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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25

kindly assumed charge of me when my
parents died, was disappointed that l
didn't take to one of the learned pro-
fessions Maybe it's my tendency to
be little that makes me want to dodge
the little chickering's and irritating de-
tails of a complex life, but I've found
out this; if a fellow can't grnw big in
an outdoor life he hasn't the capacity
for bignesS."
Nell was sure now that she had met
the man of her dreams and she could
have wept because her ice cream was
all gone and she had no further excuse
for remaining, as the musicians were
silent for the moment.
You shouldn't even think the word
maybe when speaking of man who
surmounts miracles" She smiled as
she said this and the man smiled back,
but back of both smiles was a yearn-
ing look that told of regret that the
time for parting had come. When
they rose from the table Nell extended
her hand to the young man as gentle
way of saying that their acquaintance
was at an end.
II shall not forget your coming 20
my rescue" she said sweetly.
And 1 shall not forget you" he
said. Her eyes fell before the wistful-
ness in his and she withdrew her hand
ard left the place without either OF
them speaking another word.
When she reached her aunt's cot
tage. Mrs. Ames was enthusiastic over
a telephone call just received from
Wilbur Kirk saying that he and his
mother would motor out that evening
instead of waiting until Saturday
morning. Nell couldn't even manage
a polite interest in Wilbur Kirk now,
and thruout the dinner hour and the
two hours that followed, when they sat
on the front porch awaiting their
guests, she was so silent that Mrs.
Ames finally gave up trying to carry
on a conversation with her.
Nell, looking at the moonlight on
the water, was dreamily going over in
her mind every glance of the eyes and
every tone of the voice that had come
to her that afternoon from the young
man who seemed the embodiment of
her ideal
There they are," exclaimed Mrs.
Ames delightedly, as car drew up at
the curb.
I'm afraid we're dreadfully late .
said Mrs Kirk, when they were all
| inside the drawing room, but we
stopped at the hotel for a little visit
with my nephew, Jack Ainslee. who is
just in from South America. Jack in
sisted upon being a mining engineer
instead of minister or lawyer, I
wanted him to be, and when I see his
fine physique and his tremendous
manliness I'm glad he had his way
about it. BY the way. Mrs. Ames. I've
asked him to call tomorrow"
so glad you did, said Mrs. Ames
effusively, and Wilbur wondered why
Nell turned suddenly to the window
| just then and gazed outside. He would
have wondered even more if he had
heard her ecstatically murmuring
something about another miracle
Copyright, 1916. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25

supply upon the occasion of every
loan an amount of gold equal to or in
excess of reserve required against the
credits which the loan creates are
making it easy for them to borrow
and keeping the way open for further
loans in the future. They are, how
ever, depriving the economic situation
in this country of the wholesome re-
straint which would be exerted by
these great foreign loans were we
called upon to finance them with our
own gold resources. No doubt we
needed to regain the gold which was
drained from the country in the years
preceding the outbreak of the war
and in the months Immediately follow
ing We are not in need of steadily
increasing our gold holdings at the
cost of gold initiation, exposing u.s. as
that would, to violent dislocations in
time to come.
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FOLLY OF FEAR AND WORRY.

