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\ STORY TOO FAMILIAR.

Once he was a well-known anu well-todo real estate operator. He had many friends who famed anu rovtcwed te him as he spent ms money. Then came more es aeais more money placed in the scales o, ohance. Luck wavered, then "eh' sdead against him." His fort"hf .frihl,led away. He became poor man. His courage. determlna'ion snd grit left him with the money n 1ad. He became dowh-ohu-ou's.
 ! afa didn't have anything good U ,1fyfv any more, so he jumped rom fky seyaper. .,m;,;.r,
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him here from San Francisco, the count had come here with instructions to make good" There is no intention on either side to remain permanently separated, much less seek divorce. It is merely mutual agreement that in America it is not fitting that a man should live on his wife's income
 The count is not saying word about his troubles and, as far as known, has not yet procured 'his job."
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Woodrow Wilson president, g9ts into print with the sage observation that there cannot he war between the Unitsd States and Germany for the simple reascn that Germanys f!eer and none would advocate the insane idea of the United St2tes sending an army to Germany. Consider this l moment, and hen dig for more us EeSS.
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Why not Fourth of July celsbra- tiOn in Pine Bluff this year? This is a time to display patriotism. Be sides, Pine Bluff owes t to it's friends in the adjacent country and neighbor- ing towns to furnish entertainm nt and amusement occasionally. Sides that, local merchants and tradesmen could make it a good business pro- position.
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WHAT 4 SCHOOL BOY IS D0lNG'

Principal B. H. Glenn ol the fHs' Ward public school is doing some thing more than teaching the why' he's teaching the how. some months ago. MT. Glenn organized among the students at his school an onion clup' The results are already apparent One youth, Herbert Holt by name' ls expected to harvest early next month 236 bushels oe Bermuda onions rom cne-third of an acre. It is also esti' mated he will obtain for the on!ohs an average rfipe Of Sl.2o to Sl.oo a hushel Herbert is pointing the way toward fund for a college educa~ ton, nest egg to begin' business UT the solution of the high cost or nv ing pr0blsm.
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We also give complete satlsficttol In the laundering of the household Waeh. Why not send us the heavy pieces--tablecloth5, bed spreads, sheets. pillow cases, curtains, tow els, aapkins, etc. Aud su make the washing lighter and easiar. American Excelsior Laundry eiN tf
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Fcrmsr President Taft looms up bigger every day-not in stoture, but in mind. Asked for statement oi' the 1usitania disaster, he declined to express any opinion but that the country should support Presldeh' Wilson. and the confidence that MT Wilson would do the right thlng. II a former president of Mir. Taft's call her thinks he can afford to trust the nressnt president, the little fry ana small undiscovered statesmen might try to do likewise.
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WAS MURDER OF NEUTRALS
 PREMEDIVA ATED?

In the May 12 issue of "The Father land,' publication printed, ap- parently, solely for the purpose or creating among Americans prejudice in favor of Germany and resentment toward the neutral attitude of the Wilson administration, significant statement appears. It is this; Be. fore lcng, a large passenger snip like the Lusitania, carrying lnple- ments of murder to Great Britain: will mee, with a similar fate,' re ferring to the attack on the Amer ican steamer Gulflight. The Father land continues: eff an American Is foolish enough to entrust his life to a British ship. in spite of the explicit warming of the German embassy, he has only himself to blame if he meets with serious mishap." The great significance of this statement i~ found in the fact that the issue of inc publication in which it appears was printed only a day Or two before the Lusitania was sent to the bottom with more than one thousand men, women and children.
 In iron.cal contrast, the some naner contains in the same issue likeness of Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg, characterized as "Ihe man who held that the laws of humanity were greater than scraps of paper"
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ENGurancs.

Whether it may seem 1aradoxical or not. it is fact ip ovv nature that without endurance, life ceases to ba enjoyable; with out palms accepted. pleasure will not be permanent. A life from which everything that has in 1t the element of pain is banished, be- comes a life not worth having O, worse. of intolerable tedium and de gust James Hinton.
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Seemed Like a Reflection.

