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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1916
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An Independent Newspaper.
Ily FHANK I. MACIESJIAS.
Entered July 1. 1S75. second-rlsss
matter nt Hie postofflce at Topeka. Kao..
under the art of congress.)
VOIX'MB XXXVIII. . . .
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"Possibly President Wilson and the
Democratic statesmen have solved the
eecret of growing money on bushes and
trees. On top of their multitudinous
mHlions-for-defense plans they pro
pose to dump another $50,000,000 into
government-owned merchant ships.
But what's J50,000,000, a mere baga
telle, pals, a mere bag of shells, or so
the nation's servants who would spend
them but wouldn't have to provide
them seem to think.
How unreasonable of the members
of ' the state charter board! They
have decided to deny bank charters to
bank promoters unless the proposed
' banks are to be located at least In in
corporated towns.
Speaking of carrying coals to New
castle, so short is the wine crop of
France that American wine manu
facturers and merchants are being
urged to consider the possibility of
exporting their wares to that country.
Henry Ford is evidently going to
take no chances of not recouping the
expenses of his famous peace expedi
tion. He is planning a $10,000,000
addition to his Detroit plant which
will treble Its output.
This blanket of ice that pretty gen
erally covers Kansas is not the best
thing in the world for the wheat,
mates, as it shuts off ils supply of
oxygen. But Kansas wheat always
takes a lot of killing before it Is
down and out, and It has already been
"saved" on three distinct occasions so
far this winter, so it will probably
worry through the Ice age that ha3
been thrust upon it in good shape.
Possibly the fact that "all the cir
cumstances in the world have
changed" which President 'Wilson
gave as the cause for his shift of opin
ion on the tariff commission plan is
also the reason for another flip-flop
on his part. Not so many moons ago
he told a New York audience that
there was such a thing as being "too
proud to fight." And on Thursday
night as he started on hl3 prepared
ness swing around the circle he an
nounced to another New Tork au
dience: "I always accept the invita
tion to a fight."
The United States protest over Brit
ish interference with neutral mails is
characterized as a "sharp one." But
Great Britain's foreign office will
probably have no difficulty in dodging
its point.
Inasmuch as President Wilson ac
corded a reception to the woman suf
fr"i?e workers in New York city the
other day and declared to them his
present attitude t-n the cause so dear
to their hearts, doesn't it savor just
a little bit of "nagging" for the suf
fragists at other places on his itin
erary to make plans to "smoke him
out" again and again on the same
proposition?
,Of course, it was public-spiritedness
and not selfishness that prompted the
members of the ttate bar association,
tr adopt resolutions urging the legis
lature to enact a number of new and
important laws. But it is also a fact,
nevertheless, that the more laws there
are, the more business there is for
lawyers.
: I f .
Alaska appears to bo making a bid
for winter resort business in her an
nouncement that the weither is so
fine there these days that the chil
dren aro going barefooted to school.
(THE TOR THE PORK BARREL.
The one solution of the pork barrel
is to take from congress the power of
initiating monetary bills, at least in
the matter of appropriations for local
ijiifposea and public works, says the
"Wand's Work for February. Instead,
we should establish the budget system.
This would not actually curtail the
scope of congress. That body would
still retain control of the purse. It
would vote money only in obedience
to a request from the administrative
branch; but it could grant or refuse
this request as conditions Justified. Its
business would, be that of criticism,
of investigation, and of veto. This
would greatly enhance the character of
both chambers. It would weed out
those members whose re-election de
pends chiefly on their ability to get
local appropriations certainly they
would be no loss to the nation. The
more serious members and there are
plenty of them who are really inter
ested in the nation's business and
would like to spend their time in it,
are now tormented constantly by the
importunity of their constituents. The
budget system would relieve them of
this. They would, therefore, have all
their time for serious work. Thus the
nation would not only save millions of
wasted money, but would get a higher
type of lawmakers. And the patriot
ism of localities would find more
worthy outlets than campaigns to se
cure a lot of useless and expensive
architecture.
WAR'S TERRIBLE TOLL.
