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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-16

amounting to s761.33. By using the
accumulated interest on these two,
together with the regular SIS weekly
saving, he would at this time be able
to buy a $1,000 mortgage every six
months. BY this time he would have
reached his forty -seventh year. pro-
vided he started saving when he was
twenty-five. Suppose he continued I'M
til he was fifty years of age. AT this
time, he would own $4,000 in per
cent mortgages, and have n bank ac-
count amounting to $779-22. He could
easily retire then Figure the income
from his capital. Four per cent a year
on s799.22 would amount to $31.17.
Six per cent a year on $4,000 is
$1,000. Add them. and you find that
he receives an annual income of ST.
05I.17 or $20.21 week"
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BY SAVING SIS A WEEK.

This is no pipe dream for it is
backed by the American Bankers as
ISOLATION and described in the jan
uary American Magazine: Suppose
a man earning $23 a week went to the
American Bankers association to find
out about their plan to give him an
income of $1,000 a year. When he told
them he could save IS a week they
would send him to- a savings bank. He
would place his IS and get pass
book. At the end of six months he
would be credited with $3.50. By the
end of the year he would have
$262.60, by depositing IS weekly and
drawing four per cent after six
months. At the end of four years.
he would consult the cashier of the
savings bank and tell him that he
wished to draw $1,000 and invest It
in a safe real estate mortgage paying
6 per cent interest. The cashier
would tell him at once where to go to
get the investment and just how to
make 1t. Having made the invest
ment, at the end of the fourth year of
his saving, the young man would look
forward to saving, the first six months
of the fifth year, the following: First,
of course, his regular weekly deposit
of SIS, or $3.50; second, the six months
interest at 4 per cent on $123.SS (the
amount left after he had drawn out
$1,000, which would amount to s2.I6.
third, the interest at 6 per cent,
earned by his real estate mortgage, or
sac. This would make a total of
$162.46, added to the $123.S9 left in
the bank after drawing out the ST.
900, and the total would amount to
$2S6.35. BY the end of the fifth year,
this sum would have increased to
$452.0S-alnost half enough to buy
another $1,000 mortgage with The
tracing of the growth of this mans
savings would prove very fascinating
reading. but it is too lengthy for these
columns. At any rate, he would be
able to buy his second $1,000 mort
gage at the end of the seventh year.
After this, the interest earnings on his
bank deposits and on his two mort
cages would amount to more than half
of his weekly saving from his salary.
1t would not be very long after this
before he would arrive at the point
where he could buy the 81 900 mort
cages with greater frequency. If he
continued the plan for twenty-five
years he would own fourteen mort
cages and have bank account
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-16
QUAKER MEDFTATIONs.

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Fools rush in where angels fear to
fox trot.
Patience is a virtue. If you don't
believe it, try to collect a debt.
Give dog a bad name, and you
can't expect him to make good.
The buffer. puts up a good front to
counteract his lack of backing.
Mighty few people have such a keen
sense of hun1or as to enjoy laughing at
trouble.
Even when Fortune knocks at the
door, Love sometimes flies out at the
window.
Many a man doesn't think he is
holding his own unless he is. holding
somebody else's.
It's easy enough to forgive our enc
mics. after we have had a chance to
get even with them.
The people whose burdens we are
always willing to carry are those who
are burdened with good looks
Queer how things even themselves
up. Even when a woman's love grows
cold her temper is apt to remain just
as hot as ever
What would you do if you were
one of the lawmakers, Willie % asked
the great man. I'D make more legal
holidays" replied Willie
wigg-"For years Bjones has been
regarded as a coming man. Wagg-
He must have been coming on an ac-
commodation train, and missed con-
nections-"
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20 what glory doth this world put on
For him who with a fervent heart, goes
Under. the bright and glorious sky, and
On duties well performed, and days well
spent"
-Longfellow.
Say not that swift decay is overload
or earth. The palace Of each human
mind
Is full of trophies manifold aligned;
Each hour cleaves on, and beauty's flaming
sword
Upon the field of day, uprized, ignored,
Or loved, still flags not idly wave or
wind,
But for achievement deep and soul -di-
vined.
Earth like a song leaves last the sweetest
chord.
Since first the tumult of its myriad life
Primeval rose and ruled the ancient strife
OF things, how many steps Of wonlrous
glee,
And CLOVIS of light, and ravished eyes
Earth's solemn pageant monitive unfurled.
1t passeth thus-the glory of the world.
j. c. Saidmore, Holy Cross. Iowa.
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Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

