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New Britain herald., 1915-01-11
STEAMER STRIKES REEF.
Japanese Torpedo Boat Destroyers on
 Way to Aid Nile.

Tokio, Jan. II. $50 D. m.-A wire less report received here says that the Peninsula and Oriental Steamship companys steamer Nile ran ashore on a reef in the inland sea at o'clock this morning. Help was summoned and Japanese torpedo boat destroy CTS are on their way to the scene of the reported accident
 The Nile plies between England and Japanese ports.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-11
SALOON ENTERED.

Upon opening his Church street saloon this morning Simon Luddy dis covered that the place had been en- tered over Sunday and a quantity of pennies taken from the cash register Whether any stock had been taken could not be ascertained. The thief gained an entrance by brea king the glass in the rear door and then reaching in and turning the key
New Britain herald., 1915-01-11
RELIEF SHIP FTOATEn

Norfolk. Va, Jan. 1.-The steamer Jchn Hardie, carrying Mary land s contribution for the Belgians, was ioated today apparently undamaged, after having been aground in Back river since Saturday. Her hull will be examined before she proceeds for Rotterdam.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-11
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Think it over; maybe you are your
self at fault.
This winter there has been a scar
city of doodle bugs, chinch bugs and
jobs.
A good business opportunity also
depends a good deal on who takes adj
vantage of it.
On the other hand there is a good
deal of criticism of the strategy en-
ployed by the under dog.
patriarch living with his sixth
wife should devote very little time to
arguing against Mormonism.
There are acres of diamonds every
where. but no ordinary or half-heart-
ed effort will uncover them.
1t seems that most straight for
ward testimony is confined to the
patent medicine advertisements.
Possibly the sawsmith who figured
love is blind had never tried to put
over anything on his devoted wife.
man who goes into business for
himself in order to be his own boss,
doesn't know the public very well.
Boys are resourceful, and will try a
great many schemes of amusement
before they resort to playing school.
Speaking of wasted time. the pune
tual person wastes a good deal keep
ing appointments with those who are
not.
Such sympathy as you haven't de-
voted to the Belgians might be eX-
tended to the delivery horses, many of
which need it.
Alb. Adkins says he is fairly familiar
with Home Rule, although he doesn't
do much in that line, owing to his wife
and daughters.
In our effort to learn one thing each
day, let US inquire if anyone ever
learned to dance from the magazine
pictures showing how?
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WW&AgN BY MIS- EHNzLHER
BY MRS HW4LHER

but it did not send Marie out of the
room as it did Maggie.
suppose you are ignorant" said
Marie, in naughty manner. "As you
are foreigner, you may not know
that servants are not allowed to sit
In the living rooms of the family"
Gretchen got up from the chair and
caroline thought she looked very an
cry, so she tried again to reach her
and take her out of the doll house
but her arms were not long enough.
1t is you who are ignorant, mad
am, she heard Gretchen say. IF you
mad the least bit of politeness you
would not treat a guest in your home
In the manner you have"
Guest" repeated Marie, almost
dropping the baby, and Caroline
reached to catch it, but her arms were
not long enough this time, either.
Yes said Gretchen, II came all
the way across the ocean to your great
country to visit you and you try to
you know that L belong to the great
one"
But your cap and apron" said
Marie. y on look like a maid, and [
baby"
Il was dressed this way to make
me look more like a little German
Caroline's Aunt Patsy thought it
would please her, but I am a guest
and not a maid, and if 1 am to be
treated as such I will get right back
into the trunk and go back to Ger
many"
oh, no. nor said Caroline-or at
least she tried to, but she could not
make a sound.
ooh, what will L do?" she thought.
Gretchen Won Doll must not go
back Aunt Patsy will think L did
not care for her. L must reach her
and take her out of the doll house."
This time Caroline made a strong
effort to get to the doll house and
bounce, she found herself out of bed
standing on the floor in her night
dress.
why, what is the matter" said her
mother, coming into the room and
putting her back in bed what were
you dreaming, Caroline ?''
Il wasn't dreaming at ALL said
Caroline. Il heard Marie and Crotch
en- almost quarreling, and Gretchen
said she would get right in the trunk
and go back to Germany if Marie did
not treat her better.
Il must take Gretchen out of the
doll house, because if she goes back
Aunt Patsy will think 1 did not like
her present, and L do love Gretchen
very much.
Very well, 1 will bring Gretchen
and put her in bed with you" said
her mother. Caroline Rugged
Gretchen tight in her arms and snug
gled her close. You won't go back
to Germany, will you?' she asked.
Gretchen did not reply, but as Car
oIine found her there beside her in
liked the treatment she received and
would stay in America-(Cop
1915, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

