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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21

which was recently removed from
Chicago to Topeka will be held Tues
day at the First NJ. E. church. Will
liam H. Anderson will come from
Baltimore, Md, Alonzo e, Wilson
will be here from Chicago, and Bishop
Charles NJ. Shepard from Nebraska.
Others who are expected are: Rev.
Claudius B. Spencer, w. A. Rankin
and DR. John Punton of Missouri
Charles Stradler, L. o. Jones and S.
K. Warrick of Nebraska, and J. r
Lankard from Oklahoma.
In the course of a sermon Sunday,
the Rev. Robert Gordon of the First
Baptist church, took a stand against
the showing of prize fight pictures in
Topeka. The remarks were called forth
because a local show house is advertise
ing a return engagement of the John
son-Flynn pictures. IF it was a dis
grace for Reno to hold the fight in
the first place." said Rev. Mr.. Gordon,
Il would like to ask if it is an honor
for Topeka to show pictures of the
kind The socialist mayor of Milwau-
kee, in spite of the demand, forbade
holding exhibitions in his city"
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ka, DR.. Edwin Locke, recording sec
rotary, and Mr.. z. H. Anderson, treas
urer.
They will meet at headquarters in
the Shawnee building and the various
committees will meet at the first
Methodist church.
A lunch is to be served by the Ia
dies of the church in honor of Bish-
op Shepard's first appearance in Tope-
ka and all who are interested in the
work that this board is doing are in
vited to come and join in the lunch
con at noon. after which there will
be a short address by the bishop and
visiting delegates. There is to be n
reception to Bishop Shepard and the
new temperance board in the evening,
to which the public is invited. DR.
Loveland and his official board will be
hosts of the occasion.
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SANTA FE NOTES.
Items for this column maye be 'phoned
to 1915 or the State Journal officel

Mrs. Dan Daley of Fort Madison, Ia,
err en- route to her home from California
and Texas, where she has been spending
the past three months.
Engineer Harry Webb of Argentine is
rapidly recovering from an operation
performed several weeks ago at the COM
pany hospital Mrs. Webb spent the week
end here with him.
Robert Norris, Missouri Pacifice passen-
enger agent, was a Santa F'e caller Friday
and is now in Kansas City for a few
days.
Engingeer John Snyder on the Topeka
Kansas City plug run, is off duty sever al
days.
Elaborate programs are being made for
the fourth annual ball of the 3. of L. F.
and E. and the ladies' auxiliary to the
B. of L. F. and E. to be given Novern-
Der 1.
Steve Recob, finisher and decorator IN
the company hospital over the system.
is spending month here with his par
ents and other relatives.
=. H. Taylor. Waterman at gate ton
has returned from an extended visit witt.
his daughter and other relatives in Sa,
Ike Barnum of the freight claim de
partment has returned from New York
and Boston, where he attended the
Charles Yoder of the bridge and built
ing department at Emporia, spent TIC
weekend with relatives and friends here.
F. L. E. Timer of Fort Wayne, Ind.
has accepted a position as stenographer
in the electrical office in the motive pow
er building here.
D. c. Robinson, machinist in the shops
here, left Friday for an extended visit
with relatives and friends in California
Everett Morford of the electrical de-
partment is in Emporia for a few days
on business.
Thos- E. Prout, general secretary OF
the R. r. Y NJ. c. A, has returned from
Mayetta- where he addressed the District
Sunday school convention
The opening concert for the season will
be given next Friday evening at the k
r. Y. NJ c. A. by the Misses Sarah AMI
Nellie Kouns. daughters of General Mar
ager G. w. Kouns, assisted by Miss Hazel
Barnwell. reader. and Miss Gladys Cav
of Chicago. violinist-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21
ROASTS CHANCE
Murphy Says Peerless Leader
Is ''Waning Star"
Complains of Speed on Bases
BIames Leader.
CALLS MURPHY STINGY ONE
Chance Says Owner Refused to
Buy New Players.
Intimates He May Refuse to
Give Up Job.
CALLS MURPHY STINGY ONE

