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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-20


Springfield, III.-EtteIson commit
tee appointed to investigate charges
against Lieut.. Gov. O'Hara had its
report ready for senate today.
Pittsburgh.-SeveraI members of
state constabulary and big body of
volunteers are searching with blood
hounds for man who attacked a.
year-old Grace Johnson as she was
on her way to school and left her life
less body in clump of bushes.
Washington.-The Kern resolution
for an investigation of West Vir-
ginia coal fields strike trouble was
this afternoon referred to commit
tee on education and labor with I'M
derstanding that prompt report
would be returned. No vote can be
taken until that time.
Detroit.-Joseph Richards, 10, sat
urated his pillow with chloroform and
it over his head while chum slept in
bed with him. Dead when roommate
awoke.
Altoona, Pa.-Fire raging in os-
C6Old MILLS AL Oc1Ay ASOSA ~ ~ 49,
business blocks. Loss 100000.
Havana.-New precedent estab-
Iished in Cuba when Gen. Mario G.
Menocal. was inaugurated to succeed
Jose Miguel Gomez without a revo-
luton or disturbance of any kind.
MiIwaukee.-TWo men held on
suspicion in connection with death of
Mrs. Mary Georcopoulos, beautiful
young Greek, who died Sunday.
Analysis of stomach revealed suttl-
Gent arsenic to have killed four per-
sons.
BeIgrade.-No official confirmation
of report that King Peter of SerVia
will abdicate in favor of Crown
Prince Alexander, nor is rumor de-
MED.
Key West FIa.-AViator Parla fly
ing toward Havana landed in bay off
Nemariel. Rescued.
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-20

by famished silk mill strikers.
Paris.-The proposal to extend
military term from two to three years
has caused serious rioting.
Mt. Vernon, HI.-Mrs. Eliza Pierce,
102, dead.
Petoskey, Mich.-Mrs. orviIIe Fer
guson killed husband and herself.
Jealousy.
Paris.-Jesse Lewisohn arrested at
Longchamps for publicly borrowing
sum Of money from friend for bet
ting.
New Nork.-Louis Appel of Appel
Bros, bankrupt fur dealers, says
poker cost him $500 a week, but
could not tell judge how to play
game.
Macon, Ga.-Saunders Walker,
banker who swallowed bichloride of
mercury for aspirin, still fighting
death. Doctor says no hope.
Newport, R. I.-Torpedo boat Ne-l
suvius aiming at target, turned in
course and shot itself.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. depart
ment says paprika cocktails viii take
place of whisky.
New York.-Dr. F. F. Friedman
obtained court order restraining DR..
M. A. Sturm from distributing vac
cine or using name of DR.. friedman
for advertising.
Bedford, Ind-Thos. Hill fell from
second story of National Bank Bldg.
when scaffold broke. Fatally injured.
Brother fell on top of him and saved
himself.
St. Louis.-Committe of seven ap-
pointed by Southern Baptist conven-
ton to investigate and prepare. plans
for elimination of white slave traffic.
Atlanta, Ga.-SoUthern Assembly
of Presbyterian Church voted to
change clause in confession of
faith" to read that all infants are
saved.
Washington.-U. S. Bureau of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23

The Arkansas City band has made
enough money to buy a set OF new uni
forms.
Judged by a signed editorial in the
Emporia Gazette, the voice of William
Allen White still is for war.
The Salina Journal complains of a
drouth in that region. And yet we are
told that the rain falls on the unjust
as we'll as on the just.
The Arkansas City Traveller is he
first paper to be mean enough to say
that Stubs is causing the sending out
of those postal cards, himself.
We are going to have new suit of
clothes this spring, says Conner Davies,
we do nothave a daughter in the grad
uating class. Our readers who are
fathers will understand this item.
1t will be just half a century August
Il, since Lawrence was raided and
burned by the ,Quantrell guerrillas, and
movement has been started for the
observance of the day by holding an
old settlers reunion.
The Atchison Globe announced the
return of its former editor from a trip
around the world at follows: &c. w.
Howe. who was down town this morn
ing, is almost as heavy as Ex-Governor
Bailey" Merely that and nothing more.
If the crop-killers get as many set
backs in regard to the chinch bugs as
they did with the frost and drouth,
says the Ottawa Herald, the yield in
Kansas will run into so many figures
that the newspapers will have to get
adding machines 20 report the crop this
fall
The trouble with fabulous sums
man saves by using a safety razor.
says Bert Walker, is this: Come easy,
go easy He fritters it way in trips
around the world, automobiles, dia-
monds and gold bricks. So in the long
run it does him no good and the poor
barber has to hustle all the harder to
make both ends meet.
One of our exchanges makes note of
that fact that the X-rays disclose that
persons who habitually stoop, and
especially the girls who pose in fash
ionable curves, displace or compress
some vital organs of their anatomy III
that case, says Conner Davies, there
are some men we know who should
double over like a jack-knife to see If
they couldn't suppress their gall.
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QUAKER fluctuations.

