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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
EVIDENCE AS TO AUTO SPEED.

Any one writes Willis A. ostrich in
the August Case and Comment, who
has seen a passing automobile must,
if he has thought on the matter, real
ize the difficulty of determining its
speed from such casual observation,
especially if that involves a determine
ton between speeds closely approach
ing each other. Was it going at eight
miles per hour, or ten? Was it six
teen or twenty? The cases show that
there is difficulty in determining even
between extremes of speed. and the
difficulty is increased in determining
between speeds that approximate each
other. 1t is the close case, however,
that requires evidence, and this must
usually be that of observers of the car.
rather than occupants thereof. 1t is
we'll established that witnesses who
have ordinary ability and means of OBJ
servation, or who have observed pass
ing automobiles frequently, may testi-
fly as to speed. 1t has been stated that
an intelligent person having a know
ledge of time and distance is capable
of forming an opinion as to the speed
of a passing railroad train, a street car
or an automobile. Absolute accuracy
as to the speed of an automobile is
not required in judicial proceeding in
which the fact is pertinent. This is
given as a reason for admitting the
testimony of non-expert witnesses Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

OF his being carried out later by the
flremen, who found him overcome by
the smoke and the intense heat The
details failed to attach themselves to
Emllys mind. All sne remembered
was that Morton was now in a hos
pitai and perhaps suffering terribly.
she hurried into street clothes and
started for the hospital to which the
paper stated he had been taken
When she arrived she was told that
visitors were not admitted at that
hour, and she walked directly past
the attendant into the superintend-
ents office and demanded to see him
Immediately. The superintendent, be-
ing man who had a wife and daugh-
tiers and who remembered his youth
very well, put two and two together
in his mind and directed a nurse to
conduct Miss Forster to Mr. Browns
room.
Dearest she whispered, as she
knelt by his bedside, I've learned
why people call love the most prec-
lous thing in the world
Why is it, dear?''
Because there's so much of it hid
den away in hearts and so little of it
in circulation. But I've found what
was in my heart, and I've brought it
to you. Will you take it?'
Yes; and add it an equal
amount. With that combination, the
world will be ours, whether we ad-
vert1se or not. "-(Copyright, 1915, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
Glob Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

A vacation is largely matter of
anticipation
1t is believed that an Atchison mans
brains are in his whiskers.
If there wasn't any calf love in this
lures?
Dragging on them is about the most
useless performance.
Sometimes this one is inclined to
world are gold teeth.
After reviewing your own peculiari-
ties aren't you surprised that you
have even a few friends?
Some poor people seem to think
that poverty is a real good excuse for
not keeping the weeds cut
So often the accomplished young
woman has accomplishments that
aren't worth a tinker's dam.
The old-fashioned man who loved
horses has never been able to work up
much affection for an automobile.
While he has his troubles, it isn't
the danger of an early frost which
gives the hay fever fan that worried
look.
Not all the romances are found in
the summer fiction mum bers: some of
them are related in a rough way in
police court.
Some people are proud of good
health. while others feel distinguished
because they have undergone opera
lions and are frail.
Undoubtedly there is more or less
graft in politics, but don't labor under
the delusion that politics has a monop-
oily on that line of endeavor-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
THE MISTAKEN PACIFIsTs.

One of the most fatuous policies of
the ultra pacifists is resistance to mill
itary preparedness of any sort. and in
sistence that individual states shall cur
tail armament irrespective of what
others may do. writes H. NJ Chitten-
den, in the August Atlantic In the
perplexing difficulties of this question,
the fact which stands out above all
others is that nothing in this line can
be done except by concert, tacit or
positive. of the leading powers of the
world. No one power can accomplish
the work alone. And it is equally Ger
tain that the authority of any state in
the council of nations will not be pro-
NOTED by self-adopsed policy of dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
HAITI AND MEXICO.

Booker t. Washington expresses the
opinion that therecan never be any
thing which savors of a permanent
peace in Haiti until the people of that
little republic" are taught to work.
Probably the same is true of Mexico,
although some of the people of Mex
leo used to work a little when they
had the chance. DR.. Washington also
thinks a desirable condition of affairs
cannot be worked out in Haiti unless
the United States assume a protector
ate over 1t until its own people are ed
ucated to the point where they can
look after their own affairs in a prop
er manner. An6 a whole lot of peo-
pie have been thinking the same thing
about Mexico this long while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
EUROPE MUST PAY. Or

Are American business men unrea-
sonabIe in their demands for pay for
the materials for war and other pur
poses that they have sold on such an
extensive scale to European nations?
Possibly. the Ente ntc Allies may be of
that opinion. But, in all proba bility.
these difficulties that have caused the
value of foreign money to slump on
this side of the Atlantic will be ironed
out in due time, and without much
damage oeing done to any one. If
they are not-wel1, the prophets who
have been insisting that the Great War
could not last long because CT i'm
mensity of the financial problems in
volved may prove to be the best guess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
The Hour of Sunrise.

