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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
HOW TO SWAT THE FLY.

The fly is a nuisance beside being a
carrier of infectious diseases, and the
attempt to exterminate it needs no
justification. How one can make ones
home, town or city flyless is described
by c. F. Hodge, of Clark university
Worcester, Mass He says that the
American public spends $10.o00,000 a
year for window and door screens in
q futile attempt to exclude lively in
sect which insists on getting into the
house every time the doors are
opened. He believes also that the
method of swatting the flies. using fly
paper or indoor traps or poisons is in
effective, but may help. His method is
to make use in various ways of the
conical wire-mesh fly-trap, which is
familiar to almost every one, in such a
way as to turn the tables on the flies
and put them in Jail and let ourselves
out" The plan involves. of course, the
abolition as far as possible of all breed
ing and feetiing-places for flies and the
application of the fly-trap mentioned
above to the garbage-can, to the
screens on windows, to the covers on
manure-bins etc, all of which can be
done by a little mechanical ingenuity.
Garbage-cans are on the market which
have a cover larger than the can and
not fitting down closely on it so that
the flies gain access to the can under
the cover and a fly-trap. In fighting
the fly, Hodge has found that the es-
sentials of a successful campaign are to
transfer the fight against the fly from
the house to outdoors, and then to ex-
terminate it. Another essential feature
in a town or city is that households
must cooperate. One ignorant or
careless home can breed flies enough to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
PLACE TO PARKMAN.
EmpOria Editor Gets a Twenty-Five
Hundred Dollar Place.

Immediately after the state fire mar
shall law, published yesterday in the
State Journal. the appointment of TIar
rison Parkman editor of the Emporia
Times, was sent to the senate, and has
been confirmed. The term of appoint
ment is for four years.
Parkman is secretary of the Demo-
cratic state central committee, and has
for several years been chairman of the
Fourth district congressional commit
tee. His appointment to the office new
ly created meets with general approval.
Parkman will go to Illinois in a few
days to spend some time studying the
work of the state fire marshal there,
the Kansas law being similar to law
that has proved effective in Illinois.
He will return to open his office and
plunge into his new duties. Already
more than a score of requests for in
vestigations have been made to Park
man. and the chances seem to be good
that he will have all the work he can
handle for the next few months at
least.
The appointment of n deputy marshal
has not yet been announced, but prob
ably will be Representative Charles
Miller of Ottawa county. The mar
shaPs salary, as fixed by the law, is
81, 500 a year, heretofore enormously re-
ported to be $1,000 year. His deputy
will draw $500. The appointment and
salaries of office help and field depu-
ties is left to the fire marshal, and
these offices may not be filed until
Parkman returns from Illinois with
better idea of how many he will need
for his work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Link Preston: Don't tell me how
smart / am; tell it to Others
If you have your own way too much
you will pull off many boneheads
1t is cooked the same, but the hun
CRY boy has become an indifferent
man.
What ails you may not be as bad as
the Latin name the medico applies
to it.
A babys first tooth doesn't attract
much attention unless it is also the
first baby.
Any man named James must be
called Jim if he expects to have many
friends in this world.
Another fine institution would be
flavor for chewing gum as lasting as
the odor of mothballs.
If you are jealous of the other fell
lows success the chances are you are
little man in comparison.
A baseball player has the fine ad-
vantage of going South and meeting
spring as 1T swings this way.
While an automobile isn't apt to
run away. it is. unlike family horse,
apt to run too fast without that
Real devils don't wear those visible
trademarks one sees on the cans of
potted ham, and are harder to distin-
guish.
He may some time accept a posi-
tiOu' DuL lie W LII never get d JOD, a
brakeman said of candy kid this
morning.
When an only child gets in trouble
at school, as an only child is apt to-
its parents figure the teacher is guilty
of base partially.
Regardless of the progress in labor
saving machinery, it is possible you
work as hard as your father did; it
is possible, we said.
If old Diogenes ever found the hon
est man he was looking for, he prob
ably was of that rare variety who pay
their gam bling debts.
Occasionally a proud man says he
buys a diamond as an investment; he
should arrange to give it to an heiress
and prove his statement.
Here is our observation, given for
what it is worth, which is nothing in
particular: The larger the city the
larger it's proportion of fat folks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
EFrom the Chicago News.

