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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-26
HOW TO SLEEP COOL.
Says Bed Can Be Made Refrigerator
by SprinkIing Water on Sheet.

Persons who have the electric cur
rent in their homes" said physician,
need not suffer for want of re-
freshing sleep, day or night. Such a
sleep is the best safeguard against
being Frustrated or killed by the heat.
Let me tell you the method first, !"
the doctor continued, and then L will
give the reason for it. On a bed or
cot spread a single sheet. Take a
basin of water and whisk broom and
with the broom sprinkle the sheet un-
til it is thoroughly dampened. If you
have a rubber blanket over the mat
tress, make the sheet more wet by
dipping it in the bathtub and spread
it over the blanket. Set the electric
fan SO that 1t will blow a fairly stiff
blast across the bed or cot. Lie down
on the sheet, and you will soon be
sound asleep.
Now for the reason the doctor
went on. 1T is not the hot blast
from the fan that cools you. The fan
sets the air in motion and gives ap-
precia BILE relief. But what thorough
ly cools you is the evaporation from
the sprinkled sheet with the warm
blast blowing over it. And the warm
er the air from the fan the swifter
will be the evaporation and the
greater the GOODNESS.
Here is an illustration that all
persons having to do with explosive
vapor motors in automobiles or mo-
tOrboats will understand. The one
part of these motors that always is
cold is the pipe from the carbureter
or mixing valve TO the cylinders. In
most of these machines the cylinder
exhaust is close to the vapor intake.
In some. machines the exhaust, with
in few inches of the vapor intake.
is so hot that a drop of water on it
will hiss, yet the intake is cold while
the machine is running. 1t is made
cold by the rapid vaporizing of the
gasoline. Water vaporizes not so
rapidly, but a warm blast from an
electric fan on a damp sheet, what
ever the temperature of the room, will
produce a degree of GOODNESS through
evaporation that will be perhaps more
than that desired.
1T is simply" the doctor conclud-
ed, making a mild form of refriger-
ating plant of your bed or cot. 1t
cools not only the person, but lowers
the temperature of the entire room.
The cost of operating it is about the
same as that of keeping an ordinary
electric bulb lighted. New York
Sun.
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to the end, could walk ten miles a
day until week of her death at 140,
and according to the inscription on
her portrait at Muckross Abbey, Kill
larney, lin We course of her long pill
grimage renewed her teeth twice"
Sir William Temple relates that "she
must needs climb tree to gather
nuts, so, falling down, she hurt her
thigh, which brought a fever and her
DEATH"
A modern instance, and one appar
emily deserving of credence, is that
of DR.. William Mead, of Ware, Coun-
yard giving his age al years with
the odd months, weeks and days.
Like DR.. Chao-Choy, who died the
other day, after arrival in New York,
he probably used longevity tablets or
otherwise discovered the art of liv-
ing long. The death at Korti in the
government of Kutais, of a small far
mer named Khabsa in his 141st year
was announced recently. "Oil with
out and honey Within was believed
by one ancient to be the secret of
longevity. The tomb of Margaret
Scott, of Dalkeith, Scotland (173S),
tells the principal events which she
saw during a career of 125 years.
But their name is legion. Mark or
Marcus Jordan, the ''Westphalian pa
triarch," is said to have won a pc
destrian match at 107. He believed
in exercise for all ills, three meals
d udyJ anu no IneOlclne- Jean FRED
erick Waldeck, an undoubted cente-
marian, died at Paris about 1876, aged
100, and the female soldier, Phoebe
Hessel, who, born in 1913 at Step
ney, fought at Fontenoy, where she
was wounded, in 1745, reached 10S,
according to her tombstone at
Brighton. 1t seems quite likely that
Brown, the Cornish beggar, did at
tain 1870, with life free from care.
I have a photograph of James Carne,
who died in Cornwall a few years
ago at los. He was England's old
est parish clerk: indeed, he, his faith
er and grandfather had been parish
clerks at st. Colomb Minor for $50
years, and there We're only six since
1645. A Welsh centenarian who died
a few years ago had sung in a church
choir for 80 years, surely a record!
Any one interested in the subject of
longevity will find a long list of cen
tenarians in ''Rutter's Worthless and
Chambers Book of Days" among
other publications. - Correspondence
of the New York Times.
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MONDAY

