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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-15
XMAS cOMAEHT
THE RIGHT ROAD.

LIE -fkOaD.
sometimes laymen in the pewS get
an idea that they can preach better
sermons than the pastor, and some
times the pastors, admitting the argu-
pulpit.
We have received from Jonas Cook
OF Chfckasha, Okla, some practical
philosophy which has lot of meat in
IL dot an editorial; SO we are going to
use 1T as such. Mr. Cooks words are
typed like poetry but cut too close to
the mark to be restrained either by
rhythm or by rhyme. His sentiments
Keep 1abblng ahead close to the line OF
a straight furrow, and his amplifica-
ton of each idea rolls over and over.
like sod tumbling regularly over a
well secured plowshare. We will have
MT. COOK turn few burrows for you:
" IT'S better
TO whistle than whine-better
to laugh than to cry.
do something
the sin of omission is sometim es
greater than the sin of commits
keep working
if you are not satisfied with
conditions.
"Step aside
if you have Joined the Has
Look forward
in that direction the future lies.
Help fix
the lHlngS that need fixing.
Sow seed
before you expect to harvest.
Move on
if this place does not suit you.
get out
if you do not like it.
Dr. Sunshine
cures more ills than Dr. Gloom
Regulate your liver-oxygenate your
oiooq-breathe the ozone of optimism
faith in your country's future
in your fellowman, then
prosperity and happiness are yours
Wichita Eagle.
BALLOT REFORM.
me Democrats have promised US
the Massachusetts ballot law in Kan
sas. Here's hoping they carry out
tnelr promise. Then there will be no
picture of BOOSTERS, eagles, or any par
ty emblem to guide the voter He will
De called upon to pick the man for
every office to be voted for. In some
respects the general election will re-
semi bic the primary ballot as it is
voted in Kansas today. Anyway, the
time when people are led by party
emblems is past. 1t will be up to the
political party to pick good men and
then make a campaign so that the
people will be informed. It is pro-
legislation of the right sort
and we hope the bill will pass
Springs Western Times.
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.vERGIL AND TENNYsoN.

~
o settled with all thy yergiPs elder art.
The magic of the Muses. to impart;
To sing of England as of Rome he sans,
With grand hexameter that rolled and
rang.
And able with a far instructed might.
The Latin lamp of splendor to relight.
Tho on northern shore by sullen foam,
Recapture the dead melodies of Rome
Thou, too. didst feel the passion of the
past,
Things irretrievabIe and fading fast
And thou didst hear Alright the human cry.
The sea-like striving of mortality.
given,
Born to a different tongue. and later
heaven;
Tongue that alone in Milton could uphold.
That Tyre of thunder and the trump OF
gold.
But thou. still following with faithrsl
feet,
The charm of field and woodland couldst
repeat;
Repaint the faint vern1ilion of the morn.
And all the colors wherewith day is born;
And strangely sweet as unto him to thee,
or waking birds the mou-nful melooyi
Voices of kline, in dark uncontrolled,
In the dark hour, and ere the skies are
red.
World-sundered by the pillows of the free
And from that Island eyrie to descry
The widening march of England's destiny.
Like him thou didst the courtier's part
But never didst attain Marcellus' verse.
Nor ever the dread world beyond the
tomb
Didst thou explore with orpheus and the
Where armed Aeneas frighted half the
Coming in spIendor on the DINNER glades.
But this we feel. when thou hadst crossed
The pilot of tfv music was not far.
Stephen Phillips, in Pail Mall Gazette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-15
THE rUBERCuLosIs WAR.

