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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
Globe Sights
Three cheers don't win a war
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Three cheers don't win a war.
Divorce triplets-cruelty, neglect
and liquor
The cheering is usually started by
an interested party.
A lot of girls who have no automo-
biles travel too fast
Nine out of ten letters, marked
Important are not.
inclined to think of silos than solos.
gin to look forward to a good nights
sleep.
So many people have a good mem
ory until they try to remember some
thing.
Despite repeated warnings most
people are climbing that hill in their
old age.
Comparatively few complaints are
based on the fact that the sermon
was too short.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned singer who was fond of the
tremu1o stop effect?
If you aren't Industrious, the
chances are a motto won't do much
toward keeping you at work
They still carry an error column in
the big league box score, but mis-
takes aren't what win promotion.
Booze scores so many knockouts it
is a wonder men don't come to their
senses and quit fooling with it.
Sometimes it appears that a report
err with four legs would be much more
useful than a reporter with a brain.
Most of the Seats of Higher Learn
ing also provide a course in modern
methods of getting money from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
EUening Chat
Women Who Take Advantage.
BY RUTH CAMERON

When asked what he thought about
a certain woman's preaching, DR..
johnson said that it was like a dog
standing on it's hind legs, it was re-
narkable, not becs use it was done
we'll, but because it was done at all.
Even in these days there are wo-
men who seem to have at least a rem
nant of that feeling about their per-
formances in the business world.
That is, they seem to feel that it is
sufficiently remarkable and condo
scending that they should do the work
at all, and that therefore no one
should expect them to work as hard
as men or find fault when they AFRO
gate special privileges to themselves.
A woman who employs other wo-
men told me this little experience the
other day. She had an unusual rush
of work and contrived to reach her
office a half hour early in order to
have all her material on hand and be
ographer arrived. She even hoped
that by some miracle that person
might be few minutes early. On
the contrary, nine o'clock came and
went and no stenograpber appeared.
1t was after ten when she finally put
in a leisurely appearance, noncha-
lantly removed her hatpins and ex-
planned calmly, II had a headache"
IF she had only telephoned me-
said her employer, II would have ar
ranged my work differently. AS it
was. I waited from moment to mo-
ment, expecting her to come in every
instant, and you know how hard it is
to fix your mind on anything when
you are waiting like that"
In another office in which I used
to work one of the stenographers used
to leave at quarter of five to catch a
five-etght train. She had never asked
nor received permission to do this.
Furthermore, there was a train at
five-thirty which she could have tax
en-, and as the depot is only a ten
minutes walk, she need not have left
until five minutes of five, even to get
the earlier train.
In another office Of which I know,
all the women, matter of course,
quit work from five to ten minutes
early in order to be ready to leave at
prompt five.
Some one demonstrated with one of
the girls and she opened wide eyes of
wonder. But it takes me ten min
utes to wash up and fix my hair and
powder my nose and get my coat and
hat on properly 81 e said. The idea
that her employer had not contracted
to pay her for these functions had evil
IDENTIFY never occurred to her.
Mind you. 1 am not claiming that
all women are like this or that men
never snitch any of their employers
time for personal purposes Far from
it, I have known many a woman who
worked harder than any man in the
office-and probably got less money.
Some of the bravest, gamest, fairest
fighters in the great industrial army
are women p
But because 1 am keen for the hon
or of my sex, / want sll women like
that-not just a few.-( Protected by
the Adams Newspaper Service-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
AN HONOR 10 THE srATE.

The honor which comes to Dean
Jardine in the request from the
Colombian government that he under
take an agricultural survey of the
country is not only a personal honor
but an honor in which the whole in
stitution and the whole state share,
says the Kansas Industrialist. 1t is
the character and the standing of the
faculty of college that give the in
stitution prestige in the nation at large
and abroad, and the Kansas State
Agricultural college is peculiarly for
tunate in having on its faculty man
who has attracted attention for his
research and his practical ability, even
on another continent. To attract such
attention. however, is not SO Unusual
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
sTEFANssON.

