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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-28

The annual meeting Of school OFF,
Of Richland county has been call
ed for July 5. This will give the d.
rectors an opportunity to see the sum
Tner school in session.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-28

President Smith was up to New
Rockford Tuesday to address the
school officers of Eddy county at their
annual meeting.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-28

DIR. Foght, the representative Of the
national department Of education. was
to be with us this week but missed
connections n will probably come
later.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-28

The Misses Helen and Clementine
Lukken Were over from Lidgerwood
the first of the week to visit their
many friends among the teachers at
the summer schol.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-28

The enrolment for summer school
Monday was 100.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-28

A lecture unusuaI Interest iii
promised next Thursday afternoon,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHysoN GLOBE.

1t may be difficult to define dignity,
but it isn't whSkerS.
About half what you hear is true if you
don't hear a great deal.
The rule is that, if boy is late to his
meals, he isn't engaged in useful work.
Alb. Adkins smokes a brand of cigars
which ought to cure him of the tobacco
habit.
as many clothes later in life they had
as brides.
Quarreling lovers should remember that
marriage license isn't a guaranteed
peace treaty.
If I can't stick the other fellow" said
Link Preston this morning, Il believe in
sticking together"
Fish are an important factor in the
worlds food supply, but not those caught
with hook and line.
If it's a good job, a man wants to hold
1t long enough to be known as the NeStor
Of something or other.
A doctors family. you may have OBJ
served, isn't always in midseason form, or
the W. k. pink of condition.
We are never disposed to criticise a
champion for not being over-anXious to
fight; he has a good deal to lose.
There are all sorts of people in this
complex cosmos, including those who re-
gard a murder mystery as entertainment.
The busy bee, loafer reminds us, is
robbed of such surplus he acquires dur
ing the open season of sweet scented
flowers.
sometimes a deep and SOulIul sigh IN
dicates nothing more than that she has
switc d her corset from her own back to
that of chair.
Take a cold bath if you want to. but
don't try to convince unbelieverS that you
enjoy it; too much effort is wasted on i'm
possible tasks
AS soon as it's piped to a girl that she
writes such good letters she develops
a literary ambition and plans to back
Edna Ferber off the boards.
Unless children enjoy crying there has
been some exaggeration in the graphic
description of childhood'S happy hour as
written by old buffers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
.AYHHWKER JOTS

The Kansas State Agricultural col
1ege will graduate it's fiftieth class this
year.
A farmers house burned near Hum
boldt and nothing was saved but the
piano.
A basket of young chickens was sent
from Altamont to Independence by
parcel post
Down at Coffeyville the officers used
a potato digger successfully in search
for hidden liquor.
"Ironjaw'' Brown is in the real
estate business but that is not the
cause of his name.
Bert Walker having tried it all his
life and never got anywhere" says it
does not pay to be a professional
kicker.
The Ell Dorado town council has
decided that $50 is about the right
price for hitching a horse to a white
way pole.
Leavenworth's Booster club has put
a muzzle on the Post and that paper
announces that it will print no more
news of Joint pullings."
Dick Howard, editor of the Arkan-
sas City Traveller. is taking his first
vacation in 80 years and has gone
black to Grigsby station"
Salinas police judge announces that
he will fine married DRINKS twice as
much as single offenders. Is he try
ing to put a crimp in the marriage
business?
A woman was arrested at Leaven-
worth by a secret service man on a
charge of "spooning." She was given
a police court fine. Walt Mason wants
to know if she was alone.
The Leavenworth Post numbers
among the towns new industries a
branch of the State Temperance Union
and calls attention to the fact that it
came without any effort on the part of
the Commercial club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
PUNCHING THE CLOCK.

