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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
KANSAS COlAAENT
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

The WAY OF THE WORLD.
The man who is sensitive about the
things that are said about him does
not amount to much He has not
amounted to enough to have his skin
toughened. The man worth while is
conllhual!y being lied about, maligned
ana handled roughly. The man worth
wnlle has his character assailed and
MS integrity impugned That is the{
way OF the world. No attention is
pald TO the. man who does not amount
10 awning All the malice of the
world is directed towards the man
who succeeds, the man strong enough
TO carry the load of calumny. We
nave often thought of the picture of
the big bull dragging a lot of hounds
In the pond and drowning them. He
was stronger than the whole naclr
That is what happens with the stronp'
forceful man. He drags all his ma
hgners into the river of despair and
browns them. 1t takes some time to
do 1t, but he has a lot of fun while
the tight is going on.-Lawrence
THE CHUCKLING SOCIALIST.
Kansas City, Kan, voted to con-
struct municipal electric lighting
plant. Yesterday, Judge Hook. of the
FEDERAL circuit court, approved a plan
looking to the municipal ownership of
Last week Attorney John Dawson de-
ciared that ice. being a public utility
should be controlled by the state. Last
month a bill favorably considered by a
committee of congress. provided for the
construction of a government railroad
IN Alaska, and for the government
ownership and lease operation of coal
mines. All these things have happened
IN the past thirty days If you were
a socialist wouldn't you hunt a cool,
shady spot between two buildings
where the air poured through and Sit
down in a kitchen chair and chuckIe
and chuckle and chuckle? The really
interesting part of the situation is that
about half of the American Socialist
platform for the 1904 is now on the
statute books of one-third of the states,
and much of it is in the platforms of
at least two of the great parties The
socialists are getting too conservative
for this country. They will have to get
a move on themselves or they will be
without an issue in 1916-Emporia
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

There is nothing new in the science
of eugenics. The father of the girl
has applied it for a long time to the
financial condition of the prospective
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

A goat held up street traffic for
twelve minutes in New York the other
day. But ordinarily New York will get
almost anybody's goat quicker than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Reports have it that the powers
will let the Balkan states fight it out.
should this be the case there will be
a dearth of able-bodied men in these
states when the scrap among them
selves is over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

An announcement having been
made that the guerilla Quantrell was
in the land of the living until five
years ago, somebody is sure to bob up
with a report that Kate Bender is
still alive and we'll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

If Senator Thompson casts a vote
for free sugar it will be sweet one,
at any rate, for his friends who have
an eve on federal Jobs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

About the only ones who voluntar-
lily bled on Independence Day were
the prize-fighters, but it wasn't for
their country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Probably the Texas law which pro-
hibits men getting drunk except in
their own homes is intended to foster
home owning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Representative Underwood need not
worry if he is compelled to leave
congress. He is qualified for the
revenue cutter service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Suffering from a temporary break
down, Mary Garden has put off all
her engagements. But the public
will not stand it if Mary puts off any
thing more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

One more testimonial to the inf1u-
ence of women. Criminal statistics
in New York City show that the
bachelor criminals outnumber the
married ones in the ratio of three to
@ne
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Don't wear too much clothing" is
the hCt-weather advice of DR.. Wiley's
successor. Probably not intended for
the women, however.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

This country's smokers contributed
$309, 47S,O0O to the government las
year, and goodness knows how much
to the trusts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

A trifle homogeneous, but nonethe-
less a fact. An Illinois iceman was
stricken with the heat recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Neither do the newspaper reports
show that there has been any falling
off in the chump crop this year. In
fact it appears to be assuming larger
proportions all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

One hideous injustice of the silly
season is that everybody can get away
with an alibi except a baseball team.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Arbitrary rules of the air seem to
be as imperative as the rules of the
road. Another collision between
aeroplanes is reported, this time in
Germany
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Missouri is the first state in the
production of plug tobacco. But,
then, mules and plug tobacco natur-
ally go together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
ON TIE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
Garden Seeds.

