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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
Jayhawker Jots

Sometimes, meditates Uncle 81 in
the Atchison Champion, I think that
man is much a success in hirt1n
as his wife thinks he is.
Have you ever noticed, asks the
Minneapolis Better Way, how wo-
man enjoys a mans singing, especial
ly when he is singing her praises?
A cornet band has been organized
at Leona. notes the Hiawatha World,
and it adds: This is the season for
organizing bands. but the way to get
good results is TIC have the bandmen
practicing all winter.
Why said a brakeman recently
while talking to the Atchison Globe
about the fine climate of The short
grass country, they had to kill a man
out at Beloit during the early days in
order to start cemetery
Hint to the fair sex, from E. U. ",
in the Kansas City, Kan, Gazette
Globe: Girls, it is downright dishon-
est to fix up and catch a man to work
for you the rest of your life and then
slump down and in five years look sew
eral degrees worse than sin.
Here's a snake story that is a snake
story, from the Eldorado Republican,:
1t IS reported that a Spring township
farmer was coming 20 this city today,
when his car ran over a big bull snake.
and it so enraged the snake that it fol-
lowed the car for two miles, and in
IuCIeO TWO OIi Tie DdCh
wheels, which were fatal to the life of
the wheels.
A Georgia editor has come to the
that IF the house catches
on fire and the roof threatens to fall
in, a woman will pause long enough
to take out her puff and dab little
powder on the end of her nose
while her old man throws the dishes
and looking glass out of the window
and carries the bedding and carpet out
on his houlder.-Lawrence Journal
World.
Something new in the tramp story
line, from the Hiawatha World: Some
of the tramps are very polite. When
one appeared at a home recently a
woman remarked: well, I have been
feeding your friends all winter and
now that it is summer it seems unfair
to keep it up" well, If you have
been feeding them all winter, you
don't have to feed me-" replied the
tramp with a pleasant smile and bow
as he walked away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
It's when a man is the victim of an
undue influence that he finds himself
undone.
Would you say that the man with
a pocketful of loose change was easily
ratified?
Liquor improves with age. The
longer you don't drink it, the better is
is for you.
Be satisfied to hold your own.
Don't kick because you can't hold your
neighbors, too.
It's easy enough for man to &C
quire a reputation for heroism. The
great trouble is he has to die to keep
il.
We can't all be stars growled the
Pessimist. That's no reason why we
should be Clouds replied the Optim-
list.
An idle rumor gains currency,
which is more than can be said of an
idle roomer, as many boarding house
mistress has discovered.
Muggins-"I loaned Harduppe $40
yesterday Buggins-"Was he CRATE
full Muggins-''So grateful he came
back today for $40 more"
Necessity is the mother of inven-
ton" said the man who INDUCES in
trite quotations. TOO bad so many
of her children don't turn out WE'LL
replied the patent lawyer.
I'VE shall be made perfect in
heaven quoted the good deacon.
Wonder if We'll all meet our vermi-
form appendices there murmured
the man who had been operated upon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.

from the chicago NEWS
Most of US are charita ble-to our
selves.
It's easier to become a hero than to
live up to it.
A man of ability may be one who is
able to hold his job.
Many a man who is headstrong
thinks it's up to him to butt in.
1t doesn't take a good liar very long
to develop into a bad actor
What becomes of all the money that
people are going to save tomorrow?
People with false teeth are among
those who bite off more than they can
chew
And many a mans conscience is
like cold molasses: it moves slowly
and gets there too late.
But the man with a scheme is not
locking out for your interest; it's your
principal he is after.
Wise is the mother who doesn't at
tempt to croSs-examine her small Off
spring in the presence of the minister.
Men and women are always making
trouble for each other; but if a stone
wall separated them they would tear
it down in order to get together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
AS THE WAR IS GOING.

Neither must it be forgotten that
the large successes of the Teuton1c
allies in the eastern arena of the war
merely concern the re-taking of ter
ritory from which the Russians had
previously forced the Austrians. The
Russian bear hasn't been whipped yet
in his own lair. This is not suggest
ing that such q. job is impossible or
accomplishment. But it isn't likely
that Germany and Austria will make
of Russian territory, or rather carry
on an invasion of Russia on an extend
ed scale. They have more pressing
business that demands their attention.
1t is far more important that they
check the onslaught of Italy and also
the progress that the French are max
ing in the western war zone. On its
face, the latter doesn't appear to be
extensive: that is, the amount OF
ground that the French have gained
in the last few weeks is not large. But
they seem to be boring in on the Ger
man defensive in way that will make
for commanding results if their efforts
are not checked. So after Russia is
driven back to her own defenses, the
Teutons will probably be content with
holding her there and they are likely
to confine their activities in the east
to such endeavors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
WORLD AGAINST YOITH

In the June American Magazine
David Grayson, writing his story
'Hempfield,' comments in part as fol-
lows on the conspiracy of the world
against youth and growth: The
world, of course, is in a secret con-
splracy against youth and growth
Any man who dares to be young, or to
grow, or to be original, must expect to
have the world set upon him and
pound him unmercifully-and if that
doesn't finish him off, then the world
clings desperately to his coat tails.
resolved that if it cannot stop him
entirely it will at least go along with
him and make travelling as difficult
as possible. This latter process is
what friend of mine illuminatively
calls the drag Of mediocrity.' But
this punching and pounding is mostly
good for youth and originality-good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
NE1GHBoRHooD EDUCATION.