'em by the bushel. There you gol What
are you grinning at now?"
THAT is bed of burdocks out there
she laughed.
''Burdocks! Never, Never! in all this
world! 1 was jumping over burdocks as
boy before you saw the light of day.
You may think they are burdocks. Mrs.
Bowser. but what you don't know about
farming would fill a mighty big book.
Don't you worry about currants-TH see
that have 'em by the barrel. Now,
then, to sharpen my scythe..'
There was a scythe hanging up in the
barn, and Mr.. BowSer logged it up to the
house and spent half an hour looking for
something to sharpen it with. There was
nothing better than a brickbat, and he
worked away with that and whistled
Yankee Doodle until he thought he had
ing and whistling a farmer who was
driving along the road stopped to ask:
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HISTORY'S OLDEST man.
Was 1t Thomas Cam, Aged 2O7, Ac-
cording to the Parish Record?
THURSDAY

L am afraid 1 cannot "vouch' for
the records of the two ancients men
toned in your recent editorial article,
but would say that the extraordinary
case of Thomas Cam (aged POD rests
on the parish records at st. Leon
ards, Shoreditch, copy of which
appeared in the Penny Magazine of
1888, from which it appears he lived
from the fourth of Richard " to the
thirtteth of Elizabeth, having been
born in 1881. One would like to in
spect this record to see if there is any.
apparent tampering with the entry,
for if this remarkable case is anthem
tic Cam may have been the oldest per-
son of all time, the years of the Bible
being very uncertain.
l quite think the age attributed to
Henry jenkins, the Yorkshire man
(169), is authentic, but L know of no
further evidence of it than his tomb
stone inscription written by Dr.
Thomas Chapman, which credits this
centenarian with Temperance, a life
of labor. and a mind at ease AS. to
William Edwards (168), whose case
L have faith in-he is commemorated
on slab in Caerey Church, near Car
diff, Glamorgan, and died in 1868.
Tombstone inscriptions are not easily
tempered with. The case of Juano
Truxo is perhaps very uncertain, she
being negreSS of Tecuman, S. A, and
is reputed to have attained 1852 years
lants." Betsy Trantham, of Tennes-
see (probably another negress), is said
to have died in 1894, aged 1874.
I believe in Thomas PARIS age
(152). He married his second wife
when 120, and till his both year per-
formed all his usual work Twenty
years later he went to London to see
Charles I. but the royal treatment at
court was too much for him, it is al
legged. Peter Czartan, or Tortin, the
Belgrade patriarch. a notorious glut-
ton, could not have been troubled
much with Indigestion, as he is stated
to have lived to $50, and even $50
odd years. In 1891 a countess of Ec-
cleston is said to have died in Ire
land at 143, and again evidence is
lacking. but the Countess of Des-
mond's case is an extraordinary one.
She danced with Richard III when
Duke of Gloucester, and described
him as one of the "straightest and
properest men she ever saw
This merry widow died in 1894
surviving her husband, the twelfth
earl, 70 years, retained her faculties
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LATIN AMERICAS WAY.
Claimed Their Revolutions Represent
Logical Application of Recall.

The primal justification of revolution
to the Latin-American is that it is Of
ten, in his conception, the sole practi-
cal method of learning which of two
claimants has a real majority of those
units of influence upon which the right
to rule in any democracy is based
The Latin is nothing if not logical,
and, in America at least, he rejects
as purely academic the suggestion that
this conflict be decided by counting
of votes. Aside from the indisputable
fact that the great mass of the people
are totally incapable of an intelligent
exercise of the suffrage. to the lucid
mind of the Latin a trained and equip
ped army is worth something like five
times it's numbers in simple citizens
of the republic. AS the right of the
ma jority to rule is based upon the con-
coded ability of the majority to main
tain itself by force, any majority not
obtained by counting the soldier as
the equivalent of five civilians is mere
ly a paper majority, a fiction of theor-
lists.
There is no grown man in any Latin
American republic who might not have
seen this proved in his own country.
He believes, with Lincoln, that a ma
jority always changing easily with pop
ular opinion is the only true sovereign
of a free people, but he insists upon
point which we pass somewhat light
ly over-the willingness of the major
ity to change easily. If it will not,
he claims on any and every occasion,
if he so choose, the right to appeal to
the first principles of majority rule,
which we ourselves exercised in 1861.
And the practical result of these APP
peals when made only fortifies him in
his conviction that in computing work.
ing majorities the weight of mere num-
bers is of very minor significance COM
pared with the possession of money
he inf Of oh rob or
a score Of other decisive factors of pub
lie opinion.
No political leader may rest secure
in the consciousness that there can be
no further expression of the will of
the people for two or four years. Rev
olution is not only a means of dis
tinguishing a working majority and a
method of securing to such a majori-
ty the control to which it is entitled.
1t is also the unfailing redress of an
oppressed or neglected proletariat.-
Paxton Hibben, in the North American
Review.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-26
B0WSER, HE M0WS.
1t Might Have Been a Success But
for the Scythe.
SUNDAY

