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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

the peach orchard and many other
spots made famous at this great bat
tie. With tears streaming down her
cheeks she looked at her strong young
son standing SO straight beside her
and knew that he, too, was willing to
shed his blood for his country.
Not that she would have him do
otherwise-for her heart beat high
with pride on that day when he told
her he had enlisted-but for the sor-
rows of the world and for the tears
and blood that must be shed before
the most infamous tyrant since the
world began could be laid low in the
dust, never to rise again.
Came the sound of marching feet!
They looked around. Mrs. Drisko.
with tear-dimmed eyes, saw only a
company of soldiers out on hike, but
Madeline saw more than that. Her
heart stood still as she thought she
Taught a sight of familiar figure in
charge of the men. She had never
seen Hereford in uniform-still the
lieutenant looked very much like. The
Madeline, with a sigh, decided her
heart had deceived her, and that her
lover was still in Hawaii and she was
long ago forgotten.
Those men belong to the tank
corps" said Tom Drisko. IT have been
reading about them. They are mostly
picked men. There are several Olym-
pic champions among them, and one
of the greatest electricians in the
world has given up an income of
100000 a year to become a private
in the tank corps. They are a splen-
did lot of men. I am going to try for
it myself
The Driskos were to leave early the
next day. That same evening Made
line started from the hotel to get a
| magazine from the little newsstand
across the circle. 1t was Saturday
! night, and the streets were crowded
with men in uniforms. In the tea
rooms and drug stores one could see
them in scores eating ice cream and
drinking soda water.
isn't it a funny thing that soldier
is always hungry" remarked a young
officer to another as they were stroll
| ing around the circle.
Madeline looked up. The voice
she had heard it before and it startled
/ her out of her usual poise.
Recognition was instantaneous and
| all the pride and resentment were for
gotten as tho they had never existed.
| his handsome face aglow with sudden
| joy.
'Hereford!' gasped Madeline,
meekly. "Oh. Herefordl"
Come with me, dear" he said,
and forgetting his companion he took
! Madelines arm and guided her down
| a quiet street. They sat on the steps
| of a church and poured out their
young hearts in love and contrition.
for they had nothing to quarrel about
! in the first place.
Saying good night in the hotel par
/, lor Hereford asked: -
MY dearest, you know we expect
/ to leave very soon for the other side.
Is there anything you, would like me
| to send you?"
''Nothing-except always your
love-" said Madeline happily.
Copyright. 1913. by the Mcclure News
| paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

Probably no more convincing evil
dence that the war is over could have
been obtained than is shown in the re-
election of william Halle Thompson to
the position of mayor of Chicago.
During the war and preceding Amer
ica's entrance into it, in the language
of the Christian Science Monitor. the
chief executive of the second city of
the country frequently went out of his
way to offend the patriotic impulse
behind Americas part in the conflict.
Apparently he studied to make his
course obnoxious. He openly ex-
pressed views and espoused doctrines
that found favor among few, il any
besides pro-Germans and dangerous
aliens. He was attacked in the press.
on the platform. in the pulpit, and was
defended by those whose regard for
him served even to emphasize his
complete separation from the sympa-
thy of a multitude that had once
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
The Seeds You Plant
BY GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

We are all tillers of the soil-the
soil of human history. We are all
planting seeds every day. Some of
them will never CONF up. And some
of them are sure to come up.
And it is for those seeds that sprout
and spring into life that we are re-
sponsible.
Life is. a contest as we'll as a thing
of harvesting. A contest between the
forces of construction and destruction.
Weeds are sure to appear in the
most fertile field-in fact they are
more apt to appear in the rich, fertile
field than anywhere else. So that
everything must be watched. Weeds
choke out the life of the good thing.
But it is within the power of every
man and woman, in the development
of his character, to cut down and root
up those weeds which seek to destroy
the good created.
You are responsible only for the
seeds which you plant.
Sometimes it takes a long time for
the seeds you plant to come up. So
keep patient. Nourish and care for
that which seeks life in the world of
light and rain, in the activities of
everyday life.
Keep planting seeds every day.
And be glad that you have a chance
to make the world happier, from the
good seeds which you plant and which
come up to cheer and help scores and
scores of people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
MY HUSBAND AND |
BY JANE PHELPS

