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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
Jayhawker Jots

Speaking of appropriate names, says
the Latimer Leader, Harry Lopez acter
as starter at the Harrington races.
According to the Abilene Reflector,
the man who knows the least shows
it the most.
Mr.. Bryan was consistent at least
in this respect, that he went 1mme-
diately to the Pacific coast, points out
the Sa1ina Journal.
According to the Dwight Signal. one
advantage of those tin automobil is
that they do not hurt so much when
they run over sensitive pedestrian.
What has become of that old-fash-
toned weather. signs the Ell Dorado
Republican, when we could fry eggs
on the cement sidewalk about any day
in summer.
Who says there is nothing in a
of Liberty, Norris county, are suffer
ing with the chicken pox. This is re-
ported in the Dwight Signal.
Many women, after regulating
smoking lamp or smoking stove, have
to put up with a smoking husband,
says the Richmond Enterprise, and
what's worse. he may keep it up
through eternity.
Now that Col. Bill Sapp is clear
ing about $1,000 a day from his zinc
mines, there is a widespread demand,
in the state, says the Kansas Notes
man III the hdnsaS Clly 0ldr, mat AO
hire valet to attend his plug hat.
With that fine optimism for which
Kansans are noted, the Wamego Re-
porter says: 1t is expected that sum-
mer will soon get here and then the
ice cream and soda fountain men look
for a little business in their line.
A woman in the south part of town
a few days ago discovered number
of her small chickens lying in the
chicken yard with their heads gone,
reports the Independence Star. This
furnished a deep mystery until a
neighbor came running over the next
day to tell her she had just observed a
jaybird fly into the pen, jerk the head
off chick and fly away. 1t developed
that this had been a practice of the
long billed assassins. They take the
heads to their young.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
AFTERMATH.

AFTERMATH.
An old man hid in the heart of wood
But he bore the mark of the sea;
1t lay in the light of his level eve
That sought for the meeting of earth and
Through the intricate screen Of tree
1t lay his lips in the song he crooned,
He sang of the unborn ships of the brine,
Bough of the hemlock and bole of the
pine
And he sang of the storm-wind's dirge
A young man passed through the heart of
He listened and wondered and cried
why cover you here in the forests gloom
Remote from the surf and the breakers
boom
Yet chant of the wave and the tidee"
Then the old mans face grew suddenly
gray
As a wrack of wind-driven cloud,
And swift in the shadows the sea-song
As out of the forest his wild soul cried
In words that were broken and cowed ::
Because of an infamy on the deep,
An infamy comprised by me,
No more could l look on the throne of
God,
(Rising up dumbly, a thing of the sod
Than look on the face of the sea
Back from the fangs of the wild Irish
And back from its eaverns 1 flee,
To crouch mid the unborn ships of the
Bough of the hemlock and bole of the
pine,
For 1 dare not look on the seal"
Anna Milo Upjohn, in the New York
Evening Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE

Why do they call them roasting
ears, for everybody boils them?
A seat on the board of trade some
times becomes a corner" chair.
OF course, few clothes in a novel
are all right if a preacher wrote 1t.
The Lord made the women, but
the men.
devoted to the construction of bath
ing suits.
Another bad feature about the
calamity bowler is that he expects to
get paid for it.
looks wise, and says to the patient:
You eat too much.
Among other painful experiences of
the oldest 1nhabitant is to have a new
high water mark established.
1t is all right to have confidence,
but no man should risk his wife with
a severe case of Platonic friendship.
You may not like your work very
well, but one way of landing a better
| job is to do it in a satisfactory man
ner.
| The man who doesn't amount to
much himself can't make much of an
| impression by Dragging on his ances-
| tors.
| without wishing to appear an icon
oclast, it may be stated, as a general
proposition, that rabbit can outrun
/ turtle.
| A good conscience is what enables
a man to sleep so sound his wife will
/ have to get up and close the windows
when storm arrives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
Kansas Comment
HE KANSAS sUNFLowER.


