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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03
The D. M. Read Company.

Wheat supplies in Berlin are said to be abundant.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03

Cyclones caused great damage t crops in Manitoba. A Grand Trunl Pacific train was swept from tn bridge at Uno, the engineer being kill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-25

thanksgiving Is truly national feast,
Each State i'll the UnIon, DenoIc.
Contributes its best to the annual board
From Oregon appIes OF gold;
FROM old MASSACHUSETTS, cranberrleS
red,
That Jewel the shores of Cape Cod,
And from Florida oranges luscious and
sweet,
fruit that is fit for god
There is corn from Kentucky, potatoes to
cream
From Ohio and fish from the Lakes,
And bright as the gold newly coined from
the mint,
The butter that Illinois makes.
There are hiekory-nuts from the woods of
Vermont,
And rice like a treasure of pearls
From the warm Carolinas, where plumy
and green,
The palmetto-leaf broadly unfurls.
California sends purple grapes by the ton,
Virginia the succulent ham,
Minnesota the flour for the bread and the
cake,
New Jersey the strawberry jam;
And Delaware oysters delicious and plump,
New York the big pumpkins for pies.
And Rhode Island and Maryland turkeys
galore,
OF wonderful flavor and size
Then thanks to the Lord of the Harvests
who gave
His sunlight and rain to our fields
At whose bidding the soil in response to
toll,
Its bounty abundantly yields;
And remembering Europe with ashes for
crops
Let us lift up our hearts in Thanksgiving
for peace
And its blessings along with the turkey.
Minna Irving in Leslie's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-25
THE CHEMICAL" WAR.

