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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
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Q. What was the greatest battle of the
World War in which our soldiers par
ticipated "A. H. l..
serves that distinction. 1t lasted forty
seven days, and 100000 American troops
o. Is an OK service man entitled to gov
ernment compensation from the time he
was wounded until he was discharged eight
months later &C. A. g.
A. A soldier is not entitled to any COM
pensation from the government until after
he has been discharged from the service;
his pay and also hospital and medical at
tention.
O. Can you tell me what kind OF bever-
age was used in toasting the health of
President Wilson and the King Of England
at the dinner given by Secretary of the
Navy Daniels to Admiral Jellicoe ?-J. b.
A. At the office of the secretary Of the
navy it was said that Adams Ale" better
used to drink the health Of the two great
: o. why is the 10th Century sometimes
referred to rs the most tragic century in
A This century is called the Tragic
Century" on account of the great number
of deaths occurring in it. The whole world
was swept by plaques turnout the hundred
years. Pestilence nearly depopulated China
ana rags1 turnout epmany MA H Rnasi itay
Sweating sickness which broke out in
England in 1906 caused the death of nearly
of that country. The century was also
noted for its many wars.
| Q. Can trains take on water without
stopping Nv. A. D.
: A. There is an ingenious device by
which n train may pick up water without
stopping. There is n shallow trough be-
tween the rails which is filled with water.
The engine Is equipped with n small scoop
which lowers into the trough, and thus
picks up the water a the train goes along.
Q. Did Lord Kitchener die during the
| World War7-A. II. C..
| A.. He was drowned on June 5, 1916.
when the British cruiser, Hampshire, was
| sunk by German mine off the West Ork-
| ney Islands.
Q. Are there any vacancies in the United
| States diplomatic corps III. H. E.
A. The United States lacks ENJOYS IN
nine foreign countries. Diplomatic posts.
| exclusive Of those In enemy countries, and
in nations with which the United States
has severed diplomatic relations where
| vacancies exist are: Italy. the Netherlands
| China, Switzerland, Greece, Siam, Salvador
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BIT MRS ELIZABETH THOMPSON


Dear Mrs. Thompson: am a girl
about sixteen years old. There IS a
real nice young man about eighteen
who wishes to keep company with me-
My folks object to my going. They
have nothing against him, but they
think am too young.
Would it be proper for me TO slip
out and go without their consent
sometimes2 like him very much
and he seems to care a great deal for
me.
have gone with him several times
and he acts Nike a gentleman.
F. NJ. s.
Your parents are right-you are too
young to keep company with the
young man. Do not disobey your par
ents and slip out. II you do, they will
find it out and SO will other people
who will talk and perhaps in5ure your
reputation 1t is safer to wait a year
or two until you are old enough to
have a boy friend.
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The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned 4 Medesn s.o.z q Home and Business
A Moclssn Story of H
Bv JANE PHELPS

seem strange. Ny life had been rather
drab and dull. Not as much 50 as
many girls who were obliged to work,
because until I was IS 1 had hdd
Mother. But my ambition to become
expert in the business had left me lit
tie time for frivolity So now l was
making up for lost time. told Robert.
And 1 laughed, and sang. the blessed
hours away. while we wandered along
the mountain paths. finding new beau
ties each day and, as Robert said;
Getting acquainted
II want you to know Mrs. Mere
dith.' he said one day after mock
introduction. You think she is the
same woman you used to know as
Geraldine Frost, but she isn't. That
Frost girl was quiet and rather dig
nified, while Mrs. Meredith is a happy
mountain sprite."
"I am not the only one who is off
ferent." assured him. You are
lchanged too. never knew had mar
ried a poet, rather a man with a
poeticai mind. You never know a
person until you have lived with him
should be until you are married to
them But wait until we get back in
town; I'll wager we will both be prac-
| teal then"
/, little knew how prophetic was my
speechr
| Not once had Robert spoken of my
giving up my work; not once mem
toned his disappointment that he was
not to have a home. The reference
to the money he had saved for furnish
ing was the only hint that he thought
of it. But the evening of our last
day he was very silent We were sit
ting on the broad piazza of the hotel
he was smoking, my hand clasped in
his.
What are you thinking of, Robert %
I asked.
/ "Of tomorrow-we must go back to
Everyday life. Isn't it sad. Gerry, that
joyous things never ast?-we shall
be just prosaic couple like thousands
of others tomorrow. You will be
wrapped up in your work. in mine
Now we are engrossed solely in each
other. I wonder-how it is going tc
work OUT
What do you mean, dear? What
work out?"
"Our lives together. Come, dear, il
is growing chilly. Let US go in" H,
had not given me time to answer.
i ITO be continued.)
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TO END COAL FANIINEs.

