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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
Who Is Marie Corel,i?

When Henry Cody died four years
ago at PIG West Thirty-sixth street,
letters found in his room indicated
that he was a brother of Marie Corelli,
the English novelist. Miss CoreIli was
appealed to, but she denied having a
brother living, and asserted that she
was the daughter of Count Corelli, an
italian, and had been adopted by DR..
Charles Mackay, the Scotch writer.
Cody's story was forgotten, and Miss
Corellis account of her birth and par
entage continued to be the one gener-
ally accepted.
1t was not until yesterday that it
was again called into question. An old
friend of Cody came forward with a
letter written in England by the broth
er Of the dead man, in which the writ
er, Sidney Cody, says that Marie Co
relli is their sister. This letter was
written at the time of Henry Cody's
death in 1906 and was in answer to
one from James Brier.
He says he has refrained from max
ing it public. heretofore out of a SEN
timental regard for the memory Of his
friend, but the death of the latter's
mother removed this objection, and
when a short time ago he read of Miss
Corellis alleged. genealogy again, he
said he felt it was time that her re-
pudiation of his friend as her brother
should be checked by the facts in his
possession.
The letter seems to establish her
identity as Marie Cody eldest daugh-
ter in the large family Of an English
mechanic who was forced by financial
difficulties into allowing her to be
adopted by DR.. and Mrs. Mackay. 1t
denies her descent from a Count Cor
relli. The writer of the letter is Sid
ney Cody, who says he is her broth
er, now headmaster of the English
private school.
Mr. Brier said yesterday that he
had known Henry Cody fifteen, years,
and knew his entire story. He visited
London with, two letters to the Cody.
family in 1897. and was introduced
by Eleanor Cody one day to lady
whom she presented as Marie;
Mackay, my sister" At that time she
had not become famous. but he re-
membered the incident. as he thought
1t rather curious. When few. years,
later the romances of Marie Corelli'
became famous, Mr.. Brier said he and
Henry Cody read them together. and
the latter told him of his relation
ship to the writer. At that time Hen
~ Cody was proprietor of a tobacco
shop and factory on the site where
Wallack's theater now stands.-New
York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
QUAKER MEDITAnoNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.
The Dark Ages were naturally the
days of knights.
Beauty is only skin deep, and most NJ
us are thin-skinned-
Money is the root of all evil-sf vo,,
don't happen to have any.
Many a girl who thinks she is In, Low.
could be cured by an Indigestion tablet
As a slang expression, There are No
flies on me-" is almost archaic; ava
ton killed 1t.
It's a sure sign that a woman bee4,,-
to realize her age when she stops nav.
ing her picture taken.
It may sound silly, but how "a,
detective dog mans footsteps u11ass
some one gives him a pointer?
No, Maude, dear; -cross-countrv r,A-
ers are not always cross: in fact -
times they are quite amiable. =
Here's a GIRL remarked the answa--
to correspondents editor, who vas
to know how to acquire a syvan-1t,ss
neck" "Tell her not to make a 800 go
of herself" growled the sporting eSis*o,s
B.obbs-"The girl I'm going to n,s,.-..
believes in love in a cottage" aio5,tyy
That's the sort Of girl to MARI. -
girl who believes in love in a COTS :. q
can be stuffed with any old thinT. - =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
AS TO INDUSTRIAL DISEASES.

when Florence Nightingale and
Henri Dunant saw the battlefelds
strewn with dead and wounded. they
gave a moment to thought, and then
passed on to the world an idea which
grew into that beneficent organization
known as the Red Cross Since that
time. wherever men might be injured
in the activities of war the means for
quick relief have been supplied Dur
ing that same half century, however,
the Industrial field with its activities of
peace has extended and grown more
mechanical, until it now mains more
men that war ever did. In the United
States $4,000 wage earners are killed
by Industrial accidents every year and
100000 more are seriously injured -
says John B. Andrews of the American
Association for Labor Legislation, in
The Survey. There are probably not
less than 100000 cases of sickness
each year among those engaged in in
dustrfal employments. The money loss
each year (for those who find dollars
more impressive than lives) is calcu-
lated by these conservative experts as
nearly three-quarters of a billion dol
lars. At least one-fourth of this pain
full incapacity for work and consequent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

