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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
FROM OTHER PENS
EDUCATION is EXPENSIVE.

EDUCATION IS EXPENSIVE.
Hlgher education certainly comes
nigh in America. Harvard University
last year had an income of over So
300, 900, of which only some $3.50 600
came from the tuition of students but
despite this princely revenue, greater
man mar mat of some states. it had a de-
1lcit OF over $4,000. The disparitv
between the total income and the
amount paid by the students. little
more than quarter, shows to how
great an extent our leading education
al institutions must depend unon the
returns from their Investments ami
the gifts of friends to meet current
expenses. Probably Harvard which
mas Investments totaling nearly S26.-
ooo,ooo; is rather an extreme example
OF thls KIND. No university or college
however, which possesses any stand
ing, could exist for a year if entirely
dependent upon it's income from it's
students.-Philadelp Record.
THE LAST OF THE HORSE CARS.
what the Beef Eaters are to Lon
don, the Ancient and Honorable Ar
ulIerymen are to Boston and Colonel
henry Watterson is to the Democratic
party, the Chambers street line of
horse cars is to our own changefuI
city. Streets. subways, mayors. opera
houses come and go. The whole town
Is torn down, carted away in wagons
and rebuilt every little while. But the
forever.
SO we refuse to believe the present
nine hundred and ninety-ninth report
that these horse cars are to be retired
Mr.. Hedley gets all ready to make the
change, he steels his heart for the
wrench. But at the last moment he
relents, like the man so tenderhearted
toward dividends that he is.
Thfs is as it should be. Some ties
with our slow and comfortable past
must at any cost be preserved through
out raucous, straphanging future.
What is more, as Mr.. HedIey or some
one else pointed out, the Chambers
street line is needed to improve the
breed of horse cars. And there isn't
anything anybody can answer to that.
New York Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

| brain that are busy with planning new
achievements.
New achievements blossom over the grave
of the dead past. Happiness comes with
increased usefulness Trouble shrinks
when 1T is forgotten. The secret of for
getting and cOnQuering of happiness re-
gardless of circumstances is usefulness.
There is none other.-(Copyright 1913, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
ON TEE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
nv Roy u AhOrrI TOM
The Hobo.

The Hobo.
He pays no rent, he pays no tax,
He buys no coal or ice.
He doesn't seem to worry when
He hasn't got the price.
He doesn't lie awake at night
And try to figure out
A way to meet his grocery bill,
AMI never has the govt.
He doesn't have to entertain,
lie goes to parties that
He doesn't care a snap about,
In some kind neighbours flat.
He doesn't have to worry lest
His clothes are not in style;
The weather is a question that
He doesn't think worth while.
He simply seeks another when
A climate doesn't suit.
He isn't interested in
A single blamed dispute.
He doesn't have to work at all
And is a happy lad.
To lead the genus hobo'S life
Can't be so very bad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
HUAOR or THE DAY

He-"She swept out the room with re-
pressed hauteur." She-"Why didn't she
do it with broom ?"-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Crimsonbeak-"Are you against strikes?'
Yeast-'I certainly am. But how much
were you going to ask me for?'-Yonkers
Statesman.
Il tell you / am glad / went that
trip around the world" 80 was every
one else who knew you."-Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
HOPE.

Presently the sorrow
Which besets you now
VIII be cleared away
BY this time tomorrow
You may wonder how
Care came yesterday.
Presently the places
That are cold and drear
Will again be fair
Joy will light the faces
Where today appear
Traces of despair.
Presently possessing
What you long have sought,
You will think 1t ill
But you'll seek some blessing
Other than you've got,
And be hopeful still.
s.. E. Kise1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

There are only nine mechanics in
congress and the Christian Science
Monitor suggests that as the reason
why so many political machines are
going to pieces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

If the government were operating
the railroads, the chances are that
there would be just enough men on
every train to do the work; no more,
no less. A full crew would consist of
whatever number of trainmen Uncle
Sans manager might designate and
there would be no interference by
special interests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

