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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
NO COMPROMISE.
Not Believed Progrcssives VIII An
swer Harmony Call.

If the Kansas Republicans want
harmony they can join the Progress
ives. That is the ultimatum issued by
Frank G. Dreaming of Topeka, who
has been in charge of the affairs of
the Bull Moose in this county since
last summer. Dreaming does not be-
Heve that the Progressives will flock
to the harmony" meeting in Topeka
June 8, and declares that if there is a
peace pact it will be on the terms die
tated by the Progressives. not the old
line Republicans.
Room will be provided in the Pro-
gressive band wagon for the old-time
Republicans. Dreaming says. but the
wagon will not back up. If the Re
publicans want a conference or har-
mony meeting on this basis, then,
Dreaming thinks, the request will be
granted. He says:
1.-The Progressives will be glad to
have the Republicans join in the Pro-
gressive movement, but they must
catch up with the band wagon for the
wagon will never back up for them.
If these men experience a change OF
heart and will come over to real pro-
gressive principles we will be glad to
hold a conference with them"
Dreaming has already leased the
Auditorium for the Progressive ban
quet to be held in Topeka February IL,
1914. An effort will be made to bring
Theodore Roosevelt or some other
widely known Progressive leader to
Topeka at that time to offset the pro-
gram of the Democrats who have
landed w. J. Bryan for their meet
ing February %. The Democrats have
also leased the Auditorium, but the
action of the Kansas Progressives in
making their contracts nearly one
year ahead indicates rather strongly
that they will not hasten to compro-
mise the factional feeling aroused in
the recent campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
AYHAWKER JOTS

independence claims to have the
cleanest streets of any city in the
country.
Verd Napier says he is always sus-
picious of the man who brags much
about his honesty.
Following the sleeping porch comes
the sun parlor. Shortly a house will
be only a place to change your
clothes in, thinks Tom Morgan.
Professor A. F. Heck gave an oyster
supper for a church class in Atchison
the other night, and the Globe heads
an item about the affair: Entertain
ed, by Heck"
The natural gas fields in the vicin-
ity of Ellsworth are to be developed,
a company being formed for that pur-
pose. This should pay better than ex-
tracing gold from the shale.
In a series of lectures to be held in
Emporia a lady is to make a speech
on THE Feminine View of Gentle
man." Coming so soon after William
Allen Whites return the circumstance
looks suspicious.
The Concordia Kansan had a long
defense of the famous Central Branch
the other day, claiming that there is
not road in the state where the
trains run more nearly on schedule
time. 1t seems that the long standing
joke must be transferred.
Here's a shocking piece of news,
says the Fort Scott Tribune: Kansas
is the sixth state in the United States
in point of value of crops raised.
Those who have been reading Secre-
tary Coburn's reports-and that means
all KansanS-have been of the i'm
preston that no other six states in
the Union produced crops to the value
of those Kansas raises.
An Atchison man, says the Globe,
was asked to get eight skeins of en-
broidery silk in Kansas City He took
along his travelling bag on purpose to
carry it home in. Imagine his sur
prise when the package handed him
could have been put in his vest pocket
But that's just like man. The Globe
neglects to state whether it was a two
quart or a four quart bag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

working long ten or eleven hour day
than in any other industry; the ply
steal dangers of work in glass fac
tories, still permitted to boys under 10
years old in Pennsylvania and West
Virginia; the Interstate commerce In
little children between the canneries
and berry fields of the middle states
and the shrimp and oyster canneries
of the south; the horrors of tenement
home work in New York and other
large cities; and the mockery of good
child labor laws written on statute
books with no sufficient provision for
enforcement.
More states were represented than
ever before; thirty-one in all, includ-
ing Iowa and Texas and all of the
southern states east of the Mississippi.
The subject of the conference was
child labor and poverty. All through
the papers and spontaneous discus
sions the speakers put far more en-
phasis on child labor as the cause of
poverty, than on the older idea of pow
erty as the cause of child labor. Sta
tistics were given from such widely
scattered cities as New York, Little
Rock, New Orleans and Columbus,
Georgia, to show that the widowed
mother whose sole support is wage
Garner of tender years exists largely
in the imagination of the men who
find it profitable to employ the child.
Poverty was shown to be the indirect
cause of child labor, in it's limiting of
the horizon of those parents who have
worked hard or drifted with their
and have lost, if they ever
had it, the vision of what education
and citizenship might mean to their
children.
Florence Kelly made a plea that in
dustry should be compelled to pay its
way and bear the burden of the dis
abled worker, of the woman widowed
by industrial accident, and of the work
ers who do not now receive from in I
dustry a wage that will support their
families. Right here the thread OF
argument was taken up by the confer
ence and many speakers dwelt on the
lowering of adult wages by the en-
ployment of children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.1
a tiresome speech is a cheeress affair.
Some men would do anything for a
woman-except go to work.
wise man puts his ears on the job and
gives his tongue a rest
Speaking of square deals, a corner in
food products is something else.
Yes Cordelia it is strictly proper to
play hymns on an upright piano
Many a woman has the big head be-
cause she has credit at hair emporium
MANY a young man would get a har1
bump if thrown on his own resources.
boy isn't necessarily good for nothing
because his parents refuse to pay him for
being good
A mouse can create as much excitement
among half a dozen spinsters as an
eligible bachelor.
The average frl tgreats new acquaint-
ance far better than she does an old
friend-so the old friend thinks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
svdnor inquest This Afternoon.

