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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
Jayhawker Jots

With ill-gotten gains, all can not be
spent, declares the Wichita Beacon.
There is ever bad scent left.
If ignorance is bliss, argues Uncle
ST, alias Ellis M Clarke, in the Atch1-
son Champion, isn't compulsory edu-
cation a crime against humanity?
The girl who marries should pick
out an orphan, advises the Leaven-
worth Times. He won't be so apt to
brag about the coffee his mother used
to make.
More evidence of the way the rain
falls on the just. The Norton Tele-
gram reports that it has rained three
times out of four that the church peo-
pie have planned services on the court
house lawn during the past month.
In view of the present threatening
situation, it occurs to the winfield
Courier that the next appropriation for
national defense will probably provide
something beside lawn mowers ana
shrub clippers for the army posts.
You never can tell who the wise
one are. According to the Wichita
Beacon, a certain Kansas editor who
is never quoted and who has never
has just built $4,000 house and
has it all paid for.
This is the season of the year when
the driver is thrown from his sulky
and the driverless horse goes on and
wins the race by himself, says the
Pratt, Kansas is the first town to put
the story over this year.
''Most married men are either
diplomats or rabbits" remarked the
Yates Center News recently. But the
Chanute Tribune insists that the News
misses the truth a little. 1t should
have said: ''While occasionally a mar
ried man is a diplomat, most of them
are rabbits
Some of the shrapnel fired by the
Wichita Eagle: People are always
willing to share your honor, but it is
different about the blame.
Wouldn't it be a good plan to return
those troubles you borrower.
When you cast your bread upon the
waters these days you run the chance
CT being sued for not buttering it.
1t won't be much to your credit to go
where duty calls, if you neglect to get
busy after you arrive. "A chatterlng
talker rarely says anything worth
while, but she is responsible for a lot
of trouble, just the same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
Globe Sights
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

Some men don't look wise until
they meet with reporters.
How the average automobile owner
does disdain a milk wagon.
Most of the reform work is predi-
Gated on the theory that it pays.
Wild oats are a peculiar crop, for
they flourish best in dark rooms.
You may have observed that the
general who threatens to die fighting.
seldom does.
Nearly every woman is convinced
that her husband lacks tact, and she
is apt to be right about it,
Some reporters do not take a vaca-
ton because they need it, but because
the public demands it.
When not very many were present
the promoter Is apt to say: HOW
ever we had a nice meeting.
If a man doesn't weep over the sob
sections of a play, his wife is apt to
regard him as a Heartless Wretch.
If fashions continue along their
present trend they may finally be linn
tied to styles of coiffures and the
modish thing in bracelets
For several years Jude Johnson
made his wife believe he was shadow
boxing when the fact is he was drunk
and couldn't stand still or walk
straight.
A lot of men who start conversa-
tions by saying, Looking at the ques-
ton from the standpoint of philos-
ophy,'' have mistaken flapdoodle for
philosOphy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
ONES OWN.

Funny, amt it? When TIL children of a
nefghborhood is fed
On the very same variety of grub,
Ihat some of them is yeiler gold an some
of 'em is lead
TIL difference twixt tn thorobred an
scrub?
Thought % that tn other evenin' when
twas gradjyatin' time
At tn high-schoo down to Abernathy's
Cove
When see my girl amongst 'em-gosh. TIL
contrast wuz a crime =
Like volunteer petoony CROWN in q
J1mpson grove.
All tn dresses was as white as hersI
reckon, purity nigh
All IN ribbons wore wuz either pink 'er
All TIL posies that they carried growed
beneath our country sky,
An they might of looked about as good,
to you.
But tn laws mercy on US! When her ma
an me set there.
A wipin tears an sniffin' an a-lookin'
at that batch,
In others wuzn't no place-our Melissy,
on tn square,
Seemed volunteer petoony bloomin' in
ragweed patch
Then SEE |, it can't be, RELY: so 1 turned
an asst M'ri
(She's my woman, an tn mother of tn
GRID
If tn wuz much of difference, exceptin'
in my eye.
A y orto seen tn woman give whirl
An smoker at me, scornful, as she says:
L reckon sol
Them there eugenic fel1ers says that
they's difference in breeds.
An anyone with half a eye can't scarcely
help but know.
volunteer petoony 'mongst garden
full o. weeds,''
Strickland Gillian in Farm Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
MORE POWER TO GOVERNORS

