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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25
THE FEAST OF THE LEAN kline.

THE FEAST OF THE LEAN kline.
There has been much discussion as
to whether war is murder, writes
Herbert w. HorwiH, in the March
Atlantic. What il being put beyond
dispute il that, at any rate, it is an
approximation to suicide. Well may
Roman ROLAND describe this as -
sacrilegious conflict which shows a
maddened Europe ascending its fu-
neral pyre. and. like Hercules, de-
stroying itself with its own hands"
Each nation justifies its own share in
the present struggle on the ground
that it is virtually waging a war Of
self-preservation. II all this is the
outcome of a war Of self-preservation,
one would like to know what form a
war of self-destruction would take.
your king and country need your is
the patriotic appeal. and those who
respond are Immediately thrust by
king and country as fuel into a burn
ing furnace. AS DR.. David Starr Jor-
dan has been showing SO cogently,
nothing Is a greater delusion than the
notion that war generates virility. On
the contrary, it destroys the best, the
bravest, and the most healthy human
stock. AS long as it lasts, it makes
every other interest yield to it's i'm
perious demands. Learning, art, lit
erature, count as nothing if they con-
flict with military necessities" And
then. when peace returns, it is always
a crippled nation,-in this case, one
might indeed say, q crippled civiliza-
tfon,-bereaved of men as well as OF
treasure, that has to apply itself to
the appalling tasks of reconstruction.
When the lean kline have devoured the
well-favored and fat kline. the end OF
their feast leaves them even leaneI
and poorer than they were at the be-
| ginning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

Punisa,nsnf.
The pr0ofreader dreamed that he died ono
OF course il Was only = foolish dream, Tor
proofreader. don't go there
Clean IN. ssas see rRs rt:
And never . wrone punctuation mark.
for this = the realm Of bliss.
q the ssegs met. t dass ; ss s
..rEv: sHAanks Of 5 the baptlst Church
6e chick2n PIE di nssS r next wednesdsy
At the Patronage. The Publish Are In
Now things vent along for .while All right
with nothing to mar his peace.
him ana all read 10 smooth q grease.
TIL one fatsl day when battle Occurred
the reporters ON earth wrote down.
He glanced at the copy and realised that
But that he'd got Into the other place, and
he read till eyes were dim
'THere was a battl with Germans
ON the Ijijijijchtxxskizzxi branch Of
the Tran$iberian railrode this MoRn-
eng and thu FOLLOWING Is the list
Of CASUALTIES: Observation-Disclosures
Romaslkia jinzskioxiisJ, Ntcolat Kat
kovnochvoneeffski, P0poff Popoff-
Observation-Disclosures and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Stolyktskianoff-
Observation-Disclosures. The reCk
Occurred one mile Ea$st of Fritjafs-
kia jsia jia jskiovitchaffski and have
Ben cent from ViadishwhenaganOw
|kiOvitchanowki and RasmussenOvitch-
northumberland lkiOffskian ovitchOf-
fski.
Things to Think About.
There are bout 1853 different ways
and they are all wrong at times.
There are 1883 vaudeville per-
formers initiating Eddie Foy and
8,945 initiating Eva Tanguay.
According to the latest reports
there are 1898 preparations to make
the hair come out, too.
Sporting editors can converse In all
languages. excepting English.
Patience will accomplish wonders
in the training of dumb beasts. There
lis q farmer down in Indiana who has
got four hoop-snakes trained to act
as rubber tires on his buggy.
There are not more than seventeen
Kaufmans writing high-brow edt-
torials at the present time.
Discarded electric light globes are
valuable. The air in them can be
saved up and used for the 1nflatiOn OF
automobile tires
There are believed to be no less
than 400 old Odd Fellows in this coun-
| try.
Nineteen personal body servants OF
the late George Washington died In
Virginia in one week recently.
The marriage marathon race be-
tween Lillian Russell and Nat Good
win is believed to be on its last lap
Paris green will stop headache.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.1
The best thing out is being out of
debt.
When a woman loses her temper
she shows her age.
Man comes to grief by meeting trou-
BILE half way.
Vanity makes q cheap chrome feel
like an oil painting.
Girls who make fools Of men usual
ly make Impressions that last.
So called friends are plentfful-as
long AZ your money holds out.
Perhaps it h true that all the world
may love q lover, but the proof II
missing.
Every old woman knows q lot Of
sensible things that are not to be found
In books.
When . girl breaks off an engage
ment she II awfully disappointed II
the young man in the case doesn't
make = fuss about It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25
WHY DO YOU STAY IN YOUR JOB?

