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The Washington herald., 1911-10-14
INDICTED FOR NoNSUPPoRT.
Grand Jury Returns True BtI
Against Theodore J. SteIIO.

TIL" grand jury Yesterday indicted
Theodore J. Stello. who formerly con.
Quoted a saloon at 10 Fourth streer
northeast. for nonsupport of his wife
Minnie b. StellO. Recently Stello's wife
brought suit for a limited divorce. Charg.
ing cruelty and nonsupport. \ rule was
issued on the husband but it is claimed
the writ could not be served because he
had left the city.
4 charge of arson brought against
Jesse I. Frazier was ignored. and the
other indictments include: Spencer
Barnes. alias Richard Barnes, embezzle-
ment; Richard Pryor and Dennis Ma
honey, grand larceny: Walter Cove5
nonsuppOrt Of wife: Edwin NJ. Davidson
grand larceny: Robert Spinner. house
breaking and larceny: Nathaniel S Tip
ton and Oliver Black. Carnal knowledge:
Clarence Mckenzie, hOUsebreakIng and
larceny; Thomas Butler, assault with
dangerous weapon; William Finks. alias
Country and Frank Welcome, rob-
berry.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-14

ECLIPSE of the sun on August q, l3
B. c.; so terrified the Athenlans that
they were defeated at Syracuse.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-14
Women's Petticoats

A $500 value. Nice
quality Taffeta. in all
coIors, cut full and wide:
some trimmed with fringe.
Also a few messalines in
the lot.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-14

Our recent purchase of
Wiegert, Myer & Co., Of New
York. enables us to OFFER you
this wonderful suit bargain.
Materials are finest worsteds,
including blacks and blues.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-14

Tennesseeans VIII Meet Tonight.
The Tennessee Society's first meeting
Of the season will be held in the parlors
Of the w. c. T. T.. so Sixth street north
west, this evening at o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
FOR PARK IMPROVEMENT.

All possible support should be given
by every one to the activity of the
parks committee of the Commercial
club In. urging the city commissioners
to levy special tax for next year of
a. full mill for the maintenance and de-
velopment of the park system. Such a
levy is permitted under a new, law
which was passed by the legislature
1t was needed legislation For Topeka
and other cities in Kansas have been
handicapped in the development of ade-
quate parks because of the smallness
of the sum the law permitted them TO
use annually for such a purpose.
Under such a levy Topeka would have
an annual park fund sapproximating
$4,000. 1t is proposed that three-quar-
tiers of this sum be. devoted to the
maintenance and the improvement OF
the parks and the remaining one-fourth
to the acquisition Of new. park property.
With such maintenance fund some
real progress could be made in max"
ing the Topeka parks all that they
should be- And the other fund for in
creasing the size of existing parks or
acquiring news ones would be sufd =
cient, spread over a few years, to pro-
vide all the park facilities that Topeka
will need for many years to come.
The time to increase the park system
of Topeka is now while the city is grow
ing, when suitable park sites well with
in the city limits or just on their OUT
skirts can be obtained at reasonable
figures. When a city's limits are COM
pletely filed up and its outskirts are
cut I'D into suburban tracts it is then
too late for it to go into the park
making business. 1t is too late to To-
cate parks that will be easily access
sible to the people. And many OF the
larger cities in the country have found
this out to their sorrow.
Wonders have been done in the deVel-
opment and improvement of the city
parks during the past few years with
the money that has been available but
they are far from being as attractive
and as convenient as they might be
made. One of their chief defects Is the
paucity of seats with which they are
equipped. Seats are even more neces-
sary in a city's parks for the comfort
and convenience of the people who en-
joy them than are flower beds and
fancy shrubs. With the fund that
mill tax levy would provide 1t would
be possible before long to provide all
the seats needed in each of the parks,
where at present there are practically
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
AFTER THE FLY. WHAT?