A Japanese parable tells OF a man
who is cruelty tortured by n demon.
Not understanding the injustice of his
frightful punishment, because he feels
he has never done anything to merit
it, the man calls on the demon to ex-
plain why he is so prosecuted. The de-
mon replies, Thou has created me
and fashioned me to be such as 1 am.
My nature is such as thou hast given
me. Blame then thyse1f for thy suf-
fering." This is the introductory for
some sensible suggestions for every
body that are presented by Orison
Sweet Marden in the Pictorial Review
for October, as follows:
I'VE ourselves fashion from our
thought the hideous demons of fear,
of worry, of unhappiness in some
form, which tortures us and frequently
wrecks our lives.
Fear and worry have wrought more
destruction in human lives than all
the wars that have devastated the
world since the birth of the race. No
one can estimate the havoc these hap
piness-killers. these efficiency destroy
ers, continue to play in our lives,
They chill the heart. whiten the hair,
wrinkle the face, and take the elias
ITCHY out of the step; they blight am
bition, kill courage. strangle hope, and
leave US wrecks of our former selves.
| They are the fatal enemies of every
things for which human beings strive
health. power, success and happiness.
They are among the most unfortunate
heritages of the race, for We are born
| into an atmosphere of fear ard worry.
We come into the world stamped with
anxiety, marked with fear. and a
dread of the unknown.
For thousands of years it was
thought that the terrible power which
caused the thunder and lightning. the
tornado. was some great enemy oil
man, an angry god who hurled his
! thunderbolts to earth. And the wrath
of the angry god of the thunder anc
lightning, of the tornado, must be pro
pitiated even by the sacrifice of hu
man life. The fearful storms at sea
the typhoons which wrecked ships
were outbursts of the wrath of tn.
great sea god. Neptune. The eclipse
| of the sun and the moon indicated
| the displeasure of other gods and mul
titudes Of human beings were sacri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25
JAYMAwKER pJOTS

And why not have a flag on every
school house? is a most pertinent
query from the Ottawa Herald.
1t is all right to profit by your mis-
takes, If possible, advises the lola
Register, but, sagely adds the Regis
ter, don't make that your regular
business.
Maybe you can't make a silk purse
out of a sow's ear. but the Lebanon
Times tells of a Roxbury man who
turned a wagon-load of hogs into an
automobile; that is, he bought a Ford
With the money he received for said
wagon-load of hogs.
Any one who has been putting off
dying in Abilene can go ahead now,
advises Clad Thompson in the KAN
sas Notes column of the Kansas City
Star. Mr.. Thompson notes that the
road to the cemetery has been COM
pleted and the Abilene Reflector
urges it to be used as much as pos
sible so as to pack it down.
Related by the Usage City Public
Opinion: II see that old Fogy has
failed in business" remarked the
Crouch. How did it happen?''
TOO much advertising" replied the
Wise Guy.
But he never advertised" protest
ed the Crouch.
NO, but his competitors did" re-
pied the Wise Guy.
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TOO MUCH GOLD.

