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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
BUSINESS on THE MEND.

After sta ting in his current weekly
financial review that a decided sense
of relief has developed in financial
circles because of the outcome of the
negotiations between the United
States and Germany relative to the
latters methods of submarine war
fare, Henry Clews, the New York
banker, writes:
Confidence in home business af-
fairs IS everywhere gaining, and in the
best banking circles there is universal
expectation of a good fall trade.
Things in general appear to be on the
mend. Trade and traffic are still be-
low normal. but the tide is rising The
banking situation in the United States
was probably never sounder or more
satisfactory than at the present mo-
ment. The new banking system is
working smoothly; and the danger in
this part of our economic machinery
is more in the direction of over-ex-
pansion than in contraction. Accord
ing to a recent statement by the
comptroller of the currency, the banks
of the United States have it in their
power to expand loans fully $3,OOO,-
100000. The present harvest equals
and is even exceeding all expectations
promise to surpass the earlier gov
eminent estimates; and the only draw
back in the grain outlook is the re-
ported injury to wheat from excess
sive moisture, also the certainty of
rush of wheat into European markets
when the Dardanelles are opened.
Wheat and oats will be record crops.
and corr nearly so. The cotton out
look is, of course, unsatisfa Glory.
While the situation has been changed
by the placing of Gotten on the con-
traband list, it VIII not materially af-
feet exports since shipments to Ger
pended. The yield this year will I'M
doubtedly fall considere bly, below last
years crop, which will offset the loss
of exports of about 100000 bales to
Germany and Austria. Fortunately,
there will be no difficulty in financing
the crop. Our own financial abilities,
as just shown, are unusual. and the
offer of the secretary of the treasury
to loan $S0,0OO,0OO gold to the re-
serve banks for advances on cotton
assures the south ample financial ac-
commodation- So much has been
heard about the extraordinary in
crease in our export trade and the
increase of exports over
imports that tn. demcralized condi-
ton of our foreign trade has been
overlooked. The fact is the war
seriously injured both cur exports and
our imports; the harm done being
overlooked because of the false glamor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record
should be taken with a grain of salt.
Even the theatrical manager hest
tates to spend all his money to make
a show.
Many a man has sustained frac-
ture of the reputation from slipping up
on the truth.
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
Even the comedian doesn't work for
the fun of it.
In order to walk with an elastic step
it isn't absolutely necessary to wear
rubber heels.
Moving in circles isn't the way to
get ahead, even though you may move
in the best circles.
No, Maude, dear; there is no SINH
larity between accepting gilt edge Sc
curity and buying a gold brick.
Many a man who can't see his own
faults deludes himself with the idea
that ali the world is equally blind.
Mr. Buggins-"I like Bjones; he's
such a bluff old chap" Mrs Buggins
And I like Mrs. Bjones; she can call
his bluff
Charity gets to be a habit. Give a
beggar a piece of home made pie to-
day, and he'll be back tomorrow for a
pepsin tablet.
Wigg-'Do you believe marriages
are made in heaven 2" Wagg-"Oh, I
don't know; most, of them seem to be
engineered. by the girls mother.
Yes" said the society youth who
casionally follow the hounds"
"Shake." exclaimed the coarse person
in the red necktie. Il used to be
dOg-catcher myself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Neatness is the greatest discomfort
to a SLOUGH.
There has never been wood word
to take the place of liar
The boss is a leader if he chance
to belong to your faction.
A gossip is a person who uses the
jaw bone of an ass to hurt some one.
On the other hand, there are GER
tain events the gCssips fail to find out.
Public opinion is also apt to over
estimate its wisdom from time to time
Neither is anyone as wise as the gent
in the information bureau tries to
look.
The rule is that, if she has Some
Shape, her clothes are apt to fit her
pretty we'll
Do You talk for the good of the or
der, or do something for the good of
the order?
The devil is getting old, but lot
of young devils are on the streets of
almost every town.
When Jude johnson dies many peo-
pie will think that his rest has been
broken, and not begun.
A man may think a good deal while
entertaining a busthead, but his
thoughts aren't for publication.
A bilious pessimist arises to re-
mark that IT'S a wonder there aren't
more suicides in the cold gray dawn.
Among the ether rare specimens
may be listed the politician who re-
signs except to keep from being kicked
out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
MARY JAMES

