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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-05
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said: st am sure that our folks know
each other If we do not am Paul
Thurston and am visiting my uncle.
Thomas Thurston. And I know now
who you are. You are Judge Martins
daughter and I have been wanting to
meet you. Besides, L think you are
right now dying to laugh at me
At which Renie did laugh, q merry
little peal of laughter, for Paul was
holding up to her gaze his brown
pitcher.
Whatever possessed you to buy
that?" gasped Renie. II thought per-
haps you did it for joke"
mo, indeed, Miss Martin! I was
in deadly earnest. To the uniEitated
all brown pitchers look something
alike 1 thought I had executed my
Aunt Thurston's commission in most
workmanlixe manner till you bought
that bunch of stuff. You see the
nurse that attended Mrs. HOLSTER told
my aunt that she had a luster-ware
pitcher and was sent out to buy 1t at
any price"
Again Renie laughed; then her face
grew grave. "Oh, isn't it too bad; Mrs.
Thurston will be so disappointed.
What should we do?"
Paul picked up a piece of paper and
carefully wrapped up his pitcher.
Aunt is a pretty good sport. I'll tell
her the truth; then when I get back
to Philadelphia I'll find her one. At
any rate, L know she hasn't in her col
lection a pitcher like this. So come on,
let's take our pitchers home"
WAS it raining? Oh, but that was
in the morning. II it still rained two
young people whose acquaintance be-
gan at g. country sale where they were
both trying to buy a 1uster-ware
pitcher did not know it, for the
journey back was all too short.
And what did Aunt Thurston say?
She just laughed and said: What
difference does it make? That pitcher
will be in the fhurston family, any
way, or I'll miss my guess"
Copyright, 1915 by the Mcclure News-
pepper. Syndicatej
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A LESSON IN SPENDING.

A present need appears to be a
remedy which will cure the nation of
its extravagant habits. The country
Is suffering as much from the cost of
high living as it is from the high cost
Of living. In fact the former is a po-
tent cause of the latter. Habits are
pernicious things because when they
once get a grip on any one they hard
ly can be shaken off. Wh1n luxury
gets into the blood it is harder to
eliminate than the most persistent fe-
yer. Everyone is entitled to a decent
and comfortable existence. but this
does not include the right to squan-
der and waste, which in the long run
would lead to the ruin of the victim.
A check put upon the extravaganza
OF its employees by the Du Pont powder
works at Christmas time, tho drastic,
was effective, and may afford q valu
able suggestion to other employers of
labor.
The Du Points had announced that
Christmas bonus would be distrib-
uted among their workers. It came to
the ears OF the Du Pont executives
that the women employees. even before
receiving their bonuses. had spent
them upon costly furs and other lux
uries that were in no way consistent
with their incomes. Then came a
revocation of the bonus order and the
purchasers were forced to cancel their
orders hurriedly and TO rearrange
their Christmas in keeping with their
purses. One might be tempted to
say that the whole matter was heart
less proceeding. and that the corpor-
alton had no right to dictate how its
employees were to spend their money,
! but it should not be forgotten that 1t
had perfect right to extend or not to
extend gratuities.
The lesson to be learned from the
circumstance may sink into the
minds of many who are spending
more money than they should simply
because 1t comes easy.
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Dorothy Dix Talks

The Troubles OF the Good

The Troubles OF the Good.
There is positively no other such
drawback to charity as the danger of
getting a reputation in that line. Once
give to q poor family. and you have
establish a precedent that you can
never live down. Nine times out of ten
they expect you to support them the
balance of their lives and send the
boys to college, and give the girls a
debut party. You can't give what you
can afford and then stop; you can't
listen to a tale of woe and weep with
the narrator, and then enjoy yourself
nobody can see the finish. You are the
perpetual repository of all the woes of
the community.
A funny phase of this matter is that
after one once acquires a reputation
for doing thing nobody ever gives
tue in doing it. They seem to think
that self sacrifice and hard work, and
self denial just come natural to you
and you enjoy it.
