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The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30

the universe, or else we have no Coo
at all worthy of consideration.
racing Grave Issues.
Cynics are turned into sweeteners
of life by a simple confidence that
God is still reigning. Many thrones
have toppled within the past five
years, but the throne OF God con-
tinues to stand in supreme sovereign
ty. In an hour like the present, con-
fronting grave political and social is
sues, the men and women who know
God, and have proved him. are to be
a yeast influence, leavening the entire
lump of life. Faiths function here
now is to steady the trust of mankind
in the living God. This is no hour to
discuss special doctrines or creeds or
organizations; a simple, elemental,
unshakable belief in the goodness or
God is the first essential. Things
seem to be all wrong; but faith is a
conviction of things not seen.
New our troubled times certainly
are. Still they are of piece with the
old. old human experience of battling
misfortune and trials. What ails the
world today is not greatly different
from what allied Abraham and Job and
David and Paul. They came thru by
faith in God.
Our lesson has two supreme exhor-
tations: first, that we Snould run our
race, as did the heroes of old. with
patience, or steadfastness. This is no
day for getting Hurried and excited
and discouraged. 1t is when we go
into the deep chambers of the Great
Pyramid that we are given a candle:
and the light of faith is for just such
dark times as these. We have no need
for a light when the sun is shining
fair-weather faith is not faith, but
! sight. A person really possesses only
| so much trust in God as he can eXer-
else in perplexitjes like the present
Second of the 'summonses of the in
spired writer is that faith comes by
keeping ones eyes upon Jesus the
Author and Perfector of faith. Here
Is the necessary dynamic. Power to
persist and to prevail proceeds from
| a Personality. We get a working faith
in God according to the degree in
which we know Jesus Christ, who
| alone holds the key to our time of
| testing.
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that arrangements be made for per-
manent American cemeteries in
France.
The establishment of one large
American cemetery in France, similar
to Arlington cemetery, near Washing
ton, is being advocated by men and
women in all parts of the country.
One writer has the following to say
on this subject:
In years to come thousands will
visit the cemeteries in France where
are buried those brave men who died
that the world might be free. These
cemeteries will be forever the fitting
memorial of those who gave their
lives in a noble cause; they will be a
perpetual reminder to the whole
world that the free nations stood
shoulder to shoulder in the defense
of human liberty. Is it right that
only our beloved country should be
unrepresented in this honor roll?
THE British cemeteries are already
among the most beautiful spots in
France and there is no thought ever
to disturb the British dead. Neither
is there any plan to take home the
bodies of italians. Portuguese, Rus
slams, Czecho-Slovaks and others who
answered the call with their lives. The
bodies of these men will lie undis-
turbed in the land they died to save
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30
MY HUSBAND AND |
By JANE PHELPS

When I read her letter to Neil he
looked anything but pleased.
"It's rather a bore having her just
now" he said, but 1 suppose there
is no help for it. If hadn't visited
I her 1 never should have met you, and
she was awfully good to me then. 1
wish she had selected some other
time tho-there are a lot of men in
town that I must spend a good deal
of time with. I am afraid she will
take her around a lot. and ask some
people here to meet her to make up
for my inability to do much to enter
tain her."
I thought of this also while I sat
in my room until dinner should be
announced, and while Neil rested in
the library. I also hated to have her
come. OF course I should take her
out. the theater, etc. But would ask
no one to meet her, save Lorraine and
Mrs. Price, plain sort of a woman
about Mrs. Carter's age. A woman
who had a good social position, but
no money to speak of and who al
ways accepted invitations where she
thought she would have a good meal
Mrs. Carter was coming the next
day but one. L must talk things over
with Neil before she arrived. 1 should
go mad if I had to go on feeling.
thinking as I did for another week
W I"O.
DO you feel rested % asked when
dinner was announced, and he rushed
upstairs to freshen up little. Don't
hurry so, the dinner can wait a mo-
ment."
'I feel lot betteri I must have
dropped off to sleep as soon as you
came up stairs. What have you been
doing sitting here in the dark ?" Until
he spoke of it had not realized that
I had not switched on the lights.
'Thinking-your aunt comes day
after tomorrow. you know"
Eyes. and if Frederick is still in
town We'll invite him up to dinner
while she is here. I want to talk to
him, we can be excused Immediately
dinner is over, yet aunt will feel flat
tered to meet him. He's just the sort
she likes"
"I guess he's the sort everyone
likes. You think a good deal of him
yourself. don't you?"
"In a way. yes. He is inclined to be
an old woman about some things" I
thought I knew to what he referred.
| (Tomorrow-Neil laughs at Barbara's
fears
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THE PROMOTERS WIFE
NEIES AUNT is TO VISIT THEM
RATHER INOPPORTUNELYt &
CHAPTER LXx91I. = q

