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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-12
Jayh ker Jots

call is sent out by the Wichita
Beacon for some Burbank TO invent
self-pulling dandelion.
AS the Mcpherson Republican sug-
eests: Until you are out of a job,
steady work may seem something like
a calamity.
extent, declares the Cedarvale County
Liner: they are always wanting some
one to sign their note.
A preacher may get us to heaven II
we give him time, points out the Uni
versity Daily Kansan, but it takes the
doctor to make a quick job OF It,
The popular cry is economy, says
the Holton Signal, but when the aver
age man gets a chance to slip his
hand into the public till, he tries to
get both fists full.
While spading in our garden one
evening last week. writes Obey Weaver
in his Sedgwick Paragraph, we veri-
fed the statement that the fishwOrms,
as we'll as the days, were getting
longer.
George Vandewater of Winfield
thinks he has found a relic of the
Civil war. While saving a two by six
pine board the other morning, he
found imbedded in it, a copper jack
eted bullet. The lumber came from
the south.
Mrs. Homer Hoch of the Marion
Record has discovered that the unsal-
aried calling which seems most salts
factory to those who follow it, is the
mother business. Office hours, "a
hours per day, seven days in the week.
Unlimited service a speciality.
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GET OUT YOUR HAMMERS.

Now is the accepted time for the
merry villagers, those of exuberant
and irrepressible tendencies, to get out
their hammers, see that their heads
are securely fastened on the handles,
and begin to knock. Don't give the
new municipal administration, or the
new parts of it, anything like an OPP
portunity to get into their STRIDE.
Whack them right and left at once
and with all possible vigor. Pay par
ticular attention to the new chief of
police. The official title of the job
ought properly to be town goat.
Nothing that any chief of police does
or fails to do will please everybody.
So the opportunities to land with
sledge on the Uranium of the new one
will probably be many before he gets
his star pinned on his breast and his
gun oiled. If they shouldn't happen
to show Immediately, imagine them
and act accordingly. Expect the new
chief to revolutionize such untoWard
conditions as may exist in town over
night. Some of these conditions have
maintained for years, it is true; some
times worse than they are now, occa-
sionally better But forget that.
Don't give it any consideration at all.
If TOpeka'S rather 1nSlSnlIlcdHt uiuoA
world isn't washed as white as snow
in a day or two, blame it on the new
chief and hit him few belts in the
Stats or any other vulnerable spot.
Instead of a word or two of encour-
agement and a disposition to lend a
little hand of help, make your criti-
cism as pungent and vitriolic as possi-
BILE. Remember that when you knock,
the world knocks with you. If you
are inclined to be reasonable you
stand alone. But there is also much
to the theory that every knock is
boost. So go to it. Make the anvil
ring, and the louder the better.
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AS THE WAR PROGRESSES.

