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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
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You mustn't think that just because
Frisky Cottontail was timid about go
ing to the pretty little rabbit house
that Ned made for him, that nobody
liked that house-for they did-but
hardly as Ned intended.
Frisky was contented to slip up at
night and take out the tit-bits of food
that Ned placed at the door of the
house for bait; but he was quite care
full not to go inside. Such a new little
rabbit in the city was he, that Ned
could hardly blame him for being
afraid Yet of course. it was disap-
pointing, too, after he had taken such
pains with the house.
81 think I would leave that rab-
bit house right out there in the yard
those tirnid little rabbits will get used
to seeing it. and then they won't be
afraid Of it" So Ned left the box
there and paid no attention to it.
After it had stood there a couple of
weeks it got a trifIe weather beaten
and very comfortable looking Gas
though it had always been there) and
very interesting family decided
to move in-who do you suppose they
were? You'd never guess
Bees! Yes, a nice, big, healthy fam
lily of bees. And this how it hap
pened:
queen bee and her followers were
driven out of the old home hive by
the jealous old queen of the family.
Humming and scolding, they Jared
forth into the world, to find them
selves a home which should be big
ger and better than the one they had
just left.
First they found a hole in tree
nice big. roomy hole, plenty big for
a swarm of bees
why not stop and live here ?" ask
ed one of the queens devoted follow
ers This looks to me like very
nice place"
The queen stopped and inspected it
carefully and while she did so the
other bees hummed busily around and
hoped she would like the new place.
Bur she didn't. mo, indeed, that will
not do for met she exclaimed haught-
iIy. Il want different place. 1 want
a place that is better than we had
before. This is too much like our old
horne. Let us hunt further
So they travelled along.
Pretty soon they found hole in a
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
tFrorn the Chicago News.

tFrom the Chicago News.l
Remember. the longer you live the
older you get.
You can't flatter one woman by
complimenting another.
The more good advice you get the
Jess use you have for it.
When a man makes love to a worTl-
an, other women wonder why.
\ man can always find time to do
q thing if he has the inclination
Some people dodge amateur con-
certs because they are fond of music
Some women are so contrary that
they would rather be married than be
happy
Ohio boasts of a hustling widow
who has brought up seventeen chill
oren and three husbands.
Some men climb up in the world,
enc a lot more remain at the bottom
because the elevator isn't running.
Dreaming that you are worth a mil
lion dollars doesn't render you eligible
for membership in the tax dodger
class.
A train of thought isn't much good
to a man who is too lazy to generate
steam for moving it in the right di-
rection
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
STATUTORY REMEDY FOR LOSS
OF LIFE AT SEA

When the horrible catastrophe of
the Titanic, sunk by collision with an
iceberg in midocean, occurred in April,
1912, with fearful loss of life, states
Frederic Cunningham of the Boston
Bar in the July Case and Comment,
the public was amazed to find that
no matter how gross the negligence
of her owners may have been, even
if the grossest negligence on their part
could be proved, the representatives
and families of the victims, who We're
drowned, had no right of action
against the ship owners in any of the
courts of the United States or of the
several states, to recover for their loss,
and, what is more. though three years
have elapsed since then, and at each
session of Congress a bill has been
presented to remedy this defect, no
law has been enacted. A great wrong
of this sort still remains, in this great
country, without a remedy. In most
of the states statutes have been passed
making the cause of action for his
injuries survive. so that the executor
or administrator can recover for the
damages suffered by the deceased be-
fore death, and in most states, also, in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

creetly turned to the lovers, gazed sad
iy out to sea.
See who's here.'' chirruped Peter
blithely.
Marjorie looked around and her
glance followed Peters pointing fin
ger. Behind them, lazily drifting down
to the beach, was q limp paper bal
loon. Its fire was extinguished, and
in the shelter of the cliff, where there
was no wind, it was coming to earth.
Observe the patch,' said Peter as
the balloon neared them.
Marjorie got up and walked toward
the fluttering thing, holding up her
slim tanned arms to catch it
Doesn't it look odd?" she laughed
over her shoulder, and then the ball
loon was in her grasp-a smoky,
smelling crush of paper with a stiff
white patch covered with splashing
black characters in handwriting she
knew so well.
She tore the letter from the balloon
and crushed it into her pocket Then,
flinging the mass of red paper on the
ground, she sped to the shelter of the
pine grove, where she spread open the
letter and read it with shining eyes.
Her heart beat madly as she read
Donalds confession and apology.
THE dear, dear boy she muir
INJURED softly. But what a funny way
to send letter! Shall telephone-or
yes, l will!''
In a few moments she was talking
to Mrs. Warren.
Donald is down on the beach, Mar
jorie,' said Donald's sister-in-Iaw
He's sitting there, staring at the sea
as if he contemplated jumping in. I'll
send Bobby after him. Wait a mo-
ment.'
Donald received the message and
went to the telephone with scowling
face
tYes?" he inquired politely.
"DOnald," waVered Marjorie's voice.
Il received your letter.
My letter? What-telI me what
you mean" he gasped.
why, didn't you send me a letter
by balloon?' she asked tearfuIly.
Yes, L did, declared Donald,
bravely. Tin coming over-may
II"
I'm expecting you," said Marjorie,
ringing off.
When they met he chung to her
hands while he repeated the contents
of his letter and begged forgiveness
Il was a beast to be so jealous" he
admitted; but you know Gray has
been hanging around here a lott"
He had to- said Marjorie with
dancing eyes. Gertrude is wretched-
ly lonesome when he's away"
"Gertrude?''
They're engaged. you know" ex-
planned Marjorie sweetly
Then Donald made clean brea ST
of how his letter came to be patched
upon the balloon. Il thought it
would go out to sea- he said.
1T was kindly fate that bore it into
my hands" she Copy
right, 1915, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
DIRE POSSIBILITIES.