Mr.. Bowser's neighbor in town, a
Mr.. Green, had said to him:
''Bowser, you are looking rocky"
>Sr. Bowser was neither feeling nor
looking anything of the sort, but the
words at once sunk in and he re-
piled:
Eyes. 1 think I am off my feed"
"You want some vigorous exercise
to get up a healthy sweat. You also
want a breath of pure country air"
But how'll 1 get emp"
You and Mrs. Bowser go out to
my little farm for over sunday; rake rake
along something to eat, and you'll
find everything else. Just imagine it's
your place and take off your coat and
go to work for a day. You'll improve
your health so per cent"
by George, but We'll go!"
When Mrs. Bowser was consulted,
she replied:
IF you want day off, why not go
fshing?"
Does fishing get up a sweat on a
MANI?
IF he swears hard enough"
Mrs. Bowser. this is no matter to
joke about. I'm badly run down"
II fail to see it,
"And | can't build up without
change. I feel that my life Is at
stake
Mrs. BoWser knew that he had the
health of bounding buffalo, but she
agreed to go, and was ready when the
time came. 1t was a walk of half a
mile beyond the trolley terminus, and
Mr.. Bowser saw nothing but the pic
turesque in the bull-thistles, mullen
stock and burdocks they passed on the
highway. He went to bed happy, and
he rose up next morning to say:
Its Sunday morning, but I'm going
to put in a big days work, neverthe-
less. I've got to work off some of this
surplus fat and harden up. I think
I'll tackle the grass first. There ought
to be a moving machine around some
where"
You mean a scythe," she said.
do I? Well. it's all the same
thing, l think there's one hanging up
in the barn. Think of it. Mrs. Bow |
ser-the merry. merry farmer. whis !
Ting as he sharpenS his scythe in the |
green meadow. I'll have the scent of
the new mown hay blowing all over
this country before the clock strikes
10! Wasn't it glorious idea of mine
getting this farm for a day? Just
hear that bluebird warbling his lay,
will yOul"
That's a crow cawing." said Mrs.
Bowser, after listening
us it? Well. it's all the same thing |
We might have lived in town for 80 |
years and never heard a crow trill.''
81 didn't know that a coffee mill |
trilled while grinding
We'll, call it what you like, only |
let's be happy. Hal"
What is it?"
Strawberries for dinner!"
Where ,"
Green said there were enough on |
the place for a big family
81 have looked the yard all over
and there is just one strawberry vine |
If that bears any fruit between now
and dinner time I'll have it on the
table. He told you there were oceans
of currants, but 1 can't find any
bushes.
''Bushes!" exclaimed Mr.. Bowser. DO
you expect to find currants growing on
bushes? I thought you were brought up
a farm2"
Where do they grow?"
DO you see that bed out there? Well,
when It's time for currants we'll have
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Then he drew a long breath, said a
prayer and made a tremendous swipe at
enough about moving to recoIlect that a
mower should utter "hu'' and give a
sort of squat as he swung the scythe.
The 'hu'' was all right, and the squat
fairly up to the mark, but the point of
the Scythe stuck into the ground instead
of encircling the grass, and such was
he lost his equilibrium and tumbled over
himself and went head-firSt into the
tangle. His hat was damned down over
his eyes, his mouth was filled with stuff,
and he got up with Mrs. Bowsers
help he jumped up and down and shout
ed:
Woman. This is your doings, and by
the whiskers of my great-grandfather Ill
get even with you for it
why, what did 1 do?" she asked.
Never you mind-I see through it ALI
my throat. Was that your little pIan?"
I'm sure H.
You get into the house and stay right
there! 1 know what you did. When I
and threw me down.
Mrs. Bowser disappeared, and after
picking up the scythe and looking 1t all
over and taking a rest for ten minutes,
Mr. Bowser sought out a new place TO
begin. He m6istened his hands again,
and looked around at the house, and then
squat worked up tip-top, but instead
of entering the grass the blade sWlpeo
along the air, with the result tnat the
mowist was turned clear around with the
momentum and the point of the scythe
struck the only shade tree on the place
and was broken off short. AT the Same
time one of the handles hit him IN tne
stomach and left him gasping for breath
and as he sunk down he thought ratner
than 9ff Ea aan.d get even with Mrs. Bowser
for this may 1 never see another sun
riser'-(Copyright 1913, by the mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate-)
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graduate of a theological school and
preached for ten years in various
towns in his district. Since 1898 he
has been professor Of political science
in Washington and Jefferson univer-
sity and resigned to become a member
of congress. He was born in Ohio in
1864.
Frank L. S. Dershem. who was
elected to the Sixty-third congress
from the Seventeenth district of Penn
sylvania, was a travelling salesman in
the wholesale hardware business be-
fore his election to congress. He is
Democrat and defeated Benjamin T.
Focht, the Republican who held the
place in the three preceding con-
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crosses. Dershem is 4s years old.
Howard Sutherland, the new Re-
publican congressman-at-larg from
West Virginia, was a government clerk
in the census bureau rs years ago. He
started at $1,000 a year and in six
months was promoted through the in
tervening grades until he was chief OF
the division of population at $2,400.
While in Washington, he studied law
and went to West Virginia as an en-
ployee of the Davis Elkins railroad
and coal interests. There he remained
for ten years and has now come back
to Washington as a congressman. He
has a family of six children and is 4s
years old.
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Washington, July 23.-The United
States congress is a pretty representa-
tive body after all as far as having
men from various walks of life is con-
cerned Among the members just
elected for instance, one man used to
be a preacher, one a government clerk,
one a travelling salesman. In the
course of a few years, most every oc-
cupation sees some one from it's num-
bers go to Washington to help make
the laws.
Henry Wilson Temple, the new Bull
Moose congressman from Washin gton,
Pa, representing the Twenty
district of the keystone state. is a
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$50 you depend on recognition from pos
terity?" said Mr.. Dustin StaX. YES" re-
piled Mr.. Penwiggle. Another generation
will recognize my genius But how are
you going to know whether the opinion of
a future generation is any more trust
worthy and desirable than that of the
present public ?'-Washington Star.
The Washington times., 1913-06-02
College Athletes Not
To Be in Athens Games

