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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
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WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN.

Such a hustle! Such a hurry! Such
a rush! For hadn't mother said that
not one boy or girl should go one step
to the circus parade till all the work
was DOM?
Jack volunteered to sweep the
porch, Susan busted the living room.
Ellen tidied the playroom and Ned
have to speak twice to get helpers that
morning, she hardly had to speak
once!
And so, thanks to everybody at
half past nine they were off to see the
parade.
''Oh, Ellen, dear" said mother as
they turned the corner, did you feed
and lock up Kitty Lou?"
81 fed her and gave her some fresh
water, mother, but 1 didn' flock her
up. Why should she be locked up"
asked Ellen.
"You know she is always into mis-
chief" replied mother, land I think
we'd better lock her up before we CO."
won't do any harm. Come on, were
just in time!"
So they all hurried off, mother as
gay as her boys and girls and all bent
on a good time. Not another thought
did they give to Kitty Lou And in
deed, why should they think of her?
Was she not we'll fed? Did she not
have a nice place to stay? And didn't
she know she ought to stay in that
home?
oh yes, all of that, but. Kitty Lou
could always be counted on to do the
thing she shouldn't think of doing.
Left alone, she began to explore all
the places she was never allowed to
visit The study. the work basket, and
the guest room bed were all carefully
investig gated.
Now, guess I'll go out DOORS" she
decided. but how to get out was some
what of a question. Kitty Lou in
spected every door and found them
all shut tight. Then she tried the
wfndows-all locked. Never mind"
she told herself, there'll be one open
somewhere, just keep huntingi" And
sure enoughi Up stairs, in EIlen's
room there was window open. To
be sure it was only open a crack for
the burglar lock was fastened, but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
Jayh aDker lots

A swat in time, advises the Madison
News, saves nine (million.)
The good that is in you, as the Sum
merfield Sun declares, is of small use
as long as it stays there.
Did you ever stop to think, asks the
Minneapolis Better Way, that good
tines are ahead for the fellows who
go after them?
A helpless wife clinging to mans
coat tail may be a burden, remarks
the Harveyville Monitor, but even a
tin can on a dogs tail will make him
hustle.
Another funny thing, notice by
Mrs. Tom Thompson of the Howard
COurant, is that in the well-meant en-
deavor to fat up thin people often
overeat.
Honesty is the best policy observes
awfully hard to get anyone to believe
it while he is making out his tax
schedule.
Bill Peyton of the Colony Free Press
has hung out 8. o. S. signals for some
genius to invent a typewriter with a
speriscope so that the local editor can
do his work and remain in his office,
Speaking of automobile scorchers,
the Toronto Republican reports that
Daddy Sprank1e has had new .con-
.traption put on his Ford whereby he
can run on high speed at the rate of
four miles an hour. s~-
After some investigation, Joe Howe,
of the Dickinson County News. finds
that Abilene approves of Wilson's
peace policy. At least it was impos-
sible to get up any enthusiasm there
over the organization of a company of
militia.
The Lindsborg News is an old fash
toned paper which depicts the bride
as "entering on her fathers arm"
notes the jamestown Optimist, and it
confesses: The Optimist discon-
tinued the use of that phrase a few
years ago when, after the paper was
out, we learned that the bride weigh
ed $50 pounds and her father was a
little bantam with a rinside weight
of a hundred and thirty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
AFTER THE WAR.

