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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
ASpires to Become President of
the United States.
WORD BEING PASSED AROUND
That He Wants to Lead His
Party in 1915.
Gives Rise to a Large Amount
of Speculation.

Washington, D. c.. July 49,
Washington places considera BILE sig
nfficance in the rumor that former
Governor Walter r. Stubbs of Kan
sas will be a candidate for president
of the United States three years
hence. When in Washington recent
ly, prior to his leaving for Europe.
Mr. Stupbs denied emphatically to
the Topeka State Journal CORE
spondent that he would be a candi-
date for president or United States
senator.
Under the caption of Governor
Stubbs' Hat in the Ring" the Wash
ington Star editoriaIly comments as
follows on the Stubbs rumor:
Governor Stubbs of Kansas is a
progressive, and aspiTes to the pres
idency. He wants to lead his party
in 1915. An announcement to that
effect is in circulation.
This may or may not be impor-
tant 1t is interesting, because it in
PRODUCES another name in the mat
ter of progressiveism besides that of
Mr.. Roosevelt. Will the Kansas re-
former stick? Does he really mean
business?
The Progressive party last year
represented nothing but an effort to
return Mr.. Roosevelt to the White
House. 1t was a one-man organiZa-
ton. 1t attracted great attention be-
cause that man was a striking indi-
NIdudI TIC OIi 1L1SI1 VI VI
erty, and on men of no property; on
men of political experience, and on
men without political experience; on
high and low, rich and poor, mature
and immature. He marshaled a
large support on election day.
Is 1t One-Man Party?
In the opinion of many today the
Progressive party is still a one-man
party. They conceive it as existing
solely for Mr.. Roosevelt's benefit.
They consider that but for him it
would disappear. They believe that
now, and that he will be nominated
for president then by acclamation.
They will be greatly surprised If any
other man is mentioned in the con-
vention.
But here is Governor Stubbs.
How many Progressives are of his
opinion? How many regard the Pro-
gresSive party as an Embossed organ
and open to able men of high ambi-
ton? How many are supporting his
ambition? How many are for him
even as against the eminent founder
and first leader of the party?
"Progressiveism today has strong
of that faith. and Mr.. Murdock is
the acknowledged leader of the Pro-
gressives in the house. Are they
Stubbs men; and if SO will they be
III ms tram three years ioiIi NV
Next years comes an election when
Kansas must speak. Both Mr.. Bris-
tow and Mr.. Murdoch must go be-
fore the people on their record. Sup
pose they fail. Suppose a Repub-
lican or a Democrat is chosen sena-
tor in Mr.. Bristow's place, and Re-
publican or a Democrat in Mr.. Muir
docks place, and Progressiveism gen.
orally in the state gets a black eye.
Where will that leave the Stubbs
boom? Who will oppose Mr.. Roose-
welt then?
happen-to Governor StubbS and to
other presidential aspirants
1915 rolls around. 1t is too early for
anybody to get excited"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
Apple Vinegar Making Legal.

WaShingtOn, July l6. = Farmers
need have no fear of the law in max
ing vinegar, if they use pure apple
juice and dealers need not hesitate to
sell it. The federal bureau of chemis-
try so declared in a statement issued
today to encourage farmers of western
PENNSYLVANIA to resume the making
of apple vinegar and thus save thou
sands of bushels of apples.
Some years ago, owing to a misun-
derstanding of the law dealers, were
said to have become afraid to handle
the farmers vinegar, believing it
would not meet the requirements of
the act and the farmers allowed their
apples to rot for the same reason. The
government pure food experts now
seek to reassure both the farmers and
the dealers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
LIGHT HOUSE AUCTIONED
Historic Place May Fall Into Hands of
Land Company.

