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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14
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BY RUTH CAMERON.

| Every man hath two birthdays:
| two days at least, in every year which
! set him upon revolving the lapse OF
! time as it affects his mortal duration.
The one is that which in an especial
manner he termeth his. In the grad
ual desuetude of old observance, this
custom of solemnizing our proper
birthday hath nearly passed away or
| is left to children, who reflect 10th
ing at all about the matter nor I'M
derstand anything in it beyond cake
and orange. Charles Lamb. ~
-st'On the day before my birthday"
heard a New Thought speaker say
recently, Il spend the whole eve
ming answering a set of about
two hundred, questions I sit down
the answers down and compare
them with the answers of previous
years.
1t is hard to conceive of anyone
with the leisure and the fixity of pur-
pose to spend a whole evening in that
admirable way. How was it that no
one insisted on his making a fourth
at bridge or taking spin in the ma
chine? How came it that he was not
beguilod from his resolution by the
lure--of fresh uncut magazine upon
his library table?
Surely he cannot be married. else
his vile would have reminded him
that he had promised to 20 to the
moving pictures with her
knowing that the difficulty of iiv-
ing on twenty-four hours a day is
almost as great a problem as the high
cost of living, / wouldn't dare ask my
readers to devote a whole evening to
such task, or to answer two hundred
questions.
But if, instead of making our BIRTH
DAVIS merely a matter of cake and
orange Cor their modern equivalent,
birthday gifts), we did manage to ind
an hour some time during the day in
which to do a little stock taking,
would it do us any harm?
When we go to town with ten
dollar bill and come back with ten
cents, we usually sit down and reckon
what has become of the money. Shall
we do less when we have spent year?
Have L grown mentally in the past
YEAR,
Have 1 made any new friends?
Have 1 kept all my old friends?
Have I strengthened my character
in any way?
Have I learned any lessons rom
my failures and mistakes?
Have l gained any on my besetting
fault?
I made it a more or less efficient tool
by my treatment of it in the past
year?
How do I stand financially?
Hav, 1 gone a little further toward
shaping n worthy creed of action and
belief for myself?
These are some of the questions that
my own life suggests to me- Yours
will suggest others to you
Today must be the birthday of some
of my reader friends and I know they
will give these suggestions some con-
sideration because of the coincidence
But let them not be the only ones. The
business that went on Indefinitely
without a stock taking would soon he
in a n1uddle Is the business of your
less important.-(P protected by the
Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

cherries in the above recipe. Just
before serving add one pint ginger ale
and few slices of orange.
Claret Punch-Make a syrup of
one quart water, two cups of sugar,
piece of stick cinnamon and one
fourth cup of raisins Boil for ten
minutes. Strain and add one and one
half cups of orange juice and one
add one pint of claret wine and ice
water to suit taste. If one objects to
wine, use one cup juice from rasp-
berries.
Gift Suggestions.
Very handsome neckties for men
can be made easily at home from
leftover silk or remnants purchased
at sales for a very small price. II
purchased ready made they would
cost anywhere from rs cents to $3.50.
according to the quality of silk. II
takes just one-third yard of twenty
four-inch silk to make a large four
in-hand tie, piecing through center
of neckband if cut on straight fold.
Rip the wearer's favorite style tie.
cut according to same and sew up
inserting a strip of cotton flannel to
keep the shape of tie. The tie used
as pattern can be easily stitched to-
gether again. Bow ties, of course,
take a very small remnant.
Young girls MILDLY ties and ladies'
fancy neckwear can also be easily
made if one will take the trouble to
examine those in the shops silk pep
lin, in navy blue, makes a surprising
ly good-looking tie for a young high
school lad.
Things Worth Knowing.
When cleaning woodwork, base
boards and holdings especially, place
a piece of tin about three feet long
and a few inches wide tight up
against the board to be cleaned Hold
It with one hand and clean with the
other. Damp or oily cloths may be
used without danger of soiling the
paper or the wall. Also more work
may be accomplished in less time
than if one has to be so very careful
of the paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

