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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04

made some experiments in his labora-
tory with the aid of the famous Dutch
'ceIlist Michael Penha- A special APP
paratus is necessary TO conduct the
tests Against the surface of a revolv-
ing carbon cylinder is suspended
chalked point which is actuated by
slender wire attached to the must
clans finger. At each pressure the
tension vibrates along the commune
eating connection and records the
energy expended. At a recent test
Michael Penha at times raised the
point to distance equaling three
pounds in weight, that being the rec
ord of the forefinger. The pressure
alone required to produce the char
acteristically luscious tones of a simple
Bach aria averaged two and three
quarter pounds per note The total
energy expended amounted to nine
thousand four hundred and fourteen
pounds, or more than four tons. This
same amount of energy would be suf-
ficient to carry a laborer through his
entire days work. Yet it took but five
minutes for the artist to exert the
same amount of force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
NUMBERING" AND KILLING. :,

Plain, Simple minded Yankees. in
heritors of the up-and-down ethical
code of the Pilgrim Fathers, labor
under a sad misconception, it appears.
when they ina CINE that killing" and
numbering" are the same thing.
In Kentucky, they take a much
saner view of this question. according
to Eleanor Mercein Kelly, whose new
Kentucky novel, "Kildares of Storm -
is announced by The Century Co.
Mrs. Kelly says that in Kentucky
there is a subtle distinction between
these agreeable occupations, a dis
tinction that lies not so much in the
character of the occupation itself, as
in what people think of it.
In other words, a murderer is a
man whose crime is condemned not
only by the courts but also by public
opinion.
But if. when you have killed your
man. people in general think that
you ought to have killed him and are
justified in having done SO, you are
a killer" and you belong in a differ
ent class altogether
Evidently they don't love all their
neighbors down there. And will some
other obliging Kentuckian kindly ex-
plain?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
SAYS HE HAS SETTLED
State Fair Association Files Answer I'm
Darby Damage Suit.

Through Edwin McKeever, attorney,
the Topeka State Fair association filed
a separate answer in the damage suit
brought against it and Samuel Lux
and w. w. Webb a year ago because
of injuries alleged to have been sus-
tanned by R. E. Darby when a racing
automobile crashed thru the fence.
The answer alleges that Darby has
settled with Lux and Webb and that
by so doing he has relieved the fair
association of any further RESPONSE
bility. 1t also states that before the
automobile races were started en-
ployes passed around the track with
mega phones and warned everyone
standing around the track that they
occupied dangerous positions. 1t holds
that Darby was guilty of contributory
negligence when he continued to oc-
cupy a dangerous position after the
warning. The fair association asks
for Judgment against Darby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
JAYMAWMER uDOTS

stockton undertaken who now has
an auto hearse is advertising that
everybody is dying to ride in it,
Two cardinal principles of courtesy,
suggests Charles E. Sweet in the Hor-
ton ght-Commercial, are: Praise
the car you are riding in: Laugh at
the other fellows jokes.
Never endeavor to ingratiate your
self with Others is some excellent ad-
vice from The Square Deal, published
by the prisoners at the states peni-
Tertiary. If your personality is pleas
ing true friends will come to you.
What is tonsilitis? asks Ruth Alex
ander People in the Women's Column
of the Erie Record. and she proceeds
to answer to her own satisfaction at
least, as follows: Tonsilitis is a red
hot coal the shape and texture of a
cockleburr rammed amidships of your
esophagus and epiglottis. What
up, can't go down. and what's down
can't get up. It's lots of fun. and if
you want to find out the particulars,
come over and let me wish mine onto
you.
Some of the savory Potpourri served
recently by Tom Thompson to those
who get their food for thought and en-
tertainment out of his excellent How
ard Courant: Don't overlook that ev-
cry knock is boost. The mail order
houses get lots of their advertising
free. Love letters wouldn't be in
teresting if they were not full of in
nocent little lies. When a boy tells
the straight-out, unfeeling truth in
his letters, his love is slipping. :. The
young man who chases blondes usual
ly marries brunette. There are
still a good many men. all right in
most ways. who like money so we'll
they are not particular how they get
it. There's nothing much in a name.
Bourbon county, Kentucky, went dry
when they voted on prohibition, while
Christian county went wet . Most
any family can keep a COW, but it
is rare COW that will keep a family
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
EARNINGS INCREASE
U. p. Railroad Reports Net Revenue
of SSsS,775,507 Last Year.

