davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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The -aid defendant Walter Bhouc. D.
hrrchy notified that civil action ha. been
commenced against ham 90 the District Court
ui th. sixth Judicial District ul the state
30. New Mexico within and .or the Count,
ut Luna. hy the plaintiff, t,sle Rhone, where
m plaintiff prays that the bonds OF malii
moon, now existing between plaintiff and de
I.udlut be dissolved. and ior general relief
Plaintiff alleges as ground Tor said ac
u"u that defendant has failed To support
plaintiff
Nuu. the ,aid defendant ATE hereby no.
tf,d thai sou ate required to appear and
answer tA, complaint in said cause on OF
h.ilrc o., ith day ot January, \ u. 1915
'l' date D completion "f sorNIrr by publ
rHtiou herein. and that uu,s, N"u ~" appear
aud answer Judgment T., default will b.
rendered against you herein and plaintiff
Nu apply n, the Court for the relief prayed
l.. boo her complaint ia aid action.
Iir name ana address ut Plaintiffs 4,
t.rn,, Is L J.. Hamilton. DomiIg New Moy
Nmcs, my md and the seal Of the
Court his 22nd day OF November. A. D. 1917
& Il. HUGHES.
t~EAL. County Clerk
Hs p. s HUGHES Deputy
Nov 90. Dee IT.
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The alarm with which the house
wife views the rising cost of bread IS
uaralleled by the concern shown py
railroad officials over the way ma
terial is soaring to the skies. just
what if is costing the railroads to live
&c revealed by figures given out by r.
J. Clancy, assistant to the general
manager of the Southern Pacific. Ac-
cording to Clancy. railroad managers
aver that these figures presage the
crossing of the danger line. Compar-
ison of the costs of railroad equipment
in May. 1915, and May of this year
indicate that in two years such ma
terial has risen in some cases as high
as 48S per cent.
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est opportunity of self-expression tnat
she had ever had in her whole lie.
well, what would you do about
it," Bradson asked meekly.
I'd gradually put the pieces IN
stock and then I'd start sometning
else. 1 planned it all in my mind-n
would be a set of small flats or cot
tages-one for three rooms, one Tor
four and one tor six or seven rooms
They wouldn't take up any more room
than the House Magnificent does.
Everything in those dovecoteS-that
is what 1 would call them-would be
chosen because it, was inexpensive.
and everything would be marked
plainly. And the things would be
what even the highbrows would call
artistic. And I'd make a big brag
in the paper that / was going in for
inexpensive and artistic home fixings
"A sort of campaign to improve the
taste and homes of the folk with
tofore only the rich could have artis-
tic interiors, but that you were put
ting beautiful things within the reach
of all. And 1 would have some one
how to stain their own chairs and
make cushions and make their own
curtains If they wanted to be shown.
And young men starting in life would
come around with their girls when
they were first thinking of getting
married, and the farmers wives would
come, same as they do now, but they
would be tempted by the signs to
buy"
A quarter of an hour later, when
Jenny had finished describing her
scheme. Mr.. Bradson detained her,
holding out his hand to her
Suppose we make it $25 instead of
S12," he said. "I am sure you can be
worth that to me. We can't afford to
have the Emporium people get you
away from US. Won know
And so the dovecoteS were begun
ana Jenny had charge of them, and
daily demonstrated the possibilities of
| inexpensive artistic home decorations
| to the hundreds of housewives who
| visited them
For weeks Bradson had been too
busy to feel anything but the sense
that business had been booming,
booming as no other mercantile enter
prise in the city had doomed for many
a year.
One day he fingered at the six-room
dovecote with Jenny.
Il am so busy nowadays can't get
home. It's long way to go, anyway.
was wondering If could have one of
these dovecoteS shut off from the 9TH
ers-and have 1t to live in right here
when 1 am SO busy We would make
other dovecotes to make up for it
we need several more"
I've been wondering that, too" A
blush peeped thru the funny little
freckles Were you planning to live
here alone?"
Never a Bit" came back from
Bradson, and two strong arms were
held out to Jenny.
rs that honest to goodness" she
queried
Every bit," he said. "And we'll be
a lot happier than we would ever be in
a house magnificent, too."-(Copy-
right 1917. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
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The Santa Fe railroad is setting an
example of Topeka, to Kansas and to
the country generally, which is worthy
of emulation. 1t is not waiting for the
war to end, but is preparing now to
handle the immense increase in bust
ness it's managers, with all other wide
awake men, know is bound to come;
in fact is already in sight. The road
is arranging for an extension of it's
lines in many directions, without wait
ing for labor and material to become
cheaper. 1t probably will be many
years before these essentials in the
business life of the country will show
any marked decline. In the mean
time the business man who hangs
back will be left at the post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26
TRAWELETTE