Having attended a Y. NJ. c. A. cor
nerstone laying, Secretary Bryan may
feel that his California trip was not
taken in vain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

Austria-Hungary must be given
credit for restraining herself from at
lacking Montenegro without giving fair
and repeated warning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

That man who tried to poison an
Indian in order to get his land, must
have been in a great hurry. How
much easier it would have been to
give him whisky and let him drink
himself to death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

A japanese killed himself in Chi
cago as a protest against California
unfriendliness, but at latest accounts
California was not worrying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

New York reports no shortage OF
Venuses and Adonises, even with
many members of the summer actor
colony still hitting the ties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

Now that the hunger strike has been
successfully introduced in the United
States the male prison population may
be expected to claim equal rights.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

When the fortune teller predicts that
you will meet with a loss the predic-
ton comes true before you get away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

Even the tariff clause admitting
Bibles free of duty is finding oppon-
ents. And we are told that salvation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

1t may take a musician thoroughly
to abominate ragtime tunes, but it's
quite true that anybody can duly
despise the words.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

Another unpleasantly suggestive song
is the one prophesying that by and
by hard times will come knocking at
the door
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

Ban johnson plans to have Ameri
can League umpires wear white uni
forms. What they need is a suit o
armOr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

1t is reasonable to assume that no
incognito can be too dark, deep and
impenetrable to suit the convenience
of Mr.. MECHANICAL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal is a member Of tine
Associated Press and receives the Iun DAY
telegraph report of that great news d-
Ganfzatfon for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka
The news is received In The Stase Jou--
mai building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

the United States department of agri-
culture to place on exhibition at the
Panama-Pacific exposition in 1915
the greatest collection of road models
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06

What is needed is an auto lawn
mower with a self starting appliance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
Caught on the EIy.

1t seems funny, but when a man thinks
up some brand new scheme to make fiji
teen twenty thousand dollars, he finds
that fifteen or twenty other fellers have
thought of it first
What has become of the sport who used
to reverse his cuffs?
There will be talk of revolutions In
Mexico just long as there are any
Mexicans there.
It certainly looks as though Woodrow
Wilson has been elected to a whole bunch
of trouble.
1t is said skirts will be fuller next sum-
mer. but how could they be? Most of the
skirts see are so full it seems as
though they would bust at the seams.
The Teller that drives slow but Study is
on the road long time, but he gifts there
eventually.
Every once in awhile an explosion tells
of the sad fate of another devotee to the
celluloid collar habit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-06
A Very Handy Machine.

One of our anonymous friends has sent
in the prospectus of new machine that
he has just invented He calls it the
most ingenious continuance ever sprung
upor an unsuspecting public"
by the simple twist of the wrist" ac-
cording to the gentleman's claim, lit can
be converted into any one of the following
useful articles: jack plane, monkey
wrench, stove litter, glass cutter, scroll
saw, safety razor, battleax, bottle washer,
button hook, cherry pitter, weather vane,
paint brush, gas lighter, ice tongs, bel:
buckle, horse clipper, lunch basket, hand
cuffs, bit stalk, flour sitter, auto crank
ink stand, nail file, corkscrew. vacuum
cleaner, curry comb bootjack, carpet
stretcher, nutmeg crater, potato masher
screwdriver, meat chopper, rolling pin,
tack hammer, electric bell, paddock, shoe
last, music rack. flower pot, egg beater
cold chisel. ketchup strainer, fish scaler
oil can, paperweight, rat trap and cigar
clipper, and it's very presence in the
house wards off flies rats, mice and other
vermin, including bill collectors and book
agents.
If this machine will do all that is claim
ed for it, our anonymous correspondent
has his fortune made. No home could
possibly be complete without it as it will
apparently do anything but secure a d.
vorce. If the man who sent in the pros
pectus will kindly forward his name, we
will be glad to recommend him to the
Ananias club forthwith.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
TRAINS HER SERVANT GIRLS
TO MARRY HER. NINE SONS
Their Probation Period is Five YearsThree Already
Wedded-Father Takes Sons in Business and
They Visit Parents Every Night

