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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

81 want a blossomi 1 want a bios
som!" he sang to himself, ct want a
beautiful blue blossomi" And the
more he thought and the more he
sang, the harder he worked to make
his wish come true-that's the best
way you know
Finally, before many day. he sue
ceeded in making some tiny green
leaves Ga shelter for the blossom when
it should come you see); and then at
last the blossom itself He didn't
care if it was tfny-so tiny that its
head hardly stuck up above the green
leaves. He only saw it's blueness, he
only sensed it's fragrance and felt
through it the rapture of the spring.
But there came a minute when he
wanted more than the blossom-he
wanted someone to look at the bios
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15
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som he had made-someone to enjoy.
and smell and love it with him.
So he watched carefully and ere
long he heard a fairy passing by
Fairy" he called in his soft little
voice. Fairy! Come here and see
what 1 have made!"
The fairy obligingly stopped and
looked at the blossom; she loved and
admired it till even Johnny-jump-up
was satisfied. He smiled and dim
pied and was as happy as a king.
I've been working a long time to
make that flower" he explained to
the fairy, the very first flower of the
spring is always the hardest to make
| 'spect that is the reason 1 always
love that flower the best, don't you
suppose SOP"
The fairy thought it very likely and
told him SO, then she added, but why
don't you make longer stem for it?
That stem is so tiny nobody can posi-
bly, see it. and that's too pretty a
flower to bloom unseen"
ut isn't unseen" replied Johnny
jump-up sturdily, ct see it,"
ITO be sure" said the fairy laugh
ingly, but it is SO pretty everybody
ought to see it-theyd feel better for
their work If they did
81 expect they would" answered
J ohnny-jump-up pleasantly 81 know
do. But you see there are no people
'I'n fix that" said the fairy gaily.
And what do you suppose she did?
That very night she went into the
city-the great big working city-and
she slipped from house to house, from
sleeper to sleeper. and every place she
went she left dream; a beautiful
fresh dream of spring.
And when the people, the working.
city people, walked up the next morn
ing, what do you suppose was the first
thing they thought of? Their dream
of course. Their dream of spring and
vio1etsl
And the very first day they could.
they went to the woods and hunted
violets! And they found Johnny-jump-
up and his blossom-and everybody
lived happily indeedi-(Copyright
1915-Clara Ingram Judson)
(Tomorrow-Timmy GraytaiI De-
cides to Help the SPRING.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15
"Sort of a Relative -

"Sort of a Relative"
The lawyer eyed the woman in the
witness box in patient despair. You
say, madam, he began, that the de-
PENDANT is a sort of relative of yours.
VIII you please explain what you
mean by that?''
well, it is like this replied the
witness, beaming upon the court.
His first wife's cousin and my sec
ond cousins first wife's aunt married
brothers named Jones and they were
cousins TO my mothers aunt. Then,
again, his grandfather on his mothers
side, and my grandfather on my moth
er's side were second cousins, and his
stepmother married my husbands
stepfather after his father and my
mother died, and his brother Joe and
my husbands brother Harry married
twin sisters. I amt ever fingered out
just how close related we are, but Two
always looked on him as a sort OF
cousin
We guess she was quite right.
Good Day, Madam.
Blue eyed old lady from Finland,
ranked as sex expert, says women
make better soldiers than men, be-
Ing stronger in emergency.
Says further that her sex will play
a large part in reconstruction after
war, hints that polygamy may come,
demands greater frankness in sex re-
loyalty of one person to another that
is an utter lie.
Yes. yes. of course. It's a free
country
she wants, salute, retire and then give
thanks that there are still women like
the one your dad fell in love with.
The Hickeyville Clarion.
Three second-handed settler 81
loon and buffet have been added to
the equipment of the Wide Awake
fire department, which is now pre-
pared for big CONGREGATIONS. The
James Purdy, the house painter. In
case of a fire the village president
will mail James a postal card notify
ing him and James will at once drive
to town with the hook and ladder.
Old Lem Hanks went to the pusr-
office to ask fer his mail. He got
boss collar, two jars of pickles, a post
hole digger, wagon tongue, three
churns and bushel of parsnips.
Mother Old One.
A woman asked our German drug
gist for some talcum powder. do
you want it scented?'' he asked. mo"
she replied, "I'll take it right along
with me-
That's an old wheeze, but it gets
laugh out of us every time it happens,
and it really happened this time.
Neither the druggist nor the woman
saw the point and that's what makes
it a good joke.
Oh! Joy!
oh, joy! oh, rapture! Oh, oddles
of bliss! Prosperity has came at last.
Real prosperity, pure and without
drugs or poison.
The tobacco trust has just declared
a dividend of four million dollars
Amt that immense, Clarence. ~
And still some ,cynics say that there
is no such thing as prosperity in this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lF'rom the Chicago News.1