A curious question regarding the
hour of sunrise was raised the other
day in a case in one of the sheriff
courts in Scotland. Some fishermen
were charged with having been in the
Firth of Forth for the purpose of
fishing before sunrise, contrary to the
orders of the admiral commanding at
Rosyth. The principal point in dis
pute was whether sunrise should be
understood to have occurred when the
Glsc of the sun appeared above the
horizon, or when the glow preceding
the appearance of the suns disc in
the eastern sky was visible In sup
port of the latter view the men,
agent quoted a standard dictionary in
depreciation that sunrise was the at
mospher1c phenomena accompanying
the rising of the sun. Sheriff Mac
ieod thought there was a great deal
OF force in the Fiscal's contention that
unless sunrise meant fixed time that
everybody could find out by looking
up a standard book, endless confusion
would arise. There was no reference
in the regulations to what was meant
by sunrise. To find the meaning they
must go to the statute of 1880, which
stated that whenever any expression
of time was used it should be held in
the case of Great Britain to be Green
witch mean time. For the future the
mems only safe course was to consult
the nautical almanac and find out
when sunrise was at London. The
sheriff convicted, but the fishermen
We're discharged with an admonition.
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
MAGICAL POLICE REsUITs.

when, of course, there is sufficient
intelligence behind the effort. Hence
the more adequate and more efficient
police force that Chief Parsons has de-
veloped almost overnight, as it were,
and a. a practically no larger cost to
the taxpayers A cynic here and there
will be sure to point out that this COM
ment comes from a mot unfriendly'
source. True. But the facts about
the present police force and its eX-
cellent work are patent On all sides
and perfectly competent to speak for
Themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

Some Georgians are reported to be
voicing great Indignation over the
cowardly outrage that was perpetrat
ed against Leo Frank. But this is
occasion when action. not words,
count. And are these Georgians who
seem to appreciate the horror that has
been committed by some of their
neighbors of mind to see to 1t that
the guilty are brought to punishment?
That's the important question for the
decent element in Georgia to answer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

While the gas rate case has been
making the rounds of the established
courts, and the end is not yet, the
court of public opinion has had little
difficulty in reaching conclusion that
the affairs of the Kansas Natural Gas
company, since the concern was placed
in the throes of receivership, have
been kicked around in the same aim
less and purposeless way that a foot
ball is by the players when they in
dulge in summer practice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
Journal Entries

Candid individuals are also inclined
to be impudent.
!. = =
AS a general thing, the dogs of low
degree have the better disposition.
d. II u
Supply and demand seldom jibe
with most folk when it comes to
money.
= = +
Old maids have a tendency to re-
wise their figures, and not alone as
to their ages.
j. !. J.
If there is no such thing as luck,
how are the successes of some people
to be accounted for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

Should ell of the Balkan states
eventually set into The great war game
on the side of the Allies. and the lat
ter should win. it doesn't appear pos
sible thac there is enough Turkey to go
around. And the fellow that gets the
neck can be depended upon to start up
another big fuss In fact, it is begin
ming 20 look as though there is to be
perpetual warfare in Europe. There
is almost certain to be a lot of fight
ing over the spoils, and especially if
the Allies are eventually victorious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

There IS nothing more than perfect
consistency in the "Show-me" predi-
lectioas of the Missourians and the
fact produced by reliable statistics
that more persons have emigrated
from Missouri to Kansas than from
any other state. OF course. Missouri
has the ad yantag of being close to
Kansas and her people have an excel
lent opportunity to see what Kansas
has. And their trekking here only
emphasizes their wisdom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

armament. Military power carries re-
spect and authority. Pending the ac-
complishment of some effective con-
cert of action it is the duty of every
state to provide against eventualities-
1T is idle as Lloyd George once said,
Ito talk of disarming in the midst of
an armed camp" And Viscount
Bryce, at one of the Lake MohonA
conferences, said, Every nation must
be prepared to repel all dangers at all
likely to threaten" Franklin himself
has left a similar record, and we know
what Washington's opinion was 1t is
impossible to get away from this
necessity. While laboring assiduous-
ly to bring all nations into some COM
mon agreement in this matter, every
state is in duty bound to keep itself
prepared for what may befan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

Tropical storms, or hurricanes. of
the force that raVased the Texas gulf
coast country the ether day edge into
the same category where a war of the
proportions of the enc in Europe has
such a prominent place. After all.
mans battles with the elements are
worse than war. in way. When their
fury is unIeashed he has no way of
fighting mack
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
ONE YEAR BEHIND.


