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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21
Fonr Nren Crushed TO Death.

Cleveland. Feb. 21.-At least four
men were believed crushed to death
when the walls of the third floor OF
the Masonic temple building collapsed
today. The four men were in an Of
flee on the lower floor OF the struc-
ture, which is being RACED.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21
CARROLL TAKES new JOB

Instructor in Printing Goes to State
Insurance office.
s. C.Carroll, who has been instructor
in printing at the Topeka high school
during the present term, has been ap-
pointed assistant superintendent of in
surance in the office of Col Frank L.
Travis, superintendent of insurance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21
Missouri Pacific Loan Approved.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The inter
state commerce commission today
granted authority TO the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad company to issue ST.
$1,000 worth of equipment of trust
certificates to purchase new equip
rnent priced at S2G76,S75
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21
winchester Pioneer Is Dead.

Winchester. Kan. Feb. 21.-Pioneer
Isaac Hull, go. died today. SiXty-fiye
years ago he came to Kansas as a
Methodist frontier minister.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21

Erie, Pa.-Burglars picked out rectories
as bountiful field for their operations
here Sunday. Rev J. c. Dembensky lost
$500 in valuabIes and money and Rev. T. A.
Robazewski- 500 in liberty bonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

WHEN BOTH ENDS MEET.
"An that goes mp IL bound to come down.
VIII the waist-line soen be the whole
Kownc
Walt Drummond.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21

! Little Carolinda Waters, seven.
month-old daughter Of Or. and
Mrs. W. L. Waters Of Clencove,
I. l., has been registered for entry
into Vas.ar COLLEGE and in SAID to
be the youngest ever regist ied.
Her first letter Of reconmendation
Cor entrance was -eceiyed from
Louise Carnegie Miller. daughter
Of Mrs. Andrew CarneGe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21

Draw from one 10 two and SO on
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
ROAD LEGISLATION OPPOSED
Engineers. Dairy Farmers, Fruit and Vegetable Growers Making Visor-
 ous Protests.

All industry and great portion of the agricultural interests of the coun- try are up in arms against the nasty and ill-adyised legislation already en- acted by few states and pending in others which threatens to strangle one of the nations most essential indus tries, motortruck transportation, says writer in an exchange.
 The protests come from highway engineers. dairy farmers. fruit and vegetable growers, grain belt shippers, all lines of industry and commerce and other operators of motortrucks and their patrons.
 They say increased license fees and restrictive legislation have been ef. feeted without sufficient investigation and without conclusive evidence.
 A sensible solution Is being worked out by the state of Illinois. The state highway department has under con struction an experimental road con taining 64 test sections, each section differing from the others in design.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
The Graphite industry.

In the island of Ceylon graphite is found in greater abundance than In any similar sized area in the world. The soil and rocks of Ceylon are al- most everywhere impregnated with graphite, so that it may be seen GOV ering the surface in the drains after il rain The supply is practically in- exhaustible. The peculiarity of Cey- lon graphite is its remarkable purity. Another source of graphite Is Chosen, the graphite found there being classi- fled as scaly. fibrous, .foliated and earthly, the first two classif1catiohs containing over 90 per cent carbon. In China, graphite is found ill several localities Scientific American.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
SsIf-Re eliance.

Now is the time for every one who wants work to think up something for himself. Don't depend upon somebody else. The integrity of life consists in seif-rellance. Be your own proprietor, If 1t is of nothing else but an acre and q little shop. We know the difficulty and do not discard the sympathy. But regard rather that independence and high purpose that make up the real manhood. Men will have to work for others while time lasts, but there IS nothing so noble In the hearts as the aspiration to be ones own man and direct ones own destiny. Society is divided in classes these days, each one striving to outwit the other, but the grandest class of all is the man him self. with his own destiny in his fists. With all our organized industry there never was a time when individual CT terprise had better chance than now. If you are artieulated in some great in- dustry. keep in the heart the hope that you will be your own master some day.
 Ohio State Journal.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08

