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superfluous Invention.

Superfluous invention.
See where some professor thinks he
mas invented machine to defect when
man is lying. That machine was
constructed years ago from one of
Adams ribs.-Davton News.
Air Lines and Lanes.
"Do you keep airplane suppies"
Everything for the airplane."
IL want road map OF New Eng
land"
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The Paner Used In Bibles.

The oxford India paper used In
Bibles is still manufactured under
special conditions which are kept Sc
cret. but numerous limitations of good
qualities have sprung up.-The Ar
KOnaut.
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"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" is gen
uine Aspirin proved safe by millions
and prescribed by physicians for over
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Headache, Toothache, Eafache, Neu-
ralgia, Rheumatism, Colds and Pain,
Handy tin boxes of II tablets cost
few cents. Druggist also sell lager
"Bayer packages" Aspirin is trade
mark Bayer Manufacture Monoacet-
icacidester of Salicylicacid.
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observation-disclosures

Q. Who originated the term ''sick Man
of Europe?"-A. f.
A. This phrase was coined. by Car
Nicholas of R9ssia, January II. 1854, and
applied by him to Turkey during the
Q. Who won the world series in base
bali in 1904 ?-J. c.
A. There were-no championship games
p'e 8. Is It true true that the Chinese keep cattle
but do not eat butter Y-H- NJ.
A. As a nation, the Chinese do nots eat
butter, altho they have many cows. Some
individual Chinese do use butter but only
in those localities which have been open 30
foreign Influence.
Q. Please advise me what was the great
est number of votes polled by a Socialist
candidate for president ?-F. +. b.
A. Eugene Debs received 901. 373 votes In
1912, this being the largest number Of votes
ever polled by Socialist candidate for
president In 1892. James B. Weaver pdlled
1.04I, 02S votes when representing the Peo-
pies Party which by many is claimed to
be the same as the Socialist Party Of to-
day.
o. Could you help as find a use for the
waste Of broom-corn IN making brooms p
A. Broom-corn stalk IS suitable. so far
as quality and yield of pulp Is concerned,
for use In paper making. 1t reduces to
pulp rapidly and with a small consumption
of steam and chemicals The most serious
disadvantage is the limited production of
the raw material, the total of which does
not amount to more than ], 600 tons for the
entire United States.
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
THIS UNEVEN LIFE.

George Chesterton once said that
this is the best of all Impossible
worlds" 49,
There Are few of us to whom the
n;cture of an uneven world does not
come. time and time again. But
uneven as it is. there are hours OF
such EXQUISITE beauty intermixed with
all its unevenness and unfairness' tnat
we know in our hearts that it is worth
while. after all.
Much of our lives must be devoted 10
smoothing process-makiEs cur
ways happier by thinking about the
happiness of other people.
Yes, this is q very uneven world.
To our own minds, we are cheated out
of much that we we'll deserve. But all
the time we are controlled by forces
infinitely wiser than any that weNare
able to devise. And SO. for the larger
good, we must be brave and plod on.
The greatest man who ever lived
in point of soul and character-was "a
man of sorrows"
We live very uneven lives-and
many of the rewards of this life are
given over to undeserving hands. But
it is the affair of each one of US to
prove adequate to the task at hand.
Cromwell once said: Trust In God
and keep your powder dryi" And
that is what we must do. We must not
ourselves spoi1-nor allow others to
spoil-that fine sense of proportion
which may be the heritage of US all,
when dire days come to us.
This uneven life-you can do much
to make it event
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have happened to us when we tried to
raise an army.
We believe all of those to whom the
country is Indebted should be PAID.
But we also believe Secretary Baker
should be paid first. W.
The consensus of those who have
upon the circumstance
which brought them together is that
Henry Ford must he great treat 40
John Burroughs.
: 1t is given out that the president
commented with grim humor upon MI.
Bryan's suggestion. That, since a
president of the United States may not
be quoted in the newspapers, closes the
incident. But we'd love to know what
he said.
Mr.. Bryan's hide hangs on many
barndoors. He has been skinned Dy
light humorists, vaudeville actors, edl-
torial writers, satirists and earnest
souls Iaboring in fine frenzy 1t would
be interesting to watch the process as
performed by argrim humorist.
Bromide for today: 1--WE have only
one bottle len"
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Dorothy Dix Talks
The Stepmother-2.


