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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
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If you spend all you earn, suggests
the Wamego Reporter, some other
fellow is banking your money.
An argument opened with a cork
screw nearly always assumes the
shape of one, insists the Whitewater
Independent.
If, as the Neodesha Register re-
marks, the country doesn't pay for all
this wet weather with a dry summer,
it will be fortunate.
The astronomers made a mistake
in naming the planets, thinks the Bon
ner Springs Chieftain. The earth
should have been called Mars.
The melancholy days have come,
sing signs the Caldwell News; they're
sa dly out of date. Wen have no sum-
mer until fall, if things go on this
gait.
Weather item, in the Upton Times:
Another not much needed rain fell
here yesterday morning. This rain
was little ahe4d of time as we had
ordered it for next month.
Reported by the Bunton~ Bulletin:
In clearing out the drifts in the west
branch of the Whitewater Tuesday, a
Ford was found buried under the
drift. Owner may have same by des-
cribing property and paying nominal
expense charges.
Blessed are the poor, observes the
Milan Enterprise, for they can gen.
One of the boys of Soldier, accord
ing to the Soldier Clipper, was in the
swimming pool only twice on a recent
day-all forenoon and all afternoon.
When a man gets careless about
leaving his face rough and stubby,
says the Havensville Review, wiley
may rightly conclude that he has
ceased to care for her kisses-but she
has the satisfaction of knowing that
he isn't prepared to get any outside.
Related by the Independence Re-
porter: little girl in east side
family has been hearing her parents
discuss out of town buying and their
argument has been strongly for the
trade at home policy. mother who
with her small son was visiting at the
city was surprised to hear the daugh-
ter of the house say to her offspring,
Don't try to hold my hand. I'll die
an old maid before I'll marry an out
of town man.
Reflections by the Brodricks, in
their MarysviIle Acknowledgements
1t is all right and proper to be selfish
with your trou bles. -. There is one
place where duty always comes before
pleasure-in the dictionary. :. Any
man who keeps everlastingly at it can
teach his conscience not to trouble
him. The man who is too proud
to beg and too honest to steal will
never make a successful politician.
-. With the chewing gum girl, it
is a case of living from hand to mouth
and that isn't stretching it a bit.
A man never finds out womans true
value until he marries heretofore
marriage it is usually a case of over
estimating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News
Many a patent leather shoe hides
an aching corn.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown-of false hair.
If it wasn't for men, fewer women
would dislike each other.
The demand for sincerity is far in
excess of the visible supply.
And man is also the architect of
most of his own ,nisfortunes.
A man seldom knows what he
doesn't want until after he acquires it.
Whom the gods would destroy they
first induce to marry foOlishly.
Coquettes are like weather vanes-
only fixed when they become rusty.
Instead of calling a doctor, the self
made chap should send for a repair
man.
A woman is always telling her hus-
band that a man doesn't know what
it is to be sick.
By ordering spring lamb in a poor
restaurant you realize how tough it is
to die young.
But a man never realizes what fool
ideas he has until after he builds a
house according to his own plans.
Will the suffragette have to acquire
the big black cigar habit before she
can make good as a political boss?
Many a man who is brave enough
to beard a lion in his den may be shy
when it comes to facing the cook in
her kitchen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
Kansas Comment
ovERDRAFTs COSTLY NOW.

Wv SOSl6 ANO
Making an overdraft at the bank
nowadays is not going to be quite the
Joke it has been in the past, accord
ing to the new law which went into
effect the 22nd of this month. The
law is keen and direct and allows
of no evasion on the part of the bank
or the customer who forgets that he
had no money when he drew the
check. Here is section 1 of the law:
1T shall be unlawful for any person,
corporation or partnership to draw,
make, utter, issue or deliver to an
other any check or draft on any bank
or depository for the payment OF
money or its equivalent. knowing, at
the time of making, drawing, utter
ing or delivery of any such check or
draft, as aforesaid, that he has no
funds on deposit in, or credits wlth'
such bank or depository with which to
pay such check or draft upon pre-
sentation." Section makes it a mis-
demeanor punishable by fine or inn
prisonment in the county Jail or both
when the check is under $50, but IL
the check is over $40 it is a felony
and carries with it a $500 fine ana
some penitentiary sentence, if the
Judge so DEGREES. The overdraft is
an evil which bankers have been COM
batting for a good many years. Here
tofore a cure has always been directed
at the bank or the man at the wicket.
Under this law it is the man who
draws the check that must be re-
sponsible and suffer the penalties
Clay Center Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

