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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
FAILURES IN JULY.

Though some increase in the cOun-
try's business mortality is usual during
July, owing to the strain involved by
the semi-annual settlements, CONNER
cial failures last month were slightly
less numerous than in June and the
aggregate liabilities were only moder-
ately in excess of the total for that
period. Thus, insolveIicies, as report
ed to r. G. Dun & Co, numbered 1,739
and supplied an Indebtedness of $751;
934,9O3, against 1,754 in June for s1S,-
313,11S and 1907 for $21,053,212 in
May, the low point of the year in num-
Der of defaults. Hence, with this ex-
ception, there were fewer suspensions
than in any previous month and the
decrease as compared with January
was no less than 1,109,s or almost 40
per cent. Considerable expansion is
shown in comparison with July, 1914,
when 1,411 firms failed, but the mar
gin of increase is steadily narrowing
and it is significant that the latest fig
ures show a smaller debt than the
$2O,377,14S owed year ago. Both
numerically and otherwise, manufact-
uring losses last month made the best
exhibit of the year, there being 3S3
such reverses for $5,517,5 $50, against
404 for $7,604,3OO in June and $50
for $9,474,10O in July, 1914. A slight
rise. on the other hand, appeared in
the trading mortality, 1888 failures in
this division for $9,773.49S comparing
with 1924 in the preceding month for
S9,15O,948 and $50 last year for S.
$40, 54S; insolvencies among agents,
brokers and similar concerns number
ed 70 and involved $3,643,SS5, against
81 for $2,532,5OO in 1914
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
Clio be Sights
[From the Atchison Globe. ]
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Weeds nearly always spell failure.
An Italians talk really sounds like
spaghetti.
Old foolishness frequently gets by
as New Thought.
When he or she smiles almost any
baby is good looking.
Any picnic is a bowling success from
boys point of view.
A great many of us are disposed to
mistake a guess for fact.
Many times an official statement
doesn't make a news item authentic.
All some people want is two vaca-
tions of about six months each per
year.
1t is said the most promising thing
about a young AtchIson man is his
moustache.
Business won't go just because you
want it to; you must back up what you
want with push
Men cause enough trouble, but they
are responsible for comparatively lit
tie house cleaning.
Temperance lectures should be de-
voted to food and language as well as
booze. the well known Demon.
1t is also possible that more men
would let the women do the work if
the women were disposed to do it.
There are also some who should de-
vote Sunday to religion because they
don't use much of it during the week
Illiteracy is waning, but not nearly
as many are acquiring college educa-
tions as the agents would lead one to
believe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
RUSSIA,S DUMA.

Presumably Gear Nicholas and his
bureaucrats exercised their usual care
and caution in the selection of the
members of the Russian duma that
convened the other day and passed
resolutions of confidence in the gov
eminent; and also pledged the whole
people" of the Russian empire to sus-
tain it in the prosecution of the war
to successful conclusion, which
would appear to be somewhere in
the distance. One might think from
reading about the activities of the
duma that it is an assembly truly
representative of the Russian people.
But it isn't. And it's pretensions that
it is are merely more bunc of the
political variety. The common people
of Russia have about as much voice
in the selection of the members of the
duma as the people of Topeka have
in choosing the Lord Mayor of Lon
don.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
From Other Pens
QUIETING THE MILKMEN.

