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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
SIDE TALKS
Oil and Water.
By RUTH CA1GERoN.


Two things have been found which
mix even less successfully than oil and
water.
A letter friend has found them.
Here is the history of her discovery:
"I have a friend who has a daugh-
ter of eighteen. They have been ac-
customed to money and have lost it
and I always feel very sorry for such
people. 1t seems to me that it must
be harder to bear poverty than for
those who have never had anything
and whose friends are in the same cir
cumstances.
st knew that Carrie sewed a great
deal, and it occurred to me that l
might give her some work. had
noticed that my curtains would not
stand another Tubing, so asked my
frined if she would make me some
new ones. I told her what my seam
stress charged, and that 1 was fussy
person and wanted them measured
carefully. Carrie was delighted ana
her the material and the measure
ments. After several weeks called
her up on the telephone to ask when
the curtains would be done.
"She seemed surprised that I want
ed them at once and said she could
such pretty materials at bargain sale
with the money that was to come from
her sewing for me and now she was
making dresses for her daughter. She
added that she never could thank me
enough.
TT took the wind out of my sails,
though gasped little at the daugh-
ter's clothes being made with my
money and my work being pushed
aside. However, the thing was not
worth fussing over, and I waited.
when the curtains came home no
two were the same length, the ruffles
were cut so crooked that they made
me cross-eyed, and the sewing was
very poor. I did not want to quarrel
with Carrie, but did say, oh, Carrie,
why didn't you cut those ruffles
straight? You know am a regular
old maid and she replied, airily. Just
hang them up and you'll never know
the difference Fortunately 1 could
afford to pay twice, and 1 took the
curtains to my seamstress, who per-
haps needed the money just as much
as Carrie.
Now when I want to do anything
for friend I shall send her a present
| but shall not try to give her work"
| I suppose you have guessed that the
two ingredients that mix less success
fully than oil and water are business
and friendship.
And yet it is not really fair to let
that stand, for it is not always true
If each party added to the mixture a
pinch of common sense and one OF
| tact, the mixture would sometimes
mix.
| But common sense. alas, is a sad
misnomer, and though I never yet
knew anyone who did not think he OF
she possessed tact, I never knew morz
than a dozen people who really had
it-(Copyright by George Matthew
Adams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
JAYMAW MER JOTS

Speaking of useful gifts, says the
Upton Times, a recent Upton bride
received from the members of her
family check for $500, 100 chickens,
a cow, a pig and numerous pieces of
household furniture.
Here is a fish story in the Emporia
Gazette that does challenge belief
ALT Henning has quit fishing, the Ga
zette reports. He says the fish have
been biting SO freely all summer that
he is tired of hauling them in. Where
do you fish, ALI?
Fishing is a disease, like golf, in
sists the Newton, Kan, Republican.
1t is not the fact that you catch a
mess of fish that induces you to lose
two nights sleep and a days pay in
exchange for beautiful sunburn and
a generous portion of chigger bites.
When last seen. according to the
Bonner Springs Chieftain, the Lin
wood robbers were going in the di-
rection of Topeka. Kansas City,
Leavenworth. Ottawa, Holton. Olathe.
Lawrence and Bonner Springs And
the Chieftain adds: And more people
saw them than saw President Wilson
when he made his preparedness tour
through this part of the country"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
LITTLE LANE.


1t isn't long sinee barefoot days-a-danc-
ing down the lane
That threads its beaten way among the
rows Of swishing grain;
III hurry, hurry, to the great, wide,
stretching road,
For Father will be coming with a heaping
two-horse 1oadt
To-day I'm playing make believe-a climb
ing up the wheel
TIL Fathers hand can reach me, and /
give little squeal
Because he swings me high upon the big,
fat, 1umpy sacks
I'm up above the horsesHI can see their
shining backs,
Just thinking OF it brings a smile-a-
bouncing on the seat,
While Father chuckles low, and then. to
make my Joy complete.
He slips the long, brown, thrilling lines
into my coaxing hands.
Just as I'm wishing he would do-he al
ways understands
oh. let me be child again, Awaiting in
the road
To hear the Jolly music of that creaking
two-hofse load;
A child again! Again-for just a wee
half-hour SO,
Just time to ride with Father through a
little lane know.
Anne Porter johnson, in The People
Home Journal for August
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