'"The-young puppy" chortled Mr..
Bissel as he fumed away.
But the next day he made another
appointment and kept it, and found
Paul Everett a most exasperating
young man to deal with.
Everett was not eager to make
plans for BissePs new house. His
GOODNESS was most disconcerting and
Peter Lafdlaw smiled tantaIizingIv at
Jacob Bisse1 and constantly reminded
him of the wager.
And in the end. for no especial rea-
son, Paul refused to consider accept
ing BissePs patronage.
"A most unbusinesslike proceed
ing!" roared Jacob Bissel, as he
stamped up and down his office 'T'u
never build that house until he makes
those planSi"
So he wrote a curt note and asked
Paul to call at his office the next
morning, and when Paul came, cool
and imperturbable, he still declined
to accept Mr. BissePs business
Il am not accustomed to being
turned down, Mr.. Everett" ragged ia
ey?"
Paul shook his handsome head.
ITS rather a personal feeling" he
said with engaging frankness. You
see, my uncle used to know you, Mr.
BlsseI, and he never liked you-had
some old business grudge, in fact
Don't you think that's excuse enough
LII oCSiiIAilS your business 2!
Il do mott" flared Mr. Bissel. grow
ing red around his ears
Then" suggested Everett deli
cately.
Ihen- repeated Jacob Bissel.
We'll, young man, it's no use-I NAV
as well give in and tell you to come
around and see me tonight at nv
house."
About Marjorie? p" asked Paul.
ABOUT marjorie" conceded Mar
jorie's father.
Ihen, Mr. Bissel," said Paul prac-
t1cally, suppose we go over the plans
for your new house, Ell? L think we
can make Peter Laidlaw's mansion
look like chicken coop"
Now you're talking" said his I'm
ture father-in-law
Marjorie and her mother credited
the whole affair to a kindly fate. but
Paul only laughed.
rates all right-only you've got
to get out and hustle her along" he
sald. And in this instance Fates
rlghthand man was Peter Lafdlaw,'-
copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
Kansas Comment

APPEARANCE OF PROSPERITY.
One of the reasons why advertising
has grown, so enormously of recent
years is that merchants realize that a
business must carry an atmosphere of
prosperity. The man who enters Il
business office with soiled clothes and
face unshorn, and muddy boots, is not
apt to get job. This may be due to
superficial judgments, but people
have to make the best use they can of
exterior indications. Similarly the
public judges of a merchants success
by exterior signs. a business man who
does not advertise conveys an impress
sion of passivenesS and indifference
of slow-going, old-fashioned methods
The public values enterprise in retail
trade higher than almost any other
one quality. Liberal advertising is to
a merchant what good clothes and n
clean cut appearance are to a sales
man. 1t suggests that a merchant is
prosperous, that he has in the past
succeeded in pleasing the public, that
he is alert enough to get good bar
gains for his customers. 1t shows that
he has such confidence in his goods
that he is willing to spend money to
tell people about them.-Marsyvill
acknowledgements
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Jayhawker Jots

AS the University Daily Kansan
points out: Neither a cigar nor a
woman can be judged by the wrapper.
One of the exceptions to the rule
that there's nothing in name. A
former Clay Center couple, now res
idents of Twin Falls, Idaho, are the
proud parents of twins, born recently
Life is rich with compensations, de-
clares the Edmond New Leaf, and
while the size of the loaf of bread may
decrease, see if the size of the hole
in the doughnut does not increase.
For a prohibition state Tom and
Jerry enjoy considerable popularity
says the Leavenworth Labor Chronicle
and Resubmissionist We refer to the
Botkin enthusiastically of State
Tom Botl<in and Warden of the Pen
itentiary Jerry Botkin.
7 met a little fellow the other day
about 8 years old who wanted to sell
me magazine. and he turned away,
writes a contributor to the lola Reg
lister. AS he did so, [ noticed a nice,
neat patch on his clothes right where
patches usually are on boys clothes.
1 called him back and bought the pa
per-because of the patch. Whenever
I see a patch like that let my imagi-
nation go, and can picture a woman
neat woman with a rather tired look
about her one of those tired but hap
Ply looks, and she is sitting by work
ing table putting patch on her little
poy > pdHlS. one SeeIilS 10 TAKE d
great pride in the work and as she
comes to the end of the round seam
she goes slower, as if she wished to
prolong the excuse to handle the gar
ment. Then after biting the thread
she holds them out at arms length
with look which only that kind of
woman has and signing lays them
over chair at the foot of the little
bed and bending over a little sleeper
she shakes her head and says: do
you know you are a lot of trouble, you
little scamp? God bless my little boy
God bless him. If there is an an
swer to prayer and there surely is,
God must bless the little boy with the
patch-and doubly bless the little
mother who put it on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
SOCIAL LEGISLATION.