Oaf0en SeeOS.
My congressman sent garden seeds, sent
garden seeds galore,
Twas claimed that they were better than
the seeds sold at the store.
I planted them as 1 had planted common
seeds before,
Those fancy seeds grew common weeds,
just weeds and nothing more.
You see, 1 merely planted them and let it
go at that,
didn't cultivate the ground or hoe my
garden plat.
I didn't nurse those seeds along for for
sock them flat
I merely raised a crop of weeds, of weeds,
profuse and fat
IT'S so in life; man may be prepared
for gallant deeds,
The seed of genius in him sown, the
richest of all seeds;
But If it is not nursed along according to
its needs,
It will, uncultivated, bring forth nothing
much but weeds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Bacon-"what did your boy learn at
college?" Egbert-"Says he can't tell me.
why not?'' Says it's a secret" Non
senser' mo; you know. he learned the
football signals. '-Yonkers Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

Mr.. Bryan is immensely pleased
with the administrations currency
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
From the HickeyvilIe Carton.

Hank Tumms hesitated a long time be-
tween celebrating the Fourth of July and
going to the circus. He says he knowed
he couldn't do both and that he would be
sorry whichever he did, which is usually
the case in every crisis in a mans life.
Elmer Jones is having a lot of trouble
with a gauze union suit that he bought
down to the city. Ever since he had it
one leg has been growing shorter and the
it must have been cut the bias. The
short leg has Shrunk up to almost nothing
and the long one has stretched out so
fast that he has had to cut off enough to
who is an optimistic Teller, says however,
that outside of maxim his walk some lop-
sided he is getting along fairly well.
Ez Purdy has Travelled a great DEAL
He has ridden a sulky pillow for Anne
Ei1liEer for nine years.
No. II was late Thursday that she
waited at the station here three hours
and was then right on time for the next
days run.
We can look out ON the street at any
time and see a half dozen old ladies
slashing at the flies with their aprons
trying to get them out OF the house. The
dog days are on and they are hot and dry
and the flies are coming thicker and it is
an established fact that they carry disease
germs, hence every means should oe used
to dispe, them; at least they SHOULD be
6isinfected tCfoIe they are lie: inside the
house.
land without seeing it. Recently he went
to that state and asked to be shown the
property. The land agent told him there
were but two obstacles in the way. One
and the other was that he could not Dor
row a boat. The purchase proved to be
part of a cypress swamp, covered with
two feet of water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
by THE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

Women don't vote in Mexico, so,
with an election pending, the govern
ment offers to trade six good women
for one man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
What Happened to a Tghtwad.

We once knew a man who was too
stingy to take the newspaper in his home
town and always went over to borrow his
neighbours paper.
One evening he sent his son over to bor
row the paper and while the son was on
the way he ran into a large stand of bees
and in few minutes his face looked like
a summer squash
Hearing the agonized cries of the son,
the father ran to his assistance and, In
doing so, ran into barbed wire fence,
butting a handful of flesh from his
anatomy and running "a pair of trousers.
The old cow took advantage of the hole
in the fence, got into the cornfield and
killed herself eating green corn. Hearing
the racket the stingy mans wife ran out
of the house, upseting a four-gallon churn
full of cream into a basket of kittens,
drowning the whole flock. She slipped on
the cream and fell downstairs, breaking
her leg and a $40 set of false teeth. The
baby, left alone, crawled through the
spilled cream into the parlor and ruined
a $40 parlor carpet. During the excite
ment the daughter eloped with the hired
man, taking the family savings bank with
them.
The moral is that every man should be
a subscriber to his home newspaper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08
This, That and the Other.


Melba is celebrating her twenty-fifth an
niversary as a grand opera singer. This
leaves her time for about twenty-five an
nual farewell tours.
Ohio BARRIERS now charge IS cents to
shave off a mustaclge, but that is more
than any mustache is worth.
Pretty soon the western farmers can
thank the Democratic administration for
q bumper wheat crop.
It is about time for England and the
suffragettes to take their dispute to the
Hague tribunal.
E-President Taft says he is satisfied.
That makes it unanimous.
Uncle Andy Carnegie will be a guest of
tie kaiser, but there is some doubt in
court circles as to whether he will be able
to give the kaiser a stone library with his
name over the door.
Wilson will send his currency message
to congress soon. Those congressman who
have sons in college are used to getting
messages appertaining to that subject.
night oil who are accomplishing great
things not the men who are burning the
midnight gasoline.
Mrs. Enmeline Pankhurst is back in
fail If there Is Mr.. Emmehne Pank-
hurst he certainly had a lot of time to
himself.
Mr.. Marshall is slowly finding out that
the vice presidency is no place for a, man
with a sense of humor.
alrs Ava Willing Astor has Tilted
French count who, by the way, had moth
ing to count.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-08

