The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 7, 1908

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTONAlTtJESDAY CVEITOTQ. JULY 7, 1S03. topeli mn mmi. By FBAN'K P. 1IAC LENT AN. (Entered July 1. 1871. ma ?fd'SlfS? matter at Um poatoftlce at Toyaka. au. under the act of songre -J VOLUME XXXV No- 173 Official state Paper. Official Paper City of Topek- 'i'RM3 Of SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition. delivered Dy carrier. M eenta a weak to any part of Torek, or suburbs, or at the same price In any ea towna where the paper haa carrier ayatem. gy mall, one year S By mall, three months .-JJ Saturday edition of dally, one year... TELEPHONES. guajnoea Office J 2 Bnalneaa Offioe Kl Reporters' Room 2 Keportera Room t2 Tna Franit p, MacLemian Ind- TO PERMANENT HOMB. Topeka State Journal building;. na Kansaa arenue. corner of Blfbta. New Tork Office: Flatiron building, ex Twenty-third street, comer Fifth aveaue nd Broadway. Paul Block. "i"., Ch!cego Office: Hartford buUdJoe, P Block, manager. VULL T.KASKD WIRE REPORT OF THE ASflOQATEP PKES. The State Journal la a member of the Aeaocldted Presa and receives the full day telegraph report of that irreat newa or ganisation for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The newa la received t The State Jour nal building over wires for thla aole pur re. HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY. 1 Subscribers of the State Journal away during the summer may hnv the paper mailed regularly each day to any address at the rate of ten cents week or thirty cents a month (by mall only.) Address changed as often as desired. While oat of town the State Journal win be to yon like m dally letter from home. Advance payment Is requested on these short time subscriptions, to save bookkeeping expenses. It is reported that the Oklahomans are the loudest shouters in Denver for Bryan. That's merely because the Kansas delegation and their followers have not reached the convention city as yet. Toprka's Fourth of July celebration was quite as safe as it was sane. The accidents to children and others through carelessness In handling powder crackers and fireworks were a minimum in number. These reports that Count Bonl de Castellane is about to kidnap his chil dren surely must be idle. Since the Gould purse has been closed to him he has hard work In rustling up means to support himself. And what would he do with a couple of healthy youngsters on his hands? Many a man of less heroic mould would brave the dangers of a year's fight with the wild game and fevers of Darkest Africa if they could get their expenses paid and 11 a word for all the stuff they cared o write about the trip. An offer of this sort Is reported to have beeb.'rJiide- to Mr.. Roosevelt by the proprietors of several publica tions. A worse choice than Herman Rid der, the prominent German editor of New Tork, for their vice presidential candidate could be made by the Democrats. Mr. Ridder has an ex ceedingly strong following among the great throng of foreign born resi dents of the Empire state and he could come as near helping Bryan carry New Tork as any other man or any other force. Just because Delaware is a small state that doesn't prevent the Demo cratic politicians In it from having large ideas even if they are of such a unique variety as to border on the ridiculous. They are now suggesting Bryan's name for second place on the Democratic presidential ticket as a running mate for Judge Gray. The Democrats of Delaware may be safe all right but this Is an Indication that they are far from sane in this one particular, at least. Because this is a free country any man is entitled to espouse any cause he pleases aa long as he keep within the law of order and decency, so J. Ralph Burton, a former United States senator from Kansas, Is within his rights In Joining the Democrats. It is not believed that he was given any hearty Invitations to affiliate with them, for it la hard to figure out how he, discredited as he has been, could lend strength to the Democratic, or any other cause. Of course It would be mighty incon venient if the operation of the street cars was prohibited on Sunday. But there would seem to be as much labor Involved in the running of them as there Is in the conduct of the theaters. The ordinance under which the thea ters have been closed on Sunday, its validity being upheld by the courts. Is not specifically directed at the clos ing of play houses on the Sabbath. It is a general ordinance prohibiting all sorts of labor on Sunday. And what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander even If it Is a bit unpalatable. If this ordinance Is enforced to the letter Topeka on a Sunday will as suredly be a calm place. Colonel Jim Guffey of Pennsylvania rises to remark that Bryan is the most stupendous domineering boss the Democratic party has ever known. The same has been said concerning Mr, Roosevelt's relations to the Re publican party, and the latter has thrived particularly well under such conditions. Maybe the Democrats have needed Just such a boss as Mr. Bryan has developed Into. A good boss is the first requisite for the suc cess of any undertaking, but Bryan is handicapped In his position as boss of the Democratic party In that It is made up of such a great number of cantankerous individuals who abso lutely refuse to be bossed by anybody, no matter how good a boss he may be. When a majority of the party agrees on a boss or anything else the minor ity seldom if ever! acquiesces. They keep right on fighting their friends in their own party Just as hard, and often harder, than they do the com mon enemy. THE DENVER CONVENTION. Democrats from the four corners of the United States began their quadren nial national convention in Denver to day under all sorts of auspicious cir cumstances and there are indications on every hand that it will be a rather momentous one in the history of the Democratic party. Unless all signs fail it will be a convention from which all of the various factions of the party can depart with satisfaction and with the result that for the first time since the late Grover Cleveland last carried the standards of this historic organiz ation to victory the Democrats will en ter the lists against their common en emy, the Republicans, with a full and undivided front. And this will mean that a most Interesting campaign will be waged for the control of the gov ernment and one in which the Demo crats will have a better chance for suc cess than during any time in years past. Although it Is conceded that William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, will be the presidential nominee of the Dem ocratic party, the convention which Is on at Denver will be very Interesting to the people throughout the country and to the delegates as well. It is not known that the platform has been written in advance and there does not seem to be any indications that Mr. Bryan and his followers, who have a decidedly controlling influence among the delegates, will insist on everything going their way, outside of the nom ination of the Nebraskan, as did the controlling faction of the Republicans at Chicago. This bespeaks of a good old fashioned political fight over the platform and the vice presidential can didate, and from the apparent temper of all of the delegates these fights will be friendly ones which will not re sult in such hard and personal feel ings after they are over, as will make any of the participants in them per manently unfriendly to the nominees of the party and the policies endorsed by the -convention. From all accounts the proceedings of the convention will be carried on with a conservatism of utterance and action that will go a great