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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-26
Globe Sights
BY THE ArcHIsoN GLOBE.

Father expects to get robbed several
times each Christmas.
Losing ones teeth is almost as bad as
losing ones ambition.
A lot of people are just poor enough so
no one will help them.
A poor man can always get enough dogs
without buying them.
The mistletoe is beautiful decoration.
but not much OF first aid.
Every boy knows a lot of laws which
are not on the statute books.
Driving a man to drink is usually easier
than driving him away from 1t.
A fight fan learns in time that q pugi-
list is rarely as Irish as his name.
A number of homes should have a place
on the weather map as storm centers.
About week after a man declares that
he will never wear glasses he orders q
pair.
You can get a good deal Of encourage
ment If you don't ask people to pay fOc
the privilege.
Short jerks tribute to his wife: I'm
not a detective. but there is good one
in my family"
Reporters often say that a solo was a
feature of the entertainment but dom
mean it down in their gizzard.
The present calamity seems about the
worst at the time, even II 1t be no worse
than the running out of matches.
1t is sad to think that the boy with a
poetical name and long curls may grow
up and raise whiskers and chew fine cut.
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QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
No man has to look very far to find
fault.
The smaller man is the easier it IL
to size him up.
It's a long lane that won't turn when
walked upon.
1t takes a lot of restraint for fellow
to fall in love without getting the habit
The age of discretion seems to come
much later in life to some OF US than to
others.
Many a woman has been known to hus-
band her resources by not having any
husband
You never can tell. The heaviest collec-
ton plate doesn't always indicate the
most religion. -.
Guzzler-"I have fuzzy taste this
morning." Wigwag-"I feel down in the
mouth myself"
The trouble with the fast young man is
that he never seems to be going In the
right direction.
There are sermons in stones" quoted
the Wise Guy. mo wonder the average
sermon Is SO hard to digest" added the
Simple Mug.
Blobbs-"Every man is bound to get
himself into a hole sooner or later. - Slobbs
What are you, a grave digger. or mere
1y a pessimist ~
what do we learn from the story OF
David and Gol.ath?" asked the Sunday
school teacher. THAT it's better to carry
a sling IN your hand than your hand In
a sling" replied the, boy with q broken
arm. -
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Euening Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.

Foolish Regrets.
A friend of mine once had the choice
of two positions. She chose the one
which offered the better financial
proposition. Unfortunately, she had
not sufficiently estimated the weight
which other Influences, such as the
personality Of her employer, the situa-
ton of her office, ETC., would have. At
the end Of the year sho found herself
regretting the other position. which a
friend had obtained and found most
satisfactory.
1T would have been infinitely the
better place for me in the long rum
she said. But she added, with a
rare philosophy. IF 1 had taken it I
should never have known just how dis
agreeable this place was. and so I
should never have realized that 1 saved
myself from D mistake
Is it not often so, though few Of us
| have the philosophy to see it that way
We choose one course and are dis
satisfied in it. We look back longinRly
at the turn of the road and feel sure
that We would have been amply salts
fled II we had taken the other way.
We forget that we should not have
! surely known that the present course
was a mistake; indeed. We might have
thought that we were missing some
thing even better than we had found.
Reality, no matter how pleasant, is
never perfect; while the unknown. the
untried, no matter how disagreeable 1t
would have proved to be, always has q
4golden haze Of glorious possibility
lAbout it.
The thing we choose is always our
reality and We see it in the hard, white
Hight OF daily living, while the thing we
| refuse is wrapped in the golden haze
of the unknown. Therefore, we can
never fairly contrast them, and the
wisest choice still leaves room for re-
gret If one is foolish to permit regret
| to enter.
| In the wide and intricate tapestry
of the simplest life there are many
threads. And while the weaving is
going on, what one of us is wise
enough to Judge just how this or that
thread has affected the whole, or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-26
WAR MAKES WOMEN DIVINE.

