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The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

| covered. Put in bread pan and bake
same as ordinary biscuits. By the time
the dough is Drowned and done, the
sausage is also done. These are fine.
as all the flavor of the meat is in the
bread.
Scrambles German dish) Take
the bread left from Johnnycake and
crumble it fine. Put just a small
amount of fryings in skillet and pour
the bread into this. Stir a few times,
then put in enough water to moisten 1t
all good; salt and pepper and let cook
few minutes. Beat an egg well and
just before taking from fire pour the
egg in and stir well. This is to eat
with just another dash of salt and
butter Is sure to please one that likes
corn bread or Johnnycake.
The Table.
Parker House Rolls-One teaspoon
salt, three tablespoons sugar, four
tablespoons, butter, three cups scald-
ed milk, eight cups sifted flour, one
cake dry yeast dissolved in one-fourth
cup lukewarm water. Pour scalded
milk over salt, sugar and butter. When
| lukewarm. beat in four cups flour.
Mix well and add dissolved yeast. Cow
er closely and let rise in warm place.
When light enough add more flour to
llnead (four cups). Cover, let rise un-
til light. Roll out to one-half inch
thickness. cut with biscuit cutter.
brush with melted butter, fold over
and place in buttered pan, one inch
apart. until very light. then bake in
brisk oven fifteen minutes. This makes
two and one-half dozen rolls. To
warm over put in paper sack and put
in oven a few minutes.
Prune Cookies good and cheap
| Three-fourth cup granulated sugar.
one-third cup shortening (half butter
half lard), one egg, one cup prunes
(soak over night and put thru grind
err; one-half teaspoon ground CHINA
mon. one-half teaspoon grated nut
meg one-fourth teaspoon ground
cloves, one-half teaspoon baking soda
dissolved in quarter cup hot water.
about two cups flour. Mix in order
named. Soft or hard-bake about six
minutes-moderate oven for soft"
little longer for hard" Makes about
sixty cookies twice the size of silver
dollar
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Hearing Men at Work.

The manager of a machine shop or
factory can known how much work
is being done at benches by mechanics
or by power-d driven machines or tools
by means of microphones or telephone
transmitter connected with the work.
ing apparatus. By becoming familiar
with the vibrations of the different
machines he car tell at any given
moment just how fast Pat is working
the lathe, or how industriously Mike
is operating TIE milling machines on
one of his blue Mondays. In addition
to this he can tell at a simple turn of
the switch If the machines are run
ming at normal speed and smoothly
and properly. as they should.-Popular
Science Monthly.
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Persia Lacks Forests.

Except in the provinces bordering
the Caspian sea and in Kurdistan,
where there is usually sufficient
rainfall, there are no natural forests
in Persia. On account of the lack of
transportation facilities all the timber
consumed in the great plain of Iran is
grown locally by irrigation. The trees
that one learns to associate with every
Persian landscape are the poplar and
the plane tree, which the Persians
call the Chenar.
The plane tree requires very little
water, grows quickly, and attains to
an immense size and great age. The
natural form of plane trees is spread
ing. but the Persians plant them in
dense rows, and by Topping; off the
branches when young and by constant
thinning these trees grow to a great
height.
The area of a cultivated wood is
generally not large, the usual size be-
ing three to six acres. The plane
tree and the poplar serve for building
purposes in Persia, as does the pine
in the United States. Great groves of
walnut are also grown in the north of
Persia, the nuts being used for food.
So scarce and costly is wood in Per-
sia that even branches and the trees
that are removed from the groves
when the size of a mans finger are
carefully collected and transported to
the towns to be used for fire wood
and for other purposes.-Commer
Reports.
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looking at him curiously. He realized
that the jig was up.
who do you think L ann" he
asked suddenly.
"Why, Milton Wellington, of
course"
A twinkle played about the corner
of his eyes, but his face was serious.
'I have been deceiving YOU" he an
nounced. 'I am not Milton yelling
ton at ALL
You're not Milton Wellington
Nonsensel"
I'm not" he repeated Dramatically.
I'm Millions twin brother"
1t took him the rest of the after
noon to persuade her that she should
forgive him for his imposition. But
when the sun was sinking beyond the
towering hill to the west, and the
shadows fell quietly over the waters
of the lake she softened.
Maybe 1 will forgive you she
said But it wasn't a very nice thing
to do, was it?'
He smiled into her eyes.
mo" he answered. But it's all in
the family, you know. 1t doesn't
make so much difference, does it?'
She smiled back
"Yes, it does" her lips answered.
But her eyes said "No.'-(Copyright
1916, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate)
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DINNER STORIES

