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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-05
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FOR RENT
Il :. cottage. 40 a srd. ............. 1000
3 +. mod. apart, .60z ". 9th. 1890. 1870
9 r mod. apart, 920 Quincy. ....... 200
g r residence, e 4th; 100
Is /. mod res, ises Carried. ......... $500
4 T. new cottage, Huntoon and wash
8 s mod. bungalow ana garage. i2iiii wv
( nod re;. and ;ieepins porch. ia27 l'OO
A. A. RODG GERS co.
e Madison. rooms. .j1G0
~ quincy. rooms. &G0
Barn At III Madison.
ISL Lincoln, rooms. ................. 800
CYRUS GUTHRIE 4 co.
Phone l7so nc e. stA.
FOR RENT-n you have Z house for rent,
don't run around town trying to secure
renter. Put Z small ad' In this column
OF the State Journal and let US do the
the results are quicker. cal phone 50.
Want ad department.
Five room house. III Tyler. Gas city wa
NICHOLS REALTY CO.
Tel. 40 80 Kansas Ave.
STRICTLY modern Z room house cheap,
furnished or nnfurnished. sleeping
rooms or light housekeeping rooms. 2S6S
FOR RENT-A room modern cottage on
Clay st.. electrical hghts- Carson. 2616
FOR RENT room cottage. West side.
500. w. J. Mckenbacher. 116 West sth.
FOR RENT-Cottage at "A Tyler, ok
rooms and bath.
FOR RENT..strictly modern Groom
FOR RENT-Good s room house, 1108
Brooks ave.. $16. 1851 J.
FOR RENT-OFFTCE ROOMS
Office BIocI. iis s. Fifth str street. ao Betser
Realty 4 Loan Co, New England Bldg.
FOR Observation-Disclosures.
STORE noon at III East FIN street.
Steam heat and water furnished. Better
Realty & Loan Company.
FOR sALE-LIyEsToCK.
HAVE too many brood sows: 10 Durocs
will farrow in April; bred to registered
Durcos. Will sell half Of them Sec Ken
nedy, Z mile east Of city on 4th Street road
FOR SALE-Mare, wagon and harness.
cheap. Phone 156S.
FOR SALE--Good work horse. 408 Fair
child. North Topeka.
GOOD team Of farm mares. weight q 100.
80 Forest ave-. Oakland. Phone 3S21-N-11.
FOR SALE-Good work horse. Call 82S
N. Kansas ave.
FOR SAhEIColt. Phone SO.
FOR -snsCELLANEOUs
BUY WOOD from Pr0vident ASSOCIATION
Make work for the unemployed.
ALFALFA HAY out Of barn, delivered;
also wood. 1901 Black.
| FOR SALE-Plate glass show cases. Ad-
dis Jewelry store. ST Kasas ave.
DIMENSION burned lumber, and kind
ling tomorrow at 1901 Quincy st.
FOR sALE-Alfalfa hay. F. A. Titus.
Phone s7S KS. Call evenings.
TYPEWRITER-Lates model. Bargain
Tor cash. c. E. care journal.
lCLAYTON cuts on patents. 1919 East 9th.
FoR sALE[PoWTRY:
ROSE Comb Rhode Island Red eockerel.
500 and up =. A. Rehkopf. 1SO4 KS.
FOR SALE-Indian Runner ducks, LAY
daily. 4411-N-2.
.AUrOMoBILEa.
BATTERIES TSpsired and charged Keeis
Electric Co, 7oe Jackson Phone
FOR sALE-Coal. Best preparation: quick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
EXPERlEf CED
ACCOUNTANT

and salesman with Al references and bonds
desires to make Topeka his home married
age 81. Bond. care journal.
PRACTICAL NURSE wants einpipoymonj
Of any suitable kind Phone M M
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-05

FOR EXCHANGE.
EXCHANGE@Good clean stock general
merchandise, $4,000, doing good business.
Want Topeka home same amount, clear; 100
acres improved in Graham Co., Is acres
wheat, 100 acres cultivated. Price 81, 900
clear. Want neat Topeka home; 800 acres
improved. in Colo, SIS per acre. Want in
come; 16O acres improved at Harveyville.
Want small tract near Topeka; other ex-
changes. A. Thurman, Topeka, Kan, 81
Kansas ave.
FOR EXCHANGE-Many people have
articles they do not want and many
others have articles you want. A mutual
exchange can be brought about by a small
advertisement in this column of the State
Journal. Try 1t and see the results. CAN
phone 3S3o-Want ad department.
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CENTRAL. park
$500 BELOW COST