NEW YORK. June Flames f. Sulli-
van. secretary OF the Amateur Athletic
Union, made an Informal announcement
today to the effect that the United
States would send an athletic team to
the olympic games TO be held at Athens.
Greece. during the spring Of 1914. This
meet belongs to the local cycle Of
Olympic games. and can be held only
in Greece. 1t has no bearing on the In
ternational cycle OF meets. the next Of
which Ia scheduled for Berlin in 1916.
1t is believed by members of the
American Olympic committee that the
Athens games will take place during
either May or June. II such proves to
be the case a team OF between twenty
and thirty athletes will be entered. The
majority OF the entrants will be ath-
Ietic club stars. since college track and
field performers will not be available ut
such an early date. The team will sail
about a month previous to the games.
and will be in charge OF one or more
members of the committee and an CT
ficially appointed trainer
The Olympic games at Athens In 1875
WAS classified as belonging to the local
cycle" The program consisted Of
events. In which the United
6tatse won eleven hrstA
The Washington times., 1913-06-02
W[LLSE THROUGH
WITH RING GAME
Following Defeat BY FreRehman
British Boxer Says He Is
Out for Good.

GHENT. Belgium. June ,-Bombar-
der Wells, British heavywsicht cham
pton. following his defeat yesterday by
Georges Carpenter. the French cham
pion. in four rounds, has announced
himself done with the ring. He will
return to London and 60 into business
He has saved his money ansi success
full investments have made him ;nde-
pendent for fife.
By knocking out Wells CARPENTER.
former middleweiaht champion Of
Europe until his defeat by Bi'I Papke.
the American. Ii now heavyweixht
titiehoider Of Europe and may 60 to
America to meet some Of the Yankee
stars. He In particularly anxious to
meet Jess Willard and Arthur Pelky.
Wells weak stomach caused his
downfall. In the first round he dropped
the Frenchman with q hook to the
head. the referee counting nine on the
fallen boxer. Again In the second 4
left hook sent the FreRchman sprawiins
and nothing but Wells bacSWardness
to push matters saved him ,iii the bell
sounded. The third. however. saw car
pentier directing all his attention to
the Enslishmans stomach ana In the
fourth a series Of iefts and rights to
the stomach, followed by swinging
right TO the solar ptexus knocked the
ERS,ishman out
The Washington times., 1913-06-02
DODGERS EXPENSIVE
BUNCH OF PLAYERS
Team That Is Contender for
National League Pennant
Cost $45, 900.

