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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21
MY HUSBAND AND |
BY JANE PHELPS

T must think. I couldn't bear to have
Neil treat me so. neither~could / bear
to have him take the attitude that be-
cause / had done wrong. an unethical
act, that l had no right to say word
no matter what he did. 1t made me
feel like a stranger almost-and 1
loved him so dearly.
sometimes have wondered what
would have happened had not loved
my husband; how the tangle of our
lives would have Strengthened out.
But I loved him with the same ador-
ing affection as when we were first
married, added to which was the feel
ing that / must shield him from un-
just or unkind criticism. The mother
feehng women who love have toward
their husbands.
1 felt crisis coming. Felt 1t and
was powerless to do anything; even
to analyze the feeling. Had 1t not
been for the caution engendered by
remarks 1 had heard or overheard
Mr.. Frederick make I should have
gone on much longer in my blindly
adoring way. But now was con-
WINGED that something was radically
wrong. That Neil had to say the
least overreached himself. still
certain extent. but not as ! had
thought short time back. These
dinners and suppers, the tales of
gambling. and of different women at
Mrs. Orton'S home had Wakened a Dit
terness I could not overcome even by
my love for him. Then that letter.
If anyone should help man to sue
cess, any woman, 1t should surely be
his wife.
Once more went back over my
married life. Had I done wrong in
refusing TO receive the men Nell
seemed to think necessary to his sue
cess? Had I been more lenient could
1 have gradually weaned him away
from them. or would he have drawn
me into the same sort of company
Blanche Orion received for his sake.
1 know Mrs. Orion well enough to be
sure she did not really care for that
sort, she was innately luxurious and
refined. Yet for Neirs sake she made
her home a rendezvous for them.
Would she have done It for anything
but love2 This question 1 had asked
myself dozens Of times. Never had
answered it. Mr.. Frederick had
limited it was because she needed
money. 70 me that seemed even more
disgusting. the while I felt relieved
that 1t might be so. One could for
give what was done for love-but to
make ones home into a business place
for the furtherance of - perhaps
crooked schemes I could not under
stand.
/ did not realize that the turning
point was at hand. That all my
theories. my entire existence was to
undergo an upheavai-
Ito be continued.)
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Woodman. greatly shocked. Are we
cannibals, let me ask? Or are we
faithful friends?"
Il see very clearly that we cannot
stay shut up in this palace" said the
Scarecrow, with decision. $50 let US
end this mournful talk and try to dis
cover means to escape"
At this suggestion they all gathered
eagerly around the throne, wherein
was seated the Scarecrow. and as Tip
sat down upon stool there fell from
his pocket pepper-box, which rolled
upon the floor.
What is this?" asked Nick Chop
per, picking up the box.
BE CAREFUL" cried the boy. That's
my Powder of Life. Don't spill it,
for 1t is nearly gone."s
And what is the Powder of Life p"
enquired the Scarecrow, as Tip re-
placed the box carefully in his pocket.
It's some magical stuff old Mombi
got from a crooked sorcerer," ex-
planned the boy. "She brought Jack
to life with it, and afterwardsI used it
to bring the Saw-Horse to life.
guess it will make Anything live that
is sprinkled with it: but there's only
about one dose left"
Then it is very precious" said the
Tin Woodman.
Indeed it is" agreed the Scare
crow. at may prove our best means
of escape from our difficulties. I
believe I will think for few minutes;
SO 1 will thank you. friend Tip, to get
out your knife and rip this heavy
crown from my forehead
Tip soon cut the stitches that had
fastened the crown to the Scarecrow's
head, and the former monarch of the
Emerald City removed 1t with a sigh
of relief and hung it on peg beside
the throne.
THAT is my last memento of royal
ty," said he. land I'm glad to get rid
CT *. The former King of this City,
who was named Pastoral, lost the
crown to the Wonderful Wizard, who
passed it on to me. Now the girl
Jinjur claims It, and I sincerely hope
it will not give her a headache"
"A kindly thought, which I greatly
admire" said the Tin Woodman, nod
ding approvingly.
And now 1 will indulge in a quiet
think" continued the Scarecrow, lying
back in the throne.
The others remained as silent and
still as possible, SO as not to disturb
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
BAB IS AT LAST CONVINCED THAT
SOMETHING is WRONG.
CHAPTER kew

