The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 15, 1910

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rf rf EVERYBODY 10 PAGES READS IT. EVERYBODY 10 PAGES NEEDS IT. LASl EDITION. MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, AUGUST 15, 1910. MONDAY: EVENING. TWO CENTS. fltU PORTERGETS IT. Wins Supreme Court Nomina tion After All." Official Count Gives Him a Plu rality of 17 6. SURPRISE IS GREAT. ETen the Judge Himself Had Conceded His Defeat. Figures on Othtr Candidates Are Compiled. Justice Silas Porter of the supreme court bench was renominated by his party at the primary election held August 4. The first estimates of to tals of the complete returns were given out from the office of the secretary of state at noon today and the vote for Justices of the supreme court stood as follows: west, sx.uus; x-unci, 481; Graves, 49,305; Parker, 45,760. These give Porter a plurality over Graves of 176. So West and Porter are the nominees. r.jTvrae-m jr if I Hi Justice Silas Porter. Who It Was found Today Has Been Renomi nated. The estimates previously announced in which Graves was given the nomin ation by about 600 plurality were made by friends of the nominees and by newspaper men and were taken from the reported returns from many of the counties and unofficial returns from many others. All the official returns did not reach the secretary of state's office until Saturday. That office gave out official totals on state printer and governor and congressmen Saturday but did not get to the- totals on other state officials until today. The esti mates as printed In the newspapers were accepted generally as very nearly correct. The estimates printed in ad vance of the official returns on all the other offices where there was a contest were very nearly correct as proved by the official returns, but in the case of the Graves and Porter vote some big mistake was made on the adding ma chine or in taking the vote down or in the report of the vote from some coun ty or counties. The secretary of state had given out no figures on supreme court nominees until today. When the totals were made and it was seen that Porter led Graves by 176 votes the secretary's force went over the complete returns four times,' checking them up care fully, but could get no other result. There is not the slighest doubt now of Justice Porter's nomination. The can vassing board meet this week to go over the returns but it is hardly pos sible that they can find any mistake in the work of the secretary of state who has verified his figures four dif ferent times from the complete and official returns. Justice Fortep was greatly surprised when told of his nomination by a State Journal reporter. He had given up the fight and was planning to re turn to Kansas City and his law prac tice. He insisted on seeing the figures and finally admitted that he Is nomi nated but it appeared to be a great ef fort. The following Is the vote for all nominees of all parties for state office fls given out by the serretary of state today for the first time: Justices Supreme Court. Two to Elect. 'harles B. Graves, Rep 49,30. J. W. Parker, Rep 45.760 Filas W. Porter, Rep. 49,481 J. a West, Rep 57.008 Charles F. W. "Dassler, Dem 30.855 Humber Riddle, Dem 32.7t2 Jesse L. Jackson, Socialist 2.900 Joseph W. Puckett, Socialist 2,949 Governor. W. R. Stubbs, Rep 84,970 Thos. E. Wagstaff, Rep 52.214 RuBsell J. Harrison, Dem 12,189 Geo. H. Hodges. Dem 28,745 P. M. Stallard, Socialist 3,201 ;Wm. Cady, Prohl. 559 Lieutenant Governor. J W. Creech, Rep 40,926 Richard J. Hopkins. Rep 77,449 Isst Ravenscraft. Dem 38,239 Cha- R. D. S. Oakford, Socialist. 3,154 Ray Heritage, Prohib 560 i Secretary of State. Chas. H. Sessions. Rep. 105,661 Ray L. Taylor. Dem 38.150 Vernle V. Oakford. Socialist 3.13S M. C. Platz, Prohib 55S State Auditor. Mr. H. Cauble, Rep 30,058 XV. E. Davis, Rep 81,225 Jonathan G. Miller, Dem 18.623 John A. Reed, Dem 20.344 Thos. H. McGill. Socialist 3,047 T. W. Bertenshaw, Prohib 555 State Treasurer. F. J. AHewager. Rep 13. 070 If. W. Grasse. Rep 17,90 O. F. Lewis. Rep 23.775 Mark Tulley. Rep 35,463 K. WeWb. Rep 26.32S R. M. Dreilling. Dem 37.695 Marcus J. Wells, Social 3,165 O. A. Herbert, Pioh'b '562 Attorney General. John S. Dawson, Rep 108.243 Thos. F. Morrison, Dem 4S 247 David E. Crossly, Social 6129 A. G. Drake, Prohib...... '556 Superintendent Public Instruction. r.. 1. .uremia. Rep. 68,056 J.. rayne, rcerp 43,630 David M. Bowcn, Dem 37,880 Terence Vincent. Social.. 3 142 S. W. Bon3. Prohib .565 Superintendent of Insurance. Van H. King, Rep 43.675 Ike S. Lewis, Rep 64,171 '4S. fells. W7 Northrup Moore, Dem..... 37,013 James H. Lee, Social 3,142 B. L. Timbers, Prohib 542 State Printer. W. C. Austin, Rep 39.631 T. B. Brown, Rep 39,370 Tom Cordry, Rep 32,114 Francis W. Boyd, Dem 18,410 Edward F. Hudson, Dem 19,338 Oliver L. Rice, Social 3.089 T. B. Jones, Prohito 554 Railroad Commissioners (Three to Elect). W. E. Blackburn, Rep 28.432 W. L. Cunningham. Rep 32,590 W. A. Holland, Rep 21,655 Geo. W. Kanavel, Rep 30,053 J. C. Nlcc-warner, Rep 15,381 George Plumb, Rep 44,417 Frank J. Ryan, Rep 40,518 R. B. Ward, Rep 29,071 John T. White, Rep 41,899 Leni A. Woods, Rep 26.733 Jos. B. Fugate, Dem 18.797 Benj. Heilbmn, Dem.. 16.563 Jacob H. Hostetler, Dem 18.399 Taylor Riddle, Dem 24.271 Thos. E. Walsh. Dem 23,838 R. W. Burnside, Social 2,9fiS Jas. B. Huffman, Social 3,010 Aaron McAllister. Social 12,993 M. R. Bec'ttell. Prohib 513 B. F. Hester, Prohib 522 J. K. Mayberry, Prohib 53 ONE OUT OF 5,000. V. S. Attorney Johnson TeUs of Dis missal of McMurray Indictment. Sulphur, Ok., Aug. 15. More details of J. F. McMurray's alleged activity at Washington to promote his 10 per cent attorney fee contracts in the sale of $30,000,000 worth of Indian lands were related before the' congressional in vestigatin committee today. W. B. Johnson, former United States attor ney testified certain indictments against McMurray in 1905, were ordered dis missed by the attorney general. The indictments were returned against Mc Murray and others in connection with a $;-'00.000 expense account, which Mc Murray's firm had filed against the In dians in prosecuting citizenship cases. It was alleged in the indictment that the expense account had been padded. At the time the indictments were be ing investigated Cecil A. Lyon, national Republican committeeman for Texas, was in Washington. Mr. Lyon previ ously had testified he had urged the at torney general to investigate the indict' merits, tout he declared he never asked that they be dismissed. The indict ments later were ordered dismissed. Mr, Lyon then became interested with Mc Murray in -what are known as the old tribal contracts and talked with Presi dent Roosevelt in regard to them. "During your term of office how many indiotment3 were returned?" Mr. John son was asked. "About 5,000." "How many of those indictments were dismissed?" "Only one that against McMurray." "After the McMurray indictment was returned, I was called to Wash ington. I took all the papers there. After nine days Assistant Attorney General Russell told me the indict ments were to be investigated. I also met Mr. Lyon. He said he had been summoned to Washington by tele graph. When I got back home I was instructed that the indictment against McMurray was dismissed." Cub Ream, an Indian, testified he had been prevented from securing the position of delegate to Washington for the Chickasaw tribe because he was opposed to the McMurray contracts. Ream declared he had protested to the Indians that a 10 per cent fee to Mc Murray would be too high and that the government already had promised to sell the land without expense to them. It would, therefore, he said amount to giving McMurray $3,000,000 for doing what the government would perform without McMurray's aid. For taking this view, he said, he was not allow ed to represent the Indians at Washing ton. Douglass H. Johnston, chief of the Chickasaw tribe, was in favor of the contracts, Roam said. W. O. Paul, a Chickasaw, told of having received a share of $4,900 for getting the McMurray contracts sign ed. Attorneys for McMurray put on a witness in favor of the contracts, Holmes Willis, a Cherokee. He testi fied he favored the McMurray con tracts and paying the 10 per cent fee, because he believed McMurray could sell the property for more than 10 per cent more than the government could get for it. BLOW UP AT SEA. Boilers of a Schooner Explode Killing Four Men. Point Arena, Cal., Aug. 15. Four men were killed when the boilers of the steam schooner Phoenix blew up at sea. about ten miles north of the Point ATena light house. Two of the dead- Chief Engineer Thomas Houston and Second Mate Andrew Rasmussen reached shore with the survivors of the vessel, but died of their injuries. The mangled bodies of two firemen Chris Hansen and William Nicholsen ride in the demonlished engine room of their waterlogged ship, as she floats at sea, a derelict. The Phoenix k-a-led with bark from Needle Rock for San Francisco was making her way slowly southward against a brisk wind in a choppy sea. Whtn the explosion came the mate and the engineer were hurled to the floor toward the fireboxes, and Chief Officer Louis Larson was torn from his post on the bridge and his body sent hurling through the air 30 fee- to the -k be low. Tlie sailors forward and Captain Peter Halvorsen, seated in his cabin, were tossed about in their quarters by the force of the explosion and confus ion reigned. With her bow well out of wat and careening to starboard the Phoenix was settling. Pump crews were stationed and some of the sailors were sent into the engine and boiler rooms. Houston and Rasmussen were carried to the deck still alive, but fatally injured. Nicholsen and Hansen were never seen after the explosion. Skyrocket distress r-ignals flashing through the air attract ed Captain Stile and crew of the Point Arena life saving station, and the rescuers put off in the life boat. They returned with Rasmussen and Houston and several members of the crew. Cap tain Halvorsen and the others remain ed aboard but were lorced to abandon the ship later. Weather Indications. Chicago, Aug. 15. Forecast for Kansas: Unsettled with showers to night or Tuesday. VALUEJOUBLES. An Estate of 4,000,000 Left to Charity Has Grown to Nearly $10,000, 000, in 8 Years. IN STOCKS AND BONDS. Real Estate Investments Also Prove Wise Ones. The Will Goe Through Courts and Is Upheld. the New Tork, Aug. 15. It was eight years ago when John Masterson Burke, a retired New York business man, announced that he had made a will leaving the major part of his estate for the founding of a "home for convalescents" in New York city. He estimated that the fund, then invested in stocks, bonds and real estate, would amount to '"nearly $4,000,000." When he died about a year ago, the real estate and securities had Increased in value and it was announced that the fund would probably reach $5,000,000. Relatives contested the will, and the case has been in the courts ever since. A decision upholding the will has just been rendered and the trustees now declare, after a careful appraisal, that the foundation is worth more than $7,000,000. The real estate investments have proved particularly wise and it is believed that with the exercise of care in marketing them, the total fund may reach nearly $10,000,000. Nothing has yet been done towards building the home and the site has not even been selected. RIPLEY HITS AT THEM. Urges Defeat of Anti-Railroad Office seekers. Chicago, Aug. 15. In accordance with the general plan being pursued by many big railroad systems of seek ing to interest the vast army of rail road employees on the side of the car riers in relation to railroad legislation and rate questions, President Ripley of the Santa Fe has circulated an open letter to employees of that road, in which he urges them to cast their votes solidly against anti-railroad can didates for office. The letter, published in the Santa Fe Employers' Magazine in part is as follows: "In, .these days when the demagogue is in. evidence and unjust attacks are being made upon the railroads, I may properly suggest that you consider well what influence your vote will have upon the future. Certain candidates are seeking for election on the ground that further regulation is necessary and further reduction of rates. You know or can ascertain the history and record of the various condidates. You know who is anti-railroad and who is conservative. "The Santa Fe has no candidate for any office. It has no interest in the success or defeat of any political par ty; but I do not hesitate to say that its interests and yours will be con served if its employees cast their votes solidly against those who stand for anti-railroad legislation." IN EXTRA SESSION. Louisiana Legislature Meets to Pro- mote World's Fair. Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 15. Con vened in extra session to consider a proposition for raising $6,500,000 in support of an exposition to be held in New Orleans in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the Panama canal, We may look for something like members of the Louisiana general as sembly gathered here today. A Joint resolution was passed at the recent regular session of the general assembly proposing a constitutional amendment for a tax of $4,000,000. Several days ago it was suggested that this amount be increased to $6,500,000 and Governor Sanders called an extra legislative session to consider it. GAYNOR IS BETTER. The Mayor's Condition Continues to Show Improvement. New York Aug. 15. Mayor Gaynor showed further improvement and strength today and his seventh day found him rapidly emerging from the danger zone. The "early morning bul letin of the physicians showed the wounded executive had passed an ex cellent night. The official bulletin was as follows: "Mayor Gaynor has passed a good night and slept well. He has taken nourishment well and is in a good gen eral condition this morning; tempera ture, 99 4-5; pulse, 70; respiration, 16." "ARLITZ, "DO WD." The police are engaging themselves with the theory that James J. Galla gher, the assassin, may have had an accomplice. This Gallagher denies, but a man with a police record is un der suspicion. Mayor Gaynor will be taken to the Adirondacks just as soon as his condition permits. Thefollowing bulletin regarding Mayor Gaynor was given at 1:25 o'clock this afternoon: "Improvement continues. The may or has had a comfortable morning. One of the physicians who is attending Mayor Gaynor said that barring un foreseen and improbable complications Mayor Gaynor would be able to leave the hospital two weeks from today and that by the middle of next month he would have recovered sufficiently to start for the Adirondacks." BABY GOES TO PRISON. Mother Is Fined r 310 and Tear-Old .Child Shares Cell. Carrying her year-old baby in her arms, Mrs. Eva Morris, 23 years old, was placed behind the bars of the city prison this morning with other persons charged as being found in a disorder ly house. Failing to pay her fine of $10 she, together with Mrs. Ernie As- berry who likewise' was without money, was remanded o prison. The child, of course, shares the mother's cell. The two women told the police judge that their home is In Shorey. on the outskirts of North Topeka. They ad mitted having gone to the Keith build ing with G. H. and L. W. Spiker, two men who were arrested and fined $10 each, which was paid. Mrs. Maud Baeur, arrested at the same time, for feited her cash appearance bond of $50. The presence of ?the: infant in jail was brought to the attention of Hu- maxua- Officer Kilmaurs King, who im mediately took steps for its removal and care elsewhere. Ever since i;he arrest of Clarence N. Smith in the Keith building about a month ago when charges were brought against him that he had -compelled his 15-year-old wife to accept the atten tion of other men, the establishment has been under the eye of the police. FARMERS TO HOLD INSTITUTE. Permanent Organization WiH Be Formed on August 27. It has been definitely decided by the granges and other agricultural organi zations of Shawnee county to hold a two days' farmers' institute some time in October. A permanent organization will be formed August 27 at the Com mercial club. Those promoting the institute state that if the permanent organization is perfected before September 1, they stand a good ohanee to obtain money from a fund set aside by the state for farmers' institutes. Both the Kansas State Agricultural college and the State Agricultural so ciety will be called upon to supply speakers for the institute. A picnic of the associated granges of the county is soon to be held and at that time enthusiasm will be aroused in the new enterprise. CAUSE AND EFFECT. this aa a result of the hobble skirt EXPO. jSJUINED. Large Part of Belgian World's Fair Is Destroyed. Fire Sweeps Away the British and Home Sections. A LOSS OF MILLIONS. AH Animals In the Menagerie Burned or Shot. Casualties Are But Two Killed and 30 Injured. Brussels, Aug. 15. It is impossible in the present confusion to estimate closely the losses in the fire which last night swept through the Belgian ex position of 1910, wiping out whole sec tions of the fairy-like architecture and causing the loss of two lives, but the damage will run into the millions of francs. The losses, however, will not be so great as was at first thought, when during the excitement of the con flagration they were roughly estimated at $100,000,000. The entire Belgian and British sections, the whole Kermesz of Brussels, the Coney island of the ex position with water chutes, toboggan slides and other special entertainments and everything west of the Avenue Des Nations, were destroyed but by heroic work of the firemen and troops in the early hours of the morning and the use of dynamite in blowing up buildings in the path of the flames, the fire was checked. Practically everything in the.Anrceri-; can, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Austrian, Japanese,, Turkish and Swiss sections was saved. Only the facades of the Italian and Spanish sections and about one-third of the entire French section, the latter containing a valu able art collection, were burned. Fortunately the most priceless art treasures which had been loaned to the exposition or acduirred by it, including 8,000 gobelin tapestries, a large ex hibition of Jewelry, many paintings, marbles and ancient furniture, were removed by the police, firemen and ex position employes, beyond the reach of the flames and the pillaging criminals, who attempted to take advantage of the disaster. The reproduction of the house of Rubens at Antwerp the official pa vilion of the city of Antwerp, contain ing masterpieces of Flemish art of the Rubens period collected from the gal leries of the world was not scorched. In the Belgian and British sections, the flanies spread -with such rapidity that practically nothing was saved. A gale carried the Are through the Kermesz, jammed with a Sunday crowd of nearly 100.000, with such speed that it is considered a miracle that the panic stricken masses got put with a loss no greater than two killed and thirty Injured. The British loss Is very heavy. :t included Tudor panellngs from the Toronto museum. costly Morlaix tapestry and priceless furniture from the collections of Bernard More, on which he refused to set any price. They were insured for $500,000. Most of the French dressmakers' exposition, which was Insured for millions, was saved.' A few of the-, wild beasts in the menagerie which escaped suffocation, were shot by the troops, who found them cowering in fright in various p..rts of the grounds. The exposition managers announced that in spite of the conflagration and destruction -t so many features of the fair they hope the exposition will remain open. Wlllard Flies W ith Three, New York, Aug. 15. Charles F. Wil lard in a Curtiss aeroplane flew with three passengers and himself for 500 yards at Mineola, L. I. Sunday even ing. This is the first three passenger flight recorded in America. fad. MERCURY REACHES 90 DEGREES. Weather Is Warmest Recorded Since August; 1. The mercury climbed to 90 degrees at 2 o'clock this afternoon, the highest record since August 1, when it went to 94. Unless the unsettled condition of the atmosphere results in rain it will go still higher. After the normal tem peratures -of the last fortnight, the heat is particularily noticeable. Heavy rains fell In the far north west corner of the state Sunday and continued eastward. That together with Saturday's showers along the Kaw valley has caused the- river to rise. The forecast is for unsettled weather and showers either tonight or Tuesday. The wind is blowing 10 miles an hour from the southwest. The minimum temperature today was at 7 o'clock this morning. Temperatures today 7 o'clock 72 8 o'clock 73 9 o'clock... 75 10 o'clock 80 11 o'clock 83 12 o'clock 89 1 o'clock.. 88 2 o'clock 90 POLICE KEPT BUSY. Unusually Large Number of Minor Ar rests Made Over Sunday. It took two pages of the police court register, which is. a. big book, to hold the names of all who were arrest ed Saturday night and Sunday.- These will stand forth as the two busiest days of the summer time in police circles. Judge Urmy was busy for an hour, in closing up the uncontested cases, in police court this morning and all those charges to which the defendants pleaded not guilty were continued un til this afternoon. Drunks,, fights and disorderly house raids furnished vic tims by the dozen for the busy police men. Sprague Chase, already enjoying the privilege of a parole from a fine of $100 for drunkenness and disorderly conduct was gathered in by Patrolman Jackson on a charge of having repeat ed the offense. Sprague denied any guilt and protested that whenever any thing happened in his end of town he was arrested on general principles. Judge Urmy put his case forward for investigation. M. B. Anart, a youth who shattered a bottle upon the pavement of Kansas avenue Saturday night, came next. Guilty. Five dollars. Then Jube Jor dan and John Barrett, two North To peka negroes, were called to answer a charge of disorderly conduct in mak ing an unnecessary amount of noise. They denied the charge. Thomas Wal ters, held on a larceny charge, was turned over to the state. Six "black diamonds" whom Ser geant Dan Carden, with Patrolmen Wonderly, Fribance, Matthews and Frazier gathered in the "bottoms" Sat urdey night, are to be examined this afternoon on a charge of shooting craps. Among them are the two Dot son brothers, Wesley and Felix,' who now have a" case" in the state cburts where they are charged with partici pating in a hold-up in 'which five white boys were made to stand and de liver all their small change one dark Saturday night a month ago. The four others are William Cross. Charles Pop py, Fred -Mack and C. Richardson.. With a search warrant several offi cers entered the up stairs at No. 522 Kansas avenue Saturday night expect ing to find a supply of wet goods ru mored to have been stored there for sale, but nothing of the kind realized. Not to return empty handed the raid ers arrested Mrs. Alice Cells and Wal ter B. Hinman, who were in possession or two adjoining -rooms. A rather vague charge of disorderly conduct was