The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 14, 1911

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r 'J'X" EVERYBODY 20 PAGES I READS IT. r EVERYBODY 20 PAGES NEEDS IT. SATURDAY EVENING. TOPKKA. KANSAS, JANUARY 14,1911. LAST EDITION. SATURDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. SHE, KISSED HIM. John G. Cooper Says Wife Was Most Affectionate. Bid Him a Fond Good-by as He Left for South. SUED FOR DIVORCE. Action Followed Scon After His Departure. Says He Treated Her Kindly and Fed Her Well. Hero in four divorce suits, the last involving a claim for $25,000 for per manent alimony and an allowance for the support of the infant child. John G. Cooper has returned from Texas, finds that his house is locked against him, that there is nothing to do but pay up or fight; and he refuses to be comforted. Cooper is of the opinion that he has been the subject of ex treme abuse and much unjust humilia tion, and that it will now be his duty to make spicy statements of his wife's mistreatment when the case is tried. There ia no misunderstanding St! rsf v -,vt Sliss Mary Maeon, daughter of Con pressman Macon of Arkansas, who christened the new battleship Arkan sas Cooper's feelings. He says his present young wife "roped him in," and that the divorce deal is the best proof that the cards were stacked against him. He is of the opinion that the woman tias disappointed when he did not will his property and the alleged abuse was on the wife's part and that he has never been other than a kind, loving and dutiable husband. He says he bought groceries galore and offers to produce the groceryman's receipts to prove it. Cooper claims his wife was engaged to another man at the time she married him. As Cooper talked of his domestic difficulties he sat reading a copy of his wife's petition for divorce. His anger increased as he waded deeper into the allegations of the thirteen months' bride. "Look at that, look at that!" ex claimed the wealthy retired farmer, his finger pointed to the statement that he addressed his wife in blas phemous language, "why do you know that woman swore at me like a pirate, yes she did. Cussed me coming and cussed me going. That was after we were married, though, and when there wasn't any remedy, unless you cussed back or sat and took it." Here Cooper laid down the docu ment and told of his last family trouble. He taid H. B. Booge came to him one day and asked him why he didn't marry again. Xii-e, Dreamy Disposition. "Told Kooge l might do it some day, if I could get a nice, harmonious sort of a young woman," said Cooper, "and Booge he volunteered that he could find that sort of a woman. There must have been seven or eight women Booge sent out from time to time, but somehow or other I never seemed to take much to any of them but Cora. When she came, she seemed to have one of those nice dreamy sort of dispositions that somehow just suit ed me. Well, when she put her arms around me and kissed me and sort of cuddled up like, why of course I thought it was natural and would last all the time. The next week we went to the probate judge's office and were married." Cooper said that after the wedding Mrs. Cooper No. 3 brought her mother to live with them and that after a few weeks both the wife and mother-in-law developed a decided grouch. "They just kicked and complained about everything," said Cooper, "and then they would galavant oft to those Spiritualist meetings, and when they came back there was more grumbling. Wanted me to deed Cora the house and lot and wanted me to give her half the property. When I mentioned that I could run my own affairs yet awhile, they lost their temper again. When the baby was born there was more talk about my giving over the prop erty. Wanted me to give the child half the goods the very first day." AVife Kissed Him Good-Bye. Cooper said he "was liberal with his wife and that twice since their mar riage he had taken her to the coast and wanted to take her on the Texas trip, but she made excuses for him to go alone, as she would look after the place in his absence. Cucper says his wife and mother-in-law who is much younger than Cooper both kissed him and wished fcim a happy trip when he left the house for the last time be- fee the divorce was filed. Twice while he was in Texas Cooper says, his wife wrote him endearing letters and said everything was all right. He claims he had no intimation that his

lie Mut""' ai uivuice uniu fjxsy- v-Vvvr i fc in "I -.v:v' I l I "I -iff 4 he read the story in the press dis patches. "When I saw in the paper that my wife had brought suit for divorce," said Cooper, "I was the most surprised man in the world. At first I couldn't understand it, but now I see how it all happened. It's a trumped up trick, that's what it is. They wanted to get me awav out of the house, and all that before they started the suit, and it was a clever trick, a might clever Cooper did not attempt to visit the home at 824 Jackson street. He had read the reports that his wife would bar the doors against him. "Taking the newspaper stories ana putting them with what I know of Cora's disposition," continued Cooper, 1 guess she would do just about what she said." Cooper left Topeka last night for Overbrook, where he will remain with a brother until the case is called for trial. OUR BIGGEST SHIP The Deadnaught Arkansas Is Launched at Camden. Christening Is Performed by Miss Mary Macon. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 14. Splash ed with the traditional bottle of cham pagne, the battleship Arkansas, the largest warship ever constructed in this country, was launched this after- The Arkansas as t appeared leaving tho ways at the launching. noon from the yards of the New Tork Shipbuilding company at Camden, N. Y.. Miss Mary Macon, daughter of Rep. Robert B. Macon, of Helena, Ark., was the sponsor. There was one unusual feature, the absence of an official delegation rep resenting the state government of Ark ansas. The failure of Governor Don aghey or other official representatives to attend was due to a controversy be tween the governor and the navy de partment over the date of the launch ing, the governor wanting to have the affair postponed so that the state could make adequate arrangements to send an official party. There was, however, quite a large delegation of Arkansans present, it included Representative and Mrs. Ma con and other members of Arkansas congressional delegation. The navy department was officially represented by Beekman Winthrop, assistant sec retary and a long list of rear admirals and other officers. There will be doubt in the minds of some of the spectators as to the contents of the be-ribboned bottle Miss Macon held. Some people in Arkansas wanted. her to use water from her na tive state but she said she would use whatever the shipbuilding company gave her. When the workmen had ceased hammering and sawing away the keel blocks and the great hull quivered and slowly began to move. Miss Macon crashed the bottle against the reced ing prow and exclaimed: "I christen thee Arkansas." Following the launching the officials of the company entertained the guests at a luncheon spread in one of the buildings of the plant. Principal Dimensions. The principal dimensions of the la test and largest addition to the navy are. Length over all 662 feet, beam over armor 93 feet 2-5 inches; draft 28 feet six inches; displacement 26,000 tons. The contract for the ship calls for a speed of 20 knots an hour. When complete the Arkansas will have the greatest gun power in broad side fire of any ship afloat. The main armaments will consist of twelve 12 inch guns mounted In six heavy armor protected turrets. For defense against torpedo boat attacks there will be a battery of twenty-one, five-inch rapid fire guns. There will also be two sub merged torpedo tubes and ten small puns. The total weight of broadside fire will be about 11.000 pounds. The Arkansas will be turbine driven and will have 28,000 horse power. The vessel will be fitted for a flagship and her complement will consist of 85 of fleers and 1,030 men.' The keel of the Arkansas was laid last January and at present the ship is about 60 per cent completed. STEP IN ADVANCE. Bill Abolishing- Death Penalty Is Offer ed in Washington.' Olympia, Wash., Jan. 14. Bills have been introduced in the Washington legislature abolishing the death penalty for murder and treason and providing for the commission form of government for the state. IIFXD REASONABLE REGULATION Court Holds P. A. Y. Must Drop in a E. Passenger Nickel. Providence, R. I., Jan. 14. The su preme court of Rhode Island has de cided that it is "reasonable regula lion tnat passengers be required to insert nickels in tho antnmatin faro collectors used by street car companies m pay as you enter cars. The question arose in a suit brought by a passenger against the railroad company for being put off a car after he had refused to personally put his tare in the hand register. It is be llevert that this is the first time this I 1 I. Hi t. V. uji LUC courts in this country. FEAR ONTHE LIPS Administration Frightened at Situation in Senate. Leaders Appreciate That Regu lars Hare Whip Hand. PRICE NOT PASSIVE. Says Measures Must Be Up to Standard Before Approved. Glenn Says Patronage Was Ev enly Distributed. It is with much trepidation that ad ministration friends are awaiting the action of the senate committees on the important socalled progressive bills, if these bills And hard sledding in the committees, then it is about equally certain that they will be sub ject to a fierce assault on the floor. The action of the minority members will also play an important part in the final disposition of the bills. Senators representing the two fac tions of the Republican party and mi nority members have already made statements that the war is over and that there will be no further trouble on the floor of the senate. The in surgent members are not at all hilari ous because they failed to chop Sena tor Price below the patella and he again landed at the head of the judi ciary committee. The regular forces carry a few wounded spots because the insurgents tried the trick. It has been intimated that some of the important measures of the session may be reported back on the floor of the house without recommendations, giving the senate a chance to fight the entire battle in the open; and remov ing any possibility of later day argu ment that administration law was killed behind closed doors. This theory is exploded by the gen tleman from Ashland, who vows that nothing but waterproof measures will come from his committee, unless there is an equal division of sentiment on the bill that makes necessary its set tlement on the floor. "A bill is either a good bill or a bad bill," declared Price, "and the best way to handle a bad bill is to doctor it before an expensive operation is nec essary. I don't think anyone wants to stifle legislation, but everyone is anxi ous to secure the best laws possible." Evenly Divided, Says Glenn. Senator Glenn is of the opinion that many of the administration measures will go through without difficulty. Glenn was grieved because the newspapers re ported that the Insurgent members or the upper house landed only the lesser committee appointments. It is misleading." safr. Glenn, "ana I never knew of a legislative session where the patronage was more evenly divided. Some of the socallea regulars have committees not nearly so good as two years ago while several of the progressives are on better committees than in the 1909 session." Of course if the insurgent members can convert a fair per cent of the reg ulars a solid working majority will be held throughout the session. The first real test is yet to come. If the ad ministration measures strike rougn traveling, then the minority bill will be crowded ahead by the Democrats and they will try to secure an enact ment of their bills. Unless the admin istration bill is remodeled, there is a fair chance for the enactment of at least one minority measure in the sen ate. That bill is the Robertson public utility bill. Several Republican members have already shown a preference for the Robertson document. It provides lor the election of the utilities commis sion, while the administration bill pro vides for the appointment of the com mission by the governor. Initiative and Referendum. It was intimated the elections com mittee may decide to report the con sideration of the amendment for an initiative and referendum baok to the senate without recommendations and let the senate as a whole battle over the details of the proposed new pro vision in the constitution, xnis com mittee is divided in sentiment on the proposed amendment. Several committee meetings win De held Monday afternoon and by the lat ter part' of next week the public may receive a pretty thorough understand ing on the attitude of the committees toward the measures that made up the party platform in the 110 campaign. The. first exoression of the session came yesterday when the assessment and taxation committee reported ad versely on the Price bill to repeal the Inheritance tax law. This committee will support the administration at least part way in the support of this law. It is not expected, however, that the new bill which is being prepared in the committee will be all that Governor Stubbs and his friends have asked ior Several administration bills have been Introduced by Senators Myers of Jackson and Quincy of Saline, and they will be reported sometime the coming week. The senate at present is running sev eral davs ahead of the regular sched ule and the public will be given an early line on conditions in the. upper h.niisp When the full meaning of Senator Throwster's bill, introduced in tne sen ato Fridav. is generally understood over the state, the standing of the e-entleman from Troy may not De ma teriallv increased in the eyes of the Kansas corporations, as it contains some medicine that is not expected to bring pleasant dreams to the big con cerns doing business In this state. It is Brewster's theory that when a Kansas corporation is convicted of a wrong doing that the court snouid lm mediately declare every office of the company vacant. An abuse of the corporation laws of the state, as outlined by the Doniphan county senator's bill, will empower the court, upon conviction of the corpora tion of wrong doing, to immediately declare vacant the omces or president, vice president,, secretary, treasurer, general manager, directors and trus tees and to order the stockholders of the company to call a special election of officers. This election, according to Brewster, must be held under the supervision of the court and no officers removed by that tribunal shall ever lie eligible to future election to any office of the company. B. F. Nye of Chanute, is an uncle of Frank Nigh, of Iola. The Chanute man Is document clerk in the senate and his nenhaw ia ocpi-t L BClgCOUL at arms. The elder Mr. Nye is an old ouiuici. ucu uj emistea, tne recruit ing officer spelled his name wrong and for mnrp than fortv i.o, i i compelled to misspell his name in or- uer to araw nis pay rrom the govern ment for his war services. The Iola man still adheres to the old family method of spelling the name and writes it, Nigh. When the senate convenes Monday afternoon, the heaviest flood of bills of the present session is expected. More than hale of the senators have returned to their homes to learn Just what the loving constituents want They will spend Sunday preparing a bunch of proposed legislation that will keep the reading clerk busy until sup per time. Several committee meetings have been called for Monday night and Tuesday the senate will get down to real business. Senator Cooke has offered a bill at taching a penalty for the failure of district school treasurers to publish their annual reports in the newspa pers. He also affixes a penalty for failure of township boards to publish annual reports. In some of the coun try districts, the township boards have hung a! few skeleton reports on tele phone poles and believed they had ful filled their duty. This method will not answer under Cooke's proposed law. HIT BY SHOW PLOW. A Father and Son Are Killed in Cali fornia. Redding, Cal., Jan. 14. In a blind ing snow storm near Hornbrook, Cal., a buggy occupied by Alexander Burns and his son, Clarence, was struck by a snow plow being pushed by a locomo tive. The father, who was deaf, was killed outright, and the son, who was totally blind, was fatally injured, dy ing later. Trains Stalled in Blue Canyon. San Francisco, Jan. 14. Reports received at the Southern Pacific gen eral offices here today show that a number of westbound overland trains of that system are stalled in Blue can yon. It was expected by the railway officials that these trains would ar rive at the Oakland mole sometime to day. Most of them were due at dif ferent hours yesterday. Division super intendents have informed the local railway officials that the storm con tinues, but that the worst of the slides seem to be over. The trouble of the valley routes of the Southern Pacific is reported from the vicinity of Fresno, where water flowing over the tracks has delayed trains somewhat. CAUSE OF STRIKES Generally Due to Employers' Assist ants Says Carnegie. New Tork, Jan. 14. Nine tn t .of ten strikes' are due to employers as sistants, not to any question of the money involved, is the opinion of An drew Carnegie, who addressed the del egates to the National Civic federation. "The more capital does for labor, the more profit the employer makes," said Mr. Carnegie. "I have not had any strikes in twenty-six years. I have not let anyone have anything to say about labor but myself." Colonel Roosevelt followed Mr. Car negie. He was escorted to the speak er's stand by John Mitchell, formerly president of the United Mine Workers of America. "I want to see this movement take the form of evolution rather than rev olution," Mr. Roosevelt said, referring to the purposes of the federation. "I wish to see labor legislation always enacted after conferences between wise leaders of labor and those men who are interested in labor for the best in terests of the country." He was positive that the federal eov- ernment was the only power in the land capable of dealing with great cor porations. Colonel Roosevelt renewed his at tack on fellow servant decisions by the courts. "The judicial decisions I find ob jection raised to the term fossilized which follow the eighteenth century rather than the twentieth, on the doc trine of the relation of fellow servants to each other, have worked out not justice, but gross injustice. So has the liberty of contract law. It is dif' flcult to speak patiently about this and I shall not try to be patient. In many tens of thousands of cases a wage worker finds himself in such a posi tion that he must work or starve. STUBBS CAN NOT GO. Legislature prevents Rim Accepting Cleveland Invitation. Governor Stubbs today received an invitation by wire from President Ruhl of the Tippecanoe club of Cleveland O., to attend the McKinley banquet to be given in Cleveland January 28. Tne invitation reads "urgently reouested" and a letter of invitation is to follow the wire of today. The governor would like very much to go, but is afraid that It will be im possible on that date. The legislature is in session and in addition the Kan sas Day club and State Editorial asso ciation meet in Topeka about that time. PAROLE EARL RIGGS. Topeka Boy Who Stole Bicycle Re leased From Reformatory. The governor today granted a parole to Earl Riggs of Topeka, who has been confined in the reform school at Hutchinson for the past year on charge of stealing a bicycle. Young Riggs, who is twenty years old, was sent to Hutchinson tor irom one to five years. His reform school record was' good, and the man from whom he stole the bicycle was willing that he should be paroled. Storm Cripples Wire Service. Chicago. Jan. 14. Telegraph and telephone companies found their ser vice severely crippled today in Iowa, western Illinois and southern Minne-s-ta by a sleet and rain blizzard which swept across the country. Train ser vice was delayed to some extent but the chief damage was to electric wiring. MAN IHTHE CASE Piano Salesman Called in the Schenk Case. Tells of Long Automobile Rides With the Defendant. FACTS ARE SET FORTH. In a Hypothetical Question Framed by Prosecution. Experts Again Take the Center of the Stage. Wheeling, Jan, 14. In the Schenk trial today those who looked for a con tinuance of such testimony as Daniel Phillips, a local piano salesman, gave yesterday in admitting that he and Mrs. Schenk had been taking night au tomobile rides in her limousine for the last year or more, were to meet with a less interesting chapter The effort of Prosecuting Attorney J. B. Hand Ian to prove that Mrs. Schenk attempted to poison her wealthy husband, John O. Schenk. last fall, was to be directed at the morn ing session to an hypothetical question covering all the facts in the case so far as they have developed. This ques tion began yesterday while Dr. J. T. Thornton, who was called to attend facnenk during his illness, was on the stand. The sensational testimony came dur ing the afternoon session, when Daniel Z. Phillips, a clerk, declared he had frequently been invited by Mrs. Schenk to accompany her in her au tomobile and they had met by appoint ment in out of the way places, taking long trips together. When asked if his friendshin for Mrs. Schenk developed into criminal intimacy Phillips refused to answer. He admitted the defendant had visited the store where he was employed so often that "she became embarrassing." He asked her to stop. Talked About a Divorce. He said he had often talked with Mrs. Schenk about obtaining- a di vorce from her husband, and later of the strong probability of her husband's death. Ever since the arrest of Mrs. Schenk last November there have been intimations and actual statements from the prosecuting attorney that "a well known young man of Wheeling would be called by the state to show a probable motive for the alleged poisoning. When Phillips was called it created more than the usual mur mur' about the courtroom that has theretofore annoyed both Judge Jor dan and counsel. Phillips is a piano salesman. His name has been guarded from pub licity, and in no plan of the prosecu tion that has been given out has his name been mentioned. Phillips admitted that Mrs. Schenk on various occasions had given him costly presents, among them a dia mond pin, and a smotmg jacket, but denied any knowledge of a $300 fur overcoat which, it had been alleged, he was to have received the day she was arrested and lodged in jail. The state attempted several times to establish undue intimacy between the witness and the defendant, but to all questions Phillips refused to an swer, on the ground that he would in criminate himself and he was sustain ed bv the court. Phillips told of meeting the accused at Martin's Ferry and other Ohio points. Beer, wine and sandwiches, he said, were always taken on these auto mobile rides. Phillips admitted fur ther that upon arriving at their des tination, a point near Smithfield, O., the refreshments would be disposed of, the chauffeur dismissed and that he and Mrs. Schenk would remain in the car. Defendant Is Agitated. Mrs. Schenk was agitated more than at any time during the trial, keeping her head lowered and fumbling with papers on the table before her. The defense refused to cross ex amine the witness. Throughout the direct examination the defense fought against allowing the witness to answer questions of the state's attorney but was overruled on every objection. Judge Jordan said that the full facts should be present ed to the Jury. The state called Dr. O. W. Burdatts, a dentist. Burdatts examined Mr. Schenk's teeth on October 20. five days before the removal of the latter to the hospital and noticed the blue line on the gums. He testified that this was not due to any diseased condition but must have come from other causes. Professor John W. Mallett. of the University of Virginia, one of the chem ical experts who tested the mineral wa ter alleged to have been poisoned, tes tified that the sample of water sent him contained eight-tenths grains of pure white arsenic to the pint, or 80 grains of Fowler s solution, tne common form or arsenic. Edward McCallister, the druggist from whom the mineral water was pur chased, as well as the hyomel quinine. was sure neither of the bottles contain ed either sugar of lead or arsenic. Florence Coleman, a negress, who has done cleaning work about the Schenk home, testified that she was the only person about the house on tne ev ening Schenk is alleged to have been violently nauseated by drinking mineral water, and said she put nothing into the water. Other members ot tne iam- ily and the nurse were out ror an au tomoblle ride while she was there. Dr. J. T. Thornton was one of the chief witnesses for the state and was recalled in the afternoon. He conduct ed blood and other tests in an effort to secure a correct -diagnosis of the case. In answer to hypothetical questions by Prosecutor Handlan, he said the symp toms alleged to have been shown by Schenk, contained in the first question, might have been due to lead poison and that symptoms enumerated m tne sec ond, indicated arsenic poisoning. On cross-examination he admitted that the same symptoms might be due to serious disorders of the stomach, which was the chief point scored by the defense during the day. Ordered an Overcoat. When the trial was taken up Dr. J, T. Thornston was recoiled and the de fense continued the .cross examination. The hypthetical question was aban doned for the present by the prosecu tion and Dr. Thornton was examined relative to Scheuk's condition but nothing Important developed. M. Sonneborn, a clothier, testified that several days before Mrs. Schenk's. arrest she appeared In his store with her chauffeur to buy a man's over coat. The proper size was not found and one costing $75 was ordered. Eleanor Zockler, tne aetecuve nurse mit on the case by the prose cutor, said she was instructed to leave nothing undone tocatch Mrs. Schenk administering poison to her husband. She was instructed to tell Mrs. scnenk that Albert Schenk' had gone to the hospital with a paper for his brother to sign. Mrs. Schenk expressed the fear that Albert had attempted to get John's signature to a will that would give all of John's property. The wit ness then Tfeaid Mrs. Schenk asked her to take John's keys if he died and by all means to prevent the Schenks from getting them. She had lived unhap pily with her husband she said, on Sunday Mrs. Schenk received a mes sage saying John was worse and said: I hope to God he will die." Before this she had declared John had treat ed her like a dog. Mrs. Schenk went to the hospital November 1, said the witness and that evening had gone automobile riding with her. The wit ness told Mrs. Schenk that Albert Schenk had been at the hospital with a bundle of papers for oJhn to sign. Then Mrs. Schenk had said: Felt She Could Kill Him. "Elvery time Miss Evans calls me up and says that man is worse, I am the happiest woman on earth and I wish he would die. I feel I could kill him." 'Why don't you do it?" asked the witness. 'Would you do it?" asked Mrs. Schenk. "That's another matter," I replied. I need money pretty bad." "How much would you take to do it," asked Mrs. Schenk. "I told her $5,000,". continued the witness. "But she said sh e did not have that much money although she wanted me to give John a pill and said she would give $1,000 and get the stuff to bring to the hospital the next day. She said I could easily put the poison in his medicine, place it beside his bed and he would take it himself. 'I asked Mrs. Schenk how she couia stand it if John died and we had killed him," continued the witness. She said: 'I would wear a double veil, so that they could not see me laugh,' 'Mrs. Schenk failed to come to tne hospital with th poison. "But she called by telephone and said she could not get 'the stuff' and she was afraid that if John died sud denly Albert would have John's stom ach examined. 'Then it would be found out that John had been poisoned and that would get us in bad.' The detective took another ride with Mrs. Schenk the next day and told her Albert had Jbrought no more papers to sJgn. I told her, tne witness continuea, that Mr Schenk looked as if he had been poisoned with arsenic and asked if she had put any in his food. She did not redv. only tossed her hed. I got nothing out of her on tnat trip. At this point court was aajourneu until Monday. POISONED HER CHILD. Mother of Boy Found Frozen, Said to Have Confessed. Rochester, N. T.. Jan. 14. Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow, who says she is 23 years old, of Schenectady, has confessed, according to the Rochester police, that in a swamp near Albany last Friday afternoon she gave her 5-year-old son, George, carbolic acid, from the effects of which he died. She was arrested in the New York Central station here and was locked up on a charge of murder in the first degree. She will be taken to Albany. In explanation of her crime, the po lice say, Mrs. Melber says she has been a widow four years, during which time she has had a struggle to care for herself and her child. This battle for an existence drove her to take the boy's life. She is an unusually attrac tive young woman. At the end of her examination she was unnerved and weeping hysterically. The police were able to make the arrest by keeping watch in the station over a trunk tnat had Deen checked from Schenectady and which was be lieved to be the property of Mrs. Mel ber. When the woman appeared to get it she was arrested. Mrs. Melber at first maintained her composure, and declared she had given her child to an uncle who was going to take him to Chicago and care for him. When she made her confession, according to the police, she said she gave the child the acid when he asked for a drink. Mrs. Melber says that she left Schenectady and came to Rochester to look for work. She stayed in the rooms of the Toung Woman's Chris tian association and says she was look ing for work. In the woman s trunk were her own clothing and that of the little boy LIMITED PARCELS POST. It Receives Favorable Report From the Senate Committee. Washington. Jan. 14. A measure pro viding for a limited parcels post on ru ral free delivery routes has been re ported favorably to the senate from the committee on postofflces and post roads. The report was presented by Senator Burrows and was the unani mous action of the committee. The measure provides that for one year, be ginning April 1, .1911, the postmaster general may authorize postmasters and carriers on such rural routes as he shall select to accept for delivery by carrier, at such rates of postage as he shall determine, packages not exceed ing eleven pounds In weight containing no mail matter of the first-class and no matter that is declared unmailabie. Unsettled Weather Predicted. The weather is cloudy and threaten ing. Unsettled weather with snow to night or Sunday is predicted by the weather bureau. After 7 o'clock last night the precipitation recorded was .04 of an Inch. The lowest temperature since Friday has been 16 degrees. Hourly temperatures: 7 o'clock 17 11 o'clock..' IS 8 o'clock 17 9 o'clock IS 12 o'clock 16 1 o'clock ....16 2 o'clock..... ..16 10 o'clock 16 Wind, elht miles an hour from the northwest- MAYOR ISAfJXIOUS Worried Oyer Labor Conditions in Topeka This Winter. Says Work Must Be Found for 300 Idle Men. WILL START A FUND. Billard Promises to Head Sub scription to Provide Work. Many Families Suffering for Want of Food and Warmth. If the people of Toneira win v, tribute to the cause Mayor Billard promises that he will head a private fund for the nurnosn nt miin. for the hundreds of idle working men are trying to support families in this city during the winter. The mayor is authority for the state ment that three hundred working men, in this city are out of work on account of the natural decline of labor In the winter months. He says further that at least half of these men have families to support and in scores of cases these families are without food and without warmth. The mayor's idea would be for many "fn'e",re comfortably fixed men of A subs?rlb6 t a permanent working fund. He would make it pos sible for all idle men with families to find manual labor at a price large t,Ufu to, Prvlde fr their wants and that is all. raid a Dollar a Day. A wage of one dollar a day would be paid working men. They would be kept at this small scale until able to find permanent work or work that wou d pay them more and then they would be released. It is the opinion of the mayor that in this manner it would be possible to do considerable work all over the city and the advantage of keeping the steady working class in Topeka as well as the provision of their suffering fam ilies would be a public benefit which could not be turned down by any business or philanthropic person. "The average person doesn't know of the suffering and the destitute con dition of the working class in the win ter months," said Mayor Billard this afternoon. "These people are intelli gent and they know the ways of the world, but like all- manual laborers they have been thrown out of employ- uiGiiL uii account or tne aearth of win ter worn ana tney nave no way to pro vide for their families. I have had scores of applications tha rv fTlr r in tV, .u- j nan cum a.1 my office at the mill from men who are willing to work for just enough to carry their wives and children through nic v.Kni winter montns ana until the Soring work nnenn n r n era in T T can't hire any more men at this time. j. nave none my Dest to nna them work, but have failed. Similar Conditions Elsewhere. "The same condition exists in all cities. In Kansas City, I notice by the btate journal, tne laboring men marched to the city hall and plead with the mayor for work. We do not have an army of idle men of that kind but we do. have many honest steady laboring men who have made Topeka their home and who have brought tneir lamilles here to live and these men are anxious to work for a living. "Naturally, they shrink from char ity. They are strong, able bodied men and they have a well earned pride they do not want it known that it is necessary for charity to take charge of their domestic troubles. Most of these idle men are citizens that the pec pie of Topeka should keep in the city and this is the only man ner that we ean pay our debts to them to give them work. I think that we can do it privately. I tried to make the city attorney believe that we could take the funds left over from the Melan bridge ap propriation and put these men to work excavating under the bridge and at this end of the bridge. But it ia against the law, it seems, and we can not make use of the money this way even though everybody would be will ing. T think that we could find lots ot work to do In the city and give these men a dollar a day- enough to pay for the warmth and the food of their families. We could be doing a good work for the city and save the tax payers a good sum at the same time. 'I realize tnat tnis jsn t a mony making scheme but the citizens of Topeka must provide for the men who have east their lot In the city. A larjre number of subscribers to a fund of this kind would keep the idle men in work. "I am anxious to hear suggestions on the matter. It is a moet important subject at this time and one that must be settled at once." TAFTABOYE AND BELOW President Ascends Washington Monu ment and Explores a Subway. WaahlTiirtnn. Jan. 14. President Taft after office hours yesterday visited the Washington monument, ascending tnat historic shaft for the first time and then walked to the capltol where he de scended to the subterranean passage to the senate office building. He went through the tunnel by automobile and was much impressed by the conveni ences with which senators have sur rounded themselves. It was so hazy that his view of the monument was poor, but nevertheless he enjoyed the 655 foot trip which he made by eleva tor. When accosted at the capitol by news paper men, the president asked if there was any news in congress. He was told Senator Bailey had interjected into de bate a statement that the tariff com mission bill, on which Mr. Taft has set his heart, would not pass at the pres ent session. "We'll see." responded the president, and his smile look ominous. Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. 14. Forecast for Kan-nxm- iTnsettled Weather with snow to- J night or Sunday.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1911. VAHTED-A NAME President Woodward Seeks a Title for Ball Club. Will Give a Season Ticket for Best Suggestion. WHITNEY SIGNS UP. First Baseman First to Affix John Henry;' BuchananAlsoSigns Thomason Is a Hold Out. The reorganized Topeka 'Western League baseball team must have a "fanning" name not a slogan nor an open or secret motto but a snappy ti tle which will make people think of them first when the national game is mentioned; What Is your idea of a name? President Chester Woodward, df the Topeka organization, who has become the busiest and most serious fan in the city., offers a- season ticket to the fan wio turns. In the best suggestion. The league already has the Grizzly Bears, the Antelopes, the Packers, the iDrummers, the Witches, the 'Boosters and the Omahoes.' The last name the Topeka club had waa the- Cooleysox but that was changed sadly enough to the Tailenders and nothing like that will go arain. Manager Fred Moore Is building- up a fa3t aggregation which will be de serving of the best support Topeka can give and there is no need of being too modest in the suggestion for a name. While Moore is confident of only a first division finish there is a fine chance of the club being called the "Champs" the following season. A season ticket as a prize is not to tie scorned. One is worth $40 and gives admission and a grandstand seat for 80 home games. Suggested names may be left with their sender's name and address either at President Woodward's office in the Columbian building or at the new base ball headquarters on the second floor of the Auerbaeh building. Manager Moore is busy getting him self located in the new baseball office and expects soon to have a regular sanctum fitted up. He is getting his mail there now and some very encour aging deliveries are coming in. Whitney Signs contract. For instance the signed contracts of Mert Whitney, the new first Backer who Is expected to set the league afire, and that of J. H. Buchanan, the Cripple Creek twirler, have arrived. Just by way of introducing Mr. Whitney to the fans of Topeka his letter which accom panied his signed contract follows: Blnghamton, N. Y:. Jan. 10, 1911. Contract received yesterday and I en close the same, signed in this letter. Yes, my contract was a trifle compli cated and I trust I'll be able to prove you made no mistake when you added the extra four cents. Have already started to shape my self for this coming season and do a little running every day, as I have about 20 pounds to take off the result of enjoying home cooking for the past three months but I hope to have most of it off by reporting time. If you need a shortstop, have one whom I take pleasure in recommend ing, one that I know can deliver no four flusher but a live one. His name Is Weaver. He was with Fall River, Mass.. last season and still belongs to them. He is very anxious to get away and wrote me a letter asking me to try and get a place for him in your league. He is a fair hitter, is fast on the bases, a good fielder and very good on double plays. Don't think he would cost much money and I am positive he would be a good investment. If you are interested, address Chas. Weaver. Wat Bon's Hat store, Williamsport. Pa llet me know soon what time you ex pect to have your club report as I want to stop in Ohio on my way west and I'd like to know what time we are due in Topeka. With best wishes and hoping we have a one, two, three club, I remain, yours elncerely. MERT W. WHITNEY. Thomason a Hold Out. "Albert Thomason, the crack left field er who had a month's taste of the big league last season, has joined the hold outs. He writes that he has become tired of playing for experience and either must take down a wallet full or stay with the business which he now is In. What that business is, is not stated. Moore raised his pay- in the contract submitted J50 a month but Tommy seems to think it should have been raised $100. Gibson, the Arkansas City catcher, 's another who is pulling at the purse strings of the club. The report that the new company has money seems to have gone to the heads of the pros pective ball players. Gibson is said t be a good one and able to stick In the Western but the management can not see that he is in a commanding posi tion. Moore is growing still more optimistic about his team. "Looks to me as if we had as good a team as any in the league," he said. "Of course it will be a new aggregation "and the other clubs have most of their old players, but all this material is mighty classy for this circuit." He gets letters every day congratulating him oh the bunch and many of the writers are i na position to know. The rest of the promoters get the same kind about Moore so there seems to be nothing to do but wait for the spring delivery. Not that the management is resting 7 I (is Dead horses and cows removed free within 5 miles. $1.50 paid for LIVE horses de livered. 35c per hundred paid for hogs delivered. Topeka Rendering Co. Both Phone 361 j for Moore added, "I am trying hard to land a big league infielder. I believe we will need one. I have a good chance at several and am pretty sure to get one of them. Perhaps it will be after the big leagues take their spring training." ABOUT THE "OKLAHOMA HOPE." Carl Morris, Victor of Hart and Ken nedy," Has Ability. Oklahoma City, Ok.. Jan. 14. Carl Morris of Sapulpa, who has jumped in one short year Irom the obscurity as fireman on a 'Frisco freight engine into the rapidly-shifting glare of the public sportlight, is another of those mush room "hopes of the white race." To the causual observer, who has seen him knock out dub after dub with sledgehammer blows, powerful enough to drop an ox, Morris looks like a world tr6Lt6la But to the critic -who realizes that a champion must have class, experience and an Intimate knowledge of the game, it is apparent that Morris has to travel a long road before he gets the speed and cleverness to entitle him to con sideration. The truth' is he. has a lot to learn to brinS home the kale, even in matches with tough second-raters. Morris has something of a record hereabouts. No man has been able to stand before him for more than five rounds.' He has the confidence of a ti tled, heiress hunter because of the easy wav he has disposed of the men he has met. He is young 24 to be exact and as strong as an, Alaska brown bear. He spent four years in the army and it was there he learnea to "put on me mitts." Firing an engine completed his development. Morris is not as awkward as might be imagined he's just green. He is lizht on his feet for a man who tow ers six feet four inches and weighs 240 nounds. He has a reach or 81 mcnes nine inches greater than Johnson and the barrel he calls his chest, stretches the tape to 49 inches. His waist line needs reducing and he ought to have a handler. His training has been crude and sports who have seen the big fel low's natural strength and know his courage, believe he made a mistake when he failed to come to Oklahoma City and let Jim Corbett look him over. "I hear he has an awful kick in either- hand, and I'll take him east in the spring if he'll cc here and convince me he can deliver the goods," said Genial Jim. Morris didn't come. He has an ex railroad telegrapher, W. F. Stone, as manager, and Stone's experience in ring affars is limited, to put it mildly. In the hands of the right man Morris might advance rapidly, but his own greenness, added to his manager's, does not promise a brilliant future. If he succeeds it will be despite handicaps. M. V. RULING NOT SPECIFIC. Chancellor Avery Takes Hand In In terpretation. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 14. "University of Nebraska football teams may of course play games on the medical campus in Omaha, providing the teams are composed solely of medical students taking work in the Omaha part of the medical college." This ia Chancellor Avery's comment on the suggestion that university football games may still be held in Omaha, de spite the rulings of Missouri valley conference authorities which prohibits games in other than college towns. Some enthusiasts have pointed out that the university has a department in Omaha and that Omaha is thus a "college town" within the meaning of the conference rule. But Dr. Avery looks at it otherwise. "That is a mere technicality and one which we could not stand for," said the chancellor yesterday. "Of course the Omaha medical students can play ball on the Omaha campus, if they can get an athletic field there. If we had stu dents at the Valentine and North Platte experiment stations, they could play ball there, too. But Lincoln stu dents can hardly journey to Omaha on such a pretext." JACK HOLLAND SECURES TWO. Zwindling and Waldring Surrendered by Comlskey. St. Joseph, Jan. 14. Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, has turned over two more re cruits to the St. Joseph Western league club. One is Outfielder Zwin dling and the other Pitcher Waldring, both players who give promise of go ing back to the majors within a sea son. Holland expects to get First baseman Borton, also. A letter from Comiskey'9 Chicago office yesterday informed Manager Jack, who is sick at hla home on North Twenty-eighth street, of the deal whereby the two were transferred to this club. Holland is elated over getting Zwindling and although ha knows little or nothing about Wald ring, who is a big right handed pitch er, he says he will probably have use for him, in spite of the fact that he is now overstocked with twirlers. "Hope" Morris Puts Off Schreck. Muskogee, Okla., Jan. 13. Carl Morris, the "white man's hope," will not meet Mike Schreck here until Friday, January 27, owing to an in Jury to his right hand which he re ceived in the Kennedy meet at Bartles ville Wednesday. The injury is not serious, according to Morris' manager. The match with Schreck is scheduled to go 20 rounds. Conley-Dixon Tnte Moved Up. Kansas City, Jan. 14. The date of the Frankie Conley-Tommy Dixon 10 round fight here has been changed from Jan uary 23 to January 18. Turk Broke Demetral's Foot. Kansas City, Jan. 14. During the first fall of a wrestling match at Convention hall here last night Yusiff Mahmout, in using a toe hold on the left foot of William Demetral, fractured a bone. A few minutes late, after the men had been on the mat 23:10, Mahmout down ed Demetral with a leg hold. So badly was Demetral's foot injured that he was unable to compete further, and Mahmout was declared the winner of the bout. HOKESCE WOX CLOSE GAME. In Whirlwind Finish Snatched Victory From Topeka. The fast Florence high school bask etball five edged out a victory over the Topeka highs at the Y. M. C. A. gym nasium last night by a score of 36 to 33. Coming from hehind in o whlrl- i wind finish the visitors who had been iea all the way, turned the tide and the. whistle blew before the Topeka lads could recover. The game was cleanly played by both teams. The local highs had two sub stitutes in the place of Anderson and Johnson. Holt at center for Anderson wrenched his knee In the second half and somewhat demoralized the team work. At the end of the first half To peka had led 23 to 15. Garrison of Florence and Washburn of Topeka did the best individual work. The lineup: T. H. S. Position. F. H. S. Woodford R. G Garrison Trobert L. G King Holt C Williams Washburn ...R. F O'Neil Bolton L. F Gear Referee Houlton of Florence. Umpire A. B. Cowden of Topeka. BURNS AND LANG ON APRIL 17. Mcintosh Is Confident' of Lang Beat ins Langford. Seattle, Wash.. Jan. 14. Tommy Burns, the former champion heaw weight pugilist, received the following cablegram last night from Hugh Mc intosh, the London prize fight pro moter: "Can you meet Bill Lang at Sydney, N. S. W., Easter Monday, April 17, and winner of Bill Lang-Sam Langford battle to be fought here February 15 in London?" To this Burns replied: "Accept and will let you know in 30 days if my knee stands training." Burns will not go into' training for a month. He plans to leave Seattle for Sydney about March 1 and will have a gymnasium fitted up on the steamer. He expects Langford to de feat Lang and therefore counts on fighting Langford in London. KLINE GAVE ATTELL HARD GO. Champion Hammered Away and Won by Footwork. New York. Jan. 14 Abe Attell. the featherweight champion, outpointed Patsy Kline, of Newark, in a snappy 10 round go at the National Sporting Club of America last night. Kline kept after Attell throughout the fight and took a lot of punishment in his endeavor to land a knockout blow. But Attell's clever footwork and ducking caused many of Kline's vicious swings to go wild. In the clinches Attell pummeled the Newark boy's kidneys severely. Kline landed a stinging left on Attell's jaw in the ninth, angering the champion, who retaliated with a volley of rights and lefts to the head and body which drove Kline to the ropes. Both boys were fighting sturdily when the bell rang. ON LEY HAS DISQUALIFIED. Kenosha Lad Refused to Put Away His Man. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 14. Frankie Conley of Kenosha, claimant of, the bantamw.eight championship, was dis qualified by Referee Frew at the end of the eighth round of a ten round no decision bout with Freddie Andrews of Milwaukee last night. Referee Frew claimed Conley passed up several chances to ut his man away and refused to permit the bout to go further. Conley was clearly the master of his opponent and would probably have stopped his man had the fight been allowed to go on. Kansas 40; Baker 17. -Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 14. The Jay hawker basketball five opened the sea son last night by defeating Baker uni versity, 40 to 17. The Methodists held their own fairly well during the first half, but were quickly outdistanced in the last helf. Tommy Johnson's goals from the court were the feature of the game. Dousman, a former Kansas City high school player, held down right guard and made an excel lent showing. Leon's work In captur ing 14 points, four of them difficult shots from the court unassisted, was also of the stellar variety. For the visitors Allis and Liston acquitted themselves with the most credit. Baker's fouls helped to boost the Kan sas total as only two free attempts at the basket were missed. Hack Lost Another Handicap. Chicago, Jan. 14. George Hacken schmidt lost a handicap wrestling match to Charles Cutler here last night when he failed to throw Cutler within an hour. PRELATE IS FAILING. Archbishop Ryan Will Be Eighty Years Old February 20. Philadelphia, Jan. 14. It is said that close friends of Archbishop Ryan, one of the most noted Catholic prel ates, have been looking for his death at any moment but have kept the fact of his serious illness from the public. The aged archbishop, who will be eighty years old if he lives until Feb ruary zo, has -been in- railing health for some time. For the first time in many years the archbishop did not receive the homage or his mends on New Tear's day. and this caused the fact of his illness to be made public Archbishop Ryan is a noted author in his church, one of his best known books being entitled "What catholics uo Mot Believe." WOULD JELP HOME Iola Attorney; Asks "Could the Lawyers Curb Dirorce?" In Court Argument, Clifford Raises the Question. PLEADS WITH CLIENTS "Send 'Em Home to Start Over" Says Barrister. Other Items of General Interest to Kansas Readers. Iola, Kan., Jan. 14. Berton E. Clif ford, attorney for Georee R. Thomn- son In his wife's suit for divorce, pro pounded a question in court when he asked whether it would be possible for lawyers to De ot assistance In curbing divorces. Clifford. Albert F. Florence and Wallace H. Anderson, the attorneys representing both Thompson and Mrs. Thompson, were agreed that a divorce was advisable but the custody of the minor child nroved to be another question. Judge Oscar Foust has tak en the case under advisement and will give a decision next Friday. "l sometimes think," Attorney Clif ford who represents Thompson, said earnestly, "that we lawyers make a mistake when clients come to us and ask us to institute divorce proceed ings. Perhaps the reasons are ex cellent ones, perhaps there seems to be good cause to bring the action and following the wish of the client and the legitimate legal process, we bring the suit. But I wonder what the re sult would be if we would say to them: "Go back home. Makr some sacri fice. Make many of them. Do some thing, anything to make the home happy. Do it for your own sake. Try once more." "Go back home. Start new. Try all over again. See if there isn't something that you failed to do that will bridge the chasm, th gulf that lies between. Make some sacrifice. Make several of them. Do something, any reasonable thing to restore this home." SOLDIERS ENJOY WALKING. When Garrison Members SaU They Will Miss Daily Exercise. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 14. One regret that will come to mem bers of the garrison at Fort Leaven? worth, when they go to the Philippine islands, will be leaving the now fam ous "pedestrian's course" on Grant boulevard to Seventh street. The pop ularity of the Grant avenue began when Colonel R. H. R. Loughborough, commandant of the post, first took his favorite walk from post headquar ters to Third and Delaware streets. Now many hundred persons daily take the walk to Metropolitan avenue. Everybody walks. Officers are re quired by army regulations to exercise a certain amount each day. They may take that exercise mounted or walk. Before the boulevr.rd was com pleted, many of them rode each day. There was a sidewalk f'om the post to Metropolitan avenue, but that was narrow. Now they walk. The hour's exercise past the trees and across the reservation now is substituted. It keeps their weight below the fighting limit. Women of the post accompany their husbands on the walk. It is an ideal road. The hills are not steep and the surface of the pavement is smooth. The surroundings are exhilarating. And there is a street car at the end of the boulevard. The women have become enthusiastic pedestrians. Of ten they take their children with them. Grant avenue might be called the play ground of the post on a sunshiny af ternoon. WANTS A SCHOOL COMMISSION. Wichita Delegation Will Ask That Legislature Grant Government. Wichita. Kan., Jan. 14. A delega tion from the Wichita school board. headed by Chairman E. B. Messerve, will go to Topeka Monday to work for the passage of a bill making it possible to put the schools in cities or tne nrsi class in the state under a commission form of government with tnree sal aried commissioners elected from the city at large in control instead of 12 elected from wards as at present. The idea is to make it possible for all first class cities to adopt this if they so choose. The bill stipulates a salary of ssoo per annum in cities of from 15,000 to 30.000. S1.000 in cities from 30,000 to 40,000 and $1,500 in cities of over 40, 000. The Wichita delegation hopes to get the bill passed In time to let the Wichita people vote on the matter at the time of a special Midland Valley railroad bond election on February 17, which will make it possiDie 10 eieci commissioners at the regular spring election if the measure carries here. Senators Visit Emporia Normal. Iran .Tan. 14. A deleera- i nri r.f ctflto t on t nrci visited the Kan sas State Normal school Friday and inspected tne Duiiamgs ana piani. ui v ..n.t.r x.-iiy-r. t T Mnrnhv of TTh stead, John T. Denton of Grenola, Os car Fagerberg of Olsburg, W. P. Brown or Blue tiapias, r. nus trup of Manhattan, D. M. Bender of Parsons, E. E. Anderson of Garland, HumpHreys' Seventy-Seven Breaks up Colds and Attacks the Throat This year, the Doctors say, the first feeling of Grip, Is Sore, Inflamed Throat. The immediate use of "Seventy-seven" will knock it out. Don't wait for the development of Influenza, Catarrh, Pains and Sore ness in the Head and Chest, Cough. General Prostration and Fever, or the crue will take longer. At Drug Stores 25c or mailed. Humphreys" Homeo. Medicine Co., Cor. William and' Ann- Streets. 'New Tori. A writen guarantee for 20 years with all work." My office facilities enables me to complete your dental work the same day you call, so If you live out of the city I can save you many a long, tiresome trip. Remember my location. Be sure you are In the offices of PAINLESS ROMINE, 704 Kans. Ave. Topeka Office Hours 8 to 6; Sunday 10 to 1 Evenings 7 to 8. Bell Phone 1508 R. T. Fowler of Lucas, John D. Myers of Holton, A. F. Smith of Winfield, C. A. Stannard of Emporia and State Architect Charles Chandler. GIRL WILL LOSE AN ESTATE. Alberta McVey Never Adopted so St. Lonlsans Will Get It. Ottawa, Kan., Jan. 14. Alberta McVey never was adopted by Mrs. El len McVey. This fact was brought out today by W. R. Cody, guardian of the girl and administrator of the estate of her foster mother. He had been investi gating the matter for several days, and finally solved the question in a long distance telephone conversation with Father George Eckert of Law rence, who was the Catholic priest here at the time Mrs. McVey took the girl nine years ago and who knew the circumstances surrounding the case. Father Eckert says that the little orphan, three years old at the time, was selected from a number sent out from New Tork City, but that legal steps to adopt her never were fin ished. This circumstance precludes the girl's inheriting the little estate left by Mrs. McVey, and makes a nephew and a niece in St. Louis the heirs. The property consists of a three room house and two lots at 616 East Log an street, and $110 in a local bank. The girl will not lack for a home, however, and it is probable that she will be given over to the care of the Catholic sisters at Leavenworth un til further arrangements can be made to provide a home for her with some family that will adopt her. AVHTTE WRITES ITS OBITUARY. Refers to Suspension of the Late Em poria Journal. Emporia, Kan., Jan 14. Apropos the suspension of the Emporia Jour nal, an obituary is printed in William Allen White's Emporia Gazette, as follows: Alas, no more the shooting stick will click against the quads; nor will the forms be Justified by little paper wads; no more will old subscriber sigh, and constant reader moan; no more, alas, will type-lice gaily scam per o'er the stone. For they have locked the office and the ghost no longer walks; and there has come a silence in the place where money talks. Today there smiles a specter with a haggard mein and gaunt, where yes terday there blossomed forth a little Long-Felt Want. And, O, they let it languish, and O, they let it die, and gave it neither sustenance, nor patronage, nor pie. And still they gave it sympathy, and yet they gave it cheer, and now they stand a mourn ful group, and sob around its bier. And see the wet-eyed mourners heave their aching liver pads, who let their darl ing perish for the want of proper "ads." For it had little 1ob-work and subscribers but a few; but O. it had bright prospects and its skies were ever blue. But prospects would not pay the hands, nor blue sky pay the rent, and so the Long-Felt Want hiked up into the firmament And now it rests in glory; it has left us sobbing here, while those who watched it wane away may drop a silent tear. WILL DISCUSS LEGISLATION. Mercantile Club of Kansas City, Kan., Calls a Meeting. Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 14. The Mercantile club of this city has called an afternoon meeting for January 18 in the club rooms to aiscuss legisla tion desired on business subjects. The Jobbers association will have representatives in attendance to offer suggestions for mutual benefit and the following subjects will receive atten tion: Bill to amend the Kansas exemp tion laws. Bill to penalize the giving of worth less checks. Bill to prevent fraudulent advertis- inBM to regulate sales of stocks of goods in bulk. Bill to exempt mortgages from tax ation. Parcels post, deep waterways ana other important subjects will also be discussed and the sentiment of this membership concerning same de termined. GIRL THROWN OFF HER HORSE. University Student Who Rode From Oklahoma Hurt Here. Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 14. Remem ber Miss Miabel Edith Ransom, the young lady who attracted attention by riding all the way from Perry, Okla., to Lawrence that she might attend school? She is the same student who had a pet gander expressed to ner here, because "it was so lonesome without her at home." Well. Miss Ransom has a cusiocatea shoulder, and it 'is all because she fell off her horse on Quincy street this week. The same gentle bronco she rode all the way from the wiias or Oklahoma met a chug-chug car on Quincy street, and promptly bolted. Miss Ransom was unable to check his course, and was finally thrown to the pavement. One shoulder was dis located. ElDorado Gas Again Normal. El Dorado, Kan., Jan. 14. Gas began flowing into El Dorado with full pres sure last night after a week at one fourth normal. This section was cut off completely from the Caney maln3 and depended entirely upon the small wells at Augusta. White' Woman Granted Divorce. El Dorado, Kan Jan. 14. On the as sertion that her husband deserted her several months ago and that she was forced to cook in a restaurant at f5 a If You Ever Figured on Getting Your Teeth Fixed and Want to Save Both Pain and Money DO IT NOW! WHILE MY SPECIAL PRICES ARE IN EFFECT You can afford to pay railroad fare hundreds work and save money. For advertising purposes I am maKing me iohuwuib REDUCED PRICES UNTIL FEBRUARY 1st. Set of Teeth, Rubber Base. Pure Gold Crowns. Bridge Work Enamel Crowns Teeth Without Plates $4.00 PH ONOGRAPHS 3. -FOR SALE OR RENT-gr $1 PER WEEK J. C. HARDING CO. DISTRIBUTORS OF EDISON PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS Both Phones 1485 Write or ask Letters of Credit and Travelers Checks We arrange for your identification without inconvenience or loss of time in America or Europe. Call for particulars. 605 Kansas Avenue. Merchants National Bank i H Capital, Surplus and Profit............ I Stockholders Liability ....$100,000.00 1 A Commercial Bank. f Milium jv i, ui jwntssmM mmwujil m i "'l m"pb"wwpmmp vsrsriiiiinw .MM-1 "E JJ)j -r... n to stem Qmmm mmmmmmmBm rtnrs. srn week and use half of this to support her 18 months child, Mrs.. Mary Kensel, of White, was granted a divorce from George Kensel in district court. Mrs. Kensel alleged that the father had left her last September. "WRECK SALE" GOODS STOUEN. Former Special Detective tor Missouri Pacific Makes Plea. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 14. Mer chandise valued at thousands of dol lars has been stolen from the Missouri Pacific railway by men employed to guard the company's property, accord ing to a sworn statement made in the Wyandotte county Jail. Kansas City, Kan., last night by Frank Yerkes, formerly a special detective employed by the Missouri Pacific. Yerkes said the goods were disposed of by means of "wreck sales" in small towns in Missouri, Kansas and adjoining states. Yerkes was arrested January 6, after the theft of ten cases of shoes from a Missouri Pacific box car was traced to him. N. A. Thompson, a Kansas City, Kan., detective, visited towns in several states tracing mer chandise stolen from the railroad and in many of these towns found that the goods had been disposed of at "wreck sales," advertised by persons from out of town. Sales were held in Excelsior Springs, in Ottawa, Humboldt, Fre donia,. Erie, Mound Valley, Howard, Severy, El Dorado and Marion, Kan., and in Omaha, Neb. Besides these towns, Thompson visited some twenty other cities in his pursuit of- the "fences." Fiatiron Foot Warmer Hurts. El Dorado, Kan., Jan. 14. As a re sult of using a heated flat iron as a foot warmer, C. R. MeCormick, of Riverside, is suffering .acute- agony from enlargement of the Inguinal gland and a knot, which has formed under his arm. Physicians fear that -gangrene may set In as a result of the injury. Millers Want State Test Mill. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 14.--At the. clos ing meeting of the Southwestern Mill ers' association here it was decided to ask the Kansas. state legislature for an appropriation of 115.000 to build an PROOF in ho We tell 70a about how food you'll feel after taking a CASCARET that millions of people buy, use and recommend them But that's talk you buy a box now take as directed to-night and got the proof In the morning After you know CASCARETS you'll sever be' without them. 91 CASCARET9 ioc a box for week'a treatment, all druKgiats. Biggest seller ia tke world. MiiTioa boxes a month. of miles to have .me do your dental Best Sliver Fillings Best Porcelain Fillings Best Enamel Fillings Porcelain Inlays Cleaning Teeth 106 East Sixth St. for catalogue $205,000.00 C O. SSOTH Hc2rch.ant Polio Ind. Tel. 2014 Red, 214 E. Tenth St. Old Soldier Tortured. "For years 1 suffered unspeakable tor ture from indigestion, constipation and liver trouble write A. K. Smith, a war veteran at Erie, Pa., "but Dr. King's New Life Pills fixed me all right They"re simply great." Try them for any stom ach, liver or kidney trouble. Only So at Campbell Drug Co. experiment mill somewhere in the state of Kansas. The Idea is to build a small capacity mill which will be used exclusively for the testing of the milling qualities of grains from all sections of the country. Several of the millers spoke in favor of ultimately fhTft SAa feg,ular m"ns course In the State Agricultural college. PliAJf TJXIQTJE CTVIO CAMPAIGN. ETDorado High School Stndenta Are Heading Movement. EJf)riVio'. Kf n" Jan- "More than SO students in the class of elementary agriculture in El Dorado high school are planning a unique campaign for n1C "fyS- Superintendent Mar! mstctOfSS0 Ztprtey. agricultural Th- e headln the movement. The class has asked all owners of vacant lots In El Dorado to donate th l0t3 for Pertmema pur poses. The class proposes to Dlant grains and flowers on evenr lot th ,and1keeP th hereloforVunf ?hI?,,0ta in a careful -manner. Official recognition,, of the plan Is fought of the Butler County Farmers' institute, which has offered a S f of t? to the member of the class submit ting the best essay on agriculture. Hill City Paper Suspended. HU1 City, Kan., Jan. 14. The New Era, a weekly newspaper which was started here about five years ago. h" suspended publication. The paper his been sold to the Inlow boys.Pwho art eedjor the last two yearly Lyon County JaU W eakened. Emporia, Kan., Jan 14. Aeareh LthBet.Lr CUnty iail haa vinearfneS five steel hand saws hidden away in crevices and nooks of the cells. Sev eral attempts at Jail delivery have been made recently and a couple of bars have been severed. The Jail is in a weakened condition, necessitating con taELfSf"1 The county "fibers cotcealed1!6'6 mre tapl.rn.nf Seventh Cavalry Departs Soon. Junction City, Kan., Jan, 14. The Seventh cavalry will leave Fort Riley Uot o7th2 Sfi,? an. "cico and l will saw lor the Philippines on February 5. Piles Cured lrt 6 to 14 Days nin?Ju?!?st; .wiU "una money if"pazo ta to" 4 dda?s!e6lSS F Priing Pito 8 V:

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1911, anufacturers anc lolesale Merchants lio Give Employment and Home Comforts to Topeka's Citizens w im 1 rt jlrtal I If M a 1 Meadow Gold Butter The favorite brand from coast to coast. Why so popular? Made only from pure pasteurized cream and marketed only in our patented, sealed, odor-proof and germ-proof package. Uniform in quality and flavor and that quality and flavor the best. Ask your grocer for MEADOW GOLD. The Continental Creamery Company. Just the Try Our J. R. S. CIGAR-Sc Manufactured by m J. R. SPETTER 814 N. Kansas Avenue, Topeka POISON CASE MYSTERY. Cumberland, Mcl., Affair Perplexes Authorities There. Cumberland, lid., Jan. 14. The mystery surrounding the death of Grace Elosser and Charles Twigg, the betrothed couple, is still unsolved and is perplexing the local authorities more than any other recent case. The couple were apparently in the best of spirits when last known to the out side world and their sudden death seated together on a sofa in the par lor of the girl's home cannot be ac counted for from any of the usual mo tives of crime. Whether it was a double suicide, double murder or sui cide and murder is yet to be deter mined. Jealousy may have entered Into the matter, although suspicion points to the supposition that the girl, on the very eve of her wedding to Twigg, administered poison to him and then to herself, and died with her face turned smilingly to his, but with her mind on another man her former husband, Maurice Willison. She divorced Willison four or five years ago, but last Friday night, the night before the double tragedy, she is known to have called him up "by tele phone. What their conversation was about raST"aZ

L v '--ilk RICH AND COOL Smoke Long And Sweet nobody knows. Grace Elosser is dead and Willison, now happily married to another -woman, is silent. The Natural Deduction. His waistcoat was wonderful. His tie was tremendous. His socks were positively superhu man. In order to display which his trous ers were tucked up to a ludicrous height. An urchin plucked him by the sleeve. "Lost sombody. guv-nor?" queried the youth sympathetically. The swell swelled with indignation. "Of course not, fellow!" he respond ed contemptuously, proceeding on his way. "Cat or dog dead, guv'nor?" queried the youngster, following. 'Bai jove!" snapped the "nob," dis tinctly annoyed. "Why do you ask such stoopid questions?" "Why, guv'nor," called the urchin, "cos I see yer got yer trousis at 'arf mast!" Answers. Her Johnnie No Rose. A youngster who was attending a public school in one of the large cities was sent home by the teacher for being untidy. The teacher wrote a note to the boy's mother request ing that Johnnie be given a bath. The boy returned to school the next day as untidy as before with a note from his mother to the teacher. The note read as follows: "My Johnnie is no rose, don't smelt him, learn him." Mack's National. 5 9PJe Who Were r." mrwir.nr thw f-ifrr Homo RAILROAD NEWS. Save a Million Dollars a Day 'Tis a Dream. This Is Answer Given by Kail way Men. "IT REACTS ON LABOR." It Is Asserted That Economy Pian Is a Vagary. Other Items of General Inter est in Traffic World. Chicago, Jan. 14. "No more gro tesque vagary of idle dreamer ever was projected in the field of romance than the assertion that $1,000,000 a day can be saved out of the operating expenses of the railways of the United States," is the railroad reply to Louis T. Bran dei3, the attorney for the eastern ship pers. The reply is incorporated with the statistics and legal arguments of tho brief filed with the interstate nnm. merce commission in the western rate advance case by the Chicago, Milwau kee St. iul railway. The word painting is that of William Ellis, in terstate commerce attorney of the road. Two Ways to Save Million. "If the amount of service performed by the railways is not to be reduced," he says, "and, as a matter of fact, it is constantly increasing, there are but two ways in which this million a day can be saved either by reducing the expenditure for what is now used or by increasing the efficiency so that less can be used. "The large Item of operating expense is labor. On the railways of the coun try for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. which is the last year for which figures are available, the operating ex penses were $1,599,443,410, of which $988. 323,694, or over 60 per cent, was paid to labor. "If the railways of the country were organized as one system, and the presi dent of that system were confronted with the necessity of saving a million a day, his first consideration would un doubtedly be the best economy which would be made in expenditures, not .in volving labor, and his largest item to work on, and probably the first to re ceive attention, would be fuel. Fuel und water for locomotives amount to $186,766,323. Do It From a Law Library. "The contention probably would be that the economy in coal must be found through increased efficiency brought about by 'scientific methods' of using and handling. In this particular the railways have supposed that in their crude and awkward way some progress had been made In that direction, though their efforts to solve the prob lem of coal economy have been wrought out rather by use of logarithms than jjnder the basic principles of mechanics as expounded by Blackstone, and the coke they have relied upon has been physical rather than philosophical. Much weary toil and wearing anxiety could have been saved had they known what an easy and offhand process it is to save a million a day on the rail ways from a law library in Boston. "However, the wildest of buccaneers, let loose among1 the rampant expenses of the railways, would hardly expect to exterminate more than 25 per cent of the expenditures for coal through in crease of efficiency, decrease in price, or both. This would save $48,000,000." Bumps Against Labor Problem. Assuming "in an equal spirit of theoretical optimism" a saving of 25 per cent in all items outside of fuel and labor, or a further retrenchment of $106,000,000, Mr. Ellis calculates that "this would leave the supposed presi dent of all the lines to face the pleas ant task of endeavoring to take something-over $211,000,000 out of the labor of the railroad, either through in creased efficiency, which would result in the discharge of employees drawing $211,000,000 in wages, or by reduction of their pay." After discussing the reduction in the pay of different classes of officers and employees, this would entail Mr. Elli3 says: "We would then have arrived at an annual saving of a little less than $160, 0O0.00O, and if the various impossible things which are herein assumed could be brought about, a total saving of about $315,000,000 would have been ac complished. "More than half of this saving de pends upon the reduction of labor, which this commission and every one else knows could not be accomplished without such industrial warfare sis would amount to revolution: and any railroad manager who would attempt to take $160,000,000 out of the mouths of the wives and children of his employees as an alternative to an increase in rates which amounts to 3 cents on a barrel of flour, 34 cents on a hundred pounds of meat, 10 cents on a ton of soft coal, 1 cent on an eighth of a bar rel of beer, and infinitesimal amounts on the articles of daily consumption, would be Justly condemned by public opinion. SEW TRAIX SAFETY DEVICE. Iron Pole Catches Wing on Pilot and Sets All Brakes. As a new means of safety in railroad travel the Pennsylvania railroad has been making practical tests, with re--suits said to be satisfactory, of an automatic device for stopping trains, invented by Edward M. Cain, a con ductor on the Pennsylvania, and John La Barre. The device originated with the former while he was in a hospital recovering from injuries received in a wreck. It consists of an iron post set in the center of the track, if single, or between double tracks. Attached to it is an arm which rises and falls with the oncrntion of a block signal! semaphore. From the sides of the pilot of a locomotive a wing projects, which will clear the post if the arm is folded, but otherwise will engage it and 'set all the brakes, bringing the train to a stop, no matter at what speed it is traveling. In the tests made a train of eight cars was speeded up to fifty miles an hour and was brought to a stop in less than its own length and with such an absence of jolt that not even a drop was spilled from a glass of water placed on a window sill. RAISES TAXES AND HADES. These Are Two Things Which Are Kaised on Railroads, Is Said. Chicago, Jan. 14. Some new angles to the newest railroad qiiestion of the day that of efficiency are furnished by Cy Warman, whose views are epitomized in the statement that "only two things may be raised on a railroad taxes and hades." Speaking of recent testimony before the com merce commission Mr. Warman says: "Mr. Brandeis can well afford to deal in these vague generalities be cause he does not have to make good. He makes no reference to the fact that wages have gone up 23 per cent in the last ten years, while the price of transportation, which these work men helped to produce, has rather gone down than up. "The man charged with saving $1. 000,000 a day could dismiss all the freight" and passenger solicitors, let ting each line take what came to it; he could cut off half the sleeping cars on the through lines which are now operated on less than half their ca pacity. He could pitch tents instead of building expensive stations. He could slow the express trains from 60 to 40 miles an hour, thereby saving half the fuel and the energy. Run ning all the railways, a man might compel the live stock shippers to pay to the railways mileage instead of col lecting mileage from the railways. But in the long run this saving of $1,000, 000 a day would be taken out of the traveling and shipping public. It is the keen competition between Ameri can lines that makes travel swifter and cheaper than most other countries, that moves freight cheaper per ton mile than it moved elsewhere, and at the same time our railways pay better wages than do the railways of any Other country." A "MERELY TO LIVE" REQUEST. Missouri Pacific Says All Rates Possi ble Will Be Advanced. Chicago, Jan. 14. That "it is the policy of the Missouri Pacific railway to advance all rates that can be ad vanced" in addition to the proposed in creases in commodity rates now under investigation by the interstate com merce commission is announced frankly in the brief filed with the com mission in the western rate case by James C. Jeffery, interstate commerce attorney for the road. "It is our contention," he says, "that in order to exist it is absolutely neces sary to have not only the slight reve nue $94, 000) involved in the present proceeding but there must be large in creases in the .rates on all classes and commodities hauled by that company. This necessity arises from the single fact that the increased cost of opera tion (due principally to enormous in creases in wages to various classes of organized labor) is outstripping by leaps and bounds the increase in gross earnings. ,"We believe there can be no dissent to the legal proposition that a com mon carrier is entitled to a fair re turn on the value of the property de voted to transportation purposes, and therefore we direct ourselves in this brief to the broad question of fact as to whether, upon the evidence intro duced by this company, it is not con clusively shown that there is need for an advance in rates sufficient to allow the reasonable return upon the value of the property to which it is legally entitled, but not now receiving." GAVE SCORCHING FAREWELL. Retiring President of Illinois Central Tells of Graft. Chicago, Jan. 14. Accusing friends of former days of treachery in con nection with the looting of the treas ury of the Illinois Central railroad by car repair frauds, James T. Harahan, retiring president of the road, bade farewell to the transportation world with a scorching address at a banquet given in his honor. "It is my deepest regret that any thing should have occurred during my administration to warrant criticism of the management of the Illinois Central Railroad company," Harahan said. "While betrayal of any position of honor and responsibility is much to be deplored, the particular feature of this whole matter which has caused me pain, is the treachery to me of men whom I have trained and edu cated, some of them for more than thirtv years and whom I have caused to be placed in the positions they occupy." SUE, PRESIDENT OF ORIENT. Big Amount Is Asked From Stilwcjl for a Mexican Concession. New York, Jan. 14. Suit for the recovery of $200,000 from Arthur E. Stilwell, president of the Kansas City, Mexico Orient railroad, has been filed by Mrs. Marie L. Owen, wife of Colonel Albert K. Owen, a railway engineer. -The claim was assigned by Colonel Owen to his wife. It is alleged to be the stipulated price of a Mexican railway concession secured by Colonel P0STUM J0 days and coffee ills begin to leave. "There's a Reason" Topeka JOSEPH BROMICH, Prop. 113-129 Jefferson Street, Topeka, Kan. Have on hand at all times a full line of black and galvanized gas, steam and water pipe, pipe fittings, steam and gas valves, steam hose, pack ing, oil cups, glasses, etc Pipe cut and threaded to your order. CALL AND SEE US Ind. Phone 46S Ball Phone 463 Owen and turned- over to the railroad of which he was an engineer. The action came to light today through a motion by Stilwell's attor neys to have an order for his ex amination vacated. The motion was submitted to Justice Goft in the su preme court without argument. LOWER RATES ON MOUSE TRAPS. Railroads Will Make It Cheaper to Kill Off Pests. Chicago, Jan. 14. -Rat and mouse traps probably will be sold at a re duced price in the near future as a suit of the action of railroads through out the territory north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers, in reduc ing the cost of transporting them. Among nearly two score of changes in the classification of various articles of merchandise traps for the killing of mice and rats have been shifted from their old place to a new class, which admits of a iower rate for -carrying them. The changes in classification made by the various railroads include fourteen advances and twenty-five re ductions. The advances affect shelled corn,' oats, rye and wheat, not other wise specified in, published rates; range boilers and soda water cylinders. The reductions affect such commodi ties as asphaltums, cement roofing, certain varieties of desks and tacks, fireless cookers and automobile engine hoods. Some time ago a plea was made on behalf of a number of shippers to the interstate commerce commission to prevent these changes being made, but the commission declined to interfere. NEW SANTA FE FAST MAIL. Chicago to Newton Run Will Save Five and Seven Hours. Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 14. A new mail train, to be known as the "Kan sas Fast Mail," originating at Chicago and running to Newton, Kansas, a dis tance of 659 miles, will be inaugu rated by the Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe railroad, Sunday; January 15. The train will leave Chicago at 1:30 p. m arrive here at 1:15 a. -m. and reach Newton at 6:50 a. m. When the new train is rut Into ser vice, mail from Chicago will reach this city and southwestern points from five to seven hours earlier than it has heretofore. Gould President of N. O. P. New Orleans, Jan. 14. At the an nual meeting of the stockholders of the New Orleans Pacific Railroad com pany held here yesterday, George J. Gould was re-elected president; W. F. Braggins, vice president, and W. R. Elliot, secretary. Automatic Train Announcer. A mechanical assistant that will not mumble and jumble the words and that will not get hoarse or become exhausted has been devised to relieve the deep voiced, much-tried railroad employee whose particular mission in life has heretofore been to call the trains as they were ready to depart. At a recent convention of rail road electrical engineers in Chicago, a device was exhibited which, its inventor claims, will not only make the train an nouncer's life a bed of roses, but will also render useless the page in hotels, anl the droning dining car porter who gives first, second, and third calls to hungry travelers when meals are about to be served. In a hall equipped with this de vice there should be no trouble hearing a speaker in all parts of the hall, no mat ter how poor the accoustics may be. the mechanism being so arranged that his voice will be directed to all parts of the hall simultaneously or to any number of audiences, present or far away. Popular Mechanics. The carpenters who have been work ing for the past two months on the new depot at Pauline have gone to Mel vern where they will be engaged for sevtral weeks. "r Charles Strlckler, of the boiler shop, is in the Santa Fe hospital suffering with a severely scalded foot. It is pro bable that he will be oft at least one month yet. Harry Service has returned to work after being off several days on account of illness. The record of the number of em ployees being off in the boiler shop at any one time, was broken yesterday morning when it was made known that 65 men had failed to report for work. Most of them were oft on account of sickness.' Don C. Boyd, of the roundhouse, was called to his home in Severance on account of the serious illness of his sis ter. Engineer Charles Jones and family, of Monroe street, have moved to Em poria to make their future home. Charles Oberer, of the tin shop, is unable to be at work on account of Ill ness. Archie Alexander, of the machine shops, was laying oft yesterday on ac count of illness. Shop news was scarce today on ev ery hand. Every department reports Steam Boiler Works We are in a position now to do your masonry, work. Contractors Special Attention giv en to job work. Cook Shop Phone 823 Ind, Residence phone 2957 Ring 1 Ind Western Foundry Machine Works TOPEKA, KANSAS Is the third oldest plant in the state. Is equiped to handle anything in the machine and foundry line. Do all kinds of Roll Grinding and Corrugating. Write for catalogue and prices. J. L. EDDY Contractor 110 East 9th SL Ind. 'Phone 162S Repairing and Jobing numbers off duty on account of sick ness. It is growing to be natural, that every one should have the grip for everywhere we hear "Yes, he's got the grip, too." But notwithstanding the sickness, everything else seems to reign m peace and quietude. Julius Oberer, of the betterment de partment, is off from work suffering with an attack of the grip. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kelly have re turned to their homes in Atchison after being here several days visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Euwer are the parents of a daughter, born Thurs day evening. January 12th. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Murphy -left yesterday for their home in Williams town, after spending several days here on a business trip. While in the city they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Murphy. Miss Hazel Maxwell has returned to work after being off several days on account of illness. She was suffering with an attack of the grip. Mrs. George Hinton has returned to her home in Winfield, Kan., after spending several days here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Kenedy. Harold Harris is improving after being ill several days with, .an attack of rheumatism. Miss Anna Coulter is, quite, sick at her home on Gratton street with an attack of tonsilitis. Miss Gussie Tucker of Pauline, spent Friday, and Saturday here with friends. Harvey Thomas is spending a week in Kansas City on a business trip. The regular meeting of the engin eers wives was held in the K. and L. of 8. hall Friday afternoon. Mrs. G. E. Reynolds spent Friday in Lawrence with her son, Joe Reynolds of K. U. Mrs. R. B. Stewart is improving af ter being sick two weeks with an at tack of rheumatism. Mrs. B- B. Beeler of Newton is'here spending several days on a business trip. Mrs. NV E. Thompson of Solomon, Kan., visited Friday with her sister, Mrs. C. C. Davis of East Fourth street. Mrs. Albert Watson has returned to her 'home in Kansas City, after I f A ,U,t;MIilJU niMILIIl.liUlimwi .III 11 ,LiM El fliies and cement ions and Builders 110 West 6th Avenue Office in basement under Wilson Office Supply Com pany, Topeka, Kansas. "J Louis Van Dorp MANUFACTURER OF Galvanized Iron Cornices, Tin, Slate and Tire Roof ing and Metal Skylights. Ind. 130. 507-9 Jackson SL spending a week here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Reed. Mrs. Del Taylor left Friday for Hutchinson, to join her husband who is employed there. Mrs. L. Irish is quite sick at her home, 704 Lawrence street. Mrs. John Waggner of 512 Lafay ette street, is suffering with an attack; of the grip. Mrs. George Rhodes and three children returned to their home in. Hutchinson Friday after spending several weeks here visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. McConnell of 617 Leland street. Mrs. Higby of 228 Oakland avenue, spent the day Thursday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Higby of East Crane street. Word has been received here of tha serious illness of Mr. Allen Higby of Fairbury, 111, who is suffering with an attack of inflammatory rheumatism. Mrs. C. R. Cole visited Mrs. Charles Schuler Thursday, at her home on Oakland avenue. The services at the Methodist church for Sunday will be Sunday school at 9:45, W. Rhodes, supt. Preaching by the pastor at .11. Epworth- League at r 6:15. Evenint; sermon at 7:30. Rev... D. A., Shutt, pastor in charge. The- Sunday services at the Pres byterian church will be Sunday school at 9:45. Preaching at 11. sermon by the pastor. Jjinior Endeavor at- 2:30. Miss Mamie Higgins, superintendent. Christian Endeavor at 6:15, Frank El lenberger, president, and evening ser mon at 7:30. Special' music both morning and evening. The evening sermon will be the second of a se ries on "Some- Socalled Respectable Sins," and will be "A False Tongue," Rev. J. C Everett, pastor. The services at the Christian church for Sunday will be Sunday school at 9:30, O. D. Johnson, superintendent. Communion and preaching at 11 a. m. Subject: "Putting First Things First." Junior Endeavor at 3 p. m. Inter mediate Endeavor at 5:40; Senior En deavor at 6:15. Evert Morford,, pres ident. Evening sermon at 7:30, sub ject: "Christianity vs. Morality." Rer. W. H. Scrivner, pastor- 1 t