GFrom the Chicago NewsI
Even men who say but little talk too
much.
A genius is a man who seldom
makes good at it.
Trying to dodge work tires more
men than hard labor.
Haste makes some people waste a
lot of other peoples time.
Hatred is often the result of know
ing but one side of q person
The less a man thinks of his neigh
Dor the more he admires himself.
Most women are born leaders-and
most men are born followers thereof
1t is easier to break the will of a
dead man than the will of live wo-
man.
Ministers may come and ministers
may go, but the choir feud goes on
forever f-- .f--- .-a --<.
The things that come to those who
wait are apt to be stale by the time
they arrive.
Unless you have more dollars than
sense do not expect others to consider
your troubles interesting.
The population of the United States
is only per cent of the worlds pop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15
Journal Entries

A joke ceases to be one when it is
carried too far.
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Sometimes the turn in the long road
is altogether too sharp and severe.
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A man is often envious of the priv
ileges friend wife accords to the guests
in his huuS.,.
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1Idu"atior seems to work both way S,
making some folk as foolish as IT does
others wise.
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Women are strong on exaggerating
except when it comes to talking about
their own ages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

incidentally, the deadlock between
the house and senate of the Kansas
legislature over the appropriation bills
is another first class argument in
favor of a single legislative body to do
the lawmaking for a state. Not only
would the making of laws including
the framing of appropriation meas
ures, be expedited, but absolute re-
sponsibility for their terms could be
fixed. The people would then know
exactly where to place blame or be-
stow praise as the occasion might
demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Out in the forest tiny little
Johnny-jump-up worked just as hard
as ever he could to make a blossom
He coaxed the sunbeams to stay with
him; he welcomed the water drops
and urged them to rest by his roots.
He worked and he grew in every hour.
He was so anxious to make a beautiful
blue blossom!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Common sense and a disposition to
apply ordinary business principles in
maintaining the efficiency of the
building equipment at the state insti-
buttons, as well as providing for it's
reasonable development. are all The
materials that the legislators need to
work with to make a key that will
open the deadlock on the appropria-
fion hills
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

France isn't evidently figuring that
the war will be concluded during the
present year. She is planning to call
her recruits of 1915 to the co1ors, but
will not utilize them until the older
classes of recruits in training have
been pretty we'll shot to bits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Jess Willard is using a Havana
theater for his training quarters and if
he should defeat Jack Johnson in
their forthcoming bout, he will prob
ably feel especially we'll equipped to
fill a niche on the statge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

In view of the Scarcity of wheat,
according to the st. Paul Pioneer
Press, the Italian government is con-
templating the issuance of a decree
limiting the consumption of sphagetti
for each person to 100 feet a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Although the greatest economy and
efficiency in all matters is the order
of the day in Germany, the workers in
the army bakeries have to take time
to stamp each loaf of bread with the
magical letter ''K"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Neither does it take much sun to
offset the gloomy influences OF the
clouds that preceded it, no matter
whether their visit was of a short or
long duration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Don't wax too enthusiastic over the
temperance of the sun and the CO.
incident arrival of rather delightful
weather. Remember that March
made it's entry like a lamb, and the
prediction of the goosebone weather
prophets on such a premise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Italy can be depended upon to get
into the war eventually and on the
side of the Allies. She would get none
of the spoils if the Allies won without
her aid, and if she helped them to
win she would get much more than
Germany and Austria are willing to
give her as bride to keep her out
of the conflict.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Senator Curtis is forecasting the
election of a Republican president in
1915, but he does not suggest who
may be the man. In fact, that is pref
ty much a political mystery which
can be unraveled only in the future.
But stranger things in politics have
happened in this country than that it
should be William Howard Taft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

