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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-03
Ferrero Talks

Guglielmo Ferrero, the historian. re- viewing in Secolo the first year of the war says that it is 'the greatest tragedy ever experienced by one generation He attributed to insensate pride, helped by the weakness of governments, by the pow eressness of parties by the lightness Of public opinion and by the fatuity of the intellectual classes.
 "On the council of generals which, pre- sided over by Emperor William, decreed at Potsdam a universal war on the even ing of July 29.' he said, will rest im- placable execration throughout the cen tures and condemnation in history.
 Those who within an hour took the most inhuman decision recorded in history were able to do so because in the mind of the public the sense of proportion had been extinguished.'
 Signor Ferrero thinks that after the ca tastrophe 1t will be impossible to re- construct new order unless "our genera ton adopts virtues so far neglected; ; namely, those of humility, frmness, sim plcity and reasonable judgment of life and things
 "This is our duty" he concludes. ito the memory of the millions of men who have fallen in this terrible war while defend- ing Europe and her liberty against Ger man aggregession.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-23
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Every town has a spit and argue
club.
IN real life the Indian Princess is
only a squaw.
A married man sure hates to pay
admission to a lecture.
If your guesswork pans out all right,
it becomes good judgment.
II it were a safe occupation, doubt
less there would be more tyrants.
If woman behaves herself. she
isn't apt to need a man to Guard Her
Honor.
Another difficulty is that the man
able to whip the bully is apt to take
his place.
A crouch can discount the hook
worm when it comes to destroying
ones usefulness.
There are also persons who are dis
posed to regard conversation as an
endurance test.
Man is a versatile cuss but he
doesn't do much toward promoting
the hunger strike.
Nearly every woman feels that her
husband is very nervous and that his
employer should be more consid-
crate.
A robin gets up about 4 o'clock in
the. morning, and considering that a
robin has no work to do a robin is
n phool
tory as the halcyon days when peo-
pie married first and then became
acquainted.
What you plan to do at your leisure
probably doesn't get done; not that
you haven't any leisure. or anything
like that
Some people love their enemies be-
cause they don't want to get their
heads punched, and not on account of
anything the scriptures say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-23
Jayhawker Jots

Manhattan has a Mexican in it's Jail
who answers to the name of Jesus
Cruz.
All we need now, thinks the Yates
Center News, is a good old-fashloned
drouth of about two weeks.
OF course, the average man is above
the average. declares the lola Regis
ter If you doubt it, ask him.
SEE Uncle ST, in the Ottawa Herald:
Did you ever see Teller so miserably
poor that he didn't have. pooer rela-
tions?
In buying experience, the McPher~
son Republican calls attention to the
fact that you generally have to pay
cash for it.
The dry record for the year has
been broken, states the Lawrence Ga
zette. Eastern Kansas went without
rainfall for forty-eight hours.
People who can find any satisfac-
ton in camping out this kind Of
weather would be quite at home in the
trenches, declares. the Beloit Call
Whisky having been stricken from
the drug list, it occurs to the Wichita
Beacon that some drug stores now
will consist of candy, soda water,
circulating library and a cigar stand.
Pep Perkins is quoted by the lola
Register as saying that he doesn't see
much difference between the diaph
anouS gowns some are wearing
these warm days and a plate glass
front
The fact that a man can go on a
picnic and play baseball and get
famed up for a week does not prove,
says the Winfield Courier, that he
could spend an hour after supper
wedding his wife's flower garden.
Rumania still claims to be neutral.
notes the Hutchinson News, and it
adds: If Rumania and Switzerland,
surrounded by war, can remain neu
trail, the United States ought to find
some way to stick in the same class.
If you are incredulous about the
following in the Independence Re-
porter, get out a pencil and some
paper and try it: To multiply 5 by
itself, and the result (225) by itself,
and so on until fifteen products have
been multiplied by themselves in
turn, would take a person writing
three figures n minute and working
ten hours i day for 800 days in each
year twenty-eight years to accom-
plish.
J. w Kendall finished job of
threshing on the farm of Herman
Pittinger Saturday, reports the Cher
ryvale Republican. He says he wishes
DR.. Osler had been there to see Hugh
McFadden pitch wheat and he would
be willing to back up on his propo-
sition that a man is no good after he
is As. Mr.. McFadden is just 40 years
older than that and the way he Jug
gled the bundles was a pointer to
some of the younger men,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-23
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia RecordI
You never can tell Many a man
with a long face is really short
Patience is a virtue especially where
our own faults are concerned.
None are so blind as those who
won't believe anything they can't see.
The human race IS a race in which
-ost of us kick for a greater handicap.
Any egotist will tell you that to err
is human; to forgive ourselves divine.
The ball player who strikes out dis
covers that many are called, but few
are chosen.
The length of time it takes to wind
a dollar watch demonstrates that hope
springs eternal.
It's one thing to throw dust in a
mans eyes, but quite another thing to
throw mud at him.
Mr.. >Wigwag-"Why do you never
save any money for a rainy day."
Mrs. Wigwag- so disagreeable to
go shopping in the rain
Muggins- has absolutely
no education, but he is mighty smart"
Buggins-'How do you figure that
out?" Muggins- knows enough
to conceal what he doesn't know"
The Philadelphia Crook-'How did
you disguise yourself when the cop
traiIed you to the hash house?" The
Boston Crook-"Dat was easy. All 1
done was to refuse baked beans"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-23

