The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 8, 1910
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my EVERYBODY- 10 PAGES EVERYBODY 10 PAGES HEEDS IT., READS IT. i LAS1 EDITION. THURSDAY EVENING. TOfiEKA,' KANSAS, DECEMBER 8, 1910. THURSDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. VRECKTHE CARS. Toronto Citizens Resent Intro duction of P. A. T. E. System. Mass Meeting Called by Mayor Becomes a Mob. OVERPOWERS POLICE Smash the Rolling Stock as Fast as It Comes Along. Disturbance Results in the In jury of 18 Men. Toronto. Ont., Dec. 8. A riot here, remarkable for its spontaneity and for its fierceness while it lasted, resulted in the injury of 18 men, the completa wrecking of 11 street cars and the shattering of the windows in over 100 more. For two hours a mob of several thousand persons surged back and forth on the principal business thor oughfares, demolishing every street car that came wthin reach and com pletely tying up traffic. The disorderly scenes followed a mass meeting held at Massey hall. Two weeks ago the Toronto street railway installed pay-as-you -enter cars on the principal car lines. Much dissatisfac tion developed over the innovation. It was claimed that the cars were not adapted to that kind of service. Protests in -writing and by personal appeal became so numerous that Mayor Geary and the board of control decided to hold a public mass meeting, at which the matter could be discussed. Repre sentatives of the street railway also were invited to attend. The meeting resolved itself into a series of fiery denunciations of the street car company and broke up in disorder. The audience became a mob. The first street car that hove in sight was stopped and was reduced to a fccTap heap. Car after car was attacked by the mob, which grew in numbers every moment. Protests by Mayor Geary and other officials passed unheeded. Police reserves were summoned but they were outnumbered 50 to 1 and were utterly powerless. For over an hour the car nival of destruction continued un checked. Traffic of all kinds on King and Tounge streets was tied up. The mob showed consideration for the passen gers, allowing them in almost every Instance to leave a car before attack ing it. An order was finally issued to stop running cars into' the downtown district and not until it had been car ried out were there any signs of a restoration of order. The crowd gradually withdrew from the streets and the street car service was resumed. FIND NUDE WHITE GIRL. police Release Her From Captivity in Abode of Negro. Boston, Dec. 8. A young white girl of 23 years, nearly nude and fastened to a wall with a chain about her neck, her hands tied behind her back and her face and body a mass of raw bruises, was found in a room at 58 Middlesex street early today by the police when they forced their way into the home of J. H. Taylor, a negro, against whom they had a warrant in connection with the sale of cocaine. Taylor is said to have threatened the police with a revolver when the dour was opened but he was overpowered n-ickly. Entering the room the police found the young white woman lying on a o""" -ti a chain fastened about her neck, fastened to the wall. When asked why she was so confined, Taylor, according to the police, de clared it was because she would run away if he did not chain her. He was ordered to release her and when he did so she rushed to an ice chest and ravenously devoured a loaf of bread. According to the police the girl said she was married to Taylor last Sep tember. She declared she had been chained down for eight days and 'n that time had eaten but once. That was three days ago when she was given some bread and tea. The woman was sent to the city hos pital to be treated. Taylor, who is 31 years old, was taken to the police sta tion on the charge of being present where cocaine was found. ROOSEVELT ON TOUR. The Colonel Will Start March 1 for Swing Around the Circle. New York, Dec. 8. Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt is to make a two months' tour through the country, visiting practically every state ouslde of New England. He said that it was Impossible to announce any of his speaking dates, except those of six lectures at the University of Cali fornia, which are to begin on March 2 3. He will leave New York about March 1. His first stops will be in the south, probably in Georgia. After visiting the southern states and com pleting his course of lectures in Cali fornia, he will zigzag throughout the Wfr. Roosevelt says he has received three thousand invitations to speak and that thirty reached him in his of fice Tuesday. No announcement of his itinerary will be made until after January 1. He says the New Haven report that in his speech there next week he will "explain the election" is untrue. INTO THE PIGEONHOLE. liallinger-Plnchot Report Not Likely to Get Action This Session. Washington, Dec. 8 The Ballinger Plnchot reports will not be acted upon by the house committee on agriculture to which they have been referred, un til after the Christmas holidays at least and perhaps not at all, according to present indications. In fact the members of this commit tee, cannot see why the reports we're referred to them except for conserva tion questions involved. They protest that the reports, having been made by a special Joint commission of congress, should have been left on the speaker's table instead of being referred to any standing committee. Just now the com mittee on agriculture which is headed by Representative Scott of Kansas, one of the members who was not re-elected to the next congress, is considering the agricultural appropriation bill and while the committee has not yet had an op portunity to consider the Ballinger Plnchot controversy, the appropriation measure will be made a temporary ve hicle for holding up such considera tions. Meantime the Democrats of the house, particularly the minority members of the Ballinger-Pinchot Investigating committee along with Mr. Madison of Kansas, the insurgent Republican mem ber, are figuring on what action to take after the required seven days' elapse when a rule from the committee on rules might be in order. The Demo crats will seek recourse to a rule and failing, early action plan to bring up failing ea-ly action, plan to bring up of the house. WANTUJJOHELP Mexican Rebels Desire Uncle Sam to Step In And Guarantee a Fair Election as in Cuba. El Paso, Dec. 8. Jose Sanchez Al varez, former prominent mine and land owner at Parral, Mexico, now a lieuten ant colonel in the insurrectionary army in Mexico, while here talked readily of the trouble in Mexico and did not mind having his name used. "Of course we don't know whether we will win," he said. "But any of us pre fer to die rather than to lose. You are not getting the truth out of Mexico, nor have you any idea of what is going on. We have between 7,000 and 8.000 men in arms all through Chihuahua. They are the same kind of men of which the rural -police are made, good fighting men. "Politically we want the Americans to know that we believe them our friends, and the action of our troops will bear out that statement. If the United States would promise to over see a fair election as it did in Cuba we would throw down our arms at once. "That is all we want. We could take the city of Chihuahua if we wanted it. but we could not hold it long at pres ent. "Also we could tie up the National railways but we don't want to do that either. While it is called the National railway, it is owned by Americans, and we don't want any Americans helping the Mexican government." It is now stated that there are at least 4,000 Mexican federal troops in the state of Chihuahua, taking the field against the insurgents in the moun tains. Reports came over the railroad wires today that a thousand men had been sent out from Torreon to the southwest to form a junction with the troops marching from Chihuahua on to Madera and Temosachic. WINTERS MUST ANSWER Charged With Practicing Dentistry Without a License. Upon complaintof Dr. G. F. Ambrose, secretary of the State Dentists' asso ciation, a warrant was issued in the court of Topeka today for A. M. Win ters of the New York dental parlors, 618 Kansas avenue, charging him with practicing without a license. Chas. Bradshaw, deputy marshal of the court, made an attempt to serve the warrant ut found the dentist out. Three counts are charged against Mr. Winters. Three witnesses back up the charges with stories of torture. These are Mrs. E. Brack of Havensville, Mrs. Backers and Mrs. Rollins, both if Onagai The president of the state as sociation, Dr. O. H. Simpson of Dodg City, also is named as a witness. Dr. Simpson and Dr. Ambrose, whose home is at El Dorado, were in the city taking testimony in an action to debar the New York doctors from practice. Aviator Carries Pour Passengers. Jchannishal, Germany, Dec. 8. Aviator Brunsuber circled the field here twice in a Farman biplane,, car rying four passengers. SEMPLESERVICE. Attends Laying to Rest of Chris tian Science Leader. The Body of Mrs. Eddy Is Placed in a Vault. FEW WERE PRESENT To Witness the Funeral Cere mony at the Mansion. The First Reader of the Mother Church Officiates. Boston, Dec. 8. After services attend ed by her family relatives, the members of her household, officials of the Chris tian Science church, and publishing so ciety and her personal students resid ing in Greater Boston, the body of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy was placed today in the receiving vault at Mount Auburn cemetery. The funeral services at the Chestnut Hill home at 11 o'clock were simple and were conducted with quiet dignity. There were about 120 persons present. Judge Clifford P. Smith, .first reader of the Mother church, conducted the services. Judge Smith began the services by the reading of a lesson sermon corn correlative passages from "Science and correlative passages from 'Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures." The Scriptural selections included' verses from the 91st Psalm, beginning: "He that dwellAh in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.' Passages from "Science and Health" were followed by silent prayer and the repetition of the Lord's Prayer by all present. The poem by Mrs. Eddy, "Mother's Evening Prayer," was then read. This concluded the services and the casket was taken to Mount Auburn cemetery. The honora-y pall bearers were J. L. Bates of Boston, Edward P. Bates of Syracuse, N. Y.; Arthur Bisbane of New York; Judge Charle3 R. Corning of Concord, N. H. Frederick Dixon of London; Samuel J. Elder of Boston; Mayor Charles F. Hatfield of Newton, Mass.; William B. Johnson of Boston; Albert Metcalf of Boston, and General Frank S. Streeter of Concord, N. H. There was no service at the receiv ing vault other than the reading of the twenty-tttird psalm by Judge Smith and the last verse in Jude, "To the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever," given as a benedic tion. The casket was then taken with in .by the pall bearers, the vault was sealed and there a guard will be main talned until a mausoleum has been built on the plot chosen for the final resting place of the body. Fortune to the Church. Boston, Dec. 8. That Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, head of the Christian Science church, left none of her estate, estimated at nearly two million dollars, to relatives, was gath ered from a remark made by Judge Clifford P. Smith, first reader of the Mother Church. "Mrs. Eddy's will was not to be read today as it contains absolutely nothing which would be of interest to any of the members of her family," said Mr. Smith. He made no state ment as to that portion of the estate which may go to the church. Three years ago, at the time of the suit by her so-called "next friends," Mrs. Eddy set aside a trust fund of $125,000 for the benefit of the three children of her son. George W. Glov er, in Lead. S. D., while later. In No vember, 1909, she made a complete settlement with her heirs, with the understanding, it was generally be lieved, that there should be no contest over her wilL At this time the trust fund was increased to $175,000 and a settlement was made upon other heirs approximating 1225,000. Since the death of Mrs. Eddy her son, George W. Glover, has said he would not con test the will. Weather Indications. Chicago, Dec. 8. Forecast for Kan sas: Fair tonight and probably Friday. Slowly rising temperature. SOMETHING NEW IN CONSERVATION IDEAS. MEETING OF, DISTRICT JUDGES. Question Whether It Shall Be Held in Topeka January it. Judge J. C. Ruppenthal, of the- Twenty-third judicial district, has written the district judges of the state to ask them if they would not prefer to hold their annual meeting in Topeka at the same time the State Bar association meets, which is to say January 11 and 12. He states that the judges have tried meeting on the day before and the day following the bar association and it did not fall out as expected. It is probable that the judges will meet on the first day of 'the bar association gathering, which is to say January 11, depending largely on the nature of the replies Judge Ruppenthal receives from his letters. COME TOJOPEKA. Uniyersity Medical School May Re Brought Here. Plans of Consolidating It With Washburn Discussed. Dr. Marvin T. Sudler and Dr. C. E. McClung of the State university are in Topeka today consulting with members of the faculty of the Washburn medical school in regard to the advisability of moving the Kansas University medical school from Rosed ale to Topeka, and consolidating it with the Washburn school. -These gentlemen were the guests of the following, local medical men at the Commercial club this noon! Dr. S. J Stewart, Dr. W. F. Bowen. Dr. T. C Biddle, Dr. M. R. Mitchell, Dr. W. S. Lindsay and: Dr. H. L. Alkire. J. Willis Gleed, who is a- regent. of -the "State university, was also present. The whole proposition will' be dis cussed, and it is likely that the. board of regents in session in Lawrence will come to some definite conclusion in re gard to the future of the medical de partment of the university. UNANIMOUS FOR IT. Champ Clark Says' House Fax ore Im provement of Navigable Waters. Washington, Dec 8. That the house of representatives, "practically every man in It," is in favor of improvement of all the navigable waters of the United States and is equally ready to appropriate money for carrying on the work was the declaration made to the National Rivers and Harbors congress today by Representative Champ Clark, minority leader of the house of repre sentatives. The declaration was made in the course of forceful remarks by Mr. Clark during which hf advised the delegates to concentrate their mission ary efforts on the .senate and White House. Mr. Clark followed several speakers, among whom was Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio. Introduced by Presi dent Rand sell as "Another great son of the mother of presidents." Governor Harmon was accorded a reception by the delegates second only to that given of the mother of presidents," Governor Harmon's address was brief and con tained little beyond his expression of full sympathy with the cause of the congress to which he pledged support. General Bixby, chief of the United States engineer corps, urged that the several localities organize for the pur pose of supplying