Was Neirs conscience troubling him
that he was so impatient nowadays? :?
He never used to be so. This oc-
Cured to me when left him in the
library. 1 felt disappointed that he
would not talk to me. Ever since
his western trip he had refused to
really talk of anything with me. Yet
in spite of the disappointment I was
happier because Mr.. Frederick had
been with him. I wondered what he
had said to Neil; If he had told him
of what was gossiped concerning his
business; il he had advised hin-of-
fered to help him get Strengthened
out? Somehow 1 felt sure he could
make everything come right-if only
Neil would let him.
1 gave the bills I had laid upon the
desk only a fleeting thought. 1 had
spent SO much money, run such big
bills without a suspicion of a doubt
that it was the right thing for me to
do, that they seemed of little conse-
quence. What mattered was Neil. If
by being associated with men of
shady character" his business was
ruined, his character assailed, he must
disassociate himself from them. OF
course, regardless of what even Mr..
Frederick had told me, Neil had been
led astray by these men. They were
all older than he, most of them much
older. He was full of enthusiasm,
anxious not only to make money. but
to prove his ability in the business
world. Really even now ! cannot but
think he cared more for that than for
the money. He loved flattery espe-
cially in regard to his cleverness in
outstripping others financially. 1 had
been so proud of him that I had fed
his vanity lavishly ever since 1 mar
ried him. Others had also-until
lately.
I was rather anxious too because
his aunt, Mrs. Carter, who lived next
US at home, had written she was
coming to pay us a visit. 1 knew how
strictly economical she was, how little
she thought or cared for show of any
kind. I wondered If she would be
inquisitive, and If she would either
hear or guess at the reports concern
ing Neil.
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II any Kansas voter had been in
doubt as to where Senator Capper
would stand. and probably there are
many such, he need be dubious no
longer. The junior senator has defi-
nitely allied himself with the Bull
Moose contingent in the senate by his
own word of mouth as well as by his
vote against Penrose. In his own pa
per the senator is quoted as saying:
THE vote was merely one of protest,
as the Progressives knew it would be
impossible to defeat the choice of the
thirty-four Republican senators who
favored Penrose and Warren, and
there has never been an intention on
the part of most of the Progressives
to support Democrats for these chair
manships." Senator Capper has been
elected for a term of six years and
probably feels that he now can afford
to make his position clear.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30
EVENING STORY
Silver Against Gold.
BY r. RAY BAKER.

