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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-13

a widow. but leaves the matter to a
council of the family of the deceased.
Then, it is interesting to know that
the league is firmly entrenched
against the high cost of living, and is
planning a new kind of aggressive
warfare all its own. Not only does it
intend to educate all the voting house
wives of the nation on matters of
economy, but it has already announc-
ed it's determination to assist the
United States federal trade commits
sion in anti-trusting the packers.
First of all, the league is going to
have surveys made in every state of
the conditions to be remedied- When
it starts out to Americanize it is go
ing to know just how many people
need America nizing, and before it agi-
tates the question of social morality
it is going to be fully armed with a
knowledge of local conditions, and
several columns of figures.
Altogether. there seems to be some
reason for the present uneasiness of
our leading politicians. Women may
not be interested in electing the next
president, but there are more i'm
portant questions upon which they
intend to act together.
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LUCK.
What constitutes the thing called luck!
In it l fancy there is pluck,
And there is faith and there is skill;
1t has Il part Of iron will:
It's born of dreams which brave men hold
And comes to them If they are bold.
Luck is the joy which men deserves
The rich reward of those who serve.
Luck likes to help and boost the man
who bravely does the pest he can;
1t seldom benefits the base
or raises high the commonplace,
1t often is a 'friend in need,
Yet he is helpless here indeed,
Who has no courage of his own
And must depend on luck alone.
If you have faith and you will work,
If YOU will go where dangers Turk;
If you aossess n dream and cling
To it in spite of everything:
If you are brave and wise and fair,
And have the grit to do and dare:
If you possess your share of pluck.
The chances are that you'll have luck.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest.
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MY HUSBAND AND |
BY JANE PHELPS

dignation, and cold with something
like fear. Could they all be mistaken.
Rough but kindly Mr.. Frederick, Lor-
raine, and this woman. 1 wished
had asked the clerk her name.
wondered if she were socially promi-
and had noticed limousine with two
men on the box. OF course it might
belong to the other woman. Yet
1 paced feverishly up and down the
room upon my return home. l
clasped and unclasped my hands, so
nervous I could not keep still a mo-
ment Was Neil purely a visionary?
Visionary I knew he was to certain
extent; but 1 always had considered
that he had a lot of hard business
sense also. When at first he was con-
tinually on the verge of making for
tune, / worried a great deal. But now
when he had been SO successful l had
forgotten to worry, to pay much at
tention. when he talked of "hoping
to put this deal thru" and other ex-
pressions he used when talking of his
financial affairs
my constant reiteration as l walked
back and forth. He pays all his bills.
And he is so generous. He will lend
or give to any one who asks. oh. 1
wish l could make them all see how
fine and lovable he ISL
Then came the thought: "They say
he is not pra ctical." That was what
Mr.. Frederick had said. What differ
ence did it make if he won out? 1t
was no sin to be different from the
plodGinE men all around him. 1t was
10 sin to talk in thousands instead of
small sums. If he made half mil
lion instead of a few thousa nds it only
proved his superiority.
l might have known that when one
has to argue themselves into the ac-
ceptance of a thought there was some
thing wrong somewhere. But l didnt t.
l loved my husband intensely. l be-
lieved in him to the utmost. I was
Jealous at times, principally of
Blanche orion. l hated to stay alone
when he remained out with his bust
ness friends, yet l do not think there
are many women who really cared
more. really loved the man they had
married more than L did.
They say that love is blind" That
perhaps is some excuse for me.
(TcmorTDw-AnXiou days.)
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ONE AFTER ANOTHER.
A Play.