We observe that friend Macy, of
LIBERAL will not be disbarred from the
practice of law AS we remember it,
the charge against Macy was that he
could play poker with one hand SO
we'll that no two-armed sport in Lib
eral could beat him with any regu-
larity.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-02

vartised in Sundays Examiner that
everything is guaranteed as repre-
scented, or money refunded" is not
the only instalment house which
deals so largely in wage assignments
that it has printed forms ready for
emergency.
Louis Weber & Co., Clark and Van
Buren, streets, dealers in furniture,
confided to palpitating public Sun
day in the Chicago Tribune that they
could allow no furniture house to
underseH them.
But the Tribune did not publish a
story of the case of William ]. Nuen-
Ike, who had some unpleasant deal
ings with the Weber Co.
1t DID publish last week story Of
two men who had won. court cases
against Herbert L. Joseph & Co.
Joseph did not advertise in the Trib-
une Sunday. t.....
The sweeping claim is not made
that in every case where one of these
instalment houses files wage claim
that it is mulcting its customers. In
some cases purchasers seek to take
advantage of the stores. No defense
is made of them. ,.
But the stores DO make attempts
to hound some customers. They DO
Cypress certain purchasers. And each
of these stories shows an apparent
injustice.
They DO show that the stores oft
en- take an advantage when they
think they can get away with it.
William J.. Nuenke, who lives at
BILE. Goth street, with his wife and
1o-months' old baby, is bookkeep-
er with the A. K. Pound Packing Co.,
at salary of $21 week.
One year ago he went to Louis
Weber & Co., which has a North and
South Side branch, and bought fur
niture valued at $188, At the time
of this purchase Nuenke also had
merchandise account at Weber's. The
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-02
ANOTHER CASE THAT SHOWS UP THE
- WORKINGS OF THE INSTALMENT HOUSES

furniture the baby came. His wife
was sick, doctors bills piled up and
Nuenke fell behind in his payments.
The payments he did make. he
says, were credited on the merchan-
disc account, and not on the chattel
mortgage, as he intended. Nuenke
was credited with $36 on Weber's
books, but the money was not APP
piled on the chattel mortgage.
In October the Weber Co. sent a
wagon to Nuenke's house and took
back the furniture, with the excep-
ton of some curtains, set of dishes
and a gas lamp. ,
The property taken back was val
ued at $152.9S, which together with
the $50 Nuenke paid, would amount
to $188.98. That would make it APP
pear that Nuenke was clear on the
chattel mortgage.
But Weber & Co. still claim bal
anee of S33.25 due them, which
would total $222.33 on an original
debt of $188.
Nuenke refused to pay the money.
Weber & Co. filed a wage assign
ment against Nuenke with the Pound
Packing Co. Nuenke had signed it,
but said he did not know what the
paper was when he did so.
Pound & Co. disregarded the wage
assignment. No amount was speci-
fed in the claim filed by Weber. 1t
was simply stated that Nuenke was
in their debt. For that reason Nuen-
ke's employers claimed they did not
have to respect the assignment
Also, at the time of signing the
assignment, Nuenke was not work.
ing for the Pound Co.
At first glance it might be thought
that the Weber Co. was perfectly
justified in fling the wage claim
against .Nuenke.
But that wage claim would have
to be filed on the chattel mortgage
against he furniture Nuenke Sign
Rock Island Argus., 1913-01-08
Beware of Cousins!

