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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-23
new BATTLE ON BORDER
Sheriff's Posse Engaged With Men
Believed CarranZa Deserters-

sheriff's posse and some Mexican
bandits were today reported to have
had a fight in Hidalgo county. west
of here 1t was said several MeX1-
cans were killed, but this report
lacked confirmation.
The MexicanS were believed to be
the band of Carranza deSerterS who,
according to reports from Carranza
military authorities in Matamoras,
last week, crossed into Hidalgo
county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-23
M'CLUGGAGE IS DEAD
Was veteran Physician and Oldest
Kansas Probate Judge.

Wichita, Kan, Aug. 23.-Dr. A. R.
McCluggage. a probate judge of But
Ter county, died in a hospital here to-
day of heart disease. He was Il years
old. He was chosen last fall on the
Democratic ticket. He had practiced
medicine in Butler county since 1868
and is said to have been the oldest
probate judge in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-23
Kansan Buys Oklahoma Paper.

Tusla, Okla. Aug. 23.-N. D. Welty
of Wamego, Kan, candidate for con-
gress last year. has purchased the
Bartlesville Exa miner, according to an
announcement here today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-23
HAIL new ENEMY LAST WITH SIOUX
Italians Enthusiastic From
Alps to Libya.
From
Berlin Declares Rome Merely
Obeys London Mandate.

Rome. Aug. 23-(via Paris) -
Several transports laden with
troops and escorted by warships
have departed from Naples, Tar
antO. Syracuse and BrindiSi for
an unknown destination. They
sailed under sealed orders 1t is
generally believed that they are
to be employed for operations
against Turkey.
Udine, Italy. Aug. 23-(Via
Paris) The fact is disclosed
that joint military action by Italy
with England. France and Rus
sia against Turkey was arranged
today by the Italian General Pirro
during his visit to the Anglo
French front in July. Plans
studied then, it is said. can i'm
mediately be put into action.
Rome, Aug. 23-Cvia Paris).-
ItaIy's declaration of war against
Turkey has been greeted enthusiastic
cally from the Alps to the Ionian sea
and across the Mediterranean to
Libya, from which the governor gen
eraI has sent a telegram declaring
that his troops claim the privilege
of being the first of entering into the
new campaign.
Amsterdam, Aug. 23-(via Lon
dom The German newspapers,
copies of which have been received
here, express indignation over Italy S
declaration of war on Turkey, assert
ing that Italy is merely acting on the
orders of Great Britain.
The Tageblatt says that although
Italy has not declared war on Ger
many, she is ready to act whenever
she is ordered by the allies.
Geneva Switzerland, Aug. 23.-(via
Paris) s)-The Bucharest. Rumania, cor
respondent of the Tribune sends the
following:
News of the Italian declaration of
war against Turkey reached here at
o'clock last night. There was much
enthusiasm throughout the city. The
cabinet and the Italian ambassador
was present.
''The king will hold a conference to-
day with all the representatives of the
Balkan states Yesterday he signed
several DEGREES of military nature"
Italians Want L. 5. Warships.
Rome, Aug 23-(Via Paris) .-Ap-
probation is expressed here in gov
ernment circles and by the people of
the weighty steps undertaken by the
American embassy at Constantinople
in the protection of Italian interests
in Turkey. Unofficial hopes are ex-
pressed that the United States will
send additional warships to render eff
Sador MOngenthau. Many Italians
are employed as laborers in the in
terror of the Turkish empire remote
from the direct influence of American
conSulS-
Italians Eyacuate Pelagosa.
Vienna, Aug. 23.-(Via London)-
The Admiralty announced today that
reconnas ssances on saturday estab-
lished the fact that the Italians had
evacuated the island of Pelagosa, in
the Alriatic sea, having destroyed all
buildings and Notifications
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-23
RUSSIA'S NAVAL
TRIUMPH THRILLS
ENTENTE ALLIES
Capitals JubiIant Over Unex-
pected Gulf Victory.
PetrOgrad Claims Complete De-
feat of German Fleet.
TURN OF THE TIDE FOR SLAVS
Stroke Expected to Allay De-
preston of MuScOvy.
TeutOnic Campaign in Baltic
Region in Balance.
PetrOgrad Claims Complete De.
feat of German Fleet.
TURN OF THE TIDE FOR SLAVS
Stroke Expected to Allay Dc
preston of MuscOvy.
TeutOnic Campaign in Baltic
Region in Balance.

