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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
From, Other Pens
ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER"

ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER"
America is helping the trampled.
robbed, starving people of Belgium
because the Germans will not help
them. but continue to fine" them,
collecting immense sums for the war
chest OF the kaiser. Upon the 4th
day of last August the German chan
cellor said in the reichstag: I'VE are
now in a state Of necessity. and neces-
sity knows no law. Our troops have
occupied Luxembourg, and perhaps are
already on Belgian soil. Gentlemen.
that is contrary to the dictates OF in
ternational law. The wrong
II speak openly-that we are COM
hitting we will endeavor to make
good as soon as our military goal is
reached. Anybody who is threatened
as we are threatened, and is fighting
for his highest possessions, can have
but one thought. how to carve his way
through (wie er SIGH durchhaut)."
The Belgians are not now being
treated as a wronged people. The
military goal" if that means the
lines of the enemy beyond the Bel
gian border. was reached in Septem-
Der. The chancellor's speech in the
records Of the reichstag is another
scrap of paper" figuring in the mill
tary history of the German empire
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
The early maid catches the bridal train
Lovers oft rush in where husbands fear
to tread.
One way to sidetrack bad luck is to be
prepared for 1t.
Politeness Is all right to a certain ex-
tent. but some people overdo 1t.
man would rather have fortune smile
on him than give him the laugh.
The man who has jolt coming to him
seldom realizes it until he strikes out
married woman says that the perfect
Iy devoted husbands have tl1eir habitat in
books.
woman's idea of being neighborly Is
to send the woman next door a hunk of
her angel cake.
Beauty is only skin deep. but some
times the display rack doesn't show It up
to good advantage.
When the right girl meets the right
young man. the parsons wife gets q
chance to go buying instead of shopping.
What the average woman thinks she
would do II she had plenty of money is
nothing in comparison to what she does
do because she hasn't got 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
Kansas Comment
WHEN ANGRY. COUNT TEN.

WHEN ANGRY. COUNT TEN.
when angry, count ten-when veIy
angry. count 4 hundred Inls 0Id rue
was drummed into many Of ~ when We
were younger. in the earlier days when
common sense was the main thing ip.
forming character. 1t was found goo9
way to keep peace and to prevent tno
angry passions from Overlooking tneir
regular bounds. The same thing should
be applied to nations as well a. to men.
II Austria had taken time to even count
ten. in her mad mt at Servia, she might
have discovered another way to ger
around the trouble which seemed to be
brewing. II Russia had counted q hundred
she might not have mobilized her army 80
soon. and that mobilization FASTENED the
move OF the myrtads OF German battalions.
that time to good advantage would have
given the white dove Of peace q chance.
And q chance IL about all 1t needs to pre-
before the order Of the world. A month
an European conflict. The inhabitant of
almost any nation would have thought
war impossible. especially In so short
time. Thoughtless diplomats. angry that
mad ut to be pushed along by the war
caste in the military nations and the
most horrible war the world has ever
known is tho result. The object of peace
to stop and think. The treaty is to re-
Quire that q certain length OF time bo
used for calm peaceful thought. before
actual hostilities break out. II this time.
work. then there is very little chance:
But the people from one end OF the world
to the other. 1t is believed, have a feeling
that. II some time had been taken to
consider thines' there would !, have r been zen
adage that says: when angry. count
ten-when very angry, count hundred"
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
Journal Entries

Too many of the glad hands are
graspfng for something.
The cleverness of some folk would
never be suspected unless they told
about it.
Nor does it follow that a man must
be well posted in the law to appre-
ciate the demands of justice.
,
Another. exception, not the rule. is
the man who hasn't an exaggerated
idea OF his own Importance.
=
Further evidence Of the relation be-
tween time and money is to be found
in the fact that both fly quickly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
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WA% BY rms EHNzLKER

