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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-09-04
MOTHER OF
SCHOOL GIRL
Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound Re-
stored Her Daugh-
ters Health.

Plover, Iowa. From a small child
my ID year old daughter had female
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
FIND STOLEN CAR BRING n TO 1000
Commercial Club Sets About %
. New Campaign.
Increase Memhership By :
Least $50 Topekans.


S. A Commercial club membership CAM
paign will be waged at noon each Gay
this week in speeches; next TUESDAY
and Wednesday real work will be ac-
complished. The meetings this week
are for the purpose Of working up en-
thusiasm And the oratory is beginning
to tell. More than fifty persons have
pledged themselves to participate II
the campaign. There should be 200 IL
the field, but 100 persons working az
least one day might bring the CAM
paign to q successful conclusion. =
The goal set for the campaign y
1000 members: there are now $50 IN
the club. The workers will fairly camp
OUT on the job. They will take all OF
their meals at the club quarters. first
reporting at eight o'clock next Tuesday
morning.
/ Frank Curry. chairman OF the mem-
bership committee presided at the
meeting today. Speakers were X. L
Bone, w. II. Davis. e. #. Maxweii.
S. E. Cobb. w. w. Webb. and George
Godfrey Moore.
Prizes will be given to the member4
making the best showing in the CAM
paign. The Shawnee Mills today Of
fered a sack Of big T" flour as =
special prize.
e. F. Maxwell extended an invita-
ton to the campaign workers to attend
the show at the Hip at the conclusion
of the campaign work Tuesday ana
Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
Globe Sights
BIZ THE ATCHIsON GLOBE

Half Of the Innocent Bystanders are
guilty hell.
Curiosity gains you some information
and more trouble.
The biggest joke Is a spring ROSTERS
first attempts at CROWNS.
A fisherman takes q big chance that the
fish have more patience than he has.
The ingrown crouch might as well make
up his mind to get along without sym
pathy.
find tobacco greater consolation than
sympathy.
A gentleman's agreement usually means
that the third gentleman is going to get
stung.
We are less interested in the worlds
greatest poet than in the one who pleases
us most.
Blamed few men like their work so well
they long to hurry up and get their va
cation over with.
smart alec who said he didn't chew mis-
tobacco twice?
The membership Of the Kewpie club is
growing larger. That is the name Of the
girls who dress like Cupid.
Preachers are buying automobiles. while
reporters continue to walk. It's this kind
OF thing that makes Socialists.
The Palm Beach suits the men are
wearing are SO thin that one man says
he will not wear his without wearing at
least one skirt.
When a man marries the Clinging Vine
type Of woman, he thinks he isn't going
to be henpecked. and is apt to be fooled
in several other ways.
The most unusual man is the one who
admits al. Improvement in the school
systems since the days when his young
ideas were taught how to shoot.
You have frequently heard some lazy
| lout complain because Eve wished the
apple on Adam. And now a chronic
kicker complains because Noah dfdn't
swat the flies when the supply was lin
| tied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14

Brain Quirlxs.

