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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
REDDY AND CYCLops FIND A MEETING HOUSE

| After Reddy and the newly named
| CyclOpS had eaten all the nuts the
| children brought them, and after they
had carefully poked over the remains
| of the feast, to be sure that not one
| kernel was missed, they set out again
| on their exploring trip.
| towards the lake" said Reddy
thoughtfully, ''for I noticed that was
| the way the children went. What is
safe for children ought not be dan
gerouS for squirrels" So they started
| towards the lake. You see, Reddy
felt the care of Cyclops, because it was
for his sake that Cyclops had risked
the Journey and he didn't propose to
go into any more danger than he could
help.
For several yards they picked their
way along, but nothing happened nor
did they see anything new that was of
interest. Reddy was just beginning to
feel that he was rather foolish in
wanting to explore in a park where
there was little likelihood of finding
anything new, when right there in
front of him, by the edge of the lake
which they just then reached, what
should he sec but a queer looking
house-a house that was plainly some
animals dwelling!
what in the world can that be ?''
he asked CycIops excitedly II never
saw anything like that before yet
something tells me that it is an ami
mails house-how DO l know that 2?
What? Where? What Is It you
see?" asked Cyclops.
Right over there. See!' replied
Reddy and then he looked around.
Cyclops was looking directly the
wrong way, no wonder he couldn't
see what Reddy wanted him to
lock at.
NO, Cyclops,' explained Reddy
kindly, look over this way. See that
house right there
CycIops turned his head the right
way this time and there, right in front
of him almost, was the house Reddy
was talking about.
"Oh, that said Cyciops uneXcfted-
". that's an old beaver house. Didn't
YOU know that? Why, even 1 know
that
well, then. you're ahead of me-"
replied Reddy good naturedly, be
cause [ didn't know it at all. What's
it used for?"
1T doesn't seem to be used for
ANYTHING just now said Cyciops, ex-
amining the house carefully and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
PAVEY BOUND OVER.
Former Topekan Brought Back OH
Charge of Wife Desertion.

Following testimony of his mother,
Mrs. r. c. Pavey, and first wife, Mrs.
Maggie Pavey, which was introduced
by the state, Frank A. Pavey, city
marshal of PIainville, Kan, and a for
mer Topekan, was bound over to the
district court under bond of $1,000 on
a charge of wife desertion in the court
of Topeka this morning by Judge
Hugh Fisher.
According to testimony, PaVey left
Topeka about year ago telling his
wife he was going to Oklahoma to
look for work. County officials claim
to have evidence that Pavey went to
PlainvilIe and married another woman
without legal divorce from his first
wife. No testimony was introduced
this morning by the defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
THE MEXICAN SITUATION.

1t is beginning to look as though
the several military factions in Next
co were actually inviting the interven-
ton of the United States, but in a left
handed way, of course. Certainly
they are making no effort to compose
their differences. This is due, I'M
doubtedly, to their deep-seated per-
sonal jealousies ard their intense
hatred for each other. And each of
them must realize by this time that
it's chances of gaining the upper
hand over it's rivals are well-nigh
hopeless. So a logical conclusion
would seem to be that, rather than
get together and permit one of their
number to handle the reins over the
government, or the situation, for of
government there is none in Mexico
now, they are of 9 mind to continue
the turmoil until American interven-
ton, which would eventually put them
all out of business, becomes the only
possible solution of the sorry but Sc
riouS problem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

ly showed that children born in pow
erty are peculiarly subject to early
death or to incurable defects of mind
and body, that a large proportion of
all apprehended criminals are boys
and girls whose criminality is directly
traceable to their adverse economic
environment, that a large majority of
the unemployed are idle because there
is no work for them to do, then pub
lie opinion began to perceive that to
penalize the poor for their poverty was
to impair the productive power of the
nation and thus to transfer the penal
ty to the nation itself. Poverty came
to be regarded not SO much as an in
dictment of the individual, but rather
as prima facie evidence that as a peo-
pie we were not making the most in
telhgent use of our resources, that
there was something wrong with the
management of both public and pri-
Vate business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

