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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.1

[F'rom the Chicago News.]
There's no harder work than doing
nothing.
We admire good talker who
knows when to shut up.
Whisky browns some troubles-and
floats a lot more. t.E
It's nice to live in the country-nice
for your city relations.
If you would flatter a married man
tell him he doesn't look it.
Don't overstep yourself in trying to
put your best foot forward.
Fishing for husbands or fish is
much the same. The big ones get
away.
When a man begins to go down hill
his neighbors usually get busy and
push.
No matter how bad a man may be.
there is one woman who can find
some good in him.
Why it flatters a woman to be told
that she looks like an actress is more
than a man can understand.
Grass is naturally green, but after
a man has bumped up against grass
widow he is apt to imagine he is col
or blind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17

dred horses. His cowboys had pur-
sued him and there had been a run
ming fight. Five men lay dead down
the wash, their faces upturned to the
sunlight. 1t had been decided best
for the community at large to drive
every last Mexican back over the line.
And they had heard that Bob had a
couple there.
Yes, 1 have Bob said calmly.
THE young lady 1 am going to marry
and her brother. What you got to
say to that, Curly?"
Dolores heard and her hand
reached out for Cts.
you got all the horses back %
asked Bob. Curly grinned reminis-
Gently.
yep. And some of theirs. too"
"Then drop it. These are my
guests" He stood watching the boys
ride on, and Baeza came toward him.
''They would have shot me, yes?" he
asked genially. You are very kind,
senior. very faithful. I am no bandit.
no revolutionist. 1 have been plum
dered alike by Villa and the others.
1t has been peace here at your ranch.
have fingered because / love your
sister. I have already told her, but
she is loyal and tender-hearted. She
will not leave you alone she says"
Bob leaned back his head and
laughed.
'I got the same answer last night
from Dolores, but still I got her
promise. You are slow, Baeza Go
tell her now we will make it a double
wedding. "-(Copyright, 1915, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17

plication, and the most obdurate trou-
bles yield in time to its persistent USE
Humor will disinfect and heal innum-
cradle silly little pin pricks of person.
al feeling which otherwise may tester
into the family blood poisonings that
have devastated so many lives. Be-
racic acid solution has no such effect
on inflamed rs. Try humor and count
ten or a thousand next time before
you begin to scratch your vanity's
bleeding hide. 1t may save you a ma
jor amputation of the soul. There's
a sympathy which really does feed and
restore the nerves when frazZled out
by the days wear. No extract of malt
can accomplish anything like the re-
suits which are scored daily by those
wise enough to use this famous old re-
storative. Try it next time gently on
some severe case. Nothing is said
here about love, for that is founda-
ton, not cure, and without it there
are no homes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
"HONiE REMEDIES :.

One sees the term abused. though
not so often as once was the case. bv
vendors of this ard that quackery who
howl their wares from bilIboards and
street-car placards, says Golfers and
it continues: Nostrums and lies go
well together as twin agents of dark
ness, and have done so ever since the
Father of All Patent Medicines offered
Eve his little specific for the happi-
ness of Eden. 1t was u cure, too.
though not what the fair patient ex-
pected. Still there are and will be
home remedies of great value, but the
trouble is that they do not come in six
bottles for SIS, nor are they for sale in
anybody's worldwide and perdition-
deep chain of drug stores. There's
kindness which cures the bruises and
sprains of living as nothing else has
ever done, and even electricity cannot
replace it. Have you ever tried this
as remedy for your home? Time
and thought are the means of its ap-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17

Uncle Sans note to Austria is writ
ten in the only tone that the occasion
and the premises demand. 1t Is an
emphatic affirmation of the right of
individuals or concerns in this country
to sell munitions of war to such of the
European belligerents as are in po-
sition to buy them, and that such
activities constitute in no sense a
breach of neutrality. AS a matter of
fact, it would be unneutral if the
United States should place an absolute
embargo on the sale of war materials
to any of the nations involved in the
Great War, and to all of them. 1t
would be changing the rules of a game
while the game is in progress and such
a procedure is decidedly unfair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
WAR NEWS.

