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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10

Loeb Lomond.' Polly? Well, listen to
this, and it's promise
You take the high road and I'll take
the low road.
And I'll be in Scotland before you"
Now she knew what he meant
Slow, easy going, unromantic Buell.
had chosen the most sensational route
to follow and overtake his sweet
heart on her journey after tame and
fortune. Outdistancing the train, the
aeroplane alighted a Tarrytown, and
smiling on the platform, his hat off,
bowling in response to the greeting
cheers.
AS soon as he had found Polly he
shook hands laughingly and settled
down into the seat beside her.
I've told the other chap, Chaplin,
he can go back without me- he said
calmly. Made pretty good time,
didn't we?''
Polly looked at him with a new
expression of admiration in her wide
eyes.
81 don't see why you ever did such
a wild thing, Buell. she said help
lessly.
Don't you ?" he replied cheerfulIy
''Well, / had to catch you before you
reached Aunt EudOra, didn't /? Now,
as soon as we reach New York can
explain matters to her, Polly, and
we'll be married at her house and
go back to Waneota."
Polly smiled Some way her con-
templated career was fading like the
aeroplane vanishing behind them in
the blue sky.
'I suppose I must. Buell. she said.
copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10
RAINY DAY FUN FOR BOYS.

Three little boys and a rainy day
dear me, what a bad combination!
There's nothing on earth to do"
said one.
And 1 don't believe it's ever going
to stop raining said another.
''And I hate rain in the summer
anyway" said the third; and then no.
body could think of anything else
worth saying.
Just then mother walked into the
dining room where they were sitting
my, what a Quaker meetingl" she
said laughingly. why doesn't some
body say Something?"
Because it's raining and there is
nothing to say" said Une boy.
And because we can't go to the
park as we were going to- said an
other.
land because it won't stop raining
all day, and we hate rain" added the
third.
.'WeIl, then, if we can't go to the
park said mother cneerfully, why
not bring the park here?"
but they had no chance to ask ques-
tions. for she went out of the room.
In five minutes she was back, and in
her hand she carried rolls of paper
white paper, green paper, yellow paper
and red paper, all rolled up in neat lit
tie rolls-and in her other hand she
had a mucilage pot and three pairs of
There we are" she said gaily as she
laid the things on the table, land now
for the park
She carefully unrolled the great
sheet of green paper and spread it out
on the table. With a tiny, tiny drop of
paste she fastened it firmly at the
corners and then explained the game.
This table is the park now, bos,"
she said. IT furnish the ground now
you must improve it, This is the bare,
green lot What are you going to put
on it
The boys at once saw what she
meant and grabbed for the scissors.
iii put the walks in" said one,
because can cut pretty curves
I'll make the trees" said another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10
EUening Chat
What a Child Learns.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Did you ever think how much is
crowded into the first five or six years
of child's life?
In five years Counting out the
Grst), the average child, in addition to
growing faster than at any other
period, learns to speak and under
stand an entirely new language, learns
to stand, to walk, to feed himself,
besides hundreds of incidental lessons.
If we kept on living at this rate
through the allotted four score years
and ten, what a lot we would come to
know!
The child also begins to learn the
lesson of his social relationships with
a world of other people, represented
for the present chiefly by his family.
In some ways, this lesson is bigger
and more perpleXing than all the rest.
1t surely should be made as simple and
clear as possible. we should be care
full never to complicate it by treating
him unjustly or unreaSonably.
And yet how seldom any such ideal
is held by the grown-ups in whose
country this little foreigner is trying to
orientate himself.
Consider some of the pulling and
unsettling difficulties a child has to
deal with in an average home.
One parent forbids him to do a
thing and the other permits him.
He is merely reprOved for trans
crossing some law which is really fun
cruelty, and is violently punished for
for something which is only the
borderland between the accidental
and the careless, such as splitting his
bowl of milk at the table To be sure,
the latter causes his mother more
trouble, but should our inconvenience
or the child's wrong intent be the
criterion of the severity OF punish
ment?
He is laughed at for saying some
thing funny and scolded without due
| explanation when he tries to arouse
! laughter by repeating it,
| If he has unreasonable fears. in
stead of having them intelligently ex-
| planned away, they are often used as
| a means of soaring him into obed
| fence.
If he is naturally without fear he
frequently has fears instilled into him
to keep him from doing this or that.
He hears the secret things of his
heart which he has been foolish
enough to confide to his grown-up
| friends blazoned abroad and perhaps
laughed at.
The many lessons which he must
learn about life are confused and
| complicated by the m1sinformation
which people give him in answer to
| his questions, either carelessly or in
the idea that they are thereby show
ing an exquisite wit.
He is spoken to in high pitched
tones by the grown-ups whose nerves
he has disturbed, and then scolded for
responding to the nervous atmosphere
by what these same people have the
effrontery to call. crossness.
OF course children are a great deal
| of trouble and it is easier to treat
them carelessly than thoughtfully.
But if you invited a guest to your
| house you would do your best to treat
him courteously and fairly. wouldn't
you? And what are children but the
guests whom we have invited to our
homes, and to whom we consequently
owe courtesy and consideration as
well as food and shelter.
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collier who was working recently
at the coaI-face in the twenty-inch
or Smith-coal, seam at the Trafalgar
colliery, Forest of Dean, states that
about 10 a. m. he was holing under
meath the coal-seam, which is about
twenty inches thick. He had holed in
the under-earth a distance of about
fifteen inches, and, as was the usual
custom, to enable him to hole farther
underneath he struck the pick into
the cOal-face a distance of about six
inches from the floor. At the point
where he did so a thin band of shale,
black earth, technically known as a
parting-was running along the coal
face. The pick, where he pierced the
coal, appeared to strike through into
space; the piece of coal below the pick
fell off up to the parting above spoken
of, disclosing a small cavity, out of
which at the same time fell a live frog
1t was small in size and dark in color,
with bright yellow band running the
whole length of the back The ex-
aminer of the district came up just at
the time and took charge of it, Short
ly afterward, at the request of the
management, the pieces of coal were
carefully looked over, and the piece
with the shale adhering to it was
found. In this was a cavity of such
size and shape as would just about
hold the body of a frog.-The Strand
MAGAZINE
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PROSPERITY OUTLOOK GOOD