More executive power and reSpon-
sibility is what our state governments
need, according to The New Republic
American state government was
bound to break down just in proper
ton as it was asked to 90 any positive
work. 1t embodied negative princi-
pie. Our forbears wanted a govern
ment which was powerless to do harm.
To attain that aim it divided the gov
ernment into three parts, and then
proceeded to divide each of the three
parts into many additional pieces. The
chief function of each of these govern
mental fragments was that of prevent
ing some other fragments from going
astray. The Governor was required
to censor the Legislature; the lcgisla-
ture was encouraged to curb the ex-
ecutive by all kinds of specific regu-
lations; the courts were TO protect
the people against administrative and
legislative abuses; the legislature was
to prevent the courts from becoming
Objectionable by determining their
procedures; and finally the Constitution
safeguarded the whole body polite
from vagrancy by imposing righteous
methods of behavior alike on the adj
mislistretioE, the legislature, and the
judiciary 1t was distrlIst, espionage,
responsibility and distraction erected
into system. The resulting mechan-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
MARCH OF CITIES CoAsTwARD.

The revival of water commerce in
the United States, as result of the
Panama canal, implies an almost revo-
lutionary shift of commercial centers,
writes Agnes Laut in the August
Worlds Work. Local centers may OPP
pose this change but they can no more
prevent it than they could have pre-
vented the building up of great centers
by rail concentration in the last fifty
years. With water rates cheaper than
land rates by to 1, there is going to
be a tremendous movement to water
front. The movement has begun al
ready. If you add up all that has
been spent on improving terminals in
preparation for Panama clear around
the coast from Boston to Seattle. it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20

new telephone line over the noun
tains up to the Crazy J. haven't you ?
Polly wrote that you were going to
push it through and buy in a big
block of the stock, and that some of
the men up there were trying to
make the company switch the line
twenty miles south. So wired Uncle
Dave to bring it up before the direc-
tors at the last meeting Saturday,
and they voted for the Crazy route
Uncle Dave owns lots of it, Steve.
Aren't you glad?'
That's why 1 got a wire telling
me to come east ~
She nodded her head at him wisely.
And then when I heard Polly was
in Virginia, 1 asked Jack over the
telephone to hunt you up and tell
you l was still on earth. Do you
mind"
"Mind?" he drew in a deep breath.
And / thought the heavens had
just opened and handed you to me
again. I thought it was all this thing
they call fate, don't you know, and it
wasn't any such thing. 1t was blessed
woman understanding. How did you
know that when the door opened I'd
reach out and just take you?'
She laughed up at him.
Steve, right there 1 stopped man
aging things. 1t was all you and
fate after that, copyright,
1915, by the M~Clure Newspaper Syn
dicafel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
Euenine Chat
What's the Matter With Heaven?
BY RUTH CAMERON.