The most popular science is getting
the money.
Blood will telI-an old story. Cos
sip always tells first.
There is more bad disposition in
grip than in squirrel whisky.
The only way to get along with
some people is to get along without
them.
Another painful companion is the
one who wants to improve all his
spare moments.
Open your eyes before it is too late
is excellent advice because of a GER
tain form of heart diseases.
If a man is travelling too fast a
gait it isn't hard to determine in
which direction he is headed.
1t takes some men longer than
others to learn that they aren't likely
nights.
Among other debts of gratitude a
man owes, he finds out later, is that
to certain girls who refused to become
his wife.
You hear more about Oriental
splendor than about Oriental poverty,
although there is a great deal more
of the latter.
After the Santa Claus theory is ex-
ploded. a kid is apt to discount
good deal of the rest of the tradi-
tional flapdoodle.
Going to school is easier than most
occupations that come later but we
remember enough about childhood's
happy hour to know it seems harder.
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tied expansion. If our pacifists had
begun by admitting the necessity of
adequate armament, and had used
their resources mainly for educating
the country towards a definite and en-
hshtened foreign policy as the best
contribution which one nation can
make to international organization,
they would not now be making pan
lcky attempts to stem a panicky de-
mand for greater defense. They
would be in a position to define the
limits of adequate armament, and to
concentrate a much larger force of
public opinion where it would count
most for future peace
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Jayhawker Jots

The less some people have in their
heads the more they find to talk
about, declares the Augusta Bugle.
! An item from the Senior Siftings in
the high school department of the
Eskridge Tribune-Star: A member of
the geography class thinks that trees
| wouldn't grow if it wasn't for the
wind to rock them.
1t occurs to the Bunker Hill Adver-
tiser that if Henry Ford could induce
a half dozen or so of the leading
European monarchs to take a ride in
one of his cars then run off some
precipice, some good might be accom-
plished
Speaking of men, remarks Editor
Kelley of the Toronto Republican,
who shuck 1876 bushels of corn per
day besides doing the morning and
evening chores and milking nine cows
did you ever notice that it always
happens in some other county?
Noting that some one has made the
suggestion that all of the liquor con-
fiscated in Kansas be turned over to
the hospitals. the West End reporter
for the Ellsworth Messenger says that
if it is like some of the dope seized
in that county, it would put the pa
tients out of business in short order.
A Troy man, tells the Wathena
Times, was complaining the other day
and saying that a man of moderate
means has little business consulting a
specialist when his health fails, for 1t
is only a mockery to be advised, with
a lordly air, to take a complete rest
and go to the mountains or the, sea-
shore, when the patient has been
scheming to find way to pay the spe-
cialist's fee and still avoid bank
ruptcy.
Told by the Sedan Times-Star: The
smart travelling man. stood on a cor
ner in -the--little country village at
dusk.--Hes was looking for amusement
and the first object that attracted his
attention was an overgrown boy. per-
haps 10 years of age, riding out of
the dark. Hello. sonny shouted the
salesman How long has that horse
been dead?' Quick as a flash, the
boy replied: Three days, but you're
the first crow that has noticed it,
The travelling man moved on to the
hotel.
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POOH, FOR THE FAIR DEBT.

