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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe. ]

[From the Atchison Globe
Happiness and unhappiness always
register.
A true sportsman is. one who en-
joys being uncomfortable.
Every candidate gets plenty of en-
couragement until election.
A woman's idea of close economy is
to have her husband quit smoking.
Most of the hurrying is done in an
effort to catch up, rather than to get
ahead.
If you had a hero medal a lot of
people would mistake it for a lodge
emblem.
The pessimist may not have much
disa ppointm
A man who onct, had money, and
lost it, probably feels his poverty
worse than anyone else.
1t depends upon who perpetrates it
whether the rough stuff is anarchy or
only college prank.
1t proba bly, is possible for a man to
love his country without thinking
much of his government.
1t is so often said of a drunkard
that he is a brilliant man when sober,
which is often a dang lie.
A little man can always derive some
satisfaction by thinking of What a
bearcat Napoleon was in his time.
If mans corn hurts him, it is
hard for him to believe a toothache
might be more painful. it being the
present trouble which seems the most
real
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24
BED T lMIE TALES
FATHER BEAVER FOLLOWS ADVICE
BY CLARA TNGRAM JUDSON

When Policemen Billy suggested
that Father Beaver try the magic cir
Gle and see if that wouldn't get his
raft over the dam where it was stuck.
Father Beaver was not very pIeaseu
You remember he had tried that
magic circle business once before ana
had been disappointed. and it was not
much wonder he didn't care TO try
again. Father Beaver didn't care to
get fooled the same way twice any
more than you or l do!
But there was a funny look IN
Policeman Billy's eye when he made
the suggestion; Their. was no doubt
about that. And Father Beaver
thought that Policeman Billy might.
lust might, know what he was talking
about. Very well, SAID ne, let
There's no let's about it, replica
Policeman Billy, you have-to go by
yourself. The magic circle won't
work if more than one goes"
'.An, right, then" laughed Father
Beaver, 'TII go myself But you'll
Billy. And when it don't work, don't
you dare laugh at me. don't you dare
Father Beaver shook his head solemn
~ at Policeman Billy and Graytail
You see he didn't like to be laughed
at any more than the next fellow.
They promised thac they wouldn't
and Father Beaver set off in the di-
rection of the magic circle. And as
he slipped along from shadow to
shadow, he thought about that look
on Policeman Billy's face; that look
ttai seemed 10 promise that this
magic wish would come true.
He asked me if l could possibly
get tAat raft off the DAM thought
Father Beaver. land of course I can't
NoT what does he mean by that -
AID Just at that minute, Father Beay-
er remembered what Redhead had
said-the magic circle would not grant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

According to the latest statistics on
the subject the number of families In
Japan engaged in agriculture is g.
44S,292. of which. 1,72s,692 families
cultivate their own land, 1907, $50
families are tenant farmers, and g.
2O2.0S0 families are working partly
on their own land and partly as ten
ant farmers. The land-owning farm
ers are 80 per cent of the total. The
percentage is small as compared with
6S in this country and SIS in the Meth
erlands. but is large as compared with
Is per cent in England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24
SIDE TALK S
Screens.
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

