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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23

idly, and one factory alone has already
made over million dollars worth of
dolls. A French bank has been spe-
clnlly organized to promote the inter-
ests of the toy trade. The japanese
competition, too, is greatly feared, es-
pecially In the American market.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23
Got Over IL EARLY

81 suppose you had a real lazy time
on your vacation"
'Yes, sir. The second day | even
quit gNttip" m at a. m. 20 go tish.
ing"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23
DeXout Wish.

MacQuirk-Yes, sir, my wife alway'
dnds something to harp on.
MacShirk-I hope mine does, too.
MacQuirk-What makes you say you
hope she does?
MacShirk-She's dead. - London
Opinion.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23
Where Ignorance Is Bliss.

How much does 1t cost you to run
this yacht, old chap?"
eff knew, l wouldn't do it."-Life-
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23

The Russian government has given
an American company the right to ex-
plore for petroleum In Siberia, where
there are indications Of Its presence.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23

None of Them More Than Plump
The latest fashion edlcts seem to
De framed In the belief that there
are no fat women in the world.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23

THIS IS THE AGE or YOUTH.
You will look ton years younger IL you
1arken your ugly. grizzly, gray hairs BY
asing la Creole" Hair Dressing ADV.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23
Il Sometimes Happen,S

The fellow wo think balAlng
genius may turn out to be q bloom.
ing idiot
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23
Remember Value Of Time.

'Time is money" said Benjamin
Franklin, 'if you want TO save money,
save time"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-23

You'll not catch any fish II you spare
the rod.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

have the keenest desires The United
States army ration. even for active
service, does not include tobacco. AND
while our soldiers in Mexico get their
pay regularly and have the money to
buy their tobacco with, there is little
or no tobacco in any form for them to
purchase in the barren and desolate
country where they are on duty. So
pressing are their wants for tobacco
that some of the officers are writing
to the folks at home asking them to
send tobacco to their soldiers who are
on such operous duty in Mexico. One
such letter has been received in Ok
lahoma City. and in it attention is
called to the fact that our generous
citizens. for the most part in the east
ern section of the country. have been
most liberal with their contributions
of cigarettes and other forms of to-
bacco for the soldiers of Europe
Surely we can do no less for our
own soldiers whom the richest govern
ment in the world fails to supply with
tobacco and who are now in a posi-
ton where they can neither buy nor
beg if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15
MARVELLOUS.
Before.