was having to go without his monday
iuncnes on account of it. He expected
entered the door, but there were none.
Dolly must have wept herself into a
neaoache and was lying down. He
would look in on her, but no words Of
sympathy. Just look and a sort oc
humph,' and then withdraw. He
| looked. but he did not "humph." Dolly
wasn't therei Five minutes later he
knew she wasn't in the house.
When a wife has made up, her mind
10 leave her husbands bed and board
ana iooking-glass refrigerator she gem
erdily ieaves note pinned to the man.
tel-orape. where it can be seen the
1lrsc thing. Mr.. Burnham looked about
MIN FOR quarter OF an hour. Then he
went out and sat down under a plum
Tree IN the yard. He would not follow.
mao. sowed, now let her reap.
Night fell. A husband could be
seen sitting on a soap box under a
plum tree that had never borne plums.
Woman's figure could be seen steal
ing up the street. She moved slow
she stopped and pressed her hand to
ner heart and caught her breath.
Inc man under the plum tree
realized that a wire nail was digging
into his leg, but he did not move. He
must not move
~AAO AAAcsil sat anu tl10 WOIt1cH
came haltingly on, junk wagon
could be seen stealingly slowly down
the street. The old horse in the
thills looked straight ahead with I'M
W1nking eyes, and the two men on
the seat conversed in whispers. There
was tragedy in the air.
The wind sighed and moaned, and
the man sat and the woman drew
nearer and nearer. So did the junk
wagon. At length it stopped in front
of the cottage. The two men got down
passed quietly around to the back and
two minutes later reappeared Juggling
refrigerator with a glass door. They
loaded 1t up and drove away in the
darkness. Then the man rose from
the soap box and walked to the gate
He caught sight of the woman and
called:
THAT you, Dolly?''
Yes, George. Did you see them 20
yes"
They have stolen our refrigerator
I'm glad of it!''
$50 am T."
And the doves of peace COO around
that cottage from sunrise to sunset,
and though the butter melts on a hot
day, there is only peace and joy over
it.-(Copyrighted 1910, by Associated
Literary Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe,l

LFrom the Atchisons Globe
A fool is sometimes assisted to office
by wise people.
There is something to make fun of
about everyone.
AS a matter of fact, no woman can
play cards very well.
If it were not for kin. some women
would starve to death.
Men who belong to the lodges are
great men to run for Office.
The younger a girl, the better she
gets along with her mother.
It is easier to get SO in promises
than it is to get so cents in money.
The greatest bore we ever knew
thought he was the most popular man
in town.
o., We never knew a man who could
keep a horse decent looking in winter
time
Many a man who had a hard boy
hood tries to be good to his son, and
ruins him.
There never was a girl so beautiful
that she could look slouchy to a good
advantage.
Men do seem to do more counting
in every succeeding generation. and
less marrying.
| they get lot of fun out of being
down trodden.
1t is a common trait of human ma
ture never to want to compromise I'M
til whipped.
There is a little of the insurgent in
every man, which crops out as he
grows older and poorer.
| The husband of a poor housekeeper
| is finally looked upon with contempt
because he doesn't run away
With a majority of people the
Christmas holidays begin Christmas
morning and close Christmas night.
| You hear of such things, but there
never was a woman who married a
man she disliked to please her. par
ents.
Every man is liberal in saying what
ought to be done, but most of us are
very conservative in saying what we
will do.
! An Atchison school teacher was
whipping boy the other day, and the
boy pulled a cap pistol witt which to
| defend himself.
When a school teacher goes out OF
the room for a few minutes. she puts
a big girl in charge, to "teH on the
children who misbehave-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some humans are so unusual they
can keep out of debt.
X
And among the decidedly queer in
dividuals are those who won't argue.
X y
Many folks lose their heads without
suffering any serious consequences.
X X X
1t is also a noticeable fact that most
of the henpecked men are little fe1lers.
X \
This is also the season of the year
when not much worry is expended in
selecting a Christmas present for
father.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