1t appears from the statistics on the
subject just issued by the federal de-
partment of agriculture that the far
1ner's have not held their wheat this
year to the extent that has been COM
mon in years past. So the wheat spec
ulators will have to hunt up some 9TH
err ''goat' to shoulder the blame for
the high wheat prices and the in
creased cost of bread.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15
TELEPHONES.
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization, for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news Is received in The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Those forts at the Dardanelles ap-
pear to be the toughest parts of the
Turkey that the Allies are striving
SO energetically to carve to pieces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

Just one thing follows another to
hamper trade activities in this coun-
try these days. Bad roads are now to
the fore in this respect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

And the tentacles of the European
war octopus extend into every land.
One of them has stirred up bread
riots, even in Spain. sse-f- azgSr'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15
MEMBER:
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Association.

How unneutrali Icebergs are ex-
ploding floating mines in the Gulf of
Bothnia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15

The population of the United States
is only per cent of the worlds pop
ulation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY X. MOULTON,

Swear Quietly, Please.
Sign in local business place:
NO PROFANITY ALOUD.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1915-09-10

millinery department under the direction OF
Miss E. Hearn, popular priced ladies
ready-to-wear store, to be completed by
September 18th. The Emporium bids fair
to be the most popular ready -to-wear estab-
lishment in Minneapolis, and the improve
ments now under way will make the store
one Of the finest in the city.
Miss Julia Felsenthal will conduct Holy
day services at the State Home of Girls at
Sank Center. There are four Jewish girls
at the institution.
The State Conference Of Charities will
take place at New Ulm, September 25-26-27.
Miss Julia Felsenthal will represent the
Associated Jewish Charities
Rabbi c.. David Matt will conduct SER
vices at the state prison at Saltwater
The National Housing Conference will
meet in Minneapolis early in October. Mr..
Jonas We'll and Miss Julia Felsenthal will
represent the Charities. Mr.. We'll is very
active as a member Of the Housing Commit
tee of the Civic and Commerce Associations
which has made careful study Of conditions
in Minneapolis. It finds that there is a very
serious menace in the Jewish districts of
the North Side where property owners are
sometimes little too eager to get large re-
turns for their investments, and are given to
lot crowding, thereby producing a rapid de-
probation.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1915-09-10
THOSE WHO DO NOT MARRY.

Prof. Roswell Hill Johnson, of the Uni
versity of Pittsburg, has an article in the
"Journal of Heredity' for March, in
which he discusses the class of people who
do not marry
He divides men in various classes. Some
are obviously inferior, such as the i'm
moral, the diseased, or the deficient, but
there are many others who are largely
superior by nature, such as those who seek
some other end so ardently that they will
not make the necessary sacrifices, and
those whose education or apprenticeship
has been too prolonged. Efforts to i'm
prove matters, Professor Johnson says, may
proceed along three lines, as follows:
"Try to lead all young men to avoid a
loose life. A general effort will be
needed more by the superior than by the
inferior.
"Hold up the role of husband and father
as particularly honorable, and proclaim its
Sinking, without adequate cause, as dis
honorable. For a man to say he has never
met girl whom he can love simply means
he has not diligently sought one, or else
he has a deficient emotional equipment,
for there are many, surprisingly many,
estimable, attractive unmarried women.
"Cease prolonging the educational pc
Rod past the early twenties. The profess
sional schools in our country are steadily
delaying the age of graduation, and there
by that of marriage. They formerly asked
for high school training, and many still
ask no more. But other schools have de-
manded more and more, till now one re-
quires collegiate bachelor degree for
entrance. The situation is made still more
serious for medical students by the fire.
'quent postgraduate hospital practice with
out pay. 1t is time to call a halt. This
cannot go on without serious loss to the
race. Our young men should not have
their marriage postponed by external cir
Continued page $50
Please mention The Anne
, 1915-08-11
lCensoled at Jamaicn.l

