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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
OUR PEssIMIsTs.

Wild croakers are croaking,
Mad jokers are Joking,
Rude ranters are raising a row.
POOR punsters are punning,
Scared rabbits are running
Our country is in for it now;
The kaiser is heady,
The Japs are all ready,
a.. at Britain may join in the fray;
Wild drummers are drumming,
Great greasers are coming,
The world is in battle array
Our coasts are unguarded,
Our navy discarded
Our army can nowhere be found
And, even with Teddy,
We couldn't get ready
To give the invaders a round
But. stop, for minute
And find out what's in it
Before we all take to the brush;
There might, peradventure
Be something to censure,
In all this preposterous gush
Though some may have flicked u.s.
NO nation has licked us
In all the long days of our life:
We've forced the surrender
OF every offender
That ever engaged US in strife
And if any nation
Forsakes its plantation
To test us in battle-right then
Uncle Sam II be in it
In less than a minute
WITH millions and millions of men;
With dreadnaughts and plungers
and long-distance lungers
he IL meet them out there on the sea
And lay the death ban on
Their laundering cannon
Before they can count twenty-three
FL. W. ROBY, NJ. d.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
Journal Entries

Few are the men who believe that
their efforts are properly rewarded.
=. + =
What has become of the old fash
toned man who hid his light under a
buShel?
- j. -
If the average man could cash in
on his disappointment he'd soon be
rich.
It's fortunate a mans ears are so
arranged that he cannot hear what is
said behind his back.
j. i j.
Every man seems to go on the the
DRY that he can improve considerably
on all the stories that are told him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

Big enough for me-" replied Billy
sat, Tor l am out all night and I
much"
That was the beginning of the
pleasantest friendship Tommy Title
mouse ever had. Billy Bat proved
nlmself helpful and a real friend
from him Tommy learned much of
the outdoor lore that was convenient
TO know, and together they had
went about at night, could tell Of a.
night creatures, and Tommy knew
much about the day folk. so the,
snapped yarns and had fun togefher
IN IN real y-fashion.-( Copyrighr-
Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From the Chicago News.)

(From the Chicago News)
It's short step from cunning to
rascality
Students in the school of expert
ence never graduate.
Even a sensible man likes a taste of
flattery occasionally
The more money a man has the
more he can refuse to lend.
Many a straight man goes on a
bender when luck is against him
The man who judges his future by
his past is apt to become discouraged
Most young people fall in love with
utter disregard for the consequences
It is better to go slow than to ex-
coed the speed limit and acquire a
puncture.
What married men can't under
stand is the fact that most bachelors
are unable to appreciate their free
dom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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from home during the summer may have
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thirty cents a month (by mail Oniy). Ad-
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

What does a wealthy California man
want with the Cincinnati National
league baseball club-it being report
ed that such man has such a decker
on-when there are so many oppor-
tunities in his own dooryard. as it
were, to obtain most profitable re-
turns from home investments of one
sort and another, the ones. you know,
that the California advertising and
prospectuses dilate on so extensively
and emphatically.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
ALL KINDS OF WARFARE.

Italy and Austria are also staging
some thrilling war stunts above the
clouds. but not with aeroplanes and
dirigibles. Their infantry and light
artillery are struggling for passes that
have attitudes of 900 feet and more.
In fact, every kind of warfare that the
most fertile imaginations have ever
conjured is being fought in the great
European struggle, as well as a few
varieties that nobody ever dreamed
possible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
STATE GETS ADVICE CHEAPLY

On the basis of the fee paid by the
receivers of the gas company to JUS
tice Dawson when he was attorney
general for a single legal effort on his
part, it is apparent that the state of
Kansas gets its legal advice at an I'M
usually reasonable figure. The fee
in question is as much the state of
Kansas pays it's attorney general for
all the work he does for it during
two Years term of office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

Suppose George Smith, a wife muir
derer, had operated in one of these
United States that inflicts capital pun
ishment instead of in England. Three
years or so would have elapsed, in
stead of A days between the date of
his conviction and the time of his
execution. Our law may be patterned
after England's but our system of ad-
ministering ii certainly isn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

to office soon finds himself or herself
heavily bonded and spied upon by a
half dozen boards of review, who have
to discover something crooked once in
a while in order to justify their exist
ence. The law has evidently come to
the conclusion that he who serves the
public thereby CRAFTS the public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

