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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

figure of man darted from a clump
or underbrush with a club appraised
Mrs Pomeroy had screamed at sight
of him.
The group above saw the next act In
the tragedy. Pomeroy advanced brave
~, but the club swept downward
through tho guard of his arms and
struck him on the head. He dropped,
wife.
That's the maniac whe nearly kill
ed his keeper at Fairview asylum yes
terday and got away! They tele-
phoned me his description" gasped
Patterson, editor of the village paper
oh, what shall we dor moaned Jes-
sic Dane. See he's going to grab
Edna" She turned to the white faced
young men. "Oh, run, rum
Peter Price slipped off his coat and
shoes. No time he said swiftly.
Shed be killed before we could get
down the path I'm going this way"
He stepped down onto a ledge of rock
on the perpendicular face Of the cliff.
Living foot had never pressed the
race of Snake Island cliff before. 1t
seemed sheer drop of ten score feet
from the grass roots to the sand. But
there were lodges and shelves which
furnished handgrips and footholds,
however precarious.
Price worked his way downward. He
y
head SWAN dizzily. He gropel with his
feet. already stockingless torn and
bleeding from the jagged rock, and
found support somehow. Hand under
hand he crawled over the flint as a fly
crawls on the side of the house.
He was careful-but not too careful.
For too much care meant delay. And
Edna Pomeroy's screams even now
echoed pitifully as she struggled in the
madman's clasp.
Once he lost his hold and fell for a
YARD or more; fingers and toes, spread
talonHke, rasped over the merciless
rock Peter Price reverted to type,
went back ten thousand years in the
flicker of an eyelash. Once again hi
was man-monkey who had missed a
waving branch in the highway of the
trees. His fingers had eyes in them;
his toes clutched with fierce supple
ness.
| He found crevices no wider than the
bridge of his nose, and clamped onto
them Slipped-caught; and chung
again. The fall was stopped. He
climbed, with no time to be thankful
for his escape.
| The picnickers, struggling, sobbing
and painting reached the beach. They
found Peter tying the subdued maniac
| With a painter from one of the boats
Dan Pomeroy was having his throbbing
head; his wife was crying a little. but
| quite calm-considering her experience
and wholly unframed.
| Jessie Dane went straight to Peter
and took both his SCARED hands in her
| own.
BE careful, Jessie, they're bleeding.
You'll get all stained up" He tried to
speak in his old matter-of-fact way,
| but his voice trembled.
II don't care" she said, and her eyes
shone with light that dazzled. ST
don't care For you are safe, Peter
dearw-(Copyrighte 1911, by Asso-
ciated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
JAYHAWKER JOTS

AS Tom Thompson puts It: If a man
doesn't agree with you. you are apt
to say he won't listen to reason
A Howard girl who lately visited an
other town. relates the Courant, says
the boys stole three or four of her
puffs and kept them as souvenirs.
The Nickerson Argosy has it sized
up about right Love may be blind"
1t says, but most any girl knows the
difference between a diamond and a
moonstone engagement ring"
A woman imagines her picture would
look in print about like the fashion
plates, says the Minneapolis Messenger.
When it does not she thinks some one
else has put up a game on her
A hardware merchant advertising in
the Bison Bee gives this good advise:
Better build a garden fence or fence
up your chickens. 1t will prolong your
wife's life. 1t is wrong to keep her
chasing chickens
A note Of alarm from Now and
Then" the West Prairie correspond
ent of the Wilson County Citizen: The
rabbit crop will likely be short one
this summer, owing to SO many being
slaughtered this winter.
"B. Mound Bill" the Wilson County
Citizens reporter at Blue Mound and
vicinity furnished this item recently:
We think about the time school let's
out there will be some more Of our
disease has quite hold in this vicinity,
as people are getting married this year
that never were married before.
Missouri Bob" the East Verdigris
correspondent Of the Wilson County
Citizen, doesn't confine his observa-
tons to the personal news in his vi
cinity. Like the good newspaper man
that he is he keeps in touch with ev-
erything, as is evidenced by just a
few of the items culled from his col
unn in last weeks issue of the pa
per. Wild ducks are plentiful. :.
Roosevelt is for woman suffrage. . i. =.
The water wagons are getting a rest
Oats are going in rather late
this spring. Geniting apples are
keeping well at this writing. where
they have been stored in the cellar.
By close examination we find
the peach buds are all right so far.
Two peach crops in succession would
be a rarity. 1t is claimed by
some henpecked husbands that woman
suffrage would tend to prohibition.
Why doesn't it work that way in Col
orado. Neighborhood news is
scarce this week and we are conpell-
ed to resort to natural resources
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