QOIEI1NG The M1LhM EN-
Now and then a great idea bursts
full-f1edged from the palpitating brain
of the seething west, and when it isn't
political idea we receive it with an
open mind and grateful heart. Such
a one has just been born in Chicago,
where the very latest wrinkle in civic
uplift is a suggestion that milkmen
be compelled to wear rubber soled
shoes. Ten thousand thousand fret
full insomniacs some day will rear a
monument of solid gold to the genius
who conceived this thought. Doubt
less it came to him, or her, on the in
about $3.50 or 5 o'clock as he, or she.
tened to the milkman, herald of dis
street upon his fiendish errand. How
blithely he whistles a jaunty tune as
his hobnailed boots play an excruciat-
ing accompaniment upon the grano-
lithic sidewalk. How joyously he
stops his obedient horse with glad
"Whoa!" juggles the bottles of milk
and cream, slams the side gate, sings
a snatch or two from the latest popu-
lar song, and then goes off to where
the next victims reside, leaving behind
him trail of jangling nerves and
fractured tempers. By all means COM
pei milkmen to wear rubber soled
shoes. But why stop so quickly re-
form so we'll begun? Why not equip
them also with Maxim silencers. and
make illegal the sale of milk in any
thing save guttapercha bottles 2-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News I

IFrom the Chicago News.
True wit is always incidental-and
often accidental.
Married people make up a quarrel
because they have to.
And the beauty of a get rich quick
scheme is also skin deep.
Impatient men seldom accomplish
anything of great Importance.
Not all women who are proud of
their figure are good calculators.
Things usually look blue to a man
after he has painted the town red.
After accepting crumbs of comfort
some people whine for the whole bak-
cry.
It's the easiest thing in the world
to convince the average man that he
is smart.
A travelling man may be a tourist
or a tramp. The distinction is a mat
ter of money.
Occasionally man is stricken dumb
with establishment but nothing like
that ever happens to his better but
more volub1e half
In after years the perusal of a love
letter that he wrote his wife before
marriage makes man feel like a lead
nickel with hole in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
CHANCES FOR OUR INVESTORS.

In the August American Magazine
a well-known American banker writ
ing on 1.-The Money Side of the War;
tells in part as follows what the OPP
portunities for American investors will
be after the war. Already there are
ample evidences that the whole world
help. 1t is no secret when 1 say that
with the exception of Great Britain,
every European belligerent, and al
most every neutral nation, has Dor
rowed, or attempted to borrow, money
in this market. Russia in January
took $25,00O,0O0 in one lump; France
last autumn. $1O,0OO,O0O; Switzerland,
a month ago, $15,OOO,OO0; Norway and
Sweden each two or three million dol
lars apiece; while Holland, Italy, Por-
tugal and Denmark have unmistaka-
bly, signified that 'Barkis is willin' ;.
Germany has borrowed something
here-how much nobody seems to
know. But certainly she has taken
care of her obligations in excellent
fashion American investors have
war began not less than SIS, 1000
a very tangible evidence of our finan-
cial strength. Will American investors
lend largely to foreign countries? 1t
seems altogether reasonable to expect
that if the sbelligerent nations continue
their purchases here of food products
and munitions of war on the same
scale as now American manufacturers
and merchants will treat them as they
would other good customers, and will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

Up in the beautiful blue summer
sky, tiny, white clouds drifted back
travelled waited by a western breeze.
Now TO the west they journeyod blown
by a breeze from the east. And all
the while they travelled, they
watched the earth beneath them.
II like to see the woods and the
forests said one little cloud, as
they went over broad blue lake.
'T can hardly wait till we have
crossed this lake, and have reached
"Oh, don't you like the lake?" ex-
claimed the next little cloud, 81
think it is beautiful. 1 love to look
at myself pictured in it's blue sur
face, 1 think nothing, unless per-
haps our own blue sky, is as beauti-
full as the lake"
well, I'm glad somebody likes it,
replied the first little cloud, for 1
don't"
what like" suggested another cloud
close BY 1T like the beach by the
side of the lake, for there I can
watch the children play. Look.
There they arei Don't they seem
The three little clouds looked and
saw dozens of happy children romp-
ing on the beach. And just at that
same minute, the dozens of children
clouds. "Oh. dearl" they cried. lis
it going to rain and spoil our day."
The three little clouds, never
suspecting that they might spoil
anybody's day, looked down SO
steadily that the little breeze who
was blowing them across the sky got
very tired of holding them up SO
high Here, 1 can't hold you there
forever" he cried, If you want to
see so much of the earth and its
children, why don't you go down and
visit them?''
And the little clouds, all three,
thought that fine idea.
So they let go of the breeze to
which they had been clinging, and
fell 'kersplash on the children's up
turned faces-just that suddenly
The children were SO surprised
The little clouds looked SO white and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY X. MOULTON

