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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28

vious. The astonishing calisthenics
with which he has been accustomed
to wiring our withers would no longer
serve his purpose. He would have to
abandon the irascible' look, the re-
venge is sweet look, the jealousy
look, the 1ovey-dovey' look and all
the other looks with which he now so
impudently holds the camera in order
to convey to US that he is feeling
something, ah, so profoundly. He
would have to unlearn all his looking
glass grimaces and try to regain the
natural mobility of human expression.
The historian of the drama would also
gives us a most instructive chapter on
the emergence of the actor from the
machine. He would hail it as a revo-
lutionary step in the development OF
the drama, without which. in his opin-
ion, the Hamlet that he worships
would never have been possible.
Knowing nothing of our pre- machine
drama, he would not be tempted to
draw the conclusion that with the rise
and decay of moving pictures the
drama has gone backwards in order to
go forward again."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
COUNTY ECONOMY.

A pretty good case for themselves,
it would seem, has been made out by
the county commissioners. That they
practically have to fix the amount of
their own remuneration is not, per-
haps, the best plan. But it is rather
ridiculous to urge that the business
incident to their office in a community
of the size of Shawnee county can be
looked after as it should be by official
activity on the part of the commits
sioners on only two days of week. 1t
would appear equally silly to insist
that two $5-pay-days a week would
be adequate compensation for the
commissioners. The maximum allow
ances they could vote themselves
would give them annual stipends that
are smaller than those received by
any of the other county officials,
mere half of what some of them get.
And not few of the county officials,
with fat salaries, have mere thinking
parts, they being supplied with plenty
of clerks to do the work of their Of
fices. On the shoulders of the county
commissioners is the heavy respon-
sibility for the financial operations of
the county; and among their other
important and essential duties is the
care of the roads and bridges. Their
pay should be commensurate with
their responsibilities, and it should be
more definitely fixed by statute. And
the proba bilities are that the only
complaints in the whole county
against the county commissioners
economy program are those that come
from some of the county officials who
are disgrunt1ed because of the re-
trenchments that the commissioners
would effect in their departments
There is. though, one feature of the
economy program that does not ap-
pear to have much to recommend it.
This is the plan to do away with the
Detention Home. The rather brief
operation of this institution seems to
have proved it's need and also it's
worth. A county of the size of Shaw
nee and with a city in it of the pro-
portions of Topeka, must have some
place for the temporary confinement
of youthful delinquents. Indeed, the
law specifically prohibits the incar-
ceration of such offenders in jail, even
for a single night. And provision for
their restraint, until their cases are
disposed of. must be made. A Deten-
ton Home is in no sense a fad 1t is
a necessity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.
A guilty conscience makes a hard
pillow
Better be taken by surprise than by
the police.
If you never begin a task you'll new
er finish it.
New styles are usually old ones peo-
pie have forgotten.
He's a poor actor who can't get any
one to take his part.
Probably the biggest thing about a
jealous woman is her suspicion.
A row of columns is a colonnade,
but a row of lemons isn't lemonade.
Love is one of the few things that
is never displayed on a bargain coun-
ter.
When a man does have greatness
thrust upon him he thinks he achiev-
ed it.
When a man sings woman's praise,
she doesn't care whether he can carry
the tune or not.
A girl admires a fast young man
that is, if she has him so fast that he
can't possibly get away.
Troubles and thunderclouds usually
seem black in the distance, but grow
lighter as they approach.
No matter how insignificant a man
may be, he is firmly convinced that his
superiority will some day be recog
nized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
OUR BELGIUM BoBBLE.

Colonel Roosevelt, at any rate, hits
a big nail squarely on the head in his
insistence that the United States
shirked it's duty in not protesting with
all its force at the outset of the Eu-
ropean war against the violation of
Belgiums neutrality by Germany. A
strong stand then on the part of the
United States that all rights of neu-
trails should be respected by the Euro
pean belligerents would have undoubt-
eddy made the latter more careful in
their consideration and treatment of
neutrals in all of the contingencies
that have arisen. A good start in the
right direction is the only sure way
of gaining ones end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
WOOD ALCoHoL-PoIsoN.