Just about this time of the year
there are many injunctions in the
public press to swat the fly" with
promise of the most direful results II
this warming be not followed. But few
people know much about the. real
truth of the fly question. beyond the
fact that the house-fly is carrier OF
the germs of certain diseases, such as
typhoid fever, intestinal disorders and
tuberculosis. There is, however. an
other side to the question and some
of the greatest entomoIogists on the
North American continent discuss it in
the June number of Popular Mechan-
les Magazine.
The following question is raised
eff the fly be exterminated, suppos-
ing that were possible, would it tend to
upset the balance of nature and re-
suit in some other plague that might
be even worse than the flies them
selves?" And it is argued:
similar things have Happened be-
fore. The defamation of the coyotes
resulted in a plague of gophers. The
imoneoose was practically exterminated
and the rats multiplied so As to be-
come a menace. The weasels were
killed off and the rabbits overran the
countryside and ate up every green
thing in sight The English sparrow
was imported to destroy the measur-
ing worm and now people are won
dering how to kill off the sparrow
which has increased so alarmingly as
to become a pest. In northern China
the wolves kept down the marnot or
land otter, but when the natives waged
war on the wolf the marmot increased
and spread the plague"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
QUAKER MEDpTAT1ONs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Happiness consists largely of the
ability to forget.
A mans first love is apt to last
longer than his last.
The minute our parents stop spank
ing us the world beginsA
It's a waste of time to argue with
a deaf manor any woman.
The still. small voice CT conscience
sometimes becomes SO loud that the
neighbors hear it first.
The principal difference between a
largely upon the perquisites.
The world is but a fleeing show, but
on the other hand don't forget the fact
that there is no free list.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to re-
mark that many a fellow marries a girl
because he doesn't know any better
girl.
Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, and others have
greatness thrust upon them, but you
can't make them believe it.
Doctor: what you want to do is to
go away for a change of climate" Pa
#tient: Whats the matter with this
Isn't our climate changeahle enough ~
"All the worlds stage" quoted the
Wise Guy. Yes answered the Simple
Mug, but that is no reason why all
the comedians should be sent to Con-
|gress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.1

IT TOnl the AtCaISOn OIOD0.
Every man has certain pockets that
he overworks a good deal.
1t is every woman's conviction that
no man has proper respect for lace
curtains.
Even If man hasn't much sense, he
will get along fairly well If he has good
manners.
A Uniform blouse and a pair of store
pants doesn't constitute our idea of a
tasty costume.
Some men think they are entitled to
out supporters.
It is hard for an automobile driver to
understand why there are so many
wreckless pedestrians.
Some call it spring fever, others re-
fer to it as wanderlust, but all laziness
is good deal alike.
If people are cranky it is an even
break that you are making them SO by
useless annoyance.
Some people are so good natured they
can forget enemies as easily as they
forget their friends.
A problem for today: Why will any
man sit at the lunch counter when
there is table vacant?
POlitenesS doesn't cost anything, and
no one, SO far as we know, was ever
whipped for exercising it.
Does a scientist have to use a lot OF
words ordinary people can't under
stand, or is that a part Of the game?
Ever see a western drama without
wondering what part of the east the
playwright inhabited who produced it?
Don't kick on the Kansas climate:
corn culture amounts to a good deal
more than the summer resort business.
Probably bulldog could fight just as
well if it's ears and tail were not cut
off, but it might not feel so much
like it.
What has become of the old fashion
ed straw hat which could be made to fit
any head by using a shoestring for a
band?
Ventriloquists may be pretty clever,
but did you ever hear one who came
close. to some of the stories you have
heard about them?
Girls who wish they were men so
they could swear, or go to war, may
be honest, but they don't know what
they are talking about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
A CrrY's TOLL ON CHILDREN