ways in re gaining for the Democrats a good deal of the ground they lost during the last two or three campaigns when the party has been hopelessly divided because the conservative men in it could not see their way clear to support the candi dates and the policies put forward by the more radical members of the party who have been In control of the ma chinery of the conventions. To be sure a good many of these so-called radicals are on hand for this convention and are in positions of power In their party but they have cast to the winds a good many of their vagaries of the past few years and seem to have settled down to working out a Democratic propa ganda which will rehabilitate the par ty to something like Its old time strength and aggressiveness. THEODORE A. BELL'S SPEECH. If the speech which Theodore A. Bell of California, delivered today In his capacity as temporary chairman of the Democratic national convention, can be taken as a criterion of the proceedings of the assemblage that are to follow. It will go down in history as one of the most conservative of gatherings that has ever been indulged in by the Dem ocrats. There was no ranting and tearing by Mr. Bell, such as Is custo mary with Democratic talkers when they want to make political medicine. His remarks are conservative to the highest degree, except on possibly one or two occasions when he flays the Re publicans for the platform they adopt ed at Chicago. But he does not con fine himself to telling what the Re publicans have and have not done. He has plenty of suggestions couched in sound and sober language as to what the Democrats ought to do. This is also a trifle unusual, for generally the Democrats have seemed to content themselves In times past with declar ing that the Republicans are all wrong and let it go at that without offering any salutary remedies. And Mien there's another notable feature to Mr. Bell's speech. There's not a mention in it of Mr. Bryan who is to be, without doubt, the candidate of the party for president, nor are any policies mentioned as being his. Sena tor Burrows, the temporary chairman of the Republican national convention, was roundly scored for the scant trib ute he offered in his speech to Mr. Roosevelt, the acknowledged leader of the Republican party. In all probabil ity Mr. Bell will come in for a worse scoring from the admirers and friends of the famed Nebraskan. and the ac knowledged leader of the Democratic party. Senator Burrows did conde scend to mention Roosevelt's name but Mr. Bell Is as silent of Mr. Bryan as though no such individual existed. Starting oft with the assertion that the Republican party has not been true to the trust Imposed upon it but that it has betrayed the common Interest into the hands of the enemies of good government, Mr. Bell insists that way down deep in the heart of the Repub lican convention there was a feeling of anger and resentment over the popular clamor for reforms and that it is evi dent that there Is no bona fide intention on the part of the Republican party of granting any reforms. He declares that the Republican platform is made up of three parts, barren promises, makeshifts and evasions. A prominent part of Mr. Bell's speech is devoted to corporate abuses and evils. He insists that the Democratic party is not the enemy of property, nor the enemy of all corporations and that it is unjust to accuse the Democratic party of waging an indiscriminate war against corporations. It has waged and will wage,: he says, a war against the abuse of corporate power and will seek to eliminate this abuse. Mr. Bell deplores the fact that the control of corporations has been made a political concern. It's his idea that it should be a common concern and handled as such. But inasmuch as It has been thrown into the political arena Mr. Bell declares that it Is up to the peo ple to choose between the Democratic party that will, and the Republican party that will not; place some re strictions on incorporated greed. Mr. Bell argues that the Republican platform and the proceedings of the Republican convention are glaringly insincere in that they are made up of a lot of promises to do the very things which the Republican party has not done. And he scorches the Republi cans for the rather ambiguous anti injunction plank In their platform. At the same time he insists that the Democrats should put an adequate one In theirs. He calls upon his party to take a firm stand for a revision of the tariff laws in the interests of the whole people. He declares that publicity in campaign contributions are essential and says that the failure of the Republicans to favor such a proposition is a confes sion of the debasing and corrupt use of moneys in its campaigns. He asks the convention to define the Democrat ic attitude toward the regulation of transportation companies and cails at tention to the fact that the Demo crats are in a great measure responsi ble for the power that has been given the interstate commerce commission over the control of railroad rates for he says that President Roosevelt would have been unable to have forced the Hepburn rate act through congress if it had not been for Democratic help. It would be a good plan, according to Mr. Bell's ideas for the Democratic party to come out strongly for govern ment supervision over the Issuance of railroad stocks and bonds and also for the physical valuation of the property of the railroads as a basis on which to establish equitable rates. Mr. Bell also thinks it is about time that there was retrenchment and reform in the ad ministration of the ordinary affairs of the government. He strongly urges the direct election of United States sena tors and argues that so long as we main tain the present method of electing Uni ted States senators, we cannot hope that the upper chamber of congress will reflect the popular will. He also calls attention to the fact that the house of representatives on five differ ent occasions has passed a constitu tional amendment for the direct elec tion of United States senators but the proposition has been sandbagged in the senate on each occasion. Because he believes that the great commercial struggles of the future will be enacted on vthe Pacific Mr. Bell thinks that a great "portion" of the navy should be kept In those waters for the protection of the Pacific coast. He says also that the workers on that coast have been protected to some extent by the exclusion of the Chinese. He adds that this evil Is but half met if the immigration of other Asiatic people is not prohibited. He admits that the Democratic party realizes that America must inevitably play an important part in the settle ment of all the world problems and de clares that American weight and in fluence must ever be on the side of peace. Justice and the oppressed. And he concludes by saying that if the Democratic party is placed In power it will use it for the realization of the high American Ideals that raise our own people to loftier and better things and through our precepts and exam ples contribute to the well being and happiness of al! mankind. Mr. Bell's speech Is not long, as speeches of this sort go but it is a dignified and admirable assertion of old-fashioned Democratic principles as well as a sober exposition of new pub lic and political questions that have arisen. And if the Democratic con vention follows the lead taken by Mr. Bell Its platform and proceedings will be of such a conservative nature as to make a strong appeal to all factions of the party and to the people of the country. JOURNAL ENTRIES A dentist might properly be styled as an artist who draws from life. If a man is known by the company he keeps so ought he to be. by the company he keeps away from.

