The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 9, 1912

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1 EVERYBODY 16 PAGES EVERYBODY 16 PAGES READ IT. NEEDS IT. LAST EDITION. TU liifcsiJ A Y EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JANTJAEY 9, 1912 TUESDAY EVENING. On sale by nwsbere t TWO CCNTB -n trains and imninda FIVE CtNtii EQUITABLE BURNS BIG CROWD HERE WHICH IS TO RULE? PROMISEOF RELIEF Warmer Weather Predicted for BALTIMORE WINS Maryland Metropolis Captures Democrat Convention. Real Estate Men and Breeders Meet. Stock Big Granite Office Buildin? Destroyed by Fire. Today and Wednesday. The Loss Is Estimated at About Charles P. Zirkle Will Deliver More Snow May Result From June 25 Is Fixed Upon as the Hate of Meeting. His Lecture on Kansas. Ten to 15 Million. Warmer Wave. HE TELLS OF HORSES. FLOORS BUCKLE UP. COAL NEARLY GONE VOTE IS UNANIMOUS. J rT'tvY rf 'B? Walls Crumble and Fall Into the Street. The Vaults Contain .Millions in Securities and Cash. New York, Jan. 9. The great mar ble nine-story building of the Equit able Life Assurance society at 1-0 Broadway, the home of the Mercantile Trust company, the Equitable Trust The Tlc Kquitable Life Insurance Company Building, Which Covered an Entire Block, Burned Today. f ompany, the banking house of Kountz Brothers, the Mercantile Safe Deposit company and the Harriman lines, was destroyed early today by fire. Three men lost their lives by leaping from the roof and the prop erty loss is estimated at about 10 to 15 million dollars. Millions of dollars in cash and se curities are locked in the vaults of the assurance society and the banking and trust companies, but are not believed to be affected by the flames. Wi" l Uiblin, president of the Mercantile Safe Deposit company, was imprisoned with three other employees V' the vaults and was rescued after the firemen had sawed through several two-inch steel bars. One man is be lieved to have lost his life in the vault. Deputy Fire Chief Walsh was res cued from the building after being im prisoned in the burning structure for nearly two hours. Business Is Stonned. The fire was in the heart of the fin ancial district and the flames were fought mainly from the tops of tower ing skyscrapers. Business was brought almost to a complete stand still among banking and brokerage houses, whose employees could not reach the scene of their daily activi ties. Financial firms stopped business to care for the firemen. Most of the vital records of the Equitable Life were kept in the branch offices of the socie;y in the Hazen building, several blocks from the main office.". The heaviest loss besides that of the building was caused by the destruc tion of insurance and railroad records Within two hours after the tire broke .out at 5:Sft the building was a mass of flames and the firemen were work ing from the tops of skyscrapers and from the streets below, trvin to mo vent the flames from spreading to the buildings on th opposite side of the street. The Equitabl block between building occuuies the Broadway and Nassau 1 street and Pine and Ceil r .-treets. The I nre was nr.-t discovered on the ground floor in a store room of the "V, Sa varin and carried by n. draught of air shot upward through an elevator haft' setting fire to the upper floors. A general alarm was turned in and when the fire department reached he seen- the flames were bursting out of iru? windows in tne south ist corner of the building. A gale sweet tnrough IZ1 lYi V, "ames through j lo Rd. Fire- men dragged the ii--.-.e i ne tops OI me eiiiiw national oank on Pine and the Fourth National bank on Vice-,,, street, while other lines of hose were run up on a skyscraper opposite the building on Broadwav. from which streams of water were directed on the flames. nre Tujts Called Out, Five alarms were turned in and fire tugs from the North and East rivers grouped themselves at a convenient dock and pumped volumes of water Into the building. Three watchmen in the building heroically remained to fight the flames with fire extinguish ers, but they wire finally driven to the roof. Firemen made a heroic attempt to save them and scaling ladders were run up. Rescuers got as high as the fourth floor when the watchman, their forms outlined against the glare of the flames, were seen to kneel and pray and then, as the corner of the build- l lng on which they were standing fell they jumped to the street r,h-n,fn ?n the scaiin ladders had difficulty in making their way back to the streets. (Continued on Page 2. Dr. McCampbell Says Shoers Are Often Incompetent. Building and Filling of Silos Is Prof. Mine's Subject. "Farmers' Week" is now in full swing. The Kansas Improved Stock Breeders- association is in session in Representative hall, the members of the Kansas Association of Real Estate agents are listening- to addresses of welcome and responses at the Com mercial club, and a meeting of the Kan sas Association of County and District Fair Managers Is In progress at the Throop hotel. George B. Ross of Alden, Kansas, Who Will lie the New President of tlie Kansas Live Stock Association. The real estate men began to come in Tuesday morning from all over the state. A reception was held for the In coming delegates m tne parlors or in- Commercial club, and shortly after the first regular session was opened by Charles I. Zirkle. of Garden City, presi dent of the organization. Weather Hurts Attendance. The severe wea.her conditions have kept a certain percentage of the stock and realty men away fr:m the capital citv, but nevertheless there are a sufh cicntlv large number of delegates here to make it evident on the streets that this is "convention week" in Topeka. It is expected that the Auditorium will be comfortably filled this evening when the Kansas Improved Stock Breeders' association and the Kansas Association of Real Estat-3 Agents com- bine in holding a meeting, the feat- ures of which Should be sufficiently at tractive to induce a large i. i, T.mW of Topekans to attend who are not mem bers of either association. The address on "The Empire of Kan sas." by President Charles P. Zirkle aside from 125 views taken in the va rious agricultural districts of the state, will be illustrated by 600 fest of motion picture film. President Henry J. Waters of the Kansas State Agricul tural college will speak on "What Is the Matter with Corn as the Main Ra tion for Toung Animals," and Louis W. Buckley, general manager of the Kan sas City Land Show will also speak. At 10 o'clock the realty men of Kan sas win be the guests of the Topeka Real Estate Dealers- association at the Iris theater wh?re a special program will be rendered. Talks of Care of Horses Feet, At the meeting of the Kansas Im proved Stock Breeders' association In Representative hall Monday night. Dr. C. W. McCampbell of the State Agri cultural college read a paper on "The Horse's Foot." illustrating with "pick led" feet. He said in part: "Something over 22 centuries ago Xenophon, realizing the importance (Continued on Page Two.) f W I 6.'- AF VN. JURY IS EXCUSED. Lawyers Take Up Time of Pack ers' Trial in Talk. Got. Stubbs Is Shown to Have Aided the Government. Chicago, Jan. 9. A determined ef fort to have excluded from the record all documentary evidence identified by Witness Jerome H. Pratt and involv ing several letters alleged to contain pencil notations by J. Ogden Armour, Arthur Meeker and Thomas J. Con nors was made by counsel for the de fense when the trial of the ten Chi cago packers was resumed today. The motion was made at the opening of court and came at a .moment when District Attorney Wilkerson was pre paring to read to the jury a number of the documentary exhibits. The jury was excused and the entire morn ing session was taken up with the ar guments of counsel on the subject. The government has nearly sixty more witnesses to examine, together with a mass of documentary evidence which will be read to the jury. This indicates that the trial may last un til May. No Evidence He Says. At the opening of court Attorney Levy Mayer representing the Swift group of defendants made a motion to have excluded from the record all the letters and papers produced by Witness Jerome H. Pratt and all his testimony on the documents on the ground there was no proof presented showing that Pratt acted under the direction of the defendants In the transactions described. "On what theory of law can these defendants be held criminally responsible for the acts of Pratt? There is no evidence that the defendants directed Pratt to do these acts or that they consented, approved or had knowledge of what he was doing," said Attorney Mayer. The attorney read from the Indict ment to show that the defendants are charged with "knowingly operating a combine In restraint of trade." "It is an axiom in criminal law that a defendant cannot be found guilty of an offense committed by another un less defendant directly aoid consciously participate in the crime," said Mayer. Gov. Stubbs Has Helped. Government attorneys have discov ered that as late as 1910. W. D. Miles, former manager of the Armour Pack ing company in Kansas City, submit ted to Governor Stubbs of Kansas in side facts which satisfied the gover nor that Miles was competent to ex pose completely the alleged illegal combination between the ten Chicago packers now on trial. Miles, on the witness stand in Judge Carpenter's court last week, told a "toned down" story compared with his testimony before the grand jury, gov ernment said. The prosecutors made no secret of the fact they were dis pleased with Miles' conduct. So the government attorneys be gan an investigation. Miles' testimony before the grand jury was compared with that given in court. There were wide differences, the attorneys say. Then they obtained from Governor Stubbs a statement that Miles had given to him a complete exposure of the "trust" in 1910. Advices from Topeka quote the gov ernor as declining to give newspapers the details furnished him by Miles. "It would be unwise for me at this time to discuss the conference I had with Miles." said the governor. Governor Stubbs did not have to put to court use the Information given him by Miles, for the abuses complained of in Kansas were eliminated by the packers. Letter Shows Collusion. A letter showing alleged collusion be tween Swift Co. and Armour Co. in bidding for the annual meat contract of the old soldiers' home at Togus. Me.. No vember 1. 1905. was Introduced in evidence by the government The letter was received by Jerome H. Pratt, former assistant manager of Ar mour Co.'s dressed meat department, and was signed with the initials F. A. F., which Pratt said Indicated it was written by Francis A. Fowler, one of the defend ants in the case and head of the dressed beef department of Swift Co. The let ter asked Armour Co. to overbid on a meat contract for the old soldiers' home at Togus, Me. the witness testified. The letter reads as follows: j h. P.: Please bid over beef 7, mutton SVi, Togus Home. Tou have had for a year. F. A. F. 11-6-05." 7ILS0N !S COMING Governor of New Jersey Be Here. Will Accepts Invitation to Attend Democratic Banquet. Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, will be the guest of honor at the Democratic banquet to be held In Topeka on February 22. Mr. "ilson's acceptance to the Invitation tendered some time ago w rfived late Fri day by Burt E. Brown, of Lawrence, who is president of the Kansas Stats Democratic club. SIM 35 f 1- Si V Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, Who Will Be In Topeka to Attend the Democratic Club Ban quet on Washington's Birthday. Efforts are being made here to have Mr. Wilson stop off at Lawrence and address the University students. A number of requests hav-e been sent Mr. Wilson by Chancellor Strong, Mayor Bishop and other influential townspeo ple. Should Mr. Wilson stop at Law rence he will probably speak under the auspices of the Woodrow Wilson club which is a thriving organization com posed of 400 enthusiastic university students. The complete program as announced by Mr. Brown follows: Guest of Honor, Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey. President's address. "Democracy of Kansas," Burt E. Brown, of Lawrence. Judge William H. Thompson, of Gar den City will respond to the toast, "Democracy of Today." Judge T. L. Bond, of Salina, will talk on "Democratic Opportunity." August W. Kopke. of Emporia, will tell how to "Hold That Line." Hugh P. Farrelly, of Chanute, has not announced his subject yet. Warmer Weather In West. Salt Lake City, Jan. 9. Weather conditions in the intcrmountain re gion are nearly normal except for a high wind in Montana which piles the new fallen snow and interferes with railway traffic. Helena reports westbound trains 24 hours late and those eastbound six hours behind schedule. Central Montarfa is much warmer today. Havre, the coldest point, re ports two above zero. Cold and stormy weather prevails at the eastern edge of the state. Throughout Utah and Idaho the temperature is moderate. The sky is clear and the railroads are approach ing their schedules. Several fatalities have been report ed in Utah and Montana, as a result of the last period of cold weather. Two men were killed near Logan, Utah, by a snowslide; Iver Anderson, a ranch hand, was buried by a slide at Belt, Mont., and Hymm Kolliger was killed in the same manner today at Alta, Utah. Weather Forecast. Chicago, Jan. 9. Forecast for Kan sas: Increasing cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. Rising temperature. DEATH SENTENCE. Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson Is Condemned to Die For the Murder of His Sweet heart, Avis Linnell. Boston, Jan. 9. A plea of guilty of murder in the first degree was made by Rev. Clarence V. T, Richeson in the superior court today, and he was sen tenced by Judge Sanderson to death by electrocution some time during the week of May19. 1912. Richeson "had pleaded not guilty when arraigned after his Indictment on the charge of poisoning Avis Linnell of Hyannis, Mass., his fiancee, hut fol lowing a written confession made pub lie Saturday last he today retracted that plea and made a formal plea of guilty. It is understood a petition may be made to Governor Foss and the execu tive council of the state to commute the death sentence to imprisonment for life. Richeson made no statement. His face was pale, but he was perfectly composed. He answered formal ques tions propounded by Judge Sanderson in the simplest way and when asked if he had anything to say, replied: "I have nothing further to say than my written confession." Richeson heard the death sentence with little apparent emotion. When brought into court he walked witn slight assistance from the officers who escorted him. He was not required to enter the prisoner's cage, but remained standing. District Attorney Pelletier read the minister's written confession and add ed that the government had sufficient evidence to have convinced a jury that Richeson was guilty of murder in the first degree. He then said it became his solemn duty to move for sentence. Judge Sand-erson read the statutes bearing on the case and asked the prisoner if he realized the gravity of his action In pleading guilty. If he had consulted counsel and if he had acted voluntarily. To each question Richeson said "Y-3S, sir." The court gave the prisoner every op portunity to realize what his action meant and to make any statement, but the prisoner expressed no desire to offer any further explanation of his decision. The court then pronounced sentence. Richeson immediately was taken back to the city jail. WARMEST DAY OF YEAR Mercury Climbs From 8 to 20 Degrees. "It's the warmest day of the year," announced S. D. Flora of the local weather bureau office at 2 o'clock. "The temperature is higher than it has been since Dac. 29, at which time it reached 36 degrees. Today the max imum is 26 degrees and at 2 o'clock the clouds which came up from the south had caused the mercury to fall 1 degree." Indications are for more weather of the same sort, the weather shark de clared. Wednesday will probably see a maximum temperature here of 32 de grees which will allow tfie snow to melt a little. The slight thaw today merely settles the white crust. The wind, which during the day has veered from south to southwest and then to the northwest is blowing 10 miles an hour. Following are the hourly tempera tures today: 7 o'clock 9 11 8 o'clock 8 12 o'clock 24 o'clock 26 o'clock 26 o'clock 25 9 o'clock 11 10 o'clock 16 TO VISITORS This is the first and only newspaper in America printing a page in colors, red. blue and black, daily. By mail, 100 days $1.00. Copies on sale by newsboys and at news stands in Kansas. $1.00 pays for 100 days, we offer to mail it. penny a day, to you or yonr friend incluug a page in colors every day. But Gas Supply Is More Nearly Normal Today. More Men Are Being Employed Clothing Is Received. The government weather department missed its guess! The weather man failed to hand out the below zero at mospheric conditions that he promised for today. What is more the promise is for higher temperatures Wednesday. The minimum for the night occurred at 5:30 a- m., when the reading was Z degrees above zero. Beginning at that time the mercury began to take an up ward course and by 9 o'clock this morn ing registered 11 degrees. The maximum for Monday was 20 degrees. "The drop in temperature failed to materialize," remarked "Sunny" Flora, the local government weather expert today.- "It failed miserably from our standpoint, but on account of unlocked for changes In conditions we expect to have our forecast turn out a fare once in a while. 'The forecast for tomorroy is: 'In- creasinjj cloudiness tonight and Wed nesday; rising temperatures.' "We should not be too optimistic for we may have zero weather within a few days. However, it will be warmer tomorrow. It probacy will not get within 10 degrees of zero tonight. It will look like snow, but it is not likely that there will be snow for a day or two." Respectable Gas Supply. Reports from Pot win today were that for the first time in several days there is anywhere near a respectable supply of gas. Howsver there Is at present a coal famine In Topeka. There is almost no soft coal on hand in the city. Some of the dealers have been selling ooal by the handful, so to speak, In cases where there was an immediate demand for fuel, and not enough coal on hand to send it out by the ton. One dealer who has not received a consignment he expected last Saturday was of the opinion that It had been sidetracked at Kansas City where high er prices maintain, due to th fuel shortage. Railroads Are Crippled. "The railroads are just like every body else Just now," said L. A. Gillette of the firm of Gillette Nicholson. "They are incapacitated. It takes three engines to pull a freight train with conditions as they are at the present time. This will account at least in part for the fact that the supplies of coal ordered are slow about arriving. Our stock of soft coal is practically ex hausted. W hope to get two or three cars In within two or three days." The Provident Association woodpile at the corner of Fourth and Jackson streets is a busy place today, and 10 men are hard at work sawing loers. At 9 o'clock this morning another 10 men were waiting In the office for work. Several men had already been sent out where there was a demand for help, but there were not enough Jobs to supply the demand. Girts of Children's Clothing, The Mills Dry Goods company nre- sented the association with 100 new children's sweaters, and these are be ing given out to make the youngsters comry in tne homes of the deserving poor. It is stated that the publicity eiven the needs of the Provident Association in attending to the wants of the poor is having results. Within the last 24 hours some provisions and money have been received, but the people of To peka are asked to respond even more liberally In meeting the present situa tion in Topeka. THE WEATHER RECORD The following are observations of th United States, weather bureau for th 24 ho'ira ending at 7 o'clock this morn- in Stations High. Low Am aril lo, Tex. Boise, Idaho Boston, Mass. Buffalo, N. Y. 24 so 18 80 10 28 8 12 3 -2 4 32 24 -2 6 -20 10 -30 14 30 -10 6 44 -4 5 15 6 16 32 2S -4 16 2 34 2H -34 0 16 2 6 -10 2S W 32 0 -30 54 Calgary, Alb. Charleston, S. C. Chicago, 111 3 Concordia, Kan 30 Corpus Christi, Tex. 58 40 10 22 -2 32 o Denver, Col Des Moines, Ta. Dodge City. Kan. Duluth, aiinn. Uurango, Col Edmonton Alb. Fprt Worth. Tex. 40 Galveston, Tex. 52 Havre. Mont. 14 Helena Mont. 12 Jacksonville. Fla. 72 Kamloops, B. C 2 30 32 Kansas Citv, Mo. Little Rock, Ark. Louisville, Ky. Modena. Utah 32 New Orleans. La. New York, N. Y 36 North Platte. Neb 14 Oklahoma City, Okla. 28 Omaha. Neb 1 Phoenix, Ariz. e6 Pittsburg, Pa. 36 Portland, Ore 48 Prince Albert. Sas -8 Kapid City, S. D 14 Roswell. X. M 50 St. Joseph, Mo 18 St. Louis, Mo 14 St. Paul, Minn 2 Salt Lake, Utah 34 San Diego, Cal 64 Seattle, Wash 40 Sheridan. Wyo 14 Swift Current, Assln o Tampa, Fla 74 Toledo. Ohio 22 Topeka, Kan 20 Washingon, D. C 26 Washington. D. C Williston. N. D. -2 Winnemucea, Nev 26 Winnipeg, Man -12 IX Sign minus indicates below zero. T. B. JENNINOS. Section Dire-jor. A Certified Check for 100,000 Is Deposited. St. Louis Was a Close Second on First Ballot. Washington, Jan. 9. Th Demo cratic National convention will be hlj, in Baltimore beginning Tuesday, Jun 25. The choice was made lata today by the Democratic national committee after a spirited contest and after r pryentatlves of Baltimore. St. Louliv. Chicago, Denver and New York haJ presented the claims of those oitlea la detail. Two billots were taken. On the first ballot Baltimore received 25 votoa. fil Louis 19, Chicago a, Denver and Mew lork 1. on tne second ballot: Bltl- ior oiumor waa unanimous. more received 29 votes, fit. ini m Chicago 1. This gave Baltimore a ty and the decision then waa made; Members of the oommlttM l. in assembling, due to the fact that the Jackson day banquet had continued until an early hour today. It was al- most 4 o'clock this morning when W. J. Bryan finished his ad areas and s later hour when the dinner rueeta quit the banquet hall in JubUant frame ot mind. Denver made the first bid for th convention. Charles F. Franklin of that city told the committee that Den ver offered reasonable and necessarr expenses for the convention and prom ised to be liberal. Mr. Franklin a.i. serted that Denver could give the beet convention nan in the country. Chi cago next had its innings. Roger Sul livan, amid laughter and applause, said he had the unprecedented pleas ure of introducing to the Democrat committee Fred W. L'pham of Chicago, HKsiBiani. treasurer or the Republican national committee. When Mr. Cnham had concluded his argument some one proposed that he be made an honorary member of the Democrat committee. There was more applause, but no vote on this suggestion. J. Hamilton Iwis closed the argument for Chicano. dwelling on the advantages of that city and its experience in handlln na tional conventions. Tho ro,iiT''i adopted p li for delegates embouying the pertiiisslvn plan of primaries and finally ad journed shortly before 4 o'clock. Will Hold 20,000. Baltimore, Jan. 9. The Democratic national convention will be heid in the Fifth Regiment armory which can ac commodate more than 20.000 persons. Chicago's Offer. Chicago, in addition to defraying the expenses of the convention, offered a contribution of J40.000 to tho Demo crat fund. This announcement caused a stir and apparently increased Chi cago's chances materially. Baltimore's bid followed Chicago's. Representative Talbot of Maryland made the opening speech and Senator Rayner pursued his line of argument. O. F. Hershy spoke for Robert Craln, chairman of the Baltimore com mittee, and called out a storm of cheers when he drew from his pocket a certified check for $100,000 and laid It upon the table. The claims of St. Louis were pre sented by K. F. Goltra. Former Gov ernor David R. Francis. Kolla Wells and James F3. Smith of St. Louts of fered to be more liberal in appropria tions for the convention work tha ever before, but no definite amount was offered. Edward M. Tieraey then spoke for New York city. As soon as the New York bid was in the committee began balloting. The committee went Into executive session and before a dVdslon was ma4n the various offers, reduced to writing; were examined carefully. It then de veloped that St. Louis had offered J75, 000 in addition to th-a use of the con vention hall. It waa contended that this met the Baltimore cash offer of ilOO.OOO In as much as Baltimore would have to spend a part of that sum la preparing its convention hall. 100 DAYS TRIAL ORDER $1 A Proposition to Thon VtSTtln Topeka. The Topeka State Journal Is the first and only newspaper to run a page in colors every day. 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2 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUAHY 9, 1911 EQUITABLE BURflS. (Continued from Page One.) Fire Commissioner Johnson fliscov- ered a man imprisoned in the vaults of executive committee at the company's the Mercantile Safe Deposit company, ww building in Greenwich street to at the corner of Cedar street and consider the matter of securing tem Broadway. The man could be seen Porary quarters. Of the 1,300 clerks from the street and his leg's were employed by the society about 600 were pinned down by a mass of fixtures and in the main building while the others debris which had fallen from above were engaged at work in the Green He was alive and held out his hand w'ich street building. The offices of the to the "remen who made frantic, though Equitable Trust company luckily es futile attempts to break through the caped the flames, but were damaged heavy steel doors. Father McGean. of by water, a3 were the offices of August me nre department cave the Inst rites to the dying man. Commissioner John son said he thought the imprisoned man was the president of the Mercantile Safe Deposit company who had arriv ed at the building after the fire was under headway and attempted to save some papers. Locked in Every Night. Later it waa said the man was a watchman who was locked each night In the vaults of the company. Deputy Fire Chief William "Walsh and five firemen were caught when a section of floor in an upper, story gave way. The firemen managed to reach a window ledge from which they were rescued Dy means o- a life line but when tney looked back Chief Walsh had di.s appeared in the smoking ruins. Efforts were made to reach the spot where he was buried but the firemen could not find him. Father McGean nearly lost his life when administering the last rites to the man imprisoned In the vault, the firemen dragging him away just as a sliower of bricks and stones fall on the spot where he had been Kneeling. As the firemen carried Father McGean away the dying man turned to him and pityingly said: ."For God's sake. Father, take me out of here. I am dying. Can't you get at Two porters in the Safe Deposit com pany were rescued from the basement of the building when the sidewalk in front of the structure caved in. They were injured and removed to a hospi tal The fire was finally confined to the Equitable building though for a time it Eoemed as if the flames would sweep across the Etreet and set fire to the American Exchange National bank at Cedar street and Broadway on which the spark3 were railing in a shower. This building was kept wet down by streams of water from the skyscrapers on all sides. Walla Crumble. The flames had the intensity of a fckaat furnace. The heavy floors of the building buckled under the white heat fir and fell in while tne wails crum bled and dropped piecemeal into the Btreets. Part of the Brooklyn Are depart ment was sent to aid in preventing the spread of flames. -Business in the financial section was brought practically to a standstill. Thousands of clerks in banking and brokerage houses, railroad and other corporations were held back by police lines formed two blocks north of the fire and traffic of every kind in the streets near the burning building was forbidden by the police. After the flames had been checked three men were reported to be alive in the vaults of the Mercantile Safe De posit company, where one man had already lost his life, and the firemen tried to batter down the steel doors. The falling stone and brick and the heat had blocked and warped the doors so that they could not be un locked. While the firemen were hammering away a part of the coping fell and the rescuers had a narrow escape. After the stone had fallen the firemen made renewed efforts to penetrate the doors. Ijeap From Third Floor. Three employees of the building leaped from the third floor to the street. They were taken to the hos pital seriously injured. After the fire had been checked and the firemen were able to get closer to the building it was discovered the Belmont building on Nassau street, which adjoins the burning buliding, had been saved, though the offices of August Belmont had been flooded with water. Shortly after 9 o'clock a search failed to find Wm. Giblin, president of the Mercantile Safe Deposit com pany, who was reported trapped in the basement Firemen said they believed he had lost his life. Later he was res cued from the vaults of his company after the firemen had sawed through I Gales P. Moore of Bristol, Conn.; Wil several steel bars. He was believed to liam A. Graham of Brooklyn, N. Y.; be- mortally Injured. A few minutes Charles Glover and Clarence A. Earl latar Fire Chief Walsh was rescued after being Imprisoned in the building for nearly two hours. Fireman succeeded in battering In a steel door and rescuing two watch men who were Imprisoned in the vault. Ambulances from four hospitals were on the scene to take care of the in jured. With the exception of one insur ance building the building of the Equitable Life Assurance society had a frreater assessed valuation than any other building in the financial district, the figures being $12,100,000. Other occupants of the Equitable building besides the Harriman rail roads were the executive offices of the Western Maryland railroad, together with the law offices of Herhert Patter lee, Bo-in-law of 3. P. Morgan, and Alexander Green. Glblln Tells His Experience. After President Giblin was rescued from the Are he was cart-ted to the boiler room of the Trinity building. Ambulance surgeons stripped off his clothing and wrapped him in heavy blankets. Stimulants were adminis tered. After a brief interval of rest Mr. Giblin said: "I was sitting up last night with my wif;. who had been very ill, when an emplovee of the hotel informed me that the Equitable building was on fire. When I arrived at the building there were no flames but plenty of smok?. I hurried into one of the vaults to get some valuable papers followed by one of the night watchmen. Th vault has a spring lock and I left my keys out side. "When the man and I started to leave, the door swung shut and we were both prisoners. The smoke was awful. We screamed and shouted but it seem ed we were doomed. The other man was alive up to half an hour ago. but Just before I was carried out he fainted and I think he must b-a dead by this time." Mr. Giblin was then taken to the Hudson street hospital. He was very weak but in no immediate danger. The offices of the Harriman lines which were in the building were being moved to 165 Broadway. Everything had been moved save the papers in the legal department. Many valuable re cords including the autobiography of E. If. Harriman were there and it was be lieved these and other valuable records were destroyed. Railroad Loss Small. President Lovett, of the Harriman lines, said that as all of the Union end Southern Pacific securities held in the treasury were kept outside the city the money loss would be small. Mr. Lovett said that the extent of inconvenience suffered because of the loss of records will, of course depend on whether the vaults on the third and fourth floors of the building have been destroyed. The records referred to In clude those of the comptroller's depart ment, the treasurer's office and the transfer deDartmant. PresMont ru v of the Equitable, callad n mcetino- nf th t "iiuiil. Fonr Known Dead. Four men are known to be dead and five injured in the fire and several per sons are missing, including Battalion Chief Walsh. The fire was still hum. ing in the debris in the basement of tne Duiming this afternoon. Conserva tive estimates of the damage this af ternoon placed the loss in the neigh borhood of $10,000,000 while others say me loss win run as high as $15,000,000. According to an officer of th Enuita- ble, the great safety deposit vaults in tne Dunaing contained last night se cunties aggregating between $250,000.- uuu ana J3uo,ooo.ooo. The vaults are be lieved to be intact. President Day, of the Equitable, said this afternoon: "The burning of the home office at 120 Broadway will cause but tmporary inconvenience. Securities and import ant records are protected by fire proof vaults which are Intact. "Most of the office force and records were removed some time ago to the society's new building, -,o. 2 Albany street. "The executive offices of the society and the cashiers' department have been established in the City Investment building. This will, for the time be ing, be the home office of the society." 3. A. Tarbel, a former vice presi dent of the Equitable, said that the company carried its own insurance. Many of the large New Tork banks announced today that owing to the fire they would not exercise their pre rogative of calling loans today. The money market was practically at a standstill. Transfers Suspended. Banking and brokerage business was halted for a time by the fire and the governors of the Stock Exchange met to determine what action should be ta ken with respect to deliveries of securi ties purchased yesterday. The decision reached was that transfers may be suspended for a day by mutual con sent. The clearing house in the Chase Na tional bank was closed and temporary quarters were opened at the Chamber of Commerce. Depositors and bank customers of the burned out trust com panies as well as those of financial in stitutions located in the neighborhood of the burned building were unable to reach their banks, being held back by the police lines. An officer of the Equitable Life As surance society said that the society had duplicates of every record, which were stored in a building several blocks away from the burned structure. The fire he said, would not affect the com pany s business with its policyholders throughout the country. Officials of the Mercantile Safe De posit company said the vaults were in tact and not a cent would be lost. BIKE TRUST INDICTED It Is Charged With Controlling 90 Per Cent of tlie Business. Buffalo, N. X., Jan. 9. That a trust without a name has obtained control of 90 per cent of the business of manufacturing and selling coaster brakes for bicycles ajid motorcycles, and a large percentage of other bicycle acessories in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, is charged in indict ments handed down by a federal grand jury here. There are eight counts in the indict ment, in which 18 Individuals and six corporations are charged with conspir acy to restrain trade and with attempt ing to monopolize the business. The individuals indicted are: Edwin E. Jackson, jr., Frederick R. Huntington and James P. Drouillard of New York; Albert F. Rockwell, De I witt Pages. Charles T. Deadway and of New Britain, Conn.; David L. Whit- tier, Ralph D. Webster, Leonard S. Whittier and Edward J. Dunn of El mira, N. Y. Simon Florsheim and John D. Hurley of Chicago, 111.; Kelly R. Jacoby and Emmett M. Jackson of Middletown, O. The firms indicted, which these men represent, are the New Departure Manufacturing company, Corbin Screw corporation, Aurora Automatic Ma chinery company, Eclipse Machine company, Miami Cycle Manufactur ing company and Buffalo Metal Goods company. It is charged that representatives of these firms in 190 8 made an agree ment arbitrarily fixing prices and pro viding a system of penalties and black lists. No corporate name was adopt ed, although the alleged combination has been known to the trade as the Association of Coaster Brake Li censees. Jackson and Huntington acted as "arbitrators," it is charged, and were custodians of a fund deposited by the firms as guarantees the alleged agree ment would be kept. Cutting of prices, it Is alleged, was penalized by black listing and dealers who failed to ob serve the prices of the association, it is alleged, were practically shut out from the trade. All the men Indicted have been no tified to appear before a United States judge here on Friday for pleading. TERRY REACHES PORT. Althongh Badly Smashed She Cornea in Under Own Steam. Norfolk. Vs., Jan. 9. The torpedo boat destroyer Terry, badly smashed In the severe storm that crippled and scattered her sister destroyers of the Atlantic flotilla, passed in the Virginia capes today under covoy of the auxil iary cruiser Prairie. The Terry came in under her own steam. All But Two Accounted For. Washington, Jan. 9. All but two the Mayrant and McCall of the 14 United States torpedo boat destroyers caught in the terrific storm at sea late last week while engaged in a war game en route to Guantanamo, Cuba, are ac counted for, according to a dispatch from Rear Admiral Winslow. command ing the second division of the Atlantic fleet which has been sweeping the seas in search of the little vessels. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days. Your druggist will refund money if Pazo Ointment fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 1 14 days. 50c BIG CROWD HERE (Continued from Page 1.) and value of good feet in a horse, gave to us the axiom, 'No foot, no horse,' he said, and it is just as true and ap plicable today as it was then. That the average quality of the feet of our horses is very poor, irrespective of breed, cannot be denied. "'ft 7 M f ...fa"'.-. 1 Ms VS't it) X H. M. Poe, Vice President of the Kan sas Association of Real Estate Agents. "Evidences of this are seen upon the streets of our cities, upon our farms where the wear and tear is much less severe, and even in the show ring where only the individuals are shown. The defects of conformation and quality are physical characteristics and as such are being transmitted to the offspring. In each generation this character poor feet is being intensified in all our broods of horses, especially the draft breeds, because in our endeavors to obtain size, quality, speed and the other desirable characteristics, we have been overlooking the very first and most important requisite of a good horse well-shaped, strong and durable feet." "The ignorance of those who shoe horses is sometimes appalling why nine-tenths of them don't know more about the job than do you." "Every horseshoer should be com pelled by law," said T. H. Terry of Bavaria, who entered into the discus sion, "to pass an examination before starting in business. It is a serious question. Thousands of horses have been ruined by incompetency." Demand for Draft Horses. "The demand for draft horses is stable, and remunerative prices are afforded," said Wayne Dinsmore of Chicago, secretary Percheron Sooiety of America, in speaking of "Draft Horses in America." "That demand is broad as is shown by the fact that although the produc tion has increased in the last 15 years the prices have gone up. It is difficult to find good draft horses. "The us-3 in the cities is becoming more general regardless of the fact that mechanical means of transportation is now popular. I believe the market is only in its infancy. The farmers are in the best position to produce draft horses, as they can work the mares." In the afternoon Prof. G. S. Hine of the State Agricultural college spoke on "Building and Filling the Silo." Previous to 1910 there were only 40 or 50 silos in Kansas," said Profes sor Hine. "In 1910 there were about 400 put in, and in 1911 at least 600 silos were erected. The silo is an economic building on the farm be cause it converts into valuable feed, cornstalks and products that would otherwise be w-asted. Where corn is fed from the shock about 60 per cent only of the food value is utilized. "Approximately $60,000,000 worth of corn is raised in Kansas annually. The stalks have a feeding value of about $8,000,000. when pastured, but if put in silos they would double in value or be worth about $16,000,000 to the feed ers of the state." Tomorrow'g Programme. Tomorrow morning these addresses will be given: "Sheep on the Kansas Farm," E. D. King, Burlington, Kan. "Sheep and Conservation," E. E. Hazen, secretary Kansas Sheep Breeders' association, Hiawatha, Kan. "Possibilities in Sheep," Hon. George Plumb. state railroad commissioner, Emporia, Kan. Real Estate Dealers. The full program for the real estate meeting at the Commercial club to morrow follows: Morning; Session. 9:00 Complete report from organization of association to present time. W. J. Rickenbacher, secretary-treasurer, To peka, Kansas. Report of committees and discussion of reports. Committee on advertising, Mr. N. B. Burge, Topeka. 9:30 Address, "Co-operation of the Commercial Organization of Kansas with the Kansas Association of Real Estate Agents." R. H. Faxon, Garden City, president Kansas Development associa tion. Committee on transportation, Mr. J. Will Kelley, Topeka. Committee on membership, Mr. E. E. Chapman, Topeka. 11:00 "The Benefits to Be Derived by the State of Kansas from Licensing Real Estate Agents, the Fees to Be Appropriat ed to an Immigration Bureau." H. N. Poe, Norton. Committee on legislation, Senator P. C. Hostrup. Afternoon Session. 12:30 Meeting of executive committee. 1:00 "Opportunity of Active Real Estate Agents in Kansas to Enter Politics for the Purpose of Developing Our Great States." W. B. Eberhardt. Committee on fees and forms, C. P. Bol mar. Committee on arbitration, E. B. Atkin son. Committee on clvio Improvement, W. A. Ogden. 1:45 "Importance of State Through an Honest Co-operation Among Railroads, Business Men and Farmers." C. M. Glover. 2:15 "Fifty Years Progress in Kansas." Hon. Arthur Capper. 2:45 "The Get-together Spirit of Kansas Statesman, Business Man and Farmers, for Purpose of Further Developing Our Great State." Hon. Geo. H. Hodges. Committee on constitution and by-laws, F. M. Forbes, Fall River. Committee on resolutions. Porter Young, Great Bend. Selection or next place or meeting. 4:30 Automobile ride. Autos will start from the Commercial club rooms. State Board of Agriculture. The meeting of the state board of seri culture will begin at 4 p. m. Wednesday all. neJXcaciiauc iia.il. Read the State Journal. i 9 il A -V7s 1 K iff SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. A meeting of the executive committee of the Topeka Local union will be held this evening at the Central Y. M. C. A. C. W. Kouns, general manager of the Santa Fe, returns this evening from Tyler, Tex., where he went to attend the funeral of his father-in-law. The rise in temperature today relieved suffering in Topeka. The coal companies are as busy as ever but the poor are able to get along on less fueL Tomorrow evening at 6:30 o'clock tte workers in the Commercial club member ship campaign which will commence Thursday morning at 9 o'clock will meet, for a dinner and final instructions. The annual distribution of shop passes to railroad men over the country has just been completed in the office of John Pur- cell, genera superintendent of shops ot the Santa Fe. Only railroad men are favored. Steam pipes and radiators at the ad ministration building, Washburn college, froze and burst in the recent cold spell. But Washburn did not suffer collectively any worse than the average man suffered individually. The annual business meeting of the First Congregational church wllPbe held Thursday evening. At that time the Christian Endeavor society, the Brother hood, and all church organizations will present reports. Burlesque shows will be Introduced in Topeka thieaters. This should prove pop ular. The first thing the average reuow asks a friend whom he is visiting in a town over night is: "Say, old man, got any hurley houses here?" At the meeting of the Jayhawker club last night It was decided that as far as oratory and personal magnetism was concerned, Roscoe Stubbs and old Jim Lane were a great pair. And John Daw son is a member of the club. In the play to be presented at the Ma jestic theater next week more than 100 local persons will be used in the per formance. The play Is based on the cni- cago board of trade and it requires scores of "supes to fill in the parts. One enterprising Topeka merchant ha3 his window filled with old iasnionea kerosene lamps. He has it figured out that with the low gas pressure the lamps will be needed in hundreds of Topeka homes. And he sold lots of them. The Topeka man that went to a coal yard with his baby carriage to procure coal probably figured that the interstate commerce commission could go to thun der as far as a distinction between freight and passenger facilities was con cerned. Rock Island officials report that the Una has been opened up through southwest ern Kansas and trains are approaching the schedule mark again. The Rock Island has been unusually successful in bringing its Colorado traffic through on the dot. The weather man swore that It would drop to ten degrees below zero early this morning. In other words tne weainer man is a close friend of the coal man but an enemy of the plumbers. Here's hopin' "Sunny" f lora misses ms guess on cold weather hereafter. Mavor Billard has received several en couraging letters favoring the city tree soup line. One letter unsigned came with two two-dollar bills enclosed. The do- nator said he would like to give more but that was all he could spare. Next week many contributions will be received. The general public is invited to the agricultural and realty meeting at the Auditorium this evening. There will Be several interesting addresses. The ad dress on "The Empire of Kansas," by Charles I. Zirkle of Garden City will be illustrated with lantern slides and 000 feet of moving film. "We run our fcig plows through the cuts in southwestern Kansas and open up our tracks in good shape when whiff! comes a prairie breeze and fills up the cuts with snow again." A "reminiscence" or a chapter from the "Troubles of nanrnaa ivian aoimieu uy wencxoi ager Sweet of the Rock Island. The fire department has been fortunate in the last cold spell not to have a hy drant frozen beyond use. That is. In the fires, no hydrants were found frozen. It is possible that some over the city were in a frozen condition. The news that Woodrow Wilson Is com ing to Topeka doesn't stir up one-tenth the excitement that is caused when the weather man reports a cold wave in sight. You have got to give it to Manager Treleaven of the gas company. He says there will be a shortage of gas In cold weather and he Insists that there is no remedy but coal. He offers no excuses and does not try to Bluff tnrougru any promises. It must be remembered that the manager tries, also, to cook eggs in the morning on five beads of fire. This Is the first day of the city soup line at the police station and the experi ment of Mayor Billard proved popular with the poor and needy. The expenses of the first week are paid out of tha pocket of the mayor. "I would like to see the city donate sev eral hundred dollars to the Provident as sociation for assistance to the poor and destitute in Topeka," said W. G. Tandy, city commissioner, this afternoon. "But the city attorney has a different Idea about the thing." The Taxpayers' league Is complaining because the city may call a special elec tion to vote bonds for the building of concrete bridges. They figure that it will set the taxpayers back $1500. The city will hold this election at the primaries in August and it will not cost the dear pee-pul a cent. A Topeka man has figured out a muffler for crying babies. Assuming that the average babv uses his mouth as a I mee-aphone and uses his nostrils as the intake valve this young married man with no children but who lives in a flat where there are lots of them, would place a mass of absorbent cotton In the youngster's jaws. Speaking of plumbers reaping a harvest of gold did you ever hear of a plumber accepting anything of the silver or cop per variety? Not on your life. AfteT all of the wrangling, threatening, rag-chewing and resolutions the poles re main on Kansas avenue leaning far over the great white way posts. The stockholders and members of the Country club hold their annual meeting at the Elks club tonight. The annual election of the board of directors will be held at this time. HE NEVER SAW BABY Captain Tillotson to Appeal Case to TJ. S. Supreme Court- Kansas City, Jan. 9. Prison doors will not open for F. H. Tillotson for a few days, perhaps a few years and maybe "they never will. Clinton A. Welsh, attorney for Captain Tillotson, is preparing the brief on which the appeal from the decision of the su preme court of Kansas will be taken. Two reasons are presented why the decision of the Kansas courts should be reversed. The first is that the courts of Kansas refused to give full credit to the proceedings and the de cision of the court of appeals of Illi nois. The Illinois court awarded the "incubator" baby to Mrs. Stella Bar clay, who adopted It at the St. Louis fair and for whom it was kidnaped. The second point in the appeal is that the Kansas courts deprived the defendant of his liberty without due process of law. "Do you know, I never was on tne side Isiae oi said "e I am tl of the defense," Mr. Tillotson except in this one case, where the defendant. The reason I went to Governor GRAIN UNSTEADY. Tendency of Wheat Market Gen erally Is Bullish But an Early Advance Is Fol lowed by Reaction. CORN PRICES HARDEN. But Scattered Commission Sell ing Produces an Easier Tone. Decline in Hogs and Big Run Lower Provisions. Chicago, Jan. 9. WHEAT With the railway strike spreading in the Argentine and with the weather there less favorable wheat prices today showed a tendency to rise. Liverpool reported a consequent scarcity of La Plata offers. Much com plaint was made as to the quality of tne Argentine shipments which had been re ceived at British ports. Conservative firms were said also to be estimating the Argentine surplus as low as 92,000,000 bushels. The opening here was c to o higher. May started at 11.01 to $1.01, a gain ot c to c but reacted to L01. An apparent big Increase in the world's available supply carried prices much low er, despite the statement that the showing was due to the addition of Canadian afloat stocks at Buffalo and Duluth. The close was easy with May down c net at tl.00c. CORN A leading trader bidding tor large lots and getting little caused the corn market to harden but there was con siderable scattered commission selling and as a result an easier tone. May open ened unchanged to c up at 64c to 64c and reacted to 64&ti4c. Later the market felt the effect ef the set back in wheat. The close, however, was steady at 64o for May, the same as OATS Oats though dull, held firm un til other grain began to weaken. May was unchanged to a shade higher at 49 4Sc. PROVISIONS A decline In hogs at the yards here and a big run at western cen ters made provisions lower all around. First sales were unchanged to 6c oft wltn May, $16.22 to J16.25 for pork; J9.52 lor lara. and 5S.z to js.iB for rios. RYE No. 2, 96c. BARLEY 90cf5$1 .35. TIMOTHY $12. 00 "915. 00. C LO VE R $15. 00f.f20.50. Chicago Grain Market. Chicago, Jan. 9. Close- Open High Low Today Sat. WHEAT- Jan. 95V4 May ..101- 101 10O 100 101 July 95:6 95 94- 94 95 Sept 93 93 CORN Jan 60 61 May 64- 64 64'i- 64 64 July 64 64- 64- 64- 64 Sept 65 65 64 61 65 OATS Jan 48 May 49- 49 4S 49 494- July 45 45 44 45 45 Sept 40 40 40 4014 40 PORK Jan. ..15.90 15. SS 15.87 May ..16.22 16.37 16.10 16.12 16.25 July ..16.42 16.42 16.25 16.27 16.42 LARD Jan. 9.32 9.37 9.32 9.32 9.37 Stubbs and asked that the sentence be commuted was because I haven't money enough to carry the case to the supreme court of the United States. It has been a long, hard fight, and most of the little surplus I had ac quired during my twenty-nine years in detective work ha9 been used. My friends have promised to help me, however, and I believe we will win in the United States court. "I never saw Marian Bleakley in my life." Mr. Tillotson is 5 8 years old and has been a detective twenty-nine years. For twenty years he has worked in Kansas City and Kansas, always in search of criminals. He was rated as one of the best criminal detectives in the Pinkerton employ. Mr. Tillotson says he will stay in Kansas City and work while his appeal is pending. WHAT DID HE DO WITH IT Grand Jury Inquires Into McXaimra's "Use of His Money. Indianapolis. Jan. 9. Evidence con cerning the secret stores of dynamite and nitroglycerine kept at Tiffin. Ohio; Rochester, Pa.; Muncie, Ind., and In dianapolis, from which It Is Bald Ortie McManigal, John J. and James B. Mc- Namara procured their supplies, occu pied the attention of officials today In the federal grand Jury's investigation of the alleged dynamite conspiracy. Another question to be inquired into is. who, if any one besides John J. Mc- Namara knew the uses to which he put the $1,000 a month allowed him as secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron workers and for which he was required to give no accounting." McManigal was expected to appear before the investigators again today to continue the task of repeating in more detail his confession, which in type written form covers several hundred pages. While it is believed the grand Jury has progressed well into the in quiry, it will be three weeks or more before it is completed as a mass of documentary evidence remains to be examined. ALL IS SERENE Harmony Prevails In the Democratic Committee Today. Washington, Jan. 9. When the Democratic national committee reas sembled today the troublesome con tests and the bitterness that marked their disposition were things of the past; the Jackson day dinner had been a veritable love feast and the Demo cratic atmosphere had considerably cleared. Today's sitting of the committee was expected to be comparatively brief once the representatives of the various cities bidding for the national conven tion had been heard. The speeches were scheduled to begin at 11 o'clock. Baltimore continued a decided fav orite and the representatives from that city were confident of victory. There was a strong undercurrent for St. Louis, however, in the event that city would offer anything like the financial inducements held out by Baltimore. The committee on resolutions, head ed by Clark Howell of Georgia, met this morning and prepared a report to be submitted later to the national committee dealing with the primary question and the call for delegates. Primaries, it is believed, will be per mitted wherever state committees desire. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourselves Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON c; CO. Ltve Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. Ctty Is We Also Have Our Own Office ha, Denver. Sioux City. So. St. May 9.52 July 9.65 RIBS Jan May 8.72 July 8.80 9.57 9.62 9.52 9.67 9.67 9.65 9.65 9.67 8.52 8.52 8.52 8.52 8.77 8.72 8.72 8.77 8.82 8.77 8.77 8.82 Kansas Citt Produce "Market. Kansas City, Jan. 9. WHEAT Cash: Market steady. No. 2 hard, $l.O31.08; No. S, J1.011.07; No. 2 red, $1.02; No. S, 99c $1.01. CORN Market unchanged and dull. No. 2 mixed, 66c; No. 3, 64c; No. 2 white, 66?f 67c; No. 3, 64S65c. OATS Market unchanged. No. S white, 50fi60c; No. 2 mixed, 48'349c RYE 95c. HAY Market firm. Choice timothy, 21 22c; choice prairie, $15,50416.00. BUTTER Creamery, 36c; firsts, S4c; seconds, 32c; packing stock, 21c. EGGS Extras, 84c; firsts, 32c; seconds, 17a WHEAT Receipts, 10 cars. CLOSE: "WHEAT May, $1.01; July, 92c. C ORN May, 65c; July, 65 a. Chicago Produce Mnrket Chicago. Jan. 9.-BUTTER Market steady. Creameries, 2636c; Oalrles, asrgt Sic. EGGS Market steady. Receipts, 1.471 cases. At mark, cases included, 2231c; firsts, 2Sf?30c; prime firsts, SSc CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 16c: Twins, 16-al6c: Young Americas, 16'cp 16c; Long Horns, 1616c. POTATOES Market rirm. Oholce to fancy, 93a95c; fair to good, 9093c. POULTRY Market steady. Turkeys, 14flSc; cMckens, lSStUc; springs. ISc. VEAL Market steady. 60 to AO lb. wts., 79c. New York Prndnrp 5tnrke New York. Jan. 9. BTTTTER Market firm. Receipts 6,655. Creamery specials, 39c; creamery held extras, 35ft'35c; fac tory current make, first, 23c; packing stock held, 22c; packing stock, current make. No. 2, 21c. CHKESB-Market firm. EGGS Market stronsr. Fresh gathered, thirds and poorer, 2Sr30c; refrigerator, special marks, fancy, 27c; firsts. 36826c. All other grades of butter, cheese and eggs unchanged. POULTRY Alive, firm; western chick ens, 1213c; fowls, 15Srl6c; turkeys, 16c. Dressed, strong; western chickens, 10,;&g16c; fowls, 13316c; turkeys, 12ff21c. New York Stock Market. "Wall St., New York. Jan. 9. STOCK S After a brief period of weakness, due largely to the Equitable buliding fire, the stock market became quiescent and dls-. played little life during the remainder of the session. Early reports of the fire as sent to London led to selling of Ameri cans there and when the New York traders took their cue from the heaviness abroad and attacked the list. The weak ness was most pronounced at the opening in the International Issues stock ex change houses were flooded with inquiries from out of town corporations and selling orders weer heavy. The nervousness soon wore off, but the list made only a small recovery. Large selling orders made their appearance again in Union Pacific and it receded to Its initial low figures. Not much change occurred In other stocks outside of Third Avenue which Improved 1. The general undertone was heavy and business exceedingly light. Bonds were easier. Heavy pressure was directed against the leading railway shares at the opening of the market today and prices receded rap idly. Union Pacific was once more sub jected to a severe attack, opening with a sale of 5,000 shares at 169 to 168, an ex treme loss of 1. Canadian Pacific fell back two points and bt. Paul 1. The in dustrial issues held fairly steady except United States Steel which lost 1. Prices stopped falling within a few min utes after business began but the result ant recoveries were trivial and the de velopment of weakness in certain spec ialties kept the list somewhat feverish. Interborough Metropolitan preferred de clined 1. Business shrunk to almost proportions as the bears progressed. In the absence of any large enough speculative opera tions to attract a following, the traders were more interested In the fire bulletins and many of them quit business for the scene. Virginia Iron fell 8 points. New York Money Market. New York, Jan. 9. MONEY Money on call steady, ZYi&2, per cent; ruling rate, 2 per cent; closing bid 2 per cent; of fered at 2 per cent. Time loans, easier; 60 days, 3 per cent, and 90 days, Zq&A per cent; six months, Per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 4 to 4 Per cent. Sterling exenange nrm wnn actual ousi ness in bankers' bills at $4.83.75 for 60 day bills and at $4.86.85 for demand. Com mercial bills $4.83. SILVER Bar silver, ∾ Mexican dol lars, 47c. BONDS Government bonds steady, rail road bonds Irregular. Nevr York SngMr Market. New York, Jan. 9. SUGAR Raw, quiet; Muscovado. 89 test. $3.92: centrifugal. 96 test, $4.42; molasses, S9 test, $3.67; refined, quiet. Cotton Market. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 9. COTTON Mar ket higher, 9c. St. Joe Live Stock Market. St. Joe. Jan. 9. CATTLE Receipts 2,800. Market steady. Steers, $4.608.25; cows and heifers, $3.257.00; calves, 14.ij0(i 8.00. HOGS Reclpts 11,000. Market slow and lower. Top, $6.35; bulk of sales, $6.05i6.25. SHEEP Receipts 6,000. Market steady. Lambs, i5.Ooijti.75. Kansas City IJve Stock Market, 7 Kansas City, Jan. 9. CATTLE Re ceipts 13,000, Including 600 southerns. Mar ket steady to 10c lower. Native steers. $5.5O&8.50; southern steers. 4.75'8'ti.25; southern cows and heifers, $3.0Xsi4.75; na tive cows and heifers, $3.00i7.00; stockers and feeders, $4.00.00; bulla, $3.75frj6.25; calv.es, $4.5o8.0U; western steers, $4.75'f 7.00; western cows, $3.0iti6.00. HOGS Receipts 15,000. Market 5c to 10c lower. Bulk of sales, $6.0O'y6.35; heavy, $6,304(6.40; packers and butchers, $:i.203 6.40; lights. $5.&feu6.25: pigs, $4.25'&5.50. SHEEP Receipts 10,OX. Market 10c to 15c lower. Muttons, $3.50jj4.50; lambs, $5.00 4j.7o; fed wethers and yearlings, $4.0tX(i 5.60; fed ewes, f2.75-Jj4.10. Chicago Live Stock Market. Chicago, Jan. 9. CATTLE Receipts estimated at 15,000. Market slow. Beeves, $4.75'a.50; Texas steers, $4.3'a5.80; west ern steers, $460&7.2S; stockers and feeders, $3.30&5.90; cows and heifers, $2.00&6.50; calves, $6.008.50. HOGS Receipts estimated at 35,000. Market quiet. Light, $6.10Si.60; mixed, $6.15&6.55; heavy, $6.1iirt?6.60; rough, $6.15i 6.30; good to choice heavy, $G.3(Kc6.60; pigs, $4.90! 5.75; bulk of sales, $6.&'fj6.50. SHEEP Receipts estimated at 25.0OO. Market steady. Native, $3.25'&'4.85; west ern, $3.50p4.S5; yearlings, $5.00t.00: lambs, native, $5.25x7.10; western, $5.25,H7.10. Car lot receipts: Wheat 18 cars, with 4 of contract grade; corn 58 cars, with 9 of contract grade; oats, 74 cars. Total receipts of wheat at Chicago, Min neapolis and Duluth today were 277 cars, compared with 473 cars last week and 212 cars the corresponding day a year ago. y at Chicago, So. St. Joseph, So. Oma- (J Paul., K. Buffalo. E. St. Ixui and l TOMORROW We have Just received a fresh supply of Hopkln's celebrated Country Sorghum in No. 10 sealed cans, which we will put on sale tomorrow at o o o o o 33 G PER CAN 0 WM. GREEN &SON 0 ;0 Kansas City Live Stock Sales. (The following aulea were mao this morning at tha block Varo, Mannaa City, and reported over long distance telephone direct to th State Journal by Clay, Kobliison A. Co. live Block com mission naershania, with unices at ali oiarketaj Kansaa City, Jan. 9 CATTLE Re ceipts 13,000 head. Market weak to Wo lower. v)uS-Receipts 15,000 head. MarkM 5o to lower. Bulk of sales, $ti.oi.3i; top. $6.40. ailiir.i'-Receipts 30,000 head. Markat weak to 10c lower. Lambs, $6.90. KILLING Hlfc.uK3. No. Wt. prlco.l.No. Hi Prir, 1300 $6.85 18 1234 $6 6a 19 7 9 4 1216 S.60 I a0 1141 6.16 C-OW8 AND li iU'"h.rt.- lli!0 6.25 4. SMS0 835 4 60 3.75 5- 25 3.50 6 25 4.Si .75 5.50 4.2S 980 952 4.35 2.. 4.75 S.40 a. 2. 12. 960 .1010 BTOCK.ERS AND FEEUb. K3. 7. 86. .1134 6.75 I t. ...1023 941 6 40 I 6 CALVES. 7.25 I 2 6.00 4 HULLS. 3.75 I 4 5.25 I HOOS. 6.35 I 78 6.20 96 641 1.. 8.. 120 244 ISO 841 .1050 .1520 960 25. 64. 284 210 238 M .85 4.85 Topeka Markets. IFurnlsheJ by the Chas. WoliT Kaektna Co., yards close at noon B&turday. W m cannot u&e Pitts, thin sows or hox weighing lees than 170 lbs. Do not mar ket hogs unless same are well rinuril ss ws cannot use half fat stuff. We give below prices effective at once, until fur ther nolice.J Topeka, Kan., Jan. 9. HOOS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS J5.7W5M HEAVY 6.75'g5 W) LIGHT 6.&M5.IN (Can't us thin noes or those unuer 174 pounds.) STEERS. Prime corn fed $5 SOfT6.7l Good to choice (corn fed).......... 4.70u6.25 Pair to good (corn fed) 4.80r6.2o Common to fair killers 8.5Vat.25 COWS. Prime $4.55'fifi.00 Good to choice 4.0f.'ii4.50 Fair to good 3.5514.00 Common to fair 2.0u3.BO HEIFERS. Prime $4.55'S5.25 Good to choice 4.0f.y4 M Fair to good 8.65ft4.00 Common to fair S.0o3.60 BULLS. Prime fat $4.064.60 Fleshy 8 55'ti4.00 Mediums 3.00tf3.50 (Cattle must be food. Cannot us tn.u stuff. Market prlea paid for dry lot cattle. If you will favor us with your inquiries advising number of bead, quality, ace and length of time on feed, we will make you an offer or arrana for our buyers to call on you. Topeka Butter, Ecgs nnd Poultry. (.Furnlsned by tha Topeka Packing Co.J Topeka, Kan., Jan. 9. BOGS Fresh couuty, 25c. BUTTER Pecking stock 19c. POULTRY Hens. 4 lbs. and over, 10c; under 4 lbs., 8c; springs, 10c; stags, 7c; old cocks, 6c; ducks. .10c; geese, 80; fat young turkeys, 14c; old turkeys, 12o. Topeka Grain Market. Furnished by J. B. Billard, corner Kaa sua ave. and CurUa at.J Topeka, Kan., Jan. 9. WHEAT 901920. KAFFIR CORN Per cwt., 90-5950. OATS 4B-&48C CORN 60c 4 Butter and Eggs. Furnished by Tne Continental Creamery Co.. Topeka. Kin. Topeka. Kan., Jan. 9. CHICAGO EGGS -KJa30C. N. Y. EGGS 30fr31c. CREAMEKY BUTTER Chicago, S60; N. Y., 36y37c; Elgin. 3ic. Topeka Hay Market. Furnshed by T. A. Beck. 212-214 E. th.J PRAIR1K HAY No. 1, $13.00; alfalfa, choice, $16.0O&'17.00; No. 1, $15.00. Top.'ka fruit and Produce Market. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 9. BOX APPLES Winecaps. per box. $l.(i: Jonathan, per box, $1.76; H-H Davis, per box, $140; Mo. Pippins, per box, $l.iu. BANANAS Medium sized buncnea, per bunch, $2.Wi2.; lara bunchea. per bunch, $..uvui.uu. I'oi l Umou. per lb., ''NAVEL ORANGES Per box. $3.C0. BARREL APPLES Jonathans, per bbl., $1.75; Ben Davis, per bbl., $3.50. CRANBERRIES Per bbi.. $u..l; box. $3.-. POTATOES Rural, bu.. $1.10; Burbank, bu.. $1.10. SWEET POTATOES Bu.. $1.25. Topeka Hide Market. Quotations furnished by James C. Smite Hide Co.. lea J.nst '1 bird mt-1 Topeka, Kan., Jan. 9. GREEN CURED liluES .-.atlvea. Nx 1, llVtc; No. 2, loac; fc.de Brands. KyOVfcc; Bulla and Staiis, 7Vs'yVic; Horn Hides, No. 1. 3.tKXH3.50; No. 2, $2.00"2.&0. TALUlW-ittlUc. DUX UlUtS- Uutchers be&vy. l7o; dry bait, Unlic. DRV HiUES Butchers heavy,- 17c; dry salt, l-aloc, mink No. 1 large $4 53 to $.50; No. 1 medium, $3.50 to $4.5; No. i small, $1! .00 to $3.WJ; raccoon No. 1 large. $1.26 to $2 00; No. 1 medium. $1.0") to $1 2a; No. 1 small, 65c to 90c, skunk, black, tJ.54 to $3.60, snort stripe, $1.6o to $2 (10; narrow stripe, $1.5 to 9ic; brond stripe. 25c ta 6oc; O'PosHUm No. 1 lure, 40c to 60c; No. 1 medium, 25c to 4'X-; No. 1 nmall, 15c to 20c; mu.ski-at. No. 1 large. 800 to 50c; No. 1 medium, 30c to SSc; No. 1 small, 20e to 25c; Clvlt No. 1 large, 35c to 46c; No. t medium, 25c to 40c; No. 1 small. 25c to 40a,

