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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
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Salina boasts of having spent $780,
900 in public improvements last year.
Friends of Conner Davies say he
fears state health officials will order
him to treat his wooden leg to new
coat of paint.
DIR. Thistlethwaite is a dentist in
Severance. In testing the condition of
his patients teeth he is said to require
them to pronounce his name.
Petitions are in circulation in Rocks
county to recall commissioners from
two districts, who have failed to keep
the county roads and bridges in con-
dition for travel. They refuse to prop
erly spend the money.
Fairview is said to have a way of
it's own Of keeping auto drivers from
breaking the speed limit. The streets
are kept rough and the holes are left
in the streets so that auto drivers
won't dare to run fast.
AS method of making it possible
for all students to attend their first
classes Monday morning, a new ruling
has been proposed at the University
of Kansas that will make it necessary
for the matrons of all rooming houses
to GUST the young men who call, at
ten o'clock.
A Sabetha woman has been so en-
gagged that she was getting out of ac-
quaintance with herself, writes Mrs.
Ralph Tennal in the Herald. She at
last made an ngagement to spend the
day with herself at an apr ointed time.
All other invitations she refused for
that day, pleading a previous engage
ment. She locked the doors and pull
ed down the blinds, took the electric
stove to her rooms to prepare neces-
sary me ais and then got pile of
books and magazines, stuck match
in the telephone bell so she couldn't
hear it ring and had the time CT her
life spending the day with herself
A Hiawatha girl who recently re-
turned from. her summer vacation, re
ceived letter from a young man she
met while away, in which he asks her
n most important question. The let
ter runs along something like this:
''Well, 1 must get to work, but be-
fore l stop 1 want to ask you q queS-
ton which is a very important thing
to me and would appreciate an early
reply to tit has been bothering me
for some time, as I feel towards you
as a mighty good friend and one who
is deep thinker and will give only
the best of advice on all important
questions. Last night I woke up in
the middle of the night and dwelt
upon it so long I had cold sweats and
just then and there 1 decided 1 would
write today and L ask you: Whether
you think a vacuum cleaner would rid
YOUR dog of fleaS %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Your enemies are always buster
than your friends
Probably, however, more time
would be wasted were there more
money to waste with it.
In the interest of good nature, it
may also be said that it is hard to bor-
row money on a crouch.
If a man thinks his vac alton is too
long, it is sign he fears they VIII
get along too we'll without him.
About what would your salary be
if they were paving you for what you
know, instead of what you do?
Your silly streak won't get far
while you are alone or in a crowd IL
works best when there are just two
present.
When you give old clothes to poor
people, don't cut the buttons off.
Poor people need buttons as badly as
you do.
1t is hard for one poor man to
make another poor man rich, so the
most of US have nothing to lose IN
being trustful.
A man is very careful in his attitude
and actions when there is o1ly one
suspender button on the after deck
of his trousers.
While this Mere Citize isn't theo-
Logan, he doesn't believe the people
who are always complaining Will ever
enter the Pearly Gates.
When Texas recognizes a Mexican
there is funeral.
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Aye am cid But sun, thou. too art old
And thou sweet earth, on which L softly
lie,
How old thou art!
Thy long, long ages have been piled and
In centuries by thousands-sea and sky
Old am 1? Whence? How cometh it to be
That my gray hairs and body's wrinkled
lines
Should seem the whole?
This is the reckoning; grief, fear, misery,
And loss of youths dear joy as it declines,
But, gracious universe, whose ultimate
Seems death, and beyond we do not know,
Still thou art herei
And in thy unfolding arms 1 gladly wait
What thou hast for me, come it fast or
slow.
And thou hast all. Within thy bosom's
might
Dwell the eternitfes of my 'to be-;
Say old?
An infant soul am Ia ray of light
glistening drop in life's immortal sea,
Aye, I am young, so youngl My mind
doth blind
Itself with God, whose vibrant beauty
glows
Endlessly fair,
Nor shall there be to my bright youth
end
Young as the rose am l. young as the rose.
Nautilus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28