BEST BARGAIN IN TOWN.
For $1,00O-One block Of Central park,
good Groom house, furnace, 2-piece bath.
fireplace, city and cistern water at sink,
gas, pantry, hard pine finish, street car
and paving. About 800 down. Hurry up If
you want this. See Cottrell Co., 1O7 e. eth.
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGES


| MORTGAGE equity IN strictly modern e
ro6 residence combination furnace and
lights. full cemented laundry. Near Gem
trail Park. See J. R. Gibbons at 1884 Blu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-05

The annual dancing party of
Sigma Psi club will be held tonight
Kellam Hall. The hall will be dec
rated with palms and ferns, and
white rose favor dance will be on tt
program.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20
Jayh Jots

A rather discomforting possibility
suggested by the Burr Oak Herald
Maybe people you snub are glad
they're not bored by you.
What's worse than woman who
likes to hear herself talk? asks the
Selden Observer, and it answers: one
who likes to hear herself sing.
In the Kansas unusual name con-
test. Mr.. Ubbo Ubben, who lives west
of the river near Oketo, seems to De
in line for one of the major prizes.
Speaking of an unusual combination
of gastronomic delicacies, a number of
the young folk at Goodland recently
reveled in a wienie and marshmallow
roast.
Here endeth we NEWS for this
week. is the finis written by the
Logan County News for it's issue of
Sept. 9. "All other items go over to
Sept. 49,
The movie film makers and the
jokesmiths would have us believe,
says the Macksville Enterprise, that
every thing can be fixed up fine and
dandy by buying her a new ten dollar
hat Every married man knows bet
ter.
Another difference between city and
country folks, as pointed out by the
Oketo Eagle: A city man receives
dun and accepts it as a matter of
course. A country man receives a dun
and accepts it as a direct insult and
matter of cursing.
What else was to be expected? The
Parker Message reports: There was
once a man in this town who spoke
we'll of his neighbors, and his friends,
and the church, and society, and the
business men, and the farmers, and of
the, whole community in general. But
he died.
Business before pleasure, with Mrs.
Stormy, one of the reporters for the
Palco News: We have, she concluded
her last weeks string of items, lot
more we would like to write about but
on account of a rush order for peaches,
we will have to cut it out for this
week.
Something of a run on wienies. Ac-
cording to the Sherman County Rec
ord, a Colby man rented the space
between two buildings during the rush
of harvest hands and sold twenty-five
dollars worth of wienies. from sun
down until midnight-that is col
lected twenty-five dollars for the
wienies he sold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20
JUSTICE IN SOCIAL INSURANCE

Social insurance, states Henry w.
Bullock in the September Case and
Comment is a movement for a more
just distribution Of the means of sub
sistence-a good equal distribution of
the burdens, and fairer distribution
of benefits 10 those deserving; it seeks
a democracy of comfort. 1t seeks a
plan whereby the many may, under
the law of average, bear the burdens
that befall the few. 1t seeks to en-
courage self help, but recognizes that
plans must not only be laid whereby
we may save for the days CT invalidity
unemployment. and old age, but that
we must have a system whereby we
must save for the days of misfortune.
1t further recognizes that human be-
ings must be cared for and educated
during youth as a period of prepara-
ton, pleasure and growth; ard old age
as a period of rest, reflection ard en-
joyment. We must have more COM
fort, with less labor and misery; we
must have more certainty of comfort,
and less probability CT want. We need
conditions which will Incl ease nappi-
ness and decrease misery. We need
more wealth and fewer slums We
must give better bread for labor, as
we'll as require better labor for bread
Society must be just to labor. which
produces its comforts. Justice is the
essence of COVE rnnent. 1t is the duty
of this nation to do Justice to each citi-
zen, as it must protect itself internally
as well as externally; law must not
only punish evil and polish manners
but must produce positive good. Hap
piness is the end of government. A
nation of men and women sick in
body. depressed in mind. and bitter in
thought, cannot be a strong defense to
a nation in its time of trial, either in
peace or war We are Interested in
higher standard of manhood and wo-
manhood for living purposes. Good
health and a hopeful spirit arc essen
tial 20 national strength. Care at
birth, care during childhood. fresh air.
wholesome food. cleanliness, inteIIi-
gent care, sanitary living and housing,
educated parents, exercise, play, hope
fulness, and agreeable Surroundings
freedom from overcrowoing and a
consequent decrease of Juvenile vices
security of income rs well as CT per-
son-all are necessary for national
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20
Glob Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

