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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
ON DOWN GRADE.

At last the war waged against high
prices has begun to show results. Inc
liquidation which has been going on in
Wall street for some time has COM
menced to affect values of commodities
The long and loud clamor for lower
cost of living seems in a fair way to
be answered.
Iron and steel, textiles, copper, coffee,
sugar and many other articles of mer-
chandise appear to be on the downward
grade LAS a rule, this does not seem to
be due to any oversupply," says Henry
Clews, but rather to the general re-
action and the imperative necessity for
liquidation. Moreover, this tendency
in both securities and commodities is
world and is quite as pronounced
in the English, German and French
markets as in our own"
Already, the slackening in business
which always accompanies a decline in
prices, is apparent in the east. What
does it profit a man to buy food and
clothing cheaper if he be compelled to
work on short time?
To quote again from Henry Clews:
The most significant signs of reac-
ton are in the iron trade. Steel mills
are still busy filling old orders, but new
business shows a shrinkage, and price
cutting is being resorted to for the pur-
pose of stimulating orders. The diff
Guilty of the railroads in financing their
new requirements acts detrimenta1ly to
the iron trade owing to the postpone
ment of many necessary improvements
or extensions. Business in general is
not unsound, and there are few if
any important accommodations of mer-
chandise Nevertheless, financial pres
sure forces more or less liquidation"
The crop outlook continues salts
factory. Some damage has occurred to
wheat, but this crop as a whole prom
Uses WELL Cotton promises a large
acreage, and condition at present is
satisfactory. Corn planting is not yet
complete, and the cool spring has re-
tarded termination. On the whole,
however, the agricultural outlook is the
most encouraging factor in the whole
situation. Farmers have been holding
back grain very extensively, but this
policy must shortly change with the
new crop so near"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

Immediately attacks the metal plates.
1t eats up or burns up, the zinc plate.
This action produces energy. Some of
the energy is wasted in heat, some is
changed into electrical energy which
flows out over the wires to ignite the
gasoline charge in the engine or to do
other useful work for mankind, such
as ringing the door bell, sending a
telegram or carrying speech over the
telephone wires.
When either of these metal plates
is destroyed, or the chemical has so
changed itself by combination with the
metals that it will no longer attack
the plates the chemical action ceases.
Therefore the electricity ceases to
flow out and over the wires.
Ordinary battery cells soon polarize
and cease to work. This means that
the metal plates become covered with
a him of insulation material, such as
hydrogen gas, so the chemical action
cannot take place. This also stops the
are put into batteries to offset this
polarization. When these polarizing
agencies cease to perform their duties,
from becoming exhausted or other
wise, the battery will not work, even
though the plates remain intact and,
seemingly, are as good as every they
We're.
But there is no remedy for a worm
out battery. Dry batteries are so en-
eased and covered with insulation that
it would absolutely destroy one to try
to remove the plates. The job would
not be worth the trouble. 1t is easier
and cheaper to buy new batteries
Electrical News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
The Electric Battery.

The electric battery generates a sup
ply of electricity by chemical action.
II differs from the magnetic. or dyna-
mo, which generates electricity from
mechanical energy supplied by the en-
CINE. When this chemical action
ceases the supply of electricity ceases
and the battery is worn out. So far
as human eyes can see the battery is
just as good as it ever was, but it
will not produce any current worthy
of the name.
All batteries consist of three essen
tals, the two metal plates and the
chemical solution. The plates are
called electrodes and the chemical is
the electrolyte. Dry batteries are dry
in name only. If they were absolute
ly dry. they would not work at all.
The only difference between a dry bat
terry and a wet battery is that in the
former the electrolyte is in the form
of paste and in the latter it is a
solution.
The action of all batteries is about
the same, regardless of kind. The
plates usually consist of zinc and cop
per- or zinc and carbon. The chemi-
cal may be diluted sulphuric acid, blue
Yitriol or number of other chemicals.
This chemical solution attacks and de-
stroys the zinc plate when the cir
cult is complete. When the circuit is
broken the chemical action ceases and.
consequently, no current flows. When
the circuit is completed the chemical
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
MORE WORK FOR THE i. G. c.