Old Charon, in charge of transpor-
tation on The Styx, will probably keep
his eye peeled for that Oklahoman
who murdered a Muskogee ferryman
the other day because the latter didn't
speed up his boat fast enough. STILL
this irascible gent may not be so inn
patient about making the Styx trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

Prominent among the baseball pes
simists are those who are arguing that
the closeness of the pennant race in
the National league is due to the fact
that all of the teams are equally rot.
ten" and therefore playing inferior
ball, or ball that is really not up to
the old major LEAGUES, standards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

Without the slightest doubt, much
of the news from the Mexican border
of late relative to the raids of Next
can bandits on this side and the plans
of Mexicans to grab a part of Texas.
is greatly exaggerated and the product
of vivid imaginations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
. clara !OSramJOdson

the visitor, and L thought. seeing YOU
had such a nice house, I'd come and
live with you for awhile"
That naturally surprised Tommy,
but he didn't like to seem inhospit-
able, so he said, you are welcome if
you will not be crowded--we haven't
a big place, as you see"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

Hasn't Senator Troutman heard
about the presidential boom for Gov
ernor Capper? At any rate, he has
Joined forces with those who think
Senator Borah of Idaho is the most
desirable piece of timber in the Re-
publican presidential forest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

Wonder if the lGrger-than-usual
ears which are growing on the Kan
sas cornstalks this year can hear all
the nice things that the farmers are
saving about them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member CT the
Associated Press and receives the ruH oay
telegraph report of that great news or
Eanization. for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news is received In The state jour
psl brilding over wires for this sole pur~
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
Kansas Comment

WOULD MAKE THE PEOPLE PAY.
An investigation into the expenses
of the Kansas Natural Gas company
receivership made by the public util-
tiles commission shows that the enor-
nous sum of $224,0O0 has been al
lowed receivers and attorneys by the
courts since the company went into
the hands of receivers two and a half
years ago. OF this amount persons
with whom Leavenworth is we'll ac-
quainted got a goodly share. George
Sharitt, one of the federal receivers,
has drawn $22,26S; and he still is on
the payroll. John II. Atwood, at
torney for one set of re ceivers, has
drawn $13,500 and John Dawson, who
became connected with the movement
in the capacity of attorney general of
the state, Grew $S,325. No wonder
John fought to get the company into
the hands of the state receivers But
the point that concerns us at this
time is the fact that the attempt is
being made to make the users of gas
pay the bill. 1t has been shown that
but for the expense of the receiver
ships the company would have paid
we'll in the past two years at the rate
fixed by the state public utilities COM
mission, but this is not satisfactory to
the receivers. They want it to pay
well enough to cover all this enormous
expense of receivers and lawyers. 1t
remains to be seen whether the courts
will go that far or not.-Leavenworth
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

Incidentally. it is merely an instance
of evolution for the Anti-Horse Thief
association of Kansas to transfer it:
energies to the automobile arena.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

Maybe the men might retaliate for
the crusade that the women have
started against tobacco advertising
by urging a ban on the advertising of
candy, face powder and false hair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
Farewell p. b.