CHAPTER ACNI.
have heard people frankly envious
of those with money even tho in every
other way their own lives were far
happier. That money alone never
brings happiness was fast learning,
and think Neil was also beginning to
realize it. But it was his boundless
ambition which kept him going. his
determination TO SHOW people" that
blunted his senses to all else.
In the morning I tried to talk to
him, but elected only short unsatis-
factory replies. Finally I said:
Mr.. Frederick said such funny
thing last night. He said something
to have for an enemy. I was awfully
afraid you had done something to Of
fend him by the way he spoke. You
haven't, have you?" Neil flushed and
could have cried because his aunt just
then came into the room, so making
it unnecessary for him TO answer.
please come into the library a mo-
mept Neil" 1 said as we finished
breakfast. without a word he fol-
handed him the bill which we had
been asked to remit.
well. what of it?'
Nothing particular, only isn't 1t
rather strange tney SnOuld ask US 1Or
money when you think of how much
we have spent with them?'
"Oh. / don't know, probably tenn
porarily hard up and ask the ones
they know can give it to them. I
shouldn't be in a hurry to pay it," He
had not once glanced at the amount.
II can't pay it. Neil. You will have
to look after it,
"You don't mean to say this bill is
right?" 1t was an interior decorators
bill and expensive tapestries. etc. were
included in the items
Yes. looked it over carefully. II
is correct"
well he'll wait awhile for 1t, that's
sure need every cent I've got just
now" 1 wondered if he were going to
buy Scott off, as Mr.. Frederick had
expressed it when 1 overheard them
talking the night before
Neil won't you please forgive me-
about that letter? You haven't
kissed me since that day"
81 told you 1 didn't want to talk
about it! 1 am disguised with the
whole business" and he flung out of
the room and out Of the house.
Aunt went out with the nurse and
Robert for morning walk usually
accompanied her. but this morning
excused myself. 1 wanted to be alone.
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| him; for all had great confidence in
the extraordinary brains of the Scare
crow.
And, after what seemed a very long
time indeed to the anxious watchers,
the thinker sat up. looked upon his
friends with his most whimsical ex-
preston, and said:
my brains work beautifully today.
I'm quite proud of them. Now, listen!
II we attempt to escape thru the doors
of the palace we shall surely be cap
tured. And, as we can't escape thru
the ground. there is only one other
thing to be done. We must escape
thru the air!"
He paused TO note the effect of
these words; but all his hearers SEEM
ed puzzled and unconvinced.
1.-THE Wonderful Wizard escaped In
a balloon" he continued. I'VE don't
know how to make a balloon, OF
course; but any sort of thing that can
fly thru the air can carry us easily.
Woodman, who Is a skiliful mechanic,
shall build some sort of a machine,
with good strong wings. to carry us;
and our friend Tip can then bring ths
Thing to life with his magical pow
der"
"Bravo," cried Nick Chopper.
What splendid brains!" murmured
Jack
Really quite cieveri" said the Edu-
! Gated Woggle-Bug,
ST believe 1t can be DONE" declared
Tip; that is. IL the Tin Woodman Is
equal to making the Thing"
''rll do my best" said Nick, cheer
lily; and, as a matter Of fact. I do
not often fail in what attempt But
the Thing will have to be built on
the roof of the palace. so it can rise
comfortably into the air."
''To be sure" said the Scarecrow.
Then let us search through the
palace" continued the Tin woodman.
and carry all the material we can
find to the roof, where I will begin
my work.
First, however," said the Pumpkin
head, 81 beg you will release me from
this horse and make me another leg
to walk with. For in my present con-
dition I am of no use to myself or
anyone else"
So the Tin Woodman knocked a
mahogany center-table to pieces with
his axe and fitted one of the legs.
which was beautifully carved, on TO
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MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS.