A certain vicar had for his curate . tall, cadaverous-looking individual. One Sunday. according to custom. the vicar made an appeal for the curate's Stipend fund. but. unfortunately. glanced at his co-worker as he eoa. cludeS with these words; "The col lection vill now be taken for thGt ob ject."--ondon Tit-Rita.
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0AC.

A tender at the free bridge estl- mates that 1000 people crossed tho structure on their way to Pine Bluff Saturday. With modern highways on the north side of the river, and a good road from the bride to the city, the number will multiply greatly.
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If a man failed to put on clean shirt for such long intervals that his wife became suspicious when he changed his front" it is noD%onder she had evidence against him whe.i ne deserted her. One in Chicago said tho first animation she had that something was wrong in the domestic circle was when her husband put on 2 clean shirt. She followed him and sot all the evidence she need'a
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--CFG.

You might just as well make ready to participate in the general clean up, unless you want to be the excep- tion in your neighborhocd. And with all yards neat ond clean, the exception in this case is not likely to be popular with his neighbors.
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Ut is puzzling to understand why so many statesmen who could (they think so easily handle the American end of the diplomatic situat .on-We say it is puzzling why these men are holding down obscure jobs instead oi impor, ant posts, eith1r in public or private life.
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MT. Huerta invested $300000 of his savings iii New York real estate. Comes from net locking around else where in the country befora parting with the money. They are still sell ing goldbricks in Manhattan, only bricks have multiplied until they are blocks.
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Knew What He Was Going For
 Duncan, aged four, was invited to a party. He had to take his nap before he could go. When he awoke his mother said to him, "Well, dear, are you going oyer to Bobby's to play?" He promptly replied, "No, Is going over there to eat"
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Perhaps the sinking of the Lusi- tania will make scarce the hyphen- ated Americans--separate the. Ameri- cans from the foreigners Gin Our midst"
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Lovers Lane will soon again gel cn the maps-or minds, rather. \
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Enormou, Match coneuh,ption

~V0'"'Sos ""SsV 0~''s0F''Fs'S'F To keep up with the match con. sumption of the earth the services ot so.occ waykpeople are constantly re auirec.
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The Graphic gladly publishes free of charge notices for churches, socle- ties, traternal organizations and clubs when the events are not ln- tended as moncy-makers. If there ss attempt at profit-taking, notices of the events are advertisements, and w.ll be charged for accordingly.
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ADAMS PRINTING co.
 Uncorporat3d) Corner Main and aarraQre Streets.

When the attention of the Graphic . called to any mis.statemelt of facts, V t5 any error concerning any mau Sr thing, correction will cnesriuily ho made.
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Bill McCombs. the msn wha made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13
EUening Chat
He Never Was a Boy.
BY RUTH CAMERON

