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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
Jayhdwker Jots

A number of our citizens are talk
ing of taking q buffalo hunt next
month, reports the Wellington Mont
tOr-Press, but in it's Forty Years Ago
column.
Let us hope, says the Pratt Repub-
lican, that with the going" of the
horse, sufficient horse sense will re-
main to leaven the social unit as in
the good old times.
Old settlers of Harvey county
can be seen in conversation
over the great growth of vege-
tation this year, reports the Newton
Journal. They just can't quite recall
what year it was in the fortys that
was an equal to this. 1t is a question
when you can tie the blue stem over
a good sized horses back, whether
this country ever had a greater growth
of vegetation than is seen everywhere
this year.
tramp approached a certain
Downs home the other morning, ac-
cording to the Downs Times, raped
on the back door. and when the lady
of the house appeared, he began to
clear his throat preparatory to telling
his hard luck story t'Get away from
professional buns" But madam, 1
am not n professional bum" said the
tramp, 81 am a psychologist travelling
in the interest of science. L read char
acter at a glance. In looking into the
soulful depths of your beautiful eyes,
l read there that you are by nature Il
kind-hearted, gentle, generous woman.
1t is these noble impulses and the con-
temptation of charitable deeds that
keep you looking so young and hand
some. You poor, tired, hungry
man. said the woman. Come inside
Moral-Diplomacy is mightier than
the sword
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
EU ening Chat
Other Peoples Motives.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Other Peoples Motives.
Someone was wondering why a GER
tain woman was a suffragist.
"Oh, that's simple enough" ex-
planned the woman who isn't. There's
rather smart crowd in our town
that's take up suffrage and she has
taken that side SO as to be in with
Them
A little later someone asked her
why she was OF posed to suffrage and
she Immediately supplied them with
some very high sounding motives.
Her reasons for thinking as she did
were honest and worthy, but her cp-
pOnents motives were not.
How did she know?
L can't tell you. 1 suppose she knew
in that mysterious way in which GER
tain people always know that the
person who does not think as they do
is influenced by unworthy considera
lions.
Cut from the same piece of goods
are the people who are always sure
that anyone who criticiSeS them is
narrow or prejudiced or actuated by
dislike. envy, pique or some other IN
worthy motives.
A young girl was obstinately bent
on pursuing what seemed to everyone
about her foolish course. Her older
sister was arguing against it, aunt
Lucy thinks you're making a great
mistake
AUNT L1cy," said the obstinate one
And Miss Marshall Lher high
school teacherl thinks it's absolutely
crazy"
''Sne wants everyone to be a teach
er like herself. You can't tell any
thing by what she says"
We'll. Ruth Tan older girl for
whom the younger sister had always
had a great admiration] said she was
terribly sorry to hear you thought Of
taking up that work. She didn't think
you were at all fitted for it
The obstinate one never wavered
moment. well, I wouldn't have
thought Ruth would let herself be in
fluenced against me by you and moth
err was her prompt explanation of
that.
1t plainly never occurred to her that
any of these people might be sincere
and wise in their criticisms They
criticised her; she was right; therefore
they must be either prejudiced or Ill
advised.
Plainly this is not the road to self
improvement and progress On the
contrary
Question: am debating whether to
send my girl 10 co-educational col
1ege. Do you think that such a col
Iege is dangerous to a girls morals
or manners Anxious Mother
AnSwer-Emphatica not. If shes
any kind of a girl Personally 1 am
u great believer in the beneficent in
girl so accustomed to the other sex
that she doesn't lose her head when
ever she sees q man. In the words OF
David Starr Jordan. There IS less
Stiffness and folly where man is not
novelty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
Kansas Comment
ARE WE FATALIsTs?

Telegraphic cablegrams from the
Gallipoli peninsula state that the
Turks do not run to cover, being
fatalists. Perhaps we Americans are
fatalists We are talking about going
to war with the nations of Europe un-
less they do as we say and at the same
time have not added a single man to
the army or navy, unless 1t be by ac-
cidental enlistment. The feeling that
Germany is bound hand and foot by
her enemies no doubt makes our
dinIonlatists drawer than they would
be were the lines of steel that sur
round the Germans ana AustrianS
broken We may take our time ana
declare war if we wish if Germany IS
to be our enemy, is no doubt the reel
ing in Official circles. How can Ger
many harm us?" is asked. Germany
cannot harm us at the present time
but ii would take year to put a
trained army in the field and by that
time we may be the only nation at
war with Germany. OF course IL is
foolish to speak of war because the
possibility of war with that nation IS
remote. But we go on and on as IA
taliStS.-LeaVenwOrth Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
From Other Pens
KEEPING COOL.