An examination of the pupils In the
Lincoln school by capable physicians
has disclosed the fact that one out of
every seven of them Is defective i'll
either vision or hearing. 1t is reason
able to assume that about the same
proportions in this particular prevail
in the other schools. And it is also
reasonable to assert that this impair
ment of two of the important senses OF
the children is due in the main to the
environments of city life.
At least, this is an opinion that has
been expressed in the premises by ex-
perts. They have pointed out that
the range of vision of the city child
from the time it is old enough to be
about and stirring and when its deli
cate organs of sight are developing
fast is seriously limited. 1t is gerer-
ally bounded by the width of the city
streets. A child, toddling to win
dow, or playing out in front of its
home, can only see as far as the build
ings across the street. This has a
tendency among the weaker children
of handicapping the development of
the optic nerves to their full strength.
Hence these children grow up with
weak eyes.
| So, too, in the matter of hearing.
The incessant noises in a city have a
decided propensity to blunt the SEN
I sibilities of the aural organs of young
children, and especially among those
who are not physically robust.
In bigger cities than Topeka, metro
politan centers, where greater con
gestion prevails, where the streets are
narrower, the houses closer together
in residential sections, and all build
ings of much greater average height,
the proportion of school children who
are defective in sight and hearing, is
considerably larger. Conditions In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
A Too Conservative Socialist.

We are astonished at the moderation
of Victor Berger, Socialist representa-
tive in congress from the Milwaukee
district. Mr.. Berger desires to abolish
the United States senate, deprive the
president of the veto power, and strip
the federal courts of the authority to
inyalidate legislation enacted by the
house of representatives These tri-
fling changes in the United States gov
eminent are to be brought about by
an amendment to the constitution,
which, IL petitioned for by per cent
of the voters in the several states, shall
be submitted to a general referendum,
Mr.. Berger is too conservative. The
thing to do is to establish the initia-
tive and referendum and recall. Then
the house of representatives will be as
superfluous as the senate All laws that
are needed can be initiated by petition
and adopted by the referendum. No
president would dare veto anything,
and if the courts meddled the judges
could be recalled.
The constitution is reactionary
docum eEt, that was framed before
Oklahoma was even United States ter
ritory. 1t was written by a delegate
from New York, which fact alone
should damn it in the eyes of every
progr essive statesman. Why tolerate
it at all?-New York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
tFrom the Chicago News. ]

IFrom the Chicago Newsl
Every man expects to strike it rlch
some day.
It annoys some people to mind their
own business.
A married man is lucky if treated as
one of the family.
Don't talk about your neighbors It's
a game two can play at.
Eternal vigilance is the price OF hp-
erty, and It is payable in advance
A man is never so willing to do the
fair thing as when he gets in hole
Yes, AIonzo, there are people VINO
cannot be fiattered. Cemeteries are
full of EN-
The proof of the pudding is N me
amount left over after the small boy
gets all he wants.
Many an innocent young man mas
been misled by the helpless way
summer girl bats a fish hook.
The one thing a man regrets ABOUT
getting into foolish filtration is ms
inability to get out of it creditably'
Dyspepsia develops a state of MIND
which causes people to doubt the WIS
dom of eating certain things, out
which seldom prevents their doing SO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
.AYHAWKER .JOTy