BY NIKSAH

Now and again, in some forgotten
byway, the traveller chances on some
glimpse into the heart of a foreign ma
ton that lights up the dark places
may be had into the heart of Japan
by visit to what are known locally
as the Numberless Gods. 1t is diff
cult to explain how thesea battered
ter understanding of Oriental charac-
ter, but it is safe to say that few men
have visited them without coming
away feeling that they are a little
closer to the mystery of japan.
The Numberless Gods are so known
because according to local tradition
they cannot be counted. They stand
by the banks of swift stream flowing
onward to Tokyo, and they are old
and moss-grown, forgotten and neg
!ected. If you, will try to count them,
you will see how the tradition about
them originated. They are so much
alike that your count will never be
twice the same. True, the irrever-
ent tourist may go down the line tap
ping each one with his cane and CALI
ing off the numbers. but that were a
sorry way to treat a picturesque
legend
They stand in a smiling line, these
gods of stone. worn and defaced by
the flight of centuries. features soft
ened and blurred by the years, moss
grown and half hidden by grasses, for
gotten by their worshipers, smii-
ing. always smiling. 1t is the peculiar,
inscrutable smile of the Buddha. the
only god who smiles. Doomed to suf-
fer, according to the Buddhist creed
until all sin has disappeared from
earth, he smiles eternally in all his
images. In these neglected stones that
would have something pathetic about
them did they represent any other god.
the smile seems to speak of a su-
pernal knowledge, a wisdom that is
above circumstance and tune The
smile of the image in an incense-cIoud-
ed temple is a haunting and unforeet-
table thing. but the smile of theSe neg
iected roadside gods under the open
sun goes deeper. 1t seems to sum nm
the mystery that lies at the neart ~
the most mystical creed 80 -
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GOING TO EXTREMES.