screens.
This is to be a word about screens.
Not the kind of screens you put in
windows, but the kind you put be-
tween you and yourself so that you
cannot see yourself too clearly.
When 1 am having difficulty in ex-
pressing myself in writing, 1 find my
self leaving my desk. ostensibly to
sharpen my pencil. actually to get
AWAY from the painful effort of con-
centration.
The idea that 1 must sharpen my
pencil. is what 1 mean by screen.
[ put it up between me and my
actual motive so that L won't have to
admit 1 am trying to shirk.
The child who feels i'll at quarter of
nine in the morning and RECEIVERS at
half-past nine, when it is too late for
him to be sent to school, shows how
early in life we begin to use screens.
OF course that might be deliberate
shanaming, but far more often child
deceives himself. l know, because I
can vaguely remember even now the
mental processes of one little girl who
hated school so much that the ap-
proach of o'clock helped to give her
sick feeling at her stomach My
brother used to call it my ginger
cookie sickness because before the
forenoon was over I had recovered
sufficiently to eat a dozen ginger
cookies.
The Pharisee who stood in the
market place and prayed and disfig-
tred himself that men might know he
was fasting. is a classic example of
the use of screens.
We all, wise and foolish, use them,
more or less. in one way or another,
from the beginning to the end.
The difference between the man
who thinks and the man who doesn't
is that the man who thinks knows he
uses screens and tries to push them
away, and the man who doesn't think
never even suspects it.
A man told me the other day that
he didn't consider a certain woman
he had just met at all pretty. altho
she has that reputation. The next
day he said: Last night she looked
really pretty to me, and I am glad.
You see, she evidently didn't like to
dance with me and 1 was afraid that
made me think her plain I'm glad
to find I'm not so small"
There is a man who is thoughtful
enough TO suspect himself of using
screens.
And by the same token there is a
man WIN is likely to go far.-(Copy-
right by George Matthew Adams-1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

SINE 1OO
Oh, know why the willow tree
Droops as the stream goes by,
And l know why the rain cloud weeps
For its blue shining sky
But / know, too, why swallows sing
When building little nests,
While happiness of days to come
Swells in their tiny breasts.
And why the sea is radiant when
The moon comes up at night,
And why the fair dawn bushes as
She views the glad sunlight.
And 1 can understand just why
The eager waterfall
Will leap from highest cliff to meet
The rivers faintest call.
Yes, 1 know, too, how Echo can
Respond to every mood
OF nature. and how winds can stir
To song the stillest wood.
These hidden beauties of the earth
When you first came 1 knew;
Their meaning suddenly stood clear
With my great love for you.
Kate Porter, in Birmingham News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

Nor is it likely that many farmers
will fail to understand despite the eff
forts of divers politicians to demon
strate to the contrary that the high
prices they have been getting for their
products are due to the demand for
them that has been created by the
war in Europe. In a ten months
period before the war began, we ex-
ported $132.OOO.OOO worth of bread
stuffs and oats, but in a correspond
ing ten months with the war in full
swing We exported the same commod-
lilies to the value of 1856, 900, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Hinges of true friendship never
grow rusty.
Hope for the best, prepare for the
worst and take what comes.
Executive ability is the power to get
another to do your work.
Some clubs cause scolding wives and
some scolding wives cause clubs.
The judgment of Solomon was great
but he never tried to umpire a base
ball game.
Many a man tells woman she's the
only one he ever loved merely from
force of habit
The first thing a man does after
making a fool of himself is to try to
explain how it happened.
When there is more than one way
of doing a thing the average man in
variably does it the wrong way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

Mr.. Benson, the Socialist candidate
for the presidency. is probably merely
voicing what many other people are
beginning to think when he says that
unless halt of some sort is called on
the expectation of foodstuffs, a most
serious situation will soon develop in
this country. Mr.. Benson styles it as
disaster. AS he points out if the
high cost of living continues to get
higher it will become so high by next
spring that many people here will be
hard put TO it to obtain the things
hey need to eat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

Now that the eleventh hour of the
presidential contest has arrived that
most undesirable of citizens or things,
Mr.. Campaign Canard has put in an
appearance, as usual. But the vapor-
ings of this evil genius of politics are
too transparent to attract much at
iention. If there were any merit to
the charges that are hurled against
candidates during the closing days of
a campaign they would be given pub
licity during its earlier stages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A bluff often does very well until
it is called.
Altogether too many people are
ready to quit before they are beaten.
X X
The real hero is the fellow who
doesn't wear the medal his heroism
has won.
x x x
Memory is usually dependable in
respect to the things that should be
forgotten.
x X X
LIES burdens are seldom any heav-
Ter than those who have to carry them
make them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

AlthO there is the possibility that
European titles will not count for
much after the great war, the Ameri-
can heiresses go on anneXing them
with the reckless abandon for which
they are so famous. The richest CIR,
in Massachusetts is about to exchange
her hand and pot of gold for one of
them, and an Italian one at that.
Still, this is strictly her business, so
why should any one else worry
abcut it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