placed against them and to it both pleaded not guilty before Judge Urmy. Their case was continued. Mrs. Cells is the divorced wife of J. B. Cells, who, not long ago, flourished a deadly, weapon at Hinman who, he claimed,' had robbed him of his wife's affec tions. Hinman applied' to the city court for protection and Cells was for bidden to molest mm further. Hmr man told the court he was not person ally acquainted with Mrs. Cells and that the only ground that Cells had for his suspicious was the fact that his former wife worked In a boarding house where Hinman lived. While William Hirsch was about his business as gateman at the :Union Pa cific railroad crossing -Sunday -night he became engaged in an altercation over a personal matter with Milo Lee. Their trouble degenerated into a fight. Lee was taken to the police station but Hirsch, who could not be spared from his duties at the crossing, was allowed to continue at his post until morning. Both pleaded guilty and paid $5 fines. Oscar Gay and Ben Jordan were booked on a charge of selling intoxi cating liquors and will be examined at a later session of the police court. PITTSBURG A BIG ONE. Pennsylvania City Passes the Half Mil lion Mark. Washington, Aug. 15. The population of Pittsburg, Fa., is 533,905, an increase of 82,393. or 18.2 per cent as compared with the combined population of Pitts burg and Alleghany of 451,512 in 1900. Syracuse Makes a Good Gain. Waahington, Aug. 15. The population of Syracuse, N. Y. is 137,249, an increase of 28,875 or 26.6 per cent as compared with 108,374 in 1900. MESSAGE FROM TAFT. Is Borne to Oyster Bay by Lloyd Grlsc-om. Oyster Bay, N. Y.. Aug. 15. Uovd C. Oriscom, chairman of the New fork county Republican committee, arrived early today from New York and pro ceeded directly to Sagamore Hill. Mr. Griscam refused to discuss the subject of the conference which he is to have with OoL Roosevelt, but It is known he is the bearer or an important message from President Taft, whom he visited at Beverly Saturday night. Col. Roosevelt intimated he might have something to say at the conclu sion of the conference. It is generally believed Mr. Griscom took to Col. Roosevelt, an urgent mes sage locking toward harmony among all elements of the .party In the fall cam paign. On Col. Roosevelt's reply, it is be lieved will depend in great measure the future relations between the president and the ex-president. KILLS fiancee; Housebreaker Chloroforms an Abilene Girl. Leaves. Note in German Saying "I Murdered Her." TOHAVE WEDTOPEKAN. BeniguS'Livlngston Marriage Set For Today. Harrey System Cashier Goes to the Scene. Abilene, Kan., Aug. 15. Miss Bertha Benigus, 20 years old. who was to have been married today to Earl Llv lngston, cashier of the Harvey house In Topeka, was found chloroformed in" her bed Sundav mornlnar hr hodv partly covered with bed clothes. One arm -was bound, the other free. There was no trace of a struggle with tha robber who is supposed to have killed plunder. j A note written In German. which was found near the open window read:, "I have murdered her. Brinsr ttt jewelry two blocks west.'.' The murder became known when re peated efforts were made by telephone to arouse the girl. She was to have as sisted in the telephone office Sunday morning, wnen all calls proved un availing a messenger, was. sent to tha home in the northwest part of town. Then the tragedy was discovered. The location of the house Is somewhat iso lated. word was telegraphed to Mr. Liv ingston in Salina. where he was snend. ing his vacation. The family have little information to give that throws any light on the murder. Miss Benigus retired at the usual hour and no one in the family recalls hearing strange noises durinsr the night. She was the second oldest daughter of a large family. Ladder prints on the weather-board' ing of the house have been found, giving the latest development in the mysterious killing. No other clew hast been obtained by the Abilene police, who consider as "rather absurd" the note found in the yard. No jewelry or other valuables are missing from the home and. the fact that 4he parents were sleeping in the adjoining room at the time casts mystery about the affair. The suicide theory which was at first advanced, is not credited, though it is yet talked. Another theory is that the gtrl was killed by a jealous suitor, though this, like the.. suicide' theory, has been taken as without ground. Earl Livingston, who -has -been the cashier of the Harvey 'house' here, has been, away on his vacation in the last ten days. He has been visiting his parents n Salina. He has been trans ferred to Syracuse,. Kan., .where he was to -have assumed his duties as cashier today. He has no relatives in Topeka, EL PASO MAYOR KILLED. Fighting Flames. t El PasOi Tex., Aug. 15. W. F. Rob inson, mayor of 1 Paso, lost his life while endeavoring to warn a number- of firemen of imminent danger from a tottering wall. At the same time Todd)1 Ware, a fireman, was instantly killed, and William Robinson and Dave Sul livan, also firemen, were injured, the latter perhaps fatally. The casualties followed the big Calisher Dry Goods company nre wnicn broke out at 2 a. m. and completely destroyed the larg-' est department store in this section. The fire had burned for nearly seven hours and the unsafe condition of the. that he left the sidewalk .and ap- pracnea me Duiiaing to instruct the firemen to stop further work. As he approached the building a large sec tion of brick wall buckled and fell. crushing -Robinson and Ware., and! knocking tne otner men down. Mrs. Robinson witnessed the accident from, the sidewalk. Conservative estimates place the Ions of the fire at $226,000. All losses are covered by insurance.1 The origin of the fire ia attribute in crossed wires in the basement where the fire smoldered for over two hours before bursting into flame. A roomer sleeping on the second floor flntl smelled smoke and gave the alarm. ESPERANTO CONGRESS. Delegates Present From 37 Nations of the Earth. Washington. Aug. 15. The-international Esperanto congress for the fur ther propagation of the neutral lan guage of hope for all the peoples of the earth was opened here today with hundreds delegates from 37 nations p-d official representatives of nine countries in attendance. The gavel which signalled the beginning of the congress was wielded by Captain Josefo Perrogordo, personal represent ative of Kins- Alfonso, at flnsin and vice president of the International congress held last year at Barcelona. The principal feature of the day's program was the address to the dele gates by Dr. Ludwig L. Zamehoff of Poland, Inventor of Esperanto. More than a thousand delegates are expect ed by tomorrow. THIRTY-TWO KILLED. One Hundred Injured In Wreck of an Excursion Train. Royan, France, Aug. 15. An excursion trail? from Bordeaux with 1,200 passen gers and running at a speed of 50 miles an hour dashed into a freight train at Saujon Sunday. Thirty-two persons were killed and 100 injured. Many of the victims were school girls. Several of the passenger cars were torn to splinters. A misplaced switch caused the accident.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUBNAI MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1910. OMAHA WINS TWO Topeka loses First 6 to 2, and Second 4 to 0. Jackson Is Hit Hard and Scorts Result. ENSLEY DOES BETTER. Sox Twirler Strikes Out Four Allowing Fire Hits. Graham of tha Rourktts Knocks a Three Bagger. Omaha, Aug. 15. The Topeka. team lost both games of the double header Sunday to Omaha, the first 6 to 2 and the second 4 to 0. Jackson opposed Hollenbeck In the first game and was bit hard -when scores resulted. Ensley did better for the visitors in the second although he was shut out. The Sox twirler allowed only five bits and struck cut four. Score: FIRST? SAMS. OMAHA. Plsvers AR R. H. PO. A. E. Davis, rt 4 Corridon. am 4 King, cf i 2 Kane, lb...... 3 lliggert. If 3 Moriartty. 2b. 4 Graham, zb 4 Gandlng, c............ 3 SHaUenbeck, p 3 Totals 10 27 15 30 TOPEKA. Flirers AB. R. H. PO. IWooley, rf 8 113 Brown, lb 4 Ttlley, r. 4 tReuly, mm 8 'Welch. 2b 4 Barber, If S t-toHar, Sb 4 tine, o 3 Jackson, p...... 4 A. 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 s 8 E. 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 Totals .81 8 7 24 SCORE BY INNINGS: Omaha 1 201001- trope .0 0 0 10 0 0 1 02 Summary: Two base hits Graham. Hollenbeck, Woo ley. ReUly 2. Three base hits Graham 2. Bases on balls hollenbeck 4. Jackson 3. Struck out iHollenbeck 7, Jackson 6. Left on bases Omaha 8, Topeka 3. DouDle play Corr. tlon to Graham to Kane. Stolen bases :Xavls, Corridon, Graham. Sacrifice hits jCorrldon. Kane 2, Gonding, Shea. Time 1:45. Umpire Sternberg. SECOND GAME. OMAHA. Players AB. R- H. FO. A. E. Davis, rf 3 10 10 0 Corridon, ss. 3 112 11 King, cf 4 10 2 10 Kani. lb 3 0 19 1 0 CRlggert if 4 1 10 0 0 Moriarity, 3b 4 0 2 0 0 0 Graham, 2b 3 0 0 8 1 2 ('adman, e 4 0 1 8 1 0 Rhodes, p 2 0 0 2 0 Totals 6 27 11 3 TOPEKA. Players AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Wooley, cf.. 4 Brown, lb... 4 Riley, rf 4 Retlly, 8S....S. 3 Welch, 2b.. 4 Barber, If... 4 F (offer. 3t,., 3 Shea, c. J Ecsley, p.... 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 Totals ....i 32 0 6 24 9 3 SCORE BT 1NN1NGGS: Omaha 80000001 4 Topeka 0 0000000 00 Summary: Two base hit Welch. Bases nn hulls Rhodes 2. Enslev 3. Struck out Rhodes 6, Ensley 4. left on bases omaaa xopeKa i- woudid vltt-y Rhodes to Graham to Kane. Passed balls Shea 1, Cad man 1. stolen bases Corridon, Kane, Moriacity 2. Sacrifice hits Graham, Rhodes. Time 1:40. Um pire Sternberg. IS THE WESTERN LEAGUE. Ies Moines 3; Wichita 2. Des Moines, Aug. 15. In a pitchers' foattlo between Aitchison and Biersdor er. Des Moines edged out the Witches, t to 2. Sensational plays were made. Score by innings: K.H.E. Wichita 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 3 ryeM Moines 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 7 2 Batteries Aitchison. Clemmons and Fhaw; BJeradorfer and Clemmons. Um pire e Clark and Flynn. Denver 11; Lincoln 1. Lincoin, Aug. 15. With the score tied nno mn each In the second inning. It he Grizzlies drew a line brace of hits Bind four walks from Pitcher Knapp in it he fourth and ran in 10 runs. The gtma was called in the fifth on ac count of rain. Score by innings: R.H.E. ffJlneoln 0 10 0 01 6 3 'rnver 0 1 0 10 011 10 0 "Batteries Knapp, Fox and Kruger; (Eton an. and McMurray. Umpire Mullen. Sioux City 6; St. Joseph 4. fitMi City. Aug. 15.-"Sioux City won from the Drummers in the seventh nrhen four hits netted three runs. Kauf man iwas hit hard and O' Toole was forced into some bad boles. Score by innings: R.H.E. Kloux City 0 10 10 13 0 6 12 4 St. Joseph 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 4 8 Batteries O'Toole and Miller; Kauf taan and Frambes. Umpire Haskell. SATUEDArS GAMES. Omaha, Aug. 15. The Topeka-Omaha game was postponed Saturday on ac count or rain. Wichita 8; Des Moines 5. Des Moines. Aug. 15. Wichita won Saturday's game from the Champions in a listless contest wherein Des Moines roade eight errors. The score was 8 to 6. the visitors making six. of the eight in the secona inning. Score by innings: R.H.E. Wichita 0 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 8 9 Des Moines ....,0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 05 10 8 Batteries Wright and Shaw; Mitch ell and Clemmons, Umpires Flynn and Clark. St. Joseph 1: Sioux City 0. Sioux City, Aug. 15-The Drummers 6TANDEVG OF" TEAMS. Western Leaene. iubs Won Lost Pet. bioux uity 71 42 .6 ?,nvc5 70 43 .636 nicniia, 65 48 .575 jncom 64 48 .671 St. Joseph .50 61 .450 Omaha 60 63 .446 Des Moines 49 66 .426 Topeka 34 78 .304 National Leatrne. Clubs won. Lost. Pet. .nicago 66 33 .667 r-uiBOurg 60 New York 58 Philadelphia 50 Cincinnati go Brooklyn ...41 Boston .36 St. Louis 31 49 62 6 61 .612 .593 .506 .490 .410 .343 .337 American League. Clubs Won. T.ftsfr. T rmiaaeipnia 70 33 Boston 62 45 New York 60 47 Detroit 59 47 Cleveland 48 55 Washington 47 60 Chicago 43 82 St. Louis 4 t .680 .579 .51 .557 .466 .439 .404 .333 American Association. Clubs Won. lst Tt SYSTEMATIC SAVINGS Leads to Wealth We Have th System Call or Send for Booklet The Capitol Building; Loan Association 534 Kansas Ave. Minneapolis m 41 St. Paul 67 64 Toledo 83 56 Kansas City 59 5g Columbus 54 0 Milwaukee as at Indianapolis !61 69 xjouisvme ...44 72 .667 .io4 .529 .504 .474 .466 .425 .379 Kansas State League. Clubs Won. T .nut Tf iiutcnmson ...62 35 Aicrnerson 51 43 Lyons ki aa. Great Bend 48 61 ixewton 46 53 Wellington ar m Larned 44 Arkansas- City 31 53 .640 .549 .537 .4S5 .465 .459 .411 .369 Central Kansas Tagnn. 