And the frightfulness of this Euro
pean war is too extensive for the
imagination to grasp in anything like
an adequate manner. An official es
timate of the casualties places them
at the astounding figure of 15,000.000
men, killed, wounded and missing,
the latter including prisoners, and of
the whole number no less than a full
3,000,000 of them are set down as
having been killed. How much long
er will the nations involved be able to
stand the strain on their human re
sources, and what a pitiable condition
the latter will be in when the war is
finally ended.
KANSAS DAY.
It has come again, and unlike the
maiden all forlorn, Kansas glories in
the fifty-five years of her age, and
has good and sufficient reasons so to
do. Kansas, indeed, is fifty-five years
young. It may truly be said, in fact,
that Kansas has no more than devel
oped the virility of youth. A wonder
ful future is still before her, and her
accomplishments of the past give
promise that she will take advantage
of the many magnificent opportunities
that are certain to come her way, and
not a few of which are already at
hand. In the larger activities of state
endeavor, there is little in the past of
Kansas for which she need be
ashamed. Mistakes she has made, but
they are far more than offset by the
worthy deeds she has done. And the
spirit that created and has made Kan
sas what she is today is still para
mount in her people, even unto her
growing generations. There will be
no lagging on their part to maintain
the fine traditions of the past in the
tasks that are yet to be worked out
to continue the progress of the com
monwealth towards the ideal state.
There is much for Kansas to do in this
direction, but the eagerness and wil
lingness of her people to do it, be
speak the certainty that it will be
done. And wherever erstwhile Kan
sans are congregated today in any
considerable numbers, and these places
are many, they are holding celebra
tions of one sort and another com
memorative of the statehood birthday
of their old home. They are rehears
ing the accomplishments of the state
that will ever be dear to them, and
recalling her ldea'.s. Perhaps, it is
not going to far to suggest that they
are impressing these ideals to a
greater or less extent upon the new
friends and neighbors with whom
they are now in contact; and that the
Kansas visions of a square deal for
all, of honesty and justice in all things,
and of working jealously for the great
est good for the greatest number, are
beginning thereby to permeate the
length and breadth of this whole land.
And mayhap the Kansas seeds that are
thus being scattered broadcast will
play no small a part in producing a
civic and community fruit that will
the better supply the needs of the
nation.
ENORMOUS FOOD EXPORTS.
Almost three times the normal
quantity of foodstuffs was sent out of
the United States last year, says the
Philadelphia . Commercial Museum.
The complete records of the shipments
for the first eleven months give a total
of more than 800 million dollars,
which would indicate that approxi
mately 1,000 million dollars' worth of
food left American shores during the
year. In 1913, the year before the
war began, the exports of food prod
ucts amounted to 418 million dollars
and in 1914, the trade in the last five
months of which was influenced by
the war, to 490 million dollars. It is
in breadatuffs that the growth has
been most pronounced, the shipments
in 1915 having been over BOO million
dollars, two and a half times the
value of the 1913 shipments and more
than double the value of those of
1914. Exports of wheat, oats, corn,
barley and rye have gone ahead by
leaps and bounds since the outbreak
of the war; wheat flour, too, has made
a big Jump, particularly in the last
twelve months. In meat products
there is the same story of larger ship
ments, only the increases have not
been bo marked nor so general, and
the trade has been fluctuating. The
growth in the exportation of fresh
beef has been little short of marvelous,
the figure for 1915 being fifty times
that of 1913. Exports of canned beef
were twenty times larger in 1915 than
In 1913. and of pickled and other
cured beef, twice as large. Of the
hog products, bacon, hams and shoul
ders alone made large and consistent
gains. Exports of lard and of neutral
lard were less in 1915 than in 1913,
and lard compounds and other sub
stitutes for lard remained practically
stationary over the three year period.
