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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
EVENING CHAT
The Cost.
81 RUTA CA1fERO1e.


When you are inclined to envy neonla
VINO nave more possessions of any kind
than you have, do you ever stop to
tnInk what they paid for these things?
coin. O' ." o'Aei
If you will only reckon the cost of some
VI tnese Things which you covet 1 think
you will often cease to break the tenth
commandment.
For instance. there was one girl in COL
iege who always had lovely clothes and
lots of them. At almost every function
Sne appeared in some new creation She
1Isearded her clothes as soon as they loct
thelr freshness and style; she bought a,
handsome new suit every winter and sum
ner' an exuavagance quite unknown In
our poverty-Strfcken community where
some hard-worked suits spent three and
even the full four years at college.
Often used to feel very envious of this
glrPs pretty things, and then l remem-
bered the cost and forebore. Her father
was one of those nervous, harried bust
ness men, whose lives are one miserable
an extravagant family. Shortly after MS
daughter graduated, the eternal strIsgie
proved Pre- too much f;st for him and he died, an
wouldn't want to pay IT for the prettiest
gowns that were ever made. Would you?
Again L was once tempted to envy a
young woman whose linen chest and
trousseau were full of the loveliest hama
embroidered things the eyes of woman
was marked with beautifully ernbroidered
initials; her sheets and pillow cases and
toWels were az hern-stitched; her lingerie
was loaded with exquisite embroidery in
the finest and daintiest patterns. Rut
when I heard that the cost of that outfit
and of the elaborate wedding that fol-
lowed was a long, nervous Illness for her
mother, / envied her no more.
Yet again / used to envy another wom-
an her ABILITY TO get up a quantity OF pretty
clothes for surprisingly small sum. Rut
when 1 found that she did it by driving
the dressmaker at a nerve breaking sneeei
and beating down the seamstress h a
starvation wage, / thought that would
rather have less after ALL
which one pays such prices.
II is really quite simple to be happy
with the things that one can buy without
would only get the habit of thinking so
One should always be sure to reclo,, fbe
luxuTies one envies as well as the price
in money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
STATES RIGHTS AGAIN.

The doctrine of states rights has al
ways been popular one when not
working. The theory as set forth has
been beautiful to contemplate. But it is
noted that beginning with the war be-
tween the states. for which it was re-
sponsible and on down to the present
day, whenever it comes in contact with
the federal authority it always takes
the count.
One of the most recent instances of
this appears in connection with the
operation of the pure food laws.
A sharp line is drawn by the SUI
preme court between federal and state
food laws in what seems likely to be
known as the Wisconsin Karo Sirup
Case In the food trades legal ex-
perts regard the decision as the most
important rendered since the pure food
law was enacted. The point at issue
was whether packed merchandise, lab
eled in accordance with the require
ments of the federal statute, should
have to be relabeled when received
into state whose food law differs
from the federal law. The court ruled
in favor of the integrity of the label
of the. Original package" holding that
the merchandise in litigation remained
in the province of interstate commerce
and was consequently subject to fed
eral law. The effect of the decision
is believed to make void the food law
of Wisconsin, and probably many other
states.
1t seems that a wholesale grocer in
Chicago shipped to a retailer in Wis
consin a box containing tin cans of
Karo corn strip, labeled to conform
with the federal law. The law of Wis
consin, however, demands a different
description or label on this product.
In denying the right of the state to
enforce its provision, the court says:
ITO permit such regulation as is en-
bodied in this statute is to permit a
state to discredit and burden legiti-
mate federal regulations of interstate
commerce, to destroy rights arising out
of the federal statute which have &C
crued both to the government and the
shipper, and to impair the effect of
federal law which has been enacted I'M
der the constitutional power of con-
gress over the subject
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
A statement given out by S