ooh, dear I wish 1 was a rich little
girl" sighed Mary Jane, "a real rich
little girl, so that I could have every
thing on earth that wanted"
She turned over in the hammock
and sighed again-mournfully
Mother was sitting on the porch
darning stockings and she heard and
was surprised at such wish from her
pleasan t-tempered little girl
"a real. real. real rich little girl"
repeated Mary Jane and she swayed
the hammock with her left foot.
.sYes?" said mother as she picked
I'D another stocking, and what would
you do then?'
Mary Jane sat up straight. DO
you really want to know, mother? ?"
she asked.
Maybe I'd like to be rich, too
Mary Jane opened her eyes wide
She hadn't thought of that; maybe
mother would like to have everything,
a doll house." said Mary Jane; "a doll
house right out in this front yard
How foolish to walt till you are
rich for that" laughed mother 81
You may never be rich and it's a pity
to do without a doll house If you want
one"
Mary Jane looked puzzled But
mother she said, doll houses cost
money; and you know I can't have a
doll house built here. 1t would cost
too much"
Mother laid down her work and
looked at Mary Jane.
''Of course if you are the kind of
little girl who has to have boughten
things" she began, that's different.
I was thinking of a little girl who
wanted a doll house"
Mary Jane got out of the hammock
and sat on the steps near her mother.
Il know very well from the way you
talk, mother, that you have a plan.
Please do tell me about it, for / do
want something to do; and 1 really
want a doll house"
"Al1 right, then, DEAR said mother, J
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
FUTURE WORLD POWERS.

Raymond Robbins of Chicago de-
clares that the preeminent world pow
ers of the future will be Russia, Japan
and the United States. But Germany
has other plans in the premises. Still,
if peace in Europe does not come in
the next two or three months, and
the war drags on for another year or
so, the eventual defeat of Germany
seems inevitable. And in that event,
England and France will probably
have considerable to say as to Russia's
sphere of influence for the future.
England yet has her navy and the in
dications are that she intends to keep
it safe and sound.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
Jayhdwker Jots

It's the opinion of the Elk County
Citizen that the fellows who want war
are too old to enlist. M F..
1t is when wearing out last years
suit, explains the Anthony Bulletin,
that the styles look SO odd.
Pertinent war comment, by the
Humboldt Union: The Turks are do
ing more fighting and less talking
than any of 'em.
Great flocks of wild geese flew
south last Friday evening and night
august 27), reports the Douglass
Tribune, and it asks: Who ever before
knew of wild geese going south in
August?
There are lots of people in this
country, says the Phillips County Post,
who think it will be just as easy to
settle troubles by arbitration before
several million men are killed as it
will be afterward
An exception to the rule that there
is nothing in name. Arthur Wise
has given up his position in a bank at
Plainville, and moved out to his faith
er's farm where he'll undoubtedly get
rich quicker, or richer, if he's already
rich.
Told by the County Liner~ Does
baby talk YETI" asked a friend of the
family. Nav" replied the little
brother disgustedly. He don't need
to talk. All he has ter do is to yell
and he gets everything in the house
worth having"
Related by the Toronto Republican,:
One negro was complaining to another
of his wife. IT'S money, money,
money all de time. Use gettin'
mighty tired of it!'' What does she
do wifi so much money!" queried the
other negro. 81 Dunno replied the
complainer: 81 amt done give her no
money yet
1t is only reasonable that married
women and single women should have
differing viewpoints. The Colver Rec
ord quotes Mrs. Alvin Miller as say
ing: There ought to be several laws
against some of the marriages that
ara pulled off" And then the Record
quotes Edith Bernham as remarking:
Gee, it's hard enough now to get a
man without making it worse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
RAIL TRAFFIC DECREAsED.