If L were a member of liberal sect
should preach on that topic, What s
the matter with Heaven"
The other day L heard little boy
ask his mother if there would be fire.
works in Heaven.
Yes" she said, land oh, such
beautiful ones, The rockets have a
thousand stars, and the red lights last
for hours and the flower-pots grow
roses and peoples and lilies in pink
and silver and gold and crimson fire,
a whole flower garden of fire flowers. "
The little boys eyes shone. 1T
must be lovely!" he sighed wistfully.
His aunt, a prim, conventional per-
son, drew his mother aside. Lila, ;"
she said, II am surprised at you, Civ
ing the child such an idea of Heaven
rs it a less beautiful idea than a
city of blazing gold streets where ev-
eryone sits around playing harps?" she
asked. Il told him something he
could understand and something that
appealed to his present idea of the
beautiful. AS his mind grows 1 shall
tell him other things and l shall al
ways try to make Heaven stand for
something surprisingly beautiful and
wonderful in the highest way he is
capable of appreciating-
The conventional aunt was plainly
shocked.
That's what's the matter with Heav-
en-that so many people are shocked
at the idea of thinking of it as any
thing but a city of gold streets and
harp playing, a goody goody sort of
place, and that SO few people are hon
estly attracted by that conception.
Women are there Agnes Repplier
quotes woman saying in description
of this idea of Heaven, and some men,
but not man whomany woman would
have" We recognize this SubconscfouS
feeling about Heaven even while we
laugh at the frank expression of it.
Now what kind of an ideal is that to
try to make flesh and blood, men and
women yearn for?
Ones highest conception of the
beautiful, ones finest ideals and as
pirations. ones purest 1ongings for
peace and happiness ought to have ex-
preston in ones ideal of Heaven. If
you set up any rigid ideal for every
one you make that impossible.
My Own Ideal.
Personally I dislike cities and any
childish yearnings l might have felt
towards Heaven were stifled by the
golden city ideal. One day when 1 was
reading in Tennyson's Passing of
Arthur the beautiful lines:
Il am going a long way
With these thou seest-if indeed I go
Cor all my mind is clouded with a
doubt)-
To the island-valley of Avalon,
Where falls not hail or rain or any
Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies
Deep meadowed, happy, fair, with or
chard lawns
And bowery hollowS crowned with
summer sea
Where i will heal me of my grievous
wounds"
Suddenly it came over me, Why,
that's Heaven" and I can't tell you
what a different feeling it gave me
about death.
"A place where you want TO do
what's right was the wistful ideal of
an impulsive little friend of mine. Not
so bad an ideal, is it?
1 know some of my more conserva-
tive reader friends are calling ali this
irreverent- Let me tell you something,
folks Some of the sweetest. solemn
est thoughts / have ever had came
to me when was brooding over this
matter Is that irreverence?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
QUAKER MEDITATONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.
On cloudy day the sky wears gray
overalls.
If the good die young, how can a.
good beginning make a bad ending +?
Lots of people live in the future,
but it isn't necessary to brag about it.
If every man has his price, we ought
to be able to buy lots of them at cut
rates.
1t requires more strength to bend a
lucent piece with the fingers than to
break at $40 bill.
The weather man isn't the only per-
son in the world who occasionally
makes things too hot for u.s.
Sillicus-''Do you believe marriage
broadens a man." Cynicus-"Sure
Nine-tenths of what a man knows
about his neighbors his wife tells
him.
knack of putting two and two to-
And making it five suggested the
Simple Mug.
Tommy-"Pop, what is a bargain
hunter?" Tommy's Pop-'A bargain
hunter, my son, is a person who wants
things cheap, and generally has to pay
pretty dearly for Them
Blobbs-"Has that fellow Saphedde
really travelled lot, or is it all talk %
Slobbs-"Oh, he has travelled. all
right. He can make a fool of himself
in several different languages and on
a great many different subjects
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
Little People of Shetland.

Mere living in the Shetlands is such
a deep and difficult thing that it seems
to obscure all the history and all the
varied scenery of the islands. For il
there are not here the many antiquities
of the Orkneys-stili the surface trend
of Life has been the same-the outer
life. Here dwelt the tiny dark people,
the PictS, safe, it would surely seem,
in Ultima Thule, and yet, wary little
folk, building their brochs strong,
afraid to trust either the sea or the
stranger. Traces of them are to be
found in many places, especially in
Mousa, the most perfect broch ex-
tant. And yet even tall. thick Mousa
could not hold back the victorious
hordes of the Norsemen. The Picts
built it with much pain to protect
them forever, but it became one day
the home of the shipwrecked Bjorn-
Brynulfson and the beautiful maiden
whom he stole from Norway; and two
hundred years later it became the ref
uge of that light woman, Margareta,
mother of Jarl Harald, who fed there
with her lover, Jarl Erland, and
starved and thirsted and still loved till
her son forgave her.
Mousa since then has given of it's
stores throughout the centuries to
humber folk whose love has been
sanctioned by kirk and neighbors
Now it stands, companioned only by
wind and sea, a memorial to the brok-
en- hopes OF the wild, energetic little
race that wrote its history so sparing-
ly in the Shet1ands Perhaps it is not
a fancy that the Picts have written
their history now and then in the
bodies of the people. For sometimes
among the strong Morse or Scotch
races and sturdy figures, may be seen
a little, dark, glancing man or woman.
feverish in activity, excitable, moody.
with something suspicious and unsatis-
ned behind small, bright brown eyes:
a little, restless person, his ways eddy
ing like seaweed against the sturdy
purpose of his quiet neighbors.-
Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
From Other Pens
THE VANISHING GOLD.