general and specific data for the use of their representa tives in Washington. Clifford Siftor, member of the conservation committee, presented an exhaustive report on wa terways improvements in Canada. The last speaker of the morning was Fred erick A. Delano, president of the Wa bash railroad. Hylt Is Adjudged Insane. Alfred Hylt, the farmer placed on trial for his sanity last evening, was found insane by a commission in lun acy consisting of Drs. L. A. Ryder and J. L. Work. His wife was appointed guardian of his estate of $2,000. The real estate valued at $10,000 was found to be held in the name of the wife. Hylt's hallucination was that lawyers and real estate agents were trying to deprive him of his property and that neighbors were trying to separate him from his wife. TERMS MA YEARS Movement in Topeka to Change Old Law. Allow City Commissioners But One Term in AIL BILLARD IS AT HEAD. Mayor Thinks Officials Are Too Anxious for Reelection. Make Recall Apply to Counties and State as Well. A movement has been started in Topeka, led by Mayor Billard, in favor of extending the terms of the city commissioners from two years to four years each. In addition to this fea ture of the city elections it is asked that each man elected to office be al lowed to serve but one term. This same condition of affairs is be ing talked of in connection with state and county elections. To have all state officers serve four years with but one term is supported by a num ber of the present administration men. And it is known that those con nected with the county official lists in Topeka are anxious to see this rule adopted in their case. It is contended by Mayor Billard that the present means of elections are complicated, technical, expensive and impractical. Elect All for Four Years. "And I think that the taxpayers and voters of the city would be more pleased with the work of the officials if they were given a one term of four years," said the mayor in speaking of the proposition this afternoon. "It is common now for a city, coun ty or state officer to be re-elected to a second term. In fact the people seem to think that a man is incompetent if he isn't re-elected and an Incumbent of an office has always a good chance to win out if he runs for office the second time. "I think that the city officers should be elected for four years each. In order to keep the city commission di vided and well informed of city affairs, three of the commissioners should be elected one year and two of them the next. This would keep them in con stant touch with city affairs and would give the taxpayers and voters the benefit.-- "I have the same ideas of state and county offices. In addition to this theory and this movement in Topeka for the change in the municipal com missioner law, I think that the recall clause should be added to the election ofstate- officials. The people of a state should be able to recall a gover nor or state official if they did not think him competent for the -office the same system as is used now in connection with the commission form. Faults of Election System. ."There are many disadvantages to the present election system disad vantages that are vital in the efforts of the people to get good men for public office and trust. "In the first place when a man Is elected for two years he spends a good part of his time preparing him self for the coming election he is figuring on the second term and he must play his hand to this end. As a result he deserts his public work, he disregards the real office system and he neglects the duties for which he was elected. "Elect a man for four years and for only one term and you will find that he has other things to do besides flirting.'with the public. It is not pos sible for him to be re-elected and as a result he has nothing to do but make good in the office he holds. "Then I think campaigns are too expensive. A man practically buys his office nowadays. In some cases a poor man has little show to win out even though he is the most competent and the man who deserves the place. "I don't like this primary system as it is used at the present time. It should be simplified it is too tech nical and complicated. I agree with the theory and the reason for its use but as it is conducted at this time we might as well go back to the old systems." ARKANSAS BOOMERS HERE. They Are Being Given an Automobile Ride Over the City The 50 business men who will arrive on the "Arkansas on Wheels" special train over the Rock Island late this afternoon will be met by a delegation of Commercial club men, who will take the visitors in automobiles around the city. The Arkansas travelrs represent the different trades of the state and are exploiting that portion of the country as a good place in which to live. When the auto tour is completed the men will be taken to the Commercial club where sandwiches, pickles, and coffee will be served, and cigars handed out. Those who are providing their auto mobiles for the sightseeing tour of the city are as follows: Governor W. R. Stubbs, Arthur Cap per, F. P. MacLennan, S. E. Lux, W. H. Davis, W. G. Tandy, Lou Garling house, H. A. Spielman, C. E. Eldridge, J. W. Going, A. Samuel. H. H. Keith, Robert T. Billard, H. L. Feppmyer, H. P. Dillon, F. M. Bonebrake, C. F. Men ninger, H. A. Auerbach, Dr. D. T. Nicoll. S. L. Courtney. The special train will leave for Law rence via the Santa Fe early tomor row morning. BILLARD WILL SEE City Assessment for South Side Dike Is Large. Mayor Startled When He Finds It Is 20,000. The city's share of the assessment for the construction of the South side dike has been given at about $20,000, and Mayor Billard has ordered the city engineering department to make in vestigation:: at once. The mayor was not expecting an as sessment of more than $13,000 and the figures submitted astounded him. "I know that there is a very little to do but pay the money," said the mayor, "but I feel that we have been taxed too heavily, considering what we have done. I think that there is an error some place. This is at least $8,000 more than I had expected and when the contract was let for an amount of 18 per cent less than the estimate I was figuring that the city would save still more." For one thing, it seems that the county has levied an assessment of $325 on a little piece of land now oc cupied by the city asphalt plant. This same tract was condemned a short time ago by the county for dike pur poses and the city doesn't' believe that it should pay taxes on condemned land. The second objection comes from the action of the county allowing the city only $10 for an acre 'bfland adjoining the city park. This land was con demned for dike use and the city given $10 for damages. 'If I had authority when this was done I would have taken it in court," said the mayor this morning. "We should have been allowed at least $1,000 for this land and possibly $4,000. I be lieve it is worth it. But it is too late now we will have to investigate all we can to see if there are any mistakes and then take our medicine." The assessment covered everythine owned by the city in that district ex cept the air above and the water that runs along beside the land. The poles. the wires, the hydrants, the valves and the water mains were all taxed. A partial list as follows: Streets and alleys ..$15,761.87 Harrison waterworks 1,141.50 City park 2,614.50 Electric light plant....... 529.00 Asphalt plant tract.. .t 325.00 Poles, water mains, valves, hy drants 261.!2 Light poles, lines, lights, etc... 56.15 City dump 66.00 FINGERS AS EVIDENCE. Finding Them in the Ruins Leads to Conviction of Arson. California. Mn.. Tton. R T mutilated- fingers found in the ruins of a burned store at Tipton, Mo., nine months ago, have caused the convic tion Of rtllRtflVA Tj fitalnlr..,,. t T w -..i.m iua 1 11 I lie circuit court here on charges of arson. .tie was sentenced to serve two years in cue penitentiary. Tr. March rtf thfa vao.. j u. a. "nil c VUU" ducted by Steinkraus and David Greer was ournea. -suspicion that the fire was of incendiary origin was not aroused until detectives employed by mm msuranra Rnmnnnv rnnnH tmn m tilated fingers in the ruins. An in vestiEranon rn I inwpn nnri it woe mi "ii me mgnt or tne nre Greer naa oeen injurea ana lost two fingers, j.ne arrest 01 tne two men. followed lireer, wno also laces a charge of arson, is to nave his trial soon. MORNING WAS COLD. Mercury Down to Twelve Degrees This Morning. The coldest hour of the winter was reached at 6 o'clock this morning when the mercury dropped to "12 degrees. But that was comparatively warm to what it was a year ago today. At that time the mercury stood at 1 desre Wo- low zero and four and one-half inches or snow covered tne ground. a rapia rise in Temperature came wun tne sun today, However, and at 2 o'clock the warmest hour in five davs was experienced. The present sno is scheduled to disappear tomorrow as th forecast predicts fair weather tonight and probably .tomorrow with rising temperatures. ine wma is blowing live mixes an nour irom tne southwest. The temperatures today 7 o'clock 12 8 o'clock 12 9 o'clock 16 10 o'clock 18 11 o'clock .24 12 o'clock 25 1 o'clock. .29 2 o'clock 30 He Rents the Pest House. Granite City, I1L, Dec. 8. Under agreement to vacate on a day's notice, James Smith, a mill worker, moved his family into Granite City pesthouse to day. Scarcity of houses caused Smith to rent the pesthouse from the city for $13 a month. If a smallpox case ap pears Smith must give up his home to the patient. HIT BYiANDSLIDE Train Runs Into a Falling Mass of Earth and Rocks. Engine Is Broken Loose and Hurled Into Rirer. HE SAW IT COMING. Engineer Called for Brakes and Cars Were Saved. He and Fireman Jumped and Es- caped Injury. Seattle. Wash.. Deo. 8. Northorn Pa cific train NO. 342 tairnA from Van. couver, B. C. for Seattle, barely es- 1 caped being swept into Lake Washing ton by a landslide which feet of track on the Lake Shore. 16 miles out of Seattle. The engine of the train stuck its nose into the moving mass of mud and stones and was dump ed into the lakes, where it lies, half submerged in the water. The train was creeping along the edge of the lake under a high bluff that over- hangs the track. Looking ahead. En gineer C A. Long saw a great slice of earth fully 600 feet long, break from the bluff and sweep toward. the track. He set the airbrakes, and shouting, to the fireman to Jump, made his way to safety, just as the engine was plough ing into the landslide. xne rorce of the slide tore the engine InnsA frnm th. ,Mt t. 1 J 1 ill ,E. bU7 LI CI. J ii mm 111 cars, brought to a stop by the brakes, i icn BOLCljr CLIluing OH 1X16 tlM-ClC. No one was injured. FREWEN IS ELECTED. Three Husbands of American Women Returned to Parliament. London. Dec. R. Th rmmHo. rr ti, land which voted yesterday remained oLaunri lu cue unionist cause and tne. gap between the eoalition forces and the unionists remained about the same today, the government coalition hav ing a majority of 13 in a total of 391 seats for which elections have been reported. The state of the parties early this afternoon was as follows: Coalition: Liberal 131; Nationalists 40; IndependentsNationallsts 6; labor1 members 25. Total 202. ODDOsition: TTninnlstn ISO Th. Unionists scored again in the Eskadala division of Cumberland, where Claude Lowther, a relative of Speaker Lowth- er turned out Goeff rey Howard but the aucmig cveuea up matters in Kad- nArshira.' Kir F TCri-arafAa ot.w.- .1 tables on C. Venables Lewellyn, who ua aeieatea mm in tne January elec tions. The maiorltlea In'tho pnimH.. erally were smaller in the cases of" both the Liberals and the Unionists, uuc cms is accounted ior ny tne re duced total vote cast. Interesting L -'-nprRnnsillflAa ...J tnose whose election w or,nnnn a today are Moreton Frewen, who comes to tne nouse or commons from Cork county to i support William O'Brien, the Independents Nation a iinf i.., H. Spender Clay for the Tonbridge di-. vision, i.ent, ana Lork Willoughby de Efresbv for the Kornrnutl. Lincolnshire.' All three married Amer ican women. Waldorf Antor Tin In "NTnm and the son of the IMnw Vnrl, n.intn. Lai re who became a British subject, won uiie oi tne two unionist seats at Fly mouth, while Capt. Frederick Guest, who, although the son of a peer and! who married an American heiress, is contesting East Dorset as a Liberal and says he is sure to win. Mrs. Astor. whn waq nna tt .v, a beautiful Langhorne sisters of Vir ginia, ana Jirs. uuest, who is the daughter of Henry Phlpps, the Pitts- burg millionaire, have been election eerinsr srince tha nnpnlno- paign In the interests of their hus- utLiiusf iix cuts jiict-itiifr peculiar to lao wives of British- politicians. HIS LIST IS LONG. Taft Has 200 Names for Place on Court of Commerce. Washington, Dec. 8. Much of President Taft's time waa taken up today in hearing recommendations of senators, representatives and other callers of various candidates for ap pointment to the new court of com merce. The list of candidates for this court, which will have five members, is rapidly growing and the president is said to have some two hundred name under consideration. The president will -have a eerles of important conferences this afternoon regarding the supreme' court. Attor ney General Wickersham, .Vice Presi dent Sherman, Speaker Cannon, Sena tor Lodge and Representative McCall of Massachusetts are among those who will be at the White House.. EIGHTEEN INJURED. Slippery Ralls Cause Rear End Col lision on Traction Line. Springfield, HL, Dec 8. Eighteen per sons were injured today when a passen ger car of the Illinois Traction system bound from this city for Danville struck the rear car of a freight train at Starnes. just east of Springfield. Slip pery rails caused the accident. James T. Uppergrove, of Chicago, who suffered a broken rib, was the most seriously hurt. TO DEPORT TAKAHASKI. Immigration Official Arrests Him Fol lowing Release from Prison. Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 8. Ku makichi Takahaski of Helena, Mont., upon his release from the federal prison here today was arrested by a United States lmmigation officer for deportation to Japan. xaaanasiu naa servea 1 3 months imprisonment for importing women for immoral purposes.
