davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

ONE MISSIONER.
When Farmer Jones retired to
A life of ease in town,
He didn't know just what to do
To keep ennui down;
He said: For idling I'm not strong,
Life's dull in this Lere hub;
I'll go where rural chaps belong
I'll joint the Country Club"
So Farmer Jones paid in his dues
They took his breath away
And started in to air his views
Where club members held sway;
He thought to talk about the crops,
OF poultry, hogs and blight,
But when he switched to wheat or hops
His hearers said: Good nightv'
The members talked of tennis games,
And golf and bottle pool:
They talked of billiards. bowling frames,
And polo's latest rule;
Until at last the farmer said:
Il am one awful dub
But who was it-insane. misled-
Named this a Country Club?''
Arthur Chapman, in Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
Jayhawker Jots

1t occurs to the Atchison Globe that
a washer woman never has to take the
rest cure for what is the matter with
her.
It's strange but true, points out the
Madison News. The worst case of
spring fever does not impair the ap-
petite.
Few, if any of the local newspapers.
wherever hailstorms have operated
recently in Kansas, have neglected to
report the appearance of hailstones
Of the size of hen eggs.
There is one thing the Toronto Re-
publican likes about the woman can
didate She doesn't offer cigar on
which the wrapper is broken on ac-
count of being carried in her vest
pocket.
Ouch A certain man has not paid
his doctor bill recently, reports the
Marquette Tribune. The wife of the
doctor met the wife of the debtor on
the street and closed their visit by the
remark: You can, at least, pay us
a visit"
We never saw man who believed
in his heart that advertising did not
pay, declares the Arkansas City Trav-
eler He may say he believes it does
not, but at the same time he is willing
to take all he can get free, which
shows that he believes all right, but is
too much of a. tightwad to pay for it.
Observations by Click Fockele in the
LIE Roy Reporter: The workman who
doesn't turn up on time must expect
to be turned down. The pick
pocket is always willing to take things
as he finds them; so is the Shoplifter
o.. The greatest relief is that ex-
perienced by woman when she re-
moves her corset. The big trou-
bic about learning from experience is
that a fellow finds out a lot to his
sorrow. Some men spend life
time climbing high on the ladder of
success and then slide to the bottom
in mighty short time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
Globe Sights
Hard drinking makes a soft head.
By THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Hard drinking makes a soft head.
If a boy is mean enough or good
enough, he may enjoy school.
AS long as oratory will save the
country, it doesn't need saving.
Some men profit by experience,
while other men are ruined by it.
If it is true that the Lord hates
liar he has quite bit of hating to do.
About the time a secret ceases to
be monopoly, it becomes public
property.
Alb. Adkins says he used to have a
neighbor who was too blamed honest
to be polite.
More friends are of the sort who
will help you into trouble than will
help you out.
You are so blamed smart, you prob
ably know who pays for the barten-
der's diamonds.
Some men use awfully poor judg-
ment in selecting their curriculum in
the school of experience.
The theory that time flies didn't
originate with a boy undergoing the
last few days of school.
1t is quite possible to be in a posi-
ton to boss other people, but being
ones own boss is a privilege few en-
low
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

does not differ widely from many seen
- the stage today, the lines are those
of living human beings.
The story is built about a wild younr
man who retains his hold on his
uncles Golfers by persuading his
guardian to believe that the money
goes to good cause. Complexities
develop rapidly when the uncle calls
for show down. As last resort the
nephew rents a bungalow which he
passes off as an orphan asylum. But
1arce comedies are not meant to close
until all entanglements have been
Strengthened and the youn man NOT
only obtains his uncle's forgiveness
but marries the girls he loves
Neal Anderson, well known here
through his connection with several
STOCK companies. appeared to adyapt.
age IN the leading role. The remain.
der Of the cast almost without excen-
ton creditably handled the parts as
signed to them.
The cast included besides Anderson
George Platt as the Rev. Percivaf
Quicksilver; Miss Gladys Neal AZ c.
aldine Wheeler; Waldo Haywood a.
James Bascomb; Joe Risteen, Billy
"illoughby: Frank Fable, Keith Car
ter; George Thompson, Wilson Win
thro: George H. Shelton, Tom Thrict
morton; Merrill Gage, Rudolph; Arch
W. farrell. Roberts; Miss Marear RAT
Ray. Mrs Wheeler; Miss Alice Hugines-
Barbara Proctor: Miss Nanon Herren
MIS- Jemima Witherspoon, ana Mis-,
Antonette Clark, Sara Witherspoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
The Wink Is On the Blink.
Euening Chat
The Harm of Hate.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

