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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

Colonel Bryan practices what he
breaches in one particular, at least.
One Of his topics for lectures il The
Importance Of Faith" And while all
the news from Niagara Falls would in
dictate that the peace plans are on the
rocks, the secretary Of state makes a
formal announcement every few hours
that the Mexican situation IL most
hopeful and that the conference of the
mediators IL progressing favorably.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12
WILSON GOING HOME.
The Presadent WIN Attend tho Re
union Of His Class.

Warrington, June 1z-President Wilson
VIII leave Washington tomorrow at q
m. for Princeton. n. J.. to attend the
reunion Of the class Of -. Of which he IL
. member.
Mr.. Wilson will lunch and dine with the
members OF his class and attend the
Princeton-Yale baseball game. He plans
to leave Princaton Tomorrow nigiat af n
O'Clock. arriving In Warrington at Z
O'Clock Sunday mornfng.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12
DULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
sway from home during the summer
nay have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
Of ten cents q week or thirty cents
. month (by mail only. Address
changed as often rs desired. While
out of town the State Journal Will be
10 you like . daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
Bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

'Old-fashioned. methods are dropping
by the wayside daily. Consideration is
now being given to the solution Of the
car-shortage problem before it becomes
q fact. This would seem to indicate
that even before the arrival Of the mil
lennium. 1t is probable that most folk
will realize that the best way to meet
any kind Of an emergency is to prepare
for IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

Neither Is there anything unusual
in the fact that the Kansas weather
- far from being normal for this sea-
son of the year. AS a matter Of fact,
normal weather in the Sunf1ower state
IL nearly always Of the abnormal va
r1ety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

Huerta would seem to be the man to
handle the militant suffragettes in
England. after they get into Jail. He
announces that he would not turn q
hand to keep the Mexicans in and about
Vera Cruz from starving to death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

That Tom Lipton's new Shamrock
can show her heels handily to an
Older Shamrock is as it should be.
There would be little glory in defend
ing the Americas cup against yacht
that was not better than the best of
her sisters that have fallen down in
attempts to lift this historic bit Of
silver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

While waxing enthusiastic over the
wonderful Kansas wheat crop, it
might be just as we'll to remember
that the huge sum which the farmers
will receive for it in the aggregate
will not all be profit by any means. It
costs considerable to plant a wheat
field, harvest the crop and market it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12
Stage To-day Highest It Has
Been Since December.
% YOU Know IT'S HISTORY?
Il Drains $1,000 Square Miles IL
Three Western States.

+ For the first time since December
>. 1919, the Kaw resembles. q real riv-
CT. Even In December it was for but
q few days that the stream did not
look Nike . mare ghost OF itself. In
fact with the one exception OF the
month of December each month since
last June has seen the low stage rec
ord broken for the corresponding per-
iods in the eight years that the local
records have been kept.
The stage of the river today II eight
feet even-one foot below normal for
this time OF the year. The lowest
stage on record was three feet on Sep
Iissoty Of osd River. z
The Kaw, river has an interesting
or Kaw tribe OF Indians that lived on
its banks from. time finmemorial. Ono
OF the earliest references made to the
river was by Antonio de Herraray
Tordesillas, -historfographer to the
the s'Kanza' in 1878. a map Of the
British ana French settlements In
North America. published in 1756 gives
the stream an the .'Padoucas river. :"
When the traders came into the ter
ritory canoes and bull boats OF the In-
dams were the only craft to disturb
Through floods the river has work
ed havoc In the territory adjacent to
its bankss The 8reatest OF all the
floods as far as history IL known was
that Of 1874. but the overflow that
was the most DISASTROUS to human
life and property was that Of 1908
when the country was more thickly
settled and the people were not pre-
pared.
In 1874 it was necessary for Major
Cummings. paymaster for the United
Ia TRnyVH thu w0vvfh
to the north side Of the river in a
canoe, starting out from a point near
the present corner of Second street
and Topeka avenue. The water was
said to be twenty feet deep over
North Topeka. There was a SLIGHT
overflow in 1881, but that flood has
almost been forgotten. =
The stage Of the Kaw May 80, 1903.
was 32.7 feet at Topeka or twelve and
one-half feet higher than the Car
field street crossing on Kansas ave-.
nue.. North Topeka was many feet
under water. and those who lived In
Topeka at that time know OF the
thrilling experiences Of hundreds OF
citizens who were caught by the flood.
and whose houses were fairly swal-s
lovped ~ water. The river overfowed'
slightly in 1904 when the stage waA'
25.7 feet, and in 1908, when there was
a twenty-eight foot stage, North To-
peka was again under water.
Drains Largo Part Of Kansas
The Kansas river drains an area
OF $4,000 square miles in Kansas
almost the entire northern half of the
state-11 900 square miles in Nebras-
ka,, and 5000 miles in Colorado
in all $1,000 square miles. The river
10 formed by the junction OF the
Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at
Junction City. It flows in = general
easterly direction through Geary and
Riley counties. forms the boundary
between Pottawatomie and Wabaun-i
see counties, crosses Shawnee, forms
boundary between Jefferson and
Douglas and Wyandotte counties in
part and empties into the Missouri
river at Kansas City. The main trfb-
utaries are the Smoky Hill, Republic
can, Blue, Delaware and Walkarusa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

