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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26
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I piled one Of the little men. You are
dull boy. Your head cannot help you,
so we will take on your head and let
your body do your work.
Twelve Of the little men lifted Otto's
mead from his shoulders and placed it
on rock Then they put q shovel I'm
one of his hands and q pail in the
other, and led him to q hill.
Dig here" they told him. until
you make a cave
Otto watched his body working, and
for a while he thought 1t was great
sport, but it suddenly occurred to him
| (hts head. I mean) that his body was
digging the cave in a very foolish way.
The top was left SO thin that Otto
felt sure it would fall and bury his
body.
"Oh dear" he said at last. what a
| simpleton that body IL! 1t will surely
be buried under the earth in a short
time II I do not stop it. Here, herer'
he called. stop digging and listen to
me-"
But the body did not notice the call.
and he called again. lotto, Ottov"
What do you want?" the head an
swered
How mixed everything isv' said
Otto. Il call myself and myself an
swers. That poor. foolish body Of mine
ounce of sense
Just then the body took q shovelfuI
of earth from a weak place. and down
came the earth and covered 1t.
Help! he1p!'' screamed Otto.
The little brown men came running
from all directions. What IL the mat
teri" they asked
my body is buried under that pile
Of earth.'' replied the head. Get IL
out quick or Tor it-Oh, dear! do
not know what to say; but hurry or my
body will die"
boys who do not 60 to school and
study" a little man continued. can
. never do anything that is worth
while"
Just then Otto saw his body walking
along trying to shake of the earth
which chung to his clothes. Pleas put
| my head back on my shoulders" he
said. 'or 1t will surely get into more
trouble
"Win you go to school and learn TO
guide 1t in the right way?" asked the
gnomes Otto promised that he would,
and they placed his head ON his shout
ders again. Now up with him." they
said and Otto felt himself going up,
! and up, and then the sunlight fell upon
his face and he found himself under
the tree again.
He felt Of nis head; It was there and
securely fastened. Otto jumped MP,
took his books and slate and ran to-
ward the schoolhouses thankful to have
his head ana body together aenin.-
Copyright. 1914. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
Tomorrow's story tine conceitsd
Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26
From, Other Pens

HELP AMERICA TO HELP ITSELF.
A profound financial problem con-
fronts the United States. That prob
lem Is how to make Europe accept
american commodities in exchange for
the hundreds Of millions Of American
securities which Europeans own. but
which they desire now to sell. Until
the very same ships which carry back
to these shores such a vast amount of
stocks and bonds shall FIRST have trans-
ported to Europe our exports sufficient
to pay for them 1t would appear a most
hazardous thing to open our stock ex-
changes. Thousands Of banks hold sim
liar stocks and bonds as collateral
against loans, SO that an avalanche of
European selling would instantly WITH
ate every one Of these bank loans. The
United States has not today sufficient
capital to buy back what Europe seeks
to sell. 1t cannot rob its own treasur-
les of their gold, and Europe refuses
very naturally to accept any substitute
for gold. There is but one way and
that lies wholly in the ability Of Amer
lean exporters to sell warning Europe
just az much in the way of foodstuffs,
coal. oil, and machinery as Europe will
send US in the Shape OF stocks and
bonds. Reopening Of our Transatlantic
commerce must therefore precede and
not follow the reopening Of American
stock exchanges. Never was it more
SleAA Aot tAlS COuutry 10 promote TOT.
eign trade than it IL today. Only from
the output of our farms, factories,
| mines, and oil wells can our people now
settle their debts to Europe, which
were contracted in ma:ly instances
years ago. And never was the neces-
sity more pressing than at this hour
that America prepare its own industries
and business SO that they shall be able
| to carry the stupendous burden which
rests upon them. That means for one
thing that the obnoxious anti-business
bill in congress be indefinitely post
poned. American business and finance
have an international battle to wage
serious enough. They should be spared
| every attack from q domestic quarter.
philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26
OTTO AND THE FAIRY

