davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[F'rom the Chicago News.1
Never judge the cook by her references;
you can't eat them.
When a girl gives a young man her
heart she expects a diamond in exchange.
By looking carefully you will find more
things to commend than TO criticise.
The easiest way to manage a husband
is to select one that doesn't need much
managing.
Alas, that so few of us are satisfied
with what other people seem to think is
good for us
1t sometimes happens that girls rea-
son for wanting to marry man is that
he doesn't want to marry her.
After minister has preached his con-
gregation to sleep the sermon is followed
by a great religious awakening.
On the day of his wedding a man imag-
ines that his wife drew a prize; but as a
matter of fact he is seldom anything more
than a consolation prize.
One of the profound mysteries of human
nature is why the janitor invariably winds
up the swivel chair to its limit when he
puts the office in order.
During the courtship stunt mans word
goes about seventeen times far with
the woman in the case as it does after
the two face the minister.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
Haunted by Boys Eyes.

'T told him to shut his eyes. and then
when he couldn't see 1 just lifted him
from my wagon and tossed him into the
river. He yelled once and then was
gone
That was the statement of Harold
Fragel, the 7-year-old boy who says that
he threw George Hammer, years his
Junior, into the river at the West North
avenue bridge. The two had been play
mates for more than a year.
I'VE had been playing INDIAN said
Harold, land George wouldn't play my
way, so I thought 1 would get even with
him. I put him in my wagon, and then
when We got to the river L told him to
shut his eyes and keep them shut. George
didn't open them once, and 1t was easy,
for 1 didn't want him to get scared and
get me in trouble. I lifted him up quietly,
and before he could shout or do anything
just threw him over the edge.
He looked funny in the water, but
got frightened at the awful look saw on
his face when he turned over He went
down in a minute, and then I ran home
with my wagon. If Georse had only
played 1 wanted him to 1 wouldn't
have done it, but I had to get even some
how. I'm not sorry, any way, but l get
frightened when think OF the way he
looked in the water."-Chicago Dispatch to
the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.


IFTom the PhlladeIphia Record.I
There is no such word as can't o2the
man in the canning business.
The henpecked man often takes it out
on the employees at the office.
All the worlds a stage but few Of us
are content to be stage hands
The widow doesn't have to marry a
gardener IN order to get rid OF her weeds.
The things that mother used to make
are at the bottom of many a divorce suit
The best way for man to break him.
self of the smoking habit is to let his wife
buy his cigars.
Wigg-'It seems to me that lots of the
cable news we are getting is not fresh" "
Wagg-"How can it be. 1t comes through
salt water
Things are not always what they
SEEM" says the Manayunk Philosopher.
MANY a door mat with Welcome worked
into It has an ugly bulldog sitting on it. -
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
NO MONEY PANIC.

The danger of a monetary crisis
this coming autumn has passed." says
Henry Clews, the New York banker,
in his current weekly financial re-
view. For this welcome reassur-
ance Secretary McAdoo is chiefly re-
sponsible. BY making it plain on re-
peated occasions that the treasury
would do its utmost to relieve none
tary pressure when crop and trade
demands begin, he materially light
ened the burden of the banks and en-
abled them to lend with far greater
freedom than was dreamed of; thus
averting a blockade of the wheels of
commerce at the critical season when
they are invariably running at high
speed. His latest offer to put out
$5O,000,000 of treasury funds avail
able for bank reserves adds immense
ly to the loaning abilities of the ma
tional banks, especially in case of the
smaller country institutions which
are required to carry only 15 per
cent of reserves. 1t is estimated that
by this means the credit facilities of
the country will be expanded about
5000, 100000 to $3OO,OOe,0oO, the eff
feet of which is already seen in cas-
ier rates for time money, better de-
mand for commercial paper and a
general revival of confidence in bank
ing circles. OF course much credit
for the present improvement must
also be attributed to the banking
community for their persistent appli-
cation of the brakes In consequence
there has been a general liquidation
and contraction that is proving
wholesome. There has been a de-
cided stoppage placed upon all i'm
prudent enterprises. The demand for
new capital which threatened to
bring on a serious crisis has been
powerfully restrained for good; and
the net new issues for July and Aug
ust will show a large decline COM
pared with previous years. In brief.
the financial world has been taking
the rest cure and is already much in
vigorated in consequence.
Improved conditions are not con-
fined to the United States. Better
ment is equally apparent in London,
Paris and Berlin. The applications
for new capital in the first half OF
the year were quite as urgent there
as here. and the restraint upon such
has been correspondingly severe to
that applied in the United States.
Inc bdIhdn war Is no longer night
mare, and gradually but surely the
vast sums boarded as result of that
struggle will again find their way
into the channels of trade and invest
ment. That sorry struggle has been
ended permanently by exhaustion of
the combatants. Germany is already
beginning to recover from the trade
depression brought on by financial
stringency. and the advices from
Paris are also of a much more cheer
full nature. England continues on the
high road of prosperity, no serious
setback having occurred there at any
period during the war, except the re-
straint imposed upon new financial
undertakings As an illustration of
betterment of London's position. the
Bank of England reserve stands at
the unusually high figure of $500 per
cent
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
BANANAS AND DIPLOMACY

