The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 19, 1912

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ff EVERYBODY 16 PAGES READ IT. EVERYBODY 16 PAGES NOEDS IT. J LAST EDITION. FKLUAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KAN S AS, JANUARY 19, 191S FRIDAY EVENING. On Ml by nwbor t TWO CENTS -.n train and rawnttaada FIVE CENTS CLARK IM SURE KILLING A BOOM. A Wilson Supporter Tells How It All Happened. HOUSE GIVES SIDE. HELD FOR TRIAL. ABDICATING HIS THRONE Bv HAL C0FFMAN .Indications Are They Will Con trol Democratic Committee. For First Time Breaks Silence and States Position. Ward Speelman, Bank Teller, Waives His Preliminary. Preliminary Contest for Control of Kansas Delegation. Governor's Friends Responsible for Harvey Episode. Tells Why He Is Goat in Stubbs Dawson Row. Bond Fixed at $5,000 Which He Fails to Give. DATE OF CONVENTION PUT ON SOFT PEDAL. IT'S JUST POLITICS. INTENDED TO LEAVE. N.s .3 '5 That Is Issue Iieing Threshed Out in Topeka. Adherents of Speaker Say It Will lie About March 20. Kansas Iem crats are strong for Champ Clark for president if the senti ment expressed by the members of the etp.te committee gathered in Topeka today from all over the state counts for anything:. Nine out of every ten committeemen :ippear to be for Clark. At the meeting- tonight the committee will set the date of the state conven tion for about March 2u or a few days Henderson Martin, Chairman of the Committee. later, maybe as late as the first week in April. The Clark mi-ii have agreed to this. Most of the 105 counties were repre sented in the crowd milling in the lobby of th-J Throop hotel today. It is an old time gathering and the unterri fied are smiling the smile of hope born of the confidence of the last two vic tories in special congressional elec tions in Kansas. 1 k -s til MS.' its Judsre W. II. Thompson of Garden C'ltv, a Promineot Democratic Can didate for United States Senator. National Committeeman Bill Sapp of Galena, put the sentiment of the Kan sas Democrats for 1912 when he said. "In 1908 and 1910 I tiad to spend time pnd money trying to get Democrats vO fill up the places on the county, congressional and suite tickets. This year they .tre leadin me a dog's life trying to ketp out of tntir tights for plact-s on these tickets. All the boys want to run for office. It's a Demo cratic year for sure." t ,.1.1 Jr.... Hugh Fferrelley, Candidate for Cnited ftiaics ocitowr. "Who are you for for president, Mr. Sapp?" was asked. "T don't know. Haven't made up my mind yet. I am not taking sides at this stage of the' game. The Democrats ate food and drank ice water and coffee at the 1 hroop to day, but the choicest morsel on the bill 7Lri r in. v,J iter I ii 14 jj J; htrrv hit iContlnued on Page 2.) of Harper's Said Must Do That He After Governor Told Him Sup port Was an Injury. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 19. "Well, I'll have to put on the soft pedal." This is the exclamation Colonel Harvey, edi tor of Harper's Weekly is said to have mads when Governor WoodrjDw Wilson forced to reply to Col. Harvey's query. said he feared editorial support In the weekly was injuring his (Wilson's) cause. A statement purporting to be a de scription of the meeting between Col. Harvey and Gov. Wilson with Henry Watterson in New York was given out here today by Judge Robert Ewing, Middle Tennessee representative of the state Woodrow Wilson organization. Judge Ewing who is related by mar riage both to Governor Wilson and to Mr. Watterson asserts the governor's statement to Col. Harvey was made against the dictates of personal friend ship and with the realization that "Harvey's support had brought him (Wilson) to the front." Judge Ewing's statement begins: "Col. Harvey's intimates well knew that his editorial utterances wer? whol ly untrammelled. He had been hrouerht into close friendship with Woodrow Wilson and had conceived the highest estimate of his character." (Continued on Page Two.) TAFT NAME IS I ret'tion Is Filed at the Capital of Nebraska For Placing It on the Primary Ballot. Lincoln, Jan., 19. President Wil liam H. Taft's name was filed as a candidate for the Republican nomina tion under the Nebraska presidential primary today. The petition asking that his name be placed on the ballot was signed by forty Omaha men and was presented by Franklin A. Shot well of that city. Shotwell, formerly was secretary of the Nebraska progressive league, but gave up that office shortly after he had given out a statement in Wash ington to the efefct that Nebraska was for Taft. In a statement made today, Shotwell praised the present execu tive and labelled him as a "progres sive." WEATHER RECORD. The following are observations of the United States weather bureau for the 24 hours ending at 7 o'clock this morning, giving the high mark yesterday and the lowest point recorded last night: Stations High. Low. 2Z 30 40 32 10 4S 6 il 38 IS 12 16 20 20 16 26 3S 6 12 5S 2 36 20 26 80 42 8 20 4 38 22 36 Amarillo, Tex Boise. Idaho Boston, Mass Buffalo. N. Y Calgary. Alb Charleston. S. C Chicago. Ill Concordia. Kan Corpus Christi, Tex 3 a; 40 34 22 so 26 24 78 Denver, Col 26 Des Moines, la 18 Dodge City, Kan 26 Duluth., Minn 8 Durango. Col 42 Edmonton. Alb 14 Fort Worth, Tex Galveston, Tex Havre, Mont Helena, Mont Jacksonville. Fla Kamloops. B. C Kansas City. Mo Little Rock, Ark 46 70 4 28 72 14 27 50 4S 44 74 44 20 32 16 6S 54 44 16 2 24 32 -lO 42 BO Louisville, Ky Modena, Utah New Orleans, La New York. N. Y North Platte, Neb Oklahoma. Okla. Omaha. Neb Phoenix, Ariz Pittsburg. Pa Portland, Ore Rapid Citv. S. D P.oswell. N. M St. Joseph. Mo St. Louis. Mo St. Paul, Minn Salt Lake. I'tah San Diego, Cal San Francisco, Cat 12 16 34 46 52 42 12 8 62 IS b 46 14 32 20 52 Seattle. Wash 4S Sheridan, Wyo 20 Swift Current. Assln 4 Tampa, Fla 74 Toledo, Ohio 40 Topeka. Kan 27 a-hington. D. C 4S W ichita. Kan 30 Williston. N. D 6 Winnemucca. Nev 4h Winnipeg. Man 12 Sin minus Indicates below zero. T. B. JENNINGS. Sectional Director. TWO TRAINS WRECKED Meet Head-on and Two Trainmen Are Killed. Wittenberg, Mo., Jan. 19. Two men were killed instantly, one was injured seriously, two others were hurt slightly and two engines and 20 freight cars were demolished when two Frisco freight trails collided, headon, a mile below this place early today. Both trains were going almost at full speed when the crash occur ed at a dangerous curve on the Mississippi rivf r banks. Charles Beard, engineer of the northbound train and Clark, the fire man, were killed. Millhouse, brakeman of the southbound train was scalded. Editor XgpJ CASUALTIES 1,000 Fierce Battle Fought Near Guay aquil, Ecuador, Between the Government Troops and the Revolutionists. Guayaquil, Jan. 19. Over 1,000 men were killed and wounded in a battle Thursday at Yaguache to the north east of this city. An army supporting the Quito gov ernment, under the command of Gen eral Julio Andrade, formerly Ecua dorean minister to Colombia, attack ed and defeated an army of Guayaquil troops supporting the provincial gov ernment proclaimed by General Mon tero, under command of General Flavio Alfaro- General Flavio Alfaro was wounded during the fight which was very se vere. General Eloy Alfaro has now been appointed commander in chief of the Guayaquil army. OFFICIAL CALL IS OUT. For the Election of Delegates to the Baltimore Convention. Buffalo, J. Y., Jan. 19. The official call for the Democratic national con vention to be held at Baltimore on June 25, has been issued oy jiorraan E. Mack, chairman, and Urey Woodson, secretary of the Democratic national committee. The basis of representa tion and the method of naming dele gates is outlined as follows: "Delegates and alternates from each state of the Union shall b-3 chosen to i. .,mK- two delegates for everv senator ana two delegates for every representative xroin cue stales i effec tively in the, congress of the United States, under the congressional reap portionment OI districts uaseu upon we census of 1810. The District of Colum- I bia. Alaska, the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico are each allotted six delegates. "In the choice of delegates and al ternates the Democratic state or ter ritorial committee may, if not other wise directed by the law of such states or territories, provide for the direct election of such delegatees or alternates if, in the opinion of the re spective committees, it is deemed de sirable and possible to do so with proper and sufficient safeguards. 1 WILCit: fwi.ii v ,1. an-. i where the state laws do not provide specifically, the manner of such i choice, then the delegates and alter- nates to the said national convention I shall be chosen in the manner that governed the choice of delegates to S the last Democratic national conven- tion." t Weather liidioaHons. Chicago, Jan. 19. Forecast for Kan sas: Increasing cloudiness tonight and Saturday. Yvarmer tonight. UP TO MISSOURI. Clark and Folk Agree to Abide by the Decision Of the State Convention as to Who Shall Hun. EITHER WILL 11ETIRE If the Other Be Endorsed for the Nomination. The Agreement Excites Great Interest in Washington. Washington, Jan. 19. Speaker Champ Clark today confirmed reports that he and former Governor Joseph W. Folk had agreed to stake their re spective candidacies for the Demo cratic presidential nomination on the outcome of the approaching conven tion of Missouri Democrats at Joplin. If this convention should endorse Governor Folk Mr. Clark said he would forbid the farther use of his name. The Clark-Folk agreement excited the greatest political interest here to day. BACK TO PARKER Delaware Democrats to Instruct Delegates for Him. Prominent Party Leaders Boost Judge at Meeting. Wilmington, Dela., Jan. 19. A boom for Judge Alton B. Parker for the Democratic presidential nomina tion, has been launched here. The Parker boomers held a meeting at the state capitol which was attended by prominent party leaders. A statement issued at the close of the session de clares that "every effort will be made t. have the six delegates from this state to the Baltimore convention pledged to vote for Parker." STRIKE IS SETTLED. Cotton Operators Xumebring 300,000 Will Return to Work. Manchester. Eng.. Jan. 19. The dispute in the cotton trade which culminated in a lockout offectin? about 300,000 men on December 27 has been settled. The ques tion at issue between employers and workers was the employment of non union labor. All the mills will be re-opened on Monday. ARE AGGRESSIVE. Turks Make a Terrific Attack on an Italian Column. They Have Initiated All Fight ing of a Kecent Date. Tripoli, Jan. 19. A terrific attack was made yesterday by a large body of Turks ana Arabs on an Italian column wmch was on the march about 10 mues ti om the town of Tripoli. ihe lLalian troops, whicn consisted of detachments of all arms, lett Tripoli early in the morning on the way to Gniiagarish, a small oasis situated aDout 10 or 11 miles along the coast to the west of the town and sur rounded by a number of mud forts which hitherto had given shelter to Arab irregulars. Italian itiylit Is Turned. After the Italian army, which in cluded three battalions ot line infan try, a battalion ol grenadiers, two bat teries of artillery, two squadrons of cavalry and other details, had taken up positio natter the first onslaugnt by the Turks in the vicinity ot lihn garish, a galling fire was poured in on them. Tne Turks and Ara.bs, who were in considerable strength, were under covr in the brush of the oasis. Artillery fire from the Italian bat teries caused the enemy to withdraw for a time, but they returned later with heavy reinlorcements and succeeded in turning the Italian right. The Italian commander succeeded in rallying his forces itnd after several hours light ing the Turks finally retreated to the desert. .suddenly, as the soldiers were marching along the road which runs parallel to the coast, they were at tacked by a large force of Turks and Arabs. The Italians immediately took up a position and threw up field entrench ments. The enemy continued its at tacks throughout the day, but finally retired. Details of the losses have not been reported. The military situation in Tripoli during the last month, to all appear ances, has undergone no change. All the fighting that has occurred has been begun by the Turks, who have repeat edly attacked the Italian troops at dif ferent points and have just as often been repulsed. As a matter of fact, however, the Italian commanders have been using time as an ally. They have been busi ly engaged in strengthening the posi tions held by their troops and prepar ing for an advance into the interior. Material for the construction of a rail road into the desert is arriving in large quantities. The only possible danger of the plans of the Italian staff being upset is that peace may be declared at an early date. The Arabs do not understand the reasons for the Italian delay and a-e impressed with the idea that the Ital ian army is unable to encounter ef fectively the insignificant unmber of Moslems opposing it. Under the cir- (Continued on Page Two.) Says That Governor Wants to Punish Him. Dared to Oppose Him for United States Senator. There ar'j two sides to every ques tion. Jay E. House, the Topeka news paper man, who has refused to answer the questior.3 of the inquisition regard ing the aie of liquors over a bar in a Kansas town, has a reason for his ap parent contempt of the law. Mr. House for the first time submitted to an in terview todiy in which he declared that his rffer.se was political and not civil. He declares that he is to be made to pay, not for refusing to tell about that sale of beer, but for his well known opposition to Stubbs for the United States senate. The relentless effort on the part of the governor to land the newspaper man in jail is actuated, ac cording to Hcuse, by the governor's re sentiment over the House political arti cles against the governor's senatorial ambition. Mr. House, in refusing to tt 11 where he saw the intoxicants sold over a bar, does not assume the attitude of law lessness and contempt of laws as would appear from his position, but says he is simply loath to turn informer. That is where the shoe pinches him worse than a threatened jail sentence. If he was invited by friends to a place where beer was sold he would keep faith. It is only fair to str,te that Mr. House is not addicted to the use of liquor but a respectable citizen, moving in the groove and following the habits of the average professional man of Topeka. Before he was married a few months (Continued on Page Two.) NO FuODTTIIEY DIE American Girl to Head Troop of Rebel Chinese. English Consul Deports Two Women Missionaries. Victoria, B. C. Jan. 19. Great dis tress prevails in Manchuria, according to advices brought by the Kamakura Maru today. Many thousands of starv ing people, whose homes and crops were swept away by floods, are dying of cold and hunger in refugee camps. Near Newchwang there are more than a hundred thousand in dire distress. Large bands of women and children roam the country and quarter them selves outside of the gates of the wealthy farmers to beg for food. Hundreds of men have joined brigand bands. In many places the suffering people are reported to be practicing "boxerism." Oirl to Command Troops. Portland. Ore., Jan. 19. Miss Lcona Mary Jewell, daughter of Jue Sue, one of the wealthiest of Portland's Chinese merchants, will soon receive a commis sion in the Chinese revolutionary army and will hold a company of soldiers In the field. This news was received here in a letter from the girl who is only 19 years old to her patents, and also through a Hong Kong newspaper which contained an item saying that Sue Yi Yat (Mis Jewell's Chinese name.) had entered a military train ing school and would soon be given a commission. Miss Jewell was born in this city and educated in the public schools and at Portland academy. Deports Two Missionaries. Victoria, B. C, Jan. 19. AVhen Miss K. Mollery. and Miss N. K. Sears, both missionaries, refused to leave Ichang as advised by the British con sul because they "could not recognize earthly authority, and God h"s not given permission to vacate,'1 the consul had them deported and recommended that they be refused permission to re turn to China, according to advices re ceived by the steamer Kamakura Maru today. In his order for deport ation the consul said: "I cannot recognize your individual right to die as your death would in volve other foreigners and have far reaching consequences as deaths of foreigners in China at the present time might lead to international Interven tion in the present crisis." DROPS TO 4 DEGREES. Warmer and Cloudier Weather Is Ex petcd Tonight. The mercury took a dip in the night, reaching the 4 degree mark by 8 o'clock this morning, but the wind shifted from a northerly direction this morning to the east and by night it will be blowing from the southeast. This means slightly warmer weather. The forecast: "Increasing cloudiness tonight and Saturday; warmer to night." Shippers forecast: "Protect 36 hour shipments north against a temperature of 5 degrees; west, 10 degrees; south and east, 15 degrees. In Topeka the mercury will stand between 10 and 15 degrees above zero, according to the local observer. To morrow will not be quite as bright as today. The wind this afternoon is blowing from the south. This is an excellent sign, says our old friend, "Sunny." Tomorrow will be cloudy, but warm. Today has been a little crisp, but "ot enoueh to cause any inconven ience. The temperatures: 7 o'clock 5 11 o'clock 10 8 o'clock 4 12 o'clock 13 9 o'clock 61 1 o'clock 15 10 o'clock 8 2 o'clock 17 Detection Came as Arrange ments Were Made for Flight. Defalcation Is Over S'J.OOO "Spent in Living." That Ward D. Ppoelman, paying teller for the Merchant's National bank, had planned to leave Topeka last night, is shown in evidence produced today against the young defaulter. He admits that he is short J9. 129.24 in hi accounts. Before United States Com missioner Campbell, the bank clerk waved preliminary examination. He is now in the county Jail in default of bond fixed at Jj.OOO. Visitors are not permitted to see him. w I. If Ward D. Hneelmnn, Confessed Kmlioi zler or More Thau Si.000 From tlio Mertliants National llank. It was just a slight haste and over sight on Speelman's part Thursday evening that led to the detection of the shortage and his subsequent arrest for embezzlement. Possibly anxiety to leave the bank with the $1,500 which re had taken from the accounts that day. caused th teller to leave a bit of work undone. On his de.k he left a little heap of torn papers. F. M. Bonebr.ike. the cashier, entered the cage to pick up the papers. While there Bonebraka thought he would look at Speelmnn's balances. When the cashier emerged from the little cage a half hour later, he called the officers of -the bunk to gether with the positive proof that th paying teller had taken Jl.f.00 from thn day's accounts. Date that night Speelman sat in the offices of the bank, trying to explain why he had taken the money. To the officers he related a story of fast life, of ambitions that could not be realized on the salary he drew as n teller. Over and over again, Speelman declared that he didn't Intend to steal, thnt he ex pected to pay It all back. Then a de tective was called and the bnnk clerk taken to the police headquarter. An hour later he was removed to the county jail, where he spent the nlelit. He was formally arrested by Frank Flenniken, deputy T'nlted States mar shal. The complaint charged only the taking of the M.500. Bond in this cae was fixed at $5,000. Speelman's story of his crooked defil ing and downfall is disjointed and In places quite vague. Just how the teller succeeded in betraying the confidence of his employers month after month In a matter that Speelman do. s not ex plain. It is a question that expert ac countants have yet been uriHble to solve. Possibly Speelman conceived some new "system" whereby he was able to defraud the bank and em-ape detection. To the officers of the bank, it is only known that he abKttucted credits which passed through tiia hands. Yet. how the young man put his shortages past the national bank examiner and the officers of the Insti tution, is a matter which only Spel man seems to know. "Just Lived Too Must." "I just lived too fast, that was all. and there is no one to blame but my self," Speelman admitted when con fronted with the bank record. "I wish I could pay it hack. But I can't. It's all gone. I took the money to keep u- my end of the game and I really didn't intend to steal it. Somehow I Just thought I could carry It along and some day make it all right. I might have known I couldn't do It. but the ambition to live as well and dress as well as other people seemed to strangle my Judgment and I took the money to keep up with my asno elates." Then Speelman wan asked what h had done with the money. To (hone questions he either gave evasive an swers or said he didn't know. "Why. men, you don't know how mv mind has been," declared the bank clerk. "You have no idea of the men tal strain I have suffered. I knew I shouldn't take the money. Somehow I knew that sooner or later I would be caught. But. honest, men, honest, down in my heart I am not a crimi nal." Then Speelman all but broke, down. He regained his composure and con tinued his story of falsified records and how his ambitions for mon'-y seemed to strangle him. "It was always money. money, money." Speelman wailr-d, an he held his head in his hands, "and each time I went a little further. First I thought I could pay it back. Then I realized that sooner or later you would find It out. The fact almost drove me wild." Doesn't Know Whore It Went. "Have you been gambling"" asked one of the officers. "What did you do with the money?" "Dord, how do I know what I did with it," wailed Speelman, as he seem ed to make an effort to recall some I of the events of the past. "It'a Ju't gone. That's all. It's cnr. T (Continued on Page I.) i

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2 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 19, 1912 CLARK lU SURE (Continued from Page One.) of fare and one that Al Coulson's cooks could not equal even though they per formed miracles with the frying pan and waved Aaron's rod over the roast, was the Neeley victory in the Seventh district. It looks as though the state convention would go to Hutchinson or Wichita. The west and southwest clam or for recognition of gallant conduct on the field of battle. There will be a fight for the convention city. Topeka has friends and will work for the plum. But there will be but little fight over anything else. The Clark men are in the big majority and will dictate the rules and referee and timekeeper and date of battle. The Banquet Ibruary 22. Woodrow Wilson is to speak here Feb ruary 22. the date of the state banquet. The Clark men want the convention held before that date, or a month af terward!?. They argue that the pres ence of Wilson on the date cf the dele gate convention would tend to prejudice the sentiment of the gathering in his behalf. The indications are that the convention will be held late in March or early In April, as the Clark people we in the majority. W. F. Feder of Great Bond, a Promi nent Figure Among the Democrats. The situation was strained a few days ago and a red hot time promised for the committee meeting tonight. But the "break" made by Wilson in the Harper s Weekly matter and the call down by Col. Henry Watterson puts him out of the running in Kan sas, according to the Clark men. The fight over the convention date will therefore not be so bitter. The Clark men are feeling too good over recent developments to fear Wilson very much now. Still they will insist upon the convention oeing held upon some other date than that of the Wilson visit to Topeka. DcmoTatg Are Hopeful. The wheel horses are coming in ear ly and a well attended session of the committee la promised. The Demo crats, with two special congressional elections stowed away in their war bags, see a chance for victory ahead this year all down the line. They pro pose to organize and make ready for an aggressive state fight. The work ers of the party in the state seem to be for Clark for president and declare they can carry the state sure next fall for the Missourian over any Republi- I can nominee except Roosevelt, and maybe they can beat T. R. W. Ij. Brown of Kingman, a Promi nent Figure at the Meeting. W. H. L. Pepperell, the veteran sec retary of the committee, was an early arrival. He said: "I do not like to take sides until after the state meet ing, but personally I believe Kansas is for Clark." Pepperell is a candidate for state chairman and has strong support for that honor. W. P. Feder of Great Bend, who will likely make the race for lieuten ant governor, is here today. Feder is another Clark man. He is elated over the showing made by the Democrats In his district in the election of Neeley to congress. Feder comes from Bar ton, one of the banner Democratic counties in the state. "We have won the right to the state convention for Hutchinson." said Feder. Frank Thomas, the Topeka Demo crat, and original Clark man, is feel ing? fine over the latest Wilson "break" as he calls it. "Wilson is a dead one now in Kansas," said Thomas. Thomas is in favor of an instructed delegation for Clark. It is a notice able fact that Democrats and Republi cans are all agreed that the Wilson break with Harper's Weekly was a foolish and costly political blunder. If the schoolmaster throws his old friend the editor of Harper's in this fashion, the politicians argue that he is not to be trusted any jump in the road. Judge Thompson Here. Judge W. H. Thompson of Garden City, is another early bird at the Dem ocratic gathering. Judge Thompson has the support of the Seventh district for the nomination for United States senator and the support of Clark men generally over the state. The judge wrote and introduced the Clark resol utions at the Dodge convention and ia a strong man in the short grass coun try. He has twice carried a Republi can judicial district aginst over whelming odds and he cuts ice out west with a buzz saw attached to a 200-horsepower motor. The judge is quiet and assuming and has the pleas antest smile in the world. He is a de ceiving opponent as Farrelley will find out if he has the little judge to buck at the next primary. This man Thomp son works for a political goal like the May sunshine on a pile of snow, which is to say quietly, steadily, re lentlessly. He gains support from both parties and all factions. He brings home the votes in airtight, inner seal packages and takes them V is home to try on his piano. The judge is one of the Democratic speakers for the Washington's birthday banquet. He is expected to announce soon as a candidate for the U. S. senate. The judge said today, speaking of the sentiment in his judicial district: "In a straw vote poll taken in a half dozen western counties the sentiment was overwhelming among the Democrats for Champ Clark and among the Re publicans for Roosevelt." Ths Democratic committee will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the Throop hotel and set a date for the delegate convention and thresh out and arrange matters for the primary campaign. Personal Mention. E. A. Ely of Larned and