'Hi DS Wnn T cf Tn .EliSWOrth ni fU Clay Center .45 29 !08 oauina 43 31 .&si Abilene n 91 i concoraia 39 35 .627 Manhattan 30 43 .411 Junction City 29 46 .387 Chapman 17 67 .230 Eastern Kansas Leagae. Clubs Wnn. T st Tft Sabetha 36 19 .655 Seneca an 22 677 JYl&rysvlile 28 25 .628 Morton 24 28 .471 ITliwatha 25 32 .438 Blue Rapids 18 84 .320 beat the Indians in a pitchers' battle between Johnson and Alderman. John son allowed only four bits and won a shutout 1 to 0. Score by innings: R.H.T2. St. Joseph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 8 2 Sioux-City 0 0000000 00 4 2 Batteries Johnson and Boles: Alder man and Miller. Denver 3; Unooln 3. Lincoln, Aug. 15. Although the Ante lopes bit Harris they were unable to bunch their hits and lost the contest to the Grizzlies, 3 to 2. Score by innings: R.H.E. Lincoln 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 02 9 1 Denver 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 13 6 1 Batteries Gel at and Kruger; Harris and McMurray. Umpire Mullen. SUNDAY RESULTS. American League. At Detroit: Score by innings: R.H.E. Washington ....0 0000000 00 5 2 Detroit 0 0 0 0 02 1 0 313 0 Batteries Willett and Schmldt:WaIk- er. Relating and Beckendorf. At Chicago: First game Score:' R.H.E. New Tork 0 0000000 11 4 0 Chicago 0 0000022 4 15 2 Batteries Hushes and Sweeney; Lang, Walsh and Sullivan. Second game Score: R.H.E. New Tork 0 0050000 06 6 2 Chicago 0 0000000 11 7 2 Batteries Fisber and Criger; Walsh, Young, Olmstead and Block. At St. Louis: First game Score; R.H.E. Boston 0 0 1 0 5 1 0 0 07 10 2 St. Louis 0 0000100 34 7 5 Batteries Collins and Kleinow; Bail ey. Criss and Killirer. Second game Score: R H E (Boston 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 15 10 0 St. Louis 1 0110001 04 9 1 Batteries Arellanes. Hall and Oarrl- gan; peity ana Stephens. American Association. At Indianapolis Louisville 8, Indian apolis At Milwaukee (First game) Milwau kee 7, Kansas City 0. (Second game) Milwaukee a Kaneas city. 6. -At St. Paul St. Paul 2, Minneapolis 4. At Columbus (First game) Columbus 1, Toledo 6. (Second game) Columbus 8. Toledo 7. Kansas State league. Hutchinson 6, Newton 0. Lyons 2, Great Bend 1. Larned 3-6, Wellington 1-L Central Kansas League. Junction City 1, Concordia 0. Ellsworth Salina 0. SPORTSMAN SEEKING SENATORIAL TOGA. jMMHMHsarMr: A. G. Spalding Addressing a Crowd, Frank P. Flint, the Present Incum- Dent, vno is out Alter itenomiuatioii. San Francisco, August 15. A. S. Spalding, the greatest baseball pitcher In the country 30 years ago and a successful business man, has now en tered the lists in the great senatorial struggle of California. He is a can didate for the United States senate to succeed Senator Frank P. Flint. Senator Flint Is also out after a renomination. and the fight for popular favor is being waged in active campaigns on both sides. City, 0; Milwaukee, 1. Second game: Kansas City, 4; Milwaukee, 5. Miscellaneous Games. College Hill. 6; Dover, 4. Lecompton, 3; Clinton. 2. Golden Rule, 19; Indianola, 5. Bankers. 7: R. I. ..Clerks, 6. JOPLIN WINS THE PENNANT. Only Four Teams Complete Western Association Season. The Western association baseball season closed Sunday Joplin winning the pennant. Only four clubs com pleted the season Bartlesville Tulsa El Reno and Muskogee havine dronned out last month. The attempt to give the small towns Class C baseball re sulted disastrously to ihe club man agers attendance not warranting the ixigii class oau. Of the players scattered liv fho of the association Topeka already has three, "Eagle Eye" Beckley and Pitch ers Barber and Ensleyr Ft. Joseph got Catcher Coe and Outfielder Goodrich and Wichita got Pitcher Jones and unorstop Schmidt. Oklahomaj.rntv.nnri other clubs also have picked, up players.-

The standing of the teams: Y7r n T iat Joplln 86 33 Jinia 62 65 Sapuipa 64 58 Guthrie 47 71 Pet. .723 .530 .525 .398 Eastern Kansas League. Marysvllle 6, Blue Rapids 1. Horton 4, Sabetha 2. Frit- 7." Mlscellaneons Games. Perry 8, Newman 7. Mankato 9, Scandia 3. Formosa 7, Scandia 5. Fredonia 15, Independence 0." Green Grocery company 8-18, ton company 5-16. SATURDAY'S RESULTS. National League. St. Louis, 8-4; Philadelphia. 4 Pittsburg. 3-8; Brooklyn. 2-8. New York. 3; Cincinnati, 2. Chicago, 8-11; Boston. 2-2. American League. St. Loula. 2; Boston. 0. New York. 1; Chicago, 0. Washingotn, 6; Detroit. 3. Cleveland, 3-1; Philadelphia, 2-14. Kansas State League. Lamed. 3; Wellington, 2. Lyons, 9; Great Bend. 7. Newton, 4; Hutchinson. 1. Arkansas City, 1; McPherson, 0. Central Kansas League. Clay Center, 3 Ellsworth, 0. -Manhattan, 6; Salina, 4.' Eastern Kansas League. Blue Rapids, 5; Hiawatha, 2. Seneca, 6 Horton. 1. Sabetha, 8; Marysvllle, American Association. At Indianapolis Louisville, 2; In dianapolis, 1. At Columbus Toledo," 4; Columbus, 5. At Minneapolis St. PauL 2; Minne apolis, 4. At Milwaukee First game: Kansas BASEBALL GOSSIP. Where They Play Tomorrow. Topeka at Des Moines. Denver at Omaha, Wichita at Sioux City, r..- "sr ofc. rfosepn at Lincoln-.-. r. It certainly is a norb o r.t between Denver and Sioux City. -Both manage to win a majority but now and then a second division club jumps In to wave a red rag and cause the per cent to wobble. When the Drummers grabbed one Saturday, from the In dians it all but changed the lead. Perhaps like Thomason, Barber will give up his pitching ambitions and be come a left fielder. He did the double header Sunday with three put outs and no errors and no hits. 7-. Indian Brown, Cooley's 'new catcher, played the initial corner in the double header. He refrained from errors but got no hits and Jake. Beckley sti'l looks good. Wichita Beacon: Pitcher Jones, whom Isbell bought from Tulsa and left behind when the team hit the trail, has been loaned to Waterloo in the Three I league for the balance of the season. It is probable that Jones goes in lieu of Shaner, who refused to report to Waterloo. Since then Shaner has shown better form, and his friends are hoping that he mastered the hoo doo and will be able to stick with Wichita. If he doesn't he can win for some other Western league, team. By the way, Shaner showed the observing fans something last Sun day that he never has exhibited here b.fore. It was a slow, curve ball, similar to the one Jimmy Durham uses so effectively. He had perfect control of it, and the Sioux City slug gers were unable to do anything with it. Shaner admitted after the game that Durham had taught it to him, and that he never had used It before. used to mix in with his speed, it will De a winner for him. Ellis. the pitcher whom Isbell has re-purchased, under an optional .agreement. from Superior, is batting .274 in the iNebrasKa state league. He has been up 73 times and has made 20 hits. Though Jack Holland paid 1.500 big, round dollars for Kaufman, the Missourian has won but onegameoutof four for St. Joe. Holland says he has been the prize hard luck pitcher of the league since he changed uniforms. But ne 11 deliver the goods yet. Des Moines' Capital: Manager George Davis made some lightning changes tn tne res Moines club after the close of Saturday's game. Dawson, the catch er from the New York State league,' and Stamfleld. who made his initial appearance in the outfield yesterday afternoon, were handed the blue en velope and Pitcher Schneiberg sus pended until he is able to get into con dition. Schneiberg relieved Biersdorf- er in the second inning yesterday afternoon and pitched to five batsmen. The first man up drove one to left field for two bases, the next was passed and Koerner poled one to the center field fence for a home run. He was relieved -the next inning and bis suspension followed. The work of Dawson., and Stamfleld was unsatis factory. President Higgins stated that he would-have two pitchers here- be fore Sunday to bolster up the staff. He refused to give out their names- but stated that they were men with' first cla s reputations. Lincoln Star: Pitcher Kilroy of the St. Paul club win report to Lincoln at the beginning of the week and finish the season with them. Kilroy has been a winning pitcher for the Saints, having copped a majority of bis games. The St. Paul management released O'Toole of Sioux City in preference to Kilroy. The new slab man worked for the Saints against, Toledo Saturday and won bis game, 4 to 3,- allowing eight hits. Jimmy Cockman, who has played with him, says that he is a high grade pitcher. Despain tried to get Ryan, who is under suspension at present, but is the leading pitcher In the association in games won. Kilroy was the next choice. The Lincoln magnate is not going to be caught with his hands down at this stage of the pennant race. Barney McGrath show ed up at the club house Friday morn ing and had a talk with the Prexy. Barney wanted to see what overtures the club would make, but the manage ment, stood pat.. He can pay his fine, and come back or not, just as he sees fit. With Kilroy and Hagerman back In shape by the first of next week, the Lincoln staff can dispense with Mc Grath's services. It's up to Barney. St. Joseph News-Press: Manager Jack Holland has a neat plan to cor ral several players from the Eastern league. Holland can not draft from the Eastern because it is an A class league, but Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox can, and Jack is going to ask Commy to help him get the men he is after. Boss Jack says that Catch er Coe is a terror to baserunnners in the Western association. "He has a 310,000 arm, and. a good head," said Holland yesterday, "and he hits mighty well. The only thing that saved him for the minor this year was lack of speed on the bases." Lincoln News: Did .Frank Isbell knowingly hand Dick Cooley a lemon when he sent Pitcher Ensley to Join the Topekas? Ensley pitched Satur day against- Omaha and jssued eleven free passes on balls. Umps Flynn put one -over oa Pitcher Rasty Wright the other day. Rasty lost his grip on the pill and emitted a pitch that went fully "thirty feet wide of the plate and nearly as high, crashing into the wire netting of the stand. The Antelopes had no runnners on the lines and Rasfy's weird heave cost nothing. Meanwhile Flynn halted the proceedings, pulled his. whisk broom from his pistol pocket and calmly brushed the rubber plate of every speck of. dust, making certain that Rasty could see the pan. Everybody grinned, Including Rasty. (Items for the East Topeka column may be telephoned to Ino. l&ona 1781.J Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Smith and daughter, Teassle. will leave Tuesday for an extended western trln. They w.ll visit all the Important