The exact figures are not at hand
but according to the expert entomolo-
gists, or the ornithologists if the fly
happens to be a bird instead of bug,
a healthy fly of today means many
thousands, or maybe it's millions, OF
flies within a few weeks. So it might
be we'll for TopekanS to swat most
zealously the comparatively few flies
within their midst. Perhaps the city 6
sanitary department may have the
leisure to figure out how many mil
lion or. billion of flies Topeka might
have at the end of the summer if the
several thousand of them now on the
job should be permitted to go their
way in peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
Jayhawker Jots

According to the Kansas Opt1mist,
the longest day in the year is the day
you wait for a train.
Dick Howard thinks, says the Con-
way Springs Star, that the forty days
and forty nights are about up and the
dove can be turned loose any time
now.
AS the Marion Record says: If
man wants to believe that the rainy
season is caused by the war in
Europe there seems to be no law to
prevent it.
How styles do change, ruminates
the Gridley Light. a few years ago
they never had pneumonia except IN
the winter time, and now they have 1t
at all seasons.
From the Muscotah Record: The
editor met an old Muscotah man in
Kansas City the other night, but can
not remember his name. Anyhow, he
sent his regards and best wishes to all
Muscotah people.
Just because a boy lives in town.
wears two kinds of socks, parts his
has daddy with sponduliX to burn, is
no sign, according to the Holslngton
Dispatch, that he is going to run this
country in the future.
ST Hoskins came slipping home the
other day, relates Ruth Alexander
Pepple IN the Erie RECORD, plum worn
out but with a celestial expression
upon his countenance, and Mrs. Hos
kins, hanging over the back yard
fence told her neighbor, IF that crowd
of old boys fit for their country as
hard as they pitched horse shoes, no
wonder they licked in the war of the
rebellion
Projected on the screen by the
Lindsborg News Vitascope: If you
haven't a pull, try pushing ,-,-- The
fear of becoming a bore keeps many
an interesting person silent.
Riches may not bring happiness, but
they bring lot of other good things
not to be sneezed at. Perhaps you
are wont to find fault with some of
the things this paper prints. You
ought to see some of the things it re-
fuses to print. 1T seems to be
much easier for some folk to love their
neighbors across the ocean than to love
the neighbors across the alley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
..PAr KEPT HIS AGREEMENr.

PAT KEPT HIS AGREEMENT"
Said Pat to the doctor, "Oi have a sick
wolfe,
She's been aiIing and granting the most of
her 1oife
And though yez may know OF am miser-
ably poor,
cure"
The doctor said, Pat, I'll take up the
case,
And straightway he started for Patrick's
home place.
Many visits made after, almost stayed by
her side.s
But on calling one morning found his
patient had died.
For long time thereafter Pat cried and
he sighed
Ger the he loss S. of his partner, DOR Biddy,
He saw not the doctor, the doctor thought
That Pat said nothing about that good
money.
So the doctor, like doctors, looked after his
fee,
Went to interview Patrick and Patrick
says he,
Did you, kill my poor Biddy? ?" the doctor
said, No
and naythur yez cured her, yez, nuthin'
/ owe
MRS. LUELLA N WHINE
Strong City, Kan.
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GOOD BUSINESS.