Despite unceasing endeavor to pro-
hibit the sale OF wood alcohol, this
poisonous article is still used in the
manufacture of quack medicines, hair
tonics. cheap whisky, essences, etc,
and every now and then some in
nocent person is killed or made blind
from its effects, declares the Journal
of the American Medical Association.
Recently three persons died and two
others We're made completely blind
from drinking a cordial made partly
of wood alcohol. 1t is not generally
known that poisonous symptoms fol-
low its external application, as well as
from taking il into the stomach Thus
rubbing the body with it after Turk
ish or other baths. burning it in al
cohoT' lamps, using it for vanishing
pianos. beer-vats. small rooms, etc.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
Journal Entries

A fish fan asks of the Atchison
Globe: Did it ever occur to you that
for many. many years the fish hook
has never been improved?
In the Kansas unusual name con-
test, Mr. Yarslav Baxa of Cuba, Re
public county, would seem to be a
strong contender for the high honOrs.
It's been noticed by the Concordia
Blade that many men have regular
self-starters at meal time, but when
work looms up they develop tire trou
BILE.
According to the Burlington Repub-
lican, a lawn keeps a man busy all
of his spare time if he mows it him
self, and keeps him broke if he hires
it moved.
Bill Berridge tells the Soldier Clip
per: The greatest April fool joke
worked on me was in August, 1915,
when my oats that looked like they
would make 40 bushels to the acre
only made four bushels.
1t would pay some of our farmer
friends who happen to own some of
the low lands, urges w. L. Dickey in
the Lyons Republican, to put out
field of rice. 1t takes a lot of water
and is said to yield good returns.
Texas is being harassed along her
borders by storms and Mexicans,
notes the Liberal News, and it adds:
If she could handle the storms as
easily as the Mexicans there wouldn't
They are telling this story on one
of the Minneapolis doctors, accord
ing to the Minneapolis Better Way:
He had been attending a very sick pa
tient and one morning he went to the
house and inquired of the nurse how
mis- temperature was that morning.
Indeed, SIR she answered, 81 would
not like to say. He died last night"
"All my efforts to be useful around
home come to naught,'' walled a May
eta man recently to the Mayetta
Herald. 1.-THE other day it entered my
head to do the family washing. But
because 1 put tea towels in the wash
ing machine with white clothes and
later put in colOred clothes with white
clothes and still later washed the
dishes with water I took from the
washing machine after the washing
was done, my wife ordered me to leave
the premises"
Automobile drivers tell lots of
stories about people holding them up
when they have to be pulled out of
mud holes, but the facts are they get
pulled out for nothing oftener than
they are charged for It, says the
Frankfort Index, and it Goes on: But
we heard of a fellow the other day
who was stuck in a mud hole, and a
boy came running up and offered to
pull him out for So. After trying to
do so, the auto driver finally told him
to get his team. The boy went back
of a bunch of willows and brought
them out already harneSsed. The
man asked him how many cars he
had pulled out that day and he said
worked at it day and night. Just
during the day, the boy said, as he
had to haul water at night to put in
the mud hole
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
Globe Sights
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

Occasionally one encounters an IN
usual drunk, who admits it.
There must be something more than
long hair to the head of a genius.
Some men only get into trouble
when they try to do someone else a
favor
Revenge may be sweet and all that.
but too much sweet stuff isn't good
for one.
Young turkeys and the bush league
have the hardest time getting through
the summer.
Has anyone yet decided which is
the worst for the health. the cigaret
or the corset?
Parents obey the children better
than they used TO, although there is
still soma complaint.
When referring to this as the Land
of the Free, a married man makes
certain mental reservations.
The Bum Sports club continues to
grow faster than any of the other we'll
known fraternal organizations.
a spendthrift is apt to think he will
finally discover q gold mine or an oil
we'll and there is no use saving
money
Alb Adkins says many a man who
could support q family has cracked
under the additional strain of sus-
tanning u town COW.
Rufe Hoskins says he spent one
summer in a mining camp which was
so rough the ordinary fighting name
was something of a pet term
If your mule was struck with light
ming and turned crazy, what would
you do with the critter? A mule in
its right mind is none too reasonable.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

