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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

dc or run. Because you We're peaceful
minded, you argued that all others
were the same. Am 1 not right?"
You are, DOCTOR
We'll, in the first place, you were
taken by surprise. You saw and heard
what was taking place, but you could
not credit it because it had never hap
pened before, and il happened now
time came to use your muscle you
didn't have it with you, and that gave
you helpless feeling. Y Dung man,
you are not a natural coward. but
you have been a very foolish person
| Go and see the boxing master of a
club
And learn to fight?" asked Mr..
Learn that man who goes only
to hunt with an unloaded gun is
an idiot You may never be called
| upon to fight, but if you are then
you want to lick the other fellow.
Mr. Drew left the doctors office for
club, and that evening took his first
lesson at punching the bag. In time
ne put on the gloves with the instruc-
tor and others, and in time again was
called a fair boxer.
But this doesn't prove that you
have grit said his master. Il want
you to put on the gloves with slam
paEg and give him licking. He has
Deen guying you ever since you began.
he says you are a milk-and-water
sissy, and that a boy 10 years old can
make you quit
For almost the first time in his life
young MI Drew flew mad and wanted
to hit some one He soon had his
chance. He was knocked down the
first thing, but he got up and put up
such fight that his opponent took
off his gloves.
Meanwhile he had employed a de-
| tective to find out all about the man
who caused his downfall. He lived
about three miles from the spot where
he had. been encountered and drove
into the town regularly every Satur-
day afternoon Not a word or line
to him had come from his sweetheart
through the long weeks but he did not
! nope nor expect. How could he? He
must first rehabilitate himself in her
esteem.
One day an auto approached the
Thorn residence from the north, and
a buggy from the south. Miss Dora
sat on the veranda. The two vehicles
met in front of the house and the girl
saw and heard all that followed
Hello, here is the liar and coward
again. sneered the driver of the
buggy.
Mr.. Drew moved his auto out of the
road and got down.
This time he is going to run
away!''
rolled up his shirt sleeves.
Maybe he's going to pick daisies
| He is going to pick you, you loafer,
| if you dare come down here,''
| The next moment they were at it,
and in her excitement the girl stood
up to see. 1t took her lover just ten
minutes to give the fellow the best
licking of his life, and as the victor
was nursing a bleeding ear and a
skinned nose hand was laid upon
| his arm and Miss Dora said: 81 saw
it all, Clyde, and L am proud of youi
Father said you would do it some
| day. Come in and let me dress your
hurts. copyright, 1915, by the Nc
| Clure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27
Jayh a1oker Jots

A brother to the meanest man, in
the opinion of the Minneapolis Better
Way, is the guy who keeps his wife
and children waiting out in front OF
the pool hall while he tries to clean up
a game of kelly" inside.
Some travelling, this. On a recent
run on Train SO Crock Island system) i,
reports the Phillips County Post, Dave
ireland, the engineer, came from
Smith Center to Phillipsburg, a dis
lance of 80 miles, in 80 minutes from
a standing start.
Observations, by Obey Weaver in his
Sedgwick Paragraph. Be natural;
borrowed garments seldom fit well.
A genuine milkshake is given by
the old COW that kicks the pail. :.
welcome thing acceptably You,
too, can fill up the public eye if you
get up and dust enough. Some men
who boast of paying as they go must
be mighty slow travellers.
A Holton young man in search of
work, struck the waterworkS contract
or for a job the first of the week, tells
the Holton Signal. The contra ctor
looked the young man over and OBJ
serving his youth and size, said, 81
don't believe you will do, you are too
light" The young man insisted. that
he was equal to the task and held out
for trial. mo" the boss said, IT won't
hire a man who isn't big enough to
put me in the ditch The young fell
low whipped off his coat and in three
seconds had the boss in the ditch flat
on his back. The boss concluded that
further argument was useless in face
of the facts and the applicant got the
Job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27
Globe Sights

