davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

In the, very back part of the gar
en- behind the flower beds, the let
tuce border and the asparagus patch'
were two long, straight rows OF eau
hayes. Ned had set them out weeks
ago when they were just tiny, gray
green plants only two inches h1gh'
Rnt s,1ch good sunshine and so much
rain did they get, that now they
were grown fat and big and plump,
and their silky greenish white eaNes
elistened in the sunshine.
Across the top of the biggest, fat
test one of the lot, there slowly crept
a great, fat, woolly caterpillar. And
as he crept, he ate and ate and ate!
Very good eating these" he said
to himself between bites, very good
eating 1 only hope that gardener
boy does not come and find me here.
| I would not like to be killed for L
| feel sure that. if l keep on eating all
the, time, L will some day amount to
| something. / am sure l am a wonder
| full parsonage. L must eat enough
thought must eat all the time" And
as if to make up for the time he had
wasted talking, he ate three huge bites
| in quick succession.
Billy Robin at that very minute
flew over the cabbage rows
Look who's here"' he chirped,
| 'Took who's GOMEZ That greedy, hor-
rid, ugly caterpillar is eating the best
cabbage"
please don't talk that way about
me-" grumbled the caterpillar. as he
| hastily swallowed another bite. Il
| eat for my living and some day l Will
| be as beautiful you"
such a foolish idea" cried Billy
Robin disgustedly. You can never
be beautiful you glutton. You are
ugly and useless" And he flew on his
| way to his nest.
Beautiful Friend Cardinal flew over
head and noticed the caterpillar. How
sorry 1 am for you!' he cried; hero
on this lovely day, you do not sing,
YOU do not even look at the sunshine
and flowers, You only eat and eat
and eat, How stupid you are, poor
thing,"
Down underneath the cabbage. in
the moist shade of her broad sides,
Mr. Snail stopped for a rest. He heard
what the cardinal said and raised his
shell enough to look up the side of the
big round cabbage and see the cater
pillar eating his way across the top.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
GLobe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Don't let your automobile own you.
Married men unconsciously become
diplomats.
The demand frequently comes dis
guised as a request.
The best town, like the best fish
ing, is always somewhere else
Being a good loser isn't much of a
help toward supporting the family
Girls should be happy, and all of
that, but shouldn't whistle on the
streets.
The elephant is a docile and saga
cious beast but few would care to
keep one for a pet.
When his shirt sticks to his back
Il newspaper man doesn't care to be
referred to Il journalist
Most compliments are half-compH-
ments. He is a good man, out pecu-
liar is heard too often.
An Atchison sport wears such high
water trousers that it is inferred he
purchases them of a short order
house.
Still, the street parade is hardly
what one might expect from the num-
Der of women who say they haven't
| q thing 10 wear.
aving received a letter from Chi
cago this morning Jude Johnson feels
in need of a private secretary He
has received several letters from Chi
cago, but all of them but one were
| from collection. agencies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
QUAKER MEDTATIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record
The only harmless fool is dead
fool.
On the square-a park bench and
bum.
Use your friends or they might get
rusty.
Some girls marry well and others
marry happily.
You never can tell. Even the egotlst
can't always capitalize his capital Is.
Superstitious people regard the lad
der of fame as something to aVold
walking under
Some of us get SO used to expecting
the unexpected that we are disappolnt-
ed if it doesn't happen.
Some people can't be flattered, but
they are not the people who flatter
themselves they can't be.
SilIicus-"You can't always tell
whether a man is a knave or a fool:
Cynicus-'He isn't either until he IS
found OUT
Mrs. Gnaggs-"And you used to say
I was worth my weight in gold" Mr..
Gnags-'Yes, but you've gotten-ter-
ribly thin since you were married.
Cleanliness is next to goodness,
quoted the Wise Guy. Il suppose that
accounts for the ambition of many a
man to clean up a lot of filthy lucre,
suggested the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

