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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-08
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the lock tight and they were unable
to open the door. They could hear
the whistle of the train< They must
take it.
May called to man in uniform
who was hurrying down the street
He looked at them and laughed.
Then went to their assistance.
Jean recognized him as Billy Yves
| terson of the night before. Mrs.
Stevens explained their predicament.
The young man could not unfasten the
lock. so he kicked it in with his foot.
Each woman grabbed a bag and
ran for the train; the young knight
helping first one and then another,
but helping Jean the most He
asked her: Didn't l see you at the
hop last night"
Gaspingly she answered: "Yes. I
saw you. too
By this time they were half block
from the station and could see the
conductor with his hand on the bell
rope ready to pull 1t.
Billy gave a shrill whistle. The
man hesitated and saw the frantic
| and exhausted women running, their
faces contorted with merrinient. Even
Billy was painting.
Thanks they mumbled to the
conductor.
The women climbed on and stood
| immovable on the platform while the
| porter threw the bags on their feet
Billy jumped after them.
Frantic shouts arrested their atten-
ton. They saw their driver running
after the train.
Pay you tomorrow" shrieked
Billy.
| The darky's face broke into a salts
| fled grin.
II must extricate you, again" Billy
removed the luggage from six tired
| feet and found seats for their own
| ers.
| Permit me to Introduce myself"
he smiled and handed his card to Mrs.
Stevens. She read: Midshipman Will
| liam Westerman. Naval Academy, An
napolis, Maryland.
| Mrs. Stevens presented him to May
and Jean.
oh" said May, then you know
Roy Bloomer. / have heard all about
you
| They laughed and chatted on the
| way to Washington. Billy learned
that they were all going again for the
| hop in February.
May L claim my dances now?" he
asked, Il won't trespass too much on
Roy's preserves said he. as he took
/ three dances from May; the same
from Mrs. Stevens-snd while the others
| were looking at the scenery he claim
| ed eight from jean.
| Copyright, 1919. bt the Mcclure News
| pepper. Syndicnte.1
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Litt1QDQflt1YSs
NotQasDooK

was doing my homework last mite
and pop was reeding the spoarting
page, and the telefone rang and it was
my cuzzin Artie TO tawk to me, say
ing, Hello. Benny, watts you doing?
My homework, watts you? L sed.
Nuthing. sed Artie. and 1 sed, Yes
you are, too. you're telefoning to me.
That amt enything. you poor peenut,
sed Artie.
o it amt. amt II. wy amt it. you big
lemmin, I sed feeling insulted.
Because it amt, and il I'm a lem<
min you're a onion. -Artie.
o. is that SO. you old sguashed to-
mato. I sed
And 1 quick hung up before he had
time to call me enything verse. and
pop 'sed. Was that Artie you were
tawkinS to?
Yes sir. I sed. and pop sed, Well
that's a sweet way to tawk to your
cuzzin. must say, I'm serprized at
you.
Well gosh pop. you would of bin jest
as serprized at him if you could of
herd him. I sed-
rongs don't make rite. sed pop.
now Suppose you jest call him rite up
agen and ipologize.
Aw G. gosh pop, sed. Meaning
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A STORM AND a BURGLAR
CHAPTER LXII.

We left the chauffeur at the hos
pital after l had assured myself he
would receive every necessary atten-
ton. / felt rather important as told
who I was. and ordered them to take
every care of Thomas.
He is a very good chauffeur" l
explained to Walter Kemp as he in
troduced himself. II should hate %
have anything happen to him, espe-
cially while Mr.. Graham is away"
Really capable chauffeurs are hard
to find. He was no more to blame
than was l for cur mishap. Had we
done more~than each Craze the others
car, the results might have been very
much more serious. ! am very thank
full it was no worse. May l call, Mrs.
Graham, and inquire if you feel any
bad effects from the accident"
Certainly. but I anticipate none.
I replied, for the moment forgetting
Everett, his warning to remain quietly
at home. to receive no one In his alb
sence. etc. ~
Thank you, I will avail myself OF
your permission tomorrow or the day
after" Then he left US to explain our
dusty appearance to Mrs. Gray, who
had returned. and to ten OF the chauf-
feur's injuries.