In his sanity trial before a jury,
Harry Thaw is certainly going to be
put to a mental test of extensive pro-
portions. The prosecutors for the
state have plans to put him on the
stand as their witness and ask him
about everything that has happened
IN his life-since the day he was
born. But surely they will have to
be content with hearsay testimony
from him concerning the first eighteen
months or two years of his life. He
isn't old enough yet to imagine that
he remembers everything which hap
pened TO him when he was a baby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
THAW SCORES HEAVILY
Gen. F. S. Streetor Testifies That
Pittsburger Is Sane.

New York, June 2S.-Harry X.
Thaw scored heavily in his fight to
prove his sanity before Justice Hen
bricks and jury today. General F.
S. Streetor, of Concord, n. H, who
was chairman of the commission ap-
pointed by Federal Judge Aldrich in
1914 to examine Thaw as to his san
ity, swOre that he firmly believed the
slayer of Stanford White was sane
StreeIor's commission also found
Thaw sane.
Deputy Attorney Becker attempte i
to show that as 1ayman, General
Streetor did not know enough about
paranoia to judge Thaw's condition.
Streetor replied that he was the de-
fender of the late Mary Baker Eddy,
Christian Scientist, in her famous trial
on the same charge. Becker quickly
dropped that line of questioning.
Streetor said he received about
$1,000 for his work on the Thaw COM
mission. Thaw, he said, paid it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
WHEN SPEARING FISH ISN'T.

A Daniel has surely come to judg-
ment in Judge Fisher of the Court of
Topeka. He holds that the state fish
and game laws do not apply to or
prohibit any old kind of fishing that
man may care to indulge in on land.
In other words, if a frisky Kansas
stream leaves fish or two or three
in what was once your corn field or
potato patch you have the right to lift
it into the frying -pan-with a pitch
fork without violating the provisions
of the game law that prohibit the
spearing of fish. And that game
warden should think otherwise only
makes more certain the need that
more care should be taken by the
state authorities in the selection of
these minions of the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
Old Time TOpekan Passes
Away at Fond du Lac, Wis.
Was Long Identified With Pub
lie Affairs i'm Kansas Capital.

Ward was received today that j.
Lee knight. inventor of the first add
ing machine, had died Sunday in Fond
Du Lac, Wis. He held several offices
in the past in Shawnee county and was
well known here. A daughter, Mrs.
p. J. Lungstrum, lives at 709 Van
Buren, street.
r. L. Cofran, former mayor, and
proprietor of the Western Foundry,
said he remembers very we'll making
the machinery for Knights adding
machine. 1t was while knight was
county treasurer that the idea of an
adding machine 10 assist in the cleri-
cal work of the office came to him.
He was county clerk several terms and
later county treasurer. 10
Knight came to Topeka in 1879 and
conducted daguerreotype gallery
when photogra was in it's infancy.
made a tour of the United States and
visited Topeka, knight was the official
photographer.
In 1906 MIR. Knight left Topeka, go
ing to Kansas City. From there he
went to the State soldiers Home. For
the past several years he lived in Fond
Du Lac, Wis, where he took a promi-
nent part in the business and political
affairs of the city. He was active in
influencing Fond Du Lac to adopt the
commission plan of city government
and year ago was prominent in be-
half of Il fight to vote saloons out of
that city.
Besides Mrs. p. J. Lundstrun, he
leaves another daughter who lives in
Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Lundstrum is
the widow of p. j. Lundstrum, Santa
Fe engineer, who was killed in front
of the Santa Fe station three years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
The Evening Story
Her Ideal Lover.
(By Shirley Carson. }