The present war has been frequent
ly called-not inaptly-a chemical
war; because so many of the destruc-
tive energies at work are due to mod
ern advances in chemistry particu-
larry in our knowledge of the nitrogen
compounds. This designation has
seemed. perhaps, a slur on the science
of chemistry. 1t has even been limited
that chemistry is more harmful than
beneficial, and that its development
represents a serious detriment to
ma nkind. In an address presented ct
the meeting of the American Chem
ical society at Seattle, DIR. L. Fl. Baeke-
land discusses some of these imputa-
tions. This is by no means the first
Chemical war. The art of killing
and robbing became chemical the day
gunpowder was invented how long
ago we are not quite sure; but it is
certainly over 1000 years ago and
perhaps nearer 1000 wears ago. Nj
poleon, over 100 years ago, was prob
ably the first to recognize that cher.l-
istry and the related sciences might
be used TO great advantage in giving
him decided advantages over his en-
emies. incidentally he thus helped
to lay the foundation for some i'm
portant branches of chemical indus
try. 1t was not very long, however,
before his enemies learned the lessons
of chemistry, and he is reported TO
have stated that the dogs have
learned something from us" The
perversion of chemistry to military
uses has been only side issue. Some
of the most important advances in
military methods have originated in
some of the most beneficent steps in
progress made by chemistry. DR.
Baekeland insists emphaticaIly that it
is not fair to reproach chemistry with
the fact that nitrocelluloSe, of which
the first application was to heal
wounds and to advance the art of
photography, was stolen away from
these ultrapacific and highly laudable
purposes for making smokeless pow
der and for loading torpedoes.'' Nor
is it fair. in the opinion of The Jour
nal of the American Medical Associa-
ton, to blame the chemist for the fact
that phenol (carbolic acid) which in
Listers hands revolutionized surgery,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-25
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record
Life is too short to waste any of 1T
in longing.
Some people couldn't keep secret
even by putting it on ice.
Never complain about your friends.
A mans friends are generally as good
as he deserves.
A man is seldom so sure of meeting
his match as is a servant girl with a
can of kerosene.
1t isn't so easy for the average
woman to blush as to lose her color.
There's a difference.
The people who don't agree with US
are usually those who are on the best
of terms with themselves
We all regret the mistakes of our
youth. We could make them with
more of an artistic finish now
'Tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at ALL, sighed
the Wise Guy. well, both have their
advantages" added the Simple Mug.
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Glob be Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Ten to one your kin make your ar
engagements
Wave at passing train if you want
to. It's n sign you are no crouch.
While a boy sometimes has to take
medicine, it isn't to improve his ap-
petite.
toned veteran who said he voted the
way he shot?
There would also be less noise but
for the common tendency to "holler"
before being hurt.
No one is quite as brutal as the at
torney for the defense would have the
prosecution appear.
Some men believe they are distin-
guished if they don't do anything else
except break precedents.
Possibly the Socialist party would
grow, even if there were no women
toting poodle dogs around in touring
cars.
Kansas people have become so
highly educated that now only a few
of them refer to a tornado as a cy-
clone.
About all mere man knows ABOUT
woman's raiment is whether she is
we'll dressed or slouchy, and he isn't
quite sure of that.
A lot of perfectly good beefsteak
is ruined by the culinary process.
And, on the other hand, lot of beef
steak isn't perfectly good.
Doing your Christmas shopping
early may ease matters for the clerks.
but the strain on Father and his puny
pocketbool1 will be about the same.
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was turned from a blessing to hu-
mainly into fearful explosive after it
had been discovered that nitration
cha nges it into picric acid. Curiously
enough, many of those who have been
engaged in diverting or perverting
chemical compounds from usefulness
in peace to the greatest destructive
ness of war have been convinced that
this very destructiveness from its aw-
full character would produce an in
evita BILE reaction which would guar
antee peace. Alfred Nobel, the
founder of the world peace prize, was
a manufacturer of dynamite and
made a fortune in high explosives.
He fondly hoped that these high ex-
plosives would make war so destruc-
tive as to put an end to it forever The
old Romans had a maxim that from
the abuse of a thing no argument
was valid against the use of it. Chem
istry has been an immense boon to
the human race, even though at times
its misuse has led to some of the
worst ca:amities of human history.
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here would only stir up CHASTITY menu
| cries"
/ His table was in a corner, almost
surrounded by tall growing plants,
and the November sunshine sifted
| through the green vines OF the DOW
window where he sat. The traVelhg
statesmen and the marooned school
i teacher were making merry at long
| table at the other end of the room
| Presently the waitress came in anu
/ laid another plate at John Arthur
| table, glancing curiouSly at MIN now
and then.
There were many other little tables
scattered about the long, loW-peameo
room, and he wondered why his PRIV
! acy was to be invaded. He drew ms
still unread morning paper from ms
| pocket and turned liStleSsly TO the
stock-market reports.
Presently there was swish OF SILK
en- skirts and then he was conscious
that some one had dipped into the OPP
posite seat. Silverware tinkled and
John Arthur lifted his eyes to beholo
I-Milly Primei
She had not changed much. She was
older. of course, but her girlish pretti-
ness had developed into mature
loneliness that was enhanced by her
coronet of snow-white braids. Shc
wore gown of soft white Stuff ana a
pink rose Swayed at her breast she
was very pale, but when she saw the
| adoring look in John Arthur's blue
eyes her cheeks became rosy ana she
was lovely lndeeQ.
"I hope you don't mind, Johnny
she whispered softly. But I've been
expecting you'd come here some day
and I've looked for you for years.
didn't think it would be Thanksgiving
Day, though
you supposed I would be over
whelmed by invitations" ne laughed
whimsically, ''or, perhaps. taking my
dinner with my wife and family"
But you are not married., she said
S0rnnG1U f'J have heard know.
The newspapers tell much of you and
your charities-well, l won't speak of
it, if you prefer silence!"
please talk to me, Milly, but tell
me what you are doing here. thought
i thought you married Henry Cham
berlain.''
She laughed musically. My sister
Hetty married Henry. l am the land
lady of the White Inn Dear me, that
girl has forgotten to serve US"
John Arthur's hands reached over
the table and took hers in strong
grasp.
asked excitedly.
us it too late for me? You know
well, have changed a lot, Milly. dear.
1 am no longer indolent and shiftless.
1 have sown industry and reaped
'.Ah." she interrupted, you have
done more than that, Johnny! You
soWn love and charity. L have heard
of your good works and you have
reaped harvest of love, too
There is a garden that 1 have neg
lected for many years." he said in
low tone Il cannot go into that gar
den and pluck roses, NIilly: the roses
of the love L want!"
1.-The roses are there, john
'Millyi Do you mean it ?"
'YeS-yeS-" she whispered Il
have tended your garden, Johnny
Arthur, and the roses are there, as
sweet ever-and-ThankSg is
harvest time, dear
And so John Arthur gathered his
harvest Of love and happiness at tn,
dinner tabl ; OF the w fite Inn, .uI tho
t, aveling sale smen ard the naroon-i
school teacher saw and smiled under
tandingly-(Copyr 1915. by Me-
Clure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-25
THANKSGIVING.

