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The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
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rFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Life is a hurdle race over the IFS and
butts.
The man who has money to burn gen.
orally has friends to roast.
Too bad that the blooming idiot IL 50
seldom nipped in the bud.
No man can serve two masters unless
he has been married twice.
The stingest woman in the world IL tho
one who can keep a secret.
There ID nothing so disappointing as a
dead sure thing that refuses to como to
life.
The people most apt to believe in hered-
fty are those who have more vices than
virtues
We all regret the mistakes of our youth.
We could make them 30 much more ma
turely now.
Some people have an idea that the world
owes them a living. with q few trading
stamps thrown In
You never can tell. Bad habits have
been known to grow on some people who
never even had warts
Blobbs-"The trouble with B1ones is
that he is generous to q fault" Slobbs-
Eyes. but It's his own fault"
Observation-Disclosures doesn't believe in
hiding his light under bushel'' Buggfns
mo he uses It to conceal his faults" :"
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
True love Is never too good to be true.
It's easier to borrow trouble than It b
to give 1t away.
There are some good husbands. but
most Of them are dead.
Did we ever hear Of q married man who
flattered his wife?
Many q great man is but q Wart on .
pickle in the eyes Of his wife
Most girls are easily entertained; all
one has to do IL to feed them taffy.
A man usually gets the short end Of It
after cutting his W1fe's allowance.
II the world owes every man . living.
the mildonaires must be preferred credit
ors.
The fable Of the hare and the tortoise
indicates that perseverance cops the gate
receipts.
The average mans idea Of being un-
selfish is to let some other fellow have
something he doesn't want.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

reading together and the corking old
bEAAse8 we've picked up.
Yes" she said. her eyes On the
flaming sky.
'.And my making love to you.
Honestly. haven't you rather liked
''1fr. Hok!"
wen. haven't your I have. IT'S
been ripping. You're the dearest.
incest girl"
would you hke me to walk the
rest OF the wayf''
You wouldn't" he declared. 'T
dare you to say you haven't liked my
making love to you"
81 haven't liked It at aE.'' she said
quietly. I was just doing 1t for Fees
sake"
He stopped tho car-stopped it %
did not go sailing over the dash. In
deed. az 1t was. he found It necessary
to slip an arm about her."
That's not the truth" he said. II
won't believe It."
She grew rather white. His arm
frightened about her.
Fee has tried it once too often. -
he said huslki1y. ''She was right this
time. You are made for me. and
for you. Our tastes are alike. Think
Of the bully time we'd have motor
ing and playing golf and hunting up
OCO OI6SSeS"IOfSVST. WOuH0nG We
Answer me! wouldn't We?"
please understand this u Just foz
Fee,' she said.
This isn't" said he. and kissst
her.
Nor this" he said again. and
kissed her the second time.
| She snuggled passively beside him
She closed her eyes.
| Poor Feel" she said at length.
She deserves Il" said he.
She smiled up at the flaming sky
The car started on very slowly.
| Perhaps she does" said Barbars
softly. Anyway" and her hans
closed over one Of his on the steer
ing wheel. I'm going to think so.''-
Copyright, 1914. by the McCkr
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
Jayhawker Jots