Club women of Atchison have
started a movement by which they
expect to dethrone the sunflower as
the state flower of Kansas and
crown the petunia as the reigning
flower of the "Jayhawker'' state. The
agitation. to say the least, will not
meet with unanimous approval. There.
is nothing about the sunflower that
especially stamps it as a thing of
beauty, nor can it properly be classed
as dispenser of joy forever-in fact,
it has in certain parts of the state
been condemned as a nuisance. But
there surrounds the big, awkward.
yellow flower a touch of sentiment
that has grown up through the years
of hardship and privation in which
the sunflower was good enough to
represent Kansas as it's state flower.
The sunfiower is an emblem of stur-
diness and thrift. These character
istics are typical of the state of Kan
sas The flower that has served
through the struggling days of the
states history may possibly be Off
cially replaced by a more dainty Gre
alton in this day of advancement and
progress but the sentiment that has
entwiaed itself about the old sunflow-
er can never be replaced in the hearts
of the true Kansan by the petunia or
any other specimen of the flower gar
den.-Hutchinson Gazette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
EUening Chat
The Husband Spoiler.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Husband spoiler'' is the term a
friend of mine applies to a certain
class of women.
She says she would like to start
society for the suppression of husband
spoilers.
You may not Immediately recognize
the kind of women she means under
that title, but am sure you will when
1 describe them to you for they infect
every neighborhood and every social
group.
The husband spoiIer is either sim
gle woman, a restless young married
woman or more raFe1yea widow. 1t is
her habit to Systematically spoil every
young and wouid-be COMMENDED and
well-behaved young husband VINO
comes within her reach.
Her methods of doing it are various.
One is to laugh at his every attempt
at humor, however feeble, until he De-
gins to fancy himself a wonderful wit.
The result is that he goes about boring
people by his attempted humor like a
spoiled child who has been laughed at
once for some fairly bright saying and
keeps repeating it. When his wife tries
to keep him from making himself
ridiculous he tells her that she has
no sense of humor and cannot be ex-
pected to appreciate his.
Another method is to try to make
the husband think by reference and
aIlusion or by open assertion that his
wife is trying to dominate him. tits
easy to see who has the last say in
your house." she says or How lucky
your wife is to have a husband who
lets her manage everything just as she
wants." or 81 never saw man so de-
voted to his wife, Whereupon, the
husband who has been merely showing
kindly consideration for his wife's
wishes instead or riding rough shod
over them the way some men do, be-
gins to think perhaps he is making an
easy mark of himself and to grow
less considerate and more exacting.
An advanced stage of the husband
spelling habit is that in which the
spoiler pities the husband for having a
wife uncongenlal to him, or incapable
of keeping up with him. Of course
the husband must have shown his will
ingness to accept such sympathy before
it was proffered, and that is detestable
in him, but it does not justify the
woman who gives II.
In justice. I must admit that the
husband spoiler does not always mean
| to make trouble. Far from it. Many
times she just doesn't think, simply
wants to make herself agreeable. and
other times she does sincerely believe
that the husband is not appreciated,
| Occasionally, I suppose, she is right.
but she should remember that the best
of husbands has his seamy as well as
his smoothly finished side, and that
she might not be so warmly apprecia-
tive If she could see both.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Even the weather man should put
a few predictions by for a rainy day.
We all have our ups and downs.
even those of us who are on the
level
Some men complain that they are
driven to drink, and others are easily
led.
A man has to have certain
amount of staying qualities before he
can make a go of a thing
For one man who wakes up and
finds himself famous, a thousand
oversleep themselves
There, seems to be quite a differ
ence between being in the swim and
being on the water wagon
Don't jump to the conclusion that
a man is a back number just because
he doesn't get to the front.
Blobbs-I wonder why woman in
sists upon wearing gloves in summer.
Slobbs-Oh, just to keep her hand in,
suppose.
Muggins-Do you find him an in
teresting conversationalist? Buggins
oh, very. He positively refuses to
discuss religion, politics or the war
Wight doesn't take much to
please that fellow Bjones. Wagg-
No. he's almost as easily pleased as an
Iold maid looking for husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
PRosPECrs OF PEACE REMOTE