What becomes of gold? 1t is one
of the oldest metals in human use
there are gold beads dating back to
the stone age. 1t is an object of al
most universal desire. 1t is proof
against almost all the influences
which destroy other metals, and it has
been mined in enormous quantities.
yet today more than two-thirds of the
gold in use has been dug since 1919.
What becomes of the rest? Where
is the gold that set Jason wandering
into the Black sea, that filled the
treasures of Croesus, that paid the
terrific tribute which Persian kings
assessed against the Punjab? What
has happened to the yellow dust and
"electrum''-an alloy of gold and sill
ver-which negro traders brought
down the Nile to Egypt for four or
five thousand years? Ancient gold.
like that of modern times, was used
for money and for ornaments, but both
have disappeared. Where? The most
enduring of metals, and yet the most
evanescent; perpetually sought and
yet constantly escaping the hands of
even the successful seeker-that is
gold. What is the reason for it's
curious MISUNDERSTANDING Jour-
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
EDUCATING THE FARMER.

State public health work in our
more advanced communities has
passed from the propaganda stage to
that of detailed systematic study of
essential factors and the devising of
effective methods Tor improving liv-
ing conditions. One of the most i'm
portant problems encountered-im-
portant not only on account Of the
number of people involved, but also on
account of it's neglect for many years
lis the problem of waste disposal in
answered districts. And q question,
of necessity closely correlated to it, is
that of pure water supply in rural dis
tricts. In communities large enough
to assume the burden Of constructing
and maintaining sewage systems and
water supply plants. the problem is
practically reduced to one of efficient
administration. But what of the iso-
lated farm house? How can the rural
family safely dispose of it's waste, and
how can it secure pure water at cost
that is within the resources of the av-
Gently issued by the Minnesota state
board of health, contain clear. practi-
cal advice on these two important
Unsewered Districts gives plans for
disposing of sewage from an ordinary
farm house with diagrams of the vari-
Gus parts of such a system; the other,
Farm Water Supplies was original
ly prepared for farmers but has been
endorsed by the state department of
education for use in connection with
the water supply for rural schools
The dangers of impure water are dis
cussed, and the various types of I'M
foreground and surface water supplies
considered. Numerous explanatory
diagrams show the dangerous and the
safe arrangement for dug wells, bored
wells. springs and cisterns. The con-
ventional illustration showing we'll
pollution by seepage through soil is,
according to the pamphlet, misleading,
contamination usually taking place
around the top, through either imper-
fecT construction of the wall casing,
or through lack of care in keeping the
wall in repair. The pamphlets will be
of inestimable educational value in the
rural districts One addition would be
of value, that is, an estimate of cost
both for different methods of sewage
disposal and for water supply. The
question, says The Journal of the
American Medical Association, is es-
sentially an economic one. Any ra-
tional person would rather live in a
well severed house and enjoy a pure
water supply than be without these
necessities of modern life. The impor-
tant question is that of expense. If it
can be shown that healthful methods
are not prohibitive from the financial
point of view, and are in the end much
less expensive than sickness, the ar
gument for sanitary methods will be
greatly strengthened
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
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MIR. GARDEN ToAD's FOOD.

