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The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

busheI The hog crop seems to be
good. but the provision market is kept
up by high priced corn and a general
European demand. Butter, eggs and
meats are moving from this country
thru Canada to Great Britain, and to
great extent in pursuance with con-
tracts made last summer. The
materials for manufactures have also
been advancing under the extraordi-
nary demand, coupled with a short
yield of such as are produced from the
soil. Cotton has touched 20 cents per
pound within the last week. the high
est gold price ever known in this coun-
try, if certain cornered deliveries be
excepted. The crop was cut short
by floods. Wood is another
scarce article, due to the enormous
consumption for the armies and the
British embargo. The iron and
steel industry is becoming seriously
embarrassed by a shortage of coke and
coal, due to a shortage of labor and
Of cars. There is nothing in cur
rent conditions to indicate an early
change in the industrial situation. EN-
PAoS AAAOAt - AuAi, wages are dONdI1CluSs
the agricultural districts are very pros
porous. and the railroads have more
business than they can readily handle.
There is much that is abnormal and
unsatisfactory in the situation, but the
volume of production and consump-
ton is unprecedented, and will doubt
less continue on this level while the
war lasts. While it is true that the
volume of our foreign trade is but a
small percentage of our domestic
trade, it is evident that the former is
at this time a tremendous factor in the
latter. Our exports for the last four
months have been running at the rate
of $6,o00,000 per year. .. The
money market is controlled by the i'm
portations of gold, and no material
change in rates is to be expected while
they continue on the present scale
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

she said to the maid servant, "and
point out to Mrs. B. that her chickens
bother US a good deal, and ask if
she'll kindly try to keep them at
home"
The girl returned with a satisfied
look on her face. II don't fancy we
shall ave 'em round ere again in a
'urry, ma am," she replied.
'I hope you were polite. Jane" re-
marked the mistress.
"Oh, yes, ma'am,' came the reply.
" 'Missus' respects I sez, an if your
chickens amt KEEP at 'ome you won't
be gettin' 50 many eggs of a mornin'.
and we shall be eatin' poultry
A beautiful young lady interviewed
a fortune teller on the usual subjects.
Lady" said the clairvoyant, you
will visit foreign lands and the courts
of the kings and queens You will CON
quer all rivals and marry the man OF
your choice. He will be tall and dark
and aristocratic looking
And young?" interrupted the lady
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globe.1

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The man who isn't afraid of his
wife is a single man.
If money were more plentiful, prob
ably more people would marry for it
A boy never feels the need of ex-
ercise enough to walk when he can
ride.
II there were some way of backing
up their orders, more men would be
czars.
A true American is one who doesn't
care much for king unless he has a
pair of them.
A burglar is much less dangerous
than the pistol kept about the house
to chase him away.
If you know enough to keep still,
one important part of your educa-
ton has been attended to.
The school of oratory should take
more pains to provide its graduates
with terminal facilities.
There is apt to be something the
matter with the man who is always
finding fault with the neighbors
Link Preston says he never inter-
feres with his wife's politics so long as
she votes the way he wants her to-
A land lubber who has been to sea a
few times is curious to know what the
jolly old tar finds to feel jolly about
A brakeman was kicking on a res
| taurant in a town he recently visited
Nothing but the prices came up to
| expectations he said.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
SIDE T TALM S
Report Cards for Life.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Do you remember the report cards
you used to get when you were in
school? OF course you do. That is
the sort of thing one doesn't forget in
a lifetime I can shut my eyes now
and see those little black G's and FNs,
with an E for English and a P for
drawing 1--WE were marked by the sys-
tenn of Excellent Good, Fair, Poor.
and capital B, alleged by teachers to
stand for Very Poor, when one could
plainly see that it was the initial of a
shorter and more emphatic word).
To return to the main road.
wouldn't it be rather good idea If
there were some one to give US report
cards later in life2 Not on or
studies, but on such things as social
tact. manners, self-expression, etc.
1t would be interesting to see how
one stood, wouldn't it? And don't you
think many girls who stood well in
other departments would be surprised
to find what a bad mark they would
get in expression? 1 do. And I have
a letter friend who feels, the same
1t was her experience that prompted
me to write this reminder. Here it is.
1.-TWO girls sat behind me at the
theater the other night. Ihelr con
versation was sprinkled with perfect
ly grand fine and dandy just swell
and I never was so thrilled in all my
life When the heroine died, one girl
said, tearfully, That just gets my
goatl' They expressed yes and no
by grunts.
when I left the theater 1 looked
at those two slangy young people
They were pretty, refined looking
Young girls Then I thought of what
they had said. Their sentiments had
been refined enough, but it was diff
cult to believe that ladies could ex-
press themselves in such a common
way, and 1 was puzzled as to how te
place them
so often girls say, 1T is natural fol
me to speak with twang, or to use
slang 1t would be affected if I die
not 1t is natural, also, to speak in
correctly, to eat with your fingers, tc
tell people ycu do not like to go home
and to do various other rude and un
civilized things. But you do not wan
to behave like a young savage, or t.
act and talk like an uncultivated anf
common person. You may say tina
all education is in sense unnatural
bu. that does not keep it from being
an improvement"
What the woman behind woulC
think of ones conversation is an in
teresting question to ask ones self
isn't it2-tCopyright by George Mat
thew Adams-)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

