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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
EU ening Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.

The Peace of the Years.
The young girl sank down on the
bench beside me and sighed, a deep
f1uttering sigh, full of the sweet
melancholy peculiar to youth.
Whats the natter"
She indicated with her tennis racket
an elderly woman who had just passed
us, leaning heavily on her daughters
arm.
Just look she said. and some
one told me that when she was girl
she was the best horsewoman in the
state. oh, dear, it frightens me when
1 think how terrible it must be to be
old and not be able to play tennis or
swim or dance or ride or f1irt, or
or anything. Why she must just ache
with longing to do things, and all she
can do Is crawl along in the sun like
that"
Don't you think perhaps the long
ing has passed with the power?"
asked.
Her bright eyes narrowed and grew
misty with thought. "Oh," she said,
that's different
1t is indeed different-very different.
Age with it's own impotence plus the
yearning of youth for doing and dar-
ing, for loving and living would be
a tragic state. But don't believe age
is like that One of the greatest les
sons that the passing of the years
teaches us is that nature has arranged
things better than that.
she Keeps a Ia1rIy tranquil balance
between what we want to do and what
we can do. There are some regrets of
course, but they are nowhere near so
poignant as youth in it's fiery heart
thinks they must be. Old age must
crawl along IN the sun instead of leap
ing and running and laughing, but
then, old age is given the gift to find
in the placid sunshine a certain con-
tent Of which youth cannot conceive.
1 often think of what the wife of
q college professor once told me: Il
was very happy when l was girl and
felt sad when it was all over. Then I
met the professor and found I could
be just as happy in another way. And
then my first boy came and that was
still another kind of happiness, and
now my boys and girls are grown up
and I am happy in another way in
them. All the years have been good
years. each in its own way"
''A1l the years have been good years,
each in it's own way.
To youth with its passionate dread
of old age, to the woman of twenty
nine who is shrinking from the most
painful milestone, 20 reluctant middle
age, I present that thought
"All the years have been good years.
each in its own way"
SAVIOR each moment of life as it
passes Gather roses in rose time.
Have confidence that nature will ar
range all readjustments and do not
fret your soul about them. March on
with the years instead of hanging
back.
Grow old along with me,
The best of life is yet to be
The last of life, for which the first
was made.
Our times are in His hand
Who said "A whole I planned
Youth shows but half; trust God:
see all, nor be afraid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
BLUEY TALKS TOO MUCH.

Tommy Tittle-mouse and his little
mate were sitting at the door of their
home one fine bright day, when who
should they see right in front of them
but Bluey Blackbird. Not calm,
naughty Bluey Blackbird such as they
were we'll accustomed to- see flying or
hopping about, but a nervous, eXcit-
ed Bluey who seemed afraid of some
thing
know BIuey very well-and to tell the
truth he didn't care to, for of course
by the time he had lived in the gar
den a week he had heard all about
Bluey and his haughtiness and his
selfshness and all that. So being a
wise and quiet, peace-loving little fell
low Tommy was more than satisfied
to notice that Bluey snubbed him and
would have nothing to do with him.
eff he has nothing to say to me-" wise
little Tommy had said to himself,
then he cannot pick a quarrel with
me and 1 am safe from harm in that
direction at least!
But today Bluey ran up and down,
up and down in front of Tommy's
home as though he must talk to
someone and so Tommy at last took
pitv on him and stuck his head out
a tiny, oh, such tiny bit of the
door and said, May you always be
as beautiful as you are now, Friend
Bluey!"
well, it's about time you came out
rudely. There are terrible goings-on
in the garden today and you should
be out to see what the matter ISL
ooh, noI' replied Tommy Title
house shyly, when there are terrible
goings-on I always stay in my home
so that 1 will not know what the mat
ter is You see, L am not as brave
as you are, Friend Bluey!'
That f1attery Gained Bluey bit
and he smoothed two of his hand
some tail feathers before he deigned
to reply. But you should be out to-
day to see the excitement
Excitement ?" asked Tommy. 81
didn't know about any excitement
Maybe you will be kind enough to tell
me about it,
That was exactly what Bluey most
wanted to do. Next to being in the
midst of thrills the most fun he knew
of was to tell about these same
thrills to whoever would listen.
would he tell ?"-hadn't he just been
racing up and down the garden try
ing to find somebody who would lis
ten to him? Wasn't he just aching
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record
make himself solid.
When money talks it is always sure
of an appreciative audience.
Be prepared for an emergency, and
ten chances to one it won't turn up.
If you are going to crack a joke, be
sure it is all it is cracked up to be.
It's one thing to nail lie, but quite
another matter to keep it down
There's a time for everything, but
the aeronaut doesn't wait for fly
time.
Speaking of wholesome food, what's
the matter with Swiss cheese? Or
doughnuts. for that matter.
When a fellow is always going
around with a chip on his shoulder,
does it prove he is a blockhead?
Dead men tell no tales quoted the
Wise Guy. No, but their biographers
generally do added the Simple Mug.
DR.. Johnson was at work on his die
tionary. BE sure and put in a good
word for me-" said Boswell. Turn
about is fair play, you know
BIobbs-"Skinnum says Wigwag is
his best friend Slobbs-''Why.
Wigwag scarcely knows him at all. :"
Blobbs- Probably that's the reason
he is his best friend
Nell-"Miss Antique is going to mar
~ a struggling young man." Belle
Il don't wonder he is struggling, but
it won't do him much good if she has
made up her mind to have him..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.]