Let America try to ina CINE the end
of the war, writes Henry w. Massing-
ham, in the May Atlantic, and he
writes on: Exhaustion famine
plague, lack of money, lack of con-
fidence, lack of faith in God and man
will follow in it's train. From the i'm
poverished and heavy-laden nations,
robbed of the flower of their man
hood, will arise a passionate demand
for guarantees against its renewal
The diplomatists will then get to work
Two processes will, it is possible to
hope, be set up. The belli gerents will
arrange the general terms of peace
But their initial arrangements will
probably leave over many questions
for final settlement. New boundary
lines must be drawn. New arrange
ments must be devised between central
powers and autonomous dependents
AS il is a continent, or rather a world
which calls for resettlement, many
points of Interpretation will arise, call
ing for judicial decisions 1t is posi-
BILE to suppose that these disputes may
be referred to a reconstructed and
strengthened Hague Tribunal But
there will be a further range of ques-
tions not open to settlement by body
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ed-the number of admissions has
greatly increased. Without doubt the
law has forced numerous habitues,
who otherwise might have been salts
fled to continue as such, to apply 70
physicians and institutions for treat
ment. Further, there is no doubt
that the large majority of these unfor-
Inmates will be freed of their habit.
The increased admissions to these hos
pitfalls do not represent an increase in
drug additions; they are simply an OBJ
jective manifestation of the operation
of the Harrison law. The report from
the Cook county coroner's office pre-
sents the opposite side of the picture.
1t points to the suicide who anticipates
his suffering as his supply of drugs
ceases; it indicates the ever-hopeful
victims who seek surcease of pain in
deadly nostrums, and it hints at the
deaths from secondary causes in
weakened and collapsed bodies. 1t
should again be emphasized, says The
Journal of the American Medical As
ISOLATION, that these reports are not
evidence of the existence of enormous
of drug habitues: rather they
the toll of a new law and
the throwing of light on a hidden
evil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCNISON GLOBE

A consolation prize is the poorest
prize.
Insurance agents like to see young
men prosper.
1t is hard to get an item out of a
farmer when he is eating.
Some pretty poor coffee can get by
if the cream is of good quality.
Self starters are becoming more
common in machinery than in men.
A boy seldom wants to be a hermit,
as bad as he may hate to take bath.
Women don't particularly admire
men who swear, but they hate molly
coddles.
No man is so great that his obituary
should be a serial story or a continu-
Gus performance.
Between you and us, is Shakespeare
read outside of the high school and
college class rooms?
Hint to college graduates: A sheep
skin covers only a small portion of this
great world of our'n.
The man who starts a funny story
by saying that he can't tell it the way
it should be told shouldn't tell it at
all.
If a strange man comes to your
town and says frequently, SCI take off
my hat to this town. watch him care
fully for he may pass his hat around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29

out or whether to attract her atten-
ton and do his best to comfort her.
His dog had solved the question by
going over to the weeping girl and
slipping his long cool nose up beneath
her arms. Goodwin swallowed the
lump in his. throat when he saw the
close to her. Creature comfort was
instructive in the animal, but he him
self lacked the initiative.
He coughed delicately and the girl
tear-wet. Goodwin knew that he was
going to fall in love with Ninian, and
he worded his thoughts accordingly.
please confide in me-" he said
power to allay your suffering. Tell
me-your troubles He added the
last words in so soothing voice that
Ninian smiled through her tears. She
liked Goodwin at first sight.
It's only that 1 have shaved for
three years to come back and buy
my old home. 1 have longed for it
and wept for it and now
But you can buy it," Goodwin lied
glibly. Il am moving out next week.
The place doesn't exactly suit my
needs. Never had he expected to
see such glorious light in any woman's
On the morrow he would see the man
from whom he had but yesterday
bought Rosebank and have the trans
fer made without the girl knowing it.
Ninian had jumped up and without
thinking slipped her fingers into
Goodwin's.
you have given me all the happi-
ness in the world!" she cried, excit-
eddy.
Not quite" Goodwin said dryly, for
in his mind he saw himself counting
Ninian in the rose gardens and giving
her a far greater happiness in love
than she was getting in the lonesome
ness of her cottage. And I was
quite right he said to her some three
weeks later, wasn't I?''
Yes" Ninian answered SOFTLY land
think realized at the time that YOU
were going TO give me this happiness,
too"
The roses in the gardens nodded
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
NEWSPAPER SYndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
Uening Chat
More Verses That HeIped.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

