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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY E ?ENING. JUNF 19, 1915.
QL&peka tatr Journal
An Independent Newspaper.
By FRANK P. MAO LENNAN.
(Entered July 1. 1876, mm second-claaa
Matter at the postofTlce at Topeka, Ken.,
ader the act of congress.
VOLUME XXXMI No. 142
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from home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each da to any
address at the rate of ten rents A week or
thirty rents a month (by mail only). Ad
dress changed as often as desired While
eut of town the State Journal will be to
yea like a daily letter from heme.
Advance payment Is requested en these
short time subscriptions, to save bookkeep
leg expenses.
Nor does there appear to be much
more danger of the fish In Kansas go
ing thirsty this summer as they have
occasionally in the past.
Incidentally, this is also a mighty
poor season for the professional rain
makers, those funny fellows who send
licmM into the skies with small bal
loons and practice other witchery.
William Waldorf Astor, one of the
few expatriated Americans who ap
pears to be proud of that fact, con
tinues to labor diligently for a Brit
ish title. He has just contributed
S100.000 to the English Red Cross
funds.
Topeka has enjoyed an average of
a half-inch of rain a day for the past
81 days. And this, it would seem no
more than reasonable to urge, is rain
a-plenty for a week or so. But there
is no way of stopping it if more wants
to fall.
It would alsoappear that our new
policy towards the Mexlcon situation
is rather leisurely in its progress to
assuming a definite and decisive form.
Matters appear to be running along In
Mexico in the same old way, and if
the leaders of the several military fac
tions there are concerned in an effort
to get together they are proceeding
about this business in an unusual way.
It would be interesting to know if
the conditions in the Kansas peniten
tiary coal mine, the physical condi
tions, 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.
This Lieague-to-Enforce-Peace idea
that has been formally launched with
ex-President Taft at the helm appears
to be working along the right lines,
but it can become effective only If .a
preponderant majority.or force of the
major nations of the world subscribe
to it. And the rub will come In get
ting their signatures to the compact.
But there are huge difficulties in the
road of any kind of a world-peace
program.
Billy Sunday's erstwhile fellow
laborer in the evangelical vineyard
declares that all of his former chiefs
best and most powerful sermons orig
inated either with "Gypsy" Smith,
Talmage. or "Sam" Jones. And while
it is always & good policy to discount
to some extent the observations of a
sore-head, this gent ought to know
what he is talking about. Neither
are his disclosures likely to surprise
many folk;
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 13, 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.
ObD-FASHIOXED REMEDIES.
Diet, pure food, pure air and less
worry constitute the favorite prescrip
tion of doctors in this progressive day,
says Leslie's. And we are having a
revival of the old-fashioned remedies
of our mothers and grandmothers
who depended upon nature's 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
for the human system. This was a
Russian medical discovery and the oil
received the name of "Russian OH."
It was obtaining world-wide 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 Na
ture's herbs and the products of Na
ture's distillation. Providence admin
isters its healing remedies to suffer
ing mankind and leaves less for the
doctors to do.
When one is in Rome, etc. Many
of the German residents of England
have joined in a protest against the
"barbarous acts of the German gov
ernment in the conduct of the war."
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 speculators
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
ery of large quantities of wheat in
September and perhaps sooner, and if
the wheat prices are such in the im
mediate future as to make the wheat
farmers reluctant to place their new
grain on the market, the speculators
would be forced to stand disastrous
losses.
And the European belligerents and
their newspapers seem, to be treating
Mr. Bryan's suggestions for bringing
the war to an end with a silence that
must be painful to the Nebraskan.
OUR PHILIPPINE TRADE.