CFrom the Chicago News.1
A fresh you-a spoiled man.
If wishes were horses, beggars
would want airShips.
Our best friends are apt to appear
bad-in amateur theatrica1s.
A man is out of spirits when there
isn't a drop in the house.
Some people grumble because they
can find nothing to grumble about.
All men are equal the day they are
born and the day they are buried.
When looking for lodgings man
must either inquire within or go with
out.
It's easier to point than to plod.
That's why the world is full of human
guideposts.
Give the average young woman the
ballot and she would gladly swap it for
a matinee ticket.
In trying to raise one chick an old
hen makes exactly as much fuss as she
would in bringing up dozen.
BY the time a man has reached the
age where he knows things, he is old
enough to refrain from boasting of it.
Some one has said that Time is
money" but somehow a mans friends
appreciate the money he spends with
them more than the time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
Jayhawker Jots

What becomes of all the money the
people are going to save tomorrow
asks the Pittsburg Headlight.
What are we here for. asks the
Clay Center Economist, if not to bear
the burdens and pay taxes?
Take it all in all, observes the Nc
Pherson Republican, the one thing in
which a woman takes the most pride is
her figure"
Jesse Lines suggests through the
columns of the Sabatha Herald that
farmers save their radish, cabbage,
cauliflower and tomato seed, as much
of it is grown in the war zone, and
foreign seeds will scarcely be available
for next years gardens.
You may talk till the bovines mean
der home, writes Emma Upton
Vaughn in the Kansas City, Q<an.,)
Gazette-Globe, but nothing will turn
a budding Socialist into a conserva-
tive citizGn so quickly as the acquisi-
ton of a few corner lots.
One of the worst things about an
attempted assassination is the long
drawn-out interviews with the man
lac, says the Leavenworth Post, and
after expressing wonder as to why so
much attention is given to what luna
tics of this sort may have to say, it
adds: LeavenWorth had an assassin
once, but fortunately the officers kill
ed him before he could say anything
for publication.
Related by the County Liner: In the
course of an exciting game of base
ball two fingers of a players right
hand were badly hurt and on his way
home from the grounds he dropped
into a doctors office to have them at
tended to. Doctor" he asked an
xiously, when this fin of mine heals,
will 1 be able to play the piano?"
Certainly you will the doctor as
sured him. Say. you're a wonder,
doctor. I never could before"
Start a saloon in your own house,
urges the Atchison Globe, and it goes
on: Be the only customer. You will
have no license o pay. Go to your
wife and give her So to buy a gallon
of whisl<ey, ard remember there are
SO drinks in one gallon. Buy your
drinks from no one but your wife,
and by the time the first gallon is
gone she will have So to put into the
bank and 50 to start business again.
Should you live ten years and con-
tinue to buy booze from her, and then
die, she will have money enough to
bury you decently, educate your chill
dren, buy a house and lot, marry a
decent man and quit thinking about
you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
Kansas Comment
HELPING OITT JIrsTICE.

