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The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05
SANDRA TIE JEAIr IrOUS
BY JANE PHELPS

Nurses are awful autocrats. aren't
they?" she asked. But it makes "a
perfect slave Of a woman not to have
a good one, one who understands
children It was one of her uncanny
speeches. It seemed always she could
| read my thoughts.
Miss Lane is very competent, the
doctor says said demurely, then as
I caught the twinkle in her eye, we
both laughed.
Its no use, Mrs. Graham, you don't
like her, and hate to have her bossing
your baby-usprping your rights. But
be glad you have someone to relieve
YOU of responsibility while he Is SO
young. Oh--what a darling," she
broke off as Hetty came in with the
baby. "0h, YOU precious angefi' and
for the remainder of her visit her at
tention was all given to Junior. AS
she gave him to me, saying she must
go. she remarked: .I expect that hus-
band of yours is at last satisfied. 1
know he has always lenged for a SON."
Yes, I think he is,' I responded
gravely. But she was hurrying out
and didn't seem to notice. was ready
to cry, but had no time because Bar
rett Edmonds came in right away.
Have you heard from Rose lately ~
he asked after he, too, had admired
the baby, before 1 sent him back to
Miss Lane.
Yes, I had letter the other day.
Why ?''
Nothing much. But I have just
been to Chicago. Kemp is up to his
oil tricks. I hope it is nothing more
serious. But his name is being linked
with that of a wealthy widow in a
way that looks bad for Rose. Poor
girl, why in the world did she run off
with that lady-killer?"
."She was absolutely infatuated, Bar
rett. I do hope things aren't as bad
as you think. It would be terrible for
her If he should leave her. Did you
see herr"
Yes, but she didn't see me. I
passed her in the street. She was with
him, and had been crying. She has
gone off terribly in her looks. She
looks ten years older. I should have
stopped and spoken, but they seemed
to be having a heated discussion over
something, SO I passed on"
Il used to build air castles about
you and Rose / told him.
There never was a chance, little
lady," he said. And fer some reason
there was that in his tone that made
me blush furiously.
1Tomorrow-An unpleasant reminder
of Leola.)
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05
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CONSCIENCE.
There is no sorrow quite 90 keen
AS that which marks an action mean.
40 hurts so sharp, as those which fan
FROM angry words We can't recall.
HoWeer by foes we are assailed
Ihere's no disgrace IN having failed,
80 bftter, when the past we scan,
AS having failed to play the man.
Who once has done a cruel thing
Long afterwards shall feel its sting.
" no once upon life's changing stage
has wounded, in an hour of rage
By blows unfair or deeds unkind
Ills Fellow man, shall live 10 find
1nat never more is he 20 claim
His freedom from regret and shame.
We're We to live our lives anew.
How many things " would not do,
Gould We this journey brief remake.
HOW many gains we'd scorn to take,
How many joys we'd sacrifice
nather than pay their bitter price.
Man greatest shame in every test
Is having failed to be his best.
Mans conscience Is a master stern,
As eaeH or us has come to learn,
AhH ne who by some thoughtIess deed
lbs caused auother's heart to bleed
nnaii suffer till life runs it's course
4 ne keenest anguish of remorse
I'm ntn Its memory long shall Hyaa
ser cannot self it's wrongs forgive.
Copyright 1910 by Edgar A. Guest,
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

This nation, says the Manufacturers
Record, needs to be taught the dignity
of work. We need to glerify work
work on the farm and work in the
mine and work in the factory. work
in the office, work in the school room,
work in the pulpit. Men who have
decried work. or who have sought to
limit the output of laborers not mere
ly by unduly reducing the hours of
labor but by reducing the amount of
work that a man may do in a given
time, are flying directly in the face
of the teachings of the Bible. Work is
a blessing, not a curse.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

Every half dollar laid away now will
be worth dellar later on. Besides
when you buy foolishly, unnecessarily,
or extravagently. you disrupt that long
line of workers upon whom the com
munlty and the nation depend for their
necessary supplies. By just SO much
you injure yourself and every other
consumer. which means every citizen
of the United States. When you buy
wisely. intelligently and reasonably
what you need, you do your share TO
keep the workers of the nation employ
ed in a healthy, normal essential pro-
cession of production.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

