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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
EUening Chat
That Obstacle.
BY RUTH CAMERON.


A little friend of mine had worked
very hard for a prize in a competition
and failed.
She was very dowE-hearted.
do you know what the trouble
with your essay was?" l asked.
HE" (the p1ofessor) said my idea
was good. but that the essay wasn't
well constructed"
I'm other words, that you were very
fortunate not to get the price"
What do you mean2"
THAT if there had been no other
essay in the competition good enough
to take the prize away from you, you
wouldn't have realized that you were
weak in your construction and
wouldn't have tried to improve your
self as you will now
DO you really think there is any
use in trying"
Shame on yout" said I. And then
told her about Robert Brinsley
Sheridan.
spoke in public he was a complete
failure.
Instead of saying that his audience
was unsympathetic, or that he hadn't
had time to prepare his speech, or
that he guessed he didn't want to be
an orator after all, he gritted his
teeth and said:
1T is in me, and by heavens it shall
come out"
And then he went to work to push
away the obstacle that was keeping
back that power he felt within him.
Who has not felt the power to ac-
complish things of one sort or an
other stirring within him? And who
has not felt defeated and baked at
the meagre things he has actually
accommodated
If one could only get that power
out! But, alasi there seems to be
some obstacle blocking the way.
OF course there IS, that's part of
the conditions of human life; but
there need be nothing discouraging in
that.
Say with Sheridan, ct is in me,
and by heavens it shall come out"
and then hurl yourself at that OBJ
Stacle-whether it be laZineSS, pro-
crastination, slipshod work, too much
love of comfort, impatience of imme-
date returns, vanity, lack of proper
address, imperfect grooming, or what
not-and push it out of the way. Or
better still, by patient, hard work, by
eternal vigilance, break the obstacle
to bits and let the power through.
! Discoura genents will come, and
what may seem for the moment utter
/ defeats. They cannot be defeats, I'M
less you permit them to be so. If
you take from them whatever lesson
they contain ana d grimmer deter
| mination to win out ultimately they
are only stepping stones on the way to
success. 1t isn't the fact that you're
down that counts. It's only the way
you take it..
Perhaps you may be wondering, in
case you don't happen to remember.
i whether Sheridan made good his
boast 1 saved shat for my snapper
/ a-purpose. Sheridan became one of
the greatest orators of all times.
When he spoke at the impeachment
| of Warren Hastings, people paid as
high as fifty guineas to hear him.
And that money meant more then
than it does now.
The next time temporary failure
| balks you, suppose you think of
Robert Sheridan, and instead of Won
dering if it is worth while to keep
ION trying, set your teeth and say
with him, 1T is in me, and by heav-
ems it shall come out protected
iby The Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
tFrom the Philadelphia Record.


You never can tell. Many a white
lie has left a black mark behind it.
Diplomacy is sometimes the art of
knowing enough not to know too
much
It's when a man realizes that he
has been taken in that he is apt to feel
put out about it.
Many a man who stands on his dig
nifty merely succeeds in shutting off
someone else's view.
AS a rule a girl only begins the
dream a career after her other dreams
have failed to pan out.
The fellow who marries for money
often looks as though he had earned
it, but had some difficulty in collect
ing.
send a pair of shoes by parcel post In
fact, you can even stamp your feet.
Queer thing about our bills. They
have a habit of running long time
without getting any farther away
from us.
The hotel clerk will tell you that
he sometimes has difficulty in getting
rise out of a guest who leaves an
early call
Tcmmy-"Pop, what is an opti-
mist?" Tommy's Pop-"An optimist,
my son, is a person who not only
hopes for the best, but actually ex-
poets to get ii"
Wigg-.What makes you think he
is so enormously rich?" WagG-"Wel,
the evidence is purely circumstantial.
He's so old ard ugly, and his wife is
so young and beautiful"
SilIicus-"I have always understood
that a crazy person thinks everyone
else is insane Cynicus-'Yes, on the
same principle that love is blind be-
cause it thinks everybody else is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Extreme naval enthusiasts are MAX
ing much medicine out of the testi-
mony given by Admiral Winslow be-
fore the naval committee of the house
battleship could easily sink the entire
United states fleet in the Pacific. But
the admiral also stated that he was
not at liberty to disclose at a public
session of the committee what plans
the navy department had for meeting
an emergency in either the Pacific or
the Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

