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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
QUANTRELL MAN DIES
A. j. Liddn Kept Chiefs Picture on
His Desk.

Kansas City, Dec. pa. ]. Liddil.
known as Uncle jack Liddil, for
many years a resident of Independence
is dead at his home in Lawton. Okla.
He had lived there five years with
daughter, Mrs. J. w. Wolverton. He
was about So years old. He served for
many years as a justice of the peace
of Blue Township.
He followed Quantrell, the guerrilla
chieftain, during the Civil war. About
eight years ago he organized the sur
vivors of Quantrell's band into an assoc
citation which meets every summer in
the vicinity of independence In his
office as justice of the peace Liddil al
ways kept hanging a lifesize picture
of Quantrell. He was the last living
charter member of Independence Lodge
No. 4, knights of Pythias, who was in
good standing. The funeral and burial
will be in LaESon Okla. today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
NEW COUNTRY ON THE MAP.

Experience shows that when a dis
trict in the Balkan peninsula is given
what the statesmen and diplomats of
Europe call Autonomy it soon gains
a place on the maps as a separate ana
: independent country. In the beginning
! it is always a territory known for CEN
turtles under a certain name. 1t IS not
| a state made % order but rather E
people st free, more or less complete
ly, from the letters which have kept
them in subsection.
So Albania, being promised autonomy
as another step in the long series OF
efforts made by the great powers TO
prevent the rise of any one overmaster-
ing kingdom in the Balkan region, Will
merely gain more definite boundaries
establish a government of its own ana
take a place in the list of countries
which mean more than a geographical
district.
There has been an Albania for many
centuries and the country has sur
ring and romantic history, but 1t mas
never, for any long period had po-
sition of it's own among the lndepeho-
ent or nearly independent states OF
Europe. Early in the last century that
renowned and terrible warrior, All
Pasha. the Lion of Janina," made
Albania virtually independent for
time but his Death ended this free
dom.
Now there is every prospect that on
tho eastern shore of the Adriatic sea-
Immediately north of Greece, state
will be placed on the maps which will
c4o,4 18th ,,roba hlv 15n0O square miles
of territory, more or less, and a pop
uIation of perhaps 100000. 1t de-
pends upon how generously the
boundary lines may be laid out and how
little of Albania shall be given to
Greece, Servia and Montenegro, three
counties which the Albanians detest.
The new state will be unique in some
interesting characteristics and cond1-
tions. It's people will be nearly all
Caucasians, or Aryans to use the later
racial designation, and yet the great
majority of them are Moslems. They
are as hard to control and as quick
to fight as the MontenegrinS ever were
and they have the love of their native
mountains and valleys which is typical
of men born in region so rugged and
yet so beautiful.
But the force. of modern civilization |
reach far and are very potent In the |
end Albania will be ready to take its
place in a league of Balkan states |
which lovers of liberty, the world over, |
hope to see gain such strength that it |
viii be able to defy the great powers |
of Europe, if need be, to work out its |
own destiny under self-government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
BUYING A FARM.

An instructive article entitled "Ju-
dicious F'arm-Selection" appears in
the current issue of Farm and Fire
side. Following is an extract:
Having decided on a district that
he wishes to pursue and having in
formed himself regarding the quality
and resources of the community, the
farm hunter may fittingly begin his
search for a farm. If possible, it is
preferab BILE to see a place both in the
spring and fall before purchasing 1t.
1t Is well to look over the farm from
all viewpoints and to visit it alone if
it is possible to shake the real-estate
salesman or the farm-owner. The
prospective purchaser should study
artificial. He should know the num-
Der of live stock the place will
support, the crop yields of each field
for a series of years the amounts of
feed annually bought and raised for
the stock, the distances to town,
creameries, grain elevators and can
ming factories.
"A study of the express, freight and
passenger rates to marketing and pur-
chasing centers is essential, as we'll as
complete knowledge regarding the To-
cal rural delivery, telephone and tele-
graph service, banking facilities, the
buying or selling associations, the fire.
quency of severe storms, droughts,
frosts and forest fires, and the chief
agricultural occupation of the district.
Whatever you do, Mr.. Farm
Hunter don't tie up all your capital
in paying for the place and have no
reserve for running expenses. At best
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
TO BOOM THE GAMES.
Berlin Is Preparing for Olympic Event
in 1915.

New York, Dec. 27.-Athletic circles
here today learned Of plans which have
been made for a rousing athletic en-
thusiasm in Germany as a forerunner
of the Olympic games which are to be
held in Berlin in 1916 1t is planned to
bring 10000 athletes to Berlin from
athletic organizations, schools and COL
leges Throughout the empire to pass
in review before the emperor on June
8, next, the occasion of the dedication
of the Stadium now being constructed
on the Grune Valid race course just
outside the German capital
After this demonstration the ath-
letic leaders propose to put into effect
many of the American training meth
DDS and with the air of a generous
government subsidy, they count on
making their forces irresistible by the
time of the new Olympiad. A great
preliminary Olympic meet is already
being planned by university athletes
for next summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
FLOATING ISLAND NOW
New Obstacle Bothers Canal Workers
Lake Bottom Rises.