Perhaps there's one real advantage to this mail order business. A woman can't shop by mail. She can merely buy. Some men are gloomy because they cannot pay their debts and others are that way because they cannot get Into debt." Vaccination has this merit among others. It keeps some folks from playing the piano for a considerable length of time. JAYHAWKER JOTS A newspaper record has been estab lished at Ottawa. The Republic re cently printed a 16-page paper. This was the largest newspaper ever print ed for a regular edition in that city. Concordia people are incensed at an evangelist who butted Into the gover norship contest there by declaring that "the devil would get more votes in the average Kansas community than would Christ." Church note in Brown County World: "Donald Henney, the wonderful boy soprano, did not like the title of his duet. "Jesus, I Am Ready.' at the Pres byterian church Sunday, because of his nice auburn hair. Not many boys his age would have noticed the connection of the title with the color and It is doubtful if any boy his age can beat him sieging." KANSASCOMMENT THE FIGHT FOR PURE FOOD. it is reassuring to learn that the federal department of agriculture is going to push vigorously its war for pure foods and that ft will have avail able for the coming year a sufficient sum of money to promote this work. What the pure food law has done thus far is to take out of the market those former articles of commerce that were absolutely rulnou to health. It has not stopped adulteration, nor will It do it. mere are some adulterated food stuffs which are preferred by a great many consumers to the pure article either because thev hmv heenma used to them or on account of the lower price, and there are now offered for sale pure articles that previously were rarely found in the stock of goods of ny mercnant. Under the ODeratinn of the nuro food law, the customer may get Just what he wants. Extra quality means a nigner price or course, but he still has the option of taking the adulterated article at the lower figure, and in eith er event he knows Just what he is get ting. To what extent adulteration has been carried on for many years the buyer is Just now learning. On fully three-fourths of the foodstuffs offered for sale appears in conjunction with the name the word "style" or "com pound" articles many of which the patron had formerly been led to be lieve were pure. The pure food law still permits the use of preservatives, which are harmless, but it insists that the fact of such use shall be made known by the manufacturer to the public. The statute has not hurt the honest manufacturer, but it has ef fectively put out of business the other sort that was making millions by daily poisoning the American stomach. Leavenworth Times. LET THE GOOD WORK GO ON. The fact that twenty-four paper companies pleaded guilty to maintain ing a combination In restraint of trade and arranged to pay the fines imposed upon them by the court shows in a way the change in senti ment on part of at least some of the "trusts." A few years ago these same companies would probably have fought the case through the various courts, confident that they would be upheld and that their sacred business would not be thus ruthlessly Inter fered with; but now they know better than this. There have been many campaigns of education, but one of the most im portant has been the campaign of edu cation which has been carried on dur ing the last two or three years for the benefit of Illegal combinations. When the progressive Republicans took up the work of driving out unworthy business associations, when they be gan the active work of exterminating trusts and the fight on predatory wealth, there was such a shout as must have gone up when the walls of Jericho fell. Why, that was interfer ing with business, and business in this case had always been run upon a sort of "the-publlc-be-damned" platform. Not for a single' Instant did the va rious companies propose to allow their sacred business rights to be interfer ed with. But now all this has changed. Some companies which a few years ago would have thrown a fit at the idea, now claim to be perfectly willing to be "regulated:"' f'Qthers say they will take the public, Into their confidence concerning their, business and are willing to bear punishment for It. Such is the result of the campaign of education, but the end Is not yet. Let the good work go on. Salina Journal. FROM OTHER PENS CANADA AND IMMIGRATION, The Dominion of Canada Is still en couraging immigration, even pajing a commission for each desirable alien Induced to make his home within its boundaries. But its desire for popu lation is not so great now as to lead it to welcome anybody and everybody without question. On the contrary, it has become decidedly "particular" and has imitated the United States in adopting a series of restrictive meas ures designed to keep out, or to de port, new arrivals of certain objec tionable classes. A few weeks ago an order In coun cil was passed prohibiting the landing In Canada of any person whose pas sage money has been paid wholly or in part by any charitable organization or from any public treasury, unless a permit In writing has been obtained from the Dominion immigration agents in London and such permit has been acted upon within 60 days. This action is due to the fact that during the year 1907 Canada's Immi gration authorities were obliged to re ject as undesirable 141 arrivals and to deport over three times that number. An investigation had shown that cer tain philanthropic societies In Eng land were inducing emigration to Can ada under a mistaken theory of what the Dominion wanted that they were confining their operations to the "un employed, destitute and Incompetent." Now, the Canadian government real izes that many of the destitute and unemployed may have good stuff In them, the making of excellent citizens under healthier and better industrial and social conditions: still. It wants competent,, ambitious, industrious, hopeful men and women, not "fail ures" from the lowest strata of the old world's population. Chicago Record Herald. SOCIALISM AND WAR. George England, writing in the Re view of Reviews, contends that inter national socialism. Is a great peace maker in Europe. It has put a dam per on hostilities between the working classes of the different countries In volved. When this work is completed war will end, for without the masses who furnish food for powder, war will be an impossibility. The writer says that at the time of the Algeciras dis pute the Kaiser was pulled back from war with France by the threat of a general strike. He claims that the absence of bloodshed in the separa tion of Norway and Sweden was due to the same influence, and that or ganized socialism prevented the czar from borrowing money to repress revolution in Russia. Socialism Is strongest In the strong hold of militarism, the continent of Europe. Out of eight million social ists, three millions and a quarter are in Germany, a million In Austria, and more than a million in France. Throughout the whole of the armed camp of Europe the doctrine is spreading that the German is not the natural enemy of .he Frenchman, but his brother: that there are no natural enemies in the old international sense; that a man's worst-, .enemies may be of his own household. The influence of this teaching as a? solvent of mili tary spirit must be tremendous. Toronto Star. MORE,. HOUSEHOLD WOE. Life used to have a rosy hue. But now it's turning green. A meaMy verdanca meets my view In each domestic scene. I'm pretty sure I never thought I had the self-restraint That I hare shown since Mary bought That gallon can of paint. She bought it to renew a chair That age and use had worn. And ever since with blank despair And range and grief I'm torn. The color isn't to my taste. The odor makes me faint. But Mary doesn't like to waste She's using up that paint. Perhaps a pint had been enough Perhaps a little less; But there's a gallon of the stuff That causes my distress. She's freshened this and freshened that Til It would vex a saint. It is green as grass all through the flat Since Mary bought that paint. Chicago News. Tourist and the High