This remarkable advance In the ex
portation of food products from -the
United States in the last two years can
be attributed entirely to the war and
its influence. It is, therefore, but a
temporary condition that there will be
a slump, especially in bread-stuffs. A
return to normal conditions wiil be
welcomed, for food production in the
United States for some years has been
turning from a resource to a prob
lem. Increasing population has
brought about a home consumption
that is not only overtaking home pro
duction and reducing the normal ex
port surplus, but one that was, before
the outbreak of the war, beginning to
draw upon foreign countries for cer
tain of its requirements. Nearly two
years ago James J. Hill, in an ad
dress before the National Export
Trade convention in Washington,
called the attention of the country to
the decline In the position of the
United States as a producer of food
stuffs, particularly of breadstuffs, and
warned that the movement could only
be checked by tremendous efforts to
induce a better agriculture and a more
intelligent care of the soil. The con
ditions to which Mr. Hill called at
tention at ..that time have not been
remedied; they have been merely over
shadowed temporarily by a condition
of abnormal demand.
Journal Entries
A wise man doesn't have to tell his
friends that he is.
Most . humans are no better than
circumstances compel them to be.
Too many peopls 'lislike others sim
ply because they're successful.
Laughter is a groat thing but a
whole lot of it is of the foolish va
riety. In order to paint a picture true to
life a large variety of unattractive
colors must be used.
Jayhawker Jots
Most of Kansas papers are reporting
a bumper ice crop and of unusually
excellent quality.
If gasoline keeps on soaring, it will
soon be so high, observes the Colby
Free Press, that we will be rid of the
stink.
Among the high school notes in the
Severy Severyite: Some monkeys
have long tales and some smoke cig
arettes. Is it possible that T. R. has a motive
ir. his fight on the hyphen ? asks the
Russell Record. You know T. R. is an
ex-president.
Attention is called by the Kearny
County Advocate to . the fact that
"those golden locks Belinda wears
will gag you just as quickly as any
other hair, when fished out of the
oup."
Here would seem to he all the ma
terial necessary for a romance. One
of the rural correspondents of the
Oberlin Herald designates himself as
"Lonesome Bachelor," and another
uses the nom de plume, "The Merry
Widow."
There is something about money
that means strength, says the Grain
fteld Cap Sheaf. That is to say, if you
have the scads you command the
respect of men who would try to kick
you off the sidewalk if they thought
you were broke. -
Noting that the Kansas City Star
suggests that President Wilson is to
have six hours in Topeka to enable
him to take a journey across Kansas
avenue and back again, the Chanute
Tribune adds: It's too bad he won't
have six hours more, so he could also
take a ride in the state house ele
vator. J. T. Smith of the Timberhill neigh
borhood is authority for the statement,
reports the Cherryvale Republican,
that during the sleet storm, ice froze
on the feathers of the crows so thick
that the birds could not fly and were
easily killed with clubs. The Repub
lican is thoughtful enough to add that
Mr. Smith is too old to be mistaken
and is also a minister.
Globe Sights
BT THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
What good did good whisky ever
do?
Mischief is devilment when perpe
trated by the neighbor's kids.
So many who practice what they
preach have such bad sermons.
A drunk's effort to be dignified nev
er fools any one but himself.
Eating too much is the average
man's favorite form of punishment.
You know so much: ever know
any one who really wore a chamois
vest?
Some men succeed by doing good
work, and others by working good
people.
Was there ever a business vault that
wasn't stuffed like a bologna sausage?
When the average man is sick and
can't work it is flour he needs instead
of flowers.
This is also the joyous season when
the Mexican hairless dog should stay
in Mexico.
The average statesman is interested
in harmony only as a means of de
feating the opposition party.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
A loan widow has money out at in
terest. Marriage is both an illusion and a
disillusion.
Widowers, like tumble-down houses,
should be re-paired.
Trying to keep from worrying is
what worries some people.
A man sometimes makes money, but
monev never makes the man. ,
There are times when a woman
imagines that she suffers in silence.
The man who is unable to live with
in his income must live without it.
Fortunes await the inventor of a
lifeboat that will float on a sea of
trouble.
A man never knows how much he
really loves an heiress until she turns
him down.
If you would outshine your neigh
bors acquire a good reputation and
then keep it polished.
Charity leaves enough sins uncov
ered to prevent gossip from acquiring
ankylosis of the jaw.