Nearly $19,oOO,o00 was spent in the
Ianti-tuberculosis campaign in the
United States during the year 1912
according to the fourth annual statist1-
cal statement of expenditures in this
movement recently issued by the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis. These an
nuaI statements are based largely on
reports received from NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
agencies throughout the country. me
figures are estimated where actual re-
ports are not available.
The expenditures during the year
for sanatorium and hospital construc-
ton and treatment make the largest
single item in the total, amounting to
nearly 16,SO0,000. This is an In
crease of nearly 100000 over the
same group of expenditures for the
year 1911. The anti-tuberculosis asso-
Citations and committees spent over
s765,oo0,. while dispensaries, and
tuberculosis clinics spent over $780,
600. Over $115,000 was spent for the
maintenance and establishment OF
open air schools and fresh air classes,
which is more than double the amount
spent for this purpose in 1911. Off
cial, state and municipal expenditures
outside of the maintenance of institu-
tons, which are included in the other
totals, amount to $2s0.000. In addi-
ton to these figures. about 100000
was spent by hospitals for insane and
penal institutions in caring for their
tubercu1ous inmates.
The total expenditures for the year
1912 are 29 per cent, or nearly $4,-
100000 greater than the total for the
year 1911 Another significant fea-
ture pointed out by the national asso-
citation, is the expenditure Of public
money. During the year 1912, 65.6
per cent of the $1S.900,000 spent IN
tuberculosis work came from either
federal, state. county or municipal
funds. This figure is considered by
the anti-tuberculosis workers as par
ticularly significant because it indi-
Gates the shifting of responsibility for
the provision of tuberculosis hospitals
and other institutions upon the mu-
nicipality, county and state.
New York state again leads the
country in it's anti-tuberculosis ex-
penditures. Pennsylvania comes next
and Massachusetts, and Colorado are
in third and fourth places respective
ly. And Kansas spends such a small
sum in this desirable direction that it
does not get place among the first
ten states in this respect
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roses to take to Carrie have taught you
q few thfngs-have not, Mr. Gaynor!
Tom smiled. Then he nodded. e5--
you have I see 1t all now, but I did NOT
know you knew Carrie I'll admit that
frequently took roses to her just to get a
glimpse of you and your attractive niue
shop. AS I learned to know you L lost
that sentimental feeling toward you ana
began to see what you really area peau-
tiful woman trying to do beautiful things
in the world
1t was long speech for Tom, and VIII an
he left the shop that night he shoois
hands with the flower girl in mute thanks
for what she had done.
Carrie had learned to look for the roses,
and among them she had bloomed into a
tender, lovely woman, because she ZEN
that they were the expression of the love
of Tom. That night, when he handed net
the flowers, she saw something in his
eyes that made her happier than she nad
ever been before-that made her say
YES later in the evening to the ques-
ton he asked her.-(Copyright, 1913, b5
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
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MAN BEST AT FIFTY.

In Berlin q controversy is waging
among the most brilliant minds over
the question raised by the Tageblatt
whether a man is at his best at the
age of so or at the age of 40.
By far the larger number of emf
nent professors, financiers, artists and
writer's, who contributed to the SYM
postum agreed that a man past SO
years of age was as valuable as a man
of 40, and frequently much more use
full.
This view is held even more en-
phatically by prominent men of this
city. Those who gave their opinions
were unanimous in their refutation of
the famous Osler theory that man
entered upon his decline at 40.
If a man is healthy he should be
most efficient mentally and physically
at the age OF fifty and for some years
after that" said Ebert H. Gary.
Mr.. Gary should know, for he, as
head of the executive committee of
the United States steel corporation,
with all its subsidiary companies, is
probably the largest employer of labor
in the world.
I'm nearly every line he continued,
81 believe you will find that the great
est achievements are most often after
the age of so. Whether a man is most
useful at 40 or at so, of course, de-
ponds entirely on the man. But if he
takes care of himself and keeps his
health he should be at his prime at
so, and continue in it much later.
Gladstone did some of his most
notable work at IS. Take Edison to-
day, and see all that he is accom-
plishing. The healthy man is neces-
sarily better mentally equipped at the
age of so than he is earlier in life.''
Prof. Franklin H. Giddings, the emil
nent sociologist at Columbia Univer-
sity. strikes a hard blow at Oslerism
Enthusiastically a man is more fit
at so than at 40,' said Prof. Giddings.
His judgement is better. He has
much wider store of knowledge. He
doesn't learn as easily, but he reasons
much better, and his brain improves in
it's constructive abilities. A man shows
his best qualities after so. He ripens.
mentally.
'sThe greatest achievements have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-15
EVENING CHAT
"Except.n
BIZ RUTH CAMERON