BRAIN GUlEk8s AL
How do you spell friend?" some
one asked me the other day.
I supplied the information with
some SURPRISE: my interrogation was .
good speller. could not forbear
asking Didn't you know"
"Oh yes" he said. II knew but 1t
went from me-
Aren't these little quirlks in the brain
that make US incapable Of remember
ing simple familiar facts. queer
things?
have a friend of old standing to
whom have written many letters and
who has written me as many more.
One day 1 was called upon to write
her name on a legal document and
suddenly found myself unable to de-
eide If there were one 't'' or two in
her last name. I wrote 1t both ways
to see which looked right" And
each time, the last way seemed the
right one. The way in which 1 events
ually put it on The document was
wrong. Yet must have written that
name at least a hundred times before
without hesitating as to the spelling.
In an office in which once worked
a stenographer one day brought in a
over this correcting it, she said. land
I find I've left the apostrophes out of
hers every time. But I've fixed them
now" she concluded.
When she had gone out. her en-
ployer~ Looked blankly. at me. II sup
pose there must be IN apostrophe in
hers she said. hut / certainly didn't
know it. I admitted to the same
state OF mind and it took a consulta-
ton with the grammar to reassure us,
for the stenographer was q first class
worker and not given to mistakes
A sudden demand for any bit Of in
formation sometimes seems to para
1xyyo al 1f H~D
game of fish. bird or beast il an ex-
cellent example of this. or the bro
midic response. ''If you hadn't asked
me could have told you.''
Besides these temporary brain
quirks, there are some that persist
for years or even for lifetime. For
instance. I have a friend who, after
having played cards for years, still has
difficulty every now and then in re-
membering which Of tn ; suits il clubs
and which is spades. Not 80 very long
ago she played a hand straight
through with the wrong trump in
mind.
Myself, 1 have a strange incapable
ity Of remembering whether to pro-
nounce 'g'' hard or soft in certain
words BY dint of reminding myself
that people will jeer at you IL you
say head jear" l have fixed that in
my mind. but am still in doubt about
clergyman" and have several times
been obliged to hastily change over
to minister" when almost upon the
word. AS a dear old friend Of mine
often says in apology for similar
lapses, II know 1t il one and not tie
other. but I can't remember which"
Do you have quirks Of one sort or
another. reader friend? hope YOU
do. because il you don't you viii think
all this very ridiculous. but II you -
you'll understand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
$4,000, 900 RABBITS A YEAR.
Growth OF q Pest in Tasmania Has
Created q Serious Problem.

Growth OF q Pest in Tasmania Has
Created q Serious Problem.
AS in other states in Australia. the
problem Of dealing with the rabbit pest
has been given considerable attention
by farmers and pastoralists in Tas-
mania for some time.
The matter was taken up by the
Farmers and Stockowners' association
at q recent meeting of the council Of
that body. Among other things, it was
stated that information had been col
lected bearing upon the trade in rab-
bit skin in this state. The figures in
dictated that not Less than 100000
skins were exported from Tasmania
each year, the value Of which was un-
der $25O,O00.
As poison was also generally used
for destroying the pest. it was quite
safe to assume that as many more
were killed, making the death roll
equal to 100000 Adding to that
at least 1000. 900 left at the end of
each winter to breed again, the con-
of the state were growing every year
IL. 600, 900 rabbits.
Taking these figures as q basis and
allowing fifteen rabbits to consume as
much grass as one sheep, 1t was COM
puted that the rabbit was occupying
the place of 100000 sheep, or. in other
words. taking up about one-third Of
the lands. for which the state received
under $25O,000, az against the value
of 100000 sheep, which would be not
less than $1.50O,O00 at a low estimate.
Hobart lTasmanta) cable to New
York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14

Chickens are nice things to have
about" comments the Troy Chiefs
boss. Nice, but powerful expensive.
But maybe it's different in Troy.
Every woman privately thinks she
quainted with" alleges the nissan
thrope Of the Haddam Clipper-Leader.
at is reported that the German
army has razed Helle," announces the
Manhattan Industralist. Trust col
lege boy for grabbing an item like
that.
The Baldwin Ledger points with
pride thusly: Its a long jump from
the time when the library and bell of
Baker were put up at sheriff's sale to
satisfy small note. to the rally OF her
friends to pour a half million dollars
into her lap"
1.-The man who is afraid to daily with
temptation may be called a coward.
but he usually comes through better
than the man who is always hunting
up something to try his powers of re-
sistance on" remarks Tom Thompson
in the Howard Courant
where's the old fashioned farmer
who is burying his fall apples in heaps
to be dug up in the dead of winter for
the delight of the fruit-hungry fam
ily?" asks the Ottawa Herald. Oh.
he's probably busy chasing the boys
out of the orchard along about this
time.
The Larned Chronoscope prints a
photo-engravure which shows 5000
bushels of wheat piled in the door
yard of the home Of r. H. Wheeler,
who had room in his bins for only
1000 bushels Of the golden grain. The
mound of wheat nearly hides the cot
tage shown in the background of the
picture.
The box social season has opened
at Riley, announces the Regent. And
as a special inducement for the men
to gamble on the wares which the
ladies offered at the first event, the
10-cent admission was refunded to the
men who bought a box; which fact
makes it look as though the Riley men
needed coaxing.
The Cove County Republican Ca
zette claims authorship: "They tell a
great many stories on the Ford auto
mobile. A man came into a garage to
hire an auto. The boss. thinking he
recognized a 'rmer- customer, said:
oh. you are the same man who hired
my Ford the other day No. re-
piled the man. I'll never be the same
man again!'"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
B@[spcN1&0;E|
R9R T0HcDaT7
BY MRS AM4LHER

