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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-12-21
A Tale Of Adventures ON
An Indian Reservation


The two preceding
breed girl and from Indian
Indian reservation Hardy A. Indian
agent The rescued Reginald vand
States Senator clemer
and his daughter Marie vanderyn
the Indians OF the murder OF
ing been promised the Hardy
Redbar the hafbreed interpreter
the valley Captain Hardy dinner invitation
something
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-12-21

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

TFrom the Chicago News.
Clubs are always trumps in the
hands of policemen.
Who would slavishly follow style if
kissing wasn't stylish?
A girl always swallows man.
words when he says ice cream"
Too many of our coming young men
are handicapped from the start
The man who can't meet his obliga-
lions is always meeting his creditors.
Every time a man swallows a doc
tors advice he has to cough up
money.
writer says that money is always
seasonable. Perhaps it is merely mint
sauce.
When a man discovers that some
woman has deceived him his vanity
gets the worst jolt
1t keeps some women so busy try
ing to preserve their beauty that they
have no time for anything else.
When the pot calls the kettle black
it is time for the kettle to demand an
investigation as to the shady ways OF
the pot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
JAYMAW MER JOTS

Some political history that has been
unearthed by the Horton Headlight
Commercial: Since 1884 Kansas, in
presidential elections, has gone Repub-
lican five times, Democratic twice and
Populist once.
Philip Flipflop is quoted by the Ian
sing News as saying: when a catty
female wishes to sIur her neighbor
under the guise of compliment, she
remarks: Mrs. Blank is a very attrac-
tive Woman-from a mans point of
view"
Joe Howe, of the Dickinson County
News. appears to qualify as an expert
analyst of human nature in his OBJ
servation: Probably some of US, next
February, will declare that we didn't
feel the heat much this summer
and believe it.
All aboard for Marion, Marion coun-
ty, Kansas. The Marion Review re-
ports: "A glorious rain fell during
the early morning hours OF this
Thursday. Indications are that we will
have more" This happens to be
printed under date Of August 81, but
that surely doesn't rob it of any of
its pleasing sounds for folk here
abouts.
There is the usual amount of gen.
eral lamentations in Kansas these
days over solar plexus blow that has
y
tural prospects in the state by the
continued spell of hot and dry
weather. Because much of the Kan
sas corn crop has gone a-glimmering,
or its stalks into silos that the fore
handed farmers have placed in their
barnyards. the pessimists are certain
that Kansas has gone to the agricul-
tural bowwows for this year at any
rate. And so a paragraph like the
fl flowing from the Conway Springs
Star is mighty good to listen to: Good
cid Sumner county will come out on
top again, and the fellows who stay
with it will be on top, 200. Not much
to complain about now-everything is
in as good condition here as in most
other counties" And a great big ma
jority of the newspapers of Kansas
could report in the same fashion for
their own communities, if they would
take the trouble to do so. Fortunate
ly. corn is not the only crop on which
Kansas is dependent for a livelihood
and so, many of the tears that are be-
ing shed in Kansas these days might
better be kept in their reservoirs for
some time when they might be more
appropriate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07

Not only does the paper shortage in
New Zealand continue to interfere
seriously with the printing business in
general. but it has reached such an
acute stage that it is being felt by
the New Zealand government, and to
such an extent that the latter is ac-
tually limiting the publications turned
out by it's departments. And there is
even talk of suspending some of the
governmental department publications
because of the difficulty in getting
paper, as well as the great increase in
its price. There has been and still is
a paper shortage in this country. altho
it likely has never been as severe as
is the case in New Zealand, but it
was pretty serious. not so long ago.
and the United States government
seemed to work on an exactly opposite
tack from the sensible one that is be-
ing pursued by the New Zealand gov
eminent. The Congressional Records
came from the presses bigger and fat
ter than ever and were and are being
distributed more generously than ever
before. The federal department re-
their usual voluminous grist. and some
of them in more elaborate form as tC
the quality of paper and illustration.
than ever before And the govern
mental departments, in addition t.
having their reports and bulletin.
printed, are using more paper thar
ever before in their history for re
sumes and abstracts of these report
and bulletins which are scattere,
broadcast thruout the land. This i
assuredly a great nation for doing ev
erything in a big and expensive wa.
regardless of any emergency that ma,
happen along. All of these govern
ment reports, and so forth. are valu
able and of much use to many o
those who get them. But why Shout
our national government be so zealou
in urging everybody who uses pape
or obtains possession of paper tina
soon becomes waste to conserve tn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
GRANT IN 1854; THE ALLIES IN
1915