dler, and when he had gruffiy asked what the fellow wanted, he was an- swered with:
 Mfr Bowser, 1 am told you don't like our hollering, and so we ain't go- ing to holler no more. I have called to see if you wanted any vegetables. l have load of them out here, and warrant them fresh and sweet Being as the hour is late, and want to get home"
 Well, you can go right home," in- terrupted Mir. Bowser, as he slammed Bowser muttering something about in- formal impudence, to which she re- piled:
 Don't be so impatient; your reform seems to be working"
 In about 15 minutes there was a third ring and a third peddler stood at the door and softly said:
 "Mr. Bowser, are you in want of some nice vegetables? I have some beauties out here, and there Is a bar gain in every bunch of them. I have some tomatoes here almost as big as oranges. If you want sugar beets-"
 'I want you to beat it l" shouted Mir. Bowser, "and don't you ever come here again !"
 Just as you say, old man," quietly replied the peddler. If have put you arIa
 When Mir. Bowser returned to the sitting room this time, he found Mrs Bowser trying hard to keep sober face, and he shouted at her:
 "Oh, it's very funny, is 1t? Well, I'll show you whether it's funny or not! If another peddler calls. he shall die right on our door stepl"
 No other peddler called. After a lapse of few minutes the telephone bell rang, and MT. Bowser responded with hello" to hear voice saying:
 "Mr. Bowser, beg your pardon for disturbing you. Do you want some string beans for your dinner tomor- row? have other things. I have some of the best potatoes you ever put your tooth In, and I'll give you a big bargain if you want quart or two"
 "You internal rascalw yelled MT. Bowser as he hung up 'the receiver.
 Within the hour there were four more calls, and then Mir. Bowser put on his hat and left the house. hoping to find someone and wash his hands in human blood.
 And when he was gone, Mrs. Bowser had the laughing mysteries.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08

teeth. They finally had to get stick and punch the ball down my throat. 1t Is lodged right at the base of my throat and that's what the trouble Is with my tones. 1 know that some folks don't like to hear me, but what am to do? I have q wife and five children to support, and you should pity me, instead of thirsting for my life"
 MT Bowser lost good part of his anger. and after moments thought, he said:
 Look here, now. will tell you what to do. There is no need of all this yelling. You just come to the house. In Il quiet and decent way, and ask If we want any of your stuff. If we do, we will buy it and so will other people. We must have reform in this thing, and that is the way to bring 1t about. Don't you see yourself that it isr'
 Why, yes. that seems good plan" answered the peddler, and he drove off without any more yelling. Mir. Bow ser re-entered the house, to boast to Airs. Bowser: and, though she smiled to herself as one who doubts, she told
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
IMPROVED ROADS
PROPER WIDTH OF HIGHWAYS
Eighteen Feet Should Be the Mini mum, Not the Maximum on Main
 Travelled Roads

Through all the years we have been trying to maintain from forty to sixty foot roads in a large percentage of our public highways when such a width was wholly unnecessary. The road sides have not been cared for because they were waste land and this lack of care has made them spreaders of weed seed and hay fever. A narrower roadway, well kept, would in most cases serve all the purposes required, drainage and safety, says the Successful Farming.
 Now that the roads are to be hard surfaced the tendency is to go to the other extreme in order to save taxes for paving. We must look ahead. If We put down paving that will last fifteen or twenty years, we must esti- mate if possible the amount and kind of traffic 1t will bear at that time.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08

If the road Is dangerously narrow now, as is the case where less than eighteen feet is paved, what will 1t be in twenty years?
 Eighteen feet should be the mini mum. not the maximum, and on main travelled roads a greater width will seem narrow in twenty years. In Eng land and France the roads are paved clear to the fences or sides of the highways, unless a curb and sidewalk or bicycle path is maintained between the road and fence. Every foot is kept in good condition. Good drainage Is as much a part of the European highways as is the case with our city paved streets.
 We are at the beginning of motor transport Unless we look ahead and provide wider pavements, we will find the highways crowded and our pos sible relief from railway congestion annulled. A few dollars saved now In narrowing our paved highways will prove short sighted policy.
 We have already seen the folly of constructing our canals too narrow and locks too short. The great lakes boats needed in Atlantic transport dur ing the war had to be cut In two and taken through the canals in pieces. Ocean ships cannot reach interior ports until the canals and locks are en- larged. This Is highway lesson to us. Look to the future.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
Few Fine Pearls Found.

New fine pearls are rarely found nowadays because the demand has been so great and the fisheries have been worked so continuously that the pearls are not given time to grow. If a fine pearl is bought, it Is rarely one that has not been in the market for many years and passed from one deal CT to another. Dealers today depend to large extent upon purchases of pearls from collections of rajahs and princes in India and of old families In Europe They declare that every time large and really fine pearl appears In the market hundred wealthy per. sons bid for it. Consequently the best pearls are beyond the reach of any but the wealthiest people.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08

him that his plan would probably work.
 on the next evening at about the same hour, there was ring at the door bell. Mir. Bowser answered 1t himself, and there stood his peddler or the night before-the man with the awful voice. He was surrounded with baskets of vegetables, and in almost a whisper, he said:
 Mir Bowser, have come to try your way Do you want any onions, carrots, turnips, beans, peas or cu- cumbersT
 No, sir,' was the prompt reply.
 That is all right, Mir. Bowser. If have disturbed you in any way, beg your pardon. Goodnight, Mir. goodnight"
 That fellow has got more sense than l thought he had," said Mir. Bow ser, as he returned to his paper. This street ought to be thankful to me for working this great reform i'
 The reform began to die almost as soon as 1t was born. There was an- ether ring at the bell. Mir. Bowser opened the door to find a second ped
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
OCEANS LAW MOST STRICT
Among Fishee the Important Fact of Life Seems to Be, "Est or
 Be Eatan."