II is not likely that Swedens ex-
ample will be followed in this country
TO put a check upon the importation
OF old or upon its finding it's way
into the reserve of the banks, says
The Annalist, and it continues: We
are far from needing all of the GOLD
which we have been getting from
abroad. 1t would be highly desirable
to impound a large part of this gold
where it would not swell bank reserves
and so would not supply the basis of
present credit. That was done to a
small extent by New York banks. but
they easily fell victim to the tempta-
ton to bring this gold into use when.
a little over two months ago, the
money market developed a temporary
stringency. Money in this country is
not too dear. On the contrary, it is
too cheap. Foreign borrowers who
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feed in all sorts of cruel ways to APP
pease these terrible powers which were
supposed to rule mems destinies.
THE gradual elimination of these
crude forms of fear has been one of
the most interesting things in the de-
velopment of the race. knowledge
has swept aside the terrors of the I'M
known. and when we are sufficiently
advanced to realize that our God is n
God of Love, and that love is law,
order, harmony, all the fear brood will
disappear.
unfortunately, multitudes of peo-
pie are still held down by some form
of our primitive heritage. The per-
petual presence of fear stunts their
growth. strangles their normal express
sion and warps their development.
Fear is stamped upon their brains
from childhood. How many mothers
ignorantly try to force their children
to go to sleep by frightening them,
telling them that if they don't go
right to sleep a great big bear will
come and eat them up and so on.
How much sleep would a grown per-
son get in a situation which seemed as
real to him as such a picture suggest
ed by its mother is to the child? Yet
the majority of parents continue to
people the darkness with Ill sorts of
cruel monsters in order to f tighten
children into obedience. If they only
knew how lnjuriously child's. physl-
cal and mental development is at
fected by such brutal System of ter
rorizat ton they could not, would not,
be so cruel. The lives of many chill
dren, especially those who are sensi-
tive, are sadly marred, if not COM
pletely ruined by it. A great medical
authority says that at least 80 per
cent of morbid children could have
been saved from their defect by the
application of common sense prin-
ciples of scientific and physiological
hygiene in which the main factor is
suggestion inspired by wholesome
courage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Grape Dainty-If you want some
thing a little different and exceeding
grapes this way: Pick off grapes,
pick all off that are not perfect, pack
them in sterilized jars. Pour boiling
water over them to cover, let stand
for a minute, then drain water off.
Repeat process twice, then they will
lose the white silvery look. Fill the
jar just to overlooking with a thick
sirup boiling hot and seal. This is a
new but fine way to preserve grapes.
Piccalilli-One peck green toma-
toes, one cabbage, six green sweet
peppers. four onions, all chopped
Stir together with one cup salt. Let
stand over night. Drain next morn
ing. Cover with vinegar, one cup
sugar. one tablespoon ground cloves,
one tablespoon ground cinnamon.
Cook slowly until tender. Seal hot.
Sliced Cucumber Pickle-Eight
cucumbers sliced one-half inch thick
stand in salt water over night;
drain. Take one pint cider vinegar,
one-half pint water; dissolve one-half
tablespoon turmeric; add to vinegar
with two tablespoons sugar. Heat;
add 'cukes." When thoroly heated
add one tablespoon celery seed; put in
jars and seal
Cucumber Chow-Chow-MiX three
quarts chopped cucumbers, one and
half pints green peppers; sprinkle two
and one-half tablespoons salt. Cover
and let stand over night in a cool
place In the morning add six tea
spoons celery seed Cor two cups celery
chopped fine). one and one-quarteI
teaspoons white pepper, vinegar to
cover. This does not need cooking
Corn Salad-Four small heads cab
bage. four large onions, four large
sweet peppers, eighteen ears corn cut
tablespoons white mustard seed, one
tablespoon turmeric powder, two ia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25
SIDE TAIL TX S
Polite towards,
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Polite Cowards.
Politeness is an indispensable thing
1t oils the machinery of daily living
Our constant contact with each other
would bring friction far more often
than it does if it were not for the oil
of politeness.
And yet there are times when DO
iiteness makes towards of us all.
1 went to a new stenographer the
other day.
When L had finished my debating
and came to pay the bill, she over
charged me. Her flat rate was a dol
lar an hour. 1 mad dictated an hour
and a quarter She charged me a
dollar and a half.
1 asked why and she said, We'll
when We work hard and accomplish
a good deal we usually charge more. -
on, yes!" said l, like a polite cow
ard, Il see-" I didn't see at all, not
in the sense of being satisfied
Come again." said she.
THANK you,' 1 heard myself say,
again a polite coward, II will"
1 didn't mean either of those state
mcnts.
What I should have said if I hadn t
been inhibited by the cowardice of
! politeness was:
plished such a great deal. You didn't
accomplish any more than several
other stenographers I've had and not
so much as my best one"
| Second, mo, shall not come again.
| can't afford it. 1 can get just as
good work done elsewhere for a fair
rate
Now, wouldn't it have been fairer
and squarer and franker and health
| Ter all round to have told her why?
Wouldn't it have been better for my
soul and hers?
| There is such a thing as too much
| frankness. Some people are so con-
stantly giving other people a piece OF
their minds that you wonder if they
can have any left.
But there is also such thing as
keeping your mind too much to your
self, being too complaisant.
People who are too complainant en-
courage injustice and overbearing
ways in others.
They grow cowardly and meal5
mouthed. And quite frequently they
store up an unhealthy accumulation
of resentment in their hearts because
they don't give their feelings the vent
of occasional plain speaking.
incidentally 1 have often noticed
IN this complaisant way are likely te
take it out in too much plain speak.
ing to their housemates.
That. of course. is true to type.
For the coward is usually a bully
when he dares to be.-(Copyright b.
George Matthew Adams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25

