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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
Signed Own Death Warrant"

Last week the old man unwittingly
signed his death warrant by practl-
cally showing $4,000 in a lump. In
the presence of my wife and myself
he showed a sheaf of papers and said:
This is twentyyear endowment
policy with Manhattan Life Insurance
Company that calls for $4,000, dead or
alive The policy becomes due Satur-
day. June 26. l am showing it to you
young folk so that you can bear wit
ness to the fact that ] am sending the
policy and the full amount of all pre-
miums to the Manhattan company.
intend to cash in on the $4,000 ana
enjoy the money
That sealed Schneider's fate in my
mind. 1t made me crazy to see even
$4,000 slipping out of my control. The
day after McHenry made the sug-
eestion of putting the old man out OF
the way by following him on Il busi-
ness trip and making the murder look
like the work of thugs l accepted and
he charged me $500 for the job.
Learning that Schneider was COM
ing to Pittsburgh to look after his
stores. babe goodbye to my wife Sun
day morning, telling her I was going
on business trip. Tuesday at 1:1a
pm. | registered at the Anderson and
secured Z room on the sam efioor with
Schneider. | used the name of Hamil-
ton. Buffalo. n. Y, and kept out of his
sight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
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Men and Boys

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You can Join any time. There is no red
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Free medical and physical examination
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June ~ TO July =.
Its A GOOD PLACE TO co..
Send for booklet and particulars.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28

At the equator the diameter of the
earth is 1926 English miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
z|0N|STS ARE GIVEN
WELCOME TO BOSTON
Separate Conventions of the Several
Federation Branches in Ses-
sion Today.
Reports of Committees to Be Heard
and Discussion of General Jew
ish Situation Planned.

BOSTON. June 2s.-Separate conven-
tons of the various Zionist orsahiIa
lions meeting here were begun To-Day.
The first body to come together was the
Federation of American Zionists. with
Louis Lipsky of New York presiding.
Reports of several committees were 10
be heard. and u discussion on the gen
eral Jewish situation was planned.
Other associations to meet today were
the Hadassah, the Womens Zionist so
clety and the Order of the Sons OF zion.
joint banquet will be held tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. SUPERVISING;
Architects ONE, Washington. u. g. June IL
I2l5-Sealed proposals will he opened In this
Once ct pm. July IL, 1915 for electrical
work IN the Z. y. Treasury and the W!uder
buildings. Washington, u. e.. In accordance with
the Specncstiin copies Of which may he had
this ONCE in the discretion 81 the Supervising
srcbitect- JAS. \. WETNORE Acting Suuer.
visinz Architect. je19 81 u p - 10
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
THE BANE OF POLITICIANS.

England is reported to be in the
throes of another cabinet crisis. And
it would appear reasonable to urge
that unless the politicians of England
can get together and create cabinet
that will work in harmony, the pros
poets of England making more con-
vincing showing in the war are not
bright. What a bane to any nation,
her quarrelsome politicians are! The
real political patriot is the rarest of
human birds. The politician is usual
ly for himself first, last and all the
time, regardless of how his activities
or personal ambitions concern the well
fare Of his country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

lake, glowing and happy, tendriIs of
wet hair clinging to her forehead, her
eyes dewy dark, yet lucent. Her
thin blue frock, Quaker-pIain, came
modestly high at the throat, but had
sleeves short enough to reveal arms
or admirable taper and softness
Sne looked down plaintively at her
small well-shod feet. saping to With
ers, Jimmy, isn't it shame not to
go barefoot this fine hot weather.
Why not? No law against it!''
WIthers answered bravely
she shook her head signing re-
signedly: You forget Bridgeway. He
would die of shame for me-and 1
really can't afford to kill my social
conscience"
Brldgeway was the old black man
VINO mad met them at the house. He
was a reminder from her fathers
time. and to him ''M'ria-Susan' would
always be a child. Indeed, she started
almost guiltily when he appreared
upon the opposite creek bank, MAX
ing trumpet of his lean hands and
shouting: "Ye better come to the
house righten erway! Err pesky pile
more men is thar waitin' ter court ye'
shall we go boldly and send them
about their business" Davis asked
wondering at himself for his presump-
ton; In response. he got a beautiful
sldelong upward glance and very
soft: "N-no! L rather like to-hear
what people have to say
This was the beginning The end
came two weeks later when Davis
more madly In love than ever he had
dreamed he could be, asked her
plumply to marry him-asked it also
as diffidently as though he had not
seen the world.
with her k1ndliest smile, she told
MN frankly that she had promised
winners that she would marry him
should she ever make UP her mind to
take a second husband-CCopyrig
1915. by the Mcclure Newspaper syn
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