The United States supreme court
adjourned the other day for the sum-
mer months, the adjournment mark
ing the completion of twenty-five
years under the EVartS law, which es-
tablished the circuit court of appeals
One of the motives for establishing
these sub-supreme courts was to re-
lieve the highest court of the pressure
of work that was keeping it perpetu-
ally behind in its work. In the TWEEN
ty-five years, it has announced, the
court has come two years nearer
catching up with it's docket. 1t was
three years behind when the Evarts
law was enacted; it is only one year
behind now. This is some progress.
However, it appears to leave much
still to be desired. Broadly speaking,
there can be no real reason why any
court should be even one year behind
it's docket. Justice is not promoted by
delay. No one gains unless it be the
advocates of an unsound contention
The honest 1itigant loses. the court
loses and society loses. Court delays
are one of the fruitful sources of dis
content with the processes of law. But
if the highest court in the land sets the
example of being so habitually behind
with it's work that it makes it point
of virtue when it comes within twelve
months of catching up it is perhaps
not surprising that inferior courts
are often aggard.-Cleyeland Plain
Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

With Il war premier again estab-
lisiled behind the Grecian throne, it
probably won't be long now before
that nation will slip into the conflict.
and If there is anything in a name,
she ought to glide in easily. But get
ting out will be a different PROPOSE
riOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
Eu Chat
SnnedaY.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

"Masts are always dreamy to look
at; they speak romance OF the sea;
| of unknown lands, of distant forests
agIow with tropical colors and abound
ing with strange forms of life. In the
hearts of most of us there is always
a desire for something beyond eXper-
fence Hardly any of US but have
thought, some day L shall go on a long
voyage; but the years go by and still
we have not sailed
What is that station?" L asked the
mOtOriSt as we swung past ralher
pretty little railroad station, on our
way from his summer home to the
I think it is Black Rock" he ans
wered. And then, with touch OF
whimSey in his tone, "Someday 1 shall
certainly stop and find out.
The words were few and colorless,
but the tone in which they were spok-
en- suggested much. The motorist
week, which means that he passes
that station either four or six times
week. The sign is so placed that he
cannot read it from the road, and so
he idly wonders about it, guesses what
it may be and promises himself that
someday he will stop and find out.
That would be an ultra simple thing
to do, and yet the days and the weeks
and the summers pass and someday
does not come.
How many of these little promises
we all make ourselves
Someday we will speak to that in
teresting looking person who has sat
in the seat beside US on the train so
many times.
Someday we are going to get out of
our hackneyed vacation habits and
spend our vacation in some really
novel way.
Someday we are going to do all the
little different things that we don't
have time for in the routine of today.
And the todays and the tomorrows
and the weeks and months and the
summers and the winters and the
mileStoneS go by and someday has not
come.
really Gomez" questioned a wistful lit
tie person who had been promised so
many wonderful things should be
granted her ''someday."
I wonder, too.
Question: have been a divorce
for several years. My husband and 1
parted for purely temperamenta1 rea-
sons. Although 1 still cherish for him
feelings of the highest respect and adj
miration, our social relations have
been somwhat strained since the di-
vorce- 1 am about to be married
again and want to know if under the
circumstances it would be proper to
send my former husband an invitation
to my wedding, and if you think he
would receive it in the cordial spirit in
which it would be sent.
Answer-It seems to me that your
former husbands presence at your
wedding would be likely to give con-
straint rather than pleasure to all par
ties concerned. Why not merely send
him an announcement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

DR.. West, who returns home with a
diagnosis that Chicago is golf crazy
might find similar symptoms if he
should feel Topeka's pulse right now
Fortunately, though. golf is u variety
of insanity that makes the blood in
a mans veins redder. that Hvcns up
the marrow in his bones. and makes
him a more heaithful ana thereby
more helpful citizen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
Dust These Off. Statesmen.

Il refer to our peerless leader, that
ma gnificent statesman and diploma
tiSt-'
1--WE, the residents of the brightest
star in the armament of nations, are
proud to honor
There is not a man in this room
or within the reach of my voice to-
night who will not realize the re-
sponsibility which rests upon him as
patriot. a gentleman, scholar and
philanthropist and go to the polls
on election morning with courage in
his heart and cast his free and un
trammeled ballot for our magnificent
,SE1sf
There are some here who remem-
Der the Disappointing days of the
battle of Bunker Hill mean GettyS-
burg-when this nations life was in
the balance, and, with this mind, l
say to you, can you satisfy your con-
science if you vote for any one of our
eminent forceful, talented, versatile,
philosophical, courageous
candidate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
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 onIy). Ad-
dress changed often desired While
out of town the State journal viii be to
you like a daily letter from home
Advance payment is requested on these
short time subscriptions. to save boOkkeep-
icE eXDenEes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

