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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LE1B PAPE.

Me and pop was eating breakfast
this morning and pop put his watch on
the tahle, saying. One hand is loose.
do you think you can strane a point
and remember to take it 10 the joolers
after skool.
WITCH 1 remembered to take it all
rite. ony on the way it axsidentIy
slipped out of my hand vile 1 was car
rying it careful by the cpd of the
chain, and it fell rite on the pavement
making a noise as if something fearse
was happening inside, me thinking.
Heck, good mite, G.
And wen 1 showed it to the iooler
he opened it and looked at its insides
shaking his he'd. saying, You bleeve in
treating them ruff, don't you?
wy. it dident fall very far, sed.
and he said. A foot is as good as Il
mile ware watches are concerned il
will cost 4 dollers and so cents to re-
pair, come back in ? weeks and you'll
be lucky if you get it then.
One hands loose, too. sed. and he
sed. wouldent doubt it.
And tonite at suppir pop sed. DID
you remember to take that watch to
the jooler2
Yes sir. I sed. Not saying wat eIts
happened. and pop sed, Wen lets have
it, ware is it? and ! sed. It's still up
there. he sed come back in weeks.
2 weeks to fix a loose hand. the
man must be dippy. wat did he say
it would cost? sed pop.
4 dollers and so cents. 7 sed. and
pop sed, Wat. how mulch. wat2 WITCH
I told him agen feeling as If some
thing was going to happin. and pop
sed He cant charge eny sutch sum as
that for fixing a loose hand, the mans
a j0oier. not a plummer. I'll go rite I'D
there after suppir and tell him whst
] think of him and his hole family
Me thinking. Gosh. holeg sTnoaks.
heck And sed. WelhG. pop, he sed
other things, was the matter with It
too.
Well Their he told a lie. sed pop
and 7 sed. Well gosh. pop. maybe IL
would of bin a lie wen you saw the
watch last but don't think it was wen
he saw it.
Did you drop that watch2 SEQ pop.
and I sed. Ony once.
Wich Jest then something happened.
proving I was rite.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27
Dorothy Dix Tails
rms husband Trainer-2.
M DOROTHY DIX
worla's Highest Paid Woman WE


Experience teaches him that the best
of women are full of whims and pre-
JUDGES, and have their little ways, and
that they can be cajoled into doing
things that no human force could drive
them into doing.
Also experience teaches him that no
man can be both bond and free, and
that when once fellow slips his neck
into the matrimonial yoke, it is there
for keeps, and that his wisest policy is
to find some simple domestic remedy
that will take the sting out of the
CALLED places, and to acquire a dex-
terfty in avoiding the rough places as
much as may be.
All of ibis a mans first wife teaches
him. She is the trainer who domesti-
Gates the wild man she has caught
and trains him, figurativesy speaking,
to jump thru the hoop, and roll over
and play dead and eat out of her
hand.
No widower who marries imagines
that he is getting a. pin feathered
angel. He knows he is getting 4 very
human woman with tears and tenn
permanent, but he gets along with her
peaceably because he has learned to
call his wife's temper nerves. and
when to reason with her, and when to
shut the door softly behind him. and
fade away until she has had time to
get over her tntrum
The second time a man enters the
matrimonial fold he goes not in as a
laundering fool, with no charto COM
pass to guide him. He has a working
specification of the feminine character.
He knows that the salve- spreader is
more potent than the hammer with
women. He knows that you can kiss
a woman's eyes shut so that she will
be as blind as bat. and that as long
as man tells his wife that she is
the most beautiful creature in the
world, and grows younger every day.
he can break every law of God and
or she won't believe it if she does find
it out.
People often comment on the fact
that men are more generous to their
second wives than to their first It
merely means that they have found
out that marimony is just one bill
after another, and are no longer
shocked by the upkeep of home.
Then, too. a mans goodness towards
his second wife is often the expression
of remorse over the way he treated
his first wife. He did not intend to
be cruel to his first wife but when she
was gone, he realized how much of
tenderness, how much of affection, he
might have shown her and never did,
and it makes him very considerate to
the next woman whose happiness he
takes into his hands.
Undoubtedly, the first wife is a mis-
sionary who goes before, and makes
smooth the way of the second wife.
Of his first wife every may truly say
with kipIing's hero. "And I learned
about women from her."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27
JUST FOLKS
az EDGAR A. GUEST.