THE difference twixt the pessimist
And optimist is droll,
The optimfst sees the doughnut,
The pessin1ist sees the hole.
One evening last week Molly, the
little stenographer lady, and one of
our mutual friends were entertained
at theatre party and a midnight
supper given in honor of the star. 1t
was an unusual treat for both girls
and they evidently felt that they just
must tell somebody about it, for they
both dropped in on me during the
next two days and discussed the great
occasion.
Molly was my first visitor. Her en-
a joy forever. TT was just wonder
full. I didn't think anything so lovely
would ever happen to me-" she con-
cluded after a vivid description: Il
had an absolutely perfect time.
Our mutual friend dropped in the
next day. Yes I had a lovely time,"
she admitted when I brought up the
subject L knew she had come to talk
up in style. The only thing needed
to make it absolutely perfect was to
have had automobiles to bring us
and take us home. I do hate travelling
round in trolley cars in evening gowns.
People stare so and then you are 81
to be all mussed before you get there.
Every time 1 do it I say never will
again. 1t spoils half the pleasure to
me-
To one girl the occasion was lab
solutely perfect
To the other the occasion was per-
feet EXCEPT-and the EXCEPT
doomed so large that it hid most of
the perfection.
The difference between Molly's
viewpoint and that of her friend is
often the whole difference between
happiness and unhappiness in this
world.
The man or woman who has the
latter viewpoint will never be really
happy. For even in the happiest lot
there is always at least one thing
needed to make absolute perfection.
That one thing may be very tiny in
comparison to the happiness. But so
Is penny tiny in comparison to
the sun, and yet if you hold the penny
close to your eye you can make it
hide the sun. Even so, If anyone has
the habit of holding their little Eek
cepts" close up to the eye they may
shut out a world of happiness.
I was admiring a very charming
room the other day. Eyes, 1 think
it would look pretty well,' said its
mistress, except for that rug. It's
terribly shabby but I can't afford a
new one just yet, and it absolutely
spoils the room for me. It's the only
thing 1 can see when I come in"
Poor foolish woman. wonder
what will be the next Except when
there will be one. There always is to
her kind of folks.
Do YOU belong to that class? Or
to MoIly's class?
What do YOU see in life. the
doughnut or the hole?
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QUAKER SI1zDrrAToNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

Some people seem to think that every
thing is for the best, and they are the
best.
A marriage for money proves that 10 e
is blind when it has gold dust thrown in
its eyes.
What place of silence this world
would be if people would only think twice
before they speak.
Don't judge by appearances. Many n
man with one foot in the grave puts up a
mighty stiff kick with the other one.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to remark
that It's about ten thousand times easier
to get married than to stay married.
No, Maude, dear; just because chorus
girls are called broilers is no reason why
you should refer to chorus men friars.
Wigg-"Oh, I'm tired of life. Have you
a pistol you can lend n1e?" Wagg-"No,
but 1 let you have a chatting DISH
It was 2 a. m. when Mrs. Wigwag was
awakened by a loud crash in the lower
hall. us that you, John?" she called
over the bannister ''Yesh, my DEAR re-
Flied Mr.. Wigwag. did you break any
thing?r she demanded. "Only of my
Years resolutions replied Mr.. Wigwas,
somewhat thickly.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Anotner way for woman to get into
the glare of the Mazda is to claim that
she is the original fencing girl
By the time a man celebrates his golden
wedding he has got so used to the yoke
that he doesn't mind it much.
Doubtless the editor who tells the FARM
ers how to care for their valuable i'm
plements neglects to cover his typewri ter
Doc Robinson: ''Say what you will OF
this poor creature, me, but I have never
referred to myself as a warhorse."
Alb Adkins says he can't see why ris
hired girl quit, as they always treated
her as one of the family. That may he
the answer.
Buckwheat cakes are said to be going
out of fashion, and 1t is our dyspeptic
deduction that the world is improving in
other respects.
An Atchison reporter has never written
it Xmas in his life, and he has to hustle
just as hard as the others to hold III
job. Good taste is a poor cash dividend
Garner.
man is handicapped by having to de-
vote considerable time to his whiSkers,
either in combing them, shaving them
as he should. But, the other end OF
his head, he hasn't a round bale of hair
to arrange artistically. Equality is the
order of the day.
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HUAOR or THE D<Y