A few years ago Hamp Steele went
out to Centralia. Wash, and started
a daily paper. He started modestly,
but at present he is not onlv in a row
with the governor Of Washington, but
mas whipped all the prominent citizens
In his town and keeps squad OF cabi-
net makers and jig-saw busy get
ting out headline type.
I 1t is safer to be skunk than an
ordinary white man. A skunks skin
Is protected by the Dyche game law,
out the average citizen may be skinned
with IMMUNITY at any time.
TRY THIS ON YOUR FOLDING BED:
Git might injure the piano.)
: New version Of La Paloma-
way-yay down on the Rio Grandio
The coffee-colored gents are very
AT lodging bullets from a 45-io
And keeping instructions alive-to,
They duck into remotest caves and
grottoes
For they can see that Old Man
Trouble from afar-o:
Then smoke their cigarettes like
patriotos.
And each draws forth his trusty. rusty
old guatar-o
AND SINGS:
Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra. etc; Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra-
a-ra-ta- aa-r a-ra-ta-ra-ra-
boom-de-ayis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

the total distance being 2.211 miles.
For this the total fares. including the
cost of parlor car seats. was $50. s.,
with a possible charge for excess bag
gage of $2.75, total of $500, or a
trifie over two and eight-tenths cents
per mile, the average speed being
thirty-eight and six-tenthss miles per
hour. EquaIizing the distance we find
that travelling hrst-class. 2.154 miles
in Europe, at 30.4 miles per hour.
with an average of 1es pounds of bag
gage. cost $s5.s7. or 4.46 cents per
mile.
Travelling first-class, 2.154 miles in
America, at 1876 miles per hour, with
an average of 168 pounds of baggage.
including reserved seat in parlor car.
would cost $61.56, or about ass cents
per mile.
In this last calculation the cost of
extra baggage and parlor car seats is
reckoned exactly the same as for
2,211 miles, that is respectively $2.75
and 1910. Under the above condi-
lions, the cost of railway travelling in
Europe Is over 55 per cent higher than
in North America
To state the matter differently: A
passenger with a trunk in Europe
would travel first-class 500 miles in
16 hours and 81 minutes at a cost of
s22.25; while passenger in America
with the same baggage would travel
in a parlor car 500 miles in II hours
and Sc minutes at cost Of $14.3o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
THE VOTING MACHINE VETO.

ACA---~1NA3
Governor stubbs has used the veto
power quite extensively, and In some
! instances with a wise discretion. But
this does not seem to be the case in
respect to measure in which To-.
pel1ans were particularly interested be-
cause it opened the way for the de-
veIopment In this. city of manufac-
turing plant that gave promise Of be-
coming a large business institution.
The measure in question was the ona
which permitted the public authorities
throughout the state to purchase vot-
ing machines for use at all of the cleo
lions. There was nothing compulsory
about this proposed legislation 1t
was purely of the permissive variety.
If any county, township or city au-
thorities decided that it would be a
good thing to substitute a mechanical
voting machine for the present cum
bersome methods now employed, it was
given the right to do so under this BILL
No doubt there are many localities
in the state which would like to try
such voting machine. Both branches
of the legislature were evidently Of this
opinion for the bill had no particular
llA us P0S605C I4AOA6h C4NAAS~
of them. But with a stroke of his pen
the governor set this decision Of the
legislature at n1ught. He gave no
particular reasons for doing so. Dur
ing the eleventh hour OF the session.
when it was actually too late to take
any further action on. this measure.
the governor returned the bill to the
legislature with his disapprovaI. He
suggested that the bill might be alt
right if it was made to apply merely
to cities of the first class. But he did
not point ont how it might be harmful
in any wa. to other cities or rural To-
calities in the state.
Nor is 1t easy figure out how the
vernon or any one else could raise
valid objections to the bill or why only
cities of the first class should enjoy
it's advantages. If the measure had
prescribed that all of the voting pre-
cincts in Kansas, whether they be in
cities or in the country districts. must
forthwith adopt voting machines for
elections. the case would have been
different. Under the terms OF the bill,
however, nothing Of this sort was con-
tGmplated Any city or country cleo
ton district was merely authorized to
use such machines If It saw fit. And
it is not easy to see how such legisla-
ton could be obnoxious to any one.
1t would appear that the use Of vot-
ing machines is a progressive step In
the right direction. Not only do they
safeguard the rights of voters in every
possible way but they also present any
possible juggling with the election re-
turns. Then, too, they provide the
means for a speedy count Of the ball
lots, and that is no slight considera-
ton Because of the governors veto.
however, it will not be possible for any
of the localities in Kansas to give these
machines a trial during the next two
years at least. And it may be that the
Kansas Voting Machine company a
Topeka and a Kansas concern, which
was interested in this bill and which
manufactures quite as good a voting
machine as there is in existence, will
get tired of waiting for an opportunity
to ply its trade in its native state and
will move elsewhere
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFron the Chicago News. ]

