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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-04

1t is now the duty of the successful
candidate, insists the Lansing News, to
prove that the best man won.
However. remarks the Atchison
Champion, when it comes to substitutes
for diamonds the best one we know of
is money in the bank.
There is a remarkable thing about
the turkey. to the Ottawa Republic. No
matter how small the carcass it will
always supply hash for the next day.
Don't figure on fattening your bank
account great deal, advises the New
ton Kansan-Republican. What you
save on fuel this winter you may have
to spend for more ice next summer.
A newspaper. says the Arkansas City
Traveller. never has any need Of a sign
reading when entering please knock"
After the first named action they do
the Knocking. without being asked,
when inside.
A woman went to IA houses in town to
get a rooniing and boarding place, re-
plains. Most folk who take boarders
prefer men, as they aren't home so
much.
A co-educational item, in the Emporia
Gazette: A Normal GUS and Lucy
have it so bad that they spent a cou-
vacant sitting along the roadside on a
rock. in the drizzle of a recent morn
ing.
Ezra Branine by running for congress
didn't have time to sell his wheat, re-
ports the Ell Dorado Republican, and
now it is worth $500 more than when
the campaign began This seems to be
a case. as the Republican says. where
politics was businessman paid.
It occurs 10 the Hutchinson News
that II the warning nations don't soon
commence to swap prisoners there
won't be enough left, on either side, to
carry on a war of the first class. This
means. to be sure, that the tales they
tell OF taking prisoners ARE the truth.
Prosperity to an Ottawa grocer was
almost fatal to a sign the grocer was
painting while trade was at its busiest,
tells the Ottawa Herald. Letter by let
ter the man had painted as far as
Fresh mr. when he was called away
again to wait on a customer. When he
returned his mind was occupied with
other things and he did not note ex-
he had finished the work of art, the
letters spelled Fresh Mice Meat"
Related by the Leavenworth Post:
relatives in Germany every year, al
ways took a trunk full Of cantaloupes
with him as they are a great treat in
Germany. On his first trip he only
had few cantaloupes in a grip and he
showed these to a German storekeeper
who eagerly bought them for seventy
cents apiece. The next day the Leav-
enworth mans hostess had q great sur
prise In store for him for dessert. It
proved to be one Of his cantalopes for
which she had paid 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-04
From Other Pens
coMMoNsENsE AND THE CENSOR

COMMONSENSE AND THE CENSOR
Gradually the sober common sense
Of the British public is asserting it
self in seeking to control the COM
troller Of war news. Now the official
censor, having been well censured for
the blunder Of concealing the destruc-
ton Of the Audactous. hnds that he
has no sympathy with the view that
bad news should be prohibited" and
parliament very sternly curtails the
powers Of the government to conceal
the facts about the war. Except for
news that may disclose impending
movements or defense measures to
the enemy. there is nothing that may
be wisely concealed from the public.
This adoption Of the above-bOard
American policy will promote needed
patriotism i'm the British Isles.-New
York Mail.
NEGROES AND THE CENSUS.
Encourestn4 facts showing prog4
ress among the negroes Of the United
States will appear in q forthcoming
bulletin OF the census bureau. OF ne
groes ten years old and over, 3O.4 per
cent are reported al illiterate. This
proportion Is lower than It IL among
large elements Of our white immigra-
ton: lower than the rate in southern
Italy and the italian islands, and lit
tie more than half what it was among
the negroes themselves twenty years
ago. The negro death rate is still
very high. 25.5 per 1000 in the regis
tration area in 1910. against q general
death rate Of 15: but this also IL fast
decreasing. Partly owing to this
heavy percentage Of deaths, but
mainly to white immigration, the to-
tai number Of negroes in the country
Is now. but 1917 per cent Of tho whole
population. 1t has steadily lessened
in every decade Of the republic. AL
most three-fourths of our negro popu-
1ation live upon farms or in villages
Of less than 1880 Inhabitants It 10 q
rural race. In feeding and clothing
the country, with a surplus for other
lands, 1t plays an important part. The
great cotton crop Of the south would
scarcely be possible without negro aid.
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-04
A Town Built ON I,edrez.

