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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-01-17

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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-01-17

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hif re r'eaftt Yca reckon 81
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res. hannibal; any day or hourl~
"Whoopi" muttered Hannibal soft.
~ under his breath. Presently he
asked: Where does that branch take
Fou TOT" He nodded toward the
bayou al tho foot OF the terraced biun
( IL emptios into the river" an
I suered BETTY.
Hannibal saw small Skin beachea
among the cottonwoods that grew
along the waters aise and hla eyes
lighted up instantly. lie had a Juvenile
passion FOR boats
Why you got boat. amt you.
sflss Betty7' This was charming
and an important discovery
Would you like 10 go down TO ltY-
inquired Betty.
Deed would Does she leak
any. Miss Brtty9"
q don't know about that. DO
boats usually leak. Hannibal?v
Why. you sin't ever been out row
fnz her. Miss Betty, have youy--and
there amt no Better fun than rowing
q boatl" They had started down the
path.
= used 10 think that, too, Iianni. /
bal how do you suppose It is that 1
when people grow up they forget ali
about the really nice things they
might dor
What use Is aae If you don't 20
rowing IN herr" persisted Hannibal.
"Ob, but II is used. Mr.. Tom uses
{ In crossing 10 the other side whore
hey are clearing land for cotton. II
aves him long walk or ride about
he head Of the bayou"
Like should take vou out in her.
iiss Bettyg" demanded Hannibal with
alpitating anxiety.
They had entered the scattering
Imber when Betty paused suddenly
nth startled exclamation. and Han
ibal felt her fingers close convul-
Iyely about his The sound she had
card might have been only the rust G
ng Of the wind among the branches '
Ferhead in that shadowy silence. but
etty's nerves, the placid nerves OF S
ruth and perfect health, were shat n
red S
Didn't you hear something. Han 81
BALI" she whispered fearfully. II
For answer Hannibal pointed mys- d
riously. and glancing IN the diree- cl
IN he indicated. Betty saw a woman b
vauclng along the path toward bl
EN-. The look OF alarm slowly died 81
I OF his eyes. "
Il think It's the oYerseer's niece" III
8 told Hannibal. and they kept ON
ward the boat. to
The girl came rapidly up the path.
ich closely followed the irregular
. OF the shore In its windings. ho
co she was seen 10 stop and glance
* ever her shoulder, her attitude
ent and listening. then she hurried
ward again. Just at the boat the wa
ee met.
Good EVENING"" said Betty pleas be
iy.
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rely regarded Betty With liked
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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-01-17
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Shakes peare.

The critics have not proven that
the plays known as Shakespeare's
were not written by the Stratford man
Of that name. The Stratford man win
has the field, and is likely to have it
for an indefinite time TO come. OF
course, it is possible that the discov-
cry of now hidden archives may sud
denly demonstrate to the world that
Bacon or some other man wrote the
immortal plays, but as things stand
today we must admit the Shake
spearean authorship or c1nEess that
we know nothing ct all as to who
their real author IS.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-01-17

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
A WIFEs CAREER.

Being sued for divorce. a woman
explains that she is musical tempera-
mental sensitive. She must have
peace and freedom to pursue her
career, to which the home atmosphere
has been antagonistic. She is quite
willing to be divorced, liberated, al
lowed to enter upon her operate ca
reer untrammeled by domestic re-
sponsibilities.
Hers is clearly case with which
society need not concern itself. ne
yond rectifying as far as possible the
mistake it sanctioned when the mar
riage was entered into. There are no
children to consider. The only thing
to do is to set the wife free to follow
her artistic leadings and put the hus-
band in a position to make another at
tempt, should he feel so disposed, to
found a home. So much has been
said of the divorce evil that it is dis
tinctly pleasant to note a case in
which the laws course will lead ap-
parently to nothing but good.
Reflections of possible use in pre-
venting similar mistakes may pre-
sent themselves. Young women of
artistic temperaments may take warn
ing of the encouragement, delay and
other detrimental results TO which a
career may be subjected by careless
marriage. There's no telling what in
calculable loss the best interests Of art
may sustain through the annual June
abandonment of music lessons and
china painting for the dull. uninspir-
ed cares of housekeeping.
Young men, too, may be prompted
to bethink themselves whether art
mixes well with home, whether car
reers are compatible with cooking. OF
course no true lover would suspect
such a motive-nor do we or any of
us-and perhaps no ladylove would
think of utilizing marriage as a means
to a career. Careers cost money, it is
true, and have sometimes been
financed by husbands-to-wife allow
ances, or sometimes by alimony. But
it may be that devotion to art sets
in only after devotion to husband has
failed-that women who have en-
countered failure in marriage fly to
artistic careers as to an appointed
snug haven, whereas if marriage had
not interviewed their obvious destiny
might have been only an inglorious
career of work for life's sake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
.AYHAWKER .JOTS

