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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
HUBBARD WILL is FILED
Late Sage Cuts Off Children b,
First Wife.

Buffalo, June 1.-THE wills of Ell
bert Hubbard and his wife. who lost
their lives in the Lusitania disaster,
were filed for probate III surrogate's
court here today
The documents were drawn by Mr..
Hubbard and We're almost Identical.
They provide the estate shall be di-
vided equally between Ebert Hubbard
II, son, and Miriam, daughter.
Several other children by Hubbard
first marriage are not mentioned in
the will
The value of the estate is profile
NAUTICAL, although it is known that
Mr.. Hubbard carried insurance poll
cics amounting to more than 100000.
He owned considerable real estate at
East Aurora
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAWS

With South Carolina and Texas en-
rolled on the list of states that have
compulsory school attendance laws as
q result of 1915 legislation, the states
without compulsory laws are now re-
duced to four-Alabama, Florida,
Georgia and Mississippi. While the
South Carolina and Texas laws are not
as comprehensive and strict as those
of some of the other states that have
had compulsory laws for many years,
they are a distinct recognition of the
compulsory principles and represent a
big step forward in the two states.
Officers of the United States bureau
of education believe that the action
of Texas anu South Carolina in enact
ing compulsory school attendance
laws will have an effect not only on
the four states still without such laws,
but also on states where the school
attendance laws operate only in part.
Vigorous campaigns are under way in
several states to make compulsory ed
ucation effective throughout all the
territory of the states and for longer
periods of attendance. In Alabama,
where school problems are receiving
special attention this year, the need
for a compulsory attendance law as
one OF the IlOSl lIIlpOItA SecPS III
progress is keenly recognized. Pres
ent and former state superintendent
of education have urged the enactment
of a suitable law. state Superintend-
ent w F. Feagin declared in his an
nual report: mo one would question
for a moment that the state has the
right to compel the parent to feed
and clothe his child, and to carry the
law-breaking child to the reformatory
or the Jail to protect society. Has
not the state an equal right to require
the parent to send his child to school
in order to save him from that reform
atory or that Jail and to make him
producer rather than mere consum-
er of the wealth of the state? Ala
bama needs a form of compulsory ed
ucation which should be as rigid and
as progressive as our ability to cope
with the situation will make possible"
And SO does every other state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
SMILE. PLEASE.

r No doubt now about the pursuit
of Governor Whitman of New York
for place of prominence in the lime
light through the medium of free adj
vertising. The latest stunt staged by
the New York executive. whose presi-
dental predictions are well known,
was to hear his infants son cry over
the two thousand miles of telephone
wire between Albany and San Fran
cisco. The chronicle of this unique
achievement and exhibition states that
it required several minutes to induce
the baby to utter a cry. This sug
gests that maybe the baby boys nurse
finally had to pinch it q little bit to
obtain the desired results. and thus
create an incident about Governor
Whitman and his family that most of
the newspapers of the country would
be willing to print without charge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
STARVING MEXICO
Ninety Americans Among Other Re
fugees ON Special Train.

Washington, June Ninety Amer
leans, forty-four Englishmen, 127
Spaniards and fifty-seven others Of
various nationalities will comprise the
first refugee party leaving Mexico
City today on the special train which
the Brazilian minister has obtained.
acting for the American government.
Other refugees from the famine
stricken capital, who will leave later
to join the party at Vera Cruz, Will
bring the number to moro than 500.
The British consul has advised
American Consul Silliman that many
women and children are among the
number. The Villa-Zapata authori-
ties in Mexico City will send train
to TiZayuca, where it will be met by
a train from Vera Cruz, IN charge of
Consul Shanlllin.
An emergency supply of American
food has been ordered to Vera Cruz
for the refugees. The Red Cross to-
day telegraphe Galveston officials to
ship $4,000 pounds of corn and 10000
pounds of beans or an army trans
port which goes for refugees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