Figures show that the world is Just
awakening to the value of the banana
as food, writes Chester Lloyd Jones in
the North American Review. If the
present development continues the
acreage devoted to banana growing
must rapidly increase. This can be
easily done. for the areas suita able
have as yet only been touched. I'm
proved refrigeration and quick steam
service will continue to widen the area.
in which the product can be marketed.
and besides it's present use as a fruit
it will be used, as it now is in the
tropics. where it is boiled green as a
vegetable and manufactured into q
confection known as banana figs. The
development of the banana flour in
dustry also promises to open a market
for the product of areas too distant to
profit by the demand for fresh fruit
just as the perfection of the manufac-
ture of copra, the dried meat of the
cocoanut, has opened up a new indus
try reaching to the farthest islands of
the Pacific.
The increased production of the
banana in its natural state. and the di-
versification of its uses promise to in
troduce "a new and hitherto neglected
development continue, it will raise the
Caribbean region from it's dependence
on foreign markets for food to one of
the regions from which an important
part of the worlds food supply will be
drawn. The wheat fields of the Da-
kotas and Manitoba will meet as one
of their competitors in feeding the
world. the banana plantations of the
American Mediterranean. An
immediate consequence of the develop
ment of the direct trade with Europe
now just beginning is to threaten the
supremacy of the United States in
some of the Central American mar
kets. People buy their goods, other
things being equal. in the countries
where their own products find their
best sale. If improved transportation
facilities for the banana trade develop
between the Caribbean and European
ports. it is but natural that European
manufactured goods will be carried on
the return voyage. One of
the most important, and from our past
experience, let us remember. one of
the most delicate problems with which
our men of state have to deal, is the
diplomacy of the Caribbean.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
by THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

Now that the Balkan disturbance is
drawing to a close, let us start a hoo
raw in Timbuctoo, Ujamjijji or some
other misspelled land, just to tease the
testy typo who has to type the names.
HALP!! A shadder has just fallen
across the face and neck of our @t-rusty
typewriter The pensioner. who writes
in the territory just west of this colum,
says it was due to a cloud-whatever
that is.
And now the striped Tammany Tag
ger is about to tag the angora of Bill
Seltzer-(or is it Sulzer?) 1t looked for
a while like the William goat would
out-run the demon of the jungles, but
said tagger found a Strong Smelling
spot in the trail. Twas ever thus;
the reform business, some one removes
the lid from his past, and discloseS the
ptomaine microbes.
In the Sulzer case, it is now made
to appear that the Tammany is not the
Furthermore that he played both games
with contributed stake.
Another real problem of life is max
ing the ice and water come out even
in an office cooler.
The latest reports on the case fail
to disclose whether the Boston man,
who bit off his wifes thumb, will lay
it to the high cost of meat or an un-
controllable desire for change from
the regular Bostonese diet of beans
and Goldfish.
Riley county farmers, or some of
them, have a good system for keeping
even with the board; it is something
like a Hester street poker game in
operation. They plant a crop of grain,
and then rush to the bucketshop and
bet that it will not mature.
The time has arrived for James
Flynn to rent farm adjoining Jawn
L. Sullivan and: begin raising cheese
and punkins.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
A SUMMER SONG.