W. F. Sekavec of Ellsworth came in together today. Both are for Clark for presi dent and bring goods news from their counties. Sekavec is for Billard for governor and for Judge Thompson of Garden City for the United States sen ate. George Hdvering of Maryville, Democratic candidate for congress two years ago from the Fifth district, is here today. He will likely run again this year. The committeemen pres ent favor Helvering for the place with out opposition except from Cloud county. Carve of Cloud is talked of as a candidate. Sam Clark of Washington is nn old timer with lots of friends from all over the west who is holding forth in all his glory at the Throop today. All the westerners are for Clark. John Kelley of Hugoton is a Clark and Billard man. "I believe my sec tion is for Clark," he said. "I am for Billard for governor. He looks like a winner to me. But the most important thing with us is the fact that we are to have a railroad. Hugoton will get that road for sure." Stance" Myers of Leavenworth is The Haroer's Weekly i r,i w.tt.,,n T-noot bavn not shaken Myers' faith in the sohool- master. He is for Wrilson and Billard. Jim Orr of Atchison, candidate for the state senate, is here to confirm the rumor. John Chapman of Atchison, candidate for congress from the First district, is also here to confirm the rumor that he will make the race. He expects to win. Editor Pearl of the Hiawatha Demo crat and Miles Mulroy of Norton and A. B. Reeves of Dodge were con spicuous in the Throop lobby and talked and Democratic success for 1912 with all who cared to listen. A lot of speculation was indulged in by the commiteemen over the gub ernatorial situation. Senator Hodges has not as yet announced his candid acy. Mayor Billard of Topeka is the only candidate and he has lots of sup porters among the outside Democrats here today. Bill Sapp gave it as his opinion that the name of the Demo cratic nominee for governor had not yet been spoken out loucTby the wise ones. Sapp did not utter the name either, but he gave the impression that a dark horse would yet get the nomination. Hugh Farrelly of Chanute, candi date for the U. S. senate has not yet taken a stand for president. He is known to favor Wilson., but has not yet made public announcement of his preference. W. L. Brown of Kingman, one of the leaders on the Democratic side in the last session of the Kansas legislature is here. Mr. Brown is a dyed in the wool Clark man and believes Kansas will send a Clark delegation to Balti more. He is elated at the Democratic victory in the Seventh district and be lieves the state will be carried by the Democrats next fall. "Everything points that way," said he, "and the Seventh district election was just an indication of the drift of things." D. F. Callahan, cashier of the Farm ers State bank at Kingman, and chair man of the Democratic county central committee, is here. Like other Demo crats Mr. Callahan thinks the Kansas Democrats are about to come into their own. He believes Mr. Neeley will be re-elected to congress. On state mat- ters, so far as my section of the state is concerned," said he. "the people are for Hodges for governor. I don ot be lieve that Billard will develop much strength there." KILLING A BOOM (Continued from Page l. Then Judge Ewing goes on to tell how Col. Harvey, through editorials in T f( T"TRT' "Wiaolrlv f Vl r-i T-ii,-.rn Vi nation of Woodrow Wilson for the Demo- j cratic presidential nomination. Many not knowing the real importance of Col. Harvey the statement declares, and seeking to harm the Wilson cause, be gan to indulge in all sorts of conjec tures, in unfounded intimations. As a result a number of Wilson's real friends began to be of the opinion that perhaps the Weekly's earnest support was militating against his (Wilson's) prospects. Judge Ewing- declare-i Governor Wil son's opinion was decidedly contrary to this view, appreciating that Col. Har vey "had brought him to the front, ap preciating Harvey's support and feel ing it to be valuable." Then followed the meeting' in New York of W ilKon, Harvey and Watter son. Judge Ewing dr -lares at the close cf the conference Col. Harvey arose and said to Governor Wilson: "I wish to ask you a question and I expect a frank answer: Do you believe that the booming nature of my articles in Har per's Weekly is injuring your cause?" Judge Ewir g says Governor Wilson's friendship for Harvey ieman 'ed that the governor answer in the negative to the query but that Col. Harvej had demanded frankness and that Governor Wilson was obliged, with much em barrassment to make such a reDly that later nis name (as candidate for the 1C'L &."?m,"?") vuiwwai uiuiuu t of Harper's Weekly. And Judge Ew ing asserts col. Harvey exclaimed: j "Well, I'll have to put on the soft pedal." He May Not Reply. Detroit, Jan. 19. Before leaving j uetroit Governor vviison said he had had no opportunity as yet to give to i the statement of Colonel Henry Wat terson the consideration that it de manded. He said he was unlikely to issue any statement concerning this matter during his present tour. He said he was not in the habit of Issuing statements and might make no reply. Not a Word to Say. Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 19. "I have nothing to say on that matter," said Governor Woodrow Wilson today when shown the statement of Judge Robert Ewing concerning the Colonel Harvey incident. Governor Wilson also refused to discuss the Waterson case. He addressed the university students and townspeople this fore noon and he will go to Grand Rapids this afternoon. AX ACT OP HEROISM. Is What a Wilson Boomer Calls the Harvey Incident. Washington, Jan. 19. Although the managers and friends of Prof. Woodrow Wilson have counselled together con cerning the report of the professo.-'f repudiation of Col. Harvey, they have no defense to offer. They did send out a letter from Senator Newlands to a Nevada constituent which praises the professor but which does not refer In any way to the incident that consti tutes the chief topic of conversation among Democratic politicians. Among Prof. Wilson's former boost ers there is a feeling of regret, first, that the Incident should have happen ed; second, that It should have become public. Half a dozen senators who discussed it in the cloakroom came to the con clusion that it disposed of any hopes fo- advancement that the professor may I have entertained. Mr. McCombs, Professor Wilson's I manager, who was here in his inter est during the Democratic national committee meeting, arrived in Wash ington from Wilmington and spent much time in conversation with th3 former Wilson boomers. Nothing was given out after these conferences. Mr. McCombs said that he had noth j ing to say. He had come to Washing ton. he said, on an errand entirely foreign tc the Wilson-Karvey incident and did not see why he should be ex pected to say anything, j He referred inquirers for a statement 1 to Thomas J. Pence, who is the cor respondent of Josephus Daniels' Raleigh newspaper and said that Pence was going to give out a state ment. The only statement Pence gave out was the Newlands letter, i A magazine writer from New York who came to Washington to secure material with which to help the Wil son cause, remained to explain the W 11 son side of the controversy. Wilson, he eaid, had acted like a very hero in the interview with Har vey. He had felt for sometime that he and Harvey must part sooner or later, despite the fact that they had traveled very pleasantly along the po- "c.?i Path to pIe,Se"f "J11?,, When at last Harvey asked him if he, Wilson, thought that the Harvey support would hurt him, Wilson fold ed his arms, looked Harvey squarely in the eye and replied, more in sor row than in anger, that he thought it would. This, the magazine man said, both Wilson and all his friends regarded as the absolute height of heroism. The Shakespearean students in the senate and house were busy with such passages as: "Ingratitude more strong than trait ors' arms quite overcame him," which is out of a piece Mark Antony spoke at the funeral of his late friend Caesar: also, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it Is to have a thank less child," which King Lear is quoted as saying when reflecting on his un grateful family. There were other ex pressions about benefits forgot that were quoted quite liberally. Colonel Watterson will reach here this afternoon and is expected to re late the conversation between Wilson and Harvey more in detail to all Dem ocrats who wish to hear it. There are many such in the capital. Neither Champ Clark, Oscar Under wood nor any of the men who have been mentioned as presidential possi bilities would express themselves pub liclv on the affair. Representative Stanley of Kentucky left off his energetic labors on the steel trust investigating committee long enough to say: It looks to me as II someooay nau dropped Mr. Wilson's bread butter side down." BLOWS HOT AND COLD. Wilson a Prohibitionist in Texas and an Anti Elsewhere. St. Louis, Jan. 19. St. Louis Demo crats who looked with favor upon the candidacy of Governor Woodrow Wil son for the presidential nomination were stunned by the publication of the Watterson statement. The general opinion was that it had made Wilson's nomination extremely improbable. On top of the Watterson letter it was brought to light here that Governor Wilson wrote a letter on July 6 last, strongly indorsing state wide prohibi tion in Texas. Copies ot tne letter as published in Texas papers at the time and the authenticity of which xas never questioned, it is said, were ex hibited by prominent Democrats as proof of the statement. It seems as the prohibition move ment in Texas warmed up, John N. Edwards, a former St. Louis newspa per man, who was conducting the publicity end of the anti-prohibition campaign conceived the idea of ap pealing to the presidential possibilities of both parties. In a little paper called Facts published at Dallas he Printd po roJnLIfiy rtraits of the men most mentioned for both the I Republican and Democratic nomina i tions with the statement that all of them opposed state wide prohibition. This statement was challeneged by Rev. Dr. D. D. Rankin of Dallas, edi tor of a publication called Home and State, which was devoted to the pro hibition cause. On July 22, Home and State publish ed what was purported to be a letter from Governor Woodrow Wilson advo cating state-wide prohibition in Texas. Thi letter was addressed to E W. Gro gan of Byers, Tex. It was reproduc ed in the Dallas News. Galveston News and other Texas papers and created a profound impression, as both United States senators from Texas and a ma jority of the members of the lower house of congress from that state were epposed to prohibition. The letter to Mr. Grogan follows: The Letter. State of New Jersey, Executive De partment, July 6, 1911. Mr E. W. Grogan, Byers, Texas. My Dear Grogan: You mistook me if you thought I treated your first letter as a communication of a politician or if you supposed that I was trying in any way to avtid the important ques tion you put to me. The reply that I made was made in all sincerity. I believe that for some statlwAepbm is possl irrin npRirjlhlf hppansp of their Ifi- tvve homegeneity, while for others I think that state-wide prohibition is not practicable. I have no reason to doubt from what I know of the circumstan ces that state-wide prohibition is both practicable and desirable in Texas. In my reply to you I was only try- in to state what I thirk must always be kept in mind the wide divergency of conditions which make it impossi ble to reply to any single question, liki that of prohibition, in terms which fit the whole country. With much respect, cordially and sin cerely yours, WOODROW WILSON. In the Maine prohibition campaign in September last Governor Wilson is said to have taken a stand similar to the one indicated by the Grogan let ter. Considers Wilson Out of It. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 19. Saying that Woodrow Wilson is now eliminated as a presidential possibility, due to the W'atterson and Harvey statements. Mayor James C. Dahlman of Omaha has called a state-wide meeting of Democrats to discuss the situation. The meeting, according to the call, is not in the interest of any particular can didate, but is to prevent acrimonious dissension within the party. In clos ing, the call says: "With the elimination of Wilson as a possibility, there must of necessity be a realignment of those Democrats who once supported hia candidacy." HE IS NOT SURPRISED. Former Supporters of Wilson Offers Some Comments. New York, Jan. 19 James R. Nu gent, the Democratic leader of New ark, said today: "I was not surprised to read the statement of Colonel Henry Watterson exposing the manner of man Woodrow Wilson has again proven himself to be by his cold blooded casting off of one who sacrificed real friends in order that he might advance the political fortune of Mr. Wilson. "I had heard of the break between Col. Harvey and Wilson and I realized how uterly repugnant the governor's conduct must have appeared to a man of the fine character and true gen tlemanly instincts of Col. Watterson. But the present situation is mere i v, T,rj .-...uaw- uniiel to &.toA,fn' the present governor of ?.w J.r.eyrS itLU" jir. wiison proven me a.jnu is and how con-mletelv lacking he in manly and statesman-like quali ties, almost as soon as he was elected governor. "He had never been ignorant of the services and personal sacrifices made in the cause of his election and for the success of the Democratic party, by former U. S. Senator James Smith jr.. in a humbler way, perhaps by my self and others. Yet the moment he discerned his ambition of the hour gratiriea, ne neaniessiy snun. wnose zeal ana eltorts naa uevwui him into a great political factor and to whom he was most deeply indebted. "The ruthlessness of the man did not stop with discarding those who had been his friends. He even sought to wreak his riionicuuniT-o nrvon men simply because they were true in their friendships, but then we have only too palpable proof that unselfishness is not a luminous cniarac terlstic of Governor Wilson. "1 may add that Colonel Harvey, Col onel Watterson, some others intimately and the world at large generally have just come to know what was particularly plain to me many months ago. Perhaps the remark I made at a well known New Jersey seashore resort on a certain occa sion last summer, in which reference was pointedly made to the lack of verity and of gratitude in the makeup of a certain highly honored gentleman, Is now better understood than it was." Causes Split in Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.. Jan. 19. The break be tween Colonel George B. Harvey and Governor Wilson of New Jersey came up for discussion at the conference of Wil son supporters held to advance the Wil son candidacy in Wisconsin. It was de cided not to abandon the effort to nomi nate delegates for Wilson in this state. The Wilson-Harvey matter. It was shown at the conference, has already split the Democratic leaders in Wiscon sin, for while National Committeeman Joseph G. Davies has been and still is a Wilson man. State Chairman Frank B. Schutz. hitherto a Wilson man, has come out with a declaration that the break with Harvey undoubtedly will injure Wilson s previously- good chances of carrying Wis consin and authorized a denial that he had been working for Wilson when at the national committee meeting. "Fine Old Gentleman." Detroit. Jan. 19. That Col. Watterson was a "fine old gentleman" was the only comment Governor Woodrow Wilson would make upon Mr. Watterson's state ment that he had insulted Col. George Harvey bv asking him to drop his sup port in Harper's Weekly for his candi dacy for the presidency. Governor Wilson was asked repeatedly at different times while here to tell his side of the Harper's Weekly story, but declined absolutely. Members of his sutte intimated, however, that he mignt later issue a prepared statement on the Inci dent. HOUSE GIVES SIDE (Continued from Page l. ago he filled creditably the responsible position of head of a family composed of his mot'.itr and sisters. His stand against ihe minions of the prohibitory law may naturally and easily create an entirely false public sentiment in re gard to his personal life and habits. Ho has employed Charles Blood Smith as his attorney and will fight the jail sen tence decree to a finish. Mr. House's Position. Mr. House did not want to talk about his affair, but the reporter was insist ent, so he told his side of the story as follows Has Kept Out of Print. "During the progress of the contro versy which has raged about me for the past seven months I have carefully refrained from using the shoulders of the public as a wailing place. I have not even asked my most intimate friends to wipe away my tears. I have not -earned and I do not now care any thing about the attitude of either the 'pee-pul' or the press toward my action in the premises. No, I won't go so far as to say that. Rather, I will say that abuse hurts me as badly as it hurts anyone, but I never permit abuse or condemnation to affect my attitude when I think I am right. My action in the matter squares with my idea of what a man should do undei the cir cumstances and that is the only test I ever Impose on either my judgments or my impulses. Because He Opposed Stubbs. "But there is danger that the public will be misled with reference to the nature of my offense. It might interest newspaper readers to khow just why 1 am out on bond on a misdemeanor charge Just why I am threatened with a jail sentence. And so I will say that my refusal to testify as to the location of the small town, in which I saw beer dispensed over the mahogany has very little bearing in the matter. My of fense is that, as a newspaper man, I have criticised Governor Stubbs and Ms administration whenever I saw fit. And that, I am frank to say, has been pretty often. Another indictment against me is that I am not for Governor Stubbs for United States senator and have thrown cold water on his boom when ever I saw an opportunity to do so. Mush Be Punished. "Having had the effrontery to line tip with the faction of the Republican party which is opposed to Governor Stubbs, and having shown th-3 governor the discourtesy of openly criticising a number of his public acts, I am to be punished for it if a way can be found to punish me. I have offended the pow ers that be and the harpoon is to be Imbedded in my quivering flesh. "I may go to jail, although It will be only after a merry fight, which I hope all of the noncombatants will enjoy. I do not particularly enjoy the prospect of being immured in the donjon keep. I am long past the age at which one hones for new and novel experiences. A jail sentence would disarrange the routine ot regular habits into which I have recently Tallen and would cut into my evenings. But. in the larerer sense, I believe It would be a public service and, never hav ing Hone anything for the 'peepul, I am willing to donate that much of my time to the public weal. Might Serve a Good Purpose. "If serving a sentence in the Shawnee county jail would in any way help to re veal to the voters of Kansas the nature of thie 'skin' game that Is being put over on them ixr the name of reform I shall not murmur at the length of it, whether that be months or years. If the discussion which will inevitably result serves to rs veal the futility, the utter insincerity, the hypocrisy and the entirely selfish, mo tives of the present reform administra tion I shall be content. If I should chance to be the humble instrument by which the bluffing, bulldozing, grand standing combination now in political control in Kansas were shown to the voters of Kansas in its proper perspec tive, I should be proud of it. I have not much hope that I could be such instru ment, but I am ready to take the bare outside chance if it is forced on me. "Meanwhile, the nature of my offense should not be forgotten. It is not moral in Its nature. It is political." ARE AGGRESSIVE (Continued from Page One.) u'MM'iesi even snoura xne xurKisn the Arabs are T.irW Tr,,hW Tr v.uuotajiLitiutjii;, jan. is. ine people of Macedonia have prepared a secret petition to the nowers. asking for inter vention according to the report of the commission of inquiry sent by the Otto man government to investigate the con ditions in Macedonia shortly after the recent dynamite outrages in that re gion. The greatest dejection is mani fested by the people, it Is found. Assassinations are multiplying and dynamite outrages everywhere are on the increase. Even officers of the Turk- lgh army are unable to hide tneir gloom. Everywhere the people sueak of a general rising which if it does not occur immediately will take place in the spring. At Istib .violence and as sassination continued throughout an en tire week, and there as in other towns and villages, consternation prevails. Early in .December a bomb outrage in a mosque at Istib caused the death of 12 persons. The Turks avenged the outrage on the Bulgarians of whom they killed and wounded a large num ber. HELD FOR TRIAL (Continued from Page One.) play poker a little, but I didn't lose much. Somehow my expenses seemed to be always bigger than my income and I had to keep up somehow." Never once in the talk with the officers of the bank did Speelman men tion his attractive young wife. The day before the $1,500 was taken, she went to AVakefield, Clay county, where V a vV"""s vo-m, Mrs. Andrew Pearson, who are well to ao. sne was not notinea or ner husband's trouble by the officials and it is not believed she knew anything of his shortages at the bank. In his story of financial troubles, Speelman did not moralize. He went straight to the facts in the case or such of them as he cared to tell and made no pleas for protection. It was just fast living, he said, that caused the trouble. Never once did the young man tell of his experiences as a fast young club man, of his escapades in the social world nor of the little places where it cost money to keep up ap pearances. Among hundreds of friends and ac quaintances in Topeka, Speelman is recognized as a fast young man. He is a member of the Topeka club, the Country club and the Elks. 'With the members of these organizations, the young banker was very popular. He spent money freely, attended social gatherings and was a welcome mem ber of local society circles. A Capable Young Man. Seven years ago he came to Topeka from Beloit. He found a place in the Merchant's National bank and went to work as a collector and general clerk. His rise in the bank was almost phe nomenal. Few young men had made Crfifl tfir nrnf.1-AO in hlmlnaoo n Pf .o than Speelman. Courteous, accom- modating and energetic, he climbed to the teller's cage in three years. It was one of the most responsible posi tions in the bank and paid a good sal ary. As paying teller, Speelman's popularity with the bank officials and the customers continued to grow. Each day he made requisition on the cashier for the amount of cash prob ably to be needed for the day's busi ness. If it was estimated that J10,000 or $20,000 would pass through the wicker that day, Speelman was given the money and it was charged to his account. In this manner he handled hundreds of thousands of dollars of the bank's funds. When the national bank commissioner came to Topeka last month, he examined the Mer chants National and found everything in excellent condition. No question was raised aginst Speelman's record. But along with his progress at the bank, Speelman was travelling at a fast pace in another direction. He had become the member of many social organizations. He had married the girl of his heart after an elopement and against the wishes of her parents, and on her he lavished much money. Together they are said to have given theater and automobile parties and en tertained their friends with a high hand. Then came Speelman's detec tion. When searched at the county jail, numerous railway time tables were found in ihi. man's possession. The fact that he had sent his wife to Wakefield the day previous, convinced the officers that Speelman had intenaed to leave after taking the il,500 from the day's accounts. A further search today re vealed a slip of paper in Speelman's possession, which verified the bark's figures that the tell was short 129 24 in his accounts. But. just how and when the money was taken, is not explained. It is believed the defalca tions cover a period of several years, but Speelman neither admits nor de nies the assertion. Before Commissioner Campbell oday, SDeelman eat with folded arms. He was not represented by counsel. The bank clerk was visibly quite nervous. Dark spots under his eyes Indicated a restless, sleepless night in the county jali. Yet Speelman answered questions promptly and in a low undertone. "It won't be necessary to hold a pre liminary," Speelman said. Then he asked about the bond and when his trial would be held. "Maybe I can get bond," :he young man said, "at least I will try." Then the man walked back to the county jail. Sorrow in Mileham Home. One of the tragedies of the Speelman embezzlement is made manifest today in the hjnvj of John Mileham and wife, 218 Topeka avenue. They are the 2-randnarents of Mr3. Speelman. For nearly 40 yefjrs they have lived in their modett home cn Topeka avenue. Both have passed the four score year mark and have little of the world's goods left to show for their struggles. When the granddaughter married Speel man, the aged couple deeded her the 'to peka avenue home, and it was remodelled and refurnished by Speelman. Here the two families have lived. Some months ago Speelman mortgaged the home. Per haps the money went Just where the J3.000 from the funds of the Merchants' National went- Now the little equity in the home promises to go to satisry Speel man's indebtedness. It was in this home that Mileham and his wife have spent half their lite. It was la this home that STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourselre Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own Offices at Chlcmco. 8. St. Joseph. So. Oma ha, Denver. Stoux City, So. St. Fort Worth. Speelman and his wife lived and under this roof their first baby was bom three years ago. In November the second baDy came to the home. It died three weeks ago. At the Mileham home there was little inclination to discuss the sorrow that has, come into the home. Mrs. Mileham is a cripple and can scarcely walk. Mileham himself is SI years old. In Speelman the aged couple had placed great conf idence. In their declining years tnev honed to live under the same roof with the grand- daughter and without want for the neces- saries of lite. Now their hopes are shat- terea. Last night Speelman didn't come home and shortly before the noon hour, the aged couple learned the truth. To these old people the man's financial trouble is as much a mystery as to the officers or the bank. Speelman never talked or bis j business affairs in his home. It wag said. ana notning was known concerning- his property rights or liabilities. WHEAT JJNSTEADY A Slight Gain at the Opening Is Lost Later. Decline Is Due to Forecast of Large World Shipments. Chicago, Jan. 19. WHEAT A forecast of larger world shipments other than riom America had a depressing effect to i?y on wbeat- At the outset, however, the market here was firm as a result partly of reports that Pacific coast wheat was in good demand at Liverpool. Open ing prices were unchanged to S!4c high er. May started at $1.00 to Il.tXHi, a gain of a shade of V4c but declined to 99"c. Assertions that there was a shortage of 80,0000,000 to 100,000 bushels in May wheat Jiere orougnt aoout a rally. The close was steady with May at Jl.OOft, a sain of HSJ4c net. uoRN-Genwa.lv favnrahia WAflthpr made corn easy. May opened lower to He higher at 66c to 6614c and descended to 65,65?4c. Complaints of car shortage helped cause an upturn. The close was steady oo-sc ior May, uncnanged. i OATS Fair selling of oats carried that cereal down. May started a sixteenth off to a similar advance at 49c to 49Ho and sagged to 49'i&49c. PROVISIONS Provisions were weak, i First sales were unchanged to 7frl0c low er. May was at $16.25 for pork. $9.47V& for lard and $8.80 for ribs. RYE No. 2, 94g95c. BARLEY 90c $1. 