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The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
world's> Highest Paid Woman Writer.
The secret of Happiness

The Secret OF H0ppiicSS-%.
.aThe secret of happiness" contin-
ued the woman. ''lies in your own at
titude towards life. It's the determl-
nation to make the best of things ana
to be happy whether you are or not.
'"The secret of happiness" said still
another woman. consists in keeplns
so busy that you haven't time to con-
slider whether you are happy or miser-
able My three rules for attaining
happiness are, first, work. Second.
work Third. work.
THE minute people get enough
time to sit down and begin taking
their mental temperatures, they find
out that they are subnormal. That's
why divorce is chiefly luxury of the
rich and idle. As long as husband
and wife have to hustle for bread and
meat they i.re not concerned with the
state of their affection, or whether
they are real soul affinities or not, or
whether they love with the same ro-
mantle fervor they did in the days OF
| "a real live job that keeps you on
| the jump from morning till night,
that offers a new problem at every
| turn, whose difficulties keep your
mind alert and active is the only real
| permanent source of happiness in this
| imperfect world. The reasoR that
men are so much happier than women
| is because they have plenty of work
| to do. something to think about be-
| side themselves. Why you could cure
nearly all of the misery in the world
| by the simpule expedient of putting
women to work, because it's the idle,
dissa tisfied, discontented, wretched
women who stir up the men and make
| them miserabl too"
The secret of how to be happy"
| said the fifth woman. "is like the
, secret of how to be beautiful and OBJ
tain a lovely complexion. 1t consists
| in being born that way. If you want
| a real genuine peach and cream skin.
| old Dame Nature has to endow you
with it as birthday gift. All tho
ma assage and cold cream in the world
way if you want to be genuinely
| happy. the gift of happiness must
have been wished on you In. the cradle.
All the PHILOSOPHERS that wisdom has
devised won't enable YOU TO pack
| and smile, smile. and SMILE unless
| your mouth was built for laughter.
Happiness consists in having been
born with the joy of living in you.
that mysterious something that puts
quicksilver into your veins. that makes
| life one long thrill that takes the
| labor out of work. that makes even
tragedy an interesting adventure, and
hangs a rainbow above your tears.
| ITO be born with the joy of living
is the only sure recipe for being
happy. And that is the gift of the
/ gods And they afN chary about be-
slowing it. Thays why there are
plenty of people in the world who
smile, but few who laugh
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Observation-Disclosures sSElsSlSslssSRS5lRsS

who contributed this unseen and in
tangible power, which acts SO i'm
mediately upon the harnessing of its
forces by the genius of man.
Every day we tread over a ground
work of Divinity.
Back of the hard palms of the
worker. secreted in breasts of mothers
who feed and warm their babies there,
nourished in brains of men and worn-
en- who read and write and observe. is
the thing we all sooner or later, recog-
nize as the supreme medium of the
world-the Presence of the God.
In the clouds, thru the sunshine,
amongst the leaves of the trees. out
from the songs of birds, down and
thru the lines and lanes Of every by
way and pathway Of the world does
He make His way.
Every time you feel right and happy
and generous, you are in-the Pres
ence of the Godi
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The overwhelming victory of Gov
ernor Coolidge. Republican, in Massa-
chusetts is set down by President Will
son as a victory for law and order. 1t
is regarded as an endorsement of the
governors course in handling the re-
cent strike of policemen in Boston.
His opponent made an appeal to the
labor vote and the result seems to in
dicate that even the workers rallied to
the support of Coolidge. Violation of
their oath of office by the policemen
has been distinctly condemned by the
Massachusetts voters. Doubtless if an
expression from the people could be
obtained they would as strongly ex-
press their disapproval of violations of
contracts. A statement recently pre-
pared showed that in at least fifteen
states of the Union workmen had
broken contracts with their employ
ers. The printers strike in New York,
entailing a loss OF millions of dollars.
was called in violation of a written
contract. The strike of the longshore-
men, that paralyzed shipping, came
after the men had agreed to abide by
the decision of an arbitration body,
and then refused to accept the deci-
sion when it did not give everything
they wanted. The strike of bituminous
coal miners is in the face of an agree
ment not to strike until the end of the
! war, an agreement held not only by
the coal operators but by President
Wilson to be legally in force until the
peace treaty is ratified.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Soups.

