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The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-11
A DISTRESSING NIGHT.
CHAPTER CXvIII. I

/ had put the note, Everett had
written Leola in the long ago, away
intending not to look at it again, at
least not for some time. But almost
Immediately after Everett left, had
taken it from the hiding place and
once more agonized over it.
Among other things he had said:
You say you can't believe I love
you as I say do. You are my heaven.
I have nothing in the world that is
When I think of you my soul is raw
ished, my limbs tremble." Etc.
could scarcely realize that my digni-
fled middle-aged husband ever had
penned such sentiments; yet here they
were in his handwriting. signed by
him.
Two or three times during that long
evening did 1 put the note away. de-
termined not to look at it again; and
as many times did take 1t out again,
with tears and a terrible heart-ache,
read 1t over and over.
Every Jealous. bitter thought I had
had since I married, welled up in my
heart stronge than ever. Even the
Punishment Of the picture ceased to
mean anything. Perhaps he had taken
it down because of baby? He was so
pleased that I had given him a son,
he had been willing to remove Leola's
picture? 1t was because of his de-
light in his boy-not for me.
Then I suddenly remembered I had
not seen the picture in the attic. What
had he done with it? dared not go
up again at night. Since 1 had burned
myself by taking a candle to the attic
to satisfy my curiosity l had been very
timid of fire and lights. There was no
gas or electricity up there. I would
have to wait until morning-unless I
questioned him when he came in.
II can't do that! He'll mistrust
something has happened" said aloud
as / put the note away for the last
time just before I heard his key in
the door.
1 hurried1y commenced to o>undress.
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affecting every man, woman and child
because it has to do with the daily
supply of food and clothing for each
and every one. Upon the handling of
that situation depend such issues as
the presence of fire in the CRATE, the
operation of the transportation sfacili-
fties of the nation, the chance of the
Individual to work that his children
may liye-the very continuance of the
government itself
And this is not the only problem.
The shelves of the world are empty.
World industry has been paralyzad
for half decade, and will be sorely
handicapped for years to come. The
United States. of all nations, has
emerged from the war with enormous
industrial capacities, and with un-
limited financial resources. For her
the door of opportunity is wide open,
and for her there is no bar to entrance.
Whether or not she makes the best of
this, her golden day for gaining a
trade foothold in the marts of the
world, will depend largely upon the
administration of her affairs for the
next four years.
The public is coming to an appre-
citation Of these vital facts. The
friends one meets at home, the men
he talks to on railroad trains, the edi-
, torials he reads in newspapers, cause
him to realize that there is a knowl-
edge abroad in the land of the respoil-
sibilities that will rest upon the next
chief executive. Old fashioned poll
tics are in eclipse. The old issues be-
tween the parties do not hold good.
Whore the Demo ocrats were accus-
toned to so deport themselves as to
be regarded as the party particularly
friendly to organized labor. they are
today arrayed in a titanic contest with
certain groups of that element
While the Republicans were of old
the party of expansion, the party that
favored Americas stepping boldly
forth and assuming its share of world
influence and world responsibility,
they are today the party advocating
the doctrine of magnificent isolation.
The old issues are turned topsy turvy.
There are no new ones to take their
place. Both parties promise to write
platforms based largely on American
ism and differing little.
So the situation is developing in
such a way that the candidate is the
matter of dominating interest. The
partiesNare following the public in their
expression of desire to find just the
right sort of man to handle the big
job ahead.
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Senator Curtis has taken a firm
stand against the setting up of num-
her Of boards and commissions, as pro-
vided in the railroad bills. now pend
ing in congress. His attitude probably
will be approved by a large majority
OF his constituents. The senator holds,
quite properly that the in erests of the
government, the public and the en-
ployes and owners of the roads can
be handled as we'll by one commission
as by half a dozen. to say nothing of
the saving of money and time. While
tie interstate commerce commission
has made a mess of the transporta ton
business in the past. it is by no means
certain that another commission, or
several commissions would do any
better. It is case in which it may
he better to bear the ills we have than
fly to others we know not of. The
tendency in the states recently has
been toward a reduction in the num-
Der of boards thru elimination and
consolidation. The provisions Of the
pending railroad bills have the appear
ance of a move backward.
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goods they have agreed to deliver.
when demand is keen and competent
help is scarce. The threat of a strike
is bound to garry weight when a
manufacturer is booked months ahead.
when he knows that frantic buyers
place primary consideration on the
question of delivery. Demands that
reach the extreme of uneconomic alb
surdity may be granted in whole or in
part under such conditions. But labor
gains little or nothing by such tactics.
The reaction upon the general public
contains the elements of tragedy.
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The coal miners staged their strike
November 1 in the belief that they
could win quickly by freezing the peo-
Pile They were mistaken. If they
had struck last spring they might
have succeeded. At that time they
only would have tied up the industries
of the country. Coal operators then
had many contracts outstanding. to
furnish coal regardless of strikes. They
would have granted the miners de-
mands and charged &he costs up to
the unprotected industries. which
would have passed them on to their
customers. In their efforts to make
success doubly certain, the miners
failed and brought not only their or
ganization, but labor unions generally.
into bad repute. Strikes never again
will be won so easily as they have
been in the past
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Unfortunately for the interest of all
the people. one phase of our Industrial
or labor problem is being threshed out
to the pra cticaI exclusion of all others.
This is the share to be allotted TO la
Dor out &C the income resulting from
productive effort Included in this
struggle is the question of wages.
hours of toll. working conditions. par
ticipatIon in profits and management.
and other features affecting produc-
tion. The question of the distribution
OF income IS not the most Important
one that faces US today. The big prob
lem. the proper solution OF which
alone can save the world from the
climax OF wretchedness. is production.
Il may be good strategy from the
standpoint OF class egoism to fight for
wage increases while employers are
struggling with desperation TO turn out
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MouHon Musings
Something Wrong with the Flour.
BY ROY X. MOULTON


