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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
VENICE.

VENICE.
Still Venice sits upon her hundred isles.
And takes the golden morning on her
brow,
And round her ancient marble palace piles
The gondolier still guides his narrow
Prov
Still CLEAN the domes and lions of Saint
Marks,
The Campaniles slender, spearIike tower,
ana ~stlll above the clustering roofs one
The bronZen giants strike the changing
hour.
Still the Rialto filings its splendid arch
ABOVE that Grand Canal where long ago,
The glory of an age went to and fro. >
In spite of all the years, sweeping
That have wrought blight and ruin and
decay,
The dream remains to chain the heart of
man.
A nameless charm that will not fade
Clinton Scollard, in the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
Journal Entries

You may have interiors, but it is
not for you to say who they are.
i + +
It's easier to forgive an enemy who
is considerably larger than yourself.
= i =
Nature erred, at least, in not at
taching Serviceable handles to all va
rieties of edible fruit.
20 - %
Most men are probably inclined to
think that the real curse of wealth
is the way they have to work for it,
d - i
A man who admits having been i'll
Jail often, may also be clasSed with
those who have the courage of their
convictions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
BAD BOYS. a CITY CROP, B

BAD BOYS, A CITY CROP, BUT
That ninety-two per cent of the BAG
boys of the state come from the cities
and towns is no more than statistics
on the subject might be expected to
show But philosophy teaches con-
vincingIy that goodness is a rather
negligible thing. or, at least, nothing
much to brag about, when there are
few, if any opportunities for those
who are good to be bad. But the bad
boy isn't often to blame because he
is that way The fault is chiefly on
the shoulders of his parents or guar
dams
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

More evidence that truth hurts. A
Belgian refugee in Paris has been SEN
fenced to Jail for thirty days because
he was so careless as to observe in
public that the official war reports
are "a pack of lies" But how else is
it possible to characterize them?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

Nor can the charge that the ship
carried an enormous cargo of NUM-
tions of war, to be used by the Allies
against her soldiers, have any place in
whatever excuse Germany may frame
for her attempted summarizing of the
Cunarder Orduna, while en- route, and
carrying many passengers, from Liv-
erpool to New York. In fact, the
ruthlessness of such a variety of sub
marine warfare is absolutely indie
fRnsihle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

There is nothing unusual in the
news that the war is playing havoc
with the food prices in several Euro
pean centers. That's to be expected.
But the same is hardly true in respect
to food prices in this country, and es-
pecially in respect to the war prices
or war sizes of bread that are still
in order in some sections of these
limited States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

According to most of the recent pre-
dictions of the weather bureau the
rains that Topeka has been enjoying
CD of late come under the classified
ton of showers" And if they are
no more than showers everybody is
probably hoping that the real thing
in the rain line will pass Topeka by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

Possibly. the litigation anent the af-
fairs of the Kansas Natural Gas
company, will be as profitable to some
of the lawyers in these parts as was
the Thaw case to some of their
brethren back east. And the indica-
tions are that it will continue as long,
unless it is sooner brought to an end
by an exhaustion of the supply of gas,
and a consequent winding up of the
cOmpanys business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
Well Named.

What's that you call your mule ."
IT call him Corporation ans
wered the old negro.
How did you come to give him
such a name?"
FIN studyin' de animal and readin'
de papers, boss. Dat mule gets mo-
blame an abuse dan anythin' else IN
de township an goes ahead havin'
on his way jes' de same. "-Netioral
Month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

One of the things that all varieties
of the Mexican mixers do best is
wrecking railroad trains. Zapata is
credited with having winged another
But, then, wrecking a train is about
the easiest thing to do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

As the Germans believed in making
hay while the sun shines" in getting
ready for war, says the Chicago Her
aid, so American factories are making
munitions for all who can buy them,
regardless of the moonshine emitted
on the subject
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
MEMBER:
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Association.
HOME NEWS WHILE away.