TFrom the Chicago News.
Some small minds have great
thoughts.
Silent watches of the night are those
we forget to wind.
Every dog has his day, but, like
men, they always want more.
An ignorant man is usually ignorant
of the fact=that he is ignorant
Youth is going to do things tomor
row that old age didn't do yesterday.
Nothing jolts a smart man SO hard
as being beaten at his own game.
When a woman loves man she
loves to make him believe that she
doesn't.
A man seldom realizes the worth
lessness of his earthly possessions un-
til he tries to pawn them
And some people who are always
prepared for the worst remind us of
mournerssat a funeral &-s
1t is decidedly rough on the lead
ing lady of a theatrical aggregation
when she is compelled to step off the
track to let train go hv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14
On the Spur
of the Moment
A Moving Picture Drama
BY ROY K. MOJLTON

A Moving Picture Drama.
REEL l.
Hero by the name of Hal
Loves a simple country gal.
She's peach. Her name is Sal.
Wed that gal, he surely SHALL;
Villain wants the maiden much
Has her father in his clutch;
Mortgage on the farm and such.
Old mans cheerful as a crutch.
REEL II. 81
Villain motions she must wed, .
Or he'll foreclose on the old homestead.
Hero hasn't got a red;
To the altar Sal is led.
Hero rushes on the scene.
These words flash upon the screen:
You shall never wed this queen;
Me or you will bite the green"
REEF. II
Villain steals the gal away.
He'll wed her another day.
Ties the hero, poor young jay,
To the railroad right of way.
Sal, she goes and gets knife.
Cuts the cords and saves his life.
Then there comes the deadly strife,
Deciding which will win the wife.
REEL ".
Give and take. 1t is some bout.
And the husky country lout
Knocks the villain good and out. ~.
On the screen: shes mine, by krout.''
Minister unites the gal
To her lover, faithful Hal.
Hero says for life he shall
Pay the board of charming Sal
Some hero,
The Good Old Times.
SEE Lemuel Hicks, SEE he to me:
The times amt like what they used to be-
When Teller could go with a ten cent
piece
And get enough bacon to grease
The pancake griddle all nice and neat
And then to have a good chunk left to eat
Then butter was 10 cents a pound
And we always had enough to go round.
A Teller would go with a dollar bill
And whole blamed grocery order fill.
But nowadays fer Il five bank note
A qpf n ha Iii fntn
Right home in the pocket of his overeoat.
Beats all how fur a Teller could go
On dollar back forty years or so.
But prices are gettin' so gol durn high
Well all eat hay like a boss bimeby.
Them good old days we will see no more
When a man with dollar could buy out
a store.
But there is thing that we must allow
There wasn't SO many dollars as there are
right now.
Some Signs We Have Noted. -
Hats Cleaned While You Wait for
Fifteen Cents
"Shoes Shined Outside Inside"
Hair Cut on the South Side.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Circula tons.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

You can never tell what a jury
will do is a saying and a well-found-
ed belief among lawyers and others
who are in close touch with the activi-
ties in court rooms. But this rule or
uncertainty will probably not apply
to the decisions of the juries that will
try the cases for violation of the pro-
hibitory law in Ellsworth county They
are to be composed from now on, ac-
.cording to Ellsworth's county attorney,
entirely of women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

Investigations made possible by this
means are incalculatIe. II is not i'm
probable that the Industrial resources
OF the United States are as far from
complete development as were the
agricultural resources 80 years ago.
II the country is to continue prosper
Gus it must change the raw into fin
lshed products as economically as pos
sible. Methods of accomplishing this
can be obtained only by careful inves-
tigation. and there is no place where
investigation can be better done than
in the American college
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14
THE ToPEmEHT