37. TIMOTHY $12.CKXH)15.00. CLOVER $15.0OS'1.50. Chicago Grain Market. Chicago, Jan. 19. Close lay Yes. Open High Low WHEAT Jan. 954 9574 85 May ..100V4-U 100 99Tg July 944 9514- 94 Sept 93 9354 93V4 CORN Jan. Toda, 96 lOOi-i 94 93;4 100-KXH4 94 93-4 63H 66i 63 66 May 66-664 66 July 66-66'4 664 Sept 66 66V4 OATS 65 65- 60T4-66 66 66 66 66',, May 49- 49S4 49'4- 49 44- 45 40 40 49- 44-46 July Sent 44 45 40 40 4y PORK Jan. ..15. 67 May ..16.25 July ..ie.i2i 15.60 15.75 J6.17 16.30 16.30 16.42 16.30 16.15 16.42 16.30 UHD- Jan. 8.20 9.47 9.60 9.72 8.65 8.80 8.85 9.20 9.47 9.60 9.72 9.12 9.47 9.50 9.62 9.12 9.37 9.50 9.62 9.25 9.47 9.60 May July Sept RIBS Jan. May July 8.47 8.80 8.80 8.67 S.7 8.80 8.85 8.75 8.75 8.85 Kansas Cttj Produce Market. Kansas City, Jan. 19. WHEAT Cash Market unchanged. No. 2 hard, $l.03fr 1.08 No. 3, $1.0161.07; No. 2 red, $1.00; No. 3, 9699c. CORN Market steady. No. 2 mixed, 68 i8c; No. 3, 66fe7c; No. 2 white, 68i& 69c; Ho. 3, 6Sc. OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white, 51S2c; No: 2 mixed, 49'&60c. RYE 95i&7c. HAY Market firm. Choice timothy, $21.0022.00; choice prairie, $14.63)15.00. BROOM CORN Market steady. BUTTER-"-Creamery, 40c; firsts, 38c; seconds, 35c; packing stock, 24c. EGGS Extras, 33c; firsts, 31c; seconds, 22c. WHEAT Receipts, 35 cars. CLOSE: WHEAT May, $1.001.00 sellers; July, 9292e sellers. CORN May, 66&66o bid; July, 66 66c sellers. l-.Icairo I'rodiicr Mnrfce. Chicago, Jan. 19. BUTTER- Market steady. Creameries, 3039c; dairies, 26'3 34c. EGOS Market steady. Receipts, 1,174 cases; at mark, cases Included, 18J!27c; ordinary firsts, 26&28c; firsts, 81c. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies. 16 (317c; Twins, 1616',4c; Young Americas, 16S'17c: Long Horns, 16617c. POTATOES Market easier. Receipts, 40 cars. Fair to good, $1.0031.07. POULTRY Market weak. Turkeys, 13 18c; chickens. ll12c; springs, 11c. VEAL Market steady. 712c. New York Produce Msrket. New York, Jan. 19. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery specials, 41c. CHEESE Market steady. EGGS Market steady. Fresh gathered extras, 36r37c. POULTRY Dressed, weak: western chickens. 13gl6c; turkeys, 1221c. Live market completely demoralized owing to heavy arrivals and in absence of any de mand, prices were entirely nominal. New York Stock Market. Wall St., New York, Jan. 19. STOCKS The stock market today opened virtually unchanged. Trading was listless. Lehigh VsLllev sold ex-dividend and p.x-rlehtn to subscribe to the new issue of Coal stocks and was nearly 20 points lower. The prices quickly advanced more than a noint. The only other stocks which moved more than a small fraction were Canadian Pacific which advanced 4, B. and O., which gained and American Telephone with a loss of Railroad stocks forged to the front again in a decisive manner. Renewed buy ing of the Hill group received Interest in the western railroad issues, for which there was a largely increased demand. Great Northern preferred rose 2, North ern Pacific 2 and Union Pacific, St- PauL New York Central, Reading and Balti more and Ohio L Liggett and Myers touched 183 compared with 138 yester day's close and 157, the lowest on Tues day. American Steel Foundry broke 3 in a few transactions. Trading grew dull again but prices were well maintained. Tobacco Issues made further material progress upward. Lig gett and Myers rose 11 points In all to 17'. The strength of the Hill stock was Paul.. E. Buffalo, E. St. Louis and attributed to unconfirmed reports that VVestern Pacific would be taknn over b Hill interests from the Gould mana ment. The market closed strong. Spsculatioa became more diversified, with an active absorption of all the high class dlvtdrnd paying railroad stocks. Various groups, particularly the Southern issues, showed unusual activity at intervals. Atlantic Coast Line rose 2', Ixuisvlll and .Nuiib vllle 2 and Reading 2g. Hiss stocks con tinued prominent and Amalgamated Cop per and American Smeltinc rose substan tial tractions. w York Monei Market New York, Jan. 19. MONEY Money on call steady, 2a214 per cent; ruling: rate, t per cent; closing bid 2 per cent; offered at per cent. Time loans, easy; 60 days, 2'4il"4 per cent; VO days, 'Wa2 per cent; 6 months, S'i per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 134 to ix.i Per cent. Sterling exchange steady with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.3. for 80 day bills and at $4.87 for demand. Com mercial bills, S4.83. SILVER Bar sliver, W?c; Mexican dol lars, 47c. BONDS Government bonds, firm; rail road bonds, strong. New York huxur Market. New York, Jan. 19. tit 'OAK Raw. firm; Muscovado, S9 test, $3.96sti8.8; centrifugal. 96 test, 14.4564.48; molasses, 89 test, IS-iVy) S.73. Refined, firm. Cotton Market. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 19. COTTON Market unchanged, 10c. St. Joe Live Stork Market. St. Joe, Jan. 19. CATTLK KecHpts 1.000. Market steady. Steers, &.7'iS.i0; cows and heifers, $3.(Kkij7.00; calves, S4 Uvw 8.50. HOGS Receipts 8,000. Market lower. Top, $6.30; bulk of sales, $6.90ii.20. SHEEP Receipts none on sale. Market nominally steady. Lambs, $5.75ifl.75. Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas CUy, Jan. 19. CATTLE Re ceipts 2.000, including 100 southerns. Mar ket steady. Native steers, $6.5K8 .25; southern steers, $4.7566.30; southern cows and heifers, $3.O0-fi5.O0; native cows and heifers, $3.0OC.6O; Blockers and feeder $4.006.00; bulls. $3.604.5.60; calves, $4.&t 8.50; western steers, $1.757.U0; western cows, $.'J.XK! 5.00. HOGS Receipts 15,&!il. Market steady. Bulk of sales, $6.00'a6.55; heavy. $4,304(6.40; packers and butchers, $6.10Cg6.35; light $5.80'o6.20; pigs. $4.5tl'p5.60. SHEEP Receipts 4.0"0. Market 30o to 50c lower than Wednesday. Muttons, $3.25 (4.60; lambs. $5.00U6.50; fed wethers and yearlings, $3.5tKjj5.60; fed ewes, $2.&O'a4.00. Chicago Live Slock Mnrkrl. Chicago, Jan. 19. CATTLE Receipts 4,500. Market steady. Beeves, $4.86(j8.50; Texas steers, $4,5016.90; western steers, $4.807.25; stockers and feeders, $3.7&'u6.00; cows and heifers, $2.256.75; calves, $6.50iji 9.75. HOGS Receipts 27,000. Market steady. Light, $5.80(a6.25; mixed, $5.95 .37; heavy, $6.0Oii.; rough, $6.0Oi.15; pigs, $4.00135.70; bulk of sales. $6.2O.80. SHEEP Receipts, 14,000. Market weak. Native, $f.75'''i4.70; western, $3. 604. 75; yearlings, $4.90iio.R5; lambs, native, $4.50 6.80; western, $5.00ft.85. The list eased oft a trifle after the Initial dealings but there was no grat amount of stock offered for sale and prices read ily hardened when pressure was relieved. On the rebound the market went general ly above last night's level with the in- 1 quiry somewhat vigorous for a few of the active Rtocks. Several of the specialties j were conspicuously firm. Including Amer ican Beet Sugar and some members of the Tobacco group. Kansas City Live Stork Sales. (The following sales wen mad ttili mornln? at th Stock Yards. Kimna City, and reported over lon dlstancs telephone direct to th State Journal by Clay. Robinson A Co., liv stock com mission merchants, with offices at all markets.) Kansas City. Jan. 19. CATTLE Re ceipts 2.000 head. Market slow and steady. HOGS Receipts 15.000 head. Market to to 10c lower. Bulk of sales, $6.00jjtj.30; top, $6.35. SHEEP Receipts 4.000 head. Market 25c lower. HORSES AND MULES Receipts 6) head. Demand weak. Prices $6 to $15 per head lower than ten days ago. Most of decline on medium chunks. KILLING S I t-ERS. No. W Prlee.iNo. Wi 52 9S5 $6.75 8 41 COWS AND "EIFEP' $5. 6 IS J.M 4 M 3.60 1120 6.25 I 16 101 1.. 4.. 6.. .1020 7K2 960 0 5 On 8.83 800 870 832 ..imo 4... 730 STOCKERS '.NO FEEDKRS. 22.. 37.. 916 440 6.85 4.55 85 I 32. 55 I A t.VE 9 860 r Al 1 112 8.00 246 (60 Son BULLS. 6 00 I 8.... 6.00 f HOGS. 6.30 I 64 6.25 7.... 1 1410 1 1270 .1131 4 85 233 206 225 186 6.27. CI 78. Topeka Market. (Furnished ty tbs Cnaa. Wolff FcK)n Co.. yards closa at noon Saturday, w cannot ue pigs, thin sows or boss weighing; less than 170 lbs. Do nnt mar ket hogs unless sams are well rinlsived as ws cannot use half fat stud. W bslow prices IecUv at ones, until fur ther boUcs-J Topeka, Kan., Jan. 19. HOOS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS IS.MS.M HEAVY 6.7VJ6.P5 LIGHT hbixctm (Can't us thin hogs or those uuusr 17 pounds.) STEERS. Prime corn fed $5 vi5 75 Good to choice corn fed) 4 7(Wj5 Fair to good fcorn fed) 4 8fni 25 Common to fair killers $SOa4 2 COWS. Prime H.6Sff6.o Good to choice 4053460 Fair to good.... t'WoO Common to fair.. a.0O3.M HEIFERS. Prime $4 655 2$ Good to choice.... 4 06--4 v Fair to good-.. 8 6SU400 Common to fair....... 8.0uto3.60 Prime fat $4 OR -3 4 SO f'fhy 3.6MM.0O Mediums J0O-ii3M (Cattle must b good. Cannot uss tui stuff. Market price paid for dry lot cattle If you will favor us with row iouin.. advising number of head, quality and length of tlma on feed, we wlll'maka you an offer or arrange for our bui-, to call on you. Topeka Battw, Eggs and Poultry IFarnlsned by the Topeka Pscklns rv. 1 Ton. Wo v- EGGS Fresh country, 32c. EGGS Fresh country, 27c. 1. FOU LT RY ri ens, 4 lbs. and ov. iinrlap at lh 'ir nr(na a old cocks, 6c; ducks, 10c; csea. ho- t2i young turkeys. 14c; old turkeys, Ua.'

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THE TOFEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 19, 1912 RAILR0AD NEWS. Kansas Roads Have HauledTheir Own Coal to Shiyering. Stage Beauty Tells Secrets of Youth Cars Attached to Passenger Trains After Snow. KEEP CITIES LIGHTED Rock Island at Kansas City Santa Fe at Oklahoma. Other Items of General Interest in Traffic World. Railroads in this- day and aga io i -ifv. locislatures I llilllllJICU 413 lllfjf ttlC and interstate commissions, are fi3ry eyed dragons. They have no heart nor bouI. They treat their patrons like they -would calves that stray In front of their express trains. Railroads are mean, contemptible whelps! Leaving out politics and the ene mies of the railroads, and their short comings something occurs every day that proves the statement that rail road officers are scallawags. For instance take the action of the Panta Fe. the Rock Island and the I"nion Pacific in Kansas the last few days. What did the Santa Fe do but haul train loads of coal and provisions i to suffering towns in the western pan of the state? What did this blood thirsty road do but attach coal cars to their fast limited trains and drop these cars off at stations where the population was without fuel. In To peka this scandalous road gave a doz en cars of their own coal to the coal dealers for relief to the shivering, in Oklahoma City the fearful Santa l e donated coal to the electric light plant that the city might not be in dark ness. Then take that pirate of a Kock Island road. Thev started a tram load of coal out of Oklahoma and dropped a car at every town where it was needed. Thev hauled their own coal to the Kansas City. Kansas, electric Ught plant that the citizens of that citv might have light think of such a dastardlv action! The skin-flint of ficials kept many men in employment in Knterprise. Kansas, where they hauled their own coal to the mills that thev might operate. The Hering 'ton electric light plant and water works was kept in running order by the naughtv Rock Tsland. The Union Pacific rushed coal to western Kansas that their towns might not suffer. Not long ago the Santa Fe hauled rabbits to Toneka from western Kan sas that the noor might have some thing to eat for Christmas and New Year's. Think of the politicians al lowing such crime as this to pass by without notice. Seed wheat is hauled to the farmers for nothing. In many instances the Santa Fe has given the farmers seed wheat and allowed them to pay it back when they were able. This is just an example of what the Kansas railroads have been doing in the last two weks. Persons who have witnessed with glee a railroad loss in freight rates and a railroad defeat in immense damage suits, will tickle their tides when they see what the roads have done in this state. Of course the railroads realize that in many cases they will be repaid amplv for their trouble and expense but how many people put them selves out any in time of trouble with no assurance that they will be re paid? Count the number on your fingers. (Theatre Review in The Arch.) "I have often wondered at Jane Clay- j ton's youthful beauty. In a burst of confidence she told me her complexion was due to a lotion which she makes by dissolving a small original package of mayatone in a half-pint of witch hazel. Massaging with this has kept her Ekin clear and satiny ard preserves i its girlish bloom. 1 Her long, wavy and lustrous locks I r.re due to dry shampooning. She says she never has time to wash her head and would not if she could, because wet shampoos raaqe the hair dun ana lifeless. A dry shampoo leaves the hair soft and fluffy. To make the dry shampoo, she puts a cupful of corn meal in a fruit jar and mixes with it the contents of a small original package of therox. It brushes out easily and takes all dirt with it. "With a jar of Mother's Salve to cure sort throat and colds and pre vent catarrh, this actress travels forty eight weeks in the year, always looks the pink ot perfection, and sings at every performance." TICKET CWfTRACT OF XO VALVE Passenger Will Receive 'Full Claim for Ixkss of Rasgage. Salt Lke City. Utah, Jan. 19. "When the loss is due to the negligence of the railroad company the company can not avoid payment of actual value for lost bag"gage because the railway ticket signed by the owner carries a clause limiting the valuation to $100. S-uch was the decision in the district court here in the case of Mrs. Thomas Homer vs. the Oregon Short Line. Mrs. Homer got judgment for $400. A trunk thief, the evidence showed, transposed j i checks at the Short Line depot in this city and obtained Mrs. Homer's bag gage. MORE PAY OX ORIENT. Standard Scale Will Be Adopted for Sew Road Trainmen. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 19. Effective July 1. 1912, Orient trainmen will be paid standard wages and will be given standard working conditions. This -means that the trainmen, numbering about 300 men, will receive about $72,000 more per year than they re ceived prior to January 1. The train men of this road began a movement last July to induce the officials of the road to pay them standard wages. Conferences between officials of the road, officers of the trainmen's organi zations and the joint committee of the employees have been frequent, several of the" meetings convening in Wichita. The railway officials declined to grant the increase on the ground that busi ness conditions did not warrant it. Be ginning December 22, last, another conference convened in Kansas City. This has just closed with the result that the men won in their demand for an increase in wages. A compromise was agreed upon as to the time at which the increase was to take effect. The men agreed to accept one-half of the difference between their present rate and the standard scale of wages, beginning January 1, the standard scale of wages to begin July 1. TO REHABILITATE THE D. R. G. President Bush Will Place Road in First Class Condition. Denver, Colo.. Jan. 19. Work will be started early this summer to im prove the Denver Rio Grande rail road, and will be pushed until the sys tem is placed in first class operating condition. The amount of work to be done will be determined by the report made to the b-ard of directors by Benjamin F. Bush, the new president of the road. There will be no difficulty in ob taining money for these improvements and necessary improvements in equip ment, as t he "needed bonds are already authorized, and the road is in a posi tion to dispose of them as required upon favorable terms. The present officials of the road will be retained as far as possible, and ex-iitiv-e Vipndouarters will be main tained in Denver. President Bush will make his headquarters a part of the time in Denver, and the remainder of the time in St. Louis. SWTTCHMEX HOLD DA"CE, One Hundred and Fifty Couples Dance at Steinberg's. Members of Switchmen's Union of North America Lodge No. 12 of To peka gave their fifth annual ball at Steinberg's Music hall last night. About 150 couples attended. The hall was decorated with signal lanterns and flags of the various colors which are used in railroad service. These, with the usual decorations, pre sented a very attractive appearance. The membership of the organization in Topeka is composed of the switch men of the Rock Island and Santa Fe systems and a large number of em ployees of both systems were present. Mr. Ed Smith, who was formerly em ployed in the yards of the Rock Island system, and his wife led the grand march. Refreshments were served. The arrangement committee was com posed of Frank H. Deppe, W. O. Cur rier and W. D. Lewis. NORTHWEST HARRIMAN LINE. A Direct Route From Seattle to Van couver for- Port Traffic. Vancouver, Jan. 19. Definite an nouncement of the intention of the Harriman system to build a direct line from Seattle to Vancouver has been i v-t Ti -cQ.Tisll nrpsidftnt of the Oregon, Washington Railroad Navigation company, which owns and operates 2,000 miles of track. Mr. Farreli represents the Harriman in terests in the Pacific northwest. "We will not halt at the Frazer river," he said, "but will get into the very heart of Vancouver. The route has been carefully looked over. The Harriman system has long had its eye on this port and realizes that there is alreadv enough traffic in sight to jus tify the proposed expenditure.". RAILWAY NOTES. Take Q; One J 7 Pain Pill, r hen Easy. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills will help you, as they have helped others. Good for ail kinds of pain. Used to reheve Neuralgia, Head ach, Nervousness, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Kidney Pains, Lumbago, Locomotor Ataxia, Backache, Stomachache, Carsickness, Irri tability and for pain in any part of the body. "I hare always been subject to neuralgia and have suffered from it for years. While visiting my son and suffering from one of the old attacks, he brought me a box of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. I used them as directed and after taking them it was the first time in years the neuralgia ceased from the use of mftiWne." MRS. E. C. HOWARD, 402 Oreene St, Dowagiae. Mich. At all druggists. 25 doses 25c- MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. Hiram H. Field has been elected gen eral solicitor of the St. Paul system, including the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul railway and the Chicago, Milwau kee Pugct Sound line. Mr. Field was formerly general counsel of the Puget Sound line with headquarters at Seattle and the change marks the com pletion of a plan -to make Chicago the center of tht company's legal depart ment. He succeeds Burton Hanson who has become general counsel for the sys tem. Charles W. Hines. raiiroad economist has been appointed vice president and general manager of the Southern Fa cile lines in Mexico. As a result of the complaints that news ag?nt3 have been careless in re gard to their wearing apparel, conduc tors on the Tennessee division of the Illinois Central have been instructed to see that these employees present a tidy appearance. The suggestion also has been made to all conductors that news agents be not permitted to leave division terminals on through trains unless they are properly uniformed. Lesrislatures of 38 out of 4S states ot the Union convene this month. It is doubtful that any cencerted effort wu be made by the railroads, operating un der the 2-cer.t passenger fare law. for the introduction of bills at any of these, sessions looking toward an increase in this rate until several important decis ions now pending in the United States supreme court are settled once and for all. Railroads operating eastward from Chicago and St. Louis last week made a gain in general tonnage of about b per cent. The cold weather was a seri ous drawback to movement of freight, although most of the roads were fairly free of congestion at any point. WANTED Three boys to sell State Journal on streets at noon from 11:15 a. m. until 2 p. m. Apply State Jour nal office tomorrow morning. Germozone is the one best chicken rt-medy. Ask any one who uses it. Zim- j merman ed company. Lewis' Single Binder, straight 5c j many smokers nrefer them a s p S3 ST C D O CO 5 X P C rf cn OOP t D Si' SI rr" 2 t: o 3 O (J W o K S 6ft

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUENAL JANUARY 19. 1912 CUrpeka tnt? Journal By FUASK P. SHC jLENNAN. fEntered July 1, 1873. as second-class matter at the postoffice at Topeka, Kan. Vinder the act of congress. VOLUME XXXVIIII.. No- 1' Official Mate paper. Official Paper City of Topeka, Bally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part or open- m suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan pas town where the paper has a carrier system. m By mail, one year.: JiX Rv mil r,rAcr LOO Tlll-?mA OfFio Reporters' Room A" INDEPENDENT TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call 107 and ask The State Journal operator lor per son or department desired. Topeka State Journal building. 800 and S"2 Kansas avenue, coiner Eighth. New York Office: 250 Fifth avenue. Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Steger building. Paul Block, manager. Boston Office: Tremont Building, Paul Block, manager. Ki l l IEASED VTTIK REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PKE5. The State Journal is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganization for the exclusive afternoon publication in Topeka. The news is received in The State Jour Hal building over wires for this sole pur pose. Indications are multiplying that there is some substance to the forward movement of the Chinese. They ire tearing down their temples to graven Images. Lost One boom for the Republican presidential nomination. Finder will j)lease return to R. Marion LaFollette, the little giant of Wisconsin, and re reive reward. It is to be hoped that James K. Var flaman, of Mississippi, will get a much needed hair-cut before he makes his grand entry into the United Stat?s senate chamber. Robert Bruce Mantell, in taking unto himself a third wife, is certainly beginning to crowd Nat Goodwin a lit tle for the male matrimonial cham pionship in the theatrical arena. Those Pennsylvania cousins, who kill ed themselves because relatives pre vented them from marrying, haven't bettered their condition in any way. A would-be suicide, though, never stops to think of this fact. War is. indeed, most cruel. Think of it! An. Italian grand opera singor has been ordered home from this country to take his place in the ranks cf a reserve army that Italy is pre paring to send to Turkey. And he's a tenor, too. After all. the wisest of the weather sharps are the gentlemen who write the pieces for the patent medicine almanacs. A careful reading of them will invariably disclose predictions of cold and stormy weather for the win ter season ini' warm weather for the summer months. One reason why the good roads movement is making such rapid strides in Kansas and other parts of the country is that for some unknown reason it has been kept out of poli tics. This is about the only question of public concern which has not been Subjected to that withering blight. Russia is reported to have a plan to end the Turkish-Italian war. Russia would seem to hav? even a better op portunity to pose as a promoter of peace and civilization if she would end her own depredations in Persia and de sist from her designs to gobble up Mon golia. It may be that Governor Wilson's campaign for the IJemocratic presi dential nomination was being injured by the support of Colonel George Har vey and Harper's Weekly. There can be no doubt, though, that Mr. Wilson's cold-blooded turning down of Colonel Harvey's support has hurt his chances more. The people have little use for d man who is lacking in gratitude. That government weather forecast for the benefit of shippers of perish able goods was no more reliable- on its first appearance in these parts th in are many of the other official weather prognostications. It was to the effect that during the intervening thirty-six hours the temperature surely would not fall below IS degrees. And the temperature proceeded to go down to 10 during the first half of this period. Two national issues, the tariff nid retrenchment, are "sticking up like sore thumbs," says Governor Harmon. And President Taft's plan for tariff revision on facts dug out by an im partial tariff commission is the only safe and sane way to heal one of these sores. And President Taft's message to congress the other day on economy and efficiency in the government serv ice, together with the results he has already achieved in this line, also show that he is the right man in the right place to heal the retrenchment sore. Bills have been presented to congress to provide pensions for the widows of the Rear Admirals Sch'ey and Evans. This is the usual procedure in respect to the widows of distinguished officers of the army and navy. A suggestion has also been made to allow the widow of Justice Harlan a sum equivalent to one year's salary of a justice of th-? supreme court. Why not grant Mrs. Harlan a. reasonable pension for life of at least the same proportions as are given to widows of admirals and gen orals? Is a life-time service on the su preme bench of the nation any less dis tinguished or any 'ess worthy of re ward than a similar service in the army vt navy? It does not esent so. CHAPTER. LXXVIII. A Variety of Thing?. The Kansas City Star, which was formerly a strong and strenuous advo cate of Candidate Wilson for the presidency, and later seemed to favor Noncandidate Roosevelt, is now ap parently switching back to Wilson notwithstanding the jolts the New Jersey governor has received of late through" the Harper s Weekly, Colonel Harvey and Henry Watterson inci dents. Bv the way, one of the richest pieces of news in connection with the Wilson-Harvey dramatic episode was covered exclusively in the State Jour nal last evening in the article on the fifth page by Alfred Henry Lewis, un der a New York date line. If you have not read it, you should not fail to do so, no matter whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, for it is certainly rich reading and is one of the most graphic descriptions ever written upon "Alan's ingratitude to man." The Kansas