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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-07
Jayh awker Jots

Any girl in school, declares the
Pittsburg Headlight, knows that kiss
is conjunction
What will happen, wonders the Sa-
lima Journal, when the unspeakable
Turk and the speechless Sphinx mix
in Egypt?
If February isn't the month to have
winter weather. what month would
suit better? pertinently inquiries the
Leavenworth Post.
The South Kansas Tribune points
out that Sunny Kansas will outliYe
The misfortune of a sunshiny Ground
hog day and will have plenty of fruit
and grain, as usual
Looks funny, to Uncle 81 of the OF
tawa Herald, to see long inscription
on tn tombstone of a Teller who
couldn't read or write.
What's become of the old-fashioned
man, asks Alice Murdoch of the Ell
Dorado Republican, who used to sit
around and wonder if the Sub-soil was
wet all the way down.
Alb Adkins is quoted by the Atchi-
son Globe as saying that man never
realizes how much furniture there is
in the house until he gets up some
dark night to coax a dying furnace fire
back to life.
1t occurs to the Leavenworth Post
that the pure food law may be blamed
for the fact that. although the oyster
trade is better than ever, it has been
a long time since a thousand dollar
pearl has been found in a stew.
The Buckeye Shoe Shop advertises
in the Winfield Courier that it has sue
cessfully treated several cases of Side
lopities and Disqualification of the
sole: and it promises that sick shoes
will be given immediate treatment on
application.
Keeping the mouth closed and
breathing through the nose is said to
be a sure cure for the grip, notes the
Leavenworth Times and it adds: 1t
may also be preventive. And we
would advise a trial of 1t by some who
are apt to talk too much.
Hear Hear, Says the Arkansas
City Traveller A lot of rattIebrained
spellbinders talk about high ideals and
visionary talk about high ideals and
make good government is honesty.
common sense and economical ex-
penditure of public monies.
Those who are worried over their
gas bills might take comfort, thinks
the Wichita Beacon, from the state
ment of the University of California
professor who forecasts that about the
year 100000 the warmest summer
weather on this planet will be IS de-
grees below zero.
One day Oklahoma had a cyclone,
narrates the Hutchinson News. and
three days later some of the oats, hay
and other "roughness" that went into
the air there, fell to the ground on top
of a snow storm at Winfield. And the
News suggests: This beats any of the
Great Bend tales.
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HOW CANADA AND U. S. DO IT.

War is one method of settling dis
putes between the people of two
neighboring nations. but it is not the
only way, writes Lawrence j. Burpee
in significantly suggestive article in
the American Review of Reviews for
February, entitled, "Our Canadian
American High Court" Neither is it
in the long run the most sensible or eff
fective or economical way Here is an
alternative plan,-an experiment, if
you nke,-which the two English
speaking countries of North, America
committed themselves to some five
years ago, and which has ever since
been running so smoothly and noise-
lessly that ninety-nine people out of
any hundr on this continent have
never even heard of it. At Washing
ton. on January II, 1909, James
Bryce, then British ambassador to the
United States, and Elihu Root. secre-
tary of state, signed what is known as
the Waterways Treaty. This treaty
embodied the results of several years
negotiation between American states
men on one side and English and
Canadian on the other. 1t disposed of
several vexed questions that had been
iIlOIo Vi less dl ISSUE between the
United States and Canada, but it went
much farther than that. 1t created
an international commission, consist
ing OF three Americans and three
Canadians, and vested in that body
such powers and responsibilities as it
is safe to say have never before in the
worlds history been entrusted to a
similar tribunal The preamble of the
treaty sets forth it's general objects,
ito prevent disputes regarding the use
of boundary waters and to settle all
questions which are now pending be-
tween the United States and the Do
minion involving the rights, obliga-
tions. or interests of either in relation
to the other or to the inhabitants of
the other, along their common frontier.
and to make provision for the adjust
ment and settlement of all such ques-
tions as may hereafter arise The
language of the preamble is signifi-
cant. 1t provides for the settlement
of present and future matters of diff
ference between the two countries. but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-07
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Are you one of the dead men who
walks?
AS a matter of fact the really pa
tient people are in Jail.
A baseball fan talks in that foolish
way all the year around.
Good behavior probably will get you
more than good luck.
A politician is one who capitalizes
his ability as a good mixer.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned orator who waved a bloody
shirt?
Don't stick to your work so close
you are speeches. when you can't
talk shop.
Much of the screaming about in
justice is done by those who want the
best of it.
Considering the difficulty of getting
up early, the worm isn't much of e
reward.
There are also men who can't
sweep a sidewalk without feeling it is
a great responsibility.
After YOU have sized uP the aver
age white man, don't you wonder why
there are cannibals?
Don't look up the friend you have
MT seen for twenty years, if you would
avoid disappointment.
Our notion of a competent mechanic
is one who can tame a gasoline en-
CINE when it gets rebellious.
When RUFF Hoskins feels grouchy
he says the Sunny Jims are the great
est aggravations he encounters.
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wATER-soAKED OYSTERS.