Au1cAeT-f1OW
car hold? Bocker-Ffve and q cop.-New
York Sun
The new Chief Justice of the United
Roman Catholic. Therefore the Repub-
ican politicians will not have to do all
the bowling. They will be ably assist
&c by Protestant preachers.
A girl in Cleveland, Ohio. coughed up
petizing morsels of news get into the
papers from time to time, but as q
'supper-saver, this one is entitled to the
blue ribbon.
1t is hereby moved and seconded
peka buffalo. He knows the differ
ence between buffalo and q Jersey
heifer, having. in the past, herded
Z. Bur" -Jones's pets at Garden CITY.
A preacher who lectured Sunday,
sinless- and above reproach, has a
chance to get to heaven. This will be
sad blow to large number Of local
saints. who had planned to take the
Upper Flat
stockings; others on their backs or
heads. -
Give man a bad name and his
finish is certain. One does not appoint
counsel for the defense and hear evil
dence of guilt when he catches a rat.
The mere fact that the prisoner is a
rat is sufficient to warrant capital
punishment.
Chickens and stenographers scratch
for living. Others may not scratch,
but 1T is our experience that most OF
US have to dig.
REAL OLD BOTTLED IN BOND
LUCK.
The Dinosaur and Dodo are
A pair of lucky buffers:
They croaked before the great T. r.
Could fix them for the suffers
employed by some museum rude
To fiji their hides with breakfast food
These beasties OF the Age of Stones
Were spared lot Of piffle,
And we can contemplate their bones
Without a tear or sniffle.
Yea,-lucky, lucky buffers are
The Dodo and the Dinosaur.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
KANSAy CONTENT
THE LoGICAL PoINr.n

w estern Kansas has always con-
tended that it was unfair to put so
ihanv OF the state institutions in the
eastern part of the state. Nearly all
the Dig state institutions are there;
the capitol, the Topeka Osawatomie
and Parsons asyluns, the university
ana Two normals, the penitentiary and
q NUMBER or other of the principal re-
ciplents of state monies.
Inc argument has always been that
the small population of western Kan
sas counties did not warrant the loca-
tIon OF state institutions in that part
of the state
Now it is proposed, however. to To-
cate a new state hospital for the in
sane, and western Kansas, it happens,
is IN position to offer the state adj
Vantages for such an institution which
no other section can offer.
Kansas wants a good healthy place
open air treatment.
IL needs a place where the tuber-
GUAR insane may be cared for to best
advantage.
gives 1t an advantage which the legis-
lature must recognize.
tuberculosis is a disease to which
the insane are particularly suscepti-
Die AT Osawatomie and Topeka in
sane hospitals, a number of "tuber-
cular pavilions' have been built, and
these are proving inadequate to the
demands.
The three state hospitals for the in
sane are now so large that further
expansion will make them unwieldy.
and yet the demand for more room
for the insane continues. Hundreds
OF insane cases which in the past have
been cared for In the county aims
houses are now transferred to the
state hospitals, and with the increase
IN state nOnUIafi0n the demand for
more room is bound to increase.
Hence the legislature will be obliged
to take some steps to provide for more
patients, and western Kansas is the
logical point" for the new hospital.
Not only does western Kansas offer
the high altitude, and the opportunity
for agricultural work, but the state
can buy land at low prices. Land can
be purchased for tenth part of what
it costs adjacent to any of the eastern
Kansas institutions, and the state can
purchase an ample estate for q COM
parative1y small sum-
Furthermore, the increase in popu-
lation of western Kansas has been so
great in the past few years that this
section is more than ever entitled to
| cognition.
The state must have the hospital,
and western Kansas is the place to
put ft.-Salina Journal.
THE JOY OF LIVING.
I General Simon Bolivar Buckner of
Kentucky, former general in the Con-
| federate army, former governor of
Kentucky, former Gold Democratic
| nominee for vice-president, told the
house of governors at Louisville he
was SO years of age. poor. and happy.
He said he was poor because he
had been in politics all his life, yet
he was satisfied.
His old log cabin-of the real old
fashioned kindzbuilt by. his father
100 years ago; his great fireplaces and
comfortable rooms; his spring of pure
| water near his door; his bed of mint
associates and Gods pure air and
mountains, were enough for him he
said.
I And this old man has solved the
problem of the Joy of living.-Garden
| City telegram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