In the celebration of our annual fail
| festival, brought into being by the
first bountiful harvest that came tn
the Pilgrim fathers, wouldn't it be
well for us not only to give thanks for
the numerous blessings that are ours.
but also to reverse, in a way. the ac-
cepted meaning and significance of
Thanksgiving, and be thankful that
we are able to give, and also act ac-
cordingly? Never were our crops of
larger or more remunerative volume
than they have been this year. a
large prosperity prevails with multi
tudes of our people, and conditions are
becoming generally more prosperous
with the whole people of the nation.
Over and above this, we have the
great boon of dwelling in land of
peace. AID at time when almost half
the world is struggling and suffering
under the burdens and terrors of the
horrible hand of war. There never
was a Thanksgiving day when the
people of this country had more rea-
sons for expressing thankfulness than
they have today. Nor was there ever
a time in the history of the world
when so many people were in such
NilIS diSlIcSS- WOulUIl IL SIlOW d
proper spirit of humility, proper
spirit of our appreciation of our pros
perity, if we accepted it merely as a
trust, and to be distributed by US. as
far as possible to assist in relieving
the present and unusual suffering in
the world? There is a little of it at
our own doors. There is much of it
in war-ridden Europe. A couple of
million of the Belgi&ns are still in as
desperate circumstances as they were
when the war cloud smothered them.
That many and more Poles are nome
less and hungering. The remaining
Armenians are almost PROSTATE I'M
der the heel of the terrible Turk. And
now the non-combatants of Serbia, the
women and the little children, the
old and the infirm, are being driven
from pillar to post. they know not
where, except that restitution is their
only portion. We have been rather
generous in extending aid to our
brothers ard sisters of Europe who
are so hard pressed. Have we been
as generous as we should be in pro-
portion to our means? Is our thank
fulness for our prosperity and for the
blessings of the peace that is ours
merely to be selfish? Let us be truly
thankful for all these blessings. Let
us also be thankful that we have
much more than enough for our
needs. Let US be thankful that we are
in q position to give of our surplus to
those' who are in such sorry want
And let us give, and without stint
Wouldn't that be the highest express
sion of thankfulness that we could
make?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-25
GOODWILL FROM ANDoRRA.

President Wilson recently had a let
ter from Andorra congratulating him
upon his diplomatic victories and ex-
pressing a willingness to join in a
peace conference, notes the New Re
public, and it continues: AS the
White House has a good map, the
president was not long in doubt as to
the location of his warm admirer.
Furthermore. the man who brought
the letter gave his word that Andorra
was in the Pyrenees when he left. 1t
is the Tom Thumb of all republics.
having been inaccessible and indie
pendent since the time of Charlie
magne. To be sure there is road
leading up from Spain, but avalanches
frequently fall upon it and sever re-
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EU ening Chat
Coddling Antipathies.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

