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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-19

might take this into consideration, too,
as he adds young trees from time to
time to his wood lot. Convinced now,
as most farmers are, of the value of
the wood lot, it ought to be only a
short step further to the realization
that, by judicious selection of varie
ties of trees planted, it can be made
to yield a revenue both in spring and
in autumn. A combination of sugar
NAPLES and nut trees would produce
the desired result and be worth more
in the long run than the plantation set
out for the sole purpose of producing
fence posts
Science has turned its inquiSitorial
eye more than once on the sugar tree,
but, so far. has failed to solve its mys-
terry. Investigation has merely record
ed certain facts; it has not explained
them 1t is known, for instance, that
the sugar maple is far more particu-
lar than the uninitiated suspect. For
its sap to flow, nights must be cool.
clear and still. with the temperature
at least 10 degrees below freezing; the
days must be warm and sunny, with
the temperature rising to 80 degrees
above freezing, and, finally, there
must be d fall of rain or of snow after
four or five successive days of such
weather or the sap will cease to flow.
But there is hardly more of a mys-
terry here than there is in the fact that
the farmer who has the trees to tap
fails to tap them. He needs no dem
onstration to prove to him that the
weather conditions favorable for the
flow of sugar sap are favorable for
little work about the farm. And he
needs, surely, no reminder that an
eager and profitable market awaits
the product. Why, then, only half the
product available IS collected and why
half of this natural resource is wasted
is perpleXing to the ordinary mind
indianapolis News.
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Globe Sights
BY THE ATCKIScN GLOBE.

Try to be a booster without being
liar.
Society always shocks those who are
not in it,
Every person believes in one-sided
reciprocity.
Every man knows what he would
do if he were president.
A pleasing conversationalist is one
who converses very little.
What has become of the old fash
toned joke about folding beds?
After one has hurried all day. it is
hard to refrain from eating that way.
All some people do is planning red
hot campaigns that are never made.
You probably don't object to sensa-
tional news as long as it does not in
vo1ve you.
Don't be too set in your opinions.
for you might want to change them
some day.
After the ak falls it develops that
more than half the people were watch
ing for 1t.
You must learn to appreciate sew
eral varieties of fun if you hope to
enjoy life.
While you are seeking for the Mean
est Man or Woman in the town look
into the looking glass and then sit
down and think it over.
When you return to the old home
town for a vacation you naturally ex-
pect the home paper to say that you
have been doing we'll in a business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-19
Is THERE OTHER LIFE LIKE OUR

We are the product not only of our
own personal environment, but also of
the environment of all the generations
Hudson Maxim, in the Youths Com
panion, and he continues: In order,
therefore, that any other world should
be inhabited with beings like us, the
original nebula from which that other
solar system sprang would have had
to have the same mass as the original
nebula from which our solar system
sprang. Moreover, the celestial bodies
that cooled would have had to be
identical in temperature, mass. and
velocity with the bodies that collided
to produce the nebula from which our
solar system came. That earth would
have had to be thrown off at the
same time that ours was. Further
more, the sun in that solar system
teorites of the same number, mass,
and velocity as those that have hit our
sun; for the mass and impact of all
the meteorites that have plunged into
our sun since nebula time has very
materially influenced the heat that
the earth has received. Finally, there
would have had to be on that other
earth virtually the same distribution of
land and water, because the size and
arrangement of continents and islands,
rivers and seas on our earth have had
an important part in shaping the hui
man race. If the letters needed TO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

[From the Chicago News.
A kiss may be a reward or a pun
ishment.
And some people are too intellectual
to be intelligent.
Dyspepsia is the mother Of many a
disa greeable disposition.
1t sometimes happens that the vic
tory is not worth the price
An excellent way to flatter a woman
is to keep still and listen.
A wonder lasts nine days-but a
woman's curiosity goes on forever.
Every time two women go to a NOV
lie together they call it a theater party.
There's more power in a woman's
tears than there is in a mans argu-
ment.
Tell your troubles to your friends if
you would know how weak their SYM
pathy really is.
If you want to study human nature
don't patronize correspondence
school. Watch your neighDors.
Most old bachelors are hard to
please; they don't even think girl
baby is fit to kiss until she is sweet g.
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Kansas Comment
THE SOIL THEIR SALVATION,