After noting the unusual activity in
the steel trade, under the stimulus of
war" contracts, and pointing out that
after the war is over our export trade
in cars, locomotives, bridge material,
etc, is certain to be of large proper
tions, Henry Clews, the New York
banker, expressed the opinion, in his
current weekly financial review, that
the outlook for the steel industry
seems unusually roseate for the next
year. And he thinks that the activ
ity in Steel will soon be reflected in
better conditions throughout the iron
and steel districts. Large movements
of ore are expected on the Lakes. The
railroads will benefit from larger traf-
fic both ways. Labor will be better
employed at higher wages, and the
fall demand for many articles of cloth
ing, food and furnishings will be in a
large volume this autumn.
In the agricultural districts" MI
Clews continues, 1.-The outlook is quite
promising. Some slight decrease in
conditions may be caused by last
weeks unfavorable weather, but the
agricultural outlook as a whole is I'M
| impaired and the indications remain
| for good crops at satisfactory prices in
all parts of the country. Even the
cotton situation is not so bad as at one
time represented. and the South while
undoubtedly Inconvenience by the
war, though no more than certain
other sections of the country, will
doubtless emerge in fairly satisfactory
condition.
War continues to dominate the
market although the situation is less
threatening since our foreign rela-
tions are decidedly more satisfactory.
Our differences with Great Britain are
in fair way of adjustment They
| affect property rights only and arbi-
/ tration will be adequate to settle the
differences between US, just it has
been in numerous controversies for the
past one hundred years. Our differ
encss with Germany are rather more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

