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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
Uncle AbneF.

There never was a dog heightened
enough not to have a few fleas once
folks, neither
Ihere are several million women in
TINS world and every one is different
from all the rest.
Rev Hudnutt of the Hardshell
church says he will accept pustag
stamps in the contribution plate, pro-
V1ded they amt cancelled.
There are several ways of takin'
care or a furnace and so fur as we
KIN flnd out none of 'em is right.
They say adversely has a good many
uses, put we amt never seen what
any of 'em was
When the SEWN circle meets in
our town, the recordin' angel has to
write shorthand
Anse Judson, our banker, says he
don't believe he kin wear out his 1916
car in time to git a 1917 model next
month. The sorrows of the rich are
hard to bear
Is This Precedent.
Widow fights payment to her at
torney of 800 expended in dining and
entertaining her to relieve the ,nonot-
ony of her annulment suit. Lawyers
VIII nave to charge such things to
profit and loss. or else all parties to
a divorce must be masked, muzzled
and led around with a leash.
Well, Let 1t GO at That.
r. K. M: Now L know why there
are so many squirrels in the park.
You are supposed to ask me: why
are there so many squirrels in the
park ?''
Then L am supposed to say: Be
cause there are so many nuts hanri &
around there" B. NJ.
In the Cabinet.
They shall meet, but they shall miss him,
There will be one vacant chair;
They may pass some light refreshments,
But there1l be no grapejuice there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

Mr.. Bryan seems still to think that
he has stack or two of chips remain
ing in Uncle Sans diplomatic game.
At any rate. he lost no time after the
receipt in this country of Germany's
unsatisfactory reply in issuing a
voluminous statement on the problems
in the premises. And 1t is a noticeable
fact that none of the other of the ma
tons distinguished eX-secretaries of
state is doing likewise. The chances,
too. are that their advice might be
much more valuable than Mr.. Bryan's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
WHITE CLOVER.

WHITE CLOVER.
1t pillows round my feet,
White and sweet;
Sweet with the memoried bliss
OF the night dew's kiss;
White with a fIuttering fear
OF the hurrying year
That but a scanty month
OF time will give,
To let it live.
So have 1 stopped to the sheen
Of Its wistful green,
Deep in its threefoId leaves.
To haply find
The four-leaved kind
Which. having won, I'll not
Retain. but shed
Back on its bed;
Bidding it carry low
To the blossoms there
A whispered prayer,
That Summers Scythe may prove
But kindly rover
Tender toward clover.
June being over.
Edna Mead, in hte New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

In Tip O'Neills almost daily mani
festo about the need for cutting the
salaries of the performers in the
Western league, he. of course, is silent
on the desira bility knocking few
chunks from the salary that goes to
the leagues president. Nix on such
comedy. Mr.. O'Neilrs crusade for
smaller salaries is directed only against
the players in the league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

always an excess of passion here, a
lack of interest there, will betray that
one is a different kind of animal. with
a different history and other ends.
Only in ones own country is the rose
of life planted where one would have
it, shaped as far as could be by the
will of ones own people, nourished
by ones own blood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

Kansas isn't very much interested in
the worthy activities of the National
Pharmacopoeia committee to stop the
sale of liquors by drug stores under
the guise of medicine, or for "medlcl-
nal' purposes. The committee has
promulgated a rule that brandy and
whisky cannot be sold legally by drug
gists as medicine. Kansas put an eff
fective crimp in the sale of liquors by
drug stores several years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
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 week or
thirty cents a month (by mail only). Ad-
dress changed often as desired Whiie
ont of town the State journal VIII De 20
Won like q 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, 1915-07-13

THE PARK BUDGET.

