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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

The Baltimore Americans idea. of
war is as follows: WAR is an ex-
tremely simple game. A number of
armed men are sicked upon another
body of armed men, and they engage
in the highly exciting and diverting
sport Of manning and Staying one an
other. The contestant which can
slaughter the most combatants and
starve the most noncombatants is ad-
judged the winner Simple. is it not %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

Gov. Woodrow Wilson, whose de-
feat at the state primaries was an
nounced, appears to have been in full
control of his party when the conven-
ton met and had hard work in pre-
venting that body from launching a
presid entail boom for him Thinks are
not always what they seem in politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

If there is anything in the old adage
that when thieves fall out honest men
get their dues" Philadelphia should
be happy. The gang that has ruled
the city for so many years is split into
warning factions and the total wreck
of the machine is predicted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

The fact that nobody can be found
to fight Jack Johnson recalls the aues-
ton once propounded by Bret Harte,
viz: "Is the Caucasian played out %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

Five states already have provided
for the holding OF presidential pri-
rnaries next spring, and the progress
sfves of both great parties are endeav-
0ring to have various state committees
arrange for still others. It is said that
about half of the southern states are
likely to abandon the convention for
the primary, but that outside of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

There is one thing noticeable about
the primary law in California. It en-
ables the politician to take a rest while
the people are making known their
rhninn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05
POWER or MORGAN.

J. Pierpont Morgan is given credit for
having stopped a panic in Wall street
when steel stock was being dumped on
the market the other day The wonder
is that Mr.. Morgan ever permits Wall
street to be worried when he can al
ways by a word restore its confidence
Chicago Record Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

A Waterbury, Conn. man sent back
five $40 bills that he took from a. po-
Ifceman. The report of the circum-
stance fails to state where the copper
got so much money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

At last the World and the Ameri-
can, two of New York's greatest news
papers. have found a matter on which
Is an honest and upright executive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

Having launched recently two of the
biggest battleships in the world. Ar
gentine has signed the arbitration
agreeuerf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

As an evidence that there has been
an advance in wages the Washington
Star points out that congressman once
worked for six dollars a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

A man in Minnesota has had a cut
in his heart sewed up and survived.
There are numerous ways Of mending
broken hearts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05
KANSAS COMAENT
MEN AND BIRDS.

I am inspired by nature; by birds
and flowers, and children. and land
scapes, but in admiring nature, I do
not see a thousand things that are not
there. How some people rave about
birds! I love them, when they deserve
to be loved, but some varieties of birds
! find nuisance. There is the i'm
pudent pest known as the English spar
row, introduced into this country by
Good Gentlemen to rid our fields of
insects, and which has become a.
menace to the country There are the
swallows, which hutter in my CHM
neyS when ] am anxious to sleep. There
are the whippoorwilis, and the night
hawks, which go to work at night, like
the girl piano players in your neigh
borhood, who sleep all day, and become
a nuisance about the time industrious
people are thinking of bed. Then there
Is the phoebe, which nests around my
pOrches, and makes a. mess, to say
nothing of the pigeons which light on
the roof. and befoul the cistern. True,
I catch an occasional sight of a scar
let tanager, or a cardinal, or an or1ole;
I follow these with a glass, and admire
them. But these modest birds are no
apology for the impudent jays, who,
when I enter my own cherry orchard,
scream protest as though I were an
interloper. The best birds, like the
best men. are modest Among men,
those most like English sparrows,
swallows, nighthaWkS, whippOorWills,
the attention. Bob LaF'ollette, to me-
is wonderfully like a bluejay, with his
tremendous activity and Shrfu scream
ing. The nighthawk is forever COM
planning about something, like Bryan.
And the WhippoOrWiIls: how insiStent-
ly they demand that poor Will be
whipped! Their cry is not protest
because poor Will has been whipped,
but because he is not whipped when
he does not deserve it. How like the
whippoorwills are Hearst, and Champ
Clark, and the Insurgents generally
with their tiresome and never chang
ing cryi The English sparrows, origi-
nalIy thought to be Reformers, are
greatly annoying the really useful birds.
Better get your gun pot shot at
English sparrows is no sin. Near my
crows roost in an oak grove A little
after shutdown, the crows begin COM
ing in from their forage in the fields;
and what a row they kick up until
they are finally settled for the night.
They remind me of members of con-
gress when considering q reduction OF
the tariff After a long row, and much
screaming, the crows settle down in
the trees, and I hope they will be quiet
Big Feeling crow suddenly introduces
an amendment, and in an instant every
crow is in the air again, loudly de-
batting the new question If President
Taft should find a way of giving US
all, by law, a pension of ten thousand
dollars a year, with nothing to do, the
Leader of the Opposition would at once
introduce an amendment making the
amount twenty thousand dollars a year.
and. i'll the row over the amendment
we shouldn't get anything.-Howe'
apazi0Q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05
COOKED EDITORIALS.