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REED OHVAR PATH Smith Center Senator After the Newspapers. Has a Bill to Prohibit All Polit ical Adyertising. GOT ALL THE MONEY. Says Papors Left Candidates Nearly Stranded. Wants to See "Reform Bus iness" Handled Right. If a bill to be offered in the senate by J. T. Reed of Smith Center be comes a law there will be any number of bargain days in Kansa3 country newspapers. Reed proposes to make it a misdemeanor for any candidate to offer or any newspaper to accept any money, patronage or promise for politi cal advertising in a campaign. Never since the anti-pass law has a bill been Introduced in the legislature which, if enacted into a law, would play such an important part in tho shaping of the political policies of the state. In the Reed bill the exchange of money and patronage for newspaper publicity, is a crime punishable on the part of both parties by fine or Jail sen tence or both. The Reed bill will probably be one of the most extreme documents pre sented during the session and Reed is not an avowed reformer, either. His bill would make it a misdemeanor for any candidate to buy space from any newspaper other- than- the old 'time four-line stereotyped announcement. It makes the burden equally binding on the newspaper that accepts more than the-most nominal announcement fee from any candidate. The bill pro vides for either a fine, jjail sentence or both and offer or promise of money, patronage or favor is barred in the most pronounced language. Unlike the argument used by the Square Dealers against the railroad passes, because they were given away, the Smith coun ty senator argues against the buying of newspaper space because it costs money. He contends tht a man's privilege of buying store clothes and sirloin steak does not extend to' the point that he may invest in printer's Ink in order that he may ride to a public job. Reed further alleges that the candidates do the work and the newspapers collect the pay and that the man without newspaper patronage can not safely poll his own household. "This is a mighty serious piece of business." exclaimed the Smith Cen ter gentleman, as he took a few min utes from the duties of manufacturing law and discussed his new scheme. "Why do vou know that last yer the newspapers got about all the money the candidates had leaving out of the question the men who have ten figure bank accounts. The poor fellow who did not have a bank roll couldn't break into the newspapers with a jimmy. I know of one Kansas candi date who mortgaged his home to run for office. Now there is a onan living in the house who runs a reform news paper. Immense Expense of Campaign. "Why do you known," continued Reed, "that in the last campaign the newspapers were not only paid thous ands of dollars, but hundreds of thous ands of dollars. If you. were a candi date you had to buy space; and if you bought space one place, you had to buy in every little one horse, two by six sheet in the district, or you wire ostracised by all of them. Then there would be some fellow running for the same office you were who would buy a few lines more than you did. It was immediately up to you to hike the ante, or be again in bad grace with newspaper society. This thing keeps up just as long as a candidate's money lasts. If he wins, he spends two or three years trying to pay off his debts. If he loses well it's the handiest thing to Just send over and ask the sheriff to separate the property. "I think my bill is a just and fair one. I have no kick on the newspaper boys. There, are some mighty good fellows in the game and they have al ways treated me fairly. What I want, though, is to see this reform business handled right. A lot of fellows want this initiative and referendum and re call and they will let the newspapers boss the appropriations, dictate what laws will pass and what laws will be beaten in the election and they will order the recall of every official from township road overseer to governor. The primary law put the newspapers of Kansas in power and this other new fangled and highly colored legislation will make them czars. "Remember, I want to be fair with the boys. I have talked to a good many of them and they say this thing is go ing too far. I just want to put a bridle on, in order that we can stop if we want to." Senator Reed said he had not com pleted the construction of his new bill, but would offer it in one of the early sessions next week. In the meantime and while the measure Is pending, ap plicants for desirable newspaper loca tions may look toward Kansas. IA'CKY SANTA FE MAX. rinds Ten Dollar Gold Piece The Happiest Man In Town. Right at the beginning of the New Year. too. when the purse strings have had a hard pull, when numerous bills are due and funds are low just the time a fellow feels he must figure closely to make both ends meet. Now, wasn't he luckv? There was a woman in the case his wife, in fact, who, wise, little woman, by her practice of daily scanning the papers f or Cope's ad, and taking ad Vantage of his many "Specials," has aved fully $10. Reader, you can be lucky, too. The more you buy of Cope, the more you save. DID YOU EVER READ THEM. The Circles in Last Night's Topeka State Journal. The unique arrangement of the little circles in last evening's State. Journal started thousands of people guessing what they represented. And many of the readers who did not start reading backward from pages H to 6 were com pelled to skip from one page to anoth ed to find the solution. If you were one of them and will begin at page 11 and read each circle on each page backward they will find that O. K. Bread was the object rolnt. Two Deer in One Shot. In the recent deer hunting season in Michigan at least three Upper Fenln ula men were successful In filling their juwiuM as the result of a single shot. THE Sheriff Turnbull of Luce county was one of these. Two deer were standing together. The sheriff fired at one, the ball passing through its body and kill ing the other animal also. Paul Laabs of Sagola, Dickinson county, found two bucks engaged in a battle. A shot from Laabs rifle killed the spike-horn and the other was so weak from the loss of blood that it expired aa soon as released. Professor Hill, superintendent of schools at Crystal Falls, is the third man who bagged two deer with one shot. One of his trophies was a dead deer, however. The animals had been engaged in a battle, during which their antlers had become interlocked, and one of the combatants was dead. Professor Hill shot the living animal. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. Jlldflre Hllf-tman n f TT"! n -T,J n. new speaker of the house. Is a philos opher as well as a atatiKmnn ar,A ist. He reads Omar Khavvam anri is versed In tha Inra nf i .1 icMiioiu auu reads the book of Job. When he swore in the house employees Friday after noon he made a speech that, he will not excel this session, even though he makes the hmmo wiun m Via v.n; the heads of its members rise in epic Speaker G. H. Buokman of the rage. After the ceremonv of the nnth had been observed, the judere looked be- nignantly upon the forty odd em ployees, men and women, gray-heads ana Doys, standing before him. and raising his voice1, he spoke to them as ioiiows: "I hope that you will all do your duty by the house and be patient and alert and cheerfuj through all the days oi me session. you draw the same pay that we members do and we get all the abuse. -So I trust that you will bear with the new members from the country when they take it out on you. to tne stenographers I wish par-. ticularly to say that you will be de pended upon to do the spelling for the members and of course you will be ex pected to construct many sentences and make plain the meaning of doubt ful paragraphs. You will therefore make history as you write it." And so the new speaker rambled on. He smiled when he indulged in sar casm and the sting was gone; be spoke gently when he chided and looked grave when he Indulged In humor. No one took notes on the Judge s effort, so it is lost forever, but the employees will remember him always as the best ever and will surely do their best to please him. The official paper of the Hutchinson reform school has the following edi torial In regard to the retirement of Richard J. Hopkins,, a .regent on the school board: "We are sorry to record the resig nation of one of our board of managers. Richard Hopkins, who at the call of the people of Kansas,' goes to the sec ond highest office in the state that of lieutenant governor. -"Mr. Hopkins has -served nearly two years as secretary of the board of man agers. He has had the interest of- the institution at heart, and has studied reformatory work and the needs of the institution as but few men have done. Besides this he is a scholarly gentle man and a lawyer, making his counsel of Inestimable value to the state tind institution. May we say here that ev ery member of the board of managers has at heart, first of all, the welfare of every inmate; after that the material condition of the institution. All of these men are broadminded, bighearted, honest- men, doing a great work for the state and unfortunate young men. The other members of the board are: Presi dent. Phillip Kelly of White Cloud, and treasurer, Thomas W. Morgan of the Ottawa Herald. We wish Mr. Hopkins every success in his larger field." dinger, the house member from Shawnee, has introduced a bill thatj provides for the creation of a state fire marshal at a salary of $3,000 per year. The new official is to be under the Jurisdiction of the superintendent of insurance and has the power to ap point deputies to inspect buildings. He must report the causes of all fires. The fire marshal is to be appointed by the governor. Thirteen lobbyists have registered In the secretary of state's office as fol lows: Laura Gregg. Garnett: Flora A. Lindsay, Topeka; C. A. Hoffman, En terprise; Lilllam MItchner. Topeka; Emma Sells Marshall, Topeka: Eliza beth N. Barr, Topeka; Sena Hartzell Wallace, Kansas City, Kan.; Lilla Day- Monroe, Topeka: Sim Bramlette, Col umbus, labor legislation; C. M. Clark, Peabody, claims against the state for live stock killed; W. C. Carswell, To peka, telegraph legislation; A. P. Roe, Wichita, labor legislation; James Ska han, Pittsburg, labor legislation. The printed report that the senate would not this session stand for being made the "goat" by the house in the matter of killing such freak legislation as the anti-Sunday baseball bill and the equal suffrage measure is out of order. Last session the house killed its own equal suffrage and anti-baseball bills. Look up therecords. t a Card of Thanks. We wish to thank our dear friends and neighbors for their kindness In he sickness ana death of my dear father; and many thanks to the neighbors and the employees of Wolff's Packing house for the beautiful floral offering. Elmer E. Wendell and mother. TOPEKA DAILY STATE MIDWINTER FAIR. Will Open in All It's Glory on Monday. Great- Hall Will Be a Blaze of Light. NO PAINS SPARED. Decorations Are of the Most Elaborate Character. Vaudeville Features Promise to Be Excellent. All Is hurry and bustle at the Audi torium today, and by 1:30 on Monday everything -will be In readiness for the big Midwinter exposition wrhich will open at that time and will continue un- Kansas House of Representatives. til January 2S. The areneral dwnrntlvo ntvio i t .T -J Onial. 711 n V ftf thu Virwit Vi o a....,,!,. the idea. The background for the stage on Tl-lts,t, will T ...v.., it cuitmeu lour goou .auumuie mums eacn week represents a colonial building, with the sign of the U. C. T. organization over the main en trance. There will be a blaze of light In the great hall. The exterior effects will be unusually elaborate. The building has been outlined with electric globes and the arches have also been fitted with burners. The "Sign of the U. C T will be the first thing that will strike the eye. This will be above the en r?,n.ce the Auditorium and will be brilliant in effect. Tickets Sell Well. The1 tickets which were put on sale in the stores sold like hot cakes, and it is a foregone conclusion that large crowds will flock to the first Midwin ter in two years. i-,he AT,S wilI be Pn Monday at 1.30 o clock, and the first vaudeville show ,s slated to start promptly at 3. 7. tTS WU1, be closed frm 5:30 to I;! T t? ,eYenlnS entertainment will start at o'clock. The amusement program for the first wfi!VBa one. "Morris' Ponies" will be here, and of course this fact will .the children. Banner and Madi son the wrestling ponies, will furnish he'iC?1,USe,meilt- La BeIIe Helene and her well trained greyhounds will prove an attraction which will be equally in teresting especially to the members of Inn yu"e,L. generation. Then there will be the Warricks in what Is said to -be a remarkable trick comedy act. Clever Trick House Act. T otb eleverest trick house acts In. the whole range of similar perform ers Is that of the Warricks which tho Commercial Travelers have engaged ps ?,.?a?Ure tfle flrst wek of the Midwinter exposition. There are many trick house acrobatic feature acts be- 7 puoitc dui m no other is a lady. Miss Warrick stands alone in her profession. She h i v woman Zen able to master the i L"e onB leaps, the agile feats pf climbing and the high jumps necessary for the ciwran, this nature. "Their Comerltr Ttb- -n..i House" is one of the best constructed Pieces of mechanism h.fn v.- i.,,- enabling them to appear and disappear jnuci marvelous ana rapid man ner, the audience being hardly able to keep up with the acrobats. B. H. TRACY IS DEAD. Well Known Attorney Dies Two Weeks After Marriage. B. H. Tracy, formerly of Wamego. died suddenly Thursday in Kansas City Death was caused by Brighfs' disease from which lie had suffered- for nine months, SSfl al T "TvinS been In hos- irIra..aJ. kn?wn awyer ..cu aaaisia.ni united States attornev at TnrwVn v.,,. i "weeks ago he married Miss 1 i i wriiin street. They were married in an automobile at sJnndeaj.uneral -be- held at Wamego on TAFT OLYMPIC PRESIDENT. President of United States Accepts Honorary Office. New Tork. Jan. 14. James E. Sulli van, secretary of the American Olympic games committee, announces thut President Taft has accepted the post of honorary president of the American committee. When the committee was formed. It was decided to ask President Taft to head it. Julian W. Curtiss of Tale traveled to Washington recently for the purpose of asking the president to head the committee, every member of which is pleased at the acceptance. R. M. Thompson, head of the New Tork Athletic club, will be chairman of the committee. JOTTRNAE SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1911. YES, BONUS HOME And This Time lie Brought Buf falo With Him. Seven Big Animals Are Here for Topeka Zoo. IT WAS A HARD TRIP. "Buffalo" Bone Says He Would Not Do It Again. Unloading of .Beasts at Brick Tarda Tomorrow. "Buffalo" Bone Is here. The last time the announcement w-a3 made In these columns the city com missioner who went to Pontiac, Mich- city zoo, came back to Topeka because ne couiuu t get tne Duitaiu. TVila Ifma Via Viae U n .1 tVtPV Zl TP ,U. 1 V. ,11. IIUO t uuu J in the Santa Fe yards safe and sound. The next question is to get them out to Gage park and the commission is making plans today to make the trans fer. The plans now are to set the car out at the brick yards, about two miles nu,r ..i tVio "H o. -If Island. From this switch they will be loaded

one by one in tne cage consn ucicu imj them and hauled to the temporary cor ral at Gage park, a half mile away. "Buffalo" Bone is tired out. He has been at Pontiac for the last three weeks In the worst kind of weather- snow many inches .deep and in the coldest season the people oi jyiiciuBu have known in history. "If my candidacy for city commis sioner next spring depended upon my going to Michigan again and capturing i K.,fraln T ix-niilrln't CO said th3 U1WBC M1HI...., i city commissioner as he made a jao with his letter opener into ma basket of mail this morning. "It was the worst Job I ever had in my life. And I want to say something else. If- Buffalo Jones has an laea. a person can swing a little rope and down those buffalo and lead them to Topeka with ease he has anotner buc.-. coming. Furthermore, I would like to see him take a hand In this, business. I am In favor of the city oi xopena. giv ing him J100 If he takes these animals out to Gage park-and they have been roped, tied down and kept In confine ment tcr ten aays. m.r. 1 his rhance to make good the statements he has made I will resign in his favor ana grant mm honor of the occasion." Will Start Unloading Tomorrow. Commissioner Bone arrived In To- va AaTiv this morn- peka on tne ta buffalo Lnr vTrB afternoon: They will ne watered-not with .bucket but with a hose, mind you and fed this evening. Tomorrow morning cage will be unloaded from the car and possibly the hauling of the first ana pus" b made at hnt it Will taKe sevemi ""J1" Vii buffalo 'obe transferred-this will Bl VeVbanimals are each roped In one nas iu Z"t Finnic and they are able only -to eat drtak and lie down. tt""Trthev we're emordingto "Buffalo" ione, moy n,- panic wherever they were think that I could catch thoje animals this winter, saia 'Tk7 noon. "It was standing Joke up iiuun. i r-aaa or car the there that no one Klo. in a lifetime unless unusual methods were f. t fore I left the hotelkeeper told me that It was the surprise of the town that nn mured the seven buffalo e"U was only through a tedious and It was oiiiy rones, prods constant mainp"""e. v. t and cages that we were able to get them loaaeo l in 'age which was pfaced on a sled and dXn four miles to the stock yards htTcaSSrb buffaTc J that "It was cold and blowing and snow ine most of the time. One day we had ing most ol i. Mi-sard was so nerceaVTble cage, ed and all over into a t,ed bv the hetd to the cage and h couldn't get head to tne cage r) were nwav but his wnoie n"'" thrown out of the cage. There in that hViiiflimr freezing blizzard we worked numne that cae back right side up SSHttttos the5, buffalo back into place. Lost TOO nugcrs. i-.s .i.. nnimai into town on its back with its feet kicking straight up in the air, That wasthe worst ex perience of the trip a-iiu membered for some time. foiinw who was helping me h hands caught in a rope while we were teasme enter the cage and two of .his fingers were pinched off. He quit the Job right there ana 1 uiun Cv- until I settled with him. I Clotures taken oi 1 wantea tu u'c r the cage, the pen. the coral etc. but it was SO cola tna nhtographer in town to go out there With me. It was so cot workmen were at tne ,1 1 were working. Considering the 'nter est and the excitement connected with the capture you can imagine how cold Everywhere along the line when the train stopped crowds of people gathered around the car and asked questions, about, the 'Sf'ifi had thev were going and so on. ir-1 nao thoughl o ft intime I would have had a banner painted- and tacked on the aWthePcarButTo of advertising put of U the was." MRS-IatToH IS MOVED. Taken Seriously in to Home of IMend in Kansas Ctty. Kansas ,Cltr. Jan. 14. Mrs. Carrie Nation, former, militant v temperance worker in Kansas, who suffered a ner. vous breakdown yesterday, was re ported seriously ill this morning. She was brought from Eureka Springs. Ark., where she lived at a girls' school she founded, to the home of a friettd, Dr. Etta Haas, in Argentine,' Kan., near here. Dr. Haas said Mrs. Nation probably would' be confined to her bed for several weeks. Those gloves of yours can be cleaned thoroughly, inside and. out. by our pro cess, which does not harm them in the least. The cost is but a trifle. Enter- prise Cleaning Co., Phones 178. GOING ON-DOWN. The Prices of All Grains Con- tinne to Sag. Bigger and Cheaper Offerings of Wheat From Abroad. CORN -IS MADE HEAVY By Seasonable Weather and Ex pected Large Receipts. Provisions Drag Owing Lack of Demand. to a Chi O.a en .Tan I A ly irr. i The e "c-".wuca' nere waay. LU,,c wiu iree reailzinfir at the ws .uT'i,.r i" enect mpn; "lK IHCl lnat tne de- rlonr f5f1L..demand was 8low and the amount n,.HLl.S premciea tne Zu l0I cokl, wave, working fa flL1 IOSS f C to c declined Purchases by a leading lone- led to a rZ$tftfny- .The cloe however, wat anfrri?"5! 55af"abl weatSer onmTC u icteipis renaera corn OUDnort frnni to hniH -"i""",'"" n?ues raiiea WMVatr.nloSnof conco A rtL 'ea?,nS levator I,,,: r lne ats pit a iL ate?ly,-, Ma-V started unchanged PROVISIONS Provisions dragged be cause Of l-J.b- ,1 j nron .u" r irsc sates Zfth iPf.,??? as 'ast night to 6c lower uvuvjim m tor pork- 110 10 t-i"d,,?nd. lo m to 10-1 for ribs. l?f -i: iuo. z, sec. tl5:PVERCaSh:' 0-"-2S; March. Cotton Market. Galveston. Tex.. Jan 14 pmrnn- Market steadyT isi. COTTON- ORDERS COMING IN. After Holiday Revival i Business Already is In Evidence. New Tork, Jan. 14. Bradstreet's says: trade shows an Increasing disposition to throw off the quiet of the post holiday period. Wholesalers are seek lng, with fair success, for spring busi ness and salesmen are beginning to send in orders. In retail lines the clearance sale i widely in evidence. Except where un seasonable weather checks operations, retailers are meeting with fair success. In the wholesale and Jobbing trade, conservatism governs, and the situation seems one of careful buying. This feel ing has resulted in a careful keeping down ot stocks. Very much the same feeling appar ently animates cotton manufacturers who find margins on raw and manufac tured goods narrow. This has had a stimulating effect upon prices of high grade cotton goods. In other lines con servatism Is also patent. A very gen eral curtailment of leather output Is apparently decided upon. Iron and steel are quiet and pig iron prices are still low. Banl? Dmiiiim Bradstreet's bank clearing report for the week ending- lai..n... to ir- j u Bnwa mi m?Kre gate of ,507.378,000 as against ,314?T;I.000 "'i'.uw m tne corre- iiUiuB wcck. iust year. I is a list of the cities: Cities Amount. u.w Tork $2,098,918,000 Pet. Pet. inc. dec. 18.8 5.4 2.0 2.4i 11.8 10.3 3.5 12. 8.0 5.1 11.3 25.0 n.i 18.0 9.3 23.4 12.3 7.0 11.3 0.7 1.4 2.S 13.7 13.1 19.2 0.7 12.8 4.9 57.5 1.3 24.9 Chicago iW6.587.000 Boston Philadelphia St. Louis...... Kansas City... Pittsburg San Francisco 398,880.000 160,368.000 86,353,000 57,660W 49.926,000 49.627.000 36,706,000 28,844.000 21,273,000 24,357.000 23,682.000 19,780,000 15,704,000 17.859,000 16,806.000 14,225.000 11.048.000 10,353,000 10.S39.00O 9.690.000 4.531.000 2.718,000 3,522.000 2,386,000 2.198.000 1,725.000 2.O42.O0O 30,310,000 18,894,000 Cincinnati Minneapolis iNew urieans. nievelnnrt Detroit Omaha Los Angeles... Louisville Milwaukee Seattle St. Paul... Buffalo Denver Des Moines Sioux City Wichita Oklahoma Little Rock T.lnrnln TOPEKA Houston Galveston Weekly Bank Statement. New York. Jan. 14. The statement of clearing house banks, for the week shows that the banks hold $27,398,250 more than the requirements of the 25 per cent reserve rule. This is an In- I crease of $17,895,850 in the proportion- tiie casn reserve as compare! with last week, 'the statement follows: i Daily averages: Pet. Loans ..$1,219,924,800 $8,410500 257,804,100 1S.6O0.700 73,332,500 2,161,000 1,214,953.400 11,463,400 Specie Legal tender Deposits Circulation 447,315,900 203.000 331,136,600 20,761,700 303,738,350 2,865,850 27,398,250 17,895,850 Reserve Reserve required, Surplus Ex-U. S. deposits Actual condition: 1,680,400 28,300 Loans $1,233,816,500 $18,273,800 Specie 269,606,100 23,364,300 Legal tender Deposits Circulation Reserve Reserve required. Surplus 74,550,800 2,764,700 1,241.213,900 44,065,200 47,370,600 248,300 344,164,900 26,129,000 310,303,475 11,016,300 33,861,425 15,112.700 Ex-U. S. deposits 1,672,000 27,500 Summary of state bank trust com pany.in Greater New York not report ing to the New York clearing house: Loans 1,067.169,400 32.575,300 Specie 114,908.200 3,392,T00 Legal tenders 20,585,300 329 600 Total deposits 1.122,046,100 38,789,500 Decrease. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank our friends for their sympathy and kindness shown us in this hour of grief MRS. L. A. FULLER AND FAMILY. The Value of a Head. Ted Grillo. one of the best-known sporting writers In the country, was sitting in a room on one of the upper floors of the National Press Club, in Washington, when he became very indignant because of the slowness of a colored waiter who was serving him. "Look here!" he exclaimed impatiently. "I'm going to throw you threugh that window In a minute, and, if you don't want the fall to kill you, you'd better hit the pavement on your head.'" The Popu lar MagazlP- STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourselves Best Result Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Slock Yards, Kan. City Wa Also Have Onr Own Offices M Cbfoaco, So. St. Joseph, S. Oma ha, Denver. Sioux City. So. St. FenL. EL Buffalo, EL St. Uools and Port Worth. Chicago Grain Market. Chicago, Jan. 14. Open His a iw vLio WHEAT May July Sept COKN May July Sept ..ioi-H 101- 101 loiU 96- 96 96 96 95 95 94-tt 94- 49-50 50-49 60-O7 61 50 51 51 51 49 50- 51 May July Sept u K May LAhD- Jan. May July i u.-, 34- 34T4 34 34 34 34- 34 84 33 S3- 33- 83 .19.10 19.12 18.97 18.97 ..10.50 ..10.10 10.50 10.45 10.12 10.05 10.45 10.00 10.03 10.02 9.97 9.97 Jan 10.72 10.82 10.70 10.70 May i.10.07-10 10.10 10.02 10.02 Kansas City 1'roduec Market. Kansas City, July 14. WHEAT Cash: Market unchanged. No. 2 hard, 96c1.02; No. 3, 4c$1.00; No. 2 red, $1.031.04; No. 3, $L011.03. CORN Market Mc higher to c lower. No. 2 mixed. 4445c; No. 3 44c; No. 2 white, 45c; No. 3, 45c.. OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white, 33534c: No. 2 mixed. 31&32C RYE No. 2, 7iic. HAY Market unchanged. Choice tirn Pthy, $14.00gl4.60; choice prairie, $12.50. BUTTER Creamery, 28c; firsts, 25c; seconds, 23cr packing stock, 15c. EGGS Extras, 29c; firsts, 27c; seconds, 19c. WHEAT Receipts, 39 cars. CLOSE: WHEAT May, 98c; July, 92&92c sellers. CORN May, 48(ff4Sc sellers; July, 4949c sellers. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, Jan. 4. BUTTER Market easy. Creameries, 1927c; dairies. 17g23c. EGGS Market steady. Receipts 6,040 cases; at mark, cases Included, 232?c; firsts, 28c; prime firsts, 29c. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies. 15 16c; Twins. 1313c; Young Americas, 15 16c; Long Horns, 15S16c. POTATOES Market steady. Choice to fancy, 4446c; fair to good, 4042c. POULTRY Market easy. Turkeys, live, 17c; dressed, 22c; chickens, live, 13c; hens, 13c; springs, live, 11c; dressed, 12c. VEAL Market steady. 50 to 60 lb. wts. Sc; 60 to 85 lb. wts., 10c; 85 to 110 lb. wts., llc. New Tork Produce Market. New York, Jan. 14. BUTTER Market easy. Creamery specials, 28c; extras, 26c: tihrd to first, 1924c: creamery-held, third to special, 1826c; factory held, 1920c; i ft r, fMirrpnt make.- 20c. CHEESE Market steady. State whole milk lt fall auality. fine. ditto late made, prime, 12tTl3c; ditto winter made, common to fair, 1012c; Bliirn. 91f i-.-ifia MuriiPt weak. State. Pennsyl vania and nearby hennery white, fancy- large, 34B3oc; flitto gatnereo. wiuio, ovs 83c; ditto hennery brown fancy, Sl32c; western gathered, white, 30ig3c; fresh gathered, extra firsts, 29c; ditto first, 2Sc; ditto second. 2627c; refrigerators, spec ial marks, fancy in local storage, 24c; ditto firsts, 23(ao4c auto secouus, iu 23c POULTRY Alive, dull; western chick ens. 16c; fowls, 1718c; turkeys 1518c; dressed firm; western chickens. 14&18c; fowls 1416c; turkeys 18(g25c. New 'S'ork StoeU List. Last Sale.- New York, Jan. 14. Amalgamated Copper.. 64 American Beet Sugar- sw American Car and foundry oJ American Cotton Oil 8 American Locomotive............ 4 American Smelting and Refining.... 76V Amer. Smelting and Refining pfd....l04 ln omrar -Rfininf .........116 Annonnda Minimc Co 39B Atcihson J Atlantic Coast Line... Baltimore and Ohio...... Brooklyn Rapid Transit JzA Canadian Pacific 1 I. artA OVlln briH Vihr-aeo and Northwestern- .....143B Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul. -12 Colorado Fuel and Iron Colorado and Southern Delaware and Hudson. lJOi Denver and Rio Grande.... 30 Denver and Rio Grande pfd.... 71U AO Great Northern pfd Great Northern Ore Ctfs Illinois Central Interborough-Met. Interborough-Met. pia. Louisville and Nashville Missouri Paclcfic... Missouri, Kansas and Texas National Biscuit National Lead..... New York Central Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific Pacific Mail Pennsylvania People's Gas Pullman Palace Car Reading Rock Island Co Rock Island Co. pfd .124 58 .134 194 54 145 49 35 118 55 110 .102 117 28 127 107B 169B 155 31 61 116 27 175 ...76 118 16 35 24 630 178 Southern Faciric. Southern Railway;. Union Pacific United States Steel. United States Steel pfd Wabash Wabash pfd Western Union Standard Oil Lelhgh Valley. Xevr York Money Market. New York, Jan. 14. MOSET Money on call nominal. Time loans, very steady; 60 days and 90 days, 3V43 per cent six months 34 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 4 to 4lSterfing exchange firm with actual busi ness in bankers' bills at $4.82.6004.83.60 for 60 day bills and at $4.85.95 for demand. Commercial bills J4.814.8Z. SILVER Bar silver, 54c; Mexican dol- BONDS Government bonds steady, rail road bonds firm. .1 New Tork Sugar and Coffee Market. New York, Jan. 14.-SUGAR-Raw sugar easy; Muscovado 89 test. $3.17; centrifugal 96 test $3.67: molasses sugar 89 test, $3.92; refined, quiet; crushed, $5.50; granulated, $4.80: Dowdered, $4.90. COFFEE Spot steady No. 7 Rio, 13c; No. 4 Santos, 1414c yen Tork Stock- Blarlcet. Wall St., New York. Jan. 14. STOCKS The feature of the opening of the stock market today was extensive trading In United States Steel and Reading. 8teel opened with a block of nine thousand shares at 76 to 78 against 76, yester day's .closing. A block OI 8.UW xiwamg tbaiiseu iiwiua at ioo4 10 jbd-w. u y""'- uhi HllitH ury flint. v,,,,v.. j Toledo, St. Louis and Western preferred heavy. 18c; dry flint culls 10e- v'l advanced a point and there were half heavy. (18 lbs. and up). 14c; dry -Bait yiu5iS point gains in Louisville and Nashville, (under 18 lbs.). 12c; dry sheep eel ?s SJ wii Missouri Pacific. Union Pacific and WOOI.r-Heavy fine. 10l2c- CoiiS Great Northern preferred. The tone of New Mexico. Utah and Texas- 9l J?l the market was strong medium. 14lc; light fine. 13nc' heavy Stocks were supplied freely on the ad-! fine. 1012c: Missouri. Iowa and .imflar; vance and the market reacted slightly and C&?lctJne"" combing. 18; medium became dull. New York Central was S1"1"- i18f? 1,an1 braid. 1416 .ir on rumors that a larere bond Issue isht ii"?. n4.fln medium. 14lfic: h2ivT would soon be made. Some weak spota cropped out In the Inactive session. Amer- loan Bet Suaar losing 1 and Strr Louis southwestern preferred and. Western I Maryland preferred 1. Northern Pacific made the best showing of the leading stocks, rising a point to 118. Long Island also moved up 2, Railway Steel Spring 1 and American. Hide and Leather pre ferred 1. At 11 o'clock Lehigh Valley waa bid up rapidly to 178 a gain of over o Tnin tt... tha itnt imme diately picked up in sympathy. Kansas City lAv Stock Market. Kansas City. Jan. 14. CATTLE Re ceipts 300. Market steady. Native steers. $5.25&6.75; southern steers, $4.76.a: southern cows. $3.255.00; native cows ana heifers, $3.006-00; stockers and feeders. $4.505.90; bulls. $4.005.10: calves, $4,809 8.75; western steers, $4.7596.25; western cows. 3.3f(?.zb. HOGS Receipts 3.000. Market steady to xrnatr Rniir nt uiu 7 7.vff,7.80: heavy. $7.S0Si7.S5; packers and butchers, i7.75ig7.8o; ngnts, fi.itntfi.9. SHEEP Receipts none. Market steady. Muttons, J3.fHXQ4.40; lambs, $5.50.25; fed wethers and yearlings, $4.0086.60; fed western ewes. $3.504.1O. Clilcago Live Stock Market. Chicago, Tune 14. CATTLE Receipts estimated at 300. Market steady. Beeves. $4.S5'7.10; Texas steers, $4.255.50; western steers, $4.6&6.10; stockers and feeders, $3.85igS.0; cows and heifers, $2.S56.60; calves, J7.50910.00. HOGS Receipts estimated at 12.000. Market steady. Light. $7.707-96: nilxed. $7.70(ffl7.96: heavy. $7.907.95; rough. $7.70 7.80; good to choice heavy, $7.8S7.90; pigs. $7.40as.05; bulk of sales, JT.To.SO. SHEEP Receipts estimated at 1.500. Mriro aimriv. ictLtive. 2.80ff'4.50: west ern, $2.65(84.45: yearlings, $4.906.98; lambs. native, S4.Yvae.ao; western, o.uwiy'o-. DAILY MOVEMENT OF PRODUCE. WHEAT Receipts. 24,000 bushels; ship ments, 12,400 bushels. CORN Receipts, 618,700 bushelst shlp menta 292,500 bushels. Car lot receipts: Wheat 24 cars, with nf nnntrQi-t vmila' onm ORTS. With 1 of contract grade; oats. 217 cars. Total receipts of wheat at Chicago. Min neapolis and Duluth today were 258 cars, compared with 183 cars last week and 400 cars the corresponding; day a year ago. Topeka Market. -Furnished by the Chas Wolff Packing Co.. yards clou, at noon Saturday. W cannot us pigs, thin sows or hogs weighing less than 170 lbs. Do cot mar ket hogs unless same are well finished. as we cannot use half fat stuff. W give below prices effective at one, until fur ther notice. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 14. Market closed all day Monday. Decem ber 16th, and Monday. January 2, 1911. HOGS MIXED AND BUTCHERS. $7.40(37.43 HEAVY 7.407.4& aAGHT 7.37I&7.40 Can't use thin bogs or thos iuder 171 pounds.! CATTLE. Cows, good to choice.. $3.5094.2$ Cows, medium to eood..... Z.0O&3M Heifers, good to choice t.75 34.54 Heifers, medium to good S.00'33.7( Bulls, good to choice. S.60S4.M Bulls, medium to good 2.76 a 3 M Veal, extra to good, light... COOSS. Veal, good to choice, heavy 4.005 0 (Cattle must be good. Cannot usa tola stud.) Market price oald for dry tot eattla. BUTTER AND EGGS? Furnished by Thatlgnu, Creamer, CHICAGO EGGS 29c. N. Y. EGGS Sic. CREAMERY BUTTER-Chlcago, 28c N y!? 27c; Elgin, 29e. rwholesale prices furnished by Cnii.'. 1 Citv Market Hous f p EGGS Fresh country, candled. "7c.. POULTRY Hens. heavyloc; lilfht.-" broilers. 1 and 2 lbs. 12c; 2and f4 lbs 11c; course young roosters 8c old roosters 6c. Turkeys. 7 lbs and over, 20c; old Toms. 18c. Ducks F. F. F 12c; Geese F F F.. 10c. 'NO. 1 RABBITS Per doz., i.oo; dressed rabbits, per dos., $1.10. uressea GUINEAS Per doz., $2.50. BUTTER Packing stock per Ih ie. Dairy butter in Jars and pound p'rlnta,' Furnished by n,, K W WleTa?. BANANAS Medium slsed bunch.. Jmnch. $2 002 .26; large iunShei SK t2BO2.75; per lb! 3!eUncllea- per per BOX APPLES Fancy Tork Imperial per box, $1.60: Fancy Ben Davis, per box Piiipins" per box. $1.75. Missouri JONATHAN APPLES-Per box 12 00 CALIFORNIA LFMONS-Per box ii'vv NAVEL OR ANG ES Per box. laJi? FLORIDA GRAPE FRUITPer5' Iffffi1 FanCy Mland. 'BOXED CRANBERRIES Per box 13.00. Fancy Jerseys per box. .00. LoU Cf ten' or more boxes-5c per box teas. or teo PACKAGE FIGS-Per jox. J2 cartona, "PACKAGE DATES Per box. HALLO WI DATES Per lb.. Vc COLORADO HONEY Per 24-ck FANCY INDIANA RED ri1n ONIONS-Per bu., $1.50. GLOBa WHITE ONIONS Per bu., M Bo. SPANISH ONION S Per crate ilea CALIFORNIA CACUnx)VERTp crate, $2.76. Per ROOT VEGETABLES Tumip B t, 10c; beets, per bu., 75c; parsnips, dp! Su" lb m"tB' ButiX per' POTATOES Colorado Rural s ne. k S5c; Western Slope Colorado Rurals, 'sWEET POTATOES Per bu 41V-" OYSTERS Standards. Der "i.t New York Plain Selects. per c"- eS New York Extra 6e!ects. p New York Counts, per can. 60c- st.TS ards. per callon. tl.60: New' York Pl2? Selects, per gal.. $1.80; New Yorlf F.?i? Selects, per gal.. $2.00; New Tork rf per gal.. I2.20;Baltimore Standards $143: Shell oysters. 1,400 slse. p i& f,!- CBLERY-Mammoth. per bunch.' Jumbo, per bunch. 75c. cn- "cs HOLLAND CABBAGE Pr Crated. $1.50. er cwt- CHEESE L. H. cheese, per lb lav... Limburger. per lb.. 17c; Wl vei'inifii lbs., pe? lb.. 17c; Wfa. white. Soy!bgW'B? lb.. 17c; New Wisconsin Brick, ner" ?h 17c; Bjock Swiss. 25 to 30 lbs. each! per Topeka Hide Market. fOuutatlons furnished by Jim.. Hide Co.. 108 East Third SLJ Topeka, Ran.. jn ia GREEN CUREDT Hides Natives, short haired. No 1 o. No. 2, 8c; sidebrands, over 40 Oat 1. 8c;side brands under 40 Ilat i' 7c; bulls and stags. No. L gj: go i" 7c; bulls side branded, flat. No 1 iJT. green salt cured glue, flat. No. 1 JjZ: green salt cured, deacons, each! MffiV Slunks. each. 25&16c. tn W&So; Green uncured hides lo less than same grade cured. ureen 1 rEcn mues are NO. S. Green half cured. e less than cureil Horse hides, green No. J. t?Kr,r. horse hides. No. 2. $L752.25 green mm hides. 75CI641.S0; sheep pits." asccS $1.00: dry. according to wool, per lb TALLOW NO. 1. 6c: No. 2. Be. s BEESWAX-1525e. 1416c; heavy. ,'..,,K7Nebr?ka and Okla- ilml-littl dark md tum" "Bat line. 12tol4c rFurnlaherf K j "U?, Mrk lFUrM81,bIi- B---Bai u. c, sas ave.. rul Curtis Topeka Grain Market. corner Kaa st. WHEAT-Nof Kan Jan" 1-,. CORN 38c. I OATS-SOc.