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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
WHY FARMERS Buy AUTOS.

An investigation by Farm Life.
covering seven counties in southwest
ern Indiana. shows that twice as
many cars are being sold this wear.
as compared with last; and that about
IS per cent of the machines going
out this season are being sold to farm
ers. The investigation seems thor
oush enough to establis a basis for
the whole country. The licenses is
sued by the state were first consid-
cred, running about $4,000 against
$4,000 for the same date in 1914
The dealers were interviewed, as well
as more than seven hundred farmers.
Farm Life declares that not only are
average farmers buying machines, but
that every fourth or fifth man inter
viewed, if he had no car, is planning
to buy one-this year or next-if his
crops and his live stock ventures turn
out according to his reasonable hopes
Is this unusual investment in automo-
biles by farmers a sign of prosperity?
1t is attributed by Farm Life largely
to the decrease IN the price of ma
chimes. and the need felt by the farm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
on your nephew's love-

foot down on your nephew's love-
making"
Put your foot DOWN."
''Yes-both feet, There won't be
any bullying Borlands in my family
declared the old lady.
You can't know Ted very we'll.
Why, he isn't a real Borland anyway
he's more like his mothers folks,
the Terrys; pure gold all through
He's good enough for any girl in AL
mos county-or the world, for that
matter"
He isn't good enough for my
Luella! 1 don't know how you can
say he isn't Borland. Why, he's the
living image of what you were, Zeb
Borland, forty years ago.
Textbooks like mel did? Pshaw.
Henrietta. I never was half as good
looking as Teddy" Uncle Zeb's voice
bore a pleasant note.
You were better looking," contra
dicted the lady sharply. Il can prove
it by that miniature
Silence for moment.
Uncle Zeb smiled into the mouth
piece of the instrument
Henrietta Farday-have you kept
that picture of me?''
II keep lots of trash.'' came in a
stifled tone.
I don't call it trash said Uncle
Zeb in an oddly gentle tone. you
want to trade pictures with me?"
A huSh-then:
You better keep the one you got
and I'll keep mine.''
Il should be lonesome without it,
whispered Uncle Zeb. 1--WE kept it
in my pocket so many years, Henry,
I'd miss it. But L suppose you've
kept mine in some trash boX-along
with other trash
''Zeb Borland, I'm a lar" blazed
Henrietta with all the fire of her
youth. I've worn your miniature
next my heart all these years because
it's all there vas left of-love! Laugh,
if you want to-"
"Henrietta!' How eager was the
old voice now. 'It isn't too late to
have little happiness-just us two
and the young folks-why, there's
enough room in these two houses for
all of uS-and for another generation.
What say, Henny?''
Yes came Henrietta's answer
along the line. There isn't any use
contradicting a bullying Borland." -
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
NeWSpaper SYndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
QUAKER NEDITATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record
Every man should be the conduc-
tor of his own train of thought.
A man doesn't have to be his own
chauffeur to blow his own horn
Some people are eager to get to the
top and others prefer to be subma-
rines.
1t seems to be a woman's privilege
to change her mind and lie about her
ago.
1t is just as we'll to strike out for
yourself as to allow a pinch hitter to
do it for you.
Many a man never puts his best foot
forward for fear somebody will step
on his toe.
If you don't want to be thrown in
the shade it's a good plan to make hay
while the sun shines.
When a mother uses her slipper on
her offspring she should put her whole
sole into the operation.
Blobbs-Wouldn't you like to mount
the pinnacle of fame? Slobbs-No, 1
am too fond of company.
Wigwag-I can't drink anything at
all. Even beer makes me as crazy as
a mad dog Guzzler-Beer makes me
froth at the mouth, top.
''Ah, my little man" greeted the
elderly gentleman, going to school,
Ell? And what do you like most about
school?" The days when there amt
none" promptly replied the little
man.
Who giveth this woman to wed
this man. intoned the preacher dur
ing the marriage ceremony. There
seems to be a suspicion she is throw
ing herself away. muttered the disap-
pointed sutton in the back pew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
THE BRITISH PoSTOFFICE.