Some complaint has recently been
heard to the effect that retail bust :
ness and kindred lines of trade are
beginning to feel the effects of the
wave of economy that is passing owe:
the United States. There is complaint
of this sort in Topeka. Now, there is
a wide difference, says the Christian
Science Monitor. between thrift and
cheese pairing economy. Ameri-
cans have the reputation of going to
extremes in almost everything they
undertake. In the present instance it
is believed that they have gone to an
that is not warranted. Fear is the
underlying cause of it all. When this
fear passes away, as it is sure to do
eventually, the absurdity of it all will
be appreciated.
There is no reason why the clothing
business. the drygoods business or any
other similar line of trade, should suf-
fer reaction on account of the war,
and yet these very lines are showing
a marked slackening of activity. On
the other hand, those providing food
stuffs, coal and other necessaries have
been most active. and are exhibiting
the greatest difficulty in meeting the
demands of the consumers. The peo-
pei themselves are largely responsible.
They have heard 81 much about the
scarcity of food that many of them
have been boarding it.
Grocers and provision merchants
generally report that well-to-do GUS
toners have been laying in large
quantities of foodstuffs, bidding
against one another in an unreason-
able desire to lay up stores for the
future. Prices have scared in conse-
quence of this boarding, and because
of inadequate distribution, and the ex-
traordinary export demand for almost
everything produced from the soil.
The result is that people of small
means, who have nothing that could
be dignified by the name of capital.
are unable to keep pace with their
more fortunate neighbors, and are
obliged to pay the highest prices for
everything they buy.
The billions of dollars to be raised
in the United States for war purposes
Will mostly be spent within the bor-
ders of the country. The financial
activity thus represented is bound to
accelerate trade rather than diminish
it. There may be an occasional halt.
as at present in certain directions, but
clothing merchants, dressmakers. mill
liners, automobile manufacturers,
jewelers.. and those engaged in other
trades, need have no fear for the flu
ture. If history repeats itself. as it
seems in the habit of doing, the wave
of "frenzied frugality" will soon give
place to a sane. practical mode of
living.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Cornmeal Muffins-One cup white
flour, two cups cornmeal, two tea
spoons baking powder, one teaspoon
salt, one tablespoon shortening, sweet
milk to have smooth batter. Stir to-
gether dry ingredients, add melted
lard and milk and bake in gem mans
Fruit Roly Poly-Cream together
one-half cup sugar. one-fourtf cum
butter, two well-beaten eggs, one-hajf
cup milk, one cup flour and one tea
spoon baking powder. Add pinch ~
salt. Ron out, spread with sliced
peaches for any fruit preferred). dust
with sugar. roll up and bake in ouicL
oven Serve with cream.
Onion Soup-Two large onions or
TOUR medlum ones. three level table,
spoonsfuls fat. butter, or a mixture ~
the two; three pints boiling water or
water ana skim milk (half and hahn.
one and one-half teaspoonfuls sail.
one-quarter level teaspoonfuI penner
two atblespoonfuls flour for thicLsn
ing, If desired 'hh-
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indicated by a deep hostility between
the forces in question.
Thus the department can look for
ward to successful Cancellation work.
altho it is being called upon for such
work with increasing frequency.
These threatened strikes that are set
tied without ever coming to the point
of an actual break attract little atten-
ton, but their settlement is vital now
to the nation.
The department has no authority to
arbitrate. to judge, or to enforce its
own opinions of the merits of the case.
In fact, it carefully refrains from hav-
ing any opinions. 1t is authorized to
conciliate and mediate, and it waits
for an invitation before even going
that far. Sometimes the employer in
vites the department to tackle the
problem, sometimes it is the men,
and of late the council of national
defense has been keeping a sharp eye
out for labor troubles, and, speaking
for the public, has called on the de-
partment to try and find a solution.
The official conciliators then try to
get the disputing parties together on
some common ground. They take it
for granted that both sides want an
agreement, and they try to find a
basis. If Cancellation fails they may
resort to mediation, but if either party
insists on fighting it \out, the depart
ment cannot stop them. So far, how
ever. efforts at Cancellation have been
remarkably successful.
1t is hoped that they will continue
so. War calls for stern measures in
the last necessity, and if an industry
vital to the nation were crippled by
disputes, the government would have
tc create machinery for dealing with
the situation. But Cancellation, the
appeal to the reason and the patriot
ism of both parties, is the truly demo-
cratic method, and if the country can
make it serve thruout the war the
feat will be a vindication of the eff
cheney of democracy.
Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Blu
reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. c., with 2-cent stamp
enclosed for reply.
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considerable importance in former
years. A compilation by the National
City bank of New York of the princi-
pal foodstuffs entering the United
States from Mexico shows that the
total amounted to over $12,OoO.000 in
1915, and this total is much below the
normal, which ranged from 5000.
900 to $25.OO0.o0O in former years.
The prohibition, according to the an
nouncement of the department of
commerce, includes cattle, sheep,
goats and other food animals flour
and other articles of prime necessity,
provisions, coffee, peppers and beans.
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ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BY ROY 4. MoULTON.

The - White Way.
broadway is now closed up at 1 a. H.
Twas ever thus since childhood's day
Our fondest hopes shot to pieces,
For now at one the Gay White Way
Abruptly ceases.
Thru years we've yearned to go ahead
And join for once in Broadway's capers.
Especially after We have read
The Sunday papers
1t was perhaps our greatest wish,
We'd saved the nickels to be scattered
And now another large ambish
Is wholly shattered.
So let us as last resort
Spend all the sum we've saved and hire a
Large special train to Logansport
Or say, Elmira.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26
GOING TT BLIND.