BROOKLYN. June a-How a joI
league ball club that Is a contender Tor
the pennant was gathered together tor
an outlay of 81. 900 IL a story that Z. H.
Ebbetts. president Of the Brooklyn
Dodgers. now second in the National
League race. Is relating these days.
| Ebbetts shows figures 10 prove that
the present members of the Brooklyn
team were obtained either by draft or
purchase At an outlay OF more than
$4,000. When Dahlen assumed the man.
agement. In the spring OF 1910. he be-
gan wedding out the old material. with
the result that Rucker, Hummel. Knet-
ser. and Wheat are the only players
left Of the former lineup. Hummel was
purchased for 5000 from Brockton.
Mass.. In 1905. Rucker was drafted
from Augusta in 1907 for 500. while
Knetzer and Wheat were purchased
In 1909 for 1850 and $3.50. respectively.
Daubert was placed on first base in
Dahlen's first year, after he had been
drafted from Memphis for $500. In
1911 the Brooklyn club secured these
men: Miller, from Duluth. $50 !:
Ragon. from Rochester. $4,000: Red
Smith. from Nashville. $4,000. and Err
win. from Rochester. $4,000. In 1919
Ebbetts obtained Shortstop Fisher from
Newark for $500: Kent, from Bir'n-
ingham. for 81 900: Allen. from Mobile,
$500: Kirkpatrick. from Dayton,
$4,000: Stengel, from Aurora. $3.50 |;
Phelps, from Toronto. $2.500: Fingling,
from Toledo, $500: Curtis. from Phila-
delphia Nationals. 1880; Stack. from
Philadelphia Nationals. Sl.Jo0: Morgan,
from Rochester, $500. and Cutshaw,
from Oakland. for $500.
The players purchased for this sea-
son are: Callahan from Elmlra, s, 500:
Wagner from New Orleans. 1880. and
Never from Toronto. $500. Catcher
Fisher came from Binghamton In a
trade for Harry Lumley, who with Tim
Jordan several years ago brought an
offer OF $4,000 from the Giants. Pitcher
Hall was a free agent when he signed a
contract. Reviewing this list Ebbetts
pointed out that Dahlen has built I'D a
comparatively young team Of the play
ers he has turned loose after trials only
one Hub Perdue of the Boston Nation
ais still draws his salary In the big
leagues.
The Washington times., 1913-06-02
Harvard's Varsity
Eight in Poor Shape

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 2-Har-
wards varsity and freshman crews
will leave for New London tomorrow
for two weeks preparation for the
regatta to be held June 30. In the var
sity squad there will be nineteen men.
and In the freshman squad sixteen.
The crews will occupy the customary
quarters at Red Top, and will row
twice a day in practice for the final
races OF the season.
The varsity crew Is regarded by fol-
lowers as in poorer shape than at the
corresponding time in previous years be-
cause of the many recent shifts in po-
sition.
The Washington times., 1913-06-02
RACES ARE TIGHT IN
AMATEUR LEAGUES
Cornell Goes Out to Front in
Capital City Circuit-Bank-
ers Are Failing.
OTHER TEAMS ARE PUNCHED
President Young Expected to
Take Up Project for ANA.
teur Day This Week.
OTHER TEAMS ARE PUNCHED
Among the Amateurs
GAMES TODAY.

Capital City League-North Capitol
and L streets northwest, Cornell VI.
Southern.
Central League-First and NJ streets
northeast. Y. NJ. H. A. VS.. Northern.
Departmental League-White Lot,
Commerce and Labor vs. Postoffice.
East washington-Thirteen.h and
D streets northeast. United Brethren
w. First Presbyterian.
Federal League-Grant circle and
Upshur streets, Trinity VS.. Tangle-
wood.
Eastern-Seventeenth and D streets
southeast. Congressionals VS.. West
ern Buds.
Railroad-Fifth street and Florida
avenue northeast Station VS.. Car
Department.
Northwest Sunday School-Georgia
avenue and Kenyon street. Mt.
Pleasant VS.. st. Paul
Treasury League-White Lot, In
terstate VS.. n. B. r. A.
Marquette League = Thirty fifth
street and wisconsin avenue, St 10.
seph's vs.. War Department.
The Washington times., 1913-06-02
Epiphany Sunday
Schools Book Meet

The Sunday School classes OF Epiph-
any Church will hold their annual
field and track games for girls and
boys at Marshall Hall on June "a. ac-
cording to announcement made today
The events will be open to members
of the classes and will call for gold.
silver. and bronze medals. the prizes
for the girls being Pins of the same
design as those on the medals.
The entries for the events will be
turned over TO John J.. Campbell.
Epiphany gymnasium. The events are
as follows: e5-yard dash, 50-yard dash.
l00-ysrd dash. throwing the baseball.
broad jump. high jump, 44o-yard dash.
one-mile run. and hop. step and dash.