DIR. 7. Iyenaga, the head of Japan's
publicity bureau. rather pertinently
Inquiries why lot of fuss is being
made in this country in regard to
maintaining the open door in China.
what has America been doing?" he
asks. Her trade with China has not
seen much progress while Japan's has
Increased by leaps and bounds. While
YOU are driving American ships out OF
the Pacific by legislation, while you
are withdrawing government support
to bankers and thus losing oppcrtun-
tiles to invest your abundant capital
- is there much to make fuss
sbout?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

But we who are living" declares
Kaiser Wi1nelm's oratorical effort.
twill fight further until nobody will
ever dare again to assail the honor
and liberty Of the German people. )"
Evidently, or at least IN the mind of
the German emperor it was an assault
on the honor and the liberty of the
German people that was responsible
for The great European war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24
DINNER STORIES

Two colored troopers in Chihuahua
called upon the chaplain.
Look here, Mr.. Chaplain, we
wants you for to settle an argu-
ment," said one of them. dis here
man says lots of saints were colorej
folks. Would you please tell me how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

st. Louis appears to be rapidly ap-
preaching metropolitan proportions
During a recent period of fifty hours
there We're six murders in the big
city on the eastern border of Missouri
that are attributed to gang feuds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

A certain popular young man has a
small daughter of four summers. Re-
Gently he escorted her to one of the
numerous county fairs hereabouts.
She became thirsty, and he conduct
ed her to the building in which the
women of a church were serving din
ners and selling soft drinks. He
bought the child bottle of pop, mean
while chatting with the group of
church women who were admiring
the little girl.
When the pop bottle was handed to
the tiny miss she slipped at it doubt
fully, then tried it again, whereupon
her early suspicion seemed to have
been confirmed for she piped out. in
childish treble:
Say, papa, this doesn't taste like
the beer we have at home"
With a face that vainly endeavor-
ed tc appear mournful, and eyes
flow of tears, Patrick Murphy O'Do-
Ian entered diapers shop.
II want We to tell me-" he began.
.phwat the custom is for tn wearin
iv mournin' - the depth of it,
mane?'
We'll" replied the assistant, "of
course it varies. If it's a near rela-
tive band of black on the sleeve or
hat. and for a more distant friend
black tie is enough
For some moments Patrick Muir
ply O'Dolan considered.
"Give me a shoe lace" lie said, at
last. IT'S me wifcs mother"
Smith got married. The evening of
his first payday he gave his bride s14
of the SIS salary and kept only a dol
lar for himself
But the second payday Smith gave
his wife 81 and kept s14 himself.
why, JOHN she cried, in injured
tones, how on earth do you think
can manage for a whole week on
paltry dollar?'
''Darned if I know" he answered.
IT had rotten time myself last week.
It's your turn now"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

Evidently no task is too hopeless
for the Y. NJ. c. A. to undertake. Its
branch in New York City is to estab-
lish a course thru which it will en-
deavor to "civilize" office boys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

many of dem 'postles were niggers ?"
None of them was a darby said
the chaplain.
wanted me to believe that st. Peter
was a niger, ard I just told him;
No, sah st. Peter was no niger
cause I heard you say about St.
Peter and cat rooster CROWN twice.
If st. Peter was a niger 1 jest know
dat rooster would never have u
second time; no. sah.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

a wish that the asker could get by
working. Maybe. maybe, why of
counsel That meant that while the
wish for raft was not granted be-
cause Father Beaver could make one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

himself. the wish to get the raft off
the dan. would be granted because
Father Beaver couldn't do IT himself
Ihet idea excited Father Beaver so
that he forgot ali about Hoot. the Owl
and ran Deli NELL, thru. raoonshine and
shadow to the magic circle
He crept inside. turned around three
tunes to the left three times to the
i,t, SHOOK AIS front paw and said.
Smokers. sncokens, bookins get NV
raft off the dam." And that very
minute ii began TO raint-(Copyrizfit
Clara Ingram Jadson)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
gunzntion, for the exclusive afternoon
pu LEGATION in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Journal
building over wires for this sole purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

