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cost of Armed ePace.

Paris, Jan. Edmund Thery, the
French economist, figures that the
maintenance of Europe's armed peace
footing in the last 25 years cost las
billion francs, approximately $29, 100000
600, which involved an increase in the
public debt of the European states of
stantly excluded from productive in
dustry $4,000 officers and $500. 900 men.
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the changing vicissitudes- of the
amusement world. Throughout the
globe the same phenomenon has been
experienced in varying degrees, eX-
cept in Russia.
There ballet dancing has not only
held it's own, but it's vogue has grown
until it has become the recognized
art of the strange, interesting, exclu-
sive eastern empire. That is why a
revival of the ballet means tidal
wave of Russian dancers.
America has had just a sample of
the great Russian art and is ready to
join Europe in going mad on the sub
ject. The sample was provided in a
four weeks season last March, when
the Metropolitan Opera company pre-
scented in New York and Boston Mile.
Pavlowa and M. Mikail Mordkin, the
acknowledged leading opponents of
Russian dancing, and the Cars IA
Vorite performers.
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never has been experienced in this
country before.
The decline and almost total disap-
pearance of the stately ballet in Amer
lea is one of the many mysteries of
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Notice is given that the. stockholders OF
the Aetna Building & Loan Association
of Topeka. Kansas, will hold their annual
meeting in the office of the said Associa-
ton in the City of Topeka, Kansas, OH
Tuesday, the oath day of January a. D.
1911 at 10 o'clock A. NJ. of said day, for
the purpose of electing a Board ofHDirec-
tors for the ensuing year. and to trans
act any other business that may properly
come before said meeting. All proxies to
be voted at said meeting must be on file
with the secretary of said Association on
or before noon of January II, 1911.
By order of board of directors.
n. - JNO. O. ROYCE. Secretary.
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In Bankruptcy.
NJ 1910

The creditors of the above named bank
rupt of Topeka, State and District afore-
day of December, 1910. it was duly adj
judged bankrupt; and that the first meet
ing of said creditors will be held in the
United States Court Room, in the City of
Topeka, Kansas. on the 10th day of jan
uary, 1911, at ten o'clock a. M, at which
time said creditors may attend. prove
their claims, appoint a trustee, examine
the bankrupt and transact such other
business as may properly come before said
meeting. J. G. SLONECKER,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
Topeka, Kansas, December 81, 1910,
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MISCELLANEOUS.

We collect bad notes and accounts In
all parts of the u. s. No fee charged till
collection is made. American Collection
Agency, sos Kansas ave.
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''Were you good boy in school today %
st think so, dad. Anyway. teacher called
me holy terror. Buffalo Express.
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Items for the East Topeka column may
be telephoned to Ind. phone 1751.l
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FOR SALE OR TRADE for western land
store building and hall 8 lots. at Waka-
rosa. Kan. Neil and Robinson.
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DRESSMAKING.

FIRST gLASSs dFessmaking; also altera-
tions on ladies' suits and dresses at more
reasonable prices than found elsewhere.
Topeka Garment Co., 800 Kansas ave.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the District Court of the United States
for the District OF Kansas.
In re Smith Automobile Company, Bank
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LEGAL.

Published in The Topeka State Journal
January 1911
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Items for the Oakland column may be
telephoned to Ind phone ISL
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MONEY to loan on live stock, pianos, ore
gans. gtypewriters, household goods and
PERSONAL security. L. Biscoe 523 Kan. ave.
MONEY TO LOAN on personal property
and collateral security, on easy terms.
HAVE client who wishes to make a
few city loans. w. B. Lowrance, Craw-
ford Building.
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PAVING.

CAPITAL CITY vITRIFIED BRICK &
PAVING CO.. PA E. 9Th ST Mfgs- of
building. paving and sidewalk brick.
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EoR sALE NIscEIy..NEous-

FOR SALES mules. j. B. wheian Lsira.
Der Co. 18th and Santa F'e tracks.
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4 IL LOTS

Huntoon and Boswell. 1900. 500 cash.
$40 a month. per cent: fruit trees 11a0
Brooks.
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MONEY.

BETTER REALTY AND LOAN. CO.
make loans on real estate In any
Ground floor. New England Bldg.
MONEY TO LOAN on good city property
at per cent and q reasonable cash COM
mission J. H. Hunt. Room s., Central
National bank.
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AN HIVES INTENT

That will pay over Is per cent. We have
on the East side near "A. t. & IS. f. shops
a house of rooms with store room in
front, all in fine condition; city water;
cistern, well. gas for heat and light, small
barn. lot fenced. This property will rent
for 5000. a month, and if taken at once
can be. bought for $lsS5o. Call Smith.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

FOR SALE-Restaurant doing good busi-
ness and making money; good reason
for selling. Address J. B. J., care Journal
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POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES.