She-M1ss Howler rendered that last
song rather poorly. You should hear he.
sing when the Cows Are in the Corn
He-I should think it would scare them
out, all right.-Boston Transcript.
tented and dissatisfied" mo wonder
she has husband who gets her ever.
thing she wants!'-London Opinion.
When in Doubt--Operate.-"It think IT'S
your appendix" Are you sure, doctor? ''
now can be sure until I've had II OUT
and examined it?'-Life.
The fish / had from you yesterday
wasn't fit to eat. I was obliged to give Il
to my decentralization Opinion.
Smith-Has your son any fixed habit
that worries you to his future7 Zones
Yes He ii ghts about ten rounds every
morning with the alarm clock.-Judge.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.l


Faint heart seldom escapes fair widow.
People in live town never boast OF
their cemetery.
You can't convince old folks that tie
good die young.
Much will come out in the wash or the
divorce court
Angels may be high flyers, but not
every high flyer is angel
Some men try to realize on their op-
portunities before they arrive.
Beauty is only skin deep, but many a
woman is deeper than she looks
The man who never had a sweetheart
does not know what he missed.
It is easier to love a woman in spite.
of her faults than because of her virtues
1t takes something worse than bad
weather to discourage the man with a
subscription paper.
And sometimes a man who calls him
self an art connoisseur is considered an
artless bore by his acquaintance.
The widower, being a man of experi-
ence, is apt to dodge the boarding house
that advertises all the comforts of
home.
Human nature is much the same the
world over. If man promises to do bet
ter than he has done in the past, don't
hold your breath until he does it
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The Dodo Was Good to Eat.

In the whole range of natural history
few animals of any class, whether ex-
listing or extinct, have attracted more
attention and interest than the dodo
This extinct bird was a native of the
island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean
From its size, which was about that
of a swan, as well as it's strange an
pearance, 1t seems to have been at all
times an object of much interest and
curiosity to travellers visiting Mauri-
thus. In the year 1928 an Englishman
named Altman, in writing to his BROTH
er at home, says You shall receive
strange fowl which had at the ISL
and Mauritius, called by We Portuigalls
DO DO, which, OF the rareness thereof,
nope WILDE welcome to you if it live
About the same time, a Mr. Herbert
writing also from Mauritius, says: 1.-The
dodo comes first for a description; here
and in Dygarrois (and nowhere else
that / ever could see or heare of is
generated the dodo "a Portuguize name
it is, and has reference to her simple
ness) a bird, which for shape and rare
ness, might be called a phoenex overt
in Arabia).''
In a catalogue of rarities preserved in
South Lambeth, London, and published
in 1856, the following entry appeared
under the heading of whole Birds":
"A Doder from the island of Mauritius
1t is not able to fly, being so big" The
last evidence as to the dodo's existence
is furnished by journal kept by a Mr.
Harry, and is now in the British Mu-
scum. This shows that the bird had
not become extinct up to the year
1881 But all the writer had to say
about it was that Its flesh is very
hard
1t was only after the discovery of
large quantities of the remains of the
dodo, by Mr.. Clark, in the year 1865,
that biologists were able to trace its
close relationship to the pigeon family
(Columbidae); and there appears to be
sufficient evidence to justify the belief
that the dodo was huge pigeon of re-
markable specialization in many re-
spects. The wings, owing to gradual
disuse, had become parliamentary and
consequently it had lost the power of
flight. This. together with its reputed
good edible qualities, no doubt led to
it's extinction soon after the COLOMBIA
ton of Mauritius nearly 300 years ago.
Following the usual tendency of very
large animals to produce few at a birth,
it is said that the dodo laid only one
egg for each 1atching.-W. J. Murray
in Forest and Stream.
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says UNCLE CAV

