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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

without hitch-why. you'll simply
own dad for all the rest of time
Came at last, the great man, the
great day. Gilead stood royalty ready
to welcome its owner. Midvale stood
more royalty ready to honor its fore
most son. He was coming in the big
car, it was halted at the very edge
of town; looking out from it Ransom
saw his townspeople a-wheel, on foo-,
on horseback in procession to follow
him home. At least he thought So,
but after the hurrahing checked a bit.
a tall 1.-the fellow on horseback led
the band, with everything following,
around by the Old First.
There came a halt; Ransom was
half lifted, half dragged to a platform
beside a queer rather shapeless some
thing wrapped about with flags. AS
he set foot on the platform minute
men fired a blank salute, drums ruff
fled, trumpets sang shrill and sweet;
then a tiny girl snatched away the
flags, revealing Ransom in his habit
as he lived, fairly modelled in clay.
AS he stared, his breath coming short,
the minister said loudly: Sir, you
may go. as you have come, but Mid
vale means to keep you in enduring
bronze"
Whereupon, being soft-hearted,
after the manner of millionaires
when they cease from millionairing.
Ransom let fall some tears, and shook
hands with or kissed everybody who
came near him.
Perhaps he understood when his
daughter came dragging a reluctant
Hartly by the hand. Anyway he said
too low for others hearing: Young
man. what will be the size of your
Dill for this craven image?" And
Hartly answered with his bravest bow:
Your daughter, not your ducats.''-
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
SECRETARY
In Tentative Way He Takes Cooks
Place.

Ross B. Swingley has been appointed
as secretary to the board of managers
of the Kansas State Fair association.
Arrangements were made today with
Mr.. Swing1ey to have charge of the
fair office in the Smith building in view
of the fact that the resignation of H.
l.. Cook as secretary of the association
was accepted late Thursday by the
board. Mr.. Swingley has acted as as
slstant to Secretary Cook for several
years. He will handle the business of
the fair this fall under the direction
Of the board of managers.
L. A. Borman, president of the fair
association, stated today that plans are
being formulated for financing the fair
of 1914 and that the board expects to
work towards making the next fair the
largest in the fair history of the state.
The present board of managers will
go out of office about December Is on
the occasion of the annual meeting
and for that reason the members did
not care to take action towards procur-
ing a permanent secretary.
Through President Borman the board
expressed it's appreciation of the work
of Secretary Cook in building I'D a big
fair at Topeka. Following is a letter
placed in the hands of Secretary Cook
today by President Borman:
Yesterday afternoon was held the
first meeting of our board of managers
at-which a quorum has been present,
since your letter of September 80 was
received by me.
AT yesterdays meeting it was voted
to accept your resignation, effective to-
day, october IT. We appreciate your
Willingness, and accept your offer, to
relieve the association of any salary
obllgat ton since october 1.
The board desires further to ex-
press its appreciation of your services
as secretary. We fully realize that
through your efforts and as a result
of your familiarity with the fair bust
ness, our exhibitions of the last four
years have far excelled any recent pre-
viouS fair accomplishments in the fair
history of this state.
On behalf of the board of managers
of the Kansas State Fair associa tion
as well as on my own personal account.
wish to thank you for your interest
and efforts which have been such i'm
portant factors in establishing in To-
peka a fair in every particular credit
able to Kansas and the like of which
would be credit to any other state. -
You have the best wishes of every
member of our board for your future
success
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Electiny a woman mayor of Hume
well was a village joke; the result was
a Joke village. The moral is that a
Joke with a woman in it is not d joke
but a mistake.
The Hunnewell joke costs the COM
miSSiOnerS of that town SO2-31, but II
cost the state several thousands more
than the town is worth. 1t is incidents
like the Hunnewell incident that are
responsible for the funny side OF the
word Kansas and make possible the
outbursts of levity such as witnessed
by Jay House. He was travelling, and
sat in a seat back of a herd of vaude-
Vile performers. Somebody mentioned
Kansas, and one of the vaudevillians
said: II was in Kansas onect-
Whereupon they all laughed heartily.
The joke seemed to be complete
Otto Typenheimer is pardonable for
his failure to translate into German
the expression, Il should worry The
Germans may be grieved, peeved or
saddened. but they do not worry.
The Honorable City Parents, have
great regard for the veracity of their
employees. Last week they canned
two policemen upon the unsupported
word of a colored lady who has been
pinched probably 100 times since she
was 10 years of age.
Inspectors have pinched a man for
selling short bushels of apples. His
defense should be that the apple crop
was short this year.
A few were laboring under the delu-
sion that Sulzer could get by with 1t,
but when the tiger gets that craving
for goat meat, it is safer to bet on the
tiger.
At least once each year, the average
man falls for the report that the River
is Simply Full of Ducks.
Last evening we sat in the cold,
sticky mud, and nursed a cold, sticky
borrowed shotgun in our lap for a
brief time. Coming home, we met
friend who had two wild ducks. We
suspect him of getting them from
Kune Beck's duckery by passel-post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
NOTHING To FEAR.
None But Money Trust Need Be
Alarmed, Says Bryan.

