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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-27

the mass of their contemporaries.
The great Master Himself was not I'M
derstood even by the little band of
chosen ones. the apostles, whom He
had picked out to carry on His work.
Even He was derided as a dreamer.
Knocked at, spat upon, crucified as a
preacher of sedition. Many men in
every age who have been called i'm
practical dreamers were really proph-
cts, predicting things that were posi-
BILE. The world could see nothing in
the direction in which they looked,
but they saw light, the dawn of posi-
bilities which eventually became real
tiles. 1t is true that many of them
dropped into the grave before their
predictions came true, but they had
set the feet of their successors on the
right path; the air castles of the past
grew into the noble edifices of the
present. Think of what the world
owes to our forefathers' dream of de-
mocracy. That mighty dream which
crumbled thrones and toppled mon
arches in the past has gone on in
creasing in vividness and strength un-
til today mankind is actually talking
of World Republic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

[From the Chicago News1
What can't be cured should be in
sured.
If you have occasion to criticize a
mule, do it to his face.
An ignorant wise man is less dan
gerous than an educated fool.
Some women speak much to a mans
heart and nothing to his mind.
Few of the wives who drive their
husbands to drink have to use whips
Poets are born-therefore their an
cestors should be held responsible.
A good dinner may transform a
bitter memory into a pleasant for
gettory.
When a man isn't willing to prac-
tice what he breaches it is time to
quit preaching.
The man who can accurately de-
scribe woman's dress made a mis-
take in not being born a dressmaker.
A woman's smile may wreck a
mans heart, but it is usually another
kind of smile that wrecks his con-
stitution.
A magazine poet says: 1T is hard
to be poor" Wen, perhaps it is, but
we always imagined it was easy to be
a poor magazine poet.
The look OF intelligence assumed by
young awyer as he tackles his first
case is apt to cause the presiding
judge to lose confidence in himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-27

with paste. Cover with sliced peaches
and sprinkle we'll with sugar Make a
custard of eggs, flour, three fourths of
cup of sugar and milk, pour over
peaches and bake.
Cream of Cheese Soup-One mar,
milk one-fourth pound grated
cheese, one teaspoonfu1 onion iuice
one teaspoonful salt dash of red
pepper one tablespoonful flour. one
e a1.o butter yolks of two
double boiler, add cheese, onion Juice.
salt and pepper Blend butter and
flour and add to cheese mixture. stir
until rather thick. Beat up yoIks of
essS, ADD to them four tablespoonfuls
OF the soup and pour into tureen. Put
also into tureen two dozen inch cubes
of toasted bread Pour over rho 500,
and serve Immediately.
Jugged Beef-Put in stone lar.
with lid, two pounds from. necIs f1,,r
onions, two tablespoons barley. pen-
per and salt to taste. cover with
water. Stand jar in hot oven for
three hours. Half an hour before
serving, thieken with cornstarch or
tasty dish.
For the Baby.
Get a store box about three feet
square and eighteen inches deem. sce
that inside ard edge are made very
smooth. Cut squares to fit from bef
ter parts of old comforts, cover with
washable material and knot closely;
these make easily Numbered pads for
bottom.
Place baby and his playthings in
side. If he is inclined to throw them
out, fasten by strings or ribbons TO
edge of box so that ne may haul them
in again If he likes
BY holding to edge of box he will
learn to walk and Will be protected
meantime from cold and drafts to
which creeping baby on the floor is
always exposed; also from fire, hot
liquids and many things of which the
little child who has the range of the
house is always in danger.
If the baby has not previously been
spoiled he will be happy and con.
tented in his little pen.
Ginghams for Children
The new gihghams are great favor
ties for children's dresses. Piaids
predominant. While the decided blue
and white and the red and white are
in evidence. black and white is very
popular, partly due to the fact that
this plaid launders we'll and is a dressy
combination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-27
Joyh ker Jots