FOR SALE-New and secondhand bill
lard and pool tables and bowling alleys.
We lead the world in cheap bar fix
lures; easy payments. Send for catalogue.
Brunswick-Balke-Co Co., 1S29-31
Main street Kansas City. Mo-
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go out into the wet and snow, the glu-
cose, which is soluble, runs out and the
water runs into its place. There ought
to be some law to prevent the prac-
+foo
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TRANSFER AND STORAGE
HOUSEHOLD GOODS.

Rugs made from old carpets; beautiful
effects. Prices 800 and up. Carpets
cleaned. sewed, laid. McCormick-O Osborn
Rug Factory. 522 Van Buren,.
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Have your Keys made and lock repail
by F. A. Bauman. 215 Kan. ave Bell zss
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PHYSICIANS AND sIJRGEoNs.
MACHINE SHOPS.

GUNS cleaned and repaired by expert
The H. B. Howard Supply Co. 10 K !
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PICTURE FRAMING.

FRAMING, regflding. mat making, mount
ing done by J. d. Sullivan. 122 w. Eighth
street. Packing. shipping, etc.
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JOHN PETRZILEK. the only prac-
trical furrier in Kansas. 127 w. 18th, Topeka
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UNDERTAKING.

L. NJ. PENWELL. funeral director and
embalmer. First class service, reason
able prices. .51 Quincy st. Both phones 192.
Both Phones 2S7. Day and Night.
HAWLEY & STEELE,
Funeral directors and enbalmers, us East
sth ave. Mrs Robt- Steele. assistant
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WANTED you to order your cider froI
Washburn's. Ind. 2315 Black.
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PHOTOGRAPHERS


WEHE'S pictures please. You get ye
moneys worth, then some. Try him.
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TOPEKA HAS PURE WATER.

Topeka scores again and heavily. A
chemical analysis of the water that is
supplied to the people of this city
shows it to be absolutely free from
harmful bacteria OF any kind. The
analysis, which was made by the sci
entific experts of the state board of
health and at the state university,
shows the water to be wonderfully
clear, free from germs of all kinds, free
from germ collecting dirt and free
from organic matter. In other words
the water is pure, almost absolutely
pure, or as near pure as it is posi-
BILE for water to be.
Few cities in the United States can
boast of a water supply of this sort.
1t is impossible that any city can have
a better one in this most important re-
spect. And this is another feather in
Topeka's cap that is decidedly worth
while There is no larger promoter OF
health than pure water. The converse
is equally true. There is nothing more
inimical to health than impure water.
The cities throughout the United States
which have the highest death rates are
those that are unfortunate enough to
have water supplies that are more or
less contaminated.
And Topekas wonderful water sup
ply is an asset, the value of which is
immeasurable. Not only is it of i'm
mense worth to the present residents of
the city. 1t is also one of the many
advantages of the town that will help
it's growth along in material fashion.
People who are looking for a desirable
place to make future and permanent
homes give attention and consideration
to such things as the water supply
above all others. A water supply such
as Topeka's would bring home-hunters
to any place that had one if they were
acquainted with that fact.
Therefore, in such advertising mat
ter about Topeka as is sent out by the
Commercial club and its allied organi-
cations, particular emphasis should be
laid on the city's water supply. Mr..
Shaw, the superintendent of the water
works, has rendered Topeka great
public service in having had the city's
water anaiyZed.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.]

[From the Chicago News.1
Some men are liars. but not all liars
are men.
Ambition is a longing that makes
some men near-great.
It's awfully hard for dyspeptics to
pose as oDtimists
All married men are heroes, but they
can't always prove it.
Women's first law is the concealment
of her imperfections.
IT'S easier for a shiftless man to make
friends than to make good.
1t isn't what you might do first, but
what you viii do last, that counts.
You can't convince a self-made man
that he gave himself the worst of it.
A man may be more eloquent with his
silence than woman with her talk.
Nothing succeeds like success-with
the possible exception of the way fail
ure fails.
With the first scratch on the parlor
furniture the bride enters upon the
tragedy of married life.
Occasionally a man has the last word
in an argument with his wife, but he
has to say it under his breath.
The knowledge that one-half the
world doesn't know how the other half
lives is a constant source Of worry to
some people.
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GAS Supply AssURED.