He hears no roar of cannon grim
That marks red sacrifice.
He only hears the fog wraiths dim
Rattle the bergs like dice.
Only war with ice for him
The merciful, clean ice!
Ma camp-fires flare; no hummocks drear
By maddened men are trod.
The only trooper ranging here
The seahorse, never shod;
The only searchlight is the clear
Aurora waved by Godi
By no barbed wire he blocks the chase
OF the gale chargers fleet.
He needs no glass so he may trace
Where the snow armies meet.
How smilingly he turns to face
The shrapnel of the sleet!
What of the skies terrific din
OF clouds in conflict dread?
He does not see the steel mouths grin
When the hot hiss is sped
The Cloud King cries, Il do not win
By striking babies dead!'
By open sea and fronting f1oe,
In some housekeeping chill,
He has gone on, as brave men go,
That kings who wish their lands to grow
Must kill and kill and KILL
Man of the age-long Arctic night,
Where one ghost-glOw is shed,
Come back from where the ky-gods fight
Till wounded stars fall dead!
Bring down your seas forever white
To wash the lands of red
John O'Keefe. in the New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
SERVICE ABOVE HoNoRs.

Surely there were few who thought
that President Waters of the State
Agricultural college would say t'yes"
to the proposal that he become can
didate for the next Democratic guber-
Material nomination in Kansas. DR..
Waters is of more value to the state
in his present position than he would
be in the governors chair, and there
are a few men here and there who
place the service they are able to give
the public above the highest political
honors that might be thrust upon
them. Foster Dwight Coburn, former
secretary of the Kansas department of
agriculture, is another such man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
Joyhowker Jots

The people of Kinsley have raised
a good share of the funds necessary to
build a Great White Arch over the
street with the name ''Kinsley" prom
inently displayed.
The head of the Pittsburg Manual
Training Normal advises teachers to
be natural in the school room and
'.act just as they do at home MI
Brandenburg evidently doesn't care,
SAYS the Parsons Sun, whether some
teachers continue to hold their jobs
or not.
William Allen White has pro-
nounced the doom of the petticoat
He says: sit may lag superfluous on
the stage for a decade, or perhaps a
ethereal creatures who will now go
around 'appareled in celestial light,
must in the nature of things outgrow
socially the confines of skirts. The
chrysalis is about to burst, and tomor-
rows sun will look down and nothing
reminiscent fullness of trouser where
once the petticoat and the hobbled
skirt smiled to gladden. the world.
Reminiscent item from the yelling
ton Journal: Can't you remember, or
can you-when the wild winds blew
in from the prairieS and the air was
filled with binding dust? Remember
across the open lands and even
through the streets like some strange
wild animal rushing on its prey? Those
were good old times, of course. Times
which called for men who had no fear
of hardships, and who loved the coun-
There was nothing to stop that wind
then, but now the countless homes and
business buildings which have been
built serve as breakers for the wind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Circula&1on0.
American Newspaper PubaishezV
Association.

Apparently there isn't going to be
very much doing in big Bull Moose
politics during the next three months,
else Victor Murdoch, the leader of the
herd, would not be able to spare that
much time for rush to Europe to
report the war for a big eastern pub
Hcation as well as his own newspaper
at Wichita. Maybe Mr.. Bryan is also
going abroad in the role of a reporter,
but as he would probably devote his
energies in such a direction to the
happenings at the Peace Palace at
The Hague, he wouldn't have much
to write about unless he called extern
sively on his imagination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE.