And the marriage Of Kermit Roose-
welt suggests the query as to what has
become Of Teddy Roosevelt, jr.? He
seems to have dropped out of sight
completely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

You'll have to give it to the mercury
in the thermometers. It never seems to
have any difficulty in making its way
to the top.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

Maybe some Of the wild women Of
Great Britain are in the game for the
hugs1ngs they get from the police who
take them into custody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-12

LOuietana-NeW Orleans, $1Z.79-
siassa; sarsysport
1916; Lowell. $13.10-$N.22; Lynn. $1s.65-
1882; Salem. $13.09-$2712.
Minnesota-Duluth. $1s.s5-$7s.2s; st.
Paul, $13.01-$43.19.
Missourt-Joplin. $7.96-$10.z5.
Nebraska-Omaha. 36-$109.23: Lin
coin, $10.79-$25.9s.
New Jersey-Atlantic City, $z2.76-
$116.10; Passaic, $10.07-$2s.40; Trenton,
$1L 5s-$22. o.: Jersey City. $1s-so-$72.so.
Oklahoma = Muskogee. $11.02-$65.65;
Oklahoma City, $10.40-$e6.24.
Oregon-Portland. $13.10-$48.6s.
Pennsylvania-Allent $s.47-$17.11:
Altoona. $s.o7-$ss.25; Chester. N.4s-
$s0.75; Erie, $s.s3-$s.01: Harrisburg,
$10.24-$37.6 "a; Johnstown, $7.17-$s.9o; Lam
caster, s7.61-$2s04: McKeesport, s1O.s1-
sass: New Castle. $s.16-$14.Ol: Reading.
$s.z2-$1s-27: Wilkes-Barre. $s.4z-&2s.le:
Williamsport. $s.57-$12-1s; York, ,es.ss-l
$19.7s.
Tennessee-C hattanooge. s11.ss-$sess;
Knoxville. &1o.s1-sss.5l; Nashville. Su0.s3-
$5C-02: Memphis. $1zs6-x76.x3.
Texas = Austin. $o.14-t76-6e: Dallas,
411.u-$s6.2z; Ell Paso. $11.eo-$54.s5; Fort
Worth. &&91-$50.25; Galveston, 311.63-
$11324 Houston. e11.96>$H0k
Utah-salt Lake City. 81 ls-sS7.s1
Washington - Spokane, $1l.e7-Ses. IS:
Tacoma 4.16-$1069A
West Virginia = Huntington, $751;.
$3a0z
wisconsin Oshkosh. ss.4s-s14.ss: su-
perior. s1zSs-$1211.
Washingtnn led ON.
Washington, D. c., was the first city
IN the United States to be governed for
any number N yeafs b. ascommfasion
canning under that form Of govern
meat N the terms Of IN act. of cons
UR9Aa that beCa me affAfffwA sdS11anE =
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
Hugo and Merlmee.

1t is probable that with the ex-
ception of Byron no great literary
genius ever was greeted with such
a storm of utilization and abuse as
Victor Hugo when he published
'Ies Miserables." While the book
took the public literally off its
feet, almost all Hugo's rivals united
in condemning it and its author.
Prosper Merimee wrote in refer
ence to dinner given to Hugo at
Brussels:
''Have you read Victor Hugo's
speech at the dinner given to him
by Belgian librarians and other
scoundrels of Brussels? His state
ments were without depth, solidity
or common sense. He is a man who
intoxicates himself with words and
does not take the trouble to think"
Victor Hugo retorted by writing
TO friend, IN. Merimee is man
naturally vile"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
THE BLUE or THE SKY.
Il Is Caused by the Oxygen In the Air,
Says q Scientist.