Current news dispatches from Eu
rope indicate that the Allies have
begun their advance in the western
arena of war that they promised
would be coincident with the arrival
of spring. But what will come of it p?
There will be a tremendous amount
of terrible fighting, no doubt, with
enormous losses in killed, wounded
and captured on both sides. The
French, the English and the Belgians
may be able to force the Germans out
of much of the territory in northern
France and Belgium that they have
occupied since almost the beginning
of the struggle; maybe all of it. But
should the Germans be driven back to
their own territory, it would be well
within the truth to say that the con-
quest of the Germans had just begun,
so strong are the defenses on the bor-
ders of the Fatherland and so tena-
ciously would they be defended. The
same seems to be practically true of
any considerable progress by the Rus
slams in the eastern war arena into
German territory. The Russians ap-
pear to be making their way with
well-night irresistible rush through the
Carpathians, and seem destined to
overwhelm Hungary. 1t isn't reason
able to suppose that Germany would
send aid to the Austrians to the ex-
tent of so Gripping her forces in
either East Prussia or France and Bel
GUM to make the invasion of her
territory anything like easy for any of
her enemies. Austria Hungary may
be so whipped by Russia, or in pros
pect of such a severe drubbing, that
she may sue for a separate peace. But
the price of such a peace would be
enormous. The Turks are also likely
to be disposed of by the Allies before
long. And crushing defeats of her
allies might induce Germany to see
the futility of her fighting to the
death, and to sue for peace, no matter
how long she might be able to defend
herself. At any rate. it doesn't appear
probable that the war will be brought
to an end in the near future by any
even major successes that the Allies
may stage in the western war arena in
their spring and summer campaign.
The forces engaged on both sides are
so large and the scenes of action, the
battle lines, are so extensive that the
ending of the war through a military
thing that is likely to happen.
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NO LIVING DEATH.
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the court, the officials stated that
Mullins had repeatedly boosted that
he would never go to prison regard
less of the courts On other occa-
sions he had stated that several of his
brothers had "died with their boots
on and that he proposed to do the
| same thing. Another time he had said.
so it was urged, that several of the
people who testified against him
would precede him to the grave
These facts were laid before the
court. Mullins action in visiting the
home of a man who had testified
against him and later taking his own
life, indicated to the minds of persons
familiar with the case that he pro-
posed to carry out his threats.
According to arguments before the
supreme court, Mullins shadowed'
the Wabaunsee county attorney when
he went to Louisiana in search of tes-
timony in the King murder case.
When the prosecutor left the little
town, Mullins boarded the train and
paid cash fares from one station to
another for distance of more than
100 miles. A peace officer, however,
was constantly watching Mullins and
no effort was made to injure the
prosecutor.
Rather than serve a life term in the
state penitentiary on a charge OF
hiring a man to kill Anthony King,
Walter C. Mullins of Junction City
committed suicide within a few hours
court affirming the verdict of the Wa
baunsee county court. An order for
Mullins's prompt commitment to the
penitentiary was issued Saturday af-
ternoon, but the Junction City man re-
fused to permit officers to enter his
home. Late that night the man killed
himself.
Mullins was tried and convicted on
a charge of melting the murder of
Anthony King. an Alta Vista restau-
rant keeper. Paul Roberts, convicted
of the actual murder, died in his cell
in the Wabaunsee county Jail while
awaiting the verdict. The jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty. but the
jailer found the prisoner dead. He
was a dope fiend.
AS a result of evidence produced at
the trial of the case, Mullins was ar
rested on q charge of melting the MUIR
der. He was convicted and appealed.
The supreme court affirmed the de-
cision of the trial court. When Off
GERS went to Mullins's home, he drove
them away at the point of a revolver.
Later the convicted man went to his
lawyers office, made his will and
walked into the country. While Off
GERS were preparing for a raid on the
Mullins home, telephone message
stated that Mullins had been found
dead near Fort Riley with two bullet
holes in his head.
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LONG PRISON TERMS.
Terre Haute Election Law Violators
Are Sentenced.

Indianapolis, April 12.-Mayor Don
M. Roberts, one of the % men con-
victed for conspiracy to de1rauQ the
government in the election IN Ierre
Haute on November 3, 1914, was SEN
fenced by Judge Anderson today to six
years in Leavenworth prison and to
pay fine of $4,000. In all, ZIG men.
SO of whom pleaded guilty, were to be
sentenced.
Eli 1T. Redman, elected Judge of the
circuit court of Vigo county, and
Sheriff Dennis Shea were sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary and fined
$1,000 each.
Harry S. Montgomery, president of
the board of public works; Thomas c.
Smith, city judge; George Ehrenhardt,
and Edward r. Driscoll, secretary of
the Vigo county Democratic central
committee, were sentenced to three
years each in the penitentiary and
fined $500.
Lewis Nunley, assistant city engi-
neer; Elmer E. Talbot, former city
controller; Hilton Redman, son of Eli
H. Redman; John e. Green, proprietor
of secondhand store, and William $.
Crockett, employed at the city ceme-
terry, were sentenced to two years in
prison and fined 500 each.
Maurice Walsh, county sealer of
weights and measures and treasurer
of the campaign fund; John M. Mas
Selink, city inspector of weights and
measures and a member of the 1911
Indiana legislature; Charles Hough-
ton, assistant custodian of the city
hall; Joseph OMara, street commits
sioner; Alexander Aczel, inspector of
street paving; Arthur ellis, Progress
sive clerk of the election board; JOS
eph Strauss, liquor salesman, and
George Severn, gambler, were SEN
fenced to one year and a day in the
penitentiary and fined 500.
Chief of Police Holler, who pleaded
guilty, was given a year and a day
sentence and fined 81.
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CRIMINAL LAW REFORM.