1t was at a private entertainment
and a lady had just risen from the
piano.
Would you like to be able to sing
and play as 1 do, dear?' she queried
of a little 5-year-old miss
NO, ma'am," was the unexpected
reply.
And why not?" asked the lady.
Cause" explained the small OBJ
server, Il wouldn't like to have peo-
pie say such horrid things about me-"
A lady entered a railroad car and
took a seat in front of a newly. mar
ried couple She was hardly seated
before they began making remarks
about her.
Her last years bonnet and coat
were fully criticised with more or less
giggling on the brides part, and there
is no telling what might have come
next if the lady had not put sud-
den stop to the conversation by a bit
of strategy.
stand. He may say that "a clot plug
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She turned her head, noticed that
the bride was considerably older than
the groom and in the smoothest of
tones said:
Madam, will you please ask your
son to close the window"
The son closed his mouth and the
bride no longer giggled.
The aged admiral was well known
for his powers of exaggeration. At
supper one night he was describing a
thrilling voyage
while cruising in the Mediter-
ranean.'' he said, Eve passed an island
which was red with Holsters"
But" said one of the politely in
credulous guests, '1obsters are not red
until boiled
"Of course not" said the undaunted
admiral but this was a volcanic Is
land with boiling springs,
"Ex-CongTessman Flubdub wants a
little writeup," remarked the maga-
zine publisher. What shall we say
What did he ever do?"
Nothing"
Say he upheld the best traditions
of congress. That means little, for or
against
Has Reggie come home from
school yet, Nary" asked Regg1e's
mother.
Il think so, ma'am." said Mary.
THE cats a-hidin' in the coal house
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SIDE T AL x S
A Cruel Injustice.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

OF all the nonsense that is written
and talked about the failure of tue
woman of today to measure up to her
grandmother's standard, nothing irri-
tates me more than the trick of criti-
cizing individual women because they
have few or no children.
In the first place, take the idea that
the greatest thing the woman can do
for the world is to add as largely as
possible to its population. According
to that the millennium will be the
day when the world is so crowded with
existence difficult.
Again, have you any right to blame
any given woman because she doesn't
have so many children as her grand
mother or even because she has none
at all?
Not by a good deal. The woman
may be just as anxious to have chill
dren as you are to see her have them,
and it may be that her husband does
not want them.
We hear go much said about the
women who refuse to have children
because they want to have good time
and don't want to be tied down. For
every such wife there is at least one
husband who doesn't want to face the
self-denial that will be necessary if he
has to divide his income among three
or four instead of between two.
DtSlOcS, many WOlllSH WHO want
children can not have them for one
reason or another. Many a woman is
criticized for not wanting children
when she is eating her heart out be-
cause her home is orderly and silent
instead of being untidy with the
blessed litter of childhood and noisy
with the din of children's voices and
laughter.
Another absurd injustice is that
which blames the club or the Cause
or the amusement with which women
thus deprived fill up their time, for
their childlessness. That is confusing
cause and result. In the majority of
cases the woman is merely trying to
find a substitute for what she has
missed, instead of choosing those
things in preference to motherhood.
What would her critics have the child
less woman do? Sit at home and twirl
her thumbs?
OF course, the childless woman can
not go about explaining to her neigh
bors exactly why she has no children.
She can not justify herself. Which is
all the more reason why people who
can not possibly know the ins and outs
of the matter should refrain from
criticizing her.-(Copyright by George
Matthew Adams-)
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MUST HAVE A GOAT.