OTTO AND THE FAIRY
Once upon a time there was a little
boy named Otto, who did not like to
go to school.
One day he took his books and slate
under his arm, but instead Of going to
school he went into the woods and lay
down under the trees
Presently he felt the leaf Of the book
he was reading move, and. looking up.
he saw a fairy sitting on the top Of
the book
"Why didn't you go to SCHOOL," she
asked. Run along like a good little
boy, and do not be ignorant and lazy"
mo. 1 shall not replied Otto, with
his eyes still on the book. and he did
not notice that the fairy had gone.
Otto kept on reading until he saw a
shadow on the page where he was read
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News1
In time of peace prepare for picnics.
1t is lucky that the skunk is not as
bloodthirsty as his war cry.
Every ba1dhcaded man says that he
does not care. He buys the hair re-
storer merely to keep the druggist
happy. 49,.
Every time some people feel very
naughty they quote General Sherman's
remark about war and tell themselves
that their emotions have been relieved.
Until the European war clouds shall
have cleared up definitely the public
interest in operations for appendicitis
is likely to be reduced to a minimum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26

1t is also perfectly natural for each
of the nations involved in the terrible
European struggle to attempt to shift
the blame for it onto the shoulders of
one or more of their enemies. 1t is
such q horrible affair and its results
will be SO appalling. that even an ex-
treme militarist power could find no
glory in accepting responsibility for it.
The historians of the future will have
to decide where the blame lies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26

Surely the Democrats are enjoying
q little of the luck to which they were
strangers for SO many years. Where
the European war works out to the
advantage of any of their economic
plans and policies. they can insist that
the latter deserve the credit. And
where the war initiates against any
of the results that they had hoped
from other plaEs and policies, they can
place the blame on the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26

Foreign observers in all of the coun-
tries engaged in the titanic struggle
declare that the war is popular with
each of the peoples involved. And
why war should ever be popular with
the masses of a nation is one of the
real mysteries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of tho State Journal
away from homo during the summer
may have tho paper mailed regularly
Of ten cents . week or thirty cents
. month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the State Journal will bc
60 you like . daily letter from home.
Advance payment II requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
Bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY <. MoULrON

Jim.
We never counted much on Jim
around the village. cuz
There wasn't no git up to him; MS
relatives all wuz
Jest sort o. shamed to speak about the
way he 1oafed around.
We knew him as a lazy lout, VINO
jest laid on the ground
And dreamed and dreamed the hours
away. They couldn't make him
While others drilled ten hours a day
his stunt was jest to shirk.
The village folks looked down on him
in soft o. scornful style,
Because he didn't have no vim. Jim
would only smile,
And keep on dreamin' right along.
preoccupied his air.
He'd listen to the bluejay's song, and
stare and stare and stare.
He didn't mingle much. did Jim, but
read an awful lot.
When anyone would speak to him
he'd jump like he was shot.
The other boys got up at five and
earned six plunks a week,
But Jim, he wasn't scared alive, q sort
of village freak.
One day he got an envelope from
Washington. by jung!
His breast filled with q sudden hope,
because, you see, the thing
Contained a letter patent for a rapid
:. firm gun
That was supposed to end a war when
it had scarce begun.
He sold his patent right away, and
he's q millionaire
Our foremost citizen, We say. with
civic pride to spare.
He rides round in an auto now, and
loafs lot, does Jim,
But all the town folks do allow they
re mighty proud Of him.
Uncle Abner.
Next to getting a tooth pulled the
most pleasant thing in this world is to
get out in the boiling sun to change q
tire and then find out that you don't
know how to do it.
There is a heap of consolation in
a good old corncob pipe fer the fell
innocent bystanders.
Anse Frisby had his Palm Beach
suit washed, and he now has to put
it on with a shoehorn.
This talk of baseball bein' the great
American game is all bunk There il
only one great American game, and
that is played with red, white and blue
chips.
trocuted down east last week. They
strapped him in the chair, and Just
before they turned on the juice the
thing to say. YES" replied Lem, 81
have. 1 want to say that this is going
to teach me q great lesson
Some Needed Inventions.
Umbrellas that will explode and
shoot a skyrocket when taken by the
wrong party.
Typewriter that will run itself, &C
that a man can go to a ball game once
in q Will
Vaudeville program that contain.
no jugglers or song and dance artists
Keyhole that will jump out of the
door and fasten itself onto the Ike,
automatically.
Front stairs that will not squeak a,
2 q. m.
Babies that will do all Of thei,
sQualling in the daytime.
Five-cent pieces that will make 6
noise like a silver dollar when dropped
in the collection plate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26