London, Aug, 7th-A Petrograd official
bulletin Announces: "In view of the condi-
tions and general situation our troop west
of Warsaw received orders to fall buck on
the tight bank of the Vistula. These orders
were executed, the troops covering Warsaw
retiring, without being attacked, towards
the new front assigned them, blowing up
behind them all the bridges of the Vistula".
Tue BnvarIans under Prince Leopold Ind
the honour of taking over Warsaw, bat the
real couqnelors 0re the troops under Won
Hindeubutg along the Narew river to the
north east, the Austro Germans who crossed
the VlstuIa south of Warsaw, and the armies
under the Austrian Archduke and Won Mac
kensen who are advancing nortlwurd be-
tween the Vistula and Bug rivers.
The Russians are fighting desperately and
stubbornly to check the progress of these
four armies and have had several successes,
ipfictjng heavy losses on their pursueFs, but
are being steadily pressed bnck, making the
longer occupation Of the Polish salient hazar-
dons. Although the steadiness of the Rus
sian troops and their fierce cOuhter-att"cks
have gNined much valuable time II is pro-
blematical whether the whole Russian Army
will succeed in reaching it's new positions,
or whether it will not find those positions
TUNED by the Austrians who have crossed
the Bug southeast of Cholm, and the Germans
under General Won Scholz and Won Gallwitz
who have crossed The Narew. AT the north
easter end of the line the Russian COM
municatioLs III e further threatened by General
Won Bulow who is az advancing towards Dvinsk,
on the Vilua-Petrograd railway. Although
the Germans claim to have captured a large
, 1915-08-11

in the escape of the Russinn Army, Warsaw
therefore not being II Sedan.
Mr.. Lloyd George, during - speech ut
Bargor, sud Our enemies do net under-
stand what they are doing in the East.
Their mighty cannon are sha'tering the rus
ty bars that have tetteled he soul Of Russia,
and the Russians are shaking themselves
free Of the sitting debris and their NIGH y
limbs are preparing with new spirit and new
hope for ~ new land. Austria md Pru~ia
die doing to-day for Russia, what their mill
tary ancestors did for France hey are ham
mering the sword that will destroy them.
New York, August 7Ch-Ignatius Trbisch,
alias Lincoln, has been nrrnigued upon
a complaint by the British Consul here
on q charge of forging the name of
MIR. Benjamin Rowntree, cocoa mnnufnc-
turer, whose secretary he was. Under the
name of Lincoln lie formerly represent
ed Darlington in tie British House of Com
mons. He denies the alleged forgery and
says the re0l complaint is that he is a Ger
man spy and that extrudition is sought for
his execution. He also served in the British
Censor's office and it is alleged that he pub
licly and privately betrayed British secrets.
, 1915-08-11

District (Nac Kay) aud 4th Member for
same DISTRICT (ScAmieselow) got 3 votes re-
spectively.
voting ticket was invalid,
Item 5.
Election, according to OrlinNnce of 21st
April 1914 5 2 for the Danish West In-
dIu Islands concerning alterations of the
rules about court-witnesses, Of 2 men to
be court-witme.ses for ChristiNnsted's
and Frederiksted's Jurisdictions re-
spectively.
The Chairman (Stakenan') declared that
this matter would be dealt within closed
doors.
When the doors were opened the Chair
man (St~ateDtalu) communicated that the
following gentlemen had been elected MS
couIt-witnesses for the coming year:
For Christitnsted's jurisdiction;
Planter A. Rosenstand, Herman Hill and
Matchmaker J. Niles Of Christiansted,
For Frederiksttd's Jurisdiction:
Tavernkeeper Fred. Ramsay and
Merchant Kenneth Henderson, both OF
Frederiksted.
The Meeting closed at APO p. IN.
, 1915-08-11
70 the Edjtor ofhe 4cj8 Mtd BulJetja.
Dear Sir,