By BRINKERHOFF

Fresh Fish Chowder-Four pounds
fish, one-fourth cup butter, one-half
teaspoon salt, one onion sliced, three
cups sliced potatoes, one quart hot
milk, one-half cup cream, one-half
teaspoon black pepper. While dress
ing the fish, dress the heads. These
with the skins and bones should be
covered with cold water. Let sim
mer for half an hour, then drain off
the broth. Melt the butter: in it cook
the onion until soft. Then add boil
ing water to cover and let simmer five
or ten minutes. Cook the potatoes un-
til dry, add the fish stock. The fish
cut in very small pieces and the liquid
from the onion. Let the whole SIM
mer ten minutes; add the hot milk,
cream and seasoning; mix and serve
with crackers.
Cocoanut Cream Pie-Two cups
milk, two eggs (yolks only, six table
spoons sugar, two tablespoons corn
starch, vanilla or lemon. Heat milk
in double boiler, beat eggs with sugar
and stir into milk, thicken with moist
ened cornstarch and cook till thick
pour into baked crust and use beaten
whites for meringue with generous
sprinkling of cocoanut; put in oven
to brown.
Prune Pudding-One-half pound
prunes, one-half cup granulated tapi-
oca, one cup sugar, one-half cup seed
ed raisins, one-half teaspoon salt.
Cook prunes until soft Strain from
juice and remove stones. Add enough
water to juice to make one quart, and
in this cook the tapioca until clear
with the salt. Add the sugar, stoned
prunes and raisins. Cook fifteen min
utes, stirring constantly. Turn into
mo1ds and serve ice cold
Tuna Salad-Flake one can of tuna
fish. Prepare one cup tender celery
cut in thin strips, one-half teaspoon
finely chopped onion and one small
green pepper cut in small bits. Mix
these with the fish, season to taste
with salt and paprika and moisten
with any good salad dressing.
Tuna Loaf-This is very good for
the main dish at dinner. Beat one
egg very light and add to it one cup
bread crumbs, one cup tuna fish pick
ed into bits, one cup milk, salt and
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
Find Horned Mems Skulls.

The archaeologists who are travers-
ing the Susquehanna river to the bay.
visiting sites of Indian villages and
digging up aborigine and other relics.
are said to have made a most astound-
ing discovery on the Murray farm.
near here, in finding the bones of
sixty-eight prehistoric men.
The average height of these men
when their skeletons were assembled
was seven feet, while many were much
taller. Additional evidence of their
gigantic size is found in the massive
stone battle axes in their graves. The
average age of these men is said to
have been from 80 to 40 years.
Another amazing point of this dis
coyery is the allegation that perfect
ly formed skulls were found from
which horns grew straight out from
the head."-New York SUM-
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
BED TIME TALES
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN.
by CLARA INGRAM JUDSON