(Received by a Milling Company
with the flour. There is full of bugs
in our flour and we did not believe the
people about it and so I see that is
true. What shall we do with 1t, and
there some cause about it, and we
have it In a good dry place, and 1 did
not think about it SO we do believe it.
We had bought flour from Henrys and
kept it Z or months and it did not
turn into such things as that What
will we do with it sir. or send 1t back,
or not come with it and look about 1t,
there was some reasing about it. 1t is
some old flour you had. And answer
soon back And it isn't only three
months we got it.
Not much left of the Russian Boil
sheyiki but the whiskers.
There should soon be law to take
the porter out OF the porterhouse
steak, for porter is Intoxicating.
Speaking of occultism, now Is the
time when many a sad and thirsty
gentleman would like to communicate
with the departed spirits.
Admiral Beatty has been made
Baron Of the North Sea. Doesn't seem
as tho a man would have to pay
any taxes on-a barony like that.
Some men act as tho they have had
monkey glands grated into them for
years and years
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Probably the coal strike will be the
last big walkoet by labor for a long
time. Recent lessons must have taught
workers the truth that strikes do
not pay. Reports by the bureau of
labor statistics show something of the
magnitude OF this disturbance OF in :
dustry. During the months of April
Nay and June last, the building trades
led the list in the number of strikes,
furnishing 200 out OF a total OF 974
OF these activities. Metal trades were
next with 1T6' strikes, while textiles
and clothing furnished rs and 81 re-
spectively. Lumber and timber added
iS to the list.
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bish or so reserved that human SYM
pathy is crushed. Nor is dignity to be
confused with an attitude that shuns
work with the hands or tasks that are
OF a nnenial character.
Dignity is character-proud of
itself.
I can imagine Lincoln as one of the
most disnified of men. Approa cha BILE
and kind and generous he was-but
his great and supreme worth was rec
ognized the minute one came into his
presence.
The greatest dignity Is of a pleasant
sort-big and kind.
like the dignified friend-so dig
nified that he is too proud to be false
or disloyal, too great to be SMALL
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been, 'tJim. DEAR she said. ST am
your girl and I always have been"
Jim drew her to him. and unseen
by the people on the porch who won
dered who on earth Betty was gossip
ing with, they stood for a moment in
close embrace.
Then Betty stopped down and pick
ed up the little dog. IF he hadn't
barked, l wouldn't have come down.
and you would have gone away and
we might never" Her look told Jim
what her lips did not say.
Jim put his arms about both dog
and girl. Good old doggie." he cried.
II did you an injustice. You did give
her back to me, after ALL"
copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Contrasting the manner in which
Carranza has permitted Americans to
be murdered. robbed, and outraged.
with the celebrity with which a British
citizen was let loose upon a peremp-
tory demand from the British govern
ment, the parallel speaks volumes in
condemnation Of the policy of the ad
ministration. The Mexican situation
promises to be an issue in the ap-
preaching political campaign over
shadowing even the League Of Nations.
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DIGNITY.

