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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
Jayh awker Jots

As the price of the car comes down,
gasoline goes up, signs the Ottawa
Herald.
Why is not proper now, asks the
Wichita Beacon, to refer to Captain
Won Papen and Captain Boy-Ed as
'detaches? %
If the efforts of the whisky press
agents are to be believed, says the
Wichita Eagle, Kansas is out of debt
in spite of prohibition.
Officer, call a cop for Joe Heylmun
of the Fort Scott Tribune. He wCn-
ders if the great stream of war which
hens Europe in can be Forded.
Most of the girls are in favor of
President Wilson's increased army
plan, insists the Atchison Globe, as the
lieutenants will not nearly go around
now.
Now that the football season is over.
it occurs to the RosSville Reporter
that the college athletes will have
more time to develop muscles on their
foreheads.
There are occasions, thinks the
Lawrence Journal World, when a
cheerful liar is more desirable than the
person who insists on telling the Pain
full Truth.
The time draws near, points out the
Salina Journal, when Father will make
his annual harvest of neckties, picked
out by Aunts who think scarlet and
heliotrope so lovely"
The road problem in a nutshell, as
presented by the Ottawa Journal;
Either permanent roads for Kansas,
or an everlasting job of fixing the
roads-with no assurance they will
stay fixed in rainy seasons.
Out at Beloit, according to the Leav-
enworth Post, the rumor began to
circulate that President Wilson had
resigned until a woman put a stop to
it by declaring that it was false. THAT
wilder would kill him if he resigned
now" she said, and all agreed to drop
the rumor-
Told by the Leavenworth Times for
a true story: Mrs. Blank is enter
tanning a caller by reciting some of
the clever remarks of her precocious
child when from the recesses of the
adjacent room pipes a shrill little
voice, Mother, tell her what 1 said
last night"
Among the letters to Santa Claus
that the Junction City Union is print
ing is one from a little fellow who is
thoughtful enough to include the
Christmas desires Of the whole family.
After telling what he and his brother
would like, he writes: santa, don't
forget papa. He wants a bottle of per-
fume, and Mamma new dress"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
From Other Pens
BILLS FOR THE CONSUMER.

BILLS FOR THE CONSUMER.
The brotherhoods of railroad en-
gineers and firemen all over the coun-
try are preparing to make demands on
the railroads for ten hours pay for
eight hours work. The anthracite
coal miners have served notice that
next spring, when the readjustment OF
wages will be up for discussion, they
will ask for a 20 per cent increase
The operators say that if this increase
should be granted it would mean an
increase of so cents a ton in the retail
price of coal If the railroad men
should secure the advance they have
asked for, the railroads undoubtedly
would have to make another applica-
ton for permission to advance freight
rates. Any advance in freight rates
would, of course, in the end come out
of the consumer. The day when the
employer bought labor in the open
market, at prices determined by the
law of supply and demand, has
definitely passed in some industries
and callings. Workers less fortunately
situated, and persons of fixed incomes,
who realize that every increase in
wages in a great industry is an addi-
tional tax on their pockets do not find
the situation altogether delightful
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
THE NEW BRITISH TAXES