Summers in the meadows
Where the grasses sway,
Summers in the tree-tops
Where the Songsters play;
Summers in the heavens
White and blue and gold,
Summers in the rivulets,
Dancing, rushing bold.
Summers in the mountains
Crowned with forests green,
Summers in the woodlands,
Pensive, cool, serene;
Summers in the flower beds,
Glowing, blushing sweet;
Summers on the tawny sands,
Where the foaming waters meet.
Summers in the azure
OF my sweetheart's eyes;
Summers in her laughter
Soft as zephyr'S sighs;
Summers in my keeping,
1t shall ne'er depart,
It reigns with Loves own radiance
In my happy heart.
-Oreola w. Haskell, in Leslie's.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Women seldom kiss each other like
they enjoyed doing so.
i 4
Almost every man has a secret am
bition that some town be named after
him.
j. Il
Too many wives appreciation of their
husbands is only as deep as their pock-
etbook pockets.
x,
Don't forget that while others may
strike you as amusing, it is likely that
you affect them in the same way.
= = y
No matter how honest and truthful
a witness may be he isn't at all sat-
isfactory to one side of the case.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
HOME NEw3 WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State JournaI
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the ra.e
n month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. Mhne
out of town the State Journal VIII ne
TO you like a daily letter from nome.
Advance payment is, requested on
these short time subscriptions, TO save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
poets.

Some people seem to be laboring
just now under the hallucination that
the prosperity of the country is de-
pendent to a great degree on a bum
per corn crop. They view with alarm
the prospect that this years crop will
fall below the ten year average. But
present indications are that it will be
in excess of the crops of 1909 and
1911, and ''hard times" were not par
ticularly noticeable in those years.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Londons 1uster as the largest city
in the world is rather dimmed by the
further fact that among it's immense
population is an army of the unem-
ployed that is conservatively estimated
to number 400 OO0
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

More work for The Hague. Or per-
haps this is something that can be
settled honorably only by force of arms
France vigorously disputes the claim
of the United States that it is the
birthplace of the cocktail.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

How unreasonable of Senator Ken
yoE, He is calling on the Democrat
party to fulfill it's platform pledge and
control or destroy the trusts. Sem
ator Kenyon seems to have forgotten
the purposes for which political pla--
forms are made.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

How typical of France. While the
economists of the United States and
other nations are urging the estab-
lishment of banks for the express pur-
pose of aiding the farmers, a financial
institution is about to be established
in Paris which will devote its exclusive
attention to extending aid to needy
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

There is no reason for worry now
at any rate. over dandelions on the
state house lawns. But at that, a few
thousand green and otherwise healthy
dandelion plants would add to their az
tractiveness just at this time.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Unless they are looking for trouble,
the chiefs of the Arapahoe. Cheyenne
and Kiowa Indians are not getting
wiser as they grow older. They are
urging their tribes to move to Mexico.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Professor Dycfe. state fish and game
warden, has ninety carloads of hsh
ready for distribution. But Kansas,
unfortunately just now, hasn't any
streams or ponds in shape to receive
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

me state Journal is q member OF tne
Associated Press and receives the fun Gay
eeIegreph report OF that great news NJ
ranizat1on for the exclusive anernoon
Dublic2tion in Topeka
T@he news is received In The State jour
mai bt1ildine. over wires for this sole per
pose
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

What a blessing is modern invention!
The country's cold storage warehouses
contain 65, ,OOO. 900 pounds of butter
waiting for higher prices.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Neither is the governor of Massachu-
setts qualified to judge whether having
a strike on his hands is worse than
having congress there.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

John D. Rockefeller has the laugh
on Andrew Carnegie over the E.new
peace plans of England. They include
the use of oil as fuel to promote the
efficiency of John Bulls navy
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

ST. Paurs cathedral is reported to be
settling. And London's militant suf-
fragettes must surely be to blame
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Having had more or less to do. witt
a. corpus deficit or two, Senor Huerts
couldn't be expected to balk at a casu:
belli
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

In burning the tea pavilion at the
Abergavenny cricket field the English
suffragists just about reached the limit
of irreverence.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Here's a tip for fishermen A Con-
necticut woman uses frankfurters for
bait with great success -.-..--.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Nor is it at all compulsory for any
one to have to put up with scant COM
forts that the city Jail offers.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Current fashions for women may be
the devils designs. as the Chicago pro-
fessor says, without proving utterly
UNPOPULAR
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Mexico's minister of foreign affairs
appears to assume that nothing can oc-
cur in Mexico contrary to Mexico's de-
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
KANSAS COMMENT
GAS. NOT Politics.