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 9,. 1912 RAILROAD NEWS llenry Flagler Will See His Dream Come True. Completion Soon of Great Tide water Koad in South. CKOSS WATER TO CUBA An Oversea Line That Brings Havana to Front Door. Other Items of General Interest in Traffic World. t -v-r vnrv -Tan. 9. Both Henry M. Flagler and the late Henry H. Lo, ers. -who built up the Standard OH organization, were ambitious, alter they had gained great wealth, to achieve greatness individually. That to say, both were inspired by an am bition at about the same time to un dertake a work of arBe proportions entailing great amounts of capital, tne highest engineering ability and keen commercial foresight ha men accomplished with the standard Oil company and other rganations was achieved in association with men tome of whom were as able as them selves. The Standard Oil corporation did, until the organization of tne United States steel corporation, illus trate the perfection to which co-operation of brains and finance and of or ganizing capacity could attain, "was frequently said that in the verj mag nitude and success of the Standard Oil 'corporation there was proof that tne age of collectivism, as we commonlj call it, had at last come, and that in dividual ability could only be used to the greatest advantage when it acted in co-operation with the ability of oth er individuals. Wanted to Show Ability. In this city, and in Standard Oil ,.it-,.i.a pgnwiallv. it has always been surmised that when Henry H. Rogers 1 conceived the plan for the construc tion of a railway line extending from the Atlantic coast at Xorfolk to the heart of one of the great coal districts of the Appalachian region he was real Iv inspired bv an ambition to show the world that he, alone, single hand ed, would be able to construct a great work and one with which his name would be exclusively identified, t A little earlier, Mr. Flagler had planned those wonderful improve ments in Florida, the most important of which, as well as a world-amazing one. having been completed in the last days of the year 1911. What Mr. Rogers submitted to when constructing what became known as the Tidewater railroad, he never ful lv confessed. All of his friends real ized that he suffered keen humilia tion when at a time, a few years ago, of great money embarrassment he was compelled to negotiate a large loan, not merely by the use of his own cred it, which for many years had been all sufficient, but in addition by the col lateral security of Standard Oil cer tificates. The money was presumably needed for the purpose of completing r pushing further toward completion the Tidewater railroad. And he also fnad to agree to pay interest at the rate of 7 per cent to get the money. In His Hour of Victory. Mr. Rogers instructed the engineers to make surveys which would call for an air line, as nearly as that was prac ticable, from Norfolk, Va., to the heart of the great coal district in the Appalachian mountains. He further more instructed the engineers to pro vide for as small grades as were prac ticable. Could he have had his way the line would have been an absolute tangent from its eastern terminal at Norfolk to its western terminal. But nature prevented that. In addition he entered into contracts which called for the best kind of railway construction. This was not so much a matter of pride with him as because, with his lar-seeing vision, he realized that t;pon a railroad line with low grades and slight curves, so built as to meet j the demands of the heaviest traffic and so equipped as to fu.-nish that traffic, he would be able to transport coal to the seacoast at so small n cost Wiat the coal could be marketed in the threat manufacturing districts of the Atlantic coast at a price which would bring it into successful competition -with other coal mines and with other coal-carrying railroads. At the cost of exhaustive nervous and physical strain, exemplifying not merely the energy, but the will power, w hich were characteristic of him, Mr. Rogers was able to complete this line. Then the groat tragedy occurred. Shortly after the road was finished, Mr. Rogers was stricken by a mortai stroke. There was some doubt. Tor u while, whether the family tradition and the earnest injunctions made by Mr. Rogers to his son and son-in-law-would present the passing of this rail road into other hands. The son-in-law, .-'who was a civil engineer of great abil ity, did, for business reasons not con nected with this road, retire from ac tive association with it. But it is the common opinion that Mr. Rogers- son, when the season of prosperity is re stored, is so to manage this road as to make it fulfill the expectations of his father. It Is Completed. A year ago word came from Florida that Mr. Flagler was then confident that the coast line or oversea rllroad w hich he initiated and with w hich his name is exclusively identified would be completed in the month of Decem ber, 1S1 1. Had it not been for the deposits of the sea animaiculae whereby the lime Womtln's Ills M.ny women suffer needlessly from girlhood to wom.n hood and from motherhood to old age-with backache, d.zz.ness or headache. She becomes broken-down, sleep Ie"vTOu' taWV"d feels ,ired frm morning to nrght. When parns and aches rack the womanly aystera at irequent intervals, ask your neighbor about Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription This Prescription has, tor over 40 years, been eur,n& delicate, wea. pain-wracked women, by the hundreds of thousands and this too In the privacy ot their homes without tbeit Tar" to o indelicate Questioning, and offens.vely repuinant examinations. Sick women are invited tn World's Dispensary Medical Ass"n R V p? e"e letter free. Addres. Dr. Pierce's Gmi St,PrerceJ:M- P'. Buffalo, N. Y. Medical Adviser newH tlZ.? Bo The People's Common Sense ought to know about. Sen free tn ,CJeVerT woman. s.ngle or married, tamps to cover cost o w?aDD7n Ha T t', OI? "ceipt of 31 wrapping and mailing enly, in French cloth binding. of the ocean was converted into coral; rocks, Mr. Flagler's proposition would have been chimerical. But it so hap pended that, but for the high develop ment of the science involving the man ufacture of concrete and the discovery of the ability of concrete thoroughly to assimilate with coral rocks so that the two substances would become one complete rocklike body, in all prob ability Mr. Flagler would not have planned an oversea railroad which would bring New York and Philadel phia or Kansas City so near Havana that a few hours ride by railway ferry would make communication complete, even without any break. Mr. Flagler was able to say in the last week of December, 1911, that the last deposit of concrete into its speci fied place was made a little past mid night on the day before Christmas; so that it is possible to prepare schedules for the running of through trains from New- York or Philadelphia, or or through cars from Cincinnati or Kan sas City to Key West without change. Presumably these car are to be placed upon great railway ocean ferry boats so that the journey from these cities or other parts of the United States can be made to Havana with out leaving the cars. The engineers of Europe have now for several years taken the greatest in terest in the scientific features associ ated with the construction of the over sea railroad. When Mr. Flagler's plan was first discussed by the engin eers of Great Britain they pronounced it unfeasible. So, also, did many en gineers insist that Mr. Harriman might sink the entire Rocky moun tains of Utah, or that belt of the mountains which the Union Pacific railroad bisects, into the Great Salt lake and yet not find substantial foundation for the causeway or via duct which he purposed constructing over that lake. Yet Mr. Harriman went ahead, exactly as Mr;. Flagler has done. Both constructed vast cause- j ways or viaducts across broad reaches ot water. Air. narnman was com pelled to build up a foundation from what had popularly been supposed to be a bottomless inland sea. Mr. Flag ler found the foundation for his line in the vast coral formation which sur rounds the Florida coast and which constitutes much of the ocean bed of the Caribbean sea. Mr. Flagler expects to Journey from Miami to Key West by the first train operated over the completed railroad some day in the latter part of Janu ary of this year. He will be unable to see this railroad excepting as his men tal vision pictures it to him. It may be that the great strain, the constant employment which his undertaking of this enterprise has entailed, has af fected his eyesight. He still can per ceive faintly, but he can not discern objects and he is compelled to sign his name by the feel of his pen. Mr. Flagler's friends, however, say that, al though his eyes are almost sightless, vet he can see with wonderful men tal vividness the entire work, for he has had each detail of it described to him, as well as its general appear ance, and with these facts his imagina tion paints the work with the vivid ness of a dream. The Commercial Keature. If the doubting engineers have been confounded by the success of Mr. Flag ler's plans, men of finance and com merce still remain in some doubt as to the commercial advantage which will follow the opening up of this new rail road. But there was doubt, also, when Mr. Flagler began the construction of a railroad line paralleling the ocean on the east coast of Florida. At this time the railroad is so choked or con gested with transportation of the prod ucts of Honda for northern markets that passenger trains are frequently much delayed and, furthermore, this traffic will undoubtedly compel the laying of a second track in the course of a few- years. Mr. Flagler expects that the construction of this railroad will create a very large passenger and freight traffic between the United States and Cuba. Furthermore, the completion of this railroad a year and a half ahead of the date now fixed for the opening of the Panama canal to navigation will, Mr. Flagler expects, result in a very large offering of traf fic to the railroad. Mr. Flagler in the past has made probably as few mis takes so far as business undertakings were concerned as it has been the good fortune of any man engaged in large business undertakings in the United States to commit. And it is In no small sense due to the great con fidence in his business judgment which prevails that our business men are now strongly inclined to the opinion that the extension of this coast line rail road system to Key West will ulti mately prove to be as wise a commer cial undertaking as was his extension of the railway from Jacksonville to Miami. Moreover, as was the case with Henry H. Rogers, this railroad will re main a memorial exclusively identify ing the name of Henry M. Flagler with its conception and construction. HELD CP TRAIN FOR EOOD. Missouri Pacific Passengers With Knipty Stomachs Deserted Coaches. Pueblo, Colo., Jan. 9. When a Missouri Pacific passenger train ar rived here the other day practically every passenger on the train made a rush for the station lunch counters and for fully a half hour the through train from the east and bound for Denver was held until the passengers climbed aboard again. The train was running several hours behind sched ule time, and the passengers deter mined to get something to eat when the train reached Pueblo, as they had been unable to get Sunday supper en route. This is said to be the first in stance wherein a through passenger train has ever made a stopover at Pueblo under similar circumstances. SYMPATHY STRIKE ON TAP. Shop Employees May Go Out to Fight Harriman lines. San Francisco, Jan. 9.- A sympa thetic strike of more than 300,000 members of the Federated Railway Shop Employees to be called within Si a month has been predicted by Krnest Jj. iteguin, president of the l eaeratea Shop Employees of the Harriman lines. The strike, he said, will include every road in Texas, the Denver Rio Grande and the Hill lines, and possibly roads In the east. CONTRACT IS IRONCLAD. TTnlon Pacific Can Not Break Omaha Agreement for Years. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 9. A story sent out from Council Bluffs says the Rock Island is planning a new Missouri river bridge between Council Bluffs and South Omaha. Recently it was announced that the Rock Island had bought half a million dollars worth of freight terminal land in Omaha. At present it is at the mercy of the Union Pacific, not only for the care of its freight and passenger business in 1 Omaha, but as well in getting its trains through Omaha, from Council Bluffs to Albright Junction. imring the reign of Charles Francis Adams as president of the Union fa. ciiic railroad the Rock Island made a contract for use of tracks and termi nals with the Union Pacific road. It has been said that the contract was extremely favorable to the Union Pa cine and that the Rock Island would break it If it could; that the contract was extremely favorable to the Rock Island and that the Union Pacific would like to abrogate the ninety- nine year lease of tracks and terminal privileges. In support of this latter contention is cited the attempt of the Union Pacific, when Jay Gould was its master, to break the contract. Regardless of what rumors may tell, it is a known fact that development of Rock Island property for several years has been strongest in expansion and improvement of terminal facilities. That has been shown at Kansas City, where new terminals have been under construction for months; at Omaha where land has been bought for the same purpose, and in a lesser degree at stations less prominent commercial ly, but where the Rock Island has been either wholly or in part dependent on leased properties. New Rock Island Official. Chicago. Jan. 9. Announcement is made that W. A. Nettleton has re signed as general superintendent of motive power for the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific railroad and that T. Rummey had been appointed assist ant second vice president in charge of the mechanical department of the road. Mr. rummey was formerly general mechanical superintendent of the Erie railroad, with headquarters at New York. RAILWAY NOTES. The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe declared regular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent on common stock, payable March 1, to stock of record. The directors of the St. Louis San Francisco railroad declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent on the first preferred, payable February 1, to stock of record January 17. J. P. Morgan Co. announce they have disposed of the entire issue of $15,000,000 4 per cent New York Cen tral lines equipment trust bonds of 1912. The New York Central has ordered 155 steel passenger cars. Of these 100 are standard steel coaches, 35 combi nation coaches and 20 baggage and ex press cars, aggregating in cost -,o.a,- 000. The Pennsylvania company declared the regular semiannual dividend of 4 per cent, due at tnis time, a per cent being paid in the summer. This divi dend is payable December 30 to stock of record December 28. The Wabash is installing the electric block signal system on its double track between W orden and utennera. i-ieavy traffic passes over this portion or tne line. The Chicago Alton railway, witn a number ot otner rotma, is maMug campaign with a view to reducing the number of accidents due to trespassing on the railroad right of way. The claims that can be traced directly to tnis cause amount to a cunaiucrau One of the first things learned was that under an old state statute it is neces sary for tne ranroaas 10 ratci ms"" prohibiting trespassing, xnis is Deins done. The roads are aiso seeKing i-i enforce a state law against the flip ping of cars by boys. The Pittsburg (Pa.) Post says that the special committee of the board of di rectors ot the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing company has selected a successor to the late Robert Mather as chairman of the corporation. Ac cording to the newspaper, a full meet ing of the board or directors win uc beld in New York on Wednesday when the candidate will be elected and for the first time, the name made puouc. WELL BAKER GET IN? New Missouri vaney umiere" dldat Appears in nairtwin. Kan.. Jan. 9. When the Missouri Valley Conference is ready to take another Kansas scnooi into its fold it is probable that Baker Univer sity will be an applicant and some or the men who are connected with ath letics at Baker University believe that Baker will stand a pretty good show to land the place. For a number of years Washburn has been a candidate for a berth in the Missouri Valley Confer ence and last fall K. S. A. C. joined in the petition for a place in the confer ence. Baker has never "asked for a place in the conference but the turn that athletics have tak.-n at Baker in the last few- months seem to point to ward an attempt on the part of the school to get into the conference. Baker will meet K. U. this week in basket ball under the Missouri Valley rules and during the football season that has just passed Baker played all the Kan sas colleges without freshmen and w'th practically the conference rules. Baker's teams under Missouri Valley rules would be as strong as they are now and Baker has been putting out some strong teams. It is Baker's high standing in athletics that, its friends believe, will land a place in the conference. MAY PbAY FOB, WICHITA. Harry Welch Offered Kansas Town Contract by Isbell. Sioux City, Jan. 9. Harry Welch, former Sioux City third baseman, has been offered a contract to play third base for the Wichita club. The con tract is said to have come from Frank Isbelkand Welch was offered the job with the understanding that the Pueblo club was to be transferred back to the Kansas tow n and be under the management of Al Shaw. Where there is smoke there is fire, thus there must be something in the stories in circulation that Wichita is going to be back in the league, while little Pittsburg is to be left out in the cold. Frank Isbell, owner of the Pueblo club, is flirting with Des Moines. Falrweather has an option on the Des Moines club. Perhaps he and Isbell will join forces to buy It. Then Isbell could sell out to Wichita busi ness men and everything would be lovely except in Pueblo JIM FLYNN ANGRY Confident He Will Become Champion in July Fight. .Begins JLOHff i'eriOd of Trninins-1 at Once. AFTER JOHNSON'S RIBS He'll Bombard His Middle Sec tion, Pueblo Fireman Says. He'll Fight, Not Box, With Big Smoke He Declares. (By E. J. Geiger.) Chicago, Jan. 9. "A good little man against a good big man and though in most cases the big man wins, the rule will be reversed this time and the month of July will see a new heavy weight champion, a white man again in possession of the highest honor in heavyweight pugilism. And I will tell you my reasons for this statement." Stung by the criticism that he is too small for the colored battler. Jim Flynn has been given to talk and strongly resents any argument that may be waged against his chanoes. The Pueblo fireman declares he has all the requirements that go to make a champion and that though out weighed and at a disadvantage in height and reach he will step into the ring in July a far different fighter than the ring sees him today. Flynn will leave in a few days for Syracuse, where Tommy Ryan will take charge of him. He will begin training immediately, for he is to box Al Palzer in New York on February 15. After that match he will Teturn to Syracuse and go onto hard training. His work will not consist of taking off weight or fitting himself for a fight, but it will be training that will add weight to his bones, harden his muscles and teach him the finer points of the game. Elynn Weighs 17S Now. At present Flynn tips the beam at 8 pounds stripped. Johnson hits the mark at about 220 when in trim. Flynn believes that under the careful tutorship of Ryan he can add an addi tional 20 or 25 pounds of weight that will be an advantage instead of a dis advantage to him in his July battle. There is .no boast in the statement when I say I am the most logical candi date for a match with Johnson, for I am the best of the 'hopqp' and I will force the world to recognize me as such after my fight with Palzer," said Flynn today. I defeated Al Kaufman decisively and Al was recognized as the only man who might have a chance against Jack. Then took on Carl Morns for ten rounds and handed him a lacing such as he has never received before. Today Palzer looms up as a dangerous man and I must dispose of him to make my right to a fight with the champion more substantial. But get ting back to the Johnson match. Because of my size I am criticized and the remark Is heard now and then that I will prove no match for Jack. To Bombard Jack's Midsection. 'When I get into the ring I will be fitted for anything that Johnson has, but my hope lies in my infighting. It is that slyle that wSl lay the champion low. Show me a man better fitted for that style of milling. It brought Kaufman's defeat and practically put Morris out of the running. And let me tell you that Johnson cannot stand the lacing that this Morris person took. Johnson hasn t been forced to take a stiff wallop as yet arcl when his midsection is bombarded with heavy rights and lefts, he will weaken and fall like the rest. When I was a mere middleweight 1 battled eleven rounds withi Jack and gave him the fight of his life. I wasn t hurt and could have gone on for another eleven, but the referee saw the fight in a airferent light and stopped It. When I go against the champion this time, I'll be a full fledged heavyweight and hardened for all Jack has. Will I box clever with him? Why certainly not. It would be flirting with certain defeat if I did. He would make me look foolish, despite the fact that Ryan will teach me much in the points of cleverness. I am going to rest my head on nis Dreasi ana pouna away at his midsection until he withers under the shower of blows. 'Tommy knows Johnson and he- knows the game. He will fit me to fight every thing that Johnson has and Jack will find me ready to block his uppercuts, his swings, jabs, etc. Give me the man who will stand toe to toe with me and I'll show you victory. Johnson will not run away," I am sure. The one thing in my favor is confidence. I hold no fear of Jack." signing it red sox. McAleer Will Contract With a Lot or Youngsters. Boston, Jan. 9. Eight members of the Boston Red Sox have responded to President McAleer's circular letter naming the terms they hope to sign for next season. Contracts have been sent to these players and before the end of next week every player on the reserve list of the club will have re ceived a contract, with the terms named by President McAleer. This list will include several young players who have not seen major league service and several players whom the club will not carry next season but will dispose of after a fair trial at Hot Springs.. SULLIVAN'S SIGNATURE BOUGHT. Brings 75 Cents While Eliot's Goes for Half a Dollar. Boston, Jan. 9. Letters written by President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard and John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, have been purchased by John Wilson, a local curio collector. Dr. Eliot's signature was purchased for 50 cents, but the bold scrawling hand of "Yours truly, John." cost the col lector 25 cents more. Sullivan couldn't see any reason why his signature should not bring more than that of Harvard's venerable ex-president. "We were both the goods," said Sul livan in commenting on the price, "but I was strong w-ith the whole people." HHP inpntmnnqfifi Notch' COLLAR. Ivaay to put on, easy to take off, easy to tie the tie in. Clnett, Peatxxly Company, Make, Troy, N. T H I- BALIItB tJ Li iiA iJ Li L.kJTTIXIW lllj OUTLAWS IN WEST Organized Baseball to More Opposition. Have Semi-Professional Clubs Plan to Fight Back. LITTLE CASH NEEDED Parks Now Used Available for First Year. Meeting to "Talk It Over" Plan ned for Saturday. Chicago, Jan. 9. Organized baseball may have two "outlaw" leagues .o fight instead of one. Formal announce ment of a new circuit to include eight of the largest cities of the middle west was made today by William C. Niesen owner of the Ounthers and John T Powers, -.he local baseball promoter. The latest circuit is not a part of the Uni ted States League which eastern "out laws" are launching. It is to be made up of eight cities selected from Chicago Kansas City, St. Louis, Milwaukee Louisville, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Cleveland and Detroit. Clubs in Chicago, Milwaukee St. Louis and Kansas City are practi cally assured now. The scheme is one which does not necessitate the use of millions of dol lars but an be made a success with a moderate outlay of cash. The mag nates are to be the leading semi-pro club owners of the various cities. This will give the circuit parks good enough for the first season as a starter. The best of the semi-pro players will be utilized and any big league stars not under contract who care to cast their lot with the league will be offered lib eral inducements. "Daily baseball with eight flrst-class teams, will be our aim. said Jviesen "That the time is ripe for a rebellion against the trust methods of organiz ed baseball is apparent. The semi-pro owners are rapidly being driven out of business by the actions of the national commission and big league magnates. The recent legislation forbidding exhi bition games with semi-pro teams in league territory was a hard blow at the independents. We must do something in self-defense." Niesen and Powers are in communi cation with the leading semi-pro mag nates of the west. A preliminary meet ing will be called for the near future, probably for next Saturday at which the initial steps of organization will be taken. Here's Still Another. St. .faul, Minn., Jan. 9. Outlaw base ball will invade St. Paul and Minne apolis the coming season. H. P. Con rad, who is behind the movement, and who is the man backing Lew Drill of this city, active for some time in at tempting to procure admission from the American Association to invade the twin cities with minor league clubs, to be organized in Duluth, Superior, Virginia, Grand Forks and Winnipeg has returned from Chicago. Mr. Conrad 13 thoroughly determined to launch a new league, which will be partially made up from clubs formerly in the Minnesota-Wisconsin league. but which have withdrawn from that organization. HOLLAND HAS SCHEDULE PLAN Short Schedule W ill Find Favor With Magnates. St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 9. When the Western league club owners' meet in Denver in February to draft the play ing schedule for the season of 1912, Jack Holland will submit a new plan dealing with the movements of the clubs. It is practically certain that the magnates will be in favor or tne ls4 game chart and with it the return to the three-trin plan. Last year tne im game schedule was thought to be too Ions-. esDecially by the club owners in the smaller towns, and the four swings taken by each club around the circuit caused a yelp of discontent over traveling exDenses. The feature of Holland's scheme is an arrangement whereby the clubs in each division would visit the cities in their divisions four times and make but three trips into the other divisions, playing two four-game series and one two-game series. PHILLIES GET "ROCK COD." Dooin Grabs Boston Tryout for $60O Per Month. Santa Barbara, Cal., Jan. 9. Ben "Rock Cod" Hunt, who pitched in the Coast league for several seasons and who last year played with Sacramento until stricken with typhoid fever, has signed a contract with the Philadel phia Nationals at $600 per month. Hunt's first entry into the major leagues was a year ago with Boston and then he was farmed out to Sacramento. He is working out every day at Fillmore and says his arm is In the best condition of his life. JESS SPALDING HAS TONSILITIS. Yale Football Captain Was Thought to Have Diphtheria. Chicago, Jan. 9. Jesse Spalding, captain-elect of the Yale football team, is ill at his home here. WTiile spending the holidays with his pa rents a severe case of tonsilitls de veloped. The illness was first diag nosed as diphtheria. Spalding was expected to return to his studies next week. HOUSTON WANTS STETNFELDT. Former Cub Third Sarfcer Does Not AVant Job. Cincinnati, Jan. 9. Harry Stein feldt, the former Cub third baseman, has been offered a position as manager of the Houston team in the Texas league. He has not accepted it as he thinks he will be able to get a place on some major league team. GRIFFITH WANTS THE RABBIT. Hoi bind Stands Little Chance to Get Him Back. St. Joseph, Jan. 9. John Holland, owner of the Drummers, has received word that the Washington American League club has refused to waive claim to Ray Powell, the local outfielder, who was sold to theChicago White Sox last summer. The news reached Owner Holland in a letter he received from Comiskey regarding the St. Joseph players who were sold to the Sox. SHIVELiY GETS IN GAME AGAIX. Be Ills Six CI ut) Circuit likely to Latest Attempt. Oklahoma City. Ok., Jan. 9. There no longer seems to be any question that the new Shively Baseball League, which has been built upon the ruins of Overcoats, Suits, Raincoats, Gloves, Mufflers, Hose, Shirts, Hats, Smoking Jackets, Handkerchiefs, Neckwear, ETG ETG ETC RE DUCED PRICES A call at our store will convince you that we are selling Clothing and Furnishings as Low as De pendable Goods can be sold The Marshall Clothing Co. 701-703 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kas. GEO. S. BADDERS, Pres. T. E. REINHARDT, Sec. 1 lie with these specialists, not merely a part of their calling, but it is a science. They have instruments which are to them, in making a diagnosis, what the mariner's compass is to him in sailing his ship what the carpenter's level is to him what the barometer is to the weather forecaster. Unlike most doctors they ask few questions, preferring to find out for themselves exactly the cause of your trouble. After the trouble is located, they can tell you positively whether or not it is a curable trouble. If it is, they will give you a written contract specifying exactly what they are to do for you. They have been issuing these contracts during the past twelve years and have advertised repeatedly that they would give $500.00 to any one who could show that they had failed to make good on a single one of the contracts issued. This company is backed by abundant capital and can give you bank references if you wish. They treat all chronic and special diseases of both men and women, furnish their own medicines and their charges are about half what you would expect. If you are suffering from Catarrh, Bronchial Trouble, Gall Stones, Goitre, Asthma, Rheumatism, Female Trouble, any of the special diseases of men, call on them and remember they never print any names or testimonials, treat ing every case as sacredly confidential. The address is 114 West 8th St., 2nd Floor. the old "..estern Assoc. ation, will be ready for business by the time the baseball season opens, but there is still some question in regard to the mem bership of the league. As organrzed, the league proposed to take in a six-club circuit, including plin. Mo.; Tulsa, Sapulpa, Muskogee and Okmulgee, Ok., and Fort Smith. Ark., and it was to be known a the Tn-State Ieague, having teams in Missouri, Oklahoma and -Arkansas. TEX MAY ItEFT'SK TO PLAY. Converted at Kevlval lie May Quit Sunday Ball. St. JoseDh. Mo.. Jan. 9. If "Tex" Jones, the peppery big fellow who will go after the nrst base job on tne White Sox again this year, makes good with Comiskey, the "Old Roman" may get a surprise in the shape of a re fusal on the part of "Tex" to play Sunday baseball For Jones is still debating whether or not his conversion at the hands of Evangelist "Billy" Sunday in Wichita recently will preclude his playing on the Sabbath. "Tex." known as the rowdiest play er in the AVestern league for two sea sons, sprung about the greatest sur prise on fans over the circuit they had had in some time when he an nounced that" he had decided to Join church. With him in the conversation were Umpire Dick Morgan, known In West ern league circles as the king robber, and Albert Isbell, brother of the for mer White Sox first baseman, and now manager of the Pueblo club. Jones has been wintering In St. Jo seph. He had planned to visit back in Wichita, where at one time he lived, J but explained his delay by saying that he was afraid "Billy" Sunday would get him. Jones finally made the visit, arriving there on the last day of Sun day's revival. That night he suc cumbed to the pleadings of the evan gelist. Rcagau Wliips Germain. Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 9. Jim my Reagan of San Francisco was given the decision over Chalky Oer main of St. Louis after five rounds of inaJ W ord If you have been going from doctor to doctor, receiv ing; their guess as to your ail ment, after a look at the tongue and a few routine questions, and their treat ment has proven to you that they have all guessed wrong:, then it is time to pay the Con tract Doctors a visit. They have done away with most of the uncertainties you encoun ter when looking for relief of your ailment. Diagnosis is. JANUARY THE IDEAL ONE TIME to begin saving some thing out of your sal ary. We have the plan THE CAPITOL BUILDING LOAN ASSOCIATION 534 Kansas Artnua N1 IGHT School Courses in Bookkeeping, Penmanship, Commercial Arithmetic, Business Law, Stenography, 3 nights a week. Dougherty's Business College, 81 h Jackson. a scheduled ten round bout, with Ger main in distress. The boxing commis sioner ordered the bout stopped. Hedges lresiilcnt Again. St. Louis, Jan. 9. Robert Lee Hedges, principal stockholder of th St. Louis American League Baseball club, has re-elected himself president at the club's annual meeting. Mandot Outllftlits Allen. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 9. Joe Man dot of New Orleans outfought "Billy" Allen of Ottawa, lightweight champion of Canada, at every stage of their eight round bout beiore the Southern Athletic club and was awarded th docision. Newton lereat MeSrMierHon. Newton, Kan., Jan. The Newton Athletic club defeated the McPhereori college at basketball here by a Bcorsj of 73 to 22. Everybody read the fctate Journal.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 9, 1912 By FRANK P. MAC LEXXAS. Entered July 1. !87o, aa second-class matter at the postoffice at Topeka, Kin., Under the act of congress.! VOLUME XXXVIHI .....No. 13 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at the same price. In any Kan sas town where the paper has a carrier system. JIv mail, tmm VMT ty ma.il. six months y mall. 100 days, trial order 1.80 LOO BELL TELEPHONES. gnslness Office Reporters' Room INDEPENDENT TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call i0 and ask The State Journal operator for per son or department desired. Topeka 8tats Journal building. S00 and OS Kansas avenue, corner Eighth. New York Office: S&J Fifth avenue, Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Steger building. Paul Block, manager. stjlx, leaked wire rirj-ont OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Th State Journal la a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganization for ths exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka- The news Is received In The State Jour nal building over wires for this sola pur- Peace in China is beginning: to appear above the horizon. The rebels sire willing to .five the Manehu princes mid potentates life pensions of large proportions. Undoubtedly, not a few people are Etniiing softly at the protests of Sir. Bryan against the action of some of his Nebraska 'friends in putting his name on tlia presidential primary ballot. Now that Rev. Rieheson has con fessed his guilt of a most atrocious crime, it is .safe to assume that more morbid ladies than ever will send him oouquets of flowers and boxes of bon bons. If that decision of the Kensas su preme court holding "chip in" keg par ties to be perfectly legal affairs had only come in the summer time, more folk would have become enthusiastic about it. So much basebpll news in the news papers nowadays must be particularly 'aggravating to many people. Baseball suggests the balmy breezes of summer and unusually warm seats on th-e bleachers. When a bumper wheat crop Is har vested in Kansas next spring and a big corn crop is in sight for the fall, noth Ing but fond memories will prevail of the snow and cold that has caused so much suffering throughout the state. It will take more than one or a dozen receivers for the various nat ural gas companies in Kansas to pro duce more gas than there is and dis-trib- te a larger quantity than the pipe lines and pumps are adequate to han dle, The suitcases of Topeka are doing their best these days to redeem them selves. Instead of plying their usual pursuit of concealing the contrabands of prohibition, they are providing the only means some people have to get coal to their homos. "Wisconsin has set another pace that all the states in the Union should fol low. A prominent money lender at Milwaukee has been sent to jail for three months for practicing usury. There are usurers in etery city of any size throughout the entire country. "With Governor Stubbs coming out flat-footed for the nomination of Col onel Roosevelt as the Republican presi dential candidate, this sort of leaves Senator Hrlstow all by his lonely among the "progressives" of Kansas in the advocacy of the LaFollette candi dacy. Real retributive justice: The presi dent of the Kansas Natural Gas com pany had to go breakfastless the other morning because he was dependent on the meal being prepared on one of thoe tireless cookers that are so numerous these days in many Kansas cities. Many of the small boys around here are undoubtedly in their element these days. With frozen water pipes pre vailing In most of the homes, and warm water as scarce as seal-skin coats, it's impossible to douse the youngsters in a bath at the slightest provocation. Mr. Bryan and Mr. LaFollette are too wise to organize a third party. Such a party would be many years in making any headway toward an ulti mate success. This wouldn't make much of a hit with the leaders among the LaFollette enthusiasts. What they want is more personal power forthwith and at once. That fight which is on among the members of the Commercial club is of the right sort. Various factions in the club are at war with each other as to which one will obtain the most new members. This is also a fight in which all the men worth while in Topeka can participate. It is up to -everybody to show his progressiveness by taking out a membership in the club. As was to have been expected the national baseball commission has an nounced,, after a searching investiga tion, that nobody connected with base ball was responsible in any way for the ticket-scalping scandal incident to the championship games last fall. This is reminiscent of the reply of Topsy of Uncle -'om's Cabin fame when she is asked as to who her parents were. I didn't had none," answers Topsy, "I'se just erowed." CHAPTER LXTX. Partially Political. An interesting item appears in the press dispatches from Peoria, Illinois, stating that the Republican Club of the Sixth ward of that city has come out unanimously In the interest of Colonel Roosevelt for the Republican nomina tion in 1912. The Sixth ward has picked a good man all right, but unfortunately, he is not a candidate and has requested his friends not to take any steps toward.3 securing delegates. Now that the Sixth ward of Peoria has gotten into the news of the coun try, it. would be interesting to hear from the Fourth Ward Republican Club of Emporia. Our friend, Williaifl Allen White, resides in one of the pre cincts of that ward and is also a mem ber, or was sometime ago, of the Fourth Ward Republican Committee. The Sixth Ward in Illinois seems to have beaten the Fourth Ward in Kan sas to it up to date. Speaking of Reminiscences, here is one just received in the mail this morn ing from J. C. Beeson of Marshall, Texas. Mr. Beeson says he has taken the State Journal ever since it was start ed. He was also a reader of the old Commonwealth and likewise the Capi tal under Major Hudson. In the course of his letter, which is of some length and of much interest, he suddenly breaks the connection and uses the word "Reminiscence," and writes this one which is worth while: "I came to Topeka in 1SS1 and was employed as a mechanic in the cabinet department of the railroad shops, was married in 18S4. Having been acquaint ed with Allen Sells, in Ohio, and hav ing friendly relations with him he pro cured for mo a position at the fair grounds in 186 when there was much improvement being made, preparatory to one of the great events in Kansas, a revival of the state fair. "I had charge of the construction of the buildings, one of which was an amphitheater, 600 feet in length. Mr. L. M. Wood was the architect of these buildings. I have been in communi cation with Mr. Wood recently and had a very nice letter from him. "My first acquaintance with your pa per was after the old Commonwealth was started. I was a subscriber to it m 1SS0 or issi. Major Hudson was my ideal as a newspaper man in those days. I have been a patron, directly or indi rectly ever since the State Journal was started. I like its policy, and admire its management, past and present, and feel they have earned the prosperity which the paper now enjoys. "I hereby give my New Tear greet ing by wishing- the State Journal, and all its connection a Happy and Pros perous New Year. "Cordially yours, etc." Speaking of letters, here is one from S. Burkholder of Marion, Kansas, January, 6th: "I am especially well pleased on the stand you take on the Taft adminis tration and trust you may keep right on in the same, as without doubt Taft has made and will go down in Ameri can history as one of our greatest presidents, along side of Molvinley and others, and the idea that he ought to be denied a second term is simply pre posterous and supremely silly and that would mean that the Republican party had voted this unsurpassed adminis tration a failure. Would we not he in fine shape to face the Democrats at the election next fall, after voting one of the ablest administrations we have ever had a failure? "If we as Republicans would do this, I think it is high time that we be punished by again having a Demo cratic administration to bring us, as Republicans, to our senses." Samuel A. Perkins, a strong advo cate for the renomination of President Taft and a warm personal friend of Colonel Roosevelt, is a member of the Republican national committee from the Pacific coast and publisher of the Tocoma Ledger and News. Mr. Per kins is at preesnt at Santa Barbara and in an interview recently printed in the Portland Oregonian says: "There is no quarrel between Taft and Roosevelt. They do things in a different way. Roosevelt is not at tempting to undermine Taft in any manner. In fact, he has gone out of his way to call down some of his en thusiastic friends who have shown a disposition to fight the present admin istration. "The national committee meeting was a Taft organization from start to finish, and there was but one serious question that threatened differences. That was relative to the direct primary on president. "It was unanimously agreed that Taft is considered throughout the na tion an honest and able president, and all conceded that Taft is not a poli tician. He doesn't know how to play the game, and he does not want to. His only aim is to serve the people. "The talk that Roosevelt tried to organize the committee against Taft is all 'tommyrot.' I know whereof I sneak, for the reason that I was au thorized by Colonel Roosevelt to repre sent him at Washington at that meet ing in so far as his being a candidate was concerned. "He authorized me to say to his friends that he is not a candidate for the presidency, and does not want it. and. on my return to New York, fol lowing the meeting, Roosevelt express ed his appreciation of the action of the committee in keeping his name out of the discussion of possibilities." By the way, don't forget the East side park, gentlemen of the Topeka commission. Also, see if arrangements cannot be made to pro-ide shaking ponds which are not more than three feet deep so that there will be no dan ger of drownings, and thereby lend more pleasure to the youth and less worry to the parents. Our friend, J. E. H., has. as usual, an interesting communication to the daily papers out over the state, neither the Daily Capital nor State Journal belonging to the weekly syndicate which receives these letters. The one printed last evening says that a promi nent politician, who was recently with Roosevelt, said to him, J. E. H., that Roosevelt told him that he was not a candidate, but also told him that If there were any definite or certain tasks to perform, he would not shirk the responsibility. Well, would you expect a brave, able man like Colonel Roosevelt to say any thing else? Would you expect him to say that he would shirk any responsi bility? He never shirks responsibility and of course it is quite safe for any one to quote him as saying that he does not Intend to shirk any new -re- sponsibilities -whatever they may be. In his communication J. E. H. with out intending to do so, of course somewhat misquoted the writer when he said that he came back with a story that Roosevelt had told him. This writer did not come back with such a story, and J. E. H. has simply, but unintentionally "got his wires slightly crossed." If Colonel Roosevelt tells one man something which another man does not hear, the other man must be hard of hearing, for the colonel has a way of speaking out which is decidely re freshing, interesting and sometimes creates consternation, as it grates loudly on the ears of people who ex pect to be answered in a whisper. But that is one of the colonel's ways and you have to take him as he is, which is really a better way than to take him as some people seem to think he ought to be. In connection with J. E. H.'s letter on politics he speaks of the story of a man who "saw Roosevelt." This reminds the writer of a reminiscence of old time politics, when the writer was a report er. He is still a reporter, however. Years ago Colonel H. C. Cross of Em poria and Colon-el Wrilliam Martindale of the same town were prominent poli tical factors, working hand in glove. Colonel Cross was a fine gentleman of the old school, but in his haste he was not always careful of his tenses. A politician looking for aid came across Colonel Cross one day with a scheme which he thought was important and which Colonel Cross also thought was worthy of consideration, and not de manding too hasty action. Playing for a time Colonel Cross suddenly said as he groped about for political inspira tion: "Have you saw Bill?" Chapter LXX tomorrow. JOURNAL ENTRIES Nor is it possible to avoid a bill col lector forever. As a matter of fact it's only a very few people who begin quarrels purpose ly. Nor is a hot temper any more ser viceable in cold weather than it is in warm. Unusually cold weather is likely to make most folk fail to see any beauty in the snow scenes. There is nothing very palatable to the reverse of that proposition that only foois and children tell the truth. JAYHAWKER JOTS 1 J A suggestion from Ralph Faxon in his Garden City Telegram: If Freak Ppet Kemp does think it necessary to come back to Kansas why not locate him at Shadybend Quoting: "Many a knocker knocks without investigation." the Independ- ence Reporter adds: Yes, and many knocker knocks regardless of in vestigation. What shall it profit a man, asks Deacon Walker in his Osborne Farm er, if he does dig up liberally to the cause and then forgets to put ashe3 on his walk in the winter time? As far as we know Centralia is the only town in this part of the country to ever have a public Christmas tree a treat for all the children. Some times a store has a Santa Claus, but this was different and many were the favorable comments heard. People said it was the finest thing in that line they had ever seen. There was the biggest crowd in town that day, that has been here since a street tair. Centralia Jaurnal. For thirty years Bent Murdock and Alvah Shelden ran rival newspapers in El Dorado. They had a serious falling out. Each thought the other guilty of bad faith. Shelden hammered Mur dock unmercifully in' season and out. Murdock never mentioned Shelden in his paper. Never directly, indirectly, by inference or innuendo. They were both good men, each was a success in his particular way; Shelden at home, Murdock abroad. Shelden died and he got over a column of good reading in Murdock's old paper, the Republican. Murdock died several years ago. So it finally came to pass that Alvah Shel den broke into the El Dorado Republi can. Clay Center Times. An Atchison woman has gone vio lently insane, reports the Atchison Globe. Her mind, although strong to begin with, gave way under the ter rible tax put upon it during the past two months. The strain began with trying to think what to give for Christ mas presents, grew greater in buying the presents, sagged heavily in the effort of wrapping the presents in tis sue paper, sealing them with "Merry Christmas" seals, tying them with rib bon, adorning them with holly, tag ging them with Christmas greeting, and "Do not open until Christmas cards"; tottered dreadfully, in the ef fort of getting them off; fell with a sickening thud when the bills came in; tried to rallv in the effort of remem bering to write 1912, Instead of 1911, and at last flew into one thousand pieces in the struggle she made to have her money ready for the pay-as-you-enter street car. GLOBE SIGHTS BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. The pace that kills Is seldom devoted to hard work. If a man has a mean disposition his folks are apt to find it out. An Enthusiast is a man who will ride a bicycle during zero weather. Don't you hate the person who Is al ways trying to catch you in a lie How doth the little busy bee get through a hard winter without work? Doubtless one reason so many people like to work is because they have to. Too many people start down on the theory that they have a round trip ticket. You may have observed that few peopie forward good news by telegraph. The mere fact that a suffragette can raise a beard doesn't entitle her to vote. A good deal of allegiance is given for the purpose of getting the right or sur trage. Some men would do better If they were willing to be a little lonesome occasion ally. Quite a number of people who marry for money find they have sold at a low figure. It seems that the dove of peace has about as much trouble as a rabbit after a snow storm. One must have something to back self confidence if he expects to sell It to an advantage. Think how long a girl has to practice on the piano before she can call her play ing a recital. RY THE WAY BT HARVEY PARSONS. Isn't it about time to divorce Hon, Buck Weaver from the "sport" cage? it takes good eyesight to see anything line a sporting item in the fact that ne was recently brought back from uaexico on a statutory charge. When Bryan and LaFollette visited together for seven minutes, it started a political panic, but as you may have observed, it doesn't take much to start a political panic. Chances are good that they were discussing the inclem ent weather or the merits of popu lar grip cures. It may be that their conversation carried an air of mystery. No politi cian can talk without permeating the atmosphere with mystery. The habit is so strong that one politician will lead another into the darkest corner of a hotel lobby to ask him for a match. The town liar is up against It these days; he can't compete with the coun try brother, because of the scarcity of ferocious jackrabbits in town. "Trior's sech a thing' es knowln' too blamed much, ef you want tun get on a jury." Deacon Squash. A large number of those who swore off smoking a week ago are now con gratulating themselves over the mys terious chance that they "just hap pened to" throw their pipes where they were easily found. Before you walk up to a man and make some crack about the joys of real winter weather, it is prudence to first ascertain whether or not any or the plumbing In his house is frozen up. Up at Manhattan President Waters, of the Aggie institution, thinks seri ously of putting a popular price cafe on the campus. That may be all right at K. S. A. C, but at nearly any other college, the exuberant students would follow by putting said cafe on the fritz. We have Mr. Roosevelt's assurance that he will not run, and Mr. Bryan's assurance along the same line; now, if Mr. Hearst will kindly add his as surance to the pile, politics could go ahead without fear of further inter ruption. SAYS UNCLE GAV Most of the writing crew dramatists. novelists and romancers generally mistake or misstate the real tragedy of life, which is not death, nor even de feat, but inefficiency. The shadow of the cave man's fear of death Is over us still the pall of a black superstition born when behind the slant brows of our forefathers reason was only be ginning feebly to fecunate, and there was nothing real but lust and terror. Since then, a million men have died fearlessly where one has been afraid and save when violence has Interposed to cut short an existence still full of vigor and the fires of strife, the horror of the change has been In the hearts of the living, rather than with the dy ing. Infinitely sadder and infinitely more terrible than death is the life of the incompetent, tormented by desires It cannot fulfill, and tortured by ambi tions which it cannot realize. The mys- terious passin of bre; hut cold ray .here m ath which leaves life was but a mo ment since Is terrible enough to the living, but the ineffeotuals who are "half in love with easeful death" are. as the sands of the sea. Were I a maker of plays, my tragedy should not be builded about some huge heroic figure who has s-.eized his own particular corner of the world and made it over to his heart's desire, but one whom nature made awry or a weakling born with aspiration, but without some little factor of the man, the lack of which has made him but a thing of sport for circumstance. I would weave this tragedy about an In effectual who has vision, scope and breadth and depth and high ambition, but who wants the courage to attain through trials, tears and bloody sweat who cannot know that these are sweet when not in vain. Or I would give the stage to one who has the bravery but not the brain to reach the prize for which he gropes. There should be no blood, save that the pores ex ude In agony of unwulfilled ambition; there should he no tears except the tears of him who fails. The curtain should go down upon no prostrate figure of a conquered master of his fel low men but upon some futile thing, al most a man. who still puts forth an eager hand to grasp the thing he may not seize. It is all of life to live and be of use. It is worse than death to live and hone and strive and In the end be useless still. ("Copyright, 1911, by Wr E. Wil liams.) POINTED PARAGRAPHS.. From the Chicago News. Hope for the best and then hustle for It. It takes a woman a long time to grow old gracefully. No. Cordelia, gifted people are not necessarily generous. Many a man's spicy conversation is due to the aroma of cloves. It takes an optimist to get more out of a thing than there is in it. Love may be blind, but the bride's mother usually has her eye3 wide open. We admire a well Informed man who Is ablo to keep his Information under cover. Anyway, people who are frankly poor do not have to associate with the rankly rich. If a young man's love is acceptable to a girl why should she be willing to return it? Some men are born to trouble, but the man who makes love simultaneously to two girl chums has it thrust upon him. Occasionally a woman seeks a divorce on the grounds of incompatibility be cause her husband's Income isn't com patible with her ideas of comfort. VAFFYDILS BY U. NOALL. If music is pleasing would a watch charm (Oh run on about your business, you foolish wolves. Your snarls won't scare Kitty Carson.) If last year had 365 days has 1912? (Hold his head men. Some one cut those traces. Look out for his hind legs.) When an aviator is a mile high can you see the aeroplane? (Up with the napkins boys, here comes the soup!) THE DISTRICT SCHOOL. I've a pleasant recollection Of a quiet farming section In a certain valley that I used to know. Where with slow but sure gradation I began my education In the land of Far-away and Long-ago. And the place where I was entered As a student was well centered. Standing on a strip of pasture flat and low. Where the country lads and lasses Romped around among the grasses, And the grazing cattle wandered to and fro. Oh, how well I do remember How each year, I, from September, With my dinner-pail trudged miles in rain or snow "Til June roses were a-bloomlng; But let no one be presuming; There was e'er a time I didn't want to go. Pumpkin College (I'll be candid) Was the name the school was handed At the time 'twas built, and neither friend nor foe E'er expressed a wish to change It, Although someone did arrange It Into plain P. C for brevity, I trow. And we had all sorts of teachers Smart young men and fair girl creatures And for sake of change, a cross old maid or so; Tint thv each one did their duty And we learned! That was the beauty Of old-fashioned schools of long ago! Those were days of "yes, ma'am," "no, ma'am," "Please may I speak?" and May I go, ma'am?" And when classes to recite stood in a row Then If rules should go unheeded And a punishment be needed That was what the teacher hastened to bestow. "Jogfry," history, and grammar Patiently they all did hammer, The way we learned the three K s was not so slow Oh, we stored up useful knowledge By the peck at Pumpkin College In the Land of Far-away ana lons-ago. Mrs. E. F. A. tseeier, m m j. Republican. When Brother Fred Came. (By Claudine Sisson.) Seated before a bright grate fire in the library, with a good cigar In his mouth and his feet in another chair, Tommy Glens was content. Without was a winter blizzard, with snow pinns nr. to the tons of the fences and a gale chasing itself down the country high way; within the house was no other human being. The mother had gone away the day before on a short visit, and the cook had been given two days' holiday. Tommy had felt himself able to wrestle with skillet and coffee pot, and had been left to do it. Tommy Glens gravitated between the city and his mother's manor house. He was supposed to be studying for the bar. but he wasn't wearing out his brains. He had been at It a year, and yet he doubted if he could fill out the blank spaces in a bill of sale. Tommy, being 24 years old. was supposed to have his eye out for matrimony, but he hadn't. Tommy wasn't looking for trouble in any direction. He just want ed to be let alone and take comfort. And so the gale roared, the snow fell, the drifts piled up. and Tommy Glens smoked and read and yawned and won dered why so many people spent so much time 1n kicking when the kicks did not good. A mi'e away, an hour or so hfore the lone young man sat down. Miss Nellie Grafton looked from the window on the storm for a minute and then turned to her mother and said: "Why. mother, it's growing worse all th time!" "Yes?" "It's a regular blizzard!" "I guess it Is." "Rut I've got to drlv to the depot with the cutter to get Fred. He Isn't very well, you know, and he couldn't walk a mile and a half through this storm. He'll try to, though, if I'm not there." Brother Fred was to come from the city on the 7 o'clock train. Had his train come throngtt he would have been with it. and just outside of thP depot he would have found three snow-cov ered objects representing his sister and a pony and cutter. The train left the city on tinre. but lost two hours buck ing the snow drifts. No sister, no pony. no cutter to greet him when he at length arrived! No hotel at the coun try station, and the man In charge of the depot said it was against orders to permit susnicious persons to pass the night In the waiting room. It was therefore Fred for home and some time before midnight he got there. It was to find that the pony had arrived an hour before him, dragging the cutter on Its side and carrying a great hump of the fleecv on Its back and the mother walking the floor and wringing her hands. She's been tipped over In some drift and is freezing to death." was the wail. Brother Fred should have stumbled over the victim if she had kept to the road, but as he hadn't he had to take it that his sister had staggered aside before falling. Of course he must re turn over the road. The ponv was brought out to face the storm, the whip vigorously applied and the search for a freezing or frozen girl was on. As the pony made his slow wav through the" drifts the brother had time to wonder what a frozen sister w-ould look like. Would she begin to freeze at her ears or her toes first? would there be a smile on her face or a look of terror?. Would her hands be folded over her bosom or would thev be extended at full length, as if reaching for the aid that n-ever came? In lifting the poor girl into the cutter might she not break in two and have to be car ried home In halves? Tommy Glens was so content to hear that old blizzard raging outside while he was so comfy where he was that In time he dozed. In time he also dreamed. In some other time he dream ed that he was with Dr. Cook within 2.000 miles of the north pole and that he was listening to cries for help. Those cries awoke him, and then he heard them in reality. Bareheaded and in dressing gown and slippered feet Tommy made a rush for the arctic circle, which was the highway, and when he returned to the house he bore the half insensi ble form of Miss Nellie Grafton in his arms. A quarter of a mile down the road, as she was returning home, the pony had tried to climb the fence and had upset thines, and then started off for his warm stable. The girl had made headway until exhausted. and the point reached happened to be in front of the Glens house. Three or four calls for help. and then Miss Nellie was a huddle in the enow. She onlv dimly realized it when she was carried into the house and the wajm library and placed in the big rocking chair, and to this day she is not sure that Tommy Glens danced around her and exclaimed: "What Fhall I do damn it, what shall I do! It's a girl, and if I don't do something she'll die!" Tommy had done nothing as yet net even to look for the brush broom THE E VETTING STOR to brush away the snow, when the victim revived enough to say: "A little wine or brandy, please." In thirty seconds Tommy had the decanter from the sideboard, and the drink lie poured out would have made a horse dizzy for the next three days. Miss Nellie only sipped it, and about five sips made her sit up and say: "How silly of me! I thought I could face the storm all right." "You would have frozen to death, but I happened to hear your cries. I guess you're all right now, though. Let us turn the chair to the fire." "I'll wait a few minutes and see if the storm doesn't let up. Your mother has retired, I suppose?" "She's away." "What!" "And so Is everybody else and I'm alone in the house." "You are here alone!" exclaimed Miss Nellie as she rose up and stag gered toward the door. "I "Oh, come, now, Miss Miss Graf ton, I think it must be you can't go out Into this storm!" pleaded Tom my. "But you see you see "You go back and sit down and I'll go out myself. I'll go up into the garret. I ll go down cellar. I 11 find a nice warm snow drift. My name is Tommy Glens, if you don't know it. and I'm perfectly willing to nave my ears frozen for your sake." The girl halted, smiled and re turned to her chair to say: "I'm afraid you wouldn't look well with your ears amputated. Sit down and we'll talk. I have met your mother, and a dear old lady she is, but I have not seen you before. You may have met my brother, Fred?" "N-o-o, but I shall very soon now." "But we are to talk about reci procity, the tariff, woman suffrage and all that, you know. Now, then, begin; and I will take the other side for argument's sake." It was two hours later that the des perate brother Fred, after being al most frozen in looking for a quite frozen sister, stumbled up to the door and rang the bell and disturbed a heated argument as to whether old maids should be given the ballot along with the rest of the sex. There were exclamations and explanations, and In the midst of them Tommy drew Fred to the front door and out side to say: "Mr. Grafton, wo are having a bliz zard." "Well?" "And I want your permission to pay my addresses to your sister with a view to matrimony." "Yfcu've got nerve to drag me out here in this storm to tell me that. But I like nerve. Go ahead." And as the other sex admires nerve up to a certain point Mr. Tommy went ahead. (Copyrighted 1912 by Associated Literary Press.) EVENING CHAT BY RUTH CAMERON. A would-be humorist, who evidently obiects to the recent influx of books seek ing to make us better acquainted with the outdoor world, assures us in the 1oke I roliiitina rt f a rdpftnt mnpaxinp tlift nilhlie will probably be interested in a series about to be published on "How to know the birds from the flowers" and several similarly ridiculous subjects. The last of his series is "How to know the grass." Now, perhaps I m lacking in a frnse or humor, but really, I don't Fee anything so terribly absurd and impossible in that last title. I've no doubt that a book could be written on just that subject with a good deal of interesting and novel matter in it. And furthermore, such a book might have the effect of making us see some thing that we've only looked at before. A few months ago, I questioned If many people really SHE trees. I fancy that even fewer really SEE grass, and ap preciate the infinite variety In the tex ture of the lovely carpet which nature weaves for her world. Such a book as the would-be humorist proposed might open the eyes of many half blind folks to see what they have always trampled on unseeingly, and thus give them a new interest in taeir walks abroad. Except that these would probably be the very people who wouldn't read such a book. Myself, I am no deep nature student, and I don't know anything technical about the subject, but have learned to look for and delight in a few varieties of grass. For one kind, there's the tall wavy brown grass, almost as lovely in lis graceful undulations and faint pastel col orings, as any wild flower. And then, there's the funny little squattv, clumpy grasses, quite as differ ent from the tall undulating variety as u hippotamus from a giraffe. I do not believe anyone who has lived bv the sea can have missed the beauty or marsh grass. Sometimes I think the rip ple of the windswept marsh grass Is as wonderful as the waves of the ocean itself. The common, or garden, variety of grass, of which lawns are made, and which is all "grass" means to most peo ple, is not the less beautiful because of its commonness. I do not know how most, people feel about it, but for myself a per fectly kept lawn is full as pleasing as a fine flower bed. How lovely and restful a sight it is in its undulating smoothness its eveness. Its fresnness alter rain its there, I had almost said "emerald greeness," but why describe the great er by the lesser? I'm sure an emerald is not half so green as a finely' kept lawn, far better call the emerald "grass green." Surely, even the man to whom a prim rose by th river's brim a yellow prim rose is and nothing more, could not have failed to look with appreciation on a tlnu lawn. Still. I don't know. Perhaps he was an ancestor of the would-be humorist to whom a book on how to know the grabs is the very height and acme of humorous absurdity. Hunts Duc-ks In Aero. Lee Hammond, carrying William Simpson as passenger, introduced a new phase of aeroplane sport at Mine ola yesterday by going hunting for wiid fowl at an altitude of 800 feet. In the absence of Captain Baldwin. Hammond invited Simpson to take a ride on the Red Devil biplane. Simp son, who is a professional rifleman, took his gun along. The pair started away when they saw a flock of wild ducks in the dis tance. Over Hempstead village, at a height of 800 feet, Simpson got the range and fired. He killed one duck, according to his own story. It was picked up by a youngster below, who ran away. Returning, the aerial hunters ran in to a flock of starling over the Mine ola field, several of which Simpson killed. On a subsequent flight the riflemen fired at tin cans thrown into the air by peopie below. Several of the cans were perforated. Hammond and Simpson say that the recoil of the rifle did not affect the equilibrium of .the aeroplane. They will try the experiment again. New York American. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Rress.J Beelzebub never needs to brag. Even a burglar looks down on a poli tician. Mighty few people understand tneir virtues. Liberty begins in the cradle, but ends at the marriage altar. A woman can do more with smiles than a man can with money. I KANSAS COMMENT PEOPLE EASILY FLEECED. The champion sucker died lately. lie had 51.34H shares of stock in various com panies and their pur value amounted to tal.ti,-,.'. What this victim paid for thein. of course, does not appear, but it was cer tainly a large sum. And the appraisers of the estate set down the whole as hav ing a value of Another man had 1.K.566 shares. The lift was made up of fifty-six stocks practically all mininir and oil stocks. At public Fale everything n the list that wa oalable brought Just Jfr0.2(i. Millions of people are victimlzil every year by the emooth agent. Abllei Vi Reflector. ARBITRATION" AND HONOR. If the arbitration of any international controversy is desirable why houll nn exception be made of those questions in volving the national honor? Are there men yet alive who believe that an af front to honor must be atoned in blood? What Hort of a man is it who preaches that it is all right to arbitrate a boundary dispute or a commercial controversy and all wrong to refer a question of honor t' Impartial and disinterested Judges? Tl:' nation that is afraid to trust Its honor to a court of all nations probably has al ready violated all principles of honor nn I dreads the just verdict of honest men. Salina Union. r FROM OTHER PENS CHILDREN AND DIVORCE. There is one point in which all American divorce statistics are defective, namely, in not giving the number of children af fected by the separations which are daily taking place In such numbers. All di vorce statistics must be multiplied by tw anyway. Thus, if 1,001 divorces were granted in Wayne county in 11 months It simply means that 2, (MM men and wo men have met domestic tragedy in its most Irremediable form. Jf 2,'H men and women for 11 months of lids year, what an army would confront us If we could assemble all those who In former years have received official sanction to break up the marriage tie. Even to sliluk of the host thus concretely is astounding enough, but if to this tragic assemblage could be added all the children of ull the broken homes, what a most pathetic thing divorce would appear and how ruthleKs, too. Why not add a new item to our divorce statistics thus: Item the children. Heretofore they have appeared aa embel lishments to divorce stories only. Their wonderment, their bewilderment, their sorrow, have served to garnish furth the routine of divorce day. And with that their day In court is at an end. No further public notice Is taken of them. Sump. t times their lisping testimony is taken to help deprive them of father or mother, hut that is all. There they stand before the judge's bench as the one unanswer able argument against all divorce, and yet they are absent even from our new branch of vital statistics, the divorce figures. Detroit News. A BAROMETER IN POOR ORDER. Inasmuch as steel has been taken as the barometer of trade in this country, the encouraging statement of Henry C. Krick has been largely accepted as no tice that the ebb of business has been reached and the tide Is now slowly set ting the other way. This may be no ticed, in the comment of the press, the interviews with financiers and industrial leaders and in the stock market tables. The steel situation, however, has ceased to be entirely of Industrial Importance. It is today more involved in politics triHii in the simple purposes of manufacture and marketing. The anti-trust suit against the 1'nited States Steel Corpora tion has removed the Industry at least for the timo being from an economic field to one in which Its sins are to be exposed for the purpose of carrying a national election. For several months to come steel wil be less a business ba- rometer than a weapon with which to satisfy a Jealousy of a highly superior ex-president. Toledo Blade. ADVERTISING TALKS BY WILLIAM C. FREEMAN In the twenty-six years I have been In the advertising business, a great many changes have taken place. I remember the time and it isn't so long ago, cither when all advertising, good and bad, was considered an grist to the mill. Today, the men engaged In the adver tising business, who are standing choul der to shoulder In an effort to make ad vertising valuable by Insisting that It shall be truthful, are ngmbered by the thousands. And the publishers who are exacting l.ieh standards In their advertising col umns are numbered by the hundreds. Mr. Krrnan J. Ridgway, who recently' analyzed the advertisenu nts printed by all of the newspaper. in a bl city, found one newspaper that did no. print any objection;! ble ad vt rt isciuen ta and three others that printed only be tween 2 per cent and 3 per cent of their total volume. A few years aro such a condition did not exist anywhere. In every city now there is one or more newspapers that try hard to eliniina.n ilrom thMr rolumns both objectionable and untrustworthy advertisements. A marvelous change has been wrought, but the volume of advertising baa In creased In spile of the elimination and d'-alh of great quantities of deceptive, (iisnonest advertisement that used to fid the columns of the various publications of the country. Some of tiie advertising printed today, which is accepted because it cannot bti defined as actually dishonest, will be im proved aa the years roll by because It will be found by tise who employ thu present form that it does not pay. A business becomes good in plte of Pself when it cannot succeed by being bad. The moral effect of honesty, I am sorry to say, is not half so potent as the cann in tiie till that results from the practice of honesty. But why quarrel with the method so long as tiie result so much to be desired is obtained? (To be continued.) QUAKER MF.niTATIO.XS. From the Philadelphia Record. Dame Rumor always talks In Mage whispers. A little push Is sometimes better than a big pull. It would take an autopsy to locats the brains of some people. When a girl's face Is her fortune, she isn't so apt to need a chaperon. The fellow who is looking for a Jot Is generally an adept at finding fault. Hoax "A cold in the head must run Its course." Joax "Yes, but not till you catch it." 1312 should fee n Improvement In the quality of beer. There should be more hops In leap year. Many a man doesn't realize he has as Impediment In his speech until he Ik tempted to praise ohers. Nature has endowed many a fellow with the ability to make a fool of himself without exciting any comment. Siilieiis "What do you consider the most dfclicate form of flattery?" Cynicus "Telling a married man he doesn't look It." Don't despise the little things, but .it the same trtne the bigger the fish, tho less necessity there Is for lying about It. "Things are not always what they seem." quoted the Wise Guy. "That'H r ght," "assented the Simple Mug. "You can't tell how big a girl's foot la from the size of her shoe."

