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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS
NEARLY HARMONIOUS
Alleged insurgents Present
Disclaimer, and Currency
Bill Makes Progress.

Because they dislike to be classed as
insurgents" many democrats who have
voted against the regulars in the House
democratic caucus on the currency bill
yesterday afternoon took pains to explain
that they were not really ''insurging,"
and that they We're quite regular after
all. The slap they had received from
Secretary Bryan the day before was re-
sponsible for a nearer approach to har-
mony in the caucus yesterday, and all
went as merry as a marriage bell The
indications are that the long-drawn-out
secret proceedings will be concluded this
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
One Principal Objection.

One OF the principal grounds urged by
MIR. Sacks was that the law included IN
the offense Of vagrancy mot giving
good account Of ones self" This, it was
argued. was clearly unconstitutional IN
that 1t forced a defendant to give EVIL
dence which might prove Of an incrimf-
mating nature.
The alleged vagueness of the law
furnished Mr.. Sacks with another
point in his motion. He contended that
the wording Of the statute was SO
vague, indefinite and uncertain tnat
no ofiense could be charged to any
one under It. as it is a primary prin-
ciple Of law, he said. that nothing
can be construed in a criminal charge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24

Hangings at $3.50 and $500 Pair
The Values Are S2s.oo and 5000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
SUNDAY WASHINGTON, Dc,

Been Claimed by the Store and Demonstrated Patrons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
WILL SONORA BE FREE?

The state of Sonora has chosen an
opportune time to secede. The federal
government, weakened by its numer-
Gus revolutions and with no organi-
cation worthy of the name is likely to
find itself powerless to whip the rebel
state back into line.
The territory in secession is nearly
as large as Texas, has a population of
100000 and borders ON the United States.
In it Americans are represented both
in numbers and investments probably
more largely than in any other state OF
the southern republic
Whether or not they look for future
annexation, the sympathy of these COL
onists will naturally be with the rebels
Under an independent state govern
ment they could obtain much better
for the undisturbed prose-
cution of their business than they could
under a federal administration con-
tinually in the throes of a revolution
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
TT is UP TO WILSON.

The political situation as it relates to
| the public and the president is put
squarely up to Mr.. Wilson in the fol-
lowing editorial from the New York
American:
Woodrow Wilson is now the twenty
eighth president of the United States.
Elected upon definite promises, if not
upon a definite platform, pledged in
speech and in writing to the progressive
creeds which are to re-establish the
rule of the people and to rebuke and
restrain the corporate graft and tyran-
ny of the interests which have ruled
the government, and chosen to office,
if not by a majority, at least by an
overwhelming plurality of the Ameri-
can voters, Mr.. Wilson now stands face
to face with serious opportunity and
serious responsibility.
He must rise or fall by the record
he makes. If he succeeds in doing the
things he has promised to do and
which the people expect him to do, he
will deserve the honor and gratitude of
his country. If he fails, it will be his
own fault, and his condemnation will
be written in the measure of his failure.
For few presidents of the United
States have ever entered upon WOrk
with so trained an equipment for serv
ice and no president has ever entered
upon his work under better conditions
of success.
There is a Democratic majority of 149
in the present house of representatives.
OF this number the great majority are
a compact phalanx behind him, stand
ing so strong that in caucus they can
compel, if necessary, a solid support
to all his measures.
There is a Democratic majority of
two in the Sixty-third senate, which
may be increased in Illinois and in
New Hampshire. But even as it stands
it is compacted by a recent iron-bound
organization of his friends.
The cabinet is of Mr.. Wilson's own
making and is apparently harmonious
and cooperative to the last degree. The
public opinion of he country is with
him in a general acclaim, which in
cludes an expression of good wishes
even from opposite parties.
The way is wide open for Woodrow
Wilson to make good,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
A REASONABLE REQUEST.

A married woman school teacher in
Brooklyn has asked the board of edu-
cation for a years leave of absence
while bearing and nursing prospec-
tive child. The unusual request like
everything else for which precedent
cannot be found has been productive
of much discussion. Many arguments
have been advanced both for. and
against the granting of her petition.
In the end it seems likely to be
granted.
If she craved absence on any other
business of life, trip to Europe for
instance, probably there would have
been no question raised. But for the
permission to perform the chief func-
ton of her existence she is compelled
to plead and have her case paraded
before the country.
Somehow, our civilization makes SO
slow progress at times that it is al
most discouraging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