our nation ten times greater in peace
than the greatness ever attained by
any nation in war. The time IS not
far hence when accidents in American
industry will be a thing of the past
when men will go about their dally
duties with the certainty that no harm
can come to them, and when the ones
ut home will not live in constant
anxiety for those who are earning
bread. The safeguarding of machln-
cry. the adoption of safety policies ana
methods, the education of employees
in the cultivation of the safety habit
the inherent and personal adherence
to safety in theory, principle and prac-
tice will make accidents practically
impossible incidentally there will be no
need then of legislation regulating the
liability of employers. The time is al
most at hand when any accidents to a
worker will be the rare and unusual
thing. The sound economic arguments
for safety are taking hold of our in
dustrialists and capital and labor are
striving to Guido each other in safety
progress. The rapid strides ahead
which safety has made in the past
few years all verify this prediction.
There is scarcely an industry worth
mentioning where the accidents and
the resulting fatalities have not been
reduced from SO to 100 per cent The
steel industry, perhaps the most haz-
ardous of all, has already practically
eliminated accidents. When the cause
is removed there can be no more &C
cidents. Show me a cause however
slight, and 1 will show you how an &C
cident will surely result. Safety is
now the watchWord of American in
dustry. It is permeating steel mills,
the textile industry, street railways,
engineering, building, mining, sweat
shops, the chemical industry, the cleo
trical industry, painting and wood
working trades, the streets, the school
house and the home. 1t goes hand in
hand with hygiene, sanitation and the
prevention of occupational disease. 1t
is going to make the United States the
greatest nation in the world for CEN
turtles to come"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
Jayhawker Jots

A strike, insists the Wellington
Journal. is one kind of an i'll wind
that don't blow anybody any good.
Officer, call a cop! Joe Heylmun
of the Fort Scott Tribune wonders if
the history of an old motor car would
be called an autobiography.
A tip from the OsWego Democrat;
RetributiOn is waiting around the cor
ner for the man who does his best only
when trying to do somebody else
Obey Weaver, of the Sedgwicki
Paragraph, explains that church
fairs are devices to make the goats
pay for the pasturage of the sheep.
A Goodland conductor, reports the
Salina Journal, used pin instead of a
tooth pick for his molar massage So
far he has lost part of his jaw bone
and all the teeth on one side
According to the Salina Journal, the
smoke-house'S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. club
can release for repetition more scan
dal in a ten-minute session than the
most select needlecraft club in the
city.
This is the year when the tourists
are putting the seen in American
scenery, is the way the Abilene Re
flector puts it 1t is estimatd that
100000 usually spent abroad will be
spent at home.
Adding a little sugar to the water
for cut flowers will keep them fresh
longer" says an authority on house
hold lore, according to the Wichita
Eagle and it adds: Perhaps you have
noticed that adding little sugar to
your conversation will also make the
flowers of friendship bloom longer.
A trick of the newspaper trade, eX-
posed by the Beloit Call: This report
er sticks around when he sees a black
smith getting ready to shoe a mule.
/ Nine times out of ten 1t pays. The re-
wards have ranged from 2-line items
to orders for a dozen extra copies OF
! the paper containing an account OF
/ the funeral.
A Denver reporter was recently
fined $3.50 because he resolutely re-
/ fused to disclose the source of certain
information which he made public
notes the Lawrence JournalWorld
and it adds: The ruling of the court
on this point will not stand fire in the
higher courts, where it was long age
decided that a reputable reporters
source of information is sacred
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
THE GARDEN.


In the spring she made garden near
an orchard on a hill,
And half that gardens providence, the
rest is all free will,
It's providence that plants the flowers,
pure luck that kills the weeds
She planned to make 1t beautiful and wild
birds brought the seeds.
Green beeches whisper round it, aud a
river sings below
song of pools and shadows, where the
shadows come and go,
There's incense like st. Peters on a way
ward Devon breeze.
And infinite lamenting of the doves among
the trees.
Outside the wall of broken stone wild
minds are wooed by stays:
inside the sunlight fingers in the lavender
and flags
And nothing has an enemy where flowers
and weeds are grown;
The gospel of that garden is leave the
nests alone.
Far better than all gardens is a garden
of a mood
Columbus might have found it, and in
finding, understood,
The wanderers in waste places thew can
feel and understand
Inc spirit of deep quiet in the commune
that she planned.
If 1 was King of England, and lost my
golden crown,
If 1 was mayor of London, and they hunted
me from town,
I'd seek the secret garden and the hidden
place that she
Gave for a joy to birds and flowers and
men God made like me.
Ben kendim, in the Spectator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
SHOE ON OTHER FOOT.

incidentally, it might be well Tor
everybody to remember that during
the Boer war the German manufactur-
ers of munitions of war. who are
more closely allied to their govern
ment than are similar business men
in any other country, sold to England
all of the materials of war that she
cared to buy from them, and the vol
ume was extensive. And the Germans
would undoubtedly have sold such sup
plies to the Beers, had it been possible
to carry on such a trade with them.
But here, again, the British navy in
terfere6
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
NEW ERA OF SAFETY.