There are tricks in all trades, even
to that of the dealers in oysters. For
instance, the inspectors of the federal
department of agriculture, in giving
special attention to the heavy traffic
in oysters during the holiday season,
found tina it is a practice of some
dealers to add fresh water to shucked
oysters in such a way as to greatly in
crease the size of the oysters. The
oyster when brought in contact with
fresh water for several hours will
drink" or absorb a considerable
quantity OF the water and will in
crease in size in exact proportion to
the amount of water which it drinks
AS oysters are usually sold by the pint
or quart, any increase in their size
due to the addition of water enables
the dealer to fill the pint or quart
measure with a smaller number of
oysters. In order to increase the size,
oysters must be soaked in fresh water
or water that is only slightly salty. If
quarts of oysters and l quart of
fresh water are placed in a 5-quart
container and the mixture allowed to
stand for several hours, there will be
a marked change in the appearance
of the contents of the container. To
the naked eye there will appear to be
3 quarts of dry oysters, for the con-
tainer will be full and there will be
little or no water in sight, it being on
the inside ofAtf1e plump, succulent-
looking. oysters. The average pur-
chaser has no means of detecting the
addition of water. The chemist, how
ever by determining the amount of
water in the oyster and comparing it
with the amount that an oyster nor
ma1ly contains, can readily detect the
adulteration. The addition of water to
oysters lowers their food value, and
such oysters are adulterated under
section of the food and drugs act,
which provides that food is adulter-
ated if "a substance has been mixed
and packed with it so as to reduce or
lower or injuriously affect it's quality
or strength" and also if "a substance
has been substituted in whole or in
part for the article" The shipment
of such oysters in interstate commerce
or their sale in the District of Column
bia or the territories of the United
States constitutes, in the agricultural
departments opinion, a violation of
the food and drugs act.
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more than you want for soup, set aside
for supper. Season the water in which
they were cooked with butter. salt and
pepper, one pint of cream and milk
together with a little celery or celery
seed, and add the mashed pulp.
The Table.
Dell Conserve-One quart peaches,
one quart egg plums, one-haf section
Tokay grapes, two lemons, one pound
nuts, sugar. Cut fruit into small
pieces, removing all seeds and leave
some of the rind on the lemon (about
half. Cook all but nuts until soft.
Add almost cup for cup of sugar.
When it thickens take from fire and
add nuts This is new and delicious
with meats. i','
Grape Pie-Separate the skins
from the pulp of grapes. Stew the
pulp a few minutes and put through
colander TO free it from seeds. Then
add the skins. Take one egg, one
cup sugar one cup grapes. Beat the
egg and sugar together. Add the
grapes, one tablespoon of -four. and
a little butter. Bake with two crusts.
Date Cake-One-half cup butter.
" cups sugar, one cup cold water,
three cups pastry flour. sifted twice
before measuring, then sifted again
with two slightly rounding teaspoons
baking powder, five teaspoonfuls of
vanilla and the whites of four eggs
Mix and bake in the usual manner.
Bake the cake in two layers, or in
one large sheet. For the filling cook
one pound of stoned dates, washed in
boiling water before stoning, one cup
sugar and one-half cup water until
the dates are very soft, stirring often
while cooking. Cook very slowly.
adding water if needed. When smooth
and thick pour on the whites of two
eggs beaten dry This may be used as
filing ana covering for cake or il
may be used for filling and a frosting
made for the top.
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MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS.