must be restored. Business must be
bailed out from the prisoners dock in
the demagogue's assizes. Reconstruc-
ton there must be; then rehabilita-
ton. Half the world cannot be shot
to pieces, and the other half not feel
il. These are the times, these the
tasks. for the optimist. Not the
Aiicawber kind, idly waiting for some
thing to turn up; but the Paul Jones
kind, which strikes no colors, sur
renders no ships-''I have not yet be-
gun to fight"
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pied in the center and dropped toward
the earth.
Biplane in Somersault.
The force of the explosion caused
the British biplane to turn completely
over. For nearly a minute the avia-
tor fought desperately while his ma
chine slid rapidly toward the earth.
BY an almost superhuman effort he
regained control of his levers and
righted the biplane when less than 200
feet from the ground.
The rapidity of his descent, however,
carried The biplane to earth with a
rough jar. The landing place was be-
hind the German line. The mechani-
clan sprang out, "cranked'' the propell-
er and the biplane was off before the
astonished Germans in a neighboring
field could get the range with their
guns.
The aviator who bombarded the
Zeppelin shed north of Brussels re-
turned safely, the admiralty an
nounced.
Zeppelin ON Orphanage.
London, June THE correspond
ent of the Exchange Telegraph at
Amsterdam supplies some details of
the destruction of a Zeppelin air ship
between Client and Brussel, by British
aviators. He declares the TELEGRAPH
has received q dispatch from Client
saying that when the Zeppelin came
down it landed on an orphanage. Two
nuns and two orphans were killed,
while many others in the establish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
Jayh awker lots

Why is a tumble bug anyway? asks
the Sabetha Herald. What does he
do it for?
Trouble seems, to the Toronto Re
publican, to be the only thing some
well-to-do men borrow.
At least thinks the Wilson County
Citizen, one should love his enemies
enough to give them credit for not
dropping in to bore him when he's
busy. -
Next to keeping the slop bucket
empty, says the Madison News, a
woman has the hardest time getting
her, husband to take a bath regn-
larly. ..s..-<f sssYs
Related by the Sabetha Herald: A
bald headed man climbed into the
BARRIERS chair. How do you want it
combed?'' inquired the barber. Dull
finish" replied the man.
Disheartening news for the people
in and about Mayetta, from the May
eta Herald: Most caves and cellars
case of cyclones. They are mostly
all filled with water
Told by the Phillips County Post:
When Ike came home one evening
Rachel, his wife, with the baby in her
arms si-ging: "By-low, baby, by-low,
baby That's right, Rachel, he
said. 'teach Linn to buy low. He'll
know e1AUuSn sell nlSn
Observations by Bonnie Franklin,
jr., in the Erie Record: 1t used to be
that the girl who painted and pow
dered was talked about; now it's the
one who doesn't. =. One thing q
man never has to be taught, and that
is to loaf on his job. Incuba-
tors and kulture klubs are in the
same class. One matches chickens, the
other gossip. Romance is eX-
pressed by any sweet young thing who
decides to become a nurse. The
chief objection to a piano duet or trio
is that they sound too much like the
electric piano at a picture show.
Observations by Obey w. Weaver, in
his Sedgwick photographic: A boast
er is next door neighbor to q liar. :.
When love sleeps, envy is on the
watch. The thinner the CONVERSE
ton. the faster it runs out. :. Poverty
by hard labor for life. :. Never men
ton your own faults; others will at
tend to that for you A man can
sometimes correct a bad impression
simply by paying his debts. ;. The
Hessian fly is striving for the distinc-
ton of taking the "eat'' out of wheat
The average man isn't willing to
too much. If you have kept Sc
cret, the time always comes when you
will feel proud of yourself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