Waterloo, Ia, Oct. 17.-Secretary of
State Bryan declared here today that
only the money trust has anything to
fear from the currency legislation
pending before congress-" The Iegiti-
mate banker, he added, had nothing
to fear.
Mr.. Bryan was the principal speaker
before the Iowa State Dairy associa-
ton convention and congress of cat
tlemen. In an interview Mr., BRYAN
predicted that the new tariff law wifi
lower the cost of living, bring sub
stantial benefits to consumers, and
remove for a generation that fear tbat
mas been excited before each election
by the advocates of protection
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A parent thinks his child takes al
ter him only in respect to its virtues.
= j +
Presumably, he men who give
serious THOUGHTS to getting married
are bachelors.
- + +
Nor is any man likely to consider a
funny story as such if it is at his ex-
pense.
j = !
A man seldom considers deal
square one unles he gets something
the best of it.
= + J.
A sermon isn't necessarily soothing
because it lulls some of the men In
the congregation to sleep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
WILL AID BAKER.
Kansas Conference to Assist in Raising
Money.

Baldwin, Kan, Oct 17.-Baker uni
versity is to be aided in it's half mil
lion dollar endowment campaign by
the Kansas and south Kansas confer
ences of the Methodist Episcopal
church, which met in Baldwin the
first of this week preparatory to their
union next March Baker must get
$375,O00 by October 1, 1914, in order
to be entitled to the $125,000 offered
by the general education board of
New York The two conferences, at
the suggestion of Bishop w. o. Shep-
erd Kansas City, Kansas, will attempt
to obtain $4,000 of the necessary
funds in their three hundred charges
comprising the eastern third of Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

1t also pays to look before you
shoot A Connecticut hunter was
trudging along a highway preceded
by his dog. An automobile passed.
The dog yelped. The hunter raised
his gun and filled the autoist's face
with a load of buckshot, thinking that
the dog had been carelessly hit by the
automobile. But it afterwards devel-
oped that the dogs bark of pain was
due to the sting of bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
AS A MEMORIAL
Tablet to Be Unveiled at Pres
byterian Church Sunday.
In Honor Memory Mrs. w. w.
MiIls-''The Living Dead"

DR.. S. S. Estey will preach special
sermon Sunday evening at the First
Presbyterian church on the subject,
Sir oliver Lodges Recent Address, or
the Living Dead" in connection with
the unwilling of a memorial tablet
placed in the new Sunday school house
by the church in memory of Mrs W.
w. Mills. who was one of the first to
see and urge the need for better Bible
school facilities. A generous memorial
gift in memory of his wife made by
Mr.. w. w. Mills made the building pos
sible. There will be special music for
the occasion, and all friends of the
family and of the church are invited
to be present. The inscription on the
tablet is as follows
IN MEMORY OF
LILLIAN ADAMS MILLS
1S57-19O5
WHOSE DEVOTED LABORS FOR
THIS CHURCH ARE BUILT INTO IT'S
PRESENT STRENGTH. THE MOTH
Err OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS, HER
VISION AND LOVE FORESAW THE
NEED OF A GREATER BIBLE
HOUSE, AND THE GIFT MADE BY
HER HUSBAND IN LOVING MEM
DRY OF HER. HELPED TO MAKE
THE ERECTION OF THIS BUILDING
POSSIBLE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
White slave Case Dismissed.

The case against William j. Davis,
accused of violating the white slave
law at SOP East Fifth street, was dis
missed Thursday afternoon by Judge
George II. Whitcomb on technically.
The law provides that no one can be
convicted on the uncorroborated evil
dence of a woman involved in the case
The testimony of Anna Minter was not
sufficient to send Davis to the peni-
Tertiary The court took the case out
of the hands of the jury and dismissed
the defendant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
TOO UGLY To LIVE,
Girl Commits Suicide Because She Ia
Not Pretty.

Kansas City, Oct. 1.-THE first cbaDce
L get l am going rs, to commit suicide. Life
Gertrude Munagle, formerly a teleph0na
operator here, made this statement while
she was patient In local hospital re-
was learned that she had killed herself at
St Joseph, Mo. She was taken to an
nervous breakdown caused. her friends
said, by regret and worry due to her he
lief that she was not pretty. Her moth
er lives here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
WOMEN'S FINALS.
New York and British Title Holders
Survive.

