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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

ant nts. while eighteen either will pay
in creases or extra dividends.
These dividend reports are proof
Of the prosperity of the country. but
they do not tell all the story. There
is not a corporation which is pay
irg dividends that is not adding, at
the same time, to it's surplus. Many
corporations are building up large
surpluses to carry them thru the time
wnen business will again be slack.
Every corporation manager expects
that such a time is coming. Also,
millions of dollars have been spent by
corporations in charging and improv-
iEg their plants and installing new
equipment. All this has increased the
value of the property and strength
cred the position of stockholders.
With work plentiful and profits large.
the wise managers are protecting their
properties as far as possib e from flu
ture troubles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.

The monthly dividend and interest
disbursements continue to show large
increases over year ago. In Sep
TENDER, according to the tables pub
lished monthly by the Journal of Com
merce, the disbursements will total
s142.5ss.6ss. which is new high rec
ord for September and compares with
s, 5,154, 100 in September a year ago.
Next month $79,03s.6s9 will be dis
tributed in dividends, being an in
crease of $22,785,5S9 over the amount
distributed last September. Somewhat
more than half of this gain will be
due to the United States Steel Corpor-
alton alone, which made no payment
on its common stock last September
Twenty corporations either will re-
sumo dividends or make initial pay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

[From the Philadelphia Record.J
In recruiting the Army of Love
Cupid's command is: Fall in!"
Flattery will feed a mans vanitv
but that is quite different from brain
food.
Many a man succeeds in spite of
himself. All the noodles are not in
the soup.
The man who ought to be satisfied
with what he has is always the other
fellow.
No, Maude, dear; doughnuts are not
always considered wholesome, in spite
of the holes.
You never can tell. Lots of people
are too proud to beg wro aren't too
honest to steal
Promises are elastic. 1t is possible
for man to stretch the truth without
breaking his word.
Blessings come disguised" quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes" agreed the
Simple Mug, the homeIy girl needs
no chaperon.'
S1Illcus- Mrs. Wigwag says she
hates to have her husband out of her
sight Cynicus-"He must be either
an extremely good husband, or an ex-
tremely bad one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28
APPEARANCES.


You mustn't judge person by the clothes
he may wear.
You might have done so years ago, but
now it isn't fair.
A man may be responsible and serious of
mind.
Yet wear little overcoat that's belted in
behind.
He may be all profound of thought and
yet display with joy
A hat that looks though intended for
his youngest boy.
That the apparel oft proclaims the man
has been believed,
But now the statement with a share of
doubt must be received.
You mustn't trust appearances. At present
you will see
A general effort to appear like twenty-five
or three;
And those who put on glasses and look
solemn, as as a rule,
Are principally youngsters who are not
yet out out of school.
As has been wisely said, this world is but
a fleeting show;
We are optical illusions, as upon parade
we go,
And perhaps it's just as well for US to do
the best we can,
And help improve the scenery upon the
modern plan.
Washington Star.
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Campaign Slogans.

Hughes has raised the standard of
America first and America efficient"
Thank God for Wilson" is the answer
of the Democrats But compare these
keynotes with the campaign slogans
of yesterday.
"At the approach of every national
campaign" writes "Zim," in Cartoons
Magazine, the cartoonist casts about
for symbol or some suitable mode of
attacking the political foe or uplifting
his own candidate. Thus Bernhard
Gillams famous 'Tattooed Man defeat
ed James G. Blaine. 1t was cartoon
likewise that returned William Nc
Kinley to the White House. This was
Grant E. Hamilton's Full Dinner PAIL
taken up as a campaign slogan
so popular, in fact, was this novelty
that both Mark Hanna and William
Mckinley, after election, compliment
ed Hamilton for his great work in the
campaign and declared that the din
ner-pail idea. more than Mark Hanna's
campaign management, secured for
Mr.. Mckinley the presidency of the
United States. The public at large is
not always aware of what happens be-
hind the scenes in newspaper office,
for if it were, it might have seen a
novel presentation of mammoth tin
dinner pail filled with tobacco, wines
and cigars to one Hamilton. as a token
of love and in recognition of his in
genuity. The Full Dinner Pail will
go down in political cartoon history as
one of the greatest hits because it
spoke the truth and added a clean and
inoffensive element to the campaign"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From tho Atchison Globe.1