scene-A street, dark on account
of mite.
Detective. All hah. I must follow
him and see ware he goes and wat he
does.
Man. I bleeve I'm being followed.
Ill jest wawk erround the black about
times and if he's still in back of me
there wont be eny doubt of it,
Detective. Good mite, he's wawk
ing Ground the block enuff times. A
man that wawks erroun the block
more than once is acting Suspicious.
Man Cterning Ground all of sud-
din) Are you following me?
Detective Quick putting on a red
mushtash) l beg your pardon. are
you addressing me?
Man. o Excuse me, I thawt you was
a man without a red mushtash.
Detecktive. No, I'm a man with
one.
Man. Wen. there was man with
out one. tKeeps on wawkingl
Detecktive. All hah, he acks like
gilty conshents. A man with a cleer
conshents don't give darn who fol-
lows him or how meny mushtashes
they've got. Good mite. he's wawking
Ground the block sgen.
Man. Hey. confound it, you're fol-
lowing me.
Detecktive quick putting on black
wiskers (You don't meen me. do you?
Man. o Excuse me. thawt you was
a man with a red mushtash.
DeteclStive. No, I'm a man without
one. Ware are you going-jest err
round the block agen?
Man. Noware special. I'm q de-
tecktive out for a wawk.
eDtecktive. quilting off the black
wiskers) So am I, Let's wawk to-
(Which they dob
The End
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= The report of the Daley joint leg
sislative committee, that has been in
INVESTIGATING the cost of production of
Building and construction materials
needed in the Illinois postwar recon
struction work, in its conclusions says:
I'VE are driven to the inevitable. logi-
cal conclusion that existing prices will
not decline materially. and that these
prices express a new and substantially
permanent level upon which present
and future business must be conduct
ed. We believe it to be our duty as
public officials to advise the public
not to delay building projects in the
hope prices will come down material
". We do not believe they will. All
, contemplated buildings, homes and
Improvements should be started now.
Reconstruction can only be accom-
plished in it's real sense by every citi-
zen subscribing to the doctrine Buy
now. build now"
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For you see. it's the score that
counts
Keats died when a mere boy. Ma
poleon was scarce fifty. whereas
Theodore Roosevelt had hardly
touched sixty And yet these great
men. in their own way, influenced
whole worlds And their fame shall
continue to travel from generation to
generation.
It's the SCORE that counts,'
1t is not the number of honors. nor
the amount of dollars that are given
to you, that make you great 1t is the
amount of helpful achievement in a
good score. that makes people glad
you lived.
Today will be better day than yes
ferday. Tomorrow will be a better
day than today only in SO far as your
individual scoEe is better.
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marines who were killed without rea-
son during that Gallipoli of America
will not forget. Neither will the men
who, led by Pershing, tramped the
hot sands into the interior of that ban
dit-infested country forget that their
work was in vain because they were
tied hand and foot with red tape from
Washington. If those troops had been
left alone. Villa would either be among
the missing or on exhibit in the United
States at some appropriate place like
Fort LeaVenWorth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-13
THE AWAKENED BEAR.

The announcement is made in Paris
that the allies and the United States
are about to extend formal recogni-
ton to what is known as the Omsk
government in Russia. This govern
ment, which is democratic in form,
has been established in Siberia and is
headed by Admiral Kolchak, who is
a fighting man as well as a statesman.
He is leading a victorious army west
ward against the Bolsheviki and win
ming recruits as he goes. Already the
allies are aiding him with arms, am
munition and other war supplies.
Not only is Admiral Kolchak a war
rior and statesman, but he appears
to be a patriot as we'll. In recent
speech he is reported as saying:
1.-The future of Russia will be a
democratic Russia. The government,
of which 1 have the honor to be the
head, believes in universal suffrage.
in the autonomous development of the
nationalities comprising Russia, in a
democratic solution of the main Rus
sian problems: the land problem and
the labor problem.
with regard to the international
relations, the government will endeav-
or to continue the relations established
betweeR Russia and the rest of the
world at the moment of Russia's en-
trance into the war, in 1914. The
government will do it's best to
strengthen the bonds between Russia
and the allies. 1t is evident that no
Cancellation is possible with the Boil
sheviki, and those of the allied leaders
who recently supported the idea of
the Prinkipo conference are now re-
pudiating the Bolshevik and call them
by their proper name: murderers of
humanity.
This is the program of the gov
eminent, the program for the realiza-
ton of which it calls upon the coun-
try to be ready for sacrifices. The
government considers the people of
Russia the supreme authority in all
problems pertaining to Russias life.
After the menace of Bolshevism is de-
stroyed, the people of Russia, thru a
freely chosen constituent assembly,
will express their supreme will and
will define the structure of the state.
will solve the main political, social and
national problems. The government
and myself will consider it our duty to
/ transfer to the constituent assembly
: all the power which now belongs to
the government"
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Is YEARS AGO In TOPEKA
From the columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
May J3. 1891.