Remember that we may any day
read that the British and French have
got thru" writes Frank H. Simmonds,
in the American Review of Reviews
for September in an article entitled:
THE Battle of Europe-Allied Often
sives on Four Fronts" and Mr. Sim
monds continues: ''It is unlikely, but
it is not impossible, and if they do get
thru then the western field will be-
come the most interesting and i'm
portant. But short of this it is well
to recall that what the French and
British are accomplishing is not the
holding of big German forces on the
western front and the consequent
starvation of the Austrian and German
lines in the east and the south. They
are inflicting heavy losses-not larger
than they are suffering, probably ma
| terially less, just as Grants losses were
far greater than Lees, but these losses,
borne mainly by the British, the Brit
ish can better afford than can the
Germans afford what it is costing
them to hold on. Above all, it is the
strain the Allies are putting upon Ger
man stocks of munitions, by their
western attack, which is helping the
Russians and the Italians at this juno
ture.
Read Lees comments III the last
days of his defense of Petersburg,
when the north was discouraged and
the South frankly exultant in the be-
lief that Grant could never break thru
and you will have the picture as the
Allies see it and you will have ex-
actly the idea of what the British and
French are doing in the west, or try
ing to do. If the parallel is a good
fore there is any break in the west,
but the effect of the western opera
lions will be unmistakable in the east
and so far it has been unmistakable.
Looking over the whole field you
may conclude that the Allies have
, agreed to make their main effort this
summer aud fall against Austria
Russia and Italy are to attack Austria
the French and British in due course
of time will endeavor to reach the
Austrian frontier coming up from Sa.
? lonica. But now the mission of ths
French and the British is to occup,
, Germany so completely tina. she will
: be unable to go to the aid of hel
/ ally. Had they been able to do thi
) | in the spring of 1915 Austria would
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
I got that poor devil out. I'd rather

