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The Washington times., 1913-06-20
: White Shoes, e. !, .
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A Family Affair"

The prices will appeal to you as be-
ing remarkably low-and. they are-in
spite of the big demand there is for
White Footwear. - sesaz,. ,s-.st sa y.
women's White Canvas Ties and e1 OK
Pumps-with white leather heels U1sOO
women's White Canvas Ties, Pumps. and
Colonials; with high or low heels; 60 S0
covered or plain. in......--......-.....g O6sOV
women's Sea Island Duck Ties. Pumps. and
Colonials-wood or leather .s. GO IN
heeis. .s.'~s''~"' SS'~V
women's White Buck Low Shoes, Pumps.
and Colonials; with covered OF co S0
Mems White Canvas Bluoher-cut eC m
Oxfords; popular lasts. -. ..-.. VSsVV
Mems White Sea Island Canvas eC SfA
Lace Oxfords; fiat English last.... V6eeSV
Mems White Buck oxfords. Butcher or
Straight s. raj Lsee-hnsli'n $3.50 and 81
children's White Canvas and White Buck
Buttsn Shoes and Strap a N IN - n
Pumps; wsu sewed. ~ 04sey ~ 3HsS
The Washington times., 1913-06-20
Army and Navy
ARMY.

Leave of absence for one month Is
granted First Lieutenant WILLIAM
s. BARRIGER, Signal Corps, to
take effect June 25.
Leave of absence from the date of his
discharge from the Army and Navy
General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark,
to September 5, is granted First
Lieutenant GUY II. WYMAN, Eley-
enth Cavalry.
The following officers are assigned to
the regiment indicated:
Captain FRANK L. CASE, to the Third
Cavalry
Captain WILLIAM E BENNETT, jr.,
to the Eleventh Infantry.
The Washington times., 1913-06-20

author and prospective ambassador to
Italy. and the degree OF doctr OF SCI
ence upon Charles d. Walcott, scientist
and Reologist, WASHINGTON, D. C.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCT1ISON GLOBE.

You can't win a promotion by looking
out Of the window.
A lot Of men who sing. Let freedom
reign" are tyrants at home.
Your descriptions are too long. Other
wise you are q very nice man.
Nearly everyone has credit enough to
get into debt easier than he can get out.
There are also some cheeses outside Of
pugilism and the grocery stores.
Not being N dead AZ some other issues,
the Ratchet il never buried very deep.
The rule IL that the man who doesn't
talk about himself talks about his neigh
boris.
A slender man has one advantages: his
wife may think a little beer would be
good for him.
If you haven't any other useful work
to do. try to avoid interference with
those who have.
You may have observed that the gent
who holds royal flush doesn't often get
q play on 1t.
Men aren't very smart, but we doubt
IL collars will ever again attain their for
mer colossal height.
In a small town anyone who can spell
''hemorrhage" right on the bat IL in the
high brow class.
A prejudiced man can easily imagine
q hiss IL applause, and vice versa, which
IL all the Latin we know.
Before you die some one will whisper
to some one else that he has grounds for
believing that you are losing your mind.
The trouble IL that a man who wears
q patch to pay on mortgage generally
continues to wear them after the mort
gage il paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

sss ss.:: ~ ana beoasnt - saek = -
..Is II possibleg'
,.shs sets up. slips ON wrapper ana
49, the house. At the back end Of
NEE lots A. you must know, runs the
a.sr. Sne WIN 90 down there and stand
But-but-but-"
Yee she takes her life in her hand ev-
~ ume she doe Il. have saved It Z
oc -. dmes over. It II now UP to you-''
-Yes. sir. We win now see whether You
aTe = hero or nincompoop. Your bed
room window oveFlooks the McCabo hack
yAr0 She walks just At midnight when
me Wa!kA You must watch and follow
nor ana b ON the spot In case she falls
lnto the water. You WIN then be hero
"And whatr'
For an educated young man you are
the stupi0eot thing ever saw! Figure II
oae Tor yourself. have got work in the
Whether Miss Roma NcCabe ever walk-
60 IN her sleep or not has never been told.
y Inere came night. however, when Mr..
SI clair saw z human figure leave tho
McCabe back door-when he flew down
stairs and followed It to the river-when
ne stretched forth his eager hands and
And there came q day when Mr.. NcCabs
rose up In his wrath and pointed the way
OUT OF the library to q hero.
ana another day when Betty Baker
STOOD with arms akimbo and said: stick
70 4. young man! They can't beat .
sleep-waiking girl and q hero Of q youna
man."
And 2 marriage that took place about q
year later went to prove that Betty was
right-(Copyright. 1913, by the Mcclure
NEWSPAPER Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16
TAXPAYERS IN LINE.
Treasures Expects to Collect 94O,ooo
In Taxes Today.