ance to the United States is an anon
aIy The issu nee of naturalization
papers can not conceivably make a
German any better American than he
is German; i. cannot inculcate in the
mind of a Slav the principles of Anglo
Saxon civilization. which are the
product of hundreds of years slow de-
velopment The process of making
an American must go further than the
mere admixture of many races in a
land of common dwelling.
The refining processes must be car
ried many degrees beyond the melting
pot to make a true American.
1t is because the melting pot
process, so dear to compIacent
bourgeoise in frock coat and top hat,
has not produced desirable type of
naturallzed citizen, that the movement
for educating fol eign born labor in
the United States is of particular sig
nificance The strongest bond binding
a nation into a homogeneous people
is a common language. Without this
there can be no community of ideals,
no national purpose, no political SOL
idarity Men who cannot commune
cate their thoughts cannot entertain
sentiments of common sympathy, yet
there is an astounding number of
aliens IN the United States in the
process of assimilation who cannot
read or speak the Tnglish language.
Better understanding of America
surely means better citizens and bet
ter citizens surely mean a better
America. The question of alien re-
striction is not involved in this move
ment.
The first step, of course, is to
teach them the language of America.
When this has been accomplished
other steps forward may be taken.
The use of the sacred right of suf-
frage, American standards of living,
respect for law and loyalty to the ma
ton, should be taught later, but Eng
lish must come first. The beauty of
the effort is that it benefits the alien
as much as it benefits the nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TFrom the Chicago News]
Men generally seek sympathy when
they ask advice.
Any first class jeweler can supply
stepping stones to matrimony.
In scaling a precipice man is up
against a different kind of bluff
Mean souls, like mean pictures, are
often found in fine looking frames.
The odor of a well cooked dinner IS
the incense of real domestic happiness.
A man should not be judged by an
occasional exertion, but by his every
day acts. -
Unless a man has an exceptionally
good memory he should not set him
self up as a liar.
The man who boasts of being able
to spell every word correctly may nol
be much good at anything else.
The reason the unexpected happens
so often is because one can never tell
what a woman or jury is going to do.
When a woman buys newspaper
she doesn't think she is getting her
moneys worth unless she finds the
name of somebody she knew In the
obituary column.
Satan smiles when a young minister
begins to congratulate himself on the
beauty and eloquence of his prayers.
A good opinion is contagious the
fellow who is always telling how good
he is will eventually get to believe 1t
himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Dame Rumor is the mother of mis-
fortune.
Many a fellow makes a good i'm
preston without making good.
The great trouble about waiting for
dead mems shoes is that they are gem
orally worn out.
If you are thrown on your own re
sources it is better to land on your feet
than on other peoples.
It's all right to be man Of prom
Use, but promise is sometimes merely
the advance agent of debt.
Good intentions are all right in their
way, but it takes constant use to pre-
vent them from getting rusty.
The value of experience as an in
vestment depends upon whether it
pays dividends or levies assessments.
You never can tell. Many a fellow
who is of no use on earth is regarded
by the girls as being just heavenly.
Wigg-'I tell you, he's as homes
as the day is long" Wagg-''Yes, but
the days are getting shorter"
Perhaps the fellow who is always
looking for trouble is in better posi-
ton to dodge it when it comes.
Buggins-"I've got a good mind to
give you punch in the mouth" Guz-
zler-''An right. Let it come through
straw, please"
Mr.. Wigwag-''Did you have a good
time shopping today, dear?'' Mrs. Wig
wag-"No, didn't. I found just what
1 was looking for at the very first
store
Nell-''No, shall never marry him
He's a perfect boob Belle-'What
makes you think SOP" Nell-"I told
him never to dare kiss me again, and
he hasn't
Miss Citygirl-'sWhat are you plant
ing. Uncle Hiram" Uncle Hiram
Salad, Miss" Miss Citygirl-"Oh.
how interesting. Now do tell me,
which is the chicken salad, and which
is the lobster
Muggins-''No, never play poker
with Wigwag- He's always going
around with a chip on his shoulder"
Buggins- a chip on the shoulder
isn't going to win any jackpots.
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new factories, even for the making Of
alcohol, despite the growth of dry
territory. 1t is however, for indus
trial" not the kind taken internally;
so the prohibitionists need not be
alarmed. The car surplus on Oct. L
all the idle cars in the land-was only
SS,O61, or less than half that a year
ago.
A western railroad which has prac-
tically no war order traffic broke
it's car-Ioading record for the second
time in two weeks on Friday with
6,1S6 cars in one day. Chicago whole
salers agree that business is good and
getting better, with the basis for flu
ture trade very sound" The details
are necessarily fragmentary. But
these straws show how the wind is
blowing. They justify the summary
of another trade observer:
THE biggest steel trade ever seen,
and growing; the biggest export trade,
and growing; the biggest crops selling
at almost highest prices; railroad
earnings getting toward maximum"
When asked: "How are you get
ting along?" American Business
cheerfully answers: VERY well, thank
xrO,,f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
Euenine Chat
It's Always Darkest.
BY RUTH CAMERON