An arnp1if1ed version from the Mar
quette Tribune: Money may make the
mare go but the mare if she be a
speedy one will sure make the money
Miss Monneymaker, a school teacher
at Parallel, is not only that way in
name. She and her pupils made
enough money on a box supper to pur-
chase an organ for the school.
1t is no particular sign of smartness,
says Mack Gretchen, If you are not
afraid of storms. For our part we
would rather go to the cellar a dozen
times rather than to be scattered over
the landscape once.
Many amateur garden ers are prob
ably in the same boat with the Holton
man who remarked to the Signal the
other day that his garden was only
about one-fourth as big in May as it
was last December.
Yield Not to Temptation" is one of
the pieces played by a local merry-go-
round, says the Larned Chronoscope,
but the patronage enjoyed is only an
other indication that humanity pays
little attention to advice.
This is the time of wear, notes the
Americas Greeting, that the women
folk drive the old plugs to town when
they come to do little trading. The
Eold man and the good teams are busy
with the lister or the planter. Five
hundred dollar teams with gold mount
ed harness and rubber tired buggies
viii be more frequently seen after the
crop is raised
A Holton man, relates the Recorder,
was speaking favorably of a certain
woman he had known when he was a
young man. II was so favorably i'm
pressed with her." he said, that /
nominated her for my mother-in-law,
and if I had my way she would have
been elected. 1 voted for her and
when the returns were in it was tie,
and, of course, she was defeated"
An Atchison woman, relates the
Globe, says she can tell by a woman's
first name, and by what she calls her
parents. about when she was born. If
her name is Ellen, Martha, Amanda,
Louisa, Julia, etc. and she calls her
parents. PA" and Ma" she was born
in the late sos and on through the
SOS. If her name is Minnie, Hattie,
Mamie, Annie, Matte and she calls
her parents Papa" and Mamma -
she was born in the '70's and SOS. If
her name is Mary Elizabeth, GeraI-
dine, Eunice Marian, Mary Anne, and
she calls her parents, Father" and
Mother" she was born in the eos.
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er room.''
The other room was a tiny place
with gas stove, kitchen table and
two plain chairs as it's only furnish
ing. Outside of the window was a box,
and upon investigation Maggie found
that it contained nothing to eat but O
loaf OF bread, very small piece Of
ter.
You let me run out and get some-
thing" he said, eagerly, and, in spite
OF Maggie's feeble protests, he sped
down the stairs and up the street.
he had never been in this part of
had shown him only the bright and
brilliant thoroughfares. and he knew
nothing of the slurns. But now the
sordidness and suffering of 1t came
20 him with full force. And then and
there he made vow: he would take
Mary Morrison back with him.
1t was a feast that he and Maggie
set forth on the table.
Mary, in a pale pink wrapper, was
radiant. The quiet hour rested her,
and the companionship of her old
school friend was like tonic
Maggie ate steadily through the
menu, perfectly content with Provi-
dence which had brought this good
angel in moment of need.
In the middle of the feast note
dropped back in her chair with a little
cry.
THE manager has written that 1
must go on this evening or lose my
job"
You can't go on feeling this way"
said Maggie.
you sha'n't go on" said John Aus
tin.
Mary rose YEARLY. 1--WE got to an
swer it and say yes Maggie and I
can't live on nothing
you give me that PENCIL said
John Austin. Then on the back of the
note he wrote two lines in his strong
masculine serawl.
He handed it back to Mary. Read
that to Maggie" he said, and the girl,
flushing to the roots of her hair, fall
tered forth, Miss Morrison leaves to-
morrow for her old home, hence will
not appear in future on any STAGE
But can't leave,'' Mary protested
1--WE got my living to think of and
Maggie's.''
John stood up. He felt very strong
and manly and competent. 81 have a
big house down there" he said. land
live alone in it. There is room for
more than you and Maggie, and have
a big farm that supplies money for
anything that choose to do, and you
are going back there and be happy. ]
used to call you my little wife, Mary,
when we went to schol together; why
can't we make that dream come true ?'i
Maggie retired into the other room
This was better than vaudeville en-
gagements, and the precarious exist
| enee of team.
"ShaH I take the note down to the
boy?" she called from her retreat, and
from the other room came Mary's ex-
u1tant, "Y es.''-(Copyright, 1911, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22

this respect in Topeka, therefore.
might be worse. And while the show
ing in Lincoln school may surprise
some people exceedingly, it is nothing
out of the ordinary throughout the
cities of any size ali over the country.
Indeed. by comparison with similar
conditions in other and larger cities.
Topeka's showing may be set down as
an excellent one.
This is one of the regrettable pen
alties of the advantages of city life.
And 1t might be used as another good
argument to stimulate the back to
the farm movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
GRANDMorHER.s GARDEN.


Grandmether's garden was edged with
box.
And quaint were the flowers that grew
Foxglove and fennel and lady locks,
Marjoram, mint, and rue;
Fragrant 1t was with mullen pink,
And lilies of white and gold;
Never was sweeter a spot, think,
Grandmother's garden old.
Grandmother's garden, she loved 1t sol
Rainy the day or fair,
Down its borders she'd always go,
Watching the blooms with care;
wedding and pruning with skilful hand,
But gentle, just SO, they say.
She reared her children, a goodly band,
Who grandmother bless today.
Grandmother's garden! If souls return
am sure that she comes once more,
When deepens the green in the Ivy urn
And crocuses deck the door,
For fields Elysian on earthly bowers
May border, could dull eyes see,
A gracious presence amid her flowers
Grandmother still may be.
Rose Mills Powers, in the Woman
Home Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
Elephant Kills a Rat.