NAOfc verses mat HClDeQ.
The most interesting thing to me
about the quotations sent in by my
reader friends in response to my re-
quest to pass along the thoughts that
have helped them is that 50 few of
these quotations are from great au-
thors. Author unknown or clip
ped out of a newspaper" was written
on many and others we're from OBJ
scure authors.
l passed along some of these quo
tations few days ago; 1 am giving
you some more today. Again 1 ask
my letter friends forgiveness if lack
of space has crowded out their con-
tr1outions. That does not mean it
was not appreciated.
MY motto chosen when just be-
ginning life was
Our longing
To make the world within our reach
Somewhat the better for our living
And gladder for our human speech
Now fifty years later I am moved
by this That thou hast to do, do
quickly
who among us has his hearts de-
sire or having it is satisfied?''
-Thackeray
Build little fence of trust
Around today.
Fill the space with loving work
And therein stay.
Look not through the sheltering bars
Upon tomorrow.
God will help thee bear what comes
OF joy or sorrow"
Just little verse of scripture that
has been in my mind this week. 1t
may help others:
Fear not thou for 1 am with theer
My favorite is one which helps me
when I am about to lose my temper
with the home folks:
They are such dear familiar feet
that go along the path with ours
feet fast or slow but trying to keep
pace; if they mistake we must be
mute, not turning to impute grave
faults, for they and we have such
little way to go, can be together such
a little while upon the way, we must
be patient while we may. George
Klingle.
IF you would live with ease, do
what you ought, not what you please"
Franklin.
who sweeps a room as to Gods law
Makes that and the action fine
Keep a laugh in your heart.
Let your lips bubble over with song
Twill tighten your load
AS you travel 1ife'S road
And help some other sinner along"
"'It is Satan's custom by small sins
to draw US 20 greater sins as the little
sticks set the great ones on fire and
a wisp of straw kindles a block of
wood."-Manton.
1T isn't the thing you do, dear.
It's the thing you've left undore
That gives YOU the bit OF heartache
At the setting of the SUM-
Margaret Sangster.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
EFFECTS OF HARRISON LAW.

When the Harrison law became eff
fective, March 1. it was widely pre-
dicted that the result would be a be-
sieging of hospitals by crazed drug
addicts. a crime wave of national
scope and a trial of suicide and death
across the country. A month has
passed. and while the results have
not been as terrible as the early hys-
terra painted them, have not even ap-
proximated the glaring headline pre-
dictions of the yellow press, they have
nevertheless been apparent to physi-
clans and to others who come in daily
contact with drug traffic. From two
cities come reports which are evidence
of this fact. In the Philadelphia
General hospital-and this is true of
practically every hospital in the coun-
try in which drug additions are treat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29

FIREWORKS.
1ou nate me and l hate you,
ana we are SO polite, twoi
But whenever / see you / burst apart
ana scatter the sky with my blazing heart.
IL sp1ts and sparkles in stars and balls
BUDS into roses, and flares and falls.
Scarlet buttons, and pale green disks
silver sp1rals and asterisks,
shoot and tremb1e in a mist
Peppered with mauve and amethyst
shine in the windows and light up the
trees,
And all because hate you, if you please
AND when you meet me, you rend asunder
And go up in a flaming wonder
OF saffron cubes, and crimson moons
And wheels all amaranths and maroons
Golden 1oZenges and spades
Arrows of malachites and jades
Patens of copper, azure sheaves.
As you mount you flash in the glossy
Such fireworks We make, we two!
Because you hate aud / hate YOU
Amy Lowell, in the April Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
YIPPS VS.. EE-P'R.