VIII Irwin, special war cOrrespOn-
dent of the American Magazine. con-
tributes to the January number of that
publication an article entitled Hats
Off to France in which he devotes a
large part to showing what the women
are doing for their country-how they
have taken hold and are doing pretty
nearly everything that their able
bodied husbands and sons used to do.
Following is a little extract fiom the
article:
I'm the intervals between their other
cares, the women knit-knit eternally
and to better purpose than those Pari-
sian women who knitted about the
guillotine when heads were falling.
Winter is coming on. 1t will be cold
campaigning along the great line. The
boys will need warm stockings and
mufflers. The great spinning districts
of the north being in German hands.
the supply of yarn is falling short.
Madame is travelling her knitted ar
ticles of household adornment for yarn.
1T was one of these knitting women
who summed up for me all the woman
hood of France in their period of tragic
stress. 1 had stopped at an inn on the
road between Havre and Caudebec.
The waitress laid down her knitting as
she rose to serve me. When she had
attended to my wants. she took it up
again. She was of the blond. Norman
type. a comedy girl enough. She was
dressed in black. and the outlines OF
her eyes were blurred. In her pose
over the knitting. in every move Of her,
appeared r. divinity of srief-a Ma
donna quality.
Il watched her a long time surrepti-
tiously before she called up a memory
Two years before I had put into this
inn with gay automobile party. This
very maid had served us-and slanged
us. She was the French version Of ths
lively. impudent American waitress
who keeps her wits sharp by bandyinl
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Jayhawker Jots

Click Fockele. OF the Leroy Re-
porter, thinks that II salvation costs
as much as an automobile maybe men
would be Christians.
1t occurs to an Ottawa paper that the
United Presbyterian church was hand
ed warm one'' when Rev. Mustard
was installed as pastor.
If there are too many pecans, feed
them to the hogs. urges the Norton
Courier. But supposin' you have
neither pecans nor hogs
get away with it, says the compiler of
Singleton's Store Items for the Wilson
County Citizen. but don't monkey with
a man who grins when he gets mad.
One Of the variety that's better than
none. The Penalosa News observes:
At 7c piece for jackrabbits, 1T gives
lots of fellows an excuse to go hunting
nowadays.
A man in this county, tells the Cimar-
ron Jacksonian, had an English father
and a French mother This would
German. So he gracefully and auto
matically remains neutral.
She had no children of her own,
relates Mrs. Homer Hoch in the Marion
Record. But she had theories of her
own in abundance. So she told her
nelgnborse children in a very clear and
convincing way that there was no
Santa Claus. She still has her the
o-ies, no children and fewer friends.
Gems, in the Jewell County Repub-
lican: When a fellow has q crouch
give him something to laugh at. No
body can laugh heartily and have a
crouch too. Christmas takes you
back to the days when the world and
your heart were both young. If
woman can live with another woman
without Quarreling it is a sure sign she
could live with a man without quarrel
ing. If you are rich enough to
have all the fuel you need and all the
food and clothing you need. you are
pretty rich. Punishment is a
medicine that we all have to take more
or less,
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OF RURAL SCHOOLS

SANITATION OF RURAL SCHOOLS
The. importance OF the sanitation OF
rural schools has just been made the
subject of a report by the United
States public health service as the re-
suit OF Investigations conducted in
eastern Tennessee and northern
Georgia. Nearly Twenty-Five thousand
persons. mostly school children. were
examined during these Investigations
Many insanitary conditions were
found and a number Of school children
were seen suffering from trachoma. a
dangerous contagious eye disease,
which, If not treated, in time impairs.
or even destroys vision. Also many
physical and mental defects were OBJ
served. most of which could be cor
rected by improved hygiene and early
treatment, but IL neglected will cause
later life.
Little consideration had been given
to sanitation In the construction of the
largest number Of the school buildings
visited. Either in location, heating.
lighting or ventilation. seating of the
pupils. location of blackboards. or
sanitary conveniences they are made
quate, and in several respects danger
Gus to health.
The drinking water for the children
was found to be often derived from
shallow wells or unprotected springs,
which may cause the spread Of dis
ease. Open water buckets and COM
mon tin dippers are used extensively
in schools of this type. Soil pollu-
ton Is constantly taking place and
must undoubtedly contribute to dis
seminate hookworm Infection
The necessity of extending to rural
schools the same sanitary advantages
now enjoyed by urban schools is there
fore obvious. This neglect Of sanitary
precautions observed in rural COM
munities is undoubtedly due to lack
Of sanitary knowledg& Instructing
the people in the value of sanitation
will naturally serve to make them
adopt measures such as are now in
force in cities for the proper construc-
ton and maintenance Of school build
ings and the regular medical inspec-
ton of school children. School hy-
giene has q great economical value, in
that it serves to prevent the spread of
disease and makes the children now
In the schools healthier members of
the community and the country at
large.
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BY ms AW4LFER