The next congress, with a Demo-
cratic president, a Democratic senate
and a Democratic house, will face a
rapidly diminishing treasury and must
take measures to replenish it, writes
Albert B. Cummins of Iowa, and
conspicuously mentioned candidate
for the next Republican presidential
nomination, in the American Review
of Reviews for November, in an ar
ticle entitled, Defense and Revenue
in the Next Congress" The first and
best aid to the sick and wounded
would be found in a new tariff law
constructed to protect American inter-
ests and at the same time increase the
revenue from imports; but, unfortu-
nately. the administration rejects both
the medicine and surgery of modern
economic science, and adheres to its
desolate doctrine of the unprotected
market, and so we must look further
The stamp taxes upon ordinary bust
ness transactions ought to be abol-
ished. They are not only irritating
and inconvenient. but they are in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
SENATOR sHERMAN's rRU1sM

There may be bigoted Republican
here or there throughout this broad
country who, for purely partisan rea-
sons, has denied President Wilson the
credit due him for his mastery
handling of the grave issues that
have developed between the United
States and Germany and other of the
European belligerents, but especially
the ones with Germany, and which
successful diplomacy on the part of
the president has kept us out of the
war. If there is, though, he hasn't
made enough noise to be heard. Re-
publicalis, including their newspapers,
have been as free with their praise in
this particular as have the president
supporters and enemies in his own
party. But Senator Lawrence Y.
Sherman, of Illinois, recent visitor
to Topeka, and an avowed candidate
for the next Republican presidential
nomination, hit an essential nail on
it's head when he pointed out that
President Wilson cannot claim or look
for a reelection on what might be
called His ''war record" for he did no
more than his plain duty in SO order
ing his steps as to make it certain
that the United States would not be
plunged into the war. The sentiment
of the whole people of the country
has been against getting into the war,
and so the president only did his duty
by keeping us out of it. With one
possible exception, 10 other man who
might have been president these days
would have done otherwise although
he might not have been able to turn
the trick with such consummate skill
as did Mr.. Wilson. The exception, of
course, is Colonel Roosevelt. And
even had Mr.. Roosevelt been in the
White House during the past year,
and had the real responsibility of the
grave occasion to shoulder, the
chances are that he, too, would have
steered a course that would have kept
us out of the war. So President Will
son must go before the people for
reelection not on his war record"
but on the other accomplishments or
failures, as the case may be, of his
administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
QUAKER MEDTTATIONs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
The race for wealth is always n
handicap.
Old friends may be dearest, but
even young friends are not always
cheap.
You can command Satan to get be-
hind you, and he may still shove you
along.
Many man gets the better of an
argument without necessarily proving
he is right.
Fortune knocks at the door, but she
never seems to come armed with u
search warrant
It's all right to make your mark in
the world, but don't do it by making
a mark of some other fellow.
Experience is the best teacher.
which would seem to prove that tie
best isn't always the cheapest.
Sillicus-"Since his wife died he
actually seems to be growing young
err Cynicus-"He will probably con-
tinue to do so until he marries again"
Wont You walk into my parlor,"
said the spider to the fly. why don't
you try to be modern ?" suggested the
fly. 'Parlors tire completely out of
date"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
A PERFECT NIGHT.

A PERFECT NIGHT.
1t would have been a perfect night
The moon was like a silver disc,
A circle celestial bright
Pinned to the curtain of the sky;
The pine, the pungent tamarisk
Or later lands. gave new delight s~77s-
To ev'ry zephyr passing by
The rose was pallid in the moon;
The rose became sanity thing; ?.
The rudy passion of the noon
Was melted to tender Hue,
The luster of a fairy's wing;
L heard the sig hing. branches Groom;
And yet a note was missing
You.
1t would have been a perfect night
So sweet a night we never know;
L heard the whirr of angel-flight
And murmured music everywhere;
The blue above, the green below
1t would have been a perfect night
Had you been there.
Douglas Malloch in American Lumber
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
Household Hints
Things Worth KNOWING.