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 9, 1912 Aetna Building and Loan Offi cers Enjoined. "Out" Faction Asks That blaster Be Named. POLLEY IS INVOLVED. Bank Commissioner Is Charged With High Handed Methods. Want Officer of Federal Court to Conduct Election. Tglv charge.- to the effect that J. Dollev. state bank commissioner arm other's have illegally spent hundreds of dolU.rs of the funds of ths Aetna Building I-oan association m an effort to secure proxies and perpetuate themselves and their friends in office nnrl dictate and control the policies of the organization, are made today in an application fll-d before Jndee Pollock a'kinw the appointment of a blaster to take charse of the affairs of the asso ciation and preside at the election of the directors, to be held January o, in Topeka. xl Following the tilinsr or ine .t-L.n--... .Tiide Pollock grunted a temporary in junction against the officers of the Aetna, enjoinins? them from spending the money of tiie association in collect ing proxies. Pate for the final hearins on an application for a master to pre side at the election and take char.ee of the hooks, hn.o not been set. hut the case will probably be heard in a few days. Policy himself, it appears, does not own stock in the association. It is claimed that he has no interest in th? affairs of the corporation other than that of hank commissioner. Yet it is charged that he practically absorbed the affairs of the association by dictat ing a directorate and collecting from the Ifi.'ieO stockholders enough proxies to usurp th? affairs of the company and name from anion? his friends the men to head the $3.r.ij'l,(iOO corporation. Puts Friends in Office. That is not al!. Policy and his friends are charged with having zealously puarded the records of the association, refused to give to opposition candidates and their fri nds lists of the stockhold ers and other records. Tt is claimed that Polley named W. T. Watson, a deputy in the bank commissioner's of fice, as a member of the board of di rectors and that Watson not only draws his salary from the state, but that of a member of the board. Fur ther than this, Watson's peculiar con nection with the bank commissioner's office is that of examining the affairs of the several building and loan asso ciations of the state. For a year Dolley's handiwork in the affairs of the bip corporation it is charged has become more and more apparent. It was Dolley who caused the investigation of a year ago. It was Dolley and his friends, it is recited, who superintended the renovation of th? old board. In this act they secured thousands of proxies from stockholders and in the proxies, the new stockhold ers are said to have coyly written a joker. Not only did they make the proxies good for the special election held last October, but they provided that the papers would be good for the regular annual meeting of the stock-1 holders to be held in January this year. This method not only save the bank examiner and his friends the exclusive power to select a new board at the Oc tober rretins. but permitted them to continue .heir friends in office and hold undisputed control of ths business management of the association, so it is alleged. TCven Cliaiis-cd the Bylaws. According to the attorneys who hroupht the suit, the Dolley crowd went even further. When a new plan to con trol the directorate was discovered, manv stockholders cancelled their for mer proxies and sent voting powers to the anti-Dolley faction. But Dolley and his friends were not dismayed, it is said. Thev promptly changed ths by- I laws. A new bylaw said that all persons who came to the meeting, must bring their certificates of stock with them, that these certifier tes would be passed on and if satisfactory, credentials would b? issued to the disgruntled share owner. In the petition Dolley himself is not named as a partv to the suit, in which certain stockholders seek to enjoin the action of the board and demand th-3 appointment of a Master to take charge of the records of the association and preside at the election. The defendants named in the petition are T. D. Fitz patrick. John Q. Royce, W. T. Watson, J. L. Raines and William Macferren. It was in January, last year, when P.ank Commissioner Dolley began an investigation of the affairs of the Aetna. Charges were made against certain directors and in his investiga tion of the association. Dolley's report went into the final affairs of the in stitution and its business management. This report or at least a small part of it was made public in July and Au gust. Then came a change of faces in the association's directorate. Dolley's re port recommended the resignation of two of the five members of the offi clal board and this suggestion was adopted by the stockholders who were anxious to put their institution in good standing with the bank commission er's office. Watson Placet! on Job. Not satisfied with the removal of two members of the board, it is charged that Dolley then intervened and became dictator and czar of the affairs of the three and a half mil lion dollar concern. His assistant, W. T. Watson, was placed on the board. Still there were few share owners who saw a joker in the cards and the few who smelled smoke had become pover ies. Watson, by virtue of his position under Dolley, examined and passed on the affairs of competitive building and loan associations and his intimacy with the Aetna soon aroused trouble among opposition institutions. Tet Dolley did not interfere. He smiled and iss-ued statements to the effect that everything was running smoothly and permitted Watson to draw $2,000 a year from the state for examining building and loan asociations, while the records show that he drew $100 a month as a director of the Aetna, until November last year, when his check dropped to $50 a month. StockholtlCTS Are Interested. A storm began to appear on the horizon and a call was issued for a special meeting of the stockholders to be held in Topeka, October 2 5. The motive behind the move was to weed out certain members of the board and to determine who really dictated the policies of the Aetna. When the call was issued. Dolley and his crowd are said to have made a wild scramble for proxies. Their efforts were by no means fruitless. The Dolley faction collected the bulk of the proxies and when the met was held, something happened that was not on the regular program. Before the date of the meeting hun dreds of dollars of the association's money, it is charged, were spent in postage and literature by the men to be deposed. These circulars were laudatory of the officials in the dis charge of their duties and condemna tory of the members who attempted to reorganize the board. The letters went to practically all of the 16,000 shareholders and in each letter was a proxy permitting the men in power to vote the absent stock. Records Are Guarded. The insurgents found themselves at a decided disadvantage. The officials had charge of the books and records and guarded them with a watchful eye. The working force of the office is said to have been kept busy mailing this literature. When the bills were presented, they were paid and prompt ly charged to the account of the asso ciation and the men who merely own ed a few thousand dollars' worth of I stock were left to salve their wounded feelings as best they might. Letter heads and stationery of the corpora tion were used by the men in power without regard to expense. Men were sent to remote localities to secure proxies, it is charged, and the bills were paid by the treasurer of the as sociation. It is claimed by the plaintiffs that this action was vicious and unlawful and was devised and executed for the purpose of perpetuating the present incumbents in office. It is charged that W. T. Watson, director, assistant bank commissioner, not only consent ed to the riotous expenditure of the association's funds, but voted for the plan; while under his binding obliga tion to the state, he was duty bound to denounce and prevent such an act. Following this wholesale campaign for proxies, came a new and fresh sur prise for the mere stock owners. They found a new joker in the proxies. When they complained they were re minded that they might climb a tree for their relief. The proxies had been so worded that when made to the board of directors, it was authorized to vote the stock at the special meet ing and also at the regular annual election to be held this month. Dolley Fights Accountant's Report. This alleged deceit was explained to such stockholders as the insurgents were able to reach and many of these people issued subsequent proxies. At the October meeting a request was made that the special accountant should read his entire report. Dolley was present at the meeting. At first he refused to permit its reading, but under a vehement protest allowed the report to be made public. From this report, it appeared that Fitzpatrick, Royce and Clark, as well as tne former deposed directors, were guilty of unfaithfulness, the petition charges, and had made illegal outlays of funds and been guilty of misman agement of affairs. The accountant HAS OHIO BEATEN I Garden City Real Home of the Presidents. 5 i r t t i r I Is Presidency Personified. Ralph Faxon of Garden City, editor and good roads booster, cam? to To peka today to attend some of the Board of Agriculture conventions. Charles I. Zirkle, president of the Kan sas Association of Real Estate Agents, and I. L. Diesem, president of the Stat3 Board of Agriculture, accom panied him. All three are from Garden City. The three Seventh district vis itors predicted the election of Judge Martin to congress by a good majority in spite of the bad weather or light vote. Speaking of presidents. Garden City can enter competition with the world as the home of the presidents of more associations and organizations than any other town or city. Ralph Faxon, as is well known, is this president of 27 different organizations covering every phase of human endeavor. Then there are President Zierkle and Presi dent DiesEm noted above. In addition are Richard J. Hopkins, president of the state senate; W. K. Hutchinson, president of the State Bar association; A. C. Wheeler, president of the Asso ciation of County Treasurers. Mr. Faxon is president of the Kansas Day club and he is looking for a cork- j ing good meeting January 29. That will was asked why resignations from these i; ,,9 7"i J iT" iTi." lar will sit down together and their Our January Clearance sale initiates you into the circle of Hart Schaffner Marx clothes wearers. We are selling $25 Hart Schaffner &Marx suits and overcoats now for $17, $30 ones at $21.75 and the $35 ones at $25. There is no profit for us in this, of course, except the future profit that comes from converting you into a Hart Schatfner Marx clothes Customer. At these prices any man or young man can secure a suit or overcoat that will pass muster in the swellest of so ciety. It will hold its shape. It will last Ion? after the price is forgot ten. Buy yourself a handsome $25 suit ana over coat each for i am 1 Hat 1 i i Mm. t blliiin r ma lie 7! JswL iliiftst I am the joy of journeying, the lure of new lands, the day rush, the night hush. I am spring sunshine not bottled up, but on tap all the year. I am hedges of roses, abloom in January. I am the gold of oranges and poppies, the yel low of lemons and limes. I am the the romance of old Spanish days the tinkle of guitars when Juan sang to Juanita under the palm trees. am the summer sea, where ships sail, children frolic and sunsets have their home. am the high Sierras, a place of clear streams and whispering pines. am in more modern phrase golf under June skies, autoing along royal highways and evenings in great resort hotels. You have read about me for many seasons. Why not come out and get batter acquainted? I am the best of cures for shut-in lives. I start with you on the Santa Fe de Luxe, the only extra-fare train, via any line, between Chicago and California. Or take the California Limited, the king of limiteds. Or the California Fast Mail. Two other California trains five in all. gay which train you prefer. Will mail booklets. T. L. KING, City Passenger Agent, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail way. Telephone 682. I I I AH the Way three men '.vere not demanded and he replied that it would have been done, except that three members were neces sary to run the association. So Fitz patrick, Royce and Clark held on with the consent and approval, it is claimed, of Dolley. Then came a confidential report, not made public, which set out in detail the misconduct of the officials three of whom were retained by Dol ley. They Refuse to Quit. At a subsequent meeting to vacate the entire membership of the board, Fitzpatrick and his following' stood pat and refused to be deposed. With 5,500 shares of stock, for which the Fitzpat rick crowd held the voting power, they declined to accede to the de mand to vacate and Mr. Dolley is said to have approved their actions. There after, S. E. Cobb, H. S. Emmerson, W. H. Eastman, K. T. Baltey and J. W. Berryraan were elected to the director ate. With the same polite smile, Dol ley openly endorsed this board. With the exception of Cobb, the men quali fied for office. Demand was made on the deposed directors to vacate and agra;n Dolley is said to have switched. Fitzpatrick, president, Royce. secretary, acting- for themselves and the ousted directors, refused to vacate, turn over the books of the association or sur render their salaries. Shortly after this action, Clark re signed, was given a position by Dol ley and at the bank commissioner's suggestion, William Macferran and J. E. Raines were elected to fill vacan cies. They with Fitzpatrick. Royce and Watson then constituted the board, I drew the salaries and managed the Aetna's affairs. Xow Comes the Battle. A little later there was an uprising. I C. F. Bolton, of Scranton, demanded i the right to inspect and make copies t oc, ra, 11 entitled political ambitions shall lead them. THE MIDWINTER SOON Program fop Topeka's Winter Time IVolie Is Printed. of the lists of stockholders, as well as a right to inspect proxies held by the men in power. His demand was de nied and the officers refused to surren der the books. This action, it was claimed, was for the purpose of per petuating the present officers in con trol, as the anti-Dolley faction could not reach the 16,000 share holders with out access to the records. Now the insurgent stockholders de mand the appointment of a master. They want the troubles in the Aetna camp thoroughly investigated and made public. It is demanded that the money alleged to have been "illegally" spent in collecting votes shall be re turned to the treasury and that both factions be given an opportunity to reach share holders and secure patron age. Stockholders Intimidated. It is claimed that recently Dolley and his friends have written into the by-laws a new paragraph which com pels visiting share owners to bring their stock certificates to Topeka with them, that these shares shall be passed on by their own appointed committee on credentials. This action, it is charged, is for the purpose of intimi dating non-resident stockholders and to preserve in the power of the men in charge sufficient votes to insure the control of the election. These are all matters which the plaintiffs in the present case desire in vestigated. They want a competent master appointed by the court, to have charge of the credentials and to see that the election is open and above board. Then, when this little row is settled, they want the several offices investigated and the alleged misappro priated funds returned to the treasury. GIVES UP THEEARCH Keakirt Satisfied That His Son Is Xot in Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 9. Confident that his son, Robert Hastings Reakirt, is not in the hands of the "Sun worshipers" cult, Llewellyn Reakirt, a wealthy Cin cinnati business man today abandoned search for him. It is said the boy is with his moth er at the residence in Homedell, N. J. The Reakirts are divorced and Mrs. Reakirt has the custody of the child. He attends Trinity school in New York city. The sudden disappearance of "Billy" Lindsay, a cousin of the Rea kirt boy, when Judge Pinckney, of the Chicago juvenile court started an in vestigation of the faith caused Reakirt to institute a search for his son. Mem bers of the cult deny that Mrs. Rea kirt ever joined them. Announcement is made of the en tertainment for the first week at the j Kansas Midwinter exposition, January I 22, February 3. This is what the man- agement has to say about the show: "The management has spared no ex pense or effort in securing an array of attractions for the delight of the crowds that will visit Topeka, as well as for the delectation of the city folks. "There are headline features such as the famous Luigl Picaro troupe of Europe's greatest whirlwind acrobats, a quartette of artists direct from the Theater Comique, Milan, Italy. This wonderful acrobatic novelty is not only characterized by remarkable feats of strength and agility, but by the breezy style, crispness and ease in perform ing their amazing feats. "The Kroneman Brothers is an at traction without a parallel Amer ica's greatest head and hand bal ancers and comedians, performing hazardous tricks never seen before, introducing their world famed acro batic specialty, The Tall Dancing Lady.' "Then there are Bartelli and Mur phy, comedians, in their sidesplitting specialty entitled "Bumps and Falls." This attraction is a treat for the tired and a laugh for the lonely. "Casey and Mulligan will be here in entitled 'Play Ball. The amusing Play Ball. The amusing antics and mimicry they display in this clever burlesque practically makes this sketch a continuous roar of laughter from start to finish "The Ernest Alvo trio, Europe's comedy aerial bar experts. They per form difficult and sensational feats of aerial bar, acrobatics on apparatus towering high in the air, which are simply amazing. "It will be readily seen that this Is a distinctive, genuine gala performance of all star attractions throughout and combined with the many industrial exhibits and other sights of interest will make a visit to the Kansas Mid winter exposition this year worth your -while." NO VMl JOY RIDES. $7 to $8.50 Finest Hart Schaffner f Marx trousers, putUU $5 and $6 Hart Schaffner Marx trous- J o f ers, NOW tpO.OU Clearance Young Men's Suits and Overcoats Young men! Right now during the cold weather we offer you good, warm, serviceable Winter Suits and Overcoats at a avln& of fully a third. Snappiest Suit and Overcoats styles produced this ea son: made of splendid all wool fabrics in every new color; not a Suit or Overcoat in the entire lot but what is the equal of the best $15 garment you ever saw. To make quick clearance we give you your choice for only Manhattan and Earl Wilson Shirt Sale $1.50 Shirts, now $1.15 $2.00 Shirts, now $1.3R $2.50, $3.00 Shirts, now $1.88 $3.50 Shirts, now $2.45 $10 Auerbach' Guettcl They Are Forbidden by Superintend ent of Los Angeles Schools. Ask Your Doctor Talk with your doctor about Ayer's non-alcoholic Sarsapa rilla. Ask him if he prescribes it for pale, delicate children. Ask him if he recommends it when the blood is thin and im pure, and when the nerves are weak and unsteady. Ask him if it aids nature in building up the general health. -T n A rr Co. Los Angeles, Jan. 9. High school boys are forbidden to take high school girls automobile riding, and all high school fraternities and sorority mem bers are ordered expelled in edicts is sued today by J. H. Francis, superin tendent of schools here. Beginning with the innocuous habit of "picking up" girls on the way to school, Superintendent Francis asserts that a practice of pleasure riding has developed which is bad for the stu dents. Fraternities and sororities, he says, are being organized, despite an "honor system" under which pupils bar themselves from membership in such organizations. Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co. The guaranty Trust company of New York, and Kidder, Peabody Co. of Boston, offer stockholders in Inspira tion to January 29th ten dollars per share cash, or exchange for stock in New Inspiration Consolidated com pany, basis one share new, for two of oid. Also forty dollars per share cash for Live Oak Stock or exchange two new for one old, six million ten years 6 Bonds convertible at $25 issued at par, offered stockholders of record February first. They are pay.hi twenty-five per cent March first ,and twenty-five per cent cash six months there after. Basis of Consolidated fixed by en gineers who give total forty-five million three hundred thousand tons two per cent ore to form- new company will provide bond conversion and build seventy-five hundred ton Concentrator not over one million shares will be out standing. Estimated production sixey five or seventy million pounds at cost of not over eight and one-half cents indicate earnings for four dollars per share on present price of Copper. Price of stock today is $10.37 per share. W. A. N BIS WANG ER. Uanirs Himself in Railroad Station. Chaffee. Mo., Jan. 9. An unknown man's dead body suspended from the ceiling of the depot waiting room here was the gruesome sight that greeted the station agent when he reported for work. The depot door had bsen left unlocked and the stranger went there to commit suicide, using a rawhide cord to hang himself. TaTts Attend Charity Ball. Washington, Jan. 9. President Taft was among the patrons last night at the annual charity ball given by the Washington society. The president was accompanied by Mrs. Taft and Mis3 Helen Taft. with whom he had pre viously attended a charity benefit per formance at a local theater. A feeling: of companionship and security surrounds every elepfiioinie There is popularity and efficiency in every instrument because Bell Service is universal, fit is not only best for local service, but also for long distance. By the way, have you a Bell Telephone? REMEMBER-- One in Your Home Is Worth Two at Your Neighbor's si The Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company ri ii i! nn i 3l )ilr mint n r t th body. Tin- ly i pllstnrr knw. Wottl 91.001 uaavle 10c md for booklet free. Josephine Le Fevre Company. Philadelphia, Pa, Bold by Arnold Drug Co. Brunt Drug Co. Grecian Cross Brand, Pure Olive Oil Clergyman's Son Cured of Tuberculosis Consumption is a flattering disease and the sufferer is filled with bright hopes of Improvement. Call it bv its own dread name and then tak Eckman's Altera. tive, because it is effective in Tubercu- losis. No one need doubt about it thero j is plenty of evidence from llva witnesses. Investigate the following: A men i a. N. T. I "Gentlemen: Prior to Feb., 1j8. I was; located in Rochester. X. Y-. suffering with j LaCJriDDe. which develooed into Tubpr- i culosis. My physiciun gave me one month to live. 1 was having terrible nipht sweats and mid-day chills and loslns flesh rap idly, having gone from 165 to 135 lbs. I cougrhed and raiBed continually and be came so weak that walking a few feet ex hausted me. On my return home, my regular physician pave me little encour asement. My father, who is a clergy man, heard of Eckman's Alterative and induced me to take it. The hisrht sweats and chills disappeared, my cough became easier and gradually diminished and in a few days I developed an appetite, the first in months. I am now in perfect health, back to 156 lbs. I feel certain that I owo my life to Eckman's Alternative." (Siimed E. H. COWLES, "Gentlemen: I cannot find words to ex press my appreciation of what your rem edy has done for my son. It changed de spair into hope within two weeks after he began taking it, and without any doubt In my mind. It saved his life. "I wish to add my endorsement to every word of his testimonial." (Signed) REV. J. J. COWt.ES. Pastor Presbyterian Church. Eckman's Alterative is effective In Bronj ehltis. Asthma, Hay Fever; throat and Lung Troubles, and in upbuilding the sya tern. Does not contain poisons, opiates ft-habit-forming drugs. For sale by Geo. W. Stansfield and other leading druggist. Ask for booklet of cured cases and write to Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pa., for additional evidence. A pure, refined grade of French olive oil, far better than the average. It is eafc-e-cialiy adapted for internal use as a laxative and bowel lubri cant. Only the Best Is Fit for Internal Use Don't trifle with cheap In ferior grades got the best. '.i-plnt bottles... 30o 'i-pint bottles... 50c? Pint bottles Sr,c Quart bottles. .$1.25 .At. STANSFIELD'S DRUG STORE 632 Kansas Annua psai AMU CLEANS SCOURS POLISHES Solid Cake WORKS WITHOUT WASTE I j I I i M P