Few miles north of Marseilles. and
within easy walk of the tram to Aix-en-
PROVENCE lies a typical Proyencal village
that tourists usually miss. 1t was found
ed by the Romans during their occuna-
non OF the South of France. and is built
In accordance with the custom of that
time. The houses appear to be perehed
on top OF each other. but on closer in
spection are found to be built on lodges
on a hillside. This hill is the most Inter
esting feature OF the place What an
pears as solitary crag Is in reaNtv a
castle. the rooms. Notifications, etc. be-
ing cut out OF the solid rock and forming
a fortress practically impregnable in
those days. At the side of the castle is a
round tower. about forty feet in hei0hf
and seven feet in diameter. The Interior
OF this tower acted as the wireless sta
ton In Roman times. 1t consisted Of a
series Of pigeon lofts. from which the
to Rome. The whole Of the interior was
constructed of a very hard cement. which
with the wear of ages, is now slowly de-
cay1ng. and only one perfect "loft' now
remains. There was accommodation for
abou. two hundred and fifty pairs Of
birds. together with an abundant water
and grain supply. the attendants being
CHARTERED in the castle.-November Wide
World Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-04

What a drop in the Kansas bucket
IL the 100000 barrels Of flour she is
planning to send to the Belgians!
Secretary Mohler, Of the Kansas de-
partment Of agriculture. is able to re-
port that the wheat, corn and oat
crops for this year have an aggregate
value of $228,6SS,471. Last year,
these same crops had a value of $751;
7O1,s69, a big sum but rather small
in comparison with their value for
this year. But these three crops are
not all that Kansas has to depend on,
by any means. There are the sor-
ghums, the tame hay and the dairy
products yet to hear from. Last year
these had q value OF approximately
SAC, 100000, and their value this year
IL almost certain to be much greater.
And ON top Of all these are the enor-
NOUS live stock values in the state
surely Kansas has been wonderfully
favored this yeaE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-04

and beautiful. with flush Of happi-
ness ON her cheeks.
Behind her doomed the massive form
Of another blond giant.
Carl" cried Lydia. cordially holding
out her hands to the man who had
Deep River. Rena, have you made DR..
Schultz comfortable?''
Rena surprised the mischief in Ly-
dia's eyes. Yes" she said q little
daxedly; that isl don't understand
she cried at last.
as she bent to kiss her friend. 1.-The
whole thing happened 30 deliciously
that couldn't help laughing. Here Is
my Max, Prof. Schultz
Rena's hand disappeared In the huge
grasp of the second blond giant and
she scarcely heard his few murmured
/ words Of broken English.
Who was the other man? Whom had
she been entertaining? Her cheeks
flushed hotly while her eyes met the
amu6ed admiring glance Of DR.. Schultz.
Dear" said Lydia. sweetly, ..this il
Max's cousin, DR.. Schultz; Max brought
him over to be best man at the we'd
ding. met them in town and Max
wanted to go about with me so we
sent Carl down Alone
Rena could not help the wave of
giadness that swept over her when Carl
Schultz gripped her little hand i'm his.
So" he laughed mirthfully. IT un-
derstand why Frau Wing has enter
tanned me with Ly6ia's beautiful pic-
turee!"
You dear thing!" Lydia embraced
Rena ecstatically.
Those who attended the Schultz
North wedding said that the matron OF
nonor and the best man made a spIen-
oio couple. which could only be rivaled
oy the bride and her giant husband.
Inc Following year there was another
wedding in the Schultz family: this
time 1T Ii the Herr Doktor who il he
orideeroom. while Rena Wing walks
demurely beside him.
TINS would never have happened,
Carl. said Lydia gravely, If You had
not happened to understand EnElish.''
carr smiled down at his petite bride
IT would" he said confidently. zoe
mas mas no especial language. you know
lCopyright. 1914. by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate.)
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Kansas Comment
THE OLD MAN.


