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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
Guards Woman's Body.

Only through the strategy of Dep
uty Coroner Walden in pushing a
heavy fur gauntlet glove into the
mouth of vicious bulldog, which had
been guarding the body for nearly "a
hours, was he able yesterday after
noon to make an investigation into
the death of Mrs. Catherine Greenwich,
81 years old, of Ais Leidy avenue,
who died suddenly at her home on
Tuesday night of heart disease.
Mrs. Greenwell had entertained
friends on Tuesday evening, and after
the dining room to rest. Frank Waldo
boarder, returned later in the even
ing, and, believing that she was re-
naming up for some of the other
boarders, retired without disturbing
her.
When Waldo came downstairs yes
terday morning he found Mrs. Green
well in the same position, but did not
disturb her. Two hours later John
Slikes, Mrs. Greenwelrs 94-year-old
father, when he entered the room
saw her and became suspicious.
AS he approached the couch to
arouse her, however, the bulldog
which had been lying at her feet, at
tempted to bite Slikes. Slikes, alarm
ed, summoned a nearby physician.
the dog became more excited, and
both the father and physician were
compelled to retreat. The physician,
however, pronounced Mrs. Greenwich
dead, and notified the coroner.
The animal showed more fight than
reached the house, and after trying
nearly an hour to persuade the dog
to leave the couch, Deputy Coroner
Walden left, but returned again at 6
o'clock. The dog still held his guard
and could not be Included to leave the
couch.
Finally, Walden, taking off his fur
gauntlet, hurled it at the dogs face.
The animal, gripping it in his teeth,
was dragged from the couch and
thrown into the yard. Walden was
then able to proceed with the inves-
tigation. He found that death had
been caused by heart disease.-Phila-
delphia INQUIRER
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
POINTED 'AISAGkAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.


The chief end of man is his finish.
Be sure you are wrong before you CT
fer an apology.
1t is well to be useful, but don't let
people use you
The man who is always hunting
trouble never has to borrow any.
When a girl marries in haste it's
sometimes her last chance.
If cleanliness is next to goodness
most tramps must be agnostics.
The small boy makes a home run
when he hears his father calling him.
When a new girl comes to a small
town IL the boys sit up and take
notice.
Have you always done the best you
could? You know very well you
haven't.
A woman is never sure she is happily
married until she discovers that she
isn't.
A retired burglar tells us that a lot
of safes are not what they are cracked
up to be.
If given three guesses could you
guess why a married man seldom has
any use for a photograph?
Our idea of a successful salesman is
one who can persuade people to want
what he wants them to want
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
THE SEA OF PEACE.

l stand above a white-rimmed sea-
dts depts are mine, its mirrored height;
Mine its low plant of mystery;
All mine its glee-song of delight.
Mine its strong soul; its body mine;
lave me in its kind embrace;
In dreams upon its buoyant brine
1t gives me back cherished face.
Mayhap it helps me understand
The language of infinity,
The secret of the shifting sand,
The testimony of the sea.
am above all circumstance
1 am beyond all power to hurt:
No more I shrink from sorrows lance,
So with all strength am 1 besfrt.
I've tasted every bitter sup;
Earth's bulwarks all are proven frail;
Yet sweetened now Is life's low cup,
All hallowed: It's my holy grail.
Above its wrecks of ships and men
The placid ocean shows no scars;
Above my deeps where storms have been
My tranquil soul reflects the stars.
Ruth McEnery Stuart, in Century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

After all, it takes a clever individual
to talk a lot without saying anything.
X X X
The fine birds made by fine feathers
are not usually attractive in any other
way.
A big difference always exists be-
tween the salary a man thinks he de-
serves and the enc he gets.
y
And there never was family tree
of any considerable age that has not
lad an occasional crop failure.
x
Some people who play en- musical in
struments merely to kill time succeed
better than they have any idea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
MODERN ROBIN HOODS.

