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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19

courts of justice, the chiefs of the
tribes were de facto the court of last
resort, and to them was delegated the
duty of serving as both judge and jury
said A w. Stubs, while in a reminis-
cent mood the other day.
During the years mentioned young
Indian by the name of White Crow
killed another member of the tribe by
the name of Sin-su-wat. White Crow
was arrested, a council of chiefs pre-
sided over by Tauromee, the head
chief, was called, and without any of
the civilized court technicalit1eS or
delays the young man was found gull
ty of murder, and the decree of the
court was that at the end of period
of so days he should be shot. The so
days interim was allowed in order
that the young man might have time
to arrange his worldly affairs and pre-
pare for death, and he was not placed
in jail nor even under guard, but SIM
ply told when 20 appear to meet his
fate.
The place selected for the execution
was on Jersey Creek, near where the
ruins of the old mill stand in Kansas
City, Kan. Six members of the tribe
were chosen as executioners, in three
of whose hands were placed fully
loaded rifles, and three with powder
only: At the appointed time, in the
presence of a large concourse of his
people, young White Crow walked
boldly out in front of the armed posse
and stoically met his death.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHISON GLOBE

Temptation also travels over tele-
phone wires.
Saying you are as good as anybody
lis no evidence in that direction.
There isn't nearly as much going on
at night as a dog finds to bark at.
Predictions, unless one is betting on
them, are largely based on prejudices.
A man likes to tell what a good cook
he is much better than he likes to cook.
A boy never does much of a job of
washing until he feels that some girl
demands it.
A man doesn't do his best as often
as he says he does; not even as often
as he thinks he does.
1t is feared a late frost will kill the
early fish worms. There is always
something to worry about.
When a woman is terribly shocked
she screams: We'll, what do people say
about such goings on anyhow"
: Speaking of the right man in the
right place, there is the crouch who is
sentenced to solitary confinement.
This is also the time Of year when
we can't bear the Wise Guy who
ruffles up his hair and says You Never
Can Tell"
Link Preston to his son, who is going
to work: IF you can't find anything
to do don't bother other employees who
are busy
All those who have an interest in the
country's welfare are now reading gar
den seed literature. which is almost as
interesting as a Peruna ad.
After a woman has reached her
tl1irty-fifth birthday she stops worrying
about meeting her fate" and shows
signs of anxiety about her acquiring a
bank account.
Sent in: THE life of a man is di-
vided into two parts. Until he is %
years old he aspires to be a league
player, and the balance of his life he
wishes he had never married" Now
what do you think of that?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19

eyes" she told herself with a smile
for her secret lover.
! 1t was a day of all days for Henry
Truesdell when he heard a soft tinkle
| at his doorbell and went to answer it.
He drew back suddenly and caught
swift, unbelieving breath.
She, the girl of the window sill.
stood there. and she leaned slightly
Her words were hasty, and tripped
one over the other
Il am Mabel McCarty," she said.
land have been commissioned to
The Outcome I thought perhaps,
perhaps" she faltered slightly, then
went bravely on-''that you would be
kind enough to come up to my studio
ana talk to me just a little about
models. I want the author to like my
illustrations" She finished with an
involuntarily appealing glance.
Iruesdell had the sudden feeling
and that all the joys of future were
being rolled into one glorious mo-
mept. He stood-aimost afraid to
break the enchanting sensation.
1t is my first big order" the girl
Were you not rather venturesome
to come all the way downstairs?'
was what Truesdell said. He was not
quite conscious of his words.
Mabel laughed quickly ct was so
excited over the order" she told him.
that Just had to come" After
second she gave him a shy glance. ct
did not know that you were aware of
my living upstairs
Truesdell only muttered one brief,
tender word.
Fraud" he said, and MabePs
whimsical smile curved her lips.
You have been very good to this
particular fraud" she said, and led the
way upstairs. your songbirds are
wonderfully lovely
They had a wonderful listener"
Truesdell' explained, and drew a long
breath, for the roses had bloomed in
Mabers cheeks.-(Copyrig 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Poverty-The soap that protects us
against filthy lucre.
Many a girl accepts a fellow to keep
some other girl guessing.
The truth is mighty. but some men
would hate to have it told about them.
The chronic bore ought to take a day
off and get acquainted with himself.
Wfgg-"Does Borrowed ever pay up?"
Wagg--"Not till you run him down.
Strangely enough, it's when we take
a mans word that We expect him to
keep it.
When a fellow tells a girl he isn't
worthy of her she should take him at
his word, and not look for proof.
BIobbs-"A good many easy things
have been done in the name of char
ity." Slobbs-"And a good many easy,
people
It's the easiest thing in the world to
think up a lot of reasons why other
people ought to be satisfied with what
they have.
1.-The Bible tells us to let our light
shine before men, remarked the Wise
Guy Yes, but We don't have to make
a fireworks display of it, added the
Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
CUP RACES IN DOUBT.