HELPING OUT JUSTICE.
The district court of Lyon county.
having before it case in which some
busy farmers were Interested, moved
the hearing to q barnyard in the
neighborhood. Whether this story is
true or not, it shows the tendency in
the courts to get better action on their
administration of justice. The demand
in recent years for the recall of judges,
or of judicial decisions, has made the
dignified officers of court roll over a
good deal They have had to admit
that delay and red tape were too evil
dent, and to claim in self defense that
those were the only real faults in our
judicial kystem 1t has come to pass
that a careful business man breads a
lawsuit as much as he does a fire, and
will take a loss or an imposition rath-
er than begin the process of 'lawing."
The quicker the courts and the attor-
neys realize that legal battle be-
tween lawyers is not a determination
of justice, and that laws are made to
secure justice and not to postpone it,
the better it will be for the judiciary
and the people. Laws are necessary
and so are courts. AS long as men
differ in their viewpoints they will dis
agree as to views. What the public
needs, and what the lawyers and
judges need equally well, is to re-
wise the spirit of law and cut out I'M
due emphasis on the letter. If the
Emporia Judge really helped the folks
involved to get speedy justice he is
entitled to a medal and poem by
Walt Mason.-Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
OUR INEFFICIENT PosTOFFICE

No serviceable performance of the
many duties now devolving on the
postal system can possibly be secured
without a complete reorganization of
the department, a drastic scheme of
decentralization, a thorough revision
of the law and regulations, the appH-
cation OF modern business policies and
processes, the introduction of labor
saving devices, a revolution in the au-
diting and accounting branches, and
more permanent tenure for the re-
sponsible executive heads of the in
stitution. So writes Henry A Castle,
in the July number of The North
American Review, and he continues:
There is no real audit of stamp dis
tributioE, aggregating $175, 100000 a
year: there is no reliable audit of pay
to railroads for carrying the mail, ag-
gregating $4,000, 900 n year; there is
no prctense of a cost keeping method
by which the relative expenses of diff
ferent postal features can be ascer-
tanned The law requires a double au-
dit, but less than per cent of the
tremendous financial transactions are
ever reviewed. The money order
service needs reform. The vast vol
ume of transactions in this branch al
most surpasses comprehension. AS
shown, the aggregate in dollars is over
/ three billion. This involves handling
/ in the auditors office more than one
| hundred million vouchers annually
total weight, 100 tons. The ranking
abuse needs reform. Official reports
! of e>department state that the
| Thanking and penalty envelope privi-
leges, covering government free mat
/ ter, cost the postal service nineteen
| million dollars a year without a cent
| of revenue. The contract policy needs
| reform. Practically every scandal
that has arisen in the department has
related 20 the letting of contracts
| either contracts for transportation of
| the mail or contracts for the purchase
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
POOR OH BRYAN

FOOh OLD BRIAN.
Poor Old Bryan has quit us,
He's afraid that we'd have war.
Cause he couldn't run the country,
Has made him awfully sore.
Wilson, our President,
And he, could not agree.
Cause Wilson thought the Americans,
ought to have rights on the Sea.
And Bryan he thought he had a plan,
Which indeed was much wiser.
And did not want to sign the note,
That might offend the Kaiser.
He agreed with the Kaiser,
That we should stay at home.
Merely for the reason
That he has established a war zone.
Our ships, let them sink them.
Our subjects, let them kill.
What's the use of objecting,
If it's done by Kaiser Bill.
But the country stands by Wilson,
And I'll assure you he won't fret,
Just because the Commoner
Has left the Cabinet.
We have patiently listened,
To all of Bryan's advice.
But the consequences we won't stand for
That is, of Peace at any Price.
The last straw has been broken
And while we deplore the thought of war
Still the insults of the Kaiser
We won't stand for any more.
w. E. F. KIRK.
1910 West First ST., Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
Journal Entries