We have no Robin Hoods now, who
go forth from the forest with their
followers to make the rich yield of
their surplus, that they divide it among
the poor nor to succor the helpless
and defend womankind. Our Robin
Hoods are of the other sort.
But history will not change. The
merely rich man of today, who takes
from the many and gives but from his
surplus, will be as commonplace in the
kind of a hundred years ago are to us
of today. The man who reaches out
to gather in wealth, by foir means or
foul, and then attempts to embalm his
memory through gifts from his income,
proportionate to what these can at
tract from the real patriotism of the
many, will last in memory only as long
as the stencil from the embalming
fluid.
Those Of this generation who will
survive the next as more than a name
are those whose lives are given in high
places or low to forwarding the
present wellbeing of the many. The
mere moneymaker will be lost to the
addenda, when those with the Robin
Hood spirit, but with twentieth CEN
fury methods, will be held in the MEM
DRY of the multitude, and form the
subject of a rich lore of anecdote. story
and tradition.-Duluth News-Tribune.
NEW AGRICULTURAL MOVEMENT
The proposed movement in Missouri
for the formation of areas for intensive
farming on the community-of-interes
basis, though philanthropic assistance
will doubtless arouse great interest
throughout the United States because
of the existing belief that demand for
food products has outrun the facilities
for supply, and that unless there is in
creased production through closer set
Element or by intensive farming the
prices of the food staples will remain
high and possibly advance to higher
figures than those which are now caus-
ing discomfort The Missouri idea is
to establish 40-acre farms around a
central farm of $50 acres which will
serve as the parent farm in the capac-
ity of instructor for the heads of the
smaller surrounding farms 1t is plan
ned to make 80 40-acre farms with the
central tract the colony unit, and place
an expert in agriculture on each 160-
acre tract. with a cannery, creamery,
sawmill and kindred helps for the
members of the colony. The mem
bers of these colonies will differ from
no other tillerS of the soil. except
that they will owe for all the land.
improvements and equipment. The
plan has been tried with success in
England by Baron Hirsch. and with
proper management it could be made
to work NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wis
consin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Mr.. James A. Patten, who is re-
ported to have made many millions
during the past couple of years in the
wheat and cotton pits, is now said to
have been caught for heavy losses in
May wheat. No matter how clever a
man may be if he keeps on gambling
long enough in either the stock or
the grain markets, he is just as GER
tain to come a cropper as is the fol-
lowing of day by night. And general
ly his losses are larger than his pre-
yfous gains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

After the long run of doggerel which
has appeared In this column from day
to day. IL might be well to tighten
things up with few verses of really
clever rhyme. To do this, it is neces-
sary to Introduce the work of another
writer.
Charley Morton is dead He died
over a year ago. and he died as he had
lived, cheerfuiiy. and without COM
plant During his life he wrote some
clever things and sold them to the
magazines. During his last illness, the
time spent by the average man in re-
grets and bitter reproach toward Fate.
Charley Morton crawled to his type
writer and pounded out this rhyme:
LEGAL VERSE.
(Suit at Law.)
A Lawyers Suit is not of Cloth,
His Brief is never Short;
The Bar. itself. does not contain
Liquor of any Sort.
GILES, Etc.)
The Papers in the Case are Filed,
CNot with an Iron Rasp,)
The Jury Box is not a Box
And has no Lid nor Hasp.
(Allegation.)
No Alligator comes in Court
Denying Allegations.
Temper is very rarely Shown
In Cross Examinations.
(Bailiff)
Each day a Bailiff opens Court,
AT Dark it's closed up Tight
For fear some Lawyer should Forget
Himself, and talk all Night.
(Witness.)
If asked the Nature of an Oath
One need not feel Abused
When Swearing in a Witness
No Profanity is used.
Capital Punishment.)
Celebrity in Murder Trials
The Law doth Execute;
To-wit, likewise the Sentence
And the Prisoner, to boot.
(No Verdict.)
But often the Reverse appears.
With Strange, Conflicting Pangs
The Prisoner goes Scott Free
Alas! the Patient Jury hangs.
(Errors.)
Although in Law Mistakes are made
These greatly lose their Terror
For, strangely, they are Rectified
Upon a Writ of Eerror.
(Retainer Fee.)
Ere you Retain a Lawyer,
A Retafner-fee you pay;
The Lawyer then peels off his Coat
And Works both Night and Day.
(Specific Performance
But when the Lawyer, thus Retained
Has Won your Case for you,
The Proceeds never come to Light
He has Retained them, too.
Charles H. Morton.
1t may not be convenient for
camel to go through the eve of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
FRANK ADMISSIONS.

