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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
LITTLE SULLY COMES THROUGH

youngsters. Never had to. so far.
Still, settin' fires is kind Of serious
and II 1t was done out of pure cussed-
ness"
"Ah!" says the Hon. Hi. NOW you
are taking the proper viewpoint. I
think two or three hours will be long
enough for you to investigate. And I
trust you to act promptly. shall cali
at your house about 8 o'clock this
evening to have you assure me that
the punishment has been thoroughly
administered. The matter Of settling
the material damage can be taken up
later"
With that ultimatum he stalks off,
jumps into his car and leaves Sadie
and me starin' at each other blank.
"The ideal" says she. "Why should
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20

Say, what's the grand ideAt" I
comes back at him. Don't think I'm
any arson expert. do your Why ask
me?"
Because it may develop that you
are more interested in this affair than
you suspect" says he.
"Eh?" says I. gawpin'.
This fire." he goes on, was delib-
erately set by gang Of boys, and
am sorry to say McCabe, that we have
good cause to believe that your son
was among them. If not the actual
leader"
"sully" gasps Sadie. clutchin' my
army panicky.
There, there" says I. Lets hear
the rest Of this. What makes you
think my boy was in 1t, Dishler7'
"This for one item" says ne, pro-
ducin' a document envelope and fishin'
out Of It a small sized handkerchief.
Sure enough, there in the corner is
one Of the markers Sadie sews on all
Of Sully's things.
That was found. with an empty
gasoline can. in the ditch here" says
the Hon. HI. Smell 1t, please"
didn't need to hold it very near to
get the scent Of gas on It. either.
Things was lookin' squally for the
house Of McCabe just then.
II don't believe a word of It," says
Sadie.
Mothers seldom do believe such
things" says Dishler, with one Of them
undertaken smiles of his. "Unfor-
tunately, though. facts are facts. But
this Is not all. The attempt to destroy
several hundred dollars worth Of prop
erty having been discovered promptly
and the damage limited, these youthful
outlaws returned some time during last
II you will step down the street short
distance, McCabe. will show you"
Well, stepped. So did Sadie. The
Hon. Hi. he stepped on ahead. And
at about the fourth billboard he stops
and waves his hand dramatic. 'Therel"
says he. THE second outrage"
I'll admit 1t wasn't real polite Of
me to smoker just then. specially when
you consider who was submttttn' the
exhibit But 1t slips out before could
smother 1t. And l expect It'll be q long
day before 1 can think Of what he was
pointin' out so indignant without q
chuckle. For one thing. 1t was done
so ingenious. This particular billboard
was devoted to advertiser Monkey
Brand laundry soap. And there was
the monk. painted vivid and life size.
with the upper half of him sawed out
and stickin' up above the top Of the
board. You've seen the Same thing,
and read the motto: Always look for
him on both sides Of the bar-Mason's
Monkey"
Well. what had somebody done but
taken one of the Hon. HIS old cam.
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When we get to this side street that
runs down as far as the railroad
stops just at the beginning OF the limo
of new billboards that the Civic So
ciety has done so much grumblin' over.
Here about two acres have been fenced
in, with three sides covered with ad-
vertising signs. l was Just noticin'
where 20-foot gap had been burned,
wipin' out perfectly good corset ad.
and eatin' into q Drink Whisko" an
,nouncement, when the Hon. HI catches
up with us.
We'll, McCabe." says he. what do
you think Of that?"
oh" says I, ut does kind of mess
up the landscape, but"
II am not referring to the sign
boards" breaks in Dishler. but to the
damage which has been done to them"
"Oh. I get you." says I. THE burned
area? How did 1t catch?"
ut did not CATCH" says he. 1T was
a case of incendiarism. The fence was
set on fire, maliciously."
well, WE'LL" says ]. Il remember
hearin' the alarm. One evenin' early
in the week. wasn't 1t? Not such
fierce catastrophe, though. should
say about s25 would cover"
THAT Is hardly the point" says he.
1.-THE question ia. McCabe. can prop
erty be burned up at will IN this COM
munity2" t't'i '8st1 t'"'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21