Spanish Vegetable Soup = One
pound of beef and shinbone, two car
rots. two onions, one. very small cab
bage, six small potatoes one cup of
canned corn, one cup of peas, one cup
of string beans, one small turnip.
Let the beef boil in hot water for
about half an hour then add the
sliced vegetables, season with salt and
Sometimes this dish, cooked as one is
served in two courses. The soup is
drained and served in bouillon cups,
and the vegetables arranged sepa-
rately and served hot with a sauce, or
cold like a salad with mayonnaise
dressing
Thick Rice Soup-One cup of rice.
one cup of canned tomatoes, four
cups of stock or water, two onions,
two tablespoons of butter.
: Wash the rice, drain. Heat the but
ter in the saucepan, then stir in the
Drowned slightly. Then add the stock
or water, tie chopped onions and to-
matoes and seasonings, and simmer
for one hour. a
Barley Soup-One-half cup of bar
ley, one quart of water, twoT cups of
milk, one egg yolk. two tablespoons
butter, four. tablespoons of diced
cooked carrots. four tablespoons of
cooked or canned peas, salt, pepper,
paprika.
Let barley come to boil. boil for five
minutes. then drain off the water.
Melt the butter, add barley and fresh
water and simmer until barley is ten
der. Rub thru sieve, add milk and
simmer ten minutes. Season. add
cooked vegetables and cook until well
mixed. Before serving add the beaten
egg yolks.
Similar soups can De cooked with
many other vegetables spinach, tur-
nips, carrots or any other large variety
of canned vegetable. The beaten egg
yolk added just before serving gives q
richer flavor to the soup as we'll as
adding more substance to it.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07

A baskit of green appels dropped
out of the back of waggin yestidday
rite before suppir, and the man dident
heer us fellows yell to him, /proberly
on account of we could of yelled loud
er if we wunted to and we all ran out
in the street and tried to see who
could pick up the most appels, more
because we wunted the appels than
because, we wunted to see who coula
pick up the most, and l got all my
pockits full and my hat full, and after
suppir / started to eat them in the
ny, ware did you get all those terrible
looking green appels?
They fell off of a waggin, watts the
matter with them? 1 sed.
They're sutch a fritefill shade of
green, you better put them out in
the sun to ripen or sumthing. sed ma.
Aw G, ma. / never get a stummick
axe, L sed. and pop sed, Well you'll
get one this time, if I'm eny judge of
green appels, if those appels were eny
greener they would be agenst the law.
1 bet you I wont. I never get a stup-
mick axe, do !. ma? 1 sed. and ma sed
Well, hardly ever, that's the truth, tho
wy you don't is a mistery to me. And
1 kepp on eating the green appeis,
and all of suddin 1 felt a fearse
pane. thinking. Owtch. gosh. G.
Watts the ideer of that face, Benny?
sed pop. Meening the one L jest made,
and / sed. o. nuthing, 1 was jest think
ing of sumthing.
You mussent think of-sutch things
sed pop. and ma sed, Willyum, L bet
he's got a stummick axe.
No sir, no mann. 1 have not, sed.
And I kepp on setting there feeling
fearser and fearser and trying not to
make faces and making some eny-
ways, and pop sed, Have another ap-
pei wy don't you, Benny?
I had enuff, I'm getting tired of
them, 1 sed.
Benny. have you got a stummick
AXE? sed ma.
No mann, sed. And I kepr en-
setting there another little vile, and
then 1 sed. Yes mann. Wich 1 had,
and I grabbed hold of the outside
of my stummick and started to make
fearse faces and fearse noises, AID
ma gave me some fearse medesin
and I throo the appels ali out the
back window exsept the ones had
ate. and after vile felt all rite age.
and went out in the back street to
| find them and they wasent there. prov
ing sumbody had proberly found them
alreddy.
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THE PUBLIC AS AN ARBITEER.