In this world you have got to ask
for a ride.
An Atchison man is noted for his
even temper. He is always grouchy.
Sometimes one takes it easy, but
finds getting away with it more diff
cult.
So many people mistake temporary
success for permanent and drop the
lines
When a man gets fame started the
voluntary press bureau will keep it
going.
If you want to please a sick man,
permit him to describe his Bum Stom-
ach to you.
A boy is reaching that age when he
begins to take notice, when he pays
some attention to how his hair is
combed.
In their desire to produce some
thing different, the manufacturers of
derby hats have turned out some pref
ty fierce propositions.
If a mans life has been wrecked by
a woman there are some sure to say
that it didn't take much of a collision
to produce the wreck.
Actors and actorines may be no
more given to divorce than other Qeo-
pie, but they advertise such perform
anceS more extensively.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20
uening Chat
Condolences.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

The other night in a newspaper Of
flee part of the name of tie senior
member of firm whose advertise
ment that paper carries daily, fell
one and two in the morning. The
next day the news came to the office
that early that morning the senior
member of the firm had died.
A newspaper friend of mine who
was night editor in that office told me
that story the other day.
What do you think of it,
That it is only a coincidence? Yes,
so do THAT is in the part of me
that insists on looking at things sensi-
bly,. But in spite of the wet blanket
ing of common sense, don't you just
love condolences? Don't you love to
have them happen to you, to tell of
them. and to hear about them?
I confess I do. And 1 think al
most everyone does, for let such a
story as that of the night editor be
related in any company and inmed-
lately everyone is ready to relate the
coincidence that happened to him or
his brother-1n law or his cousin Or his
friends friends.
In our group it was the signal for
the chronicling of half a dozen such
stories.
I'm going to give you two-the
authorman'S, because it was the most
dramatic. and my own, because 1 am
ITCHY Ono aSperSionS on he veracity
of the authormans intended, but sec
ond-hand stories are never quite 50
unimpeachable as sthe first-hand va
riety).
The authorr1an told me of the death
of man who had been fire chief of
his city for many years. The night he
died fthe very moment, the author
man thinks, but is not sure-second-
hand, you see) some thing went wrong
in h re
bells began to ring out the death of
their chief.
The morning my grandfather lay
dying we heard a crash in the parlor
and rushed down from his bedroom
to see what had happened On the
floor lay the picture of my grand
father which had hung in twin state
beside grandmother's for nigh on for
ty years. Grandfather died that af-
ternoon.
OF course a coincidence is nothing
but g ncidence-according to Dan
iel Webster, two contemporaneouS
happenings, ana according to common
usage, two contemporaneCus happen
ings between which there appears to
be some strange and miraculous rela-
tionship.
Such dramatic happenings are
merely the result OF the working out
of the law of Formulation and combi-
nation. Pictures fall and people die
every day. Once in a great number
of times the picture of some person is
due to fall on the day he dies When
that happens it is not sign or
warning, merely a coincidence.
That's common sense. And yet in
spite of all it has to say, there is
something about these happenings
with their miraculous, their thrilling
hints at hidden forces that piques
the cosmic curousity in most of u.s.
We know they are only condolences.
but we almost wish we didn't.
And now if this chat moves you to
contribute your faSorite coincidence.
be sure it will be welcomed and passed
along. We don't have to believe in
the miraculous quality of condolences
to like them, any more than we hav.s
to really believe in ghosts to enjoy
ghost story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20