AMY lin her came uppermost and she
said, Poor john" softly, and when
they came to the house and the grand
mother had welcomed them, Cosette
baked the cakes for John, and served
him as he sat at the table.
Over her head John looked at the
grandmother, and the old woman
nodded wisely.
When supper was over and the house
was set in order, the old grandmother
went up to her room and John and
Cosette sat in front of dying fire.
After long silence, John reached
MS hand across to Cosette and said,
Tell me about it, Cosette.''
Cosette hid her face in her hands.
You are not making it easy for me,
john
There was a wonderful light
JOINS face, but he repeated steadily.
''Tell me-"
Then suddenly she came and knelt
beside his cEair, and said, brokenly,
Il love ."-(Copyrighted, 1913, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.>
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
QUAKER MEDTTATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

from the Philadelphia Record.1
Comes to the point-the finger of
scorn.
Don't kick every time you have to
foot the bill.
Don't spend all your time turning
over new leaves.
Even the man who stands on his
dignity may put his foot in it.
The man who attends strictly to his
own business is never overworked.
No, Clarence; to corner the market
doesn't always mean a square deal.
Wigg-"Is that fellow Skinnum
straight?" Wagg-"As straight as a
corkscrew."
Women, as a rule, don't talk about
the weather. but they are almost as
changeable.
BIobbs-"Mrs. Wigwag says she suf-
fers from insomnia" Slobbs-''No won
der. wigwag says he talks in his
Sleep
Harduppe-"Why don't you propose
to Polly Peaches?' Borrowell-"I
haven't the sand. Why don't your"
Harduppe-'I haven't the dust"
oh. the man on a bat,
We can always tell him;
For he talks through his hat
When he's full to the brim.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
FROM OTHER PENS
NOW Fok a TWIST.

We demand, now that "order'' has
been restored in Mexico, y that the
Washington AUTHORITIES give imme-
diate attention to- England. A situa-
ton exists in London that plainly calls
for Intervention on our part if the
lives and property of Americans who
are "rubbering" around the world
metropolis are not to be offered up
as a shameful sacrifice on the altar
of a fool reform.
The utter disregard on the part of
the bloOdthirSty suffragetteS of the
comfort of travelling Americans is an
offense to our national pride that we
cannot afford to brook much longer.
Furthermore one of the stockholders
in a London store that had a window
broken is said to be an American,
while a third cousin of the butler in
who was badly scratched by a flying
fragment, is also reported by our wire
less news service to be a native of our
proud country.
The British government has proved
itself utterly powerless before the suf-
fragette attack, and a state of anarchy
prevails. The situation is worse than
it was in Mexico. American tourists
do not know which way to turn to get
out of the zone of hoStilities. There is
but one course for our government 1t
is alleged that these '-rubber-neckers''
went to England knowing the I'M
stable conditions and should take
their chances. That is both piff1ous
and seditious, in our view.
We hurl back with indignation the
insnuation of some little Americans
that while we might intervene for pro-
fit in the case of a weaker nation we
will not dare to make faces at a
strong empire. 1t is false. In our
diplomatic relations we have. always
been as courteous to the weak ma
lions Gin Central America, for exam
ple) as to the strong. But there is no
time now for such bootless discussion.
Our urgent duty is first to make Brit
ain assure American tourists of abso-
lutte safety or to step in and restore
order in behalf of our compatriots who
have bought Cooks tour paSteboards
Angeles Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
SAYS UNCLE CIV

There is mighty little hope for the hui
man weathercock so long as he remains
weatheTcock. There's always some
kind of a veering breeze blowing, and he
is incapacitated from sheer dizziness If
for no other reason The ability to make
a fairly correct decision and act upon IL
before it. is too late is perhaps the most
valuable one in the human makeup.
Other virtues are of little value II tnat
of decisiveness be lacking. Not that there
hair trigger man. The man who is said
to decide upon the instant is a fool, or
his admirer is. No man does that many
times without falling into SERIOUS error.
The capable man who seems to decide
questions offhand has been exercising his
foresight and getting ready for emer-
gencies. The one who jumps at con-
illusions will guess right occasionally, but
most of his jumps result in falls.
Foresight is indispensable to decisive
ness of character. You can't form an in
telligent course of action without know
ing your ground. To know your ground
in time to make your decision worth
while. you have to be looking ahead and
anticipating situations. Having thus pre-
pared yourself, when the situation arises
reighbors look upon you as inspired. You
were merely ready, which is a better
habit than inspiration.
There are few who have cultivated fore
sight who have not the capacity to make
decisions when the time comes. The man
who is forewarned is no weathercock. He
fore seldom veers. The vice Of the wealth
ercock is that it is passive. Foresight and
passivity are incompatible Having pre-
pared yourself for what may happen, you
are in trim to take advantage Of 1t, TO
resist it. 1t is quite as natural for you to
do this as it is for you to spin with the
shifting breeze if you are an unthinkinG
The habit of Letting tomorrow take
care of ITSELF may bring peace, but 1t
doesn't bring satisfaction. BY all means
avoid worry over what the future Is to
bring and, by the same token, over what
TODAY has brought. But he is most I'M
happy incompetent who cannot take
thought for the morrow, reading in the
course of present events the nature OF
impending problems and their solution
"I ct tomorrow take care of itself is q
weathercock motto. 1t were better ex-
pressed. Let tomorrow do what 1t VIII
70 me" He who thus views life finds mis-
DAYS a succession Of dizzy spins. with no
apparent result further than the wear and
ear he undergoes. He is the plaything OF
every gust of opposition-an instrument
Of SPORT for every little breeze of others
and action. His only function l.
TO indicate that somebody else is doing
son1ething worth while. There Is no hope
fo, the human weathercock so long as ne
remains a weathercock--(Copyr1g l5l"'
nv the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
Education and Good Roads.