Berlin, Aug. 23-(via LOndOn.)
German troops have occupied
the fortress of OssOWetZ, which
was evacuated by the Russians,
German army headquarters an
nOunced today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-23

Weather Forecast for Kansas
Fair in west; unsettled and cooler
in east portion tonight. Tuesday
partly cloudy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-23
Italians Evacuate PeIagosa.

Vienna, Aug 23.-CVia London)-
The Admiralty announced today that
reconna SsanceS on Saturday estab-
lished the fact that the Italians had
evacuated the island of PeIagosa in
the Alriatic sea, having destroyed all
buildings and Publications.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
AND CUR EN-
III a L =

ploy women because they are cheap, the gov
eminent because they are vocal and can exer-
else vast social pressure, and TO employ peo-
pie or enslave people means to organize them.
1t was not Karl Marx who organized the trade
unions; it was the current trading system
which made them conscious and drilled them
into solidarity
What freedom are they seeking, this female
side of us. intellectual, economic, political, sex
ual? These are the only freedoms we can lay
hold Of, and intellectual freedom is theirs If
they are able--that is, ready-to take it. Eco
nomic and political freedom can be won, but
need not be dwelt on, for, in the end, govern
ments and capitalisms organize nothing but
their own distinctions There remains sexual
freedom. and nobody, not even they are aware
whether this be their aim or not, for every
movement runs down the first side street that
is handy and continues to run beyond the
guidance or even the cognizance of those who
were called its leaders. Are they tired of re-
producing the same unvarying man with
large body and small head? Are they aim
ing at sexual synthesis?- for simplicity fol-
lows complexity as completely follows simple
evolution as man is the guardian of involution
these eternal twins. these two sides of the tri-
angle the base of which is God.
do not know the answer to these questions
do not even know if these questions are worth
answering see thoughts and ideas as a small
boy sees marbles as something to be played
with, and regard the thoughtful man who is
not gay as a fraud almost as criminal; for
intellect degenerates rapidly into brutality, and
it has spent so much of its time in building
prisons and celebrating instruments and sys-
TENS cf torment that it is time it turned to
something civilized in other than the police
definition.
Meanwhile, will the war throw this delicate
situation between the sexes into or out Of
cquipoise? All the valid men of Europe are
segregated from the women. | am told that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
Need New York Fear am EasGlamd Disaster?

NIT to the inspectors of the district in which
they seek credentials evidence of their ex-
perience and physical fitness to assume the
positions they desire. Before the service will
place a man in charge of a steamer, where
upon him will rest the responsibility for hui
man life, he must be in possession of all his
faculties be free from color blindness and be
mentally capable, in addition to making his
rating as master or mate. Even after an of
fcer has been once licensed it is within the
province of the service TO revoke his license,
and this will be done at once in case there is
proof of dereliction of duty or any physical
ncapacity which would render the man unable
to perform the duties attendant upon his rank
when it is considered that no one member
Of the service is allowed to perform his duties
without supervision. and that the closest pos
sible watch is maintained to keep the standard
of safety upon American vessels at the highest
point. is it any wonder that the death rate is
one in 100000
with the efficient force of inspectors Low
maintained at New York and the excellent
supervision of all steamers carrying passcn-
gers from that port, do not think that any
one need have the slightest fear of travelling
on a New York Steamer-excursion or other
wise-for, so far as it is possible to judge
through expert investigation and inspection,
the condition Of New York's steamers is ex-
cellent and there is no reason why any ore
should fear to use them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
The War Song of France, LA MarseiIlaise"