The package of suppressed letters
there were eight of them in Barry's
bold writing-all unopened, besides
the single letter Ruth had sent to him.
And the 1ettersi Ruth read them
with streaming eyes. Barry had been
faithful. His parents would welcome
her with open arms. Barry now be-
lieved Ruth to have been the faithless
one She had returned his ring and
he had never received a letter from
her.
While they talked, Mrs. Fielding
brought the smiling bridegroom to see
his bride-and in their presence Eva
White repeated her amazing confess
sion.
Fifteen minutes later, Dan Wales,
white and grim looking, went down
and dismissed the wedding guests and
the astonished minister.
Indefinitely postponed" he told
them all. When he was alone he went
to the telephone and called Barry
Lane on the long distance wire
In Seaport they still talk about that
June day. How the wedding was post
poned how Barry Lane and his par
ents came racing down in an auto
the minister again, and the odd change
of bridegrooms at the eleventh hour.
They tell about the marriage in the
Fielding house, and add that Barry
Lane was the happy bridegroom, while
Dan Wales was best man and Eva
White was the brides attendant
In the end Dan married Eva White,
and out of the sin and pride anG pain
of that bitter year came quiet happi-
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
by the Mcclure Newspaper Snydicate.)
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is U. S. WEALTH INCREASING

We appear richer, says the New
Republic, because as nation we
have become relatively poorer in ma
tionai resources What, after all.
does it signify when we say that we
are ninety-nine billion dollars richer
than we were twelve years ago? Does
it mean that we have proportionately
more lands and mines and houses and
railroads and automobiles? Does it
mean that VIC have saved all these
billions from our income and REIN
vested them in our national business?
So stupendous a saving has never
been known in any country or in any
age 1t would mean that during these
last twelve years we had accumulat-
ed at a rate almost four times as
rapid as was our rate of accumula-
ton during the previous twenty
years We should be saving more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20
MEDICAL EXAMINATION DAY.

! Plans for a national Medical Tx
animation Day, a Children's Health
Crusade Day. and a tuberculosis sun
day. all to be held in tuberculosis
Week, December 6 to y, IRE ar
| nounced by the National ASSOCIATION
for the study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis. Medical Examination Day
is set for Wednesday, December 8, and
will be the first effort on national
scale to urge an annual physical ex-
animation for everyone Plans for the
day include an appeal to induce every
one sick and well, to see doctor ana
learn whether they are in good physi-
cal condition. The scheme lncluoeS
also the inauguration on the part OF
factories, stores, and Ices OF an an
nuaI physical examination for all en-
pIovees. Thousands of anti-tubercu-
losis associations, other societies. ana
disDensaries all over the country are
expected to cooperate in FURNISHING
free examinations for those not able
to pay a physician. Childrens Health
Crusade Day on Friday, December 10,
is planned to interest and instruct
school children in healthful living.
Special exercises will be held at which
lectures. essays, and playlets will be
given on the subject of health. This
will! also be the occasion for launch
irt. the Red Cross Christmas Seal sale
in the schools. The elimination OF the
campaign will be the sixth annual
celebration of tuberculosis Sunday.
Last year on Tuberculosis Day over
100000 churches gave attention to the
subject of tuberculosis by sermons,
talks, and announcements. The gov
ernors of all of the states will be asked
TO issue proclamations calling atten-
ton to the Importance of increasing
the knowledge of the public on how to
avoid consumption. Clubs, lodges anc
societies will also be asked to consider
the subject at a meeting either on
tuberculosis Sunday or some other
day OF tuberculosis Week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20

| thought to find her maiden mind
With bright and trifling fancies lined
With notions gay of silk and lace,
Of W1de-brimmed hats that shade the face
OF dances tripped meath musics spell;
" flowery jaunts to mead and dell;
With memories from readings store,
OF poesy and picture lore;
Wlth depth given by some gentle plan
OF charity for beast or man;
And height reached by sweet reveries
or love with all it's subtleties.
But when knew her mind, dispelled
Were all my thoughts of what 1t held;
For woman regnant there 1 saw,
Packed in with history and law;
With labor, politics and rights
Clustered about her like great lights.
| should have sought a simpler maid?
Let weaklfngs be of power afraid.
A real mans task it is, l find
To win the feministic mind
But now within it's learned space
Great Love and 1 have found a place.
Judge.
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ANOTHER POLITICAL FARCE.

