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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

One evening just after sunset Mrs.
Browny Bat stretched her great broad
wings and wiggled her long toes. Such
funny, long toes they were too. So
long that the skin that was stretched
from toe to toe made the whole of
her wing. If your toes were as long
compared with your body as Mrs Bats
were, they would be all of two feet
long and fathers and mothers toes
would be feur feet long-doesn't that
seem funny?
But of course it didn't seem queer
to Mrs. Bat, for that was the way her
wings were formed and she was quite
used to long toes-naturally.
She stretched her toes and shook
her wings and, being so long and rath-
er awkward, these wings touched
Browny Bat, who happened to be
sleeping near by. and walked him up.
whats the natter" said Browny
sleepily
II Just feel like waking up" re-
piled Mrs. Browny. 81 think I'll fly
out and get me a bit to eat"
Better wait a while" advised
stin some light?" (You see, Browny
could notice a good deal with his two
sharp, black eyes-the saying, blind
as a bait must have been started by
someone who knew nothing about the
little creaturesD
On, L guess Can HidAdSS very
we'll" said Mrs. Browny. 'Tll be
careful and anyway the darkness will
soon be here" So she flew gracefully
out of the old sycamore trunk, and
that was the time Willy Wood-rat had
his best view of her.
Never was there a bird who could
fly more gracefully than Mrs Browny
Bat, She circied round and round,
all the while getting lower and lower
and closer and closer toward the
creek.
Such a feast as there was there, too,
No wonder she wanted to wake up and
get some support The mosquitoes
(great. fat onesD hummed over the
little creek and Mrs. Browny soon had
a fine meal
"Browny is missing it this time" she
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
This stands.
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE, ONLY

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE, ONLY?
A military or naval preparedness of
sufficient proportion to have made, for
instance, our intervention in Mexico
successful from the start, in the event
that such intervention should have
been decided upon at any time during
the past year or so, is characterized
by the pacifists as a preparedness that
would have been certain to have en-
couraged strong arm work. on our
part in respect to Mexico. But it ap-
parently isn't anything that savors of
strong arm work. for the forces of
the United States to suppress revolu-
lions in Haiti or San Domingo, or even
to hold the whip hand in Nicaragua.
Oh, mol That's different. Or, at
least, the anti-preparedness enthusi-
asts have no criticisms to make on
these scores. Still, while the pre-
paredness needed to handle such lit
tie affairs as Haitian or San Domini-
can revolutions is not extensive. the
preparedness prin ciple that's involved
is the same, isn't it? Or is the United
States merely to be prepared to dis
charge its little duties to the world and
civilization; and to dodge and neglect
it's larger ones simply because they
would demand greater degree of
military and naval preparedness?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFron the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.
One can't always measure a good
time by the cost.
Speaking of tongues woman can
seldom hold her own.
1t doesn't improve the looks of
China to have it Japanned-
Some men try to get ahead in this
world by holding others back
The optimist enjoys the fruit and
the pessimist slips on the peel.
If a spinster isn't as tall as she
would like to be she should get spliced.
A man can never judge how old a
woman is by hearing her tell her age
A man may be all right in his way
but he frequently gets in the way of
Others
1t is easier to pick fuss with neigh
bors than it js ia pick music out of a
banjo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
Journal Entries

Reason and instinct also generally
work in opposite directions.
!. = =
People who don't care what the
world thinks of them are a misguided
lot.
Nor is a girl likely to chum with an
other girl who is better looking than
she is.
+ J. =
Many opinions are valued altogether
too highly by the people who hold
them.
A man with a good constitution US
ually has followed a sane set of by
laws and rules for living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
ABOUT GROWN PEOPLE.