Whenever anything goes wrong with
the economic affairs of the country
somebody is always ready to blame
the trouble on the trusts.
The $4,000 United Mine Workers of
Ohio demand of President Wilson an
investigation of the high cost of liv-
ing. By all means, says Leslies, find
out why cotton is 20 cents a pound
flour $40 barrel, potatoes 40 cents a
bag, eggs rs cents a dozen, cheese 35
cents a pound and wheat 50 bushel.
We have just busted" a potato trust
in Maine. Now let us bust all the
wheat, grain. egg. cheese and cotton
trusts-if there are any. If the result
is like that which follows the destruc-
ton of other trusts, all the commodi-
ties will be higher than ever when the
job is finished.
This is the time for little sober
study of the situation. Take the sin
gle item of flour, for instance: What
nonsense to talk about "a flour trust, -
or "a wheat trust" The simple fact
faces us that our wheat production is
only half this year of what it was a
year ago and that the crop is inferior,
that Canada has only a half crop and
that all the world is demanding wheat
when the worlds crop is light.
President Wilson urges the farmers
to raise bigger crops and charges the
middlemen with extortion. His ad-
vice to the farmers is excellent and
specially appropriate to the south,
whose agricultural resources are far
from being developed. But do not
blame the groceryman, the fruit deal
er, the flour merchant or the dealer
in produce for existing high prices.
The middleman is not at fault. The
whole world is suffering from a short
supply of food.
1t is not a local question. 1t is an
international one and it has aroused
| the apprehension of the most thought
full men in the world.
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The war on high prices is all right
as long as it does not accomplish any
more than It has done up to date.
But it will be a sad day for the coun-
try when a general decline actually
sets in. a widespread decline in
prices is "A certain harbinger of hard
times. 1t always has been accom-
panied by stagnation m business and
an army of unemployed. The old
timer likes 10 tell of the days when
ne could buy so much more for a dol
lar than he can now, but he forgets
how hard it was to get the dollar.
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THE VOICE OF THE FIRE.

THE VOICE OF THE FIRE.
Roar Fire, roari
AS the blast sweeps out of the north;
Where the ice-cliff rears its craggy
crest,
Where the midnight sun ne'er sinks to rest,
And Death lies in wait on that desolate
shore,
Rear Fire, roar.
Burn Fire, burn!
For the storm is wild without.
1t shrieks cross land and ocean wide,
The great oaks rock on the mountain side
stern,
Burn Fire. burn.
Glow Fire, glow
Shine radiant through the gloom;
Not like those northern lights afar,
That sparkle and snap near the Polar
Star;
But gleam like beacon across the bleak
snow,
And glow Fire, glow.
Sing Fire. sing.
song of the open hearth,
Where the sacred home-fires ever Durn
Waiting the wanderers return:
With a full, deep tone and rhythmic
swing
Sing Fire, sing.
Roar Fire, roar,
With a mighty voice of cheer;
Roar a royal welcome to all,
There's warmth and cheer in the great oak
hall,
With food. and drink and mirth in store,
So roar Fire, roar.
Howard f. johnson.
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GLOBE SIGHTS


IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The slowest clock is the one that is
being watched.
Perhaps more good advice would be
needed If it cost more
A woman always makes washing
her hair neighborhood event.
When man is hungry he is in no
mood to reduce the high cost of liv
ing.
The old-fashioned automobile now
looks almost as antiquated as a stage
coach.
Some of those who are easilv
shocked look for opportunities in that
line.
There are also those who develop
an artistic temperament without he
coming artists.
A young man who thinks all he
lacks is opportunity, probably lacks
ambition, as well.
If you do two mems work. that is
an indication that you will wear out
instead of rust out
This is also the season when the
eight-hour day makes its nearest an
proach to farm life.
Every man would like to live on the
day after his death, to see what the
newspapers say about him
If a woman has the right sort of
figure. she is apt to like clothes which
don't leave a great deal to the imagi-
nation.
There are times when the telephone
quahfles as modern inconvenience.
Old you ever get up in the middle of
tne night to learn that central had
given some one the wrong number?
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12
PROBING FOOD PRICES.