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THE TOPEKA JDAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1910. RAILROAD NEWS. Requirements of Rail Tonnage Are Large.. More Than 225,000 Tons Steel Used Every Tear." of A BIG TON-MILEAGE In This Country Alone They Amount to 227,000. Other Items of General Interest in Traffic Worlds So much misapprehension .continues to exist as to rail tonnage 'requirements that it seems well to recur to a sub ject -which has been gone over pretty thoroughly In these columns, says the Iron Trade Review. Under date of De cember 9, 1909. and the caption "The Upkeep of -Railroad -Track," it was fiointed out that, the Southern Pacific, n its fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, had renewed the rails on 541 miles of track, 4.14 per cent of its total track age, including sidings, so that it laid one ton of steel rails for each 90,000 ton-miles of freight traffic over its road. We had already developed the fact hot the wear of rails could best be studied by reference to. ton-mileage of freight, and cited the fact-- tnat tne Pennsylvania system's, statistics for ho five ,-alendar vears 1904-8 inclusive had shown an average of one ton of rails used for replacement purposes to 225.000 ton-miles of freight traffic. The total ton-mileage of steam roads of the country was 233.13S 'millions in 1307, 215.69S millions in 1908 and 227,199 millions in 1909. While the factor we have ouoted. 225,000. may be consider ably in error, it is interesting to note that its aDDlication would indicate the wearing out of a million tons-of rails o vrar nrt the steam roads. We sum marize briefly what may be said as to other demand. Exports in the first nine months of this year "were at the rate of 350,000 tons a year. A moderate proportion of this tonnage is light rails, already con sidered. According to'the temperament of the Individual various estimates of pros pective rail tonnage can be made up. From the above data these would range from 2,000,000 tons .to perhaps 3,500.000 tons. sary to station regular operators. Some of the stations previously were used as block telegraph offices. Many Important railroads of the country lately have adopted new stan dards of handling train orders. It-is said that fewer delays, less confusion and safety of operation are among the advantages that follow the introduc tion of telephone train dispatching. Other southern roads also are substi tuting widely the telephone for the tel egraph for use of their train dispatch ers. Among these tle Norfolk and Western recently Installed the- new system between Norfolk and Washing ton, and the Virginia railway also has Just equipped three of its sections. UNIOX DEPOT FOR WICHITA. Santa Fe Expects to Spend 1 Million Dollars in Spring. The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroad., has announced that, begin ning next spring, it would spend 1 million dollars in terminal improve ments at Wichita. The tracks wiirbe elevated for one and one-half miles and will be- wide enough for four tracks. A large depot wiH be built. The Chicago, Rock Island Pacific, St. Louis San Francisco and the Kansas City, Mexico Orient will join with the Santa Fe in using the elevated tracks and the depot. WILL TRYJT OVER Southwestern College After Basketball Championship. Awarded That Honor in Kansas Last Season. LOST ONLY TWO GAMES. College of Emporia and McPher son Each Got One. Topeka City League Has Adopted a Schedule. iWinfield, Kan., Dec. 8. Southwest ern college is about to send another basketball team into the courts with the expectation of winning another state championship. Four players of ball league schedule. No scores were kept of the first irnmes but percent ages will be kept for the champion ship. CLASH FOR BASKETBALL PRIZE. Washburn Classmen in Series .for Stahl Cap and Varsity Places. The interclass basketball schedule at Washburn is well under way -and a vary Satisfactory showing is being made for varsity places. Director Driver is refereeing the games and keeping close tab on the work of the men that he may select a well trained squad from which to filter the team- which will rep resent the college in the after holiday schedule. The class games now on are to de cide the championship and possession of the W. W. Stahl trophy cup, held twice by the class of 1909. and last sea son by the class .of 1913. The standing of the teams to date is as follows:. Sophomores, won 2, lost 0. Academy, won 1, lost 0. Seniors, won 1, lost 1. Freshmen, won 0, loBt 1. Juniors, won 0, lost 2. On Saturday afternoon the Sopho mores play the Academy team and the Juniors play the Freshmen. Then on the 13th. the Seniors play the Sopho mores and the Freshmen, battle the Academy. From the five teams playing the ser ies and gymnasium class teams as well Director Driver who is coaching the men will have much good material to pick his varsity from. For center, Glenn Millice. senior, Bennett, senior, Cha ney, soph., and Bishop, Junior, will be the quartette of tryouts as it now iooks. For the forward positions, Crumbine, soph.. Hughes, soph., McNesch, soph., and K. Bowman,, soph., seem to be the most likely. For the guard places, Capt. Bolton, Junior, Janey, Walker, and Haynes, soph., and Ream, a senior, look like the best material. The varsitv schedule has not yet been arranged but no games will be played before the holidays. Six games will be played at Washburn in the Thomas gymnasium which will seat 1,000 people around tne courtside. SCHEDULE FOR CITY LEAGUE. HUGHES1S FIRST. Announces That He'll Be in the Race for Mayor.' May Be Considered Opening Gun of Campaign. BILAARD WILL UVN. Mayor Would Be Reelected Sam E. Lux Is Mentioned. Nine Last Season's Champion Basketball Team of Kanass. DOG TAX AND BANKTAX TWO-CENT FARE LAW TEST. Illinois and Iowa Roads Prepare for Concerted Attack. Chicago, 111., Dec. 8. PlanB on the part of leading railroads for a con certed attack upon the validity of the 2 -cent fare law, both in Illinois and Iowa, are nearing completion, and an announcement relative to the line of assault is expected within a short time. Statistical experts have been at work for some time gathering data relative- to railroad earnings and the return on invested capital. It is un derstood that the broad ground to be taken is that the 2-cent rate is con fiscatory. It is said that the Illinois Central railroad has gone- o far, as to undertake a physical valuation of Its property in order to obtain, needed figures. "A committee was appointed some time ago to consider this matter so far as lines operating in Illinois are con cerned," said B. L. .Winchell, presi dent of the Fr-o and Eastern Illi nois lines today. "Progress has been made in our preliminary work, but it Is too early as yet to make any pre dictions. The matter will be taken up in the ordinary course of business as the time arrives for definite action." The railroads, it is understood, re ceived much encouragement from the successful attacks on 2-cent fare laws in Missouri and Arkansas, and are sanguine that similar results can be accomplished m Illinois and Iowa. A NEW SOUTH COAST LINE. Western Pacific Maps Out Route in Southern California. San Francisco, Dec. 8. With the ad mission: made at the general offices of the Western Pacinc railroad that the surveyors who have been secretly mapping out a route from Oakland through Santa Clara county into the San Joaquin valley were Western Pa cific surveyors, it at last has become known that the long-promised West ern Pacific extension into Southern California is in course of realization. The plans are -said to have been passed upon by Charles H. Schlachs, first vice president, and C. M. Levey, vice president and general manager of the Western Pacific. In entering San Jose the Western Pacific will pass through Irvington, Warm Springs and Milpitas, having the San Jose terminal in East San Jose, where it is said a tract of 30 acres has been secured, a mile from the heart of the business district of San Jose. Declared to Be Analogous In Argu ment Before Supreme Court. Washington, Dec. 8. From the an alogy of the tax on dogs to reimburse farmers for sheep killed by canines, the tax on banks to reimburse depositors in other banks was held constitutional in arguments before the supreme court of the United States. The constitutionality of a tax to cre ate a fund to guarantee deposits in banks arose in the attack on the Okla homa bank guaranty law passed :n December, 1907. This case was reached in its regular place on the. docket of the supreme court. Two other cases, in one of which the Nebraska bank guaranty law had been been held unconstitutional by -lower federal courts, and in the other, the Kansas bank guaranty law had beer held valid, had been advanced for hear ing with the Oklahoma case. It was C. B. Ames-, of Oklahoma, who first called the attention of tha court to the dog cases. He said the attorney general of Oklahoma referred to them in his brief as supporting the power sought to be exercised by the state. Mr. Ames said that the only dog case that he knew about, which passed on the use to which the money was put, was a New York case. In that case, he said, it had been held that the use of the dog tax money by the Humane so-ci.-ty was for a private fund and. tnererore, improper. Mr. Ames con tended that the Oklahoma law sought to levy such a tax on banks as amount ed to the taking of private property for private use. Mr. AmeB also argued that bankine. not including the issue of notes as legal tenaer. was not a franchise, and hence the banks which did not issue legal tender paper could not be subjected to a franchise tax, as the bank guaranty law might be called. TEXAS IS FIFTH. Population Increased 27.8 Per Cent In Past Decade. 'PHONES OX ILLINOIS CENTRAL. yew Addition Completes Circuit of 2,000 Miles. Chicago, Dec. 8. Telephone cir cults recently have replaced the tele graph for dispatching trains on ninety-nine miles of the Illinois Central railroad between Paducah and Central City. Ky.. and on more than 2.000 miles of this road the telephone is now being used. In addition .to twenty-one regular telephone stations on this Etretch of track, sixteen way-station telephones have been placed along the line in booths or buildings located at sidings or points where it is not neces- Washington, Dec. 8. The popula tion of Texas is 3,896.542, according to statistics of the thirteenth census, issued by the census bureau. This is an increase Of 847,832. or 27.8 per cent, over 3,048,710 in 1900. The in crease from 1890 to 1900 was 813,187 or 36.4 per cent. Texas, the largest state in the union in point of area, made greater progress in its increase of population during the last ten years than any of the states which exceed it in the number of in habitants and now takes rank as fifth state in population, passing Missouri, which, is in 1900, held that place. Census statistics show that only New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio surpass Texas in population, while Mis souri drops back to seventh place, hav ing been passed by Massachusetts in the last ten years. Texas' increase would give her four new representatives in congress if the present ratio of apportionment is re tained when congress enacts the new apportionment law. Only 30 of the 245 Texas counties showed decreases, and these were slight. the team, which last season was awarded the title by the Kansas Col lege Athletic conference, are on the floor again. These men are Hamilton, Schmidt. Franks .and Lindly. Coach F. H. Clapp has these men training with recruits and Is confident of a winning squad. Captain Baker and Joe Hamilton will both be out of school this year. Baker played either guard as the occasion de manded, and proved himself to be one of the best all-round players in the state. Hamilton at guard was a won der, and both of these men will bo missed by Southwestern this year. The record made by the college last season was remarkable. Out of the schedule of thel4 games played, only twice were they defeated, once by Mc Pherson and once by the College of Emporia. The McPherson game was later declared forfeited to Southwest ern because of that school's playing -a disqualified player. The defeat received from Emporia was later in the season entirely retrieved when Southwestern defeated that scnool on their own courc. During the entire season, Fred Ham ilton, left forward. and Willard, Schmidt, center, played in every game and all the time. Frank Lindley, right forward, and Willard Franks, right guard, each missed but one game dur ing the season. Joe Hamilton, guard, was in 11 games and Captain Asa Baker, guard, played in eight. These six men at all times comprised the team. They scored an average of al most 2 points to their opponents' J Fred Hamilton made the highest record as far as known of any basketball player in a like number of games, having scored a total of 298 points in the 14 games by field goals. Franks, playing right guard, also made an ex ceptional record, having scored 62 points on field goals and in two or three games scored more points than his opposing forward.. Lindley, at right forward, played a phenomenal game. He made a total number of 258 points in 13 games. Sixty-three of these he made on free throws. He is a cool player and can always be relied upon. Schmidt, at center, throughout the whole season played a steady and con sistent game. He outplayed almost every man he 'was up against, and averaeed two scores to his opponents' one straight through the whole season Southwestern not only played a fast game but they made an average of less fouls than their opponents. No man was put out of the game because of fouls or rousrh playing. The following is the record of the Kansas state champion basketball team Southwestern 80. Washburn college 26. The opening shot of the. for positions under the commission form of government in Topeka next spring was opened today when J. W. Hughes, well known In political and military circles, made his an nouncement for mayor. it nas Deen known for some time that General Hughes was in line for a High School, Washburn Academy and Y. M. C. A. Teams In. The schedule of the tity Basketball leatiip has been adODted as follows: W ashburn academy vs. ign scnooi Tigers. Dec. 9, at Y. M. C. A. Y. M. C. A. vs. Washburn class team. Dec. 10. at Y. M. C. A. Y. M. C. A. Giants vs Y. M. C. A. Ticrers. Dec. 14. at Y. M C. A. Y. M. C. A. Giants vs. High scnooi Ticrers. Dec. 16. at Y. M. C. A. Y. M. C. A. Tigers vs. MJgn scnooi, Dec. 16, at Y. M. C. A. Y. M. C. A. Giants vs. Y. M. C. A Tierers. Dec. 21. at Y. M. C. A'. High school Tigers vs. X. M.. J. A. Tierers. Dec. 23. at Y. M. C. A. High school vs. Y. M. J. A. uianxs, Dec 2 8. at Y. M. C. A. Hisrh school Tigers vs. .rtaiiroaa i M r.. A.. Dec. 29. at Y. M. C. A. Railroad Y. -M. C. A. vs. Hign scnooi, Dec. 30. at Y. M. C. A. Y. M. C. A. Tigers vs. Railroad Y M. C. A.. Jan. 4. at Y. M. C. A. High school vs. Washburn academy, .Tan. 7 at Washburn. Washburn academy vs. -Railroad x, M. C. A.. Jan. 7. at Washburn. Washburn academy vs. Y. M. C. A. Tie-era. Jan. 11. at Washburn. Y. M. C. A. Tigers vs. wasnDurn class team. Jan. 14. at Y M. C. A. Washburn academy vs. Railroad x. TNT C A.. .Tan.' 17.' at Washburn. Washburn? academy vs. High school. Jan. 21, at Y. Mi C. A. SHAME TO KEEP ERROR RECORD But Here Are the Champion Error Makers of 1910. Cincinnati. Dec. 8. The rror mat ing record of 1910 is quite interesting, in its way, even though it does sting sundry sinners. This is how it sizes ud for two big leagues: Most errors in each position First base. National leasrne. Merkle. 29: American league Newman, 32. Second base. National league, Doyle, 63; American, Tuesday, 56, Third base. National. Mowrey, sf American, Purtell, 49. Shortstop, Na tional, Sweeney, ,57; American, Barry, 63. Right field. National, Murray, l& American. Hooper, 18. Center field Oakes, 18; American, Milan, 17. Left field, National, Bescher. 20; American, Lewis 17. Catchers. National, Dooin, 2 8: American, Killlfer, 29. Pitchers; National. Wiltse. 