About fifty distinct plans dealing
with the railroad problem have been
laid before the senate committee on
interstate commerce. The plans
which have attracted the most atten-
ton have been those proposed by the
interstate commerce commission, Di-
rector General Hines, the Association
Of Railway Executives, who represent
about 80 per cent of the trackage of
the country. the National Association
of Owners of Railroad Securities, rep
resenting many billions of bonds and
stocks, and the plan proposed by Mr..
Plumb, counsel for the railway broth
erhoods.
In all these plans there are some i'm
portant points on which minds are in
substantial agreement. Only the rail-
way brotherhoods advocate govern
ment ownership. Senator Cummins.
the new chairman of the committee on
insterstate commerce, formerly an ad-
vocate of government ownership, now
believes that the people of the corin-
try will get better transportation and
at a less cost thru private operation
than thru government operation.
But private operation must be con-
Quoted under the strictest control. AS
the regulatory machinery has not been
altogether satisfactory in the past, it
is now freely recognized that there
must be a reorganization of such ma
chinery. The divided authority as be-
tween state and federal bodies has
often been a matter of genuine griev-
traffic is overwhelmingly interstate in
character the paramount authority it
is held, should unquestionably reside
with the interstate commerce commits
sion. 1t is not proposed to put the
state commissions out of business but
rather to bring them into harmony
with federal authority and to this end
the establishment of regional commits
sions has been suggested.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has been a very much overworked
body and it has necessarily occupied
anomalous positions. A separation of
it's judicial from its executive func-
lions seems to be thought necessary.
Its authority in the past has been al
most without limit and it is now pro-
posed to make it more directly re-
sponsible for the consequence of its
decisions.
The restoration of the earning pow
er of the railroads is of pressing inn
portance, says bulletin issued by the
National City bank of New York, and
q further increase in rates, much as
1t is to be deplored, appears inevitable.
Outstanding railway securities must be
safeguarded because they lie at the
heart of the credit structure of the
country and injury to them would re-
act unflvorably on all business. New
capital required for the expansion of
the railway plant will not be inclined
to venture into the field unless the
capital already fixed there be given
what investors would consider a
square deal. Therefore, If private cap
ltal shall continue to furnish trans
portation facilities the legislation that
congress should adopt must aim to
make that field inviting.
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Be too busy-to frown. to get long
faced and sour. Folks are more apt
to remember you by your smile. than
by anything else. So cultivate q fegu-
lar "a karat kind,
Be too busy-to hatch troubles.[Re-
fuse to sit on them and they will
never hatchi There, is plenty of trou-
BILE in the world already. No more is
needed. When more is, you will be
asked for your share-and be well
paid for it,
Be too busy-to interfere with other
peoples business. Every mans and
woman's problem is a personal af-
fair, and should be faced and settled
as such You will never be thanked
for it. SO why offer your services
Be too busy-to think of anything
but that which is worth while. Time
goes by so quickly. "'Tis but TIE
wink of an eye. and the watt of a
breathu'
Be too busy-to be unhappy
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LitthBeflflXHs
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The Park Ave. News. -
Exter. Big Storm Floods Pubs
Simkinses Celler. After the big thun-
der and lightning storm last Thersday
there was so mulch wattir in Puds
Simkinses celler that he wasent al
lowed to go down even after he Of
fered to put his rubbers on, thereby
spelling his ideer to make money by
taking people down for sents trip.
Spoarts. Last Thersday morning at
brekfist Benny Potts tried to open his
soft berIed egg by jest hitting it once
with his Iife, wich he succeeded so
good that the insides went all over
everything inclooding his fathers vest.
Pome by Skinny Martin
A Awfill Errer
A man lived in the jungle
Ware there wasent eny breeze.
So he hired all the savidses
To chop down all the trees,
And then he cried ALAS alack
I've made a awful bungle
Because without lot of trees
How can you have a jungle ?"
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People Leroy Shooster is going to
be a inventor wen he grows up. never
having invented enything yet-but say
ing he likes the ideer and knows ware
he can get a book on the subjeck-
Sissiety. Miss Mary Watkins came
home frum the shoe store in new
pair of shoes carrying the old ones in
box last Satidday aftirnoon, squeek-
ing a little but not mulch.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIZ MRS ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: a. Is 1T
proper for young man 10 years of
age to have several girl friends and
spend the evenings with different ones
various nights in the week?
CD / have a girl friend who insists
that she call me on the phone. asking
me to go and call on her. If l went
every time she called me I wouldE
have time to visit the rest of my girl
friends. like the girl and want to
be with her occasionally, but she calls
too often. What shall I do so that
I will not offend her
CD II / am earning sufficient
salary to support a wife, am old
enough to be married?
AN AMBITIOUS YOUTH.
% A young man of 10 should have
several girl friends and spend the
evenings with different ones. He IL
too young TO go with one girl only
CD Tell the girl bluntly that you
will telephone her when you want to
see her and that you would rather
not have her. call you. The truth
ought to do her good and teach her a
lesson she will never forget.
go You are not old enough to
marry. The tastes of man of 80 are
entirely different from the tastes of
the boy of 20. Wait until you have
had more experience before you take
so important a step.
Dear Mrs Thompson: I am a
young girl engaged TO one of the best
young men and love him truly and
I think my love is returned.
My mother has been dead seven
years and I have small brother and
sister. have tried my best to be a
mother to them.
About two years ago my father
married a young girl and she is very
unkJnd 20 my little brother and sister.
Ny father is good to us. but he is
away most of the time on business.
Should I throw away my happiness
and not marry this man whom I dear
ly love. or should I marry him and
leave my little brother and sister to
their fate?
Please tell me what to do for I am
standing between love and duty and
my heart cries out to both.
MOTHERLEsS GIRL.
think you should marry the man
you love. To entirely sacrifice ones
own happiness for others does not
seem to paw in the end. Your father
should send your brother and sister
away to school, since his wife is not
good to them. with such an ar
rangement the children could spend
their vacations with you.
l cannot see how Won would help
much by remaining at home Theirs
would always be friction IL you took
against your step-mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21