The new siNty-fourth congress. like
all its predecessors, must face a ma
tional issue of transcendent impor-
tance. writes Burton J. Hendrick. in
the February Worlds Work Let the
Lusitania and the shipping bill go
hang; the really absorbing question is
whether Sundance, town in Wyom-
ing of less than 500 people, shall have
q $4,000 postoffice building and court
house. Foreign relations, new taxa
ton schemes, the army and navy
are all well enough in their place;
what really thrills, however, is the
necessity of SO putting money into
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-07


Cried the earth-so weary, old and gray ::
Il yearn to dream my life away
For the singing stars of east and west
To sing my sorrows into rest;
For am the Earth of the wounded breast !
Ny children cry to the dumb, cold sky;
And millions mourn, and millions die,
Till even Eternity seems a sigh
Though the signal-lights of God / mark,
l long to sleep in the dreamless dark"
But star on star, of flaming sweep.
Made answer over the darkness deep,
Still In the Mighty Spirits keep
Are worlds that wander, and world that
weep,
For we hear. the echoes of grief above,
The song eternal whose breath is love.
1t thrills the nights and depths along .
Till all Eternity chants the song,
And the banner of Love is far unfurled
And streams thu ough the tears of a weep
ing world
Not on the darkness our cares we cast:
We shall sleep in Light on Loves breast at
last"
F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
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EU ening Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.


A neighbor of mine gave a little
ing I happened to be in her home.
The telephone bell rang. She an
swered it.
Did you really? I'm so glad. It's
so hard to tell whether peope really
have good time or not. Not really ?
Why, she's the hardest person in the
world to please. 1 was afraid she d
think the table decorations were
overdone. You'd like the recipe for
that salad? OF course I'd love to give
it to you. Yes, 1 am rather tired, but
success
My little neighbor came away from
the telephone glowing. Her eyes shone.
The rather dIspirited, was-all-the-
trouble worth while-after-all express
sion, so common to the day after, had
gone from her face.
Wasn't that just sweet of Mabel
she cried. "She called me up to tell
me what a success my party was.
That's just like her She always re-
members little things like that
Little things like that, yes,
suppose they are little. but, as I heard
the glad note in my neighbours voice
and saw the shine in her eyes, I
thought to myself, How big thought
fulness and the choice of the right
moment can make a little thing,"
There are some people who are al
ways doing these little things.
If such a one comes to see you and
some member of your family is i'll,
she is sure to call up the next day to
inquire and to be glad with you if he
is better or sympathize and cheer you
up if he is not. Its only little thing.
of course. but it makes you seem so
much less alone, it gives YOU that
warm sense that some one cares.
Again. L have some friends who
always remember when they meet me
to ask for those members of the fam
lily whom they have previously met,
and 1 know others who never think
of this gracious act
With some people this thoughtful
ness seems to be instructive with
others it has to be acquired with eff
fort, but the effort has manifold re-
wards One is the satisfaction of Civ
ing pleasure to others; another IS the
consciousness that one has attained
that degree of breeding; and another
is the knowledge that perhaps in the
next generation this thoughtfulness
will be instructive instead of ae-
quired.-(Prot by The Adams
Newspaper Service.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-07
RUssIA's NEW PLIGHT.

What are said to be tentative peace
plans that Germany is willing to pro-
pose or discuss are drafted along lines
that would make Russia the biggest
loser of the war among the Entente
Allies. But then Russia has been play
ing the role of goat" for the Allies
ever since the war began. OF the lar
ger nations making up the Entente
she has done the biggest fighting and
has been administered the biggest
lickings and it is now proposed that
she shall suffer bigger territorial and
other losses than any of the other
countries engaged in the war against
the Teutons. This may be agreeable
to her allies, but it probably won't
make much of a hit with Russia.
However. what could Russia do if her
allies were willing to make peace on
such terms. She would be helpless
to continue the war on her own hook
without the assistance of her allies in
providing her with war munitions and
money.
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Household Hints
Recipes for Winter Vegetables.