CFrom the Philadelphia Record
Money makes the mare go, but you
can't get gasoline for nothing, either
Knowledge is power, but sometimes
a man can't get a job because he
knows too much.
The race is not always to the swift.
Those who marry in haste generally
pay alimony at leisure.
1t may be cheaper to move than to
pay rent, but sometimes the chess
player hesitates to do either.
Life is like a ball game. 1t isn't
every fellow who makes a hit that can
bring run over the plate.
The only aim in life some people
seem to have is to throw stones at
other people who live in glass houses
First Stock ambler-"I don't be-
lieve Dashaway is long for this earth"
Second Stock Gambler-"Yes, and I
rather imagine he is short on futures,
too"
''AlI the worlds a stage" quoted the
Wise Guy. And all the men and
women are at the mercy of the ticket
spectators" paraphrased the Simple
Mug.
Tommy-"Pop, what is a dip1o-
mat?" Tommy's Pop-"A diplomat,
my son, is a man who doesn't say
everything he thinks, or think every
thing he says
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
III MOVIES HAD COME FIRST.

I'VE can well imagine that gener-
alton brought up exclusively on NOV
ing pictures would hail the sudden
introduction of the actual performer
as a great invention says the New
Republic. and it continues: $50 sim
pie and logical a step would seem to
them truly marvellous At first the
bodily presence of the actor might
seem to them almost too oppressive,
as we now feel it to be when we sit
close up on Shakespearean platform
stage. but they would soon wonder
why they had been SO long content to
blink at animated photographs The
effect upon the actor would be most
salutary. He would soon find that he
was making himself Niaughably OBJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
Kansas Comment
GERMAN EFFICIENCY.

Eleven days after Leopold of Ba-
varia marched into Warsaw, German
organization, system and energy had
a through railroad line in operation
from Warsaw to Lille, the western
frontier one thousand miles away.
This is another victory for German
enterprise which has been as notice
able in her transportation off armies
and supplies as in her artillery bonn
bardments In the game of railroads
Germany has outplayed her enemies.
This I4ille-Warsaw line which now
carries an express, is a mechanlcal
feat of no small order. So complete
was her organization ana etrlclent her
corps of engineers that army corps
were moved as by magic. The ultl-
mate outcome of the war will not take
away the triumphS of German engl-
neering.-Salina Journal
FOREsHADOws A PEACE MOVE.
The government of Holland has re-
newed diplomatic relations with the
vatican after a severance of great
many years. 1t has sent one of its
very eminent statesmen to Rome with
a message of friendship to the pope.
ceeding in Europe, as it indicates
that Queen Wilhelmina wishes, in
conjunction with Pope Benedict, to
make an offer of mediation for peace
to the warning powers 1t is also said
that when proposals for peace are
made, Queen Wilhelmina, who is a.
Protestant, desires to invite the Peace
congress to sit at The Hague and
wants to be in a position to invite
the pope to attend it. European gos-
sip very strongly inclines to the belief
that the action of Holland forecasts
ton of peace in Europe.-Wichita
Beacon.
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Thanks for Reading the Column, Any
EU ening Chat
An Unusual Vacation,
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Not long ago I wrote of a wife who
went away for her vacation alone,
leaving her husband at home to look
after their three children. You will
remember that it was his suggestion,
made because he realized how tired
and worn she was.
Now she is back. Not only rested
and Refrigerated, but with a fresh
viewpoint She declares that she had
become stale both as a wife and q
mother, although she never realized it
before she got away by herself
Little things her children did both
cred her beyond all reason. This was
not because she was a poor mother,
but because she was such good one.
She was with her children or thinking
about them continually. She was lit
orally too close to her subject. She
needed to get away to get fresh per-
spective.
OF course she returned to them
hungry for them. She had not been
gone day before she wanted to come
home to them. But she did not give
in, although they were never far from
her mind. She thought of little tricks
the children had, some cunning, and
others not cunning. She missed
even the latter, thinking of them low
ingly and sympathetically, much more
so than usual.
In other words, she had opportunity
to stand aside and, while renewing her
own reservoirs of vitality, get a fresh,
embarrassed view of her children and
her relations with them.
Even more than all this is the sym
pathy and understanding that her hus-
band now has for her problems. For
two weeks he had all the care of the
children He took their mothers place
during that time and assumed, as best
he could, her relationship to them. He
knows from experience just what her
daily routine is and how much she has
to bear with.
Nevertheless he enjoyed his vaca-
ton. Like a great many Otherr faith
ers, his intimacy with the children has
been confined to the time he could
spare them on Sundays and holidays.
He never had chance to become
really and truly intimate with them,
in the way a mother always is.
The two weeks spent in trips to the
beach, walks in the woods, car rides
and picnics comprised one of the most
enjoyable vacations he ever spent 1t
was change for him to be with the
children, just as it was a change for
the mother to- be away from them.
It was, of course, an unusual way
to spend vacation. And not the least
unusual phase of it was the benefit
that all concerned derived from it!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28