ST. Louis, Jan 30.-Mrs. Louis j..
Tichacek, wife og wealthy marble
manufacturer and former Missouri
state representative, trains servant
girls in her home to be wives of her
sons. She has made three of these
matches and they have been so sue
cessful that she has plans for keep
ing her personally conducted matrimo-
NAL system in operation until all OF
her nine sons have taken servants of
the family as wives.
The father of this interesting family
of nine sons and daughter also has
a system. AS each son reaches the age
of IS he is given an interest in the
fathers business and becomes an ac-
tive partner in it. Tichachek has just
taken his eighth son, Harry, into the
firm.
Their mother finds their wives ami
put them in business and everybody
is happy" says Tichacek.
Mrs. Tichacek has rule which thus
far has never failed her This as the
way she states it:
IF girl is good enough to work IN
my household for five years she is COOL
enough to marry one of my sons"
Always Has One in Training.
When a girl has successfully passed
through the five years probation ami
has shown that she is proficient as i
cook and as a housekeeper according
t; the standard set by this mother of
ten, Mrs Tichacek does not hesitate D
recommend her to the oldest son still
single as a qualified and desirable help
meet.
With wise executive foresight, Mrs
Tichacek preserves the line of success
sion by always having one or more
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
Two WIVES; one HUSBAND
TRAGEDY and ACQUITTAL
Woman Who Killed Rival is
Set Free

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 80. - IT
Cookeville, Teun., today, Mrs Myrtle
Barnes, 35 years old, was acquitted
of the charge of numbering Mrs. Della
Judd wife of the proprietor of ho-
tel at Double Springs.
The tragedy, a highly sensational
one, occurred May 81 last. At But
falo Valley, her home, Mrs. Barnes
boarded a Tennessee Central passen-
ger train, walked to the rear platform
and emptied pistol into Mrs. Judd S
body, death being instantaneous.
Mrs. Barnes defense was that al
legged intimacy between her husband
J. c. Barnes, and Mrs Judd, had prey
ed upon her mind and made her ire
sponsible. Barnes is one of the
wealthiest men in Putnam county
and owns drink stand here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
FINANCIERS GO TO PRISON
JUST AS COMMON FOLK
Riches Cut No Figure in
Furnishing Guilty

New York, Jan 3OAEvery ten
days since New Year bank president
has been sent to Jail from Brooklyn
by Supreme Court Justice Crane.
The third man he has sentenced this
year is William C. Damron, former
president of the Home Bank, who to-
day was given term of one year in
the penitentiary. His bank closed its
doors in January, 1908, and Damrol
was recently found guilty of misap-
plying $500 of it's funds.
The two other bank presidents SEN
fenced are David A. Sullivan, presl-
dent of the Mechanics and Traders
Bank, convicted of the larceny Of
$4,000 and Broc R. Shears, president
of the Burough Bank, found guilty OF
Incorporating $4,000.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
BRENAU STUDENTS BAR
MEATS FOR BREAKFAST
Action Voluntary on Part of The Girl
Students.

Atlanta, Jan. Boy a voluntary
agreement of the student body, the
girls at Brenau college have cut out
all meat for breakfast, and are thriv-
ing on the changed regimen.
No, the girls have not gone wild on
any new vegetarian theories, nor is the
meat supply short at Gainesville. You
couldn't guess in thousand years why
they made the vow to go without any
meat at breakfast time for IS whole
weeks. No, it isn't to acquire slim,
willowy figures and look like the al
tenuated Partisan fashion plates,
either 1t is for a much nobler and
more laudible object.
The young ladies were anxious 70
do something for their alma mater
something patriotic and useful They
happened to find out that the mea:
served them at breakfast cost on an
average of $50 per day, and being in
formed by reading that they coulI
keep just as strong and healthy with
out meat for breakfast as with IT,
they decided to ask the facultys per-
mission to cut down the expense and
donate the money thus saved, some
5000 in all, to Brenau's gymnasium
fund. Brenau already has a magnif.
cent gymnasium. but the institution IS
growing rapidly and the time is ap
preaching when additional gymnasium
, facilities will be useful
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
HOBO CONVENTION
FORMALLY OPENED
New Orleans Mayor Says
Must Keep Order