No warrant was issued this morning
for lanes Mccoy, who is said to have
shot and killed Clarence Sydnor fol-
lowing an alteration over the collec-
ton of a bill yesterday at noon. The
county attorney is making an investi-
CATION, and has been busy with IL
ouor cases this morning. 1t is ex-
nected that a warrant charging muir
der in the first degree will be issued
sometime this afternoon or tomorrow.
This morning Coroner J. H. Rhine
hart irnpaneled a jury and viewed the
remains. This afternoon the jury is
hearing evidence in an inquest. 1t is
not expected to develop anything new.
Mccoy having admitted the shooting
and witnesses declaring that. the
shooting grew out of a quarrel be-
tween the two men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Conditions in San Luis Potosi. Mex
leo, as described in the report of an
American consul at the city of that
name probably prevail in large part
of the republic. He says: High
prices ruled for silver, copper and
ixtle, but labor could not be secured
to take full advantage of the favorable
markets. There was a halt in pro-
duction and development. especially
noticeable in the last quarter of the
year. Almost complete absence of
tourist trade worked hardship in some
retail lines. Curtailment of bank
loans. increased taxation. and uncer-
tainty of transportation all contributed
to render the business situation I'M
favora bIe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

According co a writer in the Tech
meal World, a Kansas inventor has
devised a farm implement which is in
tended to solve the problem of labor
in the harvest fields of the west and
decrease the demands for husky college
football men to help get in the grain
and incidentally 10 devastate the
farmhouse Iarder. The device is in
tended to thresh the grain and oats
as they stand ripened in the vast fields.
By mems of this Continuance it is said
that it is possible for four horses and
two men to thresh and sack the stand
ing grain on % acres in ten-hour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
Commercial Club Activities.

The Commercial club will hold a
campaign a week from next Thursday
with the object of procuring 400 new
members for the club. A week from
Wednesday noon an enthusiasm dinner
will be given. The speaker will be w.
s. Written, secretary of the CONNER
cial club of Lincoln, Neb., which had
membership of LOO persons.
Next Thursday noon the membership
committee of the Commercial club will
meet with the board of directors for
the purpose of discussing some import
ant features of the campaign. The
membership committee held a meeting
today at which a list of prospective
club members was made out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