The Republicans Of Topeka are making
arrangements for the Entertainment OF the
Republican state convention which Is to
be held here June q.
meeting for that purpose vas held at
the Copeland at which T.. g. Noel was
chairman and Arthur Cappcr secretary.
The following executive committee was
appointed: ID. e. Tlllotson. Geo. II. Evans,
Frank Brooks. Geo. W. Crane. James RAM
sey. Arthur Capper o. X. Swayze. Geo.
Higgins. w. r. Ellison, w. f. Brubaker
and Sam Grosch. The finance committee IL
composed of r. q. Noel. Major 7. J. An
derson and o. X. swayze.
Geo. II. Evans commenced work on the
court house site today with about a dozen
teams and scrapers.
Patsy McGarrity, a Topeka compositor.
has fallen heir to half OF an estate which
is valued at $30OOO0. An aunt Of Nc
Garrity's died in Paris. leaving her estate
to Patsy and his sister.
Miss Nellie CIough spent Sunday in
kansas City.
Mrs. William johnson and Mrs Clara
WiGGin have returned from California.
Dr. w. n. West has gone to New York
ana exiiects to sail wednesday for London,
England, to be gone six weeks
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sargent have return
ed from Excelsior Springs
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rs THE SCORE THAT COUNTS.

1 never feel that 1 have been given
my moneys worth my pleasures
worth from 9 football or baseball
game, when 1 have to come away with
the score nothing to nothing.
It's the score that countsi
It's the edge thatone man has upon
the other, that always shows him in
the van-just few PAGES ahead. And
altho the man with the score against
his competitor may be looked upon as
the winner, still the defeated man has
always the best chance to be a fighter.
And always. it's the FINAL score
that counts most
What we do with our years is an
individual proposition. We may have
thirty or forty or eighty years allotted
to US. But many folks live more in
thirty years than others do in eighty
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The Wisconsin highway commission
has compiled figures showing that
measuring by the value of farm prod
ucts instead of dollars, road building
costs are lower than they were in
1913, the year before the war. 1t is
shown, for instance. that in 1913, 100
pounds of hogs would pay for Sc
square yards of concrete road; in 1918
the same weight would buy 90 square
yards, an increase of IS per cent.
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you have thought it was just so 1
could get Auntie's money!"
NO he labored out, II wouldn't,
I-you'H marry me-won't you,
Ruthie ?"
Today" she sobbed. Then, "Oh,
Francis, forgive me! You are suffer-
ing-I must go for help"
/ He smiled at her out of his drawn
face. Nothing hurts me now" he as
sured her. MY heart has come back
to life, Ruthie,'
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-13

The murder of American citizens
lin Mexico has been resumed. Isn't it
about time that we did something with
Mexico? What good has she contrib
,uted 20 the world during the past four
years Of struggle? Nothing but a well
icome mat for the scum of the earth.
ithe soldiers of fortune. the German
agents and the sIackers. Vera Cruz
will not be forgotten soon. The ia
,thers and mothers of the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-13

Senator Borah is quoted as saying
that if the Republican party endorse
the league of nations he will fumigate
himself and get out. The party
scarcely needs an extra inducement
Ike that to cause it to hearken to the
xoice of the nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-13

