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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
TWO ON PENSION ROLL
Veteran Employees of Santa Fe Shops
Are Retired.

Two employees Of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa F'e railway in Topeka
were placed on the roads pension roll
this month, according to an announce
ment from the general offices of the
road today. The men are John Wunder.
a wheel pressman in the shops, and
William H. Payne, a case hardener.
John Wunder is a native of Austria
He was born in Bennich May 20, 1841.
He came to this country in May, 1888,
and began his railroad work as a sec
ton man in Topeka. He has been in
the track and mechanical departments
since that time.
William H. Payne was born October
20, 1841, in Carroll county, Virginia.
He has been employed in the Topeka
shops of the Santa Fee ever since these
shops were opened. He has been in
railroad service since 1875.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
LITTLE STOMACH.

Inside Information.)
Little. Stomach wakes up bright
feel1ng good-Slept well all night;
Master sends his breakfast down
Bacon, eggs and coffee brown;
Little stomach goes to work
10 digest without Shirk;
breakfast scarcely finished when
Here comes lunch for two brave men!
Little Little stomach onward tolls
Ihro' the fricaSSeed and broilS;
Then, as if to get his goat
comes dinner, table d'hote;
everything from soup to nuts;
Master is the King of Nuts;
Dinner measures two hours long
IWlxt the courses, wine and song;
Not the sparkling champagne drink,
But wine a la red ink;
Little Stomach buckles down
10 his task without a frown;
Works like fury there below
While good master sees a show;
Table d'hote is slowed away;
Little Stomach's earned his pay:
Now I'll rest till MORN" says he;
But, alas, that's not to bel
Just as he curls up to sleep
Comes a high ball broad and deep.
Crying. Cheer up, Little 'Tum!
More to followi Here I GOMEZ"
Cocktail lands on top of that,
Then the Brothers Gin stand pat;
Tom and Gordon are their names;
Most illustrious are their flames;
Lobster salad is the next;
Little Stomach is quite vexed;
Holy Smokei Hang Hannah hight
Splash-a quart of extra dry!
Little Stomach now is peeved,
Hurt, indignant, sorely grieved;
Jokes a joke, when it's at par:
But this joke has gone too far;
Little Stomach thus doth quoth:
by my sacred stomach oath,
I'll get even with this gink
For this too excessive drink
LNVOI.
(The Morning After.)
"Oh, my poor, dear, aching head!
Would to goodness I were dead!
Oh, so very sick am
Joy 'twould give me just to die!'
Little Stomach laughs with glee:
Serves him right! Hobo! Tee-hee"
Boston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
Topeka ELK ABROAD.
Ralph Montgomery Writes of the Ma
tionaI Convention.

Ralph Montgomery, the well known Sam
ia Fe man, writes the editor of the State
Journal from Rochester, N. Y, where
he attended the Elks national convention
last week, that it was the greatest of the
B. P o. E. conclaves. The best time and
the biggest convention. declares Ralph,
who as a former exalted ruler of the local
lodge has attended these national Elks
affairs before.
James L. King and Tom Sheard were
the only other Topeka Elks in attend
ance at Rochester. Ralph Montgomery lert
Rochester via the Empire State Express
for Albany where he transhipped to
steamboat, a block long and started on a
cruise down the Hudson river. He took
his two little boys along on the trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
POINTED FsRAGRAPHA
Iron the Chicago News.1

LF,rom the Chicago News.1
Swallowing your grief is a bitter dose.
Even a self-made man sometimes makes
bad job of 1t.
To the victor belongs the privilege of
paying the freight.
Though she may be as young as she
looks, she doesn't always look it.
Occasionally a man kicks because his
name is in the paper-in small type.
Some women acquire social distinction
through marriage and some lose it.
1t was feminine curiosity that led to the
discovery of Moses in the buIrushes.
All the world ceases to love a lover
when called upon to buy wedding pres
ents for him.
It's impossible for a man to love his
neighbor himself If that neighbor is an
amateur cornet player.
And the man who publicly boasts of his
honesty may secretly pride himself on his
ability to escape detection
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
DEATHS and FUNERALS.