Grown folks are very queer, think,
They're clever and they're wise,
But still it's mighty hard for me
To understand their why's.
Days when l romp and rip and rush
And let things slip and fall,
They say. No wonder misehief's done
He's never still at ALL"
Times when go off by myself
And make no noise, they say,
Hes surely up to mischief now,
He's been so still today
Grown folks are very fine, know,
But very curious, too,
To say the same thing every time,
Whichever way 1 dol
Nancy Byrd Turner in Harper's Maya.
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

As usual, too, the Austrians are the
ones against whom the Russians are
staging their new and big successes.
And if another phase of the history of
the European war repeats, just as the
Austrians are about to be crushed to
a pulp, the Germans will rush to their
rescue and throw the Russian bear
back on his launches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

Presumably this Fort Vaux, one of
the Verdun defences, that the Ger
mans have finally succeeded in taking
after days and days of the most bloody
fighting in all history, is another mill
tary position in the Verdun war zone
that is of no particular importance.
An announcement to this effect from
Paris is likely to come at almost any
fir,.o
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal away
from home during the summer may nave
fhe paner mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents week or
thirty cents a month (by mail only. Ad-
dress changed as often as desired. Whiie
out of town the State Journal will be to
yOu like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on these
short time subscriptions, to save boOkkeep-
ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

That $2OO,OOO,OOO fortune reputed
to have been left by James J. Hill is
estimated by his widow in an appH-
cation to the courts to have her son
named as administrator of the estate
to be worth s10,OOO,O0O in personal
property and $3.50, 900 in real estate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

Once again are the Austrian armies
demonstrating that they are as clever
at running as the Russians are at driv-
ing when they have something besides
men to drive with If Russia's NUM-
lions and supplies hold out this time
the Central Powers are going to have
their hands full during the summer in
the eastern war zone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10


Signs of the Times.
Henry Lamar, Washington citizen,
advertises that he will be responsible
only for his own debts. A lot of us
can't even go that far.
Sure there's money in some cattle
A roll of bills amounting to $500. hid
den by the owner, has been eaten by a
prize Guernsey COW.
Pablo Lopez says Villa told him he
would rather die than yield. Well,
Uncle Sam isn't particular-one or the
other.
Fire in Indiana town destroyed
every business building excepting the
saloon. Another argument for the
vets?
A significant fact is that the
churches that are putting in moving
pictures are the churches that are
drawing the crowds.
Michigan has sc automobile fac
tories. That is, according to the count
last week. There are probably more
now.
Time to put the cover on the gar
bage can and keep it on, which will
save lot of swatting in the future.
Bay City brewery workers are on
strike. Never could understand how
men could walk out" of a brewery.
Poor Old Maids.
She was many years in college,
On the ologies and isms she is long.
She just dotes on reading Ibsen,
And she loves Charles Dana Gibson;
On theosophy and ethics she is strong.
But she can't bake a cake
Like her mother used to make,
Nor a pie. we are very much afraid.
And she can't mend a skirt,
Sew a button on a shirt,
SO shes only just a poor old maid.
She has got lot of scholars,
And is earning her own dollars,
And she's living in q cozy little flat.
Does she have to beg each penny
From Il husband? Well, not any;
She's no family to care for but cat.
And she doesn't have to bake
Any bread pie cake,
Or wash or iron, rake or hoe, or spade,
Like her mother used to do
All the live long summer through.
So she's glad she's just a poor old maid.
A Few Base Hits.
We learn from the esteemed Kan
sas City Star that dog owned by H,
A. Marker of Jewell City recently lost
a leg. Then it disappeared. Several
times it has been reported dead. The
body has never been brought in for
Identification. The dog is now Of
ficially known about town as the late
Villa.
A Horton high school boy, tardy for
the third time in a week, stammered
the following zero in excuses: Gee, I
guess I must have overWashed"
A Hays woman recently requested
that the Free Press be kept out of the
public library in that city because a
certain paragraph in P. Casper Har-
vey's Spectator column was not ex-
actly Puritanical. Mr.. Harvey, blush
ing modestly, remarks that he didn't
know his column had become as good
as all that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news Or
ganfzaffon for the exclusive afternoon
publicatio. in Topeka:
The news is received in The State journal
building over wires for this sole purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

MRS. BATS SUPPER.

said to herself. He ought to come
down here now. Such good eatingi
So quickly can I get my supper that I
will not have to work long"
Mrs. Browny did not eat mosquitoes
and nothing else; dear me, no. She
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