Il
When Grandma wore that bonnet
An Grampa wore this hat,
They took a horse n buggy
An loped-jes' think o. that,
He said, You're awful pretty -
She said, YOU'RE brave and true
An then, beneath the bonnet,
l think they kissed, don't you?
When Grandma's hair was golden,
An Grampa's hair was brown,
They ran away together
The talk of all the town.
Some folks said, Goodness gracious!7
But from the sky above
A gentle breeze was singin'
The song of youth an love
When Grandma had a dimple,
An Grampa's smile was gay.
They took a horse an buggy
An rode fer miles away.
An oh they loved each other,
What do you think o. that?)
When Grandma wore that bonnet.
An Grampa wore this hat
E Sangster, Jr., in The
Christian Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

- Significant, indeed, is the action of
fhe German government in suppress
ing an important Berlin newspaper
because it printed an article hostile to
any form of peace unless Germany re-
s4ains all the occupied territory. Evil
Hently Germany is more in MOOD
for peace than her statesmen will
admit publicly. And would this be
Eermanys attitude were she conf
dent that she could crush her enemies,
zsomething that she is far from having
accomplished regardless of her sue
scesses against Russia and her more
Recent ones in Serbia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

Perhaps this is merely a coincidence.
But within twenty-four hours or so
after the announcement of the de-
cision of the public utilities commits
sion granting an increase of only
cents on the gas rate, the supply of
gas hereabouts began to dwindle and
by Monday it was of rather unservice-
able proportions even for cooking.
And the weather wasn't so very cold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

An organized congress is promised
by Wednesday and then follows i'm
mediately a rather lengthy recess for
the, holidays Suppose the big bust
ness men of the country conducted
their affairs in the easy going way
that the members of congress pursue
in their conduct of the affairs of the
nation. Well. they wouldn't have any
business matters TO attend to before
very long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14
Journal Entries

The easiest way to fatter a man is
to ask him for some advice.
+ =
Another variety of the moral cow
ard is the man who claims his faults
are hereditary.
I. i J.
1t will be even harder work to do
tomorrow the things you don't feel
like doing today.
j. j. j.
If every individual got his due and
no more, many folk would be much
worse off than they are now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

- Here's tip, to the merchants of this
eountry who are urging the early
--shours of the day as the best time for
shopping The Zeppelin raids against
sIondon have had q marked tendency
to encourage the women there to do
ali their shopping in the morning OF
early afternoon hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

z An announcement comes from Lon
don that the Entente Allies have no
sntention of abandoning their cam
baign in the Balkans. But if the drive
of the Teutons keeps on going at full
steam ahead, the Allies may possibly
have no choice in the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

~ According to the opinion of the SUI
preme court, the cities of Kansas can
go about as far as they like in the
Regulation of jitney traffic on their
streets. Under these circumstances
sehe jitney regulation in Topeka is as
-.1iheral as il is modest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

AS Governor Capper pointed out in
his recent speech at Arkansas City,
bad roads are an exceedingly heavy
tax on the producer, and of course
they enter into the bills that the con-
sumner has to pay. But Kansas is
never going to get good or better roads
merely by talking about the necessity
for them. And during the past few
years this is about all that Kansas
has done about them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

y. Surely there is little doubt but Ger
.islany believes that she is in Belgium
20 stay Her engineers are laying out
what 1t is said will be the finest rail-
..toad in Europe from Aix-La-Chapelle
Through the heart of Belgium to Brus-
sells
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

~ In those parts of the country where
ice of a skating thickness is generally
for its absence, it is go
ing to be difficult for the folk with
restless feet to follow the fashions of
stheir prototypes in the east and north
'swho are substituting skating for fox
ttrotting and tangoing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

I DIR. Crumbine says that a person
lean obtain all the food needed to
maintain health and strength for 81
rents a day And it would be inter
listing to know if DR.. Crumbine prac-
lfices what he breaches in this par
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

a And the swapping of the recruiting
offices in England would seem TO IN
nicate pretty emphatieally that most
of the available Britishers are finally
Df a mind to do their duty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