Boys, when you speak OF your fafneE
don't call him the "olQ man. u
course you are older now than when
you were taught to call him Iatner.s
You are much smarter than you WerS
then, you are much more manly LOOK
ing. your clothes fit you better. your
hat has q modern shape and your na1r
is combed differently. in short you are
''flyer" than you were then. Your
father has = last years coat. q two
year-old hat and a vest OF etill older
pattern. He can't write such an ele-
CANT note as you can and all that. Dut
don't call him "old man." Call him
hns ais around to get things tesether.
he has been held to the thoEny path
OF uphill industry, and the brightest
half Of his life il gone from Nm for
ever. - He, loves you, though he goes
therefore, be not ungrateful.-Belle-
Vile Telescope.
BATTLES DO NOT CAUSE RAIN.
nonadin1 brings rain? Ninety-five to
81 Of every 100 persons do. As mat
ter OF fact, according to science.
there's but one possible connection Pc
tween gun fire and rain. and 1t ~
very slight. Smoke or dust in the
air make what the scientists call
''nuclei'-little centers around which
moisture may form IL there happen9
to be enough moisture in the air. But
.. the fact that smoky Pittsburg IL one
Of the driest places in the country
rather dampens even this theory. The
other notion, commonly held, that the
conclusion Of cannonading jars the
atmosphere till its moisture spills out,
hasn't, the scientists tell US, leg to
/ stand on. Clap your hands violently
in a room where the moisture from a
boiling teakettie is thick, and not q
drop Of rain will fall. Battles are
usually fought when weather condi-
/ lions have for some time been favor
able. Generals move their troops and
! make dispositions for the battle when
there's no rain. About the time the
| battle is fought rain is naturally due
and because it comes folks attribute
! it to gunpowder. They might as we'll
! say that war makes sunshine, because
| there's sometimes q smile from
heaven on a CHASTITY battlefield
Wichita Beacon.
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81. 900 at the end Of the fiscal year.
June 30. 1914. However. the relief from
the over SO. oo0. 900 Of income and cor
poration tax proved only momentary.
with the result that the treasury def
cit Immediately began to swell to its
present proportion.
In short, it is perfectly plain that de-
creasing imports have not been re-
sponsible for the falling on in the
treasury revenue, and the question
arises by what appellation the neces-
sary revenue measure would have gone
by had there been no European war to
give the administration pretext to i'm
pose a war tax
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On the Spur
Of tie Moment
!. ROY K.SAOULTON

HfeaAnnos.
MONDAY.
The Germans Haven't Got Chance
The Frenchmen Have Foes on the
Run"
THE Germans Rut a crimp in France
The Germans Fab Before eVerdun.
TUESDAY.
1.-The Allies Fall Back in Dismay."
1.-The Germans Beat Quick Retreat"
The Allies Win a Glorious Day"
THE Allies All Admit Defeat
WEDNESDAY.
1.-THE Kaiser's Forces Driven Back"
The Allies Lose q Lot OF Ground.
The Germans ON Disastrous Tack.
THE Allies Losing All Around.
THURSDAY.
1.-THE English Rout the German Host"
THE Germans Wipe the English
Out
1.-THE English Seem to Hold the Coast.
THE Germans Send the Foe to Rout-
FRIDAY.
1.-THE Allies Suffer Bad Defeat"
THE Germans Are About to Quit.
The Allies Win the Day Complete. -.
1.-The Germans Win. No Doubt OF 1t.
SATURDAY.
1.-The Allies Make Important GAIN.
1.-THE Allies Lose Their Only Chance"
"The Germans Win. That Much Ii
Plain"
"A wholesale Victory for France"
SUNDAY.
The Sunday papers take the mess
And scramble the events 80 pat.
We read the stun and try to guess
Just where the victory is at.
Signs Of the Times.
A Chicago postoffice employee who
had been in service twenty-five years
was arrested this week for stealing
SIPS from a letter. He might have
waited longer and got more.
Some day the authorities will ex-
ercise as much care to prevent the
spread of disease among human De-
ings as among cattle.
Fashion has decreed a return to
hoopskirts. Hoops, m'dear! !!
Hobson says war Is less disastrous
than liquor. It win be remembered
that Hobson was defeated for the
interests.
The suffragist who said that some
day women will fill mems shoes did
not find much sympathy among her
sister delegates at the convention.
When history is written. the Next
can peace conference may be set
do down v.1.. as one Of tf'e worlds greatest
DdtIlcS. : ~
Belgium couldn't be. in much worse
shape il it had been run by the d.
rectors of the New Haven railroad
The latest report is that a man was
shot in the Tower. 1t proved to be
q fatal spot for the man is now dead.
Hasn't Carranza been losing a lot
of time by not clipping to a foreign
port with the treasury of Mexico?
To add to the other burdens Of the
time congress will convene again in
a few days.
Wall street reports money easier.
But is just as hard Jas ever for. some
people to get.
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. Ep,ehM sNhn.t.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