A statement given out by Secretary
of Commerce William G. Redfield in
dicates that the qualities of manufac-
turers materials imported into the
United States during the present fiscal
year will greatly exceed the imports
of last year and will exceed the mark
of any previous year in the history of
our country, if the figures for the nine
months ended March, 1913, be any
criterion. OF the ten important arti-
cles forming the bulk of the imports
Of such materials-cotton, wool. fibers,
silk, tin, copper, rubber. hides, lum-
Der and tobacco-the imports will,
with but two exceptions, exceed the
former high record mark
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

square short answer to a woman's
long question.
1t is apparent that the Republicans
and Bullmoosers will be unable to get
together, SO the politicians who want
TO settle differences may start a "Har-
mony party, and invite recruits from
the other three.
This business of having more than
two parties is a good idea, at that.
With the custom established, every
politician who thinks he is two inches
over three sizes larger than his party
and is unable to convince the party,
can go ahead and start a party of
his own.
Charley Sessions should thank his
friends for mentioning him for gov
ernor so early in the season; it will
give him more time to frame up a
method of lodging the disagreeable
job before it gets to him.
Mistah Johnsing was found guilty,
but of about the third or fourth crime
curing a pain next week as the re-
suit of cucumbers eaten year before
last.
The post cards booming Stubs for
president are postmarked Guthrie, Ok
is dnyDOQy sure Lu0 ldlS SON-
ernor is not visiting at Guthrie?
Several persons have expressed a
doubt concerning the ability of the
sand dixie to withstand flood, but
as yet We have found no one who was
mean enough to wish for test.
Senator Thompson says he cannot
understand the talk that Kansas DEM
ocrats are dissatisfied with the amount
of pie they are getting from the gov
eminent. But he misunderstood them.
1t is not the amount they object to;
they merely object to open-faced lemon
pie.
And it must be candidly admitted
that what they have been getting, I'M
der his distribution, was not stuffed
with plums.
Some English gent is shipping over a
bunch of $4,000 polo ponies to be used
in little game in New York. For
the benefit of those who do not know,
a $4,000 polo pony is a scrub cross be-
tween a mustang and a domestic
horse, worth about SIS, which has been
broken to ride by some farm hand,
shorn of it's name and tail, and then
sold to some dealer for $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
THE THREE SISTERS.

THE THREE SISTERS.
As April went upon her way
She sprinkled earth with vital showers
To thus assist her sister May
To propagate sweet scented flowers.
At first Miss May we scarcely knew.
But in a very little while
We recognized her eyes of blue
And her betwitching sunny smile.
The buds she eagerly doth kiss
And fruitful trees their bloom unfurl-
Nor sleeping rivulets does she miss
And all spring up to greet the girl.
Just one and thirty days she'll stay
Alas, her going seems so sooni
HOwbeit as she starts away
She'll introduce her sister, June.
Miss June perhaps, is more sedate,
And April boisuerouS and gay,
So we can all appreciate
A happy medium like May.
MATT NICHOL.
Frankfort, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

Every great movement for the develop
ment of the nation originates in New
York on account of the Capitalization In
New York city of the men of brains and
ability. 1t is only the soap-box orator
and the demagogue that criticizes the
New York banker, and in SO doing
demonstrates his woeful ignorance OIL
the patriotism and devotion the aver
age New Yorker has towards the ma
ton.
New York is the mecca of the ma
ton on financial matters, the financial
center of the United States. and with
proper monetary laws, would immedi-
ately become the financial center OF
the world"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News-1
The talkative barber illustrates his story
with cuts.
Courage is the thing that makes people
forget they are afraid.
Some men show good judgment by
showing a lack of self-confidence.
The end man in a minstrel show can tell
a Joke as well as the next man.
A noble failure is better than ignoble
success, although not in so great demand.
Kind words are more than coronets, but
sometimes judicious kick is more bene-
fetal.
When a woman is in love she is self
appointed detected. And at other times
as we'll
Many a man would rather ride around
on a pneumatic tired mortgage than pat
roniZe the street cars.
Men who climb the stairs one step at a
time are gladder to rest a the top than if
they had utilized the elevator
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
ON TIE SPUR
or THE MOMENT
By ROY X MOULTON.
" X MOULTON.
By r