While there is much idle talk among
neutraIs regarding an early cessation
of the great European war, only con-
firmed optimist can see anything to
encourage the belief that this present
year will see the close of the war,
writes Martin Marshall, in Leslie's-
Many indications would point to the
entrance of still other European pow
ers into the great conflict. For in
stance, in the first week of July an
officer of the Spanish army appeared
in New York, commissioned to pur-
chase for his government 25,OOO,O0O
rounds of rifle ammunition. He was
greatly surprised to find that the man
ufacturers on whom he called would
not promise delivery before 1917 In
the face of these conditions the Span
ish representative can do nothing, but
the fact remains that the government
of Spain is making all the military
preparations that its restricted finances
will allow What part Spain might
play in the war if she saw fit to enter
it is somewhat of a problem. AS to
the attitude of another country which
| is bending every energy to prepare
tions for war, there can be no question.
| If Holland enters the conflict it will be
as the ally of her ancient enemy, Great
Britain. For many months past the
Dutch government has been purchas-
! ing munitions of war abroad and has
modified it's great manufacturing re-
sources for the production of NUM-
tions at home. Holland can muster
naerly 100000 men and is producing
as rapidly as possible arms and ammu-
milton for the entire number. One
firm in the United States recently filled
an order for 1900 highpower motor
trucks for the Dutch government. In
case Holland should decide to enter
the war it is more than probable that
the Scandinavian powers might also be
| involved, although with the exception
| of Denmark they have nothing to gain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
THE TI1TLE-M oUsE BABIES.

With such care as the Tittle-mouse
babies received, it was no wonder
that they grew quickly out of their
babyhood Mr.. Spider had just about
decided he would climb over to the
old log and call upon them Che had
heard so much about them from
Tommy that he was anxious TO see
them,) and Mr.. Snail had just
worked his way to the door of the
Tittle-mouse home, when who should
appear at the door of the house but
Mrs. Tommy and the whole family!
why, I was just coming in to see
your exclaimed Mr.. Snail in
surprise.
And I had decided to call in the
morning." said Mr.. Spider
You should have come sooner"
said Mrs Tommy proudly How
long do you suppose my babies stay
babies? They are big little mice
stepped aside SO that the snail and
the spider could see for themselves
how fine the children were.
OF course, Mr.. Spider and Mr..
Snail exclaimed over the little mice,
and while they were still talking
Billy Robin flew down 10 see what
all the fuss was about Now your
hardest work will just begin," he
know what I am talking about, be-
cause 1 am just through training my
children
Yes, they have a great deal to
learn" said Mrs. Tommy, and Tom
my himself thought of the house cat
with a thrill of fear. I'll tell them
about her the minute my friends are
gonei" he said to himself.
So the minute the spider and the
snail and Billy Robin had gone
about their own affairs Tommy be-
gan the training of the babies
There is one creature above all
others that you must watch for ana
guard yourself against, he said I'M,
pressively; that creature is the cat
"A cat % asked the oldest son,
land how will we know a cat when
we see one?''
"You will know her by her sleek
gray sides and her shining green
ewes You will know by the sense OF
danger you feel when she is near,
even though unseen
Gray sides and green eyes, re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02

by the victory of either side. Dem
mark, in case the Allies should die
tate the terms of peace. might profit
by the restoration of Schleswig-Hol-
stein. which would carry with it the
control of the Kie1 Canal. A great
deal of peace talk emanates from Ger
many. German military success, 1T ls
generally believed, is now at high
tide If the Germans could smash the
Anglo-French line in France and fight
their way through to the French coast,
they would be in a position to demand
favorable terms of peace, if the Allies
would consider peace at all at such a
time This, it is unofficially reported
from Berlin, is the present German
program.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

