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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
TOO MUCH.

The epitaph on the tomb of tragedy
;s-Too Much!
The ordinary physician could easily
diagnose nearly every one of his cases
by the simple phrase-Too Much.
People worship too long before
superlatives. Too much applause. too
much attention, too much pleasure.
too much money, too much dining.
was shocked to hear the other day
that a very useful man. whom | knew.
had just died. They told me what was
supposed to be the cause, but 1 said
in my mind that it was too much work
without recreation and too much food
his tired body could not handle that
took him away all too soon.
There can be too much of anything.
Splendid living lies in balanced
plan. Play is essential to sound work.
Too much business man kills the good
| father, and too much house ana art
chasing stops the tide of love in
home.
The world at this time lies prone
and fearful. There has ben too much
warl
1t is possible to read too much. to
think too much. to work too much, 70
play too much. Excess is the crueless
robber in the world.
| Trust the man with a healthy hobby.
Select for your friend that one who
does not think too much of himself.
Beware of the person who talks too
much!
They say that you cannot have too
much of "a good thing" But you
can. Too much deadens and destroys
1t takes away all appreciation.
Even a heros life is shrouded with
obscurity. And he whom we acclaim
loudly today. tomorrow we pass I'M
noticed on the street.
Most fof the great of the earth are
remembered by but few acts.
Try not to do too much. Try not to
| be too much.
however. You cannot give too much
of what you are-or love too much!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

q basis of one member to every 211.-
AT persons.
Sentiment for limiting the house at
least to its present size is fairly strong.
This would be accomplished II the
ratio of people for congressional dis
major fraction of that number of peo-
pie. The difficulty Is that while the
tctal membership would remain the
So me, eight states would gain members
and eleven would lose. The total gam
and loss would be twelve seats. Cali
fornia gaining three, Michigan and
Ohio two each. while Connecticut, New
Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and
Washington each would gain a seat.
Offsetting this. gain, Missouri would
lose two seats, while one seat would
be lost in Indiana, Iowa. Kansas, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi,
Nebraska, Rhode Island and Vermont.
The members who urge that there
be no increase declare that there is
no duty that 4S3 members can accom-
plish which 4S5 can not do as we'll,
that the house will be more unwieldy
ana cumbersome than ever if in
creased in size, and that increasing
the membership to 4S3 will result in
additional salaries. clerk hire, mile
age, ct cetera. amounting to more than
a million dollars annually. Six MEM
ers of the census committee took this
view at the last session, and brought
in minority report to that effect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25
Questions-Answers

8. Please tell me whether La Paa or
Sucre is the capital of Bolivia ?-R. S.
A. The capital of Bolivia insofar as the
seat Of government Is concerned Is La Paz.
Sucre is the legal capital Of the country.
| The business of governments, is carried on
at La Paz because this city is much more
q. Where was jasmine first known7-M.
A. Jasmine is native of Persia and was
brought to England about 1900 A. D. The
yellow variety came from England in 1866.
Q. Where is the new New York court
house to be located and what VIII 1t costF-
3 A This circular building with dame
Lafayette tie and Center streets. The estimated
cost of building is $10,O0o,0oo, cost Of site
q. How did vaudeville get this name
A. This word has in some way grown
from Vaux de Wire, the name OF two valleys
lin France. A native of Wire composed
some satirical drinking songs which be-
came popular thruout France, under the
used for other collections of songs and be-
came corrupted into voix de Vile, and
finally to va. yaudeviille; .,.u.u~ .....,,.
! In numbers? 7. Fl. B.
A. While the 1920 census shows an ac-
tual decrease in the number of Indians
sus fenumerators classed as whites. per-
sons having only slight trace of Indian
blood, while in 1910 these were classed as
Indians. The Indians have shown very
little change in numbers in the past hall
O. What is the name Of the city in
which. man climbed up tree to see
A The city thru which Christ passel
and in which zacchaeus, publican OF
tax gatherer, climbed up tree in order
to see Him was Jericho. This Is related
in Luke's Gospel. 18th Chapter, verses 1-10
t. Q. Is it true that a humming birds bill
consists Of single hollow tube which can
mot be opened IA. r. 8.
A. The bill of the humming bird doel
fopen, but the lower mandible fits into the
upper. The Biological Survey says the
tongue of the humning bird 10 a double
tube.
T. (Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka Stat
iJournal Information Bureau, Frederic J
Haskin, Director, Washington, DC. Thil
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