In the March American Magazine
Ida NJ Tarbell continues her new Sc
ries of business articles entitled, THE
Golden Rule in Business" In the
present article she takes up the SUBJ
tect of wages and profit sharing. or
the Importance to a business Of a
stable pay roll Miss Tarbell writes:
1.-The Importance of a stable pay roll
can hardly be overemphasixed. 1t
does not matter how humble the task.
If it is a task essential to turning out
the product it costs something to edu-
cate the doer. Every change is an in
terruption; every change starts fric-
ton which runs through the whole
body.
How il q stable force to be Sc
cured? There il only one way, and
that Is to overcome the motives for
staying. The same reasons that make
sions. in society. in schools and
churches, make them restless in fac
tories and mills and shops.
why do you not stay in your Law
firm. your college. your bank? 1t may
be because you are asked to work In
rooms SO badly ventilated that you
know your health II suffering. Il may
be because the pay u the lowest and
the hours the longest that the unom-
agement dares impose: because t1oel
IL no advancement before yen, -
cause you know IL you do staykoa ~
J day win come when You will - 90
Into the dump heap Of the Wd@Mnu1r
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

Some OF the hot southern blood"
that has filtered into Missouri was
probably responsible for the recent
lynching there Of a white man. That,
however. is one of those poor excuses
that isn't even better than none. And
the incident also furnishes distressing
evidence that the outrages of mob
rule are not confined to the sunny
south and Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

We left Matthew with his package
Of goodies under his fingers ciutcning
the two IS gold pieces and he himself
uondering what he would do with all
the money and where next he would
20 The latter was the easier Quee-
ton to decide, for the road In wnicn
he stood ran both ways and ne coun
choose either direction. One way II
led directly into the country; the other
wev II paesed down through the vii
iare under the arch OF trees and then
beyond the little settlement It. too,
nasaed into the fields and woodlands.
IT done guess I'll SEQ de town while
rse here" said Matthew. ana started
down through the village Il spoee
couh pity near buy dis town eft 1
wanted to. but what's de use oh ownin'
a town ef yer don't lib In lit"
ON his way Matthew saw boys and
xfrls playing at games or doing work
about the yards, but nome OF them
spoke to him or noticed him in any
way. 1t was only when he reached
the very outer edge of the village
that he was hailed by an old colored
man bent with age. his gray hair curl
ing close to his bowed head ana his
hack covered with q torn ana faded
coat. sHey. youn 'un," he said, CALI
ing to Matthew, come yefe. NAT
thew did a. he was hidden and walked
toward the old man.
"You all don't b'long round we're;
ef you do dis II de fust time Tse seen
yer. What you dom and whar you
goin' ?''
mo, uncle. Use wayfartns: dats
what Tse dom. rse trabbeAn' de
road" 7-
'sYou won't get nowhar . doin' dat, -
said Uncle Ezra Use tried II my
self: and dis il As far ~ got, jes an
ole man Wild nuthin'. Why don't you
turn in an work an mot loaf 20 Me
away?'
ooh. re ben . workin'.'' said Mat
thew, Use ben . workin'. but de work
done went away. 20 5es followed It.
Use goin' back ono oh desc days an
den I'll meet MP Wild It again.
But how do you make = ,dvin'." he
asked the old man ''yo' shu' = older
dan I IL. an I'll bet I done got mo-
money dan you ?"
"Yo' - jes like Ala de re1 of Dc
young trAsh," said Uncle cara 'sYo'
think dat . dollar + de biGgest thing
In de- w0fr," and the old man started
to straighten up and deliver Z lecture
to Matthew ON the. Worthleonnew OF
money. ssOuch!" he said. Al -
grabbed his hack and settled hack into
. bent position. s
1lsu Dat eeeny has eono axin =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

