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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-03
by THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

A friend out at Circleville has solved
the question. without the expense of a
recount of ballots. His suggestion is
that Mr.. Dolley get a statement from
Mr.. Capper to the effect that Mr.. Dolley
will be reappointed, and then take a
straw vote. The eager voters would
send in their votes by mail, paying the
postage and saving the taxpayers a lot
of money.
Unsolicited testimonial for Slug 5; on
the morning after New Years, he set a
column of rather Indifferent copy with
out one single mistake. The proof con-
tanned neither shrdlu nor misplaced
semfcolon.
From dispatches it appears that the
ka-zar of Russia has canned his
brother, Duke Michael, for marrying
Madame Sheremetievskiia The Ka-zar
must be an unreasonable person. He
should give his, brother a chrome for
changing a name like Sheremetievskiia
from the directory.
The suffragettes gained in weight
While walking from New York to AL
bany; and when the time comes for the
, hike to Washington, the percentage of
stoutish ladies will be small in Gen
eral Jones's" army. Any enthusiast
weighing more than las net will remem-
After listening to the so-called 'sal-
vos" fired New Years night, it is our
theory that the reason so many people
have q caliber pistols is that % short
is the smallest caliber of fire arm
manufactured.
And, as cartoonist, We desire to call
attention to our remarkable new year
achievement; We passed the gladstone
period without drawing a picture of a
naked kid labelled '1913," or an elderly
gentleman with a yard of whiskers and
the tag 1872"
Laying for Willum Rockefeller costs
the government 81 900 a day, but con-
sidering what it has cost some people
in the past to stick around in the
neighborhood of Rockefeller pater, the
government gets off easy.
And if those ergeants-at-arms insist
on loafing around the Rockefeller
neighborhood, it is prudent for them to
leave their watches in a hotel safe.
At Yonkers, New York. dog was
delivered by parcels post, but it is said
that no more dogs will be accepted as
parcels" Meat dealers will do well to
bear this in mind, and use the PIP only
in the shipment of ham. bacon and
pork chops. Send wienerwursts by ex-
press and avoid trouble.
About the only advantage we can see
to the Turko-Ba1kan war is that the
word 'plenipotentiaries" may be I'M
loaded upon the unsuspecting linotype
operators nearly every day, and it is
well known fact that limo operators
need all the exercise they can get.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-03
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Most of US mean what we say, when
we say it.
There are none so blind as those who
see only our faults.
1t isn't every one who can nail a lie
without hitting his own fingers.
ANY theatrical manager will tell you
there is no knocker like deadhead.
Sillicus-sI think I'm in love- Cynicus
We'll, second thoughts are always
Nell-'sIts a good thing to learn to say
no." ''Belle-"But it has made many al
old maid
The man who makes an ass of himseI:
wouldn't be so annoying if he didn't bray
so about it
Some of us never get over the spank
ing stage When our parents stop, ez-
perience begins
Men are like corks.'' says a Kensing-
ton spinster. Some will pop, and others
have to be drawn out"
Fat men are seldom meaner than thin
ones, in spite of the fact that there is
more of them to be mean.
woman doesn't have to have eyes IN
the back of her head, but they seem to be
necessary in the back of her dress.
"A good name is more to be chosen than
great riches" quoted the Wise Guy Il
wonder if that is why girl will chuck
an American millionaire and marry one
of those foreign noblemen." suggested
the Simple Mug.
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AYHAWKER JOTy