New York, Oct 4-The annual re-
port of the Union Pacific railroad to-
day indicated earning of 1856 per cent
on common stock during the year
ended June 80, against 1923 the pre-
vious year. In anticipation of the
statement, Union Pacific common sold
at 1917 up one on the stock ex-
change during the morning.
Total revenue was $1o4.717,005, an
increase of $17.75S.710. The surplus
available for dividends and improve
ments was s3s,777.507. an increase of
$1O,3S4s4s and the surplus after
these items had been subtracted was
$13,4S7,s50. an increase of $685.
s1S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
CUT IMPORTANT NEWS
Censors Clip Story of Revolt in India
Against British.

San Francisco. Oct. All news
papers coming from India for the last
two months have had important news
slashed out of them by the censor, ac-
cording to a statement made by Rail
Chandra. publisher of the Hindustan
Cara. Reference to these events was
SciSSored:
Calcutta police numbering 200 re-
volted against the English officers
and marched on the army quarters.
The English were forced to call out
the troops. Twenty leaders of the
revolt were arrested.
Three Hindus, charged with MUIR
dering Government Treasurer Princely,
we're hanged in Lahore.
Three women of the educated
classes were imprisoned without trial
Mrs. Mozumahader, in Calcutta
Mrs. B. Kauer. in Bombay, and
Madame Cana, editor of Bande
Matrom, held in Paris
These events are claimed to have
caused a great sensation thruout
India
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the CHICAGO "a

[From the Chicago News.
Also the path of duty leads to ulti-
mate happiness.
Just now the closed season for coal
chuting is beginning to open.
Being good is very monotonous if it
shuts off our innocent amusemente.
The wife of a lazy man always
thinks that other people misunder-
stand him.
Courtship is the juicy grape and
marriage is the appendicitis Ger
tainly not,
1t takes a man to explain things to
woman that he doesn't understand
himself.
There's something wrong with the
small boy who isn't the victim of a
chronic case of hunger.
Ever notice how few people there
are present when any one happens to
say something nice about you?
A successful financier is a man who
can separate other men from their
money without the aid of a sandbag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04

With the individual bankers of this
nation loaning the Entente Allies ad-
eitional sums to the aggregate OF
500, 900, 900 and within q brief period
of ninety days, Germany, perhaps,
may well be pardoned for making
wry faces again at the neutrality of
the United States towards the Eu-
ropean belligerents. OF course, the
United States as a nation has not par
ticipated in these loans or any of the
other huge ones that have been made
by Americans TO the enemies of the
c ntraI Powers, and there is no ac-
tuaI violation of the neutrality laws of
the world in the making of these loans.
But the practical effect of them is to
strengthen materially the sinews of
war of the Allies, and it is conditions
and not theories that are facing the
Teutonic alliance these days. How
ever, Germany would probably have
little difficulty in negotiating a big
loan in this country, il there were any
way 10 get it or its equivalents to Ger
man shores. In other words it is the
control of the seas by Englan7 ID
Der allies that gives them the advan-
'tage of bartering as they will with the
individuals of neutral nations. And it
is an advantage fairly earned by the
naval preparations that Eng and has
made for so many years for just suc.l
an emergency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04

Mr.. Rees is an able newspaper man
and has frequently refused public Of
flee. He did serve for one term in the
state senate, but declined renomina-
ton President Wilson appointed him
a member of the commission to the
Mediterranean in the interest of the
Panama-Pacific exposition in San
Francisco. His work took him thru
Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Bull
garia. Rumania and Italy. where he
negotiated with the rulers of those
countries. His work was highly COM
mended at Washington.
He was chairman of committee
which secured by voluntary subscrip-
Iion over 100000 for a centennial
building at Springfield; was active in
a legislative and practical way in the
building of good roads in Illinois and
in obtaining the appropriation for the
Illinois supreme court building; was
an important factor in securing per-
manent buildings for the Illinois state
fair and for the erection of great
armory built in Springfield. He has
been identified in many ways with the
commercial and industrial develop
ment of his city and state; is promi-
nent in the affairs of the Associated
Press, serving for many years as
chairman of important committees.
He is an extensive traveller abroad and
at home, and has written several
books on travel Some years ago he
visited Topeka for several days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04

imagine this serious, gray-eyed girl in
pillows of frivolous finery.
TELL me something" He leaned
forward eagerly. 1--WE dreamed of
your gray eyes all fall and think
Heaven sent me here today to find
you. Isis there any prospect of your
making your own wedding lace? l
must know it if there is
''None that I know off, she an
swered. Then briefly But 1 would
MT waste the time on myself; there are
so many more wonderful things to do!
I think I'd look up at the sky and
trees so long I'd soon grow a neck like
the little girl in the story and have
to carry my head around on a wheel
barrow"
81 love you." he whispered tensely.
Suppose, dear little Miss Gray Eyes,
you give me chance to take care of
you. If you'll marry me we will take
whole days and weeks and months just
looking at the sea and trees and sky.
Will you, dear?"
For an instant she hesitated. Then
she looked at him and smiled
Copyright, 1916. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
MYSTERY is UNSOLvED
Officials Remain Silent on Death of
Three Spinsters.

