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The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
JAYMA WMER JOTS

No man is fitted to live with the
angels, points out the Galena Times,
until he has learned to live with his
neighbor.
Some men talk international arbi-
tration all afternoon, points out the
Emporia Gazette, and then go home
and start family row.
There are indications, to Carl Brown
of the Atchison Globe, that after the
war the commercial clubs over in Eu-
rope are going to have a lot of work
to do.
AS the Ottawa Herald says, the in
nocent reader finds it hard to account
battlefields having been burned sew
eral times.
stranger was detained and ex-
amined at Parsons the other day be-
cause he had baggy coat sleeves. And
the examination disclosed the fact
that he had fifteen haif-pints of
whisky up one of the sleeves.
One man in a group talking politics
in Concordia on the day after election
said of the Democratic landslide, ac-
cording to the Concordia Kansan,
that the women did it." A Democrat
standing by merely said: "Ah, there,
Old Adam
One of the ballots that was cast
at Mcpherson had a cross after the
names of each of the presidential can
u1OdteS anu no OInef crosses on II.
And the McPherson Republican sur
misses that some one evidently wanted
to make sure of electing a president
The Atchison Globe complains that
Walt Mason's trousers do not fit, notes
the Lawrence Journal World, and it
adds: In these prosperous times of
the high cost of living, we claim that
man should not be criticized for
things like that. If he has any kind
of trousers he is in luck
A Junction City man told a Junction
City Union reporter recently of a
dream he had on the night before
election. He said he dreamt that he
went to the polling place to vote
When he arrived and was handed his
ticket the judge told him that as soon
as he marked his ballot and came
from the booth it would be read aloud
to see If it was properly marked The
man said he did not care to vote un-
der those conditions and started to
leave when an officer told him that
he had accepted the ticket and must
vote. He marked his ticket and was
trying to get away when he awoke
in sweat.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13

1907, was one of rapidly increasing
business and large purchases of equip
ment. Most of the vast number of
cars ordered in 1907 were delivered
in the fiscal year ended on June 80.
1908. Therefore, the five-year period.
from 1903 to 1908, affords an instruc
tive basis for comparison. The increase
in the total number of freight cars
in service in that five years was 49,
$50 and the increase In their tonnage
capacity was 24,133.3s4 tons. Since
then the railways have had some years
of good business, but most of them
have been bad, and therefore there
was a heavy decline in the order for
equipment. This is reflected in the
statistics of the interstate commerce
commission. Between the end of the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1908. and
the end of the fiscal year ended June
80. 1915, the increase in the total num-
Der of freight cars in service was only
229,003. This was 206,51 less than
it was in the preceding five years
The increase in the tonnage capacity
of'the cars in service was only 19,31s,-
1877 tons. This was 4,S14,597 tons less
than it was in the preceding five years
I'm spite of the fact that the in
creases in the number and capacity of
freight cars in the seven years ended
with 1915 were much less than in the
preceding five years, this latter period
of seven years was almost constantly
one of enormous car surpluses. Even
as late as August 1, 1915, the net sur
plus of freight cars in the United
States was 264,243 Then with amaz-
ing suddenness came the big increase
in traffic with which the railways
have been struggling ever since"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Plans for the observance of Ma
tional Medical Examination Day on
December have been announced by
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis.
The National association, together
with other organizations, is advocating
an annual medical examination for
every person, sick or well, and De-
cember has been set aside as one
of the feature days of tuberculosis
Week, December to 10.
Anti-tuberculosis associations, state
and local boards of health, wcmen's
clubs and other societies are cooper
ating to interest every one possible III
animation a year, preferably on this
special day. Physicians will make
special arrangements to devote De-
cember to medical examinations, and
clinics and dispensaries will prepare
to receive those who cannot afford to
pay a physician.
Some of the reasons why the human
machine should be inspected at least
annually. as given in a pamphlet on
sued by the National association are
these:
The physically perfect man is al
most impossible to find. Almost
every man who has reached the age of
80 has some impairment or defect of
his body. Out of 1000 men and wo-
men examined, 20 per cent were found
to have impairments of a more or less
serious nature, while all of the re-
of a minor character.
Out of the thousands who have been
examined and found to be impaired,
only 10 per cent imagined that there
was anything wrong with them; the
remaining 80 per cent supposed them
selves perfectly we'll" Many little
defects or impairments may be found
which, if allowed to continue without
| treatment, may result in serious and
perhaps fatal illness, such as Bright's
disease, tuberculosis, etc.
A thoro physical examination is not
expensive, and it is worth the cost to
know where ones health account
stands. If an inspection of your body
reveals little break that can be i'm
paired for a dollar or two, which is
cheaper, to let that break continue
until it becomes chronic tuberculosis,
cancer, or Bright's disease, which will
cost hundreds of dollars to treat and
which may never be cured, or to stop
it at its very beginning7
The time to prevent disease from
sapping your vitality is before it gets
foothold. The best way to discover
disease early is to have a periodic
overhauling cf your body, at least once
year.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
FACTS ABOUT CAR SHORTAGE.