Scientists say birds know how to
make love, notes the Clyde Republican.
and it adds: So do chickens.
An Independence hardware man has
offered a cornplanter. q buggy and q
wide-tire wagon to the highest sealed
bidder.
Pahuskans must be rich, thinks the
Sedan Times-Star. Last week one OF
them had enough money to buy eggs
teacher. who was refereeing basket
ball game.
Miss Anna Carlson Of the Lindsborg
News calls attention to the fact that Q
man will pay five dollars for q dtnky
box at a box supper for the privilege OF
he hates to pay that much for hat for
her after they are married.
Once there was little girl who was
named Mary by her parents, relates
the Toronto Republican. She started
to school and when she reached the
fifth grade her schoolmates called her
Mollie. When she reached the eighth
grade her name was Mamie and the
next year she was called Name. When
she graduated her name appeared as
Mayme. The next year she married
a grass-widower with seven children.
They call her Ma. Moral: Time makes
many changes.
the Osborne County Farmer. lady
who was well acquainted with Lincoln
in Illinois. Mrs. s. w. Babcock, at
that time q little girl. has often sat on
the knee Of the great emancipator and
talked with him while he patted her
on the head. Mr. Lincoln was q close
personal friend of Mrs. Babcock' 9
father and on numerous times spent
several days at time visiting the lat
ter. Mrs. Babcock's father died a
years ago at the age of 81. He waA
two years older than Lincoln Mrs:
Babcock vividly recalls the looks ano
characteristics Of Lincoln to this day.
A farmer. who cashed in a large num-
ber Of crow heads at the court house
last Saturday morning. was asked now
he managed to kill 20 many, relates the
Independence Reporter. His explana-
ton was an evidence Of keen Yankee
ingenuity. He said he would XIII some g
rabbits and place them In the Ileio
where the crows would eagerly seek the
carcasses. He would then place q load
ed shotgun aimed at the location OF the
dead rabbits, with the trigger set ready
to discharge the gun with the pulling OF
a string. He made this string long
enough 30 that when stretched out ne
would be far enough away to conceal
himself from the view Of the crows
When the chattering birds would gath
er in large enough numbers around the
dead rabbits. he would pull the string
from his concealed position. This would
discharge the gun with fatal effects. ne
having killed twenty-seven crows al
one shot. Ten such shots during the
day would net the hunter $3.50.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
GOOD ROADS AND SCHOOLS.


The rural population in more will
ing to support better schools today
than at any previous time. 1t II be-
ing realized that all educational activ-
tiles or agencies must be more or less
correlated, and, more than all else
that they must be made accessible to
the children. In many counties
where bad roads prevail. most Of the
schools are Of the antiquated one
room variety. They are usually To-
Gated along bad roads which. during
the winter, when the schools are usu-
ally in session. become 30 nearly Inn
passable as to make 1t difficult Tor
the children to reach them. This
condition causes irregular attendance
and restricts the educational oppor-
tunities Of the child. Not only this.
but it often impedes the economic
consolidation Of these smaller schools
into larger. stronger graded schools.
with high school courses, directed by
a competent principal and corps .of
teachers, according to the office of
public roads Of the federal depart
ment OF agriculture.
On the other hand, in counties
which have improved their roads, the
schools are easily reached. the aver
age attendance greater, the efficiency
largely increased and economic con-
solidation made possible. Regular
attendance at school means consist
ent and regular growth of both school
and pupil, and consolidation OF
schools means a maximum OF eff
cheney at a minimum Of cost. 1t ie
also noteworthy that there is a
marked tendency for the consolidated
school to become the social and intel
lectual center OF the community.
Most modern rural schoolhouses
are SO constructed as to serve the
community as gathering places fol
various kinds Of public meetings, and
whore vans are used to convey the
children to school during the day they
are frequently pressed into service to
haul the farmers and their wives to
institute work. lectures. or entertain
ments at the schoolhouse. The con-
solidated school becomes q sort OF
community center to which all educa-
tional and social activities converge
and in order that it may properly per-
form that function all OF the high
ways leading to 1t should be 80 i'm
proved as to render 1t readily acces-
sible throughout the year.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
In the SUN Dying Out?

Not long ago astronomers were wor-
rying because the sun was shrinking,
owing to it's loss Of heat. The process
is too slow to be visible, but most stu
dents of the subject believe that it
must exist. Equally invisible is q pro-
nounced by Bosler, a French astrono-
mer. The theory as explained in Cos
mos, will doubtless meet with criti-
cism, but it is of interest:
Every form of energy radiates;
sound, heat, light, electric waves, ex-
ert pressure on the bodies that they
strike; this fact physicists have veri-
fed by delicate laboratory experiments:
We have also an illustration of it on q
formed by the repulsive action Of the
| SUMS light. Energy is thus endowed
with inertia; 1t gives an impulse to
bodies that arrest it just as q shot does
when it strikes an armor plate. In
ertia, a characteristic of matter, be-
longs also to radiant energy. There Is
thus no essential difference between
what we call matter and what we des-
ignate by the name Of energy. Besides,
matter. according to recent theories. Is
made up of systems of electrons in mo-
| ton: and the electron itself is only the
elementary particle Of electric energy.
THE consequence is that every loss
Of energy Is equivalent to a loss of a
mass. that is to say. Of matter A
body that radiates energy dissipatea its
mass.
~. Bosler, astronomer, at the OBJ
| servatory OF Meudon, has applied these
considerations to the case of the sun
He starts with a formula that indicates
that a body when 1t radiates a guam
tity Of energy loses q portion Of it,
mass proportional to the lost energy
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
Journal Entries

