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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-21
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE

My sister Gladdis was setting in the
setting room reeding with ixpres-
sion as if it was a good book, and
sed. Gladdis? Her not ansering. and
1 sed, Gladdis?
Wat? sed Gladdis.
Potts, I sed. Being her hole name,
Gladdis Potts. And Gladdis kepp rite
on reeding as If she hadent even herd
me. and pritty soon 1 sed. Gladdis?
Wat, wat. wat? sed Gladdis.
Potts, / sed.
You sed that wunts. for goodniss
sakes. cant you let a body alone wen
they're trying to reed? sed 0laddis.
Proberiy not understanding the joak
yet, and she kepp on reeding with a
Expression as IL sumthing had BIN
worrying her, proberly being me. and
pritty soon 1 got up. saying. Well,
CESS III go OUT now, there's nuthing to
do heer so l mite as well go out. Witch
! started to do, and when / got 10 the
door l termed Ground saying. o by
the way Gladdis.
For pity sakes. wat? sed GiaddIs.
Potts. 1 sed. And / quick went out
OF the room, Gladdis saying. IL you
were half as brite as you think you
are you would still have n long ways
to 60 Meening 1 wouldent be very
brite even then Proving she prober-
ly dident see the joak even yet. and L
went downstairs and ma was in the
kitchen mixing dough with her hands.
and there was box OF candy on the
sideboard in the dining room with
some still in il and 1 sed. G, ma.
whose candy is this. can have some
Its Gladdises. you can if she says
so, sed ma. And / quick ran up stairs
| agen and stuck my he'd in the setting
room door. saying. Gladdis?
Go to the dickins you can fool
some of the people all of the time, but
not me, sed Gladdis.
l wasent going to say Potts. honest
! wasent Gladdis. l sed. and she sed
Good by good by, don't you see you're
not wunted2 Me thinking. Maybe L
better jest take a peece and call up
and tell her / got it.
WITCH 1 went down and did, going
out the frunt door SO fast so would
ent heers her anser in case IL wasent
favorable.
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MY HUSBAND AND /
BY JANE PHELPS

Neil still looked worn and tired.
He was always labo-ing under a sort
of excitement, was restless, and
strung up" as father would have ex-
pressed it. 1 felt anxious about him,
but when 7 spoke of what 1 called his
nervousness he only laughed at ME.
One day he came home in great
glee. He and another man had de-
cided to take boxing lessons. He ex-
planned his reasons
Everyone says 1 look tired. I think
it is because 1 get no exercise. I'm
sitting in an office three-quarters of
the Qme. One does get stale and soft.
inclined to make the effort required
if he would harden his muscles.
met Blanche Orion today, and she
accused me of getting old So 1 made
arrangements to box twice a week"
He had done it because of Blanche
him for weeks that he looked badly,
and he had simply laughed and dis
missed il with a shrug. But the mo-
ment she spoke to him he had been
awake to the necessity for action.
1 think that jealousy of Blanche
orion Weakened in me then She. an
other mans wife, could influence my
husband where 1 could not. l never
had heard anything tangible in any
way against Mrs orion; she was re-
ceived everywhere. Yet 1 had seen a
slight lifting Of eyebrows, on occasion.
when she was more than usually frank
in her actions. She was consummately
clever Very ingenious Always she
knew how to turn everything to her
own advantage: to gloss over a too
pronounced speech and acton so tina.
1t bore the look of innocence or ignor-
ance.
That she was beautiful. I could no
Tfascinations. But I had thought moth
ing of her beauty as it might affect
me, less of her fascinations. untihNeil
SO frankly told me she had Influenced
him to take boxing lessons SO that he
would recover his looks
We had a butler now as well as
maids and the cook Neil was plan
ming to entertain extensively. that win
ter When / asked him whom he
desired to invite. he said:
Business people mostly. II is neces-
sary nowadays, II one is to get on
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and the men are marched ashore at
once.
Then there is another cheer, and
long one when they hit dry land. For
the A. E, r. fight better on land than
they do on sea. A German machine
gun nest has only half the terrors of
seasickness to them. Hoboken. once
the most German city in the east, has
been transformed. Water street is
welcome in itself. Every shop along
the way has been transformed into
welcome station by the Y. M. c. A.
