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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
Jayhawker Jots

AS the Yates Center Advocate OBJ
serves: Most men would be ashamed
to preach half what they practice.
The Marysville acknowledgements
suggests that the present generation
may be justly termed the automobile
race.
The Anthony Bulletin thinks that if
we paid more attention to the Kansas
primary schools and less to the Kan
sas primary law we would help in the
making of better Kansas citizens.
Excellent advice from the Lyons
NewS-Democrat: If you have a weak
heart and are easily affected by the
unkind things people say of you and
your acts, there are several offices and
jobs we would warn you to fight shy
of. Never try to be a governor of the
state, county attorney, county super
intendent, teacher, preacher or editor
of a newspaper.
Observations by Editor Young of the
Oakley Graphic: Mark it down with
the other bunk when fellow says, 81
am not afraid to say what I think.
The most effective conversation is
carried on by making gestures some
thing like these 5 5 So. The
styles in ladies skirts are exceedingly
short this year and this is figured as
a discrimination against bow-legs
A Persian CRATER came into this dump
with what he said was soapstone
bust of Abe Link. When you are
busted what do you want of a bust of
Abe Link, We ask.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

eralogical independence. you may re-
call that only about ten years ago this
country imported its sulphur from
Sicily, whereas now, by reason of the
work Of one engineer, the United
States leads the world in the mining
of sulphur. Can not further success
be expected in the utilization of min
eral resources hitherto practically I'M
touched?
1.-The substitution of certain miner
ais of domestic origin for those
bought IN foreign markets will bring
us face to face with the problem of
Standardization. Price is not the last
word with the manufacturer-con-
sumner This is a good time to drop
any ideas we may have of industrial
superiority and to copy for while
the Industrial spirit of Germany.
which systematized processes and
standardized products until they won
markets in every continent by sheer
superiority.
''The outlook for successful endeav-
or by the American engineer seems
very bright
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
SONG OF THE FIsHERMAN.

SONG OF THE FISHERMAN.
There's a sound that rings in my ears to-
And echoes in vague refrain;
The ripple Of water Ger smooth washed
Where the wall-eyed pike and black bass
play,
That makes me yearn in a quiet way
For the old home haunts again.
Back to the old home haunts again,
Back through the wood where the black
birds brood,
Back to my rod and flies.
wish I could paddle my boat today
Through watered-logged grass and reeds
Where the muskrat swims and the cat
tails sway
And the air is cool and the mist is gray
And the ripples dance in the same old
way
Under the tangled weeds.
Back on the old oak log again,
Back 70 p fbe the bst pd tns en+ watt
Back to my line and hook.
Where the falling leaves drift by,
Just to see in the shadow of the ledge
Where dark forms glide like woodlands
Through drifted piles of dark marsh sedge,
And hear the bittern cry.
Back where the tadpoles shift and shirk
Back where bullfrogs sob,
Back to my dripping bob.
o, it's just, like this on each rainy day;
Always the same old pain
That struggles and pulls in the same old
To take me off for a little stay
By the waters edge in the sticky clay,
To fish in the falling rain.
Back to my long, black rubber boots,
Back to my rod and breath of God,
Home, and my leaky boat.
E. B. Widger, in the St Louis Republic.
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ening Chat
Half Truths.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