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 1912 f n mo a n Tn rnniiT iyiiidMd su riiuiii Jlr. Coburn Tells Real Estate Men of State's Prosperity. Slanderers Have Attempted to Destroy Her Good Name. POINTS TO THE FACTS. In It) 10 Value of Farm Prod ucts H as 320 Per Capita. Lven Last Year More Wheat Eaised Than in Any Other State The feature of the real estate dealers state meeting this afternoon, aside fiom an address by Governor Stubbs, vvari a paper by F. D. Coburn, secretary of the state board of agriculture. He called attention to the wonderful production of Kansas in the products of agricul ture. Mr. Coburn did not neglect to take a rap at James Wilson, United States secretary of agriculture for a statement about last year s drouth. Mr. Coburn said in "his address: Kansas I Misunderstood. "No other state has been more mis understood, more misrepresented and more aspersed, with less justification, than the one we love to call ours, to ewear by and work for. In spite of the inviting conditions which obtain here, there are doubtless millions of people who are so ignorant as to sup pose the most of Kansas a blizzard swept wilderness in winter and a sun baked plain in summer, where cy clones and grasshoppers devour the substance, and where the inhabitants, subsisting on sorghum and buffalo chips, are arrayed in cast-off raiment collected and sent them by the Salva tion Army, or relatives in Indiana, Pennsylvania and -New England. This is a view we need not hope to change in the older generation, but those who t ome after them may be enlightened "with the truth, if judiciously and per sistently administered. "In this benevolent undertaking no force can be more potent than the real estate men working individually and as an organization, basing their state ments on facts and leaving the fiction al and fanciful to those who, elsewhere, find them a necessity. The facts ap propriately garbed and rightly pre sented ere sufficient, unless for those who would be 'sooners' at the opening to homesteaders of a new paradise, where land and liuuor are to be had without expense for tiling. In One Year IToUuees $320 Per Capita "According to the United States cen sus Kansas two years ago was already the fourth state in farm values of field crops, and yet not a tithe of her rjossibilities are developed. In 1S10 the value of what came from the farms was $540.000, 000, which apportioned equally would have given $:i-0 to each inhabitant whether adult or infant. An uninformed world is doubtless sorry or sarcastic for Kansas because it imagines the year 1911 was one of fail ure, yet our agrieultral productions were surpassed in value only in two other years, namely. 190!" and 1910: this too of a year which Secretary Wilson in his report just issued, says: 'Climatic conditions in the early part of the growing season were ad verse to agriculture throughout the country east of the Rocky Mountains in a degree that exceeds all records: the severest test to which the crops of the immense area cover ed have ever been subjected.' Kansas raised in this year of general short age, and in many states almost failure, more winter wheat than any other 1. I). Coburn, Who Told of Kansas' Achievements in Agriculture. VICTIMS EVERYWHERE The Constant Hustle and Rush Shortens Life. Unnatural Methods Produce Ar tificial Atmosphere. A NEW ERADICATOR On the Market But Short Time, Yet It Is Proved Article. Misery Is Caused That Can Be Easily Avoided. TCvery large city in the United States contains countless numbers of worn out. half sick, men and women with poor appetites, and had digestions. They have no energy, little vitality and are despondent ami nervous. They have cold feet, sallow complex ions, headaches ami constipation and they say they are all "run-down." The light name for th trouble is "nervous debility." and is produced by the strain und worry and hustle of modern life. Manv think indigestion causes the Jialf-bad feeling which affects them pnd they take "something to help di gest their food." This is all wrong. It may afford temporary relief but the cause of their stomach trouble is the jtervous, debilitated condition of the en tire system and this mutt be overcome before the stomach will perform its proper functions. Nervous debility is a modern ailment caused by city life. There is a mod ern tonic that overcomes this trouble 1'ke magic. It is called "Tona Vita." If you are afflicted with nervous de bility, don't wait another day feeling miserable. Stop dosing your stomach, gr-?t this great tonic and you will be as tonished how quickly your strength and ambition will return and how your stomach trouble will disappear "Tona Vita" is sold on trial and must tring back your health or the price is refunded. Lee's Rhenbarb Laxative is the as sistant remedy and is used in cases of chronic constipation. Ther? is nothing equal to rheubnrb as a natural, harm less laxative. Harsher drugs strain the intestines and leave them weak. Rheu barb acts as a tonic and gives them strength. "Tona Vita" and Lee's Rheuharb Laxative are sold by "The Arnold Drug Company. ".23 Kansas avenue. The specialists will be at this store daily between the hours of 9 a. m. and 8 p. m. and explain the nature of their new tonic to all callers. These are splendid modern medicines. A free trial will be given to the first rive hundred callers, provided their symptoms show them to be sufferers from nervous debility. state, and according to Uncle Sam's figures no other, whatever her size, pretensions or location had so much by about 35 per cent. "The significance of the showing for Kansas agriculture in 1911 is all the more apparent when taken in connec tion with the United States census re port and comparisons with the figures of ten and twenty years ago. The cen sus credits Kansas with an increase of two per cent in the number of her farmers in the decade and four per cent increase in total acreage in farms, but the increase in the value of last year's farm products over those of ten years airo amounts to 44 per cent. In other words, two per cent more far mers, on four per cent greater acre age, raised crops and marketed pro ducts worth 4 4 per cent more. The gross returns from the farm in 1911 were 70 per cent more than twenty years before. Varnis Are Too l-arae. "One of Kansas' needs, which will be supplied, however, is more men to de velop her resources. Our farms in the main are too large to permit of such cultivation as the land should receive. We need more fanners who will farm better, on smaller farms, with bettej- and more live stock and a judicious alterna t.vin of crops. With a well arranged cropping system and improved live stock, a reasonable success may be confidently expected every year, regardless of the season. Oftentimes, a man with a mini mum crop, through higher prices, realizes in an unfavorable season more profit than in years of heavy yields. Every por tion of Kansas presents excellent oper ings. and new opportunities are constant ly being revealed. Developments in irri gation through utilizing the immeasurable underground waters of western Kansas by pumping are among these. Wherever the waters are made available for irri gating there will be intensive farming and a larger prosperity, for the soil's fer tility is unquestioned. Spend Money at Home. '.'We are in urgent need of studying the benefits that come from building up home enterprises and spending our money ac home. An important point upon whicti we are weak is our failure to produce and manufacture more of the articles we use, and we go on in this way until it amounts to business suicide. We buy too many supplies in fancy paper packages, tin cans and glass ootttes tnat nave no lur- ther value, but for which we pay more than the worth of what they contain. We export money and import clothing when home-grown wool should be made to pay the bills: export money and im port fruit, vegetables and canned goods when intelligent attention to orcharding, vegetable farming and gardening would enable us to produce these articles in ample quantities, and we taboo tr.e Idea of home manufactures, while the people in other states who produce so large a part of tlie commodities we consume grow wealthy as the result of their thrift and our thxiftlessness." -Mr. Coburn then outlined the work ot the state board of agriculture. He said the board had pursued a policy of con servation rather than immigration. Con tinuing he said: "The board of agriculture, however, has not for a moment been unmindful of our needs as to immigration and has always been doing incidentally, by letters, leaf lets, booklets, pamphlets, pictures, sta tistics and newspaper articles not re quired by the law. a tremendous amount of work" in presenting to the world tne advantages of Kansas. Make Immigration Bureau Separate. "Should the slate as such take up the work of directly and actively seeking set tlers and capital it should be as a dis tinct and separate undertaking, apart from, independent or and outside the de partment of agriculture. There is not of necessity any connection between two such different institutions, and a man who who would be an ideal chief for one misrht he nlterlv unsuited for and a mts- 1 fit in the other. Kach should be para mount in its sphere, and not be handi capped by another so diverse in its pur poses. No set of men ever in the same lino of business were able to present better posi tions than those the Kansas real estate man has on his books in all seasons, whether tive seasons are of procrastinat ing precipitation or relentless rain Tall, ot boreal bitterness or singing sunshine. To the extent that he is instrumental In as sisting his fellow men to bettered condi tions he is a benefactor and a mission ary for good." Gov. Stubbs Speaks. "I regard the men who buy and sell real estate in Kansas as being in a business that brings a great deal of har.oiness and comfort." said Gov. W. I R. Stubbs in welcoming the delegates tn the third annual convention of the Kansas Association of Real Estate Agents at the Commercial club. "I be lieve Kansas farms are a better in vestment than government bonds. I have put my own money in farms in Kansas. A few years ago I bought a 3 2 0-acre farm at $22 an acre when I had but little money. I refused an offer for the property of $32,000. Last year I invested $40,000 or $50,000 in land. "I believe as the population increases the fertile lands in Kansas will in crease materially in value. Farm lands in the state are capable of producing diversified crops. '"This association should encourage more intense farming, so that more dollars may be produced every year. "A good deal of the farming in Kan sas makes land poorer every year. Other progressive farmers by scientific methods increase the fertility of the soil. "There is now more per capita in the banks in Kansas than in any other state, but I believe the great induce ment to settlers to come here should be the fact that we have no saloons and that the very atmosphere of the state is wholesome." Bolmar Also Speaks. "We are engaged now in Kansas in developing our resources," said C. P. Bolmar in behalf of the local realty men. "We should be able in our as sociation to promulgate information that is absolutely reliable to induce settlers to come to Kansas. "Topeka today, in my opinion, is a city of which you all should be proud. We have adopted a new form of gov ernment. I believe the consecration of responsibility is something we as an organization should favor. There is nothing like unity of purpose to as sure success." "Governor Stubbs and Mr. Bolmar, on behalf of the Kansas Association of Real Estate agents. I want to thank you for your addresses and we extend to you a cordial invitation to attend our meeting tonight where some of the advertising which we have been publishing will be demonstrated," said President Charles I. Zirkle.- "Now when we recall that our or ganization was born in Topeka. in this very room, it is a great pleasure to lo cate many good people who stood up here on the night of March 10, 1910, and assisted in creating what we be lieve will be the best organization in our state." TO GIVE MORE WORK County Commissioners Will Reduce Grade on IVanamaker Hill. Work for a score of unemployed Topeka men will be provided by the county commissioners this week, when they will start work on Wanamaker hill, on the West Tenth avenue road. In addition to this work, the county is using a big gang of men on the South Topeka avenue road. The commissioners plan to lower the grade on the big hill and will use as manv men as possible on the job. Men without employment and in need of assistance are given employment by the county as rapidly as possible at the rate of $1.50 a day. When the board met Monday there was a line of men at the court house awaiting em ployment. There was not enough work on the Topeka avenue road to accommodate all of the applicants and a second gang of laborers will be used on the West Tenth avenue road. THEY DEMAND FUEL PHONE PEN MEET State Officers Explain Workings of Utilities Law. Opinion of Board on Measure Discussed by Owners. it The telephone men of the Btate are meeting in Topeka to form an organi zation and to meet with the public utilities commission, in complying with the requirements of the public utilities law. Without an organization the telephone men believe they are practically helpless. None have a thorough understanding of the public utilities law. and having a aesire iu conform with its reauirements, th mdr met here to nrzanize. The meeting began Monday and will be concluded this afternoon. Among those present are representatives of nracticallv all the independent, teie phine companies of the state and a number of men wno represent iu Tiell Kvstem in different localities. ia lartrelv an indeDendent men's meet ing and the organization will be known as the Independent Telephone association. Tn addition tn the desire to com ply with the requirements of this act of the legislature, tne teiepnone men realize that it will be necessary to ap nrar before the public utilities board with business which concerns the operations of telephone lines and by forming an organization they expect to be more successtui in meeting wuu the board and in securing concessions or- ludements which will be more iai to them than would result if there was no organization. Discuss Bill Thorouahly. During the meeting every section of ttiB nublic. utilities bill has been thoroughly discovered but with that there is a divided opinion on several matters and there seemed to be no chance to settle the argument, as result. Governor Stubbs, the members of the board of oublic utilities ana their attorneys, were called to meet with the telephone men and en lighten them on all phases of the new law. Each of the state omcers men tioned addressed the telephone men last night and attempted to make everv noint of the law clear, both as to its requirements and the effects of its operation. All features or tne bin which atroeared to be confusing or which was not thoroughly understood by the telephone men were discussed In detail. Practically all of the morning ses slon todav was spent in araiiing o laws and constitution of the new or ganization. Owing to the necessity of completing this work at tnis meeting that another meeting in tne near iu ture be prevented, it was necessary to spend considerable time on tnis worn. TROOPS FOR CHINA live he will lose both feet and the fingers of both hands. Minnick was overcome by the in tense cold of the last few days be cause he would not desert the flock of sheep that had been placed In his care. He kept the animals together as long as he could stand, and finally numbness overcame him, and he lay down in the snow where he was found later. TODAY IN CONGRESS Places of Striking Committee Stenog raphers Are Filed. Russell Springs People" Shiver Go Hungry. -May The people of Russell Springs. Logan county, have appealed to the governor for aid in the matter of compelling the Scott City Northern railway to get a trainload of coal and provisions to that town. The people of that county are actually suffering from cold and their food supply is about exhausted. The railroad officials claim that the line is open, but the last telegram from Russell Springs to the governor stated that they had not yet had a train over the line. Russell Springs had the last train on December 19. The railroad officials promise a train today sure. Women's Federation Board Meets. St. Louis, Jan. 9. The board of di rectors of the General Federation of Women's clubs began a three days' ses sion here today during which the pro gram for the biennial June meeting was drafted. The Fulled States Will Send a talion of Infantry. Bat Wa-shineton. Jan. 9. A battalion of m fantrv consisting of 500 men will be sent bv the United States to China to help keen onen railwav communication be tween Pekin and the sea. This force is all that is reauired. in the opinion of Min ister Calhoun after consultation with the other diplomatic officers In Pekin. The American troops will guard a portion of the railway between Tan chow and Tangshan. At noon it had not been determined just what battalion would be sent, but it probably will b-e part of the loth in fantry now at Manila and Recently re cruited up to war strength for this pur pose. Minister Calhoun's dispatch notes an improvement in the situation along the railway line and says that train service has been resumed. The outbreak at Lanchow, the western terminus of the American zone which caused anxiety appears to have been exaggerated. THAW MAY GET OUT His Friends Predict He Will Be Free in Thirty Days. Constipation, if Neglected, Causes Serious Illness Constipation, if neglected, leads to almost innumerable complica tions affecting the general health. Many cases of typhoid fever, appendicitis and other severe dis eases are trace able to prolonged clogging of the bowels. Regard t h e effects o f constipation, C E. Ayers, 6 Sabin St., Montpelier, Vt., says "I was afflicted with constipation and biliousness for years, and at times became so bad I would become unconscious. I have been found in that condition man times. Physicians did not seem to be able to do me any ood. I would beoome weak and for days at a time could do no work. Not Ions ao I got a box of Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets, and after using them found I had never tried anything that acted in such a mild and effective manner. I believe I have at last found the remedy that suits my case." Thousands of people are sufferers from habitual constipation and while possibly realizing something of the danger of this condition, yet neglect too long to employ proper curative measures until serious ill ness often results. The advice of all physicians is, "keep your bowels clean," and it's good advice. Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets are sold by all druggists, at 2$ cents a box containing 25 doses. If not found satisfactory, your money is returned. a MILES MEDICAL. CO, Elkhart, lad. Xew York, Jan. 9. According to a special dispatch from Matteawan to the Herald, friends in the close con fidence of Harry K. Thaw declared that habeas corpus proceedings will be begun with the next few days to ob tain the release of the man who killed Stanford White. These friends are quoted as almost positively confident of success and declare that Thaw's re lease will be obtained within thirty- days. Mrs. Thaw, the mother, has been in consultation with prominent lawyers in New York during the last week and several state officials and others have also been seen. Clarence Sheen, coun sel for Thaw, is said to have been working for several weeks on a plan in the new proceedings. GRAND OPERA PAYS Chicago Company Is $69,000 Ahead of Last. Season. Chicago, Jan. 9. The board of di rectors of the Chicago Grand Opera company has decided that the 1912-13 season of grand opera at the auditor ium again will be one of ten weeks' duration. The season will be between November 1, 1912 and February 1, 1913. Details concerning managers, singers and conductors will not be tak en up until the close of the operatic yeaf. It was unofficially stated that the Chicago Grand Opera company is $69,000 ahead of the financial situa tion existing at this time last year. OREGON TO VOTE FOR T. R. Petition Filed to Put Roosevelt's Xame on Primary Ballot. Salem, Ore., Jan. 9. A petition to place the neme of Theodore Roosevelt on the primary ballot for president ha3 been received by the secretary of state. The petition was filed by Oliver M. Hickey of Portland. He informed the secretary that 1,000 signatures could be secured "at a moment's notice," and that more would be solicited as soon as the form of petition was approved by the secretary. Sheep Herder Faithful to Flock. Boulder. Colo., Jan. 9. C. M. Min nick. a sheep herder, was found un conscious lying in the snow on the blizzard swept prairie east of here to day. He was frozen nearly to death, and it is reported at the hospital where he was taken that recovery is doubtful. It is said that should he Washington, Jan. 9. Senate in ses sion at 2 p. m. Lorimer election committee question ed Edward Hines. Trust hearings were resumed by the interstate commission. Robert Bonynge of Colorado resigned from monetary commission. House met at noon. Interstate commerce commission de cided to hold immediate hearings on Panama canal legislation. Sugar trust investigation committee heard Dr. Wiley on sugar tests. Ways and m-2ans committee was urged to recommend another date than December 31 for reports under corpora tion tax law. Accounts committee filled the place of "extra" stenographers to house committer who struck because of reduced pay. WISH TO MAKETROUBLE l Li..jjai. ti One Topeka Lady bought eleven pairs of Shoes during our $1.00 Shoe Sale and the lady who wants Velvet, Gun Metal, Vici Kid, Button or Blucher Shoes should not miss this sale. $1 $1 $i $1 $i Tomorrow we place on sale men's 560 fur lined Over coats at a special price of 1 S for choice. These being Drummer Samples, we would advise coming early. Is Behind the Roosevelt Talk, Says Secretary Stlmson. New York, Jan. 9. Secretary Stimson has left the city for Washington for a further conference with Col. Roose velt. He refused to discuss further that President Roosevelt would not be a candidate. "I feel that altogether too much has been said already. There is too much talk," he said. "All this fuss is being made by men who desire to make trouble between President Taft and Col. Roosevelt for reasons best known to themselves. That is all there is to it. "I have never believed that Roosevelt would be a candidate against Taft and after talking to Roosevelt I find no rea son to change my mind." THEY WILL GO SOUTH The Doukhubars to locate In South. era California. Los Angeles, Jan. 9. The entire col ony of Doukhobars, consisting of about 12,000 professedly philosophic anarch ists, will be moved to southern Cali fornia from Saskatchewan according to local Russians. Agents of the Doukho bars are expected to arrive here in a few days. The colony has won notoriety in re cent years because of numerous con flicts with the Dominion authorities. A. P. Cherback, editor of a Russian paper, who made a report on the Doukhobars for the late Count Tolstoi who aided them in leaving Russia is the leading spirit of the movement. ELECT BANK OFFICERS Bank of Topeka Directors Ke-electcxl. Are All All of the directors and officers of the Bank of Topeka were re-elected at the annual meeting Monday afternoon. Presi dent Mulvane reported the financial con dition of the institution in excellwit shape. The reports before the meeting ho.wed that in the last year the bank has made $60,000 in net earnings. Of this amount SLD.000 was added to the perma nent surplus. The customary semiannual dividend of 6 per cent was declared. The officers: J. R. Mulvane. president; A. W. Knowles. vice president; J. W. Thurston, cashier: S. F. Hughes, assist ant cashier. Directors: M. A. Low. T. B. Sweet, W. H. Davis, A. D. Kendall, J. P. Griswold, Charles Wolff, Lee Mon roe, Joab Mulvane, J. W. Thurston, A. W. Knowles and John R. Mulvane. CRASH IN A STORM Knickerbocker Special"' on the ltke Shore In Collision. Dunkirk, N. T., Jan. 9. Passengers on the Lake Shore railroad, "Knickerboc ker special," eastbound. received a se vere shaking up, but escaped injury to day when in a blinding snowstorm the express crashed into two freight en gines running light near here. The engines were demolished and three members of their crews were slightly hurt. The passengers included CO Vas- sar college students. To The 'asre Earner: YOU MR. WAGE EARNER are vitally interested in the Commercial Club for its success means a greater Topeka and that means vastly more opportunities for you. As Topeka progresses, so do the interests of your employer and in the same ratio, your own. JOIN WITH US NOW For from the ranks of the wage earners of today will come the captains of the industries of tomorrow. You are ambitious, and not satisfied to trudge through life in your present place. TAKE A STEP UPWARD The small sum of 3 1-3 cents day will place you in an atmosphere where you will meet the successful business men of today; you grasp the situation; you realize that your opportunities will be vastly greater than they are under your present conditions. NOW IS THE TIME to capitalize that New Year's resolve and leave behind the beaten paths of a year ago. Unite your self with the body of men who are devoting their time and energies to make Topeka a better city in which to live. IT WILL PAY YOU WELL to enroll your name with this bunch of live, progressive business men. You need them and their experience ,and they need you with your enrgy, ambi tion and warm young blood. Join The Commercial Club and a year from now your stock certificate will not be on the market at any price. A membership in the Topeka Commercial Club is a valuable asset to anyone and an especially valuable one to you. TRY IT ONCE AND SEE. Topeka Commercial Club J Sent FREE PILE REMEDY to Demonstrate the Merits Pyramid Pile Remedy. of What It Has Done for OUiers, It Can Do for You. AVe have testimonials by the hun dreds showing all stages, kinds and de grees of piles which have been cured by Pyramid Pile Remedy. If you could read these unsolicited etters you would no doubt go to the nearest drug store and buy a box of Pyramid Pile Remedy at once, price fifty cents. We do not ask you to do this. Send us your name and address and we will send you a trial package by mail, free. VV e know what the trial package w ill do. In many cases it has cured piles without further treatment. If it proves its value to you, order more from your druggist, at 50c a box. This is fair, is it not? Simply cut out free coupon below and mail today, with your name and address on a slip of paper, to the Pyramid Drug Co., 425 Pyramid Eldg., Marshall, Mich., and a sample will be sent you FREE. Xew York Stock List. Last Sale. Xew York, Amalgamated Copper American Beet Sugar American Car and Foundry American Cotton Oil American Locomotive American Smelting and Refining. Amer. Smelting and Refining pfd. American Sugar Refining Anaconda Mining Co Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore 'and Ohio Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canadian Pacific 'hesa-peake and Ohio Chicago and Xorthwestern Chicupo, Milwaukee nnii St. Paul. Colorado Fuel and iron Colorado and Southern Delaware and Hudson Ienver am! Rio Grande Denver and Rio (jrande pfd Krie Great Northern pfd ireit Northern Ore Ctfs IHinois Central Jnterborough-Met 1 nlerborough-Met. pfd Ixiuisville and Nashville Missouri Pacific Missouri, Kansas and Texas National Biscuit National Lead New York Central Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific Pacific Mail Pennsylvania People's Oas Pullman Palace Car Rock Island Co Rock Island Co. pfd Reading Jan. D. 6T 65 Mi