IFrom tho Atchison Globel
Giving the devil his dues isn't a
good way to invest your money.
A man is apt to overestimate the
extent of his large circle of friends.
The biggest liar holds everybody
says" when he really means one per-
son.
You can run around in a circle and
go a long way without getting any
where in particular.
A man shouldn't use his executive
ability to induceh is wife to NOW the
lawn and cut the kindling
After a woman is married, she
might as well figure on carrying her
own parasol most of the time.
The list of successful candidates
who were drafted for the job wouldn't
make much of political directory.
Nagging may drive a man to drink,
but, being a rule that works both
ways, drink may drive a woman to
nagging.
1t would prove a great shock to the
husbands to find out how many wives
endure them for the sake of the chill
dren.
Neighbors may pretend to synpa-
thlZe with woman who is a chronic
complainer over i'll health, but they
laugh and make fun of her when thew
are out of sight.
Too much talk on one topic is sure
to become monotonous, and Il man
should change the subject more fire.
quently than he does his collars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28
SIDE TALKS
When We Are Reckless.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

In times of stress and excitement,
look out for money. If you don't. it
will fly.
You spend more money unneces-
sarily in a few days of excitement
than you can save in weeks.
In times of sickness, for instance,
excitement ard anxiety combine to
make you reckless. 1t seems mean to
think of money at 4 time like that.
the inevitable day of reckoning you
spend wildly. And not only are you
lavish in your expenditures for the
sick room, but your purse. strings are
looser all around. You can't think of
money.
By and by the illness passes, the
crisis of excitement is over and you
go back to the routine of daily living.
Then the day of reckoning comes and
you find yourself poorer than you
care to think Perhaps the ex-invalid
is your running mate, and then he or
she, in addition to the effort to take
up the daily tasks in i weakened
state, has to help shoulder the burden
of debt or depleted savings
Of course, to have to think of
money when some one you love is i'll
is one of he hardest things in the
world. Poverty imposes no more
cruel discipline than the necessity of
weighing the naed of medical atten-
dance in the balance with ones abil-
ity to afford it. These things shouldn't
oe. but since they are, one must try
to do the sick person justice without
doing his future and yours an intus-
tice.
Travel is another condition under
which, the inhibition of daily living
being removed, we spend out of all
proportion to what we need and can
afford.
Vacations are also danger spots and
we also spend recklessly in the excite
ment of the holiday season.
Its only once a year. we say of
each, and snap go the purse strings
Daily expense accounts are invalua-
Bile at times like these. If you don't
kick completely over the traces and
stop keeping them they act as an auto
matte brake.
And yet, even as I write, I am as
sailed by the other side of this matter
II you have to watch pennies fifty
weeks in the year, could you have a
greater luxury in the other two than
to let up on taht grinding vigilance?
1t sometimes seems to me that the
hardest thing the families who live on
what people in comfortable circum-
stances set aside for spending money
have to bear, is not the deprivations,
but this eternal, narrowing, heart
slckening watching of the pennies
If they don't do it, they get into
debt.
If they do do it, they are likely to
get dry rot of the soul
Between these two fates lies an in
f1nitely narrow path.
And If anyone in the world de-
serves a laurel wreath it is the men
and women who manage to keep in it.
l-lCopyright by George Matthew
! Adams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

