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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26

Schmandt came back and was done
over into a third baseman, a job he is
filling with skill. Olson still is at
short. When Chuck Ward returns
from overseas duty he will have the
time of his young life smashing into
that array of defensive and offensive
talent.
Jeff Pfeffer hasn't lost a ball game
SO far this season. Sherrod Smith has
won his first start with a shutout. Al
Mama uX is just beginning to show re
turning effectiveness. Leon Galore
has had some trouble getting started,
but looks mighty good.
When the Dodgers won their pen
nant they didn't look like a lot of
class. This year they have class, and
If they do win it will on sheer
merit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26

Mr.. Frank Meyer, Mr.. Wilbur Cole,
Mr.. Curtis Porter. Mr.. Henry Anton.
Mr.. Frank Fable. Mr.. Russell Zarker.
Nh Walter Mcpherson, Mr.. John Ell
lott NJ. Harold Nelson, Mr.. Albert
Cole. Mr.. Frank Mcfarland. Mr.. Fred
Fabin. Mr.. Roman Akers. Mr.. Ned
Fleming. Mr.. Ralph Oman. Mr.. Will
liam Macferran, Mr.. Lucien Thrill,
Mr. Francis Bobbit. Mr.. Harold Low
Mr.. John Parkinson. Mr.. John Long.
Mr.. George Greenwood. Mr.. Cecil
Tease, Mr.. Evan Brown, Mr.. Ray
Beers, Mr.. Byron Boone, Mr.. Arthur
Erickson.
A committee meeting of the d. A. r.
to make arrangements for Flag day is
called for o'clock tomorrow after
noon at the Chamber of Commerce.
The celebration will be held at the
home of Mrs Robert Stone. The MEM
bers of the committee are: Mrs.
G. Blakeley. Mrs. Chas. Whitmer, Mrs.
A. Marbu~g, Mrs. Robert stone, Mrs.
j. f. Gossett Miss Charlotte McLel-
Ian and Miss Margaret Weiss.
X X y
T Mrs. Noble Prentis, who has been
mothering the soldiers at the hospitals
in Riley and Funston, has a relic
which she prizes highly, given her by
one of the eight survivors of the Prin-
cess Pat regiment. 1t is a silver ring,
of Chinese design, worked out in col
ored enamels. In speaking of the
Germans, this soldier said that the
German women were meaner to fight
than the men. As proof, he showed
Mrs Prentis an ugly looking jack
knife which he had taken out of his
side after German woman had
slipped up and handed . it to him.
Miss Dorothy Shoop left for Quen-
emo this afternoon to assist in the
alumni reception program at that
place. Miss Shoop will play two num-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26
THERE'S A Man III OUR TOWN

Who thought it a great joke on
Governor Allen when he heard him
PACED in the bar of the Muehlebach
week ago. However, they didn't To-
cate the governor there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26
DODGERS SHOW UP
ALSO RAN Club Out for National
League Bunting.

The Brooklyn Dodgers, generally
looked upon as just one of eight clubs
making up the National league. de-
spite their championship class a
few years ago, are gradually growing
into pennant class. The return to big
league effort of Sherrod Smith yester-
day is anything but encouraging to the
other seven clubs. for it practically
had been conceded already that Will
bur Robinson had the class of the
league in beavers.
Robinson was dissatisfied with his
club just before the season opened. He
contended he had no infield. He
didn't like O'Mara at third base and
he didn't like Lew Malone at second
base Ray Schmandt had been injured
and could not be depended on at either
first or second. Jimn Johnstone. an
cutfielder. was battling the first base
job with more OF less success.
Since those days Robby has shared
Ed. Konetchy for the first base and
the big fellow seems to have started
in where he left off when he departed
from st Louis years ago. Malone was
sent to third base and Lee Magee. OBJ
tanned from Cincinnati to second: Then
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26

and Mrs George Thompson. Miss
Edna Herbst. Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder,
Susan and Billy Snyder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26