Trade seems to follow the flag, all
right. The United States in the fiscal
year, 1914, for the first time supplied
more than one-half of the imports
into the Philippine Islands, namely,
51 per cent, as against 14 per cent in
1904. The imports into those islands
in 1914, according to official figures
published by the Insular Bureau of
the war department and reprinted in
the Statistical Abstract of the United
States, included 128,572,000 worth of
merchandise from the United States
and $27,440,000 from other countries,
while in the same year those islands
sent to this country $22,047,000 worth
of merchandise, as against $29,191,000
sent to other countries. Statistics cov
ering a later period and including
nine months ending with March, 1915,
published by the department of com
merce through the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce, indicate a
marked decrease in shipments to the
Philippine Islands from the United
States and a considerable increase in
value of their shipments to this coun
try when compared with the same pe
riod one year ago. The value of ship
ments from the United States to the
Philippine Islands in the nine months
ending with' March was $16,434,000,
as against $21,448,000 in a like perlntl
of last year, and shipments from those
islands to the United States in the
ten months of the current year were
valued at $18,984,000, as against
$12,238,000 last year. Cotton goods
head the list of articles shipped from
the United States to the Philippine
Islands, their toral for the calendar
year 1914 being $6,C82,000, compared
with $4,205,000 for iron and steel
manufactures; $1,616,000 for mineral
oils; $1,227,000 for leather and manu
factures thereof; and $1,139,000 for
breadstuffs. Next in order of import
ance are paper and. manufactures
thereof, $715,000; cars and carriages,
chiefly automobiles, $66,000; ex
plosives, $623,000; meat and dairy
products, $621,000; chemicals and
drugs, $524,000; soap, $440,000; india
rubber manufactures, $429,000; lum
ber and other wood, $427,000; electri
cal machinery and instruments, $395,
000; fish, $376,000; tobacco manufac
tures, $282,000; coffee. $248,000; re
fined sugar, $204,000; vegetables,
$197,000; coal. $184,000; and fruits,
$171,000. Manila hemp, sugar, vege
table oils, copra, and manufactures of
tobacco are the most important arti
cles imported into the United States
from the Philippine Inlands.
Financing the Great War appears to
be the easiest feature of its conduct
and maintenance. Great Britain Is
about to float another war loan total
ing $1,750,000,000.
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
of man that have ever existed, writes
Hudson Maxim, in the Touth's 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
would have had to be hit with me
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 sise and
arrangement of continents and islands,
rivers and seas on our earth have had
an important part in shaping the hu
man race. If the letters needed to
print the Lord's Prayer were picked
out of a font of type, shaken up in a
bag, and then dumped helter-skelter
upon a printer's "stone," the chance
that in falling they would assemble
themselves in the Lord's Prayer would
be as great as the chance is that there
ia nvwhprf within the range of the
telescope another world inhabited by
heinca lik ourselves. It is not im
probable, however, that there are
many worlds peopled with beings botn
inferior and superior to ourselves, but
they must be as differen rom us as
the worlds they inhabit are different
from ours.
Journal Entries
Good advice is the kind you give.
People are never very interesting
when they have to try hard to be that
way.
The real financier is the individual
who can do a lot with a little money.
One of the biggest victories a man
can win is to establish control over
himself.
Wn. m-nr crmwn-lin whn Was
wholly satisfied with his or her given
name :
Jayhawker Jots
Etiouette note. in the Bonner
Springs Chieftain: No lady will trim
her corns with her husband's razor.
Theatrical note, in the Minneapolis
Messenger: When a cyclone gives a
performance it always brings down
the house.
As the Hamilton Grit sings or sighs:
You may paint, you may powder as
much as you will, but the age of the
woman will show through it still.
He took her ltttle 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 his'n.
It is a pretty safe guess, suggests
the Beloit Call, that when a fellow ac
costs you as "brother," "bo," or "pal,"
or some other pet name that he is
more familiar with asking alms than
he is with work.
A Toronto small boy turned the ta
bles on his daddy in this wise, tells
Mrs. Kelley, in the Toronto Republi
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 a gray hair
in his father's head. Son glanced at
the few gray hairs that evidently lay
to his credit, and backed off, a grow
ing horror in his eyes. "Why, Papa!
Grandpa's head is gray all over!"
Observations by the Marysville Advocate-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
cf a burden for some men to carry.
. . . The woman who can go to church
in a last year's 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 a
little, even if it produces wrinkles. . . .
A circus advertisement is to a boy
what a fashion plate is to a 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 ail
ment as remembering wrong is. . . .
A woman who plays with fire at
twenty is apt to be kept busy putting
salve 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 a hus
band. . . . There're always breakers
ahead when a man who draws an un
bleached muslin salary marries a hem
stitched woman.
Globe Sights
BT THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
Try to be a booster without being
a 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
ioned Joke about folding beds?
After one has hurried all day, it is
hard to refrain from eating that way.
All come 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
volve you.
Don't be too set in your opinions,
for you might want to change them
some day.
After the ax falls it develops that
more than half the people were watch
ing for it.
You must learn to appreciate sev
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 well in a business
way. "
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News. J
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
disagreeable disposition.
It 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 mov
ie together they call it a theater party.
There's more power in a woman's
tears than there is in a man's 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 a correspondence
school. Watch your neighbors.
Most old bachelors are hard to
please; they don't even think a girl
baby is fit to kiss until she is sweet 16.