Washington, Dec. 27.-"F7oating is
lands are the latest phenomena to
appear as the Panama canal approach
es completion. The term is used to
describe masses of vegetation and
earth loosened from the bottom of
Gatum lake by the rising water and
blown about the surface by changing
winds. These islands virtually are sec
lions of the floor of the swamp that
have been overrun by the water backed
up in the Chagres valley by the Gatun
dam. With the clay and leaves are
sticks and other buoyant matter, the
whole covered with luxuriant lush
grass.
The islands are at times so thick
that launch cannot make it's way
through them, although they are not
an obstacle or inconvenience to steam
ships. The launch Balboa is at present
busy towing to the spiIlway, where they
float over the dam. No trouble is an
ticipated after the sluice gates are in
stalled as the aperture between the
piers on the dam crest will be 45 feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
HAT PIN PRICK FATAL.
Bostonian Dies Quickly When Blood
Poison Starts.

Boston, Dec. 27.-Death came to
James A. Sinclair, chief of the Gale
DOMAIN club Boston, from a hatpin
scratch which he received eight days
before at a party in Dorchester.
With a dozen other members of the
Caledonian club Sinclair called at the
home of Peter Miller, Dorchester, for
surprise party.
It was about midnight when the party
ended. Beside Sinclair were Mr.. and
Mrs. J. R. Green. Mrs. Green turned
suddenly and the point of her hatpin
struck Sinclair in the right temple,
making a scratch.
The next morning he complained of
pains in the head. The pain grew
worse and he died in a week from
blood poisoning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Pneumonia claimed another civil war
veteran this morning in the person of
Thomas Mooney, of 722 Topeka ave-
nue., after an illness of weeks dura-
ton. He died at the advanced age of
"a years. Mr. Mooney was born in
Tullow, Carlow county, Ireland in 1929.
At an early age he arrived in this
country and after a few years settled
in Freeport, Ill He enlisted in Com
pany F, Fifteenth Illinois infantry and
was mustered out of service September
16, 1865. Since coming to Topeka in
october, 1885, he resided continuously
here where he has made many friends
and renewed acquaintance in Lincoln
post G. A. r., of which he was a mem
Der. Interment will take place from
the Church of the Assumption Sunday
afternoon at $50.
F. M. Evans, of 627 Madison street,
died late Thursday. The funeral will
be at o'clock Sunday afternoon at
the home. Burial in Topeka cemetery.
Floyd Harris, aged years, died at
the home of his grandmother, Mrs. T.
Richardson. 21S North Kansas avenue.
The funeral will be held at the home
Saturday at O'Clock. Interment in
Topeka cemetery.
Miss Amelia Garvey, who has been
a resident of Topeka for fifty wears
died in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. where
she has been spending the winter with
her sister Mrs. F. L. Dudley. The cause
of the death was pneumonia.
Miss Garvey was i'll for several
weeks. She was thought to be well on
the way to recovery when she suffered
a relapse and pleuracy developed.
a relapse and pleuris DEVELOPED.
for burial, and the funeral will be held
from the residence of her brother, H. o.
Garvey, SIS Buchanan street at three
o'clock Sunday afternoon
Three of the four brothers will ar
rive with the body Saturday night.
The four brothers are: H o. Garvey.
e. c. Garvey, with the Santa Fe.
Charles c. Carney, of Chicago, and D.
Lakin Garvey, of Washington, D. c.
brother, w. c. Garvey died
last August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

it will be several years before the
farm is returning much of a revenue
to you, so apportion off a generous
amount of your available funds for
working capital and for rainy-day
emergencies. Then you will be in tip
top shape to begin operations, and you
will not have to worry over where to-
morrow's dinner for the family is COM
ing from. Play the game safely and
rather buy smaller farm than to in
volve your all in the land and equip
ment and perhaps go hungry for many
days and ultimately lose your farm
because you bit off too big chunk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
MEANEsT sUFFRAG1sr OUTRAGE

