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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

Next morning when the sun peeped
over the rim of the world he saw Old
Man Owl wide awake and talking as
hard as he could talk. Surely such a
thing could not be? The sun climbed
higher into the heavens and looked
again.
This time there could be no mistake.
The night shadows were gone and he
could plainly see the owl standing in
the light and talking as hard as he
could.
Yves. sir. right down this very
path" he was saying, land you'd bet
ter be careful tonight, Tommy Title
mouse, for next time / might not be
there to warn youn
Poor little Tommy Tittle-mouse,
who had slipped out for his morning
could hardly move. The sun saw him
quaking and shaking, so he shone on
him so softly and warmly, that he soon
began to feel better-at least enough
better to creep shyly back to his nest
in the log where the sun was sure Mrs
Tommy would meet him with comfort
and cheer. What can that Old Man
Owl have done?" the sun asked him
SELF that would brighten little Tommy
like that? L think I'd rather shine
over on the hedge anC find out about
it, so he did.
Old Man Owl saw the sunbeams
coming towards the hedge, SO he crept
deeper and deeper into the shadow,
ne STOP his IdlklHS one
minute. The sun had no trouble at all
in hearing the whole story.
ooh you should have stayed awake
last night" called the owl to Mr..
Garden Toad as he came along the
path towards the hedge in search of
his first morning fly "how you can
sleep the whole night through is more
than I can understand anyway"
There may be several things you
do not understand" said the toad
Grossly Che was always in a bad hui
NOR till he had his breakfast and the
owls manner didn't make his bad
humor improve), II wake when 1
wish and sleep when 1 wish. Moth
ing happens in the night, so why
should stay awake-telI me that2'
''Ill tell you that Is where you are
mistaken" cried Old Man Owl now
thoroughly excited, "a great deal hap
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

great dealt the truth must be
spoken, to keep herself from thinking
a good deal oftener of Tommy. The
| latter certainly did not show signs of
being stricken-but somehow, now
and then, something in his eyes-blue
and innocent almost as her own
some note in his voice-although it
spoke only commonplace-stir her
as Fontaine's look and speech had
never done.
Hilary was eager yet reluctant to
see her cousin Aunt Pam had let her
know. indirectly, that she felt it in
cumbent to let the good Barton-Fair
understand their prospective rela-
| tionship: 1T will be more dignified-
entire frankness,' she had said
Hilary wanted to protest, to beg for
silence at least, but the habit of ODE
dience was too strong.
So perhaps she was no more than
properly sympathetic when, Just as
Fontaine was due, Aunt Pam devel-
Oped toothache so violent that it
swelled her face grotesquely and kept
her out of view for full three days.
even Hilary and Fontaine got no near
er than the door.
When, upon the fourth morning. the
invalid came down to breakfast con-
valeScent she found awaiting her the
surprises of her life. Standing her
stateliest self as she saluted host and
hostess, she began with an air of
finality that did great credit to her
betrothal of my niece and my ne
phew.''
why, Aunt Pant Are you a clair
voyant? However did you find it out :?
We only knew it ourselves last night
and have just told the authorities
Fontaine interrupted
And there he stood, with an arm
about Phyllis. while Tommy. grinning
| like happy gargoyle, gently tweaked
E1ilary'S ear. In a twinkling, the Bar
ton-Fair elders were either side of the
speechless woman, madam huggfng
her, pater familiaS shaking both her
hands and declaring not quite steadily
We've couldn't ask for-anything
better. The good Lord must have sent
you to make our cup of blessing over
flow"
To this day, Aunt PANS wonderful
prescience is among the dear tradi-
lions of the Barton-Fairs and their
descendants. Hilary perhaps could ex-
plain 1T, but she keeps a golden silence
-(Copyrighted, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
GFrom the Chicago News. ]

IFrom the Chicago News.
Most of us are overloaded with good
intentions.
Many a chap with moral dyspepsia
thinks he has religion.
Sometimes a patient. gentle, good
natured man is merely lazy.
A ripe old age is sometimes as
agreeable as a green persimmon.
A boarding house is many mans
only excuse for getting married.
Trying to be funny has made a big
dent in many a mans bank balance.
And most people are willing to- do
you a favor-when you don't need it.
A woman has faith in her husband
because she would be unhappier if she
didn't have
The more a girls photograph does
MT look like her the more she tries to
believe it does.
The wife of a farmer never takes
her eyes off the scales when she is
selling butter to a peddler-
Probably one of the easiest ways for
man to get wife is to boast that he
is a confirmed woman hater-
While some statesmen are all to the
good from the viewpoint of their
seem to be political mfsfits-
While the fool sits around and wor-
ries about the living the world owes
him the wise guy gets busy and coll
iiects the interest ON the debt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
From Other Pens