Those who get the worst Of it sell
dom deserve less.
A reformer doesn't get very far un-
til he wants to make q noise like q
boss.
L . =
Almost every man has q feeling that
he would shine brighter in some other
Job.
Political economy IL q theory that
to practice.
A doctor il more likely to worry a
lot over the case where the patient
has the reputation Of being poor pay.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

Maybe what the people are saving
with one hand in the exchange of
packages by parcel post, they will
have to dig out of another pocket to
provide the necessary revenues for
the conduct of the postoffice depart
ment. At present there il a $4,000, 900
deficiency in the postal finances,
caused by the parcel post, and this
deficiency has piled up notwithstand-
ing the fact that the railroads have
not been paid q fair return for haul
Ing parcel post business.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

How to Get . Headstart.
By RUTH CAMERON.

INV ~ ~OO - 12G09A9t483tS
There are times when I wonder how
men can fail in love with women.
Now do not think I am a traitor to
my sex, for these times are only
when I realize that men seldom see
women as they really are.
Take a group of young girls laugh
ing and talking among themselves
how sweet and charming and unaf-
fected they are! But let a man enter
the room and behold the change!
Naturalness fees, and artif1ce and self
consciousness take its place; and the
man instead OF seeing the girls at
their best sees them when they are
trying to appear at their best. Which
is an entirely different thing.
did not know that men ever real
lied their misfortune in this matter
until the other day. Then q man told
me the following experience: when
was on one of my business trips last
summer" he said. 81 met an old
friend of my fathers. He asked me
to come out and see his place the next
day. which was Sunday. and insisted
that come early in the day and have
a good home breakfast I was par
ticularly glad to go, for I was sick of
hotel food, and 1 had heard that he
had a beautiful home and two charm
|
rather earlier than I intended to ana
the colonel sent out word that I was
to be taken to the summer house in.
the apple orchard to wait for him.
las I lay there in the hammock
getting up a fine appetite for the cof-
fee that smel1ed as good as the apple
blossoms to me, I could hear the COL
oners two daughters chatting togeth-
er, evidently while they dressed. They
plainly didn't know 1 was there and
they were chatting back and forth to
each other and laughing and singing,
all SO prettily that 1 fell in love with
them both. 1t seemed to me they must
be the most charming girls I ever
knew, and I made up my mind to
cancel the engagement had for that
afternoon and stay as long as the
colonel wanted me to-and from what
I knew of his hospitality I felt sure
| that would be as long as 1 wanted to.
I'm not there yet. I'll tell you why.
Because I pleaded a dinner engage
| ment which didn't have and left in
the middle of the forenoon. 1 was SO
disappointed 1 couldn't bear to stay.
You see never met the girls I heard
they were different girls. Not sweet
and natural as the sisters heard talk
ing to each other. but just like other
girls. trying to make an impression.
Isn't 1t too bad a man never sees
girls the way they really are. Miss
Cameron? They're so much more at
Itractive that way"
To those girls who would not ac-
cept my opinion in this matter be-
| cause I'm only a woman, 1 present
this mans viewpoint. Incidentally
they may be interested to know that
I he is an unusually likable man and
| one whose admiration most women
would be happy to have.
1 suppose it is psychologfcally i'm
possible for women to be perfectly
natural in the presence of the other
sex. but the girl who tries to be as
natural as possible has q big head
start in the race-if 1 may be undigni-
fed enough to call it that
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
THE WINTER LANDSCAPE.