Subscribers Of the State journal away
from home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents a week or
thirty cents a month (by mail onl5). Ad-
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you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on these
short time subscriptions, to save bOOkkeep-
ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

Can there be an eastern Kansas far-
mer who hasn't had enough rain this
year? If there is, let him speak up, so
that he can be properly labeled anu
placed among the gentry whom 1t is
iOnOSSibIe to satisfy,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

e They may not talk SO eloquently
about it. observes the New Y or<
World, but that should not obscure
the fact that to many millions of the
American people this is the Father
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
sanitation 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, 1915-07-20

Assuredly the Russian people are
easy to please. 1t is stated that the
Grand Duke Nicholas is a great popu-
lar hero with them and that they are
immensely gratified with his activity
against the Germans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

Villa has been Crushed again. Or
so sayeth a report from Mexico. And
this would seem to indicate that Villa
is a good deal like Truth, in one re-
spect, at least. Though crushed to
earth it will rise again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

If there is any reliability to the
news from Petrograd, the Russians
didn't do so badly during their Cali
clan retreat. They captured. it is said,
no less than 1,141 officers and 6O,84S
men during the month of June
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

Christianity is said to be spreading
in China, notes the Detroit Free Press,
and it adds: They'll be taking up
barbed wire and gas bombs next.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
On the Spur
of the Moment
The Man Behind.
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

The Man Behind.
We have heard the ringing praises
OF the man behind the gun.
How he's made our nation mighty
With an aim A No. 1.
we have heard in song and story
All the flattery that goes
With the job of fighting blazes
To the man behind the hose.
But there is another hero
Who is never lauded high,
Ihough he has a job of climbing
Ever upward to the sky.
Both the other two we've mentioned
He has beaten by a rod,
In the building of the nation
He's the man behind the bod.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
W Clara ln&ramJudson

toad, "Why not? You seem to be very
busy talking; | heard you way down
the path. Don't you like having things
to talk about?''
Not such things as we are nov
discussirr"- said Tommy POSITIVELY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

Probably if some of the metropoli-
tan newspapers would give Harry
Thaw anything like half a chance, he
would retire from the Hmelight for a
little while, anyhow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

What is so rare as a Kansas day
the full cycle of twenty-fOur hours
without a rain?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

Apparently, the Georgians, or few
of them, are bent on getting" Leo
Frank in one way or another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
Yes. War Is What sherman said.

Fashion note from Paris, France, says:
The army coat is very much to the
fore, and the small hat. with great, big,
squashed pansies round it, is now so com
mon that no one will buy it any more. A
rev very wide brimmed hats have appeared
which have very good lines. They are
made of straw and silk. with flowers set
at rare intervals on the brim, and a band
of ribbon with a bow around the base of
the crown"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

Efforts are being made to stimulate
aeronautics in America. Our high flyers
are apparently all the wrong kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
Real Paradise.

Real PaFadIse.
a houSekeeper's idea of Paradise is a
place where hashed- brown potatoes will
grow in the garden; where cherry pies
Will grow on trees, and where the woman
at the head of the table may wave a wand
and say: ITO the Internal regions with
the unwashed dishes. Cour-
ier-Journal Yes, yes of course. By the
way, do you boil sprigs of mint with
green peas down there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20

Want ad discovered in a northern Michi-
gan paper:
OWING to reduced circumstances, hard
times and general disposition, will on
July 10 sell everything on my farm eX-
cepting my wife.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
PRESIDENT NOT
 TO PARTICIPATE
 IN PEACE MOVE
Will Not Oppose Plans, But Doesn't Think Time Is
 Yet Ripe.

Washington. Nov. 26+President Wilson will take no part in the cam paign to bring about a peace con ference, now being carried on in this and other neutral countries While he will interpose no objection to the unofficial movement, he has heard nothing from Europe which leads him to believe the time is opportune for him to take any. steps.
 Te1egrams urging the President to support the movement for a confer ence of neutrals continued to pour in at the White House today. A deIe- gation of peace advocates will call on the President late today.
 The President is keeping in close touch with peace sentiment abroad through American diplomatic repre- sentatives and is devoting much time and study to the question. It is stat ed autheritatively- that at the first in timation from officials of the warring g nations that such efforts would be welcome the President will renew his offer of services to aid in ending the war.
 Henry Ford's peace ship will not carry any representa- tives of the situation changes in the meantime the government will not take any part in the, meeting proposed.
 The President is not expected to make any official announcement re- garding the peace campaign now be- ing carried on.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
RENTS SOAR; ASSESS0RS
 WILL RAISE VAL UATIONS .ON CRASHING LANDL ORDS