Little Things and Big Results.
The disproportionate bigness Of little
things is q fact which every now and
then strikes me with new interest.
A few weeks ago went house hunt
ing with some friends. We traversed
many miles Of country with our eyes
keen to observe houses of all kinds.
We constantly commented on various
types of architecture and pointed out
attractive places to each other. AS the
day wore on was struck with the fact
tracted US. the places which stood OUT
from the rest. did SO not by reason of
responsiveness or striking architecture.
but simply because they had certain
little touches.
For instance. two white houses stood
side by side. They were very similar in
their general lines, but one had q little
arch of green lattice work at the side
door with a rambler rose climbing over
it. I don't see how 1t could have cost
more than $25. yet it gave the house a
pretty little air of distinction, and
while its neighbor went entirely un-
noticed. that house was Immediately
pointed out as an attractive residence.
Again, some one said, What a dar-
ling little place" looked and saw a
little green house, not a bit more strik-
ing in itself than dozens we had passed
without comment, but at each window
was a window box filled with bright
colored flowers and gracefully pendant
green things,
Not many Of us can afford to build
houses that will be distinctive in a
large way. but there are few Of US who
cannot, If we take thought and time,
make our homes attractive and appeal
ing by the little Individual touches.
Tasteful1y filled window boxes, a
pretty group Of shrubbery, a rose vine
clambering over a porch, a simply but
tastefully furnished verandah with a
bowl Of fresh flowers on a low table,
these are the things that make one
turn to look again at a house Just as
often as beautiful architecture.
Again, painstaking care to keen a
place trim and in reasonably good con-
dttion. is very big little factor in the
| impression it gives. 1t il almost i'm
possible for a freshly painted house
with well trimmed lawns and neatly
kept flower garden to look wholly un-
attractive.
I have been speaking mostly of small
places The large place is by no means
Independent Of the big little things.
Tnere is country place near the town
where I spent my summer which is
| known all over the country for one dis
tlnct1ve little feature which its owner
mas played up. The whole place il en-
closed in white fence Of a peculiar
pattern, and on every foot Of these
white fences grow crimson -ramblers
The picture produced in the rose sea-
son Is one which no one who sees it will
easily forget There may be many
finer, larger estates in the country
than this. but this one little idea of
its owner has given 1t q distinction that
has helped to make it famous.
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For four months the great Euro
pean war has been raging, and Ger
many. with her highly trained and
wonderfully equipped army Of i'm
mense proportions, is as far from any
Of her goals as she was when the con-
flict began. The conclusion would
seem reasonable. therefore, that Ger
many has practically been fought to
a standstill. But as to administering
q crushing defeat to Germany-well.
that Is likely to be another story, as
r. Kipling would say.
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But Jack Rabbit was mistaken about
Mr.. Dog, as he soon found out, for Just
az he reached the edge Of the garden
where the cabbages grew. he caught sight
Of MI. Dog. and Mr.. Dog saw him. too.
Jack Rabbit dArted into q hole In the
ground and sat very quiet
Are you not coming out?' asked Mr..
Dog, after waiting q while In front Of
the hole.
Jack Rabbit knew that Mr.. Dog was in
quis.tive. and he also knew there was an-
other hole not Tar from the one he had
was watching that, too.
What IL in therer' asked Mr.. Dog.
pohing In his nose ~ FAR ~ he could.
Jack Rabbit ran 70 the other hole ana
had hi bad out bst 1Gx. Do9 wae too
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-04

No doubt about the Allies being
satisfied, in their own minds, at least,
that they have the Germans as good
as whipped. They're making plans
already to erect a statue to Joan of
Arc at Lasny. the nearest point to
Paris that the German army reached.
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Journal Entries

Doing today's work today lightens the
1abors OF tomorrow.
Was any man ever clever enough to
conceal his faults around home?
= =
Making the best OF bad bargain
is seldom done very cheerfully.
=
Virtues rewards are not as quick in
coming as are the penalties Of vice.
Many a man would be wonderfully
surprised if he got anything but the
worst Of it.
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"WAR" TAX AND IMPORTS.