ing with an utter disregard for the
sensibilitfes of the bundIe-binders, you
may conclude that he is affected by
the most mysterious influence, or
power. or malady-whatever you care
to call it-with which we small hui
man beings have to grapple. I mean
that he is growing. When you come
to think of it. the most incalculable
power in the life of men is the power
of growth. If you could tell when any
given human being was through
growing, you could tell what to do
with him; but you never can. Some
men are ripe at twenty-five and some
are still adding power and knowledge
at eighty. 1t is not inheritance, nor
environment, nor wealth, nor position,
that measures the difference between
human beings, but rather the mys-
FERROUS faculty of continual growth
which resides within them. 1t Is
growth that causes the tragedies OF
this world-and the comedics-and
the sheer beauty of life. Here are a
husband and wife bound together in
the commonest of bundles: one stops
growing, the other keeps on growing;
consult almost any play, novel, poem.
newspaper, or scandalous gossip, for
the results Consider the restless
bundle of nations called Europe, one
of which recently began to grow
began to squ1rm ABOUT
in the bundle, began to demand room
and air. What an almighty pother
this has caused! What an altogether
serious business for the bundle-bind-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
SPRING.

When sleighing time is ended
And winter school is out
When thawing caves are dripping
From many a leaky spout;
When ground hog day is over
And men in sober sense
Forsake the chimney corner
To mend the orchard fence;
When buds, on elm and alder
Come uptoe through the rain
And ask the frost's permission
To shiver and remain:
When freshet swollen rivers
Are playing youthful pranks
Among the wooden bridges
And hen coops on their banks:
When women crowd the hastings
And barter votes like men
And hens, like legislators
Ask leave to sit again;
When cowslip-cumbered meadows
Fling. back their golden sheen
Where in Il night some wizard
Has changed their brown to green !;
When starving kline are shedding
Their shaggy winter coats
And Dobbin gnaws his manger
And dreams of corn and oats:
When eanling lambs are bleating
And thrifty shepherds reap
The white and fruitful harvest
From. flocks of timid sheep:
When bullfrogs in the marshes
Lift up their trembling notes
While Group and influenza
Are camping in their threats;
When tulips and narcissus
FOrsake their wintry beds
And Irvine their rainbow banners
About their shivering heads:
When all the birds of summer
Insist on coming back
And in the ponds and marshes
1 hear the ducklings quack:
And when the migrant wild goose
Goes honking through the night
And like flight of arrows
l see its nOrthward flight;
When flaming Easter bonnets
Are blooming in the street
And russell shoes are hiding
The dudlings frosted feet;
L know full well the meaning
OF each new fact and thing.
They all stand forth the herald
And harbinger of Spring.
nj W ROBY NJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

Zeppelin's men lost their lives.
Berlin Reports Effective Raids.
Berlin, June 7-(By Wireless to
Sayville)-An official statement to-
day says:
ION the night of June As German
naval dirigibles attacked the fortified
mouth of the Humber Con the east
coast of England), the naval port of
Harwich Gin Essex, England. and the
harbor establishment at Harwich.
They were cOnspicuously successful.
Many bombs were dropped and there
was large number of explosions
One particularly violent explosion was
that of a gas tank or oil tank which
was hit. Bombs were dropped on the
railroad depot.
German airships We're shot at Wig
orously by guns on land and on ships.
They were not hit, and returned safe
"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
G. 0. TEAM A winner.
Santa Fee Nine Defeated Carbondale
is to 1 Sunday Afternoon.

The Santa Fe general office base
ball team defeated the Carbonate,
Kan, team Sunday by the score of 5
to 1.
Neville, for the G.. o. club, pitched
a steady game throughout, while
Findlay and Harrison, pitchers for
Carbondale, We're batted hard. RUDE
Marshall, third baseman for the Of
fices was hit on the arm by pitched
ball and forced to retire.
The score: r. H. E.
Topeka ..15 21 2
Carbonate . 1 Z
Batteries: Topeka-Neville, Wright
and KiStner; Carpondale-Findlay
Harrison and Jones'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
Journal Entries