One day this summer as a group
of us were padding up the river near
our summer home, we came upon q
crowd of boys swimming.
At the sight of the canoe they
cried out in delight and made for us,
their white backs cleaning in the
sunshine.
AS they Topped about US, racing
with the canoe, awkwardly attempt
ing difficult speed strokes, and in gen
eral showing off, one came too close
and sent a shower of water into the
boat. 1t drenched one of our number
who was beautifully clad in white
trousers.
The other boys laughed and the
boy who had done the mischief dove
under water in mock terror. The man
with the white trousers looked first
taken aback, then angry. One could
understand that. 1t is not particular
ly pleasant to be drenched. But the
third change, which should have been
to amusement (rueful perhaps, did
not come Instead he remained dis
gruntled throughout the trip and kept
ments such as THAT boy ought to be
tanned" They ought not to let
them battle in the river; they're a
public nuisance" ETC., etc.
Finally he evoked protest from
the other masculine member of the
party. "Oh, come on, Jeff, forget
about it, Your trousers are all dry"
1T isn't that" said he with dig
nifty; tits because L hate to see boys
always up to mischief"
I'm other words you hate to see
boys" rejoined the other.
The man-who-never-wa s-a-boy,
that was what we nicknamed him
after that. Don't you think there are
a good MANY like him in the world
Instead of having sympathy for a
stage of development through which
they once passed, they are irritated
and antagonized by all its manifesto
tions.
To me it is a particularly incompre-
hensib1e frame Of mind, because it is
one of the griefS of my life that
never have been and never shall be
q small boy. 1t seems to me that
there is no other age or condition that
gets so much solid satisfaction out of
life. If there is such a thing as re-
incarnation, 1 hope next time shall
have a chance to be a boy. l don't
care so much to be a man. I wouldn't
mind being a woman after I grew up,
but oh, to be a small boy from the age
of seven to fourteen or fifteen, with
his freedom, his energy, his mischiev-
BUSINESS. his freck1eS, his unself-con-
seriousness and his uneQualled capac-
ity for having stirring good time all
the timei
Of course am not defending every
thing the small boy does. 1 realize
that the average small boy has an
abysmal lack of respect for other peo-
pies property and rights and a fear
full tendency to turn his energies into
dangerous channels. But even with
his faults I like the small boy better
oh, ever so much betterl than the
ho-never-waS-a-boy- Don tyou?
Protected by The Adams Newspaper
Service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13

she said to me as I was going Take
my advice and stay SINGLE But say.
Dave, GU ought to have seen the bed
room suite-real Chinese Chippendale
NOT any of this rush-order goods
either, but the kind that Pins, Pines
& Noteworthy never had inside their
doors. But, pshaw. what good did it
do her?
Next place 1 went was jules. and
do you know it wasn't till had reach
ed her apartment that 1 knew she'd
left her husband, though she said it
had been in al the papers 1t wasn't
that he had done anything. She just
couldn't get along with HIM; says that
for woman of independence and an
'emancipated intellect marriage is a
state of bondage. She said it was
ing law and says she's going to devote
herself to making divorce easier in the
state. Eventually she said, mar
riage will be like any other contract,
binding only so long as both parties
agree Did you ever hear such rub
bish?
what about Moll? Oh, didn't tell
you? Poor thingi She seems to have
ried a German-Otto Braun was his
name-and when the first reservists
were called out he joined his colors in
the Fatherland, and it was only last
month after all these weeks of anxiety
that she learned that he had been kill
ed in the trenches. So she's gone over
to Berlin to join the Red Cross to try
and forget her own misery. Poor
Moll, And she used to be so light
hearted.
You are not going, Dave? Why,
you look kind o. disgrdntled. You
don't think you'll wait for my answer?
Well, if that is the way you feel about
it. 1 thought maybe when you heard
you would want to go home with me
and have the little dinner that Aunt
Mandy has been making-real old
Virginia chicken and corn bread.
You see, Dave, after I had heard
about those four girls and seen what
failure marriage had been for them
l Just wanted to try my luck and show
folks that marriage is a pretty good
invention after ALL TIE just been
dying to tell you all day, Dave, but I
wanted to get you guessing. Copy
right, 1915, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13
WHAT WILL FOLLOW WAR?

1.-The belief" says Theodore H. Price
in an article in the current number of
the Worlds Work, that the waste
and disorganization of war will bring
business depression seems plausible
and is fostered by the gloomy exhala-
tons of the battlefield but it becomes
very debatable when examined in the
light of the precedents and the facts.
The precedents are the Napoleonic
wars, the Crimean war, our own war
of the Confederacy, the Franco-Prus-
sian war, the Boer war, and the
Russo-Japanese war. None of these
wars was Immediately succeeded by
acute depression. Some of them, in
fact, appear to have induced or at
least were followed by extraordinary
activity and prosperity. But it may
be said that presidents do not apply
to an unprecedented situation and
that the magnitude of the present
struggle is entirely beyond the meas
urement of history. This is true, and
it is just as well to scrutinize the facts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13
Globe Sights
Very few stogies are neutral.
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE

