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World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1913-03-13
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T. H. Mccall was born March End l545 in Nanatau Co.
1913 He married to Jersha a. Teer JAM 18th 1565-
10 his union born daughters and An infant
daughter died May 2nd. 1851, AVA the third daughter
Died March 2Oh. 1907 Hi; wife, ivy J. NJ. Mccall
of Eyerton Mo r D. Mccall Fowler M. and his daughter
Mrs. George Myers Mt Grove Mo- and many relatives and
friends are left to his departures Mr. Mccall served
years and 10 months in the Union Army He first enlisted
Cav NJ v Y, lie was sargent in 10th CompanyS. AT the
OF II be converted aud Joined The Baptist Church IN
later he become Free Ih mixer He ofv3d in God
and in doing religion TO live right and do right because tits
right he was always ready to do kindness for neghbo
friend when he could lie believed in doing unto others
IS you would they sjopld do unto you,
Hc always told us not to and weep when
tau' ctto ttyctd But to &c en- rb7eJ al ] DO
part to help the others He buried March 2nd at
JAI Vile Cemetery after funera services at the Fowler
Sch0tl house nuuced by Walter Campbtl
Can it be best I'll cruel death,
70 take tie we loved tie best,
And leave Us here 10 weep and mourn.
because lie can return,
Oh yes dear G)d must confess,
For him at eust know it is best
And if it be thy holy will
10 sooth our hearts that may etll
Go forth in life and do our best,
To do Guy part anu help the rest.
Then when this cruel ifc is o!e.
We VII nltt ! Ii & ''' t'in <itit.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1913-03-13
Home Circle
Column.

Many mothers pay too little
attention to the laws Of health;
they allow the children to do
things with i'npunity that will
wreck 4 sound constitution and
the future holds for them a sad
harvest. Don t shut out all the
air and crowd al the children in
to bed. BE c.reful in the way
you handle ami pay With your
children; It is very painful to
witness the Nay many parents
throw their children up III the
air Or let them hang head down
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1913-03-13
pM)GRESSfTES TAKE
NOTICE.

There will lie q mass meeting
of progressives at Ava, Mo, OF
Tuesday evening March ..5,h.
and also att O'clock p NJ, Wed.
March &c. h, toelect new officers
and to pe,f ct our organization
in Douglas County, and to attend
to any other business which
may properly come before the
meeting. Let us turn out to A
man lRossibe.
}, a, 6, Reynolds.
Chairman.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1913-03-13
For sale Or Trade,


&C J.Scaggs
B,do Mo Feb. 10 1915.
Mr. Garrett dear sir [ want YOU
to DO me ! favor 40 out advertis
ing my Engin4 to sell Oh good
terms or will trade 1t for s Fl
?. gasoline Engire my Engine is
in good running condition it is a
IL II, L. Traction. Call at my
place ut Bado Blacksmith shop.
Yours Truly.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1913-03-13
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CT.T-E RATES.

Any ar ol,o vill make us up
"a club OF live Subsclibers, send
nS tro dollars and nn'd the fifty
cents for their labor. Ora Club
on o. 1Ut1rA ~ ti>c same l6tC.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1913-03-13
THE CHILD WELFARE BCL
l.Erj\.

LEtj\.
Today in Peoria. ILL.,, there
appears d naT Publication
which stands for the great child
welfare movement. 1t is to be
the official organ of a number oi
societies. so far as their work
lis identified with the work
among the chi dren. This Child
Welfare Bulletin can become 4
great paver in the community.
entering the homes of hundreds
of Paorians and showing what is
! really o. re done 'or The chill
dren of that community. While
the work is yet IN its infancy in
Peoria yet the men and woman
Nho are ACTIVELY interested in il
arc earnest and aggressive.
They are determined that condi
tions for the children 'hrough-
ont that city shall be bettereA.
Their aim is happier homes aud
better citizenship. If any one
can think out any Oh ,ects more
laudab;e than this, let him speak
right out. II every town and
city had q like organization our
penitcp,iarios would not bc
crowded.
....., .,....
THE FATHEH'S TEACHINGS.
The 10y loves his mother prob
ably more than lie does his faith
er, -bllt 20. far as relates to the
affairs of life, in general and On
its hard side. he has ten times
the con onfdences in his fathers
practical and available wisdom
than he has in tina, Of his mother
Ard if his father finds it neces-
sary in the conduct Of business
to strain one or two OF the
commandments the boy will
keep on It peating them to his
mother and commeLcc breaking
them with his father, and that
too, without feeling ,hao the
sinuu>ity Of the procedure in,
wolves any great amount Of
Inconsistency,
TIE only thirS that will save
the boy and hold him in any way
true to the fixed pole Of r-ctitudc
that no considerations of place or
circumstance can defect him, is
that lie under the domination of
4 father whose life in the midst
Of the world incarnates the prin.
cipics learned from the mother
III the home. The boy will he.
lieye in the feasibility of the
mothers doctr;ne Of righteous.
ness if he secs his father take il
out and exemp'ify it under the
stress Of business.
The fathers life in this degree
measures the power Of the
mothers tuition, and is the band
of God Fastening or postponiug
the fultiIlment OF her long Lnes
and prayers for the children W
the household.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
EVENING CHAT
Are Won AIiveo
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