City Star says of Wilson in its issue of Thursday: "Nevertheless, the American people are not inclined to be critical in deal ing with effective public men. whose purposes they believe to be right. "At Princeton Woodrow Wilson took his life in his hand and struggled for democracy within the university. As governor of New Jersey he has made a fine record in wresting from a divid ed and reluctant legislature a body of progressive laws. "In all his relations he has shown himself a strong fighter for progressive ideas. His enegry. courage and ability have made him a national leader in the forward movement. "Against these qualities it is be lieved his lack of tact in this case will not weigh heavily with the mass of the voters." The Kansas City Star, an excellent general newspaper, is, of course, Dem ocratic and free trade in its political tendencies. It has a large circulation in Kansas, and what it prints as news has a naturally big influence in this state. It is classed as favorable to the Insurgent wing of the Republican party. The Wilson editorial last evening is somewhat significant, as showing the confusion and division into which the Insurgeit ranks are diided. while th. Taft-for-rencmiration Republicans pre sent almost a solid front. The advent of Cummins into the race this week still further complicates the situation. Since LaFolette was thrown overboard by Governor Stubbs, William Allan White, and some other leading mem bers of that faction of one, or both of the parties, Republican matters po litically have certainly been up in the air, Senator Bristow still holding the fort for LaFollette, with little pros pects for reinforcements arriving in time to save it. The fact of it is LaFollette is the typical Insurgent. Insurgents like Stubbs and White should have stuck to him, and made the fight with him. Tie Insurgents claim to he men of principles, and the principles they ad vocate were fathered and fostered by LaFollette, who was their natural and recognized leader. If they could not win in Kansas with him, they shouli not expect to win at all. That would have been a pretty fight, with Taft on one side, and LaFollette on the other. There would have been a square issue. It was certainly a big piece of political cowardice for the governor and White to desert LaFollette. LaFollette has his good poirts, and he has some con siderable popularity in Kansas, but he v, as politically sold out by his Irienda. In this connection, here is a funny thing: William Allen White was a warm admirer of LaFollette. He went up into Wisconsin to the LaFollette conferences. He was the Kansas spokesman for LaFollette when Bris tow was out of the state. He lived in a LaFollette atmosphere. The maga zine of which White is one of the own ers and contributors, "The American." is, to a certain extent, a LaFollette organ. It is running a highly interesting- and entertaining biography of the Wisconsin senator, with boyhood sketches, human interest stories, well written incidents and attractive pic tures. There are two Bill Whites, Se nior and Junior. Big Bill lived in a LaFollette environment, so much so that it became contagious, and his boy. Little Bill, caught the infection. He, too. learned to like LaFollette. and spent much of his leisure time lying on the floor, face down, pouring over the autobiography of his father's ideal statesman. Little Bill absorbed Big Bill's admiration for Senator Bob, who had an interesting boyhood. Lit tle Bill talked LaFollette at .meals, and between meals. He noticed that one of LaFollette's characteristics was his method of cutting his hair, so Lit tle Bill had his hair cut pompadour, and now spends not a little time in primping it up. pushing up the fore lock, so each particular hair stands on I end. not like the quills of the fretful porcupine, but like the bushy head of the young boy's ideal. If Big Bill had remained as faith ful as Little Bill to Senator LaFollette, and stuck to him as the representa tive of Insurgency as steadfastly as Little Bill has stuck to him. politics in Kansas would be clarified, issues would be sharply drawn, and the gen eral murkiness of the political horizon would not have existed. Both the Republicans and Demo crats seem to be pretty badly split up, with one party solid for Taft and oth er factions in the same party for La Follete, Cummins or Roosevelt,- and one faction of the Democratic party for Clark, and the rest split up for Harmon and Wilson and Parker and Bryan. How would it do, in view of the obliteration of party lines, to make up a free-for-all-ticket and let it be headed by Roosevelt and Bryan. Bry an has never been able to get first place. Perhaps, he might be able to land second if he had Roosevelt to pull him through. Now comes Victor Murdoek, and ac cording to report, recommends a standpatter for the postoffice at Wich ita. Perhaps Mr. Murdoek may be dis gusted at his brother Insurgent, Norris of Nebraska, who was standing up for Insurgent principles, but Is now stand ing up for the office of United States se-natof. The House case seems to be sticking just now in the effort to secure a jus tice of the peace "not unfriendly to the law." There is another difficulty in the way. It does not seem to be known in just what county this al leged offense was committed. In that event, it might be difficult to find a justice of the peace who had juris diction, unless the governor instructs the attorney general to go through all of the counties and see if he can find a justice who will fit the crime. If the proper justice should not be secured and he should undertake to imprison J. E. H. for contempt of court, the Man Who Refuses to An swer might possibly have a case of damages for false imprisonment, and then, too, if he were in prison, there seem to be a whole lot of Judges who might release him from durance vile. It is said that a district judge or a probate judge or most any kind of judge might get him out of jail, so upon the whole, there seems to be more chances for getting House out of jail after he gets in, if he does get in. Now comes Mr. House today, and in an interview printed in this paper. breaks that silence to the public which he would not break to the inquisitors. He declares that his offense is not civil, but political, and that, the governor wants to punish him. Think of the governor's wanting to punish a mem ber of the staff of Mr. Capper's In surgent daily organ!- He declares that he neither wants to break a law, or break faith, and in substance says that the governor takes the position that he is breaking one, and will have to break the other. His position must be admit ted to be rather solid -when he states that it is based upon the foundation that he will not permit abuse or con demnation to affect his ideas of the right. Mr. House is a cold water man evidently, for he says he has thrown much of it upon Governor Stubbs' ele sire to be United States senator, so much that this fervent desire has siz zled when J. E. H. squirted it. Coming from a member of the staff of the paper with which he is con nected, it must be admitted that he is rather severe upon the governor when he intimates that he may "reveal to the voters of Kansas the real nature of the 'skin' game that is being put over on them in the name of reform 1 shall not murmur at the length of it, whether that be months or years. If the discussion which will inevitably result serves to le veal the futility, the utter insincerity, the hypocrisy and the entirely selfish mo tives of the present reform administra tion I shall be content. If 1 should chance to be the humble instrument by which the bluffing, bulldozing, grand standing combination now in political control in Kansas were shown to the voters of Kansas in its proper perspec tive. I should be proud of it. I have not much hope that I could be such instru ment, but I am ready to take the bare outside chance if it is forced on me." This is simply terrible, and thrilling and to use the language of Milton No bles when he ended one of his chap ters: "The villain still pursued him." (To be continued in our next: Chapter LNXIX tomorrow.) JOURNAL ENTRIES Most of the extremely affable people are that way for ulterior purposes. Consistency may be a jewel but it's not of the kind that politicians con sider worth having. If the jokesmiths are to be believed- ed, everybody is carrying some one else's umbrella. Nearly every man will refuse to ad mit a mistake is his if there's any chance to blame it on another. Nor is the mercury in the thermom eter the only thing that has gone up these days. The spirits of the people have followed it rejoicing. 1,1 JAYHAWKER JOTS Bill Slivers is quoted by the Toronto Republican as having remarked: As I figure it out. the thing called diploma cy in public service and tact in society is the .same thing we old-fashioned folk used to call soft soap. An experience in editing telegraph for her husband's paper, the Cherrv vale Journal, has brought forth the fol lowing from Mrs. V. y. Moffett: "This editing; telegraph is a liberal educa tion. It requires mprejthan a 5-foot shelf to hold the reference books nec essary to edit telegraph inerroneously and intelligently. You must have an up-to-date cookbook. Atlas of the World and Oklahoma, the Bible, list of abbreviations. Eneyclppedia Britan iiica, map of China, Lost in the Jungle for Durbar things, the Outlook, (very necessary) list of postoffiees. Hell ou the border, (for reviewing crimes com mitted) a morgue of all prominent men and criminals and Pickings from Puck. Even then you find occasionally yon haven't the reference book you need." Sunday morning, now you all remem ber Sunday morning, a prominent gen tleman on North Main street was rash enough to take a bath, relates the Pratt Union. Anyone should fix the date of his annual bath at some other time than January, as you will all agree. That, however, has nothing to do with what happened. He wore a light bath robe and an earnest expres sion. He stepped out on the back porch to empty a pan of water and the door, with a night latch, swung shut be hind him. He tried to open it, but it would not budge, h-? could not kick it open for his poor feet were bare, he was not arrayed in proper costume to go to his neighbors calling and as he stood on the porch and shivered he said to himself, said he. "My God. how am I -ever to get that door open?" He shivered and planned, then planned and shivered and Just as he was about to the freezing point where the agony ceases and he was ready to float away in dreams lik? others who had frozen before his time, the superintendent of th city waterworks came by carry ing a spade, and with the spade the door was battered down and the man from the bath was hung over a red hot stove till he was thawed out. He has decided that if he ever concludes to take another bath that he will smash all the spring locks in the house before h-a begins hostilities. SY THE WAY BY HARVET PARSONS. T. B. Armstrong, employee of the Stubbs Detective agency, objects to having things printed about his liquor capacity and his "work." II 5 puts the accent on "work." It may be work for him to drink a large collection of poor whisky per diem, but to his fellow worker, Rev, Norris, it seems to be a mere recreation. Mr. Armstrong should take a corres pondence course in drinking prune juice, prussic acid and wood alcohol, before posing as an A 1 number one spotter. Dick Hopkins is for Roosevelt. Up to this time the Morning Squash, which had collected the state vot-3 for the Candidate who Refused to "Run, has held the letter In cold storage. Now it may as well seal it and mail to Oyster Bay. Marse Henry Watterson opines that Woodrow Wilson is a school teacher, rather than a statesman of ty Tilden type. In other words. Marse Henry holds thnl Wnndt-nw n use 3 switch better than he can use a pitchfork. Many of the so-called "black hand" letters are written by poor simps who are up against it and can think of no better way to induce the bloated pluto crats to divide. It is lack of brains that is responsible for a majority of these letters. Wb.y doesn't the poor boob break into politics and threaten some ruling against Business? The county attorney's office recently dismissed cases against two negroes who were arrested on a grand larceny charge after th-a stolen groceries were fr ind on their premises: the next case of importance to come before the same office was that of two negroes charged with selling booze. Defendants were stuck for a number of counts each. It appears that tha -system is faulty, and that spotters should be' hired to eat groceries on the premises before lar ceny charges are preferred. But regardless of this explanation. there are evil minded persons in this town who will insinuate that the dif ference is the result of the 23-bone fee which follows each liquor prosecution! Plans are being made to put a popu lar summer evening sport oh the fritz: Stotts says he is going to fill Gage Park with electric lights, and negotia tions are being mad? to provide a spe cial night cop for Central Park. Eve left her man shy a rib: the mod ern woman leaves her man short one perfectly good back bone. Gaby Des Lys has broken into a newspaper syndicat?. Of course she furnishes nothing but -a few poses of her "almost" shape and receipts for the cash, but respectable women like unt Lil Russell are justifiable fn get ting out of th? syndicate string if they have to get married to do it It is but natural thnt tbe "Iipq ri-ol a building." a New York structure 10 feet wide anel 20 stories high, will be occu pied by lawyers. They may not all be "aiiuw, out. mey win an come nign. He who prates overmuch of his con science is like, him who coasts of his brains he hag none worth speaking of. Brains entitled to the name are willing to be judged by their works and know a thing or two about the value of modesty. The conscience that can be trusted vaunteth not Itself and is not puffed up. Real goodness, like real capability, is no braggart. It has the quiet dig; nity of all true worth and if not ob viously humble is secretly so.' It speaks with the logic of the flower, which neither exaggerates nor decries its beauty, but only blooms. It has no more tongue than the mountain, whise peaks, dumb and majestic, by their more silent existence challenge' the world of lesser, noisier things. Let him who is proud of his vir tues abase himself, for he thinks as a fool. It is the property of virtue that it cannot live in air tainted with the breath of the Pharisee. Once the subject of boast, virture gives way to self-worshiping pride and its erst while possessor never knows of its, departure. Good folk are sadly afflicted by scamps and tricksters and all man ner of arrant rogues, but the most dangerous of all men is he that boasts of his conscience. For his conscience is dead though he knows it not. and restrained by the remorse which plagues the sorriest of outright rogues, he robs his neighbor with one hand and with the other strives to reach the region of his shoulder-blades that he mav bestow upon himself the pat of approbation. (Copyright, 1312 by W. E. Williams.) QUAKER MEDITATIONS. Prom the Philadelphia Record. Empty heads are easily rattled. Some people regard it as a poor rule un less it works five or six ways. Laughter is the gift of the gods," but happy lives never make history. The chronic borrower says he believes in owing a good thing when he sees it. You can blind some people by throwing dust in their eyes, especially if it s gold dust. Why should a dog be blamed tor growling over his food? He may merely be imitating his master. A glance at the thermometer will dem onstrate that there is plenty of room at the top just now. The social climber should be ultra-religious having in mind where all the best people go when they die. There are various grades of success. Even the man with the wheelbarrow may feel that he is in the push. Blobbs "The beauty about lending money to Harduppe is that he is really grateful." Slobbs "Yes, I let him have So last week, and he was so grateful that he has been around three times to bor row more." Is honey good for the hives? (To be, or not to be? That is the question. If Bessie can sew can Dan Patch (That's a horse on you, Harold.) If Ohio had free beer on New Year's, how long will Illinois have Freeport? (Plead no more, Percy! Your doom is sealed.) j SAYS UNCLE GAV VAFFYDILS I BY U. NOALL. BALLAD OF EXTREME OU) AGE. The world sweeps past me now, and oth er wars Set men aflame. The fights we fought forgot, the sacred cause No more the same! The passwords of our day are dead and gone. Or only found Graven upon the tombs that mark moss grown Out burial ground. Where those we fought and those who fought for us Together lie Neglected, vanquished and victorious And none come nigh! I judge not, nor condemn. How can I judge This alien age With other thoughts and hopes? Why should I grudge Their lot or rage? One prayer alone I make a humble one Ye powers! dispense That I may sit a little in the sun Ere I go hence. Pall Mall Gazette. THE EVENING STORy Lawson Puts Asunder. By M. J. Phillips. "Let's go to Mr. Grieve," urged a voice outside Edward Lawson's door. It was jl very humble door, since he was junior partner in the great law firm of Grieve, Field Morrison. "No," replied another voice, which he was sure he recognized,, "we'll go in here. Edwy Lawson will know as well as any r-e." Lawson rose precipitately to greet .Tean Melbourne, her mother, and Ferdy Van Sluyck. Jean was ravishing, though her eyelids showed evidences of recent t'jars. "Oh, Edwy," began Jean, plaintive ly, "we're in the worst trouble! And we want you to help us out." Van Sluyck moved stiffly in his chair. Mrs. Melbourne did not seem desolated. "We;vj been such sillies," continued the girl. "I can't see why we didn't think "What is it?" Anxiety sharpened Edwy'a voice a bit. "You tell, mother," urged Jean. Mrs. Melbourne smiled. "No, Jean; you must tell him yourself." "Well, Edwy," began Jean, plaiting her handkerchief. "I have a house party of girls. There are eight of us. And last night we decided to put on a play impromptu, you k'-.ow. "We borrowed a paper-backed novel from the cook, 'A Wild Wedding Morn,' and Nell Chatters assigned the parts. Really, it was funny. We didn't know what any character was going to say and we had to think up answers on the spur of the moment to keep things go ing. "I was the persecuted heroine be cause I hive light hair; persecuted heroines ari always blonde. The 'wild wedding morn' was the climax of the third act; so of course we had to have a wedding. "Ferdy had been up to see papa on business and was going through the hall just as we were setting the stage in the parlor. The girls dragged him in; they said it would be much more realistic to have a man for that scene." She paused and looked at Lawson. "I see." The young attorney swal lowed miserably. "We had the ceremony, with Ferdy as bridegroom "And now some one has told you that a mock wedding, properly wit nessed, is binding in this state." "Why, yes," agreed the girl in sur prise. "I've heard of such cases, before." "What we want to know, Mr. Law son," asked the complacent Mrs. Mel bourne, 'is whether the ceremony is really binding." "I don't know- yet," sighed Edwy. He turned to Jean. "What sort of a rigamarole did you go through with?" "Polly Pearson acted as the min ister," replied the girl, "and what she said sounded natural." Lawson's heart swooped down through limitless depths of despair, like a broken aeroplane. Polly Pear son was the sister of the Episcopal minister and had been witness at a hundred weddings. Doubtless she had the wedding service letter-perfect. "You made the proper answers. Van Sluyck?" asked the attorney. "I did," returned that young man. "It was a very foolish thing to do," remarked Lawson; Van Sluyck colored hotly. "We are not all lawyers." he retorted, loftily, and Edwy hated him. "Then it's legal?" queried Jean anx iously. "I'm afraid 'it is; the law is joke proof. It takes no account of the spirit in which the words of the mar riage service are uttered so long as they are uttered.". Jean was pale. She looked from her mother to Ferdy and back again. "What a bother!" she sighed.- "And we'll have to go into court, and all that!" The complacent Mrs. Melbourne glanced keenly at her daughter for a moment. "Is it such a terrible thing, Jean the ceremony, I mean? Anoth era formal one Van Sluyck leaned forward eagerly in his chair. "I don't think it's a cal amity Jean. You know how I feel how I've always felt." Jean stole a peep at Edwy Lawson from under her long eyelashes. He was digging vicious holes in his desk blottef. "I don't know," she sighed. "I couldn't think what to do until I was sure the law called it a marriage." Mrs. Melbourne rose. She was posi tively beaming. "Thank you so much. Mr. Lawson. Mr. Melbourne will send you a cheek. Come, dear." Ferdy, caressing an insufferable little mustache, was also beaming. Edwy felt like biting him. "Mind, I don't say positively this ceremony is binding," he said wick edly. "I would have to know all the circumstances; and, come to think of it, there is a supreme court decision of 1876 that has a bearing on certain mock marriages. I will look that up and call tonight to let you know," he finished, boldly. "There's no hurry!" began Mrs. Melbourne, quickly. "Oh, yes there is!" assured Jean, who had been dashing her eyes with her handkerchief. "Do come up, Edwy." That evening the attorney was striding back and forth like a menag erie exhibit. He and Jean were alone in the cozy back parlor. The light hearted house party was making mer ry elsewhere. Edwy eat down as far as possible from Jean. He did not dare go near: there was a subdued pensiveness about her altogether unaccustomed and charming- He wanted to cuddle and to comfort her. and -he- hadn't the right, or the money to gie him the right. "Well," he began, as cheerfully as possible, "the '76 decision has noth ing to do with your case. The cere mony is legal and binding.' Jean sighed and looked, down at her Intertwined fingers. "Oh. well," she said gently. "I don't know that it makes much difference. Everybody's i delightod Ferdy and his mother and my mother "I thought your mother was," re marked Lawson. "You did?" "Yes, I did; Van Sluyck hasn't any thing but money. He's a catch." "Why, Edwy!" There was an injured look in her dewy eyes. "And so are you delighted!" he charged, harshly. "He can give you a flock of automobiles, and a forty-room house. Bah, money, money, money! It's ths only thing that counts, nowadays." She bridled. "You shouldn't talk so, Mr. Lawson. I have a perfect right to abide by the law." "You haven't!" Edwy's voice was sharp with misery. "That marriage must be annulled." "Must be annulled why?" "Because I want you myself and I'm going to have you." He gathered her hands to his breast and kissed the pink palms. Jean swayed towara him. "Oh, Edwy," she whispered, "I was afraid you were never going to say it!" After awhile, some minutes or mayhe hours later, Jean remarked demurely: "I really don't think an annulment is necessary, Edwy. Y'ou see, when Polly asked me if I'd love, honor and obey Ferdy, I didn't say Y'es.' "You didn't?" cried Edwy, excitedly. "I said, 'No. never, I wouldn't promise to obey any man.' Affectionate mirthfulness bubbled up in Edwy's eyes. "You little sea lawyer, you! That really does put the whole thing in the catalogue of jokes. But." he continued, shrewdly, "why didn't you tell me that in the office this afternoon?" Her burrowing movement fixed a few more grains of rice powder in the shoul der of his coat. "Because I wanted to tell you here!" she whispered. (Copy righted, 1912, by Associated Lilerary Press.) EVENING CHAT BT RUTH CAMERON. "A Pittsburg clergyman has recently notified his flock that henceforth he is going to marry no couples who cannot give proDable evidence of an annual In come of at least two thousand dollars.' i quote that interesting item from a oontemporary publication. What d.o you think of it? I'll tell you gladly what I think. I think it Is one of the worst examples that I have yet seen of the foolish and harm ful tendency prevalent just now the ten dency to advise young people to delay marriage until all material difficulties are smoothed away by plenty of money and material possessions. I wonder if that minister realizes that the average American wage is about $900. I wonder if he realizes that 67 per cent of American men do not get more than ?l,ooo a year. What, pray, would he do with these men and the women they would naturally take to wife? Would he condemn them to eternal sin gleness and keep their women's arms eternally empty and hungry, because their lovers could not give "probable evi dence of an annual Income of at least two thousand dollars?" I believe that the tremendously high standard of material possessions necessary as a preliminary to marriage, which we are encouraging our children to raise, is doing -astIy more harm than good. The idea is good enough if we didn't carry it to such ridiculous excess. Every one knows that when the wolf is contin ually howling and scratching at the door, and even peering glumly in the windows, there isn't apt to be much billing and coo ing going on inside the home. But, does it take two thousand a year to keep the wolf away from a young married couple's home? Indeed it doesn't. Or, at any rate, shouldn't. Nor well, I started to say not half that, but I suppose I ought not to be quite so definite. Circumstances alter cases, and whereas there are couples that might get along very comfortably on seven or eight hundred a year, there are others who re quire more than that. But I don't believe that any two people would starve on twelve hundred a year. And anyhow, it seems to me that a rea sonable amount saved up for a rainy day and good prospects for advancement, count for more than a large Income to start with. If all the harm that is clone by long drawn out engagements and by the ad vanced age for marrying among men could be known. I think perhaps we should say less about having just so much to start with, and more about getting married at the time when nature wants men and women to marry. What relation do you suppose the pro longing of bachelorhood to the age of thirty and thirty-rve has with the social evil? Of course, no one can know that exact ly, but I'm sure of this that if I had a son I'd rather see him marry at the age of twenty-two or three, on a thousand a year, than wait until he was thirty for two or three thousand. Perhaps, Mr. Pittsburg minister, you were misquoted in your sweeping ex clusion of all folks who couldn't qualify in the two thousand class from the state of matrimony. For the honor of your cloth, I hope so. ADVERTISING TALKS BT WILLIAM C. FREEMAN Advertising pays therefore all mer chants should advertise. That is a sim ple business equation. The Craddock. Terry Co.. of Lynchburg, V advertised in spots through tiie south for less than a year when the re sults commenced to pile up. In one spot. Atlanta, they sold one or der amounting to JJO.OOO and there have been repeat orders since. The percent age of cost of the advertising, based on the gross business done, was so small that the firm wondered why it had not employed advertising as a salesman sooner. In Baltimore, the Gas Electric com pany printed a series of "Short Talks on Constructive Service," with the result that the people had a better understand ing of the purposes of the company. It never pays a corporation to be ex clusive and secretive. But it always pays to come out in the open with frank news paper publicity. The Rochester (N. Y.) Railway Light Co. started an advertising campaign with fine results. At the head of their adver tisements was the following "The Bet ter the Service, the Better the Home; the Better the Home, the Better Is Ro chester" and then asked this question "Is our Service Satisfactory?" They explained why they wanted to know. Their frankness won them the friendship and confidence of the people of Rochester. Down in Columbia, S. C. Van Metre's furniture store gets close to its custom ers by printing advertisements like the following: Advertisements that continually prom ise merchandise below cost are not be lieved. "The expense of doing business must be provided for out of the profits nowhere else every one knows this who stops to think. "Profits come from merchandise prop erly bought, stores economically man agedthen sales." "straightforward advertising is a force everywhere in establishing a successful business. (To be continued.) "Tama Jim's" Modest Needs. Logan Wallar Page, the director of) public roads or the Agricultural De partment, received a good business of fer the other day. and went to see "Tama Jim" Wilson about it. "I never advise anybody about of fers to leave the government service," said Secretary Wilson, "and I'm not going to advise you what to do. Since I have been at the head of the Agri- cultural Department a good many al luring propositions from the financial point of view have come my way, too. some of them recently. But while I am not a rich man by any means. I have always figured that I could only live in one house at a time, sleep in one bed at a time, and eat one menl at a time, and that's all any man real ly needs." Washington dispatch to New York World. KANSAS COMMENT DON'T KNOCK.. All the world knocks a knocker. This Increases the din of the anvil chorus. Don't even knock the knocker; don't listen to him. Where there Is no ear, there is no sound. The knocker will not knock long where no appreciation is shown. Knock not. lest ye he knocked. We can find something to knock In everyone, ana everyone can find something to knock In us. Be charitable to others and you will show the truest character towards your self. Knocking Is the sign or envy. 