The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 4, 1909
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THE TOPEKA. DAILY STATE JO tmHAI THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1909. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By frank p. mac lennan. tpterea July 1. 1875. as second-class me postonriee at 'lopeaa, ivaw. act or congress. J VOLUME XXXVI No. 30 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka. or suburbs, or at the same price In any Kan a town whers the paper baa a carrier "system. I sr?,1- oJ. mf 'I. three months.. aturday edition nf AbIW. nn year... 1-09 TELEPHONES. Bnfc?r ftn Iff? Business Offlee!"I"II"I"I""...-Id- JJ2 reporters" Room w "i Reporters Room Jnd. .Frank p. MseLenran Ind. PERMANENT HOME. .Topeka State Journal building. 0& and "z Kansas avenue, comer of Eighth. New Tork Office Flatlron building;, at Twenty-third street, comer Fifth avenue and Broadway. Paul Block, manager. Chfca:o Office: Hartford building. Paul "lock, mnnarer. ITLL LEASED WIRE RF!TORT OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The State Journal is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day teleirraph report of that great news or ganization for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news is received In The State Jour nal building over wires for this sol pur. pose. The Chicago Record-Herald is urg ing any of its readers who has an egg in the house to save it because he soon may be able to trade it for a ton of coal. Oh prunes! The national association of tailors has decided that the black tuxedo coat must go. It is to be sup planted, if the tailors have their way, with a similarly cut coat made of gray cloth. It is only a matter of a few weeks Bow before the spring poet will be striving with might and main to get his wares before the public. This is one of the few disadvantages of the springtime. Judge Landis, of the $29,000,000 Standard Oil fine fame, comes to the front again with the imposing of an unusually heavy sentence on a "white slave" trafficker. He won't come in for any criticism for this act, however. Not only will considerable sym pathy go out to an Elgin, Illinois, woman who is suing for a divorce, but there will also be a little of it left for the man in the case, trifler though he may be. His wife alleges that he has as many as twenty "affinities." That Mr. Bryan will be the next Democratic candidate for president seems reasonable. He announced at Shreveport, La., last week his will ingness 'to run again "if the party wishes It." Inasmuch as he still con trols the party absolutely the chances are great that it will wish the wish that Mr. Bryan wishes it to wish. Miss Lexow, the- Ne-w York suf fragist, who has been spreading her "propaganda in these parts in such a delightful fashion, declares that the hope of the women suffragists of the nation is now in the west. It is now opportune for an emulator of Horace Greeley to arise in the east and say, "Young woman, go'west." And now the Colorado legislature comes to the front with a strongly worded resolution criticizing the presi dent, particularly because of his action concerning the proposed anti-Japanese legislation pending in California. Will some one kindly-step to the front with just a word of praise for Mr. Roose velt, who is really getting over-maligned a trifle? T7- TTt.3i-n1.. tv. 1 Velt or some other lion hunter are needed more in California than in Af rica. From the state on the Pacific coast comes the harrowing story of a mother finding her child being chewed to death, by a mountain Hon. Why wouldn't it be a good plan to divert the African hunting trip to the western coast of the United States? Speaking of optimists, how about Colonel Gcethels, the engineer in charge of the Panama canal work? He says that vessels will be able to sail through the great waterway by January 1, 1915. Colonel George Harvey, editor of Har per's Weekly, who wants to give the Job of constructing the canal to Mr. (Roosevelt's particular friend, E. H. Harrlman, will please take notice. Weather reports are always inter esting, but if the forecasts of what the weather is going to be were only half as reliable as are the reports of what the weather has been to the ef fect that last year was nearly the warmest and wettest in history,' or that last month broke all records for winds and clouds, they would be more satisfactory. Sixty graduates of the Topeka High school stood last night "with 'reluctant feet where the brook and river meet." And the occasion prompts the sugges tion that the schoolboys Of this town ought to pay less attention to marbles, pool and billiards and more to their studies, for the girls appear to be easily walking away with all of schol arship honors in the schools. Chicago must be fairly revelling in prosperity these days. Her aiders men have voted themselves an in crease in salaries of $1,500 each per year. In the- future the yearly wage of each of them will be $3,000. Even sJt this distance it Is reasonable to ex press the opinion that the services of many of the aldermen in the Windy City are not worth any such a fancy salary. In all likelihood there will be no change in the date for the holding of the state wide primaries, even though a. bill seeking to accomplish this end La now pending In the legislature. The reason is plain. Every politician in the state would like to have the date fixed at a time that will be most convenient to himself, so there does not seem to be any possible chance of them getting together and agreeing on any date- Anyhow, there Is nothing the matter with the present date for these fes tivities. SKEPTICS DISARMED. When delvers for things prehistoric have set up claims of having unearth ed bones of great magnitude and an nounced that they were remnants of the skeletons of beasts and birds of tremendous size which Infested the earth in days that are quite remote. there have been some folks who have been so unreasonable as to look upon these finds with skepticism. They fig ured it out in their simple way of rea soning that such animals as these never existed because there was no record of men being on earth In those times of sufficient size and strength to cope with them. These were plausible de ductions, for a mere man of ordinary size would have had no particular luck In endeavoring to curb to his will such gigantic things of the field and the air. But such skepticism as this has no place now. Some bones of a ha man being have been found in Mexico which show that during the prehistor ic period there were men of sufficient size to hold their own- with the ani mals of those days. The bones of this human skeleton show that there were men on deck who were as much as 5 feet tall. It is easy to understand now how men of this size could take care of a flock' of dlnornises, the mighty birds who were the chickens of those times, Nor is it difficult now to appreciate that these same men could look after the cattle of the period, the dinocerases, those Eocene mammals of herbivorous tendencies which were remarkable over the cows of today not only in size but also because of the fact that they had three pairs of hornlike protuberances on their skulls.. Neither is it hard to realize that such a mighty man would have any trouble at all in turning a mastodon and his relative the masto donsauras into beasts of burden by bringing them to a sense of their In ferior powers with nothing more than slao or two on their ears. Also could these men guard their homes from at tacks by those mammoth reptiles, the inosaurs and the dinotheriums, the latter being that familiar proboscidean mammal of those times with tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw. Surely have the scientists turned a great trick in their favor by discover ing, even at this late day, the fact that there were once men on the earth of mighty size to contest the honors for existence with the mighty animals. They, and the results of their future researches, will no longer be laughed at by anyone.- THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Many measures are pending in the legislature which seek to promote the public health in a variety of ways. Some of them aim to perfect and strengthen the pure food and drug laws, others to provide means for the securing of proper systems of drainage in municipalities, others providing for a more rigid registration of vital sta tistics, others to take care of depend ent consumptives and to provide means for scientifically treating those afflict ed ones who are able to pay for the treatment. Each and every bill of this charac ter has its merits and should receive the most careful consideration at the hands of the legislators who are on their way to make a magnificent rec ord in the way of framing valuable legislation. There is nothing quite so important to the development of a people and their communities as is the safeguarding of their public health in all ways, although it is only within a few recent years that much needed legislation along this line has been undertaken by the legislatures of the states and the nation. Disraeli once wrote: "Public health is the foundation upon which rests the happiness of the people and the power of the state. Take the most beautiful kingdom, give it intelligent and laborious citizens, prosperous manufactures, productive agriculture; let arts flourish, let archi tects cover the land with temples and palaces; in order to defend all these riches, have first rate weapons, fleets of torpedo boats if the population remains stationary, if it decreases yearly in vigor and in stature, the na tion must perish. And that is why I. consider that the first duty of a states man is the care of public health." These sentiments are Just as true today as they were when they were1 uttered so long ago by one of the greatest statesmen and publicists that the world has known. ROOSEVELT'S RECORD. Concluding an instructive article on "The Outgoing of President Roose velt's Administration," which appears in the Forum for February, Henry Litchfield West says: "If, therefore, in the last days of the administration differences between the president and congress should have unfortunately arisen, the fact remains" that for seven years the executive and the legislative branches of the gov ernment have striven -hand in hand for the social and material betterment of the American people. This is the record that will stand. Disputes over the actions of the secret service, ab stract questions as to the right of the senate to demand certain reasons for executive action all these and other troublesome and conflicting matters will be forgotten when the great re sults which have been accomplished are still potent factors in our national life." This is the exact truth and one that ought not to be lost sight of by the people of the country as the presi dent retires from office in something of a turmoil. Roosevelt's reign has been a beneficent one for the United States. His accomplishments for the uplifting of the people and the better ment of the conditions surrounding them have been gTeat In the way of magnificent achievements. He will occupy a- prominent' place In the -history of the forceful executives of the nation, regardless of the .mistakes he has made and. the unfortunate' habit he has developed of rather indiscrim inately. denouncing men and things and thereby bringing denunciations of more or less force down on his own head. JOURNAL ENTRIES He who hesitates may be lost but some times he s extremely lucky in tne losing. The most tiresome of all people are those who laugh when they 'are telling- an alleged Joke. A novelist whose books do not sell well has the consolation of knowing that he is not alone in this regard. Some persons who have no trouble in keeping; their looks as they advance with age would likely be glad to get rid of tnem. If a fellow tells a girl that she grows better looking every time he sees her, he is welcome to call on her as often as he pleases. JAYHAWKER JOTS A report Of the hatching of a dozen fine Langshang chicks on January 27 comes from Winfleld. A little early in tne season, isn't It? Two Wichita girls who wished to Join a troupe and become leading ladies got as far away into the ray world as Newton and then walked back again, says the Salina Journal. According to the Atchison Gfobe, Balie P. Waggener says his. chief ambition is to get rid of the auto mobile he now owns, and never let himself be persuaded to buy anothe. A Paola man worked so hard cleaning up his back yard that he strained his back, and has been in bed for a week. Industry is too good a thing to be abused in such a fashion, says the Emporia Gazette. The Salina Journal says it Is a sign of a jay town when everyone rushes to the telephone when the fire alarm sounds. With this for a basis and the number of cities and towns in Kansas having telephones, the mat ter of computing the number of jay towns is an easy matter says the Wichita Eagle. A Holton paper correcting a wed ding notice and a patent medicine ad, swapped lines. The wedding no tice reads this way: "As the soft strains of the Lohengrin wedding march, played by Miss antiseptic- Known, Dreatne it through the par lors, the minister pronounced the sweet words," etc. Among the papers on file at the reading room of the Lindsborg library, says the Kansas City Star, which con tribute greatly toward its popularity are these: Lindsborg-Posten, Hem landet, Kansas City Tribunen, Svenska Amerikanaren, Svenska Kurieren, Nya-Vecko Posten, Vart Land. Texas Bladet, Pacific Tribunen, AugUBtana, Var Kyrko-Tidning. Svensko FamilJe Journalen, Kyrkobladet, Lutherlsche Herold. Manadsblad, -Ungdomsvannen and the Augustana Theologisko Tids skrift. "Howard should be proud of this," says the Howard Courant "A wed ding party escorted a newly married couple to the train the other morning and started them on their bridal tour, and listen: They committed no as sault and battery on the bride and groom by pelting them with rice, old shoes or other groceries or Junk; they did not hustle them or muss up their rood clothes: there was no maltreat ment or breach of the peace what ever. It was an orderly, law-abiding company, and they did nothing to be ashamed of. This is notable but Howard is usually very decent in these matters." An empty coffin rested on a truck on the Atchison depot platform one day this week. Out of mischief one of the employees' in the baggage room crawled into the coffin box, and drew the lid down. No sooner was he con cealed than a .young colored man, with a jaunty swagger and tuneful whistle came along, and, wishing to rest, settled comfortably on the casket. He felt asleep, and was awakened by a distressing moan. The moan was repeated, ana then some body said: "Oh-o-o-o-o-o. Please get off my dead body." The negro granted the request at once. With a bloodcurdling yell he leaped into the air, and sped away. He attempted to cross the bridge, but Cy. Smith, fear- ng that in his frenzy he would leap into the watery depths" below, blocked he way. Uhable to cross the river, the colored man sprinted to the rail road yards, and, when last seen, was passing the coal mine and still going south. Kansas City Star. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. It takes a has-been a long time to find it out. What little some men do know isn't any Credit to them. The path of duty runs parallel with the road to happiness. You are right, Cordelia; today will be yesterday tomorrow. Some figures do not lie until the dressmaker starts to pad them. Your orthography is twisted. Alonzo. A woman is not a padded cell. Faith would have an easy time of it if doubt didn't camp on its trail. It's better to fight and run away than it is to stick it' out and pay a fine. It is the man who can't do thines that is always telling others how to do them. Nine men out of a possible ten wear a sad look after they have been mar ried a year. Some one wants to know what a chorus girl is. She is usually a mat ter of form, we believe. It is far easier to coax a poor per former to tackle a piano than it is to chase him away from it. Perhaps the sands of time contrib ute the grit "with which a woman per sistently hangs on to her favorite birthday. REFLECTIONS OP A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. It's astonishing what legible hand writing a girl-uses when she accepts a proposal by letter. An impressive thing" about being in trouble Is what a lot' of pleasure It gives your friends. The saintly thing about a woman is how she can adore a man that nobody else can tolerate. A woman would almost rather have smallpox than admit she suffers from cold feet. One of the easiest wava for a man to get married is to think he'ssmart I KANSAS COMMENT SOUNDS LIKE BUSINESS. The speech which J. L. Bristow, sen-ator-elept, made to the, legislature yes terday, was of more than ordinary In terest. It was the first time Kansas had- elected just that kind of a sena tor, on Just that kind of a fight. This gave importance to the occasion and tne talk mat went with it. And the talk was in harmony with the occasion. Mr. Bristow's address was notably lacking In what the class! cal cities have termed "airy persl fiage," or "pleasing platitudes," Mr. Bristow said he was elad to be elect ed, thankful to the legislature, appre ciative of the honor and that he want ed to see some things done. Among those things he mentioned tariff re vision, and he told what kind of revis ion. He wanted to nut financial Jug glers in jail, and he said so, and told why. He had some high conceptions of the opportunity of the present moment in politics, and he told why and how the moment furnishes special opportun lty. Mr. Bristow laid hold upon none of the time-tried and tested resources or such occasions, bv referring1 to the emotions of his heart, the traditions. of his party, and his purpose to be guided py tne nistory or a glorious past in dealing with the possibilities of the glittering future. Mr. Bristow's speech was short on generalities. It ran to particulars. And this characteristic is going to collide, sharp corners on, with some of the Institutions of senatorial rou tine. The new senator from Kansas is going to Washington in deadly earn est, with a large willingness for en counter, and with a strong disposition to get at things as they are, and pre sent them in terms that mean some thing. Kansas begins with the new senator with a very plain understanding of where he is "at." He will have the ad vantage of that understanding through out the term. Ottawa Herald. A SMART MAN IN KANSAS. Here is a smart thing from the Law rence Gazette, a little old country pa per that prints better editorials than Colliers: "They are having riots in Cleveland because 3-cent street car fares had to be abandoned. It made no difference whatever to the mob that the street cars could not be run on 3 cent fares; the Reform idea was so deeply rooted in their minds that they did not care who lost a hundred thou sand dollars, so long as they could save 2 cents. It will take several years and a financial calamity to restore the re form-mad people of this country to their senses." (Note. And these "reform-mad" people were created by edi tors who knew better: who were work ing for big circulations. The country has already been crippled by squeez ing the railroads too hard; all the big corporations are being made less use ful to the country by the howl or tne "reform-mad" crowd. And among the reform-mad" may be found thousands of men who are not fair; who are will ing to rob others to help themselves.) Atchison Globe. IMPROVED MUNICIPAL GOVKRN- MENT, One by one the -cities are adopting the -centralized form of government known as the commission plan. There is .one thing to be noticed about this style-.; of municipal government and that is, it seems to be succeeding, for there- is no return to the old compli cated, power-distributed plan where the commission idea has been, Intel lie-entry tried. The principle of the reaeration or commission plan is right. It is the least expensive, and this is important in more senses than one, since it is not only a relief from unnecessary burdens, but a release from so much corruption, for the more expensive a government Is, the more corrupt it is likely to be And then It win be a simpler gov ernment, with the responsibility cen trally located, and the public service more directly accountable to tne peo ple. Here is one thing that the peo ple should agree upon and insist upon as a matter of public policy, that their government should be simple ana dl rect. They get the best service out of such a plan. Ohio State Journal. POWER OF THE STATES. The United States supreme court has affirmed the decree of the Texas state courts imposing a fine of $1,623,000 on the Waters-Pierce Oil company of St. Louis and ousting it from the state for infraction of the Texas anti-trust law, This decision strengthens the expecta tion that no legal sophistry will evade obedience of the recent decree of the Missouri supreme court that the Stand ard Oil company and one of its subsi diary concerns must leave the state by March 1, and that the Waters-Pierce company, if it wishes to do business in its parent state, must purge itself by reorganizing in conformity with the Missouri anti-trust law. The federal Supreme court in the New York gas case and in the stiU more emphatic Knoxville water case, decision, has af Armed' the power of the states to regu late public service corporations. In the Texas case it affirms their power to curb and -punish trading monopolies, Not without reason did Governor Har mon of Ohio say in his recent inaugu ral address: "The state government has absolute control of all cor porations of its own creation, and of the terms on which corporations of oth er states may do business here." New York World. THE COLLEGE TO THE PEOPLE. The innovation announced by West ern Reserve university in the way of free public lectures is sure to result in A popularization of the university Work. It is recognized that the great majority of the people cannot come to the college, and so the college nas wisely determined to come to the peo ple. According to a programme recent ly announced by the- university, lec tures will be given by members of the various faculties in many sections of the city. The plan includes the use of school buildings, branch liDrary auai torlums and other public halls, and has received the enthusiastic support of the school and library authorities. This project is indicative of the zeal ous effort of Western Reserve univer sity to be of real service to the com munity of which the institution is a part, and is even a step in advance of the night college classes started by Re serve a year ago. Moreover, it is addi tional proof that progressive colleges have discarded the narrow academic policy of the past, and that, not con tent with granting their privileges to a limited and .favored number, they are interesting themselves more and more In the intellectual advance of the- en- tire community. Cleveland Plain Deal- Ii 0 I FROM OTHER PENS RONDEAU REDOUBLE. My gOOd Old Shoes are crivlrttr nut T fosv The soles are through. They tripped me on the stair. They cost me little, but I hold them dear. f x naie iiKe ein to get another pair. There is no doubt they've had a deal of waar More than is common, too. In this last car. Let's See -the linnprn TToi-e'm a Hl fagi My good old shoes are giving out, I fear, They will not last much longer, that is My toea will soon he Mimltiv nut r fi And that undoubtedly would seem too aueer. V The soles are through; they tripped me 1 VII iub situr I Place them tnlv mum l How pleading, how pathetic they ap pear! WouM they were new again, an fine and fairl They cost me little, but I hold them aear. To break in new will kill me, pretty near. The thought of it is very hard to bear. And leather has been going up, I hear, I hate like sin to get another pair. To many that would be a small affair. some men x know would never shed a tear In parting- thev would never turn n hair. But I could weep for that back-number sear. My good old shoes. Chicago News. To Save the Old Constitution. Success seems certain to crown the efforts to have the Constitution trans ferred from her present precarious lo cation at the Charlestowa navy yard to the Charles river basin, now that the Boston Chamber of Commerce is nn derstood to be favorably Inclined in the matter, and tne attitude at Washing ton Is likewise believed to be entire ly favorable. Indeed, such a transfer would remove a burden from the shoulders of the uneasy navy depart ment, which has become extremely nervous about making recommendations on its own initiative, in tne constitu tion affairs. The matter of moving the frigate from the navy yard to the Charles river basin is not difficult. It could be effected easily and quickly. And no better place than the new basin could be offered. The frigate's present location in Charlestown is inconveni ent, from the point of view of sight seers. Few Bostonians, even, have ever seen the constitution. Few could find It, without specific directions. The Charles River basin is an ideal loca tion, and would be permanent. Boston Advertiser. Women Driving Men Out. In his annual report to Gov. Fort, Charles J. Baxter, state superintend en,t of public instruction, will show some remarkable conditions in the school profession In New Jersey. One of the most interesting of these is that women are steadily driving men from teaching, and unless there is a change in this respect soon, the schools will speedily be completely femlninized. The number of male teachers em ployed during the past school year was 1,100, 42 fewer than tne pre ceding year. The number of female teachers was 9,173, an increase of 310. In 1856 the number of male teachers employed was 1,125, while the female teachers numbered only 817. The total number of teachers employed last year was 10,279, an in crease of 268 for the year. The aver age salary paid was $697.06, an in crease over.the preceding year of $79.59, or 12.2 per cent. Trenton dis patch to New York Tribune. A Philippine Navy. Why shouldn't the Philippine as sembly appropriate 4,000,000 pesos for the construction of four armored cruisers? The promise of- an inde pendent government has been given to the Filipinos. President Roosevelt says that it may be given to them in a generation. Anyhow, an insular government without a navy would be an unheard-of thing. When all the other nations of the earth are appro priating great sums for naval con struction in anticipation of war in the indefinite future, there is nothing il logical in the plan that is advanced in the Philippines. They merely wish to get ready, we suppose. "The readiness is all." If the insular peo ple are to be trained in the science of self-government, they should be en couraged to master all the problems, even the administration of a navy de partment. The United States govern ment is still puzzling over this. 