Chicago, Oct 21.-President Murphy
of the Cubs, issued a statement last
| night which indicates that several new
| faces will be seen in the 1913 lineup
! as we'll as a new manager. He de-
! clares the team lacks speed and the
| changes are to be made with an idea
! of getting faster men on the bases and
/ who at the same time can hit.
Following is the statement in part:
The public support baseball and is
entitled to know as much about it as
can consistently be disclosed at all
the Iimelight should doubtless be on
the players and the contests that they
take part in. Now that the season OF
1912 has passed we all turn to 1913,
and in doing that we want to know
who will manage the Cubs.
Ion August 15, 1912, Frank Chance
was asked about managing the Cubs In
1913. and he replied, I would rather
not
Intfmates Chance Is Old.
THAT of course eliminated him. A
manager is desired who wants the JOB
some one who will enthuse over it,
and not have to be forced to accept it,
No one can succeed to a superlatiVe
degree without enthusiasm. He must
like the task and not take the job
merely for the remuneration involved.
When the season is over he must be
champing on the bit like a young colt
with anxiety for the next campaign TO
begin. He must be full of optimism for
the future and such a feeling should be
In the history of every club time
arrives when reorganization is neces-
sary. Baseball thrives largely on
sentiment, and the only way to create
sentiment is to win games No one
cares who owns the ball club or who
it so long as it wins games,
but the fans who contribute to the
support of the game are entitled 20
fast, aggressive baseball. OF course
a waning star has many friends but
the memory of the public is fieeting,
and a man who wears a uniform must
make good at all times-every minute
he is in action.
"A club owner is really a trustee,
and his only safe plan is to speed
things UP when he realizes that some
Of his stars are slowing up.
Every club is limited to so many
men and we must let waning stars go
to replace them with fellows 10 and |
20 years old who will improve with |
experience. That comes under the fort |
unes- of the game. 1t is young mans |
sport.
THE following table of figures Gun |
cfficiaD tells better than any words 1 |
can employ what the West side team |
needs:
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Chicago, Oct. 21.-Frank Chance,
when told of Murphy's statement On
The Cub managerial situation, made
the following warm reply to the own
er of the Cubs:
Murphy is simply slapping at me
in the newspapers without getting any
where. He can't abuse me in the pa
Ders and get away with it, and neither
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KNOX TO Retire.
VIII Not Serve the Government After
March 4.

Pittsburg, Oct. 21.-Secretary Knox's
personal organ, the Pittsburg Dis
patch, in an authorized statement, an
nounces that Mr.. Knox will retire per-
mauently from public life on March
4, no matter what the result of the
election.
He will adhere to this determina-
ton" says the announcement, unless
or vice president should occur which
would cause the duties of acting presi-
dent to devolve upon him until the
deadlock is solved Mr. Knox would
not evade this responsibility but if an
election is secured on November 5, he
will retire to private life with the
present administration, after eleven
years in the public service as senator
and cabinet officer"
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Henry F. Cochems, Wisconsin Pro-
gress1Ve leader, was one of the men
who helped down John Schrank, the
WouId-be assassin of Colonel Roose-
welt at Milwaukee. Cochems is a
graduate of the University of Wiscon-
sin and of Harvard, and was a IA
nous athlete while in college. He
demonstrated that he still possesses
some of his athletic proves when he
helped Martin, RooseVelts stenog-
rApher, down and disarm Teddy's as
Sailant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-21

Heard on the SideWalk--'.What's the
matter old man. That COMPOUNDED box
office clerk had the cheek to offer me a
back seat" And you took affront, Ell:
NO. sir; I wouldn't take any."-BostoD
Transcript
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Stolen bases.
CIub-I912.
Must Have More Speed

