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Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-11-12

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-15
Jayh Jots

The fatter a woman gets, says the
Pittsburg Headlight, the easier it is
for her to believe other women are I'M
able to notice it.
A turtle-dove, says the Kansas In
dustrialist, looks to have about as
much sense as a 16-year-old girl who
knows that people think she is beauti-
full.
According to the Newton Kansan-
Republican down at Wichita they
tried to bury a live man, finding ont
their mistake just in time to prevent
a tragedy, notes the Minneapolis Bet
ter Way. and it adds: Some towns
are that way-you can hardly tell
the live ones from the dead ones.
OF course, the members of the Ger
man General Staff have some pretty
tough problems to solve these days,
but they are not the only ones. Ac-
cording to many of the rural papers
of Kansas, not a few of the farmers
in their vicinity face situation where
their wheat, hay and corn, all need
attention at one and the same time.
AS divers things occur to the Mime
apolis Messenger: Not all by-standers
are innocent. Vaoationists are
now beginning to worry about their
vacations. You never hear peo-
pie complain about any one being too
polite. Few mulberry trees are
happy unless they can drop their ber-
rieS on the sidewalk. . . Few peo-
pie attain the perfection given them in
their wedding write-up and obituary.
When it comes to different meth
DDS of wasting time, what about eat
ing raspberries?
Gems, from the Jewell County Re-
puplican: Deal gently with prejudice
1t is mostly based on a misunderstand-
ing of the facts. A musical laugh
does more for the family than the
victrola. Some men put in all
their lives finding out that fire
burns. =. Whenever a public speaker
who is as dry as last years corn stalk
comes along, you might as we'll brace
yourself for long speech. E. A man
is under a heavy handicap in this
world if he does not know that sell
fishness doesn't pay, and that unset
fishness and generosity do pay.
when a lot of men march in on her
is how her house looks.
Here is one of those honest confess
sions that is likely to be good not only
for the makers soul but also of benefit
to his pocketbook, as the people ad-
mire and patronize frankness. Carl E.
Andrews, who purchased the Carbon
dale Post recently, delivered this sa-
lutatory to his clientele: st have
bought The Post from D. D. McSkim-
ming and am here to stay. I am not
running this paper for my health as
had good health before 1 came, but
out of it, and by working together we
will endeavor to keep up the standard
of the paper. Whenever you have any
news call us up and let us know about
it. Come in and get acquainted. Yours
for business
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pendent upon their one male escort she
sat down behind tree as the others
drew near. One after another the girls
called her, but she did not reply.
"She must have gone on ahead,
said Dolly. but 1 saw her go down
that path"
You girls run for the house." said
Tom, land I'll scout around down this
path" A moment later the girls were
in sight of the house and running a
race with the disappearing dark
cloud that shot lightning almost con-
stantly. In another moment, Tom had
found Madge, discovered her injury,
and in spite of vigorous and even
angry protests. picked her up in his
arms and started up the path in long,
quick strides.
AS they reached the orchard. scat
tering hailstones began to pelt them
like pebbles from a slingshot Under
a big apple tree, Tom let Madge slip to
her feet, and removing his coat, made
covering for their heads while he
stood on the side to protect her from
the wind-driven hail and rain. The
shower passed as suddenly as it came.
and as Madge looked up into Tom S
eyes, even the darkening twilight could
not hide the surrender in her own
eyes.
I'm so sorry to have been both rude
and troublesome" she said simply,
for it was all the result of my de-
termination not to let you be nice to
me-"
I'm sorry only for your sprained
ankle" said Tom. Shall we hurry on
and call a doctor?"
IA doctor may not be necessary"
said Madge, but we must hurry to
put poor Mrs. Estes out of suspense.
Let me walk, though
No; it might seriously aggravate
the injury" Toms tone was positive
and Madge's protests were as weak
now as they had been strong a little
while before.
Although a young woman of twenty
five with a fine physique is not light
burden even for an athletic man of
thirty-four, Tom was not glad when
they reached the veranda and were
surrounded by their distressed hostess
and her excited guests.
The theory of safety in numbers
doesn't interest him nowadays, for he
says that instead of safety first" he
prefers Happiness first. Copyright,
1916, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-15

Every once in a while some news
paper puts a facer before ITS readers
with an inquiry as to who was this or
that party's presidential candidate a
few years back. But that is ancient
history And perhaps there would be
inst as much silence in Kansas these
DAYS if some one were to ask the gen.
eral public who is the candidate or
candidates in the Democratic party
for it's gubernatorial nomination that
is to be made at the rapidly approach
ing primary on August l; and also as
to who are running for the other
Democratic nominations, and Tor
many of the Republican nominations,
as we'll. Kansas has never seen a
0tfieter or deader primary campaign
than the one which is now on.
what's the answer?
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On the Spur
of the Moment
oh, Joy!
BY ROY K. MOI LTON.