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1911. GIRD UPJ.0INS. Commercial Club Starts on An l other Year's Work. Smith Automobile Company Is Given a Boost. DIRECTORS CHOSEN. President Borman and Secretary Badders Make Reports. Tell of What Has Been Accom plished. The annual meeting of the Commer cial club held Friday night, resulted in the choosing of the following men to compose the directorate in the ensuing year: Representing the banks, Scott Hop kins; wholesale interests. T. A. Bor man; manufacturers, George H. Hack ney; retailers, W. C. Connors, J. C. Emahizer, and C. P. Adams; realty and insurance. Is'. B. Burge; contractors, F. M. Spencer; hotels and theaters, A. F. Colson; lawyers. L. S. Ferry; other pro fessions, W. B. Lindsay; railroads, E. L. Copeland; public utilities, Albert Patten; city, R. L. Bone; county, E. L. ONeil. Boost Automobile Company. One of the important steps taken at the meeting was the passing of the fol lowing resolution which endorses the Smith Automobile company and urges its retention in Topeka: "Resolved, That we give our unquali fied endorsement to the efforts now be ing made by F. E. Whitney to retain the Smith Automobile company for To peka and that we urge the people of Topeka to assist in this laudable work by subscribing the required stock." J. Will Kelley. chairman of the man ufacturers' committee suggested the establishment of a fund of $100,000 or more for the purpose of giving aid to struggling concerns of a worthy na ture. N. B. Burge, chairman of the public improvements' committee urged the ne cessity for naintine the telephone and telegraph poles, and the raising of the smokestack of the City Hand laundry to prevent the new Memorial building when erected from becoming dingy. Robert Stone reported that $4,000 was spent in 1910 for the entertain ment of the following conventions: State Real Estate Dealers' association, Laymen's missionary movement, Mer chants' week. State T. M. C. A.. Kan sas State Board of Agriculture, State Breeders' association, national conven tion of the Christian church. Kansas Bankers' association, state Christian Endeavor meeting, United Presbyter ian Young People's national conven tion, Kansas State Teachers' associa tion, State Commercial Teachers' asso ciation. State Chess association, Kansas State Medical association and the Bee Keepers' association. Other reports were submitted by the following committee chairmen: Albert T Reid chairman of the house com mittee O. P. M. McClintock, of the schools eommiti.ee: W. D. Goodwin.' of the railway committee; TO. W. Rankin, of the state and national legislation committee; Clarence D. Skinner, of the civic improvement committee; R. D. Blaine, of the immigration committee, and Charles Eldridge, of the public safety committer. A report of the auditing committee, composed of C. M. Heaton. C. F. Ecker and L. G. Thorpe, was also read. Report of President. The report of the president, T. A. Borman, follows: "With the year just closed the To peka Commercial club occupies a po sition of great importance to Topeka. The club's work has beeu extended and its usefulness increased until there can be little doubt of its import ance as a factor in the upbuilding and prosperity of the city. The club occu pies this position as the result of a larger and more general participation by the club membership, in the work undertaken. The organization has de veloped earnest, faithful, conscientious and intelligent consideration of the city's welfare by a large number of business men a thing essential in the progress and success of any commer cial body. "It is certa'n that mistakes have been made and not unlikely that fault has been found. Any body of men do ing things, or trying desperately to do things, can not avoid mistakes. "It Is impossible to so conduct the business of an organization of such character as this club, with such a multiplicity of personal and business interests represented, and with such a varied membership, as to meet with the whole-souled approval of the entire membership. Personal interests must often be disregarded in the earnest pursuance of a community's best in terest. The welfare of Topeka. as lying within the range of possibility, lias been foremost in the 'considera tion of every matter before the club. This club, as a body, must strive to concentrate its effort for the Topeka public welfare. This successfully done, no Individual member can help but feel the beneficial effect and the city is compelled to progress. Year a Good One. "The year just closing has for the city been one of unprecedented activ ity along every line in which a citv can grow and prosper. This activity andt prosperity are airectly the result of favorable natural .and commercial conditions, the activity and zealous "ness of our residents whose united en thusiasm and expression of faith can not fall to attract the outsider and make him invest his money. "The fact that Topeka is peopled by a live, enthusiastic citizenship mak ing itself heard through a live com mercial organization, is in itself a tre mendous force and is the foundation Mothers la -woman's safest reliance; it is a medicine for external use, composed of oils and other ingredients which assist nature in all necessary physical changes of the system. Its regular use before the coming of baby prepares the muscles and tendons for the unusual strain, aids in expanding the skin and flesh fibres, and strengthens all the membranes and tissues. Mother's Friend lessens the pain ana aanger ma cruus, ana leaves the mother In such healthful con dition that her recovery is always rapid and natural. Mother's Friend in sold at drug stores. Write for our free book for expectant mothers. EBADFIELD EEQTJXATOR CO., Atlanta, Oa. upon which the advancement and the prosperity of this city is builded. "The Commercial club must for the most part crystallize and voice the en thusiasm and the character of the peo ple of this city. Our natural advan tages, megaphoned through the Com mercial club, are responsible for the new life, the vigor, and the advance ment manifest in the city from year to year. "The Commercial club accomplishes a' tremendous amount of advertising and direct benefit which is not appar ent on the surface. Daily, dozens' of letters are received from all parts of the United States. The writers want statistics of our population, prices' of real estate, extent of grain shipments, amount of banking capital, rates of taxation, data regarding manufactur ing plants, figures on building opera tions, wages of skilled and unskilled labor, the amount of la.bor of various kinds available, etc. We have told them. To just what extent the labor and energy so expended results in ben efit to the city, is-not known and can not be calculated. State Fail? Achievement. "Fully ninety-five per cent of the opportunities to locate factories and manufacturing enterprises are such as require financing in full, with requests for free fuel, free sites, etc. Every re quest for an audience must be heeded. This requires time and a great-deal of it. "I feel that this club could well af ford, if necessary, to rest its record for the past year, on the part it play ed in establishing the commission form of government and in establishing the state fair. "The commission form of city gov ernment has given Topeka distinction as an up-to-date, progressive city. It is probable that this club receives more inquiries regarding our city gov ernment, its organization, its benefits, etc., than regarding any other one thing. While new, certainly at this stage, government by commission in dicates very great promise in the ef ficient and-economical handling of the city's business. "The benefits resulting to Topeka from the establishing of a state agri cultural fair, are apparent. Yet this club has been intrumental in helping to establish" only the nucleus for a great fair. It will require persistent effort, years of development and a faithful and strict adherence to duty on the part of this club and the peo ple of Topeka, to reach the ultimate and final degree of success in this un dertaking. But, the result will be well worth the effort. Topeka can not be so well advertised by any other one means as by having a fair command ing the attention of the agricultural world. "In the past year, very largely through the efforts of this club, To peka has entertained more conven tions and probably a larger number of visitors than in any previous year. It is posisble to make Topeka the con vention city of Kansas. It should be. Conventions advertise the town. We should have all we can get. Our ar rangements whereby these conventions can- be secured should be reinforced and made just as strong and effective as possible. "The convention committee should be a live one and its expenses in at tendance upon conventions represent ing Topeka's interests, should be paid from the club's treasury. A number of good conventions to meet in Topeka this year, are booked and a part of the arrangements made. Must Advertise Topeka. "We must advertise Topeka well. Topeka has lots to sell, factory sites to be built upon, houses and stores to rent and sell. The shelves of this municipal warehouse are loaded with advantages. In the modern days of keen competition between cities, it is necessary that we let the world know what we have. This club should be prepared to do that advertising. We should have a well organized publicity bureau. I am told that some cities maintain such bureau out of the gen eral revenue tax fund, spending as much as $1.17 annually for every in habitant of the city. Topeka should have a bureau of this kind and should spend at the beginning not less than $0,000 per annum in publicity. "Plans are now under way for a great White Way for Kansas avenue and this should be backed to a suc cessful conclusion. This will be a big ad for the city. The use of electricity in a city's advertising is becoming more and more a factor. "Under consideration now is the establishing of a charitable indorse ment committee, a work which would standardize and legalize all city chari ties, and which when fully understood, will commend itself to every citizen. "A committee of this club is now engaged in an investigation which points to the conservation of Kansas' supply ot natural gas. This commit tee is to work with the commercial organizations of other towns in an ef fort to prevent the waste of gas and conserve it as far as possible for do mestic use. "This club now has a committee com posed of J. Will Kelley. George W. Crane and John Purcell to investigate the possibility of purchasing the plant of the Smith Automobile company which will go to the highest bidder at sale January 20 unless that sale date is for some reason or other deferred. This committee has in its hands a mat ter of great importance and action must be taken quickly. "In July this club did everything pos able to bring Mr. Wernicke and Topeka capitalists together but without results. Since that time other efforts have failed to get this plant assured for Topeka and we at this date have one other opportunity. This comea through Mr. E. L. Whitney, who has high hopes but who needs the moral support and backing of this club. Much Yet to lie Ione. "The maximum of possibilities of this club for the upbuilding of Topeka has scarcely been approached. The benefits which can accrue to Topeka through this organization can be realized only by that man who has had a chance to know the opportunity. The presidents of the club, the members of the boards of directors, the heads of committees and the committees themselves must necessarily come from the ranks of the busiest men we have. These men sac- The greatest crisis in a woman's life is when first she becomes a mother. All the physical strength of ber nature is demanded at such times, and It is necessary that her system he thoroughly prepared for the event, in order that her health be preserved for future ears. Mother's Friend rifice from their own, business a great -j deal or time and as much as can be expected of them, yet not so much as they should in the best interest of the town. This club must strengthen the hands of those men and this can easily be done. "In my judgment It is possible to ef fect greater efficiency from this club and accomplish a much greater work by concentrating more of the work in the hands of the secretary. The real active head of this club or of any other simi lar organization, is the secretary. His position demands that he be a man of large affairs, that he be able to devote his time and his energies to those larger things which are continually coming up. He should be the analyst, the con structive force, the force which drives. AU matters should come to him. The merit or demerit of every proposition should be threshed out in his mind. The good things resulting from his selection or of his creation, should be presented to the proper committee by him and with his aid, that committee should take such action as is deemed advisa ble and the plan thereby be carried to a successful conclusion. Relieve the Secretary. "A secretary can not devote his time and energy to theae larger things if upon him devolves the responsi bility of looking after the detail of a cafe, a pool room, the collecting of annual dues, the detail of bookkeep ing, and the dozen and one other things which come up in connection with the operation of an organization such as this. "The secretary of a real live com mercial organization should by virtue of his duties, his accomplishments and his possibilities, be the biggest, most important man in town. I urge upon this club a careful study of the merits of this recommendation. Out secre tary acting in this capacity can make this club so strong, so useful that the question of memberships as a means of support would be the least of the club's worry. One year as president leads me to this belief and expressed feeling. "I am not unmindful of the impor tant part which the secretary of this club under the present system of or ganization has played. His untiring energy and constant devotion and en thusiasm has shown in all matters in the interest of the club It is my idea that to his position should be added greater responsibilities. Before concluding, let me thank the press of the city. The papers have shown a highly commendable dispo sition in aiding in the work of arous ing the civic conscience to greater ac tivity. I acknowledge the hearty ana earnest assistance and co-operation of every officer and member of this or ganization. "The members of the Topeka Com mercial club have sacred duties to per form for the city of Topeka. Realize in" all its fullness that 'no man liv eth unto himself and that ea5h owes something to his city and the age in which he lives. As individuals we can accomplish but little for the general good. United, we may do much." Report of Secretary. Following is the annual report of the secretary, George S. Badders: "The work of the club has been conducted along practicable lines, be ing absolutely free from political in fluence and from the efforts of any in dividual members to secure personal gain. I believe there are not as many as one-half dozen members in the club who retain their membership for what they can get out of it personally. I can safely say that more than ninety per cent of our membership contrib ute to its support because they be lieve it is a real and potent force in promoting Topeka's industrial and commercial welfare. "With the same support in the year 1911 that we have had in the year 1910, there is no question but what the club will accomplish something worth while for Topeka along the lines that a Commercial club is intended to work. In 1910 nine regular meetings have been held with an average at tendance of 92. 'I wish to mention only two things that the club has done during the year the first is the pushing to a success ful conclusion the commission form of government and the securing of what we believe good men for the re spective offices; and second the rais ing of fifty thousand dollars by popu lar subscription for a big agricultural exposition, and the following of this by a successful campaign for a fifty thousand dollar bond issue for the same proposition. "The board of directors have held twenty-one meetings during the year with an average attendance of nine, those being most faithful in their at tendance were Scott Hopkins, Geo. Hackney, J. Will Kelley, John Sargent, W. S. Lindsay and Charles P. Adams. We commenced the year's work with an outs'anding indebtedness of $1, 125.00, $d25.00 of which was due the twenty-five boosters who gave one hundred dollars each when we came into our new rooms. This $1,125.00 indebtedness has been reduced more than one-half so that on January 1st, 1911, the club has an outstanding in debtedness of $490.00, and outstand ing dues with which to meet this in debtedness of $700.00. "The Merchants association, of which your secretary is chairman, is really a branch of the club. It s supported by about 50 members. This year it has received and disposed approxi mately $4,000.00, eighty per cent of the amount going for the booking and entertainment of conventions. There are now 750 members in the Commer cial club. The cafe account has been kept separate from the regular club account and for the year shows re ceipts of $7,950.50 and disbursements S822.59 or a loss of $262.00 for the year or $21.83 per month. "The board of directors considered this a very good showing. It is hoped with a few more banquets and dinners this year the cafe can be made to break even. The noonday luncheons themselves cannot be served at a profit if the present standard is maintained and we do not propose to lower the quality of the lunch served.' "The receipts from the billiard room from June 11th to December 31st in clusive have been $141.75 while the rent on these rooms alone in that time was $185.00 showing a loss of $53.25. The board of directors is contemplat ing a change in the charge for the use of the rooms which will probably make it at least self sustaining. We do not want to make a profit out of either the billiard room or cafe, but would like to see them sustain themselves and in another year they will, prob ably do so." Hail the One-Legged Champion. Traffic stopped in Thrid avenue, the Bronx, when two one-legsed men raced for the championship of the borough and a $10 gold piece donated by Borough President Miller. The contestants were "Happy" Albert Frank, who sells newspapers all day at Third and Tremont avenues and thus supports a mother and five broth ers and sisters, and "Chunk" Hoffman, another newsboy. The course was six long blocks. "Happy" finished first with half a block to spare. Xew York American, SATIRES OWN LINE Hackett Pokes Fun at Romantic Drama in New Play. Seitz Comedy Even Borders on Melodrama at Times. ONLY FIVE WEEKS OUT. Bill Not as Yet Presented In Really Large Cities. Entertaining Story Simply Told Proves Pleasing One. Departure from the romantic drama into satire on romantic drama that is the -course that has been taken by Jas, K. Hackett, long famous as a romantic actor, who five weeks ago produced for the first time George Brackett Seitz's satirical comedy, "The King's Game," the offering at the Grand last night. None of the really larger cities have seen the bill, Winnipeg, Minneapolis and, St. Paul having been of the largest in which it has been presented. Seven years ago, Hackett appeared in a satire called "The Crown Prince." It was almost a failure, at least, it is not reckoned among the plays that have been really successful. Altogether there have been few satires produced within the last 20 years Hackett says only four, "Arms and the Man," done by Richard Mansfield, "The Crown Prince," "The King's Game" and an other. "Arms and the Man' has evolv ed into comic opera and is known to the theater-going public as "The Chocolate Soldier." In "The King's Game" Hackett pokes fun at his own romantic and success ful line of drama, though it must be said that in the Seitz comedy there is much of the romantic. The bill, which is written by a young author, combines comedy, romance and in places even the borderline of melodrama is reached. The play deals in a plot against a king of the mythical country, Tarania, who resembles a Russian, who in turn resembles the king and who is to throw a bomb into the king's carriage as a royal parade passes the place where the anarchists are waiting. Going back to the time of the king's father it is found that Sergius Dar dinlllis, the Baron von Tromp. played by Frank Hatch, has been exiled, his title taken from him. and his wife made the pet of the king-father. This has been the result of the refusal of the baron to obey the wishes of the king. Papers of which only the king and the baron have knowledge are found upon the person of a stranger. He is taken prisoner and as no one would question the king's own action Baron von Tromp is exiled. Later he returns and steals away his daughter, Kath erin Dardinillis, played by Miss Jane Marbury, In Hatred of Own Blood. AH the while Darinillis is planning his revenge. He trains the daughter into hatred of her own blood, keeping from her the secret of her Identity. She is given a thorough education, including a knowledge of chemistry that reaches the scientific. It is her hand that pre pares the bomb planned to be used in taking the life of the king. Learning of the plot against the life of the king, the police arrest Ludwig Eberhard, the anarchist, played by Ar thur Hoops, and he is placed in the royal carriage to be killed by the bomb of Dardinillis and Pasquali, an Italian, played by Robert Lawler. who know Eberhardt only by his reputation in Russia and through associate anarch ists. The king enters the apartments of the anarchists, discovers Katherin, sees through the plot, hears her story of desire to escape from her bondage and carries through the disguise of the Russian. He sends Dardinillis and Pasquali to the rendezvous, while he remains to throw the bomb that has been disguised in a package resem bling a bon-bon box. Katherin re mains with him. He throws what real ly is a box of bon-bons instead of the real bomb. The latter he uses later to escape from the anarchists, who charge him as being an imposter after they have found him and taken him to the rendezvous. In the third and last act. which takes place in his majesty's lodge on the edge of the Forest Tromp, an other attempt to kill the king is made. Eberhardt is trapped after the king has been warned by Katherin that for the third time an attempt is leing made to kill him. Again, Dardinillis and Pasauali are trapped and the story of Dardinillis' wrong is unfolded. Dares to Be Despised. In the meanwhile, Katherin, in ex plaining her interest in the saving of the life of the king, has unfolded her love for him. This she has done with out knowledge of her royal blood and without caring that her admission has been indiscreet. The situation is one in which she asks nothing, expects nothing, but dares to be despised for her admission of her heart's own fire. After the king has heard the story of Dardinillis he restores to him his title as the Baron on Tromp, his lands and all that was his at the time of his exile. Pasauali also is given his right to go unmolested, theking showing a spirit 'of kindliness that leaves him in the minds of the playgoer what he really is, after all only a man with feelings such as any other man might have. Eberhardt, who has ben tricked into a closet and held captive, in the meanwhile, takes poison and is dead. Katherin then hears an answering tone, soft low and soothing, to her 1 are the two great creators of energy. You can get along without Scott's Emulsion if you have enough sunshine, but for the millions who don't get much sunshine, Scott's Emulsion is absolutely necessary. You can always get Scott's Emulsion. Get sunshine, too, whenever you can. "My Watch is slow said a loitering man; "Never iviU'I havefaUh'in: it again. 99 So prone are e'en the wisest and the best To cast the blame where never blame should rest. A good friend smiled and gravely shook his head; "It is not faith you want, but works, 99 he said. These Works Are igp0N They Run Always Reliable H H. M0MMO heart cry. The curtain has fallen. "The King's Game" impresses the audience as a story simply told, entertaining, having a spirit of the romantic and as well a bit of bright satirical comedy that only Hackett can bring before the public in Just the way that it is done. However, the ,entire cast is a capable one, shown to good advantage. ;lt might be said without discredit to the Seitz comedy or the acting of Hackett, that the latter has proved more pleasing in other- plays. Many in the Grand audience would have en joyed him better in his olden type of play; still they did not find- fault. Hackett was called back repeatedly at the close of the second act and? he gave a curtain talk. Hackett Left His Repertoire. Until "The King's Game" was pro duced, five weeks ago, Hackett was on tour in big repertoire, playing five bills "The Prisoner of Zenda," "The Simple Care," "Don Caesar's Return," "Sampson" and "John Glayde's Honor." He will revive the repertoire in the larger cities, partly because he says repertoire is more pleasant to the actor, while a single bill proves monot onous and boresome. Hackett was first made a star in "The Private Secretary," "Mixed Pickles" and Charles Matthew's farces before he became prominently identi fied with New York theatricals. He first came to the prominent attention of the New York public in the produc tion of "Mme. Sans Gene" in which he created the role of De Neipberg. After Mr. Hackett's success in "Mme. Sans Gene," Augustin Daly en gaged him as leading man, and he created the role of De Chamy in "The Queen's Leeklace." Later Mr. Froh man cast him in the role of Rudolph Rassendyll in' "The Prisoner of Zen da." His success in this role was most pronounced, and although he was not starred literally in that play, the char acter itself virtually accomplished that result, and after playing in "The Prisoner of Zenda" a part of two sea sons, he was sent out at the head of his own organization in "The Tree of Knowledge" by R. C. Carton. Follow ing this, Mr. Hackett produced "Ru pert of Hentzau." He then be came actor-manager, producing "Don Caesar's Return," which enjoyed a long run at Wallack's theater. New York. Then the "Crisis," "The Crown Prince' "Fortunes of the King," "The House of Silence,'' "The Walls of Jericho," "John Glayde's Honor," and many others. Mr. Hackett has ben the manager of various stars, notably William H. Thompson, Isabelle Irving, Arthur Byron, Mary Mannering, Pauline Fer ry, Thomas Q. Seabrooke, Martin Har vey, Fanny Warde, Mme. Rejane. PAINFUL FOR SINCLAIR. Makes Announcement Socialists Should Pay for What They Eat. New York, Jan. 14. Among the 350 persons who sat down to the banquet of the Intercollegiate Socialist society in a basement cafe in Park place were some, it was stated, who got in with out buying dinner tickets. Toastmas ter Upton Sinclair,, novelist and So cialist, in the midst of the. speeches was compelled to make this announce ment, which he said was "painful": "AH Socialists are expected to pay for what they eat. Some didn't and yet ate. Only they and the recording angel know who they are not mean ing the recording angel who stood up stairs at the door to receive the money for the tickets. They will please see her and pay up." The guests at the dinner voted unan imously in favor of resolutions of pro test against the secret method of try ing Professor Kotoku and his asso ciates in Japan, the trial being of the same nature as the Ferrer trial in Spain, and also voted in favor of the protest against the conviction of Fred Warren, editor of the Appeal to Rea son, of Girard, Kan., who has been sentenced to jail because he said ex Governor Taylor of Kentucky, accus ed of complicity in the killing of Gov ernor Goebel, should be kidnaped in Indiana and taken back to Kentucky for. trial, just as M oyer-and Haywood, the Western Mining Federation offi cials, were kidnaped in Colorado and carried to Idab- If, v t- "Vy- e f Ji ELGIN WALTHAM LOCAL SANTA FE WATCH INSPECTOR Money Saved By Having Always up-to- date. painless, reliable and the largest dental concern in Kan sas. Popular Prices Best set of teeth $8.00 Good set of teeth E.00 Gold -crown, 22K 6.00 Porcelain crowns 4.00 Bridge work, per tooth 8.00 Gold fillings $1.00 and up DRS. LYON Office Established over 511 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. Ot t PRONOUNCED Ponayo Rheumatic Prescription is considered by medical men to be one of great merit as it neutralizes uric acid in the blood, assists nature to excrete all mineral irritants. It relieves acute, inflamatory and chronic Rheumatism no matter where located. If you are afflicted don't fail to try this remedy. Sold only by MARSHALL BROTHERS-Two Large Store3-.git5ar,niA,,rnB. RICH BABY CUTS TEETH. One Hundred Million Dollar IjwI Learns Japanese and Spanish. Washington, Jan. 14. The Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Mc Lean, who if he lives will some day probably be worth $100,000,000, is be ing taught to say his first few words in Japanese as well as English. A JaDanase nurse has been encased. whose duty it will be as the baby's English vocabulary broadens to see that his Japanese vocabulary keeps pace with it. The child also has a Spanish nurse who will teach him Spanish. -A few years from now a -German governess will be employed to teach the child that language. The Mcleans have extensive inter ests in the Orient and in Europe, and the idea of having the infant McLean pestered by this Jargon of tonsrues is that he will be able to speak English, Japanese, Spanish and German fluent ly at the age when most children are merely beginning to acquire a smat tering of one other speech besides their own. POPCLATIOX OF OHIO CITIES. Xine Out of Ten Reported Show Good Gains. "Washington. Jan. 14. Population statis tics of the thirteenth census announced today included the following cities in Ohio: Place 9io. 1900. Alliance 15.083 8.974 Ashtabula- 18,2 12.949 Chillicothe- 14.50S 12,976 East Liverpool 20.3b7 16.4S5 Findlay 14,858 17.613 Mansfield 20,768 17.640 Marlon 18,232 11.862 Piqua 13.388 12.172 Portsmouth 23,481 17.870 Steubenville 22,391 15,349 Corrected figures announced give the population of Cincinnati as 363.591 instead of 364,463 as given out some time ago and the population of Columbus as 1S1311 in stead of 181,548. PRICE OF, PRAIRIE DRAMATIZED Will Be Given by Hays Xormal Pupils on Kansas Day. Hays, Kan.", 3an. "14. Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter's new book, "The Price of the Prairie." has been dramatized by Prof. E. B. Matthew of the department of public speaking in the Western State mm USE 510 E. 4 th St. Your Teeth Attended By Us Silver fillings 50c to 11.00 Cement fillings ...50c Extracting teeth, freezing gum process 50c Extracting teeth without medi cine 25c HEATHERLY 22 years. Ind. Phone 1118. eF W. A. L. Thompson Hdw. Co. We Offer The following Kansas Loans, first mortgages on farm real estate, to net the investor Losn Examiner's No. Amount Valus County Wabaunsee Coffey Greenwood. Gray Gray 6574 $5000 6557 1850 6S61 1500 6958 1000 $13,000 4.000 3,500 3,500 6996 500- 2,000 Other Kansas First Mort gages and Oklahoma Loans, almost any amount desired, submitted on request. The Pioneer Mortgage Co. MULVANE BUILDING TOPEKA BE A NURSE GRADUATED NURSES are In con stant demand at good pay. Our course embraces three years of hospital work. Pay during second and third year in addition to board and washing during the entire course. (Hospital oaly 3 minutes walk from Lincoln Park.) Grad uates assisted to frood positions. Young Women with fair school ed ucation desirous of having a good hospital training communicate at once with German American Hospital, 731 DWersty Parkway Chicago. Death in Roaring Fire may not result from the work of fire- J bugs, but often severe burns are caused that make a quick need for Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the quicken, surest cure for burns, wounds, bruises, boils, sores. It subdues inflammation. It kills pain, j It soothes and heals. Drives off skfh eruptions, uiceni or v11-3- Kiiuy a. i Camobell Dm" Co. Normal school. His students -will present it at the annual Kansas Day celebration of the schooL Mrs. McCarter -will be present to ad dress the students at the general assejnf bly in the morning and to give a talk be fore the curtain in the evening. The six scenes of the play include the Cambrioge house at Springvale, Mrs. Whately'd bouse, old Fort Hays and Fort Wallace.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1911. CAN NOT SEE HIM ,1 r J Kelly, Denver infielder. Tears i, Up Contract. McGill May Not Even Inquire ?i for Him. HIS PAY WAS LOWERED Player Would Sot tand for Price Stipulated. Scanlon Expected to Make Good in Western. r Denver, Jan. 13. R. B. Speed Kelly, the infielder whom Denver bought from the Washington club of the American league, but who failed to prove the sensation that was expected, is a hold out. President Jimmy McGill is in re ceipt of a letter from the player, in ;which he declines to' accept the terms offered him for the season of 1911 and declares that he has torn up the con tract offered. The lane- act, in all likelihood, "will mean the finish of Mr. Kellv. The Den ver magnate is not inclined to go to the trouble to bring Kelly to time, espe cially in view of the fact that the Denver fans are sour on the infielder. -.IcGill believes that in Kelly there is the makings of a great ball player. A year ago he -came here after spending part of a season in the majors. He was touted as a wonder, and it was said lint ha i.-- l, n r vuiu act tut; w esiern league t a fx r TTo fo n t I i. in jivc lj ie impress- sion expected after the opening of the regular season, and played the 'bench most of the season. -j It was the belief of the DeWyer. owner that Kelly would fit "in well at third this year in place of Cozy Dolan, but not a few of the local fans Shave pro tested against Kelly being given an other chance. In view of the fact that Kelly practically was carried the who!" season without being called upon to work over half the time, and consider ing the miserable showing- made by the player. McGill thought he would be glad to sign on almost any terms. The contract sent him called for slightly less than was paid him last year, and th.- result is that Kelly has kicked over the traces. In a letter re ceived from him yesterday Kelly tells me vuz.niy ooss mat ne nas destroyed the contract sent him. He declares 1 that the terms are not satisfactory and that it is not necessary to attempt to close' negotiations unless a tract is sent. He adds-that he would Mke to hear from Denver at once, so that he might not be delayed in making other plans in case the local club does not want to do business with him. Put tfaith In Scanlon. Raymond Scanlon, the young catcher Tecently signed by Manager Jack Hen dricks of the local baseball club, gives promise of developing into a star for the Grizzlies next year. He was pur chased from the Providence club of this Eastern leagiue, with which he finished the 1910 season. Scanlon is a. graduate of the Not'-e Dame college, noted for the great num ber of athletes it has turned out. While in college he played baseball, basketball and football with' qquift skill and has the reputation of being tne of the" best ever seen on an intercollegiate field. The collegian was a member of the championship Notre Damo baseball team of 1908. and he was captain of the basketball five which captured the championship of the f nited States in 1908 and 1909, after-;, playing in forty states of the'TJnioni Scanlon was a classmate and fellow teammate of Roy Hartzel. the former Deriver university star-and more re cently coach of the baseball and foot ball teams of the Sacred Hart college in Denver. Scanlon and Hartzel played on opposite ends en the Notre Dame football team. ACTORS TO BAR BALL PLAYERS. White Rat Organization After Dia mond Successes.- Baseball players with leanings to ward the stage will have a hard row to hoe in the future, if plans now on foot toy the "White Rats" and actors af filiated with that organization ma terialize. The "legitimates" are miffei at the success of the diamond stars in their theatric ventures, and purpose to put an end to it even if it becomes a battle between capital and labor. The phenomenal advance of Joe Tinker, Jimmy Callahan, Christy Mathewson, "Doc" White, and other followers of the national pastime is the cause of the cry for the removal ;f their kind from the spotlight. Men and, -women who earn a livelihood from their efforts on the stage believe their future will be blasted if ball players, after a successful season on the dia mond, invade the stage. Dissatisfaction has been expressed for some time at the inroads of the ball players, but only yesterday was any tangible plan adopted whereby the in vaders might be barred. Vaudeville actors, good and bad, have been dis cussing the matter pro and con, and it has been learned from an authentic source that drastic action is to be taken which in the end may mean war between the thespians and the man agers of theaters throughout the coun try. 'White Rats" in Arms. The "White Rats," a strone organ ization of actors and actresses, within thirty days purposes increasing its in itiation fee from $10 to $100, with the understanding that baseball players or others connected with any sport shall be barred, no matter how anxious they may be to join or what arguments they put forth as an incentive to accent their membership. If this plan is ad hered to, which appears at the present time to be sure. Tinker et al. will have t turn to their original trade or pro fission to earn a living during the win ter months. The argument of the actors" associa tion is something like this: "Ballplay f rs during the summer in this country receive the support of the public which in winter time attends the theater. The actors, as a rule, find it. pretty poor jicking during the hot weather, while the diamond stars nna it easy. Why then, should these men, who receive big money during the season which is slack for the stage people, encroach on (he preserves of the stage people when the fruit is riper- Putting two and. two together, the argument of the thespians seems to withstand all argument. On the other band, the ball players' reply reads like this: "We must have something to do In the winter.- If we find ourselves adante to stage work, why should we not take advantage of our talents, the same as if we were molders or pro ficient at any other trade? The actors claim that we take away their- -work. We do not take away their livelihood any more than we would some mow er's .or any other workman at whose trade or profession we were adept." Which also, on the face of it, appears to withstand any attack. LOSE RACES NIGHT BEFORE. De Palma, Champion of 1910, Says Condition' Is Paramount. Indianapolis, Ind.. Jan. 14. "Many of the biggest automobile races in the his tory of the sport have been lost the night before." This is the statement of Ralph De Palma, champion mile-track motor race driver of 1910. De Palma recently visit ed the Indianapolis Motor speedway here and announced that he would pilot a car in the 500-mile International Sweepstakes race May 30. He is un decided just' what his mount will be, but he- asserted that he would-be a starter even if he had "to drive a wheelbarrow." Discussing the long grind of seven hours which the $25,000 classic' will mean, thf fearless Italian pilot said:: "A prize of $10,000 for winning one race is not to be picked up every day and I mean to be in at the finish of the speedway race next May. This means that I must be even more care ful of myself now than ever. I always have kept in good-shape through con sistent training but tbiS'long drive will require the very pink of condition in every man who starts. "Many of the biggest races in the history of the sport have been lost the night before. By that I mean that in experienced drivers have given way to temptation and have indulged in in toxicants to an extent that rendered them incompetent to sit at a wheel. Any auto race driver should-be care ful of his physical condition as it not only endangers his own life but that of the other drivers' in the race if he is not in good shape. "It is not always the young driver who adds danger to his career by dissN pation, for I have seen some of the old est and supposedly the best of them in frightful shape the night before they were to take part in a long contest that meant the use of every ounce of en ergy they would have even if they were in the best of condition at the start." De Palma' has a right to talk in this strain for. he never takes a drink of any intoxicant and never smokes. He lives as regular a life as constant trav eling about the country will allow, and is regarded as one of the cleanest men in the motor racing sport. GRAFT SNAPPED IT THE .FOBS. So ITnder New Administration Chicago Wants Improvements From I. C. Chicago, Jan. 13. Charles H. Mark ham, the new president of the Illinois Central railroad, has arrived in Chi cago to prepare for assuming the duties of his office. Almost his first greeting upon reaching here was a letter from the Chicago Anti-Smoke league setting forth that with the abolishment of "graft." under his regime, the smoke nuisance on the lake front could be eliminated. The letter to President Markham was signed by Mrs. Charles H. Sergei, president of the Anti-Smoke league, and says: "Your predecessor declared that the cost of the electrification of the ter minals were prohibitive. Since his statement was made we have learned that the Illinois Central at that very time was losing by graft about suffi cient to cover this cost. Of course, under your administration no grafting will be allowed, and therefore the logical conclusion is that you will be able to give us this relief this Im provement for your road without im pairing its dividend paying power." "You can't expect me to announce any policies or conclusions relative to electrification or tne Terminals ul me Illinois Central in Chicago at. this time," said Mr. Markham. "l nave t-u'ffiiont t!mp to e-et nc- IIUl. iiau suim-ivi". r quainted with and accustomed to my surroundings ana eiectrincatiuu, juu know, is a big problem. "Speaking of smoke, we always have felt the happiest in Pittsburg when there was plenty of it. We were sure it was a sign of business activity and employment on every hand." Mr, JViarKnam win assume m duties of his office officially today. SLEEPING CARS ARE CHEAP. In Sweden a Ten-Hour Ride Is Given for 65 C"nts. Th svi-orHsvi State railways have three classes of fares, the proportion in price being about as 5:3:2. Here- i i. .i r I connn rl r1ae toiore omy --ie passengers -have had access to special l v,q 2ft. sleepers, aiso run luc ways, but now sleepers have been also put in for third class passengers. As third class cars formerly were supplied with only wooden seats, these new cars will be .eicomea ay inuu u'n rra by night. The new cars are comfortably equip- pea; tne est:.-: o-ic uyuuid.ivu compartments make much the same impression as an uiumaij m. or second sleeper. They are brilliantly lighted. The length ot tne car, wnicn rcsw a j I. 1 I. fSf f.n i Tt on t w u litci Liuvfto, jo 1 feet six inches, and the width is ten feet. Tne cars are aivmea nuu rigui. and giving room for six berths. The aisle lrom wnicn one enters tjie wjm partments runs alongside the car's side and is about three feet wide. The berths are six anea one-nau u two leet, k ii 1 1 iiti i o. n h 1 over the upholstering, no sheets being iurnisnea. a pinuw, vwlh a. vjcou low case, and a blanket are supplied. The prices for these sleepers are very low-. The fare from Stockholm to Gothenburg. 285 miles, covered in ten hours, is a inira ciass, auu tuts sleeper ticket costs 67 cents. The charge for sleeping privileges is uni form and independent of the distance. WOOD PULLMAN S WILL PASS. But Pennsylvania Says Tlicy Must Have No Gas or Oil. The Pennsylvania railroad has is sued an order stating that as a tem porary arrangement and until other wise ordered, Pullman cars of foreign roads that are of wood, will be accept ed for movement over the tunnel lines of the Pennsylvania between Manhat tan transfer and the-Pennsylvania sta tion in New York, provided they do not carry gas. gasoline or oil as illu minants. Fires in coal or charcoal ranges must be extinguished before entering the tunnels under the Hudson river. It is further required that all except private cars must have vesti bule and trap doors, so arranged that the vestibule side door may be opened over the top of the trap doors. No other wooden cars will be accepted. All equipment to New York or over the Long Island must be of steel. All wooden cars will .be transferred for those of steel at some point en route, preferably Pittsburg, Harrisburg and Washington. D. C. NORTH SIDE NEWS. Silver Lake Organizes Live Commercial Club. Will Rush Summer ResortProp osition This Spring. GOOD FOR BOATING. Lake Two Miles Long May Be Made Attractive. E. T. Lock wood, Retired Cabinet Maker, Dies at Home. A Commercial -club, has been organ ized, at Silver Lake, eleven miles west of. Topeka on the -UniorrPaciflc rail road.' The club is to boom the town in general and promote" the making of a summer resort of 'the lakV.;This body of water is a short distance south of the depot. It istabout twomiles long and nearly 300,.