Scituate. Mass, July 16.-The Scitu-
ate lighthouse, where during the war
of 1912, Rebecca and Abigail Bates are
said to have frightened off a British ship
by playing a fife and drum, giving the
impression that the place was garri-
soned. was sold at auction yesterday
by the United States government. All
bids were sent to Washington where
the announcement of the result will
be made. This town put in a sealed
bid and if it obtains possession will
use it for a public park. Historic So
cieties fear the lighthouse will be lost
through the property falling into the
hands of a land company.
1t was abandoned as a lighthouse
in 1851 when the Beacon of Minots
ledge was rebuilt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
Temperatures Today About the
Same as Those of Tuesday.
Cooler Weather Is Promised
by Weather Bureau.
DROUTH COVERS ALL KANSAS
There Has Been No Rain for
Is Days Past.
Lacks Three Days of the Rec
ord of Year 1901.

It's the same story over again. Kan
sas is still sweltering. The tempera-
lures this morning at government sta
tions were practically the same as on
Tuesday, and on Tuesday afternoon the
high mark reached at the stations
varied from one hundred degrees at
lola and Wichita to 1OS degrees at
Dresden. Hanover, Hays, Mcpherson
and Manhattan. At no station did the
mercury go below the 20 degree point
Tuesday night.
The forecast calls for generally fair
weather tonight and Thursday with
slightly lower temperatures in the
northeast portion of the state. Accord
ing to sunny Flora, the local OBJ
server. this means that Topekans will
pass a fairly comfortable night but
that Thursday will be as hot as ever.
The only rainfall reported in Kan
sas in the "a hours ending at o'clock
this morning, according to the gov
ernment reports, was .0S of an inch
at Concordia. The sky was clear this
morning at all stations with the ex-
ception of Concordia and Hays.
At $3.50 O'Clock this morning the
temperature on top of the Mulvane
building was SO degrees, the same as
on Tuesday at the same hour. The
wind was blowing at the rate of 12
miles an hour from the southwest All
IL miles an hour; this made the heat
bearable.
No Rain for Fifteen Days.
There have now been fifteen days
in which there has been no rainfall in
measurable amounts at Topeka The
record for consecutive days in July
without rain was eighteen in 1901. As
there is no rain in sight there is a
chance that the record will be broken.
Farmers report that if rain comes
within the next week the corn crop
will be saved, although the corn has
begun to show signs of injury on ac-
count of the drouth. Garden products
are almost an unknown quantity in
Shawnee county. Vegetables simply
have been baked.
In speaking of the rainfall this sea-
son Mr.. Flora says that conditions are
not so bad as was the case two years
ago. In May 1911 the rainfall was
1.91 inches as against 4.46 inches in
May this year. In June of 1911 there
was but .55 of an inch of rain as
against 3.3S this year. Up to July 16
in 1911 there was SO OF an inch of
precipitation as compared with but .O7
of an inch this year.
Maximum Temperatures.
Following are the maximum tempera-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
suHragists on Long Auto Tour.

Boston, July 16.-The second dele
CATION of suffragists starting from
Boston for the ION to Washington"
crusade was sent away today by the
Political Equality union. The party,
occupying a touring car is in charge
of Mrs Susan Walker Fitzgerald, re-
cording secretary of the National
American Women's Suffrage associa-
ton. On a round about trip to the
national capital, they will visit the
capitals of the other New England
states and many cities and towns hold
ing meetings on the way. Mrs. Fitz-
geral said stop would be made at
Cornish. \. H, and that she was try
ing to arrange to have the delegates
received by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
Cooler Weather Coming

The mercury reached the hundred
point at noon and at 1870 o'clock the
therm ometer registered 102 degrees.
Then came a temporary slump of a
degree, the temperature at o'clock
being 101. 1t was down TO the 46
degree mark in Montana this morn
ing and tonight slight relief from the
heat is anticipated. There is just a
possibility that the quicksilver will
not rise above the century mark on
Thursday. At 2 o'clock this after
noon the wind was blowing at the
rate of twenty miles an hour from
the southwest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
TO DREDCE BIG CANAL.
Plans Made to Garry on Permanent
Operations.