CFrom the Chicago News.l
The successful man is honored and
envied.
Push may get man in, but he isn't
always welcome.
When poverty comes in at the door
it never stops to wipe its feet.
1t takes a matrimonial storm to
curdle the milk of human kindness.
However, the man who knows just
how to manage a woman never tried
H.
Competition may be the life of
trade, but it's tough on the jealous
lover.
Some girls are so eager to thump
a piano they can't even wait to wash
the dishes
There's one thing that may be said
in favor of a lazy man. He never
meets trouble half way.
It's a wonderful thing to be man
whom everybody will trust-including
the grocer and the butcher.
When a married man is in doubt
about anything he can always prove
that he isn't by arguing the matter
with his wife.
When we hear a man Boosting
about how awfully smart his wife is
we wonder if she was temporarily in
sane when she faced the parson with
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

Dorry.'
These are the names, George. anu
here few months after marriage, you
are calling her coffee Stops and hel
toast 'hen-feed.' How do you men rea-
son things out. anyhow
George didn't exactly know, and there
fore didn't say.
and here you are. playing the role Of
a martyr and an injured man, and max
ing out to yourself that all the blame
lies elsewhere"
George turned his back on her.
Poor little boyi His coffee didn
please his delicate little palater
George hitched to the right.
And his toast didn't set right on ms
little -tummick!' -
George hitched to the left.
And we'll have to make him some cat
nip tea"
To his surprise an arm went around his
neck and he got kiss on the chsek-
t'Dor-Dorothy!' he stammered as ne
wheeled about. Dorothy, am a chump!
And am a chumpess, dear!
.'And I kicked!'
'tAnd I can't cook-not yet.
And a week later the mother-in-law was
saying to her husband
''Of course, George has made a Won
derful change in himself. -(CopyTig CT,
1913 by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
INVESTIGATOR, CRUMB1NE.
with Apologies to Kipling's Danny
naouors

with Apologies to Kpling's Danny
Deever.")
what are the blow-flies buzzin' for ?''
said Files on Parade.
Tney think they're turnin' Crumbine
out" the Color Sergeant said.
w nat makes 'em seem to bloat and
gloat?" said Files on Parade.
They think they've got lis bloomin'
goat" the Color Sergeant said
Ineyre investigatin' Crumbine, you
can hear the Dead March play;
The Committee in the State House il
investigates today,
They want to take his glasses off an
tear his eyes away
They're investigatin' Crumbine in the
mornin,''
What makes that Beer-tank breathe
SO ard ?" said Files on Parade.
ELS gittin' next to Doc. old pard.'
the Color Sergeant said.
What makes that dope-fiend man
fall down ?''said Files on Parade
HIS joys gone to his WOODY CROWN
the Color Sergeant said.
iheyre investigator Crumbine. turn
in of i'm inside out;
They're bound to know his infamy
an just what he's about;
ana ope they catch it proper when
they hear the people shout.
Ineyre 1nvestfgatin' Crumbine in the
mornin'.
What makes that old tin dipper
play?" said Files on Parade.
1t goes to work agin today" the
Color Sergeant said,
what makes those oyster dealers
sigh ?" said Files on Parade
Inc oyster trades been very dry"
the Color Sergeant said.
They're investigator Crumbine as they
feel in duty bound,
They want to take his works apart
and see the wheels go round,
The mourners are invited and the cof-
fins on the ground
They're investigatin' Crum bine in the
mornip'.
I'D always card that e was straight"
said Files on Parade.
q wouldn't let 'em underweight,"
the Color Sergeant said
didn't want to let me spit" said
Files on Parade.
An now he'll git the wust of it." the
Color Sergeant said.
They're investigator Crumbine, YOU
must mark i'm to his place;
They're familiar with canning an
they want to "can" his face;
Let's 'ope they won't do nothin' that'll
bring the State disgrace,
investigator Crum bine in the morn
In. A. WESTFRNER
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
WILSON AND WALL STREET.