'Bos ton Herald. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. A really busy man hasn't much time to brag about what he does. A woman who marries the second time should not be married in white. Katlne too much is far more likely to give you a headache than thinking too much. When a man makes a failure of his life, he is pretty apt to blame every one but himself. Preachers are so popular among women that it is a wonder they do not marry into richer families. So far as is known, there is never an epidemic that carries off wolves, foxes. English sparrows, or other pests. You often hear that this is a free country, 'and that a man is at liberty to express his opinion, it is not true, The friends good enougn to aerena you in your absence are rarely so good that they fall to ten you mat you needed defense. In order to be considered a martyr. all the modern woman has to do is to create the impression that some man is mean to her. A father Judges his son by what he has accomplished m tne past; a motn er by what she hopes he will accom plish in the future. Atchison is an unusual town. There la a. vnime man in it who was prom ising before nis marriage, out wnose wife has unmaae nim. PAnn1( reallv care little for politi cal speeches, but every man in high office thinks he must make them, whether he is an orator or a bore. There should be a law to the ef fect that, when a man has more than one visitor a month at his house, the police .should step In and protect him. After a woman has had children she begins to greatly admire those young men and women of whom it is said "they are nice to their parents." A woman is always complimented to be told she looks like an actress, and we can't Imagine why: The aver age woman is much better looking than an actress. It often hannena that a woman can't accomplish much at night be cause of coaxing her children to go to bed, and can't get much done in the morning because of coaxing tnem to get up. Occasionally a widow spends so much in putting up a big tombstone for her husband that the only time she and ner family can feel they are putting on style is when they sit around It out In the cemetery. THE EVENING STORY The Picture and the Lover. (By Lester Grey.) To begin with, she was not a moth- -Jer, but It had pleased the young ar tist to give the picture that name be cause it was his ideal of what his mother would have been if she had lived. f In real life she was a quiet little person. Just over the brow of the highway of years, journeying softly, placidly down the smooth path, for the winter of existence lay hidden be yond turns in the road and she had not glimpsed it yet. It was not one of the large can vases of the exhibition, nor was it hung in the most desirable lights re served for the great, yet it was well placed, for Dean Carroll, though young, had in a measure been recog nized, and there were people of dis cernment who looked for his work. The composition had been cleverly conceived. It showed a veranda cor ner of what was evidently an old ruin of a country house of half a century ago. The big French window, the half of an old colonial pillar and a general air of shabby gentility made a fitting frame for the sweet-faced wo man who sat in the modern wicker porch chair, a magazine on her lap, and who looked straight out of the picture. To one content to revel in the de light of it all it showed a happy mother speaking to some stalwart son who had brought her good news, or, perhaps, Just himself, with a hearty greeting of love. To the critic, who sought to know why it pleased him, the greatest charm seemed to be in the eyes. Car roll had done wonders there, and they seemed to carry a message of a moth er-love that had known no anxieties no sleepless nights of wondering where some wandering boy was rest ing, and praying that God might watch over him. They were big, brown, expressive eyes, witn the slightest suggestion o wrinkled corners, a hint of age furth er carried out here and there in the hair by a touch of time's silver strands through the soft-hued brown, It attracted some attention from the writers, and friends told Carroll It was distinctly good. Otherwise it created no stir. It was one of half a hundred- others equally creditable to the artists and would probably bring a decent enough sum when placed on sale. Yet, somehow, Carroll liked to look at it, probably because it brought back to him memories of that Virginia summer when he feared he was close to death and of the gentle spinster who had nursed him' past the crisis and mothered him through a happy convalescence. His own mother had died when h was very young, and as he lay on his bed of illness watching her sweet face as she moved about the room, it gave him Joy to pretend that he was really her son. and it grieved him to think that perhaps years to come might be Doth lonely to ner ana run or trou ble. One afternoon, when he stood half in a reverie of remembrance before the picture, he was conscious that an elderly man hear him was evincing more than usual interest. He fumbled for his .glasses, turned the leaves of the catalogue until he came to the number, then the eag erness died out of his face and he turn ed away. But he came back and again looked upon it with no concealment of his appreciation The stranger noticed Carroll when h-e started away the second time and stopped to ask him: Do you know anything aDout tne picture? "Why yes, naturally: 1 pamtea it, "You are Mr. Carroll, then. I was going to hunt you up. Is it for sale?" the older man inquired "Well, you know we artists have to live. Few of us paint for fame alone so it is like the rest. Only I hope it goes to some one who will appreciate it. The circumstances or its paint ing are dear memories." "Are you are you her son 7 Tell me!" and the questioner put a trem bling hand on the artist's shoulders, No, replied Carroll, I wish was or rather if my own mother had lived I think she would have been like her." "Can you spare me the time to tell me the circumstances you speak of that is, if you will 7 Thank you, but' not here. Let us go to my house. live near," and he led the way out. "It isn't much of a story except in its personal appeal to me," began Car roll a few moments later. "But 1 presume it reminds you of some one and if the two women are alike J know you understand how fond I am of her. "Last spring I was threatened with fever and was told to get out of the city. I found a quiet place owned by the original of the portrait and she took me in. Unfortunately, I did not escape soon enough and the fever caught me. There was no one with her but an old servant, and I asked to be moved into the nearest town. "She would not hear of it, and nursed me on a Journey to death's door and back again to the sunshine. to the trees and the birds and life It is something that one cannot ex plain, her tenderness, her motherli ness and the sense of comfort, of love, even, for a stranger that she gave to me. "Her entrance would light up my sick room, her presence was better than all the medicine in the world; frankly, she is the dearest, sweetest woman I have ever known. I was only two when my mother died. That's about all. I tnink." "Mr. Carroll," his host began, "I have never met you, but am perhaps known to you. I am Judge Johnson Lee Carter, and I am from Virginia. When I was a hot-headed young man I was in love with a girl who is prob ably the double of the lady In your picture. I loved her devotedly, mad ly, sir, and she loved me. But, I was headstrong, sir, and I quarreled with her one night and came north. "All ray life the years have been loveless, except my love for her. Three, four, five years passed, and I knew she was probably married, so I have never inquired, but the picture, sir. brought it all back to me, all the years I have missed that might have been crowded with happiness, for they would have been happy ones. Mr. Carroll, sir, sne was tne nnest ladv on earth. Now you know why I want to buy your picture, and- Judeo Carter, there can be no talk of buving and selling that picture, af ter what you have told me. There. there, no one else win get it. Tne ex hibition will last another month; you can get back from Albemarle county before that "What are you saying,' boy 7 Albe marle county? Why, that's where I lived. Is It Ruth? is sne a wiqowt Is she free and is it Ruth Cressley, and sne is not a widow," said Carroll quietly. "She has never married." Honest, boy? Honest? Forgive me. forgive me, Mr. Carroll then she didn't forget?" She is tne sort wno love once AMUSEMENTS. At the Grand. -Saturday Matinee and Night "Humaa Hearts." 1 Monday Niglit Paul Gllmore in "The Boys of Company B." At the Novelty. Daily -Matinee 2: High class vaudeville. Evenings 7.-45-9:15 High class vaudeville. At the Majestic. Tonight 8:15 The Raymond Wella Stock company in "Work and Wages" and vau deville. Daily matinee 2:30. For particulars, prices and amusement details, see announcements In this paper elsewhere. for always, I think," and Carroll ex tended his hand. "And the picture?" asked the judge. "Will be my wedding present." "God bless you sir. God bless you," and there were tears in his eyes as he showed Carroll to the door. Carroll is famous now, and a few years older. Ask him the best thing he ever did and he will tell you "Mother." Perhaps you won't un derstand him, but Judge Carter knows and Mrs. Johnson Lee Carter shares the knowledge. (Copyrighted 1909, by Associated Literary Press.) HUMOR OF THE DAY "Do you think they can keep up the in terest In ballooning? "That's about all." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Gentleman (arising in street car) Won't you take my seat, madanio? The Suffragette No, sir, I will not! You are entltled to it until such time as we wo men have something to say about the framing of laws governing public con veyances. Puck. ncre s a rmuion ior your campaign fund." "Hah!" exclaimed the manager, "plutocracy tempts me!" He thought for an instant. "Thanks," he added. "I fall." Philadelphia Ledger. Bulzer Pennster told me that the bent magazines were clamoring for his contri butions. Knolorham No wonder; he writes full page adds. Lipplncott's. "Why are you always quarreling with your wife?" "She Is always arguing with me." "But you need not get angry. Just explain to her in a gentle tone where she is wrong." "But she is never wrong." Washington Opinion. Mrs. McSosh You're very fond of your club, aren't you, dear? Mr. McSosh Yes, m'dear extremely fond of It. Mrs. Mc Sosh Then I think you'd be more care ful of its reputation. Why don't you blame your condition on a theater party or some thing you don't care about? Cleveland Leader. "I don't know much about the politics of your country," remarked the visaing Englishman, "but I have read of your politicians. Mr. Bryan belongs to what is known as the Democratic Party, does he not?" "No, sir," answered the man with the bulging brows. "What is known as the Democratic Party belongs to Mr. Bryan." Chicago Tribune. Lady Patron Mr. Photographer, which view of me do you think would be the most pleasing? Photogrrapher Madam, if you would not take offense Lady Patron Not in the least. Photographer Then I should say a er back view, madam. Bo hemian. "Doctor," said the convalescent, smiling weakly, "you may send In your bill any day now." "Tut, tut," replied the M. D., silencing his patient with a wave of his hand. "You're not strona- enough vet." Leslie's Weekly. T told one of" her friends that she IrvnV. ed young for her age and she got angry." "Couldn't you fix it up?" "I tried to; t told another of her friends that she Is not as old as she looks, and now she doesn't even speak to me." Houston Post. I sunnose to educate vour danarhter In music costs a great deal of money?" "Yes, irai sne s Drougnt 11 an DacK ror me. "In deed!" "YeB: I'd been tryinsr to buv out my next door neighbor at half-price for years and could never brlnar him to terms until she came home!" Fliegende Blaetter. Jvvhv don't vou out vour snare tire In the box?" "My dear old chap. It's the only thing that'll hold the wife's hat!" The Bystander. His Motive. 'T eomnel mv rtmirhtr tn practice four hours a day," said Mr. Cum rox. "But you will make her hate musla eo that she will never want to go near a piano!" "That's what I am hoping." Washington Star. Woman with the Run Bonne Tf nnv- bodv asks me what I know shout vnn. T shall tell 'em the exact truth, woman with the gingham Apron If you do, Mag Parkins, as sure as I'm standln' here, I'll sue you for slander! Chicago Tribune. Earnest Female Professor. I hear vou are a great ornitholOKist. Professor I am an ornithologist, madam. Earnest Female Then could vou kinrllv tell tn tha Won. ical name for a whale? Boston Transcript. He talks a srreat deal nhmrf nlntnnlA friendship." "Well, my girl, you can eas ily put a stop to that sort of thing." "But how?" "Encourasre some other fellow to call." Louisville Courier-Journal. Mrs. Stubh Let us see. John, who wrote Looklnsr Backward?" Mr. Kfuhh Dimiui Maria. Mrs. Stubb Seems to me It was fi woman. Mr. Stubb Woman? Then. T guess it must have been Lot's wife -hl- cago News. J Mrs. Goldsteimer ftheir Yiav -fuaf Into a new place) My dear, I do wish you would go out with me more and meet some of the eharmina- women here. Gold steimer Vy should I know them? rt r a:a I'd have to be giving up my seat in def fara nil Aw tlmaTlf. Lessons From the Past TTannihni preparing to cross the Alps. "But how." asked the Chief of Staff, "are we (rolnjr to pet all the baggage over?" "We will carry it," gloomily answered the great General. in the trunks of the elenhanfs Whih merely shows how ancient the gag is Chicago Tribune. Manv Are Mentioned "Yea y,m w i the Taft Cabinet." "Before or after March 7 Washington Herald. Literary Note. "You write said the critic to the author. "But mv friend," replied the author, "Tve got to live." "How about your readers?" "Ah. well we were all born tt A)t a .i Constitution. QUAKER MEDITATIONS." From the Philadelphia Record. I-f generally spells regret. One half the world d how the other half can afford auto mobiles. When a young- sirl Isn't tniv-lno- is giggling, and of the two we prefer the giggle. Simplified spelling seems to h n case of the English .language being lsemvoweiea. Even when a man s-eta a run tnr hi a money he should be careful lest he doesn't have to walk back. Many a man who Vnoir, innnth hold his tongue has gained a reputa tion for wisdom by simply looking wise. The averaare woman la not snti.e. to do as she pleasea unless she can also' make other people do as she pleases. Ckn TT T i en you on the gridiron?" He "So you think I look like a football player, eh?" She "No-. tnougnt you looked like a lobster."