An excerpt from one of Mayor ]. E.
Houses Friend Arthur" Governor
Capper) letters that appeared in the
Topeka Daily Capital on May 10:
But it amt no use to send me to
chicago If all you want to know is
what they are going to do, because 1
can tell you all about that now. The
Repu blicans, the reactionary whelps,
are a going to nominate Mr.. E. Root
for president because he is an old man
and committed the crime of 1912 A
fellow asked me the other day if 1
thought they could elect E. Root. I
II said 1 don't know because I don't
and don't never try to mislead or de-
ceive anybody into believing I know
don't. But it would be just like them
rotten husks' to nominate a man who
will grind down the people and that's
why 1 think they are going to nom
mate E. Root. that and because they
have the votes to do it with. 1 can
tell you what they are a going to do
and what will happen afterwards
Theodore Roosevelt he'll throw a fit
and George w. Perkins will throw one
and Bill White and Henry Allen and
Victor Murdoch will also throw them "
After.
An excerpt from one of ]. E. House.
Friend Arthur" Governor Capper)
letters that appeared in the Topeka
Daily Capital on June 10:
well, Arthur. l think 1 got away
pretty good at Chicago. 1 didn't give
nobody a bum steer of anything, and
it come out about like I said it would
The boys who bet their money the way
| I said won't lose anything and the
paper won't have to explain why
everything it printed was wrong. A
paper is mighty lucky when it has a
reporter who don't humiliate 1t by
4 writing something this week it has to
| deny next week. 1 don't know wheth-
er you know how 1 do it or not, but 1t
amt no secret and 1 don't mind telling
you how 1t is:
| go to somebody that knows and ask
him. Then 1 go to somebody else that
| knows and ask him If they say the
same put it in the paper. That's the
| way found out T. r. wasn't going to
be nominated and everything else ]
put in the paper. If I do say it myself
1 think it is a fine way. I don't know
| why it is, Arthur. I'm not very good
looking and you know what they say
about my moral character in Topeka
but when I ask somebody that knows
| anything he always tells me. They
don't never say to me they amt goi
nothing to say for publication. They
just take me off in a corner some
where and we sit down. and maybe
the other fellow orders a drink, and
then he tells me all about it 1t il
such a good system that 1 don't ses
why Kay See Star and some of the
Chicago papers don't adopt it,
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I'm not going to tell you. Goodbye!
She held out her hand, and Tom took
it eagerly.
Please" he urged.
NO! Maybe we'll meet some time.
Goodbye,
Before he could protest further, she
was off, and had disappeared into the
small station. He shook his head de-
jectedly.
She has the most wonderful eyes
I've ever SEEN" he muttered. "And
now. I'll probably never see her
again.
He thought of her often during the
night and was still thinking of her
when he reached home the next aft
ernoon.
You've come just in time" his
sister Informed him. I'VE are going
to have little party for the people
across the street tonight"
You are? Tom showed little in
terest.
Yes. I met the girl this morning,
and she has the most wonderful blue
eyes I've ever seen. You'll be crazy
about her. Tom"
What's her name?"
Doris Stanhope'
What"
Doris Stanhope- She comes from
Kingston, N. Y, and only reached
here last night"
We'll. I'll be- Tom walked IN
the window and looked across the
street
Il think" he said slowly, that I'll
drop in and greet the newcomer this
afternoon "-(Copyright, 1916, by the
mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

What a hue and cry there always
has been when a political boss or
coterie of them have conducted the
affairs of a national convention OF
either of the major political parties
with an iron hand and made it do their
tidding in all of it's deliberations. And
vet there never has been national
convention of either of the big po1u-
cal parties that was ever dominated so
absolutely by any one man as the
ouadrennial gathering of the Demo
Gratis at St Louis is by Woodrow VIII
son. But is Mr.. Wilson being char-
acterized in any quarter as a political
boss of autocratic proportions ana
tendencies? Perish the thought
woodrow Wilson is. if you please
political leader"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

This Gen. Jacinto Trevino of the
Csrranza outfit who has jumped into
the Mexican limelight recently lets II
be known that he has $4,000 soldiers
in the state of Chihuahua alone that
are ready for service in the event OF
hostilities breaking out between the
United States and the de facto gov
eminent of Mexico. But how long
would they be able to stay in the ring
with their meager equipment and the
comparatively. few rounds of ammunl-
ton in their possession? AS matter
of fact, all the artillery forces of Mex
leo are well-nigh PROSTATE because OF
a. lack of all kinds of munitions with
which to carry on anything that savors
of real war.
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SSDed d e!a!ed6
10y (1GaaaheSrankdscn - sss
WILLY wooDRAT PIES SOMETHING

"what are you looking at, Willy
yyoodrat?" asked Mrs. Willy one
evening lust before the short twilight
faded away into night
No answer.
.evillv woodrat." she repeated,
"vbat are YOU looking at? Tell met"
WilIv Woodrat stood perfectly still
and kept his eyes fixed on the tree at
which he had been staring for many
minutes
Mre. willy knew that it was useless
to ask him again. If he did not an
svver A question at the second asking
he never would. Willy was queer tnat
wav. Sometimes he would chatter
away in lively fashion, and tnen
sometimes he wouldn't answer word
10 the most urgent questions. Willy
always explained that he wanted Mrs
willy to have the fun of finding things
ont for herself-but that answer dldn' I
satisfy Mrs. Willy a bit She didn't
want to bother to find OUT Things Tor
herself, she wanted to be told in the
quickest possible way, just as you and
Rut she knew Willy. If he wanted
her to discover something for herself.
she might as well start discovering at
once for he'd never tell her where to
look. THAT was very good training
for Mrs. WHY'S sharp eyes. though
she didn't realize IT'D
She slipped around behind him and
looked up to where his eyes were
watching-up at the big sycamore
trunk. But she couldn't see anything
of interest
Maybe I'm not looking right"
thought she, and she again looked at
willy to see where he was watching.
and then, seeing she had been right.
she again looked up at the tree.
She was just about to say, Willy,
how silly you are to sit there look
ing at that sycamore tree that's been
there forevert" when Willy whis-
pered. There he is again.
..Who2 Where2 What" cried
Mrs. Willy. all excitement in a minute.
The bat" replied Willy scornfully.
ct thought you were watching for him
or I'd never have said a word"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15
An Old Friend Gone Wrong.