When County Treasurer Matt Weight
man opened his ONCE this morning, .
line OF 100 persons waited In the hall.
Mr.. Weightman estimates that $4,000
will be received in tax money today.
Some 700 persons had visited the of
fee before noon.
Saturday, December 20, is the last
day Shawnee county taxpayers will re-
-ceive the 21x per cent discount
Six men are handling the crowds.
Two extra clerks-Don Osborne and
Ralph Lewis-have been employed this
week. Clerks shout until they are
coarse. and write until their fingers
are cramped. The treasurer's once il
the busiest place in the court house.
The force is working nights and SUM
days.
This is by far the biggest day we've
had" said Mr.. Weightman. some line
party" and he glanced INTO the packed
hall.
People are hiring boys to hold their
places. Men and women pack the corr
ridor. A bigger crowd is expected to-
morrow
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QUAKER A1ED1rA11oNs.
TFrom the Philadeiphia Record

From the Philadelphia ReCOrd.J
It sometimes happens that the men
OF means are the meanest Of men.
Many a man pays as he goes, and
many another has to pay as he comes.
Some fellows are SO fussy that they
would even kick about a hair in a rab-
bit stew.
The secret Of happiness sometimes
consists Of not knowing what other peo-
pie think Of US.
Perhaps the average woman talks
10 much 50 that she won't have to lis-
ten to others.
Many q girl who turns fellow down
IL terribly surprised when he doesn't
bob up again.
About the only time a man feels he
il too old to learn - when he IL too
young to know any better.
The girl who IL always talking about
how she would like to el0pe allows her
imagination to run away with her.
WigE-'-Old 0otrox II nearly 80 and
he's going to marry q grass widow
Wagg-"Has reached the green old age,
eh?''
Blobbs-'Love making should be ON
the level" 8lobbs-"Well. 1t generally
IL. You can't kiss q girl behind her
back"
Nell-'sMaude il q girl who wouldn't
hesitate to assume any responsibility"
Belle That's right / really believe
that girl would even marry to please
her family
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

A philanthropist IL defined by the
Scranton Gazette as being q man who
would rather distribute 10000 collar
buttons among 10000 men than give
one man a shirt
There is this to be. said in favor Of
cate-Democrat: It assures us OF q few
weeks when we have no need to dis
ciplfne the kids"
Overheard by the Shawnee Chief:
us the river bank full?" asked q
southsider of a northsider after the
heavy rains. NO.. was the reply
'sbut 1t is bed full"
The trouble with Eve was that she
had nothing to do. insists the Simpson
every idle woman goes out into the
orchard and picks an apple on the
wrong tree.
Nor Is the Conway Springs Star
alone in its protest: We would hate
like thunder for the impression to
become general that this paper
moulded some of the kinds Of pub
lie opinion around here.
1t is always interesting, says the
with thirty-five cents and the other
with q Canadian dime In his pocket,
begin telling what they would do II
they had q million dollars. They. never
agree with the men who have it.
A jamestown man feels that he has
been grossly insulted. because an in
surance agent who wanted his wife to
take out a policy argued: You
might die suddenly and leave your
husband and children to depend en-
tirely upon the charity Of the COM
munity."
A new baby has been born at Burr
Oak that should not lack Christmas
presents, says the Manhattan Nation
alist. The youngster has q great
great-grandmother and great
grandfather living within five miles OF
the place. as we'll as full compile
ment of intermediate relatives.
Some observations by Mrs. PETER.
in her Eureka Herald: A woman can
forgive any fault in man sooiier than
stinginess. =. Its the equalization
and ability that gets most Of US
Knowing how to cut out waste has
made more men rich than genius.
The surest way to lose all sense Of
proportion is to contemplate ones
troubles. Through all the rush
and hurry OF modern living there il
always time to be kind .Exper-
fence teaches most of US to quit look
ing for boosts and use all our energy
in lodging the knocks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16
EVENING chr

BIZ RUTH CAlfBRoN.