CfOoCF sfffu ClOsCf tOWaru TIC Cfeek.
would have scorned such a diet She
liked mosquitoes, but she also liked
the many other bugs that fluttered
over the creek in the twilight Her
few sharp, hard teeth made it easv
for her to catch and chew even the
hard-shelled insects that she found
flying through the night
Soon she had all she wanted. ana
then what did she do? Fly back to
the sycamore tree? Not she! She
wouldn't go to that trouble. She
SIMPLY hung herself up on the nearest
tree and went to sleep Mavbe she
knew that later in the night she would
again be hungry, and that then there
would be plenty of time to hunt n
sleeping place for the day.-(Copv-
right-Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10


"Paddy's Pigs"-Mix two cups fine
ly chopped chicken with one cup
mashed potatoes, a little celery salt
and pepper, and a white sauce made
of half cup milk, one teaspoon flour
and small piece butter. Stir into this
one egg and roll all in very fine crack
er crumbs. Shape into croquettes to
resemble little roasted pigs, fry in deep
fat and sprinkle with grated cheese
Place strips of carrots, a curly piece
for tail, and a round piece for an
eye.
Strawberry Shortcake-One egg
beaten light, two tablespoons melted
butter, one-ha1f cup sugar; mix to-
gether. Into this sift two cups flour
and two teaspoons baking powder,
add enough milk to make a firm bat
ter Bake in deep, round tin. When
cold. cut off entire top of cake. Scoop
out center of lower half When ready
to serve line this part with whole
strawberries and sprinkle with pow
dere6 sugar. Fill in the center with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
Household Hints


If you find bugs on nasturtiums or
other flowers, buy some tobacco stems
and boil in water twenty minutes.
Use this on the plants. It will not
in5ure plants. You can also use tobac-
CO stems a fertilizer; bury them in
the ground in the autumn or a week
before planting seeds. 1t is very good
and cheap.
The stems may also be used instead
of moth balls, for the odor keeps the
moths away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
On the Spur
of the Moment
Can't Blame Him.
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

Can't Blame Him.
He got aboard the car and chose an isolated
place,
And guarded well the basket that he held
upon his knees.
Regarding with suspicion every new ar
rivals face
And grew extremely nervous when the
crowd began to squeeze.
He held his treasure closely, watching over
it with care;
1t was not bunch of jewels or kingly
ranso-- quite,
And he was not custodian of stocks and
bonds rare,
But he was only taking home a pound OF
steak that NIGHT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-12
Big BILLIN JAM WITH VETS and DRYS

Say, Big Bill:
you good months you'll hunt
letters you'll fallen into
the pitfalls pointed that time told the Dry leaders
could
please them couldn't that
has happened.
they you saIoonkeepers violated the
Sunday closing law the license of the
they would right back with another list And with still
other list And of being
They you trap, you
closed Sunday right but in this
the happen majority of the
of Chicago though does reflect the sentiment majority
of the legislatures
representatives of
the life opinions reforming the other
fellow 1t enough that the kill bad is
force it. That's all right theory doesn't always work
the
probably majority believe the because isn't
their will they making Chicago
because they haven't home
many thousands Chicago
also
politicians
idly making unpopular with both the Vets and the Dys
Already
helping the have lost thousands of friends
folks politicians
Big
thing, that's the sound
being
strategy gradually building the
preston that graft subOrdnates and that the ch
aim of the Thompson political outfit to build obhoers machine
for the selfish benefit Of the iobhoders and the bosses
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-12-14
HENRY GRUENE IDENTIFIES
BODY At DENVER As CARL
HUELTBERG, RESIDENT OF
CANON CITY IN 1884