Considerable is said in the way of
criticism. good-natured or otherwise,
about the cost of the Kansas legis-
lature. An estimate places 1t for the
1915 session at $4,000. AS a matter
Of fact, this is a trifling expense as
compared with those Of the legis-
latures in other states. In New York
for instance, some statistics have just
been assembled which show that the
legislature Of that state is conducted
at an expense of approximately $1,000
per member, exclusive of his 1880 a
year salary and allowance for mile
age. And there are 200 members in
the New York legislature. This
brings its cost up to about $1.75O.00O
a session, and the New York legis-
lature meets annually.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

That the pantellettes OF grand
mothers time should make their re-
appearance first in Philadelphia is
highly appropriate. But the truth of
the matter probably Is that they never
went out of style in that poky burg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

Governor Capper's address to the
legislature relative to appropriations
appears to have made the same sort
of an impression on those in control
of the senate that water does on a
ducks back
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

California man fills the interim
until the spring crop of snake stories
Is ripe by telling of some rats that
were almost as large as the bedbugs
he found in possession OF q house he
rented. Next
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25
--, -
WINTER FLIES.

The winter season. naturally. II not
the period in which most persons are
likely to take measures to prevent the
breeding Of flies. In the summer,
when the flies are thick, the wish will
be frequently heard that preventive
precautions had been taken. In the
course of an inspection, January z. by
the sanitary bureau of New York. in
response to complaints regarding a
heap Of manure, dirt and rubbish not
far from q public school in a crowded
district of the city, a rather startling
state of affairs was revealed. The
heap of manure was found partly
covered with tar paper and rubbish
in which. despite the cold wealth
er prevailing-and there had been
not long before a series of days
with the temperature well down to-
ward zero-flies were observed to be
actively breeding. The Bulletin re-
marks, This emphasizes the import
ance of properly caring for horse ma
nure throughout the year and teaches
anew why the filthy ny is always with
u.s." Until definite precautions are
taken during the winter to prevent
TIC dCCuLuultAlOu O1 heaps OI Illtu
and particularly piles Of horse ma
nure. in exposed situations under con-
ditions favorable for breeding, the fly
will probably continue to be the
nuisance and the serious danger to
health that 1t has always been. But
it must not be forgotten, says the
Journal Of the American Medical As
ISOLATION. that whenever we are ready
to get rid of the fly nuisance, our
boards Of health can accomplish this
purpose without enormous trouble.
probably after the first year without
much additional expenditure in the
budget, and with little annoyance to
the public generally. When 1t is re-
called how much the absence of this
undesirable pest would mean for chill
dren alone in our crowded city life. it
should not be long before there Is a
general awakening to the necessity of
taking the now well-recognixed pre-
cautions during the winter that will
secure great limitation, II not entire
obliteration OF fly breeding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

Not only was the operation for the
amputation Of her right leg success
full, but Sarah Bernhard also seems
on the road to survive its shock.
Encore! Encore!!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

General Won Hindenberg's success
in East Prussia is Of the dazzling
variety. But. as a matter of fact,
what is the loss even of 100000 men
to Russia and especially when she
was able to save the bulk of the artil-
lery she used in this engagement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

Haiti. Davilmar Theodor, who has
been its president for q little while.
has jumped his job to save his skin
and fled the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

According to the Philadelphia Rec
ord, the Kaiser's motto is said to have
been changed to read: "Our future
lies under the sea-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

Sunny Kansas is never appreciated
at its true worth until a few days or 9
week Of continuously cloudy weather
has staged q performance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

And there would be more prosperity
in this country, suggests the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, If we would remember
that we are working for ourselves
when we are working for others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25
TELEPHONES.