Phillip F1ip1op advises the Lansing
News that a man who buys his sweet
heart a present on long time credit. is
not in position to make a good pro-
WIDER.
Don't blame the men for the way
their neckties scream at their clothes,
advises the Kinsley Graphic. Their
wives and sweethearts gave them ties
for Christmas.
1t seems a pity to the Lansing News
that man can't be an active Pro-
hlb1t1oniSt in Kansas without receiving
lot of literature from the barrel
houses in Kansas City.
Neither are the men entitled to all
the medals for consistency. In Chase
county, for instance, out of LIS votes
cast, 1,007 were against woman's suf-
frage and yet the same voters elected
woman to a county office.
Missouri is erecting a monument to
Mark Twain upon which is to be in
scribed: He cheered and comforted
a tired world This is rather slow
for so lively a man as Mark, thinks
the Leavenworth Times, and it suggests
as substitute: Here lies Mark Twain.
1t isn't the first time
Some of these booze fighters are a
good deal like a fool dog I've got out
at my place." said old ST Chestnut re-
Gently to the Sedgwick Paragraph
man. He's been run over by an auto
IHODlIe IQTee OF TOUR times, Out WnGn-
ever he hears the toot of horn he's
right out in the road again ready for
another humping"
Madge Padgette, who married a city
Teller real well off, was back visitin
the old folks week before last reports
Bud Shucks in the Wakeeney Daily
News. Seems to don't remember at all
about how she used to tear around the
country ridin straddle behind the
boys bareback. In fact she was in
clined to turn her nose up at most
everythin' ceptin' the lean ham and hot
biscuits.
Will Howard gave away q pair OF
hounds last fall, and this week had
to go and buy them back, because the
coyotes are getting so sassy. relates the
Mulvane News. He saw one come onto
his place and gobble a chicken in
broad daylight. He missed quite lot
of both chickens and ducks, and he
can't well afford to lose his breeding
stock, for that would spoil consider
able of the family income. His
Thanksgiving and Christmas poultry
sales amounted to Sis, to say nothing
of the eggs and the home consumption.
He says that these coyotes do not
steal because they are really hungry,
for those that he has seen are extra
fat, but like some human critters they
take stuff because they are just nat
urally of a mean disposition.
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FOR COUNTY HOSPITALS
Ed O'NeiI Has Such a Bill for the
Legislature.

county Commissioner Edwin L. O'NeIi
mas prepared a bill for presentation to the
next session of the legislature providing
1or the building of county hospitals in
countles having a population of more than
oo,UVV, which includes Shawnee county
Onder the terms of the proposed meas
ure the county board will be authorized 10
spend not more than $4,000 in building
such hospital on a site owned by the
county and used for a county infirmary.
Inc board also is authorized to provide
medical and surgical attention to inmates
OF the hospital, and to furnish nurses
where they are required.
The board is limited in it's authority,
however, by a provision that no expendf-
turo for hospital shall be made unless
commission consisting of the township
trustees of the various townships of the
county with the mayors of the various
cities shall deem such an expenditure nee
essary.
The measure is one in which O'Neil has
taken great deal of interest. and which
he has promised to devote his attention.
He has declared for a long time that
Shawnee county needs such a hospital,
urging that it will save hospital expenses
that at present are being paid by the
county. and that it will give ailing
patients who are dependent upon the
county a suitable place to be treated.
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FIGHT WEDNESDAY.
Jack Woods VIII Meet Leo johnson
Next Week.

I The earliest boxing Offering of the new
year is the bout announced for Wednesday
night between Jack Woods and Leo John
son. 1t will be staged by the Union Attn
letic association at 420 Kansas avenue,
and the men will weigh IN at 145.
Woods was recently matched to fight
Spike Sullivan here and the day OF
the fight announced that he had injured
his arm in wrestling match the night
before johnson was substituted in his
place. The lad showed himself willing to
take all kinds of punishment and is
strong youngster about Woods age. He
has had a lot of experience fighting in
the navy and with more training should
develop into really dangerous scrapper.
Woods fighting has all been done on
the coast, he having had no chance to
show what he could do here except in
the fight with Sullivan. Injuries prevent
ed this meeting.
Phil Knight, the Leavenworth wonder.
who has lost lot of hard luck fights and
won some gruelling matches, is on the
program for a preliminary match. He will
meet Spike" Mcmahon of the Kansas
City Newsboys' club. There will be two
other preliminaries of three rounds each.
Local boys will participate in them.
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says UNCLE CAV