OBYNhRAMtLLA,ns JARRELLl

Mr.. and Mrs. j. a. Nicholas. 1913
Fillmore street. have announced the
engagement of their daughter. Mar
guerite. to Mr.. +. L. Loveless. the
marriage to occur in the early sum-
mer.
The girls of the Alpha Phi sorority
of Washburn college gave a Japanese
garden party at the Elks club Satur-
day evening. The chaperons were
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dotterweich and
Miss Elizabeth Bittman.
Those who danced included: Miss
Marian Moore. Miss Alice Morehouse,
Miss Ruth Lemon. Miss Mary Hillyer.
Miss .Ethe Bone. Miss Isabel Crawford
Miss Barbara Gault. Miss Ethel Cas-
tor. Miss Miriam Van Horn. Miss Bar
bara FARRELL, Miss Lucille Smith, Miss
Lucille Helm. Miss Margaret Lynch of
Salina. Miss Doris CARRIER and Miss
Emma Shaw of Holton. Miss Doris
Drought of X. L., Miss Gladys Scott,
Miss Frances Hammatt, Miss Hen
rietta Allen. Miss Eula Fleming. Miss
Pauline McNey, Miss Ruth TOmlinSOn,
Miss Faye Bonjour. Miss Esther Thorn
ae. Miss Rheva Bonjour. Miss Edna
Becker, Miss Mabel HOwartOn. Miss
Maybelle Howard. Miss Marie Moore,
Miss Marian Williams. Miss Edna An
ton. Miss Forestine Blank. Miss Orpha
Baughman, Miss Mildred Graham,
Miss Grace Quinn, Miss Georgia
NeeCe,' MISS ltutn HAWKS, MISS heIen
Hawks, Miss Charlotte Myers. Miss
Josephine johnson, Miss Ruth Marsh.
Miss Frances Olander, Miss Juliet
Hughes Miss Ann Weightman, Miss
Frances Myers. Miss Marjorie Blank.
Miss Charlotte West. Miss Esther Lau-
terbach. Miss Helen Necse. Miss Flor
ence Rowles. Miss Doris Rosser, Mr..
Chesley Mccormack. Mr.. Jack Mar
RAM. Mr.. Ward SummerVille. Mr..
Merle Rutter. Mr.. Ed Jones. Mr.. John
Heating. Mr.. Warren Mccoy. Mr.. Phil
Fable, Mr.. Maurice Dean. Mr.. Fred
Shaw. Mr.. Vincent Kerans, Mr.. CreiGh-
ton Smith. Mr.. Bryan Hoffman. Mr..
Arch FARRELL, Mr.. Arch Walters. Mr..
Walter Tadgy Mr.. Marion Smith. Mr..
John BauerIein. Mr.. Abe Hammatt.
Mr. Hamilton Chase. Mr.. Don Droll
Mr.. Walter Cole. Mr.. Don Mccormack.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26

Kansas City, Mo.-Rnce prejudice claims
three victims Thru mistake of at
tendant. several pumas but eight months
old themselves were put in a cage with five
African lions One puma is dead and two
expected to die.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-26
AUTO HIT MOTORCYCLE
III. p. Harold Slightly Injured in SUM-
day Morning Accident.

motorcycle and an automobil
collided at Fifth street and Western
avenue Sunday morning, resulting in
slight injuries to H. P. Harold. 433
Polk street. the motorcycle driver.
The automobile was driven by r. E.
Smith, 913 West First avenue.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

than that of the United States and
Canada combined there is scattered
to-day population of less than
100000 white men, In the vast
region Immediately north Of China
that to which the japanese are now
laying tangible claim to right of
settlement-between the Pacific and
Lake Baikal, there are fewer than
100000. The japanese plan is evil
IDENTIFY to assist General Kolchak, as
the other Allies and the United
States are doing with supplies, to
recover European Russia from the
Bolsheviki, and then to obtain in re-
turn either permission to colonize
throughout Siberia or to acquire an
extensive territorial transfer con-
tiguous to Manchuria, with coast
upon the Pacific One of several
reasons for the United States, if not
also for the Allies, in maintaining
nominal forces in Siberia is prob
ably to restrict this claim.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Eyes on China