Bucolic Bliss.
oh, how my yearning heart inclines
And hoe the prunes that pleasures bring
To all who garden in the spring
How eagerly each morn 1 rush
To To- view eIva the Il pretty cabbage bush Sa 10,
From branches of the turnip tree.
oh, how do await chance
To hoe the lovely olive plants,
ana PICK potatoes from the vines,
And dig in my crab apple mines.
Boy, Page the Modiste.
The Princess Yasu was married in
crimson kimono and hakama
Whether or not she caught cold de-
ponds entirely on what a hakama is.
The Bonehead Championship.
OF all the boneheads 1 know,
The champion 1 ween
Is he who kicks about the flies
And never shuts the screen
Louise L. r.
Right Back at Him.
Carranza declares Americans will
be welcome in Mexico. Can't say the
feeling is mutual.
But. What Is 1t.
Japan seems to have established
something IN China. A protectorate,
or a precedent, or something like
that.
The Motion Is Carried.
Move that the heading to an article
What Japan Is Doing for China be
changed to read, What Japan Is
Doing to China"
Oh, Those Casual Remarks.
A casual remark in Portland, Me-,
caused the reuniting of some rela-
tives who had been separated thirty
years. People shouldn't talk too
much if they want to remain happy.
Doubly Binding.
From a recent ad:
Before you buy piano talk 1t
over with met will be mutual
ly beneficial to both of us.
Almost.
1t is said there are now 10000
words in the English language.
That ought to enable almost every
body to express his opinion of the
European war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

is a means of doing something for
individuals. to be tested by its results
on individual lives, to the German the
individual is an instrument for carry
ing out the purposes of the state;
it is by serving and working for these
purposes that the individual finds his
highest freedom. Hence arises the
German scorn of Manchesterthum,
and of the English ideals of free
commerce; hence too their glorifica-
ton of war, in which the subordina-
ton of the individual finds its most
complete expression.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
KANSAS.


Governor Capper of Kansas and party
spects to California and Incidentally visit
ing the eXpositions at San Francisco and
San Diego) ---...-s.-
1 live near the towering mountains,
Close to the western sea,
The snow-capped peaks are sentinels
And the whitecaps dance with glee-
1 came from the Kansas prairies,
Where sunflowers bend in the breeze,
And billiards. come to tease.
My home is in the sunshine,
Near the ocean pillows roar,
But my heart is back in Kansas
Amid scenes and joys of yore.
1 feast among the peoples,
l glory in the flowers,
1t changes dragging moments
Into happy, fleetfng hours
1 love the mountains high,
/ bless the ocean waves,
l picture in my mind so clear
The plains of former days.
It's a scene of wondrous beauty
With its shadows and its blends,
But above and far transcendent
Is the memory of my friends.
Yes. Kansas, we salute you
With your wealth and with your power,
You have made the nation wonder,
And your place is a tower.
You have sent us men and women,
And they helped to build a state,
Let us all rejoice together,
It's our time to celebrate.
James w. Going, in the Los Angeles
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
Journal Entries

Few men are so fair as to pick out
others of their size to fight with, nor
so imprudeEt.
- j. u
Maybe a miss is said to be as good
as a mile because so many of them are
just as tireSome.
= = !.
Not only do people find the trouble
they go looking for but generally they
cannot cope with it.
IL IL -
A man is usually nervous when he
proposes to girl and she's in the
same boat for fear he won't.
+ 4. j
Another popular delusion among
bachelors is that they rule their
households when they become bene-
diets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
GERMAN IDEA OF THE STATE