Baked Squash-Wash, cut into six
or eight pieces. lay on top shelf of oven
until you can pierce meat with a fork.
large spoon, add generous piece but
ter. pepper and salt to taste. and serve.
Yellow Turnips-The large winter
turnips are fine pared, cut in several
small pieces steamed until tender and
mashed Season with butter, pepper
and salt.
Dreamed White Tdrnips-Slfce the
turnips, cover with water, add one
half teaspoon salt, cook until tender,
generous piece of butter, tablespoon
OF flour to thicken.
Carrots are very nice prepared same
as creamed turnips.
Dreamed Cauliflower-Wash cut up
in small pieces. put in stew pan. cover
with water, salt slightly and cook I'M
til tender. Drain off water, add cup of
rich milk, piece of butter, salt and
pepper to taste.
cabbage cut up as for slaw; put in pam
nearly cover with water, cook until
tender. Drain off water, put a table
spoon of lard or bacon fryings in skill
let, turn in cabbage and stir often I'M
til slightly Drowned add one cup rich
milk or cream. Stir one tablespoon
flour into milk and just before dishing
up add tablespoon of vinegar.
Vegetable Oysters (Salsify) For
four or five persons use six or seven
of the oyster roots. Save the green
layers about the tops of root. Scrape
and slice into alter to keep them from
turning dark. Drop In slightly sailed
boiling water. boil till tender lift out
of water and mash, and if there are
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circulation in the districts that The
reelection of particular statesmen
shall be assured. Shall we have u
public buildings bill this year %
Every congress asks itself this ques-
ton. Every one that has the cou,-
age-and congress is usually courage
Gus on these points-answers it in
the affirmative. The federal govern
ment is now spending about 10000
0oO a year in public works of an archi-
tectural character. Next to pensions
and rivers and harbors, public build
ings make up our greatest pork bar
al
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In the Red River valley of Mime
sofa may be seen some of the magical
effects of the mirage that forms so
striking a feature of an arid or semi
arid region. Warren Upham describes
it as follows:
The mirage. typical of plains coun-
try or the ocean, may be seen in the
Red River valley almost any sunshiny
This queer phenomenon makes the
high land at the sides of the valley
and the tops of the distant trees and
houses appear to be raised little
above the horizon, with narrow strip
of sky between. The more complex
and astonishing effect of mirage may
be seen from the highland on either
side of the lake-bed floor. There, in
across the valley from one and one
half to two hours after sunrise on a
hot morning following a cool night,
the groves and houses, villages and
grain elevators loom up to two or
three times their true height and
places ordinarily hidden by the cur
vature of the earth are brought into
view. Oftentimes, too, these objects
are seen double, being repeated in an
inverted image close above their real
positions and separated from it by a
foglike belt. In it's most perfect de-
velopment the mirage shows the upper
and topsy-turvey portion of the view
quite as distinctly as the lower and
true portion
These appearances are due to re-
fraction and reflection from layers of
air of different density, such as are
often formed above wide expanse
of level country in warm weather.
Northern Pacific Guidebook, T. s
Geological Survey.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record
Speaking of poor relations, a cousin
once removed may come back again.
Times must indeed be bad when
even bricks are hard pressed for
money.
Electrocution may be more humane
than hanging, in spite of the shock
ing details.
The theory that the good die young
offers little inducement to the aver
age small boy.
Lots of things are too good to keep,
but a good cook is seldom numbered
among them.
When a woman gets the idea that
she is an interesting invalid, her all
ment is apt to become chronic
When a man asks for your honest
opinion of him, don't give it unless
you are prepared to lose his friend
ship.
Milly-"Beauty, you know, is only
skin deep" Billy-"That's all right.
Most men don't care for a deep wo-
man."
"Politeness is never wasted re-
marked the Wise Guy. Just the same
it doesn't do much good to say
please to a mule" replied the Sim
pie Mug.
First Baldhead-"Does the eleva-
ton of the stage seem necessary to
you?" Second Baldhead-"Y since
the chorus girls have all taken to
wearing long skirts"
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all these years I've been married to
the one girl meant for me. But why
didn't you tell me?"
If you must know I will tell you,
Ronny. Sit down and be sensible.
Suppose l had told Your gambling
instinct, that fatal part of you that
depends upon superstition and chance,
would have been million times
worse l didn't dare tell YOU
Once alone in her own room, his
wife marched straight to the mirror
and looked herself in the eyes. Am
l any different since I've acted a lie?"
she asked the wholesome reflection
which confronted her. How could
l tell him that the, dressmaker's girl
found the handkerchief on her way
to our house and gave it to me? But
I'll let him think what he likes now.
1t will make him happier and it won't
hurt him to love me even more than
he has in the past."-(Copyrigh 1916,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
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THE SNOW MAN.