Wilmington, Oct. 17.-Miss Marion
Hollins of New York, Metropolitan
champion. and Miss Gladys Ravens
croft of England, former British title
holder. won their matches today in the
semi-finaI round for the Women's Ma
tionaI Golf championship at the VIII
mington Country club, and will meet
tomorrow in the final for the Anscri-
can title.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

If the enemies of the Glass currency
bill can succeed in attaching the Bryan
label to it, the prospects of it's pass
ing in anything like it's present form
are remote. The people of the country
have always shown themselves skepti-
cal of any of Mr.. Bryan's financial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

1t occurs to the Christian Science
Monitor that the intermission between
the baseball worlds series and the
beginning of the next season will no
doubt give the English language a
chance to steady itself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
OLD INDIAN FIGHTER.
Retires From Army After 80 Years
Service.

Fort Riley, Kan, Oct 17.-Harry
w. Kintz, one of the few veterans of
Indian campaigns still remaining in
the army, has retired after 80 years
of service. He served with the Seventh
cavalry against the Sioux and also saw
fighting in Cuba and the Philippines.
Kintz is commissary sergeant of the
mounted service school detachment at
Fort Riley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news IL
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publicat ton 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, 1913-10-17

In due respect to Mr.. Mathewson's
attainments, why not arrange matters
so that he can be drafted into the
major league?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Locking the stable door. Two
women having been assaulted on the
streets by thugs who demanded their
money, there is to be added watchful-
ness on the part of the police in re-
spect to suspicious characters about
Ha,n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Can it be that the American col
1ege girl has been slandered? A Vas
sar student who received a proposal
of marriage by mail accepted it by
telegraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Senior Huerta exhibits a touching
faith in the ability of his compatriots
to resist the temptation to do unto
him as he did unto Senior Madero
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Evidence is accommodating that the
voluminous litigation which has been
projected concerning the natural gas
situation is not going to add a cubic
foot of gas to the supply that will be
available for this winter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Sylvia Pankhurst appears to be en-
tirely competent to maintain the hon
or of the family. She has just been
arrested again by the London police
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
The Day i'm Congress.

washington, Oct. 17-Senate not
in session, meets Saturday. BANKING
committee heard Professor Jentxs
House met at noon and resumed fipht
ZOE quorum. Adjourned 1886 D. M
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Knowledge is power, quotes the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. and it explains:
That's why a professor gets $1,000 a
get $4,000 for an hours work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

And the honor of swatting the las
fly of the season, will, as usual, fal
to Jack Frost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

George Bernard Shaw says Chris
tianity has proved a failure. Their
why doesn't he try an English suffra-
eiSt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Boundless are the possibilities of
equal suffrage. A woman juror in
Oregon offered to marry a man juror
if he would change his vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Chicago now has three courts for
the consideration of domestic diff
culties. But the marriage license
clerk keeps busy just the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

DR.. Sun Vat Sen has not been heard
to protest because the price of So
IMexican) on his head was not made
a more valuable consideration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Jan Kubelik. the violinist. has in
sured his fingers for 100000. And
just as the season for breaking legs
on the sidewalk is approaching.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

The wisdom of refusing to recog-
nize the president pro tenn. of Mexico
has now been fully confirmed by the
gentleman himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Jane Adams says that the less
clothes, with modesty, the better. But
mother will look for new sealsl<in coat
next Christmas, just the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Huerta's announcement that he has
assumed the position of dictator will
not make much of a change in the
situation in Mexico. He has been
that in fact for some time now, if not
N 0aroR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

A substance has been discovered
that can be seen through more clear
ly than glass. Probably it's the excuse
the married man gives his wife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Congress is beginning to realize thai
Woodrow Wilson didn't teach school
all those years for nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
DRAKE ON THE WAY.
Leaves for Lawrence to Meet Kansas
University.

Des Moines, Oct. 1.-THE Drake
football team left today for Lawrence.
Kan, where the annual game will he
played with Kansas university tomor-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
THE WEATHER RECORD

Following are observations of the United
states weather bureau for the twenty
four hours ending at O'Clock this morn
Rcira az
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Otto Typenheimer is pardonable for
his failure to translate into German
the expression, II should worry, The
Germans may be grieved, peeved or
saddened, but they do not worry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

At least once each year, the average
man falls for the report that the River
is Simply Full of Ducks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

inspectors have pinched man TO
selling short bushels of apples. Hi
defense should be that the apple crol
was short this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

A few were laboring under the delu-
sion that Sulzer could get by with it,
but when the tiger gets that craving
for goat meat, it is safer to bet on the
tiger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17