| A foolish son is grief to his father
but how does a foolish father look to
his son? asks the Douglass Tribune
Many men make the laws, says the
Salina Journal. A precious few KEEP
them and the motorists try to break
all of them.
A little knowledge is a dangerous
thing, observes the Spring Hill New
Era, especially on Christmas eve
when a kid discovers his father acting
the part of Santa Claus
Our town now has ample fire pro
lection in the way of a new $500
chemical fire engine, boasts the Elm
dale reporter for the Chase County
Leader, and he adds: All they need
now is a fire to prove its worth.
We note. remarks the Mulvane
News, an unusual flock of golden
weddings celebrated this year. 1t has
been just fifty years since the Boys in
Blue came home from the war and
promptly married the girls they left
behind them.
Labette county folk have been
holding meetings and passing resolu-
tions that call for better roads, notes
the Hutchinson News, and it adds;
The next thing is road signs and ?
be, after that, will come some actual
good road work.
Says Click Fockele in the LIE Roy
Reporter: An optimist is one who
thinks his troubles interest you.
Most candidates for office mistake the
buzzing of political bees for talk from
the grass roots. Some guns have
about as poor a hindsight as their
foresight. And some men are like
that. go. When you put up bluff
don't make it so big that you will
break your back trying to carry it out.
AS it was and as it is, as detailed by
Mrs Kelley in the Toronto Republic
can: 1t is a mooted question whether
one should say recipe or receipt when
speaking of the combination of ingre-
dients composing a given dish. Our
mothers and grandmotherS said re
ceipt' when they didn't call it a rule"
Their children learned to say recipe.
And now our children call it receipt"
again. The dictionary gives the same
definition for both words.
Playing safe. According to the Sa-
betha Herald, the Sabetha coon dog
corporation this week had the town
dray haul the coon and possum hides
caught this fall to the depot for ship
ment to st. Louis, Kansas City was
not big enough a hide market for us.
The wives of the stockholders of the
are demanding muffS and
coats from the hides. The corpora
ton has sidestepped by saying that
the muffs will come back next fall in
fine furs that can be bought at Sa-
betha stores. 1t is so much better, they
argue to have the furs all made up
into garments ready to wear.
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WHERE TAFT FAILED.

Within the next few weeks the
great political parties will send out the
call for their presidential conventions
and national political leaders are Civ
ing much thought to the matter OF
publicity. They realize publicity plays
a most important part in shaping des-
TIMES of men. A striking lesson for
the future in this connection is
strongly brought home in a chapter of
hitherto unwritten political history
coming from an unexpected source In
his book, Advertising. Selling the
Consumer" published by Doubleday,
Page & Co. for the Associated Adver-
Using Clubs of the World, John Lee
Mahin, of Chicago, a Republican and
one of Americas foremost author
tiles on the subject of advertising. sets
forth the proposition that President
Taft was not reelected because he
did not understand the value of pub
licity. $50 often" says Mr.. Mahin.
I'VE have misunderstood the methods
of public men who were discharging
their duties faithfully. We have re-
garded their refusal to talk about
their work as proof that they were
dishonest. Such a situation has usu-
ally been due to their misconception
Oh WHAT IS lTuS "AAO
were severely criticised while they lived
have a high place in history, because
the publicity given them by the his
torian has accomplished after death
what a well-trained advertising man
could have done when it would have
been worth while. Those who knew
intimately and came in personal con-
tact with Mr. Taft while he was Presi-
dent of the United States, were sure
of his sincerityand his keen apprecia-
ton of his responsibilities. Mr.. Taft
is not our President now because he
did not understand that it is not so
much what one does as it is what is
said about what one does that adds to
or takes from prestige. Some day some
writer of history will find, perhaps, in
Mr.. Taft's personal correspondence,
or in the private papers of men who
were close to him, proof that he pos
sessed qualities that would have gain
ed abundant prestige for him during
his term of office had we all been told
about them in a simple, straightfor-
ward, understandable way. Such
prestige might have been produced,
believe, that Mr.. Roosevelt would not
have risked opposing him. But
negIecting to control the manner in
which the story of his work was told,
Mr.. Taft deprived himself of the pres
tige to which his work, judged alone,
ga We him clear title"
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without the use of the knife, and GER
tain agents are used for palliative
treatment with wonderfully beneficial
effect, even in hopeless inoperable
cases. But so many remedies that
have in the experimental stage given
promise of value in the treatment of
cancer have turned out to be prac-
tically useless that the public grows
increasingly cautious of acclaiming a
new cure" Premature announce
ment concerning the efficacy of a par
ticular form of treatment gives rise
TO much hysterical discussion and
raises false hopes that make sufferers
defer recourse to surgical treatment,
which would save them if submitted
to in time. The havoc of these false
alarms impels the repetition of the re-
mark of an eminent research worker
who incisively states that anything
but surgery, where surgery is possible,
in the treatment of cancer. is malprac-
tice." This may seem a radical view,
but until medical science produces
method of treatment that is recognized
and sanctioned by the profession we
had better watch our STEP in the
matter of cancer cures. By the same
token we may still insist that the chief
defense against the enemy cancer at
the present time is not a drug, nor
{. serum, nor a ray, nor a miracle, but
simply the knowledge of the danger
signals by which to recognize the dis
ease early and have it promptly at
tended to by competent advisers. In
early recognition and treatment lies
the hope of cure.
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were 2,12S.570 boxes, but of the 1914
be shipped, the balance of the fruit
being lost. AleXandretta also had AGO.
900 boxes OF oranges available for ex-
port, and TripolI in Syria a like num-
Der, all of which were a dead loss to
the growers, because the war pre-
vented shipment.
Added to these troubles, a scourge of
locusts has now devastated the citrus
groves of Syria. Consul General Hollis
reports from Beirut under date of
June 80, 1915, that about two-thirds
of this seasons (1915-16) orange,
mandarin, and citron crop has been
destroyed by locusts. Consular Agent
Strive, of Haifa, adds under date of
July 8, 1915, that the locusts have
eaten all the leaves and peeled the
small branches of the citrus trees.''
Consul General Hollis reported just
prior to this last disaster that pros
poets for the citrus fruits this season
were unfavorable, as there was no
petroleum available to run the motors
to irrigate the land.
These many reverses will give a
great setback to the orange growing
industry in Palestine which was
started only few years ago, but with
the resump tion of normal conditions
in Europe it will probably be further
extended. Jaffa and other Syrian
oranges have been gaining a strong
foothold on the markets of England
and northern Europe.-Daily Consular
Reports.
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ANOTHER DEFENSE DREAM.