I got that poor devil out. I'd rather
stay here"
Evelyn never forgot that day. They
found a walk up thru the fields that
led to a ridge of woodland. Dinner
was eaten at little farmhouse
broiled chicken and late corn and
apple pie with whipped cream on it.
Warning smiled contentedly at her as
they sat out on the honeysuckle-cov-
cred side porch afterward and he
smoked.
This is the happiest holiday I've
ever had. I'd like to buy this farm
ana keep it,
What for?" Evelyn leaned forward.
her hair rumpled and wavy around
her flushed, happy face.
And he answered deliberately, "For
our honeymoon"
She did not speak
Would you like it, Evelyn? Don't
you think we deserve a real holiday,
dear?"
Don't you think that after you get
back to town you'll be sorry you said
that?" She asked it slowly, trying to
keep her head and be sensible for his
sake.
Dear, I've been intending to say it
for ever so long, but 1 never seemed
to find the time, and you were always
busy. Maybe this is what holidays are
for. "-tCopyright, 1915 by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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have collapsed in the Carpathian
fighting. Had they been able to do
this after the Marine and Lemberg,
Austria would have collapsed in the
first six months of the war. Every
thing now depends upon the amount
of help Germany can give that ally
she has twice saved. The amount of
aid she can give is conditioned on the
amount of pressure she has to meet
in the west.
1.-The Allies are now engaged in put
ting into operation thoroly co-ordi-
mated plan for winning the war. 1t
main element the elimination of Aus
tria by defeat and exhaustion If this
be the case the striking and impress
sive work will be done by Russia with
Italian contributions. If Austria is
put out, then the German problem can
be tackled next year. Meantime
France and Britain are bending all
their energies to holding as many Ger
mans as possible on the west front.
In doing this they may get thru and
expel the Germans from France and
even from Belgium. but this presup-
poses a German weakness that is not
disclosed or to be expected. The
measure of Allied success now must
be had in the east, not the west,
by the Austrian situation, not the
German, and the most important thing
that the Somne fighting can accom-
plish, the immobilizing of German
masses when Austrian necessity is
dire. is a thing that will not be dis
closed in any official reports of
trenches taken or lost, villages storm
ed or destroyed from the Somme to
the Scarpe."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
SIDE TAIL ks
Proud of Premonitions.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Do you ever have premonitions?
1 have a friends who has them, and
who is very proud of them.
1t is useless to try to persuade her
that they do not mean anything. She
will indignantly tell you of an occa-
sion when she had a premonition and
something happened.
There was the time when I didn't
want John to go on the fishing trip,
and the baby was taken so ill while he
was away" she will say.
"And then there was the day I had
the premonition my sister wouldn't
come when she wrote me she was go
ing to. and sure enough, she didn't"
And so forth and so on, as long as
you care to listen.
Now, l do not dream of questioning
her veracity. 1 am quite willing to be-
lieve she had the premonitions, altho
she did not always remember to speak
of it before the event. That is a mis-
take that prophets often make.
But what l do question is this
whether she ever took account of the
number of times she has had Fremont
tions and they did not amount to any,
thing. 1 have a suspicion that if she
did this she would find that they out
numbered the others ten to one.
| AS it is, they slip out of her mind
and that is the end of them.
A housemate of mine said to me
the other day when 1 was going on a
little journey. 81 hate to have you go
Il have a premonition that something
is going to happen to YOU"
And then, before / could answer
he caught himself up and said, 81
| am ashamed of that. Saying l have
premonition is only another way
| of saying, L shall worry, and I won't
handicap you that way"
| 1 think everyone with a pessimistic
or worrying tendency has promoni-
tions, a feeling in the bones that
something is going to turn out wrong
| OptimistS have the opposite kind OF
premonitions, a feeling in the bones
that something is going to come out
right On the whole, that is a much
pleasanter feeling, at least for those
who have it. Those who are con
as much Inconvenience from hi.
groundless optimism.
| In neither case should the pre-.
monition be made the basis of action
| Analyze it Go to the bottom of the
matter Find out if there is any rea
reason at the root of it, any cause
for apprehending danger, any ground:
for being sure of success. Then,wher
you have gone to the bottom, lool
carefully at what you find and &C
accordingly
Premonition and superstition ar.
own cousins.
Of course there are times wher
sentiment, as well as reason, has som,
influence on our actions, but don't ge
cause both you and those about yol
much needless unhappiness.
Besides, half the time premonitiol
is just another word for indigestion
l-(Copyright by George Matthey
Adams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.1

IFrom the Atchison Globe.
A woman must love a man if she
supports him.
Some of the good authority isn't
as good as it let's on.
People don't have to have anything
to talk about in order to talk.
Most of the saving is based on a
desire to spend more later on in life.
Every community has man who
makes people wonder how he makes
living.
The finishing school may have that
effect on Fathers pocketbook if he
isn't wealthy.
Probably the most thoughtful per-
son is a woman who thinks twice be-
fore she speaks.
Ambition, to get anywhere, must
consist of something more forceful
than wishing for things.
The father of several grown daugh-
| tiers knows who controls the balance
of power in his home, all right.
If your inciinations are that way
you will have to restrain yourself con-
siderably to avoid being a scold.
We are also disposed to be suspi-
cious of the person who makes q
search for a vindication of his life
work.
1t may be hard to convince healthy
man that health is more important
than wealth, but a sick man under
stands it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The man who doesn't make mis-
takes seldom reaches desirable goals.
X X X
What one man may deem to be real
comedy, the crowd is likely to consider
simple Stiffness.
X X x
Keeping on the straight road is not
SO difficult if you can fight off your
curiosity to explore the crooked by
paths that lead from it.
X X X
Handsome may be as handsome
does, but good looks help one to make
showing in a mob, and especially if
said one is female of the species.
x X y:
Nor would there be nearly so many
fakirs and takers if the rank and file
of humanity did not enjoy being fooled
and were not so prone to be faxed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Just exactly as to who is going to
be who in the immediate future in the
Rumanian arena of the war seems to
be a question of exceeding uncertainty
at this writing. But Rumania has so
much help handy and the Central
Powers have so many really hot irons
in the fire just now that the eventual
tiles of the fighting that Rumania is
now doing are perhaps not SO doubtful
Still, all prophecy is unreliable, or
mostly so, and none more so than
that which may be concerned with
what is going to happen on any stage
of the European war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
DINNER STORIES