If the deepening of the waterways Of
the natio; only had something to do
with putting it on war footing, the
request of the Rivers and Harbors con-
gress for an annual appropriation of
$50.000,000 to make the waterways
navigable, would probably strike the
federal authorities as being far from
reasonable. Indeed. such an appropria.
ton would be likely to go through con-
gress with a whoop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

If Tacoma had been given a free
hand in the premises, the total popu-
lation of the United States would
have been materially larger than that
announced by the census bureau. Still,
nearly 100000 is quite large enough
for all practical purposes under pres
sent conditions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New york Pre-

IFrom the New York Press.
Excellence is in the opinion of the
one who thinks he has it.
Snow melts away under a bright
sun; money in any kind of weather
girl needs ribbons to tie UP her
self; she could tie up a nan with cob
webs
There's no man who thinks he's such
a patriot as the one who is being sup
ported out Of the public treasury.
A woman can't be happy unless she
trusts the man she loves, and he isn't
to be trusted the minute she does it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

The outrageous third degree" as
praeticed pretty generally by the POI
lice and prosecuting officers the
country over, got a black-eye worth
while from the supreme court of Ore
gon the other day. Times are chang
ing surely and all things appear to be
moving along in better directions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

In view of the recent mutinies on
the part of the sailors in the Brazilian
navy. and the way these affairs have
been handled by that government,
there will be no doubt in the mind of
any one that Brazil is well-famed as
being the place where a peculiar
variety of nuts come from.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

It took the house of representatives
barely three hours to consider and
pass the rivers and harbors bill which
carries with it an appropriation of
nearly $22s0O0.00O. But that's the
only thing-providing for the expendi-
ture of public funds-that congress is
at all speedy in acting on. More than
fifteen years were required by con-
gress to enact a pure food law, and
the one it finally provided has not
turned out to be as effective as it
should.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

Prohibition is an absurdity. said Mr..
Adolphus Busch, of beer fame, as he
lolled around in a private car which
stopped over for five minutes, in
Topeka the other day en- route for
California. To be sure 1t is an alb
surdity from the standpoint of the
brewer. If prohibition were nation
wide and the manufacture and sale
Of beer was stopped absolutely. Meth
er Mr.. Busch nor any of his relatives
and friends would be riding around in
private cars. And it is also true that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

Compare the increase in the pro-
duction of food commodities during
the past decade with the increase in
population during the same period as
just announced by the census bureau,
and It will not be very difficult to
figure out one of the controlling rea-
sons for the high cost of living which
has prevailed of late.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

Such rubbish! Mme.. Fremstead, a
grand opera star, announces that the
cocktail is curse of the American
girl. The betting is anything you want
to wager against nothing that there
are seevral million American girls who
have never even so much as seen a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

With William T. Stead On their
trail, the members of the house of
lords might as we'll give up their fight
and quit business. Besides having a
vtrile and trenchant pen, Mr.. Stead is
friendly with the spirits in the other
world and can likely get their help
in any cause he undertakes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

Attention is called by the Chicago
Record-Herald to the fact that Or
Cook has not yet taken the trouble to
return the freedom of any of the
cities that conferred it on him" Nor
does he seem disposed to return the
money he collected for his lectures on
that phony trip to the North Pole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