Cousins are not as simple as they
seem. The very fact of being cous-
in. or having cousin. is complicated
The laiSSeZ faire of cousinShip is both
ending and deluding Cousins will be
cousins. even if you did not choose
them. They can borrow money from
you visit YOU without being asked. tell
people they belong to your family. con
test your will. even fall in love with
yOu-and cousin once removed is
twice aS apt TO. Never completely
trust cousin Never depend ON his
not doing any of these things Never
take him for granted. The "rousinly
kiss" may or may not mean what ii
means And cousins always do kiss.
Its part of being cousins.
(Nnt that cousins need necessarily
prove periIous Once in blue moon
they invite YOU to Europe or leave YOU
money. but that almost always takes
an aunt or an uncleI-Atlantic.
Rock Island Argus., 1913-01-08
There is nothing new about the sale
of American Locomotive notes.
FATHER AND MOTHER DEAD;
BABY IN STARVING STATE

Paris, ILL.,, Jan. S.-The police are
Unable TO decide whether the deaths
of William Moss, Jr., and his wife
were due to murder and suicide or a
double murder The body OF the wo-
man was sfound in the front yard Of
the Moss home, six miles northeast
Of here. She had been shot four times
10 the body with a revolver.
Moss body was discovered on a pile
of grain sacks in a buggy shed His
left jaw had been torn away by a gun
shot. A shotgun lay by his side. A
G-months-old child of the. couple was
found in the house It was near death
from cold and hunger and may die
Moss and his wife were last seen alive
last night \ farmland and William
Wallace, brother Of Mrs Moss, dis
covered the bodies
Rock Island Argus., 1913-01-08
Wagner's Summary
MORNING GRAIN LETTER.

Chicago, Jan. S.-The bull side of
wheat will be further tested today by
the presence of snow over so per cent
of the winter wheat belt.
Morning newspapers find no especial
weak spots.
Cash corn and wheat at Chicago are
firm. No. 2 corn is nominally As cents
and spring ana hard wheat hold at
their recent advances.
Corn bears are feeling for top on
the 31s bulge in May corn from AZ to
sos cents.
No. l northern cash wheat at Min
neapolis has gradually improved its
position to the S31a to 50 cent level
Antwerp spot wheat is about IS cents
above No. 1 northern prices at Chi.
cago
Provision bears are unusually conf
dent. They say the packers have sold
heavily and that the farmers will ship
hogs to avoid winter feeding.
Many figured July wheat would de
cline l to cents on arrival of snow
but the net decline yesterday was
merely "a.
Unless an unexpected weakening oi
the cash wheat position occurs, the
setback in wheat will be very mild.
The effect of the severe weather viii
probably be to cut wheat receipts.
Rock Island Argus., 1913-01-08
BLACK HAWKS AUTOBIOGRAPHY


A New Edition and
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Rock Island Argus., 1913-01-08
Sheep, 10000; strong to 1Oc up.
Nine O'clock Market.

Hogs sc higher than close yes erday
Light, 7.20@745; bulk, 7.35@7.45;
mixed, 7.2OG74712; pigs, 5.75G74O;
heavy. 7.2Od7.471a; good, 73OG747R;
rough, 72OQ7.3O; Workers, 7.4O@745
Cattle, steady to strong. Beeves
5.S5Q9.4O; stockers, 44OQ16O; Tex
ans, 4.7O@5.S5; COWS, 2.S5QI6O; west,
erns, 5.7O474O; calves, 6.75@l1.OO.
Sheep, strong to 1Oc higher. Ma
tives, 4.5OG6.OO; lambs, 6.7599.1O;
westerns, 4.6O@6.OO; western lambs
69O091O.
Close of the Market
Hogs closed sc higher Light 7.20d
745, bulk 7.35G745, mixed .720d
7.47l2, heavy 72OG75O, rough 7.2OG
7.3O
Cattle strong, top $40.
Sheep strong, top 500.
Lambs strong, top 80.
Western Livestock.
Hogs. Cattle Sheep
Kansas City 49,. 1000 5000 5000
Estimated Chicago Tomorrow.
Hogs. Cattle. Sheep
Chicago ...... $4,000 5000 lS,OOt
Rock Island Argus., 1913-01-08

you in this?" asked Senator Nelson.
No, / don't think what l did could
be characterized in that way" replied
Judge Archibald.
why did you not give the Bruce
letters % your associates on the
bench?" asked Senator Culberson.
Because they practically did not
enter into the case at ALL" said Judge
Archibald
Did you secure Mr.. Bruce's assist
ance in preparing a disseating opin.
ion?" asked Senator Hoke Smith,
and then bring the o-her members
Of the court over TO your view with.
out disclosing the correspondence"
NO. ! reached my decision without
Mr.. Bruce's assistance and wanted
his view on the one point" said
Judge Arch bald
Rock Island Argus., 1913-01-08
ARCHIBALD'SCASE
TESTIMONY ENDS
Commerce Court Jurist Spends
-Four Hours in Replying
to Senators.