Booth Harrington, speaking of the
opinion some men have of themselves,
told this story as an example: Some
time ago a young m; y proposed mar
riage to a charming girl with every
assurance of ordering the cake and
wedding bells, but the fair one told
him that she could only be a sister to
him. and not much of a sister at
that.
Tell me-" exclaimed the discon-
certed admirer, why you spurn me in
this heartless way after having led me
on"
After having led you on" answered
the girl with a freezing glance. What
do you mean"
81 mean just this" answered the
discarded youth. Did you not tell
me the gypsy fortune-teller predicted
that you would marry a handsome
brilliant young man with the face of
a Greek god and a voice sweeter than
silvery chiInes?"
The lawyer was cross-examining a
witness to a robbery.
when did this robbery take
place? ?" he asked.
II think" began the witness
I'VE don't care what you think, sir.
We want to know what you know"
Then if you don't want to know
what think, 1 may as well leave the
stand. I can't talk without thinking.
I'm no lawyer"
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What is promised to be the last gov
eminent call for money, the victory
loan, has been oversubscribed. The
people may now return to their for
mer habit of spending their own mon
ey in their own way. Future savings
will be for themselves and not for the
use of their Uncle Samuel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-13
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint.

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST
SteWed Rais.ns Cereal and Cream
Broiled Bacon Fried Potatoes
Toast Coffee
LUNCHEON
Welsh Rarebit Toast
Canned Peaces Cocoa
DINNER
Watercress Young Onions
Fried Pigs Feet
Mashed Potatoes Dreamed Onions
Celery Salad
Rice Pudding Coffee
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of grass grow where one grew before
never was so great as it is today.
Prairie hay is quoted in Kansas City
at S41 a ton
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Bran Muffins-Four cups bran (do
not sifD, two cups white flour, one
cup baking molasses, two and one
quarter cups sour milk. one cup seed
ed raisins, one teaspoon soda Gin mo-
lasses), one-quarter teaspoon salt.
Mix dry ingredients. Add molasses.
soda and milk. Stir we'll and lastly
add raisins well Toured. This makes
twenty good-sized mullins.
Spanish Steak-One pound round
steak (ground), one egg. one cup stale
bread crumbs (softened with milk &.
one large onion, one quart tomatoes
(home canned), salt and pepper to
taste. Season steak with salt and pep
per. Add egg, slightly beaten, and the
softened crumbs. Put in the bottom
of a baking dish or bread pan. Slice
onion on top and pour tomatoes over
all. Bake slowly. This may be served
in the baking dish or turned out as
loaf on platter.
Grapefruit and Celery Salad-Cut
medium sized grapefruit in fourths.
lengthwise. Remove pulp and add to
it an equal quantity of finely chopped
celery. Refill sections with mixture.
mask with mayonnaise dressing and
garnish with celery tips or curled and
canned pimentos, cut in strips.
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Heard in the Pension Office,

From widow claimant for pension.
questioned as to how long she had
known her soldier husband prior to
marriage: He came to our house
and said he was hunting for a woman
l was the only one at home and L mar
ried him"
From the testimony of a country
doctor: Il prescribed spirits fru-
menti and he gradually grew worse
under my treatment and passed on to
another doctor"
From the report of a special agent
anent the death of soldiers former
wife: The inscription on a tomb
stone is often the best proof of the
death of person inferred therein"
'Ienine and Trotzky Have Split
Headline. How much?
We are glad to read a government
report to the effect that resources are
SSO5, 100000 higher than ever before
at this time of year. But we wish to
assure our readers that there is moth
ing personal in this whatever.
Dear ROY note with sympathy
your concern about a gentleman
named Gillette who raises whiskers.
We offer you this solace: Perhaps he
is but preparing to uphold the family
traditions in notable fashion by rails
ing whiskers only to raze them.
NJ. E.
When a man hasn't got anything
else to do nowadays he starts out and
gives lecture on THE Truth About
Russia" and no matter what he says
nobody is in a position to contradict
him.
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DINNER STORIES

MAY I ask how old you are?" said
the vacationist to the old villager
Il be just a hundred
Really? Well. 1 doubt If you'll see
another hundred years. said the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-13