From what black nadir of accursed stars
Falleth this rain of blood upon the world
From phantom zones like those round
Saturn whirled,
Where souls embattled spurn their prison
bars
Who once on earth waged avaricious wars
What if Gods time fulfilled, we now are
hurled
Where dead worlds wheel and wonder at
their scars
Then vainly. Captains, were your flags
unfurled,
Life, Love and Beauty challenged thus.
reply:
We are the seed and aftermath of war.
And all wars slay in vain. Behold, We cry
Trium phantly without the little door
That call Peace but wisdom
Mystery ::
open. o Kings, things shall be as before"
Charles Hull Botsford, in the New York
Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

pecially the terrible bubonic plague,
and in this way have been the direct
cause of death to hundreds of thou
sands of human beings. Do not con-
fuse him with some of his cousins like
ths interesting trade or pack rat,
sometimes called the bushy-tailed rat
or the wood rat. This condemnation
is of the common. rat with whom
every one is familiar He is smart and
clover, and doubtless this is why he
has continued to live in spite of all
the persecution he receives. Kill him
whenever you can. but do it merci-
fully.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Possibly the coming back of the
forces Of Russia and their recent big
successes in the Caucasus are the rea-
sons for the furious drive that the
Germans are making in the western
war zone in the vicinity of Nerdun
Germany may be making a mighty eff
fort to stage such a victory in the
western arena of the war that the Al
lies would be brought to their knees
before the Russian steam roller has
the time to 10 any overwhelming bus
mess on the eastern front.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

and determined to see me well chap
eroned. One thing is clear however
she leaves me alone with B. P. every
chance she gets In fact, all mann
mas do. It's as plain as the nose on
your face that he is the catch of the
season. But I feel like calling him
papa, and if he and auntie have fixed
up anything between them, they can
get over it. After tea Z m going to tell
you something about Jack
After Tea-Here it is. Yesterday I
was up at 8, and after breakfast I
went to see how some of the new Jap
aneSe sunfiSh in the fountain were
doing. Quite by accident saw Jack.
he was saying, he told me he loved
was saying I told him I loved
him, too. And he kissed me and ran
away and I haven't seen him since. If
Aunt Margaret finds it out she'll send
ing, but I shouldn't care, if I thought
you'd get it all instead of me.
oh, what shall 1 do. 1 love Jack
and l can't bear old Portman. 1 Just
hate being thrown at any ones head;
I've about made up my mind to tell
Aunt Margaret the truth in the morn
ing, give her back the pearl necklace
and the bracelet and bandeau and
the furs and everything. and then
pack my trunk for home. But then
if I tell Oh, l dor't know what to
do. PEGGY.
J. I. !.
Tuesday, November Is.
Dear Silly: Just a note I'll write
details tomorrow. I'm the happiest
creature alive, for the most amazing
things have happened. Aunt Margaret
planned it all. She has known Jack
for years and wanted me 10 fall in
love with him. She said if I had
known about it I'd have been contrary
and fallen in love with some one elsei
Girls always do. So she persuaded
Jack to be her secretary and asked me
here on purpose. She said her little
opposition just helped it along, and I
guess it did. But you'll never be-
lieve me when tell you the rest. Ber
nard Portman is Jacks uncle and he
knew alt about it, too, and Jack is
his heir. Everybody is so happy
And 1 most of all.
Lovingly,
PEGGY.
-(Copyright, 1916, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

More evidence that the fertility of
the Kaw valley is as versatile as IS that
Of any other soil is to be found in the
announcement that three years of ex-
periments have proved that Flower
bulbs. or most varieties of them. can
be grown as successfully in it as in
New Jersey where most of the United
States grown supply is cultivated "r
IN the European countries from which
these bulbs have also been obtained
in large numbers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
On the Spur
of the Moment
\ Busy Woman.

\ Busy Woman.
There was a club woman who was always
so busy
She lived under pressure that rendered
her dizzy.
She belonged to ten clubs, read Browning
Mt sight.
Showed at luncheonS and teas, and would
vote if she might.
She served in a school board with courage
and zeal
She goifed and she kodacked and rode on
Il wheel.
She read Tolstoi and Ibsen, knew microbes
by name;
Approved of Delsarte, was a Daughter and
Dame.
Her children went in for high education;
Her husband went seward for nervous
prostration.
One day at her table she found one hour
free
The shock was too great; she died in
StantIy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

minority committee report to the
house on the rivers and harbors APP
preparation bill that carries an ap-
Preparation of $4O.O0O,0OO character
ICES it as an enormous waste of pub
lie funds, economically bad. and legis-
latively indefensible." And if there
ever were a time when the financial
condition of the government demand
ed that congress should desist in its
appOrtionment of pork, that time is
now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Peace talk on the part of some of
the members of the British parlia-
ment was nipped in the bud by the
declaration Of Premier Asquith that
England will not sheathe her sword
until Belgium and Serbia are freed
and Prussianism is destroyed. All of
which indicates that the great war
Will be Of lengthy duration unless the
Entente Allies arc able to make bet
ter progress than they have during
the past year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
Journal Entries