The political press bureaus in Wash
ington and other cities are getting
busy, preparing for next years cam
paign, and are sending large packages
Of hand-me-doWn editorials to news
papers throughout the country. Some
of the bureaus evidently are organized
for the purpose Of roasting Taft, and
some for boosting him.
The fact that hundreds of editors
use this sIop showsfthat the newspaper
business is sinking to pretty low
level. The editor who Is willing to
have his opinions nodded for him by
a lot of interested politicians is as
poor an excuse as the preacher who
pays Is cents for a syndicate sermon
and passes it off as original
Every state has its editorial asso-
citation nowadays, and at the meetings
of these associations a good deal of i'm
portant business is transacted, but
proper attention has never been paid
to the editors who willingly become
the fall guys for these political press
bureaus. Such editors should be in
troduced to the Finger of Scorn.-Em-
poria Gazette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

In the matter of real fighting the
Industrial war In the United States ap-
pears to be a point or two ahead OF
the war in Africa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

The business of buying seats in the
United States senate is likely to de-
teriorate If this thing of adding to the
purchase price the cost of holding on
....4t-..os
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

In refusing to sign the wool bill in
anticipation of another one to come,
President Taft may go farther and fare
rrnraa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

Perhaps Tripoii will prove TO be a
more fertile field for the operations of
the Black Hand than does the United
States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

isn't it about time that some Kan
sas man was bobbing up in eonnec-
ton with the eastern WARP
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

Indications point to Kimmel as the
original John Doe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

All other government workers in
the vineyard of purity having been
canned, Doc Wiley will hereafter be
the whole cheese.
(Any construction you see fit to
place upon the word Cheese" as used
in this paragraph. will be perfectly
satisfactory to this Department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

At least one good thing is likely K
come out of the war. The trial of this
Camorrists may be forgotten.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

The public is taking Great Interest
in the Stubbs-Dawson correspondence.
The interest consists of a curiosity to
know how the contestants save post
age by printing their communications
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

Sugar should enter the altitude con-
test at the next aviation meet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

AS in the days Of the Punic war
Rome is carrying the fighting int
Africa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

The last "Roscoe-to -Jawn" letter Is
the best of the series. Dave Leahy
must have given that particular letter
much thought and time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

Any great disaster excites newspa-
per correspondents to wild extrava-
gance of figures and description. In
their first reports of the Pennsylvania
flood, they slew an even thousand help
less citizens. Three days later, the
loss had been pared down to less than
10O-bad enough of course, but slight
~ different from 1000. The Same
wild recklessness in the use of ink
was shown during our own little flood
of 1903. One enthusiastic correspon-
dent added the writer Of this depart
ment to the list of slain-and has con-
sidered him a dead one ever since. The
lightning illustrator in a New York
office, from "telegraphic description"
covered the whole county with water
to a depth of about 800 feet, and left
only the dome of the state house pro-
truding from his turgid flood of In
dfa ink. OF course IL was a labor
saving device-saved the artist the
trouble of drawing the surrounding
city-but it was, like the report OF our
demise, slightly exaggerated. Such
slight inaccuracies, however, will get
into the newspapers, particularly those
newspapers who prefer inaccuracies to
the less snowy brands of newspaper
filler.
This is the open season for prairie
chickens. The prairie chicken, as you
may have been hitherto informed, is
the bird that was overlooked when
Prof. Dyche made up his list Of Song
birds"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17
REAL ESTATE CONGRESS

Denver. Colo. July 17.-Denver and
all Colorado today honored the dele
gates to the congress of the National
Association of Real Estate Exchanges
by holding the first Fairgrounds OF
America carnival. The primary object
of the festival was to demonstrate TO
the visitors, comprising the leading
realty brokers of the continent, the
vast resources of Colorado. 1t was vir-
tually a revival of the noted Mountain
and Plain festival, which was cele-
brated for so many years west OF the
Missouri river. A parade of floats
served to illustrate the industries and
possibilities of the city and state.
The convention of the real estate
men was called to order this afternoon
by President Alexander S. Taylor, OF
Cleveland, Ohio Governor John H.
Shafroth welcomed the visitors on be-
half of Colorado. and Mayor Robert n.
Smear voiced the hospitality OF the
mile high city"
The subsequent program for this art
ernoon and evening includes reports
of the national president, A. S. Taylor;
the national secretary, R. Bruce Doug
las. of Milwaukee; and the national
treasurer, James p. Blake, of ST. LOUIS
Amendments of constitution and by
laws will passed upon, and there Will
be several addresses.
One of the matters before the con-
gress. which is of public Importance
is the movement inaugurated by the
national association to put out OF busl-
ness the fakers of various kinds VINO
have served TO bring discred!t upon
the real estate business. 1t is stated
that within the last year scores OF
fraudulent concerns have been forced
TO abandon theii nefarious schemes 10
mulct the ignorant. The promoters OF
free lot and other wildcat PROPOSE
tons have been practically driven out
of the big cities.
Delegates from all the leading real
estate exchanges and similar bodies
the United States are IN
at the congress, which viii
continue to Thursday evening. Louis
vile, KY, and Atlanta, Ga, are among
the applicants for the 1912 convention.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17
GOLDEN PoTLATcH FETE.