From the above it can be seen
that the Cubs are tied for sixth posi-
! ton in base running. This lack of
speed on the bases will also be felt in
| fielding. Men who can't run as fast
! on the bases as they did in former
| years naturally will not cover as much
ground in fielding. An outfielder who
| has slowed up will not get a fly that
passes him back to the infield as
/ quickly as when he was at the zenith
I of his career, or an infielder Will not
stop a grounder that he could easily
/ have handled when he had his speed
In modern baseball we must have
speed.
1.-The president of the United States
finds if impossible to leave Washing
ton when congress is in session. The
head of the United States army must
have a furlough or leave of absence
| to be gone for an extended period
| Then why should not the manager OF
q baseball club be on the job all the
year with the exception of reason
able period for rest and recreation?
Competition is so keen for the Ser
vices of rising stars that a team is
handicapped unless the ban@ ger is con-
stantly on the job or in touch with
the situation. The manager of the
modern major league club nowadays
must be smart to cope with his COM
petitors, and as I have always pre-
the bench, I expect to appoint one who
will be in the game every day unless
he is prevented from playing temper
arily by accident or illness.
More Digs at Chance.
The naming of the manager for
1913 is not due to indecision upon my
part. but when 1 say he will have
youth, intelligence and speed, that
must suffice for the present. I hate
to see Chance leave the managerial
post after seven years, but when he
said I would rather not was com
PEELED to look elsewhere and proceed
along different lines, which I have
done. 1t is true that Frank may have
changed his mind since he told me
that, but a managers first Qualifica-
ton, in my viewpoint, is to say just
what he means to the owner unless
physical condition governs him.
Chance has worked so hard that
his health has not been of the best.
and if he retires from the game lie
will certainly carry my best wishes
with him, because personally an
very fond of him. There was never a
more earnest, faithful playing mana
ger in the game, and he leaves a high
mark for his successor to aim at. The
man I have decided upon does not
know it yet, but he will in due time.
and then the public viii be taken into
the secret. I am sure the very men
ton of his name will be hailed with
delight by the fans, because I doubt
if there is a more popular player with
his fellows, the press and the public in
the land
Chonoa EVorS ATrrx,T,x-
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To BE- BURIED

place may be found for this early hero OF
the navy.
So is a flood of tribute thus to be paid
to John Paul Jones after six years OF
immediate neglect. Previous to that was
the vast flood of patriotism aroused over
the bringing of his remains to American
soil after a century of inattention in an
obscure French cemetery. SO in the
strange turning Of human events it has
been the unusual and almost uncanny
course that John Paul Jones, the first
naval officer of the world to prove that
the British sea forces were not invincible.
has followed after his death a series OF
ups and downs that may well be COM
AS boy he was poor and his family
almost unknown and unable to assist
him. First shipping as an apprentice and
sailing from Whitehaven. England, where
forces to invade his former country. he
became, through a chance of fate, q rich
Virginia planter. Then followed his
glorious history. during the war of the
revolution, during the course Of which
he expended SO much of his private for
tune in attempts to help the cause OF
American freedom that he again became
a poor man. This work done and his
rewards. coming from France and not
from America, being Of a character never
before offered to a foreigner by King
of France, his fortunes again changed
and he became the servant and hero OF
Russia. In the Black sea, under Cath
arine the Great, he performed the
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GzARF5 A. AsM4P451H St Or q! r. R ~ {SS
To BURIED