Thousands of young men and
women are dissipating their earnings
and some perhaps their savings in ex-
travagant purchases purely thru con-
ceit. and it is a blind conceit which de-
eeives no one but the extravagant
themselves. When they go into a
store to buy hat or pair of shoes
which they can afford and come out
with one which they cannot afford
they do not impress the statesmen or
their friends. But they injure them
selves and everybody else. They have
aided in diverting production from
necessities to non-necessities, helped
keep up prices, fostered the profiteer
and withdrawn potential capital from
possible use in increasing industry. For
themselves they have weakened their
defenses against old age. sickness and
loss of employment and depleted their
offensive in the battle for success.
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bank and across its front squares of
stone are engraved these words:
Dime Savings Bank." I never pass
this building withou. thinking of I'll
that that phrase inspires.
Every human being should save
And every human being ean--if he
will Ee can begin with-pennies.
For the first startir point toward a
million dollars is--a penny.
Save five cents o. ten cents week
to start out with. Then double this
amount as soon as you are able. "A
very rich man ono told me that he
began by saving ten cents a week. And
81 he told me this Ie showed me thru
his great manufacturing plant-the
living evidence that his plan paid.
Save your pennies-for the minute
that they are saved fhey begin to save
for yonI
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a. third time He came. and then He
said.
sleep on and rest. Enough, the
hour has come. Even now they are
hands of sinful men,. Rouse your
selves. let us be going: my betrayer
Is close at hand
Immediately. while He was still
speaking. Judas. one of the Twelve,
came and with a crowd of men armed
High Priests and Scribes and Elders.
Now the betrayer had ARRANGED a
signal with them.
1.-The one I kiss he said. is the
man: lay hold of Him, and take Him
safely away"
aa. Knowing the Great Hour.
A few days ago I was in the senate
chamber in Washington when the sen Z
ate adopted, for the first time in its
long history. the cloture, to facilitate
decision upon the peace treaty. After
it was all over a stranger sitting near
asked. Have they adopted the clo-
,ture ?'' He had been sitting thru the
procedure without being aware of it
One often wonders If that is not true
of many persons with respect to the
great days thru which the world has
been passing. They have missed the
meaning of it all. Privileged to be
alive in history's most nomentous
period, they have slept thru it, like the
favored three at Gethsemane.
A striking phrase from the Book of
Chronicles describes the children of
Issacher as Men who had understand
ing of the times, and knew what Israel
ought to do" They were not asleep
at their watch-post. To them, their
own day was portentouS with signifi-
canoe. They searched out the deeper
meaning of things. even as the wise
are doing today.
Such as are not asleep; are in this
crisis hour entering into a fresh un-
derstanding of Gethsemane for the
race; they hear the call for vicarious-
ness and self-renuneiation; they per-
ceive the divine philosophy of Calvary;
they catch the glory Of the all-solving
spirit of mot my will, but Thine, be
done"
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but every little rookie had movement
all his own, with highly unsatisfactory
results,
LAS you were!' bawled the sergeant
At this point the proceedings were
Interrupted by a recruit from Boston,
who before enlisting had been a Har-
ward student
beg pawdon. sawgeant," said he,
but wouldn't it be noah propah to
say. You will restoah the status quo
ante?'"
"And you tell me several men pro-
posed marriage to you?' he said. saw
agely.
Yes SEVERAL the wife replied.
We'll, I only wish you had married
the first fool who proposed"
"I did"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

General Pershing and General March
are in favor of universal military
training and small standing army.
For those who fear a militaristic
spirit in this country it should be re-
peated that training does not mean
service and that as long as civil au-
thority is uppermost in a republic or
a democracy like ours, militarism is
an impossibility. Where there is 100
per cent Americanism, there can be no
militarism. There is wide difference
between universal service and univer-
sal training. The American Legion
convention in Minneapolis recognized
this when it endorsed universal mill
tary training with a small standing
army and no compulsory military SER
vice in time of peace.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05
Questions-Answers

Q. Are there any words in the English
language beginning with the letter q in
which the "a is not followed by ''u"?-
A. we know of no such word. Maybe
one of our readers can suggest one.
Q. What is the percentage of deaths
cay. cassss g. Z Il lightning in the United States
A. One person in every hundred thou
sand is killed by lightning each year in
this country. -
O. How should I thank a man who sent
me flowers on my birthday? Would 1t be
do so oY-G. ID. H
A. The correct and customary courtesy
house, not his office, expressing your apr
probation r., at his thought 9,Sa IS Of you; ..rss
A. s+he The average e life OF clerk is shorter
than that Of lahe.er ae TPs avessgs age
that of a laborer is 1882.
q. How great is the heat Of the SUM
A. The heat produced BY given surface
of the sun is 100 times greater than that
which is given off by the same surface
q. How does the production of anthra-
cite coal compare with that of bitumiaous
A. Last year there was. about six times
as much bituminous coal mined as there
was anthracite. the figures being; bitum-
nous coal 519,SS5s2o tons. anthracite es,-
q. 1 have ten one hundred dollar liberty
bonds. Can l exchange them for single
thousand dollar bond rs. d. s.
A. The treasury department says that
you can make such an exchange. providing
the liberty bonds are ali of the same issue.
file a claim for governlnent land III. q.
A. The general land office says that a
young woman may file on homestead Land
when she is II years of age unless she is
considered the head of her family. In
that event she may file entry when she IS
IS.
Q. How much money has been returned
armistice as the result of the sale of surplus
army supplies * H. J.
A. These sales. to November S. 1919.
amounted .e 81 ,152. 80, ,3O5. This included
supplies sold in this country, and also to
foreign countries. France was the largest
single buyer, having purchased fead and
equipment to the amount of sa06000G0a
Q. Have coal ashes any fertilizing yalues
A The Bureau of Soils saws that coal
ashes have marked value IN tightening
a heavy soil. The ashes should he sifted
very fine, and then sprsnkled on the soiis
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The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05
MouHon Musings
BY ROY n. MoULToN.