Charles A. Ross, aged "a, died Sun
day evening at 7 o'clock at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. r. S. Neal, 1925
Tyler street. He leaves wife and
one daughter. The funeral will be
held from the residence Tuesday aft
ernoon at o'clock. 1nterment in
Topeka cemetery.
Herbert Brown, colored, was found
dead at his home, 513 East First
street at noon yesterday. DIR. j. H.
Rinehart county coroner, said the
cause of his death was heart failure.
He was 33 years old. The funeral
services will be held Tuesday morning
at 10 o'clock, from Stonestreets
chapel. Interment in Mount Auburn
cemetery.
Word has been received here of
the death of Mrs. Barbee at Tarkio,
Mo She was the mother-in-law of
Rev Anderson, formerly pastor Of the
Presbyterian church here. Her body
will be brought here Tuesday even
ing and the funeral will be held at
that time. Interment in the Topeka
cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

From the Philadelphia Record.l
If a man has hives, let him be.
In baseball the pitcher is the power be-
hind the thrown.
I ne stamp on a love letter doesn't al
ways stick to facts.
The woman who uses cosmetics may be
taken at her face value.
1t sometimes happens that forward peo-
pie have to take back seat.
No matter how ugly a baby may be,
you can't offend the mother by saying it
looks like her.
When girls first love affair doesn't
turn out she expected she begins to
think that she is flirt.
1t takes two people to make a quarrel
but dozen more usually take a hand
in it before it is patched up.
Wigg-"Does Meekly seem to feel the
death OF his wife?" Wagg-"Oh, 1 don't
know. He has bought a photograph and
q, parrot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
BOOkLOVERS' CLUB.
Organization of Forty Members Is
Formed in Topeka

First steps toward the organization of a
new society to be known as the kansas
Booklovers' Club were taken Sunday af-
ternoon at the home of DIR. H. w. Roby.
Forty bibliophiIes were placed on the mem
bership roll and temporary officers were
elected to serve until constitution and
bylaws can be formed and adopted.
I'm a quiet and unostentatious way"
said DR.. Roby, steps were taken for
the organization of a new and large lit
erary club for this state"
The clubs membership is to include
booklovers who are not eligible to the
ranks of the Authors club" The second
lawn. A constitution Will be drawn up
at that time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Washington. July H-Secretary Garris-
son has declined a request of the French
government to have some of it's ordnance
officers inspect the processes of American
powder manufacture. The original re-
quest covers not only the government fac
tories but the great private corporations
which make the larger part of the smoke
less powder consumed by the government.
The secretary's declination as to the gov
eminent factories was based upon the
lack of reciprocity the part of the
French government. which has declined
to allow American ordnance officers to ex-
anime French ordnance factories.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Here's a blow for the fond parents
of clever youngsters. An educational
expert insists that children of excep-
tional mental ability are even greater
dangers to society than those defec-
tive and abnormalIy stupid. How
ever, a whole lot of bunk is passed
out these days by bright men who
might not be able to attract atten-
ton in any other way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rare
of ten cents a week or thirty cents
month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. Whiie
out of town the State journal VIII be
to you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

to shunt it into the waste-basket.
This is only more evidence that no
matter how sincere a president may be,
he has his troubles and many of them
in redeeming the campaign pledges
that were made by him and his party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Maybe after Marty Mulhan has tes-
titled in full before the Senate COM
Ynittee. the House committee will not
be SO anxious to get him as a witness,
unless It be to badger him and attempt
to discredit his exposures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Bachelors of moderate means, who
would like to get married, will prob
ably poster the life out of the girl, a
violin student at an Ithaca musical in
stitution, who lives on fifty cents
worth of food per week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

David Lamar denies he's wolf"
But the few pictures of him that
have been reproduced in the news
papers certainly strengthen the i'm
preston that such a characterization
IS errainently fitting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Dr.. Aureliano Urrutia, the minister
of the interior in the Huerta cabinet, is
a Joker of no mean caliber. He an
nounces in all apparent seriousness
that peace in Mexico is now an accom-
plished fact
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

At least one cause for worry has
been removed through the announce
ment that Kansas has enough salt to
supply the world for 100000 years.
And. In all probability, by the end
of that time other adequate salt sup
plies will have been discovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
Presidential Nominations.

