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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

An unreasonable person is one who
disagrees with you.
Don't be a good fellow to the extent
of bothering busy people.
Neutrality, however. is not the only
form of hypocrisy in this we'll known
world.
When people say How are you?'
they probably don't give durn how
you are.
Don't kick your opponents on the
theory that the bigger they are the
harder they fall.
No man can do his best work when
angry, so it is hard to drive men to
do their best work.
If it were not for the certainty of
being found out, a liar would have
more luck as a diplomat.
Your valuable newspaper" in a
note to the editor, generally precedes
a touch for free advertising.
You know so much, you may know
about the kind of order that is main
tanned in an orderly saloon.
Despite the progress in aviation, the
cost of living continues to hold the
record of altitude and endurance.
Some young men, some old men
and some fish worms are alike, in
that the chickens get them sooner or
later.
Now that it is over, We pause to in
quire if it is the Christmas rush which
drives some men to spell it Xmas
One trouble with coaXing the anna
teur to perform is the probability that
said amateur will yield to the per-
suaSiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
C iaEa lr&raNJOdson

! when he had 20 take a snap at thfnrr
whenever he could, and two months
of winter, when he had worked hard
day and night, the vacation idea
sounded very good.
NO use in my working my head
off like this he said to himself one
morning. TN go away and rest a
few days. Nobody will miss me, be-
cause the south wines are so far down
south they Will not notice. and the
ground is so frozen that II could not
melt in few days if it wanted toi
I'm going at once"
He only stopped long enough to
put fresh snowstoTm over the earth
tfor good measure, perhaps). and then
he went skipping away in search of
new adventure.
And as soon as he was gone what do
you suppose happened?
The South Wird came backi Yes
sir Came back the minute Jack Frost
was out of sight! For, you see, Mr.
South Wind was NOT way down
south as Jack Frost had SUPPOSED
nothing of the sorti He was hidden
just round the corner OF the forest,
waiting quietly and patiently for a
chance to melt some snow
Just as soon as Jack Frost was
gone, out he came and set to work
He melted the snow off the roofs.
He melted the snow on the ground.
He melted the snow and ice off the
trees and the bushes and the fences
and every placei And the beautiful
sI-dt DlS iclclcs tIlat nunB from the
corners Of the roofs and the porches
and the telegraph wires he set 10
dripping and dripping and dripping
till the whole earth seemd to he
dripping away.
Then Jack Frost IN mis- journe,, 70
ward a vacation stopped quite sud-
denly He put his ear to the t,rorn,s
ana listened. and he heard the drin
drip. drip ct melting thingsi 20
Quick - flash he turned hin,
back: drove that melting Sotttf, No.
back to his hiding place, and frozs
everything up tight again, and STAGED
on his job to keep il sol Copvriebt
Ingram Judson)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.l

From the Chicago News
1t may curb a fast bachelor to bridal
him.
Nearly every girl worth having has
been in love before.
When woman reaches a certain
age it is always uncertain
An up to date woman is seldom up
to date with her birthdays.
Don't ridicule other peoples ideas.
Try to have them adopt yours
Instead of trying to dodge tempta-
ton some people worry because il
lodges them
Some people fail to practice what
they preach. because they need the
money.
The kitchen is about the last place
on earth the modern girl enters to kill
time.
1t isn't always a sign that man is
henpecked that his wife calls him pet
names in public.
Why does the baby that talks so
plainly to its mother always refuse to
be interviewed by strangers2
What may surprise a young widow
about a mans daring to kiss her is
that it took him so long to get around
to it.
If a man gushes over a woman he is
sneered at as being sentimental, and if
ne doesn't he is dubbed a brute. So
what can the poor man do?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

districts of congressman that most
DANGEROUSLY called for them. We
have dredged channels, not to i'm
prove general navigation, but merely
TO provide access to private manufac-
turing plants-as justifiable a use of
public money as would be the con-
struction of private railroad sidings
We have built dams for no other pur-
pose than to provide private factories
with water power, and have drained
swamps in order to make valuable
privately owned real estate. We have
spent millions in building canals
like the famous Hennepin-whlch,
when finished, have developed prac-
tically no traffic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.

[From the Philadelphia Record
The fellow who always butts in
gets our goat.
All the worlds a stage, but the devil
needs no understudy.
Even when a man is lost in thought
he may have some difficulty in find
ing himself.
Tell the average man to take his
own part and he will want to grab
the whole thing.
You never can tell. Sometimes the
most worthless fellow may have a big
bank account.
Many a fellow. would be perfectly
willing to love his neighbor, if she
would only let him.
1t seems the natural bent of some
fellows to get down on their knees to
every girl they meet.
Many a woman is blind to her hus-
bands faults when she can't even see
through his jokes.
Occasionally you meet a woman
who is almost as much afraid of her
husband as she is of her cook.
Wigg-"Dr- S1ashem seems to be
quite a stickler for correct attire"
wagg-"Yes, don't believe he would
perform an operation unless he wore
a cutaway coat"
Mrs. Muggins-"That woman who
has just moved into our block thinks
she is too good for the rest of us. I've
found her out" Mrs Buggins@''So
have 1, every time I've called"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
Things Worth knowing.