ing the car il Keith pays for 4 !"
Mother told me, encouraging me- to
I told her everything save the one
thing that made me most unhappy
Keith's friendship for Alice De Isle.
Even to her 1 could not speak OF that
not for while
SIT is hard, dear child. to advise YOU
I know of the strange influence Mar
esret has upon Keith. When they
were children it worried me. Keith
has a will of his own in other things,
but where his sister is concerned he
is plastic. But agree with you. You
should have home of your own. 1
would insist upon your remaining
with me, at least for a time, you and
baby, but it would not be wise. Mar
earet would have too free hand.
She must learn that she cannot rule
Keith. How you can show her this
I DO not know. But in some way 1t
must be done If you are to be happy.
I viii talk to Keith about a home for
you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25
ANfERICAN VALUATION.

The Fordney tariff bill has been
handed over to the senate and there
is promised at least a month OF con-
sideration by the committee, to say
nothing of the debate to follow. One
of the features which gives promise
of long drawn out controversy is the
American valuation" section.
The American valuation section OF
the bill, while confusing to some bust
ness men as we'll as a good many
members of congress. is claimed by
tariff experts to be very simple and
workable. 1t is further claimed that
it will prove helpful to many Ameri-
can importers, who at this time, while
willing to make a fair return on their
importations, are unable to do so be-
cause they can not give a fair valua-
ton.
The tariff commission, it Is said. has
gone thoroly. into the question of us
ing American valuation as the basis
for ascertaining ad vaiorem duties
It did not. however. recommend TIN
adoption of the proposed change from
the present basis in use for ascertain
ing ad valorem duties. The house
ways and means committee asked the
commission for suggestions and it wa,
upon these that it wrote the American
valuation section of its bill. The mo,
tive in making the change from tn,
present custom. it is said, was the
hope of escaping many diffieuItie,
growing out of differentiation. dis
turbed foreign exchange. and differ
enees in cost of production at HON,
and abroad.
IT is explained by experts that un
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY IEE PAPR

Pop was smoking and thinking
and I was jest thinking, and 1 sed,
Hay popA
Hay yourself, sed pop, and sed,
Hay pop, wat are you thinking of
getting me for my BIRTHDAY?
To tell you the truth my thawts
haven't bin running in that direction
at all, my mind Is so full of petty
personal matters that I have prac-
tikly no time to devote 20 big public
questions, sed pop.
Being sourcastic, and I sed, Well
hay pop, will you get mepone of those
punching bags that goes up on the
ceiling? They only cost $40 and
Pubs Simkins has got one so has Sid
Hunt and SO has Leroy Shooster.
Sounding like a pritty good Of a
argewment, and pop ssd, Are you
quite sure those boys have one2
Yes sir, I'm so sure I'm positive /
sed.
Well then you can take terms using
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25
JUST FOLKS
THE LESSON
By EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE LESSON
You will discover by and by, al
When you have grown as old as L,
That certain men at whom you sneer {.
With habits strange and customs queer
And sometimes very coarse and crude
And in their conduct often rude,
Grow rich, while men of finer grain
In humble poverty remain.
And no doubt, too, as oft have ],
You'll notice this and wonder why
Why should the barren intellect
The treasures of the world collect,
While polished minds from day to day
Must struggle for a meager payl
If Ignorance to wealth can rise,
Why be- gentleman and wise!
Yet when these thoughts shall come to you,
There is one thing I'd have you do
Consider this: so rich TO be,
Would you remain as coarse as he2
Count up your friends and his right then
Would you give up the kindly men
Who stand by you and take his place.
Almost an outcast from his race?
Would you be laughed at, as is he,
The richest man on earth to be?
And for mere gold, so highly priced,
Would you be pitied or despised?
Learn FROM such men that here on earth
Money is not the proof Of worth,
And poor is he whose wealth is told
In nothing but a pile Of gold.
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25
Dorothy Dix Talks
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
worlds highest Paid Wsnan Writes.
Ten Commandments for the Summei
VisitoF.-1.