Red Cross, Knights of Columbus and
Jewish War Relief. Crowds from New
York line the sidewalks, and led by
the Port of Declaration band, the
men swing down the street to the
Lackawanna station where they en-
train for Camp Merritt, fifteen miles
away in New Jersey
Their stay in Merritt is short one
as after a period of quarantine they
are usually shipped to western camps
near their home towns Tor demoplli-
cation. The first day they are not al
lowed to leave the camp. put mus. on n,
dergo the 'decooteriZing' process OF
ffumigation-for German helmets are
not the only souvenirs that they got In
France As soon as is is CONNECTED
| they are given passes to visit New
| York and there the town 's ready TO
welcome them. Under the auspices
| of the mayors committee, Y. NJ. c. A,
and New York division of the war
| Camp Community Service, free the
alter tickets. dinner parties. tours OF
the city and all forms of amuSements
are provid d.
has had a hard t. has co~''litted
himself gloriodsly. and h. has ear II
ali the cheers and smiles that New
| Yor can give him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-21

PENDANT; ]. B. Larimer. John c. Wa
tiers and D. H. Branaman. attorneys
for the Crawfords. Neither of the
Crawfords nor their fourth attorney.
Captain Waters, was present.
The case commands city, state and
national interest, and is of vital i'm
iportance to every newspaper published
in the United States.
Just after the jury was dismissed
by the court Mr.. MacLennan went to
the foreman, Samuel Sage, shook him
by the hand. thanked the jury from the
bottom of his heart. He then went
to each of the other eleven jurors.
addressed each by name and similar
ly thanked them individually, express
ing the sentiment that in conducting
a newspaper here he tried to do his
duty in the interest and welfare of
this city and its people and the public
generally and that he was glad that
the jury upheld him by their verdict.
There were the jurymen;
Samuel Sage, retired farmer, fore
man of-the jury.
Perry Kosler, farmer.
Frank Jacques, business man.
I. S. Curtis, former clerk district
court.
A. A. Rogers, dairyman.
Warren Rodgers, retired farmer.
]. A. Bowers, retired farmer.
W. G. Holloway engineer.
c.. L. Cotton, retired farmer.
John C. Heberer, retired engineer.
Frank Hartman, workman.
John Dyal, retired
The other libel suit for $4,000
brought against Mr.. MacLennan
growing out of the fourth liberty loar
campaign last fall, is set for next
Wednesday.
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AN EXPENSIVE EXPERIMENT.

One branch of the federal govern
ment has come forward with a loan
of $50.000,000 to help another branch
of the government the railway admin
istration. out of the financial hole in
which it finds itself The country is
coming rapidly to the conclusion that
railroa ding is a business just as much
as any other enterprise. and that the
attempt to make it a function of gov
eminent is certain to result in inferior
service and greatly increased costs.
These would necessarily be made up
by higher rates for passenger and
freight traffic. and an eventual resort
TO taxation to cover the deficit.
Interesting figures are produced by
analysing the operating result of the
railroads of the United States last
year. The returns compiled from the
monthly reports to the interstate, COM
mission show a decrease of 1855, 000,-
. 600 in net revenue in spite of an in
crease of SS5S,0OO. 600 in operating
revenue. compared with 1917.
In an address before the Chicago
Commercial club. Howard Elliott,
president of the Northern Pacific rail-
road, presented data showing the diff
ference between the situation of the
railroads under private and govern
ment control. He called attention to
I. the fact that the Pennsylvania system
furnished 1922 per cent of the total ton
mileage and AS per cent of the total
passenger mileage of the steam roads
of the country. At the end of De-
cember. 1918. the Pennsylvania had
27S.1O1 employees compared with
23S.6OO at the end of December. 1917
Altho the ton mileage handled -ir
1918 was less than in 1917. when tbs
system was under private control. i
required nearly 10000 more employe.
to handle a smaller volume of bust
ness.
1t is apparent from this statement
says the Wollman Review, that the in
creased handicap placed on the rail
roads is not entirely embraced in TIT
radical increase in wages. Govern
ment operation has brought upon tn,
lines cumulative burdens. In TIL
first place. the rate of pay has beer
radically increased. In the secon,
place. it is impossible to get the sa nj
amount of work from a much large
number Of employees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-21
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: L am a
blonde of fifteen, good looking, a good
dresser, attend church and dancing
school, come from a high family. and
yet I am verp unpopular.