Do you do it by mail? 1 saw such a
stack of circulars and addressed en-
velopes the day I was down at the
office-the day you were not there"
I'VE do lot by mail. Occasionally
we get hold of some-rich man., he
had hesitated, land land him for a
few thousand shares"
"And does that mean that people
who are not rich buy mining stock 2"
at means that people who want to
be rich buy it." Then: "by the way,
Bah, 1 am going to bring IL prospec-
tive customer home to dinner tomor-
row night. Look your prettiest. Bet
ter wear that dress. We will be alone,
but 1 want you to make good i'm
preston. And that is a stunning
gown"
Il thought it was, too, until 1 saw
Mrs Ortons'
You couldn't wear the same clothes
Blanche does. You aren't the type"
y-well,-different. 7 was quite
out of conceit with my dress"
Don't be foolish. Blanche can
wear those things; you couldn't!'
I'D like to try" L pouted. You
admire her immensely, don't you ?"
she's a very clever woman. But
we were talking of tomorrow night.
Scot is a fine fellow. and is rotten with
money. 1 want to interest him in this
new deal. 1t will mean a killing il
L 90.
I'm what way Whit be killing 2'''
am almost ashamed to say that I
questioned Neil with more confidence
because he had taken another drink.
Liquor seemed always to make him
laxative. 1 didn't want him to take
it, had objected: but SO long as he
paid no attention, I would try to turn
1t to advantage. I so wanted to know
what Mr.. Fredericks referred to when
he said others would suffer from
Neirs business methods even IL he did
not.
why. because he'll take stock, of
COURSE big block OF it"
But if the mine is worth what you
ask, and you had to pay for it. how
canyon Ike killing if he does buy
the stock?''
"Oh. let's go to bed. You make
yourself attractive to him, and let me
attend to the rest"
| (Tomorrow-Neil tells Barbara that a
| good front goes a long way.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRs. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: "a When
a young man asks to call on girl
what should she say if she really
wishes him to call?
CD When a man calls on a girl is
it proper for the girl to go out to
the car with him when leaving?
CD When a couple is in a drug
store for a soda, what should the girl
say. when ready to leave. and should
the girl or boy first rise to start?
How long may they remain sitting
there when thru?
THANKS VERY MUCH.
% Eyes, 1 would be glad to have
you come"
CD She should say goodnight to
him at the door.
CD If the girl wants to leave, she
should be sure that the boy is thru
eating, and, If he is, she should put
on her gloves and sit alert, ready to
rise and go. He will start, too.
Usually when the ice cream is
eaten the boy asks the girl if she is
ready to leave. 1t is not necessary to
hurry after eating; as much time can
be taken as desired unless there are
people waiting for the table.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

Something will inevitably happen
before long to start a scramble for
merchandise, declares Forbes Mag
azine. There is such a scarcity of
houses that a building boom cannot
be long delayed; when it sets in it is
likely to exceed anything ever before
known. Purchasing of railway equip
ment and supplies is also likely to de-
velop on an abnormal scale in the not
distant future. Everywhere there is
clamor for new and better roads. Au-
tomobile makers already report an I'M
precedented call for cars. The amount
of cotton goods now being produced
is so light that when the revival comes
there will doubtless be a stampede
among buyers. Shoe production has
been relatively light; here, also, there
is room for a boom in the near future.
WOODEN clothing is in light supply at
first hands. so that the acuteness of
the scarcity may exceed present ex-
pectations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