The STATE journal 10 q msmber. Of the
Associated Press and receives the ful DAY
foIeGraph report Of that great news or
Gnnisaflon, for the excluslve afternoon
solicitation In TOPEKA
ne news 10 received in The state Jour
nal building over wires for this sole por-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25

Last two cartridges. Dan what's 70 -
done now r. DanRsYe1l ~ - take -
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-10-21
Getting the Dollar From Under the Stump
How Up Date Farmers Are Easily and Economically Realizing
Land Hitherto Impossible OF Cultivation

kind or size of stump can be given,
since different conditions govern all
cases. Two stumps of the same size.
kind and age of cut, when one is grown
on well drained soil where the roots
must penetrate great depth for water
and the other is grown on soil where
there is always water near the surface,
will demand different treatment for
extraction. The older stumps, especial
ly if from timber free from resin, re-
quire less powder. The exact amount
necessary for set conditions can, how
ever, be readily determined with lit
tie experimenting.
Few tools and supplies are required.
A one and one-half inch wood auger
with shank about four and one-half
feet long, a medium sized crowbar, a
round pointed shovel and wooden
tamping stick, together with the pow
der, fuse and caps, will serve to fill
the bill.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-10-21

the stump out of the ground. To Sc
cure best results the charge should be
placed in the soil well under the base
of the stump at the point where the
resistance offered to the force of the
explosion will be equal on all sides.
Where the soil is of heavy clay or
plastic nature a slow acting powder Is
preferable, such as farm powder or
stumping powder. Where the earth is
sandy or loose and is apt to permit
the easy escape of gases a fast explo-
sive, such as 40 to 90 per cent dyna
mite should be used. The condition of
the soil with respect to moisture also
has a great influence upon the amount
of work that certain quantity of pow
der will do. After heavy rains when
the soil is saturated to the base of the
stump and the subsoil is just damp is
a most favorable condition.
No set rules as to the amount of
powder necessary to blast certain
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-10-21
BnrroWerS===BeWare!

Gophers and prairie dogs are the
bane of western farmers, while in the
east woodchucks are the type Of bur-
rowing animals that cause the tillers
of the soil to forget some of the things
the dominic tells them on Sundays.
| Don Leonardo Ruiz, a California
lrancher, says dynamite is the proper
medicine to give ground squirrels, go
lphers, prairie dogs, ETC."
| Take an inch and half or two
inches of dynamite. Put it in bit OF
|cloth or several thicknesses of paper
Ito form small round cartridge. Tie
the cloth or paper firmly about one
end of piece of fuse twelve or four
Iteen inches long, but do not use cap.
Insert one of these charges well into
| the mouth of every hole and pack
loose dirt around the fuse, leaving
lenough of the end outside to light cas-
lily Light the fuse and go on to the
next hole. There will be no explosion.
| There being no cap Or other deto-
Inator, the dynamite will simply burn,
Iflling the hole with dense, poisonous
fumes that will almost instantly stife
land then kill every living thing inside.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-10-21
Digging a Ditch In a Flash

Things move quickly nowadays. The
village Of yesterday is tomorrow
metropolis. Speed is requisite, and
newer methods that smack of rapid
ty and labor and money saving are in
demand.
bitches that once consumed many
days of hand or machine labor are now
being blasted out in almost the twin
king of an eye. BY degrees man is
learning to adopt some of natures sim
pie, but mighty forces. And the gull
lies and valleys that old Mother Earth
has created by her natural upheavals
and eruptions are being duplicated in
smaller way by some of the more
progressive and up to date farmers.
Digging bitches with dynamite is
simply newer and more improved
method of trench building The meth
cd employed in wet work is simply to
punch holes from eighteen to twenty
four inches deep along the line desired
to ditch and then load each hole with
a charge of 90 per cent straight dyna-
mite
Long stretches Of ditch can be loaded
and fired at one time. One cap placed
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-10-21

in cartridge of dynamite in the mid
die hole of the line of charged holes and
fired will do the work.
A single row of holes can usually be
depended upon to eXcavate ditch from
seven to nine feet wide and about thir-
ty to forty inches deep. Where larger
bitches are required the holes can be
made deeper and loaded heavier, or
two or more lines of holes, spaced from
three to four feet apart, can be used.
incidentally the holes can be made in
the toughest kind of swamp or in flood
muck beds, where other methods Of
ditching are practically impossible.
When the soil is dry or the weather
is too cold to use the propagated meth
cd of blasting described above low
freezing farm or stumping powder is
used in holes spread farther apart,
often in large bitches as far as four
or five feet. In this case each hole
must be primed with an electric cap.
as the explosive shock will not propa-
gate in dry ground.
The cheapest lineal foot of small
ditch is obtained by using the electric
firing method and farm or stumping
powder.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-10-21