Window Screens-When dusty. take
black cotton cloth with little gaso-
line and rub them.
A little bluing added to the water
in washboiler will make the clothes
white and nice.
For the Family Overshoes-To keep
overshoes off the floor, have a strong
tape hung up in a convenient place,
with spring clothespins attached. Put
the youngest chi1d's rubbers on the
bottom pin, next youngest's just above.
etc. There should be a pin for each
member of the family. BY this plan
one is able to get ones rubbers in the
dark without making mistake.
Old black kid gloves that are turn
ing gray at finger tips are wonder
fully renovated by polishing with
dull liquid shoe polish. Put them on
and after backing gently swab them
dry with a soft rag. With care they
may even be ironed, looking almost
new.
piled once a day to yellow teeth will
Better results are obtained by apply
ing same with the end of a bath tow
ell, rather than with a toothbrush.
If part of a bottle of olives has been
used and you wish to KEEP the remain
der for some time, add pinch of salt
to the brine and pour in bottle enough
olive oil to cover brine.
If cookies do not grown readily in
oven. place them in broiler under the
flame; they will brown instantly.
A little borax add i to either hot
or cold starch will keep the irons from
and make the clothes glossy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
Household Hints


Reliable Eggless Fruit Cake-One
pound fat salt pork chopped fine;
pour one pint boiling water over it
and let stand until cold. Stone one
pound raisins, wash and dry one
pound currants, cut one-fourth pound
cltron and one cup walnut meats into
small pieces. Stir one large teaspoon
soda into one cup molasses. Then
take one pound brown sugar, one tea
and one of nutmeg; stir these and
other ingredients together, adding
flour enough to make a stiff batter
Bake in bread pans for two hours in
a very slow oven This recipe makes
three loaf cakes. If properly wrap
ped, loaf cakes will keep year. 1t is
adaptable for small or individual
cakes, for layer cakes set together
with any preferred filling or for leaf
cakes.
Dreamed CeIery-Wash celery. US
pieces, drop in boiling water and salt.
At end of ten minutes, when tender.
drain; pour white sauce over it. White
sauce: One cup milk, three table
spoons butter, three tablespoons flour,
one-half teaspoon salt. Melt butter,
add flour, then milk; stir until mix
ture thickens.
Cherry Dumplings to boil
stoned cherries. sugared to taste, in
a kettle with close fitting lid Add
dumplings made as follows: Sift to-
spoon salt and one teaspoon good
baking powder. Mix to a smooth,
stiff matter with three tablespoons
milk; add two well beaten eggs: after
beating smooth, drop batter by small
spoonfuls into boiling cherries. Cover
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
Jayh awker Jots

Butchering time is here, notes the
Soldier Clipper, and it advises: Put a
little rabbit in the sausage, it helps the
flavor.
With optimism of unusual proper
tions, the Coffeyville Journal suG-
gests: Now that a California man
has produced a seedles5 apple, maybe
some enterprising restaurant will
produce a seedless apple pie.
You may be able to win a man
through the stomach. observes Ernest
Trimmer in the Cove County Repub-
lican-Gazette' but you have to flsh
around in your pocketbook to please
a woman.
Something new in the card of
thanks line appeared in a recent is
sue of the Elk County Sun, when
family inserted a card to the public
expressing gratitude and appreciation
for the assistance given by friends and
neighbors in obtaining a parole for its
son.
Only a few years ago, states the
Inman Review, a quarter section sand
hill farm could be bought for $500 but
now they are better than $4,000. If a
few West Virginia peanut growers
should come and show us their stunts
those bare hills might soon be selling
higher than wheat Farms.
While the medical fraternity in Linn
county has gotten together on a scale
of prices, the newspapers have so far
failed to reach uniformity, but this
scale has been suggested by the Blue
Mound Sun: Calling a lazy loafer a
successful citizen, $2.70; referring to
a deceased poker player as being
greatly missed, s1O.13; calling moral
a hero, 1921; calling a second
rate speaker an eminent orator, soc;
to a business man who don't
a dvertise as progressive citizen,
$499; sending a mean sinner to
heaven, SIS; lambasting the pros at the
request of the ants S6.77; lambast-
ing the ants at the request of the pros,
$5.77.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
The HickeyviIIe Clarion.

