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Meade County news., 1915-08-19
Lone Thief Secures 100000
From Bayou State Security
Bank.
POLICE WITHOUT CLUE
Bold Bandit Forces President to Cash
Personal Check at Point Of Re-
VoIver, Then Makes His
Disappearance.

New Orleans.-One Of the most dar-
corded in this city was committed
this morning when the Bayou State Sc
curity bank was looted of 100000 in
currency by lone robber. There Is
absolutely no clue to the thief.
AS has been the custom for some
time Of the president of the bank, Mr..
Andrew Galbraith, entered his private
offices in the rear of the main banking
apartment at ten o'clock. Shortly af-
ter a young man Of prepossessing ap-
pearance quietly opened the door and
entered the room.
When the president looked up he
found himself gazing into the muzzle
of a revolver and heard the cool de-
mand for 100000 under penalty of
death for refusal. Mr.. Galbraith imme-
diately realized that the robber would
carry out his threat should he make
any outcry or disturbance. He was
calmly told to write his personal
check for the amount named and in
dorse it. He was then ordered to
take it to the paying teller while tie
mysterious visitor followed him close
ly with the revolver leveled at him
under his coat.
When President Galbraith presented
the check the young robber stepped to
the window and requested $1,000 in
small hills and the rest in paper of
large denomination. He stuffed the
loose bills carelessly into his pocket,
put the package containing the $4,000
under his arm, nodded to the president,
backed swiftly to the street door and
vanished.
Meade County news., 1915-08-19
Irish Flats

A. E. Ford is erecting another
granary. 1t will hold about 8, 900
bushels.
1t is reported that A. C. Cochran
and wife intead going to Western
Oklahoma to make their home. If
it is true, luck 60 with them.
Thursday while on the way to
Meade with load of wheat A. c.
Cochran's lead team of four mules
and horses came loose from the wa
gon and ran away. They ran into
Henry Paden's wagon with such
force as to drive the corner of the
box into one mules breast cutting
cash about foot long and eight
or ten inches deep. Lucky no ar
teries were cut off. They got the
mule home and she seems to be get
ting along very well.
Some of the young folks went
over to the Turkey Track ranch to
a dance Saturday night,
V. O. Keltner is making arrange
ments to build a couple of granar-
les with a drive way between them
built in such a way that one natua-
lily would think it was intended for
a garage. Look out for new Ford
on the Flats.
P. J. Mitchell and some of his
family are out on an auto trip into
Colorado with view of looking up
a location.
Rev. Overton, of South Beaver
county moved up to his claim in the
X. | ranch pasture last week.
From circulars we have been re-
ceiving through the mail, it looks
like Rev. Jacobs had gone into the
tailoring business as well as that of
preacher.
We are told that Jim Lowry got
lonesome and followed his wife to
Barton county. She should train
himtbetter than that.
Some of the neighbors were call.
ers at Geo. CANDLES Sunday and
enjoyed ice cream.
V. O. Keltner and family H.
Ford and family, A. E Fords FAM
lily, all went up on the flats Saturday
evening to spend Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Keltner.
G. S. Erlewlne and family, of
Liberal come over in their car Sun.
day to call on Mrs. Erlewine's bro.
ther, A. J. Paden. They sure found
plenty of mud.
Buel Overton was fiat visitor
Sunday.
1t is reported that a couple of
old bachelors had the cheek to ask
two farmers for the hands of their
Meade County news., 1915-08-19

Mrs. ]. w. Ross has our thanks
for some fine Alberta peaches
grown on their ranch, south
west of Meade.
Meade County news., 1915-08-19

Mrs. L. N. Braden is at home
after two months stay in the
east.
Mrs. Chas Dettinger and three
children left the first of the week
for Caney Kansas, where they
visit relatives.
Meade County news., 1915-08-19
R. l. Time Card
WEST BOUND

WFST BOUND
No. Passenger 1870 P. M.
No ISL Passenger $3.50 NJ
Stops county Seats, Fowler, Mineols, Plains
No. Limited Io;I5 P. NJ.
No Stopl
No. 50 Local 3:o5 P. M.
EAST BOUND
No. 752 Passenger 3:o5 Pm.
Stops county Seats, Fowler, Mineola, Plains
No. q Limited 7:4o A. M.
mo Stopl
No. 81 Local p:45 A. M.
Meade County news., 1915-08-19

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and nIhlinatiOn on tho ctoir of tho
Meade County news., 1915-08-19

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-25
FOR BETTER CONTAINERS.