9; American, War hop, 11. Danny Shay May Suit the Blues. Kansas City, Dec. 8. From statement made today by Daniel Shay, manager of the Kansas City Blues, American Association baseball team, it seems pro. bable that he may quit baseball and go into business here. He came here from Stockton, Cal. Candidates for Comnisi sioners for a Starter. GROWS HAIR and we can PROVE IT! A Jdy from Minnesota write: "As a result of usine Danderine.nr hair is close to f' feet in length." Beautiful Hair at Small Cost HAIR troubles, like saany other diseases, have been wroogly diagnosed and altogether mis understood. The hair itself is not the thing to be treated, for the reason that it is simply a product of the scalp and wholly dependent upon its action. The scalp is the very soil in which the hair is pro duced, nurtured and grown, and it alone should receive the attention it results are to be expected. It would do no earthly good to treat the stem of a plant with a view of making it grow and become more beautiful the soil in which the plant grows must be attended to. Therefore, tha scalp in which the hair grows must receive tha attention if you ara to expect it to grow and become more beautiful. Loss of hair is caused by the scalp drying np, OT tosing its supply of moisture or nutriment; when baldness occurs the scalp has aimply lost all Its nourishment, leaving nothing for the hair to feed upon (a plant or even a tree would die under similar conditions.) Knowlton'a Danderine Has m most wonder ful effect upon the hair glands and tissues of the scalp. It is the only remedy for the hair ever discovered that is similar to the natural hair foods or liquida of the aealp. It penetrates the pores quickly and the hair soon shows the effects of its wonderfully exhilar ating and life-producing qualities. One 25-cent bottle is enough to convince yon of its great worth as a hair growing and hair beauti fying remedy try it and see for,y6urself. NOW at all druggists In three sizes. 25c, 50c and $1.00 per bottle. Cut This Out CBCB To show how quickly DiBdsrln acts, we will send a large sam ple free by return mail to anyone who sends this free coupon to the KXOWLTOR DANDERINE CO., CHICAGO, ILL, with their name and address and 10c in silver or stamps to pay postage. Powder is Only Biz in Size Not in Satisfaction Not in Economy A large can and .a small cost does not make baking po .vder cheap or even less expen sive than Calumet the high-quality, moderate price kind. It certainly cannot -make it as good. Don't Judge baking powder, in this way the real test -the proof of raising power, of evenness, uni formity, wholesomeness and deliciousness will be found only in the baking.r 1 t All Jlllnr j!5rW 11 MediUm BAKING POWDEB Kansas State Nor- 78, Fairmount college No Man is Stronger Than His Stomach A- strong nianui strong all over. No man 'can be strong who is suffering from weak stomach with its consequent indigestion:, or from some other disease of the stomach and its associated organs, which im pairs digestion and nutrition. For when the stomach is weak or diseased there is loss of the nutrition contained in food, which is the source of all physical strength Whea a man "doesn't feci just right," when he doesn't sleep well, has an uncomfortable feeling in the stomach after eating, is languid, nervous, irritable and despond ent, he is losing the nutrition needed to make strength. Such-a man should ate Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical h Discovery. It cures diseases of the stomach and other orfiana ot digestion and natrltion. It enriches the blood, Invl&oratea tha liver, strengthens the kidneys, nourishes the nerves, and so GIVES HEALTH 2ZXD STRENGTH TO i TUB WHOLE BODY. Yon can't afford to accept a stent nostrum as a substitute for this non alcoholic medicine, op known composition, not even though the urgent dealer (nay thereby make a little bigger profit. Ingredients printed on wrepper. Southwestern 36, Newton T. M. C. A. 24. Southwestern 26 mal 24 Southwestern 21. Southwestern 67. Friends TJ. 17. Southwestern 2. McPherson college 0. Southwestern 48. Kmporia college 55. Southwestern 62. Ottawa TJ. 28. Southwestern 28, Arkansas City Y. M. C. A. 13. Southwestern 82. Fairmount 27. Southwestern 45. Kansas Wesleyan ?C. Southwestern 75, Newton T. M. C. A. 14. Southwestern 24. Bker university 23. Southwestern, 78, Kansas St M. T. S. 24. Southwestern 33, Collesre of Emporia 30. Southwestern 765, Opponents 362. The five games marked with stars were played on a trip. That trip was a record In Kansas basket ha'l. Fives saraes with the best schools in the state on sticceedine; nie-hts, the same five men played every minute- of every game, and all thj games won.'. Attell and O'Conncll to Sleet. Kansas City. Dec. 8. Monte Attell and Jeff O'Connell.'bantamweights, have been matched by John D. Brock, of Oklahoma City, to "fight .10 founds at that Dlace on the night of December 13. The next boxing show Of the Grand Avenue Athletic club here will be given December 19. Johnny McCarthy win fight Phil Knight 10 rounds and Tommy Dixon and Tommy. Bresnahan will go the same distance. Use TIZ Smaller Feet Bore Feet. Tender Feet and Swollen Feet Cured Every Time. TIZ Makes Sore Feet Well No Matter What Ails Them. The natural thine to do in either case, is to feed mayoralty race it was first known na replenish the soil or scalp as the case may be, lasf spring when he was urged to run f ny"ir-,cr2p T11 elow and """W nature for maunr at -,v,a w., i inicnaea u snouia. j t. ii1" c vui. no refused. "Wait until some other time." WAR the answer he gave then. iNow-that "Some other time" has come and the- general did not deny his candidacy when approached by a State Journal reporter. J. W. J"'. Hughes will make a ereat race for the position. It was eaid last spring that he would win in a walk lr he had accepted the support of his friends for the place. ie is at the present time district manager of the Illinois Life Insurance company with headquarters in To peka. He has made first place in life insurance work and at a banauet given by the company at the Throop noiei Saturday night General Hughes will be presented with a cup from the general officers of the company.' pep- i eeeiiianves irom every, state in the west will be present at the banquet. Has Been Mayor and Councilman. General Hughes for seven vears served as a councilman and for part of two years he acted as mayor. He was also mayor of Potwin before that little citv was annexed tn Tntinlta. For four years he served the state as adjutant general. He held this office under, the administration of Governor iocn. General Hughes has been identified with the Kansas National Guard for more than 30 veara. In 1833 he organized the Third reeiment and was colonel of this regiment for iweive years 18 8 3 until 18 95. He has also been commanding officer of the Kansas National Guard for 12 years. General augnes is a heavy property owner and taxpayer. He has lived in Topeka for 29 years and for 20 years ne was in tne wholesale and retail coal business. 'My only promise in this race." said J. W. F. Hughes this afternoon, "is that I will enforce every law and will give the city of Topeka a good pusiness administration. Billard and Lux Mentioned. There have been no other announce ments for mayor up- to date.' It is Known that Mayor Billard will-run for re-election and that Samuel B. Lux, a wholesale commission merchant, may make his announcement soon Mayor Billard won a walk-away race from William Green at the election last spring. He is supported by the so- called "wet" element In Topeka and has behind him an organized system of workers an organization that will be hard for any man to defeat Sam Lux has been a business man In Topeka for years and is closely identi fied with the business interests of the city.- His work in the Commercial club, the Manufacturers and Merchants' as sociations and in public work of this kind will mean considerable to his can didacy. Charles K. Holliday, at one time a councilman from the Second ward and a president of the Topeka Commercial club, is another rumored candidate for the mayoralty race. It is known that Mr. Holliday has hatd the office in mind for some time. He is an "insurgent" member of the school board. For commissioners there are nine men mentioned. The four city conwnissioners will run for re-election. Roy L. Bone, who has been commissioner of finance; W. G. Tandy, commissioner of streets and public improvements; H. P. Miller, com missioner of waterworks and electric lights; M. C. Holman. commissioner of 1 parks and sanitation. Although they have made no formal announcement it i is known positively that they will run i for their offices. Candidates for Commisisoners. The outside candidates are Eugene B. Stotts, H. B. Howard, C. E. Jordan, S. J. Hodgins and D. B. Fink. Stotts is a young man and made a sensation In the campaign last year by the marvel ous race he ran after making known his wants in public work for the first time. He has been in the newspaper work many years in Topeka and con ducting the advertising of the state fair campaign last summer. He is a hustler and a popular candidate. C. E. Jordan is an ex-councilman and a young Topeka business man of en ergy and popularity. When In the city council it is said tha he was better acquainted with the general work of the city departments than any other man in the city hall at the time. He has been active in the Commercial club. In industrial and civic work. H. B. Howard is an ex-councilman also. He conducts an athletic and elec trical supply business. Mr. Howard is supported warmly by the church or ganizations and last spring they at tempted to run him for mayor. Later he ran for commissioner. S. J. Hodgins has been register of deeds and is a young man prominent in political circles. 1 D. B. Fink ran for commissioner last spring and came within a few votes of winning. He is a resident of North Topeka and has a strong following in that part of the city. te is witn tne 1 r I Cheap and Big Can Baking is a better baking powder than you have' ever used before. And we will leave it to your good judgment for proof. Buy a can today. Try it for any baking pur pose. If the results are not better if the baking is not lighter, more delicious, take it back and get your money. Calumet is medium in price but great in satisfac tion. Free large handsome recipe book, illustrated in colors.. Send 4c and slip found in pound can. Calumet Received Highest Award- World's Pure Food Exposition. ,0T MADE BY THE TF" fALUMEf aaav II f. Mli Personally Conducted Excursions to California Three times a week, every week in tie year. The Santa Fe runs tourist sleepers to California every day on its fast trains. Three days of the week a special represent ative of the passenger department is in charge. These conductors point out places of interest and are of ser vice in various other ways. I have a nice folder filled with attractive illustrations, that tells a great deal about the Santa Fe's tourist car service to California. I think it will .interest you. I'd like to send you a copy of it and of "To, California Over the Santa Fe Trail," and will do so free of cost if you are in terested in a trip to. California and will send your name and address. T. JL. KING, City Passenger Agent, Topeka, Kansas. ALL THE WAY. months. SANTA CliATJS ARRIVED EARLY. Central Won From R. R. Y. M. C. A. The Central Y. M- C. A., basketball team won from the Railroaders on -the Central's floor last night by a score of 56 to 12. The first half ended with Just half the score, 36 to 6. This is the second round in the city basket- v, -n. tnat part 01 me cny. xie in wim mo Everyone who is troubled with soreJ' ganta Fe and or one term Berved as weaty, or tender feet swolle n feet-J counclIman from tne First ward, melly feet, corns.. callouses or buniona!. Thjg Js tfae flrst .-boom.. of the race can quickly make their feet well now. fQr municipai piaces next spring. The Here is instant relief and a lastln election ia mogt flve months away but permanent remedy it s called i w. the candidates nave been working for lUi ma&tss sorts ieei won feet are quickly reduced to their nat-, ural sine. Thousands of ladies have been able to wear shoes a full siza; entailer with perfect comfort. T' tha nniv root remedy ever made which acts on the principal of drawing out all the poisonous exudations which cause sore feet.. Powders and other temedies merely clog up the pores. TIZ; cleanses them out and keeps them, clean. It works- right off. You will feel -better the very first time it's used.; ito it a week and you can forget? you ever had sore feet. There is nothing' on earth that can compare with it. TIZ Is for sale at all druggists 25 cents per box or direct if you wish from Walter Luther Dodfie Co.. Podge Bldg.. Cbi- He Has Already Brought Joy to Little Girl on Fifth Street. James Doncyson and Ed Kennedy, two employees in the pension depart ment at the federal building, did a real genuine Santa Claus act last week when they made happy a little six-year-old eirl in an East Fifth street rooming house. For several days the men in the nension office had noticed a little girl at a window across the street. She always played with a paper doll and th absence of a real-doll .interested the men who work for Uncle Sam. "A few days ago," earn xar. doncy son. I talKett to M.E. fi.aineajr aouui the girl. For days we naa seen ner at the same window playiag with a paper doll. We saw her hug and kiss the rude paper image and wondered if she did not have a sure enough doll. "Yesterday we went to a store and bought a doll and-a bunch of play things. They were Just the cheap lit tle dishes and things that a child likes to play with, but we thought maybe thev would make her happy.- We went to the room with them and ask ed the girl if she had' a real dolly. She didn't. Then we gave ner tne one we bought and the little package of play things. 'For a moment the" child stared wildeyed. You should have seen her when we told her the things really belonged to her. She fairly Jumi-ed up and down and clapped her hands and laughed with delight, she was Just that happy. It was the first doll she had ever owned. The next day the Wedding Invitations Engraved and printed visiting cards. Steer die embossed stationery.- Finest productlpna. Adams Brothers Company 633-635. Jackson St. mother wrcta us a note thanking us in behalf of the girl. It beat any Christmas I ever knew to see that little child happy and our- entire outlay of cash was sixty cents. Think ofit.'- Every day since the men in the fed eral building see the little girl at the same window. In her arm is the real little dolly and on the window sill ara the dishes and playthings. To the men across the street, the little tot sends a smile and waves a little hand and the employees in the pension office have found as much pleasure in tha happiness of the ehild as has the littla girl in the possession of her new tUy things. 5