An interesting Sidelight is thrown
on commercial conditions IN Great
Britain by the report of the postoffice
for the year ending March 81, 1915,
according TO a statement from A H.
Baldwin, the United States CONNER
cial attache ar London. The budget
estimates placed the departments
revenues for the fiscal year 1914-15
at 1854, 100000, with estimated ex-
penditures of $127,25O,000, leaving a
balance of some S27,000,000. On the
outbreak of the war there was an
immediate shrinkage of receipts to the
extent of 100000 in the postal
revenues, 100000 in telegraph re-
ceipts, and s1,20O,00O in telephone re-
ceipts. On the other hand, eXpendi-
lures increased very largely, with the
result that at the close of the fiscal
year actual receipts amounted to but
little over $144,OO0,000, while ex-
penditures were about 100000,
leaving a balance of SIS 100000 to
S16,00O,000- For the coming year it
is estimated that expenditures will be
so ncavy that the surplus will be re-
duced to s7,500,0OO. Attention is
called in the departments report to the
satisfactory conditions in the Postal
Savings Bank. There was a sharp run
in August last. resulting in the with
drawal of some $25,00o,0o0- Con-
fidence however, has been completely
restored, and in the last quarter of
the year deposits exceeded with
drawals by OYER $21, 100000. There
are about / 200 postal servants actual
ly engaged in delivering correspond
ence in France. The department sent
$4,000 men to the front and has been
forced to obtain in their places 10000
men and 5000 women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCEISON GLOBE.

Never depend on your kin for poll
teal support.
lot of professional men overdo
that term, ethics.
Usually a man who denies that he is
knocker is one.
Some men do not require an emetic
to throw up the sponge.
Many things look reasonable merely
because you want to believe them.
As a rule making an excuse for
bad business is making an excuse for
yourself.
Most women with good forms. it
seems, have homely faces; also those
with good farms.
Most fruit cake looks like plug of
tobacco. Not that we want to say
anything very mean today.
Well" said a man today, Il guess
I'm getting old, for every now and
then 1 find tobacco juice on my shirt
front"
BY the time a flirty girl reaches tho
age of % years she looks like some
thing purchased in a secondhand
store.
Remember that no furniture looks
like much of anything on moving
van. and be charitable with the new
neighbors.
Another educational problem is that
which confronts the teacher who has
to make a living during a three or
four months vacation without pay.
The Girls Who Show Through
should remember it can't be done to
advantage when cold weather causes
goose pimples to mar the background.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
Jayhawker lots

Bonnie Franklin, jr., of the Erie
Record, observes that a girl Will show
her best beau everything IN the mousse
except the family album.
A carpenter may be known by his
chips, says Ruth Alexander People in
the Erie Record, but a housekeeper is
known by the number of quarts or
fruit she cans.
When we see a young lady's father
and mother going to the train with
her when she is going away for a Wis
it of one or two days, says the Cedar
vale Commercial, we conclude that
she has a mighty good hold on their
heartstrings and the chances are that
she got the grip on them by not being
afraid of dishwater.
= A gift of CAB without a well-bal-
anced thinker to regulate it is often
a detriment rather than an advantage,
Commercial A lot of information
without the ability to put it into prof
table practice is worth very little to
any man. Thus it becomes necessary
for a man not only to have proper
thoughts, but alco the ability to ex-
press them effectively.
When it comes to gardening" Jit-
ney Jones remarked recently within
the hearing Of the Holton Signal, my
favorite vegetable is the onion And
the Signal explains: Jitney's prefer
ence is not based on the fact that he
likes the onion any better than he does
other products of the garden, but from
the fact that the onion. requires less
care than any other vegetable and
from it's very nature defies the attack
of every known insect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
S9edR|ln9 G.! 3! &:
THE BLIND SOU IRRELs STORY.