Washington, July 1.-THE president to-
day made the following nominations: Sec
rotary of legation of Paraguay and
Uruguay, H. F. Arthur Schenfeld of the
District of Columbia; secretary Of lega-
ton at Lima, Peru, Richard E Pennoyer,
of California
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
CeIebrate Taking of Bastile.

Paris, July 1.-THE presence Of de-
tachments of native regiments from
the French colonies in Africa, Tong
King, AMMAN and Madagascar lent I'M
wonted interest today to the annual
review at Longchamps of the garrison
of Paris by the president of the re-
public on the occasion of the anniver-
sary of the taking of the Bastile in
17S9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

President Wilson's idea of sharing
the warm weather discomforts of the
members of congress. tied down in
Washington bv the special session, is
TO follow a rest" cruise on the May
flower with a weeks frolic among the
cool and well-shaded hills of New
HamDshire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
Threatens to Disband Company

Albany, July 14.-Governor Sulzer de-
clared today that If former Sergeant Sam
ueI Littman is not elected second lieutenant
of Company 3, Forty-seventh infantry,
national guard of New York. he will dis
band the company Lieut.; Col. Herman
Bendell reported that Littman's conten-
ond Heutenancy in the company because
= true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Some OF the speeches made at the an
nual convention of the Minnesota
Bankers association indicate that the
prominent bankers Of the country will
be perfectly satisfied with the currency
bill, provided it is amended in the
many important particulars that they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Nor is there anything unusual in
the fact that another outbreak in
Cuba is imminent. That it hasn't
come before is more reason for won
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Although his speciality is oil, isn't
John D. Rockefeller also entitled to
prominent place among the steel kings.
His physician reports that he has a
cast iron stomach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

One big gain for the United States
at the expense of France is the de-
cision of Jack. Johnson to make his
permanent home in Paris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
~ Verifv Ontrage Stories.

sarian and italian consuls stationed
in this city have gone to Sores to
verify the stories concerning atroci-
ties committed by the Bulgarian troops
and to aid their nations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Those British suffragettes who in
dulged in window smashing rampage
the other day in Liverpool must be
In the kindergarten class
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Wise men at Washington are of the
opinion that the outlook for any kind
of tariff legislation during the present
special session is exceedingly dubious.
The lobby Investigations are expected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Washington, July 14-Answering SEN
ate resolution on the subject Secretary
Daniels today urged an Investigations by
congress for the cost of a government
armor plate factory. which he holds could
be built and economically operated at
saving of $40 per ton for armors the
plant to cost s., 466, 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state journal ie member OF the
Associated Press and receives the fuil day
feierraph report of that great news n
wanizatfon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received IN The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Apparently the duties of secretary
of state are not very pressing. Mr..
BRYAN leaves Washington for a six
weeks lecture tour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

More power to the arm of the Rock
Island Lines in the effort to make
Topeka the hub of the country's ap-
pie supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14
Best to Have .aThe Female RafIes."

male Raff1es,'' will be the feature at
traction at the Best theater wednes-
day and Thursday. It's a story of the
acfsvities as a burglar of an ex-secret
service woman in Russia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

What an infant this country Is
Over in Italy they have weather rec
ords that date back to 1913.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

Policewomen also labor under the
disadvantage of not being able to Pr
their stars on suspenderS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-14