If it weren't so short, the high dive
would be the poorest show. 81
A man feels he is diplomatic when
his wife accepts his excuses.
Most of the heirlooms wouldn't be
worth much for anything else.
Possibly people are fond of dogs
because dog can't talk back
The man who doesn't do very well
is apt to blame the town he lives in.
A small town is one where all trains
are referred to by their numbers.
One has to associate with railroad
men quit awhile to learn their Ian
guage.
If a man is disposed to be a liar,
he can always find something to lie
about.
If you are really interested in the
question, you don't care to hear both
sides of it.
A bachelor has no business knock
ing the divorce evil. Wotinel does he
know about war?
A man will do almost anything for
the woman he loves except let her
select his necktieS- -
Neither does a political orator need
to get much applause to get all his
performance merits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27
ANCIENT BUILDERS.

Some day when you are out walking,
go past a place where a big building
is going up and notice the tools men
have to work with. If the building is
a large one, there will be steam SHOW
els digging out the dirt for the founda-
ton. Great steel Orders will be fast
ened in place by automatic hammers.
Steam carriers will be at work carry
ing the bricks and the mortar to where
it is needed and men with the best
of modern too1s-tools made of iron
and steeI-wil1 be at work doing the
actual building.
think you will be, stand at a safe dis
lance and count the kinds of tools
you can see-the hammers, mortar
trowels, shovels, picks-count every
thing that you see the men use.
Then see how many of the tools are
made of iron or steel
1t would almost seem as if a build
ing could not be erected without those
tools, would it not?
Yet those, fine tools are very modern
things, and some of the finest build
ings ever built were made with the
crudest of tools.
/ You all have seen pictures of the
Pyramids, and of Greek and Roman
temples, but did you ever see a picture
of the great cave palaces of ancient
Hawaii?
All the tools the Hawaiians had were
made of wood or stone or bone: for
there were no metals on the islands
and the Hawaiians were not an ex-
ploring people.
But with the crude tools made of
these three materials, stone, bone and
wood, the Hawaiians built hewn-stone
walls. They fel1ed great trees and thew
made canoes and barges that safely
carried hundred or more men,
In addition to the building, thew
manufactured cloth, they made their
weapons of warfare and they fashion
ed dwellings and temples and titled
the soil.
They had axes, AIDES and hammers
of stone; spades of wood; knives of
ivory and needles of horn and bone
Their spears and daggers were made
of hardened wood.
Think of the years of toll it took
to build the famous cave palace on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27
SUPPORT THE sAVAGEs.

Topeka'S baseball season for 191 D
is at hand. And the important ques-
ton is, What will it's harvest be? In
large measure, the city's baseball
enthusiasts have the answer in their
keeping Much depends upon the ex-
tent to which they support the team
during the earlier stages of its career.
OF course, it is impossible to judge the
class of the team by its most creditable
and encouraging performances at
Wichita. But the team looks pretty
good. Certain it is that Owner Saw
age has done wonders with the situa-
ton that confronted him when he
took over the club. 1t seemed i'm
possible that there was sufficient time
or material of the quality needed
with which rebuild the Topeka team
and remold it into form of Western
League proportions. The trick seems
TO have been turned, however, and Mr..
Savage begins the season with the
full confidence of the fans that he is
the right man in the right place, and
that he will provide Topeka with at
least a first division team if he is Civ
en- half a chance And the half
chance that he needs is generous sup
port on the part of Topeka's baseball
bugs, and especially during the first
ten or twelve weeks of the season.
The team as it now stands and is play
ing seems to be entitled to such sup
port. And if some weak spots de-
velop in the team such support
is essential to provide the re-
sources with which to plug them up
with better men. So let's get behind
Owner Savage and his ball tossers at
the beginning of the season and give
them the boosting that they deserve;
not cheers alone from leather lungs,
but two-bit and four-bit pieces from
leather pocketbooks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

THE McEIHENEY CASE.