Among the agencies that are ac-
tive in urging upon American manu-
facturers and shippers the importance
of the better packing of goods the
National Association of Box Manufac-
turers is conspicuous in having pub
lished an illustrated pamphlet contain
ing specific instructions as to the
wrong way and the fright way to
nail the boxes in which merchandise
is shipped. The association says that
reform in this respect means protec-
ton for customers, for the railroads,
and for the shippers themselves. 1t
declares that, as a result of false
economy, there has been an increase
of more than than 500 per cent in the
loss and damage claims account of the
railroads in the past ten years and
that shipments are not being delivered
to customers in good condition. The
pamphlet states that the number Of
nails to be used for a given box is
determined by adhering to the rule of
spacing nails approximately inches
apart. except when mailing up boxes
where sides, tops, and bottoms consist
of more than one piece. In such cases
the shipper should make sure the
narrow pieces have at least two nails
in each mailing edge and more IL
necessary to comply with the rule of
Pinch spacing. Cement-coated nails
are required for all except hardwood
boxes of a inch thickness, for which
special large S-penny or regular ce-
4-penny nails are pre-
scribed. For other thicknesses the in
structions are: Soft wood-H inch,
4-penny; IS, 5-penny; 716 or Y, g.
penny; 9-16 or Is, 7-penny; q, s.
penny; hardwood-3s, 4-penny; 7-16
or e. 5-penny; 9-16 or Is, 6-penny;
Is. 7-penny.
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tries just mentioned, while Great Brl-
tain will feel the injuries least of all
the belligerents. But the United States
remains the only great power in the
world that will, or even can, benefit
from this tragic struggle. In est1-
mating our business future this is the
central fact that should not be for
gotten. . On the Stock Exchange
the activity has been remarkable and
million share days are no longer a
novelty. Since the first of the year
transactions on the Stock Exchange
have aggregated about 100000
shares, compared with 46,0O0,0O0
shares at the same time a year ago
The Exchange did not close until the
end of July in 1914, so that in COM
parison less than three weeks last
year are omitted. Nevertheless, the
transactions are nearly double those
of the same period of last year. This
shows a sudden and remarkable re-
vival of the speculative spirit which
has been confined almost entirely to
the war group and steel shares. Gen
eral trade was quiet, but satisfac-
tory degree of confidence prevails in
nearly every direction, based as eX-
planned in our previous advices, upon
the fine harvest and activity in the
steel industry. Railroad shares are
attracting more attention since it is
believed that they will benefit during
the last quarter of the year from the
effects of the good harvest and re-
newed Industrial activity. The future
of the market will of course be
largely governed by the progress of
M
indications are in sight, although eff
forts to bring the struggle to an end
are being made in various directions
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Jayhawker Jots