BY r. RAY BAKER.
The war Wait, this is not
war story. There are no bursting
shells or crawling tanks or trench
dugouts or spies in this tale, which
concerns an event that happened in
little backwoods town in Illinois six
months after the armistice was
signed.
The war is dragged in because it
explains the advantage acquired by
Herbert Drew over Gilbert Post in
the battle for the love of Marguerite
Hobart.
When the truce moved the lever
that changed the current of troops
crossing the Atlantic westward instead
of eastward, Herbert doomed up in his
home town one sunny, bird-chirplng
spring day wearing an overseas cap
on one side of his head and brown
bandages'' on his legs, with gold
cheyron on his sleeve; while Gilbert
put in his appearance on drtzzly,
dreary day short time later with
just a hat and leggings covering re-
spectively his tousled yellow hair and
his neither limbs, and a splash of sill
yer on his arm to denote he had been
in service "over here"
They were drafted in the same con-
tingent, and they went to Camp Grant
together. At that time Gilbert had
the inside track with Marguerite, and
sidered a certainty for the near fu-
ture. Gilbert was not so attractive
as Herbert, who was pronounced
brunette, but Marguerite felt a much
deeper affection for him, because she
thought she fathomed finer qualities
of character in him, and because
well, just because.
So it was losing fight for Private
Drew before he went to camp. but
shortly after he began his military
training his luck changed. Naturally,
Marguerite could not decline to an
swer his letters, for she had to do
her bit' for the soldiers, and he con-
tinued his wooing by mail.
In this there was some advantage
for him, because he was a good cor
respondent, while Gilbert was more or
big change in his fortune, however.
was when he was ordered overseas.
while Gilbert was relegated to the de-
pot brigade.
So Herbert Drew came back home
a hero, while Gilbert Post was just a
soldier, with no more glamour about
him than that afforded by his uni
he shed his khaki for "civies" as soon
as he could procure store clothes.
Herbert, on the other hand, continued
to wear his uniform, and it certainly
did add to his prestige. Tales of his
bravery in action were published in
the local weekly and that drew a more
brilliant glare about him.
Marguerite, being a human girl,
could not resist these things, and al
most before she herself could realize
it, she was considering Herbert her
accepted suitor and Gilbert in the has
been class.
Gilbert plugged along at his work
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Exports of manufactures from the
United States since the termination
of the war continue to run at about
three times as much as in the pre-war
years. The value of manufactures ex-
ported since the signing of the armi-
stice are running at the rate of more
than $3,0oO,0oo,O00 a year. as against
an annual average of about $1,000
100000 a year prior to the war. The
non-manufacturing areas of the world,
which were accustomed in the past to
rely upon Europe for their manufac-
lures have, according to a statement
by the National City bank of New
York, turned to the United States for
manufactures during the war period
and seem likely to continue their de-
mands upon our manufacturers. Eu-
OF the world aside from the United
States. has had little to spare in man
ufactures during the war period as is
illustrated by the fact that our own
imports from Europe. most Of which
were manufactures, have fallen to
about one-third that prior to the war
altho there were plenty of ships which
carried foodstuffs and war material
to Europe offering cargo space on the
return trips but receiving little cargo
since the manufacturers of Europe
were otherwise occupied. The other
sections of the world, says the banks
statement, which were more accus-
toned than even the United States tc
draw manufactures from Europe, had
similar experiences. They could gel
no manufactures from Europe and sc
turned to the United States, as is evi,
denced by the fact that our exporta.
tions to them have practically trebled
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News dispatches from Washington
indicate that another issue of govern
ment bonds is in prospect. Probably
nobody has seriously doubted that the
secretary of the treasury would be
forced to sell additional securities,
even while we were being told that
the victory loan would be the last. 1t
was we'll understood that the bulk of
the proceeds of that loan had been
spent in advance. About the only way
to stop bond issues is to cut down
needless expenses. of which there are
many. The country already is carry
ing a tax burden about as heavy as it
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FAITH.

FAITH.
It's raining bitter tears today.
But soon the clouds will pass away
And out of skies serenely blue
The sun will shine on me and you,
Oh heart that now with care is sad
Be brave and wait the mornings GLAD.
Behind the clouds of black and gray
That hover low, the sunbeams stay,
And soon they shall come dancing out
To scatter smiles Of joy about:
Oh heart that now with fear doth beat
Be brave and wait the mornings sweet.
BEYOND the gloom now beauty stays,
Beyond the grief are happy days,
Behind the heavy hours Of care
Await the joys that we shall share,
And as the sun shall follow rain
So peace shall find our hearts again.
oh dark the day and sharp the dread,
And swiftly fall the tears We shed,
Yet out of skies sereneIy blue
The sun shail shine on me and you.
And we shall tread. when care IS o'er,
The happy. laughing ways once more.
Copyright 1919 By Edgar A Guest
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30
DINNER STORIES

Murphy was making his first trip
across the Atlantic, and he felt un-
speakably awful. He failed to connect
the fact. of his being on the briny
ocean for the first time with his agony.
The doctor came to him as he tossed
about in his berth. Cheer UP. man" :"
he said heartily. II know you're feel
ing rotten, but you're not going to
die"
Murphy opened Mortified eyes. Not
going to die2" he walled. Faith, doc
ter, I thought I was, That was the
only thing that kept me alive"
Charley, dear" said young Mrs
Torkins in a tone that was kind, but
firm. did you teH me you were up
late last night with a sick friend ?'
yes"
what made your friend feel sick
Was he a heavy loser?"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30

quarters of the iron and steel market,
clearly marking a rebound in conf
dence after. the weeks of passive watt
ing induced by the Washington price
wrangle, says the Iron Trade Review.
Buyers apparently are bringing them
selves more nearly to a conviction that
no great concessions from present
price levels may be expected under
prevailing conditions. There is more
disposition to accept the situation at
its face value and to plan for the fu-
ture
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30
KEEP THINGS IN PLACE.