The railroads of this country aggre-
gate more than 100000 miles. They
are long enough to go more than
eleven times around the globe. They
go everywhere in the land; they come
in contact with every industrial estab-
lishment, the products of which must
be transported by them; and they are
thus in position to respond immediate
ly and sympathetically to the condi-
lions which surround the general
business of the country. But the
prosperity of the war bride" mar
ket has not affected the railroad
situation in this country outside a few
sections whore war orders have
been concentrated. In the twelve
months ending June 80, American
railroads received gross revenue from
operation amounting to $2,S93,S73,-
047, comparing with s3,126, 49S,2 1852
for the previous year and with an
average of $2,997,O53 ,399 for the five
years 1911-15. Operating expenses
amounted to $2,O47, 431,4O9, compar-'
ing with $2,27S,OS2,641 for the pre-
vious wear; the ratio of expenses be-
ing 7O.S per cent in 1915 and almost
1919 per cent in 1914. Taxes amount
ed to $134, 611,256, compared with
$14O,1OO,77O in 1914; net revenue to
$711, S30.382 in 1913 and to S7O5,O15,-
4SS in 1914. The return on capital
invested in the plant, estimating the
cost at $17.35O, 100000, reached only
Al per cent in 1915, compared with
AZ per cent in 1914 and 81 per cent
in 1913. The railroads of the country
as whole operated last year at fully
10 per cent below this capacity. They
carried their paSSe ngers at the rate of
2.002 cents per mile and for each ton
of freight hauled they charged 1877
mills per mile. Apparently every in
ducement to travel and to ship freight
was offered to the public. Yet the
passenger of last year were
more than two billions below the aver
age for the past five years, and the
number of ton-miles fell off five bill
lions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
MITTEN.

MITTEN.
1 wooed her in the wintertime,
And won her, so 1 thought, forever;
Sne vowed that she was fond of rhyme,
AND dotted on my least endeavor.
her eyes were of cerulean hue;
Sne mad merry way of hooking,
ana though she loved to dress in blue,
She was not "bluestocking"i
sometimes before the sea- coal fire
Close side by side our toes we toasted;
sometimes We braved the north winds ire,
And skated gleefully or coasted.
And once, when ragged the bitter storm,
And she by cruel cold was smitten,
To Keep her little fingers warm
l gave the maid a mitten
She treasured it, or so 1 deemed
Through days inviolate and vernal;
And still within her glance there cleaned
A tender light that seemed eternal
And so loves tide flowed on and on
What time the year was at its Juning
And ever in my slumbers shone
Fond dreams of honeymooning.
But, 10! this morning in the mail
L found a wedding invitation
(ah, the woeful tale y
That she had caught rich relation.
And with the word (alack a-dayD
There was brief note neatly written.
The maiden had but this to say:
Il send yoE back your mitten !"
Clinton Scollard in Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
SOLDIERS USING ARMoR.

The refurnishing of the military
arsenal with equipment and weapons
that have been consigned to the scrap
heap these hundreds of years is not
the smallest surprise of the great
struggle that is changing the map of
the world, writes Martin Marshall in
Leslie's. We smile at the old saying
from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in
three generations yet it is literally
true that one could paraphrase this
to read from bal1ista to ballista in
five hundred years.. Apparently
nothing becomes too obsolete for re-
juvenation. Ballistas. catapults, hand
grenades. armor. burning oil, all are
in use again. Apparently before the
war is much older armor will play its
part in no mean way in trench war
fare. Last summer and fall critics on
the Allies side were laughing at the
German helmet, but not only has that
helment proved its great value in pro-
tecting troops from shrapnel fire but
the breast plate also has come to be
recognized as a most valuable piece of
equipment in trench defense. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
EU enin g Chat
Want to and Ought.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