No wise man has ever found it in his
heart to curse dcuhter. no tolerant
man ever regarded# one with inn
patience. The beginning Of doubt is
the seed of progress. Until one has
found a flaw in the old order he has
no eyes for the new. In world Of con-
tradictions, one must doubt a lie to be-
lieve a truth. They that say, ''Thus
saith the oracle must put proof be-
hind the dictum and keep their tempers
when wayfaring folk demand peep
under the curtains of mystery.
The most hopeless being in the world
is he that takes another'S word with
out question. Many that boast, IT have
faith are merely proclatming them
selves fools, having no reason for the
faith that is in them. 1t is the way of
shallow brains to be proud of their
opinions Doubt lies beyond the limits
of such mentalities and their faith
were better called folly. For faith
that has not been weighed by doubt
is a confusion and an abomination to
him that hath it, betraying his feet to
the snare and proclaiming him to the
is.
Doubt was the first flicker of the
awakening human intellect, even as it
will be the last CLEAN of the dying in
tellect of the perfect man. It has been
the bane of vested wrong and of pur-
pima ignorance
1t has battered at the gates of
respectable lies and topp1ed over sacred
error to the blessing of the race. 1t has
upreared that which is better for that
which was good and breaks the work
of its servants to rear again that which
is better still. He who doubts not
moves not. To him that is given the
power to doubt is given the vision to
see right 1t is doubt, not faith that
pierces the dust clouds of a dead and
gone falsehood to let in the light OF
truth. 1t was doubt, not faith that
pricked the bubbles of animal worship
of human sacrifice, of idolatry, OF
witchcraft, voodooism, black magic
alchemy and all the mental, moral and
religious horrors of the dark ages.
1t was doubt that freed the serfs
killed feudalism, put an end to human
slavery in civilized lands, it was doubt
that shook the eighteenth century
world out of it's conplacent SAUNDERS
and sent science and industry forward
with renewed vfgor of youth.
Faith has always cried "Halt! faith
in that which is old The dead hand OF
the past. sanctified by the belief of mis-
guided millions in its potency, has ever
laid a restraining grasp upon the pres
ent. Faith has lived a lie-it kills rath-
err than cures. It stays rather than
speeds. It chains the young and virile
present to the body of the dead past
that it may die in the blissful delusion
that it could not live.
Human experience has given to the
world a new commandment: doubt that
We may live and move and have your
being as men.
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FIND FOR YOUNG.
Law Examiners Report i'm His Favor
Over Protests.

Floyd Everett Young of Rocks county,
has been admitted by the bar examining
board to practice law in Kansas. Young $
admission was secured today on findings
made by A. NJ. Keene of oBurbon coun-
ty, a member of the board.
Some time ago Young applied for adj
mission to the Kansas bar. He passed A
successful examination, but charges were
filed against him by w. B. Hamm and
other Rocks county lawyers, who object
ed to the young mans admission to active
practice. On these charges IN investi6a-
ton was ordered and Keene was appointed
to investigate the facts. He found that
there was no just cause to refuse Young
a place at the Kansas bar and he will
at once be admitted to practice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-03

them in the case and went outside. where
the girl was standing in the moonlight.
He walked up close 10 ner without
speaking. She looked tenderly into ms
eyes and in a voice which Enos had never
heard from her before said:
Your mandolin is gone. but 1t has done
good work; it has started old Billy
home'
Away through the shadows of the tim
Der Enos saw Ryan hurrying down the
road toward Pine. He carried pack on
his shoulder.
He is going back east to his family
I called you because 1 wanted you to see
the good you had done. Your mandolin
didn't go before it had turned the heart
Of old Billy"
"And yours?" breathed the boy close to
her.
'And mine," she answered softly.
They stood together there in the silence
of the mountain night and he took her IN
his arms.-(Copyright, 1913, by the NC
Clure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-03
THE LIGHT OF JUSTICE.

There goes the train to the depot,
Well loaded with human hearts woe;
On the downward grade it does co.
Conducted by the Levite foe;
Hear the groans from the Levites weight.
All the way to the PRISONS gate;
In his trail, to contaminate,
Is left sting to goad the State.
There is the mans remorseless greed
That robbed a brother Of his NEED;
And, conscience screened with an aim 6
deed,
Thinks himself from Equity freed
A coward in Civic duty,
With pretense of morality;
The selfishness and vanity,
Mistaken for liberty.
What's Gospel of Peace in affairs
While churches roam in Carnal la1rs!
When civic abuse and bold snares
Go stalking forth in Legal airs!
Far out the jets are cleaning bright,
To guide the pathway in the night;
But Justice gives the Cody light
To guide the Life in doing right.
LILLIAN FORREST.
Jewell City, Kan.
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uc.zr FOR LIFE ON MARS.