On the Spur
of the Moment
BT ROY K. MOCLTON.
The Of flceseeker.
I am the officeseeker.
I flatter and I smirk,
I want a soft position;
I do not like to work.
I've done naught for my country,
I never went to war;
But it owes me a living.
That's what a country's for.
It matters not what party
Wins out and takes the game;
I think that I'm entitled
To some job, just the same.
I'm always in the forefront.
And that's the bet that's best;;
Of course there may be others.
But I'm the champion pest.
Uncle Abner.
Miss Amy Pringle says a show ain't
any good unless it kin make her cry,
and any show that kin squeeze a tear
out of an old veteran like Amy, who
has been engaged nineteen times, is
certainly some show.
Many a feller thinks he is in love,
but it is only because he has sausage
and buckwheat cakes for breakfast
and his digestion is poor.
There ain't any spot in the road
where any old feller who voted for
Sam Tilden can't tell you all that is
worth knowing about the political
situation, whether it is true or not.
Doc Hanks of our town guarantees
to extract teeth without pain that is,
without any pain to himself.
Purty soon there will be a different
brand of cut plug tobacker fer every
fellow that smokes.
It may be necessary some day to
call a special session of congress to
amend the ten commandments and the
amendment will probably get a few
votes at that.
It is gettin' so that bell ringers don't
draw very well anywhere exceptin' on
th' kerosene circuit and th' time was
when bell ringin' was the highest form
of theatrical entertainment.
There hasn't been a man arrested
for speedin' with, a bicycle for twenty
years and the police court used to be
full of 'em.
The main difference between a liv
ery stable and a garage is that a fel
ler used to be able to stand off a liv
ery stable feller once in a while.
Next to playin" a bass drum with a
minstrel show band, the hardest job
I know is tryin' to run a metropoli
tan newspaper in a jerkwater town.
Men in other professions have perk
ed up a bit, but you never see a book
agent without a shiny frock coat and
a string necktie.
Hand It to Him.
When the day is dark and gloomy, and
affairs are going wrong.
And there hasn't been a smile all
day and joy's beneath the ban.
When your rheumatiz is humpin' and
your taxes have come due;
When your candidate's defeated and
you're hoppin' mad clear
through,
You still have one consolation you
can slam the weather man.
An Ode to the Sultan of Turkey.
For he is a jolly good fellow.
He is a Jolly good fellow.
He is a jolly good fellow
Which nobdy will admit.
Evening Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON.
A Reconstructed Life.
"Or watch tho things you gave your
life to broken.
And stoop and build 'em up again
with worn out tools."
Kipling.
Some day I'd like to write a book
on heroes and heroines I have known.
To be sure. Jack Binns of wireless.
and Captain Barker of North Pole
fame, are the only two heroes in the
common sense of the word that I have
met, but that isn't the kind I mean.
I mean the heroes and heroines of
a 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?
No, on second thoughts, I don't
wonder
And when I write this book, among
its 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.
I know there must be some who
read who have undergone such a loss,
and I know that no matter how old
the wound it will ache at these words.
But listen! Suppose you had lost
two such sons, suppose they were all
the boys you had, and suppose you lost
them both in one day by a needless
tragedy!
Do you think you could go on liv
ing after that?
Do you think you could deliberate
ly 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 a cherished
friend of both old and young, and
your home a pleasant, peaceful place
to which people liked to come to lose
their weariness 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?
I do.
And if I were a man I think I
should feel like taking off my hat
whenever I passed that home.
It is not ' that thev have forgotten,
or tried to forget. Far from it.
It is because they always remem
ber and love and hope. It 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 chil
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 petlesa Is a 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 tall. (Fact!)
Don't let a little child have a kitten
and maul it. Choose an amiable
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 ill temper or in
sanity on the part of the pet, but
proper care minimizes them.
KOSKMARI FOB REMEMBRANCE.
When I would go a-walkiug
In springtime on the green
As other hearty lade 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 yonr lips.
Another face is lifted
As the white heron dips,
When all the sailor lads come home
W ho man the lonely ships.
And were we two together
Too close to breathe or stir.
With stars our wakeful candles
Upon strewn boughs of fir,
I could not lie beside you
And not remember her.
Willard Wattler, in June Smart Set.
The Evening Story
The Heart of a Rose.
(By Elinor Gale.)
Rose Staples stood in her bedroom
window looking down at the pair sit
ting under the great beech tree.