The Frisco receivership has brought
| to the front the necessity for an ex-
tension in scope of the federal control
of railroads. 1t has shown that all the
! work of the interstate commerce COM
mission, in the regulation of rates,
may be rendered comparatively USE
less by reckless financiering.
Quoting from the st. Louis Post
Dispatch:
1.-The Frisco's financial overload,
under which a great railroad sys-
tenn with an extraordinary earning ca
pacity. serving a rich and rapidly i'm
proving territory, collapsed is not sin
gle. 1t is one of hundreds of similar
mismanagement by which investors
have been looted, the public burdened
and the country disgraced.
I'VE need not recite the innumer-
able instances of splendid railroad
properties stripped of earnings and
loaded with liabilities. The history of
railroading is full of them. In recent
years the revelation of high financial
juggles with railroad credits and Sc
curities, by which adroit and I'M
scrupulous railroad manipulators have
made millions at the expenses of in
vestors and the freight-paying public
have astounded the world. Recent
examples are found in the Wabash,
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford and the Frisco. The Missouri
Pacific is recovering from the strip
ping and loading process under re-
organized management"
The evils of overcapitalization and
juggling credits are many. Those re-
sponsible for them swindle investors.
They burden the public with excessive
transportation rates. They Cypress
and disturb business. They brand
American railroad management. They
discredit American railroad securities
in all markets, and thus hamper legiti- |
mate railroad expansion and opera
ton. |
The public suffers because reason |
able charges and adequate service are
with overloaded systems. |
Investors suffer heavy losses on rotten
securities. The railroads suffer from
of credit and inability TO
Obtain l.eeded loans.
Rates are inevitably affected by |
Interest charges on
bonds must be met and dividends on |
stock must be paid by going railroads. |
The alternatives of prosperous finan- |
cial conditions are bankruptcies and
receiverships. There is no middle |
ground.
The time for completing our system
Of railroad regulation has arrived. In
fact it looks now as though the gov
had begun the work at the
wrong end. Possibly regulation of
railroad financiering in the beginning
would have obviated the necessity for
any other action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
EVENING CHIT
A Reminder.
81 RUTA CAMERON.

AS we were passing through the bust
ness district about half past five the other
girls who were just getting out from their
work. Some of them passed quietly out
and down the street, losing themselves in
the crowd but others rushed no1slly torth.
chewing gum and talking at the top OF
their lungs, and took boisterous posses
sion of the sidewalk, walking three OF
four abreast, crowding people into the
street and generally attracting attention.
One group of them actually hop-skipped
for several blocks.
The Author Mans wife was with us, and
I think L shall never forget the look OF dis
dain and disgust she turned on the three
girls who were skipping. She didn't
preston of her face looked as if she were
doing that. How can they make such
her companion. Look at that creature
chewing gum; 1 wish she could see how
disgusting she looks. And hear them
talk! Such rough, unpleasant voices, and
such language! I'll never get caught down
here at this time of night again And she
quickened her pace to get away from THE
creatures"
The Lady Who Always Knows Some
how was walking with me. AS she stepped
back from the street into which she had
been crowded by the hop-skippers, she
turned to me with a beautiful smile. DO
you know what they make me think OF!
she said "Of line in one of our First
school let out No wonder they hop and
Snip. Poor things, how good 1t must seem
to them to get out into the air; II must De
like escaping from prison."
How any one can dare to feel as the
Author-Man's wife did is something can
not understand.
And how anyone can help feeling at
least little of the Dime sympathy which
lit the Lady's face into momentary beauty
is equally incomprehensible.
How can you or 1 or anyone dare to
feel disdain for the loudest, cheapest,
most vulgar girl in all the city when we
do not know what we might have been if
we had had her opportunities,-or rather
her lack of them.
John Wesley one day saw a drunken
man reeling along the sidewalk, and TO
the establishment of his companions who
drew away in righteousu disgust, he said.
There but for the grace of God goes
John Wesley" I think the father of
Methodism never preached a greater ser
mon.
Suppose those girls did hop-skip and
chew gum, and shout out slang phrases to
each other, and crowd people off the side
walk. and wear loud and ugly clothes? Do
you dare to say that If you had been born
and bred they were you would have
done differently?
And if you need any further stimulus to
tolerance, please think of some of the
members of our so-caled best society.
Think of their loud voices. their vulgar
and even indecent clothes. their bad man
ners and their selfish indifference to the
rights of others, and then think of their
vast opportunities; and instead of blam-
ing the flower class" girl because she Is
no better, am sure you will be ready to
praise here because she is no worse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
AYHAWKE.R JOTS