Robert. as the little men gathered around
him.
I'VE are the goblins." said one. land we
are going to take you to I-Don't-Want-
to-Land."
Robert felt himself being carried along
a road through the woods. and pretty
soon they came to house. and he was
put in and the door shut, and he was
alone. He walked around the room, look
ing for place to sit down. when sud
denly goblin tumbled down the chimney
with a chair. 1t was very small at first,
but as Robert looked at it it grew large
enough for him to sit on.
Wont you sit DOWN" asked the COB
lin. pushing the chair toward Robert.
Robert was tired and he reached for the
chair. when to his surprise he said: ''Oh.
don't want to-" And the goblin took
away the chair and disappeared.
Then table appeared, 1t seemed to
come right up from the floor 1t was
filled with all kinds Of good things to eat
all the cakes and puddings Robert liked
best A goblin appeared beside 1t and
asked Robert II he would not like to eat
his supper.
Robert was very hungry. and FASTENED
to reply that he would, when. to his sur
prise, he said instead, 'Oh. don't want
Very well, II you do not want your
supper, I will take it away said the
goblin; and it disappeared as quickly az
it came
other room. DO you want to go to bed -
asked the goblin.
.'Oh. don't want to-" replied Robert.
Very well, sit up all night!' said the
goblin.
At last he thought he would look out
the window. and to his surprise he found
he was on top OF a mountain He opened
the window and looked out, and an over
the mountain were signboards which read,
''Oh, don't want to-"
Robert thought he should go mad Il
he had to see 1t As well AZ hear 1t, and he
stood up In the window and jumped: he
felt himself falling down and he awoke.
He had been reading OF the COLLINS who
took away boy who found fault with
everything, when he fell asleep.
Robert got mp and finished his work
and when his mother asked him to 60 Ia
the store. = little later, she was surprised
to have him reply, Eyes, mother, win
20 At once.''-(Copyright. 1914 by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate. New York
city,
Tomosrow's story-'.The Fox and fhe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
TFrom the Philadelphia Record.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
If might is right, how about strong but
ter?
Be sure you are right and then go ahead.
Don't wait for applause.
In the race for fame. many a fellow
gets out OF the amateur class.
Patience IL a virtue which we can't un-
derstand why other people don't have
with u.s.,
You never can tell The follow who has
a long head doesn't always wear a long
face.
Luck sometimes carries a man to the
top of the ladder before he takes a tum-
BILE to himself.
All men are born equal. which makes it
SO hard for US to forgive the success of
our friends.
II always turn up said the bad penny.
wen, you have nothing on me- retorted
the pug nose
Blobbs-"A woman's age doesn't really
matter" Slobbs-''No. the thing that
counts is. how long she has: been, that
age" s7.s-:s-ssss !. s s. )
Wigwag-''What q good way to break
up a cold in the head! Guxxler-.sWell
q good dose OF whisky and qufnine II not
to be sneezed at
The man who excuses his dissfpations
by claiming he thereby improves his busi-
mess will find it's . Door plan to try ia
get ahead by getu1G = sheeA> IS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
Machine Taken From George
Holmes Is in Kansas City.
Three Men Arrested Accused
Of Motor Car Theft.

The Ford touring car stolen from
the Santa Fee railway offices Wednes-
day afternoon of last week. has been
found In Kansas City and three men
were arrested in connection with the
theft. The daylight robbery of the
machine, owned by George Holmes.
of the Santa Fe law department, pre-
coded by the desertion of a stolen
Kansas City machine in front of the
offices and followed by the theft of
a car from III. s. Morgan. put Topeka
in the limelight Of auto mysteries.
The Holmes car was standing on
West Ninth street In front OF the rail-
road offices a week ago. In the mid
die of the afternoon it disappeared.
Sheriff Kiene sent word to all OF the
surrounding cities and it was mainly
through his efforts that the Kansas
City police located the machine early
this afternoon. It Is not known what
the names of the three men are. but
they will be held. in Kansas City until
Shawnee county authorities go after
them.
Mr.. Kiene remarked after the finding of
the Morgan machine that there never was
a successful auto thief In the history of
Topeka. At that time the Holmes ma
chine was still missing. but he pro-
phesied that 1t would be returned in a
few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
m AUTUMN.