c,o,,af,,I and thorough investigation
has inst revealed to astronom-
- .cience a world of great beauty,
- 6l,ed with signs of age, worlo
neonled by Intelligent beings but
world which has reached the perloo
when there is no more sea, says Cur
rent Opinion for January. Thus may
ba summed up the results of the most
exhaustive as we'll as the most authorl-
+o+ive studies of any planet since the
,arfaction of the spectroscope. The in
1as+;vations have been conducted upon
o., elaborate scale at the famed OBJ
sarvatory of Flagstaff under the SUI
nervision of astronomers and astro
PHYSICISTS for the purpose of determin-
ing once for all the great controversy
Of which Mars has been the subject
for so many years. photographs, spec
+roscopic observations and the most
recent methods of optical research were
drawn upon in arriving at the deduc-
lions. An authorized report from the
nen of the we'll known student of astro-
phvsics. DR.. James H. Worthington,
makes even more sensational reading
than will be found in the papers of
Professor Percival Lowell, one Of the
first to insist that Mars is the abode
of a race of intelligent beings.
worthington declares now that the
explorers of the planet from the stand
point of Flagstaff find abundant reason
TO believe in the existence of highly
developed and intelligent race. making
a last stand against the increasing des-
arts of it's world. The famous canals
ere evidences Of tremendous and united
efforts to exc out the decreasing water
supply to the last drop. In this strug-
| gle we see in some sense forecast of
| what the earth must also become in
the fullness of time The astronomers
at Flagstaff set out to learn definitely
an important truth respecting another
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-03
MARY COUGHLIN DEAD
Heart Trouble Claims Well known
Silver Lake Woman.

Mrs. Mary Coughlin, of Silver Lake,
died Thursday afternoon of heart trou-
BILE Mrs. Coughlin was 76 years of
age, and was well known in this
country as the first white woman of
Silver Lake" When she came to the
settlement now known as Silver Lake in
1856, she was the first pure white"
Her neighbors were Indians and
breeds
Mrs. CoughIin is survived by six chill
lren: John, Cornelius, William and
Mrs. Charles Green, of Silver Lake and
T. J. Coughlin and Mrs. Kate Coney,
of Kansas City.
The funeral will be held at the Cath
Ollie church in st. Marys at IL o'clock
Saturday morning, and a number of
Topeka friends will attend
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LOCAL MENTION.

Arguments in the Gordon-Munn parti-
ton suit were finished at noon today, amt
the case has been submitted to the jury.
1t is expected that several days will b
required to secure a verdict, there being
a large number of special questions to be
answered.
Bud Muir and bud" Higgins. two
police characters, We're found guilty or
this morning and were sentenced to pay
fines of SO and s. respectively. The as
sault is alleged to have been upon C. NJ
Brown a "spotter' I'm the employ OF the
state, who attempted to arrest the pdfr
on a warrant issued in Wyandotte county.
Brown was seriously injured In the ar
fray, it is said, and bore bad marks on
his face for several days after the as
sault. He did not appear. however, at
the hearing of the case today.
William Dunford. who was implicated
with his brother, James Dunford, in a,
assault on Joseph Drake, a street car
conductor, is in trouble again. He was
picked up by the police last night.
charged with being drunk and fighting.
Dunford says he was drunk the night his
brother shot Drake.
Walter j. Arnold was reappointed to
the office of county engineer this MORN
pointed first about year ago. The coun-
ty engineer has charge of bridges ana
highways built by the county.
Hughie Mack and Flora Finch appear in
the Vitagraph COMEDY Planting tn
Spring Garden'-being shown at the
Aurora theater today and tomorrow.
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County Commissioner Notes.

DR. C. NJ. Hensley was reappointed
county physician for another year, and
G. w. Belts was reappointed as superIu
tendent of the county infirmary, at the
meeting of the county commissioners this
morning. DIR. Hensley has been county
physician for two years. Mr.. Belts has
been superintendent of the county farm
for the last five years.
Mr. Belts was unopposed in asking for
reappointment. DR.. Hensley was opposed
by DR.. J. c. McGin who filed a petition
containing the names of over 400 business
and professional men of the city, asking
for his appointment OF the .signers SIS
were physicians and dentists of the city.
The majority of the board decided,
however, that DR.. Hensley has made good
in the office, and opposed a change In
administration Commissioner Simmer
voted for DIR. McGill. DR.. Hensley will
serve until the first meeting of the county
board in January, 1914.
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,r,7s1c AT THE INAUGURATION.