Someone once wrote that "Order Is
Heavens First Law Whoever said
that had the right idea.
Keep things in place.
What would the Universe do with
out order? When I think of how each
Star and Moon and Sun has its course,
and travels on schedule time, then 1
am reminded of the Importance of the
simplest action according to plan, in
everyday life
Keep things in place.
The mind is in nature, orderly It
is confusion in the world that tempts
set order away from its course. It
takes great will and control to make
the mind behave itself, yet it pays in
great reward.
Keep things in place.
With no one about, directing order,
everyone takes upon himself the ac-
ton best suited to his particular de-
sire. OF course that means disorder.
Keep things in place
Have you ever noticed how smooth
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30

can bear. There are entirely too many
bureaus in Washington. A large num-
ber of these could be dispensed with,
thereby saving huge sum- Doubt
less there are many other economies
which could be put into effect without
injury to the public service. Unless
there be speedy retrenchment in fed
eral expenditures we are likely to see
more than one additional bond issue.
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ON THE SPUR.
OF THE MOMENT

BY ROY K. MoULToN

Another Celeb.
A great man is the man who fixes
his own automobile. If you don't seem
to realize at first glance that he is a
great man he will tell you that he is
before you have talked with him for
three minutes. But the great man
who fixes his automobile is always
fixing it. He starts in to fix it when
there is really nothir~ the matter
with it, end he always begins the
wrong thin After he fixes a thing
that doesn't need fixing. that thing
never works right until he sends his
car to the factory to be overhauled.
After he fixes one thing that doesn't
need fixing he is so pleased with him
self that he keeps right on fixing un-
til he has the whole internal economy
of the chug chariot out of place and
his car makes a noise like a tin ped
dler's cart running away, or switch
engine hauling a trainload of sheet
ircn garbage cans over a piece of bad
track. The best way for man to
fix his own car is to leave 1t alone
Nine times out of ten it will regulate
itself.
The District of Columbia courts are
hearing a beer case now, which leads
Uncle Terwiliger to remark that the
thing to do with a case like that is to
drink it. not hear it.
At last. the unspeakable Turk is
speechless.
In Montana there lives a man sixty
years old who has never written a
letter in his life. He certainly has
lodged a good bit of trouble and
should live to be 10 years old if he
adheres to his usual custom.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30

Last Sunday aftirnoon me and Leroy
Shooster was setting on Mary Wat
kinSes frunt steps waiting for Mary
Watkins TO come hom from Sundey
skool, wen who came up but Puds
SimkinseS sisSey cuzzin Persey with
a pink coronation in his button hole,
Leroy Shooster saying, Well, well,
look whose heer with flower in their
button hole, o mother, squert the hose
on me.
o deah. pass the pickles, feel ill.
I sed.
Watts the matter. dident you ever see
a flower before? sed Persey.
o splash, how l love flowers, es-
peshilly cabbiges, sed Leroy Shooster.
L could jest eat flowers. ony they
don't agree with me, o prooens, sed.
1 ges you never saw a flower be-
fore. sed Persey. Meening to be sour
castle, and Leroy Shooster sed, The
rose is red. the violets blue. you chase
me and then Ill chase you, o deah,
who would of thunk it.
Wich jest then Mary Watkins came
up in new brown dress with buttons
going up and down looking crate, say
ing, o Persey, ware did you get that
perfeckly bewtiful coronation, l think
it's perfeckly lovely to see a boy with
a flower i'll his button hole, l serteny
do.
Benny and Leroy don't think 50. you
awt to heer the things they was say
ing, sed Persey.
You're krazy, we was ony fooling,
sed Leroy Shooster.
Cant you take a joak? 1 sed.
And aftir suppir 1 went up in the
setting room and pulled a little
brantch off of a fern and put it. in
my button hole and went erround to
see If Mary Watkins was out. and who
was setting on her frunt steps waiting
for her but Leroy Shooster with a
crate big wife rose in his button hole.
me pretending not to see it and him
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30

The Huns previous to the war were
not regarded especially as humorists,
but they are proving to be great
jokers. One of their latest attempts
at humor is the proposal that Ger
many be Immediately admitted to the
league of nations and be made man
datory for the German colonies. And
they make this proposal without a
visible smile
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30

On general principles, says the Buff
falo News man, a war is bad thing.
1t is a reproach to civilization, kills off
the male population and fastens life
long and destructive habits upon
countless thousands. Moreover, war
may breed another Secretary Burleson.
A nation-especially this one-should
proceed with great care and much re-
gard for precedent
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30

The council of four has settled the
dispute between the Jugo-Slavs and
the Italians over Fiume by taking 1t
away from both of them. There ap-
pears to have been no thought of ar
ranging the disagreement between
China and Japan regarding Kiao Chau
on the same principle. But Japan is
a tougher proposition to handle than
are China, Italy or Jugo-Slavia.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
INFORM ALTON
BUREAU
FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Direc4er.
WashingtGn. .. G.
MEMORIAL DAY.