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1910. pen aho; torn oftar whi pre TM eho en of Is From Every Point of View A Diamond is a Gift Un eaualedfor Man or Woman Any person so fortunate as to receive a dia il as a gift at Christmas time will be proud to accept and wear it. There is nothing nicer. No one need be ashamed of a dia mond gift if it comes from the Morehouse store. There are several reasons why every person contemplating the pur chase of diamonds should see his line. The whitest, pur est diamonds obtain able in Topeka. 'ill iftWSS Money is as good to you as to other people who have taken advantage of the Morehouse prices. Morehouse claims but slight difference between his stock of watches, diamonds, rings, silver ware and jewelry, and that of any other reputa-' ble firm BUT HE DOES ELL FOR LESS. It's all in the location, 510 Fast Fourth. Take a Santa Fe car, No Diamonds Better, None So Rea sonably Priced R. H. MOREHOUSE 5 1 0 East Fourth Money spent for dia monds when purchased from a reputable dealer, is a good investment. Dia monds will never be cheaper. Jewelers will always buy diamonds, if the owner cares to sell them. They have a market value based on weight, qual ity and cutting. VISIT MISS KIRKE. For First Time, Barents See a Daughter as Prima Donna. Forty Kansas City Friends Give Luncheons at National, MINISTER IN THE CAST Items for ihe East Topeka column may be telephoned to Ind. phone 1751. Mr." and Mrs. Dexter of 628 Lime street, are the parents of a daughter, born Thursday, December 1st. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knittle and Mr. and Mrs. Kichtner have gone to Guthrie, Ok., called by the serious ill ness of their brother, Edward Knittle. Edwin Kerns is improving after be ing ill several days at his home on East Seward avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams left yesterday for their home in Madison, la., after spending several weeks here visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. S. McConnell are the parents of a son, born Saturday, De cember 3, at their home, 335 Liberty street. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stewart left yes terday for their home in Altoona, Kan. after being called here by the serious illness of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Stewart, who is suffering with an at tack of heart trouble and who at pres ent is much improved. Mrr tmd '-Mrs.V-Richarif Miller of O lathe, spent Wednesday with friends and relatives in Topeka. Frank Johnson is psending this week in Lawrence, the guest of rela tives. He will go to Kansas City to spend the week end before returning home. Joe Carle has returned to work af ter being off several days on account of illness. The churches of the East side are busy at present preparing for the Christmas entertainments to be given by the children of the Sunday schools. Nearly every evening a practice is be ing held. Mrs. C. C. Coddington entertained the Oriental Embroidery club at her home, 418 Jefferson street, Tuesday af ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lewis of 219 Madison street, are the parents of a son, born December 2nd. Mrs. Hester Sprecher returned last Friday from Goodnight, Ok., where phe has spent the past two months visiting her sister. The funeral of Virgil, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Stone of 1805 East Sixth St., was held from the home at 1 o'clock Wednesday after noon. Burial in the Topeka cemetery. Miss Beulah Beemis is improving after being ill several days with an attack of the grip. Miss- Mabel Campbell of Onaga, spent Wednesday in Topeka, visiting friends and relatives. Miss Mayme Gables of Sylvan Grove, Kan., is here spending two weeks, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wingart. Mrs. Hester Sprecher was very pleasantly surprised Tuesday after noon, by the members of Mrs. Anna Carle's Sunday school class of the 3rd Presbyterian church, who gathered at her home, 407 German avenue, to help her celebrate her' eightieth birthday anniversary. Refreshments were served and a very nice time was en joyed by: Mrs. Carle, Mrs. Holden, Mrs. Derby, Mrs. Checksfield, Mrs. Mummert, Mrs. Dealy and son, Mrs. James Haggart, Mrs. Fountain, Miss M. J. Bell and Mrs. Jas. Mullin. GET TOGETHER PLAN. Is Being Worked Out for the Opposing Conservation Forces. Washington, Dec. 8. A plan is being considered by the National Conserva tion association of which Gifford Pin chot is president to bring together the advocates of federal regulation of wa ter power sites and those who stand for state control, according to an nouncement made today by the execu tive committee of the association. The object of the plan, which was drafted by Philip P. Wells, former law officer of the forest service, is to af ford "a water power platform on which both sides of the water power controversy may unite to protect the public interest and at the same time encourage the development of the maily millions of horse power now go ing to waste In the mountain streams of the far west and the great rivers of the central and eastern parts of the country."' The proposed plan has been laid be fore a number of engineers of wide ex perience in water power development as well as' various officers and man agers of hydro-electric power com panies and is said to have met with their approval. The basis of the plan is development "without delay, waste or the sacrifice of other and higher uses of flowing waters." For this the plan declares, private capital must be aided by the states or federal government through corporate franchises, condemnation of private property and licenses to use public lands and obstruct waters. The power companies are to have certainty of tenure for a reasonable time and a chance for generous profits on their actual investment for the public, the plan promises good service, fair prices, full publicity as to cost, honest capital ization and fair rentals for public prop erty used by the companies. The federal government, it Is con ceded in the plan, has no jurisdiction unless its land is to be occupied or navigable streams affected. Attendant at Asylum Arrested. A. D. Cochran, an attendant at the state insane hospital, has been arrested on complaint by Kilmaurs King, hu mane officer, charging assault and battery of a patient. According to the officer Cochran was in charge of a walking line of insane patients on the hospital grounds, when one, named Davis, broke and ran. The charge is that, when Cochran caught the man, he used his club too freely in forcing tl.e runaway to return. Items for the Oakland column may be telephoned to Ind. phone 175LJ Mr. and Mrs. Snyder of 1205 Polk street have moved to Oakland and have located on the old Cole n rune- Stead at 111 Oakland avenue. A series of revival meetings are In progress at the Christian church. Rev. H. V. Scholes, pastor of the church, is preaching. Good success is reported. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Kenton of Law rence spent Wednesday here on a busi ness irip. The Kenton property on Oakland avenue has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Cloover of Waldo, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Cloover will move to Oakland and occupy their property about Feb ruary 1. Mrs. S. Ray has returned from Dex ter. Kan., where she was called two weeks ago by the illness of her mother, who at present is very much Improved. Mrs. D. A. Starr of Oakland avenue, who has been unable to be about dur ing the, past week on account of an in jured foot, is improving. uena Mariner is Improving, after being ill for the past two weeks at her nome on uakiand avenue. -Miss Mina Bush left yesterday for ner nome in Hesper. Kan., after spending several days here the guest of her cousin. Miss Hazel Kohler. Mr. and Mrs. Frances Klotz have given xne name, Jfred Albert, to their infant son. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Fav ha f Colli their property in East Topeka and will move to Oakland to live. Miss Martha Moyers of Ellsworth county is spending a few days here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry ivioyers on wmneid avenue. M. E. Hardy has returned to Man kato, alter spending a week here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon of Wa- uctan avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bradlev have moved from Michigan avenue to the Nelson home on Oakland avenue. Mrs. Conawav of Kellam avenno Is improving, after being ill several days wiin an aitacK or tne grip. Mr. Aaron Miller has returned to his home in Doniphan county, after snend- ing severa' days here visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Walter Dickson has returned to work, after being off several" days on account of an injured eye. Miss Blanche Patterson is SDenriiner this week in Delia, Kan., the guest of relatives and friends. Miss Mayme Little of Oberlin, Kan., is here spending several weeks visiting relatives and friends. Miss Rose Whitmer of Lincoln Cen ter will come here to spend the holi days with her mother, Mrs. Samuel Austin. WE'RE NOT SO SLOW. Tells of Experiences Since Join ing "A Stubborn Cinderella." Company Now on Way to Coast Second Time This Season. KEeadWorli "Wins Just as the soil requires enrichment to yield abundant crops, so the brain requires proper food, including the Phosphate of Potash and other vital tissue salts grown -by Nature in the field grains. (Srape-Muls Li IS A BRAIN FOOD scientifically made of wheat and barley, perfected by a food expert to meet the requirements of brain-workers. Grape-Nuts food is concentrated, practically pre-digest-ed and quickly- assimilated. It contains the essential ele ments in right form to replace the daily losses from Brain and body activity. There's a Reason Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. Chief Naval Constructor Submits Some Figures on Ship Building. Washington Dec. 8. With a strik ing array of cold figures. Chief Con structor R. M. Watt explodes the rather prevalent belief that the United States Is behind the majority of great naval powers in point of time of con structing warships. In his annual re port, just issued, he says: "With the system and method of warship construction now in vogue in the United States, it is believed to be feasible for the United States to build first class battleships in as short a period of time as any other ship build ing country, and actual experience seems to demonstrate that the rapidity of construction In the United States is greater than the average rate of con struction in the principal foreign ship building countries. It is also worthy of note that this decreased time of construction has been obtained con currently with a decrease in the unit cost of construction." The chief constructor declares that the contrary belief which generally prevails has been owing to the fact that the basis of comparison between our own and foreign ship building operations are not identical. It has been found impossible to con struct on the Pacific coast the collier authorized by the act of 1908, within the cost limit of 11.000,000 fixed by congress and an additional appropria tion will be reouired if the shin i to i De Dunt. Hall Gilmore Sued for Divorce. Suit for divorce has been filed in the district court by Annie Gilmore against Hall Gilmore whom "she mar ried in Fmdlay, Ohio, June 15, 1906 Neglect and nonsupport are her alle gations. She cites that she has not lived with him nor received support from him in three years and that she does not know where henow Is. Forty Kansas Cityans, among them Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Kirke, 1913 East Fourteenth street, parents of Miss Hazel Kirke. prima donna in the "A Stubborn Cinderella" company, visited in Topeka over night after they had at tended the presentation of the musical comedy at the Grand theater. While here Miss Kirke's parents for the first time saw her in her prima donna role. A dinner party for Miss Kirke was given at 6 o'clock in the evening at the National hotel. After the show a luncheon party was given. Miss Kirke, who still is only a girl,' then recalled her home life in Kansas City where she has lived practically since childhood. There she studied music and dramatic art. working for a while in the Woodward Stock com pany, after which she went on a con cert tour. Last ceason she was given a part in the company starring Grace Van Studdiford and it was there that &he was. selected by Charles A. Goethels to head this season's company of "A Stubborn Cinderella." "This is the first real part I ever have had," said Miss Kirke, in referring to her prima donna role, that of Lady Leslie, "and I like it so much. First of all, I dearly love Lady Leslie and I never tire of her, then every member of the company works so hard to help me, the public seems to like my work and you know that is what counts with the managers." While on a Canadian tour recently, Miss Kirke was awarded first honors for "facing the ball" in lacrosse in a contest between the Montreal team and the New Westminster team. She is the first American girl ever accorded that honor, which is jealously guarded among the select set of Canadians. i Minister Likes Theatricals. Dudley C. Fosher, who in August re signed as pastor of the Ryder Memorial church, Chicago, to Join the "A Stub born Cinderella" cast, still is appearing in the company and according to his own statement likes theatrical work. Fosher and his wife, who is a petite little woman in the chorus, wearing the most abbreviated of skirts, have learn ed the trials and difficulties of theat rical folk since their half-season of one-night stands has been completed. In the first act Fosher appears as the college .president and play3 the "straight" part in a manner that leaves nothing to be asked, in fact his is an interpreation that should make other "straight" actor3 envious. Later he doubles as the Indian chief, and though he "gets by" his appearance is not so strong. Mrs. Fosher, who at the be ginning of the seasonr was unable to follow the other chorus girls in their songs and dances, now has overcome these defects to a marked -extent. Fosher, in telling of his stage ex perience, related an incident at Racine, Wis., when the company first started on the road this season. "We had been in Racine two days re hearsing parts and dress rehearsal was to be held on Saturday night,'" said Fosher, "but a burlesque show had been billed and it was midnight before the stage was cleared for the final rehear sal. From midnight until 6 o'clock in the morning the company drilled. Then the conxpany was dismissed and reap pearance ordered for 1 o'clock in the afternoon: "Only five hours' sleep did we get. That was our first real theatrical ex perience. There have been others since, all of them new to us, but we haven't any fault to find, in fact we are quite pleased with the stage and I always have had a desire for it." On Tlieir Second Coast Trip. After a trip through the southwest, Mr. Goetler, the manager, now will take the company back to the coast by way of Denver. This will the sec ond trip to the coast this season. Following the completion of the dates booked in that section A tituDDorn Cinderella" will go into the Alberta and Saskatchewan country of Canada, closing in Quebec in April. Mr. Goet- tler then will join tne jvuner tirotners Arlington "101 Ranch" Wild West show. He will have a berth in the auditing department. W. E. Burlock, advance agent for "A Stubborn Cin derella," also will be with the "101 Ranch." He will have charge of the publicity work. Missing in the cast of the present company is Charles Herbert Wilson, a native of DeWitt county, Illinois. Until this season, he has played the nart of the eccentric engineer ana as a tvpe character hardly could be ex celled. He now is in New Tork in vaudeville with Homer B. Mason. His nart in "A Stubborn Cinderella" is taken by Edward Burns. E. Copit Albertson is in tne roie created by John Barrymore, that of "Mac." and Linford R. Lefferson plays the part of Leonardo. Bobbie Wagner appears as ai, one ox uie lausunuiB characters in the play, which taken on the whole has a much better company than the one on the road last season. A large audience enoyea me proauc tion last night. a oninciilence was recanea to me mind of Roy Crawford, manager of the Grand, when the failure of the gas supply necessitated that the fur nace be started in order to warm the hnnsp for the matinee presentation. "A Stubborn cinaerena piayeo nere on the same date last year and the nnlv failed at that time. How ever, the house remained cold last vear" as it was impossible to heat the furnace in time to give real warmtn. SELF SACRIFICING SEAMAN. How Sealshipt Safeguards Supervision Oysters Sealshipt Oysters are fresh and sea-flavored. They are plump and meaty. They are delicious and wholesome". But above all they are superlatively pure. From the moment they are planted in our ocean gardens until they come to your table Sealshipt Oysters are under the rigid supervi sion of the Sealshipt System. Even the beds where Sealshipt Oysters are grown are subjected to extraordinary measures to insure absolute purity of product. In addition to being under constant super vision of State and Federal Government, the waters of these beds are analyzed regularly by the Lederle Laboratories the famous food experts. The same precautions for purity are rigidly observed in the growing and packing of Sealshipt Oysters in their transportation and in theif sale by the bona-fide agents of the Sealshipt System whose names are printed below. Sealshipt Oysten Purity Protected from Oyster Beds to Your Table In Sealshipt Oysters yon have your choice of, the world's best oysters: Blue Points, Narragansetts, North ports, Chesapeakea or Gulfs any oyster yon like with all of the sea flavor saved. When you buy Sealshipt Oysters you 'get nothing but' plump, solid oyster meat free from water. Hence their vast economy. The price of Sealahipt is the standard of value. When you pay less yon get less. We are Registered Sealshipt Agents R. B. Cathers, 403 Lake st. Geo. E.