Panama, July 16.- Permanent
dredging headquarters for the Pan
anna canal are to be esta blished at
the village of Paraiso, near the
southern entrance to Culebra Cut.
The marine shops in Balboa at the
Pacific end, and in Cristobal at the
Atlantic end have been abandoned.
Repair work is to be concentrated at
Paraiso, where recesses are to be ex-
cavated in the banks of the canal and
mooring basin and a repair wharf
500 feet long constructed after Oct.
1, at about the time the water is
turned into the cut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16

Washington, July 16.-Formal DEGREES
of the supreme court in the Minnesota
and Missouri rate cases We're issued to-
day to the federal courts in those
states. In the cases won by the states
the railways were ordered to reim-
burse the state government for the
cost of litigation. The state of Mis-
souri, will collect SIS, ,262 from the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy. which was
the principal Missouri case S1O.900 be-
ing spent alone in printing the rec
ords.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
LIGHTNING NEAR 7. R.
In steel Cage 500 Feet Above Ground
During Storm.

Grand Canyon, July 16-Lightning play
ed about a steel cage in which Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt and his party yesterday
crossed the Colorado river in Bright Angel
canyon en- route to the Bad Lands hunt
inE grounds.
The cage was suspended from a cable 500
feet above the river. The colonel and his
sons Archie and Quentin Were drenched
by rain but suffered no other mishap from
the storm which was the most terrific
electrical display in the region in several
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
TODAY'S GAMES.

Western.
Sioux City at Wichita, clear.
Omaha at Topeka, clear.
St. Joseph at Denver, Cd
cloudy, 1880 and $3.50 p. m.
Des Moines at Lincoln, cloudy.
National.
Chicago at Brooklyn, clear.
Pittsburg at Boston. clear.
Cincinnati at New York, clear.
St. Louis at Philadelphia,
clear.
American.
Philadelphia at Chicago, CD
clear.
washington at st. Louis, clear.
New York at Cleveland, CD
clear.
Boston at Detroit, clear.
Association.
Columbus at Milwaukee,
cloudy.
Toledo at st. Paul, rain.
Indianapolis at Minneapolis,
rain.
Louisville at Kansas City, clear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16

bill to repeal the neutrality statute of
1912 under which the Huerta govern
ment now is importing munitions or
war while they are denied to the con-
stitutionalists. He will ask the senate
10 PASS it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
President Pardons Murderer.

Washington. July. 16.-President Will
son today commuted to expire at once
the life sentence of Thomas Powell
convicted of murder at what was for
merlY Paul Valley, / T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
Weather Forecast for Kansas.

Fair tonight and Thursday; slight
ly cooler tonight
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MAXIMUM Temperatu

Following are the maximum tempera-
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21
WHAT LIFE IS

Many people are puzzling their
brains trying to figure out what
life is and why there are SO many
failures. They can't understand
why some are up and others down,
why some are full of sunshine and
others full of crouch. On the sub
iect Of Life is What We Make
It," the Memphis News-Scimitar
has the following beautiful
thoughts:
This is a joyous world, or a
cruel one. according as we fit our
selves into it. There are glooms
for US to crouch in with complain
ings and frowns, but there also is
sunshine for US to stride in with a
smile and a song.
If you and the world don't seem
exactly fitted to each other, don't
attempt to make over the world.
That's to big a job. Try making
over yourself.
Lop off some of your conceit
and selfshness, round out some of
your vacuums of ignorance, and
then maybe you may find some
little niche> just made for you,
What you do with it will depend
upon yourself.
The world at worst is no worse
than we have made it, and the best
that we deserve. 1t came from
the Creator clean. Sin came only
with man, and has developed into
multitudious forms of vice, error
and injustice, put into none more
hideous than that of pessimistic
cayil.
The plea of the pessimist is
necessarily a play upon loosed pas
sions. He dare not appeal to rea
son, because to reason is to cease
to be a pessimist.
Whatever is is wrong" whines
Old Crouch. Very we'll; his doc
trine is, therefore it's wrong.
Yes, damnably wrong, and the
poor reasoning process of pessim-
ism is by no means the only basis
for the condemnation.
What nature often battles human
effort proves no injustice on her
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21

