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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

Over the trees and yards, over the
houses and streets, Billy Robin flew
towards his garden home. And close
behind him, fitting daintily from tree
to tree, Tommy Sparrow followed
along.
Of course they played as they
went-wouldn't you if you had taken
such an interesting journey? Ind
of course they s--w many curious
sights-you would, too, if you could
fly over city! So it was not much
wonder that twilight shadows were
creeping over the city when the two
little birds reached their garden
home.
claimed Billy Robin as he caught
the first sight CT his home. THE park
is pretty, but home is home and !
am glad to be herei" and he flew
straight for his nest Strange to
say, Mrs. Billy was not in the nest
She was such stay-at-home person
that Billy usually was sure of find
ing her there whenever he returned.
But she was not far away. Billy
soon spied her perched on the old log
in which Tommy Tittle-mouse anu
his little mate made their home.
Billy was always glad for visit
with Tommy Tittle-mouse, SO he flew
down to the old log himself and be-
He told them all about finding
Bluey; about how well Bluey was
now faring; and about how he had
not changed one bit since he left the
garden.
1t was a long and interesting story
and before it was finished Tommy
Sparrow had reached the garden, too.
and perehed himself on the hedge
near by to add his word to the story.
But the thing that interests me
most said Billy as he was through
with his tale, was the sight of those
little fish they call minnows. They
surely do have an easy lifet''
AN easy lifei" cried Tommy Tit
tle-mouse, that sounds goodi Don't
they have dangers and troubles as
we do ~
mot a bit of itt" said Billy Robin
positively. 'sI looked carefully and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

lFrOm the Chicago NeWS.I
The girl question: rs he married %
If man would be honest he must
keep in training.
You can't ring the gong of success
by pushing a button
Some women never worry over
trifles until they marry one.
An ounce of boost more than dis
counts a pound of obituary.
Nearly all wise men are married.
That is how they got their wisdom.
A bride thinks her husband unrea-
sonable if he expects her to be reason
able.
The display of fancy hosiery isn't
confined to the shop windows on
rainy days.
The man who goes after things gets
more than the chap who takes them
as they come.
If we could only get all the kickers
and knockers together and compel
them to fight il Quit
1t is fortunate for the young hus-
band that he is unable to see his wife
as his mother sees her
The coat may unmake the man who
is forced to wear it when the mer-
curry is flirting with the 100 mark.
There is something wrong with the
Drainbox of an heiress who would
rather marry an empty title than a
real man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

consumption. The spelling of corn
products seems to be most common at
the season when the kernel is ready to
terminate in the spring. This process
is result of suitable moisture and
temperature. 1t has long been known
that the presence of the germ in the
meal increased the tendency to spoil.
Grits accordingly keep better than
meal from the whole corn Examin-
ations recently made by the bureau or
chemistry of the United States depart
ment OF agriculture show that, in com
parison with whole-kernel meal pre-
pared from corn, degerminated, bolted
meal both dried and unoried shows su-
perior keeping qualities. Even when
thoroughly dried, the whole-kernel
meal is liable to develop acidity in so
short d time as to demand immediate
consumption. If meal of this type is
preferred because of it's greater nutri-
tive value or more oily flavor, it
should be milled locally in small guam
titles and consumed within short
period. To quote the government au-
thorities. in regard to keeping quail
ties whole-kerne1 meal may be COM
pared to cream in that it must be de-
livered and consumed without delay,
while degerminated meal may be COM
pared to butter, which, within reason
able limits, keeps until Used. A recog-
milton of these facts, says the Journal
of the American Medical Association.
may tend to diminish the danger rep
resented by the use of spoiled corn for
table meal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
QUAKER fluctuations.
[From the Philadelphia Record

lF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
When a woman exclaims Dear
mel" she is sometimes conceited
enough to mean it.
People who are getting married
should take each other for good, as
we'll as for better or worse. p g. r
Nell-t1 like him because he's diff
ferent." Belle-'FIn what way?'' Nell
-"Oh! he's SO Indifferent
It isn't altogether her love Of flow
ers that causes a widow to swap her
weeds for a bridal bouquet.
Wigg-*I should hate to die in this
hot weather" Wagg-"Yes; it
wouldn't be much of a change, would
it?"
Some men can't stand prosperity;
but that is better than never being
able to find out whether they can or
not.
The BARRIERS stories may not always
be fit for publication, but they are
frequently illustrated with cuts.
A doctor can always make a hit
with an impecunious patient by warn
ing him against champagne and terra
pin.
"All the world loves a lover" quot
ed the Wise Guy. Except sometimes
the girl a fellow is in love with added
the Simple Mug.
The wife of the coal dealer was
reading the department store adver-
tisements. Hot weather SUITS" she
began. 1T doesn't suit me-" inter-
rupted the coal man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
Equipped with war Telescopes.