A mo0nbeam crept from the midnight sky.
1t slipped to the earth below,
And 1t traced path where you ana
In the Springtime used to go.
But now ere the Winters cold and SNOW
In the light Of the moon my hearts asWay.
As dream Of the Summer you thought
but play,
And long again for each sun-kissed day.
But June Is over and loves soon dome
Are love and Summer and daytime ono?
The wind Of the night blows in from the
It wraps the path in gray
Ihepath. rose-petaled like Araby.
Where we loved for Summers day:
The June time fled and you did not stay,
And now In the moonbeam's web Of light
1 am watching the mists enfold the night
In a cold embrace that is ghosty white.
And the shroud of the year of our love
is spun.
BY Ann Isle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
SINGLE TAX IN EDMONTON.

Several years ago, writes Samuel C..
Reat, United States consul at Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, in a recent consular
report, the municipality Of Edmonton
adopted the single tax, or. as it is
called in the United States. the Henry
George system of taxation. The theory
Of this system is that taxes for all pur-
poses should be levied on land alone
and no revenue should be derived from
taxation of personal property or even
from a poll tax.
The alleged benefit of such a system
is in preventing speculation in real
estate. The taxes on a vacant lot are
the same as on an adjoining lot on
which there is a building. This. in
theory. would compel owners of vacant
property to erect revenue paying
buildings. Further, the theory is that
business men and manufacturers
would be benefited by an exemption
from taxes on their stocks of goods
and their plants, thus encouraging
, business and manufacturing.
Edmonton has ust passed through a
most active rise in real estate: values
have multiplied rapidly; money has
been easily obtained: millions have
been spent by the railway companies
the government, and the municipality;
the population has increased from
1000 to $4,000 in ten years. During
the prosperous period taxes have beer
| paid promptly, for the reason that city
| property was salable and 1t was profit
I able to erect buildings. All taxes be-
ing levied on real estate, the assessed
value must necessarily be higher thar
II levied on other property as well
But when city real estate deprecated
| greatly in value, taxes began to be
/ come delinquent, and in order to max,
up for the loss, the assessment an6
rate were both raised.
The amount of taxes levied in 1911;
was about 100000. OF which abou
100000 is delinquent at this time
With this amount in arrears and Will
a penalty added. the city Is forced t.
f; increase the rate of taxation or assess
ment, or both. The assessed value O.
the real estate in Edmonton for tn.
| current year is about $193.OO0,O 900, ant
+, the rate will be, according to the cit,
assessor, about II mills, at the least
| The amount to be raised Is about So,
$50, 900. which. added to the $1,000. 00'
large sum to be collected in 1914. tn
crucial test Of this system will be tn.
next or following year.
The opponents of the single tax sys
tenn assert that its operation has no
prevented speculation in land; that !
has not kept rents low; that it Ii on
Of the principal causes OF the higl
'srents which at present prevail In tia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
DAWSON TO CAPITAL.
Attorney General Leaves to Care for
Court and COnclave.