1T is significant of the advance Of
American culture and ideals that
Americans should at this time be dill
gently studying and applying ways
and means of protecting the lives and
bodies of her great industrial army,
while Europe, our parent in civiliza-
ton, is driving for newer and surer
means of ending the lives of her men
by hundreds and thousands. Thus
spoke Arthur Williams, president of
the American Museum of Safety. in a
recent interview, and he continued:
I'VE have good reason to be pleased
with our land when we consider that
a larger part of our vast industrial
army. which we are trying to protect
against accidents. is made up of aliens
who would now be so much food for
cannons in their native land 1t is by
such efforts as these that we will make
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

From the Chicago News.
But few men ever grow up-mentallv-
A dollar in your pocket is worth two
that you owe.
The principal ingredient in good
time is a vivid imagination
Even a politician objects to being
shaved with a razor that has pull.
The man who knows when to quit
talking also knows when not to begin
Occasionally we meet a man who
has sense enough to do the very best
he can.
1t takes a man who never did any
thing to tell you how it ought to be
done.
If the man who gives advice freely
knew it was good he would probably
use it himself.
And many an otherwise good man Is
not on speaking terms with his own
conscience half the time
1t isn't what you say but how you
say it that makes a woman either your
friend or your enemy
1t is possible that all the world does
| love a lover-until things reach tins
stage where it becomes necessary 10
buy wedding presents for him.
| 1t is reported that fully 1000 girls
are studying law in this country al
the present time Preparing to be-
comes mothers-in-law some day, per-
haps-
Many a young man is unable to
paddle his own canoe even after some
! one has presented him with a yeneere1
canoe and silver plated paddle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

why shouldn't I eat?' asked the
caterpillar. Il eat to grow. Some
day / will be a beautiful creature
and you will be glad to know me. OF
course eat-because 1 must
you be a beautiful creature"
chimed in Tommy Sparrow who hap
pened to fly by just in time to hear
what the caterpillar said. You will
never be anything but a fat, greedy
glutton. You are not even good for
eating. for you arm yourself with such
furry poisonous stickers. If you will
take those off, we may like you bet
ter" And he flew away chuckling
at his own little joke.
Did Fatty Caterpillar care about the
teasing? Did he mind the nickname
and the tormenting? Did he feel sad
because nobody liked him? Not he,
He ate along across the top of the
cabbage with never thought about
the creatures around him. He ate and
ate, and as the day wore on, he
dreamed of what he was to be-
Copyright, Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
THE SIMILARITY OF ENGLAND
AND GERMANY.

The first thing that must strike any
impartial observer of England and
Germany in wartime is their amazing
similarity in myth and melodrama,
writes Bertrand Russell, in the July
Atlantic. France and Russia each has
its myth, for without myth no great
national upheaval is possible But
their myths are different from ours,
whereas the myths of England anE
Germany are all but identical. Each
believes itself a great peace-loving ma
ton, powerful, but always using its
power to further worthy ends. Each
believes that the other, with an in
credible perfidy inspired by the basest
jealousy, suddenly stirred up the war,
after many years of careful prepara-
ton, military in the one case. diplo-
matte in the other. Each believes
that only the utter humiliation of the
other can secure the peace of the
world and the ordered progress of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

civilization. In each, pacifist minor
ity urges moderation in the use or VIC
tory, while yielding to none in the con-
viction that victory is the indlspen-
sable preliminary to any future re-
construction. Each is absolutely con-
fident of victory, and prepared Tor
any sacrifice, however great, in order
to secure victory. Each is quite unable
to believe that the other is sincere IN
the opinion which it processes; Its
own innocence and the others CUNT
are as clear as MONDAY. and can be
denied only by the most abject ny
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
From Other Pens
THE COST OF LIVING.


More than two years and half
have passed since the people voted for
the removal of protection and the low
ering of the cost of living. A major
ity, it is true, voted for the candidates
who favored a continuation of the pro-
tective policy, but because the major
ity divided their votes between two
protectionist candidates the solid vote
of the minority, constituting plural
ity carried the day. Two years ago
the protective tariff was destroyed
Yet the trend of the cost of living is
still upward. Prices are higher now
than they were under the much
aligned Payne-Aldrich law. For fiji
teen articles which are served on the
table of the workingmen of the United
States the average price for the year
1914 was per cent higher than in
1913. And the average price was . y
per cent higher than in 1912. The
figures which show the steady IN
crease. despite the fact that 81 per
cent of all imports are now coming IN
free, are not the result of any com
pilation from Republican sources, but
are the official result of an investi-
CATION made by the Department or
Labor under the present adimnistra-
Post.
"rhat woman can't tell a thing with
ont eXaggerating.' did you ever ask her
her age?''-Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
TOPEKA sLANDERED AGAIN.