places of the west and will be the guests of rela tives and frfends. They sro to San Franciscc from Topeka, and then to Oregon. Miss- Mabel Addis has returned to her home in Kansas City after spend ing several weeks h'jre the guest of her cousin. Miss Florence Brown. Mrs. McCully of Raton. N. M., Is spending several weeks here visiting relatives anr? friends.. Miss AnnlB Smith went to Kansas City last Wednesday to remain two weeks the guest of relatives and friends. Misses Una "and 'Nellie McCoy re turned to their home in Newman to day after spending several days here the guests of their aunt. Mrs. L. V. Llchenstern of 205 Chandler street. Mr. Otto Conradl. and brother. Mr. Ernest Conradl. have returned to their home in Chicago after spending two weeks here visiting friends and relatives. They were guests of Mr. Louis Rahn of 222 Chandler street. Mr. Harvey Perrln of German ave nue left yesterday for Excelsior Springs, Mo., where he will spend an extended time for the benefit of his health. Mr. Frank Irvln returned Sunday from Kansas City where he spent sev eral days on business. Lena, the little daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Frank Shifliet is improving' after several days' illness a; their home, 216 Davits street. MY. and Mrs.' Ed Scctt, who recently tame hre from Clevis. N. M to re main permanently, have rented the house at 404 Locust street. Mr. and Mrs. Smith of 207 Chand ler street have gone to Nevada. Mo., where they will make their future home. Miss Gertrude Boush of Hoyt. Kan., Is here spending several days visiting Miss Jessie. Park of '230. Chandler strett. Miss Edith Hughes returned to work today after being off a week, enjoying her annual vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt of Branner. Mo., are enjoying a visit with friends of Kansas City, while on their return home from California. Mrs. R. H, Barger has returned to her home In Kansas City after spend ing two weeks here tne guest of her rno-her, Mrs. E. J. Smith of 834 Madi son b-reet. Mr. Rene Humphreys and mother left Saturday for a month's visit In California. They will go by the way of the Grand Canyon.. Mr. and Airs. Fred Becker have re- FOR SUMMER .SKIN S Smooth, healthy skins are a rarity In Summer. Mostraoni axe an- 1 .1 1 -.4.j itiA -f-vT RiitTffp mora severely with Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Salt Rheum, or eomr landred skia disease. All skin affections come from humors and acids In tha circutotton. The blood, aa it circulates through the system, deposits these acids and humors in the sensitive membranous flesh which ilea just beneath the outer skin or tissue covering the body. This acrid matter causes Inflammation and a discharge which breaks through the delicate cuticle, and skin diseases are the result. To cure any- skin trouble the blood muit be freed from all acids and humors, and for this purpose nothing equals 8. S. S. This great blood purifier goes down into J;h9icir,ula"OILa completely removes every particle of impurity, enriches the blood and in this way permanently cures skin diseases. S. S. S. cures, because t purges the blood and allows it to nourish, soothe, and soften the skin Instead of irritating it with fiery acids and humors. Book on Skin i8?, n.y medical advice free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. 1 Trains to Fast Time No Stops Double Track Xr. Topaka 4:80 A3I. -6:O0 A.M. :S6A.M. 8:65 A.M. 1:45 P.M. 8:25 P.M. 7:10P.M; 7:55 P.M.- Kansas City ?ii Rock Island NEXT TIME Rat Lv. K.C. 7:55 AM. :45 A.M. 10:40 A.M. 11:20 A.M. :10 P.M. io!iS rSt Phones 384 H. H. HUNT, City Paaa. Agi. 11:25 P.M. Never Toe Busy to Answer Qnestions $30,000.00 City Bonds Subscriptions are being taken at Prudential Trust Company for $30,000.00 City of Topeka General Improvement Bonds turned from two weeks' visit In Den ver and Colorado xoints. Mr. and Mrs. Lethicks moved Satur day from 323 to 313 Branner street. Mr. and Mrs. John Ash and daugh ter. Miss Delia Ash. will return today from Denver, Colo., where they have been vlsitins friends for several days. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Mary Norwood and son and Miss Gladys Sloan who have spent several months visiting relatives in Montana. Mr. Clarence Renander is improving: after being ill several days with an attack of throat trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Harry "Wilson of Law rence are here visitln their parents while on their annual vacation. Mrs. Florence Bunce is spending this week visiting her mother in Baldwin, Kansas. The regular meeting of the. Ladies' Aid society of the Christian church will be held in the church Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. A. Stout of Switzerland county, Indiana, are here spending two weeks .the guests of Mrs. Stout's aunt. Absolutely Puncture Proof. Day's Resilient Compound prevents all tire trouble and doubles the life of outside casing. Write or phone for testimonials and proof. T. 3. BROWN, Agent. 126-128 N. Kan. Ave. Topeka. Kan. Mrs. Silas Cooper of street. 328 Chandler J. H. Leonard, the photographer, formerly looated at 613 Kansas ave nue, has moved to 7.14 Kansas avenue... SI 1 1 11 A Great Exposition of Kansas Resouces THE ami Mt Fsuur AT T opeka, September 12 to 17 Inclusive New Management, New Feature aim irireirinirairinis Anew Brick, concrete and steel cattle barn for horses and cattle the finest and most complete in the West, costing $24,000; modern and with all conveniences for live-stock housing and display. Live-Stock, Agricultural, Mineral Horticultural and Dairy Departments-Modern and Progressive f mmmmm m mm -mm lmlwailn,M-------,MaMll,Ii $1,500 for County Collective Agricultural Exhibits We Want one Exhibit from each County Write for Premium Lists--Place Your Entries E Great Entertainment Features Program Announced Later J. W- GOING, President H.' L. GOOIC, Secretary

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'rli: TOPTITTA TIATT.V RTATO .TfiTTP W A Tll Mnwn A v wrTVurrKrn. attttoh k mi a By FRANK P. MAO LENNAN. Entered July 1. 1875, as second-class matter at the poatoffice at Topeka. KaiL, under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXVII No. 193 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier, 10 eents a week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at the same price In any Kan sas town where the paper b.a a carrier system. By mall, on year Zn By mall, three months fiahirHav olltr ATiA VCaT.... 1.W1 LUIUUH VJ BELL TELEPHONES. Business Office........ ""ktI INDEPENDENT TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call 107 Mid ask The State Journal operator for per son or department desireo. Topeka State Journal bulldog and 02 Kansas avenue, coraerEigntn. New York Office: 290 Fifth avenue, Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Hartford building. Paul mock, manager. FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The State Journal Is a member of the Associated Press and receives the fun day telegraph report "i tn ganlzatjon for the exclusive afternoon publication in T. me news is receiver ia """-y "1 rial building; over wires for this sols pur- pose. i HOME NEWS WHILE A WAT. Subscribers of the State Journal jimnir Tim nmimet may have the paper mailed regularly each day to any address at trio rate or xra week or thirty cent a momn toy mail nnW. Address chanced aa often mm desired. While oat of town the State Journal will be to yoa like a dally letter from home. Advance payment Is requested! on these short time subscriptions, to save bookkeeplne expenses. A big hay crop has been harvested In New Hampshire this year. But automobiles don't eat hav. Kansas, at any rate, has one team n i western leatrue which is doing mighty well, thank you., Three cheers end a tiger for Wichita. Senator Bristow says Senator 'AlHrtch is a deceiver. That Is what Senator Aldrich says of Senator Bris tow. Thus are honors even In this particular mmwmmmmm Perhaps there was method In the nt tne Nebraska girl who had an Idea that she wanted to marry a legless Kansas man. At least ne couldn't kick her. If Colonel Roosevelt wields the Ravel as presiding officer of the New York Republican state convention it will likely take on the semblance of gigantic Btick or an axe. Another earthquake of large pro portions has been registered by the seismographs. But nobody else has located It. Maybe it happened among the mountains of the inoon. The gloom among the Russians caused by the cholera epidemic, which la ravaging that land Is being made deeper by crop failures in many dis tricts. Assuredly Russia is an admir able country not to live In. An Ohio Judge has decided that it Is not Illegal for a woman to go through her husband's pockets. But, as the Chicago Reoord-Herald points out, it wouldn't have made the slight est difference If he had decided the other way. Another survivor of the John Brown battle at Osawatomle has made his presence known. It Is not unlikely ahat before the next two weeks have passed there will be on deck more eurr Ivors of this battle than there (were participants In It. Chicagoans seem to be the only people in the United States who get anything of advantage out of the beef barons. The latter are going to pay taxes this year on $10,000,000 worth of their property in Packing town, that odorous Chicago suburb. Japan has been worrying consider ably of late as to what she was going do with her Increasing population. Devastating and death-dealing floods appear to be helping In the solution of this problem, but in a decidedly un satisfactory and heart-rending way. Kentucky veterans of the G. A. R. have declared a boycott against the railroads for alleged discrimination in the matter of rates to the annual na tional encampment, which is to be held this year at Atlantic City. If these old vets don't watch out some body will be laying the heavy hand of the anti-trust law on them. One of tho church edifices in New Tork city belonging to the Rockefeller family has been in disuse for some time because of lack of support on the part of the people of the neighborhood. So John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is having it remodelled for a moving picture show bouse. There can be no denying it. All the Rockefellers have a keen eye for business. The Duke of the Abruzzl's press agent Is unusually active. He even goes so far as to make public the supposedly private messages from the Duke to Miss Elklns to the effect that he will be pleased to see her when they meet. A motion Is hereby made that the press associations of the world refuse to handle this slush In the future. Certainly, it Is not worth a small fraction of the cable tolls which It costs. It ia eminently fitting that the news paper men of Kansas take an active part in the reception and entertain ment of their brother editor. Colonel Roosevelt, when he visits Kansas to dedicate the John Brown battlefield at Osawatomle. Nor would it be amiss rfar the many fauna! naturalists of the stats to ret together and plan some sort of a special entertainment for their distinguished brother, the same Colonel Roosevelt. What's the matter with Professor Dyche and Del Travis being; designated as a select committee of two to look into this matter and make the necessary ar rangements? FEMININE COIFFURES. There can be nothing to that theory that girls and women array and fix themselves up to attract the favorable attention of youths and men. Take the way a large portion of them "do" their hair, for instance. The man U probably yet to be found who sees anything attractive In the several styles of colffuers now prevailing. Scarcely a newspaper or a publication of any kind