The representatives of the gas
cities of Kansas in convention assem-
bled at Topeka decided that they want
ed gas-not politics. The proposal TO
have the cities buy up the gas prop
critics and run the pipe line for them
selves, was not given much considera-
tion. And this lack of interest in the
matter was greatly to their credit. The
cities would not for a moment, we take
it, consider the plan to take over the
pipe line, for its taking over would
mean bankruptcy for the cities, and
probably no gas at all for the people.
We have been luxuriating in gas for
several years now, and we should
luxuriate many years more were it not
for the hoggishness of the gas COM
panies. However, we got along fairly
well before the gas came, and there
will be no great suffering when we go
back to shoveling coal again. Coal is
cheaper, and while it is also very dirty,
and entails much work and early rising
in the winter. yet We will soon forget
the gas in our cheerful occupation of
building fires, shoveling coal and carry
ing out the ashes and cinders. 1t will
furnish exercise for us, too, and it will
not be necessary to play so much golf
and tennis. nor will we need the vaca-
tions that we have been honing for.
The coal business at every house will
furnish all necessary exercise, and
when the gas is gone and forgotten, we
shall be just as happy as ever, and
much warmer on cold days.--Lawrence
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
ON TIE SPUR
or ThE AOMENT
Dv D0v " EnrYT tom
z ROY K. MOULTON.

The One Best Puzzle.
Woman, take her altogether,
Is a puzzle; that is flat
Puts a $40 feather
On a Accent hat.
Woman, take her altogether,
Is a puzzle, bless her eyes,
She'll play bridge in any weather
Just to win a 10-cent prize.
Woman surely is a puzzle,
Bargain-hunting always bent;
Spends dime for car fare gladly
Just to save a lonesome cent
According to Uncle Abner.
Hank Timms says he can't find any
work and he wouldn't know what TO
do with it if he did.
/ never yet see a harvest hand that
quarreled with his vittles or had the
indydpepsia.
Mrs. Anson Judson, the leader of
our smart set. believes in foreign
travel. She has been to Windsor,
Ont, three times.
According to Uncle Abner.
Old man Haskins has got the even
est temper in our town. He's mad
all the time.
It is pretty hard to give a young
kid a bicycle nowadays. He wants
an oatmobile.
Elmer Jones is disconsolate be-
cause the village milliner has refused
him three times. He says he is dead
set on marryin' some woman who kin
make her own hats.
There amt much hope of President
Wilson recognizing Mexico when he
can't even recognize his own vice
president.
The Lohengrin march is about the
most expensive tune a young man
kin hear.
Any feller who brags about his
oatmobile is a fool, for something
happens about two minutes after
ward
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12
SUNDAY LABOR.


Evidently the law is at fault on the
Sunday labor question. It does not
draw the distinction fine enough. The
law makes it violation to perform
any work on Sunday other than house
hold work and necessary work. But
what is necessary work? Supposing
you were a musician and composed
pieces for a living. Supposing, one
Sunday, you got a great inspiration
so you hurriedly wrote that piece of
music down. Then you sold it, Would
you have violated the Sunday labor
law? Supposing you were a poet and
one Sunday a subject came to you anc
you just felt like writing it down and
you did. You sold that poem for mon
ey. Did you perform unnecessary la
Dor on Sunday? Supposing you were
a newspaper man and some great
preacher came along of Sunday and
you went to hear him and jotted down
his sermon for the paper next day.
Did you perform unnecessary work on
Sunday? Somebody ought to officially
decide this matter.-Salina Union.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-12