To Freshen Furs-Furs when taken
out in the fall are often found to have
a mussed, crushed appearance. They
can be made to look like new by the
following process Wet the fur with a.
hair brush, brushing up the wrong
way of the fur. Leave it to dry in
the air about half an hour, then give
it a good beating on the wrong side
edo not beat the fur) with a rattan.
After beating it, comb, combing III up
the right way of the fur.
Easy Window Cleaning-Buy
chamois and use clear water with a
tablespoon of ammonia in it. Dip
channels in water, wiring lightly, rub
dry and wipe window. When the win
dow gets dry it will be clean and shine
beautifully.
If apples will not cook in pies,
sprinkle them with one teaspoonfuI of
vinegar to a pie.
Many women find moving hard on
account OF house hunting. To make
this easy: first write down just the
kind of a house you want, how many
rooms and conveniences, locality,
amount of rent you can pay Ono wo-
man has right to pay more than one
weeks pay of her husband for a
months -rent}, then hand this item
lied slip to one or more good real
half done. Pack up and get ready by
degrees.
The Table.
Stuffed Vegetable Marrow'-Select
a large, rather flat squash. Gut it in
halves crosswise, peel and remove
center. Fill cavities with mixture of
cooked calf's liver (chopped), finely
shopped bacon, bread crumbs and
mushrooms (if desired); moisten with
broth or cream after it has been sea-
soned to taste. Tie halves of the
squash together and boil in equal parts
of water and milk. When tender
separate the halves and just before
serving pour over sauce made from
the water in which the vegetable was
boiled.
Cream Salad Dressing (originaD--
Place one cup vinegar in pan to heat.
Now rub well together one heaping
tablespoon sugar, one level tablespoon
salt, one rounded tablespoon flour,
one level teaspoon dry mustard; add
slowly one cup sweet milk. Add this
well cooked and smooth. Beat well
white of one egg, add yolk and beat
and while above is hot add it to egg
a little at a time and stir well.
Spanish Steak (for a family of
hree)-Ono pound round steak two
inches thick; put in spider to brown.
When brown put in roasting pan. Slice
six medium-size onions, put in spider
to brown; when brown put on steak;
two green peppers sliced in small
pieces, half of small can of tomatoes
put over all contents. Roast two or
two and one-half hours. Appetizing
and delicious.
Oyster Soup-Take one quart oys-
tiers. Put in saucepan one quart
milk and one pint water with salt,
butter and put on the stove. When
it comes to a boil, add the oyster and
let the whole simmer five minutes.
Thicker with cracker crumbs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
PLAYING NO FAVoRITEs NOW.

Mississippi mobs evidently play no
IaVorltes nowadays. One recently
iynched young white man of prom
inence, who was accused of killing an
other white man. But then, if he had
murdered negro there would have
been different story to tell, in all
probability However, there seems to
De decided disposition in Mississippi
these Gays not to let the law take it's
course in any case where a capital
crime has been committed; a sorry
indeed, on the degree of
civilization that prevails in supposed
" heightened community
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

$50 that little robin person thinks
L have no fun on my travels" laughed
Jimmy South breeze to himself as he
journeyed southwark. He must think
that I travel right straight through
in one long trip as he does! But L
DON'T Dear me, no! 1 have mucn
more sense about journeys than he
has 1 have learned to travel slowly
and enjoy life and the scenery as L
CO."
And just to prove that he was right.
Jimmy danced out on lake he was at
that minute passing and made gay
little fIourishes on the placid water.
THAT reminds me-" he said to him
self as he noticed how pretty the ruf-
fled-up water looked. Il wonder why
the water is always so still and smooth
when come n to e,, it Ioo a0h ike sui
OF course Jimmy had not expected
an answer to his question, he merely
was talking to himself by way OF
amusement, SO imagine his surprise
when a warm little voice said, Tine
water is still looking because, till you
arrive. it is comfortable and quiet.
And it is going to stay that way as
long as I am here. Kindly get out of
my wayi
Just listen to that. will you."
laughed Jimmy LAS though 1 would
move Just because some unknown
person asked me to! would have
you know that am JIMMY Soutn-
breeze: and / intend to stay right
here till 1 am ready to leave. If there
is any leaving done, you will do it.
And he danced out over the water
as though the matter was settled for
good-but he was mistaken, it wasn't
settled at all.
Instead, the warm little voice re-
pIied That's a joke on you, Jimmy.
I know who you are and you know me.
Don't you remember the warm south
ern sunbeams that drove you north
last spring? We rule this lake and
you'd better leave. We want = it
smooth and hot today"
And I want it ruffled." said Jim
nv positively $50 now Wen see
who's the strongest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
Journal Entries