'rn? knocker envies his stronger brother, so he takes out his little hammer an I iutilely but none the less irritating;-, taps him. Knocking Is a bad habit. Break it. Don't lose your friends because you have the knocking habit. Don't lose your In dividuality by joining the hopeless, dys-i peptic ranks of self-confessed tallurci. the chronic knockers. C. I'. Boost In Haistead Independent. o PASTE THIS IN YOCR 1 1 AT. A Canadian paper offered a prize, lor the best answer to the question, "Why I voted against reciprocity?" and the winning essay contains tills highly sug gestive and illuminating sentence: '"i'l-u Democrats will shortly be In power fn the States. They are pledged lor a lowr tariff. Then we shall get all we are now offered, and in return will concede noth ing." Remembering that it was written by a Canadian who was against reci procity, that sentence will really bear reading twice. V. S. And It wouldn't do any particular harm to cut It out an.i paste it in your hat where it will u. handy to look at, especially about next election day. Iola Kegistta-. r FROM OTHER PENS POTASH FROM SEAWEED. The department of HKriculture has an nounced that a solution of the potash supply question is to be found In the ex traction of potash salts from the seaweed of the Pacific ocean. This seaweed, it seems. Itself extracts the salts from the water of the sea. Analysis has shown that the matured weed contains from i per cent to 35 per cent of potassium chloride. It is estimated that about J.ciOO.OXi tons of potash can be produced annually in this way, to be sold at about 140 the ton. We suppose that the department ot agriculture knows what It Is talking about, but we are not very enthusiastic over the proposition Just now. It Is evi dent that vessels for capturing the weed, machinery for extracting the salts and other costly apparatus must be prepared before the process beccjines of conimri cial importance. Moreover. the haul from the Pacific coast to the principal points of use is quite as expensive as th haul from Germany. The announcement Is interesting, of course, and may ulti mately mean something, but It does not seem to offer an immediate solution. Charleston News and Courier. DON'T Tl'HN V(1I:R COAT TUU OFTEN. Heaven help the man who imagines ha can dodge enemies by trying to please everybody! If such an inuivtdua! ever succeetls. pass him over this way that wo may have one look at his mortal remains ere he vanishes away, ror surely tins earth cannot be his abiding place. Now we do not Infer that one should be going through this world trying to find beam to knock and thump your head against, disrupting every man's opinion, fighting and elbowing and crowding all who differ from him. That, again. Is another ev treme. Other people have their opinions, so have you. Den't fall Into I he error or supposing they will respect you more for turning your coat everyday to match the color of theirs. Mayctta ilernld. GLOBE SIGHTS BT THE ATCHISON GLOBE. An Atchison Tight Wad hate to smil for fear the exposure may wear out the gold In his teeth. A dead man has this advantage: a live man Is expected to pay for most of the bouquets he gets. There are plenty of savaees who don't wear nose rings and scalping knives for evening clothes. You will wear out your friends quicker than your shoes, if you walk on your frtends as regularly. Your back must ache a thousand time for every thousand dollars saved by the sweat of your brow. One can't always tell: gome men rs ruined because they can't get credit, anil others because they can. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Keeord.J Patience is a virtue, when It Isn't mere laziness. It Isn't everyone who can afford the price of popularity. It's the things we don't do that often bring us the most happiness. The hand that rocks the cradle Is sel dom the hand that rules the mothers' meeting. Some people will even quarrel over the question of which one Is the more amia ble. You can take some things apart to see how they are made, but a fortune Isn't one of them. Some people can drop a quarter in the collection plate In such o way that It will make more noise than a Ji gold piece. Tommy (studying his Sunday school lesson) "Pop, who was it that said all men are liars?" Tommy's Pop "Roose velt, rny son." "Matrimony Is an important stn." re marked ths bachelor. "A step?'- retorted the married man. "It's a whole fllirht of stairs." "You can reach a man's heart through his stomach," quoted the Wine Guy. "Well, I'd hate to be a missionary a lid have to reach a cannibal's that wnv murmured the Simple Mug. POEVTEI PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. J Motto of the miser never give up. And many a man regards his wife as a poor relation. Push some men forward and they will go back on you. Some cheerful givers make a specialty of handing out lemons. A tough man's Idea of being well dress ed is to wear a loud necktie. It is the easiest thing In the world for a man to believe as he hopes. Much that passes for "pure cimsednoss" is nothing more than human nature. He Is a patient man who listens to th talk of a woman who has nothing to When a man has occasion to appfir before a police magistrate he Is ait to forget his own name. We are told that It Is the unexpected that always happens. If this Is true we should learn to expect it. It Is very apt to make a young widow indignant If a man doesn't pretend to use force the first time he attempts la kiss her. r

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JAIJTJABY 19;, 1912 FLYNN LOGICS FINE Tommy ltyan, Jeffries' Early Trainer, Enthusiastic. Says Fireman Has the Punch and Courage. Tjrontj, Out., Jan. in. Tommy Ryan, whose teachings helped to make James Jeffries champion of champions, was behind Flynn on his fight here with A! Williams and Tommy's shrewdness was eilent even in the short time that the bailie lasted. It v ill he remembered that Tommy taupht Jeff his famous crcueh alone; with practically every thing the former champion had. Tommy is greatly i.T.presed with the Pueblo fireman and after the match gave the following- exclusive statement to a re porter of the Chicago American, i "Flynn has it in him and properly trained I feel sure that he will be n. woithv opponent for Jack Johnson. When I say worthy 1 mean that na thould enter the ring zn even money shot in the betting, each man having an vqual chance. To the man who sees Johnson the conquerer of Jeffries, Tom my Burns and a few others, this state ment seems out of place but I am looking at this Flynn person through a schooled and trained eye. I care not whether my opinion of this heavy weight is credited as a pres. ase"t story or whether it is taken in the true sense that I give it, I am asked to give my option and that is all 1 am doing. Better Than .Toff lies Kvcr Was. -When I was called into the Jeffries camp vears ago to help condition the big fellow for fights that afterwards made him the greatest fighter of th acre I found him a raw amateur, ana -without credit to myself, I brought him to the front. As I look Flynn oyer to cay I find a much better man than 1 did when I joined the former champ ion. There are many redeeming fea tures to thU Flynn person that had to be hammered into Jeff. Jim knows In fighting srame thoroughly. Of course needs to have points sharpened and ne needs more knowledge of the various tricks You know tricks often win vic tories. I have contracted with Mana ger Curley to take hold of ilynn in Slay and I will say that when I send him into the ring with Johnson he w.l! be fit to give the champion a fight, i believe I can make him win. but 1 do not went to make the positive state ment that he will win. Courage and the punch are two things Flynn is strong in and ihey are two things that coui.t most in a fight. "We all know that when a fighter goes against a. champion ha is pos pessed with a fear that mckes mm for get half what he knows. Jim doesnt carry 'this fear. I am sure. He showed in his fight with Williams that he can punch and he carries one in each hana. Williams is no champion. He also is no easy mark, and when a man can clean up a battler like the Cleveland lad in practically one round that s go ing some. Jim fought a careful, waiting bat tle and every punch counted. His aim was perfect and each wallop was wed timed. He is the right size for Jorm son As I have said above. I care lit tle what is thought of my judgment but to tho.se who are seeking informa tion I want to say that after I get Ihrousrh with this Flynn person he will be an even money b"t against Johnson end this regardless of what the betting 7 public think of the match." v Ryan reea ed to be very much im pressed with the Pueblo fireman and his tone in declaring himself left the writer to believe that the talk was of the sincerest kind. BUY LINCOLN' IXIB TODAY. Giinliiorpe and "Ducky"' Holmes Eat-Ii Take Half Stock. Lincoln, Jan. 19. "Ducky" Holmes and John F. Gunthorp, former owners of the Lincoln and Denver clubs, who have been conferring in this city, are said to have come to terms, each to take a half interest in the local club tinder the option given to Holmes by President Despain. The only hitch in the completion of the sale is said to be concerning the raising of $3,000 which is to be subscribed by the Com mercial club. JENNINGS FLANS FOK RACE. No Startling Changes for Tigers Likely This Year. Seranton, Pa., Jan. 19. On his way to Detroit from Providence. R. I., F. J. Xavin of the Detroit American league team dropped off in this city and got Hugh Jennings' name to a one-year contract to manage the Tigers in 1912. The terms were not disclosed, but Jennings admitted the figure fell a lit tle short of John McGraw's $20,000 sti pend. Jennings and Xavin had little or no difficulty agreeing on salary and after the papers were all signed the two Tiger leaders arranged for the train ing trip of the team. The youngsters leave fir Monroe, La., on February 24 and the veterans leave on March 9 Xavin poohpooed the new outlaw league.' He says the promoters have not a chance to gain a foothold in the major league cities. "I can see where they might have a fair chance in Xew York because there are enough people to patronize a dozen clubs, but they show their hands when they try to bluff into such towns as Reading." said Xavin. Among other things the Detroit magnate denied was the reported trade of Third Baseman Moriarty to Cleve land for Graney and Stovall. He will not ha -e any use for Stovall. ha said, as physicians assure him that Gaynor will be in fine shape and it is settled that Moriarty will be seen at his old place at third base again next season. Jennings is considering the advis abilttv of taking a chef and a corps of waiters on the training trip, in order to condition the Tigers on proper diet. He will quarter his men in one large building near the grounds if the train ing table plan is adopted. BROWN LOSES FIGHT Attell Too Much for 'Knockout" in Ten Round Go. WANTS TO WHIP JEFF. Johnson Says Big Fellow Quit at Reno. Chicago, Jan. 19. Jim Jeffries, long as silent as the tomb, has brought down upon his bald head the wrath of his conqueror. Jack Johnson. The reason is Jeff's statement supporting Jim Cor bett in his claim that Johnson faked in his fight with Ketchel, pretending he was knocked down and letting Stan ley stay 12 rounds when he could have stopped him much sooner. "Ask Jeffries if I faked with him." said Johnson. "He ought to know whether I am a faker or not from our Reno fight. Just tell the public that I will bet Jeffries I can stop him or make him quit in ten rounds right now. I'd love to get that fellow down to Xew York with me for a battle. That would be killing two birds with one stone. I want to trim Jeffries again and I want to show the Xew York boxing com missioners that I can flght there. I'm 35 and about as old a man as Jeff, so I'm takinp no unfair advantage. "I'll bet Jeffries just $10,000 that he can't stay ton rounds with me and will give him any length of time he wishes to train. He'd be sure to quit if I didn't knock him out. He quit at Reno. I had him whipped but was going along care fully. He was not out when the bout ended. He timply dogged it." The colored fellow reiterated his in tention of leaving for Xew York Mon day or Tuesday to show Commissioner O'Xeil he can't stop him from fighting in that state. Jack says he will ap pear before the boxing commissioners and defy them to discriminate against him. BALI E TO GO SOUTH. Waggener Better After Night of Rest lessness. Atchison, Kan., Jan. 19. B. P. Wag gener, who was prostrated at his home, spent a restless night, and experienced some fever. He was better with a tem perature nearly normal. His son, W. P. Waggenei announced that B. P. Waggener will, as soon as he is able, go to some resort in southern states in an effort to recuperate. Pederson Throws Roller. Chicago, Jan. 19. Jess Pederson won from Dr. Roller in their wrestling match here by straight falls, the first in an hour, four minutes and the sec ond in ten minutes. Xew York, Jan. 19. Abe Attell bested "Knockout" Brown in a 10 round fight at the National Sporting club last night. The bout was a one-sided af fair, Brown being unable to land to any advantage. Attell had Brown grog gy in a mixup in the tenth round. Brown forced the fighting through out, but Attell's defense was impene trable, all of Brown's best blows going for naught. Brown opened the fight with a light left which did no damaee. Attell toyed with the local lightweight and there was not a heavy blow struck through out the round, in the second round At tell landed several uppercuts without a return and before the round ended had closed one of Brown's eyes and badly damaged the other. In the third, Brown continued his rushing tactics and Attell covered up and then landed a short uppercut to Brown's chin. The fourth round was the most sen sational of the bout. Brown swung hard at Attell and the latter stopped him wit:i a straight left. Brown land ed a hard left swing, sending Attell to the ropes. Just before the end of the round Brown landed lefts and rights and Attell appeared to be in bad shape, but at the bell the featherweight cham pion went jauntily to his corner. From this point on Attell jabbed at will, sending home at least a dozen blows without a return. The fifth round was ail his. In the sixth round Brown was wild, but just before the bell landed a good right. Brown sent a long right swing to the paw in the seventh, but Attell was not hurt. Both 'men indulged in rough tactics and were roundly hissed. Brown opened the eighth with an up percut that did no damage. Attell jab bed Brown at will, while the latter was wild. Both fought roughly in the ninth. Attell landed three uppercuts without a return. Brown appeared tired in the tenth round, while Attell continued jabbing mercilessly. The fight ended with a fierce mixup, from which Brown emerg ed groggy at d bleeding from the no.je and mouth. By popular verdict it was Attell's fleet. NEBRASKA BEATS THE AGGIES. Only One Point in Total Score of Basketball Game. Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 19. Xebraska university defeated the Aggies here in a fast and close game, the score be ing 26 to 25. The Aggies secured a lead of six points in the second half but Stiehm's men rushed the ball hard in the last five minutes and just nosed out a victory. The lineup: Xebraska. Position. Aggies. u..on L. F Shull Xagle R- F Souders Striker C Vale Frank G Helm Carrier R. G Fowler Referee E. C. Quigley. burgeW committee January Clearance Sale! AuerbacM? Gugftel Hat Sale! Amy Style of 0 $3, $3.50, $4 Hats broken lines, all re duced OJ now to. f) 10 vercoat Amy it ilHIC a On Governing Body of National Real Estate Dealers Association. X. B. Burge, president of the To peka Real Estate Dealers' association, will become a member of the execu tive committee of the Xational 'Asso ciation of Real Estate Exchanges. Recentlv the local association be came a member of the national organ ization. Consequently the Topeka or ganization is entitled to a representa tive on the executive committee of the national exchange. Mr. Burge was chosen by the executive committee of the Topeka association as the man to fill 'he bill. Mr. Burge will attend a meeting of the executive committee of the Xation al Association of Real Estate Ex changes in Kansas City, January 2 3. Germozone is the one best chicken remedy. Ask any one who uses it. Zimmerman Seed company. "Whv do you always appear in public carrying a tire?" "I can't afford an auto mobile just yet." Pittsburg Post. Formerly $25 and $28; Made by Hart, Schaffner Marx V. There, without any frills, is your one best "buy" in the retail clothing market for tomorrow! Scour the stores as you will, you simply will not find its equal. You'll find clothes reduced to seventeen dollars, per haps, at other stores, BUT THEY WON'T BE HART, SCHAFFNER MARX. You'll find Hart, Schaffner Marx clothes reduced in other CITIES, but not so low as $17. If your clothes are showing the least sigrns of wear, or if you ever intend to TRY Hart, Schaffner Marx clothes, NOW is the psychological moment. Get a suit for $17 and an overcoat for $17. SIZES FOR EVERYBODY! If the SI 7 Sale DOESNT Appeal to You, Here Are Others That WILL: $13.75 $21.75 Hart, Schaffner Marx Suits and Overcoats, sold earlier at $20, on sale at Hart, Schaffner Marx Suits and Overcoats that sold at $39, on sale at Hart, Schaffner Marx Suits and Overcoats, sold earlier in the season at $35, on sale at $25.00 A Quartette of Bargains in Trousers $3.50 $5 and $6 Hart Schaffner Marx Trousers, now. $7 and $8.50 Finest Hart Schaf fner Marx Trousers, $5 00 38SE Special fine lot $4.00 0 ff $3.50 Trousers, XOW..V3v Men's heavy cassimere and wor sted $2.50 Trousers, Q" QC now p 1 C7J Deep Cuts on Young Men's Clothes Second Floor. $15 OV'EHOOATS, $10 Smart, new Overcoats in styles young men demand full of lite and snap; new shades of brown, tan, pray, Oxford, blue, blue-gray and others. Many with con vertible collars and sizes 31 and 36. Choice of these $15 Overcoats in this Bis Clearance Sale an, fcray, $10 $15 SUITS, $10 150 Young Men's Suits; from our best $12.50 and $15 lines; included are all wool serges, new Scotch tweeds and cas- simeres, in new shades of browns, tans, blues and others: all crisp, snappy styles such as young men demand. Choice for r ,7. V Hi f-5 i- i 1 No Woman Who Needs Outer Garments Can Resist Buying Now Sweeping Reductions that embrace every Winter Weight Suit and Coat in the stock. There is no need for further emphasis, here are the details that will do the talking. Manhattan and E. W. Shirt Prices Cut Here are Quality Shirts at Low Down I Prices. Every smart dresser in the j city ought to attend this sale. There are Manhattan, also E. W. shirts in the lot and every solitary style is a "live" one, the very kind now worn by the dressiest Xew Yorkers. We have been making a special feature of them at $1.50 and $2.00 and that price is below value, don't forget, that. As long as they last' the sale price will be. New Plush Coats Just in By Express The Plush Coat bargain of the season. Made of Sealette Plush, lined with Guaranteed Satin, also extra interlined, a quality advertised by some stores at "$25.00 values for $18.75." Here Tomorrow $27.50 Plush Coats, now $21.00 each. EACH $29.50 Plush Coats, now $23.50 each. Handsome Black Broadcloth Serge Warm Stylish Mixture Cloth Coats Now reduced and selling at the following prices. $1.15 29c 50c Xeckwear, all cut in prices to All Winter Underwear PprilTr'pri every garment is now. ldlUVdU $10 will buy your Boy a $750 or $S.SO Suit, Reefer or Overcoat tomorrow here, This is a real sensation because TIIEaE'S NO CHANCE FOR DIS APPOINTMENT. We've got anything you ask for and you may have it for a five dollar bill whether its former price was ST. 50 or $8 or $8.50. Convertible Overcoats, Chesterfields, Rusians. Auto- Coats, and all sorts of Suits, including Knicker Pants Suits. Junior Norfolks and Novelties in styles of all nations. For boys aged. 2i to 17 years. Take your own pick of the whole lot for is our price for clean up of all suits and ov ercoats, which are broken in sizes and lots, that sold formerly up to $5. Ton will find some very choice bargain picking among them. Sizes from 2 i to 17, many of the suits having two pairs of pants. l?, U LI II 11M $5 Boys' Corduroy Knickcr-iMK-kers in tans and gray, $l.i5 quality. All 75c Boys" BIohsp Wails. soft collar attached, in tan and gray, all sizes, formerly $1.00, Or tomorrow JJC Shoe Buyers, Read! LADIES Choice from 540 pairs fine $3.50 to $6.50 CO Shoes at tp.OO MEN Choice of Washburn $3.50 and $4.00 Shoes o now V Best Stetson, Boyden, and Banister fine shoes Ci rn reduced to tTt.DU T. R. FALLS FOR AUTO The Colonel Now Sits Behind the Steering Wheel. Lot 1 Lot 2 Lot 3 Lot 4 Lot 5 Lot 6 $5.00 ea. $7.50 ea. $10 ea. $15 ea. $19.50 ea. Half The cheapest The cheapest The cheapest rje cheapest The cheapest Pficf coat in this lot coat in this lot coat in this lot 4V,- it coat in this lot wc was S10.00:the was $10; the was $15; the coat in this jot wag $25. the 0n all our best was best was best was 'n'as $19-50; the best was Children's $16.50. $19.50. $19.50. best was $25. $29.50. Coats. Saturday Last Day of the Muslin-Underwear Clearance Monday our old fixtures will be torn out to give place to the most up-to-date new ones. Come and share in the last day bargains at 25, 50f 69, 75c1, $1.00, $1.39 and $2.75. Warm Knit Underwear at Reduced Prices Before inventory we are offering many lots, of good, warm, serviceable Knit Underwear at substantial savings. Many lots are too small to specify but you will see them at the departments. Come and share m the savings. New York. Jan. 19. Theodore Roosevelt, colonel of the Rough Rid ers, has at length yielded to the tend ency of the times and sits behind the steering wheel of his automobile. Residents of Oyster Bay on several oc casions recently have seen Colonel Roosevelt driving through the town with his hand on the wheel steering the car as though he were thoroughly familiar with the mysteries of the levers and pedals which must be j manipulated. I The sight was a surprising one, be cause of Colonel Roosevelt's love of horses and aversion to automobiles, i When he was at Oyster Bay during the summer while he was president he for bade automobilists to enter his grounds in their machines. In spite of Colonel Roosevelt's pref erence for the horse, he found an au tomobile indispensable when he began to make regular trips between Oyster I Bay and his editorial offices in New York. If he went by train he was be sieged by persons who wanted to talk with him. Gradually he picked up in formation about the mechanism of the car, but it was only recently that he I began to drive it. The colonel still prefers the horse, however, and takes daily horseback rides. As a concession to the automobile. Colonel Roosevelt recently built a broad macadam road from his home on the crown of Sagamore hill to the public highway below. Our customers are getting eggs, they feed Lee's Kgg Maker. Why don't you? Zimmerman Seed company. Payment Bungalow, new, never occu pied; gas and electric light, basement, three piece bath. Good location. Only $2,150. One hundred cash, balance like rent. Shawnee Agency Phones 505 534 Kan. Ave. CULLOM TO .RUN AGAIN Veteran Illinois U. S. Senator a Candi date for Ke-eleetlon. Springfield, 111., Jan. 19. The peti tion of Senator Shelby M. Cullom for the printing of his name on the Re publican primary ballot for United States senator was filed with the sec retary of state today. The petition of Stale Senator Hugh Magill of Prince ton, the only other Republican candi date, also was filed. Th name of Senator Cullom will not be given first place on the primary ballot without a contest. M. U. Bailey, who filed Magill's petition, contends the latter's petition was filed first. First Scot What sort o' meenister has ye gotten, Geordie? Second Scot We sel dom get a glint o' him; six days o' th' week he's envees'ble, and on the seventh he's Incomprehens'ble. Tit Bits. I finzL trains I.v. Topeka 4:10 A.M 5:45 A.M. 7:40 A.M. 2:25 P.M. 3:25 P.M. 7:55 P.M. S:15 P.M. I J-3.-. V M Rt. Lv. Iv-C 7:55 A.M. 10:10 A.M. 10:50 A.M. 11:15 A.M. 6:lo P.M. 8:10 P.M. 11:15 P.M. 1 1 :?.0 P.M. Kansas City Book Island Fast Tiro No Stop Double Trsx'x NEXT TIME Never too Bust to Answer Question Phones 384 C. EL Bascom, Citv Pa. A?t m..,ui,i.,i,, I,!..!,,,, i mnpin' ...i.i JANUARY THE IDEAL TIME to begin saving some thing out of your sal ary. We have the plan THE CAPITOL BUILDING LOAN ASSOCIATION 534 Kansas Avenue DR. GEO. PORT ASHTON DENTIST Bell Phons 1183 Ind. 328 N. W. Corasr Eighth and Kansas ats. St. Louis Trains LEAVE TOPEKA 7:40 A. M. and 7:54 P. M. ARRIVE ST. LOUIS 6:29 P. M. and 7:55 A. M, DAILY THROUGH SERVICE and Observation. Sleeker, Diner, Chair Car on day train. Sleeper on night train.