The Lawrence Journal is trying to
get the county to build a new bridge
across the kaw.
Swarms of crickets have attacked
lola and are eating the paper on the
walls of the houses.
The Troy Chief, which claims to be
the Oldest paper in Kansas, has in
stalled a $4,000 linotype.
When a man speaks about the good
old days, says Verd Napier, what he
really means Is the good old nights.
Two papers, the Times and Com
mcnwealth, at Sharon Springs, have
merged and will issue but one paper
in the future.
Some of the ladies, we are told, in
laying up something for rainy day.
says Verd Napier, include their best
silk stockings.
Leavenworth is planning a home
coming week. But why should one
desire to return to Leavenworth after
once getting away?
Farmers in southern Kansas are
planning to starve out the chinch bugs
by ceasing to grow wheat. But chinch
bugs have been known to eat corn and
oats.
Smith Center, it is announced, has
commenced planning for a warm time
about the middle of July. Nothing
like being prepared to meet the in
evitable.
Where are the brides of a June
ago." says Edith Clark. They are
home taking care OF the babies, the
Leavenworth Times suggests, where
they ought to be.
Dick Howard of the Arkansas City
Traveller suggests the organization of an
editorial association while all the ed
itors Of the vicinity are in a good
humor with one another.
An Atchison man who stole $500
from John Seaton two years ago, has
returned and given himself up be-
cause his conscience troubled him. But
he had spent the money.
Another Kansas girl has distin
guiShed herself. She is just IL years
old. Her name is Laura Schlagel and
she lives near Frankfort, in Marshall
county. While her father was away
law. Laura plowed Is acres of ground
with three horse team-Minneapoli
Messenger.
Wouldn't this make a policeman
mad? Two Independence young men
met a negro in an alley and gave him
two dollars for two bottles supposed
to contain whisky. An officer Witness
ed the transa ction and gathered in the
bottles to be used as evidence, but
while doing so permitted the negro
to escape. At police headquarters the
bottles were found to contain a very
cheap grade of vinegar.
There are two women in Holton
who for years wanted automobiles so
badly they could taste it, says the Re-
corder. Some months ago having
given up all hopes of having their de-
sireS satisfied, they commenced tell
ing each other stories of horrible
motor car accidents in which horrible
were killed or manned for life, and
now you couldn't get either one of
them to ride in an automobile for love
or money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

There are a good many corn cures. but
more corns.
A conductor is supposed to run train;
not to own 1t.
Sometimes a man thinks he's in love
when 1t is his liver.
Congratulations frequently edge in
where condolences belong.
=. man can be a graceful dancer without
much of an earning capacity.
A suicide farewell note never adds a
great deal to the world of literature.
Wages seem much higher when you
want work done than when you want
work.
If a girl takes her mothers advice, she
is smart girl or has fool mother.
With all their rights and privileges,
Americans spend half their time sQueal-
ing.
You can't fool many people by blaming
pure cussedness on the law of heredity.
Link Preston: Another way to make
yourself feel good is to get your last debt
paid"
A great deal of the effort toward saw
ing the nation is really directed toward
getting elected.
were in the newspaper business before
they got promoted
A woman shouldn't be so prominent So
cially that her children have difficulty
getting acquainted with her.
There is one thing about a spite fence:
1t never lasts very long. In quarrels the
natural thing is the restoration of peace.
Jude Johnson: Ignorance is my long
suit and 1 have never been able to see
the difference between a boxing contest
and prize fight
Many an office girl and clerk finds her
only vacation through the summer is the
days she leaves work early to keep an
appointment with the dentist.
Short jerks always looks the most i'm
portant Wher M he oI Is r tba the na r.
wash tub which his wife operates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
REDUCED TO SHREDS.
Suicide Places Body Over Dynamite,
Lights Fuse.