THE HUMBLE FRIENDSHIP.
When trouble comes and our skies grow
gray.
What we really need is the friendly way
OF the kindly people who understand.
And not the manners of people grand.
The simple ways of the folks we knowI
With their gentle speech and the words
that flow
Right out of their hearts, mean more to us
Than style or fashion or pomp and fuss.
The pnes who stick to us, thick or thin,
Are the simple people who just drop in
The friends who love us and never care,
That old ard worn is the garb We wear.
The friends who live as we live, and know
The self-same hurts fnd the self-same woe,
Are the ones who comfort us thru and thru
With the words they say and the deeds
they do.
Oh, know We fancy it much worth while
To win from the famous a feeting smile
Or a passing nod. But in days of pain,
Then style and fashion and pomp are vain.
The gentle folks we have known for years
Are the ones who comfort and dry our
tears,
For it's simple speech and a friendly way
That we all must have when our skies are
gray
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A. Guest)
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that call. he turned swiftly and leape /
the fence.
You called ne2s he asked eagerly.
The girls charming face dropped
into her hands at is not my dog>-I
wanted him sol found him IN the
bushes beside the bridge a month ago
one of his paws was hurt; 1 think
an automobile must have struck him.
brought him home-here-and be-
cause L have no one who really be-
long to- me, tho Mrs. Addy is so kind.
1 adopted him. 1 tried to find out his
name-he wore no collar--and tried
ever so many. but when [ said Bob
he went wild. I believed it was his
name. That's air.
The mans eyes fell to the dog, who
was curled contentedly beside him.
| His names 'Sandy'-he recognized
my name when you called Bob.
apologiZed Sandy's owner. about a
month ago. I chained him up. 1 was
going to the city and couldn't take
him that day When 1 got home !
learned he had slipped his collar and.
followed the car. I must have left
him far behind. poor little beggar. II
1 had only known!f'
Sandy was leaping now between the
man and the girl, torn between two
loves. do you mind keeping him
awhile longer?" asked Bob Mason. Il
will come after him later-it's too bad
to tear him away so suddenly
That is very kind of you" said
Evalyn primly. but her eyes shone
with joy. When she was alone with
the amazed Sandy, she kissed the
startled canine on his black. muzzIe
Il don't wonder you like hinG Sandy
she whispered.
Bob Mason. who turned out to be a
stakeholder in the lumber mill. living
in the adjoining town, came many
times to- visit Sandy. tho Mrs. Addy
declared the poor heastie played Sec
Qnd fiddle to Evalyn But late in the
fall, when it was too cold OF sit under
the maple, Bob told Evalyn that they
must reach decision about the own
ership of Sandy.
She looked wistfully into the glow
ing fire. while Bob adoring1y regard
ed her dainty profile. LET Sandy
choose she evaded. and when they
asked Sandy. that most intelligent of
Airedales stood erect and placed one
paw on Evalyn's hand and the other
on Bob's knee
Just what 1 was going to suggest"
whispered Bob softly, and as Evalyn
said nothing for awhile, it is to be in
ferred that Sandy had his own way
about it,
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
.aTHE Go-GET.TER. ;.

A friend sent me a little book the
other day and asked me to read it. 1
promised to do so. I laid it aside
for 1 myself was busy go-getting.
In about three days my friend called
me up. Have you read that little
book?" NO." I replied. well, read
it tonight. It will only take a half
hour" I again promised that I would
try to get to it.
In a few more days, my friend again
called me to the telephone and asked
if I had read the story. Again I had
to confess that I had not done so.
Chagrined.' took up the book that
evening before retiring and started to
read it. I read it from cover to cover
before could stop. didn't even dare
to look up for fear I would lose some
of its precious, scintilIating thoughts.
Then I went to bed and slept the sleep
ofsone inspired.
Next morning, went to my library
and reread the story before going to
work.
And even now as I think of that
go-getter tale-whieh, by the way, was
written by none other than Peter B.
Kyne=I feel a thrill Of new. SO per
cent ned blood shooting its forgetting
spirit thru my veins.
I have already seen that a copy is
insthe hands of all those who so Loyalty
serve me in my office
If there is a greater job than that
of go-getting and helping others to 60
get would ike TO know what it is.
I won't tell the story for that would
spoil its glory for those who will YET
read it But if that little book could
be put into the hands of every low
ebbed soul in the world today. there
would be such stimulus to business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27

The interest OF island countries in
the maintenance of fleet of subma-
1ines might reasonably be supposed
TO be identical. but it seems this is not
so. While England would practically
eliminate undersea craft from naval
armament, Japan insists on maintain
ing a big fleet. 1t may be that this
difference has been reached by agree
ment for the purpose of rendering
abortive the Washington conference.
Nobody can tell what is going on in
foreign diplomatic circles merely by
looking on and lreading the newspa-
pers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27
A TARIFF ON BOOKS.

