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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
Dinner Stories

Lillian Leitzel, acrobat and solo
performer in the circus, was giving
an exhibition of trapeze work, high
above the floor of the darkened arena.
Her acrobatics are OF the most violent
sort. and in the stunt she had Just
finished she had thrown her body
back and forth with Jerks that looked
as tho they would tear her arms from
its socket.
At the end she hung rnotionless by
one arm, facing the glare of the spot
light.
Mamma" piped small voice anx-
iously, II should think she'd strain her
eyes"
Where are you going in such a
hurry" asked Mrs. Bibles.
"Over to John Jagsby's house" said
Mr.. BIBLES. HE has just telephoned
to ask If I could lend him a cork
screw and I'm taking it myself
Couldn't you send it2'
MRS. Bibles" said Mr.. BIBLES.
in cutting tones, 1.-THE question you
asked me shows why most women are
unfit to lead armies and make quick
decisions in business deals involving
millions. When the psychological mo-
ment arrives they don't know what to
do with it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE.

Me and Leroy Shooster was setting
on my frunt steps and Pubs Smkins
came up saying, Hay fellers, did you
see the big sine up on the new drug
store?
No, wat sine, watts it say? me and
Leroy sed, and Pubs sed, G, dident you
see it, gosh, it says ice GREEN soda
will be gave free with every purchase
made on Sattiday, and this is Sattiday.
WITCH it was, and I sed, Well I got
a cent but heck you-cant get eny-
thing in a drug store with q cent.
That's Jest what got. too, Pubs sed,
and Leroy sed, That's all I got. either,
Ne saying, Well how about going err
round and all buying a one cent stamp.
that's a purchase amt it?
And we all went Ground to the new
drug store and the sine was still there
and we wawked in, me saying. I wunt
q one cent stamp, and Pubs saying. So
do I, and Leroy saying, do too. And
we each put our cent down and the
man tore off 3 stamps and gave US
each one saying. This is a big deeI I'm
putting throo, this is going to make
me rich.
ProberIy being soGrcastic, and US
fellows went to the soda water part of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

the store and sat down on 8 stools and
the man came over saying. Wat elts
can I do for you?
We wunt the ice GREEN soda, please,
I sed, and the man sed, Watts that,
have you kids got the nerve to Expect
a free ice GREEN soda with one cent
stamp?
Well, its a purchase amt It? Pubs
sed, and Leroy sed, The sine don't say
what kind of a purchase, does it? and
sed, I wunt chocklit please. And
Pubs and Leroy sed wat kind they
each wunted, being the neerest they
came to getting it on account of the
man keeping on saying no and saying
it louder and madden every time us
fellows told him one cent stamp was
a purchase, the last thing we did being
to stand in the door trying to Exchange
the stamps back for our cents. and the
last thing the man did being to throw
a wet spunge at us and miss us on
account of us lodging and running.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
Questions Answers

O., How many different causes of death
A. Fifteen principal causes of death are
listed by statisticians, as follows: Pneu-
monia, consumption, heart disease
diarrhoeal diseases kidney diseases. apo
plexy, cancer. old age, bronchitis, cholera
infantum. debility, inflammation of the
brain and meninx, d}phtheria, typhoid and
premature birth.
Q. Is there any country that measures
distance by the days walk? W. T.
is the equivalent of one one-hundredth of
a days walk. very slightly exceeding one
third of an English mile on the level, but
in a billy country It might be as little as
one-eighth of a mile.
o. Can the Southern Cross be seen in
New England T. A L
A. The Naval Observatory says that the
Southern Cross is never visible in New
England. All four stars forming the cross
can not be seen north Of Lat. 2s degrees y.
O. What kind Of money is used in Porto
A. Both American and Spanish money
are used in Porto Rico, but the American
is the official currency.
tAny reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic j.
Haskin. Director. Washington. D. C. This
Bureau cannot give advice on legal medical
and financial matters II does not attempt
to settle domestic troubles nor to dnder-
ia ke exhaustive research on any subject.
Give full name and address and enclose two
cents in stamps for return postage. Az
Write your question plainly ana briefly.
REPLIES are sent direct to the inouireE-I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
m LOOKED LIKE A STORM