This has been fine summer for the
complexion, says the Harper Sentinel,
but a hard one for makers of porous
knit undergarments.
A daffydillious question from the
Hail Ridge correspondent for the Linn
County Democrat: If the cowslips
does the butterfly?
The Linn County Democrat has no
objection to a man criticising news
paper. providing the man reads the
newspaper and pays for it.
Excellent advice from the Logan
County News: Don't lick your fingers
to turn book leaves. Don't suck lead
pencils, unless sure of no predecessors.
Have you ever figured this out :?
queries the Minneapolis Better Way:
Men who mind their own business
succeed because they have so little
opposition.
Related by the Oswego Democrat:
A negro nanny had a family of boys
so well behaved that one day her mis-
tress asked: ''Sally, how did you
raise your boys SO well?" '.Ah'n tell
yo' missus,' answered Sally. "Ah
raise dem boys with barrel stave an
ah raise 'em frequent"
Uncle Bob" CASTOR tells the Coun-
ell Grove Guard that he was COM
PEELED to kill a dog in February that
lived until the following December.
Uncle Bob says this dog could catch
a jackrabbit up until the time he
reached the age of Is years.
The Boomer Girls baseball team is
doing southern Kansas just now, re-
ports the Concordia Kansan, and it
continues: They played once in Con-
cordia. One of the local fans got
stuck on the girl playing second base,
but after the game he was disillusion-
ed by the discovery that the one on
second base was sadly in need of
shave.
If some one doesn't get busy and
slay a lot of weeds in and around
town, urges the Grainfield Cap
Sheaf, tourists will soon be passing
through our town without even see
ing it for the dense growth of weeds.
You see enough of human nature
every day to amuse you and some
times to disgust, says the Colby Free
Press and it goes on: A fellow was
out of Colby with an auto one day
last week while the roads were bad
he got his auto stuck in the mud twice
and was pulled out by a farmer each
time. The first farmer refused to take
pay. The second farmer demanded a
dollar and a half for not more than
five minutes work. The auto driver
came back to town convinced that he
could name the kindest gentleman and
the biggest hog in the county.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
People who live in glass houses
shouldn't go into politics.
The thin man can either wear pad
ded shoulders, or dress in broadcloth.
You never can tell. Many a spotless
reputation may be merely white
washed.
Some fellows are harum- scarum. In
fact it would take more than harem
to scare 'em.
Every woman should remember that
a husband in the hand is worth two in
a suit for bigamy.
We are all affected by colors. The
redder we paint things the night be-
fore, the bluer we feel the morning
after.
Money is the root of all evil"
quoted the Wise Guy. From whence
springs many a family tree added
the Simple Mug.
The henpecked husband will tell you
that a woman not only wants the last
word, but she wants it first, last and
all the time.
First Small Boy-"What is your
idea of a perfect mother?" Second
Small Boy-"One that never cuts a
pie in more than four pieces"
Hubbubs-'I suppose you raise your
own vegetables Subbubs-''No, L
buy them now, but 1 think by next
year L shall be able to afford to raise
my own
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in the form of letters. Let me know
just what you idea is about this.
Il remember that you told me type
writers were an unknown quantity
up there where you've been resting,
but am returning your manuscript
herewith and hope to receive your
regular copy for this and the re-
mainder of the serial as soon as you
can get it to me. Yours truly,
fB. BARNABY."
The afternoon mail carried out this
note:
my Dear Jack:
I'm afraid you wonder how one so
stupid as to send the wrong letter to
a publisher ever manages to get into
print. The note / wrote you has been
returned by the publisher, but it's
stale now, so I'm writing another to
repeat my cordial wishes that the in
closed kodak pictures may be pleasant
reminders of our good times at the
lake. I've missed you dreadfully, and
was delighted to have your note last
week. Pleasantly, JILL"
A messenger boy at the hotel turned
in this message late that night:
"B. Barnaby,
Care Authors Club, New York:
Serial started different plan.
Have sent for typewriter. Will send
manuscript in one week.
"JILLAH CURZON.''
-(Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
NeWSpaDer SVndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-25
TOO MUCH OPTIMISM. MAYBE.

In one form or another. the war
continues to dominate financial af-
fairs here writes Henry Clews, the
New York banker, in his current
weekly financial review, and he goes
on: Although we have succeeded
in being strictly neutral in
our actions, our foreign and do
nlestic trade, our foreign exchange
and security markets as we'll as our
banking arrangements have all been
fundamentally than at any time since
the Civil war-if not even more than
during that great crisis. If the disor-
ganization has been extraordinary, so,
too. have been the energy and ability
with which it has been met and over
come. This country has exhibited in
dustrial strength and financial ca
pacity far beyond all expectations. The
consequence is we are facing a future
in which the chief danger lies in an
excess of optimism. We are far more
likely to suffer from too much ac-
tivity, too much confidence and too
much speculation than too little. Evil
IDENTIFY we are liable to run into a
period of excessive initiation, the dam
ger of which 1 hope is fully recognized
by those who control our banking sys-
tenn. We are now the only first class
is steadily augmenting its resources
are not being wasted by war, and,
while all other great trading and in
dustrial nations are rushing madly in
to losses which it will require years
to overcome, and some of which never
will be recovered, the United States
is steadily augmenting its ersources
and preparing itself for a new era of
expansion in both domestic and for
eign trade. When the war is over, it
will be found that the relative eco
nomic positions of the various nations
will have vastly changed. Germany
will require years for recuperation. So.
too, will Belgium and parts of France.
Russia and Italy may feel the conse-
quence less seriously than the coun-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-25
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
Fast men, slow pay.