The managers of the inauguration
ball are planning carnival of ragtime.
They intend to make the music as pop
ular as possible, regardless of the
critics. Believing that the majority or
their patrons prefer light and catchy
tunes. they intend to give them the
kind they want. That is, provided that
President-eIect Wilson shall not inter-
fere. OF course his wishes would carry
GREAT weight if he chose to make them
known
Possibly the next president will prove
40 stanch a. champion of good music as
Cleveland's own mayor. Last summer
Mr. Baker took a decisive stand against
trashy music. or a monopoly for So
called popular melodies, in the concerts
given in the Cleveland parks. He ex-
erted a powerful influence in behalf OF
rnusic of the better class. 1t was due
largely to him that the crowds in the
public pleasure grounds listened to
many excellent programs calculated to
teach and strengthen a liking Tor music
which any composer might be glad to
write or any conductor to renter
1t remains to be seen whether the
president-elect will equal in this respect
the record made by the mayor or
cleveland. To do so Governor Wilson
will have to live up to high ideals, for
tho head of the city government is a
gentleman whose taste in music, art
and literature is of no mean order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-03
WILL Get OUT
Writ of Supersedeas Granted by
Court of Appeals
In Cases of the Dynamiters
Convicted at Indianapolis.
WILL Be RELEASED ON BOND
Bail Fixed at $4,000 for Each
Year of Sentence.
Ryan Will Be Forced to Put Up
$4,000.
WILL Be RELEASED ON BOND

Chicago, Jan. ga writ of super
sedaes staying execution of the sem
fences imposed on the dynamite con-
splrators recently convicted at Indian
apolis was issued by the U. 8. circuit
court of appeals here today. Bail was
based on the number of years which
the prisoners have been sentenced to
serve-s1o.OOO for each year.
Thus Ryan's bail was fixed at $4,000.
Those who received sentences of six
years must furnish 100000 and so on.
Defenses lawyers stated that money
enough to admit all to bail would be
forthcoming
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-03
NEW RAILwAY MILEAGE.

Though prosperous and active in
trade and industry, the year just
passed has been marked by lean rec
ord in railroad building The railroad
companies of the United States have
spent a great deal of money in
strengthening their organization ana
increasing their facilities for doing
business, but they have put it into cars
and yards, stations and locomotives,
rather than larger mileage. Much new
track has been laid but it has been the
rebuilding of established lines and i'm
proving roads already in operation.
The explanation, of course, is that
the country is already so covered with
railways, except in certain limited sec
lions, that there is little need of i'm
portant extensions or of the building
of new roads The record of 1912 shows
that in some of the richest, most pros
porous and progressive states hardly
any new mileage has been built this
year This is true of Ohio, New York,
Illinois, Massachusetts,, New Jersey,
Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Wis
consin. Even much younger states
like Colorado, Utah, South Dakota and
Oregon have done very little railroad
building.
The new lines and the extensions OF
old roads are most numerous IN the
South, including certain states OF the
Southwest. such as Arizona and Okla-
homa, and here in Kansas. the gate
way to the Southwest. where SO miles
of new road were built, mostly by the
Santa Fe system. There are twenty
states in every one of which more thah
fifty miles of new track have been pullt
and eleven of them are in the southern
part of the country. Ten states nave
built more than 100 miles of new road
apiece, and of these six are in the
South, including the Southwest.
In other words, the railroad building
of the country is going on in the right
place 1t is aiding in the development
of the sections which are least supplied
with TRANSPORTATION facilities and have
the greatest undeveloped resources
awaiting the creative touch of capital
and labor. For the same reason the
railroad building of Canada is rising
nearly to the level of the United States
despite the vast difference between the
two countries in population, wealth and
ha bita Bile area. The Dominion has need
of the new lines it is building and room
for them. without running the risk OF
laying double burdens upon the pro-
ducers and consumers who Will be ex-
pected to pay interest on the bonds and
dividends on the stock of the companies
furnishing these transportation routes
In this country the great need is more
adequate equipment of the roads al
ready in operation and that want is
being met at a rate which promises
much for the future of railway ousl-
ness, from the point of view OF the
shipper as we'll as the common carrier