Mrs. Gray was frightened. and
plainly showed it.
II don't know what I should have
, zone Hau any LHlHS ndppSHeQ TO YOU
Mrs. Graham, while your husband was
away"
You couldn't help what I did"
"I know-but-well- Graham
is a peculiar man in some ways. and
he might--well, I au glad it was nc
worse" she finished with noticeable
| embarrassment. 81 must go and see
Thomas after u bit
do, Mrs. Gray He VIII be quite
ready to receive you in an hour OIL
| two. He isn't as badly hurt az Mr.
Kemp feared at first"
1T is too bad you missed your train
and then had an accident. 1t seems
an unlucky day for you. If was il
your place I would lie down and rest
while. One feels such a shaking VI
| more than they imagine they viii
sometimes"
I took her advice. and slept for over
an hour. Then 1 bathed and dressed
none the worse for my accident save
a little stiffness that Hetty assured ms
would soon wear off.
But I had not finished with incl
dents for the day.
Mrs. Gray visited Thomas at the
| hospital. and reported he was not al
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borrowed. I am not informed as to
what the coal dealer reaped.
The important thing is that vision,
logged faith, loyalty. day
out work always count-and bring
reward.
A very important point to bear in
mind, in this connection, is that q sur
prisineiy small per cent of the wealthy
men of America inherited their
! wealth. Most of them were poor boys.
Schwab, Carnegie. Rockefeller, Wanna
maker. Field. Armour. Swift, Edison.
Ford, Westinghouse, Pullman, Palmer
these are a few of the names of
men who were poor boys but a few
decades ago.
Opportunity is always around-and
always will be.
The only road to fame and fortune
is the one Travelled by every successful
man during the past-the road of
:deas and WORK
The present mayor of Detroit came
over to the United States as a poor
boy. and his greatest contribution TO
posterfty Is what he did with his
chance. -.
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UNCLE SAM AS GROCER.

There are certain Topekans who
have evidently lost confidence in I'm
Gle Sam as a grocer. Not only did he
accept their money two months ago
and then neglect to ship the goods Or
dered, but he has now made a big re-
duction in the prices of foodstuffs
which two months ago he declared he
was selling at cost.
The prices of the groceries offered
for sale from the government retail
stores are from so to rs per cent low
er than those quoted when the army
surplus food sale was first set in mo-
ton. But the worst OF it is that he
refuses to refund the money for goods
already ordered so that the unfortu-
nate public may take advantage of
the latest offer with the same cash,
Criticism of prices. however. should
not be freely INDUCED in. The first
lot of commodities were cheap. Those
named In the State Journal Monday
will worry Mr.. Average Man about or
derins is the doubt as to whether they
will be shipped in time to do him any
good here on earth.
In the light of past lessons 1t would
seem that the only sure way for To-
pekans actually to get a share of the
government food at the living prices
quoted Is for either the city or the
county authorities to have several car
loads shipped here for distribution.
That this is permissible is certainly in
dicated by the following extract re-
ceived by the State Journal from the
zone supply officer at st. Louis:
District or municipal authorities
who desire to purchase a consolidated
list of supplies for general distribution
| in their own city are authorized to
purchase at retail prices, but it is alb
solutely necessary that they furnish
satisfactory assurance that goods pur-
, chased are TO be distributed direct to
the ultimate Consumer and are not be-
ing acquired for dealers or for specu-
lation."
Mayor H J. Corwine expresses the
belief that this refers only to house
hold Notwithstanding artillery
easion the city commissioners refused
TO take any action for fear they might
come out holding the sack
Since Topekans can expect no assist
ance from this source, their only hope
lies in the county commissioners.