They formed pleasant circle I'M
der the trees-a group of girls and
young men. Some had been playing
tennis and were discussing the game.
The others were chatting idly.
Dorothy had been reading Her
deep blue eyes reluctantly left the last
page and went dreaming into space.
"Dorry is e-building again.
said her sister Susan mischievously.
Somebody laughed lightly.
Are your castles inhabited, Derry %
leased Eleanor Blake.
Yes" said Dorothy. cool1y. Mar
bled nails with vassals and serfs at
my call and all that, you know" She
surveyed them with a careless glance
from her lovely eyes and Straightway
her thick lashes mid them from view
again
Il suppose there's a hero teased
Susan.
"A kingly creature" Eleanor adj
mitted enthusiastically.
IF 1 were not n modest man.
Jimmie Dean paused impressively.
You would apply for the job of
hero?" finished Eleanor.
Jimmie essayed a blush. 1T has
already been spoken he said.
Dorothy turned her eyes upon them
once more.
4 don't mean to be uncompliment-
ary, she said in a bored manner, but
the requirements are very unusual
"A ripple pI lduSlIef ran the
group. That is, every one laughed
save Peter Ford. Peter locked even
more grim and forbidding than usual.
DO describe your ideal hero,
Dorr3-." begged the girls. 1.-The one
you would welcome to the castle of
your heart added Eleanor sentiment
ally.
Derry crossed her slim ankles and
clasped her hands around her knees.
Sitting there on the grass in her little
white frock, she looked very young
and very lovely, but Dorothy was past
twenty.
Well" she began, looking dream
lily into distance, he must be tall; six
feet anyway. as much more would
be in proportion to his perfectly mag
nificent physique"
Mercy" breathed Susan. at
would cost a heap to feed such a
giant" Her eyes met those of Peter
Ford and she was conscious of a
panied look in his honest brown eyes.
Susan WINGED and was sorry that they
had urged Dorothy to express hey
opinion concerning heroes. Peter
Ford was 50 hopclessly in love with
her little sister-and he 1ell far
short of the ideal man, Poor Peter.
with his fine intellectual had and his
hopelessly blunt and commonplace
features: his slight stature and his
honest glance beneath a thatch OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
HELD BY FOREIGNERS,
Europeans Have Fabulous Sum In
vested in American Railroads.

New York, June Isl. T. Loree,
president of the Delaware & Hudson
Railroad company, has issued an esti-
mate of the amount of American rail-
road securities held abroad.
The total of over $4,000, 100000 was
arrived at with the cooperation of
las railroads in the United States.
The compilation, it should be not
ed, does not include industrial, min
ing or miscellaneous shares.
Mr.. Loree finds that railroad stock
owned by foreign investors approx
mates $S00,0OO,0OO, while bonds and
other interest bearing issues account
for some $1,7OO,O00,OO0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

The lake got too low.'' excla lined
Reddy in puzzled voice, what in
the world are you talking about -
Dear me-" said Cyclops, "by the
time you have lived in the park az
long as L have, you VIII learn to no.
tice things! Haven't you noticed IN.
deep rim of mud around the whole
lake? Don't you know that that
means the lake is Iow?'' Reddy shook
his head We'll, you know now"
said Cyclops good-naturcdly. Now.
let's look inside this house,
Together they went inside and OK
plored all the tiny passa geways and
corners. iii tell you what would be
fun" said Reddy, Tets keep this old
beaver house as our meeting house
When 1 want to see you or you want
to see me, we can come here and
meet And if we get more nuts aud
era ckerjack than we can eat in one
time, we can bring it here for the
other fellow. Wouldn't that be fun %
Cyclops thought it surely would be.
so the plan was made, but whether. ii
was a good plan or not We shall see.
(Copyright-Clara Ingram JudsonD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
ASKS 5000 A MONTH.
Mrs. Ernest Applies to the Court for
a Special Order.