Americans have four great and
good habits upon which their present
prosperity is established. These habits
are: Health habit, study habit, work
habit, and play habit That is what
Mr.. Yozo Nomura, japanese commits
sioner to the Panama-Pacific EXPOSE
ton, said when he returned to Yoko-
hama from San Francisco and re-
ported to japanese business men upon
his trip, notes Golfers, and it con-
tinues: Mr.. Yozo Nomura is, OBJ
viously enough, a diplomat. With
Americans, he continues, business is
no longer exploitation, but service. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

American principle is that business
prospers only when it answers the
needs of the people and enhances hu-
man happiness" We don't reprint
these compliments because they are
deserved; they aren't. And yet, just
after writing these words, we picked
up a copy of the directions given TO
their employees by a nice company IN
the west: BE courteous Remember,
every iceman is supposed to be a TIMER
until he has proved his honesty. Ana
again this CLEAN of advice: If the ice
man happens to cut the piece lit
tie short, he should confess to his
customer land then bring a larger
piece next time and draw her atten-
ton that also" Perhaps the japanese
diplomat isn't so wrong after all. mo
longer exploitation, but service. ....
Think it over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

given to the executor or administrator
against the wrongdoer, for the pecun-
larry loss which the victims family has
sustained by his death. If the catas-
trophe had occurred, therefore, within
the territorial limits of a state, there
would have been a remedy, but these
state statutes have no force upon the
high seas, out of the limits of the state,
and as Congress, which alone has au-
thority to pass laws governing injuries
on American vessels on the high seas,
has not acted and given remedy by
statute, no remedy exists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
Kansas Comment
DIRTY MILK AND DISEASE.

The public should remember that
tuberculosis is by no means the only
disease having origin in, and that is
aggravated by, dirty milk. There may
be germs of several other dangerous
diseases in dirty milk. and none at all
of tuberculosis. This being so will not
tend to reconcile anyone to the use of
dirty milk, but will awaken public
JUDGMENT and conscience to the
necessity of recognizing other stand
ards of purity than mere free
dom from tuberculosis germs. Fol-
licular tonsilitis, typhoid fever, scarlet
fever, gastritis and other forms of
stomach complaints and diphtheria as
we'll as tuberculosis may be caused by
impure milk There is. in fact, medi
cal authority for asserting that tuber-
culosis is less caused by dirty milk
than several others of the diseases
mentioned Journal-World !.
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Journal Entries

Most people probably enjoy compll-
ments more than anything else.
- II
Few are the reformers who do not
take up a collection on the side.
i. - +
It's a poor argument that doesn't
resolve itself into an endurance con-
test.
j. = j
Live and learn is all right as far as
it goes but Learn to live would seem
to be better.
+ = =
Those who have plenty of it are
generally foremost in urging that
there are lots of things in the world
worth while besides money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
From Other Pens
WASHINGTON GROWS WEARY.

WASHINGTON GROWS WEARY.
The legislature of the state of Wash
ington has just passed, over the gov
ernor's veto, a measure which abol-
ishes the circulation of recall. refer
endum and initiative petitions. In
stead Of circulating such petitions
hereafter, they are to be left at des-
ignated places and those who wish to
sign them must be sufficiently inter
eSted to go where the petitions are.
Washington is one of the states where
direct legislation received it's earliest
trial in this country and where leg
islation by direct voting has been
most extensively used. Evidently
there is a strong sentiment in the
state that the movement has gone too
far, and it is quite clear that it might
go too far for the good of any state.
The paid solicitor gathering names at
so much head is means to this un-
desirable end. He puts it within the
power of any group of men, whether
honest reformers or selfish schemers
bent upon hindering intelligent action
at the polls, 20 force an election upon
any issue and to crowd the ballot full
of stuff that never ought to trouble
the voters. The system proposed in
Washington puts these pests out of
business and with them will go the
frauds that they are known to COM
init, now and then.-St. Louis Re-
pu bile. t'.-~ ltp 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
QUAKER REFLECTION
[From the Philadelphia Record
Man proposes, woman supposes

from the Philadelphia Record
Man proposes, woman supposes.
Patience is a virtue, but hustle is a
better one.
You never can tell Many a man
is long winded who isn't an athlete.
Many a young man and all cork
screws are looking for an opening.
The man who is carried away by
enthusiasm should have a return
ticket.
No, Maude. dear; a shady transac-
tfon doesn't have to be postponed until
Arbor day.
Poverty is no respecter of persons
When it comes in at the door it never
stops to wipe its feet
This should be looked into" said
the bride as she discovered a mirror
among her wedding presents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
IDAHo's GOVERNOR.

The new governor of Idaho being
Jew. he is naturally full of smart
business ideas. When he claimed he
could save the state a million dollars,
it was set down as campaign bun
combe, but it is now asserted that he
will come pretty close to- the million
mark. Among other bills, he vetoed
the referendum and recall, rightly
claiming they were shams. He also
shut off nepotism-the appointing of
relatives to paying positions. He sign
suffrage is a good thing: approved a
farm market director bill, which pro-
vides against swindling by commission
firms, and deception by land Swind-
lers. He also approved a bill provid-
ing that every county shall give at
least 60 days employment in each
year to all unemployed men within its
boundaries.-Oskaloo Independent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

Should the Great War end within
the year, which isn't likely. and there
is anything left of Belgium, there
might possibly be a war between Ger
many and Belgium, with the latter the
aggressor, in settlement of the ques-
ton as to where the Olympic games
will be held in 1920, in the event that
Germany is unable to stage the series
for 1916. Belgium was allotted the
1920 date, but Germany has plans to
grab it if she can't fulfill her 1916
engagement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
COTTON GOODS EXPORTED.