THE SOIL THEIR SALVATION.
Increased colonization in the
United States will be a result of the
overflow from Europe when the war
closes. Broken fortunes will have to
be mended and many will be glad TO
leave the scenes of present woe. IL
is likely that the United States and
South America will be the object
i've of the most stupendous exodus
from the Old World in its history
Into this nations polyglot of races
will come every European type with
his virtues and his vices. In few
years he will either assimilate or be
destroyed. That is the law of ma
ton such as this. He must breathe
this nations atmosphere or stifle-
This increased immigration will be
attracted to the unsettled portions or
the United States. They will brings
their European methods of intense
farming. The husbandmen will bring
frugality and thrift. Given an oppor-
tunity, these strangers to our shores
will do much in building up the waste
places. In this adjustment to a new
environment there will be no danger
But for those who choose the cities
and the struggle to exist on their
meager savings there. there is a dam
ger. The country is the place for the
new corners. The government should
provide a way for them to secure
farms.-Salina Journal.
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All the time that Mr.. and Mrs.
Reddy Squirrel were finding and max
ing their new home in the park, Bluey
Blackbird was exploring and getting
acquainted with the new place.
Dear me-" he exlaimed to himself
after he had taken brief look
around, I'm sorry that 1 never came
here beforei Such big trees and such
fine soil, There should be very good
eating here.'' He darted down to the
turf and dug himself a fine meal, then
he flew over to the little lake for a
drink.
the edge of the lake he noticed across
the water a queer new sight A flock
of birds-ducks chickens? What
could they be? Bluey was about to go
over and make their acquaintance
when-whirr-r. Quick as flash,
they took wing and all few over in
his direction! Oh, dear, but Bluey
was frightened. For like many an
other bully, Bluey was brave only
when there was no danger.
He didn't wait for a second look, he
didn't even think about a drink; he
sprang into the air and flew away.
away to the highest tree he could
find.
and to see what had become of the
great birds. They were nowhere to be
seen, He looked to the right and to
the left, up and down and all around.
could he see, That's queer" he said
to himself, Il wonder who they We're"
.'Who?'' asked his cousin, Dusky
Blackbird, who happened to stop on
the tree just then, who are you Won
dering about?
Those great birds that were down
by the lake a minute ago., replied
Bluey, they certainly did give me a
start Very dangerous creatures. are
they not?' he added. for he. didn't
want Dusky to get the idea that he
was timid without good cause.
DANGEROUS asked Dusky in
puzzled voice, who in the world can
you mean? There are no dangerous
birds in the park. 1 don't know what
you are talking about.
Bluey huffed himself up in his usual
style and felt very important. Think
of that he said to himself in a graft
fled tone there this stupid Dusky has
lived all his life in this park for all 1
know And he is not observing enough
to discover what L, with my bright
ewes can see in an hour. Too bad to
be so stupid I am thankful that L.
at least, have some senSei L can re-
fleet credit in the blackbird family if
he DOESN'T And he huffed and he
puffed and he blew himself up big and
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print the Lords Prayer were picked
out of a font of type, shaken up in a
bag and then dumped helter-Skelter
upon a printers "stone," the chance
that in falling they would assemble
themselves in the Lords Prayer would
be as great as the chance is that there
is anywhere within the range of the
telescope another world Inhabited by
beings like ourselves. 1t is not i'm
probable, however, that there are
many worlds peopled with beings both
inferior and superior to ourselves, but
they must be as differen from us as
the worlds they inhabit are different
from ours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-19
QUAKER MEDITATTONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Obstinacy is merely a trait possessed
by the other fellow in an argument
1t doesn't cost a man anything to
pay his respects, except sometimes an
effort.
You never can tell. Many a man
gets to the top without being above
suspicion.
1t may be true that we all have our
faults, but we prefer to be our own
fault finders.
The only opportunity some people
seem eager to grasp is the opportunity
to do the wrong thing.
Wigg-'What makes you think he
is big gum" Wagg-"F'rom the
way he doesn't shoot off his mouth"
In spite of the fact that most things
are adulterated, lots of people still
have their share of unadulterated
nerve.
If the eyes are the windows of the
soul, It may explain why people who
live in glass houses shouldn't throw
stones.
Any henpecked husband will tell
you that prominent among the cir
cumstances over which we have no
control are wives.
Muggins-"That fellow Guzzler
doesn't seem to have any enthusia sm
Buggins-"Oh, yes, he has, but he
Keeps 1t bottled up in his hip pocket"
1T seems as though my money is
always tied up" said the bachelor
why don't you get a wife, suggest
ed the married man. ''She would un-
tie it for YOU
Remember. my son. admonished
the stern parent, that the dignity of
labor is an ennobling thing Yes
but I'm not hankering after dignity"
replied the indolent son.
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Jayh aUker lots