How long are the railroads expected
to keep up this lick? According to
the figures of the interstate commerce
commission. one hundred and thirty
nine of the largest railroads in the
country paid out $27,OOO,OOO more in
expenses in the fiscal year which has
just ended, to ISL, 100000 less business
than they did a year ago. The result
was a decline of nearly $7s,OOO.OOO in
NET RETURNS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26

Here's hoping that President Will
sons information is correct to the eff
feet that reports of break between
Villa and Carranza are false and have
been circulated by the mischief-mak-
ers who think they would be benefited
by American Intervention in Mexico
and who. apparently, will go to any
extreme to obtain it. Peace in Mexi-
CO just now is most desirable. Outside
plotters against it should be dealt
with summarily,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26

Kaiser Wilhelm is probably quite
willing to subscribe to the impressions
Of Julius Caesar relative to the war
like proclivities of the Belgians. In
comparing them with other tribes that
he encountered in that section, Caesar
wrote. among other things: Horum
Omnium fortissimi stunt Belgae.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26

Taking the CO :ntry at large. the ap-
pie crop promises to be of excellent
proportions. An estimate is that the
producers will obtain on an average
of about 20 cents a bushel for their
wares. By the time they reach the
consumer, though, they'll be in the
class of luxuries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26
TELEPHONES.
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE. ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal II . member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegrap report Of that great news or
ganixation for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news n received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26

and the lip. President Wilson natur-
ally did not take a European war into
consideration when he was figuring
out the advantages that he thought
would accrue to his constituents by the
free sugar provision in the new tariff.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-14
SEES AID TO DEATH
IN STRENUOUS LIFE
Redfield Says No Public Grief
Marks Lives Lost in Busi-
ness Conflict.

Providence. May i3.--"The strenuous
life is in most cases the least effective and
efficient" William c. Redfield. Secretary Of
Commerce. told the Brown University
students to-day in an address on Eff
fectiveness."
at is an infantile view or industry
which measures it's results by either the
duration or the extent OF effort" he said.
Both the hustler and the apostle OF
strenuousness have become back numbers
in their methods. They are to-day In the
same category with him who also ran ."
Secretary Redfield discussed the wants
Of human life, effort and materials In
commercial progress I'VE deplore lives
lost I'm war. and have advocates OF peace
who are fluent i'm speech regarding the
horrors Of strife he said. Yet while
one must sympathize with those who have
lost dear ones in battle, are we as elo-
onent and active as respects the many
that are slain in industry? We mourn the
nineteen of Vera Cruz, but in the first
three months of this year there were slain
several times that number in the indus
tries OF Massachusetts,. and the list OF
dead from automobiles in the streets OF
Nau York makes our occupation of Vera
cruz look relatively like pleasure ex-
cursion."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-14
FUTURISM WON'T
BUTTER PARSNIPS
Girl Artists Warned to Stick to
the Old Grooves if They
Want to Eat.

warning against the bogy OF futurism
was given by Carroll Beckwith to the
graduates OF the New York Academy of
Applied Design for Women at the class
day. exercises yesterday afternoon.
This futurism is all right for an old
man like me 10 smuse myself with" he
said, " but you keep away from 1t. You
mustn't let IL enter into your work, be-
cause it won't help you any. It's mechan-
ical skill that 1t going to earn bread and
butter.
IL look forward to the day when there
will be women architects. At present any
Of you young women can get position as
craftsman in an office If you would
apply yourselves to learning the practical
work, you could be earning big salaries
in ten years. The trouble with women Is
that they are too much interested in the
decorative arts. The masculine mind Is
less apt to be ornamental, because men
have had TO wrcstle with the world so
much longer. We have had to earn our
bread and butter so long that we have no
sentiment left"
Arthur Hoeber also gave the girls good
advice.
The graduates were Myra Cliff. Mabel
johnson, Ethel Schifrmacher. Estelle
Baumhackl. Helen Hammond. Antoinette
Lorenzo, Elizabeth Hubbard. Helen Craig.
Harriet Klamroth, Mabel Staehr, Mildred
Brobst, Helen Van Colt. Mary Il. Thomp-
son and Blanche Wallis. Scholarships
were awarded to Clara b. Miller. Mary
e. Thompson, Mabel Staehr. Airline Will
hanson and Eleanor Woodruff.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-14
ROOSEVELT REPLIES
TO SIR c. MARKHAM
Says British Geographer Has Paid
Him a High Compliment
Reaffirms His Discoveries.