Three years ago a threat to tie up
way unions, when they demanded a 25
per gent increase in wages under the
guise of an eight-hour day. The
threat was effective. The Adamson
bill was passed and signed by the pres
ident. The railway employees were en-
titled to the increase in the wages that
they then demanded, but their method
of obtaining the increase was a vicious
method. for it was tantamount to a
threat of starvation to dwellers in
cities unless their demands were
granted.
Emboldened by the success of that
threat, the soft coal miners have car
ried out the same sort of a. threat.
But they have failed to make proper
allowance for the difference both in
conditions and IN public sentiment
! three years ago and today.
Three years ago we were menaced
by war, today we are not. The rail-
way employees three years ago were
underpaid. The coal miners today are
mot underpaid. Three years ago many
congressman were afraid they might
fail of reelection were they to pass a
bill prohibiting strikes on railways.
Today they realize that the great ma
jority of the voters are in favor of
such a bill, and it is now practically
| certain that the strike provision in the
| Cummins bill, perhaps in modified
form, will be enacted into law. In
e.nrf the roo1 ro{pars' -frita hIud0aoD
has been waved in the face of a ma
tion that is angry clear thru, whereas
the strike bludgeon that the railway
unions waved three years ago only
served to start an anger that had in it
at first more of surprise than of deep
| seated resentment.
While congressional committees are
engaged in drafting a strike clause
for the proposed railway control law,
the coal miners are giving the eastern
and middle states the bitterest dose
that they have ever swallowed. There
can be little doubt as to what the pa
tient will do/after he has been forced
to swallow a few bottles of that dose.
He will get up and beat the doserr into,
not insensibility, but sensibiIity. He
will force congress to pass anti-strike
laws that will protect him from such
vicious attacks as the one now being
made upon him by the soft coal n1in-
ers' union.
Labor unionism's strongest card in
the past has been the sympathy of the
| public in all its just demands. Of that
sympathy. the union could be conf
dent. But in recent months the union
leaders have not sought public approx
al. They have not laid their cases be-
fore the public. Even now, when they
are in life and death struggle for
existence, they do not attempt to show
that their demands are justified by
! conditions. They do not attempt to
show that the wages and the short
| hours-the six hour day, five days a
week-are justified. They know their
demands are so unreasonable that if
they asked public approval, they
would not get it.
Unless labor unionism, by persist
ence in its present course, forfeits pub
lie confidence entirely, it may depend
upon public support, on proper occa-
sion in the future, but it cannot have
popular sanction in efforts or in move
ments which threaten serious curtail-
ment of production of the necessaries
of life.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07
THE PRESENCE OF THE GOD.

TEEISEsNOE D.
Carlyle wrote that 1.-The Hero is he
who lives in the inward sphere of
things. in the true, the Divine and
Eternal"
And if you would know the type of
man who is strong. heroic, peren-
niar' you must hunt the man with the
God in him-for from such. greatness
of thought and action is impossible. to
be hidden.
The world is made up of seekers
and bringers- Nobility of soul is led
on by a flame of light. and in that
light is-the Presence of the Godi
Every good deed, whether open or
in the silent, is a thing inspired
We believe in electricity, in the
waves of sound and light, because we
have felt them in our ears and hearts
and our eyes have seen their glory
in things of wonder and mystery. But
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07

A majority of 10000 given to Gro
yer Cleveland. when he ran for gov
cTnor in New York in 1882. made him
president of the United States. A ma
Jority of 125,OOO for Calvin Coolidge
in Massachusetts may produce SIM
liar result. Republicans and the peo-
pie generally may conclude that
Coolidge is just the man they have
been looking for. Better watch him.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07

If anywhere in the world the Boil
sheviki should gain permanent and
undisputed control of affairs. it would
be but little while until the thrifty
and industrious part of the citizenry
would again be in possession of the
business and the property of the coun-
try. The Bolsheviki would then find
themselves under the necessity of do
ing their work of fuin all over again.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07

1t Doesn't Rhyme, but the Idea Is Fascinat
ing.
Dear Roy: Why prate of Eloise
In Yers Libre, so enchantingly?
Why write of limbs but not of trees
That make us sigh rOmantically?
With limbs so bare in winters breeze,
Tho they charm ecstatfcally.
Your little maid will surely freeze
Unless she dress more practically.
N F. X. o.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07
"God within the shadow.
Keeping watch above his own"
The Vision of the Best.

