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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
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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 this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

Eugenics, explains the January bull
letin of the Kansas state board of
health, is the science of failing in love
intelligently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
Made i'm America.

Made in America.
Can you beat it?"
'I got YOU
pipe the skirt
your honor, I move we postpone
the execution indefinitely
Fellow citizens, if you elect me to
this high office I wilP'-
'Plenty-er seats-up front. Step
liveIyplease''-
French sardines"
Russian Caviar"
italian macaroni.'
Turkish rugs
Havana cigars"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

Money continues to talk as usual
the world over, but the American dol
lar just now is able to make the most
noise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05

What a lot of killing the Kansas
wheat crop will stand this year. 1t
has already been saved" fourteen or
fifteen times so far by snowstorms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
No Wonder Jim Is Pleased.
Przumably.

xochimilco, Mexico, has broken into
the war news. Now will PrZemysl go
away back and assume a reclining
position?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
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American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Maybe there'lI be another snow
storm tomorrow, just for a change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
From the HfckeyvilIe Clarion.

Constable Ezra Hand has bought a
set of brass buttons from Station
Agent Renfrow Binks down to the
railroad depot and will have them put
on his new police uniform. There is
some class to Ez mostly second
class.
Hold Peters has sent down to the
city for a set of jackscrews to use on
his farm. 1t is not known definite
what he is going to do, but it is ru-
mored he is. going to try and raise
the MORTGAGE.
11s1 -
No Wonder Jim Is Pleased.
We hardly refrain from giving the
general public the benefit of the folIowipg
advertisements in one of the Indiana pa
pers:
Mr.. James Spillman is pleased to an
nounce that his wife has recovered from
her recent Illness and is ready to again
serve her former customers in the way of
washing and ironing and plain sewing.
Mr.. Spillman will call for and deliver all
work for his wife, and your patronage is
respectfully solicited
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY X. MOULTON

Woodrow.
Dear woodrow, you can have your
job;
You're welcome to it, too.
I'm glad I'm just a common lob
An no ~eleb like you.
Nobody offers me advice
On problems small or great;
Nobody has to tell me how
To steer the ship of state:
I do not have to walk the chalk,
And walk it very day,
And weigh each word of mine for
fear
OF what the world might say.
I've got the edge on you, Woodrow,
] know you will agree;
For If the 1-ation would go bust,
They'll all blame you, not me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
Uncle Abner.

Uncle AbneF.
Mrs. Hi Purdy h. had electric
lights and a bath tub put in her house
and threatens to wrestle the social
leadership of our town away from Mrs.
Arson F'risby, who had held it so long
with her pair of lorgnettes and her
rubber plant.
Hod Peters says things is evened
up pretty well in this w, rid after all.
He makes the money and his wife
spends it.
Two things that never satisfy every
body are corned beef and cabbage.
Elmer Jones heard a travelin' drum
mer for seed house spring a good
joke the other night and he is writin'
vaud'v vile sketch around it.
Miss Amaryllis Teeter is singin'
popular songs in movin' pitcher
show. That is to say, they are popu-
lar until she sings 'em.
Hank Purdy says the cost of Twin
surely must be gettin' higher in Wash
1ngton, as congress is receiving SO
many bills lately.
I see they have finally broke all the
flynn machine records. If they would
only break all the talkin' machine rec
ordS there would be some class to it.
Hi Higgins has had an anker ta-
toed on his arm, which shows that Hi
has reformed and is goin' to lead a
life and never be a fugitive
from justice.
Evening star., 1915-12-26

of generations. When we promulgated
this glad news to the people of this
province the rapturous' voices Of the
people were like the sound Of thunder.
and the troops and people have all
declared unanimously that the will of
heaven hath chosen a proper man and
hereafter there will be a man to sit
on the divine throne. 1t is hoped that
our great president will deign to COM
ply with the will of the people to the
end that the foundation OF the ma
ton shall be consolidated. He must
sympathize with the hearts Of the
myriads and protect the interests of
the nation. we pray that he will
swiftly ascend the great precious
throne, so that the hopes of the peo-
pie may be realized. Thus the situa-
tion will be improved and the people
will be blessed. I, Ju-cheng, submit
this memorial with joint signatures Of
all military and civil officials under
me-"
Evening star., 1915-12-26