will not be able to write of this war
with artistry until the memories of 1T
have been dimmed and blurred, and
the sharp antagonisms have lost their
edge, and the bitterness and hate have
been dissolved by the chemicals or
time. Thomas Hardy, writing me
Dynasts a hundred years after the
Napoleonic wars, is able to make a
great poem; he is sufficiently removed
from them to be able to write without
personal passion; but Thomas Hardy,
writing in the midst of a greater dis
aster to the comfy of the world than
the Napoleonic wars, makes poem
which, although it is better than that
of any of his contemporaries on the
same subject, is inadequate to its
theme. No one, least of all a poet, can
express his sensations properly at the
moment that he is feeling them: pas
sion passes into hysteria and windy
rhetoric, or is held down and stifled,
and the product of it is a dead thing.
Poetry is emotion remembered in
tranquility The poet who will write
superbly of this war will not do so
until the war has been at an end for
a long time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-23
THE WAR AND LITERATURE.

The effect of war on all imaginative
literature is Immediately adverse and
ultimately incalculable, writes st.
John C. IRVINE, in the July number
of the North American Review. 1t is
Immediately adverse in the sense that
it instantly devastates the writer,
whose magination. quicker than of
most men to see the horror and ruin
of war, becomes distorted and in
famed so that he is made incapable
of writing either forcefully or nobly
about it. The artist, indeed, is the
first man to suffer from war, and the
last man to recover from it, not mere
ly in the matter of finance. but also,
and more Importantly, in the matter
of his art. Many men Knocked at the
English poets in the first months of
the war because they wrought rhymes
of incredible paltriness about the
European disaster. These critics were
ignorant, perhaps, of the fact that the
poets were so conscious of the misery
that had been let loose by the out
break of hostilities that their art was
overwhelmed by their feelings. Poets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-23
GOOD ADVICE TO FARMERS.

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside, the national farm paper pub
lished at Springfield, Ohio, a con-
tributor writes an interesting and
practically helpful article. full of
sound advice to farmers on the sub
ject of the purchase of farm machin-
cry. He takes up the guarantees
which many manufacturers give with
their goods. Some say that such
guarantees are of no value and 9TH
ers say that they really protect the
purchaser. The following general
comment on the subject of guarantees
is taken from the article: Its a good
plan in reading a guarantee to see
whether it fully covers all points in
which you want protection. Some
guarantees sound convincing but
really promise very little. If you want
a free trial or shipment on approval,
YOU can sometimes get such privilege
by asking for it. But it is unwise to
assume any more than is actually
specified. Modern business is built up
largely on guarantees. People don't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-23