CHARITY ON STUPENDOUS SCALE.
Relief of human suffering was never
erected on so large scale as by the
American Commission for the Relief
of Belgium and never has relief work
of such magnitude been conducted so
thoroughly, Systematically and eco
nomically. At the start, the commits
sion secured provisions and distributed
them as carefully as possible wherever
the destitute could be reached. But
that was a makeshift. Members of
the commission, many of them men
successful in large business undertake
1ngs, applied business principles to the
problem. They organized the finances
and industry of Belgium; erected a
great banking and commercial trading
institution whereby money and credit
were exchanged for provisions. Gold
disappeared, but there was an album
dance of paper money The commits.
sion made all who had the money pay
for the food and when the money was
gone accepted credit slips. Then they
got Germany to agree to let the COM
mission collect foreign debts to Bel
GUM in gold and pay the creditors in
the paper money. Eventually this ex-
tended much further, so that Belgian
industry has to some extent revived
Rochester Post-EXpress.
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Kansas Comment
ADVANTAGE OF BUYING NOW.

ADVANTAGE OF BUYING NOW.
IL a business man read in his trade
Journal that he could get certain stock
Tor 20 cents that would cost him S1.0O
later, he would travel long distances
ana af oorroW money to get the goods.
neglected such an opportunitv he
would be fired. At the same time
some men let just such chances 90
IN aally nIe. They read in the news
paper advertisements that a dealer is
selling for $500 what ordinarily would
cost $3.50 to $500. They LET tba
chance go because it seems too small
to attract them. Yet if all these On
portunities are improved, the cosr Of
living can be greatly reduced. Women.
are pretty shrewd in these matters
and don't let many chances slip by
to buy goods that they really need
They recognize that in the middle of
summer particularly, trade is nat1Ir
ally little slow. Dealers are ali the
time offering special bargains in order
to clean out their stocks. There are
two scales of living cost on which Won
can run a family. One scale is based
on indiscriminate, haphazerd buy
ing, running into the first store and
buying the first thing offered, without
making any effort to find if any COM
petitor is selling any cheaper. No
business man can run a factory that
way. A family can be supported that
way only by running into debt or go
ing without things one might just as
well have. The other way to run a
family is to buy in the cheapest mar
ket The way to find out what the
cheapest market is, is to watch what
dealers make the best offerings in the
newspapers. The family that watches
for bargains should be able to reduce
its living costs from 10 to .25 per cent
For the greater majority OF people
this advice is needless, as they already
watch the newspaper advertising clos
er than they do the daily news. But
some families who growl about the
cost of living have a good deal to learn
in this respect.-Winfield Courier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

Their fondness for macaroni may be
responsible for the fact that the Ital-
fans are not making a better show
ing in their military activities. Maca-
roni may be all right in its place, as
a side dish. but it doesn't seem to be
very substantial food for fighting men.
Still it seems to produce pretty good
ditch diggers. as most of the excava-
ton work in the big cities in the
eastern cities of this country is done
by Italians. And as the European
war seems to have developed into a
ditch, or rench-digging contest, the
Italians may soon measure up better
TO the standards that have been set
by the armies of the other bellfger-
entS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
EUening Chat
Word Theories.
BY RUTH CAMERON

In a certain household with which
am slightly acquainted is a child
whom his parents regard as prob
lem. He is ten years old and he has
never gotten over his childish habit
of throwing things at people when he
is angry.
He has been punished for it again
and again, but when the fits of tenn
per come he reaches for the nearest
object and hurls it at the offender.
Not a perfectly normal child, you
say. No, L suppose not. Throwing
things, because we are angry is a hab-
it we are supposed to leave behind in
babyhood. Any full grown person who
throws things is likely to land either
in the insane asylum or the prison.
All of which sound too obvious to say
and I shouldn't say it except as a pre-
lude to this:
why should throwing words be re-
garded so mildly?
/ Don't words hurt just as much as
things sometimes?
"A wound sfrePNc the tongue" says
from a. sword, for the latter affects
only the body, the former, the spirit
And yet people who would never
think of reaching for an object and
throwing it at the head of someone
into themselves and seize the sharp
est taunt, the most cruel and unjust
accusation and fling it straight at the
offenders heart
Words leave wounds that never
heal, poisoned wounds that ache and
tester through a lifetime; words kill
friendship and love and hope. Words
come back like a boomerang to pierce
the heart whence they came.
You know I didn't mean anything
/ Said' NAV RXn1ain when the
storm of rage has passed. What OF
that? Does the man who throws the
nearest object mean to hurt his
friend? No, he obeys a blind i'm
pulse of rage and the word thrower
docs the same. If you were told you
could take dozen occasions out of
your life wouldn't more than half of
those you selected be times when you
said some unforgivable word?
If that is true, the next time you
feel an impulse of anger sweeping
away the restraints of kindness and
decency, stop a moment and ask your
is there so much difference III guilt
between them?
Question-Suppose a man and wife
have lived together for years, SEEM
ingly happy enough, perhaps have a
small family. For some reason the
man has ceased entirely to love his
wife and vice versa, and it is impoS-
sible for the love to be rekindled. Both
hesitate to resort to divorce as a
means of separation. Would it not
be better if one or the other took a few
belongings and went away, thus
bringing a climax to the very unpleas-
ant positions? AS matter of course a
|. divorce would She likely to follow,
but without so much publicity.--An
Interested Reader.
Answer-If neither wants to marry
again why not simply a separation in
81 of
teach you that you would be no hap
pier apart than together. And if a
divorce still seemed desirable after a
few years, you could take up the mat
fer fI1aD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
WHAT ARE CITY OFFICIALS FOR.