NOOAAA@---~@-
VisitoR.-1.
First: Never invite yourself to any
body's house. When you desire to
graft hotel bill do not write to one
friend that you yearn to behold her
beauteous countenance, and the Sc
raphic faces of her offspring or to an
other acquaintance that your doctor
has recommended sea baths or noun
tain air for you, and will 1t be con-
venient for her to have you come and
make her a little visit
Bear in mind that the United States
mails are still running and pen paraly-
sis is a rare disease. Also that the
telegraph and telephone perform their
accustomed functions and that those
who desire your presence will have no
difficulty in making it known to you.
There are. many pests that go up
and down in the land seeking whom
they may devour. but none is SO pesti-
ferrous as the self invited guest.
Second: When you go to make a
visit go at the appointed hour and on
the designated train. Also take with
you a small amount of baggage. Moth
ing gives a hostess such a sinking OF
the heart as for a guest to arrive with
mountain of trunks that looks as
if she had come to stay to the judg-
ment day.
Third: Don't take your angel child
with you, or your Pomeranian pup, or
yOuE S1e, VI youI PAL tots VI d1iy PCT
whatsoever. For the child that draws
pictures with pin on the best mahog-
any table, and plays cars on the Per-
sian rugs. and spells things at table
and the strange dog that howls by
night, and the parrot that wakes
sleepers at dawn by its screeching
cause a hostess to curse her who
brought these Affections upon her, and
to write Never again" against her in
her visitors book
Fourth: II you are a food faddist
and have to live on any sort of diet
for heavens sake stay at home. or &c
to a hotel where you can pay for the
trouble you make. It's sheer brutality
to inflict a bum stomach or unstrung
nerves on your friends, and il, you
skinned milk, or have everything
kept quiet while you sleep of an after
noon. win the eternal gratitude OF
those who ask you to visit them by
saying mo"
Fifth: Play cricket. Be a sport
When you are in Rome do as the Ro-
mans do. Fall in with every plan that
has been made for your amusement
and help push things along. If a
picnic has been arranged, don't say
you loathe sitting on the ground and
eating messy things with ants and
bugs in them, and that you will stay
at home and write letters while the
others go. If your hostess is a golf
her.. If she plays bridge, sit in the
game no matter how weary it makes
you, for an unadaptable- guest is ever
as a bull in china shop. 1t upsets
everything and messeS up the whole
place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25
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theirs and avoid. having the noise
GROUND the house. sed pop.
Me, thinking, Heck. And sed
Well then hay pop. how about a
bewgie so can lern all the bewgle
calls. None of the fellows have got
a bewgle, pop. so I'll be the ony one
has one.
Do you meen to say not a single
one Of the boys has a bewgle7 sed
pop, and I sed, No sir. nobodys got
original one.
It duzzent do to be too original in
this werld. people are libel to mis-
understand you, sed pop, and I sed.
Well then G, gosh, pop, cant I have
q bewgle for my berthday?
No, sed pop.
Proving sometimes no argewment
Is eny good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

The value OF all farm property in
the United States on January l, 1920.
according to the fourteenth census,
was $77.925, 9S9,07S, as compared with
$40, 991, 449, 09O in 1910. The increase
in the value OF ali farm property dur
ing the decade was thus~s SO, 9S4.5s9,-
$50, or SOL per cent. This is an av-
erage of 9 per cent a year profit on
the farmers investment Probably
mt all businesses have done so well,
the transportation business, for ex-
ample.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

der the American valuation plan in
stead Of taking the duties on foreign
values. duties ad valoren will be as
sessed on the wholesale values in the
United States.
Just here seems to lie the bug un-
der the chip" American beneficiaries
of the tariff fix their own wholesale
prices and therefore will be in a po-
sition to fix the amount OF duty to be
collected. Mr.. Fordney spoke truly
when he said that the bill was de-
signed to shut out inportations of for
eign goods
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

A. Z. McKinstry, vice president of
the International Harvester company.
sends in q denial that American har-
Vesting machinery ever has been sold
abroad at a price below that charged
at home and quotes from an official
report made in 1913. If Mr.. McKin-
stry would go about twenty years far
Their back in our commercial history.
he might find reason to alter his po-
sition. While the writer of the edi-
torial to which Mr.. McKinstry takes
exception has no personal knowledge
regarding the marketing of harvest
ing machinery. he has indisputable
evidence regarding sewing machines.
During the period referred to Ameri-
can made machines were bought in
Germany and shipped to this country
at n saving of money for the pur-
chaser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

