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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

after her. That walk down here
was all the bracer I needed I didn't
really mean that I was going to let
you go to all that trouble"
1t was perhaps because Julia turned
and smiled over her shoulder as she
hurried on to the dining room, and
partly because the remark of the
neighbor had brought back a flood OF
old recollections, that Tom rushed
forward and caught Julia in his arms
But 1t was very different Julia from
the Julia he had kissed in his college
days. She had been frightened and
happy then. Now she was apparently
unmoved. She drew away almost in
anger.
Toni" there was deep -reproof in
her tone, how could you?"
But you used to let me- You know
how you protested that night when
we left college and didn't think we'd
see each other for whole long
month afterward. But you yielded
and then you cried in my arms at the
thought of the separation. And now
L am away from you whole winter
at time and you don't give me
thought" He caught her again and
kissed her as if none of the four in
tervening years had cooled his ardor.
Julia struggled against his arms.
1t is unfair" she told him Il &C
cepted your dare thinking that you
gave it in good faith, and now | find
that 1t was just a ruse Please go
left here alone, but I refuse to stay
alone with you. I'll tell my sister
when she comes that was tired, and
that you took me home. I am afraid
that some one saw us as it is 1t was
foolish venture"
What if they did see? They could
only think that wanted to take you
off by yourself where I could kiss
What if they do think that?'
But how unfair of you to suggest
1T just because L thought you wanted
coffee and all the time you were
Tom drew the girls slender figure
anything. didn't dream I'd kiss
you. l was crusty old bachelor
was the most important thing in life
at that time. I'd forgotten the joy
of touching your lips to mine. But
1t all came back in a flood of recol-
bors will talk about us. 1 think it
will be all over the place, the scan
dial of the summer. In fact, 1 heard
some one starting the gossip as we
came in. Julia you are dreadfully
compromfsed-that is what they say,
isn't it? You have been very indis-
Greet to let me come in this empty
house with you, Julia Tom was
standing with his hands on Julia's
shoulders holding her at arms
length from him Julia, the only
square thing for me to do now is to
insist on marrying you. That is the
sort of talk that the part requires.
isn't it?''
You are laughing at me? % 1t was
the old Julia and her cheeks were
warm and her eyes had their old eX-
pectancy as Tom drew her to him
again. 7i
Il am in earnest, too" said Tom.
The old days have come back, and
we're going to start out where we left
off and forget about the coffee and
the grumpy old bachelor down at
Blair s.''-(Copyright, 1915, by the
Mcclure NeWspaper SXndicate.O
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
A PARTICLES CRIMINIs.

Efforts on the part of the federal
authorities to ascertain if jointists in
Leavenworth have been selling booze
without even the authority of gov
eminent license include the subpoena
ing of numerous alleged patrons of the
joints. They are to be asked to tell
what they know about such places
and the proprietorship of them. And
some day some Kans@s prosecutor will
rise to fame by successfully prosecut-
ing the patron of a joint for partici-
pating il the violation of the prohibit
tory law. No jointist ran violate the
prohibitcry law on the sales score I'M
less somebody comes along to buy the
contrab band from him. And under the
commonest construction of law, the
buyer certainly becomes an accessory
to the violation of the prohibitory law.
He should be prosecuted accordingly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
THE GAS SITUATION.