Now. Gray Mouse was very spry, and
when anything tipped he was sure to be
he had not counted on the can falling
Gray Mouse jumped to the door. AMI
ped and looked TO see what had happened.
and just as he did So bang came some
thing on the floor. and Gray Mouse heard
touch him ali over like little. cold drops
of water.
He looked at the paint en- the floor. It
saw that it was a can of paint. and the
stick was a slender brush. He mad run
up the handle and overturned the can.
He ioked at the paint on the floor. It
it. for he did not care to have his feet
covered with the tell-tale stun: he could
easily be tracked to his hole.
THAT was q pretty narrow escape for
me-" he thought as he ran home.
Just before he reached his hole lie came
across some Of his friends with their
noses poked in anto big cheese Hello
he called. and out came all the little heads
They took one at Gray Mouse. ana then
they all ran or little distance and looked
What is the matter with you, Gray
measles?"
There isn't anything the matter with
me-" replied Gray Mouse. looking sur
prised. What Is the matter with oil OF
poor Cray Mouse; he doesn't know 1t.
Email We Tell n1m :. Sal0 one.
They decided they had better tell him
what had happened to him. one Of
them said: You have the measles or lit
tie red spots; you better see q doctor at
once
Gray Mouse wanted to hear he was COW
cred with spots: his wish had been grant
ed, and OF he started to find 4 mirror.
HE Is crazy, too said his friends as
they watched him run away like a streak:
he has some dreadful disease, am
sure"
Gray Mouse knew whers there vssa an
old mirror in the attic, and there lie went
to view himself when the first dawn OF
day should give him light enough to zee
in the mirror.
And those silly fellows thought had
the measles. he said rs he looked adj
mirinsly At the tiny red spots. Il wonder
when they came out on me- he thought.
Then he remembered the feeling Of the
little cold drops IN the pantry. ana the
red paint on the floor. he knew what had
caused them now: It was tho sratteR 81
the paint AZ II struck the floor.
But he was spotted. ana that was ali ne
cared. and there he sat an day Admitting
himself In the old mirror. thinking not of
eating. but only that he had . spotted
coat.
But. OF course. Gray Nouuse aid cot know
thar some time the paint would wear on. i
and then lie would BE more unhappy than,
before Poor little Gray Mouse WASN'T
-{Copyrtght, NIL ~ the 1lcC1nr6l
Novupa0r Syndicate. X&v Y0x* 0e21 ];
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From Other Pens
CHARGING TO THE OWNERS.

CdARGlNG III THE OWNE1S.
The chief of the New York fire de-
partment recently ruled that the cost Of
fighting fires resulting from negligence
or evasion of the law should hereafter
be charged against those responsible
for such a condition. A few days later
fire destroyed a building. threatened
adjacent property and endangered the
lives of a score or more of firemen. In
vestigation showed that orders issued
by the department had been ignored by
the owner Of the building. Thereupon
the cost Of extinguishing the fire.
amounting to $500. was assessed
against the owner and made a lien on
his property. The owner sued and the
supreme court has affirmed the assess-
ment, holding the ruling sound and
valid. The general effect of this should
be salutary and immediate and fire
prevention orders will probably be ig-
nored no longer. The property owner
who Obeys the law and is ddligent in
protecting his property will not be COM
PEELED to sustain loss due to another's
negligence and carelessness. The neg
ligent must not only reimburse the city
for the expense to which 1t is put in
fighting avoidable fires but must be
prepared to pay for damages or injury
caused to others. Even firemen can re-
cover damages for injuries sustained in
fighting such fires. This law, old as 1t
is in Europe. is new in this country.
And If it is valid in New York. 1t is not
unrea sonable to suppose that a similar
law applied elsewhere would be up
held by judicial finding.-Indianapolis
News.
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. 1t was a little wooden leopard from
. Noah's Ark that caused this feeling OF
envy on the part Of Gray Mouse as he
looked at all the spots on the little animal
and longed to possess some just like them.
An day long Gray Mouse was thinking
about the beautiful creature he had seen
and wondering how he could be like IL
Gray Mouse worried SO much because
he cou.u not have the spots that he began
to grow thin and q big piece OF cheese no
longer tempted him n 1t used to. He
wanted spots on his coat, and that was
One night he was running about
closest BECAUSE he didn't know what else to
do He wasn't hungry. for he had eaten
. piece Of minco pie he found on q shelf
below. 30 when he saw a queer-looking
object with a stick standing up In It he
up the stick
But this time Gray Mouse was too
heavy for the stick: 1t tipped, and he fed.
strikfn~ the queer object. which proved 70
BE- can. and over Il went rolling 70 the
edge 81 tn ehe1f and falling r. tn 1opr.
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By The Way