Seattle, Wash, July 17.-Thousands
OF visitors are pouring into Seattle to-
day for the great midsummer festival
which, under the name of the Golden
Patlatch. will continue through the en-
tire week. The carnival celebrates the
fourteenth anniversary of the rush to
the Klondike gold fields. A potlatch
is an Indian institution, and Is given
by the chief of a tribe in celebration
of an accession of fortune. num-
Der of redskins are here for the fes-
tivities and all admit. even this early
in the celebration, that paleface pot
latch has their own variety beaten
forty ways. The United States navy
is represented by several vessels and
the Jolly tars will add eclat to the
occasion by parades on land and sea,
boat races and sports and games.
There will also be historical pagean-
try depicting the notable events In
the history of the Northwest, a
pageant of all nations. Japanese and
Indian parades, water fetes and aero
plane flights. Today is the anniver-
sary of the arrival in Seattle In 1897
of the steamer Portland with the first
big shipment Of gold from Alaska.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17
THE HOMEsEEKERs TRAIN
By l.. Nj. HEWITT,
Secretary Federation of Brazos Valley
Commercial Clubs.

Secretary Federation of Brazos Valley
Commercial Clubs.
The Federation of Brazos Valley
Commercial Clubs has perfected ar
Irangements for the running OF spe-
cial train, bringing from the North
large number o. people seeking homes
or land upon which to build homes.
There will be a large number OF these
tourists turned over to the committee
from the different clubs, in order that
they may be shown the country around
the county contiguous to the city. TO
enable the federation officers to know
lust who will want to go to any spe-
cific locality, great deal OF general
literature is being mailed out from
headquarters descriptive of the great
Brazos Valley country south of waco,
and it is desired that as many farm,
lot and industrial propositions as can
be secured, be listed in this literature.
III you Willie W Stli a POiNiDh ~
your farm notify the secretary of the
commercial clIb nearest to you and
he will have it listed under a number
Give a brief description of the land
location and price. The entire list VIII
be mailed to about ten thousand Sc
lected addresses and to prospective
passengers on the homeseekers' train.
The tourists will notify the secretary
of the particular lands or locations
that they want to visit first, and the
committee for that section will be no.
tilted in ample time. When the train
arrives at the stopping place the club
committee of that place will meet the
train and take charge of the tourists.
This literature is now being pre-
pared and no time should be lost in
giving the required information to
your secretary. The train will arrive
about September q.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17
AND NOW A BANANA TRUST

New York, July IA new banana
trust" which will be rival OF the
United Fruit Company in the tropical
fruit trade of Central America and the
West Indies, was launched here today
The Atlantic Fruit Company, which
now operates 4 large fleet of steamers
between Central American ports and
the United States, is to be merged
with ten Cuban companies, as result
of the meeting of representatives OF
the various concerns in New York to-
day. The combined capital of the
merger will be $12,000,000. Jose d.
Giorgio, president of the Atlantic Fruit
Company, will it is understood, head
the combine.
For years the bnana-carrying trade
has been largely in the control Of the
United Fruit Company, which owns a
large number o. fruit steamers plying
between Boston, New York, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Mobile and New Orleans
and the ports of Jamaica, Panama,
Central America and the north coast
of South America. The new combine
is expected to provide powerful COM
petition for the old company, and the
result may be lowering of the price
of bananas and other tropical fruits.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17
SUMMER SCHOOL OF RELIGION.