While President Wilson's commits
sion is endeavoring to reach a salts
factory adjustment of the differences
existing between coal operators and
miners in the matter OF wages and
working conditions, congress is max
ing an effort-to remove one of the
chief causes of these differences and
at the same time confer benefit on
the consumer. Shortage of coal sup
ply. idle miners, closed mines-all
these conditions not infrequently are
charged to shortage of cars at the
mines. This the trainers of both rail-
road bills have sought to remedy.
The greatest single commodity en-
tering into interstate commerce is coal.
Likewise its continuous and uninter-
rupted now to the industries depend
ent upon it for fuel is the most i'm
portant duty with which the railroads
of the country are charged. The vital
necessity for furnishing each mine
with sufficient cars to care for its
output is recognized. By far the most
comprehensive provisions covering car
service to coal mines are to be found
in the senate bill. In that measure
the subject is gone into with great par
ticularity. special effort being made
TO remove all sources of discrimina-
ton between mines in the numbers of
cars furnished during a car shortage.
Both the house and senate bills
make it incumbent upon carriers to
establish ratings for coal mines To-
Gated upon their lines. and in periods
of car slortage the cars furnished a
mine shall be counted against the dis
trfbutive share of the mine receiving
them But the senate measure goes a
step farther. and prohibits carrier
from furnishing a mine with more
than its proportionate share of cars
during such a period.
The house bill, in its mine car serv-
ice provisions, makes no exception in
favor of coal destined for use as fuel
in the movement of trains. The SEN
ate measure. on the other hand, rec
ognizes the imperative necessity OF
keeping our transportation system in
motion even at the cost of denying
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Observation-Disclosures Observation-Disclosures

Immediately attracted to the splendid
qualities that stood out so prominently
as the Interview went on.
But 1t wasn't a one-sided liking. The
young man liked Jesus very much
so much so that he impuisively and
enthusiastically declared: at want to
become your pupil, I want to help
you in your great work of helping
people"
1t was here that the penetrating
mind of Jesus sought to make his
friend truly great. SO He said: "All
right, sell all that you have and come
and work with me-
At these words, however, the young
man-who was rich young ruler
became very sad and went away, for
he had great possessions"
1t is an undying law of life that he
who would have most must give away
all that he has Jesus left nothing at
His death-but all that He Tasl
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THE CAR SHORTAGE.

While the government has been
carrying on a futile effort to reduce
the cost of living it has been neglect
ing plain opportunities for accomplish
ing something worth while along this
line. One of the primary causes of
high prices is an Inadequate supply of
railroad cars. This condition the rail-
road administration has had 1t in its
power to remedy.
Speaking before the Rotary club of
Pittsburgh Friday, Samuel o. Dunn,
editor of the Railway Age. pointed out
that the railways are unable even now
to handle all the commodities that the
Industries of the country can produce
The freight traffic actually carried
has increased As per cent in four and
| one-half years, while the number of
freight cars in which to carry it has
increased only 2 per cent and other
railway facilitiese in proportion. In
spite of the increase in the amount of
freight they are actually carrying, the
railways cannot now handle all the
mills are shut down in the northwest
because the railways cannot furnish
enough cars to move the lumber. The
governor of Kansas recently an
nounced that As per cent of the wheat
grown in this state last year was still
In the hands of the farmers because
the railways could not haul it away.
The coal mine operators constantly
complain that they cannet get enough
! cars to move the coal.
Elm spite of this condition" said Mr..
Dunn, I'VE are going rapidly ahead
investing vast sums in new Industries
and in enlarging old ones with the ex-
pectation of still further increasing
the production of the country. But
unless the capacity of the railroads be
rapidly and greatly increased it will
be impossible for these new and en-
iarged industries to get sufficient raw
materials hauled or to ship their fin
ished products to market. If they can
not get enough raw materials or ship
their products to market they will be
unable to earn a return upon the new
investment in them. If they cannot
earn a" return upon the investment
they will become bankrupt, and in be-
coming bankrupt will pull down with
them many of the financial institu-
lions of the country.
I'VE are at the very crisis of the
consideration of the railroad problem
now. If congress pass legislation
which will cause an immediate and
large revival of the expansion of rail-
road facilities, the dangers which seem
to be ahead OF US may be avoided"
Mr.. Dunn estimated that $4,000
100000 a year should be invested in
the railroads for the next three years
1T am told" he said, that the au-
Il tomobile manufacturers have plans
for building 100000 automobiles
during this year. At an average OF
$1,000 a car. they would cost $4,000
100000. Surely If we can spend
$4,000, 100000 a year for automobiles
we can spend $4,000. 900. 600 TO make
the facilities of our railways adequate
to carry the commerce of the country
1t is high time the country awakened
to the fact that its Industrial growth
is going to be brought to a stop and
it's prosperity destroyed, unless ii
solves the railroad problem soon and
solves it right"
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was the unsekish love he had offered.
1t was all too late now-probably he
had forgotten her-she. had treated
him heartlessly. She wouldn't blame
him II he hated her.
But he doesn't. oh, my own little
girl. he doesn't. He has been rowing
around over the country trying to find
you and
well, Sid McLaren. aren't you
ashamed to let me make such fool
of myself?"
He was glad, and he was happy, and
showed it. He showed it by an old
fashioned method to which time has
brought no improvements, and which.
where a woman is concerned. never
fails to carry conviction.
tCopyright 1920. by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate.)
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Folks
Zp
E23zr16nest
BUDS HAT.