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6 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 19, 1912 )iiyers Take Notice Being located in a Basement Store Room we have not any room to carry over stock from one season to another. Jn order to make room for our Spring stock which is soon to arrive we gathered a lot of 560 pairs of High Grade Shoes. We want to dispose of them all. regardless of cost. Remember they are all the most stylish shoes, made in tan. pun metals and patent leathers- button and bluchers, shoes that are backed by a world-wide reputation in $3.00 and $3.50 Values YOUR CHOICE Saturday Only JUST THINK of wearing a handsome pair of shoes just tho same as your friend paid $3.50 for, only $1.95. DON'T MISS IT Come Tomorrow and bring your trienris. xnis sale 13 a purely saving proposition. SHE Film RINGS. After 19 Years Woman's Jewels Are Returned. Paper Carried Across Plains in Wagon Responsible. 1 THE MODEL Basement Store N. E. Corner 6th Kan. Ave. M.PEiWELL Undertaker and Erabalmer Louisville, Ky., Jan. 19. Accidental perusal by a woman in San .Francisco of a stray piece of the "lost and found" column torn from a Chicago paper, published 19 years ago, will re sult in a Louisville woman recovering jewels which she lost while attending the Columbian exposition in 1893. The owner of the jewels is Mrs. H. C. Turner of this city. The finder is Mrs. B. L. Marks of San Francisco. They were in Chicago at the same time: Mrs. Turner mislaid two dia mond rings, and one with a ruby set. Mrs. Marks picked them up. Then began a fruitless quest on both sides, the one to recover her rings, the other to restore them. Not a clew was found by either, though Mrs. Turner adver tised and Mrs. Marks returned to Cal ifornia with the jewelry, while Mrs. Turner came home and gave up the search years ago. She Forgets Her Loss. She had almost forgoten her loss when a district detective called on her with a letter which Chief of Police Lindsay had received from Mrs. Marks. The letter said that while looking over some old papers her glance fell on the fragment of a "lost ad" on the back of a clipping taken from a Chicago paper in 1893. It re minded her of three rings she had found in that city the same year and she was surprised upon reading the notice to see the identical rings de scribed. With this clew and an old city directory the detectives took up the search. The rings are valued at $1,500. I'aper Found in Wagon. San Francisco. Jan. 19. After searching for 19 years for the owner of diamonds lost in Chicago, Mrs. B. Marks has at last discovered the owner, Mrs. II. C. Turner of Louisville, Ky., by a freak of chance that reads like a chapter of fiction. A man named McFadden came to San Fran cisco last year in a wagon in wnicn ne had crossed the plains. His horses were in bad condition ana inoieu him in trouble with the authorities. McFadden found help in a livery man, the husband of Mrs. Marks. Marks was examining the Met-ad- den Drairie schooner, when among some old newspapers in the bottom he saw a want ad, with a description of lost diamonds which tallied with these held in- Mrs. Marks. The ad was torn and the obliterated 1 address read: "Mrs. Tur Third street. Louisville." On this clew Mrs. Marks wrote to the Louisville police for an investiga- ion. Mrs. Turner sent proof 01 own ership which was received here last night with an offer of 100 reward. Restoration will be made at once. and Japan are making much active and comprehensive preparations to take ad vantage of the canal. The trouble is that the shipping and business interests of the United States are not making corresponding preparations. In com parison with what the foreign world is attempting, we are lagging behind at a dangerously long distance." ARE lmTAt IT Dynamiters Blow Up a Laundry at Pueblo, Col. Police Believe the Object Was to Destroy the Tank. HEADLESS BODY FOUND Tied Iietween a Blanket and a Mat tress With Clothes Line. M1 SMMBR?"a9nHHHMVBPMP9!!MM St. Louis, Jan. 19. The headless body of a man was found in an asl? pit in the rear of 1123 North Ninth street by a pa trolman at !:S0 o'clock this morning. The body was yet warm and the man, appar ently, had not been dead any length of time. The body was first seen by a negro wno said he also saw the head. When the patrolman reached the ash pit the head was missing. The negro later said he might have mistaken some other object for the head. The general appearance of the torso and Its clothing indicated that the murdered man may have been of foreign birth. The scene is in the heart of what Is called by the police the Black Hand dis trict. The body was tied between a blanket and a mattress, a clothes line be ing used. The knees were where the chin should be and the hands under the knees. The rope had been passed under the knees a second time. The corpse appeared as if the head had been cut off after, rather than before the form had been tied. Pueblo, Colo., Jan. 19. A terrific dynamite explosion today partially wrecked the Colorado laundry, in the heart of the business district, and shattered window glass in adjoining buildings, including those of the Globe Express company. No valuables, how ever, were taken from the express company's office. A dynamite fuse was found in the alley outside of the express company. The motive for the outrage is not quite clear and the Pueblo police are at work on it. No estimate of the damage as yet has been given and there have been no arrests. The police are now working on a theory that the explosion was caused by out of town parties and that it is connected with the many explosions in the last few years on jobs which v. ore being done by structural iron workers not connected with the na tional organization. The Tank the Object. It is now believed that the only object was to destroy the large tank used as a water softener. When this was being erected some years ago. it mysteriously toppled over one night, but no clew was ever found as to the real cause. No effort, however, had been made since that time to disturb the big steel tank. That the tank was not destroyed today is due to the fact that the dynamite was so placed that the explosion went downward instead of upward. The force of it was such that win dows in buildings in the business dis trict were shattered in a territory covering several blocks. The windows in the Globe Express company's office across the alley crashed to the street and it was supposed at first that the safe had been blown up. The explo sion caused great excitement as owing to the killing of a "black hand" lead er here the night before it was be lieved the gang was taking revenge for the murder of their leader. The police, however, are of the opinion that the black hand had no connec tion with the affair. The steel tank which was the object of attack was erected by the Kennecott Water Soft ener company of Chicago Heights, 111. J. Will Johnson, owner of the laundry ana former -president of the city council said: "I believe the explosion merely was an attempt to put me out of business by wrecking the building." That ihere was no attempt to take human life, the authorities believe is indicated by the fact that the explo sion occurred at an hour when it was known no one was in the plant. NO WILL FOUND JJ J Jraiat MADE TO ORDER Don't foreet order a pair, even if you have to come down without yours in order to remember it. It's our method of cleaning up remnants, mill ends and display samples returned from our many agents. Be In Tomorrow Bright and Early We expect to sell more tailor made pants tomorrow than all other stores put together. Original $15 Tailors 532 Kansas Avenue For Genuine $5, $6 and $7 Tailored To Your Measure to TOM C. POWELL, Manager Open Saturday Evenings UNION-MADE MATINEE CAT1 IIUOO B. KOCIl And a Powerful Acting Company in The Servant in the House By Chas. Rann Kennedy. FUICKS Mat. 25c to 75c: Boxes Night ?Kc to S1.FWV In Atchison It Is Believed Seaton lioft One. ORDER FOR 12 BRIDES Conies I"rom Lansing, 3tich, to Scat tie, Wash. it m I f A- ir i Wash Laces with IS 9 ft? ft. V t f I 1 f Strong soaps and soap powders injure them. PERSIL and the di rections here given in sure perfect results. 1 Soak one hour in cold water with one tablespoonf ul of PERSIL dissolved in it. 2 Wring out and place in boiler of cold water, with two table spoonfuls of PERSIL. Bring to a boil. 3 Boil 15 minutes. 4 Rinse thoroughly, wring, starch and hang out to dry. Seattle Jan. 19. The largest matrimon ial order ever received in the city came from Lansing, Mich., today addressed to Marriage License Clerk Claude Sage. It called for twelve brides to be ready to .vecl a like number of Michigan men ranging in years from 25 to 50. beginning housekeeping- on some of western Wash ington's logged-off lands as soon there after as the exigencies of the situation vould permit. V-3 want the land and we want the wives. "Most of us have been living in a farm ing community here and our chances to select a wife have not been of the best. From what we hear we believe with leap year privileges you will have no trouble in 'locating' i.s so far as he brides are concerned. The .and question we have already taken up." Gage has written the Michigan man that he will advise him later as to the condition of the matrimonial market. Atchison, Kan., Jan. 19. Altnougn Capt. John Seaton. who died Friday, left an estate valued at SS00.000. he made no will, at least one cannot be. found. His widow was appointed administratrix. One-half the estate will gro to her and the rest will be divided equally among two sons, two daughters and a granii-daugliter. Mrs. Back-Bay I shall want you to he dressed by 3 o'clock, Kllen, to receive any friends that may call. Ellen Oh, lor. mum! Ain't you groin' to be in? Boston Transcript. T I' ICS DAY, JANUARY 23Itl TVe Operatic Sensation of Two Continents TIIK SHEEHAX KNtJLISH OPERA COMPANY in The Love Tales of Hoffman PRICES Lower Floor $2 and J1.50; Balcony $1.50, $1.00, 75c; Gallery 50c; "Rnxes $2.nO. Mail Orders Xow. MrttrCI TV Wc Daily Mat. 2:30 ftUVJuLil I 10-20-30c-Night 7:45-9U5 ALL STAR VAnnEVII,LE WEEK Jack Fine Davis Gledhill lrlo Clipper Quartet Sylvan O'Neil Seamon Sc. Killian Novelscope STEAMER BLOWS UP Captain and Mate Killed In Itivcr Boat Explosion. u i li'fr'i lOcat fTT I x-vv your 6 ?A Grocer's MISt Portland. Ore.. Jan. 19. The river steamer Sarah Dixon blew up early to day at Kalama, Wash. The captain, mate and two other men were killed. ALL EYES ON PANAMA Jolin Barrett Says Maritime World Looks to Canal. Fickle Popularity. "Your constituents are saying all manner of harsh things about you just now." "Yes." replied Sen ator Sorshum. "Such is the fickleness of the public. One might think I was a pitcher who had just lost a game for the home team." Washington Star. Woman fto detective) Why. it was this way: There came a ring at the door, and there stood two men who said they were from the fras company, inspecting meters. They looked so dishonest. I thoueht they were, so I let them in! Fuck. Detroit. Mich.. Jan. 19. "Get ready for the Panama canal'' was th-s key note of an address here by John Bar rett, director of the Pan-American union, at the annual banquet of the Lake Carrier's association. Mr. Bar rett declared congress should settle th-5 question of tolls at this session and he was emphatic in stating that the tolls should be low. Declaring the reflex benefit sometimes was greater than direct benefit, Mr. Barrett said the general good which was to come from the Panama canal and Pan-American comm?rce. would affect, indirectly if not directly, all classes of commerce and activity, and he urged the importance of the na tional support of the enterprise. "I have to tell you." said Mr. Bar rett, "that every important country of Europe which has a merchant marine You Don't Need a New Stomach Yon Can Now look Any Meal Square in the Face, and Then Just "Go for It," If You Take Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Trial Package Sent Free to Prove It. The stomach will go on patiently for I years enduring abuse, overwork and i general ill-treatment. So we're apt to think it can stand anything. But when the stomach does rebel, look out! ANY SEAT 25c MAJESTIC Tonight and All This Week, With Matinees Wed. and Sat. HARRY NORTH and 100 People in Wilton Lackey's Greatest Play THE PIT l it 1 I I V 1 I J I J L 1 t f I t t l i J I a v 4 r h it MS TT"a 1? T?E IFk r3 wp H ji if t'l X'X 1 kv H 1 r.A P .nu Zm HHHBnHnHBnHHHBHBIBM j Janu VJ u A 1 1 i PTTl ary 22 to February 3, 1912 i T0BIUM Under Auspices of Topeka Council No. 42 the s:j!!;ijiiii!iiifl!!l!i; "Every Meal Smiles at Me Now Since I've Been Taking Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets." The minute the stomach ceases to perform its functions properly the whole body begins to suffer. The food is only half-digested, the body only half-nourished. And the undigested portion of the food ferments and de cays, generating nauseating gases which derange the whole system. The eventual result is chronic dyspepsia. heartburn, bad breath, dizziness, flatu lency and sick headache. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets instantly relieve all ailments of the stomach and digestive tract. They act quickly, safely and naturally just like Isature her self. They contain in themselves the elements which go to make up the nat ural gastric juices. They actually di gest the food, relieving the stomach of all the hard work. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are the standby of many a doc tor in the worst cases of stomach trouble, and they never fail him. All druggists carry and recommend Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. They are sold at 50 cents a box. If you want to try them first, we will send you a trial package free on receipt of your name and address. F. A. Stuart Co, 150 Stuart Bldg., Marshall, Mich. SEAT SALE FOR OJBELiK Violin Cocert NOW GOING ON AT B. Guild's Music Store 722 Kansas Ave. 1 .00 1 .50 $2.00 Advance Sale of Seats at 10c Now On Only 15,000 and they'll go quickly. .Better g-et yours right away at 5V, OAKLAND NOTES. Mrs. C. R. Olson Is spending this week in Kansas City on a business trip. She is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Kred Sanderson, while there. Bertha Campbell has returned to woric after being off several days on account of illness. She is suffering from an at tack of erysipelas. Miss Grace Evans of Lawrence spent Thursday here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Evans of Poplar street Rev. H. V. Scholes conducted a meet ing today noon in the new mill of the Santa Fe. Miss Grace Bacon sang a solo. Rev. Mr. Scholes is having great success with the Friday meetings in the shops. He has drawn big crowds and has held them. He has charge of the meetings in tthe new mill every Friday noon. Mr. Robert Allen of Quapaw, Okla., will arrive here the first of next week to make an extended stay on a business trip. Miss Mary Brown has gone to .Ness City, Kan., to make an extended visit with her parents. Miss Louise Smith and Miss Ethel Brannon of Kansas City. Mo., visited friends here Wednesday while on their way to Los Angeles. Cal.. where they will make an extended vacation trip. While here they were guests of Mr. ana Mrs. Harry Smith. Miss Grace CofTie of St. Paul. Kan., is here, spending a short time with friends and relatives. Mr. Frank Miller is improving and has returned to work after being off several weeks on account of an injured foot. Mrs. Harry Clark of Parsons, Kan., visited here last week with her mother. Mrs. Mary Wilson. Miss Marguerite Warner is spending two weeks in Tonganoxie. Kan., with her sister, Mrs. Ward Webster. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collins of West Topeka are spending a few days with hir parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. I'. Taylor or Chester avenue. Miss Gertrude Hoffman spent Wednes day the guest of Miss Julia Randall of Green street. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Watson and son were guests at dinner Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Keisey. Mrs. O. TJ. Henley will entertain tne W. C T. V. at her home on Oakland ave- 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. Ida BattershilFs Cigar Stand New England Bldg. 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. A. M. Petro, Druggist, N. Top. Z. -1 t Music by Ray Hall's Orchestra and Marshall's Band of 25 Pieces 52 Booths of handsome displays, more interesting than ever. "Four DIG Vaudeville Acts 4" each performance afternoon and evening Admission at the door 15c 113 lull nue next Tuesday afternoon. Leslie Reaugh is ill at his home on Oakland avenue with an attack of to.-t-silitis. Mrs. Charles Suit entertained the Priscilla club at her home in Xorth To peka this afternoon. Mrs. J. H. Hellar spent Thursday in West Topeka with her daughter Mrs. O. C. Nell. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Hutson were guests at dinner Wednesday of Mrs. Clara John son of Arter avenue. Hubert Sund has returned from an ex tended trip to New Mexico. Bing There is one thing I don't like about this aviation business. When a fel low smashes his airship he can't tele phone to the garage and have a man come out and fix it. Wing No. A fel low is usually gone where they don't have telephones. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Overheard In Reno Oh, I hear you are going to marry Mr. Dashaway. "Yes, just as soon as I get my decree." "I con gratulate you, my dear. He's one of the nicest husbands I ever had.'' Philadel phia xleeard. AMUSEMENTS "It would have been well nigh Impossi ble ten years ago to have put 'The Servant in the House." which will be at the Grand Saturday matinee and night, into the theater." says O. 1. Hall, in the Chicago Evening Journal. "Kith it would have frightened the audience out into the street or it would have been call ed a great sacrilege. But we look upon it now as being neither wrong nor fear ful, but as a work of great beauty and power, carrying teh healing word to ail ing people." To those who have never heard Joseph F. Sheehan sing in the grand opera classics, it probably sounds far fetched to make the broad statement that he is America's greatest tenor, and they cannot be censured for taking that view and re maining skeptical, but those who have had the unmistakable pleasure of hearing Mr. Sheehan when he was leading tenor with the Savage Grand Opera company know that the aforesaid statement is en tirely correct. Joseph Sheehan who cornea to the Grand Tuesday. January M, head ing his own company known an the Hhee- ?lJuKrLFll!'h '"'ra company. Is a tenor of the first rank. "Don't you think the wav votir under takers compete is a little bit Krntc,nif ;'Not a bit (jf it," replied the loval clUzen V hen a town gets to be so h.'althy tlit the undertakers have to cut rates and hustle for business, believe me it's ail right." Washington Star. "Is the doctor in?" "No, r, but on t ye please come in? Hell l,e riEht back He's gone to see his other patient." IJff CASTOR I A xor miants and CMldren. Ths KinJ Yea Kara Always BsugM Bears tha Signature of 4 5f

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I THE TOPEKA DAILY STT2 JOTJItHAL JANUARY 19, 1912 LIKE HONEY PLAN People Favor New Scheme if Provision Is Made To Prevent Group of Men Con trolling U. S. Finances. IT WILL HELP TltADE Elastic Currency Should Im prove Foreign Relations. Competition Between Countries Hot, Holland Says. Xew York, Jan. 19. Within the past four or five clays information lias come to many of those who have been identified with the movement wliich has a reform of our banking and currency system in view which tms to show that in many parts ot thts country a powerful public senti ment has developed in lavor of the acceptance by congress of the princi pal features contained in the report of the national monetary commission. As recently as the annual conven tion ot the American Bankers' associ ation, which was held in New Orleans in mid-November, it was disclosed that the people in many parts of the United States would strongly object to any change in our banking and currency laws unless that was based upon a system which would make it impos sible for any group or groups of capi tal to get control of the banking in terests of the United States. On the .other hand, it was disclosed that if the people can be persuaded that our national banking and currency system can be so modified or reformed as to make a concentration of money power impossible then a change of that kind will be welcome. What was told to the American bankers at New Orleans seems aiso to have reached the ears of the national monetary commission. Furthermore, the fact that powerful banking inter ests have been enabled to secure con trol of chains of banks without violat ing the letter of the national banking law and, especially, the story of the 'recent organization of the City com pany, which, although in its incorpor ated form was distinct from the Na tional City bank, nevertheless was in the exclusive ownership of the stock holders of that bank and was organ ized in part to take over holdings of yth stockholders of the City bank in various other banking institutions, served to focus public attention upon this indirect but highly effective method of bringing under the influ ence or sponsorship of one great na tional bank many other banking insti tutions. It is now thought to have been a fortunate circumstance, possi bly, that the City company was organ ized last summer and was then at tacked by the attorney general, Mr. Wrickersham. This organization was a good example cf what the people dreaded in case the national monetary commission's plan was adopted by con gress without any effective safeguards against centralization of money power. Prom various organized leagues and business associations there came an al most unanimous protest against any changes in the banking and currency fystem unless it were provided that there could be no organization similar to that of tfc City company. On the other hand, it became very evident that the people of the United States were not only willing, but anxious that there should be such modification or reform of the bank ing and currency system as would make it possible to perfect an ade quate, elastic, safe and quickly respon sive banking and currency system. After the Change. After the national monetary com mission, in recognition of both the force and the pertinency of these ob jections, had so altered the recom mendations as to limit the power of any bank in the reserve association to that exercised by its single vote there came a popular response to the gen eral recommendations which, it is be Heved, will compel congress to give early attention to them. Moreover, it is apparent that the people are now confident that the proposed reform has been so worked out as to eliminate any possible political or party advan faga. The proposition, as a whole, is now recognized as a natural one, pre cisely as the national banking system of today is known to be beyond the reach of those who are ambitious po litically. Yesterday, information came to tni3 city of an important meeting which was held at Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday evening. The chamber of commerce at Columbus invited Mr. R. L. McCabe, widely known as a tntnker upon economic and monetary questions, to address tne body nominally upon the