Hardly a day passes in which no.
body calls attention to some new in
EQUITY in the Fordney tariff bill. The
New YORK Times recently directed no
tice to the book sections of the bill.
Since 1890 an immigrants books
and necessary household effects have
been on the free list. Mr. Fordney
claps duty on those books If their
value is more than $3.50. Since 1916
no American library has paid a duty
on the books it imported. This dan
gerous concession to exotic knowledge
must be stopped. Institutions daring
to import more than two copies of a
foreign book must pay duty.
Foreign textbooks for schools and
colleges are to be taken off the free
list. AS for the citizen who reads for
eign books in any language. books OF
whatever date, he must pay a duty.
Thus the ptactice of more than fifty
years is reversed. Teachers, scholars,
scientists must pay a 20 per cent duty
on the books they import.
Add to these restrictions. says the
Times. the incomprehensibIe arbitrary
bedevilments of American valuation
and you have a comprehensive Scheme
for hampering the progress of Ameri-
can education. science and the human
arts.
The party that used to pride itself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
written for The State journal
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: % Is II
o'clock too late to come home about
three days a week?
when he is introduced to a girl?
cd How many times a month is it
sufficient to go to a dance?
(4) What should Z send to college
boy for Christmas. He is three years
older than I am. NJ P. NJ
(1) For a young person between
sixteen and tWenty-one I think three
time a week too often to be out as
late as II o'clock =
ca Il am glad to meet YOU
(Sl I would consider once a week
ample
90 A book would make an appro-
pirate gift.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27
Ouestions-Answers

O. How many sailors enlisted in the
| Navy during the World War? d. O. ?,
A At the time We declared war. there
were G2.Ooo men in the Navy $4,000 en-
listed during the war: and 551, 900 saw ser
| vice in the Navy during the conflict.
| @. Please tell me of shrub or small
! tree that will produce immediate effect in
summer for a background screen, and will
be quick growing, be at least five or six
N. {. 60
that the mountain laurel comes nearer to
filling your requirements than any other
plant they know.
Q. What part Of watermelon is water?
A. The watermelon is $500 per cent wa
O. Who was officially credited with the
capture of Stenay France? r. X. 5.
A. The Mar Department says that the
Goth Division. A. E. f. is credited with the
3. Is the expression "a setting hen"
A. 4 Setting hem is considered col
IoquiaI and incorrect, altho it was in use
as early as the sixteenth century.
q. WIN mail carriers deliver mall on
A. The Posfoffice Department says that
as a general rule if a holiday comes on
of observing the-festivaI on the following
day. but one exception to this rule is
Christmas
of the year and December 22nd always the
/ shortest? D A. C.
A. The Naval Observatory says June 81
is not always the longest day in northern
Iatitudes nor is December % always the
shortest. Expressing the date in accord
ance with the civil day OF the eastern stan
dard time zone, the longest day of 1922 and
1923 is June % while the shortest day of
1926 was December 81
O. How many of the American soldiers
fought in France2 J. D. NJ
A. The War Department says that it has
been estimated that the total number Of
A arfa In n
O. What are the four words in the Eng
lish language which end in "dous a. l..
A The four words in our language
finch end in "doHs" are tremendous. stu
uendous, hazardous and Jeopardous.
O. We're French prisoners ever executed
by drow1ing2 z. G
A During the Reign Of Terror, the Rev
olutionary agent Carrier OF Nantes ha1
prisoners who were bound and placed in
boats with movable bottoms. These >rFere
taken out in the River Loire and when
| in midstream the bottoms were opened,
preeipitating the condemned persons INTO
the water
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27

While it is universally admitted
that honesty is the best policy, the
records show that the year drawing to
a close has been a remarkably profit
able one for the crooks, thieves and
robbers. Chicago alone reports a
business done byN these classes
amounting to more than three million
dollars siaee the first of last January.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27

Hardly a day passes without a.
shooting in connection with the pack
ing house strike. Total disarmament
appears to be an imperative need. A
reduction in Armament may be all
right for nations, but it will not suf-
flee in labor controversies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27

Taxpayers leagues, it is reported,
are being organized in various parts
of Kansas. 1t would be interesting to
know which candidate for governor is
engineering the movement. This plan
of obtaining office has been in use
off and on for many years. It is not
nafented
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27

c. II. Gustafson. president of the
United States Grain Growers, Inc,
proposed to the National Association
Of State Marketing Officials that it
take steps for the protection of farm
ers from fake cooperative schemes.
Mr.. Gustafson might properly have
included fake political schemes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27

What may turn out to be fatal
Misunderstanding has arisen regard
ing the meaning of the four power
treaty. A similar thing happened to
the Versailles treaty. There was. ap-
parentiy at least. a wide divergence
of opinion concerning the meaning of
that document
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27

