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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
THE ELEPHANT.

The return of a presidential cam
paign has melted much curiosity as to
the origin of the elephant as the en-
blem of the Republican party, an
origin which has been forgotten by
most of the present generation. The
elephant was first used to signify the
Republican party by Thomas Mast,
the famous cartoonist, in November,
1874. In a cartoon labeled "An ass,
having put on the lions skin, roamed
about in the forest and amused him
self by frightening all the foolish ami
mails he met with in his wanderings'
The ass referred to was a New York
newspaper, while the Democratic par
ty was represented as a fox, lurking
in the underbrush and contemplating
with apparent pleasure the foreshad-
owed plunge of the elephant into an
abyss designated as Southern Claims
Chaos" Various other newspapers
were represented by animals, all, with
the exception of the fox, in apparent
panic. Mast is dead and gone, but his
elephant so appealed to popular inn
agination that it will probably endure
as long as the Republican party as its
popular, if not official emblem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
Comments OF the Judge.

In the early days of Colorado, there
came into Denver a man who said
that he was one of a party of eight
immigrants who had been lost in the
SHOWS, that their provisions gave out,
and they had resorted to cannibalism,
casting lots each week to determine
who should die in order that the 9TH
ers might live. This practice was
pursued, he said, until he was the last
survivor, when he made a desperate
effort. broke through the SHOWS, and
reached Denver.
AS soon as the snow on the noun
tains melted party visited the scene.
They found the bodies of the seven
victims of cannibalism, but they also
found that the survivor had robbed
the bodies, and that the last three vic
tins had been murdered in their beds.
While they were engaged in the
search the murderer fled. His where
abouts was not discovered until nine
years afterward, when he was found
in Montana, arrested, and returned to
Colorado.
In the meantime a county had been
created which included in its boun-
daries the locality of the crime. and
John Packer was tried there, and con-
victed of murder in the first degree
The case was known as the cannibal
case, and became a cause celebre-
The sentence pronounced by the
presiding judge was a unique one.
John Packer" said he. you low
down ornery man eating son of a
bachelor, stand up. You have been
convicted of a crime more horrible
than any ever chronicled in the an
nails of criminal Jurisprudence. 1t was
an offense not only against humanity,
but against public policy. At a time
in the history of our young and ris-
ing commonwealth, when we was all
of us a doin' all we could to induce
eastern immigration, you discouraged
the incoming of people to our state by
KILN and eatin' up what was then a
majority of the legal voters of this
precinct of Gunnison county. 1 wish
I was able to sentence you to a slow
and painful demise, such as being
kicked to death by lame grasshoppers.
As it is, 1 give you the limits of the
law. / sentence you to be hung by
the neck on Friday week until you are
dead, and may the devil receive your
soul Mr.. Sheriff, adjourn court
Case and Comment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

snapshots of her, I do believe, taken
that season. 1 hated her till 1 heard
you were going to marry her.
They had reached the station. 1t
seemed years before he had put her
safely on the train, wired Hobart for
her and was finally alone. When he
called Beth up, she was out. Four
times he called. Then word came
back that Miss Wharton had just re-
turned from a theater party and must
on no account be disturbed. He walk
ed home three miles, through the
night, thinking.
The next morning Beth met him.
radiant and ready for their usual walk
in the park.
I'm so sorry dear" she said, ''but
women are perfect cats, and she only
wanted to tell you about Hobart and
me; so tried to keep you from going.
I refused him about ten times, Milt,
and I'm not one bit Jealous of her."
Milton stared thoughtfully at the
spring vista ahead of them. And he
had feared to wound her, and wanted
to teach her a lesson
why didn't you tell me you knew
him? he asked.
IT never even thought of him. Don't
you know, Milt," her voice was strong
with faith, when the real big love
comes into your life it seems to just
sweep away everything else. Besides,
I didn't want you to know L was-er-
lobbying. Isn't that what you call it ?
The woman's club I belong to is be-
hind a bill, something about fountains
at street corners, and we wanted him
to present it, so 1 wrote to him about
it and it comes up tomorrow. Aren't
you glad, dear? If you only could get
something into the papers about it, L d
| love you for it, Milt."
! Milton gloomed at the landscape,
realizing for the first time in his life
the underlying power of the eternal
| feminine.
I'll try he Copy
| right, 1916, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate
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Journal Entries