1t is estimated that there are 25,-
100000 children of school age in the
United States, but only about 1S,00O,-
600 of these children attend school.
Doubtless there are many reasons why
100000 of the children of the United
States do not go TO school writer
in the Farm and Fireside believes the
great majority of them are out OF
school because of bad roads Some
figures are presented by this writer
which bear out the contention. In the
five good roads states of ,MaSsachu
sets, Rhode IiSland, Connecticut,
Ohio and Indiana, where there is an
average improved highway mileage of
nearly 35 per cent, more than n per
cent of the children are in school. In
the five bad roads states of Alabama,
Mississippi, Arkansas, South Dakota
and Georgia, with an average i'm
proved. highway mileage of Is per
cent, less than SO per cent of the chill
dren are attending school. In the four
bad roads states of Arkansas, Mis-
souri,. Mississippi and North Carolina,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
AYHAWKER .JOTS

Down around Independence they are
claiming to have found coal beds ten
feet thick, while drilling for oil.
An Arkansas man is suing the
Kiowa county sheriff for $5,612 be-
cause a Mullinville mob burned his
wagon last summer. 1t must have
been a gasoline wagon to be worth
that amount.
A Leavenworth woman who had an
nounced her candidacy for the school
she has discovered that there is poll
tics in the board. What do these new
voters expect anyway?
Nobody dotes on an amateur per-
torrance, says Anna Carlson, but
what about the girl who claims she
has never been kissed? It seems to be
up to Sister Carlson to answer her
own question.
Hereafter, oriental dancers will not
be permitted to cavort at Kansas fairs
Perhaps the managers are acting on
Josh Billings suggestion that what
the people really like is a genuine
agricultural boss trot."
A Wichita street car conductors
attempt to collect a nickel fare by
rough house tactics cost the company
passengers eye and the jury in the
damage suit which resulted multiplied
the fare 10000 times for saIve.
December 81, the farmers of Kan
sas had sown 7,636,O0O acres of wheat
in 1912. This was $4,000 acres less
than was sown in 1911. Barton coun-
ty leads with 274,5S1 acres, Reno fol-
lowing with 253,532, Pawnee 24s,199,
Stafford 242,966, Ford 226,O11, Pratt
219,273. No other county has so
much as 100000 acres. Twenty-six
have sown more than 100000
acres. severally.
The Santa Fe (Kansas) Monitor
notes that George Harper, a rancher
in northeastern Grant county, thresh-
ed 5000 bushels of milo-maize and
kafir-corn last fall, besides feeding
about 1000 bushels in the head. He
also threshed 100 bushels of sorghum
seed, and has great quantity of
'roughness" on hand. Recently, he
sold two spans of two-year-old mules
put of his herd for $3.50. This section
IS tributary to the Dodge City extern
sion of the Santa Fe railway
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
KANSAS CONTENT
WE SHY AT BILLY SUNDAY.

WE SHY AT BILLY SUNDAY.
We have never been able to warm
up to Billy Sunday and his methods
We know that in this respect we are
diIferent from lots of people. And
we frankly admit that many of these
people are better than are we.
But we have always thought that
there was too much noise and too
much of the circus, the .Sawdust
IralI, IT you please, in the Billy Sun
day fad. The performances do not
have the dignity and the reverence
We accord to religion. There has al
ways appeared to be more emotion
than conviction. And we have also
thought that if there were CONVEX
sions most of them were conversions
to Billy Sunday rather than to Him
whose right it is to rule in hearts.
There is much of the hero worship
in all of us and Billy gets lots of wor-
ship.
And yet. if he does good in pro-
portion to the money he makes, it
may be all right.
But does he?
We have always thought that Billy
padded the returns. He stuffs the
ballot box. When the votes are count
ed and the result declared there are
many he is not entitled to get But
Billy bases the financial reward upon
the padded returns
Recently he concluded a big meet
ing at Columbus, Ohio. We are some
what familiar with that place. The
returns of the meetings showed con-
versions of $4,000. The contribution
was $21,OO0.-Anthony Bulletin
"JOKERS."
There are two effectual ways of kill
ing legislation. The first is by the
simple expedient of voting it down
when it comes up for consideration. The
81 70 nd rIIr -
fective; it consists of the insertion of
joker in the measure which is then
passed with flourish of trumpets and
a blaze of eloquence. This latter meth
cd may have fooled the voters in times
past but Kansans today prefer their
legislation straight They would pre-
fer to have the recall, the initiative and
referendum defeated than to have the
statute books burdened with measures
that would not work but which would
disgust the people with the general
prineiple.-Salina Journal.
A SPLENDID SUGGESTION.
Mr.. Albert Wulfekuhler wants to
make the seventeenth day of March
seed day. in the schools of Leaven-
worth county. On that day he sug-
gests that all of the children bring a
of seed corn. and the teacher
will put the same into a testing ma
chine and then on the afternoon of the
twenty first day. of March, he wants
all of the parents to visit the schools
and examine the corn that has
sprouted. This would be fine object
lesson and would be a splendid way to
get everyone in the county interested
March 18th would go down in Kansas
history the day on which poor seed
corn was chased out of the state
Leavenworth POST
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