Exports of manufactures from the
United States since the close of the
war show large gains in both guam
titles and values when compared with
those OF the corresponding period pre-
ceding the war. A compilation by the
National City bank of New York COM
pairing expectation of manufactures
from the United States in the two
months following the close of the war
with the corresponding months pre-
ceding the war shows that the guam
titles of the various classes revealed
large gains in nearly all cases. The
two full months following the war for
which details of exports are now avail
able are December. 1918, and Janu-
airy. 1919, and a comparison of the
quantities exported in approximately
100 representative articles of manu-
features develops the fact that 20 OF
the 100 showed large increases in
quantity over those of the corr espond-
ing months preceding the war, Deem
Der, 1913, and January. 1914.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

LULLABY.
The golden dreamboat's ready, all her
silken sails are spread,
And the breeze is gently blowing to- the
fairy port of Bed,
And the fairy's captains waiting while the
busy sandman flies
With the silver dust of slumber closing
every babys eyes.
oh, the night is rich with moonlight and
the sea is calm with peace
And the angels fly to guard you and their
watch will never cease,
And the fairies there await you, they have
splendid dreams to spin;
You shall hear them gayIy singing as the
dreamboats putting In.
Like the ripple of the water does the
dreamboat's whistle blow,
Only baby ears can catch 1t when it comes
the time to go,
Only little ones may journey on so won
derful n ship
And go drifting off to slumber with no
care to mar the trip.
oh, the little eyes are heavy but the little
soul is light
1t shall never know a sorrow or terror
thru the night.
And at last when dawn is breaking and
the dreamboat's trip is Ger,
You shall wake to find the mother smiling
over you once more.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest. :.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

Discussion started by Governor AL
len regarding the activities of the 35th
division in the Argonne battle con-
tinues. If the direction Of the S5th had
been as careful and systematic as that
which characterized the movements of
French troops probably there would
have been nothing on which to rest
complaint except that the forest would
not have been taken. The facts are
there was work to do and it fell to the
Kansas and Missouri boys to do it.
Unfortunately many of them were
killed and wounded. If mistakes were
made the fact is regrettable, but for
ever calling attention TO them will not
bring the boys back; nor will it undo
anything that has, been done. The
soldiers of the 35th did what they
were given to do with the means at
hand and nothing can. diminish the
glory of their performance. They
probably will frown on the effort to
make their discharge of duty a po-
litical asset and a means of keeping
any person in the limelight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Todax,s Best Recipes.

Soft Gingerbread - One cup mo-
lasses. two tablespoons sugar, one
third cup shortening. one-quarter cup
of warm water, one teaspoon soda,
two teaspoons ginger, one teaspoon
cinnamon, one teaspoon salt, two cups
flour.
Beat together shortening. sugar,
molasses and w1rm water. Mix -four.
soda and seasonings and add to first
mixture. Beat and pour into buttered
ran. Bake in moderate oven.
aEeat Balls-One cup raw beef cut
fine, one-quarter cup bread cr1Im BIS,
two tablespoons milk. one egg yolk.
salt, paprika, chopped parsley, onion
and celery salt, three tablespoons fat
Soak crumbs, milk and esq together
five minutes. Add beef and SEASON.
inEs. Shape in fat cakes. Put fat in
frying pan. When hot add cakes.
Cook over moderate fire. Brown Fon
both sides.
This is good served with an egg
sauce made b.. adding a hard boiled
egg chopped fine to a white sauce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
NEIL TELLS BARBARA MORE
ABOUT HIS BUSINESS.
CHAPTER xxx.