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All bids for the government-owned
town of Nitro, w. Va, with its thou
sands of homes, its public buildings,
its chemical and other plants equipped
with machinery. its provisions for
amenities, and all else that makes for
a thriving community save the inhab-
itants, have been rejected. Three bids
were offered when the $4,000, 900
place was put up at auction after hav-
ing been advertised turnout the coun-
try. One bid was $500, coo. another
ls4,SI2. 900 and a third $2,5Os,72o. The
plants in this own-in-the-r making
were -intended for the manufacture of
high explosives, but it is clearly stated
that-they can be easily altered to 9TH
er commercial uses. especially indus
tries closely related to chemical manu-
facture. The chance to buy good
town cheap docs not appear TO appeal
strongly to investors.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS


For the cake: Sift together one cup
flour, one and one-half teaspoons bak-
ing powder and pinch of salt Beat
two eggs and the two leftover yolks
and add them. Add one cup gFanu-
lated sugar. stirring in last about one
half teaspoon vanilla flavoring.
Have a long, narrow tin pan lined
with paraffin paper. Turn batter into
this. shaking the pan to get it an even
depth all over. Bake slowly. When
done, turn out on a piece of cheese
cloth well busted with powdered
sugar; quickly beat the fruit filling
and spread. then roll up by lifting the
cloth and turning the cake. This must
be done quickly while the cake is hot.
When rolled hang up in cloth till
cold. Slice and serve with plain
cream.
Emince of Beef on Toast-Prepare
one cup of cream sauce and add one
Hell-beaten egg, one tablespoon of
butter, one teaspoon of salt. one-half
teaspoon of pepper, ore-quarter tea
spoon of mustard. Mix and then heat
until very hot
(Note-Use one-half cup of brown
gravy and one-haif cup of milk for
making the sauce.)
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NOT A FAIRY TALE.

Less than twenty-five years ago. a
boy came out of Canada and secured
a job with a coal dealer in Detroit,
Mich. He worked Loyalty and his en-
ployer liked him.
About this time, a man by the name
of Henry Ford, started to make
small automobile. Folks laughed at
the little concern and Its product. But
the coal dealer believed in Ford and
his ideas. So he invested a few thou
sand dollars and sent the young man
from Canada over to look after his
investment.
The young man who took that Job
was James Couzens, now mayor of
Detroit.
The other day Mr.. Couzens received
a check for approximately S2s. 5oo.-
600 for his entire interest in the Ford
concern, where many years before he
gone as a book-keeper. His original
investment consisted of but a few
thousand dollaFs-most of which was
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THE PATIENT PUBLIC.

In this country all great questions
always have been settled finally by the
ajority of the people and the wide
! spread conflict between the laboring
class and the employing class ulti-
mately will be adjusted in the GUS
tomary way. The masses of the peo-
I pie are slow to act and not easily
aroused. They are patient and will
+ ing to wait a long time for affairs to
adjust themselves. No one minority
element or faction can run this coun-
/ try. No organization of labor or of
! capital can become greater or more
powerful than the government, which.
after all, is the people.
I Recently three significant setbacks
! have occurred to radicals in the labor
movement; one in the Boston police
strike, second in the Pittsburgh steel
district, and a third on Britain's rail-
road system. All three cases were
doomed to failure because public opin-
ion was aroused against such reckless
defiance of public welfare and the
authorities have been widely support
ed in their efforts to maintain public
| freedom. In recent social movements
there has been no more sinister devel-
| opment than the attempts of the or
ganized few to impose their will upon
the public regardless of the latter's in
terests. In reality the public is weary
of the abuses of certain monopolistic
| labor leaders, who free of all respon-
| sibility. exercise their great power
I :,
servatives recognize that while differ
ences between capital and labor are
| bound to exist, each has much in
common,-and that in the long run CO.
operation between both parties is more
advanta geous to labor than implacable
opposition and wasteful conflict. The
labor problem is by no means adjust
ed. and considerable unsettlement may
| be expected for some time to come:
but the questions involved will never
be satisfactorily settled by force In
the new era. already entered, both
sides must be taught to depend upon
reason instead of rhetoric and to fol-
low just dealing in place of blunt self
ishness.