Ash Barrel Gifts.
Ash barrel gifts IL the phrase which,
friend Of mine uses to describe a certain
class Of Christmas gifts
by TINS graphic phrase she means the
knd OF Christmas presents which are
doomed by their lack of distinctive beautv
~ . hhse.uiness to bring up sooner or later
Who has not received legions of such
presents? ~s"
Who has not written gracious thank
she knew did not represent any real
thought on the donors part. or anv at
tempt to fill a need?
II. feckiess" bits Of br1c-a-brac: who has
p noe ded b, rs she put IN order the qn
which past Christmases have filled her
bureau drawer? -
And who has not felt guilty. as, after
article about her for convenfionai
period; she finally carried it up the stairs
til another cleaning day should as SEA s.j e an
RED down into Its isnominious grave the
Two hatpin holders made out of test
tubes ana much ribbon, Il can use one
although like everyone else whom have
consulted on the subject. I prefer q pin
during the last few years. a skirt hanger
SO befussed with blue forGet-me-nots that
yer roller blotter on which the blottinT
paper was SO bad that had to recopy
any letter on which I thoughtlessly used
1t. went up into the garnet on my last
other articles which started to take but
renigged on because they were such re-
cent gifts that I could not quite bear to
throw them away.
Now nobody needs to give ash barrel
It isn't q matter of expense at all. It's
just q question Of thought and intelli-
gence: A quarter will buy a nice hand
artistic little frames.-both, things Of
which one seldom has too many And .df
you have but . few cent? IL spend, isn't
card than to concoct or purchase some
useless and inartistic trif1e which will
embaTrass the recipient by its utter
futility.
What's that thing you're making to be
used for?" man once asked his wife.
! 'tOh, that's not to use." she answered.
that's q Christmas present"
One can easily guess the final destina'
ton Of that present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16
DEDICATE new DEPOT
Santa Onicials to Strong City for Ban.
quet This Evening.

Eleven officials of the Atchison. To!
peka & Santa Fee railway left Topeka
TINS afternoon Tor Strong City. where
they will dedicate the new railroad
station recently erected in that city.
The officials, following out a custom
In late years made popular in Kansas.
Will attend banquet this evening aft.
er the dedication. where C. w. Kounss
general manager; J. r. Koontx, gene
eral freight agent; e. L. Copeland.
treasurer: J. M. Connell. general pas
senger agent. and w. r.. Smith, solic-
ttor for Kansas, will make addresses
on behalf OF the Santa Fe.
The following officials will attend.
9. w. Kouns. J. r. Koontx, p. z.
Copeland. w. r. Smith, J. F. Mitchell.
Patrick Walsh, B. f. e. Marsh. q. q,
kitchind, w. J. Curtis and J. r. Jar
reI.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

Most men who approve Of themselves
are easily pleased.
. . -
There Is little doubt about love being
blind to beauty.
A secret doesn't amount to much II
1t isn't worth telling.
It's fortunate for most people that
they don't act on the advice they give
to others.
Mechanical toys probably occupy
their place of prominence among the
Christmas gifts for the Riddles be-
cause they afford SO much amusement
for the grown-ups.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16
ON EHe ss5ptR si 81.
or THE MOMENT

The Psalm OF Coke.
Tell me not in mournful numbers
Life IL but an empty dream;
That the loads Of coke they send us
Are not really what they seem.
Tell me not that they do soak it,
That they soak it through and
through, 81 -'s@
TIL one ton Of this rich fuel
Weighs about as much an two.
Life is real and life is earnest,
And It's really not a joke.
When We cough our hard earned
For the water in the coke.
Signs Of the Times.
Having married off one Of his
daughters, the president can hardly
look upon his administration az any
If Upton ever does lift that cup. it
will be a feat Of strength, which
should land him good vaudeville en-
gagement.
Arthur c. Gaipin spent e cents to
be elected mayor of Van Vert, Ohio,
and even at that, he may have paid
more than 1t was worth.
Hair ribbons for men are said to be
q coming fad. This tad will never
worry John D. or Mr.. Mellen.
BUT tncus III IL 8iWayB u green
Christmas-long green.
Mary's Waist.
Mary had q little waist.
Most puxxling to her beau,
For everywhere the fashion went
That waist was sure to go.
Sometimes 1t was beneath her arms,
Sometimes around her knees;
Sometimes she was straight up and
down.
With no waist. II you please.
In the Olden Days.
It was like this in the olden days,
When coal was five q ton.
When butter was twenty cents q
pound,
And buying grub was fun.
When the ten cent eggs were strictly
fresh,
And were not from, storage cold.
A pay check lasted q day or 30.
In the dava Of old
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ny 7HE WY