Il.
4 The McElheney case, which had the
curious of eastern Kansas by the ears
last week and the week before, deveI-
oped a story of the most revolving de-
tail. a rehearsal of a status of immor-
sality without parallel among the low
est denizens of the primrose world
a rank, evil-smelling weed in a garden
of supposedly the purest morality
prosperous, peaceful country commu-
nifty. This all goes to show that vice
is not confined to the underworld, 10
the big cities, to any particular class
of people, that it is not bounded by
any certain and fixed geographical
marks, and while it may be encour-
aged and fostered by the red-hued
glamour of city ways, the yellow jour
nails immoral books, socalled sex
problem movies and hundred ana
one influences, the seed root of 1t all
is deeper than all this-in the home
breeding and rearing. For is 1T not a
fact that we take greater care and use
more patience in the breeding and
rearing of horses and cows and pigs
than we do in the breeding and rear
ing of children? Horses and COWS ana
pigs require great care in breeding
that they may render the greatest re-
turn of service, says the conscientious
stocSman. Well, pray tell, what IN
the name of common sense are chill
dren reared for, if not for service?
But children, like Topsy-jest growed-
E-Osawatomie Graphic.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record
Doctors bills are apt to make peo-
pie bilious.
The chronic borrower will tell you it
is never too late to lend.
1t takes a pretty smart man to set a
trap for the wolf at the door.
There is no fool like an old fool who
doesn't realize he is getting DID, ar,
1t is quite possible to give man
back talk without talking behind his
back.
Have you had many cases in which
you have given up all hope?" asked
the young doctor. mot until / have
placed them in the hands of a collect
ing agency" replied the old prac-
titiOner.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago

IFrom the Chicago News.
And many slow man is fast
asleep.
But a young man loves an heiress
for himself alone.
Nature leaves a lot of work for the
dressmaker to finish.
A man seldom gets it in the neck by
keeping his mouth shut
OF course, marriage is failure if
the liabilities exceed the assets.
How seldom does one need to use
antifat on an obese pocket book!
After the honeymoon marriage be-
gins to resolve itself into guessing
contest.
No man should run for office whose
character won't stand the witness box
test.
An indulgent husband may be all
right if his Indulgence is limited to a
small glass.
No, Maude, dear; the Bible doesn't
mean manicure girls when it speaks of
handmaidens.
A man who is allowed to pick the
wall paper for his home will also be
allowed to rule the roost.
It's a woman's imagination that
keeps her young-if she imagines peo-
pie can't see through a coat of paint.
A little learning is a dangerous
thing, SO, after all. it may be just as
well that one-half the world doesn't
know how the other half lives.
The woman who marries for money
doesn't have occasion to worry when
her husbands love grows cold, so long
as he continues to hand out the cold
cash.
The famous equilibrist was balanc-
ing four billiard balls on a cue, much
to the amazement of the vaudeville
audience. ..Humphr' snorted the
young man with ink stains on his fin
gers, Til bet he can't balance set
of books
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other. but on what terms they should
be made supplementary.
Shall the transfer of life by art pro-
coed as incidental to the transfer OF
things by money, or the transfer or
things be made to serve the creation
of life? The poverty of civilization,
from the point of view of being. is OBJ
viously due to its wealth as power of
material exchange. Everywhere the
creative nature is compelled to OBJ
serve a standard and a law applicable
not to men but to things And more
and more, in consequence, the pur-
chasing power of money decreases
with respect to it's control of knowl-
edge and enthusiasm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27
HOPK1NSON SMITH.