 In the Dublin museum q stuffed angler fish. commonly known as ffsle ing frog. may be seen, its stomach still swollen by an enormous cod which it had swallowed. h the stomach of the cod were found two large herrings. In each herring were several sprats, while each spfat, In turn, contained a numser of tiny erustaeeans, or shell ilah.
 In the salt seas, 1t Is eat or be eaten The fishing frog, fish shaped like a gigantic legless frog. and provided with q luminous bait which it dangles from q long feeler over it's wide mouth, has the most prodigious appetite. As many as 20 founders have been found inside one fishing frog; another contained 60 hei1ings
 Each fish has its special prey Pol lack assemble III shoals and pursue the close formations of young cod. They surround the cod, drive them to the surface and devour them Whit. Ing, fn similar fashion, pursue and de- your the herring shoals, while hake feed upon sardines.
 Mackerel will eat any small fish. They deyour enormous quantities of fry. being especially fond of young maelterels. The John Dory's favorite food is sprats. while rays are not par tlcular; they will deyour any fish that come their way.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
HOW HAiLSTONES ARE FORMED
According to Theory, Electrical Action Is Responsible for Storms That
 Frequently Do Damage.

The formation of hail through cleo trical action, according to one theory, IS an interesting and even wonderful process. The wind draws out cloud Into a long, narrow strip. In that form, owing to the great amount of surface exposed to the air, the cloud evaporates rapidly, producing intense cold.
 Dry particles of snow are then form ed, and these, by friction with the wa ter drops, quickly become charged with negative electricity. But the water drops carry positive electricity, and since negative attracts positive a film of water is formed upon each snow particle and Is instantly frozen into a layer of thin ice.
 At this thickness its outer surface remains moist, the water not freezing so rapidly there, whereupon the elee- trical charge changes from negative to positive and the particle Is repelled by the water drops and driven to the outer parts of the cloud Here the ln- creased cold covers it with snow, and friction charges It anew with negative electricity.
 Repulsion is now once more changed for attraction, and the particle rushes back Into the cloud, receiving upon It's surface another film of water, which hs turned Into q second ice layer.
 Thus the growing hailstone darts zfg-zag through the cloud, piling up It's alternate layers of snow and ice, until gravitation gains control and sends it with a Jingling crowd of it's fellows spinning to the ground.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
oulpa Which Tickle Travellers.

Nature seems occasionally to have been in an impish mood of jocularity when she was about her work of shaping and molding things. For ln- stance, why did she make the Dalma- tian side of the Adriatic one mass of islands and creeks, which are just so many hiding holes for any power that has designs on Italy, and at the same time lay the Adriatic seaboard of Italy as bare and flat and plain as she could plan 1t? Was 1t to make the Italian people wide-awake and watchful and resoureeful? Besides, the modern world in it's pride must never forget that the peninsula produced the Roman.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
auoh at First Phone.

The telephone was born from the brain of an American but 40 years ago. the first instrument being sort of crude harmonica, with clock spring reel, magnet and wire.
 The first time 1t talked was on March 10, 1876; capitalists laughed at if and refused for several years to finance the scientific toy.' The pc rlod of experiment did not end until 1886 and the country's greatest wire system has really existed only since 1906.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
The Unknown Quantity.