10 the Editor Of the -1gjs and Btd1oti2s
Dear Sir,
1 beg through your columns to
acknowledge with much gratitude the many
manifestations of appreciation shown my
boys and self during our stay in our beau
tiful sister island, the memory Of which will
always stay with us. TO say that we have
enjoyed a good time is using " very weak
term, as it was impossible to have been
treated better aud appreciated more.
And in the name Of the band must espe-
cially thank our kind friends Messrs. Gustaye
Lmnge, J. Alexander and Kenneth Hender-
sen for their kindness and enthusiasm in
making our concerts successful
l am Sir,
ALTON A. ADAMS,
BandmaSter 4. u. b.
st. Thomas, Aug. 5th, 1915.
, 1915-08-11
KILOGRAMS
ST. CROIX STATION.
Censored ut Jamaica.)

IIenSOfeU NJ JAInNTCH.J
Copenhagen, Aug. 6th-A German airship
officer who was interned ut Odense escaped
hast Saturday night and has not been seen
since.
A subscription to the new State loan was
closed on Saturday last. About forty mil
lion kloner were subscribed.
, 1915-08-11

7th Auq.-Mizpah for St. Thomas Ser
gent Hansen, Gendarrne TruIlsen, e. VIII
lrams, Mary Ford, James Grove, Andria
Layalia and 2 children.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-02-10
oUSTED COMMISSIONER
MAY BE HEARD

Washington, D. c., Feb. 10. - That
the Supreme Court of the United
States will hear arguments this month
and decide the case of Commissioner
Oliver p. Newman of the District of
Columbia, against whom custer pro-
ceedings have been dragging in the
courts for a year, is believed by New
mans friends. Newman was ousted
by the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia last July, and the action
was sustained by the Court of Appeals
of the District. The Supreme Court
granted him a writ of error.
The Importance Of the forthcoming
review of the case extends beyond the
ousting of Commissioner Newman, for
Chief Justice White, who granted the
writ of error, intimated that the case
Involves the Presidents right of ap-
pointment and the Senatorial right of
confirmation, thus presenting a legal
question Of federal Importance.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-02-10
FOR FREE PRESS.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 1O.-A gen.
eral conference of Seventh Day Ad.
ventists from New England, middle
Atlantic and Great Lakes states came
to an end today at Takoma Park.
where presidents and missionary
heads Of the sect have been holding q
weeks convention. Believing that the
measures recently introduced in Con.
gress by Representatives Fitzgerald
and Sullivan are the first steps toward
the destruction of the freedom of the
press, the Adventists circulated peti-
tions protesting against the proposed
legislation. In discussing the issue,
Elder Prescott of Takoma Park said:
Both of these bills establish a cen.
sorship of the press, and place in the
hands of one man, who Is himself not
elected by the people, the absolute
power to exclude from the mails any
which in his opinion has
violated certain provisions, without
any opportunity of trying the case be-
fore properly constituted court. Such
control of the press Is arbitrary and
tyrannical."
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-02-10
THE LOGICAL SEX.

Gentlemen" said a member of Con.
gress during the debate on the suffrage
amendment, ut Is said that women
would purify politics in this country.
For 1875 years this same country has
been wholly man-governed, and sub.
NIT that nowhere in the world, at no
time in history, has any country had
the clean government enjoyed by these
United States of America. Gentle
men, never will | vote to permit our
women to trail their skirts in the muck
and mire of our politics"
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-02-10
THREE WOMEN SENATORS.

Miss Kathryn Clarke of Glendale
was chosen state senator at a special
election in Oregon last month. She
VIII be the first woman to serve in
that capacity in Oregon. Miss Clarke
was appointed several weeks ago by
Gov. West to fill vacancy in the Sen
ate. The legality of the appointment
was questioned, however, and special
election was held. Miss Clarke ran on
the democratic ticket against two men.
and won with a plurality slightly un-
der 100 votes. There are two other
women senators in the country, Mrs.
Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado and
Mrs Frances Willard Munds of Ari-
zona. Mrs. Munds presided over the
Arizona Senate last week, during a
prolonged consideration of a bill to
amend the law relating to the fees
and salaries of county officers.