eff there is any person whom you
dislike, that is the one of whom you
should never speak
I realized the full meaning of that
sentiment the other night when 1
heard a woman whom 1 have always
admired for her sweetness and san
ity, speak of another woman whom
she plainly hates.
Someone had CHANGED to mention
this woman and tell of some work
she had done on a philanthropic
committee.
Whereat the woman I had always
admired spoke. "Oh, is she on that
committee? she said. And then she
went on to belittle the work the COM
mittee was doing and to ascribe an
unworthy motive for the other wom-
ans interest in the work.
Her lips curled, her voice had a
hard, unlovely quality in it that 1
had never heard there before. In
fact, she was a changed woman.
Hate is an unlovely thing and 1T
makes those who harbor it and give
it expression unlovely.
1t twists their faces out of shape,
it puts ugly tones into their voices,
it makes them unreasonable and I'M
Just.
If people could see and hear them
selves as they appear under the do
minion of hate they would be care
full not to let others see and hear
them.
Perhaps they would even be wise
enough to try and conquer the feel
ing itself, knowing that If 1t can so
distort the face it must be poisoning
the heart.
There is an unfortunate idea cur
rent among men that there is some
thing to be proud of in hating peo-
pie, that it shows strength of char
acter. 'I like good hater," said DR..
Johnson.
That's all right if you hate the
sin and not the sinner. One might
even be forgiven if one confused the
hate of sin and sinner where some
big question of injustice or wrong to
the human race had aroused the
hate.
But that is not the sort of hate
that most of us harbor.
Hatred is the vice of mean souls;
they feed it with their littleness,"
says Balzac.
Littleness and envy and hate and
vanity-these are qualities that go
sneaking about together.
Envy of one sort or another, often
a sub-conscious envy that we have
never admitted even to ourselves. is
at the root of half the hatred in the
world.
Injured vanity accounts for an
other quarter.
Listen to and watch the next per-
son you hear speaking about some
one he hates. and see If you want to
sound and look like him.
And if you can't use up all your
emotional energy in love and friend
ship and sympathy, if you must hate
something, goodness knows there's
plenty of evil in the world to hate
AS a great philosopher once said,
Il will tell you what to hate. Hate
hypocrisy; hate cant; hate intoler-
ance, oppression, injustice, Phari-
saism; hate them as Christ hated
them-with a deep, abiding, God-like
hatred. '-lProte by the Adams
Newspaper service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

: There must be a lot of guesswork
IN these stories floating around Chi
cago and being sent from there all
over the country to the effect that
the "OId Guard" of the Republican
party is willing to swap everything if
it can have its own way in the matter
of naming the presidential candidate;
that it will write any kind of a plat
form that the Progressives. for in
stance, may desire if they will agree
to support anyone that the convention
may name as the party's candidate for
the presidency. Surely the "OId
Guard knows that the people cannot
be fooled in this crucial and critical
period in the history of the nation
with a platform of one kind and a
candidate of another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
Main Business Street To Be
AglOw With Color.
Flags, 1900 Red, White and
Blue Whirl-a-Gigs.
CLUB MEN TO WORK ALL NIGHT
Hard Work to Prepare for Wis.,
iting Kansas Merchants.
Toe Dancer, Fatty Arbuckle
and Others at Cabaret.