At time when all thinking persons
in the United States are interested in
their own governments problem of
meeting increased expenditures with
depleted revenues. it is instructive to
note the measures taken by Great
Britain in her emergency, says the
American Review of Reviews. We
therefore set forth below the essential
portions of Chancellor McKenna's
proposals las printed in full in the
weekly edition of the London Times) =,
together with some editorial comment
in representative English financial
periodicals. The principal form of new
taxation is a 40 per cent increase in
the rates on incomes. The exemption
line is also lowered, to include those
earning as little as 1885 weekly
($700 yearly who will pay % cents
a week ($12 a year, to the govern
ment. Incomes of $1,000 year
(S19.25 a week) will be taxed S45
annually, or 90 cents weekly Those
with incomes of from $4,000 to $4,000
a year will pay approximately 10 per
cent, to the government. Incomes of
$4,000 year will be taxed about
20 per cent The possessor of an in
come of 100000 will be called upon
to pay 17O,0OO-more than a third of
his income. These income-tax changes,
it is estimated, will produce s235, OOO,-
900 more than the old rates. The
next source of additional revenue de-
vised by Chancellor McKenna is what
he calls an 'excess profits tax, i'm
posed upon business with a very
limited number of excepttons) whose
annual profits have increased more
Ia ha r. &c
assumed that these profits are greater
because of conditions brought about
by the war; and the government pro-
poses to take half of the increase.
! The estimate of revenue to be obtained
annually in this way is S15o,0OO,OOO
Under the heading of customs and
| excise" the most important source of
additional revenue will be sugar, the
| price of which (now a government
monopoly will be raised one cent
pound. The new price to the retail
consumer will be eight cents a pound
for ordinary grauulated sugar. (This
compares with six cents in New York
| city.) The anticipated revenue from
/ the increase in sugar will be SIS. o.
/ 900 yearly. The existing duties on
/ tobacco, tea, cocoa. coffee, chicory
and dried fruits have been raised SO
per cent. Thus the revenue from to-
bacco will be increased to SIS. 900, 900
from the previous s5O.OO0.OOO. The
duty on tea is raised to "a cents a
pound (from 16 certs). and the rev.
enue from that source alone becomes
! s67. 500, 0Oe instead of s45, 900. 600. The
! reader will rsme mber that whereas
4 the people of the United States drink
coffee primarily, the English are ad-
dicted to tea The income from cocoa,
coffee, chicory and dried fruits, COM
bined, even at the new rates, is only
| 100000. Import duties amounting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
Clio be Sights

There is no such thing as a good
bet if you lose.
A man who won't quarrel with you
is the hardest to whip.
When you begin plying yourself.
others Will cease to pity you.
About the happiest man is one who
has made a success of farming.
The average failure can find lot
of fault with a successful man.
You can't blame a postmaster for
being more patriotic than most of us.
Neither is intemperance limited to
the consumption of alcoholic bever-
ages.
Patent medicines may be divided
into two classes: Remedies and bev-
erages.
If you took poison "by mistake"
the chances are you have friends on
the paper.
Some women want to vote, no
doubt, but none of them really want
equal rights.
No man can maintain an easy-flow-
ing cold and a sweet disposition at
the same time.
Christmas giving may not be rob-
berry, but it is seldom in the nature
Of a fair exchange.
About the most painful conversa-
tional difficulty is the necessity of
diagraning ones joke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
AUTUMN IN AN OLD VILLAGE.

AUTUMN IN AN OLD VILLAGE.
The great gray houses sleep npon the hill
With shattered windows, and the road is
still
The fields creep up and fold us silently
Into the white arms of the notherins sea
June's folks have fled like gaudy butter
flies,
To snatch new summers fropl serener
skies.
They fear the silence and the making
Then only go where life is safe and warm
But we who love the autumn loneliness
Stay on, until the waters blue careSS
Turns to white fury on the bold, bleak
shore,
And distant sails shine in the sun no more
Then breaks the northern tempest, wild
and rude,
And with that very strife comes solitude.
The doors are locked against the twiiight's
And every house stands splendid!y alone !,
Dana Burnet in New York Evening
sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
CHILDREN BEG FOR BREAD.

An appeal is being sent out by the
National Allied Relief committee, with
headquarters at 43 Exchange Place,
New York City, that should meet with
hearty response from all the people
of this country who are able to lend
a hand, and their number is legion. 1t
concerns the sending of food to the
hungry children in the war-stricken
zones of Europe, and clothing to keep
them warm. There is desolation of
the crueIest sort among these inno-
cent victims of the war. Thousands
upon thousands of them are in a pitt
full state of need. In various parts of
France there are French and Belgian
children who have been separated
from their parents and are homeless
Many of them have lived for months
in cellars, outhouses and other emer-
gency buildings. Their food supply is
uncertain, and of clothing they prac-
tically have none to protect their frail
i bodies from the rigors of winter. The
children of Serbia are victims of
equally pathetic restitution and tragic
suffering. Their homes are in ruins
and they have been made wanderers
in strange lands, Little ones whose
parents either have been killed or lost
to them are without shelter and cloth
ing and are begging for food because
they are hungry. They are dropping
by the roadside, dropping. from ex-
haustion. and dying. These are the
children to whom the National Allied
Relief committee would send immedi-
ate aid. These are the conditions
existing at Christmas time, the season
of peace and good will, existing as a
New Year is about to dawn. 1t is
food for empty stomachs and clothes
to cover naked bodies that this COM
mittee wants to send to these chill
dren. There will be no Christmas
trees for them, no candies or toys.
They want food and clothing. And
surely, we of America, blessed as we
are with things material, will not turn
deaf ears to the plea that is being
made for these hapless and helpless
little sufferers, even if it be necessary
that our own shall do with less.
And the King shall answer and say
unto them, Verify 1 say unto you, In
asmuch as We have done it unto one
of the least of these my brethren, We
nave done it unto me-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18