The last park budget carried an APP
preparation of only $4,000, and the
new one will be much closer to that
figure than it will be to the 100000
mark However, the city commission
ers should be as liberal they posi-
bly, can in their park appropriation
The parks are the peoples Fairgrounds
and are among the most valuable as
sets of which the city is possessed. And
Topekans are beginning to show their
appreciation of their parks in a con-
vincing manner. One of the most
pressing needs in the park department
is some kind of an adequate house
for the animals in the Gage park zoo,
and provision should be made for this
in the forthcoming park budget, by all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
Jayh Jots

AS the ottawa Herald explains: The
man higher up is generally as low
down as they get.
Click Fockele of the lie Roy Re
porter, advises that if you have 4
thirst for knowledge you must read
dry books.
These rainy days and nights ought
to be fine for the watermelon crop in
Kansas, and that's something, en-
thuses the Hutchinson News.
1t does not follow, suggests the Ar
kansas City Traveller, that graduate
from an agricultural college has COM
pleted his course in wild oat-sowing.
Some of the best things in the world
don't cost a cent, observes the Wichita
Eagle, yet they couldn't be purchased
at any price. There's friendship, for
instance.
The consistency of some persons re-
minds the Wichita, Beacon of the Chi
cago man, who, when arrested
charged with drunkenness, proclaim
ed his religion and proved that he
never got drunk on Sunday.
Told by the Manhattan Nationalist:
A young fellow approached the ticket
window of the Union Pacific depot the
other evening and wanted to know of
Operator Hook when the next freight
left for Denver. But that's nothing.
A few days ago an elderly couple, who
apparently had never travelled over
night on a train, wanted to know how
luCn IL Cost u rue III the D6u cars.
Observations by the Brodericks in
their MarySville Acknowledgement
There is one thing worse than a gos-
sipy old woman-it is he gossip
-. In order to make a hit the girl
of today not only dresses to be seem
but almost obscene. A man must
make his own way in the world. With
a woman it is different-she usually
has hers. The person who leaves
sticky flypaper on a chair should be
1n6 sit r ,, ir1,o oil
Whenever a man begins to grow bald,
right then is when his wife begins to
lose her strongest hold on him.
Musings of the Village Deacon. in
the Osborne County Farmer: After all,
the man who makes the most money
out of reform is the fellow who gets
cessful over half the time because
the victims are afraid to howl after
they have been stung- The world
has developed so many slips between
the cup and the lip of late years that
the fellows no longr take any chances.
They now drink direct from the bot
tie. If ever 1 run for office it will
be on a platform to have legislation
enacted that will make it as easy 30
get up in the morning as it is to go to
bed at night. Nine out of ten Wo-
men lose every bet they make. The
Lord had to make it that way or the
average man would be busted all the
time. Tears and smiles are surer
things than judgment. No man
realizes what an inferior worm he is
until he tries to keep in the game with
woman at a bargain counter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
EU Chat
You Told Me So.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Do you ever say, You told me so ?''
The other day the cautious mem
Der of the family warned me that !
would find a crowd if L went to a GER
tain place.
On account of his caution his warn
ings are always discounted ABOUT fifty
per cent, so 1 spent a good five min
uteS pointing out to him various rea-
sons why there would be no crowd and
why 1 shouldn't mind if there were.
He was still unconvinced, and so
was l. Subsequently 1 went to the
place and there was a crowd, in fact
very dense crowd At first l could
find no seat, and when at length L did
procure one it was uncomfortable and
ill placed. 1 came home cross and
tired. But did 1 tell the cautious one
the next time 1 saw him, you told me
so?" Hardly! Instead 1 talked
sprightlily of shoes and ships and seal
ing wax and cabbages and kings, and
thanked my stars when he forgot to
inquire about crowds.
1t seemed to me at the time quite
natural and justifiable that I should
do so. 1 felt sure he would have done
the same. But afterwards, when 1
was thinking it over, it came to me
that to have the courage and square
ness to say, You told me so' would
be a pretty fine thing.
We all think we have a right to say,
Il told you So when events prove us
TO nave p00n right ana our IrlenQS
wrong, perhaps not in just those words
but in one way or another. Now why
should we forget that that right to
point out our own wisdom when we
have been wise is balanced by a duty
to admit our opponents wisdom when
it is he whom events have proven
right?
If the right exists. so does the duty.
If we waive the right then we may
perhaps be exonerated from the duty,
but if we claim the right we should
remember the duty.
No three words in the English Ian
guage are harder to say than 81 was
wrong" but their very difficulty
makes them a test for moral courage.
L wish Kipling had included, eff you
can say You told me so - in his list
of Ifs that make a man.
Question-There is strain of
intemperance in my family and
my son drinks to excess. He
is engaged to beautiful gill
who, 1 fear, has no knowledge of this
fact. I think that married to her he
may settle down and be all that he
should. I am afraid that If I tell her
she may break off the engagement and
he will go from bad to worse. What
shall I do? Should 1 tell her?-A
Mother.
Answer certainly think you
should. She may choose to make the
effort to reform him, but 1 think she
should know what she is going into.
This is a big question Perhaps my
reader friends think otherwise?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