Are You Alive?
One of the most impressive SER
| mons that 1 ever heard was a fifteen
| minute talk on the meaning of the
word life"
The preacher spoke from the text
j am come that they might have life
and that they might have it more
abundantly.'
He brought out the point that the
word life as constantly used in the
New Testament means vastly more
| than physical life, that it means life
in all the finer, fuller senses of the
word. And then he asked US all how
much of US was alive.
Now, don't be afraid, I'm not going
to try to repreach the sermon, al
though I'm not so sure it would do
you any harm.
But tell me, reader friends, or rath-
er, tell yourself, how much of YOU
is alive?
Today is a milestone day, day
when even the most headlong of us
stop moment to look back at the
road We've been travelling and forward
to the new road.
AS you stand by the milestone,
looking now backwards and now for
ward at the road, look again, friends,
and this time look inwards at the
heaEt you are carrying over the road.
HOW much of you that started
bEthely down the road when the sun
was young in the sky and the dew was
y
road led straight and fair to a land
of promise-how much of the heart
that you carried then is still alive?
Is your sense of honor still alive?
And your sense of humor? For be-
l1eve me that is no unworthy second
to sense of humor Indeed there
are some who say that since it brings
more happines into the world it
should hold first place.
In those days of the first mile
stones, when the road lay so straight
ana simple before you, you knew that
there was power stirring within you,
power to do something worth while
in the world. Is that belief still alive?
Is your faith in mankind still alive?
OF course you have had disillusion-
ments and disappointments; so have
all men, and yet the biggest of them
have believed to the end that there
was more good than bad in the world.
Surely your faith is not so soon dead?
And what about your faith in the
great Centre of all good, that some
men call Evolution and some are not
afraid to call just God? In those
early days before the vision splendid
began to fade, before you took
cheap pride in posing as a cynic and
an agnostic, you held a simple faith in
the Unseen. Underneath all your
pose and pretense is that still alive?
How much of you is still clearly
alive?
And of that part that seems dead
how much of you is merely stifled and
insensible and can be reawakened?
Is not this good day to try and
see?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
THE LAND @ USED 70 BE.

Beyond the purple, hazy trees
OF summers utmost boundaries;
Beyond the sands, beyond the seas,
beyond the range of eyes like these.
and only in the reach of the
Enraptured gaze of memory
There lies the land long lost to me
The Land of Used to Be.
A land enchanted, such as swung
IN golden seas when sirens chung
Along their dripping Drinks. and sung
% Jason IN that mystic tongue
Inat dazed men with its meIouy;
Oh, such a land, with such a sea,
kissing Its shoes eternally,
Is the fair Used to Be.
A land where music ever girds
The air with bells of singing birds.
And sows all sounds with such sweet
words.
That even in the lowing herds
A meaning lives so sweet to me;
Lost laughter ripples lmpidly
From lips brimmed Ger with all the glee.
OF rare cid Used to Be.
o land of love and dreamy thoughts,
And shining fields and shady spots,
or coolest, greenest, grassy plots
Embossed with wild forget-me- nots,
And all the blooms that cunningly
Lift their faces up to me
Out of the past; kiss in thee
The lips of Used to Be.
] love We all and with wet eyes
Turned glimmeringly on the skies.
My blessings like your perfumes rise,
Till DER my soul silence lies,
Sweeter than any song to me,
Sweeter than any melody
Or its sweet echo, yea, all three,
My dreams of Used to Be-
James Whitcomb Riley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
AXHAWKER .JOTS