Electing a woman mayor of Hume
well was a village joke; the result was
a joke village. The moral is that
Joke with woman in it is not joke,
but a mistake.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-09-12
Practical Application

PUPILS in our common schools
are sadly deficient in the power If
practical application. This must be
evident to every teacher and parent
who has c tested the matter by
asking practical questions. The pu-
pill, who with the book before him,
can readily get the answers to the
difficult problems i'll profit and loss
is wholly at a loss to determine the
profit on cloth his father bought for
20 cents and sold for Is cents per
yard. lie learns in the schools that
Columbus and Springfield are in the
same latitude, and is sure at home
that Columbus is not between Spring
field and the north pole. He learns
that every proper noun should com
hence with a capital, and then di-
reefs his first love letter to miss Jen-
ME smith. He can say with accu-
racy that there are 3o5 days, five
horus and forty minutes, and forty
eight seconds in a year, but has no
idea of how many times the sun Will
rise between two Christmases. He
can give correctly the principal parts
OF see and go, and Immediately a.
ter be guilty of saying, Il seen him
but now he has went away"
Is this fault, this studying to no
practical purpose, due to III system
of education? If it is it is high time
that our leaders in educational mat
tiers point out the fault and suggest
the remedy.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-09-12

THE persistent attempt to ge,
Judge Frank p. Langan in bad on the
State Bank & Trust Company mat
ter, recalls the happenings at a cer-
tain district school once.
The teacher had informed the pu-
pills that it being Friday afternoon
and their work for the week all
caught up, she would allow them
to devote the remaining hour to the
recital of little original verses which
they might make up. Tommy being
the first called on, recited the follow
ing:
when I'm a man. I'll go to Japan.
! will if ! can, and | guess | can"
Then, little Mary, not to be out
done, made the following donation
to literature:
When I'm a lady, II have a baby,
| will if | can, and | guess I can"
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-09-12
Banks

WE note the following extract from
a lengthy editorial in the Elko In
dependent, and are struck with the
fact that the enterprising farmers OF
this state and others are o busily
engaged in putting some scheme OF
this sort into active operation. Sure
" the farmer has long been the leg
inmate prey of the banking interests,
and no class of men is better fitted
to carry on its own cooperative bus
mess than the farmer.
Why not something on the order
of the new Industrial Insurance
Commission, protecting against loss
OF crops and a graduated premium
with the accommodating surplus of the
commission available as loans at low
rate OF interest to the farmers them
selves?
To-day the West is Astounding in
prosperity. 1t is almost able to I'M
ance itself. just as workmen's COM
pensation laws are being passed to
save the expense of litigation and
turn all the proceeds of damage pay
ments over to the man who is injured
so the farmer should get the full
benefit of the interest he is paying,
without needless charges by loan
companies.
"In Germany, for instance, there
are l2,6l4 rural cooperative banks.
The members not only know each
other but know from day to day how
their advances Of funds are being
used. This promotes conservation.
In France the farmer has been Dor
rowing his funds for IS per cent.
But in progressive American he has
ofctn had 10 pay 3 and 10 per cent,
as the result of a~ntiquatcd banking
laws and the lack OF initiative
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-09-12

EVERY growing ambitious town
is composed of three elements. Those
who work practically, vigorously
and intelligently for its advancement;
those who are in a state of apathy
or indifference, and those who take
a curious delight in discouarging the
others by ridicule, and by a per-
sistent denial that any progress can
or has been accomplished. and by
boasts OF every other town besides
their own. The last class are called
c%roakers. but they are really some
thing worse, for their opposition does
not arise simply from dependency
but from that unenviable spirit that
will neither act itself or suffer Others
to act.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-09-12

WOOD-Persons desiring to buy
cheap wood will do we'll to call at
the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lum-
Der Co. Phone S21. A23-2w
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-09-12
NOTICE OF HEARING APPLI
CATION TO SELL REAL
PROPERTY
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
THE FIRST JUDICIAL DIS
TRICT OF THE STATE OF
NEVADA, IN AND FOR ORMS-
nv COIINTY

in the matter Of the estate of lohl
Bigot, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Mar
tin Bigot, the administrator of the
estate of John Bigot, deceased, hav-
ing filed in this court his petition
praying for an order of sale of the
real property of the estate Of deceas-
ed, the hearing of the same has been
set by said court for Thursday, the
18th day of September, A. d. 1913,
at 10 o'clock a. M, at the court room
OF said court, at the court house, in
Carson City, Ormsby County, Ne
vada; and all persons interested III
said estate are notified then and there
to appear and show cause, if any they
have, why said order should not be
made.
Dated September 3, 1913.
E. 0. PATTERSON,
Clerk.
GEORGE L. SANFORD,
Attorney for Administrators.