Mr.. Fox. land il you expect me to snooxs
with that Rover outside barking and
, waatlns to take my life; your are nils
taken away my appetite"
wei: well, I am surprised you should
let little thing like that upset YOU" said
ms WIRE II suppose / will have to eat
alone then" she said. drawing her chair
h up to the table and placing her breakfast
Rover stopped barking for a minute and
M. Fox found his appetite. give me a
bit OF the breast he said. II think I
might be able to eat II that dog would
But Rover began again and Mrs. Fox
had to finish her breakfast alone. which
did not seem to cause her any worry
You leave It TO me. He will soon be
t'Ted out ana run away. she said.
But while Rover did tire he did not run
fore the front door with his head around
the corner SO he could keep an eye on
both ends of the Fox house.
There now guess you have done IT,"
said Mr.. Fox: HE is going to stay right
here: and l should like to know what we
day ard night without anything to eat or
before you went out last night as I told
you to do said Mrs. Fox, I'VE should
have something to drink. anyway"
he was in the wrong. 's ana M rs kP Fox
geeked out through crack in the door at
IT have it," she said. tiptoeing back to
ner husband 'Rover's TAN is right in
front of the door,
Mr.. Fox watched his wife go to the
closet and return with the carving knife.
but he had no idea what she had in her
mind.
Here" she said. putting the knife into
Mr. Fox's hand. II will open the door
very softly and you reach out and ctop
OF the end Of his tail"
Mr.. Fox dropped the knife and looked
to see II she was out OF her senses but
she picked up the knife and handed It to
him again.
Come along she said. going to the
door. and Mr.. Fox. thinking he might as
well risk Rover catching him as he his
wife's anger, followed.
Mrs. Fox did open the door SO softly
that Rover did not hear. for he had fallen
into q doze. and the first thing he knew
he felt q sharp pain at the end Of his tail
My. how he did howl and run. He dId not
stop running until he reached home and
into his house he went to nurse his poor
tail.
What are you going to do with the
tip of his tail?'' asked Mr.. Fox. a. his
wife came in the house with the tip Of
Rover's tail.
II am going to have . coat-of-axms.'
said his wife. ''AI the best familIee have
them and have always wanted one I
am going to nail IL ON q board and hx-Ex
II on the waIl-0r over the front door VIII
be better. 1 think. It WIN II i rrofectioo
as we'll n let everybody kntU " beloax
to the aristocxneys(co14t15 I'll. ~
the Mcclure W0Wuu0IuR 6Sf6. ~
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
"KRIEGSPIET..

When we read that the campaigns of
great armies have all been fully planned
far in advance, very few understand
what is meant, or how this thing is
done. The answer is ''Kriegspiel,' or
the war game, which is played" by the
heads OF the armies of every modern
country. A most interesting account of
this study and preparation for future
possible events is told by a military
expert IN the fourth war issue of the
Scientific American, which reveals
many facts not generally known. In a
general way the subject may be ex-
planned by the following extracts from
the article referred to:
Within the walls of the War college,
in the city Of Washington. are great IL
braries of military history and text
books of war; steel cases. jealousy
guarded, containing the published maps
of all the lands of the earth. pamphlet
after pamphlet of information regard
ing the terrain and resources of the diff
ferent countries, garnered no one knows
exactly how, and a high ceilinged room
which contains, among other simple
furnishings, huge, soft pine table.
lie yChOH SOEldCC VI Tic kdUlC tOR Is
seldom seen, for there is usually
map upon it: a map whose limits
reach to the very edges. pricked here
and there by little pins with vari-col-
ored heads; and also, there is usually a
group OF quiet. intent gentlemen. Of
ficers of the army, leaning over the
map, moving the pins here and there or
shifting wooden or leaden blocks from
| place to place.
| 1t il in this room that the war game
reaches its climax, at least in the
United States; for the officers study
ing the map SO intently are members of
the general stan, and they are not play
ing.
"Kriegspiel' comes to us from Ger
many. In the time of Frederick the
Great the game took on its first SEM
blance Of application to the study OF the
art Of war. an outgrowth of the game
of chess, the earliest war game. 1t was
first taken up as a diversion. and al
though in crude form, it achieved
i considerable attention. 1t il used now
in the instruction of every army of the
world. AS an example Of this prepared
ness. 1t is told OF Won Moltke. who waa
reading a book when news OF the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