One of the significant features of
the situation may be found in the fact
that a split in the ranks of labor has
appeared, as is evidenced in the steel
strike, where the conservative element
has refused to follow the lead of the
radicals of the Foster type. If the
government will maintain order the
| level headed, thinking labor pnionists
and the public will do the rest.
The situation Is well summed up by
Henry Clews in his Financial Review,
when he says the public "is not op-
posed to unionism, but it believes that
the government was not made for
some people some of the time. but for
all the people all of the time. and it
is consequently opposed to the COM
munity's being placed at the mercy of
a small but utterly selfish minority
which entirely ignores the rights OF
| others"
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mites arise Take off all war letters
and hobbies and prices will come back
as near normal as the law of supply
and demand will justify. Congress
and other law-making bodies now have
the regulation" mania, but even the
government at Washington cannot
prevent the corner grocer from de-
handing a profit of from 100 to 500
If the grocer own the onions. Neither
can it prevent another merchant from
starting another grocery on the oppo-
site corner.
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SANDRA THE JEALOUS
BY JANE PHELPS

badly injured as the doctors first had
feared. but that it would be at least a
month before he would be arourd
again. ] knew Everett would be ter
ribly sorry for him, and also very
much annoyed. He thought him the
best chauffeur he ever had, and now
he would have to get another man. for
a time at least.
He'll have something else to find
fault with me about" l said to my
self. He'll probably blame me for
taking the car out when he was away"
This was unjust of me. tho. as he ncS er
had objected to my driving.
l had an early dinner. and finding
was still lame and rather shaken.
I yielded to Mrs. Gray's advice and
went almost immediat Ply to he'd.
1 had been aslee2 but little while
when 1 was awakened by terrible
peal of thunder-the house seemed to
rock. so severe was the noise and
trembling. I sat partly up in bed as
| the house again resounded with such
| crash as / have seldom heard.
! But 1t was not only the thunder
that frightened me. or the vivid
| flashes of lightning that played back
and forth across the room like great
/ fingers blazing at the tips. In that
| first horrible crash. followed by a
fash that had made my room light
almost as day. I had seen crouched
partly concealed by the window dra-
peries. the figure of a man.
] was, and am. naturally timid
! Hetty and Mrs. Gray both slept on
/ the next floor while the butler was in
a room at the back of the house.
tried to call Hetty. but altho my lips
moved 1 knew 1 made no sound.
+. had fallen back on the pillows before
the lightning revealed the fact that
had a visitor, so I 'Snew he had not
! seen that l was awake. l remembered
| having heard that it was safer in case
a house was being burgiarized to pre-
! tend to be asleep-that then they
might take your. valus bles.- but would
not be tempted to take your life to
save themselves.
So l closed my eyes. altho it was
| the hardest thing l ever had done.
! lay perfectly still, and tried to breathe
naturally. Then came another pea
| of thunder and lightning more Vivid
than the flash which had revealed the
burglar. Without knowing what did
] gave one awful scpean and then GOV.
cred my head with the bed Clothes
'Hetty! Hetty. Come quick."
| had called
(Tomorrow-The burglar escapes.)
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ALL THAT LIFE CAN GIVE.
When the gentle mothers singing, and the
children are Mt play,
And the home seems filled with laughter
at the ending Of the day.
l can settle down coDtented and discover
there and then
That I'm owning all the giadness that life
has to give to men.
When the little ones are healthy and the
mother SMILE
/ don't need to sigh for riches for I've
everything worth while:
When the nights are calm and peaceful and
the daily tasks are DER
find that I'm possessing all that men are
striving for.
when I'm free from all abstraction and my
thoughts are running clear.
When the souDd Of happy children is the
music that i hear
Thru the sham Of earthly glory and ia
golden lure ! see.
Tho I've neither fame nor fortune all their
Joys belong to me.
He that finds his loved ones happy when
his .iaily tasks are thru.
And has brought them to cOuteutuent has
Gone all that E1sn do.
For the fiIrpose ~ ff y@-.'>rle when the
clash and cIamor cease.
Be the toiier great or hmm lie Is a home
that's rich with peare.