y
and still be an also ran"
few hopes were blasted, few
riuI1s were called. but the chances
that Topeka will remain on the map
are fairly good.
The weather forecast called for
freezing" last night. The official
report on last nights weather is not
available at this early hour, but we
venture to support the forecaster to
Tn S extent: A number of local candi-
dates suffered from heavy frost.
Peace on earth" is the alleged slo-
telescoped wit the Vernal Equinox
ana about thousand innocent by
ISLANDERS are killed, it becomes plain
that the eggful, hatful spring holiday
IS man-made institution.
Whether one is or is not a Social
lst seems to depend largely upon
whether one does or does not want
something. That is the deduction of
certain hard workings conscientious
reporters who have endeavored to give
an candidates a square deal in the
city campaign.
Andy Carnegie advocates simplified
spelling. He will commence, no doubt,
with do" for dough, and ''libry'' for
library.
Now that the city campaign has
passed the first stage, the local news
paper men may find time to elect
Hon Bale P. Waggener United States
senator. True, it is rather early in
the game, but the surgeons report
that there will be a sufficient major
fty of Hon. B. P. to fill chair in the
upper house of national representa-
ton: If the doctors do their part
Pai1in'e PVT dc xxyf11 do fIA a<r%
so it is up to the doctors.
Yesterday was not only a day of
perfect post-storm weather, but a finef
day for putting over the hurry
touch. Lemmea-couple-a bones till
was heard at frequent
intervals by every candidate who had
the temerity to stick his head outside
the door. For times have changed.
The grating voter no longer sells his
rows few beans from each of the
several contending candidates.
In the popular short story the girl
sprains her ankle but has a conven- /
lent park or messy bank upon which
to recline until the hero comes to carry
her home. In the story no mention
of the fact that she displays her gar
ters and howls like a poisoned wolf is
made; that might scare off the ath- |
lStlC hSTO ana spun the SlO1S'
Friend Kiene should put the lid on !
the prisoner who tried a diet of
cracked glass. That is our idea of
no good testimonial for the Jail /
feed.
Hon. Billius Allius White is in
clined to be fair and decent, but it
appears that one of his cohorts, who
ost brother-in-law in the recent
storm that hit the state
house, is highly peeved over Hon.
Bits plain statement of facts. Hon.
Bill, not having brother-in-law on
he pay roll, may have trouble in
yrasping, at one grasp, the grounds
or that peevishness entertained by
lis fellow-worker, and this is merely
,or the purpose of putting him next
md adjacent, as it were.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Continued from Page one.)
The Republic Iron and Steel Company
and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
company, which are the biggest plants
to suffer. have $4,000 men thrown
IDLE. Only one pump is operating at
the waterworks, and that will be
compelled to close If the river con-
unues to rise. The city will then be
without a water supply.
The flood is the worst experienced
mere since October. two years ago.
was done.
Cloudburst at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati. March 25.-This city ex-
perlenced cloudburst this morning
tnat raised the Ohio river, temporarily
hooded the streets here and carried
away two bridges over the White
water river at Valley Junction.
Families living in the lowlands be-
low Milford fled to higher ground.
Waters Raging in Indiana.
Indianapolis, Ind, March 25.-Fif-
teen hundred families in Indianapolis
at noon today by the high waters
caused by incessant rains. White
river, Eagle creek and Pleasant run
are rising at the rate of six inches an
hour.
Only one of the IS interurban lines
is running and traffic on the steam
roads is at standstilI.
A levee along White river in Broad
ripple, a suburb of Indianapolis, went
out today, driving three hundred fami-
lies from their homes and washing
out a mile, of tracks. Only the roofs
of some of the houses in the suburb
are visible.
The water company has warned its
patrons to draw an emergency supply
OF water, as the company expected TO
be put out of business before night.
me plant of the Indianapolis Gas
company is already under water.
Flood conditions throughout the
state are the worst in 80 years 1t is
estimated that more than 1000 fami-
lies have been forced to leave their
homes. So far four deaths bv drown
ing have been renorted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
MODERN MATRIMoNY.


Dear one. when we exchange our vows
Wen knot the loosest sort of tie:
For our ideals, like our brows,
Are broad and high.
She:
"A simple hitch 1 should prefer,
AS simple as we can devise;
"A lovers bowline, as it were
one yank untieS.
He:
This nuptial pact shall not coerce
our own sweet wills single jot.
Wen chop for better or for worse"
And all that rot.
My love, your sentiments are mine;
echo them with all my heart.
SIMPLY can't endure that line
iii death us part"
He:
My idol, am overjoyed.
shan't love twice, but if should,
This contract shall be null and void
That's understood.
L shall not dream of liberty,
But if should-you'n understand
The bonds that bind US now will be
As ropes of sand.
He:
I am the needle, you the pole!
Ro on, sb POLE my eonstan n;y you know now;
I'm free to go.
She:
L am the flower, you are my sun!
Oh, Sun, you know my constancyi
But If choose to cut and run,
You quite agree.
Together:
Since you love me as I love you
Herewith a sacred troth plight,
Each to the other will be true;
If not-good night!
Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

There seems always to be a way of
evading any law for which there is not
a popular demand. This is aptly illus
trated in Texas. The Lone Star State
has a statute which forbids the sale of
revolvers or pistols. but the prohibition
has never bothered the hardware deal
ers in the least. They simply rent the
guns for 80 years. charging the price
of the weapon as the first payment. The
court of appeals has held the rentals
IN he legal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
"PETE" MILLER'S WORD
He Is Sure He'll Win at the Election
Next Tuesday.

Commissioner H. P. Miller today is
sued the following statement:
considering the different forces
arrayed against me 1 am not very
much surprised at the result. But L
am still in the race to win ana pc
Iieve that when the people understand
some of the things that were brought
out in the campaign against me, they
will favor me with a majority OF votes
70 the friends that so royalty stood by
me and hope they will do the same
next Tuesday, April l."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
CHILD LABOR.