For the moment American atten-
ton has been turned away from
Siberia and concentrated on China,
due to the special agitation which
President Wilson's Shantung settle
ment at Paris has created in this
country and to the propaganda
which Chinese officials, aided by
several Americans in their employ,
are conducting in this country. 1t
is the Chinese policy to embroil us
in trouble with the japanese, being
unable to protect their country with
their own inadequate military
forces. They are a nation many
times the size of Japan, with pop
ulation estimated to be between
300,OO0,000 and 40O,0OO,O0O and
with a territory in all greater than
that Of the United States. If they
were not a backward people the
United States and Great Britain,
through her colonies, would probably
consider the Chinese a greater men
ace than the potentially powerful
Japanese Empire, but China is un-
aggressive and defenceless. Hence
her appeal to America and to some
extent her hold upon this country's
sympathy.
Why is the Eastern Colossus in
adequate in her own defence? The
answer can best be given by de-
scrlbing the condition of this pecu-
liar people whom the numerous
American missionaries working
among them, almost without excep-
ton, admire and favor. What other
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Religions OF Country Totter

Many became Christians because
they received help or protection in
one way or another from the mis-
slonaries. Many were discarded
children, left in the roadways to die.
whom the Catholics gathered in.
chrlstened. raised and found work
for. In recent years Buddhism Tao
ism and Confucianism. the three
great religions OF the country, have
broken down and are fast disin
tegrating, while Christianity is alone
making progress. The Christian is
now no longer despised but rather
envied. The English language.
which many mission schools teach,
has been proclaimed by edct as the
hnguo ffa1ca Of the country. Many
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

himself, who had as their mission
to replace in the home circle those
who had gone to the front.
But it was too late to retrace his
steps. And his regrets seemed to
him as vain as his desires. SO he
leaned his elbows on his belvedere
and waited for the night to approach,
touching one after another of
the great living masses before
him and abolishing them in turn, so
that on earth there was no longer
anything but nothingness.
One morning the woman who did
his housekeeping and brought him
his provisions each day announced,
in rather hostile tone of voice:
"There is no more tobacco. There
is no more. And they don't know
when there will be any more. After
all, one can get along very we'll
without tobacco, when so many other
things more necessary are lacking
in this poor world"
Leonard made no protest. This
misfortune seemed to him a just
punishment for his egoism. Since
he had always lived for himself, in
the presence Of his dream, wasn't
it just that he, too, should suffer
from the general shortage Of things?
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

standards. Even in the period of his
ephemeral splendor he had not aban-
doned the studio of his apprentice
ship-a big room, high up in a Mont
martre building, in which he ate on
the corner of a table and slept
stretched on divan. 1t served him
also as dormer window open on
the world. At all seasons he saw the
city spread at his feet and the first
fringes of the countryside, with their
perpetually changing aspects. He
felt no need to go and study these
at shorter range. He created with
his eyes closed, following his inner
vision and the phantasmagoria of
his memories. He didn't wish to
be either accurate or precise, but
to suggest to men the idea of that
great unknown which always fasci-
mates them.
His only outing, when he took one,
was to go to the galleries and visit
the old masters. The Louvre always
excited his liveliest emotions. There
he found those who, before him, had
imprisoned their dreams in the
magic of colors, and in all countries.
under all skies, had fixed the eternal
in the smile of a woman or in the
restless eyes Of an adolescent. Why
visit far-off countries when one,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

ton of the Siberian Railway. and
on at least one notable occasion re-
fused to obey the orders of the
japanese commander-in-chief, an in
ciGent which, accompanied by many
evidences Of suspicion, caused the
Japanese more seriously to regard
Americas Asiatic policy as inspired
primarily by hostility to them.
Japan Would Col0nize
The Japanese government, press
end people have come to consider it
necessary to their existence and
protection to have an outlet for
their surplus population and an en-
plre from which they can draw
natural resources, and they find at
hand vast extent of undeveloped
territory in China and adjacent
Siberia, the latter being ample for
the settlement of millions upon mill
ions of their people, for though the
themselves to the more eastern sec
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