.rUo sha,, restore and not destroy"
prasidant Wilson in his inaugural
address. and Wall street appears u
ba,o taken him at his word since a
marked advance in the prices VI
securities followed the change OF
administration.
Henry Clews in his Financial Re-
view calls the presidents address one
~ the most inspiring messages ever
delivered by a chief magistrate OF the
United States
Commenting further he says:
Mr. Wilson. of course, merely stated
, his personal aims as president ne
did not expect to carry them 10 com
nletion: nor did he undertake to ten
MS how that might be done. Iheir
fulfilluent will depend CHERRY upon
congress, which is supposed to make
laws for the public welfare sano III
obedience to public opinion; hence ms
ringing call upon ''all honest men. all
patriotic, all forward-looking men TO
counsel and support him throughout
his administration. Mr.. Wilson has
offered with few excepuons spieh-
did program, conceived in an admir-
abIe shirt of temperatures, liberation
and Justice His message was a wei
come SUNRISE to business men, who
hogan to believe that prosecution for
evils they could not help had degen-
Grated into persecution for evils they
couId not even create. To all reason
ing and fair minded people the mes
co ea was a reminder that the new era
into which we have already entered
ought to be an era of industrial peace
and Justice. OF course there was
much that is purely idealistic in the
message, but that was appropriate to
the occasion, and we must not expect
too much at once from the new ad-
ministration, because as yet 1T is lack
ing in political and executive expert
ence. Mr.. Wilson has many very nos
tile elements against which to contend
in his own party; also a strong
radical element which aims to upset
and tear down rather than readjust or
restore: although, as he himself init
mates, our economic system must be
dealt with t'step by step" 1t is assur-
ing. therefore, to know that we have
at the nations head a man of lofty
purpose and strong will; quite .capa-
BILE of taking advice and using discre-
ton in the development of progressive
ideas.
The stock market was agreeably
surprised by the inaugural address,
which created a decidedly better senti-
ment regarding values generally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
PAYING A PROFIT.

A recent report by the American
consul at Belfast, Ireland, gives some
interesting facts regarding the opera
ton of municipal street railways in
that country.
In the year ended March 81, 1912,
the most recent period for which fig
ures are available, the financial re-
turns of the railways established a
record. The total number of passen-
gers carried during the year was 54,-
546,S56, the car-miles run were s.
671,776. and the revenue s1,182,SSO,
compared with s1.O61,043 in 1910-11-
The working expenses (including pow
er) totaled $629,44S, or So per cent
of the gross revenue. representing
about II cents per car-mile run.
1t is pointed out that no municipal
railway in the United Kingdom in
center with a population of 100000
and over was worked at lower rate
than this. The working prof1ts
amounted to $553,44S, and the net re-
suit for the year, after deductlns
working expenses. fixed charges ana
sinking fund, was $17s.433, or an in
crease of s32,537 that of the pre-
ceding year
During 1912 nearly all the extern
sions authorized by the act OF parma
mont obtained in 1911 were con-
structed. The extensions will, In sew
eral instances, provide alternative
routes for the running of the cars anu
the strain on the permanent way
therefore. will not be so severe on ex-
listing lines as it had previously peeh'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