Priced Candles. A tourist was shown to a room in a hotel in Brussels, where he found twenty candles stuck in a chandelier. As It was dark, the attendant lighted them all: but the guest had been in continental hotels before and made him put them out immediately. This was of no avail, however. In his bill next day he found them charged, "Twenty candles, 10 francs." The tourist thereupon went back to the room and took out all the can dles, wrapped each one in paper, and put them into his pocket. When he was about to leave the house he found the servants drawn up in two lines In the hall, ten man ser vants on one side, ten maid servants on the other, all smiling and ready for the expected tip. Then he drew out his package and distributed the candles, one to each. "Allow me, monsieur," he said with a bow; "permit me, mademoiselle. They are very superior candles, I as sure you. I paid half a franc apiece for them." and he left them all star ing at the candles in their hands like so many altar boys. Tit Bits. Hearing Restored by Base Drum. During a euchre the hearing of Mrs. Amelia Mens, living on the North Bend road, Cheviot, was suddenly re stored to her. She has been almost totally deaf for the past twenty years. The ailment was superinduced by sickness. Mrs. Menz Is sixty-five years old, and is the wife of a well-to-do farmer. She was playing in a euchre given in Rabenstein's Hall, near her home, last Tuesday evening. While occupy ing a chair near the orchestra the drummer gave the basa drum a re sounding thump. Aa he did so some thing seemed to snap in Mrs. Menz's ears, she says, and the noise in the room sounded, so boisterous to her that she says that it almost made her deaf again. She rushed from the room and stayed out for some minutes In order to accustom herself to the new condi tion. She says that she can now hear even a low-voiced conversation. Cincinnati Enquirer. Fought Rattler to the Death. Wilbur M. Tuttle, aged twenty-six, had a frightful battle with a rattle snake within the city limits this morning. Although he killed the snake, which measured more than four feet In length, Tuttle may lose his life, as he was badly bitten, one of his legs being swollen to twice Its natural size. Tuttle was walking down California avenue this morning when he heard a hissing sound, followed in a few seconds by a warning rattle. Tuttle Jumped aside, but the snake struck at him again, this time burying its fangs in the right ankle. Although suffering intense pain the young man went after the snake. For thirty minutes an exciting battle was fought. Finally, when he was almost uncon scious from pain, Tuttle managed to kill the snake with a stone, and then fainted. He was taken to a physi cian's office by several men who found him lying on the sidewalk. Pitts burg dispatch to New Tork Herald. Wins Bet on Keeping Silent. The open season for fool bets Is on In St. Charles, a suburb of St. Louis. That's the reason for the queer antics of Edward Boston. Boston went to work at 7 o'clock this morning to furnish diversion for a big crowd at Fifth and Decatur streets, the busiest corner In town. On a wager of $5 with six young men, whose names he would not divulge, he agreed to work ten hours without speaking to any one. All he had to do was to pile six bricks on the curb on one side of the street and then carry them over to the other side and pile them up there, and back again, and back again, all day long. Several hundred persons watched him as he trudged bacx and forth with the bricks. They asked him questions and hurled taunts at him, but he kept his lips tightly shut, and at 5 p. m. he had won the bet. St. Louis dispatch to New York Times. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. The poorer a play Is, the longer it Is. A woman never eats when she has anything else to do. The roses your hear of in cheeks are more often found in noses. When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say "he is better oft." When a girl marries her "affinity," her father usually has to support him. We are all outwardly more cheer ful about giving than we feel inside. When a woman starts out to' reform she only thinks of the faults of the men. People haven't learned anything with their years if they haven't learned patience. Every time a man Is abused by other men. It strengthens his memory for names and faces. What becomes of the brunettes when they die? Angels are always pic tured as perfect blondes. It costs a pile to buy an automobile, but if you want to sell one it is worse than selling bantam chickens. When a boy breaks anything, he la a naughty boy, but when a girl breaks anything, it is an accident. What has become of the old-fashioned woman who believed that when anyone told a story it would choke him?' Every young man feels as though he had received a cold shower bath when his best girl asks htm how much he gets a month. A mother washes her boy's face at least six times a day, for the first ten years of his life; 21,360 times in all. Is there anything else that could stand that much soap and water? When a boy says he hates to speak a piece In school, the older folks call him a booby, and think be is telling a story, but If you will try It yourself you will find" him in earnest. The only irae a henpecked man has the center of the stage at his home is when his wife thinks she hears a burglar in the house, and makes him head the procession to Investigate. THE EVENING STORY Nan's Experiment. By Cecily Allen.) ''The foundations of our social sys tem, are rotten to the core!" announc ed Nan, leaning forward in the great wicker chair to watch the progress of the little Italian across the velvety lawn. Her brother Bob sank even more deeply In his own cushioned chair and studied the smoke curling .upward from the tip of his very good cigar. "I told Uncle Henry this would be the Inevitable result of sending you to a western co-ed college. The social system here is quite good enough for me." Nan's broad forehead was puckered in a thoughtful frown. "Now take that young Italian fore man of yours, for Instance! What puts him in a different class from you? The fact that his father had not enough money to feed his big family and your father had too much money for the good of his two children." "Really," remarked Bob with eyes dancing. "I never noticed any com plaints from you about superfluity of cash." "Give that man a Fifth avenue tail or, a valet and a motor car and he would pass muster In our set, should er to shoulder with you." "I don't know about that," pursued Bob. "He might eat with his knife "Not after he had been told it was wrong," said Nan with conviction. "Suppose he were wearing corduroys for shooting instead of digging exca vations. Suppose he wore shirt sleeves on a tennis court or the links instead of In your employ. He would be a gentleman, one of your equals. He would look not a whit different from what he does today, but we would ac cept him socially, where today we re gard him as our inferior." Bob cast amused glances at a cor ner In the porch roof where two birds were busily building a nest among the vines. "And this is the modern wo man the effect of the higher educa tion," he murmured. It might have been the birds, coo ing and contented, or it might have Just been the love of mischief which some men never outgrow, even when, like Robert Darnton, they can count iron-gray hairs by the score above each temple. At any rate he sat up very suddenly and determinedly and regarded his sister quite seriously. "Have you the courage of your con victions? Are you willing to put your theory to the test? Will you let me Invite my foreman here as an equal, provided, of course, that I secure the stipulated Fifth avenue tailoring, the 'man' and the motor?" "Good gracious, Bob, you move to suddenly!" suggested Nan. "No time like the present, and I in sist that any one who attacks our so cial system should prove its rotten ness when she has the opportunity. I will invite my foreman here as a guest.. I will agree that he is properly coached for his part (it would not be fair to turn him loose on our unsus pecting guests without some training) and then I will wager you a diamond sunburst against a crocheted