Just after the Attic-mouse family
had become nicely settled in the log
at the side of the garden, there came
a great storm that shook the trees and
tore off branches and washed out ugly
holes in the beautiful gard len. Oh,
such a storm as it was, The garden
folk hid tight in their garden homes
and the people in the house stayed
tight in their home and everybody
was glad when finally the blow was
over.
And when the sun shone brightly
the next morning you may be sure
everybody from Tommy Tittle-mouse
to Mary Jane was glad to see bright
weather.
Lets hurry quick and have break
fast" said Mary Jane as she finished
buttoning her shoes And then,
please, mother, may 1 go out and see
what the storm did in the garden?"
Mother said yes, SO Mary Jane ate
her breakfast in hurry and ran out
into the garden.
And what do you suppose she found
there?
Such a mix-up and so much confu-
sion she hardly knew her own yard!
Bluey Blackbird was squawking
around trying to find his family;
Mrs Hen was attempting to scratch
some worms for her little chicks:
and Billy Robin was making terrible
fuss about something-Mary Jane
couldn't quite understand what But
when she had time to look around a
little more carefully she soon found
out what the trouble was Billy's
nest was all gonci Yes, siri That
beautiful little nest that Billy and Mrs
Billy had so carefully made had wash
ed out of the fork in the old apple
tree and was nothing but a messy
lookin mass of twigs and hair and
grasses.
No wonder Billy was so excited, No
tell everybody her troublAsi l guess
you'd be excited. too, If your house
fell down from its tree and was
splashed to nothing in the mud!
guess you would!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

Probably never before was so COS
mopolitan an army assembled as that
which is now fighting under the ban
ner of the allies in Greece. English,
Australians, Canadians, New Zealand
ers, Hindus, French, Greeks, Italians,
Serbians, Montenegrins and Russians
ure all enrolled in the army opposing
the Bulgars. The latter themselves
are aided by Austrians. Germans and
Turks. In short, the world war is rep
resented, with the exception OF the
Japanese, Portuguese and Belgians, in
the component parts of the confront
ing forces in Greece.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28
GOOD RoADsLrHE1R PURPOSE.


A strong effort is being made to
tring about the Immediate construc-
ton of the National defense highway
connecting Annapolis and Washington.
Military authorities have declared that
a fine highway between these two
points would be of the utmost military
value in the event of wa1 with a
European power. It would permit the
quick throwing of a strong force of
troops at the head of Chesapeake Bay
and at the seat of the Naval Acad-
envy, from which an attacl, could be
rIade upon Washington, she uld a hos
tile fleet wish to gain a fnothold on
our shores.
But, why not give some attention to
roads destined to benefit those people
engaged in peaceful pursuits? This
is not a fighting nation. it is a work
ing nation. What is needed more than
facilities for transporting troops and
munitions. of war, are roads which
will enable the farmer to transport
his products to market with greater
celebrity and cheapness and bring the
rural population in closer touch with
its neighbors in the city. But 1t may
be that the necessity for military
highways is but an excuse for dipping
into the national treasury and that
the real power behind the good roads
mover ent is the automobile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

companion, an elderly woman dressed
in plain black, who paid little atten-
ton to him and retired to her room
as soon as dinner was over. Then fol-
lowed a stroll on the terrace and. later,
they went into the billiard room.
They sat down and waited for a ia
BILE. Two men next to Tommy were
talking.
'I see old Golden's dead" said one.
You don't say SO. Who'll get his
money!"
That little granddaughter, the
only one of the whole family that's
left. You know her parents died on
the Essex when it was blown up. She
gave up every cent of her fortune to
the Beigians and they say the old man
was so mad he wouldn't give her
dime. So she's working somewhere
for a living. Of course she'll get it all
now. Something like fifteen mil
nons."
Cad"
"Those people there have finished.
Shall we take that table ?" suggested
Lorelei.
Yes" assented Tommy, chalking
her cue and thinking of the lucky fell
low VINO would help spend fifteen mil
lions some day.
The two weeks were up and Tommy
had to leave, but not before one moon
light night he had begged for Lorelei's
hand and been promised it. Father
and mother had not materialized as
yet and there was talk Of her meeting
them at Newport.
Then came the day when he had to
return to the office. He was worried
about Clorinda, wondering how she
would take it. But he put on a brave
front and went in. Her place was
empty!
Haven't you heard the news. Tom
my?" called Fosdick. "Old Golden
was Clorinda's grandaddy and he up
and die and left her fifteen millions"
Tommy was holding his desk for
support
And we miss her like the devil,
but there's a peach taking her place
tall, blond and-ahem."
A girl walked over to Clorinda's
seat and sat down in front of the ma
chine. "Lorelei,'' gasped Tommy, "by
all that's holy!'
Now ought to finish by saying that
Tommy got his just deserts, that
Lorelei insisted upon him keeping his
bargain and led him an awful life. But
it didn't happen. When she found
who he was and that he was making
only SIS month she threw him over
And, on the other hand, Clorinda
insisted upon thinking she was en-
gagged to him and refused to give him
up. So Tommy plays polo and the
heavy swell on his wife's money but
I will say he is perfectly splendid to
her, for he loves her after al1.-(Copy-
right, 1916, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
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FIGHT FOR THE sENATE.