ABOUT 400,O00,OO0 acres of land
"a included in farms throughout
~ the United States are unim-
proved Figuring that each
acre could be made to produce at least
$50 worth Of produce per year, there
is approximately $10,000,0O0,OOO pro-
duction being lost annually. Quite a
tidy figure. And when we take into
consideration that in many cases it re-
quires only the removal Of sundry
stumps and boulders to make this land
profitable, it certainly looks as though
something might be done to save the
waste. "Stumping with dynamite is
both an economical, quick and labor
saving method as well as one that is
growing in popularity daily.
The method involved in the blasting
of a stump is to confine q quantity of
explosive in such manner that when
exploded the expanding gases will lift
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-10-21
Strengthening Streams
With Dynamite

The ancient Egyptians were noted
for their crops because, as history
states, they "sowed their seeds in the
Nile" This does not mean that they
actually cast the seed in the river. At
certain seasons of the year the Nile
overfows its banks. depositing on either
conducive to bumper crops. and the
wise ancient Egyptians, realizing this,
profited thereby.
Water is a necessity. The tiniest
brooks up to the largest rivers play an
important part in the scheme of things
inasmuch as they are natures way of
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-10-21
Diagram of Stream Troubles That May
Be Corrected by Blasting.

both irrigation and drainage. But be-
ing formed according to natures die
tates their courses do not always jibe
with mans desires or needs.
Rock Lodges impede their progress.
Overhanging ,stumps and trees retard
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1915-10-21

Desgnaha gd
AA,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-06-02
(To BE CoNTINUED.)
II MAS a Mouse.

II there's anything that will make
woman throw good resolutions to the
wind quicker than she made them, II
is a mouse. A young woman arrived
at one of the New York hotels and
before retiring at night she decided to
straighten up the things in the closet
of her room She was singing over
her work and was doing nicely until
she discovered two shining little beads
in one corner and decided there must
be lost hatpin there. SO she reached
out to take it. What her hand met
was soft and covered with hair. 1t
was a mouse The yell that emanated
from that room convinced everybody
tangoing several floors above that
cruel murder was afoot, and there was
a scramble to the Railways. The young
woman finally succeeded in opening
the door of her room and informed
the gathering crowd what narrow
escape she had from humiliation. Now
there is a standing reward of SIS for
the head of that mouse-detached
from the rest of the mouse. If 1t
ever appears again, there's no telling
what may happen.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-06-02

sultation. Mr.. Sloan wended his way
up alone. He was well-known man
throughout the whole region, and
would be likely to gain admittance If
anyone could. But all wished the hour
had been less early.
However, somebody was up in the
picturesque place. A small trail of
smoke could be seen lowering above
lts single chimney, and promptly upon
Mr. Sloan's approach, a rear door
swung back and an old man showed
himself, but with no hospitable intent.
IN the contrary, he motioned the in
Iruder back, and shouting out some
very decided words. resolutely banged
the door shut
Mr.. Sloan turned slowly about.
Bad luck" he commented, upon
Jolnlng his companions. '"That was
Deaf Dan. He's got a warm nest here,
ana he's determined to keep 1t. No
visitors wanted was what he shouted,
and he didn't even hold out his hand
when offered him the letter.
Give me the letter. said Reuther.
he won't leave a lady standing out
in the cold"
Mr.. Sloan handed over the judges
message, and helped her down, and
she in turn began to approach the
place. AS she did so, she eyed 1t with
me curiosity of a hungry heart. 1t
was compact structure of closely
| cemented stone, built to resist gales
and harbor wouldbe recluse, even in
an Adirondack winter.
Mr.. Sloan had been repulsed from
the west door; she would try the east.
| Oliver (if Oliver it were) was prob
ably asleep; but she would knock, and
knock. and knock; and if Deaf Dan
I did not open, his master soon would
! But when she found herself in face
Of this simple barrier and was lifting
her hand to the door it suddenly flew
open and man appeared before her.