Etiquette note, in the Bonner
Springs Chieftain: No lady will trim
her corns with her husbands razor.
Theatrical note, in the Minneapolis
Messenger: When a cyclone gives
performance it always brings down
the house.
AS the Hamilton Grit sings or signs:
You may paint, you may powder as
much as you will, but the age of the
woman will show through 1t STILL
He took her little hand in his. prose
poems the Lynn County Republican,
his love was hot a sizzin', and when
she didn't jerk it back, he knew that
she was hiSn.
1t is a pretty safe guess. suggests
the Beloit Call, that when a fellow &C
costs you as brother, DO or pal,
or some other pet name that he is
more familiar with asking aims than
he is with work.
A Toronto small boy turned the ia
bles on his daddy in this wise, tells
Mrs. Kelley, in the Toronto Repubn-
can. He had been naughty, and his
father thought to work upon his SYM
pathy by telling him that every time a
little boy is bad it puts gray halr
in his fathers head. Son glanced at
the few gray hairs that evidently lay
to his credit, and backed off, grow.
ing horror in his eyes. why. papa!
Grandpa's head is gray all over!
Observations by the Marysville Ad-
vocate-Democrat: Women who do
fancy work, as a rule don't fancy
work. . There is not much waist
material in the party dresses of to-
day The way of the transgressor
may be hard but it is never lonesome.
Even good intentions are too much
CT a burden for some men to carry.
The woman who can go to church
in a last years hat is truly religious
The man who is always telling you
how much he does for others needs
watching. Usually the people who
make the most imposing show impose
on others in order to make them.
Some new slides shown by the
Lindsborg News Vitascope: Smile
little, even if it produces wrinkles.
A circus advertisement is to boy
what a fashion plate is to woman.
. When trouble comes wise men
take to their work: weak ones to the
woods Forgetting favors some
times seems to be as chronic an all
ment as remembering wrong is. :
A woman who plays with fire at
twenty is apt to be kept busy putting
salye on her wounds at forty. :
Because a girl is smart in other re-
spects is no sign that she will show
good Judgment in the choice of nus
band . There're always breakers
ahead when a man who draws an I'M
bleached muslin salary marries hem
stitched woman.
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''Or watch the things you gave your
life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up again
with worn out tools"
Some day I'd like to write a book
on heroes and heroines 1 have known.
To be sure, Jack BinnS of wireless,
and Captain Barker of North Pole
common sense of the word that I have
met, but that isn't the kind 1 mean.
1 mean the heroes and heroines of
d seven routine days in the week ex-
istence. the dauntleSs folks who face
life instead of facing death.
I wonder which takes the more in
trepid spirit to face: a million pin
pricks, or one shell from a cannon
wonder.
And when 1 write this book, among
it's characters will be the family who
built over their life.
To lose an only son, a man in the
full prime of young manhood, hon
ored respected and loved by the whole
community, is an earthquake of the
heart and soul.
1 know there must be some who
read who have undergone such a loss,
and l know that no matter how old
the wound it will ache at these words.
But listen! Suppose you had lost
the boys you had, and suppose you lost
them both in one day by a needless
tragedy
Do you think you could go on 1iv-
ing after that?
Do you think you could deliberate
iy leave the old home which suggested
sorrow too poignantly and build the
new home you had planned with the
lost ones, believing that they were
watching you and would be glad? Do
you think you could learn to smile
again. could make yourself to take a
genuine interest in the doings of the
day, could make yourself cherished
friend of both old and young, and
your home a pleasant, peaceful place
to which people liked to come to lose
their WEAKNESS and unrest? Do you
think you could be always remember
ing to do kind things for everyone?
In short, do you think you could
reconstruct a beautiful, and in its way.
a peacefully happy life on such ruins?
And if you did all that, don't you
think you would deserve to be enrolled
among the heroes whose courage in
facing life is full as great as the cour-
age that faces death?
And if I were a man I think I
should feel like taking off my hat
whenever I passed that home
1t is not that thew have forgotten,
or tried to forget. Far from it.
1t is because they always remem-
Der and love and hope. 1t is because
they have always seen the star shine
through their cypress trees that they
have had the courage and faith to re-
construct a life.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Do you believe in permitting chill
dren to have pets?-R. A J.
Certainly. Just think of the hap
piness and pride a child gets out of the
ownership of a cat or rabbit The
boy who grows up petless is pa
thetic creature. A man whose father
had never let him have a dog asked
me if a dog was angry or pleased
when he wagged his tail. (FactC
Don't let a little child have a kitten
and maui it. Choose an anna bic
breed for a dog and let the child feel
the responsibility for feeding and car
ing for his pet OF course you take
some chances from i'll temper or in
sanity on the part of the pet, but
proper care -ninimizes them
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OID-FAsHIoNED REMEDIES.