OF all the foolish and wicked things
which the militant suffragists in Eng
land have done, the meanest is their
extensive raid, carefully planned, on
the postal letter boxes in London when
they were filled with Christmas mail.
These misguided women poured black
and red fluids into the boxes for the
purpose of obliterating addresses on
Christmas parcels.
This is not striking at the govern
ment. 1t is not attacking public men
in office. 1t isn't even playing politics
1t is simply an attempt to cause the
greatest possible trouble and heart-ache
with the least possible risk.
Imagine the state of mind of women
who could deliberately set to work to
prevent thousands of Christmas pack
ages, the property of other people who
had done them no wrong, from getting
to their destination for the holiday
which means more to children than to
anyone else. Here is a deliberate eff
fort to deprive a great number of boys
and girls, as we'll as older folks, of the
joy which Christmas remembrances
give. 1t is impossible to measure the
disappointment and mental distress
which could be caused by blotting out
the addresses on even a small fraction
of the Christmas mail handled in a city
like London.
If such tactics could overawe the
British ministry and force it to beg
for peace on whatever terms the suf-
fragtsts might demand, what would
these women think of men who gave
way to attacks which are criminal and
destructive of the rights of innocent
private citizens? Could the suffra gists
themselves have any respect for so
weak and cowardly a government?
This country has many troubles of its
own, but fortunately it has no pest like
the lawless, reckless and altogether de-
suffragists who commit one
outrage after another in London and in
smaller cities in various parts of the
United Kingdom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Distance, at any rate, doesn't lend
enchantment to money.
Every mans best judgment is not
necessarily worth anything.
n
Many people are polite only when
they have important axes to grind.
u
Any number of women marry 1or
a meal ticket rather than for love.
r. N
Too much of the Christmas giving
is based on what's expected IN re-
turn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

With the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railway company. the United States
Steel company, and other large cor
poratons voluntarily raising the wages
of their workers, the prospects of hard
times in the immediate future are not
as bright as the pessimists declare. The
big business interests of the nation
have their fingers on the pulse of its
trade. They know almost to a Ger
tainty whether good times or bad times
are slated for the future. And they
don't indulge in raising wages with
Eood times ready to depart.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
LAWYERS COME HIGH.
Morgan Spent S62,50O for Attorneys
Last Week.

mated in Wall street today that J.
Pierpont Morgan paid $62, 500 for the
services of the New York lawyers
whom he took to Washington last
week when he appeared before the
Pujo committee. The division of this
sum between the battery of counsel is
placed as follows:
Joseph H. Choate. $4,000; Francis
Lynde Stetson, $4,000; John c.
Spooner, $4,000; William F. Sheehan,
$4,000; Delaney Nicoll, $4,000; Rich
ard V. Lindabury, $1,000; c. A. Sew
rance, $500, and $4,000 between Geo.
B. Case and G. H. Backus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
DAFFYDHS
By q. NOALL.

If he has a thousand dollars worth
of plumes on his body is the ostrich =?
(Show that gent every considera-
ton. He's the boob that put the holly
in the holiday.)
If a girl athlete contests in a stand
ing broad jump, do you think the mis-
tletoe the mark?
Ching! Bing! You iii rascaI.)
If q log floating in mid-ocean met
up with liner, would the log-book
passage?
CYsaak will now fiddle: Quit
Stringin' Yer Beau.")
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

Something of a delicate and equally
distressing dilemma confronts James
Eads How, who has so long enjoyed
being known as ''the millionaire
hobo" The organization of the knights
of the road that he formed has po-
litely requested that he turn over his
fortune to it, and beg his way through
the world for the rest of his life This
demand also shows that the men who
have made it are an unsophistfcated
lot, and intensely ignorant of the
kinks in human nature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

Henry s. Graves, chief forester of
the United States, is a Santa Claus
worth while. He replies to the mis-
guided conservationists, who have be-
gun a crusade to prohibit the cutting
of Christmas trees on the ground that
the practice is damaging to forests. by
stating emphaticalIy: THE cutting of
Christmas trees under proper methods
is perfectly compatible with the well
fare of the forests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

they will visit relatives and friends
short time.
F. r. Leis, general agent at Salt Lake
City, is in Topeka for a few days ON COM
pany business.
Rev. H. ]. Corwine had charge of the
noon hour meeting today in the new mill.
]. w. Waldron will have charge OF the
mems religious meeting next Sunday
afternoon at the r. r. Y. NJ. G. A. Ills
subject will be 1.-The Bible and Man"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the View york Press.1

TF'rom the New York Press.1
Credulity is believing a woman's figure
belongs to her.
The Lord made man in the beginning,
but the taiIors finished him.
A woman thinks it without telling it.
and a man tells it without thinking it.
A womans reason for marrying a man
is a perfectly good one till they are mar
RED.
What makes woman try to believe in
her husband is she does believe in her
catechism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

of wonderfully ancient vintage that
was found recently in Sussex estab-
fishes beyond peradventure that hu-
mans have descended from apes. But
the Darwinian theory is proven more
conclusively by the countless humans
who continue to make monkeys of
themselves, on the slightest of excuses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