during the Terror, when | was a prisoner at
the fortress of st. Jean. | made a few atera-
tions necessitated by the words and there
it is"
Then Boucher hummed the march as he
had originally written it and told De Lisle
of its origin. De Lise threw his arms around
the musicians neck and said
Il am sorry, Boucher, but ! am afraid that
you will be despoiled forever, do what you will;
for your music and my words 90 so we'll to-
gether that they seem to have sprung stimuli
taneously from the same brain, and the world
even if I proclaimed by Indebtedness to you
would never believe it,"
"'Keep the loan,' | said" Boucher is sup
posed to he speaking) moved in spite of my
self by his candor; without your genius my
march would have been forgotten by now;
you have given it patent of nobility 1t is
yours forever""
If this story were true Boucher must have
composed his march and been an habitue of
Madame de Montaigne's salon when he was
twelve years Old He was precocious fiddler
who lived from his ninth year till his nine
teenth in 1906 in Madrid, where during tie
period he was a court violinist and played
quartets with Boccherni. He has never been
suspected of enough creative talent to write
a march as good as the Marseles. 1t is not
impossible, not even improbable that he told
the tale, however, for he was quite as adept
at drawing the long bow as the fiddle bow.
He was, indeed, most uncomfortable charla
tan who used to make capital out of the fact
that he looked like Napoleon Bonaparte. He
copied the attitudes and gestures of the ban
ished Emperor and even went so far as to give
farewell concerts on the plea that the "un-
fortunate resemblance" compelled him to ex-
patriate himself from his beautiful country.
A relative (probably a brother), Alfred
Boucher, who played the violincello and con
Quoted musical societies, was a prominent fig
ure in the musical circles of New York in the
first half of the nineteenth century. He con-
Quoted the Italian opera for Montressor one
season and was one of the founders of the
Philharmonic Society in 1912.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
t III =,

change the scandal of their mystery-how
and so got job and how much such and such
makes a year In literature the same ten
dency is apparent; see the conversation our
noveliSts put in the mouths of their charac-
ters. and in art, even in its reactions Rodin
seems TO he virile by being ou,landish; the
cubists, when they have skill Of form, lack
the mind for it; color is in vogue, any color,
so it be good and bright, and as to music, let
those who can talk Of it speak; for me, !
have heard noises where | was hidden to ex-
pect harmony-wth pragmatiSm utility had
become the password of philosophy while
NietzSche, that most feminine of writers, was
coming into his honors.
Adventure had been withheld from men,
and they had grown soft; this mainly by rea-
son Of the complexity of our commerce and
the continued Capitalization of our men INTO
cities. They had been withdrawn from wind
and weather, from the sights and chances of
The open air from the view of the horizon
and the breathing of grass and trees they
had been sheltered and made comfortable in
their bodies and obese in their habits of mind;
there was no SuddcnneSs in their lives. no
smell Of the earth. and the number of stars
they could see on a night had been gcometri-
celly planned for them by the roofs of houses:
for them the moon had risen behind a chimney
and the sun sank into a factory instead of an
ocean; poetry had ceased for them, prose had
ceased. and they nourshed their MINDS on the
Sawdust of journalism as they nourished their
bodies on bread that grew in no field and meat
that had been created by scientist.
In the meantime adventure had to some
small extent been restored to women, and they
were becoming hard. For some twenty years
mental exchange had been operating be-
tween the sexes which may be good or bad, but
which may contain grave social and even evo-
lutionary potentaties. And women are or
ganizing themselves. Neither the government
nor the capitalists can disturb this-they can
only assist it, they must assist every ror-
nal development. The capitalists must en-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
GENIAL. CLITTERING q CoRogoUS
THE PROGRESSINES.

As a prominent exponent
of the Progressive party we
are constantly asked about
its future. All we can say
is we don't know a terrible
lot about its past and
present, let alone its future
and future perfect subjunc-
tive.
Whether THE GAZETTE
will be for the Progressive
candidate in 1916 rs to be
S. 1t depends on who is he.
We may be for the Demo-
cratic or the Republican
candidate. and, if Chas.
Edward Russell ne the So
cialists' choice. it may be
that we shall vote for Char
ley, as we always do for
anything he runs for.
This paper is not a party
organ and we are influenced
by nothing but our own
ignorances, prejudices and
affections.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
AR,
Continued from first page.