IFrOm the Chicago NeWS.1
But not every thorn has its rose.
The mother tongue is very apt to
run to baby talk.
Every man considers honesty the
best policy for others.
When looking for a sound invest
ment why not buy a phonograph?
And many a mans generosity de-
ponds upon the publicity he can get
out of it.
There is nothing SO sad as the stunts
of fat woman who tries to act kit
tenish.
Men think they are smarter than
women because their clothes don't
button up the back.
The financial frenzy of a man is due
to the fact that his better half needs
the money.
Give an amateur violinist plenty of
elbow room and some encouragement
and he will do the rest.
Being a newspaper hero may be
glorious and all that, but it doesn't
provide a man with three square meals
day.
When a married woman advises a
girl to remain single her advice falls
on deaf ears. A girl wants to dis
cover the reason for herself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02

we do not reach the zenith or our
glory by perhaps unconsciously eXer-
cising despotism over the seas II the
tremendous power of the American
nation is exerted towards equal right
upon every ocean, at all times, ana Ior
all nations, it will go far to promote
our maritime laws and commerce II
will also go far to benefit mankind by
perpetuating the basic principles ana
doctrines of our government, and rem
dering impossible upon the western
Hemisphere the inhuman cataclysm OF
war which now threatens to engul1
the Eastern.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
FREEDOM OF THE SEAS.

During the last few years, writes
James w. Ashton of the Tacoma bar
in the July Case and Comment, we
hear expressions OF thoughtless and
mistaken patriotism TO the effect that
the Pacific and sections of the At
lantic must and should become an
American ocean, and the like. We are
increasing our navy. The burning need
of increasing our merchant marine is
under way. Let us have a care that
as the days of our greatness increase
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
From Other Pens
YELLED IN WAR GRAY.

In the making of modern war SEEM
ingly no means are neglected that will
serve to harass or BATTLE the enemy.
His body is torn by projectiles, he is
lacerated by barbed wire, he is choked
by poisonous gases. He is baffled by
dummy guns, by DISCUSSES in uniforms,
by bewildering searchlfghts and by de-
ceptive colors. In the matter of col
ors the utilization of desired tints has
approached a science. The old bar
barrie idea of typifying the splendor of
war by the vivid hues OF gorgeous uni
forms has been put aside. Quiet tints,
neutral tints that blend with the sur
roundings, are now used. The incon-
spicuous gray given che battleships
and other fighting craft has been gem
orally adopted by all the great navies,
and one of the first precautions taken
at the opening of the war by some OF
the Atlantic liners was to take on this
same protective tint. That shrOudinS
gray is now being utilized to hide
famous buildings from the bomb
throwing aviators who pass overhead
Perhaps, before the great conflict
ends, each war and navy department
will have its bureau of colors, with the
nations leading experts in tint-har-
many as it's directing heads.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
Journal Entries

A tough problem for many is as to
what to do with their leisure.
d. 10 j
In all probability, the secrets that
are kept do not amount to very much.
- I.
Maybe the COW that jumped over it
was the party who put the Moo" in
moon.
= =
Nor does there happen to be any
rules or formulas for working out
the problems of life
- IL j.
Presumably, the same pride that
keeps women warm in their scanty
attire in winter keeps them cool in
cloth suits and ''furs' in summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
ELIMINATING EXAMINATIONS.