men are now trying to kill one anoth-
er as fast as possible in Europe. and
his is a low estimate. There they
stand, in long opposing lines. On one
front the battle line is said to extend
nearly 400 miles; on the other nearly
twice as far. In the west, sheer num-
bers and the accuracy of Industrious
science almost prevent movement
For nearly five months now those
men, in their effort to kill and escape
death, have lived below the surface,
like rabbits primeval .roglodytes.
They have floundered in oozing mud
the fifth element as Napoleon
called it They have stood day and
night in trenches, soaked to their mid
die by cold water, until their limbs
swelled purple and threatened gan
creme. The conclusion of exploding
shells have driven their eyes into
their heads so that they see no more;
shock ard borrow have struck them
speechless. Their reason is over
turned; some weep without ceasing;
some gibber like ghosts. Limbs are
scattered over the countryside. Hot
smelling blood pours from their bodies
in unexpected quantity. Caught in the
entanglements of barbed wire-anoth-
err industry of science-they hang like
crows on a gamekeeper's gallows I'M
til they rot. The air stinks of filth
and corpses. Colonel Repington OF
the Times has called this scientific
war 'the butchery of the unknown by
the unseen"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
THE EAST SIDES BOON.

Some of the property owners on the
East side may think that the $4,000
sewer system that is to be thrust upon
them is a burden that they ought not
to be asked to bear. but the average
cost will be about only $50 a lot, and
in the end it will be the most profitable
investment that could possibly be
made by the residents in that section
of the city. This is true not only from
the health standpoint but also from a
material one. A serviceable sewer
system on the East side will greatly
enhance the value of all the property
there, and when it is installed the
growth of Topeka will not be prac-
tically confined to the south and west
as has been the case for many years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Even the girl who has trouble with
her eyes may be a good locker.
Manv a man doesn't deliver the
goods because he is caught with them
Tell a girl she has no brains and
she will forgive you, if you tell her
she is pretty.
In building your house don't forget
the closets What would your poor
family skeleton do without one?
The man who is loved for the enc
mics he has made might never have
been heard of without them
Little Tommy's father had been
away on a visit ''They treated me
just like one of the family" he said.
"Geep exclaimed Tommy. Wouldn't
they give you a second piece of pie ?'
Wigwag-''These proverbs are Curl
Gus things. There's the one about the
longest way round being the shortest
way home How do you account for
that?" Guzzler-.sMaybe there are no
saloons on the longest way round"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
THE COST OF CROPS.

That the cost of producing an acre
of corn is 1888 is the report of inves-
legations made by the Missouri Exper-
iment Station. This will not be a sur
prise to some men, although hundreds
of men who have been growing corn
for the past thirty years cannot tell
what it cost them to produce an acre.
The same investigation shows that the
cost of producing a crop of oats is
$1O.S7; a crop of wheat, $3.50, and a
crop of clover only $50 What will
be equally surprising to some is the
fact that a crop of cowpeas cost $3.50
an acre and that a crop of soy beans
cost practically the same, or 1888.
When land is about the same in value,
and methods do not greatly differ, the
cost of these crops will be about the
same on each farm. 1t is the use
made of the crop rather than it's cost
which makes the difference between
farmers and systems of farming If
more men would pay more attention
to the cost of growing crops and then
figure it up with careful analysis of
the profits realized from that particu-
lar crop we would have more profita-
BILE farms in less than a year.-Farm-
err and Stockman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
NOW COMES BANANA FLOUR.

