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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Neither does rush order always in
volve that kind OF delivery.
lou may feel you get no encourage
ment. but a lot of foolishness does.
Taking it under consideration remains
the most polite way of refusing.
Too many people are imposed upon; the
riot act should be more generally read.
Another reason some people are willing
to take a chance is, because they get It
cheap.
Perhaps the Noble Red Man attained
that order by not working. and fighting a
good deal
Certain walters. hungry man arises to
remark, seem to make speciality Of
waiting.
Picking winners is light and lucrative
employment, but comparatively few are
able to master that trade.
Considering the amount of advertising
it carries, the one cent stamp probably
produces the least business.
While the water wagon may not be the
swiftest vehicle. 1t deserves q prominent
position in the Safety First parade.
There is no midwinter sport equal to
currying horse at o'clock in the morn
ing when the temperature is degrees be-
low zero.
War note by our own military expert:
The patriot who Quarrels with his wife
needn't expect her kin to. maintain neu-
ertE - 5-t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18
Euenine Chat
Living in the Day.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

ITO see ones way clear through the
intricacies of life, to be sure of one 8
next step, and of a few steps to follow
at eleven, or at three score and ten,
this is beatitude. Agnes Repplier.
There are some people in this world
who will never look a step ahead, who
live from day to day, from hand to
mouth, and handicap themselves by this
short-sightedness. But sometimes
think that these are no more foolish
than the people who are too long
sighted, and who would be happier. and
make others SO, if they could put some
short-sighted glasses on their mental
eyes.
The Lady, ho-Always-K Some
how has a friend who Is teacher.
This girl accepted a position for the
winter which is proving very distaste-
full. For certain reasons she does not
feel that she can give it up. She is
the prospect of a dreary, unsatisfactory
winter strikes terror to her heart.
She was pouring out her woe into
the kindly ear of the Lady-Who-Al-
ways-Knows-Someh is a habit
many of us seem to have, and is the
penalty of too sympathetic heart. Il
it not rather too bad that We always
penalize sympathy and tenderness when
We find it? But that, as Mr.. Kipline
says, is another story.
1T doesn't seem to me I can ever
get through these next seven months, -
she said ruefully.
The Lady Who-Always-K Some
how patted her hand gently. II know
it, my DEAR she said, ''but you car
get through tomorrow can't your
of course
"And then the next day will only be
another tomorrow, and SO on straight
through. Don't bother about the seven
months, little girl, don't think about
them. Ofecourse they'll weigh you down
If you do. Just think about tomorrow.
That's only one day and you can get
through that very easily.
What good advice that is!
And not only for those who have dis
agreeable tasks to face. but for most
of us.
1 love my work and yet If looked
at it by the year instead of by the
day I should be appalled,. How can
you ever think of three hundred SUBJ
other day. II couldn't" 1 anAwered.
But it is very easy to think OF one
a day.
II the housemother looked ahead and
thought of the innumerable times she
would have to do each little task. OF
the hundreds Of stockings she must
darn in a year. the thousands Of cook
les she must bake. the hundreds OF
thousands of dishes she must wash,
how could she help being weighted down
with the thought OF them? Yet in it.
self each day b not unbearably hard.
when the field IL hard to hoe, think
only of the present row." says the gar
den philosopher. Except to plan your
work. do not think too much of the
rest OF the field at any time. for he
who thinks too much of either past OF
future is never able to do justice to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18
NATTONAIISNl AND THE WA