German political theories agree re-
inarkably in their insistence on the
doctrine that the state is a person.
having an existence of its own over
and above the individuals who may
happen to be it's citizens at any one
moment writes A. d. Lindsay, in the
August Atlantic. Having an existence
of its own, the state has ideals and
values of it's own, and to these the in
terests and ideals of the individuals
must be freely subordinated- While,
then. to the English thinker the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

ing to shelter. And as they ran
they cried, "Oh, dear, now our nice
play day is spoiledI'
The little water drops from the
clouds, who were learning fast even
II they had known nothing about
earth things a minute before, heard
ana were SO sorry. mo, your day
gaily. there are not enough of MS
TO spoil dayl You can play again
And they were right Hardly had
the boys ard girls found shelter when
the shower was all over. and ali wei
back to their play. But before they
began frolicking again, some few no
t1ced that the three little white clouds
were all -(Cupyright-CIara In
gram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

To ska's big fair. with its free gate,
is only a little more than a month
away This also means that every
Topekan owes it as a duty to his COM
1nunity to boost for the fair on every
possible occasion. 1t gives every
promise of being the greatest agricul-
tural exposition that has ever been
staged in Kansas. And this is saying
a good deal when the excellent fairs
that Topeka has had during the last
two or three years are considered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
Kansas Comment
PROHIBITION AND REvENUE

PROHIBITION AND REVENUE
1t is said the federal officials would
many of them in favor of national
prohibition were it not for the loss
of revenue that would ensue when
the trade was abolished. That was
one of the serious arguments Kansas
had to meet in the early days of pro-
hibition. What would the city do for
money of the saloon license were cut
off? 1t really looked like a serious
matter. and was about the only real
argument the liquor men had to ad-
vance. But the result showed that
when a city drove out the saloons the
cost of running the city government
decreased. 1t was whiskey that caused
the expenses, and without whiskey and
the crimes it caused, the expenses were
lighter. The cities of Kansas that for
years continued to take fines from
Jointists found that they cost the city
more than they paid in fines. The
city that closed the joints was better
off financially than the one that i'm
posed the fines. And so it will be
with the nation. Cut off the supply
of crime-producer, give the men of
the nation an opportunity to save their
money instead of spending it for Ii
quor, and the country at large as well
as the private citizen viii be far and
away ahead in the end. This has
proved true in Kansas; it will prove
true in the nation.-Lawrence Ga
Zette.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

In the future, Los Angeles police
men must salute. the American flag
whenever they pass it while on duty
and during the occasions when the
city is logged out in festival attire,
it is reasonable to urge that the Los
Angeles cops won't have time for any
thing else except saluting the flag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

plan had been to marry and go
straight home to the Manners house,
the handsomest in town. Jack was
the hair presumptive-he had grown
up there. Miss Louise was so fond
of him she could never do without
him. OF course, she would make him
a very handsome allowance besides
paying all expenses. Unless she
would, unless she did-Elsie shud-
dered. She did truly love Jack next
to herself. but she wanted ease, lux
ury, secure comfort. If marrying her
brought him poverty. why, it would be
better to let him go.
You say she'll do something for
us? How much do you suppose? We
could manage fairly on $4,000 a year
besides what you make" she ventured
doubtfully.
Jack laughed contemptuously. 'I
suppose she will furnish the kitchen
for us and give US half a dozen tea
spoons" he said. "But $4,000 a. yeari
Why, l couldn't bring myself to take
1t If she offered it. I owe her too
much already"
You are wickedly foolish" Elsie
sobbed. 'And unkind, too. If you
had told me in time L shouldn't be in
this awful hole. OF course I can't
marry you as things are. 1 have no
taste or talent for starvation Sup
pose we wait year or two. Maybe I
can bring her around. If that turns
out to be impossible; well, we shall
see. 1 simply can't stay here forever
Mother has three other girls younger
than am, remember; and father will
never be anything but a salaried man.
suppose I'm never anything but
that?' Jack asked abruptly, something
dogged creeping into his face.
Elsie flushed and returned sharply:
IF you are going to let yourself be
so-why, the sooner I get rid of this
trumpery the betteri'
With that she dropped the ring at
his feet. He picked it up and left her
without a word
He thought his heart was broken.
Time healed it and his fortunes mend
ed. He did not marry for ten wears.
Elinor Moore, the girl of his ma
ture choice, was worth the long wait
ing Copyright, 1915, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