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Southern aciflc if-"-4 Southern Railway.... .'A 1'nion Pacific loS'i T'nlted States Steel C6 1'nited States Steel pfd lW'i Wabash Wabash pfd V Western Union fcu Lehigh Valley 1H.' International Harvester. 1' f-U Ueneral Electric 156 'Sew York Coffee Market. New York, Jan. 9. COFFEE Rio No. 7. lic; futures closed steady, March May 12.84. The noon edilioti of the Slate Jour nal is on Kale, each day from 11:30 a. m.. until 4 p. ni t. the following Kan sas avenue news stands: Weightma n s drug store. SP,r Kansas avenue. Koss--r's (Iruy store. M'i3 Kansas ave. National hoti I. Rigby's. tin: Kansas ave. Commercial Club elevator. Brunt's drug ntnre. 4.1.". Kansas ae. News stand, 4D: Kansas ue. Throop hotel. The laft or city currier edition in also on sale at the same stand. and nt the other news stands in the city. The postscript edition issued be tween 5 and o'clock, each evening, is also for sale at all of the above st a ml. ISroke Hi 1'umle. Han Diego, Jan. 9. O. L. Vandoran, arrested here several weeks ago, on a chars? of attempting to pass a forged check was turned over to Officer J. C, Milligan of the Illinois State peniten tiary today and is now on his way to that prison. Van Doran, former! v prosperous contractor of Chicago w;is released on parole from the Illinois penitentiary several years ago and hroki parole by leaving the state. Quickly Removes Hairs Without Slightest Pain Cotton Ginning Report. Washington, Jan. 9. The census bu reau cotton pinning report showing the number of running b;;les of cotton ginned prior to January 1. issued tolay shows: United States 14.."32.7.',6; round bales 86.228; sea islr.nd 106.4S9. Journal Ads Get Results. (From Boudier Secrets.) Persons having unsuccessfully trud to remove downy growths from the skin will be interested in a powder called delatone. Kriough is mixed with water to form a pal and spread on the hairy surface. After two or three minutes it is removed and the pkln washed. The eae and quickness with which this method remov'es every trace of huir or fuzz is most pleasing, ami though druggists charge a oollur an. ounce for delatone. it Is worth many times iis ct because of the absence of pain when using it ami the sutis f ictory results a'vay following. Care should be exercised, liow ever, to e that you get the genuire delatone and nut an imi'-utioii.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 9, 1912 PIPE 0F PEACE The Democrats Hold an Old Time Lore Feast On the Occasion of the Jackson Day Banquet. CANDIDATES HEARD. Bryan Reiterates That He Will Not Run Again. Hearst Arouses Enthusiasm by an Attack on RooseTelt. Washington, Jan. 9.Xo. party dis sension, no sectional prejudice as to whet-3 the coming convention should be held, no partiality as to the nommee for president marked the Jackson day banquet at the Raleigh hotel attended W nearly a thousand leading Demo cfats from all sections of the ,'nU Harmonv brood ?d over the banq.u-t board, around which were sea.ed del. -pates to the national Democratic com mittee who only three hours before were involved in bitter controversy. Aftr the band played 'America, "Yankee Doodle," 'Dixie." and other patriotic tunes, and the photographer from an overhead balcony had shouted "look pleasant, please." the array ot Democratic leaders facing the lens from th- toastmaster's table, aroused tumul tuous cheers from the assemblage. Champ Clark. William J. Bryan, Wil liam R. Hearst. Joseph W. Folk and other Democratic entertains w no na.o differed in the past, joined in a unani mous plea for harmony in 1912 and pre dicted that political victory would fol low. It was a tumultuous dinner in which prospective candidates for the presi dency shared tho honors of the occa sion. Governor Wilson, who spoke ear nestly on the Issues of the day was piven a tremendous ovation. When he said it was the duty of the Democrats in consideration of the trust problem to "hit the heads that we see and see that our shillalahs are of good hick ory," th-3 banquet almost raised the roof. When William R. Hearst declared he would use every 'source and resource" in his power to bring: about a Demo cratic victory and characterized Roose velt as "harlequin of politics," there was aniKncr outourst. When Champ Clark, the speaker of the house, called attention to the har monious action of the Democratic ma jority in the lower house of coneress and the results they had accomplished and set it up as an example for the party to follow, the climax of the Democratic optimism of the occasion was reached. Oration to Rryan. Mr. Bryan, who followed many oth er speakers, predicted a revolution of political action at the polls in Novem ber and appealed without any sug gestion as to who should be the standard-bearer, for a united Democracy. He was given a welcome that rivaled the ovations of his early campaigns for the presidency. Senator Pomerene. of Ohio, speak- ing on behalf of Governor Harmon, pave his auditors some salient thoughts on "Buckeye Democracy;" Senator Taylor, of Tennessee, discussed "Old Hickory," and Senator Johnson, of Maine, amusingly related the ex periences of his commonwealth in the Democratic political column. Mr. Bryan, emphasizing his predic tion of Democratic success as the ear ly morning crept upon the banquet scene, reiterated his determination not to be a candidate for the presidency. "I have been unfortunate," he said, "in having been regarded by some as necessary to a Democratic presidential campaign and I have been accused of being over-ambitious for the presi dency. "No friend of mine need be tola that I am so much more Interested in the things for which we are struggling than I am in office, that I shall give more valiant service to him who bears the standard of our party than I ever could render to myself." Harmon Kefers to His Candidacy. Governor Harmon made the first di rect public reference to his presiden tial candidacy. As the governor enter ed the hall in a good natured way, he patted the back of John J. Lentz, head of the so-called "progressive Demo cratic movement," recently formed to fipht the governor. I he crowd, taK ins the cue, laughed and cheered al ternatelV. In mentioning his presidential can didacy. Governor Harmon declared that he would be less than human if he failed to appreciate the work of his friends in his behalf and that he could not help doubting at times his own fitness for the responsibilities of the presidency. "Thank God, the past is secure," said he. "I am deeply grateful that I should have been chosen to right sonj of the wrongs from which we have suffered in Ohio." In closing, he said: "When you mention me in connection with the presidency I know our admin istration has merited the confidence of the people and, whatever man will rep resent the Democratic party in Washing ion, he must set himself to work for the aholition of special privileges. That's what Democracy means." Senator Pomerene, in speaking for Gov ernor Harmon, gave a defi to Mr. Bryan. The Ohio senator denied the charges that Governor Harmon was too friendly with the interests and said that a lOO.Ooo plurality in the last election hurled the accusation in the teeth of those who made it. He said the charge mad been made in Ohio where the governor was known and had been refuted. "In Ohio we have done much "that we promised to do and we may not have done all that some might have wanted done. We are human in Ohio and heir to all the sins that flesh is heir to. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone,' said the senator, leaning over Mr. Bryan, who was seated near him. He was heartily applauded. The gloom was dispelled by witty speech by Senator Taylor, of Tennessee, who followed. K'msinsc Reception to Hearst. William Kandolpb. Hearst, who was given a rousing reception, expressed hi3 faith in the principles of Democracy and said his only desire was to lend his best efforts "to help true Democrats control the party in the interest of true Democ racy." "This coming election," said he, "and many elections to follow, will be decided by the independent progressive voters oi this country, and this great body of in telligent citizens will realize that they can find the best expression of their ideals in a Democratic party which has con science and the courage to be truly democratic. "Assuredly, these progressive citizens will not follow Mr. Taft in the Kepub lican party, for Mr. Taft is either op posed to their ideas, or else indifferent to them, or else incapable of comprehending- them. "Positively these progressives will not be able to support Mr. LaFollette in the Republican party, for Mr. LaFollette be longs in the Democratic party and will never be nominated for the presidency by the Republican party. "Surely these genuine progressives will not fall in behind Mr. Roosevelt, who, i when president, sacrificed every progres- sive principle for his own advantage and on every occasion has betrayed the in terests of the people for the sordid sup port of some criminal trust. To support Roosevelt would make the whole pro gressive movement ridiculous. "The man is a very harlequin of poll tics, capering forward and backward and sideways over every conflicting quarter of the political stage, masked as to his real opinion and intention, attired in a tinsel patchwork of opposing principles, carrying not a big stick, but a slapstick with which to make much noise and do no service, appearing unexpectedly through every trap door of opportunism and disappearing acrobatically through every open window of time serving ex pediency. "With Roosevelt as harlequin and Root as Columbine, with Rockefeller as clown and Morgan as pantaloon, the whole pro gressive movement would become a roar ing Christmas pantomime, culminating in a spectacular transformation scene, where prosperity would again dissolve into panic and where Morgan and Rocke feller revealed enthroned in vv all street would once more save the country, in order to divide it satisfactorily between uiemseivea. The first business transacted was to decide that the convention should be held June 25, one week after the Re publican national convention. At this time the place of the convention had not been determined. St. Louis was working hard to overcome tho Bait! more lead. AN EiJGIiiE DUMED Mexicans Find Snow Had Shor ed It Off Track. Drift 17 Feet Deep and 300 Feet Long. HAVE BAD WRECK Ilfteen Persons Injured When Blag. man went to Hunt uoat. St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 9. Fifteen persons were Injured, none fatally, when Rock Island passenger train No. 72, eastbound. was run into from be hind by a freight train on a hill near nere Monday night. Something be came wrong with the passenger en gine and the train was stopped. A flagman ordered to the rear is said to have stopped to hunt for his coat. Before he could find it the freight engine ploughed into the rear or the passenger. HIGH SCHOOL llOTES Mr. W. E. Woodward of the T. M. C. A. has been elected manager of high school athletics to succeed J. L. Mont gomery, who resigned. Mr. Woodward is busy working to perfect the basket ball schedule of the high school team. The reception which is given to the seniors by the subsenior class every term win do neia on January 29. The reception will be held on the second floor of the Manual Training building. It has not yet been decided who will stand in the receiving line. Miss Stella Olcott, a mathematics teacher in the high school, has return ed to her work after a week's absence caused by sickness. The teachers of the high school have handed in the names bf the poor spellers in their classes, and at the beginning of the new term these scholars will be required to take the new spelling course. Miss Lucile Lukens, a junior in the high school, sustained a severely sprained arm as a result or a fall on the slippery sidewalks. AMUSEMENTS C-scil Lean and Florence Holbrook will be seen here In Jos. M. Gaites' stupendous musical comedy, "Bright Eyes, at the Grand tomorrow night, which is announced as the latest word in musical comedy. This new play is by the author of "Three Twins," Madame Sherry," ana "Th-s Girl of My Dreams," ths most successful musical plays ever seen in America. The book, which is by Charles Dickson, is founded on the popular farce, "Mis takes Will Happen," which enjoyed a very successful career a few years ago. Harry Bulger, who comes to the Grand Saturday matinee and night, in an entirely new edition, "The Flirting Princess," is popularly known and re ferred to amongsthis chums and asso ciates as "King Bulger." The reason for this sobriqu-'t is quite natural on account of the genial Harry being chosen almost invariably to play "King" parts. THE AWAKENING OF CHINA. By John T. McCutcheon. (Coiyright: 1812: By John T. 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"a"i2 -i s 1 J MUST MODERATE SOON Western Settlers Face Famine of Food and Fuel. Cattle Dying in Worst Storm in State's History. Anetmnt mpu- adopt modem thoatric! prm4 fmnt method. Larned, Kan., Jan. 9. The engine of train No. 687, westbound on the Laraed Jetmore branch of the Santa Fe, was rescued near Hanston today by a large party of Mexicans. It was recently buried almost out of sight in a drift in an attempt to clear the track through, to the beleagured city of Jetmore. When dug out it was found to be several feet off the track with the fire out, the boiler frozen up and nearly ail the pipes burst. The drift in the cut at this point is 17 feet deep, 300 feet long and capped with a crust of ice several feet in thickness. Rescuers have just suc ceeded in getting supplies to Jetmore overland from Spearville, a distance of about 30 miles. The weather moderated somewhat at this point today but for the last three nights the government thermometers have recorded temperatures of 15 de grees or more below zero. rood and .Fuel Gone. Dodge City, Kan., Jan. 9. It is feared, here that many people in the south western counties remote from the rail roads will perish if the cold weather continues much longer. Most of the homesteaders in that section are re ported already to be out of fuel. They have burned every available scrap of wood and are unable to reach the towns for supplies. Cowchips, which are dug from under 20 inches of snow, are their only fuel. Only five persons have reached here from that territory since the cold weather began. Miss Nellie F. Lacy and Miss Mary Martz were compelled to come from Stanton county to the land office here to make proof on their claims. They were forty miles from a railroad, and it took them four days to make the trip. They reported that practically all of the homestead ers there were out of fuel. Roy D. Newby came in from Mor ton county yesterday. Ha says most of the people there are without coal or other fuel. He was five days in mak ing the trip. Fuel, Food and Feed Short. Garden City, Kan., Jan. 9. At last there is some danger to stock and of food and fuel shortage in the south west country from the continued storm and cold. E. J. Stalford of this place, just back from Richfield, says it took him four days to get from Richfield to Syracuse and that when he left flour had been out of stock a week and coal was nearly gone. However, a supply wagon had got as far as Syracuse and had turned back, so he was not espe cially alarmed. Richfield, county seat of Morton county, the extreme south west county of the state, has a popula tion of about 75. Rumors of extreme destitution and occasional stories of persons frozen to death come in here, but can not be verified. The lowest temperature was Saturday night, 22 degrees below zero, the second coldest in the memory of old timers. Local people, especially the commissioners and the provident association, are watchful for cases of want or need. The railroads are tied up. Worst Storm in History. Sharon Springs, Kan., Jan. 9. Weather conditions remain very bad at Sharon Springs and on the western border of the state. Fifteen inches of snow is drifting badly, and the Union Pacific is out of business. A double header snow plow tried to break through the cuts last night, but got stuck, and all passenger trains are held at Denver and Ellis. The district most affected by this storm is between Hugo, Colo., and Oakley, Kan., with the heaviest snow on the state line. Farmers are out of feed, and the loss of stock is reported very heavy. The thermometer has registered 20 de grees below for almost a week. Jack rabbits are eating what alfalfa that is stacked, and the county commission ers in a meeting today placed a bounty on their scalps. This is the worst storm ever experienced in this section of the state, not excepting the big storm in 1886. Thaw Must Oome Soon. Great Bend, Kan., Jan. 9. Unless there is a big thaw within two weeks the stories of loss of cattle in western Kansas will be greater than those told as a result of the big blizzard of 1885-86, when thousands of cattle were frozen to death because of lack of shelter and feed. The danger at present is not due to absence of shel ter, but of eed. Thomas Clayton of this city, who Is one of the big cattle dealers of west ern Kansas, has a few hundred head of grade cattle and some registered cattle on his big ranch in Ness county and reports while they have prepared for bad weather there and have a month's supply of feed on hand that many around them will not be able to go two weeks longer with the roads in thA Dresent condition. There is no way of getting the feed to the railroad stations or of hauling it to the farms and ranches unless the snow melts. Losses on Small Ranches. T. H. Meacham of this city and Kinslev. who is acquainted with cat tlemen all over the west, says that he has heard of tew reports yet or loss of cattle, but that on the small farms and those ranches some distance from the railroad there is bound to be a big loss of cattle. He reports that Barney O'Connor, a cattleman southwest of Lakin, has been wintering three thous and head and that a week ago Satur day he heard from him to the effect that he had lost fifty head as the re sult of the storm. Charles Johnson, another cattlemin living between Jetmore and Cimarron, has been wintering a big bunch of cattle, among them five loads of steers which he has been fattening for mar ket, and the report comes from his place that he is out of feed. He has been trying to get cars in which to ship part of his stock to a farm near Belore, where he has feed, but has been unable to get cars. Cattlemen here who buy over the western part of the state have not had any definite reports of losses of stock, but the telephone service has been knocked out in the western part of the state and it is only possible to com municate with a few of the towns. Ranch owners can not be heard from. Feed Prices Go Higher. There are several thousand head of. 1 RJO MOM 7 f II S t I m TIH 7 Tf Through or in Co-operation With 71 n o n o Tin L v i EQUIPMENT It is modern, complete and supported by Topeka citizens for this purpose. A STUDY We make charity work a study, and give it our entire time. It is no side issue. Thus unjust discriminations and ir regularities are avoided. EXPERIENCE During the past three years we have dealt with 736 families and 236 transents. We have this number of records on file. SENSATIONALISM We try to eliminate it and do our work in a quiet, systematic and intelligent manner. We respect the feelings of the reedy by not publishing the details of their misfortunes and sufferings. $500.00 have been spent during the past five weeks in relief alone, in addition to many other forms of aid. Seventy-six families have been aided. Of these 26 were dependent mothers with children; 6 were widowers with children; 12 were cases of old age; 21 were cases where sickness caused the need. If you believe in this manner of work we ask your co-operation. We promise to use your donations where it is most needed and will do the greatest good. Our ability to aid the needy is limited only by the means at our command. OFFICERS T. F. GARVER, President. HORACE HALL, Treasurer. THOS. PAGE, Vice-President C. G. BLAKELY, Secretary. GUY T. JUSTIS, General Secretary. cattle on winter feed in this county, but they are well provided for, though feed beginning to get scarce and is going up in price. In spots where there is little snow on the ground there is a tendency to thaw, 'jut this is not gen eral enough to make any particular impression along this line. There was a lijrht fall of snow again and the roads and paths are again drifted full. Another Wret'k at Wright. Dodge City, Kan., Jan. 9. Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe train No. 5 was derailed in a snowdrift at Wright, eight miles east of here, last night, and traffic on the main line is blocked. No. 7 and No. 1 both are stuck in the snow behind No. 5. J. W. KLAUER IS DEAD Well Known Sherman County Man Was 69 Years Old. Goodland, Kan., Jan. 9. J. W. Klauer, chairman of the board of commissioners of Sherman county is dead, and his funeral was attended by a large number of the citizens of his county. Mr. Klauer was serving his second term as commissioner, having been elected on the Democratic ticket. He was 69 years of age. He was a prominent member of Sparks lodge No. 170 of this city, which organiza tion had charge of the funeral services. Sho lias No Pity. Said a little Georgia boy, whose fa ther had Just been elected to th leg islature of that stats: "Ma, pop's a pretty big man now, ain't he?" "Oh, I dunno," answered his mother. "If he makes a good record they'll end him to congress, won't they, ma?" "I dunno. Maybe. I ain't ever hud much use for congress senco they wouldn't pay for the cotton that was stole durin" the war. Still, If they want to send your pa up there it don't make no difference as fur's I'm concerned. They can't swat congress too hard to suit me." Kansas City Star. CF 177?) a STtCTtl fT-rl w mm WW N UH :3 5 Tf mmJM anuary 22 to February 3, 1912 the AUDIT Under Auspices of Topeka Council No. 42 Advance Sale o! Seats at 10c Nov On Only 15,000 and they'll go quickly. Better get yours right away at Stansfield's Drug Store. Weightman's Drug Store. Campbell's Drug Store. Rowley's Drug Store. Flad's Drug Store. N. J. Petro's Drug Store. Edelblute's Drug Store. Pinney's Drug Store. Martin's Drug Store. Crosby Bros. Joslin's Drug Store. Marshall's Drug Store. Chesterfield Drug Store. McSpadden Grocery. Klingaman's Drug Store. Kohl's Drug Store. Rosser Bros. Drug Store. Shoaf's Drug Store. Mills Dry Goods Co. Lacey's Drug Store, N. Topeka. Campbell's Drug Store, N. Top. National Hotel. Throop Hotel. Smoke House. Mission Billiard Parlor. Frank Newland. Gem Grocery. Miller Drug Store. Music by Ray Hall's Orchestra and Marshall's Band oi 25 Pieces 52 Booths of handsome displays, more interesting than ever. "Four BIG Vaudeville Acts 4" each performance afternoon and evening Admission at the door 15c t

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I rilE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOXJBNAL JANUARY 9, 1912 SAW BEN CRAVENS Officer Knew Him in Barricaded Wichita House. ss irabnes By Secret Door He Commanded Flew of Office. or I3:re KANSAS KNOWS HIM Frequently Mistaken for Outlaw He Tells Court. Kinsley Man's Mouth Looks Good to Officers. Guthrie, Ok., January 9. That Ben Cravens at one time, several years ago, lived for some time in a barri caded house in Wichita, jalan., and that he saw Cravens there, is the state- ment of TJndersherifE Jim Kirkwood of Guthrie, who for many years was the president of the Oklahoma Anti-Horse-thief association. The time which Cravens spent in the Kansas metropolis was after the robbery at Red Rock; in 1901, and prior to the year that Charles Maust in jail here as Cravens was taken to the Missouri state prison to serve a sentence for burglary. Kirkwood was on the trail of a band of Gypsies, who were charged with stealing a white boy from Seeleyville, Ind., when he ran into Cravens in Wichita. Coming in late in the even ing, Kirkwood stopped at a rooming house, opened the door to a room that was marked "office," and entering it juickly saw Ben Cravens sitting in front of him. Evidently Cravens rec ognized him as t.-e Anti-Horsethief chief of Oklahoma, for the outlaw left the room quickly by a side door. As lie went out. he pulled his hat over his eyes to hide further recognition, if possible. Kirkwood had an opportunity, the next morning, of making an examina tion of the place. He found that the door through which Cravens left the room, went into a small boarded-up room, bui.t over the sta.rway in such a manner that through a small slide door the occupant could command the entire stairway and also all the rooms that led from the long hallway, and at the same time remain unseen. A email window in the room would per mit a person to drop easily and quietly into an alley way below and escape. It was in such a place as this that Kirkwood says he saw Ben Cravens. Visited Kirkwood's Camp. Kirkwood recognized Cravens, who had visited a cam? of the Kirkwood family in Pawnee county, several years before. Several days ago Kirkwood visited the federal jail here and imme diately picked Cravens out of a bunch of prisoners. It was Maust whom he identified as Cravens. It is understood, according to Kirkwood's story, that the rooming house in Wichita was being managed at that time by a former Pawnee. Ok., woman, whose husband was an early day character in that town. An exceedingly interesting witness in the Cravens case, who also identified Maust as Cravens yesterday, is John Mittimus of Kinsley, Kan., who was pubpoenaed by United States Attorney Embry. Mittimus relates that several times he was mistaken for Cravens and narrowlv escaped arrest. At one time, in particular, he was leaving Blackwell, Ok., in the evening, and he was fol lowed by a posse of officers who were certain that they had finally got on 1 the trail of the last of the outlaws. He evaded arrest, however. Mittimus says it is his mouth that has always saved him from being taken for Cra- vens. After identifying uravens. w iium he knew several years ago Mittimus was discharged by Judge Embry and permitted to return home. MTST IIMMv THE GERMS. Iawron-f Hasn't Gas Enough to Boil River Water. Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 9. Owing to fires and burst water pipes causing an unusual consumption of water, the president of the Lawrence Water com pany announced today that it would probably be necessary to pump water from the Kaw river as the city wells, which supply the town with water, are fast being pumped dry. The river water has been pronounced impure and contains germs and it will be necessary to boil it to prevent disease. The Lawrence people are in a Quandary should the river water be used, as there is so little gas that it is feared that it will be impossible to boil the water. o ne Hundred P ieces at Economies of Unmistakable Evidence f A I- V, Vs -t I i Afji. DRESS GOODS STORE whose fo. lowing- has grov n to be as great as this store of ours, must necessarily cairy a large stock we must have as near as possible, everything in the way of weave and color that is popular and wanted by the thousands of women who look to this store to supply their neeqs and, indeed, it can be truthfully said that we are rarely found lacking in this respect. Right now we have staring us in the eye, the taking of an inventory the measuring and listing of every yard on hand but before beginning this operation we want to do what we can to narrow quantities dewn just as much as possible rriTlTlHTii ztiti-" Tkrougli tlie Medium of Low Prices It is just that sort of a sale we invite you to, this week it is one grand effort on our part to make lightning strike in two places at once and. the same time SAVE YOU in the price of the goods and save us in the measuring and listing. "in'1 J nmWSv SEE EXHIBIT l-r, 'F TM SHOW WINDOWS 58c Ckallies at 39c a Yard All wool, domestic made Challies with and without borders (twenty-five pieces) in light and dark patterns; an assortment of stripes, dots and Persian effects from which you can select a pattern suitable for most any kind of a dress for a woman, a house jacket, or a child's dress. Our regular 58c quality, at, yard 39c 75c Ckallies 50c Thirteen pieces of 30-inch wide, imported, bordered Challies, in stripes and Persian effects; all the new colorings and designs of the present season. All wool 75c Challies in the January Sale at, yard 50c Lot-1 at 50c a Yard Regular 75c and $1.00 Qualities This lot is made up of about a dozen pieces of 44-inch wide Panamas, Serges and Fancv Suitings, in shades of green, gray, blue, catawba, raisin, and black qualities that are worth in a regular way 75c and $1.00 per yard. The Jan- r uary Sale Price is NOW only JJG Lot 2- at 75 c a Yard Regular $1.00 to $2.00 Qualities Twenty-five pieces of 44- to 54-inch wide desirable fabrics for tailored suits, dresses and skirts; the assortment includes Serges, Canvas Weaves, Homespuns, Broadcloths, etc., in plain, self stripes and checks, and suiting effects most every color 7tL and black. NOW, per yard L DC i w. t TO KEEP OUR TAILORS BUSY WE will take orders for Women's Tailor ed-to-Measure Suits, to be made and deliv ered during the month of January at the following special reductions: All Suits that would figure regularly $45.00 to $50.00 will be made in our usual splendid manner at a uniform reduction of $7.50 on each suit. All Suits that figure in a regular way $50.00 and above, will bo available during January at a reduction of $10 on each suit. When you consider the splendid work turned out by our Ladies' Tailoring Dept. and the conservative prices we ask in the first place, these reductions are of the most timely sort. The assortment of fabrics from which selection can be made is practically unlimit ed, and includes the new spring patterns and spring materials. IN SEE EXHIBIT SHOW WINDOWS Lot 3$1.00 a Yard Regular $1.25 to $2.00 Qualities About fifteen pieces of imported and do mestic made materials; 44 to 54-in. widths, in Serges, Fancies, Plain Weaves, Self Stripes and Fancy Suitings; splendid "fab rics for suits and dresses; shown in shades of gray, brown, green, old rose, black, etc. Regular $1.25 to $2 qualities, rf -g ff NOW, per yard 3)1. UU Lot 4-$1.50 a Yard Regular $1.75 to $2.50 Qualities Ten pieces of 54-inch wide imported and domestic suitings; mostly all this season's styles; all good, desirable tailoring cloths for suits, in grays, blues, browns and fancy mixtures in the popular Serges, Homespuns and other weaves. Regular $1.75 to $2.50 materials in the January Sale tf ftf at, yard CpJL.OU ..-At,. I 50 Suit Patterns Half Price All our Fall Suit patterns, for tailored suits, about fifty of them; fine imported materials in plain and fancy mixed' Homespuns, Serges and Basket Weaves. Ordinarily they are $15 to $35, NOW at HALF PRICE. Inasmuch as the Ladies' Tailoring ept. is quotnig a special January Price for making suits, this is one grand opportunity to save on both the cost of the material and the making. Dress Patterns at Half Twelve Dress Patterns sheer fabrics, such as Voiles, Silk Chiffon Voiles, Siik Crepes, etc., plain and fancv silk and wool effects. $15 to $35 regularly, NOW at HALF PRICE. OOLT CLOSES SCHOOLS. Gas Lacking Water Pipes Freeze Rooms Are Cold. Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 9. When the University of Kansas students return ed from their Christmas vacation hundreds of them found cold rooms and a number of boarding and room ing houses are without water on ac count of frozen pipes. There is little p-as in the university district of Law rence and in the past gas has been de pended upon almost entirely for heat. A number of the Lawrence city schools have been closed on account of the cold and small gas pressure. No school was held today in the Pinckney, Woodiawn or Lincoln schools. There is little prospect for relief until the weather moderates. Steps a Dsep-Ssated 1 Cough in a Hurry A PnBy Supply of Unequaled Cough Remedy for 50c Money Re funded If It Fails. Coh medicines, as a rule, contain a htrge proportion of plain syrup a good iDjrredicnc but one that anyone can make. jL pint of granulated sugar, with i pint f warm water, stirred for 2 minutes, gives you as good syrup as money can buy. A 50-cent bottle of Pinex, mixed in a pint bottle with home-made sujrar syrup, girem you a full pint of really better eousrb. sirup than you could buy ready mixed for ?2.."0. There's a clear saving of $2.00. Full directions in package. And money couldn't bay a quicker, better remedy. Takes hold at once. Rives almost instant relief, and usually stops the most obstinate, deep-seated couch in 24 hours. It stimulates the appetite, is liphtlr laxatiTe and has a pleasant taate children take it willingly. Splendid for feoarsensae. asthma, chest pains and other throat troubles, and unequaled for prompt rasalta in whooping cough. Pinex is a special and highly concen trated compound of imported Norway thite Pine extract, and is rich in guaia eol and other natural heaiing pine ele ments. Simply mix it as directed with sugar syrup or strained honey, and it is ready for use. Used in more homes in the TJ. S. and Canada than any other cough remedy. Pinex has often been imitated, but never wjceessfully. for nothing eise will produce the same results. The genuine is guaran teed to give absolute satisfaction or money refunded. Certificate of guarantee is wrapped in eaoh package. Your druggist kaa Pinex or will get it for you. If not, Bsjs4 to The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne. Ind. JUS FATHER ACID THROWER. Youth Confesses After Trying to Shield His Parent. Wichita, Kan.. Jan. 9. Although he stoutly maintained from the first that he did not have any idea who his as sailant was, Simmie Pine, the 14-year-old boy who was injured by an acid thrower last Friday, confessed to De tective Charles Bish that it was his father who attacked him. It is said that his de.ire in keeping' this intelli gence from the officer was for the pur-i pose of shielding his father. It is the theory of the police that the motive which prompted the father to commit the assault on the lad was to prevent him from appearing in court as a witness for his mother In her suit for divorce. Although a thorough search was made by the officers yesterday for A.dam L. Pine, the father, no trace of him could be found. On this account the police are of the opinion that he has fled to his claim in Oklahoma. TAGGART GETS GOOD PLACE. farming. We must have the good farm ers now, as the poor class will surely make a failure out of it on high priced land." JOSEPH VANGUXDY IS DEAD. Extensive Strawberry Grower Lyon County Pioneer. Emporia, Kan., Jan. 9. Joseph Vangundy is dead at his home at Neosho Rapids, eleven miles southeast of Emporia. The Vangundy family came to Kansas in 1855, settling in the Neoshb Rapids neighborhood, which always since has been their home. Mr. Vangundy was born in Indiana in 184S. .He wag one of the most ex tensive growers of strawberries In this section of Kansas. who will seek parole. They include: H. Goll, Milwaukee; H. W. Tiers, Pittsburg; Fred Lubbe, O. F. Cochran, M. P. Emerich and Paul C. Gall of Indianapolis. Goll, who was cashier in the bank of Frank G. Bigelow, who was paroled in 1910, made application before the board last fall. This will be Goll's first application to the board. FILLS LONG FELT WANT Sirs. Ella Flagg Young Invents Personal Pronoun. ACCIDENTAL SHOT HITS GIRL. Rifle Falls to Floor and Girl Loses Eye. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 9. May Herbert, 14, who was shot over the eye by a 22 caliber rifle by her brother, may die. The eye was destroyed. The rifle, cocked, was on a table when the brother accidentally jarred It to the floor. S. PRISONERS ASK PAROLE Who BlgeloWs Cashier Among 200 Want Freedom. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 9. Two hundred applications for release from the federal prison here will be heard Kansas Congressman Member of Agri curtural committee, Wn;birie'ton i l T A t of committees, cnoben XZZvZa president of the board, has notified the era lie iciulus o i iui bv the house as follows: Jan. 9. New members nTT FVidair nt R V T wnow T-cn v Ktpnbens. rseorasKa, ac counts and Indian affairs; Joseph Tag gart, Kansas, agriculture; Kenneth D. McKellar, Tennessee, military and raitwavs and canals; William C. Red field. New York, invalid pensions. TRY KFMMEL CASE SOON. Judge Dyer Says Hearing Will Be Held in February. St. Louis, Jan. 9. Judge D. P. Dyer of the United States district court has announced that the celebrated Kimmel case would be tried in St. Louis some time in February. Judge Dyer stated that in his opinion the case would occupy at least two weeks. He said that he was eager to have it finished and out of the way be fore the regular March term of court convenes. TOO VALUABLE TO FARM. till manufactured byihe Sold by all leading Fin !Tf1 -f 2 of course, it is educating the farmer tot o i i n do better farming and not waste any OilS-SlZe OrIV. 50t O Doll'C? time or do any experimenting in his Shawnee County Stockman Says Farm ers Figure Closely. Kansas City, Jan. 9. E. TV. Flood of Shawnee county, Kan., owner of a farm in the southern part of that county containing 1.050 acres, says the price of land in that part of the state is too high priced to make it profitable for farming purposes. "We have reached a point where we have to do some fin? figuring to see where the profits are," Mr. Flood said. "If we get a poor year we are simply set back. The taxes go on, and the an nual repairs must be made. In one way prison officials that he will be here on that day. Several bankers are among those To Get Its Bsnsficial Effects; Always Buy ihs Gsnuino and if ff m ft Chicago, Jan. 9. A common personal pronoun for both sexes that problem which for generations has worried pro fessors of English into nervous pros tration and has turned many a peace ful classroom into a battleground of strife was invented in an instant by Ella Flagg Young and caused a room ful of school principals to gasp with astonishment. Mrs. Young sprung her little surprise at a meeting of school principals. The preliminaries were over and the super intendent of schools rose to address the assemblage on "A Simplified Course of Study." "A principal should so conduct his'er school that all pupils are engaged in something that is profitable to him'er and where the pupil is required to use knowledge in school in accomplishing his'er task," began Mrs. Young. All gasped in unison. Mrs. Young paused to survey the effect her words had made upon the group. "Wh-what was that?" came the query from several parts of the room. "We don't quit; understand what that was you said." Mrs. Young smiled and continued: "I don't see how one can map out the work for the fifth or sixth grade when he'er has always done the work in the grades above or below. "I don't see what can be astonishing you unless it is my use or misuse of the personal pronoun," said the super intenaent. "I have simply solved a need that has been long impending. The English language is in need of a personal pro noun of the third person, singular num ber, that will indicate both sexes and will thus eliminate our present awk wardness of speech. "Some years ago at the university which I attended, this subject came up for discussion and after two and one half hours we had come to no decis ion and we all bore a rather strained attitude towards one another. "The problem has bothered me fre quently and the solution of it occurred to me as I was on my way to this meeting. Most of the pronouns of the feminine gender end in 'er, and so all you have to do to make the common pronoun is to take the masculine form and add 'er." Mrs. Young used the simplified form throughout her adaress. Some of the forms one used were he'er for he or she, his'er for his or hers, and him'er for him or her. The principals expressed themselves enthusiastically over the innovation, and each resolved as he'er left the meet ing that he'er would introduce the form in. his'er classroom CASCARETS WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP Salts, Calomel and Cathartic Pills are violent they act on bowels as pepper acts in nostrils, Take a Cascaret toulght and thor oughly cleanse your Liver, Stomach and Bowels, and you will surely feel great by morning. You men and wo men Who have headache, coated torgue, can't sleep, asre bilious, nervous and upst. bothered with a sick, rassy, dis ordered stomach, or have backache and feel all worn out. Are you keeping clean mslde with Casci'rets or merely forcing a pass ageway every few days with Mits. ca truurtic pills' or castor oil This is Im portant. Cascarets Immediately cleanse and regulate the stomach, remove the sour, undigested arc fermenting food and foul gases; take the excess bile from the liver and carry off the decomposed waste matter and poison from the in testines and bowels. Remember, a Cascaret tonight will straighten you out by morning. A K cent box from your druggist means a clear head and chetrtulnesa for months. Don't forget the children. DOES CURE BAD COLDS. Also Ends All Misery From the Grippe In Jus a Few Hours. I There is not one grain of quinine In Pape's Cold Compound, which, when taken every two hours, until three con secutive doses are taken, will surely end the grippe and break up the most severe cold either in the head, chest, back, stomach or limbs. It promptly relieves the most mis erable neuralgia pains, headache, dull ness, head and nose stuffed up, fever ishness, sneezing, sore throat, running of the nose, catarrhal affections, sore ness, stiffness and rheumatic twinges. Pape's Cold Compound is the result of three years' research at a cost of more than fifty thousand dollars, ani contains no quinine, which we hav? conclusively demonstrated is not ef fective in the treatment of colds or grippe. Take this harmless Compound as di rected, with the knowledge that there is no other medicine made anywhere else in the world which will cure your cold or end Grippe misery as promptly and without any other assistance or "ad after-effects as a 25 cent package of Pape's Cold Compound, which any trugglst In the world can supply. UNION PACIFIC a A IT WTi7f,IORv1 W-st-iL-i JJ.il Short Direct Route Through Without Change Denver "The Rockies" Salt Lake Two Fast Trains Daily Protected by Automatic Block Signals Library-Observation Sleepers Dining Cars on All Trains Union Pacific in a Class By Itself GUY GARDNER, Passenger Agent E. W. JETTE, Agent Depot, Phones 34 F. A. LEWIS..C T. A. 525 Kansas Ave. Phones 53 3E I I ir,'" v Trains TTie BesS FOR YOU Either Local of Kansas City L. 1..V. Topeka 4:10 A.M 6:45 A.M. 7:40 A.M. 2 25 P.M. 3:25 P.M. 7:55 P.M. 6:15 P.M. 11-35 V- M Rt. Lv. K.C. 7:55 A.M. 0:10 A.M. 10:50 A.M. 11:15 A.M. fi: in l M. 8:10 P.M. 11:15 P.M. 1 1 :30 P M. ?if Rock Island Never too Busy to Aniwer Question Phones 384 C. E. Ba scorn. Citv P. A-t. L.M. PEN WELL Undertaker and Embalmer &OS-A10 QaiBc? at in, $100 PER PLATE Kverybody read n-as paid at a banquet to Henry Clay, in New Orleans In lS4i Mighty costly tor I those with stomach trouble or lndigea- LONG BISTAKC3 Kini's New Life Pills for these troubles" 1 as well as liver, kidney and bowel dis- J orders. Easy, safe cure. Only 25 cts. at tns State Journal. Campbell Dm i Pipe Fit tin Pump and Wind Mill Repairing done promptly. 20 years' experience. Call or phone for prices. All work guar anteed. Calls answere 1 day or night, except Sun da v. S. M. HANDLEY. 17th and tronjf St., T0ptka j Ind. Phone 2456 Ring; L 1 I x F! Mi

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1912 0 N CATTLEJTARVIfIG Mercer Gets an Appeal From hours late. A temperature of 3 to 16 degTees below zero was reached in southern Wyoming last night with 30 below at Rock river. Today the tem perature is rising. THEFT0F$375,000 Is Charged Against a Man Ar rested in Xew York 13 Children Cry for Fletcher's R. T. CRANE IS DEAD Eastern Colorado. THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 9, Our Half -Yearly Clean-Up Sale NOW ON Bin Redactions In All Departments COME TODAY! 629-631 Kansas Avenue Conditions in Southwest Kansas Also Are Serious. NORTH SIDE NEWS. A new experiment is being made at Grant school. Beginning this ornmg. the pupils will be dismissed individual ly That is. they will be let out with out being formed in line and marching out and will return to their rooms in the same manner. If the trial Proves this method satisfactory it will be made permanent. This morning it was a suc cess. The children were told to leave tn. ffrrtwn rteonle the building J" without any disturbance and they did so quietly ana wimuui "The idea is to impress the pupils that thev are becoming men and wom V and should conduct themselves properlv, at all times.' said C. M. Morrow, superintendent of th school, this mornine. "To dismiss them indi vidually instead of in ranks throws them more on their honor and may teach them self control." M..ndav morning Mrs. C. M. Morrow of 1120 North Monroe street heard a scratch at her door. She opened it j ii, J o V,lnnlr C11Z7.V llttlC dOg. t I1U III vain.ru The little creature had been whining, shivering and scratching at the door. I and was" triad to get in out of the cold. All inquiries failed to reveal his owner. j The Morrows, believing that a city is j no place for a dog, have decided to 1 li.o Tanno TT.IVeS 1 fnmilv near Silver Lake. The dog evi dently had been a pet in some family and in someway or other had wandered away and become lost. A destitute family, living on the Xv-th Side, a mother, father and five children, was reported to Ktlmurs King, humane officer. Monday afternoon. The neighbors had been caring for them. The parents hav? been unable to work and they and their little child ren have been depending upon chance charity of neighbors. The Kings are making efforts for their relief. The rural route carriers from Station "A" have been doing remarkably well the past cold spell. In spite of the cold and snow they have not been delayed mire than an hour on their routes. A church "line party" will he given tonight at the Second Presbyterian church where the Forward Union Movement services are being held. The yoiinsr people of the different North Si'le churches will meet at 7:30 o'clock at the respective churches and attend the services in a body. The snbiect was chosen especially for the occasion. t Word has been received here of the death of A. M. Kent a former North Pide man. who moved to Wamcso a few years ao. A. M. Petro. drugiPt. Mrs. Laura B. Crouch has left for a v-1t in Winnipeg. Canada. l"he Travis family formerlv living at Laurent street and North Tope-ka n venue, were in a head on collision In Arkansas recently according to word received here. None were srionsly in jured but their household goods were damaged and one of their horses was so badlv hurt that it had to be killed Tonisht at the Princess. "The Sheriffs Sisters." American. "Keeping Mabel at Home." Maiestic "Over the Shading Kdge." Reliance Gicn Wagner will continue to sing.' Federated Fraternities Meet St. Tenuis. Jan. 9. Uniform laws for the regulation of fraternal insurance will he discussed by the federated fra ternities which began the third ferlera--tcd congress here todav. The frater nities are fighting what is known as the Mobile bill which Is believer to be the destroyer of fraternal insurance. D. Adna Brown, of PhoenixviUe. is president of the organization. LAUNDRIES STOP VORK St. Louis Is Facing a Serious Shortage of Water. St. Louis, Jan. 9. Twenty laundries rtco nnaratlnns beea.use of a shortage of water supply which threatens to become a famine before the week ends. The pressure became so weak that the second floors of resi dences were without water. The shortage is caused by the clog ging of the intake wells at the chain of rocks. Ice in the Mississippi river has formed a solid wall against the grates and the supply reservoirs are rapidly being emptied. The shortage is hastened by the enormous waste caused by all night running of water to prevent the freezing of pipes. The Compton Heights reservoir, which supplies the residence district in the southwestern portion of the city, is dry. It contained 60,000,000 gallons when the cold wave com menced. Several serious breaks in water mains have increased the waste and officials of the water department ex pect the conditions to become critical unless the weather moderates consid erably within a day or two. OAKLAND TfOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Clark are spending this week with relatives and friends in Atchison. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Altman of Law rence have returned home after spend ing several days here on a business trip. Mrs. George Ralstin, who has been quite sick for the past week at her home on Winfleld avenue, is reported to be improving. Miss Nora Lewis is spending this week with revives and friends in Carbondale and Scranton. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Snyder are spending several days in Linwood. Kan., called by the serious illness of her father, Mr. Robert Norris, who Is suffering from an attack of pneu monia, Mrs. Carl Johnson is able to be up and around again after being quite sick for the past three weeks at her home on Michigan avenue. Mrs. Nora Barger and Miss Fannie Stewart of Maple Hill spent Sunday here visiting friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pierce of Osa watomie. Kan., came here yesterday to spend two weeks with their parents, Mr. and Mr?. O. Pierce and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wilson. The regular meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of the Christian church will be held Thursday afternoon in the church. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. McMurray have civen the name Thomas Loraine to their Infant son. Miss Rose Stewart of North Topeka spent Monday and Tuesday in Oak land with Miss Blanche Watson. Miss Louise Mitchell and Miss Bertha Gordon of Downs. Kan., will come here Friday to spend a week with their cousin, Miss Ora May Gor don. Mrs. James McCarron of 461 Sum ner avenue, who has been quite sick for the past two weeks, is reported to be much improved. Mrs. James Dawson of Trover came Saturday to spend a few days with her brother, James McCarron, of Sum ner street. Livestock and Sanitary Commissioner Joe Mercer has received a request from the livestock authorities of Col- orado to allow the starving cattle from that state to cross the quarantine line Into Kansas in order that they may be fed. This permission has been granted as regards only cattle that have not been exposed, and these must be dipped as soon as the weather will permit. The Colorado authorities must bear that expense. Before rais ing this quarantine the Kansas Live stock Commissioner was assured by federal Inspector that he was taking no chance of spreading the disease of mange. Conditions in Colorado must be de plorable, according to the dispatches Mr. Mercer received from the Colo rado authorities. It is nearly as bad in western Kansas. The range cattle are starving to death A deep snow covers the ground and there is little feed and no hay at all. They must be shipped to feed lots farther east or die. No infected cattle, of course, will be admitted into Kansas, but only cat tle from exposed districts that can pass rigid inspection. Mr. Mercer has word from Lot Ravenscraft In southwest Kansas to the effect that the cattle are suffering there from the cold and many will freeze. Feed is scarce and something must be done to save many herds, j From northeast Kansas comes word I that there is no feed at all, but cattle are scarce up there. From Hamilton county the report Is that the cattle are suffering from a most severe storm and that many will die. TO FIGHT MENINGITIS. He Was a Foe to Higher Education to the Last. Chicago, Jan. 9. Richard' T. Crane, head of Crane Co., and foe of uni nversities And higher education institu tions, died at his home last night after a three day3' illness of la grippe. Suspected of Robbing the Bank of Montreal. Texas Board of Health at Last Recog nizes Epidemic. Dallas, Jan. 9. State Health Officer Steiner at Austin has announced the commonwealth board of health would meet here Wednesday to consider the spread of spinal meningitis in Texas. Dallas has had about 140 cases and Waco 84 cases since October 1. A few cases have been reported from Fort Worth, Sherman, Clarks ville, Teague, Palestine, Waxahachie and Columbus. Doctor Sophian of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research is still in Dallas and says he will remain sev eral weeks aiding In the fight against the disease. No source of the malady thus far has been determined. BOTH LEFT CLEWS Police Suspect a Double Suicide or an Elopement. Chicago, January 9. With a woman's hat, a set of furs and a package of to bacco and a book of cigarette papers as clews, the police have begun work on what they think is either a double suicide or an elopement. The articles were found on the bank of the Chicago river and have been identified as the belongings of 'Miss Millie Vallentine and Adolph Bach, who in spite of alleged parental objec tions desired to be married. Neither of the two has been seen by their friends since Saturday night. TO START AT CHICAGO Governor Wilson Will Slake a Cam paign Trip in February. Chicago, Jan. 9. Tentative arrange bents have been made for Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey to make Chicago the starting point of a flying trip through Illinois and into Wisconsin when he arrives February 12, it was announced here. William C. Niblack, chairman of the Wilson campaign committee in Illinois, said he was satisfied of the preponderance of Wilson sentiment among the Demo crats in Illinois. STRIKERS ENJOINED Restraining Order Is Issued to Prevent Picketing. ho; H Set 4 P "Shirts That Fit Are Custom Shirts" Waterloo, Iowa, January 9. Striking members of the local Iron Mould ers' union have been enjoined from picketing, or otherwise interfering with the operation of the plant of the W7aterloo Malleable Iron works. The injunction was issued by District Judge Piatt. The strike began Jan uary 2. SHUT OFF FACTORIES Stubbs Xotifies Gas Company to Serve Domestic Users. ANNO UN CEMENT! T 1 I have DurchaspH ho ci?i- r,, ness of the Capita Shirt Manufactory, formerly owned by Sam N. Flieshman. It will be my chief aim to improve the service wherever possible and to see that each individual smrt is made exactly according to measure that ,p.erfectly and that every small detail in both making and material is exceptionally good and well done. If you already know the satisfaction of good custom-made shirts, I will certainly get your ofUSShoSngyrd0n,t' 1 reqU6St thG Our motto: Shirts That Fit. L. C. Rahn, Prory. CAPITAL SHIRT FACTORY 624 Kansas Ave. I Independence, Kan., Jan. 9. General Manager McBeth of the Kansas Natural Gas company has been notified by Gov ernor W. R. Stubbs to shut oft gas from all factories and supply domestic consum ers only. The order is the result of a con tinued shortage of gas for heating pur poses in homes supplied by the company. HE FINDS STRANGER Richard T. Crane, Millionaire Foe to Universities, Who Died in Chicago. Mr. Crane's illness had not been con sidered serious. A casual examination by physicians led to the belief that he had suffered from an attack of heart disease. He had just finished a light dinner. Nearly 80 years old, Mr. Crane, who had been without the advantages or disadvantages, as he characterized it of training in universities, and had worked his way to the head of a large iron working company, contended all his lif that the college and the uni versity was a useless fixture and that the money devoted to higher education could be spent more profitably in ex tending industrial education and aid ing persons who had met with adverse fate. His death occurred within a few hours of the issue of his last attack on schools ah attack called forth by repudiation of his theory by college professors and presidents. In it he re newed his assertion that college grad uates were ill equipped for earning a living and that the majority of them could not command the salary of a skilled mechanic. Culture and not livelihood or the means of earning it was the only purpose he could dis cover for the existence of colleges. Of his two sons, the elder, Charles Richard Crane, who was appointed minister to China in 1909," but who re signed before leaving America, like his father, was not a college graduate. He worked in his father's mills and learned technical engineering in the drawing rooms and at the lathes. Richard T. Crane, jr., was a product of the Chicago manual training school and the Sheffield scientific school, Yale university. The success of this son. who also became a department head in the company, Mr. Crane al w. ys contended, was in spite of and not as a result of his higher schooling. Richard Teller Crane was born in Pat erson. N. J. in 1S32. Martin Ryerson, of Chicago, gave him his start when he set aside a piece of land on which Crane could start a brass foundry. From that grew the Crane company. Mr. Crane's philanthropy was devoted chiefly to his efforts to have school boards supplant high schools with manuel training schools, "to give the student a knowledge of how to use his head and hand in conjunction with each other, and to give him a means of doing that thing for which all education is intended earn a living for himself and for the family he will or should have." To point the way, he founded Crane Technical institute, a school designed to carry out his Idea, and supported It gen erously. BURT'S HOME BURNS Chicago. January 9. The home of Horace G. Burt, former president of the U. P. was destroyed by Are here Loss $100,000. TIED DOWN 20 Years' Slavery How She Got Free-doiii. Then Miner Uses Pick handle. Break- tag Wife's Arm. Pittsburg, Jan. 9. John Leon and Max Pamadin, miners, were arrest ed here pending the outcome of in juries to Leon's wife and year old son. Leon, it is said, found Pamadin in his home last night and attacked his wlte and child, breaking Mrs. Leon's leg and arm with a pick handle and fracturing the child's skull. It is believed they will die. Six Trains Tied Up. El Paso, Tex., Jan. 9. No trains from Chicago over the Rock Island road have reached here since last Friday, due to snow blockades east of here and train officials do not promise any re lief before today. There are now six limited trains somewhere between El Paso and Chicago in the snow. Wind Is Fifty Miles an Hour. Larimer, Wyo., Jan. 9. With eight inches of snow in southern Wyoming, drifting in a 50-mile wind. Union Pa cific trains have been running 15 to 13 A dyspepsia veteran who writes from one of England's charming rural homes to tell how she won victory in her 20 years' fight, naturally exults in her triumph over the tea and coffee habit: "I feel it a duty to tell you," she says, "how much good Postum has done me. I am grateful, but also de sire to let others who may be suffer ing as I did, know of the delightful method by which I was relieved. "I had suffered for 20 years from dyspepsia, and the giddiness that usu ally accompanies that painful ailment, and which frequently prostrated me. I never drank much coffee, and cocoa and even milk did not agree with my impaired digestion, so I used tea ex clusively, till about a year ago, when I found ina package of Grape-Nuts the little book, 'The Road to Well-ville." "After a careful reading of the booklet I was curious to try Postum and sent for a package. I enjoyed it from the first, and at once gave up tea in its favor. "I began to feel better very soon. My giddiness left me after the first few days' use of Postum. and my stomach became stronger so rapidly that it was not long till I was able (as I still am) to take milk and many other articles of food of which I was formerly com pelled to deny myself. I have proved the truth of your statement that Postum 'makes good, red blood.' "I have become very enthusiastic over the merits of my new table bev erage, and during the past few months have conducted a Postum propaganda among my neighbors which has brought benefit to many, and I shall continue to tell my friends of the 'bet ter way' in which I rejoice." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." LNer read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true and full of human interest. New York, Jan. 9. John J. Mc Namara of San Francisco, known to detectives of half a dozen cities as "Australian Mack," has been arrested here by central office and private de tective on a warrant charging him with the larceny of $375,000 from the Bank of Montreal of New Westmins ter, B. C. which was dynamited Sep tember 14. Bleven hundred dollars was found In his wallet and detectives are searching the city for $240,000 of the bank s funds which he is believed to have brought to New York. Wife Says He's in Australia. San Francisco, Jan. 9. Mrs. John Mc Namara, whose husband was arrested In New York on a charga of having robbed the bank of New Westminster, B. C, a branch of the Bank of Mon treal, of $315,000 on September 15 iat denied today that she had received any such large sum as $1,000 from her hus band. It was declared that through a letter containing $1,000 sent to his wife who lives here, from New York McNamara's whereabouts was learned, and his ar rest in New York followed. "I last heard from my husband in September," said Mrs. McNamara, "when he wrote to me from Vancouver, B. C, that he was going to Australia. Enclosed in the letter was a small sum of money for household expenses, which was used up long ago. I have not heard from him since. This I think, is the best proof that he has gone to Aus tralia, since, if he were nearer, he cer tainly would send nre some money. "I married Mr. McNamara in Aus tralia twenty years ago. He then was a contractor. When we came to San Francisco, he told me that his busi nes took him among a rough class of people. We never discussed his busi ness. "I do not believe Mr. McNamara Is in New York, neither do I believe he ever robbed a bank. "If it is true, it will be a hard blow to our girls," she continued, speaking ui ineir two aaugnters, one or whom was recently married. It Is reported from Vancouver, B. c, tnat John Bozyk, an Austrian, ar rested November 4, with $5,000 of the money stolen from the bank of New Westminster in his possession Is still in jail at Westminster, awaiting trial on a charge of having stolen property in his possession. Bozyk, who is densely ignorant, denied any compli city in the robbery of the bank and said that he had found the bank notes. William Barrett, with whom McNa mara is said to have been formerly as sociated, and who served a term in the San Quentin prison for robbing the First National bank of San Francisco in 1904, is said to be in business in the Pacific northwest. He started in business there directly after his re lease from San Quentin last June. Barrett was rearrested in Portland in 1905 on a charge of grand larceny. He was discharged, but was turned over to Baltimore, Md., authorities. He was sentenced for picking pockets in Baltimore. It was said then he was wanted by the authorities at Mil waukee. The Portland police decline to state where Barrett is at present, but they corroborate the assertion of the au thorities here that he was not impli cated in 'the New Westminster rob bery. STUBBS WOULD KNOW Governor Inquires What School Books Really Cost. Governor Stubbs has writen State Superintendent Fairchild to ask him to furnish a list of books used in the schools of the different cities and country districts of the state and their cost to the patrons of the schools. The new Indiana school book law provides that the cost of all the books for a certain course shall not exceed a certain amount. This appears to be a better plan than to set a price limit on each book. So many complaints have come in lately regarding the number of books required at school and their difference In cost in different towns and dis thicts that the governor will investi gate th conditions. DROPS INTO THE SEA Aeronaut Is Driven From His Course by the Wind. London, Jan. 9. F. B. Fowler, the Eng lish aviator, has been rescued from the sea near the Isle of Wight In an exhaust ed condition, after a hazardous flight. He started early In the day to fiy from Beaulie, Hampshire, to Eastbourne, on the seacoast. He was driven out to sea by a gale and his aeroplane plunged into the water. SETTLED OUT OF COURT Suit of Russian Baroness Against American Millionaire. Cincinnati, Jan. 9. The fight for the possession of $40,000 worth of Btock alleged to have been promised the Russian baroness. Von Klifuss, as a marriage set tlement by a wealthy Cincinnatlan, Percy Proctor, was settled by counsel here to day Just before the case was called on ap peal in the circuit court. The terms were not made public. Vj ivvv.vsSsx.v.'-vs Tlie Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over SO years, has borne the signature ot and has been made under his per-vrf47-7z sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good' are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing: Syrups. It Is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Jiarcotio Bubstanee. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and AVlnd Colic. It relieves Teething; Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Itowels, giving; healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GEfIUIN CASTORIA ALWAYS jBears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use Fop Over 30 Years THE CENTAUR COl"lY. TT HUHRY tTlttT. HtW VOK CITY. -4 i "V "Take siding at Hillsdale for No. 105" All along the route from Kansas City to Jack sonville train dispatchers are sending train orders to clear the track ahead of No. 105 the Kansas City-Florida Special This splendid new train must go through to Jack sonville without delay in dependent of all connect ions. It takes the route of short est distance and quickest time the Frisco-Southern Railway. The complete train is your home for the whole jour ney no changes are mad en route except for fresh engines and freshly-stocked diners, the electric lighted sleepers, electric lighted coaches and baggage car go through. Fred Harvey is master of cuisine and a past-master is he. Leaves Kansas City, dally 6:15 p. m. Arrives Memphis. 8:1 5 a. m. Arrives Birmingham .3:45 p. m. Arrives Atlanta 8:20 p. m. Arrives Jacksonville.--" 7:40 a. m. Train from potato north and west tnalr (rood eoro.o tlonsta Kansas City with tills splendid new train. For tickets, sleeping car reserratkms, and a free copy of a beautUul book about Florida, call on or writs Frisco Ticket Office, Waldheim Bid?, 1 1th and Main Sts, Kansas City. Tt is Sprliur tn Florida o, The air I, balmy. Golf, tennis, boating-, bathlnir, fNhln. motoring- are lu fuU swing tbere. L C LOVRIDt, Divtsisa Panearer Afent, Kaasss City. SHE IS FINED $1,700 Woman Again Sent to Jail for Refus ing to Testinifj-. Chicago, Jan. 9. Miss Hazel Hogan who last week was sent to the county jail by Judge Honore of the criminal court for refusing to testify in a case In which she was the complaining wit ness, has been again haled before the court and again declined to testi fy. She was fined $1,700 and remand ed to jaih BOYS' ASSAHUAXTS ARE HELD. Reading Youths Flace Charge of As sault to Kill. Emporia, Kan., Jan. 9. Walter and Arthur Mounkes, the young men charg ed with assault, with intent to kill, as the alleged assailants of Ernest Van Sinckle and Wilbur Jones, who were stabbed at a school nouse, south of Reading, the evening of Saturday, De cember 23, were bound over to the Feb ruary term of district court. The pre liminary hearing occupied more than three hours. The young men were released under bond of $1,000 each, pending their trial by a district court Jury. TO EXHIBIT AIRSHIPS Zeppelin Will Have Two at the Pana ma Exposition. Berlin, Jan. 9. The famous armor plate making firm of Krupp and Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, both an nounced here their intention of send ing extensive exhibits to the Panama Pacific International exposition at San Francisco. The Krupp exhibits will include a series of miniature coast defense and war materials. Count Zeppelin will be represented by two dirigible balloons of the aluminum-framed rigid type with which flights will be mo.de during the time the exposition is open. (7j ftn Willi s fc.ISiy for OX0 sLtOSl If your feet ache, bum, itch or are swollen, rub them with Onr-pa OiL It strengthens and soothes the mus cles and ligaments in a wonderful way. Trial bottle loc large bottles 25c, 50c Journal Ads Get Results. Read the State Journal. t 5