Public education is now recognized
as an indispensable part of any health
promotion program. Whether the or
ganiZation be municipal, state or ma
tional, some method is necessary
whereby the salient facts may be pre-
scented and the proposed work out
lined to the public. Many of our
state boards of health have developed
elaborate and effective methods for
educating the people of the state on
disease and it's prevention; only a few
of our larger cities have undertaken
to do so. A marked recognition of the
growing demand for such work is the
recent creation, by the department of
health of New York City, of a bureau
of public health education, in charge
of an experienced whole-time man,
carefully chosen after a civil service
examination. One of the recent inno-
vations inaugurated by this bureau
is the publication of a series of neigh
borhood bulletins for use in different
quarters of the city. 1t is a signifi-
cant commentary on the growing COM
pleXity of our largest city that PAM
phlets which are of great value in one
part of New York are practically use
less in another. The recognition of
this fact and the effort to meet it by
preparation of special pamphlets for
each section is an evidence of the
careful study that is being given to the
problem and the effort that is being
made to adapt methods to needs and
conditions. Physicians of the middle
ages dreamed of a panacea. a single
marvellous remedy which would cure
all diseases- But they dreamed only.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
RIGHT MAN FOR PLACE.

Mr.. Lansing, the new secretary of
state, is an unusual cabinet member.
indeed. He is without anything that
savors of political backing, and is said
of having anything that smackS of
political influence. In other words, he
is without such burdensome handicaps
to interfere with his abors. His OPP
portunities, therefore, to render the
nation distinguished service are large.
And there seems to, be a feeling on all
sides that he will do this very thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
JAPs PARTIAL TO OUR FLAG.

Nearly one-half of all the japanese
subjects who are living away from
home are residents of the United
States and its insular possessions.
More than one-half of these Japs who
are basking for the time being, or
permanently, under the American flag
are in Hawaii. And it is interesting
to note that there are about eighteen
times as many of the sons of Nippon
in Hawaii as there are in the Philip
pines. These facts are gathered from a
recent publication of the japanese for
eign office, which was relayed to this
country by George H. Scidmore, the
United States consul general of Yoko-
hama, and which states that 35S,711
Japanese subjects were reported as
living abroad on June 80, 1914, and
divided among the several countries
and their divisions, as follows: United
States (proper), SO,773; Hawaii, co.
sos; Philippine Islands, 5,179; Guam,
119; China, 1886; Hongkong Gin
Guiding Macao, 1855; Singapore. s.
166; Saigon, 161; Siam, 21S; British
India, S45; Dutch Indies, 2.949; Aus
tralia, 1851; Canada, 1859; Brazil,
Is 462; Argentina, 6S3; Chile, sos;
Peru, 1881; Mexico, 2,737; Spain, s;
ain, AS; Belgium, Is; Netherlands, 5;
Germany, 434; Austria Hungary, 81;
Switzerland, IL; Italy, II; Sweden, 6;
Russia Gin Europe), SO; Russia Gin
Asia), 1853.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
From Other Pens
WAR AND PEACE MORALITY.

WAR AND PEACE MORALITY.
A good many thinking people, since
the war began, have had borne in
upon. them the philosophy of the Bige-
low Papers:
Ez fer war, 1 call it murder.
Thar you have it plain an flat.
But there is another phase of war
and peace morality illustrated in the
confession of that Nova Scotian horse
the Canadian militia. Although killing
ones fellow-men may be murder in
peace and patriotism in war, it is evil
IDENTIFY possible, also, to get away with
things in peace that become high
crimes and treason in war. This Nova
Scotian admitted selling a knee
sprung animal, two years old, that he
paid $S5 for to the militia 5 minutes
later for $3.50, unloading a good de-
cent old horse" for $3.50 and another
spawned in both hind legs and 80
years old. Yet he stoutly repudiated
and thought of cheating in these
transactions, explaining that the
faults were there for all to see and
that there were many others doing the
same thing.
Thousands who have laughed SYM
pathetically with David Harum and
regarded getting the better of another
man in a horse trade a sort of
sport, legitimized by tradition and the
maxim of letting the buyer beware.
will take quite another view of this
with the Canadian govern
ment in time of war. What was adj
covered the blacklist treason in war.
That both were equally dishonest and
ethically indefenSible is lost sight of.
Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
TWAS TWILIGHT IN VIRGINIA.