It may console the self-confessed
coward to realize that he is still in a
position to admit it.
When a man climbs up 'in the fam
ily tree and looks down upon the
passing throng he has outlived his
usefulness.
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY K. MOLLTON.
I saw three girla fur up the street
All clad alike from hei to feet.
I waited till tiiey nearer lrev
That 1 might get a bettor view
Of those three r-Mekens!
Each step that brought them nearer
showed
How lunch to distance Judgment owed;
l-'or soon I rempuized each face.
The Browns, Gmurimn. Mamma and Grace.
Ain.'t Btyle the dk-kensV
The H Ickey vil le Clarion.
One of the high-toned social events
of the season at Hickeyville was the
reception by the Barkin Soap Club
to their husbands. Tea and wafers
were served. Mrs. Anse Frisby, who
entertained the club, expected to
have some of that pink tea she has
heard so much about, but couldn't
get any, so had to serve the ordinary
kind.
Uncle Kzra Harkins says he hopes
spring: will hustle up, as he has only
one parlor sofy and three rods of
rail fence left for fuel.
Anse Frisby, our banker and cap
italist here at Hickeyviile, is looking:
for a first-class chauffeur, one who
can take a car apart and put it to
gether and one who has a fine tech
nical education. All the chauffeur
will have to do besides taking care of
the car is to mow the lawn, tend the
furnace, wait on table, press the boss
clothes, run errands, wash dishes and
pound rugs. Salary $12 per week.
Miss Hepsibah Tuttle, our school
teacher, has had several proposals of
marriage since she has been in our
midst, but she sas on ccount of the
modest income allowed to school
teachers nowadays it is about all she
can do to support herself.
Miss Pansy Jones new skirt is so
tight that she can't lean over fur
enough to turn a wringer or chase a
red flannel shirt up and down a
washboard.
A tatter Day Romance.
The gas was turned lcrw in the con
servatory and the strains of the or
chestra music floated in from the ad
Joining room. Clarice, the millionaire
pork packer's daughter, was a dream
that night and Harold knew that the
psychological moment had arrived.
Tenderly he leaned over the divan
and whispered in her shell-like ear
she had two ears but he used only
one): "Darling, will you be mine?"
"Are you sure that you can keep
me in the manner to. which I have
oeen accustomed?" she replied coyly,
yet sadly.
"It's a pipe," he replied.
"Can you afford to let me have an
egg for breakfast every other Sunday
morning?"
"Yes."
"Can we have roast beef at least
once a month?"
"Probably."
"Then take me, Harold, for I am
your'n."
And he took her. but he had lied to
her most shamefully.
Three Generation a.
Feminine styles are ridiculous, of
course; but it took men something
over 100 years to discover that a
boiled shirt didn't have to he pulled
on over the head, like a mother-hub-bard
wrapper.
This Hits All Vm (.entM.
He sets up the crowd to the drinks and the
smoke's; he tips all the waiters with
dullars .... - n
But when wife asks for a nickel. he chokes
and over a tpinrTer he hollers '.
He lavishly Rjeiida nil his coin on himself;
his raiment s vompiete and composite:
But wife has only one hat n the shelf, and
and only one dress iu the closet.
The A ery Idea. "
New York Sun says a man's taste
is judged by the car he drives. Sup
posing he drives a dark brown car ?
If Your Brains Are Iusty.
Sign on a local barber shop:
HAVE YOL'H HEAD SHAMPOOED
INSIDE.
Evening Chat
BY Ri'TH CAMERON.
IT We Only Understood.
"My husband met your husband in
town the other day, and he said
George was in such a hurry that he
couldn't say anything but 'How do
you do?' and 'Good-bye' to him," I
heard a friend of mine say to another
friend whom she had not met for
some months.
The other woman laughed. "Is that
what your husband said?" she cried.
"Why, George said your husband
seemed in such a hurry that he didn't
feel like stopping him to ask about
you people, though he knew I'd want
to know"
And then they both laughed. And
completely destroyed the little germ
of coolness and hurt which (as I hap
pened to know) had been on the
verge of getting in its deadly work
on both of them.