You must learn to feed your families
scientifically. my dear women" said the
food lecturer. Certain articles of diet
develop certain qualities" Then asked
a little woman in the audience would
husband hasty pudding :'-Baltimore
American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

How did Three Finger Sam come to
go broker He got the idea that he
ought TO be an optimist. So se assumed
that every hand dealt him was a flush
and bet it without looking at the cards.
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

Entered July 1. 1873. as second-elass
matttr at the postoffice ut Topeka. Kan.
under the act OF congressl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

Official state Paper.
Official Paper City of Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-14

Some Signs We Have Noted.
Hats Cleaned While You Wait for
Fifteen Cents"
Shoes Shined Outside Inside
Hair Cut on the South Side"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-31
FORD MISSIONARIES
SPIRITUAL VIKINGS
Another Member of Peace Party
Is Taken III and Will Re-
turn Home
Associated Press by Federal wirelessl

COPENHAGEN, December 30-Lieut
GOV. A. J. Bcthca of South Carolina
who is i'll, is the latest to announce his
intention of leaving the Ford peac,
mission and returning home. 1t is like
ly that he will sail on the first Amer.
lean bound liner from this port.
Yesterday the first of the Ford party
members arrived here, the others being
due from Stockholm tomorrow. Ma
formal welcome was extended and the
delegates received no official recogni
ton.
At the Swedish capital, the Ford mis-
sion leaders announced that they had
agreed upon a definite working pro
gram. They will first submit their
peace plans to the governments of the
various helIigercnt nations. If these
governments reject the proposals that
the war should come to an end, the
proposals will he again submitted, and
the various warning nations will be
appealed to in the cause of peace until
the persistence of the peace advocates
attrncts attention and their plans re
ceiNc consideration.
A number Of lawyers trained in in
tcruationul law will he retained ia
draft ia" various proposals to be sub
mittrd in suitable text aud to advise
tn" delegates concerning the Internal
iomnl t"rhnicalities to be observed in
their work.
Members Of the party state that they
know that certain of the beIligerents
are ready now to listen to peace pro,
posals.
At banquet rendered the Ford
delegates in Stockholm on Tuesday ev,
ching, Mayor L.iHdhagon characterized
the Fond party members as "spiritual
Vikings. tie agreed that it is "bet-
ter to Try something than nothing"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-31
DR.. RINTELEN FACES DEATH

Won Rintelen, it was announced early
in the month, had returned to the
United States and been placed under
arrest. This, it now appears, was an
error, the German army captain, said
to be personal friend of the Kaiser, be
ing still held by the British. Rumor
states that he Id already been con
Nieted before a British court martial of
espionage and sentenced to death.
A recent despatch, credited to Der
lin, dated December II, says:
"The German Government has re.
fused to lberate DR.. Henri s. Beland,
former postmaster general of Canada,
captured in the fall of Antwerp, but
has oficered to exchange him for Franz
Won Rintelen, according to advices re-
ceived to-day by Arthur Ecrement,
former member of parliament.
lyon Rintelen is now understood to
be in the Tower of London under sen
tenee of death for espionage"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-31
WHEELERT0NSPECF
H|L0 WHARF ROAD.
Bumps and Jumps On Highway
" Built BY Foss To Be
Inspected