The present car shortage, the most
serious which has ever occurred in this
country, is attributed by the Railway
rent ISSUE to the system of regulation
which has been in force for the last
ten years. The freight car situation is
deplorable. But it is more accurate
to say that the situation with reference
to facilities in general is deplorable
The railways get all the blame. They
cannot deliver cars to the shipper
when they do not have the cars They
cannot get the cars until the manufac-
turers have built them. The cars can
not be built until they have been or
dered, and they cannot be ordered un-
til the railways have money with
which to pay for them. For the last
few months they have been getting
the money and they are ordering the
cars. But it takes time to build cars
and not enough of them are on the
rails as yet to do much good Up to
fifteen months ago it would have been
but then the railways did not have
money enough to buy them.
The essential vice in the policy of
regulation" says the Railway Age Ca
zette, which causes it TO contribute
toward the development of such con-
ditions is that it so controls the rates
of the railways that most of them do
not in fat years earn enough money to
tide thom over the lean years. Con-
SeoueOf1v in the Iaap vaarS ,bo;~ -
penditures for maintenance, and for
improvements and increases of facili-
ties, are restricted to the utmost in
order to keep them out of bankruptcy.
and they cannot in the fat years make
large enough expenditures for main
tenance and large enough investments
in improvements to offset the heavy
retrenchments made in the lean years.
A policy which does not recognize the
! fact, as our policy of regulation does
not, that every industry has to go thru
bad as well as good years, but which
on the contrary is predicated on the
assumption that rates which are bare
ly sufficient for prosperous years will
be sufficient at any time, is bound a.
frequent intervals to give rise to such
conditions as those with which the
country is now struggling.
The changes which have taken
place in the car situation are, perhaps
best indicated by the increases which
have occurred in the number OF
freight cars in service and in thei1
tonnage capacity. The statistics of the
interstate commerce commission re.
garding the tonnage capacity of cars
begin with the year 1908. The period
! from 1908 up to tie panic in October
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13

two girls stopped beside him. What
is st." Sarah asked drawing Mamie to-
ward her. Can we help?''s
IF you will be so good" He spoke
to Mildred Mrs. McCallum has had
a rather severe heart attack and I
have brought her to you. 1 was sure
you would take her in. She needs
care. That wagon, good enough to
camp in, is no place for her in her
present condition and there seems no
place else for mother and child except
with you 1 will take John to my
rooms"
Sarahs eyes twinkled. There was
no asking if it would be convenient, no
expressed regret at the added burden
to an already full life. just a taking for
granted that his wishes would be car
ried out without question. Sarah was
familiar with that attitude of his mind
and looked at Mildred to see how she
would accept this disposition of herself
and home and found that young wo-
man accepting the situation as mat
ter of course.
A week later the two girls were in
their usual lounging place. Sarah on
the steps, Mildred in steamer chair.
Mamie was with her mother, who was
better. The two upon the porch had
been silent for some time when Sarah
at last aroused herself from her
thoughts, yawned, stretched her arms
above her head and said. with a trace
of amusement in her voice:
''I did get a story, Mildred, but not
the one you thought. There were a
good many ends to be gathered togeth-
er, yet they merely led to a situation >"
She paused for a minute, looking out
into the dusk, then continued slowly
zone of the ends was held by a little
child. Another was in the weak hands
of a man and woman Still another
led from a broken engagement to a
self-contained man whose sole thought
save in one instance, is absorbed in
his profession"
"And that instance?" Mildred asked
with a show of interest. Sarah turn
ed her head lazily and laughed.
MY dear. 1 saw him kiss you last
night. ht.'-(Copyright, 1916, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
UNEvEN sOCIAL PROGREss.