that men have a hand In the making can be picked up these days that does not contain some gibe against the outlandish fashions of feminine headgear. But it avails nothing. The women, or a good share of them, keep going from bad to worse, stuffing in a rat here, a roll there, piling on wads upon wads of hair and its imitation, and mixing it all with an assorted lot of puffs and curls. Some of these hirsuite creations are marvels of ridiculousness. They turn ordinarily good looking women and girls into things with heads that verge on those associated with monstrosities. In some instances a sort of a bee-hive shaped affair is built out from the crown of the head at an angle of forty five degrees and extending out into the air for a foot or more. Another ar rangement looks as though a big cheese, covered with hair, was fasten ed on the top of the head. Other women seem to try to see Just how far they can build out their own and their store hair from the back of their heads, and some of them are success' ful in really marvellous feats in this direction. A bunch of puffs, two or three dozen of them, are tacked onto other heads and they look for all the world like the corner of a counter In a butcher shop where the frankfurters are assembled. Myriads of little and shapeless curls are pinned on here and there on other heads that make them look aa though something real in the way of rata had been nesting in them; It is useless to attempt to even con vey an idea of all these comical styles of hair dressing which are assumed these days. They are Innumerable. But the efforts the fair sex seem to be indulging in is to see which one of them can reach the limit of the ridicu lous in fixing up their hair. It is to be hoped that limit will be reached before long and that a sensible reac tion to normal and becoming styles of hairdresslng will set in. What the idea of the women is in making their heads an advertisement for the false hair trade Is past comprehension. Cer tainly they are adding nothing to their appearances and surely nothing to their own comfort. And thank goodness there are a few women who nave Deen strong ana sober-minded enough not to follow the rapid changing decrees of the false hair makers who have to put novelties on the market every once !n a while if they are not to permit their trade to stagnate. INDIANS AND THEIR LANDS. Of course, it la neither right nor pro per that the Indians be mulcted out of millions of dollars by smart attorneys. But the Indians, or many of them, fig ured they were getting off pretty cheap by giving the lawyers a slice of their fortunes. This feeling may have been engendered by their fola-lora. No doubt it contains many a mournful song and story of the way the Indians were treated by their white brethron in years gone by. Perhaps there ia an epic or two on the fact that the French took all that they wanted of what is now Canada without doing so much aa sing a funny scng for it. Not only that but they made the Indians fight their battles, and always s.w to it when they had to go into a fight themselves,' that the Indians went on ahead of them. In all probability they've had another story handed down to them about how the Dutch gobbled up their rich forests and fertile fields in the valleys of the Hud son, the Mohawk and the Allegheny. Likewise do they know the tale of how old Bill Penn sealed his title to the tremendous grant of land given him with a treaty with the Indiana that gave everything to Penn and not much but best wishes for their welfare lu other parts to the Red Men. It may be, too, that some of the elderly chiefs of today remember how they and their tribes were driven from pillar to post, until the country finally be came a bit civilized and the government undertook to extend some thing like Justice to the few of them that relentless bullets had not turned into the proverbial "good Indians." With all of these things in their memories, it is'hot to be wondered that they willingly became the victims of rapacious attorneys. That they should get anything for their lands at all must have struck the more Ignorant of them as being a trifle strange. A string of worthless beads used to be tlieii recom pense in other aays ror a venraoie kingdom of riches. WOMEN VOTE RIGHT. "Our men and women in the main are broad-minded and take a larze inter est In state and local affairs." writes Gov. Brady of Idaho, in the Columbian Magazine for September. "There is no doubt In my mind but that the mere fact that women are permitted to and do vote has had a tremendous effect for good In the selection of party can didates and in the passage of needed laws. Not only is the woman vote al ways cast on the right side in contests where moral issues are at stake, but the fact that they are permitted to vote enables them to bring influence to bear on men in other ways. It has been pointed out that women vote in national elections with their husbands and fathers, and that they are apt to be swayed by prejudice in local elec tions, but there has never been a time in my experience when I have found the women advocating any measures which would not bear the light of day. "In Idaho we have women in coun ty and state offices. Our state super intendent of public instruction for a number of years has been a woman. In almost every city some of the of fices are held by women, and In near ly every county the county superin tendent or county treasurer Is a wom an and they are making excellent serv ants. "And after all the argument for and against the proposition of woman suf frage is heard, it seems to me that every fair-minded person ought- to be willing to accord his wife, mother or sister, in whom he reposes great con fidence in every other matter of mind or heart, the same privilege of approv al or disapproval of men and laws. If the laws are good they prosper to the same extent as the men if they are bad, they suffer to the same extent. If every other question of right and of wrong could be decided by the major lty of the women of our country, there would be no question about the safe ty of our institutions. I am unquali fiedly In favor of the right of women to vote." JOURNAL ENTRIES The wise person never opines that a Da by looks like any one in particular. Conversation la elevating if it is about anything but too much of it Isn't. The woman who believes everything her husband tells her hasn't been created as yet. Among the unfortunates of today are those who haven t relatives pos sessed of automobiles. Many individuals would be as stran gers in a strange land If they were not in trouble all the time. JAYHAWKER JOTS If she eats onions when you are expected, she doesn't love you," advises the Jewell County Republican. "Nowadays," remarks the Leaven worth Post, "every public official is considered to be guilty until he proves himself Innocent." It occurs to the Lawrence Journal that a century ia a long time." May be it's been interviewing the blossom on a century plant. Evidently Victor Murdock likes to be characterized as "the Rupert of the Insurgents." That's the way his Wichita Eagle refers to him. "Old Bill White has a number of foolish notions," remarks Ed Howe in his Atchison Globe. "But," continues Mr. Howe, "we do not feel called upon to become a missionary and coax him out or them." At the primary Coffeyvllle defeat ed a $75,000 bond issue for the posses sion of pure water, notes the Lawrence world, and it adds: "Coffeyvllle be lng within a few blocks of the Chero kee strip will continue to drink Okla homa whiskey." A woman said recently, reports the Atchison Champion, that 1Z she was to get married again she would certainly pick out a different kind of man than the one she married. And then the Champion is mean- enough to add well, there are some men in the world In the same fix." "I know I am getting old right along, and at a mighty fast clip," con fesses Bert Walker in the Osborne Farmer. "I no longer oare about the color of my necktie or whether I wear any, but I kick like a bay steer if the clerk tries to sell me a plnchy pair of shoes on the theory that they will stretch." After a poor Lawrence man had done the dishes, washed the kids' faces and swept the floor for two years, while his wife gallivanted around, she sued him for divorce and threatened to set him out in the cold world all alone. After calling attention to this the Hutchinson News asks: "When is this tyranny to end?" Some one on the Atchison Olobe at tended a vaudeville performance the other night and reported a monologue comedian of the black face type as saying, among other things: "I came up from Kansas City last night. A woman had a monkey in a cage. When the conductor came along collecting his wages I asked him if the company permitted monkeys to ride on the train. 'If you keep still,' he said, 'no one will notice you.' I went into an Atchison restaurant. They served me a biscuit so hard that when I threw It out 'of the door the dog thought it was a bone and buried It. I said to the waitress, 'Have you corn on the ear?' She replied, 'No; that's a wart. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record-l On the hottest day a man will walk farthest to look at a thermometer. No man Is absolutely contented un less he has a certain amiunt of egot ism. The boarding house diner who orders a little of everything is apt to get hash. Long hair in a man is no more a f.ark of genius than short hair in a woman. Appearances are deceptive, especially the kind people are always trying to keep up. A man in apt to fail in business more from lack of principal than lack of principle. Some old maids are so self-possessed that they remain that way for the rest of their days. The fellow who suffers from a torpid liver is seldom that kind of a river himself. Mr. Oldrach "I believe, with the scientists, that kissing is dangerous." Miss Antique "Coward!" There are mighty few obstacles in the way of the man who has a natural tendency to make a fool of himself. Hoax "What do you suppose were Jonah's sensations when he was shal lowed by the whale?" Joax "I dure say he felt rather down in the mouth." Muggins "My wife can save twice as much money as I can." Bugglns "Yes; money is more apt to burn a hole in a man's pocket than in a woman' stocking." REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. The fun of being a crank seems to be thinking everybody else is. Telling the truth doesn't shame the devil as much as it astounds him. You might aa well think a woman is younger than she is, because she'll make you act so anyhow.- What a girl likes about swimming Is how scared she can get if there is a man around to help her. If a man wears a wig, he can make himself believe it looks more natural than everybody else's real hair. 1 I I i KANSAS COMMENT THE EXCITABLE FANS. Why do people get so excited over ball games? In Monday's game with Salina down at Island park several of our business men became so aroused over the banter that was being given them by tho Salica boys that they wanted to fight and invited some of tne visicors out behind 'he grandstand to try conclusions with their fis'-s. This looks extremely ridiculous to the on looker who does not allow his feelings to get away with his rood sense and probably the eentlemen who were so pugnastically Inclined were ashamed of themselves after the game was over ana ney nao cooled down Into a nor mal condition and realized how foolish they had been. Baseball ought to be conducted along different lines and cer tainly there is no occasion at any time for men to get pugnacious and make a show of themselves. Clay Center Re publican. GUN TOTERS MUST GO. Some day the lawmakers of this country will have a lucid Interval, and will give the gun toters the attention they deserve. As things are now, a man found carrying a deadly weapon is fined a dollar or two or given a reprimand by a police judge. When the lawmakers adjust things properly, the gun toter will get a penitentiary sentence. Since the shooting of Mayor Gaynor several congressmen have threatened to introduce bills which will make gun toting a serious offense, and the mayor's misfortune will not have been in vain- if it leads to a tightening up of the laws touching concealed weapons. Emporia Gazette. FROM OTHER BENS RESPECT TO THE COURT. Into Judge Lummus' court In Lynn, came, as the Lynn News tells it, a man with "weather-beaten overalls, a shirt which was widely opened at the throat, and shirt sleeves rolled up above the elbows. The judge looked at the wit ness sharply. Then he said to Chief Burckes, 'Why does this man come here dressed like this?' The question was too deep for the chief to answer, so he side-stepped it. 