Washing on, D. c., Jan. s.-The i'm
propriety OF a federal judges writing
10 an attorney on one side Of a case
that had been argued before him for
Information TO clear up doubtful
points became the point around which
members OF the senate yesterday fired
question after question at Judge Rob
ert w Archibald OF the United States
commerce court, under trial by i'm
parchment.
Cross examination of the jurist, be-
gun by Representative Sterling, one OF
the house managers who are conduct
ing the prosecution, was virtually TAX
en- out OF his hands when that charge
was reached involving Judge Arch
bald's correspondence with Attorney
Helm Bruce Of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad.
Members OF the senate demanded OF
Judge Archibald time and again wheth-
er he did not think II improper and
unfair to the other parties in a suit to
request OF one attorney an explana-
tion or correction OF evidence with
out giving like privileges to the 9TH
er side. He insisted he thought there
was nothing improper in his conduct
Judge Archibald was on the stand
nearly four hours. The cad OF all
testimony in the case came before
the close OF the days proceedings.
There remain now only the closing
arguments and the vote Of the senate
as TO whether or not Judge Archibald
IL guilty OF any Of the charges against
him.
The senate determined % give
three days TO the arguments. the time
20 be equally divided L is expect
ed at least FIVE Of the hou mana
gers vii participate, c~. omor-
roH.
THE Louisville and Nash lie charge
ccntcrcd about Judge Archbllds re-
quest Of Attorney Bruce for informa-
ticn as to a certain point in the So
called Montgomery rate cases, which
had been argued before the commerce
court. Judge Archibald said he had
differed with the rest Of the court ard
in writing a dissenting opinion, he
asked Mr.. Bruce 10 clear up a con
troverted question about whether or
not certain rate changes violated the
old Cooley arbitration" agreement,
that had long operated over the south
western rates.
Ir said the espondence became
OF no consequence because later thc
other members Of the court, excepting
judge Mack took a view similar 20 his
own. and Presiding Judge Knapp fin.
ally wro an opinion favorable "a
the railroad
Was il not due TO the arguments
YOU got by writing Mr. Bruce that the
court reversed its earlier position and
gave a decision favorable to the Louis
vile q Nashville" asked Represen- a.
tive Sterling
Absolutely not" said Judge Arch
bald.
Senators Reed. Pomerene. Culber
son. Shively, Nelson. Hoke. Smith. and
others piled Archibald with questions
as to his intent and as to the propriety
OF his act.
you Sc out. did you not, to write
Rn opinion in favor OF the railroad
and you wanted Mr. Bruce TO fortify
Rock Island Argus., 1913-01-08
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
will be about 10 degrees.

The southern storm which has NOV
ed from northern Kentucky 10 north
western New England. has again been
attended by snow or rain from the
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys
10 the Atlantic coast. The western
area OF high pressure and low temper
ature overlies the territory from
southern California, the southern pla-
tcc1 sections and Texas northeastward
O. the upper lakes. The temperature
remains below zero over most Of the
eastern Rocky mountain slope and in
the middle and upper Missouri valley
and the northwestern portion Of the
Rock Island Argus., 1913-01-08
Noted Musician Is Dead.

Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. S-Richard
Watson Seaser, 50 years old, musi-
clan of national renown, died yester-
day at the home Of his son. F. w. Sea-
ger. 1177 East rhiTtylifth street, fol-
lowing an Illness OF only a few weeks.
Scager came to California about nine
years ago. He was born in Byron, n.
Y, and his father, Micah Seager. was
one of the founders of Syracuse uni
versity. Professor Seagers greatest
achievement was Queen Esther" "
vhich he collaborated with William b.
Bradbury in Boston more than half
century ago.