It is the growing recognition Of the
fact that the true function Of art il the
creation of beauty which has turned
the attention of so many Of our first
Undergraduates to winter subjects.
for there can be no question that the
inclement season of the year, which is
least productive in the material sense,
is by far the most productive in the
artistic sense, writes a contributor to
THE Field Of Art" in the March
Scribner. Considered in terms Of color
and Of decorative line, winter IL far
more beautiful than summer. It would
almost seem as II kindly mother Ma
ture. desiring to compensate her
children for the loss of the peas and
the peaches. had provided them with
a special feast for the eyes and the
spirit. But why" asks Helen, should
plain white snow be considered more
beautiful than tho lovely green of
summer leaves? A sheet of paper Is
clean and fresh and pleasant to look
upon. but after all 1t is just white pa
per-"
All! There you are! Snow IL never
white! It will take on q thousand ex-
quisite and varied tints-you can ex-
haust the vocabulary OF Jewels and of
flowers in attempting to describe them
and still leave more than half unmen-
tioned-but 1t IL never white! 1t ID
an instrument upon which nature
plays wonderful color symphonies,
with never a harsh or a discordant
note. 1t changes color a hundred
times a day in response to changes in
the color of the sky-for the sky color
is always the keynote Of q snow
scene. And its response to this color
call will invariably be the compile
mentary color; so subtly stated. how
ever, that to the non-professional eye
the snow will appear to remain a pure
and virgin white.
If the sky is yellow, as at sunset
the snow will reply with a note of ex-
quisite lavender blue: if the sky Ii
blue, the snow will be delicately yel-
low; If the sky is greenish. the snow
will be roseate in hue. I have even
seen it assume an unbelievable tone OF
| crimson pink in reply to the call OF q
violently emerald sunset sky.
But snow has still another attribute
which occasionally interrupts and va
ries the action of this general law OF
complementaries. In a shy and gentle
way it reflects adjacent color-masses
much in the same way az water re-
| fleets nearby objects.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
Sheffield ingalls, apparently au

Sheffield Ingalls, apparently quail
fies for place Of prominence among
the political shifters for which Kansas
is SO famous. He now declares that
party loyalty is the paramount con-
sideration with him. Not so long ago
he was elected to the lieutenant COVER
norship on the Republican ticket, and
Immediately on his induction to office
he renounced his allegiance to the
party that had thus honored him.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
From, Other Pens
cH1NA's NEW RELIGION.

So difficult is 1t for western minds
to see in Confucia1fsm as expounded
by its more intelligent votaries any
thing except an embodiment Of the
morality common to all the world,
that its establishment as the national
religion" of China seems hardly cal
culated to cause there the excited
controversy which preceded this ac-
ton. Apparently its election for Of
fetal recognition leaves q fairly free
field for all the other cults, yet the
representatives of them all seem to
have opposed the choice. In many
cases. presumably, this antagonism
was due to a desire to receive the
same recognition, and to receive it
exclusively. Confucius himself laid
no claim to divinity. and was a phil-
osopher rather than a prophet. He
taught what has come to be called
ancestor worship but as formalized
by him it was little if anything more
than reverence and respect for the
dead, with simple rites not differing
essentially from those to which
mourning relatives everywhere natur-
ally resort as expressions of sorrow
and remembrance. Indeed, educated
Chinese. like educated japanese, deny
that they worship their ancestors In
the Occidental sense Of the word, and
it is evident from the dispatches that
they are. or plausibly pretend to be,
in doubt as to just what the govern
ment has done. They ask if it has or
has not decided that C~3fucius was u
god, and the meaning of the order
that the new republics high officials
shall worship heaven" as the en-
perors did. The vast mass Of Chinese
superstitions has little or nothing to
do with Confucianism, and Confuc!us
inclined strongly to the view that hu-
man duties were confined to the pres
ent life. As to the other world. he
asserted as little as he denied. His
is no system to exercise restraint OF
the police sort on China's lower mil.
lions. and they have made number
less additions to 1t in thu shape of big
whom the sage would have had neith-
er faith nor commendation.-New
York Times.
AN UNDERGRouND ACHIEvEMENr.
journey be possible as that Of certain
newspaper men who are walking under
New York through the new aqueduct. It
Is 70 e esopes nes
london has 50 miles Of subway. Paris %.
But these subterranean psssageways were
each dug in the vicinity Of q common
metropolitan areas to compiicate the PROB
lem OF supplying materials and labor. It
would not be possible or course, to travel
so miles in one direction in any Of these
systems The Romans were great build
ers of aqueducts. One of their works Is
said to have extended more than 50 miles
below the surface. But in capacity ana
cost, and perhaps also in permanence OF
nothing that equals the marvels Of thie
time. In addition to skyscraper structure
and aircraft that fly above the clouds,
included in present advance. wild fowl
have been outstrpped in the heights ana
wonders impossible to the supermole ac-
plished in the depths. Modern ingenuity
has SO perfected and expedited ana cheap
in reach great benefits in public water
supply. land IRRIGATION, and means OF
transit and solve alike the difficult prob
lens Of sterile wastes and contested pDr,-
ulation centers.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