The long drawn out struggle be-
ween labor and capital seems about
3 be transformed into a contest be-
ween labor and the people. The
Plumb plan for adjustment of the rail-
Dad problem would eliminate capital
ntircly from consideration. The rail-
bay employees chose to demand in
yeased wages. They were granted.
ot once but several times. The en-
Sloyer. the railroads. owing to the in
'reased payroll and the Inadequate
'atos. not only earned no profits but
! He'd mp a deficit. Bankruptcy would
lave resulted but for the fact that the
ines were a the time under govern
bent control, and the bills were paid
the nation at large. Now the en-
lloyeS demand, not only the assured
rage which is their economic right,
ut the profits which inherently be-
png to him who takes the risk. The
here fact that there are no profits
oes not discourage them. Given con-
rol OF the lines they will raise rates
till higher, and IL this is not enough
hey will call upon the national treas
~ to make up the deficit. In either
vent the public pays. Capital is out
Z 1t, for. its profits have been swept
way long ago. Manual labor plays
n essential part in the conduct of the
-orld, but it is by no means the sole
cement of progress. For it's contribu-
lon It receives an assured return.
Iorally this return should be a living
page affording the recipient means to
btain the necessaries and comforts of
fe and by thrift fortify himself
gainst uncertainties. Economically
he worker is entitled to just proper
lon of what he produces. To pre-
erve safe balance he should pro-
uce more than he receives, and a
reasonable residue should go to the
mployer who takes the risk of the
business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21
SANDRA REBELS.


clenched my hands. I commenced
to sob. I/wouldn't be a good wife.
and 1 wouldn't have children; he had
no right to love that other woman,
that Leola, when was his wife. In
my distress forgot that he would be
angry IL he found me in tears and
gave full vent to my feelings. He was
in the room before I had heard him.
what are you crying about?" he
asked, Does your head still ache?"
The idea that after he had talked
to me as he had just little while be-
fore he could ask me what 1 was cry
ing about just didn't answer at all;
1 only cried the harder.
You will make yourself Ill.," his
voice was not quite SO kind.
What made you marry me when
you didn't love me? You don't love
when you love that other woman"
but didn't dare.
II certainly shall not love you IL you
do not stop crying" his voice stern
with displeasure. thought i told
you / disliked a crybaby."
AS tried to control myself won
dered IL Leola never had cried. II she
had always laughed and that was the
reason he loved her SO.
Suddenly there came to me once
again my foolish Dragging speech to
Rose Grandon: He Is crazy to marry
me-"
He might have been. Surely all his
gifts and attentions looked that way.
But now I knew why he wanted to
marry me. Then 1 thought Il was he
cause he loved me. Now I knew II
wasn't. A good wife and children,
how 1 wished he hadn't said that. that
he had pretended he married me for
love. She. Leola. was dead IL
wouldn't have hurt him and would
not have been quite so miserable even
after 1 knew Of her II he had let me
go on thinking he had loved me.
stopped sobbing. Then 70 my sur
prise Everett leaned over the bed and
kissed me softly.
BE a good little girl and go to
sleep. You'll spoil your looks unless
you do"
Before / could say a word. he had
! left the room and closed the door. He
had not answered my question. neith-
er had he contradicted me when had
declared he didn't love me. But some
way his kiss, his sudden gentle speeeh
comforted me, and utterly worn out
I soon slept.
Once more he had gone to the Of
| flee without kissing me goodbye. L
realized when Hetty brought my. COZ
fee and told me that Mr.. Graham said
was not e, be disturbed
"You are worrying. ma'am- feel
very sorry told you anything
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21

first place this obvious fact: That
while production may not have in
creased at a rate sufficient to make
the entire satisfaction OF the worlds
needs a matter of less than years, yet
the great waste of staple commodities.
which the continued prosecution of
the war involved. has been almost en-
tirely stopped. The destruction of
life. too. has ended and the men en-
gagged directly OF indirectly in such
destruction are now, each of them, an
asset for constructive effort. During
the years that the war lasted. the
world was able to feed itself and
clothe itself. despite the great proper
ton OF its resources that were being
consumed in the struggle. That toll
is no longer being exacted and has not
been exacted since November II. The
world is. therefore. richer by the
amount it has saved by merely ceasing
to fight"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21

1t is claimed by the brotherhoods
that II the railroads were turned over
to the management OF a board two
thirds of whose members were ap-
pointed by persons on their roll, vast
economies in operating expenses could
be effected by unified operation and
better cooperation between the Off
GERS and employees. But, we have
unified operation already; and at least
80 per cent of the railroad operating
officials OF the United States are OF
the opinion that the Plumb plan would
destroy the last vestigs OF efficiency in
the operation of the railroads What
ever would destroy efficiency in the
operation of the railroads would nee
essariiy tend to increase the cost OF
living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21
WHAT OF MEXICO?