What queer, unsubstantial, flimsy
stuff misunderstandings are marie of.
I was deeply interested in that little
conversation, and I have chronicled it
here because it shows how easily two
people can misunderstand each other.
Neither of the men was in a hurry.
Both said so when they were asked
afterwards. Yet each gave the other
that impression and each felt a bit
hurt that an old friend should not
have had more time for friendly in
quiries. When one thinks how fatally easy
it is to misunderstand acts and ap
pearances and how completely im
possible to understand the motives
underneath them, it does not seem
strange that misunderstandings
among friends are so common. In
deed it seems strange that they are
not more common. We cannot under
stand the subtle interplay of motives
in our own minds. How then should
we understand their working in an
other's mind? And if we do not know
our friend's motives, how can we dare
to he angry with him or judge him?
"Take back thy friend. Perhaps
he did not mean to offend thee; or if
he did, surely ho will not offend
again" is a beautiful old quotation
which often rings in my mind.
It is a fine thought for the New
Year, is it not?
Friendship is a beautiful thing, and
we should not let anything so trivial,
so false as 30ire little misunderstand
ing take it from us.
It is not too late to celebrate the
New Year by renewing that old friend
ship that has languished through
some little misunderstanding, and by
taking for a guard against future
misunderstandings this verse of a
quaint old poem, which has long oc
cupied my scrapbook:
"Could we but draw back the curtain
That surrounds each others' lives,
See the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur to action drives,1,"
Often w? should find it better.
Purer than we judge we should.
We should love each other better
If we only understood." i Protect
ed bv Th AHo X'owanonar 0rvia
pArraid of Age? Ah no. there is no truth
la that tor me i am afraid 01 loutli:
Afraid that it will pass and leave no trace
Of loved things worth remembrance on
my face.
Afraid that in Its golden mead of hours
I may neglect, too oft, to use its powers.
Afraid that in Its laughter I'll forget
How many hearts bear grief and eyes are
wet.
Afraid, ah! most afraid, I may not know
Love's countenance, and, blind, may iet
him go!
Youth conquered, all its strife and strength
Accounted for then, only, shall I press.
Forward to Joy, with Age as guide and
friend
Fearless and sure, whatever Time portend.
Edna Mead in New York Times.
The Evening Story
A Discovery That Counted.
(By Catharine Cranmer.)
Stanley Williams was an irre
proachably dutiful son. He was also
a successful young lawyer. The one
thing about him which worried his
doting mother was his indifference to
matrimony and his bookwormish
tendency, which she feared would lead
him to the lone bachelorhood of her
brother John, who neglected his pro
fession to satisfy his love for books
and isolated himself until it amounted
to an estrangement from the whole
family.
One day Mrs. Williams returned
from a visit to an old friend and an
nounced ;o her astonished son at the
dinner table that the young daughter
of this friend was coming to remain
as their guest while her mother went
on a protracted visit to Panama to be
with her engineer son.
"I'm afraid It will be d-auced awk
ward having a young lady in the fam
ily, as it were. It will doubtless mean
that we 11 have to sacrifice to frivolty
many an evening which might be put
to uses worth while," Stanley object--ed
whic- from one of his dutiful
habits was littie short of open rebel
lion, but his mo. her only smiled in
a whimsically pleased way.
"Oh, Fussy won't demand any sac
rifices that will be hard for anybody
to make," she said, still smiling.
"Fussy! Mother, you don't mean
that the girl's name is that?' This
new horror almost effaced his satis
faction at his mother's assurance that
he would not be expected to sacrifice
himself to the guest's frivolousness.
"ifs a nickname only. Her real
name is Augusta, and both are clearly
misnomes. But since she will be here
a week from today, I'll not attempt
to describe her.'r said Mrs. Williams.
"Only a week?" gasped Stanley, as
they rose from the table and passed
into the library, where he picked up
a copy ot Flammarion's "Wonders of
the Heavenc." which he had reluc
tantly laid aside when dinner was an
nounced. "Well, we'll have to do the
best we can. Five minutes later he
was lost in astronomical (lights, which
took him millions of miles away from
frivolous things. But his mother
smiled a satisfied smile.