I'm connection with the application
of the receivers of the Kansas Natural
Gas company to the states public
utilities commission for authority to
| increase the price of gas to the con-
sumers, their statement that tnere
must be an increase over the present
25-cent rate or there will be practical
ly no gas supply next winter, is in no
sense a threat. 1t doesn't mean that
if the company is not granted the
privilege of increasing the price OF
gas, it will make reprisals by curtall-
ing the supply. 1t merely presents the
situation in which this company flnds
itself. Under the present retail rate,
the receivers have been forced to con-
duct the company at a considerable
financial loss during the past year.
Another large sum of money is needed
to enable the company to furnish a
normal supply of gas during the win
ter months for the next few years.
There is only one avenue open to OBJ
tain this money, and put the gas COM
pany on its financial feet. This is
through an increase in the rate to the
consumers And as far as the bulk of
the gas consumers are concerned
they, especially those who use gas ex-
clusively for cooking and lighting,
would much prefer to pay something
more for a supply of natural gas,
than to have it almost as good as shut
off entirely. If this supply of gas is
curtaiIed to the point where it can
not always be depended upon for
cooking and lighting, the only alterna-
tive is manufactured gas for these
purposes. And the people would be
lucky if they obtained this for 81 per
thousand feet. Furthermore, the
states utilities commission will not be
serving the best interests of the gas
consumers if it does not recognize
these facts; provided, of course, that
the receivers of the gas company are
able to esta blish satisfactory proof of
their financial losses and necessities.
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Mayor House Says He Will
Take the Responsibility
For the Orderly Conduct of
TOpeka's Inhabitants.
TOO MUCH INSPECTION HE SAYS
OF the Private Affairs of the
Citizens.
No Policemen at Dance Halls
Unless Called There.

There will be no board of public
welfare in Topeka. Jay E. House,
mayor, made this plain today. The
last legislature passed a law making
1T optional with cities whether they
appoint boards, to be known as pub
tic welfare boards. The law gives
the boards the right to regulate dance
public amusement. When such boards
deem place to be detrimental to pub
lie health or morals, or in any way
encouraging vice or disorderly con-
duct, the boards can either refuse to
grant permit or revoke a permit aft
er it has been granted. In cities where
pubic welfare boards are appointed
all tneaIers, dance halls and amuse-
ment places must secure permits be-
fore engaging in business,
L was elected by more than ZOO
voters, having majority of 1,219, and
i take it that these persons voting for
me did so believing would perform
the duties of mayor of Topeka, my
self, In a manner satisfactory to them
and L am not going to saddle myself
up with a welfare board or any other
board to handicap me in being may
or, said Mayor House today.
There is no more reason why per-
sons who dance should be subjected
to police inspection than that meetings
or the Good Government club should
undergo like inspection. Policemen
have no more right to enter dance
halls unless called in by the proprie-
tors than they have to enter other pri-
vate property. There has been toe
Topeka Policewomen are still on
| their jobs, but they are not wearine
stars, and do not have any authority
| as police officers except such as is
given them by the chief of police
Whatever they do will be under his
| immediate direction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
THE BLAME FOR THE WAR.

One of Hungary's prominent form
er statesmen has just issued a book
under the title who Is Responsible
for the War;" that is attracting con-
siderable attention in Europe. He
argues that Slav aspirations and the
desire of Russia to possess the Oar
danelles provide the answer. But
Russia can be depended upon to enter
emphatic denials and issue a pink
book, if necessary, that will back them
up with documentary proof. AS a
matter of fact. the European war is a
good deal like Topsy, of Uncle Toms
Cabin fame. Nobody was responsible
for it. 1t jist growed
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SPRING is HERE.

It's Sunny Kansas again Business
of knocking wood.) The dog-tooth
vio1ets have pushed their pretty little
teeth through the turf. The peach
trees that were killed by the pess1-
mists a few weeks ago are just about
to break forth in all the glory of their
blooms. The cherry trees won't De
long behind them. The early morning
carols of the birds have taken on the
vibrant tones that smack of confl-
dence. There can be no doubt about
it now. Spring is here. She was a
little slow in coming. But doesn't
that make her arrival all the more
appreciated? Isn't the delightful gen.
tleness of her caresses all the more
welcome? Surely, yes. Considering
the sea of mud she had to walloW
through, Spring did pretty well to get
here as soon as she has. And in a
day or two everybody will have for
gotten that she did not arrive on
schedule time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
CHANCE FOR LAWRENCE
Dick Cooley Would Give Town State
League Ball.

