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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-20
An Electric Vegetable PAIRING Machine

An Electric Vegetable PAIRING Machine.
"A machine for pairing vegetables,
which does the work better than 1t can
be done by hand and in much less
time, has been recently invented"
says the Worlds Work in its Septem-
Der issue. "A peck Of vegetables can
be pared by this machine in one min
ute. The machine consists of a bowl
with an abrasive lining. This bowl.
into the center of which a stream OF
water is discharged and in which the
vegetables to be peeled are placed, is
revoived by small motor. The CEN
trifuga1 movement causes each yege-
table to strike against the abrasive
lining. The water softens the skins
Of the vegetables. and contact with the
rough surface quickly scrapes the
skin of. The water, passing through
the machine, carries off all the dirt
and refuse. leaving The vegetables
smooth and clean. The only hand
work required Is in the removal of
the eyes In potatoes, or the cleaning
OF indentations too deep to be reached
by the mechanical process"
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MANY CONTESTANTS.

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BURIAL Of BODY

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J. r. Buskey. of the yirginian Rail
way, whose ONCE Is In Norfolk. wal
visiting his Richmond friends yester'
day.
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you can talk right up to the men and
get orders out of 'em. Ell ~
Nothing of the sort" she retorted
Indignantly. Most of the buyers 1
approach are women, and the few men
who select from my samples are more
interested in the fine values I offer
them than in my personality"
He appeared slightly relieved at this
and began to attack his salad with
some show of appetite.
The sound of his voice, the sight of
him, the certainty that he was un-
changed had reused fond memories in
her heart She was terrified at the
flood of emotion that swept her and
left her white and shaking with fear.
Fear of what? she asked herself,
and her traitor heart confessed fear
he would go away and she should not
see him again.
How insignificant seemed her tri-
umphs in the business world, Here
was Jerry deprived of home, living
at a hotel, depending upon his friends
for table companions or perhaps some
chance woman like herself. Suppose
If it had been another woman who
had occupied her seat-some charm
ing girl who would attract Jerry and
with whom he would fall madly in
love. And very likely ne had got over
his love for her
The thought was maddening. She
stole a glance at him. Still he was neg
lecting his dinner and his big capa-
BILE fingers were making little round
pellets of the bread crumbs.
Nell Drew, head saleSwoman for
Green & Barkis, jewellers, drew a
long quivering breath. and timidly
touched Jerry's restless fingers.
Jerry" she whispered shakily.
Dinner is waiting for you'll
His hand caught hers fiercely. His
eyes commanded hers
DO you mean it?" he demanded
tensely.
Yes, I do she replied, with COM
plete surrender.
well, darling, we mustn't let It cool
by too long delay he said joyfully.-
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
NEWSPAPER Syndicate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-23
HOMES FOR DIPLOMATS.

Uncle Sam makes little or no pro-
vision at all for the housing of his
consuls, ministers ard ambassadors at
foreign capitals and other stations.
He may pay a little office rent here
and there, but that is as far as he is
willing to go. His representatives are
expected to maintain their own AMI
their nations dignity out of their
pocketbooks. This is one reason why
only rich men can afford to represent
the United States in the major diplo-
matte positions and why presidents are
reluctant to place such honors and re-
sponsibilities on other shoulders.
Other nations, even the little ones, are
more generous with their diploma fists.
The British empire, for instance, with
extensive and costly diplomatic plants
all over the world, expended no less
than $450,000 during the fiscal year
1923 for the purchase, construction
and maintenance of diplomatic and
consular buildings. For example.
$4,000 was spent to ACQUIRE and
adapt for it's purposes a legation house
in Berne, Switzerland; $4,000 for a
similar building in Cettinje; $4,000
for the erection of a new legation
house in Sofia; $4,000 for the cree
ton of new consulate at Dairen.
Some of the items throw an interesting
light on the conditions-socia1 and
climatic-in various posts. Thus, $500
was spent at Loureneo Marques for
mosquito-proofing the upper veranda
and kitchen passage of the consulate
general. At Cairo new fireplace in
the ballroom cost about $3.50, while a
system of water supply, heating, cleo
trio generating, and ice making at
Picking cost over $4,000. An item
which would surprise an auditor for
Uncle Sans treasury is $1,000 for a
tennis court at Dakan. while $4,000
was expended at Petropolis for sta
bling accommodations
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Globe Sights
BY THE ArcH1soN GLOBE.