The people of Haiti seem to know
when they are we'll off. They refuse
TO take any steps toward bringing
about an end to American occupation
Of the island.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27

on being the party of intelligence, now
is trying to prevent the dumping OF
foreign intelligence inside the tariff
wall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27
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Copyright. 1926. by The urselsr Syndicate
incl
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-11-25

The Story Of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
XLV.-OKLAHOMA
es>'1sf y aAA the record
ESNc0(,SN\G,AfA for rapid
m NJ sTf5,59 growth. 1t
No.. Sz atT was in the
N%s6F qpAYN first term of
1331 Presi dent
Benjamin Harrison that Okla
homa was opened up. Good farm
land available under the Home
stead Act was difficult to find
so the United States bought from
the Indians, who had been segre-
gated in Indian territory, large
tract of some 10000 square miles
that had been used largely by
the Indians as pasture for their
cattle and horses. This was
called Oklahoma, a word mean
ing 'fine country" and was ar
ranged to be ready for sale to
homesteaders at u o'clock noon
of April %, 1889. Troops were
placed on guard to prevent any
settlers entering before that time
for more than 100000 boomers"
as they were called, came from
all over the country to obtain
farms or places for business. On
the stroke of the hour, bugles
sounded and the mad rush by
men, women and children to To-
cate claims began. The govern
ment had arranged land officers
at many places at which claims
could be filed for the farms or
city lots, and all that day these
were besieged by fighting mobs
to register their selections. Be
fore nightfall hundreds of farms
were staked out and Oklahoma
City and Guthrie were well on
their way TO become cities. !.
Thus was developed this re-
gion which came into the pos (,
session of the United States as |.
a part of the Louisiana Purchase (:
in 1903 and which was set aside |.
for so many years as Indian I
country. Previous to the forma-
ton of Oklahoma territory, con- !
gress had forbidden white set
tiers in this part of the country, !!
and this edict was enforced by Z:
federal troops. AS the demand
for more land was felt and as the /:
Indians decreased in numbers,
Indian territory was added to I
Oklahoma territory, and in 1907 .
it was admitted to the Union as
the State of Oklahoma, adding
another star to our flag, which .
for eleven years had contained
forty-fve. The state has -four .
ished to such an extent that 1t
has ten presidential electors, =.
which is more than double that ;
of many of the older states of
larger size.
20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-11-25

The Roughneck is telling about what
Tough Guy he is, and how he is
Known around home as Bad Bill. In
reality, he isn't Bad so much as he is
Dirty and Lazy, and If he lived in a
Big City with the real Wild Ones, his
Name would be Sweet William. This
Guy impresses Nobody but the Kids.
The Pulaskian., 1921-04-07
PLEASANT HILL NEWS.

v The Sunday school at Pleasant Hill has revived and is progressing nicely at present.
 Mrs. Erickson met the ladies of the Tate Mill community Saturday evening at the school house and or ganized an s. I. A.
 Miss Alvertia Mitchell spent Sat urday night with Miss Ola Mitchell. Mir. and Mrs. Malcolm Huffman visited their parents, Mir. and Mrs. Hammons, Saturday night.
 The gardens were very much set back by the cold spell but we think they will pull through all right. We are afraid this cold spell has injured the fruit very much in this country. MT. and Mrs. Bill Jones were call CTS at the McPherson home Sunday. MT. and Mrs. J. O. Dorsey, Mrs. Ada Dorsey and children and Miss Gladys Jones visited at R. L. Dor sey's Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Walter McPherson called on Mir. and Mrs. Fortson Sun day.
 We do not have to go to the phono- graph for music now, as the chuck ing hens and their baby chicks, try ing to initiate them, are enough music nowadays.
 We think Mir. Beck has quit ever rambling up in this part of the coun- try. We think he must have been around pretty close, as we have been getting plenty of rain.
 BROWN EYES.
The Pulaskian., 1921-04-07
HOLLY SPRINGS.

< x ** x < < x
 We are having some pretty weath- CT at this writing. Most everybody is planting corn.
 Singing at MT. Wilkerson's Sun day evening was well attended.
 Miss Annie Avery, Myra Wilker- son and Mir. John Avery were the dinner guests of Miss Annie Bell and Maud Ball Sunday.
 Miss Bernice Brown, Annie Avery, Lila Ellis, Myra Wilkerson and Mir. Wilbur Brown, John Avery, Austin Ellis, Preston Ball, Fay Kanady and Luther Ball and wife attended the program at Fletcher Springs Satur- day night, and all reported "a nice time.
 NIT. and Mrs. J. J. White and little daughters, of Circle Star, spent Sun day with Mir. John A. R. White at Walnut Grove.