have a little friend who like most
little girls hates to go to bed. She
is always begging to be allowed to
sit up just half an hour longer or
read just one more chapter.
AS she is not very strong and needs
her sleep, the inevitable result of
yielding to her pleadings is that she
is sleepy in the morning and hates
to get up.
The other morning I happened to be
at her home when she came yawning
down to breakfast. You remember
you wanted to sit up last night" her
mother reminded her.
II know it, she admitted, and then
half petulantly, half wistfully, "Oh,
mother, why can't 1 want to go to
bed at night and want to get up in the
morning instead of wanting to sit
up at night when 1 shouldn't and
then hating to get up In the morning
when / should?"
Her mother laughed. well, the
world doesn't seem to be made that
way she said.
But why?" persisted the little girl
And / wondered, too. 1t is funny
so many things we shouldn't and have
to force ourselves to do the things
we should?
Why can't we long to study and
work and hate to waste time!
Why shouldn't patience and self
control come naturally and temper
and irritability be natural?
Why shouldn't it be easy to be gen.
erous and hard to be selfish?
Agnes Repplier quotes a Boston
man as saying that everything he
wanted to do proved to be either IN
healthy, immoral or too expensive.
Most of US have had similar expert
ences.
Ever since people began to have
ideals of conduct at all there has
been this conflict between what one
wants to do and what one ought
OF course you remember ST. PauPs
wistful cry. For the good 1 would
do not; but the evil which I would
not that I do I'm glad st. Paul said
that, because it bridges the chasm in
time and character between him and
me, and makes all the rest of his
words and his life more real.
OF course if we wanted to do the
things we ought to do, that would
eliminate the elements of conflict and
character building from life.
Would we really like that better?
Who can say2
Maybe heaven is, as friend of
mine likes to fancy. just a place
where We want to do what we should
Perhaps we would get tired of it But
no, that would be something we ought
not to do, SO how could we?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07

Surely there is nothing unreason-
able in the plans of the state authori-
ties to compel every rooming house in
Kansas to observe the provisions of
the hotel law, and especially in the
respect that they be safe places for
the people who patronize them. 1t is
rather unusual, though, if nonetheless
commendable, that there should be
this effort to lock a stable door before
the horse gets away. Ordinarily no
effort would have been made to make
the rooming houses of the state safe
until a big fire had come along and
smothered out the lives of many peo-
pie living in one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07

created by big gold imports and the
overwhelming munition orders pressed
upon us by the allies. There is no
real prosperity in the latter; and it is
a gruesome spectacle to see Europe
spending billions and billions for de-
struction, ana ourselves also
strenuously aiding this destruction
rather than following productive pur-
suits The greatest increases in ex-
ports during the fiscal year ending
June so, were in breadstuffs, horses
and mules, meat products and auto
mobiles. The most important losses in
exports were in cotton ($234, 00O,0OO),
in iron and steel manufactures of the
more expensive character and in agri-
cultural implements. Turning to the
import side of the account, we find
that nearly all the principal items show
serious declines, especially in silk
manufactures, cotton manufactures,
linens, copper, precious stones, art
works, etc. The only increases of any
Importance in imports were in sugar,
wool and rubber. These figures
prove that the demoraliza ton of our
import traffic has not been generally
appreciated, Its effect upon customs
revenue is important, and if continued
will next winter force some new form
of taxation, and possibly readjust-
ment of the tariff. Under the cir
cumstances, it would seem folly to cut
off the S5O,OOO,OOO of sugar revenue.
which has always been easily collected
and slightly felt. The returns of for
eign trade for the next few months
will undoubtedly show much larger
exports. A good demand for our
foodstuffs is practically certain, and
their outward movement will soon be-
gin. So, too, will the large shipments
of war munitions, which up to date
have been more or less restricted. A
very satisfactory element in our export
trade is a revival in the foreign de-
mand for legitimate export of steel
products to various parts of the world,
South America, which had
Withdrawn from the
European markets. 1t is to be hoped
that imports will also recover suf-
to prevent the exchange
problem becoming still more serious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
Speak your mind if you must, but
mind how you speak.
He is a sensible man who doesn't
want what he can't have.
When a man refers to a meat mar
ket as a morgue he's a vegetarian.
Foolish girls make a speciality of
breaking hearts; wise girls run repair
shops.
Shouting "Hey, therei" might at
tract the attention of a grass widow.
But what's the use?
Many a man gets credit for being
well informed just because people hap
pen to ask him questions that he can
answer.
When a man marries he cuts out
the solo and takes part in a duct-and
for two or three days thereafter he
thinks his life is one grand sweet song.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
From Other Pens
SOME BIG PENSION BILLS.