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8 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1009. MILLS' STORE NEWS Thursday, February 4, igog. New Val Laces from France, Germany, England 10,000 yards, all new, fine enough to trim the sheer est mulls and daintiest nainsooks. A very unusual opportunity to buy for summer waists, We believe that you these laces are finer than any you have bousrht 50c BOLT side the Valenciennes there are some excellent re prodi factions of Maltese Jaces. There are 3 widths of edge', and 2 widths of insertion to match in all the patterns. One Lot 50c dozen worth to $1.00 dozen yds. New Curtain Cluny and Torchon Laces The fact that there these remarkably good laces s down in the morning 5 bargains. They're Cluny and Torchon lty thats unusual YARD cost much more. Firm, sure to wear and launder The Curtain Cluny edges and insertions are lh to 3 inches wide. The Machine Torchon edges are f to 2 inches wide worth up to 12Jc a yard. Some New White Goods You will be very favorably impressed with the good quali ties and pretty patterns of these new white goods that are are first to arrive. Indeed you may be better pleased with selections made from them, than from those of the same grades that will come later. You can hardly judge these goods just from the prices for all are considerably finer than the prices suggest. For instance in the 39c assort ment you will find some that are worthy of being sold for 50c. Special Lots at 5c, 10c, 15c, 20c, 25c, 39c These lots contain new patterns in fancy checks, plaids, stripes, and dots fine and sheer, very desirable both for dresses and waists. Some plain cloths, and good selections in medium weight fabrics for the one-piece dresses that will have so great a vogue in the new season. 7 Grades India Linon 'l2ie They start with a sheer quality, more remarkable for strength of thread than closeness of weave than for fineness and range upward through six other grades increasing in fineness until one is reached that equals many 25c Indias in beauty of texture. All are unusually smooth and even. AMUSEMENTS. At the Grand. The next attraction at the Grand is "Human Hearts." which is booked for Saturday matinee and night. There are but few plays that can be successfully produced for ten seasons, lut this is the record that "Human Hearts' is making for itself. "Hu man Hearts" is rich in incidents, in Its variety of characters, in stage settings, and is one of the best productions of recent years. In Paul Gilmore's new play, "The Boys of Company B," the authoress, Kida Johnson Young, has provided a contrast between the rival characters of Tony Allen and Arthur Stabler as keenly marked as that drawn between the warring characters in any of the better known dramas of modern life now on the boards.' Paul Gilmore will bo seen in the role of Tony Allen at the Grand, Monday. Klaw Erlanger's great triumph, 'The Right of Way," with Guy Stand ing and Theodore Roberts in their famous roles of Charley Steele and Joe Portugais. will play at the Grand. February 12 and 13 with a matinee February 13. There is beauty, grace and dignity -the three things es sential to the satisfactory portrayal cf true drama in the interpretation of "The Right of Way," Eugene W. Presbrey's dramatization of Sir Gil bert -Parker's great story of Canadian life. j f At the Majestic. "Wotte arid Wages." as produced by the Raymond Wells company tells a pretty story of the struggle between capital and labor. The mill scene in the third act is very effective and Minis? pain of maternity; this hour, dreaded as woman's severest trial, is not only made less painful, but danger is avoided by its use. Those who use this remedy are no longer despondent or gloomy; nervousness nausea and other distressing conditions are overcome, and the system is prepared ror ine coming pr r-r event. 'It is worth its weight 1 in gold," says many who have iVil' Used it. per boMett drugstore. 1 mothers mailed free. THE BRAD FIELD REGULATOR CO. Atlanta. Ca. 1 The Mills Co. Topeka all you will need dresses and lingerie will agree that and more beautiful at the prices before. Be One Lot 75c dozen worth 25c yard. are only sixteen pieces of hould make you hurry c for a share of the copied from real patterns with a fidel even in laces that and strong of thread well. twenty-Aye supers are used. This company has a knack of putting on melodramas in a dignified way and it is worth one's while to visit the Ma jestic and witness a performance of "Work and Wages." The Raymond Wells company is by rar the best dramatic company that has been seen at the Majestic. At the Novelty. Among the attractive features of the programme at the Novelty theater are. Borden, Zeno Hayden brothers, Harris Moreland in a comedy sketch, the Langdons, the Tanakas, Jake Goergen and the viascope. MOSQUITO INDICTED. Charged With Responsibility for the Fall of Rome. New York, Feb. 4 In an address be fore the College of Physicians and Sur geons, Dr. George Adami of McGill uni versity, said that it was the mosquito and not graft that caused the French to fail in their project to build the Panama canal. This malaria-breeding pest, he continued, was infl sponsible for the decay of Greece and me iau oi Home. After paying a high tribute to A mArira rt 1 Jk n v i alienee tor the work in Cuba and in Panama he saia: "Half the nonillsltlnr, nf T die from malaria, in most instances spread by the mosquito. Out of six mil- "ni ureu in inaia, nve millions died from fever. But now pathological research has led to practical means of prevention and the death rate has greatly diminished." Becoming a mother should be a source of joy, but the suffer ing incident to the ordeal rQQ makes its anticipation one of 1 -J? dread. Mnthnr'ft Prion rf w awiw 3 the only remedy which re- till. iXHL ON THE NORTH SIDE Mrs. Jacob Brown, a Pioneer, Victim of Pneumonia. Died in Atchison While Visiting a Daughter. LIVED HERE 30 YEARS. The Body Will Be Brought to Topeka. Charitable People Find a Sad Case of Destitution. Mrs. Jacob Brown, the wife of Jacob Brown, of 1408 Quincy street, carrier on rural route No. 4, died of pneumonia about 5 o'clock this morn ing at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Jacquays, in Atchison, ac cording to word received here today. She went to Atchison for a visit with her daughter and was taken sick there a week ago Sunday. She was 77 years old. She has lived in the vicinity of North Topeka for about thirty years. She was the widow of Joe Maze, an old settler of North Topeka. Her first husband died in 1893. She was married to Mr. Brown about three years ago. Mrs. Brown W3s born in Indiana. December 2, 1832. She was married to Mr. Maze in that state. From mere sue and her husband came to Kansas and settled on a farm Just north of Topeka in the early days. Later they moved to North Topeka. She was a member of the Methodist church and was one of the most re spected women of the neighborhood. She leaves three sons, C. C. Maze of 1432 Quincy street, Louis Maze of the South Side, and Frank Maze of Atchison. C. C. Maze and Mr. Brown have gone to Atchison to make arrange ments for the funeral. The body will be brought to Topeka. "Please Mister will you. give me a nickel to help me get some money to have my blind eye fixed?" This is the plea that little ragged "Bonnie" Smith, ine o-y ear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Smith of 1017 North Quincy street; makes to everyone who -passes him on the street. His left eye seems to have been hurt and indications are that the sight in that eye has been partially if not totally, destroyed. Mrs. Smith says that the trouble was caused by the boy catching cold when he was 3 years old. She also teHs how a nail was ac cidentally run in the same eye. In ad dition to this story of hard luck she tells that she and her husband are not well, that he suffers with heart trouble and that she isn't very strong. Mr. Smith is a day laborer. Mrs. Smuh says she is willing for any one to help the boy. The appearance of the home indicates destitute circumstances. The Provident Association officials have been notified of the case and have ta ken it in charge. The officials of the association are trying to arrange with the parents to have the boy eye ex amined by a skilled occulist. They say that if the parents consent, the occulist will do. his best to resore the sight to the eye and it will be done without cost to the father or mother. However, they also say that In many cases like this, the parents take advantage of their unfortunate children and make professional beggers out of them. A child like the Smith boy is often used to appeal to the sympathy of the pub lic, although this may not be true in this particular case. The Smiths have lived in Topeka off and on for about ten years. During this time they have also been in Junction City and Kansas City. There are two children in the family, "Bonnie" and another bov. Krnest, who is 5 years old. A nurse of the Provident Association, in accord ance with .previous arrangements, call ed at the house Tuesday to take the boy to the occulist but found no one at home. The nurse intends to make another attempt to have the boy see an occulist as soon as possible. The Smiths have lived in the L. P. Stalk property for about a year. The place has all the appearance that the tenants are in the direst poverty. Very little furni ture is in the house. There is scarcely any carpet on the floor. Mrs. Smith says they were given the house with out rent if they would look after the Stalk house next door. That house is vacant and the Smiths are supposed to see that no window lights are broken by the small boys of the neighborhood. "I would be glad if every case like the Smith affair was reported to us," said Mrs. Chas. B. Thomas today, who is in charge of the Provident Association nursery. "Under such, circumstances we are glad to do all we can, especial ly for children, whose parents are shift less and will not do anything for them. However, some times, the parents say that they are too proud to accept help or charity when they simply wish to make professional beggars out of their children because their unfortunate con dition appeals to the sympathy of the public and they can get money the more easily on that account." It all happened at North Topeka boarding house because one of the boarders had tried the application of a porous plaster to his chest for his cold and his roommate, who is short sighted, attempted to take it off. The man with a cold had tried every kind of remedy for his malady, even the faith cure, but with no avail. The cold refused to be coaxed out of his system. Finally he applied a porous plaster. It. was his first experience with this old fashioned remedy, so he was unprepared for its drawing and also adhesive qualities. The first few days after the plaster was applied all went Well and the cold gradually left the man. His voice had been as hoarse as the proverbial 1 raven's croak, but under the potent in fluence of the plaster as the cold be gan to vanish, his voice regained its normal tone. However, as the cold approached the vanishing point,, the plaster began to draw like a team of dray horses. For awhile the sufferer stood the agony with the endurance and stoicism of a martyr. He thought that the more pain the less cold. At last he could stand