That the court issue an order re-
curing the defendant to pay into the
court the sum of $500 for her use in
preparing her case for trial and $500
as attorneys fees and additional sums of
5000 per month as temporary alimony
pending the hearin.5 of the action, was
petitioned today in the Shawnee county
district court by Elvenoe Ann Ernest
in her proceedings for divorce from
DR.. F. J. Ernest, a physician of this
city.
Mrs. Ernests petition for divorce
was filed a few days ago and was SEN
Sational She recited a charge of IAN
other woman" naming Edith Knox, a
nurse in the Mercy hospital at Hutch
n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
WHO'S TO BLAME FOR POVERTY

So long as the belief prevailed that
poverty was merely a symptom of in
herent Viciousness and a thing for
which the pauper was directly and
solely responsible. writes Robert w.
Bruere in Harper's Magazine for July,
the public took thought of Adams sin,
shrugged its shoulders. and resignedly
left the individual to face his penalty
tempering the rigor of sins discipline
the while with the mercy of peniten-
tiaries. reformatories. jails. poor
houses. charity and training school
hospitals But when one scientific
investigation after another conclusive
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
Journal Entries

Fortune really favors more people
than it gets credit for.
+ + r
Not a few folk are at their best
when they remain silent.
+ = +
When anybody gets more than he
bargains for it is usually trouble.
+ r j
Why is it that parents of the groom
never kick up much of a fuss over his
participation in an elOpement?
+ + r
A woman with small feet takes as
much pains to show them as her sister
with big ones does to conceal hers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

So far, the Great War in Europe
has been conspicuous chiefly for its
retreats. First came the remarka BILE
retreat of the British from Mons,
which has been characterized by the
experts as marvellous military man
euver. Then followed the big German
retirement in good order and without
serious losses from the environs of
Paris. And now comes the big retreat
of the Russians in Galicia with their
immense army practically intact, ac-
cording to reports from Petrograd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

Because of the softness of the soil
some of the Kansas farmers are hav-
ing to use the old-fashioned cradles"
with which to cut their wheat that is
so ripe as to demand immediate at
tention. But if the entire Kansas
wheat crop had to be brought to earth
in that fashion only a fractional part
of it could be harvested, unless a mil
lion or two harvest hands with as
many cradles could be put to work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

If Kansas can work out a plan of
flood prevention at a cost of no more
than eleven or twelve million dollars
it will be the cheapest investment and
at the same time the biggest dividend
payer that the Sunflower state could
possibly make. And the suggestions
of Governor Capper for a mass con-
vention in Topeka to discuss the prop
OsitiOn are timely
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

Possibly there is some connection
between the fact that Building and
Loan associations have been author
lied by new state law to extend
their operations to rural property and
the eagerness now being displayed by
state bankers to work out plan
whereby they can issue long time
farm loans. Competition appears to
be a great little thing even in the mat
ter of extending credit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

More hard luck for the professional
crop killers. This barber" worm
that they recently found in the wheat
fields and labeled as a new and I'M
usual wheat pest with which the farm
ers would have to deal is no new va
riety of pest at all. merely our old
friend the army" worm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
Mrs. Murdoctss Motber Dead.

Wichita, June 2S.-Mrs. j. E. Ca1d-
well, mother of the late Mrs Roland
P. Murdoch, and beneficiary of the
latter's estate which ultimately will go
to an art collection for Wichita, died
here today. She was IS years old.
Sa muel McRoberts, a son-in-law, is
vice president o. the City National
bank in New York City. Mrs. Ca1d-
we'll was Il Wichita pioneer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

On the suppOsition that the reports
from Petrosrad tell the truth. the
whole truth and nothing but the truth,
the Russian retirement in Galicia
takes it's place as the most remark
able retreat of which there is any rec
ord. While they have been falling
back. the Russians have captured no
less than 10000 of the enemy. or so
saNeth Petrograd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
CROPS GO TO BELCIANS
Military Governor, to Let Civilians
Have Growing Cereals

London, June 2S.-Herbert C. Hoov-
er, chairman of the American COM
mission for relief in Belgium, has con-
cluded an agreement with Won Kissing,
military governor of Belgium, provid-
ing that the wheat and rye crops in
the zone occupied by the Germans
shall be reserved for the civilian pop
nj
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