The weather-wiSe recommended
keeping cool heads and temper dur
ing the heated term. To fret fume
and fuss under such a temperature
may be in harmony with nature siz-
zling under a torrid sky. Regenerate
human nature would counsel adjust
ment of apparel and demeanOr to
conditions which no mortal can elimi-
nate. Yet within the encircling year
human forethought and invention
have happily relieved the stress of
summer heat and vigor even of Arctic
cold. A rigid Puritan, however, was
known never to use an umbrella as
neutralizing the order of Providence,
and so unprotected would get drench-
ed for conscience sake. A noted rural
divine of the olden time to whose
home certain theologs came stately
for tuition, was said to have called
them back to his door and kept them
standing there unprotected from
sudden shower till he let them go with
this injunction, when it rains on you,
let it rain Possibly modern critics
and scribes would take the name of
Jupiter Pluvius more reverently on
their tongues and typewriters if they
realized he was the supreme diety in
old Roman mythology, and judged to
be the originator of all atm ospheric
changes. His favorite weapon was
said to be the thunderbolt. So let
profane swearers beware of hurting
out, "By Jove," at ill-timed change of
weather.-Knoxville Journal and
Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

cooperative banks, which will not only
do tie banking for their members,
but will also give them the benefits of
centralized buying and selling. The
banking will be based OF the actual
known values of the neighborhood,
and the trading operations will be real
and not speculative Along with in
dividual zeal and skill IN farming will
go a cooperative use of the farmers
business strength. Rural credits must
be taken up as a part of this larger
problem of agricultural business or
ga nizatiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
Journal Entries

Among the undesirables are those
who like to be coaXed.
p y Z.
Trying is the first and most i'm
portant step towards doing.
]: = -
About the easiest thing that humans
do is to keep their good points under
cover.
The man who denounces ShamS the
1oudest is likely to be a keen prac-
titiOner of them.
:. :. !.
To hear some folks tall. about the
fine points of automobiles, you'd think
they owned at least one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

Evidently the German police au-
thorities are wise to the cause of a
large variety of disturbances. Those
of Berlin have asked their superior
governmental authorities to take
steps that will considerably curtail
the consumption of distilled liquors.
This move would also seem to dispel
officially a heretofore generally ac
cepted fact that the Germans, in the
main, confine their alcoholic activi-
ties to the consumption of beer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
TILE sOUND OF TREEs

THE SOUND OF TREES.
| wonder about the trees:
Why do wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
We suffer them by the day
TIL we lose all measure of pace
And fixity in our joys.
And acquire a listening air
Ihey are that that talks of going
But never gets away;
And that talks no less for knowing,
As 1T grows wiser and older,
That now it means to stay.
My feet tug at the floor
And my head sways TO my shoulder
Sometimes when / watch trees sway
From the window or the door,
| shall set forth for somewhere,
l shall make the reckless choice,
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
| shall have less to say
But l shall be gone.
Frost, in the August Atlantic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

AT last father came home. OF
course he offered advice at once He
made new home in different tub;
he put minnows and flies in the wa
ter, but still Mr.. Turtle pinned and
pinned.
So there was nothing to do but set
him free. After an early dinner one
evening, father put the turtle in a
basket and Sue went with him over
to the city park When they reached
the lagoon. father set the basket down
on the tiny beach, lifted out the t1Ir-
tie and started him for the water. At
first the turtle only blinked Iazilv-
then ne stretched his neck towards
the water; then, in a quick walk. ne
waddled into the Iaket
And that is the true story of how
a great big turtle got into a little bit
of lake in the (Copyright-
Clara Ingram Judson-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

Kansas is reported by Mr.. Ross, the
state superintendent of public in
st~uctlon, to be a little slow in the
matter Of the consolidation of rural
schools. But this is an educational
reform worth while that Kansas will
come around TO some day. 1t is I'M
reasonable to expect Kansans to do
everything that is desirable all at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

Were Russia as adequately equipped
with munitions of war and efficient
officers as she is with men, the great
German drive in the eastern war zone
probably would have never gotten
under anything like full steam ahead.
Notwithstanding the tremendous
forces she has already put in the field
Russia is modifying another 1000 600
men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

Topeka is spending more money
for the conservation OF the health of
her citizens than any other city in
Kansas All of which indicates that
Topeka knows which Size her bread
is butteIed on Good health is the
first step on the perilous road to hap
piness Without good health, little
is possible for any one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