Dignified Mr.. Garden Toad took
one, two, three bites at the air in front
of him and then hoped off toward
the biggest flower bed.
Gould you see what he ate that
timer" asked Tommy Tittle-mouse of
his little mate as they peeped out
from the shelter of a nasturtium plant
mo, ! couldn't" she said in a
puzzled voice, "but I'm sure he got
something 1 wonder if Mr.. Spider
could tell us? Let's run over and ask
him.
Slipping under plants and grasses,
they hurried over to where Mr.. Spider
was busily at work repairing his web.
Up and down, back and forth in the
sunshine he wove his shining strands
and so happy and busy was he that
the little tittle-mice hardly like to in
terrupt him.
But at last. after they had waited
in vain for the spider to notice them
and ask their errand, Tommy sum
moned all his courage and said, Elk
cuse me, please, Mr.. Spider; but 1
want to ask you something"
The spider stopped his spinning
looked around to see who was talk
ing and then dropped down to a leaf
right by the side of Tommy Title
politely, anything 1 can do to oblige
my friends. anything at ALI"
Thus encouraged, Tommy told him
about Mr.. Garden Toad; how they had
seen him swapping at the air and
how he had hoped away apparently
satisfied with a meal they couldn't
even seeI
Mr. Spider looked thoughtful. Poor
Mr.. Garden Toad" he finally said in
his most sympathetic voice; "he is
having a hard time these garbageless
daysl I know how it is myself, for
L lind It quite impossible to catch
as many flies as 1 needr
But he seemed to be getting some
thing" insisted Mrs Tommy Title
mouse, only we couldn't see what
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
MIGHT HAVE DONE BEIvrER,

If, as the receivers of the gas COM
pany assert, they operated the concern
a full 25 per cent cheaper than did it's
owners, what much better showing
they could have made had they not
appropriated so much of the COM
pany's moneys for their own remuner-
alton and expenses. OF course, the
courts awarded this money to the re-
ceivers. but the courts didn't force it
on them. The courts would have been
just as quick to have allowed smaller
fees, had the receivers made out their
bills accordingly
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFron the Chicago News.I

From the chicago NeWS-J
Mirrors are the poorest kinds of
flatterers
Beware of the man whom children
and dogs don't like.
wise man guesses a woman's age
10 years too young.
When she reads a historical novel
she sl<ips the historic part
Marriage is the monotony that re-
lieves the excitement of life.
Dampness caused by woman's
tears is always oppressive
Some men are pleasant to talk to
and disagreeable to listen to.
Little things console us because
most of our Affections are little ones.
1t is all right to keep smiling if
you have anything to smile about.
The absent may be at fault, but
those present always have good ex-
cuses-
The man who makes the best of
everything should have no trouble in
disposfng of his goods.
Every doctor in small town is
fully convinced that he would have
become world famous had he located
in city.
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MEN AND MACHINES.

This is a mechanical age, and moth
ing has more clearly proven it than
the progress of the war in Europe.
From London comes the intimation
that Christmas will be here before the
new ministry of munitions can get
sufficient machine guns and shells to
warrant the great movement already
planned. From Germany it is an
nounced that the rifle for infantr use
even the breech-loading and auto
matic-is to be practically discarded
for the machine. Perhaps we have
reached the point where the ancient
methods of fighting are to be sup
planted altogether. Physical force
and personal endurance used to de-
eide the battles of long ago; that was
the age when individual valor made
popular heroes. Then came collective
daring, the persistence of armed
masses engaged in combat. Now it
is the predonderance of destructive
machinery upon which reliance is
placed. The rifle has been relegated
to the use of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Post.
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Journal Entries

Silence may nod assent but 1T more
often conceals ignorance.
T. j. j.
A conscientious man has no bust
ness conducting a photograph gallery.
= Il u
People who are easily fooled by
others have little trouble in fool1ng
themselves.
Many folk take good care to attach
a strong string to the bread they cast
on the waters.
= = =
Among the clevereSt actors are the
men who can give the impression
they're working when they're not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20

Topeka's sanitary sergeant and city
health officer are in favor of putting
such a license fee on cats that their
possession will become unpopular.
They denounce these pets because
they are disease carriers. And if Ii
censing the cats will reduce their
numbers. there are countless Topekans
who will endorse the movement for
the other excellent reason that it may
reduce the volume of the cat calls
and bowls at night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20

Victor Murdoch isn't the only man
who wouldn't be surprised if the next
Republican presidential nomination
went to William Howard Taft But
there are not so many who will agree
with him that the Progressives are
certain OF sweeping the country in the
next presidential election.
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