An export total of approximately
SIS, 100000 is the indicated record of
American manufactures of cotton
goods in the fiscal year 1915, while
imports of cotton manufactures will
probably fall below $50, 100000, MAX
ing the balance of trade on the expert
side about $25,00O,000, as against ar
import balance in every earlier year in
the cOuntry's history, save in 1908,
when the excess of exports in this
group was about s1,000,00G. In the
10 months of the current fiscal year
down to May L the exports of cotton
manufactures, amounting 70 $57, $780,
900, have already exceeded by $4,-
100000 the largest record of any
complete fiscal year prior thereto. The
highest level previously recorded by
the United States bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce was $50, 700,-
900 in 1913 and the next highest level
was S52,9OO,O00 in 1906, which was
the eliminating year of the big export
movement when China was taking UNI
usually large quantities of American
cotton goods upon the reopening of
her markets at the close of the Russo
Japanese war. Up to the present the
cotton manufacturing industry of the
United States has been chiefly occI-
pied IN meeting the requirements of
the home market. Thus while the
production of cotton manufactures
rose from SECS, 100000 III 1890 to
$62S, 100000 in 1910. the last census
year, exports of that class increased
from SIC, 100000 to $S3,4O0,GOO. I'M
ported cotton goods, however, did not
fully participate in the increased con-
sumption, since they only rose from
S29, 100000 in 1890 to $66, 100000 in
1910. with a subsequent decline to
about $4,000. 900 in the current year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
PREACHING AND PRACTICE

Champ Clark is quite right in de-
claring that waving flags, brass bands,
enthusiastic professions and flam-
boyant oratory do not make good
Americans nor typify the best that
there is in patriotism. But they have
been the stock in trade and favorite
outdoor sport this long while of a
more or less distinguished company
of politicians in this country, and in
whose ranks Champ has ever had a
prominent place. However, it is too
much to expect anyone to practice
what he breaches
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

In the matter of aeroplanes, the
European war has demonstrated the
great superiority of the bipIane over
the monoplane for almost every va
riety of flying and for stability as well.
All of which is another feather in the
cap of the Wright brothers and Ameri-
can ingenuity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

log-the very same hole where Tom
my Tittle-Mouse and his little mate
lived, and they nearly frightened poor
Tommy to death, too, (though of
course that doesn't belong to this
story. But though that was a splen
did hole and quite big enough, too. the
particular queen would have nothing
to do with it, and so they looked some
more and Tommy was saved,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

In addition to being a compliment
to Kansas, the application of more
than 100 college men and women in
the east for the two deanships at the
University of Kansas may also mean
that the conditions of employment
among the educators in that section
of the country are not any more at
tractive these days than they are with
the laborers in other vineyards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal away
from home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents a week or
thirty cents a month (by mail only). Ad-
dress changed often as desired. While
out of town the State Journal Will be to
you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on these
Ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

Perhaps It is just as we'll that Holt
has killed himself And what an
apostle of peace he was. The police
of New York City have located a trunk
of his that contained 134 sticks of
dynamite, fuses, blasting caps, powder
and Sulphuric acid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

Topeka also seems to have gone to
an undesirable, extreme in the safe and
sane Fourth of July business. Let's
buck up a bit next year and have some
kind of a public celebration that will
be significant of and commensurate
with the occasion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

And just then, when the queens
faithful followers were despairing of
finding a place to live, she spied the
ra bbit house. Now, there is a place
that exactly suits me-" she exclaimed
I'VE must live in that pretty box
house" The followers, who were
anxious to stop travelling and get to
work, were very glad to stop, and so
they all settled down in the rabbit
house and began their business of
living.
All went well for month or more
Then one sad day. Ned started TO
clean up the yard The very first thing
he moved was the rabbit house! What
happened to him, you ask? oh. dearl
fou1l nave to guess-it's too said a
story to writel i-(Copyright. Clara
Ingram Judson)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

Is there any necessity for rubbing
it in on old man Huerta? The law
should take it's course in his case as in
all others. If he is able to give the
bond that the law demands he should
be permitted to do so and to have his
liberty pending the trial of the charge
against him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-08

Suppose the sultan of Turkey is
dead. That won't help much or af-
feet the conditions with which Turkey
Is surrounded. AS soon as a sultan of
Turkey dies another sultan of Turkey
lives. Then, too, the sultan of Turkey
of these days is the merest of figure
heads in the conduct CT the affairs of
that nation