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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-24

First Christian church on Topeka
avenue, between Sixth and Seventh
streets, Charles A. Finch, pastor. Com
munion and preaching 1900 a. m.
Evening service 500 O'Clock.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-29
Buried with a Bottle

KEWANEE, ILL.,, Jan. 23.-Without funeral service
OF any kind the body of Abin Brodn who killed him.
self Thursday night after shooting his wife and mother
inaw, buried today. At the request of Brodin' s
father the hafed whisky bottle found in his pocket
after the shooting laid beside the remains in the
rough coffin as it was lowered into the grave.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-29
THE ILLINOIS ISSUE

entire liquor of the state and beyond the line
break down the law that Gaeg has adopted
The
that has adopted the of the Local Option law
Who is mouhngs
their whole to
utter in favor of obedience law?
They might broth
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-29
Lincoln's Old County Dry

HODGENVIILE KY, Jan. 24.-In an election yester-
day La Rue, Abraham Lincoln's native county, voted
dry by majority of 085, the vote being over to
against license The bells in the church rung at
intervals during the day and children marched
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-29
Stand by the League

GALESBURG, Ill, Jan. pa
large mass meeting here today decid-
ed to stand back of the Law Enforce
ment League officers in suit brought
against them by the liquor interests.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-29
Gives the League Credit

After enumerating the states that have recently out
lawed the Saloons and calling attention to the progress
Of the ant-saloon movement in various parts OF the
country, the Northwestern Christian Advocate says:
s'All Of these and similar movements IN other states
which promise like results all show the guiding hand OF
the AntiSaloon League, which is everywhere regarded
NV both friends and foes as the directing genius of the
anti-saloon movement
A Sunday School teacher handed her pupils little
slips of paper on which was printed this question:
ssWhat have I to be thankful for? Among the re-
plies that were given the following Sunday was this
pathetic sentence written by little girl who had learned
bv bitter experience the painful truth it implied II am
thankful there are no saloons in heaven.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-29
Victories all Along the Line

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Der about 2500 and may be varied almost infinitely by the use Of mixes, prefixes and suffixes. Esperanto was not known in the United States until 1905, but 1t Is now espoused by number of societies.
 By some who considered Esperanto de- fective substitute has been proposed called Ilo It is practically Esperanto simplified, and already has limited lit erature of it's own.
 But all these mechanically constructed languages are doomed to pass away. Languages that live are not made to or der, but they grow out of peoples life their sorrows, their joys, their experi- ences and their long environment.
 The growing signs of the times in lit erary and commercial life indicates th English is destined to become the domi- nant tongue of the world. Not as we now have it, with all its present "sins upon It's head" Many changes of neces- sity will take place in Its progress. Now It's power of self development is limited and it's possibility of Automatic expression is far inferior to, say, Latin; and al- though superior to French in its variety of verbal arrangement, and equal to the highly infected German, and, indeed, more perfect than German in It's gender designation, yet, many changes are in evitable; among them, uniformity of vowel orthoepy and consistent orthog- raphy, as well as other changes at the points of weakness adversely mentioned above. But English is ever in a state of transition. It appropriates what 1t de- sires from every language under the heavens. It Is the most composite tongue fin the world, and is constantly growing by the process of accretion. however linn ited may be It's power of self-expansion.
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of languages stands as a barrier between the nations in all departments of thought and philosophic Investigations, to say nothing of the hindrance to a better un- derstanding in questions of comity and diplomatic relations. This fact has been realized by many in all nations.
 Conscious of this need some have pro- posed an artificial and quickly construct ed universal tongue. In the year 16SS Bishop Wilkins gave the world series of characters that he thought might be used by all the nations in their litera- ture, and thus be understood by all. This scheme died "a-bornin'''
 In modern times Johann M. Schleyer, a priest, published in 1879 his world speech" which we know as Volapuk. He adopted an alphabet of 27 letters to which he gave French, German and Latin tongue-values. It was an ingenious scheme and appealed to thousands at once. Organizations were formed to popularize the universal tongue, in many centers of letters, and for awhile it spread with amazing rapidity. But its syntactical limitations and its infiectional defects were 1nsuperable and it was thought impossible for the purposes of the inventor.
 The friends of Volapuk thought Its inn perfections could be overcome without impairing It's integrity. Therefore innu- merable changes were made in it. but when the work was completed it was no longer Volapuk, but the Lingu-National. It is practically dead now
 Then followed Esperanto, another arti- ficial language It was invented by g. Russian. In Esperanto the elements of words are common to all European tongues. The pronunciation Is phonetic and easily learned The root words num-
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THE DOMINANT TONGUE-By Dr.. w. E. NEvons