.rode was an individualistic, aristocratic
, .,o,,me. so cooperation is a social and
-Ve..,otic ideal Cooperation has entered into
a-not;onal imagination, and for time every
- ~ on earth must work for it from no
...er what direction or interest.
18th the great problem of life there are
:. forces to be searched for-sex, money and
r.,oo--with their amazing qualifications into
ou.sv from each other. Religion is GER
u. thing in itself a new thing and one
81 q really intelligent basis; but in its popu-
,rganized aspect it is strongly sexual. and
.,neal is less mental than spinal. So with
-, Indeed. il may be said that sex is to
"a, measure the syntheSis of our present
e evolution. and that a large part of
chi and progress are no more than re-
- from, this powerful stimulus. There
a. 4 dwell on sex in this paper it is be
80 I consider the subject interesting.
spontaneously with the rise of feminism in
4. World. or rather with the public organiza-
-, Of an instinct which is as old as history.
- has been a corresponding decline of mas
Unity. and one of the peculiar things to be
.,.csd in any gathering OF males mas oeen the
-,,.;r, fernaienesS Of their conversation and
,.o,rers Of thought. IN the club, the public
t,rss and the college the talk to be overheard
!. foc,sle in its fibre. Observe two men speak
mo eagerly together; listen to their talk: it
.5n generally be found to consist Of variations
on this theme;
.Do Won remember such a one?"
~Ob. yes: isn't he the man who married such
an other?"
That is he: he has four children now: they
I've in such a street: his wife dresses rather
we'll
They have become not so much men as
family men. They talk scandal. They do not
talk shop-they talk the scandal of the shop.
They do not talk art-they talk more of the
snours Of the artist than Of his work. Listen
70 three or four doctors gathered together;
they will not discuss medicine; they will ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
MOSQUITOES.

Mosquitoes have overrun
this town until they have
become as much OF a men
ace as they ever were in
Staten Island or New Jer-
sey. ( There ought TO be a
law, and il is high time that
something should be done.
A citizenry trained TO cit
ronella is weary of sleep
less nights, to say nothing
of the danger and dlscom-
fort caused by these pest.
How these insects. the
most intelligently malicious
of all flying things, can be
exterminated we do not
know, but it is a subject
worthy serious scientific IN
vestigation.
We suspect the summer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08

Inst inspection under the law he must furnish
ne representatives of the inspection service a
COPY Of the blue print plans Of his craft, to-
seihcr with a schedule Of material to be used.
iais makes it possible for the inspectors to
'"es'al any faulty construction or the use Of
unsuitable materials.
Hand IN glove with the inspectors, VINO
must alsfy themselves of the quality of the
material 10 be used and the plans for the new
oait' work other inspectors, also under the
Oleciion Of the Secretary of Commerce, who
canine the boiler plates designed for use on
aean vessels. This material has to receive the
'lcal sanction before it can be used in the con-
"rlcton Of the boat.
In addition to passing upon the construc-
1on Of the steamer before she is commenced
''a while she is being built, the inspector Of
.-is also assures himself of the structural con-
anon o. every vessel in his district and when
'e' steamer is drydocked the law requires
'4' The Inspector of hulls be notified and given
Opportunity 10 20 over that part of the hull
'afn Is usually submerged. Yet after all this
accomplished there still remains a mass Of
faI which must be carefully watched in order
safeguard the lives Of the passengers ana the
rev Of the iron craft that sail the deep waters
'holern commerce.
After having seen that the hull of the YES
. '5 seaworthy, the inspectors Of the steam
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
F z Nj / n IS III

