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Arizona republican., 1914-02-05
PeSsinnisnn
By WALT MASON

I never knew a to sing Optl- mstic smile when going out O doors to bring a load of stovewood from the pile I've studied men for many years and never I've known has worn a cheery smile when neghbors' steers broke in his field and ate his No has ever danced a jig of happiness full well l know, when trying to escort pig the way it didn't want to go. No sun shine lights the eye brow of any man who leaves his bed snowy morn to milk a COW in some old windy drafty shed. Oh, there times-not far between when mortals cannot sing and smile when they feeling dour and mean, and wish that sack cloth were in style. And then the optimist whos wise will hide himself behind cloud; foohardy is the man who tries force his sunshine on the crowd In our town there's Sunny Jim who works the sunshine tap much; he has beefsteak on his gm and cannot walk without crutch
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05
THINGS THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR

Not so long ago I standing in grocery store when 1 accidentally overheard woman give a 75 cent order of household necessities, adding as she did so Please deliver" She then walked into the butcher shop adjoining and ordered the cho cest cut At the time she began to compiain to the butcher of the high prices she was paying to which he made reply When she had gone out he said
 They all protest about these prices, but they don't stop think how they help to make them I will illustrate to you Nnetyfive per cent of the goods I sell delivered. Fifty per cent of the goods I sell, purchasers will not come and order themselves. send around with buggy or cart to take their orders He may climb two three flights of stairs to find out that they don't anything.
 For my deliveries I have to maintain three wag- ons three horses and three drivers, have to feed my horses and pay the veterinary and blacksmith Now, if I did have to do that if people came and gave their orders and took them away with them, as they did in the old days, I could reduce cents to cents per pound l have to add that to what the meat cost me and the legit- mate profit to which am entitled, that many cents per pound, in order to all the expenses of my solicitor for delivering.
 People lazy and they indifferent, and consequently they have to pay the price. There is not pound of steak sold for 20 or 22 cents today that could not be sold for cents pound less. or 29 per cent taken off, if people would come and do
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05

their own ordering and take their supplies away with them
 It would not pay have only one customer do this but if fifty hundred agreed to do it, could make just much money as am now mak- ing and they would 20 per cent year on all their purchases Take, for instance, the case ot the grocer next to me He does business of S200O a month He is situated just as am only he oures six delivery wagons, six drivers and two so- lictors in order hold his deliveries. To every pound of sugar. every pound of butter every loat or bread, every canned article he adds a certain per cent above his profit order to these dellv- cry and soliciting expenses. The consumer who might be the in the matter. is, through his her negligence, made the servant and mas to pay the money Dr. A. B. Brighton in Mothers Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05
TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK CJTy

During the year which closed June 90, 1912 the number of passengers carried by New Yorks electrically operated transit system-subway sur face and elevated-was 769,S89,2S4. This total ex- ceeds by 9O0OO000 the total for the previous twelve month period-an increase equivalent to the entire population of the United States. The increase in the subway traffic alone 25,OOO00O for the year. and was practically equaed by the growth in the number of surface line passengers The nickels col lected during the by all the New York transit companies totaled $S7718 359-Electrical World
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05

Tn Douglas International, too, has observed the phenomenon: The partisan movement has reached the point in the Phoenix city election where Charlie Akers and J. c. Adams have assumed it's leadership What the devil-and what's the use?'
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05

We certain that if the play of Tuesday night at the Elks' theater put on again. the attendance would be larger. Every auditor present has been advertiser of it.
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05

But we have fingered long enough on these painted courts. The worth of the thing signified must vindicate our taste for the emblem.
 Emerson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
Kansas Comment
THE GIRL HEROES.

49,
There arc girl heroes, too. Iou NOV
them here in town and 20 do I. the
girls who stay at home and help moth
.er; the girls who let mother stay IN
the front room while they set busy IN
the kitchen and get dinner and then
wash up the dishes and slick up the
house. You know the girls who keep
out Of the kitchen and perch them
selves before the piano and grind out
rastine. wfiae pcor Tired mother stays
in thu back part Of the house doing al
the dr,a6gefy. You know TIN girls VINO
let mbtAerr burn her eyes out making =
dress to wear the following night %
daughter can nidintain her reputation
for being a swell dresser. You know
the girls who talk mean to their moth
ers; everybody in town knows them.
The girl who is good to her mother sets
jewels in her crown that will shine
throughout all the balance OF her days.
The days may become dark and tho
nights long. but those jewels will shine
on and ON and become q consolation
and a comfort. We know the girls who
think mother il old fashioned and who
do not like to have her meet their swell
company: we have them in every town.
The swell company il likely some
thirty dollar -a-morth counterfeit and
he is good enough for that kind Of q
girl. But he II not good enough for
mother-not by a mfle.-Bert Walker
In his Osborne County Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
Jayhawkey Jots