Paris that leads in so many human
endeavors appears to be sadly behind
the times in the matter of moving pic
lures. This is indicated by a news
item from the French capital which
told of the court acquittal of a six
teen year old boy because he had been
led to crime by the demoralizing in
fluences of moving pictures of the
bandit variety. Such photoplays
evidently belong to the days that are
gone in the movie world in this coun-
try. At least they are not shown to
any extent in these parts nowadays.
But, then. this may be due to the
activity of the censors. There are
probably lots of things being depicted
on the OWE screens even in this coun-
try of which the people of Kansas do
not even dream
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25
A SOUTH AMERICAN WAR.

News from Buenos Aires to the eff
feet that conditions in South America
are much the same as they were in
Europe before the great ar is GER
tainly not conducive TO hopes that
tie ending of the European struggle
may mean an end to wars on this
earth and the establishment of d
permanent world peace.
1t is said that there are intense
rivalries among many of the nations
in Latin-American land, that several
of them are sorely peeved at each
other over boundary disputes, COM
forth; and that it wouldn't take much
of spark to start a conflagration of
general war in the great continent to
the south of US.
OF course, such war could not
possibly assume anything like the
plol rrtions of the present conflict in
Europe. The people of So : Amer
lea, in the first place, are fractional
in numbers compared with those of
Europe.
Nor have any of them the resources
in hand either to prepare for or to
wage an imitation of the war that Is
being fought out in such protracted
fashion across the Atlantic.
A general South American war
would be likely to develop into some
thing that might possibly be COM
pared with the warfare that has been
weged between the several factions
of Mexico for so long.
| But it would set the hands of the
South American clock of progress
tack many. many years and would
place a blight on the development of
many of the nations, that have been
expanding so rapidly in so many
ways of late years, from which it
would take them a long time to re-
| cover.
However, there is probably consid-
cradle of the imaginative in the sug-
gestions from Buenos Aires that a
general South American war may be
just around the corner
They do not fit in very well with
the pulling together of these nations
in so many ways and thru the me.
/ u1uHl VI the 1dH-AIneTlCdn Union.
But suppose such a war should come
in the near or even distant future?
Would it, or would it not be the
duty of these United States to in
tervene eventually and perhaps sup
press by force of arms the fighting
that might be going on, and with the
same force of arms restore and main
tain righteous peace over the whole
great territory?
If so, the United States would have
a job in prospect that would make
our present duty to Mexico look like
the proverbial 80 cents.
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The sound was so close that the
four beavers tried to scramble away,
but they were too slow. The newcomer
whoever he was. came right toward
them and (much quicker than L can
tell you about it, climbed out of the
water and shook great drops right
into Father Beavers eyesi Yes, sir.
He was right there beside them.
Fortunately he spied the beavers
and spoke to them before they had
had time to run away or die 81
fright, (Father Beaver didn't quite
know which to DOB
heartily, excuse me! / didn't intend
to shake the water all over you. |
really didn't. You see. this is my
usual hiding place and 1 didn't expect
to find visitors"
Excuse us" said Father Beaver
quickly; 1--WE didn't know
.'Of course you didn't know"
laughed the newcomer; how
should you2 And you're welcome to
stay here all you like. If I'm not mis-
taken you're the Short-tail Beavers
that the Manifestations have been
telling about"
I'VE are said Father Beaver,
proudly, land may l be so bold as to
ask who you are?"
Just listen at that" laughed the
newcomer; ITO think you didn't know
me, I'm such an old-timer around
here that 1 sort of get the notion that
everybody knows me. l forget that
you have lived here but day. I'm
Mickey Musk-rat at your service. tho
I'm usually called a.ikey. just pla IN
Mickey, for short Can l do anything
for your"
yes" spoke up Bushy Beaver.
"you can tell US all about these noises
we've been hearing
NV. but Father Beaver was glad
to hear sBushy ask that question. He
wanted to ask il himself, but he didn't
like to seem cowardIy tyou know how
fathers are about asking questions Of
strangers: they don't want folks 20
find out that they, wise fathers that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.l