from the Philadelphia Record.1
Even the woman who paints isn't al
ways true to her colors.
We should all have aim in life, but
most of us need mighty big target
Don't look for trouble unless you know
what to do with it when you find it.
When an unpopular man is stuck on
himself he probably loves himself for the
enemies he has made.
Lots of people who go on the principle
that IT is never too late to mend put 1t
off till they forget how.
Some men seem to have an idea that
God gave them hands and feet to be eth
err knockers or kickers.
Blobbs-'Bjones considers himself the
soul of honor" Slobbs-''Well, all can
say is that he needs half-soling.''
The Cynical Bachelor rises to remark
that it is generally easier to write love
letters than to right yourself.
Muggins-''Longbow boasts that he
never tells the truth" Buggins-"Don't
you believe him. He's an Internal liar"
Mrs. Gnaggs-'I could have married a
dozen men before I met you" Mr. Gnaggs
yes, thirteen always was my unlucl<y
number"
You editors take life too seriously re-
marked the poet. IT know several who
would take yours with positive glee.'' re-
torted the editor.
Wigg-"The man who is always talking
about his achievements might employ his
time to better advantage" Wagg-"Yes,
he might be talking about ours"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.I


Virtue is its own reward too often.
Some actors are like rice, being easily
puffed up
Letters of credit might be properly
termed capital letters.
If woman thinks before she speaks she
can economic on talk.
The paperhanger's business is good if 1t
drives him to the wall.
Some men are made by circumstances,
but lot of others are unmade.
Every husband hears good deal about
the sanity actions of other husbands
Listeners don't expect to hear any good
of themselves; it's the bad of others they
are after.
The powers that be too frequently sit
down on an evil as gingerly as if it were
an inverted tack.
A woman can love her enemies if they
will only give her a chance to say ho-rid
things about them.
Some poets AFFECT carelessness in their
wardrobe for the same reason that tramps
travel in freight cars.
Wise Is the man who knows enough to
cast his lot with a woman who has suf-
ficient cash to build a good house thereon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

You are a jay in somebody's eyes.
thinks
You have a good home II you are glad
to get there.
Link Preston's ice box was robbed yes
fterday. Heard OF any tramp starving to
death? --r
A patriot pauses to suggest that Decora-
ton Day is so generally devoted to double
headers.
The rule is that the man with something
to sell is more polite than the prospective
purchaser
In tracing your ancestry back across the
distant past, It also helps some to know
when to stop.
There is growing disposition to regard
the m. or l. sacred bonds of matrimony
as short sentence.
Hermits. history teaches US, were most
ly men, If you didn't get that the first
time, stick around awhile.
Comes also a base traitor and says
country cooking isn't what it's cracked up
to be; that it is aided and abetted by a
country appetite
You may think 1t some up-to-date slang
to refer to a young girl as a Chicken, but
old Webster's unabridged beat you to it
quite awhile.
1t isn't particularly difficult to make
good coffee. But an awful lot of the other
kind gets aboard the breakfast tables of
this land.
1t is some times necessary for mere
man to pay for an oriental rug in order
to tell the difference, although pricing 1t
iS usually sufficient.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23
EVENING CHAT
The Young Wives, Tale.
By RUrA cAyAERoN.