Madison, Wis, July 17.-Following
the summer school of ethics conduct
ed here by the American Ethical
Union, which was violently criticised
in some quarters as having been ma
terialistic and rantionalistic, sum-
mer school of religion was opened to-
day in the Young Mems Christian AS
soeiation building of the University OF
Wisconsin. The school is designed for
pastors and church workers of all de-
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17
APOLOGIZE? NO. SAYS eOMPERs'

Washington, July 17.--"Apologize!
No, ten thousand times moi" declared
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, before
appearing today before the supreme
court of the District of Columbia with
| his colleagues, Vice President John
Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morri-
son, to show cause why they should
not be sentenced for contempt.
The contempt case grew out OF the
litigation between the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and the Buck Stove
G. Range Company of st. Louis. Com,
pers. Mitchell and Morrison were SEN
fenced to jail for one year each be-
cause, it was alleged, they had disre-
garded the order of the court to cease
the publication OF the name OF the
stove company in the 1--WE Don't Pat
ronize" list in the official organ OF the
federation. The labor leaders appealed
to the United States supreme court,
which. while setting aside the jail SEN
tence on technical grounds, left the
case open for resumption of the con-
tempt proceedings in the lower court.
Meanwhile the Buck Stove & Range
Company has settled its differences
with the federation and now employs
union labor
1t was suggested to Messrs. Com
pers, Mitchell and Morrison that an
apology might be accepted by the court
as complete reparation and the prose
cution dropped. President Gompers,
presumably speaking for his fellow
officials, Indignantly repudiated the
suggestion.
IF | was conscious of having done
the most trivial of wrongs to any per-
son. even to a child" said Mr.. Com
pers. II would apologize abjectiy. IN
der the existing circumstances | see
no reason for rendering an apology TO
the court"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

Commenting on a Galveston News
editorial on the republican party in
Texas, the San Antonio Republic says:
The Republic believes, and the Re
public is sure that the News believes
that federal officeholding is a source
of weakness ana not of strength to the
republican party in this state; and the
Republic believes that nothing could
give more vigor to republicanism in
Texas than national democratic vic
tory" If, then, the Republic is loyal
to its party it can not refuse to give
aid and comfort to the national demo-
cratic party in the campaign next
wear
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

nominations, both men and women as
well as for summer students who are
interested in religious work. Applied
Christianity and church work in rural
districts will he the chief topics OF
discussion during the school, which
will continue to July 2S. Some of the
ministers in attendance at the school
look upon it as affording an oppor-
tunity to counterfeit the influence of
the school of ethics closed last week,
declaring that the ethics taught were
agnostic rather than Christian.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17
Racing in Kalamazoo.

Kalamazoo, Mich, July 17.-Some OF
the best trotters and PAGERS of the turf
world are entered in the events to be
decided during the Grand Circuit har-
ness racing meet opened here this
afternoon. The meet here and at Grand
Rapids next week will be of the ma
ture of curtain.raisers to the Blue
Ribbon meet opening at Detroit on
The last day of the month, and which
promises to be the banner meeting Of
the United States this year.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

The senate will vote on reciprocity
on the same day that the people of
Texas vote on statewide prohibition.
1t is a foregone conclusion that the
Canadian measure will pass by large
majority, but the result of the Texas
referendum is problematical. Both
sides are claiming the victory by a
large majority, but unprejudiced OBJ
servers are of opinion that neither is
going to have much margin.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

A Berlin newspaper syndicate CORE
spondent speaks of the Balkan PENN
sula as the ''yermiform appendix of
Europe" and says conditions are
worse there than in years. 1t would
be easier to cut out an appendix than
to dispense the traditional Balkan
war cloud"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

Whatever the result of the election
next Saturday, the progressive people
of Bryan are not going to feel away
time either rejoicing or mourning.
They will simply take another hitch
in their belts and get to work again
for a greater, better and more beauti-
full Bryan.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

AS an instance of the way men lose
their heads IN an exciting political
campaign, Mississippi grocer who is
a partisan of Vardaman in the sena-
torial contest, proposes to give away
his entire stock of groceries in case
Vardaman is nominated in the pri-
mary on August l.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

There are many, perhaps a major.
ity, of the citizens of Texas who never
saw long-horn and would cheerfully
pay an admission fee to an exhibition
of those thirty long-horned Texas
steers" which the Chicago newsmakers
alleged were loose in the business dis
trict of the Windy City.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

Speaking of the current prohibition
campaign in contrast with that of 1887,
the Beaumont Enterprise says: I'VE
are growing more tolerant, more sane
and, of course, better educated" The
Enterprise places the cart before the
horse; We are more sane and more
tolerant because we are better edu-
Gated.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

Every good citizen should use his
influence in favor of an honest cleo
ton and fair count next Saturday
There ought not to be the least ground
for suspicion of fraud. A contested
election would damage the county al
most irreparably. Under the agree
ment of Chairmen VOTERS and Ball it
ought to be easy to so safeguard the
polls that disgraceful result will be
imnOc cihla
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-17

The people of Caldwell, our neighbor
across the Brazos, are trying to secure
the proposed extension of the Hearne
& Brazos Valley from Stone City to
Giddings. Bryan bids them Godspeed.