BUDS HAT.
It's funny bout a feller's hat
He can't remember where it's at.
Or where he took II off, or when.
The time he's wantin' IL again:
He knows just where he leaves his shoee
His sweater he won't often lose
An he can find his rubbers, but
He can't tell where his hat IL put.
A feller's hat gets anywhere,
Sometimes he'll find It in chair
Or on the sideboard, or maybe
It's in the kitchen, Just where he
Gave 1t n toss beside the rink
When he came in to get n drink
An then forgot-but anyhow
He never knows where Il is now.
A feller's hat IL never where
lie thinks IL Is when he goes theref
It's never any use to look
For II upon closet hook
Cog ft IL always in some place
IL shouldn't be. tn his disgrace
An he will find IL. like rs not.
Behind some radiator hot.
4 fei1er's hat can get aray
From him most any time of dav~
SO he can't find it when
lie wants II to go out again.
II nlttcs IN corners dark and grim
An seems to want to bother him
disappears from sight somehow
Hish L knew where mine Is now
Copyright 1919 By Edgar A. Gu.rt.
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The persistency with which Attcr-
ney General Palmer's department in
sists that prices are about to come
down is equaled only by that of those
persons who predict the end of the
world. If the federal officials will
stick to their forecasts long enough
they are certain to win. There prob
ably will be a decline in prices before
the end of the year but not as the re-
suit of anything that the government
has done or may do. The drop In
prices is likely to come slowly and al
most imperceptibly, but in q year
from now it is probable that we may
look back and see that there has been
a decline. There are abundant indi-
cations that the peak has been
reached. With labor fully employed
and the supply increasing. production
must inevitably overtake demand.
When that time arrives prices will
start downward. Nothing that con-
gress. Legislatures or departmental Of
ficials can do will hasten the day, but
they can do much to retard it. If the
government had kept its hands off
business and industry following the
close of the war the country would
have been better off.
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CHAPTER VI.


We were married the first week in
October. I told Robert that I had
rubbed Aladdin's lamp and that the
wonderful weather we had for our
honeymoon in the White Mountains
I was delirioasly happy. Robert
was all and more than / had pictured
he would be. He was SO tender. so
loving. SO all that seemed to be nee
essary in a husband that I felt like a
happy child instead of a staid sales
woman Of rs.
We were staying at a very nice,
quiet hotel; yet one that we could
scarcely afford. But Robert said:
ITS only for a week. and as you
are determined to work I may as well
use some of the money L have been
saving to go TO housekeeping with,
ever since the first day 1 met you"
1t was the first time he had spoken
of any saving for that purpose and
some way there was tone of a hurt
child in the words. But I pretended
not to notice, and changed the subject.
Afterward I thought of it. the hurt
little note in his voice came back to
me, and 1 made up my mind that I
too would save. and some day. a long
time distant, perhaps we would go to
housekeeping: perhaps we would have
a home such as Robert dreamed of
having.
Often I have looked back at that
happy week of my honeymoon and
wondered if all brides are as happy as
was. If all men were as thoughtful
as perfect as Robert seemed to be-
when first married. And have de-
cided they are not. Robert loved me
unselfishly. He gave up his own
dream of a home without making me
uncomfortable. just as he gave up
other dreams he had had without ever
letting me know he had been dream
ing.
I felt, in that glorious week in the
mountains covered with their mantle
of red and gold drapery. as if the sur
would always shine upon me as II
shone upon those wonderful trees
making them glow and culver like
living things. And just as the colder
light filled with color and glory tht
earth around us, so would Robert.
love fill my life with sunshine, I be.
lieved.
To those who have studied tn,
marvellous physiological effect upo1
women of love, of happiness, the ex
uberance of my feeling will no
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1t is reported that the forces of the
Bolsheviki are approaching the from
tiers of India. If anything will arouse
England to action against the red ter
ror it is this. Since she can't use her
navy in defense of her Asiatic posses
sions. she may find herself with q big
job on her hands. 1t might have been
better for the civilized nations to have
arrested the soviet movement while
it could have been done easily instead
of waiting for 1t to die a natural death.
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FROM time to time we have had
drives to help the Y. w. C. A, the
Salvation ~1Ern& the Y. M. C. A.
Washburn college and many other
worthy institutions. But today there
is inaugurated drive to help our
selves. which should appeal to every
body. 1t is the beginning of National
Thrift Week. Bankers and financiers
who have accumulated money thru
saving and investment are urging
everybody else to go and do likewise.
They are ready and anxious to tell the
inquiring person how it is done and
help him make q start. What they
say should command attention. Their
advice can be turned into cash.
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Dorothy Dix Talks
My and Dccembcr--2.