The student and advocate of the
New Penology, writes Hon. Edward
J. McDermott in the April Case and
Comment. while condemning the bar
baritiess of olden times and the undue
seventies of even the present day,
must nevertheless be temperate in
pressing reforms, thinking not only of
the criminal and his family. hut re-
Numbering also the innocent victims
of crime and the humble taxpayer
who is too often forgotten, but whose
back must bear most of the burdens
of extravaganza and waste in all the
departments of our government. The
Greeks and Romans did not use i'm
prisonment as punishment. Their
usual penalties were fines. Danish
ment, and death In that time BAN
ishment was terrible. Decius Silanus
wanted Catiline's fellow conspirators
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QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.l
Every man should try to make
something of himself, even if it is only
a fool.
In the theatrical armament it is
better to be a fixed star than a sky
rocket.
It's all right to be satisfied to take
things rs they come, provided you
don't expect much.
The devil is not as black as he is
painted, nor are some widows as black
as their weeds.
The man who minds his own BUSH
ness isn't so apt to have other people
doing it for him.
The fellow who takes too many
cocktails to sharpen his appetite must
be looking for a skate sharpener
Hoax-'1 used to play the races
JoaX-"Did you ever go broke % Hoax
NO, but I've come home that way
Do some people a good turn and
you can keep it up indefinitely on the
principle that one good turn deserves
another.
Blobbs-'.You can't buy champagne
on beer income" Slobbs-'No, not
unless You happen to be the proprietor
of brewery
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form with more or less regular devo-
ton. Even SO the knowledge left her
unmOved. Before she had begun her
| wonderful work with Rylance she
would have lost a good nights sleep
over Woodman.
The co-authors had decided to
startle the city all at once with their
stories which were to come out soon
after the production of a play they
had created. They realized that the
advertisement provided by a success
full play would make stories doub1y
valuable to editors.
The play had quite exhausted the
energy of both Paula and RyIance.
The drama was tragic, humorous,
mysterious and vital 1t was not a
wonder that it's writer's sunk down In
exhaustion after its completion
I The night the play was produced on
Broadway and the house had received
it as a great success, Paula and Ry-
lance knew for the first time what it
meant to be famous. They had gone
before the curtain repeatedly hand in
hand.
John Woodman, who of course was
in the auditorium, felt his head swim
ming. Surely Paula. his betrothed.
was not the girl bowling before that
up proudly, as if he had written the
play himself.
In the limousine going homeward
it was Ryiance who took the seat be-
she Faula. AS CO-authOrS they felt
their place was beside each other.
Paula's mother tucked the rugs
carefully about the girl.
Now just sit quietly and rest You
two have had a trying evening and
a wonderful one" She stepped into
the seat beside her husband John
Woodman had turned rather pettish-
ly away when he saw Rylance beside
Paula.
Il am so glad he did not come
Paula said YEARLY. Il couldn't talk
to any one tonight" Quite uncon-
sciously she moved nearer to Rylance
and his body stiffened, then relaxed
and very tenderly he drew Paula's
head down on his shoulder while his
arm held her close beside him.
It's no use, darling he said quiet
ly; we are born to be mates, SO why
fight against it. I love you-body and
soul" His lips pressed down against
the softness of her hair.
Yes, Bobbie,'' Paula's voice
reached him like a gentle sigh. 1t
was sigh of CONFERENCE.-The COM
plete ness.-(Copyright, 1915, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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THE VOLUNTEER BRIGADE.