The Department of Justice at Wash
ington is starting an investigation into
the rise in food prices, under the di-
rection of United States District At
torney Anderson of Massachusetts. He
is expected to make use of the Depart
ment's Bureau of Investigation and
to have the cooperation of the Fed
eral Trade Commission and the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. There
are several other investigations on
foot, under state and local authori-
ties. The Federal inquiry is said to
have three objects in view, which will
bring the matter within the jurisdic-
tion of the central government The
first is to determine the cause of the
rapid rise in the prices of foodstuffs
and fuel, whether it is due to natural
economic laws, to the unwarranted ac-
ton of individual dealers and produc-
ers in advancing prices, or whether
there are agreements among groups of
dealers or producers to put them on a
false basis. The other stated objects
possible prosecution of persons
found to have violated existing laws.
or prevent its recurrence-obviousl
depend upon the results of the inves-
tigation. 1t is all. at least nominally.
in line with the legitimate functions
of the Department of Justice.
The general cause of an advance in
many food prices. says the N. Y.
Journal of Commerce, is perfectly OBJ
vious. 1t is the simplest possible case
of the working of natural economic
laws" an effect of the relation of
demand and supply for the articles of
which the prices have risen. Every
BODY knows that the war in Europe
has to a greater or less degree lessen
ed production of food supplies there
and the ability of the people to obtain
them elsewhere, while their demand
for some of the articles has consider
ably increased. The nations engaged
IN the war which have access to our
market have greatly increased their
demand upon it for breadstuffs and
meats and in the last year our ability
to meet this demand has diminished
The inevitable result has been a rise
in the prices obtained for exports and
those in the domestic markets as well.
There is no occasion for official in
quiry to establish that obvious fact.
There is also little doubt that our
dealers in goods for export have taken
advantage of the urgent foreign de-
mand of the last year or two and the
competition for the available supplies
which were needed as fast as they
could be transported, to obtain more
than the ordinary profit. That can
hardly be regarded as either unnatural
or unlawful, but it may have had some
effect upon domestic prices Then, in
the face of such a situation in the
demand, and a decided decline this last
year in the supply afforded in this
country, it was inevitable that both
producers and dealers should have an
eye to the future. They were sure to
calculate the effect of sales upon the
supply in the period before there
could be renewal or an increase from
new crops. and also to store products
and hold back on sales more or less
for an advance in price. This would
tend to equalization, and within prop
er limits it would have a beneficial
lrather than an injurious effect. II
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would prevent too rapid exhaustion
of a limited supply, which would re-
suit in absolute scarcity and still high
er prices, if not actual want before a
renewal of supply was possible. Thls
sound business. Incidental to it there
may be speculative combinations for
putting prices up to artificial levels
for illegitimate profit on the way, but
differences of that are liable to exag-
geration and it is we'll to have the
real facts made clear.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

Foxy Squirrel carefully counted the
pile of nuts he had stored in the hole
in the big elm tree. just how he did
it, he never told. You see, he WASH t
telling all he knew any more than was
Why the owl--it'S g very bad thing
to tell all you know, you might need
it some day, who knows? But, how
ever he didit. the counting was done.
Foxy had to be sure he had enough
nuts for the winter, and the only way
to be sure was to count
That's enough for that hole" he
decided, IF / put any more there
they will be too easily seen from the
tree trunk, and then Reddy will eat
every one" For though it's too bad
to tell such a thing about anybody,
Reddy Squirrel didn't mind taking
nuts wherever he could find them. no
matter whose they were. Foxy could
MT understand that at all He wouldn't
touch a nut unless he was sure it was
his and he expected every other squlr-
rel to be just that honest But he and
G. Squirrel and their families had been
robbed so many times by Reddy that
they had learned to be care ul about
their stores indeed they had.
So, alter his careful counting, Foxy
piled a bit OF leaf rubbish on the top
of his precious nuts and made his pan
try look as tho the leaves of autumn
had never been poked from the hole.
Maybe that would fool Reddy and
maybe it wouldn't. but at least there
was no harm in trying
Now. the next thing" said Foxy,
us to get some nuts stored in the
ground so that I can get something
to eat at times when l don't care to
go to my storehouse in the tree" You
can see how necessary a second store
house would be, for Foxy would not
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Happy Thought for Today.