Much of the dross in life has con-
of the glitter to it.
j. + =
To carry her age we'll a woman must
necessarily drop a few years from it.
+ - =
Most persons who consider them
selves the. salt of the earth are usual
ly pretty fresh.
1, +
Not a few women actually seem to
enjoy the horrors and terrors of
/. = =
A wife doesn't often wait for her
husbands death to make an effort to
break his will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER.

Hark the bugle, loudly calling
Fearless Soldiers, join the fray;
Uncle Sam is calling heroes
To defend the flag today,
Do not dare to see it shattered
BY a worthless villains hand.
Wave the stars and stripes forever,
And protect your Fatherland-
Hark the bugle now is calling,
Shoulder arms without delay;
Go defend the cause of freedom
And the glorious Q. S. A,
Watchful waiting now is over,
Bravely face the deadly foe,
For your loved ones now are dying
In the land of Mexico.
Harki Your comrades they are calling,
Calling with their dying breath
Save our flag and wave it ever,
Wave 1t when we sleep in death;
From your duty do not falter.
Soon twill be the setting sun,
Rally round the good cid banner,
Till the victory. you have won-
When the days of strife are over,
In the watches of the night;
Angels will protect and guard you,
If you bravely faced the fight
You will sleep in peace forever.
Just beyond the silent grave,
While the old Star Spangled Banner,
Will forever DER you wave.
Bob Lawton, Topeka, Kan.
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THE HIGHEST CONTINENT.

Shortly before the war, DIR. Mein-
ardus, professor of geography at the
University of Munster, Germany, pub
lished his studies as to the size and
approximate elevation of the Antarctic
continent, writes Cyrus c. Adams in
the American Review of Reviews for
May. 1t has been certain for years
that the continent covers a large part
of the area within the Antarctic cir
Gle; and DR.. Meinardus concluded that,
considering the proportion of the Ant
arctic area known to be covered by
sea, the area of the land surface is
approximately 5,46O,0O0 square miles,
which is nearly one and a half times
the size of Europe and more than one
and a half times the size of Australia
This estimate has been generally ac-
cepted by geographers as not far from
the fact. DIR. Meinardus' deductions
as to the mean height of the continent
are even more surprising. From his
studies of atmospheric pressures and
temperatures and from other consid-
erations appreciated by specialists, he
concluded that the mean height of the
continent is $3.50 feet, with a possible
eIToi' one way OF the otner, OF oOV
feet. This conclusion has been intro
duced into foreign scientific tables and
books; and late last year the German
geographer Mecking referred to Mein-
ardus' demonstration of the surpris-
ingly high mean elevation" of the
Antarctic continent. There seems no
doubt that later studies will confirm
the approximate accuracy of Dr.
Meinardus's deductions. The mean ele-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
Household Hints