People who have to try to be anus
ing seldom succeed.
j +
When a man wants to do the right
thing he can usually find a way.
+ = +
When all is lost save honor, the lack
of a meal ticket is sure to be felt
most.
= !
Among the really clever individuals
is the one who can entertain a strange
baby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Not two nuts had he eaten. whom
VINO should come flying toward the
tree, but this same Mr.. Red He'd
Woodpeckerl 'I do hone ., soia -.s,. lu
my to himself, that he won't see mel
lhere are plenty of nuts for us ali"
But Timmy hoped in vain:
ar. led Head spied him the very
he shouted rudely. Haven't ia
you that this is my tree? And tbat
tnese are my nuts2 Get avyavl's An,S
ne rushed at Jimmy: rapp I'd him s1,ch
-, oiom on ms mead that Jimmy was
montpelier to his own connna,,,,S io
tSopyright-ciara Ingram Johnsonl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
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Evidently the wheat farmers of this
country are scers of no mean meas
urc. The acreage planted by them
last fail is considerably less than it
was a year ago. and the reports now
show a big slump in wheat exports
which is likely to continue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
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The State Journal is n member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
Telegraph report Of that great news or
Eauization. for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
nose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
WGara lnSraaJudsen

blizzard, Jimmy Graytail decided that
fresh hanging bcech-nuts would be n
very agreeable breakfast So no
hustled himself over to the nearest
beech tree, climbed its spreading
branches and began eating
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

But. of course, there are numerous
exceptions to what is now laid down
as the rule that the boys who play
hockey from school are not right in
the head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

Nothing goes out of style quicker
than vacuum cleaner unless it is
silk hat or an auto. The first one
we had worked with a handle like a
suction pump and a person with mag
nificent physique and in good training
could go over the floor of a small
room in one day without breaking his
back. You held the cleaner with one
hand and pulled with the other and
coaxing the microbes out of a six-by
eight rug was a process which occu-
pied an entire day.
Then they got the electric vacuum
cleaners. We didn't have any cleo
trio lights in the house at that time,
but had them put in just so we could
operate an electric vacuum cleaner.
Nobody in the world was going to
have anything on us in the way of
cleaners.
and the garage with vacuum cleaners
that were behind the times, we swore
off and we didn't buy a vacuum
cleaner for two months.
Yesterday a man came along with
a new vacuum cleaner that would
pulls the tacks out of a carpet or
would yank the paper off the wall.
1t would pull a mustard plaster off
from a mans back. When placed at
one end of the rom it would tear
out a plate glass window in the other
end of the room. 1t cleaned up all of
the known microbes and as it was
working only half capacity while so
doing they had invented three or four
thousand microbes that had never
been heard of before just to keep the
vacuum cleaner busy. In other words,
when they begun working the new
cleaner, it had pulled in microbes that
the scientists had never had the nerve
to discover, so tremendous was its
strength.
We put a mortgage on the house
and bought one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

At this time of year when you swat
a fly that happens to be living through
the winter in some warm place, you
really accomplish something. That fly
if permitted to live until May would
have laid $50 eggs that month These
would hatch in twelve days and each
would have laid $50 eggs and so on
until by September the offspring from
the one fly, if laid in rows, would be
ninety-two miles long, three miles
wide and 1000 feet deep. If you think
this statement is extreme, figure it out
yourself, but be sure to kill the fly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

What has become of the mud-scrap-
er that used to adorn the front door
step of every well regulated home ?
Kansas City Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
PEG.


Sunday, November IS.
Dear Sister: Such a whirl as it has
been since I wrote last. From ! 2 H.
until and a. m We hardly stop.
1 don't see how Aunt Margaret can
stand it, but she is 4 perfect Spartan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26

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Hom6Oie Der Jrrungell.

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gen! SD meme, Seui6refenidmar.
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