Before the war Russia was regarded
as the granaFy of Europe. 1t has the
possibilities of becoming the granary
of the world. Yet such is the blight
OF bolshevism the part of Russian ter
ritory occupied by the Bolsheviki is
starving. The word starvation, says
one Russian writer, is powerless TO ex-
press that suffering which the inhabi-
tants OF towns-particularly the large
ones in Soviet Russia-are experience
ing at present. The mortality of chill
dren is enormous. Those who are un-
able to get away are slowly dying ow-
ing to undertaking. Many die from
hunger. Horseflesh Is n luxury. Cats
and dogs are being eaten. Bread is
either unobtainable or in microscopic
quantities. Milks. fats, tea, meal have
almost entirely disappeared. There is
real famine, from which millions of
people. who are living as in a be-
sieged fortress, are suffering. And the
worst of all is that 1t is an internal
Siege from which escape is impossible.
The Terror" and the Commune" OF
Paris were summer holidays when
compared with the reign of the Boil
sheviki.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21

The United States seems likely to
supply this year a larger percentage
of the worlds wheat crop than in any
earlier year. Our share of world
wheat production steadily increased in
the twenty years prior to 1910 but
slightly declined between 1910 and
1914. With the fall off which the
war brought to wheat production in
Europe, the worlds greatest wheat
growing continent, and the stimulation
of production in North America. which
ranks second as a wheat growing con-
tinent, our share of the worlds crop
has rapidly increased and seems likely
to be in 1919 about 80 per cent of the
worlds total. as against II per cent
in 1880. During the war, with the de-
cline in European production. our
share of the worlds wheat production
has ranged about % per cent. Europe
holds first rank among the continents
as wheat producer. North America
second, Asia third, South America
fourth. Australasia fifth, and Africa
sixth. Europe produces in normal
years about So per cent of the worlds
wheat, North America approximately
% per cent. Asia 1 8 per cent, and the
Southern hemisphere about 10 per
cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21
BE TOO BUSY.