The Chicago lady who wanted q big
husband in Ter stocking may have
found one there. She guve her weight
as IT..
Horton offers to pay 10000 for the
county seat Which, az Hondo Murphy
points out, indicates that Horton con-
siders said seat = valuable piece Of fur
hiture.
One might gather from the appeals
from charitable institutions that the
poor eat but once per annum. and that
when they are fed ON Christmas by
said charitable institutions
The shortest days, according to the
calendar, were just before Christmas
but they were longest to the kids.
Big town. burglars no doubt laugh
heartily at the boiler raised in a small
burg when someone's cellar is frfsked
for a ham. The big town burglar uses
an auto truck and takes everything but
the wall paper.
Christmas shopping was brisk. but
the dealers in Christmas hapdoodle
had the largest trade.
Jawn L. Sullivan has again retrieved
his famous belt from the hook shop.
but the simple life has so agreed with
Jawn that he will be unable to wear
said belt for anything but a collar.
It is generally conceded by sport
specialists that, perchance no new
baseball league is formed before the
season opens, Walt johnson will be
found with either the Feds or Regulars
at that time.
Secretary Bryan expects General
Scott IN hvnnOtizo the Mexican bel1i9.
erents, but to do that he would have
to get close enough to look 'em in the
eye.
In re the report that the Scotch
Kflties are great scrappers, Jack Supp
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THE BENCH OF ENGLAND.

THE judicial bench is the best and
soundest of English institutions"
writes Hyacinthe Ringrose, in the De-
cember Case and Comment, the Law
yers' Magazine. Mr.. Carpenter,
speaking in the senate Of the United
States. said: In no other nation on
earth is the law after it is made so
impartially applied to all classes of
society as in England. Wealth and in
fluence, even noble blood; give no i'm
munity to crime in a British court.
The rich and the poor, the nobleman
and the peasant, a prince of the blood
and scavenger of London. stand on
a perfect level at the bar of justice in
British court. No one dreams of
complaining that the judges are in
competent, for such a complaint would
be obviously unreasonable. The bench
are, as body, the picked men Of the
legal profession. The bar itself may
need reform. but the judges represent
the very best side of the bar.
THE character of the bench is no
less remarkable than their talent They
possess the virtues of incorrupti-
bility, of impartiality, and of high
minded integrity, in such perfection
that to compliment a judge on the
possession of these merits would he
either an insult or an absurdity. The
result of this high character has been
to inspire feeling of unlimited popu-
lar confidence. When the house of
commons wished to render effective
the laws against bribery. no better
course suggested itself than to trans
fer to the judges the delicate func-
tions exercised by election commit
tees"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Iron the Chicago News.l

