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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-05
JAYMAWKER uJOTS

1t often happens, points out the An
thony Bulletin. that a man rich in
good deeds pays no income tax
The Caldwell News has sent out a.
tracer for the old-fashioned man who
used to have a brainstorm at the mem
ton of dollar wheat.
Pratt is taking on metropolitan airs,
all right. Public authority there has
finally begun to arrest and fine Ali
classes OF citizens for driving over the
city fire hose when the latter is in
action.
This seems to be a fair enough
warning from the publisher and editor
of the Lyons Republican: After some
years of practice we can sit passively
WITHIN nearing distance of mandolin.
However, now that the mandolin
fiends are turning to the ukalele, We
are making no Promises, we might
do anything.
First-aid-to- injured item in the
Woodson County Journal: Keep a
bottle of iodine in the house and if
you receive a scratch or a small emf
wash the place where the skin is
broken with water and paint it with
Iodine. This may save much trouble"
Yes. and If your tincture of iodine is
little strong and you apply it a
annex an uncomfortable burn and
blister.
Observations, by Click FockeIe in the
lie Roy Reporter: Every man has a
nut or two in his head. The aver
age wife objects to hubby betting only
when he loses. The fellow who
butts in ought to have an exceedingly
hard head As the high cost of
living gets higher, the holes in Swiss
cheese become larger. The thin
skinned man can't do himself much
good by rubbing up against the world
. Many a man who is considered
a lion by the ladies is regarded as an
ass by the men.
Comment and advice from Editor
Best of the Clyde Farmers Voice: One
of the loudest explosions of all was
that government crop report q.
The sun is still shining behind the
clouds, but do not go without your
umbrella. An aeroplane NAV
look smaller as 1t rises higher, but the
price of gasoline doesn't. A fool
proof system of handling high expIo-
sives would be worthy the efforts of any
modern scientific genius. There
is more than one kind of preparedness.
The man who is careless about his eat
ing and drinking is the man who is
going to keel over first under the at
| tack of the sun
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fore putting in mold, add whites of
eggs beaten light. Flavor with va
nil Whipped cream may be pour
ed around this. This makes a very
fine dessert.
Cream Puffs-One cup water, one
half cup butter and one cup flour. Stir
and let come to a boil. Cool, then stir
in three eggs, beat five minutes. then
drop into baking pan. Bake in hot
oven twenty-five minutes. When cool
open one side and put in custard.
Custard: Beat two eggs and one-half
cup sugar very light. Stir in one-half
mixture in one pint of boiling milk.
Let it boil up. Flavor with vanilla.
Chocolate Lady Fingers-Two eggs
beaten light, II pints flour. one pint
soft white sugar. one teaspoon baking
powder or soda, one teaspoon vanilla,
a pinch salt. Mix just stiff enough to
roll in hands. about three inches long.
dip in melted butter, bake in moder-
ate oven, put together with chocolate
filling
Banana Pie-Two sliced bananas.
one cup milk, yolks of two eggs. one
half cup sugar, one tablespoon flour.
Boil custard and when done pour over
the sliced bananas. Whip whites of
two eggs. put on top and brown.
Hidden Mountaih-Six eggs, a few
fourths pint cream, a layer of any kind
of jam. Beat whites and yolks of eggs
separately. then mix and beat again.
adding the citron. cream and sugar;
when well beaten put in buttered pan
and fry. Cover with the jam and
garnish with slices of citron., To be
eaten cold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-05
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

New Macaroni Dfsh-Break the de-
sired quantity of macaroni into short
lengths, cook in rapidly boiling water
until tender, then drain. Add to it one
tablespoon each of melted butter and
grated cheese; stir carefully so as not
to break up macaroni Add two we'll
ware dish. coat it with bread crusts,
pour in the mixture Use a spoon 20
press up to the sides to leave a hollow
in the center. which fill with any cold
meat finely minced. Cover the meat
with the macaroni mixture and bake
slowly one hour. Turn out serve with
or without tomato sauce.
Jellied anges-Remove all of
the skin from two oranges, cut
fruit into uniform slices and place
in a sieve to drain. Meanwhile soften
half package of granulated gelatin in
half cup cold water, then dissolve it in
half cup boiling water, and half cup
sugar and strain. Blend this with
cupful of orange juice and the juice of
one lemon; pour a thin layer into a
with orarge slices and a few spoonfuls
of the liquid jelly. Chill and repeat
process until mold is filled. Then
place on ice for an hour before turn
ing out. Can be served as fruit
salad. with mayonnaise, or as a des-
sert with whipped cream.
Spanish Cream-One-half box CELIA
tin. one quart milk. yollSs of three
eggs. whites of three eggs, one small
cup sugar. Soak gelatin in milk one
hour. Heat, then add yolks beaten
very light with the sugar, and heat to
boiling point When this is cold, be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-05