A beautiful day began to darken.
Black clouds gathered like frightened
sheep, until the great heavens became
mass of floating mystery-ebony
colored.
I sat outside on my porch watching
this fascinating drama of nature.
In few moments the roar of thun-
der and the flash of lightning told all
too we'll of approaching storm. The
cr1cketS sounded their alarms, the
trees OF the forest began to turn their
leaves and their branches bent from
the wind.
At any moment the rain might
come, or the wind increase to such
fury that many great~t tree would be
unable to stand the strain-as many
trees before had been unable.
People could be seen running to
shelter. You could hear the bark of
frightened dogs. Automobiles in
creased their speed so that they might
black clouds when they began their
spill.
1t looked like a storm-bnt there
was nonei
Soon the heavens began to clear and
the dark clouds were replaced by
cream colored ones with patches of
blue in the back ground.
Night had begun to come on. And
because the scene was so full of charm
and beauty, 1 sat on-watching and
waiting. In a little while stars ap-
peared. A half moon smiled from
beneath feathery ghosts. And the Big
Dipper pointed its front finger-star TO
the star of the north-in exactly the
same way il has for thousands, per-
haps millions, of years.
In the cool restfulness of this after
scene, thought how, like this ex-
pected storm are most of our imag-
ined troubles-never Undertaking.!
II looked like a storm. But there
was no storm. Just something that
had n scare to It, which soon passed
away and brought in it's stead beau
tiful evening. calm and soothing,
studded with stars-with God watch
ing overhead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

cant. but it points q truth for which
have always contended. 1t 10 that
every man has his dtstinetion. One
man sends a eea to Harvard; another
has q well of ice-coid water in his
yard. Here was a man in the Green
mountains OF Vermont whose distinc-
ton was that he was perpetuating a.
line of milch cows. There il good
hotel in Jeffersonvilie. The rooms are
cheerful and clean, the food excellent.
We had dinner. lodging and breakfast.
The bill for two was SIS. You don't
believe it? Well, 1t does sound fishy.
Today I went into the office of the
Gazette in st. Johnsbury in the hope
that 1 might meet william Dudley
Pelley. Pelley is n short-story writer
who has done a lot of bully stuff i'm
the five or six years last past. He
used to be the editor Of the st. Johns
bury Gazette. 1 didn't know he had
sold the paper and went in to tel
him like his stuff. Every once In a.
while somebody comes into the office
at home and tells me ne likes my
stuff; like to pass that sort of thing
along. SO I went in to tell Policy.
Now, in nearly every story Policy
has written the st. -Johnsbury Gazette
figures as the Paris Times. And in
nearly every story Policy has drama
tized himself as Sam Hod. the editor
of the Times, So wept into the edi-
for Sam Hod. 1t was u very clever
crack. but it didn't take. The editor
ial room turned a blank and puzzled
face toward me. 1t said. in effect.
that nobody of the name of Sam Hod
worked on that paper or had ever
worked on it. Then I diagrammed
my clever crack, and the light broke
thru. They told me Policy sold the
Gazette some years ago and was no
longer connected with the paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

G One is reminded of the old saw that
att is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good by the fact that Americas
ships are meeting the coal strike
Emergency by rushing half a million
tons of British fuel for the great util-
tiles companies-gas, electric and
fractional the moment most needed.
More than fifty government owned
vessels have been chartered for this
trade, says a statement issued by the
National Merchant Marine association,
and if the demand grows more ships
will be ready to meet it. Putting
these ships into service not only gives
a profit to the government, but gives
employment to hundreds of skilled
sworkmen ashore and many hundreds
of American officers and seamen long
out of work, due to world trade de-
preston Foreign miners are kept
cut by the immigration laws but there
IS no law barring the product OF their
labor. When the unions obtained the
Massage of the per cent immigration
law they seem to have overlooked
eomething.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
Dorothy Dix Talks
Watch Your Step, Boy.