Telling him to be brave won't cure
a coward 49,
No country seems to be any account
for raising turkeys.
There are so many things that can't
be stopped with an injunction.
What has become of the O.. f. boy
who wished his warts on his enemies?
A delegate tries hard to look as inn
portant as the blanket badge he wears.
Why don't the picture show pro-
moters ring in few Indians and cow
boys?
A girl. sometimes has auburn hair.
but if a boy is inclined that way they
call it red.
Motoring is a healthy pastime; it is
the sudden stops that cause the cas-
ualty list.
A man seldom cares enough for ex-
penses to want to visit instead of go
to a hotel.
might be a good idea to hire the agita-
tors to keep still.
People on a branch line usually feel
that the railroad company has grudge
against them.
The slide trombone doesn't make the
most music, although it's player seems
to work harder in that direction.
Good intentions help some, but it is
always hard to find New Years reso-
luton at a Fourth of July celebration.
A congressman likes to spend his va
pie; he needs their votes from time to
time.
Satan must be ashamed of the sin
ner who can think of no other form of
devilment than creating a disturbance
in church
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13

with a total population of nearly
5000, 900, there are about $4,000 IL
literate men and women, native born
white. In the four goodsroads states
OF Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New
Jersey and Rhode Island. with a total
population upward of 100000 there
are but 20,500 illiterate men and wom-
en-, native born, white "1n other
words" says the writer, in Farm and
Preside. education goes hand in
hand with the hard road-as roads
improve, illiteracy decreases" Many
children, he continues, have no schools
to attend because 1.-The roads are SO
bad there is no profit in farming, no
money for schools, no progress, no
growth, no ambition" This is an
argument that is worth thinking about
in communities where bad roads are
retarding progress.-Louisville Cour-
ier-JournaL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
QUAKER fluctuations.
[From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.
A frank enemy is more to be de-
sired than a false friend.
No man can face the world with a
good heart unless it is backed up by
a good liver.
If marriage is a lottery it is some
times hard to distinguish where the
prize comes in.
Lots of. people never seem able to
tell right from wrong till they find out
which paws best.
The world is full of dead ones, but
none are so defunct as those who are
killed with kindness
People who have to live in those
tiny flats and are fond of flowers might
try keeping thin in folding beds.
Nell-"Miss Yellowleaf makes I'D ter
ribly." BELIEVES, really think
that woman makes up everything ex-
cept her mind"
Blobbs-"When it comes to an ar
gument, a man generally give in"
Slobbs-''Yes, but have you noticed
that a woman seldom gives out?"
-'rFlubdub says the wine will
flow like water at his Christmas din
ner." Wagg-'I don't doubt it, Flub-
dub's wine always did remind me of
water.
Muggins-"My wife started her
Christmas shopping early this year. She
has been at it nearly a month" Bug
gins-"Is that so? My wife hasn't
bought thing yet MugGns-"Neith-
er has mine"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
THE WEBB LAW is WORKING.

Federal officers at Lawton. Ok,
have seized, under the provisions of
the Webb law. a large consignment
of contraband goods that had been
shipped into the state from Texas.
This is the first fall of the new laws
heavy hand, and as a result the ship
pers are in anything but a complacent
frame of mind and threaten to carry
the case to court.
When the Webb bill was passed
over the executive veto it was pre-
dicted that it's constitutionality would
be subjected to an early test. The
president was advised by the attor-
ney general that it was in conflict with
the fundamental law. and many of
the distinguished interpreters of le-
gality in the senate Immediately voted
in favor of passing it over the veto.
Men may differ as to constitution
atty of a measure although they be
well versed in the law. The supreme
court, however, has the last voice,
and if this act of congress makes it
right to. seize property in transit all
doubt will soon be removed.