When have there been any serious
labor troubles in Topeka? Not since
the strike of the machinists in the
Santa Fe shops of eleven CT twelve
years ago. Isn't that the correct an
swer? Nor can this be properly con-
strued or labeled as local labor trou-
BILE, as it vas a strike tnat covered the
whole Santa Fe system. And these
observations are prompted by the pa
rade of labor on the Topeka streets
Monday afternoon, certainly one of
the most impressive Labor day parades
that has ever been staged in the cap
ital city of Kansas. And was not it's
most impressive feature the sugges-
tons that it conveyed of the generally
amicable manner in which capital and
labor have worked together in Topeka
this long while? For the most part
and as a general thing capital and la
Dor have been working hand in hand
in Topeka for many years; both work.
ing diligently and honestly on the
problem that is common to them and
at the same time each on its own
problem. And the results of these
Reasonable efforts on both aides should
essuredly be most gratifying to all
lconcerned
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MAKING GOOD.

The sun shines when you're making good,
Your heart is light, your pathway seems
A journey through a golden wood
Where all the trees bear golden dreams.
You laugh at trouble and at care,
You lift your head and face the day;
1t seems so fine that you there
You love the labor all the way
The heart smiles when you're doing right
The soul in wider measure wings;
Your feet tread upward to the light,
Your spirit whistles and it sings.
The sweet contagfon of your cheer
Falls on all lives within your range,
A higher purpose blossoms near.
Your soul is in immortal change.
The birds sing when your works done well
The laughter of the morn is grand;
You feel again the childheart spell,
You dance like children through the land
The perfect beauty of mans life
In golden revelations looms,
Your feet are on stair of stars,
And all the world is filled with blooms.
Baltimore SUM-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-05

News from New York tells of the
sudden death from heart failure of
the father of Madero, who was re-
moved from his hard-won presidency
of Mexico by the murder or assassina-
t.on route. Madero, Sr., was an elder
~ gentleman, of course, 81 years old,
to b. exact. And there may be some
connection between the shock Of
apoplexy which carried him away and
the news he recently received that his
100000 estate in Mexico was soon
to be restored to him. That sort of
news would be enough to moke even a
younger heart flutter furiously.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-05