Unfortunately. remarks the Hia-
watha World. a great deal Of gossip is
true.
The Independence Stars idea of a
freak is a man who can Outtalk his
| wife,.
Some men are born grouclly, re-
| marks the jamestown Optimist and
others get married.
Will the busy business man, wonders
the Hutchinson News. be able to have
his MONDAY lunch sent to him via the
parcels post route?
AS Mack Gretchen of the Sedgwick
Paragraph explains: Half the finan-
cial worry is caused by people trying
to ape those who are a little further
ahead of them.
According to the ideas of the Fort
Scott Tribune, steel is the barometer,
gold the thermo and the Sher-
man anti trust law the speedometer of
our Industrial world.
Those Texans and Oklahomans, says
the Hutchinson Gazette, who wish to
escape the terrors OF winter billiards,
should move to Kansas where we are
enjoying that mild, Italian climate.
Editor Kelley of the Toronto Re-
publican says his chief purpose in at
tending the State Editorial Meeting
this winter is to see if Ewing Herbert's
new wife has made him have his hair
cut.
Is the Lawrence Gazette making
bid to be classed with the mollycod-
dies? Two championships it says it
never craved are the belts given for
the best pugilist and the best corn
huSker.
Charlie Scott made statement re-
Gently in his lola Register to the eff
feet that only three students were en-
rolled in the school of mines and min
eralogy at Weir City which had been
established by the state at a consider
able cost to the taxpayers. The Cher
okee county papers Indignantly denied
the statement and replied that eleven
pupils are attending the school. This
reminds a writer in the Cherryvale
Republican of a true circumstance in
connection with grating on the part
OF officials in a town on the south
border of Kansas in the days when
Joints flourished. A paper in the town
published story that the police were
each paid SIS per month "hush'
money. The charge was called to the
attention of a friend of the admins
tration who indignantly denied that
the police were getting SIS monthly
from the jointists. Its a lie; they're
only getting $40 month apiece L
know what I'm talking about the in
dignant, friend of the police said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
says UNCLE CIV

| If you are going to capitalize this
| years mistakes, it's time you were
| going about it. There isn't a great deal
| of wisdom in New Years resolutions,
/ but it isn't a bad practice to check
up at the end of the 12-month and
see where and why you have made
good or just how, you've lost ground.
| It's mighty little consolation that any
one can get out of mistakes, but the
little good that is to be realized from
them is too valuable to lose. If you
learn from this years errors not to
do it again, you are at least no fool;
if you don't learn, you have no right
to look with cntempt Jpn the occu-
pants of the home for the feeble mind
ed.
If you have merely been doing pref
ty well' this year, you've been guilty
of a lot of mistakes that you should
proceed at once to discover and rectify.
The man who does pretty Well so
long that it becomes a habit is in a
bad way. He has become reconciled
to mediocrity and isn't living up to his
opportunities. He may fiatter himself
that he is doing better than the pat
emit failure, but the fact remains that
he hasn't made good. His rank among
the men who are really doing things
is about that of a scrub chicken
in a pen of fancy fowls. He's there
and he eats quite as much as the pure
breds but he doesnt produce.
If your year has been meteoric
one. you may have attracted a lot of
attention. but the average isn't what
if should be. You've made too many
mistakes. A reasonable number of
errors isn't held against any man, and
if is a proverb that the successful are
they who profit by their missteps.
Nevertheless no mans mistakes make
him great and the shooting star al
wavs lands on earth a molten mass,
useful only as a curiosity. It's your
mart to discover what is responsible
for YOUR cratic course, pick out orbit
and begin to travel according to sche-
dule.
Strictly speaking, you can never re-
,,air YOUR mistakes. You pay the price
for every slip and that is just so much
loss Carelessness, which is the moth
err of mistakes is the grandmother of
loss and she has no other progeny. In
taking account of the year do not
imagine that you have wiped the slate
clean by determining not to fall into
the same old traps again. That chain
of reasoning puts you into an excellent
frame of mind for getting your toes
fast in some other trap equally dam
gerous The only way to capitalize
YOUR mistakes is to get out of the habit
of carelessness The most painstaking
worker will have enough loss to his
debit.
1t is up to you to do some thinking
and upon this proposition the burnt
child who breads the fire isn't particu-
larly wise; he has little wisdom,
who having been burnt, not only breads
the fire but the new knife and the gun
that isn't 1oaded.-Copyright 1918, by
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISoN GLOBE.