The ninth annual child labor con-
ference which met at Jacksonville,
Fla, is over and the delegates have
scattered to the 81 states from which
they came.
The darkest sides of the present sit
uation We're set forth: the moral haz-
ards of night messenger service; the
low wages of adults in southern cotton
mills where more young children are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

The annual meetings of the various
district schools of the county will be
held Friday, April II, at which time
officers for the ensuing year will be
elected. These district meetings are
held every year on the second Friday
in April. County Superintendent John
F. Eby has been busy making arrange
ments for the meetings, and calling at
tention to the various items of bust
ness to be transacted at that time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

California man is said to be breed
ing striped rats. 1t is believed that
specimens can be produced here merely
by drinking some of the whisky that
Is being sold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

The statistics show that there are
only 1900 detectives in New York.
OF course this can't include those New
Workers., says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. who decline % believe that
there is anything worth while west of
HObOken
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
TEr FpuNNES
FULL TFsSFD wTPE RFpORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the run Gay
teleeraph report Of that great news or
ganfzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news is received IN The state Jour
nal brildine over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Poetry In England says Alfred
Moves, sis in a condition of negotia-
ton" He mercifully refrains from say
ing anything about the condition of the
pOetS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

One of the strong arguments in
favor of the budget system in national
finances, is that it would eliminate the
"barreI' APPROXIMATION bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

A West Virginia youth of seven
teen has just married a widow with
four children. Probably she needs
somebody to deliver the washing to
the customers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

day. The cost of threshing is thus not
only greatly reduced, but the grain
grower does not suffer loss owing to
lack of labor at the height of the sea-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
Bon Voyage!

Several persons saw a man floating
down the river on a log Wednesday
morning. The man was sitting on the
log and did not appear to be fright
ened by his perilous position. He
waved his hand and the swift current
bore him down the stream.-Hender-
son (Ky) Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Now that he is confronted with the
task of preparing his first tariff mes
sage. President Wilson probably real
ICES for the first time what 1t means
to be president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

The two Warwicks, Colonel Harvey
and Colonel Watterson, are overlook
ing an opportunity to do some presi-
dent making down in Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
LOCAL 7aEHTlGk.

Frank Kesnald, of SIC Quincy street,
was arrested by the police last night
on the charge of being drunk and dis
turbing the peace of his wife. He was
fined SIS in police court this morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Little Lola. had received a doll and
a kitten among her Christmas pres
ents.
(which do you like best, your kitten
or your doll?'' asked the mother
Lola went over and whispered in
her mothers ear: Il like dollie best.
but please don't tell kitty.''-Chicago
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

The meanest woman is the one who
won't defer her house cleaning until
the first week the team opens the home
grounds for the season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

No sooner are. women accorded one
right than they ask for another. They
now demand that they be excused from
telling their age to the registration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Ethel Roosevelt is to marry a man
named Derby. Would it be proper to
refer to her as 1.-THE winner of the
Derby2''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Maxine Elliott appears to have ac-
quired the marrying habit, probably
from her association with Nat Goodwin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Orville Wright says the newspapers
are killing aviation. And the machines
are killing the aviators. 1t looks as
though the whole business were DOOM
ed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

The PankhUrst girls. should emiSrate
to Alaska where they can get both
votes and husbands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

The fact that the express companies
use it is considered a strong recon-
mendation for the parcel post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Congregational church will hold an all
day meeting at the church Wednesday.
Luncheon will be served from II o'clock
to 1 o'clock. Program and business
meeting in the afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Free 81 extra pants with every suit
to order SIS. This week only. Glasgow
Wooden Mills, 729 Kansas ave.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
eff a man questioned

eff a man questioned your veracity,
what would you do?" WELL if he was
careful to use words of several syllables.
as you suggest, 1 should be compelled to
respond by impunging his character."-
washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

Safety razor blades resharpened Csc
and Csc dozen. See machine in our
Window. Gives keen new edge. Brunt
Drug Co-AdV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
BY The WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

AS Shakespeare might have re-
marked: "A man may smile and
smile, and be near 40 years of age
and still be an also ran"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
Ont Of the Mouths of Babes,

what does it mean to cast your
bread upon the waters?' asked the
Sunday school teacher.
at means that the fishes has to be
fed" replied small Sadie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

said a sympathetic little girl to her
small brother, who had been chastised
by their father.
"I d-didn't," sobbed the little fellow.
That's w-why got licked"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

It will pay you to get our estimate OF
that lumber bill. ]. B Whelan G. Co., 4tl
and s. F. tracks. Phone s65.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

A few hopes were blasted, few
hluffs We're called, but the chances
that Topeka will remain on the map
are fairly good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
OHIO IN GRIP OF
RAGING FLOODS

1continued from Page oneo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

The weather forecast called for
freezing" last night. The official
report on last nights weather is not
available at this early hour, but we
venture to support the forecaster to
Tn S extent: A number of local candi-
dates suffered from heavy frost.