Henry Gruene. secretary of Canon
City Lodge No. 2s3. Independent Or
der OF Moose, was called TO Denver
one day last week 10 Try and identity
a dead man In one of the undertaking
establishments there. who was believ-
ed to have been at one time resi-
Dent of this city and a member of the
above named lodge. The man was
found dead in a Denver roominE
house on November 18th. from asphy.
xiatioa. but whether from accident or
suicide was not known. He had been
Denver only a short time and no
body could be founG there who knew
aim As some papers were discover
I'd among his effects thar seemed TO
indicate that he had once been a
member OF the Moose lodge here the
undertaken held the body until an In.
yestigation could be made.
Mr.. GrueDe went TO Denver on We'd
nesday and on going to the undertak.
efs the following morning had no diff
ficuity in identifying the body as that
of Carl Hueltberg. who formerly re.
sided in Canon City. lie WAS a mem.
Der of the Moose lodge here and lived
in this city in 1919 and 1913. Huelt.
berg was native OF Sweden and was
forty.hye years OF age. He was EN-
ployed during his residence in Canon
City aE a section man on the Denver
a Rio Grande railroad. He was bur.
ed in Deayer at the expense of the
Moose lodge here.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-12-14
LIQUOR SHIPMENTS TO
COUNTY IN NOVEMBER

County Cerk c. A. Linkins has just
complied his report OF the liquor ship
ments brought into Fremont county
during the month of November by the
railroad and express companies. 1t
shows that the total number of ship
ments brought in by these means was
65S. of which as3 were consigned to
Canon City; 1S5 to Florence; 170
TO Rockvale: II to Portland; II to
Concrete: 10 to Cotopaxi; 10 to Tex
as Creek: to Penrose; to Howard
and l to Beaver.
During the month of october. 626
shipments OF liquor were brought into
Fremont county by the railroad and
express companies. which Canon City
received 400: Florence l67; Rockvale
.is7; Howard Is; Concrete Is: Port
land Ss: Cotopaxi is: Texas Creek
5; Penrose z; and Parkdale 1.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-12-14

sewer taxes, 90 of which were in
Canon City and II in Florence. Two
Canon City lots were sold for unpaid
sewer taxes
Delinquent tax lands are sold at
public auction the same as in ordinary
vendue. the purchaser bidding OF the
interest. The purchaser OF such lands
Is allowed by Law per cent month
on his investment for the frst six
, months 15s per cent month for the
following six months and / per cent
month until the property is redeem
ed. If IL ever is. At the end of three
Years the purchaser is given a tax
title TO the property he acquired 1T
ton is keen for the possession of the
property the bidders sometimes take
il for less than the fixed rate of in
tercst. In fact the bidding for some
Of the property offered for sale today
was spirited and the interest was in
several instances below the legal rate.
Formerly delinquent tax lands were
sold for fractional part of the prop
erty instead of the system that now
prevails. For instance. bid might BE-
made for one-half of its area, one.
quarter. one-tenth. one-hundredth or
any other divisional part of it. If the
rivalry for il was strong a bidder
might shout "vigse." an abbreviation
Of vigetillianth. meaning in the par
lance of the bidders the very smallest
division possible. Sometimes a bid
would be made for as little as a square
foot of the property offered for sale.
At one time good many years ago
he Brown Palace hotel in Denver and
he ground on which IL stands was
sold under vigie bid for S2S.O0o,
This purchase of fraction of the
property was afterwards redeemed by
the hotel management after consider,
able trouble and expense.
This system of buying delinquent
tax property has long been abandoned
and the county treasurer now reads
the description of the land he wishes
% dispose of. offers IL for sale and
awards it to the highest bidder.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-12-14
AN APPEAL TO COMMUNITY
LOYALTY

earnings of your neighbors and
friends. and you have no right to de-
priye the community of the good it
can do if circulated therein.
Yes. We say no right. No man has
any right to be disloyal to his COM
of community support and he be-
comes pariah-worse than a Robin
son Crusoe, for he is among his kind
but not of them. What loneliness
could be more terrible?
If, then. you are thus dependent
on your neighbors and friends, do
you not owe them an equal allegi-
ance? Are they to consult your in
terests while you ignore theirs? This
were ingratitude of the basest sort.
Just suppose. you patron of the
mail order house, that for a period
of twelve months every citizen of
your county followed your example
and did all OF his trading away from
home2 What condition would your
county be in? Would there be a sol
vent merchant in il? Not one. What
of your schools. your churches. and
all the civilizing institutions of our
land2 They might still survive If
you bare all the expense-not other
wise.
Think seriously of these things.
you patron of the mail order house
Realize that if you have the right TO
deprive your community of your
money, all your neighbors have equal
right-then imagine the consequence
es.
II YOU have a dollar to spend.
spend II at home. Thus il stays and
works in the only spot on Gods earth
in which you are interested. Send
I away and it is gone forever.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-12-14