Few schools now rely entirely
upon examinations as a test for pro-
notion declares w. S, Deffenbaugh,
chief of the division of school admin
istration of the United States bureau
of education, in his annual review of
school conditions in the smaller cities.
'In some schools examinations are
made to count one-han, while in
others they count only one-fourth. 1t
is now recognized that examinations
are not true tests of the pupils abil-
ity to do the next grades work, and
that pupil should not be promoted on
what he knows, but on what he can
do. OF 756 superintendent in the
smaller cities reporting, $50 say that
they are now depending on examina-
tions much less than formerly. How
pupils shall be classified so that they
may advance through the grades with
out loss of time is question that is
continually presenting itself to
thoughtful superintendent. accord
to Mr.. Deffenbaugh, and some cities
are undertaking special experiments
in this field In Carthage, N Y, all
those children who cannot read are
started on their educational journey
in much the same way. Gradually
they are regrouped into three divis-
ions: The first, composed of the most
mature and most capable, completes
a certain amount of work in one year;
the next group is given IA years In
which to accomplish the same amount
and the third two years. Before the
close of the first year each of the
three groups is likely to be divided
again into the higher and lower
Therefore each pupil who enters in
the fall with no knowledge of the
books has before him the possibility
of being in any one of six groups be-
fore the close of the first year There
is a special teacher in the lower
grades who devotes her entire time to
misfits-those pupils who for some
reason or other cannot do all OF their
work to the best advantage in any CT
the regular groups This teacher
coaches backward pupils and helps
the brilliant ones to jump to the next
higher division. In East Chicago,
Ind, a child is promoted at any time
the teacher and supervisors feel he
would be benefited. The plan is to
pass pupils if they are doing their
best, even if the grades are low
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02

1t is distressing to contemplate
what the tax rates in Kansas would
have been this year had there not
been an increase of almost $4,000
600 in the assessed valuation of the
property in the state. And higher tax
rates, even with this big increase in
the value of the property available for
taxation. also indicate emphatically
that the expenses of government in
Kansas are increasing at a more rapid
proportionate rate, than are the prop
erty values of the commonwealth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02

Missouri has had one or two good
roads building bees. such as Governor
Capper has proclaimed for Kansas for
August IS and 10, when there was a
great outpouring of her citizens to
work on the roads with the moving
picture men on hand, of course, to
photograph the activities of the more
prominent among them But Missouri
is also concerned in rocking cross
state highway. About one-third of 1t
has been built and a campaign is on
to rock the balance of it within a
wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
WILL WE GET MONEYS WORTH?

To work out the big defense plans
that the military and naval authorl-
ties are developing, President wilson,
it is reported, will ask congress Tor
appropriations aggregating a half-bll-
lion dollars. But will the country get
it's moneys worth out of this huge
sum? That's the important question.
There seems to be plenty of substan-
tiaI evidence that it hasn't from the
tremendous amount of money that
has been expended on the army and
navy during the past decade or so, or
since the war with Spain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02

1t may be true, as the news dis
patches indicate, that the armed
forces of these United States are pre-
pairing to use force in Mexico, but if
they are they must be doing it on the
quiet and without the knowledge of
the governmental authorities at Wash
in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02

Kansas has the smallest corn acre
age this year that she has had since
1882. but, at that, according to the
estimates of Mr.. Mohler, the secretary
of the Kansas department of agricul-
ture, the Kansas acres planted to corn
number approximately 4,500,00O a
corn acreage not to be sneezed at And
If the frosts don't come too soon. the
yield per acre is likely to be consid-
erably above the average.
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peated the oldest son, that sounds
rather pretty to me. 1 think you
must be prejudiced against her.
Surely she can't be as dangerous as
you say
Take my word for it, son." said
Tommy in distress and apprehen-
sion, "she is a dangerous creature
the most dangerous to your welfare
that you will find in this nice
garden"
Just at that minute. even while
Tommy was talking, the house cat
slipped out and sat on the back porch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
AMERICAN COAL.

American consuls write home from
Argentina that there is an excellent
market in that country for American
coal, but that this will have to be Sc
lected and screened with more care
than is usually displayed if it is to
compete with the British product
after the war. Undoubtedly both the
opening and the warning are correct.
American coal has obtained a prac-.
tical monopoly in the Cuban market
1t is much used throughout the West
Indies. 1t is being sold in some. quanti-
ties in Spain. But in the latter coun-s
try, Argentina and Brazil, it has to
overcome the fixed habit of using
British fuel. To do this it must be at
least as reliable as the material it
seeks to displace. The long suprem-
acy of Britain in foreign markets is
no accident. 1t is the result of a study
of foreign demands which, if less in
tensive and scientific than that made
by Germany, has continued for
much longer time; of reliability, quail
ity, and the interlocking effect of big
British investments in younger coun-
trieS.-Chicago Journal.