Magnates in the Kansas State
league are bringing matters to a head
regarding choosing of town, and to-
night meetings will be held in Salina
and Pratt to determine how badly the
fans and business men in these places
want a State league club. Tom Hay
Salina meeting, and President Gafford
and Ira Bidwell will attend the Pratt
4meetfng. "a s,.~,,.-eE
One of the latest development in
the picking of the towns on the cir
cult was the rumor in Topeka today
to the effect that Dick Cooley would
probably put a team in Lawrence.
When asked about this Mr.. Cooley
said:
81 would like very much to plant
my franchise in Lawrence, and 1 in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
INVOLVES WHOLE
ADMINISTRATION
rcont,nued from page one.I

CONTINUED from Page One.l
emissaries phrased it a few weeks
ago.
wilson administration in both foreign
and domestic affairs, one keen OBJ
server cited the November election re-
turns and the Chicago mayoralty Re-
publican landslide and then remarked:
sHThe Wilson administration got in on
a minority and promises to go out
unanimously.
The hope was entertained in metro
politan financial circles that the treas
ury officials would bury the Ratchet
when they confessed their impotency
to handle the crisis threatened by the
outbreak of the European war an
threw themselves upon the mercy of
the very bankers they had previously
despised. When there was giants
work to be done last August the treas
ury heads were willing enough to be-
come figureheadS, Obedient to the
guidance of men of practical financial
experience and of International vision
and knowledge.
But the Riggs disclosures reveal
that Messrs. McAdoo and williams did
not long remain quiescent.
The new outburst has produced
tremendous sensation in banking cir
Giles.
The stake is regarded as incalcula-
BILE.
Big Quarrel.
The quarrel is not merely one be-
tween an ex-banker who was classed
as a ''sore head" and a Washington
| bank. It's ramifications take in the
whole Wilson administration on one
side, and indirectly, the National City
Bank of New York. and all its asso-
ciated interests on the other, although
this bank disclaims all responsibility
for the suit.
The verdict to be rendered by the
courts, 1t is figured, will be of second
airy Importance to that rendered by
| the general public. Both sides are US
| ing the great weapon of publicity to
its full capacity.
If Mr.. Williams can demonstrate
to the satisfaction of the American
public that his sole motive has been
regard for the general welfare, and
that he has not been influenced in
any way by his personal business ex-
periences and by the testimony of the
Riggs bank representative before the
senate committee that he considered
Mr.. Williams totally unfit, for tenn
peramental as we'll as other reasons,
to occupy high offices in the treasury,
ally even if he may have technically
exceeded his prescribed powers, and
! the upshot. of the whole episode Will
fgreatly benefit the administration.
If on the other hand, the public
becomes convinced that Mr.. Williams
used his office to pay off old scores,
then no legal verdict will save him
and his conferees from ignonIinious
defeat and disgrace.
Developments will be followed
livery closely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
CARY IS ACQUITTED.
St. Francis Trial Ended in Freedom
For Suspected Man.

St. Francis. Kan, April 14.-E L.
Cary was today acquitted of the muir
der of Armo u. Archer, after a hard
fought trial which has taken a week
in the Cheyenne county district court
Archer was found dead, shot through
the heart, in a field where he was
working last August. Cary drove to
st. Francis about midnight that night
and gave himself up to, the sheriff
with the statement that he had shot
at man but did not know whether
he had hit him or not.
There were no witnesses of the
shooting. The defense based its case
on claims of self defense. Cary testi-
fled that he was hunting ducks and
when he passed the field where
Archer was working, the latter stop
ped him and made threats against his
life. He claims that he started to
leave, threw his gun over his shout
der. and pulled the trigger and then
did not stop to learn the result of the
shot.
The hotels here were not able to
hold the crowd that flocked to ST.
Francis to attend the trial. Cary in
tends to leave the county on account
of the publicity the case has brought
him.
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tend to take it up with the business
men of that town, but I do not know
what their attitude on the matter Is;
lawrence is a good town and it used
to be a good baseball town. would
like to locate there because 1t is close
to home and because 1 believe L can
that would please them. / may go to
Lawrence in a day or SO and take up
the proposition with the business men
there.
other towns that are being consid-
cred by the league magnates are INDIE
pendence, lola, Parsons, FL Dorado
Newton and Emporia. 1t is under
stood that Ira Bidwell will either
keep his team in Emporia or move TO
FL Dorado, and there are strong in
dications that Ell Dorado will get 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