-Cole, 1200 Seward ave. E. J. Covell Sons, 515 West 10th. J. W. Ferguson, 15 tn and Quincy. Fraser Bros., Sixth -and Jacksoa. J. S. Fritton, 1000-2 E. 4th st. Smith P.'?Frost, 1301 Kansas ave. Gem Grocery Co. iLuenberger Bros. Props.), 502 W. 10th St.- Wm. Green Grocery Co., 813 Kan sas ave. .v Samuel Hindman. 811 Kansas ave. C. O. Johnson, 1123 W. 6tht W. L. Osborn, 1633 South Kan. ave. Chas. E. Robins, Seward and Logan O. J. Shannon, 1012 West 13th St. Shawnee Grocery Co.; 112 E. 6th st. Star Grocery Co.. (Prop. J. Mc- Clements), 411 Kansas ave. R. W. Thompson, 220 W. 6tl st. J. H. Schlegel, 907 West Sixth St. Staple Wright, 500 East 4th St. Whittlesey Merc. Co.; corner. 2nd and Madison sts. J. W. Weiss Co., 531 Kansas ave. W. R. SMITH CO., Topeka, Kan., Wholesale Distributor Phones 438. Twice He Submits to Operation for Transfusion oi siooa. To Ice Users On Jan. 1st 1911, we shall adopt the Coupon .gyptem exclusively for the sale of ice. No ice will be sold for cash from our wagons. r We adopt this system in order to give prompt and better service to our customers. We will know who they are, where they are, and we can load our wagons and route them accordingly. Stations or places where small quantities of ice can be purchased for cash (in case of necessity) will be established throughout the city for the accommodation of thbse who require ice after the wagon has passed. Our aim has always been to give good, prompt ser vice, and our experience is, that much better service can be given by the exclusive coupon system. We, therefore, ask all our customers to order cou pon books from our drivers or call us by 'phone and we will send you book. Coupons in any amount, and ice for cash, will be sold at the office. If all our customers will help us in this matter by ordering books, it will be much easier for our employees and prompter and better service can be given. Coupon books are made in all sizes to suit the needs of all customers as follows 200 lb. Books, 10 lb. deliveries only. $1.50 700 lb. Books, 25 lb. deliveries, only .$2.80 1,000 lb. Books, 25 and 50 lb. deliveries only .$4.00 2,000 lb. Books, 100 lb. deliveries only $7.00 4,000 lb. Books, 6,000 lb. Books, for Butchers Creameries etc. 10,000 lb. Books, 5 per cent discount will be allowed on coupon books, if paid for on delivery. The Mutual Ice and Cold Storage Co. Washington. Dec. 8. The spirit of self sacrifice shown by James L. Robi son a seaman in the United States navy, in submitting twice to an opera tion for the transfusion of blood to the body of a dying shipmate at the United States naval home in Philadel phia, has been comrrrended by Secre tary of the Navy Meyer in a personal letter to the sailor. Robison hails from Platea. Erie county, Pennsyl vania. v Mnst Carr Booze at Old Rates. Washington, Dec. 8. Proposed ad vances in exDress rates for the trans portation of liauors in packages and jugs have been suspended by an order SAVED FROM AWFUL DEATH. How an appalling calamity in his family was prevented is told by A. D. McDonald, of Fayetteville, N. C. R. F. D. No. 8. "My sister naa consumption, ne wnres, "she w'as very thin and pale, had no appe tite and seemed to grow weaker every day, as all remedies failed, till Dr. King's New Discovery was tried, and so com pletely cured her, that she has not been troubled with a cough since. Its the best medicine I ever saw or heard of." For coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup, hemorrhage, all bronchial troubles, it has n equal, 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guar anteed by all druggists. of the interstate commerce commis sion. The tariffs were to have become effective on December 15. They were susDehded until April 14, 1911. The Tenderest Skin Is Benefited Y HAND SAPOLIO FOR TOILET AND BATH It has a delicate, velvety touch and con tains just the elements necessary to thoroughly cleanse, invigorate, soften and clear the skin. All Grocers and Dru6ista A SUBSTANTIAL Saving Account IS AN Anchor to Windward The Capitol Building Loan 534 Kansas Avenue
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATS JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1910. Coprka tate .Ucrorrtai By FRANK p. MAO XJESSAM. tSiitered July 1, 1876. ae second-ciaaa matter at the poetofflce at Topeka. Kuk, under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXTH .....No. 292 Official Stat Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF CUB9CRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 ewnta a week to any part or Topeka, or suburbs, or at the same price In any Kan sas town where th paper baa a carrier system. By mail, one year .$.60 Ey mail, three month....... .SO Saturday edition of dally, one year.... MM) BELL TELEPHONES. tuelnesa Office Jffl euorters' Room ATI INDEPENDENT TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call 107 and avsk The State Journal operator tor per son or department desired. PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal building-. MO and 02 Kansas avenue, corner Elgl&h. New York Office: 290 FUta avenue, Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Hartford buttons, Paul Block, tTVLJj LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal la a member of the Associated Press and receive the full day telegraph report of that great newa or ganisation for the exclusive afternoon publication in Topeka. The news is received m The State Jour nal building over wires for this sola pur pose. That failure of the gas supply the other day was short but far from being sweet. In Judge Baldwin, governor-elect of Connecticut, Colonel Roosevelt appears to have caught a tartar. Natural gas Is the ideal fuel for warm weather. But at that, there never was a luxury that did not have En occasional drawback. In the next municipal political battle to be fought out in Topeka, the para mount question is likely to be as to where the herd of buffaloes will be per manently located. If an Individual with a sixteenth part of colored blood In his or her veins is a negro, as a "Washington, D. C, court has decided, there is no such thing as a full-blooded American, unless he be an Indian. The standards reached in the educa tional Institutions of Kansas appear to be high. No less than five, young men from the Kansas colleges have passed the rigorous Rhodes scholarship ex aminations. Champ Clark is passing out big, red Missouri apples to the powers that be at Washington. A few fresh-laid Mis souri eggs would probably make a greater hit. Apples are not much of a luxury this year. It is quite appropriate that the anti prohibition campaign In Topeka should have been launched In a hall that was t nce the home of one of the largest and most notorious joints in Topeka when those things flourished here. Don't forget the Red Cross stickers. One of them on the wrapper of each Christmas gift you make will add to Its tttractiveness and shew that you are disposed to help in the big battle which is being fought against the spread of tuberculosis. As was to have been expected all of the blame for the troubles the Dietz family got Into, in fighting for their "rights" at Cameron dam, has been placed on the shoulders of Mrs. Dietz. Assuredly is this an age of peculiar chivalry among the men. Perhaps the United States is totally tinprepared for war as General Ernst Von Reichenau, of the German army, says, but It hasn't been noticed that Kaiser Bill has been parading around of late with a chip on his shoulder In the presence of Uncle Sam. Jack Abernathy, United States mar shal for Oklahoma, Is In the limelight these days through his own efforts. But Jt must be remembered that this is hardly an appropriate season of the year for him to send his Infant sons On legnthy horseback or automobile trips. It seems that the only satisfactory Bolutlon of the dilemma that has de veloped concerning the location of the buffaloes which have been given to Topeka can be found in cremating the seven animals and distributing a few crumbs of their ashes to each family In the city. One gets rather dizzy in reading over the millions for this and the millions for that that the heads of the federal departments are asking congress to provide. Yet in the aggregate they are many millions less for the coming year than congress appropriated for the cur rent year. Still, the sum total is rath er staggering. Colonel John Singleton Mosby must have been sleeping for the past eigh teen months or so. He says he has never known another president and he has known them all since the days of Tyler who has been so little criticism as has President Tart. Perhaps Colonel Mosby means honest and fair criticism. aybe the directors of railroads and other large corporations will devote a little more of their time to supervising the "administration of the properties they are chosen to control. A suit has been filed by one of the stockholders of the Illinois Central against the di rectors of that company. It seeks to compel them to make good some $6, 600,000 which the company lost through car repairs frauds. If there isn't one thing to worry about there's another. This appears to be especially true with the. farmers, including those of Kansas who have really less reason for worrying than any other class of Individuals in the United States. It is now feared that the recent continued drouth has made probable a disastrous visitation in the wheat fields by the Hessian fly. Pre sumably, though, this worry is being projected by the crop-killers. They'll be busy during the next few months hunting up all possible causes that might kill each and every one of next year's crops. THE MIDWINTER. Present indications are that the Mid winter exposition o be held at the Auditorium, January 16 to 28,- will bo something worth while and on a par with tho most successful ventures --f the kind which have been held In this city. This will be welcome news to Topekans, for they have a warm spot In their hearts for these winter fairs. They provide good entertainment and help to break the monotony of the winter months. They are also of great advantage to the business men of the state, particu larly the manufacturers. They give them an opportunity to display their wares to their neighbors and their friends, and thus is interest stimulated In home Industries. It is really surpris ing the number and variety of manu factories there are in the capital city alone. And it is also quite sur prising that the people of the city, for ths most part, are so" unfamiliar with the business activities in their midst. The Midwinter presents the chance to bridge that gulf. In doing so it not only confers a boon on the manufac turers. It also does the same thing for the people generally. For they do or should welcome the opportunity to purchase such things as they need which are made at home, rather than get them from elsewhere. And if there were more general patronage of home Industries, there Is no reason in the world why they should not develop and grow, and thereby add that much more to the prosperity of the com munity. Already most of the space which is to be allotted to exhibits at the coming Midwinter has been spoken for and the greater part of it has been obtained by Kansas merchants and manufac turers. That they will have displays well worth seeing almost goes without saying. Their eagerness' to take ad vantage of the opportunities of the Midwinter bespeaks of the value they place on the enterprise and also of Its success. That their efforts to make it so will be met more than half-way by the people of the city in their patron age of the exposition is certain. It Is to be conducted this year under the auspices of the local Commercial Travel ers. They are such an aggregation of live wires that it wouldn't be a bit sur prising if this year's exposition Ik superior in all of its details to any which have gone on before it. PUBLIC DEFENDERS. At the recent conference of the state board of charities the suggestion was made that Kansas should have a pub lic defender law. This matter has been urged before the legislatures of several states, and is being looked upon with increasing favor each year. It contem plates the creation of an office in each county, whose incumbent shall be call ed upon to protect the rights of the people who get into trouble and the courts, and who have not the means to engage the services of lawyers of their own. The plan appears to have much of merit. Certain It is that many people who are so unfortunate as to be haled to court for all sorts of offenses and of some of which they are not guilty get any thing but a square deal. The reason for this in some instances is the over zealousness on the part of prosecuting and peace officers to make reputations for efficiency. They seem to labor un der the delusion that their efficiency is measured by the number of people they cause to be fined or sent to Jail. Then, too, where people are too poor to hire lawyers to defend them, the law yers appointed by the court for this purpose discharge their work, or most of them do, in a perfunctory sort of a way. Every man or woman who gets into court is entitled to the squarest kind of a deal. But many of them do not get it because they haven't the price to pay for lawyers. This would appear to show the need of public defenders, even if their support would entail con siderable expense on the communities. Perhaps the same ends