1t certainly makes it nice for the
newspapers that the gentlemen who
are handling the war news from the
European end arrange things so that
the dispatches which appear in the
morning newspapers are contradicted
by those which are furnished the af-
ternoon newspapers, and vice versa.
This precludes the necessity of a
morning and an afternoon newspaper
in the same town stringing along after
each other with the same line of war
dope. Just how this plan suits those
who happen to be readers of both such
papers is not known, but the arrange
ment is eminently satisfactory to the
newspaper men, who dislike intensely
to have to reprint news that has ap-
peared in a competing publication. But
the newspaper readers should remem-
Der that the newspapers are COM
PEELED to print the war news as and
when they get it. or content themselves
with ignoring it entirely. And that,
probably, wouldn't be at all satisfac-
tory to the readers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
QUAKER fluctuations.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
Classical music is the kind every
body thinks everybody else is enjoying
hugely.
The gift of speech isn't necessarily
possessed by the follow who gives
himself away.
Genius is often mistaken for mere
talent, especially by the man who has
the talent.
A lie will travel faster than the
truth, but flattery has them both
skinned a mile.
The trouble with hidden intentions
is that we can't always find them
when we want them.
At any rate the man who wants the
earth generally has plenty of mud
thrown at him.
Sillicus-'I am thoroughly imbued
with the idea that the good die
young" Cynicus-"Or if they don't
they grow up to be mighty homely"
Neli-"She admits she is terribly
disappointed in her husband" Belle
Whats the matter with him r.
Nell-AOh, she married him to re-
form him, and now she finds he
doesn't need it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
PROsPERoUs TOPEKA.

This remodelling of business build
ing that is being done on Kansas ave-
nue. these days on such varied and
extensive scale, may be eyesory and
more or less annoying to pedestrians,
but it is the best possible evidence
that Topeka business men are doing
better than merely making both ends
meet, that they are up and doing and
reaching out for more business. and,
most important of all, that they have
confidence in the city's future. A
town where little or no remodelling of
business buildings is going on, con-
fesses to the world that it's business
activities have gone to seed, that it
will soon be ready for the under
taker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
Euening Chat
A "Queer" Woman.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

A "Queer" Woman.
YES said the woman who sees ev-
erything. II noticed a light in her
guest-room three nights running and
supposed she must have some guest;
but 1 couldn't see anyone there day
times. So finally I brought the con-
versation round to the subject, and my
dear, what do you think?''
yes" said the other woman
breathleSsly.
she has had her maid come down
there to sleep, because it's hot in the
garnet these nights!
She made no comment on the aston
ishing fact. She had no need to- Her
voice supplied the statement with at
least three exclamation points.
That lovely room! " said the
Yes" said thefwoman who sees
everything "Isnft it just like her?
She spoils every maid she has by treat
ing them that way -"
'It certainly is,'' said the other
woman, and they looked their thank
fulness that they were not as this
woman and passed on to other sub
jects, utterly unconscious that isn't
it Just like her?" might not have been
considered condemnation by some peo-
pie.
1t is astonishing how many women
there are who regard the extension of
simple decencies to the servant in the
house as something queer" and pc
culiar ("wicked' or selfish have
hardly SO completely a cOndemnatory
flavor as these two.)
L was perfectly astonished when /
heard a woman whom / have always
thought a kindly and broad minded
person say the other day, And what
do you think, her maid actually asked
if she might use the telephone to call
up her aunt
I was much interested to notice that
in 1.-THE Treasure" which describes an
ideal school for training domestic
80 IL 90 h4 Aa1
is that when it's graduates accept posi-
tions they shall be permitted the use
CT the bathtub twice week. There
are many families to whom this idea
the same people who would criticise
maids for lack of personal cleanliness.
Their problems are our problems,
says Emma McChesney of the girls
of onion, and they don't battle as
often as we do: but then perhaps we
wouldn't If we hadn't tubs and show
ers so handy
I recommend that thought to the
folks who deny the use of bathing
facilities to their maids and then crit
icise them for lack of personal clean
illness.
A maid once told me that when she
started to battle in her second situa
ton (she was a nice, clearly girl and
had been freely permitted the use Of
the bath in her first situation, SO she
did not realize that she should ask
permission) her employers, two prim
maiden ladies, actually hurled them
selves at the bathroom door, almost
broke it down and frightened her into
Mysteries before she realized what the
matter was. She was ordered to
leave the house that night without a
character.
Yes, I know there are women whom
one would not want to permit the use
of the tub or the phone either. But
are these the sort one would want
handling ones food? Why not have
clearly. decent helper and treat her
huu1anely7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
From Other Pens
THE MOTHERS OF MEN.