teaspoons baking powder, two eggs
beaten light. Add one-half cup sug-
ar, beat light again, then add two
teaspoons melted butter, one cup of
sweet milk Pour meal and flour into
milk and egg and beat light.
Hominy muffins-Mix a cupful of
warm boiled hominy Cooked to
proper consistency for the breakfast
table, with one tablespoon melted
BUTTER a saltspoonful of salt and one
cup milk. Add this mixture to one
and one-half cups flour in which has
been sifted two tablespoons baking
powder. Lastly add two ell beaten
eggs and bake in hot buttered muffin
pans
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Lemon Sauce-One tablespoon corn
starch, one-half cup sugar, " cups
boiling water, one lemon (juice and
grated rind), one-fourth teaspoon salt,
one tablespoon butter, slight grating
of nutmeg. Mix sugar, salt and corn
starch in a saucepan, add boiling
water gradually, stirring so there will
be no Jumps Then add juice, rind
and butter. Stir this for five minutes
over fire, add nutmeg and serve hot.
Apple Pie With Raisins-Two cups
apples ground small half cup raisins
ground. Mix juice of apple after
grinding with apples and raisins. Add
teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon
nutmeg, tablespoon of butter melted,
three-fourths cup sugar. Bake in pie
dish with bottom crust. When cold
spread with whipped cream.
Stuffed Onions-Six large onions,
one cup finely chopped raw beef, one
cup soft bread crumbs. one teaspoon
salt, one-half teaspoon pepper, one
egg, one-fourth cup cream, one table
spoon melted butter, one-half cup
cracker crumbs, one tablespoon boil
ing water. Peel and parboil onions
in sailed water ten minutes. When
cooled, remove center of onions and
fill with above filling. Bake slowly.
Delicious Corn Bread (wheat flour
goes twice as far if combined with
other meals)-One cup cornmeaI, one
cup flour, one-half teaspoon salt, two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

do you practice deep breathing. ms
told your" Cant 10 It. doctor. without
getting your lungs full Of gasoline
Louisville Courier Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

By BRINK ERHOFF.

Don't buy expensive cuts of beef:
purchase a steam cooker, which will
make tough cuts tender and psla-
table.
Don't combine salads long before
serving.
Don't handle pie crust or baking
powder biscuit dough more than is
absolutely necessary.
Don't bake sponge cake in a hot
oven.
Don't use condiments, such as
spices, pepper, etc, freely.
Don't cook gelatin. -~-7-
Don't purchase fish when the eyes
are not full and bright, the gills not
red, or the flesh not firm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

Homemade Sweet.
This is delicious, easily made and
inexpensive homemade sweet. Shell
English walnuts or any other nuts
preferred and lay the kernels on
waxed paper. Soften sweet chocolate
in a double boiler and pour over the
kernels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24
Two Kinds of Cake.

If two kinds of cake are desired at
the same time the following recipe
can be modified so as to make two
entirely different cakes out of the
same mixture. Mix all the ineredi-
ents together except the chocolate and
nuts Take half of this mixture and
bake in small layer pans, to be frosted
with chocolate or maple frosting. Add
half the stated amount of nuts and
chocolate to the remaining mixture
and bake in a sheet, to be frosted
with white frosting. Here are the
ingredients: Two cups graduated
sugar, one-half cup butter, four eggs,
one cup milk, two and one-half cups
flour. four teaspoons baking powder,
one teaspoon vanilla, two squares
chocolate, one cup broken walnuts
Cream the butter. add one-half the
sugar and cream these together. beat
the yolkS, add the other half of the
sugar and vanilla and beat. Combine
the two mixtures, add milk and flour
alternately and lastly the beaten
whites, chocolate and nuts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-24