Lancaster. Ohio. Oct. 4.-While the
funeral cortege of the Smetters sis
tiers, Agnes and Alice. wound slowly
up the hillside to the little family
burying plot today, an inquest into
the death of the two maiden ladies
and Miss Mary Stretton was in full
progress. with officials remaining
mysteriously mute to the theories of
the cause of death. Found dead in
their rocking chairs last Sunday night
no one has yet been able to advance
clue as to the cause of death.
Asphyxiation is generally blamed.
but asphyxiation by what poison
fumes is unknown. Coroner Bugh.
after a night inquest, admitted today
that he was baffled. Congestion Of
the lungs points to asphyxiction, but
no leaks in gas fixtures or pipings
have yet been found as the source of
the poisonous gas. Following a clue
which may point to murder by poison,
the stomachs of the three women are
being analysed By state chemists who
refuse to divulge what their analysis
mas shown thus far.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
TO JOIN HUGHES TRAIN
Topeka Woman Will Meet Party at
Chicago Tomorrow.

Chicago, Oct. 4.-Chicago was the
Mecca for women interested in poll
tics today and every train brought
some who plan to join the Hughes
woman's special due here tomorrow.
Mrs. Thurs.on Ballard of Louisville,
Ky: Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chi
cago: Mrs. Noble Prentis of Topeka,
KAN: or. Hazeltine Stephen-Waiker
and Miss Harriet Nittum of Chicago
will join the campaign special here.
The train will leave Chicago early
Friday morning Rock Island. ILL.,,
will be visited during the forenoon
and in the afternoon Cedar Rapids and
Waterloo. Iowa, Minneapolis and st.
Paul will be visited Saturday. From
there the women will go to the coast
thru Montana and the Dakotas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04

The comments of coal men in all
sections are fully warranted. declares
The Black Diamond, one of the i'm
portant publications devoted to the
coal trade. when they say that the
present market is abnormal. There
are all of the excited buying and the
advancing prices which accompany a
genuine famine for coal, and yet in
very few parts of the country are fires
necessary. and in other parts only
light fires are maintained. Thus there
are all the Accomplishments of a
famine when coal is hardly being con-
sumed. And the explal alton is that
the people want TO put in some coal
but are not able to buy it. because the
coal supply is scarcely up to the de-
mand these days and because the car
Shortage that is pretty general all
over the country, is responsible for
unusual delays IN getting the coal
from the mines to the local coal yards
in anything like adequate quantities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
THE NAruRALIzEp ALIEN.

The land l claim claims me.
II holds me sacrediy its own. and
For it's best welfare will both light ana
die
II such a sacrifice shall be
Part of the great necessity
The land / claim has made
My chance for victory, for strong success
In other climes my triumph would pc
less.
For here has freedom truly laid
Each open path of honest trade.
The land l claim has left
My hands unbound, my will at peace
Rich are the blessings, precious the re-
lease,
From chains whose links were cleft
Ere hope my soul bereft.
The land 1 claim claims me.
And she shall find her foster-soldier true
To this her flag, the red, the white, the
blue,
Though kith and kin shall cross the sea
To call me back to loyalty.
ALurana Sheldon in New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Your opinions are good until some
body else presents better ones.
\ = X
The really skilled workman at any
trade or profession is seldom out of
job.
X X X
Every man is a most remarkable be-
ing in his own eyes at least. So is
every woman.
X X X
Probably the easiest thing in the
world for a man to do is to excuse his
own faults.
X X X
If it didn't pay so we'll to be decent
there'd be many more of the other
kind of people in the world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
WHAT 1T COSTS TO RUN A FARM


Operating expenses for the average
eastern Nebraska farm, according to
surveys made by the farm manage
ment department of the Nebraska ag
ricultural college,-and conditions in
this respect should be about the same
in eastern Kansas,-total very close to
$1,000 a year, or from 81 to $3.50 per
acre.
This figure included depreciation
charges on buildings and machinery
and the value of all labor. including
that of the farmer himself, at the rate
of wages for hired men. 1t does not
include the interest on the value of the
land. On 500 land. this would be at
least SIS per acre; on $3.50 land, $3.50.
or as much as all other expenses COM
bined.
Operating expenses are about the
same on all farms with the exception
of the extremely large or extremely
small farms, regardless of whether or
not they are showing loss or return
ing a profit
This is evidence that it is impossible
to reduce the expense of operating q
farm below a certain point, and that
profits are not made by reducing ex-
penses but by increasing farm receipts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
PLAYING THE CELLO.