The 'stepmother's lot is also made
more difficult by the attitude of the
relatives and friends of the children
mother. As long as woman is deal
ms with her own children, her family
Uphold her hands. They recognize
their impulses curbed; that they must
be punished when they do wrong; that
their manners must be corrected, and
that they must be coerced into the
straight and narrow path If they won't
walk along it voluntarily. So grandpa
and grandma, and the aunties and the
uncles, and the friends, generally tell
Johnnie and Mary that they must be
good children and mind what mother
says.
Far otherwise is their attitude when
a stepmother sits in the place OF the
children's own mother. Then the first
wife's relatives. either consciously. or
unconsciously, begin turning the chill
dren into little rebels. and setting their
hands against their stepmother. They
are insidiously taught by their moth
er's people to look with suspicion upon
every act which the stepmother does,
to resist her authority, and to believe
that there is some sinister purpose
concealed behind her simplest act. Z
It often happens that the children
lstepmother is a far more intelligent
woman than their own mother was,
wider social experience, but when she
tries to raise the children up to q
level to which their own mother could
never have raised them, they resent it
and hate her for the good she has
done them.
If, however, the stepmother feels
that it is hard for her to spend her
life laboring for children who do not
give her even a thanks for the weary
hours she spends cooking and sewing
and cleaning to make them comforta-
| BILE, and who do not appreciate the
sacrifices she makes for them, let her
remember that children seldom appre-
ciate the things their own mothers DO
for them or are grateful to her. Filial
appreciation is mostly graveyard yir-
Etue, and flourishes most freely on
I tombStones.
| There are no nobler women in the
world, and none who perform a greater
service, than the women who are good
stepmothers. who come into widow
er's disorganized house and turn its
chaos into order, and who nurse, and
guide, and help. and love his children
so that they never know that they are
motherless. Great is their sacrifice
and great shall be their reward. But
they'll only get it in heaven.
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Big business concerns have organ
lied to carry on a fight for the "open
shop" This program resembles that
of the old Roman who decided that
the way to whip Carthage was to
carry the war into Africa" Senator
Harding has said: 81 decline to rec
ognize any conflict of interest among
the participants in industry. The de-
struction of one is the ruin of the
other. the suspicion of rebellion of one
unavoidably involves the other. In
conflict is disaster, in understanding
there is triumph. There is no issue
relating to the foundation on which
industry is builded, because industry
is bigger than any element in its mod
ern making. But the insistent call is
for labor, management and capital to
reach understanding"
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK

4estidday morning pop cpuldent
find his new overcoat on the hall rack
or enywares elts, and pop went down
town mad without it and ma telefoned
to the poleece station and a poleece-
man without his uniform on rang the
bell and rote down different things,
making a lot of mistakes and rubbing
them out agen with the rubber on the
end of his pencil, proving it was
good thing there was one on there,
and after he went ma sed, My good
Miss I hope this dozzent get into the
papers, simply cant stand notoriety
Do you think IL a reporter comes
he'll put my pickture in too. ma?
for? Meening he proberiy wouldent,
and this AFTERNOON a man rang the bell
with Impression like reporter, say
Ing. Mother in. sunny?
Yes, sir, sed And he went in the
parler and sat down and I ran up-
stairs like the dickens, saying, Ma,
watts you think, ma, there's a reported
in the parler, will you give him my
pickture If heAasks for it. ma?
0 my goodnfss, this is terrible. well
1 simply wont tell him a thing, sed
ma. And she went down in the par
Ter, me going down after her and tax
ing my pickture off-of the setting
room mantel peece in case he mite
ask for il. ma saying. Its no use. I
have nuthing to say and the man sed,
But madam, and ma sed, Not a werd,
absilootly not a werd, and the man
sed, But madam. and ma sed, I'm sorry
for your trubble but I simply haven't
a werd to say.
Well, Ill leave one of my cards, sed
the man. Wich he did and went out,
and ma looked at the card, saying,
Wy Benny, the ideer. that was an in
surants man, wat did he meen by say
ing he was a reporter
He dident say SO, ma, he Jest looked
thar way. sed, and ma sed, Well for
tunately its all for the best, because
I never would of dared to tawk TO an
insurants man like that and maybe
he would of sold me some insurants
agenst my viii.
And she went back to her room and
I put my pickture back on the setting
room uaanteIs peece.
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tain whole colonies of soap, bread.
toilet powder and chewing gum kings
iwho~have organized in the cause of
exclusiveness by building their Italian.
Dutch and Japanese residences all on
one wide, palm-planted street, shut off
from the public by picturesque iron
yates.
On a less exclusive plane. hut even
more beautiful in Some Instances are
the numerous bungalow colonies OF
the city and the surrounding suburbs.
The bungalow is said to have origi-
mated in California, which has greatly
contributed to the convenience of the
world. In the California bungalow
have been developed the. most novel
devices for economizing on space
There are built-in refrigerators and
iwall-concealed cupboards, dainty
garages. The bungalow of the SOUTH
ern part of the state, where the win
tiers are mild. also have the most at
tractiye styles of windows. some of
them forming wide French doors, and
others extending in an unbroken series
of easements about the walls, which
are thus almost wholly composed of
glass. Sometimes 10 or 20 separate
bungalows are built about a flower
trimmed court. and run on the apart
ment house principle, with hot water
and heat supplied from a central plant
in charge of the superintendent
With the exception OF the servant
problem, which is particularly acute
lin California, the upkeep of a home
here is a comparatively simple matter.
1t is, in most cases, small and COM
pact, requires little fuel. owing to the
gentle nature of the climate, and its
table can be supplied at surprisingly
little expense. Food, especially fruits
and fresh vegetables, are cheap COM
pared to prices in the east. while the
outdoor groceries in which they are
sold make marketing almost an agree
able experience.
Then, there is always the cafeteria
loses it's zest. These institutions are
gradually springing up turnout the en-
| tire country, but the true cafeteria.
Ier-chaired lobby. is still produced ex-
Eclusively on the Pacific coast. In such
+ a one it is actually difficult to spend
more than 80 cents for a meal, and
any check over a dollar brings grunt
| of surprise from the cash girl.
Thus, those who are weary and
heavy laden with long, cold winters
and nerve-racking activity, find a
peace and comfort in Los Angeles,
which change their very facial express
sions. The whole atmosphere is easy
going Business does not interfere
| with pleasure, but it gets transacted
| Just the same. And it is these adopted
| sons who outrival even the natives in
shouting the praises of California. To
them, California is. as so many can
lteH you, the pot of gold at the end
| of the rainbow.
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TT is YOUR FIGHT.