Jealousy is a manufacturer-ot
meanneSs.
With a good many men, falling in
love becomes habit.
Guessing isn't so bad where one is
allowed more than one guess.
An appeal is frequently an effort
to gain time instead of justice.
Here lately the fellows higher up
are first in line for the bombs.
it may be said for the crouch that
he rarely tries to monOpolize the con-
versation.
An Atchison owned automobile has
q horn that sounds like the squeal of
a stuck pig.
Next to talking about himself,
mere man prefers to hear the wom-
en- talk about himself.
A mean man says there would be
more divorces if there weren't so
many two-legged rabbits
Some women have a sense of
humor, while others have tact and
laugh at their husbands jokes.
blamed brilliant that a bushel is
do.
Chautauquas may be fine things
for the community. but the seats are
usually as hard as the word is to
spell.
You may have observed that the
boob in the bleachers can see things
much more clearly than the umpire
standing over the play.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10

serious, since they involve the safety
of American lives at sea. But fortu-
nately Germany has lately shown a
more conciliatory spirit and is appar-
emily endeavoring to prevent any de
liberately unfriendly' episodes.
ION the stock Exchange there is a
disposition to pay more attention to
the best class of industrials and rail-
road shares. The latter have been
neglected for some time past for rea-
sons quite familiar. The transporta-
ton outlook is rapidly improving.
Good crops mean good business and
larger traffic prospects at the West.
Activity in steel means similar condi-
tons over a large section of the East.
General business here will show cor
responding improvement. Credit is
generally sound. Collections are fair.
July failures were the smallest in the
past two years Our finan-
cia1 situation whole must be re-
garded eminently conservative,
sound and promising
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

1From the Philadelphia Record
You never can tell. Many a mar.
with a big head has small ideas
The people who are always at odds
are also always trying to get even.
The nearer some people get to the
top. the more unbalanced they be-
come.
The man who doesn't tell all he
knows gives people the privilege of
guessing.
When some people feel the need of
a little exercise they put themselves
on the back
The man who would rather lose a
friend than an argument sometimes
loses both.
Does the girl who is fond of kissing
admire a man who keeps a stiff upper
lip?
Where promises are concerned it
seems almost as easy to make one as
to break one.
Some people are diffident with
strangers, and others refuse even to
meet their own obligations.
Nell-"Jack is a brick" Belle
THAT being the case it's a good thing
ducked when he threw himself at
me-
Willie's Mamma-"Willie, you are
a very naughty boy. Don't you want
to go to heaven when you die ?"
Willie-"Sure, but I'm in no particular
hurry about it,
BIobbs-"What a secretive fellow
Wigwag IS" Slobbs-"Yes, to get any
inside information out of Wigwag it
would be necessary to perform an
autopsy on him"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News. ]

From the Chicago News
Self-satisfied men are conceited
men.
Yes, it's possible to keep dry even
in a wet town.
And many a man who starts with
cold feet makes = hot finish.
A lot of people have the habit of
lying with their mouths closed.
Occasionally a fool and his money
make a noise like a good thing
Much thai is labeled financial sue
cess is PLAIN graft.
When a woman has n suspicion she
is always willing to share it with
others
Some men are lucky dogs because
the police permit them to turn around
without muzzles.
Ever notice how easily a heart brok-
en- damsel centents the pieces together
and awaits another smash?
Men crow when they win q bet, and
women cackle when they win euchre
prize--all OF which goes to show that
men and women resemble poultry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10
sTARVE HEssIAN FLIES.