cause of panics arid the means whereby they may be pre vented. According to reports which have been received here, the address was an earnest and thorough exposition of the fundamental features ot the monetary commission's report. it was made ap parent at this meeting that so important A body as the chamber of commerce of Columbus is now most favorably Inclined toward the new plan. Approving opinion la, it is reported, shared by both Repub licans and Democrats and the Columbus chamber of commerce, we hear, now pur poses to push the campaign lor monetary mands for currency an abundance of it shall be provided, while in other times currency will be retired, or, in other words, the elasticity of our currency sys tem will be perfected. Our World Commerce. Since the first of the year attention has been directed to the great Increase in our trade with other nations, particularly m the marketing: with them of the products of our manufactories. The statistics re cently published show that in the single commodity of steel and iron products the United States has been gaining wonder fully, so far as exports are concerned, in the past ten years. It has always been the theory of those who have studied our banking and cur rency system that if we had a perfected currency system and adopted adequate banking methods we should be in posi tion greatly to facilitate and increase our trade with other countries. Many state ments have been made by men familiar with commercial conditions in South America to the effect that the banking and currency conditions of the United States do not aid, but tend to hinder, the development of our trade with South American countries. Our currency should be as good theoretically anywhere in the world as -a Bank of England note. It should be possible for foreign exchange drawn upon New York or Chicago to be quoted upon as favorable terms as for eign exchange drawn upon London. W hile this feature or the proposed mone tary reform is of somewhat technical character, and for that reason is less easily understood by the people than some of the otlwr features, nevertheless the leading business men of the United States realize that with a perfected bank ing and currency system we ought to be able to aid American manufacturers who are now in such impressive manner ad vancing upon the markets of the world. The Day of Competition. It is now recognized by all of tins lead ing thinkers upon economic questions, and is also freely admitted by the fore most of American manufacturers, that whatever may be said for or against the principle of competition in the United States nevertheless the four great civil ized and manufacturing nations of the world Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States are entering upon an era of the fiercest competitive strug gle for pre-eminence or equality in the great markets of the world which the business world has ever known, in this struggle the United States is taking part under some especially advantageous cir cumstances and under some which arc not favorable. In certain lines of manu facture we are now able to match or even surpass the most skillful manufac turers in the world, so far as efficiency and economy of production are con cerned. But as long as we have an in elastic or rigid currency and a bankng system which in some of its features is archaic, which originally was a purely artificial creation consequent upon the emergencies of the civil war, Just so long, the thinkers and business men say, will we be handicapped in the great com petitive struggle which Is now the dis tinctive feature of the world of com merce. HOLLAND. judge never Intended to sentence him to death." The attorne: general. Immediately followinp the president's action, tele graphed to Warden Moyer, of the At lanta penitentiary, who technically was in charge of Morse even though lie had been removed to the Fort McPherson hospital, to release the prisoner. Thij army surgeons at Fort McPherson wre similarly instructed. Morse was freed by the telegraphic orders, it being un necessary for the Atlanta authorities to wait the formal warrant of corriT mutation, which has been sent by mail. Efforts mads for a complete pardon were unavailing and under the law Morse could lot be paroled until he had served five years. Under the commuta-. tion he will be allowed to leave th-9 army hospital at Fort McPherson, near Atlanta, at once. Recent efforts in his behalf developed the fact that his friends wished to take him to Carlsbad for treatment, and tonight it was deemed probable here that he would be taken abroad at once. The commutation of Morse's sentence came at the end of months of unre mitting enort on the part of Mrs. Morse and the banker's friends. Almost since the day the doors of his cell in Atlanta closed upon him Mrs. Morse and influential friends have besieged the department of justice ana through it the White House, for some mitiga tion of the sentence. Mrs. Morse in person conducted a campaign among senators and members of the House of Representatives and obtained scores of signatures cf prominent men to a peti tion she circulated in her husband's behalf. DROUTHJISCOSTLY Enforced Dryness in Topeka Shows It's Expensive. Ten Gallons of Beer Bought in Two Cases. NO MOffEY FOR BURNS. Claim for Mc-Xamara Reward Reject ed Owing- to Lock of Funds. Sacramento, Jan. 19. The application of W. J. Burns for the reward of $10. 000 offered by the state assembly for the arrest and conviction of the Los Angeles Times dynamiters, has been re jected by State Controller Nye, be causue he said there was not $10,000 in the assembly "contingent funds." Nye suggested in a letter to District Attorney Fr-jdt ricks that Sums' pro per course would be to have a claim bill Introduced in the legislature at the next session. SALARIES ARE HIGH Expenses, Including Meals and Tips, Are Heavy. An Estimate on the Cost of the Spotter System. Evidence in the two liquor cases tried in the Shawnee county district court this week, furnishes a basis for an estimate as to the amount of beer which is probably bought and con sumed annually in a perfectly right eous desire to enforce the Kansas pro hibitory law.' The testimony of state spotters in recent cases have given the public an insight of a practice never before dreamed of. This practice see the sworn testimony of Rev. Nor ris et al has the sincere endorsement and approval of Governor Stubbs and other strict law enforcement officials. Four individual spotters star this term In the Shawnee county cases. These men, the evidence showed, draw salaries from the governor, the State Temperance union and addition al funds from the local sheriff and the local county attorney. This quartette is composed of T. B. Armstrong, for mer deputy sheriff of Marion county; H. C. Errickson, former sheriff of Wa baunsee county; Rev. Robert Norris, minister of the gospel and attachee of the temperance union at a stipu lated salary. The fourth member is William Lassure, who is on the vari ous pay rolls by virtue of his ability to "find" the evidence. A salary of $100 a month ia the customary price paid these men. In addition to their salaries the men are remitted their "expenses," which word seems to mean anything except the daily pur chase of a new suit of clothes with the state's money. It includes car fare, berths, hotel bills, telephone and telegraph tolls, cabs, postage, tips to a multitude of people, and all money used in the purchase of liqTiors or in any way securing evidence. Ten Gallons in Two Pliices. At just two places -which Armstrong' told of visiting during state fair week, he and his friends bought nearly 40 quarts of beer and some whisky. Armstrong spent one week in Topeka. He is endorsed as witness in at least 14 cases. Using Armstrong's testi mony in two cases and presuming that his week's Topeka campaign covered at least all of the 14 places, some in teresting figures may be hidden In the untold stories. Armstrong can not tell of all his experiences from the wit ness stand. Some of the cases have been compromised; The evidence showed that the Armstrong-Norris-Lassure Errickson quartette made numerous visits to places conducted by Lizzie Young and Ida Bryant. They took their friends and liquor was drank freely. Evidence further showed that they treated women found in these places, bought lunches and charged all to their ex pense accounts. Armstrong Meets His Friends. As it was fair week, Armstrong met many of his old Marion county asso ciates in Topeka. If he had related all of his week's experiences from the witness stand, the public might have heard of a jolly week on the state's good money. Huffman, Saunders, Hackney and others were in Topoka from Marion county that week. Some how, Armstrong just met his old friends. It also appeared that he was a trifle lonesome and took these men on some of his evidence getting tours. At Lizzie Young's one day, Arm strong bought a bottle of beer, which the men and women drank on the premises. Then Huffman bought a suit case full of beer. Possibly the grip held a dozen bottles. It was taken to the hotel and consumed. Armstrong did not bring any of this evidence to the court house, but told of the tran sactions from memory and his own notes. On such trips as the Lizzie Young expedition, the state paid the expenses and friends and chanca ac-, quaintances helped Armstrong- drink the liquor. There is little to contradict the stories told by these Bpottars. They must stand as true. So, get your pen cil and go to work. At Rate of 202 Barrels Yeurly. The spotters and their friends buy some 40 quarts of beer in two places. They visit 14 places that week. That's 280 quarts. Th-n there Is work to be done in other fields and the spotters buy tickets and move to damper terri tory. Prraime the work continues throughout the year. At the end of 12 montlis the four faithful and ard-?nt spotters, with their friends, buy 14.560 quarts of beer. Reduced to more -om-prehenstve figures, that's 3,640 gallons or, at 72 bottled quarts to the barrel. 202 barrels of beer; with not a word said as to whisky and other intoxi cants. Of course the expense accounts go to the governor each week for his ap proval and no questions are asked. In Topeka tlfe retail price of beer seems to be 30 cents a quartagain see Nor ris et al. testimony which is cheaper than in Wichita and other placee see Norris expense account in state audi tor's office. As the Topeka Investiga tion was used as a basis of calculation, the Topeka quotations will be accepted. At 30 cents a quart, those 14.560 quarts of beer of varied brand and quality, cost $4,369 f. o.b. a waitress, who fre quently draws a small tip from the governor's contingent fund via Mr. Spotter. Not all of this $4,569, however, should come from Governor Stubbs" contingent fund. Some of the beer in the original estimate was bought by an individual who found the refreshment booth through -he courtesy of a wise spotter. That Is Not All. Be not discouraged. Tou have only started on the year's work. As your pencil shortens, you realize that law enforcing in the revised sense of the word costs money. You may even find people who will explain that this is the need that created contingent funds. After paying for the liquid evidence, which has been bought and consumed, provision must be made for other ex-, penses. Foi. instance, there are the hotel bills. Four men at fitady em ployment and with modest desires will each find accommodations at local hotels at $2 a day. That's $S a day for four men.' or $2,520 a year, countlner Sundays, when the spotter cannot exist without a place to lay his. head and something to eat. Then you pome to salaries, A fully initiated, bona fide, dyed In the wool spotter costs $100 a -nonth. Hiring four of them, costs $4K) a month, or $4,500 year. Greater Than Contingent Fund. Still you have made no provision f ir a score, perhaps, of minor expenses. But, In the ettttmate. the Btranr bought tome of the beer. You might presume that Utae pnrt the straiuier pays, covers tl! tips the spotter givefi. These expfnsr-s rjceounted for wonhl bring the total for the year to $12.otK As the governor's little contingent fund is but $10,000 a year,, some of the men must oeten:porarily switched to the at torney srenerMl's employ or siuvn ed until June 30. when a brand nerw con tingent fund i avails-hle. This fact Is the more tparent. when the expense accounts are examined. Once v.; Mr. Norris was nent t. help clea.n up Wichita. H arrived In the Peerless Prince at a bad time and ladies in the questionable houtirs charg ed the Tupeka minister as hith as $1 .i bottle for bferl On top of tliene rather excessive retail prices. Rev. Mr. Nor ris shed tips freiely while In theni houses. It is said that the expense of getting evidence in Wichit might have been something alarming had not the money come from a contingent fund for which no one s.ccounts. Murdr Case Wults Or v. Parallel to tiie money to free"ly spent in collecting evidence In thee raws, is a Topeka instance that has. been fre quently recaUed. Last wlnU-r a mer chant was murdered in his. store on Kansas avenue. The crime was com mitted In broad daylight -when hun dreds of psple were passing the buihi ing every hour. After the brutal kill ing, the murderer dragged the body C his victim behind a counter, covered ii. with clothing and em-a,ed. He was never caught. Governor Btubbs was urged to offer a reward for the arreal and conviction of the jruiKy party. He explained that his contingent fund kd been drained and th.t there waa no money mvailable for ihm purpose. Since that time, a new contingent fund has become available. It 1s now practically exhauste. Yet no rewarrt from the governor of Kansas has been, posted in the Flatt murder case. THE PAXTON PAXTON STORE MORSE JS FREED Banter's 15 Years' Sentence to the Federal Prison Our January araiice e LOMHMHSS Is Commuted by Taft to Expire Immediately. Washing-ton, Jan. 19. President Taft has commuted to expire immediately the 15 year sentence for violation of the national banking laws under which Charles W. Morse, the New York bank er and "ice king," served two years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. The commutation of the sentence, which gives Morse his complete freedom but which, unlike a pardon, does not re store his ciV'l rights was granted upon recommendation of Attorney General Wickersbam and Surgeon General Tor ney, U. S. A. According to the surgeon general's report to the president on his condition, Morse could not live one month longer in confinement and even at liberty probably would not live six months. .1, j X '1st V 1" s Charles Y. Morse, Condemned Banker, nose sentence Haa Been Com muted. The Whita House statement granting freedom to Morse follows: "The president this afternoon com muted the sentence of Charles W. Morse to expire at once. This action was ta ken upon the recommendation of the attorney general based upon the follow- Remarkable values in every section. Look over the list carefully and remember, that there are hundreds of articles in every section as much underpriced that are not advertised. Clearance of Ready-to-Wear J Tl -k-i Mir ing report of Surgeon General Torney: rfr,inr this with thp flil Hr.1 h r v. 01. Republicans and of Democrats: Similar 'ej? f'ear to "l? m'nd th ne ,s information has come to New York from s.ufte"nf from a combination of diseases other parts of the country. The people I 9ue to degenerative changes which are now understand that, first of all, there is incurable and progressive. The reports no politic-", excepting in the higher and show that both the condition of the kid statesmanlike sense, in this movement: neys and the heart are growine worse. next, that the plan will make it rnipos- I regard the attack of cardiac dyspnoea possible to centralize money power in any or heart-block, from which he suffered section of the country or with any group on the morning of the loth Inst., as an of capitalists: third, that the plan will ominous occurrence. In mv opinion, ultimately eliminate government bonds as the prisoner s duration of life will be thereby doing i n k;i; .1 .v. securitv for currency away with tne ngiany wmcn nas been the weakness of the present currency sys tem. Then, too. there is general ap proval of the utilization of prime com mercial paper as a basis for currency, especially in view of the fact that the plan of the monetary commission indues the machinery for speedy redemption ot currency while making it certain that in times of great and entirely healthful de- Do You Really Want GOOD COFFEE? Trjr One of These Blend 7-9-11, per lb 30e Blend No. 15, per lb 35c Blend No. 4, per lb 40c Blend No. 3, per lb 45c Blend No. 10, per lb SOc Chas. McClintock Tea, Coilee and China 815 Kansas Ave. if kept in confinement and in the event of his release under commutation of sentence, it is not probable that be will live as long as six months.' Designated as a special messenger by the attorney general's office. Mrs. Morse left Washington for Atlanta, bearinr ijr husband's commutation papers. Mrs. Morse Is Grateful. "I thank God," she said, just before she boarded tne train. "I could not have lived longer under the strain. My heart was breaking. Mr. Morse's life is almost ended. No human being can know the suffering I have endured since my husband's imprisonment. I tried ev ery means to bring about his release. President's Taft's act was one of sim ple justice. If my husband did any wrong, he has more than naid the pen alty. His life has been forfeited. I always have believed and always will believe that he was an innocent man the scapegoat of others. I have no hope that my husband will live more than two months, even though we can get him to Carlsbad, where he will have the benefit of the baths. "I have no criticism to maka against anyone. I know all the officers acted according to a sense of duty, but it is hard, hard to think that my husband's life has been taken from him and that he is paying the forfeit of his life. Tha -1 -''ft 3 $7.50 Coats $3.95 Women's garments odd lots. Must be clos ed out; also a few suits at this price. $15 Caracule Coats $10.95 Misses and small sizes for women, satin lining-, shawl collor. 25c Tennis Gowns, 15 Sizes for child ren up to 6 years of age; also some sleep ers at this price. 75c Sweaters 39 Children's and infants 3 sizes, white and colors. $1 Dresses 39 Children's percale and gingham garments, broken lines. $5.00 Dress Skirts $2.95 Broken lines black and colors misses' and women's. 25c Rompers, l5c Play suits that are made of good grade of chambray ging ham, oil red trim ming, 2, 4 and 6 yr. sizes. Clearance of Knit Goods and Gloves $1.00 Kid Gloves 59c Black, brown, tan and grey sizes 64 to 8 not more than two pair to the customer. Staple Goods Clearance 50c Bleached Sheets 29$ Size 72x90 inch. 10c Pillow Cases 7y2ff Size 36x42 in. Not more than 6 of each to the customer. 7 14 c Apon Gingham 5 Staple checks Stand ard width color guaranteed. 10c Fleeced Goods 6 A large range of pat terns to choose from. 12 "2c Fleeced Goods 10 Fine patterns for dresses, feacques or kimonos. 7'2c Muslin 5 A good standard LL sheeting unbleached, 36 in. wide. 15c Percale 13 Vzt Light or dark patterns, 36 in wide, the very best quality. Tricot Flannel 25? A splendid cloth for making ladies woolen skirts. A full range of colors just received. Clearance Sale of Men's, Youths' and Boys' Suits and Overcoats Shoes at Clearance Prices A -'B If I to If II f 9 If f 3 If J I 6 I I V" Women's $3.50 Tan Shoes, $2.48 Made of fine Russia calf skin, button style. All new win ter goods. A few sizes sold out but we make the price to close the lot, $2.48. Women's $3.00 Shoes, $1.98 Patent leather vici kid and gun metal stock new toes and lasts. Small sizes only, worth $3.00. Clearance price, $1.93. Men's $3.50 Shoes, $2.48 Vici kid leather, blucher style, high heels, good $3.50 value. Sale price, $2.48. Boys' $3.00 Tan Shoes, $2.50 Heavy extension soles, new button style. Sizes up to 5. golf in. 25c Gloves 15 Odd lots of fleece lined and gloves broken sizes; balck or colors. $1.00 Wool Scarfs 691 Two yards long 20 wide, fancy patterns, white or colors. 50c Toques 25 4 Stocking caps that are made of wool, long or short, light or dark, plain or fancy. 50c Mufflers 19? Shaped to fit the neck and close at the throat with glove fasteners. Clearance of Hosiery and Underwear 25c Child's Hose 12V?c Seconds of one of the much advertised guar anteed hose every pair neatly mended extra special for today and tomorrow. I 15c Fleeced Hose, 7VW Another case of these splendid winter stockings for women for today's and tomorrow's selling. 15c "M" Waists 12V Sizes up to 12 years; strengthened with tapes and fully supplied with ex tra buttons suitable for boy or girl. 65c "Velastic" Union Suits 49f There are all sizes in this lot, ranging from 4 to 16 years heavily fleeced cream color drop seat. Rugs and Lace Curtains at Bargain Prices. It's Your Opportunity to Make a Big Saving Axminster Rugs $16.50 Good quality, nice pat terns, size 9x12, worth $23. Clearance price $16.50. Axminster Rug $19.50 Best quality, high grade oriental and floral designs, size 9x12 ft. a great bar gain during this sale at $19.50. Tapestry Brussel Rug $13.95 size 9x12 ft. heavy and closely woven, good patterns made without seams, worth $17.50. Clearance price $13.50. Tapestry Brussel Rug, size 8-3x10-6 at $10.95 6x9 tapestry brussel rug for $6.95. Lace Curtains, per pair $1.00 Width 42 inch 214 yds. long, brussel net, ivory white. A great bargain at the price. 48 inch wide Lace Curtains, per pair $1.39 beau tiful patterns, color white or ecru. A great bargain for $1.39. Brussel Net Curtain $2.50 width 48 inches, 3 yd. long clearance price $2.50. A good line of Curtains 50c, 59c, and 75c per pair. Quality is of high grade Fabrics. Pattern is the new weaves of cloth and colors. Styles consists of the new models. Workmanship in every garment guaranteed to be right. Prices are as low as anyC one could possibly N. maKe on this kind of merchandise. An opportunity to se cure values. Look at these prices. Come and inspect the garments. Men's $16.50 CM O r-rv Suits at. iplZ.OU Men's $15.00 et 1 ee Suits at. S1 l.OU Men's $13.50 fi r ftp Suits at.. s 10.95 Men's $12.50 aq ut Suits at 4i7.iJO Men's $10.00 CQ AC Suits at ?o.tJ Overcoats Mens $lo.00 rtin p-fl Overcoats Men's $13.50 Overcoats t 1 if $11.50 Men's $12.50 1 ri Overcoats vr.VHJ Men's $10.00 jq Cft Overcoats at ?O.OU Men's $8.50 flfl Overcoats at P UU Men's Corduroy Pants $1.50 Our regular $2.00 Trousers, light or dark colors Extra grade of corduroy. Special $1.50. Boys' Knee Pants 49c Regular 65c and 75c quality of cassimeres and corduroy, knicker bocker styles. Special 49. Furnishings Winter merchandise at clean up prices. Men's Wrool Under wear, $1 quality at 85 Men's Fine Ribbed Un ion Suits, $1.00 quality, at 85?. Youths' and Boys' Suits and Overcoats Greatly Reduced numerous to Prices too mention. Men's Flannel Top Shirts Plain or Fancy $1.00 Shirt 79 $1.50 Shirt $1.15 Sweaters A good warm Sweater is what you need for cold days. These prices will interest you $2.50 Sweater $1.75 $2.00 Sweater $1.49 $1.50 Sweater ....$1.10 $1.00 Sweater 75 j 75c Sweater 45 50c Sweaters 33 Boys' Tennis Flannel Waists A good one for 35c; special 25. Men's 25c Cashmere Socks, colors black and dark grey. Special 18. P Sixth and Quincy Sts. PAX1 -.--V aha a,. fuflk elk PAXTON Sixth and Quincy Sts. 1 P I!