Democrat Leader Kitchin and 328
other members of the house shut their
eyes and voted for the war revenue
bill. practically as 1t came from the
committee. The proposed taxes on
ing were eliminated.
1t has often been asserted that the
United States senate is a useless body
and should be abolished. That body
now has an opportunity to justify its
existence. Probably it will do so when
it takes action on the war revenue bill
passed by the house. The country
looks to the upper house for saliva
ton. What that body will Go to the
revenue measure probably will be a
plenty.
The bill should be so framed as to
bear as lightly as possible on the wage
earners and persons in poor circum-
stances. These are having all they
can do now to live owing to the high
prices of articles of daily consump-
ton. If this class must be made to
carry an added part of the war bur-
den in the form of new taxes, let the
imposition of these levies wait until
the war has ended, when possibly it
will not cost so much to live. The ma
jority party always has commended that
a tariff is a tax on the consumer, yet
the bill as passed carries horizontal
increase of 10 per cent of all duties
now in existence and places a tax of a
similar amount on everything now on
the free list. Free raw material is of
the utmost importance to the manu-
featuring interests of this country and
this feature of the bill is a severe blow
to the country's business which is ex-
pected to contribute largely to the
funds for carrying on the war.
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THE SEARCHLIGHT
Latest News from the Fields Of
SCIENCE, EDUCATION, INVENTION
Improved Electric Iron.

The latest improvement in the cleo
trio smoothing iron is an attempt to
overcome the difficulty that arises IN
the laundry from the need for irons of
different temperatures for different
kinds of work, The old-time laundress
with half a dozen irons on the stove
could keep some of them hotter than
others, using the cooler irons for deli
cate fabrics, but the modern laundress
with a single electric iron has to turn
it on and off and wait for it to heat
or cool The new electric iron has j
regulating switch that can be set at
four different points to produce four
different temperatures, from a very
high one for heavy work to one much
lower for use on materials that are
easily scorched,
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Even the federal government has
discovered that trusts have their uses.
1t has invited the United States Steel
corporation, greatest of all the trusts,
to erect a mammoth ship building
plant in New Jersey. This the trust
is proceeding promptly to DO. What
concern, pursuing ordinary business
methods, could have been in a posi-
ton to meet this requirement of the
government? And. too, the much ma
igned railroads have become welcome
partners with Uncle Sam in the bust
ness of fighting Germany. Perhaps
when the war has ended there will be
a decreased tendency to bait business
than there has been in the past.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26
GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globel

IFrom the Atchison Globe1
The rule is that taxes are necessary
and unsatisfactory.
A man who is always rafting his
money has a brain that rattles.
A pessImist is one man who knows
what to expect; he expects The worst.
Some of the rewards are offered on
the theory that they will never be col
lected.
Some o. the brave men go to war,
and others act as judges in baby
shows.
Something more than a mean dispo-
sition is needed to make discipline
success.
That faraway soulful look. may be
caused by biliousness rather than by
a longing for the infinite.
What seems reason to you is apt
to sound Ike an excuse to the one you
tell about it.
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DINNER STORIES

Peddler-I have a most valua BILE
book to sell, madam; it tells one how
to do anything.
Lady (sarcastically)- it tell
one how to get rid Of a Fostering ped
dler?
Peddler (promptly)-Oh. yes, mad
am! Buy something from him.
DO these high prices make you
feel prosperouS?"
NO" replied Farmer Corntossel,
Every time 1 sell anything now I
figure OH what I lost by not waiting
a few weeks while prices went up
still more"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26
Sprinkling the Lawn.