Possibly the s1O5,405 asked by the
city superintendent of parks for park
maintenance and development during
the coming year is the sum that is
actually needed to make the Topeka
parks something like what they should
be- But there probably isn't the re-
hottest chance that anything like such
an amount will be set aside for park
purposes by the city commissioners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

More emphatic testimony that the
farmers of Kansas are always up and
doing and quick to seize their oppor-
tunities. The number Of silos in the
state were nearly doubled within the
past year, and are now close to the
10 OO0 mark
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

Summer weather has finally arrived
in these parts. and Kansas would be
playing true to her climatic PECULIAR
ties. If the summer brand continued
until we'll into the fall. AS time rolls
on, it becomes more and more evident
that the man who divided the year
into the seasons didn't base his de-
cisions on Kansas weather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
QUEER EXPIRE SIS CARRIERS.
. Clara ln&raaJssdscn

But all that is a relic of long ago.
How DO you suppose the burdens
are carried in places where there are
no wagons, no motors, no-anything
that we call civilization inthese days?
Through the orient, the people car
ry all the burdens. On their heads, On
their shoulders, or strapped across
their backs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
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
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, 1915-07-13
Kansas Comment
REBEL OR LOYAIISr?


If you went to Mexico to search for
a man loyal to the government would
you choose Villa, Zapata or Carranza
Would you call Obregon a rebel or is
he tried and true? In what class does
Huerta, eXiled Huerra, belong? How
would Felix Diaz be classed? What
about OroZco? After all of this strife,
all of this fighting, what is it all about.
anyway? Is there an answer handy?
Why does CarranZa want to take a pot
shot at Villa and his followers? Why
is Villa cunning for the other side?
The Mexican tangle is a hard one to
unravel. No matter how much any of
these leaders followed Loyalty after the
federal government in the past, and no
matter how much this one and that
one was classed as rebels doesn't prove
the case against them now. No mat
ter where Zapata began his career he
is still fighting, but whom? Is he
still a rebel or does he represent the
government factions in an effort to
bring about peace? An investigating
committee should be named to decide
which is which and who's who in Mex
leo. ascertain what they are fighting
for and what they expect to accom-
plish if they win. Its report would be
eresting.-Hutchinson News
o
WAR ON INSECTS.
The gay and festive fly has been
noticeably scarce this season in many
parts. probably due to the especially
rainy season when fifth and refuse
favorite breeding places of the fly.
have been washed away almost as
apidly as they accumulated. But in
the place of the fly has come the mos
quito, that unsteady inclined insect
which so gently informs you of his ar
rival upon your anatomy. With the
mosquito comes disease germs just as
with the fly. The mosquito is COM
monty known as a carrier of malaria
germs. Persons who are bothered
with mosquitoes about their homes
have been advised by boards of health
to pour kerosene on the ground where
the ground is generally damp. This
will prevent the spread of the insects
and add to the comfort of sitting on
your own front porch and watching
will be found a good disinfectant on
the premises. In the meantime, don't
forget to swat the flyl-Ottawa
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13
Is This a Precedent.
Well, Let 1t GO at That.


They shall meet but they shall miss him,
There will be one vacant chair;
They may pass some light refreshments,
But there'll be no grapejuice there.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
Threatened President,s Idfe

San Antonio, Tex, Aug 5-Charg-
ed with threatening the life of Presi-
dent Wilson and also with threatening
to kill former President Theodore
Roosevelt, r. H. Juergens. twenty-six
years old, has been arrested here and
held In default of So, 900 bail.
Juergens was arrested after the al
legged letter to President Wilson had
been mailed at Austin and intercept
ed by postoff1ce inspectors. according
to the district attorneys office. It
was written, they said. on the sta
tionery of a well-known business man
of Austin and signed with his name,
but he was not believed to be con-
nected with the affair
The letter to President Wilson as
serted that the writer was n member
of an alliance of $50 men who would
not rest until the United States OBJ
served strict and impartial neu-
tralty," the test of which would be
the refusal of this country to sell
munitions to the Allies. Until this
purpose was accomplished. the writer
threatened the destruction OF the Ma
tional Capitol. the White House and
finally the life OF the Chief Execu-
tive
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
STORM DID MUCH
DAMAGE IN HENRlCO