A gloomy wife often develops into a
merry widow.
+ = =
Self-praise is the only kind obtained
by those who indulge in it.
% - -
When the average human expert
ences a change of luck, it is usually
of the bad variety.
10 II 10
What has become of the old-fash-
toned political theory that the office
should seek the man?
- T. j.
AS a general thing, this last word
that the women insist on having isn't
of any particular importance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
FIGHTING TRIM.

In a pamphlet entitled "F1ght1ng
Trim" issued by the United States
public health service, Surgeon J. NJ.
Eager lays stress upon personal en-
deavor of every individual as of the
highest public Importance in the or
ganized war against disease. The Won
derful victories that have been won
in combating infectious maladies have
had a tendency to divert popular at
tention from the equally important
personal fortification against diseases
of all kinds. The question of prepared
ness against onslaughts of the enemy,
a quarry prominent in the minds of
everyone in these days of warfare is
put in a special personal bearing as
relating to the dangers threatened by.
disease, the permanent enemy of man
kind. Are you personally prepared, it
is asked, for the hand-to-hand en-
counter with disease that you are
sure to be forced into sooner or later,
or in which, perhaps, you are al
ready engaged? Unless you are willing
to succumb without struggle, fight
you must, no matter how feeble your
fighting proclivities are. The ineVlta-
bility of the battle against disease is
strongly insisted upon. Peace between
nations, it is stated, may not be an
unattainable hope, but even when the
much desired era of human concord
comes and the armed strife among
men has ceased, there will still be an
everlasting battle to fight, a ceaseless
struggle for a few more years of
health and life, a desperate conflict
against a foe who, as far as victory
over the individual fighter is con-
cerned is certain in the end to win
the battle against disease. In the de-
Tense against disease two things are
necessary systematic union of
fighters, the sanitary organization,
and personal preparedness, the prod
uct of intelligent and diligent person
al hygiene. Personal preparedness is
the patriotic duty of every citizen as
an aid to national sanitary defense. No
man as a member of society is NOR
ally free to live unhygienica1ly or to
acquire disease through lack of per-
sonal care. Like slovenly soldier,
the person who neglects his health
risks imparting to others his loose
morale, or even transmitting disease
to the whole community. Health is
a mans most valuable possession" as
DR.. Eager says. without it he cam
not hold or enjoy anything else that
falls to his lot or that he wins in the
battle of life. without health he is a
burden to himself and, unless he pos
sess marked compensatory qualities,
an encumbrance to his comrades.
Though as victims of life's ill chance.
they are entitled to the most sympa-
thetic considerations, it is a sad fact
that the sick cannot but be considered
as impediments in the conflict OF ex-
istence. Their place is in the rear.
Often, indeed, as easy marks for the
attacks of disease, they become tar
gets drawing the fire of the enemy.
Wealth, position, friendship, ability to
help others are largely discounted by
physical infirmity."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10

of patented articles used. Rural free
delivery needs reform. This new and
valuable agency of civilization is
highly popular but enormously expen-
sive. The salaries of it's $4,000 car
riers now aggregate more than the en-
tire postal revenue in 1887. Reform,
regeneration and refrigeration are
needed in every postoffice branch,
feature and appurtenance, in order
that the vocation it already tries to
exercise shall approach a decent
standard of efficiency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10

are mixed with diluted glue or molas-
ses and the mixture is poured over the
seeds you intend to plant and stirred
around until each seed is smeared
with it. Then the seeds are planted
in the ordinary way. Alfalfa, for ex-
ample, grown from 'inoculated" seed
will grow at least as high as alfalfa
grown from ordinary seed planted hve
or ten feet away, and at the same time
will leave the soil richer the next year,
whereas the uninoculated growth
leaves it poorer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10

Nor is there any reason for excite
ment over the news that United States
troopers along the Mexican border
have been fired on from the Mexican
side. That's happened often in the
past year or so and nothing was ever
done about it. The Watchful Waiting
policy appears to be on the job today
just as strongly, or weakly, as it ever
was, and this is a policy that tolerates
anV old thing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
On the Spur
of the Moment
By ROY K. MOULTON.