Advertisements and signs on kansas
avenue. the city's chief business street,
make it unsightly and hideous. we
are characterized as filthy because
there is some expectorating on the
sidewalks. The transfer station at the
corner of Eighth and Kansas avenues
is especially unsightly. There are
Washers on the street who offend
common decency. The speed ordinance
is not observed and too many people
are killed or injured because of this
fact. There are too many unkempt
lawns and parkings which show low
civic pride The pavements are rough
and difficult to keep clean because OF
the poor quality of brick used in their
construction.
Such is a brief summary of the
latest presumptuous and offensive in
dictment of the conditions that are
alleged to prevail in the capital city
of Kansas: presumptuouS because
they come from mysterious Strang-
err indeed, a gentleman who has been
in the city scarcely long enough to
find his way about; and offensive be-
cause they emphasize and also eXag-
gerate the most trivial of our munich
pal evils and eyesores-evils that arc
common to every city throughout the
entire United States, and far more
pronounced in the great majority of
them And yet they are never harped
on as are those of Topeka For some
reason or other, Topeka seems to be
the favorite stamping ground for every
old Tom, Dick and Harry of self
constituted sociological expert at large
And why they persist in picking at
Topeka as a mystery, unless It be for
the profit that comes to them thereby
or for the pleasure they may obtain
by sticking their noses into other peo-
pies business.
Topeka is not perfect, by any means
! But it is no more than a statement of
fact to assert that Topeka is one of
the cIeanest cities in the country in
every respect and in every meaning
of the word 1t also happens to be
one of the most beautiful cities in
the land Furthermore its people,
generally, are among the most decent
on earth. And it would be possible
to enter an almost complete categor-
zeal denial to practically every asser-
ton that our latest calumniator
makes. Or, rather, it would easily be
possible to prove conclusively that
the things he finds to criticize so
harshly are the exception, not the rule.
OF course, the vapOrings of the
''Mysterious Stranger" and his con-
/ ferees in the pursuit of such slime
/ and eyesores as can be found in every
/ city are pretty much of a joke to
! the people of Topeka. But they are
an expensive joke for Topeka in the
( publicity that Is always given them in
other parts. They give the city a
black eye with real strangers to it, and
! one that it does not deserve. However.
the harm that they do is probably not
| as extensive as the face of it suggests,
because sensible people everywhere
do not pay much attention these days
to the random activities and observa-
lions of the busybodies. And in re-
I spect to this latest attempt to defamo
the fair name of Topeka. the effort is
so patiently puerile that l. probably
will not make the slightest impress
sion on any one equipped with ordinary
intelligence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

Harvard psychologists are to eX-
plore Kansas this summer, and for
primary purpose of getting n line on
the activities of the ancient races who
inhabited this region. Maybe they'll
find traces of Adam and Eve and then
settle conclusiVely the surmise Of not
a few enthusiasts that Kansas was the
original Garden of Eden. Anyhow,
Kansas has begun to revert rather
magnificently to such a desirable
tyDe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
Journal Entire S

A joke at the expense of old folk
is the meanest kind.
Most people do a good deal of com
planning about most trivial matters
- J. =
Usually, the accidents that happen
in the best Of regulated families are
not very serious.
, + +
Doing others as they would like to
do you seems more popular than the
practice of the Golden Rule.
= = =
And the talll-evil could also be
greatly minimized if so many folk
would not insist on saying the same
thing over so often.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

And the outrages of the assassin
hearted Holt, or Muenter. have given
the anonymous letter writer's an OPP
portunity to their liking. Probably not
even one out of ten of the many let
tiers that are putting in an appearance
here and there and telling of bombs
having been placed on this steamship
and that one have any basis of fact.
'or are other than the work of smart
al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audjt Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
association.
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal away
from home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents a week or
thirty cents month (by mail onl5) Ad-
dress changed often as desired Whlie
out of town the State journal will be TO
you like a daily letter from home
Advance payment is requested on these
short time subscriptions. to save boOkkeep-
ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

Italy seems to have butted her head
against the stone wall defense for
which the Teutonic allies have become
50 famous Were Italy making any
considerable progress in her campaign
against Austria she would be letting
the world know about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal is member OF the
Associated press and receives the 1ull Gay
feIerraph report of that great news Or
sanitation, for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The state Jo our,
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

Not only is Topeka enjoying weather
of the most glorious mountain resort
variety, but her people also have the
added advantage of not having to
climb mountains to get about either in
the pursuit of pleasure or business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22

AS history repeats. The guards
around the Rockefeller oil plant in
New Jersey were apparently as quick
to shoot as were the guards around
the Rockefeller coal mines in Colo