Mrs. Brown was on the street car
one day when there was an accident.
The conductor took the names of the
witnesses. Mrs. Brown, to avoid be-
ing summoned to court, gave a ficti-
tious name and address.
The next morning her colored cook
ventured to remark that that man
must "a been hurt mighty bad yester-
day."
.'Oh, were you on the car, Clemen-
tina ?" asked her mistress. Il didn
see you
'Yaas'm, 1 was settin' right behind
you"
well. 1 hope they didn't get your
name, for 1 couldn't spare you to go
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07

After Policeman Billy had gone
away, Father Beaver looked hard at
the clear water of Crooked Creek and
tried to think of something to say, but
he couldn't. And Mother Beaver, she
looked hard at the clear water or
Crooked Creek and she tried to think
of something to say, but she Couldn't
beaver. they both looked hard at the
clear water of Crooked Creek and they
both tried to think of something TO
say, but they couldn't either. You
know how it is yourself wnen you are
surprised, SO you kho" just ~" 'ios
beavers felt.
Mother Beaver was just getting her
courage I'D to the point where she
was going to say 10 Father BEAVER
What do you th'nk aoou. ,,S an sr,s
back. He couldn't have had very 1ar
to 90. that's one thing sure
Policeman Billy didn't make any
great fuss over the beavers; ne o.oii
yourselves at home!" or any SUCH
hing as the beavers had been secret
ly hoping he would: NO, slr. ne
Looked solemnly at the -FOUR OF theHi
and said "Follow met just that way
n course the beavers didn't say any
thing back-you can see for yoursei1
II was no suitable time Tor taking
hack. Even IL there were TOUR beavers
and one policeman-stlil one OF ehe
beavers was very. very little, ana one
was too young to know much, ana
there was no telling how many Wig
gleiskskens there might be lurking
around behind trees, no way at all
And anyway, policemen seem rather
more imposing than Just plain crea-
lures. at least the beavers seemed to
think so, because they followed Po-
liceman Billy very meekly up the
creek.
They hadn't gone more than a hum
dred feet before they saw-what do
you suppose? bear. did you guess ?
Dear me, no. Bears don't live in the
Shadow Wood. they live in the Dark
Forest, way deep in the Dark Forest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
WEALTH AND HEALTH.