Sh-hl The Chicago police actually
have a clew to the bomb outrages
which have been perpetrated in the
Windy City for the past two or three
years. Heretofore the chief forte of
the Chicago police has apparently
been concerned in passing on the
merits of grand operas and Salome
Aanae1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Ia q member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
gantzafion for the exclusive afternoon
Publication In Topeka
The news Is received In The State Jour
nose. 80
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

none of the chronic consumers of Mr..
Busch's and other brews ever travel
in private cars They're lucky If they
have the price of street car fare.
Sometimes, too, they can't even walk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

The condition of Kansas wheat did
not make a very good showing on De-
cernber 1, to be sure. But it must be
borne in mind that December 1 is not
the date when Kansas wheat is har-
Vested. III
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

China is going ahead so fast in
the blishment of a constitutional
government that it wouldn't be bit
surprising If she suddenly came a
cropper 4-ts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

When one desires to defend some per-
son of doubtful worth, he invariably
says: But he has a lot of good points.
for all that Which, to our notion, is
: moor defense: so hath paper of
pins, yet the same retails for five cents
the copy. 1910
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
FRON O7EER PENS
NOT AN URBAN NATION.

The census figures show that the to-
tai population of all cities in this coun-
try of $4,000 or more is about 1926, 900
and that the largest percentage Of pop
ulation increase has been made in cities
of less than 100000. Counting that the
nations population will reach 90,000, 900,
this showing does not quite bear out
the contention, so persistently urged in
connection with our back-to-the-farn
agitation, that as a nation we are be-
comin~ distinctly urban. We are not
quite one-third urban, if we may con-
slider the starting point as the city of
$4,000.
Forty-seven cities have 100000 or
more population and of this number
only II have risen to this class since
1900. The census bureau declines to
make any advance statement of the en-
tire population, but it is being general
ly estimated in the neighborhood Of 90,
000.0 600. Ten years ago it was 76,303. 1897.
The percentage of urban population
has not increased disproportionately.
At least, the increase has not been
such as should alarm US with relation
to our farming communities. The fact
is, as the census figures will show,
that We are even more of an agricul-
tural people today than we were a de-
cade ago. judged on the basis of rela-
tive populations, for the last 10 years
has witnessed this nations most spirit
ed settlement of new territory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

When the Black Sheep returns and
connects with the fatted calf it is an
effort to refrain from getting off some
joke about making both ends meat"
-HGP-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
A FRESHMAN AT FIF.TY-oNE.

Princeton's 51-year-old freshman will
be denied many of the joys of student
life. He can never make" the nine or
eleven and he will hardly be available
in a class rush. His pride in wearing
the diminutive skull-cap which custom
imposes on freshmen will be tempered
by considerations which come with
mature years.
The student ir question having made
a, fortune has gone to college for a little
culture. 1t is regretted that more men
who have not had a college education
do not follow his example. 1t is mod
ern notion that universities are strictly
for the young. The medieval universe
ties attracted students of all ages, and
it is much to be desired that colleges
should nowadays draw students of an
older growth.
"Cato learned Greek at go" and there
is no good reason why men who ac-
quire taste for scholarship or science
or the fine arts late in life should not
crafty it by taking a college course,
after the manner of the former bridge
builder who has enrolled at Princeton
to study biology and botany Most col
leges have had isolated examples of the
tind No doubt it is due to a false
sense of ~ incongruity Of age that
more students of adult years do not
seek a college educatlon.-New York
World
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g

Knicker-How many win your motor
car hold? .Bocker-Ffve and q cop.-NeW
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

The new Chief Justice of the United
States is not only a Democrat but a
Roman Catholic. Therefore the Repub-
ican politicians will not have to do all
the bowling. They will be ably assist
&c by Protestant preachers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

A girl in Cleveland. Ohio. coughed up
a lizard and a half. other ap-
petizing morsels of news get into the
papers from time to time, but as a
supper-saver, this one is entitled to the
blue ribbon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13

1t is hereby moved and seconded
that Gene Stotts be sent after the To-
peka buffalo. He knows the differ
ence between buffalo and Jersey
neirer, having. in the past. herded
Buff" sJones's pets at Garden City,