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GIFTS FOR THE HOME FOLKS.
CHAPTER LXXvII.

Years afterward I knew that it was
my outburst of several days previous
that had caused Everett to ask me if
II were happy and to dance with Ene-
tnat he had been dwelling upon. what
said about having young company,
like the boys and girls at home. And
he had determined to try and give me
q little more pleasure-hineelf. He
feared the effect of young people upon
orlr life together. They might make
me discontented. This really had been
the cause of his refusal to let me go
home or to have home folks visit me.
Had he told me- then, explained
that he would have allowed young
company had he not feared it would
assured him on that point, and per-
haps might have had courage enough
to tell him that had learned to love
him, SO well that no one could take
my affection from him. When he was
Kind and pleasant. and with me, I
asked for nothing more. 1t was when
/ spent long days and evenings alone
that longed Tor coniranionship, and
naturally for those of my own age
So the days passed-occasional
happy ones when Everett was kind
and considerate, others when i felt
terribly lonely>and alone. Thomas and
James were both about attending to
their duties. The burglar never had
been caught The detective insisted
that my ticket had given him his
chance, SO making me feel that 1 was
in way to blame for the loss of my
sapphires.-
1 had been married just two years
when Everett said:
-'.If you wish 1 will take YOU home
for a visit"
You really will You will go too ?''
/ ~
accustomed to his sudden Kindness IS.
He had many times absolutely refused
me permission to visit my, home, al
ways saying that he would let me go
after while.
Yes. I would have taken You long
ago had it been for the best. | wished
you to become thoroly <acquai1lt ed
with me, with your duties as a wife,
before You returned to the companions
of your girdhood. 1 did it for your
own sake altho YOU may think it
| strange. You are older now, have
more poise. ct ,cetera. You will per-
haps know better how to nain4ai i
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24

Puds SinlSins came over after skool
today and we was playing submareen
chasers up in the settipgA room, and
all of suddin we started to smell
corn beef and cabbidge, proving we
was going to have it for suppir, .Puds
smelling out loud and saying, o boy
corn beef and cabbidge, 1 wish 1 was
home Smelling it.
wy don't you stay heer for suppir,
III ask mo if you can, sed.
: Wich I did, and ma sed, You'll haff
to ask Nora, she's bin complaining
about having so mutch compinny late
ly, SO If she duzzent mind I'm sure
don't.
Wien 1 went down to the kitchin
to ask her, and she was setting there
pealing potatoes with "a unsatisfied
Impression, and-I smelled the corn
beef and cabbidge out loud about 8
times. saying, G, Nora, that serteny
smells good. you must be "a CRATE cook
to make a thing smell like that.
CESS theres> verse cooks than me,
sed Nora. Meening she thawt she was
pritty good. aud 1 sed, I wouldent be
serprized if you was the best cook n
the city, Nora.
And I smelled couple of more
times, Nora saying, Go way frum
there with your shifting.
If L could cook as good as wat you
can, Nora, Id wunt everybody 1 knew
to eat it so they could say how good
it was, I should think the more pee
pie there was for suppir the better
you would like it. sed.
That jest proves some people is as
dunn as they look. sed Nora.
Meening me, and sed, How about
if Puds stays for suppir, will that be
all rite?
IT will ba all rono II will he inn
possible and Id jest like to see you try
it, sed Nora.
Being wy Puds went home for
suppir.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
DEFYING THE PUBLIC.

Probably nobody expected satisfac-
tory results from the industrial con-
ference called by President Wilson
and therefore there is no room for a
feeling of disappointment. When two
parties to a conference meet and each
is desirous of getting little the bet
ter of the other. a disagreement is in
evitable. That is what has happened
to the industrial conference.
Samuel Gompers and his followers
have gathered up their doll things and
refused to continue the play. The sit
uation remains as it was before the
conference was called.
It is up to the third party. the pub
lie, to take the dispute between en-
ployers an employees in hand and set
tie it by bringing about the enactment
OF compulsory arbitration laws. It
cannot continue indefinitely to submit
to the constant chickering's between
workmen and their employers, with
the attendant disturbances of industry
and deprivation and suffering which
frequently follow strikes.
Probably it is just as we'll that the
issue be fought out now as at any
other time. That it may be known
whether this country is to be ruled by
a majority of the people or by a class.
Unless this question be taken up at
f'once and acted upon decisively we
may find ourselves in time in the po-
! sition of Russia, where 1t is being de-
cided thru the use of guns. 1t seems
hardly possible that this could come
about in country where every man
Fhas vote and majority rules.
1t is certain that this is no time for
any group or faction of American cit
izens to try to run a bluff on the en-
tire body. When both might and
right are combined they form ? pow
er that is irresistible. The public has
the might and it will discover and
adopt the right. Those who attempt
to move counter to it's viii are certain
to be defeated.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