We Americans, or some of us, are
easy marks - Europeans. Bunco
counts, dukes and harons get our
pieleian heiresses, whose multimillion-
aire fathers have made money in glue
or oil or beer or what not, and bunco
artists sell to our art amateurs and
critics bogus Rembrandts, Titans and
Corots. Our shoddy rich crowd the
hotels and shops of Paris, Vienna,
Rome and London, Haunting miniature
American flags, Dragging, and shout
ing American war-cries. Among tour
lists, our people are about the worst
specimens of the exaggerated ego. These
are not Pleasant admissions but the
first essential of a cure is frank adj
mission of the disease.-Parsons
Eclipse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

That good roads are also a cheap
investment regardless of the expense of
maintaining them will probably be
demonstrated to the entire satisfaction
of Soldier township, Shawnee county.
suit has been brought against that
community for $4,000 damages by the
widow OF George Scott. the Kansas
Cityan, who met death recently in an
accident on the Calhoun Bluffs road
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Members of the New York state leg
islature ought to have known better.
They failed to pass law providing for
direct primaries, which was urged by
Governor Hughes. and before they had
time to get 20 their homes after the
final adjournment was taken, the gov
ernor issued a call for a special session
of the legislature six weeks hence. To
it he will renew his suggestion that
some kind of a primary law be placed
on the statute books.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Another step in the development Of
Topeka has been taken in the orgariza-
ton of the South Topeka Civic Improve
ment association. 1t has fine field IT.
which to labor and the success It
achieves in building up that section Of
the city will be of great value to the
q tire town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Because a Turk can place wife
en- the scrap pile by merely saying Il
divorce thee three times, it is argued
that divorces are accomplished easier
in Turkey than in several of the states
ir this country. AS a matter of fact,
though, that's about all sutton for di-
vorce has to say in various of the
states in this land. OF course, court
has to place its stamp of approval on
the proceeding, but generally this is but
the rnercst of formalitieS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Concerning the announcement that
Senator Guggenheim will give $780,
600 to the Colorado Agricultural coll
lege, the Chicago Record-Herald
thinks that somebody will immediate
Nv discover that Secretary Ballinger
must be connected with that college
in Soma WAY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
'REMEMBER $780,"

1t is important for Republicans to
rerpember that attacks on the integrity
of the party always lead to trouble. 1t
is right and proper to make campaigns
for policies but the party integrity
must be kept intact. A good slogan
this year would be Remember 1890"
That was the year Of the great disaster.
In that year the Republicans absolved
their candidates from acting with the
party on economic questions.-Law-
renee Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Although Colonel Roosevelt has made
the acquaintance of divers and strange
animals during the past year he has
not forgotten the mollycoidles. He told
the students of Cambridge university
Just what he thought of these creatures
and included among them those who
would abolish football and any other
manly game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

The demand of the railway mail
clerks for pensions which will permit
them to retire at the age of so years
or after a continuous service of %
years would appear to be a reasonable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New york Press.I

IFrom the New York Press
Anyhow, engagements aren't as
expensive as automobiles
Some men are not to be believed
when they tell the truth any more
than when they don't.
If woman can't find anything else
to brag about her husband, she'll do
it about how he hates to have her do
it.
One good thing about a mans hav-
ing a lot of children is he never has
any worry to spare on how the gov
eminent is run.
The man who sits down and waits
for what he deserves to come to him
will never deserve it, not to speak Of
getting IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Public school authorities of Brooklyn,
n. Y. appear to be going the limit in
extending the curriculum of the
schools along practical lines. They have
set up some apparatus in the high
school gymnasium on which the girls
will be taught the proper way to get on
ond off street cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

If a false fire alarm is turned in at
Nutley, N j., all the firemen there VIII
be likely to lose their jobs. That town
council has just passed an ordinance
providing for the dismissal of all ire
men who use cuss words while on
d1ttv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

A body of clergy in Missouri is now
divided over the question as to whether
or not the whale swallowed Jonah. But
TO matter how it is decided it is not
likely to help much in the saving OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
No Experiment Needed.