Many Americans will condemn the
action of the New York Yacht club in
rejecting Sir Thomas Lipton's chal-
lenge for a series of races for the
Americas cup, next year. The only
reason given by the officers of the club
is the fact that the Irish baronet en-
deavored to limit the size of the yachts
competing to not more than seventy
five feet length, on the water line.
which would mean probably ITO or lis
feet on deck. The yacht club insists
upon freedom to use a defender of any
length not less than. sixty-five feet or
more than ninety feet on the water
line
To lovers of international sport of
the highest class this break in the
negotiations for a series of cup races
will be a great disappointment, and the
country will find the explanation given
very unsatisfactory. It does not matter
what the reason for the action of the
New York Yacht club may be. as far as
public sentiment is concerned.
The general feeling will be that after
the long series of victories for Amer
lean yachts, always with the advantage
of racing in home waters and freed
from the necessity of crossing the At
lantic under sail, it would have been
only reasonable and right to let Sir
Thomas Upton have his way about
cutting down the possible size of the
yachts to be used in the next contest
for the yachting championship of the
world.
In this case the club which holds the
most famous trophy ever raced for by
pleasure craft of any kind appears to
be narrow and unduly inclined to in
sist upon every possible advantage of
position and opportunity. The New
York Yacht club should reverse its de-
cision and clear the way fof a series of
cup races next year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
SAYS UNCLE CIV

From the slfngs and arrows of So
| licitous relatives, kind Fate deliver
us! Most men and women are to1er-
! ably satisfactory in every other rela-
| ton in life except those that involve
blood ties. The person who is attach
ed to you through the accident OF
birth is seldom attached to you in
any other way if the relationship be
farther removed than that of brother
and sister. We sometimes learn the
good points of brothers and sisters,
and learn to love them for other
things than common blood, but the
general run of aunts, uncles and
! cousins get outside the pale if one is
close enough to them to get right well
acquainted.
That's a sad state of affairs. but a
canvass of American families would
show that eight in ten are in just
about that condition. The reason
seems to be that your relative seldom
thinks it worth while to mention your
good qualities, but is frequently i'm
pressed with the necessity of recount
ing your bad ones for the good Of your
soul.
Said old Missus Houser to old Doc
Houser when the latter sneaked off
without her to attend a dance given by
the Puckyhuddle Checkers, Pinochle
and Dance club:
"You ought to repent in sackcloth
and ashes"
Said Doc: There's none handy,
but if you'll send in Cousin Maria, I'll
find her conversation good substi-
tute.''
There was nothing in particular the
matter with Cousin Maria except that
she resembled old Doc in being most
thoroughly and enthusiastically hui
man. After the incident just related,
old Doc used to call her Sackcloth and
Ashes, although everybody who WASH t
related to her was inclined to believe
that Miss Sunshine was a better
sobriquet-
Yes, Doc and Cousin Maria were ex-
exceedingly human-human enough to
be types. Both were a constant source
of cheer to their friends, but put 'em
together in a room for five minutes
and they'd spend four minutes and a
half telling each other just where each
fell short of perfection and was in
danger of hell fire. They were re-
lated-that explained it all.
We are somewhat too solicitous
concerning our relatives. To us, they
never grow, never have any sense,
never do anything worth while, are
never able to go to the corner grocery
and back without falling into some
sort of grave error. We give them
credit for neither brains nor virtue in
the proportions that these are pos
SeSSed by others. We would fight for
them, but we are SO bent upon saving
them from their faults that we forget
that they have their good points. Or
if we do recognize their virtues, we
are too busy with the other side of
the scale to notice them.
What the average family needs is a.
homemade boosters club. The break
fast table kangaroo court is an in
Stitution that exists without license or
reason Most of us know enough to
mind our own business outside the
home circle and we should learn to
mind it inside. We grant our neigh
bors a reasonable measure of personal
liberty and 1T would help some if we
wouldn't try to force our relatives to
Fate deliver us from the sings and
arrows of solicitous re1atives.-(Copy
right, 1913. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
EVENING CHAT
Expressing Oneself.
BIZ RUTA CAMERON.