Diet, pure food, pure air and less
worry constitute the favorite prescrip-
ton of doctors in this progressive day.
says Leslie's. And we are having a
revival of the old-fashioned remedies
of our mothers and grandmo thers
who depended upon natures herbs for
most of their medicines. Never be-
fore has there been such a demand for
pennyroyal, peppermint, wintergreen,
gold-thread and other simple remedies
of the old days and all of these enter
into numerous popular medicaments.
Now comes the discovery that by a
careful refining of crude oil, a taste
less. colorless product can be evolved
that will act as an internal lubricant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-19
Our Maple Sugar Crop.

The maple trees of the nation pro-
duce 100000 pounds of maple
sugar annually-about half a pound
for each person. And the demand for
the product, it is estimated, is ten
times greater than the supply. De-
spite this fact, statistics show that less
than half of the trees available for
the purpose are utilized. This means
that a good many farmers throughout
the country-and Indiana is no ex-
ception to the rule-are neglecting to
take advantage of an important
source of income
The season for sugar making is at
hand, and the farmer might note that
it comes at a time when there is little
other work to claim his attention He
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for the human system. This was d
Russian medical discovery and the oil
received the name of Russian Oil"
1t was obtaining worldwide fame
when the war broke out and inter-
fered with our foreign trade. Ameri-
can ingenuity met the demands of the
emergency and replaced Russian Oil
with a product from the laboratories
of our own chemists. So with Ma
lures herbs and the products of Ma
lures distillation, Providence admin
listers it's healing remedies to suffer-
ing mankind and leaves less for the
doctors to do.
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WHEAT PRICES.