Sharks bite best when you are an
cry.
How easy it is to feel tired on Sun
day morning.
A lot of people want circus talk
used on every subject.
Oratory doesn't amount 10 much as
a defensive measure.
It takes a thoroughbred to know
how to accept a compliment.
Anyhow, it isn't hard work which
makes the average inspector grouchy.
Once in a great while a man holds
his temper when he should let it fly
loose.
Every man is a reformer at hear.
when a local freight train blocks q
street crossing.
An optimist, somebody has truth
fully said, has a great time between
disappointments.
A swelled-up Atchison man hasn't
the least excuse for being puffed up,
unless he has the dropsy.
Outside of the army, as well as in
side of the army you have got to dig
your own trenches, SO get busy.
Many a good young chicken is
tainted by a lot of old hens who
scratch around town and cackle abou
her.
About all that can be said in favor
of a man who never dissipates until
after p. m, is that he is working
too much.
1t may be said for the Washers that
most of them require certain amount
of encouragement from the other side
of the affair.
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OUR BIG INDUSTRIAL FAMILY.

Few persons are aware that more
than %, 900, 900 human beings, or nearly
one-quarter of our entire population,
depend directly for their livelihood on
the manufacturing industries Of the
United States, says Leslie's. This in
cludes the 100000 employees of the
various establishments and the MEM
bers of their families. The total in
vestment in the Industrial plants of
this country is $4,000, 100000 and
their normal yearly output aggregates
2S,000,000,000 This production is
over twice that of the country ranking
next N industrial activity. 1t exceeds
largely the amount of the manufac-
lures of Great Britain and Germany
combined. and is worth three times as
much as the annual agricultural yield
of the United States or Russia. The
manufacturing interest is thus seen to
be of stupendous Importance in our
national life. The above data arc
gathered from an address delivered
before the National Association of
Manufacturers by DIR. Albert A Snow
den, A member of the associations for
cign trade commission, and replete
with valuable and illuminating facts
and comments. From it we draw 9TH
err items of information which cannot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-23
Evening Chat
After All.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

We'll, anyhow, it can't kill you"
That remark. which one frequently
hears uttered as a comfort for the har-
assments of the minor ills of exis-
tence, is an illustration of one of the
greatest paradoxes in the world.
!. In this hemisphere we are in the
main Christian speopIe. We profess
to believe in an after life, most of us
in a happy one.E We have some
some on the other side. The hearth
without the vacant chair is almost un-
known. Many of us have more wait
ing on the otheraside than are still
with us.
And yet the average person thinks
Of death as the worst calamity that
can befall anyone. When he speaks of
anyone who dies young he always says,
Poor So-and-So!" His ultimate meas
ure of courage is the facing of death.
in "a point type, and those who have
merely got to go on living minus their
sight or their limbs in II point
Most of us can't really believe we
part of us that senses things. We
know it as an abstract fact. Only now
and then does something bring it home
to us as a copcrete reality, and when
it does how we shrink from the unwel-
come thought.
My mothers father was a Metho-
dist minister. He was a very good
man; he lived up to his lights and he
could scarcely have had any doubts
that he was going to that heaven in
which he sincerely believed. And yet
he was in no hurry to get there. He
used to quote as his sentiments what
the old lady said about death: Life
is all a fleetfng show-but I'd like to
stay and see the show a little longer"
And when at the age of seventy he
lay i'll he did not want to die, and said
so frankly and emphatically.
I often wonder that we do not have
a greater curiosity about death. OF
course we do wonder and puzzle and
guess, but is it not strange that peo-
pie do not more often take up the
gauge flung down by this battling
mystery and cross the border simply
to, find out?
Did you ever stop to think that the
fool who died yesterday must know
more about life and death and the
issues thereof than the wisest living
savant in all the world, though he
have studied and read and thought
about these matters through a long,
long life?
Suppose we find that this next exist
ence is for all of US the fulfillment of
life in the biggest, finest sense of hap
piness we can conceive, or even big
ger and finer than we can possibly
conceive. Suppose we find there is
no great SuI1erlng In the passing
Suppose we find that we shall keep
that which I think we most want and
most fear 1osing-our sense of our
own identity-won't it be rather joke
on us after all?
I wish more of us could look at
death as Charles Frohman did. Doubt |
less you remember that as he stood on
the deck of the "Lusitania" taking off
his lifebelt to give to a woman Che
could not swim a stroke) he uttered
one of the finest bits of philosophy |
ever spoken on the subject, II am not |
afraid to die" he said After ell !
death is the most beautiful adventure
in life
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WATERLOO AN INCIDENT.