Iowa legislators, considering expedi-
ents of retrenchment and reform, pur-
pose showing the way to all other
states by installing time clock in the
capitol at Des Moines and requiring
all state employees to register the
hours of their labor. Presumably the
governor will be expected to insert his
key and record the times of his ar
rivals and departures as religiously as
the scrubwoman.
Here, obviously, is the making of a
newer and truer democracy. The
naughty adjutant general must line
up behind the dairy commissioners
office boy to do homage in turn to the
dignity of work. The boys key will
be every whit as good as the generals.
1t will be the symbol of their equality
before the state. Its appointed use
will be the sacrament of their common
service. In time it may impress upon
their minds that temporary enjoyment
of a public job carries no superiority
over the citizen who labors privately
in his fields or punches the clock in
his employers foundry.
Yet application of industry's time
keeping apparatus to the processes of
statecraft will seem unfortunately like
official recognition of a prevalent sus-
picion that public employees incline
Will it not tend to confirm any notion
they may entertain that the state ex-
poets them only to put in the allotted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
BUSINESS AND THE TARIFF.

A gene al slowing down in business
is noted by Henry CIews in his Weekly
Financial Review. After enumerating
a number of causes for this condition
in the country's trade he says:
can added cause of hesitation is the
new tariff and its possible effect upon
values. 1t is well understood that the
bill as passed by the house will seri-
ously affect few special interests, and
there is strong hope that the extreme
cuts will be modified in the senate be-
fore the bill becomes law. Business
as a whole will not be largely affected
by the new bill. AS long as uncertain
ty lasts, however, commercial transact
lions must be limited to actual re-
quirements. When the bill is finally
signed business thus held back will be
rushed forward and we may anticipate
a prompt return to more normal ac
tivity. Larger imports are inevitable.
The income tax feature of the bill is
creating increasing friction and oppo-
sition, although not a serious incubus
as yet upon business transactions.
1.-The most encouraging feature in the
business outlook is the excellent crop
prospects. From nearly all parts of the
country come advices stating that the
soil has had abundant moisture and
that all the crops promise a splendid
start under most favorable conditions.
SnOulQ present crop expectations De re-
allied, there is no question but they
will largely offset depressing tendencies
in business affairs, especially when the
tariff is out of the way. Other favor
able business indications are the de-
crease in idle cars and the reduction
in stocks of copper"
Happily there is little if anything in
the business situation in the west to
justify this pessimistic view. What
trouble there is appears to be confined
to Wall street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
QUAKER fluctuations.
[F'rom the Philadelphia Record

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
No man is happy unless he can
prove it.
He jests at scars who has never been
at war with himself.
The people who are contented are mere
ly those who don't know any better
He who is on the winning side is the
one who breaches the triumph of right.
The fellow who is always on the fence
must be pretty well balanced to stay
there.
Women wear much false hair now
adays that it's difficult to tell which is
switch.
Blobbs-''He boasts of being a man with
an iron will Slobbs-"Wen even an iron
will may get rusty
The egotist wouldn't be satisfied with
himself unless he felt that everyone else
was satisfied with him.
Some men are So wise that it seems as
though they must have been born at a
much earlier age than the rest of us.
Blobbs-"The trouble with Bjones is that
he never throws his whole soul into his
work" Slobbs-"No. he generally puts
his foot in it,
Nell-'Has Maude always been cross
eyed?" Bele-.'No; some fellow once told
her she had a beautiful nose, and she got
that way from constantly looking at it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
KANSAS cOHp4ENT
BOYS ARE RIGHT.