Whisky is getting knocked right and
left in one way or another the whole
world over these days and even in
looked upon for centuries as pretty
much of a staple article An an
nouncement was recently made in
Edinburgh, Scotland, to the effect that
by an arrangement between the Brit
ish government and the whisky dis
filling industry in regard to the COM
ing seasons output of the Scotch and
Irish distilleries, the Scotch distiIIers
will be restricted to an output of 70
per cent on the last five years aver
age production of malt whisky. The
arrangement in Ireland is practically
a 30 per cent reduction on last years
output. And this arrangement does
rot include the large grain distilleries
In either country. which are at pres
ent working almost exclusively cn spi-
rits for war purposes. It is understood
that the main object of this restriction
is the saving OF shipping tonnage, to
lie utilized for the importation of food
products and other necessities. Nor
rnally large quantity of foreign bar
ley is used for the distillation of these
spirits in Scotland and Ireland. And
the Scotch and the Irish are sure to
be the gamers thru this shuntinK aside
OF their favorite tipples to give food
products the right of way, just as sa-
loonless Kansas has made for a better
food or table supply for all of its in
habitants. and especially for those
whose means may be on the opposite
SIDE to Easy street
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known. Under general principles the
business man breads uncertainties, and
so common opinion looks to the end
of the war with apprehension. The
farther away it is the better we will be
prepared for it, is the reasoning. We
are reducing our foreign debt, getting
our goods into new markets. develop
ing new industries. paying off debts
ard accommodating capital. Surely we
are strengthening our position. These
are positive gains and outweigh u good
many apprehensions and warnings.
Prudent people, however, cannot for
get that the longer present abnormal
conditions prevail the further we shall
set from the natural state of industry
and trade to which we must return
when the war is over. Wages are still
advancing and the process of adjust
ment to temporary conditions is still
going on. 1t is not comfortable t. feel
that we are working under an unnat-
ural stimulus. and that every month
of these conditions will make the fol-
lowing reorganization more difficult.
The crops are a disappointment.
We have been favored with two ex-
traordinary crop yields since the war
began, and in the natural order of
things could hardly hope for more.
We are far from crop failure. but
the yield is sufficiently short to make
prices higher for consumers, and they
were already high enough to intensity
the demands for more wages. The
corn crop has been cut down by
n o
and this inevitably means dear meats.
Hogs have been selling on the Chi
cago market above $11 per hundred
weight, and the great consurnptive de-
nIand for meats is scarcely satisfied.
Canadian buyers have been taking
hogs freely from Chicago at the high
est prices.
The wheat crop is badly hurt the
total yield probably not exceeding the
requirements of this country for food
and seed. Fortunately. there are i'm
portant stocks in this country carried
over from the two big crops of 1914
and 1915. British grown wheat has
been selling in the interior markets of
England above 81 per bushel. and it
has seemed quite possible that that
price might be reached in the Omitted
States. The market went off heavily
On the news of Rumania's entrance
into the war, on the theory that the
Dardanelles might be open before the
end of the crop year. ard Russian and
humanian wheat brought out.
"Advices from the agricultural dis
tricts are generally confident that the
buying power of the farmers will not
be seriously impaired. This is partic-
ularly true of the spring wheat terri
tory of the northwest, where crops are
now so diversified that injury to wheat
is not so serious as it was n few years
ago. Fortunately there is an unusual
ly good outlook for corn in this terri
tory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-05
NATIONAL VISION BRoADENs.

Salutary effects growing out of the
present extensive export commerce be-
ing done by the manufacturers of the
country at the present time, it goes
without saying, will be of the greatest
Importance. points out The Iron Trade
Review, and it continues: Some of
the immediate and favorable results of
this tremendous traffic readily are
perceivable. Not the least of these is
the strong financial position now be-
ing reached by many companies which
heretofore have been only mildly sue
cessful in their operations. or have
been undergoing a seasoning process
until they could establish themselves
firmly. This retirement of bond issues
and notes. and other forms of funded
debt and the additions being made to
sinking funds and financial resources
spell greater stability for the careers
of these companies and perhaps more
uniform market conditions in their re-
spective lines for the future. Then
the creation and stimulation of jaded
or new branches of industry, due to
the great export trade and its ram
ifications, hold forth promises of much
permanent benefit to the country. A
view of the highly vigorous and ex-
panding ship building industry is a
cause for much qualification both
from purely commercial and from
patriotic reasons. One of the greatest
influences flowing from the expansive
foreign trade, however, promises to be
men have been SO trained TO consider
and to seek only home custom that
they have lacked the broad vision that
only can come from dealing with diff
ferent peoples under different condi-
tons. In some senses, the American
manufacturer has been somewhat like
spoiled child, as his home market
has been SO large that he cared little
for foreign business unless the condi-
tons were in accordance with his in
dividual wishes. The iron and steel
industry has had its share of this
seeming provincialism. Now the over
whelming demand for American prod
ucts, especially those of iron and steel,
by its very force and lucrativeness has
made many producers more eager to
sell for foreign account. AS a con-
sequence, they are familiarizing them
selves more thoroly with the machin-
cry of overseas trade and are acquir-
ing a keener appreciation of its re-
quirements and obstacles. Incident
ally, they are broadening their own
business capacity and vision. This in
structive process is progressing stead
by and it should be the means of es-
tablishing in this country clearer
thought and more powerful initiative
on questions bearing upon our rela-
tons with foreign countries and with
the high seas. The growing apprecia-
ton of the importance of 4 compar-
able merchant marine is a hopeful
sign. Henceforth this movement
should not be lacking in the scope and
power of support from the business in
terests of the country, If they hold
true to the lessons they have been &C.
During by their more general activity
In foreign trade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-05
DINNER STORIES