Once upon a Time there were two
Young Wives who Knew Best That
Truth. They were Women of I'm
usually Good Judgment and they real
ly did happen to know better about
Most Things than their Husbands.
Now one day the Husband of one OF
Great Project my DEAR he said,
ST am going to Give up my Present
Position and go into Business for My
self. 1 have had Great Opening. 1
have been offered an Opportunity to
become one of the Leading Members
of a Company to Grow Strawberries
on the Banks of the Panama Canal"
At that the Wife Who Knew Best
sat right up straight and she said,
'John Henry, what are you talking
about? Indeed you are Not Going to
give up your Perfectly Good Position
for any such, Nonsense" sAs4s
"Now you don't know Anything
about it," said John Henry. And he
dug into his pockets, and he brought
out some Envelopes, and he read off
the Backs of the Envelopes some In
controvertible Statistics of Fortunes
which could be made by a Company to
Grow Strawberries on the Banks of
the Panama Canal.
And the next day John Henry, in
pursuance of his Rights as a Man and
a Husband Gave up his Position.
BY a Strange Coincidence the hus-
band of the Other Wife Who knew
Best came home that same day and
said, "My dear, I am not at all salts
fled with my Position. I am going to
Resign. do not see any Opening Just
Now but am sure a man of My Tai
ents can soon find one"
The Second Wife Who Knew Best
thought of Rent and Babies Shoes
and of a Man down the Street who had
been Out of Work for Six Months, and
she started to say Something Quickly.
Instead she Thought a Minute and
then she said Eyes, my dear, L don't
feel that you are fully appreciated. But
you know this is Presidential Year and
Times are Hard. Don't you think
there might be more Big Openings, the
kind a Man of Your Talents ought to
have when Times are Better? How
ever, my dear, you must use your Own
Judgment. You Know Best about
Such Things"
At that the Husband of the Second
Wife Who Knew Best became thought
full in his turn and he thought some
thing on this wise. MY wife says
must use My Own Judgment and that
know Best. She is Right. I am the
Head of this Family and 1 must be
very Careful what I do. 1 will con-
slider this Step Very Carefully as befits
a Man Who Knows Best
And the next day, waking up with
out the crouch which had made him
dissatisfied he quite forgot that he
wanted to Resign His Position.
Moral-It's better to be right than
president but there are other things
better still
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other pictures-Carlotta in profile,
full face. looking up and looking
down. Not a shadow of doubt. Each
one was an excellent likeness, and the
name confirmed the belief.
The firm of Trip & Co. received an
order from the leading apparel store
in Berwick; they also received per-
sonaI letter from the assistant buyer.
Mr.. Jerry WardeI. At that time, Miss
Best was learning the trade of mil
linery.
Two days later, as Carlotta was re-
turning home from work, man push
fell into step beside her. At her
startled cry of "Jerryi" he smilingly
crooked his arm around her arm and
guided her forward.
1--we been looking for you, Carlotta.
Why didn't you let me know you were
in hard luck?"
I'm not!" she protested. "Tm-
Eyes: know all about it. And I
can imagine what you went through
first. This isn't what you left Berwick
for, Carlotta."
She averted her head, and the tears
sprang readily to her eyes.
There! I didn't mean to hurt your
feelings. But I've been thinking a lot
about you-and as soon as 1 knew
what you were doing, could guess the
rest"
The warm color was softly sweep
ing into the girls downcast face; her
heart was beginning to sing for joy;
the spoken words of her companion
sounded like sweet music to her. There
was wonderful comfort, too, in the
touch of that strong protecting arm.
"And you wouldn't let me know!"
Young Wardell looked down at her
again, and his face frightened. well,
Car1otta, year and half's long
time, and I don't know just how you
feel about it, but I've come from Ber-
wick just to ask you one question. VIII
you go back with me?'
It was because of Carlotta'S answer
then that the assistant buyer for the
leading apparel store in Berwick took
a hat from a case that arrived a few
days later, and gently stroked the
snowy, pointed wings of Trip & Co. s
most popular model of the season.
1.-The Car1otta!' The young man
looked happily reflective. well, a
little bit of fame was worth a whole
lot that time. I'll send this up to the
house"
Then he rang for a messenger, care
fully wrapped up the white-winged
sailor hat, and addressed the package
to Mrs. Jerry Wardell.-(Copyrig
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23
LET THERE BE LIGHTS

