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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

the orchard and all are really belong
ing to her. You see lido you not,
Gregory"
Yes suppose 1 do" grumbled the
old man. and turned away lest Peter
Perkins see that which had risen in
his eyes.
Suffice to say the Stanwood farm
became paying proposition that quite
exceeded the dreams of the temporary
owner. The hole in the chimney cor
ner was stuffed with bills and silver,
ana the day came when another brick
had to be dislodged and another bank
started.
The brushes and paint had been
taken from the attic room and Peter
reyeied anew in the blossoming orch
ard and his loved art. One or two
marvellous sketches found their way
into the New York shops
Peter had regained health. both
mentally and physically, and it was a
most attractive looking artist who
looked up suddenly one sunny dav in
early spring to see a wood nymph
standing gazing admiringly at his can
vas.
His brushes were suspended in the
ciear AIR, so lovely was the girl Her
wide hat seemed made to shelter the
beauty of her oval face and her deem
blue eyes held hint of fear in them.
She would have fled save that Peter
stopped her.
If 1 could put you in this picture"
ne suggested, frankly, 81 could most
probably make several thousand dol
lars from the canvas
me girl blushed shyly and drew a
trlIle nearer. There was awe in her
giance. The orchard, as it appeared
on the canvas, seemed to breathe of
spring ana to sway with the breeze.
certainly the petals were fIutterinp
down. ING
1T would be a pity" she said soft
~, TO hold myself responsible for so
sreal loss TO you. Since am board
ing IN the Rose cottage it will give me
pleasure to pose for Won for feI,
moments each morning.
hours. breathed Peter eagerly.
1t so happened that old Gregory
was left with more work on his hands
than on the days before the nvmnh
nao arrived: One day he peered
through the branches of the trees ana
gave vent to low whistle when his
eyes rested on Peters model Madge
Stanwood. the last of the old famiiv
was standing beneath a gnarIed an,
pie tree while Peters brushes we've
rapidly sweeping her image onto the
canvas. There was that in the eves
OF Peter, and it reflected itself in the
eyes of the girl, which made old Greg
DRY laugh softly. Love in its most
wonderful form was making the
spring a Paradise.
AT that very moment of old Greg
o ..T musings Peter Perkins had said,
. onderful girli' in an awed and
breathless tone, and Madge had re-
turned softly:
BUT you are wonderful man, Pc
terklns," and her tone had been more
aWeo, more breathless than Peters
own Copyright, 1915, by the Nc
cure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
MUNICIPAL ELECTIoNs.

Great qualification is expressed in
national Republican circles over the
election of Republican mayors in sew
eral of the larger cities of the country.
and in one or two of them, such as
Chicago, for example, that are looked
upon as Democratic strongholds. They
interpret these victories as important
straws that indicate which way the
political wind is blowing and as
auguring for the success of the Re-
publican presidential candidate at the
election in 1915, which happens, by
the way, to be only eighteen months
away. There must be corresponding
gloom among the Democrats, al
though, of course, they are not giving
voice to it. Indeed. those Democrats
who have expressed opinions in the
premises insist that the results in the
municipal elections are not of any
particular significance in their bear
ing on national politics. This is as it
should be, even if it is not Partisan
politics have no proper place in the
municipal arena. Most of the prob
lens that confront a city are of a
purely social nature. They are far
from being political And this is be-
ing more generally recognized on all
sides every day. The time is passing
quickly, if it hasn't already disap-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
BITTER IS DEAD.
| He Was One of the Best Known ScuIp-
tors i'm the Country

New York. April 1O-Karl Theo-
dore Francis Bitter, chief of the de-
partment of sculpture of the Panama
Pacific exposition and one of the best
known sculptors Of this country died
in hospital here today of injuries he
suffered when he and Mrs. Bitter were
run down last night by an automobile
in Broadway. Mrs. Bitters injuries
are not serious.
Mr.. Bitter was director of sculpture
of the Buffalo exposition and chief of
the department of sculpture of the ST.
Louis exposition. He has executed
many important private commissions
including the statue of Carl Schurz
here and works in the home of Coils
P. Huntington, Cornelius Vanderbilt
and other wealthy men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
by Clara lrgramJudson

AS you fold and cut. think of all
the flowers you have ever seen. Can
you remember the shapes of their pet
ais? If you can, you will have little
patterns in your mind that will be
splendid to cut by. And If you can't
remember, don't mind Just make up
some pretty shapes. Or, if you don't
like to make up things, look in a pio-
ture and see some pictured flowers
you can cut by them.
When you have all the paper cut
into flowers, open them up nicely:
spread them out neately on the table
Don't they look pretty?
And now they must be arranged in
to flower beds. Sort them into piles
according to the pattern they were cut
by. Put the ones that look like roses
together; and the daisies they go in
another pile. Sort them all out
Then arrange your rainy day garden
out on the table. Isn't it fun?-
Copyright, 1915-Clara Ingram Ind
SOM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
Journal Entries