-yards wide at" the widest place. The depth wariesA'the 'deepest places being over ten feet Perch, bass and other fish are caught there. Charles Williams, Carl French and J. H. Hodgins, of Silver Lake, have bought mo3t of it from Ed and Charles O'Neil, Topeka men, A. N. Thomas of Silver Lake and C. W. Smith of Ross ville. The balance has been leased from J. E. Meadow. The buyers intend to im prove the property and covert it into a summer resort, through the newly or ganized club. The lines along which they will work are not settled. Those interested have reason to suppose that the Topeka Street railway, which late ly built ah extension of its line to the north limits of Topeka on Tyler street, will extend it to Silver Lake. Thus an interurban will be-formed and people can easily and cheaply spend the sum mer evening boating on the lake. Mr. Williams and Mr. French are most interested in the project and-own the larger portion of the wet real es tate. They are also prospective members of the Commercial club. This will meet the first Wednesday of every month. Silver Lake has about 300 population. The country around the town is rich and the farms are valuable. The farm ers are thrifty and prosperous. A new $9,000 school house is to be built in the near future. The town was named after the lake, which was originally an old riverbed. It is only a few hundred yards north o fthe Kansas river. It is fed by springs, of the Kansas river. It is fed by bodies of water are connected. The officers of the Com'merical club follow: Clarence Henry, postmaster, president; J. S. Kelly, vice president; George. Harper, secretary and treasur er. The last two are also prominent citizens. Through -their efforts and those of the members of the club it is not im probable that pavillions, etc., may be built along the lake, boats and launches added and the place made attractive to pleasure seekers, according to reports. The lake side now has considerable shade in the way of trees. The members of the club include the following: H. F. Klllmer, Albert Rich erter, Charles Ward, Joseph Warner, Herbert Hunley, Van Gion, Ernest Strawn. Joseph Cuthbirt and Carl Mattmiller. Eben T. Lockwood., of 1109 North Monroe street, employed for nineteen years in the cabinet department of the Santa Fe shops, died early this morn ing at his home. Old age and complica tions was the cause. He was 80 year3 old. He had been sick for some time. He was born in Rome. N. Y., July IS, 1831; and came to Kansas 21 years ago in April. He lived in Manhattan for a. few months before coming to Topeka. Here he was employed in the cabinet department of the Santa Fe shops until a year ago in July. Then he was re tired on a pension. He was one of the best and most popular workmen in the shops. He raised two sons. Frank Lockwood, employed in a leading dry goods store at Detroit, Mich.,, and Stephen Lockwood, also in the dry goods business in Pierre, Mich. An adopted daughter, Mrs. Herbert E. An derson, lives in Calgary. Canada. His wife, Mrs. Margaret B. Lockwood, also survives him. The laie Mr. Lockwood belonged to the Manhattan I. O. .O. F. lodge No. 17. Intimate friends of the family and the shopmen may view the remains cit the home from 2 to 5 p. m. tomorrow. A short service will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the house. Dr. Francis L.i Hayes, pastor of the First Baptist church, and Itev. J. Barrett, former pastor of the North Side Baptist church, will be in charge. The body will be taken to Mt. Vernon, Mich., for burial. One of the oldest houses on the North side, a. cottage, owned by Wm. H. Barnes of 1115 North Quincy street and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Dillen, was gutted by fire about 2 o'clock this morning. The loss will be about $400 on -the house which was .insured for $500. The furniture, which was owned by the tenants, was also destroyed but' vtsls insured for $300. No one was hurt, Mr.! Dillen, an ex pert stone mason, who has been em ployed on Grace cathedral, was in Kan-s-J3 City. Mrs. Dillen. was spending the night with a neighbor. The cause of the fire is unknown. The fire had made such headway that by the time the firemen arrived it was not possible to tell its origin. However, Mrs. Dillen, a hair dresser, ia sure that she did not leave the gas burning when she left the house. It Is a one story frame painted to represent cement blocks. It was built in the boom days of the early '80's. Mr. Barnes has not decided as to rebuilding or not. Notes and Personals. Miss Edith Sutherland, who has been the guest of Miss Bertha Schein of 1201 North Madison street, has re turned to her home in Lewis Ex-Councilman C. E. Jordan of 1122 North Jackson street, has returned from Gettysburg, S. D., where he has been on business. Miss Christine Bowie 6f Omaha," who has been the guest of the Misses Page at 1027 North Monroe street, went to Kansas City today, where she will visit before returning home. Bert George, formerly of Kilmer, now of Aroya, Colo., will return home the first of next week, after a visit with relatives near Topeka. He is ship ping four horses and 300 fence posts for his claim. It consists of half a section, or 320 acres, near Aroya, which is near Kit Carson. Govern ment land there is. sold for "$2.50 per acre, after the buyer lives on it for fourteen months and makes certain im provements. James C'Burn, formerly conductor on the Santa Fe Atchison branch, and Mr. Minor are among the Topeka people who are also ttere. Mr. George says that the soil on his place consists of the blue stem, chocolate loam and adobe. The blue stem is the best, he says, for, potatoes,- corn and alfalfa, but the loam is best for small grain. Soj corn this season averaged 25 bushels to the acre Mrs. J. M. Ferguson of 1322 North Jackson street is recovering from a two weeks illness. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hummer, who were married Sunday, have left for Wichita, where Mr. Hummer will be employed in a fruit nursery. Mrs. Hummer was Miss Lillie Caskey, the daughter of W. G. Caskey. of 1332 North Jackson street Although 14 years old, she is the wife of a man 12 years her senior. However, as the girl is mature for her age. no objection was raised by any concerned.' Miss Minnie Dransfleld, who lives just north of Topeka on the Central avenue road, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis," in Pauline. Second .Presbyterian church. North Jackson and Gordon street," William C. Meeker, pastor--Sab-bath school, 9:45 a. m. E. E. dinger, superintendent. Preaching at- 11 a. m.; theme.' "Fish ing." Junior Endeavor; 3 p. m.. Miss Ruthr A dams: superintendent; Senior Endeavor, v-30;p. m., 'Miss Jessie Riach, leader.-Preachirir at 7:30 p. m.; thenteV-"F,rieridship." Chorus at night. Petitions are being circuiatea on tne North side to ask the city commis sioners -to remove the -electric wire poles., The matter has been discussed several times, by the Civic club, but until the circulating of this petition no definite action has been taken. Miss. Anna Meyers,- 1239 North Quincy street, is ill at her home, with grip. Mrs. Charles Heinz of 1237 North Monroe street is ill at her home with grip. Mrs. E. S. Sanders of 1412 North Tyler street has returned' from a visit with relatives in St. Marys. T. B. Weier is in Chicago on busi ness. The W. T. K. club will meet at the home of Mrs. C. E. Jordan Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Bissel will entertain. A. M. Petro, druggist. Olympic Departs June 14. New York, Jan. 14. It is announced that the White Star liner Olympic, tha largest "steamer afloat, will leava Southampton, England, and Cherbourg, France, June 14, on her maiden voyage. The Olympic will leave New York June 28, being assigned to the fast mail ser vice between New York, Plymouth, Cherbourg and Southampton. At tha last mentioned port, over $5,000,009 is being expended in improvements to ac commodate the Olympic and her sister leviathan, Titanic. BEGINNING TO GET THINGS MIXED The Advantages Of Purchasing During) Our Removal Sale which will be continued; next week, are summed u) in the statement that we offer NOTHING AT REGULAR PRICES BUT EVERYTHING FOR LESS THE MILES D BILLARDJS OUT. Mayor of Topeka Announces Himself for Ke-EIeetion. Says He Will Do Even Better in Future Than Past. NO WET Oil DRY TICKET Mayor Bilfard Insists There Is No Such Platform. Other Candidates Out for Com mission Offices. J. B. Billard, mayor, has announced his candidacy for re-election.- He stat ed to the State Journal this afternoon that he intended to make the race this spring and as usual he intended to win. "Although it has been understood generally that I would run for mayor again this spring I have not made an announcement formally. "If the people see fit to elect me to office as mayor for the second term I promise to perform the duties of the office to the best of my ability and knowledge the same as I have in the past. "I have had the experience in the office and with the city work during the past year and I feel that I can. do better in behalf of the people of the city next year in case I am reelected." This is all the mayor would have to say in his announcement. He said that it wasn't necessary to say anything else in support of his administration and in support of the business like manner in which he has conducted the work of the office. The mayor refused also to make any political statements either m refer ence to the people who supported him so strenuously in the last campaign or those whom he expects to support him this spring. Not on Wet Plaiforin. "Will your ticket be known as the 'wet' ticket?" he was asked. The mayor frowned at this. "I uon't think that there is such a thing as o 'wet and 'dry' ticket," he answered. "At least I don't mean to make any such platform. Laying aside all of my own ideas as to prohibition and its success ani its laws, I have my duty to perform as mayor of Topeka and I will do it the com ing year as I have since I was elected." The formal announcement of Mayor Billcrd for re-election lines up the mayor alty fight in city politics in good shape. It puts three strong men in the race and three men who have a large following and a )ig list of friends who will cam paign for them. J. W. F. Hughes was announced some time ago and he has been working with the. mayor's office in view ever since. The general is a popular candidate.' Samuel E. Lux is wo-.-king as hard. Despite the insistent proclamations of the candidates that the "wet" and "dry" feature of the coming campaign will cut little ice, the voters of the city are going to vote that way to a great extent. The first question that is asked con cerning a man after he anonunc.es himself is. "Are you wet or dry?" The more liberal element in Topeka will HP, support Mayor Billard "as they did in the past.; It will be a difficult matter for anyone to defeat him on .account of the enthusiasm-with-which he has been sup ported in the past.; Samuel E. Lux will1 represent the "drys" as far as his theories are concerned. It is known that Mr. Lux sympathizes with the "dry" people in this campaign and his announcement to that effect Is expected at any time. General Hughes says nothing or inti mates nothing. He insists that he is run ning from a "business standpoint and neither the "wets" or 'drys" have been able to line him up. Tom McNeal for Mayor. There has been considerable talk of Tom McNeal running for mayor. This talk has been prevalent in city political circles for some time. He would cause a new powerful ripple in the waters in case he made the announcement. The only candidates for c6mmissioners who have allowed their names to be men tioned are Roy L. Bone, M. C. Holman, W. G. Tandy, H. P. Miller, C. E. Jordan, Eugene B. Stotts and Walter J. Arnold. The first four are city commissioners at this time. C. W. Horn, a former councilman: D. B. Fink, another ex-counciIma! and C. H. Kutz have been mentioned. Also W. A. Neiswangrer, a prominent real estate man and church worker as well as com mercial booster. "R AILKOAlJ RED BOOK" OCT. Denver Rio Grande Issues Valuable Reference Publication. The annual review number of "The Railroad Red Book," a monthly pub lication issued by the .Denver Rio Grande, has just appeared. This magazine is an exponent of irrigated farming in the Rocky moun tain region, and the annual review number contains no less than 103 original articles especially prepared for this issue on agricultural, mining, commercial and industrial subjects, including among its contributors Gov ernor Shafroth of Colorado, Governor Spry of Utah, Governor Mills of New Mexico, ex-Governor Adams of Colo rado, C. J. Blanchard, statistician of the United States reclamation service, President Lory of the Colorado Agri cultural college, Judge Colborn of Salt Lake City. Professor Merrill -'and oth ers of the Utah. Agricultural college, and W. W. McLaughlin, irrigation' en gineer of the department of agricul ture. The annual review number of "The Red Book" is looked upon as a valu able reference publication, and this, the- sixth issue, is considered the best of the series. NOTRE DAME "IX BAD" AGAIX. John Martin, Sprinter, Declared In eligible. Chicago, Jan. 14. John Martin, star sprinter from Seattle, entered un dr the colors of Notre Dame, in the First regiment games to be held Janu ary 21 at the First regiment armory, is ineligible to run for the university squad in this set of games, according to Coach Martin Delaney of the Chi cago Athletic association. "Martin competed in the National A. A. U. championships at New Or leans under the colors of the Seattle Athletic club last October." said De lanev yesterday, "and so is ineligible to represent -Notre Dame in the First regiment games. Under the rules of the A. A. U. no college athlete may represent an athletic club while his school is in session and later compete for his school in open competition. "Notre Dame was in session when Martin ran for the Seattle Athletic club and so will be ineligible to rep resent his school in open competition this year. Martin can run in the regi ment meet, but all his points will count for the Seattle Athletic club and not for Notre Dame." Germany's Private Fortunes. A German income-tax statistician gives interesting particulars of the comparatively recent growth of large private fortunes in the fatherland. Heading the list is Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen-Halbach. who. was before her marriage Germany's wealthiest heiress. She has to pay on $46,750,000. Five years ago she was still richer and contributed to the imperial exchequer on the basis of a fortune of $53,500, 000. Next comes Prince Henchkel von Donnersmarek, the kaiser's friend and owner of various industrial "undertak ings, who has increased his fortune during the last fifteen years from J12, 400,000 to $44,250,000. The third is the Duke of Ujest of the Hohenlohe family, a bachelor, who has improved himself in the last decade from $13, 600.000 to $37,750,000. The fourth in order of riches is Baron Goldschmidt Rothschild, of Frankfort, who owns $26,750,000. The greatest capitalist of Berlin is Ernest von Mendelssohn Bartholdy, of the banking firm of that name, who possesses $10,750,000. He, however, comes only seventeenth' on the general list. The sixteen richest people in Germany do not reside in the capital. The modest town of Kas sel has a magnate, Karl Henschel, whose wealth amounts ot $11,500,000. New Tork Sun. Schools of Housekeeping. Diplomatic dispatches state that the Prussian government will, in its next budget, ask for a large grant or appro priation to provide for itinerating house- Aeeping kuwib, xnese are to move from place to place, and give Instruction in housekeeping to the daughters of labor ers, crarismen, -ana rarmlng people.' The plan of instruction comnrispn r-nolr. ing. baking, conserving, and putting up ii ii it, vcgruiuics, tum 1 1 it-r iooa articles dairyintr. feeding, and taklnir rare of fsnn animals; poultry culture; raising of fruit and vegetables; sewing, repairing, and cleaning of clothing; laundering, cleaning ana sanitation oi tne none; nutrition and health. The course of Instmrtinn will take about eight weeks. Schuols of this sort have been in existence in the Rhenish Rev. Mrs. Ray Stanard begs to announce that there will be service held this Sun day night at the Knights and Ladies of Security Building. First Spiritual Church of Redemption Everybody, welcome. Seats free. province and in some of the other Ger man states, and have been of great bene fit. It is intended eventually to providp such an itinerating school for every coun ty in Prussia. We might adopt the plan of the Prussian government with profit. St. Louis Star. Miss Ona May Miller will give a re cital at the Central Y. M. C. A. this evening. The small boy with his skates was a prominent figure on Kansas avenue today. Sleighs were brought out of retire ment today that had not seen the liirht for many months. In a social and business way the Independent answers all requirements everybody has it. Choice apples are now being sold for ten cents apiece. Apples are rapidly becoming a luxury. Restaurants show the effect, of the legislature. They are now crowded at noon time every day. thday the board oi. directors of the Commercial club will meet to elect a president vii.o j eieti tary ii.Wiurjiuniio secre. Wednesday arid Thursday' inemme'l atTihG.MidTin,ter ePOion will open at l.oO o clock Monday. The ftrU oock!116 PerfrmanCe .'""I Re7' Francis L. Hayes is giving a 'eualiS'wfn.-. ChUrCh "Toneka hni k oom x. i. jtsuree "what we need is more loyal citizens."' Men appeared at the charity ball in dss sts who hadn't worn them since they were boys. But no one but the wearers themselves knew how nn comfortable they were MrGeadBZrS' The "-Vear-old son of ir Mrs. Lou Bowers, of 19''3 Redden avenue, is recover ng, after having been operated upon.at rhriS m SVtal h rPPendlci: He ha? been ill for about a week. "ecu "If the Smith Auto company were to leave Topeka it would givl us i a black eye.'V said J. Will keliS club th"ifm;i"brs.?f thc-CdmSirctal we don't take are of the industries we have we cn t exnect to get help from outside." exPect to A. P. Kientz has traded his two five room cottages at 1621 and 1623 Tvler ESSV8 J.M- lr of MayetL3 Er a nephew of W. H. Kientz. manager the Avalon hnir-- ti..,,. "6 of Wn,.n,, vm move to M,e"a' ,TheP.e ne'-wiH run the farm to Justice Henry F. Mason of the au- ?iVIn,.Nlght cIub tonight on The infallibility of the Scotus." You 7n 1 Lo Ve t(,b? pretty Sod suesser to known what the subject means nn- It lU areian Associated Press tele graph operator, i Dr. B. C Piati -miii i. Novelty theater tomorrow afternoon. possess an, interesting- per sonality, anrl tn ho George S. Badders will r.reMo ,..r the meeting, a choir will furnish the music. Dr. Piatt will preach at Lbe First Baptist church at night. The Rev. D. Everett Smith will de liver his annual sermon before the members of the Topeka Local union Monday night at the Central Congre gational church. A picnic supper wilt be enjoyed by the young people at 6.15, after which the business will be taken up. A musical program has been arranged. The Laymen's Misainno convention or conference, which lias k i" -.Vi1 .ea or ror som weeks, will be neld Wednesday and Thursday of next week. E W Hiifn 4 bell White of New York City will be ""'"''s speaiters who will be pres ent from out of town. The latter, who .c M.mxyjiiai ueiu secretary or the move uicuv, ueeus no introduction in peka. To- TWO LEADERS Wh.to Pine Cough Syrup with tar and codine for coughs. Week.' Break-Up-a-Cold Tablets for cold, headaches and la grippe. Campbell DrugCo. 819 North Kansas Ave.

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"THE TOPEEA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING. JANUARY 14, 1911. TOGAS AQUESTION Election of Senators Important Politicatl Event. State Legislatures Must Choose Men for Congress. SOME ALREADY NAMED -Iiaynor and Page Succeed Selves, Williams in Money's Place. Bitter Contests Being Carried on in Commonwealths. Washington, Jan. 14. The most im portant political event ot the new year is the election of United States senators by the various state legislatures to complete the upper house of the Sixty-second congress. The new senate will be composed of 51 Republicans and 41 Democrats, as against 49 Republicans and 33 Demo crats in the last congress a net gain of eight seats for the Demcorats. (In the house, according to the returns of the election of November 8, the Demo crats will have a majority of 65.) Of 30 senators whose terms expire on March 3 next. 24 are Republican and six Democrats, and the various state legislatures elected on Novem ber 8 last, will choose their successors. There will also be senators chosen to fill vacancies caused by the deaths of Senator Dolliver of Iowa (Republi can), Senator Thompson of North Da kota (Democrat) and Senator Clay of Georgia (Democrat), making a total of 33 to be electe'd. Of the 33, seven teen will be Republicans and sixteen Democrats, representing a gain of nine seats for the Democrats and one for the Republicans. The states where the senatorial toga will fall from Republican to Demo cratic shoulders are Indiana, Ne braska, Montana. New York, Ohio. New Jersey, Maine, West Virginia and Missouri. The one Republican gain occurred in North Dakota, where a Republican successor will be chosen to complete the unexpired term of the late Senator Thompson (Democrat;. The legislature of this state will also elect another United States senator tc succeed Porter .1. McCumber, whose term expires in March. Three Senators Chosen. Three of the senators included in the above count have already been chosen. They are Isador Raynor of Maryland, elected to succeed himself; John Sharp Williams, elected to suc ceed Senator Money, and Carol S. Page of Vermont, elected to succeed himself. The ternx-of the late Senator Daniel of Virginia expires this March, and an the regular session of the Vir ginia legislature does not convene un til 1912 either a special session will be called to elect his successor or Claude A. Swanson, who is serving by appointment, will retain his seat until next year. No successor will be chosen to the late Senator McEnery of Louisiana until 1912. His seat is at present be ing filled by J. R. Thornton, who was appointed by the governor. While the people of a few of the states have indicated their senatorial preference through a direct primary, ther are bitter contests being carried on In the majority of the states where the senatorial vacancies occur. New York is a fair sample. It has been many years since the Democratic par'y of the Empire state has had a member in the upper house of congress, and there are a countless number o aspirants to the seat, which will be vacated by Chauncey M. Depew. They include Edward M. Shepard. William F. Sheehan, Martin W. Littleton and a host of others. Even the new governor. John A. Dix. has been mentioned, and the fact that he has refused to indorse any of the candidates is considered significant. AVilson Has Taken Hand. On the Jersey shore, however. th situation is slightly different. Here Oovernor Wilson has taken a hand In the fray, and is urging the election of James E. Martine. to succeed Senator Kean. James Smith of Newark, how ever, is making a strong fight. He rep resented his state in the senate many SHE HAD A STONE IN HER KIDNEY Everyone knows how a deposit of lime and other minerals forms on the inside of a teakettl.e forming a sort of stony crust, but did you ever know that this self-same process sometimes taltPs place in the human kidneys, forming what is failed a "kidney stone?" This condition not only causes great pain, but will also quickly ruin the patient's kidneys and wreck his health unless he ia treated by a wide awake doctor who is able to correctly diagnose the ail ment and dis solve the stone. Miss Ivy Pitt.-. of R. R. D. No. 2, Joplin, Mo., recently had a case of this kind, and her health would likely have been ruined for life had not one of her neighbors told her of the great work being done by the United Doctors, those expert medical specialists who have their Topeka In stitute at 610 Kansas Ave. Miss Pitts makes the following statement in re gard to her case: "Joplin, Mo. "Dear Doctors: "I have suffered for the past three years ana Deen unaer tne care of a doctor most of that time. I have been treated for rheumatism and a dis placed bone in the back without anv relief. I was not able to do my work and could scarcely walk across the house. Our neighbor, Mr. Stroup. who was taking treatment from the United Doctors, advised me to call and see you. I did so on March 23d. and after an examination I was informed that I was suffering from a stone in the left kidney. I immediately commenced treatment, and after I had taken the medicine for four weeks I can truth fully say that I am perfectly well and do not feel a particle of the trouble from which I suffered so long. "I want you to publish this letter to let others know you have cured me. My only regret is that I did not know about you sooner. You only charged me reasonable fee, but I cannot place a money value on what you have done for me. (MISS) IVY PITTS." t -I wish to state that I accompanied my sister to the doctor's office each t week and know that the above state ment is entirely correct. "MRS. MERL FANHAM. "1415 Perkins Ave.. Joplin, Mo." Upper left. Senator I.sidor Rayuer of Maryland, elected to succeed himself. Uper right, John V. Kern of Indiana, who Is named to succeed Albert .1. Beveridge of the United States senate. Lower left. Senator Carroll S. Page of Vermont, who succeeds himself. Lower right, John Sharp Wil liams, who succeeds Senator Money. rpars aeo. and has the suDDort of man-; of the Democratic state leaders. in ftiassacnuseii3 mere is a strong I rt 1 i l-. TTanrv Pa Ytnt T .rw 1 and he will have considerable difficulty in being re-elected. Maine will elect a Democrat to suc ceed the veteran Eugene Hale. Tha most likely candidate is Charles F Johnson of Waterville. The successor to Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island, who has announced that he will retire with the. expiration i'f his term, will probably be Henry F. Lippitt.' There are a few leaders, how ever, who believe that Aldrich will change his mind and announce his can didacy at the eleventh hour. In Connecticut George P. McLean, former governor, has entered the racs against Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley, who desires to succeed himself. West Virginia probably will choose between Clarence Watson, a wealthy coal man, or Heury Gassaway Davis, who has had service in the senate, as a. Democrat to. succeed Nathan B. Scott, Republican. A Contest In Georgia. The death of Alexander S. Clay will precipitate a senatorial contest in Georgia. By the "primaries, held some months ago. Florida selected ex-Congressman Broward to succeed James T Taliaferro. Broward is dead and no choice for the vacancy has been made. Tennessee may send to Washington one of three men James B. Frazier, who now ablv represents the state in the senate; Charles T. Cates or Jacob M. Dickinson, tne lauei active. war. Mississippi has elected John Sharp Williams. He will succeed Hernando D. Money, the minority leader of the senate. Texas will con tinue to be represented by Charles A. Culberson. Missouri has selected James T. Reed of Kansas City as sena .v.. ..i.a nf William Warner, Republican, and he will be elected by a Democratic legislature. Indiana has named John W. Kern oq the Democrat who shall suceeed Albert J. Beveridge. the progressive Republican. Micnigan iiaa Congressman Charles E. Townsend a Republican, to succeea juwu rows. Wisconsin win reium Robert M. La o"el- rlfcnta thoccc v Clann and North Dakota Porter J. McCumber. Iowa has filled the vacancy occa sioned by the death of Jonathan P Younp, editor of the Des Moines Capi- tal. There is reason 10 uencvc relations between mr. xi-u-b. a standpatter, and Senator Cummin have improved, and it would surprise no one here snouia i-ui.".- T Young's election. In the case Mr. v,o elected, it is ex pected the honor will go to Harvey Ingham, editor-lh-chief of the Des Moines Register arm TWO BOYS DEAD. As Result of a Fight on the llallroad Trac!i. ui,n xn .Tan. 14. Charles Will- lams, 16 years old, was arrested here today in connection with the death ot Soney Stoflle and Roy Plege. who were run down and killed by a freight tram near here last Wednesday. Williams confessed Ire hit Stoffle on the temple with a stone. He was piacea in jdu Marshfield. Officials say Williarns fought with Stoffle and Plege and Stof fle after being struck with the stone fell on the railroad track unconscious, where Plege was trying to aid him when the train ran them down. Stoffle and Plege, aged 14 and 1" years respective ly, were from Falls City, Veb. HOVSE BHISS TO GROUND. Home or Principal Vanorsdol De stroyed No Insurance. The home belonging to Principal Wm. Vanorsdol of the Oakland schools was burned to the ground early last even ing The house was a two-stdry frame dwelling and the fire came so suddenly and burned so fiercely that only part of the furniture in the first floor was saved. The loss was about J3,o00. The owner had allowed the insurance to run out a few days before. The home was located at 341 Forest avenue, in Oakland, fifteen blocks away from the nearest fire station. I. isn't the duty of the Topeka fire de partment to respond to fires in Oakland and it is only after Chief Wllmarth has been consulted that a fire company makes a run to this village jusi east ui the city. .it Last night the fire came at critical time. A big part of the men of the de partment were away from the stations fc-.- their suppers. Also, on nccount f the slippery weather the horses have been having their shoes sharpened and the department was crippled on this account. The long run, the heavy roads, no pavement, and the fact that there was no water in the 'vicinity made it impossible for the firemen to do anything with the flames at the Vanorsaol home. However, other houses in the vicinity were saved. Several 'aught fire on account of flying ember. REVOLT l TAMMANY. Many of the Braves Refuse to Stand for Sliechan. New York, Jan. 14.-Storm signals indicating a revolt in Tammany hall against the selection of William F. Sheehan for United States senator were posted here today when J. Ser geantOam, long a member and high in the councils of the society an nounced if Mr. Sheehan was elected he would quit politics. "I think," said Mr. Cram, "that the interests have one senator already and should not have two. Why should not the other nine million people of this state be represented?" ."Between Sheehan and Shepard I certainly prefer Shepard. Mr. Shep- ard's election at least would not drive the people into such bitter resentment that they would turn against the Dem ocratic party as I believe they will If Mr. Sheehan is elected. "The people are up in arms and will resent the election of another repre sentative of the interests." Senator John Godfrey Saxe and As semblyman Harold j; Friedman, both members of the Tammany organiza tion declared that they would not vote for Mr. Sheehan for senator and would work and vote for Mr. Shep ard. VEATCH HAS A BILL Proposes to Establish Experiment Sta tion iu Rawlins County. J. J. Veatch, Republican member from Washington county, who is serv ing his third term in the house this session, was a member of the school board in the Morrowville district in his county for twenty-five years, con tinuously and knows as much about the needs and work of the rural schools as any man in the legislature. He is deply interested in all legislation regarding the schools and especially the law relating to the establishment of normal training courses in the high J schools of the state. Mr. Veatch has watched the course of the normal work in the high schools established last session closely and believes that it will become of great benefit to the schools of the state. Malone of Rawlins county has in troduced a bill providing for the establishment of a branch experi mental and demonstration station in Herndon, Rawlins county. The appropriation feature follows: To carry out the provisions of this act the following sums, or so much there of as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of the monies in the state treasury not otherwise appro priated: For the purchase of land 7,000.00 Superintendent's cottage, barn, fences and other permanent im provements 3,000.00 Maintenance for 1911 and 1912 2.O0O.O0 Maintenance for 19!2 and 1913 2,000.00 Farm implements, live stock and other equipment 2.000.00 Making a total of..; $16,000.00 BLOOD FOOLED THE POLICE. Told Them He Was Robbed of Five Hundreds Dollars. The police have ceased looking for the robbers whom Willis A. Blood re ported had held him up for $500. When he 1?as examined by the police chief he sail he had just received the express money order from California through the Wells Fargo company. No such or der could be learned of at that office. Then they called him again. "Well," he said, "I am satisfied I did not lose it." Train Robbers Arrested. Ogden, Utah, Jan. 14. The train robbers who held up Overland Lim ited No. 1 on the Southern' Pacific a week ago, were arrested today in this city. Cut This Out and on the day you make your purchase present this and we will allow you a rebate accord ingly with every $1 purchase. Monday, good for 20c Tuesday, good for 15c Wednesday, good for 25c Thursday, good for 20c Friday, good for SOc. Saturday, good for ,20c No advance in prices Par rots, Canaries, Goldfish, Cages and All Supplies. So Rebate Uuless You Present Thl Ad. Topeka Bird Store 409 Kan. Ave. Bell. Phone 1225 "THE KID" HARD" TO MAX AGE. So William Hewitt, 'Who Was Locked Out, I Given a Divroce. "Well, I tell you, judge, the old wo man had this kid of hers when I mar ried her. The kid is about 19 or 20 years old now and runs around with question, able characters and I won't stand for it. That's what we alwava nuarrel about," said William Hewitt, a painter, to Judge A. W. Dana on the witnesn chair in hia divorce case today. i "The old woman ran me out of the house and threw my clothes out after me three months ago; and I .haven't been back since," he continued. "It wouldn't be so bad If these fellows had some reputation but they are gamblers r.nd hang around the pool halls and the kid stays out late at night with them. One of them was Just leaving the house when I came In that night and I says to the old woman. T want you to keep those fellows away from here. I won't stand for it. Then I went Into the kitchen and the kid was in there. She called me a lot of names and struck at me with a stick of stove wood -but I caught it on my arm. Just then the old woman came in and shoved me out and threw my clothes out and locked the door. Since that I've been work ing In Iowa.", "Take your decree," said the judge. Mrs. Celia Orissa Smith was granted a decree of divorce from James F. Smith upon a showing of nonsupport. She al"o charged that he was jealous and ac cused her falsely of misconduct. He went to Colorado to take a homestead a year ago and has not -contributed to her support since. Several times he wrote for her' to come out west but would send no money for the ticket. Judge Dana took a third case under advisement in order to investigate some of the circumstances. The case was that of Theresa Delamater against Os car Delamater. She alleged nonsupport, abuse and abandonment. "He gave me the blackest eye anyone ever wore," she explained. She could not explain satisfactorily, however, why her two children under 16 years of age have lived with her hus band since the separation last June when he went to Kansas City. She asks custody of them but Is a cook at the Insane asylum and not prepared to care for them. SUFFRAGETTES TO SING. Mine. Xordica Will Start Vocal Train ing for Them. New York. Jan. 14. Have you heard the latest? There's the suffer ing suffragette, but how about the singing suffragette? Mme. Nordica, eminent singer herself, wants to do something for the suffragist cause, so she proposes to open in this city a singing school where suffragettes, suf fragists and suffragistic sympathizers may. learn to sing. Aime. Gardner-Bartlett. a vocal in structor of note, also of notes, will be in charge. The singing school Is to meet every Wednesday at 8 p. m., and any person of either sex is eligible except that there is a minimum age limit of sixteen years. The school will be at 140 Bast Thirty-fourth street, and the instruction will be free. SEE TAFT ABOUT IT. Apaches Want Their People Dismissed Prom Fort Sill. "Washington, Jan. 14. Four 'Indian braves from the Apache tribe and, two from the Creek tribe called on the "Great White Father" today, the for mer to urge him to allow the Indian prisoners who have been kept at Fort Sill for a number of years to return to their own people, the Mexcalere Apaches. A bill is now'before congress providing for such action. The chil dren of-the prisoners at Fort Sill also are held on the reservation there. CITY. LAWS DO NOT AGREE. City Clerk Burge Is Trying to Find Out Primary Petition Time. C. B. Burge, city clerk Is attempting to sift out the primary election laws so that they might apply to the com ing city election and not be placed in effect contrary to the Investigations of the attorneys. The commission form of government provides for the election of the mayor and commissioners but says nothing about the police judge, the judge of the court of Topeka,. the clerk of the court and the school board members. The old law provides for these offices but sets aside a different time for the filing of the petitions. Thils means that the city clerk will have to discover some means of a "happy medium" between the two and settle the petition date. "If the state legislature wants some thing to do this session, they can change this feature of the commission form of government and make it practical and within the measures of the law," said City Clerk Burge, as he fished in a huge pile of documents for a law. book this after noon. Walsh in the Iead. Helena, Mont.,- Jan. 14. J. T. Walsh (Dem.) took the lead in the senatorial race today, while Senator Carter lost 7 votes over yesterday. The ballot re sulted: Carter. 28; Walsh, 30; Conrad, 12; scattered, .28. Necessary to elec tion, 50. OTIS PLACES ORDER. Asks for Ron Print Paper to Amount of )2,975,00Q. Oregon City, Ore., Jan. 14.: General Harrison Gray Otis, editor and pub lisher of the Los Angeles Times, whose building and plant were wreckeed by dynamite last fall, has placed an order here for roll print paper amounting to 92, 975,000. The immense order will be turned out by the local paper mill, which uses the water power of the Willamette river at the falls. The pa- V per is made from wood pulr, the huge logs being towed up the river. It is estimated by a local statistician that if all the paper ordered by General Otis in this single contract were spliced together and unrolled it would reach around the earth, thus giving the globe a paper belt four feet wide. General Otis said when his newspa per plant was wrecked that he did not need any financial assistance. LEGISLATION FIRST. Colorado Democrats Are Planning to Block Senatorial Election. Denver, Jan. 14. The Post today says: "Democratic legislators with pro gressive ideas are organizing a flying wedge for the purpose of blocking the election of a United States senator to succeed the late Charles J. Hughes, until certain platform pledges of the j party have been enacted into law- i recall, headless ballot, bank guaranty of deposits, public service registration, anti-pass and rate making bills. "Sixteen members of the Democratic majority holding out can turn the trick and it is claimed more than half the number required have been mus tered. Kffort is being made to secure the other before balloting for United States senator begins. Supporters of Mayor Speer of Denver, and former Governor Alva Adams, the two lead ing candidates are naturally frowning upon the movement. "Another purpose of the combina tion is to force senatorial candidates to declare their position on all big na tional questions." D'AULBY CONVICTED. Sentenced to One Month In Prison for Fraud. Tours. Jan. 14. "Count" D'Aulby de Gatigny was convicted today and sentenced to one month's imprison ment. As he already had spent more than a month in jail while awaiting trial, D'Aulby was given his freedom. The spectators applauded the findings of the court. The judge announced that he had found D'Aulby guilty of fraud in connection with the sale of a Oorot. The "Countess" D'Aulby was acquit ted. D'Aulby was accused by the Duchess of De Choiseul-Pr,aslln with fraud in connection with the sale to her and her late husband, Charle Hamilton Paine of Boston of a collec tion of pictures. The duchess with drew her complaint after the case had been in the courts for several days but the public prosecutor refused to stop the proceedings. The defendant claimed that if tha pictures were not what he represented them to be it was because he had been deceived. c. sTdirectors meet. To Take Counsel Regarding Mrs. Eddy's Will. Boston, Jan. 14. In anticipation of probatin- the will of Mrs. Mary B. Eddy at Concord next Tuesday and tJ consider the legal questions that have arisen in connection with the disposi tion of the residuary estate, there was a secret conference here today of the directors of the Christian Science church and several of the attorneys. Among those present were General Frank Streetor of Coneord, N. H.. for many years the personal counsel of Mrs. Eddy; William A. Morse, the leg islative counsel for the church, and General M. Baker of Bow, N. H., the executor of the will. COACH TURNED OVER. Three Persons Injured on Union Pa cific Xear Salina. Sallna, Kan., Jan. 14. Three per sons were slightly injured today in the wreck of Union Pacific train No. 81, a combination passenger and freight train running between McPherson and Salina, five, miles south of this city. A passenger coach carrying twenty per sons turned partly over in the ditch. A broken rail caused the accident. OIiOTARY BANKRUPTCY. Metropolitan Construction Company Goes to the Wall. Kansas City. Jan. 14. Listing its lia bilities at $282,987 and Its assets at $197,601 the Metropolitan Construction company which has its principal office here started voluntary bankruptcy proceedings In the federal court today. The company was engaged in the construction of municipal improvements in Kansas, Oklahoma and the southern states. Stanton Palmer Is president. Geographically Ambiguous. The preach er had been eloquent in his remarks con cerning the young girl over whose re mains the funeral services were being held. Tears were in the eyes of all pres ent. Even the speaker's voice trembled with the force of his emotion. He con cluded his sermon with tnts outburst: "Can any one doubt that this fair, fragile flower has been transplanted to the hot house of the Lord?" Popular Magazine. V I w Our new location is at 104-6-8 E. 10th street, where our facilities for handling your garage and repair business will be equally as good and much warmer that at the old quart eas. We hope to have and assure you that we will in every way merit your continued patronage and good will. Topeka Motor Gar Co. L EL. Davis Theo Johnston 1 04-6-8 East 10th Sewing Machines For Sale or Rent $3.00 Per Month J. C HARDING CO. DISTRIBUTORS FOR WHITE AND GOLDEN STAR SEWING MACHINES Both Phones 1485 Needles for all makes machines.