Noon time came. The warm sun
shone down on the drowsy garden
and all the creatures doZed or slept
All but Fatty Caterpillar. The
warmth only made him the more
hungry and he started up the side OF
the second biggest cabbage, eating,
eating all the way. .,
soon 1 will be fat enough, ne
whispered to himself as he took
bigger bite. "Soon 1 may spin. soon
nv dreams will come true and ne
went on eating for good measure.
Up IN the tree near by, Billy Roplh
stirred and plinked his left eye.
| '.What's the use of sleeping all the
= fternoon -" he asked himself lazily.
II have half mind to fly over 10
worm" He blinked his other eye
looked up and down and around for
company; finding none, he flew
leisurely over to the cabbage patch'
And there he saw Fatty Caterpillar.
Hello therei Fatty" he called
derisiveIy, you still eating?" 49,,
ITO be sure! Why not?" replled
Fatty between bites; $! must dat eaf
and eat and eat. Then some ddS
will fly as you do or,
what a ioke!" chirped Billy. m
so glad L happened to find you Now
I will have something funny TO ten
Tommy Sparrow when he wakes up
from his nap. The very idea of
worm becoming bird!
I'm not a worm!" exclaimed Fat
ty Caterpillar eXcltedly m q cateI I4
pillar and that is a very dlfferent
"off course it is" said Billy Robin
o,1ickly. Don't you think l know
anything? If you were a worm, you
would have nice slick sloes ana l
could eat YOU up for my afternoon
tea. But as you are a caterpillar, l
can do nothing of the sort Why do
YOU arm yourself with SUCH poison
ous stickers on your side? Ii you
are a bird, as you say you are, why
not protect yourself as we do by fly
ing away from harm? Why carry
poison? That is unsportsrnanI1ke-
sFyeryone his own way" replied
FATTY Caterpillar patiently; but
will fly some day for all your talking.
I protect myself with these stickers
you dislike, for that very reason II
allowed you to eat me, 1 would
never become a butterfly
You a butterfly" cried Billy
Robin. Where did you ever get such
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-23
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.