In all probability, not few in the
Boston crowds that cheered Governor
Capper and his remarks on prohibit
ton subsequently went around the
corners and irrigated their dry Threats
with glasses of beer or booze. Boston,
you know. has saloons. And, as in the
matter of voting everybody doesn't
always drink as he cheers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

Probably good many people in
these United states are wondering if
they are going to get a little more for
the huge sums of money that the gov
eminent is preparing to spend in the
contamination of the enlarged plans
Tor preparing the nation more ade-
quately for defense, or for war, than
they have out of the vast military and
naval expenditures of recent years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

No doubt about former President
Taft having the courage of his con-
victions. He told the Californians to
their faces the other day that they
are likely to have to pay dearly for
their divers social and political ex-
Derfmente
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY K. MOULTON

George Fitch.
l cannot make myself believe
Ihat my good friend is dead;
AS IN misty dream unreal,
The story l have read.
1t does not seem quite possible
Ihat Fate could strike the hour
upon this genius yet to reach
Inc climax of his power.
We've wandered through the cities
ana beside the ripping brooks;
I've heard his quaint discourses on
Art, music, drama, books.
He knew the flowers, he knew the birds,
With kindly inquiry he lived,
lie lived to learn and learn.
His mind was pure, his thoughts were
clean,
He knew mankind and life:
with smiles he faced the problems of
Inc everlasting strife.
They say he's dead 1t is not true.
l can believe that never
A soul like his could never die.
George Fitch will live forever.
AT the Races.
| listened intently to friend of mine.
VINO knew race horses in manner fine.
And L placed my money on a piebald mare,
And we dreamed of a fortune we would
The mare got away on time with the rest !;
or all the entries she looked the best
Sne went like Il shot for quarter mile.
My friend and l bad a quiet smile
Our mare forged ahead yes inch by inch
We looked no longer, for it was cinch.
Prepared to cash in for once and all.
But something happened while we were
Just what 1t was would be hard to say.
Ihree nags came in and, forty rods back,
or 0F mare came pounding around the track
The early pluggers don't bet back first.
At the Races.
In the old grandstand l sit,
Thinking, father dear, of you
And the good advice you gave
Long years ago,
When you warned me not to bet
On a 'cinch" some folks do,
For the sure thing is a myth
And doesn't grow.
If I'd followed your advice
I'd have saved a lot of tin,
For upon the favorite
l placed my bet.
And they said he sure would win.
l am waiting, but he hasn't
Got in yet.
Yes, Indeed!
Might work better if they had
something to eat.
WANTED: Someone to mend and
sew by the hour without board. Ad-
dress w. care Gazette, giving ex-
perience, terms and references
Mining Gazette
The Weather.
Old Hiram Purdy does allow
That he saw his old brindle COW
Rub up agin' the barnyard fence and
then gaze at the moon.
He says that ten times out of nine
This is a sure and sartin sign
spell of rainy weather is comm mighty
soon.
Old Grandma Tubbs desires to state
Her hens are actin queer of late,
They don't seem pleased about their
nod nd nfrrdn f0 To
She's willing to put up a bet
By gum, she's never missed 1t yet,
A spell of dry, hot weather is sure head
ed right our way.
There's nothing that you cannot hear
At almost any time of year
About the weather from the folks who
sit and twirl their thumbs.
It's rarely that they can agree,
And it's very plain to see
The best plan is to simply take the
weather as it comes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
THE BIG TURTLE.
.clara hggranJUdson

not when anybody could notice him.
And, moreover, he Visibly pined
away. He got sleepy and thin, and
was so plainly homesick that mother
was at her wits end to know what
to do with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

Mother Nature seems to have re-
versed another of her customary pro-
cedures by Staging the floods this
year in the late summer instead of
the sDrine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

Mother-"Been fighting with that Muir
ply boy again. have you? Why didn't you
saw Get thee behind me, Satan 2 " Benny
-HBehind mel Gee l was wishin' he'd
get between us!'-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

So much for another old-fashioned
theory. Lightning recently hit a barn
near Golf, Kan, twice in five min
iffeS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
Not So Very Much.

Fifty million dollars worth of ice
was manufactured in this country last
year. Judging by the chunk we get
on our doorstep fifty million dollars
worth may not be so much ice, after
all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-30

Yes, Indeed.
Might work better if they had
something to eat.
WANTED: Someone to mend and
sew by the hour without board Ad-
dress wv" care Gazette, giving eX-
perience, terms and References
Houghton Mining Gazette.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
Insure Easier Method
of Reaching Summit St.