OF unusual Importance to the peo-
pie of Topeka and many other cities in
Kansas is the recent decision of the
United States court of appeals, for the
Eighth judicial district. which makes
permanent against Oklahoma the in
junction preventing it from Interior
ing with the piping of natural gas out
of that state. This decision of the
court of appeals was unanimous. That
is a pretty good indication that the
supreme court will decide in the same
way If this case is carried to it.
Had an opposite decision been made,
it would only have been matter of
time, and a very short time at that,
when many of the cities in Kansas
would have had their natural
gas supply shut off. Large as they
are, the gas fields in southern Kansas,
have not a sufficient supply to meet
the present demands, and much of the
natural gas now piped into Kansas
cities comes from the gas fields in
northern Oklahoma. Were this Okla
homa supply to be made unavailable
to Kansas, there wouldn't be nearly
enough natural gas in Kansas to go
around, and most of the cities now
using it would have to get along with
out it.
That would be little else than a
calamity. When the weather gets in
tensely cold in Kansas occasionally
there is much fault-hnding with the
natural gas supply which is usually
insufficient for that kind of weather.
This is not because the gas company
hasn't plenty of gas in its wells in
Kansas and particularly in Oklahoma,
but because 1t hasn't the piping, pump
ing and distributing facilities to get
all the gas to the consumers that they
could use. But these unusual cold
spells are few and far between in Kan
sas. During the past winter there was
only one Of them and that did not last
very long. The people who kick the
hardest when such cold waves and a
defincient gas supply come along,
would kick all the harder if they were
to be deprived of natural gas during
the other $50 or $50 days of the year.
And with good reason. Natural gas is
a real luxury. Not only does its
cheapness as a fuel commend it, but it
does away with the arduous and dirty
work of building coal and wood fires
in stoves and keeping them going.
This decision of the United States
court of appeals will be welcomed on
all sides in Kansas. Oklahoma's
policy, or attempted policy in this
matter, had nothing of justice or sense
on its side. 1t was merely of a "dog in
the manager" variety.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Laugh and grow fat, and you will
find the laugh on you.
Some men expect to be given a
chance, others take it.
1t isn't always the chronic kicker
who gets there with both feet.
The weather man is almost as IN
popular as the baseball umpire.
A man is sometimes forced to pock-
ct his pride, but a woman has no pock-
cts.
From a woman's point of view an
ideal husband is one who thinks he has
an ideal wife
Some people are so fond of figuring
out puzzles that they even read the
magazine poetry.
Blobbs-s'f you want an umbrella
to last a long time, don't roll it,
Slobbs-"I have a better scheme than
that BIobbs-'sWhat is it?" Slobbs
Don't lend it,
For three solid hours she had been
sitting on his lap. And will you love
me thus always, darling?" she muir
INJURED. 'fWeIl, guess I can stand it
If the chair can.' he gasped.
Mr.. Newlywed-'I admit I. was aw-
fully nervous when proposed to you;
dear" Mrs. Newlywed-"So was I. :" Mr..
NewIywed-"What made you nervous ?,'
Mrs. Newlywed-"I-I was afraid you
weren't going to-"
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so many words, but that is because
the author is considerable of other per-
sons frailties. 1t does say, however,
that only the lips should be wiped
with the napkin, and, in another par
agraph, that in unfolding it one should
not wave it about the head, or words
to that effect. You have all noticed
this action at the table.
In using the knife and fork, hold
them by the handles. not by the blade
or tines. DO not gesticulate with these
articles.
Do not talk while your mouth is
full. No one can. understand you,
anyway, and it is the proof of i'll
breeding.
Do not, for goodness sake. use a
piece of bread to get the last of the
gravy or sauce. Take your time when
you eat. Even in a railway station
you usually have twenty minutes, and
that is time enough for anyone.
Watch the hostess when you are in
doubt and do as she does, unless she,
too. is in the dark, in which case just
eat.
But 1t is not the desire here to dis
close more than a few of the good
things in this little book. It is a val
liable addition to literature, seriously,
and is worth many, many times the
price asked for it.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

If some folk weren't two-faced, they'd
be disagreeable all the time.
= y
Among the impossibiIities in life is
doing anything that will please some
people.
"a
The time when man wanted little here
below must have been in the distant
past.
It's expensive for woman to tear
her hair these days. 1t means she has
to buy more.
This is also the season of the year
when great preparations are being
made for vigorous campaigns by the
professional summer girls.
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President Taft's Grim Grin.