Watch Your Step, Boy.
Then there's the rowing girl, who
will take you out in a boat and let
you lie on your back and stare up at
the sky while ~she. pulls the oars.
Watch out for her. You think she
would make a good wife who would
always insure your comfort, and the
idea is enticing. But the chances are
that she would expect you to do all
the hustling after you were married.
Besides, the woman who pulls the
stroke oar in a family always does
the bosSirg.
The bathing girl is a tantalizing and
delightful little thing. You float her,
and you get bewitched, and say silly
things about mermaids. Go slow.
Life is spent on dry land. You want
somebody who will be duck on earth
as well as in the water.
The girl who gathers wild flowers
is sweet, sentimental little thing,
but before you invite a vine to
wreathe around you, consider the fact
whether your salary justifies the
ornament.
Give a wide path. unless you mean
business, to the girl who delights in
1t requires tact, patience. nice skill,
but the girl who can land a trout
never fails to hook the man she is
after. You may nibble at the bait and
play with the hook, but sooner or
later you will go under.
The girl with a book is only danger
Gus to certain types of men. Fools
will pass her by, but to the Intelligent
man of sympathetic taste she is SO
much OF menace she ought to be re-
quired to wear a red lantern around
her neck. The man who reads SEN
ttmental poetry, or warm romance
aloud to a woman under a green tree,
or by the still waters, does so at his
peril.
Widows have all times and seasons
for their own. They are probably no
more dangerous in the summer than
at any other time of the year, but
when a man acquires the habit of TAX
ing nice long strolls in the twilight
with one, confiding his secret sorrows
and aspirations to her as the waves
beat across the beach, his guardian
angel shuts up the shop and goes out
OF business.
The athletic girl is a nice, chummy
sort of girl, little given to sentiment,
and she Is the seasons preferred risk.
Stfh, bear in mind that Cupid is often
caddy for the golf game. and the
long hours on the links make a kind
of comradeship that is easily mistaken
for love.
Beware OF the hammock girl on
moonlight nights. The homeliest girl
on earth looks like an angel on a
moonlit nigha on a vine shaded veran-
da. Any man, young or old, married
or single, will make love to a woman
in hammock, and the only safe
course under the circumstances is to
go and sit in the hotel office in the
full glare of the deadly, prosaic cleo
trio light. ---
Also fight shy OF the summer Wild
ow. She generally has a large robust
husband, who doesn't understand pla-
tonic affection, and it is always so
unpleasant to argue questions with
that sort of person.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

a 1t is pointed out by the advocates
Aof protective duty on wool that
there are 100000 farmers in the
limited States who keep sheep, in
flocks large or small, and there are
Ear more who would like to add a few
sheep to their farm stock If they could
depend upon a permanent market at
profitable prices. These gentlemen
might have added with the same de-
gree of truth that there are 100000
other persons in the United States
who would like to engage in any one
of a dozen enterprises that could be
named "if they could depend upon a
permanent market at profitable
srrices"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
A PROBLEM IN FINANCE.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers has decide that it's members
are entitled to a wage somewhere be-
tween 5000 and $1,000 @-year- If
engineers require this amount to live
decently, so does every other worker.
If attempt were made to pay every
worker this amount the total of
money in the country would give out
before the paymaster got half way
around. There is only about $50 per
capita in the country. which sum is
represented by approximately an
equal amount of goods.
The crux of the whole rail problem,
the engineers claim, is the inability or
unwiIlingness of American railroads
under present management to pay q
decent wage to the railroad workers.
The railroads come before the Ameri-
can people, 1t Is pointed out, and say
that they cannot pay a living wage
and make 5% per cent dividend at the
same time; therefore, they want
wages reduced still further. They
have obtained an order from the Ia
Dor board fixing railway mems pay as
low as 20 cents an hour. or s1.s4 a
day.
This conflict between human well
fare and dividends coupled with the
inefficiency of service received by
farmers and other shippers, makes 1t
necessary for the people themselves to
control the railroads OF the country,
the engineers state. just as they con-
troll the dirt roads as a public utility
operated for the good of all.
But as a matter Of fact the people
thru their goySrnment Do control the
railroads. 1t was when they under
took to control railroad employees, as
well, that trouble arose. The rail-
roads are bound hand and foot by
law and their earnings are limited.
The brotherhood, on the wages its
members have been receiving, has ac-
cumulated enough money to start a
bank with q capital of 100000, in
Cleveland. Is it contemplated that
all workers shall become bankers7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