Some folk go to lot of trouble just
to make mistake.
+ j. i
The most talked about men in a
community are usually those who talk
about themselves.
+ + i
If people, generally were mind
readers, there would certainly be
much more trouble in the world.
d i u
Were many men as rich as they look
and act, there would be many more
milliOnaireS among those present.
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Perhaps it would be just as we'll not
to tell the average youngster the thing
that he mustn't say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
A NEW STATES OPPORTUNITY.

There is considerable attractiveness
to the suggestion that another state
be added to the Union. Several such
| have been made during the past few
years. One contemplated division of
New York into two states, one OF
which would consist of New York City
and it's environs. And New York has
a sufficient population to make two
states of healthy size. Another con-
templated the splitting of Texas into
two commonwealths, and what Texas
lacks in population for the making of
two states, it has in area. The latest
contemplates the formation of two
states by a division of Montana, with
the people of western North Dakota
asking to be "let in on it" And it is
barely possible that this will come to
pass as the people in eastern Montana
are working enthusiastically to bring
it about. If it should, the possibilities
are almost limitless for such a new
state to begin doing business with its
house pretty we'll set in order 1t
could organize itself along the lines of
all that is best in the realm of state
hood and it's conduct that has been
learned by the oftimes bitter and ex
pensive experiences of all the other
states in the slow process of their de-
velopment. Some of the newer states
have already reaped such advantages
by placing in their constitutions prin-
ciples and policies that it has taken
years of strife and turmoil for other
states to settle and accept. But new
state now could even profit by many
of the mistakes and errors that some
of the latest states to be admitted to
the union have committed. And it
could do some experimenting, that
would be worth while, such, for in
stance, as placing it's Legislative af-
fairs in the hands of single body of
reasoably small membership. Indeed,
the opportunities are countless for the
creation of a new state that would
take place at the start as a model
so far as it's organic
law and pretensions are concerned.
And the workings of such model of
statecraft would not be without its
large advantages to the other and old
er states. 1t might open the eyes of
some of them to their possibilities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

1t is almost uncomfortable that the
nations now at war in Europe have
lost almost 100000 men during the
eight months of its duration, as the
military expert connected with an
Italian Socialist newspaper estimates.
But his conclusions seem reasonable
that a military victory will not end
the war and that it will only come
through the reciprocal exhaustion of
the forces participating in it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

A half dozen auto loads of mem
bers of the Shawnee Golf club went
out to Highland Park this afternoon
to take 4 lock at tie property which
will serve as the Inks for the orga1-i-
cation for the next fit years m
less in the mea ltime the Country club
decides to take the property over. In
that case the club Will use the present
Country cluD links. \ meeting of the
organization Will be held at he Com
mercial cl lE QIacLnrS I .ght.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

The Second Presbyterian church,
corner North Jackson and Gordon
streets, the Rev. Joseph P. Hicks, pas
tor. The pastor will preach Sunday
morning on Little Sins The theme
for the evening service is the last in
the series of seven sermons on
"Eschatology." The special theme to
be considered is THE Future Happl-
ness of the Saints Time for evening
services changed from 1880 to 8
o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Not a few of the veterans of our
Civil war are probably shaking their
heads skeptically over the news from
Berlin that one of the Prussian regi-
ments in the eastern arena of the war
recently staged a march of 122 miles
in five days and went into battle on
the fifth day without stopping to rest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Although the wheat acreage in this
country is breater by far this year than
it has ever been before, the present
estimated yield of 619,000,OOO bushels
is still 65,@00,O0O bushels less than last
years crop. In all probability the
United States wheat crop of 1914 will
hold the bumper record for many
years to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Aren't the goosebone weather pro-
phets the disagreeable folk? Some of
them are willing to stake their repu-
tations that killing frost will soon
visit these parts and others are sure
that we are due for a snowstorm in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