Q. What are the three tallest buildings
in the world?-P. C. k
A. They are the Woolworth and Singer
buildings in New York. and Eifel Tower
in Paris.
Q. How did the Mason and Dixon Line,
which divides the North and the South, get
its name w. T.
A. This boundary line was surveyed by
two English surveyors, named Mason and
Dixon, hence the name of the dividing line.
Q. What forms of exercise are most ben
encial? ?-F', S.
A The United States public health ser
vice says that authorities agree that out
of door games. such tennis golf and
others which bring many muscles into play
and which furnish recreation and relaxa-
ton from customary tasks, are most bene-
fetal.
Q. Were any members of President Will
sons cabinet born outside of the United
A Yes Franklin K. Lane, secretary of
interior, was born in Canada ants W. i.
Wilson.. secretary of labor, was born in
"a. What state east of the Mississippi
has the greatest area Pc. s.
A. Georgia, with an area of J9,475 square
miles, is the largest state east of the
Q. Should a war tax be charged on
matted milk served at n soda fountain p
A. Matted milk when served at soda
fountain comes under the same ciassifiea-
so served and therefore is subject to an
excise tax.
@. When is the blood pressure of a
healthy body iowest?-E. u.
A Blood pressure Tnries in different in
dividuals and in the same individuals at
different times. 1t undergOes spontaneous
diurnal fluctuations, being lowest during
sleep. 1t IL Influenced by posture. by the
external changes OF temperature and atti-
tude, aud by the process. of digestion.
Q. Stuce the two wheels of railroad
car are so built as to form one solid p;ece,
must not one of them slip in going around
a curve?- ?-L. A b.
A The Bureau of Standards says that
since one travels further than the other
there must ordinarily be a slip. 1t may
happen. however. that the outside wheel
runs high up on. Its tread while the inside
wheel runs low, and that this increases the
relative diameter of the outside wheel ami
compensates 1t for the greater distance 1t
must travel.
(Any reader-can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, Director. Washington. d. c. This
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Bureau cannot give advice legal, medi-
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jest. Write your question plainly and
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THE GOLF BUG.

THE GOLF BUG.
1 spoke about the weather but he answered
not word.
He looked across the distance like a man
who Ladn't heard.
I thought the League of Nations was a
topic he'a discuss
But he wasn't interested In our latest
verbal fuss.
He was cold and strange and silent till
l mentioned golf and loi
His eyes began to twinkle and his words
began to flow,
He talked about his struggles with the
Royal. Ancient game:
He told of pros he'd been TO and he called
them all by name;
He talked Of shots he'd mastered and Of
holes he'd made in two:
He praised the yardon pivot and the Var
don follow thru
He held me IN a corner while he rayed
about his play,
He was on his favorite topic and 1 couIdn't
get away.
He ta1ked Of drives and brassies and of
irons from the rough.
OF his troubles with the putter he could
hardly say Enough.
He told of holes he'd taken by some shrewd
and clever stroke
His speech came fast and furious thought
the man --ould choke
Then ! opened wide the wiBdo~ and !
shouted: Get a cop,
I've got this golf bug started and I cannot
make him Stopr'
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A. Guest
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
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SANDjRA THE JEALOUS
By JANE PHELPS