You are not to suppose that when
Billy Robin went to the neighbors
strawberry patch and had glorious
feast of the ripe, red fruit Chat is,
had a feast till the neighbor set up
a scarecrow and frightened MIN
awavD that was the only time the
garden folk depended on neighbors
for food. For it wasn't! L should say
noti
quite expert at slipping through fences
and foraging for themselves, and even
Mr.. Garden Toad was quite willing
to hop through the hedge and gobble
the neighbours flies. (Though, II all
the truth were told. nobody seemed
to mind how many flies he ate, nor
where he got them, and, moreover,
Mr. Garden Toad was getting SO lazy
that he never hoped a step further
than was absolutely necessary
But who would have thought OF
Tommy Tittle-mouse-the very same
Tommy Tittle-mouse who such a she TT
time ago was afraid to turn around
suddenly for fear his tail would catch
him!-of that Tommy Ttttle-mouse
foraging in the neighbours barn for
food?
Tommy had grown very brave since
the DAYS when he lived in the dark
was no doubt about that.
Listen, and I'll tell you what he
did.
one bright morning. he said to Mrs.
Tommy, 1--WE heard rumors that there
is good eating over in the barn across
the way"
1.-The barn where the chickens live ?"
asked Mrs. Tommy.
ooh, no." replied Tommy, I'VE know
all about that barn I mean the one
further down the alley. I've heard
that those folks keep a cow and that
there are great pans of milk and
cream standing in a nice cool, dark
room. And I've heard that cream is
good"
Don't believe too much of what
you hear" cautioned Mrs. Tommy
wisely; land anyway. If there is cream
and milk there, cats will be there
too"
doors are all locked ard the windows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

warning, he slipped out of their log
home and scurrfed away toward the
alley.
1t was all just as he had been told
He found the harm; he located the
milk room. and he had no trouble an
all in finding crack just big enough
for a slim little mouse to slip through.
And there were the pans of milk
cream that Tommy knew was deli
any!
Tommy climbed up on the edge of
90 you suppose he got the cree y, ,
He slipped his long slim tail out over
the top of the cream and drew hmm
after lump of cream right up to his
mouth. Wasn't he a smart little
tommy ACCOMMODATIONS Ingram
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
IN GOD WE TRUST.

From ancient lands across the sea
Here came our fathers to be free.
They felled the forest, plowed the field
And won the wealth the waters yield.
In mine and shop they delved and wrought,
And bravely for their freedom fought.
They feared the Lord-naught else they
feared.
As they a mighty nation reared.
From Canada to Mexico
One land, one law, one flag we know;
And far across the western seas
Old Glory floats on every breeze.
While north and south and east and west,
Above our best deserving blest,
To One more mercifu1 than just
We raise the hymn. In God We Trust
Joseph b. Glider, in Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT

Never Again.
I remember. l remember,
The old resort hotel.
Where during the torrid weather
My family used to dwell.
Twas a converted farm house;
The farmer had ceased to toll;
No longer did. he labor
And till the stony soil.
The lake was but a duck pond,
The boating" was immense.
He fed his guests diet"
Which caused him no expense
The skeeters all fought for US,
They landed and they bit,
Until my hide resembled
A suit of porous knit.
We slept up in the attic;
wonder we're alive;
1 never saw the mercury
At less than 95.
But once each week we cooled off
And Hearly had a chill;
Twas when the honest landlord
Came forward with his bill.
No longer do we suffer,
We do not care to roam;
When we want summer comfort
We hnger right at home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

boy promptly. That's nice. Johnny.
What did you do?" II went to see
my aunt, and she's always happy when
I go home again.
Mrs. Jones had just punished her
little boy, Tom. After crying for a
few minutes he turned to his mother
and asked:
Mamma, did your mamma whip
you when you were little?"
Eyes, when I was naughty" was
the reply.
"And did her mamma whip her
when she was little?" continued the
little boy.
Yes, Thomas" replied the mother.
"And was she whipped when she
was 1ittle?" further questioned the
boy.
'sYes." answered Mrs Jones.
A few seconds elapsed Then
Tommy exclaimed:
We'll who started it. anyway 20
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
DINNER STORIES