A lie which is all a lie may be met and
fought outright,
But lie which is part a truth is q
harder matter to fight.
-Tennyson.
Like all proverbs half a loaf is bet
ter than none is almost as often I'M
true as it is true.-ttnr4.. e
Half a loaf is sometimes worse than
none. - eae5
For instance, half truth is often
much more dangerou to a right un-
Outstanding of things than a down
right lie.
For a half truth is more insidious,
more plausible and harder to fight
than a. downright lie. -e
When / was a newspaper woman ]
was once sent to investigate a strike
in mill where a kind of bagging was
made. I was told to get both sides
of the case, and went first to the en-
ployer. He told me a most plausible
story. The operators, he said, received
more per roll than any other workers
in the state.
them If that were true. It was half
true, but see what a different aspect
the other half gives to the situation.
They did receive more per roll than
any other workers in the state, but the
rolls wre half again as long and they
had to work with material which was
SO coarse that it continually broke
their machines, and interrupted their
work.
AS an argument that the country
was really prosperous some one cited
the fact that one of the big shops in
this city had the largest sales this year
for any January in its history. I re-
ported this to the man-who-thinks.
THAT is interesting" he said, tbut
January, L believe, is the month of
sales; might not that mean that more
people waited for the sales this yesr
than usual? I should like to see their
record for November and December
before accepting. that for an argu-
ment."
Now, of course, the before Christ
mas sales may have been as large as
usual. Indeed, 1 hope so, for 1 am
the last one to want to be pessimistic
about the condition of the country.
Pessimism breeds the need of pessi-
mism, 1 think, and optimism helps
bring good times. I only quote the
case as an example of the way a half
truth may lie.
Again, it is a favorite argument
against woman suffrage that in Col
frage states, there are no proper laws
regulating the work of women in fac
tories. Those who bring this argu-
ment forth forget to mention the 9TH
er half of the truth, namely, that there
are scarcely any women working in
factories in Colorado.
In the wild statements that are fly
ing backward and forward anent the
war there are plenty of downright
lies, fear, and on top of them innum-
cradle harmful Ilalf-truths. Beware
of half-truths. When you hear r
statement do not accept it as final
and sufficient to base an opinion upon
unless you know that it is not only the
truth and nothing but the truth, but
also the whole truth.
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bread and I will give you three
wishes
Il do not want three wishes" re-
piled Delightina Grossly, 81 only want
three dogs instead of these tiresome
goats" And instantly the goats van
ished and three dogs ran along side
of their mistress.
Delightina walked along with them,
but she found them hard to manage.
So when she saw the beggar again by
the roadside, she said, Il do not want
these dogs, / want three squirrels"
Squirrels were very rare in that
country and Delightina had never had
any you see.)
herr side in place of the dogs, and the
princess walked on without a. thank
you"
But the squirrels ran and frisked
about SO much that they were not as
good company as Delightina had ex-
pected them to be; so when she again
saw the beggar in the road, she ran to
him and said commandingly, Take
these squirrels away, and bring me
three birdsi" -.-- 1850.
At once the squirrels were gone
and three beautiful birds flew around
over her head. Delightina was much
pleased at first, but in a few minutes
she tired of looking upwards and she
called to the beggar who was resting
near by, AFTER all, don't want birds,
give me back my goatsi"
Instantly the birds vanished, but
though Delightina watched carefully,
no goats came to take their place.
Where are the goats?" she asked inn
patiently.
They are gone forever" replied the
beggar and she threw off her disguise.
"And you have had your three wishes.
Now give me my bread!
The princess had no bread and she
was very frightened for she recog-
nized the fairy queen and knew she
had been very rude to her Dear me,
what shall 1 do?" she cried.
"Give me three years of your life,"
replied the queen and the princess had
no choice but to obey. So for three
years she lived at the fairy palace and
learned lessons of kindness and self
denial and then she went back to her
own home and lived happily ever
Copyright, 1915-C1ara In
gram Judson-)
Tomorrow-A Foolish Sparrow
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The Selfish Princess.

Once upon a time, in the long, long
ago, there lived a very beautiful prin-
cess whose name was Delightina. Her
mother had named her that because
of her own delight in having a little
daughter. And for many years De-
lightina gave her parents so much
pleasure that she seemed truly named.
But, unfortunately, her parents
loved her more dearly than wisely;
and they gave her everything she
could possibly wish for-which is a
bad thing for anybody, even a prin-
cess.
She lost all her pretty grateful ways
and only thought of her kind parents
as givers. She spent many hours
thinking up things to ask for, but
never gave one fleeing thought to
what she could do for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
From Other Pens
A POETIC DIET

War poetry at its best is only pass
ably good. Only the very exceptional
ton. War is epic, but today there are
no epic poets. Most war poems are
insufferably bad. Some Englishmen
and Germans of considerable note
have, since the beginning of the pres
ent war, tried their hands at poetico-
military work with notable unsuccess.
Their output has been almost invaria-
bly, painful Months ago the Toronto
Mail and Empire began to publish Il
daily war poem. Apparently it had
a large stock on hand which it wished
to dispose of in order to avoid hurting
the feelings of it's contributors. Hav
ing started the practice, it has kept
steadily at it. The habit, one fears,
has become established and cannot be
broken. While the war lasts the peo-
pie of Toronto must have one of these
metrical horrors served up with their
eggs and bacon. 1t is an unmerited
infliction for Toronto.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
SILENCE MISCHIEF-MAKE
The Japanese premier says: Eff
vent some plausible reason for a dis
ruption of the relations between
Japan and America. These attempts
have failed, the Observation-Disclosures now
look to China as field in which the
two powers may be made to clash.
see no reason for such a sonflict."
That is a frank and friendly state
ment. Why should it not be accepted
in an equally frank and friendly
spirit? The habit of perpetual sus-
piston is an abominabIe trait in an in
dividuaI and is still more to be con-
demned in a nation. 1t is dangerous
and unpatriotic to try to make sus-
picio n the attitude of the United
States toward any foreign country. We
should, at least, wait until some ma
ton gives offense before looking upon
it or thinking of it as hostile to US.
Buffalo Express.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.

LTrUhI the ChIcdSU NEWS
Blessed be the little flat in which
there is no room for trouble.
Ambition is all right if man has
energy to back it up.
self-made man is often the only
one satisfied with the job.
AS soon as a sick shoemaker is able
to work he's on the mend.
1t takes a nervous woman to dem
onstrate what nerve force really is.
The mantle of charity covers a lot
of amateur theatrical performances
After a lively race for a husband
many an heiress marries a rundown
nobleman.
The man who doesn't secure the
services of that great teacher, expert
ence, may live to a green old age
Unless a man can see a slight i'm
proyement in himself it's impossible
to make him believe the world is
growing better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
Journal Entries

Most of the horrors of old age are
in the imagination of youth.
T. j j
When a man is on easy street, the
road without a turn is never too long.
+ = =
If some people were as bright as
they think they are, there'd be no
work for the sun to do.
i +
Many men waste all kinds of valu-
able time sitting around and waiting
for opportunity to visit them.
d j j.
big difference always exists be-
tween the salary a man thinks he de-
serves and the one he gets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

This was very bad for her and the
kind fairies who watched over her,
determined to show her how migrate
full and hard she was becoming. They
resolved to change her ways.
So one day when DeIightina was
out walking with her three pet goats
the fairy queen disguised herself as
a beggar and appeared on the road
before Delightina. 'Oh fair lady"
cried the beggar, give me crust of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
measure

Rogue Gonzales Cara is neither a
new brand of cigars nor a, croquet ex-
pert, as the name might suggest to
the uninitiated. 1t merely designates
the gentleman who is the latest to
enter the lists among the provisional
presidents of Mexico. When the time
comes for it's organization. the So
ciety of Ex-Provisional Presidents of
Mexico will lack for members.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

In cutting down the import duties
of this country by 100000 a day, the
English embargo against German
shipping will furnish the Watchful
Walters at Washington with a reason
ably good excuse for extending the
s'war taxes when they have a chance.
They certainly didn't have one when
they inaugurated their first war tax
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
Kansas Comment
RE AMERICANS FIRST.


If the American flag is in such good
repute abroad that ships in danger fly
it for safety, let's not diScredit 1t here
at home by partisan plays. We are
not called upon to fight the battles of
Europe in America. Nor are we go
ing to help one of the countries over
there win from any other. If any
he can not keep neutral, let him go
back to the old country and get his
fill of fighting. AS the screws tighten
in the war zone, things will happen
which will more and more put Ameri-
can neutrality to the test. We ought
to meet this increasing tension with
united determination to defy any at
tempts to make our government take
sides Back of these efforts to sway
our government is only one purpose.
That purpose is to get us into this war.
Watch for it, Note its development!
Nail it, Swipe iti-Wichita Beacon.
HOW RARE CONSISTENCY IS.
President Wilson vetoed the immi-
grafton bill because, he said, there
had been no mandate from the peo-
pie calling for a reversal of the tradi-
tional policy of this country in rela-
ton to the admission of foreigners.
And yet the president fought to the
last ditch to pass the shipping bill
which provided for a complet re-
versal of the traditional policy of this
country in the matter of government
ownership of merchant ships. Where
was his mandate" for that? We sad
Iy fear that the president is like the
rest of us-he thinks the people de-
mand the things he is for and he is
sure they are dead against the things
he doesn't like.-Iola Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

New York city also produces an
economist of the practical order in
the shop girl who insists that it is a
simple problem to live on a wage of
Sc a week. If you want more clothes,
all you need to do, she points out, is
to eat less; and vice versa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

More evidence of the hard times
that prevail in these United States is
to be found in the fact that the army
has it's full quota and that recruiting
stations are thereby being closed
There is no rush of enlistments in the
army when men can find work to do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

Dispatches from Washington state
that England's embargo against Ger
man shipping will be opposed to the
1imit-with words, probably.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

& The unusual in everything seeming
lg develops in New York Along
comes woman there who sues her
husband for a separation with the I'M
Outstanding that she pays him ali
rhony to the tune of 5000 a month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

While many sections of the country
are rehearsing their hard times"
Kansas is able to report a new record
for deposits in her state banks. And
out here in Kansas there is still plenty
of room for whatsoever will may come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

AS a legislature works. Up in Wis
consin, the senate wrangled off and
on for cou. lie of weeks over an anti
tipping bill that had been a law of the
state for fourteen years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
On the Spur
of the Moment
The City Guy.
BY ROY x. MOULTON.