-.... DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The funeral of Mrs. Julia A. Chad wlck will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home of her nephew, H. B. McFarland, of 1217 Western ave nue. Burial will be in Topeka ceme tery. Mrs. Chadwick who was 70 years o" died Thursday at the McFarland home. She had lived In Topeka a little more than one year. J. R. Windau, principal of the Te cumseh school, died at 11 o'clock last night after a short illness of diabetes. Dr. Bonebrake, brother of P. I. Bonebrake of Topeka, died Friday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dr. S. J. Hampshire, of Overbrook, Kan. He came to Kansas in 1860, settled at Le- compton, Douglas county, where he practiced his profession until old age cause his retirement. He was one of the promoters and mainstays of Lane university until it was merged with Campbell college at Holton, Kan. He was twice elected to the legislature from Doglas county. Quite a portion of the laws regulating the practice of medicine and laws on sanitation are due to his effort as a member of the house. He was a graduate of two medical colleges. He will be buried Sunday afternoon at his old home at Lecompton, where his wife and two children are burled. Finrnthv KVost. the S months old daughter of Mr. an' Mrs. W. M. Frost, died Friday afternoon at the home of her parents, 613 East Tenth street. Funeral announcement later. The funeral service over the remains of Miss Lena Roof, formerly of this city, were held January 9th, 10 o'clock at the German Lutheran church. Phoenix, Arizona. Burial in Green wood cemetery. Miss Roof was born in Topeka, June 15. 1894 and lived In this city all her life. She attended the Topeka High school and on ac count of ill health left this city some time ago. Her kindly disposition won for her many friends who will cherish her memory for a long time to come. Mrs. Martha Beach, 76 years old. died this morning at her home, 427 Quincy street. Pneumonia was the cause. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon from the Primitive Baptist church. Surial in Mt. Auburn cemetery. E. T. Lock wood, aged 79 years and for 10 years employed in the cabinet shop of the Santa Fe, died at his home at 1109 North Monroe street, today. The remains will lie in state from 2 o'clock to 5 o'clock Sunday for the friends who desire to view the body. A short ser vice will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the body will be ship ped to Mt. Vernon, Mich., for burial. CHECK THE WHITE PLAGUE. Clinic for Patients Will Be Established Here. The Topeka Anti-Tuberculosis asso ciation is making tentative plans to wards the establishment of a clinic for tuberculosis patients. The idea is to make it possible for people suffering with the great white piague 10 De thoroughly examined by competent physicians and receive treatment at a minimum cost. association held this noon the subject was discussed and a committee ap pointed to form some definite plan of action. Memoers oi n. cummuiee o r-A w T Mills, chairman: Dr. C. B. Van Horn, Dr. A. Edgar Billings, Mrs. C. B. Thomas, airs. jr. w. free man and Miss Laura Nelswanger. WADDELL NOW INDOOR STAR. Rube Strikes Out Twenty-Five in Nine Innings. Rochester. X. Y.. Jan. 14. "Rube" Wad dell, sent from the major leagues to the eastern, back to the Big Show, into the i r, 1 i ti ii v, MnA thn tn ti fit Louis Americans, Is the proud holder of a new record at Indoor baseball. In a game here last night he fanned twenty five men in nine innings. He pitched for "McGrath's Stars." a team which included Wlltse, Maeee, Zim merman and others, against another team OI DlfT ieSUC 1 o. uiouagcu "J Ganzel, former manager of tne -Cincinnati Jteas. jiae gaiaia wvu, iv v. Street Phones 973 106 East 6th St. of 3 for 5 Cents I Tenderest Skin Is Benefited Y HAND SAPOLIO FOR TOILET AND BATH It baa a delicate, Telvety touch and con tainn iust the elements necessarr to thoroughly cleanse, invigorate, soften I and clear the skin. All Grocers and Dru6ists ED DING INVITATIONS Final Copper PUte nd Letter Press Productions. Eagmvea Vtsitins Cuik and FmnnMrrl Statiooerjr. ADAMS BROTHERS COMPANY, BJ-OS Jacbm Stnci L. M. Pcnwell Cb&rt&kcr sad Eza!!&s9 511 Quincy St Both Phones 193 v. Saves Two Lives. Neither my sister nor myself might be living today, if It had not been for Dr. King's New Discovery," writes A. D. McDonald of Fayettevllle, N. C. R. F. D. No. 8, "for we both had frightful coughs that no other remedy could help. We were told my sister had consumption. She was very weak and had night sweats but your wonderful medicine completely cured us both. It's the best I ever ued or heard of." For sore luntfs, coughs, colds, hemorrhage, lagrippe, asthma, hay fever, croup, whooping cough all bron chial troubles, Its supreme. Trial bottle free. SOo and J1.0O. Guaranteed by Camp bell Drug Co. LOCAL MENTION. Communion will be observed at tht First Lutheran church tomorrow morn ing. "God's Loving Kindness" is the topic on which the Rev. W. W. Horn will preach. The Art club met January with Miss Hogeboom and the following program was given:Paper,Sandro Botticellll. Mrs. Harrison Morgan; paper. Domenico Ghlrlandaio, Mrs. Chester Woodward: paper, Andea Verrocchlo, Mrs. Albrecht Marburg; paper, Lorenzo dl Credi, Mrs. Alston Dana. There will be a meeting of the Ohio club Wednesday. Jan 18, at the home of Mr. H. W. Bomgardner, 1295 Mul vane street. All Ohio people are in vited to be present and bring their friends. Prof. E. C. Wilm will lecture at the Jewish club Sunday evening. January 15, on "Philosophy and Ethie Admis sion." Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kllllan and chil dren have returned after a month's: stay with Mrs, Margaret Killian of San Diego, Cal. Race Riot in Arkansas. Benton, Ark., Jan. 14. One negro was killed and one negro and two ne gresses were injured in a race riot here last night, following a performance by a negro minstrel organization from New Orleans. The members of the company were en route to their board ing house when attacked by a party of fifteen or twenty unidentified young white men and pursued half a mile. One negro's skull was crushed with a club. To Locate Exposition Next Week. Washington, Jan. 14. The rivalry for national recognition between the San Francisco and New Orleans ex position advocates will be settled by the committee on expositions prob ably next Friday. The committee will hear the final arguments Monday, Governor Sanders appearing for New Orleans and Representative Kahn for San Francisco.. w

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1911. THEATRICAL NEWS Xethersole in Maeterlinck's Plaj "Mary Magdalene." Theme Not New But, Poet Has Drawn Lines Boldly. DAHI3G OF INCEPTION. Reverential in Treatment and Accumulative in Force. Beauty and Power' Due to Sim plicity of Drama. C03IIXG ATTRACTIOXS. At the Grand. January 17 "The Kissing Girl." January 21-22 "The Xewlyweds nd Their Baby." January 24-25 "Two Girls and a Man." February 3 The Russian Dancers. At the Majestic. North Brothers Stock company in "Puddenhead Wilson." At the Xovolty. Vaudeville. "Mary Magdalene," now being pre sented by Liebler Company at the New theater. New York, is founded "upon the Biblical story of Mary of Magdalal Miss Olga Nethersole, the English actress, who is under contract "with the Lieblers, is playing the title role, a part she thinks is particular ly adapted to her capabilities. While the theme is not new to- the drama, M. Maeterlinck's handling of it is, as the poet has drawn his lines "Tboldly, even to representing Lucius Verus, the Roman general and temptor f Mary, as believing Jesus to be his successful rival for her love. More over, the woman discovers that her surrender to the lust of the officer is ""the price she must pay if she will save from crucifixion the Nazarene who has opened up a new and holy life to her. The drama's great beauty and power lie in thp simnliritv with whih the tale is unfolded. It Is daring in incep- was served. Word ha? come of the Nazarene's peril at the- hands of his Roman captors. The motlev crowd of "Son. reverential in treatment and ac- (poverty stricken, blind, palsied, sick cumulative In force. The opening scene is laid in the lux urious garden of Annoeus Silanus, a' royal scholar and philosopher of Beth any in Judea. From Rome comes ""Verus, the friend and pupil of Silanus,"Tlov her to the rescue. But they quail and she turns to Veru?.. sick with the love of the Magdalene who has spurned him, and, not know-lnow insane with jealousy, is cruel, Jng that in a cypress guarded villa or I

I i At-. $t i v ..mil in -ii --SfM.i army of other mischievous youngsters. The chtef figures in the play that has been made are "Mr. nd Mrs. Newlv- -Kved," "Napoleon Newlywed," the baby; "Major Knott Much1' and the Big tJ3ear. The' story is so fantastic as to o& airauKi larcicai. nut ine complica tions are said to be so numerous and comical that an entertainment of the i n i.( r. -i It appears that- one, Prof. Nichol, has la kina or museum in which he exhibits attraction wearying of routine duties, runs away rrom the museum, taking with him the Big Black Bear, which is his constant companion. Prof. Nichol. Lfacing certain ruin, if he cannot find another attraction to take the place of j will present at the Grand soon,, he Major Knott Much, learns that the son-rprepared not only a brief in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed, looks pre- J of Judaism versus prejudice and Kioall, lib-A 1. 1 r- .1 1I 1 1 1 A 1 i J succeeds in kidnapping the baby, aidedalso a pulsing human sentiment, the I thereto by the unconscious "Mrs. New fly wed," and for a time there is a flurry of excitement over the loss of the baby land the efforts to recover him. Every- haa a nana in the kidnaping, and mat ters are righted only after the most -Hiopeless misunderstandings are broughtia. sensation last season in Chicago and about. I New York, playing to crowded houses Miss Ruth Robinson of the Xorth Brothers Stock Company. and crippled who were loyal to him .when he was supreme now shrink in ghastly terror, seeking excuses for their cowardice. The Magdalene, her garments torn, beseeches them to fol But Verus, cynical, remorseless. He demands and so had Pudd'nhead. There are so many points about Pudd'nhead's char acter that are just naturally Sport's "own that he won't have to act at all. Just say the. lines that Mark Twain has put into the mouth of Pudd'nhead "and there you are. Miss Geneveive Russell will have to be a little devil ish in her part of Roxy and I hope that the very charming and also very popular leading lady of the "right up to the minute" Majestic stock company tvon't take it too much to heart if I I a new romantic play by George Brack ett Seitz, entitled "The King's Game." Mme. Bernhardt announced last! week in New York that she intends to produce next season in her own thea- ter in Paris the new play entitled "Judith," by Emanuel Baruch of New York. She planned to produce the I play during her New York engage-: ment, but was unable to do so on ac- count of the extra performances she' was obliged to give. Mr. Baruch is not unknown as a playwright, having written another play entitled "Herod," j under the nom de plume, "E. B. de Marmay." I When Israel Zangwill wrote "The; Melting Pot," which Walker Whiteside I The. company which has been engag- eu 10 iiiuatraie xnis lively story on tnts stage includes many familiar and pop- lular performers. Master Earl Knapp, it cuiueuiau ui. ine Jjiuipuuan ciaes, will appear as the Baby and Major Knott Much, and his chief assistants will be D. L. Don, Emsy Alton, William Clifton. Montie Arbo, Ralph. C. Bevan, Jack Bell, John Saunders, and a beau ty chorus of more than 50 that can sing and dance. Reservations "for Russian Dancers. Manager Roy Crawford of the Grand (opera house reports that reservations are Demg maae ior ine iiussia." dancers, Anna Pavlowa and Mikail Mordkin, who come here in their fa- Hnous "Ocular Opera" February 3. Mail reservations are being taken care of previous to the line sale. Box seats are going at $4; lower floor, $3: balcony, $2.50, $2 and $1.50. Gallery seats are selling at $1 and at rSO cents. Manager Crawford says that the Russian dancers are proving one I or tne drawing cards ol the season, a tract which is warranted by the-at traction, according to the press and public of almost the entire country, NOTES OF PXiAYS AXD PLAYERS. -in. mi. I i i i J i mi m f" 1 j, WIT J niy maj. ..jy T'4in. r fe-i- "y MS i hi r-r mi" T,..,-Ttw-.T. iiir Scene From "The Kissing Girl." warm red blood of which races through the body of his drama to i every extremity, making it a real, liv- I ing. enduring thing. Henry W. Savage's production of Madame X." Alexandre Bisson's "su preme drama of thrills which scored for ten months, will be one of the most important theatrical visitors to this city in the near future. Mark Smith of "The Traveling Salesman" company, which Henry B. Harris will send to the Grand, is a baseball enthusiast and enjoys the distinction of knowing more big league players than any actor on the Ameri can stage. In "Polly of the Circus." which comes here soon, Frederic Thompson has surpassed himself in his efforts to give novel investiture to the stage story of a child circus rider who meets with an accident, meets and falls in love with a minister, marries him and lives happy ever after. Wonderful opportunity for scenic and costume, equipment is furnished by the new vehicle of Bailey and Austin, the eccentric comedians, who appear at the Grand, on January 24 25. In "Two Men and a Girl" the scenes are laid in quaint old Saardam, Holland, and in Paris. GRAND HouTues. JANUARY 17th John P. Slocum Presents The New Viennese Comic Opera. Success Direct from 250 Nights at the Cort Theatre, Chicago, All Star Cast TJrS E Ensemble of 70 m GEL With Miss Texas Guinan Book by Stanislaus Stange, author of "The Chocolate Soldier" From. the German by Leo Stein, author of "The Merry Widow" Lyrics by Vincent Bryan. Music by H. Von Tilzer. Prices: 25c, SOc, 75c, 3 LOO, 1.50 marble easily discernible from the garden's parapet, the woman has sought solace from an unrest she fails felares, must yield herself to To understand. Silanus has planned to bring the two together, and soon the Magdalene enters reporting the theft rand knowing, that should she yield "Trom her villa of her rubies and twelve fine Carthagenian pearls which ghe believes have been stolen by the-rNazarene has said, all that he has done rabble followers of an "unwashed trigand" the Nazarene. Silanus leaves to welcome other guests, and Verus, "left alone with the woman, confesses his overpowering desire to possess her. and all that he has given, would count for nothing, she refuses. Try- Hng one more desperate ruse Verus charges that Magdalene has betrayed the Master and the crowd revile her With the return of the others the dis-rand link her name with that of Judas. cussion of the Nazarene is resumed, and Silanus tells of wonderful miracles --how Simon the leper has been "'cured and how the blind have been made to see. In the midst of the con one price and one only for the Naz arene's life. The Magdalene, he de body and soul. But the glory of her reformation has been too complete. under the weight of the worldly love she still feels for the Roman, all the say that it will be about as easy for her to be "sassv" as it is for Snort to himrtake it easy. Please don't get excited, dear patrons, at these unkind remarks for T am the brother of one and the rbrother-in-law of the other of the much abused and properly roasted parties. (Signed) HARRY NORTH. yersation cries of Joy are heard with-Xmadg to see by the Nazarene describes Simon's house and passes the garden hedge, hozannas fill the air, and a Wondrous voice, soft and strangely powerful, speaks the Beatitudes. Star tled and impressed, the Magdalene tears herself rrom the guests, and, ig noring their warnings, darts from the .garden. Instantly she is set upon by the rabble who revile her as a wanton and stone her. She is staggering back when the voice of Jesus, rebuking his Tollowers. is heard saying: "He thatf "The Kissing Girl enjoying a recora success throughout tne country. has invented a new fart which prom InstantlyTlses to become quite the rage, not and the only among theatrical people, but among the society people as well. Miss They demand that she "give back the gold." In the uproar a commotion is heard in the street below and ironically enough, the blind man, who has been the spectacle of the Savior being led to his doom. Verus leaves the Magda- flene, a motionless statue, as he goes out to join the screeching, cursing mob stoning and execrating Christ as rhe stumbles toward the cross. The translation has been made by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Starts Thumb Print Kad. Miss Texcs Guinan, the prima donna la without sin among you. let him cast stone at her. The Voice is heard rut the speaker is not seen, the rabble becomes silent woman rushes to the arms of her "lover. The second act is laid in the Mag dalene's villa, where the woman, now haken by a strange joy and terror, is awaiting Verus. Here is told the story pf the raising of JJazaruR from theuidopted this method in signing them dead and the tale of other miracles. It is sl.own that the passion of the Jloman has grown and that the Mag "dalene's spiritual love is blended with. hut at the same time held distinct from, her steadily increasing fatuation "Xewly weds" Here Next Week. "The Newlyweds and iTheir Baby." jl musical comedy built around a group cartoons aiiu cnaracitra latmiiiar i many newspaper readers will come to J-he Grand next Friday and Saturday. George McManus invented the "Islew lyweds" and his pictures are as fam ous as those of Buster Brown and an Maude Adams' engagement in "Chanticler" in New York will begin tomorrow night and extend through eight weeks. John Westley and Annie Murdock have been engaged by Henry W. Sav age for the new farce by Rupert Hughes entitled "Excuse Me." Clara Morris is reported to be im proving, ana received nunareas or cheering New Tear messages from friends. Margaret Illlngton appeared in Louisville last week in a new play adapted from the French, called "The Encounter." Ruth Comfort Mitchel' has written a dramatic sketch called "The Way to the Heart" for Julius Steger. The theme is that of the problem of labor and brotherly love as its solution. Fritzi Scheff is soon to begin rehears als in the new Victor Herbert opera in which she is to appear. This work is called "Rosita," and its book is by Joseph Herbert and Miss Thomp son. When Marie Tempest appears as Becky Sharp, in "Vanity Fair." Gra ham Browne will be the Captain Raw don Crawley, Olive Wyndham will be Amelia Sedley and Rose Coghlan Mrs. O'Dowd. Robert Edeson's new play for next season will be a dramatization of "Mr. Bill," a novel by Arthur E. Lyons. The dramatization is by Mr. Edeson. It will be produced early in Septem ber. The curtain of the new Blackstone theater in Chicago is to be of tapestry, woven at Aubusson, near Paris. It represents a garden scene in the time of Louis XIII, and is said to have cost $15,000. Liebler Co.'s plans for the near future include a Zangwill play for Viola Allen, a new play for Wilton Lackaye, George Arliss in Louis N. Parker's "Disraeli" and the production of Harriet Ford's play written in col laboration with Judge Ben Lindsay, and founded upon the latter's story, "The Beast and the Jungle." "Over Night," a farcical comedy, written by Phillip Bartholomae, was presented by William A. Brady for the first time last Monday night at the Hackett theater. New York. The plot is light, and the characters find themselves sometimes in peculiar pre dicaments, which take considerable time to disentangle. "Bought and Paid For," a new play by George Broadhurst, is an nounced for immediate production by William Brady, with Henry E. Dixey in the stellar role. Another offering will be Holbpook Blinn in "The Boss, a virile American play by Edward Sheldon. James K. Hackett has just produced under Brady s management At the Novelty. The show booked to open the Nov elty on Monday matinee will have as feature act Arnold's eight performing -fleopards, panthers and jaguars. This act has been a big feature in all the big Western vaudeville theaters. 4"Guinan's latest scheme is to put her thumb prints on her photographs in stead of autographing them. So num erous have been the requests for the prima donna's picture that she has lor the Roman officer. Two great im-J-piies her thumb to the pad and makes pulses now develop instead of one and the woman speaks strangely of a new found happiness, yet throws her-, self into the Roman's embrace. She implores Verus to desert his post and Tly with her;, still she clings to thai- Nazarene until the soldier becomes convinced that her love for the Savior "Is the .only love he knows a love born of' lust. In the midst of the dis cussion Lazarus, pale from four days' ''death, suddenly appears and tells the Magdalene that Jesus has sent for her. The situation becomes dramatic. Verus. believing that his suspicions have been verified, plays his trump card. He tells the woman that he, as the chief Roman officer of the city. holds the life of the Nazarene in his "hands, and declares that by destroy- following the plan of the resourceful Puddin' Head Wilson, immortalized by Mark Twain. Miss Guinan has with her a little pad of purple ink and when any one asks her for a signed picture she ap the impression of the corner of the picture. "There is more individuality in the thumb print than in the mere writing of one's name," she says. Many society women have noticed this latest innovation of the prima donna and are following suit. At the Majestic. Commencing Monday night the North Brothers Stock company will produce for one week what will un doubtedly prove to be the most en tertaining bill of the season. The late Marie Twain must have had Snort raorth in mind when he wrote "Pud- d nhead Wilson. Not that Sport is a LPudd'nhead. Oh, no, I wouldn't say that; but Sport is just about as rapid aa tui ice waguii oiia bu ia nits ni&i He ine him he can save her whom he wishes to destroy. He nas tnus larger 01 f uaa nneaa vviison, so cieveriy "held back, but now that he is at tacked in his own happiness he threat ens vengeance. The final and strongest act is laid conceived by the greatest of all satir ists, Mark Twain. Sport means all right and generally gets there with "tioth feet and so does Puad nhead in the house of Joseph, of Anmathea hence the similarity. Sport has his la the room in which the last supper ewn deliberate way of doing things EARL KNAPP, as j. 1 1 Wifl Ik Vm. MBtt. BIB WW W7 w 7 jjtJj GRAND THEATRE Two Nights, Friday and Sat. Jan. 20 and 2 1 Matinee Saturday The Most Successful Musical Show of the Century jT, THE n m i n if raw API D THEIR BABY fCVi in Cmir to tickle yon. ftr dellffhttur all New York ud Cbioaco for months. GO1- PEOPLE 75 GinlS Brilliantly illuminated with more bright features, pretty Girls and catehy musie thaa amy other shew of the season, FAST, FUNNY, TUNEFUL T Matinees 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 I riCeS I Night 25c. 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50 M A IIP Any 25c Where n Week January 1 6th "Sp'Ort" North (Himself) And Entire Company in a. Comedy Drama By MARK TWAIN PUDDN'HEAD Photos Every Monday- Matinees Wed. and Sat. WILSON Earl Knap as Napoleon' Arnold and One of His Trained Ijeop. ards to Be at the Novelty ISext Week. Yuill Boyd in a comedy sketch, Wanted, a Minister." is said to be a "bright, snappy little comedietta, enough to give a good looking younj man ana a little girl an opportunity to display Considerable dramatic ability and to feature the eccentric dancing or Miss Yuill and Mr. Boyd. Next will be f-Arthur Lie Roy, comedian, in new songs and Jokes. Then the Elliotts in singing and harp playing. r Master Carl Fletcher, the boy tenor, will sing the illustrated song, and new moving pictures will close the bill. Defends Term "Character Actress." Miss Ruth Robinson, who plays second "husiness" in the North Broth ers' Stock company, takes up the cud gel in defense of the much abused lerm "character actress," and incidentally Tspeaks on how a character actress of ability gives "color to ner cnaracien zations: "A character actress in the general acceptance of the term, implies ac tresses who play old women and char- "ftcter types, but the fact is any ac tress who plays a part that renects an imaee not her own is a character ae- riress. Any part that admits of it be ing played without demanding of the player a distinctive makeup,, is a "straight' part, while one hiding the true appearance of the. actor, and for eign to his or her type, is a character Hart. "The basis of "color" to enaracteriza tion is when one embodies in the de lineation of the part, that something which, though it may not ottena tne eve as regards facial beauty, does not ("offend the senses by making the part repugnant, but so cleverly assimilates the make-UD with the portrayal, that fit is immediately accepted by the au dience as a living picture, ana wins (approval. T" "I would rather play a 'bit,' which. in the vernacular, means a Small part. hat is highly colored with character han to have the "fat" part ot tne piay, because audiences appreciate charac ter drawine. since it is so marked in its -ffcontrast to the general appearance of people, on the principle that wnat we are accustomed to see we pay uiwe -Hittention to, but that which is out of the -ordinary, we give it more than or dinary attention." The Reason. "So you didn't like the clause in your late uncle's will?" "No; he didn't come up to the scratch." Balti more American. 5 THE KIND YOU WILL LIKE Note There are always good tickets to be had at Box Office pvwv nio-rit rn nrwinnt nf la.tp rriano-ino" rvf ih-ac t MnZZZiiiZilMlwiirBla wimwMi iMMMMiiMii tVirBui i iwiinrMM i nam"-- rmm iwmiium Shows Dailv 7:45 9:15 NOVELT VAUDEVILLE 7 2:30 10c 20c 30c Daily Matinee 10c ARNOLDS Performing Leopards, Panthers and Jaguars Carl Fletcher Song Stories The Elliotts Singing and Harp Playing Photo Play -NEW- Arthur Le Roy Comedian Comedy YUILL DOYD Sketch "Wanted A Minister" 9 W. H. Bomgardner Funeral Director and Embalmer Careful, Conscientious Work Is Our Aim 621 Jackson St., Topeka Phones 146 ill DERMA VIVA Whitens the Skin Is used m place of powder has same effect, but does not show. Cures Eruption, Freckles Moth or Liver Spots. Brown arms or neck made 'whiter at once. Price 50c. Sold by THE ARNOLD DRUG CO. 523 Kansas Avenue 523

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1911. 9 IG KANSA sal W SITION Direction U. C. T. of Topeka, Kansas W n teVih )UA pEXPO T7 T7TT All 1 Iftj Ism w u WW OPENS MONDAY, Two weeks of continuous indoor carnival begins Monday afternoon and continues until January 28th. This is to be biggest, grandest, most gorgeous attrac tion ever arranged under any roof in the state. Everything new, novel, entrancing a snappy show and a lively time every afternoon and evening. JANUAW;tili9 AU BHTOIRLI UM AFTERNOON H AIL 1 1 V itvi w'v iff i 7 P La Belle Heleno, who, with her ca leapinpc sreyhounds will be one of the f under the auspices or lopeka Council, the most remarkable packs of trained an that most dog trainers achieve better re they do with thoroughbreds. The main the nondescript variety, but the opposi generations the members of this parti lected for their skill and high and long wonderfully built animals, each being a jumps of almost incredible length and t no other animal in the w-orld has been nine hippodrome and her pack of roval Italian eatures at the Midwinter Exposition to be held No. 42. U. C. T.. January 16 to 28, has one of imals in all the world. It is a well-known fact suits with ordinary or dogs of mixed breed than portion of La Belle Helene's trick does are of te is the case with the Italian greyhounds. For cular pack have been carefully bred and se- leaps. The result is a peculiar variety of perfect leaping machine. These dogs make wo of them are ahle to clear barriers which able to approach. Co) (0) VAUDEVILLE Big Vaudeville Acts EACH WEEK Booked from the World's Biggest Circuits E V EN INC This big industrial pure'food show is worth coming hundreds of miles to see. It is a state-wide event brimming with entertainment and interest for young and old. .From start to finish the show will be one big round of entertainment and fun. Come every night and bring, your, friends. Those you don't bring will be there anyhow. (o) (0) INTERESTING EXHIBITS Elaborately Decorated Booths Dozens of Free Samples Continuous Demonstrations DS! Continuous Fun! Frolic! STRAS! usicf Amusement! M Admission H E! r ENTIRE 1L OJVL Price COST One of the cleverest trick house acts in the whole range of similar performers is that of the Warricks which the Commercial Travelers have engaged as a feature for the vaudeville of the first week of the Midwinter exposition, which begins Monday, Jan uary 16. There are many trick house acrobatic feature aets before the public but no other is' a lady. Miss Warrick stands alone' in 'her; profession. She is the only A woman who has ever been able to master the dif ficult dives, the long leaps, the agile feats of climbing and the high Jumps, necessary for the success of an act of this nature. Their" comedy trick club house is one of the best constructed pieces of mechanism before the public, enabling them to, appear and disappear; in the most marvelous and rapid' manner,. the audience being hardly able to keep up with, the acre bats, v., TO RETURN AS "ENEMY" Atlantic Fleet Will Investigate Safety of the Coast. Washington, Jan. 14. It is hoped at the navy department that the At lantic battleship fleet, which left the British Channel on December 30 to return to America as an "enemy," will be located by the opposing fleet be fore it reaches midocean. The theor retical safety of the Atlantic coast against unexpected naval attack de pends upon the fleet being located be fore it is dangerously near. Should the opposite prove the case, then the contention of certain naval officers that an enemy's fleet could strike at Eome point on the coast and escape the vigilance of opposing naval vessels will be borne out. The more difficult problem is that which confronts Rear Adn iral Seaton Schroeder, in command of the fleet, and It will take unusual strategy to escape the watchers and reach the vicinity of Guantanamo before his vessels are located. Rear Admiral Charlea E. Vreeland, of the second, and Rear Admiral Thomas B. Howard of the fourth, are looked to, to ably carry out Rear Admiral Schroeder s plans. Rear Admiral Sidney A. Staunton, in command of the scouting fleet, will have In one sense the heavier re sponsibility, as he constitutes himself as the "protector" of the American coast, and should the fleet escape him he will realize that in case of actual war he would have been outmaneu vered and that his ability to send out warning might have had the most se rious consequences. He will direct the defense from his flagship, the cruiser Tennessee. Rear Admiral Staunton will have to be extremely careful not to be misled. He must also be careful to handle his vessels in manoeuvring them so as to not pass the fleet at night. Should Rear Admiral Schroeder succeed in slipping by the fleet at night he would indeed score a striking "victory." The navy department, in announc ing the beginning of the war game today, says the respective fleets will be "simulating as closely as practi- cable conditions which might exist in time of war." The fleet has-a fair range of speed and there are several passages through the Bahama islands, any one of which the fleet may take. The de partment does not expect to receive information from the scouting force before v January 10, after which it is expected that reports will be received frequently through Guantanamo, Cuba. FAUCES AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. Literary Societies Give Two Delightful Little Plays. The Philomatheum Literary society of the high school presente'd the one act comedv, "French Hefore Break fast," at the high school auditorium last night. The Atheneum Literary society followed with the one act comedy. "Hector." The casts were well selected and did their work beyond criticism. Frank McFarland, as Major Regulus Rattan, and Miss Frances Walsh, as Mrs. Spriggins, did good work for the Philomatheums, while Lee Samuel, as Oscar Spencer, a student, in the Atheneum farce, deserves special credit. The house was well filled, a great number coming directly from the basketball game at the Y. M. C. A. Miss Barnwell coached both farces j" ll III Vs A PURE PRODUCT OF A PERFECT PROCESS Beglstered 17. 8. 1'at. Office aKe Breakfast Cocoa Is absolutely pure, healthful, and makes a most delicious drink Get the genuine with our trade-mark on the package 52 Highest Awards in Europe and America WALTER BAKER Co. Ltd. Dorchester, Mass. At top, the opposing types of Fncle Sam's fighting machines. At upper left, the Connecticut. Vpper right, scout cruiser Birmingham. The work cut out for the scout cruisers will he to detect the presence of the Atlantic fleet on Its return to Guantanamo. If they do not succeed In this It will he looked upon as a serious weakness in the coast defense of the United States. Lower left, Hear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, in command of the invading fleet. Lower right. Rear Admiral Thomas B. Howard of fourth division. and the success was due largely to her efforts. Calumet County Deer Dead. Haytoi., Wis., Jan. 14. Calumet coun ty's only deer is dead. Old age and the rigors of a hard winter proved too much for the animal that has been the object of solicitude of the state legislature and the protection of the game wardens of two counties. The people co-operated with the game wardens to such good ef fect that for years the deer has been safe from hunters. BETTER INVESTMENT IXQV1KY. Enchancement of Values Quite Gen i eral on Stock Market. EttablUhed 1780 New York. Jan. 14. Enhancement of values was auite general in the stock mar ket this week. The advance affected all the better known issues, with some par ticipation by the specialties. Business con tinued in moderate volume, with no abate ment of professionalism. There was, however, some better inquiry from invest ment sources. Sentiment inclines toward greater cheer fulness, based largely on easier monetary conditions, and a better outlook in some lines of trade, notably mercantile. Aside from the reaffirmation of prices by steel manufacturers, the week was barren of developments in that industry. December reports of steel and copper interests were equally disappointing, in that demand for finished products in first named denotes practically no improve ment, while latest figures In copper out put show increased production despite efforts to curtail output. Restriction of operations in leather and textile trades is also under way. Among the Tailroad shares the features were th proposed increase of J100.ooo.000 in Penn sylvania stock and- an increase in the Canadian Pacific dividend to 10 per cent, putting that issue to a new high record. Reliable Dentistry Our success is due to high-grade workmanship and best materials "at reasonable prices. Best Set of Teeth $7.00 Gold Crowns, Bridges, $3 to $5 Silver Filling. 50c Painlesa Extraction. 23o Teeth Cleaned. ?5c Gold Filling. ............,50c to S3 All Work Guaranteed. -LADY ATTENDANT. New York Dental Co. 618 KANSAS AVENUE. Independent Telephone 1965. It is probable that a number of con testants wilP be entered in the legisla tive Derby for the Foolish prize, but at present, the bookmakers are betting on Mr. Cones of Meade, against the field. Mr. Cones has taken an unfair start, and has a big lead of all others. He has introduced about half a dozen bills, and any one of them is a prize winner. His "patella" bill is foolish, but upon second consideration, one is inclined to make the award to his theatrical bill. This bill provides that no scene, whether in moving pictures or acted by persons, which depicts anything which would be" a felony un- der the laws of Kansas, shall be per mitted within the state. The reader is invited to try to remember any great drama which does not contain a crim inal scene. Start with the 10-20-30 productions, and work up to Shakes pearian drama, and see what you get. Let us commence with "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Every act of that immortal thriller contains one or more crimes; it would be a crime, under the statutes of Kansas, for Hon. Legree to pound the tar and burnt cork out of Uncle Thomas; it would be a crime for Eliza to kidnap the kidlet and elope from the Jurisdiction of the court. In fact the whole show is redolent of crime, and therefore, would be barred from the Kansas stage under Mr. Cones's measure. Vifc wDnr rw HAJCEsfiPAie -m BAfct) THAT ISWM-T), irimq iftTl i fTunnsr the m YfcT I in SAtAE AFtLctiYl GO TO OUR BOOTH DELICATE DAINTY DELICIOUS FAIRY SODAS Made in America's most modern sanitary bakery. 10c per pound in about 6i-lb. air-tight cans. 12Jc per single pound. ITEN BISCUIT COMPANY L. C- PETRO, Local Agent Mm i it V.TraN urns m FIB' W 2. 2 n ment. It might not be criminal for Lady Macbeth to stick the sticker into the system of her guest, because in sanity is a favorite defense In Kansas homicide cases, but no perfect lady like Marie Drofnah would care to go before a lunacy commission Just for the privilege of making a one-night stand in Topeka. Imagine, if you can, a scene from Macbeth after the lines were changed to comply with Mr. Cones' law. It would be refreshing, too, to see a constable jump upon the stage and pinch Charles Hanford, who, as Shylock, committed an assault with intent to kill by waving a butch erknife at the unfortunate merchant bondsman. In fact, the postal laws. and fussy editors, prevent this department from printing the only fitting comments on Mr. Cones' bills. The Gallery Spectator will he censured, by many, for print ing anything about Mr. Cones or his bills, but we strive to please the legis lators, and as Mr. Cones is evidently looking for notoriety certainly he cannot ejepect to get anything else out of such nonsense we are constrained to devote this space to his cause. Some gent in the house offered a resolution to instruct the sergeant at arms to report all Topeka boys on the pay roll to the Topeka truant officer. From which we gather that some member brought a boy or two from his home district, and found that there was no room for them on the page's bench. The resolution makes no men- JANUARY Beginning of the Year BEGIN A Systematic Saving Account The Capitol Building Loan Association 534 Kansas Ave. tion of out-of-town boys, and if the Topeka kids can be rounded up and separated from their legislative Jobs, it will make room for one or two out siders. Senator Prank Travis has threaten ed to add newspapers to the list of public utilities, and from an adminis-. tration standpoint, no move could be of more importance. Add them to the list, and the utilities commission, ap pointed by the governor, could shape the news and editorial policies to suit the crowned heads, and a Diss form of perpetual state government would be assured. Everybody reads the State Journal. As Lady Macbeth Would Say It. Take a long Jump to the other end of the list and consider the criminal possibilities of the Shakespearian drama; it would be criminal for Hon. Jack Falstaff to attempt the holdup of transient merchants; a duel is a felony in Kansas, and every dueling scene in the Shakespearian category would subject the actors to fine or imprison- We Give Atvay Free of Cost The People's Common Sene Medical Adviser, in Plain English, or Medicine Simplified, by R. V. Pierce, M. D., Chief Consulting" Physician to the Invalids' Hetel and Sor tfieal Institute at Buffalo, n book of 1008 lartfe nates and over 700 illustrations, in French cloth binding, to any one sending 31 one-cent tamps to cover cost of wrapping and mailing only. Over 680,000 copies of this complete Family Doctor Book were sold in cloth binding at regular price of $1.50. Afterwards about two and a half million copies were given away as above. A new, up-to-date revised edition is now ready for mailing. Better send NOW, before all are gone. Address WoaiVe DisrBNSAar Medical Association, Dr. R. V. Pierce, President, Buffalo, N. Y. DR. 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the Gen a BETRAYED OR, THE HUNGRY GOAT AND THE UNFORTU NATE FAKIR. 3. J(. 1 1TWl .fall 35 ,P'Jf "gpf Mrs. Goods: "Poor fellow, how did you lose a leg?" SHORTY'S DREAM. IF LE BARON HAD ANY. Faking Farragut (seeing the game is up)i snakes, wot's got me?" "Shakin' dice, mum! Sufferin' i "A GOOD BIT OF COLOR." THE UNKINDEST CUT. There was once a playwright who sat in the front row at the first night of a new piece of his own. This piece failed. It failed dreadfully. As the playwright sat, pale and sad, amid the hisses, a woman behind him leaned forward and said: "Excuse me, sir; but, knowing you to be the author of the play, I took the liberty at the beginning of the per formance of snipping off a lock of your hair. Allow me now to return it to you." WHEN THE PATIENT QUIT. The Doctor Tou don't feel any bet ter? Well, how's that? Have you done what I said and taken plenty of ani mal food? Farmer Yes, doctor, but I'll have to drop it. I managed middlin' well with the oats and corn and done a bit at split beans, but the chopped hay that was too much. Animal food don't suit me. I. "Of course none of my clothes would fit me, so I bor- n.j"-" -V-ii "Jj S I V "I found on waking up one morning that I had rowed some lace curtains and went quickly to the s. Ih'A'Li'fW y lengthened out to an alarming degree. tailor's i J, m. SSll r '"1 U .fll Si "It would be a want of frankness if I should tell M. I Baron that this MmM y wt ili-i J-y I lotion makes tho hair 9row' but for preserving tho hair H ind,sPensabie- S Bfu1 youcankeep TittEustoceuiet C "sS i you'll havedto swear that yu gTin JY' 1 "sll liIMJlM SSrs CiS Stalwart Plaintiff Niver, sor! Not Ji Um jf! V IMotI mf&tF. 5 1 I me! I wouldn't fear a dozen "of the V sf JhMI IV. Hkes of him. YV VkfS? III. "Then I took a hansom and drove around town think- ia,ua cur cv euro -rim XvVVf iSl'x. "where I had to wait for my long suit ing over the situation and finally dropped into NOT WHAT SHE EXPECTED. g4M I fX VBMf 1 JfeA Dora Mr. Goaker was telling me JSSjjiK mrnMnS-.TW'iilima'h,,,,,, i 7T, lnllWlffr, a in UK n n In itn 1 1 ,tn n li i i i 1 that 'our doctor was no gentleman. fflJSIOW 0iDllli' ll ll II Slfi FannySh.eSalaaydOCtr' V. VI. "a vaudeville show, where, of course, I had to stand up, which interfered with some people in the balcony, and nine ushers tried to persuade me to leave, when "I woke up and found I had been dreaming that I had taken an overdose of Dr. Yankem's 'Why Be Short?' medicine." GAY WHEN ENEMY IS MUZZLED. "This young foxhound will make an excellent plaything for my boys." SHUT UP! SENSIBLE GIRL. He (just refused) But think, my dear, how much pleasure a rich hus band could give you! She Not having any, a rich father would do just as well. Marry my mother. NATURAL TO HIM. Prospective Employer (perusing ref erence) Have you any knowledge of the silks and satin department? Applicant Spent all my life among 'em, sir. Prospective Employer And sheets and blankets? Applicant (forcibly) Born among em, sir. DRESS FOR ALL OCCASIONS. WHEN THEY HALTED. First Actor I thought your next tour was to have been through South Af rica. Second Actor It was, but the com pany struck. One of them had read that an ostrich egg often weighs two or three pounds. Appropriate turnout for a lady whose husband has been convicted of "high finance.' A BASEBALL TERM. "A picked nine." MAKING A DISTINCTION. First Lunatic I've invented an aero plane that goes up in London and comes down in New York. Second Ditto Tve invented one that goes underground and comes up in New York. First Lunatic You're not a lunatic you're a silly fooL HEAVING ON THE DEEP. "Well, old fellow, are you going to the organ recital in the saloon to night?" "No, thank you; I am having all the organ recitals I need." GOOD LITTLE GAMBLER. "How's your birthday party getting on. Tommy?" "Fine. I've asked all the boys and girls, and they've all promised to come. All I've got to d now is to ask mam ma if I can have it." THATS WHY. The tear stood in her limpid eye. Her face was wet and sad. She seemed a little mournful, too. And just a trifle mad. And why? The reason I will tell The maiden sullen sat, She can't go to the matinee, Sho has no monster hat. VI I no SETBACK FOR RAPID TRANSIT. BELONG. WHERE THEI niiiiiftifwi T"11 iiObwii v)Si THE MYSTERIOUS PALMIST. THE OLDER THE BETTER. She tells you all sorts of uncomfort- The Moneyed Man Surely you don't able secrets about your past life, prom- think that I'm too old for a husband? ises you wealth and beauty in the f u- j The Innocent Girl Oh, no!. I was and the Beast ture and winds up by saying that you only wondering whether you were old. He Go on! Have you heard them' will marry a girl just like herself. enough. 1 say which is which? i THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. she Tou know, we're an ill assorted couple. People speak of us as Beauty