'When was he summoned to appear?' next asked the judge, and when the chief replied, 'last evening," the Judge remarkea, -i ao not care to hear his testimony.' It may have been that the testimony of the witness was of vital importance to the case, and that Judge Lummus did an injustice by his curt refusal to hear the testimony. But. as a general prin ciple, he was right. A Judge In a high er court refused some time ago to con sent to the naturalization of an appli cant who appeared garbed in a butch er's frock. He was rlent, too. xne courts of the country are entitled to the conventionalities of respect, not because of the personality of the Judge but because the court is a great func tion of the public service. It repre sents in its place, a majesty greater than that of any monarch on earth the majesty of government by the peo ple. Instead of being cheapened by that truth, that majesty Is enhanced. This principle ought always to be in sisted upon, even in so-called small matters. New Bedford standard. COMRADES AFTER MARRIAGE. Foreign visitors to the United State often comment upon the freedom of social meeting permttted, w'th general lack of chejperonage, between young men and women, as "conrpared with the rigid formality required by custom In Europe. But there Is a sequence to this custom that has not received so much observation. That is, that there is oft-n lesa comradeship between American husbands and wi"es than is usual abroad. After marriage the rou tine of thoir daily r lives is less inti mate. But the phenomenon has its proper reasons. The American man is ao-. sorbed in business. He lacks the time, though he may have the inclination. for the enjoyment of simple domesticity. Simultaneously, the wide-awake Amer ican woman has discovered many ac tivities outside the home charitable. sociable, educational,- sometimes politi cal. There may enter into any or all of these the natural element of variety but unquestionably, they are pervading and prevailing. Curiously enough, the usual absence of definite marriage settlements in this country makes the American wife, with ell her trt-ed:m, dependent upon tne matcullne holder of the purse strings. But the good husband is far more than a -mere financial agent, although too of ten he Is not the comrade that he should be. Washington Post. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe.'! You know better. Why don't you do better? People seem to hate to use what little sense they have. One of the things a boy learns at college is not to help much with the work around home when ne returns. You mav have noticed that when a man decides to do anything for the good of the party, he expects to get paid for it. A man hasn't taken the thirty-third degree in the Ancient and Modern Order of. Henpecked Husbands until he has to ask his wife for spending money. A little girl never loves her grand father as much as she does her grand mother. Grandmothers explain It all bv saying: "She is afraid of his whiskers." Have you been the subject of a scandalous rumor? The rumor may have been untrue, the invention of a mean enemy, but most of your friends will believe the rumor. We don't claim to be a Good Fel low. When men we know visit Atchi son, we don't take them to the club and entertain them until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. It Is an oversight the women will at tend to when they can get around to it: The providing of a trained nurse's suit to wear when the husband's head aches, or the baby has the measles. A woman Is as suspicious of her grocer as she is of her husband. She thinks her grocer is as good as any of them; possibly a little better, but she firmly believe he will Bear Watching. It is not a bad idea for a woman to keep a diary: It is a sort of a safe ty valve, and in writing down her troubles in a hand that no one is ever able to read, she forgets to tell them to the neighbors. There are no eyes as bright as those of the housewife returning from a va cation: But it isn't rest that did it. It is anticipation of finding grease spots in the kitchen she left immacu late, or dust on the piano, and perhaps somewhere in the house there will be a fly! When there is a guest, the guest has a way of sitting back as if to say: "Weil, l am nere. .1 came at great ex pense and worry to myself solely be cause of your importunity. But now that I am here, entertain me and do it right or I will talk about you when I go home." 1 WOMAN'S WAYS. A woman says she'll call on Sunday You stay at home and wait all day 55 a Pstl card on Monday That tells VAU wHv lh atov A nw-w A-wWoman 8a-ys- "Do come to dinner! rii look for you on Tuesday night." You go end how you'd like to skin her! The house is closed up snug and tight. A ,w?maa says, "I wish to give you A little token of esteem!'" She 11 let that wish of hers outlive you Or else 'twil vanish like a dream. A woman says, "Yes, I play poker!" And when she loses forty cents u feel as if you'd like to choke her For it's on you her rage she vents. A woman hurries to the races And bets the smallest sum allowed. Her horse la last. Of all the faces! She simply weeps before the crowd. A woman goes to do some shopping And sends the goods home C. O. D. They all go back the man just stopping To hear her say, "No cash! Dear me!" A woman is a curious creature The riddle of the universe. A man is different but the feature Of difference is that he is worse. Lurana W. Sheldon, in the New York Times. THE EVENING STORY Birds of a Feather. (By Temple Bailey.) When Ward Davis heard that her name was Jennie Wright, he smiled and said, "It ought to be Jennie Wren." He had noticed that she wore sober little gowns to class, gowns which contrasted strangely with the Dinks and blues and heliotropes of the other girls at the summer school. She had a sober manner, too. which was relieved by a birdlike brightness. And she went on her sedate and busy utiie way aione, studying hard while others danced and clayed cards, or ate shore dinners at neighboring beaches. To Ward she seemed, in spite of her intellectual occupation, closely allied to the women he had known in nis childhood. She seemed the type who should be busy about household things. He was glad when he dis covered that her work in the winter was in a kindergarten. There seemed an eternal fitness in the fact that she lived daily with little children. But now and then, the thought came to him that she would be at her best crooning a lullaby at her own hearth stone. Such thoughts never entered his head when he made merry with the otner grown up scholars who were seeking the knowledge that should ad vance them In the professions. Most of these other women were bright. scintillating, healthful creatures, who seemed made for fun and frivolity. Those who were not beautiful and bril liant were intellectual machines, whom no man oould seek, because they would not admit the need of masculine com panionship. Ward Davis, having taught English to countless students, both in the sum mer and the winter schools of the university, could not quite understand his interest in Jennie Wright. Girls had come and gone, and he had re mained heart whole and fancy free. When he had dreamed of marriage for himself, he had thought he would select a wife of rare attainments, with culture and beauty. He had made up his mind that no teacher or toller should tempt him from his ambitions, and now this little Jennie Wren was beginning to hold for him an interest which was amazing and disconcert ing. He avoided her except when she came to his classes, yet fate seemed to bring them singularly together. Their tastes were similar, and If he went to the college art gallery he was sure to nnd ner in rront or nis ravor Ite pictures. She spent hours in the library, digging among old books, and it pleased him one day to find that eve was poring over a volume of an cient cookery. It seemed to fit in with his idea of her domestic qualities. "That isn't in line with your stud ies," he chlded her with a laugh In his eyes. You ought to be reading finger plays and things like tnat." As her eyes laughed back he felt a sudden thrill. It was as If a wild bird had flashed past him, and had then hidden herself away in a thicket. "I like cook books," she said. "They are my solace when things at the boarding house go wrong. I like to read about good things to eat- Just at this moment I have been rev eling in a recipe for Brunswick stew. Did you ever taste one y "Yes, indeed." Wards tone was eager. "My grandfather was a mighty hunter, and he would Dring nome squirrels, and there was always corn and green peppers and onions to make it savory, and tomatoes to aaa tne final finish to its flavor. She laughed. "You positively make a poem of it." she said. "Look here," he urged, boyishly, "I know a place, a short ride away, where we can get Brunswick stew made ar ter our family recipe. An old nurse of mine keeps the place, and she would bo delighted to have it ready if I tel eohoned ahead." Her glance reminded him, more than ever, of a startled bird. "Why, I couldn't." she said. And then she added stiffly, "You must think me dreadfully silly." Ward wanted to say that he thought her charming with the flush on her cheeks, and with her kindling eyes But he knew it wouldn't do. He felt that flattery would be distasteful to her. and that she would fly away. "Please," he urged again, but she shook her head. "I have so much to do," she pleaded. Never having been thwarted. Ward made up his mind that some day she should go with him, but he bided his time. And, before he knew it. he was wooing his little Jennie Wren like a gallant Robin Redbreast. He was deeply, profoundly in love for the first time. He felt stirring In his heart all the primeval Instincts. He wanted a home with this woman in it. He wanted a future in which this little creature should be at his side, cheering him, helping him, sus taining him. He smiled as he analyzed his feeling. "I thought I longed for a mate of gay plumage. DUt i am no more fitted, with my quiet tastes and love of homely happiness, to unite with a society woman than is a plain robin to Join his fortunes to a hum mingbird." His sense of protection made him want to surround her with every safeguard, and when one day, upon the campus, he round ner being badgered by a group of gay young students, his blood boiled. Behind a screen of vines he sat on the porch of the old library and heard them tease her about him. They had read his secret before her modesty would per mit her to understand, and now they were taxing her with it." 