Boys are a whole lot smarter than
they have been given credit for being.
This is true of the boys now on earth,
as well as those who have become men.
lived their time and died. 1t has been
true of them since the beginning, and
will be true of them as long as they
are boys. When they become men they
are usually given credit Tor being
smarter than they really are, that is.
those of them who are just smart
enough to get away with bluff of that
kind. But the boy, he has real smart
ness, and seldom gets credit for it,
Now take the boy legend to the eff
feet that If you kill a snake, his tail
does not die until the sun goes down.
All boys know that is fact; but when
then disbelieve it. Which shows that
the boy is not only the father of the
man, but that he is whole lot smarter
than his -ather. For the boy legend
about the snake is not a legend at all;
according to the learned scientists 1t
is an actual fact. Now the boys will
give the big chuckle to these wise guys,
who have just discovered something
that the boys have known ever since
Cain and Abel tried to kill the serpent
that had put one over on their mother.
In solemn convention assembled at
Washington wise snoozer from
Yale told his fellow smarties that it
was the real thing, that boy legend,
and that the snake doesn't really die
when he is killed, that he will surely
live at his tails end until the sun
goes down, and maybe longer.
And the Solomons there assembled
agreed with the Big Wise One, and
announced that the boys were right.
had always been right, and that they
have all along known more than the
wisest of the scientific sharps. Which
we hold to be a vindication that the
boys ought to be proud of. but for
which they owe no particular thanks
to the high brows at Yale and WASH
ington.-Lawrence Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14

Lady of Sorrows and put it over the
| spring.
Theoren's eyes rested on the little
gray stone image that had flushed
| rosy in the warm glow from the big
wood fire.
Then one day." he went on, when
the man came home from a long trip,
| he found that his wife had gone away.
Since then he has hunted her all
| through the world. to tell her that if
she will only come back to him she
can model figures all the time. He
will never be happy any more until he
finds her.
Betty slipped a tiny hand into one
of the mans beside her.
You are looking for somebody,
aren't you, Mr.. Theoren?"
YES" he answered her huskily. 81
shall keep on searching for her until
I find her.
Maybe the Blessed Lady will hear
ed Betty.
A slender woman dropped down on
her knees in the snow beside them and
put her arms about the two on the log
| before the fire.
"our Blessed Lady has heard,
Theoren"
He sprang up and caught her saw
agely in his arms.
Jean nn he lean epied Je.2 o my bao own 70 little
I'll love your work now. Did you
carve the Blessed Lady over the
| spring."
Yes" she acknowledged breath
| lessly. ST knew that you loved these
mountains, so I set the little figure
where hoped you would stop to drink
| and then, seeing the image, think of
me-"
"As if I could ever forget you! The
world has been so empty since I lost
you. love you, JEAN
Betty slipped away quietly. Twilight
shadows crept out of the valley and
| up the mountain. Above the tree tops
the evening star cleaned like a sin
| gle jewel set in the bosom of night.
Come with me- said Jean, softly,
and pointed up the mountain trail to
where the home lights burned red in
the dusky gloom.-(Copyright 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
TEACHERS AND COST OF LIVING.

Most of the teachers in the United
States have in effect had their salaries
reduced since 1897. Despite an ap-
parent increase in money received, the
| high cost of living has cut into their
salaries just as definitely as if a school
board had sliced them. A teaching
position which paid $500 salary in
1897 is paying in purchasing power
the equivalent of about $416 today, If
measured by 1897 prices; the teacher
on the $1,000 salary gets no more for
his money today than he would have
procured fifteen years ago for $693.
This is what the high cost of living
has done to teachers and others on a
fixed salary schedule, according to n
report on teachers salaries and cost
of living distributed by the United
States bureau of education.
DR.. Robert C. Brooks, executive sec
rotary for the N. E. A. committee,
which prepared the report, shows by
bureau of labor figures that wholesale
prices in 1911 were AL per cent high
er than in 1907; that retail prices had
increased 5O.2 per cent in the same
period; while in June, 1912, retail
food prices were GIT per cent higher
than in 1896. With these figures as a
basis he analyses teachers salaries in
five cities in different parts of the
United States and demonstrates the
plight of the teachers in the problem
of increased cost of living.
According to the Brooks report,
teachers do not receive enough sal
airy, even in the cities, to save money
to carry adequate life insurance or to
proceed with further professional
training. Out of the 1000 teachers
Investigated, only 13 were found who
possessed property over $4,000, and
practically every one of these thirteen
owed their good fortune to sources
other than their salaries as teachers.
Nearly all of the men teachers carried
life insurance, but few of them to
sufficient amount. Only four out OF
1873 married teachers would, if they
were to die now, leave in insurance or
any other property as much as ten
times their annual salary-the lowest
sum that might be expected to pro-
vide for the family.
How the high cost of living affects
particularly the teacher who seeks to
marry and have a home is strikingly
demonstrated. In Denver, a city of
relatively high salaries, IA married
women with no others dependent upon
them had an average salary of $1,212
to meet their own needs exclusively;
16 unmarried women with others de-
pendent upon them had an average
from salary of 1901 to spend on each
adult person in the family including
themselves; but the married men
teachers had an average from salary
of only Sab for the equivalent of
each adult person including them
selves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
FROM OTHER PENS
IDAHO LIKES JAPs.