On the lowest plane of ordinary ex-
perience, it is rare and priceless gift
to have vision trained to see only
the best. In workaday world, where
suspicion and distrust are rife, the
people who perceive the good rather
than the evil are a gift of God to their
associates. They are the heartenerS,
the encouragers, the inspirers. Be
cause of them their fellows keep up
heart, and work more joyously. These
optimists, with seeing eyes, who are in
the real apostolic succession to Peter,
make other people as happy as Peters
avowal made Jesus.
Let no one think that the lonely
Man of Sorrows did not feel glow
at his heart when he heard his disci-
pies recognition leap forth so unre-
serYedly. The lavish tribute Jesus paid
Peter is evidence enough of this.
Once a woman said to the marine
painter, Turner, Mr.. Turner, 1 don't
see in the sea those wonderful lights
and shadows you put into your pic
lures"
Don't you wish you could, mad
am ?" was the artists instant reply.
FThere were many up in the regions
of Caesarea Philippi who could not see
the significance of Jesus. Nearer
home, there are many today who be-
hold in him only a wise teacher, per-
feet man, a helper of his fellows. They
OAAcl INN q fAASHS dliOAS the prophets
of time. But the Peter spirit. which
every one of us Graves. penetrates
deeper, and beholds the sent Son OF
God himself, the Redeemer of the race
the only hope for our troubled times
Jesus hims does not desire flora1
| tributes Of praise; he asks recognition
and allegiance.
At this hour, above the clack and
clatter of our machinery. and our in
terminable talk and disputation we
find the Jesus of GaliIee offering him.
self as leader and teacher and saviour
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT

BY ROY K AdoULToN

High in His Glass.
Eugene MeGunn is making good
At college work this year.
For since it opened he has stood
Right up in front quite clear.
And yet it seems a mystery
That Gene should be so high;
He never studies, yet you see
Him always getting byi
Gene cuts his classes right and left,
They'd fire him, it would seem;
But-he's a tackle, and his heft
Wins for the football team,
# Benjamin Faucet
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Eyes for the Times.

Contemporary recognition OF uncon-
ventionaI greatness is rare. Only the
flash of genius can perceive genius
The reason no man is a hero to his
valet, it has been said. is because the
valet is no hero. Like discerns like.
1t is the good who see goodness. the
noble who praise nobility. Contrari-
wise, ito the impure all Things are I'M
pure"
Recently I heard a congressman
who is noted for his wealth and social
position, if not for his brains or char
acter, in the presence of large COM
pany of men, tell a story about a Wo-
man in public life which branded the
sneaker as an eVil-minded creature
unfit to associate with decent people.
Our judgments judge u.s. What we
think of others is the clearest reveia-
ton of what we are. Peter was man
of mercurial temperament, but we rec
ogniZe him at his best when he recog-
nized the real character of his Leader.
That was the Peter to remember
Philips Brooks said. Count your high
est moments your truest.'
Anybody can see the obvious; so 1t
is no merit to us to proclaim the perlls
and the unrest and the widespread sag
| of life in this our day. A need OF the
times is for men and women who have
eyes to penetrate to the greatness and
glory of what lies beneath the surface
! of the present tumult. A dullard in
Israel could behold the encircling Syr-
| ian hosts: it took prophetic vision to
glimpse the heavenly horsemen and
chariots which filled the skies. Only
spiritually quickened eyes are alert to
see
"God within the shadow.
Keeping watch above his own,
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Eyes for What. Counts.
In a little Vermont town, 1 once
mentioned my acquaintance with a
distinguished son of the village who
had made himself a name and place
in the world. The reply of the ma
tives was amusing and revealing. They
wanted me, the stranger, clearly to
understand that Charley was no bet
ter than any of the rest of them. While
they did not exactly dispraise him,
they took the familiar attitude that
since he had grown up with them as
boys, therefore he could not be any
body in particular! Which is quite
the way OF old acquaintance: to have
known them intimately is a bar to
distinction!
Some score of million of persons
are studying in the present lesson
about an entirely different type of
man. Peter had eyes that saw thru
to essentials. The theme of this study
could well be, Eyes and no eyes"
The big crowd were interested in Je-
sus, the wonder-worker. and they were
trying to place him. All their meas
urements fell short, as developed in
the cabinet meeting which Jesus held
with his assistants, a meeting wherein
he kept in touch with public opinion.
1t was Peter, he of the ready tongue
and the daring Imagination, who had
the vision to penetrate clear thru to
the truth.
An Old Story Retold.
The familiar incident is related in
unfamiliar phrase in the Weymouth
translation:
when he arrived in the neighbor-
hood of Caesarea PhiNppi, Jesus ques-
toned his disciples
'Who do people say that the Son of
Man is?" he asked
"Some say John the Baptist" they
replied; "others. Elijah; others Jere-
miah or one of the Prophets"
But you, who do you say that
amp" he asked again.
YOU" replied Simon Peter. "are
the Christ, the Son of the everything
God"
blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona !"
said Jesus; for mere human nature
has not revealed this to you, but my
Father in heaven. And declare to
you that you are Peter. and that upon
this Rock 1 will build my Church, and
the might of Hades shall not triumph
over it. will give you the keys of
the Kingdom of the Heavens; and
whatever you bind on earth shall re-
main loosed in heaven"
Then he urged his disciples to tell
no one that he was the Christ
From this time Jesus began to ex-
plain to his disciples that he must go
to Jerusalem, and suffer much cruelty
from the eldefs and high priests and
the scribes, and be put to death, and
on the third day be raised to life
again. Then Peter took him aside and
began taking him to task
Master he said, God forbid; this
will not be your lot?'
But he turned and said to Peter.
Get behind me. Adversary; you are
hindrance to me. because your
thoughts are not Gods thoughts, but
mems.
Then Jesus said to his disciples,
eff any one desires to follow me,
let him renounce self and take up his
cross, and so be my follower.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07
What Happened to "a Freight Train
When 1t Ran Into This Henry. -