I'm sure I don't know what in the
world 1 will do if this strong wind
blows over me much longer, said
SNOWFALL bush one windy spring day,
ct am so tired blowing back and
forth, back and forth, back and forth!
haven't one bit of strength left for
growing
ar you feel that way, when you are
so big and strong, how do you think
must feel? <, when I'm only a bit
of a shrub" asked a little sweet al
mond bush near by.
Thing of mel" exclaimed bleeding
heart plant here I thought spring
had come. I sent up my tender pink
shoots, and now they are so hard and
bruised by this cruel wind that L can
hardly make them grow. Whatever
And I? Won't somebody please
feel sorry for me?" mourned violet
plant at the snowbalfs feet, I was
sure that growing time had come. I
sent up leaves and buds. And now
this cruel dry wind makes them hard
and shriveled before 1 can open them
another blast!' And the violet hid its
buds down tight under the green
leaves of the plant while the dry wind
blew and whirled through the garden.
For a while there was no sound but
the whine of the wind. Then, as that
died away in the distance, the plants
and shrubs drew a long breath of re-
lief ooh, if he would but give us
little rest!" cried the SNOWFALL bush.
but I'm so thirsty and tired 1 dread
to hear him come back!"
Isn't there anything we can do
about it?'' asked the bleeding heart
plant Seems to me it's very silly for
us to stay right here, doing nothing,
fill taht old Mr.. Wind comes back to
bother us againi I'd at least feel bet
fer il we tried to stop him.
'sStop hint" exclaimed the sweet
almond bush, what could we do?
The only thing that will stop a spring
wind is rain, and all the raindrops are
in the sky."
Whats that" asked a new voice,
don't be too sure about that
The bushes and plants creened their
necks to look "And what do you
know about raindrops2" they asked
The newcomer laughed. 81 ought
to know little at least" he said
pleasantly, for I'm a raindrop my
self I'm the only raindrop left on
the earth just now
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punished with death; but Caesar, who
was suspected of some sympathy with
them, pleaded for perpetual impris-
onment, which Cicero opposed on the
ground that it would be worse than
death, saying: "Vincula, vero, ct ca
sempiterna, certe ad singularem,
poenam nefarii sceleris inventa STUNT
In the Middle Ages and down to the
middle of the last century, the treat
ment of prisoners, especially Of polit-
ical prisoners, was horrible. We may
well rejoice that the appeals of char
ity and humanity have of late reached
the public conscience and prepared
the way for a better policy.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.

lfrOm the Ch1cagO NeWS.I
The secret of overcoming ignorance
is to know the necessity.
But an up to date man has no time
for ancient history.
Ambition without pluck and energy
is a lot of bother.
The loss of friend adds one to the
list of your enemies.
Gossip is a vulgar habit, and other
people should not indulge in it.
Girls, if you are at a loss to know
how to take man, let him stay where
he is.
If a girl with a pretty face is thin
men call her graceful-and other girls
call her skinny"
Perhaps once in about 1000 years
there is a woman so much in love with
a man that she never outgrew it.
The ivy doesn't cling to a stone wall
half so tenaciously as the man who is
engaged in repairing it at so much a
day
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FIGHT FOR MILLIONS.
Legal Battle for st. Louis Estate
Reaches Topeka.

A chapter of the legal battle being
waged over the estate of the late
James CAMPBELL, a ST. Louis million
aire, reputed to have left an estate of
more than S40,000,000, was disclosed
today in Topeka when the deposition
1928 Kansas avenue, was taken in
the offices of Monroe, Roark, Mcclure
and Monroe. local attorneys
J. P. Taylor was a brother of Mrs.
Campbell's first husband, Furrier Tay-
1or, who married her when a girl in
the early days of Kansas history and
lived at Humboldt, Kan
Taylor was summoned to testify as
to the parentage of Mrs. Lois Camp
ell-Burkham, who is named in the will
as a daughter of the late millionaire.
Nephews and nieces of the deceased
millionaire are trying to prove that
Mrs. Campel1-Burkham is not
daughter of his but that she is a
founding with no rights to the James
CAMPBELL fortune
Taylor testified that he knew Mrs.
Campbell, wife of the millionaire, when
she immigrated to Kansas in the early
days and married his brother. OF the
daughter, Mrs. Campell-Burkham,
who is given the sum of SIS, O00, 900
in the will. he stated that he knew
nothing.
Martin Jourdan and B. Scumar-
macher, St. Louis attorneys, conducted
the inquiry.
Mr.. Taylor stated that following the
death Of her first husband, Mrs. Camp
ell went to New York, where she
married the millionaire.
Attorneys for those who are contest
ing the will were advised that Taylor
knew the history of Mrs. Campbell and
her daughter by means of an anony-
nous letter. The sender is unknown.
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HONOR TO YANKEE
Yale Student Served Bravely in
German Army.
Kaiser Conferred Decoration
of the Iron Cross.