TFrom the Atchison Globe.
No married man feels like paying
admission to lecture
A lot of foolishness is charged to
the account of business.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned orator who pounded the table?
First sharks appeal to a commun-
ity's pride and then grab its pocket
book.
The chilly fall weather doesn't bring
melancholy days for the hay fever pa
tients.
If it is the other fellows head that
aches you are against taking any
thing for it.
There are just as good fish in the
lake, but it does seem that some folks
have all the luck.
The open season for ducks and the
closed season for show-thru chickens
come together.
1t is much easier to start a panic
than it is to stop it, but panics differ
from gossip in other respects.
With all Solomon's wisdom, he
probably didn't look as wise as some
of the bush league detectives try to
look.
A breach of promise suit is based
on the theory that the defendant has
the money; otherwise, there would be
more of them
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thirty yeal

If the wealth of the United states
has increased forty billions of dollars
during the past two years. as MI
Hamlin, a member and former COVER
nor of the federal reserve board de-
clares that it has, it is going to take
some little time for American tourists
to return this sum to Europe, whose
war has probably been responsible for
producing most of this increased
wealth in this country, as soon as the
opportunity presents itself for them to
resume their travelling and sight-see-
ing in that direction.
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LINES.

LINES.
Ito portrait of a lady on a hotel valid
Lady with dark brown eyes
And the aureole of tresses,
Looking sweet and worldly-wise
In the dainticst of dresses.
You're stranger, dear to me;
1 know not your name nor station,
Looking down so pleasantly
From your present elevation
Are you just a picture girl.
And this teasing tress again
Painted, ordinary curl,
And your eyes burnt sienna?
Are your shoulders pink and white
White and pink end never moving?
Did your brown eyes never light
With the gentle light of rowing?
No, 1 cannot think you so,
Think you JUS pafated creature,
With brow OF painted snow,
Painted smile, and painted feature.
I believe some artist heart
In some lonely moment knew you
With the artists ardent art
He could not win you-so he drew you
Douglas Malloch, in Judge.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News. !

From the Chicago News.
When duty calls deafness becomes
epidemic
Some wirepullers are telegraph line
men and some are politicians.
Fortunate is the man whose tastes
are similar to those of his cook.
Round after round is the way the
pugilist ascends the ladder of fame.
A ieweler says pearls are like wom-
en-they require a lot of attention
When there's a right way and a
wrong way, the average man goes
wrong.
Talk is cheap, but like other cheap
things it is apt to prove expensive in
the end.
A woman never fails to boast of her
intuition every time she makes a good
guess.
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Carranza's military chiefs are re-
luctant to risk a chase after the ap-
parently irrepressible Villa, and Car
rama long ago set down his foot
against the American expedition in
Mexico continuing its endeavors along
this line, so Mexico's chief bandit and
his gang of maurauders will probably
continue to come and go as they please
in northern Mexico and as soon as
they consider themselves strong
enough and sufficiently well-equipped
with arms and ammunition, they'll
probably take another whack at some
town on the American side of the
border.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

The average mans income is not so
consequential to him as is his outgo.
X X X
A few of the tempers that are so
quickly lost are just as readily re-
gained.
Walls may have ears, but how for
tunate it is for most folk that said
walls can not repeat what they hear.
X X
LIES discouragements are many
but only few of them are so serious
that they can not be brushed aside
X X X
Hoping for better things at least
keeps ones mind on them, and that is
likely to help some in acquiring them.
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1t would be no more than reason
able to assume that General Trevino
should be better informed as to what
happened at Chihuahua during the
recent Villa raid there than should
General Bell. General Trevino was
on the scene. while General Bell was
many miles away in Ell Paso, and had
to get his information of the Chihua-
hua incident secondhand. Bur
then the reputation for veracity of all
classes and stripes of military leaders
Is not as good as it might be.