Org OF economics. the bolshevist gov
eminent confiscated the factories.
which represented the profits of men
who had toiied for years and saved a
pOrtionso of the product of their toll in
order to utilize it in the establishment
of Industrial institutions which would
furnish employment for large num-
bers OF men. An attempt to produce
coal without profit speedily would re-
suit in no coal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

The coal Strike has ended and the
rail strike IS tottering. Business all
over the country is ''rearin' to CO..
Crops are big and money is plentiful
Interest rates are low and there re-
mains little in the way of speetacu-
lar finish to the fall season in trade.
At August prices, it is officially esti-
mated that our agricultural interests
have seven billions of new money In
their pockets. Cotton is worth ST.
a79sOO,Oo0 this year. against $751;
10000 last year. Hay exceeds bill
lion for the first time. Wheat may
be worth a little less than last year,
but the total value of seventeen crops
is 81 100000 more than last year.
There may have been better crop
years, but none when abundance II
such a world blessing. The postoffice
announces that fifty representative
cities show an increase of business in
each month since last November. The
Washington department of labor re-
ports that there is a strong under
current thruout the country in the d.
rection of industrial recovery"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
written for The State Journal
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: We are two
girls aged seventeen and eighteen. A
boy friend OF ours has been here for
some time. He is a real friend and
not a beau. He visits in our homes
and there is no objection on the part
of our parents. He asked US to write
and promised to do likewise. We
wonder if il would be wrong to write
first2 ANXIOUS
1t is the boys place to write first.
He ought to send you a letter thank
ing you for your part in making his
visit SO pleasant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
THE BUILDING BOOM.

1t In announced that building thru
out the country reached the unprece-
denied high level of $500, 00o, 900
during the first half of 1922, which is
more than $500, 100000 IN excess of
the amount for the first half of 1921.
Thus the nation is making up for the
building neglected during the war.
The activity in building lines means
much for the future of the country.
With an increased number OF houses,
there should be a reduction in rentals.
from which change the wage Garner
will profit in reduced cost of living.
More important than that. however, is
the abundance of jobs at high wages
for all who are qualified for the work
Builders complain of a scarcity OF
skilled workmen. Apparently idle
ness, where it exists, is among the
unskilled classes.
An unusual proportion of the build
ing is for residential purposes. and
the housing shortage seems in a fair
way to be relieved. During the war
there was n rush OF building for in
dustrial purpose and many of the
war plants having been reorganized
for peace purposes, there Is not much
demand for industrial construction.
Forty per cent of the new building is
for residential purposes as compared
with % per cent in 1920.
One OF the surprising announce
ments in connection with the building
situation is that in New York City the
highest wages on record are being
paid. The average hourly wage IN
thirty-two classes of building labor on
July 1 was $1.0e, which is a small
fraction higher than in 1921 or 1920.
but considerably higher than was
reached during the war. The rates
paid IN New York City are higher
than any other place in the United
States. the average for the country be-
ing 90 cents an hour. 1t is stated
that even at current rates. contractors
in the metropolitan district are I'M
able to keep mechanics because small
speculative builders are continually
raiding the market for mechanics.
The urgent demand for labor has
its counterpart in the demand for ma
terialss but the prices of materials
have not kept up as have the wages OF
tistics. lumber production is rapidly
approaching the high figures of 1920.
the record year. but prices are still 30
per cent lower than two years ago.
Cement and brick, altho IN large de-
mand, are selling below 1920 prices.
What the builder must pay in I'M
usual wages he makes UP in lower
prices for materials Naturally, since
construction is largely turning to res
identisl purposes, the demand for
lumber is greater in proportion than
for other forms OF building material.
The building situation again illus
trates the fact that the best guaranty
of good wages is demand for workers.
Building mechanics are receiving I'M
precedented wages because the de-
mand for workmen has outstripped
the supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