A bill has been introduced in con-
gress to provide clean money and 1t
grew out of the fact that a scientist
discovered ninety-two million germs of
various races, colors and conditions of
servitude upon a one-dollar bill Thus
it is that an old friend has gone wrong,
and it seems a terrible shame. If the
microbes feel really in need of a cash
diet, they should have tackled the five
dollar bills. or the ten-dollar bills, and
we would never have been in the
slightest danger. The only unhealthy
bill reported upon is the one-dollar
bill, and that is about the only one
we ever come in contact with.
The dollar bill we had last Saturday
must now have at least 91,999,999 mi
crobes, for there was only time for
about one of them to jump on US be
fore we handed it along to the meat
market proprietor, but even, $780,
999 microbes can stir up considerable
trouble. Let the microbes confine
themselves to the five-dollar bills
which are handled by the predatory
rich, for the rich can much better af-
ford to be sick than we can Let us
have no more sickly one-dollar bills
The congressional measure should be
passed at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

LIFE.
What am 1, Life? thing of watery salt
Held in cohesion by unresisting cells
Which work they not why, which never
halt;
Myself unwilling where their Master
dwells,
do not bid them, yet they toll. they spin
A world which uses l use them
Nor do I know which end or which begin,
Nor which to praise, which pamper, which
condemn.
So. like a marvel in a marvel SET
/ answer to the vast. wave by wave
The sea of air goes over, dry or wet
Or the full moon comes swimming from her
cave
Or the great sun comes forth: this
myriad
Tingles. not knowing how, yet wondering
why.
John Masefield in Atlantic Monthly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15
On the Spur Tha
of the Moment
By ROY K. MOULTON.

To the Hotel Towel.
Farewell, sad and fond farewell,
Old roller towel to thee,
Health sharks are upon thy trail,
The end is plain to see
They say thou art a rendezvous
For microbes, deadly, grim,
Until the chances of the man
Who wipes on thee are slim.
How often have we. whirled thee round
With mean and vicious twist,
And whirled again with force enough
To dislocate our wrist
How often we have looked thee DER
To find nice clean spot;
How often have We vainly cussed
When we have found it not
We've known thee now for many years.
Thy soiled and unwashed face
Has gazed upon US constantly
In every public place.
Take all thy microbes and depart, .
They're sounding thy death knell;
This is the sanitary age;
Old roller towel, farewell. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15
Uncle Abner.