A new element enters into the cam
paign this year; that is the election
Of United States senators by popular
vote. The plan has been adopted
since the presidential election of 1912.
To gain control of the Senate it will
be necessary for the Republicans not
only to hold their present strength
of 80. but to replace nine Democrats
with Republicans. The term of one
Democratic senator in the following
states expires this fall: Maine, New
York, New Jersey, West Virginia.
Maryland, Montana, Nebras ska, Ne
vida. Missouri, Arizona end Ohio
Indiana has two Democratic senators
whose terms expire.
Chairman Wilcox, of the Republi-
can National Committee, declares that
the situation indicates the Republi-
cans have reasonably good prospects
OF gaining a senatorial vote in each
of the States of Maine, New Jersey,
New York. West Virginia. Indiana
Montana, Nevada and Ohio, and fight
ing chances for additional increases
from the states of Maryland, Indiana,
+ ebraska, Missouri nj Arizona
Should the Republicans elect senators
In the first eight states mentioned by
the chairman this would mean a tie,
which, with a Republican vice presi-
dent, would insure control
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

Matter enough" retorted Riuv
Look at my nest," Diiiy.
What do you mean to do abo,,t
1t 2! asked Mrs. Hen, who heard 49,
laIking and came hurrying over to see
what was going on see
Better get a safer ntaoa
Tune, suggested BIuey before Phi.
nad time to reply. Il ALWAYS tbo,,.t-s.
tnat Old apple tree was no good ;,
No use talking over spilled na.+, >,
croaked Mr.. Garden Toad. "RpiiJ 20,
other, build another,'' an
That's good advice. sai5 7.,,-
and without any more tins ~, niiy'
lamenting his losses he set n,,t u IN
hunt for nest materials -1esa,l u
Clara Ingram Judson.l ops1isnt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT


Maid With Water JAR.
Oh the vision haunts ME still,
The CLEAN of the vesper star.
Peering over the purple hill
And the maid with the water jari
Just vision out of the past,
With never a blur to mar,
OF the night, and the star and the desert
And the maid with the water jar.
Clinton Scollard in New York Sun.
Yes, a vision haunts me, too,
1 can never more forget;
For naughty birthday stew
Filled my inwards with regret
Like a vision out of heaven,
Came that boy at half-past seven
With a jar of fresh cracked ice.
w. Kee Maxwell in Jeoria Journal
I am haunted by vision,
, Just a vision Il, th OF, Of the he past
Yes, until the very last.
1 was stranded nine miles southwark,
When a maid drove up and loaned me
Just two quarts of gasoline.
Now Is the Time
This is the gladstone season of the
year when shiny gentlemen happen
along to sell glass cutters. 1t has
often been said that one-half of the
world don't know how the other half
lives. Beyond the shadow of a doubt
the other half lives by selling glass
cutters.
1t matters not how busy you are,
you must lay everything aside and
cutter agent. He takes from his
pocket a perfectly good piece of glass,
then produces the cutter and does
rlore tricks with it than Howard
Thurston can do with plug hat full
his free exhibition you buy a glass
cutter. You can't escape it, tho you
have 900 glass cutters at home and
900 tucked away in your office desk.
There is a good deal of psychology
you are like the ordinary man you
have bought an average of seven glass
cutters a week ever since you have
had an office and when you want a
piece of glass cut you have to take it
to a glazier. Nobody on earth can
make a patent glass cutter work ex-
cepting the man who sells it.
Some men blow their money fool
ishly over the bar or for gasoline, but
the major portion of our surplus has
gone for glass cutters. 1t is a habit,
ard yet there is a sort of ambition in
1t too. We hope some day to run
across a glass cutter that we can
operate when alone with it at home.
We have never found one yet that
didn't quit business just as soon as
We had paid our money for it and the
agent had departed in his shiny Prince
Albert coat to land another victim.
How to Act in Polite Society.
Do not tuck the napkin under your
chin in order to save your shirt front
from the soup and tomato cacsup.
That isn't proper. Tie it around your
neck.
When you go to a party do what
your wife tells you to, and you will
make no mistake, for she has found
out all about it in book.
. Don't crack jokes with the servants.
1t is hard enough to distinguish the
guests from the walters nowadays
without that.
Don't offer to sing or play the
piano. Perhaps the hostess has pre-
pared a program of her own.
If you want to get a good hat and
overcoat, say you have a slight head
ache and leave early.
There was an old woman
Who wanted a flat,
She had seven children,
So that settled that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

ietration than a fulfillment of that
promise. A general decline in prices
i. invariably followed by hard times
and hard times are just as invariably
charged up to the party in power.
The Democrat cry of lower prices may
have served its purpose of misleading
the voter but probably there never was
III intention of making a serious effort
in that direction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The hardest load to carry is of ones
own making.
i. X Il
The wise woman doesn't admit she
has cut her wisdom teeth.
* * *
There is one thing worse than a wo-
man gossip and that is a man gossip
X X X
The child who has the largest piece
of steak never eats the most dessert
X X x
It is human nature to feel especially
virtuous when some one else makes
a mistake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

matoes, then set on stove and get it
heated thru good Add sugar, salt,
spices which have been mixed and
stirred smooth and vinegar so as to
avoid Jumps. When it has reached
boiling point let it boil slowly three
hours. Sometimes tomatoes are wat
cry, then it should boil from one-half
to three-fourths hour longer, so as to
make it thick. If not boiled long
enough chilli sauce will not keep. Stir
often when boiling so it will not set
tie to bottom of kettle and burn. If
recipe is followed closely and care
fully you will have good results. Can
in Mason jars while hot #t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

Both political parties are putting
forth great efforts to carry Maine at
the September election, for the moral
effect it will have in November. After
the Pine Tree vote is counted the loser
will say that the result is of no politi-
cal significance and probably will be
right at that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

The Houston Post is willing to give
Cyclone Davis to any state that
wants him. He must be some relation
to Ben" who invented the imitation
Cf an apple.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

The high cost of living has grown
T.such higher since the Democrats as
samed control of the government, not
withstanding their promise to lower
rrices. Nothing could have proven
more disastrous to the Wilson admin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

It has been definitely established
that Misunderstanding spreads disease
kerms. Still. it is pretty hard to kill
off most politicians
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

Missouri is not the only state where
h-ead-buyers will have to be shown
that two scent loaves are no bigger
than one l0-cent loaf is going to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

Perhaps Mr.. Hughes can make the
c.e-term plank in the Baltimore plat
form mean something, even if Mr.
Wilson doesn't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

The rural credit system was not de-
vised for the purpose of enabling the
farmers to obtain automobiles. They
have them already.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

The automobile is a grand institu-
ton, but the enthusiast who says it is
promoter of religion probably new
er had a blowout thirty miles from
the nearest garage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

A Cleveland boy has been fatally
injured by an empty whisky barrel.
The mortality record of the full bar
rel is not or record. however.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-28

A hyphenated brother proclaims
that the epidemic of infant:le paraly-
sis is divine punishment for selling
war munitions. Perhaps that accounts
tor the weather. also.