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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

All men are evil. but necessary evils.
So much of the energy is wasted
energy.
Your carelessness probably is your
hoodoo.
There's always a reason, but the
hammer is deaf and blind
The census taker counts, but many
of the rest of US merely estimate.
Sometimes the reactionary is only
guilty of the crime of common sense
What has become of the old-fash-
toned vocalist who had to be coaxed
to sing?
There are a lot of people who like to
be urged to do what they intend to
do anyhow.
The science of mechanics is old,
for there have always been men who
could hit automatically.
There is such a thing as being too
modest, but it rarely affects prize
fighters or press agents.
Alb. Adkins says he has an uncle
who is so stingy that the only lunch
he really enjoys in a free lunch.
You are apt to be tried in the court
of public opinion, and the conStitu-
ton can't guarantee justice in that
court.
In time the pacifists may demand
that the navy use the Chautauqua sa-
lutte instead of firing big guns.
If there is family skeleton, the
children can be relied upon to rattle
it a bit when there is company pres
ent.
One of the first lessons a woman
should learn is that it is NOR inn
portant for her to be neat than for her
house to be neat
Tennis is regarded as a sissy sort OF
game by those who never tried play
| ing it, and prejudice is responsible for
a number of other opinions of this
somewhat human race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

can never return. The missionary
cause is a steady advance; it never
loses ground Thus the daybreak is
spreading and soon the perfect day
will come, when the light of Christ
will envelop all the world.
Ger the gloomy hills of darkness,
Cheered by no celestial ray,
Sun of Righteousness, arising,
Bring the bright, the glorious day;
Send the gospel
To the earth's remotest bounds.
Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness.
Grant them, Lord, the glorious light;
And from eastern coast to western,
May the morning chase the night,
And redemption,
Freely purchased, win the day.
Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel,
Win and conquer, never cease;
May thy lasting, wide dominions
Multiply and still increase;
Sway Thy scepter.
Saviour, all the world around.
Rev. William Williams
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
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KITTY LOUIS DRINK

Kitty Lou, the pretty little
house cat, looked at her clean white
drinking cup with disdain-
Tn so tired of drinking out of you
all the time she said, as she pushed
the cup with her paw. "Other kit
tens don't nave to drink out of a
freshly washed white cup-they can
drink out of anything they find. And
l wish I could. too
Now anybody would have supposed
that dainty little gray kitten such
preferred to drink out of a nice,
clean cup. In fact she looked like
kitten who would touch water from
nothing else That simply shows
how deceiving looks arei Kitty Lou
with everything heart could wish for,
aspired for drink out of a puddle!
But, dearie me, With the careful
watching she received she had no
chance to run and hunt for dirty pud-
dles-or clean ones either for that
matter
But one morning Kitty Louis mis-
tress went to visit her grandmother
and that left Kitty Lou free for the
day, for all the grown folks of the
house were too busy cleaning house to-
pay any attention to a mere kitten.
So Kitty Lou, with a delightful sense
of adventure, wandered out into the
garden to see if something wouldn't
happen to her.
Mr.. Garden Toad was out taking
his morning hop and he 'kplumped
right in front of Kitty Lou as she
stepped into the garden path
Good morningl Good morningl
Good morning. Miss Cat said he, in
his most manneriy style.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
Euening Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.

Demonstrating the Recording Angel.
Could anything be more astonish-
ing that the completeness with
which some women let themselves go
in front of their household en-
ployees?
A woman who has recently hired
a new helper told me this little in
cident:
Il broke a vase that belongs to
my sister Phoebe, and you should
have seen Ellen. Her eyes actually
stood right out of her head
awful? Your sister'H be terrible
why, Ellen I said, of course
she won't 1t was only an accident
Ladies don't get mad over such
oh. yes. they do, ma'am.' she
said. They get terrible mad You
Ought to see some of the ladies l
worked for fighting with each other
Right before your
them fine ladies don't mind me any
more than if 1 was a doorknob-'
Again, in a roundabout way this
incident came to my ears.
An acquaintance of mine has a
children's maid. She was Mortified
the other day to hear her telling the
children to shut up, and at once CEN
sured her.
To which the maid promptly and
pertinently replied, But that's what
you say to them"
And it was
ITO marry says Stevenson. lis to
domesticate the recording angel"
The same thing can be said of hir-
ing domestic helper.
No one is in a better position to
study human nature without its best
clothes on than the household helper.
Employers 1 Have Known" what
book many a household helper
could write on that subject,
OF course there are a good many
employers who shiver at the very
thought of such a book Their shivers
betray them. The woman who is
afraid of what her servant could say
about her needs to turn over a new
leaf.
One of the most beautiful tributes
I ever heard was an unconscious trib-
ute paid a woman by her chauffeur.
She was riding in her machine with
friends and one of them jestingly ac-
cused her of doing something unkind.
To everyone's establishment, the
chauffeur, evidently greatly excited,
leaped the barriers of convention and
broke in with, oh. no, you mustn' [
say that: The Madame would never
do anything like that"
What would the helper in your
home, the washerwoman who works
for you, or your seamstress. say about
you?
1t is a suggestive thought, isn't it ?
protected by the Adams Newspa-
| per Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
You never can tell. A man may
have a long face because he is short
The wolf in sleeps clothing doesn't
always masquerade as black sheep.
The next best thing to getting rid
of our burdens is to make light of
them.
To realize that the right will tri-
umph, it is necessary to be on the
winning side
1t isn't every man who can ,teer a
straight course between the devil and
the deep sea.
Hunting for needle in u haystack
is one of the most need1e-less occupa-
tons in the world.
Tommy-"Pop, what is a pessi-
mist ?' Tommy's Pop--A pessimist,
my son, is a man who expects to, get
the worst of it sooner than the rest
of u.s.
"Alas!" sighed the 1ovelorn youth,
IT have been engaged six times, and
am not married yet" Better look
out" warned the Cynical Bachelor.
you'll get engaged once too often"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