And the fact that the Golfers of the
federal treasury are brlging as never
before with funds collected by the in
ternal revenue route is also excellent
testimony of the cleverness of the
Democratic statesmen in picking the
pockets of the people. Everybody in
the land contributes his bit to the in
ternal revenue collections, some more
others less, but everybody something.
1t IS the greatest little system of fitch
ing taxes from the people without
them always realizing they are thus
being operated upon, that the poll
ticians have ever been able to invent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28

Els the missues gomez said the
head.
Dolly looked hard. The face was
familiar, yet
A hand went up and removed the
headpiece.
Mr.. Davisi" gasped Dolly.
That same" said Mr.. Davis, show
ing the rest of himself in complete po-
Hceman's uniform, as he stepped in
side and closed the door.
Faith, it's a beau you're havin',
Dolly. I've come to call on the cook
and thank her for havin' SIGH illigant
meals
Dorothy's head was buzzing. "But
but I'm not really the cook, Mr..
Davis!"
NOW isn't that funny, though. I'm
not really a policeman, either. But
you wouldn't come into the parlor to
talk to me, so 1 had to hunt you up
out herei"
How did you find out who 1 am %
"By the picture on the parlor table,
mavourneen."
Cook sat down weakly. Policeman
sat down socially. And that was
where Aunt Bertha and Brother Bob
found them, chatting for dear life. a
few minutes later.-(Copyright 1915,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
Jayh owker Jots

1t ought not to take long for most
people to collect their thoughts.
+ 1. =
Most of the -'overworked' people
are merely that way in their magma
lions.
+ + +
Life without q few hardships would
soon become monotonously uninterest-
ing.
Most of the folk who worry over the
''eXtrava gance'' incident to the possess
sion of automobiles don't own any.
- = p
Many of the returned vacatiOniStS
are now figuring it out that they could
have spent the money at home to bet
ter advantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
On the Spur
of the Moment
Some OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Job.
BY ROY X. MOULTON.

Some President-Some Job.
When Wilson goes to take a ride
Upon the Chespeake's foaming tide,
A wireless summons him right back
10 his old presidential shack,
For things have broke in Mexico
When Wilson goes out to the links
To stretch his legs and shake the kinks,
He gets a call to hurry home,
A cables been received from Rome,
Or someone's phoned from Kokomo.
When Wilson goes out for a walk
Around the block. behind him stalk
Three messengers in haste to say
That he must come back right away,
The country needs him mighty quick.
When Wilson sits down to a meal
He hears the White House phone bell peal.
The cabinet must meet at once,
The Kaiser is performing stunts,
Or oh Bulls thrown a brick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
QUIT YOUR KNOCKING.

Put the hammer in the locker;
Hide the sounding board likewise:
Any one can be a knocker;
Any one can criticise
Cultivate a manner winning
Though it hurts your face to smile
And seems awkward in beginning;
Be booster for awhile.
Let the blacksmith do the pounding;
That's the way he draws his pay
You don't get a cent for bounding
Saint and sinner night and day.
Just for solid satisfaction
Drop a kind word in the slot
And l warrant you'll get action
On your effort ON the spot.
kindness every time beats kicking;
DO not waste your time in picking
tIaWs with brothers who are down.
And it isn't so distressing
If you give a little boost
10 the man the fates are pressing
when the chicks come home to roost.
-Fredonia Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
KITTY LOU HAS THE TooTHACHE.