Lets make a snow mani" cried
the children as they jumped off the
porch ready for a Saturday morning 5
play. Tets make a snow man that
will last all winter"
"All right, let's!" agreed everybody,
and they set to work.
The boys shoveled great piles of
the damp, heavy snow. The girls be-
gan the task of shaping the snow man
and everybody worked their hardest.
1t is not much wonder that with
three boys and two girls working as
these young folks did. a very hand
some snow man soon stood in the
front yard, is it?
Alice ran in the house for a bit
of red flannel for his lips: Sue made
a raid on mothers button box for big
black buttons for the front of his coat.
and the boys found a stout club for
his cane.
There. now" cried Jack, when lips,
buttons and cane were in place, did
you ever see a better snow MANI"
The children regarded their work
critically. Il think he ought to have
hat" said Edward. II am going to
the attic to find one"
And I'm going to give him some
blue marble eyes" said Tom. land
make him some stylish black eve
brows of coal SCOT"
The children laughed gaily and ad-
mired the improved snow man more
than ever.
There, now" they said as they
went in to lunch, there's a snow man
that will last us all winter"
But did it? Wait and see.
That night something happened.
Something very serious to the lives
and well-being of snow men. A Janu-
airy thaw began.
Hardly had the sun set when the
warm, gentle winds from the south
f.er Al ,srr1, l.
blew and blew. Till the roofs began
a-dripping. Till the icicIes that hung
from the caves leaked themselves to
nothingness, and the snow vanished
from the yards and house tops
And still the south winds blew and
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Journal Entries

Evidently the pride that goeth be-
fore a fall is slippery.
+ + i
What has become of the fash
Toned man who hid his light under a
bushel?
!. + 4.
Regardless of chose good old days."
most thoughts of the past are painful
+ j. =
After a man RECEIVERS from an all
ment, the size of his doctors bill is
likely to make him sick again.
E + =
Did any candidate for office ever
make vote by bowling profusely to a
man whom he never deigned to notice
before he became a candidate?
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it puts first of all the prevention of
disputes. And it is just there that the
child of the waterways treaty, the in
ternational joint commission. finds it's
greatest field of usefulness. 1t has al
ready settled a number of matters of
difference, and doubtless will dispose
of many more in the future, but its
supreme value to the United States
and Canada lies in the fact that it's
mere existence has an increasing ten
dency to prevent such disputes.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


GFrom the Chicago News.1
Resignation may be good sauce
for adversely.
Too many glasses may make a tum-
bier of a man.
Jonah was a conundrum-an the
whale had to give him up.
Speaking of educated snakes, the
adder's in a class by himself
A woman may have a poor memory,
but she never forgets compliment
Woman's silence signifies more than
mans because it is much less fire.
quent.
The naughty schoolboy is always
glad when he sees the teacher lay
down the rule.
It's perfectly safe to loan money to
a man who promptly returns a Dor
rowed silk umbrella.
successful man is one who sue
ceeds in making others think as much
of him as he does himself