This war has been called conflict
of races-Pan-G ermanism versus PAN
Slavism. The fundamental cause of
the antagonism between these two PEG.
pies is neither racial nor economic; it
is psychological. We can IT Nationa1-
ism. Thus writes H. A. Miller, in the
December number of The North Amer
lean Review, and he continues:
Nationalism is the struggle of a
group to preserve its own individuality.
1t is even more elemental than religion
itself, and. as in the case of the early
Christian church, its growth to gigantic
proportions has been fostered by the
blind Stupidity of rulers who could not
see that the way to make it grow was
to try to crush it. 1t is akin to patriot
ism, but draws it's lines according to
the group consciousness for a common
language and traditions.
About fifty years ago. several Bo-
hemian writer's were bold enough to
write in their own language instead of
German; from that time the Bohemian
spirit has grown until now hostility to
the German language has become a
passion. In many of the restaurants
throughout Bohemia, the head-waiter
passes a collection-box regularly for
1.-The Mother of Schools which sup
ports public schools in the Bohemian
language in all parts of the country
where there is majority of Germans
only German schools being provided
by the government in. such communi-
ties. The result Of this national spirit
is the gradual elimination of the Ger
man language
Poland. perhaps, offers the most
highly developed example Of national
ism. 1t was never a conspicuous coun-
try, but over a hundred years ago it
was free. Germany, Austria and Rus
STA divided it, and, completely ignoring
sociological laws, have tried to absorb
it. Never was there another so persist
ent and deliberate effort to wipe out ma
tional individuality, but if there ever
was case of imperial indigestion, Po-
land has caused three chronic attacks.
Bismarck's foolish policy of forbidding
the Polish language and forcing Ger
man in it's place, and Russia's similar
policy with Russian, can be called a
basic cause for the present European
turmoil, because it has made the pres
ervation of language a religion, and
martyrdOm for it a. ulOrifica ton
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From, Other Pens
TRADE AND EDUCATION.


| "A well known pacifist has recently
maintained that now, in the midst OF
war, is the time above all others TO
talk Of peace. He recalled the words
OF the great liberator, William Lloyd
Garrison. who, right in the midst OF
tri, .mphant slavery, as he put 1t. de-
clared Il am in earnest and l will be
heard" So, he said, we too may be
in earnest, and in spite OF the seeming
mOmentary triumph of war, we too Will
be heard. Such clear. and direct state
ments are particularly welcome at this
moment. 1t IL, moreover, noticeable
fact that in all directions those people
who. in varying degrees. discredit war
as a means of solving international
problems, whether actual pacifists or
not, are everywhere finding their feet
They are everywhere emphasizing anew
those irrefutahle principles which must
ultimately reOccupy the field OF thought
to the exclusion. ever more more COM
plete, of the vanity of war. Only quite
recently a well-known business man in
England insisted that whilst Great
Britain might do much at the moment
in the way of capturing the trade of the
countries opposed to her In the present
struggle, she could only retain 1t by
her own efficiency. In the long run. he
maintained, it is only the ability to do
| a thing which brings work to the ma
ton as to the Individual, and any fail
ure in ability In either must inevitably
lead to loss of work. Some years ago
when special efforts were being made
on all hands to insist upon the part
which would ultimately be played by
education i'll trade. great English
statesman concluded an earnest speech
ON the subject with the words, "Edu-
cate! educate! educator Just as money
is largely the result of labor. so trade Is
the result of education. Whilst the
disturbing influence of war may re-
shuttle, as it were. the material ele-
ments Of trade, the ultimate readjust
ment will depend on the ability of the
trader. AS Norman Angel wisely put
it only quite recently. no matter how
! much Grade one. country, through the
Iexigencies of war. managed to capture
from opponents better taught in the
work of trade. those opponents would
still possess the knowledge of ''how to
do the thing" To possess this is ulti-
mately to possess the trade.-Christian
Science Monitor.
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KNOW OUR OWN COUNTRY.