Middleton, n. Y, July Floyd
Tiffany, a prosperous young quarry
owner, blew himself into shreds in
sight of his mother by lying down on a
stick of dynamite after lighting the
fuse.
Alarmed by his melancholy demean-
or during the day, Mrs. Tiffany had
followed her son down the road from
the house to the quarry and saw him
draw the dynamite from his pocket.
She screamed and ran toward him.
Tiffany lit the fuse and shouted:
Don't come any nearer, mother.
This will blow you up. You can't
save me. I'm going to die
Mrs. Tiffany never lessened her
speed. Her son succeeded in explod-
ing the stick before she could get near
enough to be killed but the shock
knocked her to the ground uncon-
scious. A farmer attracted by the re-
port found her several yards from a
deep hole that marked the spot where
her son had been lying. Mrs. Tiffany
is in a critical condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Only fool would take straight tip
from crook.
act is the leven that prevents flattery
from falling flat.
Wise is the man who knows enough not
to know too much.
It is quite natural that the doctor should
want his patients to be well heeled.
When married man Is henpecked it IS
generally because he is chicken-hearted-
1t may be all right to take the thought
FOR the deed, but no man ever got rich
that way.
Strange as it may seem, it's the man
who keeps his troubles to himself that
loses them soonest
All that glitters isn't gold. Many a man
has pinned his faith to a star only to dis
cover that it was FREELY.
Singleton-'A baby will sometimes cry
itself 70 sleep, won't it?" Youngpop-"Yes,
but not until it has cried everybody else
awake"
Shakespeare will live forever cried
the Boston girl. Come off," replied the
girl from Chicago. That's what Dowie
used to think
Blobbs-'I don't see why wine, women
and song should be grouped together"
Slobbs-"It seems to me they should"
Blobbs-fNonsense! Wine improves with
age
Nell-"A girl should always allow her
parents to pick out a husband for her.
Belle-''The very idea, Why should she?h
Nell-"Oh, then she can always blame it
on them"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
OFFICIAL CHANGES.
Many State Officers Give Place to
Their Successors Today.

Many changes in state departments
took place today and many men and
women who last night were public Of
flee holders awoke this morning to find
their successor holding down the Jobs.
The new educational administration
board today became a reality, although
the board has been rather constantly
on the job since the appointment of the
members by Governor Hodges several
months ago. This new board will have
charge of the educational institutions
of the state and succeeds in office the
boards of regents of the various state
schools. The members of the board are
Ed. T. Hackney, Wellington; Cora c.
Lewis, -Ainsley; Former Governor E.
w. Hoch Marion.
At the state penitentiary at Lansing,
j. d. Botkin today succeeded ]. K
Codding as warden of the state prison.
Botkin was appointed by Governor
Hppges several weeks ago and has
spent the last month at the prison.
where he OBLIGATED as chaplain and
studied the duties of his new work
Warden Codding will go to Leaven-
worth where he will enter the practice
of law in partnership with his son.
The new nurses commission, created
by the recent legislature, took office
today. The official title of this board
is the Kansas State Board of Examin-
alton and Registration of Nurses
Members of the board are Dr. H A.
Dykes, Lebanon, secretary of the state
medical board; Mrs. A. r. O'Keefe,
Wichita; Mrs. Mayme ConkIin, To-
peka; Miss 1. M. WOODBURY., wichita:
Miss Elizabeth ]. Eason, Kansas City,
Kansas.
At a meeting of the new board today
DR.. Dykes was elected president and
Mrs. O'Keefe was elected secretary
The secretaryship of the board pays
an annual salary of 81 200. Mrs. Conk-
TOnPka fnd xrioo
dent
On the board of health many changes
were made today by virtue mainly of
the recent changes in the state laws
regulating the placing of laymen as
conferees on the advisory board. Dr. o.
P. Walker of Salina was elected presi-
dent of the board to succeed DIR. v. c.
Eddy of Colby. DIR. A. S. Cummings of
Bronson was named vice president
and succeeds DR.. Walker who today
became president. DR.. S. j. Crumbine
was reelected secretary of the board
The psychologists and advisory board
were reelected. Conferees to the adj
visory board who were chosen today
included: J. A. Kimball, Salina, repde-
senting the manufacturers; W. F.
Jackson, Fort Scott, representing the
retailers; B. L. Thompson, Herington.
representing the butchers.
Jacob Hostettler of Belleville today
became a member of the state tax
commission and succeeds c. F. Milton
of Dodge City.
f. w. Porter. former mayor of Kan
sas City, Kansas, was this afternoon
appointed member of the state penal
board to succeed Thomas W. Morgan
of Ottawa. Morgan resigned as chair
man of the penal board to become war
den of the federal prison at Leaven-
worth. His resignation was effective
today and Porter was named by Gov
ernor Hodges late this afternoon to
succeed the Ottawa editor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01