! Chirpy Sparrow stuck his head out
from the shelter of his nest and looked
over the garden "On such a fine,
be able to find some worm or bug to
eat"
DO be satisfied with the fine
crumbs you get every day, and don't
go a-hunting for something that's not
to be found" replied Mrs. Chirpy de-
( cidedIy; that would be foolish"
I'm not so sure it would be fool
( ish, though said Chirpy. cooking his
head to one side and listening intent
crumbs before the winter is over.
Think of the cold, snowy days when
we can get nothing else"
"And maybe we cannot get even
crumbs" said Mrs. Chirpy seriously.
What if we can't?" asked Chirpy
cheerfully. 1T won't make it any cas-
Ter then to have us croaking and
mourning about it now know
that"
Mrs. Chirpy nodded. She was really
a very cheerful person, but her little
mates care-free and indifferent ways
sometimes tried her spirit. What do
you think you can fird this morning -
she asked kindly. Don't you see tho
creatures who do not die are all in
winter hiding?"
Il don't know about that" replied
Chirpy. such d bright, warm sun
as IS shining today might tempt some
one out of his hole. l might" A
queer, intent look came suddenly over
Chirpy's face and he listened with all
his might.
Crit. cri-i-i, Grill" sounded softly
through the garden.
What did / tell you," exclaimed
Chirpy. and he quickly flew toward
the side-yard. from which the sound
seemed to come
Again he hear the sound, this time
close by the chimney place near the
front of the house; but not a creature
did he see.
Now Chirpy was not the only crea-
ture who heard the sound of music
Mr.. Cricket, in his safe. warm hole
in the big chimney. heard it too and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Perhaps it is too much to hope that
the suit for reinstatement in school that
has been filed in behalf of the hlgh
school girls who were suspended for
their alleged connection with soror-
ity will bring an end to the high school
fraternity and sorority war. But II
should clarity the atmosphere to some
extent. 1t is pretty serious business
TO cause high school students to lose
a whole semester's work on such a
score unless there is unmistakable evil
dence that they are participating in
social organizations which are under
the ban of the law. And there Ger
tainIy seems to be a dispute about the
facts in this case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
Household Hints
bread

Brown Betty Apples, bread
crumbs, butter, sugar, cinnam on !;
pare and dice six apples, butter a
baking dish, put layers of apples,
sugar, cinnamon, butter and crumbs,
until you have the desired quantity;
add a small cup of hot water and
bake until apples are tender. Serve
with or without cream.
Diced Sweet Potato en- Vegetal-
Six sweet potatoes, one-half can corn,
one-quarter pound cheese, one cup
cracker crumbs. one cup cream, one
ia leSpoonful butter; boil potatoes and
dice small, mix all together, cover
with crumbs. melted butter and cheese.
Bake twenty minutes in moderate
oven.
Pigs in Blankets-Dust large, plump
oysters with pepper and salt, wrap
each inside thin slice of bacon, and
Skewer together with a toothpick
Lay in a hot skillet and cook till oys-
ters begin to curl and the bacon crisps
Serve very hot-several to each per-
son.
Dried Pumpkin.
Dried pumpkin may be had for pies
all summer. On q farm lives a cui-
mary genius who, in July, takes de-
HciouS pumpkin pies to picnicS. This
is how she dries the pumpkin, the
method being original:
Cut a pumpkin into pieces and re-
move the rind and seeds. Put in a
from burning. Stew until dry and
thoroughly done; this will take three
or four hours. Press the pulp through
a colander and form into thin cakes
the size of a shallow cookie. Place
these cakes in shallow pans and dry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
Journal Entries