For several years past the expendi-
ture by Americans travelling in Europe
has been nearly $3OO,O0O,OOO annual
ly, writes H. H. Windsor, in the jan
uary Popular Mechanics Magazine
This is not saying we did not get our
moneys worth at that, for quite the
contrary is true. Not one per cent of
returning tra~-lers regret what 1t cost
them to see the works OF art, histori-
cal monuments. beautiful cities, and
how the other nations live. Even II
war should end within a month or
two, not many would care to cross
this year. The facilities of ocean
travel to other than European ports
are either SO limited or inadequate
that our chronic travellers find them
selves in a condition of .sall dressed
up and no place to go''-that is
abroad.
Europeans who have visited us are
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constantly amazed at the utter indif-
ference with which Americans con-
fess to a lack of Acquaintance with
the natural wonders OF our own coun-
try, which they had seen when on our
side. 1t is high time we did know
our own country, and while our town
halls and churches are not a thousand
years old, our Niagara Falls and
Rocky mountains and Glacier Park
are older than either Rome or the
ruins of Herculaneum. And where on
earth can one go in a palace car ana
find a Yellowstone Park, or a Grand
Canyon of the Colorado, or q Yosem-
lite or a Mammoth Cave, or a Great
Salt Lake? Ours is a land of won
ders and though new in q construc-
The south is full of surprises, the vast
prairies OF the central west have no
counterpart in Europe; our Great
Lakes float steamers with all the lux
uries of an ocean liner. The magnifi-
cent Pacific coast this year has the
added attraction Of a great worlds
fair
Even the adventurer need not miss
the excitement of mountain climbing;
both Washington and Alaska furnish
all the danger the most reckless might
desir, and the explorer may spend
years among the ancient cliff DWELL
ers' towns in New Mexico and the pet
rified forests Of the Bad Lands. He
may search for. gold and precious
stones in the Death Valley: or Tor dia-
monds in the Ozarks: and hidden
treasures which the pirates who sailed
the Spanish Main buried along the
Florida coast.
Already California md Florida are
filled with winter guests as never be-
fore, and it will be real asset if our
people take advantage Of this year to
travel and learn t-eir own grand
country which has made them what
they are. =
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Jayhawker lots

mother never changes, declares the
Morganvil1e Tribune. When her son is
40 years old and wears long whiskers
she won't call him anything else but
Willie"
Related by the Troy CHER" "why
man Of the boy with the frowsy head.
Amt got no. brush.'' why don't you
use your fathers brush?" He amt
go no brush" "Nobrush? Whay hasn't
he a -brush?'' "Ainst got no hair
One of the sedswfck doctors nearly
lost his title of family physician when
called to prescribe for the lady of a
certain household last week, tells the
Sedgwick Paragraph. She complain
ed of tired feeling and he asked i'm
mediately to see her tongue.
AS John Macdonald says in his
great ado about those formidable
looking Russian words and we look
without blinking at Winhepesauke,
Chattahoochee, Apalachicola,s Oke-
chobee, Mattawamkeag' and Mem
phremagOg.
Globe, that an Atchison school girl,
while reading in school, came to the
passage, 1.-The horses stepped into the
stream up to their bellies" and being
of a modest nature she read it 1.-The
horses stepped into the stream up to
their waists
A hint for the "Back to the Farm
enthusiasts, from the District Seventy
Four reporter of the Florence Bulle-
tin: Owing to the lack of wind to
turn the mills, a number of our folks
put in the most of their spare time
several days last week pumping water
in the old-fashioned way for the stock.
The Chores are about all any Of us
get done anyway these short, cold
days.
Just the kind of news that might be
expected from Mule Creek, as it is re-
ported in the Barber County Index:
Herb Magnison and Jess Courtney
worked on the cutoff last week and
camped just east of the hill. Friday
night about an hour after dark they
heard a peculiar sound. They didn't
know whether it was someone trying
to sing or a frog croaking, but these
words finally floated to them: when
you are up the hill you are up and
when you are down the hill you are
down. But when you are half way up
the hill, you are neither up nor down.
Soon F. F. Root came to where they
were camping and asked to trade his
automobile for a lumber wagon. Jess
made the trade and F. F. got home
o. K. Charles Marshall led the car
to town Saturday and gave it a little
| medicine and lis all right again.
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Journal Entire s

An automobile goes best when it is
thoroughly tired.
Z =
You can't convince many people that
merit is always adequately rewarded.
= =
Among the rank fallacies is the idea
that one mans opinion is good as
anOther'S.
= + =
Apparently not very many people are
attracted by the dividends paid by the
several virtues.
=
Everybody wants fair play for him
variety the other fellow gets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