If you have reputation OF being
kind to the sick you may go and sit up
with a person at night, and nurse her
until you are ready to drop, you may
stand over the stove cooking jeilies or
making broth until you are burnt to q
cinder, and she takes it as a matter of
course; but let some woman who never
sacrifices herself for anything in the
world come by and leave a card with
kind inquiries" penciled on it. and
she will brag about it for six months.
80 sweet of her Did you ever hear
of anything so kind? 20 But grateful to
you? She never thinks of such a
thing. Your reputation for nursing
the sick has gone before you, and she
probably thinks the. whole affair has
been a kind Of picnic to you.
Who hasn't had experience of this
kind of thing? Who hasn't had some
body they didn't want come and stay
months with them, without manifest
ing the slightest appreciation of the
hospitality shown them, and then see
them go into obstacles of delight be-
cause some other friend or relative
on whom they had just the same
clain-invited them to tea? Who
hasn't paid for the fuel for sore poor
family all the winter without one word
| of thanks, and then heard them over
wheim somebody else with gratitude
because they had given them. a din<y
little hat or feather boa? OF course
we ought not to care for these things,
but we do. We don't want anybody
going before sounding our praises on a
brazen trumpet, but we do like to feel
that when We make sacrifice it is at
least understood and appreciated
After all It comes back to the same
point. If we once get reputation for
doing things we have got to keep on
doins them, and the only safe and
comfortable way is to avoid establish
ing any presidents. There is no fame,
but great safety, in mediocrity.
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reached only after careful and -medita-
tive consideration

reached only after careful and medita-
tive consideration
The packers will close out their side
lines. But the public has another and
far greater grievance against the
packers which must be adjusted he
fore conditions in the packing indus
try may be considered entirely salts
factory. The packing industry has u
number of executives who draw up TO
$4,000 year. An industry so well
conducted that it is able to pay its
executive heads more than $4,000
year is always under suspicion in this
country.
The notion that a man competent
to conduct a great industry cannot Do
secured for $1,000 a year is prepos-
ferrous. When Mr.. McAdoo took over
the railways he removed all of the
s25, 900 executives. The
railways have run like watch ever
since.
Mr.. McAdoo didn't do it? Well, he
said he was going to do it. and you
should have seen the people weep for
pure joy when he said it,
You may recall our perturbation
over the matter of sizes designed to
fit a lady with brown hair and blue
eyes. some five feet six inches IN
100 pounds. 1t may interest you to
know that the lady in question has re-
| Iieved our anxiety. She has advised
US that a pin three inches long anu
| properly emblazoned fits anybody.
| We are we are quite frank to say.
one of those who do not always relin-
quish a hard-earned seat In street
car to a lady in distress. But we
scorn the subterfuge of reading a
newspaper or looking out of the win
dow. The contemptuous. sneering ex-
preston on the face of the lady is
more interesting to one who has time
leisurely to observe 1t than any news
paper.
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The campaign against high prices,
local, state and national, has had
little, IL any, effect. and the out
look is for still higher mark
ings. There can be no natural reduc-
lions until the extravagant spending
OF all classes for living expenses ceases
by voluntary action and thrift. or, per-
sisted in, brings about damaging re-
vulsions. Outside of commodities for
daily living. iron and steel prices have
advanced farther. and the outlook is
for an increase in coal prices should
the decision of the government tri-
bunal be in favor of still further in
creasing miners wages-as the miners
seem to expect.