'.Rastus.'' said the judge, you say
that you entered the hen house, and
then. deciding to resist temptation,
left it. Is that right %
Oats about it, ledge"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
BED I lME TALES
TOMMY HELPS HIMSELF
BY CLARA INGRAM JgDsON

proudly; 81 found out about that. The
are screened. Nobody bigger than a
ingi" And without waiting to hear
Mrs. Tommy's words of advice and
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

subscribers of the state Journal away way
from home during the summer I may =, " a,,v
@ssdresS at the rate Of ten cents week OF
1isIrty cents a month (by mail oniyl1 v az
>-,t ~ tovvn the State journal VITA DC ="
You like q daily letter from home: .h...
sf,ort fine subscriptions, 10 save bOokkeep-
anR expenses.
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m. state Journal il a member II the
a esociatrd Press and receives the full Gay
telegraph report Of that great nsMs
Rnnization. for the exclusive
ruhlicatfon in Topeka CO.. ro,-r.I
lrhe news is received in The state Jonrnai
building over wires for this sole PURPOSE
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The Hickeyville Clarion.

Hi Higgins says he has got the
rheumatic jumpin' pneuralgia, lum-
bago and shingles and two OF mis-
cows has died, the mortgage mas peen
foreclosed on his west forty, his well
has gone dry, two kids have got the
measles, his corncrib has burned up,
his oldest son is in jail, and his wife
has eloped with a travelin' man, but
outside of that he is gettin' along fair
to middlin'.
Some unprincipled apology for a
human being has broken into our
woodshed and stolen our ak. Our
wife missed it when she went out to
get it for the purpose of chopping on
enough wood to get dinner. It was
mean trick, for she had to finally
hack the wood up with our razor, the
same one she uses for opening cans
of tomatoes and scraping the rust off
the top of the kitchen range. What
is home without an ak? 1t is like a
ship without a rudder or a peacock
without a tail. While we are minus
an ak, book agents, bill collectors and
life insurance solicitors can call with
impunity or without it just as they
| like. We also used our ak to peel
sandwiches and turn pancakes, SO the
reader can readily understand our
great loss. Will the gentleman who
| stole our ak please return it by Sat-
urday, as the man who collects the
instruments on our photograph calls
that day and we are DESTROYS of COM
ing to an amicable agreement with
him. which we are sure we can do If
we have the ak.
| Constable Ezra Hand says he hopes
the common council will get our fire
engine repaired soon, as it has been
out of order for some time and it is
quite a chore for him to run down to
the Golden Nugget and borrow n self
ger siphon every time there is fire.
The fire engine amt worked good
! since William Tibbitts used 1t to pump
| out the cellar of his store last spring
during the flood. at which time it
pumped itself full of potatoes and
rubber boots,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
HOUSEHOLD HINTS