tie that you ask me to put him out of the house before the week Is up.' Nan's glance traveled "once more across the expanse of green lawn. The lithe figure of the Italian was Just dis appearing behind a clump of shrub bery. Well, In appearance at least, he could do the house of Darnton no dis credit. Anyhow, why should a girl who was planning settlement work for the fall shrink at the thought of hav ing one "case" in her home for a few days? She would have to live among them in the fall! "Well?" inquired Bob, watching her lovely, changeable expression with ap preciative eyes. "Let him come!" she answered with assumed nonchalance, and there was no denying it something of pleasure, that she was to meet again the glance of the Italian's wondrous brown eyes. Standing on the lower step of the porch, he had looked a veritable young god. "Only you are not to tell him that the Idea, the theory. Is mine." So did Vlncenzo Pantozi Join the In nermost circle of the social set graced by the Darntons. Came also a rakish yellow racer of foreign make, a man versed in all the mysteries of the tail oring world, and a wardrobe which was a credit at least to Bob Darnton's generosity. On one point Vlncenzo stood firm. He must be permitted to leave the house every morning in time to Join his workmen who were building the marvelous Italian garden at the lower end of the estate. If the fair chate laine often shared his early breakfast her zeal as a sociological student was to her command. Barring a few times when Vlncenzo gripped the wrong table utensil In his nervousness or dropped his spoon or fork, he did very well at table and there was no need of dread on the part of his hostess when the elaborate week-end dinner was scheduled. "It is marvelous what imitative creat ures we all are." she observed mentally. one morning. She had ordered the early breakfast served on the aide porch and the scent of honeysuckle was all over. And then- vlncenzo, looKing up. caugm something he did not know Jut what In her calm gray eyes, and promptly proceeded to upset a squat pitcher of cream. Every nisht Vlncenzo came in from the embryonic Italian gardens to be shaved and dressed by the stolid Englishman pro vided by nis nost. If there were no guests for the evening Bob went a-calling on his neighbors and the fair chatelaine found herself spinning In the moonlieht beside the nseudo owner of the rakish yellow car, who was taking to luxury and the social career aa a duck takes to water. To be sure. Bob suggested rather heart lessly that the week-end party had best be noatooned. It is one thing to conduct a social experiment, he remarked, and an other to explain it, when the experi menter was a charming young woman and the expenmeniea one wen, there was no use talking! Vlncenzo had proved no slouch! And on the evening of the sixth day Bob came home from the city late. Dinner had been served. The porch was deserted. No. Miss Darnton and Mr. PantozzI were not out motoring. The gentleman (what nice shades of meaning a stolid faced servant can put Into a simple phrase) had gone away In his car alone and Miss Darnton was In her room, quite ill with a headache. Headache notwithstanding, she burst Into her brother's study directly the ser vant had pone back to the rear of the house. Her face was quite pale. Her eyes Rhone with unnatural brilliancy from the center of the dark circles. "I've come to acknowledge my defeat. Bob." she said bitterly. "I'll start your tie in the mornirer and I wish you would see that Vin Mr. PantozzI leaves the house before I start the tie." "Whew!" gasped Bob. "What has he I done? Eaten peas with a epoon or de manded macaroni uncut?" Van 1- ..-J 1 1 I w..l mnA -icaMcu wcantjr bbwubv m her mouth drooped. "It has been a dreadful mistake. Bob. Don't Joke about It, dear. Vincenso to night he haa fallen In love with me'" Bob leaned back in his chair and laugh ed heartily. "Which goes to show," he gasped be tween paroxysms, "that your theory ia entirely correct. He fell right into our life, our ways. He ia one of us. I don't know a heart-free man in our crowd who would not fall In love with you if he had the opportunities of seeing you in your most charming, womanly moods, as poor PantozzI has. Don't blame him for that! It's a bad theroist who won't accept the results of her own experiments." "I didn't think you would take It like this. Bob. I thought the honor of the family Bob bit his Hp. Did he say anything that reflected on the Darnton honor?" "No-o. He was lovely, but a bit hys terical. He said well, you know what they all say that I was the one woman that ha was unworthy of me that he would not have placed me In such a false position but he should love me always and then he Jumped Into his car your car. I mean, and went down the drive like mad." "He didn't happen to say that he thought it a shame for a pretty girl to lose by trickery the best sunburst Tiffany could put up. did he?" "Bob." gasped his sister, leaning heav ily against the table, ""did ho know?" "Everything, my dear! Vlncenzo Is a chap I met Fn Paris, the younger son of an old Roman family, who have nothing but chapels and marblea and paintings which the state will not permit them to sell and Vlncenzo waa studying architec ture, with the laudlble Intention of earn ing a fortune to keep the confounded chapels and relics In the family. I gave him his first commission, and he has re tallated by demanding the hand of my only sister. That's gratitude for you! I'll send him packing In the morning," aald Bob with assumed fierceness. Then sud denly a figure all in white nestled against hia broad shoulder, a slim arm crept around his neck. "I'd I'd rather you wouldn't. Bob. "I need a new sunburst worse than anything else la the world, except" "A glimpse of Pantoszi's face at this minute and there's his car;" (Copyright ed 190S by Associated Literary Press.) HVMOR OF THE DAY Archie Pahdon me. but did you evah notice what lahge feet Mr. Stockyman has? Miss Capsicum I think I've never no ticed that but I have observed that he wears a man's size hat. Chicago Tribune. Blox A scientist claims that mental la bor Is one of the chief causes of a sallow complexion and wrinkles. Knox That may complain why our con gressmen preserve their good looks. Chi cago Daily Newa. "Why do people make so much fun of the spring poets?" "Because the spring poet have no un ion and are careless about voting." Chi cago Record-Herald. Sroawley Do you believe that money talks? Ardupp Tou bet I do. I no sooner Ret my hands on a dollar than It says "Good by." Chicago News. "Mr. Pursllngton says he believes a man should pay as he goes." "lns from the "v"v he ta Into debt he must be accustomed to traveling backwards." Washington Star. "What do you understand by the term crying evtl.T' asked the teacher. "A baby," answered little Dickey, who happened to be the youngest son of an apartment house Janitor. Chicago Trib une. Patience Which is your gift to the bride, dear? Patrice I don't know.- There are eight butter-knives, and for the life of me I can't tell which la the one I sent! Yon kers Statesman.