Necessity is the mother of invention,
all right. One of the most impor-
tant products of the island of Jamaica
is the banana. However, since the
war began the sales of this fruit have
been somewhat unsatisfactory. This
led, according to report from j. C.
Monaghan, the United States consul
at Kingston, to careful experiments
that converted the fruit into flour. In
one case 537 pounds were so converted
into 13S pounds. 1t cost SO.96 per
hundred pounds to make the flour.
The wholesale price of the -four was
put at 5000 a pound. This is said to
yield profit so fair that the making
of banana flour may soon be a regu-
lar enterprise in the flour and banana
world. Nine hundred and fifteen
pounds of fruit on the stem gave in
flour a value of $3.50, return regard
ed here as rather good. This banana
meal, mixed with wheat flour, is being
used to make bread and cakes by a
baker Both the cakes and the bread
are liked by the people. who thus get
larger, and certainly a no less nu-
tritious loaf. Housewives are urged to
try banana meal with wheat flour. a
little experimenting Will give the HldAi-
mum proportion of banana meal that
may be used for bread making; from
three parts banana meal to five of
wheat flour up to half and half are
said to make a good loaf. Banana
meal makes excellent ginger cakes and
gingerbread A simple plain cake or
scone can be made of eight ounces of
banana meal to one teaspoonful of
baking powder, the banana meal to
be used instead of wheat flour and
the usual ingredients for a cake to be
added
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

Villas announcement that he is
willing to quit his military operations
in the interests of establishing peace
in his unhappy land may also be con-
strued as indicating that he is not only
tired of the game, but that he has ac-
cumulated sufficient of the where
withal to live in plenty for the re-
mainder of his days. No Mexican pa
triot was ever known to quit the great
Mexican game of his own volition with
an empty pOcketbOok.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
Journal Entries

Why not also judge a man by the
company he keeps away from?
i
Practicing economy instead of law
is the rule with most young attorneys.
!. i +
A dentist might also properly be
styled as an artist who draws from
life.
!. j. +
One thing that is usually read with
avidity IN the summer time is the
thermometer.
J. = j
Possibly the under-dog in a fight
gets the most attention because he
does most of the yelping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
SCIENCE AND SLAUGHTER.

Without question, man has every
reason to be grateful to science for
her assistance in the favorite pursuit
by which for the most part he reck-
ons history. writes Henry w. Nevin-
son, in the June Atlantic. Nor is he
remiss in taking advantage of her
progress. This war is probably the
greatest and most destructive, as well
as the most scientific, since creation.
Mr.. Asquith tells US that 5000, 900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
OPPORTUNITY.

Life Is an art, the learning lasts lifelong
Listen, dear heart, there's music in each
song,
Though it may throb in minor notes that
stay
When life's tomorrows follow its TODAY.
Cast thou the dice, not everything per-
To this one throw, the rest of life remains,
Man never yet has lived by bread alone.
We missed the foodtide? Other tides sue
coed,
Life is SO patient with her children's need
Have courage. then. to face life manfully
Nelly Hart Wordsworth in Boston
Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

They set the box up on the back
porch. just where the sun would find
1T the most. At that very minute. the
door bell rang, and there stood an ex-
pressman with a bushel of dirt "Oh
now l know. exclaimed Dick. this
is my garden to dig in myself"
Not your garden" corrected his
father, its your farm. You are to
build fences and barns, houses and
milk station--anything you want 10
make or grow is to go on this farm"
Together they spread the dirt out
in the box over in the corner thev
made small hill, the rest was nade
smoth for fields and meadows Aftas
that Dick never lacked for something
20 oo-he Dug and he planted-he
harvested and Teaped. Maybe sonne
day l will tell you of all the Interest
ing crops that were grown on thai
farm in a city flat.-(Copyrisbt-~
Clara Ingram Judson)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
From Other Pens
CONYICTS ARE HUMAN.