Jim Smith was VIGOROUSLY slow pay
He owned quite a bill at the grocery
for pork. One day, as his credit was
becoming strained, he walked calmly
into the grocery and said: Mr.. Black,
I want to pay you for the pork l have
had. and l want some more
Certainly" said the delighted pro-
prietor, as he fastened to wait on his
customer.
Taking the package of pork, Jim
Smith started to go.
Wait a minute" said the proprie-
tor. Il thought you wanted to pay for
the pork"
Il do remarked Jim as he resumed
his homeward way, but l can't"
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tered the house. When Elsie saw him,

tered the house. When Elsie saw him,
she gave a cry of delight.
''Oh. it is just fine of you." she ex-
claimed. Where did you find to-
Il promised not to tell" he answer
ed. ut doesn't matter, does it, 80 long
as we have the chair back"
"Of course not" She clapped her
hands. 'tOh, 1 am so glad!"
After that, the evening flew by on
gilded wings. But just before it was
time to go. Jim ventured a suggestion.
You haven't shown me how those
chairs are Joined together to make a
tete-a-tete he said.
NO she answered, "I haven't, but
1 WILL
She Joined them deftly, and a feE
minutes later Jim was sitting in one,
with Elsie beside him in the other
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

All work and no play has decid ed
advantages over all play and no work.
X X x
Nor did faint heart ever win
much of anything worth while, let
alone a fair lady.
X X X
The task that is seemingly impos-
sible for one man is likely to be easy
for another
X X x
This may be the era of general eff
ficieacy, but in those good, old days"
more people were able to do more
things for themselves
X X
A word to the wise may be suffi-
cient, but the trouble is in placing
such words with the right parties so
few are really wise.
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BED T HME TALES
POLICEMAN BILLY
BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON

well, Bushy,' said Mother Beaver
as she spied the two little beavers
coming back. did you have nice
lunch? I'm sorry you hurried back SO
soon. 1 was just coming over to find
you and to get something to eat my
self. /" and just at that minute she
saw the big raccoon. Father Beav-
ert" she called in quick whisper,
come here,"
Never fear, Never fearr" said the
raccoon, for he saw that Mother Beav-
er was frightened at the sight of him.
I'm Policeman Billy. and I've come
TO talk over your right to live by
Crooked Creek
He said it so naturally that Mother
Beaver had to believe she heard what
she heard. but honestly, she had to
pinch herself to be sure she wasn't
dreaming-she really did.
Fortunately, Father Beaver came up
just then and the raccoon had to say
ii all over again for him, and by that
10 hearing it and Bushy began to be-
lieve it-almost.
of course Father Beaver tried to
look as tho he was used to policemen
and rights and all that. but | must
say he didn't succeed very well. The
raccoon could tell as easy as anything
that Father Beaver didn't understand
a word he was talking about, not d
word.
perhaps you Didn't know that you
had invaded the land of the Wiggle-
iskskens" said Policeman Billy kind
ly; land perhaps you don't know all
their laws"
perhaps / didn't" agreed Father
Beaver weakly. perhaps I don't. Per-
haps we'd better sit down and talk it
all over / always find sitting down
a good thing when I'm surprised he
added.
So Mother Beaver and Father
Beaver and Policeman Billy sat down
on the bank of the creek; and Bushy
and Little Brother eat just behind.
where they could hear everything and
not be in the way
Now said Father Beaver tano he
began to feel better when he saw that
the raccoon would sit down just like
common creatures). what about it 20
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. /

TFrom the Chicago News
Most men are short on gold and
long on brass. =.
Wise is the instructor who learns
more than he teaches.
Make a companion of vice and you
will become its slave
Wings of riches may enable a man
to fly from his poor relations.
wousn's idea of domestic econ
omy-make her husband give up
smoking.
Hypocrites are men who think one
way and lead you to believe they think
another.
If a man is inclined to lead fast
life he should lead it to hitchins
post and tie it.
Nature paints things red in the fall
and many q man is able to trace his
fall back to the time when he painted
things red.
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Jay.