There will always be something pc
culiarly fine about the worker or
thinker who plants a certain dignity
underneath all that he~does.
To be dignified just as a pose or as
a matter of fact, is to defeat the rea-
son for dignity.
For dignity must accompany a per-
sonality-a man or woman who has
deserved we'll of life. Not to hold dig
nifty as great asset Is to beIittle ones
personality and cast a shadow upon
worth
The one who feels responsibility is
always accompanied by q splendid
dignity.
But to be dignified is not TO be snob-
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Dorothy Dix Talks
widows.
BY DOROTHY DIX
wsrid's Highest Paid woman Writer.

widows.
A bold, devil-may-ca fool hardy
bachelor In a middle west city has Is
sued invitations to one hundred ano
fifty widows to attend a party a.
which he will be the one and onl,
man.
Talk about your deeds OF deering'
do. and your war cross heroes. Here;
an ace for fair It is folly for any
man to underestimate the peril ht
runs from even one widow, and when
one thinks of a lone, lorn. motherless
and fatherless bachelor exposed to
the arts and wiles of a hundred and
| fifty widows. one knows not whether
to admire his nerve, or pity his lacl
| of judgment.
For he runs not one risk, but mil
| lion. for the widow is protean. Sh
| assumes a hundred types, each Will
its particular battery of charms.
Consider the gathering at this party
There will be. for instance. the toll.
| widow. Fair, fat and forty. not toe
fat, and not too forty, but just plump
and round, and good natured
Dimples play hide and seek in her
! cheeks. and her laugh, hung on haii
trigger. is ready to go off at any OH.
story.
| Few women know how to laugh
| The woman who smiles is an angel, or
a sardonic demon, but the woman
who laughs is lovable companion
| who makes a man feel that she will
never have Mysteries when the cook
| leaves, or be hard on her husband
when be stays out late.
Young girls never laugh. They gig
gle. Old maids snicker when they
laugh at ALL It is only the widow
who is wise enough to know that n
| jolly laugh Is bait which few men
| can resist.
Then there will be the lachrymose
| widow. She possesses the invaluable
accomplishments of weeping pOetical-
ly, and when woman can cry with
out Getting a red nose, her danger
BUSINESS is not to be estimated in mere
words
She is SO helpless and dependent.
and forlorn in a cold and cruel world.
and she doesn't know anything about
business. and she appeals so prettilN
Ito man for advice that he can't re.
fuse her, and in the midst of il she
sure to break down and burst int.
tears on the tecond button of IN
comforter's waistcoat And ever.
thing is all over, except the marriar
license.
Drying widows tears is one of T.
most hazardous occupations ever I
dertaken by man, which is Doubt
the reason it is mentioned in the Ii
as one OF the short cuts to Heaven.
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| Copyright. 1879. by the Wheeler syndiea,
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Household Hints

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.r
Concord Grapes
Wheat Biscuits (heated)
Toast Butter Peanut Butter
Fried Rice Ca leftover) Jelly
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Scrambled EGGS
Bread Butter
Cake Tea
DINNER.
Beefsteak Mashed Potatoes
Lettuce (French Dressing)
Hot Rolls Butter
Raisin Cake Jam
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Real Chinese Chop suey.