your dignity as wife even when
yous. young friends call me grandpa
and other names because l am older
than you."
They really didn't mean anything.
Everett" 1 apologized. my face flush
ing. 1 had forgotten that he had
heard them call him grandpa; nor had
the slightest idea that my-younger
brother had told him.
AZ know they didn't. and care Moth
ing about it, save that now you are
more capable of holding your own
with them. 1 shall take you, leave
you for a couple of weeks, then come
for you. have business near there"
he explained.
1 was delighted to- go home. Retty
helped me pack. and 1 insisted that
she put in all my pretty clothes. aItho
she declared 1 wouldn't have time to
wear them if were to remain away
only two weeks.
L didn't say to- Hetty, but 1 thought
that if 1 couldn't wear them, 1 could
show them to the girls. Mother. too,
would be glad to see what a handsome
wardrobe L had.
The day before we were to start,
Everett gave me a $50 bill.
Get some little trifles for your peo-
p II thanked him, really very much
pleased at his thoughtfulness. took
the car, called 1or Alice SlOane anu
spent happy afternoon shopping
bought material for a dress for
mother. a soft challIe for afternoons
set of boys books for my brothers
and a dressing jacket for f>dad.
showed them all to Everett before
packed them, and he said L had used
very good judgment in my selection.
Here's box of sweets to add to
your gifts" he said, handing me q
five-pound box of candy. ''Youl
mother, as 1 remember. Gvas fond ot
sweets, and the boys surely will moi
dislike them"
L scarcely knew how to act when
Everett was like this. But / thanked
him profusely, then packed them. af,
ter which 1 went back down stairs
only to find he had gone out without
Mr. Graham was called out. Ht
told me to say that you need not 81
up for him." James informed me wher
I asked where he was.
Hes probably gone to say goodb!
to Irma Rarton," 1 said to myself. al
my good feeling because of his kind
ness gone:
Tomorrow-EXsrett takes Sandra
home for visit.)
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24

Repeal of the daylight saving law
promises to get the country into a
pretty mess. Cincinnati has adopted
an ordinance under which the clock
time of that community will be set
forward one hour. not merely during
the summer but the whole year round.
This action is said to have been IA
vored by every civic organization of
importance and by business men and
citizens generally. Even the president
OF the electric lighting company ad-
vocated It, because while his company
would lose money by it. he realized
that. it would be a good thing for the
public at large. New York and Detroit
will continue to operate under the old
law. It would have been better never
to have had a daylight saving law
than that the whole country should be
set at skies and seveDs by a go-as-you
please plan of regulating the clocks.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Good cake Reclnes

DEVILS Food Loaf Cake = Two
squares or two tablespoons powdered
sweet chocolate. Put in a cup; fill
with boiling water. let stand until rest
of cake is together and add sour milk
Sift one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon
baking powder, one teaspoon cinna-
mon and two and one-half cups Of
flour, add one teaspoon vanilla. Makes
a. large cake.
Chocolate Gingerbread - One-third
cup shortening, one-half cup sugar.
one-hah cup molasses, two ounces
melted chocolate. one cup sour milk,
two cups flour. one-half teaspoon salt.
one tablespoon ginger. one teaspoon
ground cloves. one teaspoon soda, one
teaspoon baking powder.
Cream the shotening. beat in the
sugar. molasses, chocolate and milk;
add the other ingredients sifted to-
gether. Bake in shallow creased pan.
Delicious Cookies-Four eggs, two
cups sugar, one cup shortening, two
tablespoons baking powder Clevei).
flour enough to roll smooth. Flavor
to taste. sprinkle with sugar and bake
in moderate oven.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
lSSlsSSlsSSSESlSSS SSSlSSSlslslSaSlRSES

where Squara1y to the earth must
our feet tread. VI We have to detour.
let'E do it, but let us not fail to keep
the main path in mind and get to it
as often as we can-that our great
goal maybe reached.
It takes more courage to Compro-
mise than not to-for by an arbitrary
attitude we may lose all.
Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt.
Lloyd George, Wilson-great Com
promisersi But each constructed of
the stuff that has made nations great.
and character thing OF worth in the
world
Events move over the groupdwork
of honest Compromise!
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24

The price Of live hogs continues to
drop. An interested public would
like to know how much farther the
decline must go before the retail price
OF pork will be affected. At the pres
ent rate of progress, by the time a re-
duction reaches the restaurants it is
possible that the hog market will
have climbed back to $40 or there
abouts. In the meantime who is get
ting the difference between hogs at
s1s and hogs at $2S? The pork which
is being sold. at retail on a $2s basis
is not . the kind that is cured and
packed. but that which must be con
sumed promptly or held in cold stor-
age.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
COMPROMISE.