A healthy man is a king in his
own right; an unhealthy man an
unhappy slave. For impure blood
and sluggish liver, use Burdoek
Blood Bitters. On the market 80
years. 81 a bottle.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21

The Tennessean and American
had an editorial last Monday on
Preserve and Enforce the Laws
of Sanitation. We take from the
article the following paragraph,
which is full Of truth:
This is an age of progress. Peo-
pie demand that they get both in
quality and quantity what they
buy. Cheating will no longer be
submitted to. Adulterated articles
must be sold as such. Substitutes
must be offered as such. The real
thing must be delivered to the pur-
chaser of the real thing. The time
has come when everybody stands
up and demands a square deal.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21

shall be sent to school from six TO
fourteen years of age. and UNDER
sixteen if they are not employed.
There are thirty-fye counties in
the state that have had for some
time compulsory education, and if
this bill becomes a law, it will APP
ply to the entire state.
The legislature will probably set
aside one-third of its taxes for the
public school fund. This will be
an increase Of % per cent. This
means a large sum of money and
there are those who fear that the
country schools, the rural chill
dren, are not receiving their fair
proportion of the state appropria-
ton. From the under-paid coun-
try teacher there is a suspicion
that the state has gone to the other
extreme Of the oyer-paid high
school and Normal school profes-
sor. There are some things con-
nected with the public school laws
that should be changed.
The legislature is waging a hard
fight against child labor. The con-
domination of sweat shops and fac
tories where the minds Of little
children are warped and their
bodies dwarfed is a good indica-
tons.
Several bills are pending, which
if enacted, will do much toward
regulating the employment of wo-
men and children. No mistake
will be made in taking proper care
Of the children of the state.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21
The Depths Of Debt

ave 10 terrors for him who has
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21

The Democrat last week con-
tanned an account of a spelling
contest between two rural schools.
This impresses us as an innovation
worthy of being taken up by other
schools. There is no part Of the
present common school work SO
much neglected as spelling. 1t is
the fewest number of people who
can spell correctly. This does not
apply wholly to the commonality
of the people, but to the so-called
educated as well. But few of our
teachers spell well. The art Of
being a good speller seems to have
been lost in the great educational
rush. 1t is time the rural schools
as we'll as our colleges were giving
more attention to this study.
Spelling contents would be a fine
way to inspire effort along this
line.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21
Arthur Mays

Arthur Mays, SO, died Monday
morning two miles east of Milan.
He was taken sick on Sunday. He
was prominent farmer, mill and
gin owner, and a member Of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.
He is survived by a wife and five
children, his father, several broth
ers and sisters. Funeral services
were conducted Wednesday morn
ing. He was useful citizen and
his death is very much regretted.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21

We can never catch up with the
Yankee farmers making money
until we begin saving time, labor
and expense as they do. They are
all the time inventing some new
labor-saving tool or piece of ma
chinery, or buying some such thing
the other fellow has invented. We
must do likewise if we wish to
prosper as they do. Two, three,
and four-horse plows, stump-pul-
lers, manure spreaders, the best
planters and harrows and riding
cultivators, wheat harvesters and
corn binders these are the things
that make the western farmer rich,
because they enable him to run his
brain with two, three, five or ten
horse power instead of one-horse
power. The Progressive Farmer.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21
GOOD ROADS