1t is not expected that the bandits
who are being chased by American
soldiers in Mexico will be overtaken
and captured. Shall we see the punt
tive expedition return across the Dor
preparation of another outrage,
knowing that 1t Is certain to come !?
The best cure for the Mexican disease
Is prevention. The national ailment
must be eradicated.
That the Carranza government
makes no serious effort to protect the
lives of foreigners or to avenge them
when murdered, there is abundant
proof. That the Carranza government
has made no material improvement in
conditions in AdexIco. either as to the
treatment OF foreigners or as to do
nestle affairs. is apparent That
there is no hope in Carranza because
when you have a gang of burglars.
every one of whom knows the other.
and thieves and murderers, and they
all support one another, you cannot
OF those who have been there and
have closely watched the progress OF
the government.
Carranza's system of misrule is so
simple as to amount to genius. He
surrounded himself with the worst
men in the country. and let them do
as they pleased. The result is a coun-
try that has drained the very dregs of
degradation and despair. All Mexi-
cans with spirit enough to resent the
spoliation and ruin of their country
are rebels or exiles-unless indeed,
they did not get away quickly enough.
in which case their physical remains
are still In Mexico. Those who remain
may be roughly placed in three CLASH
fications-a minority OF less than 5
per cent who, as soldiers or office
what they are getting out of 1t; still
smaller minority who are opposing the
government with arms. and the vast
30 per cent majority who are dumbly
submitting to spoliation and outrage
and murder.
William Gates, who was recently a
witness before the committee on
declared on oath that he felt himself
safer in revolutionist territory than in
Mexico City. He characterized the
army of Carranza as a gang OF muir
derers" and the Carranza government
as band of outlaws"
The Carranza government must go.
1t is vile, tyrannical, dishonest. and II
has not redeemed a single one OF its
promises, but on the contrary has
consistently from the beginning of its
power pursued mercenary policy
that is perhaps without equal in the
whole record OF Latin-American poll
tics. Venustiano Carranza is the
greatest calamity that has ever fallen
on Mexico. and he was inflicted on
that country by the United States
without whose support he could not
by any chance have come into power
The time has arrived when we should
right the great wrong that we have
done to Mexico. to ourselves and to
the world.
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Me and Pubs Simkins was wawking
up the alley and we came to the back
OF Skinny Martins house and climbed
up on the tents to wissel for Skinny
and wat did we see laying in the grass
but peetches, me saying. G, look at
the peetches in the grass, sumbody
must of dropped them.
And we sat looking down at them
and forgetting we had got up there to
wissel. Pubs saying, 1 tell you let's
watts do, Ill drop down and carry 8
of them into the kttchin and Mrs.
Martin will give me one for finding
them, and then you can carry the
other in and she will give you one
for finding those 3.
Wich we started TO do, me drop
ping down on the outside of the tents
and Pubs dropping down on the in
see IL I could heer. which, could,
Pubs saying, Good aftirnoon, Mrs.
Martin. 1 got up on the tents to wissel
for Skinny. and saw these peetches
laying in the grass.
Yes, sed Mrs. Martin, I put them
there to get ripe, you can keep one
for your trubbel but please put the
others back with the rest, and don't
allude to him as Skinny. his name is
Algernin. Meening Skinny, and Puds
sed, Yes mann.
And he came out with the biggest
peetch. and L went in and picked up
the peetches off of the grass and
went and looked in the kitchin door.
and Mrs. Martin was making dough
in a bowl in there, me saving Good
aftirnoon. Mrs. Martin, I climped up
on your tents to wissel for Skinny, AL
gernin, and 1 saw these 5. peetches lay
ing in the grass. y
o you did. did you. well, may be
an easy mark, but I'm not that easy
now you get rite out and put those
peetches back ware you found them
and go home and wash your face. sed
Mrs. Martin. And she shook one hand
at me so hard a peece of dough came
off of it and hit me rite in the eye
And quick put the peetches back in
the grass and went on rubbing the
dough out of my eye. and Pubs was
finishing the Taste bite of his peetch
as If he had Jest ate it in a fearse
hurry.
! Proving some of the best Ulcers awt
to ony be tried once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21

Instead OF devoting its energies to
|nacting needed legislation the house
Il representatives has been giving
nuch OF its time to repeating one of
he few meritorious laws standing to
he credit of congress. Perhaps the
nembers were trying to get even with
he president for not allowing them a
|acation. when they killed his veto of
he daylight saving repeal bill. They
Certainly were not paying attention to
he wishes OF the great majority of
he people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman wriisr.
The Poor Old FafhcF.-1.

