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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
EASTER BELo NGs To-wHo?

One fine spring day, in fact on the
very afternoon before Easter, a gay,
happy rabbit went scurying across the
yard: On the opposite side, he met
a jolly, good-natured looking chicken.
Good afternoon, Friend Chicken -
he called, why are you looking so
happy"
Il can't help being happy" replied
the chicken, because tomorrow is my
very own day!"
Tomorrow exclaimed the rabbit,
Tomorrow is Easter!''
'Of course tomorrow is Easter" an
SWered the chicken, "EaStr, my Eas-
ter, the one day of the whole year
when young chicks like myself are
really important. Easter was made
for us."
The rabbit swallowed lump of red
hot rag and tried to be polite as he
answered, For you! How can you
windows! Listen to the children talk
and you will soon know that Easter
is the day for rabbits
For rabbits!' exclaimed a pair of
eggs who rolled down the road Just
then, what a stupid idea! Easter is
the one day of the year devoted to
eggs People eat us and color us.
They even make cookies and candies
and cakes in the shape of eggs to do
US honor!''
1T really is astonishing how many
mistaken ideas there are in the
world said the rabbit (still trying to
ne poiLe Out IlnulnS II very hard
work. Il supposed everybody knew
that Easter belonged to rabbits
They all four began to talk at once;
the chicken, the two eggs and the
ra bbit each tried to convince the other
that Easter was private property
While the argument was at it's
height, messenger boy, carrying a
load of boxes, came along the road
He stopped to rest minute and over
heard the discussion.
The very 1dea! he exclaimed as
soon as he could get in a word, '-just
as though you poor little creatures
for anything at Easter time,
You may be used for decorations but
new hats are what really count" E,as-
ter was made for new hats"
Before anyone could say a word by
way of answer, another messenger
boy stopped nearby to rest. My but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
From Other Pens
SAME OLD ROCKS.

There are two closely related pla1lxs
in the Baltimore platform upon witch
the Democratic party can not evads a
strict accounting. One is that which
promised a downward revision of he
tariff, the adoption of the income tx.
the revision of the banking and CIR
rency laws and additional anti-tnst
legislation. The other promised ecn-
omy and retrenchment in the opea-
ton of the government. 1t cannotbe
said that the first one has been me-
lected, but the country is convindd
that it would be better off if most n
1T had been. The results of the tv,
years of strenuous effort put forth l.
the congress that has just died to reg
ulate business and industry and ct
down the tariff are very much Wit
us-painfully SO. And what abou
the economy and retrenchmon
plank? When the Sixty-third CON
gress went out of existence, thi!
month, 1T had authorized expenditures
amounting to more than $2,237,OOO
600, which is about twice the national
debt. This first Democratic congress
since that of 1S93-95, pledged to put a
greatly exceeded the expenditures of
the last preceding Republican con-
gress of 1909-11. Even its leaders re-
garded it's money recklessness with
CONSERVATION, but they eXpostuIated in
vain. 1t is only the old story Finance
and business are the rocks upon which
the Democratic party has been wreck
ed every time it has won its way back
to power, since the Republican party
came into eXiStence.-Clevelan Lead
er.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
MORE SCIENTIFIC TwADDLE

At first glance, it would seem rea-
sonable to suggest that there are not
enough decorations in the whole of
Europe to reward and distin guish
adequately the young French soldier
scientist who succeeded in writing
'highly scientific opuscule on the
parasitic infusoria of cephalopoda,"
during a few hours respite in the re-
cent heavy fighting near Notre Dame
de, Lorette. AS a matter of fact
though, or as nearly as a plug intel
lect can aDalyze the above quoted de-
scription of this effort, this youthful
savant merely composed a brief trea-
tise on certain minute organisms that
attach themselves to and live on the
highest type of mollusks, such as
squids, cuttlefishes and octopus And
1t would appear safe to assume and
assert that the world and it's people
would have been able to worry along
in their usual way and to better
things without this exposition of such
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
Kansas Comment
LOGIC OF LITTLE THINGS.