I'm feeling better than I have for
years. a friend of mine told me the
other day in a strong. happy voice that
backed up her words.
For the last ten years she has been
on and somtimeS across the boundary
of invalidism. During that period
she has been operated on three times.
The last time the doctor decreed that
an operation was necessary, it did not
seem to her friends that they could
let her go to the hospital 1 remem-
Der what a gloom settled down On
their hearts when that decree came.
1t seemed the final blow of fate.
And yet, when 1 asked her what she
thought had wrought the change in
her health, she answered promptly,
That last operation without doubt.
I've been gaining ever since
Naturally my mind went back to
the black day when she was carried
to the hospital. 1t was one of the
blacklist days that those who loved
her ever managed to live through,
and yet see the days of sunshine and
health and happiness it has brought
them and her.
The best things of life often come
wrapped up in the most unpleasant
looking packages, don't they?
Two of the best things that ever
flunked my examinations to the nor
NAL school and 1 lost my second news
paper position.
In the year which passed before I
could take my normal examination
again, 1 changed my mind and pre-
pared for college, a course which
proved far wiser and happier in the
end. And having lost a makeshift
position, 1 found my way into work
that 1 loved.
And yet, as you may well imagine,
neither experience appealed to me at
all at the time it happened.
know this is a trite thought, reader
friends, but it's one of those trite,
true things that in times of diScOur-
agement -One sometimes forgets and
needs to have brought home to one.
We need to have the spirit of hope
stabbed wide awake by the poignant
lesson of some such experience.
Courage contradict Who knows but
the present i'll is the seed of the great
est happiness that will ever come to
you. 1t has been so with others Why
not with you?
Question-To settle a family jangle,
will you please answer through the
paper whether it is in good taste to
have the shades of the rooms fronting
on the street raised during the even
ings so that the brilliantly lighted
room and its occupants are plainly
visible to paSSerSby?
Answer can't settle anything so
entirly matter of taste as that.
Some like the shades up, some down.
In the old days the housekeeper
rushed to pull the shades down the
moment the lamps were lighted, but
nowadays people are not so particu-
lar. Personally I love to pass along
the street where the shades are up.
1t looks SO friendly In my own
home the shades are usually up in
summer and down in winter But I
repeat, this is wholly a matter for in
dividual taste to decide.-(PrOtecte
by The Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
THE MELTING POT.