The institution was in a democrat
lied condition. when Mr.. Botkin as
suJT1ed control" is one of the findings
in the report of the committee that
investigated and sustained the charges
against the accused, and it also hap
pens to be one that Governor Capper
particularly emphasizes the merit of
in the editorial columns of his news
paper. And yet the governor lost no
time in reappcinting to the warden
ship of the penitentiary ]. K. Cod
ding, the gentleman whom Mr.. Bot
kin succeeded in office and whom it
is only reasonable to assume was re-
sponsible in at least some measure for
the "demoralized condition in which
the prison YVES turned ever to Mr..
Bctkin. What a mess of sordid, sell
fish politics this whole pepitentlary
wardenship business has been!
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Any man would rather discharge a
duty than cook.
You can always rub a man the
wrong way by rubbing it in.
Every cloud has a silver lining, but
the pessimist kicks because it isn't
gold.
Many a man who is long on re-
Hgion is short when the collection
plate is passed.
1t is human nature to want more.
The minute a man is able to live COM
fortably he isn't satisfied to live that
way.
Sillicus-'I believe every man is in
clined to flee from temptation" Cyni-
cus-"Yes, but he generally blazes the
trail so he can find his way back"
"One swallow doesn't make q sum-
mer," quoted the Wise Guy. mo, but
it certainly warns a fellow up" added
the Simple Mug. who had just had one.
BlobbS-''There's nothing slow
about that fellow Harduppe.'' Slobbs-
Il don't know about that. Lend him
some money, and I guess you'll find
him mighty slow"
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Ohio's Coonskin Library.

| In the autumn of 1903 there was a
meeting of the settlers in Dover, Sun
day Creek and Ames, Athens county.
Ohio, called primarily to consider the
making of roads, but before it ended
it took up a side issue that, seen from
| this point of view, seems to be the
most important part of the meeting
What they did about roads is of but
passing interest. The other matter
produced far-reaching results
! 1t is recorded that Josiah True
called attention to the need of books.
Probably most of those present had
back in their New England homes,
and their isolation in their homes in
the west emphasized the lack of them
here. He proposed a public library.
The idea was warmly welcomed, but
how could it be secured without
funds? The colonists were mostly
poor, and what they had was not in
the form of money. There was but
| little money in circulation, and bust
ness was most easily carried on in
the form of barter. Finally someone
suggested that all present engage in
hunting for furbearing animals dur
ing the approaching winter, and with
the proceeds of the hunt buy neces-
sary books.
Agents of John Jacob Astor had
visited the settlements promoting that
industry, and the young men had be-
come skilled in the chase. They en-
tered into the work with enthusiasm,
and by spring large store of skins,
mostly coonskins, had been collected.
Samuel Brown was to make a visit to
Boston, going by wagon, and it was
arranged that he should take the store
of skins east with him, stopping at
Astor's place in New York to dispose
of them.
Mr.. Mannaseh Cutler went along
with him to make the selection of
books. These were bought in Boston
with the product of the sales
of the skins. The name adopted
was. 1.-The Western Library Associa-
tion," and it was located at Ames., 1t
was incorporated February 2, 1904
On December IT, 1904, the members
of the association met at Ames. and
elected Ephraim Cutler libraria
Mr.. Brown had evidently returned
with the books, For it was voted at
this meeting to accept fifty-one books
purchased by Samuel Brown" This
was the beginning of the Coonskin
Library
1t is said that sixty of the youth
in that vicinity came at once under
the influence of that library, of whom
ten graduated at Ohio University. two
becoming professors, three preachers
and five lawyers. Thomas Ewing was
one of these, and he testifies in his
him. Ten coonskins that he got wen.
into it, 1t has been referred to as the
first library on Ohio soil, but Howe
says this is an error. The public Ii
brary of Cincinnati was established
in 1902 and there was a farmers
library at Belpre in 1796.-New York
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20

simplicity in all things should be
the keynote in every students school
life, and the dress problem would
make a good start in that direction"
was probably one suggestion in a re-
cent address of Chancellor Strong to
the University of Kansas students that
did not make much of a hit with
"Rah-rah" boys and girls among
them. What would college life be to
not a few of it's participants were it
not for the noisy hatbands and clothes
that they seem to think are so essen
tiaI to it.