TWAS TWILIGHT IN VIRGINIA.
Twas twilight in Virginia, 1 could hear
the darkies singing
All those good old songs to boyhood's days
SO dear,
Across the corn and cotton fields, the
melody came softly,
Bringing mem ries by their singing, sweet
and clear,
weep no more, my lady, oh, weep no more
for me-
How it brought back thoughts of other
years.
With the hammock idly swinging meath
the old magnolia tree,
And the nightingale's soft carol all
around,
Came on the breeze another song, so
doubly dear to me,
Bringing to my ears the old sweet strains
Garry me back to Old Virginia" and
I'll never leave that good old place again.
The good old days have passed and gone,
We'll never see them more,
In the Shenandoah valley, far away
The vines are still a-clinging round the
dear old cabin door,
And seem to hear the dear old rounde-
lay, of
"All the darkies are a-weeping, Massas in
de cold, cold groun,''
And he never will come back here any
more.
L. NJ. WOOD.
Topeka, Kan, Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

Who says the millennium is not ap-
preaching? A New York City news
paper retracts and with regrets the
story it sprung to the effect that a
hoax was worked on Uncle Sam in
that the reputed special envoy sent by
Count Bernstorff to Germany was none
other than representative of the
German war office who had been spy
ing in this country. New York papers
have recanted before, but never with
expressions of regret
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

In the public health field, as well, we
must learn that there is no single
remedy. No one plan, says The Jour
nal of the American Medical Associa-
ton, will apply everywhere. and in no
single method does success lie. Care
full study of each locality and its needs
and the devising of educational meth
DDS which will be effective under &C
tua1 rather than ideal conditions
should be one of the most important
duties of each health organization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
Journal Entries

Some people laugh, like others cry
without sufficient reason.
+ + +
If silence were really golden more
folk would practice it.
+ + =
A faint heart is often lucky in fail
ing to win a fair lady.
+ + +
Every man has the courage of
couple of lions when it isn't needed.
+ +
Now approaches the season when
the carefully arranged vacation plans
of a couple of months ago fail to
materialize.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
The HickeyviIIe Clarion.

The Hickeyville Clarion.
Miss Pansy Perkins wished a wart
off her thumb by a gypsy fortune
teller last week, but the fortune teller
made mistake and wished it on the
end of Pansy's nose. Old man Purdy
says he gueSSeS he will have a wart
wished onto the end of his nose to
keep his specs from slipping Off.
News are quite scarce this week, as
everybody IN town has been waiting
down at the railroad depot since last
Monday morning to see the SET train
come in, which is some late at this
writing.
Hi Bibbins has got a new invention,
which is photographing ham on sand
witches SO it looks like a real article.
He ought to make his fortune around
at camp meetings and county fairs.
T. William Hanks is taking a much
needed rest from his duties at the
TibbittS store. He will make an eX-
tended trip through the west and will
not be back until day after tomorrow.
Abner Hicks was seen driving last
Sunday evening and there was some
millinery beside him. All there, Alb.
Ye editor has a new pair of pants
and we didn't send to a Chicago mail
order house for them, either.
FOregone Conclusions.
That the new baby next door is go
ing to do most of it's crying at night.
That the chauffeur is not going to
turn out for you.
That the street car lady has her
nickel in the bottom of her shopping
bag.
That the life insurance agent Will
call again.
That the sporting writer will work
a little bit of slang into it even if it's
an obituary.
That the man who spends his time
saving cigar coupons is not going to
be a millionaire.
That the man with the thick eye
glasses is going TIC get away with
most of the jackpots in the poker
game.
Got the Dope Wrong.
The guy who named those British
warships had better guess again.
Sure.
In other words, be sure you're right
and then go ahead and bump into q
mine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

lions grew in our garden. You see we
are so tall and SO far from the ground
We want some sun-colored flowers
close to the ground"
But the gardener doesn't like dam
delions." the galardia added He
built that high fence on purpose. 40
the seeds wouldn't blow over into orr
garden. You couldn't get any over.
could your
could try. said the frisky little
south breeze. And he tried so sI1co
cessfully that the next month a dozen
dandelions grew in that stately gar
den.
Where they came from, goodness
only knows" cried the gardener.whi1e
the frisky little south breeze chuck
led and blew over some more, He
had found job to his liking-(Copy-
right, Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

Soup houses are unusual in Kan
at any period of any year. But
they are a necessity these days in some
of the towns in the wheat centers to
sustain the harvest hands who ar
rived on the scene SO far ahead of
time Under the usual climatic con-
ditions, though, the Kansas wheat har-
vest would have been in full swing
for a week or SO. and particularly in
the southern wheat counties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal away
from home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents a week or
thirty cents n month (by mail only. Ad-
dress changed often desired. While
out of town the State journal will be to
you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested these
short time subscriptions, to save bookkeep-
Ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