Fast men, slow pay.
Every night Jude Johnson looks I'M
der his bed for a German spy.
A good many people are decent only
when their mouths are shut
Some ! en- arrange to celebrate
somebody's birthday with a key every
week.
Short jerks is so alarmed over the
submarines that he is refusing to take
a bath.
Moving pictures may also be enjoy
able because only the fools in the
audience talk.
One nice thing about a postal card
is that a man always knows it doesn't
contain a dun.
The jitney car may eventually sink
into oblivion, but there always will be
jitney men.
AS a rule, the breach of promise
suit hinges on the theory that the
defendant has the money.
Another splendid thing about the
great institution of work is that it
sometimes makes one forget his chigre
bites.
Net night gowns are coming into
style for the women folks, and sooner
or later similar fabric will be worn
on the main streets of all thriving
communities.
A city man receives a dun and ac-
cepts it as a matter of course. a
country town man receives a dun and
accepts it as direct insult and a mat
ter for cursing-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-25
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING.

The Advertising Club movement,
which is embodied IN the Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World. is
really a sincere endeavor on the part
of business men who are enga ged in
publishing and advertising, to trans
late business ideals into business
methods, writes Herbert S. Houston in
the Worlds Work. The emblem of
the order is the word Truth SUI
perimposed on map of the world.
In a serious, thorough-g ding way the
effort is being made to put that en-
blem into concrete commercial prac-
tee. There is no noisy or sDectacu-
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lar connection about it. Instead
there is the earnestness born of con-
viction. OCCASIONALLY, foolish pub
LEGATION parades its virtue, a thing
which most honest people are willing
to take for granted, but in the main
everything about this movement has
been sane and strong and reasonable.
The result has been that honest and
beIievabIe advertising today repre-
sents the great bulk of advertising;
the kind that is dishonest is small.
and what there is left of it is surely
doomed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-25
From Other Pens
THE FIGHTING IRISH.

Within the first ten months of the
war 120,741 young Irishmen have vol
unteered for service with the British
armies. This number is in addition to
the Irish enrolled in the regular army
which went into active service at the
beginning of the war. Estimates based
on census reports indicate that a least
one out of every eight men of military
age and fitness in ireland has volun-
tarily gone to the front. There are,
of course no better fighters than the
Irish, and no race more willing to
fight in a cause which they consider
just. This, however will not account
for the large enrolment. Until very
recently the Irish have been the vic
tins of British misgovernment and
oppression. Only within the last few
years has it become apparent that the
great nation is ready to deal fairly
with the lesser. A clear appreciation
of this new spirit of generosity, and a
conviction that Ireland's future prog
ress is dependent on the British sue
cess have inspired the Irish to give
their best to the cause of the empire.
Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-25

Once upon a time a moon vine lived
on the side of a great big house.
So big was the house that, although
the moon vine had tried for two
months, it had not as yet been able to
cover even one side,
''Oh, dearl" said the moon vine to
itself one evening, IF only 1 could
grow big enough to cover this whole
house with my greenneSS SIS! How very
pretty that would bel"
L don't see why you care so much
about that said the dainty little fairy
near by. 81 myself think the house
looks prettier when it is only partly
covered. I wouldn't try to cover it
all up
But want tc do something big!"
cried the moon vine. Something
bigger and finer than any flower has
ever done before!"
Its well to be ambitious" said
the fairy in reply, but don't try too
hard. Maybe if you think carefully,
you will find there is something you
try and see if there isn't"
So the moon vine thought and
thought, and finally she said: II
might bloom if L tried" And the
fairy said that would he a fine thing
to do, much better than covering a
house.
All the night long, all the next
dav. and for many days thereafter,
the moon vine worked at it's blossom
1t was to be big and white and more
dazzingly beautiful than any flower
that bloomed. The fairy was so in
terested that she stayed close round
to watch It yrow-watching flower
buds is much more Interesting than
work, even fairy work, sometimes, as
you know
At last the moon vine declared that
the flower was ready.
First thing in the morning." she
said as she went to sleep, I'm going
to open my bloom And you will find
it much more beautiful than the
bud too" she assured the fairy.
So the fairy stayed Up all night 50
she would be there in plenty of time
in the morning.
Just at dawn the moon vine whis-
DeTed. NOW everything is ready. the !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-25
En- ening Chat
The Faults We Hate.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