Oh, joy!
I'm glad I amt nc millionaire,
Fer 1 kin trot round anywhere
And do just what l bloomin please,
And when I'm takin' of my ease,
No interviewers bother ME
And write more than they really see.
They don't hang round and stare and
cape
And twist my doings out of shape.
When go out and buy some pills
They do not diagnose my ills,
And say that l have lived too fast
And fake up doin's of my past.
They do not come with leap and bound
Each time 1 turn around,
And pry into my private life,
And tell about my early strife
To win Dame Fortunes gladstone smile,
In headlines you can read q mile.
I'm quite content just as 1 am,
As happy the storied clam.
The wrestling match I have with Fate
Appeals to me. It's simply great.
I've heard that idleness is crime,
So l keep workin all the time.
And so you see 1 do not care
Because I'm no! millionaire.
For all. PHILOSOPHERS forbid,
1t wouldn't matter If l did.
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learn you somethin useful-some-
thin you can make money out OFF,
Money isn't the only thing in the
world, father said the young man
reprovingly.
..Mebbe it amt, son. Mebbe it
amt But 1 notice it's the only thing
you ever asked for in the letters you
wrote to me and your ma while you
was in college
Lem Cotton, sole proprietor of a
whitewashing emporium in south
ern town, shone in the MONDAY sun as
though he had given his skin coat of
stove polish. AS he toiIed away at the
task CT lighting up the judges stable.
the Judge himself came along. How
do. cunnel, how do?' said Lem '.How
at wah goin' today?" Nothing new
today" replied his honor. (which
side you-alI on, cunnel?" asked the
Whitewater The judge, seeming an
opportunity for some amusement, an
swered: Have you ever heard of the
great neutral people. Lem2 Well. I'm
neutral" Lem never batted an eye
as he answered.: les 'em neutrals
great fi2htahs. All hope 'ey win"
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DISTRIBUTION OF COMMERCE.

Examples of the changes in trade
that have been brought about by the
war are presented in a special COM
pilation of the United States bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce,
which shows the distribution of
American commerce by national do
mains. British territory is far in the
lead, both as the source of our i'm
ports and as the market for our ex-
ports, having supplied more than one
third of the former and having taken
nearly one-half of the latter in the
calendar year 1915.
Imports from the United Kingdom
and her colonies increased from $572,-
100000 in 1913 to $624,OOO,00O in
1915, while exports thereto rose from
$1.120, 900. 600 to $1,6S7, 100000. other
sections of the world, as a rule, show
decreased imports in the last two
years, but gains in exports have been
widely distributed. To French terri
tory our exports increased from $780,
0O0. 900 to $507.O0O,00O, and they
formed IA per cent of the total in
1918, as against C u per cent in 1913.
There were also large gains in exports
to nearly all European countries ex-
cept Germany. Belgium and Austria
Hungary. Exports to Germany fell
from 1852, 000.000 in 1913 to $4,000
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900 last year, and those to Belgium
from $64, 0OO,0 900 to s23, 100000.
In those cases where foreign ma
tons have colonial possessions, our
trade IS largely with the home coun-
try, except that we have a vast COM
merce with British colonies and buy
considerable raw material from the
Dutch East Indies. Thus we bought
from Danish colonies about $4,000
worth of merchandise in 1915 and sold
| to them q like sum. French colonies
sold to US s2.40O.O0O and bought from
us S710O,000. German colonies show
imports into the United States. $780,
900; exports from the United States.
100000. In the case of the Portu-
guese colonies, our imports were
$1,700,000, our exports $3,20O,000;
italian colonies-imports 100000, ex-
ports 100000; Belgian colonies-im-
ports 100000, exports $27, 1000; Japan
csc colonies-imports 100000, ex-
ports S1,800,000; German colonies
imports 100000, exports 100000;
Dutch colonies-imports SIG, 100000
exports 100000; and British colo
nies-imports $366,0O0.Ooo. exports
$495, 100000.
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Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Death is hard game, but all
play it.
An Atchison man is killing a COW
to wean a calf
A boy would rather have freckles
than curly hair.
In almost any community the ceme-
teries are making progress.
A good many secrets are kept, or
the goSsips would have more to
work on.
A lot of foolishness is excused on
the ground that young folks are only
once.
A kin row may not be as bad as
war, except that it is apt to last
longer.
1t is possibly true that every man
has his price, but many of them are
not worth it
1t is considered a good joke on the
man who marries for money when
he fails to get it.
If another place at which to eat
regularly could be located, more boys
would run awav from homa-
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Household Hints