Ypres having forged to the front
again as the scene of the most active
fighting in the western arena of the
war the discussion will be resumed
on this side of the Atlantic among
those on whose hands time hangs
heavy as to how to pronounce it.
When Donald Thompson, the war pho
tographer now in Russia, was in To-
peka not so long ago he said the peo
pie in its vicinity called it ''Yipps-"
But the Gazetteers are authority that
it is pronounced like ee-p'r, with the
accent on the first syllable. So you
can take your choice, or anything in
between. 1t doesn't matter much,
ANYHOW
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
QUAKER MEDTTATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record
Hard luck is never as hard to get as
it sounds.
You can't always spot golf player
by the links in his cuffs.
Even the girl who makes her own
clothes can put on frillS.
The kind of prosperity many a man
can't stand is the prosperity of others.
Constantly blowing him up is a poor
way to help a boy to rise in the world.
When a patient asks doctor to tell
him the worst, he may be thinking of
the bill
You never can tell. Many a man
has more polish than his shoes would
seem to indicate.
Many a man goes through life try
ing to borrow enough to enable him
to get out of debt.
Blobbs-''When it comes to fighting
for his opinions, Wigwag is always
there Slobbs-"Yes, Wigwag will
fight for his opinions. even when he
hasn't any,
Mrs. Gnaggs-''If 1 had known what
a fool you were 1 never should have
married YOU Mr.. Gnaggs-"You
might have guessed it when 1 pro-
posed to you"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
ADVERTISING NOTES AND
REAMS

Golfers fires another torceful
broadside in it's current issue against
the booze and drug fakirs. 1t points
out that this is the season when they
go after their victim with redou-
bled zeal. 'They scatter broadcast"
as Golfers says, their manufactured
endorsements and blazon the bill
boards with their steam-siren pro-
nouncemcnts that health is to be had
by getting a temporary kick from al
cohol or some other stimulant." Col
lier's quotes a bulletin issued by the
New York state board of health which
calls attention to the fact that this is
the time of year to avoid excuses of
any kind and warns against the use
of alcohol and other stimulants. The
bulletin emphasizes the almost OBJ
vious verities that the essentials OF
good health are fresh air, good food,
exercise and rest That's the way
to health urges Golfers in it's terse
and graphic way that is clever
Help nature along; don't kick at her
with drugs and booze" But it's all
right with Golfers if you smoke
cigarettes; regardless of the fact that
there are many minds as we'll in
formed as Golfers who hold to the
opinion that excessive cigarette smok-
ing is decidedly inimical to good
health, and especially when it is in
dulged in by boys growing out of their
teens, and to whom the cigarette
seems to make it's strongest appeal.
The valuable pages of Golfers are
''blazoned" with cigarette advertising.
There is no suggestion in it, to be
sure, that cigarette smoking is a pro-
moter of health. But Golfers ap-5
pears to be doing it's best to popu1ar-s
ize cigarette smoking with one hand,
while it vigorously whacks with the
other every newspaper or other pub
LEGATION, and particularly the little
fellows, that throw open their adver-
Using columns to the booze vendors
and the patent medicine fakirs. This
is a righteous crusade. More power
to Golfers finely developed punch in
its prosecution. But it would appear
to be no more than compatible with
fair play that Golfers should pluck
the cigarette advertising mote from
it's own eye before it continues with
it's operations on the advertising
beams in the eyes of others. In JUS
tice to Golfers it IS no more than
right to say that it is not by any
means the only high class publication
in the country that prints all of the
remunerative cigarette advertising it
can get. The Saturday Evening Post,
for instance, is another. And there,
are many more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
A close friend is one who won't lend
you money.
Many a man charges his misdeeds
up to his ancestors.
Yes, Cordelia, the female bookkeep-
er may be a countess.
If you find it difficult to tell twins
apart, tell them together
When a man is beaten he admits it
but it is different with a woman.
Some mems ideas of progress is to
stand and watch others go backward
Children whose parents are addict
ed to nagging are entitled to lots of
sympathy.
Every man knows how different he
would act if he were some other in
dividual.
Every spinster knows of at least a.
dozen men who might have married
her if
If man doesn't repeat the cute
things his baby says it's a sign that he
has no baby.
After society discards a woman she
wonders how she ever managed to
tolerate it at all. }u 49,
Marriage may or may not be a fail
ure. In either case there is a big
bunch of indisputable evidence to the
contrary.
We are told it takes three genera
tons to make gentleman, but the
formula fails to operate when the
third generation is a girl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
SPRING, WHERE ART THOU?