The Germans have adopted several
ingenious devices to cope with prob
lens not foreseen at the start of the
war, such as armored car destroyers,
quick firing guns on motorcycles, ca
nal gunboats and other similar inven-
tiOnS.
A wonderful stereo-telescope pro-
duced by the famous firm of Zeiss
German artillery is provided with one.
1t is a remarkable instrument, which
can be used behind cover out of sight
of the enemy. The outstanding fea-
lures are two long, slender arms,
rather like the antennae of an insect.
Though absolutely invisible at a very
short distance, the antennae can give
the hidden operator a very extensive
view.
To insure the accurate dropping of
bombs from aeroplanes, the Germans
have an airgun appliance, which
pushes the bomb out from the back of
the aeroplane with the same velocity
as that at which the aeroplane is fly
ing, thus doing away with the curve
with which the bomb would fall if
merely dropped by hand. Quite
number of small German aeroplanes
are fitted with wireless apparatus ca
caple of transmitting messages a dis
lance of thirty miles, but another in
puffs of powder chalk through the
engine exhaust.
The Krupp Illuminating projectile is
shell continuing two magnesium
bodies filled with parachutes, so that
at night time it Eliminates for few
minutes the ground over which it
hangs.-London Tit-BitS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
MID-AGE BETTER THAN YOUTH.

What are the accommodations which
ought to make fifty filter to exercise
authority than twenty-five? asks E. s.
Martin in Harper's Magazine for Sep
terroer, and he continues: Book
knowledge partly; but for the most
part thoughts. BY the time he is fifty
a man who is to amount to anything
should have come to a few large, sea-
soned convictions that are part of the
fiber of his mind. Convictions Of that
sort are not blithely obtained out of
books. Books may have to do with
them, but they are acquisitions of the
spirit, and though the rudiments of
them may be come by in youth, they
need to be tempered, tried out, and adj
jnsted to practice by years of thought,
talk, observation, effort, and expert
ment with life! Washington at TWEEN
ty-five had in him the rudiments of
the Washington that was to be, but
he had nearly twenty years of train
ing before he took command of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
Journal Entries

A cloak made out of religion
doesn't wear very well.
u j. j.
Question for debate: Which is
worse, starting an idle story or re-
peatfng it?
People seem to enjoy it more when
they laugh at you instead of with
II j. j.
If novels went beyond the wedding
day, maybe so many of them would
not end happily.
DE- 10 II
A straight line may be the shortest
distance between two points but you
can seldom go that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
THE DRAWN CURTAIN.

in England, France, Germany, Aus
tria and Russia they are teaching
hundreds of blind men how to walk.
The most painful sights in hospitals
of Europe are the men who are under
going the fortunes inflicted by the as
phyxiating gases but the most pitiful
sights are strong men cropping in dark
ness and seeking to learn the lessons
of infancy. In Paris there are 200
blind soldiers in one small hospital.
Their eyesight was shot out. The
scenes in the hospital ere repeated
doubtless in all the other warning ma
tions. These men, seemingly, are hope
less. The born blind are apt to be
cheerful They do not know what
beauties are denied them. The man
who has seen and sees no more knows
his loss. He has to regain native cour-
age before he can face the life ahead.
The nurses Lead the blind soldiers
about like little children. They are
afraid to walk and they must be
taught. The remaining senses of the
blind become si1arpened. This process
takes time. The sightless soldier saw
his last flash of light when the shell
burst that destroyed his vision. The
blind soldiers try to be brave. In time
they will conquer their fate. Theirs
is hard state. The course of war has
fallen heavily on tho men across
whose eyes the curtains are drawn
Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
SCHOOL PLAN AND RECREATION.

Men will not tolerate in a public
school building performance they
might witness without protest in other
places, says Clarence A. Perry, in a
bulletin just issued by the United
States bureau of education. For this
reason DR. Perry thinks the move
ment to use the school plant for So
cial and recreational purposes is des-
tined to purify well as popularize
amusements. 1.-The teaching staff and
other machinery of the public schools
are dedicated by the people to a bet
terment service" says DR.. Perry.
therefore society will not permit the
building erected solely for that pur-
pose to be put to a contrary use."
Statistics gathered by DR.. Perry from
As leading cities in the United States
show that in one month there were
over 5000 attendances upon evening
functions in the public school build
ings of these cities. The bulletin de-
clares that these figures mean so many
evenings spent in wholesome activity
by persons, many of whom would
otherwise have spent that time in less
beneficial or in positively harmful
pastimes. These 100000 instances of
the influence of the school in one
month, whether scattered over many
persons or concentrated upon a few,
indicate the tremendous force for
righteousness that was extended by
one months extension work in these
As cities" The public character of all
functions held in the school buildings
has the effect of censoring those func-
tions, asserted DR.. Perry. The activi-
ty which a group heartily, publicly,
and unshanedly seeks. affords the
kind of expression that its members
need. When youths and maidens con-
sort in the public school building in
social life we may be certain that in
stincts of racial importance are being
cherished instead of exploited. Gun
fortunately" says DR.. Perry, "a large
number of young people, in the hey
day of life, are devoting their ample
margins of energy to passive amuse-
ments and degenerating satisfactions
What holds these young people back
from profitable pastime is lack of
meeting places and of leadership.
Suitable meeting places and wise lead
ership would, for vast majority of
them, change the evenings of waste
and drifting into times of upbuilding
and character-strengthe The OPP
portunity which society needs for this
ment of the public school which lies
idle otherwise during the period of
popular leisure"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
From Other Pens
ORIGIN OF GREAT ARTS.