LAS hosts, when they give their dinners
have the Comeups any savior faire?''
You should bet they've got anything
that's in the Observation-Disclosures Ameri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30

figures in Belasco story may not al
first be clear, but, as a matter of fact
she had an important part in the stag
ing of the new Belasco production, The
Woman"
The part of the telephone girl in the
rlay is to be acted here by Mary Nash
She met Lille in the Stheater lobby one
day, just after her wedding. and though,
1t would be a good opportunity to ac-
quire some technical Information first
hand.
IT presume you used to hear lots OF
private conversation, didn't your" asked
the actress.
When I worked for the telephone com
pany' did, replied Mrs. Newlywed.
Men calling up other. mems wives?"
"Oh, lots Of them"
Married men,
'They usually WERE"
"Al married men are that way?' OBJ
served Miss Nash.
81 should worry! said Mrs. NewIywed
testify. II know one who isn't. He d
never do such a thing
A PEEP INTO 1.-THE GARDEN OF
ALLAH "-"Who are the ouled Nailes?'
Ask this question along the Barbary
coast Of Africa; ask it Of any Moor or
the streets Of Tunis, Morocco or Algiers
and he will answer with a knowing smile
To the Wild tribes Of the Sahara deser,
the Ouled Males have the same repu.
tation that the Apaches have among the
American Indians. These sons of the
desert are a scourge to the traders who
venture across the Sahara, heading by
devious paths that lead from oasis tc
oasis to the region OF ivory and gold
Timbuctoo. But the headquarters Of the
tribe is on the very edge of civilization
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30

asked me what could do. / said recfte.
With that he called the company together
and Eve never seen hungrfer bunch
and told me to get on top of a box that
stood in the center of the stage and
recite- In the midst of my recitation the
top of the box canted and l disappeared.
And 1t took me a good half hour to get
out Of what L learned later was trick
bon. part of the company's outfit.
However, this little experience failed
to dampen my arior for q great career,
and finally / landed an engagement-my
first-wtth Rich & Harris in the sup
port of Jimmy Powers. In the play
one of the characters had a line address
ed to me which read: DO your worst. :
And for what did Julian Mitchell. who
was stage manager, said, with a look of
disgust, Don't follow those instructions
so literally
..This hurt my feelings considerably,
but when on the quiet I told Mr.. Powers
my mother didn't want me to become an
actor. anyway, Jimmy consoled me by
saying: We'll, mother needn't worry. you
never Will.
FORCE OF HABIT.-The effect Of hab-
it upon the daily life never had more
comicaI illustration than an experience
which once befell Harry Fisher, the COM
edian.
For years Mr.. Fisher and Joseph Car
roll formed one Of the most popular
teams in vaudeville. Their success In
duced Lew Fields to engage them TOT
the first production of ut Happened In
Nordland'' In this piece Mr.. Fisher
played the chief of police.
On the opening night, at the cOnclu-
sion of the first act, he went immeolateiy
to his dressing room and Mr.. Carroll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Columbia.

David Belasco will present his great
success, 1.-The Woman at the Columbia
this week, with the usual matinees. The
play, one of the great successes of last
season in New York. where 1t played for
nine months at the Republic Theater, was
given here last April. 1t was written by
William c. de Mile: The company is ex-
actly the same that appeared in the play
during its New York run.
1.-The Woman has a political atmos-
phere, but a human theme Jim Blake, a
representative in Congress and big boss
of THE Party, Is halted in forcing a
graft measure through the House by Mat
thew Standish, an insurgent. In his eff
forts to compel the withdrawal of Stand
ish from the fight he discovers scandal
in his past and has everything but the
name of 1.-The woman In the case" to hold
over the head of. hfs foe Us the price of
submission.
He plots to ascertain her name by re-
vealing his discovery to Standish. and
knowing that Standish will telephone the
woman at once, he tries to bride a tele-
phone girl to whom his son has proposed
marriage to tell him the number and to
listen to the conversation. Miss Kelly,
the telephone girl, meaning to protect
the woman, whoever she may. be. appears
to accept, but removes her receiver while
Standish is phoning, afterward erasing
the number from her slip and refusing TO
reveal It.
While Blake is venting his anger and
contempt for the girl who let a big bride
slip through her hands, hts son-in-law
and feIlow-graftsman, former Gov. Rob
ertson Of New York. telephones his wife,
Blake's daughter, at the same number.
thus disclosing her as 1.-The Woman
Not having received Standsh's message,
but only her husbands, she comes from
New York to Washington and Wanda
Kelly tells her she knows all, with the
idea of warning her The grafters
daughter misunderstands and haughtily
repulses her. But the girl. who remains
loyal, Is placed upon the rack In the eau
Gus of the grafters and cross-examined
by the husband and the father of the
woman she is protecting. They threaten
her with Imprisonment. which she bears
undaunted; but this is too much for 1.-THE
Woman who finally confesses This
scene is declared intensely dramatic.
Mary Nash, as the telephone girl. is
said to reveal exceptional intelligence and
undoubted talent. John w. Cope imper!
sonates Blake: Cuyler Hastings is Stand
ish, and Jane Peyton Is 1.-THE Woman"
Others In the company are Edwin Holt,
Harold Vosburgh. William Holden. Garlic
ton Macy. Stephen Fitzpatrick, LanSdon
West and James Gerson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
1.-TWO Old Confederates" Tonight.