In round numbers there were -
100000 persons enrolled IN eouca-
tional institutions in the United states
in 1914, according to the annual re-
port of the United States commissioners
of education just issued. OF THESE
over g, 900, 900 were in the elementary
schools; 1,374,00O in secondary
schools both public and prlVate' anu
216,OOO in colleges and universities,
Close to another hundred tnousaliu
were in normal schools, and preparing
to be teachers, $1,000 were IN proAe9
sional schools. and the remainder were
scattered through other types OIL IN
situations. The teachers for this edu-
oationa1 army numbered 100000, of
whom $4,000 were in public schools.
Tn noint of rapid growth the public
high school still presents the most I'M
nressive figures; the enrolment Tor
1914 IS greater by over $4,000 thah
for the wear before. The cost of edu-
cation for the year, as estimated by
the bureau, was 100000 rms
three-ouarters of a billion is rela-
tiveIv small amount when compared
with other items in the pubic eX-
pense." declares the report. IL Is less
NV s3OO.OOO,OO0 than the cost OF run
ming the federal government; II Is less
than one-third the nations eXpehol-
ture for alcoholic liquors; 1t is only d
little over three times the estlmateu
cost of admissions to moving picture
theaters in the United States Tor the
same wear. Measured in terms Oh
products of the soil, the United states
snent somewhat more for education IN
1914 than the value of It's COT
ion crop, somewhat less than the
value of its wheat crop, and less imam
half the value of the annual harVes.
of corn; while the nations Dill TOT
education was less by nearly nun
bred millions than the value OF the
exports from the harbor of New YORK
in the calendar year just passed.
Very little increase is yet to be noted
in the average term for public schools
Between 1910 and 1913 the increase
was from 1915 days year = 15S-1-
a growth of only siX-tenths of a day
in three years. Attendance has I'M
nroyed however The average num-
Der of days attended by each person
enrolled increased from 113 in 19lO
to 1856 in 1918.
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trade with folks they can't trust. That
business is getting freer from traps
and hooks is due largely to guarantees,
some If which assure you of satisfac-
ton or your money back. others
promise long-continued service and
free repairs, while still others give a
free trial till you make up your mind
whether you want to buy. The idea is
to help you get your full moneys
worth, and to make you feel safe IN
buying an article on which you are
not fully posted but which you want
if it suits you.
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some straw stacks, and here and there
a bit of woodland.
If his theory was correct, the rob-
berS would find a safe hiding place for
the plumber and then separate and
come back later to divide the spOilS.
They would realize that every town
for fifty miles around would be noti-
fled before noon. They would have to
conceal the plumber at once and with
in mile or two of where they lost
their horse. AS every farmer kept
his barn locked, and a watchdog be-
sides, the fellows would be driven
back to the strawstacks or the woods.
Philip drove back to Benson to
think it over. On the way, he met a
young woman driving a horse and
buggy. In passing each other they al
most came to a halt and the young
man was so attracted by the girls
agreeable personality that, for a mo-
ment, he almost forgot his role of
amateur sleuth.
An hour later a note was handed
him by boy. He was asked to call
on Miss Hazel Drayton at a certain
address. He found her to be the girl
he had passed on the highway. He
had scarcely given her his name when
she said:
"You are looking for the bank plum
der?'
''WeH?'
Both of us know where it is
Perhaps"
Lets work in partnership and di-
vide the reward
I'VE may find the plumber, but not
the robbers. You see, 1 must have
the five thousand to hold father to
his promise" Then he proceeded to
tell her all about it.
But if we were to divide wouldn't
your father think you had done very
well?" asked the blushing Miss Hazel,
when he had finished.
Father is hard-hearted man, Miss
Drayton."
"Yes?''
Not more than three minutes passed
before Mr.. Wallace said: But, you
see, I've got half the money, or will
have it, and ten months to find the
other half and the wife, and we will
make an even divide and L will take
the chances"
A straw stack yielded up the plum
der. There was an even divide of the
reward. The brownstone front was
called for and handed over within the
year There are no fishworms in the
wallace a m i y Copyright,
1915, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicatel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Many a girls mind seems to be blon-
dined.
When a mans temper is ruffled his
browS are knit.
A man who is born rich is more or
less lucky from the start
Some musicians are able to borrow
real money on their notes.
There's reason in all things, but it s
different with some men,
Most of the politeness people use is
taken from books of etiquette.
1t is easier to coax some girls to sing
than 1t is to induce them to stop
If the under dog started the fight
he is not entitled to much sympathy.
Liquor affects a mans brain if he
has any, and always his legs, anyway
The man who makes good doesn'
waste his time Boosting of his ances-
tors.
Probably the most untimely thing
going at the present time is the aver
age woman's watch
Too many moderately honest people
make the mistake of trying to beat a
dishonest man at his own game.
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From Other Pens
INTERPRETATION OF LAWS.

INTERPR OF LAWS.
The courts are still concerned about
the Sherman law. There seems to be
new decision every time big case
comes up. Isn't it strange that law
depends upon it's interpretation-tha
what one is required to obey is so uD-
certain that it often takes court
several months or years to find out
what the law means? The Sherman
law has been so construed that the
casual reader of it is not aware of it's
scope or meaning. There is always
something about it that needs construc-
ton. 1t does seem that a new law
might be written modified by the new
light that has been shed upon it. and
made so plain that a misunderstand-
ing would be impossible. one of the
greatest duties of the legislature is
not to enact laws, but to make them
so plain that court is not needed to
construe them. So it is not so impor-
tant what a man who aspires to the
legislature knows or what he wants,
as it is to be able to use such plain
English as to state distinctly the pur-
pose of a law and to make it so plain
that an Interpretation would mystify
it. When a law needs to be construed
it is better to refer that duty to the
Legislature, in order that it may make
a new one.-Ohio State Journal
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Men seem to be no handler at keep
ing a secret than women are. Sub
stantial testimony sto this end appears
to have developed at Washington in
respect to the detailed information
about the tenor of our several notes
to Germany that the newspaper cor
respondents there have been able to
give considerably in advance of the
official and formal making-public of
these documents. And this, despite
the fact. that in respect to each OF
these notes il has been announced
that the utmost secrecy would be pre-
served until it had been received by
our ambassador at the German capt.
tai
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away he flew to tell Tommy Spar
row the joke. "a worm a butter
fly" exclaimed Tommy Sparrow
when he heard Billy's report what
foolish dreaming creatures there are
in the world, That greedy fellow
will never be anything but Fatty
Caterpillar, we can be certain of
that"
Left by himself, Fatty CATERPILLAR
carefully counted up the Jumps of fat
he had spread over his back. II
surely believe L have enough now"
he said to himself; and with that he
began spinning himself into a soft,
silky net.
All the rest of the day he worked
faithfully. hardly stopping for a bit
to- eat, so eager was he to be done
Al IaSt ms covering was finished
and with a thought of the beautiful
creature he would some day be, Fat
ty Caterpillar went to sleep.-(Copy-
right-Clara Ingram Judson)
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Journal Entire S