The new states have not hesitated
to experiment, writes Professor Will
liam F. Ogburn in the Popular Science
Monthly. 1t is we'll to see these ex-
periments in summary. Oregon was
the first state to adopt the recall, the
direct election of senators, the pres
idential preference primary, to pass
an extensive ten hour law for women
and to put into effect the minimum
wage law for women. California and
Washington were first to adopt the
eight-hour law for women. California
was the first state in scientific budget
making. Washington was first to
abolish private employment bureaus
and is first in the efficiency of public
schools. Oregon was third to pro-
vide for the initiative and the refer
endum and was first to develop them.
oregon was second to adopt the di-
rect primary and California was sec
ond to put into effect a law requiring
the reporting of industrial diseases.
There were only two states to precede
the Pacific coast states in creating
mothers pensions. In adopting other
social legislation, while not the first
second or third states, Washington,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
GFrom the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.l
In spite of the high cost of living.
talk continues to be cheap.
1t isn't every man who can iurnp
at conclusions and land on his feet
In these hard times the fellow who
can feather his own nest is a bird.
The thermometer is getting stuck
up, but Jack Frost may give it a call
down yet.
Many man is never lacking in
spirits, even though he may have to
carry pocket flask.
even make up her mind without the
aid of little rouge
No, Maude, dear; in sending a pair
of shoes by parcel post, it isn't neces-
sary to stamp your feet.
over novel. don't jump to the con-
clusion that it is dry reading.
Many a fellow actually hopes for
that he never expects his hopes to be
realized.
None are so blind as those who
won't see," quoted the Wise Guy. "Ex-
cept those who are looking for trou-
ble,' amended the Simple Mug.
Mrs. Gnaggs-"Before we were
married you used to say all 1 had to
do was to express a wish" Mr.. Gnaggs
Yes, and then it's up to me to pay
the expressage.''
MY motto is never say de- re-
marked the optimistic individual.
Don't you think it's a good one 2"
mot for me-" replied the chance ac-
quaintance. I'm an undertaken
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

THE rnissus says for yous to take
the baby out in the carriage and don't
We know we servants don't sit in this
room,'' said Maggie.
Still Gretchen did not reply, but this
time she did turn around and look at
Maggie and the look she gave her
sent Maggie out of the room without
another word.
Marie had gone to her room when
Maggie reached the kitchen and Caro-
line could see her dressing the little
wax doll she called the baby
"Oh, dear, 1 wish l had kept Gret-
chen in bed with me-" thought Caro-
line II ought to have told Marie that
she was not a nurse maid; / must
take her away while Marie is up
stairs
But her legs refused to move, and
while she was thinking she would call
to her mother to help her, Marie came
downstairs with the baby dressed for
her drive.
Did Maggie tell you I wished you
to take the baby for a ride in her car
riage?' she asked when she saw
Gretchen still sitting by the window.
Gretchen turned around and looked
at her as she had at Maggie this time,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
WHO PAYS FOR ADVERTISING?

Among the interesting articles in the
Strand Magazine for March is My
"reminiscences" by the late Thomas
]. Barratt, a pioneer of advertisers.
These "reminiscences comprise some of
his adventures, views and experiences
as an advertiser, and a paragraph or
two from them on the subject of who
pays the cost of advertising, follows:
Certainly not the consumer; GER
tainly not the retailer. Here is the
real truth of the matter. Money
wisely spent in advertising increases
sales and profits to such an extent
that sufficient capital is provided for
the operation of economies naturally
turing in larger quantities. The big
ger volume of trade the cheaper is
the relative production. In fact, as
all leading advertisers know, produc-
ton is cheapened in a much greater
degree by the money spent in adver-
Using. Were it otherwise there would
be no use in advertising.
Much as we advertisers love the
newspapers, to whose revenues we
contribute so handsomely, we only
perform this service because we get
US than they get out of us-with oc-
casional exceptions, perhaps, which
are soon rectified. But what is of
still greater Importance is that, in ra-
ito with the cheapening of production
there is a cheapening of the adver-
tised article to the public
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
From Other Pens
NEWSPAPER RIGHTS.