Her aunt, charming in a cool white
gown, was pouring tea for Captain
Garth. The captain's straw hat was
on the grass and the sunshine flick
ered on tho silver streaks in his dark
hair. Except for the silver hair, one
might have taken George Garth to be
a very young man, so lithe was his
form, so light his step, so youthful his
heart.
Rose knew him to be just twice her
own age that was forty.
And Aunt Angela was almost forty
and she was so lovely that Rose felt
a pang of jealousy as she watched
them.
Garth was leaning forward in the
wicker chair, his' eyes fixed on An
gela's fair face. He was talking
Rose often wondered what topic
it was they found so interesting. They
always grew silent when she ap
proached and they changed the sub
ject to tennis and motoring and the
newest books.
"I wonder they don't talk to me
about dolls," thought Rose rebel
liously. She glanced into the mirror and
saw that her pink linen frock was
vastly becoming in combination with
brown eyes and bronze-brown hair
and golden tipped lashes.
She went out to the tea table and,
as she expected, Aunt Angela changed
the conversation to the forthcoming
society circus at the Country club.
Presently the elder woman excused
herself and went into the houae.
"Take me to see the roses," sug
gested Captain Garth.
"He is bored with me!" thought
Rose, but she swallowed her pique
and led the way to the rose garden.
When they reached the shade of the
pergola the captain turned his hand
some blue eyes down upon his com
panion. "I would like one rose from the
garden," he said in an odd tone.
"One rose?" repeated the girl. "You
may have a dozen if you wish!" She
reached for a cluster of pink ram
blers. But his strong brown hand caught
hers and held it close to his heart.
"You are the rose I want," he said
gently.
"I?" she faltered, only half under
standing. "You. Is is so incredible that I
should love you?" he smiled down at
her.
What evil spirit whispered to Rose
that i perhaps Aunt Angela had re
fused George Garth and he was offer
ing her his damaged heart?
Surely, he had not made love to
Rose according to youth's romantic
dreams. His proposal was so sudden
and unexpected..
With a throbbing heart Rose
pushed him away from her and cried:
"Oh, I'm afraid you've made a mis
take!" She ran away to her own room and
faced her flushed reflection in the
glass.
"He has made a mistake," she told
herself. "It is Aunt Angela he loves
he is only flirting with me. I hate
him!"
Poor Rose, who could not recognize
love when it came knocking at her
heart!
There were many months when
Captain Garth did not appear at Pine
Grove. His ship was ordered to
Asiatic waters and Rose noticed that
Aunt Angela frequently received foreign-looking
letters.
"I was right!" Rose assured her
self, but her unruly heart ached for
the love she had denied it.
Angela studied the letters closely.
Sometimes she smiled over them, and
once she hurriedly left the room in
tears.
It was all a great mystery to Rose,
who lived alone in the big house with
Angela. There was much company
and music and pleasure, but both aunt
and niece seemed to be living under a
great strain of anxiety.
June came around again and An
gela took to watching the gates.
"She expects him," thought Rose,
who knew that he had been ordered
home.
One night when the rose garden was
fragrant with the incense from a thou
sand blossoms, the dew was falling
and the cool moonlight flooded the
open spaces. Rose stepped into the
pergola.
At the remote end a man, tall and j
straight, was standing, and in his j
arms was Aunt Angela. !
"He has come!" thought Rose. i
She turned and ran toward the
house. Her eyes were blinded by
tears and she could scarcely see the
way, so that she ran right into the
arms of George Garth, who was com
ing across the lawn.
"Oh!" she cried sharply, "you? I
Just saw you there in the pergola
with Aunt Angela."
"Oh, no!" he chuckled. "You saw
my brother Charlie. He and Angela
have been sweethearts for years.
There was a misunderstanding and
Charlie lost himself in the orient;
been exploring Tibet, I believe. I
promised Angela I'd try to locate him
this, time and I did brought him
home, in fact. He has suffered as
well as Angela. I am glad for them."
Rose was still in his arms.
"It is a long time to keep you wait
ins for me rose." she whispered.
"Not when it's the rose of ;fiy
neart." he declared gallantly. (Copy
right, 1915. by the McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
Our Maple Sugar Crop.
The maple trees of the nation pro
duce 47,000.000 founds 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
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 Doth in spring and
in autumn. A combination of sugar
maples 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
tery. Investigation has merely record
ed certain facts; it has not explained
them. It 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 30 degrees
above freezing, and, finally, there
must be a 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
tery 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.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Obstinacy is merely a trait possessed
by the other fellow in an argument.
It 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.
It 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 a big gun?" Wagg "From 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, .'t 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 enthusiasm."