Perhaps you read 1t in the paper
the other day. The story of a feeble
and decrepit old man who asked the
court to force his children to support
him.
'If 1 could work and feed and
clothe five children, and raise them
to manhood and womanhood, 1 think
that the five OF them. among them,
should take care of me now that
| am too old to work any more" he
said pathetically.
Let us hope for the honor OF HUI
manity that such cases, as this are
rare. and that not many men are so
unfortunate as to raise large family
without rearing some son or daughter
at whose hearthStone he is an hon.
ored and welcome guest, or having
some strong arm on which to lean as
he totters down the western slope.
No other crime is SO black as that
of fiiiaI ingratitude. God. Himself,
has pronounced a curse upon II, ana
woe betide the man or woman who
returns the love, and tenderness. and
self sacrifice that hedged in his or
. her childhood with the niggard crust.
and the grudgingly given y shelter
when the hands that have toiled Tor
| him or her are weak with age, and
the shoulders that have borne so many
burdens can no longer bear their load.
Duty to ones parents is an obliga-
| ton that can only be repaid in kind
| love for love, care for care. tenderness
for tenderness, patience for patience
and those who default on this great
| debt OF nature have failed in their
| first and most sacred obligation.
And for their sins they shall be bit
! terly punished. for as we SOW. we
| reap, and they, too. shall see the day
when they are scorned~ of their own
children. and their sons and daughters
wait irnpaA1ently for death to rid them
of the burden of q parents support.
or to divide among them Ms money.
In all the world there Is perhaps
no other figure SO pathetic and so
forlorn as that OF helpless and de-
pendent old man. Sad as Is the lot
of the poor cid woman, his IL sadder
| still. for q woman can fit herself in
| some sort into another's home better
than a man can. She can nurse the
| baby, and do little household chores,
so that she feels that she earns the
food she eats, and the roof that COW
| ers ser.
| But the old man has no consola-
ton. His hands are empty. His work
is done. He feels himself a cumberer
of the ground. and unless affection,
appreciation, and gratitude hedge him
| round. he tastes the bitterness OF
death itself.
>~A7 =
Copyright. 1910. by the Wheeler Syndicate
g. Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21

cause you. but I am weary beyond
weariness."
out of the darkness came a voice,
insistent, firm. and thrilling, with q
meaning that broke into her con-
sciousness. She opened her eyes. feel
ing strangely rested and at peace.
The lights were soft and shining in
the office. Kneeling<beside her. his
face strained with anxious question,
was Walter.
Doris, Doris, what have, you been
trying to do?' The grief in his voice
woke her to full consciousness. Sanity
came. With low sry she sprang up.
to find herself caught in his arms and
held tight.
Don't pity met" she begged breath
lessly.
His voice indicated that he had
found himself. II don't pity you" He
drew her close to him. II love you!
How blind you have been! Haven't
you seen 2"
SEEM You love me-me?" she
questioned in a whisper.
Listen, you stay in my arms until
I am thru. 1 do love you-have from
the time 1 saw you in the ward, but
you have given me no sign-wrapped
in your own thought; is that 1t ?"
But look at mel"
Hill mellow laugh relieved the ten
sion. That is It! oolish girl. 1 am
not one of those who love a face; I
love the spirit behind those brown eyes
of yours-a troubled spirit. now. Let
me bring it peace. May L? Just say.
'Yes!"
She chung to him. Speech was be-
yond her for the moment. After a
struggle she whispered: rand I have
loved you from the moment you
looked at me and spoke to me, but
1.-The dream begins now, my dear,
to come true" His lips brushed her
warm and Quivering ones. Let's close
the office. Then we'lI go for long
spin under the stars. We"
She remembered. Horror filled her
eyes. but I took morphine! Why
did"
NO" ne said gently, ct was worried
about you, and was fearful myself.
had filled that bottle with harmless
sugar pills. Little girl, have watched
you and kept ward over you. I did
hopes that you would take some IN
terest in me-"
The music in her heart died at the
shock of her recollection. At his last
words it started up softly. the music
that links eternity to eternity.
you love me-even my hideou,
| facet" she said again, as If the newI
were too good to be true.
He turned in his authoritative ply
sician's way. and going to the corri'
dor returned with a mirror. "Yot
sensitive soul. you ought to know those
scars have faded outi"
She took the mirror, wondering, &
last wonder surging- In her heart. Al
those long weeks she had kept hel
VOW never to look upon her marret
face. She took the mirror. his eye'
/ tender upon her. One glance wa.
enough. The blue, livid scars wer,
gone. Memories of them would re
main, but his love would heal 'evef
them with the balm that IS the sures
healing for all woes of earth-thl
| balm of a great love.
Copyright, 1910. ny the Mcclure News
pepper, Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-21

Living costs are high but there is
less suffering in the country and less
idleness than there was when prices
were low. A days work buys about
as much as ever It did and it is easier
to save something out of the pay check
than II was in times of low prices and
low wages. True the dollar that is
saved Is worth no more than so cents
but the time is coming when it will
be worth approximately 100 cents and
it will draw a good rate OF interest in
the meantime.