Good morning." exclaimed Kitty
Lou breathless1y (for she had no idea
what sort of creature this might
be)- Only. if you please. my name
is not Miss Cat"
''So?'' said Mr.. Garden Toad. And
what may it be, may it be, it be?"
Kitty Lou, if you please replied
the little kitten
May you have everything you want
in the world, Kitty Lou, Kitty Lou,
Lou" said Mr.. Garden Toad, trying
CALAMITY to make up for his first mis-
take
Thank you answered Kitty Lou.
who by this time had lost her first
fear of the toad and had decided he
must be a very nice creature Then.
il you want M to have everything I
wish for, perhaps you will tell me
where to find a drink
I'm the alley, in the alley, in the
alley behind the garbage pail" said
Mr. Garden Toad promptly.
u thank you, kind sir replied
Kitty Lou and. without waiting for
further pleasant conversation. she
darted back to the alley
4 And sure enough, there was Soma
water, in a delightfully."- dirty tin can
Some water dropped in there by the
rain of two days before-just as Kittv
Lou had hoped she would findi such
a drink as Kitty Lou did hayet Ana
such a frolic in the alley mud
. When her mistress came home. she
found neat, tidy little Kitty Lon ~
dirty anc muddy she hardly knew her
but SO contented and happy look
ing she hadn't the heart to scold =
tCopyrasht-ClaFa Ingram Judson).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

Suppose the Kansas wheat crop for
this year doesn't exceed the 10000
600 bushels that some of the experts
in the premises are now forecasting.
That will be better than the ten-year
average for wheat crops in Kansas.
and in this average is figured the
monster crop of 1914, the one that
rolled up 100000 bushels. So isn't
a 90,O0o,000 bushel wheat crop good
enough for Kansas, good enough for
an off year? Or must Kansas, in
order to maintain her wheat reputa-
ton and satisfy every one at home
or abroad. produce a crop each year
that bumps the bumper crop of the
year before. or the record crop, out
OF the limelight?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
On the Spur
of the Moment
Luck.
b ROY X. MOULTON.

Luck.
With determination grim
I've followed superstition's whim.
I've picked up horseshoes by the score
And hung them up above my door
And, though you may call it joke,
I've never dared to kill a cat;
I've never spilled salt on mat;
Beneath a ladder 1 ne'er walk;
Of fiendish dreams 1 never talk.
/ gaze at each new moon, sublime,
Ger my right shoulder every time.
But without sign of an excuse,
Luck's turned me down; so, what S
the uSe?s
Bad luck with me is now acute
The moths have got my old spring
suit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

4 Now that the Germans have taken
Fort Douaumont again, it will be in
order for France to announce that
the position is of no strategic value
or consequence. and Notwithstanding
the fact that the soldiers of France
were sacrificed and slaughtered a
few days pgo to wrest this point from
the GerAans. who captured it for the
first time at the beginning of the
Battle of Verdun. But this struggle
around Verdun seems to be more
than a mere battle. It's a whole war
by itself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
Journal Entries

Charity is fine thing but too much
of it is instructed
= =
Men may be difficult to please hut
it would appear that women are more
so.
Too many folk think that they
should be unusually rewarded merely
for doing their duty.
= I. +
Music may have charms to soothe
the savage breast but a good deal of
the so-called stuff works oppositely
with civilized beings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
Uncle Abner.