Il 10 Caused by the Oxygen In the Air,
Says a Scientist.
Professor Spring of the University Of
Liege has a theory Of his own regard
Ing the blue Of the sky.
Scientists have tried to explain the
blue Of the sky ever since the days Of
Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Isaac New
ton. Some have held that it was due
to the polarization of the solar light,
while others have held that the blue
ness is due to the reflection, or, rather,
the vibration, upon the minute drops Of
water which the atmosphere holds in
suspension or upon the matter in the
atmosphere, according to Tyndall.
Professor Spring has rejected all
these theories, denying the dust theo-
~" altogether He holds with Lord
Rayleigh that instead Of the dust in
creasing the bluenrss it diminishes 1t
greatly. And according to Professor
Spring, all Of the appearances Of blue
tints in the atmosphere are applicable
when we consider liquid oxygen
Liquid air" is known to be decidedly
blue in color, SO the contention that
blueness is due to the oxygen in the
air seems to be substantiated.
If condensed and liquid air are blue
In color it is most probable that the
blueness of the sky is due to the oxy
gen in it--New York World.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16

Sutton precinct or Cations Mills
Cal Smallwood and James Gill;
land bought votes publicly for
Dawson and that they were ar
rested and brought to Newport
for trial for buying votes and both
admitted that they bought votes
for Dawson, Holt and Sexton but
did not think it was any harm.
Clark proposed to prove all of
these allegations and many more
bnt the committee had its instruc-
tons not to allow the evidence to
get out and it acted accordingly.
When the contest first came up
Judge Gates for Dawson demand
ed that Clark be required to file a
bond in the sum of FIVE HUN
DRIED DOLLARS before he be al
to contest. Mr.. Simerly announced
that Clark would file a certified
check for $4,000, of the Merchants
and Planters Bank and sent out
and got the check, Mr.. Simerly al
so notified the committee that all
their actions wereirregular and he
would 60 after each member indi-
vidually as soon as they compelled
Clark to file his check. Then they
bucked and refused the check
which Clark rendered and with
drew their motion for bond, an
other square back down. Mr..
Cla k did not spend ond cent to
corrupt any voter out had money
rendered him by his friends who
wanted to spend it in his interest
but he would not allow it.
Now what the common Hill Bill
lies, the common people would
like to know was why Dawson was
afraid to let Clark prove his
charges, if he had failed to make
them good he would have been IL
able for damages and if they were
not guilty they should have let the
proof in, they should know the
truth and the truth would make
them free.
"A VOTER"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
CITIZENS PLANT
IN KNOXVILLE
Plain Talk Will Not Be Handi-
capped by Publication of
Knoxville Paper Here.

The Knoxville Citizens plant
was moved from The Plain Talk
plant Wednesday and is being in
stalled at Knoxville. The Plain
Talk will thus no further be handi-
capped because of the publishing
of the Citizen in Newport and the
plant can give the Plain Talk it's
undivided attention.
A Campbell press has been in-
tailed in The Plain Talk offices
and the equipment is such as to
enable the publication of a neat
up-to-date newspaper and it has
the material, etc, to give Cooke
county people a paper better than
any they have ever had.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
Cost of Living.

The income tax is too high, accord
ing to Mr. Rockefeller. So is the price
of gasoline, according to everybody
else.-Philadelphi Ledger.
In olden times when a man in
restaurant ordered ham and eggs he
felt kind of cheap. Nowadays such an
order places him among the financial
magnates or the newly rich. - Ex-
change.
If the price of leather continues to
advance it will only be question of
time when leather medal will become
a valuable bit Of jewelry to be handed
down as an heirloom in the family
New Orleans States.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
Selling Opportunity.