The closing of the European war
will witness the beginning OF the pay
ment of the biggest pension bills In
the history of the world. Millions OF
injured and disabled soldiers with
their productive powers curtailed, II
not altogether eliminated, Will be
drain upon their nations in a double
sense. While producing less, they
will cost their countries more. Men
permanently disabled through wounds
and sickness must be provided for
from the government treasury. Thls
is an item of expense which will COM
pare with the interest on their over
grown national debts. The Berlin
Vorwaerts, organ of the German So
cialists, asserts that after the war
the imperial debt and the pensions
alone will demand an annual eXpendl-
ture of at least two and half billion
marks ($625, 00O,O00), or little less
that the united ordinary and extra
ordinary imperial expenditure for
1912" The entire income which Ger
many has hitherto enjoyed will thus
be consumed in interest and pensions
alone The status of Germany may
be taken as a fair example of the con-
dition in this respect in which the
other powers engaged in the war Will
find themselves. rhe enormity of war
expenditures alone presages bank
ruptcy, but these are just the begin
ning.s1f the war debts might be grad
ualy paid off and eXtinguished over
a long term of years, there would he
some hope in the present outlook.
But with interest on war debts and
pensions demanding all available in
come, not to speak of the necessity
for ordinary maintenance, it is prac-
tically impossible to see where sink
ing funds are coming from to begin
the process of extinguishment. We
have sometimes felt that American
pension bills of c15O.O0O, 900 annually
were staggering. There is not n ma
ton of the first class engaged in the
present conflict but will probably he
called upon to pay several times that
sum. The deeper we go into the
financial problems Of the European
nations, grown out of this war, the
more beSildering and impossible of
solution they become, and the more
it seems that any of them
will secape MISUNDERSTANDING
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07

out your rooms with twigs-put a
twig about a foot high at each corner
of each room to be, and a lower tvrie,
on each side of each door Then
make long chains of your clovers
Stretch the clover chains. from stick
to stick and your house is done, ready
to move in to-"
Mary Jane clapped her hands with
delight and then ran to do as her
mother had suggested. After two
hours of the jolliest work she had
ever known, she had doll house ali
readyIthe quaintest, prettiest little
doll house any little girl ever owned
Don't you want to make yourse1f
one some Copyright-Clara
Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
MEMBER:
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Association.

Surely the suggestions of the British
press are wrong in their conclusion
that the torpedoing of the Hesperian
indicates that Germany's communica-
ton to the United States that she
would cease summarizing passenger
ships without warning is merely an
other scrap of paper Such du-
plicity on the part of Germany is un-
believable, and an adequate explana-
ton of the sinking of the Hesperian
will assuredly be forthcoming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07

hand grenade has become a much re-
spected weapon in trench warfare.
For months it has been in general use
along the western front, each side be-
ing able to use grenades to the great
discontinue of the enemy without
exposing themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
Journal Entries

The high-flier's fall is usually a
hard one.
= = =
If politeness cost anything maybe
more people would have it.
:. j +
Most folks throw out feelers for
about all the praise they get.
+ = =
Almost every man has an idea he
could do better in some line of work
other than his own.
j. + j.
Probably if millinery were not so
expensive, the women wouldn't give
it so much attention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07

Topeka's great fair with its free
gate is now less than a week away
Are you doing and going to do your
part to make it the success that it
deserves? 1t isn't too late, by any
means, to put in plenty of good boosts
for the fair. Talk to your friends in
other parts about it, either by letter
or in person in the event that you
make trips among them within the
next few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07

Open style football is promised for
Kansas this fall. This is good news
for the football fans. They may be
able to follow few OF the plays. In
not a few football seasons of the past,
cheering is about the only pleasure
the fan could get out of the game.
And most of the time he had no idea
what he was cheering about