It is reported that $4,000 Russians
are dying daily from cholera, typhus
and famine. The world, Of course,
will be called upon to save the Rus
SLAMS. Some may wonder why it Is
that we are almost continuously
called upon to rescue worthless people
from death by disease and starvation.
The ansv'ts is that the other kind of
people take care Of themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

Efforts still are being made in GER
tain quarters to fix responsibility
upon Woodrow Wilson for the long
delay in reaching a state of peace
with Germany. But who, outside CT
the United States. cares whether we
are or are not at peace with the Huns?
And the people of this country ex-
pressed their view on the matter last
November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

England's position on President
Harding's disarmament conference
appears to be that she will send dele
gates to the meeting but will continue
to build warships. Her position is
much like that of the late Artemus
Ward. who was willing that all his
wife's relations should Join the army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

Henry Ford has made a 20 per cent
reduction in freight rates over his
short-hne railroad near Detroit. If
Henry should take it into his head
some time to build a system of rail-
roads over the country, he would
make existing railroad arrangements
sit up and take notice. If the govern
ment should again take over the rail-
roads it should make Ford general
manager.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

An explanation of the fact that our
army continues to occupy the terri
tory of country with which we have
officially declared we are at peace
seems to be in order. The armies Of
the allies are there to enforce treaty
with Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

Danish false modestyf from the
school room" is the advice of the d.
rector of physical education at Wash
ington. 1t may well be doubted that
there is much of that sort of thing
LETT, either false or true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-25

copyright. 1921. by fbe wheeler Eyndiests,
Jnc.1
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-06-30
Club Holds Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Readers
Club met at the home of Mrs. George
Gray last Tuesday. The reports from
the officers showed the club was in
a fine financial condition and all work
being carried out very successfully.
A short program was carried out
and them came election of officers.
Mrs. Gray was reelected president;
Mrs. Stamm, vice president; Mrs
Wooledge, secretary-treasurer; Mrs
Wiley, corresponding secretary.
The club desires to express its sim
cere thanks to the following persons
for the gift of books during the year:
Mr.. w. w. Ferbrache. Mr. Nelson,
Major Walker, Mrs. Emma WEIGH
Mrs. I. Causton, Miss Wanda Marsh
and to Prof. T. s. Kerr, Mr.. John
Hanson and the Boomers Ferry Her
aid for courtesies and accommodations
extended to the club.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-06-30
SAYSCOOD WORDj
FOR BALL TEAM

Il do not believe the people of Bon
ners Ferry realize" said w. c. Reid to
the Herald this week, "the high class
ball team they have this year" Mr.
Reid is manager of the local team and
believes Boomers has an aggregation
of ball players that will win big per-
centage of the games it plays during
the balance of the season.
''The boys have played to date eight
games" said Manager Reid, land have
won four and lost four Two of these
they lost to Standpoint on Sandpoint's
grounds and to a team that has won IL
out of 10 games. These two games
were won by Standpoint by score of
to 3 and to 5, and were so close
that each was anybody's game from
start to finish. The local team is get
ting in better shape the past two
weeks and confidently expect that we
will annex the third game played with
Standpoint here on the Fourth
Another feature one should not for
get Is that the Boomers Ferry team is
composed entirely of home boys, all
working here, while the other teams
they have played have a strong per
centage of hired players. We would
like very much to have the town get
behind the team and give it the warm
est support, and if the people do this
we believe we will have winning
team. The team has been financed
with no assistance from anyone except
what was realized from the dances and
boxing bouts given.
The personnel of the team is as fol-
lows: Hydorn, captain and catcher;
Roughcorn, 1st base; Johnston, I'd
base; Chamberlain, Sd base; Moline,
right field; Rolf, center field; Bruce,
left field; Earl Heathershaw, short
stop; Mcnamara, Ray Heathershaw
and Hope, pitchers.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-06-30
Farmers, Union Convention

Last Saturday the Bi-County Farm.
ers' Union held its convention at
Standpoint. An all day picnic was en-
joyed by all present. Dinner and
supper was served by the ladies OF
the Standpoint local, and was voted
by all present as the best yet. Dur
ing the afternoon several good talks
were made, among the speakers being
Mr.. Wiseman, II. F. Samuels, R. H.
Mcmillan and others. The next con-
vention will be held in Bonners Ferry
next December
Those attending from Boomers Fei
ry we're Harley Cave, John Washtdrn,
w. l.. Doty. w. F. Brant, Mrs. Lille
Cavener and Mrs. A. E. Aldridge.