GLOW did you come to marry the
lady who is now your wife,"
at was very romantic. We were
out skating. She went to a place
where the ice was thin and broke in.
I rescued her after terrible strug-
gle. Poor girl, she was nearly froz-
en- before we got home, but I pro-
posed to her on the way"
''For heavens sake, do you mean
to say that you made a declaration
of love to a girl who was soaked
and icy and uncomfortable? You
had your nerve, I must say!"
''Maybe, but there's nothing like
striking while the iron is hot!"-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
Pen, ChiSel and Brush.

l.. Theo DUDE, who painted portrait
Of President Wilson last June, after
ward visiting Colorado, has reOpene1
his studio in Paris.
Alfred Drury, the English sculptor,
whose work gained the gold medal in
1900 in Paris, has now been elevated
to the full honors of academician. A
Londoner by birth, he studied under
Dalou in Paris.
Celestin Demblon, whose books en-
deavor to prove that the plays attrib-
uted to Shakespeare were written by
Lord Rutland. will come to this coun-
try in the spring to lecture on his theo
ry. He is a deputy and professor of
literature at Brussels university.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
Fresh Water From tho Ocean.

Manama, the principal port of the
Banrein Islands, the center Of the pearl
fisheries, gets its fresh water from the
ocean from springs at the bottom Of
the sea. These springs well up strong
ly at considerable depth, and the en-
tire water supply Of the town is OBJ
tanned from them. The fresh water is
procured in two ways-either in
goatskin water bag, which a diver
takes down with him and carefully
closes before bringing it to the surface,
or by letting down long hollow pipes
of bamboo weighted at the lower end.
through which the water rises uncon'
terminated to the surface-London Tel
egraph.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
WEBB-KENYON
LAW UPHELD
By Judge Kelly in Decision at Bris-
tol Monday.-Takes a Differ
erent View From That of
President Taft.

Bristol, Tenn, April 13.-In the
first test case involving the consti-
nationality of the Webb-Kenyon
MISUNDERSTANDING act, Judge
Joseph L. Kelley, of the corpora
ton court of Bristol, Va, today held
that law to be constitutional, con-
trary to the view of so eminent an
authority as President William
Howard Taft, who vetoed the
measure because he believed it to
be unconstitutional, but over
whose head it was finally enacted.
The occasion for this decision
was the litigation of the Bristol
Distributing Company and other
whiskey shippers here, who
brought suit to compel the South
ern Express Company to receive
shipments for Avery and Mitchell
counties, North Carolina, in spite
of the fact that under the laws of
North Carolida these counties are
dry territory"
Judge Kelly held that the Webb
Kenyon law is constitutional, and
therefore denied the whiskey ship
pers the privilege Of compelling
the express company to receive
shipments for the counties men
toned.
The case is one of nationwide
interest and the final outcome Of
the litigation will be watched with
keen interest. Attorney A. Gray
Gilmer, representing the whiskey
shippers gave notice Of the pur-
pose of the compliments to appeal
from Judge Kelly's decision, and
the case will now be carried to the
supreme court of Virginia.
Before rendering his decision,
Judge Kelly, who is himself soon
to be promoted to the state SUI
preme court bench, gave the ques-
tons involved the most thorough
study, bringing all the light posi-
BILE to bear by careful examina-
ton of decisions in cases in any
way related to the present one,
and giving special study to the
question of the sonstitutionality of
the Webb-Kenyon act.
1t was to be remembered that
President Taft was opposed to this
measure because in his view of
nature to render it unconstitu-
tional. He was not on the bench
at that time, however, but Presi-
dent of the United States and his
study of the subject was due to
| the fact that he was called upon
as the chef executive to either ap-
prove, or veto the measure. 1t is
not improbable that the case will
finally be carried to the supreme
court of the United States.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16

At the annual campaign rally Of
the National Woman Suffrage ASSOC
citation in New York the other even
ing, Mrs. Medill Mccormick, daugh-
ter of the late Senator Mark Hanna,
was cheered to the echo when she
asserted that "by 1915 women will
hold the balance Of power in the
electoral college, and they look to
the Democrats in power to solve the
question Of equal rights"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
HE CLARK DAW-
SON CONTEST
Newport, Tenn.
April, IS, 1914