No one ever gets all he sets out to
get There is no perfect success All
life is wrapped with a net of Com
promise.
Compromise.
It's because. not one of US thin
exactly alike. We have to measure
out our ideas with those of the other
feliow-and fit them both together IN
the best way we know-and then be
as happy as we can over the result. 3
The main thing is to Compromise
fairly.
It ye didn't expect to get farther
than we do, we would not get any
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24

Recently public sentiment has
been running strongly against labor
unions, because a few of the more
powerful organizations have threat
ened to tie up the Industries of the
country, with resultant injury to all in
dustry and suffering to members of
other unions. All combinations of la
Dor are injured by the acts of bad la
Dor unions just as all combinations of
capital are injured by the acts of bad
corporation managers. All big bust
ness is not bad business; neither are
oil labor unions bad unions. But in
the present state of the public mind,
when the farmer the shipper, the
consumer, the builder. and pretty
nearly everybody has a grievance
against some kind of labor union,
accept the theory that ali organized
labor is bad. Such a conclusion is as
erroneous as the widespread feeling a
few years back that all corporations
were evil. The public must learn to
distinguish between the good and the
evil. adherinR strictly to government
by law. founded upon the principle. of
equality for all and special privileges
for none. Union organizations that
were formed for the purposes of col
Iective bargaining in the attainment
of entirely proper ends by proper
means. should not be made to suffer
on account Of the actions of the steel
workers and the coal miners
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24

There appears to be disposition to
wait for President Wilson to unravel
the tangle into which many of the
country's big Industries have become
involved. What. is the matter with
congress? 1t is becoming imperatively
necessary for our public servants to
forget politics for a while and devote
their attention to remedying some of
the ills from which the country is suf-
fering
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24

A. Mitchell Palmer's alleged candi-
dacy for the presidency probably is
camouflage. designed to conceal the
movements of one William Gibbs Nc
Adoo. President Wilson will not be
candidate himself but he will hardly
be willing to have the office pass out
of the family
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24

Beware of the man who seeks to
let you in on a good thing. Always
there are wise men standing around
with surplus cash ready to grab every
highly profitable investment that
comes along long before It has time to
reach the man inexperienced in finan-
cial matters.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24

Germans still are shooting Ameri-
cans according to reports from Riga.
Shall we be compelled to fight the war
all over again? OF course we stand
for that sort of thing in Mexico, but in
Europe it may be different.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-24
Walking thc Wnyce,

The Lesson Story followed the feed
ing of the, five thousand, and the at
tempt of the multitude to make Jesus
king by force. The narrative itself is
better reading than any comment, es-
pecially in the Weymouth version:
But towards daybreak He went to
them, walking over the waves When
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High Rentals Extending to Business Offices

"A downtown broker speaking about
to hosew
dwellings,
the He said
lie maintained
much The matter
High bad nd
standard of living which
add
number
done the of building
been large increase in population.
i toht he
building
of
from
'her hands I" show Il %
he of and
themt the
have boosted before
level had he lower
it $
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GOSSIP OF THE STREET
CONDITIONS CANNOT
OBTAIN in THE u. S.. SAY BANKERS
'nanc'er Believe American Workngman Will Be Power to
Prevent It-Await Effect of Conditions in Europe;
Gossip of the Street

'f unsettled
'he anor situation
'SS"h among financial
'' "+fhaIN opposite
question There those
WI" never obtain that
hienah Will himself he to opreven
lhere others is the in the
HHeS as be only
'"hG the conclusion
argue VIII he impossible
of ciNit2atlon,' put it.
mere Is also wide divergence policy
'he of Labor of
' prices OF commodities
us IN the of the
wa" hdoised by labor Of
oer industries Conferences
yesterday ana
which
as the steel conferences o last week
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Speedy Response to Reduction in Steel Not Expected