Race suicide, at any rate, is un-
known in Germany. Every seventh
son born in prominent German fam
lily in which the preceding six sons
are alive becomes a "godchild" of the
kaiser. And he now has no less than
IL, 900 such godchildren. No statistics
are available, but the probabilities are
that seventh sons in native American
families are almost as scarce as hens
toPth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

Many a Kansan, undoubtedly, who
has a laundering to possess an auto
mobile, would jump at the chance to
buy some of them at the average
price that is placed on them by their
owners and the assessors for the pur-
poses of taxation. The average value
of the cars in Topeka, for instance
and for the purposes of taxation, of
course-iS $415
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06
Movies of Flying Bullets.

Imagine photographing a moving
revolver bullet; then imagine, if you
can, making 72 photographs of it
while it was covering a space of ten
inches. This is feat which has ac-
tually been accomplished with the aid
of a moving picture camera. AS the
pictures were taken at the rate of
100000 a second, and no camera shut
ter is made which could attain that
speed, the pictures were made by
means of a series of electric flashes,
each spark or flash giving one expo
sure: The film used was mounted on
a wheel three feet in circumference
which was revolved at the rate of
nine thousand revolutions a minute in
order that the pictures should not
overlap each other
In photographing a bullet passing
through a stick, it was noticed that the
bullet passed completely through the
stick and was well on it's way before
the wood showed any signs of splin-
ter1ng. Then tiny splinters appeared.
the stick began to split and finally
broke after the bullet was some dis
lance from the stick.-The American
Bow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

In the chigger remedy line, a strong
solution of hyposulphite of soda and
water. a couple Of ounces of hypo dis
solved in five or six ounces of water,
and well-rubbed into the chigger's
human lair, seems to do the work
nicely
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

If the people of Topeka and Shaw
nee county get their moneys worth
out of the increased taxes they must
pay, the situation will not be the
cause for the complaint that would
otherwise be Dertinent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

In the rare day line in Kansas, moth
ing has been rarer for some time than
a day without rain. Does there hap
pen to be such a glutton for moisture
as a Kansas farmer who hasn't 'en-
Joyed' enough rain this spring and
summer? If so, let him speak up, so
that the appropriate honors and dec
ocrations can be conferred upon him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

AS the New York Mail observes:
With Russia trying to carve Turkey,
with Germany cutting into Russia and
England striking at Germany, the cir
Gus of death has so many rings that
one gets dizzy watching
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

Is suicide ever justifiable or eX-
usable? A wealthy Oklahoman VINO
ould neither eat nor talk because OF
cancerous affection of the face
irowned himself in a bathtub.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

And the recapture of the City of
Mexico by the forces of Carranza is
not so important a proposition as is
the question as to how long they will
be able to hold the city.
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THE SUDDEN SHOWER.

harmless high up in the sky Who
would have thought that they were
chuck full of such very wet water
drops?
Every little boy and girl on the
whole big beach Ito say nothing of
the mothers and sisters) ran scurry-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

Portugal seems to be edging into the
class that Mexico has monopolized sc
long. Three distinct revolutions are
under way there.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State journal is member OF the
Associated Press and receives the iuIi gay
teIegraph report of that great news or
wanization, for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka
The news is received In The state jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-06

Are the Federal Leaguers the phil
anthropists of the baseball world?
They're going to stage ten-cent base
ball at Newark, n. j. But perhaps
their offering won't be worth any