We sometimes wish that Mr.. Burle-
sons well-known two-cent stamps
would stick as well as he does.
The other day an automobile truck
ran into what was once thirst ex-
change and smashed a corner window
The proprietor, who later proved to be
a humorist. had it repaired with boards
and the following sign painted:
Automobile trucks will kindly use
side entrance hereafter"
One senator wants one of the Phil
ippine islands used as a penal colony
for anarchists. 1t would be more ap-
propriate to send them to Swat.
Now if we can only have one-half-
of-ene-per cent winter.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

Some of the problems with which we
eontended In 1919, says a bulletin is
bank OF New York, are gradually re-
solving themselves. War and the de-
struction of war are definitely behind
us. Peace and reconstruction are here.
Our nation stands unshaken in the
worlds political storm. Red" agita-
ton, helped by the grewsome lesson of
Bolshevist Russia, is defeating itself.
Labor unrest has passed its peak; de-
feat OF the, steel strike and the Boston
uelice and New York labor strikes to-
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05
PENNIEs:

One time someone asked MIR. John
d. Rockefeller how to become wealthy.
AID he replied: Save the penniesi"
I read in a newspaper recently that
the will of the late Frank W. Wool
worth left an income of nearly half a
million yearly to his wife! Mr.. Woel-
worth made his great fortune of
around thirty millieHs. by aall sales
in penHies-made up of five and ten
cent sales.
Henry Ford is the richest automo-
bile manufacturer in the wSrld- His
great fortune was conceived thru the
idea of selling the simplest made car
for the smallest price
It's the pennies, t e pennies-that
count.
But-the pennies must be SAVED:
Nearly every day l pass by a great
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

ture shortly will begin agitation for
the passage of a law making sitting
cross-iegged q misdemeanor. punish
able by either fine or Imprisonment.
that those who ask for the passage OF
such law will claim it a moral ISSUE
Every man has two telephone
voices: One for his wife and one for
the general public.
The fight against Intoxicating liquor
practically is over. But the campaign
against emotional drunkenness. which
is much more dangerous form of in
temperance. has just started, and is
making very slow headway.
II you wish to hear the merits of
the various brands of safety razors dis
cussed at length. you can do no better
than to take passage in any Pullman
sleeping car.
No girl who has ambition to become
a. great and popular actress need de-
spair The only qualities necessary
il the making of 3 great and popular
actress are talent. good looks, unremit-
ting industry, adaptability, a studious
mind. ambition, grace, good health, in
tellect. persistence and determination.
The country has been on the great
est drunk in it's history. Now that it Is
SOLDERING up. the probabilities are that
1t will suffer from headache for sew
eral years to come.
The fact that a man is bald does not
particularly annoy him. 1t Is the fear
he may become bald that super
induces acute suffering.
Possibly the man really entitled 10
your sympathy is the one who. hav-
ing failed on his own account, takes
a subordinate position in the business
conducted by his wife.
Z There. is always a good deal of talk
iil the young crowo wnen a girl of
twenty-five marries an old man of
thirty-five.
There is a very general belief, as
wen as an insistent demand, that the
government be conducted under busi-
ness methods. The theory is fall
lacious, for the reason that it fails to
comprehend government. A strictly
business government would be very
unsatisfactory. The function of gov
ernment is service, not business.
described as one who knows enough
to leave the meeting before they pass
the hat.
II in projecting your theory of life
you Will take the trouble to pretend
you are quoting Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, the people will not only pay atten-
ton to what you say but they will
accept your foolishness as a profound
truth.
Another young woman having mar
ried and gone away on her honey
moon, her relatives and friends will,
within the next few days. begin to re-
ceive letters saying: My husband
is the grandest man in the world"
After the death of every rich man
the people say, well. he couldn't
take any of it with him.
Probably the most persistent and
least successful of the errands upon
which humanity embarks is the
search for a good time.
When a girl writes letter it Is
about men and clothes. When a mar
ried woman writes a letter IL is about
children and relatives.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