When Topekans awake tomorrow
morning and come down town Kansas
avenue will have the appearance of
carnival town. Fifteen hundred red,
white and blue whirl-a-gigs of para
fine will be whirling merrily in the
breezeS on the street car companyS
poles from the State Journal office
at Eighth and Kansas avenues to Cor
don street in North Topeka.
Nor will this be all the decorations
placed on Kansas avenue during the
early morning hours, in honor of the
visiting merchants who will begin
pouring in about noon. Commissioner
ton committee that he will place flags
on all the white way poles from
Eighth and Kansas avenues to Cor
don street. Retailers, wholesalers, the
butcher, baker ard candlestick maker
on Kansas avenue and all side streets
have been urgently solicited to put all
the flags and bunting they can dig up
on front of their stores and really give
the out-of-town merchants a treat.
assurances.
1t is no slight task confronting H. S.
Putney and c. H. Trap, members of
the decoration committee, to place
these whirl-a-g gigs, twenty eight, col
ors alternating on all the car COM
pany's poles. Twelve o'clock will find
along with eight workmen and a wag-
on of the street car company's work.
ing like beavers, rain or moonlight.
One hundred and eighty-two up
rights, 14feet high have been pur-
chased and holes drilled in them suf-
ficient in number to hold all the whirl-
a-gigs. These uprights must be fas-
tened onto the car companys poles
and the whirl-a-gigs, in turn, placed
in the drilled holes.
At Meeting Today.
Full particulars of the decoration
plans were unfolded today noon at the
Commercial club at a final meeting OF
manufacturers and jobbers. At thai
meeting r. R. Bair, chairman of the
banquet committee. announced thai
arrangements had been made to fee6
1000 visitors at the auditorium al
$50 o'clock Thursday evening. 1t will
be a regular cabaret affair, the pro.
gram promises.
First will be a Fatty Arbuckle il
a Keystone comedy, Fatty md Made
Adrift." Next regular, dyed in the
wool toe dancer. Next the lates
dances by Topeka's celebrated dane
ers. Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Jordan
Then an imported quarter, the "Rube
Qaurtet." And then a speech or two
one by Governor Capper welcoming
the merchants and another by George
P. Hayden, city attorney. Judge Dana
Will act as postmaster
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

Elihu Root gained sixteen votes in
the forthcoming Republican national
convention through a decision of the
national committee in determining the
contest surrounding the Georgia dele
CATION. But that leaves Mr.. Root still
several hundred shy of a sufficient
number of delegates to insure his
nomination. And if the truth were
known. the chances are that Mr.. Root
himself does not take his candidacy
for the Republican presidential nom
ination seriously
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
"SATAN CAME ALSO"

In Myra Williams JarreIrs latest
dramatic effort, Satan Came Also, .
a farce comedy teeming with. real
lines, =. picked company of home tall
emit appeared before two large audi
ences at the Grand opera house Sat-
urday.
A play possessing more movement
than the average is no common at
traction here But to have that cf-ort
come directly from the pen of a IF :
vorite daughter" is a treat that To-
peka probably never enjoyed before
last Saturday afternoon. Satan Came
Also is built on a strong and well
developed plot. While the comedy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

A Daniel of sheriff is on the job
in .Doniphan county. He equips his
jailbirds with knives and sets them to
work digging the dandelions out of the
courthouse lawn. And here's hint
to the state authorities. What ideally
healthful outdoor labor it would be for
the states prisoners, and in most
elevating environment. if they were set
to work in the same fashion on the
state house lawn; and what an I'M
usually rich field they would have in
which to labor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


lfrom the Chicago News.
Some men SOW cents and reap dol
lars.
A white lie doesn't travel far be-
fore it gets a black eye.
Beauty is a veil that hides many
feminine imperfections.
Brevity may be either the soul of
wit or the poverty thereof.
On the program of human events
women are the consolation race.
Spring fever is a charitable covering
for a multitude of Incidence.
A bathing suit that shrinks every
time it is worn may not be immodest
Baking powder manufacturers
should succeed in getting up in the
world.
Blind people are usually smart
they have sight of sense but no sense
of sigh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

Apparently it isn't the English navy
that has given such security and pro-
lection to the British Isles, as it is the
fear that the English navy has in
spired in others. All of which is also
more wonderful testimony of the i'm
mense value of a fine reputation.
Still, the numerically great navy pos
sessed by England hasn't been render
ed hors de combat as yet And
France also has a large and mighty
fine navy still in reserve somewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
Journal Entries

Almost any kind Of a coin is rare
one with some individuals.
r = =
1t IS usually the folk with mature
experience who shed tears at we'd
dings.
Vacation plans are simple things
to arrange when purses are of ade-
quate bulk.
= = +
Much valuable time is wasted by
not a few people in trying to rectify
mistakes that don't amount to any
thing.
Why IS it that temporary insanity
is never used for a defense by the
men who are sued for breach of prom
iSe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau OF Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.