Anse Higgins was going home from
the Golden Nugget the other night
when he see a Teller sneakin around
and tryin' the windows in Lem Purdy' s
house. The constitute and the fire
department were notified and after a
desperate struggle in the dark the
man was captured. When they got
him to the calaboose they found the
Purdy himself, who had got a shave
and whose wife wouldn't let him into
the house, thinking he was some bur-
glar.
Hi Scroggs of this town, who has
been on the stage a living skeleton
for fourteen years, has been obliged to
quit. funny story caused him to
lose his job. He laughed and grew
fat.
Hank Tumms has got phono-
graph, but he hasn't got a good rec
ord.
Virtue is it's own reward, especially
when a Teller is running a newspaper.
The cement walk in front of the
u B. church is cracked. Guess it
must have been stretched too tight
when it was put down.
A Stand Off.
A customer in a local restaurant
being waited on by particularly tall
and fine looking waiter with a for
eign accent, asked the man his ma
tionality.
"Oh, I'm Hungarian" was the re-
ply.
strong fellow like you is not on the
firing line?" asked the visitor.
We'll, sir, it's like this" replied
the knight of the napkin. poitning to
a brother waiter a few tables off.
You see that man? Well, he's a
Serb, and we have vat you call pair
ed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
RIVERS PART OF PORK BARREL.

Many of the river and harbor
projects have been simply dishonest,
declares the January Worlds Work.
Practically every part of the country
has visible evidence that this state
ment is true. The nation is plastered
with unused cancellations" unfin-
ished projects. and streams with deep
Channels that do not carry particle
of freight We have improved"
creeks that are dry for many months
in the year We have dredged out
branch rivers without providing chan
..els in the main stream. We have
dug out rivers at their sources and LETT
their mouths unimproved. We have
located locks. not where they would
most promote navigation, but in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
Journal Entries

Few people repeat a story without
attempting to enlarge and Improve it.
+ q. y
Any number of men are clever
enough 20 hire other people to make
money for them
= d 4.
Not a few folk are so unreasonable
as to expect warm weather IN the
winter time.
= =
You're apt 10 underestimate a man
if YOU Judge him according to your
own standards
j. j. +
Another advantage of cold weather
is that you don't have to dodge so
many automobiles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

But nobody answered. Jack Frost
was far out of hearing.
For, you must know. this same Jack
Frost was taking a vacation
If anybody had asked him, when
ne came down from the cold north
country in the early autumn, whether
he would ever Jake q vacation he
would have snorted, "NOi" very
scornfully- Who does want a vacation
when their work is just beginning?
NOBODY Neither did Jack Frost!
But after two months of autumn,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

What's the answer? During the re-
cent really cold spefl, the local gas
supply. while nothing much to brag
about. was of voluminous proportions
compared with what it was when only
chilly days came along a little while
ago. Perhaps it is merely a coinci-
dence that at that time the question
Of increasing the gas rate was still in
the process of determination, while
now it is settled for the time being at
an rafe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

An Indictment. of course. is not a
conviction. not conclusive evidence of
guilt. But for a member of congress
even to be charged formally with par
ticipation in any such activity as a
plot to fcment labor troubles, as is
the case with Representative Buch-
anan of Illinois, is a sad commentary,
indeed. on the patriotism that might
reasonably be expected to prevail
among all who are elevated to the
HIGHER public stations of the nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

When the cats away the mice will
play. y report from Stockholm states
that members of the now Fordless
mission are seeing the sights rather
than talking peace. And think of the
delights of sightseeing when some
one else is footing the bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

On these cold mornings. the smoke
laden atmosphere of Topeka is remin-
iscent of the winter days before the
boon of natural gas reached the town.
In other words, most folk have finally
gone back to coal and wood for heat
inC PURPOSES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

Sarah Bernhard must be striving
for the laurels that have been mono
pclized of late by the Crown Prince
of Germany Reported as dying a day
or so ago. she is now on her way to
London to recite a few pieces
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY X. MOULTON
Memories.
-NANNNANgA Akl-5s
Old-faS hioned elastic slet
BY ROY

Old-fashioned elastic sleeve hold
erS.
Bulldog shoes.
WristletS.
Mems CATERS.
Disc music boxes.
Niagara Falls transparencies.
Wax flowers.
Views of the Worlds Fair.
Old-fashioned mustard plasters.
Initials in the shirt sleeves.
RaincoatS with capes.
CrullerS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
JACK FROST RUNS AWAY.