As an aftermath OF the storm tnat
swept over Virginia Tuesday night
and wrought so much havoc In TINS
section of the State. there Is con-
siderable suffering in the vicinity OF
the Creighton Road. While the
damage done by the cyclonic wino
has not been estimated, IT Will prop
ably go high into the thousands
Probably the greatest sufferers are
the colored people living in the WI
lage designated as Bendiek In TINS
little hamlet six houses were com
pletely demolished by the wind, ana
MANY OF the occupants OF the build
ings narrowly escaped serious inju-
ries. One coiored man, Charles Ray
who. together with his wife, were
caught in one of the buildings that
cola psed. sustained dislocated col
larbone. while his wife received lac
Grated scalp. The colored Methodist
Church Of that place was badly dam
aged. but 1t will probably be ready
for the regular services Sunday.
The wind and rain played havoc
with many of the crops in Henrfco
County. while several cows were
caught beneath falling timbers ana
died. The heaviest damage was done
in the section that extends from the
Nine Mile Road to the Mechanicsviiie
Turnpike, a distance of something
like three miles.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
BOMB RECEIVED AT
FOREIGN CONSULATE

New York, Aug. Sit was learned
today that a powerful nitro-glycerine
bomb was recently received at one of
the foreign consulates in this city.
The internal machine was mailed or
expressed in this city. but exactly
where it was sent from could not be
learned
Police Commissioner Woods would
neither deny or confirm the facts.
Other high officials at police head
quarters denied that they had heard
of 1t. while others. when interviewed,
refused to make any comment. From
a reliable source, however, 1t was
learned that the internal machine had
been received by foreign representa-
tive.
Despite the refusal of Commissioner
Woods to talk about the matter, II
became known that detectives were
searching for somebody who had
planted a bomb. The Internal ma
chine. II was said, was discovered In
the nick of time as a result of the
,vigilence and activity of the police,
who have been keeping close watch
on the consulates of the foreign
powers now at war. :.
Rather than make public the fact
that the police had done good work
and take credit FOR frustrating bomb
outrage. however, it was said that, for
diplomatic reasons. absolute silence
would be maintained.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06

Grand Rapids. Mich, Aug. s.-Mal-
feasance in Office is formally charged
against City Trea surer James s. Haw-
kins by the Council Committee on Ways
and means. and City Attorney Fergus
on In report to be presented to the
Council tonight. This will be the be-
ginning of Impeachment proceedings,
based on the allegations that the CITY
treasurer has Incorporated moneys
belonging to the city of Grand Rapids
Specifically Hawkins Is charged with
illegal transaction in tax title certifi-
Gates and certificates of redemption
with changing and altering deeds ia
suied by the city and conspiracy with
unknown persons to defraud the city,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
PEOPLES FORUM.


Editor virginian:
str.-Hail and amen. Our flag is
still there" Grand Old Virginia re-
sponded nobly TO the call of duty TO
hold fast the vantage ground gained
last year in the fight to make her
domain safer and a sweeter place IN
which TO live and love.
Unselfish devotion to a principle
and consecrated efforts in behalf OF a
just cause are never inspired by
thoughts OF praise or commentator,
yet the flresides and. indeed, all the
highest and best interests Of the State
are indebted TO the noble services OF
the men and women champions of the
Anti Saloon League and allied organ
izations. Without at all sighting the
splendid services of the unheralded
hosts whose names are seldom seen IN
print, privates in the ranks. but heroes
and heroines every inch, just mead
of praise is accorded the men and wo-
men champions on the public firing
line. Virginia has cause TO be proud
Of them, and as for our peerless
Cannon-self- poised, sensible, untir-
ing. potential--where shall we find his
like again! And no State can boast
OF a more splendidly consistent ana
effective organ for righteousness than
our Richmond virginian--always in
the forefront of battle for social and
civic righteousness!
Let's take fresh courage and press
the battle for the continued better
ment of this fairest of lands over
which the heavens bend! Righteous
ness exalteth a nation" and peace and
plenty abound and abide where the
sovereignty of the God of nations is
practically recognized.
w. NJ. BICKERS.
Richmond. Va. Aug. 4, 1915.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
NEWS LEADER, ATTENTION.