"Our engagement is so romantic. Not like other affairs." "How's that?" "Why, Freddy assured me that I am positively the first girl he has loved this season." Pittsburg Post. The veteran Senator announced that he Intended to resign. "No, I will not recon sider." he told hia protesting constituents. "This piece Is getting packed with fresh youngsters many of them not a day over SO." Philadelphia Ledger. "Do you ever meet Dr. Rybold?" "Of ten. He and I er are thrown togeth er a good deal. We travel on the same suburban trolley line." Chicago Tri bune. Mamma Good gracious. Georgle! What is the matter with Freddie Jones? Is the child having a fit? Georgie No, mamma. You know Fred die stutters and we bet he couldn't say "altitudinosity" before Bobble ran twice around the block. Puck. "Mighty bad to Tall by the wayside," saya a cheerful brother, "but it's worse than bad to lie there and holler when you might rise and run." Atlanta Constitu tion. Boss Do you believe that time la mon ey? Employe Yes, sir. Boss Then would you Just as lief take a month's vacation In place of that month's ealarv that's coming to you? Cleveland Leader QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. Some people are only tireless In making others tired. Many a girl who knows nothing about archery can draw a beau. All things equalize themselves. Find ing fault, for instance, is merely losing time. We should all prefer our friends to be close-mouthed rather than close fisted. There are lots of men outside the theatrical business who never had a show. Clothes may not make a man, but the lack of them would be at least embarrassing. "There is safety In numbers," quoted the Wise Guy. "And yet we are told that too many cooks spoil the broth," added the Simple Mug. Blobbs "It always takes a woman a long time to come to the point." Slobbs "You must have been watch ing one sharpen a pencil." Tommy "Pop. a rooster doesn't have hair, does he?" Tommy's Pop "No. my son." Tommy "Then what good does it do him to have a comb?" Muggins "Why did you give money to that bum?" Buggins "Oh.' I be- Iieve In casting bread upon the waters." Muggins "Well, I' guess he'll come back soaked all right." REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR, From the New York Press. 1 A nice thing about marriage is be fore you get into It. The nicest kind of a girl to kiss la the one whose mother thinks she wouldn't- A woman wants a course dinner If one of them haa to be bread and but ter. A man will take his own religion or -politics on faith, but he Insists upon the other fellow reasoning his out. There Is hardly anything that a woman enjoys more than doing some thing for charity that it wouldn't be right to do for anything else.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUniTALTUESDAY EVJTOIITO, JULY 7, 1C03. BATTLESHIP FLEET SAILS TODAY FOR THE ORlEfJT -ANNOUNCING OUR. 12 Sixteen Big Fighting Machines Start on a Yoyage Which Will Take Them Entirely Around the World. SPEltRY IN COMMAND. The First Stop Will Be Made at Honolulu. A. Week Will Be Spent at the Hawaiian Capital. THE LONGEST VOYAGE Erer Undertaken by So Power ful a Fleet of Warships. Will Tisit New Zealand Australia Enroute. and San Francisco. July 7. A splen did picture of America's fight ing strength on the sea -was presented today when the sixteen battleships of the Atlantic fleet, led by the magnifi cent Connecticut with Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry on the bridge, head ed out of the Golden Gate and bathed their bows In the blue Pacific. In Im posing array they passed beyond the headlands, out of the view of the thou sands of cheering watchers on shors and started fairly on the long voyage through Ave seas from San Francisco to Hampton Roads a striking demon stration of the power and efficiency of the United States navy. Sixteen battleships were in the Hnj, divided into four divisions, and two squadrons. In the first division of the first squadron were the flagship of Rear Admiral Sperry, the Connecticut, and her sister ships, the Kansas, Min nesota and Vermont. This division, as well as the entire fleet, is under the immediate command of Rear Admiral Sperry. The second division of the first squadron is commanded by Act ing Rear Admiral Richard Wainwriglit, and consists of the flagship Georgia and her sister ships, the Nebraska. New Jersey and Rhode Island. Rear Admiral William H. Emory commands the second squadron and third division and Is aboard of the flagship Louisiana. The Virginia, Ohio and Missouri also are tn this division. The fourth di vision, under the command of Acting Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, Is made up of the flagship Wisconsin and the Illinois, Kearsage and Ken tucky. The Nebraska and Wisconsin formerly of the Pacific fleet, have ta ken the places of the Maine and Ala bama of the Atlantic fleet which are en route to Hampton Roads as a spec ial service squadron. The fleet auxiliaries preceded th battleships by a week, and are now rearing Honolulu, where they will un load supplies and sail away for New Zealand before the arival of the fleet at Honolulu. These auxiliaries are the Panther, repair ship; Glacier, re frigerator supply ship; Culgoa, supply ship; AJax. collier; Relief, hospital ship, and Yankton, tender and dis patch boat. Voyage I'noquallcd. The battleships which sailed today on the longest voyage ever undertaken by such a powerful fleet during which they will completely encircle the world, from Hampton Roads to Hampton (Roads, have a total tonnage of 186.100 CURE FOLLOWED YEAR OF AGONY Intense Itching Eczema Drove Him Nearly to Despair Chief Surgeon of a London Hospital Called It Worst Case He Had Ever Seen Got Little or No Relief Until CUTICURA STOPPED HIS UNBEARABLE TORTURE 'About four years ago. In London, I s troubled by a severe itching and dry, scurry mud on ray ankles and feet. The same, in a few days, was the case with my arms and scalp. I could hardly keep from scratching, which. I need hardly say, made it 'worse. men large red patches artDeared. with inflammation and soreness. After ten Ham- thousands of small red pimples formed. On becoming dry, these caused intense itching. I was advised to go to the hospital for diseases of the skin. I did ao and was an out-patient for a month or more, the chief surgeon saying: I never saw such a bad case of eczema.' But I got little or no relief. Then I tried many so-called remedies, but I be came so bad that I almost gave up in despair. On coining to this country I beard so many accounts of cures by Cuti cura Remedies that I resolved, as a last resource, to give them a trial. This was after suffering agonies for twelve months, and right glad am I that 1 did so, for I was reliever! of the almost un bearable itching after two or three applications of Cutioura Ointment. I continued its use, combined with a liberal use of Cuticura Soap and C'uti cura Resolvent Pills and am more than thankful to say that after using three eta of the Remedies, I was oompletely cured. I can only add that, should any one be suffering as I did, I hope that they will do as I did, and I am sure of the results. Henry Searle, 2022 Cross St.. Little Rook, Ark., Oct. 8 and 10, '07." Oonptste External anS Internal Treatment tor Vrerr Humor of Intents. Children, and ArttfU mulcts or Cutteura Soap (3Ao.) to Osama the hk in, P Hours Otntmant 60e.) to Baal tba Skin, aod t to arm ftasoivstii (60c. ).or tn tli formof Cbocolaia tied Pills, toe. per vial ol 60) to Purify the Blood. a throughout 1st wnrM. Potter Dru( a Cbo, Uan- how fropa.. Boston, atass. eTalallaa l"ree, Cuucurm Book om Skis QBi

j On his cruise around the world from San Francisco to Hampton Roads Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, who succeeded Rear Admiral Evans, will have sixteen battleships in his fleet. This powerful armada will be augment ed at Auckland, New Zealand, by the repair ship Panther, the refrigerator ship Glacier, the supply ship Culgoa, col lier AJax, hospital ship Relief and the Yankton, a dispatch boat. These latter vessels sailed ahead of the main fleet. Rear Admiral Sperry's first stop will be at Honolulu, where he will remain a week before proceeding to New Zealand. Probably the most elaborate greeting the fleet will receive will be at Sydney Australian which port will be reached about Aug. 20. tons. The fleet is capable of steaming On an average of ten knots an hour under any sea conditions, and is fol lowing an itinerary which will bring the ships to Manila on October 1, 1908. The complete route from Manila to Hampton Roads has not yet been defi nitely announced, but it is expected that the fleet will arrive at its ulti mate destination during the latter part of February, 1909. when it will be join ed at Hampton Roads by most of the other ships of the American navy then on the Atlantic coast, and this great fleet of war vessels greater even than that which gathered in San Francisco Bay on the morning of May 6, and greater than the one that assembled at Hampton Roads December 16, when the present record breaking voyage began and where it will again be re viewed by President Roosevelt just prior to his going out of office. The fleet is scheduled to arrive at Honolulu July 16. Residents of that remote possession of the United States have prepared a magnificent and