DR.. Mary Walker is undoubtedly right
in her contention that onions spread
promiscuously over the alleys, streets
and lawns will drive contagion out of
a city. With such odoriferous condi-
lions prevailing in a town, all the in
habitants would be sure to leave it as
soon as possible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

An excellent dinner on holidays is
surely little consolation for the men
who are so unfortunate as to be in
mates of iails and prisons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

notwithstanding the fact that the
days have begun to lengthen, the
nights are still long enough to give the
footpads and the burglars plenty of
time to ply their trade And some of
them don't even need darkness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

More fruit for the Socialists. Among
the Christmas presents received by
young Mrs Mclean, of Washington,
was a fur coat that cost $50, 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

Professional aviators will have a hard
time doing business in Topeka, with
Phil Billiard putting on free stunts in
their line every day or so, and making
some really remarkable flights.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

New York man says he can sing
5000 old songs. But probably no one
is going to muster up enough courage
to ask him to prove it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

Miss Helen Gould seems to have
picked out sensible man for a hus-
band. He refused to tell the public
through the newspapers what he in
tended to give his fiancee for a Christ
mas present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
NO VERDICT YET.
Jury in Dynamite Conspiracy Case
Still Out at 3:O5.

Indianapolis, Dec. 27.-Judge An
derson at sos p. m. adjourned court
until tomorrow at $50 a. m, the jury
in the dynamite conspiracy case hav-
ing failed to reach a verdict
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

Motorcycle polo. a new sport that has
been launched at Pratt, Kansas, must
be popular with the physicians and the
undertakers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
Gard of Thanks.

We wish to express our most sincere
thanks for the kindness, sympathy and
floral offerings of our many friends
at the death of our beloved husband
and father.
MRS. o. T. SCHAEFFER AND
CHILDREN ADV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

Neither does it matter so very much
as to what the real name is of the
alleged prize fighter who is known in
the sporting world as Jim FLYNN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

IF Governor-elect Sulzer, of New
York, is alive to his opportunities he
will ask the marching suffragettes,
when they whisper their messag e in
his ear: why didn't you telephone
a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

1t has remained for Turkey to find
q sure means of stopping warfare. That
is to quit fighting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

Jack johnson has all the notoriety
seekers beaten several miles when it
comes to keeping in the glare of the
spotlight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
Masonic Notice.

There will be special communica-
ton of Topeka Lodge No. II, A. f. and
A NJ, Sunday, December 18th, at 2
p. m to attend the funeral of Brother
Silas M. Evans.
GEORGE w. McCLELLAND.
Master II.
FRANK w. MILLS,
Master 81.
FRANK r. CONWELL,
Master 80.
WILLIAM A. TINKER,
Master 225.
CARL w. NELLIS,
ADV. Secretary II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

Will Mr.. Taft take a chair at Yale, or
will there be a new one, made to order?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27

The state journal Il q member OF the
Associated Press and receives the fun DAY
eeiegraDh report of that great news or
gmnixAtion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news f. received I'm The State jour"
nal building over wires tor tAis sole pS<~
Bose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
LOCAL MENTION.

An entertainment will be given this
evening at Z o'clock for the members of
the Topeka Boys club. Moving pictures
will be a feature. The affair will be held
in the Provident building.
Karl Lehman, interstate secretary of
the United Society of Christian Endeavor,
of Boston, will address the Topeka Local
union members at the First United Breth-
rem church.. January ,. This is the only
date Mr.. Lehman has in Kansas. Solos
will be sung by Charles Kettering and
Miss Eleanor Bartel. A prize banner will.
be given to the society having the largest
percentage of membership present at Lie
meeting.
For today and tomorrow the Cozy thea
ter is featuring 1.-THE Ball Player and
the Bandit" a western play in which
college man who refuses to carry a gun
shows that he can care for himself with
his fists. He overcomes a bandit with
Well aimed baseball.
A NJ Cook, 1872 Poplar street. reported
to Sheriff Norton this morning that a set
of double harness was stolen last night
from his barn. He has no idea who pet
petrated the theft
A fire was started this morning through
the explosion of a toy engine with which
two youngsters were playing at the
home of Mrs. L. H. Greenwood 1921
Western avenue. Some rugs, and other
articles were burned. but the fire was ex-
tinguished without the aid Of the fire de-
partment
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HODGES is BUSY
New Governor Receives 500
Letters a Day.
He Appoints ZumwaIt Chap
lain at Penitentiary.
P. E. LAUGHLIN GETS JOB
He Will Be Assistant Bank
Commissioner.
New Utilities Commission Be
Announced Next Week.

Assistant Bank Commissioners. z.
Laughlin, MarysviIIe.
Chaplain Penitentiary-Clerin T.
Zumwalt, Olathe.