Very few stogies are neutral.
A mollycodd1e is never apt to get
hurt playing football.
The seven year kind is bad but the
itch for office is worse.
Adams hobby seemed to run to ap-
pies while Noah's ran to pairs.
Honestly, now, don't you believe in
tickling the man who tickles you?
1t is feared an Atchison girl is wear
ing her life away by chewing gum.
A boy is credu1ous to a certain point,
but you can't convince him it is pos
sib1e to eat too much.
When it is said of an Atchison man
that he put in full week it means he
was as full as a goat all week.
1t is easy to believe that the man
who knows something "racy' about
you is a gossip that should be
squelched.
Hotel registers are to become
thing of the past, but as rule the
gossips know without consulting it.
Do pupils still have to speak
pieces on Friday afternoon, or do
they give readings in these modern
days?
If you want to amuse the average
reporter, walk up to him, protrude
your chest and say, Don't never print
my name again.
Comparatively little of the worlds
work is accomplished by oratory, al
though it is quite possible to make
living and other luxurieS in that line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13
Kansas Comment
A SOCIALIST TOWN.

The town of Chanute, located down
in the oil and gas belt, is engaged in
the municipal utility business. Cha
mute has a municipal waterworks,
municipal electric plant, a municipal
cemetery and if it were large enough
doubtless would have a municipal
street railway. The finance commit
tee recently completed auditing the
accounts of the various municipal util-
tiles for the three months ended June
80. The gas plant took in $1S,SS2 and
spent $21,99 for operating expenses
a deficit of $3,1O9. The municipal
electric plant had receipts of $3,S
and expenses $4,272, a deficit of $42S,
while the municipal waterworks had
receipts of $3,313 and expenses of
$3,952, running behind $640. However,
the municipal cemetery made a profit
of almost $500, having taken in re-
ceipts of $565, and paid out only $3.50.
One of the finance committee decided
that the only way Chanute can break
even on its municipality owned utilities
is for all it's citizens to die and be bur
led in the municipal cemetery.-Abi-
1enA Reflector
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13
MAN AND MACHINERY.

A few years agone, writes Arthur
Chapman in Judge, and the city man
was more or less wont to stroll along
the country waysfne and remark:
what an uneconomica1 and altogeth-
er unthrifty lot be these FARMERS. Wit
ness yon farm machinery left standing
in the field, uncovered and the prey of
the snow and rain and various other
well-known elements But now
cometh the farmer along the city
streets, and, as he gazes thereon. one
may hear him muse aloud as follows:
by heck, and all the other uncouth
and ungainly oaths we are supposed
to utilize in the country. wouldst see
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13

If business is recovering in Mexico
as rapidly as recent reports from
there indicate, it is evident that the
six years of almost continuous revolu-
ton that the republic below the Rio
Grande has suffered, didn't do nearly
as much damage to the country and
its people as it was reasonable to ex-
pect that such continuous and
lengthy turmoil would. This would
seem to bear out a suggestion recently
made in these columns that much of
the fighting in which the Mexicans
indulge is done with their mouths.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13

how these city fellows throw away
money by letting their automobiles
stand out on the pave in all sorts of
weather, though a garage may be just
around the block and the charge for
shelter therein may not be above six
bits of silver 1t is beyond my bucolic
comprehension to see wherein such a
sinful waste of good machinery is
paying proposition" BY all of which
it would seem that one man takes
care of machinery about as we'll as
another, whether he liveth IN the
country or in the town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13
UNLOCK THE FACTORY DOORS