Its facility in this regard can but further it's ultimate universal dominance.
 No other language has grown as rapid ly as English has. In the time of Eliza beth only 5,ooo,ooo of people spoke En- glish At the beginning of the 18th cen tury it was spoken by only 2o,0oo,oOo Of people; but when the present century dawned 150,0OO, 900 of people were speaking the language in which the King James Bible was given to the world in 1907. It is thought that by the opening of the Fist century English will be the language of more than half of the white races on the globe. Not only so; but 1t finds its way Into = speech of all nations who are v.oiding to the impulses of commercial progress. Someone has said, While the first Senate of the world hung upon the periods of that grand old man, MT. Glad stone, Chinese merchants were exohang- ing tea for cotton fabrics upon terms ex- pressed in the tongue that Shakespeare spoke.'
 What are the facts? As the tide of English has risen, that of French has re- ceded. French has never been of the same dignity and importance since the is- sues of the Franco Prussian war. Ger man gives no sign of becoming moro than a national language Spanish, which once was the language of a vast part of the civilized world, is narrower in its sphere than since the days of Ferdinand and Is- abella. The languages of Italy, Portugal and Russia are not to be considered as competitors, the latter, indeed, as an Elm pire has no common speech, every sever al state in the political compact having its own language. The same may be af- firmed of Austria.
 While these are existent facts, the En- glish tongue is widening in its use
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striking and a speaking likeness. And I suppose Kansas will send that old lun. atic, John Brown, to keep him company. I hope so, at least, though my cousin Jim Lane ought to have a place there Cousin Jim was a philanthropst, though a fanatic, and he proposed to avert the war of 1861-65 by means of a duel He was to head 100 abolitionists, and Sena- tor Atchison was to head 100 southerners, and they were to meet at Lawrence and fight it out. If he and his survived the country was to be all free, and if they fell and Atchison's squad was victor, the country was to be all slave
 I am not so sure but that would have been better settlement than the way it was done from Bull Run to Appomattox.
 New Hampshire sent Daniel Webster and John Stark. They are thrifty set of Yankees up there. and Webster, the grandest of men, is put up in a little bit Of marble that would make about a bushel of lime, though just on the other side, at the south, is "Old Bill'' Allen whose statue would make lime enough
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-14
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Ed1v;n A. Nye