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LOCAL NEWS EVENTS OF THE STJNDAT. The work of "buttonholing" is in full Swing at local hotels. FOR STAGE CHILD, Blaylock Will Jlake an Appeal to Kansas Legislature. Wants Labor Law as Regards the Theatre Repealed. CITES HIS KEASOXS. Declares State Deprives Youth of Many Advantages. Challenges Successful Refuta tion of His Arguments. Robert Blaylock, dramatic director of the North Brothers Stock company, today reiterated his statement that he will go before the present legislature and urge the repeal of the state labor law as applied to the stage child. He not only declared that the law is un just but he challenged successful con tradiction of his statement. "It is rather a dilficult matter to say anything which really is new on the child labor law without reiterating my previous statements made in the To peka State Journal," said Mr. Blaylock. "My former interviews were irrefut able. I have not met or heard from one person in the city who disagreed with any of my statements. I would be only too elad to find some one worth while who believes I am wrong and argue the matter with him or her publicly. "I claim that the law which classes the theater with the packing house is illogical and the framers of that law were absolutely ignorant of the theater and its people when they legislated that the child born of theatrical par ents must not be taken into the atmos phere of the theater until the age of 14 is attained, and the same men who framed that law and voted for its en forcement are permitted to break the j law by compelling their sons and i daughters to do the work of menials around their farms, stores and otner places of business, while the actor who would permit his child to walk out on the stage for aa much as a minute Would be sent to Jail. Trouble Lies With. "Reformer." "The trouble lies mainly with the sanctimonious meddler who delights in the name of 'Reformer' and who con stantly does harm to somebody and thoroughly enjoys stirrinp- up trouble. Persons who delight in theorizing but who halt at practicality often do much harm to causes which they assume to propagate. The field of the theater at tracts reformers of various kinds and affords endless opportunities for the application of theories. "Societies and organizations of many kinds, as well as individuals of diverse aims, have attacked the stage as an institution that needs their corrective efforts; but too often these efforts are misapplied or misdirected and there is no special feature of- stage legislation that more clearly shows this than that directed toward child actors. No one with the better interests of both the stage and its children in mind can de ny that a rational system to regulate the appearance of minors in plays is necessary-. Yet intelligence and reason do not often actuate those who formu late measures and those who enact them into laws on this subject. Kejrnlation in New York, f. "New York has a reasonable law regulating the appearance of child ac tors. Under that law every safeguard Is provided. Children are not per mitted to appear in plays in circum stances that would tend to injure them morally or physically. Yet by a rea sonable system of licensing they may take part in plays for the proper rep resentation of which they are neces sary, and in which they may earn a FOREVER ENDS INDIGESTION No Heartburn, Gas, Sourness or Dyspepsia Five Minutes Later. Every family here ought to keep some Diapepsin in the house, as any one of you may have an attack of In digestion or Stomach trouble at any time, day or night. This harmless preparation will di gest anything you eat and overcome a distressed, out-of-order stomach five minutes afterward. If your meals don't tempt you, or what little you do eat seems to fill you, or lays like a lump of lead in your Btomach. or if you have heartburn,' that is a sign of indigestion. Ask your Pharmacist for a 60-cent ease af Pape's Diapepsin and take little Just as soon as you can. There will be no sour risings, no belching Of undigested food mixed with acid, no stomach gas or heartburn, fullness or heavy feeling In the stomach. Nau sea, Debilitating Headaches, Dizziness r Intestinal griping. This will all go, and. besides, there will be no sour food left over in the stomach to pois m your breath with nauseous odors. Pape's Diapepsin is a certain cure for out-of-order stomachs, because it prevents fermentation and takes hold Of your food and digests it Just the same as if your stomach wasn't there. Relief in five minutes from all stom ach misery is at any drug store, wait ing for you. S These large 60-cent cases contain reiore than sufficient to cure almost anv chronic case of Dyspepsia, Indigestion or any other Btomach trouble. rP mi MONDAY. Robert Stone feels the weight of the administration boot. living under conditions that offer them no injury and if any lawmaker at pres ent in Topeka wants to right a great wrong he should frame a law such as they have in New York to govern the theater if it must be governed. "The child actor needs the stage for the development of its talent, its gen ius. It is the only school in which it can learn its art. In going to the stage it is going to school to the school which supplies the specific knowledge for its special talent. To deprive such a child of these vital advantages is an injustice to the child; it does not protect it; it is an absolute injury to it. If any one knows of any person who is interested in this sub ject I will be glad to send them twenty reasons why the stage child should exist, and not one of them is illogical. I wish some one would give me a reason why my son should not be permitted to adopt my profession and to start in at an early age." KLAW ATTACKS KANSAS LAW. Says Misdirected Zeal Has Proved Hamper to Stage Child, New York, Jan. 14. Marc Klaw, head of the Klaw Erlanger theatrical syndicate, today attacked the child la bT law of Kansas as applied to stage children, in an interview given out here. He endorsed the statement Jf Charles Burnham, president of the As sociation of Theater Managers of Greater New York, who at the annual banquet of the association called atten tion to unjust laws in force in several states. In part Mr. Klaw said: "This matter is of a danger now very imminent. I refer to the efforts of cer tain misguided persons to narrow the big work of the American drama oy practically eliminating therefrom all stage children. The so-called National Child Labor Committee of this coun try, with misdirected zeal,, has been en abled to have laws placed on the stat ute books of Illinois, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Kansas and the Province of Ontario, prohibiting children under 14 years of age appearing on the stage -st all. Francis "Wilson, Robert Hilliard, Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske and other of our most reputable artists can testi fy to the handicap this has been to them in presenting "some of the very best products of American authors. Al ready under the operation of this law the states mentioned cannot enjoy such plays as 'King John." 'A Midsummer Night's Dream, Maeterlinck's 'Blue Bird,- "Rip Van Winkle' and many oth er dramatic classics. "We have sat idly by while bigotry ht-s run riot in this direction, and while the men and women composing this child labor committee may be most reputable, they are going about their work with a fanaticism, an indiscretion and a mercilessness worthy of the Sa lem witch-burners. Child Neglected Too Long. "The stage child of this country has been neglected all too long. There has always been too much or too little dono for it, both operating to the disad vantage of the child. There lurks a suspicion that back of the child labor committee there are many people who are simply using this agitation to gain a little publicity and to serve personal ends. It reminds me of the story of Dionyslus, the tyrant, who robbed the statue of the Olympian Jupiter of its mantle of gold and replaced it with a woolen cloak, saying that the gold cov ering was too cold in winter and too heavy in summer, and we must look after Jupiter.' "The theory that a child should not be allowed to walk upon a stage until it is 14 years old, if its career is to be that of an actor or actress, is simply absurd. I am informed that at the last meeting of our committee with the committee of the child labor law even so eminent a man as Dr. Felix Adler made the assertion that there was no necessity for a child to go on the stage until it is 14; he hoped to have a law passed prohibiting it until it was 16 as the dramatic schools would fill all the bill of preparation in fact,-he had a dramatic school attached to his Ethical Culture society. "Of course the absurdity of this con tention only shows how far afield even a sincere man may De lea. Yet tnesa same men do not object to the labor performed by the musical prodigy who must stand on its little feet four or five hours a day practicing, if he hap pen to be a violinist, or to work at a piano an equal number of hours if that instrument is to be the expression of his genius. We need only recite the fact that all the great stage geniuse3, from Edmund Kean to Julia Marlowe, went before the footlights as children, to successfully dispute the idea that a man, woman or child can learn to act in any way except by acting. Not Debarred From Education. "This child labor committee has also been exploiting the fact that children of the state are debarred the chance of elementary education. Now, the veriest tyro must be acquainted with the fact that a condition precedent of stage work is the ability to read and write, and as actors and actresses are con stantly learning and reciting the best thoughts of the best writers, it seems absurd to say that they are debarred from education. "These misguided good folk want place the stage work of children in the same category that they do the little ones who toil for eight or ten hours a day in the factories and mills. Any one who has watched the care and tenderness with which stage children are treated and surrounded will know that there is no excuse under heaven for putting them in the same category with mill hands or factory workers. Laws for the sane, rational protection of the child's health, morals and safety we are all in favor of. but until the stage as a whole is condemned as a dangerous institution there is no rea son why those who are to make it thei careers should not begin at an age i when their minds and bodies are THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE TLKSDAT. The senate takes the committee ap- pointments away from Hopkins. plastic and impressionable for the work. "These people meet you with the names of a few actors who gained cels brity in snite of the fact that they em barked on a stage career after they had reached maturity, but every one of these actors himself admits that he suffered from the handicap all through his life. Irving said so repeatedly, and because he attained greatness and dis tinction in spite of this handicap is no reason why it should be imposed upon every human being who wants to take up a stage career. "There is about as much logic in the argument that because a few succeeded thus hobbled as there would be in say ing that because a man performed some feat with one nana tiea Demna his back he should be shackled to that extent for the rest of his natural ex istence. "Now, we don't want a roster of one handed actors in America, and that is what we are going to have unless something is done to meet these unjust demands." FIGHT OYER PORTRAIT. Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston Roiled at Action of Art Commission. Boston, Jan. 14. The refusal of the art commission to sanction the placing of an oil portrait of the late Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in Faneuil hall has aroused the fighting blood of May or Fitzgerald, chairman of the com mittee to provide the portrait, and he declares that if the commission does not give an adequate reason for its veto the legislature will probably be asked to override it. which would probably mean the abolishing of the commission. 1? assess Thomas Allen, Chairman of Boston Art Commission. Thomas Allen, chairman of the Bos ton art commission, who has taken the stand against the placing of the picture of the late Julia Ward Howe in Fan euil hall, becomes the center of the fight. He maintains that while Mrs. Howe should De nonorea in some sun able manner, it would not be proper to place her portrait in oil in Fanueil hall. He recommends a memorial statue instead. COST OF DYING ADVANCED. ElDorado Cemetery Prices for Privi leges Have Been Raised. El Dorado, Kan.. Jan. 14. Following the example set by the cost of living, the cost of dying has advanced in El Dorado and both local cemeteries have agreed to the raise in price. The price of grave excavation here tofore has been $4. The sextons an nounced a raise of $1, due to the hard ness of the ground and extra wear and tear on shovels-and picks. Should Live Up to Expectations "When we were engaged you said i was an angel, and now you refuse me a new dress.' "Well, my dear, do angels wear dresses?" Pele Male. CURIOSITY Leads to Investigation and Truth. What shall we do to be saved? was the title of one of Robt. Ingersoll's lec tures. People of faith and people of no faith flocked to hear it. Thousands are asking, "What shall I do to get rid of dandruff?" The answer is, "Kill the germ that causes dandruff, falling hair and finally baldness; and the only thing that will do it is Newbro's Herp lclde. That is the very latest discov ery of the laboratory, and It is the only preparation that claims to, or that will kill the pestiferous dandruff germ. It also is a delightful hair dressing, free from oil or grease or sticky substance. Try it and be con vinced of its actual merit. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., De troit, Mich. One Dollar Bottles Guaranteed rv -rJ ii ti ii t if w f i I I, JOURNAL SATUBD AY PAST WEEK AS DEPICTED BY WEDNESDAY. Legal lights of the state meet in Topeka. CURTIS JAS KEY. His Plan to Prevent Tariff Dis criminations. Maximum and Minimum Feat ures of the Law. AN IMPORTANT MOVE. Have Effect of Bringing Foreign Countries to Time. Factional Fight Injected Into Contest for Judgeship. Washington, Jan. 14. In his message to the present session of congress, President Taft called attention to the fact that there were several cases in which foreign countries were found to be discriminating against the United States in the importation of certain products, and also -discriminations against our exportations. The new tariff law, in section 2 re specting the maximum and minimum tariff of the United States, imposed upon the president the responsibility of determining prior to April 1, 1910 the date of the enactment of the Payne Aldrich bill, whether or not any undue discrimination existed against the United States and its products in any country of the world with which we sustained commercial relations. Several instances of undue discrimi nation against American commerce were found to exist, some of them have been removed by negotiations, while others still exist, and are existing through arbitrary action. In comment ing on this feature of the new tariff law in his messaee. President Taf said: "In its general operation section 2 of the tariff law has thus far proved a guaranty of continued commercial peace, although there are unfortunate ly instances where foreign governments deal arbitrarily with American inter ests within their Jurisdiction in a man ner injurious and inequitable." He referred to Germany's discrimi natory action in the importation to this country of potash for use in com mercial fertilizers and for manufac turing purposes, and also to the dis crimination practiced by that country and other countries against American made tools and flour. Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas was the father of the amendment to the Payne-Aldiich tariff bill which provid ed for the maximum and minimum feature of the law. To make the law more effective. Senator Curtis has pre sented in tne senate recently .an amendment which provides "that whenever the president of the United States shall be satisfied that any foreign government, in violation of its treaty obligations to this country, shall seek by repressive, discriminative, or con fiscatory measures to Jeopardize, im pair or destroy the capital of citizens of the United States legitimately invest ed in such foreign country in accord ance with treaty provisions, or that whenever the president shall be satis fied that unjust discriminations are made by or under the authority of any foreign country against the importa tion, to or sale in such foreign country of any product of the United States, he may. direct that such products of such foreign country be excluded from im portation to the United States. Fur thermore, in such cases he shall make proclamation of his discretion in the premises, and therein name the time when such direction against importa tions shall take effect, and after that date such articles named shall be un lawful for importation. Senator Curtis' amendment is gen erally held to be the key to the situ ation if it is adopted by congress. It would serve to settle all pending con troversies now pending which are so im portant to the American interests and people at large. The race for the judgeship of the Eighth circuit to succeed the vacancy caused by the appointment of Judge Van Devanter to the United States supreme court bench has apparently narrowed down to a contest between an insurgent and a standpatter, both members of the house. Congressman Ed Madison, of Kansas, gave impetus to the boom for Con gressman George M. Norris of Nebras ka, insurgent leader, when he had a heart-to-heart talk with the president recently and urged the nomination of Norris. Congressman Walter I. Smith, of Iowa, a regular, is a leading candi date for the job. While it is known the president will not consider the question of progressive versus regular in making the appoint ment, friends of both men are anxiously awaiting the outsome of the race in which' party policy lines are so clearly drawn. Rumors are afloat to the ef fect that Judge Madison, as envoy of the Insurgents, reminded Mr. Taft of certain promises mjde not so long ago regarding patronage. Congressman Charles F. Scott has a bill in the house authorizing the presi dent to Invite the International Con gress of Agricultural education to hold the third International Congress of Agricultural education in the United States in 1912. The postofflce department has ordered that the Stockton (Kan.) postofflce shall have a new location on and after next April la. The new site is to be on EVENING, JANUARY 14, THURSDAY. The Charity ball Is the event of the day and season. the south side of Main street, between Corrydon and Court streets. Taw postofflce. Haskell county, Kan., will be discontinued on the last day of the month. Kansas postmasters appointed: Ancel L. Samples at Kimball; Edna M. Jef fers at Minneola; William H. Jordan at Seneca. All three are reappoint ments. HOUSE BILLS. The following bills 'were Introduced in the house Friday: H. B. No. 83 By Feder: An act-designating the 12th day of October in each year as a public holiday to be known as Columbus Day. H. B. No. 84 By Mulroy: An act des ignating the 12th day of October of each year as a public holiday to be know as "Columbus Day." H. B. No. 85 By Cassln: An aot amending section 2252 of the general statutes of 1309. H. B. No. 86 By Deacon: An act creating a state school of mines and metallurgy, for the purpose of teaching the scientific knowledge of mining and metallurgy in the state of Kansas. H. B. No. 87 By Wallace: An act providing for license tax on express companies, telephone and telegraph companies. H. B. No. 88 By Ward of Haskell: An act repealing section 8 of chapter 261 of the session laws-of 1909, being section 9357 of the general statutes of 1909. H. B. No. 89 By Kyle: An act mak ing appropriations to the industrial hygienic home for friendless persons at Hlllsboro. Kan. H. B. No. 90 By Abrams: An act re lating to the clouding of the title of real estate, and (providing a penalty therefor, H. B. No. 91 By Graham: An act for the protection of quail. H. B. No. 92 By Johnson: An act making appropriation to pay per diem and actual necessary expenses of the regents of the Kansas State Agricul tural college. H. B. No. 93 By Herr: An act con cerning the issuance of school district bonds for the erection or purchase of school houses in certain cases. H. B. No. 94 By dinger: An act making insurance agents, brokers or other persons placing fire, lightning or i tornado insurance in this state in un authorized companies, associations or Lloyds, liable to the assured for the amount of the loss sustained up to the amount of such insurance. H. B. No. 95 By dinger: An act cre ating the office of state fire marshal. H. B. No. 96 By Moore: An act to re quire railroad companies to maintain gates at private crossings. H. B. No. 97 By Moore: An act mak ing each city a separate road district and amending section 1 of chapter 295 of the session laws of 1907. H. B. No. 98 By Wayman: An act to amend section 1 of chapter 116 of the session laws of the state of Kansas for 1905 being paragraph 1374 of the general statutes of Kansas for 1909. H. B. No. 99 By Couch: An act prohibiting the killing of quail. H. B. No. 10y By Davis of Gray: An act to provide for the licensing of real estate agents and to punish the violation thereof. H. B. No. 101 By Davis of Gray An act to create a bureau of immigra tion, and to provide for the govern ment thereof. H. B. No. 102 By Davis of Sedg wick An act relating to the taking of depositions outside of the county in which the action is pending and pro viding for expenses in certain cases. H B. No. 108 By Davis of Sedg wick An act relating to covenants against encumbrances where there is a laid out, publicly used and open highway, or a railroad right of way in use on lands. H. B. No. 104 By Emerson: An act to amend section 190 of the code of civil procedure relating to the grounds for attachment. H. B. No. 105 By Brown of But ler: An act concerning high school tuition. H. B. No. 106 -CBy Cron by request: An act amending section. 576 of chap ter 132 of the session laws of 1909, be ing section 8171 of the general stat utes of 1909 for state of Kansas and repealing sections 6171 and 6172. Re lating to appeals to the supreme oourt-4 H. B. No. 107 By parrott: An act creating a thresherman's lien. H. B. No. 108 By Frey: An act amendatory of section 532 of chapter 95 and section 157 or cnapter 86 gen eral statutes of 1909. H. B. No. 109 By Carney: An act relating to elections and amending sections 1, 2, 3 of chapter 222 of the session laws of 1905 and providing ad ditional safeguards for the protection of elections; and repealing said orig inal sections 1, 2 and 8 of chapter 222 of the session laws of 1905. H. B. No. 110 By Carney: An act making October 12 a holiday to be known as Columbus day, H. B. No. Ill By Burke: An act to amend section 9352 of the general statutes of Kansas relating to assess Rich Hair We publish all the ingredi ents of Ayers Hair Vigor. Your doctor can thus quickly decide any hair question. He will assure you it cannot color the hair. Ask about 1911. FRIDAY. Legislature adjourns and members go home through a storm. ment and taxation and to repeal the aforesaid section. H. B. No. 112-i-By M alone: An act relating to the establishment of a branch experimental and demonstra tion station near Herndon in Rawlins county, Kansas, and. appropriating monies for the maintenance thereof. H. B. No. 118 By Malone: An act prescribing the territory of school dis trict No. 23, in the county of Rawlins. H. B. No. 114 By Shields: An act concerning certain road tax, providing for the levying and collection thereof. H. B. No. 115 By Shields: An act concerning annual school district meetings. H. B. No. 116 By Mahurln: An act to amend sections 199 and 202, chap ter 31, general statutes of 1909, and relating to brlDery at elections. H. B. No. 117 By McCormick: An act to provide for the hatching and distribution of quail in the state of H. B. No. 118 By McCormick:: An act amending section 7 of chapter 267 of the laws of 1905. H. B. No. 119 By Fair: An act to provide for normal training in ac credited colleges and to provide for state aid to accredited colleges giving such normal training-. H. B. No. 120 By Herr: An act in relation to the establishment and maintenance of separate schools for pupils of the Caucasian and Ethiopian races in the public schools. H. B. No. 121 By Herr: An act in relation to marriage. H. B. No. 122 By Fair: An act appropriating certain funds for the prevention and eradication of hog cholera, H. B. No. 123 By Keene: An act to amend section 7866 of the general statutes of 1909, and to provide for the burial of honorably discharged Union soldiers, sailors or marins, and their wives or widows. H. B. No. 124 By Keen,e of Bour bon: An act to amend sections 674 and 676 of chapter 182 of the session laws of 1909 and repealing said origin al sections. H. B. No. 125 By Miller of Ford: An act to amend section 2, chapter three hundred ninety-six (396), laws of 1907, being an act relating to the management of the Kansas State Sol diers' home. H. B. No. 126 By Kyle: An act making appropriation to the Bethesda hospital at GoesseL Kansas. H. B. No. 127 By Kelley: An act making an appropriation for the To peka Orphans' home of Topeka. H. B. No. 128 By Stone of Shaw nee, by request: An act providing for sale of real estate for taxes, etc. H. B. No. 129 By Stone of Shaw ness, by request: An act relating to levees constructed and maintained to prevent overflow from natural water courses. H. B. No. 180 By Stone of Shaw nee, by request: An act relating to taxation, etc H. B. No. 131 By Stone of Shaw nee: An act fixing the duties of court stenographers and providing for their compensation and fees, etc H. B. No. 132 By Stone of Shaw nee: An act to amend sections 8104 8105, general statutes of 1909. H. B. No. 133 By Stone of Shaw- ness, by request: An act amending section 4804 of general statutes of 1909. H. B. No. 134 By.' Stone of Shaw nee: An act to enable counties, town ships and cities to purchase and use voting machines at all general, special and primary elections; providing for the payment thereof; creating a Kan sas state voting machine commission and prescribing Its compensation, du ties and powers; establishing rules for the care and use of voting machines; providing for election boards of three members in certain cases; repealing chanter 184 of the session laws of 1901 and all acts and parts of acts relating to the use of voting machines, and sus pending the operation of all laws and parts of laws when Inconsistent with the provsions of this act. H. B. No. 185 By Mctonald: An act regulating the levying of taxes for township and road purposes and re pealing section 9423 and 9424 of the general statutes of 1909. H. B. No. 136 By Don XSarlos: An act providing for a claim adjuster for the- state board of control, and defining his duties. SENATE BILLS. The following bills were Friday in troduced and read for the first time: S, B. No. 57 By Brewster: An act in relation to the officers of corpora tions. S. B. No. 58 By Brewster: An act relating to the removal of unfaithful public officers. S. B. No. 59 By Brewster: An act relating to weights and measures. S. B. No. 60 By Stavely: An act fixing the duties of court stenogra phers and providing for their com pensation. S. B. No. 61 By Qulncy: An act relating to road districts in cities of the second and third class. S. B. No. 62 By Qulncy: An act relating to township trustees. S. B. No. 63 By Qulncy: An act relating to hedges and weeds on pub lic highways. S. B. No. 64 By Qulncyr An. act relating to taxation. S. B. No. 65 By Quincy: An act relating to the bank depositors' guar antee fund. S. B. No. 66 By Robertson:' An act concerning annual school district meetings. S. B. No. 67 By Minority Senators: An act relating to elections. S. B. No. 68 By Travis: An act creating a public libraries commission. S. B. No. 69 By Travis: An act to amend section 9296 of the general statutes of 1909 S. B. No. 70 By Travis: An act to amend section 9464 of the general statutes of 1909. S. B. No. 71 By Cooke: Aa act II PARSONS SA1XTU5AY. The City Railway company opens a new line to the public relating to the duties of school dis trict treasurers. S. B. No. 72 By Hostrup: An aot appropriating money to pay expenses of regents of the Kansas State Agri cultural college. S. B. No. 73 By Price: An act to amend section 2, chapter 886. of the laws of 1907. S. B. No. 74 By Stewart: An act making appropriations for charitable institutions at Wichita. Kansas. S. B. No. 75 By Stewart: An act to regulate the sale, barter, transfer and assignment of stocks of merchan dise and fixtures, or any portion there of, by debtors in bulk. S. B. No. 76 By Stewart: An act to amend section 6229 of the general statutes of 1909. S. B. No. 77 By Stewart: An act relating to the duties of the district clerk and the register of deeds. S. B. No. 78 By Stewart: An act relating to the powers of the mayor and council in cities of the first class. S. B. No. 79 By Stewart: An act appropriating money for the payment of the pension of Harry Parks. S. B. No. 80 By Stewart: An aot concerning state publications. S. B. No. 81 By Cooke: An act concerning duties of township treas urers. Senate Resolutions. The following resolutions were in troduced: By Senator Cooke (by request) Senate resolution No. 11: Relating to the senate nag. By Senator Qulncy Senate resolu tion No. 12: Relating to covers fop the Journal and calendar. By Senator Glenn Senate concur rent resolution No. 2: Approving the proposed sixteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States. By Senator Myers Senate concur- J rent resolution No. 3 Relating to amending me constitution relative to legislative powers of the state. By Senator Myers Senate concur rent resolution No. 4: Relating to the trial by jury amendment to the con stitution. WANTS TO HEAD CUBA. Zayas Declares Country's Worst Can cer Is Secret Police. Havana, Jan. 14. General Loynaz del Castillo has announced the candi dacy of Hernandez and himself for the presidency and vice presidency. He says the only thing that can cause war or American intervention will be Pres ident Gomez seeking re-election. He adds that the country's worst cancer is the secret police, which is made up of Jailbirds. Vice President Zayas has also issued a statement announcing his candidacy for tne presidency. He deprecates so early an agitation but says he- is un able to restrain his friends. He does not specify the second member of his ticket. General Pino Guerra an nounces that he will campaign active ly for Zayas, making efforts to com bine all elements which- are dissatis fied with the Gomez administration, in cluding the conservatives.- Zayas will start a newspaper to advance his in terests. Meanwhile the administration or gans are filled with arguments favor ing the re-election of Gomez, and the Miguelites throughout the island are adopting resolutions declaring in favor of Gomez. Speaker Ferrara reiterates that Gen eral Gomez will not seek a renomina tion. "Juat Say" MORUCIVS It Means Original and Ganulr.a HALTED Till Lit The Food-drink for ill Ages. More healthful than Tea or Coffee. Agrees with the weakest digestion, Delicious, mvigorabng and nutritious. tnilk, malted grain, powder form. A qnick loach prepared in a minute. Take no substitute. AskforHORUCK'S. Others are imitations, i

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UV3 THE parting rays of a glorious setting- sun shone upon la little Punjab village whose brown mud huts uprose from the surrounding flatness of the plains. They fell on the slender form of Kariman as she followed the path leading to the village well, an oasis i i a parched land. With. Inimitable grace she carelessly balanced, on, her head two large earthenware' ghurras (round earthenware receptacles used for carrying water), which were to be filled with water from the well. Numerous bracelets encircled the slim, weli shaped arms, and a large silver ring in her nose set off the swarthy beauty of her face, while her ausky, almond shaped eyes, together with the fairness of her white teeth, made her the beauty of the little village. Kariman drew near where a chattering crowd, chiefly women, was collected. She smiled softly to herself, for she distinguished .the stalwart yet slim form of Golab Khan among them, and her step faltered. She was very popular in the village and was greeted on all sides with a pleasant welcome. "Good evening, Kariman. You re late tonight," said one. "How is your father?" asked another. She replied to their kindly gossip and inquiries, feeling the earnest gaze of GRlab Khan fixed upon her face. One old woman, Miriam by name and said to be gifted with second sight, accosted Golab Khan. "How is it that you are drawing water tonight, Golab Khan? You do not often come." "Perhaps it is for the pleasure of seeing you, Miriam," he re joined. A burst of laughter greeted this sally as the women formed into groups and moved toward their homes. "Ah, you cannot deceive an old woman so easily," she went on, wagging her head. "Come, pull up this lota (a small metal pot of brass or, copper) from the well for me, my son. You are young and strong." "Aye. mother, though you do not deserve it; you are too sharp tongued." "What is there left for the old to do but to talk?" she replied. "Why do you linger. Kariman? You are late already, and neither of your ghurras is filled. It will be dark before you return unless you hasten." Fixing her bright eyes upon the girl, she continued: "I hear your father is arranging for you to wed in the next vil lage and that your marriage will take place soon. What do you say to it all?" "Yes, mother; what you heard is true," replied the girl, avoid ing Golab Khan's eyes. "Ah, and it will be a good match for you, girl. What do you think?" "It is as Allah wills," Kariman answered listlessly, lowering "the rope to draw water. "Will you lift this ghurra to my head?" said the old woman, whose remarks had not been without a purpose. "I am an old woman to do this work, but my son's wife is ill, and one must have water, so I come. Thank you, my daughter," she added as Kariman helped her to arrange the heavy earthenware vessel on 'the small circular pad which protected her bead. Miriam looked xedly at her. "Ah. the hand of fate is on your brow, girl! It bodes ill; it bodes ill." "What do you mean, mother?" inquired Kariman fearfully. "I marked it before, but it is stronger now. Beware, child, beware!" "Mother, I have done naught. You frighten me," clinging to her bony arm in fear. "Come home with me. I have only seen that mark once be fore," Miriam muttered half to herself. "WTaIk slowly, mother, and I will catch you up. I have still to fill my ghurras." Kariman looked anxiously after her as the old woman walked away muttering, but she did not seem to hear. Thoroughly frightened, Kariman turned and encountered Golab Khan's dark eyes. "Do not heed the idle words of that old woman, Kariman. Is it true that you are betrothed to Hashmat, the money lender?" be asked. "Not yet, but it is almost arranged, Golab Khan," she whis pered, pouring the sparkling water from the brass lota into the large vessel at her side. "Tell me one thing, Kariman, my soul, do you love Tilm?" "Nay; I have only seen him once, ana he is old and ugly." "listen to me. I love you, Kariman, as you know well, though I have never said so in words. Do you love me a little, too, be loved?" "I do not know, Golab Khan," she faltered. "Do not be frightened, little one, but come with me, and we will go to another town and live happily. You shall see the world, Kariman," lowering his voice and speaking rapidly. "We will travel through strange lands, see large cities and not live always like moles in a hole in this small village." She looked fearfully and admiringly at him, but shook' her head. "It cannot be, Golab, Khan, for your kinsfolk -would-not like you to marry a low caste girl, and I fear to anger my father by opposing his wishes. I must hasten now, as' the sun has set,, and it will soon be night." She hastily lifted the large heavy ghurras to her head and walked a way with that swift, undulating grace which belongs peculiarly to native women. "I. will see you again soon, my beloved, when I will tell you what -I have done," he whispered. "Meanwhile think of me, Kariman, my heart's delight and desire of my eyes." Kariman hurried home with his passionate words-ringing In her ears. Fortunately" she arrived there before her father re turned from the village. It was now high time she should be given In marriage, and her father wished her to marry a rich man in the next village. It was a good match, but distasteful to Kariman, as her prospec tive husband was fat and elderly. She accepted her fate, how ever, with the customary stoicism exhibited by native women .toward their lot and in no way showed her feelings at all in the matter. Then she had met Golab Khan, a young native of high caste, who was said to be learned and had traveled far and had even lived in the great city of Bombay. When he saw Kariman he had at once fallen In love with her. He well knew that his mother, his only near surviving relative, would be much opposed to the match, but he had set his heart on Kariman and was not a man to be easily turned from his purpose. Her mother had been dead two years, and she kept house for her father and was allowed more latitude than is usually given to unmarried girls. She had kneaded the wheaten bread and put it to cook for their supper, when she beard her father return. He was cheerful and had evidently spent a pleasant evening among bis friends. After supper he removed his pipe from his Hps and said: "You must soon be thinking of marriage, my daughter. I have a very good one in view for you, and I must arrange the betrothal ceremonies. I told you before that Hashmat had asked your hand in marriage." Then, as 6he remained silent, he went on: "Does it not please you. my daughter? It is a good match." "What will you do "without me to cook and keep house for you?" she asked wistfully. "Who will yon have in my place?" "That is easily arranged, for I can get my sister, who is a widow, to come and live with me," he said placidly. Unable any longer to contain herself, Kariman fell prostrate on the floor and, embracing her father's knees, cried: "Will you not let me stay with you a little longer, my father?" I am so happy with you. I do not want to marry yet." "This is child's talk," said Kaim, her father, rising angrily to his feet. "You are a fool, girl, and will never have so good an offer again." Oh, my father." she wailed, "send me not from yon yet!" adding passionately as he made a gesture of impatience: "He Is too old and ugly, this Hashmat. I cannot marry him." "You- will do as you are told," said Kaim coldly, "so let me ,ax no more about it." He left the house at these words, leaving poor Kariman to conquer her sorrow as best she might She soon realized the use lessness of her appeal, raised herself sorrowfully and continued her household duties with the philosophy inborn in the eastern races. Though Hashmat was old and ugly and she was sure he was cruel, yet it was Allah's will, that she should marry him. and who was she that she should struggle against fate? Golab Khan would soon forget her and marry some rich girl of his own caste. Yet some spark not utterly extinguished in her down trodden soul rebelled at her bondage. She went to draw water at midday and did not as usual venture down to the assembly who met, chattered and gossiped round the well in the evening. She wished for her own peace of mind to avoid Golab Khan. A week thus passed till one even ing, finding herself short of water for household purposes, Kari man took her ghurras to be filled. She walked slowly, for her heart was heavy. She fixed her great, dark eyes on the green pigeons which circled aloft. They lived in the side of the well and were considered holy. Her thoughts were with Golab Khan. Had he tired of his search for her? Had he realized the fruit lessness of his wishes concerning her? she sadly wondered. When she arrived at the well many were the exclamations which greeted her. She encountered the keen, prying eyes of the little old woman Miriam. "Where have you been, child?" she asked. "At home, mother." 