Veal Ragout-Place piece of butter
size of a walnut in a saucepan; add
three finely chopped onions, fry until
brown, then add three sliced tomatoes.
Wash a piece of veal desired size from
the neck or breast and, without frying,
put into saucepan, add two dried car
rots, two tablespoons chopped parsley.
salt and pepper to taste and one table,
spoon sugar. Cover and stew two
hours. This is a delicious dish for
those who like light French cooking.
Elderberry Blossom Pancakes (Bo-
hemian dish)-Wash blossoms care
fully in a colander, drain. Take one
eggs beaten hard, one cup milk or
water, one teaspoon sugar, flour to
make thin batter one teaspoon bak-
ing powder. Dip blossoms in batter
and fry like any other pancakes. De-
licious. Leave the blossom like it is.
just cut off stem. Each blossom
makes one good-sized pancake.
Ripe Elderberry Pancakes - Use
above recipe, only pick berries off
stems. wash, put in batter, mix, fry
the same. Either pancake can be
eaten with jam, fresh berries or just
plain. These are very healthful; good
for blood and kidneys.
Dreamed Raspberry Pie-Line pie
dish with good pastry and fill it
quarters full of red raspberries
stewed with granulated sugar. Cover
with an upper crust, but rub the edge
of this and of the lower with butter
to prevent their sticking together.
Make a cream of a cupful of hot milk
thickened with a tablespoon of sugar;
remove from fire and, when cool, whip
in the stiffened whites of three eggs.
When the pie is done and is cold. lift
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Come here! Come here! Come
here." called Chirpy Sparrow to his
little mate.
But she paid no attention to him.
She went right along with her toilet,
for she was a neat, proper little spar
row and she wasn't pleased with the
set of her feathers and she meant to
arrange them better before she
stopped.
Come here Come here. Come
here!" repeated Chirpy, and he said
it exactly as if he meant what he
said.
"Yes?" answered Mrs. Chirpy, and
she gave herself soft little shake,
quite as though she was saying to
herself, Il wonder how those feathers
are now?"
Come here! Come here, Come
here." shouted Chirpy, now really
cross. When / see something / want
you to see and call you to see it. you
should comet"
Now, Chirpy, don't get excited"
laughed Mrs. Chirpy, pleasantly You
wouldn't like me very well If / wasn't
tidy, and 1 assure you my feathers
were a sight What was it you wanted
me to see? I'm sure it's something in
teresting-" And she hoped down by
Chirpy and began looking around.
That restored Chirpys good humor
at once (as Mrs. Chirpy knew quite
well that it would), and he told her to
follow him If she wanted to see some
thing funny.
They hoped and skipped over to
the front yard, and what do you sup
pose they saw there? Mrs. Chirpy
saw it even before Chirpy had time
TO tell her where to look, and she be-
gan to laugh. They saw Billy Robin
standing on his head trying to get a
worm. Think of that
Maybe he wasn't really truly stand
on his head-they couldn't be quite
sure about that-but he looked as
though he was and that was surely
funny enough to laugh at. Wouldn't
you think SO? He dug his strong
bill down into the ground and kicked
his claws in the air and how he did
wiggle and squirm!
isn't he funny7" giggled Chirpy
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seem in some instances. One of the
recent news reports tells of seven
hundred national guardsmen from
eastern states leaving their trains at
Cleveland and raiding the nearby gro
Gerry stores and commission houses for
something to eat. They said they had
had practically nothing To- eat for
thirty-six hours. The officers in the
commissary department of the United
States army who may be responsible
for such a condition of affairs should
be courtmartialed and dismissed from
the service.
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EUening Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON.
S. p. C. G. w.


At a college graduation which I at
tended recently was surprised by two
things:
First, the unusually interesting ma
ture of the students speeches.
Second, the wretchedness of their
pronunciation
One pronounced patriotism with a
short "a
Another read ''figger."
Another left off all his final ''g's.'
A fourth (not of the graduating
class, but an alumnus of many years
standing) pronounced the III in
herbs.
If college education does any one
thing, it ought to teach men and wom-
en- to speak well.
And by speak we'll, 1 mean use a
wide and well-chosen vocabulary, to
pronounce properly. and to place and
handle the voice with some skill.
And yet how often we meet college
graduates who use a limited and all
most childish vocabulary, who pro-
nounce wretchedly and who have
nasal, uncontrolled voices!
once overheard the following con-
versation among three college girls:
IT wish you wouldn't co. said A.
Eyes, don't" said B.
Every WE'LL said c. IT wanted to,
but in Difference to your prejudices,
L
A. turned to B. with a laugh. I'm
Difference to your prejudices'," she
quoted. Think Of anyone really talk
ing like thati''
And I thought to myself. ITO
think of college girls thinking it queer
to talk like that!'
Are all but few hundred of the
tens of thousands of words in the
dictionary to be relegated to use in
written language alone?
We are not surprised when we find
such phrases in books. We expect
them there. But when real, live peo-
pie use them we are apt to think they
are affected.
Reading widely and we'll will give
anyone a good vocabulary. But many
people who gain such a vocabulary
use it only to understand with. That
is, when other people use words that
are outside the recognized four hum
bred, they can understand, but they
never think of using them themselves
That's mistake. very wise little
school girl of whom I know makes
it a rule to find the exact meaning
and pronunciation of every new word
she meets and then use it the next
| day. Think what a vocabulary she
will have!
OF course someone will remind me
| that the simple, common words are
best. So they are, but is it kind to
| overwork them? I think a society for
| the prevention of cruelty to common
words might well be formed.-(Copy-
| right, by George Matthew Adams)
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Hot Plum Cake.