it no longer and decided that he and the plaster must part, however good its intentions might be. The evening of the dav of his momentous decision the boarders at the house where he eats saw him whisper to his roommate and quietly leave the table. His rommate blinked and nooded through the thick lense of his glasses after the manner of near sighted people. A few moments later he of the glasses also left the table and room. A' short time' afterwards those at the table heard the voice of the first man who had left crying in agonized tones: 1 "What -are you doing? You are pulling the hide off of me. Tou are killing me." For a second or two the boarders looked at each other. Then the boys with one accord arose and went to the rom from whence the cries came. When they arrived they found one of the boys on the edge of the bed stripped to the waist and groaning. His roommate was sitting on the floor at his feet with his own feet braced against the bedpost. His hands were grasping his roommate's chest and he was pulling his best. He probably thought 'he had hold of the plaster. However, his glasses had fallen off and in his near sightedness lie had missed the plaster about a quarter of an inch. He was grasping the skin of the chest of his roommate between his thumb and fingers and was pinching tne Doy Tearfully, although uninten tionally, his roommate, in his pain, did not notice the mistake and sup posed the pulling off of the plaster caused nis miserv. However, the others who entered the room quickly saw the error and ex plained. Then the plaster was quickly removed, but bv other hands than those of the sufferer's roommate. Elizabeth Van Ness the dauehter of W. M. Van Ness of 1709 Kansas ave nue, who has been threatened with pneumonia, is reported to be much better. Mrs. Anna Hunter and son Clyde, who have been the guests of D. T. Gabriel at Kansas avenue and Fair child streets, have returned to their home In Onaga. The Union Pacific bridge over Sol dier creek will be raised four and one- half feet and at this point about 20,000 feet of track will be raised to meet the height of the bridge at a uniform grade. This is according to a state ment made yesterday by A. T. Austin, division engineer of the Union Pacific. He said he had orders from the gen eral offices of the road at Omaha that such an improvement should be made. 1 he drainage board nad recom mended that the bridge should be raised three and one-half feet but the additional height will be all the better. The road is also putting in jetties at the low place lust west of the coal shutes. Notes and Personals. C. W. Willits, undertaker. George Hicks, who sustained a fracture of the- right hip by falling from the water tanks at the Gem Laundry at 617 Kansas avenue a few days ago, is reported to be improving as rapidly as possible under the cir cumstances. He is being taken care of at the Bethesda hospital. John Murrell of 1228 Harrison street, whose left leg was burned by steam the first of the week at the Santa Fe shops, was taken to the Santa Fe hospital yesterday. The burns proved to be deeper than was first thought and it -was regarded ad visable to place him where he could have expert nursing. Clark Conklin, editor of the Lyons Republican, who has been visiting at the home of his niece, Mrs. J. J. King at 1226 Jackson street, while he was attending the State Editorial as sociation, has returned home. C. T. Hamilton of Salina is visiting at the home of Mrs. Fred Gurtler at 1408 Quincy street, Mrs. Gurtler is the mother of Mrs. Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton is on his way home from a busines trip in the. east. He is one of the well known cattlemen of Saline county. The Lewis property at 826 Madison street has been sold 'to Charles Small of 1132 Central avenne. S. R. Ti m moms' Wamego Is vis iting in North Totieka., Mrs. Ira Jones of; Elmont Is visiting in North Topeka today. Mrs. Calvin Holman, the mother of M. C. Holman. president of the West ern Woolen Mills, is very ill at the home of her son at 1603 Kansas ave nue. She is 92 years old. Miss Gertrude Allen entertained in formally yesterday evening at her home "at 907 Harrison street. Her guests were: Miss Ella Caldwell, Miss Edna Pence, Miss Minnie McCall. Miss Edith Haynes, Miss Eleanor Wood burn. Miss Elizabeth Woodburn, Mrs. H. M.' Barnes and Mrs. House. Roy Boast of 909 Jackson street, who' has been confined to his home with the grip, is able to be out on the street again. V. R. Parkhurst, engineer of the drainage board, intends to make sur veys along Indian creek today for the purpose of estimating the cost of building dikes along that stream. He will do the work as soon as his time from other matters will permit. Mrs. Louisa Allen is spending a few days in Tecumseh at the home of her sister, Mrs. Mix. Mrs. Fred L. Renker of St. Joseph, Mo., is visiting at the home or ner pa rents. Mr. and Mrs.r S. S. Myers. Call at O. M. Capron. at 841 Kansas avenue, for your meats. GOATSTO WORK FOR U. S. Government Will Put 3,000 of Them to Making Fire Guards. Washington, Feb. 4. Angora goats to the number of 3,000 unceremoniously do ing yeoman service for "Uncle Sam," in constructing by grazing of mile af ter mile of fire line through the bushy chaparral growth of the Lassen na tional forest of California, snortiy will be the novel sight witnessed. The con tract for pressing this little band of white animals into government service has been signed and the novel experi ment will be undertaken next spring in the forest reserve mentioned. The goats will be given two years in which to "make good" on the Job, and if they come up to Uncle Sam's exacting re quirements they will be permanently placed on the government s rons. The scheme is to run fire lines paral lel with the contour of the slopes by cutting trails about 80 rods apart which are to serve as guides for the Angoras. They will graze in each direction from the trails, killing, it is estimated, a strip of brush about 30 yards wide. The wide lanes cut out and grazed by the goats will serve as ideal nre lines in protecting the forest covered lands lying beyond and around the chapar ral areas and also make a place for reproduction of merchantable trees. JO No. 3 Coffee Per Pound 35c .3 Pounds $1.00 Has never yet failed to give absolute satisfaction. It will please you. Chas. McClintock Tea Coffee China 815 Kansas Ave. u (JOCIETY You are beaten to' What'jt that? death? Well, well, Come up with, a smiling face. no he ,a1?aJnst yu to 1 a'l Aown flat, But to lie there that's disgrace. The harder you're thrown, why. the higher you bounce; Be proud of your blackened eye! It isn t the fact that you're licked that counts; It's how did you fight and why? Oh, I'm willing to work, but I wish I could lag, Nt feeling as if I were "it" for tag, There is only one spot where I haven't a a uuji, aii tdiiii w rri v-iaa nor UUUDL Nobody will try to be crowding me out And that is under the cedar. Ana even In that place" will Gabriel's trump Come nagging along and be making me I wonder? Edmund Vance Cooke in "Move. xv o event of the season has ex ceeded in interest the reception and dance to be given tonight at Stein bergs by Mr. and Mrs. Norman S Wear for Major and Mrs. C. R Krauthoff of San Francisco, who are stopping in Topeka on their way home from New York where the ma jor was detailed for a month Just be fore the holidays. Mrs. Krauthoff, who before her marriage was Miss Blanche Dienst, and is the sister of Mrs. Wear, was a Topeka belle and beauty In her girlhood and is gen erally conceded to be the most beau tiful woman in the army. Major Krauthoff is the purchasing commls sary of the general staff of the army. A number of entertainments have been given in their honor during their brief stay In Topeka which will end next week when they leave for San Francisco, where Major Krauth off is stationed. About three hundred invitations have been extended for the reception and dance tonight and the friends asked to assist are Dr. and Mrs. J. C. McClintock. Dr. and Mrs L. H. Munn, the Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. W. J. Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht Marburg, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Parkhurst. Mr. and Mrs. George M. Stone. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Zahner, Mr. and Mrs. Har rison S. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. J. E, Morgan, Mr. and Mrs.- David E. Pal mer, Mr. and Mrs. John Clark Har mon, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Trump, Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Mohler, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Quinton, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Crosby, Mr. and Mrs. Don Mul- vane, Mrs. P. G. Noel, Mrs. Nathan Price, Miss Helen McClintock and Miss Mary B. Moore. The young girls who will serve the ices are Miss Marian Wear, Miss Leona Curtis, Miss Laura Hall, Miss Marguerite Koontz, Miss Mary Alexander and Miss Frances McClintock. Mrs. S. J. Bear gave today the first of a series of luncheons. Her daugh ter, Mrs. Charles Barnes, was up from Osage City for the occasion and will stay over for the reception and dance to be given tonight by Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Wear. The annual celebration of Wash burn day, February 5, will take place tomorrow, and will be marked bv un usually elaborate chapel exercises' at the college and a vacation for the rest of the day. A dinner will be given tomorrow evening at the Masonic halt for the faculty and students. There was much curiosity in the audience at the Grand last night about the identity of the occupants of the lower right proscenium box, three young women and two men. They were members of the "Under Southern Skies" company, "just pass ing through our beautiful little city' and were extended the courtesies of the house. In the opposite box were two other women of the company. One of them wore a long squirrel cloak of which she seemed eager to display, for she took it off and put it on half a dozen times during the per formance and paraded out to the foyer after every act. But as she was very young really dldn t look over sixteen and pretty her innocent pride in her Perfectly Good fur cloak was pardonable. .The young woman who played Violet Lansdowne in "Girls" last night Is a "ringer" for Miss Helen Haughey a belle of the debutante set and one of the prettiest girls in Topeka. Mrs. H. G. Martin entertained the T. G. F. club yesterday and the fol lowing additional guests: Mrs. H. A Woods, Mrs. W. J. Lewis, Miss Marian Kenderdine, Mrs. H. L. Larsh, Mrs. F. L. Benjamin, Mrs. M. J. Sharp, Mrs. Jack Andes, Mrs. G. D. Stephenson, Mrs. O. P. Dugan, Mrs. H. F. Clay, Miss Annie Cunningham. A little Topeka boy who .has been brought up in an automobile, prefers the street cars. His idea, of a treat is street car ride. Tickets for the Edmund Vance Cooke reading to be given next Tuesday night under the auspices of the city letiera- tion of women s clubs, are on sale at 40 cents until tomorrow, wnen they will be 50 cents. At a dinner in Topeka the other night man and a girl who live thousands of miles apart and will probably never see each other again, met for the first time. But before the dinner was over piece of gossip about the man Had traveled down the table to the girl. I am never surprised to near scandal about my dinner partners, the next day," said the girl, "but this ie the first time I ever heard it before the end of the salad course. I think the limit has been reached when your neighbor on the right whispers gossip in one ear about tne man wno is spiel ing compliments into the other." A silk kimona is supposed to be so exclusively a luxury for brides that suspicion attaches to any unmarried girl who acquires one. General and Mrs. J. W. F. Hughes gave a dinner weanesaay nigm in compliment to Mr. E. P. Dunlap, a Presbyterian, missionary to Siam who Is here for a visit to his brother, Mr. A." A. Dunlap. The guests were: Mr. E. P- Dunlap, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Dunlap, Mr. and Mrs. J. f.. tanmer. Mr. and Mrs.-Jonathan Thomas. Miss Caro Deming, Mrs. Adams, Mr. W. W. Mills, Dr. and Mrs. S. S. Estey, Mr. and Mrs. James Hughes and Mr. N. H. Loomis of Omaha, Neb. Miss Anna Harrison entertained the Wednesday Afternoon Bridge club yesterday. Guests besides club mem bers were: Miss Alwine Wilhelmi of Lawrence, Mrs. W. F. Bowen, Miss Mary Harrison, Miss Louise McNeal and Miss Metta Robinson. Dr."" and Mrs. T. W. Peers entertain ed the members of the Parole club at dinner at their home Tuesday night. Covers were laid for: Dr. and Mrs. Peers. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Sadlier J. Hod gins, Mr. and Mrs; E. E. Roudebush, Mr. and Mrs., nun nun hi EXPLAINS TO rw I tm Anps A Simple But Sure Method of Developing a Well Rounded Bust and Figure. (From New York Journal.) It Is a simple but sure method of developing the bust, arms, neck, hips and shoulders of women, who through some defect of nutrition and circulation are forever being humiliated by their more fortunate sisters. First, it must be understood that the human skin is an enormous gland, richly endowed with nerves, secreting and excreting organs, and a network of minute blood vessels which contain at one time over one third of all the blood in the body that is, if nature is perfect. The relation of the skin to the vital organs through the nervous system in controlling the blood sup ply is such as to put them as a team working together. Get separately two ounces Ilycerine, three ounces of rosewater, one ounce tincture cadomene com pound (not cardamom) and five cents' worth of borax. Mix the glycerine with tincture cadomene. shake and let stand two hours: then add a teaspoonful of borax and the rosewater. Apply to the parts need ing development morning and night, rubbing until thoroughly absorbed: then wash off with hot water and soap and dry. It is believed by expert derm atologists to be the most effective prescription ever conceived for the purpose. Luther Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Rodgers. Mrs. J. L. Campbell. Mrs. Anna K. Palmer and Mrs. Isabel Mc- Artnur. Notes and Personal Mention. Major and Mrs. Alvarado M. Fuller have gone to Fort Leavenworth where they will visit Captain and Mrs. Stad ter. Mrs. Fuller will assist Mrs. Stad ter in receiving at her reception Fri day. Mrs. Charles S. Gleed and Miss Cornelia Gleed went to Kansas City where Miss Gleed will enter Mrs. Thomas' school for girls. Miss Louise Kellam has returned from a visit to' Miss Marian Edwards in Kinsley. Mr. Adrian F. Sherman of Kansas City spent Wednesday in town. Mr. Verne J. Edwards of Kansas City was in Topeka yesterday. Mr. J. M. Meade went to Manhattan Tuesday with Mr. L. W. Page, the ex pert government engineer from Wash ington, D. C, to examine the oil roads built at Manhattan under tne direc. tion of the engineering department of the State Agricultural college. Miss Norma Leemn of Council Grove has gone to visit her aunt, Mrs. I. N. Sutton, of Wichita, after a two weeks visit with Mrs. S. L. Courtney and Miss Lucile Burgen, 726 Topeka ave nue. Mr. S. L. Courtney left today for a two weeks' business trip to New York and Chicago.- Mr. Paul Walker has returned from a business trip to Davenport, Iowa. Mrs. McLeod of St. Louis is the guest of Mrs. G. H. McCollister, 517 Sixth avenue west. The Sunday School Teachers" union will meet at the Y. W. C A. rooms at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. C. F. Menninger will speak. Mrs. David Pugh and her daughter, Miss Nora Pugh of Trenton, Mo., are visiting Mrs. Pugh's niece, Mrs. Julian Doriot, at 401 Woodlawn avenue. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Norton have returned from a trip to New York, Philadelphia; Baltimore and St. Louis. Mr. Preston Coleman has gone to Clay Center to spend a week and from there will go to Lawrence, where he will enter the law school at the Kansas university. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Moon of Enter prise were here for the meeting of the State Editorial association and were guests of Mrs. L. A. King. Mrs. Arpha Knap of Loup City, Neb., and Mr. Frank King or funerion, mom., were also Mrs. King's guests and have returned lo their homes. Mrs. Theodore Saxon ana son bia- ney left yesterday to spend a month in Houston and Galveston, Texas. Colonel and Mrs. M. M. Miller nave returned from California, where they spent three months. Mr. and Mrs. K. n: iioagins are spending two weeks in San Antonio, Texas. Mr.' and Mrs. J. R. Koontz and Miss Grace Koontz have returned from a trip to Chicago. Mrs. William Briggs oi rortsmoutn, Ohio, who is the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. H. Kemper, will leave today for Garden City. Mrs. John Abrams and daughter Nell. have gone to Pueblo, Colo., where they wilt-join Mr. Abrams in a perma nerit home. Mrs.- F. Dumont Smith arrived last night and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Muivane wniie air. Smith is in Washington, D. C. TO BE NEAR PRINTERS' HOME. Letter Carriers Purchase Site for Na tional Sanitarium. Colorado Springs, Colo., Feb. 4. By the purchase of 160. acres im mediately east of the Union Printers home, as a site for the proposed na tional sanitarium of the National Let ter Carriers' association, the first step toward the actual rounding of the home has been taken. The land jvas secured from the state, in fee simple, by a committee of Colorado Springs men. The chrome steel vault of the Pru dential bank is a safe place for your valuable papers. RHEUMATISM I want every chronic rheumatic to throw away all medicines, all liniments, all piasters, ana eive Mu.-viun b hhhuma TISM REMEDY a trial. No matter what your doctor may say, no matter what your friends may say, no matter now prejudiced yon may be against all adver tised remeaies, go ai on ro j"ur uriiR gist and get a bottle of the KHETJMA TISM REMEDY. If It falls to give satis, faction, I will refund your money. Many on RMiwmhw this remedy contains no sal icylic acid, no opiom cocaine, morphine or other harmful drairs. It is put up under the guarantee of tne rure cooo ana urog Art. For sale by all druggists. Price, 25c. ANTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ADS, NATS B. THOMPSON announces himself as a candidate for the nomination oc clerk of the court of Toreka. subject to the Republican city primaries. March 2. iscft. i rti,,lwuJlV.O 1 u candidate for the nomination as clerU of the City Court subject to the Repub lican Primaries, March 2, 1909. R. M. LEE. W. C. RALSTON Is candidate for th Republican nomination for the offica of city attorney, subject to the city primary election on March 2. 1909. G. W. DUSENBERRT anonunces himsflt as a candidate for the office of marshal of the court of Topeka, subject to the Re publican primaries March 2, 1909! 3. B. Fiederling to W. Osborn, pt. n. e. 35-10-15..... 9.700 J. R. Ferris and wife to I. O. Fletcher, et al, lot 370 and pt. 372 Morris ave., Stilson Bartholomew's add 400 A. Washburn and wife to A. A. Gra- ham, pt. s. e. hi 36-11-15 1,960 E. L. Johnson and wife to M. A. Tor rance, lot 430 and pt. 428 Clay St.. King's add 2,o0 A. Becker to J. M. Costcllo. lot 390 and pt. 88 Quincy St., Ritchie's add. 3,200 H. W. Dallas and husband to CO. Whipple and wife, lot 413 and pt. 15 Fillmore St., King's add 4,200 C. D. Haffa and wife to A. T. Cross, lots 26 to 36 inc., Maryland ave., Highland Park sub 286 G. D. Lytle to C. Jordan, pt. lots 205 to 215. inc.. West 8th ave 3,750 H. I Pope and wife to M. A. Hodge, lots 150 to 52 N. Monroe St., Fair child's add 1.700 WASTEn rrrr ttot WANTED Situation by a thoroughly ex perienced grocery clerk. Address "G, State Journal. WANTED Work by an all round union DaKer ana pastry cuon. w x., j r net WAJTTEfi MALF WANTED Farm hands, dairy hands, man and wife, farm; car repairers, bridge carpenters, man for 2nd hand store, solicitors, camp cook, $50; man and wife cooks, $60; 2nd cook, hotel help, women ranks, house srirl. hotel maids, waitresses. $20 to $40 month, for 15 states. PAUL GILMORE wants amateur young man jinrt woman to travel with his com pany as understudies. Apply to him at Throop hotel Sunday at p. m. WANTED Experienced arm waiters. Cremerie Restaurant. WANTED Checker ana assorter; wages. City Hand Laundry. good WANTED Young man under 20 to work in office. Give reference and pay want ed. Address G. P. D., care State Journal. WANTED Good colored boy about 18 years of age to work about the place. 427 Topeka ave. WANTED Young man for general office work with some experience on type- writer. owauy .V, ment. Give age and references. Address M., care journal. TAVTFn FTTM .TfT TIFT WANTED Competent white girl, general house work. Mrs. B. II. Pugh, Ind. phones 953 or 2423 Red. WANTED Young lady to do bookkeeping wm-ir tend telenhone. etc.. in grocery; references; past experience, if any, and salary wanted. Address No. 24, care Journal. WANTED Girl for general house work. T 1 11 1 U At n .1 i II .1 i 1 I1HUI1TT U'O .unu.pmi. Txrrr. TilV TUW TTTfiTTPtaT PnTnK fnf secondhand clothes, shoee. hats and overcoats. Droit a card or call Ind. phone 1688. A he Jacobson. 600 Kansas avtnut. WANTED Some one to board a little girl o i,j (...11 T'- niinhannn Ht. Phon Ind. 2007 Red. ASH PAID for good mining stocks. Cobalts. Coppers, Goldfields, preferred. R. 6, State Journal. wr a wTvn Tn Kn v- a ?nrl hand cvlinder record Cabinet. Address Cabinet, Journal WANTED General merchandise stock to trade for land or Topeka city property: gin Tnnek citv nrODerty to exchange for good farm. List your property with me ror sale or exenange. x. j. vjmiiut uv Kansas ave. Ind. phone 70S. HORSES TO WINTER. M. O'Keefe. Ind. phone 8198. WANTED Veal calves and fat cows. H. M. Bush. Ind. phone 2473 S. 1010 E. Ith st. JBTJSJWESSHANCES WANTED Good active partner with $2,000 1 1 11 l-tl. kiiiln... T 1 1 111 V 1 M ill mil v n(.i.iii.i....u tJ i.j. Address Haste, care Journal. FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT Front room, upstairs, mod ern. at 815 Tyler. FOR RENT 4 furnished housekeeping rooms, modern, furnace heat. 1019 Morris FOR RENT Room In modern house, hot water heat, close in, 910 Monroe au Telephone, Ind. 2388 Red. Bell 2551. FOR RENT Furnished rooms with board. 621 Tyler st. FOR RENT 816 Kansas ave., furnished rooms, steam heat, nice for housekeeping FOR RENT To gentleman, new nicely furnished room, 1511 Kan. ave. Ind. 1518. FOR RENT 3 rooms, light housekeeping. Call after 6 p. m. 308 Huntoon st. FOR RENT 1215 Clay. 8 unfurnished housekeeping rooms. io. zsis wnlte. FOR RENT Furnished housekeeping rooms. S8, gas; also 3 at 99: no gas. 70) East 7th. FOR RENT 935 Kansas ave.. 2 adjoining cor. rooms; also single room; gas. Phone IS FOR RENT--4 newly furnished rooms. lot Kanial ave. Gentlemes only. FOT? RKNT HOTTKKH. FOR RENT 5 room house: no children. 615 Monroe. Inquire at 827 Madison. FOR RENT 8 room house, close In, suit- aoie ior z xamuies. zztz White. FOR RENT 8 room modern house, fur nished. L. Hawkins, at 1401 Fillmore st. Ind. phone 2806 White. FOR RENT 11 acres, 4 miles from urantviue. 1123 N. Quincy. FOR RENT 624 Buchanan St., five room uhio, eiecinc ngnis, gas. suoq.d hioh 001 -Mnoa iooi u-lapom ,aw5- XX3H HO. J "EOT T" Jrnbnr -uoui VK KOI 'asnou. wool j-JJQa HQS l
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io THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAIr- THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1909. Makes delicious hot biscuit, iddle cakes, rolls and muffins. The only Baking Powder Made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar ROY PORTER BACK HOME Ottawa Boy Has lU-covcred His Memory Except for Dapse. Ottawa, Kan., Feb. 4. Roy Porter w ho lost his identity and his memory and only found himself after nearly three weeks' time when his father met him in Memphis, Tenn.. arrived home with his parent Wednesday af ternoon. His mind is clear except for a stretch of thirty-six hours from Sunday evening, January 17, to the following Tuesday morning. Porter took leave of a young woman friend at Cameron, Mo, where ho had gone from Lathrop Mo., Sunday evening. When he next realized what was happening he was In a Memphis boarding house. He ctn.d not recall his name nor any thing as to his past. He appealed to the police and word was finally gotten to. his father. It is not believed that Porter was plugged or drugged. No evidence in dicated violence. Specialists ex amined him and pronounced the case a nervous disorder brought on by close in-door confinement at work. Porter lost J150 to $175 and all marks of identification while uncon scious, but he had $20 left and he be lieves his memory gave away before he was robbed. When he applied for lodging- at the Memphis boarding house Monday evening he appeared normal. His inquiries as to where he was were taken as jokes. Porter appears to be in good health and wants to go back to his work. KAtiSANS ARE FOR IT. Curtis and Dong Give Endorsement to Postal Bank Bill. Chicago, Feb. 4. The Postal Savings Bank league, which is advocating the passage of the postal savings bank till now before congress, has received assurances from members of the house and senate which lead to the convic tion that the bill, as amended, would te passed, if it was reported from the committee and a vote taken. Among the senators who have writ ten to the league are Lodge of Massa chusetts; Borah of Idaho: Frye of Maine; Long and Curtis of Kansas: Perkins of California; LaFollette of iWisconsin, and Burkett of Nebraska. All favor the bill. K.VOCK OX PASTEURIZE! MILK. It is Declared to Cause 'Scurvy and Rickets. Chicago, Feb. 4. Within a fort night the council committee on health will bo called on to discuss whether the pasteurization of milk is harm less. Bacteriologists and milk deal ers, led by Mr. Maximilian Herzog, say that it destroys food properties and causes scurvy, bowlegs and rickets. Health Commissioner Evans in re- AFTER DOCTORS FAILED LydiaE.Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound Cured Her. "Willimantic, Conn. "For five years I suffered untold agony from female troubles, causing backache, irregulari ties, dizziness and nervous prostra tion. It was impossible, for me to. want upstairs wiinoui stopping on the way. 1 tried three differ ent doctors and each told me some thing different. I received no benefit from any of them, but seemed to suf fer mnre. Th last doctor said noth- I ing would restore taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable f .J 1. Z i. 1 J 1 UUUipUUUU 1A DCO Uttb X U WUU1U UO, and I am restored to- my natural health." Mrs. Etta Donovan, Box 299, Willimantic, Conn. The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be used with perfect confidence by women wno surxer rrom displacements, inflam mation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, ir regularities, periodic pains, backache, bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indi gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra tion. For thirtyyears Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills, and Buffering women owe it to themselves to at least give this medicine a trial. Proof is abundant that it has cured thousands of others, and why should it cot cure you? 4:- -s",.' ply questions the accuracy of some of the statements. He declares there have been only 496 deaths from rickets in Chicago in 15 years, while milk-born epidemics claim thou sands of residents yearly. YANKEE ENERGY. Americans Buy Xine-Tenths of Best Pictures in Europe. New York, Feb. 4. Americans are buying nine-tenths of the best ex amples of the works of the old masters in Europe, according to Eugene Fischoff, a well known art dealer of Paris, who has arrived here. "Within the last twenty years," he said1. "Americans have been so active in this line that European amateur collectors and museums have been stirred by the Yankee energy and are protecting themselves. There is at present a great demand for pictures of the early French and English schools but there is nothing in the market to satisfy it." THEY MUST NOT THINK. Leslie M. Shaw Says Public Men Must Use Public Teleplione. New York. Feb. 4. One hundred and fifty members of the Bible class of John D. Rockefeller, jr., of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, attended the annual dinner here. Leslie M. Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasury, and John Kendrick Bangs, the writer, were the principal speakers. The Rev. Charles F. Aked, pastor of the Fifty Avenue Baptist church, was toastmaster. Mr. Shaw during the course of his speech said: "We are only satisfied with the highest ideals in public life nowadays. We are teaching our public men that they must not think, but must use the public telephone to ask us what we want done. If they guess what we want done, we guess they get out. The standard of public life is now much higher. While at Washington I had the opportunity of meeting many prominent public men intimately, and I formed an entirely different opinion from what the press reports would have one believe. There is a constant cry that the senate is corrupt, but I don't believe it." NONE FOR DAUGHTER. William Croker Disinherits Hor Be cause Marriage Displeased Him. Although he knew that death was but a question of a short time. William Croker, a wealthy Williamsport farm er, refused to forgive his daughter for having married Thomas Wilson, ancj though professing great love for her cut her off without a cent, leaving his entire estate valued at $13,000 to his wife and a son and daughter. Numer ous paragraphs in the will make clear the intent of the father of Mrs. Wilson to disinherit her, not on account of animosity towards her, but on account of hatred toward her husband. There was parental objections to the marriage of the daughter to Wilson and the hatred seems to have in creased as years passed rather than diminished, and on his death bed Farmer Croker remembered his son- in-law as an enemy and worded his will so that he can not participate in the distribution of the estate. The real estate is valued at about $12,000 and the personal property is worth about $1,000 more. TAXED AS PEARLS. Hate on Guggenlieim Jewels Is Re duced to 10 Per Cent. New York, Feb. 4. Morris Gug genheim is victor in the controversy with the federal government over the amount of duty on 59 pearls valued at $16,264.47. The government main tained that the pearls were dutiable as jewelry at the rate of 60 per cent, while Mr. Guggenheim contended that a ten per cent tax for pearls was prop er.. His contention was sustained by tne Doara or general appraisors. The facts in the case are similar in most respects to that of the necklace of Mrs. W. B. Leeds, valued at $350, 000 which was recently held dutiable simply as pearls. GETS A DIVORCE IX JIG TIME. Mrs. Hastings Freed From Marital Ties In live Minutes. A new record was made for the di vorce court Wednesday afternoon when Sara J. Hastings secured a decree separating her from her husband, the entire proceedings occupying less than five minutes. Mrs. Hastings called at the office of Clerk of the Court R. L. Thomas late in the afternoon and filed her application for divorce; there was a lull in the business of the district court just at that time, and Judge Dana listened to the evidence and granted the decree, just four and one half minutes having elapsed between the. time the petition was filed and the time when the divorce was granted. Mr. and Mrs. Hastings were married in Topeka in 1898 and from the neti- tion of the wife and the admissions of the husband It seems that there have been numerous serious misunderstand ings. An attorney appeared for the defendant and filed a formal' entry of appearance. The petition of Mrs. Hast ings states that her husband has a bad temper which he does not control and that he has compelled her to perform labor beyond, her strength, and lias abused her. STILL GRINDING ON A. A. Godard Appears in Utility Bill Controversy. Protests on Behalf of Indepen dent Telephone Company. PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW Says If They Understood Meas ure" Would Be Uprising. Objects to Regulating Charges and Other Features. The hearing on the public utilities bill before the senate judiciary com mittee was resumed at 8:45 this morn- ins. Mr. A. A. Godard spoke with reference to the effect of the bill on the Inde pendent telephone companies. He said there are more than 300 telephone com panies in Kansas that are assessed by the state board. The stock of the in dependent companies is held principal ly by .people in the state. He believed the stockholders in practically all of the companies "would be agreeable to fair regulations relative to the issu ance of stocks and bonds. In the tele phone companies he declared there is no "watering" of stocks or frenzied speculation. Mr. Godard mentioned the corrupt financial methods that have been practiced in certain eastern states, but those conditions do not exist in Kansas. He thought the legislature should pass reasonable laws to pre vent such practices. I do not believe," said Mr. Godard, that the Independent telephone people over the state know the real contents of the public utilities bill now under consideration. If they did know, I am sure there would go up a protest that would be heard all over the state." Mr. Godard threw a fine bouquet at Senator Hamilton, the author of the bill and regretted that the Shawnee senator had not -framed the bill him self rather than taking it. from the Wisconsin and New York laws. He said he is friendly to the theory of the leg islation -.proposed, but that he is em phatically opposed to the bill in its present form. Mr. Godard submitted some amend ments to tne Din ana aiscussea tne changes proposed. Senator Stavely asked the' speaker as to the constitutionality of the provis ion of taking away power from the city council and vesting it in a commis sion, senator Hamilton statea mat such transfer of power by a legisla ture has been sustained by the courts. Mr. Godard proposed the elimina tion of section 5 permtting others to use a public utility's poles and equip ment, and that section 6, relating to obtaining valuation of the utilities, should require such valuation to be made by competent engineers. He also proposed to cut out sections 12, 23, 67, 69, 70, paragrapn z or t, Daragraph 3 of 81. all of sections 82 and 95. In brief these sections pro hibit the keeping of any books other than those prescribed by the com mission: permit the commission under certain circumstances to withhold in formation; limit the right of appeal from orders of the commission to the courts to ninety days; prescribed cer tain methods of procedure before courts and commission; allow municipalities to grant Indeterminate permits to competing utilities by amending existing franchises held by a present utility which has a monopoly; giving municipalities authority to condemn and acquire a public utility when public needs re quire and prescribing method of procedure; and permitting the re covery of treble the actual damage found, if Such damage is caused by any unlawful act of the utility. Mr. Godard did not desire all the sections of the bill to be omitted. However, to many of the provisions remain ing he suggested amendments. One amendment proposed was that the commission should not be allowed to reduce charges made by public utilities, so as to prevent them from earning a net income of 10 per cent upon the value of its plant. Also he proposed an amendment providing for a reutrn of rights sur rendered by a public utility, in con sideration of receiving an indeter minate permit. In the event the law is repealed. At 10 o'clock the hearing was ad journed until 5:30 o'clock this after noon. Ten Doctors Said He Would Die "In 1903 we wrote you regard ing my husband, who was suf fering from heart trouble. He was superanuated by the North Georgian Conference. Ten doc tors at different times said he would die. You advised Dr. Miles Heart Remedy and Re storative Nervine; we did as advised, and improvement was apparent from the very first. He recovered and the Conference in 1904 gave him a charge. He never felt better, although he has very heavy work and does a great deal of camp meeting work. I am so glad we took your advice and gave him the medicine, and feel that I ought to let you know of the wonder ful good results from its use." MRS. T. S. EDWARDS, Milner, Ga. This proves what Dr. Miles Heart Remedy will do. Get a bottle from your druggist and take it according to directions. It does not matter whether your heart is merely weak, or you have organic trouble, if it does not benefit you take the empty bottle to your druggist and get your-money back. IjEFT b.vby" I-V church. But die Woman "Was Watched and Promptly Arrested. New York. Feb. 4. A neatly dress ed woman has been placed under arrest after she had quietly slipped into the Paulist Fathers church in 5 9th street and left a brown paper par cel. The bundle contained a baby boy apparently about two days old, warmly wrapped in clothing of good material. Two women who followed the woman caused her arrest. She gave the name of Ellen Murphy and an address which .was afterwards found to be fictitious. The bahy was sent to Bellevue hospital. Pinned to its clothing was this note: "Please have this boy baptized a Catholic. Call him John Byrne. God bless and forgive all connected with this. If possible have iiim sent to a Catholic Institution." WOMEN FIGHT SMOKE. One Thousand in Dcague to Obtain Evidence and File Complaints. Chicago, Feb. 4. -One thousand Chi cago women will take up the fight against smoke, obtain evidence, swear to complaints and assist in the prose cution of offenders. Prominent women formulated the plan of action. They decided to di vide the city into districts, which shall be watched over by clubwomen. They will keep guard at their own winaows, and if smoke is emitted for longer than six minutes from a single chimney suit will be filed against the owner of that chimnev. "The men really have been very much concerned about this evil, saia one leader, "but they are too busy to see that suits are filed. Tne women have time to devote to it, and we be lieve that concerted action among them will free the city from smoke. DEAD MAN'S LEG. Is Successfully Grafted Onto a laving Patient. V. T7K A Toetor At the Georgetown university hospital witness ed a remarKaDie operation iiuiuimm there by ur. teorge xuuj nusumi t i, Kyirtc- ,f iriiv'c knee were so bad- ly diseased that Ir. vaugnan aeciaeu on amputation. v Tn v.A Vmcni ot' xx-Qc o man 4 limit t O die. Ir. Vaughan obtained permission rrom tne ayiusj paiiBm U1U V 3 UIC "-fcl and it was decided that the knee of the dead man should be grafted to the leg of the living surrerer. The transfer was duly made. The i rii-ctcfi together bv slender. uwnco .1.1. strong wire and the most delicate phase of. the operation, mat oi joining the ligaments, caused the surgeons to w in n. cbo j before. Every tissue, tendon and mus cle was Joined and the bones fastened i n u i r nrnnon v Tifvei lauuicru together. Jielley is saia to dc unuiuv ing rapidly. 