THE MOTHERS OF MEN
AS this war has progressed it has
brought to light possibilities of pas
sion and degradation which human
nature had considered to be definitely
behind it. We have had organized
brutality, deliberate governmental
murder, a loosing of individual lusts
such as the world had never known
before, even in the days Of Goth and
Hun. The world of men has stepped
back into the dark ages and found
itself at home. But there has remained
one thing which holds the promise of
recovery for these men, and that is
the old beauty and truth of the love
of womeni Women, may it please you,
have kept their heads. Women have
accepted all suffering, they have taken
up alien tasks, they have laid down "A
NV consciousness of their independ-
ence on the altar of man-made war
but they have remained women,
sweet and undefiledi Not all Lhe1
forked tongues of scandal can alter
that fact. And, were it not for the
knowledge of the fact itself, the indi-
vidual fighter in the trenches, the
aristocrat and the man of science and
the laborer from eleven or twelve cen
turtles would not now be giving the
world the great lesson of this war of
which no one knows the reason of its
start: That bravery is a universal
quality: That masculine courage is
sucked by womanly vi-tue!-Coluu-
bia State.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
Delights of Camel Riding.

1t was my first experience of cam
ell riding, and therefore interesting,
if not altogether charming. The sad
dies used in this country are formed
of large pads, one in front and one
behind the hump. The driver climbs
into place in front. with huge peaked
pad to keep him from falling off
when the camel rises. Then the
passenger mounts behind the hump,
and the camel is with difficulty per
suaded to rise. This he does hind
quarters first, and the passenger finds
himself thrust up in mid-air as if on
a tower. The huge pad offers no
possible support, and he can scarcely
overcome his desire to prevent a fall
by putting his feet on the drivers
shoulders. That worthy, however,
soon comes up to join him, and the
expedition starts. The first sensation
is of being astrido a table, and as the
miles go by the table increases alarm
ingly in width, and the uyro on the
back seat begins to despair of ever
getting his legs acquainted again
The World Wide Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
Kansas Comment
al DEADLY ZOE.

While they shudder at the loss of
life and the suffering and devastation
for which the war in Europe is re-
sponsible, the American people have
become so accustomed to the destruc-
ton wrought by liquor that they look
with unseeing eyes upon the toll. it
takes. The casualty list of the bf tiles
in Europe present fr1ghtful totals. but
thousands of those reported as missing
are prisoners of war and per cent of
the wounded recover. Statistics prove
that the worlds death list carries "a
total of three and a half million people
who die each year because of alcohol
If a plague were to sweep over the
earth carrying away three and a hal3
million people in one year, the nations
of the world would be aroused to con-
certed action in stamping out the.
scourge, yet no plague has ever
wrough such ruin as alcohol infli@ts !
In the United States alone drink isl
killing two thousand persons daily. TT
is inconceivable that society will con-
tinue to legaliZe a business that eX-
acts such frightful toll of lives, ruined
homes and blasted hopes.-Wichita
Eagle.
ATTENTION, ULTRA-PACIFICIST
The peace at any price advocates
make references to losses in Euro
pean battles and ask whether the per-
sons in favor of the United States de-
Tending its rights against Germany.
England, or any other country would
be willing to offer up their own lives
to defend their country. 1t is n
mighty poor citizen who would not
willingly offer his services to such a
country as the United States of Amer
lea, when that country is waging war
against tyranny and injustice has
all her wars been waged excepting the
Mexican conflict of 1S45-46. The
United States went to war with Eng
land in 1912 when the odds were more
against WOIll6 his,
now if the whole of Europe were to
join against us. Once the United
States went on record as a peace at
any price nation and she would be
reviled and spat upon and stolen from
in exactly the same manner as is
China today. The ultra-pacifists would
better stop and take stock of their
folly before this nation is committed
to such ridiculous policy.-Coffey-
vile Journal.
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On the Spur
of the Moment
The New jag.
By ROY X. MOULTON.