was finally found and further identified
of the Navy Department, by the fact
that the features had been wonderfully
preserved in a leaden casket filled with
alcohol, and finally as the result OF an
autopsy, performed 113 years after death,
1t was determined without question that
the remains of John Paul Jones had been
discovered.
Then commenced the honors. France
We'd with America in attempts to show
respect to the memory Of the man who,
had he lived. would have, without doubt.
led her navy in many a battle. Well
remembered was the saying Of Napoleon.
who, after the terrible defeat Of the
in his bitterness at the poor leadership
of his forces Had John Paul Jones
but have lived" said Napoleon, France
would have had an admiral Military
and naval honors were showered upon
the remains Of the hero Of a century be-
fore. while the visit of the American
squadron, consisting Of the cruisers
Brooklyn Tacoma, Galveston and Chat
tanooga, which was specially detailed
to attend the functions in France. was
series of demonstrations of warm inter-
national friendship such as has been
rarely witnessed. Most fittingly named
for the command of this squadron was
Admiral Sigsbee, the hero OF the sinking
of the battleship Maine, while France
showed it's respect through the presence
at the ceremonies both in Paris and Cher
bourg. Of practically every one OF her
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man in the world has compiled fund
of interesting information upon the SUBJ
ject. This information shows that the
cliff dweller is not thing of the past.
Today he exists in many parts Of the
world. and the monuments that he has
left show that in times past his habitat
has girdled the earth. Within the bounds
of our own country and in northern Mex
leo he is found still as o. old. with his
life. his character and ideals little differ
ent from those of his forefathers who
lived thousands OF years ago.
The popular mind regards the cliff
dweller as an individual peculiar TO this
part of the world. This view is not cor
rect. for China knows him we'll, as do
India and Arabia. His strange habita-
tons are found in equatorial Africa and
civilized, modern Germany and France.
In northern Mexico there is tribe of
Indians. true, primeval cliff jewellers.
whose homes lie within the walls of
canyon OF such dizzy heights as are GUS
tomarily chosen for the nests of eagles.
These people are the Tarahumaris, the
cave jewellers OF the Papigochoo river, in
the heart of the Sierra Madres. Their
VnidSc. J,OJU u
1900 people. Is absolutely out OF reach
OF the world. The country about is so
arid and mountainous that the canyon is
almost inaccessible. The inclines leading
TO them are in many cases so precipitous
that ii would be a dangerous undertaking
for the average man to attempt to climb
them. But the Tarahumaris, with the
agility of a hfes training. brave them
with no hesitation. and seldom come to
disaster.
The canyon walls consist of a series of
natural lodges of different heights and
widths. and these lodges form resting
places. In cases where the inclines lead
ing to them were too steep. rude ladders
have been constructed by cutting notches
in logs, which form connections between
them.
The caves they found as nature made
them. some extending far into the side
of the cliff and forming a series OF rooms,
each Of which was appropriated by q diff
ferent family. Other caves Of similar
size were partitioned of with the same
purpose in view. These people exercise
their ingenuity to the point Of walling up
the front Of their caveTns, but beyond
this have done little for themselves save
in the supplying Of q few rude bake
ovens with shelves for holding primitive
cooking utensils. Light Is admitted to
the cave by means Of an aperture at the
top Of the wall.
In appearance. these people are tall and
muscular. Their complexion is dark even
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the vessel of a brave enemy with his own
ship in such condition that 1t sank almost
before he could board his prize, is lying
today.
But there are some who did not forget.
but listened and heard. The lack of re-
spect shown had been too great, and in
their minds had been increased through 9,
boys who will later become the leaders
Of the American navy. ''Old ]. p, the
most buried man In the world" he was
from the lips of naval cadet had it's
effect. Comic songs written by the cadets
with Admiral John Paul Jones for their
subject also stirred the older naval men
to action. This was well typified when
of the Naval Academy Alumni Associa-
ton, appeared before Congress, and In his
request for an appropriation for crypt
in which the remains might properly De
placed said:
my great object, and the thing that is
influencing me-and I come to you as
president Of the Naval Academy Alumni
Association, and one who is constantly In
touch with the young men there's this.
that the presence Of the remains Of John
Paul Jones in their present place Is pro-
ducing distinctly bad effect The boys
have come to look upon it as joke;
they have made comic songs about 1t;
they are making patriotism thing to be
laughed at. We brought those remains
from France with all possible pomp and
ceremony. Those youngsters were ire
mendously impressed; this man who had
fought for the country in the navy in
our earlier days had at last been recog-
nized, and 1t had a tremendous senti-
mental effect. Then came the anticlimax.
The remains were showed under the
stairs, and there they lie unrecogniZed.
and year after year Congress has refused
to take care of them, and 1t has got to a
point where you must take care OF them
or take them away: it is doing distinct
and decided HARM
Then, after five years delay. Congress
acted and 1t Is hoped that in June, when
the annual graduation exercises at An
napolis take place, the seventy-five-
thousand-dollar appropriation made last
year will have been expended, and after
his varied career In life and death, his
honors and his difficulties. his fortunes
and misfortunes, John Paul Jones' body
will find repose in a marble crypt under
the Annapolis chapel.
Here. according to the plans of Con-
gress. will be the American naval West
minister, a place where the coming Far
raguts. Deweys and Simpsons will find
their final resting place, where visi,
will bring forth patriotism and love OF
nation.
On April "a comes the anniversary OF
not only the greatest triumph of John
Paul Jones, but the first and greatest
victory OF American naval history, one
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The Wise Lion.