The centenary of the battle of
Waterloo serves to emphasize the
great change in the attitude of mod
ern historians as to the importance of
the battle and of battles generally
says the New Republic. The old view,
as represented by Greasy. regarded it
as one of the decisive battles of the
world, one that definitely freed
Europe from Napoleon's imperial
domination. Modern history regards
Waterloo simply as an incident Had
Napoleon won that day, he could not
possibly have held out against the
overwhelming armies of the allies that
were then marching against him. The
old view regarded Napoleon as pos
sessed of some magical talisman
which insured his victory, so that only
through some other magical incident
sucn as the ditch at Quatre- Bras, or
Grouchy's failure to hold Butcher,
could his fall be explained. The mod
ern view subordinates the spectacular
incidents of battle to the more prosaic
investigation as to the physical and
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A SUNSHINE PEACEsIAKER.

: A tall stately daffodil held it's head
proudly and looked around at the
world. Il am so tall and beautiful
it said, that 1 wonder other flowers
try to bloom. They can never be as
beautiful as 1 am, poor things!"
Down at the daffodil's feet there
grew a common dandelion. Just a
common everyday dandelton such as
grew by the million along every road
side.
When the daffodil first saw the
dandelion early in the morning, it
mean, you common flower, by growing
close to me? Don't you know that
this is a well ordered garden? Don't
you know that you will not be allowed
to stay here-no, not one day, not one
hour? Why did you Gomez"
The poor little dandelion hung it's
head and replied, I'm sorry if I have
done wrong, but now that 1 am here,
as best I can. Won't you please for
THAT I will not" said the daffodil
arrogantly. You have no business
to come here in the first place!'
IT didn't come said the dandelion,
hanging it's head, because the great
wind came along and took me on its
back. Over field and meadow the
great wind carried me. till we mad
left far behind us the home of my
brothers and sisters. Then when I
was getting weary with the long ride,
the great wind slid me off his back
and I fell here in your garden. That,
was a long time ago, though; that was
before the cold winter began"
'.Do you mean to tell me- said the
daffodil, that you have been here in
NV garden all the winter 1ong?"
"All the winter" repeated the dan
delion YEARLY. Before you yourself
were put in the ground 1 was here.
saw the gardener prepare the ground
for YOU. 1 saw him plant you careful
Nv in the soil. / saw, and 1 thought to
myself, there will be company for me
some day There will be a flower that
will make up to me for the loss of my
brothers and sisters. Little did
guess that the flower 1 had hoped for
would be such queen of blossoms
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fail to interest the public. The latest
and strongest organization of manu-
facturers in the world is the National
Association of Manufacturers of the
United States of America. known for
short from the chief initial letters as
''Namusa.'' This body has about 1000
members who have invested more
than 2,o0O,OO0,O0O in their bust
nesses and employ nearly 100000
workers, who with their dependents
number 100000. The members
plants produce more than one-half the
output of manufactures in the United
States and over 9 per cent of the man
ufactured goods exported from Amer
lea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-23

Speaking of elastic laws, the Sher
man antitrust law surely seems en-
titled to all the honors and medals in
the premises. The government has
won about as many suits under it as
it has lost And there doesn't appear
yet to be a very clear idea in anybody's
head as to just what business activities
it forbids and those it permits. And
every new decision under it merely
tends to further complicate the situa-
ton. It's some law, all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-23
THE FLOOD PROBLEM.