A simple air played on the vio-
loncello calls for total expenditure
OF energy equal to two and three
quarter pounds per note or more than
four tons of energy for the single
selection. notes the Popular Science
Monthly for October. This statement
is vouched for by Professor Poffen-
berger. Of Columbia university, who
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
TAKES OUT CHARTER
New Owners of Horn Planning Mills
Capitalize at $4,000.

A cha rter was granted today by the
state charter board to the Curtis
Towle & Paine company of Clinton,
Iowa. The ca itsl stock of This COM
pany, to be used IN Kansas, is $75, 200.
The company recently purchased
the holdings of the E Horn Planning
Mill company, of Topeka. and has
purchased warehouse and added ex-
tensively to the business of the old
comDanV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
LOOKING TO CONGRESS
Publisher Illinois Register Had No
Opposition in Primaries.

An interesting campaign is on in the
Twenty-first congressional district of
Illinois, which is the district in which
Springfield, the capital, is located.
Hon. Thomas Rees, publisher of the
Illinois State Register, had no oppo-
sition at the Democratic primaries
held last month. He received prac-
tically the unanimous vote of his party
and as the district is ordinarily Demo-
cratic, he has confidence that he will
he elected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04

The fact that fashions for women
have recently been the antipodes of
the Noah's Ark fashion-plate (sGe the
toy shops), is made evident by Laura
I. Baldt in Clothing for Women"
tLippincott's). A series of illustra-
tions showing all the historic types
of costume for women brings out this
fact, though Miss Baldt omits to say
anything about it. It also points out
TO the observing eye, that only at few
periods have feminine fashions been
equally free from Mrs. Noah's concep-
ton of what was proper The Greeks
and the women of very recent days
were least affected by her notions.
But, alas! Signs now point to a return
to the styles affected by the Mesdames
Noah, Shem. Ham and Japheth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04

II may be interesting to the rather
numerous Hkulele enthusiasts in these
parts 10 learn that this Hawaiian"
musical instrument was originated or
invented by Portuguese. who is still
at the head of a ukulele manufa ctur-
ing plant at Honolulu. Therefore, the
ukuleIe falls far short of being a
musical instrument that has been
handed down by the Hawaiians from
the remote periods of their race. In
other words, it is not a native Hawaiian
instrument, although it is INDECENT to
those islands, and the original ones
being made from the koa wood of that
land. 1t is this wood, properly sea-
soned and properly shaved and fitted
that gives these instruments their
delicately peculiar tone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
DINNER STORIES

What have you to say for your
self" asked the indignant householder.
carefully covering the burglar with
his revolver.
After thoughtfully considering the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
KATY workers GET Raise.

Kansas City. Mo. Oct. 4-Unorgan-
lied classes of laborers on the KATY
are t. get more pay. Increases vary
ing from 3 to % per cent. effective
October J. were announced at Par
sons Kan. Yardmen. employees in
warehouses and freight departments
are affected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
Leave ChaIrmanship vacan,,.

New York, Oct 4.-The position of
chairman of the Northern Pacific
board of directors was left vacant bv
the directorate meeting today. George
T. Earl was named third vice nresi-
dent, and e. A. Gay was appointed
secretary and assistant treasurer, sue
ceeding Earl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Annotated Press and receives the full day
felerraph report Of that great news or
eanfzation. for the exclusive afternoon
puhIica ton in Topeka
The news Is received in The State Journal
building over wires for this sole purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04

Mrs Commuter had lain awake
with a headache till one o'clock Then
in the balance of the night she had
responded to several calls for drink,
a doll and all the other nocturnal in
fautile orders At five in the morn
ing, as she was just beginning to
round out the first continuous hour of
slumber the little six-year-old girl
called softly from her nearby crib:
Mother
No answer Again, a little louder:
Mother
Mother said nothing Again the
child's voice. this time mezZo-forte:
Mother"
Well. what is it ?''
Mother. isn't it too bad that one
of Harry McCole's poliiwogs died?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04

The rainfall during September was
deficient in almost all parts of Kansas
and at the end of the month more
rain was needed for sowing wheat and
the termination of wheat already
sown. Only a few of the western
counties had as much as an inch of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-04
ON SPUR OF
TME MOMENT
A Needed Invention.
NJ KOY II. MoULT0N.

When icy northern billiards blow
About our trembling knees
And play a game of hide-and-seek
Right thru our B. V. DIS,
Us folks are praying for the time
To hastily come when
Some genius will get up a fad
In summer furs for men.