The versatility of Hopkinson Smith
is inevitably dwelt upon in the obit-
uary notices. Probably many experts
with the pencil and brush have been
equally gifted in other ways since
many sided Leonardo's day. Hopkin-
son Smith was not the only artist of
distinction in his own era who, having
the gift of clear and poetic vision,
could use words as we'll as colors with
artistic effect. His most remarkable
gift was his wonderful and incessant
energy. He had also the rather UNI
common gift of patience. He did not
dash Off his pictures or his stories,
any more than he hurried his work on
the sea walls and lighthouses he built
in his vocation as engineer. He re-
tanned his youth. in mind and body,
and was so spry in his later days and
so much a man of the hour that many
persons will be surprised to learn that
he had lived seventy-seven years. Pos
terity must decide whether Race
Rock Lighthouse" the narrative of
Colonel Carter, or some one of his
many admirable and strikingly indi-
vidual pictures was his best work. In
the view of his contemporaries all that
he did was so we'll done that no choice
of best was possiblei-New York
Times.
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Journal Entries

Many individuals waste lot or
valuable time in waiting for their luck
to change.
- Il j.
Most wives are optimistic to the ex-
tent of believing that they'll do better
when they marry again.
+ j. j
A girl seldom seeks release from her
enga cement to any old kind OF man
unless she has a better offer
T. = 4.
How fortunate for society that so
few of the bad" men are as bad as
they have the reputation Of being.
- i Il
What's the answer? Do homely
girls affect homely clothes, or does
any old assortment of rags look well
on a pretty girl?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27
From Other Pens
A MARTYR TO THE UPLIFT.

Chicago is stirred as it has not been
in many years by the death of Prof.
Charles r. Henderson, of it's univer-
sity, who has died of overwork in try
ing to improve conditions among the
poor of Chicago. Prof. Henderson
occupied the chair of sociology at the
university, a post which ordinarily con-
notes academic interest in civilization.
He was different from some of his
cloth in that he was practical man
who went to work in Chicago during
the severe stress of last winter and
worked himself into his grave. Doubt
less he would have survived had there
been more personal assistance given
1t is not infrequent that martyrdom is
to a realization of a great problem
and it has been the case in Chicago
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Topeka's rank and file are respond
ing nobly to Washburn's CALL The
local endowment subscription has TAX
en- the form of a popular movement in
the fullest meaning of the term. The
goal is still many thousands of dol
lars away. But it will be reached. 1t
must be. Failure is impossible after
the magnificent showing that has al
ready been made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

Certainly the dandy in dandelion
is appropriate for this year. Never was
the crop in these parts of such bumper
proportions. Why not organize a local
swat-the-dandelion campaign? Evil
IDENTIFY the swat-the-fly crusade ISM
going to require much energy in To-
peka this year. And if the ruthless
march of the dandelion is not checked,
the magnificent parkings of Topeka
will soon be weed beds, as many of
them already are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

Mellish's comet, that is now staging
a movie in the firmament, doesn't
seem to be attracting the attention to
which it is entitled, probably due to
its failure to engage the press agents
that Halley'S comet had working for
it. A recent photograph of the Mel
fish meanderer shows it to be pos
sessed of a tail of two divergent
branches, the longer one of which is
probably not less than 100000 miles
in length. Some tail, chi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27
The Original Bonehea'
Evening Chat
Three. Seven and Nine.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Why is a dozen?
Why is twelve. a fixed stopping
eight?
1t is easy enough to see why with
our numerical system built, on deci-
mails, five and ten should be way sta
tons, so to speak,rbut why twelve?
Aren't numbers gu GER things any
way when you stop to think of them
And what an individuality some of
them seem to have.
eminently the fairy tale number.
Everything in fairy tales runs by
threeS. There are usually three princes,
of whom the third and youngest is al
ways the right prince. There are in
variably three sisters, of whom, again,
the third and youngest is the desirable
one. If the prince has to undergo trials
of his efficiency there are always three
trials. In the Merchant of Venice, to
take a grown-up fairy tale, there are
three caskets, and of course it is the
third to which the lady's suitorS are
led which is the right choice. On the
other hand, take the fairy tales of our
babyhood. how many little pigs did the
bad wolf try to huff and puff" out
of existence; and how many bears
wanted to know, who's eating up my
porridge, who's been sitting in my
chair, who's been sleeping in my bed %
Another series of three, by the way.
Seven, believe is supposed to be the
mystic number, the symbol of the
lily SliC cIlSlohS. II is moreover d
vorite number in the mysterious i'm
agery of Revelations. You doubtless
remember the seven golden candle
sticks, the seven seals, the seven an
gels with seven trumpets, and the mag
nificent imagery of him that holdeth
the seven stars in his right hand
Nine has always seemed an interest
ing number to me chiefly because of
peculiar phenomenon based upon it.
Take any number containing several
digits such as 54382, add these digitS
together and substract their sum from
the original figures and the digits in
the remainder added together will al
ways make nine or a multiple of nine.
The sum of these rights is %. Sub
tract % from 543S2 and you get 54360,
the sum of whose digits equals eigh-
teen.
This can be made into a parlor
trick by asking anyone to take any
mum Der, add the digits together, sub
tract the sum from the original num-
Der, then give you all the digits but
one of the new number and you will
guess the other. You do this, of
course, by adding together the digits
given you and subtracting from the
nearest multiple of nine. The only
difficulty is when the digits given you
add up to nine multiple of nine.
er nine or zero.
I have never heard anyone explain
why this is SO and if any reader friend
can explain this mysterious property
of nine, / shall be most interested al
though I doubt very much if 1 shall be
able to understand the explanation.
You see. I really am woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