Now that the Balkan disturbance is
drawing to a close, let us start hoo
raw in Timbuctoo, Ujamjijji or some
other misspelled land, just to tease the
testy typo who has to type the names
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-11-02
(l3tlIEE2(SEl
Z Id(),E1ES

Tulsa has been chosen as the place
of meeting for the ". II, NJ. : cunyon-
tion Of the Tulsa -Muskoeoe districts
OF the Methodist Episcopal church. II
is 10 bee held at Grace Methodist Epis-
c0pal church, corner Of Third and
Trenton, ON November sixth and sey-
enth This convention Is the first to
bee held in the district and IL for pur-
pose Of effecting an organization of the
two districts, There will be special
speakers and singing and a good pro-
gram, We would like 10 meet anyone
who is Interested in Home Missionary
Work at this convention. Look for
the program which will be published
later. The Rev Warless, the new
preacher for Grace church has arrived
in the city and will conduct services
on sunday Nov, 2.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-11-02
First Christian Church.


Corner Fourth and Boulder. Geo. p.
Taubman, Minister)
Bible school opening exercises at
9:45; study of the bible by classes at
1905 classes for an ages. isitors
welcome.
The minister viii preach on I'VE
Would See jesus at eleven o'clock in
connection with the regular weekly
observance Of the Lords supper.
Christian Endeavor meeting at $50
leader PNrof j. II. Brown. All young
people cordially invited
Getting Home From Third. or The
Biggest Graveyard in the World" is
the subject Of base bah sermon TO
be delivered at 7:45.
Mid week meeting, Wednesday
night at 7:4j. Home folk and visitors
are welcome.
The supplies for the unanimous
church attendance campaign viii be
distributed Sunday Every member
of the First church is urged TO attend
the morning service. Important an
nouncement about the winters work.
IT'S the church that welcomes the
stranger.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-11-02
HE \ FRIEND TO A MAN.

There are hermit souls that live with
drawn
In place of seli-concnt,
There urc souls like stars, that dwell
apart
IN a fclloWlcss armament;
There are pioneer souls, that blaze
their paths
Where highways never ran
But let me live by the side of the road
And be a friend Of man,
Let me live in a house by the side Of
the road
Where the race Of men go by,
The men that are good and the men
that are bad
As good and as bad as |,
would not sit IN the scorners seat,
or hurl the cynics bah
Let me live in a house by the side Of
the road,
And be u friend 10 man.
see from my house 10y the side Of
the road,
by the side of the highway Of life,
The men who press with the ardor II
the hope
The men who are faint with the
strife
But | turn not away from their smiles
nor their tears,
Both parts Of an infinite plan,
Let me live ia my home by the side ~
the road
And be a friend to man.
DIR Henry Kelman.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-11-02
DISSOLUTION SUIT
CONES Up MONDAY
FEDERAL SUIT AGAINST INTER
NATIONAL HARVESTER COM
PANN COMES TT MONDAY.
Deny They have MONOPOLY
Government Claims They Violated
sherman Antitrust Law in
1902 Organization.

ST. PAUL, Nov. 1.-THE suit Of the
United states vs. international Harves-
ter company to dissolve it, will come
on for hearing in the United States
district court here before Circuit Judge
Sanborn, Hook and Smith on next
Monday In its petition, which was
filed April &c. 1912, the government
alleges that the international Harves-
ter company was organized in 1902
as a trust, in violation 6f the sherman
law; that its purchase Of the plants,
properties and business OF the Nc
Comack, Deering, Plano, WardeC
Bushnell 4 Glassner and Milwaukee
companies created in that company a
monopoly Of the business in binders,
mowers, rakes and binder twine in
the United States; and that, i'm its
business methods and practices, the
company had increased it's prices, to
the grave injury of the farmers, and
had coerced dealers and eliminated
competitors.
The company, in its answer, filed
August q, 1912, admitted the pur-
chase Of the harvester properties and
business Of the five vendor companies
but denied that the company was or
ganizcd for any unlawful purpose or
that such purchase gave it monopo-
~ I'm the harvester trade, or that it
had Increased prices, or that its bust
ness methods and practices had injur-
ed the farmers or the dealers, or its
competitors, but on the contrary its