Copyright 1919 By Edgar A. Guests
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QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

Q: What has become of General Perish
<. Al the present time. General Pershing
and his staff are located In the old Land
Office building. in Washington. going over
the records of the war and preparing his
report. He has taken n country place near
the national capital. and his plaps after he
completes his report are indefinite.
it NAV M iesrn t PaFrEs tongue re spit that
A. The Biological Survey says that this
is unnecessary. The bird may begin TO
learn TO talk when three or four months
old.
O Does the food control act provide
penalty against profiteeringy IL not, IN
der what Law does the government intend
+. J.
control act does not impose penalty. for
profiteering. Tho department is about To
the packers under the Sherman Antitrust
act.
Rome. where the early Christians met, CON
tain any record of Ben Hur!-A- H. IL.
A., Cut into the walls of these cataeomhs
ere many matters Of historical value but
the name of Ben Hur does not appear. The
name was undoubtedly fictitious. Attic
many of the situations In Lew Wallacc's
novel are based on historical fact, the book
is none the less fiction.
q. Where did coffee drinking orlgi-
A. The first record of coffee drinking
is Uhnt of it's Introduction into Persia from
Abyssinia. 1t was carried thence to Europe
by way Of Alden by a Mohanimedan priest
in the fifteenth century
Q. What is the best time of the year
to plant bulbs III. G.
A. 1t is best to plant narclssus. hya-
cinth. tulip and such bulbs before freezing
weather the fall They should be plant
ed from four 10 six inches below the sur
face When the cold weather comes the
beds should be covered over with leaves or
straw which should be removed in the
spring.
Q. What is the origin Of the term pass
ing the buck f"-S. J.
a This is a poker term. In playing
straight poker it is sometimes thought adj
visabIe to Introduce an occasional hand Of
jackposs. The buck is passed TO the man
who wins the first jackpot aRd when the
deal reaches him another jackpot Is ticalt.
The buck is passed to the winner again and
the process goes on.
o.. When was the white House built?-
A. The White House was built when
Washington was carved out Of the wilder
ness and made the capital instead Of Phil
adelphfa. 1t was burned in 1914 by thu
British. but the stone remained standing.
1T was rebuilt ana is now more than
hundred years old. 1t is painted once.
FAny reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin. Director. Washington. u. G. This
offer applies strictly TO information The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical
to settle domestic troubles. ror to under
take exhaustive research any subject.
Write your question plainly and briefly.
Give full name and address and enclosp
two cent stamp for return postage. All re-
plies are sent direct to the inquirer)
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The rights and interests of the pub
lie in controversies between capital
and labor at last have been officially
recognized. The great third party is
represented in the conference which
opened in Washington on Monday.
Both of the other parties may learn
something to their advantage.
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Just so soon as the federal govern
ment stops price fixing and permits
products to have a free market. says
the Colorado Manufacturer. COMPETE
ton will bring everything to a level.
According to history profiteering is a
pestilence that has followed every
world upheaval. and it will no doubt
continue to do SO whenever opportu-
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The decline in the prices of live hogs
is being charged to arbitrary control
of the market by the packers. 1t does
not seem to occur to those making the
charge that the decline may be due TO
the fact that this is the beginning of
the favorite season for marketing hogs
andF the receipts may be unusually
heavy
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70 reduce production and increase the
cost of living. But these are the
things which many persons appear to
be working for. not seeming to realise
that they can gain nothing by such a
cO11rse
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Anxious days of uncertainty re-
garding the safety of some of the par
Elephants in the recent balloon race
saE .est the ACCESSIBILITY of providing
those who take part in future contests
of this kind with wireless apparatus.
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dident wunt to, and pop sed. You
herd wat I sed. Mcening 1 had to
anyway. and : called up Arties num-
Der, saying, Hello, Artie. is this you? ?
Yes. sed Artie. and Il sed, Well this
is me asen. 1 ipologize for calling you
n old squashed tomato, you big hunk
Of mush.
And 1 quick hung up agen, and pop
sed, Good mite. watts the use?
Meening there wasent eny.