Be too busy-to find fault with
your Job, your Work or your EN-
pIoyer. If you cannot work happily,
then. be square-and go where you
can.
Be too busy-to sneer, to criticise,
20 excuse, and to waste. These things
do but poison and weaken a man and
make him both useless and impotent.
Be too busy-to pay attention TO
what the other fellow is doing. You
both are at separate jobs-to be COM
pleted efficiently as possible. No man
ever did another's work so well as he
could do it for himself.
Be too busy-to initiate, to envy
and to brag. You have a personality,
whether developed or not, that is able
to stand as fine example of power
if you will but recognize the fact and
put personal stamp to it in what
you do.
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LIES CONTRIBUTION PLATE.

LIES CONTRIBUTION PLATE.
Life passed the contribution plate
To all her worshippers and l
Wondered and watched as II went by,
And saw the gifts of low and great.
Some shifted IN their pews and turned
Away, affecting not to see
Life asking for its honest fee,
Some shared the gold which they hat
earned.
widow dressed in mourning grim
Placed on the plate her only son
That peace and freedom should be won
And life was fair because of him.
Another gave his talents rare:
Workmen gave back their finest toll
Some gave n richer patch of soil.
Some smiles of joy for life to wear.
And of the rich and poor and brave
The weak. the craven and the strong,
I noticed as life passed along
That they were happiest who sgaye.
God grant that while on earth 1 live
And take from life from day to day
1 shall not sbamefaced turn away
And spurn the proffered chance to give
, Copyright 1919 by Edgar a. Guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21

Business men need not hesitate to
plan for an immediate period of bust
ness prosperity. No period of depres-
sion and no collapse of values need to
be feared. The man who goes full
speed ahead will gain an advantage
over his procrastinating competitor
which will far outweigh any possible
slight decline in costs of production.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST
Canned Pineapple.
Bacon and Waffles. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Fish Salad. Sliced Tomatoes.
Cherry Cobbler. Cocoa.
DINNER
Radishes. Young Onions.
Broiled Steak
New Potatoes. Corn.
Beet Salad
Canned Peaches. Sponge Cake.
Coffee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21

In European countries when the
policy of a cabinet minister fails to &C
cord with popular sentiment he re-
signs. But it is different in this, coun-
try. else Burleson would have re-
turned to private life months ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21

a long and exhaustive search has
shown that the only woman who per-
mits a man to dictate to her is the
stenographer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21

Wen Tell the World He Is.
If man falls in a WELL. amt he a
swell guy If he afterwards steals the
windlass with which you hauled him
up from water that was over his head?
William Judkins Hewitt.
This was in a want column in the
Bluemunge Gazette: Wanted, an sele-
vator operator; must have his own
eIevafor-C A L.
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON
BY ROY

Ex-Libris.
Fair Castles of Forgetfulness,
Whose joyous banners wave
Upon the Strand Of Reason
Which Fancy,s waters lave,
Whose murmur and whose music
Make gladstone all our days
And fill our night with drea ming
As we travel bookish ways.
Fair Castles of Forgetfulness,
Whose wardens stand at rest
Upon the high and guarded shelves,
That hold our we1l-loved best,
Whose lovers and whose damsels
Go wandering hand in hand
Adown the dim. poetic ways
That lead to Faery Land.
Joseph Dunn.
No matter what the optfmists say, Il
is never going to be possible to make
satisfa Glory whisky over the kitchen
stove with a ten kettle and coil o.
copper pipe. ENC
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21

Next ,Story-"The Astonishing Flight OF
the Gump," in which Tip tries the Powder
Of Life on their aerial invention and brings
1t to life But can 1t carry them all--or
must some of the party be left behindF
Read and see. The next story tells.