Baked Apples on a Bed of Rice
One cup cooked rice, one cup water,
eight apples, two tablespoons lemon
juice, two cups sugar. Press rice into
mold; reheat in steamer Pare and
core apples; cook in syrup made of
sugar and water until tender. Remove
apples; boil syrup until thick: unmold
rice; arrange apples on rice and pour
sauce around them. Sprinkle apples
with powdered sugar.
Entire Wheat Gems-Two cups rich
buttermilk, one egg, one tablespoon
sugar. one teaspoon soda, pinch of
salt, flour to make thin batter. Bake
fifteen minutes in hot oven.
Potato Fried Cakes-One and one
half cups sugar, one cup mashed po-
tatoes, two eggs, three tablespoons
melted butter, one cup sweet milk.
three tablespoons baking powder,
flour, grated nutmeg to flavor.
Rice Cake-Talxe some leftover
cold rice and beat into it one egg.
Make into cakes, flour and fry.
Potato Nests With Peas@Six boiled
potatoes, one egg (beaten), peas. car
rots, parsley. Mash and season six
boiled potatoes, being careful not to
add too much cream. Line we'll
creased muffin pans with the potato,
leaving a nest in the center. Brush
with beaten egg and bake until a
golden brown. Remove carefully to
a platter and fill center with creamed
peas and carrots. Garnish with pars-
ley and send at once to the table
Oatmeal Gems-Soak over night a
cup of oatmeal in a cup of cold water.
In the morning sift together one cup
of flour, two teaspoons of baking pow
der and a very scant teaspoon of salt
Add this to the soaked oatmeal and
mix thoroughly. Wet the mixture
with half a cup of sweet milk. thus
making a stiff batter; drop into the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
THE MAN FOR THE JOB.

In a forceful editorial in the June
Metropolitan insisting that prepared
ness is the big and paramount issue
before the people of this country to-
day. H. ]. Whigham writes:
THAT any other man than Theodore
Roosevelt should lead the fight for
preparedness is to our mind absurd.
He is the one man in public life who
started at the very beginning to set
the country right and who is unwaver
ing in his demands and who knows
clearly what he wants. Beside him
Mr. Wilson, who for two years in Of
flee has done no single thing to i'm
prove our naval and military re-
sources, who admits that our army
was not large enough to police the
Mexican border, and yet moved not a
finger to increase the army until he
actually went to war in Mexico, who
said a year ago that we should not
change anything, and now at last is
backing two most indefinite and in
adequate measures of defense, beside
Roosevelt Wilson is a pale effigy of a
leader. We need Roosevelt and no
one else will so well fill the emer-
gency. And what is most fortunate is
that the man who can bring the coun-
try to state of adequate prepared
ness is also great progressive. 1t
might have been necessary to choose
an organizer of a reactionary type.
Roosevelt is no reactionary. even if he
sees the need for shelving all questions
of social reform until the main mat
ter in hand is dealt with. He would
always be good president in any cir
cumstances. He is alive to modern
tendencies in a way that Wilson is
constitutionally incapable of being.
For Wilson thinks in the old terms of
free competition and a free chance
to cut each others Threats. Roosevelt
is far more up to date in his views
and has a more constructive policy.
We are indeed lucky to be able to find
man of his progressive ideas who is
also able to handle the present crisis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

leaf blew down onto the mud and left
mark, or a fish was washed up out
OF the river and lay upon the muddy
bank.
And there they stayed---the flower
print. the footprint, or the mark OF
a fish.
And the sun shone and made the
mud harder. And the winds blew and
covered the mud with SOIL And time
and nature changed the mud into rock
but still the print of the flower or
the foot OF the fish stayed.
So that when men with their great
shovels and spades now dig out those
very same rocks, they can see the
mark of the flowers and creatures of
long ago. And these rocks that tell q
story are called fossils; but, If you
like. you may call them old mud pies.
for that's just what they are.-(Copy-
right-Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

blow careless of the Smithsonian In
stitute to issue bulletin to the effect
that extracting nitrogen from the air
is not feasible? The appropriation
that congress is planning to establish
a plant to obtain a nitrogen supply for
commercial and military purposes in
this manner will undoubtedly be of
pecuniary advantage to somebody,
some of the worthy patriots for whom
congress is so solicitous about caring
ina financial way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08