1 of both Peary and Cook there will al-
 ways be those who are unconvinced However, that may be, large share
 of the credit in any event must be given
 to the Eskimo dog. Without the dog the
 pole would still be undiscovered. l And if any should be dined and applaud | ed it is the stanch dog who did the real
 work of the journeys, toiling over the
 icy wastes, enduring heavy burdens with 1 out complaint or striking for higher 1 wages and shorter hours of labor. | Why not stop the controversy between ] Cook and Peary and their followers long | enough to give a royal banquet to the | thirty-dogs of Peary and the eighteen | dogs of Cook7
 { And among the toasts there would be
 one to be drunk in silence and standing
 their flesh to feed the starving men who
 are now so proud of their triumph and
 arrogant in claims for self. | Give the Eskimo dog his due. Without 1 that stout servitor and faithful four legged companion the stars and stripes
 would not be floating in the region of
 the pole
 What a fine helper to man the dog has
 always been!
 In the first glimpse we get of the man
 of the stone age and his cave his faith full dog bears him company, and now In 1 the very latest glimpse of mans great | triumph, the dog IS there l Indeed. 1t may be said, some of those 1 Eskimo dogs-if either or both the brave Americans reached the pole-were there first.
 The dogs have no scientific data or daily | Journals to submit to candid world to prove they were first on the ground or the ice--but 1t stands to reason that
 some of the eighteen of Cooks or the thirty-six of Pearys shaggy dogs first | straddled the ninetieth degree. | Does not the dog come before the i sledge on which sits the driver? And who shall say when they stopped there at the earths apex to take an ob-
 servation of the heavens the dogs did not wag their tails in token of the dis
 covery before proud man really knew? All the world loves a lover. | And all the world loves love story, 1 even If it isn't true. Here is pretty one that is true:
 | Miss Josie Morrison, the winsome | daughter of s. T. Morrison, wealthy | farmer of Palouse Wash, eloped with her fathers hired hand, William Henry | Hughes.
 | Whew!
 l The parents of the girl were so en-
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COME years ago I was in a court
 house in Virginia when a trial for o murder was in progress. The att torney for the prosecution was arguing against a motion to bail the prisoner He said: ''The object of bail is to secure the appearance of the accused at the final trial Now. if you bail the prisoner, he knows very well that his life will be in great danger if he appears and stands his trial at the appointed time. and hence he will be very likely to abscond and leave his securities to forfeit the bail; for the Good Book says: All that man hath will be given for his life.'"
 The quotation from the Good Book" is found in the 2d chapter and 4th verse of the book of Job. The attorney evi- dently took the words to be good script ure, and he thought they asserted what was true, and this seems to be the gen. eral opinion, for the words are frequent ly quoted as if they were inspired au- thority. The impression seems generally to prevail that quotation from Scripture is sufficient to settle any question of doc Urine of morals or of fact. This text is selected for the purpose of showing and refuting the serious error involved in this very common view.
 1. The statement is not Scripture. The fact that the words are found in the Bible does not give them soriptural authority. The author of the book of Job Whoever he was) simply tells us that Satan said these words. and the writer does not make himself responsible for the truth of the sentiment expressed. but simply for the accuracy of his report of Satan's words. The statement that Satan said the words Is Scripture, but the author does not assume any responsibility for the truth of the satanic statement.
 Let us take another case: In Johns Gospel. 9th chapter verses S0-S3, we have an argument for the divine mission of Jesus. The argument is made. not by the Evangelist. but by the man who had been born blind and whose eyes had been opened by our Lord. There Ia no reason to believe that this man was inspired. The Mvangslist says nothing about the
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presented statues. Missouri sent Thomas H. Benton and Frank P. Blair, and Ylr- ginia gave her best-George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Texas gave Sam Houston and Austin. She ought to have sent a greater than both of them, Albert Sidney Johnston. Alabama must send William l.. Yancey, but the whole thing is invidious. It Is a foolish proposition and I agree with Cabot Lodge and would clean out the whole thing, sending the marble to the lime kiln and the bronze to the tack maker.
 Morrill,, as shrewd a Yankee as you ever saw, a merchant, who gathered gear, was yet a sentimentalist, a poet a visionary, an idealist He had a scorpion tongue and could say bitter things He could not speak-that is, he had not the gift of gab when on his 1egs-but many of his passages remind of Ed Carmack, but he always read his speeches. Annually he made speech on the tariff that in- furieted James B. Beck, who next day took the floor and answered that essay" It got to be joke that Vance and Vest enjoyed when Beck got up to pound that
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ragged that the entire police force of the northwest was invoked to arrest the pair of lovers and bring them back. But Hughes and Miss Morrison knew a thing or two, and the police never found them.
 Not much romance about that you say. It happens every day. But wait.
 William Henry Hughes was no ordin- ary farm hand. He is the son of a mill ionaire contractor of Pittsburg, and is sole heir to vast estates. including a country mansion in the Adirondacks.
 What was he doing out in Washing toni He went west in search of his health, which he was told could be re- gained by hard labor. As a common farm hand he did good work during har- vest and then hired out to Morrison for a term of four months.
 And the beauty about this romance Is Hughes never admitted a word concern ing his place or position in society to the girl he wooed and won.
 So that when Josie Morrison found her self falling in love with the good look ing, modest and well educated Hughes she thought there was ahead of her nothing but a hard life of drudgery. She knew her parents would never vol untarily agree to her marriage with the farm hand. But she fearlessly faced the future that life with a poor man would bring.
 She loved Hughes for himself. And he loved her the more because he knew the noble sacrifice she was making in her own mind.
 But when Hughes made himself known to the elder Morrisons after the marriage a different air graced their paternal coun- tenances.
 Hughes as mere farm hand was odlous, as the son of a millionaire quite acceptable.
 Such is the sordidness of parental es- timation.
 There was fine reception ready for the elopers when they came back. The farm hand son-in-law had sent back east in the meantime for his mother, who came west and graced the reception.
 The account goes on to state that the bride is a graduate of an eastern college and in every way fitted for her new position.
 The moral? There isn't any.
 This Is a love story-pure and simple and sweet and true. Tired?
 Well, that is a good way to be. Stop and think how glad you ought to
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SATAN'S SLANDER-By J, c. Hiden, D. D.