What profiteth a man that he gain
the whole world yet lose his health
significantly asks bulletin Just issued
by the United States Public Health
Service. and it continues:
Naturalists say that long ago the
prehistoric waters were infested with
a species of enormous shark which
finally became extinct by reason of
the workings of its voracious appetite.
Thus nature eliminates the over-fed.
The desire for ease of life and plen-
tiful diet is universal and is the great
stimulus of man and animals alike.
When man becomes greedy and takes
more ease and food and drink than is
his share. Nature discards him.
In the race for power and place.
for ease of circumstance and relief
from the stimulus of hunger. the mod
ern man is apt to forget that unless he
is careful of his body he win soon be
made to suffer for the infraction of
Natures memorable physical law.
With the loss in body tone comes an
equal loss in mental acuity and the
brain which for time was able to
operate despite the complaints of an
over-fed. under-exercised. self-pois-
oned body. stops working.
Statisticians have discovered that
the mortality rate of persons in the
United States over as years of age is
increasing. The strenuous life of to-
day is not alone responsible for this.
Lack of health-giving exercise. super
over-stimulation, the high pressure of
the race for power, wealth and posi-
ton, plus physical neEect-these
bring early decay. The goal is reach
ed-wealth is amassed-honor posi-
ton and power are just being grasped
when the apple of accomplishment
turns to the ashes of dissolution. The
brilliant mind becomes caouded, the
steady hand is no longer accurate, the
eye which once gazed fearEessly on the
whole world is dimmed and it is not
long before the final break up occurs.
All Of this was entirely preventable.
Other things being equal it is the
man who leads the well-balanced life
who lasts the longest, whose work to
neither overworks nor overplays
neither overeats. overdrinks, nor over
sleeps, he who maintains d standard
of simple healthy diet in moderation
who offsets mental work with physical
recreation, who is as honest with his
own body as he is with his own bust
ness When success comes to such ar
one his physical and mental condition
is such that he can enjoy in peace OF
mind and contentment of body the
fruits of his labors.
The regulations of United State:
Public Health service state: ut i.
the duty of officers to maintain theil
physical as well as their professional
fitness. To this end they shall be al
lowed time for recreation and study
whenever their official duties will per.
nit
If the government regards it as es
sential that its sanitary experts shall
be safeguarded in this wa1. is it MOI
equally important to every citizen thai
he similarly maintain a high standard
of physical integrity?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Things Worth knowing.
BY BRINKERHOFF.

Bed comforts made out of cotton
blankets, with usual amount of bat
ting and knotted closely. will be found
comfortable and easy to launder.
Bread Economy-Maybe this will
help some young housewife, as flour
has advanced in price. Never waste
any bread after it has become stale.
Rye bread is also very good this way:
When boiling potatoes for dinner,
after potatoes have boiled about fif-
teen minutes, cut stale bread same as
for table and set bread up endways
in steamer, let steam about fifteen
minutes before serving and serve hot.
1t is as good as and even better than
fresh bread. If you have no steamer.
a colander will do-fit a cover on
tight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07

Tho it is too late, according to the
advice of the horticultural experts,
this time of Nebraska, for a potato
planter to select his seed potatoes by
Judging the plants which produce
them, it is advisable to select them
in the field on the basis of production
per hill. Seed potatoes taken from
hills containing a large number of
tubers of uniform size and good type
are likely to be the best
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07

Does baseball history in this coun-
try record such a remarkable pennant
race as the one that has been staged
in the American League this season?
Here are the last regular games in the
American League schedule just around
the corner, and almost in sight, and
seven of the eight teams in the league
are able to show ercentages that are
better than the 500 mark, or this was
the case "Wednesday morning.
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paper supply in every possible way
during a paper famine period when 1t
apparently hasn't had SO much as an
inclination to set a good example on
it's own part in such important prem
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ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
A ConversationaIist.
~ ROY Z. MOULTON.

A CoRversationaIist.
A stranger came to me;
He was pleasant man;
He had for sale, insurance
On the endowment plan.
He started conversation
And started with vim;
l never heard a fellow who
Could hold torch to him.
He argued all the morning
And didn't get the bunch
When l got up and left him
And went out to my lunch.
When l got back / found him
Still talking Twenty pay
/ do not think lie realized
That / had been away.
l kept right at my business
Till dewy eventide.
But he did not desert me;
He sat light by my side.
/ left him there still talking
When l turned out the light
And started home to dinner.
l guess he talked all night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

His coat is worn and thin
About his STOPPING form;
While winter winds blow keen
He sits all snug and warm.
Forgotten are his woes.
The fight that he must wage;
The print grows blurred and faint,
He mods above the page.
oh, you who wrote the book
You give him more than lore,
For by your grace he finds
Warm sleep and knows no more.
Wilson, in New York Sun