lFrom the Chicago Newsl
But the gossip crop is never a fail
ure.
Bad habits don't seem so bad If
they are yours.
Occasionally those who say but little
talk too much.
The more man butts in the oftener
he gets kicked out
Some men keep their religion in
cold storage six days out of seven.
Even when a woman faces a mir
ror she may be blind to her Imperfect
lions.
Anyway, the girl who whistles sell
dom has occasion to unpucker her
lips to lie.
A woman is either happy or miser-
able, depending upon the way she feels
about it.
Every woman should have an aim in
life-even if she can't hit the side of
a. barn with brick.
Once a bachelor who thought he
knew it all married widow. only to
discover he was still in the kindergar-
ten class,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
HOW MANY MOONS

HoHw many moons are in the night?
It's hard to tell.
When we stand close together, so.
we see the one all children know,
Ana In the sky and in the air
Ineres not another anywhere.
But when I ran around the house.
ana little brother, like a mouse,
Kept watch, he said this never movedi
and SO, you see. two moons are proved,
BECAUSE I'm sure sure can be
mat one moon went around with me!
Then stayed here and let him run;
Hes little an he's full of fun
and OFF he went, but gazing so,
VI course, he stumped his little toe:
And while I kissed his little scars
re gasped: mo moon-but lots of starsP'
We tried once more then pretty soon
Each followed by separate moon,
gut when we got back here together,
One must have slipped behind teh other,
There was the same old moon againi
How many moons are in the night?
It's hard to tell
pa this one stay and send two others,
or did 1t watch its chance to run
while not soul was looking on?
l asked the moon last night, and think
But did he wink because hit stays?
Or just to show his tricky ways?
How many moons are in the night?
VIII some one tell 2
Ruth McEnery Stuart. in st. Nicholas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

Do your duty without fear or favor,
and become known as a knocker.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned woman who used to talk about
breaking in a corset.
A man who buys a diamond engage
ment ring on the installment plan Is in
too much of a hurry.
Most of the recipes for living to be a
hundred years old don't give one time
to do much of anything else.
When a man deserves both barrels,
and gets them, he shouldn't try to
convince the public he is a martyr.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned party who argued that no pitch
er could throw curve ba1l?"
Supper, as a rule, is more effective
than sin in making a man lie awake
nights viewing his Past with regret.
A good many men have fooled them
selves when they thought they could
tool the public and make money at it.
Some country towns are so dull that
baptism in the nearby creek is count
ed something of a sporting event
The average woman is wholly unable
to understand why train should leave
at 1853 instead Of exactly 4 o'clock.
Although it may be true that money
cannot win love, 1t seems to be able to
try-out a large line of samples in that
line.
Thirty dollars month probably
doesn't look as large to anyone else IN
the world as it does to some country
school boards.
Daughters education is frequently
acquired in a manner which doesn't
give her much of a show to accuma-
late little common sense along with
it.
While the incubator has its faults,
being no good for laying purposes, you
don't have to pour cold water on it, or
lock it up, to make it quit setting.
Seeing the get rich quick swindler
cinched for using the mails to defraud,
may satisfy your christ for revenge,
but it won't get your money back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
HUMOR or THE Day

"I understand that your wife COL
Iaborates with your" Yes, her work
aids me immensely" don't believe l
nave ever seen any of her writings"
s'Ste doesn't write; she prepares my
meals."-Houston Post.
"AIl the girls at the football game
enyied Clara" "Why-did she have the
handsomest suit?'' mo, but she went
with a fellow whose eye was bandag-
ed. whose arm was in sling and who
walked with a crutch. Elk
press.
$50" said the good man, you in
tend to be a doctor when you grow
up?' yep" Tommy replied. "And why
have you decided upon the medical pro-
fession?" ssWell, a doctor seems to be
the only man that keeps right on get
fin paid whether his work is satisfac-
tory or not"-Chicago Record Herald.
Miss Brookline-It's very interesting
have you ever stopped to think what
would happen to any of those chorus
girls If they ever got, say, too thin to
appear in these plays? Mr.. Manhattan
Yes; most likely, the manager would
tell them to pack their trunks.-Lip-
pincott's Magazine.
James Watt was perfecting his steam
engine "I want to see the wheels go
round" he said. The engine went to
the scrap pile long ago, but those
words will live through the ages--Chl-
cago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many an actors sole idea of comedy
Is the use of a few cuss words.
y y y
People who are quick to jump at
conclusions are always In considerable
hot water.
Nothing is swift enough to beat
money when it comes to making a
getaway.
y
Almost everybody has a different
notion as to what constitutes a good
time.
This may be said to the credit Of
the tdler: He isn't standing in any
body else's way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
Maine Census Note.