Summer.
OH, how I love the summer time,
I'm glad I am alive
When good old Mr.. Fahrenheit
Is touching ninety-five.
1 have no anthracite to buy,
1 shovel off no snow,
I do not have to wear earmuffs,
Wherever I may go.
do not slip and jar my bones
Upon the Icy walk,
Or hear the Oldest resident
Give his cold weather talk
It's simply heaven to perspire,
It's great to take a run
For nineteen miles or so
Out in the blazing sun.
1t makes ambition stir within
My large upholstered frame
To be parboiled and melted down,
1t makes me yearn for fame.
When suffocating weather comes
never care to shirk
The only notion that I have
Is to dig in and work.
Oh, how love the summer time,
OF it never tire.
But, still, think that I can hear
You softly whisper Liar"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
Theater Used as a Stable.

The Turkish theater of Mustapha
Pasha is. in the opinion of convoy ex-
perts, the most convenient stable they
have found in the length and breadth of
the peninsula
The pit boxes serve for mules. horses.
or oxen; the galleries are crammed
with hay and straw; the balcony is
reservoir for oats; the stage is a
surgical center for operations on
wounded animals while the green room
is a special haunt of buffaloes--Pan
Mall Gazette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

The fact that the wheat has come
through the winter in excellent shape
indicates that the crop will not be far
from the estimate, should it encounter
no backset between now and harvest
time. With abundance of rain every
where the outlook could hardly be bet
ter. The biggest winter wheat crop we
have harvested in the past eight years
was under 500,000.000 bushels, in 1906.
The present acreage is larger than it
was in 1906, and the condition points
to a crop of 51s,O00.OOO bushels. The
loss of winter wheat acreage since De-
cember has been less than a million
and a half acres; last year it was near
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

ly six and a half millions. The present
area is more than 100000 acres great
erthan year ago. Last year the act
ual crop was about 20,000,000 bushels
better than the May promise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

woman makes the most of her
self" says an lad writer for a de-
partment store. But that doesn't pre-
vent the department store from offer
ing her all the aid she will accept.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

The eminent surgeon who has dis
covered how to keep life in tissues
after the organism dies would confer
q favor on one T. R. by trying the
experiment on the bull moose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
KANSAS COAAENT
WHATS TRUMPs?

In many ways the United States has
set the table and dealt the cards Tor
a bigger game of politics than we ever
before, as a nation have played.
Within recent years we have added
colonies in the far seas, we are build
ing a canal to become host to the
worlds interoceanic commerce, we are
revising the terms of trade with other
nations, we have been glad-handing
the Chinese and back-handing the
Japanese.
Busted for a generation with our
own business at home, we have be-
come so prosperous and so vast IN
material resources, that we are begin
ming to dabble over the fence in the
affairs of other nations.
Most of the world powers define
openly their various ambitions and
name their opponents and their allies
in the tangled game of world politics.
Great Britain lets it be known that
with France and Russia as side-part-
ners she will take cards in anybody's
game of diplomacy.
Isn't it about time before we all be-
gin debating with one another the
Panama canal toll question. bullying
the Japs, trading off the Philippines
and soft-soaping the southern repub-
lies, to say nothing of stealing Can
ada some dark night when Champ
Clark is not busy, for Uncle Sam to
tell us what is trumps
It's about time for our eloquent Sec
rotary of state to square off and give
lie couple of columns of first page
matter on how the cross of gold and
crown of thorns fits in with world
wide bluff and blarney.-Wichita
Eagle.
SPRING FEVER
Some people give that name to the
enervating languor brought on by the
first warm weather. Others apply 1t
to the restless dreams of winding
country roads and grassy trout
streams that tempt a man to shut
his desk with a bang and skip.
Spring is the hardest weather in
the year for a fellow to work. The
office or factory seems a friendly
enough shelter during the chill
storms of winter. In May the whole
system of the worlds work seems a
crime. Dusty Rhodes looks like the
only true philosopher.
This confinement within four walls
on these lovely days may be abnor-
NAL and different from the life man
was built to lead. But the persist
ence with which people stick to their
tasks. deaf to those calls of vagrant
nature, shows that the human spirit
has acquired some splendid habits of
persistent industry and patient regu-
larity. These habits and qualities in
the long run bring ample rewards
Winfield Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