AS the current weekly news letter
of the federal department of agricul-
ture suggests, the wheat grower must
constantly keep in mind the fact that
there is no direct way of reaching the
Hessian fly in the spring in manner
to reduce its ravages. All methods of
prevention or control must be put into
operation during the summer and
autumn months and applied against
the fall generation. Therefore what
ever is done to protect the farmers
next years wheat crop from Hessian
fly attack must be done within the
next eighty days in the south and
within fifty days in the north. Among
other things the federal agricultural
departments specialists advise the
farmer to destroy by the following
methods the Hessian fly, which is in
the "flaxseed" stage in wheat stubble
and in unhArvested wheat from June
to September, or even October in the
south:
Burn, where possible and safe, all
stubble and ruined wheat.
Disk all stubble and ruined wheat
Immediately after harvest, where
burning is impracticab1e.
Pillow under deeply all stubble and
ruined wheat fields before August Is,
harrow the ground, and roll if nee
essary.
Harrow, disk, pasture or otherwise
effectually destroy all volunteer
wheat.
AS measure preparatory to SOW
ing pillow as early and deeply as ex-
listing conditions will permit; disk,
harrow and roll until a thoroughly
pulverized, compact seed bed is OBJ
tanned.
Do not SOW wheat until fly-free
date.
Rotate crops If possible.
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MORAL sUAsIoN. AGAIN.

More moral suasion is evidently one
of the cards that the government has
had up its sleeve to deal with the
Mexican situation. At any rate, Gen
eral Hugh L. Scott. chief of staff of
the army, has been sent to the Next
can border again for the purpose of
talking things over with Villa. And
while General Scott has no peer as a
moral suader, the proba Utilities are
that some other kind of medicine will
have to be compounded for the Next
cans by Uncle Sam, and it is also
likely that it will have to be forced
down their throats
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10
ANTI-MILITARIsTs SINCERE

There has been much idle question
ing of the sincerity of the anti-military
sentiments of the social democrats in
the several European countries says
The New Republic. They talked peace
in time of peace, but in time of war
they fight like old-fashioned patriots
If ones country is at war it must con-
quer or suffer the agonies of invasion;
and invasion makes no discrimination
between pacificts and nilitarists in its
inevitable outrages. What is to the
credit of the social democratic and
labor parties is that in the decade pre-
ceding the war they played no part
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Jayhawker Jots

Stafford county has a locality that
answers to the name of Fizzieville.
The man in Jail has been found out.
explains the Augusta Journal,-that's
the reason he's in.
An advertisement presumably, in
the Santa Fe Monitor. Feed your
face at the hotel Satanta."
The Bluff City News is authority for
the information that you can't tell a
woman's age by her store teeth.
What's this, winter coming al
ready The Esbon Times reports that
wild ducks were flying south one day
last week.
And now come agents, reports the
Selden Observer, all sizes, shapes and
colors. and the harvesting of the har-
vesterS' has begun
Another Good Samaritan. The
Grainfield Cap Sheap states that it has
furnished bedding for free beds to at
least fifty persons during the harvest
season-old newspapers to sleep on
in side-door pullmans.
Is this evidence that there is coca
sionally something in a name? Hope
Well, Stafford county, was hoping for
a good rain week or so go, and,
strange to say, the rain came along
without any too great delay.
1t is strange but true, observes the
Norton Courier that most farmers
as long as they depend upon the good
old team; but let them buy autos and
they become at once good roads
enthusiasts.
Here's a tip for F'ordItes that is
making the journey through the col
umns of the Kansas newspapers
Watch the valve on the bottom of the
engine case. Weeds in the road turned
one for a man and he melted out the
engine bearings before he discovered
that his oil was gone.
Tastes vary, writes Editor Bingham
of the Trego County Reporter know
one man who will stop and pet every
stray dog he sees but pays no atten-
ton whatever to children. Another
man is just the opposite. Any child
looks good to him and if a dog gets
any where near him he wants to take
a kick at it. Some like one thing
some another, but the one thing uni
versally liked by all is a little more
money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10
APPLE PROSPECTS.

Probably it would be mistaken
optimism to hope that the cutting off
of a big market for United States ap-
pies because of the European war will
result in cheaper apples at home this
fall and winter. The clever gentle
men who control the distribution of
the apple supply will undoubtedly find
a way to maintain prices. They might
even go to the extent of letting the
apples rot on the trees and ground, or
standing storage losses rather than sell
apples to the public at a reasonable
figure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-10
vAGABoNDAGE.