Salina expects work to begin on ner
union depot about April L.
Up in ottawa county the roads have
been so bad that the children coulo
not go to school
Junction City has Jack the Pee
per-" The officers claim to have
good description of him.
A sixteen-year-old girl pupil in the
Kensington school has sued the as
sistant principal for $4,000 damages
on a charge of SANDER.
The Altoona Tribune would like to
know why officeholders while serving
their second terms are not so friendly
as when serving the first term.
Considering what a little of it there
is in Kansas, says the HoIton Sgnal, a
good deal of time is spent by every
legislature fooling with the game laws.
The Kansas Republican came out
last Thursday wit ha 80 page edition,
devoted mainly to boosting Newton
and it's business interests. The amount
of advertising carried indicates an
appreciation of it's work on the part
of the merchants.
William Campbell, a farmer near
Bronson, charges the crows with being
responsible for the cholera epidemic,
which has taken off hundreds of hogs
in Bourbon county this winter. Crows,
being scavengers, he says carry the
germs on their beaks and feet.
Francis Goble, who set out and
cared for the $50 acre Morrill, apple
orchard in Leavenworth county, on a
fifteen year contract, getting half the
apples raised and all the crops he
could grow between the trees before
the orchard came into bearing, made
a fortune and he and his wife are soon
to take a trip to Europe.-Atchison
Globe.
Optimistic note from the Abilene
Reflector: II ickinson county does. not
wish to appear unduly boastful but it
calls attention to the fact that it
has added several hundred silos to
it's farm equipment and that it's farm
ers are notably prosperous. Nowhere
in Kansas is there a better condition
among the people as a whole than
right here in Dickinson"
The fact that Hutchinson has been
designated by the legislature as the
place for holding the state fair in the
future, does not seem to throw any
cold water on the Topeka fair PROPOSE
ton They are preparing with their
usual enterprise to hold another of
their big expositions this fall and of
course will get a big attendance from
this section of the state. They have
ideal grounds for a big fair, and in
justice to this part of the state should
have been recognized as the proper
place for holding the state fair
Smith County Pioneer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
MRS. HYDE ON STAND,

Kansas City. Mo-, March 11.-Mrs
B. Clarke Hyde, wife of DIR. Hyde and
principal witness for the defense in
the Hyde murder trial, was placed on
the stand just before the close of the
morning session. Beyond statement
that in her opinion DIR. Hyde knew
nothing concerning the contents of
Colonel Swope's will, her early tes-
timony was perfunctory.
Mrs. Hyde was smiling and self
possessed. She told of going to the
Swope home in the fall of 1909, with
her husband, when he was called
there to see Moss Hunton. She said
Hunton died within a half hour after
their arrival
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

Z When Shawnee county decided upon
one of Topeka'S most influential citi-
zens and lawyers for the thankless
job of senator, no mistake was made
resent the county and city, which
have, since days of old, fought for the
payment of just debts and the reeog-s
niuon due a capital city. 1t has not
been SO long ago that a representative
of one of the prairie dog counties in
bill to pay for the paving around
state house square with an explana-
ton which was in substance this:
This town wants to make improve
ments and raise property values with
OUR money. 1 vote Mol" 1t would
have been useless to take that short
eraser out and show him one business
block in sight of the state house that
paid more taxes into the state treas
ury than did his entire grasshopper-
infested county; that would not have
m1tigated the fact that it was "OUR
money" No representative of Shaw
nee county, who was not a political
fixer, could overcome a condition like
that, but both representatives and
senator from this burg have done all
that they could do-honestly.
1t is not the first legislative expert
ence for James A. Troutman. And
while he has not won all the games
checked up to him by mis- constituents,
he has won something that will be of
value next sesSion-the recognition
and respect of the majority. A clean,
forceful speaker, quick thinker and of
such breadth between the eyes that
he does not permit petit annoyance
to throw him off balance, it has been
impossible for the senate to overlook
him. He is respected and consulted
Democratic side, as well as those of
his own political division.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