The National Tuberculosis associa-
ton Is engaged in a battle in which
it will be successful only to the ex-
tent that it shall be persistent. The
people have been goaded by so many
"drives'' ana appeals for money for
this, that and the other cause that 1t
has become difficult to induce them
to relax.
The Topeka branch of the organiza-
ton. Bertha Hampstead Memorial
Clinic, win inaugurate it's campaign
In this city this week,
Because the white plague lacks
sensational clements says Worlds
Work, '1t. does not command atten-
ton and many people think that the
subject does not concern them. But
we felt certain concern when the
deaths of some $4,000 Americans
how. then. should we feel toward the
enemy at home which, during the
same period of time. took toll of $780,
600 American lives? The good
natured public is slow to wrath, but
slower still to comprehend the truth
when doing so requires it to change
established notions"
It is time that we realize that tu-
berculosis claims victim out of every
three persons who die between the
ages OF Is and 45-the productive
time of life. 1t is estimated that the
economic waste from the disease in
the United States is s5Oo.OOOlOOo an
nually. The fight against this raw
ager is more than question of maxi
ing progress against the disease.
That tuberculosis IS both durable
and preventable has been established
beyond a doubt by science. We can
not afford to ignore the challenge.
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A perusaI Of the advertisements ap-
pearing in this paper last Saturday
reveals the fact that Topeka mer-
chants are doing their share in a COM
mendable effort to lower the cost of
living. They are accepting their
losses as sooner or later everybody
who stocked up at war prices must
do. There still is much too Wide q
margin between the cost Of food and
the selling price of farm products, and
coal is higher than it should be. A
lowering of rents cannot be hoped for
until more houses have been built.
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JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
FIsHIN'.

F1SHIN,.
Fishin' teaches me a lott
There's no sure an certain spot
Where I'll always catch a mess,
Have to hunt 1T, more or less;
Sometimes strike IL right away,
And there'll come another day
When I'll have to work like sin
Fore 1 get a big one in;
Change the bait, an move along,
Where the currents not so strong
Or the wind can't get d sweep -s--=
Or the pools aren't quite so deep,
Till at last chance to light
On place where they Will bite. 4e -
Fishin' teaches me to wait
Patiently an try my bait;
Lets me know on many day
can't always have my way,
Things aren't goin' to suit my within,
1 must stick with patience grim
II | know that am right
Till at last they start TO bite;
Times I've hooked a beauty, and
Worked a half an hour to land
Him alongside O. the boat,
Then he's<spit It from his throat,
Jumped the hook an got away
But that didn't spoil my day.
Learned right then from Mister Fish
Things wont go the way ! choose.
There are times I'm bound to lose,
Times I'm just about to win,
An think the prize is in
Reach o. me, somehow 1 find
That the fates have changed their mind
So it is with life, I guess,
Mixed with failure and success,
Gain and loss are bound to fall
In proportion to us all;
Patient, we must work an plan
Just like every fisherman.
, Copyright, 1920 by Edgar A. Guest.)
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In North Dakota, fifteen banks
have failed in two weeks and effort is
being made to place the blame on the
farmers because they refused to mar
ket their grain. Kansas farmers are
holding their grain off the market but
we have no bank failures. The diff
ference is due to the fact that the Jay
hawker state is not run by the Non
partisan League.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-29

At last the millennium seems close
at hand. Money, which long has been
declared to be the. root of all evil.
is to be abolished in Russia January
l.. The Bolsheviki predict that, SINH
lar action by the remainder of the
world will quickly follow. Consider
ing the kind of money Russia has 1t is
not surprising that the government
wants to discontinue its use.
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Kansas boasts that it has an anti
cigaret law that actually works. And
Wisconsin might do well to study the
Kansas system, as its own law Is a
conceded failure.-Oshkosh North
western.
But II a Kansas cigaret smoker
were asked how the law works prob
ably he would reply that 1t works in a
way to increase the price one must
pay for~the little smokes. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-29

How much is the time of a Bank
robber Yorth?N Down on Long Island
recently a bank robber who got away
with nearly $4,000 of banks funds,
unrecovered. was convicted and sent to
prison for five years. Thus he will
draw pay for serving the state at the
rate of $4,000 a year and found.
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surely! Remember-you called me .
dimpled milkmaidi"
so I did" wainwright said sitting
up suddenly; where's Maben. I won
der?"
Here" said Maben, looming, thru
the dusk. But don't .swear-there's
a pair of us. She's going to marry
Heath Maclay next month";
Copyright. 1920, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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The outburst of joy which followed
the first evidence of a decline in
prices has given place to sadness in
many quarters since it has been dis
covered that the prices of what one
has to sell descend along with the
prices of what he must buy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-29