Subscribers of the State Journal away
from home during the summer may nave
the paper mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents n week or
thirty cents a month (by mail only. Ad-
dress changed rs often as desired. While
out of town the State Journal will be to
you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on these
short time subscriptions, to save bOokkeep-
ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

THAT he has," laughed Miss
Chameleon, land If your mother had
trained you one-half as well as she
should have, you would have known
at once that Willy Wood-rat was
playing a joke on you. Nobody stole
your nuts-Wily hid them Now go
back and tell your friends, the owl
and the tree toad, what L have told
you"
Chippy was glad to do as he was
told, and you may be sure he laughed
at the owl and the tree toad, exactly
as Miss Chameleon had laughed at
him, for he was glad to know some
thing that they did not know-that
didn't often happeni
Then he wen back to the hole
where Willy Wood-rat had hidden
his precious nuts and carefully car
ried every nut back to his own pam
try hole. And now I'm wondering how
long Willy will leave them there,-
Copyright, Clara Ingram Judson-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

Now that Carranza has concentrated
so many of his troops in the northern
part Of Mexico, zapata and his fellow
bandits are busy again in the southern
part of that unhappy land. zapata is
as much of a Mexican pest as is Villa,
and anything that looks like peace in
Mexico will never prevail until he as
we'll as Villa is put out of business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

Apparently the foundations on
which rest the stock market are not
very firm affairs, when the news of
the British naval disaster was suffi-
Gent to cause slump in prices of
considerable proportions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

She-'I want you to forget that I
told you I didn't mean what I said
about not taking back my refusal to
change my mind. I've been thinking
it over and I've decided that / was
mistaken in the first place." DO you
really mean that, Isabel life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
On the Spur
of the Moment
The Modern suffragct.
BIZ ROY K. MOULTON.

I1c NkOuerll 0ullfdSct.
She does not look as once she did.
change we cannot fail to note:
The bloom of youth has come upon the
woman who demands the vote.
Remember what she used to be? An
ancient damsel with face
That would upset the old town clock
when she spoke in a public place.
An old poke bonnet, grim black dress
and side curls that defiance
screamed;
Of straight-front corsets, Marcel waves
and picture hats she never
dreamed.
She used to shout a wild harangue
and pound the table with her fist.
AS she demanded women's rights and
placed all men on Satan's list.
OF course she did her best, but some
how men refused to fall
For her insurgent arguments delivered
in the old town hall.
How different a creature is the dainty
modern suffraget.
With pleasant smile and piles of hair
surmounted with a trim aigret.
Experience has made her wise; she's
not defiant any more;
And, planning her franchise campaign,
she first goes to the dry goods
store.
Her arguments are of the kind she
knows will jolly men along.
She fixes it SO they can't fail to listen
to her siren song.
She doesn't hire the old town hall and
vain abuse and satire reel,
But at the quiet fireside now she
makes her eloquent appeal.
She doesn't call unpleasant names and
doesn't fret or fume or fuss.
She's going to win out some day. for
she certainly looks good to US.
Signs of the Times.
One crop that is never a failure is
the Ohio presidential possibility crop.
Judging by the odor of the cigars,
fine shape.
A New York widow says she can't
keep her little boy on $4,000 a year.
She viii find it much harder when he
is old enough to bring a wife home to
live.
The army in San Domingo has just
lost a general. but inasmuch as there
are nothing but generals in the army,
the country will try to struggle along.
General Obregon says: General
Scott is one honest man, anyhow" Was
he casting any reflection upon the
rest of us?
Washington reports an active de-
mand for asbestos. Must be going to
write some notes to Mexico.
The Wink Is On the Blink.
AT Adrian. Mich, the following sign
appears over the soda fountain in a
drug store:
DON'T WINK.
This is not an oculist's office. but a
drug store.
NOTHIN' DOING.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