It is sad. to the Toronto Republi-
can. to reflect on the way sentiment
is commercialized. A Hamilton men
recently sent a cat, which he valued
at $50, to his brother-in-law in Chi
cago. The commercial value OF a cat
Is what its pelt will bring.
Speaking of spasms, please contem-
plate this one in the Cimarron Jack
sonian: The verisimilitude Of hypochon-
driacal ineptitude which is derived
ering from a chaotic miscellaneousness
incident to cataclysmic conclusions re-
ceived in the sinister occipital lobe is
q pursuivant which 10 inevitable. We
should worry.
Shafts. from the Gridley Light: Much
made by those who sing nothing but
their own praises. Most OF the
folk who cry at a wedding have had
experience and know whereof they cry.
Some boys. who can never see
the collection plate when passed at
the street. . One can expect some
aches and pains in this life-but the
trouble Is they genexallyss come when
other things are going wxuAgs and ne
should feel the best ~ -.
Musings Of the Village Deacon In the
way to break up 1ull in conversation
is to start your victrola. -. Investi-
gate a little and you will discover that
the country Is full OF suckers waiting
for chance to bite. -. The hose
cart makes as much noise going to a
two dollar fire az II does to q thousand
dollar one. Men transact business the
same way. = If the pests and bores
would just confine their operations to
each other the busy people wouldn't
complain. PESTS and bores. have rights
: Projected on the scfeeN ~. 4heyIands-
borg News Vitascope; Most hany mar
rtage becomes a failure when either
party to the institution insists on be-
ing the whole show. 80 {. stand by
your colors. 1t is no disgrace to be a
''standpatter'' II you stand pat" on
something you know Is right. 8
Lots of things that pass muster as in
dications of a sweet disposition are only
part Of the sugar coating Of a, bitter
pill. -. If you want q baby girl
to grow up into a large, buxom woman
just name her Dot, Fairy. Dolly, or
some other baby name. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
Globe Sfghts.:

Economy shouldn't extend to the
soap dish.
A mob is rarely courageous and
never sensible.
Conceit causes some men to mis-
take a good guess for superior judy
ment.
What a poet calls inspiration il
known as a bunch among the gambl-
ing fraternity.
If there must be hog cholera, it's
too bad 1t doesn't enter herds of some
two-1egged hogs. -.'s'- -
Some people not only swallow hook,
bait and all, but gulp them down with
an air Of superiority.
thing, but that doesn't mean you can't
afford to give to something.
An officer of the law enjoys telling
the people that the man he arrested
was real tough looking man."
It often happens that the gent who
Is a handy man" around the house
isn't much of q help down town.
To a boy, the most worthless dog
is q womans dog; to a farmer, the
sucks eggs.
Probaly the reason SO many people
do not respond to the knock Of op-
portunity is that they fear it IL q
book agent.
On the farm a boy has SO much
work to do that he Is glad to see
school begin, although town boys may
not believe 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30

nishts iatfr waen thsg len TIE .elnbhca...s q
have Z ersaAful confession to ma4ey'
since sBobsE eyes were anything bnt fedr
insparing. Polly continued: Il saw you
that day IN Mr.. Roger's sarden and sneak
Cd DOWN to Aunt Pollyse chicken coop
and deliberately put that bird over the
Fence 10 that you might zee it,
And Queationed Hawthorne. beginning
to see thin9s a. they really were and al
ceTned.
.'WeIlEI felt that you were . trine
bored lying In that hammock. and that
anything in the way Of diversion would
appeal to YOU"
but what about yourself questioned
Hawthorne eagerly.
II had seen you through my opera
giasses from Aunt Polly's attic window"
confessed Polly unblushing1y, land I
rather liked the form OF diversion from
my own ennui."
Are you engaged?'' asked Bob bluntiy.
N0->Rude Person." laughed Polly.
The prepare for the worst 8oon, said
Bob, possessing himself OF the slim I'm
gers that he had watched jealousy cares
sing the pink bowed chicken.
For the best" contradicted Polly softly.
-(Copyrtght. 1914. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30