pear Editor: ....
In the primary election contest
between S. H. Clark and C. E.
Dawson which was voted out of
Existence by the Republican Exc
utive Committee according to in
|tructions last Saturday in this
pity things got rather warm.
Clark was represented by j. M.
6imerly of this city and Dawson
by Judge Gates. Mr.. Simerly
showed conclusively by the author
ties that no primary election had
been held because the Committee
holding the election had not been
sworn as the law directs, and
that the law requires that where
there are more than two candi-
dates the successful man must get
a majority Of all the votes cast, and
as no one got that, no nomination
was made. Mr.. Clark by his at
torney presented and asked to
have filed the following charges
towit: That just before the pri-
mary Murphy Hill drew a large sun
of money out Of the Merchants
and Planters Bank and announced
at the time that it was to be spent
for Dawson to prevent Clark from
defeating him and that he was 60
ing to distribute it at once. That
on the day of election Dawson and
his workers had a large amount of
whiskey and money in the stable
and coal house on the jail lot in
Newport and that it was used to
buy votes, that they offered $500
and a pint of booze or $500 cash
for votes and bought a large num-
Der. And by the way the coal
house was we'll stocked with booze
the day the committee met the
last time.
That Elihue Redwine marked
IS ballots at Bybee for Dawson
without any authority whatever,
and that Byrne Bible marked 100
in the Del Rio precinct in viola
ton of law.
That on the day Of the primary
that Joseph Justice drew $4,000
in cash out of the First National
Bank and took it to Del Rio and
gave to James Burnett to buy
votes for Dawson which was
so spent. That John Holt wrote
Lucian Cation a letter to South
Carolina telling him if he would
come to Cooke County and work
for the gang, including Dawson,
they would pay all his expenses
going and coming and pay him
well for his time, and that he came
and got the Doodle. That Bob
Jones at Wilsonville precinct with
loads of money and whiskey buy
ing votes for Dawson and the
gang, that he was the captain in
command, that he put the money
and whiskey into circulation and
bought all the votes he could,
both white and black, bought
publicly in the public road. That
on the day of election Dawson's
friends in the town of Newport or
the public street, offered mer
$500 and $500 a head to vote fol-
Dawson and the gang. That a
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
Somethinu Like Il.

~ read" said the serious citizen,
shat 200 persons have been vaccinated
In one house in New York"
isn't that an embargo on arms 2" in
Qnired the human hiatus.-New York
Press.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
Irritating.

One of the little irritations Of a
housewives life is to borrow the maid
of a near neighbor and then have one
of the breezy guests at the dinner par
ty loudly recognize her.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
The Execution.

"Women are never given to alb
stract reflections"
'Did you ever catch them steal
ing glances at a mirror"-Balti-
more American.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
QaintiIy Refined.

Margye-He looks like a shrimp to
me. but Minnye says he's just dread
fully refined Maggye-Yes. She says
he confided to her that he wouldn't
even let the dentist watch him select
his false teeth. because he thinks it's
vulgar to pick his teeth in public
Kansas City Star
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16

Misses Ethel and Navada Ward
of Hot Springs spent Sunday in
Newport, guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Darius Netherton.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16

Miss Gertrude Latham of Mt
Sterling is the charming guest this
week of Mrs. Mac Boyer and Miss
Grace Vinson.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16

Mrs. Elisa Culbertson-W Wallace Of
San Francisco, former wife of Lieu
tenant Culbertson of the U. S. cruiser
Des Moines, is seeking to gain
possession of her six-year-old son
"Billy," now with his grandmother,
Mrs. Ruth Culbertson, in Worland,
Wyoming.
Mrs. Culbertson says the town Of
Worland ais bowling wilderness"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-04-16
Reaping Benefit
From the Experience of Newport
People.

We are fortunate indeed to be
able to profit by the experience
of our neighbors. The public ut
terances of Newport residents on
the following subject will interest
and benefit many of our readers.
Read this statement. No better
proof can be had.
Mrs. c. G. Smelser, Mountain
View st. Newport, Tenn, says:
II suffered for three years from a
dull, weary ache through my
back and kidneys, and although
managed to do my work, there
were times when | was in misery.
| read about Doan's Kidney Pills
and deciding to try them, got d
box from the MINIS Drug Co.
They helped me at once and
continued using them until the
trouble was relieved. Some time
ago, | told of my experience in a
public statement, and at this time
it gives me pleasure to confirm
that endorsement. Doan's Kid
ney Pills are without doubt the
best remedy to be had for kid
ney trouble"
Price SOC at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
that Mrs. Smelser had. Foster
Milburn Co., Proprs., Buffalo,
N. Y. Adv
Rev. L. D. Hamil was in Norris
town last week
Mrs. Winfield Kyker spent a
few days in Morristown last week.
Miss Gertrude Brooks of Bridge
port, was pleasant visitor of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Hale, Monday and
Tuesday.