might be attain ed If the courts were permitted to make a reasonable allowance to be paid out of the public funds to the lawyers as signed to defend indigent individuals. THE ANSWER: UtVE STOCK. Mistreated farms can be returned to their past fertility, and in many cases made more productive, by the farmer keeping more live stock, writes a student at the State Agricultural col lege in the current Issue of the Kan sas Industrialist. No quicker method of reclaiming "worn-out" land is known than by turning it into a pure ly live stock farm. Many of the present day farmers that own ordinary farms are moving to town and renting their farms to tenants. The majority of tenants rent the farm for only one year and then move to some other farm. They get out of the land all they can and look at it from the light of their own selfish interest. It is not impossible to keep a farm from "running down" In the absence of live stock; but it would require much more efficient farming than can be expected of the ordinary tenant. Live stock will quickly rebuild de pleted farms, if the stock is properly handled and the manure evenly spread upon the land. The high prices that market and breeding classes of ani mals have reached in the last two years have made it almost as profitable to rear and sell live stock as to raise grain. The experienced lecturers of the Kansas State Agricultural college extension department constantly urge farmers to. increase their live stock possessions and feed more products at home. In speaking of the deserted farm. Secretary Wilson says: "The princl- pal factor In the downward course of soil deterioration Is its desertion by the owner and its occupancy by ten ants who have no domestic animals and no money with which to buy them, and who grow grain to sell." It Is not necessary for farmers to quit growing grains and start an ex clusive stock farm, to maintain fer tility in the soil. But it would be best for the farmers of Kansas to turn at least one-third of their time to stock breeding. This method would raise the fertility of the land above its present standard and also be a profitable investment. JOURNAL ENTRIES And in innumerable instances brave hearts have failed to win fair ladies. No matter which way the wind blows somebody's sure to find fault with it. Not a few people are sure they could have gotten off clever saving af ter others have done so. It's no trouble for many folks to paint pleasing pictures in their mind's eye as to what might have been. "Why is it a shoe too small for you never pinches until you have bought and paid for It and worn it half way home? "Kwltchyergrowlyn," advises the Valley Falls correspondent of the Oska loosa times. You can always tell a Boston woman, says the Cuba Daylight, but you can't tell her much. "Don't envy the man who is riding around in an auto," advises the Water ville Telegraph, "until you know how big his mortgage is." Something in the way of pertinent observation from the Waterville Tele graph: The days are shortest in De cember, and so are a good many men say, along about the twenty-fifth. A warning from the Cuba Daylight: There have been a few people here got married and never told us anything about it and not being acquainted yet, we cannot get all the news. However, we will excuse you this time, but if the same parties do it again something will happen. If he was married the editor, who unintentionall made the toast, "Wo man, Without Her, Man is a Savage," read "Woman, Without Her Man, Is a Savage" must have had a hard time to convince his wife of hie innocency. In cidentally it shows what a lot of mis-- chief a misplaced comma can mane. Selden Independent. A book note by Editor Kelley in hia Toronto Republican: Bill Slivers came in yesterday and caught us reading Booth Tarkington's "Conquest of Canaan." "Aha!" said he, "you have at last taken to religious reading, I see." He sniggered a bit when told of his mistake, and said: "That's another time I've been fooled by a title. Eight een years ago I took a notion to buy a Christmas book for my 10-year-old granddaughter. She was smart as a whip at readin and I bought her a book writ by a fellew named Anthony Hope called 'The Dolly Dialogues.' In stead of It beln a little girl's book, by Heck it turned out to be a dad-burned s'ciety novel!" Old Bill Shiftless strolled Into the grocery store the other day and lit his pipe, after which he put half a box of matches into his vest pocket, reports the Osborne Farmer. "Well," said Bill to the boss, who was busy, "how did the election suit you?" "All right, I guess," replied the boss, who Is noted for attending to his own business.' "You are not very well posted on conditions or you wouldn't talk that way," an swered Bill, as he again lit his pipe. "It begins to look as though we poor peo ple are never going to get any relief by the ballot. We are robbed right and left, but when the votes are counted every time the people seem to endorse it. Look at the tariff and the way the railroads run things. I'll tell you, some thins has got to be done." "Say, Bill," said the groceryman, "I'll tell you how you can help things a little. You might go to work and earn enougn to pay me that little bill you have owed me for a year and a half. Then when you got that one paid, you might try paying some of the other fellows you owe. It isn't the tariff that has worn holes in the seat of your pants nor the railroads that have kept you from worktnsr Old Bill started for the door and Just as he went out he muttered, No use in talking to a fellow mat De- longs to the gang." GLOBE SIGHTS. I From the Atchison Globe. Radishes are so easily raised? and so worthless. Everybody has acquaintances, but few have friends. Some men want to show how smart they are every minute. Men talk about their stomachs. Wo men talk about their hair. When a man asks a hundred dollars for a horse, he expects to get about J60. Most people condone a lie told about ages in procuring a marriage license. We have often thought it a pity that a man's stomach is not better than his appetite. Christmas is like company: the peo-. pie who do the most for it make tne most fun of it. When a man is accused of a crime, he is also sure to be accused of having a "guilty look." Warmed over potatoes and love af fairs will never be able to pass for the original article. When there are two cases of any thing in town some people say the dis ease is epidemic. You frequently hear of a Great Man dying whom you never heard of while he was alive. When a man fails, he doesn't find much consolation In the assurance that he was too ambitious. The telephone is about the only thing we know of that is a blessing and a curse at the same time. The trouble with the Friendship bank is that most people want to draw out more than they put in. No afternoon reception attended by women was ever more idle and ridi culous than a session of congress. It may not do a poor man any good to abuse a rich man, but it cannot be denied that it is mighty comforting. Married men particularly like to near of an old bachelor getting mar' ried; they like to see the conceit taken out of him. A funny thing has happened in Atchison: the men are all fond of a certain preacher, and the women do not like him. I J A YtlA WKEK JVIJ Ji i KANSAS COMMENT THE UNPRINTED NEWS. There were several good news items that The News didn't print this week. Not that The News didn't know about them, but because of the fact that we made a promise, and a promise is a promise with a newspaper man, even if most people think it otherwise. We were requested not to print the names of nine men from a neighbor ing town, who got tanked up Thurs day evening. A man filed suit for divorce against his wife and requested us not to print his name. A young man asked us not to print a certain story because' he was mixed up in it and his reputation might be badly bent if we did. A family feud of which we didn't know anything about was pulled off recently and the same gentle request, and we let it happen again. Some Dickinson county people recently went to a far city and they too ask that as little as possible be said of it. Just why seems to be the question. In addition to all this there are several minor affairs that we are not supposed to mention. Should we print them? Most people say, yes, that one person is no better than another. Perhaps not, but if by chance the mere omission from the paper of a scandal would help some person it has not been useless. Again not many years ago a young man walked boldly into The News office and called us about every kind of a coward so far recorded, because he said we were afraid to print the truth aDOut people. We did not answer but a little more than a year ago the same young man plead with tears in nis eyeB asking us to refrain from printing the story of his misdeeds. We didn't print it, yet he deserved it. These questions come to a newspaper man every day, what shall we do? Many times It would help a lot of peo ple if their names were printed with the truth of their actions, and yet, what do you gain. Think It over, and put yourself in the place of the young man or young woman, or the father or the mother, that has gone wrong. Would you want it printed? Will it help or injure It's hard for the editor to decide and the only way out is to try and keep out of those troubles so the editor won't have to decide the question for you. Dickinson County News. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN. The shrewd business man has no use for the slangy, sporty, drinking and gambling young man who prides himself on "knowing a thing or two" and who turns night into day. The young man whom the merchant, banker and others have room for Is sober, honest, self-respecting, indus trious and obliging. One man, unless he makes a radical change in his hab its, degenerates into a bleared-eyed street corner loafer, but the other strikes twelve every time and has the confidence and esteem of his fellows. Selden Independent. FROM 01IIER PENS MUSIC AS A LIFE SAVER. Up from the vasty deep comes a tale that proves the truth of what the poet sang when he warbled to the effect that "music hath charms to soothe the savage breast." y r The story has leert delivered in New York by the crew of the bark"" Pallas, which was wrecked on Grand Cayman island in the Caribbean sea during the recent tropical hurricane. When the vessel struck It was in the night, and In order to cheer up their comrades during the hours before daylight, two of the crew, who happened to be musi cians, ground out tunes on a fiddle and accordion. That the performers es caped to tell the tale must be put down as a remarkable evidence of the forti tude and forgiveness on the part of the men who were facing death in watery graves. However, no murder was done, and when day broke the natives of the island were seen hurrying to the rescue In such boat3 as they could com- mana. They explained that thev had heard the music and had come down to investigate the Etrange occurrence. The whole lot of shipwrecked men, as well as some chickens and a pig were taken ashore, and a grand barbecue with fiddle and concertina accompaniment, celebrated the rescue. All of which points to the moral that when one goes down to the sea in a ship he should carry some producer of sweet sounds even If nothing more than a Jewsharp along as a life pre server. Nashville Tennessean. LEGAL ERRORS. One hundred and nnA remaina .hv Doctor Hyde should have a new trial are assigned Dy nis attorneys at law In their brief on aoneal to the court. This number of pharcra of error by the trial Judge appears to be a-plenty, but they constitute only a small fraction of the errors charged by the same attorneys when the case was on trial before the Jury. It is probable that in one assign ment of mistakes by the judge, now presented in tne Drier, any number or individual exceptions srn "lumnorl For example, a statement that "the court erred in the admission of" testi mony" may represent 10,000 specific occasions in which the progress of the trial was interruntd Jw tha nMflnn that the question or answer was "In competent, irrelevant and Immaterial," or that somethlner else was wroner with it. As some nenRihla nnmmv-n'xtrtT Yian said, "a criminal court Judge In Amer- lct is an aroiter between contentious counsel, instead of a judge between an accused person and society." The validity of that characterization helps to explain why the Judicial processes in Aiueiiun dru reguraea wua very general dissatisfaction. Kansas' City Times. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. tFrom the Chicago News. J The man in the honeymoon isn't a myth. Talk may be cheap, but gossip soon gains currency. Some men make more money by failing than others by being successful. But few people are able to recognize bear meat after it has been dressed. It is better to remain ignorant than to acquire certain brands of knowl edge. Seeing isn't always believing. It often depends upon what newspaper you see it in. You can't scare children into being good by telling them that the good die young.. Don't you feel sorry for a man who hasn't sense enough, to make a fool of himself occasionally? The boy who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth may live to patron ize the free lunch counter. Patriots bleed for the benefit of their country, but politicians occasion ally bleed the country for their own. benefit. SOLITAIRE. To play the game of solitaire I eat me down in life. For other styles I aid not care. They stupid seemed to me unfair, And like to lead to strife "I'll play the game alone," I swore, "Two-handed euchre's such a bore!" But, lo! one day my eyes I raised, And there across the board Sat someone smiling, quite unfeased 'My deal!" she said to me amazed. And dealt the cards and scored To take a trick was now most rare, But still the game beat solitaire. We played, unconscious of time's flight The trifling tips now, known Just gave the fillip to delight, And made me think how sad my plight While playing quite alone But then one day, first thing I knew. To three our playing number grew. Now, strange, I found this game sur passed By far the game of two, And when a fourth one joined the last The fun Increased, grew wild and fast Three players are too few! They say five-handed euchre's great I only answer, "Well, Just wait!" William Wallace Whitelock, in the New York Times. I i THE EVENING STORY King Carnival. (By Roget Maurice.) Down the avenue, whirling and turning, singing gay snatches of happy French, laughing and shouting, twining In and out, among the riot of the throng, swung the two American girls, Jean Newton and Alice Edge comb, from the Hotel Busby, and their escorting cavalier, the young officer Du Val and his ever constant friend, the genial Count de Luceaux. A thing unparalleled, in the ethics of the French, was this escort, un chaperoned and free, but Americans are Americans, and this was the fete of the carnival when critics, for the most part, are frowned away. Moreover, what did- it matter, any way? They were all enfolded in pink dominoes, the hoods drawn close, and, in the case of the two girls, doubly protected by the tiny velvet masks. And all of Nice was on a holiday and unlikely to behold the mote. Care was forgotten, conven tion cast aside, as under the ropes of threaded lights, common