1Hc NIty Guy.
i've got an idee." said Farmer
Brown,
It's purity expensive to live in town
It's nickel here and it's ten cents
there,
Fer you can't git round th'out payin'
fare.
And Teller must dress purity dog
gone cute,
Fer he can't get by with a ten-buck
suit,
And if he don't keep himself in trim,
There amt much business comm to
If a Teller amt dolled up purity slick
He loses caste and he loses it quick.
He must wear a. collar and tie, by
Or they put him down for a ten-cent
He's got to have calm cards printed,
too,
Fer that is the way the town folks do.
He must look prosperous, that's the
eye,
And the man that don't never will get
by,
Fer you can't make good with a bust
ness stunt
Unless you're there with good
strong front.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

Russia's orders that all reservists
report to their colors seem to confirm
the reports from Berlin of the Rus
sian casualties in the eastern arena of
the WAR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

1t would also require a stretch of
the imagination to suggest that the
Kansas legislature is going out in a.
blaze of glory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

Another prophecy that probably
will not be fulfilled is the one of the
London expert that financial exhaus-
ton on the part of one or more of the
European belligerents will end their
war by July
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

There is also reason for rejoicing
in Kansas that a special session of the
legislature is not in order. There is no
telling but it might do some of the
good work it left undone at the regu-
lar session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

Golf is evidently not the only old
mans game. The members of the
Creve Coer Club bowling team of
Peoria, contestants for the bowling
championship of America, average
So Al years old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

Harvard's students must become ex-
pert pedestrians if they would hope to
profit by their opportunities. The
new Harvard library has so miles of
ghelVes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

And the uncertainties of life are
emphasized again in the news from
New Jersey about the man who hunt
ed a job for seven months and was
Killed the day he found it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

Here's a sad suggestion from the
goosebone weather prophets. They
declare that if the weather was cloudy
in the middle of March it will be more
or less cloudy for the succeeding hun
dred DAYS
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Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Italy's demands on Austria as the
price of neutrality are SO enormous
that Austria is likely to tell Italy to
fight for them.
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His Allowance.

A young lady of our fair city, who
was about to be married, sat in the
cleaning with the young gentleman
of her heart.
There is something that L think
we should talk about said he. at
is the matter of an allowance"
Yes, mother and 1 have figured it
all OUT
That's fine. my dear girl. How
have you figured it?"
well, we have taken your salary
as a basis, and we think that SO a
week will be quite enough
"Oh, no; that wouldn't be enough"
"Oh, yes. Three dollars is quite a
lot for an allowance You have no
expensive habits, you know, and if
you come home to lunch every day,
So a week ought to do you very nice
ly. I will take care of the rest of
your salary"
Good News for the Z. G.
The ultimate consumer need not be
down-hearted, for while some COM
modities are going up, others are
coming down. 1t was somewhat of a
poser when he was confronted by the
fact that there has been a heavy ad
vance in the price of sugar, but the
glad news has just been announced
in London that there has been a sharp
decrease in the price of radium,
which is now only $4,000 a gram,
the lowest since it was discovered by
NJ. and Nine. CuPie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18
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
Ranization for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-08
ABERG THROWS DIR. ROLLER.
American Succumbs to Greater
 Weight of Champion Wrestler.

American Succumbs to Greater
 Weight of Champion Wrestler.
 New York, Dec. 8.--Dr. B. F.. Rol- Ter, champion of America was thrown last night in the ir- ternational Opera House by Alexander international wrestling contest at the Aberg, the international champion. Graeco-R Roman style, in 1 hour n1in- utes and seconds, with an arm and waist lock. The men were evenly matched, and it looked as if they would wrestle all night without any decisive result until Aberg caught the medical man uns wares in the seventh period and pinned him to the mat Roller was the faster from the start but the greater strength of Aberg was much in his favor as the match progressed.
 At the beginning of the match Roller used the straight arm method of defense with good effect, and he made Aberg's nose the pricipal point of attack. Other wrestlers in the tournament have done the same thfn:- with the result that his nose is a sore spot for Aherg. and any trif1ing with ii fails to improve his temper
New Britain herald., 1915-12-08
FORDHAM ISSUES CALL.
Rowing Practice Will Start Next Mon
 day on Machines.

New York, Dec. S.-Fordhan's row ing practice will start next Monday. The first call for candidates was made by Coach Mulcahy yesterday The squad will be divided into three classes, freshmen, junior Varsity, and prep. In his junior Varsity squad Mulcahy will have all the members of last years freshman eight, while sev- eral men who were in the Prep boat last Spring are members of freshman. Five of the high school men are avail able.
 The crew room has ven thorough ly overhauled, and plans have been made for the installation of an addi- tionol set of machines and new shower baths. Several mirrors have also been ordered to give the men a quick CT idea of their defects.