How valuable the flood waters. that
occasionally ravage the lowlands in
the Kansas valleys, and those
of other states would be if they
could be impounded. They could be.
too. But the task is of gigantic pro-
portions and one that can be accom-
plished only through the concerted &C
ton of many states and the nation.
The cost would be tremendous, also,
but the investment would pay enor-
NOUS dividends. Well thought out
plans for the undertaking of this work
are already before congress, and may
receive the attention they deserve
some day. And a mammoth public
Improvement of such proportions
would also open the door for the more
or less regular employment of count
less men and the support of their
families 1t might even come close to
solving the unemployment problem in
this country, or a big factor of it, and
this problem is growing more serious
and difficult to deal with each sue
ceeding year.
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JayharOker lots

A woman never gets too old &c
change her complexion, insists the
Yates Center News.
The way to a mans heart may be
through his stomach but that doesn't
mean, explains the Harrington Sun,
that you shall walk on his meal ticket
with hob-nailed shoes.
In his Rustlings in the Luray Her
aid, Judge Ruppenthal urges: The
advice of parents, teachers and
preachers, like the liniment of doctors,
need to be taken regularly and well
rubbed in.
A man at lola saved himself from
drowning by making use of informa-
ton he gained from reading news
paper, notes the Osawatom1e Graphic,
and it adds: So there Is nope yet Tor
a lot of people.
Some folk are natural mathemati-
cians points out the Gridley Light.
They add to all the gossip they hear.
multiply it a few times and then di-
vide it among their neighbors. but they
never subtract anything from the
original story.
Toots, from the Augusta Bugle: If
you can't push, don't get in the way
of those who can. If all you need
is an opportunity, get busy and make
one. DO you suppose it is because
of ner poor aim that a woman misses
her husband?
Fate plays some queer tricks some
times, writes the West Linn CORE
spondent of the Linn Digest. The
same person that criticised this re-
porter for not getting all the news,
was the first one to be afraid a certain
affair would be reported and mother
would hear of it.
A good many 1oud-mouthed people
are bowling for war, says the Bean
vile correspondent of the Troy Chief.
and if they had to go to the front,
they would do like a soldier we once
heard of. In telling of his experience
in bloviating way, he said: IT was
right where, the bullets were thickest
all through the big battle 1t finally
came out that he was hid in the am
munitiOn we gon.
When a society reporter refers to
a lady as a popular matron," it gen
orally means, according to the Lans
ing News, that she is taking on flesh.
Some doting mammas nowadays,
start Hope boxes for Bud as well as
for Sis, says Mrs. Tom Thompson in
her end of the Howard Courant. And
Bud may feel the need some sweet
day. We have already seen a few
cases where the bride failed to pro-
vide even dishcloth.
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From Other Pens
SHOOTING AWAY COTTON

According to an article in the Inde-
pendent, guncotton, which is cotton
treated in certain way, is used in
the production of more than two
thirds of England's output of powder,
and in more than half of the powder
made in Austria, England, Sweden
and Norway, while in the case of Ger
many the proportion is larger. AS the
powder factories are now working at
more than full time some estimates
are that those of Europe are consum-
ing cotton at the rate of 100000 bales
a year. 1t is said further that every
time the British dreadnaught Queen
Elizabeth fires one of her 15-inch
guns at the Dardanelles forts a bale
Of cotton is finally consumed and that
first-class battleship may use while
in action 5000 pounds of powder in
a minute, or from 10 to ~ bales Of
cotton. The great war in Europe is
making a certain demand for the
South's staple, but King Cotton dis
tinctly prefers the much greater de-
mands of industry in times of peace.
Gazette.
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AN EASTER MAID.