Woman's worst eXtraVa gances are
generally the great bargains in which
they are wont to invest.
An appropriate floral design for bill
heads would be a wreath of forget
me-nOtS.
20 10 ss
Neither can it be said of a girl who
wins heavily in a breach of promise
suit that she loved and lost.
+ ! i
Most young folk must think they
are bright and shining lights from
their inclination to carry on a court
ship in the dark.
- i j
When a girl is home from college
for the summer she's not so apt to be
Frustrated with the heat as she is by
the grammar her family uses.
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Kansas Comment
THE KITCHEN VIEWPOINT.

THE KITCHEN VIEWPOINT.
News columns will be running over
soon with stories from the harvest
fielc tinged with the journalistic ro-
nance impaired to imaginary trips
after the binder through the golden
fields, the picturesque al fresco wash
room near the kitchen door from
which float odors of country dinners
Trust the special writer's to make the
most of the harvest. A majority of
them will weave thrilling yarns with
out visiting the fields. While the Kan
sas farmer is being reflected in the
spotlight of signed articles on Fol
lowing the Kansas Crop or something
similar the woman in the kitchen
should not be forgotten. Without the
most remarkable demonstration of
system of economy and industry, could
the wives of Kansas farmers serve
meals which more than keep body and
soul together. The fame of Kansas
wheat crops is due as much to the ia
nous dinners served the harvest hands
as the size of the crop. When we re-
count the details of the 1916 harvest
crop spare some of the praise for
the farmers wives who increase their
work ten times in order to meet the
demand. They do not make any fuss
about it. 1t is a necessary condition
to meet and they meet it more than
half way without bidding for honors.
in the quiet, splendid way Kansas
women have.-Salina Journal.
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MADE STARS.

If there isn't any star within your sky,
Pretend it is there,
why, a make-believe one, swinging white
and high,
Is just as fair,
If you put it where you'll see it every
night,
Just where the sky's particularly bright,
Your star is sure to guide your steps
Alright
If there isn't any sunshine in your day,
Why. put some in
If you've never tried to make your way,
Oh do begini
This sunshine-makin's hard, but you won't
mind
Keep on: and when it's done, you're apt
to find
The home made brands the very incest
kind
Mary Carolyn Davis, in st. Nicholas.
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RITDGFyT sYsTEM A BOON.

There is this reason for satisfaction
over the financial activities OF the
city of Topeka. If the commissioners
find it necessary to increase the tax
rate slightly to meet the demands Ior
the nroper development of all the civic
institutions. the people know where
the money is going and what they are
going to get for it and months peLore
any of this money is aVallaple- Inc
budget system is to be thanked ior
this. Why wouldn't it be a good plan
for the board of education to conduct
the financial affairs of the schools on
a budget and business-like basis!
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OnerS.

Charges by Brigadier General De-
vol, general manager of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, that the war leaders
in Mexico are reaping big profits for
themSelves from export taxes on food
while the Hon-combatants of Mexico
are starving, have a reasonable ring
to them. It's been an open secret
this long while that the military pa
triots of Mexico arc such only because
of the opportunities their self-chosen
positions give them to fatten their
own pocketbooks.
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Stories that millions of dollars are
being invested in this country in the
construction of new plants to make
munitions of war for the Allies should
be taken with a grain of salt. Such
plants would be little better than
valueless when the war is ended, and
it wouldn't be possible for them to
come anywhere near paying out unless
the war were prolonged over a consid-
cradle stretch of years