created would not be perpetual Many
of them were to cease upon the death
of the sons of-the men on whom they
were conferred. Now. however, new
regulations have been drawn up which
will make titles hereditary as long as
the government exists.
Hereditary titles of six ranks will be
created The first rank will be king
or prince. Then come duke, marquis.
earl, viscount and baron in the order
named. The last four titles are to be
divided into three classes by fixing
prefix to each. The government will
retain the right to cancel titles should
their holders conduct themselves in
manner regarded as improper by the
emperor.
Newspapers which are unfriendly to
the monarchical restoration have been
attacking the title scheme since it was
first suggested and declare it is re-
turn to the old regime wholly out of
Evening star., 1915-12-26

Berkowitz of Philadelphia, chancellor
of the Jewish Chautauqua Society, at
it's national meeting here tonight.
7 Jewish people" he said, having
abandoned the system Of segregating
their children in parochial religious
schools. will never resort to 1t again.
There, is the alternative danger of hav-
ing religious and moral instruction in
jected into the public school system.
We believe that the separation of
church and state should be inviolably
maintained.
The school cultivates the communal
spirit and trains in civic and social
virtues. To the church and the syna-
gogue is reserved the highestS function
in the educational task, and that is 20
cultivate the inspirational side of re-
ligious life"
Miss Jeanette Miriam Goldberg of
Philadelphia, secretary of the chau-
tauqua, referred to the work of the
society among immigrant, Jews.
The alarmists," she said, argue
Evening star., 1915-12-26
Store and Stock Destroyed by Fire.
pecfaI Disnatch 70 TIE Star

Special Dispatch to TIE Star.
BOYDS. Md. December 25--The
Golden Rule Mercantile store. occupied
by Rosenberg Brothers at Barnesville.
four miles from here. caught fire at
midnight last night, the store and the
stock of goods. which was valued at
nearly $1,000. being destroyed: The
property is owned by Oscar K. Poole.
There was no insurance on mer-
chandise.
Evening star., 1915-12-26
Voice Of the People.

To-day we received a telegram from
Feng Kuo-chang, the governor of XII
angsu province, advising that the rep
resentatives Of the citizens of the
whole province have voted in favor of
constitutional monarchy. and that
they all again voted that our great
president should become the great en-
peror of the Chinese empire, which
shall endure and maintain one unbrok-
en- dynasty extending to ten thousands
Evening star., 1915-12-26
SAYS HOME IS THE PLACE
. FOR RELIGIOUS TEACHING
DR.. Berkowitz, at St. Louis, Insists
That Ecclesiastical instruction Be
Kept Out Of Schools.

ST. LOUIS, December 25.-A plea for
moral: and religious education of the
young, but insistence that this task is
the work of the home and of the
church or synagogue, were points en-
phasized in the address of DIR. Henry
Evening star., 1915-12-26

that the newcomer is an alien both 10
custom and language. Their fears arS
groundless and these people should not
be treated as undesirables. They should
be welcomed as compatriots. eager to
become one of the fundamental ele-
ments in the development of Amer
lean institutions and the advance of
American ideals"
Evening star., 1915-12-26

keeping with the spirit Of progress the
educated Chinese hope to see prevail.
Decorations for Cash.
Recently President Yuan has also
displayed a disposition to confer many
decorations. This is also producing much
criticism in the newspapers which op-
pose the change in government. The
following mandate issued by the presi-
dent is typical Of his orders concern
ing decorations: Gov. Chin Yung Of
Shansi reports that eight brothers of
the Chiao family in the Chi district of
Shansi contributed the sum of s150,000
to the government and stated that they
did not expect any reward. The said
citizens place the state before every
thing else and do their best to render
assistance to the government. They
should be rewarded for their patri-
otism. Chiao Yin-hui Is hereby given
the fourth class Chiao-ho decoration
Chiao Yin-kuei, Chiao Yin-hsiao, Chiao
Evening star., 1915-12-26
TITLES To Be LASTING
UNDER CHINESE EMPIRE
Yuan Shi Kai to Bestow Rewards
Upon His Loyal
Supporters.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
PEKING, November 20.-Presldent
Yuan Shi Kai has apparently changed
his mind about the titles he will con-
fer upon loyal followers. 1t was orig
inally announced that the titles to be
Evening star., 1915-12-26