Bumps and Jumps alleged to he at
present decorating the surface of the
newly completed and unaccepted Kuhio
wharf road in HilO came in for further
hearing and argument at the meeting
Of the harbOr commits sion held yester-
day.
Contractor j. G. Foss. Jr., who built
the road, sent down from Hilo two
Jumps of Gomez ete taken from the road,
to prove the good quality of his work.
The Jumps were on exhibition and rest.
"d quietly and mutely on the desk of
A. {. Wheeler, acting chairman of the
board
After considerable discussion the
hoard decided that Mr.. Wheeler should
leave Honolulu in the Mauna Kea next
tdneSdaY morning for IIilO and in
Spcct the road, reporting to the board.
ON his return what he found and what
he will then think should be done. SO.
for the time being, exit humps and
bumps.
Young Brothers On Deck
The Young Brothers asked the hoard
for permission to install a pump and
1o0 gallon tank on the new Queen
street boat lauding The matter was
taken under advisement.
Pie board was informed that the
Enterprise is due at Hama, Maui, abeHt
January IS or 10, and the commission
ers were asked to instruct Capt. E.. II.
Parker, the Kahului pilot, to proceed
to Hama in time to place the Enterprise
In safe anchorage.
Notice was received that the rcpairs
to the Hama wharf, undertaken by the
Kaeleku Sugar Company. had been com.
Pleted Wharfnger n. Omsted report.
ed that the wharf was now in fairly
Gassable condition.
Electrical Conveying Plant
The board decided that bidders fer
the electrical carrying machinery for
the Kuhio wharf in IIilo need nov sub,
NIT figures for the installation Ct the
plant, but on the cost of the machinery
alone, Notice to this effect will be rub.
Iished officially.
Present at the meeting were A. =.
Wheeler, acting chairman; Thomas NJ.
Church, Col. Charles j. Mccarthy, James
Wakefield and f. f. Dodge; Arthur Il.
Smith, deputy attorney general and
legal adviser of the board Frank C..
Poor, clerk. aud Miss Dorothea A. FL
lerhroek, chief stenOgrapher.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-31
Unusually Severe Weather In
Russia and Along Western
Front Checks General Activ-
titles, But B9ssarabi4g Aflame
ALLIES CLAIM CONTROL
OF WESTERN SITUATION
Italian invaders Are Approaching
Serbian Border, While SIav
. Compaign In Mesopotamia Is
Said To Be Making H eadway

(Associated Press by Federal wIreless)
4 ONDON, December 30.-UnusuaIly
severe weather in Russia and a
winter colder than the average
along the western front has checked
the general activities and IL Is probable
that for the next few weeks there will
be few developments of note in either
theater of the war.
On the southern section of the Rus
sian front, in Bressarabia, there has
been some severe fighting, Petrograd
claiming that substantial advances
have been L.ade, justifying the reports
that the Russians are sufficiently strong
again IT, deal with the situation in that
theater of the war, while directly op-
posite claims are made by Vienna,
which insists that in eL IN Of the eight
attacks launched by the Slavs since
Christmas they have been repulscd with
heavy losses.
Vienna And Berlin Deny
The russians, say Vienna, expended
huge amounts of munitions and sacri.
feed many men, without succeeding at
any point of the attack.
The successes which have been claim
ed for the French in the Vosges are
Berlin.
A correspondent of Reuters agency.
who has been over the French front
and in Flanders, making a general sur
vey of the situation, reports that he rc-
ceived satisfactory proof of the fact
that the Allies are able to advance at
almost any point along the entire west
ern front at any time it suits them to
move. The preparations which lie
found, are complete for any number OF
great battles.
In the Balkans, the developments of
consequence are the advance of the
italian force, which has been landed at
AVlona and which is now on it's wav
towards the Serbian frontier, and the
reforming of a large portion of the
Serbian army at Scutari, ready for a
renewed campaign. This army is re-
ported to be $4,000 strong and incmdel
the Serbs who retreated into Northern
Albania. The Serbs in Southern AL
bania are expected to effect a junction
with the Italians, who are reported to
be advancing through the southern
passes to enter Serbia near the Greek
border.
The Russian campaign into Mcsopo-
tamia is making substantial. headway,
advancing towards the Persian Gulf
through Persia, where its operations ar
expected to relieve the pressure of tn
Turks against General Townsend 3
force Of Indians and British at Kut-el.
Amara, on the Tigris.
The SlaNs have occupied Kashan and
are now advancing towards IsIahaL.
The Persian Gulf is probably the first
objective, reaching which the Slavs
will be hurried to the reinforcement
of the IndO- British.