Poor little Kitty Lou was in trouble.
She didn't feel like playing, she
wasn't hungry, she had no idea what
was the matter. She only knew that
her head felt ten sizes too big for her
and that she couldn't eat bit with
out the most dreadful pain How she
did wish that somebody would find
out what the matter was, and help
heri
She went to her little mistress and
softly rubbed her nose against her
dress But Mary Jane was busy with
a brand new doll, so she merely
reached down and stroked Kitty Lou
a time or two-that was ALI
Ned, to whom Kitty Lou appealed
next, only laughed when Kitty Lou
rubbed her head and cried dismally.
mo, sir, you don't fool me again,
Kitty Lou," he exclaimed laughingly.
fused last week. And how stopped
my work to see if I could help you
only to find that all you wanted was
a rompt You can't fool me again the
same wayi" And Ned went on with
his whiting
That was just the trouble Kitty
Lou was so mischievous and so frolic-
some that usually all she thought of
was a romp. Now that she really
wanted and needed help, no one would
take her seriously.
She stood on the front porch a
while, grinding her teeth together and
finding that that only made matters
worse. Then she sat down on her pill
low near the porch swing and cried
and cried.
Before very long, Mary James
mother came out on the porch with
her mending basket ready for an
hours work. "Oh, Kitty LouY' she
exclaimed when she heard the kittens
mournful crying, aren't you ashamed
to cry like that2''
But Kitty Lou only cried harder.
How am 1 to work with you acting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
Up with the Times.

U1yssus S. Grant was elected Presi-
dent of the United States in Novem-
Der, 1868 In the far interior of Afri
ca, in the region of the equatorial
lakes, educated man, anxious to
know the news of the world and to
hear from his relatives and friends,
David Livingstone learned that the
Union General had become the head
of the Republic, Just three years after
his election to office.
A British explorer and elephant
hunter now in the heart of Africa, in
the French equatorial section, 5000
miles from the coast of Ireland, knew
a few hours after she sank that the
Lusitania had been torpedoed. In
that remote portion of what a half
century ago was called the Dark Con-
tinent, by the payment of francs a
month, he gets daily reports from the
battlefields of Europe. He writes that
elephants and giraffes sometimes car
ry off the wires around their necks,
and occasionally upset the iron stand
ards, and that once in a while a tor
nadO puts the wireless out of commiss
ion, but there are alternate routes
over which news may come, and that
both seldom are interrupted at the
same time, Indeed, he declares: 'It
would not surprise me, while IN the
act of shooting an elephant, to hear
a voice from the clouds, --latest war
news from the 'front.'"
Stanley found Livingstone and told
him the news" of the world. News
that was then three years old, late
in 1871: now, after less than forty
four years, the cable, the telegraph,
and the wireless tell the hunter far be-
yond what society calls civilization"
the chief facts of a days history be-
become a vast whispering CELERY
Boston Herald
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may induce slow and often unsuspect-
ed but serious damage to the digestion,
sight, and nervous system. The man
ufacturers of wood alcohol have sue
ceeded in removing the unpleasant
odor and taste, Disgusting it in this
way to facilitate its sale; but it's
poisonous properties are still there,
and this "deodorized" alcohol under
whatsoever name it may be called
should not be purchased for domestic
use. 1t should be the self imposed
duty of every citizen, not only to alb
stain from using the poison himself,
but to use his influence in bringing
about a law to stop it's manufacture
and sale. All preparations contain
ing this ingredient should be put in
the list of poisons, and labeled with
the skull and cross-bones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28

Hoity-toityl General Leonard Wood
is given an official slap on the wrist
by Mr.. Garrison, the secretary of war,
because he was so careless as to per-
NIT Colonel Roosevelt to address the
citizen-soldiers at Plattsburg the other
day. And thus is krocked into a
cooked hat our proud boast that this
is a land of free speech.