Sometimes when you are downtown
where the big drays are driving
through the streets, do you ever stop
and notice the great express cars that
motor through the city? The huge
trucks, and drays, and wagons, all
piled high with heavy boxes? DO you
notice how they toot their horns and
ring their bells and worm their way
back and forth across the city?
And when you see how powerful
they are and how much they can car
ry. don't you wonder how things used
to be delivered before the days of the
big motor trucks?
of course, your father and mother
can tell you about the smaller wagons
of their days. The wagons that We're
thought big at the time, but which
look so insignificant when we see
them, as we do sometimes, on the
back streets and in the villages. But
how were things delivered before the
days of wagons?
In the early days of this country
goods were carried on horseback
Great pack saddles were slung across
the horses Cor mules, as the case
might be- and carried in their big
pouches more than you would think
they could hold.
Before that, in the early Indian
days, the Indians carried all their
camp outfits on queer "dra gs'' they
made of poles Two strong poles were
cut and seasoned. Then they were
laid side by side and about two feet
apart. Strong thongs now laced the
two poles together and the drag was
ready for its load. Sometimes an ami
NAL was trained to drag the burden,
but more often the women of the
camp dragged after them the heavy
loads that were piled on the drags
and the men fished and hunted care
free during the journey.
Sometime when you want p very
jolly play, make yourself a drag
md W "a fa9n hs3y 1all
ing Indian. Get two pOleS-long ones
like mothers clothes props are the
very best length and kind-and lash
them together with rope or strips of
cloth. Then lay on the two poles all
the things you need for your play and
start the game. See how easy it is
to drag the burden? You can carry
more than you can lift. And you can
easily move your camp from one part
of the yard to another, or from one
spot in the woods to a better one,
if you are lucky enough to be playing
in woodsy places.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

IFrom the Philadelphia Record-1
An egotist is any man who thinks
he is better than you are.
Riches take unto themselves wings,
which is probably why we have high
flyers.
Resist temptation If you see a girl
who wants you to kiss her keep 4
stiff upper lip.
You never can tell Many a man
puts up a bluff that is merely a Bit
of stage scenery.
Some men are born lucky. 1t isn't
every fellow who can fall in love and
land on his feet.
Occasionally a man is loved for
the enemies he has made, but not the
man who is his own worst enemy.
Virtue is its own reward" quoted
the Wise Guy. YES" agreed the Sim
pie Mug. The good die young, but
it's not because they want to-
Remember, my son. admonishcd
the fond parent, "a good name is
more to be desired than great riches -
Yes, but a fat purse is a good thing
to lean on" replied the indolent son.
Muggins-''Miss Antique asked me
how old I thought she was Now,
what would you say under the circum-
stances?" Buggins-'I trust I should
be gentleman enough to lie like one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

GF'rom the Chicago News.J
Ghostly tales are what dead men
tell.
Musical directors beat their wav
through the world.
And in many cases writer's cramp
affects the stomach.
PRINTERS measure their takes and
ta1lor's take their measures
If wise you'll not poke a hornets
nest to see what there is in it,
A small boys ideal hero is bio
poy VINO runs away from school
Loves a disease that keeps one sick
long time after he gets well.
Politeness yields large dividends.
but 1t is an investment frequently
overlooked.
1t is merely waste of words when
man tells his wife that she can do
as she pleases.
When a mans mother-in-law de-
cldes to pay him a visit she never
misses the train
knowledge may be a power, but it
taxes gasoline to make the wheels of
the JOY buggy revolve.
Even if you do think your neighbor
is crank he has no license to think
you are in the same class.
Holidays. of course, were devised
for the sole benefit of office holders,
school teachers and bankers.
We know a lot of men whom the
world could get along without, but
they don't seem to be aware of the
fact.
Occasionally a young man would
rather work all his days than marry
a rich girl. We don't know the
answer. -.l
Perhaps all things come to him who
waits, but, considering the number of
things not worth waiting for man is
justified in going after what he wants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

All some people care for is gold
teeth and a smile.
Kin don't seem to ever say much
that is important over the telephone.
Tell your wife a lie today and she'll
find it out some day, if it takes twenty
years.
1t isn't always true that a girl
who shows through has good reasons
for it.
About all that exercise seems to do
for the fat man is to work up a good
appetite.
If you do the best you can every
day the average man can't keep in
sight of you.
1t seems that villains wear NOUS
taches so that they can have some
thing to twist.
Time has proven that two can't live
a S cheaply as one, unless the woman
makes the living.
Much of the economy practiced in
this country is devoted to saving up
for a big spree later on.
After a man quits getting love let
tiers, the only letter which interests
him greatly is one with check in it.
Those who disagree with you aren't
all fools, end the fool streak may be
on either side of the argument, or
both
When a joint debate can draw a
fair sized audience, the country
needn't complain of being so ALFRED
busy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
NArIoNALIsM AIDS ART.