| If you've got the habit of orthodoxy,
take it out on religion, don't mix It
with business. This isn't a theological
discussion, and whether orthodoxy is
life or death in spiritual matters isn't
for us to say. But it never speIled
| anything, except decay and damnation
| in matters temporal. 1t is true that
the orthodox practice in business is
respectable. Even a crime becomes re-
spectacle with age, and if it persists
unchecked for a long enough time,
| there'u be some folk who make II a
virtue. There are communities today in
(which messy spine and chin whiskers
/ are the last word in propriety. Say
what We will, we hate change and a
considerable majority of us don't care
what it is as long as it is old Ven
cradle fraud and incompetence have
their champions and always will have
Men will think along the same old lines
their activities will run in the same
old channels, and every disturbance is
an irritation which is Immediately
translated into a personal affront upon
the part of the benevolent disturber
Yet the world has never made pro-
gress through industrial or artistic or
thodoxy. Also, the orthodoxy of
today was the heterodoxy of
yesterday and the heterodoxy for which
We damn our more adventurous fellows
now will be the orthodoxy that we are
next week. We never get ahead except
by the ideas of some fellow whom we
know to be dead wrong, and when those
ideas have proved their value, they
have become wrong. For the world
does move and that which is anti
quated is immoral 1t no longer serves
and therefore cheats.
1t profits no man to do things in bust
ness as his neighbors do them which
is the sum of industrial orthodoxy. For
fh4 hat
realms, having whipped his world out
of one orthodoxy into another, has done
his service anC become decadent. Good
as his method might have been yester-
day, it is behind the times today and
they who follow 1t unthinkingly follow
it to their loss Once a new method
has been demonstrated it begins to take
on responsibility and is espoused of
everyone The next step in progress is
not to convert the world to that method
but to invent a new one. The radical
quickly becomes the conservative. tina
efficient, the inefficient-there is moth
ing final He that believes that he has
attained perfection has quit climbing
with his feet upon the lowest rung OF
the ladder.
Down with the high god Orthodoxy
he was never god but a devil OF
complacent mediocrity. His devotees
grow stale and rot of inaction They
are brothers to the barnacle. which is
the true type of the orthodox. being
less original than sheep which merely
follow their leader instead of sticking
to the same spot until scraped off by
the hand of some rude iconoclast bent
on business. They run true to type.
even as the barnacles, for that is an
other prime virtue Of barnaclehood ana
orthodoxy.
But as for you, John Henry. save
your orthodoxy for religion. In busi-
ness eschew it-grow, change. evolve.
get there!
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How could Mr.. O. B. Jones of Cove
county be otherwise?
AS the Kinsley Graphic puts il:
William Allen White has gone to Cali
fornia to plan instructions to the voters
in the next campaign.
Most of the patent medicine adver-
tiSers in Kansas report that the high
cost of living can be reduced if their
drugs and nostrums are taken
You may think the name is fiction.
But the Larned Chronoscope reports
that Edice Kiddoo is so ill she is not
able to attend her classes in the high
school.
Rev. McSkimming, of Severy, I'M
doubtedly digs down deep in his sub
jects, as his proposed lecture course
shows. This is more proof, if any were
needed, that there is nothing in name.
Apparently the times do change,
points out the Sterling Bulletin There
will be only one Union soldier in the
next congress, while there will be
twelve members who wore the Confed-
crate gray.
'Tis true, says the Smith County
Pioneer, that free range chickens in
town do not scratch out house gardens
in winter. But what they do to the
neighboring porches makes the house
wives swear.
How fmpertinent! Editor Good, OF the
Cawker City Ledger, wonders how
many of the editors who exchange with
him read the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Bible Study on the Sunday school les
sons which they publish.
Speaking of long reaches, listen to
this in the school notes of the Cove
County Advocate: THAT two weeks
Suspended Animation so far as
school activities go is over. We are
working again on that job which
reaching back at least a couple of thou
sand years and forward probably to the
end Of time. will always be the prin-
cipal business Of youth"
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Among the more active in settlement
work are the bill collectors.
r = +
Nor does any one have to be much
of Splinter to make a record at run
ming in debt.
= d d
Nearly every man can testify to the
fact that fools are born at the rate
of one a minute.
+ = +
Strange but true. Most of the pro-
fessional pessimists really haven't any
thing to kick about.
j. j. Il
All men may be liars. But a few
are clever enough not to get caught
at it. And that's what counts
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DAFFYDUS
BY q. NOALL.

Is a man perpetrating joke when
he goes to a fish market and asks for
a cod?
(KilI him quick! He's the boob that
put the age in adage.)
When the head cornet player is abb
sent from the orchestra, does his sub
stitute?
CAS- Oat Abar says: The beauty of
hot dogs is more than skin deep.)
Isn't it all right to call every cop
a clubman?
(Once again, Hortense- You can't
prove anything by me.)