More evidence that a healthy bust
ness revival is at hand in this coun-
try, one of the slow but sure variety,
is to be found in the April 10 issue of
The Black Diamond, the official or
gan of the coal trade, where it is
stated: Practically all of the reports
from coal market centers for this
week indicate the same thing, name
ly. that business is improving. How
ever, it is a conservative improve
ment which is reported, meaning that
the banks are the dominant factors
and they prefer, as one authority put
it. solvency to expansion which is too
rapid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

Every dollar you contribute to the
Washburn endowment fund is an in
vestment with a punch in it for the
development of a larger and more
prosperous Topeka. This is one of the
times when you can actually kill two
birds with one stone. A larger Wash
burn, on firm financial feet, means
much for Topeka and all of it's bust
ness enterprises in many ways So in
helping Washburn, you are also aid
ing your city. and in the final essen
tials the latter means that you are
helping yourself. Little or much, give
what you can to WaShburn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
TOPEKAN IS SECRETARY
n. I'll. Wolff Is Chosen Officer of State
WOOdmen.

Lawrence, Kan, April 14.-The
Woodmen of the World, Kansas jur-
isdiction, is in annual meeting at Law
renee.
elected for next year: Head consul,
j. w. Kaiser, Kansas City; past head
consul, E. E Hook, Salina; advisor,
H Retschlag, Emporia; banker, Frank
Sauer, Lawrence; head clerk N H
Wolff, Topeka; head escort J. n.
Delamenton, Wichita; head watchman,
J. N. Welsh, Newton; secretary J. NJ.
Morrison, Olathe; head managers, W.
P. Steele. lola; Carl Alderman, Sedan;
D. H. Cook, Independence, and o. E.
Marshall Wellington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

lAOHllIIuCo rum I-d6O ohC.I
are making you send me, over the
road to suffer the rest of my days
when you know 1 am innocent,
and they made you swear falsely
and lied to you and are now
keeping everything from you, till
they get you to swear to all of
them things against me and then
you or no one. else can save me.
IT hurt no one, have improved
your health and done the best L
could for you and they have ac-
was guilty of and convicted of
would send me to the pen for
thirty years. Now 1 don't know
if you know what 1 am charged
with. 1t is ~, and is called
that when a girl is under age
If it was a fact that you are
eighteen they could do nothing
rested me for taking you away
but found that you started away
yourself and I only helped you.
So after they made you swear I'M
true things they changed it to
- and thought they could get
you to send me to the pen with
out you ever finding it out. But
the Lord has made a way clear
for me to let you. know. And I
believe that our good Lord will
let me talk to you before you
have to go up there and if they
take you down to Fredonia 1
hope you will get away from
your folks and come up here and
see me before the trial. 1 am
going to leave you five dollars to
take down there with you, and
put it away in the toe of your
shoe and stuff some paper be-
hind it. You can go right up to
Emporia from Fredonia. Go to
the National, call up Owen Sam
they will call me. They can't do
one thing to you for that. Or if
you can't do that, send a letter
to Owen Samuels in two envel-
opes, inside one addressed to me
and he will see that 1 get it.
You must be careful of this
letter for it is almost life and
death to me. I must see you be-
fore the trial Get away and
come up before the trial, but you
must go to the trial.
well / read your sweet loving
letter with the greatest of pleas
ure and O., how in the world
could l keep from loving you
when 1 just worship you and pray
for you"
II am so afraid they might take
the letters away from you and
send up to Topeka. My lawyers
told me never to say love you for
it would be against me and if 1
have to say I don't love in Tope-
ka, don't think anything of any
thing else say, for you know We
have to say anything or we could
never get together. 0, If could
only see you alone l will let you
know 1 love you. My lawyers
say that my case is the hardest
they ever had, and it will just
take everything to offset what
they made you say, and the pen
atty is five years. Q, love, you
know me. just stayed at the
Rex till or 10 O'Clock and went
out to some other hotel, but you
don't know where. and the night
clerk at the Nelson house said he
could not swear we were ever
there. Old Hipkle at the Glad
stone came around some, but o.
Samuels says he don't know any
thing to tell and the Rex people
are all right, but your evidence
then, making you swear to what
YOU know, you did not know, and
they told you to say it, and they
lied to you when they said they
had the proof. It's no worse for
you to lie than them, but 1 must
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
Workmen Set to Work With Their
Tools and followed Out the Log
and Made 1t Into a Boat.