"WAR" TAX AND IMPORTS.
When the imports fell during August
to a total of 1929, 767 900. as compared
with $3.50 GIT 900 during July. and $751;
651 900 for August. 1913, Washington be-
gan to express fears that the European
war would seriously affect the treasury
revenues through falling customs. says
the Wall Street Journal This appre-
hension was heightened when the Sep
TENDER importations rolled up total
OF $140,O 900. as compared with $171,-
0S4, 900 in September, 1913. Pressure
was therefore brought to bear on con-
gress to pass a war tax" to protect
the treasury.
But with the restoration of more nor
NAL conditions in our foreign COM
merce. imports in October began to
hold their own and at $137 900
showed a 100000 increase over Oc-
tober a year ago. Imports at the port
of New York so far in November fndi-
cate a continuation of this improve
ment and point to the fact that the de-
crease during August was only tenn
porary arrangement in our foreign
trade and no more than has happened
on occasions in the past.
The truth is that Washington got
alarmed at what it had done in cur
failing the customs revenue through
the Underwood tariff, which became a
law October 8, 1913 and sought to make
the war the scapegoat for the increas-
ing treasury deficit Receipts from GUS
toms duties, which previous to the new
tariff had amounted to an average Of
about SIG, 900 900 a month, going as high
as $50, 900, 900 in some months. had fall
en- to an average of about $20.000,0 900
since the new tariff; last months total
receipts being as low as SIG. 271 900.
Counting the twelve months from the
first Of November, 1918, to the end of
October this year, the total receipts
from customs show a decline of $780,
100000 over the preceding twelve
months. But that this decline is not to
be attributed to lessened imports, is
shown by the fact that the aggregate
for the last twelve months was 81. $685.
$4,000, as compared with 81. 794, s27 900.
an increase of about $50, zoo, 900.
| The falling off in the government
revenue cannot be denied. For the
fiscal year to date there is an excess OF
; disbursements over receipts to the ex-
! tent of $4,000. 900. At the end Of May.
1914, the treasury deficit had grown to
$es. zoo. 900. as compared with a deficit
Of "a 10000 at the end of November
1913. But the new income tax, designed
to make good the deficiency of revenue
i from customs. was able to turn thia
treasury deficit into = surplus OF a.
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KANSAS PROFITS Also.

KANSAS GESOE1xS <21AoOs
In some quarters. there has been
reluctance to assist in the sending OF
100000 barrels Of -four to the relief
Of the sorely stricken Belgians on the
score that rich as Kansas IL, 1t IL q
mistaken charity to send that much
Of her wealth, fractional though II
may be, out OF the state and out Of
the country - this time, when busf-
ness conditions are far from being at
their best. But such objections do
not seem to be we'll founded in fact.
Paradoxical though it may appear,
Kansas is really promoting her own
prosperity with this plan. It Is true
that she is giving away flour to the
value of 100000 or whereabouts. or
that is the goal which she has set.
But it is not true from an economic
standpoint that she is sending that
much actual wealth beyond her con-
fines.
Most of the contributions to this
cause have been in the form OF mon
ey. This money is being used to buy
Kansas flour. 1t is going into the
cash drawers Of the millers of the
SS0SO' AAACys IA S0Au al uoAA6 ~ W
pay their he and discharge their
other personal obligations. In other
words. a contribution by Kansas of
100000 barrels Of flour to the Bel
gians actually mean that Kansans are
putting 100000 into circulation
among themselves. and increasing by
that much their general business and
their general prosperity. Not dollar
that goes into this flour will go
abroad. 1t is freighted free from Kan
sas to the Atlantic coast by the rail-
roads. and from there it will be car
ried across the sea to the Belgians at
not a penny's expense to Kansas, the
donor.
So. looking at the matter from this
standpoint, 1t is apparent that while
such flour as Kansas sends to the Bel
gians will be Godsend to them, the
movement is also Of advantage to
Kansas by putting in circulation right
at home a goodly sum of money that
otherwise would not have been let
loose. And the Kansans who will re-
ceive some direct benefit from the
stimulation Of business in Kansas that
WILL lu0VlIADly result are likely u DS
as numerous as the Belgians who are
saved from starvation by this Kansas
flour.
This is a consideration that proba-
bly, hasn't appealed to many Kansans
It is far from being anything like a
good reason why Kansas should I'M
dertake to send 100000 barrels of
-four to the Belgians. Other obvious
and higher motives prompted this
Kansas relief movement. The utter
distress of the Belgians is almost a
demand that succor be sent them by
those who are able to give. And real
sacrifices ere in order that the bodies
and souls of unfortunate Belgians
may be held together. Favored Kan
sas is fortunate that she is in a posi-
ton to give assistance on a substan-
tial scale. But the cold. practical fact
remains that the gift Of Kansas to the
Belgians is also q vigorous stimulator
to the general prosperity Of the COM
monwealth. And this should give
added strength to the force of its ap-
neal