War. like the rain, falls on the just
as well as the unjust. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that Spain hasn't even
come close to getting into the European
conflict, she is now the scene of seri-
Gus rioting on the part of her popu-
lace because of the high and ever
increasing prices of foodstuffs that
have been brought about by the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Italy is evidently planning to delay
her entry into the European war until
the end of it is in sight. In other
words, Italy seems to be playing a
game of the heads-I-win-and-ta
VOlI-I0Se VARIETY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

peared, when the average voter APP
proaches the solution of his city's
problems by casting his ballot for
candidates for city offices regardless
of their qualifications and fitness for
the places but merely because they
are members of the same political
party to which he holds allegiance.
The commission system of government
is one of the agencies that is driving
the party label out of local politics
Others should be developed for those
cities that are not wise enough to
adopt this form of municipal rule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Should there be any fight left in
Jack Johnson when he gets back to
France, a place can probably be found
for him one the firing line in the west
ern war zone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Topeka life will lose considerable of
its spice and once again become one
continual round of monotony when it
is deprived of the voluminous month
ly rations of policewomen's reports
that have been its portion for the past
frxya
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

The question of high school fra
ternities is again irritating the public
eye. So far a rank outsider can
discover, the only important thing
about the anti-frat disturbance is that
certain persons past the frating age
decided that there should be no frat
ing around that temple of learning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
AUTO CLUB ELECTION.

Officers for Next Year Will Be Chos-
en- Tuesday.
The annual election of officers of
the Topeka Automobile club will be
held next Tuesday night at the Com
mercial club quarters. 1t will be the
first spring rally of the organization
and all auto owners of the city are in
vited to attend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
BEST IN A YEAR.

New York, April 10.-Bradstreets
says:
This weeks reports, trade and in
dustrial, are the best noted for some
time past, being in some respects the
most favorable received since the
spring of 1914.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Glen Arnold died Friday in Kansas
City, Mo. The body will be brought
to Topeka tomorrow and will be taken
Immediately to the Pleasant church
where the services will be held. The
hour for the funeral has not been an
nounced because it is not known just
when the body will arrive. Interment
will be in Mount Pleasant cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
TEI,EpHONEs.
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES!

The stata Journal is q member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
@antxatfon, for the exclusive afternoon
publication I'm Topeka
The news Is received IN The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
peso
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

However, it was not necessary for
the losing candidates, when they filed
their expense accounts, to put in the
item of mental anguish" which APP
pears frequently in damage suits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Poor excuses are evidently better
than none in the hunt for divorces. A
Cleveland woman wants one because
her husband made her life more or
less miserable in his protests against
her wearing corSets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Surely there can be nothing in the
reports that Germany is menacing
Holland 1t would appear that Ger
many already has her hands filled to
pYerfloWing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

From a perusal of the papers print
ed outside of our fair village, one
might suspect that the recent Topeka
election was satisfactory at least to a
majority of the Kansas editors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

How is it that some humoris. has
failed SO far to suggest that there
wouldn't be much fighting for passes
in the Carpathians were an interstate
commerce commission on the lob
there?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Christiana Hammil1, age rs, died to-
day at her home, 159 Forest avenue.
The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock
Monday morning from the Oakland
M. E. church. Interment in Mount
Hope cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
! Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

An average snowfall of 27.7 inches
for the entire state is doing pretty
well for Sunny Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Now is the time to have your horses
clipped by electricity. Knowing how
to shoe horses is what counts. Call
Vess Hiner, 1921 Kansas aven- Phone
1154-AdV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Regular services at the Pentecosta
Church of the Nazarene, lilo Blu
charan street. All cordially invited
James J. Ballinger, pastor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

F. A. Rooster. D. D. s., no Mills
Bldg. Special attention given to pyor-
rhea and oral prophylaxis.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Mrs. Rowland L. Wilson and little
son, Rowland, of Colorado Springs,
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. It.
Scott of 1910 Boswell avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

1t is beginning to feel a little bit
like spring. but there is no telling
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

The post mortems over a prize
fight are hardest to bear. If they
would maui the ba1ed hay out of each
would be highly satisfactory, but they
spend the next month in telling the
newspapers how it happened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
LOCAL MENTION.

marriage license was issued today
to w. L. Cookson and Miss Sadie
Wickem of this city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Safety razor blades sharpened better than
new, 25c-35c doz- Brunt Drug Co--Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

SIS saved on first class trip to San
Francisco Fair-see H. p. Richards.
513 New England Bldg. Phone 1924
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

The mud-slingers' union never calls
a strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