An excellent method of making this
is to take about two pounds of large
blue plums, one cupful of sugar, one
cupful of milk, one teaspoonful of
baking powder, one teaspoonful of
melted butter, a quarter of a tea
spoonful of salt, one egg, half a cupful
of sugar. Sift the flour, baking pow
der, salt and two tablespoonfuls of
sugar into a bowl, add the milk, egg
and melted butter; mix well. The
plums should be washed and cut in
half; remove the stones; place in the
dough, skin side down, cover with
half cupful of sugar, put in a mod
crate oven for twenty-five to thirty
minutes. The cake should be served
hot
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tho movie" houses in these United
States runs up into the millions, and
several of them. every day. But the
figure of 100000 for this attend
ance that is put out for a fact by the
Motion Picture Exhibitors League of
America is probably excessive. That
means a full quarter of the entire pop
ulation Of the country. And who be-
ieves, for instance, that the daily at
tendance at the photoplay houses in
Topeka assumes any such proper
tons?
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Why should the weather experts
further aggravate the people by tell
ing them that there is a-plenty of wa
ter in the air to provide an unusually
heavy rain but considerably cooler
Weather will have to come along to
ktart the rain falling? There is prob
ebly enough food on earth so that not
q single soul in the whole world need
50 hungry but multitudes are on the
verge of starvation the world over be-
cause the food they need is not within
their reach for one reason or another.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Recor,

lFrom the Philadelphia Record
Honesty is the best policy. but too
many people allow the policy to lapse
Many a man is thrown in the shade
simply because he stands in his own
light.
The average fellow is always will
ing to hug a delusion, If it wears petit
coats.
You never can tell Many a man
who boasts of his blue blood has a
red nose.
When we speak of the higher educa-
ton we don't necessarily mean a
course in aviation.
An ounce of prevention is not worth
a pound of cure, but is a good antidote
for remorse-
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off the upper crust and cover the rasp-
berries with the cream. Replace the
cover and sift powdered sugar over
it.
Lemon Cake Pie-Grated rind and
juice of one lemon, one cup milk, two
eggs Gust the yolks beaten with
sugar and milk and lemon and piece
of butter size of a walnut, two table
spoons of flour. Then beat the whites
of the two eggs very stiff and dry with
a pinch of salt, fold thoroughly into
the other mixture, bake in a lower
crust thirty-five minutes. The top
will be like a sponge cake and the rest
like pie.
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Getting a worm, nothfngi" said
Chirpy. Il guess I've seen him get
worms before! He's dancing on his
head"
Just then Billy Robin stopped hi.
squirming and Jerking and digging in
to the ground and stood up strais-ft
in his usual fashion.
What have you been doing, Billy ?"
cried Chirpy eagerly.
Billy laughed. II thought vo,, had
known me long enough to know that
the only thing 1 work that hard for
is food he said. II lust now ate a
fine, fat, juicy worm; but how 7 ala
I nave 20 MoTk 10 ger MN! I thought
fore L got through"
..,,-a ne spaIIows laughed and said,
c,a 'lousne SO TOO Copyright
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Journal Entries

Attractiveness, unlike beauty, has
to be more than skin deep.
+ i =
Some people, at any rate, needn't
worry about troubles that are of the
purely imaginary variety
+ j. +
A good many people behave them
selves simply because temptations do
not float their way.
+ - +
This is also the season of the year
when the events. around which most
of the fish stories are woven, never
happen.
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NO more disgraceful indictment of
the lack of anything that approaches
Adequacy in our present degree of mill
harry preparedness-and what makes
It so particularly objectionable is the
fact that almost 500, 900, 900 a year
has been spent on our military es-
Establishment for the past decade and
4onger-has come to the front than
Ehe transport of national guardsmen
from the eastern sections Of the coun-
f1y, and Over long distances on short
Sations- starvation rations. 1t would