John S. Dawson, attorney general.
left this afternoon for Washington,
where he will represent the state in
the Coppage, Kirmeyer-R obinowitz
and the picture film censorship case:
While in Washington, Dawson will
also attend the meeting of National
Association Of Attorneys General of
the United States. The Kansas at
t0rney general is president Of the Ma
tfOnal association.
Several important Kansas cases are
now pending in the supreme court Of
son will appear for the state in at
least three of these cases while on his
eastern trip. Dawson will return to
Kansas about October IS.
The Coppage coercion case, ap-
pealed from Bourbon county and af-
now pending In the high tribunal.
Dawson will probably submit this
case while in Washington and will
also aIgue the picture film censorship
case. The film censorship act was
passed by the 1913 legislature, but its
constitutionality is now at issue. Judge
John C. Pollock, judge OF the United
states court for the district of Kan
sas, decided for the state when the
case was presented to him several
months ago, but his decision was
based largely on an understanding
that the case was to be appealed to
the United States supreme court for
decision on the constitutional issue.
Leavenworth county's Kir1eyer-R Rob-
inowitz liquor case is now up, to the
United States supreme court and Will
probably be argued this month on behalf
Of the state. The two men were arrested
for alleged violations of the state pro-
hibitory liquor law when they brought
and delivered it tc individual customers.
1t was claimed by the state that the men
had no legal right to drive across the
river with their liquors and the
streets of Leavenworth to deliver their
wares. The case was twice decided for
the defendants by the Leavenworth coun-
ty court and each time the state went
| to the supreme court and secured a re-
versal Of the lower courts decision. Now
the question of use Of public highways
for delivery OF liquor is up to the court
Of last resort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14

Kansas Bankers' association il max .
ing strenuous efforts to import a car
load OF African kaffir corn seed. for
distribution without profit to Kansas
farmers. War has delayed shipment
but it may arrive before spring. This
n the first effort to standardize KAT
fir seed which experts say il now on
. deplorably low basis, nearly all va
irieties Of the .sorghums down to broom
corn being mixed with the seed now
commercially offered. Kansans dc
well to encourage such movements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14
AMERICAN COMMERCE.

No subject for commercial and
legislative consideration commends it.
self more earnestly to the American
people at this time than does thu
problem of cultivating foreign trade.
This statement is intended for Kansas
readers and is directed at them. Kan
sas is prone to lose interest and re-
turn to its own muttons when mat
tiers Of foreign relations of business
character are introduced, but that is
not the proper spirit. Not that Kan
sas has not sent q generous sum of
good money after other moneys pre-
viously wasted on hair-brained enter
prises in foreign lands; for she has
been fruitful field for exploitation
by artists who paint roseate prospects
framed with gilded stock certificates
OF mining or banana-plantation COM
panies.
The other day Chicago manufac-
turers and tobbers proposed a COM
pany capitalized at two and a half
millions to study and develop foreign
trade relations. New Orleans. hear
ing the report. sent a committee of
its Commercial club to Chicago to in
vestigate and report upon the desir-
ability of cooperation.
That Chicago enterprise may fail,
although the probability seems un-
likely II true Chicago wit and bust
ness sense govern its operations. II
1t succeeds, the opportunities for
American made and grown products
in foreign lands will become wider,
increasing for Kansas the opportun-
ity to invest it's surplus in rational
business enterprise while it sells its
own productions not only to an in
creasing population of industrial
workers at home but in foreign mar
kets. In the United States. many
such movements are stirring. The
most intelligent and best financed
among them will get results.
1t is quite likely that the exploit
tation of this new field Of finance may
develop a school Of fakes who will
offer stocks OF no value with such in
genuity that Kansas investors may be
persuaded to waste money on them.
The surest safeguard against this can
be raised by the bankers and larger
business men Of the state IL they will
take the lead in reporting upon the
progress of such new commer1.-l
movements. The broadening influ-
ence Of familiarity with the affairs of
the rest of the world WI benefit Kan
sans even though they have little COM
mercially at stake. But Kansas is
rapidly becoming one Of the investing
sections of the country. Her wealth
| ia mourning in IA ster than ever before
while her familiarity with the invest
ing opportunities in commercial fields
| is yet negligible. 1t throws a burden
Of responsibility on Kansas bankers
and f1nanciers demanding their best
and most conscientious thought.
America has always rallied behind
the European nations in serving for
eign trade. If Kansas is to share in
a new activity abroad, Kansas ought
to contribute intelligence toward
making that development in the most
rational ways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-14

But Robert had to help. and he went to
the attic to bring down some trash when
he saw an old book Of fairy stories. So
he sat down to read. and the first thing
he knew he saw funny little man beside
He was making q funny face, laughing
at Robert. and Robert asked him what
he was laughing at
little man. TT il so funny to know what
1 do about you"
.sWhat do you know" asked Robert
.sYou win soon find out. replied the
little man. He gave a long, low whistle
and Robert saw from all directions little
men like the one beside him running
what are you going to dor asked