The Bronx zoo, which has been
fairly successful in shattering beliefs,
shattered another one. Gunda, the
large and celebrated Indian elephant,
which for over a week had been
guarding a nest of mallard duck eggs
on which Mrs. Duck had been sitting
in the corner of his corral, was ex
ceedingly tickled on Saturday after
noon to note that the eggs had
Matched. A large rat tried to steal
one of the ducklings at 9 o'clock Sun
day afternoon. Gunda, snorting with
rage, crept softly UP behind the rat
and killed it, His keepers are over
joyed, because they used to believe
that an elephant was afraid Of a rat.
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
Happy DAYS in Dixie.

There is more rejoicing in the Dem
ocratic camp. Two more North Caro-
linians have gone to work-D. Nc
Matheson of TaylorsvilIe, to be a mes
senger at one of the doors of the
house, and w. E. Hooks of Fremont
has a position in the house filing room.
Representative Doughton placed one
and Representative Faison the other.
Mr.. McMatheson was here during the
Cleveland rule. He will hold the place
while the extra session lasts. Mr..
Hooks is nephew of Governor
Aycock.-Washingt Dispatch to the
Raleigh Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22

| Owed Everybody.-M makes me
very uneasy If owe a dollar to anyone.
Borrow-Great Scott If 1 felt that way
about it I'd have st. Vitus dance.-Ex.
| change.
| Roughing It.-"Serve the champagne in
tin cups, Oscar" directed the owner of
| hunting parties like TO rough it a trifle."-
Washington Herald.
Happily Married.-Mrs. Quackenness-
Am yo' daughtah happily married, Sistah
Sagg. Mrs. Sagg-She sho is! Bless good
ness, she's done got a husband OATS
skeered to death of her.-Suburban Life.
II hate this commutingr' "Why?" "One
gets so tired of being squeezed out Of a
tube like tooth paste. yale Record.
she-I would like that lovely pearl neck
lace. Look what beauties they are. He
It's better not to have such large pearls,
my dear. People always think they are
false.-Journal Amusant.
HE is hard-hearted; whenever he runs
any one down with his auto he speeds up
tender-hearted. 1t breaks his heart to
hear their groans of pain. Houston Post.
Mrs. Frost-And was your daughters
experience as hospital nurse a success?
Mrs. Snow-Yes, indeed. She was at the
hospital only two days when they dis
missed her, Dut IN those TOrty-eight hours
she had met six perfectly lovely young
doctors.-Puck.
Doctor (who has just mislaid packet
with red 1abel)-Good heavensi did you
taste anything peculiar about that last
dose gave you?-London Opinion.
THAT fellow is a source of great un-
easiness to me. He may be worthy, but /
wish he would keep away from my
house" Counting your daughter. is he?'
Nav, he's counting my cook. "-Louisville
Courier Journal.
What a brilliant marriage" said the
genial lady. He is worth several mil
lions and she will inherit at least bill
lion." would you call that marriage
inquired Miss Cayenne, "or merger
Washington Star.
when got through with my remarks
said one lawyer, 1.-The Jury was in tears
Yes replied the other; ''they probably
realized then that your poor client hasn't
a chance in the worid."-Washington star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Much of the stuff that is called
poetry isn't.
Any number of people fail to see
straight without being cross-eyed
- y y
Frequently it is more discreet to
prove man a liar than to call kim
one.
=
Killing time is not sport that
brings in much of anything in the way
of desirable game.
y -
Many married women put up with
great deal from their husbands for
no other apparent purpose than to
conserve an easy meal ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-22

Standard Oil case does not make the
law of the land in this particular. It is
merely an obiter dictum of the court.
He says that the law of the land on
this point was laid down by the court
fifteen years ago in law making de-
cision,-not an obiter dictim-and which
is the reverse of the present obiter
dictum. All of which seems to further
middle the situation, not clarity it.