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4 A ;v: Fur An Effective Trimming On Winter Negli gees French Boudoir Gowns Clinging and Graceful Underwear As Soft As Silk Gloves Dainty Footwear. NE has to look twice and look ajeraln, to make sure nowadays, that the handsome evening wrap one Is admiring: is not intended for a boudoir gown, or vice versa. There seems very little difference be tween some of the exquisitely clinging, trailing wraps of soft satin and lace and negligees fashioned of the same materials. At a pinch one might al most motor to the opera with one's fur trimmed pink satin robe du cham bre wrapped around one's evening frock; nine beholders out of ten would never know the difference, or be able positively to make the assertion even if they suspected the makeshift. This winter there has been a fad among the fashionables for boudoir wear In yellow shades and these gay garments have formed a pleasing variety among the eternal pinks and blues which are the traditional bou doir colors. A Fifth Avenue shop, one week, showed a whole windowful of yellow negligees In shades ranging from palest lemon color to deep man darin orange and the materials were satins veiled with lace and chiffon, brocaded crepes, thin wool stuffs and knitted worsted. A stunning canary colored crepe de chine negligee, worn by a dark-haired woman at a Christ mas house party was greatly admired by ths other women who saw it be cause of its odd trimming bands of worsted lace, crocheted in a bold, open stitch like the interims lace now fashionable, but made of heavy white yarn. Slx-lnoh bands of this lace bordered the wide sleeves and fell over the shoulders In a cape collar ef fect, one front of the negligee crossing over the other and fastening with a huge crocheted worsted ornament and tassel. Miss Kitty Gordon in her new opera, "The Enchantress," wears a gorgeous negligee a clinging, straight garment of brocaded orange colored crepe with touches of gold lace and dark fur at the foot. This is worn over a petticoat of white chiffon on which are soft, fine lace flounces, and the high girdle Is fastened with a big pink and white cameo. A twin cameo holds the deep mandarin blue band Dainty Boots for Weajr r y-y. i i -y v j.isr yyy- yyyy yy i J k v -s' X y yy yy :y V yyy--'y'y.?y''y:f': -y AjV-:?. y f?',- i. yy" .y--. yy--'y'y-yyy. yyy y v-.-, k-- f:yy'-yyy-y f. -ix- :f Jl In the hair. Ewansdown Trims Many New Negli gees. Swansdown, once adored by fashion, has not been much used during the past decade except for fancy dress balls and dolls' costumes; but this winter the perishable, pretty stuff has been taken up again and in Paris they are using It on frocks, hats and even ing wraps as well as on boudoir gowns, where It seems properly to be long. The soft, furry white of swansdown gives a negligee a very soft, warm appearance and this trim ming is not at all expensive. A lovely negligee of white satin, trimmed with swansdown, has Just been brought over from Paris for a February bride. The gown, cut loose at the top and tapering toward the foot, like a mod ish evening wrap, has a huge shawl collar of the satin which crosses at the front to the low side-fastening of the negligee. This deep collar is edged with swansdown and the fluffy trimming continues down the edge of the front, but does not go around the bottom. The sleeves are also edged with the swansdown. "When this trim ming is used, It should be placed at the edge of a deep collar or cape and not directly around the neck of the garment, for the latter method spoils the graceful line of the shoulders and Is usually most unbecoming the dead white swansdown being rather trying so near the face. Fur Is another trimming favored this season for boudoir use and though all modern houses are too well heated to make fur trimmed garments any thing but an affectation in the bed rooms, the use of fur in this way does lend an air of elegance and lux ury to a simply cut negligee. A little bride-to-be of this month has made herself an adorable teagown, using an old party frock and an outworn muff and stole of gray wolf. Only the beat of the fur was used and the tini est edge of it was placed along the collar, fronts and sleeves of a gown of Inexpensive lace which falls over the blue satin slip. Bodice and skirt of the slip are joined at the high waistline under a girdle of blue satin With Ceremonious Costumes. i'HE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL. r Sill j. Ooreoua "Yellow Crepe Kimono f op a. DarR-eyed Gtrl tttfyj 'JLX)SJW3r"" lllnliltr -TBI WBH II Isli i -Jh Ill -v 1 z:- Tills neblrbee of Lace Over SilK Part of ribbon. Satin Mules With Elaborate Negligees. The most frivolous slippers are worn by my lady in her boudoir, the little high-heeled satin mules being the favorites as they make the foot and ankle so charming; but high-heeled JHcrch Oo?6czi7?e now -Az& ft 'of JL J. gOOTGEAR Is more important fipq even than headgear nowadays. y Madame may trim her own hats Jr nay, may even make last year's chapeaux do service again this season by a little Judicious alteration and refurbishing; but if her costumes are to be unquestionably correct and up to date, her boots must be unim peachable, and that means that they must be In accordance with the very latest whims of Fashion. One pair of sturdy walking shoes, daintier boots with perhaps cloth tops and certainly patent leather vamps, a pair of black or bronze evening slip pers and comfortable "ties" to wear about the house, used to take a wom an through the winter very nicely. If an evening gown required light satin or kid slippers, these special luxuries lasted for several seasons, be ing returned to their tissue paper wrappings betweenwhile. Not so, nowadays, however If my lady's lit tle feet are to keep In step with cor rect and conventional requireme-.ts In style, they must be booted and slippered in a dozen different ways, and the same pair of boots will not answer at all for different sets of cos- j tumes. The most frivolous footwear Is in j fashion now. "Paper soles" and j "French heels" again offer convenient opportunities to the reformers who j have had nothing to protest against since wasp waists went out of fashion; and all sorts of exquisitely dainty boots with these frivolous soles and i heels are ready to match afternoon and evening costumes of light ma terial. Such boots are made of patent leather, dull kid, suede and satin and the tops are usually of contrasting ma terial, satin, cloth, ribbed silk serge, velvet, corduroy and various other materials being used. These fancy boots are invariably In the buttoned styles, laced boots being worn now only with athletic costumes or for i-Mt fl mi mi 3:lr''.-v'f; Iffy a. Winter" T2?ousseara mules are wobbly affairs when it comes to walking and many women, especially those inclined to enbon point, prefer heelless kid slippers with a pompon on the toe. It is very com fortable to slip Into these dainty af fairs when one comes in and the trim tramping or skating in the country. It Is a dainty notion to match the X y f? k I m The New Buttoned Street Boot With Upper of Contrasting Fabric r to i Q f fl If f I- fpihtiff mm v t: i JA- W -s fV' Mil I 1 r m t '"-'it i' -J!' H Jlv ll N r I' r i Ttie Coiffure Cap Should be Shaped to Suit tlie Face buttoned boots worn with one's street suit are discarded. Women who have maids to wait on them have their stockings as well as their boots changed when they don silken or lace negligees, for a black or gray stocking, even of silk, looks rather unsightly between the edge of a pale pink negligee and a satin mule to match. Japanese Kimonos Always In Fashion. A handsome Oriental kimono never goes out of style, for these picturesque affairs, worn year after year In Jap land without change have a style all their own and thrice lucky the woman who receives from some friend com ing home from Nippon Land, a genu ine Japanese kimono. The dainty model pictured is In violet crepe, shading from a pale lavender at the shoulders to a deep Iris tone at the lower edge, and the hem Is weighted with cotton, as is the case in all these soft Japanese room robes. This ki mono Is beautifully embroidered by hand in the clever Japanese fashion, fabric of one's gown in one's boot up pers. A woman riding down town in a subway train in New York the other morning was smartly dressed In a tailored suit of dark blue corduroy with furs of black fox. Her hat of black beaver had superb plumes matching the "blue of her suit and her little boots, plainly visible under the narrow skirt as all boots are this winter, did their wearers but realize it were of patent leather with but toned tops of the blue corduroy. Such boots, made to order, may cost up to twenty dollars the pair, but the effect is exceedingly smart and distinctive. Patent leather boots with uppers of light tan color or even of white, with black buttons set close together are much worn with dark afternoon cos tumes, and an illustration shows a well dressed woman with such boots making a striking, yet perfectly cor rect contrast with her costume. The last thought of Paris In boot wear is the gaiter boot, and though these dainty affairs are worn, as yet, only by the fashionables and by those who can afford these luxurious foot coverings, gaiter boots have undoubt edly come to stay awhile. The gaiter top, always In contrast to the dark leather vamp, comes far down over toe and heel and gives the effect of a cloth over-gaiter exquisitely fitted and worn over the thinnest of high heeled slippers. These gaiters, of course, button on the outer side of the foot and it Is rather difficult to get into a pair of gaiter boots without the assistance of a maid or a husband. I Indeed the husbands who have been j congratulating themselves because j blouses that fasten in the back have gone out of style, need not be too en- thusiastic in their self-felicitation, for the gaiter boot is much harder to I struggle with than a frock hooked down the back. The foot looks so dainty and so tiny in these new boots, however, that women will be sure to Umbroidered Sacque is Eas-y to Tashion Trimmed Cap the iris flowers being wrought in shades of delicate yellow and white. The wide sleeves have hidden pockets and the obi. or sash, is yards and yards long, so that it may be wound around the waist and tied in a butter fly bow at the back. Japanese in effect, yet not quite as pronounced, is the brocaded yellow crepe gown which would be ravish ingly becoming to a dark-eyed wom an. This gown has a deep sailor col lar and cuffs of cream colored satin and the garment is lined throughout with thin orange toned silk. One of the loveliest stage negligees of the winter was one worn by Madams Simone. This little French actress makes her color scheme of grays, greens and white and her couturiers produce infinite changes with these shades as a basis to work upon. The negligee referred to was of white silk, veiled with point d'Alencon lace and trimmed with bands of silver lace. The effect of the fine lace, shimmer ing white silk and heavy silver trim ming was rich and delicate. Coquettish Caps and Sacques. Though every woman may not pos sess costly, trailing negligees of satin, fur and lace, every woman may own pretty little sacques of dainty material for boudoir wear. Three charming sacques are illustrated; one of plaited pink silk and val lace, with a slashed sleeve tied together with knots of rib bon; one of pale blue India silk with trimming bands of silver lace, and a third, a combing sacque of white al batross embroidered In white. The latter sacque may also be used for a breakfast-in-bed sacque or an Inva lid's sacque. It is simply cut In ki mono style as the photograph shows and the edges are scalloped by hand through two thicknesses of the mate rial. The sacque Is lined with thin pink silk which shows through the white albatross very daintily. Charming caps are shown with two of fhese sacques. One is a quaint bonnet-like affair made of blue satin covered with a lattice-work of pearl beads, and the other Is an ordinary round model of net and frilled lace, trimmed with pink velvet ribbon and little .snowballs made of cotton cling to the style tenaciously, once it Is established in popular favor. White boots In the street seem a bit striking to the unsophisticated eye, but the fashion is really rather a charming one and, provided the boots are kept daintily white and spotless there seems no good reason why women should not affect them with street costumes, as well as the staid and soberer black footgear. These pretty white boots for winter wear are not of canvas like the summer sort, but of white buckskin, with soles and heels of russet leather, and the buttons are usually of white pearl. A young girl, taking .tea at a fashion able restaurant the other afternoon, removed her smart motor coat of double faced cloth, gray on the outer side and the violet lining showing in revers, cuffs and collar; and beneath the coat was a charmingly girlish frock of white with a little bodice opening over a vest of tucked batiste; with this white frock were worn white buckskin boots and the effect was ex ceedingly dressy and dainty without being at all elaborate. The white boots are worn also with tailored street suits of dark blue or brown serge or mixed wool suitings, chiefly those having gray or white mixed with black. White boots, and even tan boots are worn with velvet street costumes but the style Is In very bad taste, the 1

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Types of Brown Footwear Tilts Little llsrvi wrapped with silk. Et ry woman has her boudoir and breakfast caps now. These pretty headcoverlngs have been found to be indispensable, ones their convenience has been discovered. The boudoir cap covers ths hair entirely and hides a coiffure as yet Incomplete; and these caps, also, art dlstractlngly becoming to the average woman. Other Wear Than Neglige Wear. Before donning her luxurious and restful negligee, my lady removss her long corset, built to offer a correct foundation for her trim street cos tumes. Instead, she slips Into a de lightful lounging corset, bonad soarce- ly at all and so loose that It may be adjusted without bothering with the laces. This corset is scarcely mora than a girdle at the top, but It Is nevertheless carefully made to keep the figure from spreading or settling into bad Unas during the boudoir hours. There Is a very clever new reducing corset which has dons worlds for the stout woman's figure. In this corset the reducing feature Is provided with eyelets and laoes, and after being hooked In place over the front of the corset, may be drawn as snugly as desired and as every wom an knows now, the ideal corset Is as snug as it can be adjusted around hips and abdomen while above the waistline It Is quite loose. Under her perfectly fitting corset the well dressed woman wears a one piece garment of knitted or mesh fabric, unless she prefers a very fine, soft chemise; but the union suit Is really mors satisfactory in winter, for thin as its fabric may be it really does afford some protection against the cold. The daintiest new garments of this character ara made of a very supple silk material, exactly like that used for silk gloves, and the under garments are as dalntly embroidered as are the wrists of the long silk gloves. Over the corset Is worn a combination of lace and sheer batiste, but If the figure is at all heavy a brassiere between corset and combina tion is required. A teaspoonful of olive' oil sprinkled about the roots of a rubber plant once a month will have a beneficial effect. velvet suit by Its very nature demand ing something ceremonious in foot wear. Smartly dressed women wear with their velvet street suits patent leather boots with dull kid tops, or tops of velvet matching the costume; with handsome velvet frocks for bridge or other afternoon use gaiter boots or llght-soled satin boots ara worn. The satin boot makes the foot look tiny, but it Is not a comfortable boot to wear until It has become well stretched and then It Is not apt to be smart. A black satin boot of the con ventional afternoon type is pictured; also a very dressy boot for evening wear; a boot of gold finished leather with brocade top buttoned with small gilt buttons, and heels of the French iest character. Between these two boots Is a photograph of the new dress boot with beaded straps buttoning across the Instep. Through these straps the openwork stocking shows very prettily. At the right is the cor rect type of slipper for evening gowns of dark color. This slipper Is velvet, with a rhinestone buckle at the front. The fad for brown footwear Is shown In another photograph which pictures brown satin slippers, beaded with bronre on the toe and worn with brown silk hose; and some very smart street boots of tan calf with uppers of brown and white material selected to match a tailored suit of the same fabric. 't

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fHE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 9, 1912 II NEW GRIPON LIFE Free City Soup Line Revives Spirits of the Poor. Scores Took Advantage Mayor's Hospitality Today of CAME IN FAMILIES. Hoi lirotli Into Chilled and Empty Stomachs. First Hay of Soup lo Needy Is a Hiff Success. hot broth with will be Men. women and children took ad f.antage of tl..- generosity ot Mayor Billard today and flocked to the apartments of the police matron al headquarters station. Fifth and Jack ton streets, where a free soup line was conducted. At 3 o'clock this afternoon Vhen the fires in the rang'-s were turned out the matron and her assist ants had served soup to scores of the poor and needy in the city. Although the first day of the soup line did not draw as many of the poor as expected on hccouiil oi ation of the weather, it is believed by thc police matron and by Mayor Bil lard that before the week is over hun dreds will flock to the police station and receive their fr crackers ami bread. Tnrnnrrnw the SOUH line crowded, believe the persons in charge. "Before many days the poor will know that a meal is waiting for them and they will visit the station m lamilies and droves. Whole: families stood around the big table at the police station this morn ing and early afternoon. eating the Boup and bread and crackers. Labor ing men who have been earning their lodeing working at odd jobs and beg ging a place to sleep lined up around the counters and relished the first hot fond they had given to their stomachs ir rlavs Old men hobbled up the stairs and sat down exhausted on the scattered benches as the assistants brought them soup. If the stingiest and most hard heart ed man in Topeka could have seen the persons that stood in the soup line tiidav he would rush frantically to Mavor Billard and donate every cent in his pockets for the good of the Vause. Children There Also. "Why. we have had men, women and children and even babies up here," said Mrs. Delia Sayre, the po lice matron. this afternoon. "The poorer classes in the city haven't real ized yet that we really have started something for their benefit some thing for them that they will receive without begging. I know that this roup dinner in a few days will keep us busy every minute of the time. The persons here today will spread the news and the people who could not believe their eyes when they saw it in the paper last night will come and see If it is true." One family of a man. woman and three children entered the soup line this noon. The five were haggard, scantily clad and drooped. Their Uheeks and eyes gave no hint of good food or good sleep or comfort. Tears nearly came to the eyes of visitors to the police station, as they saw the family hover together and devour the soup and bread and crackers. They Flood closely together with the father on one side and the mother on the other as animals would protect and keep warm their young. They could not wait until their soup cooled and burned their tongues and mouths but it was the happiest and most wel come pain they had received in weeks. One shaggy looking man stepped up Jn line, took his bowl of soup and tip ped it to his lips. As hot as It was he poured It down his throat and smacted hiB lips. "Say," he said to an assistant. "I used to think that whisky revived a fray when he was down and out. I used to spend every cent for booze I thought It would keep me warm and ptop my hunger. But let me t?Il you right now" and he raised his voice go fi.il could hear, "I swear that nothing Is better than a good hot bowl of beef soup, Just like this." And he tipped the bowl far above his friostrils and the rim creased his fore head. Three small boys entered with life less eyes and listless step. They bash fully accepted their soup and ravenous ly poured it Into their months. Another bowl was given them and they drained it dry. Seeing that they could hold no more they threw back their little heads and went frolicking down the stairs, out of the door and up the street. It was a different trio of young sters than the three that entered the door a few minutes before. Every person in the soup line had a taie if it was only known to the r.eople of the city w ho would lend an attentive ear. New life was given to scores of tired-of-living men and women. Xew ambition was tired into the souls of those who had entered with empty stomachs and chilled bodies. The soup line is a success in Topeka. It is a success even if it feeds only one family a day -it gives them a new grip on life. You who complain of low gas pres sure and slow r,- eals step in at the police station between the hours of 11 a m. and 3 p. m. tome day and you will leave with a new idea on the joy of living. LIMIT FREE PAPER resident Will ot Admit It Except from Canada. FAIR m HERE Secretaries Gather to Talk Over the Situation. W. II. Mel lor of the Nebraska State Fair Attends. Secretary W. R. Mellor. of the Ne braska tate board of agriculture and the Nebraska state fair, asserted in speaking before the Kansas Association of County and District Fair managers at the Throop hotel this afternoon, that one of the great fairs and expositions of this part of the country has beer, built up in Topeka bv Secretary H. I Cook. Topekans have claimed this to be a fact, but coming from a man like Secretary Mellor it of course carried weight. Washington, Jan. 9. In a message i to the house of representatives today President Taft announced this gov ernment would refuse to admit free wood pulp and papier from any nation otner than Canada until the proper courts have decided the question rais ed by several European governments under the favored nation clauses of their treaties. After the passage of the Canadian re ciprocity bili by which wood pulp and pa Ir ffframCanada were admtted free into United States, six European countries demanded that their wood pulp and print paper also be admitted free. Accompanying- the message the presi dent sent to the house a letter from Secretary of State Knox and Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh, containing information as to the countries inter ested and amount of wood pulp and paper imported into this country since last July when the reciprocity bill was passed. The president says that the questions ot law now raised can be better consiaereo in a court of law than by executive con struction, and continues: "I have, therefore, decided that the re tusal of the treasury department to ad mit wood pulp and paper under the joint effects of the Canadian reciprocity ace and that favored nation clauses of the treaties with other countries shall stand as the attitude of the government, pend ing the consideration of the two ques tions above stated before the tribunals regularly appointed by law for the con sideration of such questions." way company will probably extend its street car service to the big park. For several months the opening of the Eighth avenue road has besn con templated. Petitions for the extension were signed by all of the property owners along the extension and the route was proposed by the viewers. The only claim for damages allow ed in the opening of the new road to Gage park was granted to Montieth sisters, who will receive J100 for dam ages to their property. CHILD SAVES FAMILY Cries of Katherine Mulvane Prevents Parents Suffocating Iom Gas. WILEY THIN SKINNED The Doctor Admits Himself at Sugar Trust Inquiry. Washington, Jan. 9. Dr. "Wiley, the government food guardian is get ting thin skined, he admits today to the house committee which, is trying to fix responsibility for last summer's high prices of sugar. Chairman Hard wick was trying to lead Dr. Wiley from the path of a protective tariff into the tariff for revenue only chan nel. "I have been lambasted so much for my opinions that I am getting thin skin ned,' said Dr. Wiley. Dr. Wiley showed the committee how sugar is tested by the polarscope. He urged people to eat more common yellow sugar and praised beet sugar. Would the price of 7Vi cents a pound charged for sugar during the rise in that product have been lowered If there was no beet sugar on the market?" asked Representative Fordney. "Xo," was the reply. NEVER PAID A CENT lorimer Denies Bribery Charge the Wi'.ness Stand. Washington, Jan. 9. Senator Lori mer took the witness stand in his own defense at 3:15 this afternoon. "Did you every pay any money or anything of value to anybody for your election?" asked Attorney Hanecy for Lorimer. "I did not." Mr. Lorimer then in answer to ques tions categorically denied any knowl edge of bribery. Fall Caused His Death. Dubuque. Ia., Jan. 9. Mgr. Roger Ryan, vicar general of the Catholic arch diocese of Dubuque, died here to day. His death was the result of a fall cn an icy pavement several weeks ago in which he sustained fractures in the side and limbs. Mgr. Ryan was 75 years old and a native of Ireland. He had been prominently mentioned for archbishop in former years. NO -FrtAT- f fcicvcie COP Orsi r-US VWV-C -TO AR-eeSTT A TOR-TUG" A A IS THAT v THE TRAINED M MONKEY A Mr 291 G. W. Hervey of Omaha, "Whose Paper Was Read Today. Secretary Mellor was not down on the program originally, but he was in duced to come as G. W. Hervey, a member of the Nebraska board of ag riculture was not able to come in per son although he sent his manuscript. "The organization of the officials of the various county fair societies should meet with the full approval and commendation of every well wisher of county fairs within your state," said Secretary Mellor. "The organization of any class of men working along similar lines brings results. In this day and age it is realized as never before that the support and assistance of your neigh bor increases the ease with which you may conduct a successful business. The meeting was called to order by the president, I. D. Graham. An ad dress was given by Prof. Crabtree of the Kansas State Agricultural college on "Classification and Awards," and Dr. Battey of Cawker City spoke on "How to Advertise a Fair." Will Banquet Tonight. M. F. Garrity of Norton will pre side at a banquet which will be held at the Throop hotel at 6:30 o'clock this evening. The talks that will be given are: "A Shortgrass Fair,"' F. W. Ir win, Oakley; "How We Did It," Ewing Herbert. Hiawatha; "Getting Lp a Cattle Exhibit," Dr. O. O. Wolf. Ot tawa; "The Race Track," O. P. Upde graf'f. Topeka; "The Free List," Fred W. Sturgis, jr., Concordia; "Pass Out Checks." Elliott Irvin, Coffeyville; "Concessions," Chas. Youngreen, Law rence; "The Association of Fair Man agers," C. A. Sparrow, Leavenworth. LONMAN AT THE HEAD Cries of little one-year-old Katherine Mulvane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Mulvane, saved the parents and her older sister from suffocating from gas at their home. 916 Kiner street. about 4 o'clock Sunday mornine- The gas had been left burnine- in thn room at night. It was verv low. Earlv Sunday mornintr it cam nn fastnr than it could be consumed, it is thought, and me room Degan to pe lined wlthl It. About 4 o'clock Katherine, the baby. up ana cnea. The lather was wakened by her cries. He noticed the gas in the room and was beginning to leei sick, tie arousea jurs. Mulvane, and the other daughter and took them out on the porch for fresh air after opening the windows. Mrs. Mulvane was so nearly overcome that she fell back in the bed the first time she attempted to get up. Then she made her way out of doors, but nearly fainted when she re-entered the house. However, now she is recovering and is able to be down town. The babies are doin nicely. The family is staying at present at the home of Mr. Miilvane's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John K. Mulvane, 315 East Sixth avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Krammes and son Charles, 1415 West Sixth avenue, are also recovering from being nearly suf focated with gas at their home early Sunday morning. NEW LEADING WOMAN he Excellent Values in this CI earance of Silks and W col Good s Miss Virginia Goodwin Appears "Beverly Uraustark." In Lovers of romance and even the very practical who enjoy pretty scenery and good acting will enjoy the Majestic where North Bros, are playing a dra matization of George Carr McCutche son's "Beverly of Graustark" with Miss Virginia Goodwin leading lady as "Bev erly" and Orvill Surrier the leading man as Baldos or Prince Danta. are further enhanced by the fact that these are all thoroughly desir able fabrics in this season's patterns and colors many of the dress goods being staple fabrics the variety of silks covering weights and weaves for all the purposes of silk. It is our intention to shorten the time usually given to stock clearance, by making prices that will close out the remainders once and for all. These prices are certainly strong enough to effect a swift and complete clearance. Remember that this is the only opportunity you will have to buy quality silks at such prices, and let nothing prevent you from attending this sale. Second Hoof. The Reductions on Silks 5 pes. Silk Suiting, 26-inch, regularly 50 49c ANOTHER "SnTH" IX CONGRESS. Washington, D. C, Jan. 9. John M. C. Smith, the new Republican congressman from the Third district of Michigan, has had a varied career. Elected President of the State Tele phone Men. This afternoon the State Telephone association completed their work of or ganization and elected the following officers: President T. L. Lonman, Osawat omie. Vice President Sam Tucker, Pleas anton. Secretary and Treasurer T. B. Mack man, Tonganoxle. The following members were el-ected on the executive board: W. P. Hemphill, Topeka. J. D. Waters, Bonner Springs. L. A. Walters, Parsons. O. Lawrence, Lyndon. A. J. Stevens, Hiawatha. A. B. Clark, Oskaloosa. C. L. Brown, Abilene. I. c. c. is' sustained Lumber Rate Ruling Upheld by the Supreme Court. Washington, Jan. 9. The orders of the interstate commerce commission restor ing and reducing rates on lumber from the northwestern states to the Missis sippi valley and east to what they were before November 1. 19(77, were approved and upheld today by the supreme court of the United States. The XTnlted States circuit court for Minnesota had enjoined enforcement of the orders. ALL AROUND BAD MAN Man Arrested on Suspicion Confesses Many Crimes. Chicago, Jan. 9. Frank Holloway, 32, who is also known under different names, confessed to the police today that he was concerned In two bank robberies, one at Panama and one at New Westminster, B. C, in which $450,000 was stolen. He also said he was wanted for two mur ders and for many robberies in Okla homa. WEBSTER GIVES UP, Will Plead Guilty to Cruel Murder of Wife. Sterling. 111., Jan. 9. John Erwin. chief counsel for Dr. Harry Elgin Webster, charged with wife murder, announced this afternoon that Webster would appear in circuit court Friday and plead guilty to murder, throwing himself on the mercy of the court. iSMITH. 'K Born in Ireland, he came to this coun try at an early age and lived on a farm In Michigan until he was twenty-one. He learned the painter's trade, then the mason's trade and after that took up the study of law and graduated from the University of Michigan. Since that time he has practiced law, been an alderman, a prosecuting attorney, a manufacturer, a bank president and is now engaged in farming and -stock raising besides his latest Job, that of congressman. "Spirit" Seized at Seance. The "spirit" of Dr. Nicholas Senn appeared before a band of spiritual istic devotees in the presence of De tectives Monahan and O'Keefe. A complaint had been made by Mrs. Mary Hohenstein. 6927 Lafayette ave nne. that she had been victimized out of $.00 by H. G. Borroughs, a spirit ualist, 4018 Indiana avenue, and Mrs. Mary Ernst, his assistant. Detective Monahan dived into the cabinet and captured the "spirit" while O'Keefe tore off its muslin gown and veil. Borroughs was revealed and he and Mrs. Ernst were arrested. In court yesterday Borroughs pleaded guilty and promised to discontinue his seances. He was fined $25 and costs and Mrs. Ernst was discharged. Chicago American. flO pes. Showerproof Fou lards, 21-inch, regularly $1.00 6 pes. Hairline Stripe Taf feta, 27- inch, regularly $1.00 10 pes. Fancy Messalines, 27-inch, regularly $1.00 3 pes. Plain and Change able Taffeta, 27-in., reg ularly $1.00 8 pes. Fancy Suitings, 20 inch, regularly 75 10 pes. Persians and Plaids, 20-inch, regularly $1.00" b pes. Persians and Plaids, 20-mch, regularly ..$1.25 5 pes. Pongee, colored dots, 27-inch, regularly $1.00 3 pes. Wash Habutai, 36-inch, regularly $1.00 8 pes. Fancy Suiting, 24-inch regularly $1.00 8 pes. Fancy Suiting, 20-inch, regularly $1.00 1 pc. Black Taffeta, Puredye, 20-inch, regularly $1.00 1 pc. Black Taffeta, Puredye, 26-inch, regularly 85 10 pes. Arleen Poplin, 24-inch,regularly $1.00 J 3 pes. Fancy Suiting, 26 inch, regularly 48 4 1 pc. Fancy Messaline, 18 inch, regularly 58 r1 8 pes. Check Silks, 18-inch, regularly 50 60c $1.25 to $1.75 Silks for 98c yd 5 pes. Crepe Faille, 24- inch, regularly $1.25 15 pes. Persian Faille, 22-in., regularly $1.25 5 pes. Foulards, French, 44-in. reg. .$1.75 $1.50 to $1.75 Silks for $1.12 yd 10 pes. Dubleen Poplin, 40-in.regularly $1.50 10 pes Silk Voile, 44-in. regularly $1.75 2 pes. Corduroy, cream and black, regularly $1.50 The Reductions on Wool Fabrics 6 pieces Silk Warp, 44 in regularly $1.50 1 piece Eyelet Crepe, 44 inches, regularly $2.00 1 piece Silk Warp Henri etta, 44 in. regularly $1.50 6 pieces Plaids, all wool, 44 in., regularly. .$1.00 22 pieces Crepe, Voiles, Taffetas and Fancy Weaves, 43 inches reg ularly $1.50 6 pieces English Suit ings, 54 in., regularly $2.00 3 pieces Imported Fan cies, 48-in. regularly $1.75 10 pieces Tussah Royal, 4o-in., regularly ....$1.50 2 pieces Broadcloths, 48 in., regularly $1.50 2 pieces Broadcloths, 54 in., regularly $1.50 For Dress Goods From $1.25 to $2.50 35 pieces street shades, some weights suitable for Jacket Suits. A great of fering and desirable for immediate use. We Are Showing. Spring Suits Third rioor. Having closed out the last of our 1911 ivool suits, are now having an ad vance showing of neiv suits, in sufficient variety to clearly define the styles that are correct Jar spring. These styles are much more beautiful, and in many re spects entirely different from those of any preceeding spring season. You ivill be well repaid for coming for a first view of these suits. EX 1 Novelty. Two on the bill at the Novelty this week were here about a year ago. They are Fitch oCoper, the musical rube and Roland Travers, the illusionist. Both were applauded as they walked on the stage Monday afternoon. Cooper makes music on a saw among other things. OPEN UP HEW ROAD West Eighth line Open Park. to Gage's The county commissioners have ap proved the opening of the Eighth ave nue road west from Washburn avenua to Gage park. It is over this new road, it ia claimed, that the Topeka rail- 'ISUEFOSE OLTNKEfmfi familiar with 'the. countky from nswejgk cut: to your sususban HOME?" "YESL KNOW EVEKY INCrf OF THE APVEKTLSEMENTS DEATHS AND FUNERALS Daniel Near, aged 74 yeaas, died last night at his home, two miles north ol the city on Kansas avenue, from an at tack of Bright's disease. The funeral ar rangements will be announced later. Norah Henderson, aged 65, of 309 East First street, died yesterday at one of the Iocal hospitals. The funeral arrange ments will be announced later. The funeral of the late Walter H. Sid- well, which was to have been held yester day, was postponed pending the arrival of relatives and was held from Bora gardner's undertaking rooms at 10 o'clock this morning. The body was buried in Topeka cemetery. The funeral of the late William E. Col lins of 1251 (iarfield street, was held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon from the resi dence and the body was buried in the To peka cemetery. The funeral of J. S. Spalding, wh'.cii was to have been lueld Wednesday at 1 o'clock, has been postponed and will be held Friday at the same hour. The post ponement has been decided upon while waiting the arrival ot relatives from Cali fornia. The body of W. W. Reid, who dlod Sun day at Dacus. Tex., will arrive in Topeka this afternoon. The funeral will be held from the Second Presbyterian church in Northi Topeka at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Mr. Reid was an old settler cf Shawnee county, and lived on a farm north of Topeka until a few months ago, when he removed to Texas. LOCAL MENTION. For Chillblains, Frost Bites and All Sore Feet Many persons dread the approach of winter on account of chilblains and frost-bites which cause a soreness and itching at times almost unbearable, fre quently bringing on a nervous condi tion. To those thus atmcted the follow ing treatment will be welcome informa tion as it gives immediate relief and soon cures. "Dissolve two tablespoon fuls of Caloclde compound in a basin of warm water not hot). Soak the feet in this for fifteen minutes. Repeat this for several nights until the trou ble disappears." The action of Calocide compound for All foot ailments is really remarkable. ty its use corns and callouses can be j.eeled right off. Sweaty, smelly feet and tender, aching feet need but a few applications. Bunions get relief in stantly. Any druggist has it in stock or will get it from his wholesale house. A twenty-five cent package is usually sufficient to put the worst feet in Hne condition. All persons who will volunloor to. join the working forces of the Commercial club membership are asked by Secretary J. Will Kelley to attend the meeting which will be held al 6:3i o'cloek tomor row evening. A subscription was taken at the Com mercial club this noon to aid in the work of the Provident association. It aggre gated $60. Mrs. Dan Dyer of Smith Center was operated on at Christ hospital today. Her condition is reported to be favorable. Mr. Dyer, who is postmaster at Smith Center, accompanied her to Topeka. W. L. Taylor, general manager of the Missouri Fidelity and Casualty company, who is here today from Springfield. Mo., said today: "I am here attending the an nual building of the Topcka-Southwestern railway." K. L. Payne of Kmporia who is a can didate for state superintendent of public instruction is here today pushing his can didacy. A t a meeting of the board of directors of the Karnival Knights held ilnnday night at the Elks club it was definitely decided to hold a minstrel show in thu course of five or six weeks. A meeting of the Kansas Development association is in progress at the Com mercial club this afternoon with about 30 persons present. R. H. Faxon Is presi dent of the organization. A meeting of the stockholders of the Kerosolar (las and Fuel Co. of Topeka was held today at the Commercial duo. I ne ooard or directors for the ensuing year were chosen late this afternoon. Among those who attended a dinner given at the Commercial club Monday evening by C. B. Bulge. W. O. Rigby and Charles .Toslin were: Saddler Hodglns. M. Gibson, W. O. Rigby, Floyd Baker, James TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. WAXTKli-White girl f. work. Bell '4ti. r genern I lioui. Doncyson. Elmer Miller. J. lie:(, Harry .Nichol?. C. H. HuiKe. (leore Mc Coy, a traveling man: ciurtu e Hownia:i. Charles Joslln. J. K. Wilnon. Frame Mills. Tom Powell, several of tlio gue.-in expressed their Intention of joining ti ormnerriii I club. MEET HORRIBLE DEATH I'.iSiit Steel Moulders i:mcloird in Molten Metal. KueHe-Xur-Touvre, France, Jan. 9. Eight steel moulders met a horribht death and eleven others were weriouMl.r injured today by the bursting of a. gun mould at the government ravnl arsenal near Angoulime. While the workmen were pourinc metal into the mould the gases ema nating from it caused an explosion and the men surrounding the mould wero enveloped in the mass of hot metal. How to Gain Healthy Flesh Stan!icl! AiIWmvn L'mo of Sannw. While thinness may not be n dl--easc, yet it is in reality a condition that needs attention. Cnder th nourishing power of Sa.mose healthy, natural flesh will soon be attained. This remarkable lle.sh-fot ming food strengthens the system generally and builds up the tie.shy tissues so that good, natural plumpness results. An ounce of llesh is better than a pound of theory. ileorge W. Htans lield, druggist 6.12 Kan.sa-s avenue, be lieves that the best possible demon stration of the flesh-forming pownr of Ramose is to have it tried by his cus tomers, and to induce them to use It, he offers to pay for the Satnose In cao it does not give fatisfaction. No stronger proof than this can be given of his faith in It. Ho has seen hun dreds who were weak, thin and pcrawny, l'nm" plnmp, robust and strong, solely through the Ue o Eamose.