Illustrative of the growth of The
rural free delivery service. Fourth AS
sistant Postmaster General DeGraw
prints in his report a list of 95 routes
which handled during the year more
than $4,000 pieces of mail each.
These are the best and busiest routes;
vet only one took in so much as ST.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Central and South American revolu-
tons usually flare up in night and are
fought out to a finish in week or So
Not so with the one which is in prog
ress at Nicaragua 1t has been going
un for months now and the present IN
dications are that it will run on for
ever. That is, of course, unless a big
circus starts on a tour of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

when an automobile ran off the en-
bankment at a point where the road
had becn permitted to crumble away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Surely Jack Johnson has no show
row to win the big fight. John L. Sui
Ivan is out with some advice as to
how Jaffries shall train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Money talks quite as loudly in Rus
STA as it does any other place. 1t is
only the poorer class of Jews who are
now being driven out of that apology
for n civilized nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

A tip to burglars: If you must
nurgle, avoid the apartments of poor.
lone, defenseless woman, New yorl,
porch climber tried it. Result: She
carefully pounded him to a pulp with
a cuspidor, then tossed him out of a
WINDOW onto the sidewalk, SO feet
below.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30


School teacher in Lincoln, Neb., is
indicted by grand jury because she
refused to answer a Hypothetical cues
ton. Said hypothetical question was
propounded by a census taker, and be-
gan thus OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ersingle - howmanychildren - how
manytimessyuh-b %
Aged female jointkeeper, who iump-
ed her bond in Washington, d. c., was
brought back from Clifton, Arizona.
with handouts on her wrists. From
the distance between Washington and
Arizona, there arises this guess: unless
she was in the habit of walking on
her hands, it would have been more to
the point to place the handouts on
her legs.
If everyone told the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, there
would be no less than three dozen
shooting scrapes in town before 12
O'Clock tonight, and not less than a
hundred divorce cases filed before
noon tomorrow.
I'VE tried keeping a family account
of personal expenditures, says Filling
wife insisted on changing the items 1
listed as 'sundries' to BOOZE
And it isn't necessary to mention
your lawyer in your will. He will get
his, anyway.
When a man tries himself he usual
ly gets verdict favorable to the de-
PENDANT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

1t may not be convenient for a
camel to go through the eye of q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

And it isn't necessary to mention
your lawyer in your will. He will get
his, anyway,
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-05-18

vious letter relating 10 the selection of the delegation ana iss mission. " they go at all, it will probably not be until the statehood bill is taken np for action. Private adviees and the newspapers win announce such im' pending action in ample time for The delegation to reach the capita'.'
 "Just what is the purpose of this committee or delegation in going to Washington " he wss asked. "Is it to combat certain features of the Bcv' eridge bill, and to insist upon the pas sage of a statehood measure ineorpor' ating certain other provisions favor cd by she Democratic leaders in the Territoryf'
 "No; as understand the situation, it Is 10 aid in securing staenood any kind of statehood, almost. If Con gress will only consent 10 pass state hood bill, any eruditiss in hs compo sition can probably be, in measure reetifed in the formation of the sts' constitution" he replied.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-05-18
BEATING HIS WAY WEST
 BREADwINNER HURT
(From Sundays Dail