Concededly the first duty of a news
it helps advertisers to get the read
ers' money by subterfuge and chicane,
it does wrong and hurts itself A
reputable newspaper avoids such a
course, as much from sense of in
terest as from a sense of duty. The
law assists it in this state by imposing
a fine on the sellers of goods who adj
vertise in false and misleading way
as to quantity. quality, val1e or rea-
sons for selling. But, on the other
hand, if the state were to try to trans
fer this responsibility for truthfulness
to the publishers of the advertise
ment, hostile politicians working
through prosecuting officials could
harry almost any newspaper out of
existence, and the liberty of the press
would end. The INJURY to the COM
munity would be immense, the bene-
Its trivial and unimportant Such is
the effect of much paternal legislation
The federal government has already
pred into the business affairs of
newspapers to a greater extent than
INTO the affairs of any other private
enterprises. An attempt to make
newspapers public utilities" was pro-
posed to the people of Colorado, who
voted 1t down. Measures to regulate
the printing of news about court pro-
ceedings are threatened in Albany. 1t
is time for the press to stand up and
tight as unit against statutes that
have no utility save as the instru-
ments of persecution by political foes
of particular Observation-Disclosures
Ign Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News.l
He who gets rich quick is apt to go
broke in a hurry.
Many a great man is never heard of
twenty miles from home.
Men with a keen sense of humor
never try to tell funny stories.
Man is made of dust-which may
account for his wanting the earth.
Being sorry for yourself doesn't en-
list the sympathy of your neighbors
People who believe that rock and
rye will cure a cold usually have one
When people say mean things
about you, it's a safe bet that you had
it coming.
Occasionally a man laughs at joke
on himself, but he never really
means it.
young man is not justified in TAX
ing an eye opener because he is blind
ly in love.
The average man isn't half as
square with other men as he expects
other men to be with him.
Cultivate patience. You will need
it when a self made man begins to tell
you the story of his life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
To DAN Cupn

Dear Dan-Where are you nowadays?
We used to like your sportive ways,
w hen with your darts and little bow
You took pot-shots at high and low!
We even took it in good part
Though now and then a flying dart
Struck singing home Twas pleasant when
The tiny wound was healed again.
But now the arrows are so rare
That once seemed flying everywhere!
Perhaps you need today, my son,
A modern rapid-fire gun.
The times are changed. No longer slow,
our youth are never still, you know
SO II you'd add hearts to your string,
You'll have to hit them on the wing.
But whether bow or gun you WELD,
we nope to see You take the field
For life is rather dull and gray
Without you and your sportive play.
When you your mother Venus see,
With kindly words remember me;
And while this mortal life endures
III sign myself, sincerely yours
Tudor jerks, in Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

Oregon and California were in a small
leading group to legislate effectively
on home rule for cities. child labor,
hours of labor on public works, fac
tory sanitation and inspection, en-
ployer's liability, eugenics, prohibit
ton, prison reform, public utilities,
municipal ownership, the social evil
and woman suffrage. The success of
these experiments may be interpreted
by observing the extent to which other
states are following their example.
To see the new social order of the Pa
cific coast, social legislation should be
looked at in Its entirety. This social
order is distinctive. No other group
of states possesses such a wealth of
social legislation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

Turkey has every reason in the
world to be disgruntled with her leu
tonic allies. They urged her into the
war to help them by creating military
diversions in other arenas than the
big battle grounds in East Prussia, the
Carpathians, and France and Belgium
which would demand the attention of
troops of the Allies that might other
wise have been used in the major en-
gagements. But now that Turkey is
so hard pressed, neither Germany nor
Austria is disposed to lend her a hand
They have enough troubles of their
own, no doubt. However, the Turks
cannot well be blamed for being
somewhat sore at the lurch in which
they have been left.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
Journal Entries

A man doesn't need much of an eX-
cuse in his own mind for going to the
bad.
p IL 4.
Children who reciprocate by help
ing to care for the old folks in later
years are the exception.
T. 70 +
Words of encoura cement don't cost
any more than the other kind and
yet people are chary about dealing IN
them.
= + J.
The fellow who tells old jokes is I'M
bearable enough but he's a boon COM
panion compared with the chap who
tells original ones.
+ + J.
1t may be a blessing to have to
struggle for the necessities of life, but
it is surely one of those that travels
around in an effective disguise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

Caroline thought it was time she
interfered, but when she tried to step
she found to her surprise she could
not move, and then she heard Marie s
voice and forgot to wonder why she
could not get to the doll house.
In the kitchen was Maggie, a doll
cook and it was to her that Marie was
speaking. Maggie, I want you to go
upstairs and tell the nurse maid she is
not allowed to go in the Hving-room.
She sits by the window looking out and
neglecting her duties. Tell her to
take the baby out in the carriage
Caroline heard her say. Then she
heard Maggie going upstairs and
pretty soon she came in the door
where Caroline could see her.