How his bosom swells with pride,
How he signs in deep relief,
How he feels a happy thrill
That is most beyond belief
How he laughs and shakes in glee,
How he almost chokes with joy.
When the nurse comes down the hall
And she whispers, It's a boy"
How he scowls and shakes his fist
How he raves and paws the air;
How he mutters to himself
Awful EXPLANATIONS there
How his mind is full of doubt
And his brain is in a whirl.
When the nurse comes to his side
And she whispers, Its a girl
=s~s 3
How he clutches at the wall 49,
And he gasps to get breath,
How he reels as If to fall,
And his face turns white as death
How he groans in his despair,
And the nurse adroitly grins,
AS she meets him on the stair
And announces: They are twins"
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And now Improvement the warmest

And now approached the warmest
days and nights since-the beginning
of the fourth week in August. Verify,
this has been; and evidently yet is
ana is to be until it's end, some sum-
nIer. And the summer season doesn't
come to a close officially until Sep
TENDER 20. Sometimes, too. the good,
old summertime weather runs well on
past that date in Kansas that is SO
sunny when it is not afflicted with a
spell of cloudiness.
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ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
NJ ROY 4. lroULroN.

Two Sides.
In life all things are not what they seem !;
There's many crooked deal.
And many man wears an auto cap
VINO hasn't an automobile.
We know there's very much deceit
In this old world of toll,
For many man smells of gasoline
Who is not in Standard Oil.
In all of this cosmic whirl
Our dreams are shattered-blim!
And many girl sees the last of a guy,
when she fastens string to him.
No things are not just what they seem,
And many illusions are punk,
For many a woman wears real marten
furs
When everyone knows they are skunk
Uncle Abner.
Hank Tumms says man eating
tiger always scares him, but Hold
Peters says the man probably eats
tiger bekuz he can't afford beefsteak.
The Teller that talks loud doesn't
convince nobuddy but himself and
sometimes not even himself.
There amt nothing that shows its
class quicker'n cheap jewelry.
boob is Teller that tells his gal
that he can't live without her. 1t
may be all right to think so, but a
man is a nut to tell her so.
II is purity hard to start a news
paper without crankin' lot. Self
starters hain't been invented yet.
A woman will live on ice cream
and dill pickles for two weeks and
then wonder why her stummick goes
on the blink.
Anse Judson doesn't know just
where he is goin' to git off. He bought
a horseless piano on the instalment
plan and has worn it out before he has
got it paid for.
Grandpa Bibbins says he kin re-
member back to the time when any
buddy that used fireless cooker was
accused of witchcraft.
There is only one way to have
chicken for dinner Sunday without
payin' a long price fer it and that
amt quite safe as there are too many
fellers sitting around nights with shot
guns.
Elmer Sphinx is laid up and unable
to attend to his duties down at the
feed mill. Last Sunday he hired three
fellers to peel a mustard plaster off'n
his back which he put on last fall and
they had to use dynamite
There is goin' to be another case of
matri-money next month when one of
our young ladies is goin' to strike it
rich by marryin' the proprietor of a
movin' picture show.
There amt hardly any Teller nova
days that can't run a typewriter but
there amt anybody that can run a
stenographer.
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So little has been heard of late,
either by rumor or more authentic
lines of communication. of Francisco
Villa. who once and not so long ago
had considerable standing with the
powers-that-be in these United States,
that he may havs gone to his death
again, and this for the ninth and last
time
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just said what Father Beaver had
said.)
Well began Policeman Billy, ITS
long story. He looked across the
creek as though he was hunting a be-
ginning and he must have found IL.
for he started his tale right away
Years ana years ago, this region was
full OF beavers and minks and rae
coons- 1t was fine place to live, for
the eating was good, the country was
safe ard there were houses and food
for ALL"
Talking much about food was
700 much for Bushy-he was so
hungry Would you mind IL 1 ate
bit ?" he asked
No, said Policeman Billy, lets
al. SO the story was stopped for re-
freshnents-(CSpy right- clara In
gram Judson.D