what in the world did Mr.. Ray
burn mean when he said I was ask
ing a good deal for promoters
wife?" 1 asked.
What did you say to him to call
forth remark like that?"
81 said I was more anxious to see
the workings of the mine in which
you were interested, than 1 was in
seeing the people of Mexico"
What brought up the subject -
There was a frown on NeiPs face
the kind of look I had learned to
dread.
Mexico
And you told him
."That I hoped to go with you if
YOU went again. I int~-rupted.
.Rayburn is all right. but he is apt
to think things. Be very careful what
you say to him.
" Think things'-what do you
mean ?"
"Oh, nothing in particular. He
brides himself upon his skill in read
ing character; and Sometimes ne Is
pretty shrewd in getting information
from people without the one he is
talking to, realizing he is pumping
them"
This conversation had taken place
in the ccr on the way home from
Blanche Orton's dinner. Neil did not
appear sleepy, and seemed inclined
to talk after We reached home. Sc
we went into the library. where. in
spite of all I could say. he took
another drink-his "nightcap" he
called it.
Suddenly I thought:
This is good time to urge him
to tell me about his business" So
commenced:
''Neil. please tell me how you sell
the mines you get hold of? That is
what you do, isn't it ?''
Il don't sell mines at ALL I sell
stoci5. sha --es-"
But it is mining stock ?''
Eyes. Naturally"
But Just how do you go about it ?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
For April s is 'God Our Heavenly
Father"-Matthew 6:23-34.
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

For April 6 is God Our Heavenly
Father"-Matthew 6:23-S4.
Getting the Main Idea.
Queer folk are called eccentric"
because they are out of center. They
are not properly geared up. Their
cogs do not clutch. Mental machin-
cry out of order with respect to what
is most important they are. in con-
sequence, imperfectly related to the
incidental things of life. They do rot
put first things first, and so, for them,
the entire multiplication table is out
most of the unhappy perscn ms in the
world. They are the victims of their
own maladjustment. Carried too far
this business of being out of center.
or eccent .ic, leads to the lunatic asy-
lum; where the first characteristic of
all the inmates is that they view
things out of proportion and relation
ship.
What then is central to a SYM
metrical life? The answer mas been
made by all the centuries. and b. The
universe itself. The main idea is
God. Toward that truth of a Supreme
Being all the ages have CROPPED. And
the most revealing fact about any race
! or era is the idea of God.
Now the Sunday schools OF the land
are setting out on a six months course
OF studies in the great teachings Of
the Bible. and they begin with the
basic and ll-comprehending truth
that there is God, and that he is of
the Father sort. These twenty-four
lessons, to which we look forward.
may be tabulated here:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
DINNER STORIES

you used to hate work.
OF hate it YETI replied Flooding
Pete. s'But I'm goin' to keep at it.
If you get in the habit o. loafin' now
some member of the I. w. w. is
liable to step up any minute an call
you Brother
"The 'orn of the 'unter is card on
the Ill., said the little boy at the
Ragged School treat. But somehow
his version of that line in Kathleen
Mavourneen' Jared on the nerves of
the old squire.
MY little man. he said, kindly,
why don't you put few more
aitches in your song?"
"Garn!" advised the little man,
politely. Don't yer know there amt
no III in moosic? It only goes up
ter GU
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
A RAILROAD ECONOMY.

Director General Hines has elm
mated the payment of time and a
half for overtime work done by rail
road workers. If there be work to be
done which cannot be performed dur
ing the eight-hour day by the force
now employed. additional men will be
hired, but bonuses for overtime work
will be done away with. This decision
may curtail in a measure the total
which employees formerly received
from the paymaster. but they have
all along insisted that an eight-hour
day was sufficient, AND they still re-
tain that.
Meanwhile the big problem that
confronts the roads today is how, I'M
der government operation, they are
going to earn expenses? Nothing
could paint blacker picture of the
results of government operation, moth
ing could forecast a more disastrous
future for government operation, says
Investment News. than the January
reports of the great American railway
systems. In January of this year
weather conditions were ideal. almost
miraculously favorable to rail trans
portation. Prehaps in the whole story
of American railroads there never
was another winter in which it was
so easy to keep trains running in nat
urally cold and stormy climates; to
hold down the consumption of coal,
which in zero weather must be squan-
dered to make steam, to buck snow
drifts and to haul loaos on icy rails.
In January of 1919, the most favor
able month in the history of Ameri-
can railroads, the net earnings were
only $1s.783,702. In January of 1917.
earnings, under private operation.
were $67,0OO,0OO. Yet. compared with
two years ago, the gross revenues of
this January were up $96,000,000.
This means, of course, the charges
against the public in freight bills and
passenger fares were up accordingly.
But operating expenses were up $145,-
100000. Net income was down ap-
proximately $49,000.GOO.
To pay the guarantee of the rail-
roads the government needs about
100000 a month. If in the most
favorable January for operating that
railroading ever knew. the roads did
not come within $60.000,000 of earn
! ing the guarantee, what chance have
they to earn it under government
operation when conditions are unfav-
orable for operation?
| The January deficiency indicates
that the government this year will be
upward of three-quarters of billion
of dollars short of necessary earnings
| to pay the guarantee. If we assume
that even the best sort of January is
not fair comparison to establish a
monthly average for the whole year
is there any possible way of figuring
out that the government can come
within a quarter of a billion dollars
of earning the guarantee which IL
must pay to the roads? Is there any
certainty that it can come within a
half a billion dollars of earning it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