IDAt1O LIKES JAPS.
AT the same time that California
holding lands in the state fixing also
many kinds of discriminating features
in its license laws so that a japanese,
for example, must pay a hundred dol
lars for the right to do business, where
a citizen of another country, or of the
worthy that Idaho has refused to re-
new law that prohibited alien own
ership of land in that state
The repeal bill of the former Idaho
legislature was passed on the ground
that capital was needed to develop the
state and it was better to get citizens
who were thriving and industrious,
make this country attractive to them.
than to take the opposite course, and
allow race prejudice to dominate over
the interests of the commonwealth as
whole.
The sentiment of California appears
to be voiced almost entirely by Pro-
gresslves, as they are called, represented
by the governor, who has made HIM
self conspicuous for the defiant mood
with which he proposes to override a
treaty of the United States. i
That is a question to be taken UP
when 1t is actually met in the road.
1t still may never arise as an issue.
compelling a decision as to whether a
treaty is the supreme law of the land
or whether it is so far from being such
law that a state may repeal it or
nullify it, to use the old hateful word of
secession.
Idaho will be denounced in California
for her st nd on this question and Cali
fornia will be condemned with equal
severity in Idaho and it must be as
sumed that one state knows the jap
anese about as well as the other.-Buf-
falo News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14

hours and cares little what they do
with the time?
Laying stress on the time element
is proper enough in any case where
services consistent principally of time
served and can be measured by it. But
there are callings wherein hours of
application are unimportant and re-
suits achieved are all-important. 1t
seems possible that even in a state
house some workers may be found
whose usefulness bears no relation to
the time of the day and cannot be
metered by the clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
EVENING CHIT
A Sense of Proportion.
SY RITA CAMERON.

| A sense of value and proportion is some
| thing a great many people seem to lack
| nave neighbor VINO is good woman
| and a better housekeeper. She is spend
ing the very heart out of herself to exc
out her husbands small salary. She has
two children. On goodness knows how
| little week, she supplies her family or
four with good food, decent clothes, and
an immaculate home. She is known as
| the best housekeeper in the neighborhood
Now the oldest of this woman's two chill
dren is a boy of Is, and intelligent, ene1,-
geuc, llve wire of boy, the kind who
amounts to something if his energy is
properly utilized, and makes trouble for
everyh1ody concerned If it isn't: This boy
Biography. Some one gave him a second
hand camera, and he invested some of the
money he earned in materials converted
the bathroom into dark room and be-
gan fussing around with all the parapher-
naila OF amateur photography
NOW IL you ever had an amateur photog-
rapher in your bathroom you know what
that means-the blankets dragged from
the bed and hung over the bathroom win
COW, f1lrns and partly dried prints scat
tered over everything, pie-plate filled
with developer in the bathtub. saucer of
hypo on the floor and batch Of films
being washed in the bowl. The best house
keeper in the neighborhood stood it twice
then she put her foot down. She said she
was working herself to death trying to
make good home for her family and she
coulon't keep things decent with her SON
photography.
The last time I saw that boy he was
lettering on street corner with three
very questionable looking companions
That illustrates what 1 mean by lack
of sense of proportion. That woman
thought that a house always in order was
a beautiful thing. So it is, but there are
other things more beautiful and more inn
portant She didn't realize that I'm
afraid she will some time
Again. little girl from the country
was visiting her city cousin and was
asked to theater party: She positively
could not afford to buy long gloves, and
wore her short ones although her dress
had elbow sleeves. She took the gloves
off as soon as she entered the theater
and devoutly hoped that no one would
notice But her city cousin spied her and
was Mortified. MY dear" she protested,
mo one takes their gloves off in the
theater." Now that woman knew that it
was a good thing to conform to social
custom. She lost sight of the fact that
the higher courtesy which will not hurt
another's feelings is infinitely more i'm
portant.
In a certain summer home a wonderful
view is lost to the living room because
there is no window in the north corner
asked the man who built il why that was
and he said 1t would have spoiled the
symmetry of the house to put a window
there Think of letting symmetry weigh
against the opportunity to look half
across the ocean,
/ wonder wherein you and lack a sense
of proportion. "Oh wad some power the
giftie gle u.s..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