A few days afterward, Stanley was
palled to a neighboring citv on busi
oess. Absorbed in his work .for sev
eral days, he quite lost count of the
time, and on the day of his return he
saw in a bookstore window a newly
published "book on astronomical in
vestigations which made him eager to
reach this new work, whose author
was heralded as a second Flammarion.
It was a cold, bleak day in January,
and Stanley strode from the street car
to the house with his soft black hat
pulled low over his eyes and his
overcoat collar turned up, while he
held the treasured new book under his
arm. He went straight to the library,
expecting to find his mother quietly
crocheting or scanning the society
column in the evening paper, but her
chair was not occupied.
The warmth of the wood fire was
soothing to his chilled body, and he
walked across the room before remov
ing his hat or overcoat. When he
reached the hearth, he was astounded
to see a diminutive young woman
snugly tucked into the shelter of his
capacious armchair. One tiny foot was
tucked under her and the other dan
gled within a foot of the door. Hear
ing footsteps, the young woman open
ed two very bright brown eyes and
looked inquiringly up at him without
moving even the dangling foot from
which a tiny suede pump was in im
minent danger of dropping. A pe
culiar sensation passed over Stanley,
and it was not precisely a feeling of
annoyance. He began to stammer an
apology. It vaguely seemed to him
that if either of them were an offender,
it was the fair usurper of his armchair,
yet he volunteered the apology.
Just as the girl began to uncurl her
self from her snug position. Mrs. Wil
liams entered the room from the dining-room.
"Why, Stanley! We've been wish
ing you'd some tonight; haven't we.
Fussy?" As -he girl's name was
spoken by his mother, Stanley re
alized the situation, and in the intro
duction which followed he stammered
out his acknowledgment and his stiff
welcome to their guest.
"Mercy, but I'm relieved," said
Fussv- "You looked so serious stand
ing there all in black that I thought
the minister had come for dinner.
Although this remark was made in a
most frivolous way, Stanley round
himself smiling over it in quite a tol
erant fashion.
He cast a longing glance at his new
book, but when dinner was an
nounced immediately he resignedly set
about doing a host's duty.
"Now that we have a man at our
command, Fussy." began Mrs. Wil
liams, as they left the dinner table.
"where shall we station him for duty
this evening?
"Oh, let's make it a musical comedy.
with glitter and gayety, and pretty
girls and pretty gowns, and perhaps a
bit of supper at one of those dance
awhile, eat-awhile places I've heard so
much about! Is that too much for a
tired traveler to tackle in one even
ing Without turning her head.
Fussy threw her bright eyes upward in
a sidewise glance of piquant inquiry.
"Not at all." said the dutiful host,
forcing himself to look away from the
table, where the new book lay tantal
izingly near his hand as he passed into
the library.
The next evening when Fussy came
into the library all dressed in a soft
gown of pale pink, she found Stanley
absorbed in the new book. She sat
down demurely in his mother's chair
and looked across at his serious, clean
featured face. The more she studied
him, the more she hoped he would
continue to be oblivious of her pres
ence so that she could continue her
study. But suddenly he raised his
eyes and caught her interested stare.
Both of them rose in confusion.
"Please don't let me break up all
your home-y habits," she pleaded, as
she approached him so closely that he
caught the faint perfume from her
hntr "Won't vnn it. down on so on
reading, or won't you read aloud to
me?"
"Oh, this book can wait," said Stan
ley, with a strange absence of resent
ment "I'm afraid it might be dry read
ing for you. The writer interests me
particularly in his chapter on Orion's
Belt." Stanley fingered the open
book absent-mindedly as he con
cluded. "O'what?" asked Fussy, big eyed
with curiosity.
"Orion's Belt," said Stanley with a
smile. And seeing her blank look, he
added : "That's a constellation of
planets, you know. . Haven't you ever
seen it on a starry night?"