Definite steps to insure an easier
method. of reaching South Summit
street from the level of Market street
were taken this afternoon by City
Council when Commissioner Harry
F. Bowman offered an ordinance au-
thorizing the grading of the Summit
street roadway from Chestnut to Mt.
Pleasant streets This means that
after the street is graded sufficiently to
permit vehicular travel between Mt.
Pleasant and Chestnut streets, At flight
of eight or ten concrete steps will be
constructed between the Market street
level of Summit street to the upper
level along the bluff.
An ordinance was offered by Com
missioner Lynch authorizing the cut
ting of ten feet from the ffty-foot
width to forty feet in order to allow
five more feet on each side of the
street for grass plots in Bellevue road
from Twenty-first to Pentwater
streets. Commissioner Lynch also
presented an ordinance providing for
the vacation of Brown street from
Sixteenth to Seventeenth. This was
accompanied by petition. Profiles of
proposed grading of Dunkle street
from Derry to Brookwood and specI-
fications of the Lyme alley bridge
were approved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
OIL ON THE CARIBBEAN

The nation which controls the oil
supply possesses one of the great fac
tors upon which ocean-borne COM
merce will depend. and about which
naval politics will turn.
The public has not realized the
steps already taken by the great naval
powers to prepare for the shift to oil
as fuel for their battleships. All
the battleships of the American Navy
built in the last eight years use oil
for fuel, eight use it as auxiliary TO
coal, four use it exclusively. The
dreadnaughts Oklahoma and Nevada
use oil exclusively; and forty-one OF
our destroyers, built or building, use
oil fuel only. Storage facilities are be-
ing proportionately increased. Oiling
stations are replacing coaling sta
tions. In 1912, steps were taken for
the construction of fuel oil tanks at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; MelvSle, Rhode
Island; Norfolk, Virginia; Charleston,
South Carolina; and Key West, Flor
ida. Five tanks are under construc-
tion at Guantanamo, Cuba. The
combined capacity of all these is 81
100000 gallons. During the year 1912,
the navy used 14,140,714 gallons, as
the previous year. Our present oil
burning fleet would require $4,000
tons of fuel oil to keep it in active
service for a single month.
But more significant is the recently
announced intention of the British
Admiralty that all British warships to
be built from now on will use oil for
fuel exclusively. This action is one
which will almost certainly be fol-
lowed by other naval powers.
The Government of the United
States will aSsuredly not be slow to
see the Importance of the oil supplies
in the neighboring republics as an in
fluence bearing upon it's own foreign
policy. Our interests in this matter
have thus far been brought into con-
trast only with those of one other
power, but the general policy which
we may adopt will have a much wider
application. So far as a supply for
our own governmental needs is con-
cerned, no question is apt to rise; but
the degree to which other nations
may get de facto control of Caribbean
oil resources may be, for us, matter
of great moment, causing this govern
ment to consider again the interpreta-
tion which is to be placed on the Mon
roe observation-disclosures Floyd Jones.
in the North American Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
Patton Takes Hold
of His Department

Charles E. Patton, the new Secre-
tary of Agriculture, took active charge
of his department to-day, but an
nounced that it would be some time
before he would announce anything
regarding the policy of the depart
ment. Mr.. Patton intends to take an
apartment in this city and to make
his home here during his term so that
he will be always on the job.
The new Secretary met the at
taches of his department to-day and
work went ahead as usual.
II am familiarizing myself with the
departmental work and will be busy
on that for some time as it has wide
ramifications," said he to-day. II will
have no statement to make for thG
present. 1t will be congeniaI work
and l am in hearty accord with the
Governors ideas for advancement or
agriculture in Pennsylvania"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
SIX ARMED MEN
ROB TWO TRAINS
Continued From First Page.1

cars and selected such packages as
they wanted, loading them into their
automobile. Then they ordered the
engineer to proceed.
The second freight train was held
up and robbed in a similar manner.
When the American Express train
stopped at the red signal the rob-
bers neglected to station a man at
the locomotive and all of them went
back apparently with the intention of
breaking into one of the cars. AS
soon as they were out of sight the
engineer opened the throttle and start
ed up the train.
The looted trains were stopped at
West Haverstraw, the next station
north from the scene of the holdup,
and the crews gave the first news of
the robbery. An electrician who was
sent from Congers to repair the dam
ages to the wires discovered the
bandits opening the packages. He
was awed by a display of revolvers.
Sheriff Servens of Rockland county
and others attempted to pursue the
fleeing robbers in an automobile but
were able to trace them only as far
as Hackensack. N. j. The New York
police were notified to be on the watch
for the party at all the ferries cross
ing the Hudson river. They detained
one party of youths returning from a
club meeting in New Jersey but soon
released them.