New York, April 12.-Probably the
first and only American who can
boast of having won on the battlefield
the highest honor in the German
army, the iron cross, is Charles N.
Llewellyn, FL years old, who has re-
turned to Yale university after several
months absence. Although he never
took the oath to the Prussian coiors,
he served as volunteer to the Prus-
sian infantry regiment No. IS from
August until January and participated
in the fighting before Rheims and at
the User with such bravery that he
was decorated with the iron cross in
recognition of his services.
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Sickle at Ottawa and Kansas City ana
had come here with him. She had
closed her statement with a very posi-
tive assertion that she still loved him
and it is the fear that this sentiment
may prevent her from testifying free
ly at the main trial that makes the
states attorneys place a high value
upon her earlier sworn statement
Mayor Van Sickle is married and il
the father of several children, al
though he is a young man yet. large
of build dark complexioned and
smooth shaven. Since his arrest he
has spent most of his time at his home
in the little Lyons county town which
was the scene of the romance between
himself and the girl whom he had
known since her childhood.
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not from a years work. Now some
how from better study, more hu-
manistic ideal of student life, or for
other reason they stay to it the year
round. Enter now the summer school
as the next great development In
American education. What the long
term is to Cambridge and Oxford or
the summer term to Germany the
summer school will be with US.
Here is the completing arc of the
school the year round circle. School
plus a third more is now our educa-
tional status.
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VAN SICKLE CASE
IS OPENED HERE
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side the rail, in the seats provided for
spectators, sat pretty Alma Stephen
son and her mother and father.
At noon the examination of the first
twelve men had not been concluded.
Of these it is certain that several may
be excused while others come in for
the same questioning as to their quail
fications 1t was considered unlikely
would be taken at today's session.
Some of the states witnesses will not
appear in Topeka for another day. 1t
is expected that at least a dozen will
be put on the stand for either side, al
though the nature of the defense has
not been disclosed.
Girl on Stand.
Alma Stephenson, upon whose own
statements the main facts of the prose-
cution's case rely, is said will not be a
willing witness. But the damaging ma
ture of her deposition taken before
County Attorney Atchison after her
parents found her in the Topeka hotel
makes the prosecution confident of
binding her to testimony at the main
trial which the defense will not be
able to shake.
That the vigilance of her parents
has not been sufficient to prevent COM
munication between the defendant and
Miss Stephenson since the preliminary
hearing two months ago when Van
Sickle was bound over for trial in the
established by letters taken from the
girl at her home at Olpe. 1t is eX-
pected that handwriting experts will
be called into the case to trace the
authorship of certain letters signed IL
L. wilson, which was the name I'M
der which Van Sickle is said to have
registered at the Rex hotel in Topeka.
These letters are promised as part of
the states evidence in convicting the
Olpe mayor and will appear in the
course of the trial
Discovery in Hotel.
The arrest of Mayor Van Sickle fol-
lowed the discovery in the Rex hotel
of Alma Stephenson who had been
missing from her home at Olpe. She
was registered as Mrs. L. L. Wilson
and at first declared her husband was
a travelling man and that they had
recently been welded at Kansas City
In the presence of her parents who
were summoned by Attorney Nf~SCar-
thy, she admitted that she had left
her home on a tour and had met Van
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May Id is the date set for the spe-
cial election in Topeka and the rest
OF shawnee county on the proposition
to levy quarter of a mill tax for
premium purposes at the Topeka fair
and for the establishment of a free
gate at this institution. 1t should
carry by vote of five to one. The
tax is almost infinitesimal on the
great bulk of the taxpayers. and it
will place Topeka permanently in a
most prominent position on the big
fair map of the entire country.
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Journal Entries

Some mems convictions land them
in Jail.
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1t is much harder to act a lie than
it is to tell one.
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Economy may also be classed among
the many other unpopular virtues.
/. j.
Homely folk have the consolation
that the boat they're in is crowded.
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1t is better to forego the telling OF
an unpleasant thing about an &C
quaintance even if it is the truth.