Failure to lock the stable door un-
til after the horse is stolen has be-
come such habit, that probably it will
be necessary to have serious accident
on a city street some night before all
vehicles will be required to carry
lights. In Topeka, with its street pave
ments mostly but 80 feet wide and
overhung with trees there is an ever
present danger. Any automobile
driver, can If he would, tell of narrowly
averted collisions with wagons and
buggies which he has hardly been able
to see in time to avoid disaster.
The owner of an automobile is en-
titled to consideration. There is no
doubt of that. He contributes to the
treasury for his license. He is liable
to arrest and fine if he travels with
out light. If he runs into a vehicle
of any sort on which no light is dis
played, he is the one who is liable TO
arrest and damages and, being respon-
sible, usually he must pay.
1t is the fact as stated by more than
one driver that it is very hard to see
any vehicle on a street on dark
night with rain or snow falling ana
wind shield up when sue vehicle has
no light Many wonder why the owner
or driver of a horse and wagon is lot
compelled to show a light for his own
protection and the protection OF tho
drivers.
The law about lighting car ought
to be better enforced. but there ought
TO be an ordinance in the city at least
that requires everyone driving any
kind of vehicle in the streets TO carry
a light. If. there be a front and rear
light, all the better.
They do these things better in some
countries than we do here, for IN "
insist upon every reasonable safeguard
to the citizen, whether on vehicle
of any sort or on foot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23
KANSAS cOANENT

GOOD DONE BY WOMEN'S CLUBS.
While the suffragettes are raising
the old Nick in England and getting
themselves in bad; and while Mrs. o.
H. P. Belmont is threatening that
the same action will be inaugurated
here in the United States if the men
do not give the women those rights"
for which they are contending, there
is one association of women in this
country to whom we must extend con-
gratulations.
The women's clubs throughout
America have been interesting them
selves in matters of sanitation. They
are demanding "clean-ups;" they have
seen how much of evil and illness and
distress filth can produce; they have
become interested in the great ques-
ton of public health and they have
compelled consideration of this most
important matter.
This does not detract from the In
telligent investigation given health
conditions by our physicians, scien-
lists and boards of health who have
given earnest and careful study of this
question of preservation of proper and
normal conditions, but with the credit
extended to these persons must also
be given credit for persistent and we'll
directed effort by our American wom-
en-.
Hawn, suffragette, by the way,
through the newspapers appeals to
the men to enforce and obey the sani-
tary regulations they themselves have
made, and stirs public attention.
And in Chicago, Celia Cohn has per-
FORMED like service in appealing to
the newspapers and to Mayor Harri-
son. There is a long list of cleanup
activities on the part of women's clubs
in various cities.
Largely this work has been inau-
gurated and carried out by our wom-
ems clubs. They have aroused public
attention and demanded a clean-up.-
Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23
When Boiling Water Freezes.

Water may be boiled and frozen both
at the same time. The idea is a little
startling, but the explanation is simple
enough. The temperature at which wa
ter boils depends purely on the air
pressure of it's surface. If the air pres
sure is high the water must be made
a good deal hotter to boil than is nee
essary at low pressure.
On mountains where the air pressure
is lower than at sea level water boiIs
vegetables of all kinds a certain degree
of heat is required, and where water
boils before that vegetables won't cook
Consequently they have to be put in a
closed boiler so that the generated
steam will create pressure for the wa
ter to boil beyond the required tenn
perature.
For an experimental proof of this fact
the water is placed in a vessel and the
air exhausted above the surface of the
water. AS the process of pumping goes
on the water will boil violently, the
steam congealing on the sides of the
exhaust vessel. If the pumping is con-
tinued. lon enough and the out side
is cooled below the freezing point of
the water the water will continue
boiling and bubbling until it is a mass
of ice
This fact is made use of in estimating
the height of mountains. At sea level
water boils at PIP degrees Fahrenheit.
This principle does not apply to water
alone, but to all iquids.-Chicag Tri-
bune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23
LITTLE Roy RIIE.