Henry Brandon of this city came
near losing his life in a railroad cross
ing accident at Manila Wednesday,
when a freight train backed down ON
his car and only miraculousiy escaped
with a broken collarbone, four ribs
broken and cuts and bruises.-Blythe-
Vile (Ark) Courier.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07

Very few people are throwing their
old shoes at honeymooners these days.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-07
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
Eyes for What. Counts.
-RY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

For November 9 is Peters Great Con-
fession. Matt 16:13-24.
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Oil field correspondent for the daily
Press has recently uncoveed TO the
public a scheme of certain big oil
conserns to pat the smaller oil com
panies on the blink. He ellis how they
have cornered the pipe line facilities
in way to cut the little fellows off
from access to that means of getting
their products to therefinries. In
this way they brought about recently
n drop in the price of crude oil from
$2.25 to one dollar barrel.
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FOR SALE-A carload OF good
young horses and Mares. Weigh 1000
to 1890 pounds. to Z years old
The best bunch of horses in this
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county. They are the John W. Mooar
stock at Dermott. viii sell any mum
Der. J. w. Russell 81
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Our Delivery Service.

We the undersigned Grocer mer
chants have arranged a delivery ser
vice that will give more satisfactor!
service See full announcement next
week
j w. Templeton.
Harpole & Taylor,
Farmers Mercantile Co.
II. NJ. BACKYARD
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LOST-Two five dollar war saving
stmps. my name and addreos in the
book. V. NJ. Minyard. Snyder. Texas.
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STRAYED-A brown horse, 2 years
old past Scar on left hind leg. Any
information leading TO recovery will
be appreciated Notify Edgar Wilson
Route 3 or John Brownfield miles
south OF Snyder. Tsp
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WANTED-Man and wife. no chill
dren woman to cock and wash, man
to do chores about place, Sos per
month for both. Apply to John Brown
Cuthbert, Texas, Care Reynolds
ranch. 12tf.
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FOR SALE Rufus Red Belgian
Hare's. both bucks, S. T. Minor,
Camp Springs, Texas. Tsp
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FOR SALE-One disc pillow and one
Success sulky, and other farm ma
hinery. See DR.. II. G. Davenport.15tf
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REGISTERED-Po Poland China boar
for service. $500 cash.
X. V.Ramsour Tsp.
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WANTED-Good clean syrup buckets
VIII pay 10c each for buckets with
lids delivered to f. f. Sears Gin.
Snyder, Texas ltpd
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SEE FERGUSON FOR MILK COWS
80 head all fresh, SIS 30 s125.1tp