A New Salad (serves four persons)
One cup celery and one cup raw
carrots put through meat grinder.
Mix with one cup walnuts or peanuts,
grind again. Mix we'll with three
fourths cup salad dressing. Serve on
lettuce leaf. Second grinding is for
the purpose of thoroughly blending
ingredients SO the flavor is completely
changed.
Cucumber Salad-Peel two good
sized cucumbers and one medium
sized onion; chop and let stand in
salt water two hours; drain. Serve
on lettuce leaf with mayonnaise.
Serves six persons.
Some Com binations-Lettuce, one
half tomato, chopped cucumber and
green pepper.
Lettuce, cream cheese, chopped pi-
mentos and olives. =
Lettuce, wilted spinach, hard
boiled eggs.
Tomatoes with mint chopped fine,
in French dressing
Dandelion, watercress and toma-
toes cut in quarters
These green vegetab les contain
necessary salts for the blood, the
lemon or vinegar furnish the acid,
and the oil an easily digested fat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Some years ago it began to dawn
upon us that we were acquiring one
1t took more cloth to make our clothes
and the tailor began talking about
raising the price from ST. to $19- Old
articles of wearing apparel that used
to button about us comfortably and
loosely so that we could turn around
in them and speak to some gentleman
behind US refused to negotiate meet
ing and our friends began to talk of
running us for alderman. That's an
old gag of course, but there was no
installing its significance.
Acting upon the perfectly good ad
vice of our friends we took everything
in the drug store except the soda
fountain and the cash register, but it
still chung to us like a brother or like
one of those rounded conservxtories
that is built right into the house in
the first place and meant to stay. The
anti-fatters got our address and
swelled the postal receipts of the gov
eminent at the rate of about twenty
six cents a day for a period of years.
We took all of their remedies, some
times two or three of them at once,
but they gave correct imitation of
congress by revising our waist line up
ward instead of downward.
Then a friend advised rolling. He
said Lillian Russell did it, and that
was enough, for we had always been
firm admirer of the beauteous airy
fairy creature. We got into our silk
pajams and rolled and rolled and kept
rolling. We tried it first in the par
Tor, smashed a $32 mahogany and
plate glass parlor plate case into
smithereens. upset Venus, giving her
compound fracture of the left leg
and broke three limbs off a gilt chair
that had come over in the Mayflower
and had always looked as though it
regretted the trip very much. We
rolled in every room in the house, and
rolled in the barn and rolled all over
the back yard and kept it up for six
Gays. Then we tried on our winter
suit and found it lacked about three
inches of coming as near together as
it did last winter.
They say that a rolling stone gath
cred no moss, but we have stopped
rolling, just the same. We have still
| got it.
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MEMBER:
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American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Germany's repeated endeavors to
Justify her submarine violations of in
ternational law because other tenets of
this law have been ignored by other
os the European belligerents falls wide
Of the mark of reason, and chiefly
because no violations of international
law that may have been practiced by
other European belligerents, the ones
that Germany protests about, involved
the killing, the actual slaughter of de-
fenseless innocents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Here is something for parents to
think about. According to one of the
speakers at the Methodist general con-
ference, more than ten million young
people in the United States, under 20
years of age. do not attend Sunday
school of any religious denomination.
course in Sunday school is as es-
sential for the children as is one in
the Three r schools
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

No wonder Villa and his band made
good of the opportunity given them
to escape. They are reported to be
mounted on United States cavalry
horses that were stolen in the raid on
Columbus. And they are still so well
in.the ring that they are able to con-
tinue their favorite outdoor sport of
raiding, although their activities in
this line are now necessarily confined
to Mexican towns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
On the Spur
of the Moment
An Alien.
BY ROY K MOCLTON

An Alien.
He stands alone, Il thing forlorn,
Far from the home and friends 10
sooth;
Far from the place where he was born,
Far from the happy scenes of youth.
His voice is still, his face is drawn,
AS though he had no friend ON earth.
The strangers view him and are gone;
They little value his true worth.
A stranger from distant place,
A humble stranger be it said:
Ambitions light has left his face.
His hope is gone, his spirit dead.
The salt aroma of the
He lately left clings to him still;
The past is but memory
His future chances are but NIL
He cannot see single friend,
No matter where his eyes may roam,
Who has helping hand to lend;
No dim reminder of his home.
One day poet came and then,
He found friend at last. indeed
Who took this stranger to all men
To his own home with utmost speed.
The tale ends here, but this is Fate,
Although we'd gladly tell you more;
The stranger is, we fain would state,
A Goldfish in the grocery store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