shes the most obstinate woman"
said my neighbor. Il can't bear her
1 don't Sc how her husband ever gets
along with her. He must be tieher
very wishy-washy or very sanity"
In her fervor she laid down her
knitting and gazed at me as severely
I'm not, for [ don't even know the
woman except by hearsay.
So L squeezed down a desire to
laugh and turned the subject by ad-
miring my neighbor's peoples. They
are the petted darlings of her heart,
so the severity at once melted.
You may wonder why 1 had to
this way. Obstinacy is the particular
squeeze down o laugh. You see, it's
fault for which my neighbor is noted.
She is a dear woman, but even those
who love her best know that that is
her prime fault.
And here she was with evident I'M
consciousness telling me how she dis
liked her prototypt in the fault of
obstinacy.
Do you know [ think there is a ten
dency in all of us to especial dislike
our own peculiar faults when they ap
pear in other people, and quite with
out recognizing them as our own.
This is not the first time 1 havt
heard any one express a dislike for
some one whose character resembled
his own.
The woman who cannot sem to help
trying.to dominate her home, her hus-
band, her children and everything and
everybody with which she comes into
contact, confided to me the other day
that she could not overcome her dis
like for certain woman.
And 10 and behold, that woman is
so like her in temperament that other
people often speak of the resem.
blance.
Again an otherwise charming girl
who is inclined to be a wee bit in
sincere is always ready to say a sharp
word-almost the only words of crit
icism she ever speaks-about any one
who is insincere.
So goes.
Myself. L have a haunting suspi-
cion that the people 1 feel antagonis-
tic to are not as unlike me as I could
wish.
The moral?
When you find yourself intensely
disliking any one, look out. Or rath-
er look in. If you have a friend who
will be frank with you make him tell
you if you are like that. And if you
find yourself guilty then let your own
adherence help you overcome the
fault
QUESTION: great many young
people marry when but few facts of
life have come before them; they
therefore have few opinions. because
they have little knowledge. Such
marriages are based on amorous SEN
timentalities. When the one ceases to
lONC OlA dSSOdhl VI HdNiilS OulSIOWA
the other intellectually is it not an
outrage that they should remain thus
united? Or do you think it better for
them to try and make working sue
cess of such unions "A Subscriber.
ANSWER-You ask a question to
which it is dangerous to give a gen
eral answer. The best thing to do de-
ponds on many factors, one of which
is whether there are children, another
the feeling which has taken the place
of love: is it passive indifference or
active hate2 You can't preserve the
home where hate rules, because it
isn't home but a prison.
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CAPITAL AND LABOR.

So numerous, voluminous and oil
verse are the reports of the members
of the United State commission on in
dustrial relations that it would seem
to require the services of q Philadel-
phia lawyer or two to unravel them
and join their heads and tails togeth-
err. Capital of course, comes in for
the severest swat from the commits
sion. But this was a foregone conclu-
sion. The commission, or its chair
man, the voluble Mr.. Walsh, showed
it's prejudice in this direction from the
very inception of the investigation.
And while capital is assuredly open to
criticism for some of its dealings with
labor, it is also true that labor as 1t
IS organized and managed is also far
from being perfect. This is only nat
ural as both capital and labor are hu-
man. 1t is an important fact, though,
and established by statistics compiled
by the Civic Federation, that APP
proXimately two-thirds of the gross
revenue of capital goes to labor, and
that out of the other one-third, CAPT
tai must pay its fixed charges, includ-
ing taxes, before it takes its own
profit. And there is considerable cap
ital that worries along for a shorter
or longer period without being able
to take any profit at all. The passing
of dividends is in no sense a rare
activity in the citadel of capital. The
passing of wages, or labor's share, is.