There should be a law made that
no one is to sprinkle a lawn unless
he can prove his mind is sound. Much
trouble has resulted from the sprink-
ling of lawns by persons of weak
minds. If a man has any tendencies
to lunacy they will appear the mo-
ment he starts sprinkling. He may
try to fight back the feelings, but he
knows that sooner or later he is go
ing to do something horrible with the
hose. Most all of us have these feel
ings. but we are strong enough to
down them. The weak man or the
man with the weak mind is not. He
trembles to think that any moment a
man might come up the street with a
straw hat or a Palm Beach suit. There
are things that everyone would like
to do with a hose if they only dared
Someday some of US are going to try
them all. And hold off the posse of
neighbors with the hose
TOday's Sheer.
Some opportunity knocks at every
person and some persons knock at
every opportunity.
Happy Thought.
The Best Thing to get next to your
Health is to Get Next to Yourself
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The president has let down the bars
on the Mexican boundary and citizens
of our southern neighbor can enter at
will. The excuse for this action is
that we need the workers. He should
pursue a similar course toward China
and Japan. Whatever objection there
has been to the admission of the ORR
entails has been confined largely to
the Pacific coast states. These have
been converted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

The action of the Mexican govern
ment. in prohibiting the expectation
of foodstuffs and food animals to the
United States. as announced by the
department of commerce, closes a
door thru which the United States has
been receiving considerable quantities
of food. even during the disturbances
in that country, and which was OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

The failure of Germany's peace ne
gotiations with Russia is attributed to
the formers refusal to relinquish
claim to all captured territory. What
do the Muscovites think the Teutons
are in the war for?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

Representative Thomas Heflin of
Alabama thinks he has solved the
submarine problem. He advocates A
substantial padding of the outside of
ships with cotton in order that this
soft answer may turn away the tor
pedo's wrath. 1t will be remembered
that Andrew Jackson won an impor-
tant battle by the aid of cotton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

Travellers returning from the Orient
report that Japan is sending an army
to the eastern front, over the Trans
siberian railroad. When Germany
finds herself between the fires of the
two great nations of fighters, America
and Japan, she may as well toss up
the sponge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

It is a good time for parents to
make an investment for the baby. A
liberty loan bond for $50 or 500 if
the interest be compounded thru the
savings banks will make a tidy sum
by the time the youngster shall have
reached majority. Any bank teller
will figure it up for you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

The Southern Presbyterians have
rejected the overtures of the other
branch of their church for union.
Southerners never were strong Tor
any union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

The New York World thinks that
Roosevelt should have been sent to
Russia with Root. There is no coun-
try in the world that needs a man
like the colonel more than does Rus
STA lust now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

who are, so far as looks go, merely
KIND to the eyes, but who are so sweet
and loveSble in character that they
grow more beautiful year by year
Men know this, and that's why the
girl who isn't a beauty marries all
around her better looking sister.
The moral of all OF which is tina.
there are plenty of crumbs of COM
fort for the ugly ducklings, so she
need not mourn as one without hope.
A~% ~
Copyright, 1917, by the Wheeler Syndicate
Incl
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Time has been in this country
when the term "bondholder" was con-
sidered a reproach. Now it will be
regarded as a badge of honor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

The Standard Oil company is pre-
pairing to pay its share of the in
creased war taxes. 1t has advanced
The price of gasoline cents a gallon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

Citizens of Topeka think prices are
high But up in Newfoundland the
people are paying S25 a ton for coal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26
rur GIRLS THEY LEFT BEHIND
THEM.

We .re tho girls that they left behind them
And this is the pride that We wear TO-DAY
we had no will to hinder or bind them
To hid them hesitate, wait or stay
We hade God speed to them on their way
Not with the sadness of hearts reslgned
But glad of the call they must needs ooeS-
We are the girls they left behind
we are the girls that they left behind them
Not as of old but to weep ana pray. ~aa
Rnt with ready hands and with wit to f1nd
them
Service fit for the part we play.
And this is the pride that we wear today
1--WE who are one with them heart ana
mind)
That they loved us and left and marcneo
away. =. 49,.
We are the girls that they left behind;
-Theodosia Garrison of the Nig1lantes.
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economic on graduation gowns. Not
make 'em shorter. it is hoped.