petty attitude of repellant dignity. He
declined to be bothered by photogra-
pliers who wanted to take pictures of
him seated at his desk-as other cabi-
net members had been photographed.
In many little ways he incurred hos
tility among at least a part of the
corps of correspondents at Washing
ton. In his brief term he has figured
in more ntra-administration incidents
than all the other members of the
cabinet taken together. The rumor of
resignation has been af1oat
almost continuously during his brief
three months tenure. The McNab af-
fair is the latest What next?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
THE CURRENCY BILL.

| 1t is generally agreed that the cur
rency system of the country needs re-
forming, but there are so many di-
| yergent views regarding the changes
| that should be made that 1t may take
| a. long time to mould into shape a
measure sufficiently acceptable to get
by congress and the president.
The currency bill prepared by Con-
gresham Glass, has the approval of
| the president and if he can hold his
party in line on this measure as well
as he has done on the tariff, action
may be had during the present session
of congress.
Although much, II not all, RESPONSE
biIity for the currency bill is attributed
to President Wilson. he has let it be
known through press correspondents
that, while the ADMINISTRATIONS views
are represented in it, yet it is mo mans
bill" but the result of common counsel
among currency advocates, Secretary
McAdoo, of the treasury department,
Senator owen and Representative Glass,
respectively chairmen of the senate and
house banking and currency commit
tees, aided and advised by the president
An outline of the measure given to
the press by Representative Glass, de-
scribe IT as "a basis for legislative ac-
ton that will be gone over in
detail for alterations, and whose in
tent is to accomplish three principal
objects; a means for rediscounting
commercial paper of specified types;
safeguarded basis for elastic notes; and
machinery for doing foreign banking
business"
One of the most striking features of
the bill is the provision for IL or more
federal reserve banks, in as many re-
eionaI districts (which will rediscount
paper, deal in government securities,
exchange and conduct government fiscal
operations These banks. we are in
formed would do no business with the
public, but deal only with their men,
Der banks and receive deposits only
from the United States" Stock in
the reserve banks would be held by
national banks and such state banks
and trust companies as conform to
standards, but the government would
hold no stock, although it would con-
troll the reserve banks by a federal re-
serve board of seven members, on
which the banks would not be repre-
scented. The secretary of the treasury,
the secretary of agriculture, and the
COMPTROLLER of the currency would be
ex-ofdcio members of this board and
the four others would be subject to the
appointment of the president and the
confirmation of the senate. Other pro-
visions of the currency bill the New
York Tribune sets down in brief:
There will be no retirement of ex-
listing national bank circulation, nor
of the existing per cent United States
bonds used for circulation purposes
Every national bank is allowed to
continue it's note issue exactly as at
present.
I'm addition, the issuance of $500. ooO,-
600 of emergency currency upon prime
short-term commercial paper and other
liquid collateral is authorized.
The federal board is authorized to
prescribe rates of discount for the L
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
THE VOICHESS.