America, in the language of July
Fourth orations, says American Indus
tries, is the melting pot of the world.
Into it are poured the conflicting ma
tional ambitions and racial differences
of every people on the globe. The
melting pot we are told, can fuse any
thing Into it all metals go, it is true,
and it fuses them, put into what?
Is the product of this heterogene-
Gus mixture of many races the ma
terial out of which nations are built
and states grow strong? If there is
any such things as patriotism, the nat
uralized citizen who has merely
stood before a court and sworn allegi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28

Mamie Bell? That's only business.
She's doing the writing end on my Sc
ries for the Dispatch 1 didn't think
you'd mind"
why should mind ?"
''Why?" He glanced beyond her to
be sure of privacy and caught her
suddenly in her arms. That's why,
he told her, after a minute Be
cause you happen to be the only wom-
an that can upset my life for better
or worse, do you see? I dropped
everything when I got your cable and
came over. I understood how you felt.
And when I got here I couldn't find
you, so 1 did the next best thing. l
was going to rent the old studio be-
cause 1 knew you'd come back here
some time
Let me co." she said, struggling.
somebody's coming"
Mr.. Betz whistled jovially as he APP
preached, perhaps as a kindly signal
of warning.
WELL" he asked, what do you
think about it 2"
Seabury beamed on him, his hands
deep in his pockets.
1--WE are going to take it directly
after the wedding, Betz. Fix up your
lease" 1915. by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
FINDING NEW CUSTOMERS.

Among the results of the war, of
Importance to the United States, in
creased trade with South America
stands out prominently. In the past
this business has been held by Euro
pean countries now at war and this
country has scarcely had look-in-
Exports from the United States to
South America during recent months
show marked improvement over last
year, the total for June, 1915, being
valued at $13,744,OOO, against $7,573,-
900 in June, 1914; and for the six
months ending with June last, $780,
$4,000 in comparison with $50, 263,-
600 for the first half and $3S,751, 900
for the last half of 1914.
Tables in the June Summary of For
eign Commerce show a few of the more
important items making up our export
trade with South American countries.
Thus, in the month of June exports of
agricultural implements to Argentina
doubled; sales of automobiles to South
America as a whole nearly trebled; a
tenfold increase marked the shipments
of bituminous coal to that section;
a similar gain took place in exports of
steel rails; sales of wire rose from g.
100000 to nearly 100000 pounds,
half of it going to Argentina and
fourth of it to Brazil; leather exports
doubled, and those of boots and shoes
increased in the case of Argentina.
Over 100000 pounds of lard went to
South America in June, or double the
quantity a year ago. The depression
in the naval-stores industry was not
reflected in sales to South America,
since exports both of rosin and tur-
pentine increased to a marked ex-
tent A like condition obtained with
respect to illuminating oil, increases
being noted in shipments to South
America coincidenta1ly with decreases
to foreign countries as whole. Sales
of news print paper to Argentina rose
from 100000 pounds in June, 1914,
to 100000 in June of the current
wear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
PAN-A,1ER1CAN CONGRESS.

Announcements Is made that the pre-
Iininary arrangements are completed
for the largest and most comprehen-
sive international conference which
has ever been held in the United
States. From December 81, 1915 to
January s, 1916, or period of two
weeks there will meet in Washington,
D. c., the second Pan-American Scien-
tific congress in which all of the
American republics will participate
and for which preparations have been
going on for nearly two years.
According to the official reports
from each of the governments now in
the hanCs of Director General John
Barrett of the Pan American Union,
who is secretary general of the con-
gress each one of the twenty-one
American Republics will appoint del
egations composed o. its leading edu-
Gators, economists, engineers, interna-
tional lawyers, and experts on min
ing, agriculture, health, transportation
and finance. From present indica-
lions, it is estimated that there will be
in attendance over one hundred and
fifty of the most representative men
of Central and South America, or
more than have ever participated in
any other internatio nal conference
held in America. From the United
States, aside from its official delega-
ton, there will be present over six
hundred special representatives from
its universities, colleges and scientific
societies and organizations
Already the Latin American coun-
tries are manifesting extraordinary in
terest in the program lille more at
tention is being given to it by the
scientists of America than they have
ever shown in any other international
meeting. 1t, therefore, bids fair to
attract worldwide attention and to
mark a new era in Pan-American
scientific progress.
1t will be signalized by an effort to
promote closer relations among the
American Republics along intellectual
and educational lines rather than
along material and political lines. In
the same way that the regular inter-
national conferences of the American
republics have developed closer po-
litical ties, and the recent Pan-Ameri-
can financial conference helped to
promote better financial understand
ling so correspondingly this congress
will bring the Americas more init
mately together upon a high plane of
intellectual. scientific, educational and
social progress and intercourse.
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DOING VERY WE'LL.