Private branch exchange. Call $3.50 and
ask the State Journal operator for person
or department desired.
Topeka State Journal building. 500. 500
and S0f Kansas avenue. corner Eighth.
New York Office, $50 Fifth avenue.
Paul Block. manager
Chicago Office MalIers building Paul
Block manager
Detroit Office. Kresge building. Paul
Block. manager
Boston Office. 2O1 Devonshire street.
Paul Block. manager.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10
ceuts week TO any part Of Topeka or
suburbs or ut the same price I'm any Kan
sns town where the paper has carrier
system.
Bv mail. one wear. ...........S $3.50
li@ MAIL SIX months 1ou
Ivy mail 100 calendar days LOO
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-08-31
from O6aada, but this does not

from Canada, but this does not
meet the demand. The result is
that manufacturers whose pro-
Guct is not fully contracted for
are taking advantage of the sit
Ialion to sell paper al eNhorhi-
tan! figures. While the great
bulk of news print paper is sell
ing at , cents Il pound under on
listing contracts, all new sales are
being from 4 lO 5 cents Il pound.
Many newspapers that arc paying
$40 a ton for their regular sup
ply are paying $50 Il ton for any
surplus they need, and any news
paper SO unfortunate as to have
lis contracts expire is being
compelled to PAY from $50 To 500
+" ton for its whole supply. This
rs rninons. My amendment would
impose no tax on papermakers
charging $40 ton or less for
paper.
Discussion of This amendment
vii. probably arise next week.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-08-31

have been squibs and comic
drawings about it. hut how much
serious consideration has il re-
|ceived?
Last year in these United
States of America SiiO.OO0.GO0
was paid for scrap iron. This is
II big and wastefnl country, but
it cannot he using up metal at
more than fraction of the rate
prevailing in The war zone. Thou
sands of tons of iron, not to men
tion copper, brass and lead, have
been shot away ut each Of manN
narrow strips of the battle line.
The top soil in the salient OF
Ypres. on the line north of Arras.
on the SOmme front. and above all
at Verdun, must be so saturated
with metal as to- be Il sort oil ar
tiilcial ore. Surely in the bitter
poverty which Will he Europe $
portion when she is through with
war lords. that resource will not.
be forgotten.
For that matter il may be that
Europe's workers will turn the
thrones and crowns into scrap,
OO.--ChicagO Journal.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-08-31
Mystery Solved.

The mysterious marriage of
Miss Tesa Wilanga and an un-
known man. when took place Il
few weeks ago i'm Omaha. has
been solved. Miss Wilenga, Il
former Missouri Valley girl who
has been living in Texas the last
few years working as a hair
dresser, met this stranger, who
after a short acquaintance. asked
her to marry him. She wanted
to gel married i'm Omaha. so they
came north.
He is a millinOaire from Cal
cutta, India. and They came to
Sioux City. where they spent a
few days with Mrs. Smith. nee
Jose Wilenea, after which the
party motored To Omaha. They
stopped in the Valley short
time on their way down. The
day of the wedding the man was
said to he injured and had to he
carried down from the Fonte-
nellie hotel. hut that was not so.
He has heen subject the last few
years to lnmhago and on that
morning he was stricken with an
attack. Unwilling to postpone
the wedding he had two men as
sit him.
The couple is still al the Ton-
tenelle. where they have suite
OF six rooms. They expect TO
leave for India on a wedding trip
as soon as arrangements can he
made and Mrs Smith and dangh-
ter of Sioux City will accompany
them.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-08-31
COMPROMISING with Wife.

Young Hopkins had become Il
happy benedict and his father
Thought il advisable To admins
ter to- him curtain lecture ON
how to make marriage Il success.
When ynm have amy difference
of opinion. he began. ii YOU are
not able to persuade your Wife
that you are right, and you prob
ably will not be able To do so. YOU
must compromise.
"Yes. father replied the son,
most respectfully.
And in this connection | will
give you a little experience of my
own Just to illustrate my point.
Well do remember that your
mother desired to spend one sum
mer in Switzerland, while ! was
equally anxious to go To Brigton.'
And how did you arrange a
compromise, father?''
well. we stayed from Friday
to Monday at Brighton and spent
the rest of the summer i'm Swift
erland." = Pittshurg Chronicle
Telegraph.