New Orleans, Jan. 30-The conven-
ton of the International Brotherhood
Welfare association, otherwise "the
National Hobo convention" was for
mally opened in this city this after
noon, President Jeff Davis presiding.
Mayor Behrman was unable to attend,
but sent a letter in which he stated
that so long as law and order pre-
vailed the delegates need not fear
police interference
Visitors were informed that anyone
who wished to address the convention
was at liberty to do so, and upon this
announcement Ike McBryde, a social
iat, and number of labor leaders Of
this city usurped the floor for the rest
Of the afternoon session, practically
all of the addresses being devoted 70
q denunciation of capitalists.
A near sensation was caused during
the meeting by the entrance of Jesus
Wesley, who belongs to the Brother
hood of Christ, and stated that he
came from heaven. Wesley was cloth
ed in loose white garments and his
blonde hair fell in long locks about
his shoulders. The hoboes were Sd
overwhelmed by the appearance of the
man that they allowed him to talk 70.
few minutes. Wesley made an APP
peal to all hobos to join his brother
hood.
President Davis and H. H Wood
ward, national organizer, gave out a
statement in which they denounced the
alleged attempt of James Eads Howe
the st. Louis millionaire hobo leader
ito conduct the affairs of the associa-
ton in manner that would place the
organization before the public as one
upholding socialism and opposed to the
/ Catholic religion"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
A MEMORIAL FOR SIDNEY LANIER

Like Nathaniel Haw ,horne, to whom
a memorial is to be erected in his
native city of Salem, tardily but de-
seryedly, Sidney Lanier is yet to re-
ceiye at the hands of the people OF
Macon and the state of Georgia the
recognition which his genius merits,
Just as the people of Salem, Mas
sachusetts, have decided to erect i
memorial to Hawthorne, so the people
of Macon have likewise decided %
construct, with the aid of the people
of Georgia and others who will con.
tribute, memorial to Sidney Lanier,
who is in many ways the greatest and
most representative poet of the
South.
Edgar Allen Poe, always pointed 70
by the majority of critics as the
greatest poet of the South, was a rare
exotic; Lanier was indigenous, hav-
ing drawn sustenance from the soil
where he grew and having enshrined
in forms of beauty the ideals of the
people of the South. Poe might have
fourished under almost any sky; La
nier was a creature of Southern life
and influence
Especially is it incumbent upon the
people of Georgia to do their full duty
in erecting a memorial to the poet
who has added such lustre to the roll
of those men of letters to whom this
state has given birth. In this partic-
ular the efforts of the Sidney LanieI
Memorial Committee of the Macon
History Club are commendable.
I@lSC IlNlC III lIllS lDoliS VI L liz
Times-Recorder will be found com
munication from this committee, ex,
planning the purposes of the commit
tee in its work to commemorate tn,
name of Sidney Lanier 1t is a caus,
which should enlist the support D
every man and woman who believe,
that sweetness and light are two o.
the greatest things of life 1t wa.
for these things that Lanier stood |
is for the sake of the man and hi;
lofty ideals that his name should bc
cherished
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
]. TYLER Conner A SUICIDE;
HANGS SELF In ATLANTA
Athens Travelling Man Takes
His Own Life

Atlanta, Ga, Jan 30-Successfr,l
in his second attempt to end his life,
j. Tyler Conner, of Athens, who tray
eled out of Atlanta for the Oglesby
Grocery Company, was found dead at
the end of a rope in the basement OF
81 Washington street, this morning
His wife, although in the same house
has not been notified of the suicide
and 4-year-old child played cheerful
ly about the corner apartment, all un-
conscious of the tragedy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
ONLY one MORE MONTH
OF GAME SEASON LEFT
New Game Law Has Been
Observed