Buggins "Oh, yes, he has; but he
keeps it bottled up in his hip pocket."
"It 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.
BLUET BLACKBIRD
All the time that Mr. and Mrs.
Reddy Squirrel were finding and mak
ing their new home in the park, Bluey
Blackbird was exploring and eetting
acquainted with the new place.
"Dear me!" he exlaimed to himself
after he had taken a brief look
around, "I'm sorry that I never came
here before! 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.
Just as he was poised for a drink on
the edge of the lake lie 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 a 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 !
There he stopped to get his breath
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,
but not one of those strange birds
could he see! "That's queer." he said
to himself, "I wonder who they were?"
"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
thev not?" he added, for he . didn't
want Dusky to get the idea that he
was timid without good cause.
"Dangerous?" asked Dusky in a
puzzled voice, "who in the world can
von mean? There are no dangerous
birds in the park. I don't know what j
you are talking about." j
Bluey huffed himself up in his usual i
style and felt very important. . "Think ;
of that," he said to himself in a grati-
fied tone, "here this stupid Dusky has
lived all his life in this park for all I I
know! And he is not observing enough
to discover what I, with my bright ;
eyes can see in an hour. Too bad to i
be so stupid! I am thankful that I,
at least, have some sense! I can re
flect credit in the blackbird family if ;
he doesn't!" And he huffed and he
puffed and he blew himself up big and I
Kansas Comment
THE SOIL THEIR SALVATION.
Increased colonisation 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. It
is likely that the United States and
South America will be the object
ive of the most stupendous exodus
from the Old World in its history.
Into this nation's polyglot of races
will come every European type with
his virtues and his vices. In a few
years he will either assimilate or be
destroyed. That is the law of a na
tion such as this. He must breathe
tnis nation's atmosphere or stifle.
This increased immigration will be
attracted to the unsettled portions of
the United States. They will brings
their European methods of intense
farming. Th-; husbandmen will bring
frugality and thrift. Given an oppor
tunity, these strangers to our shores
will do much in building up the wast
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 dan
ger. The country is the place for the
new comers. The government should
provide a way for them to secure
farms. Salina Journal.
From Other Pens
ALASKAN CHANCES.
It is well to sound a note of warning
to the overenthusiastic, who, now that
work is reported to be plentiful in
Alaska, are planning to join the rush
to that golden land. The proposed
government railroad will give employ
ment to large numbers, but probably
to but a small fraction of those who
will seek labor. Work will not be
plentiful, gold does not cover the
enrth, nor lie around in every gulch,
a many dreamers picture. The man
who goes there prepared to suffer se
verest hardships, to labor dilipently
and faithfully, eaily and late, who car
ries with him a determination to play
the game on the square with himself
and his new country of promise, who
abides by that determination through
weal and woe, will be well repaid. It
takes a strong man to do all those
things. To him Alaska beckons, but
to the weakling or the quitter, it turns
a cold shoulder. Cleveland Press.
CHINA'S EXPERIENCE.
"We are ashamed and humiliated,
but our weakness invited insult."
These words, frankly spoken by Presi
dent Yuan Shi Kai of China, are re
spectfully submitted for the considera
tion of Mr. Bryan, Mr. Daniels and
other gentlemen who believe that iia-
tional honor and territorial integrity
! need only the protection of a clear
conscience and a kindly smile for the
world. China knows by experience
the folly of unpreparedness. It has
put the pacifist policy to a test, and
offers to the world the warning of
its own sad case. When a man with
out a gun has been done to death by
rogues, it is doubtless consoling to re
call his clear conscience and his kind
ly smile, but the recollection does not
make him any less a corpse. Pre
paredness for defense might preserve
the conscience and the smile for
longer and more useful functioning.
Chicago Post.
EXPLORES THE PARK.
grand.
Dusky watched him curiously. "Who
can you mean?" he said again. "I
know every bird in the park and I
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 I see it? I tell you these
were great, huge, dangerous animals!
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 too!" ("And
then if they see him, they can chase
"Those are friends of mint those are
the tamed wl Id ducks.' "
him and I 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 tho great
birds! "There they are!" cried Bluey
excitedly. "Just as I told you! And to
inins you never saw tnem before
dear me. but you are stupid!"
"Oh, those." said Dusky calmly,
"those are friends of mine those are
the tamed 'wild ducks' who live in
the park all the time. They wouldn't
hurt a creature, they are friendly to us
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 glared at
Dusky and then flew off to his own
garden home. (Copyright Clara In
gram Judnon. )
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