Woodrow's Bicycle.
Woodrow rides a bicycle
Shocking the elite;
Ordinary bicycle;
Motive power, his feet.
Nobs go by in limousines
Broughams and coupes,
Fancy high powered gas machines,
Making grand displays.
Smashing mud on common folk,
Noses high in air;
Satisfied if they can make
Low-broWed mortals stare.
Our idea of Wilson is
Not reduced a peg
Woodrow rides a bicycle,
More power to his leg.
He's Been Through One.
Alton B. Parker demands that this
country prepare for war. Alton has
known what war is ever since he ran
against Roosevelt.
Which Would You Rather Be?
A boarding house keepers husband,
A dressmaker's husband,
Or trained nurses husband?
We answer our own question Ia
Jim J. Morton:
I would rather be the husband of
a $1,000 week vaudeville actress.
The Size of 1t.
A few lovesick stories. All sound just the
An article on congressional lame.
muckraker's yarn that is made to sound
fair,
Exposing some recently made millionaire.
Some chorus girls pictures you've seen oft
before.
Some poems the reading of which is
chOre
Then 200 pages of touring car ads,
Appealing to those who are blessed with
the scads.
A table of contents here mentioned, ween,
Describes almost any New York magazine.
Good Press Stuff.
If it is anywhere near what the
press agents claim, that Kansas wheat
crop ought to keep the whole world
from starvation for at least a century.
Sensible JapS.
In Japan they don't print the name
of the bridegroom in the paper. They
do in this country, but it isn't much
use. Nobody reads It.
But 1t Isn't.
Detectives seem to be securing New
York all the time for somebody. 1t
ought to be the cleanest city in the
world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
SOIL FERTILITY IN TIN CANS

Chemists-this is the age of the
chemist in every branch of industry.
as the Panama-Pacific exposition will
convince you-have made it possible
for farmers to buy fertility in tin cans
"a pint and a half to the acre, says
the July Worlds Work. Several man
ufacturers put up this product and
sell it for $3.50 a can 1t just about
doubles the productivity of the soil.
The can contains cultures of live
bacteria, the friendly, indispensa BILE
bacteria that accumulate deposits of
nitrogen from the air in the roots of
leguminous plants. The Cultures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10

Farms, mines, forest and seas may
be the assets, and cities the liabilities
of civilization as DR.. Waters, the pres
ident of the state agricultural college
declares. But the demand for the pro-
ducts of the farms, mines. forests and
seas, would be of rather negligible pro-
portions were it not for the cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10

This sounds a good deal like the
snake stories for which Kansas is IA
NOUS. The Shrek of the new whistle
on the Edison plant at East Orange,
N. J., is such that mil curdles in
the pans for miles around and the lit
tie screech owls far back in the noun
tains hide their heads in shame
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10

Chief Han1on's orders to the drivers
of the motor fire apparatus that they
do not exceed a speed of twenty miles
an hour and then only during the
early morning and night hours when
the streets are pretty well deserted
are another reform of the right sort.
And Chief Hanlon suggests, a speed
of fifteen miles an hour is ordinarily
plenty fast enough for these huge ma
chimes to be driven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10

How the grafters are treated in
Germany. A Bavarian official has
been fined s63,75O. or twenty times
the sum of which it is contended that
he defrauded the government. And
the-chances are that this fine will not
be compromised as so many fines are
in this country or that the culprit will
be permitted TO settle it on the basis
of a dollar down and a dollar a week.