LOGlC Of' LlI1LE I6lN1c-
He may be called ..Iongheaded." or
frequently he is called lucky; by a
great many he is called selfish and
those who have known him best dur
ing all the years that he has been ac-
quiring competence and a reputation
know better. They know that while
he dealt in little things when only Ut
tie things came to his hand, that the
larger things were coming into his
vision as hopes to be realized. And
gradually they were realized. The
man who finally demonstrates to his
ly the relation and reaction of large
things in business, or perhaps politics.
is the man who during his early career
saw clearly the relation and reaction
of the small things, and attended to
them-did not neglect them because
they were merely small. And by and
by, as the endless circle of events and
opportunities came along he reached
out and seized the large things and
opportunities, his increased strength
and clearnesS of vision fitting him for
their absorption and utilization. Great
success, even moderate success; in fact
any degree of real success is made up
of definite bits of patient handling of
infinitely small things until bram and
will have grown to fit the larger
things and demands for larger pa
filled the minutes; properly per-
formed these little duties and thu min
utes were succeeded by the Larger du-
ties of the hours, the days an{f the
years, and people recognized success
though great numbers of them mis-
judged the one who won it. Bit he
knows.-Lawrence Journal-Worl&.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCEIsoN GLOBE.

Everybody shows pep in a tryout.
1t is SO easy to see that the boss is
wrong.
Is a man an anarchist if he doesn't
become excited over Arbor day2
The average library is an institu
ton that is about one-fifth read.
There is also the bore who always
insists on complete explanation
The habit of being late is almost
as bad as the habit of being tight.
While the good roads talk may help
some, a road drag is more essential
and efficient.
4 man doesn't give himself any the
worst of it when he tells woman the
Story of His Life.
Among the other leg shows may be
mentioned those Hut on by the corn
cure advertisements.
When the average man gets big
word out of his system he feels like
taking a merry drink.
Some men save money. but not as
much as they thought they would
when they began making garden in
the spring. ira la la.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
Jayh alu ker Jots

Ideas and ideals are twins. and
teammates, as the University Daily
Kansan points out.
Horse buyers think the European
war is coming to an end soon, reports
the Burlington Republican, because
the nations are getting more strict IN
their requirements in buying horses
For while they would accept almost
any sort of a horse, but it is different
now.
If Napoleon Bonaparte were alive
today, suggests the Hutchinson News,
and could take look at the war from
an aeroplane, he would have to &C
knowledge that the one he starred IN
was hardly more than child's play
compared with the present conflict
This is a progressive world.
A university professor talked to one
of the town clubs recently. tells the
Lawrence Gazette, and said that the
work of a we'll known Kansas woman
writer wasn't literature We can
prove, adds the Gazette, that the col
ored covers on the lady's book are as
well done as any of the others that
are read in Lawrence.
Roy Marker, who was recently
elected to the vice presidency of the
Pullman company started as a report
or on the Wichita Eagle. And that
paper thinks it is time for the Wich-
tia business man who, twenty years
ago, dropped in to say, why don't
you get somebody besides kids for
reporters WISH us ONCE anu dpOl-
ogize.
The Smith Center Pioneer speaks
about a citizen of Lebanon visiting the
county seat town between Jerseys,
notes the Concordia KanSan, and it
kindly explains: That doesn't mean
that he marched into town between
two Jersey cows, but that he came to
town on a Rock Island train which
they call 1.-The Jersey and went away
on the train of the same name.
IT wonder how many town ladies'
know that mules tail is not a mules
tail by nature, but it il instead care
fully shaved and trimmed down to the
required style AID proportions which
will make a mule sell better in the
market. AS to the origin of this GUS
tom, we have never been able to find
out" says Ruth Alexander People in
the Erie Record. Here's one guess,
from the AtchiSon Champion: 1t was
either started by the man who in
vented the goatee and side-burns, or
the woman who willed bangs on the
human race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
THE sIxrx-YEAR Old BOYS

THE SIXTY-YEAR OLD BOYS
1t once was the rule, in your youthtime
and mine,
That the fifty-year man was far gone in
decline,
That he wore bushy whiskers and stopped
he walked,
And quavered a bit in his voice as he
talked.
But, oh, what a change has come over
mankind,
The fifty-year youngster of now isn't blind
Or halt decrepit or whiskered-nayi nay !
The sixtyyear kid" is the rule of today J
There may be some snow at his temples,
tbs truth;
But folks say, s.Some people grow gray In
their YOUTH
He's carefully groomed, and he's straight
a rod;
He laughs like child, and he smiles like
god.
He's natty and nobby and brisk as a boy
To meet him, to be in his presence, is joy
Instead of December, he's April or May
The sixty-year youngster Is with us to
stay.
Strickland Gillian, in Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.l
The one who hesitates may lose a
good opportunity.
If a man refuses to be consoled his
is a hopeless case.
A girl with a dimple will laugh at
anything a man says.
Even pleasure becomes irksome if
it's in the nature of a duty.
Some men spend money as if they
can afford it because they can't.
After man gets to be about so old
the insurance solicitors give him a
rest.
Probably every man on earth has
rheumatism, dyspepsia or some other
hobby.
The wise man really looks broken
hearted when his wife goes for a two
weeks visit.
the best fiction writers are now work.
ing on summer resort circulars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