Gunpowder was discovered by a
spark falling on some material mixed
in a mortar. Pendulum clocks were
invented after Gallileo stood observing
the lamp in a church swinging to and
fro. Electricity was discovered by the
observation that pieces of rubbed
glass attracted small bits of paper.
The stupendous results of the steam
engine may be traced to the boy who
sat watching the steam which came
from the mouth of a tea Kettle. The
art of printing took its origin from
some rude impressions taken, for the
amusement of children, from letters
carved in the bark of a beech tree.
The telescope we owe to the children
of a spectacle maker, who placed two
or more spectacle glasses together ana
looked at the distant sky through
them. Their elders saw them at play
and adopted their idea. Sir Isaac New
ton saw the apple fall to the ground.
Thinking of the phenomenon he dis
covered by law of gravity.-Hin City
Reyeille-New Era.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
THE ON GRINnsToNE

THE OLD GkINDSTONE.
The hardest work 1 ever did.
IT you just want the facts
was when boy had to grind
The hicks out of an axe
At early MORN I'd hear Dads voice
M, Come, Billie! jump up quick,
The day will soon be started.
ana we've got to grind the nick
We wondered since if boys today
were ever in such fix;
And If there's any grindstones-
If axes still have hicks.
And yet I know that life itself
With Fate to play us tricks
Is Just great big grindstone-
ana were all a-grinding hicks.
-Bennett Chapple, in National Magazine
for August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

Continental armies, and he was first
president at fifty-seven- Lincoln in
early manhood CROPPED his way
through grievous distress and perplex-
tiles, but by the time he married, when
he was thirty-three, he had come, 1t
would seem, to a clear sense of the
fundamental convictions that made
him. Eighteen years more he thought
and read and talked in courts and tav-
erns, and pleaded on the stump the
faith that was in him, and travelled
varfously, and then, at fifty-one he
was elected president. Pitt, prime
minister at twenty-four because Eng
land was short-handed and couldn't
wait for him to get his growth, broke
down in the middle of his job and died
at forty-seven. Napoleon was first
consul at thirty, had completed his
activities at forty-six, and died at fifty
two. Alexander at thirty-three had
done everything that seemed to him
desirable to do in the world at that
time, and departed out of it. Youth
makes a greater figure in war than in
anything else, but war is a compare
lively simple business and can be
learned young. In most matters men
are lucky if they can take their time
to learn and escape the prices and the
heavy responsibilities of leadership
until their thoughts are matured, their
skill is fully practiced, and their char
acters have been shaped and hard
ened in the forge of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal away
from home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day to an
address at the rate of ten cents q week or
thirty cents a month (by mail only). Ad-
dKsss changed as often ms desired. While
out of town the State Journal VIII be 20
you like n daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested ON these
short time subscriptions, to save bOOkkeep-
ing EXPENSES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

Too bad that blackbird pies are not
as popular with the folk in these parts
as they once were with kings. The
determination of these troublesome
feathered things would then be quick
ly brought about. A new criminal
charge against them IS that they are
ravaging the wheat shocks in several
Kansas localities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

Athens seems positive that a treaty
has been signed between Bulgaria and
Turkey, which will keep the former
out of the war. But how is Turkey
going to deliver the goods If the
Allies eventually win the war? In
other words, Bulgaria has obtained
from Turkey a package that may
take on the semblance of a gold brick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

Germany wants a million bales of
American cotton, c. o. d. But who
is going to have any luck delivering it
with England having finally placed
cotton on her list of contrabands. The
seas are free, it happens only for
England and her allies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

And while the British shipping 'oss
of IS steamers in three months to
German submarines looks rather large
on it's face, it must be remembered
that the proportions of British ship
ping are enormous, and this loss is but
a fraction of the whole, less than per
cent. in all probability.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