Although the Kansas State Fair as
ISOLATION, the promoter of the great
free fair" that has brought such
fame in the agricultural exposition
world not only to Topeka but also to
the whole of Kansas, begins the new
year with a debt of almost $4,000,
the deficit that was incurred at the
fair last fall, its knees aren't bit
wobbly nor does it approach the future
and it's next fair in trembling and
uncertainty. 1t is full of the courage
that is engendered by success. For
the first free fair was an exceptional
success. far more of a one than even
its most enthusiastic prophets had rea-
son to expect, even if there is this
considerable balance on the wrong
side of its ledger. And while deficits
and Topeka fairs have always been
walking hand in hand in a rather r.is-
couraglng fashion. this free fair
debt now takes the form of a mere
incident, and one that the fair asso-
citation has no reason to worry about.
This is so because the business men of
Topeka have spoken again. And when
they speak in earnest there is always
something doing. They're going to
take care of this debt, they have
she ,lldcrei the heavy financial bur
dens of past Topeka fairs. But this
time they are actually enthusiastic
about helping the fair association
over it's latest financial shoal. Nor is
the reason difficult to locate. With
weather of as favorable a variety as
possibly could have prevailed, the first
free fair demonstrated itself to be
one of the most valuable of the assets
of which Topeka is possessed. 1t will
become an even greater asset
as 1t grows and develops with each
succeeding. year of its l;fe. This is
recognized on all sides. That's why
the present Gebt OF the fair is being
relegat11 to the rear of the problems
of the fair association. Its chief crn-
Germs are the work that must be lone
ard the plans that must be made to
build a free fair of proportions that
will be commensurate in every way
with the crowds that will flock to To-
pela to attend it. And perhaps the
first steps in this direction should be
the creation of a more permanent or
compact organization for the conduct
and management of the fair.
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SEE AMERICA FIRST.

1t is estimated that when the Euro
pean war is ended, American tourists
VIII swarm to transatlantic countries,
spending annually not less than $780,
100000 there and depicting our own
resources to a corresponding degree.
Perhaps! And then again, perhaps
not. 1t is not at all unlikely that
the same public sentiment which puts
the stamp of disapproval upon the
hyphenated American will also place
a mark of disfavor upon that species
of citizen who can see nothing of su-
periority in his own country but must
spend his leisure time and surplus
money to crafty the pride and replen-
ish the pockets of natives of Europe.
Possibly we shall learn AMI practice
the economic principle enunciated by
the emperor of Germany when he
said to his people: Always remem-
Der that when you spend your money
in other countries you make your own
country that much the poorer"
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
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MEMBER:
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g. Association

isg Conservative estimates have it that
SO far Germany's war casualties have
sreached the rather staggering total of
Three million men. And the smash
ing campaign of the Teutonic allies in
Serbia was not without its heavy price.
a.. their casualties are estimated at no
less than $4,000 men. It doesn't
seem possible that Germany and her
allies can stand such a tremendous
strain for many more months But
then, Germany is always doing the
apparently impossible, and especially
in the terrible arena of war.
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In presenting his credentials to the
sultan of Turkey, the new German
Annba ssador to that country waXed
Eloquent in his assertion that the re-
lations between Germany and Turkey
are founded upon community of in
ferests, feelings of intimate connec-
lions between both nations and en-
tire confidence in the governments
which assure a happy future. But
the Germans did not always feel this
way towards Turkey. Old Man Bis
marck time and again scored Turkey
most roundly and observed that there
could never be anything in common
between Germany and Turkey.
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Household Hints
The Table.

Corned Beef Dinner and Bean Soup
Select a well corned piece of beef
and cover with cold water: skim
when it boils. When it is time to add
cabbage and potatoes do not put them
in with the beef. but have them in
another kettle and with a soup ladle
dip enough water from beef kettle to
nearly cover them; add more boiling
water to both kettles and cook until
meat and vegetables have sufficient
beef flavor to taste good. Put the
kettle of water in which beef was
cooked aside in a cool place until
next day. The fat will form on top;
part of this can be removed IL it is
thought to be too much. Heat up to
boiling point and add beans, which
have been prepared by soaking and
parboiling with a little baking soda,
then boil in just as little water as pos
sible until beans are soft; add a finely
sliced onion if flavor is liked and turn
water and all into beef stock; add a
little pepper, paprika and more salt
if needed. About one-third cup of
dry beans to each quart of stock is
about the right amount. This soup,
some corned beef hash, a salad, home
made bread and some fruit make a
very good meal.
Norwegian Prune Pudding-Wash
one-haf pound fine
prunes and soak in two cups cold
water for an hour or longer. Keep
covered. Now bring slowly to the boil
ing point and simmer gently until
prunes are tender. Take from fire
and when cool remove seeds. Put into
sauce pan with one cup sugar, an
inch piece of stick cinnamon and "a
cups boiling water. Bring again to
boiling point and simmer five min
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-16
THE PAssIvIsTs, MISTAKE.