The little toy dog is covered with dust.
But sturdy and stanch he stands;
ana the little toy soldier is red with rust,
ana his musket moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was
new,
And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little
Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.
Now, don't you go till come" he said,
And don't you make any noise!
SO. toddling Off to his trundle-bed,
He dreamt of the pretty toys;
And, as he was dreaming, an angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue
Oh! the years are many, the years are
long,
But the little toy friends are true!
Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they
stand,
Each in the same old place
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
The smile of little face.
And they wonder, as waiting the long
years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.
Eugene Field.
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Professor William A. McKeever OF
the State Agricultural college has
been compiling some statistics on the
relations of the schools graduates to
matrimony- The result of his inves-
tigation as given in the Industrialist
shows: Women graduates married
374; women graduates unmarried,
347; women graduates who have mar
ried K. S. A. c. men. 221; men grad
yates who have married X. S. A. c.
women, 21S. This computation does
not include the class of 1912, as its
members have not been out of college
one year and presumably have not had
sufficient time to marry and settle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23
BY THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

Many people break into print, but
! when one gets into the Sattidyevening-
post, it is usually by invitation. Con-
gratis, Cow
Col. Roosevelt is going to hunt for a
lost tribe of Indians. Some one should
warn the lost tribe.
But, como to think of it, the lost
tribe will probably know it in time. A
hunt conducted by the well known Col
onel is not likely to be still hunt.
They call that little booze village over
the river from Leavenworth "Drydale.
Probably for the same reason that our
janitor is called Dick" They call him
Dick because his name is Hayden.
Quoting from the word of beauty
doctor: The hips and waist can De
reduced, in time. say a year, by stand
ing erect loosely clothed, placing the
hands on the sides and twisting the
body from side to side as far as pos
sible without bending the limbs at all.
This will be refreshing news to any rat
lady who can spare a year from her
homework to stand erect loosely cloth
ed without bending the limbs at all.
A La Crosse youth was sent to the
pen for stealing meat. Being poor
DOy' II was lil0 Only way AAO NONAO 80
it, in this day when the theft of 16
carats of liver constitutes grand
larceny.
One of the most popular colored gents
in the state is now visiting at Hiawa-
tina. Auto loads of Nebraska musicians
come over nearly every evening 20
serenade him with bricks and six
shooters.
Sir Tommy Upton will again race
for the yacht cup. But as Sir Tommy
is a foxy advertiser as we'll as a game
sport, there is suspicion that he has
an eye on the American tea cup as
we'll.
According to fashion notes, the style
of waist this summer will be some
thing like the late peek-a-boo, except
that, instead of being constructed OF
a number of little peek-a-boos, it viii
be one large speek-a-boo.
The department of agriculture claims
to have discovered that paprika will
take the place of booze in quenching
that Thirst. Glad tidings! Bring on
the day when the popular drink will
be a Bryan highball with paprika fla
vor. 1t ought to be hot stuff.
Doc Fletcher of the 60 chews, is
now engaged in dress reform-Fletch-
erizing the rags, as it were.
There is a rush in London to purchase
the Chinese loan bonds. Everyone with
a few pun sterling seems anxious to
play 1t on the yellow.
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thods of doing business with the public
and its treatment of competitors have
been unfair. Admitting the chargese to
be true could the ends set forth in the
report have been accomplished without
the means? II not, then are they JUS
titled? This in substance is the question
before the court of public opinion if
not exactly the one before the court of
law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the ruI Gay
ganfzatfon 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, 1913-05-23

Those who have been wondering
what the colonel would do next now
have their curiosity gratified He is
about to institute a search for a lost
tribe of Indians. If he find them no
doubt he will enroll them in the bull
moose army preparatory to the next
stand at Armegeddon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23

The Mexican women who intend to
boycott American goods to force the
United States to recognize the Huerta
government understand at least the
rudiments of dollar diplomacy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23

A Los Angeles woman advocates
putting divorces on the bargain coun-
ter at a uniform price of So. At that
rate the courts probably would be
compelled to employ extra help to
handle the business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23

People will complain of high prices
as a matter of habit, no matter If it
is now possible to buy 100000 900
bacteria and an ice cream cone for 5