AAmong the reasonable reports from
Mexico is the one to the effect that
if there should be break between the
United States and Carranza the Viii
lfstas would forget their old scores and
gladly join forces with the de facto
chief against the Americans. And
there is no doubt but Carranza would
be delighted to have them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Most of the Gooseboners seem to be
pretty well satisfied by this time that
the summer to come in Kansas is go
ing to be a sizzler of intense proper
lions. All of which is also something
else for the people who are not par
tial to warm weather to worry about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Has Summer crowded Spring en-
tirely out of the place that is hers by
rights? 1t looks that way, and per
haps Summer feels perfectly justified
because Spring showed no inclination
To get on the job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo,
back from his junket to South Ameri-
ca. reports that the nations making
their homes there desire closer rela-
tions with the United States. Ffnan-
cial, probably.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
Something Dramatic.

II spik so 1eetle Inglis," said the
charming French actress, "zat hardly
know what to recite for re American
audience"
81 usually reci.e the multiplication
table in Russian responded the other
International star. THAT always
sounds impressive. -Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

1t seems to be DIR. Enricht's turn to
laugh at those who were laughing at
him for his Il cents a gallon gaso-
line substitute, that is if he has sold
his secret, as reported, for 100000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Was this an instance of love and
loyalty on the part of the girl. or
simply foolishness. One of the Sim
Fein revolutionists was married an
hour before he was put to death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Uneasy also probably lie the heads
of the folk in the towns along the
Mississippi when they go to bed at
night with the water in the river five
feet and more above the level of their
- snets
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Practical Prominence.

Practical PrOminence.
rs our friend a prominent and in
fluential citizen?"
Il should say SO. He is so prom
inent and influential that he could
lead lynching party without the
slightest fear of being recognized
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

why can't I come to see you Fri
day night p
Don't blame me- said the beau
tiful girl Our cook has the use of
the parlor Friday nights, under the
new domestic relations law"-Kan-
SaS CITY Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Stealing whisky in Oklahoma, a
prohibition state in name, at least, is
evidently much more heinous Of
Tense than selling it A man recently
found guilty there of the former crime
goes to the penitentiary for a term of
ten years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

How modest of the Navy League!
1t is suing Henry Ford for only $780,
O00 for alleged libel.
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prints Gust as you made a footprint,
in your pie with your kitty's paw; OF
flowers dropped off their stems and
dropped into the mud. Or maybe
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Stnte Journal is q member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganizatiJn, for the exclusive afternoon
publicatio in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose
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Salads.

buttered gem pans and bake for fif-
teen minutes in a quick oven.
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TERMS OF sUBsCRIPTIoN.

Daily edition. delivered by carrier. 10
cents week to any part Of Topeka or
suburbs or at the same price in any Kan
sas. town where the paper has a carrier
system:
By mail. one year. $3.50
BY mail, six months. 1.S0
By mall 100 calendar days. LOO
TELEPHONES.
Private branch exchange. Call $3.50 and
ask the State journal operator for person
or department desired.
Topeka State Journal building. 500 SO2
and SO4 Kansas avenue. corner Eighth.
New York Office. $50 Fifth avenue,
Paul Block manager.
Chicago Office. Mallers building. Paul
Block. manager.
Detroit Office. Kresge building. Paul
Block. manager.
Boston Office. aO1 Devonshire street.
Paul Block. manager.
The citizen., 1916-08-24
If I KNEW


II knew the box where smiles
are kept,
No matter how large the key.
Or strong the bolt, | would try so
hard
Twould open. | know, for me.
Then over the land and sea broad
cast.
I'd scatter the smiles TO play,
That the children's faces might hold
them fast,
For many and many a day.
II | knew the box that was large
enough
To hold all the frowns | meet,
| would try to gather them, every
From nursery. school and street.
Then folding and holding, I'd pack
them in.
And turn the monster key:\
I'd hire a giant to drop the box
To the depths of the deep, deep
The Keystone.