The yellow Peril" has reared its
head once more in this country. 1t is
reported that Japanese farmers are
about to obtain a place of settlement
IN Mexico and the United States gov
eminent has ordered an inquiry. Mex
leo can do to us what she likes with
out fear of being called to account
but she must not let the Japanese get
a foothold on Mexican soil. Will
there never come a time when we
cease to be frightened by the yellow
man?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
BIZ LEE PAPE
VICTORY.
Play.


Play.
Scene, a battlefield with one going
on. All the American retreating -
account of having bin ordered to and
feeling like It anyway.
Fred Feerliss. (standing thereD
Darn IL I'm going to retreet. The
Feerlesses never retreet.
Ferst private. (retreeting pasU
Hay, you better retreet Ifs you don't
wunt to wake up ded in gum hospital
Fred Feerliss. The Feerlisses never
retreet.
End private. Say. felio, there's
abotu 8 million Germins coming and
the armistice amt bin sined yet.
Fred Feerliss. The Feelisses never
retreet.
End private. Never mind them
you better beet it.
Genrel. Hay. don't you see us all
retreeting? Ware did you get lie
-cense to stand there and block the
traffick
Fred Feerliss. The Feerlisses never
retreet.
Genrel. Never mind changing the
subteck. Men. / command you to
make this crazy gink retreet.
Fred Feerlfrs. You'll half to catch
enemies with the whole American
army chasing him.
Everybody. Hay. yor, come back
heer and retreet.
The Germins. Cheese it.-theyre
not going. they're comingl (An
the Germins retreet).
Fred Feerlies. The victory Is -oursi
Genrel Well. it wouldent have bin
IL we hadent of chased you
Fred Feerliss. There amt eny graz
titood in the army.
The end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

The dispatches carry an announce
ment of the death of Henry Lifts of
Abilene in an automobile accident at
Scranton, Pa. where he was visiting.
Mr.. Lifts served Dickinson county in
the capacity of sheriff a number of
terms but never two consecutively.
He was a Democrat. and in the old
days the county had a normal Repub-
lican majority of about 500. When
ever the people became dissatisfied
with their Republican sheriff 1t was
the custom to bring Lifts out for the
office and he always was elected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

/ President Wilson. it is reported, has
Informed the peace commissioners
that the time for talk has passed and
that the time for action has arrived.
There has been widespread impress
sion in this country that the president
himself has been delaying the peace
treaty by his insistence on a league of
nations. 1t is evident that somebody
is delaying the game and. as Mr.. Will
son truly says, the world is becoming
Impatient
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

cheered and voted for him and enter
tanned the highest hopes for his fu-
ture. Six months ago ninety-nine out
of every hundred citizens of Chicago
seemingly were convinced that Will
liam Hale Thompson's political career
was hopeIessly wrecked. Nevertheless
he was chosen to succeed himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04

"a tempest in teapot is what
the Japanese minister to Mexico calls
the excitement in this country over
the alleged colonization of Lower Cal
ifornia by his countrymen. And that
just about expresses the correct idea
of the situation.