War Department, Washington.
May 80, 1919.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-09-22

crimen que habian cometidO.
La indignation popular, justa,
en- presencia de este atentadO, qlli
so aver abalanzarse sobre los her
manos Gomez cuando estos eran
conducidos a la carcel, 10 cual
fne impedido por el Captain de la
Policfa, Sr. Armando Gil.
El infortunado joyen Miguel
Angel Pav0n, de 21 amos, hijo
del finado seilor Antonio Pav0n,
cn5ano, Y de la seiiora Sofia VIDA.
de Pavon, de mozo mensajero, in
greso desde hace siete ailos, Ell la
casa bancaria del senior Santiago
Michelena, y por su seria laborio
sida y honesto proceder, de posi-
ci6n habla llegado al puesto de
confianza en- Ell International Ban
king Corporation, en- que Sc con-
virti6 dicha casa, de auxiliar de
GAIA, y Ell el merecla la confanza
de sus superiores y la estimation
de todos sus companeros. Era,
ademas, el 1nico amparo y sos
ten de sus pobres madres y hernia
mas, viuda y huerfanas.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-09-22

que enyolvio en- su urdimbre tene-
brosa los hermanos de Vetilio
A. Gomez, entire los cuales, y para
satisfaction de nuestro PROPOSE
to informative, hay unO, Pedro
Antonio Gomez, cuyo proceder
siempre cOrrecto, discretisimO, 10
hacen, oh! inmensa desdicha, in
digno de la triste, horrorOsa
suerte en- que haA cafdo.
LEGO la hora fatal y la TRACE
dfa estaba decretada. La preme-
ditaci0n confabulo a Vetilio A.
Gomez, Pedro Antonio Gomez Y
Julio Suncar. Las sOmbras de la
noche los convidaron a la embos-
cada, y ell sabado 1ltimo, desde
la penumbra producida por ell
kiOsko emplazadO Ell la Pldsoleta
TrinitGiG, Sc avalanzarOn sobre
Payon, quien caminaba por la ca
lie Sdaches hacia su domiciliO,
acOmpalado de Silyio Prado Y
Mario Malespfn. Armados de pa
los estaban los hermanOs Gomez
| Y Suncar, y sus acometidas fue-
ron tristemente certeras.
Despues que los Gomez reali-
aaron ell siniestro asalto huyeron
por la misma calle hacia la calle
Sepdraci6n, en- la cual cuentan
algunos vecinos, iban despistan-
do al grito de ladrones!! mas ell
Ipolicfa Cesar Milien, plaza nd-
nero 20, los detuvo, despues
que hatiendo uso de la macana,
correspondio la aggression de que
fue objeto. ~
Por su parte, Pav6n Y sus com
paheros se dirigian por la calle
Santo Ton,ds hacia la Comisarla
la que Pav6n prefirio antes que
a la SaId de S0corr'os. En- la Co
misaria expuso su querella y
guiado Ior sus propios pasos fue
la fec primera curaci6n.
El ante Regis, inferno
idel Cd 96imientO, vic horrOri-
zado ufM hefida cOntusa en- la ca
beza, con fractura de la boveda
craneana y apenas 81 Sc atrevi0
a penetrar en- la lesion. Era de
necesidad mortal. Hizo la cura-
ci6n mas. Indispensable. Pav6n,
adn cuaSdo en- todas sus faculta-
des mentales, estaba en- su lecho
de muerte.
De allf fue a su domicilio, en-
dOnde las 7.30 de la mailana de
aver, falleci6 entire las angustias
de una madre que no llora; pero
que siente despedazarsele las en-
traiias juntO con sus tres hiias,
por la desventura Ell que la ha
sumidO ell hecho luctuoso.
Los hermanos Gomez quedaron
detenidos en- la Comisaria NUM-
cipal, desde la hora del sucesO, a
pesar de que manifestation tener
dOmiciliO conocido. Tai era ell po
.sbre, concepto que ellos tenfan del
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