fit ting reception to the officers and men. which will be of the nature of a re ception and a belated Fourth of July celebration combined. It will be the first special entertainment of the fight ing men since Puget Sound cities de lighted to do them honor, and pre parations have been making for months at Honolulu that no pleasing feature shall be lacking. Work at Honolulu. After a stay of one week in Honolulu, the fleet will proceed to Aukland, Xew Zealand. It is by special invitation of the Xew Zealand government that the American ships go there, and at this port the "Yankee" sailors will receive their first greetings from a foreign people since leaving South America. This greeting will be particularly cordial and the entertainment arranged for officers and men promises to be mag nificent. The fact that this greeting will come at the end of the longest leg of the voyage around the world, when the men are worn by a stretch of seventeen successive days out of sight of land, will tend to make it all the more welcome. Perhaps the greatest of all the en tertainments to be given the men of the fleet in any foreign city, however, will be waiting their arrival at Sid ney, the great port of Australia, where the warships, after leaving Aukland on August 15. will arrive on August 20. Half a million dollars is the sum the government of Australia and the people of Sidney have appropriated for the entertainment of the Ameri can sailors. Varied and many are the pleasures the Australians have planned and placed in store for them, during the nine days of their stay at that port. The government will take an active part In these entertainments, those In the ofllcial life of the colony vlelng with private citizens in efforts to display their hospitality. A series of elaborate social functions for the officers, and parades and excursions and sports for the enlisted men com prise the programme. Visit to Australia. Melbourne and Albany are two other ports of Australia where the fleet will stop, and where open-handed hospitality, and lavish entertainment will be given the men. From the port of Albany the fleet will steam on REAR ADMIRAL SPERRY AND HIS WORLD September 17 for Manila, and it will arrive in these American waters, the last home port until Hampton Roads, on October 1. The reception to be accorded the fleet in Manila will be a striking one, and the entertainment of the officers and men ashore will be as cordial and heartfelt, if not as elaborate, as the receptions at other places. The American colony In Manila is looking forward to the event with fervent anticipation. A large fund has been subscribed, and committees are at work on the preparations. Great interest is felt In the fleet's visit to Japan. Proceeding to -Yokohama from Manila, the fleet will arrive there on October 17. Here on October 24 it will be divided, the first squadron re turning October 31 to Manila, where It will arrive October 29. The promise Is that the welcome to be given the Americans in Yokohama will not be second in graciousness at least, to any thing met with at any port previously touched; for it is upon the special in vitation of the emperor of Japan that the fleet goes there. Elaborate, func tions at court, and- socrar,'8ffaifs will be held for the officers of -the ifleet. At Amoy, China, the "reception will doubtless be the occasion of a great celebration characteristic of the Chi nese. The two squadrons of the fleet will be brought together again at Ma nila on November 7, and the departure thence for Aden, and the passage of the Suez will take place within the following few days, the exact date not yet having been determined. The ships of. the Pacific fleet, which assembled here previously to the de parture of the battleships for Hamp tion Roads, will remain -in this harbor until August 5, at, which time they-will start for. Samoa and. the ..Philippines, with the little black, .boats, comprising the Atlantic and Pacific, torpedo flotil las in tow. Preparatory to this sum mer voyage of the Pacific fleet, a squadron of the cruisers wilt take some of the torpedo boats in tow, and steam down the Pacific coast as far as San DIogo by way of a test of the possi bility of towing the little craft for long distances. The towing to Samoa and the Philippines is contingent upon the success of this experiment. Admiral Dayton, now in command of the Pacific fleet, will retire August 1, and If is considered probable that Ad miral Swinburne will succeed him in Dr. Lyon's PERFECT Cleanses, preserves and beautifies the; teeth, and Purifies the breath A superior dentifrice for people of refinement Established in 1866 by Tooth Poudcr CRUISE. command of the Pacific fleet, and take It across the-.Pacific and back. Follow ing is a complete list of the Atlantic fleet, the commanding officers and the formation of the various divisions: Make Cp of the Fleet. ATLANTIC FLEET. Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, commander-in-chief. First Squadron. FIRST DIVISION. Connecticut,, iflagshlp of Sperry) Capt. Hugo Osterhaus; 24 guns. 16,000 tons displacement; 16,500 horsepower, speed; la knots. Kansas, Capt. Charles S. Vreeland, sister ship to the Connecticut. Minnesota. Capt, John Hubbard, sis ter ship to the Connecticut. Vermont, Capt, William C. Potter, sister ship to the Connecticut. SECOND DIVISION. Acting Rear Admiral Richard Wain, wright, commanding. Georgia, (flagship), Capt. Qualtrough, 24 guns. 14.948 tons, 19,000 horsepower. speed 19 knots. Nebraska. Capt, Reginald F. Nichol son. sister ship to Georgia. New Jersey, Capt. W. H. H. South- erland. sister ship to Georgia. Rhode Island, Capt. Joseph B. Mur- dock. sister ship to Georgia. Second Squadron. THIRD DIVISION. Rear Admiral William H. Emory. commanding second squadron and third division. Louisiana, (flagship), Capt. Kossuth Niles,- sister to the Connecticut. Virginia, Capt. Alexander Sharp, sis ter to. the Georgia. Ohio, Capt. Charles W. Rartlett, 20 guns: 1Z.500 tons: io.oou horsepower; speed 18 knots. Missouri, Capt.' Greenllef A. Merriam, sister ship to Ohio. 1 FOURTH DIVISION. Acting Rear Admiral Seaton Schroe der. commanding. Wisconsin, (flagship). Capt. Henry Morrell, 18 guns: 11.525 tons; 11,366 horsepower; speed 17.2 knots. Illinois. Capt. John H. Bowyer, sis ter to Wisconsin. Kearsarge, Capt.. Hamilton Hutchins; 22 guns; 11.525 tons; 11,954 horsepower; speed 16.9 knots. Kentucky. Capt. Walter C. Cowles, sister to the Kearsarge. FLEET AUXILIARIES. Panther, repair ship. Commander Val entine S. Nelson. Glacier, refrigerator supply vessel, Commander William S. Hogg. Culgoa,. supply ship, Lieut, Comman der John B. Batton. Ajax. collier, merchant complement. Jos. Hutchins. master. Yankton, yacht-like tender or small dispatch boat; Lieut. Commander Chas. B. McVay. Relief, hospital ship. Surgeon Charles F. Stokes, commanding. Kansas Capitalist Killed. Riverside, Cal.. July 7. The body of C. D. Perry, a capitalist who came here from Englewood, Kan., last winter, has been brought to this city together with the announcement of an automobile accident that occurred three days ago rear King City, Santa. Barbara county. Mr. Perry -was attempting to descend a hill in his? car where he- lost control. The automobile ran oft a bridge and killed Perry almost Instantly. Charles' Sterne of San Dieiro. Cal.. is visiting with his brother. County Com missioner w. E. Sterne. Dr. -J. P. Kaster. chief sureeon for the Santa Fe was called to Emporia, Monday on company business. "Saved at the Finish" is the play which the Kress stock company will present, at the. Air. .Dome, .theater to night.. A portrait" of the late Eugene Ha- gan. painted by Professor Uhl of Philadelphia. has been hung in the Topeka club. Senator Charles Curtis will leave Topeka Sunday on a Chautauqua lec turing tour which wlll -keep him away rrom nome until the 28th of July. Wilder S..MetcaIf, custodian of the federal building, has called for bids for repairing the big clock- in the tower of the postoffice building. Dick Cooley went fishing on the Wa karusa yesterday, but the best he could do was to get caught in the heavy showers which fell In the afternoon. Ewing Herbert advertises Miss Anna Marie Nellis as one of the attractions