Samuel Gompers wants the British
unions to refuse to handle coal in
tended for shipment to the United
States. It IL understood he Is receiv-
ing very little response to his appeals.
The British miners have vivid recol-
lections of their own strike of two
years ago, and probably will be in no
hurry to repeat it even to help out
their brothers in America
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

fish were cooked, the worm would be
destroyed.
The public health scientists have
discovered that both the snails and the
fish of the requisite varieties exist to-
gether in this country. What saves
the American people from an epidemic
of cIonorchiasis is~t the fact that they
do not eat their trout raw.
Liver fIuke disease is seldom fatal,
but it is nevertheless incurable.
Science has not yet discovered
poison that will kill the parasite with
out first killing the host
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

+ Cuba is protesting against the su-
gar duty carried by the McCumber
bill. But her protest is mild COM
pared to that which will be heard
from the American people If the bill
as it stands shall become a law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17

= The union miners have won none of
the things for which they struck. On
the other hand they have lost nothing
except their time and for this the pub
lie will be compelled to pay.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1922-01-12

complaint. And if copy of the COM
plant in the above entitled action be
not served with this summons, or if
the service hereof be made out of this
State, then ten days additional to the
time hereinbefore specified for ap-
pearance and answer will be allowed
before the taking of judgment by de-
fault as aforesaid.
The said action is brought to fore
close a certain mortgage on the Lots
Three 90 four (4) and five 60 and
the Southeast quarter (SEA) of the
Northwest quarter (NWA) of Section
Six CO. Township nine (9), North,
Range Forty-three (43) West of the
9Th P. NJ, otherwise described as the
Northwest quarter (NWA) given by
The Parker Brothers Land Company,
to the plaintiff, and to obtain judg-
ment against the defendants for the
indebtedness secured by said mort
gage as evidenced by two promissory
notes, together with the accrued in
terest thereon, and for a deficiency
judgment against the said The Parker
Brothers Land Co., if any such defi-
cheney exists after the sale Of said
premises, as will more fully appear
from the complaint in said action to
which reference is here made: a
copy of which complaint is served
herewith.
And you are hereby notified that if
you fail to appear, and to answer the
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1922-01-12
Denver JUNCTION. now Jules.

Denver Junction, now Jules
burg, Colorado, Defendants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
COLORADO,
To, }. 7. Clarkson, J. Brant, John NJ.
Roberts, J. NJ. Roberts, Rufus
Cooperider, W. H. Pound, Walter A..
Wood NJ. & X. NJ. Co. and all un-
known parties claiming any right,
title or interest by, through or un-
der any of the above named defend
ants, IN or to Lots 9 and 10, in
Block l3, of the Original Town OF
Denver Junction, now Julesburg.
Colorado, the Defendants above
named, GREETING:
You are hereby required to appear
in an action brought against you by
the above named plaintiff in the Dis
trict Court of Sedgwick County, State
OF Colorado, and answer the complaint
therein within twenty days after the
service hereof, if served within this
County; or, il served out of this Coun-
ty, or by pubhcati,n, within thirty
days after the service hereof, exclu-
slVe OF the day OF service; or judg-
ment by default will be taken against
you according to the prayer of the
complaint. And if a copy of the
complaint in the above entitled action
be not served with this summons, or if
the service hereof be made out of this
State, then ten days additional to the
time herelnbefore specified for ap-
pearance and answer will be allowed
before the taking of judgment by de-
fault as aforesaid.
The said action is brought to OBJ
tain decree of said Court adjudging
the plaintiff is the owner in fee sim
pie of Lots 9 and 10 in Block 13 of
the Original Town of Denver juno
ton, now Julesburg, Colorado, and
quieting and settling in plaintiff the
title to said property, free and clear
Of all claims, right. title or interest
of the above named defendants, and of
each of them, and all persons claiming
any right, title or interest therein. by
through or under them or any of them
and tor such other, further and diff
ferent relief as justice and equity may
require. As will more fully appear
from the complaint in said action to
which reference is here made.
And you are hereby notified that if
you fail to appear, and to answer the
said complaint as above required, the
said plaintiff will take default and