1t is more than evident at this time,
to persons who make a business of
observing legislatures, and have OBJ
served them closely for a dozen years
or more, that Shawnee county made
a business mistake when it elected to
the Kansas senate, about the ablest,
squarest man to be found for the
position. One dozen men in this town
not politicians, but observers of
politics, could have picked a legisla-
tive representation that would get:
full payment, including interest, of the
paving bill owed to this city by this
ge-lorious state of Kansas, of which
orators are wont to rant; the Kansas
seal on the only real fair grounds in
the state-the Topeka fair grounds; a
rull appropriation for the completion
OF the Memorial building, so that it
would not have to be finished in paw
ing brick and other cheap materials,
and a bunch of other concessions the
capital city is entitled to. But the
fact that the voters picked the biggest
men and by chance picked them from
the Republican party during a Demo-
cratic administration, should never be
construed as reflection on the men
so chosen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

the greatest political figure in his party
as was the Plumed knight in his day.
but like the man from Maine he seems
doomed not to be president Going
back farther into history there is
Henry Clay, the great leader. who
could not reach the White House. De-
feat appears to attend on statesmen
of positive and well known convictions.
The country appears to prefer men
who deal in generalities when they
toll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

vitiate the best endeavors of whole
town. Hodge has succeeded in his
neighborhood in practically eliminat-
ing flies; he uses no screens in windows
and doors, and can sit out doors or
have windows or doors open at any time
without molestation. AS flies begin to
breed early in the spring and as they
breed with marvellous rapidity, the
time to arrange for fly-campaign is
in the winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

Probably the first knock on the new
administration should be credited to
the Philadelphia Bulletin which says:
1.-The selection as secretary of the
treasury of a New York financier with
intimate associations with a leading
banking house that appears on the PuJo
chart as one of the direct affiliations of
the house of Morgan and the Money
Trust is one of the most interesting
instances of the truth that politics
makes strange bedfellows"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
Mary sasso Wants $1,000 Damages.

For injuries alleged to have been re-
ceived when she was struck by an au-
tomobile driven by Albin Carlson Mary
Sasso this morning filed suit i'm the
district court for damages in the sum
of $1,000. The accident is said to have
occurred at the corner of North KAN
sas avenue and Laurent street in
North Topeka on September g. last.
The plaintiff said she was walking
across the street when, without warm
ing, she was struck by the automobile
which was travelling at a reckless and
dangerous rate of speed. She says she
was dragged across the street her head
was struck against the curb, and she
suffered various bruises that have
caused her great pain and permanent
injury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
An Ice1ess Refrigerator Company.

A meeting will be held in the rooms
of the Commercial club Thursday night
for the purpose of taking initial steps
in the direction of organizing a conn
tors.
For two or three weeks two refrigera-
tors of the new type have been on ex-
hibit in the main room of the Com
merciaI club quarters They have at
tracted much attention. James F. Nc
Afee has been explaining their merits.
The refrigerators are cooled through
the evaporation of water, and the
warmer the atmosphere the better they
are said to work. Mr.. McAfee has pro-
cured the right to manufacture the
boxes from a California concern.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

Vermont will no longer be pointed
to as a barometer of political cent?
ment on presidential election years.
Hereafter she will hold her state cleo
tions not in September but in Novem-
Der like nearly all the other states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

1t is estimated that the I4aFollette
bill for the physical valuation of rail-
roads. will cost the government IS, O00,-
600 or S6.O00.O00 and the railroads about
the same amount. and that the work
to be done is so vast that it will re-
Quire several years. Railroad batting
comes high but we must have it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member OF .he
Associated Press and receives the tui Gay
telegraph report of that great news OF
gRnization for the exclusive arterno""
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The state jour
nal brildin<g over wires for this sole pur
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

Mexicans have been shooting at
Uncle Sans soldiers along the Dor
der. If Mexico really wants to start
something with this country she
might Try blowing up one of the war
ships in Vera Cruz harbor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

The time may yet come when the
members of the cabinet will be elected
with the president an, the government
of the United States viii! be conducted
much like that of up-to-date cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11

After going to Washington and look
ing over the situation the Kansas man
with hair AZ inches long decided not
to have it cut. Probably he concluded
TO wait for BRYAN.