Every one seems to like me very
well before we become acquainted, but
cares nothing for me and thinks me a
bore afterward. 1t is making me so
miserable. 1 try my best to be cheer
full, a good talker and not a bore,
but 1 can't do il.
No one seems to wish me for a
friend-neither boy nor girl. 1 will
appreciate it so much if you can give
me the good advice you have given
others. THANKFULNESS.s
You seem to be unable to afnuse
yourself. Study and read and do not
worry about your lack of friends. Just
as soon as you can find yourself in
you are bored with your own COM
nothing attractive to offer others who
would be your friends.
Forget yourself in your considera-
ton of those around you. Notice
when the girl who sits next to, you. in
school wears a new waist. Tell the
girl with the prettiest hair how much
you admire it Say good morning to
every one. And above all. listen with
interest to what others have to say. A
sympathetic listener usually has many
friends.
Instead of thinking so much about
your good points and advantages try
to find out your had ones and improve
them.
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THE PROMOTERS WIFE
NEIL TAKES BLANCHE ORTON'S
ADVICE TO EXERCISE.
CHAPTER XVII.

CHAPTER XVII.
At times 1 felt almost afraid of my
love for Neil, so strongly had it always
swayed me. Then again 1 was aln ost
ashamed of loving him so much This.
when he seemed inanimate when with
meas often happened. Men are said
to be selfish. 1 had heard women talk
as if selfshness were bred in men. and
cepted by women.
Neil was a composite. Selfish be-
yond anyone ever had known in
some ways; unselfish to definite
degree in others Ard as his uLself-
ish actions were invariably accom-
panied by passionate love-making
and generosity toward me, I would
forget the other side-the selfish side
of his nature-for long periods at a
time
We had moved into the new apart
lnent. I felt almost lost in the i'm
mense rooms. 1 had cared fer the
smaller one with a sort of joyous de-
yotion and energy, because, as l told
Neil. it was my little house, my first
home with him"
All thru my life at home with ia
Their and mother, there had been.
aside from the necessary plainness of
people in our circumstances, note
lof simplicity. But Nei1 loved luxury.
He often said laughingiy:
II like the sensation of sinking
down in things" So we had divans
with big, fat cushions. and easy chairs
that, once you were settled in them,
you felt that never could you get out
/ of them without assistance
Our new home was exquisite in
many ways. Yet to me il lacked the
f1nF of no Src 1a hnr
A fashionable and high-priced deccr-
ator had hung the walls with tapes
tries, or soft plushes- The furniture
had been selected for the place it was
| intended to fill with the greatest care
| But once put where il belonged. ii
had to remain there It wos abso-
Iutely incongruous anywhere else.
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Justin;
IE6lHhsYIS
Up
E2SarIGus5t


There are habits good and habits bad,
And habits merry and habits sad,
As a general rule they are easy to make
And once we've made them they're hard
to break,
But every one of US makes a few
Because it's n natural thing 10 do:
Some of us smoke. and some Of US swear.
Some Of ms Rrumbie too much at care.
Bat the world would brighten as ns'er
before
II we'd get the habit Of smiling more.
what a glorious earth this would grow
to be,
n we it a light for su men to see:
Suppose We made fl rule. each day,
word OF comfort and cheer 70 say
To the troubled men that we chance to
meet.
As We wafk the crowded and busy street
Wouldn't our rfrcie Of true friends grow
And our ertefs depart Ike the melting
sBowl
What glorious vein Of joy we'd find
IL we'd get the habit OF being kind
But this II true IL we undersfoOd
The habits good are - hard 20 break
As the vicious ones that We often mike.
We could comfort the weary and sick and
SORE.
II we get the habit Of smiling more.
And Leave full many friend behind
on we could brighten the worlds dfstreea
Copyright 1913 by EdgarA- Guest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-21
DINNER STORIES

That tireless war worker, Lady Vic
tor Paget, tells an amusing story of
an enthusiastic v. A. D. nurse who, in
past days, was an equally enthusiastic
suffraget.