Hank Purdy is certainly one of our
rising young business men. He rises
at o'clock every morning and hur-
ries over to the creamery.
Elihu Higgins says the more you do
for some people the more you kin
Last week he gave his wife 10 cents
to buy some lace and this week she
struck him for As cents to buy dress
goods to go on it.
A Teller never knows until the time
comes whether he is going to be a
daredevil or a coward, and you can't
tell much by the looks of Teller.
either.
The Hardshell congregation of our
village is thinkin' some of cuttin'
down expenses by dispensing with the
sermons and the music.
There is only one thing that worries
a woman more than the high cost of
living, and that is her back hair.
The only thing in the world that will
stick tighter than a mustard plaster
is a life insurance agent.
The price of strawberries may be
lower some day, but the bottoms of
the boxes will never be. They are
getting higher evry year.
Since Anse Frisby took the green
blinds off'n his front winders his
house is cross-eyed.
long and is almost ready to start out
with a wagon and a gasoline torch in
troducin' tapeworm remedy.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

Evidently the Entente Allies are
pretty well satisfied that they are get
ting the Central Powers on the hin,
else Sir Edward Grey, the British for
eign minister, would not have been
so emphatic with his recent announce
ment that peace proposals are irnpos-
sibRe now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

Under the national guard provisions
of the new army law, each state will
have a complement of militia on the
basis of 500 men for each of it's con-
gressional districts. This will increase
the numerical strength of the Kansas
National Guard to about $500 men. 1t
now approximates 1000 men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

II More evidence that war is terribly
worse than the Characterization given
it by General Sherman. Another re-
suit of the European conflict has been
to force the entire German nation to
what is practically an exclusive vege-
tartan diet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

Another fine thing about pleasant
weather is that it 50 quickly brushes
out of the mind all memories of the
distressing or distasteful weather that
may have preceded it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

Neither has the Sphinx anything on
Justice Hughes in the matter of main
tanning since But the Sphinx has
the easier time of it at that The
Sphinx couldn't talk If it wanted to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

Was there ever an instance of a
woman being arrested or mixed up in
any kind of a court case whom the
chivalrous reporters for newspapers
did not describe as pretty" or ''attrae-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

The advent of Christ's truth means
to a nation the advent of new ideas,
more liberal thought, loftier national
ideals, more healthful modes of liv-
ing, and, in a word, all of progress
and advancement that are wrapped up
in the word civilization. For civiliza-
tons light is only a reflection of the
Light of the world.
The morning brings joy, hope, cour-
age, cheer, peace, and work. After
the unrest and fears of the night the
coming of day is hailed as the sun of
all blessings In like manner the
dawning of the missionary morning
means to the world all that it has
ever hoped for and needed.
Missions bring light to homes. Dark
and miserable are the homes into
which Christ has not shined. His
coming means new love in-th family,
new trust in one another, new unset
fishness, new service. new and larger
interests. new hopes, new blessings
shared by all, new purposes, and new
life What a transformation the gos-
pei works in homes! Verify, its com
ing is the dawning of the eternal
morning.
Missions bring light to the individ-
ual. The advance of the missionary
cause means the breaking of day in
millions of human hearts that are sick
of the night. When Christ comes to a
soul, with Him comes the radiance OF
new hope, new faith, new happiness
new desires, new tastes, new life al
together.
If you want to serve your race, &C
where no one else will go, and do what
no one else will do.-Mary Lyon.
Missionaries to a barbarous people
| deserve a vote of thanks from the
commercial wor1d.-Robert Moffat.
| Missions bring light to nations
Japan, for instance, is called 'the sun
! rise kingdom" yet she knew no spirit
| ual sunlight until the light of the gos-
/ pei shone upon her.
| The chief blessing of foreign mis-
sions is the knowledge of the Infinite
Father which they bring, taking the
place of demons and insensate images
and foul rates.-Amos R. Wells.
The kingdom grows one soul at a
time
! The false lights of other religions
! darken the world. Christ alone car
bring light
In Gods day there is no sunset
When the Sun of Righteousness rises
He never goes down. Light forever
and increasing follows His dawn
1 Christ's victories over darkness are
eternal When He drives it away il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
New Light for This Old world.

Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples Societies-Christian En-
deavor, etc.-for May %: How
Missions Are Blessing the World. -
-Ezek. 47:1-12.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26
About the Size of 1t.

On the back of an envelope found
on the ground. after a gathering in
South Carolina these fragments were
jotted, surmised by the Columbia State
to be the topical outline of a SPELL
binders speech as penciled by him be-
forehand:
Kreathes there man
The fair women
The great state
The old veterans
God knows
Familiar faces
Joke
Deep gratitude
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Prohibition Sandwich.

Tomorrow evening at Z o'clock
mass meeting. Evangelist's topic,
He'll Booze in the afternoon and
hell in the evening. - The East
Palestine (O.) Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

When the Sun of Righteousness rises
He never goes down. Light forever
and increasing follows His dawn.
Christ's victories over darkness are
eternal. When He drives it away it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

The false lights of other religions
darken the world. Christ alone can
bring light.
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The kingdom grows one soul at a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-26

| The chief blessing of foreign mis-
sions is the knowledge of the Infinite
Father which they bring, taking the
place of demons and insensate ina ges
and foul rates.-AnoS R. Wells.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-10
AT THE MAJESTIC.