SPLASH Splash Splast-ity splash
Splash down the creek went the
three bears. Their big padded paws
sent showers of water all around and
started the birds and the fishes.
But the bears didn't care. no sir!
They were watching for the third
hollow sycamore Kingy Fisher had
told them was the home of Why,
the Owl.
There it isl" exclaimed the Great
Black Bear. Now you all keep
quiet and I'll growl and call him out.
R-er-er-off. R-er-er-offi"
No answer from the tree
You don't know how to growl."
snarled the Big Black Bear. .let me
call him R-er-oufffff, R-er-oufffffi
No answer
climbed.
Now the Black Bear was smaller
and nimbler than the other bears
and he mad no trouble climbing the
sycamore tree to the first big hole
where he supposed the owl must be
hole he growled, "R-er-cr-er-er-off
Softly but very plainly that way.
you can't do it, Wait till 1 come.
said the Big Black Bear from the
ground. So he climbed up the tree
and growled at the Owls hole but got
no answer
"You bears don't know how to
growI loud enoughl" cried the Great
Black Bear from the creek Let me
sL.w you how TO wake him" So
he climbed slowly up the tree and
owls hole But not a sound or a
sight of an owl did he get in reply.
Lets grow1 all together" sug-
gested the Black Bear who was get
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

The prospect of the establishment
of a municipal grocery store IN San
Francisco as an agency to assist the
poorer classes of the city to meet the
increasing costs in food products sug-
gests that soup houses may be IN oroer
in this country this winter notwltn-
standing the wonderful prosperity that
the nation is enjoying. It's pros
perity, you know. that falls far short
of reaching all the people, and In
countless instances the ones who need
1t most.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Doing ones best often doesn't ac-
complish much.
X X X
Nor are the physical towards nearly
so numerous as the moral variety
X X X
Few men are as brave as they would
lead others to believe they are.
X X X
And the chances are there is much
silent crying over milk that's been
spilled.
X y X
Nobody sees his follies in the proper
perspective until he has to climb ont
of theS1ole they have dug for him.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

Yes. and very rich
The beautiful lady grasped the for
tune teller's hands and pressed them
hard.
Thank you," she said. Now tell
me one thing more. How shall 1 get
rid of nv present husband ?"
Black want to put my money
into something safe. White-Try
fireproof vault.
Madge-To save time, why don't
YOU wear your bathing suit under
your street clothes? Majorie--How
can 1, dear? 1t shows.
Gwendolyn-I don't believe Cholly's 9
ever done anything to be ashamed of.
Gladys-How could he? He's never
done anything at all.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
.wEAyER OLE pREAMs..

Weaver of Dreams come near l pray,
And over the web .-at you now behoio'
Weave all the tones of a summer day
The silver of dawn, and the sunsets goiu-
Weave all the magic of leaf and tree,
OF lifting song 'bove a crowded nest,
The wing weary winds soft melody,
The MONDAY sun on the hills dark crest.
The sheen of the sky and the waters sheen,
Weave them-oh, weave them with touch
SO true
And the bar of color that runs between,
Weave 1t, ask, of your brightest hue.
Nor time, nor chance, nor aching tears
Can change the pattern that day by day
My hands have woven throughout the
years.
So, Weaver of Dreams, let the wonder
thread
That ever and aye from your fingers run.
Weave out the gloom of a day that's dead.
Weave in the gleam of a day begun
The Peoples Home Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

No wonder the Deutschland was
able to carry a cargo valued at s1O.-
100000 on her second trip to these
shores, when $4,000. 900 of it was made
Of stocks and bonds and other secur-
tiles to be used in strengthening Ger
many's credit here.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

Senior Aguilar. Carranza's foreign
minister, is not without a rare sense
of humor. He suggests to England
that she can solve the problem of the
operation of German U-boats in Amer
ican waters if her navy will see to it
that these submarines are prevented
from leaving their home stations.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

Some Villa bandits were about to
kill a foreigner who got in their
clutches under the impression that he
was an American citizen. When he
convinced them he was citizen OF
Germany, they permitted him to go his
way in peace. Comment is unneces-
sary. But how shame-faced such an
incident must make every good Amer
lean feel
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