A London physician says that wear
ing wells makes women's noses red.
And some women wear wells because
their noses are red. So there you are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

me state Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the TUT oay
e@ie~rapb report OF that great news Dr.
Rnnfxation for the exclusive arternoon
eubfce ton in Topeka
The news is received In The state jour
wei h,dldins over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

A savant has discovered that girls
with pink teeth are the most affec-
tionate. What is of chief moment now
is what will do the business?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

Kaiser Wilhelm is credited with
saying that his son will be the last
of the emperors. Whom shall we get
then to preside over our ball games?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

man has just finished counting
all the letters in the Bible. He is now
qualified for the task of counting all
the trusts that have been busted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

Some of the railroads are cutting
down the speed of their fast trains to
seventy miles an hour. Still, a reason
ably efficient wreck can be produced
with something better than a mile a
rnfnTfe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

Somebody claims to have discovered
a substitute for tobacco. Probably 1t is
no improvement over the old one of
cabbage leaves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

"A shave costs seventy-five cents in
Rhodesia," That's nothing. SLAVES
in Wall street usually cost much more
than that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

Why not make the hookworm use
full by introducing it among the Next
can insurrectos?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

There is one thing which alone
should stay the hand of the admins
tration. And that is the possibility of
a new society-the Daughters of the
Mexican Invasion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
From the Hickeyville Clarion.

Hank Tumms says his grandmother
has got good eyesight. L wonder
what other kind of sight he would ex-
pect her to have.
There was a proposition to put
some stained glass winders in the
new meetin' house, but the congrega-
ton decided that as long as they
were payin' out good money they
might as well get good glass thai
wasn't stained or otherwise damaged.
Old Man Hicks said perhaps a little
soap and water or alkyhol might
take the stains off, but nobody listened
to him.
Jem Higgins, who is takin' art
lessons down to the city has wrote
home that he was going to paint a
pictur in oil. Seems like the first
puff of wind that came along would
ruffle it all outn shape.
Grandpa Bibbins has quit waitin'
for Bryan to be elected and now is
waitin' for the price of beefsteak to
come down. He mustn't expect to live
forever.
If every feIler's sanity was judged
by the love letters he has written the
insane asylums would have to turn
'em away and there wouldn't be no
body to act as keepers.
The main difference between vaud-
eville and the higher forms of dra-
matte art is that there is more money
in vaudeville.
fetal limb business, says trade is look
ing up He put on two new hands
yesterday.
William Tibbitts has fired his clerk
so that he can have an excuse to pull
off a fire sale.
Rem Binks says you can't always
tell a mild cigar by the wrapper. No,
by ginger, or a mild woman, either.
Egbert Peavey is what might be
an initial letter H and the sleeve. his
underclothes is marked ID L. W." and
the initials cut in the inside band of his
hat is 1T. x" He has evidently Travelled
blends is not so bad as painted, and, by
gravy, wo don't see how they could be-
Rev. Hanks of the Hard Shell meetin'
house has got the greatest collection of
is afraid to go travelin' for fear he will
be arrested for "shoveling the queer" He
can't tell bad money from good, but evil
IDENTIFY most of his congregation can. Hi
Squazey Creek way. Hank Tumms ate
fourteen dozen legs at one sitting this
week and several fe1ers is getting
square meal for the first time since rab-
swift way to catch frogs. He tickles the
frog under the left foreleg with a stra w
and the frog laughs and opens his mouth,
and then Hi takes an atomizer and
the frog sneezes himself to death. This
is more humane than hitting same with
clue Spear1ng same with an old rusty
table fork fastened to fishpole, as has
been the custom around these parts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arson Frisby, the leaders
of the smart set of polite society, haN e
got a new iron dogS~in their front yard
which is so true to life that Dog Catcher
day for not having a license tag, but
couldn't lift it into his wagon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