full of household expenses or prob
lens relative to his work, who slips
on the banana rind and fractures his
crust on the pave. 1t is Youth, with
head up and an ambition to get an
eye full Of what is going on in the
world Of poultry. who connects with
the fruit covering or the icy spot on
the Sidewalk
One of The dismal sights of mid
winter is the neglected park bench.
yclept "spoonholder," that is covered
with snow.
Second the-motion observation by
Jack Supp: ANY movement to aban-
don the Pratt aquarium gets my sup
port. So far as can ascertain. all fish
liberated In the Kansas streams beat
it for Missouri by the shortest route.
Let Missouri raise her own CARP
Whenever one OF the Eafser's sons
goes near the front, he is given an
other iron cross. But the rank and
ile continues to get the double cro9B
with similar freQuency-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
Jayhawker Jots

The only sure thing about q sure
cure for anything, advises the Strong
City News-Courant, is that it isn't.
Here's a query from the Soldier Clip
per that must be directed to the Oldest
inhabitants: "How long since you have
seen box Of paper collars?
Maybe the sick man Of Europe. sug-
gests the Jewell County Republican,
will get the medicine he's been need
ing for a long time, before the war is
over.
When a man gets to the point where
he says he doesn't care what the neigh
bors say about him. remarks the Hol-
ton Signal, the neighbors have come to
the point where they don't care what
they say about him.
This has all the earmarks of the
truth. A Sabetha woman. according
to the Sabetha Herald, is trying to re
duce" by walking around four squares
on her way to every party. But she
ruins the effect by eating too much
when she finally gets there.
In reporting a birth in the neighbor-
hood, the Snokomo correspondent OF
the Alma Signal, after conveying the
infOrma ton that the mother and child
were doing WELL added: but we don't
know how Tom will stand it. We saw
him this morning and he was stepping
line q OAAuu AiOASC AZ a PuAAPAAA P0sSA'
A merchant in a nearby town, failing
in business, called a meeting of his
creditors. tells the Holton Signal. and
said: Gentlemen, I have called you
here to show you that I am an honest
man and want to do the right thing by
everybody. have this proposition to
make. Without my name. life Is MOTH
ing to me. and I have nothing to live
for; so 1 propose to cut my body up in
ten pieces and each one of my creditors
should have an equal share" One Of
the creditors, who was an Irishman.
said: Il will agree to that If you make
me a preferred CREDITOR The mer-
chant agreed. asking him what he
wanted" The Irishman replied: Il
want your gall
Related by the Atchison Globe: She
tripped into a music store and asked
a clerk: Have you Kissed Me in
the Moonlight mot me-" replied
the clerk, asked the man at the other
counter" Which recalls that at an
Atchison Sunday school the teacher
asked the question, .'Who drove the
children of Israel into Canaan" No
body seemed to know, and the question
was repeated with emphasis. The 81
lence was deathlike. Come now"
continued the teacher. you little boy
on the back seat, who drove the chill
dren of Israel into Canaan" Although
considerably embarrassed by what he
considered a reflection, he answered
promptly: II never did; We just moved
here from Missouri last week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

What Is the charger asked the magis-
prisoner at the bar; s'this,s on me-
Buffalo Express.
THE baseball player is different from
all other workers." I'm what way?" NO
body ever sympathizes with him when he
goes out on a strike."-Baltimore Amesf-
can. !.
Mistress-"I distinctly saw you with the
policeman's arm around you" Maid-"Oh
yes, mum; wasn't 1t nice Of him. He was
shown me how to hold a burglar IL I
found one in the house. Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Berlin is emphatic in it's reports of
a Russian rout in Poland and Galicia
But Petrograd is almost sure to re-
ply that the retirement of the Cars
troops was in accordance with a pre-
arranged plan for strategic pur-
poses" Probably that is also the Of
ficia. German reason for the present
withdrawal Of the Kaiser's soldiers
before the advance of the Allies III
Belgium and northern France
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