That creature had told the truth. He
could well renounce the sole enjoy
ment which was left him. He in
tended to renounce it in the future.
He took his pipe, cleaned it carefully
and put it in the case-from which
it would never again be taken.
But he felt clearly that his slender
portion of happiness was now ex-
hausted. This sacrifice, benign in
appearance, robbed him completely
of his faculty Of evocation. He had
no longer any zest in life. In the
evenings, instead of contemplating
the horizon, which melted in shadow
into the infinite, he turned his back
on the window, buried himself in a
chair and dreamed Of nothing.
If only death would come to carry
him away from this bankrupt scene
But it delayed. 1t preferred to take
the young and the vigorous, The
thousands and thousands of young
men whom it led in its train and
then moved down like the ripe grain
of the fields! But Leonard remained,
disdained even by death.
Nevertheless, one night, an idea
came to him. The next day he got
up early. He looked for his palette,
put canvas on the frame, fresh
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
The Last Sm0ke-By Jean Berthero0
Translate i[nmL McP

ened his brushes and began to paint
feverishly. He painted without a
model, as he had almost always done
since he had learned his art.
His little picture was almost moth
ing at all-hardly even study in
still life. It was the portrait of
meerschaum pipe, whence arose in
spirals thin, light curl of smoke.
Practically nothing at all But the
smoke it was that which repre-
sented the imponderable, the dream.
Never had the old painter attempted
anything which had cost him such
an effort. The pipe - that was
reality. The smoke - that was the
dream.
When he had finished he signed
it as did all the masters whom he
loved: Leonard pincit. Then he sat
in his chair and watched the smoke
which, light and impalpable, mounted
from the canvas and passed away,
no one knew where, into the domain
of the unreal
Toward evening the housekeeper,
although it was not her hour, pushed
open the door. She carried in her
hands, like something precious, a
little package wrapped in yellow
paper.
II found some. Here it is. You
can enjoy yourself"
But the old man rejected the be-
lated offering.
Thank you, l don't need any.
Give it to anybody you wish"
And he fell back into his dreams.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Chinese Field Artillery

which the feet was conducting upon
town across the river.
Chlna's appalling poverty is one
OF the reasons for the selfshness
OF her people. The great majority
OF them go through life with onlv
all occasional relief from the other
wise permanent pangs of hunger.
Tens of thousands die annually
with unabated regularity from star
walton. Many mothers in the poorer
quarters of every town and village
destroy female babies because thew
are unable to feed them. The par
ents frequently sell them into slav
cry, both honorable and disgrace
ful. In times of drought and fam
inc a regular traffic is conducted
in children. The price goes as low
at times as 25 cents for healthy
child, nothing being paid for a
sickly one. Under ordinary con-
dltlons strong young girl will
bring from $40 to $1OO. In or
dlnary times a regular practice of
stealing children prevails in some
regions. The local governments, be-
ing incompetent, are unable to pro-
tect them. The children are con-
veyed generally in boats to the
larger cities and sold privately.
Nominally slavery does not ex-
ist, having been abolished by an
imperial edict of the Manchu court.
but many rich men, even govern
ment officials, possess several wives
and a number Of purchased con-
cubines and servants. The late
President, Yuan Shih-kai, had a
very large number of living de-
scendants, numbering, it is said,
over seventy, although he was but
tifty-fve years of age when he died.
The Chinese are married by their
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or sixteen years of age.
Footbinding has also been abol-
ished by edict, but that practice
still prevails. Even the female
children Of beggars are submitted
to the terrible torture in order that
they may find husbands, for a pref
udice resembling superstition pre-
walls against the woman with ordi-
nary feet.
The father of family has the
power of life and death over an of
spring. He may slay son as we'll
as daughter, and no law restrains
or Furnishes him. The writer knows
of a case Of a policeman in Pekine
whose infant, boy, had been weak
from birth. The mother became fond
of it and wanted to keep it, but the
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