DAUL RAINEY. while showing private
! ly in New York the cinematograph
pictures of his African lion hunts. told an
amusing lion story.
"A man." he said. sat before his tent,
when a magnificent lion stiffened for the
spring, leaped and-missed the man.
missed him by jumping three feet too
high. It then skunk back into the forest.
looking thoroughly ashamed.
1.-The next day the man came unexpect-
eddy on the lion by a stream. It had up
ended a log Of wood and was practicing
low jumps!
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TiiE- RE1fAlfIs Of JOHN Paw. JONES
- IN a . cFrnToRcx Hal L;vzAI AT ANNAPOLIS

more or less than a pirate, and while his
object OF destroying the shipping IN
Whitehaven harbor was limited to tha
burning of a single vessel and the at
tendant result Of increasing the rates OF
shipping insurance to double the former
standard, 1t was significant of what could
be done by a bold commander with an
American crew and officers.
~
Great as was the victory over the
Drake, the most famous OF the naval
fights OF that period came a year later.
when John Paul Jones, basely deserted
by his consort in the Alliance. Capt.
Iandaise matched his fortunes in the
Bonhomme Richard against the British
Scraps. Of a third greater strength tran
the vessel he had obtained for America
through the generosity OF the French:
After fighting for hours. till his men had
been killed by scores. his guns had been
disabled, his vessel was actually sinking
beneath him, he finally saw the flag or
surrender flying from his brave an
tagonist. 1t had been a fight to the nm
ish, and there was hardly time to re-
ceive the sword of the brave Capt. Pea
son. to transfer his wounded to the cap
tured Scraps, before the Bonhomme
Richard plunged to the bottom OF the
sea. To be captured by such an an
tagonist was no shame. and while Pea
son was afterward court-martialed, he
was acquitted in triumph and then re-
ceived the honor Of knighthood from his
king for his bravery In the losing battle.
Admiral Jones Jared even better. Upon
his return to France he was granted
honors that had never before been con-
ferred on a foreigner. He was made .
chevalier Of France, given, though with.
out any prejudice to his American rights.
the projections due to any citizen OF that
country, In recognition Of his bravery and
wonderful feats OF arms. Then followed
harder days. His prize. the Scraps.
was condemned and sold, and he was
without a command. While greatly hon
ored at the French court. the jealousy OF
the French naval Officers prevented his
obtaining another vessel. till, finally. he
was given the Ariel. In which he re-
turned to America, though by that time
the war was practically over. The re-
mainder Of his history has been briefly
told above his commands under Cathartno
the Great, his return and final death in
France, then in recent years followed
by the ups and downs which few men
alive could compare experiences with
and which followed him In death even as
in life.
Now honored with a statue In Potomac
Park, Washington, soon to be placed In
state in the crypt of the chapel at An
napolas, no longer the subject or political
jealous es, or the butt of Jests by thought
less cadets, Admiral John Paul Jones, the
founder of the American navy, the first
of Americas self-made men. will soon
find fitting rest and respect.
Copyright. 1912, BY w. A. Du Puyl \