Surely it isn't up to the people OIL
the East Side, as one OF the CITY
commissioners intimates, to Suggest
some way to handle the spasmooic
Shunganunga flood problem ana also
to find way to obtain the money tnat
may be needed to solve it. The people
on the East Side pay their share or the
taxes to maintain a city engineering
department that might reasonably De
expected to lend a hand in WORKING
out such problems, and also TO pay
the salaries of the city commissioners
who would seem to be the ones 10 as
sist in devising the ways and means TO
cone with such situations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
DID BRYAN ALSO DUPE WILSON?

News from Washington tells that
President Wilson was duped in nam
ing James M. Sullivan as minister to
Santo Domingo. Did Mr.. Bryan have
a hand in it? Possibly. In the nat
uraI order of things, Mr.. Bryan, as
secretary of state, must have presented
the name of Mr.. Sullivan to the presi-
dent for the appointment. And the
rather famous letters that passed be-
tween Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Sullivan
would indicate that they were pretty
close political friends. The conclusion
is inevitable, therefore, that Mr.. Bryan
was we'll aware of Mr.. Sullivan's cali
Der. Colonel Bill was sure some sec
rotary of state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

OF course, it is out of the question
that Kansas should lead in every hu-
man activity worth while. SO it is
nothing to the discredit of the state
that it is trailing behind Iowa and
Missouri in a general road building
bee of two days duration which Gov
ernor Capper has set for August IL
and 10. Still, the good roads made
in this fashion are not of the lasting
variety That's the kind that Kansas
needs and some day Kansas will de-
vote her energies in road making and
the money devoted to it in obtaining
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

Most significant and equally salu-
tary was the action of the coroner's
Jury at Chicago in singing out two
federal inspectors of steamships as
among those it considered to be pri-
n1arily to blame for the Eastland
tragedy A thousand laws might be
written in all seriousness to safeguard
the lives of people but they would be-
come as so much waste paper If those
charged with administration were lax
in their duties and not alive to their
RESPONSIBILITIES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

as eager for news as the owl had
hoped he would be) here? Where 1
am standing? oh. dear! L thought
she never came into the garden at
night Now L never will have a min
ute's peaceH
Never feari Never fear," said the
owl Importantly, Il will take care of
you 1 will protect you. You need not
be afraid" And he smoothed down
his feathers and blinked wisely.
Just listen to that" cried the dis
gusted sun, che talks as if he did il air
And 1 am perfectly sure he wouldn't
have seen the cat or done a thing but
for the fairyi" And the sun shone so
fiereely in his indignation, that Old
Man owl had to crawl up into the
darkest part of the hedge and go to
sleep. = Copyright = Clara Ingram
Judson.)
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Journal Entire S

Bargain-hunting women also often
get fooled on their wedding days.
i 4.
Opportunity is pretty active, at that.
if it knocks at every door onle once.
I. !.
Many a woman's wealth of hair,
when loosehed, drops not to the floor
but on it.
When neither family thinks its off
spring is being buncoed, the wedding
is an unusual one.
% u 10
Most folk seem TO think that the
only pleasures worth while are the
ones they can't afford.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
On the Spur
of the Moment
AT LAST.
BY ROY X. MoULTON.