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year will have all the problems
threshed out before the convention.
meets. The resolutions committee will
be appointed as usual. 1t will lock it.
se-f in and take up one policy after
another. The hearings on that policy
will have been already held. The sub
committee in question will have
reached a conclusion-win have writ
ten a plank all athrob with properly
modulated vote-getting sentiment
which it will recommend to the COM
mfttee on resolutions. 1t will be well
digested and to the point. 1t is held
that platform SO evolved that will
have it's foundation well laid, its
planks so efficiently spiked down that
it will be firmer structure to bear
the weight of a candidate than those
that have gone before
In thus taking thought in advance.
in taking infinite care in the prepara-
ton of its platform, the Republican
party is looking hopefully to the fu-
ture. For a decade its star has been
in eclipse, its ways have been in the
valley of sorrow. BY a perversity OF
fortune the time OF its discomfort has
been simultaneous with the era of
greatest opportunity, and it has missed
come to>it had 1t been in authority in
the time of the great war.
The Republicans are further along
IN platform making than are the
committee will hold its big meeting
in Washington on January 8. The
ouadrennial jackson day dinner will
precede the meeting of the commit
tee. The time and place of the con-
vention will be determined. Note will
be taken OF the preparations being
made by the Republicans in the mat
ter of platform writing. Having been
warned in advance OF the serious in
tentions of their opponents. the DEM
ocrats may be depended on to put
their best platform writer's to scratch
ing their heads contemplatively long
before the great day arrives. They,
too, are looking for a perfectly safe is
sue.
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Ouesfions-Answers

Q. Must rural mail carrier put stamp
on a letter when money Is left In the mail
box ?-E. T.
A. The post0fsiee department says that
a xbral carrier is expected TO carry postage
stamps for such purposes. II sufficient
money to cover the amount of postage IS
left in the box with the letter he must atfix
stamp. IL not enough money is left h.
must leave notice that the amount of money
to cover postage is Insufficient.
Q. How many Indian children are there
In this county attending school,; n v :;
affairs says that OUT of total Of si.922 In
dian children who are of school age, GO,SSS
o. Who we're the ring titieholders of 1912
a. they were Fiyweight Jimmy wilde;
Jack Britton; middleweight. Mike O'Dowd;
heavyweight. Jack Dempsey.
q. How does the depth N the Atlantic
ocean compare With that of the Pacific p
A.. The Atlantic ocean has an average
depth OF the Pacific IL 13.43s feet.
O.. How long Is the term of office of tbs
president Of the New Republic Of Ger
A The president of Germany is elected
for seven years; and Is eligible for re-elec-
a term OF seven years.
@. Which country furnished the greatest
proportion of her men in the World War;
A. Serbia, IL is believed, ranked first.
She modified 732,34s men. or 40 per cent
dead numbered 2S2.3ia.
Q. Who was the originator OF the Nobel
Prizes Pc. G. A.
A. These prizes were chreated in the viii
Of Alfred Bernard Nobel Russo Swedish
engineer. who Invented dynamite. He left
a fortune Of s9.oO0.000. and will. which
after some minor legacies to relatives. di-
r-eted that the vast residue. converted
into snfe securities By the liquidators. shall
constitute fund. the income Of which shall
be distributed yearly to those who. during
the yenr preceding. have rendered the most
eIninent services to humanity There are
and the fifth for the promotion Of peace
in tho world.
c. q. -" e's p,,s''''' ms siO"A -
A. There seems little doubt that this
original home Of the potato was South
America. Pizarro found II cultivated by
the lncas An Peru. AID be introduced It info
before Sir Walter Raleigh took Il to
England.
O. is 1t correct to say "two Of the
Adamses were president &c. S. W.
A. This form Of plnral in case OF this
sort is entirely correct.
tAny reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The To.,eka Stnfs
Journal Information bureau. Frederic J.
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Permeating the silent years of all
the time that is to be, will the life
giving OF the boys who sleep because
of war keep rising from the earth to
render warmth and comfort to those
who bore them, and undying inspira-
ton to those who are yet to learn of
what they gave.
Before me is the portrait OF great
artist, and on my study walls are ex-
amples of what he had. In the face of
the man and in the lines and masses
of each picture are buried in silence
the greatness of what the man thought
and did.
The touch of true art is that which
puts gold on the lining of ones heart
whether 1t be the art Of word, or pen,
or brush. or chisei.