'Lenine and Trotzky Have Split.
Headline. How much?
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The league. thru its committee on
industry, has endorsed the majority Of
the measures on the program of the
National Women's Trade Union league
and intends to work for legislation
enacting them. Thru its child welfare
committee, the women voters of the
country will be organized to vote for
legislation protecting children. Thru
its citizenship committee. organiza-
tons of women voters will be formed
in every suffrage state to Americanize
foreign-born women and to educate
them. Women voters everywhere will
be asked to study the question of cleo
tions, including various INSCRIPTIONS
eNpedients resorted to by political
bosses in electing their candidates.
with a view to having these forbidden
by legislation.
The unification of laws affecting
women and children is also question
in which the new League of Women
voters takes Q deep interest. 1t wants
to see a uniform minimum wage law
in every state, an eight-hour day for
women, and compulsory education for
everybody-not only children. There
are also a number of unfair laws in
several states which it desires to have
eliminated. One of these is law,
said to exist in fourteen states, which
permits a father to will his unborn
child away from its mother. Another
is a law of a southern state which
provides ne stipulated inheritance for
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-03

of the most generous proportions. A
big four-post bedstead, draped in
white, stood against a wall. The bed,
sheeted in old linen, had quilted COW
ers. The room was noticeably clean;
its furniture Of old mahogany and it's
carpet comparatively unworn.
When I undressed I dreaded to put
cut the candle. For the first time in
years I had a kind of child-fear Of the
night. But I went to bed at last and
slept rather ftfully, waking often when
the cries Of the old squire came flood
ing through the walls. How I longed
for the light of the morning! 1t came
at last end I rose and dressed and
went out of doors.
Kate met me at the door when I
went back into the house and kissed
nv cheek and again I heard those
Ealf-spoken words: "My boy" I ate
my breakfast with her and when / was
about to get into my saddle at the
door I gave her a hug and, as she
tenderly patted my cheek, a smile
lighted her countenance so. that it
seemed to shine upon me. I have
never forgotten it's serenity and sweet
ness.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-03

put 'ner arms o me ana laid sher
dear old head upon my breast. Uncle
Peabody turned away. Then what a
silence! Off in the edge of the wood
land I heard the fairy flute of a wood
thrush,
"Purvis, you drive that load On the
floor an put up the hosses," Uncle
Peabody shouted in a moment. IF
you don't like it you can hire mother
man. I won't do no more till after
dinner. This slave business is played
out"
Gall right" Purvis answered.
"You bet it's all right. I'm fer abo-
lition an I've stood your domineerin',
nigger-driver ways long enough fer
one mornin'. If you don't like it you
can look for another man."
Aunt Deel and I began to laugh at
this g%ood-natured, make-believe scold-
ing of Uncle Peabody and the emo
tional strain was over They led me
into the house, where a delightful sur
prise awaited me, for the rooms had
been decorated with balsam boughs
and sweet ferns. A glowing mass of
v%iolets, framed in moss, occupied the
center of the table. The house was
filled with the odors of the forest,
which, as they knew, were dear to me.
I had written that they might expect
me some time before noon, but J.
begged them not to meet me in Cam
lo~ o, r ,r;e1DI IN 1,o11> IN~no of+Dr
my long ride. So they. were ready for
me
1 remember how they felt the cloth
on my back and how proudly they sur
veyed it.
Couldn't buy them goods round
these parts" said Uncle Peabody.
"Nor nothin' like 'em-no, Sir"
"Feels a leetle bit like the butternut
trousers" said Aunt Deel as she felt
my coat.
"Ayes, but them butternut. trousers
amt what they used to be when they
was young and limber," Uncle Peabody
remarked. "Seems so they was get
tin kind o. wrinkled an b%aldheaded-
like, Specially where I set down."
cages! Wa I guess a man can't
grow old without his pants CROWN
old, too-ayes!" said Aunt Deel.
IF yer legs are in 'em ev'ry Sunday
I they ketch it Of ye," my uncle an
swered. "Long sermons are hard on
| pants, seems to me-"
can the longer the legs the harder
the SermOnS-in them LITTLE seats over
It the schoolhouse-ayes" Aunt Deel
added by way Of justifying his com.
plant. "There wouldn't be SO much
wear in a ten-mile walk-no
The chicken pie was baking and the
strawberries We're ready for the short.
cake.
"Ivc been wallerin' since the dew
was Off gittin' them berries an vi.
lets-ayrs!" said Aunt Deel, now busy
with her work at the stove.
"Aunt. you look as young as ever" /
J -"mac'.ed.