Progress in. trade and industry con-
tinues of conspicuous proportions In
the larger lines cumulative expansion
is the chief characteristic. Retail
merchants show a stronger propensi-
ty to buy ahead The steel trade goes
on gaining ground The long-pre-
dicted scarcity of railway cars is an
actual fact. Labor is scarce in many
lines
With such crisp phrases a trade re-
viewer of accepted authority sum-
married. the condition of American
business The congratulations, SAYS
the Chicago Herald. are confirmed by
accommodating details. For example:
Orders for steel rails to be delivered
next year total 100000 tons. Within
the last few days orders have been
placed for $4,000 new freight cars
and about 200 locomotives. Our ex-
port trade is heaping the seaboard
wharves with products The cry is
for ships-almost any kind of ships
Ground is breaking for many huge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28

nice. furry, brown and gold cater
ni11ar crawled up toward the plossoHl
ON golden rod plant and settleo
himself down for nap.
.arbis golden rod is surely the incest
,;d IF flower there is" he said TO
~ iIf sIeepily. Pm so glad m
here," And then he went to sleep.
Now it happens that folks admire
,o1den rod quite as much as do cater
ssuaTs though of course Mr.. Cater
pj11ar would never have guessed lhat!
hnd folks like to pick it too-you
i1nov YOU do yourself. Though OF
course Mr.. Caterpillar was too sleepy
to think of THAT-even IL ne hao
known (which he didn't!
G. II does not surprise you one bit
- hear that soon after the cater
nillar had gone to sleep, a very nice
little girl came riding oy with her
father and mother and saw that very
stalk OF golden rod. And OF course
as so IN as she saw II sne wanted 70
nick it-who wouldn't!
Her father obligingly stopped his
a,,+omobiIe and climbed out with the
little girl and with his big knife helped
her nick that golden rod. Then they
both climbed back into the autom oplIe
and rode on ..,,o
What became OF the Caterpillar
lust wait and see!
Now Of course the little girl didn't
know the caterpillar was sleeping on
the under side of the golden rod
bloom Though if she had been very
wise little girl she would have shaken
If sharply before she picked it. just
To he surei); and the caterpillar, being
so sound asleep, knew nothing about
the little girl and the. flower being
picked and all that
Till of a sudden the automobile
went over a jolly bit of road and the
caterpillar walked up and stuck cut
his heal to see what the trouble was.
The little girl saw him and she was
so surprised she dropped the golden
rod bloom right out of the ear-which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Ctrculac0n@-
American Newspaper Puhhshe<B
Association.

The calamity howIer' has returned
to the land. He IS all worked up over
what is going to happen to this coun-
try when the cruel war is over" and
Europe begins to pour the products
of her cheap labor into this country.
With a large percentage of her work
ing population killed or incapacitated
by wounds. Europe is not likely to
have any cheap labor for many years.
Wages never were so high in this
country as they were for a few years
following the close of the Civil war.
There will be much work to be done
across the water besides making things
for export.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28

The Massachusetts, German-Ameri-
can organization has put itself on rec
ord as firmly opposed to the re-elec-
ton of Woodrow Wilson as president
of the United States" This circum-
stance, says the New York Post, may
not go very far towards helping to re-
elect Mr.. Wilson, but every little helps.
If the example of these Massachusetts
Commandments should be followed
in other states, there is no telling how
much it might do in the way of in
creasing Mr.. Wilson's hold on the
sentiment of the American people.