Bridsetown, Barhado;. May 1S.-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt to-day replied to Sir
Clements r. Markham's criticism Of his
discovery OF an unknown river in Brazil
by saying that the British geographer had
unconsciously paid the greatest possible
tribute to what he had done. He declared
the best existing maps TO be utterly wrong
in regard to all this part Of South Amer
lea and said that they made mistakes as
TO the courses OF the Gyparana and Ju-
ruena affiuents
The mountains given on the maps were
according to the colonel mostly mag
mary. He said that while his party had
assembled a mountain the maps Indicated
a valley.
The lower part Of tho river. said the
colonel, had long been known to rubber
eatherers under the name OF the Arpo-
nan and the upper part as the Castanho.
IL had not, however. been mapped, while
the existence OF the river he had descend
ed was not limited at in Bartholomew
map.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-14
GERMANY GUSTS u. S.
IN PARIS ART SALES
Purchases for American Account
Show Falling Off-Roger Marx
Collection Sells Well.
fpv Cable 10 The Tribune.l

Paris. May 13.-The sale of the Roger
Marx collection terminated to-day, the
total amount realized for the three days
sale being $4,000. Prices Indicate an
increasing demand from Germany Tor
modern French paintings and pastels OF
the schools OF Manet, Degas and CLAUDE
Monet and for Rodin statuary.
One Berlin purchaser acquired for 10'
900 Manet's "Sultana," and the best
Renoirs and Toulouse Lautrecs also
went to Berlin and Cologne.
Degass pastel drawing. la Toilette
was bought by Durand Ruel. after sharp
bidding by the Berlin dealers. for s22'oVo.
Experts consider the prices reached
n fairly good average. 1t was noted that
purchases for the United States were
smaller in volume than those for Ger
many, which to-day is the best Gus
toner at all Paris art sales. The munich
pality OF Paris purchased a pastel por-
trait OF a young girl by Mary Cassat'
1000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-14
FEEBLE-MINDED A DANGER
Choate Urges State to Care for
Mentally Deficient.

That there are more than 22.5co feeble
minded persons at large In this state and
thousands more in institutions not de-
signed for their care. are statements
made In letter which Joseph II. Choate
sent to members of the Assembly yes
terday The letter urged the passage
OF a bill submitting to the people the
question OF n bond issue for new con-
struction in state institutions.
After reviewing the inadequate facili-
ties furnished by the present state hos
pitfalls. prisons. reformatories and chart
table institutions, MIR. Choate said he
thought the passage OF the proposed bond
issue would relieve the congestion. pro-
vide adequately for all the feeble minded,
insure constructive policy of wide pro-
portions remedying tho effects of years
OF accumulated neglect, and eventually
save the state enormous sums of money
by minimizing crimes by irresponsible
persons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-14
POLK FILLS $1,000 POST
Melville j. France Made Assist
ant Corporation Counsel.

Corporation Counsel Polk announced
yesterday tho appointment of Melville
J. France as Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci in charge of the Brooklyn Bureau OF
street Openings. to succeed Edward Rie-
gelman. who has sent in his resignation.
to take effect on May %.
Mr.. France. who lives at. 17i4 East
18th St. Brooklyn. has been active in civic
matters since his graduation from the
New York Law School, In 1902. The place
pays $4,000 year.
Sanders Shanks. who was an Assistant
Corporation Counsel at $4,000 q year In
the Brooklyn office. has resigned. but his
place has not yet been filed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-14
PATRIOTS ELECT OFFICERS
General Prime Says Order Was
Protest Against Tory Pride,