lfrom the chicago News
And some magazine poems are all gas
and no meter.
The less logic there is in a mans argu-
ment the louder he talks
Some stories are hard to believe-unIess
you want to believe them.
A romantic young woman is an easy
mark for the fortune teller.
Before some people cast their bread
upon the waters they hunt up reporter.
Young widows talk too much about the
joys OF married life TO suit old bachelor.
The man who is handy around the house
usually isn't much good anywhere else.
Good luck is like lot of other things.
You never fully appreciate it until you
haven't it.
Talk isn't as cheap as it used to be be-
fore the limited telephone conversation
was invented.
About the time man gets comforta bly,
settled in an easy chair his wife proceeds
to stir him up.
You are entitled to credit for doing the
things you want to do. The taste for
virtue may have to be cultivated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14


From which one might gather that
the elongated senator desires time to
take an inventory of the stock in the
Bullmoose store before making a pur-
chase.
And up to late hour this afternoon,
Mr. Capper had said nothing whatever
that could be construed as differing
with the logical statement of principle
given out by Senator Bristow.
Suffragfsts declare that the time is
coming when women will discard the
single barreled tube skirt and wear
trousers The only objection to that
is that it will take more cloth to make
them.
But by removing the tariff on wool,
We may be able to meet the emergency
by making two pants-legs grow where
one grew before.
1t is with relief that we hear the
Bullmice remark that they will fight
to a finish. If they let it go at that,
there is no occasion for worry. We had
fears that it would be a long struggle.
Because, the said terminal of the
Bullmice is so adjacent that one may
easily visualize same without a tele-
scope.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14

Co-education has just been abolish
ed in the Horace Mann school, con-
nected with the Teachers college in
New York. The University of Chicago
was conspicuous in the co-education
field until two or three years ago,
when it abandoned the system. Since
then two other large universities have
given up the co-education feature. 1t
would be interesting to know why the
once popular co-educational idea is
receding- There is a suspicion that it
may be due to the fact that too much
of the time of the students is given up
to society. affairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-14
by THE WAY
5K HARVEY PARSONS.

The anti-cigarette bill failed to pass
the California legislature, so it will
not be necessary for the Turkish ci-
garette baron of New Jersey to come
home and live in a flat.
Major Brown is going to get some
goats for he state penitentiary.
Usurping, as it were, the privilege of
various district courts which have here
tofore furnished. the holIow-horned
ruminants for that institution.
We are to have lady police and Wich-
ita is not. But this department shall
wait while before Dragging about It,
Our village is said to be dry, and the
statement is made by such eminent
authority that when we pipe person
who is SO impregnated with something
that he looks like a saturated solution
instead of a solid, we merely observe
that he is full of joy and civic pride,
and let it go at that, comma,-let 1T
go at that.
Newspaper note: Burt Brown, late
editor of the Senate Journal, a highly
moral and educational sheet published
at Topeka, has made arrangements to
spray the type lice and put the crusts
on the printers pi for the well-known
Hutchinson Gazette.
Late News from Washington: When
asked today what his party affiliations
for the next open season would be,
Senator Bristow, of aKnsas said in
part: