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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-07

work for you and the gentlemen shall
be told they needn't expect more than
breakfast-served in the arbor-''
NO." Elinor said, rising and fac
ing him. IF you let me have Mag, I
can give them whatever they call for.
Meantime-if the work leaves me any
leisure-may use it in my own way?"
Nobody IL hinder you," Jabez re-
turned ungraciously.
Before her uncle had quilted the
house she was out in the big old
the laden gooseberry bushes picking
green fruit as hard as ever she could.
The artist tenants found but one
cause OF complaint-they never got
Elinor Gordon. Meals were prompt
and perfect. Bills duly rendered
Uncle Jabez made him whistle and
say to himself If Elinor were only a
man he'd be glad to have her as a
partner. There was handsome mar
gin of profit after settling for sup
plies. He admitted as much to Eli
nor, limiting that she should have her
share.
She amazed him by flushing deeply
and shaking her head. But she had
grown handsomer-much handsomer
of that he was sure. Her scowl was
gone. she had got a fine color and: al,
though her hands were often stained
and rough, she did not complain.
Something about which Uncle Jabez
knew nothing was going on.
Higgins, the grocer, was Elinor's
accomplice in putting over things
Those latter gentlemen had a fine dis
elimination for all manner of table
dainties. and, further, they liked the
brands Higgins supplied so well that
they ordered them lavishly-in dozens
weekly-to send as gifts to their
friends or to use upon their special
outings.
Elinor was the source of these. She
q nOClfiUa 1oI1 hi
She had appealed frankly to Higgins,
and he had backed her like a man,
telling himself he'd risk it for just
half the chance to plague that old
Elinor had worked hard. Quietly
she had bought fruit, melons, vege-
tables for. preserving and picking
old Mag had helped when she had
time, but that was not often. Elinor
felt that her mounting profits were
coined from her very life blood. But
she rejoiced. Here was the beginning
of ndependence-trade would grow
Higgins would back her. Down a far,
dim vista she saw the goal of indie
pendence.
Fate resolved she should not so
reach it and brought about the
Young Barham, one of the artists,
coming in very late to dinner one day,
was just in time to catch Elinor as
she tainted in the doorway. She had
Deen on ner rect all DAY BESIDE hot
stove, with the whole world scorch-
ing hot.
Barham was a man of action. When
he knew the straight of things he said
promptly: This won't do at all It's
even worse than marrying me-"
In the course of time he brought
Elinor round to his way of thinking
But old Jabez, although he gave her a
handsome dowry, declared hatefully
that it was her cookery and not her
inc nf
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A CALL TO MEN.

What we need just now more than
we need big guns ana big ships and
shells that weigh more than a ton. de-
clares E. L. Vincent in Farm Life, is
good, strong, earnest men, men who
will carry on the farm work Just as
faithfully as they would manage a
great factory or follow the flag into a
strange country. The men whose
name we bear drove back the great
forests with their axes; they travelled
roads marked only by blazed trees;
they rode on a sled drawn by oxen tc
mill and to church,; they fought wild
cats, bears and panthers; they ate
coarse bread made of corn meal, and
they put this country where it is-at
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vidual, fairly thrifty all his life, sud-
denly forms passion for an automo-
bile. This he cannot afford, except
as he sacrifices part of his savings to
possess it. Its running cost takes too
much from an already small income.
Its purchase price displaces some of
a previous investment. The first car
is usually followed by a more eXpen-
sive one and by more displa cement
of investment, frequently q mortgage
on property or on chattels. Financing
this luxury is no longer mystery, but
it has become a serious economic
problem for future generations to
solve and to bear. Some such program
as this is now being carried out by a.
majority of the European countries at
war. For nearly a year they have
been paying the expenses Of armies
and navies from the liquid savings of
two or more generations. Now they
have reached a point where the dis
placement of fixed capital is necessary
in order to pay their way across
blood-drenched continent. Each time
they borrow they must sell or hypoth-
ecate the equivalent in securities,
lands, commercial credits, or what
not, and even former war loans are be-
ing used as collateral for new ones.
Thus the process of pyramiding debt
goes on and on and no one can now
estimate the scope of it.
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EuRoPE,s WAR DEBT.

We first wonder, as neutrals, how
the bruised soul of a nation can go on
enduring the punishment of the war
and then we are amazed at the abil-
ity to stand up under the cost of it,
writes Charles F. Speare in the
American Review of Reviews for Au-
gust, in an article entitled, The Cost
of a Year of War; At what point
does exhaustion begin to show? we
ask. At the end of year of strug-
gle are there signs of financial weak
ness in Europe great enough to be an
early factor in terminating the war ?
Financing the great war is not so
much of a mystery as it seems. When
ever an individual or a country has
to have, or wants, some expensive I'M
dertaking or object. it usually finds
the means to obtain it. The process
is not always a wise one or based on
sound economies, though carried out
to its desired conclusion An indi-
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Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

You can't avoid old age without
dying young.
1t is pretty hard to find person
who sings just enough.
Many a man could do his best with
out doing so blamed well.
Optimism is splendid thing, in
spite of the lies told in its name.
Occasionally a man marries his af-
finity and gets over that notion.
A lot of men make a lot of needless
noise and think they are working like
all get out
Some athletes should be able to do
more work than they seem willing to
undertake.
Every farm man imagines that if he
were a farmer he would be a very in
tense farmer.
A man is a pessimistic cuss who is
confident dinner will be late if he gets
home on time.
Probably the most clever jokesmith
is the candidate who says, II was
forced into this campaign.
If you have no worse fault than be-
ing selfish, you will at least behave
yourself pretty well.
Except for the prospect that it may
lead to a fight, an argument is rarely
particularly interesting.
A fair consignment from our we'll
spring of sympathy is directed to the
proof readers on a lodge paper
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who read the Congress
sional Record as a means of saving
the country?
Some men are always trying to
fight for a Principle; there are too
many principles for one to choose
such a career
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ANoTHER GREAT CALAMITY.

Surely the ill-winds are dire and
without end. Reports from the cram
berry sections of Massachusetts, New
Jersey and Wisconsin state that in
consequence of the cold weather dur
ing the late spring and early summer,
the cranberry crop is likely to be eX-
ceedingly short this year. The esti-
mates have it that the crop will not
exceed 100000 barrels, where last year
it amounted to 625, 200, barrels. Still,
according to the tastes of not a few
folk, 100000 barrels of cranberries
would be enough to supply the people
of all the world with cranberries for
ever.
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ARBITRATION PROPOSED.

| Serious consideration should be
| given to Great Britain's suggestion
that such cases respecting the seizure
| of American ships or cargoes in con-
nection with her blockade of neutral
as well as German ports, which are
not decided by her prize courts in a
manner satisfactory to the United
| States, shall be submitted to interna-
tional arbitration. Germany made
similar proposals in respect to the
Lusitania affair and her methods of
submarine warfare. But the matters
involved are in no wise analogous.
England's blockading activities do not
include fatal assaults on the crews
of unarmed ships nor against the
passengers that such ships may carry.
In carrying on her campaign against
shipments to Germany, either direct
ly through German ports, or indi-
rectly through nearby neutral ports.
England has been most Jealous to
conform to the customs and practices
that are in accord with international
law and the demands of humanity. 1t
is true that the scope of her blockade
is held by the United States and other
neutrals to be contrary to interna-
tional law and beyond reason, and,
therefore, a serious infringement of
neutral rights. But England is firm
in her assertions that these conten-
lions are not sound and that her activ-
tiles are justified through a new ap-
plication of the principles of interna-
tional law, which the exgencies of
the war have made necessary. And
there doesn't seem ~ De any effective
way of settling this, the big and i'm
portant question that is now at issue
between Great Britain and the United
States and other neutrals. Still, the
willingness of England to arbitrate
such cases as she may not handle in a
satisfactory manner indicates that she
is not of the opinion that every act
of hers in this connection is necessar-
lily right and justifiable. And it is
probable that Germany's suggestion to
arbitrate the Lusitania affair would
not have been thrown in the waste
paper basket by Uncle Sam had Ger
many been willing to give assurances
question in dispute, there would be no
REPETITION of the Lusitania horror, of
the summary slaughter of passengers
travelling in the war zone on unarmed
and unresisting ships. Since that trag-
edy, Germany has demonstrated on
couple of occasions that 1T is possible
for her to carry on her submarine
warfare without numbering non-com-
Blatant crews and passengers. Yet she
remains adamant in her refusal to
give assurances that she will bind her
self to such practice.
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QUAKER MEDITATTONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record
A great deal of material goes to
waist in a fat mans trousers.
A spite fence between neighbors is
an insult that can't be overlooked.
You never can tell. Many a fellow
shoots off his mouth who isn't loaded
The man who knows a dark secret
must be an optimist to make light of
it.
The man who is an advocate of free
speech won't always agree that talk is
cheap.
A fellow doesn't always kick for
good measure when he is in a peck of
trouble.
Time is money. and some people
are so stingy they even begrudge the
time they spend.
The girl who marries should pick
out an orphan. He won't be SO apt
to brag about the coffee mother used
to make.
my work is an awful grind" COM
planned the dentist. II quite agree
with you,'' groaned the victim in the
operating chair.
Wigwag-"Does your baby talk
yet?" Youngpop with dignity -"No,
sir; I am fully capable of doing all
the talking for the family
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THE BEAsTS OF BURDEN

Nor is it likely that the back-to-the-
popularity with the women in view of
the picture of farm life that is pre-
scented by a Dickinson county woman
in her suit for divorce. An incident of
the suit is her demand for alimony to
the extent of $4,000. which she de-
clareS she has earned by working on
the farm during the % years of her
married life. But at the age of Sc she
has been milking 13 cows, separating
the milk by hand, feeding the calves,
stopping the hogs, cooking for the
farm hands and doing other work
about the home and farm. And a fam
lily of eight children, only two of
whom are minors, she has reared as
a side line
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EU ening Chat
"You Don't Know Henry"
BY RUTH CAMERON.


MY husband is the most impatient
thing if anyone is late" said the
plaintive little woman. IT never dare
to be a moment late myself, but
might well be, for L get the blame
when other people are. Yesterday we
/ took his sister-in-law for a ride and
she kept us waiting ten minutes. He
scolded and fused so while we were
waiting, that L got all nerved up and
didn't enjoy the ride a bit. I do wish
people could be ready when you take
them riding
Did he scold your sister-in-law
when she finally arrived" asked the
woman who thinks, with the sugges-
ton of twinkle in her eye.
'"Oh no." said the plaintive one,
that is the worst of it, he never said
a word to her and she'll do it again
next time, and I'll get blamed again"
She ended in the fretful minor key of
herself to disagreeable circumstances
nor key herself up to trying to
change them.
DO you know how you might
change the worst of it into the best
of t?'' asked the woman who thinks.
mo"
stop sheltering your husband. let
your sister-in-1aw see how cross he is
when people are late"
The plaintive one looked scared and
incredulous
Here are two forces went on the
other, that crush you between them
her habit of being late and his
crossness at being delayed. Get out
from between them and let them fight
each other. Each may partially de-
stroy the other"
How can I do that? He is never
cross in front of her.
Tell her that he didn't like it. Just
say calmly, My dear, I'm glad you've
come. Henry is so cross I can't do
anything with him. He's perfectly alb
surd about starting the moment
Or something like that"
afterwards
"Of course he would the first time,
but just tell him that you don't in
tend to be scolded for other peoples
faults and that you'll do it again. He
may be angry at the time, but he'll
be more careful afterward.'
That's all very well to say" fretted
the plaintive little woman. Its easy
enough to talk, but doing it is quite
another thing
''You forget I have husband"
laughed the woman who thinks:
Yes. I know you have. but he's
very different from Henry. 1 can't
imagine his scolding you like that"
The woman who thinks laughed
again. II can imagine it, my dear"
she said, and what is more, I can re-
member it. L got the blame for all
sorts of things that other people did
while they were treated as pleasantly
as could be, and I made up my mind
just what I told you about bringing
the two forces together. 1 tried it on
the maid. He was always scolding
me about her faults. One day at the
table in front of him I told her that
he didn't like the soup. He turned
red as a beet and scolded me after
wards, but I explained my theory
calmly and pleasantly and told him
what I proposed to do. And now you
think he's an ideal husband that way.
My dear, ideal husbands are made not
BORN
The plaintive one didn't look less
plaintive. That's all right for your
husband she said, in the same fret
full voice, but you don't know
Henry
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Jdyh dwker Jots

The moss backs" ought to do well
! this year, thinks the Formoso New
Era.
Matches may be made in heaven,
says the Augusta Journal, but they
have to go to the other place for sui
phuf.
This has been the hottest and long
est continued hot summer ever known
in this part of Kansas, states the ELS
worth Reporter, but in its Twenty-One
Years Ago column.
Every time one of the automobiles
in Hoxie turns around it literally
stages one of the stunts that have
helped to make motor cars famous.
Charley Turtle owns it.
If you don't like your neighbor here
on earth, suggests the F'ormoso New
Era, what is the use of trying to en-
courge him to meet you in Heaven?
AS the Oak Hill Gazette cleverly ex-
plains it: When the home team falls in
a losing rut, people call it link. "
But when another town has the same
trouble, they say that town has a
poor ball team
L. w. Brunson has just finished har-
vesting and threshing twenty acres of
oats, in two plots of ten acres each,
reports the Larned Chronoscope. One
plot planted in February averaged
sixty bushels per acre, while the 9TH
er, planted in the first part of April
yielded thirty-five bushels. This land
is all the same K1nQ ana TeCSlNeQ
practically the same treatment, but
the yield shows the difference in early
and late planting. The early planting
was put in just before one of the heav-
lest SHOWS of the winter.
Baldwin Ledger Entries: Some peo-
pie have a high time in very low
places. 49,. The sea of matrimony de-
void of acrimony is calm When
a fellow is up and coming he has al
most arrived. Ire strikes fire when
you call man liar-and yet he may
be. To be a lady is superficial
but to be a real woman is no small
job. When a fellow maintains a
bank balance he is considered level
headed. 1890 1t is all right to preach
brOtherly love but too much sister1y
love is dangerous. =. You can point
with pride about your achievements
without being too sharp.
One of the ''mOst up-to-date'' fell
lows the Hoxie Sentinel knows is one
of it's subscribers who has paid his
subscription to 1917. His name, Alex.
Haynes, deserves a prominent place
on the Kansas newspapers honor roll.
In one of it's daffydillious moods
the Alton Empire asked: IF snow
Paris green p" And the "Along-The
Quiet-Solomon' correspondent of the
Ports Independent, replies: Cant say.
But unless the war correspondents
had their wires badly crossed, we are
safe in saying that Kaiser Bill made
Paris blue, for a time at least
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.]

From the Chicago NeWS.]
Many people are either rich or
happy, but few are both
The way of the transgressor often
leads to another'S pocket
Always laugh at the boss jokes
unless you are going to quit
An eloquent prayer doesn't get any
higher than the other kind.
Honesty is also good thing in con-
nection with an insurance policy.
Men who are not used to society are
apt to get "baIled up" in a ballroom.
Every man may have his price, but
sooner or later the majority land on
the bargain counter
And if woman had any other ex-
cuse for doing a thing than be
cause" she probably wouldn't do it.
For at least twenty-four hours
after marriage the average woman
thinks her husband is the smartest
man on earth
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EMBEDDING AT PUBLIC SALES