The other day 1 read of a decorator
VINO was extremely proud of a certain
room which he had created He had
CHOSEN and arranged the furniture
and hangingS, and even the woodwork
of the floor and walls he had brought
from Europe especially for that room.
He considered the effect absolutely
perfect, and when he heard that the
woman who owned the house had
bought some more furniture on her
own hook and put it into the room, he
was almost frantic.
You see, he considered that that
room was his work. He felt that he
had created it Just as an artist creates
a picture, or an author a book, and
although he could not actually sign It
as an artist or an author signs his
work, he felt that it was signed by the
1act that many people knew 1t was his
work. Therefore he resented having
1t changed and spoiled even by the le-
gal owner of the house. And at the
risk of antagonizing a valuable Gus
toner, he actually went to her and
begged her to restore it.
was deeply impressed by that little
incident. For this reason. I wish
more women felt toward their homes
as that man felt towards his work, for
they certainly have reason to. A wo-
mans home is her expression of her
self. Her name is signed to it just as
clearly as If she had painted a picutre
and written her initials in the corner
Of it. ~
very clever young art student who
was making a success of her profess
sion, gave up her art to marry. At
first she planned to do some work af-
ter marriage, but before long her
hands were too full of nursing bottles
and thermometers to leave room for
palette. We were discussing her
forSaken profession the other day, and
this is what she had to say: ct mean
to take it up again some day when my
children are older and do not need
me SO much. Just now I am trying to
express myself in making an attrac-
tive home and bringing up my child
rem properly"
And that is just what she is doing
Without great deal of money to
work with, she is gradually transform
derfully attractive and artistic home.
Everyone who enters it says at once
that it looks like her. Without a
great deal of time, she is nevertheless
managing to give her children an ex--
ceptfonaly fine bringing up. She is
painting a picture which she must be
very proud to have signed with her
name.
The physical aspect of her home.
the atm osphere within it, her chill
dren's clothes, their health, their
manners, their ideals, her husbands
happiness-in all these things and
others innumerab1e, a married woman
can express herself.
And since her name is indeIibIy
signed to her work, she had best make
sure that the work is as good as it is
in her to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
BY THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