Jim Troutman is being referred to as
the man who put the money in the
harmony meeting.
The city engineer of Parsons went
on hunt for gas with lighted match,
with the usual result.
1t is quite appropriate, says the Par
sons Sun, that the people of Pittsburg
should have elected Mayor Skourup to
clean up the town.
According to the county clerks rec
ords under the Mahin law, there was
$51, 620.62 worth of liquor shipped into
Bourbon county during May, and the
returns are incomplete.
The lola commissioners have passed
an ordinance putting the ban on the
sale of hard cider or near beer in
quantities less than one gallon. Must
have been afraid the purchaser would
not get enough.
A foot bridge is to be built across
the Missouri at Leavenworth, SO that
the thirsty can go over and frrigate.
The Times suggests that it should be
made wagon bridge SO that they can
be hauled home.
The Arkansas City Traveller tells Of
a hen which laid an egg with the Ma
characters on the shell. There are
characters on the other end of the egg
which are taken to be Greek letters.
That hen probably belong to a college
sorority.
The appointment by the United States
attorney general of Thomas W. Morgan
of the Ottawa Republic as warden Of
the federal penitentiary was an excel
lent one. Mr.. Morgan has thrived in
Kansas for 80 years running a Demo-
cratic newspaper. Anyone who can do
that is smart enough to run a peni-
Tertiary. Mr.. Morgan, if he is given
opportunity for long service, is the sort
of a man who will make a famous
warden.-Henry Allen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
QUAKER MEDrTATToNs.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
A man has reason, but a woman has
reasons.
The dead-sure thing is often more dead
than sure.
All men may have equal rights, but lots
of them are left.
1t is doubtful If even the aviator should
burn his bridges behind him.
1t is generally considered a good thing
not to be considered good thing.
The trouble with the self-made man is
that he so often forgets to put on the
finishing touches.
I, she-"It's won1an's privilege to change
her mind" He-"Yes. but she generally
gets such small change for it."
Any man can be thankful for what he
has 1t requires a peculiar frame of mind
to be thankful for what We haven't
Blobbs-"Bjones can't see fight with
out wanting to get into tt" Slobbs-'sPer-
haps it is just as well. It's generally the
innocent bystander that gets hurt
The folks who wait proscrastinate,
And though they do it to their SORROW
II doesn't pay to do today
The things We must undo tomorrew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
LYRIC.

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could not love you, DEAR so much
Loved I not tenderly to dwell
Upon the way that we have come
With loving one anC Their well,
And making each departed day
A flower blowing by the way.
It is as if stood upon
A height, and yonder wound away
The blessed road by which we came
AS lovers out of yesterday,
And each sweet year was there re-
vealed
Beside the way a Powered field.
A flowered field through which We two
Game hand in hand beneath such skies
AS never bend for mortals save
They cover Loves own Paradise,
. And where each treasured hour be-
came
A hill with marigold aflame.
could not love you, dear, so much
Loved 1 not tenderly to dwell
Upon the way that we have come
With loving one another well,
And making what has been SO sweet
That what will be we long to greet.
Clark McAdams in Post-Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