This delicious chilli sauce is excellent
served with cold meats, stews and also
for oyster cocktails.
The ingredients are as follows:
Twelve good, firm. not too ripe to-
matoes. four cups vinegar, two tea
spoons of ground cinnamon, one-half
teaspoon of ground ginger, one table,
spoon of mustard, one red pepper,
four large onions, two tablespoons of
salt.
Wash the onions and the tomatoes
in warm water. The outer skin of the
onions should be removed, and then
chop the onions. Some people prefer
putting the tomatoes in boiling water
to remove the skin. The reason for
this is obvious. Mix the ingredients
together and boil slowly for two hours,
removing any scum that settles on top
while it is cooking. Seal while boiling
hot in sterilized glasses. If the glasses
are kept warm in a pan of water on
the stove there will be no danger of
the bottles breaking. Store in a cool
but dry place
Gooseberry Relish.
Five cups of gooseberries. one and
one-fourth cup raisins, one onion, one
cup of brown sugar. three tablespoons
mustard, three tablespoons salt, one
fourth teaspoon cayenne. one quart
vinegar.
Wash and drain berries, add seeded
raisins and onions peeled and sliced.
Chop or force through a meat chopper,
put into the preserving kettle and add
sugar. mustard. ginger, salt and
cayenne. Pour over vinegar and bring
slowly to a boiling point. Let simmer
forty-five minutes, strain through
coarse sieve. Bottle and zeal.
Mixed Preserves.
Take two dozen peaches, pare,
stone and quarter. Select two dozen
pears, pare. remove seeds and quar-
ter. Take one-half baskets California
blue plums. remove stones and cut in
to halves
Measure a pound of sugar with a
pound OF fruit and put in kettle with
a small amount Of sugar and enough
water to dissolve the sugar. Let the
strip come to a boil and skim it. Add
the fruit, and allow this to boil from
three-fourths to one hour or until the
strip is thick. and stir at intervals t.,
prevent sticking. When cool cover
with paraffin and seal.
Blackberry jam.
Wash berries thoroughly and mash
them through a colander. To each
pint of Juice add one pint of granu-
lated sugar. Cook quickly for about
thirty minutes. Put into jars and
seal This will keep many months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
Her.

All, how loved her graceful lines;
She was q beauty, that / vow.
How for her my poor heart pines,
My tale of grief you must allow.
Last summer l did spend with her,
1 loved her with a passion mad;
In my spare hours / would not stir
Away from her; had 1t. bad.
She had me dashed right to the mast,
I'll tell you that Is true, by heck
The trouble was she was too fast,
And now she is a total wreck.
How I yearn for the days gone by,
The passing years cannot atone;
1 can't forget her, though / try
That motor boat / used to own.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

Natalie, aged 8 years. for the first
time planted some pansy seeds in
small boxes. One evening she rushed
to water them and. on her return. her
mother said: You know, after a
rain. you don't have to water them"
Natalie's reply was startling: "Oh, I
take them in when it rains;"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

well, how about the two hens
that were missing?''
'Ah tells you. jedge, All took dem.
All reckoned dat All was titled to
dat many TO- 1eavin' the rest"
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81 told you last Sabbath. children"
you should all try to make some one
happy during the week. How many
said the Sunday school teacher, that
of you have? ?" 81 did," answered one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
Blackberry jam.

Wash berries thoroughly and mash
them through a colander. To each
pint of Juice add one pint of granu-
lated sugar. Cook quickly for about
thirty minutes. Put into jars and
seal. This will keep many months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

This delicious chilli sauce is excellent
served with cold meats, stews and also
for oyster cocktails.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

Whatever these suggestions may b,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

Another outstanding feature of the
recent primary and the campaign pre-
ceding it was the general apathy
displayed by the voters. The candi-
dates were assuredly active enough
and were as omnipresent as they were
numerous.
But the voters took little interest
in their campaigning before the pri-
mary until a day or two before it
arrived.
Even on primary day they did not
exert themselves to go and vote.
Out of registration of $4,000 in To-
peka, for instance. only 1880 votes
were polled.
Some of the political wiseacres in
sist that this was a fairly big primary
vote, as large a one as could be ex-
pected.
If that be true, the voters as a whole
show a miserable lack of interest in
their public affairs. and the approx
mate half of them in Topeka who did
not vote at the primary have no just
cause for complaint If the most desira-
BILE of the candidates were not nomi.
mated.
Others attribute this apathy. which
was even more pronounced in other
sections of Kansas than it was in To-
peka, where some warm local con
ltests were on. to the generally con
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

But from whatever angle this rather
seneral participation of the Demo-
Gratis in the Republican primary in
these parts is viewed, it is apparent
that the primary plan. as It exists in
Kansas, at any rate. is destructive to
the death of anything thar may SAVIOR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