There is a danger that people shall
make uneven progress in the several
phases of their social life; that prog
gress that be made more rapidly in
some departments than in others,
states Prog. w. A. Garfield, in the
November Case and Comment. 1t is
the danger that social ideals shall run
forward with swifter pace than the
change in institutions of peoples life.
The great world war of this very hour
is. a striking illustration of the fact
that we have made progress in inter
Rational commerce much more swiftly
than has been our advance in inter-
national law and justice. The forces
that make for friction between the
states have increased more rapidly
than our knowledge of methods by
which to keep our relations smooth.
The great industrial wars within our
own state are another striking illustra-
tion that in our American life our in
dustrial progress has been much more
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13

swift than the progress in our concep-
tions of social morality and justice
The vexing questions of the modern
American city are still another illus
tration of the fact that the American
city's growth has been much more
rapid than our knowledge of how to
live together in the congested centers
of urban life. Every generation must
have it's inherited institutions revital-
lied. Social harmony is possible only
when all phases of human life keep
even step.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13

The prediction that the prohibition
movement will sweep the country dry
inside of four years may be a trifle too
optimistic, but either national prohi-
bition or prohibition individually by
almost all the states is assuredly on
the way, and it won't be so many years
before it is realized. Some significant
gains for the cause of prohibition were
made in last Tuesdays election and
none more so than the reversal of the
sentiment on this question in Jackson
county, or Kansas City. Mo-, even if
Missouri did vote as a whole to con-
tinue in the wet column.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
BED TIME TALES
sLIppY wHrrE-MoUsE HAS A SCARE.
by CLARA INGRAM JUDSON

Slippy White-mouse needn't have
thought that because nothing hap
pened the first minute she crawled
under the cornfield fence, that nothing
would happen. Had she been little
older and a good deal wiser, she would
have known that the important things,
the big things, hardly ever happen
right away. But being very young,
and none too wise. Slippy didn't know
that She thought that because the
country on the far side of the fence
was quiet and peaceful, because it had
grass. and dead leaves and all that,
lust like the ground at the edge of the
fence on the cornfield side, that there
was nothing to the stories she had
heard of the Wiggleisksken country
And that she needed to take no more
care than in the cornfield.
And right there was where she
made her second mistake. Her first
mistake was to go where her mother
had forbidden her; her second was to
be careless
SILLY folks, my brothers and sis
ters." she laughed gaily. They be-
lieve all they are told. Now | am
brave and courageous. / explore;
don't sit at home like 'fraidy. I'm
going way to the middle of this coun-
try and see everything there is to be
seem And off she started.
For a while everything went well.
Slippy found some nice, fresh food
just when she was hungry; she found
interesting things to look at; and she
had a beautiful time. And she was
just beginning to think that she never,
never would go back to that stupid
cornfield when she heard a great
noise. Such a crashing thru the
bushes, Such a putting and blowing
and snorting and growing, Slippy had
never heard the like in all her days.
She was far too frightened to hunt
a good, safe place to hide. She just
slipped hastily under a pile of dead
leaves and held her breath
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globe.1