Missouri and Kansas are holding a
fried chicken celebration" at Kan
sas City, notes the Chicago Herald,
and it adds: (which shows that in
Missouri and Kansas they still have a
clear appreciation of the things that
make life worth while" Right-o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

This is the season of the year for
destructive forest fires, and they
haven't been at all dilatory in putting
in an appearance. You'll have to give
it to the untoward things for their
regularity. They usually keep NOV
ing like c1ockwork.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

>. .-i@s s..at.E WhaJs laAasa. asAed
Dingey Bat as he came To tl,e door
OF Tommy Tittie-mouse's house.
WHO wants to be a minnow?v
What's that? What's that2v asked
Dingey Bat as he came to the door of
Tommy Tittle-mouse's house. WHO
wants to be a minnow %
do" said Tommy Tittle-rnouse,
because they have no troublel''
mo troublei'' exclaimed Dingey
Bat They have more trouble than
all you garden folks put together.''
Tell us about it, cried the birds
ana the mice, but Dingey Bat
wouldn't stop. Some other time.
he said, I'm hungry now.'. so he
went to his supper and the birds mad
TO wait for the story (Copyrigh
Clara Ingr-m Judson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

All the vengeance that Orozco's
friends can wreak against Americans
won't amount to much. Almost every
incident relative to the Mexican mud
die is magnified greatly beyond its
true import.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03
On the Spur
of the Moment
Rv Rnv II MOTT TON
BY ROY K MOULTON.

Psychological.
Doesn't matter how you feel,
whether you have troubles real
VIII start in to feelin' blue,
n nou will surely start to think
mat your wholly on the blink;
You will have ailments galore,
some you never had before.
You will think you're goin' to die
surely ere the day goes by,
II TO you some people say
Gee, you're lookin' bad today"
But. you feel fit for a fight,
Positively welI-all right;
Fit to walk hundred miles
And your face is wreathed in smiles.
You feel ready for the strife;
Better than in all your life;
Strong and able to go hence
Full OF hope and confidence.
You're as happy king;
# to you some people say:
Tee, you're lookin fine today.
Uncle ,Abner.
1t is pretty hard to get any woman
to admit that she kin remember back
to the time when hoopskirts was all
the rage, but lot of 'em kin, at that.
When a Teller orders cafe dish
that he can't understand, it is general
ly some sort of hash. The fresh stuff
is spelled out in plain English.
One of the few fellers in this world
who have made a success of whiskers
is John Phillip sousa.
amt nobody else president of this
country at the present time except
Woodrow.
1t takes a strong man to stand
prosperity. Elmer Jones got a good
job in the sawmill at IS a, week and
bought nine suits of clothes the first
month.
Castle.
We learn that Vernon Castle
VIII with bombs and bullets wrestle
As birdman in the army of the British
He intends to go to Dayton
(Though We pray it's not to Satan),
Where he'll change his feet for
Wright-wings very skittish.
Well laud him to the sky,
If he takes this step so high,
But the hesitation can't be done up
there;
So we hope that in Mars wake
He'll not Terpsichore forsake,
And leave us just castle in the air!
Including the Joy Riders.
The per capita consumption of salt
in this country is about 100 pounds
per year. But there are still too
many fresh people around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

Neither have the demands of the
European war any respect for age.
Pretty well authenticated reports have
it Kaiser Wilhelm has called men up
to 54 years of age to the German col
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

There is evidently no end to the
number of men who fought with John
Brown in Kansas. Another one died
the other day in Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

England's monetary gold standard
evidently isn't working true to form
else the value of her historic pound"
would not have fallen off some 81
cents in the New York money mart.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

Can you beat it? The present va
riety of Kansas weather. But, as ever,
when the Kansas weather is good it is
the best in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

August in these parts may have
been the comparatively dry month
that the records of the weather bu-
Feau indicate, but it certainly didn't
feel that way
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not a danger, not a trouble did 1
seei'
Then / wish / was a minnow."
sighed Tommy Tittle-mouse. I'VE
poor mice have much troubled So
many creatures want to eat us, so
many dangers abound wherever we
go-dear me, but 1 wish I was a
minnowi"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

stock in that fake gold mine. Hiram?"
9TH Teller who was selin it said it was
gilt-edged." "Pshawi They all say that"
But, by cracky, he showed it to me an
it did have gilt ger'-Birmingham
Age Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

AS President Wilson contemplates
the successful termination of the con-
troversy with Germany in respect to
her methods of submarine warfare,
he might well quote: Peace hath her
victories no less renowned than war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-03

''Why does your dachshund sit up on
his hind legs all the time ?" 1.-THE intelli-
gent animal realizes that Iengthwise lie
takes up too much room in the flat
Louisville Courier J ournal
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