Drip, Drip Drip! oh, dear, how
wet everything was! Drip! Drip Drip
would il never stop?
please, Jack Frost" cried the
icicles in despair, come back quickly
and save US"
please, Jack Frost" walled the
snowfIakes that lay in wet piles on
the roofs, come back and take ca re
of us! Can't you see we're all melting
aWay?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

Mexico's methods are always unique
but all of them are not as effective
as the one which has been evolved
by Carranza and his aids to enforce
the Mexican chiefs prohibition de-
cree Not only is the sale of liquor
under a deadly ban, but anybody who
takes drink IS liable to be lined up
against a wall and shot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great news or
Eanfzatisn. for the exclusive afternoon
publication i'm Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pu-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

Spring, gentle spring, is in the off
ing The major league baseball teams
are announcing the itineraries of their
training trips
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

England's cabinet is reported to
have decided upon modified form of
conscription- But labelling it "modi-
fled probably won't make it a less
bitter pill for the Britishers to swal-
low
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

An interesting instance of how the
history of the European war is re-
peating is TO be found in the fact that
just a year ago this time reports were
current that Kaiser wilhelm was ser
il.lsI,- ILL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

1t is only natural. of course, with
some one else paying the bills, that
an the members of the Ford peace
party should be the good eaters that
Mrs. Boissevain saws thew are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

Topeka celebrated its greatest and
finest Christmas Saturday because of
the material cheer that was so gen.
ercusly distributed by those who had
70 those who hadn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

President Wilson's birthday cake
was such large one that he could eat
all he wanted of il and still have
plenty left
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

I closely and boil ten or twelve min
utes. Dumplings should be very
light and puffy by that time. Sift
and serve at once with or without
cream.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

At any rate, the joy-ride of the Ford
peace protagonists is not a '-jitney''
affair. 1t has cost its promoter an
enormous sam of money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
TELEPHONES.

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

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Association.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
TERMs OF sUBsCRIPTIoN.

Daily edition. delivered by carrier. 10
rents 4 week to any part of Topeka or
suburbs. or at the same price in any Kan
sas town where the paper has a carrier
system.
~ ulull. one NfaT- .s-'-ou
Nv mai. SIX months LOU
BY all. 100 calendar days-------.- LOO
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CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR
The Huttig news., 1915-07-03
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-12-20

We were -
ON WASHINGTON STREET
AND A little woman
WITH GRAY hafr
AND A KIND smile
AND A pleasant manner
-
WHO LOOKED LIKE
SHE LIVED in Glendale
APPROACHED
AND Tapped us
ON THE shoulder
AND SAID
WHERE IS THE FlRE?"
AND WE ANSWERED
I'VE DON'T see and smoke
AND SHE SAID
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-12-20
BRITAIN ADDS
CONTINUED from Page One)

markets at the expense of American
trade is one that has already been
submitted by the United States consul
general in London in a previous re-
port and Sir Edward Grey, in a note
to Mr. Page. dated August 10. en-
deaVored to show that the idea was
founded upon the misrepresentation of
the facts The sentense quoted above.
however. and the publicity given 1t
in the American press and to the fig
ures adduced 20 support it. renders a
further explanation desirable.
While British export trade has un-
dergone a uniform decrease in practi-
cal articles. the published figures OF
the United States department of com
merce show that the export trade OF
the United States, in spite of lack
of shipping. the complete dislOcation
of normal conditions of commerce and
the measures taken by the allied pow
ers to restrict the trade of their enc
mics. and quite apart from the eX-
mort of actual munitions of war. has
increased to a phenomenal extent, and
this. not only in supplying the require
ments of certain of the belligerent ma
tions hut in general trade with the
very countries from whose markets
# has been claimed that Great Britain
was endeavoring to exclude American
nroducts. on the other hand, British
trade has probably suffered more from
the enbargoes on exports imposed
owing to the necessities of war by
the British government than has the
United States from the measures IN
restriction of neutral trade with the
enemies of Great Britain
+ Apart from this unprecedented VOL
ume of exports, American industry
which before the outbreak of the war
had been suffering for over a year
from general and widespread depres
sion. has during the period of hostlll-
ties. realized another benefit: the re-
duction in exports from the belllger-
ent countries has supplied the oppor-
tunitv for American industry to re-
mace European products in the mar
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-12-20
STATEMENT FROM BERLIN SAYS
GERMANY NEVER COUNTENANCED
ANY ILLEGAL ACTS IN AMERICA

, ment has seen fit to impose upon
the course of neutral trade
This the German government alb
solutely denies. 1t cannot specifical-
ly repudiate acts committed by in
dividuals over whom it has no con-
troll and of whose movements and
intentions it is neither officially nor
unofficially informed. 1t can only
say and does most emphatically de-
clare TO Germans abroad, to German
American citizens of the United
States to the American people, all
alike, that whoever is guilty of colt
Quoting tending to associate the Ger
man cause with 4awlessness Of
thought, suggestion or deed against
life. property and order in the United
States is in fact an enemy of that
very cause and a source of embaT-
rassment to the German government,
notwithstanding anythin:; he or tncy
may believe to the contrary