Heal Chinese Chop Suey-
Chicken Chop Suey for fifteen peo-
ple-Three and one-half pounds young
chicken, one pound lean veal cut in
cubes, one pound lean pork cut in
cubes, one large bunch celery. one
onion chopped, one-haIf cup chicken
fat olive or peanut oil. one pound
Chinese chestnutss one can broken
mushrooms. one pr nd bean sprouts.
four tablespoons Shoyu sauce, one
fourth cup flour, salt and pepper to
taste.
Cut cooked chicken in one-inch
strips. Wash chestnuts in cold water,
peel and slice thin.
Put four tablespoons of fat or oil
in a spider; when hot add pork cubes
and when well Drowned put in cas-
sero1e. Add veal, season and cook
slowly until meat is done, adding
little water If necessary.
Again heat two tablespoons of fat
in spider: add onion slightly brown; !;
add chicken lieat; brown slightly.
Half an hour before serving take
remaining fat; when hot add four
tablespoons flour, brown well. add
one cup of meat liquid; when thick
and smooth stir in Shoyu sauce. Mix
this with the meat in casserole. add
celery cut in small pieces. mushrooms.
bean sprouts and chestnuts. Let cook
five minutes and serve hot with boiled
rice Can omit chicken and use less
of other ingredients and, serve about
six or seven people. Buy chestnuts,
bean sprouts and Shoyu sauce at Chi
nese grocery or restaurant.
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Isn't it about time for the MeXicans
either to kidnSp or arrest Jenkins
again? Their dealings with the United
States probably afford them almost as
much amusement as a bull fight. An
other prod Of the bull seems due.
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Congressman Kelley. OF Michigan.
has introduced bill intended to make
more effectual the curbing of Red
activities 1t provides additional pen
alties for conspiring to overthrow the
government by imposing a fine of
$4,000 upon conviction, or imprison-
ment not to exceed five years. or both.
After the expiration of sentence aliens
are to be deported. Tn, annual report
of the department of labor submitted
to congress on the opening day of the
new session. Giscloses the fact that out
Of 6s7 radical aliens arrested during
the last two years on deportation war
rants, only Sky were actually sent
back across he ocean. These figures
do not include the recent arre~ts in
organized raids thruout the country.
But what would be the object in keep
ing Red shut up in Jail five years
at an expense to the taxpayers? And
where would one of them get $4,000 :?
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Gold has become a drug on the
market. It no longer pays to dig
1922 grains Of gold out OF the ground
for dollar. and that is all the miner
can get for it. so he has quit and gone
into other business where he can
charge more and get it.
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The silver lining in the coal strike
cloud may not appear until the flat
dweIler who owns a piano begins to
break it up for fuel
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II Pres; 'ent Wilson finally decides
to engage this country in a war with
Mexico. he cannot say that the United
States senate pushed him in.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-11

President Wilson is opposed to start
ing anything in Mexico. Evidently he
wants to be off with the old war be-
fore being on with the new.
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Copyright. 1879. by the Wheeler syndica,
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
LEADERS TESTIFY
 IN BASEBALL SUIT
Baltimore Federal League Suit for S9OO,OOO Before
 Supreme Court
By Associated Presf

Washington, April 7.-Three leaders in organized baseball testified today in the District of Columbia supreme court in the s9O0,oO0 damage suit of the Baltimore fed eral league against the National and American leagues and certain officials Of the defunct federal league.
 August Hermann, chairman of the na- tional baseball commission, was recalled for cross-examination by counsel for the Baltimore club as to the signing of the peace pact' and negotiations leading up to it. B. Bancroft Johnson, president of the American league, and Connie Mack of the Philadelphia American league club. were the other witnesses.
 The Philadelphia club president testified asfto relations existing between club of' ficials and players in organized baseball and cited a number of instances designed to counter the plaintiffs charges tha. organized baseball was monopoly and players were permitted no privileges. The courtroom was thrown into an uproar time and again by the droll answers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
HUBERT DRENNEN| IS
 ELECTED P| RESIDENT
Annual Meeting of Motor Trades Associa tion- Sum-
 day Closing Taken Up