flung about, and 1t was seven or eight
minutes before Mr.. Saunders spat out the
dust and discovered that he still lived
though he had half a dozen cuts and
bruises. Then, like a gallant man. he
went hunting for the other Saunders. She
was insenSible under one of the DOORS
and had a dozen cuts from the shattered
windows
And did Mr.. Saunders lift her up? He
did. Did he run for a doctor? He did.
Did he afterward run to the drug store
and back? He did. During two weeks
she was home. Were there calls and
bouquets? There were.
Oh, no, there was no talk about love
for a long, long time, and no engagement
for months. and no marriage until the
robins came again, but they were very
happy over it.-(Copyright, 1913, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

names in the paper depends largely
upon whether they are patrons of the
| police court or cotillion.
Virginia gent, while visiting a mar
ried lady, had his hand shot off by
the husband who returned unexpect-
entertainment was not injured in the
fracas. Jack Supp opines that the
husband was either early or late.
The st, Joe Gazette suggests that
Harry Kemp be loaned to England
pending a popular election to choose
poet laureate from the list of II
English candidates for the job. But
why loan? Why not a diplomatic
gift? We believe in being generous
especially in this case.
1t takes a confirmed batch to tell
about women. 1t was member of The
Bymyself club who sprung this bone
head play today:
Were it not for the women, a lot
of Topeka lawyers would have to quit
law and take up manual labor. But
a lot of them live and buy automobiles
by defending the husband sued for
debts contracted by his wife, or filing
the divorce suit she brings when he
makes holler about it,
Conceit is that quality which leads
a man to think he is strong minded.
when an unbribed jury could find
nothing strong about him except his
breath.
Editor Brady of the Lawrence Jun
nelwuld, says people who cannot swim
have no business in a canoe. He might
go further and state that people who
can swim have no business in a canoe,
as it is easier and cheaper, when one
desires to get wet, to jump off the
bank.
The entrance of the open car season
reminds us of the Sweetly solemn
thought that the end seat hog should
not have corns.
The congressional smelling commit
tee has decided that the lobby was in
sidious but not Illegal. AS it stands
now, the definition of lobbyist is:
Anyone who is not tickled to death
with the tariff
The Young Japs are for war. The
Young Japs are also for cigarettes.
Derby hats and other foolishness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
IFrom the Chicago News.I


And many a man with a weak intellect
is headstrong-
The home woman marries for is hard
ly worth the price.
You can't fail unless you take chances,
and you can't succeed.
Isn't it queer how easy it is to trans
form friends into enemies?
Don't look up to people; it encourages
them to look down on you.
Any man who would jilt a girl deserves
to be married by her successor.
Some young women marry old men just
because they look well in black.
Don't argue with a critic; he can think
of more mean things than you can
If we could look into the future we
would probably find it just as unsatsfac-
tory.
We have heard of women who love to
tempt men and then abuse them for be-
ing susceptible.
Some people have way of saying
things to hurt the feelings of others just
as if they were getting pay for 1T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
FROM OTHER PENS