The transfer station may be the
"eyesore' It bcharged with being.
but It - rather handy to wait behind
when the cars are delayed by
s'Norther." Bnt mayhap the PROBES
sfona1 town beantihers viii. upon its
removal. prove their civic pride by
providing some substitute windbreak
1t their own expense.
The London papers are going to
shut up shop on Christmas. which
system will be all right with London
ers- A Londoner couldn't digest an
English plum pud and q London pa
per's editorial In one day without
overtaxing himself
We gather that holding the job of
police judge II practically q sentence
to hard labor and lots Of it. Each
case calls for such an .arduous routine
before 1t 10 finished, beginning nrst
with the sentence of the culprtt. the
lecture and the notation OF the incl
dent In several ponderous books 1ol-
lowed by q Newspaper post-mortem OF
the case.
The western mines are indeed well
equipped. That Apex mine In Utan,
where the Mexican murderer IL restd-
ing. must be fitted with q boarding
house az we'll ~ q competent press
agent. If such is not the case, the
Mex has been. living on sulphur fumes
and coal gas for nearly q month.
which should be q tip to those who
favor lower cost of living.
It il estimated that it costs about
$4,000 a day to run congress but
Hons. Hobson and Underwood con-
tinue to use the floors OF same as q
battlefield to fight over the Alabama
sepatorship. It would almost pay
congress to hire a hall for the Ala
bama members, and charge the rent
to the miscellaneous appropriations,
along with the Florida water and
grapefruit knives.
The idea Of electing a woman may
or of Topeka may be all right, but the
experiments have not proven it.
Maybe young one would be more
1t il said the Mexicans have mucho
contempt for the American soldier. II
the Mexicans ever get chance to see
that brand Of American fauna in ac-
ton, and see what he can do, at
4,206 Is yards, with that short, rude
looking shooting iron. they may dis
cover that he doesn't carry it for bal
last. Anu EXPERIMENTATION seems 10
be about the only thing that will con-
vince a Mexican He can't respect
any one who carries q gun but doesn't
use it on the bystanders.
Filming a big market manipulation
$500 il like docking a farm hand IS
cents for jumping a days work. It
peeves them. but doesn't room their
lives.
Down near Woodward, Okla, they
find remains OF critter with 20
pound tooth-a mo1ar almost as large
as yours feels when the nerve ia ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16
KANSAS COMMENT
A FINE SPIRIT.

"A FINE 6FlHIT.
While we know mighty little about
the game Of football, we do know
how to appreciate the spirit of good
craftsmanship. We know it used to
be the habit for teams that got
whipped to try to humiliate their op-
ponents before they got out of town
If possible. The sense of a gener-
GUS admiration for a foe who could
whip you was a few years ago no
part of the code of sportsmanship.
In some places 1t is still fashiona BILE
for some roughnecks to heap indig-
mites on a visiting team, particularly
If that team defeats the home team.
little stories Of the football season
there which are fine samples of the
proper spirit in all kinds Of competi-
tive games. After Harvard won at
Princeton, the students of Princeton
went in a body to the quarters of the
this act Of true sportsmanship
Princeton won at least one victory
that day. We are not sure but what
1t was a better victory than winning
the game. After the game which
Harvard won from Yale a crowd OF
Harvard students went to the football
quarters and cheered the coach of the
Harvard team. The coach of the
Harvard team is Mr.. Haughton, and
he IL a gentleman from start to nm
ish When the crowd had cheered a
few times in front OF the quarters
Haughton came out and after max
ing q short speech. asked the men to
leave without any more cheering. be-
cause the defeated Yale team was
there, and he didn't want to make
their defeat any more bitter than 1t
was. When sport calls out actions of
this kind, It il worth training for. for
it develops the manly sensibilities in
stead OF the brute ADMINISTRATION
sas City News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16
LOCAL MENTION.