The New jag.
Good old DR.. Wiley says person
can be food topper as well as a drink
toper.)
If DIR. Wiley is correct, and ten to one he is.
One does not need the old squirrel rye and
When he would fain go forth at night in
tending to carouse
He can acquire in genteel way good nam
sandwich souse.
No longer would he need to lean against
polished bar
And push his hard-earned dough across
and miss the midnight car: 80
The quick lunch wagon would suIIice, ana
For there he could quite easily go on a
hamburg bat.
The combination salad spree would surely
The lobster Newburg jamboree make hid
The rich folks could cheer up on these and
While lesser lights could revel in five
cent hot dog" toot
The Optimist.
Did y'ever hear about tn funny,
sunny, Sunshine Man? He's got a
heart that's bigger than yer gran
mas warmin' pan, head that's IKE
gold, n grin jes' like a watermelon
cut in two, I'm told; n he spr1nkles
out the sunshine from great Dig
waterin' can and We jes can't help
at Cne SUNSHINE Mali.
N when vet heart is heavy, n ye'd
like to cry, n We amt got friends er
n the whole worlds gone
awry, n while life doesn't seem worth
while, er when yer down an out, an
lost yer faith in everything er when
yer minds in doubt-then We cheer UP
of a sudden, n a brighter sky you
scan. Do We want to know what's
happened? It's the Sunshine Man.
TO Sf0Pv
The judge looked at the prisoner
and said: See here, madam, weren't
you here before me five years ago,
and didn't you tell me then that you
were thirty years old? Now you tell
me again that you are thirty years
old" The woman said that was so,
and the Judge asked her what she
meant by coming before him and tell
ing him an untruth.
The woman replied: well, you
see, your honor, I'm one of those kind
Of women who do not believe in say
ing one thing once and another thing
another time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17

Frisky Cottontail slipped away from
the garden, one fine day, for an ex-
ploring trip all by his own self. He
had no idea where he was going or
how long he would stay-he just
wanted a trip, and mayhap, if he was
lucky, an adventure
AS he trotted through the shrub
berry along the roadside he wondered
where he had better turn off, and
inst then something seemed to say
GO vest" and to the west he
turned.
He hadn't gone far till he heard
under the fence a funny little
squeak, squeak" which seemed to
say as plain as day, I'm hungry
When is my dinner coming?"
"Now," thought Frisky to himself
there's some poor creature who is
starving to DEATH must look and
see who it is" So he stopped and
peeped under the old rail fence-and
what do you suppose he saw on the
the other side? Three of the cunning
est little white pigs there ever were
Soueegee Pig and his sisters, Curly
and Worry.
ssThey look too fat and plump to be
really starving" Thoughts Frisky as he
looked at them, "but they seem so
worried about their dinner, 1 guess
I'll wait and see what they get. I'll
he hungry soon and 1 may like what
they have III L DO, maybe they Will
give me a taste" So he settled him
self down comfortably to watch events
through a crevice in this same log
fence.
Before he had been there five min
utes, those impatient pigs set UP such
a clamor that Frisky could hardly
hear himself think, Dear me- he
said. II don't see why they get so ex-
cited about their food If they are
that hungry, why don't they hunt for
something to eat? I'd never stay there
and squeal as they do,
But F'risky didn't know pigs, that
was plain Those three young piggies
made more noise than a hundred rab-
bits, They grunted, they squea1ed,
they rushed around and tired them
selves; then they started squealing
and crying all over again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
A Novel ssTree."