rat and in the matching OF wits
against wits the. rat has up to this
time been the victor< He augments
every famine in the world.
III the depredations Of rats could
be prevented the cost of living would
certainly BE lowered. Active - he Is
in famine. the rats most spectacu1ar
cooperation with death lies in.his CO.
partnership with pestilence.
The study OF method for the exc
termination of rats should be financed
on some basis which will make 1t per-
manent. It is a tight which has not az
yet been adequately waged. notwith-
standing the -nne abilities OF the doc
tors who are fighting the rat in COM
batting bubonic plague. Tho business
needs specialists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30

SUCCESS.
There are no 'sifts'' IN the House of 9pc-s
But the stairs are long and steep.
And the man who would climb
To the top. in his time.
Before he dare walk. must creep. {.
OF carpets there re none in the House o..
Success;
But the floors are hard and hare.
And you re likely to trip
And slide and slip,
In the pitfalls here and there.
There are no lounges or easy chairs.
Nor places to rest your spine,
But after you've won
To the roof-there's the sun
And, ali! but the View II fine!
The optimist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30

rFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
A match with an. heiress IL certain
ly q lucky strike.
Many a girls prospects seem bright
est when the lights are turned down.
You never can tell. Some people
say nothing without saving any wood.
A floating debt IL q mighty poor
life nhev prs .stss to keep z man't head
1t isn't until after they are found
out that some people seem to know
An optimist Is 1 fellow who can
have q good time thinking about the
good times he is going to have.
Simply sitting on . young mans
knee shouldn't assure . girl that she
won't have to sue him for support.
Hoax-'That =, fellow Harduppe
seems to think he IN the glass Of fash
ion." Joax-"Yes, but he's generally
broke.
Tommy-"Pop, what do we mean
by pig-headed people" Tommy's
Pop-"Oh. merely people who don't
think a. We don my son.
First Chauneur-That carburetor
Of mine Is a thorn in the flesh" Sec
ond ChAuffeur-Huh! A thorn In
the flesh isn't ~ bad a. = puncture
In the tire"
Sillicus-ssThat girl I'm engaged to
wen, there are f4oh ways to over
come that. Either break the engage-
ment or marry her..
Distance lends euchantment to the
view" quoted the Wise Guy. Yes,
It's only in the winter that . sEeaIl
hoy II ambitious to become baseball
umpire" ADDED he Simple 4ug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS.