'Little mouse," said a gay gin in blue, "to think that you should carry off the prize." Jennie s inquiring glance waot from one amused face to another. "Why I haven't won any prize," she said. "What do you mean?" A big prize," tne gin in Diue ex plained;; "all of us set our caps for the professor, and now you have won out "Oh,' Jennie's face flamed, "but I haven't why, who ever thought of such a thing "He did and we did," chanted the girl in blue. "Oh. you blind little mouse." And away they went. Ward dared not approach her as she stood alone looking out over the campus. He knew how she must feel to have had her affairs talked about by Irreverent tongues. But that afternoon he sought her out. "You refused my invitation once," he said gravely, "to go to my old nurse's. Please don't refuse me now I want you." With a new self-consciousness upon her she dropped her head. v "Please don't ask me," she pro tested. "I I think I ought not to go." "Why?" "Because." "Because of what those girls said to you on the porch this morning." "Yes." "And it is true. And it is because of that that I want to carry you off with me this afternoon. I want to talk it over with you may I, Jennie Wren?" Suddenly she was enveloped by the joy of his love for her. "Oh, yes," she said breathlessly, "I'll be glad to talk it over." In the dim, cool dining room of the old farm house, where the air was sweet with the fragrance of honey suckle. Ward told her the story of his awakening. "I need such a woman as you to complete my life," he said. "I need the comfort of you, the quiet content that your presence gives me, the rest, the peace, the joy of your gentle womanhood." He smiled whimsically. "Do you know, the words of the old song: 'Will you have me, Jennie Wren And Jennie, true to nursery rhyme tradition, whispered "Yes." (Copy righted 1910 by Associated Literary Press.) Odd Wedding Places. Although the vast majority of brides and bridegrooms are quite content to have the nuptial knot tied in church, there are a few who prefer it fastened in an odd environment. To be "spliced" on a swinging trapeze would not be every one's choice, yet that was the scene selected on one occasion by two couples of circus performers. The con tracting parties, gorgeously arrayed, climbed onto two aerial perches, one on each side of the ring, while the of ficiating magistrate stood on a pyramid in the center and conducted the ser vice. In 1897 a wedding occurred in a still more curious and dangerous place in a lion's cage at the Boston Zoo. Something like 4,000 people witnessed the event, a Methodist clergyman, con ducting it. The reverend gentleman, however, stood outside the cage, and at the proper moment the bride and bridegroom followed the keeper into the cage, which contained two large Hons, and the steel-barred door was closed behind them. The whole thing was over in five minutes, but it must have seemed years to the couple, con sidering that the Hons walked around the cage staring at the unusual sight, and then laid down, roaring and yawning alternately. On another oc casion a couple had the romantic idea of being married inside the head of the colossal figure of the Goddess of Lib erty which stands in New York har bor. The head being a hollow cham ber, the feat was made feasible and was duly carried out, after the bridal party had mounted the 3,000 feet of narrow stairs to reach their destina tion. Marriages have now and again taken place on horseback, one such being be tween an eloping couple some years back. While a service was in progress in a village church the noise of clatter ing hoofs was heard. An official going to the entrance found a man and wo man mounted on palpitating animals. After some persuasion, as the pair were armed with the necessary au thority, the clergyman promptly mar ried them, the lovers not dismounting during the process. As soon as It was ended they put spurs to their horses and galloped away into the darkness. So far, it would seem, marriages have not been performed in motor cars or flying machines, although one may rest assured that they will soon be utilized for such purposes. Before now the clouds have witnessed wedding ceremonies. Some years ago a balloon was turned Into a church and a happy though nervous couple made husband and wife therein. During the Chicago World's Fair some years ago the Fer ris wheel, of which the big wheel at Earl's Court was a near relative, was one of the chief attractions, and an en terprising couple elected to be married in it. Accordingly they were united 250 feet above the heads of the gaping and Interested crowd. And, as there is no accounting for tastes, it is not sur prising to learn that even the bowels of the earth have been chosen for a wedding. Such an event in a coal mine would be a matter-of-fact affair in comparison with a marriage in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, whose wonders and creeplness have been pic tured by many pens until the reader has been made almost nervous by the descriptions. Nevertheless, this eerie cave was the scene of a knot tying. It was performed by the light of torches, which made the darkness of the cave If anything more intense, the spot se lected being something like nine miles from the entrance to the cave, and only reached by crossing Styx-like waters and crawling on hands and knees. London Globe. Confusion in Modesty. The spirit of the spinster who clothed the legs of the piano is strong in the land. "No bathers in costume allowed Ibehlnd the frontline of the bathhouses," the signs at the beaches say. Young sters at track meets shock no one by tbelr shortness of garments, but wh-;n at practice they go running through a residential street a hurry call is sent for the police. In a city In New Jersey the girls of a school some of them as old as 11 appeared in low-necked waists when the mercury began to bubble. The principal was shocked. She sent the children home with instructions to their mothers to put "gulmpes" on those waists. The more clothes that a nation wears the more It troubles itself about im modesty. Its woman folk are more eas ily disturbed by any meagemess of ap parel, and the men it must be admitted are more curious. Until the mission aries took a Puritan primness of mind into the South Seas the natives were clothed mostly in shame. They know now what it is to lack skirts and trou sers, and so every Sunday they must put them on. Toledo made. Viewpoint of Office Boy. "Is the editor in?" asked the man with the unbarbered hair and shiny coat as he fished a roll of paper from his pocket. "No." replied the office boy. "He has Just gone out." "This is the third time I've called to see him," growled the caller, "and each time you have told me he has Just gene out. What's the explana tion?" "I don't know." answered the o. b., but I guess he must have been born under a lucky star." Chicago Daily News. I S3 jg I Jf Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, stopped a band which was playing "Dixie," on the grounds that it was not "Repub lican tune." Although he is right In the premises, the tune being undoubt edly of "Insurgent" origin, the pica yunlshness of the Hon. Heyburn Is enough to make Idaho go out and throw rocks at Itself. The eastern cartoonists persist in picturing Kansas as a fussy old man with moth eaten whiskers, who ap pears to be greatly enjoying a short vacation from the harmless ward of a bug-house. But at that, we sometimes wonder why the eastern papers are as charitable as they are. The first thing the winning candi date for nomination does after issuing a card of thanks, ia to get out and warn his party to stand together and vote 'er straight. Sam Langford, chocolate colored candidate for trouble with Lll Art ha Johnslng, exhibited a broad stripe of old gold when called upon to face Al Kaufman of Philadelphia a few nights ago.- Which only strengthens the sus picion we have long entertained, to the effect that Sam is false alarm, and not entitled to space on the front pags of the sport section. A lot of indigent lawyers are prob ably regretting that they didn't go to Oklahoma and mingle with the Indiana at 10 per cent per mingle. The pictures of the young woman who won the Massachusetts long-distance swimming contest. Indicates that WMle she may be the champ lady swimmer, Annette Kelerman'a shape record is in no danger whatever. IT IS INDEED SAD. A woman may have shape enough. And. current styles permitting, glad ly show it. But fashions change, and it is tough, When she must dress so you would never know it. The St. Joseph Gazette prints half a column concerning the life, habits and parentage of the "necturus macu latus," or water dog, thereby remlnd injr us that we have over half a col umn to say about the "canine vulgaris,"- er just plain dog. -which howls in our back yard o' nights, but the postal and editorial limitations prevent us from printing the same. "When I first saw 'demitasse on a bill of fare," says George Hart, "I thought' it was some new kind of pie. and took a chance. I suppose if I had seen 'pousse cafe on the list, I would have ordered some of it. fried and turned over." A street graft near this office, which consists of a "hit-the-nigger-baby-and-get-a-cigar" stunt with clever mechanical variations, reminds us that a lot of ingenuity is wasted in the ef fort to get a living without work. HUMOR OF THE DAY The Burden of Golf. Golfer with a full o, loomng ror a caaay i say, my friend, do you happen to know of anyone who" Near-Sighted Villager (testily) No, I don't. All the folks 'round here does their own umbrella repalrln'." Puck. Employe Sir, I'd like a raise. I've just been married, and Employer So you want more money for your wire? Employe No, sir; I want It for myself. She knows Just what I'm getting now, you see. Cleveland Leader. Phyaician And would you like to be a doctor. Jack? Mother (While Jack Is still hesitating) No, no! The dear boy couldn't kill a fly. Punch. Superintendent Can any little boy tell me why we have the eagle in churches? See, here is one on the lectern and one In this stained-glass window. Tommia Howard I know. The eagle is a bird of prey. Cornell Widow. Mamma Johnny, what is the baby yell ing about? Johnny Nothln". I jest took his milk and showed him how to drink It. Cleveland Leader. "Fly with me," pleaded the youth. "What's the user answered the girl. "Dad's biplane would eatch that old ma chine of yours before we had gone a thou sand feet high." Philadelphia Ledger. Gwendolyn Do you know that Mr. Soft head actually asked me last night wheth er I could not learn to love him? Vloletta Why shouldn't he? One is never too old to learn, you know. Jude. First Beggar What are you doing here, Pete? I thought your stand was on the bridge. Second Beggar Oh, I gave that to my son as a wedding present. Memn dorfer Blaetter. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Don't jump at conclusions unless you ere in training. WViv wouldn't Wfliterri isfactory bathing suits? a B-Jt every man Is not a hero even from his owa point of view. Tf Willi, m rti t 1 m ,,11 A i a m vur niTai empty, don t attempt to talk. T fa nt TtAajnlA wftn Wiaw V. r- iu wj iur given don't want to be forgotten. There is one bad nabit that moat of us are addicted to. We talk too much Some men would work if given a chance, but there are other to take chances. A man neVAr Irnnor, n. V. n 1 until he tries. But it isn't always ex pedient to try. Lasting fame means dnino m.i often that the world doesn'tnt a chance to forget you. How we dislike a man n.v. tions merely for the sake of gettlra- a Glass eves Are nnw ...I.-. perfection that even the wearers are wuvuja tne oeoeptwa. I

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