President Taft is not an especially
humorous person, but he can hardly
have called special session of con-
gress without INDUCING in a grim and
satiricaI grin. Two years ago he con-
vened Congress in extra session for the
purpose of considering the tariff. The
net result of that extra session, poll
tically speaking, was a vast wreckage
in his party. In calling another extra
session he hands the same fatal puz-
BILE over to the Democrats, the condi-
ton being that they must solve it or
suffer destruction. If the Democrats
satisfy the country with respect to the
tariff at this extra session, their chance
of carrying the next presidential cleo
ton will be excellent. If they fail,
they may as we'll close Indefinitely for
Saturday Evening Post.
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DoN,rs FOR THE DINERS.

Suppose your husband brings some
one home to dinner, without saving a
word to you about it in advance, and
it just chances that your maid, If you
have one, has gone out for the day;
what would you do about it, asks the
Kansas Industrialist and 1t continues:
This is one of the important subjects
treated in an interesting little book
just issued by the department of do
nestle science in the Kansas State
Agricultural college. But the book
discusses other equally vital questions.
1t has explicit directions for the young
men who are now taking their first
scientific instruction in table manners.
These directions. prepared by Mrs.
Mary Pierce Van Zile, the dean OF
women, are clear and sensible. A
chapter on Things to Be. Remember
ed should be particularly valuable,
because it contains the tips" about
the actions and general conduct of
men and women in eating that cannot
fail to make life in the dining room
pleasanter and less exciting.
For instance, don't begin talking un-
til you are. sure someone isn't about
to say grace.
Spread the napkin upon the knees
with one fold. Don't try to wrap
yourself in it and don't put it in your
collar. The book doesn't say this in
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.1

TFrom the Atchison Globe.]
When a. woman is broad-minded she
is apt to overdo 1t.
What would happen to you if Justice
should happen to triumph?
If a man does you a favor you must
repay him, with interest attached.
Do YOU know as much about your
own business as you ought to know?
A saloon never represents a good in
vestment to the man in front Of the
bar.
Our idea of justifiable homicide IS
that which occurs in a Chinese Tong
war.
1t does not, however, fall to the lot
of the helpful hen to do all the cack
ling.
once in awhile you see a landscape
picture that looks something like a
landscape.
You can't always tell from outward
appearances whether a. man is gallant
or henpecked.
If things haven't gone right you
might as well blame the other man: he
is blaming you
What has become of the old-fash-
toned father who didn't want his daugh-
tiers to marry?
A bet doesn't prove anything beyond
risk their money.
1t takes the supreme court so long 10
reach a decision that more people than
do would like to appeal to 1t.
Although they never seem to be idle
the devil finds plenty of business for
the English sparrows to attend to.
Occasionally you meet a tobacco
chewer who works as hard at the job
as if he were chewing gum, or the rag.
A boy isn't necessarily a mechanical
genius because he can have a lot of fun
tearing an old clock to pieces.
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SOUL OF POETRY.

felt thee once upon my lovers sigh
As he drank in the perfume of my hair,
That sought a path to silence through
the air.
Again I knew thee in mothers smile,
Gazing in rapture on her babe new born:
l glimpsed thee for a fleeing instant
while
Rose blossoms were gently laid upon a
pail.
Oh, soul of poetry, what was all thy sin
That thou art doomed, in this perplexed
life,
To wander thus apart. though yet within
The two great warning spheres of love
and strife?
Anna Partlan, in Ainslee's.
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HUAOR or THE Day

They say remarked the student,
that truth lies at the bottom of a WE'LL
Il guess that's right" rejoined the old
lawyer, Judging by the amount of pump
ing We have to do in order to get a
little of it."-Chicago News.
says there's nothing in this higher cost
of living" racket. But, then, j. Adam
is humorist.-Chicago Post.
your business for feIlow?'' 'sCertainIy.
Easiest business know of to get ones
self in a hole. "-Baltimore American.
Paradox.-The street car conductor
opened the door to the front platform to
collect his fares. He encountered five no
hcemen riding home from work. Five
coppers," remarked the conductor, slam
ming the door, land not a nickel in the
bunchr-Judge.
Say" inquired the office devil: shall
turned the editor fiercely; land instead
of using the street box. dump this load
into the furnace-these spring poems keep
coming backP-Judge.
Are you never frightened when you
make flight?" IT had one good scare"
told me the money they were putting IN
for the exhibition was Counterfeit. ~
Washington Star.
Mrs. Neighbors-They tell me your son
is in the college football eleven. MIS-.
Malaprop-Yes, indeed! Mrs Neighhors~
Do you know what position he pIavs7
he's one of the drawbacks.-Chicago
News.
Another man has dropped dead while
telling a joke. Drat those disDatches:
why don't they tell what the joke was?-
St. Joseph News-Press.
The Poet-Do You mean to say that you
won't read my new poem? The Editor
That's what mean. What have YOU ever
done for me?-Toledo Blade.