pations. The latter Japan desires
to forestall and prevent. OF course,
the japanese are also inspired by
ambition, realizing that if they con-
troll Chinas vast population and
wealth the empire they create may
rival that of the famous Kublai
Khan and make them not only
wealthy but able to defy the world.
China has been seriously handi-
capped for want of money since the
republic was established, and since
the European war began she has
been able to obtain important loans
only from Japan. These loans are
usually given with security that
further impairs China's sovereignty.
There is an opinion in Western
countries that China possesses a
modern army. This is entirely fiction.
Nominally, China's standing army
numbers 100000 men, but prac-
tically this army is ineffective and
incapable of defending the country.
The Chinese military service suffers
under the disability of being a de-
splsed profession. Men serve in it
only because 1t provides wages or
opportunity for graft or plunder.
The Chinese armies generally to this
day fight each other and sack each
others cities. Chinese students in
this country will argue that such
was the case formerly, but is not
today; but as rule these students
know less about their own country
than many American observers and
investigators. The reason that
Yuan Shih-kai, in 1915, when the
japanese made their famous de-
mands, carefully withdrew all
troops, both modern and old style,
from the regions Of Shantung which
the japanese occupied, was known
III Peking to be because he did not
wish any incident" to occur to give
the japanese troops excuse to pene-
trate the country further. Yuan
shih-kai and his foreign advisers
realized fully the hopeless incou-
petence of the Chinese forces.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

thanks to the miracle of painting.
can know and possess the universe :?
Leonard, returning to his studio,
on the top Of the hill, leaned his
arms on his belvedere and watched
the clouds of smoke rise in which,
for him, were condensed the life and
the thought of a people.
Then the war came. The works
of art were removed from the
capital. The old painter never went
out any more. Weary, forgotten, he
mad ceased to stick his thumb in his
palette and seat himself before his
easel. But the third companion of
his existence remained - his pipe.
which he lighted toward evening
while he recalled the past.
The idea that he had wasted his
life now tormented him. What had he
made out of his youth or his maturer
years? Nothing had occupied him
except that chimerical pursuit, that
illusion of glory, OF which he had
retained only 4 doubtful shadow.
He had never loved anybody. He had
neither wife nor children. He was
alone. And that seemed to him mon
strous, now that all the others were
united in a common concern. He
almost envied the fathers who wept
for their sons, and the old men, like
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Chinese Caralry Of the Commanding Officers Staff

should make such progress, the SELL
timental objection of the small mi
nority of educated Chinese might be
offset by the material benefit to the
vast majority.
Since the defeat of the Boxers in
1900, missionary work has assumed
a remarkably important place among
the Chinese. Prior to the Boxer
rising of that year the Christian
convert was more or less an outcast
among his people, like a Mormon
among US. Most of the converts
came from the lower or poorer
classes.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

A LITTLE over seven years
ago the world was amazed
< "A at the announcement that
the Oldest monarchy in the
world was about to become a repub-
lie, and few months later-for the
revolution was accomplished quickly
the news came that the reigning
.lanchu Emperor, child of about
oight years, would continue to
laintain his court and bodvguard
III vast palace inclosure that lies
north and south across the heart of
Peking. and whose very name rings
With romance and intrigue - The
forbidden City. Eight years prior
10 that the breakup of China was
being discussed. Russia was extend
!ng her sphere of influence" nearer
and nearer to the gates Of the capi-
5al, and the rivals Of that aggressive
country were taking measures to de-
fend their own interests in those