had recently been. rented for $14 a month she offered the tenant various sums until S26 per month was accept ed as the price of vacancy
 One great satisfaction and a factor that may have an influence upon the rental situation before the first of the year, is an unconf1rmed- rumor that the board of assessor9 is closely supervising the situation and that landlords who have made excessive rentals over previous charges will find their taxes brought up approximately to the increased revenue.
 Such an action would act as sta- biIizer and tend to stop the profit taking methods now being introduc- ed No confirmati5n of such action, however, could b@ obtained from members of the board today.
 One authority upon rents and ren- tai values in Bridgeport said today: About 50 per cent. of the property owners have increased the prices. The average to date is about $2 per month. Some have only added $1 and $4 more per month with some radically above the highest figure.
 'fThe tendency does not seem to be directed at any one section of the city thought the East Side undoubt- .edly feels it the most as rentals there for years have been below normal and are now being brought up to equal that in other sections. There will be additional increases December and January 1.''
 From inquiry among real estate dealers. builders and contractors, it does not seem that building is pro portionate to the rapid. increase in the population and prediction is made that next autumn will not see sufh- eient rents to care comfortab bly, for the population now here unless building is increased over the present rate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
GIRL, IA, WARNS MPANI0NS OF
 SUICIDE INTENT
Body of Centrevine School Pu- piI Found Floating in
 Mix Pond.

. New Haven, Nov. 26-The hamlet of Centervi1Ie is agitated over the drowning of Emma Gillespie, aged IA. whose body was recovered yesterday in Mix Pond, a very short distance from her home. She had disappear ed the evening before while on her way home from school.
 Reports were current that there was likelihood that the girl had met foul play but Coroner Mix in his finding attributed death to drowning and the motive suicide. The girl was seen by friends at p. n., on We'd nesday night almost at her own door way and only few yards. from the waters edge. Companions say that she had spoken of dumping into the pond.
 Representative J. w. Sanford, of Hamden. who was assisting in the search for the girl, reported that while carrying sisters of the girl to their home last night, his autoIn obiIe was wrecked by another machine said to have belonged to a New Ha- ven merchant and which at the time was being used by several young men.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
WATSON FACING NEW TRIAL FOR
 MISUSINC MAIL
Georgia Editor Before Court On Four Counts in
 Indictments.

Augusta, Ga, NOV 26.-A\ special venire, in addition to the regular jury panel, was in the federal court today for, the trial of Thomas E. Watson, charged with sending obscene matter through the mails.
 Watson's indictment contains four counts, giving dates in 1911 and 1912 in which the alleged obscene matter was sent through the mails in issues of Watson's publication printed at Thon- son, Ga., his home.
 watson was indicted similar charges in 1912 and in the fall of 1913 the indictment was quashed on grounds that it should have contained the entire article alleged to be objec- tionable and not merely excerpts rom it. At the next session of the federal grand jury Watson was re-indicted, the charges being made in what was regarded as more specific form but not containing the language objected to, the indictment stating that it was improper to be spread upon the min utes of the court
 Four counts of the present indfct- ment alleged that objectionable matter was used in an article entitled The Roman Catholic Heirarchy, the Dead Hest to Our Civilization and the fourth in an article entitled ftAnother Maria Monk Case Comes to Light in New Jersey a Few Days Ago"
 When the previously faced the court, Watson contended the words alleged to be obscene merely were quoted from books on Roman Catholic re- ligion.
 Today the defense was ready to move to quash the present indictment Judge w. w. Lambdin is presiding in place of Judge Emory Spead. Watson appeared as his own lawyer with coun- sel to assist him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
WATERBURY'S NEW CITY HALL READY:
 DEDICATED TODAY

Waterbury, Nov. 26-waterbury's handsome new city han was dedicated this afternoon with a fitting program of music and addresses. The speakers included Mayor Scul1y, Ex-Mayor Reeves, Superintendent of Schools B. w. Tinker and Corporation Coun- sel Francis P. G11ilfoiL / A flag pre- sented by Wadhams Camp, Sons of Veterans. was raised with appfopriate exercises. Earlier in the afternoon a parade of the city's police and fire departments was reviewed by the mayor and other officials.
 The days program also included an exhibition of folk dancing by school children and the unveiling of a me tuck Historical society near the site of the ha.bitationss of the first settlers An interesting feature of the exer- cises was music by band made up of inmates O. the state refor nnatory at Cheshire. Governor Ho1comb and staff, with many other distinguished visitors, are to be guests at the old home week banquet at 6 o'clock, fol- lowed at g o'clock by the governor ball.
 Tomorrow the chief event of the celebration will be a big military and civic parade, for which the governor and his staff will stay oyer. All pub lie and private buildings are decorat- ed and every train is bringing hun dreds of visitors tn the city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
BRIDGE COMMISSION MEMBERS WILL OPPOSE CONNECTICUT co.
 DEMAND OF $40, ,OOO DAMAGES