kins represented a dry district which
desired him to cast the vote of that
district for the enabling act. The
News Leader will further find that i,
was quite indignant because the Anti
Saloon League OF Virginia undertook
to present the views of the temperance
people of the Sixteenth Senatorial
District to the senator elected to repre-
sent that district. TEhe News Leader
thought IL quite reprehensible that the
temperance people If this State should
present &c member Of ths Itegisla-
ture evidence to show that member
what the people whose vote the MEM
Der would cast thought and how they
wanted that vote to go.
The News Leader has done Senator
Watkins an injustice. 1t misled him.
The people of the Sixteenth Senatorial
District have refused TO accept the
New Leaders Interpretation of tenn
perance sentiment in that district,
They have refused TO accept Senator
Walking Interpretation. They have
nominated another man.
And ts1e most unkindest cut OF all
is the News Leaders statement of the
reasons why the senator was defeated.
II says:
He was defeated on account of his
persistent antipathy TO the enabling
act. which he voted against consistent
Is in the upper branch OF the General
Assembly"
We really think Mr.. Watkins has
ground for action. against the News
Leader for misinformation.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
NEGRO BOY ARRESTED
BREAKING SWITCH LOCK

Richard Alexander, a sixfeen-y year
old negro boy, who Is charged with
attempting to wreck a Chesapeake
and Ohio passenger train at Potomoi
siding, near Atlee station, Hanover
County. and who was yesterday
lodged in the Henrico County Jail,
will be given a hearing before
magistrate this morning at o'clock.
The boy is said to have admitted his
guilt to detectives who placed him
under arrest.
The negro is accused of breaking
the switch lock at Potomoi Creek
and causing the derailment or the
engine and baggage car OF passen-
ger train No. 46. which was due N
Richmond Wednesday afternoon. =
arrived late that night. Alexanoer'
whose home is said to be n 6po.-
sylvania County, was placed u01
arrest at boswell.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
AN EARLY PEACE?

Press dispatches Of one OF the
foreign agencies insist that Germany
looks for the END of the war before
winter, and expects the allies 10 sue
Ter peace. The same agency claims
that the munitions problem In Eng
lard is far more serious than was
eyer supposed, and has not been great
III remedied. Finally it holds that
Euxiand looks to the operations at
The Dardenelies with the expectation
10 early victory, and with victory
fhere will be willing to consider terms
40 peace.
This is the German position. On
ne other hand the British leaders
united with the people ali over the
empire this week in a solemn pledge
g1o conduct the war to a triumphant
sIepnclusion. In the words of former
Rrenier Balfour. England will fght
a&o victory"
Predictions, however, are growing
Hore frequent and positive that there
IN be an early and sudden peace,
his paper has predicted all along
& Nhaf the peace would come suddenly:
has not been so evident that it
puld come before another winter.
he failure OF the British offensive
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06