When a feller's wife picks out his
clothes there amt much doubt as to
who wears the lower portion of 'em
around the house.
Hank Sphinx says horseshoes amt
a sign of good luck. He's been pitch
ing EN- for nine years and amt won
a game yet.
If Teller has got any doubts
whether his gal loves him and is
thinkin' of him seriously, they dis
appear when she begins to criticise
his neckties and pick ravelin's off n
The kind of gal to marry is the
one that can look as neat at 10
O. clock in the morning as she does at
10 o'clock in the evening n. B.
There isn't any.
Hank Tumms hunted for his razor
strop six weeks before he discovered
that his wife was using it for belt
Some women are so ingenious
There may somewhere in deep,
dark obscurity be a self-made man
who amt proud of the job, but II
there is. he has kept himself care
fully concealed from the public gaze;
Some men are born foollsh ana
others raise pompadours-
There may be some difference pc
tween exercise and hard work, but II
never has been discovered.
1t is more blessed to give than to
receive, especially if it is a sour tip
on a boss race.
One of the mysteries of this world
| is why a statesman always has to
scowl when he has his photograph
taken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15
Euening Chat
The Way We Say 1t.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Inc way we say Ii.
A friend who knows theatrical peo-
the other day.
Two theatrical people connected
with a certain play were listening
behind the scenes to the applause at
the end of an act.
One of them said to the other, TT
isn't SO much what the actors say
as the way they use their voices that
brings the applause I'll wager 1
can go before the audience and say
something entirely unconnected with
the play and get a hand"
The other took him up, and at the
end of the act the actor went before
the curtain and in a tone of one
saying something of great emotional
import, and with a lift of his voice
ut the end, said, white is black and
black is white
And the audience clapped.
1T was the infection that got
them" said the actor, that and the
open vowel at the end. If had said,
black is white and white is black,
they wouldn't have clapped-"
If that incident is true Ono re-
Election on my friend intended) it is
an interesting example of the power
of voice and infection, isn't it?
Few people realize how much
meaning tone and infection carry.
If you want to see a. remarkable in
stance of a volume condensed into
| one single word. take out your Bible
and look up John 2o:1e.l and try to
| imagine the infection with which
the two words in that verse must
| have been spoken
| The value of a smile on the lips has
been pointed out 20 US since childhood,
but comparatively little has beer said
| about the need of a smile in the voice.
| And vet there is nothing more depress-
ing than to listen to a down voice. 1t
seems as if a cloud crossed the sun
when you come into the presence of
some one who speaks that way.
But when a person with happy
UP voice comes into the room it is in
| deed as if another candle had been
| lighted
A writer on business courtesy in one
of the recent magazines contributes
this interesting data to the subject of
the Importance of the voice;
The telephone company has dis
| covered that the word please repeat
ed several million times a year delayed
messages and really cost lot of mon
| ey. So operators now inquire merely
| Number But they are under rigid
! instructions to say the word with a
rising infection on the second SyIla-
| BILE which gives a cheerful, clipper
sound to the inquiry, whereas the word
| with a falling infection at the last
makes it sound as if the operator is
bored with her job Moreover. the
big telephone companies in hiring a
girl insist that she must have pretty
voice. 70
Voices are wonderful things, aren't
they? And not the least wonderful
| thing is that they are infinitely more
flexible and capable of Improvement
than many other things-features, for
instance.-(P by the Adams
Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

are tender. then mash. Add figs and
raisins which have been run through
meat grinder Simmer and stir till
thick. This makes six jelly glasses.
To make fig newtons, cut cooky
dough in strips. Spread filling on
one strip. cover with the other. Bake
till brown. This recipe is good also
as a JAM
Surprise Cake - The ingredients
for this cake are nearly always in
every household, and it takes only
short time to make: Three-fourths
cup granulated sugar, two cups corn
starch, one teaspoon baking powder,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15
President Wilson when America is