AS time goes on, only the good in
US lives. But It is the touch thru the
silence that keeps radiating. that
makes everything we do have an eter-
nal cast.
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Me and Lew Davis was standing by
the lam post tawking to each other,
and Lew sed, G. look whose coming,
watts he got on his sleeve? Meening
Pubs Simknses sissy cuzzin Persey
with a black morning band erround
his arm, and I sed, Gosh, its q. morn
ing band, and Lew sed, This amt
morning, its darn neer eevning, and /
sed, Not that kind of morning, the
kind of morning you ware wen sum
body dies to show you Appreciate it.
Gosh, sumbody must be ded, bet
ter be polite to him, sci Lei Davis.
Wich we generally amt, and wen he
came up 1 sed. Hello Persey, how you
bin?
All rite, sed Persey
How you feeling, Persey? sed Lew.
All rite, sed Persey.
And kepp on wondering who died,
not wunting to ask him rite out, so
1 sed, wares your father Persey
Thinking he mite say. In hevvin, In
case it was his father.
All rite. sed Persey. Proving 1t
wasent his father, and Lew sed, Hows
your mother, Persey?
All rite, sed Persey. and Lew Davis
Sed, Amt she even bin sick?
No, why should she? sed Persey.
Lew not telling him wy, and ] sed,
Hows everybody elts in your family,
Persey?
All rite, sed Persey, and Lew sed,
Well then wat the hecks the use of
wearing that morning band?
o that, that's for my canary berd,
my poor little canary berd died, sed
Persey.
Aw heck, sed me and Lew Davis.
And We started to push him all over
the pavement to show him wat we
thawt of him.
Not being mulch.
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AN CNLOOkED-FOR ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER CXXIX.

Jealousy again gripped me SO I
could not sleep, was angy with my
self that, in the years we had been
married, this thought had not before
come to me-to find out If he visited
Leola's grave. Not until my own
speech about Walter now belonging
entirely to Rose, had I ever thought
of it Perhaps because of that utter
ance L would find the reason why
Everett never had bestowed upon me
the same kind of love he had given
Leola?
The very next day I visited the
cemetery. It was a beautiful place.
Gods acres came into my mind,
and for just a moment 1 forgot my
errand. But only for moment.
1 hunted the caretaker. and asked
him If he knew where Mrs. Everett
Graham was buried.
"Oh, yes, madam Right this way.
You're a stranger here, I take it 20
Yes, never have been here be-
fore
There it is, ma'am-that tall shaft
over there to the left"
You care for the plot?' I asked,
scarcely knowing how to question the
gray-haired man.
Eyes, ma'am There's money to
keep it in order. Then, too, there's a
party brings flowers"
So 1 was right Everett still kept
flowers on Leola's grave after all
these years. and even tho he had
married again. I felt that the tears
were near. so with a gesture L dis
missed the old caretaker and went
alone the remainder. of the way to
the shaft he had pointed out to me.
The plot was beautifully kept
Fresh flowers were in an urn and
more in a vase at the base OF the
shaft. He must have been there no
later than yesterday, 1 thought, as
noticed that the flowers had not
yet Commenced to droop.
"Leola beloved wife of Everett
Graham, Age g." I read aloud. then
repeated. Beloved wife OF Everett
Graham"
L stood for several minutes strug-
Cling to hold back the tears-to quiet
the emotion which those words, added
to the sight of the flowers, had
created
'.She was his beloved wife-is yet"
murmured.
Someway I felt that. of all my story.
this Jealousy of a woman who years
before I met my husband had passed
over the great divide. will be least un-
derstood--perhaps not conprehended
in the least by women and men who
have never known what is il to be
the second in a persons affections
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Shall Senator Lodge become known
IN history as Lodge. the Treaty
Killer" That is the unenviable
title he has earned. says Forbes
Magazine and continues: If chaos
overtake Europe and spread to
America, the one man more respon-
sibIe than any other human being will
be Henry Cabot Lodge, OF Massa-
chusetts. Only a Raemaker could
fIttingly depict to the world the atti-
tude Lodge has struck in standing
forth and defying mankind to ap-
proach its poignantly desired goal
His is a staggering responsibility. He
has puted himself against the ablest
minds OF Europe. against majority
OF mankind. against hts own fellow
countrymen. He has dared, with only
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HE TOUCH THRU THE SILENCE.