"Mercy, no; but if I can see the
real thing Itself, show; it to me instead
of reading to, me about it." And she
led thfe way to the glass-inclosed sun
porch. It proved to be the beginning
of & journey into an undiscovered
country for Stanley, for long before
Fussy's visit came to an end Flam
marion's "Wonders of the Heavens"
and the book by the new author were
undisturbed on a high shelf of the
library and Stanley had come down to
earth, where he found wonders before
undreamed of. Not the least of these
was the look of love in Fussy's starry
eyes when he told her she had led
him to discover that the world of love
is the world that really counts.
(Copyright, 1916, by McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
Kansas Comment
THE KANSAS SUPREME COURT.
Discussion is appearing an the
Kansas papers about the advisability
of re-electing the two members of the
Kansas supreme court who will come
before the people t his year. These
two members are Associate Justices
Porter and West. Of the opinions of
these two justices taken line upon line,
and precept upon precept, there is
much reason to debate. Sometimes
good men and good lawyers would
agree with an opinion of either Judge
West or Judge Porter, and they would
disagree, with some emotional fire
works. But their work is not individ
ual. They are powerful only as mem
bers of the suprome court of Kansas.
They arc two votes In six, and the su
preme court of Kansas, as it now
stands, :s one of the wisest, sanebt
courts in this -countr:. It is abreast
of the times. It is a modern court, in
all its ideas and in its ideals. To
change it in respect to these two men,
even though they sometimes display
that human Judgment that leads them
away from what one man may deem
right, would be unwise. The wisest
thing the voters of Kansas can do, is
to keep the supreme court this year
about as it is. Emporia Gazette.
QUAKEIl MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Seasons come and seasons go, but
pepper and salt are always seasonable.
Happy is the bride the sun shines
on, but a sunburst wiil make her hap
pier. It is better for a man to make his
own mark than to make a mark of
some other fellow.
You never can tell. Many a fellow
who seems mighty shallow can stand
a lot of drink.
Marriage is a mighty serious mat
ter, as any woman will admit who has
ever selected a trousseau.
A man of steel may be on his mettle,
and still lose his temper when he gets
hot about something.
It is human nature to take credit to
ourselves for our virtues and to blame
our vices on our ancestors.
Blobbs "Dollttle keeps his age re
markably well." Slobba "Yes, that
fellow is so lazy it takes him a long
time even to grow old."
He was suing for the hand of the
heiress. "And what did your father
say when you told him I was a poet?"
he asked proudly. "Oh, he raved
about it, of course," replied the heir
ess, "but after several hours I con
vinced him that you weren't much of
a oet, after alL" .
WHILE THE POLICE ARE BUSY
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Household Hints
The Tabic.
Meat Loaf With Rice and Peas
One and one-fourth pounds round
steak and one-fourth pound fresh lean
pork ground. Mix and season to taste
with salt and pepper. Add one well
beaten egg and two-thiros cup boiled
rice. Mix with enough milk or cream
to form a soft loaf and bake forty -five
minutes in medium oven. Heat
can of peas, season with salt, pepper
and butter; add one cup milk or
cream. Thicken with one tablespoon
flour. About twenty minutes before
meat is done take from oven and slash
a deep gash in the loaf both across
and lengthwise; pour in all the peas
it will hold and return to oven. When
done remove to platter, pour about
it the remaining peas and serve at
once.
Raisin Pudding One-half" pound
flour, one-half pound sugar, one-half
pound bread crumbs, one-half pound
suet, one pound seeded raisins, one
teaspoon cr earn of tartar, two tea
spoons mixed spices, one teaspoon
baking soda. Mix all together with
a little milk. Put In kettle with some
water and cook two or three hours.
Rice Custard One quart sweet
milk, four eggs, one-half cup sugar.
two tablespoons rice cooked and
cooiea, one-nan cup raisma uim ihi.m
of salt. Stir together, put in pudding
pan end bake one to two hours.
Delicious Raisin Bread One big
cup brown sugar, one cup sour milk
(dissolve one teaspoon soda in part
of milk), add pinch of salt, two cups
graham flour, big cup of chopped rai-
THE CHICKADEES' FEAST.