and duke, fair lady and beggar maid, all attired for the festival, danced and laughed amidst the eternal swirl of confetti showers. A sudden shout and the crowd, looking down the light strewn way. beheld the massive dragons, a mo ment since but wiry skeletons guard lng the entrance to the avenue, flame into sudden brilliance. The white threads changed to vivid rose, strange unexpected greens made weird tne scene, and then, beneath the arch, in a brilliant crash of music, came marching the. beplumed array or the capital guard. There was a scattering from left to right, a vivid blare of trumpets, loud shouting from ahead, and Carnival was coming! The girl Jean, standing tiptoe, found herself shouting with all the rest, "King Carnival!" Her dreams, her ambitions seemed realized in the abounding spirit of this fete. How she had longed for all this very thing, the gay life, the complete "forgetting of self, the branching out into a new world. King Carnival and Nice! He was coming now, that strange invention of the ever Imaginative French, the patron of their yearly feast. He came, not a mere human, ensconcedjn massive chariot, but a marvelous mechanism,, a. giant dum my, twined with flowers, seated high on a float, drawn on by gay plumed ponies. He was a prodigious crea ture, astride his polar bear, surround ed by wee sea urchins. There was renewed blinding of confetti, the deaf ening din of shouts, another burst of music and the king was gone. But following came the queen. And after that cavaliers and grena diers, following fantasy on fantasy, new gorgeous liveried bands, soldiers on prancing steeds, present and past, fact and fancy, a strange and motley Jumble and the dream was gone. After all, It seemed but a dream, a vision, unreal, intangible. Perhaps with the restless surging of the crowd the tension breaking with the passing of the pageant, the reaction was set ting in, and the girl realized for the first time her material self and the wear it had endured. For two hours she had been moving in an atmosphere of overwrought excitement. She was mentally and physically fagged! She turned to her friends. "Alice, we must be going," but she found herself gazing Into the vacant eyes of a bedizened Columbine and already they were gone. Surely they could not have left her alone in all this seething madness! Alone! She who had never been upon the street without a guide or friend. She drew her hood close about her face, for once thanking all her stars that she was tall and slim. In the protecting domino, among the small foreigners, she might well simulate a man. There could be no harm in that. And, even now, she saw fa miliar forms beyond. She elbowed past a flippant pompadour and her attendant squire, striving to reach the three. But a strange face met hers beneath deceptive folds they were not her friends. Jean Newton felt small and insig nificant, fealful and alone, a child lost in a dreadful nightmare of a dream. Was this the end of all her pleasuring? Having elbowed fighting from the throng, she wandered aimlessly to a dimly lit parkway and sat down to puzzle out her way. The others, quite frantic at her loss, were no doubt searching now. And in the end they could not fail to find her. She lifted her hands to the hot throbbing of her head and laughed, Instead of crying, a little bitter laugh. To find her? Who was she, anyway? And in that strange mood, she ques tioned yet again, "Who am I any way?" An American girl, Jean Newton, of Newtonville, a girl of splendid ante cedents, a glowing future. Surely she was not that radiantlv ambitious creature who this very morning had mapped out the cartoon for the stained glass window. She was not that eager, vivid pleasure seeker who, but a moment since had laughed loud in the freedom of high holiday. She was not any of the Jeans her friends and family knew. She was a lonely heart-sick child, the girl that uecii spotrara Had kissed for the last time beneath the tall arching elms of the Vermont home, saying "Good bye go learn of life. And call me when you want me, dear; I'll come." Cecil! In all the overwhelming ex citement of new scenes she had for gotten the tall, brave friend of early years. Yet never had the thought of him been wholly absent. There be yond everything, he seemed to wait, enriching the high lights of her dreams. This very morning she had heard of him. "Cecil Spoffard," read the clipping sent from home, "has sailed for France. Young engineer plans business trip to Paris," and so on down the page. She had thought at first that he would seek her out, then she knew in a moment that he would never force his way. He would never come unless he felt her wish. Call if you wisn me! She could find It in her heart to wish him now, but Paris is not Nice and many dreary miles lie in between. A crowd of shouting, iaughing mummers was coming from down the street, and the girl, in terror, shrunk back beneath the shadows. They were turning In the way and bearing down upon her. "La Patrie," they sang again, and now she was dis- CnVprPd t A fin,, J mi.j with cap and jingling bells, shouted across the pathway. Receiving no re sponse she called to her crowd to fol low her. In a moment they had joined hands and were closing in. The girl crouched back against the trunk of a great tree, and wildly looked for help. Was there no one in all this throng of spangled, glitter ing luuiery to give ner aid? moving car seemed to echo relief. It mis'ht bA tTl Mt-T mid. 4 mo-Vi ka Alice and VaL It was manifestly worth the chance. "Alice," she cried In a frAllsw ilaonafi, MAUm TV.. Vol Luceaux Cecil!" For a long time the girl gazed into the calm eyes above her. The clear sky, the moving branches of the trees, the softened shouts beyond, the music and the lights they. were as so much stage scenery, artificial, insecure. The one thing tangible in all the world was the man's strong arms about her. Cecil and Nice! She could not reconcile the two and whis pered somehow, "Paris you Nice!" He held her closer. "Dear, don't bother the flood, you know. It tangled all my plans. I am down to Nice to see the carnival. I knew that you were here. I heard you call. The car's beyond. Don't bother to ex plain." Then she trembled and grew faint again, and he lifted her within his arms as a child. And as her head fell upon her shoulder he bowed to catch her words, "Dear, dear;" then, "You came, dear," and "King Carnival.' (Copyrighted 19X0 by Associated Lit erary Press.) Heated Room for the Gussll. When the Russian imperial court Ba lalaika orchestra received permission to come to this country the stipulations in the contract were carefully drawn up. W. W. Andreef, the conductor, is a wealthy amateur, who has for years de voted his time and fortune to introduc ing the Balalaika to countries outside of Russia, He made very strict condi tion with Klaw Erlanger, who are to introduce this Balalaika orchestra Mon day night at Carnegie hall. Among the particulars are one dressing room for Andreef, the conductor, a dressing room for the soloists, and a large room for the members of the orchestra. It was while Mr. Klaw was looking over the contract on Friday that he came on this baffling term in the accommoda tions that must be provided: "One small and very well heated room for the gussli." This was a stickler for Mr. Klaw. He called in his office staff and there was a variety of opinions as to what a gussli might be. Mr. Klaw wanted to telephone to Bronx park on the theory that it was some sort of an animal that might have been brought here as a pet. But as Russian animals are all provided with long fur it was decided that Mr. Andreef would more probably have insisted on a cake of ice for the benefit of the gussli. F. R. Anderson, who designs costumes for Klaw Erlanger, thought that a gussli might be something worn in a Russian ballet. But none of these ex planations seemed plausible, and Mr. Klaw finally sought out an authority im the Russian language as to the identity of a gussli. He wanted to know wheth er the floor of that "small and very Veil heated room" should be covered with tanbark or carpet. It was then that he learned the na ture of the mysterious' gussli. It was not an animal or a member of a Rus sian ballet or even remotely connected with the animal kingdom. It was not even anything alive. It proved to be a member of the dulcimer family. A dul cimer is the piano used by Hungarian orchestras which is played with ham mers on metal slats. So the gussli is already stationed in a "small and very well heated room" in Carnegie hall awaiting the arrival of the conductor to awaken the mys terious harmonies. New York Sun. The Wireless Faker. Recent instances of "fake" mes sages by means of wireless telegraphy have again emphasized the fact that some curb should be placed on private persons who have established such stations for their own amusement. In one particular case a steamer loaded with oil was reported to be in bad shape, and once that she was in dis tress off Cape Hatteras. Tugs were dispatched from this port to her as sistance and she was found at the Breakwater in excellent condition. Credence was given to these messages the more readily because it was known that this particular ship had had a rough passage and must have been through some heavy weather. A number of these Instances have occurred recently, but this one seems to be the most flagrant. It cost the company no little money In sending tugs to the rescue, and there was, be- Danced With Gen. Lafayette, those who had relatives on board of her. Some thoughtless persons and those who possess vicious tendencies are ever ready to seize upon each new advance In the way of science and uti lize it in their own peculiar way. The wireless message faker seems to be about the most conscienceless of the lot at present. His interference with the proper use of this great force has now gone beyond the point where it is a mere annoyance. He has become a posiyve menace, and some means to curb him should be provided. Phila delphia Imiulrer QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. The furnace man is naturally ad dicted to hot air. The old maid who plays the violin is sure of at least one beau. Even the man accused of stealing a gilt mirror may plead not guilty. Many a man isn't worth the time it takes to get the better of him. Is it the Beef trust that prevents the poor man making both ends meet? There is little in common between glittering generalities and golden op portunities. The musical comedy star is always more exercised over losing her,, dia monds than, losing her voice. It's the man who is forced to eat his own words whose stories should be taken with a grain of salt. The homely girl may take some con solation from the fact that freckles are always more genuine than blushes. Tommy Pop, what is an anchorite? Tommy's Pop An anchorite, my son, in or well, an anchorite is the sailor who attends to the anchor, I suppose. Hoax Scribbler is running a match factory now. Joax Why, I thought he was in' the publishing business. Hoax He Is. He's the editor of a mat rimonial paper." GOING DOWN! Moses bought a gas stove tc warm his bungalow, A highly recommended one at thirty bones a throw; That night the sucker froze to death of that there is no doubt. And the band played "Where wu when the gas pegged out:" Question It Calllttu. -I.,, bill of health, what does Pinch get? (Send answer by express. TJ. S. post office won't stand for it.) rhyme was: a Library, of volumes rare. (Of CmirSA Tin nnA .o winAM what it was. We do this for the pur pose Of CrfvlnoP tha nt-lntaM onnhAW chance at it.) It may be presumed that Governor elect Baldwin of Connecticut Is not making a collection of T. R. auto graphs. It would be easier to be good if it were against the law, or there was any other chance to get some fun out of It. Remember that it was before their marriage that Priscilla invited Johnny Alden to speak for himself. It is a safe bet that she never permitted him that privilege after the ceremony. WINTER DAY-DREAMS. The winter comes, and all the trees that flap above my head. And shiver in the chilly breeze, look old and bleak and dead, -And all the flowers that didn't freeze are in a hot-house bed. "TIs then I dream of kid-hood days and of another clime; Again I walk the pleasant ways of Good Old Summer time. By shady streams and sunlit bays and tropic coast sublime. But as I dream of sandy shore and mighty live-oak trees, And cypress, pine and many more, I let two fingers freeze, And ere I reach my humble door my pumps begin to wheeze. e While dreaming of the Summerland I failed to wrap my throat In half a dozen blankets, and forgot my overcoat, And Old Pneumonia lends a hand to E my iooubij goat! It's a poor fool that can't be worked both ways. A bas, whatever that1 Is, the actor who rolls his "r's." .Double it for the actorine who rolls her "l's." Chicago man wins J700 bet by eat ing a quail a day for a month. This "quail-a-day" foolishness has been on the boards for 40 years. About the time of thenar, some dub said that no man couid eat a quail a day for a month, and some other dub printed the fool statement. And lots of peo ple still believe it and lose money on It. The only difficulty about eating a quail a day, is getting the quail. ttVMOR OF THE DAY Tommy May I ask a question, papa? Father Certainly, my son. Tommy Well, when the president of the United States goes Into office does he take out letters of administration. Judge. "It took the suffragette parade four hourB to pass a given point." "Thousands in line, eh?" "No, only a few hundred, but they all wore hobble skirts." Louis villa Courier-Journal. "Maudie spends her whole life in. a motor. Like a Illy of the field, isn't she?" "H'm, not exactly! True, she toils not, but she spins." Life. May What do you mean by Saying that Maude is "more or less pretty?" Tom Well, she's more pretty than most girls, but less pretty than you. Cleveland Leader. Drummer Will you be minip? All my life I will worship you from February un til April, and from August until Decem ber. The rest of the time I am on the road. Fliegendj Blaetter. Diogenes was looking for an honest man. "You don't have to look, you only have to listen!' we cried. Following our advice, he heard the only one proclaim himself. New York Sun. The canny Scot wandered into the phar macy." "I'm wanting threepenn'ortht o laudanum," he announced. "What for?" asked the chemist, suspiciously. "For twopence," responded the Scot at once. Tit-Bits. Laugh and the world laugh with you, unless you happen to be laughing at your own jokes. Philadelphia Record. "So you are going to take him for bet ter or worseTr "No I'm going to take him for more or less." Cleveland Leader. "Why do you look so subdued and hum bled?" "I've Just been to call on my wife's folks." Washington Herald. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. 1 Lots of people are good or lack of the chance not to be. A woman would rather be loved than honored, and a man e'ariched. The fun of trading horses la that If you get cheated so did tha other fel low. Everybody would like to be good If there was any cheerful company to keep it in. A man would rather go ko the den tist than go shopping wltli his wife and she would rather scrub the floor than listen to his ideas on politic.
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