My and Dccembcr--2.
Whichever way the case is decided,
one or the other is bound to be a
domestic martyr. Generally both are
made miserable, for 1t is the privilege
of the martyred one to shrek so loud
ly about the sufferings of being sacri-
feed on the family altar that it is
about as comfortable to be the victim
as 1t is to be the victor.
If it is a fatal folly for a man to
marry a woman much younger than
himself, It is even more deadly mis-
take for girl to marry a man much
older than she is, because marriage
to an old man emphasizes every dis
agreeable feature of the marital re-
lationship, and robs it of most of it's
ameliorating circumstances.
Girls are cruelty misled in this mat
ter. THERE'S an old proverb that
teaches them that it is better to be an
old mans darling. than a young mans
slave. Many girls marry old men in
the fond illusion that they will be
pampered pets. able to wind their dot
ing old spouses around their little
fingers, and that their grandpoppery
husbands will do nothing but sign
checks and urge them on to enjoy
themselves.
Never was there a more beseless
dream. 1t is true that the elderly hus-
band. if he be rich, generally does de-
light in dressing his pretty young wife
UP like q circus horse and parading
her around now and then in public.
Also he provides her with a fine es-
tablishment, for. after all, y. a wife is
her husbands show window where he
can make splurge by displaying his
wealth.
But that's about all the child wife
gets for her bargain. And she doesn't
get that IL the old man is stingy. as old
men very often are. Some of the
hardest working women I have ever
known in my life were the young
wives of elderly men who had to cork
screw every penny they got out of
misery old hands that had a death
grip on their pocket books.
Also practically all old people are
tyrannical and arrogant. They feel
that their age gives them a right to
be dictatorial and impose their views
and code of conduct on everyone else
and so the young wife instead OF be-
ing able to lead her old husband
around by the nose finds that she is
treated like a child>and expected to
give a child's obedience. IT takes an
old husband to enforce domestic slav-
cry on his wife in these days. No
young man has the nerve to even at
tempt it.
Generally speaking, the marriage
between May and December turns out
.disastrousiy for both parties. There
may be exceptions to the rule, but the
risk is too great 10 make II worth
while to even take Il sporting chance
On it.
n
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The Park Ave. News.

The Park Ave. News
Weather. Rain or snow or neither.
Siss.ety. Scra mble eggs is Miss
Mary Watkinses favorite eggs, but she
genrelly asks for soft berled wen there
is compinny fer breakfast on account
of sounding more refined.
Spoarts. A funny noise contest was
held last Wensday mite in the Little
Grand moving pickture theatre by
Benny. Potts. Skinny Martin. Leroy
Shooster, Wernick and unknown
boys who got in 1t without being
asked, the contest lasting till the usher
usher.
Pome by Skinny Martin.
Sutch Vanity.
The teeth the teeth the bewtifill
teeth,
Theer Ii sharp ones as well as blunt
ones,
We dislike very mulch to lose eny
of them,
But we hate to lose the frunt ones
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Ever sints Cross got his new
pencil sharpener none OF the Crosses
have had pencil longer than a
stump.
Pubs Simkins carries the biggest
buntch Of keys OF eny of the fellows
but he ony knows wat 2 of them IL
Supposed to fit.
wy not 1eeve US go to the lyberry
and seleck your books for you? Rates,
eny book you like, sents. eny book
you don't. one sent. eny book you
have red before, free. The Ed Wer-
nick and Lew Davis Book Getting
Compinny. (Ayvertizement)
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FOR HE HAD GREAT POSSES
STONSo

There Is no more inspiring charac-
ter in history than that of Jesus. The
manner of His birth, the way He
worked. and the things He said-tho
all are a matter of two thousand years
each day become more imperish-
able.
1t is entirely natural that the most
eminent and distinguished men of His
day were sincerely attracted to Him.
One day very accomplished young
man came to talk with Him. This
man was aristocratic, of fine birth,
and with an education that was the
product of the best schools of that
time.
Jesus was very much taken with this
young man and talked with him for a
long time. 1t must have been a most
interesting meeting. And Jesus, who
was a wonderful judge of men. was
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In all labor disturbances resulting In
strikes the employers come out better
off than the strikers. They can pass
the Iaborer must stand his own loss
OF wages. due to idleness. since for
these any wage increase he may gain
can never make up. He merely pays
over the increase to the higher cost of
living brought about by his own ac-
tons.