Not the least important issue that
is being voted on in several states to-
day is prohibition. And while the bus
mess of forecasting doesn't amount to
much, the probabilities are that this
most worthy cause will make some
progress today.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

Election day would bring even more
relief for the general public were it
not for the "I-told-you-so's" and in
Vulnerable other post-mortems which
win follow in its train.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

Just think of it, The weather bu-
reau has been reporting hot" nights
during the first week in November.
And they were mid-summery nights,
too. Anybody who can guess the Kan
sas weather is a humdinger of a
weather guesser.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

Many of the political prophets of
Yesterday will be streaking it for the
tall timbers and hiding place tomor-
row. A few of the more hardy ones,
tho. will face the music and with elab-
crate explanations that won't explain
ANYTHING at all.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BY ROY z. MOULTON.

We Done 1t.
The magazines now print lot of
Verse called free; 1T
Looks like this, though why
They suffer us such
Rot does puzzle one-something's
Amiss. 1t
Really must be clear
Enough-no one with any wit would
Doubt it-they would improve that high
brow
Stuff, to write in rhyme while they're
About it,
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
DINNER STORIES

Mrs. A. was considerably annoyed to
find her neighbor's chickens continu-
ously ~overrunning her garden
go round to the next door, Jane"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

Il leave my heart at your feet" The
proud beauty smiled and pointed to a
sign. Not responsible for hearts left
more than thirty days." 1t read.-Louis-
Vile Courier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

ting anxious to be on his journey,
but before the others could answer
what do you suppose happened? The
branch of the sycamore tree that the
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
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The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

three bears were on wasn't cry
strong because the tree was old and
hollow and all of a sudden it broke.
'k-smash and tumbled those three
bears into the creek,
And at that same minute. Why,
the Owl, flew home to his tree-hc
had been away all t time.-(Copy-
right-Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07

and he's going away tomorrow, poor
boy"
I'll come if it's yes" he cried.
''It is, m,"-(Copyright, 1915 by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-07
The Hickeyville Clarion.

Emil Hofer, our enterpriSing nard-
ware and seed salesman, favored US
with ballad at the Methodist social.
Grandpa Perkins wanted to know If
Emil wasn't pretty old to be having
the whooping cough. Buck up, Emil.
Elmer Jones. the most advanced
dresser of these parts and vicinity,
after wearing green and yellow shirts
all summer, has paid down two dollars
on a rag carpet topcoat for fall wear.
All, there. Elmeri
Ye Ed met Hod Peters, our witty
livery stable employe, latterly, and
asked how was his health. Pretty
bad" was Hod's quick reply. I'm
thinking of having it pulled"
All the best personal news are ap-
pearing in the Hickeyville Clarion
| (Adv.)
Our Hoppertown correspondent re-
ports a large adequacy of fine apples
in those parts. Don't forget your
! friends, Al.
Miss Lettie Sphinx, of here. returned
recently from a visit to her aunt s
folks near Hoppertown. When asked
| how she found the folks, Miss Sphinx
says she knew where they lived.
| Doc Fisher, our gifted M D., was
the victim of a cruel accident latterly.
Doc stepped from his new coupelet
| (auto) and stumbled, spilling the med
ical contents of his hip pocket. Hard
lines, Doc.
| Frantic Fables.
! once upon a time there was a
young girl who went to a neighboring
town to buy some pink insertion She
was all out
The young man behind the counter
at a leading dry goods dispensary was
a clever rogue. He had polish and
aplomb.
| 1t occurred to him that while at GER
tain unfortunate points her bones were
a bit manifest, yet her manner be-
spoke her the daughter of well-heeled
| parents He determined to solicit her
esteem. 1t seemed to him capital
idea.
To this end he leaned forward. in
quiring her wishes in Mr.. Francis
! Bushman's best manner.
When she explained her erTand he
seemed athraIl to each languid muir
mur. You should have seen him. 1t
was rich.
i Come to find out, he made a date
with her. They went buggy riding
together twice a week.
One lovely evening after he had
murmured into her right ear his
choicest selection of mush she leaned
on his neck and declared that he had
a beautiful heart. How could he love
a poor lonely girl who was only visit
ing (titter) her uncle and auntie and
whose laundry job (tee-hee) in the
city only paid eight dollars?
Good night
To stif1e his intense humiliation the
polished youth sought sedentary en-
ployment in remote township.
Moral: All has not gold that tit
ters.
1--WE thought he married burnette'
His wife is blond" they cried.
} Brunette is right. So had he, but
2 She dyed.
begging Your PardonD
Ladies, you who now and then
Wear the latest styles,
Hoping thus perhaps to en-
Thral1 us men the whiles;
; Ladies, well we know that fem
Inine skirts are shorter,
Still, with winds and-er-ahem!-
Do you think you orter?
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begging Your PardonD
Ladies, you who now and then
Wear the latest styles,
Hoping thus perhaps to en-
Thrall us men the whiles;
Ladies, we'll we know that fem
Inine skirts are shorter,
Still, with winds and-er-ahemi- !
Do you think you orter?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-21
MAY GET THE BANKERS
1t Is Expected That Topeka VIII Cap
ture the State Convention.