When thing like that happens q man does not know exactly where he is or how he feels. The largeness and the sInallness of fhe world amaze him 1; the mystery of life heWilders him; he Is confused in the presence of the un- known quantity. How he behaves. what he says or does. depends entirely upon instincts beyond his control. This is what happened to Richard when he heard the voice of Carola. Henry Van Dyke.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
MIR. BOWSER STARTS REFORM But It Is Worse Than the Evil He Would Cure.
By M. QUAD.
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 t9 1921, by Mcclure Newspaper synaIcs,a
 Nothing so irritates Mr. isowser I, to have the street peddle.s 60 m ana down, in frons of his house yell. Ing their wares, and, on many n.co. sions, he has gone out and quarreled With them, but he has fulasd them claiming their rights, their licenee3 rom the city permitting ,hem to yell.
 The other night, as Mir. BoWyer sat reading, vegetable pcddll1 S.ai5;,sa al his gate and kept calling eal fer hve long minutes He had voce Ike hand-saw trying to saw q spike in two, and it must have made other people nervous. Mrs. B0wser feared that there would be q riot, and she began to drum on the piano. ta distract Mir. Bowser's attention It was in vain, however. He rose up with the exclamation
 Ky thunder. woman, do you think am going to stand that?"
 He will go home, presently" an swered Mrs. Bowser, drumming louder than before
 Stop that internal racket Isn't it had enough to hear that fellow yell? I am going out and kill him. He is the one of all the ones who make this trouble. Just listen Ia his voice ! Why, it would scare baby to death !"
 Mr. Eowser, just walt one minute and he will drive on.
 T won't wait one blamed second ! Don't you come out and mix in There will be gore flying around, and may also tip his wagon over and kill his horse !"
 Mir. Bowser rushed down the hall and out of doors. He was bare.headed and wore his dressing gown$ The peddler had not moved OH. He was not going to. He sat there in his seat In comfortable position, and he was going to yell as long as he wanted to. He saw Mir. Bowser coming out, and he called and he shouted:
 T have got themi Do you want some string beans? They are on string l have onions and potatoes and eueumbers I have some of the incest celery here that king ever chewed oni Oh-eh--ohl Come and buy"
 Mr. Bowser came And he Lad ground glass in his voice. as he said Look here. old feIler. you want 10 quit this If you don't I am going to murder you !"
 Say, old party, what ails youf"
 "rll show you what ails me- If you holler again. there'll be blood shed r
 Come, now. but l got 10 holler, or the folks won't know I am here. You wouldn't have known I was here. I om only making my living and you shouldn't object. Is it my voice you complain off"
 ."Of course l complain about tl' answered Mir. Bowser. Tt Is the woyst voice in the United States p
 "Tll tell you what is the trouble with my voice, Mir. Bowser, for, you see, I know you. I was fool enough to bet five dollars that I could put billiard ball in my mouth. put it there, but I could not get 1t out again. The doctors worked at me for two days, and they knocked out most of my
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
Buildina in South.

A stretch of hard surfaced road in the southern states, twenty-five miles in length, was difficult to be found six years ago, whereas at present there are any number of hard surfaced roads from twenty-five to 100 miles in length.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
Acquire Road Trees.

The state highway commission in California has the authority to ac- quire roadside trees along It's high ways.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
Traffic to the Rjoht.

Vehicular traffic on highways in France keeps to the right, while rail- way traffic keeps to the left.
The Newark journal., 1921-09-08
Construction in India,

Highway construction Is now mak- ing important and extensive strides in various cities in India.
The New York herald., 1921-09-03
WHEAT, CORN, OATS
TUMBLE IN CHICAGO
Export Business Drops Off,
Holders Take Profits and
Buying Declines.

CHICAGO. Sept 2.-Closing OF spreads
between this market and Winnipeg. the
selling operations being at this end. to-
gether with considerable profit taking
sales exerted a weakening influence on
wheat here to-day and final prices were
at the bottom with net losses OF "a to
2 cents for the day. Lowering OF cash
wheat premiums and the ending OF ex-
port business, owing to yesterdays ad-
vance, also had an effect Outside pur-
ohases were less extensive than on the
former day, and there was an absence
of aggressive buying. The close was
weak, with wheat u to cents lower
corn, l to " cents down, and oats, "
to "a cent lower
Corn advanced early, only to react
later to under yesterdays finish, large
country offering and hedging sales be-
ing factors. combined with a drop or
u to "a cent In premiums.
Oats were stronger early and lower
later. with other grains. Outside trad
ing was light.
Provisions averaged higher with the
bulk OF the trade in lard. Packers
brokers' were good buyers of nearby de-
liveries.
The New York herald., 1921-09-03
Average Bond Prices
September e, 1921
BOND NEWS AND NOTES.
smaller Trading volume.

Trading in bonds was in smaller
volume yesterday and the market was
under the influence OF preholiday
spirit Prices held steady for the most
part, however. and its changes, although
slight were upward. The only interest
ing development In the railroad group
was the new high record touched by
Burlington 61ss and Great Northern IS.
Both issues touched 102A, which was
only a fractional gain, but one sufficient
to cary the bonds into new high grounds.
Trading in other railroad issues was
quiet and prices virtually unchanged.
In the foreign Government group United
States of Mexico 5s were again among
the most active. ranging between 47&
and 49M. or slightly lower than the
price reached on Thursday French
Republic IS also were heavily traded in
in range OF about point. The fea-
ture of trading in United States Gov
ernment war bonds was the advance in
Victory 4%s, to 99.02 1t is understood
that those bonds were being bought by
the Government for sinking fund pur-
poses. Most of the business done in
industrial bonds was at prices only
slightly changed from Thursday.