The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-01


He is not handsome for fact;
For downright ugiiness, in truth,
You'd single him in any crowd.
It's just from feminine caprice
That Gladys vows he's sweet" and
Declares that fortune, happiness.
| Depend upon his presence near.
There's cunning in his twinkling eye.
That while She wastes her love on him
He's laughing at her in his sleeve.
My Jealousy, perforce, I hide,
/ Although hate him worse than SIM
A tickle lady's latest fal-
That hideous old god. Billikini
New York Times.
Child That Will Never Die.
DR.. Asher Gluck. inventor of the
simple. Life and Equality System"
New Immortality Another Existence
of Future State" announces that he
will disband his Chicago colony" He
is to join "Sercombe Himself not in
| reality, but in spirit.
Gluck's "sanitorium" is at I'LL
Milwaukee avenue. Although the lead
er says there are 60 members in his
colony in Chicago. neighbors say they
quarters lately. The head of the cult
asserts that both he and his wife are
now perfect. "In fifteen months"
he adds "a child will be produced
! that will be able to talk at birth and
that will never die. That child will be
| myself reborn
/ The Doctor says he intends SELL
/ ing all his possessions in Chicago and
moving to some quiet spot where there
would be no danger that either he
or his wife should depart from the
/ principles of perfect conduct"
1t is limited that Chuck has become
discouraged because other members
/ of his band did not become perfect"
The temptation of the world, it is
asserted. proved too strong for the
majority of those who took up the
simple life and equality system" and
they dropped the teaching of Gluck
Among the things said to be respon-
| sible for the backsliding are women,
cards. drink, and theaters Glucks
recipe for perfection is: Vegetarian
ism, sackc1oth garments, abstinence
| world and prohibition from kissing
Chicago dispatch to New York Press.
i Half Brother and Sister Wed.
i M. E. Burton and Nora Henderson
We're married in Dallas on April 10,
1908. Three months later they learn
ed that they were half brother and
sister. Wednesday at Fort Worth the
order to have the illegal marriage
annulled.
The mother of the couple was twice
married. After the death of the first
infant, was sent to live with his grand
mother and never left her. By the
second marriage the girl was born,
named Henderson. AS they grew up
womanhood their relatives taught
them that they were cousins.
They fell in love. eloped. and were
married three months before they
were told of their true relationship
They ceased to live as man and wife.
dallas (Texas) dispatch to New
: York World.
The AmbergriS King.
/ David c. Stull, of Provincetown,
Mass. is known to mariners generally
; as the "ambergris king He buys at
/ first-hand more of the precious sub
) stance than any other dealer, and has
: given single check for $500 in
| payment for one lot. Two hundred
dollars a pound is often paid, and he
has paid as high as $500 a pound.
Mr.. Stull acts as agent for the Paris
dealer who supplies ambergris to the
: great French perfumers. There is
} never glut in the ambergris market.
The variation in price is due. not to
any oversupply. but to the difference
in the quality of the finds.
| Although the Whalers are now much
| more on the alert to discover the SUBJ
! stance than ever before, there is not
! a great deal of it brought in, because
the whaling industry has so fallen off.
Chicago News.
Blasts More Tradition.
Prof. Isaac Franklin Russell, of the
New York University law school, in
5 an address to the Chenango County
2 Society at the Hotel Aston, destroyed
some time-honored traditions. He
said:
"Heroic myth is being interpreted.
Pocahontas never saved John Smith.
Sheridan took no 20-mile ride from
Winchester. Lincoln split no rails.
t Washington swore On the field of
' battle. 1t has remained to this day to
: It has remained to this day to re-
, rehabilitate Thomas Paine.
; judicial proof never amounts to
demonstration. Witnesses may lie, and
written instruments may be the pro-
duct of forgery, The preponderance
of evidence cannot be established in a
mathematical way.-New York Ameri-
can.
2 Modern Crusade Starts in Boston.
Boston has another new cult to add
to her already long list. This time II
versal,'' founded by Mrs. A. G. Brown
a well known Everett woman. and I'M
der her guidance a church has been
erected. Mrs. Browns followers cal
themselves the Crusaders. and the
, foundation of their religion is implied
a in the words what Jesus would do"
LAS Crusaders we do not believe in
being eccentric or freaky," said Mrs
Brown today. 1--WE believe. however
: that we are the keepers of our broth
a ers, and are ever seeking an oppor-
; tunity to be helpful. In connection
. with the chapel, we have industrial
> work for women and young girls."-
Boston dispatch to New York Tribune
New Minister Makes a Hit,
:, The new minister in Georgia church
was delivering his first sermon. Ths
darky janitor was a critical listener
from a back corner of the church. TIL.
ministers sermon was eloquent, and hi.
prayers seemed to cover the whole cate