At a base hospital Somewhere in
France" she was bandaging a stall
wart private whose right arm had
been mangled by a fragment of a
German shell.
do you know" she said, presently,
your face seems strangely familiar
to me. I've been trying to. remember
where we've met before"
We'll, nurse" said the wounded
man, perhaps we had better let by
cones be bygones. I was a police
man"
A pre-war hostess was giving a
luncheon. Observing that one of the
guests had eaten all her portion of ice
cream, she said:
My dear Miss Lane, do let me give
you some more of the ice cream!"
We'll, thanks" said the young
woman. Il will take some more, but
only just mouthful please"
"Hilda.' said the hostess to the
maid, fill Miss Lanes plate"
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she said she cared nothing for visit
on that continent.
Make it Australia, and III CO." she
said; and Mr.. Richardson consented to
this, promising that her mother should
accompany her. lnaz demurred. u
want to go alone she contended, and
her father, after a few moments OF
silent debate with himself, said he
would agree even to that, if only it
would improve her health. However.
he succeeded in arranging with an
other passenger on the same ship to
keep Inza under close watch without
her knowledge.
Fair weather was enjoyed until the
Hawaiian Islands were reached.
Shortly after traversing that part of
the sea the steamer encountered a
severe storm, which grew more vio-
lent as the days passed. The ship was
tossed on giant waves and even the
veteran ocean travellers were indis-
posed.
Finally a warning was issued by the
officers for every passenger to keep a
life preserver on, awake or asleep. The
precaution was well founded, for that
very night the big ship was driven off
her course and in the darkness hurled
itself on a rock. She chung to the
! obstruction for two hours, which gave
| ample time for the lifeboats to be
| launched. The sea was running so
| high, however, that many of these
| were swamped before they could get
any distance from the wrecked vessel.
! Finally the steamer slipped from the
| rock, the sea poured into the hold thru
the hole that had been made. and one
more craft joined the armada OF
sunken hulks on the bottom Of the
South Pacific.
Just how she got there Inza never
knew, but she came out of a long
period of Inconsistencies to find her.
self lying high on a beach, whence
she evidently had been cast by the
waves. She was bedraggled and cold,
her clothes having been drenched by
the brine, while~the life preserver
| about her was an oppressive weight
| Nearby was a lifeboat. overturned, also
high and dry on the shore.
Inza scanned the sea, which was al
most calm. The sun was high in the
heavens and the sky was clear. Look
ing back toward some low hills, heI
eyes caught a black speck which ap-
peared to be moving. While she
watched it grew larger and finally de-
veloped into the shape of man.
But such a man! His hair fell in e
tangled mass over his shoulders and
his beard was long, and kinky, while
his clothing was in tatters.
INA scrambled to her feet in fright
but the man called in a clear voice:
Don't run away: I'm harmless. Lee
me WelcOIn6 you 10 1TuSOe 1SlanO.
named it myself How do you lik,
it?'
He came closer, and suddenly as h,
1oked at her his eyes took on a pecu
liar glitter. Wonder and astonishmen
shone from them, and he muttered in
coherently. She stood, held powerles
by his gaze, until he was almost upol
her. Then:
'Inza!' he cried. sit can't-no, i
can't be-"
The voice sounded familiar. Sh
scrutinized his face and slowly it tool
on some aspects that made him seen
less like a stranger.
A piercing blast shook the island
and steamer rounded the shore
short distance out. But just then Inz;
and Arthur were too busily occupie,
with each other to notice that rescu
. was close at hand
Copyright, 1919. bv the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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and an instructive one, when ne macs
choice for himself and his household.
He could not decide for Israel: he dio
not have to. No man can do every
thing. 1t is impossible for any one 10
set the whole world right. But he can
get right himself. and keep his house
hold right. Bolsheviks dream OF the
transformation of society in the mass
and wait for that day without mending
their own ways. The which is folly
1t is regenerated individualism
which is the worlds only hope. 1t is
the man who achieves the ablest life
for himself who makes the greatest
contribution to his time. A shallow
philosophy SCOTS at the old religious
training which babe a man save his
own soul While as an end. that is not
sufficient; but 1t is absolutely the first
essential. The very most important
gift that man can give the world is a
life made over by the power of God.
Only such a one can make over the
mass of lives.
The Bishop of London's Counsel.