poke in his head and select the latest
hen he could see. and on he went with it
held tightly in his mouth.
But while he had succeeded in getting
mis- breakfast and Mrs Fox's ALSO he had
aroused the watchful Rover, and when
steps and barking behind MIN.
Mr.. Fox was Swift runner. and NJ he
had q great start he had no trouble in
outrunning his pursuer.
Quick. lock the door, he called to
Mrs Fox. ~ he ran into the kitchen.
Farmer Briggs dog II after me-"
Click went the lock and Mr.. Fox was
safe, and Rover was outside scratching
and barking all in vain
Now that IL what call nice looking
hen and . good breakfast" said, Mrs
Fox. land We vail have It brOiIed. Ihave
4 nice fire. You sit right down aui
snooxe while cook # -
4 can + naezow 0ocAQo Ter 49, -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Current issues of the Congressional
Record are thin and sickly in COM
parison with what they were during
the months Immediately preceding the
recent election. This is readily ex-
planned by the fact that the members
of congress have no need now to make
speeches for campaign purposes and
which they can work an easy govern
ment to print thousands of copies of
and distribute among their con-
stituents without cost
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

declaration Of war between France and
Prussia In 1870 was brought him. that
he only interrupted his reading long
enough to say Volume 3. on the second
shelf; it is all ready''-and with only
that opening of the throttle, the ma
chinery of war began to grind, true to
It's thorough preparation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Having captured the City Of Pueblo,
Zapata may now be expected to desig-
nate it as the capital of Mexico and
set up government of his very own.
Mexico seems destined to have as
many capitals and presidents as there
are bandits in her midst who have
sufficiently strong forces to take and
hold a city against all corners
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Prominent among the Spugs of this
year are the members of the interstate
commerce commission. The advance
in freight rates it grants to the east
ern railroads is a Christmas present
of the useful variety. Furthermore it
is deserved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

This exceedingly severe cold spell must
be a joyful occasion for the Old fash
ioned 'I-told-you-so's' who were wag-
ging their heads dolefully during the
fine weather Of a few weeks ago and
signing: We'll pay for this dearly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Senator Bale p. Waggener thinks
that the states executive mansion
should be abolished. Why not move
it to the Hutchinson fair grounds for
a swine sty or a poultry hall?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IL a member Of the
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganisation. for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news 10 received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Neither does the Frenchman know
when he has had enough. No fewer
than 81 per cent Of the French
wounded return to the firing lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Let's wait a minute and see the game -
said the near-sighted man who was
travelling in Holland. There's no game -
Whats that just ahead Of us?" "A wind
mill" my mistake. 1 thought 1t was
a pitcher going through the motions pre-
1iminary to sending a hot one over the
plate. washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Going barefooted is not only likely
to become exceedingly popular 1t
may also approach a necessity with
many people. The retail shoe dealers
are figuring on adding 81 a pair to
the prices Of most classes of shoes
And. strange to say, they do not ad-
vance the war as the reason for this
increase. Nor was it SO long ago that
they and supposedly well-founded
economists were insisting that there
would be a material decrease in the
price of shoes if the tariff thinkers
would be so kind and considerate for
the welfare of the general public as
to place hides on the free list. Hides
have been on the free list for four or
five years. or since the enactment Of
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

AS the Philadelphia Ledger explains
it: After a statesman has obtained for
his district all the public improvements
needed, what the other fellow wants
becomes pork grab"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

This much is a certainty. Governor
Hodges stand against the advance
collection Of telephone rentals will be
immensely popular with the telephone
patrons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Washington was as prompt as
might have been expected with a
denial of the story from Naco that
General Bliss had delivered an ulti-
rhatum to the effect that one more
shot from the Mexicans into American
territory would meet with severe re-
prisals. To punish Mexicans in any
way for assaults OF any variety on
American citizens is contrary to the
fundamental principles Of the famous
''watchful waiting policy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