At a summer camp. the women of
the party had Joined forces to whisk
the dinner dishes out of the way.
When the silver appeared in the
dish drainsc. enc Of the DRYERS threw
down her towel "I'll put away" She
said. 81 hate to dry silver
$50 do l." said another, doing like
WISE
''WeH, I'm not very ford of it, my
self. now you call it to my mind, but
l guess I can do it, said the third.
with the frankness and good humor
of camp life. And she dried the siIv er.
This little incident interested me.
All three disliked drying silver, a dis
taste L share myself. The first two
pampered the dislike. The third ig-
nored it.
Did you ever realize how much one
can increase dislike by pampering
it and how one can put dislike
practically out of business by ignor-
ing it?
I've noticed again and again in my
own experience that if I defer to Il
dislike it Immediately begins to gain
power over me, whereas if 1 ignore it,
it weakens.
People with violent antipathies are
not necessarily people with strongly
stressed tempera mentS- They may be
merely self-indulgent people who have
yielded to their dislikes until they
have raised them to the dignity and
strength of antipathies.
The person who says 81 hate fat
/ never eat it, may have started with
no stronger objection to it than he
who accepts the fat with the lean.
But the one set up his dislike as an
idol tC which courtesy and the prefer
ences of others, ard anything else
which interfered, should he sacrificed,
while the ether regarded it as an in
convenient obstacle TO be overcome.
Before 1 was married 1 had no.
and the other" a woman told me the
other day. Il must have made a per
feet nuisance of myself. But when L
had to run a house myself and found
how hard it was to think of things to
have. 1 forgot all about most of those
dislikes.'
1 suspect a good many of us have
had similar experiences.
You have probably noticed how
often children, especially undiscip-
lined children, say Il don't want to-
when they are asked to do this or
that They think that should settle
the matter they expect their an
tipathy to be a supreme law. Is it not
Il sigr of childishness and lack of self
discipline when we grown-ups exalt
our antipathies and try to make -T
don't want to- 4 supreme law?
Perhaps we can't help having opin-
ions'' says Mrs. Wigs, but We can
help expressing them as often as we
do"
To paraphrase, Perhaps we can't
help having a.ltipathies. but we can
help coddling them as much as we
do.''-C by The Adams Nsws-
paper Service.)
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MIR. GRAssHoPPER EXPLAINS.

All day long Tommy Tittlemouse
and Mrs Tommy (for of course Tom
my told her all about the strange ant
feast as soon as he ran back home)
puzzled about what the Worker Ant
could have been eating. When late af-
ternoon came, they were still wonder
ing and talking about it.
Il think perhaps if We go out of
doors" said Mrs. Tommy. I'VE may
find someone who can tell us about it. :"
ITO be sure. to be sure" agreed Tom
nv, and then for the first time he real
lied that they had been staying close
in doors and had not eaten anything
since morningi Yes he added. lets
go out and eat something and then
NAV maybe we can think better our
selves So they slipped out of the
house and over to the nasturtiums,
where they knew they could find some
toothsome bits to eat.
Just when they had eaten a bit or
two who should hop k'plunk right in
to the middle of the fIower-bed. but
Mr. Grasshopperi Tommy. who adj
mired him imm ensely at any time, was
especially glad to see him now, for he
was sure the grasshopper could tell
them about the ants feast. He greet
ed the grasshopper politely and then
said I'VE are extra glad to see you to-
day, Friend Grasshopper, because we
want to ask you something.
ASK me something" said the
grasshopper. II am much pleased to
be questioned. What did you want to
know
L want to know about an ants
feast" answered Tommy, and then he
told the grasshopper all about the ant
climbing on the grape vine, about his
stroking the little plant lice Cor at
least his seeming tod and about his
eating something.
n
as you tell it, laughed the grasshop-
per; -but in real truth it is not myster-
ious at all. 1t is very simple"
Simpler" exclaimed Tommy in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

[From the Chicago News.]
Most of the born leaders of men are
women.
A train of thought is the real thing
in rapid transit.
An ounce of performance is better
than a pound OF promise.
Laziness is the one thing that knocks
the conceit out of pride.
The individual who thinks he knows
it all has the most to learn.
You can nearly always Judge
mans character by the things he
laughs at.
The less a wife finds out about her
husband the more suspicious she is of
his actions.
Some people are so busy criticising
creeds that they have no time left for
practical religion.
man who thinks he can make a
success of anything he undertakes is
apt to be an unsuccessful thinker.
If young man is unable to win
girls affections any other way, he
should bride her mother to oppose the
match.
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lations between the two countries
Andorra has fewer than six thousand
people, but they are hardy race and
the nation never loses any sure-footed
citizens, the careless ones having long
since fallen into France or SPAIN
The capital city is larger than Amos,
w. Va, but it will probably never
catch up with Amana. Iowa. The ma
ton has no standing army and no
troubles of any kind except house of
representatives. The president gets a
salary of two cheese, two capons and
ham from each of the six states; 9TH
erwise the people live on terms of
complete equality
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Jayh ker Jots