| CASTE AMONG WORKING GIRLS
The inquiry into womeh's wages con-
| Quoted by the state legislative COM
| rnittee has delved into delicate phrase
OF the whole question. AT different
| stages there has cropped up the point
! of the social rank of this, that and
| the other kind of employment
| IL might as well be understood that
| 1T is not men Tho hew the line and
say that one kind of honest toll is
more demeaning than the other. Indeed
| it is much to be believed that the av-
erage decent man has far greater re-
gard for the girl or woman who can
cook a good meal and keep house
clean than for the one he encounters
downtown in various guiSes of bust
ness woman" In the name of charity,
| then, why do women themselves torture
| their less fortunate sisters, as they
| undoubtedly do, by creating social bar
riers which are not only absurd, but
often cruel?
The vast majority of men have no
such caste among themselves. With
women it is exactly the reverse. The
bank president has respect for his
gardener-uore, perhaps. than he has
for many other prosperous men, and
he is not ashamed to show it.
There is another point of view that
is more important than this, however.
The world can get along, somehow,
without girl clerks, girl cashiers, girl
factory help of every kind; but it would
be a sorry, upset old world indeed with
out girls willing to help wives with
their homework and children.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch..
o.
LIVING EXAMPLE OF WORK.
Helen Keller. the blind, deaf and
dumb American girl, whose wonder
full attachments have impressed every
intelligent person in the world, has ac-
cepted the King of SPANS offer to be-
come the tutor of his afflicted
son. Don Jaime is five years
desires that he be taught to talk. In
stead of employing the worlds great
est scientists and experts the ruler ap-
peals to this American girl, who only
a few years ago, was gazed upon i'm
pity as one of the most helpless crea-
lures that could be imagined. But
Helen Keller is not a prodigy; she is
an educated. highly cultured woman,
who has triumphed despite her affiic-
tions.
Without sight. hearing or speech,
this woman by hard work has sue
ceeded where thousands gifted with
their five senses have failed. She has
defied nature by acquiring the use of
language that she cannot hear and
proving that the dumb can be taught
to talk. Her sense of touch is so SEN
sitive that she can on the instant
recognize and describe any article with
which her hand comes in contact. She
can understand the words of another
by placing her fingers on the tip of the
speaker.
So this wonderful girl is going to
Madrid to accomplish what science has
failed to do.
This example should prove an inspir-
alton to thousands of young men
and women who fail because they lack
the courage to prove equal to the ask.
Helen Keller is living tribute to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

Judge Frank Lindsay, assistant gem
eral attorney for the State Temperance
union, says that the jointists are leav-
ing the state, and are going, not singly.
but almost in droves to other parts of
the country where they find their bust
ness more profitable, or at least not
SO likely to be interfered with. Possibly
this accounts for the decrease in popu-
lation, shown by the assessors returns,
for a number of towns in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
HOME News WHILE AWAY.

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to you like a daily letter from home
Advance payment is requested on
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bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

Amidst the cry of hard times going
up from the railroads all over the coun-
try, it is gratifying to the friends of
the Santa Fe, and that means all Kan
sas, to know that the road is earn
ing enough to pay expenses, make i'm
provements and extensions, add to roll
ing stock, pay dividends and lay by a
little money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

proposed law of the District of
Columbia would make compulsory the
production of a certificate of health by
prospective bridegrooms before the
district government would issue Ii
censes to wed. 1t is not proposed that
prospective brides be forced to submit
to its terms. Yet we talk of a single
standard and one law alike for men
and women
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

England has made a new low rec
ord for births in the three months
ending March 81. the total of 216,330
giving rate annually of 1913 per
1000 of population. The slump prob
ably is due to the fact that so many
women are engaged in bomb throwing
instead of child bearing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
ON The SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
Rv ROW II M0TITITO
0Y K. MOULTON.
BY ROY

Once Again.
Quite soon the world must hesitate
And listen to the graduate,
And soak in good advice
That's given by the wise young men
And women DER and DER again
Without the slightest price.
They've got lot of it to give.
They'll tell the whole world how to live
And how to win the strife.
They'll tell the old folk as of yore
In fancy and high-sounding lore.
How to succeed in life.
It's safe to say they will solve all
OF Wilson's problems, great and small
And questions of the day.
The world. of course, will be polite,
And listen on commencement night,
And then go on its way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

The wise man who said that the
mind that is cheerful in the present
state will not be solicitous of the flu
ture and will meet the occurrences Of
life with placid smile was no doubt
great philosopher, says the Memphis
News-Scimitar, but he never sat on
the bleachers and watched the home
team lose three straight games.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

Indications are strong that the Bull
Moosers will insist on nominating
Woodrow Wilson for president in
1915. But the colonel should have no
trouble in obtaining a nomination
from the Prohibitionists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10

In view of his new, self-established
relations with congress. President Will
son ought to be game enough to sit
through that three weeks speech on
the tariff threatened by Senator Cum
minis