Joshua called his people back to
first things. He compelled them to
face a decision. By his example and
counsel. pointing out the perils Of .
contrary course. and reminding them
what Jehovah had done for them in
the past he led them to renew their
ancient allegiance. He recalled them
to the ultimate spiritual verities,
which have been aptly condensed into
a modern phrase. Get right with
Cod
| This recall to first things is a note
that is being sounded by the worlds
religious leaders today. The Bishop
| of London never said truer words than
| those uttered at the capital of the
| United States, when he said: mo
church on earth will produce an ef-
feet upon the world II it has not still
one further characteristic 1t must
clearly and Enthusiastically and before
| an the world be unworldly itself Bear
| with me. then, when l say as my last
word that the greatest dangeS OF the
church on both sides of the Atlantic
is worldliness
1T is impossible for the church 10
mix too freely with the world But,
on the other hand, to run church
as a man runs a successful business,
TO deoend upon cleverness and man.
agenlent, rather than the grace of
God,tto neglect prayer and interces-
sion in favor of Influence with the
press, to lower the teaching of the
church or its moral standard in order
to suit a self-indulgent age is 20 spell
ruin and failure and shame Tor the
most orthodox church in the world.
In voice which still rings down the
centuries, Jesus Christ himself pro-
claimed My kingdom is not OF this
world
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Germany was the worlds chief
producer and exporter of dyes prior
to the war, her total expectation of
dyestuffs amounting in 1913 to $54,-
zoe, 900, which was, however, slight
IL less than the value of our own
manufacture of dyes in 1917, since
The United States tariff commission in
n recent report states the production
of coal-tar dyes alone in the United
States in the calendar year 1917 at
s51,796,22S. Expectation of dyes and
dyestuffs from the United States for
the year Immediately preceding the
var, the fiscal year 1914, was but
S356,919. advancing to $1,177,925 in
1915. s5,1O2.O0O in 1916. $11,7O9.oO0
in 1917, and $16.922.OOO in 1919.
AnaIine dyes alone formed nearly one
half of the 1918 exports.
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Labor must be given larger share in
profits and management of industry.
Resistance by capital means revolu-
ton" says writer in the Century.
and urges reform in industrial organ
ization to eliminate danger at this
time of unrest. But it is not trouble
with labor that threatens the peace of
the country. 1t Is trouble with the
Bcishevist element that will not work
itself and tries to prevent others from
dOirg so
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To Remove Lids from stewpans or
kettle containing boiling water or hot
food, use a clothespin-the kind that
pinches together. Many a burn and
scald will be avoided IL this be used.
To Rid the Home of Mice and Rats
Sprinkle quicklime on cellar walls
and around edges of floor The lime
burns their feet and they viii leave.
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Everything now seems to be coming
the gas consumers way. He will not
be compelled to pay an income tax on
his refund from the companies until
1920. He also can use the money in
the purchase of victory loan bonds.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr., told an
interviewer that a monopoly of mon
ey is utterly impossible. Probably he
obtained his information from his IA
Their, who for many years has been
experimenting along that line.
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Thirty thousand Civil war veterans
about one-tenth of the survivors died dur
ing the last fiscal year.
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ON THE SPUR .
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K MoULToN

Clerical Error.
1t CHANGED like this. Attorney Small,
Touching the estate of Mary Cryder,
Dictated thus: And in the fall
She put her apples down In cider,
Which, when his youthful typist heard,
Altho her eyes grew wide and wider,
She wrote it down without a word .
..She put her apples down inside her"
Walter Pulitzer. .
Secretary Baker says the hing for
everybody to do is to go to work. And
he should have added that everyto dy
should work after they get there.
Scientific Notes.
The use of binder Irvine and the
contents of upholstered sofas as the
style since America entered the war.
1t seems to be continuing with success
since the signing of the armistioe.
The substitution of the slide from
hone for music i'll many of the cafe
orchestras has become SO general that
it is now taken as matter of course.
In fact, it is the slide-trombone hat
really put the toot in substitute
The imitation Bronx cocktail is ac-
copied quite generally now without
complaint. While it is impossible to
use an expensive substitute such as
gasoline III thes cocktail, science has
come to the rescue with certain in
gradients which lend the desired taste,
however much they may Jack author
ity and punch.
In the gentle paths of diplomacy 1t
is customary to get results by follow
ing the ancient laws-a lie for a lie
and a truth for a truth.
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For March % is Israel Warned
Against Compromise" - Joshua
23:l-24:2S.