AT LAST.
me wheat is cut, though one time we
Had Tears that it would never be.
We gaze upon the stacked up fields,
And calculate the acres yields
Rain every other day we got,
And in between twas awful hot.
We do not like to grumble, but
were very glad the wheat Is cut!
Colby, Kan.
the telephone operator for Mr.. Webb,
webb" The information operator
replied that there were several Webbs
in the directory and asked where this
one lived. He do not lif," responded
the subscriber; che runs a store"
That Garden.
L do not care about the war,
Or what it is about.
The thing that worries me is this:
Why don't my onions sprout?
o, where are all the 'radishes,
The lettuce and the beans?
We haven't had a chance to get
A single mess of greens.
And now we are told they are go
ing to paint Fords yellow so they
can sell them in punches like ba-
nanas. Why not paint them green
and sell them like olives?
We Could Get Along Without These.
French pancakes.
Chilli con carni
Barrel organs.
Night prowling motorcycles.
Muffler cut-outs.
Efficiency experts.
Smoking car conVersationa1ists.
Yellocutionists.
Kultur poetry.
Madagascar hats.
Shoes that lace in the back.
Well, Why Not?
Why not call it the Rushin' army ?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
THE STIGMA OF .HIGH-BRow. ;,

The worst fault, however, into
which our age-long service of medi-
ocrity has led us is a weakened,
pusillanimous Difference TO medioc-
rity itself. writes Henry SeideI Can
by in Harper's Magazine for August.
The college has borrowed the vice
from everyday American life. For
example. the most deadly weapon in
the yellow journalists arlno-y is the
term ''high-brow." A politician may
be called CRATER boss or even
s'nuckraker,' and escape unscathed;
but if he IS denounced as a high
brow" and the label sticks, his ca
reer is ended. A playwright or a nov
elist may be written down as cheap
he may be said to plagiarize, he may
be shown to be Vicious or unc1ean,
without serious damage to his reputa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
REDRESS FOR DEATH AT SEA


More than fourteen years ago, writes
Hon. Harrington Putnam in the July
Case and Comment, the Maritime Law
Association of the United States,
body of practitioners and judges rep
resenting both seacoasts and the
Great Lakes. outlined a bill to be en-
acted by Congress to give remedy for
DEATH to the Federal courts sitting
in admiralty. The scope of the
measure was simply to grant the
same jurisdiction as to a tort causing
death as had always been exercised
to redress tort causing injury to
property Yet Congress was strangely
unresponsive. The very appearance
of such a bill was at first deemed
burdensome to shipping and trans
portation interests. Hearings were
had before committees, but little
ensued. In the discussions that en-
sued, the matter of such remedy for
death was taken up and approved by
successive votes of the American Bar
Association, who appointed a commit
tee to urge the enactment of such a
measure. A practical difficulty is the
overlapping of the state and Federal
jurisdictions where admiralty courts
deal with torts on state waters. There
is a dangerous possibility of a double
recovery If the Federal law is made
paramount, the representatives in
Congress naturally feel that the states
are surrendering to Congress control
over domestic legislation. 1t was the
attempt to reconcile these two con-
siderations that has proved a diff
Guilty in congressional hearings. A
certain distrust of admiralty courts,
because of their diverse system of
procedure and absence of juries, also
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Why do We interfere so promptly
and so frequently with the revolutions
in Haiti and not with those in Mexico?
Surely the answer isn't that Haiti Is
an inconsequential speck on the
earth's surface and has not the
strength to offer anything that savors
of a forceful resistance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

YES remarked. Farmer sCorntossel.
Josh knows a heap He can tell me all
raise an what Injuries the crops. But
there's one thing he never investigated
If he had studied a little deeper. Josh
wouldn't have got all mussed up while out
walkin in his Sunday clothes" what
did he omit" He never investigated
On a bull. 't-Washingto Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
OLD MAN OWL BRAGS.
" chaSa hssraaJOdson !,

pens in the lifht if you only would stay
awake to see lit" And he told Mr.,
Garden Toad the story of the house cat
and how he himself had saved the
kind little Tommy Tittle-mouse from
danger.
1.-THE house cat?" exclaimed the
toad (and he was quite as excited and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

What's thisl The war plans, or
rather the defense plans, that Uncle
Sam is now working out are to be
yelled with secrecy. 1t sounds alto
rether too REASONABLE to be true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

Too many cooks will probably spoil
the broth of the Investigations to fix
the responsibility for the Eastland
horror. No less than eight separate
Inquiries are now on or contemplated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

With the weather conditions in Kan
sas now exceedingly favorable for corn,
anybody who may be displeased with
them would be unpatriotic to voice his
Sentim entS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

II England is as confident as the
historians of the first year of the war
say she is, she must have something
of large proportions up her sleeve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

FThese new German aeroplanes
which cannot be seen are more than
likely to be able to make themselves
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Rain every other day we got,
Ana IN between twas awful hot.
We do not like to grumble, but
We're very glad the wheat is cut
V. RYLATT.
Colby Kan