Electioneering is one thing and leg
islating is another. declares Lady AS
tor, as she Trepares to take her seat
in the British house OF commons. 1t
may be that way in England. but not
in this country. The average con-
gresham in the United States starts
his campaign for reelection imme-
diately following his taking of the
oath of office.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05
Dinner Stories

In one of the southern training
camps, a profane and perspiring in
fantry sergeant was doing his best to
pound into the heads of squad of
exceedingly raw "rookies" the rudi-
ments of military science.
When the sergeant gave an order.
each willing recruit of the squad made
a cemmendable effort to execute it.,
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

At last the country stands a chance
OF obtaining a sufficient supply of
sugar. The government has decided
TO abandon it's attempts to control this
commodity.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

Those who remember the old time
way of celebrating Christmas and New
Year will not be disturbed by the high
price of eggs. There is nothing to go
with them.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

The new labor party might add to
its popularity among outsiders by
adopting the slogan: Lets all quit
talking and go to work"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

The Bolsheviki in America number
among their plans. the destruction ei
all jails. They must hurry unless they
expect to work from the inside.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

In many localities the paper short
age is causing one newspaper to
flourish, where two 1anguished before.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05
Modern Memories of Olivet.

For Dec. Is, Peter and John Asleep
in Gethsemane."- 14:32-54.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

Possibly the man really entitled 10
your sympathy is the one who, hav-
ing failed on his own account, takes
a subordinate position in the business
conducted by his wife.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

The fact that a man is bald does not
particularly annoy him. 1t Is the fear
he may become bald that super
induces acute suffering
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

Probably the most persistent and
least successful of the errands upon
which humanity embarks is the
search for a good time.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

There, is always good deal of talk
iii the young crowo when a girl of
twenty-five marries an old man of
thirty-five.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

After the death of every rich man
the people say, well, he couldn't
take any Of it with him."
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

When a girl writes a letter it Is
about men and clothes. When a mar
ried woman writes a letter 1t is about
children and relatives
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

The country has been on the great
est drunk in its history. Now that ii is
SOLDERING up. the probabilities are that
1t will suffer from headache for sew
eral years to come.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

II in projecting your theory of life
you VIII take the trouble to pretend
you are quoting Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, the people will not only pay atten-
ton to what you say but they will
accept your foolishness as profound
truth.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

Another young woman having mar
ried and gone away on her honey
moon, her relatives and friends viii,
within the next few days, begin to re-
ceive letters sayiny: My husband
is the grandest man in the world"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-05

No girl who has ambition to become
a great and popular actress need de-
spair The only qualities necessary
in the making of 3 great and popular
actress are talent. good looks, unremit-
ting industry. adaptability, a studious
mind, ambition. grace, good health, in
tellect. persistence and determination.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-07
ARGUMENTS CLOSE IN
LAND AND WATER CASE
Decision on Case of Twin Falls
Oakley Company VS.. Mar
tins and Moves Rests With
Judge Dietrich.

Argument has closed in the case of
the Twin Falls Oakley Land & Water
company versus John Fl. Martins and
William G. Moyes, and the case is now
in the hands of Judge Frank S. Diet
rich for decision.
The mooted point in the case was
whether the plaintiff company could
bring suit to foreclose on settlers be-
fore patent was issued to Carey act
lands by the government.
Plaintiff company filed foreclosure
suits in 1916 against some 40 settlers
on Carey act lands. These were filed
to foreclose a lien which the company
believed it had on the property. TO-
900 acres of Carey act land were not
amenable to foreclosure suits as long
as title rested in the government and
patent had not been issued to the COM
pany. Later, the government issued
patents to the lands in question, and
the company filed a supplemental bill
to the original to establish the fact
that the patent had been issued, sc
that it might be given cause of action
In the case of A. f. Caldwell, ct al
versus the Twin Falls-Salmon River
Land & Water company, petition OF
Intervention was denied by Judge
Dietrich. T. K. Hackman of Salmon
filed motion to dismiss petitions in
intervention.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-07
IMPERSONATES SOLDIER
WINS $50 FROM HUBBY

Clad in khaki and making as nifty
looking q soldier as was ever seen in
Boise, Mrs. E, c. King Thursday night
won a $50 wager from her husband by
going to the Coffin-B eglan garage and
securing his car on an order which
she wrote out herself and to which
she signed his initials. Mr.. King
decided he had given orders sufficient
to keep his car perfectly safe, but as
an extra precaution he telephoned the
garage Thursday night not to let his
car out to anyone, but he was too late
the nifty looking soldier had already
secured it and was gliding about the
city. The garage owners were advised
they had been duDed and telephoned
the police to be on the watchout for
the machine. 1t was not until this
morning that Mr.. King learned his
wife had won her bet, and he dug up
the $50