Francis X. Bushman. Beverly Bayne
and great cast will be seen in "A Mil
lion a Minute" at the Majestic Sunday
This wonderful picture shows Mr..
Bushman in a role so we'll liked by his
admirers, that of gentleman and ath-
lete, for in it he finds opportunity TO
severely punish an insulting nobleman.
Miss Bayne has great part also The
Sunday program includes Drew com
edy. Tonight Robert Warwick appears
in Sudden Riches
Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love
in The Good Bad Man" will be at the
Majestic Monday and Tuesday. This
picture created a profound impression
in Davenport this week and turned out
to be one of the greatest film produc-
tions ever released by Triangle In ad-
dition, there will be a clever Keystone
| comedy.
( Theda Bara comes in "The Eternal
+ Sapho" on Wednesday as half of the
great double bill, the other half OF
which will consist of Billie Burke il
"A Perilous Love- the third part o.
"Gloria's Romance" On Friday anC
Saturday there will be two great sel
plays in Forbidden Fruit and Tan
gled Fates." The former permits the
. presence of children but the latter does
not and Manager Quinn will bar those
under Is years of age.
The extreme high class of mex
weeks photoplay productions are ap
parent and there is no doubt that the
features will attract big crowds, big
ger in fact than this weeks, which
themselves drew heavily.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-10
hS2a4|th!eatre
IN THE MOVIES.
TNNlCHv1

Spencer Square -- Dustin Farnum
and David Garrick, Bray's cartoons.
Majestic-RobeTt Warwick in Sud
den Riches" Hearst-Nitagraph news
pictures.
Colonial-Charlie Chaplin in 'Po-
lice and the Candle"
Black Hawk-Bryant Washburn in
"The Spiders Web" SeiigTribune.
Best-"A Fools Gold" The Sham
Reality" His Neighbours Wife, Love
Laughs at Dyspepsia"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-10
NEMSN0IES9 @1wlIELAND
S 6vDAISYDEAN Wy
OvDA1STDEAN

Maurice Costello. who was associat-
ed for many years with Vitagraph and
who enjoyed a wide popularity as a
portrayer of heroes, has been signed
for the principal role in THE Crimson
STAIN" a new serial which will be re-
leased through Metro.
In the early days when great Sc
crecy was attached to the names of
moving picture players, Mr.. Costello
was one of the first OF become known
and one of the first teams in picture
to obtain recognition from the public
was that of Maurice Costello and
Florence Turner.
Costello is a native of Pittsburgh,
Pa. He is 80 years old.
Some Late News Concerning Comedy.
Ben Turpin is to be featured in d
series of comedies by the Vogue
Films Inc
These should be good. Turpin was
shown in the earlier Chaplin comedies
but couldn't be continued in them be-
cause his methods were too much like
those of Chaplin.
Instead of feeding the star, as they
say in vaudeville, his work was in
conflict with Chaplin's.
/ Very few movie comedies are MAX
/ ing good enough to be featured
/ longer than two or three weeks at
any first class movie theatre. One of
the few exceptions to this are the
comedies starring Mr.. and Mrs
Drew.
/ These hold up because they are
bright little plays, aside from the
real comedy which raises the audi
, ence to the laughter point once or
twice in each story. There is nc
rival to Chaplin, and the only com
edles which get an equal number OF
laughs are some of the keystone
comedies, particularly thos featur-
ing the plump Mr. Arbuckle.
The Wild Girl of the Sierras,
with Mae Marsh, Robert Harron and
Wilfred Lucas in the principal parts
will be an early release for the Tri-
angle. Miss Marsh appears as d
girl whose sole companions have been
the birds and beasts Of the forests
who is encountered by a prospecting
party composed of a youth with
means, and a gambler with his con
federates in crime, who plan to sci
the youth a worthless mine The
subject is spoken of as close to ma
ture stuff, as there are said to be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-10
At THE SPENCER SQUARE.

Lou Tellegen, the distinguished TO
mantle actor. who scored such pro
nounced success in The Explorer,
will be seen at the Spencer Square
on Sunday and Monday, in his second
Jesse L. Lasky production, The I'm.
known a gripping drama of the fam
Gus foreign legion in Algeria. In this
photodrama Mr.. TeIlegen is seen in
a character entirely different from
anything he has played heretofore.
either on the speaking stage or the
screen. The foreign legion is mil
itary sanctuary where men who have
met with misfortune or disgrace may
redeem their past by bravery and
honorable service. No questions are
asked and no papers are required to
explain who or what they are This
organization is stationed in Algeria
and the pages Of history abound with
mention of its heroic exploits. Vol
umes have been written about its ro-