AN EASTER MAID.
Belinda has Easter hat
With rainbow ribbons. on it;
1t also has feather that
Would fire one to a sonnet
And there are flowers tucked here and
there
The crinky rim just under;
Above the halo of her hair
1t surely. is a wonder.
Belinda has an Easter dress;
I'll call it a confection
To picture it, / 1T confess
Would drive on. 20 detection.
It's so compact of bows and frills
And ruffled like linnet
1t gives me many, many thrills
To see Belinda in it,
Belinda has Easter boot:
The kid who gave the hide. he
He'd Joy if he could view her foot.
So trim and slim and tidy
And this to know / have the wit
There would be naught to rankIe
Ii she would let me button it
About her pretty ankle,
Belinda has an Easter air,
All light and love and laughter.
Where'er she goes, L feel that there
I'd like to hasten after.
Indeed. If she'd consent to lead
would not lag or falter,
But follow her with blissful speed,
Aye, even to the atari
Clinton Scollard, in Judge.
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material resources of the nations back
of the contending armies. 1t is not
that it has no interest in unusual men
and singular situations. But it looks
behind the pomp of the emperor to the
physiology of the man, and calls atten-
ton to the fact that Napoleon was
losing his physical vigor and mental
alertness. This is in line with that
matter which through
modern science and business has per-
meated all branches of literature and
of reflective thought
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.

lFrOm the Chicago News.
man never does what his wife
expects him to.
First love breaks hearts and second
love mends them.
When two cats fight in the dark
they merely scratch a match.
On the sea of adversely the pawn
broker is certain of the watch.
1t takes a self made man lifetime
to correct his bad grammar.
There is always something coming
to US that we should like TO see side
tracked.
Love is a malady of the mind that
swells the head but makes $40 look
like so cents.
When the home team wins it's due
to good playing; when the other fell
lows win it's merely an accident.
Train up a child in the way he
should trudge and it's doughnuts to
fudge he'll take flyer in the oppo-
site direction.
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On the Spur
of the Moment
Twas Ever Thus.
BY ROY x. MOTION.

Twas Ever Thus.
1 tell you what your friends come
round and slap you on the back.
And friends you never knew before
hand you a hearty whack.
The things they say all make you
feel just like you are a king.
They listen and they laugh right out
when you say anything.
There,s nothing in the world too
good for YOU That's what they
say.
They tell you that the world will talk
about you some fine day.
They go and kill the fatted calf
wiener you heave in sight.
They spread the pleasant salve on
you and surely spread it right.
They're proud to know you, yes, they
are, and f1atter as they should.
Your friends besiege you day and
night, when you are
Maxim
Good
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Journal Entries

Neither do the winners get very
far on life's journey.
4. + r
Many self-made men haven't much
reason to point with pride to their
handiwork.
+ + +
While every man is entitled to his
own opinions, it doesn't follow that
they're as good as those of another
1. r r
Automobile manufacturers are get
ting as premature with the presenta-
ton of their new models as some of
the magazine makers.
i. + =
If Diogenes had found that honest
man he looked for so diligently, the
jokesmiths of this era would have
been deprived of a never failing source
of material.
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Wclasa hngraaaJudscn

DO not speak so sadly" said a.
cheerful voice close by. Both the
flowers turned and saw standing be-
fore them a lovely sunshine fairy Her
hair was spun gold and her dress
sparkled like the sun. do not speak
SO sadly" she repeated, you are
both my messengers / need Won
both, so please don't quarrel"
Il know you need me-" said the daft
fodil proudly, but why do you need
that common dandelion? 1t is moth
ing compared to mel I dislike to have
so common flower near mel"
Despise not any flower" said the
sunshine fairy sternly. "All flowers
are my messengers, but you yellow
flowers are my special aids, you should
work together If a rainy day comes
where will the sunshine of the earth
be, If the yellow flowers are quarrel
ing? Be friends and you will be han
py,'' So the daffodi1 smiled down At
the dandelion and both were glad
Copyright, Clara Ingram Judson)