The more We talk the more people we
tire.
Many a man IL self-satisfied because he
Is rot particular.
How q man does admire bright children
If they are his own!
And some women are never happy UNI
less they are heartbroken.
What will his sataric majesty do when
the fuel IL exhausted?
A girl refuses to let man kiss her be-
cause she knows that he will do 1t any
way.
If you have nothing to worry about ask
your wife: she can always supply you
with a because.
The wise young man keeps on the right
side Of his rich old uncle who II deaf in
his left ear.
When woman IL expecting company
for lunch she proceeds to build q marble
cake and open can Of peacheA
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Perhaps they know where the moneys
coming from and perhaps they don't.
But it's a cinch that the members of
the French parliament, or chamber of
deputies as il is called, haven't hit their
own pocketbooks in their latest war APP
preparation of a billion seven hundred
thousand dollars. 1t is just as easy in
France as 1t is in this country. or
anywhere else. for the agents Of the
people to pick their pockets.
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Kansas Comment

THE FARCE OF VERA CRUZ.
Suppose the young American bog
who lost their lives at Vera Cruz couf
;, ould testify to the belief that thef
had been sacrificed for a worthy end
Do the fathers and mothers and rel3
tives OF those young men believe theif
boys gave up their lives to accomplish
any good for their country or for any,
country? Suppose 1t was your boy|
who had been ordered to Vera Crux.
there killed and then the rest of the
command ordered home again. with
than ever. Do you think you would
consider the occupation to have been
wise or that it had accomplished any
good? Why was Vera Cruz occupied.
anyway! Why were our soldiers or
dered down there, q few Of them killed
and then the rest ordered home?
There may have been some object In
all this. The Times does not say there
was not. There may have been q good
object. But the man. or government.
who is responsible for the death of
young American boys in what may be
called the farce of Vera Cruz. owes it
to the American people to take them
into his confidence and tell why 1t was
all done. The men who died in the
Civil war died for a great cause. The
IucH VINO uleO IN the Spanish war gave
up their lives for Cuban liberty. Does
any one pretend to know why the men
who died at Vera Cruz gave up their
lives? Perhaps there was a reason,
and If SO, the country is entitled to
know what it was. No one should be
permitted to order American young
men to Death and then apparently sit
back with the attitude that Il did 1t
because wanted to. The country has
got to trust me as being all wise.
don't have to tell why I had those men
killed.'.Clay Center Times.
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whether some other thread would have
made fairer pattern?
There may come Z time when It shall
be given ~ to see tho fini61l6o pattern
Untn then, IL it not the pkilosophto
part to possess our, souls in patience. to
weave ~ wisely ~ We can, ard not to
fret about the result or eat our hearts
out because Ne cannot unravtl some
thread. which. after al, may Be vitality
life?
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Journal Entries

A good time for one man is painful
for another.
The poorest joke is the one that
harms somebody.
A bis-hearted individual generally
has a small purse.
Even tie best that some men do
doesn't amount to much.
Among the useful Christmas gifts Of
little account Is the paper-weight.
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Colonel Heistand. U. S. A., observes
that the entire United States army is
not big enough to protect the city Of
New York. Neither are the entire Brit
ish army and the tremendous British
navy adequate to protect the cities on
the English coast.
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TESTAMENT.

said: ''I will take my life
And throw It away:
who was IRE and song
WIN turn to Clay
81 win Ne no moro In tho night
With shaken breath,
win toss my heart In the air
To be caught by Death"
But out Of the night heard.
Like the inland sound Of the sea,
The hushed ana terrible sob
OF al humanity.
Then 1 said: 'sOh, who am
To scorn God to His faee7
WIN bow my head and stay
And suffer with my race.
Sara Teasd2le, In November Smart 81
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State Auditor Davis is evidently not
permitting his left hand to know what
his right one is doing. On no other
theory can be explained his willing
ness that some of the states funds shall
be devoted to the repair Of the east
steps of the state house.
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repartee with travelling men, the type
which our piaywrights love. Now, she
was doing q mans work as the hotel
porter as well as her woman's work. I
suppose that war such az this. with its
wholesale machine-made murder, rem
ders. most men brutes, at least for the
timd. But it renders women divine"
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coat his long tail and his long whiskers.
my. I am a fine-looking fellow" he
said, and all would have gone we'll with
heard a noise and was forced to Jump and
run
Gray mouse ran under a couch in the
room, and there on the floor beside him
he saw something that took away all lis
vanity and made him long to be differ
ent.