what percentage of the pupils In
the grammar grades Of our public
schools can sing an ordinary hymn at
sieht?" One hundred and nineteen
schools out Of AS say that Is per cent
Of their pupils can do this, according
Ito tho United states bureau Of educa-
ton.
Convinced Of the fundamental inn
portance OF music A. q school subject,
DR.. p. p. Claxon, commissioner OF
education, requested MT. Will Earhart.
director of music in the schools of
|Pittsburgh. Pa. to make a thorough
Investigation Of music teaching In the
schools Of the several states. A bulle-
tin containing the results OF Mr.. Ear
hart's investigations has just been is
sued. According to this bulletin about
80 per cent of the schools of the coun-
try require music and practically all
Of these have the course graded. The
weakness Of the present system. In
Mr.. Earhart's view. II that only a
small per cent of the grade teachers
are required to pass an examination
in music. The work in the schools u
done largely through supervisors or
directors Of music.
pianos; half that number have organs.
The order Of popularity with the stu
dent in, regard to music reverses ex-
actly the order that the school author
tiles desire. Students regard music
first from the standpoint of apprecia-
ton, then history. and finally har-
mony. Mr.. Earhart finds that the
less formal and academic the plan the
greater the popularity
In discussing Mr.. Earhart's find
ings Commissioner Claxton declares:
'G0od music IL necessary not only for
enjoyment and recreation, but also for
inspiration and for salvation from
death in the din and dust Of trade:
and this music should be democratic
in the truest and best sense.
Although not recognized in the
course Of study of our earliest public
schools. music has, within the last rs
or 30 years, been introduced to some
extent into the schools of most pro-
gressive cities and Of many towns.
villages and country communities.
though by many it is still considered
unessential and a fad. Sooner or lat
er we shall not only recognize the cul-
ture value Of music, We shall alSo be-
gin to understand that, after the be-
ginnings of reading. writing. arith-
metic. and geometry, music has great
er practical value than any other sub
ject taught in the schools
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down.
Well" said Mr. Fox, "the farmer over
injure me ali around his poultry yard.
OF course must live. and have a plan
Wn C ., l am willing to share with you.
tonight and get meal and corn. and II
there happens to be a piece OF bacon
bacon. and Mr. Fox said: Il did not mean
bacon: meant lamb. never eat bacon
can assure you. my dear Mr.. pig"
nssd 1n sxs thus nS % M Pig put out his
plan Il think we might be able to ret
some hay also for nice warm bed II you
Mr.. Pig promised to meet Mr.. For ~
the old apple tree that night, and Mr.. Fox
trotted back to his home laughing to think
nov, now easy 1t had been to get Mr.. Pig to
We must be very careful not to go
n nss,,. me poultry yard," said Mr.. Fox that
ny "a. AZ ne and Mr. Pig walked toward
house window ana throw out the supplies.
hsv w,s catch sf, them. ~ that win be the
silly Mr.. Pig dsd a. he was told ana he
c ~0xsd until he was tired. then Mr.. Fox
nave all We We, can carry tonight he said.
= the longest distance, and We win get
sne Ssrds:t part over with first"
pr ono ssain n s',.y Mr Pig did AZ Mr.. Fox
snat ne was late in meeting Mr.. Fox, and
wnen they reached the storehouse Il was
Iste. We VIII have to work quickly to-
peter throw out bag OF meal and then
take any meat you see hanging there
snd We VIII be on at once. We can Come
When they were ready to leave m. rox
sa,o' Il VIII carry the meal ana You
take the meat" He knew that MI. Pig
would eat the meat and he was NOT AZ
sure about the meal. -
they had to cross . river ON their way
20 Hr. Foxs home and when they reach
fne bag of meal over his shoulder. reete6
Sn ne slde e. the bridge. He ala not
noHcsr novevsf. that be Vas too near
Pc MN over. ana down he fen into the
him in such way that he W. ~. ~.
s dSs Sz sss -, wsas s q, 90 ~ dkeep
- evndhetss 49, Hcrh cjag) 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News
Dyspepsia IL one kind Of food prod
uct.
Few women listen to half the things
they say.
No man approves of flirting-un-
less he's in the deal.
Experience teaches that q lot OF 1t
doesn't teach anything.
There'il come thrashing time for
those who sow wild oats.
Don't borrow trouble. Sit tight and
more than enough will come along
Too many people spend yesterday
what they were going to save tomor-
row.
1t 10 sometimes easier to get what
we like than 1t Is to keep on liking 1t
after we get 1t.
The man who won't work IL always
willing to stand around and hand adj
vice to others who Will.
Many q man who boasts that he
isn't q hypocrite IL 70 1isaereeAbIe
that his acquaintances may wish he
WA
|. There = something wrong with that
old maxim about ignorance being
blisk Otherwise more people would
b happy.
Even the ,pessimistic chap might
enjoy the good things he has IL he
want kept 20 buay erumbiing about
tina di1agroeable th1nq 10 expecta
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
Euenine Chat
Family Loyalty.