Kansas weather never seems to fail
in delivering the unusual. A "Janu-
airy thaw' arrived in the middle of
December.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

How it must CRATE on the sensibili-
ties of the National One Cent Letter
Postage association to be compelled
to use two cent stamps on its letter
mail.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-06
THE IRON MASTERS OF ESSEN

Great oaks from little acorns grow" So with the house of Krupp, which had it's inception in a small forging plant near Essen that one time did not have sufficient business to support it.
 The founder of the line, Freidrich, who was born at Essen, endeavored to make cast steel the secret of which was carefully guarded in Eng land. And in 1910. he founded small forging plant near Essen for the pro- duction of cast, steel after 8 process he had evolved. Mint. dies, stamps for buttons, etc., were manufactured, but SO small was the demand, the works could not be kept in opera tion. And soon after 1920, Krupp was obliged to give up his house to oc- cupy one-story laborer's cottage near his plant. The hut is still pre- served in the midst of the present gigantic establishment.
 Shortly after his death, however the first of the present-day Krupps confided to his son, Alfred, the sec ret of making cast steel, which the latter developed successfully. Alfred, with the indomitable perseverance that captivates the imagination, con- tinued in the face of mountainous difficulties. his endeavors to improve the manufacture of steel.
 Then came the Krupp opportunity the great exhibition at London in 1851. The obscure Rhenish steel maker from Essen electrified the mil.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-06
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1914.
THE WEEK IN BUSINESS.

Trade in many departments con- tinues to show the irregularity noted ever since the outbreak of the war; . or, more correctly, ever since the first of the present year. A few lines show great activity, due in part to extraor- dinary war demands, but in gener- al conservatism is strongly in evi- dence. Economies are being put in effect wherever possible, both by in- dustrial establishments and by the people generally. These economies, while they are resulting in a consid erable increase in the total amount of capital which must soon or late seek investment, mean also reduced consumption, and by necessity reduc- ed production.
 The iron and steel industry is work ing on a 50 per cent. basis; building operations the country over have de- creased by 30 per cent. The railroads are suffering from diminished earn ings, with little prospect of relief in sight until the Interstate Com merce Commission acts in it's own good time; capital is not to be en- listed in the production of new en- terprises.
 While the tendency is to charge the existence of these conditions to the war, the war has had little to do with them directly. Charles G.. Dawes, formerly controller of the cur rency, calls attention to the fact that if the war should cut off one-third of our entire foreign trade it would mean but reduction of one-third of 1 per cent. in the total business of the country, that being the propor- tion between our domestic trade and our foreign trade.
 But our foreign trade, small as it's importance in comparison with our domestic trade, is rapidly coming back to the normal. Exports are av- eraging greater in amount now than they were before the war. Our trade Nlti llo SouHLlJ ouNC 1Cl IudHy Austria is now adversely affected by the war.
 The amount of money in circulation in the United States is the greatest ever known. It is 38 per cent. great CT, according to treasury statistics than it was fourteen years ago. |, is greater than that in any other country in the world.
 There must be an explanation oth- CT than the war for the present in- tense conservatism. The true expla- nation is that everyone is more or less afraid of congress, and of ths workings of the new laws affecting business which it insists on passing. What the country has asked and which congress has refused to grant it is, as stated by one of the most ardent newspaper champions of the present administration, "wise encour- agement of industry rather than the heavy hand of restraint"
 Still change for the better may be expected when the new banking system gets fairly in effect-Ex
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-06
Taxes Due.

Taxes for the Town of Valdez for the year 1914 are now due and pay able at my office, in the Valdez Elec- tric Company office, in the Copper block. Taxes will be delinquent on Monday, December z, 1914, at o'clock D. m. and unless paid prior thereto, a penalty of 10 per cent. will be add ed to the amount and interest at the rate of 12 per cent. per annum.
 No interest will be allowed on town warrants in payment of taxes after