Happy Thought for Today.
You have to live in New York at
least three months to be able to talk
like a NJ Yawka and most of us
thank Foitunei-can't afford it.
Be Philosophical.
A good philosopher, Gertrude,
But seldom fretS nor flurries;
He bears with perfect fortitude
His neighbrors' worries.
A Childhood Rhyme.
"A playmate-sister-co 1t be
That now-alas 1T dead?"
She turned fearful gaze to me
And shook her curly head.
MY own. my darling Dorothy
That little maiden said.
Her doll it was, of course. and tho
A thing of wax and kid.
The grief was great and what q flow
OF pretty tears it bid;
Thinks l, "A childhood rhyme or SO
I'll write, And so 1 did
AS a Rule.
It's a poor rule that doesn't work
fixe or six different ways.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

Secretary Daniels has been giving a
luncheon in honor of Colonel Bryan.
This fact should be of use to those
who cannot tell exactly why they dis
like Mr.. Daniels.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

Telegraph editors are thankful to
Wilson for keeping us out of Mexico.
They have enough unspellable and un-
pronounceable names on hand as the
result OF the European war.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

The FL Paso police have been asked
TO look for an army automobile stolen
from in front of a cafe. Apparently
they have not been protecting the
army with complete success.
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When the time comes To make over
the map Of Europe. the Greeks will
at least have the consolation of know
ing they h We been kept out of war,
whether they have any country left
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The governor Of Pennsylvania says
that 95 per cent of the girls don't
know how TO cook an egg. But they
don't get chance to learn, these
dnVs
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

We should say that the Wilson ad-
ministration's way of letting the San
TO Dominicans work out their own
destiny was sort of summary, to say
the least
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

Pastors are now engaged in the
annual effort TO induce more men to
attend church. why don't they try
abolishing the collections?
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

Apparently the last avenue of es-
cape from the high cost of living is
closed by the announcement that there
is a shortage in the oyster crop.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

In view of his past performances,
there seems no reason to doubt Senior
Villas boast that he killed forty
Chinos and three blanco Chinos" at
Chihuahua City.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

It's pity we Americans cannot
seem to think of Villa with as little
regret as the Germans profess to feel
as to Monastir. .
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

The boycott of certain articles of
food is certain to result in decline
in prices. A curtailment of demand
by any other method would be equal
ly effective
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

He scampered down tfe tree and
over to the hickory near by
Up the tree he ran, and then he
stopped a minute. How silly / am !"
he said. lauehingly. ito climb up this
tree and then down again, when the
whole ground is covered with nuts,"
SO down Re turned, grabbed up a nut
and ran OFF to bury it,
And at that very minute Topnv
Cottontail ran up for some sun.E
(Copyright--Clara Ingram Judsonl
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

If congress wants to strike at the
very root of the II. c. L. problem. why
doesn't it repeal the law of supply
and demand?
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal 10 a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
frlerranh report Of that great news or
ranizarlon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The Daws is received in The s. tie Journal
huilding over wires for this sole purpose
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

Some newspapers which were loud
est in their demand for a larger army
and navy, now are critIcising the gov
ernment on account of the prospective
treasury deficit.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-12

one recompense for the beginning
of winter weather is the disappear
anca of the Palm Beach suits.