For the mountains shall depart and the
hills be removed; but my kindness shall
not depart from thee, saith the Lord that
hath mercy on thee
j cannot make my song so well
As olden psalmists could;
My heart is with the stars at night
Or in the silent wood.
And from the Swallowed range of hills
Come echoes that seem best
w h1lom l hear the softest laugh
OF children stretched at rest.
Sweet beds of buttercups are theirs
As 1aZily they lie,
And as in dreams they smile, it seems
Their breath perfumes the sky
with morn they wake and start their play !;
Their silver voices rise
As music, at the break of day.
That sounds from paradise.
BY grace or chance or dull romance
| know not why the Ieav'n,
hold the children's love in me
For field and wood and heav'n.
John A. Moroso, in the New York Times
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Journal Entries

Debts are also great little makers
of enemies.
= = j
Free advice is like everything else
that's free. 1t isn't of much account.
= j. j
If echoes were more common, it's
probable that many folks wouldn't
have SO much to say.
= = =
Most men think that ferns and palms
are just as big nuisances around a
house as women think dogs are.
j j =
Men do a whole lot of protesting
against picnics but they keep on at
tending them just the same.
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1t is no more than natural that
Germany should be willing to negctl-
ate peace with Russia, now that the
1egions of the Kaiser have the Russian
bear on the hip. But if the Russian
army or most of it is able to eXtricate
itself from the German trap around
Warsaw, as seems likely, Russia is
far from being whipped as yet. The
army that fights and runs away is able
TO fight Some other day.
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Kansas Comment
ApYERTIsING,s APPEAL

Suppose the buyer is at his home in
town or in the country, and has a few
idle moments. A mail order catalog,
well illustrated, and the local news
paper have just arrived. The idle mo-
ments will be used in looking over the
paper and the catalog. What is the
result. The catalog is a work of art i'll
it's line The description of each ar
ticle is printed in a most fascinating
way, and the price looks very low.
Take up the local paper-are there
any well-thought local advertise
ments? Yes, a few--a very few-look
at the leaders featured in the cataloG
and then search for them in the local
paper. Do buyers have to come to
your store to find what you have to
sell? Can they pick up a newspaper
and find out that you are even in
business. Isn't it good business to ad-
vertise and make your advertisement
interesting Don't complain of the
mail order houses getting the bust
ness-follow their example, advertise
what you have and advertise in such a
way that it will attract attention and
carry conviction.-PaolaB Bulletin.
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in the provocation of international dis
trust and hostility. The fomenters of
war were the elite-the military Off
GERS, journalists, authors, politicians,
lawyers and the gilded youth who had
emptied the cup of civil enjoyment
and yearned for primitive emotions;
small minority, but minority in
Guiding all who govern and command,
and many who write and agitate. The
gravest charge that can lie against the
manual working class is that they as
scented to the war after it became
fact. And what alternative had they?
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On the Spur
Of the Moment
The House Party.
By ROY X. MOULTON.

The House Party.
Jones had a party at his house,
1t was a beefsteak dinner.
One of the felIers was the cook,
He said he was a winner
Yes, Jones' wife had gone away
To spend a chilly summer
j ones put much thought upon this spread
And planned it for hummer.
The steak was burned till it was black
And tough any boot
The kitchen surely looked as though
The cook We're on DOT
They couldn't find the butter nor
The sugar nor the tea.
The host looked on the wreckage
And was sore as sore could be-
They left the dinner where it was
And went downtown to eat.
The other folks were gay, but Jones
Knew misery complete
He hired a woman to come in
To scrub as women do.
She says she thinks within week
She may perhaps get through.
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Perhaps it might not Ire bad plan
in the future for the county commits
sioners to make believe that the coun-
~ is hard up all the time, so that the
rigid economy they are now compelled
to use would be the rule in the conduct
of the county's affairs. This might
also be good system for the city and
its school board to work under.