The island people always kept a
watchout for such drift logs and as
soon as one was sighted, offerings
were made to the gods and feast day
was declared while the log was
brought to shore. Inasmuch as those
people knew nothing of other coun-
tries beyond the sea. it is not much
wonder that they thought such val
liable logs were a direct gift of the
godsi
After the log was brought to shore.
workmen set to work with their tools
and followed out the log and made
1t into boat. Sometimes the logs
were big enough to carry a hundred
to hundred and fifty mem wouldn't
you like to see a fleet of a dozen such
canoes carrying in them a thou
sand and more fine warriors p,
(Copyright.-Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
A VICTORY FOR HOME RULE.

Bully for Governor Carlson of Colo
radol He has vetoed the bills passed
by the Colorado legislature that were
designed to remove Ben Lindsey from
his place as judge of the Denver ju-
venile court. Governor Carlson OBJ
serves that Judge Lindsey has been
repeatedly reelected to this position
by the people of Denver, and he right
~ says that if the people of Denver
want Ben to be judge of this court
they should have him. little more
home rule of this and other varieties
are among the real needs OF almost
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14
Journal Entries

Nothing is so often misdirected as
laying the blame.
j d j
Few girls are up-to- date in the mat
ter of telling their ages.
j +
Girls do not have much success
in throwing anything straight but
glances.
+ + +
When mans nerve is put to a test,
it often isn't as healthy as he thought
it was.
= + =
Did you ever hear of rich relatives
being lost sight Of? It's only the other
kind who are allowed to sink into OBJ
liyion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

Why didn't the Chicago minister,
who deemed it necessary to dispatch
a set of Ten Commandments to Jess
Willard, send him an Illuminated copy
of the ones that are to be found in
Exodus, rather than an original batch &?
Life is too short to read the ones this
churchman manufactured. But it is
safe to bet that they are not an i'm
provement on those handed do1 by
Moses. However, they probably served
their purpose, that of getting some
newspaper notoriety for their author.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

What next? One of the professors
at the State Manual Training Normal
school, at Pittsburg,, projects the opin-
ion that applying electricity to the soil
will make it produce vegetables of
record-breaking size and quantity;
that it will make the use of fertilizer
unnecessary and the matter of rainfall
immaterial And some experiments
are soon to be tried to test this theory.
AT any rate. it ought to be fire for
currant bushes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

A suggestion comes from Iowa that
the roadsides of every important h1gh-
way should be adorned with flowers
This is a good idea. but the fact re-
mains that when the fields of Kansas
are in their crop growing prime, 1t
would be difficult to develop anything
more beautiful or interesting In the
way of roadside scenery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

Before long. and because of the sud-
den and safe appearance there of an
other German rover of the sea, the
Kronprinz Wilhelm, it is likely that
England and France will charge that
there is a secret passage way into the
Newport News harbor that the United
States has tipped off to Germany and
is permitting her to use
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

In the way of interesting war news,
the letters from the soldiers in the
trenches at the fronts, many of whom
are not overburdened with education,
put it all over the dispatches and arti-
cles of the high salaried war corr =
noD6entS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

It's an i'll wind, etc. A slight indis-
position will prevent Vice President
Marshall from participating in the cell
ebration incident to the filling of the
Roosevelt irrigations Reservoir in the
Superstition mountains on Thursday,
and the large concourse of people at
tending will be saved the annoyance
of giving more or less polite attention
to a speech redundant with piffle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-14

By importing 100000 bushels of
wheat in the last three months, Italian
statesmen have shown rare wisdom in
taking no chances of the war curtail-
ing the supply of their subjects fav-
orite foodstuff, macaroni. Deprived
of his daily allowance of several yards
of this fruit, the average Italian would
develop such a crouch that he would
be a tough customer to deal with.