 Leaving his wife and several small children at their old home in a state bordering on the Mississippi river, and speeding westward to seek em. ploymept in the mines, without n dollar to his name, J. Chapman, a miner by occupation, was brought to the city last night and taken to the County hospital for medical ntten. tion, with one of his legs cut off above the ankle. He was endeavor' ing to board a refrigerator car by swinging under and missed his hold and met with the sad accident. The story of this mans misfortune is one that will touch the neart strings of the hardest and toughest of mankind.
 Because he was out of money is moi a crime, and because, on the othel hand, he was striving for those wh' arc near and dear, makes the gloom of his afflietion all the more sorrow full and pathetic when his home Il looked back upon so far away witl the black canopy of misfortune hover ing over it..
 He is being given surgical atten ton at the County hospital.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-05-18
A PHOENIX VIEW or
 PROP0sED PILGRIMAGE
(Arizona Gazette).


 Tne Democratic brethren are appar' ently not dwelling in harmony nor are they of one voice on the question of "On to Washington for the sake of statehood" which slogan was pre- nounced by Chairman Dillon of the Democratic Central committee few days ago.
 Marcus A. Smith Is one of the lead CTS who Is not al all certain that the delegations will go 10 the national capital, as first contemplated, and Democrats are wondering what the committee could accomplish there, any now, if they went, that, down in their own souls, the faithful know will be accomplished by Delegate Cameron, fl it can be pulled through this session
 Opinion is that the Democratic dele pation would not cut very eonspie uous figure in Washington. They would rattle around like peas in the political pod, undoubtedly, and the'' noise would not be heard above th' honk of Uncle Jocs horn. They would wander, a lost tribe, far iron the friendly shore.
 A loud alarm was sounded by Diiio' thae the Arizona Democracy would b' placed in a false light if it did no have . delegation on the job to urg statehood. This conviction came q the Democratic ehairmap about tb dime statehood looked the brightest and probably he was spurred on by desire to rush to Washington in orde to get in on the credit for the oa' sage of the bill. But when the d' patches east doubt on the situation . doubt as to whether the delegatio . ought to go again rose to the su , face. It would not do 'o fall dow' i, but 1t would, of course, be wise i. climb and holler "we did itl" i, statehood assumed sn aseendaney n the political heavens.
 al The Honorable Marcus says on 'h
 topie;
 "I have not heard from Chsisss |. Dillon of the Democratic tsrritosi
 ssanitsss Ssss I received As p'
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-05-18
ROAD CHOSEN TO THE PIONEER HOME
Frcm rrsaAy's Dsibyt

s. E. Fuller, prominently known in mining and other industrial circles of the country, and identified with valuable mines along the A. . c. railroad, reached the city yesterday, to remain s few days before continuing his journey to California. He says the opening of the new line to Call fornia win result In bringing heavy capital from the coast to all points on the AriEons side of the Colorado river, and already several heavy min ing deals were under negotiation, as well was the storage of watss st many points on the desert under con | sideration. He Is optimistic over tho future outlook and with 'ae attractive mining development at several places. recently completed, anticipates a very active region this fan and winter. hf. Fuller has his headquarters N Wen den, for the psessai, and VIII remain for ssvsssl mostAs ss the coast, .aia- y st Hsn Disss.
Weekly journal-miner., 1910-05-18
ARRANGE FOR COMING EVENTS
(From Sundays Daily)

At a special meeting of the Fire Department, held last evening, in the Firemen's Hall, arrangements were made for the Labor Day and the Fourth of July celebrations. It was decided that the entire Fire Depart ment should turn out at IT. a. m, Memorial Day, for n parade in honor of the veterans of the Civil War.
 There was considerable discussion regarding the Fourth of July It is expected that there will be hose races for a substantial purse, and 1t i' hoped to have teams entered from Prescott, whipple, Jerome, F1agstafi and possibly Tempe and Phoenix. The purse which will be offered will am ply justify visit from the outside cities to the Queen City on the ma tion's natal day.
 For the purpose of arranging fol the sporting events and for the bal on the evening of the Fourth, th' following committee was appointed J.. II. Robinson, Larry Little, J. \ Rodenburg, F. q. sharpnaek, horri Goldwater, B. Hilton, c. II. Bishop Joseph Engle and c. A. Peter, Jr'