Two things have been found which
mix even less successfully than oil and
water
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-11-23
Color ado + 'araulers Get
$4,000, 900 for Beets

Colorado's beet sugar crop, which
is now being harvested, will bring to
the growers $50, 900 The beet
industry and the Centennial state
will give Montana farmers some idea
Of what this state may be doing in
sugar beets in few years. Mon
tana's crop of this year is estimat ted
at 100000 and is confined to
acreage around Billings. The Bill
ings beet sugar plant is owned by
the same interests which control
many factories in Colorado. A sec
ond plant is being constructed in
the Bitter Root Valley, and expert
ments, conducted under the auspices
of these same interests, have demon
strated that the sugar beet can be
grown in many sections of the state,
included in this area being the Milk
River Valley under the waters of
Of the Milk River Irrigation project.
A factory for this valley is assured
just as soon as sufficient acreage
OF alfalfa is planted 1t is proven
fact that the growing, of sugar beets
is a financial success where alfalfa
has been grown, other conditions be-
ing suitable and expert beet sugar
men have said that this valley can
grow excellent sugar beets.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-11-23
s>Gls1.tE>S GUILTY. To
STEALING a GALE

tIarrv Brown, aged about 30 years
plead guilty yesterday when arf&lsn-
"a before Justice l. 4. Raider on 9
charge Of cattle stealing.
Brown and James Howe Of Da~
'lota. arrived al G. X. creek on the
Missouri river south of Zortnan,
about two weeks ago and set UP
amp preparatory to spending the
trapping season on the river The.
were arrested Monday BY Deputy
5heTitfs Riley Brooks and Virgil
Naupel and lodged in the Phillips
county jail.
7. d. Robins, prominent ranchef
and eatt'enan, residing near the riT-
or, found, one day last week, the fore
quarters OF calf bearing his brand
lying in the snow, and with wagon
and foot tracks around the carcas,
Following the wagon tracks brought
Mr.. Robins to the camp occupied by
the trappers, where the missing
quarters Of the calf were found.
Howe entered a plea Of not guilty
when arraigned with Brown yester
day, and his examination was set
down for next Saturday before Judge
RAIDER
Brown seemed anxious to assume
all the blame for the stealing of the
calf, and claimed he needed the meat
to eat
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-11-23
WEST FILM co.
AGAIN COMING TO MALTA

Members of the Great West Film
companv will arrive in Malta from
St. Paul Sunday for the purpose Of
producing another feature film play
This time the company will film a
picture entitled Bill and Parson
SIMS taken from one of Wallace
Coburn's poems.
move about considerably to secure
the scenery necessary for this winter
picture, and expect. to work in Malta
IOrtman and at old Fort Assiniabon
near Havre
'"The Gilden Goddess" which was
produced at Malta and Zortman the
past summer and fall, is said to be
drawing crowded houses with every
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-11-23
] I1.11dg &c Hurry .;e'Is
His I.,a;.s law W Es....siilAee s.

Attorney John Hurry, judge ol-
est of the 11th Judicial district, last
week transferred his lar@e law prac-
ice to Attorneys Clement y Par
'.eT OF Glasgow, and j. =. Murphy, OF
Wolfe Point. says the News.
Mr. Parker has been associated
with Judge Hurry for several years
and during the past has handled q
large portion of the practice Of the
Office, except in special cases, thus
giving the judge elect an opportuni-
y to seek the office to which he has
BOW been elected by the people Of
Valley, Sheridan and Phillips county
Mr.. Murphy is we'll known in Glas-
cow and particularly so in Sheridan
and the eastern end of Valley
and will make a welcome ad-
dition to the present force of attor-
neys practicing in Valley county
courts.
The transfer will not effect the To-
cation Of the offices, arrangements
having been made whereby the new
firm of Parker and Murphy will re-
tain the same suite as previously oc-
cupied by Hurry in the First Nation
al Bank Building