CON Ills AK Il II ~ MAN.
There have peen some more attacks
recently on Warden Osborne's hu-
manitarian policy at Sing Sing. from
those who argue that it tends to rob
Imprisonment of it's legitimate terrors.
Tradition is with the critics, but mod
ern science is with the warden. The
were applied with even-handed JUS
tice, but in too many prisons ignor-
ance, brutality and vice have been en-
couraged by the very nature of the
system. No self-Iespecting person
wants to be imprisoned. The new
criminology seeks to make the pris-
oners self-respecting, and it seems to
be ucceeding.-Springfiel Repub-
Hcan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

One of the almanacs, the patent
medicine kind that the old-fashioned
folk put such store in, contains this
prediction for the period just passed,
June to 9: Great heat. Hot wave
spreading over western and central
states" This would seem to indicate
that the weather observers in the en-
ploy of Uncle Sam furnish the fore
casts for these almanacs as a private
side line
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

In view OF the really pacific and
persuasive, if firm tone of our sec
ond note to Germany, it is beginning
to look as though Mr.. Bryan seized an
occasion and an opportunity to retire
from the cabinet when he could do
so to his own best advantage and with
the most possible noise and notoriety.
The more free advertising a chautau-
qua lecturer can obtain, so much the
better for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

There seems to be reasonableness in
the suggestion of Mr.. Lea, a Chica go
gas expert testifying before the pub
liz utilities commission, that if there
was any such volume of leakage from
the gas mains as has been suggested,
the towns having natural gas supplies
would be blown off the maps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

Georgia's prison commission has re-
fused to recommend clemency for Leo
Frank, but fortunately, the decision of
the commission is not binding on the
governor of the state. Surely he will
see that something which savors of
justice is done this man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

Surely the heroes of war are as
diverse as they are numerous. A
former American, now soldier in the
German army, gets an Iron Cross from
Kaiser Wilhelm for entertaining the
fighters in the trenches by playing
ragtime music on a piano, which he
carts around with him from trench to
trench on a motor truck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

Floods have played about as much
havoc with some parts of Texas this
spring war would have done. And
flood prevention is possible. 1t costs
money, and can only be worked out
on an extensive and systematic scale.
But it would be a better investment
for the people of this country than
the Panama Canal has been, or will
ever prove to be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

Apparently the brunt of the Ger
man fighting in the western arena of
the war is being directed against the
British forces. The British losses
since the war began total a quarter of
a million, which is enormous consid-
ering the size of the armies that Eng
land has in the field, and almost half
of this large loss has been sustained
within the past two months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

formation, or highly recommended"
or standard" though it may be all
of these-but that it holds attention
Literature is undoubtedly of great
Importance, but the problem is to
bring this fact to the common know
ledge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

Another ineXplicable feature of the
Bryan episode is as to how the Ne
braskan could square it with his con-
science to sign the first note to Ger
many and then kick over the traces
on the second one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
. CEara ln@rauaJodsen

appeared and what do you suppose he
had under his arm? A great broad,
flat box, as big and broad as the din
ing table.
There's your farm" said father
proudly, now help me plant it,
Dick couldn't ina CINE what his faith
er meant, but it was fun to watch
and find out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

Possibly President Wootner of the
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers
association had the men who make it
in mind when he observed that booze
causes more joy than sorrow If he
didn't he was talking through his hat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPCFtT
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, 1915-06-12

Evidently the only millionaire
serving at the front with the British
army is not buying his promotions
with some of his surplus cash. After
months of service he has only reached
the rank of corporal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
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Six million roses are said to have
been displayed in the grand floral re-
view incident to the famous Portland,
Ore, Rose Festival. But who counted
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-06