In dropping death-dealing and de-
structtve shells in unfortified British
towns without notice of an intended
bombardment. which is in direct con-
travention to the rules and regulations
of civilized warfare, those German
cruisers seem to have squared accounts
for such dunn dunn bullets az have been
used. according to German allegations.
by the English troops in the western
arena OF the war. And this assault Of
Germany's warships against defense
less places is also pretty positive evil
dence that the conventions between ma
tions for the prosecution of war are
only more mere scraps Of paper"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

Not much has been heard this year
about the Spugs and their activities,
but there is much merit in their slogan
which is aimed against the giving of
useless Christmas gifts. The useful
presents is by all odds the better one,
serving, as 1t does, double purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

Pay your money and take your
choice. The Allies report that the
Germans have begun a retreat in Bel
GUM. Dispatches from Berlin char
acterize this statement as untrue. All
of which is more evidence that the
purpose of modern war news is mere
~ to confuse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

Senior Gutierrez, one of the presidents
of Mexico, has issued a ukase that po-
litical executions must stop there. But
unless it is endorsed by the several
other presidents and dictators doing
business below the Rio Grande it is
only another "scrap Of paper which
means nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18
On the Spur
of the Moment
By ROY K. MOULTON.

Snow, snow,
Beautiful. snow.
Filling the corner-lct chump
Full of woe,
For he has to shovel
A mile round his hovel
So his neighbors
Won't swear
And tear out
Their hair
From Wading knee-deep
In the beautiful stun.
Gosh. 1t is tough!
He bends
His old back
Till he hears
1t crack
And shovels till noon
With many a wrench
Like German dragon
Al work in q trench
He rises next morn
From his hard bed Of pain,
And he finds he must do it
All over again.
So when the clouds hover
And snow storms draw nigh,
Please shed a stray tear
For the corner lot guy.
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Originality attracts attention. Hence,
the Blairsville Courier, of Blairsville,
Pa. is likely to obtain more or less
notoriety, that is equally likely to be
of an exceedingly temporary variety. In
an editorial that covers two columns
of space on the front page of a recent
issue, it dominates Boise Penrose as
the Republican candidate for president
in 1916.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

Another blanket of SHOW for Kansas
is sure to be interpreted in many quar-
ters as indicating that the wheat crop
for 1915 has been saved again, even il
1t is for second time within week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

Mrs. Havelock Ellis, who is lecturing
in Chicago. is evidently bent upon be-
coming as popular with the men as she
is certain to attain unpopularity with
the women. She can see no good rea-
son why the love Of man should not
embrace more than one woman But
it is dollars to doughnuts that she
would reject the attentions of a man
whom she knew to have another woman
on his string. Preaching and practice
seldom emanate from the same source.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

There seems to be plenty of evidence
that the army and navy experts of this
country are anything but competent to
spend money to the best advantage.
Here they have been getting rid of the
enormous sum of more than 5000, 900 600
a year for more than decade, and SOL
emn assurances come from Washing
ton that the nation is less prepared for
war than ever before in it's history.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Isl a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization. for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka. 49,
The news is received IN The state Jour-
nal building over wires Cor this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18
THE FAULT-FTNDING BOY.

Frank was a very pleasant little boy
most Of the time; he never forgot to re-
move his nat when he met a lady or when
he entered the house.
But he found fault at the table about
his food and his mother was worried for
fear this fault-finding habit would grow
upon him and he would become a dis
agreeable man, for. of course, no one
likes a person who finds fault.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

One of the encouraging details of
the federal governments report on the
crops produced this year tells that
average wheat yield per acre was 10
bushels, as against 10 and IA in other
recent years. But it might just as
we'll be 25 or 80 bushels, and even
greater. The farmers in other coun-
tries get average yields of that size.
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fatal.