Why wouldn't it be good plan for
factories all over the country to see to
it that none of their doors, which
might possibly be used as exits, are
locked during working hours. Most
state factory laws demand this, and
those that don't should be remedied
in this particular in short order. But
even such a provision of law is diff
cult of enforcement by public author
ity. 1t is one, though, that the good
sense of factory owners should at
tend to. Every once in a while New
York city experiences a factory-fire
horror where many deaths result from
locked doors. And because New York
refuses to profit by her own eXper-
fences in this matter is no reason why
other places, and their factory oper-
ators, should not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13

as well as the precedents. What. then,
are the facts? About 20,000,0O0 men
are in arms in Europe at an expense
to the various governments involved
estimated at 100000 a day. How
much of this would be spent in luxury
and extravaganza if the belligerent
nations were at peace, it is hard to
say. Certainly great economy is now
being Dracticed throughout Europe
There is, of course waste. 1t is repre-
scented by the cost of explosives which
are reconverted into gas; of guns that
are destroyed; of ships that are sunk
and the value of a few, not many,
cities that are RACED. But is this cost
greater than that of automobiles that
are worn out in the pursuit of pleas
ure, of superfluous servants, of ex-
travagant dressing and eating, and of
the ny luxuries upon which money
is spent in times of peace and pros
perity? If not, then the wastes of war
exceed those of peace only by the
value of the lives destroyed or rem
dered useless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record
Sweet are the uses of adversely 1t
takes frost to mellow persimmon..
A woman will open a telegram with
almost as much trepidation as she
opens a jackpot.
Even the stock market makes no
provision for unloading the bonds of
matrimony.
No, Maude, dear; we doubt if the
Germans are afraid of the English
aviators dropping their his.
Some people never profit by envi-
ronment. Even in a speak-easy they
would indulge in hard words.
Paradoxical as it may seem, some
people flatter themselves that they
have too much sense to be flattered.
Tommy-"Pop, what is a lullaby?"
Tommy's Pop-"A lullaby, my son, is
something that keeps whole neigh
borhood awake while it puts one kid
to Sleep"
Wigg-'Young Gotrox has more
money than brains" Wagg-"WelI,
at any rate that's a handicap that
doesn't generally last long"
Blobbs-"Is it merely a pose, or do
you think the married men really
envy the bachelors?" Slobbs-"Ask
me if I think the barnyard fowl envies
the wild duck"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-13
Jayhowker lots

According to the Atchison Globe an
Atchison young man believes so thor
OuShly in preparedness that he is
keeping company with three different
girls.
This years corn crop is the most
valuable ever grown. notes the Atchi-
son Globe, and it adds in parenthesis,
Pronounced Groan by those whose
crop failed.
Among the "Puffs'' in the Wichita
Eagle: There are times when the
automobile driver is inclined to doubt
the statement that there are only 1884,
600 dogs in Kansas.
Don't laugh at the children for
writing letters to Santa Claus, urges
the SeGgwick Paragraph. Some
grown people write letters answering
green goods advertisements
Told by the County Liner: A Ce-
darvale teacher asked, What is the
little girl arose timidly and answered:
Unaware is the last thing you take
off before you put your nightie on"
No chance for such a thing nova
days. One of the items in the Sixteen
Years Ago column in the Wellington
Journal reads: A Wellington girl of
thirty has succeeded in passing herself
off as a young thing of nineteen, by
wearing short skirts
A tip, from the Newton Kansas
MOSl Oh your InONSS are
quite we'll known and understood by
the general public. AS a matter of
fact you can seldom slip it over on
the people" Very seldom does a man
escape the giggles of the crowd he
thinks he is fooling.
1t will soon be strawberry time
again at the John DunShee home in
this city, states the Douglass Tribune.
A few weeks ago relatives in Illinois
sert him some plants. On the same
day that they were put OUT the
plants began to bloom and the berries
promise to be ripe within few days.
Eighty seven per cent CT the peO-
pie of Omaha own their own homes,
notes the Leavenworth Post, and it
adds: There has been a spirit of
made in Omaha" trade in Omaha"
and boost for Omaha" that has built
that city on a foundation of solid rock.
There is no city of ten thousand that,
by cooperative work, cannot make it
s - thrifty and wealthy.