Neither will much fuel be added to
the European war fire even if Turkey
and Italy go through the formality OF
declaring war against each other.
The confiagration is so large now that
a few more combinations of nations
against each other will not matter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

Experts seem agreed that subma-
rines are the best agents for our de-
tense. and along the extended Allan
tic coast with its many important
cities and ports. we have four of these
craft thai will be in fairly good work
ing order when the repairs they are
undergoing are completed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

That was the beginning of the
greatest fun a kewpee can have. For
hewpee Celluloid, that very same day.
mas Iastened on the front of the big
mans automobile, and in that way he
rooe all over the city and the country
TOO Ihere wasn't much of the world
ne 9ldn Sc that summer, you may
safely believe that
One night whine Kewpee CeII,,1oid
was rushing through the cool. fra
grant air he thought to himself. Lust
think, all this fun comes from NV
sInliing when | didn't feel smiley. I
mink everybody ought to smile all
the Iime--Im going to.'' and he doesi
-SCopyright-Clara Ingram Judson-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

AS was to have been expected.
Kaiser Wilhelm emphatically denies
that Germany proposed a separate
peace plan to Russia which Car
Nicholas spurned in contemptuous
fashion. The dignity of Germany
would have been sullied had such a
denial not been forthcoming
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

How does it happen that the MAX
ers OF the Kansas civil service law
neglected to exempt from it's provi-
sions such a fat job as that of rate
clerk to the public utilities commits
sion? Almost every other position in
the state service of any Importance
or that carries with it any kind of
paw is exempted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
From Other Pens
LEAVING THE LAWYERS OUT,

LEAVING THE LAWYERS OUT.
Absence of lawyers from a recent
conference between city officials OF
Chicago and the Chicago & Northwest
ern railway is said to be accountable
primarily for a speedy agreement on
the adjustment of costs of the Frank
lin street bridge Improvements. Will
lam r. Morehouse, commissioners of
public works, debarred lawyers and
called in the president of the road, two
aldermen and the engineers of the city
and railroad. Forty-five minutes
time only was consumed, truly a good
record. The president, backed by his
engineers, knew what was a good bar
gain, and the adjustment therefore
came quickly without the quibbling
and technical legal persiflage with
which the lawyers are wont to clothe
negotiations. Many another engi-
neering problem would be well on the
way toward solution were the oppos-
ing engineers left to agree upon the
facts and adjust differences of opinion
bteween themselves instead of intrust-
ing the negotiations to lawyers with
little appreciation of the engineering
features of the problem.-Engineer
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

These runners-amuck, who are al
ways particular tC save a last bullet to
blow out their own brains after they
have snuffed out ore or several lives
overlook a wonderful opportunity by
not using their first bullet on them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
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TAKES A RIDE.
. Clara hsSramJodson

safe side, Kewpee CeIluloid smiled his
very best smile and looked a thou
sand times more cheerful than he felt
-and-what do you suppose? That
man noticed Kewpee Celluloid smiling
away and said to the clerk, Il want
that third kewpee from the end there;
yes. that one!' and Kewpee Celluloid
was taken down and sold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

Great Britain's pound is no longer
n pound the world around" Its val
lie in this country has dropped from
S4.S7 to S4.64
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19

In one particular. at least. the Kan
sas good roads building bee was in
vain. The moving picture men ig-
nOred it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IL a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the Iull oay
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, 1915-08-19
Our Sympathy. Old Top.

Il sent my summer suit to an anna
teur cleaner near our house the other
day and he used all the gasoline he
could buy at a nearby garage
Now when 1 walk around I am
completely surrounded by an aroma
that causes my best friends to take
the other side of the street. When
L go into an office somebody always
yells: Who let the Ford in?
1T is positively dangerous to light
a match in my vicinity and haven't
had a smoke in 2 week. No more
patroniZing home Industries for me-
81 don't expect to ever be happy
until 1 go and bury these clothes. =
T.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-19
On the Spur
of the Moment

BY ROY X. MOULTON.

The Donkey's Head.
Oh. Patrick was an freshman;
For sport they called him Mick,
Because he was so handy with
shovel and a pick.
rat worked upon the section gang,
As Irishmen will do,
Ard with him were two Englishmen
A-laboring there too.
The Britishers-two foxy wights-
They thought they'd play a trick
W lille Patrick was a-working with
His shovel and his pick.
Not being of nimble wit.
They thought it quite a joke
To paint a donkey's head upon
The back of Patricks coat.
Pat noticed it Immediately
The democratic stamp
Shure, Ohm a shovelin' Oirishman,
But, be Jabbers. ON no tramp.
And turning to the Englishmen,
. Who thought they had his goat,
Says Which wan of yez wiped his face
Upon me Sunday coat?''