1 "Have you been ill that we have not seen you for so many days?" "I had a little fever yesterday." "Ah; you do not look well! When is your wedding to be?" "Soon, I think, for my father went this morning to arrange it," replied Kariman, weary of her questions. At these words the other women pressed round her, plying her with inquiries and banter. Kariman, having drawn her water, was glad to make her escape. In spite of herself she felt a keen sense of disap pointment. Where was Golab Khan? Soon she would not be and I fear what he might do," she repeated helplessly. "He has never been thwarted in his life." "And Kariman, does she not want to marry?" "She is young and beautiful, and her future husband, though -rich, is ugly and cruel, they say." "Nevertheless, oh, daughter, your case is a hard one. Had It been any one but the child Kariman" He paused thoughtfully. Sani then drew out her bribe, the value of which she could only guess. As a last resource she was willing to part with it, "See, father, this great gem will I give you to save my son." The red jewel sparkled in her hand, and the yogi's eyes glistened greedily as he looked at it. v "Ah, it is a fine stone!" he said, examining it and recognizing Its beauty of color and size batter than the ignorant woman who held it. "For this stone I will do my best for you, my daughter, though what you ask is very hard." She gratefully bent low and thanked him. "You will give me some charm to work against the fascinations of Kariman?" "Nay; no' charm will suffice in this case, my daughter, but your son shall never marry Kariman. I have spoken. Depart in peace and be comforted, oh, daughter!" Salaaming profoundly and marveling at his wonderful powers, Sanl withdrew. She was anxious to be back before her son should find out her absence and question her. Thus it was that two days after her meeting with Golab Khan Kariman saw the yogi sitting by the wayside, saying his prayers. He accosted her as she passed: "Hail, my daughter! Will you give me some of your water, for the day Is hot?" "Willingly, holy one. Take all that you require and give me a blessing, father." He turned abruptly and looked at her. "Nay; I cannot bless you, for you have deceit In your heart and unhappiness in your eyes." "Alas, father, unhappiness comes to all." "Do not try to put me off, girl, for I know and give you warn ing. If you marry Hashmat, well and good, for you will be rich and content, but beware of giving your love to another. I warn ment of evil weighed upon uer, and she battled with her feara in vain. She had almost decided not to go- when the vision of her lover's face and the magnetism of his presence called her Silently she rose, and, leaving the quiet hut behind her, sh stepped into the still and awful blackness. It was a dark night, as the moon had not risen, and Kariman, with a fast beating heart, hurried to the trysting place, which was some distance away. Every sound she made seemed to strike loudly on her ears, and each moment she expected to hear footsteps behind her telling her that her flight had been discov ered, but Kaim, her father, slept soundly. Meanwhile Golab Khan had not fared eo well. His mother, who had seemed restless and ill at ease all the week, kept per sistently at his side. Her faith in the yogi was great, yet she was aware that the lovers had met once or twice and was ac cordingly on the alert. Golab Khan, seeing the frame f mind she was in, quietly administered a sleeping draft, which she unwittingly ate with her supper. She still continued restless and suspicious, however, and succeeded in delaying him. Assured at length by her regular breathing that the opiate had worked and she was asleep, Golab Khan crept out and hastened with the eagerness of a lover to the appointed place. He hur ried on, fearing he was late, when the moon rose In full glory, flooding all the plain with her silver light. They had chosen a Junction of three roads, at the 6ide of which some bushes and trees clustered, as the meeting place. Upon his arrival there a supreme stillness -reigned, and at his roftly whispered "Kariman!" no slight figure stole out to meet him. He was first, after all, or perhaps her fears had over powered her at the last moment and Kariman had failed him Yet he could not think that Perhaps, like him, she had been de layed and would come later. He retreated near some bamboos which cast long, eerie shadows, to. wait The moon, which had been veiled by some passing clouds, again shone out in full bril liance, "and he looked once more searchingly around.. His glanci fell on an object which had escaped his attention before, a whit ISP fzl sate? fjj vfrdgmsmflm wmmmmmm M.fS u, ivy sii mJ -"5Sj W W Jl V ft f ivJL able to see him at" all when she was married. She would live with the fat Hashmat She was passing some bushes when .she saw in the shadow of them a white clad figure. She hastened her footsteps. "Kariman!" a voice whispered, and she joyfully recognized Golab Khan. "You have been hiding from me," he said reproachfully. "Nay, Golab Khan; I have thought of you unceasingly," she said simply. "My loved one, I think of you night and day. You are never absent from my thoughts," he answered passionately, "yet I have not been idle, for I have made plans for our flight" "No, no! What you say cannot be," she said hurriedly. "I begged my father to let me off this marriage, but he 4s firmly re solved on it and has gone this very day to arrange the betrothal ceremonies." "Nevertheless, Kariman, I am equally resolved that you shall marry no one but me. Your own dear lips have said that you love me, and nothing shall part us." "I must hurry home, Golab Khan. I cannot stay, for If I am seen talking to you my father will be very angry." yin a week, then, my Kariman, my heart's desire, I shall claim you," was his only response, and Kariman, with a beating heart, went quickly home. One pair of vigilant eyes had seen them and marked their brief meeting, and looks of hatred and defiance were thrown after Kariman's retreating form. It was Golab Khan's widowed mother, Sani, who watched them, a strong willed, ambitious wo man who held very different plans for her son. These plans were not to be thwarted. That evening she taxed Golab Khan on the subject, and as he. would brook no interference they quar reled violently, and she determined to resort to other means to gain her ends. Accordingly at daybreak he rose and went to an old yogi, a holy man who lived in the jungle near by, who was said to have great power over wild beasts. She took with her a great treasure in the shape of a large blood red ruby and started on her errand. Upon her arrival at the fringe of the jungle she heard the dis tant sound of a pipe used to charm snakes by professional snake charmers. Terrified, she went in the direction of tfie sound, and, joining suddenly upon a cleared space, she saw the yogi sitting. Round him were gathered many snakes and reptiles, swaying their bodies and moving their heads, fascinated by the music. Awestruck by the sight, Sani fell on her face, calling out "Hail, holy one!" The yogi did not at once answer her, but put back some large cobras into a basket at his side, changing his playing into another key. Sani watched, dumb with amazement, and saw the reptiles wriggle back into the depths of the jungle. He then rose and said: "Hail, daughter! Are you. in any trouble that you come to me?" "Alas, holy man, I am sop distressed and need your help." "Tell me what I can do for you," he said as he accepted her offering of rice and lentils. He subsisted entirely on the gifts of the villagers. Sani, thus encouraged, poured forth her story, "You must know, oh, holy one, my son, Golab Khan, who Is the light of my eyes and joy of my life. I brought him to you as a baby to be blessed and given a charm against evil." "Yes; I remember him well." "Yes, and he is fine grown and clever. I wish him to marry well and honorably. Great now is my sorrow to find he is taken up .with a low caste girl, daughter of. Kaim, the shoemaker. She is soon to be married, but I know my son is headstrong and passionate, and I fear what he may do. I want you, therefore, holy man, to gjve me some potion or charm that will make her distasteful to him." "What you ask is very difficult to perform, my daughter, for I have blessed Kariman when she also was a babe, and I cannot curse where I have once blessed." "Alas, father, if you fail me to whom can I turn for help? I am only a poor widow woman, with no one to advise me," and she began to cry softly. "You tell me thac she is soon to be married. That surely will end your difficulty." "Yes, when she is safely married, but I know my son so well, She setter the yogi. Hound him tvere gathered snakes and rep tiles fascinated by the music. you, so beware. The wise man does not speak twice nor with out cause." He rose quickly and left Kariman bewildered, yet with a chilling fear at heart. "They all tell me to beware of what I know not Is it of Golab Khan? Perhaps it were better nwer to see him again." A sob rose to her throat at the thought and with it the realization that she was as wax in the hands of Golab Khan's stronger and fiercer nature. A prey to these disturbing thoughts, Kariman went slowly home. On all sides she was met by the preparations for the coming ceremony. Her father was pleased and joyful at her docility, for as the prospective father-in-law of so rich and in fluential a man as Hashmat he had more weight and importance in the small village. No rumors of the friendship between his daughter and Golab Khan had reached his ears. He thought that Kariman had realized her good fortune and had decided to be obedient The two continued to meet however, and Golab Khan had done his best to dissuade Kariman from a marriage which was so dreaded by her and to wed him. Try as she might Kariman could not resist his persuasions and at last consented to go away with him on the day previous to the one fixed for her wedding. When she left him all the former fears which he had driven away by the magic of his words, returned to her in full force. Superstitious fear of the yogi's warning and Miriam's ominous words came to her, and 6he shrank back appalled from the deed she contemplated. Time went on with inexorable tread, and the eventful day approached which they had fixed on for their flight They had arranged to depart at midnight so as to be well on their way before daybreak, and Golab Khan had made all the necessary arrangements. That night Kariman watched her father go to his night's rest, and, having put a few clothes together, she lay down and pretended to sleep. A presentl- clad figure lying prostrate on the ground. Could it be Kariman, who, exhausted with waiting for him, had fallen asleep? he won dered. He advanced "stealthily and saw the fair form of his love lying still and silent A deadly fear oppressed him, and words stuck in his throat as he tried to speak. He caught the tiny hands In his and felt the pulse. They were still warm as though life had departed unwillingly from the slender young body. In an agony of apprehension he pressed his lips again and again to her soft mouth and called on her to awaken. "Dear heart, it is I, thy Golab Khan. Arise, my love, and an swer me." He waited fearfully, then bent over and placed his ear on her heart, the stillness of which 'orced the truth on to his bewildered senses. The still, bright moonlight fell on her calm, upturned face, which even death cculd not rob of its beauty. He saw the soft roundness of her limbs, the parted lips showing the pearly teeth and the wide open eyes which wore the gaze of death upon them. The sound of a strong man's heartbroken sobs fell on the still eastern ulght while in the dim distance, where the fringe of the jungle cou-ld be seen, the faint yet clear notes of a pipe sounded weird and unearthly. Imprinted on the fair neck of Kariman were two distinct marks of a snake bite. Just below, faint and unnoticed by all save Sani and Miriam, was the mark of the ruby, the price of her Innocent life. THE FALL OF NIAGARA The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain While I .look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from his hollow hand And hung his bow upon thine awful front And spoke In that loud voice which seemed to him Who dwelt In Patmos for his Saviour's sake The sound of many waters and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back And notch his centuries in the eternal rocks. Deep calleth unto deep, And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet by thy thundering side? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to him Who drowned a world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? A light wave" That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might John Gardiner Calkins Bralnari

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1 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTBKAIi SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1911. A Reformer Kins. The International Sunday School Les son for January 15 Is "Asa's Good Keign In Judah." II Chron. 15:1-15. BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. 1KB priest, like people, good leaders mean good fol lowers. It is rare for a na tion to do as Portugal has lately done ret rid of an inmmnrtfnt kine and sub- mtitnta 'a nnnnlar eovernment. The more usual way is that of Greece; with a. king unequal to the national emer vnroi th xiponle run hither and thither, bleating piteously like a flock of sheep without a shepherd. JNauonai looora havo n pTAvp r esrion sibi li ty In the ups and down of the history of the Chosen People we ste inai B-" kings led the nation into righteous ness, and lax and evil kings cor rupted it. Certain eternal principles run through the record of the life of the Jews. That is one reason why mil lions of persons study the Old Testa ment history who know little or noth ing of the contemporary Greeks and Assyrians and Babylonians and Phoe nicians and Syrians. In the life of Judah and Israel we learn God's ways with nations in their collective ca pacity. Broadly viewed, we see that he was striving to make them a clean and righteous people, and a people freed from the taint of idolatry, and steadfast In the worship of Jehovah. What was true of these ancient king doms, nearly three thousand years ago. Is true of the Christian nations today. A Good Son's Poor Parents. When Asa came to the throne of Israel he had no moral inheritance to speak of. Apparently his father, Abijah, while calling on Jehovah when sore pressed in war, walked in the sins of his father Rehoboam. He left the land to his son filled with the abominations of the neighbor ing heathen. Even Asa's mother, Maacah, was an idolater; and we may pity the son who has not a good mother; he is worse off than the man with a foolish or wicked wife. Real mettle is shown by the way a person deals with the natural con ditions that surround him. Man right is greater than birth-right. One may be born bad and become good, else is our religion vain If children may be doomed by parents, then have we the nerveless and fatalistic East. Happily, nobody is doomed to walk in the way of anybody else. Every soul is a free ajent. The Asas may break loose from the ex ample and traditions of theRehoboams and Abijahs and Maacahs. Asa even dared remove his mother from her office as queen-mother. He destroyed the idol she had built and hurnt it publicly. Loyalty to par ents is one thing, but loyalty to God is another. There are no ties so sacred as those which bind the soul to Jehovah. The choice must some times still be made between those dear in the flesh and allegiance to the Most High. There is no peace or spirit prosperity for the life that does not put God first. The Hurt of Bad Neighbors. j A person needs a knowledge of mus ic in order to enjoy to the full a fine orchestra; one must know history in order to get the full benefit of travel; and to understand the story of the life of the ancient Jews it is necessary to rememer the conditions which sur rounded them. They were sprung from the loins of an Idol maker. Their earliest conception of Jehovah whs that of a tribal or family god, quite on the order of th other local gods of the neighbors. They had been schooled in idolatrous Egypt. The peoples who dwelt near them all wor shiped Jdols. They themselves had not pot a. good hold of the truth that there Is hut one God, universal and supreme. Moreover and this is important to hear in mind the requirements of their God were more risid than those' to which their neighbors were subject In the worship of idols. The stern morality of monotheism did not sit comfortably noon them. All sorts of laxities and indulgences were not only permitted to the idolaters, but were a required part of their worship. Here we impinge upon the huge and hid eous subject of immoralities associated with idolatry. The Jews did not turn so often and so readily to the worship of trees and stones and high places and images, because they cared for these things in themselves, but be cause their lower natures craved the practices associated with them. Im morality was the fashion among the NURSE TELLS OF CURES BY GUT1CURA Soap and Ointment in Past 20 Years. Always Recommends Them, "I haTe seen the Cuticura Remedies used with best results during- the put twenty years. In my work u a nurse, many ikin disease cases came under my observation, and in every instance. I always recommended the Cuticura Remedies as they always gave entire satisfaction. 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It made his arm as limber and nice, whereas it was quite stiff bciora I began to apply the Ointment. "Last Hay I had an Ingrowing toe nail which was very painful, is the side of the nail was edging right down in the side of my toe. I cut the nail out of the cavity it made, and of course applied the Cuticura Ointment to the part affected. It soothed it and in leas than ten nights it was all healed through constant use of the Ointment. Ten days go, I had my left hand and wrist burned With boiling lard, and Cuticura Ointment has completely cured them. I have just recommended the Cuticura Remedies to an other friend, and she is pleased with the results and Is recovering nicely. I will gladly r jrnbh the names of the people referred to above if anybody doubts what I say." (Signed) Mrs. Margaret Hederson, 77 High land Ave., Maiden, Mass., Oct. 1, 1810. Cuticura Remedies are sold throughout the world. Send to Potter Drug Chem. Corp., Boston. Mass., for free Cuticura booklet on tiis treatment of skin and scalp troubles. neighbors, and the fashion easily spread to the Jews. A Reform Administration.. Asa started out to clean up his country. He began and ended with its religion. For the only reform that counts is that which deals with the deepest motor forces of individual life. The real reformer is the true preacher. A great evangelist is worth more to the nation than a political leader. Ex cept the people be right with God it is impossible for them to be right-with one another, or with other nations. Asa cleared a path for Jehovah's return to Judah. He cut down the heathen groves, abolished the high places, destroyed the images, drove out the men corrupted with immoral practices, and pledged his nation to the service of Jehovah. It is an eternal law that Jehovah stands by all who stand by him; so Asa had victory over his enemies. National peace followed national purification; "good times" 'came in the wake of good people. Godliness proved great gain. If anybody wants to see illus trations of that same truth today, let him look at Scotland and Switzerland and Sweden, in contrast with some other nations which it would not be kind to name. When the Revival Came. One of the most baffling of pur suits is the search for causes of po litical and social actions. Usually they hark back to secret stirrings of the individual heart. Asa was moved by the word of a man of God; he was heartened for his work of re form by the preacher's sermon. The teacher and the preacher never can tell what true word of theirs is going to mean a turning point in the life of a hearer, witn unmeasured conse quences to the world. Asa is credited in history with this era or reform; but what about the man of God who spur red him on to it? Something like a great revival of true religion came to Judah in the wake of Asa's devotion. There was a glorious assembly, with sacrifices and rejoicings, in old Jerusalem. The friends of God, with hearts made glad after long seasons of discourage ments, resorted to Asa from all the land. Nobody had believed that there were so many true believers left; one good result of a revival is that it brings out the godly to be counted. We read that, in addition to Asa's convocation of his own people for the worship of Jehovah, "they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him." The exhortation of Asa and Judah is still good counsel for today; "Be ye strong and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded." A Nation Founder. Terse Comments for January 15,' "Lesson From Great Lives," I. Ab raham, Gen. 22:1-18. BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. No one man did a grpater work for the race than Abraham, pod is call ing us all to a life of such faith as will enable us to exert an influence for blessing throughout the years. But to live it we too must heed his command to "come out and be sep arate" from the life of sin. Have we the spirit of Abraham? They are most successful who most serve. Marvelous and sad though it be. most of us are more willing to lean upon broken sticks of humanity than upon the unfailing staff of Omnipo tence. We trust men daily and for get him who alone is to be trusted. The greatest lives teach the lesson of dependence upon a Greater. "And Abraham went out, not know ing whither he went." I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. Whittier. Rest in the Lord, my soul; Commit to him thy way. What to thy s-ight seems dark as night. To him is bright as day. Maltbie Babcock. There is a difference between a trusting heart and sure circumstances. Abraham had the latterin Horan, but he achieved the former in Canaan. Our faith may be calm and sure though home and friend? and posses sions and prospects be utterly taken away. Wars and calamities cannot disturb the serenity of the heart which knows that God is God. and that God is love. "I see not a. step before me As I tread on another year; But the past is in God's keeping. The future his mercy shall clear. And what looks dark in the distance May brighten as I draw near." Tf V rt t,nolf,il oira thaf forth. Intn trio hsirt nf rtrirl Wav that are dark to wisdom are bright to iaun. For all that men have trusted God n the past we may trust him today. Every triumphant Chistlan, every martyY, every hero of the' faith, and the Church of God itself, are all wit nesses to the truth that our Lord la to be unwaveringly trusted for every thing needful. Wisdom and sight are well. but trust is best. Adelaide Proctor. The steps of faith run. on the seeming void, ana una The rock beneath. Whittier. These lessons thou dost give To teach me how to live: To do, to bear. To get and share. To work and play, To trust alway. Babcock. Somewhere between the ancestor worship of the yellow race, and the self-madeness and consequent self sufficiency of the Western white man, lies the golden mean of a proper re gard for one's forebears. No one ever escapes the influences of his grand father; yet the living man is more potent than the dead ancestor. Tne paralysis which has enthralled the East for centuries Is due to a dispro portionate regard for the people who have passed awav: "the dead hand" has throttled nations. Among all the ancients or wnom men have boasted as ancestors, none have had so many proud descendants as Abraham, who may be called the most famous an cestor in history; yet Abram himself (ere he got the new name of Abra ham) broke with his old home and his old family associates and ties. Some spirits are essentially pioneers. They cannot be content to tread life's Journey over paved highways. They must be breaking a way where other feet have never gone. This lure of the wilderness is often an awakening of individuality; it Is the soul's asser tion of itself, and of its right to a new, free expression. The spirit which ex periences this tumult and hears the cry, "I am I. and I must go out and prove myself in new ways and in new places," must hearken as unto the voice of Jehovah. For it is by obe dience to this call that the borders of all kingdoms of heaven and earth are pushed outward. Some lives are tied up with the in terests of heaven. What hufts them, hurts God; what helps them, helps God. There is reason for the prom ise of Abram, "I will bless them that bless Thee, and him that curseth Thee, I will curse." Can it be that Russia's woes are in disguise trace able to the treatment of the children of Abraham? This ancient promise would seem to warrant such an In ference. Abram entered- into a blood cove nant with Jehovah. That was God's concession to his servant's humanity, which craved a sign. It was a vivid ritual, with the slain and divided ani mals. But it forever represents the sublime truth that the divine is will ing to enter into pledged relations with the human: that God will take man into an omnipotent partnership. NEWS AND NOTES. The Gideons of Chicago, an associa tion of Christian traveling men, pro pose to celebrate the last day of the old year by distributing 6,000 Bibles in the rooms of the city's hotels. The1 recent vote by the Chinese "senate" for a bill prescribing total prohibition of the opium traffic, be ginning with next year, marks an im portant st&p in the progressive cam paign against the use of this drug and gives fresh evidence of the good faith of China in its reform meas ures. The bill to pay back to contribivtors the ransom money of $66,000 given to secure the -release of Miss Ellen M. Stone, the missionary, who was captured by Turkish brigands, has already been passed by the senate, and the" house committee on claims has voted to report favorably upon it. A forward step in practical brother hood Is initiated by the bill presented to the Massachusetts legislature which makes compulsory the payment by the employer of a part of the weekly wages to every "workman injured by accident while at work. If he is killed, a substantial compensation is to be paid to his family. At a recent con ference in Chicago of representatives of the federal government and of nine states, it was agreed that all employ ments should .be included and prac tically all kinds of accidents should ba compensated. The famous cathedral built by the Christianized natives of Uganda on Namirembe Hill has been burned by fire which caught from a lightning stroke. It was the first brick build ing ever erected in Uganda and was large enough to accommodate a con gregation of 4,000 people. It had been in use since June, 1902. Dr. Henry Van Dyke has resigned from the Princeton faculty and has also issued a statement definitely dec dining a second pastoral term In his old parish in Brick church of New York City. It is Dr. Va Dyke's in tention to devote himself to litera ture. An $11,500,000 gift has been made by Mr. Carnegie for the promotion of peace. The fund is to be used accord ing to the best judgment of its trus tees for the promotion of such meas ures, national and international, as shall make it easier if not obligatory for nations to settle their disputes without resort to armed conflict. It will provide an annual income of about a half a million dollars, so that the principal is not likely to be encroached upon for many years to come. The board of trustees Is a distinguished one, including such men as Senator Root, former Ambassador Choate, Dr. Charles W. Elliot, General John W. Foster, Oscar Straus. George W. Per kins and Cleveland H. Dodge. These are given large discretion as to the methods which shall be used; and if the time should ever arrive when uni versal peace shall be an established fact, they are authorized to devote the money "to such altruistic purposes as will best help man in his glorious as cent onward, and upward." SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS I know no failure, save failure in cleaving to the purposes which I know to be the best. George Eliot. O, never falter! peace roust come by pain; Heaven is not found, but won. Samuel Johnson. The space between a man's ideal One May Overcome constipation permanently by proper personal co-operation with the bene ficial effects of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, when required. The forming of regular habits is most im portant and while endeavoring to form them the assistance of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is most val uable, as it is the only laxative which acts without disturbing the natural functions and without debilitating and it is the one laxative which leaves the internal organs in a naturally healthy condition, thereby really aiding one in that way. To get its beneficial effects, buy the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is never classed by the well-informed with medicines which make extravagant and unfounded claims to cure habitual constipation without personal co-op- I eration. and the man himself is his tunity. Margaret Deland. oppor- The depth from which our words are spoken is the measure of the depth at which they will be heard. Julian Hawthorne. Sins of commission ar the usual punishment for sins of omission; he that leaves a duty may well fear that he will, be left to commit a crime. Gurnall. Thou earnest not to thy place by acci dent. It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench. No impulse is too splendid for the simplest task; no task is too pimple for the most splendid impulse Phil lips Brooks. AIRSHIPS FOR BISHOPS. Methodist Churchman Believes Aero planes Would Aid Their Work. Bishop Thomas B. Neely of the Methodist Episcopal church, whose home is in New Orleans, is deeply in terested In aviation, and he believes that aeroplanes will be of great ser vice to him and his fellow ministers when the flying machines are perfect ed so that their use is safe. "I expect to see the time when aero planes will be as common as automo biles." said Bishop Neely recently in discussing the feats of aviators. "They will be of immense value to business men who want to cover long distances in a short time, and they will be of great service to ministers, especially to Methodist bishops. "In the West, where churches are separated by wide stretches of terri tory, a minister will be able to preach In one place in the morning, mount his aeroplane and fly to another town fifty or a hundred miles away to conduct an afternoon service, then travel as far again to preach in the evening." The hishop laughed, then said: "When that day arrives we shall save lots of time which we now lose by waiting for trains. The man who owns an aeroplane will laugh at rail road schedules. He can start his ma chine when the spirit moves him and will not have to pay mileage rates, either." "How about bad weather?" was sug gested. "I think weather conditions will have little effect upon the perfected flying machine of the future." replied Bishop Neely. "Wind and rain did not interfere with Hamilton to any marked degree, and we can be certain that the flying machine of the future will be far better equipped than those with which the bird men have already done such marvelous feats." MEMBERSHIP IN CHURCHES. Census Figures Give Interesting Facts Regarding Communicants. The aggregate number of 32.936, 445 communicants or members of all religious denominations in continental United States was reported for 1906, according to the United States cen sus of religious bodies for the same year as detailed In part 1 of the United States census bureau's special report on the subject now in press. Of this grand total the various Protestant bodies reported 20,287.742 and the Catholic church 12,679.142. Only two of the Protestant bodies reports a majority of their member ship in the principal cities i.'e., the Church of Christ, Scientist, 82.6 per cent, and the Protestant Episcopal church, 61.2 per cent while of the membership of the Jewish congrega tions 88.7 per cent is in the principal cities and of the eastern orthodox churches 70.7 per cent. Of the total number of communi cants or members reported for the principal cities by all denominations 6,307,529, or 60 per cent, belonged to the Catholc church and 3,935,341, or 37.4 per cent, to Protestant bodies. Comparicon with the report for 1890 shows that in general there has been an increase in the proportion of com municants or members in the princi pal cities as compared with those out side of these cities. In 1906 the per centage of the total number of com municants in these cities for all de nominations was 31,9 as compared with 25.7 in 1890. In thirteen of the cities more than one-half of the communicants or mem bers reported belonged to Protestant bodies, while in twenty-three the ma jority belonged to the Catholic church. The cities ohowing the largest pro portion of Protestant communicants are Memphis, 84.4 per cent; Toledo, 70 per cent; Washington, 66.9 per cent; Kansas City, 66.2 per cent, and In dianapolis. 62.1 per cent. The cities showing the largest per centages of Catholic communicants are Fall River, 86.5 per cent; San Francisco, 81.1 per cent; New Orleans, 79.7 per cent; New York. 76.9 percent; Providence, 76.5 per cent; St. Louis, 69 per cent; Boston, 68.7 per cent; Chicago, 68.2 per'cent, and Philadel phia, 51.8 per cent. In the five leading cities the propor tion of communicants to population was: New York, 44.7 per cent; Chi cago, 40.7 per cent: Philadelphia, 38.8 per cent; Boston, 62.6 per cent, and St. Louis, 46.6 per cent. There were 4.082,039. or 32 per cent, more female than male members in the continental United States in 1906, while in the principal cities the excess of female members was proportionate ly less, being 960,526, or 23.5 per cent. Philippine Church Growth. Within the last ten years the Metho dist church in the Philippines has grown to a membership of 30,000, and 500 Filipinos are conducting preach ing services. CHURCH NOTICES. Grace cathedral church (Episcopal). Holy communion, 7:30 a. m.; morning service, and sermon, 11 a. m; evening service, 7:30 p. m. Very Rev. J. P. de B. Kaye. dean. First Presbyterian church. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The pastor. Rev. Stephen S. Estey, Ph. D., D. D., will preach. First Methodist Episcopal church. The Sunday services will be conducted by the pastor. Rev. Frank L. Love land, D. D. Subject of morning ser mon, "An Awakening World;" evening subject, "Is the Golden Rule an Uto pian Dream Can the Golden Rule be Obeyed in Business, in Politics, Among Friends, in Social Life." First Church of Christ. (Scientist). Services at 11 a. m.. subject, "Life." Sunday evening service at 8 o'clock. First Baptist church. Morning ser vice, Dr. O. E. Williams, of Lawrence, will preach. At the evening service, Dr. Byron Piatt, a noted Chautauqua speaker will give one of his popular lectures. Seward Avenue M. E. church. Rev. J. Wesley Johnston, pastor. Morning worship and sermon at 11 a. m. Revival service at 7:30 p. m. Highland, Park sermon at. 3:15 p. m. Third Presbyterian church, Rev. Jay C. Everett, pastor. Morning and ev ening worship 11 a. m. and 7iS0 p. m.. with sermons by the pasts, Special theme for evening, second Hi series on "Some Socalled Respectable Sins The False Tongue." First Christian church, Rev. Charles A. Finch, pastor Preaching at 11 a. m. At 7:30 p. m. Mrs. J. B. Mc Daniel will deliver the C. W. B. M. address. Kansas Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. North Topeka, John W. Wal dron, pastor Sermon at 11 a. m. by Rev. E. B. Fuller of Bombay, India. Sermon by the pastor at 7:30 p. m. Second Church of Christ Scientist, services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sub ject, "Life." First United Presbyterian church. Rev. J. A. Renwick,- D. Di, pastor. Preaching 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by the pastor. Church of St. Simon the Cyrenian, Episcopal, Rev. H. B. Brown, priest; 7:30 a. m. celebration of "The Holy Eucharist;" 11 a. m. choral celebra tion, with sermon. Subject: "Chris tian Sympathy," 4:30 p. m. Choral evensong with sermon. Subject: "The Beginning of Signs Which Jesus Did." The Westminster Presbyterian church. Rev. Ralph Ward,, pastor. The regular services tomorrow. Preaching by the pastor at both ser vices. In the evening the story of Saul, Israel's first king, will be con tinued. Euclid Methodist Episcopal phurch, Rev. Marvin M. Culpepper, LL. B., pastor. Preaching 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. First Unitarian church. Rev. J. H. Jones, pastor Service 11 a, m., ser mon by pastor. Wesleyan Methodist church. Rev. T. J. Pomeroy, pastor. Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Morning theme, "Without God in the World." Even ing subject, "Sin Uncovered." First Congregational church. Rev. Francis L. Hayes, D. D., pastor The pastor will preach morning and even ing. Evening subject, "Thorough ness." Bible Study XHX Text. Isaiah 13:27. Foreign Nations. Memory verse 26:3. 1. What city wore the title, "Glory of Kingdoms?" 2. What city was destroyed and never again inhabited? 3. Who is referred to as "Lucifer, son of the morning?" 4. What did the King of Babylon declare he would do? 6. Where did. God establish a ref uge 6. Of whom was it said baldness indicated mourning? 7. What caused the destruction of Moab? 8. What nation's glory was to pass away In three years? 9. What" city would be "a ruinous heap? 10. -What country taken up in chap ter 18? 11. What countries have two chap ters for their prophecy? .12. How many cities of Egypt -would speak the language of Canaan? 13. What three enemies would be come friends? 14. How did Isaiah prefigure the shameful captivity of Egypt and Ethi opia? 15. What did the prophet declare he heard form God concerning Bab ylon 16. Within what time was Arabia's glory predicted to end? Where is the refrain for Judah? 17. What is the glutton's favorite expression? 18. What treasurer built for himself a sepulchre which he never used? 19. For what was Tyre famous? 20. To what is the sea compared? 21. For how many years was Tyre to be forgotten? 22. When will the sun be ashamed? 23. Where does the prophet declare our food and light and life are from God? 24. What prophet foretold the res urrection of the dead? 25. How will the Lord care for his vineyard 26. What are the conditions of suc cess? 27. We will make part of the hour a review of Isaiahl-13 for those who were absent from the lesson. MRS. C. F. MENNTNGCER. WE SOLICIT Checking Accounts! We Also Pay Interest ON Time Deposits! The Topeka STATE BANK 8th and Kan. Ave. OFFICIAL Watch Inspector OF THE Santa Fe Railroad The mos skillful Watch Adjusting Service in the city. A full and complete lino of High Grade Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry. Repairing a Specialty. R. R MOREHOUSE 810 E. Fourth St, Tepaka, Kaa. The Best Service FOR YOU Either Local o LONG DISTANCE CI FREE TO YOU-MY SISTER ryJ.l?ZJfr treatment a complete trial and if yen should wish to continue, it will cost you only about 12 cents a r i ,k.. w Mnta eUv. It will not interfere with your work or occupation. Just send sasroar name and address, tell me how you suffer if you wish, and I will send you the treatment for tout case, entirely free. In plain wrapper, by return mail. I will also send you tree of cost, raj hook "WOMAN'S OWN MEDICAL, ADVISKK witn explanatory illustrations snowing whj women Buffer, and how they can easily euro themselves at borne. Every woman should bsto it, and learn to thiak for herself. Then when the doctor says You must a are an operation." you eas decide for yourself. Thousands of wemen haye cured themselyee with my home remedy. It cures air, Id or young. To Mothers of Daughters. I will explain a simple home treatment which speedil and effectually cures Leucorrhoee, Green Sickness and Painful or Irregular Menstruation in Young indies. Plumpness and health always results from its use. Wheriver you live, I can refer you to ladies of your own locality who know and will gladly te any sufferer that this Home Treatment really cures all women's diseases, and makes women well strong, plump and robust. Just send an your address, and the free Sen day's treatment is your a, also thm book. Write today, as you may not see this offer again. Address MRS. HI. SUMMERS, BoxH South CCild, Intsss U.C.A No. 4, Chicago Limited, will leave earlier.. 8:20 P. M. No. 114, Kansas City Express, will leave.. 1:40 P. M. No. 125, Motor Passenger, will leave 7:00 P. M. No. 115, Fast Mail, will be discontinued with train leaving Topeka, 10:25 P. M., January 13. Don't Miss Your Train T. L. King, City Passenger Agent. TV. M 4 A Lv. Topeka 7:40 A.M. i YQ1U mO. iS Ar. Kansas City 9:25 A.M. Train No. 28 aE KanstTci Train No. 40 carries Cafe Observation Car Phone 384 for further information These Trains Make No Stops H. K. HUNT, Ji M?iMftM r?rii- ZUUf- Dental Work Reduced Gold Crowns $4.00 Porcelain Crowns, 4.00 White Crowns 4.00 Bridge Work 4.00J Set of Teeth. This work is the best that can be turned out. Eighteen years in one location i3 good enough guarantee. GOODWIN BROS. 607 Kansas Avenue: 607 Kansas Avenue "ra"S Lv. Topeka 4:30 A.M. 7:40 A.M. 2:25 P.M. 3:15 P.M. 7:55 P.M. 6:15 P.M. 11:35 P.M. Rt. Lv. K.C. 7:55 A.M. 10:10 A.M. 10:40 A.M. 11:20 A.M. 6:10 P.M. yHsr 11:00 p.m. Phones I am a woman. v 1 kaow woman's suffering. I havo found thm core. I will mail, free of any charge, my bam treat fit with full instructions to an, muttmr woman's ailments. I want to tell ail women about this cure you. my reader, for yourself, your daughter, your mother, or your sister. I want to tell you how to euro yoursehroa- at- horn without the help of doctor. Mod cannot understand womon'a sufferings. What we women know from experience, wo know bettor than any doctor. I know that my homo teoat ment is a sofa and aura euro (or Leocorrtwea o Whitish discharges. Ulceration, Displacement oi Falling of the Womb, Profuse, Scanty or Painful, Periods, Uterine or Ovarian Tumors or Growths f also pains In tba bead, back and bowels, ocarina down feoUnrs, nervoesasss, creeping; feci ins" an the spine, melancholy, desire to cry, hot flashes, weariness, kidney and Madder troubles where Caused by weaknesses peculiar to our sex. I want to send you a complete tea day's treat aaent entirely free to prove to you that you can ears yourself at home, easily, quickly and surely. Re member, that It will cost yoei oothinr to aire tha Changes Time January 15, 1911 CHANGE M TIME Effective Jan. 1st, 1911 City Pass. Agent Former Price: $7.50 to $10.00 ..........$7.00 Kansas City Fast Time No Stops Doable Track Rock Island s Never too Busy to Answer Questions 384 H. H. HUNT, Gtv Pass. Agt. 1

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