IFrom the Atchison Globe
Keeping out of trouble is easier
than getting out.
Gossip doesn't have to be true to
be convincing to a lot of people.
The driver in an automobile race is
also lucky If he doesn't get killed.
If a man feels he is overworked, it
is sign he doesn't like his work very
we'll.
Some of the home cooking is
enough to explain why men leave
home.
A woman can't help it if she has big
feet, but white shoes are a matter of
choice.
If you know a sure thing, the
chances are you won't be able to get
a bet on it.
The defense is apt to make the
prosecuting attorney seem like the
real criminal.
never done is that there is so much
visiting to attend to.
An American man doesn't care
much for a title unless there is a SAL
ary attached to it.
The hostess should cheer up; some
times her guests aren't having such a
good time either.
Woman is rarely a mechanical
genius. but she can accomplish many
difficult stunts with a hairpin.
No man can make a very good
showing as an invalid. but there are
women who can if given proper spe-
cial scenery.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
MEMBER:
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Audit Bureau of Circulation.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Governor Hughes displays his excel
lent sense again in putting veto on
such plans as have been contemplated
by the Republican campaign man.
ayers to contest the presidential elec-
ton in several of the close states. If
the official count in these states con-
firms the apparent Wilson victory in
them and his reelection to the presi-
dency this will be satisfactory to Mr.
Hughes. and it should be the same to
everybody.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
1 HAD NO PURSE.

HAD NO PURSE.
CA Rondeau.)
1 had no purse with me today;
And when / found 1t out-well, say!
You little know the awful thrill
Which shock my nerves and seemed to
chill.
My blood. and turn life's gold to gray.
enc moment and my mood was gays
Then all was horror and dismay.
For when 1 came to meet the bill,
l had no pursel
1, who had shouted, "Let me payw
And waved all other hands away.
Was, as l stood there, stricken III
My face grew set and stern and stills
And what ! said was not au fait
l had no pursei
TX. L. Roberts, in Judge.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13

a little vinegar. four tablespoons of
sugar, one tablespoon salt, half cup
vinegar, little pepper. Beat vine
gar mixture into the cooked milk. II
it is too thick. thin it with evap-
GRATED milk This is good and will
keep till you use it up.
Carrot Salad - Two cups finely
ground carrots, one-half cup ground
English walnuts. Serve on lettuce
leaf with a good salad dressing. This
also makes a splendid sandwich fill
ing.
Lardless Crust for Pies-Two cups
flour, two tablespoons sugar, two
level teaspoons baking powder, one
half teaspoon salt. Sift twice. Place
two tablespoons melted butter, one
milk Cor milk and water) in cup and
add to sifted flour. Don't handle
much Divide in two or three parts
aid place in deep cake tins. making
room in center for mincemeat or
pumpkin filling. Bake twenty min
utes in quick oven. VIII serve six
or eight people. This makes two
layers or three small cakes
Graham Bread-One-half cup sug-
ar, one-half cup molasses, two cups
sweet milk one teaspoon soda dis
solved in hot water, three cups gra-
butter stirred in last Steam two
hours. Bake in oven half hour with
slow fire.
Pork Tenderloins With Sweet Po-
tatocs-Three-quar pound tender
loins, wipe and put in dripping pan,
sprinkle with set and pepper and
bake forty-five minutes. Five sweet
potatoes, pared and parboiled ten min
utas. Drain, put in pan with meat
and cook till soft. Baste with meat
juices.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
SIDE TALK S
Conversational Cheating.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Conversational Cheating.
How could you understand all that
complicated camera stuff about stops
and openings and shutters and F6
that ne was telling you?" Mollie ask
ed the Author-Man's wife the other
day.
81 couldn't" said the Author Mans
wife.
''Why, you acted as if you did, said
Mollie. "You kept saying. Yes and
of course" and Isn't it interesting p
and you sounded really interested"
"Of course, you silly" said the
Author-Man's wife. would I tell him
that he was talking Sanskrit as far
as 1 was concerned?'<
But why didn't you ask him to ex-
plain the things you didn't under
stand?"
"Horrors!" said the Author-Ma
wife 81 didn't want him to explain.
If it's anything 1 hate, it's explana-
tions, and if I had asked him ques-
ton, he would probably be explaining
yet. OF course, I pretended to under
stand. 1 always do when people talk
about things like that. He was salts
fled and so was 1. I like him and he
likes to talk about cameras"
suppose the method of the Author
Mans wife is familiar to most of u.s.
1 know I do. But I wish L didn't.
For when you come right down to
it, isn't it cheating, conversational
cheating?
People talk to you in good faith and
you cheat them. You give them a
pretence of understanding instead of
honest understanding. You say Il
see'' and How in-<esting." when you
don't see, and it isn't the least bit in
teresting to you.
Your smiles and the bright, sympa-
thetic tones of your voice mask wan
dering attention. You are talking of
baseball or cameras or politics or ma
chinery, and you are thinking of what
you would better have for dinner, or
of that book you want to get back to.
And. like all impostors. you cheat
not only the other party, but your
self For, if you listened with your
mind instead of merely with your ears.
if you tried honestly to understand, if
you asked intelligent questions and
listened to the answers. you would
learn something. you would train your
mind, you would widen your sympa-
thies. It does not pay to cheat, even in
conversation--(Co Copyright by George
Matthew AdamS.)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13