! After Mr.. and Mrs. Reddy had
picked out their new home in the
park and had settled all in nice order,
they determined to explore around a
bit.
Its all very we'll to have good
home" said Reddy. land this new one
in the big tree trunk surely is a good
one, but 1 for one, want to know some
thing about the place l live. NOW
let's visit around bit and see II there
is anybody we want to get acquainted
with We may have very good neigh
bors. Anyway we ought to find out
and see who lives near. Come now,
let's be Off"
off She wanted to stay and fix the
nest some more. Just see, Reddy.
she said, Eve want this pile of rub
bish cleared out and we want-oh.
there is a lot of little jobs we want
to do. Let's stay and work at home
mo, I'm tired of working at home,
complained Reddy. I'm going out"
"All right then" said Mrs. Reddy
here and finish the work. Then you
can tell me all you see and hear" she
added persuasively.
So Reddy allowed himself to be
persuaded to do eXpactly what he had
intended all along to do anyway. He
said goodbye" and started out.
He had not gone far when he saw
before him a little squirrel nearly as
big h1nSelI anu 0kdClly the SuIiic
color. There is somebody who looks
like a good neighbor," he whispered
to himself, I'll hide here and watch
him. If he seems to be my kind of a
squirrel, I'll make his acquaintance
So Reddy pushed himself tight into
the bushes and watched.
The stranger squirrel sat up straight
on his hind legs and daintily nibbled
his nuts: but Reddy noticed that he
had curious habit of turning his
head way round sideways when he
hunted on the ground for new nut. I
Otherwise he seemed to do quite as
Reddy himself would do. SO Reddy
decided to speak to him and see if
they could be friends.
MAY you always have as many nuts
before you as now" said Reddy po-
lite1y.
glance at Reddy who was edging his
way out of the bushes and then at the |
pile of nuts before him. That surely |
is a good wish" he said, won't you
have one yourself. Are you new in
the park? 1 don't remember seeing |
YOU before
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

An excessive rainfall in the spring
that is of sufficient volume and force
10 destroy certain crops and wash out
others that are just beginning to grow
also happens to have a large advan-
tage for the farmers over a drouga.
cf crop destroying proportions. They
can recoup some of their losses by re
planting the ruined crops or putting
others in their place. But a droutn
usually gets in its fine work so late
IT the growing season that it is impos-
sible for the farmers to offset their
losses in any way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

er for time saving and pleasure
giving vehicle. In no instance was it
found that the farmers neglected their
flocks and fields to go joy-riding; on
the contrary, the machine owners
were prosperous and happy. A ma
chine helps to keep the boys and
girls on the farm, it does away with
the loneliness of rural life by making
a suburbanite of it's owner, and puts
the town and the country in closer
touch, both in social and a business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Marconi, the wireless wizard who
has taken a place in the Italian army
as a lieutenant of engineers on duty
with the telegraph brigade. will have
an excellent opportunity to try out
his new invention for looking through
q wall by working it on the stone
wall Notifications of the Austrians
that the Italian army will have to
circumvent in some way if it is to
make much progress
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

They talked back and forth a few
minutes and all the while Reddy was
noticing that queer sideways move
ment of the stranger squirrels head.
At last his curiosity got the better of
his manners and he said, why do you
turn your head so queerly? Is some
thing the matter with your eye?"
Then the squirrel turned the other
way and Reddy saw that he was quite
blind in his left eye. Yes, that was
an accident that happened before /
came to the park Some hunters shot
into the tree where 1 was hiding and.
though the shot missed killing me. IL
blinded me as you see. That is the
reason why my friends advised me to
live in the park. Food hunting is
much easier here because the children
are SO kind to me-" added the squirrel
bravely.
Think of that courage." remarked
Reddy to himself. here is surely a
new. friend worth havingi"-(Copy
right, Clara Ingham Judson)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
From Other Pens
HOUSEHOLD EFFICIENCY.

