The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-08


And bring all facts he can;
And figure up this little bill
And get the balance right,
These papers must be filed away
Before another night;
Get out the cards-a piece OF string
Put this in diary now
CThe sweat in little streamlets poured
Adown my dazzled brow)-
the checkbOok noW-I want wire
Call John four hundred ten,
DON'T cur ME OFF AaAIN'-
1t is enough; my heads awhirl,
Tomorrow morn ri look around
-Ldvia lone Young. in the New York
Times.
Making Battle News.
This whole proceeding of manufac-
turing lurid tales of bloody battles and
constant federal slaughterS in Mexico
has been a continuing outrage on the
Mexican government, which for many
years has been one of the most order
ly, economical, and progressive of the
western hemisphere. The government
has been singularly free from graft;
the modest federal revenues have been
devoted to works Of great public util-
ity, and there has been a persistent eff
fort both to diversity and enlarge ma
tive industries and to introduce new
ones from abroad.
1t is a bold untruth to proclaim that
there Is anw serious percentage of the
people, outside of the old-time bandits
and professional revolutionists whom
years ago, who are dissatisfied with
the Diaz administration. The whole
present petty disturbance is purely the
result of the obsession of young Ma
dero, a resident of the capital city, who
became fired with the notion that he
was a bigger man than Diaz, but who
mustered only a handful of votes, and
hence TQSnTfAd IN the dafInnf 11edV
of stirring up two classes of disturbers
of the peace-the one the survivors of
tho old freebOoting bands, and the
other the illiterates, who accept what
comes to them by word of mouth as a
new gospel of adventure.
You will note that throughout the
800 miles of Mexico's extension there
is peace and good order, except on the
United States border, where maraud-
ers, fugitives from justice, and Amerl-
can trouble breeders are alike inter-
ested and combined in the work of
conducting a fake revolution by lurid
press dispatches, 80 per cent subjective,
built on pinch of fact and report.
This so-called revolution is but a
recrudescence of an old-time evil-that
of outlaws taking refuge in the noun
tains and issuing thence in bands to
prey upon the Industrious. There is
this difference, that the leader has
funds of his own and presumably those
of men who hope to be rewarded by
fat concessions, and while the handful
of men 'in the field comprises abodt
all the well known bandits and muir
derers not previously captured, strict
orders were issued against the stealing
of even box of matches, the men be-
ing notified that there was money to
be distributed to pay for what was
needed; so the movement has not yet
reached the stage of a freebooters'
the fighting force-pretty poor fighters
and they treated US like honest men,
who, for the time at least, were not
obliged to live off the country. Since
then the alleged fighting has been re-
ceding rapidly northward, until there Is
nothing left of it except the Texas dis
patches of frightful blood letting on
the south side of the Rio Grande.
Madero and his dupes are not en-
titled either to the sympathy of the
American people or to the use of the
TRANSPORTER territory of the United
Diaz administration. The whole fool,
ish disturbance ought to come to an
end forthwith.-G. W. Ddthridge, in
letter to New York Times.
Ellis Island Divorces.
There are now four women at Ellis
Island who are threatened with depor-
tation because their husbands, who are
l. this country, either have declined II
receive them or have decided to aban-
don htem. This has inspired the legal
defenders of some of the women to re-
mark on the advantages America Of
fers to husbands who want to get rid
of their wives. Reno is not in it with
Ellis Island.
The case of Mrs Hedwig Bliesath
ordered deported by board of special
inquiry, whose husband is a carpenter
and builder in Albany, and one Of
whose children, with their father, is
American born, is likely to be decided
against her on appeal to Washington.
A husband coming here to join his
wife, Walenty Sabun, Pole, has been
ordered debarred by one Of the special
boards The wife, who is living with
her brother and a child of Walenty at
Mount Pleasant, this state, was at
Ellis Island pleading for the release Of
her husband. Her brother gets SIG a
week and she earns $40 a week, and
they said they thought he was not
likely to become a public charge; also
they said they could get work for him
and that he was strong and capable
They have appealed to Washington for
a reversal of the decision of the board
of inquiry.
Mrs. LudmilIa Peretz, who has been
at the island several weeks and came
here to join her husband, who has a
shifting address, was released in care
of relatives who will help her to find
him. Her 5-year-old daughter died at
Hoffman Island several days ago of
measles.
The foreign husbands who desert
their wives abroad, 1t was said, become
infatuated with Americanized women
of their own nationality and marry
them. That is why it was hard to
find some of them when the real wives
appear.-New York Sun.
ssHen-Minded Women Proud.
Professor J. Lawrence Laughlin' 8
shen-minded women are taking his
views as compliment. The profess
sor has locked himself in at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
tsWhy does a hen cross the road %
"Common sense" answered Mrs. Mi
mona Fits Jones, suffragist leader and