There is nothing very mystical in
the idea that the mind, even as the
body, grows stronger in the country
of It's race, says the New Republic, and
it goes on: That has been proved
again and again by such various mani
festations as the characterlessness of
colonial art, the literary tatting per
formed by the refined English spin
sters who are to be found in the shad-
ow of almost every Italian campanile,
or the transformation of the Hindu
into something tortuous and impotent
by English education. If one removes
a man from his country, one deprives
him of that heritage of tradition
which Dostoevsky upholds as the
enemy of science, but which is really
the unwritten preface to science, and
much more in its spirit than the jab-
Der of Inexperienced phrases he was
from his country has torn from his
shoulders the net of human relation
ship wherein he might have learnt
love, which so greatly fortifies the
will to live. Never will he be knit to
many people by laughter over local
jokes, never will he join with strangers
in the shamefully untuneful singing
of old songs about past national glo-
ries. For never can one become COM
pletely assimilated to another nation;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

The women learn to carry erea
weights on their heads. OF You
want to see If that is easy to do. try
carrying a heavy book across the
front porch and then imagine vhar
fun Cd it would be to carry a hum
dred pounds that same wayD
In some countries the people wear
wooden yokes across their shoulders
and on each end of the yoke bur
den is hung.
In China the express carriers are
all men who balance across their left
shoulder a long pole. On each end of
the pole a burden is hung The men
go a-walking through the crowded
streets, carrying their hundred or two
hundred pounds, crying out for pass
ers-by to watch lest they get hit
When the weight is too heavy for one
man, two take the pole and in that
way, two men carry the greatest bur
dens! Wouldn't it seem queer to see
such expressmen in our streets?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
From Other Pens
THE OLD GENERALS.

During the Civil war there were 1 81
major generals commissioned and 44o
briga dier generals. OF these SIS gen.
eral officers. only 16 are living,
major generals and 2 brigadiers. The
list does not show one of them now
living in Ohio. which fact means, of
course, that the generals by Drevet are
not included. This information is
given and therefore may be consid-
cred as correct. The old generals are
now nearing the fourscOre line or be-
yOnd. There is a sadness among the
old soldiers to see them sc fast dis
appearing and to know that in a very
short time they will all be gone. The
old generals we're the rallying points
of all the sacred memories of the war
and whenever they appeared the old
boys of 81 to IS would rally about
them with every show of reverence
and love. But they and all the "boys"
will soon be gone, and the great Civil
war will be one with the Revolution
and the war of 1912, without wit
ness but the land they offered their
lives for.-Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
Journal Entries

Some people put on high speed only
when running into debt.
i. /. i.
AS a rule the things a person wants
most are the ones he cant afford.
=
Another will have great respect fol
your judgment If you follow his ad-
vice.
= + +
If the average bore's life story were
interesting that might be some little
excuse for him telling it.
J. = j.
What has become of the old fash
toned mother who cut down fathers
old trousers for the young hopefuls
in the family?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

Reports from Washington have it
that President Wilson has no intention
of making the surrenders of our rights
that Germany demands. and that the
reply of our government. which Secre-
tary Lansing is already at work draft
ing. will be as firm as the two notes
which have preceded it. But no hint is
given as to what course we will pur-
sue in the event of diplomatic
break with Germany. And that's the
thing that everybody is interested i'll
and anxious about. But whichever
way the president leads, it will be in
cumbent on all good Americans to
follow. and the great bulk of our citi-
zenship, fortunately. is in that cate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
On the Spur
of the Moment
The Wise Guy.

The Wise Guy.
For every ill he has a cure,
Advice to suit all needs;
He prates on points you'd fain abjure
And jolts your precious creeds;
H1s Jaw Will tackle any job,
In shop or cars or hall:
You yearn to crack his crazy mob
The bore who knows it all!
In vain you seek sweet solitude,
To dodge his dreary clack;
In hallowed shrines he'll oft intrude,
he never leaves your track;
hon gladly hire a gunman brave
To plug him with a ball,
But rear nell cackle from his grave
AND swear he's clinched it ALI