II
The place to learn housekeeping is
in the home-a fact that leeds to he
recognized by the advocates of house
hold efficiency. 1t is quite true that
not all homes are good schools, that
not all mothers are competent house
keepers, that not all young women
have opportunity to learn in their own
kitchens. But great numbers of
mothers are thoroughly furnished by
knowledge and experience to train
their daughters in the making and
keeping of a home, and it is a mis-
take for the lecturers of home econ
omics to ignore the usefulness of
these mothers, and to disdain their
practical knowledge of housekeeping.
There is quite enough to do to teach
the women who lack experience. the
young women who have not practical
housekeeping mothers, without dis
counting the abilities of the really in
telligent and expert women who have
made America a land of splendidly
kept homes.-New York Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
Journal Entries

Among the rare things with humans
are good dispositions
:. + +
The game u man likes best is the
one he can win a t ofteneSt-
+ + +
Everybody is in favor of all kinds
of rules and regulations for the other
fellow.
J. r r
Loafing on a job is a reasonably
sure way to get a chance to hunt
for another one.
+ 4. J.
Every man or woman has pet
aversion or two or three, and they're
generally unreasonable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
WHY NOT A political PEACEo

=
Another curious fact is that most of
the prominent world peace protagon-
lists in this country are inveterate hat
ers of peace in the political arena at
home. And if something approaching
political peace could be brought about
in this nation for a decade or so. the
waves of prosperity that we have ex-
perienced would be small affairs COM
pared with the one that would roll
over the land. BY far the greatest
handicap under which the people of
these United States are forced to
struggle is the activity and incessant
clashing of their political patriots.
Why not a League to Enforce Political
Peace for home consumption? The
necessities for one are paramount.
Or if it might not be wise to go that
far. it would help some, considerably
in fact, if there were two such leagues,
one for the Republican party and the
ether for tho Democratic party. This
would have a tendency to make mi
Eority rule impossible in the nation
or any of its states, and that would
be an end worth achieving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Most of the salient features of the
proposed ordinance for the regulation
of the jitneys doing business in To-
peka appear to be of the reasonable
variety. The jitney operators are sure
to protest vigorously against the
$4,000 bond requirement, but the pub
lie is certainly entitled to some pro-
lection of this sort. and a bond of that
size does not seem to be of prohibi-
tive promotions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Had Mr.. Bryan been on the job, it
isn't at all likely that United States
marines would be on their way to the
Mexican state of Sonora to protect the
American settlers there from the at
lacks of Yaqui Indians. He would
probably have insisted on doing no
more than sending warnings to these
Americans that they should get out
Of the danger zone and return to this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Other localities on the face of the
globe have their rainy seasons but they
come along in an orderly and regu-
lar way, and the people. knowing
when to expect them, can prepare
against them as far as possible and
make their other plans accordingly
But in this particular section of the
universe nobody knows what the
weather is going to be until it arrives.
or how long any brand of it will con-
tinue until it ends
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

I'VE lived here a few days last
year" explained Reddy as he helped
himself to a nut, but hornets came
to our nest so we went away. But we
mean to try it again this year because
the eating is so good
Yes, isn't it," said the stranger
squirrel. 81 got all this pile of nuts
from the children visitors yesterday
That's better than hunting them your
self says t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Regardless of the c1everness of tax
lodging dogs for which Kansas is be-
coming famous, the estimates are that
the personal property listed for tax
alton this year will show an increase
of s50.00O,O00 over the similar returns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
Kansas Comment
THE CHURCH Is ON TRIAL.