One might suspect, from the cross
examination the railroad officials are
subjected to, that the state entertains
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Mrs Elizabeth Zinghein, age IS,
died last night at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Robert Foster. four
miles southwest of town. The funeral
will be held at 9 o'clock Monday morn
ing from the Assumption church.
Burial in Mount Calvary cemetery.
Mrs. Zingheim was an old resident of
Topeka, having come here in 1870.
She is survived by eight children: Mrs.
Foster of Topeka; Mrs Thomas Cor
man of Blue Earth, Mimi; Herman
T. and John Zingheim of Blue Earth;
Joseph Zingheim of Devils Lake, n.
D.; Ed Zingheim of Canon City, Colo. :;
and Frank and Harry Zingheim of San
Jose, Cal.
Mrs. Marietta Griffith, age Sc, died
Friday at her home, 900 Madison
street. The funeral will be held at 2
O'Clock Sunday from PenwelIs chapel
Interment in Topeka cemetery. Mrs.
Griffith is the widow of J. H. Griffith.
a railroad conductor who died recent
ly- She is survived by one son, ]. M
Griffith of Galveston, and one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Clifford Rinehart of Topeka
Stephen A Short, age rs. of SIS
Lincoln street, died Friday at local
hospital. The body will be taken to
Mechanicsburg, Ill, for burial. Mr..
Short is survived by two daughters.
Mrs. F. d. Peck and Mrs. NJ. b. Beeler
of Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

AS we understand it, the Choiman
cabling uf der Prinz Eite1 thought it
more profitable to intern his ship than
to go out where the British could inter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

a fear that the railroads may mad
vertently make the price of a cheese
sandwich over and above actual op-
Grating expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Not far from Verdun is town
named Etain. SHRDLU is probably
the next station down the line, al
though the Germans haven't pi'd that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Gold reserve against net Liabilities, SO16
per cent.
Cash reserve against net liabilities 9O.2
per cent.
Cash reserve against liabilities after set
ting aside 40 per cent gold reserve against
net amount of federal reserve notes in cir
culation, 90 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

maybe you don't get that, Gentle
Reader, but the printer does.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

-Shultz. the Dutch comedian of this
office, took one slant at the picture
of the writer of this department and
opined: THAT will help some. Any
crook who sees that in the paper will
go around Topeka by way of Joplin,
Oklahoma City, Ell Paso and Salt
Lake"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
By The Fay
THANKS!
BY HARVEY PARSONS.


swer all the indications of faith and
good will that have reached this desk
during the past three days, but they
are appreciated, just the same. And
even flat-wheeled cartoonist should
be able to make good with an army
of such friends behind him.
HONDO MURPHY alias Harve Par
sons.
Only those who lost bets on him
suspect the cullud gentleman of laying
down.
Some of the headlines reported that
Havana was Quiet. But no place that
substitutes Spanish for conversation is
ever quiet.
King George goes on the water wag-
on, and gets more credit for 1t than
does the gent who has occupied the
drivers seat of the sprinkle-cart all
his life. But that is the rule made and
provided in such cases
The best time to bet on an election
is just three hours and % minutes aft
er the official vote has been printed
in the official paper.
The crowd in front of a bulletin
board is seldom disappointed. They
come merely to confirm their Judg-
ment, and the bulletin gazers are, as
rule, the best guessers.
Sometimes the "congrats" offered
the winner by the defeated candidate
sound like he would prefer to use an
axe rather than a pen.
The prize fight films will not be
shown here. But if you are really
crazy about it, you can drop over to
Paris or Martinique and get an eye
full for less than a ringside seat cost
in Havana.
Chi, has been reelected to the city
council of that village. Reform comes
to Chicago, evidently, by third class,
low-insurance freight.
For the Hon. Dink has been on the
job twenty years, and he uses Ere
form as cusS word.
They are throwing Gift Pinchot out
of Germany. Germany and the Re-
publican party may bear other re-
semblances to each other, but that is
the only one we can think of now.
Again they swat the pool halls in
Empory. And there is a reason, as
they say in Bottle Crick. Both Bill
White and Walt Mason, owners and
of Empory. are too fat to
get within shooting distance of a pool
table and do not care for that form
of recrea ton.
ShultZ. the Dutch comedian of this
office, took one slant at the picture
Of the writer of this department and
opined: THAT will help some. Any
crook who sees that in the paper will
go around Topeka by way of Joplin,
Oklahoma City, Ell Paso and Salt
Lake"
The post mortems over prize
fight are hardest to bear. If they
would maui the ba1ed hay out of each |
other and let it go at that, everything |
would be highly satisfactory. but they |
spend the next month in telling the |
newspapers how it happened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Well, this may be about all for
while; but let us continue to so liv
this life, that when we come to die
even the undertaken will be sorry.
So long. folks. Take ker O. yer Sc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Which recalls the story of the sleep
wagon Senegambian who carried hi
kush in his hip pockets, cause it pull
ed the crease out of his trousers whel
transported in the front vestibules O
the garment.