The crouch, at any rate, can revel
in his own society once in while.
j. - IL
The little troubles of life are most
annoying and the big ones are more
so.
j. !. =
When business is combined with
pleasure the former is likely to get
the worst of it.
= + e
M2ny women don't thoroU ghly en-
joy a theatrical performance unless
it works them up to the crying pitch.
= i -
Much consolation must be found by
many of the fair sex in the saying
that every woman is beautiful in some
ones eyes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
EUenine Chat
You Can.
BY RUTH CAMERON

81 simply can't put my mind on my
work when 1 know I've got to stop in
an hour or two" 1 complained the
other day.
Cant you change the first four
words of that?'' suggested my con-
fidante cheerfully.
ITO WHAT"
ITO I simply Will put my mind on
my work -
1t was a very old thought in an ap-
plication concrete and personal enough
to make it seem new.
There is no such word as can't in
the bright lexicon of youth"
We all know that saying so well
that it has passed into the class of
trite sayings that only humorists and
back numbers think of quoting
Yet, as is the case with many say
ings whose familiarity prevents their
making any impression upon u.s.. the
thought behind it is a force that can
not grow old. Moreover, TO judge from
the way we pamper our little notions
about what we can and can not do, the
habit of applying that force to our
everyday affairs is by no means a
matter of course with most of us.
Yes, I know I worry more than
need to and I know it makes me I'M
happy" says a friend of mine, but
I can't help it. That's the way I'm
made"
Suppose she substituted ''but I will
help it, in her mind for II can't help
it, and kept on thinking 81 will help
it, every time she found herself wor-
rying, wouldn't it just have to make
some difference in her ability to con-
troll her tendency to worry?
81 can't concentrate when anyone
in the room. l must have perfect
quiet to do my best work. is one of
my favorites.
shame on you ought 10 say to
To Ans
did in that busy parsonage library. Say
L will concentrate, no matter what is
going on around mel"
We are altogether too prone to re-
es, especially those we think We have
inherited, as necessary and hence
excuSable.
No fault is necessary and hence no
fault is excuse bic.
We Inherit tendencies to faults just
as we inherit tendencies to disease, but
we don't have to give either free rein
Disease thrives on bad air and lack
of bodily exercise.
Faults thrive on Il can't and lack
exercise of the will.
Say u will' to your fault and keep
on saying it until the fault is exor-
cised.
Question-Should parents oppose
the choice of their children in mar
riage?
Answer-Of course, if they have
some really good reasons, such as
their positive knowledge of the phys
ical or mental unfitneSs or bad habits
of the party chosen But II they don't
wish to defeat their own ends, the
had better use tact in the manner of
their opposition.
Question would like to know
your opinion of kissing games
Answer-Au right for children to
whom a kiss means no more than
hand clasp (and who don't usually care
to play them) out of the question for
young people who have reached an
age where a kiss has more import
protected by the Adams Newspaper
Service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

IFrOm the Chicago News.
Even the worm will turn-perhaps
into a butterfly
The moral of a dogs tail always
points to the past
The bewhiskered old humbug is
more popular than the barefaced lie.
A frenzied financie-one who can
borrow money from a bill collector.
Most of us get what we deserve, but
few of us are able to recognize it.
Marriage may be failure. but
there's a lot of evidence to the con-
trary.
Even a botanist may not be able to
recognize a blooming idiot when he
sees one.
A woman is always perfectly sure
she is in the right until it come to
backing her opinion with real money.
There are just as good fish in the
sea as were ever caught-but they
may be a trifle shy when it comes to
swallowing the bait
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
On the Spur
of the Moment