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1 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 9, 1912 JOCIEl The date has been set for a wed ding of special local interest. Miss Hazel Grimes of Fort Stockton, Texas, whose engagement to Mr. Dennis Payne was announced last summer, has chosen Wednesday, January 17, for her wedding day. The marriage will be quietly celebrated in the even ing. Miss Grimes is the daughter of llr. and Mrs. Prank Grimes and made her home in Topcka until about two years aero when she moved with her people to Fort Stockton. The Grimes family were prominent people in To peka affairs, and Mr. Grimes is quite well known throughout the state. Miss Grimes was popular in the younger Bociety crowd to which she belonged, and quite deservedly so. for she is a person of girlish attractiveness and winning manners. She was a member of the little circle of close girl friends of which Mrs. Robert Pierce, jr., for merly Miss Ksther Rodgers, is one, and she is the second of the set to be come a matron. She was educated in Topeka and was a student at Bethany college. She told her friends of her engagement last summer when she came to visit her sister, Mrs. Monte Kistler. Mr. Payne was here a short time during Miss Grimes' visit and was one of the guests at a party given for them by Mrs. Kistler. He is a Mis souri university man, was formerly county attorney for his county in Mis iFouri, and i3 now practicing law In 'l"ort Stockton, where he and his bride t-will make their home. Mr. Payne has itouilt a new bungalow which they will occupy. The Ladies' Music club will meet fTTednesday afternoon with Miss fEthelyn Harrison at her home, 1121 rftVest Tenth avenue. The D. I. Whist club met Monday i iwlth. Mrs. Fred Freeman at the To apeka club. r Above Is shown a combination of 5lain cloth and striped silk used at f tractively. The cloth la marine blue rfcerge, the silk a stripe combining two i tones of the same color. The upper "jpart of the bodice is of silk, the elongated shoulder reaching to the cloth party were: General C. I. Martin, General Charles S. Huffman of Colum bus. General William J. Watson of Pittsburg. Colonel Perry M. Hoising ton of Newton and Colonel Wilder S. Metcalf of Lawrence. It would be difficult to imagine any thing more genuinely girlish than this debutante's gown of white mousseline de soie over ro.se pink silk. There is a fichu of the mousseline scalloped on the edges and fringed with pearls. sleeve with its cuff of lace. The upper edge of the serge portion of bodice and sleeve is cut in tabs which button over a width of black velvet ribbon. The tunic also Is finished at the bottom with these tabs. The underskirt is made of the striped silk. Hat of blue velvet with feathers in a lighter shade. The members of the military board who are examining officers for com missions, had a luncheon at Mills' tea room Monday. The members of the fill Idial kkas on Eatahks DAINTY LIGHT POCKETBOOK ROLLS WITH AN OVEN BROWX BLOOM. One thing of which we are especial ly proud Is our ability to make the choicest pocketbook rolls ever. Our baker in charge of this part of our taking seems to be favored with ex ceptional skill and the result is, that nearly every one in town knows of these excellent rolls and comes to this Jakery for them. They are made of an exceptional quality of dough, raised with special care. At the right moment they are thrust into an oven which is exactly the right temperature for baking the rolls perfectly. When the brown of baking deepens to that rich delightful color they are taken out and sold, pip ing hot. The roll itself is a most tender, light and rich quality and the crust is crisp .nd tender. Our pocketbook rolls and eleven other -arieties of fine rolls and buns Bell at 10c per dozen. JUST THE WEATHER FOR LES CIOVS MINCE PIE. You'll relish the sort of mince pie you get here, especially. Our mince, as well as all other sorts of pies, are made from the very highest grades of materials. They are broad and thick, well baked and wholesome. Our mince pie is made from a choice quality of mince meat containing rais ins, spice, currants, suet, etc., in just the right proportions and is cooked in a way to delight a particular palate. You can get them hot just before noon each day. They sell for 15c each and are worth it. MANY DELICIOXTS PASTRIES TO TEMPT YOU. You'll always find them here, fresh, wholesome and tempting. Among some of the delicacies are cocoanut and al mond macaroons, cream horns filled 'with marshmallow cream, cream puffs filled with whipped cream, marschino cherry cakes, chop suey cakes. Char- ilotte Russe, chocolate e'clairs, lady fin- i gers, fresh fig newtons, peanut bars and more tnan a dozen cnnerent vari eties of cookies, wafers, etc. IDEAL BAKERY The Place That's Different. 121 West Sixth St- Plione 190. The scallops are piped with pink silk and other scallops above are outlined with the same. The deep "V" neck is filled with folds of pink tulle. The skirt consists of three flounces scalloped with the pink and fringed with pearls. The Louis XV knots on the two lower flounces are of pink velvet the girdle of the same. The date for the giving of the Peter Pan Cycle by pupils of Miss Jennie Blinn has been changed from January 17 to January 12. The cycle will be given at the Y. W. C. A. rooms next Friday night. The public is invited. Mr. Willis Norton will entertain the Fillmore Street Whist club Thurs day at her home on Topeka avenue. Mrs. Norton and her daughter. Miss Josephine Norton, expect to leave In a short time for Pasadena, Cal., to spend the rest of the winter with Mrs. Nor ton's mother, Mrs. Julia E. Thompson. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. Dana McVicar, who spent a part of the past summer and fall in Topeka, has gone East and will sail soon for a trip to Europe. He will spend a few months traveling In Germany, France, and Austria, Mrs. Frank Ellis, formerly Miss Gay Shepherd, of Kansas City, returned home today, after a visit to Mrs. W. S. McClintock. Miss Isla Stevenson who has been the guest of Miss Helen Morrow, returned to her home in Kansas City today. Miss Morrow accompanied her and will be her gu-estXa week. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pierce are plan ning co leave soon for LaJolla, Califor nia, and will be gone a year. Mrs. I. A. Mulvane. and her daughter. Miss Gertrude TMulvane, who have been in Enterprise, Kansas, visiting Mrs. Mulvane's daughter, Mrs. E. J. Ersham, have returned to Topeka and are guests of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Mulvane. They will spend a few days visiting at the Joab Mulvane home before returning to Los Angeles. Miss Annie Laurie Hillyer, who has been attending school in Boston this winter, returned home Monday. Miss Frances McClintock returned to day from Detroit, Michigan, where she spent the past two weeks with friends. Dr. S. S. Estey is suffering from a severe cold and is confined to his home. Mrs. George Fleishman and Miss Lil lian Foster will go to Kansas City Sat urday to hear "Every Woman'- at the Shubert theater. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Lang will leave Wednesday for California. They will be accompanied by Mrs. Enona Morrow and Mrs. Anna Hull, of Marshalltown, Iowa, Miss Jean Parkhurst, of Kansas City, who assisted Miss Hazelle Loveland at her song recital last week, and who was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Frank Parkhurst, has returned home. Mrs. Lillian Mitchner, president of the State W. C. T. U., will speak at the missionary meeting of the women of the First Congregational church, Wed nesday, at the home of Mrs. John Sar gent, 225 Clay street. The meeting will begin at 3 o'clock. Miss Goldie Smith, of 1S0S Lane street, a student in the fine arts department of Washburn college, returned this week after spending a week with relatives and friends In Valley Falls. Judge T. F. Garver went to Kansas City today on business. Rev. A. S. Henderson, of the First Congregational church, will return the last of the week from a trip to High land, Kan. Mrs. Sport North will leave tonight for Chicago, and later she expects to go to New York. Her friends present ed her with a wreath of flowers Satur day night at the theater. Mrs. Frank Brown, of Atchison, will arrive Thursday to be the guest of Mrs. Frank D. Merriam. Miss Marjorie Rodgers is 111 at her home on Tyler street. Mrs. Ella McGrew, of Blue Rapids, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. George Reed, of Clay street. The long coat which completely cov ers the gown beneath from neck to hem is the practical and becoming fashion in street wraps for the winter. These come in all kinds and colors and materials; the choice for serviceable wear seeming to be the double faced cloths. elvet is much used for more formal wear. The sketch above was made from a model of black velvet. The broad revers, deep cuffs and front 1 nDIECf Jt a i 4 S closing are finished with a pleating of black silk. Near the bottom the straight line of the front turns at an angle dis playing an inset of striped velvet also in black. Miss Edna Corbet, who has been vis iting her sister, Mrs. Harry Forbes, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Corbet, Safeguarding the Health of Women. During the past three years favorable decisions have been handed down by the supreme .court of the United States In the Oregon case, by the supreme court of Illinois and Michigan, and by lower cower courts in Louisiana, Virginia and Missouri, estab lishing the right and duty of state legislatures to safeguard the health of women and girls by limiting their hours of labor. Last winter public opinion expressed itself emphatically In favor of protecting women from overwork, by the enactment of eight-hour laws In California and Washington, nine-hour laws in Missouri and Utah, ten-hour laws in Wisconsin and Ohio, and by the extension of existing laws in many other states. The Ohio law provides that women may not be employed more than ten hours In one day, nor fifty-four hours in one week in various places of em ployment, such as factories, work-shops, restaurants, millinery and dress making establishments, and in the telephone and telegraph service. The law follows the Michigan statute In exempting tanneries from the restric tion of hours. The validity of the Ohio law was argued in October before Judge Dil lon of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county, who held the law constitutional. It was carried directly to the supreme court of the state. In defending the law, the attorney general of Ohio requested the co-operation of Mr. Brandeis, who successfully defended the Oregon ten-hour law before the supreme court of the United States and the Illinois law before the highest court of that state. In Washington and California tile new eight-hour laws are on trial, and in Illinois, because the law was amended to include additional occupa tions. Since the decision of the federal supreme court In 1908 upholding the validity of woman's labor laws on the ground of their benefit to public health and welfare, no superior court of any state has held such laws un constitutional. (Copyright, 1911, by North American Press Syndicate.) A Great Variety of Styles in At Greatly Reduced Prices for Quick Clearance. The assortments to be closed out include button or lace shoes in Buckskin in black, gray, blue and Wisteria. of Valencia, will leave Friday for Eads, Col., where she has a position at coun ty superintendent of public schools. Mrs. Myrtle Callahan has returned from Sterling, where she visited her sister, Mrs. Miller, and will be with her mother a few weeks before return ing to her home in Guadalajara, Mex. Owing to the low gas pressure luncheon will not be served Wednes day at the Central Congregational church. The regular missionary meet ing will be held in the church at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, January 10. A pleasant surprise in the way of a birthday dinner was given Sunday in honor of Mr. Bennett T. Hornsby at his home, No. 2422 Lincoln street. Those present were: Miss Anna Taylor, Miss Jessie Curtis, Miss Myrtle Coleman, Miss Flora Cope, Miss Harriet Godfrey, Miss Addie Stalker, Miss Bertha Hornsby, Miss Ruth Hornsby, Mr. Fred Scott, Mr. Roy Painter, Mr. John Hornsby, Mr. Leroy Payne, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Payne, Mr. E. L. Stalker, Mrs. M. M. Putnam, Mrs. R. B. Walker and Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Hornsby. The Helping Hand society of the First Congregational church will meet Friday afternoon, January 12, with Mrs. W. F. Bowen, 803 Western ave nue. The meeting of the Aid society of the First Presbyterian church, which was to have met Wednesday at the home of Mrs. John E. Frost, haa been postponed until Friday, January 19, on account of the uncertainty of the gas. F. C. Lutes has moved his studio from 511 Kansas avenue to 713 Kan sas avenue. Miss Eileen Pickens has gone to Wichita to spend a few days with her sister's family. The Ladies' Missionary society of the Westminster Presbyterian church will meet at the church Wednesday after noon at 3 o'clock. The C. E. society of the First Pres byterian church will have their busi ness meeting and social Wednesday night at the Manse. The Richardson Art Embroidery club will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. A. B. Spencer, corner Twenty-fifth and Pennsylvania avenue. The artistic color combination usu ally attributed to Parisian origin is exploited in this exquisite toque oC pink silk. It is the becoming inverted shape covered flatly on top and sides with pink silk over which black net is laid and a design traced upon this In old blue silk thread. Around the bottom of the hat is a narrow band of skunk while the top edge is finished by a row of pink silk roses. These form two loops on the left side out of which spring a black and a white aigrett'3 which stand smartly erect. Income Tax Law Upheld. Madison, Jan. 9. The legality of the In come tax law enacted by the last legis lature was sustained in a decision by the supreme court today. Patent Kid Patent Colt Dull Kid Vici Kid Black Calf Tan Calf W E 1 I 11 M Mat Kid Tops Satin Velvet Tops Cravenette $6.50 and $6.00 Shoes for $4.95 $5.50 and $5.00 Shoes for $3.95 $4.00 Shoes for $3.15 $3.50 Shoes for $2.85 plTMlILS fey ess GRAND Wednesday, January 10 JOS. M. GAITES PRESENTS Cecil Lean AND Florence Holbrook Prices 25c to Sl.SO Boxes $2.00 Tremendous Seat Sale Yesterday! COMPANY OP SEVENTY-FIVE By the Authors of Three Twins and Madame Sherry AUGMENTED OltCIIESTHA Marion Har land's Helping Hand. Marlon Harland is recognized by the editors cf every teaman's magazine in the country as the greatest em&.crfty on afy matters concerning housekeeping and homemaing. This great authority is to be absolutely at the service of this paper's readers in helping them solve any problem cf housekeeping. Jf yen don't hnovB xchat to do in regard to my household probiem writs to Marion llarland, in care of this paper, and she will gladly help you. The Information Bureau. Offers Abdominal Support. Mary A. P." wants an abdominal support. I myself have been under a very serious opera tion and was compelled to wear a support. I have tried several kinds of belts, but have found none as satisfactory as the ones I made myself. I Efc all be only too glad to be of any assistanoe In te'.l'n? her how to make the belts or if the same E'.r-e aa myself letting1 her have one which I' bought. You may send her my address or hers to me and I shall be pleased to help her. Mrs. F. a. P." As no stamp is Inclosed in your letter I ad dress Alary A. P." throtig-h the Corner. Should she desire to get the directions for making the belt from you it will be a pleasure to bring you together. Has Old Revenue Stamps. Will you kindly advise me as to the Taltie of pome old internal revenue stamps? I have thom of different denominations, 2 cents, S cents, 10 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents. Jl, and $2. They were all cancelled In the 'COus. I have some old co:-e dating back as far as 1821, a 1 cent piece cat- lS'f,S, which bears the flying eagle. Any in-fo-rnation as to the vatu. of them will be appre ciated. E. G-. T." suspect that there are too many revenue ctTips still in the possession of private in oMvM'i'als for them to be valuable. Fifty years h'Ti- they will be curios. Just now they are tnidoie aged, the uninteresting age In furniture, c:1; and human beings. Ftill I refer Tour queries with regard to stamps and coins. Desires Book for Study. Will you kindly inquire, through your valu able Corner, if any one of your readers has the book entitled Klizaheth Bundy"s Anatomy for Nurses,' whteh she would like to dispose of. I am in need of one and should like to have one at second nacd. J. H. F." The address of the stwdent is In tny books. Seeks Map of Texas. Please inform me where I can procure a cood map of Texas, one containing ail the rail roads, the latest one made. Mas. J-t. El J." Apply to the newsdealers in the station of any large city. They can order one if they have none In stock. Newsdealers usually carry rail way and other maps in every state. In yours you siiould have no trouble In procuring one. Who Knows This Poem? Can you tell what Li the poem or- who the author of the following lines: "'A!! lost tbir.Ks are in the angels' keeprngr; Kb past la dead for us, but only sleeping, Tb years of heaven will all earth's little pain make good.' They came to me on a sick bed after the death of a beloved boy fourteen years ago and I have not as yet been able to locate them or be grateful to the one God sent who gave suoh comfort to me. Mas. W. B. P." The beautiful lines are vaguely familiar to txk bat -I m oo-rry-to eay- I amot plac--tlmm. Our readers will look them up and let you identify the author to whom you owe the com fort Hopes to Go to Arizona. A young man with public school education, Jl years of age, would like to go to Arteona to better his health If some reader of your Corner contemplating poing there would take me along I should be very grateful and besides being a companion I could fill In as secretary. H. C. P." We do not aek for salaried positions. Tou seek to make traveling expenses, for which the compensation is to be your companionship and the light services you may be able to render as secretary and general actuary while en route. An invalid traveling In quest ef health may wteh to arrange this with you. To Renew Blackboard. Could you kindly tell me how to renew a child's blackboard when the black haa worn oft? I see so many asking questions of this kind, in the Corner that I am tempted to take my chance in It. No doubt some of your readers have want ed to know the same thin. Mas. W. P. 6." Is there any way of renewing a blackboard except by repainting it? And cannot you touch the spots upon this with the black paint which is sold for the purpose without jotat over the entire surface? Referred! Don't be araid to ask questions of the Corner. If they do not come within our province we shall tell you this frankly. Would Read In the Valley." Can you give me the address of any dealer in very old books? I am desirous of getting an old novel called In the Valley,' by Harold Fred eric. It went out cf print, no doubt, several hundred years ago. It has to do with some of my way back forbears. If not too much trou ble will you kindly ask if any of your many readers know of such a book? Can you tell me cf any way to make elder berry wine into a cordial? The wine is good, but we do not like it in the state it now i3. 1 thought perhaps I could make it into some sort of cordial that might toe good to use as medi cine. B. K." 1. The book cannot have been out of print for many years since Harold Frederic was a writer of the nineteenth cenrtury. I read the book less than twenty years ago. Have you inquired for it at the libraries? Should a reader respond by an offer of the work it will be made known to you. To make the wine Into liquor add to each quart a cupful of white sugar and half a pint of the very best brandy you can get Old French brandy is the best How to Make Mint Jelly. "Will you kindly give me a recipe tor mint Jelly; I mean the green clear kinds? I have tried crSme do men the, but it does not color enough. Also can you give me any information about Beeleek china and whether Oopelamd china is still made in England or whether plates in that ware are valuable now? Mrs. F. H. C." To make mint jelly have a foundation of clear apple Jpi'y rathqr- thtoker if it were-moe-eo be modified by other liquid. Flavor with the essence of mint sold by druggists. It colors as well as flavors. Of course if you get the green mint grind it fine, saving all the Juice, and then press every drop of it through a cheese cloth, bag you have the real thing." But you will need a large quantity of the herb and the proc ess is more tedious and troublesome than that 1 indicate. 2. The original Beeleek china was, if I mis take not made in Ireland. I know that a fln-a quality of it is imported from that country. A fair imitation is made in Trenton, N. J. Some consider it better than the imported. Royal Cope land ware Is always admixed and nsver out of fashion. Should Send Cards. If we are Invited to an at home will you kindly let us know what cards we must send if we do not accept the invitation? Will you let us know what to do? A Fw Ladies." If you go take a card for each of the hostesses and hand it to the servant at the door or lay it upon the tray set in tie hall for that purpose. If you do not attend the function send your cards in time to toe received upon the day of ths affair. Acknowledging Wedding Presents. I have Just been married and have received a Dumber of things from people I do not know, but who are friends of my husband's. Will you please tell me Just the right kind of a letter to write them? A. B. C." Tour husband's friends are now yours. Writ to the donors of the weddflng gifts with this in your mind, pleasantly and gratefully, saying that you thank them in bis name as in your own and value the gifts the more because you know they are bestowed for his sake. 4c To Break Bad Habit. We have a little girl 3 years old that has been sucking her thumb since she was a baby. We have tried many ways to break her of this babft but have always failed. Her lips are be coming curled up and her face disfigured. Do you know of anything that we could do to break her of this habit? B. F. C." When you wash her hands and while the thumb is damp rub into it cunningly a little powdered salicln. It will not hurt her, but sh is less likely to put the bitter thumb into her mouth after a few experiences of this sort Should this fail bandage the hand as if it were sore, binding ths thumb to th fingers and sew ing on the bandage so securely that sho cannot get it oil. Renew it daily and keep it on at night as well as by day. Spare no pains to break her of the disagree abl habit It will disfigure the hand and the face In time. Old Ladies" Homes. Would you please, through the Corner, tell me if there is any old lady's home In or around Boston; also df you know how much money it takes to get one in there? Mrs. M." There are old ladies' homes in Boston. I can not give the location or other particulars con cerning them. 9heaM they bo contributed I ban let yo a tihsiiiL S-" r f"'i i-' i. W r

fc :fl Ks r- t.Vv s 1 ,1 f t -w i I, J- v. 1 J- Washburn College Chapel MYRTLE ELVYN PIANO VIRTUOSO One of America's leading: women pianists. Thursday Eveninjr, jan. II. 1912. 8:15 o'clock. Tickets 50 75e. 75c seat? reserved at Stansfleld'a Drv- Store after Jan. 5, 1912. GRAND i-nt Sat. Jan. 13 2,5c to $l.r0. Seats Thursday M0RT H. SINGER Presents naHBEnnasiQEi IN Tht DiaJtm 4 Musical Comtdum By ADAMS, HOUGH and HOWARD Three Absolutely Original Dancr r223 yfo ft f f ft "jWf'M'"'' I MAJESTIC NIGHT 25c -Mat lie. Tonight And AH This Week Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Beverly of Graustark NOVELTY DAILY MATINEE THE HOITKB OF MIRTH 10 CKNTS-AT Z:W) V. M. VAUDEVILLE TONIGHT 2 SHOWS 7:45, 9.15-Prices 10c. 20c, 31c Ipen Letter To Over a Million Owners of Hyomei Inhalers. Because of the enormous sales of HYOMEI during the present year, we deem it advisable to publish this letter. HYOMEI has cured more cases of catarrh (acute, chronic, mild and stub born) than all the catarrhal specialists In America. But in order to get the best and Quickest results the directions should be closely followed. Change the gauze in the inhaler every week, or, better still, every four days remove both stoppers from in haler before using. Never mind how strongly of HYO MEI the inhaler smells, to get actual benefit 15 drops of HYOMEI should be poured into the Inhaler three times a day. A less amount won't destroy the germs. Read the directions carefully and if you are afflicted with a stubborn case of catarrh use the vapor treatment as directed. Remember that the little hard rub ber inhaler will last a lifetime and that an extra bottle of HYOMEI and a generous supply of gauze can be ob tained for only oO cents. A complete HYOMEI outfit Includ ing inhaler costs $1.00 at dealers everywhere. Money back if not satis fied when you use HYOMEI for ca tarrh, catarrhal deafness, coughs, colds and croup. MAJESTIC Niehta iuc Mat. lf-20c Tonight and Al! This Welc BEVERLY hh int. W-1. Put of GRAUSTARK NOVELTY lh:f,r- 10 Cen!s-! 2:31 P. M. DAILY MATINEE 2 VAU0FVILLE 7.45 shows Tonight jms TrW lO-eo-rtn OnM WWW HsrlMt nrw t, nT, -mm nit inn -M The proof of the pudding is the eat ing; thereof. Try us and see. GILLETTE NICHOLSON 100 Kansas Ave. Try a State Journal Want. Pi 1

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 9, 1912 n J We will charge these SALE RUGS to your ac count or you can make a small payment doivn and' we will hold them for later delivery WHEN IT COMES TO REAL LIVE BAR GAINS, GENUINE REDUCTIONS AND ACTUAL MONEY SAVINGS, WE LEAD BY SARA E. WORTS. ,1 avt TO DKESS IXR JACK IKJtA x A3 IT OFTEN IS. Hrrv ud. Jack, and get dre we will De iaie. "I'm not going to dress. -Oh. jack! Why won t ou "Just because I don t feel that's why." "I think you nus'- Vioin what "u ssed, or like it- can t go in think. these clothes or not object to dressing witn omeia. r but play either all." "Slit vou never aren't you going to dress tonight. "This rmy T very popular. ,and ,vm on. wknow will be there "I shan't hinder them. Im sure. -Then I I! have to wear an after noon gown if you won't dress, and I fln feel so silly when all the people around us are in evening: lre-'s--You can wear what you please it nr vou wob t see any t0''-How"l do wish you would dress. Our seats are way down front where every one can see us." -Let them. I guess we will look as well as most of them.' -So vou won't change your clothes No' How persistent you are. hen Xiw, 1 vol! T s-av NO to anyinins. ji understand I mean NO, and not keep nagging me about it until I get a. ""m 'sure I shan't enjoy the even ing one bit! We are sure to sit where nil the people around us are dressed, and we will be so conspicuous. -r thought you were going to see the play, not to show your clothes or mv shirt front." "'I do want to see the play, and it's because it's such a good play, ana been so much talked about, that I want vou to dress." "Is that so?" -Yes. everv one always dresses for a play that is a success when they don t for one that's not." "I don't see the point you re trying to make. But I suppose YOU know w hat you're talking aDOUt, so il s uul necessary." "Whv, if a play has been talked about as much as this one has people expect to see their friends and are more particular how they dress; but if a plav hasn't proved much of a success they "feel they can go dressed as they please." "You've got it all doped out, haven't you "You know I'm right." "I know I'll dress as I please at ANY play, and that you won't see any thing, good or bad, if you don't hurry up." "We don't have to leave for half an hour: there's plenty of time yet for you to dress." -That's why you're being so slow, is it? Didn't I tell you I would not dross tonight?" "Suppose we want to go to supper?" "I can eat in these clothes as well as in the others." "You know that at the supper places you like to go every one is always dressed." "(Jet your dress on and stop grumb ling. I'll go and read the paper nntil j you are ready." THE THEATER. IT MIGHT BE. it we go AS "Oh, Jack, dear, what made you so late? You know we have tickets for the theater tonight?" "By Jove! So we have. I had for gotten all about it." "You have plenty of time to dress if you start immediately." "Oh, have I got to dress tonight, Puss?" "Of course you have, you lazy boy. This play has been talked about so much that every one we know will be there, and, as usual, in their best bibs-and-tuckers." "I hate to dress tonight, Mabel; I wish you would let me off." "Don't ask me to, Jack, dear, there's j a good boy. I do so love to see you i in dress clothes, and then, dear, there s another thing if you don't dress, I'll have to wear a street gown, and all the other women will be dressed and I shall feel such a frump." "So, Pet, i m to aress, so you can is that the idea?" "Xo, you tease! You're to dress because "it's the proper thing to do when you go to such a play. "I'll have to shave if I dress." "Well, that only takes you a minute. And, Jack, dear, there's another rea son I want you to dress. You always do no matter where we are going if others are along, and I don't want people to think you don't consider worth while to dr alone." "I don't Imagine, Puss, that anyone cares whether I'm dressed or not." "I do!" "Well, if you're going to put it up to me in that way, here goes for the shave." "That's right. And, dear, I'm all dressed except putting on my dress; so if vou will tell me what shirt you want "to wear, I'll get it ready for you." "One of those new ones that came home the other day. I might as well trv them and see if they are right." "How s this one, aear? it s so pretty. with that fine cord running through it." "All right, if you like It." "Then I'll put in your, studs and get out your clothes." "You manage to get your own way, Puss, most of the time, don't you?" "I am so proud of you Jack, dear! Some men don't look very- well in evening clothes, but you look so dis tinguished." "Mv! After that. I shan't object to wearing them on the slightest provo cation." "Then, Jack, we may want to go to supper, and you only enjoy going to the best places and where everyone dresses, and I want you to look as nice as the rest." "What a vain Puss it is! I guess you're right; but it's a beastly bore sometimes, just the same." "I know. But see I have every thing ready for you to put on. Now, I'll get into my dress and we will be there before the curtain goes up." "I'm ready, and now I'm dressed. I'm glad you insisted." (Copyright, 1912, by the Associated Literary-Press.) fetesA I s i mm til oil: i I Ecpsa Four days only, beginning tomorrow morning and ending Saturay night, we will offer a number of dropped patterns thdt we will discontinue in Room Size and Small Rugs at prices never before heard of in Topeka. We are preparing for inventory. Rather than carry them in next year's business we are offering them at the following prices and thereby giving you the greatest chance of a life time. It will be worth your while to see them. REMEMBER FOUR DAYS ONLY By ROY K MOULTON. f. X. 1 Thpv iiflprt in erl i I out cuttertn V I And scoot across There was no con stant putterm' V i t h steering wheels, you know. He simply took and wound the reins Around the whalebone whip. And wound his arms around his gal And let the old mare zip. They did their courtin' that a-way In days of Ion? a.o. He gen'ally proposed to her While scootin' cross the snow. But things are different nowadays; 1 hey go in swell machines. And really they do not know what 'MOULTON' NO FEAR OF CWEDH k iff r V 1 If You Use UT1CURA Soap and Ointment W TrwYxerm. LtbenU wmple of eacJi mail ae. mth 32-paie book ostncoim. Addres Cnti W!tl Caticur Son Sh.rins Stick. "louJa Old-fashioned courtin' means. The feller thinks more of his car Than he does of his girl As they go seootin' down the rud And set the dust awhirl. They can't do no lovemakin', fer It's very plain to see. When you are steering auto cars You can't have one arm free. Hipped From tlie Stream. A Kansas man shot at a goat and hit a neighbor by mistake. Those Kansas wniskers are sometimes very deceiving. Carnegie says a salary of $Jb is enough to get married on. Yes, but how about tne expenses after marriage? Cheer up! Only three months more and tne baseball teams will be starting tor the naming camps.' The oldest Pullman porter has just died at Baltimore. Kven the richest must go ;-r.me unie. Andrew Carnegie advises youns men not to smoke. 1'nole Andy, apparently 'is in no way interested in the tobacco trust. I hat rew York man who willed his entire estate to his lawyer merely sub mitted to the inevitable. it seems encouraging to pet a good, old fashioned, honest name like Obadiah m the senate. Blue Tuesday. When a feller feels as funny as a hearse, U hen it seems though his lot could not be worse. When his color is in Htd And his mind is workin' slow. Arid the bills are romin' due. Ami his roll's sonf up the flue. And the hirer has quit And there's no coal in the put -Jn.l his corn is raisin' Cain And he's dizzy witli the pain And his boss called him down And his v.-ife is out of town And is writin' home for checks And he's trifled with the decks And has lost what dough he had And lie feels just like a cad And the pipes are raisin' hob And the plumber's on the job And they've srone and raised his rent And his friends are broke or bent And his collar is too tiaht And his clothing is a sight And he needs a pair of shoes And he owes his lodge some dues And despair stalks all about And his pipe has gone clean out Aid sme roller comes along iih an optimistic song. Does it not help him a lot? es. most surely. It does XOT. From Hie Hickeyville Clarion. Mrs. Anse Frisby has got two maids, one to wait on the other, and has to but ton her own dress up the back. Hank Purdy says a feller has got to be a little pertickler when away regarding u.e kind of money he spends, but any old kind will go around home. There has been a plugged quarter floatin' around tms burg ever since last March. K very feller has had it once or twice and Kev. Hanks says it has come in with the usual morning offering- nine times. Grandma Furdy. who has been in rapid ly failing health for twelve years and is the oldest woman in these parts, has bought a motorcycle, and can be seen going down Main street ninety miles an hour any fine day. She hasn't got much time left and has got to go around fast to see things. Mr. Kline:- Jones said to Miss Amy Fringle that the muffler on his oatmobu? wasn't no good, and so she is knittms one for it and will give it to him tor nt., birthday. One of the most startling phenomena ever chronicled in this township occurred Tapestries 1 only Tapestry Rug, size 8-3x10-6, Regu lar Price, $12.50. Sale Price $9.35 1 only Seamless Tapestry Rug;, size 8-3x- 10-6, Regular Price $16.00. Sale Price $11.00 Tapestry Brussels 6 only Tapestry Brussels Rugs, size 11 3x12, Regular Price $27.50. Sale Price $20.85 4 only Tapestry Brussels Rugs, size 9x12, Regular Price $16.50. Sale Price $12.38 9 only Tapestry Brussels Rugs, size 9x12 Regular Price $22.50. Sale Price $16.75 2 only Tapestry Brussels Rugs, size 6-9x9 Regular Price $8.50. Sale price $6.38 Crex Rugs 1 only Crex Rug, size 8x10, Regular Price, $7.50. Sale Price $5.45 Velvets 2 only seamless Velvet Rugs, size 7-6x9, Regular Price $18.00. Sale Price $13.00 4 only Velvet Rugs, size 9x12, Regular Price $25.00. Sale Price $18.25 5 only Seamless Velvet Rugs, size 9x12, Regular price $27.50. Sale Price $20.85 Wiltons 2 only Wilton Rugs, size 9x12, Regular Price $45.00. Sale Price $33.00 Royal Wiltons 10 only Royal Wilton Rugs, size 9x12, Reg ular price $50.00. Sale Price $36.50 Body Brussels 1 only Body Brussels Rug size 9x12 Reg ular price $30.00. Sale Price $21.60 Wool and Fiber 1 only Wool and Fiber Rug, size 8-3x10-6, Regular Price $8.75. Sale Price. $6.65 Hall Runners 3 only Axminster Hall Runners, size 3x12, Regular Price $8.50. Sale Price $5.95 2 only Axminster Hall Runners, size 3x15, Regular Price $10.00. Sale Price $7.50 Axminsters 1 only Axminster Rug size 6x9, Regular Price $15.00, Sale Price $10.00 2 only Axminster Rugs, size 9x12, Regular Price $18.50. Sale Price $13.85 1 only Axminster Rug size 8-3x10-6, Regular Price $20.00. Sale Price $14.68 1 only Axminster Rug, size 8-3x10-6, Reg ular Price $22.50. Sale Price $16.75 13 only Axminster Rugs, size 9x12, Regular Price $22.50. Sale Price $16.75 10 only Axminster Rugsr size 9x12, Regular Price $25.00. Sale price $18.25 6 only Axminster Rugs, size 9x12, Regular Price $27.50. Sale Price $20.85 3 only Axminster Rugs, size 11-3x12, Reg ular Price $32.50. Sale Price $24.50 2 only Axminster Rugs, size 9x10-6, regu lar $35.00. Sale Price $27.00 1 only Axminster Rug, size 9x12, Regular Price $40.00. Sale Price $29.75 Small Rugs 8 only Axminster Rugs, 27x60 inches, reg ular price, $2.50 and $2.75. Sale Price $1.95 8 only Axminster Rugs, size 36x72 inches, Regular Price, $4.00 and $4.50. Sale Price. .$3.00 3 only Velvet Rugs, size 27x54 inches, Regular Price, $1.25. Sale Price 89 on the farm of Lafe Tubbs yesterday morning, where a fine pond disappeared in a most strange manner. Saturday night a flock of wild geese settled on this pond, estimated at 675 in number. It was then warm and salubrious. The sudden change in the weather Is believed to have frozen them In, for in the morning two hunters in visiting the pond found them thers, but on their appearance the geese at once raised, taking the whole pond with them. The hunters were so nonplussed by the disappearance of the pond that they never fired a shot and the nock llew ott to the south, honking and flapping their wings so loudly that people along their course heard it and seeing the strange sight fled to their homes. Dipped From the Stream. A man aged ninety-two is walking from San Francisco to Indiana. It is easy to see. why he should want to get out ot San Francisco, but why should he want to get into Indiana? A Harvard professor of music says that syncopation in harmonization has no Im moral connotation. Translated into Eng lish this means that ragtime is all to tho good. There is a movement abroad in the land to abolish the handshake. This looks like a plot to put about 90 per cent of tha politicians out of business. Champ Clark says the next president will be a Democrat, and, if he could have his way, no doubt he could tell right now which Democrat. And if China wants to be like the United States, she will have to begin pay ing 25 cents for a nickel's worth of chop suey. The president 13 not allowed to eat any pastry. But then, he never did hang around the pie counter very much. John D. has invested in a new derby. Times can't be so hard after all. Copyright 1911, by North American P ress Syndicate. EAST SIDfc NOTES. Every Department Is Inclueded in This Sale Come prepared to purchase at extensive savings lis v3 V 1 To Continue for Tomorrow Silks you would like to own at prices you ought to pay. Elks pS. Immense quantities of single and double width foulards, satins, Taffetas, Louisinne, Messalines, Wool back satins, Fancy Silks, Crepe-de-Chines, Satin Pongees and Marquisettes. Silks that meet all requirements, for waists, dresses, kimonos, evening dresses, etc. Seven tables and five counters piled high. Mr. and jtlrs. Fred Thomas are spend ing two weeks in Kansas City, Kan., visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Bert Webber is improving and will soon be able to return to work af ter being off several days on account of illness. He is suffering with an attack of bronchitis. Mis.s Bertha Kemp has returned front 10 pieces 27-in. plain China Silk, 50c quality. 9 pieces 19-in. plain lining Silk, 58c quality. piece 19-in. nile green Satin, 58c quality. piece 20-in. rose Crepe de Chine, 59c quality 1 1 23 YARD Clearance Sale of Crepe de Chine 15 piece of fancy Crepe de Chines in eight different shades for party dresses, scarfs, etc.; 24 in. wide, $1 quality 49c YARD I 4 ,."-r....,,.,i..,. 30c 2. pieces 30-in. rose Kimona Silks, 59c quality" 1 piece 36-in. lavender Pongee, $1 quality. 18 pieces 24-in. polka dot Foulard, 59c quality 5 pieces 27-in. Rough Pongee, $1 quality. All of our pattern dress lengths at $2.50 per f f yard or $2.00 44 inches wide, will be attJ T&ii snecial Driee. vard I YARD 8 pieces 24-in. "Shower Proof" Foulards, 85c 8 pieces 36-in. Persian Foulards, $1 quality. 3 pieces 19-in. Printed Warp Messaline, 75c. 4 pieces 27-in. Shepherd Checked Taffetas, $1 5 pieces 27-in. plain Taffetas, $1 quality 8 pes. 36-in. plain Chiffon Taffetas, $1 qual. 3 pes. 36-in. plain corded Silk, $1.00 quality. 1 pc. 36-in. Diagonal Pongee, natural, $1.25 9 pes. 24-in. "Shower Proof" Foulards, $1 17 pes. 24 and 27-in. fancy Messalines, $1 qual. 2 pes. 26-in. Natural Pongee, $1.00 quality. 6 pes. 27-in. plain Messalines, $1 quality All of our 36-inch black Silks that sell regularly at $2.00 per yafd Peau-de-Soie, Peau-de- Cygne, Satin Duchess, Messab'ne, per yard. 59c YARD 69c YARD 11.50 I CAN CURE YOU OF RHEUMATISM FREE This photograph truthfully shows the terrible effects of rheumatism in my case, but today I enjoy perfect health and de vote my life to curing others. After spending Siuow and suffering un told agony for thirty-six years, i discov ered a remedy which permanently cured me, and I will send you a package of the very same medicine absolutely free. Don t send auv money it s tree. A let ter will bring it promptly. Tour absolute satisfaction at all times is positively guaranteed. Every dav lost means one more day of needless pain, so write now to S. T. De lano, Dept. TiZ Delano isidg., Syracuse, N. Y. Wichita where she has spent the past two weeks called by the illness of her brother. Miss Josephine Clark, of Wakarusa, spent Tuesday here visiting her sister, Mrs. Roy Miller, of Da vies street. Miss Ethel Thompson Is improving and will soon tie able to return to work after being off two weeks suffering from an attack of the grip. Miss Julia Olson, of Lawrence, Is here spending two weeks on a business trip. Golden Rod club will meet Wednes day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Roy Bund. 427 Larch avenue. Mr. Fred Dady went to Elmont to day on a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Atchison have given the name, Bernice Louise, to their in fant daughter. Miss Grace Fritz, of Ellsworth, Is here spending two weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. M. Moore, of Jefferson street. The regular meeting of the Mizpah society of the Presbyterian church will be held Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. William Patterson of East Fourth street. Miss Bernice Holman is spending this week with relatives and friends In Law rence. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Birt, of West Topeka, spent Sunday the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Birt. of Gratton street. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Taylor spent Sun day with relatives and friends in Ot tawa, The L. A. of the S. A. of N. A. will ITtlGHTKCIi POLAR WINDS blow with terriffic force at the far north and play havoc with the skin, causing red. rough or sore chapped hands and lips, that need Bucklen's Arnica Salve to heal them. It makes the skin soft and smooth. Unrivaled for cold-sores, also burns, boils, sores, ulcers, cuts, bruises and piles. Only 25 cents at Campbell Drug Co. install officers Thursday afternoon, Jan uary 11, at their hall. 122 East Sixth, at 2:30 p. m. Light refreshments will be served at the close. All members are requested to be present. Miss Margaret Stewart, of Wichita, is here spending two weeks with rela tives and friends. Chris Ottman, of Emporia, spent Sun day here visiting relatives and friends. Walter Williams, who left several days ago for California on business for the Santa Fe, is in Hutchinson, where he had to stop on account of the heavy snow. Mrs. A. F. Irish, of 700 Lawrence street, is improving after being sick for the past week with an attack ot the grip. Vera Pettit is improving after being quite sick for the past week with an attack of the grip. Mrs. George Rhodes and children of western Kansas are here visiting her mother, Mrs. McConnell, of 616 Leland and Mrs. Jake Oberer will re turn the middle of the month from New Mexico, Arizona and California, where they have spent the past month on a vacation trip. ;Uj !'0j f(Qf The Self Acting Oxygen V ashing Compound is the only washing pow der that will remove ink, fruit, coffee, cocoa, grease or blood stains. 1 Run cold water into a tub, us ing one tablespoonful of PERSIL to a gallon of water. Let the garment soak from one to two hours, or until the spot is free, then rub gently with the hand. 2 Rinse in cold water. 3 Place in vessel on stove in cold water, add another table- spoonfulof PERSILand grad ually bring to a boil. 4 Allow to boil 15 minutes, rinse well in warm water and hang out. IQc at All Grocers XT Z3 ..A!