Passivists who have been doing their
best to convince the country that the
possession of effective armament is the
main incentive to war are now reaping
What they have sown, says The New
Republic. By arguing continually
AGAINST armament they have spread
The delusion that preparedness is the
most relevant fact with regard to war.
They have made easy the inference
that European nations. since they will
Aossess gigantic armies and navies
Sfter the present conflict, are likely to
attack u.s. They have made common
4he impression that a pacifist is a per-
tson who wishes his country to be with
ami defense, thus arousing a powerful
oDoosition. They have prepared the
saw for an armament propaganda
hased on fear and capable of unlim-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-16

Don't you get tired of grain and
grain and grain all the timer" asked
Mrs Tommy, one morning, after they
had lived in the barn about a fort
night.
Cant say that 1 do" answered
Tommy, licking his lips after an
especially dainty morsel I'VE surely
have plenty to eat in here 1 for
one am getting SO fat that 1 don't
feel the cold wind any more. I'm
sure that is a good thing!'
'-Oh. yes, of course it is" replied
Mrs Tommy in a matter-of-fact
voice ''Of course we have plenty to
of that! But it's so tiresome to eat
always the same things! I'm that
sick of grain and grain and grain
that I don't know what to do!'
Tommy stared at her in amaze
ment. That was not like Mrs Tommy
at all. Where could she have got
such an idea? What could be the
matter? Somebody's been putting
ideas into her head-that I know"
said Tommy to himself. I'll talk a
little more and find out about it!'
So loud he said, We'll. that's too
bad! But what would you like to
eat?"
I'D like cheese" said Mrs Tommy.
had her mind all made up what to
say before he even spoke. I'm
hungry for cheese. nice, fresh cheese
like can be had in the house"
How do you know il can be had
there?" asked Tommy
Because when the children were
out in the barn to feed the chickens
this morning Mrs. Hen heard them
talking about cheese and all sorts OF
good things replied Mrs. Tommy
She heard all about it-and she told
me-" c-Now we are finding out all
about it, said Tommy to himself
Aloud he answered quickly, How will
you get il?
you run to the house." said Mrs.
Tommy persuasively- You run right
soon, and make your way carefully
to the pantry and get me some. You'll
like it yourself, Tommy" she added.
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Kansas Comment
WHAT BEAVER, OK, DID.

Beaver is a little town in Okla
horna- 1t is the county seat of the
countyrof the same name. Like other
county seat towns it had ambitions,
chief of which was to be located on a
railroad. But the railroad passed
Beaver by. When the construction
work was finished the little Okla
homa town found itself eight miles
off the route, and a new town had
been plated as a terminus of the
road. Did Beaver move, bag and bag
gage, to the new town? Not much.
The invitation was declined and Beav-
er voted bonds to build her own rail-
road. The laws of Oklahoma do not
allow a municipality to go into the
railroad business. but the citizens of
Beaver are a clever lot. They voted
bonds for the construction of a munic-
ipal light and water plant with an
eight-mile railroad as a part of it,
Talk about civic pride. Instead of be-
ing wiped off the map entirely. Beaver
has found herself more widely known
than ever before. - Leavenworth
Times.
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That flattery was too much for
Tommy. He Immediately resolved to
go to the house and get that cheese
and away he started.
Under the shelter of the piled-up
dead leaves Tommy scurred through
the garden Slipping through the cell
lar door he made his way to his old
home. From there 1t was an easv
matter to climb up the cellar stairs
toward the pantry. Once there n
was no job at all to find the Cheese
1t smelled so good Tommy was glad
he camel
He ate a nice. refreshing meal of
the cheese and a few nice cookies he
found near at hand and then. clutch
ing fine morsel in his paw, he
started home to Mrs. Tommy l-Co1v-
right, Clara Ingram Judson.J
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