So enormous is the wheat crop acre
age and the wheat crop prospect in
this country for this year, that it
savors of the ridiculous to urge that
the reports of the damage that might
be done to crop by the storms of
a single night in scattered sections of
the country are sufficient reasons for
sending the price of wheat up in the
wheat exchanges. There are other
reasons for such an upward movement
of wheat prices, and the spectators
probably know what they are. Maybe
this gentry has begun to realize that
they will be biting off their own noses
if they force the price of wheat down
to an unreasonably low figure. Most
of them have contracts for the deliv
cry of large quantities of wheat in
September and perhaps sooner, and if
the wheat prices are such in the i'm
mediate future as to make the wheat
farmers reluctant to place their new
grain on the market, the spectators
would be forced to stand disastrous
losses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-19
RosEMARY-FoR REMEMBRANCE.

ROSEAIARY-FOR REMEMBRANCE.
When 1 would go a-walking
In springtime on the green
As other hearty lads may do
With loves to look and lean.
There is a hand, a wasted hand
That slips our hands between.
And when I bend above you
And lean to touch your lips,
Another face is lifted
As the white heron dips,
When all the sailor lads come home
Who man the lonely ships.
And were We two together
Too close to breathe stir,
With stars wakeful candles
Upon strewn boughs of fir,
i could not lie beside YOU
And not remember her.
Willard Walter, in June Smart Set.
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Over in Greece they appear to be
about as slow in counting the votes
cast at a general election as we are in
Kansas. Greece held such an election
on June IS, and while the election
turned on a possible change in the
personnel of Greek officialdom, or a
change of government, it practically
involved a decision by the people as
to whether or not their nation should
enter the war. But the result of this
election, and on such an important
question, is not yet known.
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Journal Entries
Good advice is the kind you give.
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Good advice is the kind you give.
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People are never very interesting
when they have to try hard to be that
way.
i. + j.
The real financier is the individual
who can do lot with little money
i. + +
One of the biggest victories a man
can win is to establish control over
himself.
+ r +
Was there ever a grown-up VINO was
wholly satisfied with his or her given
name?
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1t would be interesting to know if
the conditions in the Kansas peniten-
tiary coal mine, the physical condi-
tons, as it might perhaps be proper
to classify them, are any rottener to-
day than they were two or three years
ago. As a matter of fact, and over
and above the conditions now prevail
ing in it, the operation of this mine as
a part of its penal system is and al
ways has been a disgrace to the state.
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him and / can run away to safety"
Bluey explained to himself)
Dusky was quite willing to go and
investigate, so away the two birds
flew. Over the tree tops to the lake
they went and there-right where he
expected to find them. were the great
birds! There they arei" cried Bluev
excitedly. Just as / told you, And to
think you never saw them before
dear me, but you are stupid"
'Oh, those, said Dusky calmly
those are friends of mine-those are
the tanned wild ducks who live I'm
the park all the time. They wouldn't
hurt creature, they are friendly to ma
ALL" Then he turned to Bluey in dis
gust and added. You don't know much
about the world I guess" That was
too much for Bluey. He gIared ar
Dusky and thep flew off to his own
garden housekeeping In
gram Judson.)
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Ply Clara GngranJodson

grand.
Dusky watched him curiously. who
can you mean" he said again. "I
know every bird in the park and L
never saw one that was dangerous
You must be dreaming
'Dreaming!" squacked Bluey in dis
gust, don't you suppose i know dan
ger when 1 see it? I tell you these
were great. huge, dangerous animalsi
That's what they were!" Then, with
a sudden rush of courage he added
you just come back this way with me
and I'll show you who they are and
then you'll be frightened tool" c'And
then if they see him, they can chase
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Billy Sundays erstwhile fellow
laborer in the evangelical vineyard
declares that all OF his former chiefs
best and most powerful sermons orig
mated either with Gypsy Smith,
Talmage, or Sam" Jones. And while
it is always a good policy to discount
to some extent the observations of
sore-head, this gent ought to know
what he is talking about. Neither
are his disclosures likely to surprise
many folk