THE CHURCH is ON TRIAL.
Every little while some effervescent
thinker, endeavors to hold the center
of the stage by announcing, with an
air of great wisdom, that THE Church
is on Trial. indicating by the very
statement that the testimony is all in.
the verdict rendered and the officers
representing civilization are about
ready to place the church in the dom
jon keep. OF course the church is on
trial 1t was on trial when the Ro-
man soldiers turned Jesus over Tor
crucifiXion because of the demands or
the mob. 1t has been on trial for two
thousand years and during all OF that
time, there have been men both wise
and foolish, who have tried to defame
her reputation and to destroy her, yet
today the church is greater and
stronger than ever. 1t is not the
church that has brought about the
bitter war in Europe, but it is the
teachings of Christ that are respon-
sible for Red Cross hospitals: for the
have entered the hospital service from
foreign lands and for the millions in
money that have been freely given for
the care of the non-combatants The
church has not only been on trial for
two thousand years, but by its very
life and character it has also put on
trial every man and woman in the
world-Lawrence Journal-World
%
THE BANTAM NATION.
of Italy, has finally jumped into the
war game. This makes the thirteenth
nation now engaged in the war. San
Marine has an army nearly as large
in number as the school children of
the Sixth ward of this city below the
seventh grade. 1t is not quite as
large as Union township, and its pop
ulation is approximately as much as
two-thirds of West Wichita during
the vacation of Friends university
and Mount Carmel academy. Its most
important institutions are two large
cisternS in which the entire national
water supply is stored, no well being
possible in the country. The Ger
mans can reach it with a Zeppelin
easily and it is estimated that seven
good bombs, so thrown that they
would fall inside the national bound
aries, which would be unusually good
Workmanship for Zeppelin, would
wipe out the bulk of the republic,
which, it is claimed, is the oldest ma
ton in Europe.-Wichita Beacon.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Watermelons selling at $1.25 each
is further proof that the good, old
summer time is still a kilometer or
two in the distance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Brother Josephus Daniels has been
unusually quiet since the retirement of
Mr.. Bryan from the cabinet. Possibly
he is not a believer in the theory that
lightning doesn't strike twice in the
same locality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Germany seems to have succeeded
finally in perforating the boiler of the
gigantic Russian steam-roller, and it
is going to take a lot of repairing to
put it in condition again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Practically all of Chapters 1, 2 and
3 of Mr.. Bryan's broadside on the
European war and the way to peace
must fall under the classification of
"old stuff"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21
On the Spur
of the Moment
The City Chap.
By ROY X. MoULTON.

The City Chap.
A city man, he is surely skee-ed
To go around with three days beard,
And when he jumps into a barber
chair,
It's quarter here and a quarter
there
And his prosperity's not insured
Until he has gone and been manicured
And they slap a massage on his face
Before they allow him to leave the
place,
And they schine his shoes and they
brush his hat,
And they treat his scalp and do this
and that
And they handle him with such tender
care
That they make him feel like a mil
The cost of Twin don't never go down,
That is, not while you're livin' in
town,
Where the butter costs four shillin' a
brick
And the price of eggs would just
make you sick.
A Teller to stick with the bunch
Has got fer to stay downtown for
lunch
Fer the fellers nowadays pull off big
deals
While they're Fletcherizing of their
1t costs him money, I will be bound,
burned near every time he turns
around.
a charm
To the simple life on the dear old
farm.
Uncle Abner.
Hold Peters has started a vegetable
garoen out back of his house. He
Will work on it about three days and
then his wife will do the rest.
The Teller who kin fight back when
one who is found at the top of col
umn next to pure reading matter.
Miss Euphemia Nudge, our poetess
of passion, says she will write for a
living in the future. Friends will
Deacon Stubbs' mule Hyacinth is
suffering from the artistic temper
ment and Doc Hanks has been called
in. Doc says he cured the Deacon,
SO he ought to be able to cure the
mule.
Rev. Hudnutt of the Hardshen
church announces that he is ready to
do a little wallpapering as a side
Since Mr.. and Mrs. Lafe Tibbitts
have bought $3.50 automobile they
can't see their neighbors on the
street.
All the Time.
The statesmen can get busy, wave
the old flag and crate,
But the cost of living rises just
the same.
They may call the money barons and
they may investigate,
But the cost of living rises just
the same.
They may threaten, they may buster,
they may scream and paw the air;
They may plead and they may grovel
and in madness tear their hair;
They can tell of real conditions and
the awful truth lay bare,
But the cost of living rises Just
the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-21

Recent developments in Kansas
would seem to emphasize the fact that
P not only stands for Prison-mine but
also for Politics.