1t is evident that financial
in fixed
prices i steel products unmrdful
Some fntncicrs anayZng
with the
What of
he considered right
Grafton the
months
Taking the United States
standard for all the other of
last week in Washington,
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LIVESTOCK QUOTATIONS

ooo chicago. n,saFo. March q. -HoGs-Rcceipts,. q. :
$lo 25M ~ 80; heavy 6uich"rs' ,ip SOm
sSi%.,rS. s 81 fi" 'g@ 2 a i sEt ~ 80,
Ing ;g%f. ,2yri. sI750a IS IS: gss. SD 5OG i -
steers and best "sho" stock. 2ac higher
Other butcher cattle and feeders, steady to
rS%s n1So E@ on and c@EGs ora s HSIT so a. GTS
IiIm and Eood, tllMls 10; common. 81 II
& ~ Ignt beef steers, good and choice,
roIs G|IG"s: g. cniI%s SGltsr' 81
close but 25c to i0c below Tuesday. sheep
TrnttsburEh, March 27;-HoGs--Roceip's.
sSStt GSS S95I;;: ygs d S =: ,sn,
S h"af nd. Y9Tk:, g; slow, Ton sheep SIS 7o top
%XivE!S5-Recctpts. 100 head, usrIs,
steady, TOP. Si75g.
,IS K"T.s% T.ns c'E sr., Msrcn Receipts;
r"9Hl toy; $ia % rigs SOC lover Bulk or
madnm wcigb,s So fs Is E g. sbis @?m ~ a. - =
&SrT IS T@I%3i. s y Yfsa !sa
receipts $50 head Beef cattlo stoaiy 10
Other G% fat c@ssSs +ssSsr s'.sd% csnners
lower. Heavy beef steers, sI8 % d 10: lIght
helfers. SO S3T Is; canners and cuttors $50
a Il. -. veal GO Ives. slO.TjM1i. stockers and
feeders. s.. asa 1875
SHEEP -- Receipts 5000 head Marie,
slow. Fat lambs &c lower. host GRADE.
held: no sheer hers. ~ lambs LAMBS. Si
better S17.1oa ei5 culs and common.
sl4al7: ewes ,mS!iGq1m ~ e .o choice Sl2@ IA
Fast Buffalo, y. y, March "T.--CATTI.E
Receipts. 400 head. Handy. strong othors
tteady. calves. receipts. $50 head. Steady;
fin1S
HGGs-Roceirts. 1900 head steady TO
yorkaTs, T% $40 = a 10 s. IiEb' SorEers, ,Is@
1s.45: pigs. Sl7.7j lS; roughs. SIG, 80 HiT;
sHEEP ANp LAMBs-Receipts. 5000
head. Lambs dull. sheep active. Prices
unchanged
st. Louis. March 81 HOGS Receipts
10. G5: ptso, &c. $147SaIs. buichers SiH. 400
10 Is: heavy. $40 7Nm 10 So
CATTLE Receipts; 200 head St:ady
a 10; cows $40. hod 10 so; stoc>ers and feed
ors $40 n. 50, calves. S7.75@lS.
SlIEEP Receipts, 800 head. Steady
Lambs $40 - n 20: ewes sl2Ql3
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FLETCHER POUNDS FOOD FUND
Harvard Gets Bulk of Eat Slow
ly" Advocate Sl.OOO.O00O Estate

Horace Fletcher more famous as the
life long advocate of eating slowly"
than as a millionaire. has left the resi-
due of 100000 estate to Harvard
University to foster knowledge Of
healthfu nutrition.'
Mr.. Fletcher, who died in Copen-
hagen. Denmark, January II last. tre-
quently lectured in this city. IN MS
will he declares that he continued his
residence in Denmark through force Of
circumstances and alwaya considered
himself resident of New York. The
will was offered for probate in New
York city.
Mrs. Fletcher the widow. receives an
annuity of $4,000 and the testators
personal property at Venice: Italy.
Other beouests are made to individuals
and charities Harvard. which receives
what is left after these beauests,, are
provided for. is to offer periodically
Horace Fletcher Prize" for the best
thesis on the subject of Special uses Of
the mouth in regulating physiological
economy In nutrition
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New Stock Listinps

change has admitted to the list: Pitfs-
burgh, Fort Wayne and. Chicago Rail
way Company, .S1o,714,3o0 preferred
capital stock and $52,436.30 Common
anCe in exchange for outstanding orjR-
inal stock and guaranteed special stock !.
commonwealth Bank, 100000 capitai
stock. Wilson & Co. Inc. s5Os6 .Nad
first mortgage per cent twenty-fiye-
year sinking fund bonds. series K due
l94ls; with authority to add SO 600. 600
on offiClsl notice. that they have been
sold and passed beyond the controI of
the company.