A search has been begun by the
Horton dlight-Commercial for the
old-faShioned woman who boiled a
whole ham and sliced off it for a
week.
A girl in our town, reports the To-
ronto Republican, who has been wear
ing No. rs on No. foot has about
decided to enter the next county corn
contest.
Heretofore, says the Douglass Trib-
une, a big corn crop insured a large
sale of new farm wagons This year
they are having their old wagons re-
paired and buying automobiles
Tom Thompson of the Howard
Courant points out that if you always
do good when the opportunity comes
your way, you will be kept so busy
you won't have time to go out of your
way to do good.
Among the "goosebone" weather
prophecies is one from the Wilson
quantity of fur the chickens are ac-
cumulating would indicate it is going
to be a hard winter.
A farmer doesn't need to leave home
to see a good football game, says the
Sedgwick Paragraph. All he needs
pigs by pouring it into a trough that
only two can get their noses into at
one time.
One of the sliclkest grafters we ever
naO the pleasure OF meeting, says the
Jamestown Optimist, didn't smoke,
chew or use intoXicants, and he retired
early every night. But this shouldn't
be construed as an argument in favor
of tobacco. liquor or late hours.
A child breaks a plate, and it's:
you careless child, will you never
learn to be careful?" An elder per-
son breaks cup, and it's: 80! That's
all right, accidents will happen, you
know" All of which makes little
folks think that big folks are queer
Standardization Grit.
Local improvement note, in the Col
ony Free Press: DR.. c. S. Martin has
let a contract for bath tub and
equipment to be installed in the build
ing that was formerly the drug store.
He will have it partitiOned and use
part of it for an office and the other
side will be used as a barber shop. The
bath tub will be real enameled affair
and the building should be left open
to the public for a couple of weeks
so the people may see what a real
bath outfit looks like.
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Defense and revenues are to be the
major topics discussed by President
Wilson in his forthcoming message to
congress. And while what the presi-
dent will say on the subject of defense
has been pretty largely discounted,
there has been no inkling as yet as to
the proposals he will make to provide
the ways and means for the larger
army and navy plans he has in mind.
This revenue question, too, is going
to be the toughest nut for the Demo-
cratic statesmen to crack
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-25
URBAN COLLOQUY.

At midnight. turning sharply round
/ met a vision: high in the air there hung.
Between the looming banks of the narrow
street
Two shining faces. whose exalted Orbs
Seemed to dispute the regency of heaven.
One the moons and one the old clock
towers.
The clocks face looked the ruddier and the
rounder.
And yet / seemed to hear the pale moon
mutter:
1t not always thus. Ills scarce zen
decades
Since l. that looked on swarming Nineveh
Looked down the long stems of the Norway
pine
Where now this rival flouts me; and for
mortals.
These shores were peopled with gray
wolves and gophers'
And If the clock replied. Mile upon mile
No sign of aught but human habitation.'
The surly moon made answer, 'Ay, but
wait =
Joseph Warren Beach. in the October
Atlantic.
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KEEP GOING.

Is the goal distant. and troubled the road,
And the way long?
And heavy your load?
Then grid up your courage and say, Il
strong
And keep going.
Is the work weary and endless the grind
And petty the pay?
Then brace up your mind
And say, Something better is coming my
way
And keep doing.
Is the drink bitter life pours in your cup
Is the tast gall?
Then smile and look up
And say, God is with me whatever befall"
And keep trusting.
Is the heart heavy with hope long deferred
And with prayers that seem vain?
keeDing saying the word
And that which you strive for you yet shall
attain;
Keep praying.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in October Nautilus.
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Journal Entries

Imitation may be the sincerest form
of flattcry, but few people like that
kind of flattery very well.
:. = i
1t may be the proper thing to do,
but, just the same, it's pretty hard to
smile when misfortune. overtakeS you.
= = J
This living on love is only possible
when the parents of the parties at
tempting it are wealthy and generous.
& j. j
The longer it takes a man to hit
back, the harder he hits when he
finally gets worked up to it.
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With both the Entente Allies and
the Teutonic Allies finding some con-
solutions in Greeces present attitude.
1t is evident that Greece is the only
European nation that is clever enough
to play both ends to the middle or be
on both sides of a fence at the same
time. But it is scarcely possible hat
Greece can continue this artful dodg-
ing until the end of the war