Why not make this good roads
year in Carol county. The pres
ent road law may not be just what
you like, and if the legislature
passes a new INV it will very likely
have objections. No law will make
good roads. The people can make
good roads if they will, under any
law. 1t takes labor and money to
make good roads. Community pride
and a desire for better roads are
two essential conditions, and when
these conditions exist there will
be little trouble in finding the way.
The tendency to want the state and
county to do everything by taxa
ton is hurtful to the cause. Where
the state and county fails the com
munity should take hold and com
plete the job. Have pride enough
in your communities to see that
the roads are put in proper )condi-
ton and kept 50.
If your contractor fails to do his
full duty there is a remedy, apply
it. He has no more right to fail
to do his duty than any other Of
fetal. When he does his duty,
and has done all he can to make
the roads what they should be, the
funds and labor provided by law
having expired, then the commun-
ity should go to his help and by
general workings make the roads
what they should be. This is a
demonstration of civic pride that
will hurt no man, but will give
you and the county at large, a
better opinion of our community.
1t will be time and money we'll
spent.
Make the year 1913 road-build-
ing year in Carroll county. Good
roads enhance the value of your
farm. They save time and money
when you have hauling to do.
They advertise your community,
and they will make you take more
pride in your homes and in your
county. Don't be tight-fsted and
lazy about improving your own
community, you will get it back
in pleasure in travelling over your
roads and in the satisfaction of
knowing that you have done the
part of a good citizen, All any
community needs to do this is a
leader with a spirit Of improvement.
Find such a leader.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21

Here's a chance for real co-opera-
ton while you wait. Go in with
two or three, or five or six neigh
bors and buy a Stakeholder, a
stump puller and a ditcher. Then
you can put these machines to work
in February and make as much
money or more preparing for
1913 crops as you will make per
month cultivating 1913 crops a lit
tie later. If you get your land
properly ditched (of course, thing
is better, but good ditching will
help if you can't tile drain, get
the stumps cleared out, and the
stalks cut and left on the ground
to rot, you will have the right
start made for a good years farm
ing. Why not get catalogs on
stump-pullers. stalk-cutter and
ditchers, and get ready for this
way of making money from winter
work ?-The progressive Farmer.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21

The drainage question is grow
ing 10 interest. Many Of the farm
ers, who own lands along the
creek, are enthusiastically for it,
but it is also finding some opposi-
ton. They are all talking about it,
and many are making earnest in
quiry as to whether it can be done
or not, ard if done, whether the
benefits will justify the cost. Some
will oppose it because it does in
eur a cost and they are not willing
to make the investment, although
they believe it will be profitable.
They are not willing to risk their
judgment. Every one interested
should give the question an honest
investigation and then do what is
best for himself and for his COM
Be sure you give the
a fair hearing before you
decide against it.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21

Judge NJ. NJ. Neil was, last
Monday morning, elected BY his
associates on the supreme bench.
to the office of chief justice to sue
coed Judge John X. Shields, who
was recently elected to the United
States senate. Judge S. G. Will
liams, who was appointed by Gov.
Hooper to succeed Judge Shields
on the bench, was sworn in last
Monday. Judge Williams lives in
johnson City, and is an independ-
ent democrat. The election of
Justice Neil was unanimous and
came as a fitting reward for long
service on the bench Of the highest
court of the state.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21

Best Overalls on earth for the
money, $l.25 quality going at 900
at Dodson & Carriers.
Mrs. George BIanks5 of Muir
ray, KY, was a visitor at the
johnson House last week.
Bob McNail will be in Hunting.
don, Thursday, February q, tc
buy mules. Bring in your mules.
Henry Kemp and wife, of Nc
Kenzie, were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. J. D. Crawford the first
of the week.
The following parties composed
the guests at house party given
last week by Mr.. and Mrs. w. W.
Walters, of Gleason: Misses Tes-
sic Mebane and Elah Sander add
Messrs. Will E. Mebane. Curtis
Enochs and Allen S. Eason, of
Huntingdon, and Misses Imoeene
White, of Gleason, and Sarah Car
ter, of Nashville. Those in at
tendance report the affair to have
been a happy success.
Pink Rogers (colored) was
brought in Monday from McKen-
zie and placed in Jail. Carrying a
pistol is the charge against him,
Cricket Reed (coIored) charged
with gaming, was brought in from
the Thirteenth Monday by Lon
Rust and turned over to the
sheriff. Sheriff Alden is round
ing them up now, getting ready
for court.