known heirs or devisees of H. G. Wells.
deceased; Joseph Pollock; the un-
known heirs or devisees Of Joseph Pol
lock. deceased; the unknown wife of
said Joseph Pollock. on May 10, 1912,
II be then had one; Fernandez Pollock,
the unknown wife of said Fernandez
Pollock, on May 10, 1S42. and on Oct.
Z. 1S47. if he then had one; the uh-
known wife of Erastus Smith, on April
I3, 1854, il he then had one; the IN
known wife of Oscar Fowler, on Nov.
20. 1854, If he then had one; the UNI
known wife of James Hannah on April
Is, 1856. if he then had one; the I'M
known wife of John d. Brown, on Feb.
10, 1874 If he then had one; the I'M
known wife of William r. Williamson.
George e. Hoyt, the unknown heirs or
devisees of George f. Hoyt, deceased
Emily Hepner; the unknown heirs or
devisees of Emily Hepner, deceased,
Caroline Lafferty; the unknown heirs
or devisees of Caroline Lafferty; the
unknown owners or parties interested
IN lots 1876 and 1876, in the northeast
quarter, north of Rock river of section
ID, Twp. II n, r. 2 West OF the 4th
P. NJ, as shown on assessors plat OF
Black Hawk township for the year
1861: Lewis Knott: the unknown heirs
or devisees of Lewis Knott, deceased
the unknown owners OF or parties in
terested in lots 2, 3, A, 5, 6. Z and 81
in the northeast quarter north Of Rock
river of section 10, Twp. IL n, r. 2
west of the 4th P NJ. as shown on
the assessors plat of Black Hawk
township for the year 1864; and Alice
Breen. shall personally be and appear
before said circuit court, on the first
day of the next term thereof, TO be
holden at Rock Island in and for the
said county. on the first Monday in
January next. and plead, answer or
demur to the said compliments bill of
complaint, the same and matters and
things therein charged and stated Will
be taken as confessed, and decree
entered against you according to the
prayer of said bill.
GEORGE w. GAMBLE,
Clerk.
Rock Island, H., Dec 4, 1915.
MARION E. SWEENEY,
Compartments Solicitor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-06
Publication Notice.

State of Illinois, Rock Island county,
IS -
In the circuit court Of said county.
To the January term, A. D., 1916.
Adam Finnegan, Marie Finnegan, by
their next friend Pauline Einnegan, VS..
Daniel F'innegan. j. William Sadler,
Mable Scott, Arthur Sadler. Florence
Jones, James Sadler and Harry Cover
man; partition.
Affidavit of non-residence Of James
Sadier, one of the above named defend
ants. implicated with DaEiel Finnegan.
j. William Sadler, Mable Scott, Arthur
Sadler, Florence Jones and Harry Gov
erman, having been filed In the clerks
office of the circuit court of said coun-
ty, notice is therefore hereby given to
the said nonresident defendant. James
Sadler, that the complainant's filed
their amendment to their bill
of complaint in said court
on the ehancery side thereof, on
and that thereupon, summons issued
cut of said court wherein, said suit is
now pending, returnahie on the first
Monday IN the month OF January, A.
D.. 1916, as is by law required.
Now unless you, the said non-resi-8
dent defendant, James Sadler. above
named, shall personally be and appear
before the said circuit court on the
first day of the next term thereof, to
be holden at Rock Island. in said coun-
ty OF Rock Island, on the first Mon
day in January. A. D., 1916, and plead,
answer or demur to the said complain
ants bill of complaint as amended, the
same and the matters and things
| therein charged and stated. will be
taken as confessed and decree enter
ed against you, according to the pray
er of said bill.
Dated at Rock Island, ILL.,, this End
day of December, A D., 1915.
GEORGE W. GAMBLE,
/ Clerk
McESIRY & McENIRY. complain
Iant's solicitors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-06

estate OF William l.. Stoit, deceased.
tae Undersigned having been APP
P0'Ateu executrix OF the last will and
Nstament Of William L. Stoit late of
~, n,e county Of Rock Island, state OF
- deceased, hereby gives notice
,aat she will appear before the Hon.
'ealamin Bell, Judge of the probate
eoeFt Of Rock Island county, at the
popate court room. in the City Of
A0ek island. at the February term, on
.1e hfsJ Monday in February, 1916
EA' al which time all persons having
.'N.es against said estate are notified
10y requested to attend for the pur-
s'se q having the same adjusted.
NJ persons indebted to said estate
~ requested to make immediate pay
al 10 The undersigned.
lsl5. = ''o' en''
WILHEf4MINA SToIT,
EKscutrix.