New
York during the autumn and early win
ter to handle the Canadian crops. These
funds also are likely to return in part
to New York as the most desirable
field for temporary employment. An
additional source of relief in the money
market may be the moderate Z wing
down of business resulting from the
approaching tariff revision and the in
creasing opposition on part of merchan-
disc buyers to high prices. The only
offset to these easier tendencies in
money at present in sight is the pros
pect of many new capital issues. Our
railroads are much in need of addi-
tional funds for Improvement purposes,
and many of our Industrial plants are
also likely to come into the market for
new issues These, however, have been
long expected and there is no doubt
that our banking resources will be able
to take care of probable offerings. It
is some satisfact to note that the
banking position at home is more sat
isfactory than abroad.
1.-The outlook in the United States for
the new year. all things considered. is
encouraging. 1t is possible, as just
said, that owing to tariff legislation
and to disturbing political agitation the
may experience a temporary
slowing down of business, but this can
not last indefinitely. The country,
generally speaking, is bare of merchan-
disc In no important department is |
there an oversupply. The growth of
and development of our
home resources mean a resumption of
Industrial activity at the first oppor- !
tunity. There are signs also of our
politicians taking notice that too seri- !
Gus disturbance of business will react |
lipon their own future Governor
Foss' remarks on Government owner |
ship of railroads are not assuring; but
that is a problem that will require
much discussion before action will be i
No Government owned rail-
roads compare in efficiency and cost
with American railroads, which in spite
of their errors in management are the
most efficient and cheapest in the
world. A little experience with Govern
ment ownership would soon convince
our people of it's fallacies.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08
Growth of the sardine.

One day last week a young WON'T n
from Newark, while standing on the
steamship doc--~at Portland, Me-. with
a party of friends, suddenly uttered
a scream
whats the matter?" her companions
asked.
I've lost my gold bracelet over
board" she answered.
While flourishing her arm over the
railing she had flung the bracelet off.
and the waters of Casco Bay had
swallowed it up.
The loss was forgotten yesterday,
when at the young lady's home in this
city a box of Mediterranean sardines.
canned in Sardinia, was served for
lunch.
with her knife, the young woman
struck something hard.
Inside the fish was the gold bracelet,
with her initials engraved to make it's
identification complete,
When the attention of Prof Prewins,
the well known scientist, was called to
the remarkable case, he was not at all
amazed.
II have noticed for years" he said
that sardines are growing larger
When I was a boy, sardines We're no
bigger than my little finger and very
tender. Now, however, it is not rare
to see them as long as herring and
that a rapid evolution is taking place
in the sardine race. Perhaps the sar-
dine has a destiny and WILL in a few
cycles of time. take the place of the
sperm whale, which is almost extinct
Perhaps the scientific theologians of
the thirty-fifth century will maintain
that it was a sardine that swallowed
JONAH
AS to the geographical inconsist-
ency in the story of the lost bracelet.
DR.. Prewins said:
TT is perfectly possible that the sar-
dine, after swallowing the bracelet in
Casco Bay. SWAN all the way across
the Atlantic Ocean and half the length
of the Mediterranean Sea before being
taken. The sardines of the European
canneries are muscular enough to for
age as far as Maine. or even Labrador
and return home each night to Sleep
The only thing that strikes me as du-
bious about the story is the fact that
the sardine was caught at all. / Won
der how far the CREATURE towed the
boat before the fishermen tired it out
and got the gaff in its gills."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08

To say that the annual coal produce
ton in this country amounts to $780,
900, 900 tons only gives a vague idea of
its volume. Few are the minds that are
keen enough to grasp the real signifi-
canoe of such an enormous figure. But
an idea of the tremendous extent of
the coal mining industry can be better
obtained in the statistics which show
that 735 coal mines in the United
States are producing more than
100000 short tons of coal each an
nually. There is an anthracite mine
and also a bituminoEs mine in Penn
sylvania. each Of which has an aver
age annual production of more than
100000 tons. These zS5 mines in
the 100000 ton class yield a trifle
more than half of the coal mined
throughout the land.
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THE SONG OF TILE TINKER.

I am a man of pot and pan,
/ am lad of mettle;
MY tent I pitch by the waysfde ditch
To mend your can and kettle;
While town-bred folk beat a year-long
yoke
Among their feeble fellows,
L clink and clank on the hedgerow bank
And blow my snoring bellows.
: loved lass with hair like brass,
And eyes like a brazier glowing;
But the female crew, what they will do
L swear is past all knowingi
She flung her cap at ploughman chap,
And a fool 1 needs must think her,
Who left for an oaf the mug and loaf,
And the snug little tent of tinker
But clank and clang, let women go hang.
And who shall care a farden?
With the solder strong of a laugh and
song
My mind I'll heal and harden.
My ways I'll wend and the pots I'll mend,
For gaffer and for gammer,
And drive my cart with careless heart
And sit by the road and hammeri
May Byron, in the Kansas City Journal.
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would continue as members of the
Republican party in that body. they
having been elected as such. But Mr..
Bristow. nonetheless, appears to be
the personal representative of the Bull
Moose party in the senate. At any
rate he is introducing bill after bill
that embodies the important tenets of
that new political faith. His proposed
measure for the creation of an indus
trial commission to control and regu-
late all firms and corporations doing
an interstate business is the latest in
this line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-08

Father is probably rubbing his
hands with some gIee because Easter
comes unusually early this year,
March % The chances are good that
the weather will be such at that period
that it scarcely will be suitable for the
women TO don those light and airy
spring creations of the milliners that
retail at such fancy figures. But may
be mother and girls viii want to have
them in the house, anyhow, and even
if they cannot wear them. So fathers
hope of something of a breathing
space between the Christmas and the
Easter bills is likely to be nothing but
an iridescent dream.