The Sanitary Man.
He tried out every new idea
NJ And sanitary eaper
A towel of blotting paper.
He never used public cup,
He always stunned the misses
Because he feared the peril of
The microbes in the kisses
His brushes were all steruized;
No money could he handle;
He wouldn't touch a persons hand,
a handshake was a scandal.
He studied scientific books,
And when he touched a doorknob, he
Would put on gloves of rubber
He ate according to the rules
Laid down by Horace Fletcher
He said they neer would have chance
to tote him on a stretcher.
He lived Il scientific life
And broke the routine never
He said when all his friends were gone
He would live on forever.
The best laid plans of mice and men
Oft go awry, that's certain.
A train rain ran over him one day.
The moral of the tale is this
The sages oft repeat it
Fate holds the aces in lifes game,
No man lives who can beat it.
The HickeyviIIc Clarion.
Uncle Ezra Harkins. who is the
oldest man in our midst at this writ
ing, has bought a secondhand bicycle
crayon portraits 1t will be funny if
he don't get these lace curtains of his
wrapped up in the wheel and break his
old fool neck Good secondhand
teeth with haircloth finish and second
hand whatnot for sale at this office,
Hank Tumms says Old Man Purdy
can beat any man in this country, play
ing sevenup. We won't name any
names, but we think the man who
says that is liar. Old Man Purdy
had the misfortune to sprain his
wrist while pitching quates back of
the postoffice last week and has been
incapacitated from following his
business, which is whiting back of
the stove in Tibbitt's grocery.
Lem Whipple is getting pretty well
acquainted down to the city. He can
call three bartenders and one police
man by their first names. Elmer
Jones says there is a swell lot of
trimmers in them millinery stores
down to the city and he knows for
he is an epicure.
BY ginger, if old Diogenes should
come around here looking for an hon
est man somebody would steal his
lantern before he got as far as Alb
Renfrew's sawmill. But Hicks is
back from Marquette, where he had
a steady job since Deacon Pringle
missed his roam colt five years ago.
Children Got More Than an Education.
Almost all of the pupils in the Wells
school in 1onia county are suffering from
attack of the mango. Sometime ago a
stray dog came along and was adopted by
the children, who made pet of it. A little
while later the children began to suffer
from an infection of the scalp until nearly
all of them had it. A physician called,
who pronounced it mango, contracted from
the dog. sand the animal eXiled while
the children went home and took treatment.
They are rapidly recovering. The dog
has been shot.-Portland Review.
To the Cannery With These.
Amt
Il done it,
Il seen it
Il haven't never
.sCllimIaE'i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18

With Topeka in the lead over all
Kansas cities in the possession of
laundries, it becomes evident that the
old-fashioned housewives here who do
their own washing are few and far
between. Topeka wouldn't have such
an abundance of laundries were there
not plenty of business for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
No oculist can guarantee a woman
against looking her age.
Ambition is a fine thing, except
with the man who wants the earth.
Contentment is the only search war
rant that is of avail in the quest OF
happiness.
1t is just as we'll to remember that
the best time doesn't always cost the
most money.
Every cloud may have a silver
lining, but most would prefer to make
hay while the sun shines.
A true friend is a man who will
listen to a hard luck story without re-
peating one of his own.
Some of US want our bread buttered
on both sides. In fact even love grows
cold when it is only on one side
The chronic borrower is generally
as quick as lightning, except that light
ming never strikes twice in the same
place.
Don't kick if your wife threatens to
go home to mamma. She might do
worse. She might bring mamma home
to you.
SiIIicus-"Yes, have proposed to
her six times" Cynicus-.'Better look
out, old chap. First thing you know
that girl will accept you"
Wigwag-"I believe a man should
tell his troubles to his wife" Hen
peckke-"Yes, and she generally sees
to it that he has plenty to tell
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18

Sure enough There under some
loose dead leaves sat Mr.. Field Cricl<.
ct, rubbing his wings and having n
beautiful tine-crickets surely entov
their own musici
Come in here quickly" cried Mr..
Cricket to his little black-beadad
cousin. Don't sing out-of-doors-
youl be caught surei Come into NV
home ard sing on the cafe hearth,'r
Just N time Mr.. Field Cricket ac-
open hole and crept to safety: Ieay-
ing cheated Chirpy Sparrow to snap
MS Jaws Inatv.-( Copyright
Ingram Judson.) -,-lO--- ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18

All this talk about a diplomatic
rupture between Austria and the Unit
ed States over the Ancona affair is
moonshine, and especially in view of
the announcement from Berlin that
Germany does not expect any such
break. Rest assured that Germany
knows whereof she is speaking, be-
cause she is the power behind the
Austrian throne these days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-18

DR.. Anna Howard Shaw is SO peeved
at the United States because it denies
national suffrage to women that she
SAYS it isn't fit to mediate between the
warning nations of Europe. The ma
ton has no sense of justice, says Mrs.
Shaw. and presumably that is the last
word in the premises.