The attention of the esteemed
though frequently hysterical News
Ieeder Is respectfully requested. Let
that attention he directed to the coun-
tfer of Chesterfield, Goochland ana
poyhakan, composing the Sixteenth
Senatorial District. After an examina-
ZION of ssae returns from that district
indicating, according to the columns
of the News Leader itself of yester-
day the defeat OF the incumbent, J.
g. Watkins, by DIR. r. 8. HeninG, we
respectfully direct the attention Of
the esteemed News Leader to its files
for February. 1912.
In, February. 1919. the enabling
act was before the virginia state SEN
ate. 1t was defeated in part by the
vote OF Senator j. B. Watkins. Other
votes contributing TO its defeat were
those of Senators r. X. Brock. A. r.
Hobbs Bland Massie. and John A,
Lesner All five OF the senators who
cast those five wet votes have been
succeeded by dry men, four by the
road Of primary nomination by the
voters and the other by the con-
venient route of Federal appointment
which spared the individual concerned
defeat at the hands of the Citizens
party Of Norfolk.
If the News Leader will examine it,
fIles OF that year and that month, II
will discover that in February, 1912,
ii was quite violent in its denunciation
or tsae claim made by the Anti~Saloon
League OF Virginia that Senator Wat
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
.CONFESSES WRECKED
SCENIC LIMITED
Pennsylvania I'm Jail at Salt Lake
City says He Has Wrecked
Other Trains.
LET MEMORIAL CONTRACT
Memory of Mckinley Honored--Car-
rama General Apologies For His
Filler Crossing National Boundry
Ldne-HoId Railway Head.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. g.
Harry G. Hontz, who gives Leigh
ton, Pa, as his home, is in jail here
today, having surrendered TO the po-
lice last night and confessed that he
wrecked the Scenic Limited, on the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near
Springfield, Utah, last Monday. when
several cars left the rails and many
persons narrowly escapeu injury.
Hontz said he threw a piece OF
angle iron under the train as it was
passing to avenge himself on the rail-
road because a brakem a had elected
him from a freight train. Hontz said
he was arrested by Thomas Burge.
then a special agent for the Southern
Pacific and now of the Denver and
Rio Grande, in Nevada, in 1910, and
sent to prison for wercking a soma
phore and sending a handcar against
a mail train at Fernley, New. The
story was confirmed later and Hontz
was recognized as the the man Burge
had arrested and convicted in Me-
vada.
Hontz told the police he was re-
sponsible for several other railway
wrecks and also the burning OF the
Lehigh Valley Station at Ulster, Pa,
June last. He said he was in the
Government Hospital For the Insane
at Washington for a time when
member of the United States Marine
Corps.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
.Anologf1es to II. 6

Douglas, Ariz., Aug 5.-Frederick
Simpich, American consul for Sonora
has received from General P Elias
Gales Carranza chief now attacking
Nogaies. an apology for the flight Sat
urday of an aeroplane across the in
ternational border. when a bomb and
proclamations warning noncombatants
were dropped in the Mexican city The
apology, made known here today. was
in response TO a message from Simpich
demanding an explanation.
The Carranza commander stated he
was unaware that the machine had
crossed the line and gave his assur-
ances there would be no repetition of
the incident.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
CARTER WINS WITH
old NAG'S HELP
Defeating Russell for Lieutenant
Governor.
PRIMARY NOV. 80
Man Arrested In San Antonio Charg-
ed With Threatening Lives OF Both
President Wilson and Roosevelt.
Color Line In Alabama.

Mobile. Ala. Aug 5.--A Jackson,
Miss. special says r. Bunyan Carter,
OF Amite County, has been elected
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, defeating State
Senator Lee NJ. Russell, a Bible ally.
overwhelmingly.
carter made a remarkable race, be-
ing wholly without campaign funds.
he was unable even to pay railroad
rare and rode over the State with an
ola gray horse and buggy and made
personal solicitation for votes.
Carter had an almost even break on
the count in Lafayette. the home coun-
ty OF Russell.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
THIRD POPULAR MOUNTAIN Eek.
CURsION TO WESTERN NORTH
CAROLINA. TUESDAY.
AUGUST 10.

Southern Railway announces it,
third popular excursion 10 the noun
tains of Western North Carolina. 10
such points as ASHEVILLE, LAKE
TOxAwAY, HENDERSONvILI.E
HOT SPRINGS. ETC. ETC. tickets
limited fifteen days. not including data
OF sale. and good for stopovers at cer-
tain points. Round trip fares range
from $3.50 to $i1: tickets honored In
coaches or sleeping cars on regular
trains In either direction.
For further Information. descriptive
matter, etc, write
n. I. BIsHoP,
Division Passenger Agent,
Richmond, Va.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06

GIVES LIFE TO
SAVE ANOTHER

Norfolk. Va, Aug. 5.--After rescu.
ing Willard johnson from the Eliza.
beth River near Gilmerton yesterday
afternoon, Overseer Atkinson, ems
ployed on a nearby farm. plunged
again into the water to 60 TO this
aid Of William Johnson. Wulard's
brother.
Atkinson and William Johnson both
were drowned. The johnson boys
had been swimming and Atkinson
answered their cries for help,
The bodies of the victims were re-
covered after many hours OF search
ing. Atkinson's body showed that
the boy had chung to him with great
strength in an effort to escape death
in the river.