We count the broken Tyres that rest
w mere the sweet wailing singers slum-
Der,
But DER their silent sisters breast
The wild flowers who will stoop to
number?
A few can touch the magic string,
And noisy Fame is proud to win them
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
Nay. grieve not for the dead alone
Whose song has told their hearts sad
story
Weep for the voiceless, who have known
The cross without the crown of glory!
Not where Leucadian breezes sweep
Ger Sapphos memory-haunted billow,
But where the glistening night dews weep
On nameless sorrows churchyard pillow
0 hearts that break and give no sign
save whitening lip and faded tresses,
Till Death pours out his longed-for wine
Slow-dropped from Misery's crushing
presses
If singing breath or echoing chord
To every hidden pang were given,
What endless melodies were poured.
AS sad as earth, as sweet as heaven!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
Die FOR HONOR
Rather Than Submit to Rebels
Women Commit Suicide.
Conditions in Durango Are In
describably Horrible.
cnDTV WnAacN TAKC nlIN \ lurO
FORTY WOMEN TAKE OWN LIVES
Wild Orgies Follow Capture of
City Long Besieged.
Foreign Flags Not Respected
Americans Wounded.

Mexico City. July Forty women
residents, most of them OF the better
class, have committed suicide in the
city of Durango since it's occupation
last week by the rebels after a long
siege, according to a private letter re-
ceived here from that city today. The
women. it says, became desperate as
the result of their treatment by the
victorious rebels.
Consular advices say that the rebels
who entered Durango conducted them
selves like bandits, burning a large
part of the business section after loot
ing it, and joining in the widest ex-
cesses. The report says that foreign
flags were not respected.
few American citizens were
wounded during the fighting while one
Englishman was killed, according to
these reports.
Private advices from other sources
say that a group of German women in
Durango were forced to submit to in
dignities from the rebel adherents.
The Mexican government is preparing
a column of troops to march to the re-
lief Of the city but many days must
pass before its arrival there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-01
says UNCLE CIV

A wise man remarked the other day
that if we could see foul air as we
can see stagnant and Shiny water, all
of us would be fresh air faddista He
might have said with equal truth that
II we could see the stagnant and Shiny
pools about our mental premises
thered be an Immediate general
movement for intellectual sanitation.
Inc average man is the victim Of
mental stagnation. Though he be
clean OF body and careful of his ply
s1cai habits, he S all too liable to fall
victim to that unchanging monotony
which invariably cuts down efficiency
and in the end brings mediocrity. if
not incompetence. He wouldn't let
trash and foul water collect about his
premises, and possibly he wouldn't
neglect the ventilation of the house in
which he lives, but he seldom real
ICES the necessity of a mental clean
up. He gets rid of the trash and gar
page, and he is careful about drain
age, but he doesn't remember that
his mind is operating under laws
strIctIy analogous to those of the
purely physical world.
We live in the same old mental
atmosphere day after day, year after
year, and never take the trouble to
open the windows and clean house. We
do the same old things in the same
old way. Our work reaches a dead
level and stays there. The same
amuSements suffice. Occasionally a
live wire comes along and bumps a
new idea into our craniums and there
Is great stirring of dust and cid lum-
Der, and the stencil of long undis-
turbed intellectual pools. The SEN
satfon isn't pleasant one and We
usually end it by letting things settle
back to their old poisonous. disease
breeding conditions. Our only rrcol-
lection of the incident is coupled with
a lively resentment of the disturber.
stagnation.
Ilme was when we looked upon va
cations as housekeeping times and
insisted upon them as necessities the
theory being that we could return TO
work renovated and made strong.
rms theory has long been exploded.
FOR the average man takes his vaca-
ton in the average way, which is to
say that he seeks his amusement in
crowded places. among people who
think pretty much the same thoughts
as he and go on doing pretty much
the same thing in pretty much the
same way.
What is really needed is new
point of view. Vacations help if they
bring not only a change of scene but
change of thought. But the better
plan is to get something new out of
your work every day. Do it a little
better and, in so far as possible i'm q
new way. Make frequent changes in
your amusements. You can go to
seed in your fun just as YOU can in
your work, and you do.
Wake up, you respectable SUM
dweller. Get busy with the windows
and chloride of lime. The health de-
partment will get you if you don't
watch -(Copyrighted, 1918, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)