Defense, preparedness and security
societies of one sort and another are
almost without number in this coun-
try. And they are interested in the
main with this country alone. The
fever has also spread to Cuba, but
the attack is not of selfish proportions.
Some gentlemen at Cardenas are the
fathers of a suggestion that all the
nations of all the Americas should
band together for defensive purposes.
An international government of these
nations is proposed with an interna-
tional army and navy, and it would
be known as the United Nations of
America League. Its promoters de-
clare that not national defense, but
international defense is the public
question of paramount Importance.
The defense of our own house and of
our neighbours house will be easier.
they argue. less expensive, more SEN
sible and better than the defense of
our house alone. And theoretically,
of course. the argument is a sound
one. But the proposed United Ma
lions of America League will probably
take its place alongside the other
dreams for a United States of Europe
and a United States of the World. The
difficulties surrounding its creation
are too many and complex to be over
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one snowflake after a minutes play.
on, dear" replied all the snow.
flakes together. I'VE hadn't thouRht
of thatl Let's ask the wind to helm
us hidei Mr.. Wind Mr.. Wind!' thav
called. Were afraid Jack Frost viii
get US! Please, will you help us hide ?'s
ITO be sure / will" answered kind
old Mr.. Wind. Just hop on my back
and I'll take you to somewhere. So
they all hoped on his back and rode
away.
After the wind had carried them
quite a distance, they peeped down
over the edge of the cloud on which
nc had tossed them and saw the bare.
brown earth 50 far below. Too badf
eaily playing. You're going to lave
Too bad!" said the wind, when ho
noticed where thoy were looking
What's 100 ba 2" asked the snow.
flakes, not understanding
Too bad about that brown earth"
SAID the wind. you see today il
Christmas and usually the ground h
covered with snow on Christmas RtIf
this year some OF the snow got Lost
and there wasn't enough to cover the
baroness of the earth. so this part 90
INC country had to be untrimmed on
Christmas day ." -"
The snowflakes looked at each otba.
thoughtfully. They hadn't reaIIzed
how much difference their rt,nnin@
away from Jack Frost would maxi
in the looks of Christmas The
called to the wind, Please. Mr.. WIZ
we'd like to trim this earth WIZ 90,
please let is down 7'' And of cor,-S
Mr.. Wind would So the earth was al
white after -(Copyright-C.lar "a
Ingram Judson.J
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Some Hints TO BARRIERS.