Here is thought of Adelaide
Kien's presented in the July Nautilus.
that everybody would do well to insert
in a prominent place in his or her life
creed: We brought no cares into this
world. and naked of cares we shall
leave it, Therefore to hug them here
=
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

Poor cid Chicagoi She missed
disastrous street car strike by the skin
of her teeth, only to be overtaken by
difficulties and differences in her
building industries that have thrown
100000 men out of work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

"Sa fety First also seems to be the
slogan these days with the weather
bureau. Most of their forecasts are
qualified with probably" or posi-
bly," or some other elastic and COM
nrehenSive adVPrb
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
LOCAL MENTION.

The Topeka Milling company's mill.
located at the corner of Adams and
Crane streets, has been purchased by
S. P. Kramer and others, from the
Hackneys, and preparations are now
being made for the mill to again be
operating. The plant has been closed
several years. 1t is one of the large
FIGURING mills of the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
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OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization, for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for tlis sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

AS Attorney General Brewster OBJ
serves: There is less excuse for the
violation of the prohibitory law in the
well-to-do mans club than in the
poor mans joint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

Undoubtedly. one of the most hor-
rible aftermaths of the great Euro
pean war will be the hordes of blind
men il will leave in it's wake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

Reports from Berlin of a successful
bombardment of Russian submarine
by German aeroplane also suggest
that ii is impossible for submarine to
return any such compliment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

At any rate Mr.. Bryan seems not
averse to war of words.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

Jupe Pluvius must be ill or thor
oughly exhausted. 1t "asn't rained
hereabouts for day or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

We wish to thank everybody who
comforted us during the recent sick
ness and death of our beloved Lucille
Balmer, and especially for the many
beautiful flowers and music.
MRS. A. NJ. BALMER,
MISS VIRGINIA BALMER.
MIR AND MRS. GUY LIVINGSTON.
MIR. AND MRS. ARTHUR TILLMAN.
(Adv)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

Mrs. Rosa Osborne, age SO, died
Sunday morning at her home, one
will be taken 20 Rossville Tuesday for
burial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

The regular weekly pipe organ re-
cital will be given Wednesday noon at
the Auditorium by Miss Juanfta Ladd.
A fine program IS announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

A meeting of the North Side Civic
club committee appointed to take the
matter of getting another pumping
station installed at the foot of Fair
child street, up with Commissioner w.
L. Porter will be held tomorrow af-
terncon at 2:30 o'clock at the North
Topeka fire station.
The city civil service board an
nounced today the names of those
who passed an examination held by
the board Saturday. Miss Belle Shirley
1347 Garfield avenue, who took the
examination for clerk at police head
quarters and also for deputy city
clerk, made the highest grade of any,
having an average of 94-S. Her lowest
grade in any one subject was So.
Lloyd c. Bagby. 1928 Buchanan
street. and Mrs. E. E. Roudebush also
passed the examinations for deputy
city clerk. Hugh Payne, 1927 Adams
street, passed for asphalt foreman;
Greene Garrett, 926 Western avenue,
for fireman at the city light plant;
Earl Van Worn, 1900 Lane street, for
sanitary policeman, and Miss Annette
Johanna Nicoll for city bacteriologist.
The Commercial club and the board
of education are cooperating with the
G. A. r. on the local Liberty bell pro-
gram. A great platform will be built
from Kansas avenue to Quincy street
along the side of the track where the
bell special will come. The board of
education will try and round CUP 5000
school children to be on the scene
when the bell arrives
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28
Warns Pekin and Toxic.

Picking, June 2S.--Warning that the
United States would not recognized
any agreement between China and
Japan which impaired American
rights in China or endangered the So
called "open door" policy, was con-
Veyed to the government of both
China and Japan in an identical note
from Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-28

Mrs. r. b. Mckee died Sunday
afternoon. The funeral will be held
at o'clock Tuesday afternoon from
the home, 317 West Sixth street.