The Two Old Confederate and Polk
Miller's Old South Quartet will be the at
traction at the National Theater tonight.
Many will welcome this opportunity ID
hear the celebrated group as they revive
memories Of the days in the Old Domin
ion before the civil war.
The 1.-TWO Old Confederates,'' Capt.
Tony Miller of Richmond and 'Col.
Tom Booker, both banjoists of the first
order. interSperse selections upon their
favorfte instruments with old southern
melodies and old plantation stories and
sketches. The veterans present a strik :
ing picture in their faded gray uniforms.
The singing of Mr.. Polk Miller's Old
South Quartet has already been heard by
Washington concert goers. The quartet
was formed number of years ago to
get typically southern negroes who could
sing the genuine southern melodies az
only a real plantation negro can sing
them. The quartet has succeeded In this
way in all parts of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30

martre-that part Of Paris where the
knowing say life is worth seeing when 1t
gets dark enough. Incidentally the doc
tors wife and the girls sweetheart help
to make tangle of incidents such as are
possible only in continental farces
For variety there is large chorus OF
young and pretty girls, tuneful music.
catchy songs and dances, including an &c
centric one by Mr.. earle, who has the
role of the bibulous doctor.
The unique feature of the production,
which is made by Charles Frohman, is
the presentation of j M. Barrie's laugh
able burlesque on the problem play emit
tied "A Slice of Life" Mr. earle, Miss
Williams and William Danforth interpret
the .playlet Other novelties are two orig
inal dances by Joe Smith, THE Sandwich
Drag" and the Tango" and the use OF
kinemacolor moving pictures to tell part
of the farce's story.
The principals of the large supporting
company are AL Hart, George Lydecker,
Edwin Nicander. Donald MacM1llAn,
Percy Leach, Ralph Nairn. Anita Rothe,
Moya iMAnnering, Merceita Esmonde,
Veola Harry, Clara MacFarlane and Alice
Darlington.
Matinees will be given Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-30
Cosmos Concerts Today.

"Anitra's Dance" from the Peer
Gynt" suite, by Grieg; Christine's
Laughing Love March," three dances
from Nell Gwyn," by German: Lys-
berg's idyll, La Fontaine"; Tobani's
reverie, Sleeping Beauty" and selec-
lions from Bizet's Carmen" Leon
cavallo's II Pagliacci'' and Offenbach's
TALES OF Hoffman" with two rag
novelties, "Tar Babies Rag" by John
SON, and Botsfords "Chatterbox Rag
will be some of the features OF the
orchestral program to be rendered at
the Cosmos Theater concerts today by
the Cosmos Symphonic Orchestra, IN
der the direction of Prof. Arthur Man
veil. In addition a galaxy of offerings
by other talent, consisting of songs and
other appropriate features, will be pre-
sented. beginning at 3 o'clock and