to be our only way - .
| When our vacation comes, wei SIT on our
front porch for one whole day
Farewell p. b.
''They'' are not wearing them any
more
Those Palm Beach suits we mean.
1t simply isn't being done in the
! best circles.
The pestiferous proletar1at got hoio
| of them in large bunches.
And they grew to be too dreadfully
common, don't you know.
1t got so anybody could wear one
/ of them, and the ultra ultra couldn
stand for that.
1t always happens that way with
anything that is comfortab bic and al
together desirable.
1t was that way with automoolles-
1t really isn't nifty to drive one any
The lower classes got to buying
them and knocked all the joy out of
the JOY ride for correct and smart
people.
Panama hats are as common as
plugged nickels on the street cars.
And anyone can wear karat on the
third finger of his left hand.
Why, don't you know there are a
lot of people who could never think
of moving in the best circles who now
have the nerve to have anchovles
picked and artichokes and head let
tuce salad with Russian dressing on
their dinner tables.
It's all wrong, Ignatz.
There is no such thing as exclusive
ness any more.
Wanted.
bowling blizzard from the north,
Accom- panied by binding snow,
And zero weather freezing fast,
Would suit a lot of folks 1 know
Some good fresh air that one can breathe,
And never wheeze or gas a DIT;
The fat folks, Mr.. Weather man.
Without a doubt would relish 1t.
Turn on the frost and sleet and hail
And let the thin folks freeze while;
Cut out at once, partially,
Let folks have cause to smile.
Insert some ozone in the air,
Shut off the humid stuff and give
We thick upholstered ones chance
To fill our lungs and really live.
just an idea, That's All.
whv not ask old Art Brisbane to
settle the war, and have it all over
with?
A lonesome fly got i'll our mousse
One day not long ago;
The family armed itself at once
And started for the foe
Potato Washers. frying pans
And baseball bats we got.
And broomsticks, and we started IN
With might and main to swat
We smashed three plate glass mirrors and
Tore down the Chandelier;
We broke $40 vase,
And wrecked q Jard1n1ere-
1t seems a shame to stop and think
What fathers got to buy;
We swatted everything we could,
But didn't swat the fly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

One good thing about the uprisings
in Haiti is that they are as insignifi-
cant and feeble as they are numer-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16

1t must be mighty wet indeed, in
some sections of Kansas, when, as re,
ported. it is too wet for even the wa
termelons to do their duty, and wax
fat and luscious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
BRYAN AND WILSON.


Those supercilious friends of the
president who are inclined to dismiss
Mr.. Bryan from consideration as
negligible quantity, politically speak
ing, will de we'll to refresh their recol-
lection of the election returns when
either Wilson or Bryan has figured.
In 1912 Wilson received 6,293,019
votes. This is smaller number than
Bryan ever received. In 1896 the Ne
braskan polled 6,502,925 votes. In
1900 he carried 6,35S,133 of his fellow
citizens with him. And in 1908 no less
than 6,409,104 voters registered their
confidence in him. And even in the
presidents own state of New Jersey,
Bryan, in 1908. succeeded in securing
the votes of 1S2,56 Jerseymen;
whereas the best Wilson could do in
1912 was 17S,2S9, which was more
than $4,000 below. his vote for gov
ernor in 1910. When Wilson ran for
governor he was {. new man, for whom
anything and everything could be
promised; and of course he polled
big vote. In 1912 New Jersey had
come to know Wilson and $4,000
of the men who had voted for him two
years earlier refused to travel further
with him, despite a specious plea of
state pride and other political bunk.
In 1915, reckoning ct the same ratio
of loss, what will be the Wilson vote in
New Jersey? Please send answers TO
the editor of the Commoner. Lincoln
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Reflector.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY K. MOCLTON.

Those illustrated Vacation Folders.
In pictured fancy we have roamed about
the famous Yellowstone,
declaiming through his megaphone;
And all that We have had TO do is just to
stand waiting to be shown.
We've shot the rapids at the 500 in realistic
form;
We've stood upon the towering CHRIS OF
We've spent some time at Newport, Where
the rich folk go when it is warm
We've done all this at no expense whatever,
Since the first of May,
And, when 1t comes to travelling, that seems
to be our only way
When our vacation comes, Wen sit on our
front porch for one whole day.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
MEx|cANs MURDER
TWO AMERICANS
Bodies Of Earl Donaldson and Edward
Smith Are Found Near
Brownsville. ..

Brownsville, Tex, Sept. 3.-Four
hundred men of the United soldiers
are today securing this section for
the Mexican bands that yesterday
murdered two Americans. The bands
escaped capture -
The bullet-riddled bodies of two
Americans, who were kidnapped by
Mexican bandits were found in the
bed of dried up lake II miles north
of Brownsville
Lived in Missouri.
The bodies are those of Earl Don
aldson, who recently came here from
Missouri and engaged in farming,
and Edward Smith, engineer in
charge of the construction of an ir-
rigation canal.
Ancieto Tizano, who engaged in a
fight near the border over a month
ago and escaped to Mexico and
whose name was later found signed
to circulars melting the Mexicans to
revolt, is said to have been the leader
CT the bandits. sS -,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
Williamson M'LOuChLIN
FOR NATIONAL net TITLE
Only Four Players Remain From a
Field Of 1873 in Champion
ship Games.