The ancient alchemists discovered
how to grow tree" in a tum bier
which rivaled natures own product.
Here is how they did it and you may
try your hand at this piece of chem
ica1 agriculture. Dissolve a teaspoon
full of sugar of lead in a pint of water
and put the solution in a tumbler
Suspend, by means of a piece of
thread, strip of clean zinc so that the
zinc will stand midway in the vessel.
After few days a beautiful crystal
line formation will appear sprouting
from the zinc. Sugar of lead is pois-
onous, and should be handled with
care. Throw the glass away, after
using it, or wash it thoroughly The
zinc may be obtained by cutting off a
piece of worn-out drybattery case,
about one-half inch wide and three
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17

Just then the three pigs made such
a noise of delight that Frisky again
stuck his head through the fence and
saw the farmer coming across the
field. Now comes this good din
ner. said Frisky. Il must watch for
some myself"
Across the field, closer and closer
came the farmer, till ne threw down
in front of the souealfnp MICS nail
OF dirty, messy scraps. Squeegee.
Curly and Worry seemed delighted and
grabbed for bits before the farmers
back was turned.
But Frisky was very disappointed.
begging for that kind of a din,a-1,sl
exclaimed F'risky disgustedly. I'd
1d-go up to the garden and steal =
dinner for myself" And that is g.
aelly what ne did--(Copyright-C
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
Journal Entries

Industry always comes in for a lot
of admiration.
= + i.
Too many men are expected to do
considerably more than their best.
+ = I.
Your opinion of a neighbor, good or
bad, is probably reciprocated by him.
j. J. j
An impartial baseball umpire is
likely to come in for abuse from both
sides.
= j. j.
Honesty may be the best policy but
some folk seem to get along pretty
we'll without it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17

Caution is desirable in all things, but
borrowing trouble hasn't much to
recommend it. DR.. Wood, the new
city health officer, losses out the adj
vice that parents should be particu-
larly careful this fall and winter to
guard their children against whooping
cough and scarlet fever. Why wave
the worry flag so far ahead of time?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
And the suggestions that are baing

And the suggestions that are being
conveyed privately by the U. S. A. B.
C.-B. U. G. Mexican conference to
Carranza that he can be president of
Mexico if he will behave himself
would seem to impose impossible con-
ditions No Mexican patriot desires the
presidency of his land unless he can
do just as he blamed pleases all the
TINA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17
THE GYPSY ROAD.

THE GYPSY ROAD.
Out across the green hills
Earring with the day,
To the wild birds calling
Come, oh, come away.'
The road, it lies full westward
To the open sea:
Take your pipes and follow
The will o. the wind with me-
Warm lights upon the upland
Clint the heather spray:
White the fields that beckon
On the broad highway.
1t leads unto the worlds rim,
BY stream and lowered lea
A goodly throng wends onward
With joyous minstrelsy.
Morning and the red-gold,
Night with sable bar;
MIrth and song, and then, lad,
Rest beneath a star.
The road it lies full westward
To the silver sea:
Tune your pipes and follow
The will O. the wind with mel
-Malcomb b. Ayres, in The Colonnade.
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Such comedy. A German Socialist,
a prominent member of the reichstag,
questions the imperial German gov
eminent as to whether or not it is
willing to consider at this time a
peace plan that will not include the
annexation by Germany of any of the
territory she has so far captured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-17

Bully for the cancellation of big
wheat orders by the European belIig-
erents if it hit the wheat spectators
as hard as, reported. They've been hit
ting the wheat producers below the
belt at every opportunity
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sNRGaAnuz )1ciara hs&raaJsscnss Ss 49,
soUEEGEE PIG GETS HIS DINNER
Clara lr&ram&'dscn

II surely do want some of the din
ner they are crying for" said frisky
to himself; 1T must be something ex-
ira fine if 1t is worth such fuss. 1
wouldn't be surprised if it was all fresh
lettuce, and carrots young and ten
deri'