Most of the medal-winners also
soon drop out of sight.
J. j. j.
A big-hearted man is also likely to
have lean purse.
+ +
There is this to the credit of the
tough steak: 1t will go a long ways.
= + =
Some people are so poor that they
have to make the same automobile
do for two or three seasons.
+ +
If the people generally were not so
easy to fool more men would have
to work much harder for living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

This peace that prevails between the
United States and Mexico, or the sew
eraI factions in the latter country, is
purely of the theoretical variety. To
all intents and purposes our troops
along the border are at war with the
Mexicans on the other side of it. Ger
tainly no policy that might have been
pursued toward the Mexican muddle
could have worked out in worse fash
ion than the famous one dubbed
-'Watchful Waiting"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Governor Capper may well ask what
has been done with the S2eo,OOO,OOO or
100000 that has been spent an
nua1ly by she United States for the
past decade for preparation for war
1t is a decidedly pertinent question
1t has been asked in these columns on
several occasions of late. Perhaps
Governor Capper can obtain the an
swer. Everybody in the country
would like to know what it is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Those four New York heiresses who
are on tour of the west hunting for
handsome, Dice-eyed cowboys for hus-
bands might have better luck in their
quest if they visited the moving-pic-
ture studios. Only there can really
handsome cowboys be found
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
Fly Clara hassamJOdson

edly, but they shone harder than ever.
And Jimmy laughed too, at first:
but he hadn't blown two minutes till
he got so hot he could hardly novel
He tried and tried, but the lake lay
before him as still and ripple-less as
though he was nowhere neari "This
is going to be harder work than L
thought for!" he cried in despair.
Maybe I better rest biti'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

No hog cholera in Kansas inside of
six years, a prediction made by Mr..
Mercer, the state live stocks sanitary
commissioner, is a promise of the
greatest boon that could be conferred
upon the agriculturists of the state. A
hog immune to this disease is among
the most valuable of farm assets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Evidently the. fall driving in the
western arena of the war isn't any bet
ter for the Allies than was the spring
driving. Certainly they didn't get very
far when they speeded up a little while
ago, even if they did do little better
than in the spring, when, az matter
of fact. they didn't do ANYTHING at all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Possibly the British government has
spent millions upon millions of dollars
for advertising in the home newspa-
pers since the war began for men,
money and to promote thrift also for
the purpose of helping the newspapers
to keep their feet. The business
advertising in British papers has fallen
off to nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Where the wish is again father to
the thought. Mr.. McCoombs, chair
man of the Democratic national COM
mittee, says the Bull Moose are for
Wilson and will vote with the Demo-
Gratis in the fall of 1916. This is also
as good as confession from a high
Democratic source of the returning
vitality and strength of the Republican
rlarfv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

No doubt now that the supply of Iron
Crosses is unlimited. Kaiser Wilhelm
has begun to confer them on the Bu1
gars. Ard maybe the huge amount of
metal that has been used in their man
lIfacture would come in handily for
Germany for the real purpose CT war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Mr.. Rockefeller has given another
third of a million dollars to colleges,
but it isn't at all probable that many
of the children of the Colorado min
ers in his employ will participate in
the collegiate advantages that will
come from these gifts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Philip D. Armour III starting in
work at the union stockyards in Chi
cago to learn the packing business
from the ground up sounds mighty
fine, but it isn't as though he had to.
And that makes a big difference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Probably the Crown Prince of Ger
many is possessed of lives as numer-
Gus as the proverbial cat. He is re-
ported dead again. Next week no
doubt he will be back on the firing
inc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
Might Use Stills.

New York burglar who wears IL "a
shoes says it's no use. They cop
him every time. He should learn 20
walk on his hands.