There can be no doubt about II.
The real bone of all contention IS the
jawbOne.
= r
Some keen children are like razors
in more ways than one They need
strapping frequently.
r
A treatise on the care of the scalp
is nroperly classified among the hair
raising books.
Some folk must get SO much pleas
ure contemplating trips that they de-
eide to stay at home and save the
money.
+ + =
Generally, the next door neighbors
are the ones who insist that singers
have so much talent they should go
abroad to study
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
7. R. IN THE SOUTH.
Colonel Is Visiting Big Game Preserves
in louisiana

Pass Christian, Miss, June Col.
Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose-
welt arriv, d here today for a brief visit
to John NJ. Parker. Tomorrow the
colonel and a party of men will board
the Louisiana Conservation commits
sions yacht Daisy, for a trip among
the federal and state game preserves
on the lower coast, which comprise
about 10000 acres.
1t is said that it was at Colonel
Roosevelt's suggestion that the first
federal preserve was established in
Louisiana, but he never has seen it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

Come here Tommy Sparrow
screamed Billy Robin, help me warn
the redbird. the cat is making for the
tree! Tommy came and he and
Bhiy screamed their hardest, but the
fighters heard not sound of their
warning.
Closer and closer crept the Gait
was at the base of the tree-haIf wa y
up the nk-closer-closer. Then
suddenly the redbird scented danger
over his head he peeped. There. right
behind him was the cat! He forgot
the fight, he forgot the berries ana
New for his life-JUST in time; Rluev
bIacKplrd who ives on the next
Dranch saw him go. Then he. too
spied the cat and flew away.
Better than they deserve," crosked
the garden toad who had seen ~,
Wnoie performance And the Other
berries = CCopyright-Clara Inorsa,
Judson.) siam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

OF Kansas, it is, indeed true to say
that it never rains but it pours. Meth
er does it ever warm up but it melts.
And when it gets cold it also attains
the extreme in that particular Also,
when the weather is delightful in
Kansas. which it often is, there could
be no brand more so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

incidentally, the decision of the
United States district court for New
Jersey that the United States Steel
corporation is not a trust in violation
of the Sherman law, also seems to be
a vindication for the judgment of Col
onel Roosevelt. who always seemed to
go on the theory that this steel COM
pany was one OF the big businesses of
the g cod and rot the bad variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

Count. Won Bernstorff's sending of a
special envoy to the German court to
lay before it some first hand Informal
ton relative to the temper of the
American people over the Lusitania af-
fair. is encouraging. The German
ambassador has evidently sensed the
important fact that the whole people
OF the country are behind President
Wilson in the stand he has taken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
HARVEST HANDSTO ENID
Five Hundred Men to Go from Kansas
City Tonight.

Kansas City. June Five hundred
harvest hands will sbe sent to Enid,
Okla, tonight with registration cards
from the office of c. L. Green, federal
superintendent of labor here.
Sending the men has been delayed
by the heavy rains, but it appears now
that harvesting will go on in the Okla
home fields without delay.
More than two hundred men were
registered in the federal building to-
day in addition to those previously
registered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
SDed41|'inle !a!eat
- )%eam lnsraualdascn, - 2sE

Billy Robin. who happened to be
watching the fight from that very tree
saw her and screamed a warning at
the fighters. But do you suppose they
heard him? Not bit of it. They
were so busy saying unkind things to
each other and pecking and scratch
ing each other that they wouldn't have
heard him If he had been in the null
berry tree itself-to say nothing OF be-
ing as far away as the tree next
door,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

What careful and conservative in
sutution the weather bureau is becom-
ing. Among its recent forecasts is one
to the effect that something like the
delightful summer weather that Kan
sas usually experiences in June is on
its way; time of arrival, not specified
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
DRYF|CHTIN MINNESOTA
Both Sides Claim Victories in Twelve
Counties Voting.