Surely. madam. you will try Golden Egg
Machine Dried Aacaroni OF Spaghetti.
Once Just ask your grocsr.-Adv.
Governor Hodges will speak this after
noon at a good roads meeting in Burling-
ton, Corey county. He left last night
for Burlington and viii probably return to
Topeka Wednesday morning. His Bur-
lington road speech will In . general
was advanced 1T the state highways
meeting In Newton.
Try Illinois nut coal for cooking; IT'S
washed CAN xS8- J. r. 6pohn.-Adv.
J. C. Pastre. the representative Of the
Kinem4cQlor Film company arrived in
1opekast to-day to install the nav Klnemar
color machine at the Iris. ~ -.
from H.0o up. Rooer Bros, 500 Kansa1
A building permit has been issued to
the government for the erection Of the
addition to the posto6lce building. The
amount Of the permit y g. 90 This will
swell tb6 permit List tot the year ma
tez1a1ly.
Let ms do that interior refinishtng and
decorating. c. =. 0iIby. Phone II Black
=
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16
TO ADOPT NEW TONGUE.

In 1914 Norway will celebrate the
centennial anniversary Of her eman-
cipation from Denmark and the re-
arate kingdom with q constitution of
her own, though united by dynastic
ties with Sweden until 1905. 1t il
proposed to signalize the national re-
joicings in honor of the occasion by
the adoption in due process of law, of
q new tongue as the official and ma
tional language Of Norway, as ex-
planned in the January Popular Me-
chanics Magazine. About so years
ago Ivar Aasen, philologist, patriot
and scholar, of Norway. constructed q
language which he named Lands
maal." and embodied in his new
speech much OF the old Morse and
ancient Sagas, az well ~ the idioms
and dialects Of the remoter regions
Of the kingdom, where the peasantry
have chung through four centuries Of
Danish domination to the tongue
spoken by their forebears In the days
Of the Vikings. Employing these and
other materials and adapting them to
modern requirements, Aasen sue
ceeded In evolving 30 melodious and
poetic q language that the vast ma
5ority Of his countrymen, commencing
with the rural population. have ac-
cepted 1t for their songs. for their
plays. for their sermons and for their
vernAculAr.
LAndsmAal II phonetic, and IL not
20 radically different from the printed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

Danish language that IN educated
Dane can not make II out Some
thing Of the sort has been accom-
plished in Finland. save that now an
educated Finlander must learn three
languages. Finnish. Swedish and Rus
sian. In order to keep abreast OF the
times In his ownrlaud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

That feature OF the currency bill
which might make possible a disas-
trous initiation Of the currency Of the
country Is being attributed to the fine
italian hand Of Mr.. Bryan. And per
haps this Ia only another effort on
his part to make his salary az a cab
met officer 60 further.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

It seems to be almost the invariab BILE
rule. points out the Christian, Science
Monitor. that while one Of the nations
known az the great powers-it doesn't
matter which-is Boosting Of laying
down the keel Of the greatest Of bat
tleshipA another one Of the great
powers-it doesn't matter which-is
using . former greatest battieship ~
q target. or sending it to the scrap
heap. $50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

1ority that win follow his lead in ev-
erything as far AZ he says he would
like to go. In the meantime he can
follow his favorite indoor sport OF
pounding on the tom toms. Of extreme
radicalism with sunicient force to at
tract a little Of the attention he de-
airen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

Among the bones Of prehistoric ami
NAL just unearthed in Oklahoma are
teeth which weigh 20 pounds each. And
II the females Of the species Of the days
when this beast frolicked about were
built In corresponding proportions, they
were certainly some rag-chewers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

Patient striving is bound to win its
reward. A British submarine boat
has just been sunk in a collision with
out drowning anybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

washington, Dec. 1S.-Dr. william j.
Morton, who served . term In Atlanta
prison with Julian Hawthorne for COM
plicity in mining stock selling frauds.
has been pardoned by President will
son to restore his civil rights AZ OF
December 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

President Wilson seems to have
missed a golden opportunity by failing
to appoint a commission of mediators
and arbitrators to settle the hen strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

Missouri has q wild man who keeps
bees in his hat. Still he isn't the only
wild man Of that kind Missouri has
either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

There seems to be scarcity Of news
these days rs to what the Progressive
Party is doing in South America to
while away the time.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES!

> The STATE Journal II . member Of the
Associated Prees and receives the fun day
telegraph report Of that great news sr-
sanitation Tor the exclusive afternoon
oubltcatiou In Topeka
The news 10 received In The state Jour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

1t il still too early to state definitel,
whether the ladies Of the Pankhurs
family will spend Christmas together
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-16

Not to collect twenty cents a mile
for distances not travelled looks like
deliberate extravaganza on the part
Of the members of congress.