ton of President Wilson is more or
less selfish. of course. Japan figured
out a Republican victory as meaning
a protective tariff law that would not
give her products and manufactures
such easy sailing in American mar
kets. Incidentally, such a tariff
might come in handy before long for
American labor, and especially if it is
forced to compete to any extent with
the excessively cheap labor of Japan.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13

There is surely considerable food for
thought among the educators in the
suggestions of J. H. Francis, super
intendent of the Ohio schools. that
teaching by grades should be abol
ished, and the group system substi-
tuted. AS he declares, it is an impos-
sibility to lay out a single course of
study for twenty or more children, or
one that will provide their educational
needs according to their talents
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES


Good advice is the kind you give,
and never the kind that you receive.
X * -
General Industry leads the way to
most of the victories in the battle of
life.
X X x
Most of the explanations that are
passed out freely are far from being
satisfactory
X x X
Any number of folk are delighted
to receive compliments that they do
not even deserve
x X
1t is often the case that a man only
1magines he has reached the end of
his rope.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13
Stone Age Loving.


The lover of the stone age was a
nervy sort of cuss; what a way he
had of wooing when he had girl to
fussi Would he send her flowers and
candy and do all that sort of rot?
Would he take her to the movies?
He most certainly would not If he
sure was badly smiten and was diff
fident and shy, he would skip behind
a lamp post while his love was going
by. With his stone club in his mitt
he'd closely eye the little dear and at
just the proper moment smack her
smartly on the ear. Then he'd tote
her off and wait till she'd recovered
from her swoon, whereupon they'd
see the parson and be on their honey
moon. To be sure he had his worries,
as for instance, when in verse he'd eX-
press his gentle passion-do an ode
or something worse. With slab of
stone before him he would chisel all
the night (Which of course was rather
silly as he really couldn't write.) Then
he'd drag the thing (such spelling! it
was very poor indeed) to his sweet
heart Chat was foolish for of course
she couldn't read.) But they loved
each other dearly and tho it may puz-
zle you how they understood each 9TH
er, lovers very seldom do. And the
talk they talked in those days-such
outlandish words to sayi (They were
ALMOST as outlandish as the words
they use todayD
The Poor Shimps.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemuel H. Halter and
daughter Annabelle, and Mrs. Mary J.
Halter, were entertained for tea Sun
day evening at William H. Shimp's.
Prayer meeting will be with Shep-
pard B. Shimp at Cohansey, Friday
evening. 80 +
Friends in our vicinity received news
of the sudden death of Mrs. Sara
House, wife of Jacob House of Allo-
way Mrs. House was the daughter
of the late George Shimp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Shimp and
Mrs. Rachel Baner, of Jericho, and
Mr.. and Mrs Newton B. Shimp, visited
at S. B. Shimp's at Cohansey Sunday.
Elmer (N. j. Times.
Lines to q Nut Sundae SALESMAN.
We are not smitten on your golden molar,
Nor on your manner and your mincing air,
Tho we are mild and seldom moved to
choler.
We do not like the way you do your hair.
Why must there ever on your visage lurk
A smirk?
AS you dish phosphate, sundae or root
beer up.
We cannot think of peace at any price:
We yearn to douse you in the chocolate
syrup,
To soak your vacant mind in lemon ice.
All, could you know how we are fain to
tweak
Your beaki
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-13

Russia promises to see that its
''brave little ally" Rumania, does not
suffer for espousing the cause of the
Entente Allies. But this seems to be
a good deal in the nature of locking
the stable door after the horse has
been stolen. Rumania appears to
have suffered pretty close to the limit
already.