, soundness of the argument, but simply records 1t, just as he records the false assertions and the sophistical dodges of the Pharisees. The soundness of the ar gument may be fairly questioned. It pro- ceeds upon the false promise that God does not hear sinners and upon the fur ther assumption that man who works what is called a miracle is necessarily a good man and a messenger from God a phophet-and that he must be accredited accordingly. The magicians of Egypt, Balaam, Judas Iscariot, to say nothing of Simon Magus, Elymas, the sorcerer, the woman of Endor and, shall we say, some of the modern spiritualists, ought to be evidence enough of the unsoundness of this view.
 It is not fair to hold an author respon- sible for the sayings and doings of his characters, unless, indeed, he so repre- sents those characters as to exert an evil influence upon his readers. The comic dramatists of the Restoration-Congrev Wickerly, Farquhar and Vanbugh-did ''mischievous foul sin" in depicting vi- cious characters in such style as to make vice attractive. But nobQdy holds Dick ems responsible for the devilish temper of Rosa Dartle. Wilkie Collins Is not re- sponsible for the horrible coolness of Count Fosco's rascality. nor for the shocking principles of Captain Wraggs, nor for the deadly hate of Manning, nor for tho loose morals of Mr9 Catherick Neither is the author of the book of Job responsible for the sentiments which he puts into the mouth of the father of lies
 g. The statement Is not true. Job him self, of whom Satan was speAkins, proved by his subsequent conduct that Satan lied when he said: "All that a man hath will he give for his life" Job showed that he preferred death to 'sacriz ice of his religious principles. The wife of his bosom. the mother of his children, could not persuade him to give up his integrity The bitter taunts of his mis- guided and blundering friends could not shake him. They hurled upon his inno- cent and devoted head accusations false, foul and outrageous. but
 .-Their words passed by him like the wind
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imposing on him few house chores and or loaf on the corners.
 Watch your boy at school. If he is lazy
 there he will be lazy elsewhere. School is the place where he should learn to apply himself. And he sure to get him some sort of job during vacation. You would save your son from typhoid or scarlet fever. Save him also from the
 disease of laziness. If you spare the pains you spoil the child
 ,, Nearly every city has truant officers to look up the children who ought to be in school.
 None of the cities or states has a truant officer or the efficient machinery for the capture of husbands and fathers ent upon them.
 Many of the states have laws against
 desertion. some of them with severe pen
 alties, but the recreant man who wants to
 dodge his domestic duties when they grow irksome to him can easily go into
 another state beyond the jurisdiction of his state courts.
 He can go to another state and hide his
 identity and, assuming the risk, marry again and in turn desert another family. This criminal truancy of fathers is on the increase.
 From every city and from the smaller towns come the pitiful stories of deserted wives who are left with the burden of small children. Many of these women are frail or sick or unable to care for the children, who suffer along with the
 mother the deepest deprivation. A Cincinnati woman, moved by pity, has written letter to President Taft asking for a federal law that will pro- tect mothers and children and compel truant fathers to care for them. She says the records of her city alone show that in eleven months more than 2700 truant fathers have deserted their families!
 And no doubt a careful census of other
 cities and towns would show a like ratio. Every community has its ratio of de-
 linquent husbands and fathers. But
 Unfortunately the national government Is powerless to relieve the situation. Un- der our constitutional government the states have exclusive jurisdiction over
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Which raves and how1s, but cannot shock The hundred fathom rooted rock"
 Job, however. is not our only example. Indeed. every martyr who has died for tho truth, every patriot who has died for his country, nay, every fanatic who has died for a crotchet and every duellist who has foolishly sacrificed his life to his false notions of honor has given the lie to Satan's foul islander upon the hu- man race.
 There are in the Bible many statements which are not true. But" says the reader, eff they are not Scripture and not true, why are they in the Bible'" The answer Is that the statement that cer- tain persons. under certain circumstances. did utter certain false, foolish and wicked words. Is Scripture. It pleased God to tell us in His Word that wicked men called Jesus Christ a glutton, a wine- bibber, and deceiver of the people, and that they said that John the Baptist and our Lord were possessed of demons. The lesson to us is obvious-we must not dark en counsel by words without knowledge. And this is a lesson for all the ages be- cause the great questions discussed in the book of Job were not settled in that book and have never been settled since Nor do they appear to be any nearer to satisfactory solution now than they were then. They puzzled Job; they pug xled Lucretius and they puzzled Bledsoe.
 Nor does this lesson depend upon the view which is here taken of the historical character of the narrative portions of the book of Job, nor even upon the historical existence of the several personages who figure in the book. The moral and spir- itual contents of the book remain the same, even if we regard the book as an inspired dramar-a view which I do not adopt, though much has been said in its favor.
 We must be careful how we read and how we interpret our Bibles. lest the devils lies be accepted as a part of our religion. The apostolic injunction, Prove all things; hold fast that which Is good" has lost none of its point
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HEY call it the national valhalla.
 the old hall of the House of Rep
 4 resentatives. and nearly 50 years ago Justin s. Merrill of Vermont had it set apart with the provision that each state of the American sisterhood was at liberty to send there and set up marble or bronze images of any two of it's H. lustrous citizens, if they were dead men. I never go through that place without shuddering, for there is old Ethan Allen in heroic pose, such as Hercules might have assumed before he was henpecked by that tyrant wife of his. Charles James Fox said it was impossible for any man to be as wise Lord Chancellor Thurlow looked and I say 1t Is impossible for any man to be as fierce as this al- legged sculptor makes old Allen look.
 Henry Cabot Lodge says the whole kit ought to be sent to the lime kiln, and agree with him. The image of Louis Cass would make lime enough to build a chimney. Garfields is even more of a monstrosty. The best thing in the bunch Is Ingal1s of Kansas. It is a