eW note with a great deal of salts
faction that there is Il movement on
feet in this country to pass laws pre-
venting tonsorial artists, also the COM
mon or garden variety of BARRIERS.
from eating onions. This is a long
step in the right direction. Here are
a few more rules which should be
adopted:
One-No barber shall take a chew
of finecut or plug during the course
of a shave without offering the Gus
toner one.
Two-No barber shall turn around
and talk to a friend who is waiting
and in the meantime slice off the
nose, ear or chin of the shavee or
any other feature of any importance.
Three-no barber shall spring any
ancient and honorable gag such as
Did you ever hear a keyring o.
while shaving customer, as the latter's
uproarious laughter is liable to bring
him in violent contact with the razor
and he may feel all cut up about it.
Four-The customers mouth must
not be used as temporary receptacle
for lather to be scooped out a little at
a time as the barber needs it.
F'ive-Barbers shall not get the Po-
lice Gazette all mussed up and torn
before the customers have a chance
to read the pictures. This rule shall
be imperative.
Six-No barber shall tell a customer
the same story that the customer told
him week before. Prize fight, race
track and baseball gossip shall be
strictly tabooed.
Seven-No barber shall turn a
mans head while shaving by graSping
him by the nose and shutting off his
supply of ozone for more than ten
minutes at a time.
Uncle Abner.
One advantage in bein' poor is that
you are never called upon to eat any
pate de fol gras or lobster a la New
berg.
L would rather have a mule than
an oatmobile. You don't have to
crank a mule up and he never breaks
down nine miles from home in a
pourin rain.
Half the world doesn't know how
the other half gets it's touring cars.
No Such Animal.
What do you think of man who
deceives his wife,"
IT think he's a wonder"
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Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE

Is anybody competent to judge
comedy?
Father never counts on much help
from sons big salary.
1t so often happens that a Respon-
sible Position pays less than a good
job.
Sometimes she signs for the Infin-
lite, when calomel is what is really
needed.
If you are a reformer take up a
collection, as gratitude has a poor
memory.
Has German efficiency ever been
able successfully to disguise the
onions able odor?
As a rule. when the bully gets
whipped, as everyone hopes he will, it
is by another bully.
1t is excusable. also. to suspect the
motives of the silver-tongued orator
who pirates too much of Principle.
We disparage no mans amateur
standing, but it's pretty easy for a
college.
1t is only when third party is
named in the petition that a divorce
case plays to a large and appreciative
audience.
Alb Adkins says he has faced so
many Christmas bills that the war debt
of Europe doesn't seem much of
burden.
A good story teller is one who can
spin an ancient yarn and make you
like it. despite its large crop of state
wide whiskers.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
Fame is a bubble. but blowing a
fellow up doesn't necessar ily bring it
to him.
The man who looks down on his
neighbors is very much surprised
when they don't look up to him.
1t is quite possible for a man to
keep his thoughts to himself without
being stinSy with his wisdom.
Any poker player will tell you that
life is a jackpot. in which we are al
ways looking for an opening
It's a toss-up between the man who
is too busy to make friends and the
one who is too lazy to make enemies.
Some women frankly marry for
money, while others are willing to
take man for just what he is worth
You never can tell. Many a man
poses as n social lion who would be a
fit subject for an animal trainer
Muggins-''Don't you think she is
pretty?" Buggins-'-Not at all She
is positively 1antern-jawed-" Muggins
-"Oh, but you should see her face
light up"
Love is blind" quoted the Wise
Guy. Il suppose that's why the people
who are stuck on themselves can't
see their own faults" suggested the
Simple Mug.
Subbubs-'Tm thinking of getting a
horse How much does it cost to
board a horse ?" Hubbubs-"Give it
up 1 never owned a horse, but it
only costs me a nickel to board a
street car
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THE RUNAwA Y sNoWFLAKEs.