AS a general rule the consultation of
physicians doesn't help much.
Nearly everyone is willing to grant the
pl tacher shorter working day.
When a man begins to express doubt
It's a sign he knows he is beaten.
Occasionally you meet an old bachelor
who really should have been an old maid
A perfectly healthy boy can wear out
clothes almost as fast he can outgrow
them.
An Atchison man says he used to think
doctor bills were high until he began to
keep an automobile.
In the interest of historical accuracy,
we desire to know how much a continental
rea1ly was worth?
1t isn't strange that a man who has
performed in a church wedding is opposed
to going to church forever thereafter.
After extended investigation we have
reached the conclusion that rippling
laughter is the giggling of the girl one
likes.
Now that it is all over an Old Crouch
says woman overestimates the CONNER
eli II value of holly ribbon and Santa
Claus seals.
Kids are so contrary that parents might
make some Roadway in the right direction
by encouraging their boys to smoke
cigarettes.
Without wishing to appear finicky, we
mildly suggest that the waiter who
chews tobacco s--ould keep the juice off
his white apron
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
THE PLAY LAST NIGHT

Probably it was because Topeka has
been prompted to believe for several
weeks that it was a high class, out
of the ordinary show possibly it was
because Topeka theater goers love 20
assume the role of a critical any
rate, louisiana Lou" did not cause
any gasps or raptures at the Grand
last night. 1t was a dressy, lively,
pretty chorus to be sure. The princi-
pals We're clever and well balanced.
Inc comedy dialogue was fresh in
these foreign parts" But-and here
lies the stinger-not a soul in the
company could sing wel1-at least
they didn't
Samuel Liebert as Jacob Iidoffski.
the Jew, and Anna Boyd as Jennie
Wlmp, the chaperohe, were up to adj
vance expectations. Liebert was the
best Jew character seen on the To-.
peka stage for good many years
Anna Boyd, with hearty laugh an
ability to distort her facial express
sions until there was danger of lock-
jaw and a graceful heshy figure upheId
the female end of the comedy. Fred
die Nice as Nixon Holme had a good
grin and a gold tooth.
The plot was like all of them. Two
girls, two lovers, a dad who wanted
his daughter to marry the wrong man.
a Desperate Desmond, pathos. hurrah H.
boys and wedding bells with the en-
tire chorus kicking vacuums over the
footlights.
The chorus must not be overlooked.
1t was the best seen in Topeka this
season-and it was chorus that could
be seen-as well as heard. Good
looking girls, the experts claim Sew
eral little new stunts and fancy dane
ing gave spice to the evenings enter
tainment. A. T. a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
ny THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

From the ad of a local divine we
gather that all who do not attend
church regularly are sinners. Any lit
tie definition like that,-coming from
an authority, is gratefully received by
this department. which hastens to di-
vide with others who might not be
posted on the subject.
1t is rurnored that Little George Per-
kins is going to start the New Year
right by resigning from that horr1o
steel trust and that awful harvester
as leader of the reform political
movement. Perhaps George has READ
or heard that passage; "go sell tnat
thou hast" But we doubt that he will
follow the rest of the edmonton
Topeka gets a perfectly lovely New
Years present from the u. S. court
a rise in the price of gas. But To-
peka cannot expect gas to be as cheap
as it was during the past campaign,
when one might go out anywhere ana
grab enough with an ordinary dip net
to cook a turkey dinner.
No, Angelica. the Hungarian
Shake is not a new dance. like the
Washington Wiggleo'' or Texas
Tremelo," but an innovation in feminine
headgear.
Among the funny things about fed
eral laws, there is the popular sentence
of "a year and a day" There may be
some recon for that extra day, but
it reminds one of that highly intelll-
gent song wherein the owl and the
pussy-cat sailed away for a year and
a day to the land where the bong tree
grows
AS we understand it, the police OBJ
ject because Governor Stubs turns out
the famous local dip, Laura Wisdom,
faster than they can toss her in. They
should take heart. By delaying her
present trial for few days, at least
part of that trouble will cease to be.
squatters have jumped the League
park in Wichita, and settled thereon
Mayhap they felt that it would be
easier to camp on the property during
the winter than to mooch tickets to
next seasons games.
Mulberry, Crawford county, is to
have $45, 900 light plant, but according
to reports brought in by Bill Mont
gomery and other ssboy scouts" Null
berry doesn't need light plant. Bill
says that f. large number of Mulberry
residents get s.lit up every night, MAX
ing a lurid glare that is plainly visible
from Pittsburg.
Mrs o H P Belmont will start a
school to train suffragettes to speak.
If you have a pencil and paper handy
white your own wheeze.
And you may say for the few women
preachers; none of them was ever
@'unfrocked' by a church conference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
A CIGARETTE TEA.