EMBEDDING AT PUBLIC SALES.
A lawsuit at Baskerville, Ia, re-
Gently, determined a question that has
been conspicuously before farming
ing communities for years-that of
by-bidding at public sales. A man
bought a team of ponies and after the
sale ne discovered that several fell
lows had been given a quiet tip and
did the by-bidding act so that the
team was knocked down to him at a
much higher price than it mad been
offered for at private sale. The pur-
chaser refused to pay the price and he
was sued for the amount. When the
case came to trial the Judge took the
case from the jury and gave a verdict
to the defendant. This action has set
q precedent that will be of material
benefit in giving the correct status of
a bidder at q public sale. Numerous
sales have been "queered' because of
by-bidding. When once such a thing
is suspected, bidders become leary
and refuse to continue in the game
Gaylord Sentinel.
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WHEN THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN.

WHEN THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN
When the circus comes to town
Mamma dons her bestes gown
N says: Il do not care to CO.
But the children like it So
Nursie says: 81 am so tired.
But you know that l am hired
And the children need me. too,
SO III go along with you.''
Sister looks so dignified
And us children oft does chide
says she cares not for a show
But she reckons she will GO
Daddy acts the part of sage
says: of course, one at NV are
Does not care for all this noise
Like they did when they were boys"
Says: 81 am feeling awful weak.
Guess L had better rest a streak:
business is awful dull today
Believe I'll go out to the play"
Then we children pass a grin
For their talk is far too thin
They are nearly dead to go,
But they hate to have us know
&c. l.. Moore in Farm and Home
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Journal Entire S

Time is like money in another re-
spect. Everybody wastes good deal
of it.
.. - i
Old Father Adam at least had the
opportunity of getting off original
jokes.
= = j
If you can readily and accurately de-
fine all the words you use, you're
pretty smart.
= j. j
Did every man work as hard as he
thinks he does, a whole lot more would
be accomplished.
i j. +
Almost every girl has an idea that
there's material in her for the making
of a heroine in romantic novel.
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Governor Capper's next reception in
California is not likely to be as cor
dial as was his recent one. The gov
ernor gives the opinion that Kansas
presents ten chances to the farmer and
the laboring man where California Of
fers one: and that the man with mod
crate means would do well to stay
away from that commonwealth. The
people of California take serious UNI
bragg whenever the truth of this va
riety is told about their state.
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From the size of the fees they have
been getting, it is no more than rea-
sonable to urge that the receivers of
the Kansas Natural Gas company and
the attorneys who are connected with
its affairs, hold to the fond hope that
the receivership of this concern will
continue forever. or until there is
nothing left of it. That won't be so
far away, either, if the receivers and
the attorneys absorb to themselves its
finances at the rate they have been.
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the very top of all the nations of the
earth. Your battlefield and mine lies
right where that of our fathers did;
but we have a different work to do.
Our task is to make the farms better.
to help the world 20 live better, to
keep the country they made at such
great price clean and honest and true,
and to put our hand under the arm of
every poor fellow that is having
hard time And this is a challenge
to the very best there is in u.s.
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President Wilson believes the time
has come for the United States to de-
eide on definite program for an ade-
quate national defense. And it will
also take considerable time to bring
one into being, no matter how eXpe-
ditiOusly the work is carried on,
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Villas wife arrives in the United
States with the information that her
husband will join her in case his cause
fails and that they will make their
home somewhere on the Pacific coast
All of which would seem to be an
excellent reason why Huerta should
return to his Long Island estate as
soon as possible
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And the power of rain is truly mar
velous. Because of the sustenance it
has given to pastures, the people are
paying less for their butter than they
have in four years. the cIeverness of
the creamery boys in maintaining
butter prices. notwithstanding.
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incidentally, the delegates to the
annual convention of the German-Al-
lance exhibited excellent tact and rare
good sense in voting down resolutions
attacking President Wilson because of
the traffic in wal materials by the
manufacturers of this country
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