The greatest influences in life, /
have ofttilnes come to believe, are the
silent ones-those that keep creeping
upon and into US.
Since my mother went away, all
along the years she has kept up her
influence, and the things she said, so
casually at the time. come before me
anew as tho said today. Thru the ST.
lence. you see, my mother keeps fol-
lowing me.
1t IS the touch thru the silence that
opens our eyes and unlocks our best
selves to the world.
It was Lincoln who gave new mean
ing to this thought when he said at
Gettysburg that it wouldn't be long
before all that was said on that bat
tlefield about its heroes would be for
gotten. but that what they did. who
fought there, could never be forgot
ten.
The touch thru the silence always
ennobles,
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TIE RAII.RoAD PLOT.

Postponement of the date of the re-
turn of the railroads to their owners
until March 1 has aroused in many
quarters suspicion that there may be
still further postponement. There
have been ever since the government
took over the roads many seeming
evidences that the administration was
planning to make government owner
ship of railroads an issue in the ap-
preaching campaign. One more post
ponement might turn the trick.
Politicians and advocates of the
Plumb Plan are being charged with
working together to delay legislation
for the return of the roads to their
owners. The forces OF radicalism, So
cialisp and naturalization, it is de-
clared, have concentrated on this one
thing as the dominant issue for the
presidential campaign next Novem-
Der. They are out to keep the rail-
roads. and they will keep them un-
less the people of this country arouse
themselves and support enthusiastical-
ly those men In Washington who are
intent on having the government
make good its word and return the
properties which it has been admins
tering in trust.
Knowing that It would be futile to
go before a country already nauseated
by the inefhcieney OF public control
with q demand for straight govern
ment ownership. the railroad brother
hoods are working thru an organiza-
ton known as the Plumb Plan League.
They parry the evidences of NAL
administration by proposing that while
the government shall pay for the rail-
roads. they themselves shall manage
them-and get the profits If there are
any.
It is asserted by the Manufacturers
Record that every influence the union
labor element possesses has been en-
ployed to prevent final legislation on
the railroads during the last few
months. and that the retention of the
roads by the president is a great vic
tory for the union labor element.
What. the Plumb adherents have
wanted was time in which to spread
their propaganda. They are going to
spread It into every nook and corner of
the Union during the next three
months. and 1t Is going to be the sort
OF propaganda which can only be an
swered by knowledge Of the facts.
IAN assured number of senators"
continues the Record, shave already
agreed to exhaust their power in pre-
venting return legislation. The
Plumb adherents hope, therefore, that
with the support they now have and
the support they expect their propa-
ganda TO bring them they will be able
again 10 block legislation; that on
March 1 nothing final will have been
done. on which account the executive
authority will again postpone the ter
mination OF government control until
after the presidential election.
THAT is the big goal the Plumb peo-
pie are driving at. They know the
present congress will never vote to
accept the Plumb or any other Social
istic plan. They want the whole issue
held over. therefore, until the next
congress. when they expect to have a
president, as well as a congress,
pledged to support their scheme"
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The coal strike demonstrated that
no matter how many millions a man
has he can not keep warm In winter
without artificial heat In such times
coal can be had thru work only-all
the gold in the world would not draw
smut from the ground. The more
of US that work, the longer we work,
the harder we work, the more we will
have, for everything we use is the fruit
Of labor.
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men. women and children of all lands.
1t is tragic, it Is saddening, it is mad
dening to think that this one mans
actions may topple over civilization
and ehgulf US all in woe and wreck
and hIoo6