Wigg-Saphedde seems to have
some difficulty in expressing an intel
ligent opinion. Wagg-Huh, Why
that fellow can't even express a trunk
intelHgentIy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

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 Journal
building over wires for this sole purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

Tuesday morning, June 6. at a. M,
the Swedish Bethel church will open a
Swedish school at the Sumner school
house at Western avenue and Fourth
street The school, which will be in
charge of trained teachers, will be free
to all Swedish children
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

Furtively he entered the costumer'a
establishment. Il should like suit of
mall he said. 'Armor, you know"
Yes, sill, replied the costumer. Co
ing to masquerade NO have
been invited to umpire baseball
game" explained the furtive man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

Horace G. Black of the Topeka Lo-
cal Union of Chistian Endeavor, will
leave Tuesday in the interest of the
union to visit in Chicago, and points in
Canada, New York, Washington, At
lanta, Ga; Birmingham, Ala, and
Memphis, Tenn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

For Sewer Pipe. Phone $50. j. B.
Whelan & Co.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
LOCAL MENTION

The Sewing club of Degree of Honor
No. &c will hold its regular meeting at
the home of Mrs. G. NJ Holmes, East
Indianola, Tuesday afternoon from
to O'Clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
Call 1877. Howard. for proper now
er harpening.-Adv.


Two small boys, each carrying a re-
volver fully as deadly a pop gun.
were picked up by the police today and
charged with carrying concealed
weapons. They gave their names as
Arthur Speer and Elmer Pryor and
declared they were seventeen years of
age, although neither looks it. Robert
Yates. police judge, looked them over
then took them to the Provident as
meal. The boys say they car me here
from Kansas City. but have not made
clear where they live.
Framing and silvering Coe, SIS
Kansas Ave.-Adv.
Lawrence police reported to the To-
peka police this afternoon that Orville
Stubs, fifteen years of age had run
away from home in company with an
other boy, and that they were headed
Stubs and he lives at Lawrence but
the police description says he has
black hair. The desk sergeant made
certain Of that.
The case against Katherine Tassell,
charged with violating the prohibitory
law, which was set for hearing in the
district court this afternoon was con-
tinued. The case was set for two diff
ferent days last week and continued
each time.
Robert Baker, charged with main
tanning a nuisance, pleaded guilty in
the court of Topeka and was SEN
teEced 10 Jail but released on bond of
5000 in order to go to work. His bond
was signed today by Kate Hoffman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

Framing and silvering. Coe, ses
Kansas Ave.-Adv
Arizona republican., 1916-05-09
AMERICA WOW RELIES UPON THE SCRUPULOUS
 EXECUTION OF POLICY
Republican A. P. Leased Wire)

WASHINGTON, May 0.-A note cabled by Secre- tary Lansing to Ambassador Gerard today for delivery to the Berlin foreign office informs the German gov enment that the United States accepts its declaratOn of abandonment of its former submarine policy and now relies upon scrpulOus execution of the altered policy to the principal danger of an interruption o the good relations existing between the two countries.
 With this acceptance is coupled formal notice to Germany that the United States cannot for moment entertain, much less discuss suggestion that respect by German naval authorities of the rights of citizens of the United States the high should i'll the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any oth CT government affecting the rights of neuras and cOmbatants. This is i'll reply to the concluding state ment in the last German note to the effect that while submarine commanders had been ordered to sink no peaceful freight OF passenger carrying ships without warning without safety for passengers and crew. the German government would reserve itself complete lber- ty of decision unless the United States successful i'll its efforts to break the British blockade.
 Secretary Lansing issued statement tonight saying that the greater part of Germanys to the de- mand of the United States devoted to matters which the American government could not discuss with the Berlin government, but he considered Germany had yielded to representations and that i've have to quarrel with her" long the altered policy is lived up to.