Yin-chenE and Chiao Yin nan are here
by given the fifth class Chiao-ho deco
rations." =
Chinese newspapers continue to print
appeals made to President Yuan Shi
Kai by admirers who desire him to as
cend the throne. The last message
sent to the president by Admiral Tseng
Ju-cheng has just been made public,
and is published broadcast in the YER
nacular. papers:
Evening star., 1915-12-26
Decorations for Cash.

keeping with the spirit Of progress the
educated Chinese hope to see prevail.
Evening star., 1915-12-26
This Extra Special 5-Piece
Brass BedOutfit

Includes Massive Finch Continuous Post, Guar
anteed Lacquer Brass Bed, Iron Frame, Band Sup
port Woven Wire Spring, Comfortable Soft-top
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
TWO INJURED WHEN
 J|TNEYS CRASH ON
 TWENTIETH STREET
Mrs. Josephine Fortner and Mrs. G. H. Clarke Thrown Out of Machine at
 Foot of Hill

J. J. Huse, 1872 Avenue F and Dan Gilmore. ss14 Sloss avenue, both drivera of jitneys, collided at Twentieth street and Avenue H, south. laet night at 6:2o o'clock. In the smasb-sb Mrs. Josephine Fortner, 1913 South Twentieth street. and Mrs. G. M. Clarke, 1911 Avenue l, were injured about the head and body. They were rushed to the Hillman hospital im- mediately after the accident, where 1t is reported that they are doing nicely and will recover ?
 Statements of eyewitnesses in regard to how the accident occurred are conflicting. One report had 1t that the machine of Huse stalled as he attempted to climb the hill. Gilmore was directly behind Huse and as the machine driven by Huse com menced to roll down the hill backward 1t was said the driver lost his head and re- leased his brakes. This caused the car to bump violently into the machine driven by Gilmore. The two passengers in the rear machine were thrown out and badly in jured.
 chine had stalled on Twentieth street hill and that he backed into Avenue H in or der to get start up the incline When he dashed out of Avenue H in order ito climb the hill he is said to have collided with the other machine. Both cars were badly damaged. Officer Patton placed both drivers under arrest.
 The accident caused considerable excite ment and traffic was blocked for somes time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
RECESS COMMITTEE FINISHES WORK IN
 JEFFERSON COUNTY
Sheriff BatsOn Given Brief Hearing and Then Has Private Audience With
 Committeeman

The labors of the legislative committee
 on Judicial reform were brought to a close
 so far as Its investigations in this county
 are concerned at the sessions held yes terday morning at the Motion hotel
 Sheriff Batson was one of the few who 1 appeared before the committee but noth-
 meeting. It is understood that the sheriff
 had a private audience with one or more
 members of the committee after adjourn
 ment but the nature of the interview was
 not made public.
 At the invitation of the Real Estate
 Exchange the committee visited in a body the exhibit of the Master Plumbers' as- sociation In the building of the Blrmins- ham Railway, Light and Power company l It wns shown the difference between the | fittings required by the new plumbing
 ordinance and the fittings formerly used
 and attention was particularly called to | the difference in cost of same.
 l Col Sam Will John showed q remark
 able technical knowledge of the installa- I ton of plumbing and asked many ques- 1 tions relative to the requirements of the new ordinance. Colonel John was par l ticularly inqulstive about the trap re-
 quired by the new ordinance and whie 1 he refrained from making any comment
 at this time indicated that he would make 1 farther inquiries to why the said trap l was required by the city ordinance. The committee has held sessions in Bir-
 minghan on two occasions and every cit- 1 izen who desired to present n grievance
 or to make Il suggestion was given a pa
 tient hearing. The committee expressed regrets that more laymen did not appear before them in the matter of making sug
 gestons for judicial reform for the reason
 as Chairman Davis expressed 1t "that there was business side to tile matter
 as well as a legal one.
 The committee will meet in Montgomery
 and begin a, review of the Testimony and written statements submitted to it., That l 1t is stupendous task can be inferred from the fact that the committee has vs ited every section of the state and has heard the testimony of many hundreds
 of witnesses. The most lengthy hearings have been held in Birmingham and while
 the committee Is planning judicial reform that will cover the entire state, many re- forms peculiar to Jefferson county were presented to them for considerations A
 consolidated court bill and worltmans compensation act were the paramount features of their investigations in Bir- mingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
WANT LINK IN
 DIXIE HIGHWAY