The hand that rocks the cradle is
getting busy handling the till. And
handling it, by the way, with little
feminine fIourishes, with dainty modi-
| fications and little decorations which
wise and only a woman's taste and
skill could carry into effect.
Every day woman is going into a
new business and in new way.
There are certain lines toward which
one would naturally suppose her de-
sire would be set; the sale or the
manufacture of goods that have a
particular and sometimes an exclu-
sive feminine appeal. Women do go
into these but not militantly. They
find men on the ground, their ground,
and therefore go in masked, rubber
soled and wearing a domino, so to
speak.
On the other hand, when they
tackle something that at first sight
looks to be an exclusive masculine oc-
cupation, they go about it with zest
that no mere man could better and
with novelty of ideas that he can
only stand back and marvel over.
Suppose that a man were about TO
launch a business, would he make
social pink tea affair of it, get pre-
liminary notices in the most exclusive
society columns. and then have it ex-
plotted in the news as a social event
of the first water, with long lists of
those present" just as if a debutante
had then been launched?
Yet that is just the way Elsie Har
per Bonne1l of New York started in
the business of booming a brand of
cigarettes she and her associates are
to handle hereafter.
She called her opening a Cigarette
tea and it was marked with the at
tention to social routine that would
have accompanied regulation tea in
her own home. This was held Mon
day at her place of business in an Of
flee building on Fifth avenue, and
swagger New York turned out to at
tend. Miss Bonnell received and her
sisters served punch. A room that
will be the shipping department was
made into a temporary ball room,
beautifully decorated and with Sc
ductive O. estra playing.
In the office stood a big Christ
mas tree decorated with the firms
cigarettes, to which the guests helped
freely. Then there were
dainty dove-colored boxes for them to
take home. Tea and solid refresh
ments were also served. The Brazil
ian ambassador was there, also Sir
Thomas Upton, although it was not
his kind of tea; and many of the
most exclusive families in New York
were represented.
1t was a wise move: one that man
would have overlooked. But remem-
boring the women who smoke, Miss
Bonneu planned for their edification,
and their future patronage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
QUAKER sIEDITATIoNs.
[ From the Philadelphia Recor,

from the Philadelphia Record.J
A poor barber and dull razor gem
orally manage to pull together.
Few men know what not to say. and
still fewer when not to say it.
Some men are weighed in the ball
ance and found wanting the earth.
The invitation of the wind to the
high hat-"Come out and I'll shoNy
you off,
some men are almost as good guess
ers as the prescription clerk in a drug
store.
Death loves a shining mark" quot
ed the Wise Guy. Eyes but life pre-
fers an easy one" added the Simple
Mug.
Wigg - "Matrimonially speaking,
would you can Miss Yellowleaf a bar
gain. Wag-fWell. she's about SO,
reduced to 25.''
Mrs Gushington-'"Th is only
one thing a woman dislikes more tlIan
hattery-7 Mr.. Blunt suppose that
Is not to be battered"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
DAFFYDuS
BY U. NOAL4I..

If you wrote letter in a subway
would you call it an underwater
CAS- Dat Abar says: Many a boob
loses his nerve when he goes to the
dentist.)
If our historians didn't deal Justly
with Capt. John Smith would Poca-
hontaS?
tNo matter how he did it, he's the
guy that put the sense in absence.)
If New York elects its governor by
popular vote how does Massachusetts
governor?
(Say. Old Top, how are you fixed for
the winter, anyhow?)