1 OFFERS FREE FEED. Evansville Man yII Supply AH Xedy Horse Owners. Kvansvilie, Ina, Feb. -4. Adolph Melzer, a manufacturer of this city, said to be a millionaire, has inserted an "ad" in the local papers as follows: "During the month of February every person who has not the means to provide sufficient feed for his horse or mule can obtain feed from me free of cost. All persons must bring rec ommendations from some well known citizen." Melzer is a lover of animals and dur ing the holidays fed hundreds of horses belonging to the needy. He says: "I am a bachelor and have no wife to make my home cheery. But I have dogs in my house and horses in my stable and they take the place of a wife." HID IN GARBAGE CAN. Hold Up Man Took Desperate Meas ures to Escape Arrest. Chicago, -Feb. 4. Todging desperate ly into an alley James Ryan, who, the police says, had Just held up Fred Krause in his store, looked about eag erly for a hiding .place. The only refuge he could see was a garbage can. Its odors were unsavory, but Ryan hadn't time to be nice, .so he crawled in and pulled down the cover. A moment later two policemen eame galloping into the alley. They were just about to give up the chase when mroiman jvuiier thought he heard labored breathing. He otiened the garbage can and Ryan struck at him with the butt of his pis tol. There was a fight, but Ryan was overpowered and is now held at the station. BAND PLAYED HOT TIME While Colonial Club Danced and Burned Canceled Bonds. Chicago, Feb. 4. While the band played "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight," 500 members of the Colonial club, danced the Highland Fling around a $15,000 bonfire in the club's rooms. It was a "bond burning jubilee." One hundred and fifty canceled bonds, each representing $100, were distributed to various members and all found their way to the flames. WOMAX PLEADED FOR HIM. Mail Thief Is Given Light Sentence by Judge liandis. Chicago. Feb. 4. Mrs. Mary Van Dine, mother of the- car barn bandit, hanged several years ago, has urged Judge Land is to be lenient with Daniel F. Kerr, the former postofnee clerk, who admitted stealing from the mails for ten years. Mrs. Van Dine says she found the defendant's home in a pitiable state, that his sister is. dying from con sumption, and that his brother also was dying. Judge Land is sentenced Kerr to serve 18 months in the Leavenworth prison, which is considered to be an exceptionally light punishment. High Pythian Offkial Dies, Chicago, Feb.. 4. Wm. Danes Ken nedy, one of the highest officials of the Knights of Pythias order and the author of Kennedy's "Pythian History" is dead herd from heart dis ease. He was closely associated for years with Justice H. RatUbone, founder of the order- A Popular Verdict Basei on Evidence of Topeka People. Grateful thousands tell it How weak backs were made strong v Weak kidneys made well Urinary disorders corrected. Topeka people add their testimony. They gladly praise Doan's Kidney Pills, For quick relief and lasting cures." Topeka evidence is now complete. Topeka testimony is confirmed; Reports of early relief sub stantiated. Cures doubly proved by test of time. Let a Topeka citizen speak. Mrs. E. W. Grigs, 334 Quincy St., Topeka, Kan., says: VI still con sider Doan's Kidney Pills a most re liable and efficient kidney remedy and I gladly confirm the public state ment I gave In favor of them in 1905. I have had no symptoms of kidney trouble since this remedy cured me and I therefore know my cure to be a- permanent one." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milbum Co.. Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. EVERY HOUR, OF THE DAY. M. Weightman, Jr., the reliable Druggist of Ninth and Kansas Ave. is having calls for "HINDIPO," the new Kidney Cure and Nerve Tonic that he Is selling under a positive guarantee. Its merits are becoming the talk of the town and everybody wants to try it, and why not? It costs nothing if it don't do you good not one cent. He doesn't want your money if It does not benefit you, and will cheer fully refund the money. Try it to day. The Secret of Long Life. A French scientist has discovered one secret of long life. His method deals with the blood. But long ago millions of Amer icans had proved Klectric Bitters prolongs life and makes it worth living. It purifies, enriches and vitalizes the blood, rebuilds wasted nerve cells,, imparts life and tone to the entire system. It's a godsend to weak, sick and debilitated people. "Kid ney trouble had blighted my life for months," writes W. M. Sherman, of Cush lng. Me., "but Electric Bitters cured me entirely." Only 50c at Campbell Drug Co. M7- Most of the Johnnies, attracted by the alluring title,' went to the Grand last night to see Girls, a Clyde Fitch comedy in its second season, and per haps the first act where three bache lor girls frisk about in kimonos, take down (and off) their hair and finally put on their nighties and go to bed in a folding contrivance, a sanitary couch and a Morris chair, repaid them. But outside that first act which Is clever, original and amusing, the piece is slow, stupid and impossible. The sec ond act. In a law office. Is about the limit, even for farce comedy, and the third is as dull as anything you could imagine. Girls is altogether characteristic of Mr. Clyde Fitch whose plays are, or dinarily, marvels of inanity, saved by one unusual act, scene or situation He has a positive genius for mildlyy startling innovations in the way of stage business and it will be found that most of his pieces depend for their effect almost entirely upon their staging. Prolific as he is. he has writ ten only one play. The Cumbers worthy of serious consideration. The first act of Girls is amusing, not on account of the dialogue, for the lines throughout the piece are uninspired but because it reveals three attractive girls in their relation to the expedients of light hbusekeeping and the mys teries" of the toilet. Sifted down the charm of the act depends entirely upon the clever business one girl combing her switch, another washing her white gloves in the salad bowl, and a third, using shoe polish on her black ones. The play was well staged in Topeka and Miss Bessie Toner, who played the leading feminine role last night was also with the original company. The cast includes some clever people and the three bachelor girls, around whom it is written, are comely and attractive. A. F. J. CHASED THE DEMOX RUM, Marine Evangelist Keeites His Exper ience on the Sea. Chicago. Feb. 4. Some of the difficulties encountered by a "marine" evangelist were recited last evening by the Rev. wntrea m. uremeu, wno has chased the Demon Rum all over the hieii seas and has it cornered, just now, on the bleak coast of Labrador. The .English evangelist told how. in his tour of the fishing fields, he boarded all sorts of craft and held prayer meetings and sought to close up those- "ocean saloons." He said that as a result many ship owners have ceased paying off their men in saloons, as had been the cus tom. Bad Breath. A well-known physician, who undoubtedly knows, declares that bad breath has broken off more matches than bad temper. There are ardent lovers who must sometimes wish their sweethearts presented sweeter mouths to be kissed. Good teeth cannot prevent bad breath when the stomach is disordered. The best cure for bad breath is a cleansing out of the body by use of Lane's Family Medicine (called also Lane's Tea) the tonic laxative. This is a herb medicine, sold in 25c. and 50c packages by drug gists. It saves doctor bills. It cures headache, backache, in digestion, constipation and skin diseases. 25c at druggists. MB Friday Last Friday was the first Bargain Friday of the year, and it was also one of the stormiest days in twenty years. We had innumerable telephone orders for the various items advertised but our rule We cannot accept mail or telephone orders for these Friday Bargains," pre cluded our filling them. We think that we advertised an exceptionally strong lot of Friday Bargains last week as good as we ever offered. For that reason we are going to repeat them in order that all may have a chance to share in the savings. 5c Teneriffe Doylies ior 3c each 4-Inch Teneriffe Doylies made of wheels. They would be extra good values at a nickel a piece. We have a gross for special selling Q Bargain Friday at Men a 50c Mufflers for 15c each Sateen and half-wool square Mufflers in a wide va riety of fancy designs and colors. Our entire line of men's 50c Mufflers will be on sale Bargain Friday J5c 10c Cakes of Camphor Ice for 6c There's nothing better than Camphor Ice for chapped hands and, rough skin. Large cakes in tin boxes. 10c is the every day price. Bargain Friday you can buy them for vl 25c Hose Supporters will be 15c Pad Hose Supporters in pink, blue, black and white. We secured a gross for spec ial selling Bargain Friday. Ordinarily they would be 25c, for the one day they f C will be OC We Cannot Accept OrJers For These All Remnants of Silk 39c and 50c a yard Every remnant of Silk in this store will be on sale Bar gain Friday at one of these two prices. Silks of aJl kinds, all colors and all qualities. Lengths from one yard up the higher priced ones are all short lengths. Values up to $1.25 a yard. Take your av5aeyday.39cand50c 15c Curtain Swiss for 9c a yard It's time now for new sash curtains and here's the op portunity to get the material at a saving. Two pieces of regular 15c, 36-Jnch, figured Curtain Swiss will be on Q sale Friday at fC 10c to 15c Flannelettes for 7c a yard All kinds Flannelettes and Kimono Flannels for making waists, house dresses, wrap pers and kimonos. 10c, 12 c and 15c values specially pric ed for Bargain Fri- 7 e day, a yard C Take any pair of Party SI ippers for $2.45 This gives you choice of the entire stock. Patent colt and kid, pink and black suede, blue and gray kid Party Slippers. $3.50. $4.00 and $6.00 values. t9 AVL Choice. Bargain Fri JG'xJ Railroad Fare Refunded, in Part "The Crosby Bros. Co EGGS DROP TWO CENTS. Shipment of 90,000 Fresli Ones Re ceived in Chicago. Chicago. Feb. 4. Ninety thousand eggs, said to be fresh have reached Chicago, and as a result the price has taken a tumble of two cents a dozen. Other consignments due during the re mainder of the week are expected to make further inroads on topnotch prices. To Celebrate Moody's Birthday. Chicago, Feb. 4. The birthday of Dwight L. Moody will be celebrated as "Founders day" tomorrow at the Moody Bible institute. Mr. Moody was born February 5, 1837. Of all his work, the institute was nearest to his heart. The officials will hold a special meeting to decide upon the plans for the enlargement of the in stitute. Plans submitted by the architect call for the creation of three new buildings at a cost of $350,000. Harriman to Hunt Ducks. San Francisco. Feb. 4. According to a message received by W. K. Crock er of this city. E. H. Harriman, the railway magnate, is coming here for brief vacation next week. He ex pects to spend most of his time hunt ing ducks on his preserve situated in the Suisan marsh". He bought the hunting grounds from the late Her man Oelrichs several years ago. but this is the first time ho has ever shot there. B a.r gains Short lengths of narrow Ribbon Short pieces of narrow Ribbons, from 1 to 5 yards In length. Bilks and satins in all colors. 2 He and S c Ribbons. lc yd. 6c Ribbons ...,2c yd. 8 Ho Ribbons So vd. Women's 50c Cashmere Gloves for 33c Best quality of silk-lined Cashmere Gloves all sizes In black, navy blue, gray and brown. We've been selling mem au winter ror 60c a pr. Bargain unaay tney will be 33c $1.25 Metal furses for 50c each Handsome little Purses made of oxidized white metal with chain handles and fan cy colored linings. To close out a small lot we offer these 1.25 Purses Friday 50c 75c bolts of Val. will be 45e 12-yard bolts of fine Val enciennes Laces nothing but edges. Widths are from to 2 Inches. Buy now for Spring sewing needs. Regular i oc bolts. Bargain Friday for. 45c Mail or TTelepbone Friday Bargains Children's 50c Nigtt Clothes for 35c Tennis flannel Night Dres ses and Pajamas. The for mer In sizes from infant's up to 4 years. The latter in sizes from 1 to 7. Plain white and white, grounds with pink and blue striped patterns. They sell regularly for 50c a garment and a suit. Bargain Friday you "JC,. can buy them for.....OC $4.09 Smyrna Rugs will be priced $2.75 These are the very bert quality of Smyrna Rugs 30x 60 Inches, In pplendld designs and colors. We have Just a dozen of these regular J4.00 Rugs to sell BargaiiO 71" Friday for S2. I 12 Jc to 20c Gingb for 7c a yard What a chance to get the material for school dresses! 124c. loo and 20c Dress Ginghams mostly pinks and a small lot of mercerijifd Ginghams on sale Friday, a yard C 50c Towel Sars will be 29c 16-Inch, bent corner Towel Bars made of -lnch brass tubing nickel plated and brightly burnished. Heavy wall plates, complete with screws. Regular 50c OQ values for "fC or Whole, to Out-of-Town Buy HAND SAPOLIO FOR TOILET AND BATH Delicate enough for the softest skin, and yet efficacious in remov ing any stain, Keeps the skin in perfect condition. In the bath gives all the desirable after-effects of a Turkish bath. It should be on every wash stand. All GROCERS AMD DRUGGISTS LEWIS SINGLlTDINDEn sM(Hn5ci6AtYou pay 10t foivCigars not so good Soldier Balks Death Plot. It Rf'tJ m n d tn 1 A ti... n ..l.il Isted between a desperate lung trouble and ed a stubborn cold." he writes, "that de veloped a oou?h that; stuck to me. in spiitj of all rpmdips. for years. My weight ran down to 130 pnundH. Then I began to ust Dr. King's New Diiw-overy. whlr-h re stored my health completely. 1 now weigh 17S pounds." For severe) Coll., obstinate Coughs. Hemorrhages, Athnm, and to prevent Pneumonia It'a unrlvaleil. 5Tc and Jl.'jft. Trlnl bottle free. Guaran teed by Campbell Drug Co. J J