determined efforts to secure a link of the great Dixie highway A large force of hands are now at work on the Rome road between Summerville and Taylors ridge. and since this Is expected to be a part of Chattooga's link in the highway it will be made first class road in every particular r. with ideas greatly differing from each other The expression of these ideas to be followed by the introduction of count less resolutions of more or less war like tenor would tend to inflame the pub lie breast and precipitate a situation grave and acute. If. however, President Wilson determines to settle the matter by him self, there will be no war and no less of national honor and dignity. There can be no question. I hold. but that an extra ordinary session of Congress would result in perilous developments''
 Expects No Extra Session
 MT. Underwood does not anticipate an extraordinary session of Congress unless diplomatic correspondence should reveal the Germans in an openly defiant atti- tude.
 
 situation is not one involving to any great extent international complications.
 The Lusitania. 1t must be remembered. was an English vessel. subsidiary cruiser, as matter of fact which not only flew the British flag, but carried aboard munitions Of war.
 America, in truth would not in the slightest be involved. but for the fact that Americans in the catastrophe suffered death.
 These Americans had been warned however by the German government. and 1t is a matter of record that immediately prior to the sailing of the Lusitania the German embassy, in every New York newspaper, published advertisements ex- pressing the danger surrounaing Ameri- cans who might sail in the English ship and urging prospective passengers to can eel reservations.
 "The sinking of the Gulflght from the standpoint of an international complca- ton is decidedly more serious than the sinking of the Lustania.
 For the Lustania was British snip flying the British flag while the GulfIight was an American vessel flying the Amer- can flag"
 While the above are the views of Ala hama senators on the possibility of Amer lea joining the triple entente in its horri- ble war against Germany there is nothing to indicate the spirit of revulsion w.t.i which the disa ster filled them or their, criticism of Germany for firing without warning into a vessel known in advance to have been the temporary nome of many women and children and innocent though daring male noncombatants. That the act Of Germany was cruel and instinctive of the primordial rather than another proof that "war is hell'' was the expressed opinion of both.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
THIRTEEN YEARS {
 FOR STEALING 4 cow
This Is Aggregate Sentence Imposed on Henry Bu-
 ford and Son

Following sentence of 10 years in the penitentiary for stealing a COW, Henry Bufford, white, made an address to the court in the first division Of the criminal court yesterday in which he protested his innocence and inci- dentally forgave his alleged persecu- tors and expressed the hope that some cay he would meet them at the Judg- Inent bag when all the facts in cou- nection with the case would be shown.
 Buffcrd gained notoriety in the fa- mous or, rather infamous LewisburS cases which resulted in the hanging of three white men charged with va rious murders He has been arrested on several occasions since that time, principally. however, for minor of lenses. Al the trial in which he was convicted letter purported to have been written by Bufford was intro duced in which threats of death were made to witnesses who had been sum- moned by the state to testify against Finn. Bufford denied the authorship of the letters.
 pathetic feature of the trial vas the fact that Bufford's 15-year-old sar Willis was indicted on the same charge End with fine filial affection confessed to stealing the COW and attempted to exonerate his father from all partici- patton in the crime. The son was also convicted and on yesterday was given sentence of three years in the peni- tertiary.
 s.fhe cases were tried before Judge W, B. Fort. who expressed reglet in Eeptencing the younger prisoner. that he had no other alternative but the i'm rose a penitentiary sentence. as the state made no provision for the deten- ton of convicted felons other than tc sentence them to the walls An appeal was taken to the supreme court in each case and the sentences were sus- pended.
 Other prisoners convicted during the week were sentenced by Judges Fort, Heflin and Miller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
Point Out That Americans Were on Ship at Their
 Own Risk
REFUSED TO HEED
 EXPLICIT WARNING
Frank Fowlkes, M. V. Joseph, Dr.. Earle Drennen, E. G. Chandler, Richard Wilkes and Others
 Express Similar Opinions