With the passing of January today
Americas sportsmen have just one
month longer in which to shoot part
ridges and doves, as the game law pro,
tecting these birds again becomes eff
.fective after February 2Sth. The cur
rent open season has been the best
IL many years, as birds have been
more plentiful and the shooting all
that could be desired by the most ex-
acting sportsman.
County Game Warden McMath stated
yesterday that the game laws had been
very well observed in Sumter. There
have been only two or three prosecu.
tons for the shooting of game out Of
season, and now that the law is bet
ter understood, sportsmen will observe
l. more rigidlys The abundance OF
protected game birds this season evi
dences the value of the state laws pro
tecting them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31

! household servants in training when
the senior in rank is approaching the
end of the allotted five-year period.
Friends of the family are comment
ing with interest on the fact that three
OF the sons who have reached legal age
- George, twenty-seven; Edward
twenty-four, and Charles, twenty-five
are still bachelors, and that coinci-
dentally young woman regarded by
all of Mrs. Tichaceks acquaintance
as paragon of servants has been with
the family about five years.
The sons who have followed their
mothers advice in selecting servants
in the house for wives, and who have
not regretted it, are Louis, thirty
three; August, thirty-one, and Frank,
twenty-nine Louis has two sons Au-
gust has four daughters and Frank has
a son and a daughter.
The three married sons have homes
adjoining the paternal residence.
Family Gathers Nightly.
Our daughters-in-law are as dear %
us as our sons" said Tiehacek. Every
night they come to our home with their
families and we have a party. We
make our home so attractive that our
sons never go elsewhere to find amuse-
ment
81 have never had cause to regret
taking my sons into my business as
partners. Day and night we are a
happy family.
Tichacek has been in the granting
and marbling business in St. Louis
for many years. He was a member Of
the state legislature in 1903 and is
for the democratic nomina-
ton for city register at the coming
spring election.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
NOTHING IN STORY
DECLARES BRYAN
In Regard to Selection For
Cabinet

Miami, Fla, Jan. 80 - Declaring
that Henry E. Alexander, of Trenton,
N. j., did not call on him on political
business, VIM. J. Bryan today replied
to the reports sent out from Miami
to the effect that Mr.. Bryan had given
assurances that he would accept the
portfolio of secretary of state in the
Wilson cabinet Mr. Bryan dictated the
following:
No attention whatever should be
paid to such reports as sent fro II
Miami last night. No friend would
presume to speak for me in such a
matter, and no man who would as.
sumo to speak for me can be consider
ed a friend.
4 take it for granted that President
elect Wilson will give out anything h.
wants published, and l will give out
anything | want published Neither
of US should be held responsible fo-
what anybody says Speaking for my
self, | do not care to discuss unauthor-
lied reports. Mr.. Alexander did not
call upon political business, and GU,
conversation was about an entirely dill
ferent matter"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
WATCH FOR THE GROUNDHOG
WHICH COMES ON SUNDAY
viii II BE Springs or Will Winter COu-
tinue!

viii 1t BE Springs or Will Winter COu.
tinue!
Snday is Ground Hog Day" AL
though no ground hogs are known to
have been seen in this section on that
day, the old sign that the ground hog 5
appearance has great deal to do
with the weather for the ensuing days
is strongly believed by some people
The old saying goes that the ground
hog comes out of his winter home on
this day If the sun is shining and
he sees his shadow he goes back,
which means unsettled weather for an
other six weeks. If, however, there
is no shadow, it is a sure sign that
spring is here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-31
GOTTEN hiARKET IN
AMERICUS YESTERDAY
Business at the Various Ware
houses

While the cotton futures market SUI
tanned a loss of from 5 to points
in the active months yesterday, spot
cotton was not affected thereby to any
extent, and good middling commanded
~ 3-16 to - IA cents in the local
market. The March option closed ii
1884, aud May at 1921.
There was very little cotton sold in
the local market. Quotations were as
follows:
Good Niddlings 12 IA
Middlings .....-....11 3-Sc to IL IL