After 30 years of ''unabated en-
thusiasm,'' the can opener with which
Democrats have always unbuttoned
their campaigns, they got results
Whereupon, the organs of the various
gangs that had taken turns at pulling
down the grapes and giving the Demo-
Gratis nothing but the seeds, began to
view with alarm. They feared that the
Democratic administration might ap-
point few Democrats, thus putting
this ge-lorious state on the Fritz, and,
incidentally, horning a few faithful
pullmooSerS out of what they consid-
cred life job and their constitutional
rights.
1t is the personal guess of this de-
partment that the state will NOT go to
the bow-wows just because the Demo-
Gratis get a few portions of the pastry,
and that the Democrats deserve great
credit for their faithfulness. For years
they followed a forlorn hope until they
chased IT into a fence corner and
nabbed it by the hind leg.
The "come-back'' qualities of the
Democratic party reminds of a member
OF our household; he answers to the
name of THAT Cat,' is about two
thirds grown and the color of a lump
of hard coal. That" is a real Demo-
GRAFT. Not far away is an alley that is
infested with large, 44-calibre cats who
are, evidently, Republicans and bull
mousers. To get to the danger zone,
That" must pass a high board fence.
En- route to the scene of the trouble,
he walks slowly and matestica1ly cas-
ing himself through a hole at the base
of the fence. A minute later he re-
turns,-over the top of the fence, and
about seven inches prior to a large,
Thomas Of he
looks like he had been mistaken for
an ear of corn, and shelled. BUT THE
NEXT DAY HE GOES BACK!
That" is growing. The fence-vault-
ing and road work agrees with him.
Some day, when he is a big cat, he
will return from that alley, wiping
samples of clubhouse cat from his
moustache, and walking in a slow and
d1gnified manner. And when he does
this department will not feel called up
on to kick him in the Stats or other
wise chide him for doing to others as
he has been done by.
It is about time for the COMMITTEE
on things that don't concern us'' to
protest against the new nickel coin, on
the grounds that the buffalo is being
too closely confined
Mr.. Kenper should not be peeved be-
cause dog was named after him. The
ultimate is to have a baby named after
one and its name mispelled in the fam
lily record
Report that suffragettes had planned
to kidnap Lloyd-George is not beyond
reason. Some women will go to any
extremity to get man.
lola has a newspapers bullmoose
organ For a bullmoose paper no bet
ter choice could have been made as to
location. lola Is recognized as the CEN
ter of the Kansas gas belt.
Bert Walker, the Osborne agricultur-
list, is now prepared to raise Demo-
cratic grapes. He has been making
Democratic hay for some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
.sMOTHER, JONES.

Charged with conspiracy to commit
murder, Mother" Jones is reported
to be on trial before a military tribu-
nal in the martial law district of West
Virginia, with execution by shooting
a possibility in the event of convic-
ton She says she would be glad to
die for the cause, particularly as her
execution would call wide attention to
conditions in the coal fields, but fears
she will not be executed.
The West Virginia miners strike is
an old story. It has been the occasion
of countless newspaper stories of vio-
lence, oppression and outrage of
many sorts. Probably the truth is
that men on both sides have lost their
tempers. as men will in conflict, and
committed acts of which they ought to
be ashamed Things have got so that
the public doesn't expect to hear of
nice conduct or humane feeling in
this connection.
But it is devoutly to be hoped
Mother Jones's fear is fully justi-
fed. The thought of lining up fir
ing squad to shoot the aged woman
in due course of some sort of military
justice is abhorrent beyond most of
the West Virginia tales.
Very likely she has talked sedi-
tiously and melted the strikers to &C
ton. That has been her custom for
many years. No doubt the mine OPP
orators and civil or military authori-
ties charged with the protection of
property have found her a thorn in
the flesh. But unless she has done
something very much worse than
haranguing the strikers the visiting
of capital punishment upon her would
be about the worst thing they could
do Of a certainty it would fix ma
tional attention on the state and
probably result in a vigorous cleaning
UP of the laws side of the mine war
fare.
American public opinion is not de-
cidedly in favor of the death penalty
for women. In some instances it has
been almost too successful in saving
murderesses from the consequences
of their crimes. 1t certainly would
not countenance the doing to death
of a woman so years old for no worse
an offense than reckless garrulity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

lFrOm the Chicago NewS.1
A private knocker is a public null
sance.
No man worthy of the name likes to
live on charity.
Soon there'H be nothing left of Tur-
key but the wishbone.
1t takes a smart man to beat a gas
meter or hard boiled egg.
Many a mans charity begins and
ends with his willingness to pass the
hat.
The fool imagines that the world is
laughing with him when it laughs at
him.
The man who takes advantage of the
weakness of others doubts his own
strength.
A spinster never gets so old as to
lose interest in a love letter-no mat
ter whose it is.
If a woman isn't suspicious of her
husband it's because she has something
else to worry her.
Love makes a husband devoted and
attentive to his wife, but fear is some
times just as effective.
There isn't much hope for the fellow
who makes a fool of himself twice in
the same way There are so many
other ways.
There was once a man who kissed
girl unexpectedly and then begged her
pardon, but he was no great success
with the women.
The man who insists on having his
own way at all times is apt to inter
fere with the progress of others, and,
in SO doing, step on his own toes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
OWED mWONIAN.