felt $50 different from you ALL" she
managed to say. $3.50 alone!'
Trenton leaned over her. Don't
say alone again, Raymonde-if-if
you love me-
"Oh,' she breathed, IT dol do"
And you'll marry me after Easter
and we'll have the whole blessed
choir here in your studio to wish US
JOY after we come back from the Lit
tie Church Around the Corner. won't
we, dear?''
And Raymonde nodded even while
she sobbed--tCopyrigh 1915, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

But Easter is not for new suits"
exclaimed the chicken, the two eggs
and the rabbit in one breath, Easter
is for USi'
You are all wrong" whispered a
bright sunbeam which had flickered
down from the blue sky above, "Eas-
ter is for everybody! In the SPRING
time the earth likes new things, likes
young fresh things, SO we honor the
flowers, gay colors, young animals
and newborn creatures; and we dress
in fresh new garments in honor OF
the newborn season. But Easter it,
self belongs TO everybody-because
it's Gods day.
With a gay smile, the sunbeam was
gone; the argument stopped and
everybody some way felt suddenly
happy and smily as they went on their
way.-( 1915-Clara In
gram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
MEMBER:
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STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP,
MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION. ETC,
Association.


OF The Topeka State Journal, published
daily except Sunday at Topeka, Kansas,
required by the Act of August 24, 1872.
Note.-This statement is to be made in
duplicate, both copies to be delivered by
the publisher to the postmaster, who will
send one copy to the Third Assistant Post
master General division of Classification
Washington. ID. c.. and retain the other in
the files of the postoffice.
Editor. Frank Z. MacLennan, Topeka,
Kansas.
Managing Editor. Frank p. MacLennan,
Topeka. Kansas.
business Manager, Frank 2. MacLennan,
Topeka, Kansas
Publisher, Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka,
Kansas.
Owners: Of a corporation. give names
and addresses of stockholders holding per
cent or more of total amount of stOck)
Frank p. MacLennan, (so1e owner), To-
peka, Kansas.
known bondhoIders. mortgages. and
other security holders. holding 1 per cent
or more of total amount of bonds, mort
cages or, other securities:
None.
Average number of copies of each issue
of this publication sold distributed,
through the mails otherwise, to paid
subscribers during the six months preced-
ing the date of this statement. 20. 4!6
FRANK p. Mac LEHMAN,
Editor and Owner
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
LIST day of April, 1915.
ISeal.1 ALBERT A. MILLER.
Notary Public.
my commission expires December I. 1850
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
ANOTHER FALLACY PUNCTURsD.

Considerable is heard now and then
about the antipathy of the Chinese to
foreigners, yet the facts are that there
are many foreigners engaged by the
Chinese government in it's various de-
partments, either in the customs, rail-
ways, postoffices or other branches.
According to the latest information
on this score, the total is 3.94S per-
sons, whose nationalities are as fell
lows: British, 1,105; French, 1908;
German, $50; Russian, 463; American,
ia; Japanese, 207; Italian, rs; Aus
trian, SO; Belgian, III; others, 15S.
This is an official family of an ex-
ceedingly polyglot variety. and it's to
be wondered if all it's members talk
Chinese, or what is the common Ian
guage through which they transact
business with each other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
Journal Entries

There's no use saving trouble when
it's so easily borrowed
- j -
With will there's a way and also,
usually, something of temper.
- 20 T.
OF women. generally, it may be said
that they seldom wear shoes winch
fit.
% - j.
Should some men fail to talk about
nothing would ever be
heard of them.
IL j. Il
A lot of criticism is poked at the
CUTTERS but he's a wise man, never
the less, who knows just when to
quit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
AN April FOOL PRESIDENT.

Carranza and his cronies maintain a
bureau in New York city that has been
prolific for some time in mailing bull
letins or socalled news letters to the
press of this country that have touch
ed on every phase of the Mexican
situation as it has developed, but from
their standpoint. of course And that
made most of them valueless, for IN
formation from biased courses is not
always reliable. Bulletin No. so, how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
Present indications are that General

Present indications are that General
Funston will not find it necessary to
call on General Scott to come to
Brownsville and use some of his ia
nous moral suasion'' on the Mexican
belligerents around Matamoros to get
them to agree not to drop any stray
shots across the American line. The
AeXicans had a chance to become we'll
acquainted with General Funston dur
ing his sojourn at Vera Cruz, and they
probably know full we'll that he re-
fuses to stand for anything that savors
of monkey-business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
THE MOVING EVIL.