When Jack Frost and his whole
army of beautiful snowflakes started
south to cover the bare, brown arth
in time for Christmas day, they tray-
elcd SO fast and SO hard that they
couldn't stop to count and see if
everybody was along. And anyway y,
if they had had time for counting,
Jack Frost would not have thought of
doing 1T, for he supposed every snow
flake was as anxious as he to decorate
the earth for the children.
But every snowflake was not
that's just where old Jack Frost was
mistaken
One little company of snowflakes
didn't like travelling, and they didn't
want to leave their play and they
thought they didn't care about Christ
mas day anyway-so there, Funny
little snowflakes. weren't they?
So they Jagged behind and Jagged
behind-till Jack Frost and his fol-
lowers were quite out of sight, Then
these funny little srosvfla kes snug
gled up tosether and asked each
other, Well. what shall we do now -
Il don't care what 1 do said one.
eff only I can l.lay!'
And 1 don't care what do" SAID
another, III only I don't have to
travel"
Il don't care what I do" added q
third. BIT ! will rot mind Jack
Frost-so there" Such funny, funny
little sno7yfla fSes,
Then, Il nobody Cures" said q
fourth, lets stny right here -
'All right. said all the snowflai-cs
and they began to frolic.
But suppose Jack Frost should
turn back and find us?" suggested
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On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

The City.
l love to hear the city's noise,
The rumble and the roar,
For it is music to my ear
And ne'er becomes a bore.
l love to hear the street car go,
For its melodious clang
Reminds me much of Wagner and
The old composer gang.
L love to hear the auto honk,
l dodge for all I'm worth,
Jest for the simple privilege
OF staying on this earth.
| love to hear the teamster shout
And hear his wagon jar
Upon the ragged pavement like
An Irish jaunting car.
L love to hear the newsboys yell
And barrel organs squeak
Their mOurnful sentimental tunes
Aud hear their valves all creak
L love the corner takers cry,
1t has a charm for me.
/ love to hear his raucouI tones
That ring forth glad and free.
l cannot stand for solitude;
| want noise day and night.
l know you think I'm lying, and
/ guess that you are right.
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1t may be on quiet mountain top.
Or some shy valley folded in the hills
You take your path, and often you will
stoD
To hear the quiet music of the rills.
The piping of the winds in branches green,
The murmuring of widely lifted spray
AS the long boughs swing,
And hear the tWittering
of drowsy birds a the great sun is seen
Climbing the steep horizon to the day.
The lovely moon trailing her silver dress
BY quiet waters, each living star
Moving apart in holy Quetness
Sphere over golden sphere drifting afar.
These you can see, and the unquiet zone
Rolling in snow along the edge of sight
The world is very fair, and 1 am free
To see it's beauty, and to be
In solitude. and quite forget and quite
Lose out of memory all 1 have known
OF everything but this.
And have some peace at last,
And have some peace
james Stephens, in Golfers.
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Journal Entire S

People who are dull at seeing the
point of jokes often don't miss much.
j. =
Even scarcer than hens teeth are
the individuals who are not selfish
j. + =
Everybody also has the idea that
other folks troubles don't amount to
much.
4. + +
The ideal trade g the one where
each party to It thinks he got the best
of it.
i. - -
A woman never forgets any of the
sa wings of her husband before they
we; ma .-ried.
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AIR CASTLES.

Some of our greatest leaders of
thought. forerunners of a new order
of things, were called dreamers be-
cause the visions they saw did not ma
terialize during their lives. writes
Orison SWEET Marden in the January
Nautilus. Their great work consisted
in pointing the way. blazing the first
steps on the trail to new truths. The
uagan world called the disciples OF
Christ Missionaries, madmen, because
they preached and taught a code of
ethics that could not be understood by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-27

No doubt now about William H
Taft not being a presidential candi-
date. He IS out with a proposal TO
abolish all postma sters, whom he says
are more ornamental than useful He
declares that the mails could be
handled just as well without them,
and that their elimination would re-
suit in a saving in the conduct of the
1,ostoffics department Of 100000 a