Forest Hills, N. Y, Sept. 3.-Four
players today survive the 1913 tennis
experts who started in the national
championship tournament.
Present indications this afternoon
are that R. Norris Williams, the pres
ent champion, and Maurice McLough-
lin of California will survive the con-
tests and will play off the final
matches. Both men have been a
trifle off form during the contests,
but at that, they appeared to have
sufficient edge upon all comers.
Kahl Behr, who has been playing
a star game may survive the contests
and get into the finals with Williams
and Mclaughlin.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
PAYROLL At POST
OFFICE over $1,000

The monthly payroll at the Be-
midji postoffice is between $1,000 and
$1,000 per month. Checks for this
amount have been received from the
St. Paul Office for the month of Au-
gust.
Postal savings now amount to near
ly $4,000, according to statement
made by an official today.
Insurance rates on parcel post
have been changed. Any article up
to five dollars value can now be in
sured for three cents instead of five
cents. Anything over $50 can be
insured for rs cents, the government
having recently increased the value
limit to $780,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
MISS CARRIE. ..kRAHA -. .z.....
WEDS ROBERT KROHN

Last evening at the home of the
bride in Tenstrike occurred the mar
riage of Miss Carrie Lyle Krahn to
Robert o. Krohn, also of Tenstrike.
Rev. l. D. Alvord, pastor of the
Baptist church of Bemidji, offciated.
Miss Esther Fleischman was brides
maid and the groom was attended by
Norman Knox.
The rooms were prettily decorated
with evergreens and the ceremony
was performed under a large arch
of evergreens and flowers, yellow and
green being the color scheme carried
out in the decorations. The bride
carried bouquet of brides roses and
sweet peas. ;
After the ceremony a wedding din
ner was served to thirty guests, i'm
mediate friends of the bride and
groom. Mr.. and Mrs. Krohn were the
recipients of many beautiful gifts.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
STORM IN MATIT0bA
DOES MILLION DOLLAR
DAMAGE TO CROPS
Eleven Towns Hit by Cyclone
Buildings Blown Down; Grain
Stacks Scattered.

Winnipeg, Sept. 3.-Late reports
indicate enormous damage done by
the cyclonic wind which swept cen.
trail Manitoba from Butte southeast
to Gladstone yesterday. The wind
swept clear a path from 9 to is miles
and travelled nearly $50 miles, Hay
stacks and grain stacks were scatter
ed broadcast, while buildings were
unroOfed and many moved from their
foundations. Telephone and tele-
graph wires were blown down in
all directions and it is generally re-
garded as the worst wind storm in
the PROVINCES history, with damage
near $1,000,OOO.
Eleven Towns Hit.
The towns visited were Butte, Riv-
ers, Minnedosa, Beulah, Mineota,
Gladstone, Plumas, Melville, Yorkton,
Hamiota and Rapid City.
In Hamiota buildings were blown
down and roofs twisted around but
the real damage is to the crop. Sev-
enty per cent of the crop was in
shocks and wind and hail has torn
whole fields of shocks to pieces,
the grain out, while. the
standing crop was beaten flat.
At Beulah, on the Canadian North
ern, a work train was wrecked.
General Superintendent Brewer of
the Grand Trunk Pacific has sent re-
lief trains.
The sections worst hit are partic-
ularly unfortunate this year, for al
though the crop was delayed by frost
in the spring, they had hoped to have
harvested one of the best crops ever
grown.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
OLD SOLDIERS OUSTED BY
SUPREME COURT DECISION

St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 3.-Attorney
General L. A. Smith advised A. j.
Rush, state oil inspector, today that
he had prepared an appeal to the
state supreme court holding that B
F. Glencoe, let out by the department
in April, was entitled to his job as
deputy inspector
The case will be argued during
October. Three other deputies claim.
ing to be old soldiers therefore, not
subject to removal, will be affected
by the supreme court decision.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
NORTHERN CLUB TO
Give PLAY TONIGHT
Four-act Comedy Drama to Be Give1
for Benefit Of Skoogland Family
--Bemidji Citizens to Attend.