Although Birmingham was all excite
 Lusitania and it's people were horror stricken, there was no disposition on the part of citizens to be swept off their feet. There was unanimous opinion in Bir- mingham yesterday that the sinking of the giant liner was not sufficient provoca- ton for the assumption of a bellicose at- titude on the part of the American gov 1.-the American citizens who unfortunately have perished on board the liner were there at risk to which they closed their eyes in the face of explicit warning and on that account if no other the American government has no reason to act hastily.
 Once Flew Stars and Stripes
 The liner slipped into Liverpool one time under the Stars and Stripes, which came dangerously near exciting keen resent ment on the part of the American people. Her captain was warned before leaving New York that his ship would be torpe- doed by German submarines if she neared the Irish coast, zone declared vulnera- ble to attacks from German agencies. The German embassy at Washington printed in many newspapers warnings that the Lusitania would be sunk if the trip was made. The ads were paid for by the Ger man embassy. Subsequently Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt, Ebert Hubbard and others were urged by telegyams and per Tsonally not to insist upon tue trip. They were quoted following the Railing of the LusItania as saying that tAey were un- afraid and ridiculed the idek of the ship being torpedoed. Despite al( of the care taken with characteristic Tettonic atten- tion to detail to dissuade the3l, the Amer jeans shipped with the ill-fatfd liner.
 As a rule the ships followla very well denned track across the Atlantic. This was known to the Germans The sub marine lay in the wake Of tha vessel. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
Agricultural School
 Officers Are Named

Montgomery, May 7.-tSpecial .)-Boards of trustees of the nine district agricul- tural schools met in the office of Gov ernor Henderson this afternoon and elected presidents of their institutions for next session. The presidents of the First. Second. Sixth. Seventh, Eighth and Ninth were reelected and new men were se- lected for the Third and Fourth district schools The president of the Fifth dis trlct school at Wetumpka will be elected al a later meeting.
 Those who succeed themselves are ]. J. Moore of Jackson, First; w. C. Blasn- game of Evergreen. Second H. Q. Sar- gent of Hamilton, sixth; S. L.. Gibson of Albertvile Seventh; J. NJ. Atkinson of Athens, Eighth and W. B. Farrar of Blountsville. Ninth.
 The new presidents are B. H. Boyd. who succeeds J. K. Mclean of the Third dis trict, at Abbeville. and G. H. Thspen. who succeeds J R. Cheatham at Sylacau- ga, Fourth district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
NO CHANGE IN PLANS FOR EXCURSIONT
 LOCK ON ACCOUNT OF GARRISONS ABSENCE

pletion of the longest canalized river in the world. will be carried out as origi- nally planned.
 The Birmingham excursion will leave the Terminal station on a special train at s o'clock Thursday morning and go to Salters Bluff. on the banks of the War r.or river where the transfer to the boat will be made. The steamboat Martha Hennon and the excursion barge "Bir- mingham," which will convey the excur- sion over the 60 miles of river trip. has left Mobile coming up the river and will be at Salter's Bluff Wednesday night and by the time the crowd arrives next morn- ing will be ready for tie trip.
 Word has been received from Tusca- loosa that the Commercial club of that city intends to have an extra boat at the locks for the use of any of the Bir- mingham people who wish to go on to Tuscaloosa after the ceremonies at the lock is over. The regular Birmingham excursion. however. will return by the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Not only people from all parts of Great CT Birmingham but from Jefferson and adjoining counties are engaging passage on the special train and river boat which will conduct the Birmingham excursion to Lock F on the Warrior river next Thursday.
 Secretary Radcliffe received word from the Southern Railway company yester- day that they would be unable to handle more than 500 people and that after that number of tickets had been sold the lists should be closed. Secretary Radcliffe therefore urges all people who want to go to make reservations for their tickets at once or as soon as possible.
 The plans for the excursion will not be changed in any way on account of the forced absence of Secretary of War Gar rison who had intended to be here. The remainder of the programme for the for maj opening of Lock r, marking the com