st. Paul, Mimi, June Tn twelve
counties of Minnesota, elections will
be held today on the wet and dry
issue, as provided by the county option
law enacted by the last legislature.
Both the saloon and anti-liquor forces
arc claiming victory by narrow mar
gins.
The counties voting are:
Olmstead, Blue Earth, Traverse,
Todd, Pipestone, Renville, Dodge,
KandiyOhi, Murray, OttertaiI, Red
wood, and WatonWan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

Certainly no effort is being spared
by the state authorities to unearth
political corruption at Kansas City,
Kan, that will make the Terre Haute
scandal look like thirty cents. And it
also appears that they have an I'M
commonly difficult job on their hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

Will somebody please take the
trouble to make the record straight?
There seems to be a difference of
opinion as to whether or not the army
OF the republic of San Marine, the
latest entrant into the Great War, is
equipped with one or two cannon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

President Wilson's second note to
Germany about the sinking of the
Lusitania, or more properly speaking,
the murder of the American citizens
aboard her, is short, but it probably
won't strike Germany as being sweet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
STARS TO QUIT STAGE
SOthern and MarlOwe Will Give Only
One More Performance

Washington, June Tt has been
announced here that Julia Mar1owe
and f. H. Sothern will bid farewell to
the stage when they appear in the
Lusitania benefit next Friday. They
have been residing quietly in George
town, D. c., for some time.
Mr. Sothern will read a remarkable
letter from Charles Frohman which
reached him few days after Mr..
FrOhman persisted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

With that rare modesty for which
they are famous, each of the Mexican
leaders is likely to be certain that
he's the man whom President Wilson
should recognize as the head of the
government and to set it in order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
AmaIgamated Dissolves.

New oYrk, June by more than
two-thirds vote stockholders of the
Amalgamated Copper company today
ratified the plan of the directors to
dissolve. Amalgamated ceased some
time ago to be more than a holding
company, having turned its active op-
erations over to the Anaconda Copper
Mining company, which it controls
through stock ownership
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

Another noticeable feature of the
war news of late is that the news
about defeats and retreats, which are
admitted by the losing side, does not
contain the announcements that they
We're engineered for strategic pur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
Texas Rains DemoraIize Traffic.

Wichita Falls, Tex, June Com
tinuous rains for nearly a week
throughout this section has democrat
lied railway traffic until today. Wich-
ita Falls is cut off from railway COM
munication.t Hail and high winds ac-
companied the rains. Damage from
wind unsupported from the oil fields
at Efectra, Burkburmet and PetroIia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
DIR. jess Burgess Thomas Dead.

New York, June THE Rev. DR..
Jess Burgess Thomas, theologian and
author, pastor-emeritus of the Bap-
fist Temple of Brooklyn, is dead at his
home in Brooklyn. He was nearly
83 years old DR.. Thomas, son of a
justice of the Illinois supreme court,
was born in Edwardsville, Ill. His
widow and four children survive him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

In couple of weeks the longest
days of the year will be here, and the
time will then come to think about
doing your Christmas shopping early.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
Mikado Approves Treaties.

Toxic, June THE emperor and
privy council gave approval today to
the new treaties with China negotiated
as a result of the concessions made
by China in accepting Japan's ulti-
matum. The treaties will be ratified
tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

Kansas may be in line to have the
best system of dirt roads in the Unit
ed States, but dirt roads are far from
being good roads when Indictment
weather prevails.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

Every little inkling of evidence that
leaks out, observes the Milwaukee
Sentinel, may prove valuable to the
government in the threatened prose-
cution of the alleged fountain pen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

There is just one rose on the Next
can bush of thorns. Anarchy has been
gwen a very thorough try-out there
during the past two years and the
proof of it's deficiencies is conclusive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Kansas is getting into the regular
old soak class, rainily, not liquorally
speaking, of course.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07

AS the Chicago Herald suggests:
Arbitration first" is another way of
writing the familiar phrase, safety
first
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
THE WEATHER RECORD.

Following are observations of the United
Slater weather bureau for the twenty four
hours ending at O'Clock this morning:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-07
AERIAL BATTLES.

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