There's one thing simply cannot UNI
derstand about Gertrude said q neigh
Dor of mine, in regard to q mutual friend.
She Is such clever, clear-sighted per-
son about most things. and yet she can't
Seem to see any fault in that silly, selfish
little sister OF hers"
How do you know she can't?"
Because you can never get her to say
word against her. You know what close
friends We are? Well, Gertrude will say
almost anything to me, but never q word
OF complaint about Lucille. no matter
what she does. And yet she knows that
/ can't help knowing about some of
Luc1lles performances" 4
could not help smiling inwardly at
my neighbor's surprise. No wonder she
that sealed Gertrude's lips. for she hnsn't
an iota of it herself and thinks nothing Of
er and even her mother. to outsiders, With
freedom that to ears used to reticence
on such matters is fairly appalling.
- never was one Of those people who
she often says with evident pride II can
see my family's faults and love them in
spite OF those faults. not because I'm
Apparently the happy medium of being
able to see the faults of a dear house.
mate and yet having too much family
never presented itself to this woman.
don't doubt that Gertrude sees
Lucilles faults. AS her friend says, she
Is q very clear sighted person. Without
doubt she knows, but she does not consid-
er 1t necessary to talk about everything
she knows. And I honor her for the re-
ticence which refuses to be drawn into
discussion OF her sister.
once knew q girl who had a very try
ing relative in her immediate family.
What that girl suffered from him, what
humiliation. what deprivations, what
anxiety, only anyone who has had
q similar experience can realize. This
girl and I lived together for a year and
never in the course of that time did she
speak disparagingly of him. There is a
fineness in such loyalty that commands
ones highest respect.
It seems to me that there is one case
In which family loyalty can be carried
too far, and that is when it makes any
one uphold the housemate against an OUT
slider. even when the former il unques-
uonably wrong and the latter suffers in
justice thereby. I know that many peo-
PIE consider even this tustifiabie, but it
does-not- seem So to me- The. SANS plo.
pie would exalt patriotism above devotion
to the right, and here. again. I cannot fol-
low.
belle We one should shield and help and
forgive. and best Of all. love the way
ward housemate to the last drop Of
hearts blood. but one should not wrong
another to do 1t and no good will come
when one does.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
Journal Entries

Much Of the poverty il inexcusable.
Most of that which passes for mu-
sic isn't
Credit Is often withheld. but criti-
cism never Is.
You can't convince the chautauqua
lecturer that silence is golden.
Sometimes the willingness of the
spirit is on a par with the weakness
Of the flesh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
A New version.

The nouveau richie have been used as
the ''butt'' of many joke but -Repa Det-
ling, the charming prifna donna In "Sari,' -
renders q new version: ..ssss.- ~.
IA stout, overdressed woman, talking to
q friend said:
Ives, since John came into his money
we have q new country house, horses,
cows, pigs. hens and ~
other. You can have all the fresh eggs
you want, and
"'Oh, well,' hastily interrupted the
first speaker, of course the hens can lay
II they like to, but in our position it isn't
at all necessary "-Young's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30

Ex-President Taft makes the reas-
surfing suggestion that the Monroe
doctrine cannot possibly embroil the
United States in the European war.
All Of which II more evidence that the
Monroe doctrine was most slEillfuily
and wonderfully made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30

So easily was the epidemic Of the
''hoof and mouth" disease checked. ii
may be pardonable to suggest that II
was not as virulent as 1t was made to
appear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30

Ostrich meat IL said to be as de-
licious az that of turkey. But the tur-
Key will be led to the holiday slaugh-
ter by the women Just the same, be-
cause there isn't the slightest POSSIBLE
ity that 1t can grow plumes for their
hatn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
IMPORTANCE OF KILLING RATS.

IMPORTANCE OF KILLING RATS.
In the current issue Of Farm and
Fireside. the national farm paper pub
lished at Springfield, Ohio. Herbert
Quick. the editor, writes an editorial
entitled ION With the Rat-Kiiling!"
in which he gives many interesting
facts about rats and other dangers az
enemies to man:
1.-THE city Of Philadelphia IL appro-
priating $4,000 to be used in 'exter-
minating' the rats OF the city. They
plague.
Ten thousand dollars is not
enough. It will finance an annoyance
to the rats. and that is about all.
IF we could give rat-killing a high
sounding name. perhaps we could en-
list in the work the able men who
should devote their lives to 1t.
THE matter should be studied
much more carefully than heretofore.
1t should receive some such general
attention from institutions of learn
ing n that now given to insect pests,
sprays. and fungicides.
IS8@ EXPERIMENTATION o1lOuAQ DC = RTO-
fession In which an educatsd man
might engage. feeling that 1t leads to
honors and emoluments. Every Sc
cret OF the rats HE should be barred.
His weaknesses should be studied
''Too long have We waited for some
Pied Piper to come along and pipe
the rats into the river. The human
race seems to have made much prog
ress since the days Of witchcra3t and
magic. but the rat race has nonxished
still more.
The greatest enemy Of man Il man,
and next to him. perhaps the rat
He In incredibly cunning. He can
live In any climate. He sails the sea
In ships He forages In the open neld1
or burrows through wallis ana intrudea
into the home.
MAN himself II no hatdier than The