Everything points to Topeka as the
next meeting place of the Kansas
state bankers at their annual conven-
ton, according to w. w. Bowman, sec
rotary of the State Bankers assoc1a-
ton. There is little doubt that the
Topeka bankers will give the Kansas
men a cordial invitation to gather
here next week, Mr.. Bowman said this
morning.
In past years the state banking con-
ventions were a sort of a rotary affair,
meeting at Topeka, Wichita and Kan
sas City, Kan. But recently Salina,
independence and Hutchinson have
stepped forward and obtained conven-
tons. Returning to the old method
Kansas City, Kan, would be the next
meeting place but this year Kansas
City, will get the national convention
in September and it is hardly expected
she will reach out for the state con-
vention also.
Bankers Meet Today.
Chicago, March Thanking prob
lens of the middle west were discuss
ed here today at the convention of the
bankers associations of the central
states. Presidents of the bankers as
sociations of the following twelve
states were to attend as delegates:
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
Wisconsin, Ohio, North Dakota and
South Dakota.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-21
ADD 500 RECRUITS
First Week of Enlistment Shows In
crease Is Double Normal.

Washington, March 21-The first
weeks recruiting under the recent
resolution authorizing the enlistment
of 10000 men to bring the regular
army up to its full fighting strength,
has added more than 500 to the ranks.
Figures made public last night by Ad-
jutant General Mccain show that en-
listmentS during the week more than
doubled the normal total with ten Pa
cific coast stations yet to be heard
from.
The figures. as tentatively compiled,
show ratio of one man for every
5000 male population i'll Chicago, and
one for every 1900 in New York
There are fifty-four main recruiting
stations now open and 40 sub-sta-
tons Forty-four main stations had
reported last night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-21
New York stock Market.

wall St, New York, March 21-STOCKS
Profit taking exercised the usual effect,
munitions and semi-war shares yielding
one to two points and Bethlehem Steel
losing Is at sos Dealings diminished ma
terially and before midday the market was
undergoing process of assimilation.
United States Steel and Marine were
among the prominent stocks that more
than maintained early levels and with
Crucible the Locomotives, Westinghouse
and Mexican Petroleum made up the bulk
of the forenoon's operations. Weakness
of German exchange at the new low rate
of Il 7-16 and strength of Anglo-French
SIS were accepted as significant of foreign
conditions.
Bonds were irregular.
Stocks made general and very substantial
recoveries at today's opening from the
wea kness of yesterdays close. War issues
which suffered most at that time in con-
nection with peace rumors, scored initial
gains of L to 2 points, in some instances
recording greater gains. Initial offerings
of Crucible Steel, Westinghouse, Baldwin.
Anaconda Copper and Mexican Petroleum
were in blocks of one thousand to 1,5O0
shares, these being freely absorbed. Allied
specialties, including Industrial Alcohol,
Mercantile Marine preferred, American
Smelling and American Zinc rose IL to
points. Rails were firm but inactive.