This section of the Kaw valley is
deeply indebted TO the Republican and
Smoky Hill rivers, the chief feeders
of the Kaw. in that they were consid-
crate enough this year to stage their
highest water stunts at different
times If the crests of the floods in
the Republican and the Smoky Hill
had come at the same time, conditions
along the Kaw here and to the east
would have been much more serious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

How careless of the Kansas sand
companies to cite merely the law of
England of the fourth year of the
reign of King James l to sustain their
contentious that the state has no right
to collect royalties from them. There
must be something even more en-
phatic in the Mosaic laws covering
this grave question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

DIR. Waters, president of the state
agricultural college, declares that we
would do much better in getting our
share of the trade in the Far East if
we would cultivate courtesy. And we'd
get along much better with each other
a home if we would practice little
more of it than we do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

If Italy is ready for peace, as Ber-
lin hears, what becomes of her sigma
ture to the agreement of the Allies
that none of them will make peace
until they all do, or until the rest of
them are willing that one of their
number should. 1t is a foregone con-
clusion, that now that the Allies have
Italy in the war they will insist that
she fight to the bitter end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

West Virginia has a patriot who
would pay the states debt of more
than s12.OO0.O0O in a period of ten
years if the state will reciprocate by
giving him the exclusive privilege of
selling liquor within its confines. And
it may be that this proposal has the
Interior motive of getting the state into
a liquor contract that would block
prohibition there during its life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

if it doesn't kill-for it proves the
strength of youth, tie SITS faith and en-
thusiasm, and measures surely the
power of originality. And as for the
provoking drag upon their coat tails,
youth and originality should reflect
that this is the only way by which
mediocrity ever gets ahead"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

Not a few of the embryo potato
kings of the Kaw valley for this year
are likely to shrink to the proportions
of two-spots But the rule in all fields
of agriculture is that it's impossible to
make a killing in any one particular
crOp wear after wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

Nor does it follow that the law of
supply and demand applies even re-
motely to all human activities. Kan
sas, for instance, as a result of the
recent state bar examinations is pos
sessed of ) 3 additional LAWYERS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

1nasmuch as the jury presented
verdict of mot guilty to Mr.. Horn
baker. the question as to who killed
MIR. McElheny will probably join COM
pany with the one as to who struck
Rillv Patterson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
Eanization, for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
. Clara hSranJodsen

aching to do something that no other
breeze Will do. Maybe, if L knew
what you wanted. l could do it for
you. If | could L would. I'm sure"
We are always thinking" said the
sunflower without further objection
"how nice it would be if some dande-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

When all is said and done, the mill
ers and the consumers have more rea-
son to wax enthusiastic over the pros
poets of a bumper wheat crop than
have the wheat producers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
Kansas Comment
THE REAL FLYER.

THE REAL FL Elk.
There is an aerial machine far more
economical of energy than the best
aeroplane invented, and that is the
bird known as the golden plover rms
bird, according to Department Buile-
tin No. 1876 on Bird Migration" can
fly 2,4O0 miles without a stop, making
the trip in not quite AS hours, and US
ing only two ounces of fuel in the
shape of body fat. A thousand-pou
aeroplane, if as economical OF fuel.
would consume in a 20-mile fllght not
the gallon of gasoline required by the
best machines but only a single pint.
The fact that the screw propeller OF
the aeroplane has no lost motion.
while the to and fro motion of the
birds wings appears to be an unecon-
the fact regarding fuel seem even
more strange.-Clay Center Times.
THE LAWS THE LAW.
The board of county commissioners
of jefferson county thought to head
off any troubles and expenses they and
the county might have under the new
mothers compensation act. So the
board passed resolution to the effect
that it would make no allowances I'M
der that act. That was where the
Jefferson county board got off on the
wrong foot. If it had ignored the law.
possibly 1t might have got by with it.
But the official notice was passed and
published, and the governor and at
torney general saw it. Then the trou-
BILE the jefferson county commission
ers were trying to evade started. At
torney General Brewster at once
wrote to the board saying that they
must avoid further trouble and a law
suit by paying attention to the law.
In other words, the governor ard the
attorney general some way do not ac-
cept the jefferson county idea that the
law was passed just to fill up with
Lawrence Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26

Whoever put the rush in Russians
must have had in mind the facility
with which they retreat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-26
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY x. MOULTON.

Mother, Come Home.
Mother, dear mother, come home with me
now,
The clock in the steeple strikes six;
Forget votes for women the rest of the day,
For pas in a deuce of fix.
He's been taking care of the seven young
kids,
It's more of job than you think;
He wants to get supper, but all of the pots
And dishes are piled in the sink
Che. Come home come home,' etc.