What has become of Gentle Spring
in these parts? Not only was she ex-
ceedingly dilatory in arriving, but her
stay was short. She vanished before
it was possible to become reasonably
well acquainted with her, and she is
such an ideal companion. Summer
weather has been on the boards here
for many days. And Summer isn't
booked to arrive officially until June
81, or Whereabouts. All of which, add
ed to the many and divers other eli
matte curiosities that are common to
this section, makes one thing certain.
The gent who divided the year into
four seasons for the purposes of the
calendar, didn't make his observations
in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29

of jurists-questions of policy, of the
relations between powers desperately
inflamed with each other, but not, it
may be presumed, anxious to reopen
the floodgate of war. How are these
to be dealt with? Here we must look
for some new and permanent body
representative of the powers, great
and small European and non-Euro-
pean. Such a body could not we'll be
identical with the governments from
which it would proceed. But it must
obviously be in close relation with
them and have the power of prelimi-
nary dealing with disputes that threat :
en- the general tranquility.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
From Other Pens
SPIES IN AMERICA.

Spy stories have flown thick and
fast, reading like magazine fiction.
yet sufficient number of persons
nave been cast into prison or executed
to give all needed realism to these
tales. In London a citizen of Brook
lyn, N. Y. is on trial for espionage.
1t is said that his arrest revealed the
fact that the most dangerous group
of German spies have their headquar-
tiers in the United States. This coun-
try has a secret service it is true but
the complex, underground machina-
tons which are so important to the
statecraft of Europe at all times and
so much relied on during the war, are
known to us only through hearsay.
1t would be easy to become a little
puffed up by this. 1--WE Americans
are aboveboard. We do not work in
the dark is an obvious comment
Yet espionage is the very natural
outcome of the grinding contact of
nation against nation as it prevails
abroad at all times. The spy as a
type must be highly courageous and
devoted to his cause. 1t gives us
creepy feeling, just the same, to think
that plottings and international in
trigue may be going on in our busy
and peaceful midst.-Detroit News
midas 1914 imports of hardware
were valued at $13,72S,255.
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Journal Entries

In the matrimonial arena, ideals
frequently develop into ordeals.
j. j. i
Brain flag is an exceedingly handy
excuse for varied forms of laziness.
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A road with too many turns in it
is just as unsatisfactory to travel as
the long one without any.
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Some girls have such a well-defined
sense of honor that they will not be
engaged to more than one man at a
time.
The average man is about as awk-
ward in handling baby as the aver
age woman is in throwing a ball or
driving a nail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29

What a simple minded fellow Ho-
boken's more or less famous astrolo-
ger must be. Here he announces a
star-reading to the effect that Colonel
Roosevelt is to be burdened with great
trouble during the current year. As
q matter of fact there amt no SIGH
word as trouble in the Roosevelt vo-
cabulary. What the average human
characterizes as trouble, the ex-Rough
Rider president labels as fun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29

At last she came in sight of the big
tents. She knew them at once from
what she had heard the children say.
In and out among the crowd she
slipped; through the heaps of straw
she made her way; clear up to the
tent where the big animals were kept
Under the tent she crawled, right in
among the elephantsi
And when, later in the afternoon.
Susan and Ellen, Jack and Ned and
mother visited the elephants and
tigers what do you suppose they saw?
Their own Kitty Lou perched up on
the back of the biggest elephant And
she didn't seem half as excited or as
right-Clara Ingram Judson.)
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Democracy's champions now on the
job at Washington are enthusiastic
over the prosp, ct that the income tax
for this year is likely to bring in con-
siderably more than the S80,O0000G
that it was estimated it would. They
should be equally thankful. For the
federal treasury has languished under
the influence of their economic poll
cies and their unbridled extravaganza,
as well, into dire straits.