One Of the few double four genera
ton families in Maine is the Groves
Gae family. The youngest member Is
err, and a grandmother on his mothers
side. One of the great grandmothers,
Mrs. Naomi Groves, is 80 years old.
The grandfather is George Alonzo
Groves, a famous Maine guide. The
second great grandmother is Mrs.
Clara Gage. The grandmother is Mrs.
Eliza Groves, daughter of Mrs. Gage.
The members of this family all live in
Smithfield In one house. Their aggre-
gate age Is 2S1 years.-Portland. Me-,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

Governor Stubs veto Of the appro-
priation to former State Auditor James
Nation on the ground that the question
of a right to the fees should be tested
in the courts is peculiar to say the
least The appropriation was condi-
tioaal upon a decision Of the supreme
court and the veto removes even the
opportunity for that. Is it possible
that Governor Stubs used the prero-
gatives of his high office to vent per-
sonal spita7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

In vetoing the bill amending the in
heritance tax law. Governor Stubbs
states that the old law which will con-
tinue on the statute books will not
be enforced on small estates as far as
he is concerned. This is an unusual
stand for a governor to take to say
the least. No matter what the law is
he should be the first to see that It is
enforced. If 1t is to be discretionary
with a governor as what portions of
a law are to be enforced. why go to
the trouble Of having a legislature to
make laws? Why not leave the max
Ing all of the laws and their admins
tration to the governor OF course,
this would not SAVIOR much Of repre-
sentative form of government such as
each Of the United States is supposed
to have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.l

TFrom the New York Press.1
woman never gets old enough to
express it in years.
A bride begins with being sure and
ends with being hopeful.
A costly thing about marriage is put
ting it off and spending more being en-
gagged.
If woman can't be appreciated
she'll be just as grateful for a word of
thanks.
your pocket; the hard thing is to make
it stay there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

Every other day or so there is an
item in the newspapers from some
place telling about a rejected sutton
shooting and more often killing the
girl who has handed him the frozen
glove. And this is about the most
senseless activity among humans. A
rejected sutton always has a chance
of having a little better luck with the
same girl. But he loses it all when
he kills her and nothing but a suicides
grave, a prison or a hangman's moose
is omen to him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

The press dispatch from San Fran
cisco was correct when i. styled a new
political organization there as being
unique. Its members are going to
work to promote a sound municipal
government, and all OF them have
pledged themselves not to be candi-
dates for public office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

Newspaper men can always be de-
pended on to do the unusual, especial
ly in their personal AFFAIRS Ogden
Reid of the New York Tribune is go
ing to take his bride of the other day
on a six weeks honeymoon trip
through Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

There is going to be much disap-
pointment before long in many of the
towns and cities OF the United States.
Opinions are general in all Of them
that they are going to be represented
on the baseball diamond during the
coming season with good teams.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

Blessings like troubles seem to have
q faculty Of not coming singly. A
young man of Dorchester, Mass, at
tanned legal age the other day. He
also became heir to 100000, and be-
fore the twenty-four hours were over
he married a Chicago girl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

That March wind which folk were
beginning to worry about not getting
here arrived all right. This isn't very
important except as it shows that peo-
pie do a whole lot Of useless worrying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

If Buffalo Bill" Cody realizes his
ambition to represent Arizona in the
United States senate, it might be wise
for that body to amend its rules so
that its members must leave their fire
arms in the cloak room
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

Colonel Roosevelt is quite right in
asserting that popular government
must find happy medium between a
plutocracy and mob rule. But the rub
comes in striking a medium
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

Senator Bristow expects that the
special session of congress will be a
long one. Isn't it a shame how some
men have to work for their wages?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

American soldiers of fortune in Mex
leo appear to be up against it. They
and their American friends would not
be making any protests now if their
fortune" had been favorable instead
of adverse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

The fact that there are Just 1,311,-
31e,6O7 stamps in the vaults of the
postoffice department at Washington is
not consolatory news for the people
who will eventually have to lick"
than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

Champ Clark is in a jovial mood
these days. But wait until he has
been speaker of the national house of
representatives for time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IL q member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news Is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-16

Hon. w. Jennings Bryan states that
the principal drawback to this nation
is the sensational newspaper, and no one
should smoker. The Hon. w. Jennings
is consistent at least. for q commoner
sheet than the Commoner was never
printed.