Rural prosperity abounds in Kan
sas and to far larger extent than
it does in almost any other section OF
the country. Assuredly, this is so on
per capita basis. Kansas, however.
could be more prosperous, agricul-
uraIly, and for a variety of reasons.
There is plenty of room here for in
creasing the yields per acre, Tor a
more general practice of animal hus-
bandry, and for making remunerative
returns more certain through DIVERSE
fed farming. But there is one good
reason why Kansas is not more pros
porous, rurally, even under present
conditions. And it is to be found in
the moving habit that prevails among
the tenant farmers of the state. Among
the data obtained for the last federal
census were answers from Kansas
farmers as to how long they had lived
on the farms they were then occu-
plying. This question was asked of
7,S41 Kansas farmers. Replies
were received from 161, 442, and
tabuiation of these shows that more
than $4,000 had occupied their farms
for only one year or less; $500 for
from two to four years; .2S,301 for
from five to nine years and 43,176 for
ten years and over. 1t is this insta-
bility of farm occupancy that is
among the paramount causes for de-
Ginning rural prosperity, or him
drance to greater progress. The farm
ers who move with frequency are
those for whom agriculture
pays the poorest dividends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

What will the women do with their
new spring hats and other finery if
it doesn't warm up a little bit for
Easter Sunday? Nothing could be
more ca1amitous for them on that oc-
casion than a frigid atmosphere. Some
of them, however, will be sure to
splurge no matter how bad the wealth.
NAV he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

an insignificant subject, no matter
how brilliant it may be. or what
furore it may create in certain sclen-
tific circles. Science has done Won
ders for the world, but much of the
language in which some of it's ac-
complishments are described suggests
matters of much more Importance and
wonder than they really are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

Much needed improvements for the
interior of the state house and the re-
arrangement of the office room have
been planned by the executive council.
But when is the state going to under
take the repair of certain sections of
the exterior of this once magnificent
building that have been in a state of
decay for long while and are natur-
ally getting worse all the time?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

With Chicago and other cities clos
ing their municipal lodging houses for
the season, the march of the hoboes
through these sections. the. fat lands
of the country, will be well under way
hRfnre long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

How touehy some women are and
how they hate to forget One in New
York is actually suing her husband for
a divorce and 500 a month alimony
because he kicked her out of bed on
an occasion of ten wears ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

Servia has worse things to battle
against than the shot and shell tossed
in it's direction by the Austrians. Not
only is the dread typhus raging there
but an epidemic of cholera is also in
prospect for the near future
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

Like all professional gamblers. the
brokers at Lloyds seldom take much
of a chance They are offering to bet
even money that the European war
will end during the current year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

Topeka is getting there with both
feet. Regardless of the untoward
climatic conditions which prevailed
during the entire period, the building
activity in March showed considera-
BILE gain over what it was during the
same month last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization, 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, 1915-04-03

How consoling Announcement is
made by the local weather bureau
that the records for hereabouts fail to
show an April where the temperature
fell below 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

Present indications are that among
those hardest hit by the European
war, old King Booze will have the big
gest black eye.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

Vic Murdoch is said to be headed
back toward the COP. And there is
a suspicion that when Vic left said
party he walked backward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

Funston is watchfulIy waiting for
an excuse to throw a few tons of gov
eminent hardware into Mexican ter
ritory, but about the only chance he
will ever have will be to keep his ar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

We may say this for friend Thunder
bear, Kiene's Sioux guest. He looks
like he was more accustomed to store
clothes than the masquerade layout
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
" Clara lnSrauaJWdson

to get my new suit done in time till
m tired enough to drop! ! wish
there was no Easter for new suitsi"
am tired!' he exclaimed, ut is rush
heren and hurry therer and he sure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

According to the Big Book, man
should not live by bread alone, but ac-
cording to the Kaiser's bible, it is a
crime to eat cake in Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

First AUTHORITATIVE you heard that
Scribbleton has taken a wife - Second
Author-"Yes, suppose he wanted to dou-
BILE the circle of his readers. boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

The unfortunate gent who was
caught in his tailor shop with a girl
should make t, defense that he was
merely trying to sell suit of clothes.
Now that they are mems equals, the
girls should not be denied the privi-
they want to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03

Auction sales originated in ancient
Rome, and were introduced to enable
soldiers to dispose of spoils of war