Andrew Carnegie is said to be try
ing to stop the selling of whisky in
Scotland. Andrew also tried to stor
war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

The Fflipinos are persistent in their
efforts to prove themselves entitled to
independence. Moonshining has been
established in northern Luzon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

Perhaps one reason that there are
30 few free traders is that almost
everybody has something to protect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

"Se ere. Mr.. Johnsing that thief vvore
rubbe-s and walked backwards sarhen
we must look out for a man with recedin;
guIns.''-Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
by TIE WY
BIZ HARVEY PARsoNs.

IL sometimes takes a long time to
square a short answer to a womans
long question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15

II is apparent that the Republicans
ana Bullmoosers will be unable to get
together, SO the politicians who want
TO settle differences may start "Har-
mony" party, and invite recruits from
the other three.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-05-22
Agricultural Train.
Marketing, Land Clearing, Do
mestic Science and General
Agriculture the Topics in
Northeastern Minnesota.

Unqualified success attended the
tour of the third annual agricultural
special train which recently closed a
two weeks trip through Northeastern
Minnesota. The train of twelve
coaches was conducted by the Exten-
sion Division of the State Agricultural
College, and the Duluth and Iron
Range land department..
Everywhere on it's trip through and
about the Range country, thousands
of farmers, their wives and children,
1ocked to the train to hear the Cos
pei of better agriculture Potato
growing, dairying, vegetable garden
ing, clover, crop rotation, and sheep
raising We're the principal subjects
given attention by the corps of spe-
cialists aboard.
The women were also given lectures
ence and Home Economics The lee
ture car was packed at every stop.
The children, too, were interested in
the movement for better farming by
being told OF the industrial work in
agriculture, and how they could take
it up. 1t is said that hundreds of
children will take up this work as q
result of the trip.
The problem of marketing is an
acute one in this northern country,
and many carloads of potatoes, of
good quality, were found, which the
owners have been unable to market.
In every instance they were told of
the advantages of cooperative mar
keting and referred to the Minnesota
Fruit Growers association, the or
ganization effected by the Extension
Division a year ago to facilitate the
disposition of farm products. There
is a probability that there, as in 9th
er parts of the state, this association
will obtain a permanent foOthold.
The one ether problem of serious
importance is land clearing, and
everywhere settlers were advised to
burn all refuse on the land, cut OF
the timber and plant clover among the
stumps. This produces abundant
pasture for sheep or dairy COWS until
after several years, all roots in the
soil have rotted, the hardwood stumps
have decayed, and nothing remains
to remove but the pine stumps.
The train started from Duluth April
16 and travelled over the Duluth and
Iron Range; ths Duluth, Missabe and
Northern; the Canadian Northern,
and the Great Northern railroads.,
Ray P. Speer. University Farm, st
Paul
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-05-22
UNcoiLING NEW ROPE.

The proper way to take rope from
a coil is to draw it from the middle.
There are two ways to do thisTa
right and wrong way. II it happens
to be done the wrong way the rope
will become twisted in a manner that
will make it almost unmanageable. Ii
done the right way it will come out
without any twisting or snarling and
all the rope in the coil may be drawn
out without trouble. To do it prop
erly the rope. should be uncoiled
toward the left, or opposite the way
the hands of watch or clock run.
BY finding the inside end of the
coil and observing how it uncoils,
one may tell whether or not he is
starting in the right way. If the
rope uncoils to the right instead of
the left the whole. coil should be
turned over and the end pulled
through from the opposite side OF
the coil. The rope will then uncoil
to the left and cause no trouble.
NJ. Drew, University Farm, st. Paul.