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Q 1912 The Only Thing Jeff Could Have Enjoyed Would Have Been an Ant Race By "Bud" Fisher (Copyright. i911. by International News Service. WS'tt 0 OvT "TO AtfcOPi.AtM's'a M THf MR. VACVJ W HOTH"' TO DO COrAS WITH M6 vS'I-L 8 Q.O UP SAX. AVJTT. 1 fttjVT HAM'S CcJiSHT OVD LT NKdHT, V. 4rOT Too B0 J X CAN3'T tMEN TVJ.W THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY r T AnO A BUfOCrr C0 PLAN'S AMI mSCELLAKEOCS ADS ADVEUTISINO RATES: The rats for Inserting Want Ads in The Topeka Stata Journal is one cent a word each insertion, minimum 10 cents; by the week cents a word, minimum 50 cents. COUNT THE WORDS of your Ad. in cluding fcur words for State Journal ad cress when such address is used: count ach "initicl" letter and each number or corr-birvt rjon rf t'iaures as one word. OUT-OP-TOWX advertisements mast b accompanied with cash or check in full payment for the same. Note the fnrego insr Instructions about counting the words nl the rates per word for The Topeka State Journal. CLOSING HOUR: Wan' Ads. to r.e classified properly in The Topeka Ptnte Journal, must be In The State Journal .TIc before 1 o'clock. Want Ads received efter the noon hour will be Inserted under the headins. "Ton Late to Classify." or 5EJESTATJTJtASJK The North Topeka Building Co. to G. j W. Eggleston, tract in P. Garfield Place si noft Same to E. J. Crites, tract in L. Gar field Place 900 The Chicago Lumber Co. to W. G. Kamisky, lot 718-19-20-21 Pennsyl vania ave., Walnut Park 360 Lank of Topeka to J. M. Meade, lots 212-14-16 Washington st., Kchmitt's add. 800 A. A. Armstrong and wife to same, pt. s. e. 3i 6-12-16 3,500 Same to same, lots 118 and 20 Kan sas ave., Barrett's add 3,500 I E. Cole u. H. E. Cross, lots 204-6 Lime st. Farkdale add 300 WANTED SITUATION S. STENOGRAPHER Experienced, desires position: no objection to leaving city. Act, car Journal. WANTED Position by young man about thirtS": neat, sober and good education; work of any kind. M. V., care Journal. W ANTED MALE HELP. WANTED 500 men and boys dally to Bet free shaves an1?. V.alr cuts at Schwarta Barber College, 111 East 6th. In the shop, ghave 5c; hair cut 10c MEN WANTED to learn barber trade; few weeks completes a student; best and latest methods used; positions secured; commissions paid while learning; tools piven absolutely free with the lowest tui tion ever offered. Call or write at once. Xopcka Barber College, 332 Kansas ave n uc, Topeka. Kansas. WANTED Railway mall clerks. Topeka, Examinations announced January 15th. Sample questions free. Franklin Institute, Dept. 126 K.. Rochester. N. Y. W ANTET Men to prepare for positions now waiting at top wages, larn the barber trade. Few weeks qualifies. No dull seasons no strikes. Cash everv Sat urday night. An army of graduates de pending upon us for help. Apply by mall. Moler Barber College. Kansas City. Mo. 600 MEN 20 to 40 years old- wanted at once for electric railway motormen and con ductors. S0 to $100 a month; no experience necessary, fine opportunity; no strike; write immediately for application blank. Address Trolley, care State Journal. YOU ARE WANTED for government job. JSO.OO month. Send postal for list of positions open. Franklin Institute, Dep't U'-il-s Rochester. N. Y. I MADE $50,000 In five years with a small mall order business: began with $5. Send for free booklet. Tells how. Heacock. &i8 lockporl. N. Y. WANTED FEMALE HELP. GIRL for general house work, ams, 124 Greenwood. Ind. 127 Mrs. Ad- WANTED White girl Tor general house work, over 20, must be good cook; no vjist'ing or ironing. Mrs. W. L Miller, 13. Topekit ave. Ind. 1130. Jl -Aft -vW W fltai Off is lipl Ci WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WE PAT the highest cash price for carst off clothing, shoes, hats and overcoats. Drop us a card or call Gordon Bros.' loan office. 4133 Kansas ave. Ind. M79. GOOD milk cows, fat cattle and veal Calves. W. C. A. Leltzow. Ind. 257. FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT 2 furnished rooms, J1.D0 and S-.y. Sn7 W. 7th. ONE modern furnished room, $6.00: board if desired: close in. 1119 Van Burpn. FOR RENT Furnished room. 1122 Har rison FOR RENT Modern furnished front room, JS.00. 312 W. 12th st. Ind. tel. 1974. Call after 7 p. m. FOR RENT Furnished housekeeping rooms. 700 East 7th. PLEASANT furnished front room, close in. 215 East Eth. FOR RENT Modern newly furnished rooms, $2 per week. 217 W. 5th st. TWO furnished housekeeping rooms. East 3rd. 517 TWO furnished rooms for light house keeping, first floor; also sleeping rooms, $1.'X per week. 418 K. 5th st. FOR RENT Nicely furnished room. En quire 723 Clay st. FOR RENT 3 unfurnished front down stairs rooms; also 2 unfurnished upstairs rooms. Inquire 7t5 W. 6th. FOR RENT Furnished front room, mod ern at 306 West 8th. FOR RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT Dandy 6 room house and barn, 1170 Grand ave., Lowman Hill. Call Wilson, owner. Both phones 1323. 12f.5 CLAY, 6 room house, gas, bath, barn. Ind. 16. FOR RENT 617 Monroe, 5 rooms; no chil dren. $14.00. Ind. 1119. Well built, warm modern house, paved street, one block from car line, 616 West 17th st. Rental $20.00. Six room modern house, thoroughly warm and comfortable, one block from car line on paved street. Rental ?20. 4S Kansas Ave. Either Phone 444. FOR RE NT One new 7-room house, strictly modern. 1400 Harrison. $30.00 per month. S34 WEST ST. Phone Ind. 2441 Blue. Topeka, Kan. HOUSES TO RENT TO COLORED FAM ILIES. A. P. TONE WILSON. JR., 217 WEST STH ST. FOR RENT 1211 Quincy, new, modern. 7 rooms, bath. $27. Call 1211 Quincy. A 6 ROOM and bath, modern house, close in. F. S- Thomas, 519 Kansas ave. Ind. phone 23. Bell o. FOR RENT Modern 5-room cottage, 1430 Harrison. Bell 17'. FOR RENT All or part of a modern fur nished house. Ind. 23 White. Polk. 5 room cottage, $15.00. 1252 West, 6-room cottage, barn $15.00. 53 W. Sth, five room, modern, $1S. Steam heated living rooms, offices and store rooms. 414 Madison, 6-room cottage, $14. CYRUS GUTHERIE CO.. 116 E. 5th St. Ind. 1730. (5 ROOMS, modern except furnace, y2 blk. car line. $20.00. Call 2474 White. FOR RENT MISCELLANEOUS. FOR RENT Basement. 25x70 ft., good light. Good for any business, only $in per month. A. P. Tone Wilson, Jr., 217 West 5th St. FOR RENT sas avo. -Nice office room, til Kan- THtoa a Curt Gee That's BIRDS 1 VO FOR SALE HORSES. COWS. ETC. SEVEN young horses and broke. 128 Topeka ave. mares, well FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. Private or Business 100 sheets with en- finish, with printed matter desired, ail for $1.00. Up-to-date printing of all kinds at lowest prices. Queen Printing Co., 113 K. Sth. Topeka. FOR SALE Three dictation phonographs for business correspondence. Make us an offer. Address C E. R., care Journal. E CE1PET $5 buys $25 worth of household goods. balance 51.50 each week. Big sale of stoves all this week, 10 per cent off on all stoves sold the corains week as we need the room for furniture. Phones 1763. 602-10-12 North Kan. Ave. FOR SALE Baseburner as good as new. 15t6 Chandler: COMBINATION heater, one high oven kitchen gas range. Bell 1615 HIGH GRADE mandolin with fine leather case; will be sold at less than half price. Ind. 2-81 Black. 1115 Harrison. FOR SALE All kinds of dry wood. Ind. 2210 Ring 4. FOR EXCHANGE. FOR EXCHANGE. I.and, farms, ranches, city and town property, stocks of goods for sale and exchange. What have you to offer? We can match any trade. See us at once. SHELDON EEALTY CO. 822 Kansas Ave. R. D. SHELDON. Both Phones. L. J. HILTY. EXCHANGE WANTED Tennesseetown property for 250 acres Kentucky. Smith Agency, 523 Kansas ave., Topeka. LOTS IFOE EflOTT EES Several good building sites to trade on equities and houses. See Cottreli, 107 East 7th. Ind. 556-4193. WILL TRADE clear western Kansas land for first class home in Topeka. Must be close In. Will assume small in cumbrance. S., care Journal. BUSINESS CHANCES. CAWE FOE SALE One of the finest and exclusive cafes in Topeka. Price reasonable. For full information call at office of TEE WMSETT LAMB CO. 109 WEST 6TH ST. UNDIVIDED one-half interest in splen did little wholesale and retail business in Topeka. Little capital requqired. In quire M. H., care Journal. PATENTS. J. A. ROSEN, patent attorney, 41 Kan sas ave.. Topeka, Kan. FLORISTS. Funeral designs a specialty. 107 W. Stlfc MACHINE SHOPS. GUNS repaired and cleaned by expert H. B. Howard Supply Co., 710 Kan. ave. MISCELLANEOUS. A. P. TONE WILSON, JR., notary pub lic. 217 West Sth st. A. P. TONE WILSON. JR., notary public, ill West oth st. cobs r FOR SALE REAL ESTATTE. NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF REAL 3M w REAL ESTATE ASEMTS For land at Falfurrias, Texas, the very best proposition in Texas. Best land, climate and local conditions. Best market dairy proposition for land buyers. Nothing like it. See me at 435 Kansas avenue. ETUCE I. 3M, CO. GEO. M. NOBLE, JR. MAM here is your opportunity. We will build a home after your own plan on a choice building site near 4th and Fillmore; sell it to you on a small payment down and easy monthly payments. Figure with us any way. See any of our customers for reference. SHAWNEE AEK PHONES 505. 534 KANSAS AVE. SMUTEI K. E. MS. AGENCY 523 KANSAS AVE. liMKSAMS W MEAL ESTATE SALE OR EXCHANGE. Reliable insurance at lowest rates. Farms and homes for rent. Listing free. Everybody Invited to try. Showing best farm In Kansas on terms. Business building paying 10 per cent net income. SALE OR TMADE The finest up-to-date small hotel in To peka. Combination restaurant, bake shop and ice cream parlor. In college town. Fine improved 80, 1 miles from good town to exchange for grocery stock. I have some of the finest farms, subur ban tracts and city properties to sell at a discount for cash. Now is your chance If you want to do business. NEWMAN. 602 East 5th. Ind. 2141 Black. ITS A BAMGAM 1U acres choice garden land, near Santa Fo "shops, variety of fruit, cottage 4 large rooms, big barn. For quick sale, "00. Part cash. Make an offer. J. E. TOERMTOM Bell 13S2. 109 W. 6th St. Ind. 228. 8 newlv rebuilt, 5-room cottages, pan trv, cellar. 1 block from Creamery. 6 blocks to R. I. depot; liberal terms. B. L. LA1OT ind. 395. Bell 1(176. N. E. corner 1st and W estern. FOR SALE OR TRADE 7 room modern house. Ind. 2165 White.. FOR SALE; 30 acres improved. Ind. 2101 Ring J. CIDER. AN asiiburu cue" s crtvsi wiil deliver sweet cidei Mund .y, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Ind. phone ZSXa Blaclt ALL OV6R FOR SALfc REAL ESTATE. ESTATE DEALERS ASS'N. 1T3EID) WOE. SALE E TEAD)E 7 room modern house. West side. Want East side or North Topeka rentals. Improved 40 acre farm for Topeka rent als. Well located lots for rentals. 5 acres of garden land in Texas on the Rio Grande river. Want auto. Everything in the way of exchanges. W. D. TEIOMPSOK Room 201 Mulvane Bldg. Ind. Phone 206. FFEM on nearly new cottage on West side, 5 rooms, bath room and reception hall, three east front lots, cemented cellar, city water, electric light, poultry house and yard; well, near car, east front. SHAWM Phones 505. ASEMlf 534 Kansas Ave. I have a clear quarter in eastern Kan sas, well improved and a bargain for trade: also several clear farms for stocks of merchandise. GEO. M. NOBLE. JR. 435 Kansas Ave. Topeka. A EOMI 6 rooms, modern, 1H lots, east front, fine location, not far out. $2,5C0. Very easv terms. Call EATON BOWERS. Ind. 403. Bell 1620.. FOR SALE Farms from 17 .acres to 220 acres, reasonable price. Address Meri den, Box 24. R. R. N O. I. Kansas. $1,000 CASH BUYS 12 east front lots on West side, sewer tax paid, right by car hue, IV blocks from Kansas ave. Grer 1 argain. A. P. Tone Wilson. Jr., 217 W. 5tn st. FOR SALE Five room house, modern, fine location. West side, $2,700. Bell phone 2218. HOUSE Seven rooms, sleeping porch, modern except furnace; splendid loca tion; paving paid. $2,750.00. Address X. X.. Journal. POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES. FOR SALE New and second-hand carom add pocket billiard tables and DowUnri alleys. We lead the world in cheap fix tures: easy payments. Send for catalogue. Brunswick-Balke-Collender C. 1329-Ji Main street. Kansas City. Mo. PICTURE FRAMING. FRAMING, regilding, mat maktns.mount In done by J. D. Sullivan, 122 W. Eisota trect- Packing, shipping, etc WELL. Thn LeT'5 Go HOrvve. LEGAL. First published In The Topeka State Journal Wednesday, January 3, 1912. J RESOLVED. That the mayor and board of commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the best interests of said city that West Curtis street, from the west line of Kanses avenue to the east line of Chi cago, Rock Island Pacific right-of-way between Topeka avenue and Tyler street, be graded, curbed with combined curb and gutter and paved thirty 30) feet wide with vitrified brick blocks on concrete base with asphalt filler. W. G. TANDY, Commissioner. I, C. B. Burge, City Clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Is a true and correct copy of the original resolution now on file in my office. Seal. C B. BCRGE, City Clerk. First published In The Topeka State Journal December 11, 1911. PUBLICATION NOTICE. The regular annual meeting of the stock holders of tne Pittsburg Building. Savings and Loan Association will be held at the office of said Association in the city of Pittsburg, Crawford County. Kansas, on the 17th day of January, A. D. 1912, at one o'clock p. m for the following purposes, to-wit: First. Receiving the reports of the Sec retary and Treasurer as to the condition and business of the Association. Second. Doing all the things necessarS to provide for the transaction of fature business of said Association under thi provisions of Chapter 78 of the Laws of 1899, and amending the charter of said Association by extending the time of its duration from twenty-five to fifty years. Third. Transacting any other business which may properly come before it. J. R. LINDP.ITP.G, President. Attest: T. P. WASKEY. Secretary. First published in The Topeka State Journal January 9, 1912.J RESOLVED, That the mayor and board of commissioners of the city of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the best interests of said city that 'CLEPHONICS VJAMT JOB AS j 'CL.OfXVC t -r'; Wry rv JL 0 i if LEGAL. w the alleys between Sixth avenue. Seventh street. Van Buren street and Harrison street, be graded and paved twenty (2ui feit wide with vitrified paving blocks on concrete base with sand filler. W. G. TANDY", Commission jr. I. C. B. Burge, city clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify th;it the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original resolution now on file in my oifice. Seal-J C. B. PURGE. City Clerk. RESOLVED. That the Mayor and Hoard of Commissioners of the city ol Topeka. Kansas, deem it necessary for lh best interests of said city that the alley between Williams uv'nue and Fourteenth street and Lincoln street and Lane street, be praded and paved fiftei n (15 feet wide with vitrified paving blocks on concrete base with sand filler. W. G. TANDY. Commissioner. I. C. B. Burge. city clerk of the i.ity of Topeka.. Kansas, do hereby certify that Hie above and foregoing is a true and correct cony of the original i jjuu-ki now on file in my office. Seal. C. B. PURGE. City Clerk. STOCK 1 1 OLD EPS' MEETI N O. Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the stockholders of The AetMA Building 1ian Association will be held at the office of said association in the City of Topeka, Kansas, at ten o'clock a. m. on Tuesday, January 23, 1912. for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors and the transaction of such other busi ness as may lawfully come before sucli meeting. proxies to be voted at this meeting must be filed with the Secretary of the As sociation, on or hi t ore January 8. 1912. T. D. FITZPATKICK. President. JXO. Q. ROYCE, Secretary. Dated Topeka, Kansas, January 2. 1912. TRANSFER AND STORAGE. MERCHANTS Transfer and Storage Co, furnish expert packers; also look after freight. Phones lb6. Skinner st GayharL. A A AObeL 'W 7 ''S'Z-t i7Z

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 9, 1912 15 X I: N LEGAL. (Published in Topeka State Journal Jan uary St, SUPREME COURT SYLLABI. Syllabus. LEGAL. LEGAL. contract of insurance is not forfeited. each. Held that a demurrer to the plaJn- 3. Under tne iacts in tnis case tne aoc- evidence was Improperly sustained trine of election or remedies has no ap LEGAL. LEGAL. Dlication. .All i lie Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supremo Court. No. 17,820. The City of Iola. Kansas. Appellee, vs. Ted Lederer, Appellant. Appeal from Allen County. REVERSED. I 'Appeal from Wyandotte county, uistriet rri ...nontn Khnivn oy tiic rnnrt. 'laiitfu. .tlrTo- Syllabus. By the Court. Smith. J. fendant guilty of a sale ui j In liquors. No. 17.323. Lizzie Altwein, Appellee, vs. Metropolitan Street Railway Company, Appellant. falsity of the representations, but may same party made similar but not Identical thn, 1 J iiui;ipic liicxl one wno oy i;uwat;s witn otner grantees aoout tne ance lhn"0n f s""8111 compu- representing that a certain state of tacts same time which were not carried out. S?5? 5h,tmld na.ve Sne to.the in under exists has misled another, is precluded as tending- to show svstwn. nXZZnr i. iitTiu ucuymg we irutn or such represen- tent. lauuns ana irom setting proper instructions as to the meaning and application of the quoted phrase. All the justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. that the court errea 111 i"i"'.,'?v,:r",tine Syllabus Smith, J-, West, Burch. J.. Mason, J. concurring. T Johnston, C. J-. and Benson, J.. co..cur ring in the result. A true copy. r.trvTlN'E Attef D. A. VALb.Mi1" ISeai Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,392. Clem F. Baker, Appellant, The Central National' Bank of Ellsworth, a corporation. Appellee. Appeal from Hodgeman Count. life V tKJ-r.u. c-lty..,. liv the Court. nn rpal estate 1 driving a niui ifs .vft'- lieu and In satisfaction of nothf,r ""J?1..! ferent real estate constitutes such pay ment of the latter as to entitle the mort- West, J- in Court AFFIRMED. By the Court. the petition herein it is alleged that plaintiff was riding In defendant's street-car: that the car came to a stand still at a crossing; uai as sns was in tne reaemptioner is required to act of aiixming, tne car was negligently amount for which the land w No. 17,405. H. F. Kaeker, Appellee, VS. Daniel Murphy and Mary Murphy, his wife, Appellants. Appeal from Ottawa County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Johnston, C. J. In order to redeem mnrtirflepii nremispR. sold under judgment of foreclosure, the pay the sold, and and violently started forward by the i interest thereon, together with costs and motorman with such. lorce as to throw her off the car and down upon the pave ment; Held, if it appears by the evidence that the car was not brought to a stand still but was still slowly moving at the time of the accident, this does not neces sarily defeat the right of recovery. 2. In such case, to sustain the action, the evidence as a whole must show that the injury occurred substantially as al leged and that the negligent act of de fendant's employee was the proximate cause of the injury. 3. In such a case, where the answer is a general denial only, contributory negll- ence not being pleaded, the defendant gagor to its satisfaction nn i rnav introduce any evidence which goes 1. if a bank send an am w f1,n to controvert the facts which the plaintiff mortgagor, witn aumomj i ls bound to establish in order to sustain 4. Under such pleading;, the plaintiff, in settlement anu rmei ,.h eatisfaction of record, a mand for such satisfaction made upon the agent wm.e thus authorized is suiuc-iem. Johnston. C J- -Mason, J.. Smith Porter, J., Benson. J., concurring. Burch, J., dissenting. A true copy J-. Attest: deal D. A. VALENTINE, Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,3. W. V. Jackson, Appellant, Earle Guss and Clyde C Guss, Appellees. Appeal from Comanche County. AFFIRMED. T Syllabus. By the Court. J,a,f f" 1 The statute as it existed prior to 1A09. providing that the county treasurer should offer school land for sale alter giving "four weeks' notice thereof in a ....5 ,ir that a publication Fhould be made twenty-eight days before the day of sale. 2 A sale made under such statute with out that requirement having been met was void, although four successive pub lications in a weekly paper had been made prior to the day of sale. All of the Justices concurring. A true copy. Mtet D. A. VALENTINE. Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17.:5. If. W. Cox, Administrator of the Estate of Israel Saron, Deceased, Appellee, vs. The City of Kansas City, Kansas, Ap pellant. Appeal from Wyandotte Court of Com mon Pleas. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. Bv the Court. Mason, J. 1. Under a statute providing that be fore a public administrator shall take charge of an estate he shall make appli cation to the probate court showing cer tain facts, and shall give bond, and that the court shall tnereupon issue mm let ters of administration, his appointment as administrator is not rendered absolutely void by the omission of the application to set out some jurisdictional fact, where such fact actually exists. 2. Under the statute authorizing the ap pointment of an administrator where a non-resident has died leaving any estate to be administered in this state, such an appointment is not open to collateral at tack by a showing that the intestate left no property in this state excepting the puit of clothes he was wearing, valued at $1.50. 3. An action for the wrongful death of a non-resident may still be brought by the Kansas administrator of his estate, under the original act conferring that authority, notwithstanding the passage of the sup plemental act authorizing his widow or next of kin to bring the action. 4. A verdict for $3,0") held not to be excessive under the evidence. All the justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, rfeal.j Clerk Supreme Court. order to sustain the action, is not bound to prove that she did no act or that sh3 did not omit to do anything which con tributed to her injury. If, however, the plaintiff's evidence does show that she negligently did something or negligently failed to exercise reasonable care for her own safety, which act or omission was the proximate cause of her injury, she mav not recover tnererore Johnston, C. J., Mason, J., Benson, J. and West, J., concurring. Burch. J., and Porter, J., dissenting. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court- No. 17,376. Emma A. Reiff, Appellee, vs. Susie Tressler and Samuel B. Tressler, Appellants. Appeal from Johnson County. AFFIRMED. Svllabus. Bv the Court. Johnston. C. 0. 1. One who is in good faith attending court as a witness in a county other than that of his residence is exempt from ser vice of summons in an action brought in that county but if he is not a party to the litigation and is not attending as a bonafide witness he may be legally served with summons and. In this case, where there is conflicting testimony as to wheth er he is attending court as a witness in good faith, the finding of the trial court that he did not attend in that capacity is binding on him. 2. Where an action is brought against several defendants alleging that they are jointly liable for causing the illegal ar rest and imprisonment of the plaintiff and summons is served on one defendant in the county where the action Is brought, a summons may be issued under section 61 of the civil code to any other county against co-defendants residing there. All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: T. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,377. Joseph Barber, Appellant, vs. The Chicago. Rock Island Pacific Rail way Company, Appellee. Appeal from Brown County. AFFIRMED. taxes, and the word "costs," as used in section 6071, Gen. Stat. 1909, means the costs of redemption and not the costs which accrued in the foreclosure action. All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest. D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,410. M. L. Hull and B. It. Hull, doing busi ness under the firm name and style of M. L. Hull Sons, Appellees. vs. Massachusetts Bonding Insurance Com pany, Appellant. Appeal from Riley County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Mason, J. 1. The rule followed that the assignee of an account may maintain action there on, although the assignor is the party beneficially interested. 2. Under a statute renulrlng an officer contracting for the erection of a public building to take a bond from the con tractor for the payment of indebtedness incurred for labor and material, and pro viding that no action snail be brought thereon after six months from the com pletion of the building, the abandonment of work upon such a building by the con tractor is not to be regarded as its com pletion, so as to bar all actions not be gun before six months from that time have elapsed, where the public officers use reasonable diligence in causing the work to be resumed and prosecuted by another contractor. 3. The rule that sureties are favorites of the law does not apply to corporations engaged in the business of furnishing bonds for profit. All the justices concurring. A true copy. Attest D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. cleric Supreme Court- up a claim in- J. Before the holder of a nromlsorv ,u"au!Ul wilh mc iacts as represented, note negotiated to him in due course be where such claim would result in loss to fore maturitv can be charged with notice the other and operate as a fraud upon of an infirmity therein or defect in tne hinl- title of the party negotiating it, he must 2. When a false representation is of a be shown to have had actual knowledge matter presumably within the knowledge of the inrirmity or defect, or knowledge of the person making It, not made in the of such facts that his action in taking the way of commendation or as an opinion instrument amounted to bad faith. An merely, but as a positive assertion of an instruction which modifies this rule by existing fact to induce the other party charging that this knowledge means to enter into the contract, such party, "Such knowledge of facts as a reason--aving no knowledge to the contrary, able cautious person in the exercise of may, if he act in good faith accept the ordinary care and prudence in the ordi representation as true, and is not bound narv affairs of life would or should ac- to mane inquiries or examination for him self. All of the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: Seal. D. A. VALENTINE, Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,402. Wilber Lee Hart, Appellee, vs. The Life Annuity Association, Appel lant. Appeal from Brown County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Benson, J. 1. Before the passage of the act relat ing to fraternal benficiary societies (Gen. Stat. 1909, Art. 11, Chap. 65), an association of that character in accordance with its by-laws issued a beneficiary certificate; the by-laws were amended two years afterwards providing for the Issuance of certificates upon a plan less favorable to members and beneficiaries, but making no reference to, or provision for, certifi cates then outstanding, and the associa tion continued after such amendments as it had done before to accept payments upon one of the old certificates, accord ing to its terms without objection or con dition until it became f-'Uy paid up and the holder became entitled according to Its provisions to a new paid up certificate. Eighteen months after the payments had been so completed the association for thn first time adopted a by-law providing a new plan for the old outstanding certifi cates placing them In a separate class. and materially reducing the benefits stin- Syllabus. By the Court. Burch, J. plated for therein. It is held that the A contract for the shipment of cattle association Is, upon these facts estopped No. 17,341. Albert E. King, Appellant, vs. W. H. Wilson and O. T. Wilson, Apppel lees. Appeal from Meade County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Johnston, C. J. 1. A publication notice directed to "The Farmers Loan Trust Company, a cor poration," given in an action brought to quiet the title of plaintiff to land in which "The Farmers Loan Trust Com pany of Kansas" had held an interest, and based on which a judgment against the company was rendered, is sufficient to give the court jurisdiction over the company where it was shown on collat eral attack that the name by which the company was commonly known in the county where the action was brought omitted the words "of Kansas" and the judgment is therefore binding on the company and its assigns. All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,373. Harris Cole Bros., Appellees, vs. Joseph L. Strickler, Appellant. Appeal from Montgomery County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Benson, J. 1. The authority of a person to rnake representations and promises for another, alleged in an answer, having been denied in a verified reply, and no evidence of such authority having been given or rati fication shown, evidence of such represen tations and promises received under ob jection was properly stricken out. 2. A lease was signed by the lessee to a party who undertook in ,the assign ment (which was signed by him as well as by the lessee) to pay rent to the lessee. The assignee afterward assigned the lease to another party. It is held that the obli gation of the first assignee to pay rent to the lessee Is not annulled aitnougn the lessee collected rent for a time from the last assignee. AH the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, SeaLJ Clerk Supreme Court. of such busi- quire in the transaction ness," Held, error. 3. When, in an action by the endorsee of a promissory note to recover thereon, it is contended by the maker that It was procured by fraud and the trial court di rects the jury as to the degree of proof required and the meaning of the term "preponderance of evidence" they should be charged that the burden is upon the maker to show such fraud by clear, de cided and satisfactory evidence. An in struction in such a case that a bare pre ponderance Is sufficient. Held, error. All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. 11 Olr lK.li fprnm MM W Why Shouldn't It? Prettiest Inland City in America No. 17.396. J. W. Elkins. Appellant, vs. The Board of County Commissioners of Wyandotte County, and Henry T. Zim mer. Appellees. Appeal from Wyandotte County District Court. REVERSED. Syllabus. By the Court. Smith, J. 1. A reward, offered and published by n board of county commissioners under Section 6900, Gen. Stat. 1C9. is offered to every citizen and when the offer conies to the knowledge of any one, and he be gins the undertaking of doing the things upon which the offer is conditioned for the purpose of gaining the Teward. a con tract thereupon arises between him and the board of county commissioners that If he accomplishes the results specified he shall receive the specified reward. 2. Since it is not within the power of any citisen, literally to do. bj' himself or his agents, the things specified in the (statute and in the published offer, it Is he'd that if he substantially accomplishes the full objects of the offer, aided by the of ficers of the law in the orderly "perform ance of their official duties, he has met the conditions of the contract and earned the reward. AH the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE Seal. Clerk Supreme Court No. 17.307. Vhe Ottawa Condensing Companv, Ap pellee, vs. I. W. Dawkins and J. W. Reed, Appel lants. Appeal from Franklin County AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Porter J 1. An action to recover a part of the consideration of a contract which it is nlleged was paid by reason of the fraudu lent reresentations of the defendants as to the amount due thereon is an action for relief on the ground of fraud and not an action upon contract. L P' RIy' Co" v- McCormick. "0 Kan. 107, and Ryan v. Leavenworth A t K"k- SV 21 Kan' S'40- fallowed and held that in an actin for relief upon the ground of fraud where a discovervof the fraud must be alleged to avoid the bar of the statute of limitations as pro vided by section 17 subdivision 3 of the S,d ile nistanees- under which) the fraud was discovered need not be stated; nor is the plaintiff required to negative the fact that the fraud mieht have been discovered earlier. AH the Justices concurring. provided for transportation for the care. taker In charge of them. The contract was signed after the cattle were loaded and by the time it was signed the train was in motion. The conductor refused to stop the train and the caretaker was Injured while trying to get aboard the caboose Held, the contract, which re quired notice of Injury to person or prop erty as a condition precedent to an action for damages, was operative at the time of the injury. Ail the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,337. Ed Howell, a minor. By James Howell, His Next Friend, Appelle, vs. The Iola Portland Cement Company, Ap pellant. Appeal from Allen County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Smith, J. The Instructions given to a jury should all be read and construed together and although! a single expression in an in struction may seem misleading, error will not be predicated thereon if the instruc tions together constitute a correct state ment of the law applicable to the case. All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17.890. Clarence Smith, Appellee, vs. The Iola Portland Cement Company, Ap pellant. Appeal from Allen County. AFFIRMED. Syllahus. By the Court. Porter, J. 1. Before a judgment will be reversed for misconduct of counsel of the prevail ing party occurring at the trial it must be made to appear that such misconduct prejudiced the rights of the defeated party. 2. Ordinarily where the trial court has directed the jury to disregard the matter and with full knowledge of all the cir cumstances has approved the verdict and has overruled a motion for a new trial based upon the ground of such miscon duct this court will not reverse the judg ment. Especially is this true where the verdict does not appear to be against the preponderance of the evidence and where the amount of the verdict apears not to be excessive. All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest. T. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,366. Clara C. Swan, Appellee, vs. The Bevis Rock Salt Company, a corpora tion. Appellant. Appeal from Kice County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Mason, J. 1. Where a number of special findings are made against the party in whose favor a general verdict ls rendered, a mo tion for a new trial filed by him, on the ground that the verdict is against the evi dence, will be interpreted as meaning that such special findings are against the evi dence. 2. Where special findings returned by a jury are attacked as contrary to the evidence, no. Judgment can be rendered upon them until they have been approved by the trial court. All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE. Seal. Clerk Supreme Court Attest: Seal. Eliza A. D A. VALENTINE, Clerk of Supreme Court No. 17,254. Pomeroy, Appellee, Aetna Insurance Company. Appellant Appeal from Neosho County AFFIRMED. y' Syllabus By the Court 5in, t 1. While a deed is in escrow, awaltinr the performance of conditions rns to the delivery thereof v tf vedent the vendee, there is no change Tin th. -.V or right of possession to the C?i tU1,e though the purchaser occupies ft vi,,f consent of the vendor In Inula i h1 completing the contract offi0 a Tl?ea??VnUr,.0r on the Premises, and the house H lUated ed by fire while so occupied and wy the conditions of the escrow are ner6 fnrmpii th ho.J i. v dr per- increased. the rtgnt "tTrPVlK No. 17,391. The Life Annuity Association, Appel lant, vs. Jacob G. Shilling', as Treasurer of Brown County, Kansas, Appellee. Appeal from Brown County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court Benson, J. Real estate obtained by an appropria tion made by a fraternal beneficiary as sociation from its reserve or emergency fund for a home office building, occupied and intended to be permanently used for that puroose ls not exempt from taxation as a part of such fund, under the provis ions of section 4313 of the General Statutes of 1909. All the Justices concurring. a true copy. D. A. VALENTINE, Clerk Supreme Court. from making such changes and that the holder of such a certificate who has fully performed the contract on his Dart is en titled to a paid up certlflcata according to the terms specified in the one so held and the by-laws in force when it was Issued, although it was Issued subject to amendments that might be thereafter made. 2. Upon the facts stated In the preced ing paragraph the certificate holder is not precluded from maintaining his action because of delay in commencing it. 3. Although the plan of benefits provid ed by the by-laws of a fraternal benefic iary society, is afterwards found to be impracticable, the contract contained in the certificates Issued In accordance with the original plan is not unconscionable so that a court of equity should refuse to enforce it in a suit brought by a holder who has made all payments due there on which have been accepted without ob jection or condition. 4. While the statute relating to mutual Insurance companies was In some re spects applicable to certain mutual bene fit associations engaged in the business of insurance before the passage of the act relating specifically to such societies, still the former act did not apply to the defendant association, which operated under the lodge system, under the super vision of a grand or supreme lodge. (Gen. Stat. 1901, sec. 3643.) All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: Seal. D. A. VALENTINE, Clerk Supreme Court No. 17,342. George Bless, Appellee, vs. Mary BHzzard, et al.. Appellants, Appeal from Sumner County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court Burch, J. 1. The words "to stay with and care for," used to express the consideration of a contract to make a will, have no fixed legal signification. In the light of the situation and circumstances of the contracting parties in this case they may well indicate personal association, care and attention, not including the furnish ing of groceries, other necessaries and medical attention: and the parties them- gines with his wagon at a street crossing. selves having so Interpreted the contract He drove by a crossing bell at the side of that will be accepted as the true meaning, the street while it was sounding warning 2. Under the facts of this case a con- of the approach of the train. Applying to tract of the kind indicated, whereby the certain special findings of fact the meas wlll if made would devise land worth ure of vigilance which the law required $2,300 subject to debts to the amount of j of him he must have heard the bell. Ac $600, ls not inequitable and will be specifi- j cording to another special finding he No. 17,40!. In the Matter or the Appeal of G. w. Martin and Charles George from a Sur vey of Land Made by K. B. Burchflel, County Surveyor. Appeal from Harper County. REVERSED Syllabus. Bv the Court. Burch, J 1. It is the duty of a county surveyor, notified under the statute (Gen. Stat. 190:), sec. 2272) to survey land and establish Its corners and boundaries, to proceed ac cording to the statutory rules; and the record of a previous survey, on file m his office, and apparently binding on tne parties In interest because not appealed from, is merely evidence to be considered in determining where corners were es tablished by the government. 2. The conclusive effect of a re-survey not appealed from (Gen. Stat. 19U9, sec. 2275) mav be waived. A re-survey pro cured according to the statute by one or the interested parties amounts to such a waiver on his part and should an appeal be taken from the re-survey on- the ground that the statutory rules were not observed in making It he will not be heard to say that the former survey, with which the re-survey coincides, is con clusive. Johnston, C. J., Porter, West J., Con curring. Mason, J., and Benson J., dissenting. Smith J., dissenting with limitation. A true copy. Attest: P. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,365. John Edwards, Appellee, vs. The Atchison. Topeka Santa Ke Rail way Company, Appellant. Appeal from Edwards County. REVERSED. Syllabus By the Court. Burch, J. The plaintiff recovered a judgment for damages for injuries occasioned by the collision of one of the aetenaant s en- Attest Seal. No. 17,404. Santa Paula Commercial Company, a Corporation, Appellant vs. Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile Company, a Corporation, Appellee. Appeal from Shawnee County. REVERSED. Syllabus. By the Court. West, J. In an action to recover damages for failure to accept a shipment of English walnuts the testimony on behalf of the Plaintiff showed such circumstances and conduct as to afford some basis for find ng or inferring that there had been a substantial compliance with a contract on the calling lor "250 sacks of about 100 lbs. cally enforced although the promisor lived and enjoyed the consideration for only eighteen months. All the justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, SeaL Clerk Supreme Court No. 17,350. David Taylor, Appellant vs. Charles P. Woodbury, et al., Appellees. Appeal from Clark County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court Porter J 1. Service of a notice of an application to open a Judgment under section 83 of the Civil Code may be by registered letter mailed to plaintiff's attorney of record, and his signature on the return card ac knowledging receipts thereof will be con sidered prima facie proof ot such ser vice. 2. The district judge at chambers has power to bear and determine an applica tion under the provisions of section S3 of the Civil Code to open, a judgment and permit the defendant to answer. All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No. 17,361. Henry Westerman, Appellee, vs. Kizer Cord-er and Ida Corder, Appellants. Appeal from Thomas County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Benson, J. 1. Where false representations are made bv a vendor In the sale of property, the application of the doctrine of equit- need not necessarily have heard the beil although not Inattentive." Held, the find ings are inconsistent, and being incon sistent upon a matter material in estimat ing the prudence of each party, they do not furnish a basis for a Judgment in lavor of either one: All the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE, Seal. Clerk Supreme Court No. 17,355. Charles E. Gibson, Appellee, vs. Caroline McClees, J. V. Lycan, et al.. Appellants. Appeal from Seward County. AFFIRMED. Syllabus. By the Court. Johnston, C. J. The inclusion in a redemption notice or an amount in excess of the taxes charged, with interest calculated to the last day of redemption, renders the tax deed void able and subject to be defeated if at tacked in due time. AH the justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE. Seal. Clerk Supreme Court No. 17,352. The Peoples Bank of Minneapolis, Ap pellant, vs. David W. Reid, James T. Keid and James L. Jones. Appellees. Appeal from Alien County. REVERSED. Syllabus. By the Court. West. J. X. When it is alleged that a contract to supply water for irrigation and to pur chase for the grantee certain land was able estoppel does not necessarily depend fraudulent and not carried out by the upon tne knowledge oi tna vendor ot tne grantor it Is competent to show that tu No. 17.374. A. D. Stivers, Appellant, vs. The City of Cherryvale, Appellee. Appeal from Montgomery County. REVERSED. Syllabus. By the Court. West, J. 1. Ordinarily when the terms of a con tract are reduced to writing and signed by one of the parties and by him pre sented to the other, who without signing expresses satisfaction therewith and a willingness to sign and who accepts the terms and proceeds with the work, such contract is binding on both) parties. 2. When a city receives a bid for pre paring certain plans and specifications, instructs its attorney to draw a contract and directs the bidder to proceed without waiting for the contract to be signed, and the bidder thereupon proceeds with the work until it is nearly completed when he is directed to cease, held that the city is liable to him for the fair cost and value of what he has done, whether it has actually received any benefit there from or not. Ail the Justices concurring. A true copy. Attest: D. A. VALENTINE. Seal. Clerk Supreme Court. No Better Place on Earth in Which to Rear a Family, JJIONTTT MONEY to loan on live stock, pianos, or i tuns, typewriters, nousenoia gooan and personal security. L. Biscoe, 623 Kan. ave. $1,000,000.00 to loan on farms In any amount from $500 to $100,000.00 in January. Privilege of partial payments given. In terest 5 per cent and a reasonable com mission, or 6 per cent and no commission. $500,000.00 to loan on inside Topeka prop erty. Money ready. No delay if title ls satisfactory. Betzer Realty Loan Com pany, first floor, New England Building. MONET TO LOAN on personal property and collateral security, on easy term G. H. Flintham. 906 E. 4th et PROMPT Realty Loans. Ella N. Peacock. Centra! Nat'l Bk. Bids. Ind. 656 and 1931. L. M. PEN WELL, funeral director and embalmer. First class service. 608-610 Quincy st. Both phones. Both. Phones 2S7 Day and Night HAWLET STEELE. Funeral directors and embalmers, 118 East 8th ave. Mrs. Robt. Steele, assistant ISO YOJ'VE MOVED TOUROmCS 0 THE Tor FLOOR OF THE HIGH EST: BKiMWCl UZ1D1N?" "YES HDW DO YDTX LIKE IT Ajj( L- Hk, n mmik "SOOKTOm JUST A3 HE "EE GOVTRED BE "Was LAPAr LYZED." "WHT LRMTZED iUM?" -Q3 DOCTOKILir TOIT ARE SUFFERING FBI3M.A. COriFLICAXIDN OF PL5EA3E .HK..3TEIN .Al LEAST SIX." 'tLOVJ MUTLrL DISCOUNT "lOU GIT ME on HALT A, LXPZEN ,rQC.TOB? TOPEKA IN BRIEF Population, 50,000. No saloons. Area, 8 square miles. Commission, business, form of government. 6 hospitals, annual revenue $1,000,000. 9 public parks, including a zoo. Telephones, 9,000. 65 miles of paving. 350 miles brick and cement walks? 110 miles of sewerage system. 65 miles of water mains, city owns plant.' 9 banks, capital and surplus $1,300,000. 6 flouring mills, daily capacity 3,600 barrels. Number of buildings constructed 1910, 455. 47 miles electric street railway, 7 miles sur burban. 72 churches, 3 Y. M. C. A. buildings, 1 Y. W. C. A. 4 lines of steam railways. 65 passenger trains daily. Wholesale and jobbing nouses, 29. 376 manufacturing plants. 26 public schools, 219 teachers, 6,700 pupils. Washburn college and Bethany college, 1,300 students. 6 business colleges. About 700 automobiles. Assessed valuation, Topeka $50,000,000. Employees Sante Fe general offices, 1,200. Employees Santa Fe shops, largest railway repair shops in the world, 3,500. Employees Rock Island offices, 150. Topeka has largest creamery in the world. Manufactures 8,000,000 pounds of butter and ships 50,000,000 eggs annually. Topeka has greatest pipe organ between Chi cago and Salt Lake City, in the Audi torium which seats 4,500 people. Topeka has the largest pension bureau in the United States. 105,000 pensioners on lists. $ia000,000 distributed annually. Natural gas, 25 cents per 1,000 feet. 150 miles natural gas mains. 1,100 gas arc lights. Municipal lighting plant. Cheap natural gas and electric power. Electric Light, Heat Power Plant-tfurnishes current for operation of the Topeka Street Railway and 2,000 horsepower m motors and all commercial lighting in city heat for business houses, low-priced economical power for factories. Topeka has $3,000,000 state capitol building and many other state institutions. State hospital for the insane; cost one million dollars. State printing and heating plant; cost one hundred and six thousand dollars. State reform school for boys. Memorial building (now building); cost two hundred thousand dollars. Topeka has a live commercial club of 830 members. lop opeiia wil e Greater Address Secretary Commercial Club, Topeka, Kansas. i I

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