Ii will not be long now until the
holiday shopping will be in full swing
and before 1t opens we wish to have
few words with our fellow citizens
on the question of how and where
this holiday money is to be spent.
Are you going to patronize the mail
order houses this year as perhaps
many of you did last year? Or are
you going to. If necessary. even make
slight sacrifice and stick to home
people?
Whehce came the money that you
are intending TO send to that mail or
der concern? Did it come from the
city in which that concern is located?
Not by long shot. If you are a
farmer it is the product of the soil.
What soil? Why, the soil of YOUR
CoMMuN NIFTY. Now you. as a prac-
tical farmer. know full well the re.
suits of the ruinous practice of taking
everything from your land and re.
turning nothing TO it. You know that
Nfa' f4NNtN-Nt AAAh7A 1ooiltA Vi AeAAfA
poverish your soil and destroy your
source of income
Can't you realize that in sending
your money away from home you are
doing TO the community just what you
wouldn't think OF doing to your farm
-robbing IL of its productive power?
You certainly are. Every dollar sent
away from your community robs it of
just that much OF its power for good.
But perhaps you are not a farm
er. but a mechanic. or trader. or a
clerk or a doctor. or a merchant
Then the responsibility rests even
more heavily upon you to keep your
money in the home channels of trade,
because all of it came from the hard
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-12-14
DELINQUENT TAX
SALE HELD TUESDAY

The annual delinquent tax sale is
being held at the office of the county
treasurer today. There are perhaps
n dozen bidders. all residents OF Ere
mont county. Morton Jones of Colora.
do Springs. representing J. A. Barton
OF FL Paso county, and Mr.. Trogler
of Denver. representing the Glenn In
vestment company. Chas. r. McLain
of Denver is also represented at the
sale.
The delinquent tax list Is much
smaller this year than usual and the
sales of property for unpaid taxes
correspondingly less, In all 351 par
cells OF land. town lots. etc. were list
ed fer sale today. Of which Sl6 were
offered to the highest bidder for the
1915 taxes; IS for the 1914 taxes
. fur the 1913 taxes. and one for the
1919 taxes. OF the above named par
cells OF property t6 were lots on which
there were delinquent sidewalk and
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-12-14
TRACKWALKER
MISSING; MAY
Be DROWNED

Jules Dufan. better known among his
associates as '-Frenchy.~ night track.
walker between Canon City and Park.
dale. is thought TO have been drown.
ed in the Arkansas river about three
weeks ago. Dufan has been missing
since about the 26th of November and
no trace of him has since been found,
altho persistent efforts have been
made to locate him. The men engag-
ed in the rebuilding of the Western
Union Telegraph eompany's lines in
the Royal Gorge discovered a place
on the river bank. near the Hanging
bridge. where Dufan had made a fire
to boil some coffee the night OF his
disappearance. but no solution to the
mystery of his going away has yet
been found.
There was snow on the ground at
the time and Dufan's tracks were
everywhere to be seen at the place
where he had made coffee. but there
were no indications that he ever made
MS way back TO the railroad grade
from the river bank. He is supposed
TO have fallen into the water and
rendered insensible by being dashed
against the rocks II is doubtful If
his body is found before next spring
Dufan had been a trackwalker for
the Rio Grande at intervals for ten
or twelve years and had been steadily
on the job for six or seven months.
He had forty-five dollars in his pock-
cts at the time of his disappearance
and deposit check from one OF the
Denver banks for three hundred and
forty dollars.