at 'the Hiawatha Chautauqua, where she will give a number of whistling solos. The extreme scarcity of Democrats In Topeka. this week Is only partially accounted for by the fact that the Na tional Democratic convention is in ses sion in Denver. The Webb City team will open a ser ies of three gamea at Association park this afternoon. Last time the Webb Cityans were here the locals dropped three out of four. Mrs. Andrew Lindner, whose hus band was drowned in the Kaw west of the city several weeks ago. Is pre paring to return to her former home in Mai mo, Sweden. Two hundred and ninety-two fire alarms were sounded during the past twelve months though there were but one hundred and ninety-five ac tual fires. The total damage amounted to $9,467. Secretary Thomas Owen of the Kansas State Poultry association has cast a gloom over the lovers of turkey meat by the announcement that there will be a marked scarcity of the holi day bird this fall on account of the wetness of the spring and summer. State Dairy Commissioner Wilson will speak at the council chamber to night on the proposed milk inspec tion ordinance. The meeting will be held for the purpose of enlightening the members of the city council on the milk situation- but will be open to the public. The city water In the mains is much clearer today than for the past week. The mains will be flushed all day and tomorrow it is expected that the water will regain in its original standard. And the question that is going the rounds at the present time is "Will the city charge for the muddy water that has been going through the mains for the past week? The Continental Creamy company is working overtime taking care of cream shipments from a number of points in Nebraska where the creameries are out of commission on account of the ex cessively heavy rains which in some cases have flooded the plants and in others washed out the railroad tracks. Between three and four, car loads of cream have already been received and made into butter which will be shipped back to the flooded territory. A meeting of the reception commit tee of the Jobbers' and Manufacturers association was held last night and the Throop hotel selected as headquarters for the visitors who are expected to be in Topeka Merchants' week. The committee also asked the wholesale houses to have a number of their traveling -men in the city during the week to act as members of the recep tion committee in meeting trains and making the vlstors welcome. STEVE ADAMS ON TRIAL Taking of Testimony Begins Before Judge Shackelford. Grand Junction, Colo., July 7. With the iury completed, nine of whom are farmers and the opening statements of the defense and prosecution made. taking of testimony began here today in the trial of Steve Adams, accused of assassinating Arthur Collins, the mine manager, during the strike trou ble in Tellurlde, several years ago. District Judge Shackelford sitting in the case, granted the application of the defense to have the state summon Adams' witnesses by allowing 100 for the Tjurpose. Attorney Hilton objected to the ad mission of Adams' alleged confession on which the state's case is based. The court permitted reference to this con fession in the prosecutor's opening ad dress, but withheld his decision as to admission of the confession itself to which the objection was made by the defense that it was Involuntary. STTBBS AT HOWARD. Despite the Train Wreck Was Able to Fill His Appointment. Howard, Kan., July 7. Although W. H. Stubbs' train was wrecked on his way here, he succeeded In arriving in time to fill his appointment last night. He got breakfast at a farm house and drove to Winfield in time to catch the train to Mollne. Mr. Stubbs was to have held an out of door meeting here, but a heavy rain prevented and the meeting was held in the school house. The house was filled, about 300 being present. Mr. Stubbs made a good lm pression. WHEAT FLAKE CELERY is prepared under the personal supervision of Dr. V. C. Price, whose name as a manufacturer of pure food products is nation al. No breakfast food can com-parc-with it, as it contains all the elements found in the body. .i i For sale by all Gpocam mm Stock-Reducing, Pre-Inventory Sale -Tomorrow evening we shall take two pages to tell of a few of the bargains to be offered in .pur Stock-reducing, Pre-Inventory Sale .which commences Thursday, July 9th, 1908 the greatest aggregation of bargains this store has offered in years. Not only all the odd lots, but large quantities of staple.season able .merchandise have been reduced from one-fourth to one-half. Railroad Fart Refunded, ia Part or in Whole to Out-of-Town Buyer -Tie- CrosW Bros. Go.- TOPEKA, KANSAS. Writ for- General, Medical, Law, or Fine Arts Catalogue and Illustrated Booklet Free Coupon Sunday 155603 105290 136547 191045 2447S 172144 185568 Numbers Monday 155613 105700 136658 191083 24749 172152 185570 Band AT HALE'S TOURS Touring through IT RAISES A STORM. Hoisting of Tuft Banner at Lincoln Opposed by Republicans. Lincoln. Neb., July 7. The Republican state central committee early today car ried out their intention of showing active resistance to the Bryan campaign by stringing a Taft banner across the street at the Intersection of Twelfth and O streets, probably the most prominent cor ner In the city. They announced their in tention some time ago of doing this, but serious opposition from the commercial interests of the city was encountered. They carried out their intention today, however, and have aroused another storm of protest from the interests which have thus far advocated local non-partlsanshlp. Paul Clark, a local Republican leader of some prominence, was among the first to protest and he announced his Intention of calling a meeting of Republicans to form a Bryan Republican club. The ban ner extends clear across the street and reads: "Nebraska for Taft." Beneath this inscription is a huge pic ture of the Republican candidate for pres ident with the words: "By the Republi can State Central Committee." THIS OTTAWA MVRDElt CASE. The Outlook Is That Mrs. Stewart Will Not Be Convicted. Ottawa, Kan., July 7. With the state about through and nothing positively proved against Mrs. Mollie Stewart, on trial here charged with helping Frank Schneck to kill his wife and children, it does not look' as If the defendant will be convicted. The court convened Monday after noon after an adjournment over the Fourth and during the afternoon six witnesses were put on the stand. The first and second ones were Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Byerly, who testified that the morning after the murder they found buggy tracks In the road which led Into the Schneck yard. This is new tes timony and when asked if they had told this generally before, the Byers said that they had never told it ex cept to some friends. Next on the stand came Mr. and Mrs. David Bowers, the former telling of finding the bodies after the murder and the latter 6f having helped pre pare them for burial. John Flora, the storekeeper at Cen tropolls. Identified the copy book found at the Schneck home in which was found the note supposed to have been left by Jane Schneck. saying that she had killed herself and children. Mr. Flora said that when he found the copy book at the Schneck home after the murder there was no writing In It. Sheriff Cody followed Flora on the stand and gave practice 11 v the same testimony as In the trial of Frank Schneck. He said too. that there was no writing in the copy book when it was found at the Schneck home. The state will probably close today as it has just a few more witnesses to put on. Kx-Lieuteiiant McCullougli Free. Leavenworth, Kan., July 7. Charles S. McCullough, formerly a first lieuten ant In the regular army, serving a term of two years in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth for Irregularity in the handling of his company funds, has been released on the receipt of a pardon from President Roosevelt. Lieu tenant McCullough was tried by a clos ed court at Havana, Cuba, in January 23. 1907. and sentenced to he publicly dismissed from the army and confined for two years in the military prison here. 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