The Young Peoples club of the
Town of Northern will present a four
act comedy drama, "The Daughter of
the Desert" in the new barn of N
G. Reynolds tonight. The play is to
be given for the benefit of Alfred
Skoogland and family who lost their
Gently by fire.
Many people from Bemidji are
planning to attend the production to-
night.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
CONDITION OF PRISONER
IMPROVES BACK TO JAIL
ON STATUARY CHARGE

The condition Of George Clark, q
homesteader Of the Northwest Angle,
who was operated upon by DR.. e.
w. johnson, county physician, at the
st. Anthony hospital is reported i'm
proved today.
He will probably be released from
the hospital Monday and taken back
to the county jail where he has been
awaiting the action of the grand jury
on statuary charge.
Clark was taken sick at the county
Jail last Saturday.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
JUDGE SP00NER WINS
COMPENSATION ACT CASE

The case of James Nurse against
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Bancroft, Interna-
tional Falls, suit under the work
ingmen's compensation act, heard
recently at Walker before Judge
Stanton, has been decided in favor of
the defendants who were represented
by Judge M. A. Spooner of Bemidji.
Nurse contracted blood poison while
working for the defendants and
brought the suit.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
GERMANS CAPTURE
CITY OF GR0DN0
Russian Fortresses Fall Before At
tack of Field Marshall Won
Hindenberg.
BRITISH TRANSPORT STRIKES
NINE; 600 BODIES RECOVERED
800 Officers on Ship Attempts En-
trance to Dardanelles and is Sunk;
All Drowned.

Berlin, Sept. 3.-Austro-Germa
forces headed by Field Marshall Won
Hindenberg today captured the City
OF Grodno in Russia today. All the
forts were captured and the forces en-
tered the city after desperate street
battle.
The western forts at Grodno were
evacuated yesterday after two of them
had been destroyed by the heavy Ger
man artillery and then stormed by
German infantry.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
JAPS ARE SHIPPING
MUNITIONS TO ALLIES

London, Sept. 3.-Japan is ship
ping large amount of munitions
to the Allies, it was learned today.
The British forces at the Darda-
nelles are using Japanese rifles.
1t is understood that Japan re-
Gently sent artillery to Russia.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
MISS EMMA NOES0N
WINS PIANO CONTEST

- The piano contest at the Huffman
& O'Leary furniture store was COM
pleted yesterday. =.... g..
Miss Emma Noeson received 75,-
947,835 votes and won the piano.
Miss Ellen Crothers won the second
prize, a coupon for a part payment
on piano or watch. She had
72,327,258 votes.
The contest was very successful.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
GERMAN ASSN AFTER
81 AMERICAN TRADE

Berlin, Sept. 3.-Germany is going
after the Central and South Amer
ican trade, according to plans made
at meeting of the newly formed
German Economic association here.
The delegates decided that Ger
many should not lose good connec-
tions in these countries on account
of the war;
Doctor Barnard Dernberg is the
president of the association. He plans
to go to South America in the near
future.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
GERMANY FOR PEACE:
SEEKS HELP OF j. s,
IDEA OF LEvY|NC
TRIBUTE DEFEATED
Persistency of Demands Under Present
Conditions Means War to Devas-
tating End, Says Mason.
(By ]. w. T. Mason.)

Germany has now
recognized Sir Ed
ward Grey's charge
that the Teutonic
people are fighting
for tribute. No de-
nial is made to the
charge. Instead, the
German, paper r S
'taunt England with
being more fearful
of paying a war in
demnity than of see
ing: her allies lose
any territory.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-09-03
SHIP SINKS
IMMEDIATELY

Berlin, Sept. "a British trans
port struck mine off the entrance
Of the Dardanelles today and immedi-
ately sank. All on board were
drowned. It is believed that there
were 800 officers, 1880 men and
crew of 800 on board the ship. Over
600 bodies have been recovered.