Extension of Topeka's white way"
system, which was abandoned during
the war. should again command the
attention, of those interested in the
city's progress. Nothing adds more to
the attractiveness OF the streets than
this plan of lighting Quincy and
jackson streets especially are entitled
to considerable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-29

In the Azores, milk is SO high that
the people arose in their might and
destroyed a dairy. This and similar
methods of reducing prices is much in
vogue all over the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-29

"Peace without victory" was advo-
Gated by President Wilson. Up to this
time we have not obtained the peace
and the Germans are showing signs
that they are in doubt about the vic
tory.
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Copyright. 1920 by the Wheeler Syndicate.
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-29

To retired millionaires from the
East. also. the city owes many of its
beautiful homes Some sections con-
, 1920-08-12

The new water tank to be erected
here by the s. & E. Railroad Company
for the use of the company's locomo-
tives has arrived at the local station
and the work of erection will soon be
under way. 1t vas first announced
that a steel tank would be put up, but
on recount of the damage to metal
tanks through freezing it was decided
to build it of wood. 1t is planned TO
pump water from the river for filling
the tank and this will be lone by the
engine at the local flour mill, which in
stitution will get its water supply from
the railroad tank.
, 1920-08-12

F. r. Butler, travelling field agent
for the Federal Board of Vocational
Education. will be in Saratoga the
first of next week, and desires to meet
all ex-service men who are interested
in vocational training. Mr.. Butler is
now engaged with the final drive
throughout Wyoming to place all men
in training who have any vocational
handicap. He will make his headquar-
tiers at the Hotel Sisson.
, 1920-08-12

Joseph NUM-, cashier of the Sara
toga State Bank, and Charles F. Price
of st. Anthony, Idaho, formerly employ
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. L.. G.
Davis at Riverview ranch at dinner
last Friday evening.
, 1920-08-12

> DIR. and Mrs. w. II. Lougeay of Dem
yer arrived in Saratoga last week for
a several weeks stay and have been
guests of Chas. b. Sterrett. They are
enjoying an outing in the upper Jack
Creek country this week, while Mr..
Sterrett is engaged with surveying
work in that section.
, 1920-08-12

MI. and Mrs. ii. c. Paulson have
been over from Pass Creek Basin sew
eral times the past week, visiting
friends and relatives in town. They
are preparing to leave soon for an auto
mobile trip through Yellowstone Park.
, 1920-08-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Newt Doggett, for a
number Of years residents of Walcott,
have removed to Denver to reside. MI.
Doggett was formerly employed in the
Walcott Mercantile Company's store
and he and his wife had also conduct
ed the Walcott Hotel for a year past.
, 1920-08-12

1. NJ. CONFESS was down from his
ranch near E%ncampment Tuesday even
ing, bringing in a quantity of the
luscious head lettuce for which his gar
den is famous. A number of his
friends here were treated to liberal
gifts of this delicious vegetable and a
shipment was made to outside points.
, 1920-08-12

Forest Ranger NJ. L. Ames came
down from the Brush Creek station
yesterday, being enroute to the north
end of h forest for a few days stay
ON government business. Mrs. Ames
and daughter Evelyn came in last
evening and will remain in town until
AIR. Ames returns.
, 1920-08-12

All voters should examine the pub
lished list of nominations for the pri-
mary election, which will occur on
Tuesday of next week, to familiarize
themselves, with h various party NOM
inees. The list is published in full in
another column of The Sun.
, 1920-08-12

George and Glen Sovell of Sebetha,
Kans., arrived here this week and are
enjoying a vacation visit at the G. III.
Barkhurst ranch on Brush Creek.
, 1920-08-12

Mrs. w. w. Petty and children ar
rived here last week from Omaha,
where they had resided the past two
years, and the family will henceforth
make their home in Saratoga. Mr..
Petty arrived home Tuesday from
Fort Steele, after assisting with the
Wyoming Timber Company's tie drive
to that point.