Such good eatinR as the chickadees
did find in the sunflower Btalks! For.
you must know, chickadees consider
sunflower seeds the very best kind of
food; nothing seems quite so delicious
and tempting. Cheery and Biddy ate
and ate till they were warmed and re
freshed and rested from the labor of
nest building
Then, when the sun shone bright
and warm at midday. Cheery said to
Biddy, "Lefs look for food in the rub
bish of the garden. Let's look now,
while the sun is warm and the snow
has not quite covered the ground."
And Biddy, knowing that she had
had quite enough sunflower seeds for
one day, replied, "Yes, let's!"
So they flew down to the piles of
leaves that covered the garden beds.
Now if you had looked at that very
same pile of leaves and rubbish, it's
quite likely you would have thought,
"Nothing here but trash!" But
Cheery and Biddy, looking at the
piles, chirped gaily to each other and
exclaimed delightfully, "Such a feast!
Such a feast!"
For, what do you suppose they
found in the rubbish? You'd never
guess! They found dead insects of
many kinds; grasshoppers, katydids,
lady-bugs, tiny flying creatures that
you and I hardly see! All the insects
that the frost and winter kills drop in
the grass and rubbish of the garden
and make fine feasting for the indus
trious little chickadees.
And eggs! Insect eggs of all sorts
and sixes! All the Insects that lay
their eggs in the ground in neat little
balls, like the spiders, or on the under
side of twigs and grass ciades. like the
katydid, make fine eating for chicka
dees though the insects never know
if. They would hide the hide the eggs
more carefully If they did!
Yes. all these things, and more, the
chickadees found in the piles of 1
leaves that lay so protectingly over
the garden beds! No wonder the
chickadees were glad they had moved
Just where they did!
"We'll not starve this winter,"
sins. Put in small deep cake pan and
bake lifty minutes in very slow oven.
Mock Mince Pie One cup molas
ses, one cup sugar, three-fourths cup
vinegar, one-half cup butter, one cup
powdered crackers, one-half cup rai
sins, one-half cup .water, one teasption
each of cinnamon and cloves. This
makes two large pies.
Creamed Tuna Fish Heftt fish by
boiling ton minutes in the can. Make
a white sauce with milk, butter, and
flour, as usual. Add fish after it has
been separated with a fork; add one
chopped pimento, half bunch celery
(cook this h. little first), one small
can button mushrooms. Serve on
toast.
Potato Dumplings When roasting
or stewing meat of any kind, try this,
it's just fine: Boil ten good-sized po
tatoes with their skins on. When done,
peel and mash; add cup flour and mix
all together. Have some small squares
of bread fried brown in good drip
pings. Take half the bread and mix
with potatoes, egg and flour, make
into small balls and drop In salted,
boiling water. Boil fifteen minutes,
then dish up and pour the rest of the
bread over the dumplings. To be eat
en with the gravy.
FHod Sweetbreads Put sweet
breads into salted water and allow to
soak one hour. Then plunge into
acidulated salted boiling water and
boil twenty minutes. Remove all out
side membrane, coat with egg and
cracker crumbs and fry gently in lard
till of a golden brown. Allow one
tablespoon of lemon juice to one pint
of water.
New York state has 10,250,000 pop
ulation. chirped Cheery happily. '"We'll have
plenty to eat, unless the snow stays
too long at a time. Let's find the
best places in this pile and eat all we
can while the weather's good."
All the Inserts that lay thrsir eegs In
the ground In neat little balls, like
the npidrrs
And Biddy, quite willing to follow
such good advice. in,viraH v
let's'."
The happy little chickadees ate and
and ate. So busy were they that they
quite failed to notice that Mary Jane,
coming to the dining room window of
w. ,. ,urn. spiea them!
But they need not have worried even
if they had seen her. for Mary Jan
was their friend! She called to her
meithor "MAihai -.-. 1 . . .
' - -- . -jiuc iirp, quick
The chickadees have come to live
here and they're eating in our garden
rltrht finur 1 'm n j .
them!" "a"y 10 teeo
And they did. (Copyright Clarm
Ingram Judson.)