Paris newspapers are praising the
address by President Wilson before
the members of the Associated Press
And while they are yet to be heard
from. it is a foregone conclusion that
the Berlin papers will express an OPP
posite view. 1t isn't within the realm
of reason that any human utterance of
these days would receive the endorse
ment of both the Berlin and Paris
a5;to,-e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

! Germany also seems to work on the
theory that soaring folk to death is
the next best thing to landing on them
with shells from 42-centimeter guns.
She has permitted a report to leak out
that one of her naval squadrons is en-
route across the Atlantic for the pur-
pose of assaulting the seaport towns
IF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

AS the unusual is always happening.
Denver surgeons were successful in re-
moving from the stomach of one of
their patients a set of false teeth he
swallowed. Generally, in operations of
this sort, it is discovered that the vic
tim didn't swallow the teeth at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

Several Kansas farmers are said to
own California gold mine where rich
pay dirt, or quartz has just been
struck. But they probably won't pull
any more wealth out of it than the
bulk of the Kansas farmers do from
their fields, which are veritable gold
mines of the first water
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

If Italy gets what she wants with
out participating in the war, it will
be the easiest picking that ever fell
to the lot of any nation. But sup
pose the Allies eventually win a COM
handing victory over their Teutonic
enemies. Perhaps they'll have some
thing to say as to what will fall into
flaws NAV
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Ny Clara lnSrauaJudson

the point called Haupu.
There hundreds of years ago, so his.
tory tells us, the warrior Kaupeepee
decided to build a fort that could never
be taken by his enemies. On the
rocky point, Haupu, he built it, First
he laid high walls all around it-walls
so high and wide that many men
could walk abreast on them Then he
built paths up and down the rocky
sides of the cliffs for the carving of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

Neither can there be any kicking
in these parts on the quantity and
quality of the April showers for 1915.
The only unusual thing about them
is that they arrived during the month
of April That is decidedly unKansas-
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food and last of all, he built the pal
ace itself
Partly it was built on the top of the
rocks and partly it was hewn out of
the rocky heart of the cliff.
When the whole was finished IL
would hold three thousand men, their
food for a long siege and all their
weaponsi Think of that
And if you are interested, read some
day how the great fortress was finally
taken. and how the doors and paths
were blocked up with boulders. and
destroyed.
Think of the patient toll of the hum
dreds of workmen who could build a
fortress like that with only tools Of
stone and wood and. bone!-(Copv-
right-Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-27

AS the Chicago Herald observes:
The United States still continues to
proceed on the wise theory that 1T is
better to be unpopular and neutral
than popular and shot-up.
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TELEPHONES.
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
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 this sole pur-
poS@-
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play BALI has been sounded for
the season of 1915. Are you going to
pay your share to support the Savages
as they should be?