lIle &Ne"S-J
But it never kills law to execute it.
Experience teaches us things we
would rather not know.
It's hard to forgive a man who lets
US do him an injury.
A bibulous tailor may be able to
mend everything but his ways.
While passing a saloon the man on
the water wagon has to hold tight.
If a fool is happy in his folly he
should worry. Very few wise men are
as lucky
Reform either makes the world a
little better or else more uncomfort-
able-or both
Lies are popular because plenty of
people would rather believe them than
the truth.
Girls shouldn't throw kisses; it's al
most impossible for a girl to hit the
thing she aims at
Marrying a man to reform him is
like making a good Onelet out of a
bad egg. Maybe it can be done
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Journal Entries

The best judgment of most folk is
not likely to be very good.
= T. J.
Love is never so blind that it doesn't
get it's eyes opened some day.
{. + r
The bigger the bluff the more GER
tain it is that some one will call it.
+ + +
man is likely to be ideal in
woman's eye until she has been his
wife for little while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-16

AS is usually the case, for some in
explicable reason, not a few of the
unthinking folk will be sure to classify
the ten billion dollars value of the
farm products for this year as all
profit for the farmers. But it isn't, of
course. Far from it. However, a big
shnre of it is newly created wealth.
and it is by far the biggest factor in
the wave of prosperity and larger
business activity that prevail in this
country today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-16

Peace in the major league baseball
world Is said to be nearer. And IL it
isn't brought about before then, 1t
might prove a commensurate field for
the Ford peace tourists to work out in
when they return from their unsuc-
ceesful- mission abroad.
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From Other Pens
A MARRIAGE THAT FAILED.


The report that the much adver-
| tised proxy marriage which was
supposed to have united an American
young woman and a Dutch officer in
Java did not take place because of
the failure of the young officer to at
tend to the Java end of it will hardly
pass unnoticed by manageable young
women and their mothers. -..
No doubt many of them had their
doubts about the satisfactory nature
of such performances all along. The
most careful marriers and marriage
makers have always insisted on the
bridegroom being present in person
along with the bride. Not that he is
particularly important part of the
affair, but merely as a matter of tech
meal detail. Trusted family lawyers
are understood to advise this precau-
ton, as a general rule.
The moral of the affair is that if
one is going to marry it is best to do
it oneself No one can marry as well
for another as he can marry for him
self. The personal interest is lacking
and the chances are that some impor-
tant detail will be overlooked which
will spoil the whole project. Marriage
needs the strictest personal attention.
as all real matchmakers know.-Chi-
cago Herald.
SAVING THE INNOCENTS.
Dr. Joseph Baker, director or the
bureau of child hygiene of the board
of health of the city of New York, re-
Gently stated that her department
yearly has 10000 infants of the poor
under its care or supervision, and
that in eight years the bureau has
saved 10000 lives of babies likely to
have died for want of care. The
bureau has taken good food to ailing
infants, sent sickly babies to fresh air
camps, instructed ignorant mothers in
the care of their offspring, and done
many other things to alleviate the lot
of the little ones. In many other cities
other agencies are yearly saving thou
sands of children from conditions
which would produce death. some
times by changing the conditions,
sometimes by taking the individuals
into other environments The value /
to society of these saved individuals
is beyond computation The value to
the world of having such work in
progress refining and spiritualizing
cannot be stated in any statistical
terms. And side by side with the de-
teriorating and destroying forces are
these constructive and beneficent
powers at work to make the world a |
more habitable place.-Detroit Free |
Press
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it's hook when Harold went from the
room and called to Larry.
Never mind about the horse, Larry;
I'm going out in my car
And you're not going alone, either,
or miss my guess" chuckled Larry
to himself, as he limped away toward
tho stables.-(Copyrigh 1915, by Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)