The Birmingham Motor Trade assocla- tion, which held it's first regular annual eral new members were added to the rolls. TutwiIer hotel, elected Hubert Drennen as it's president, Fl. M. Bailey, vice presi : dent. and D. F. Knapp treasurer, the lat ter succeeding himself.
 The organization, an affiliation of auto mobile dealers for the betterment of the trade and it's conditions, is in exceedingly thriving condition, judging from reports made by the retiring officers and sev- eral new members weer added to the rolis'
 Ted Brownell, the first president of the body. under whose direction the man obstacles and difficulties which nave faced the "B M T. Al as it is now fa- miliarlv known, have been overcome. was given rising vote of thanks as ne yielded the chair to the new president.
 MT. Drennen, in taking the chair' mac a few appropriate and pertinent remarks. outing the work before the associatioh' and asking for the harmonious co-opera tion of every member.
 Action was taken relative to Suhdas opening" and the matter was turned over to<a committee under instructions to taA-e the ouestion LID with both the sheriff and inc chief of police The city ordinance is very clear, it was ted. In it's prom bitioh of the operation of any automoplie business on Sunday wi tn the excepeio'' of the taxicab industry.
 The support of the organization was n,adged to the Victory Liberty Loan and active assistance was also pledged to the Kiwanians. who hold an international convention in this city i'm May.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08
AMERICAN CREW TO
 BE ALL-STAR BUNCH
Tank Oarsmen to Compete in 250O- Metre Race Down the
 Seine River
By Associated Press


 Paris, April 1.-The American crew which is to compete in the French inter- allied eight cared race on April S, will
 be made up of some of the best known oarsmen of American universities, the captain being c. D. Wiman, artillery,
 Yale varsity, 1915. Captain Wiman asked
 that, inasmuch as merely elimination trials are being held at present and as therefore the crew which will appear in the big event has not yet been picked, the names of the oarsmen be withheld until final selection has been made. The race will be over a course of 2oOO metres down the Seine, starting at the Pont Royal and finishing at the Pont De LAlma, and passing under four bridges, including the famous Alexander III bridge.
 The obstacles of the race will make
 it more spectacular, the space under the arches of the bridges permitting only two crews to pass under an arch at the same time. The Pont Royal, having only three arches, the coxswains will have to do some clever jockeying and maneuver-
 ing, and lively sprint can be looked for at the taSe-off.
 The crew will use off-center sliding seat lapstreak barges, with Belgian Tholes. The boats are somewhat heavier than those to which American and Eng fish rowing men are accustomed.
 No time was given for yesterdays trial. The men appeAred to be in fairly good form.
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morrow morning en route to Ft. ogle- thorpe to be demobilzed.
 The regiment is scheduled to reach the city at in the morning. coming from Nashville. where it paraded Sunday. Preparations have been completed to give the returning soldiers a hearty welcome. All business houses, industries and schools will be closed during the day and the crowds from the surrounding sections are expected to be larger than those which welcomed the 114th field artillery here last Thursday.
 Gen. w. S. Scott, commander at Fort Oglethorpe, will be the reviewing off cer. Mayor pro-tem T. c. Batterton will deliver the address of welcome in be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-08

.Tbe Life Extension Institute has shown +b a+ ee per cent of our population IS oelo" no,. D declared Prof. Irving Fisher ot Yale university, in a lecture recently delivered at Pittsburg
 This is an astounding assertion, but when ,vo look around us and realize the condition of our health, and how easily we "catch" coios and other diseases, we have to acknowledge that it is only too true!
 What is to be done?
 We are shortening our lives by our How health ideals" as Prof. Fisher says. We ought to realize that good health and a strong sys- ten, are possible to acquire, and we ought to setI about to build up our health to \ state of 100 per cent par.
 One of the first things to do is to see that voIr blood contains sufficiency of that most ;mnortant aid to the health-iron.
 Iron in the blood makes for ruddy cheeks, bri pht eyes, ability to endure hard work with out fatigue, energy, stamina, vitality, nerve and muscla efficiency.
 Lack of iron kes you easily tired, ner- vons. pale, sicE-ly. weak, dyspeptic, irritable, unable to eat sleep or work in a normal way. It renders ypu sensitive to cold and liable to catch any of the catching" diseases the world is full o1. M
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tonight, and if it doesn't straighten yoe right up and make you feel fine and vigorous by morning, want you to so back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel. because it is real liver medicines; entirely vegetable. therefore q Eannot salivate or make you sick
 euafaatee that one spoonful of Dod- so1Yss fav Ter Tone will put your sluggish seer ta work and clean your bowels of att snar bile and constipated waste a,hiAh $ ciogging your system and mak-
 ag you feel miserable. l guarantee ehL- battle of Dodson's Liver Tone nIs1 keer your entire family feeling sfr 2 for months. Give it to your chill ,ifefh T IS harmless; doesn't gripe and *hry 1{&k It's pleasant taste.-Adv.