on the anniversary OF the landing or
John Smith on the Virginia coast the
General Court OF the Order Of Founders
and Patriots of America met yesterday in
the Governors Room of the City Hall
and elected officers. These were the guests
of the New York society at the Manhat-
tan Hotel in the evening.
Colonel George Clinton Batcheller, gov
ernor of the New York society. presided
at the dinner and DIR. William f. Fitch.
deputy governor was POSTMASTER. Gen
eral Ralph Earle Prime, the only sur
viving charter member told his fellow
members that the order was organized as
a protest against the pride shown by
those members of the Society Of Colonial
Wars who congratulated themselves on
the fact that they were the descendants
of New York Tories. Some of them
General Prime said even boosted that no
member OF their family had ever married
into a patriot family. Then 1t was de-
cided that the time had come for the
founding Of patriot society.
The new officers are Colonel William
Cary Sanger. of Sangerville. n. Y, gov
ernor general; Isaac Watts Brooks, OF
Torrington, Conn, deputy governor gen
eral: the Rev. Edward Payson Johnson,
d. D., of New Brunswick, n. j., chaplain
general; George Scranton, Of Philadelphia,
treasurer general: Henry Snyder Kissan'
of New York City, secretary general;
John Chambers Hinkley, OF Philadelphia
attorney general; Theodore Fitch. OF
Yonkers, y. Y, registrar general; Ell
Mix, of New Haven, genealoeist, and
Hiram Edward beats, OF Pennington
n J.. historian general.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-14
MRS. SAGE GIVES
$4,000 FOR GAME
Income of 100000 Fund
To Be Used to Defend
Wild Life.
LARGEST POPULAR
DONATION OF KIND
Attempt at Washington to Kill
Migratory Bird Law Induces
the Gift.

Mrs. Russell Sage sent her check for
$4,000 yesterday to William T. Hornaday
as contribution to tho Permanent Wild
Life Protection Fund. This gift brings
the total already subscribed to $4,000, Of
which almost all has been paid in
DR.. Hornaday. who Is a trustee OF the
fund and has power 70 expend its income
at his discretion. places the "irreducible
minimum necessary TO derive an income
sufficient to carry out the work intended
at $4,000.
1t is believed that the attempt now being
made In Washington 10 destroy the fed
eral migratory bird law induced Mrs.
Sage to make her large gift. The first
check from the income OF this fund was
sent TO California TO be used to oppose a
fight being made in that state for the re-
peal OF a law prohibiting the sale OF
game.
The subscriptions thus far received 70
the permanent fund show that SO, 900 has
come from outside New York City: S7.325
has been subscribed by women and about
$500 by sportsmen. Every person who
subscribes $1,000 or more becomes a
founder. So far there are nineteen
founders
The banking trustees OF the fund are
Clark Williams. formerly State Superin-
tendent of Banks. and A. Barton Hep
burn, manager OF the Chase National
Bank. The income from the fund only is
dependable: the principal cannot be
touched. The income will be used in
nationwide campaign work for the de-
fence Of Wild lfe-birds. mammals, game
fish. game preserves. bird sanctuaries-
and protective laws of all kinds.
Among the founders are George East
man. OF Rochester, who gave 5000 An
drew Carnegie. Mrs. Frederick Ferris
Thompson, OF Canandaigua, and Henry
Ford, OF Detroit who gave 5000 each.
The following have contributed $1,000
each: Miss Heloise Meyer, Lenox, Mass. {;
Max Fleischmann. Cincinnati; Mrs. j. 5.
Kennedy. John d. Archbold, Mortimer L.
Schiff, William p. Clyde. Emerson McMil-
lin, George d. Pratt, Frederick G. Bourne,
George L. Baker, Samuel Thorne and Dr.
William II. Nichols. New York City. and
Anthony r. and John Dryden Kuser. Of
Bernardsville, n. j. Those who contrib
uted $50 are Cleveland II. Dodge and
James Speyer. of New York City, and
Frederick F. Brewster. OF New Haven.
This IS believed to be the largest fund
ever raised by popular subscription for
the protection of wild life. and with the
exception of the Albert Wilcox bequest of
$685., 900 to the National Association Of
Audubon Societies. Is the largest endow-
ment fund ever established for such a
purpose.