Cornell's course in citizenship, Of
fered this year for the first time, is at
tended by over 200 students. The
course consists OF IA lectures dealing
with the relation of the citizen to the
community. Men actively engaged in
civic and social work have discussed
schools, recreation, health, immigra-
ton, poverty, crime, labor problems,
housing, politics. the church, city
planning, and the press.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

Kansas evidently has nothing like a
mortgage on proposed legislation of
the freak variety. A Maryland legis-
lator has prepared a bill that seeks to
prohibit the wearing by girls and
women Of high heel shoes and slit
skirts and also the dancing Of such
Immoral dances as the turkey-trot.
the bunny-hug, the tango or the loop
the-loop."
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

The usually accepted idea is that a
man achieves success through cour-
age, through willingness to take a
chance and back his judgment to the
limit Of his means and abilities. But a
Londoner, who retires from active
business at the age of 81 and with a
large fortune declares: "I attributed
whatever success have had to my
cowardice. always feared to wade
in SO deep that 1t was difficult for me
to wade cut"
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IL q member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news 1r-
SANITATION for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news II received IN The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pu1-
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

Hey. you stage hands! Turn on the
mellow moonlight, let the stars twinkle
dreamily and start the bull-frogs sing
ing their love songs. Shocked by
SANDER. the fair Julia Marlowe writes
to her husband: II like what have,
dear partner. and when 1 have you I
shall want the hills and the skies when
we are together and forget all the
rest" Put on your rubbers, lads, the
slush is getting deeper all the time.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

Kansas' old folk will have to spruce
up a bit. A New Jersey woman cele-
brated her ninetieth birthday by
spending the afternoon coasting with
a party Of children.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

Chicago's municipal market which is
prepared to sell the staples at about
half the usual retail price didn't have a
single customer the first day its doors
were open. All of which is more evi-
dence. II any were needed. Of the per-
versity of the human race.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

President Wilson is developing rap
idly as the most forceful political
evangelist the country has ever known.
The ease with which he converts men,
bers Of congress to his way of think
ing Is little short of marvellous.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

All Of the nations Of the world hav-
ing agreed as to how we shall run the
Panama canal, 1t is up to Uncle Sam
to draw his rules and regulations ac-
cordiugly
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21
Hurnor of the Day

Passengerl''Do I have to change car.
in Chicago? Excessively Polite Con-
ductor-"Not necessarily 30, madam. Y0s
can go back to New York. II you want
Hardupp-'Let me have ten, will you>.s
Haxttt-'SAy. does Baker know yomS.s
Hardupp-"No." Haxitt-ssThen Vhv
don't you ask himT'-Judge.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

their city at the spring election, a most
laudable ambition. And they should
see to 1t that this activity becomes not
merely one of the new-broom variety.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-21

How fitting! Huerta celebrated the
first anniversary Of his accession to
the dictatorship of Mexico by lavishing
honors for distinguished military serv-
ice on his officers who placed Madero
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