Under the spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stood;
The March wind played about in glee,
And the weather was no good.
His wife had sent him out, you see,
To saw little wood.
The smith a mighty man he was.
And his strength was not unreal,
But he didn't like to fool with saws
And he sawed no wood that day because
He would rather miss meal.
His wife was a suffragette who wrecked
Whatever. was in her path.
And she smote the smithy for his neglect
With the rod of her righteous wrath;
And the weapon she used to so good
effect
Was a wilIowy hardwood lath.
So the village smithy no longer stands
For the sawbuck is glued to his sturdy
hands,
And his back to the work he bows;
He is clearing the wood from the timber
lands
AS fast as the law allows.
The smith is a mighty man to trim
The SWITCH" as the poem goes;
But his wife, she is bigger than TWO OF
him
In the matter of what he knows.
And he willis by the way when sne oeaIs
with vim
Intellectual blows.
And this is the story I want to tell,
A story too true today,
That man as factor is shot to bits
He's out of the deal to stay
And woman is getting on very wen
And having things all her way.
The ballot full soon, she is sure to win,
To add to her strong defense;
And that with the resolute roliing-pin-
If armed with a lick of sense
Will make her supreme in this world OF
sin,
And man of no consequence.
Nebraska State Journal.
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FROM OTHER PENS
STILL A NATIONAL FIGURE

| STILL A NATIONAL FIGURE.
In bidding farewell to William How
| ard Taft the president and hailing him
| as Kent professor of law in Yale UNI
versity the country will not grudge
| acknowledgements of his merits and his
many services. He proved himself an
admirable administrator in tile Philip
pines and in the war department. He
believed in economy and did much
which bids fair to result in a wiser
spending of the country's money. A
long list of important measures which
he advocated became law when he gave
them their final approval For two
years he has handled the precarious re-
lations of this country with Mexico in
a manner which has met approval by
all except a handful of irresponsible
hotheads. He devoted his knowledge of
law and the influence of his position to
the cause of reform in legal procedure,
to the great benefit of his countrymen.
IN his new position his influence in
this direction will not be lost. Yale
gathers her students from every part
of the country and sends them home
filled with the ideals of Yale. Presi-
dent Taft, through his influence upon
the students who come directly under
his teaching and upon the law faculty,
can disseminate a desire for the re-
form of legal procedure and the knowl-
edge of how to reform it in every state
in the union. This was subject next
to his heart throughout his administra-
ton, and the country may expect him
to continue to be a vital factor in that
reform-St. Louis Republic.
EDISON AND THE DOUBLE CHIN.
In roundabout way it comes to us
that Mr.. Edison has had an observa-
ton to make on double chins. He is
reported to have said that the way to
forefend the assumption of that en-
bIem of ease is to sleep only six hours
a night. 1t is not to be inferred that
Mr.. Edison has sidetracked ohms,
volts and currents for speculation on
making US personable; the remark
was dropped, undoubtedly, in chance
comment.
With the greater part of mankind
considered, the wonderful man of
Jersey is nearly solitary. He subsists
on his handful of solids" and Is re-
freshed with the six hours dreamlesS
repose which is the fortune of the
high-minded and the serene. The six
hours sleep equips Edison to work,
not fitfully, but with rare purpose, for
the other eighteen. Hence his con-
temptation of a double chin as a mark
of 1olling.
The principal trouble with a double
chin is that it is more likely to indi-
than top off the fatty degeneracy of
our sternest. BY way of gallantry
many a man would take a second chin
off a lady's hands. that paradoxical
transfer being possible. Should he
add to his collection he might even
get a club rate in a barbershop.
Mr.. Edison's trif1es are weighty.
Let somebody experiment with the al
lotment he suggests.-Chicago Post.