involved.
How does this assertion jibe with
the facts that President Wilson has
repeatedly warned American citizens
out of Mexico 80 that they might
be safe from Mexican marauders, and
refused almost to the point of getting
the United States into war with Ger
many to warn American citizens off
of even armed passenger vessels that
might have business traversing the
water war zones around Europe and
where the German submarines piled
their trade.
But Mr.. James is a little careless or
his facts in other portions of his
speech. which, on the whole. is most
notable and forceful exposition of the
principles of Democracy and the ef-
forts of the Wilson administration to
apply them. And there can be no
criticism of his laudation of the fed
eral reserve banking syNem, which is
one of the big and wisely constructive
acts of the Wilson administration; or
of his praise for his Democratic
brethrens' efforts to make a start with
rural credits legislation. even though
the rural credits system that the
Democratic congress has worked out
isn't satisfactory to everybody.
When Mr.. James. though, says, I'VE
wrote into the constitution itself an
amendment, susceptible of no dispute,
that wealth should bear its proper
burden of the taxation necessary to
run the government efficiently. eco
mn mr. he 10
cidedly in the wrong
He refers, of course, to the income
tax amendment to the constitution.
And this was not written into the con-
stitution by the Democrats.
The resolution proposing to amend
the constitution so that there might
be no doubt of the power of congress
to. levy an income tax happens, as a
matter of fact, to be legacy from the
Taft administration.
This resolution passed congress on
July 5, 1909, or almost four years be-
fore the Wilson administration began
business Thirty-two of the states
had ratified this amendment before
the end of the year 1912, and four
other states, making the Sc necessary
eral constitution, ratified it during the
early days of 1913, or just before the
Democrats were indicted into office
at Washington.
The Wilson administration, or the
congressional part of it, did write the
present income tax law, and early in
its career, as the measure became a
law on October 8. 1913
But the Wilson administration did
not, as Mr.. James so enthusiastically
, declares, write the authority for this
law into the constitution
AS stated, this was a legacy to the
Democrats from the Taft administra-
ton. and a very valuable and con-
venient legacy, too.
| With a tariff law that is so de-
| ficient as a revenue producer, the
financial affairs of the Wilson admin
| istration would be in an even sorrier
| plight than they are now had the Re
publican income tax amendment to
the constitution not been in working
order when the Wilson administration
began its career and thereby opened
the door for the Democrats to write
the income tax law that has been such
a substantial revenue raising aid for
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

more tree "of course. see him.
she said; but what of THAT"
Il think there's something wo,da.
full hid in that sycamore tree trunk -
SAID willy in an important whisper
I've been watching that bat for tfres
evenings and every time he is through
his days sleep he comes ont Of 49,
hollow trunk And every time he IL
through his supper he goes back in
again Let's climb up the tree and
see what ne has hid in there" So.
Willy and Mrs. Willy climbed steaIth-
lily up that tree trunk to the hoIIo~
where the bat lived, and peered into
the hole.
And just at that minute Mrs
Browny Bat darted out from fhe
hollow trunk in search of her srnner
and frightened the two little WOOD
rats SO badly they scampered down ~,
the ground in a (Copyright-
Clara Ingram JudsonO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

What a delightful time the Demo-
crate hosts must be having at st Louis
this week. With President Wilson in
charge of and looking after all the
little details of the Democratic nation
al convention and its work, as well as
the big ones, the delegates and their
erstwhile leaders are minus all cares
and worries. They have nothing to do
but enjoy themselves. They have no
place to go but out to have a good
time. except during such periods as
the proprieties of the occasion demand
their perfunctory attendance at the
CONVENTION hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

Unfortunately for this Rev. Francis
Schlatter. the self-styled king of di-
vine healers.' and who now declares
that he is the 'reincarnation of
Moses" there is no Red sea. handy in
which he might deliver. some of the
goods for which Moses achieved fame;
nor is there any evidence that he has
even struck a rock with his staff and
caused the water to gush forth.
SchIatter is now under arrest in New
York on a California warrant charg-
ing him with using the mails to de-
fraud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

What a relief it must be to man
of the fighting blood of Charles Evans
Hughes to get out of the robes OF
supreme court judge and into the
public arena where he can make a
noise like a live American. Being
Justice of the supreme court of the
United States is one of the most dis
tinguished and powerful honors not
-onlv of this country but of all the
world. but it has a few drawbacks just
tbe same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

If Japan or any other country has
designs on attacking our coasts. this
would be the accepted time for the
effort to be made. Practically all of
our coast artillery companies have
been transferred from their stations
for infantry duty with our forces
either in Mexico or along the Mexican
border. And could there be more
forcefuI indictment of the utter mill
tary unpreparedness of our country
for its proper defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

three eggs, one large tablespoon but
ter, one teaspoon vanilla Beat eggs
together, add sugar, butter. baking
powder and vanilla, mix well by
heating butter a little over fire, then
put in cornstarch a little at a time.
Place in cake tins and bake in hot
oven. The vanilla flavor can be left
out if you like.
Kisses-White of one egg. four
level tablespoons sugar, half cup
chopped nuts, half teaspoon vanilla.
Beat egg stiff, all sugar, nuts and
flaycring. Drop on baking sheet by
teaspoonful. Bake in moderate oven.