.-ss ataHensSauatiaR~ ~tha board of ap- praisa1 of benefits and damages may take toward the petition of the Con necticut Co. for $40.O0o damages in moving it's cables and cable house for the building of the new Stratford ave nue bridge, members of the Stratford Avenue Bridge commission will op- pose any grant to the company.
 Another secret and special session of the commission has been called for Monday night in the mayors. office. In accordance with his. policy lin all matters concerning the< bridges, Mayor Wilson will order a .sstar chamber sessions
 Charles c. B1ackham, clerk of the bridge commission, said today that the officials of the Connecticut Co. knew that the cables and cable house would have to be moved at their own ex- pense when the agreement was made to accept the S70.0 .0o0 which the Con necticut Go. offered as it's share of the expense of building the new bridge In fact he said it was part of the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26

The long predicted raise in rentals has become a, fact. with about 50 per cent. of the landlords already reap properties Other raises are due De- cember 1 and January 1.
 While some increases have been merely nominal, some grasping prop erty owners have gone to extremes. One instance noted shows an increase to a widow on the East Side from $28 to $40 monthly Another increase on the East Side shows a rise from $ I s to $50 in one jump
 So severe has the rental problem become that persons brought here from other cities upon the represen- tation that the city is unionized,s have found that the increased cost of living offsets other conditions and have re- turned to the cities whence they came
 It is reported that where landlords find tenants heretofore living ex- cIusively among themselves have been prevailed upon to take one lodger or more, the rentals have been lacked up prop portionateIy.
 Bridgeport is not alone in feeling the increased cost of housing. Strat- ford, Fairfield and even Milford are affected. and an incident at Walnut .5OCdCA Will SuOW ln0 0SIlanQ TOT COL tages, and the speculation that now exists among tenants.
 At Devon one real estate agent is alleged to have contracted to furnish a certain number of houses to a large factory in Bridgeport at a fixed ren- tall Not having enough empty houses to fulfil the contract the agent evicted several families, according to report One of those evicted sought rents at {the beach. Not finding va ,cancies she went from door to door and eventually coming to house that
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26

agreement with the brfdge commis- sion when this offer was accepted
 General Manager Punderford and Manager Chapman of the Connecticut Co. both. knew that the company would have to pay for moving the cables and cable house. declared Mr. Blackham. When discussing the matter with the commission they es- umated that the Connecticut Co. s share with the $7O,O0O and the cost of moving the cables would be $12O,- 900 or $125,00O. can't speak fo1. the commission because I am the clerk and not a member, but I believe the members of the commission will iop- pose granting the petition for $4O,0O0 which the company has presented"
 MT. B1ackham would not say why the meeting was called for Monday night or what might be done but it is learned on good authority that the meeting will be solely for the pur- pose of formulating a plan to oppose the granting of any damages to the Connecticut Co. in connection with the building of the new bridge.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
POSITION OF RUMANIA
 HOLDS WAR INTEREST

London. Nov. 26.@Greel affairs hacv- ing emerged from the uncertainty which for some time has been DO tential menace to the allied campaign in the Balkans, Rumania's problem now commands chief attention in Eu- rope Although Rumania is beset with difficulties somewhat similar to those which caused Greece to hesitate, she is not involved in the same political turmoil and her situation is expected to mature more rapidly!
 Whatever German efforts have been made in Rumania, it is believed here that they have been largely offset by the presence of large Russian forces close to the frontier and the now rap idly developing Russian preparations, with odessa as a base, from which no other inference is possible than her immediate entrance into the Balkan conflict.
 Emperor Nicholas is said to have promised the appearance of Russian troops in Bulgaria, within a week There are increasing indications that this campaign will be launched by way of Rumania, and it is reported that conferences are now being held between representatives of Russia and Rumania to obtain the latter's con sent to this move. This consent, as intimated clearly by Rumanian states men, has depended on whether the al- lies gain a preponderance of forces in the Balkans. Rumania gives evidence of being impressed strongly by con centration of 250 900 troops at IsnaiI and Reni, near her border.
 No such achievement has been re- corded on either side in Serbia since the German announcement of the fall of Pristina and NGitrovitza. With only a small strip of territorg1eft to de- fend Serbia's leaders declare she is unbeaten and can still harass the in vaders.
 General Boyadjief, the Bulgarian commander, says on the other hand that King Peters troops will be put out of action in a few days.
 No official report had reached Lon don at noon today of the capture of Gorizia by the italians, although the fall of the city was regarded as imrni- nent This important center, com rnanding the railway lines in the up per and lower Isonzo, and called the key to the Austrian defenses to the north, has been the objective for which the Italian army has been struggling for several months.