victory lie with the woman's movement or
with the mans? Or will they both win and
lose? For sex and brains are poles with
common centre, and change in the one is an
instantaneous differentiation in the other. A
pure intellect will assassinate its own sexual
sde an abnormal sensuality is usually fol-
lowed by softening Of the brain. There is the
equilibrium, and | think that real disturb
ance of that balance has been in process for
a quarter of century.
1t is to the female one must look for an evo-
lutionary departure, and | am inclined to
predicate a neuter gender as a first step tow
ard synthesis. We nave barred the road
against physical evolution We are so, or
ganized against it with doctors and public
opinion that it can no longer proceed on phys
ical lines and must break through by the only
weak spot in our defence, our brains, and so
our sex
The male sex has been growing soft; 1t
has given in again and again TO the female;
it was approximating to the female, nor is
there any reason why it should not 80 so, for
right and wrong are so removed from our
Intervention or assistance that they can be no
more than distractions for us. Over human
ity presses. like vast hand, the collective
mind of humanity and moves US particles at
it's will wonder what caused this war, and
the war that is to come after it to arrange
the European questions which it has forced,
and perhaps, the world war looming behind
that again. when Japan has Prussianized
China and Asia has followed the lead?' VIII
the new-found love of man for man withstand
these barbarisms? In the meantime what IS
the cause of these wars?
| begin to grow superstitious! When we
see the economic laws set at defiance, is not
that wild portent? Any other rule, every
other rule, may be broken by man, but the
economic law is the only sacred thing which
he has reverenced, and these wars are uneco-
nomic, that flames at us like comet. | be-
ieve these other wars are to come, and that
they are true evolutionary labors. and that
somewhere under the dust and the smoke sex
may be sought, for now that women are be-
ginning to love women men must learn to love
men, if only for self-protection.
At the end here is paper full of queries.
None of them need to be answered; they can
all be laughed at, and their sole value is that
they take fog out of my head and put lt
into some one else's-the which is true prog
ress, for the exchange in error is as active
and almost as important as the market in wis
DOM like thoughts that are silly indeed I
prefer them, and Stiffness is in the air; it is
the one thing left to us now that economics
has gone by the board and we have nothing
left to put in its place. All the men of Eu-
rope and portion of those of Asia and
Africa are gathered together TO kill each other
for no purpose, getting neither fame nor adj
venture from the conflict, and not even be-
ing decenty paid for their labor and
their deaths. Is it not silly? We could we'll
laugh at it all. Oh one could laugh Ut it
heartily if it were not that weeping comes
easier at the moment and that we have al
most forgotten how to laugh.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08

The stars have been real TO them, and the
darkness has been real on the nights when
there were stars. when the hushed spaces
around pricked invisible ears, and listened
with them for a cautious football or the click
ing of accoutrements the wind has sounded
for them every note of her Tyre, believing her
wintry symphonies, accompanying the signs
of dying men with her thin complaint, as
though she, too, had been wounded to the
quick and must cry and cry; and the rain had
drained and oozed and pelted until they be-
came native to it and knew no longer whether
it rained o. was dry.
Christ went into the wilderness for forty
days and came back other than he had been;
so did Mahomet, and many another, the
changelings of humanity, and these men have
gone there; almost we might say that man
kind has marched into the wilderness. What
devil will they have to withstand ere they
return? Will they come again laden with gifts,
or will they return broken men, lost men,
who have surrendered everything, even be-
yond that residue of their manhood, and who
have only blind bones to chew on for the rest
of their days?
Everything is possible and we may be
thankful that it is so-but this last is not
probably. Humanity is healthy because life
is healthy, and against evil good can be le-
Ultimately postulated. We do not postulate
evil because life does not postulate it. Evil
is active but good is enduring; our history
asserts that, as it is asserted by every pro-
phetic instinct of man, and even by our H.
stinct for reproduction.
If there is difference in these men how
will it be recorded? For the average man has
few opportunities for self-expresslon, ard
these soldiers are the average man. In pub
lie there is small freedom for any one man
we are arrested on the one hand by the law;
on the other by that vast ENHANCEMENT OF
custom and culture which we call good man.
ners. social observance, FORM
There are two freedoms only, a domestic
freedom and political one, in which voice
can be heard or a weight felt. But political
freedom means very little. Behind the pOltl-
clan is the machinery and behind the ma
chinery an inertia which can scarcely be eX-
ploded into activity by any sapper. 1t is true
that economic power preceues poilIlCdI po"cl,
it is true also, and more true, that social
change must pretede political change. His
torically there may have been some movement
of political machinery but there has been no
change in politcs-the same brigand has
tapped the wires of every generation, and if
it was Esaus hand that we saw in the work
we did not always divine that Jacobs voice
had commanded it. If the word politician has
come to be almost term of abuse, the poti-
clan has labored to deserve it.
Before any social change can be apparent
there must be that conversion which Christ
and Nahomet and St. Paul underwent; there
must be change of heart, for man has to be
eternally reborn lest he grow old and stupid.
If the change is to come, will it be from TIE
intellectual or emotional side Of US? Will TIE