To square accounts with the Mexican
belligerents on the other side of the
Mexico-Arizona line, the United States
troops at Naco will have to do a lot
of shooting back" if they are ever
permitted to indulge in that activity,
which they probably won't be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

Excuses OF all kinds levy their toll,
and it is always heavy one. Johnny
Evers. the great ball player, has been
such a candy fiend," that his system
was so impaired thereby as to make
a slight attack of pneumonia almost
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

The nation may laugh at Kansas
legislation, as Senator Price observes
but later on many of it's constituent
parts not infrequently take occasion
to initiate a good deal of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

achievement Of science?" "Well." replied
Mr.. Dustin Stax. latter a careful study Of
values Of all kinds must say that tho
scientists who started radium at millions
Of dollars an ounce and then managed to
hold the price up deserve credit for con-
siderable achievement" - Washington
Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

Wife-"Well. then. I'll just buy what 1
want and have the bills sent to you.''
Hub-"Yes; but oughtn't we to agree to
some limit to the amount3' Wife
Certainly not. Combinations in restraint
of trade are illegal."-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18

MEMBER:
Associated Press. Z
Audit Bureau OF Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers As
ISOLATION. -.
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Vaudeville Stuff.


(Omnipresent, but not on the bill)
Female voice-Now. Vivian, he isn't go
ing to shoot again. Don't cry, dear. No
you don't want to go home: He isn't 60
ing to shoot. Take your fingers out OF
your ears.
Observation-Disclosures shoot, BAH
wah.
Female Voice again-Now, you listen, he
isn't goin'- to shoot again. Now be Quet
dear.
Vivian-Bwah-isn' he goin' to shoot
again. mah-malt?
F. V.-No, dear.
vivian-Why ism. he goin to shoot
again; mah-mah? .,.oo ,,,uoa ~.
man. See. dear? The mans lying right
on the floor.
F. V.-The man.
Vivian-What man. mah-mah?
F. Wow you listen-don't ask me any
more questions Of. you'll have to go home
Vivian-InaWanna go home, mah-man
slish-slish Indicating sObs). Slisll.
(After an interval)
vivian intively)-Mah-mah.
F. V.-Well. wotisit.
vivian-Mahmah, who did you say was
And for this we have vivians.
The Hunter.
He seeks no rabbits. They are too tame
He's going out for bigger game,
"A t" Was ns bar Barefoot t1 boy. 10 " s' ''@
He's spent. most all his hard earned
dough, more than he could afford to
blow,
Because he wants to go in style and dc
the thing up simply right.
There's nothing that he hasn't bought by
way of fxih' that he ought.
He's ali fused up in hunting clothes OF
loud design and out Of sight.
A week goes by. They get no word, and
start to wonder what's occurred.
Until one day telegram fills them with
nervous dread and fear.
IT'S short but very eloquent and everyone
knows what is meant:
Mistaken for deer"
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Kansas Comment
THE REAL TEST.

The other day q Chicago grass-wtd-
over shot Enthusiastically not fatal
ly-after writing to his wife: II jfe
without you. dear heart, is too rot
ten to live" In q way, we suppose.
that was q great compliment I'D
die for your IL q favorite phrase OF
lovers in plays and novels. But q
husky, live man. willing to put up
stbve pipes and ''rassle" thu ashes,
makes, upon the whole, the better
husband.-Bluff City News.
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THE BEST OF REASONS.

A bunch Of men were on The street
talking about the Belgian fund move
ment when the familiar objection was
brought up that the relief would nev-
er get to the Belgians. well I am
as poor as anybody, but figure that
the dollar I gave to the Be!gians to-
day will never be missed q year from
now. And as to the Belgians never
getting it, the way it strikes me is tina:
in giving my dollar I have done my
duty anyway And 1t would be hard
to find a better answer than that
lola Register.
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Uncle Abne.

O0CIG ZAQuCEe
The Teller who lives on a corner lot GER
tainly has a snap. He has to pay more
taxes than the Teller In the middle of the
block and has to shovel twice as much
snow.
1t is getting to be almost impossible to
bust into society nowadays by buying a
limousine and a. hree legged pianer.
What has become of the Teller that was
gettin, ready to enlist and march to
Japan q few months ago?
They say woman kin make dollar go
farther than a man kin, but L don't know.
l, have seen some men who could make a
dollar 20 so far that it would never come
back.
Old man Hicks says he has felt some
thing hard like collar button or a wal
nut under his foot for several days. He
is going tc take his felt boots off as soon
as the weather warns up a bit and find
out what 1t -.