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUENAL-JAflUAKY 19, 1912 Wanted! A Better Digestion If you have indigestion, gas on the stomach, sour stomach, acid stomach, belch ing or heartburn; if you can not eat substantial, nourish ing food without distress, your stomach is weak. As a great deal of your comfort, happiness and success depends upon a good digestion, you want to be able to eat anything your appetite craves. Don't try to get relief by cutting down your diet to a starvation basis but strengthen your stomach until you can eat good, nourishing food. What 3'ou want is a bet ter digestion, not a poorer diet. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People act directly on the stomach, purifying the blood that strengthens it and toning up the nerves that control it. A trial of these pills will make you hungry and strengthen your stomach so that you can eat what you want without distress. Under this treatment you will become stronger and healthier be cause you will get full nourishment from your food. Mrs. G. "W. Eggleston, of No. 412 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan., says: "In my case stomach trouble seemed to follow a run-down condition. What food I ate did not seem to digest but felt liko a lump in my stomach. My stomach would bloat with gas and was sour all of the time. I was so sore about my body that I could not bear to have my clothes touch me. Later I began to be troubled with rheumatism which settled in my limbs. They were swollen and at times my arms were so stiff that I could not raise them. There was a dull, aching pain through the small of my back and for weeks I could not bend ever. Nothing seemed to help me, although I tried many remedies, until I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. A few boxes helped me and I continued with them until completely cured of both the stomach trouble and rheumatism. I am now able to do my work and am in pood health." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People have cured thou sands of cases of stomach trouble. These results are the strongest reasons why you should try them. If you are suffering from any form of stomach trouble, let us send you our free booklet, "What to Eat and How to Eat." A postal card request will bring it. ROADS MEET ENDS ii. ii. G. James of Independence Is Elected President. W. McAfee of Topeka Tice President of Association. STATE MOTOR LICENSE nual convention of that association In this city. H. D. Skinner of Braymer, Mo., was chosen vice president and H. J. Hodge of Abilene, Kan., was elected secre tary and treasurer. William Vickery of Blackwell, Okla., W. E. Haines of Emporia, Kan., and Edward Waldo of Ellis, Kan., were elected to the board of directors. By resolution the dealers declared the parcels post was injurious to the retail dealers in small towns. DOZESS SIGX HIS "EXCUSE.' Begin at Once. Be sure that every box you buy bears this trade mark. The genuine are never sold loose, by the dozen or hundred. Dr. Williams Pink Pills are Bold by all druggists, or will be sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box; six boxes $2.50, by the Dr. Wil liams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. T. f4 tear tmt iw- vision of health in the vapors smilingly they reflect back a picture of the health that you formerly enjoyed and, through them, may 'enjoy again. Whether yea are seeking health or pleasure. Hot Springs offers most of both to you. Pine scented air to breathe, golf to play. Gov't built magnificent mountain roads to ride over, and social life at its gayest and best Hot Springs is the mecca of thousands who come just for the winter pleasures that it holds out. Go BOW. The journey to Hot Springs, Ark. via Frisco Lines Is as pleasant as arriving there you leave Kansas City at 6: 1 5 p.m., you reach Memphis 8: 1 5 a. m.. and Hot Springs (via Rock Island Lines) at 3:55 in the afternoon a quick, restful ride in luxurious Electric lighted through sleepers The FrSseo dining car serres delicious Fnd Harvtv meals. Let mo send you toon mftwmation about Hot Springs, its splendid hotels and boerding houses, -its healing uratera and opportunities for pleasure. 1 will alio tell you coat of a ckcc and make up a complete schedule from your home town write today. Frisco Tickat Offt ca, Waldheim Bide, 1 1th Maints, Kansas City, Mo. X C LOVRIEN, Division Passenger Agent Glorious Hair for Women Your Money Back says Geo.W. Stansfieldif PAR ISIAN SAGE isn't the Most Delightful Hair Dressing, Grower, Beauti fier and Dandruff Re mover you ever saw. Try it ladies on that fair and square basis. Surely you don't want to experi ment with common commercial tonics, when a large bottle of PARISIAN SAGE costs but 50 cents. Th'sre is a reason for the phenomenal sale to PARISIAN SAGE in the United States since it was first introduced in to America, and the sales this year are breaking all records. And the reason is plain to all: PAR ISIAN SAGE does just what it is ad Tertised to do. There is no reason whatever why any man or woman should fail to take advantage of the above generous offer. But one thing that has made PAR ISIAN SAGE so famous is its peculiar i power to turn the harsh, unattractive hair that many women possess into luxuriant and radiant hair in a short time. Women of refinement the coun try over are using it and it never dis appoints. Sold by leading dealers evervwhere and in Topeka by Geo. W. Stansfield, druggist, 632 Kansas Ave., for 50 cents a large bottle. The girl with Au burn hair is on every carton. Emporia, Kan., Jan. 19. Election of officers closed the tenth annual ses sion of the Kansas Good Roads asso ciation here. The new officers are: H. G. James", Independence, president; 11. W. McAfee, Topeka, vice president; W. S. Gearhart, Manhattan, secretary; V. T. Trowbridge, Kansas City, assist ant secretary and treasurer; R. H. Faxon of Garden City, O. M. Wilhite, Emporia, and George H. Hodges, Olathe, executive committee. The next meeting will be held the first week of December at Independence, Kan. In connection with the meeting, tne new Santa Fe Trail association held a short session, at which it was decided to extend the scope of the work, which has as its object the further improve ment of the old Santa Fe trail as a part of the proposed coast to coast natiniial bie-hwav. Imnrovement will be started east from Kansas City to Old Franklin, Mo., and west from Trinidad Colo., to Albuauerque, N. M. Walter Williams of Columbia, Mo. was elected vice president for Mis souri and R. E. Twitchell of East Las voras N M.. vice Dresident for his irmio tit t fi A resolution was adopted by the convention recommending the passage of state legislation empowering tne state to take part in international im provement and to create a state high way department. Topeka Favors Independence. Two hundred and forty delegates reg istered for the convention, and 121 members of the prominent good roads organizations. After a hard ngnt oe tsveen Topeka and Independence for the next convention, the latter town won out. The Independence delegation was stronelv organized, but after the To peka vote had been taken, H. W. Mc Afee, representing the Topeka Com mercial club, withdrew the invitation of the capital city in favor of Inde pendence. It was agreed to hold the next meet ing during the first week of Decem ber "to avoid future conflict with the conference of county commissioners and clerks, and to allow for Instruction of legislators regarding good roads laws before the meeting of th-9 legisla ture. The next convention will occupy three days instead of two. The association authorized a pub licity campaign, to consist chiefly in the publication of a good roads bul letin. This will be published monthly and will be filled with Information re lating to this work. The executive committee was granted full power to j act in this matter. In a declaration of principles, the association favors the submission to Kansas voters of a constitutional amendment to provide that the state may take part In the work of Interna tional improvement and the establish ment of a state highway department. The association recommends an en tirely new comprehensive bridge law, that all bridges and culverts comply with specifications of state or county engineers. It is urged that all road culverts be built of stone or concrete and that trimming of hedges and trees at a distance of ten rods from all road crossings and angles, in order to give a clear view, be made compulsory. The association favors placing mo tor cars under a state license as an aid to highway improvement. Among the noteworthy addresses closing the convention were those by Fred C. Trigg of Kansas City; T. H. McDonald, state highway engineer, Ames. Iowa: H. B. Walker, Manhat tan: Frank Jarrell, Topeka: Mayor E. E. Frizell. Larned; George W. Cooley, state engineer, St. Paul, Minn.; J. M. Meade. engineer, Santa Fe eastern lines, Topeka. Boy, Absent from School, Arranges Xovel Defense. Mineola, Kan., Jan. 19. Guy Vanchn f T,-o TToYiaas wbnse ab- lor Road ImprOYement Is Urged sence from school recently was caused by his having been a passenger on fty Speakers. the Rock Island train No. 4, when it was snowbound for 36 hours near this place, devised a novel but effective Santa Fe Trail Improvement tOjm.hd proving that was not t wtlfn lv nlnvmo- hnnbpv from KCnOOi. Seeing that he would not be able to get to Pratt in time to report for school, young "Vaughn made up a pa per on which he stated the conditions of the train being held up. This he carried to all of the passengers on the train and practically all of them sign- ed it for him. Upon arriving at Pratt this vol- j uminous ecuse was presented to his I teacher, Miss Lois Edna Swingle. Those who signed the excuse paper follow: j Okla Wright. Beaver, Okla.; A. J. Deer, Neodesha, Kan.: Miss Mary Kershner, Hutchinson, Kan.; Mrs. Lu-I cinda Clark. Pratt, Kan.; J. R. Mort- i ney, Pratt, Kan.; Miss Thelma Clark, Iuka, Kan.; Miss Trella Clark, Iuka, Kan.; C. T. Hopkins, Wichita; Jack! Hensell, Vicksburg, Miss.; J. A. Groves, Wichita; R. A. Owens, Boice Citv. Okla.; A. D. Silsbee, Wichita; E. H. Elder, conductor, Pratt, Kan.; J. S. Montgomery, Wichita; L. A. Carter, Meade, Kan.; A. E. Broskink, Norway, Iowa; F. W. Gilbert, Chicago; W. M. I Rusco, Reno county, Kansas; Thomas Thulanek, Chicago; W. F. Mullenix, j Tyrone, Okla.; D. C. Reinhart, Ma-j dero, Mexico; Jennie Moore, Liberal, Kan.; W. R. Edmington, Longdale, Okla.; Osker Tatford, Albra, Iowa: N. i TT. Nicholson. Marshall. Kansas; Ted Russell, Ulysses, Kansas; Clayton Hall, Mineola. Kansas; Rev. J. M. Schlich ling, Mineola, Kansas. KANSAS BOY GETS FORTUNE. Sister, Whose Legitimacy Is Question ed, to Accept Small Amount. Kansas City, Jan. 19. A daughter, whose legitimacy Nathaniel Simpson is said to have questioned whsn talking to a personal friend, may complicate the administration of the $350,000 estate of the recluse, according to information given San B. Strother? public adminis trator. The existence bf a child other than Henry C. Simpson, whom the elder Simpson is said to have declared to his landlady was his only heir, Is denied by the Junior Simpson and his attor neys. However, the public administra tor will Investigate before the estate is taken out of his hands. The administrator also has been told that Simpson was married three times. It is further intimated that the daugh ter, who was, with the son, a child of Simpson's second marriage, will not claim her full share of the estate, but, on advice of her husband, will accept a small portion rather than come into court, with the question of her legiti macy raised. Simpson died suddenly Christmas Day. Until his will was filed he was not known to be wealthy. His son, who says he is heir, lives at Larned, Kan. CAN'T KIND POISON SOURCE. Investigation Ends When All Foods Have Been Inspected. Tiii'iir(irth TTnn -Tan IP All ef forts of the Soldiers' Home authorities to ascertain from what source the recent ptomaines poisoning came have proved unavailing, and it has been practically admitted that the investigation had been abandoned. Microscopic examinations have been made of everything having to do with the morning meal which is thought to have done the mischief, but no evidence or ptomaines were found. Even the ladles and spoons used in the kitchen that morning were subjected to minute inspec tion, as also were the huge pots in which considerable portion of the meal was prepared. The hash, held to blame by some for the trouble, has been analyzed numerous times and always by different chemists, but it was innocent of containing the dread poison. The milk, butter and even bread came in for their share of the In vestigation. GLEN DATIS IS FOUND GUILTY. Yonth Held on Charge of Slaying Grocer for Robbery. Independence, Kan., Jan. 19. Glen Davis was found guilty by a jury here 1 of murder in the first degree as a re sult of his trial for the killing of Israel Shadley, September 19. Davis' conviction was entirely on circumstan tial evidence. The sheriff traced the team that had been driven to Shad- ley's store, five miles over a muddy road, identifying the tracks by the manner in which the horses were shod, and at the livery stable, where the team was kept, got information 1 that led to the arrest of Davis and Watt Foulk. Foulk is in jail and will be tried next Monday. Robbery was j the motive of the crime. Tom Wagstaff, opponent to Gover- nor Stubbs in the last state primaries, j detendea uavis. GIVES LIFE FOR CHILD. Mother Fatally Burned, Boy Dies and Babe Is Blinded. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 19. Rescuing her nine-mbnths-old baby from the third floor of her burning home here, Mrs. Lela Johnson was fatally burned. A 3-year-old son, Archie, who had crawled under a bed when the fire started, was burned and died as he was being carried from the house by a fireman. The eyesight of the baby is probably destroyed. It is believed the fire was caused by the boy turning over a small stove. PROVES HONESTY, NOW Frank FREE. UNKNOWN WOMAN MAY WIN. Russian Estate May Be Restored to Kansas Heiress. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. jy. sensa tional developments In the case of tne Leavenworth woman, who is said to be the missing heiress to vast estates in Russia Poland, are expected in the next few days by Ike Schwartz, her represen tative. It is said that a Lnited States senator has been engaged to work on the case. When interviewed this morning Mr. j senwanz sara: as soon as a. repiy io received to a recent letter. I will te ready to make public all the details or he case. I am expecting this any ciay now. and as soon as it comes I will tea the name of the woman, the name of the town, and the noble family with which she was connected." How do you account for the fact that she never pressed her claim before?" he was asked. Weil, vou see," he replied, "she does not understand English very well and was not able to get anyone sufficiently interested to take her claim up with the Russian government, i neara aoout tne case some time ago but never took her story seriously until my investigations convinced me that the estates can be re covered. The bulk of the property is in land and forests." Gormoml Handles $100,000 Without Loss. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 19. Frank Gormond, who for nine years has carried mail between the Lansing postoffice and the state penitentiary, has left the prison on parole. He served 11 years of a 15 year sentence for uxorcide. In his service as mail carrier Gor mond handled more than $100,000 in registered mail mater and money orders and never lost a cent. THE THIN AND WEAK Easy Way for Tliein to Get Strong and Fat. MILLER LEADS LMPLEMENT MEN Parcels Post Condemned by Resolu tion at Kansas City. Kansas City, Jan. 19. C. F. Miller of Fort Scott. Kan., was elected presi dent of the Western Retail Implement Vehicle Dealers' association at the closing session of the twenty-third an- To thin and weak &30. W. Stansfield, druggist, has a wordito say. Let them use Samose, the wonderful flesh-forming food, that Is now so popular, and they will soon be plump and rosy. Samose is not an ordinary medicine; it is a flesh-forming food that is adapt ed to the most delicate. Its tonic ef fect givas strength and henlth so that after its use for a short time, all the flesh and fat producing elements in the food will be easily assimilated and re tained by the body. The large sale Druggist Stansfield. 632 Kansas avenue, has had on Samose since he first introduced it in Topeka and the wonderful results following its use have made him such an enthu siastic believer in its great merits, that he givss his personal guarantee to refund the money if Samose does not make thin people fat and restore strength and health. When a gain in weight is noticed after Samose has been used for a week or ten days, and health has improved, and you notice yourself growing stronger, you certainly should feel more than satisfied with what you have re ceived from the small cost of 50c. i .Sent post paid on receipt of price, 50c Agenta for "STANDARD" Sewing Machine Agent for McDOUG ALL" Kitchen Cabinet Pre-Inventory Disposal of R Women s, Misses and Cnildren s eady to -Wear Garments At 0) b THIS is news that effects the cutting1 in-two of the price of hundreds of garments of the most desirahle snrfs. Tnrlndprl nrp- of the most desirable sorts. Included are: Women's Muslin Skirts, Corset Covers and Combinations. Women's Stvlish Cloth Suits and Winter Coats Women's Black Taffeta, Wool and Chiffon Waists Women's Wool, Silk and Velvet Dresses, at Women's Dress Skirts, in good variety, at Women's Black Cotton Petticoats, at Women's Fur Sets and Scarfs, in good assortment at Women's Marabou Scarfs and Muffs (our entire stock) Misses' and Children's Fur Sets (our entire stock) Children's Cotton Dresses; good assortment, at Children's Muslin Skirts and Drawers, at Children's and Junior's Cloth Coats, at Choice JL Price And Every Otter Ready-to-Wear Garment not included in the assortments being offered at HALF PRICE not a thing in our entire stock reserved (except corsets) is being offered in this best of all Pre-Inventory Sales at 25 PER CENT DISCOUNT This means simply this that it makes no difference what sort of ready-to-wear apparel you may require, whether it be outer or under apparel, for yourself, your growing daughter or the smaller girl you can get it here during this Pre-Inve'ntory disposal at a sure SAVING of a FOURTH with a likelihood of stretching it into a HALF. Remember: Corsets ONLY are excepted: everything else in the form of Ready-Made Apparel is included at either one or the other of these reductions. 50c Coat Collars, 19c Coat collars, made of silk and satin, in black, red, purple, navy, green and black and white check; some are edged with narrow silk plaiting, others with bands of velvet. Regular 50c collars, in i q the Pre-Inventory Sale at each. A.Z7C $1 RutLer Gloves, 69c Rubber gloves are a practical necessity as a means of keeping the hands in good condition during the winter months. Saturday we offer the best rubber gloves we can buy to retail regularly at r $1.00 a pair, for only OtC 50c Stamped Center, 30c 22 inch, Stamped Center Pieces, best quality white linen, stamped in twelve different patterns to be embroidered in solid, eyelet and coronation cord work. Centers that sell ordinarilly at 50c each. Pre-Inventory Price t)UC 25( c V-iorset Lovers. iyc Corset Covers, stamped in pretty de signs for solid and eyelet embroidery work. Some of them are open-front styles, but principally slin-over styles Good values regularly at 25c, r in the Pre-Inventory Sale at .sC Men's 25c CasWere Half Hose 3 Pairs for 50c With the return of another spell of below zero weather vou'll want hose of this kind. They are not a bit bulky soft pood fitting and they keep the feet much warmer than cotton or lisle stockings. During this Pre-Inventory Sale we are offering our regular 25c qualities, of natural oxford color Cashmere Half Hose and plain black and natural Worsted Half Hose at 17c a pair, or THREE PAIRS FOR FIFTY CENTS $1.50 Leather Bags, $1.19 Women's Black Leather Hand Bags, leather and long cord handles; silver and gilt frames, fitted with coin purse. New shapes in a J1.50 quality, at $1.19 25c Handkerchiefs, 17c Women's All-Linen, hand embroidered In itial Handkerchiefs. A broken line of initials in the 25c quality at each 17c Pre-Inventory j Sale of INotlOns Four Representative Items large size, hand- 2 and 3: Agents for OSTERMOOR- 15c Whisk Brooms, made, 15c brooms Safety Pins, 3 Cards for 5c size,' 1 6c value, three cards 1 -,l,cule ook at 50pBli(?ht,y dam p. Agent for "CUNN- Sectional Bookcase Si

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 19, 1912 0 TO HELPSCHOOLS. In Rural Districts Is Object of Fairchild's Yisit. Senators Are Surprised at Kan sas Educator's Remarks. QUIT SCHOOL EARLY. Less Than One-Fourth of Them Complete Grades. Too Much Attention to Higher Learning He Declares. Washington, Jan. 19. E. T. Fair child, superintendent of public instruc tion in Kansas, is in Washington, ap pearing before the House and Senate committees on education, to impress upon them that the rural schools in the United States have been neglected wo fully. Professor Fairchild was some tl e since appointed chairman of a committee of twelve nationally known educators, by the National Educational association, at its convention in San Francisco, tc get aid for the rural pri mary schools. He is attracting attention in Wash ington b-ecause of the startling state ments he is making regarding the tragic condition of the schools for coun try children. When he made the state ment that of the 12 million rural school children in the United States less than 25 per cent were completing the grades representatives and senators with whom he was talking were inclined to he incredulous. Rural Schools Xeslected. Professor Fairchild is calling atten tion to the fact that practically all the effort is now being made for still high er education and that scarcely anything Is being done to improve the rural edu cational conditions. He says that he nas no objection to the onward move ment for higher educat'on. but that as the rural echool children represent about 95 per cent of those going to school, he hopes to interest men of wealth and affairs in the betterment ef the lower grades in the country. "The rural school is the one laggard in ihe educational procession," said Pro fessor Fiirchild. "With the ex.imple of marvelous development in enroll ment, in kind and character of teacn ing force. in excellent buildings, in equipment and diversity of courses in town and city schools, in normal schools, colleges anil universities, the rural school remains the most back ward of all educational agencies. Teachers Xot Well Trained. "Of the 12 million rural chool child ren less than 25 per cent is completing the work of the grades. The teaching body is immature and lacks proper training. In many states fully one half of the rural teach?rs have had no training beyond the eighth grade. Terms are too short. School buildings tire poor, insanitary and ill equipped. The enrollment is constantly decreas ing. The supervision is wholly inade quate. High school privileges are de nied to the great majority of these boys and girls. The strong, virile rural school of a generation has gone and in its place is a primary school. w?ak 'n numbers and lacking in efficiency. The country boy and girl of this strenuous and complex Twentieth Century are not afforded equal educational oppor tunities. "The best efforts of many of th-3 widest and most influential people of our country have constantly been de voted to the betterment of the high school, college and university, while the rural school during this same period has been sadly neglected. The country school needs assistance. It needs the help of the -educational expert; it needs the help of the educational and gen r;l press; it needs the help of the phil anthropist and the business man: it needs the assistance of all institutions of higher learning, and the union of all social forces for its betterment." Woman Sliot In the Back. Trinidad. Jan. 19. Mrs. George B. Pier-cy, wife of the cashier of the Colo rado Supply company store at Se gundo, west of this city, was shot in the l ack and probably fatallv wound ed last night by an unidentified bandit wbo was attempting to rob the store. The robber in turn was shot and killed bv Earl Tucker, city marshal of Val dez, a camp one mi'e south of Segundo. "Rut he doesn't practice what he preachfs." "Oh. well, perhaps we should be glad he doesn't preach what he prac tices." Houston Post. B Final Clean-Up oys9 Smiles Mothers Read of the big bargains to be had here tomorrow then come. 65 Boys' Suits Knickerbocker Pants ,sizes from 7 to 16 years. Reg ular prices $3, $3.50 and d- or $4.00. On sale. flOi 200 Boys' Suits sizes 8 to 17 years. Regular prices $6, y f $6.50, $7 and $7.50. On sale. 3 J. J All our better Suits ranging in price from $8.50 to $10.00. d r n r Your choice tbJj.vSD All Boys' Knickerbocker Pants, long pants and sweaters on sale 25 Discount. 1 6bo-631 Kansas Artttum ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Woman Is Accused of Starving a Pa tient to Death. Seattle. Jan. 19. How Miss Claire Williamson, a wealthy English woman starved to death under the immediate care of Mrs. Linda Burfield Hazzard, a sanitarium keeper who it is alleged wanted her money and how Dorothea Williamson, sister of the dead woman, was rescued, a delirious living skeleton by the nurse of her childhood, was re counted to a jury here today by Prose cutor Frank H. Kelly of Tacoma. Mrs. Hazzard is on trial for murder. Her husband said to be a West Point graduate, was the only prospective witness allowed to remain in the court room. The state accepted as jurors sev eral men who declared themselves op posed to the death penalty. In April according to the state's evidence the starving sisters who had put them selves in Mrs. Hazzard's care last Feb niarv were taken to Ollala where it is asserted, Mrs. Hazzard induced Claire to add a codicil to her will endowing the Hazzard sanitarium with $125 an nually, and obtained an order upon banks holding funds belonging to the Williamson fcisters. Claire died May 19, literally reduced to skin and bones. Jo notification was sent to relatives, but a family nurse in Australia hearing of Claire's death hur ried to Ollala and found Dorothea a living spectre. Mrs. Hazzard, asserting, that the girl was insar.e, already had applied to be appointed guardian for Dorothea and administrator of Claire's estate. The British consular service nas ta ken active interest in the trial. MANY COSTLY FIRES PLAN BUSY VISIT Canadian Visitors Will Have Uttle Time to Itest. New York, Jan. 19. The plans for tne entertainment ot the Duke of Con naught, governor general of Canada and uncle of the king of England, the duchess and their daughter, the Princess Patricia, who are to be the guests of Ambassador White law Reid in this city next week, indicate that the party will have little leisure from festivities of one sort or another. Monday there will be a breakfast party, a tour of New York and a for mal dinner; Tuesday, a dinner, recep tion and dance, and Wednesday an au tomobile excursion. The visitors will return to Ottawa on Thursday. The following week Ambassador and Mrs. Reid expect to leave for the Pa cific coast, where they will remain several weeks. LEARNS SPANISH AT 80 Governor Larabee WU1 Celebrate Ills Birthday Tomorrow. First Two Weeks or Year Hit Insur ance Concerns Hard. Hartford, Conn., Jan. 19. During the first fifteen days of January the fire insurance companies of the coun try became liable for $15,000,000 in losses, according to statistics prepared by a Hartford company. In the opin ion of local underwriters, there had never been such a severe and steady drain on their resources for one month as the statistics for January will show. BOY GETS $15,000 Tno-Year-Old Youngster Xeed Xot live on $3,000. New York, Jan. 19. J. Arthur Hinckley. 5 vears old, has had his income raised from $3,000 a year to $15,000 by the su preme court here. The order was made on application of the lad's mother, wno is the widow of J. Arthur Hinckley, a wealthy yachtman who died in Paris two years ago. He left an estate of $2,000,000, providing in his will that Ms son should receive only $3,000 a year until he was 21. Clermont, la., Jan. 19. When Wm. Larabee, former governor of Iowa, celebrates his eightieth birthday an niversary tomorrow he will be able to talk Spanish to his guests. He has been gradually acquiring the language during the present winter, and has made remarkable progress, according to his neighbors. The former executive who is in splendid health will receive his old friends and former political associates at his beautiful country home near here. Several of Iowa's most promi nent citizens are included in the pros pective guest list. Governor Larabee still actively supervises the work of his country place. He has just finished fencing his place, using cement posts, and do ing the greater part of the labor himself. TELLS HIS PARENTS Wife of Dead Man and Ijover Confess Their Omit. St. Louis, Jan. 19. Joseph S eidl, confessed murderer of Martin Hunning at Hillsboro, Mo., December 9, has told his aged parents he fired the shot which killed Hunning, according to a statement by the prosecuting attorney of Jefferson county. Seidl signed a confession late Mon day night after he had watched Mrs. Annie Hunning. wife of the dead man, in close conversation with the sheriff. His counsel later announced that the defense would contend Seidl did not know what he was signing. Mrs. Hunning signed a confession of her part in the assassination compact a few minutes before Seidl confessed to jail officers. SURE WAY TO CURE CONSTIPATION Tf J.1 1 t i-iaav cippaieiiLiy simple mings are cuincult ot pertection, ana only those who have suffered long from constipation know how hard it is to find a genuine cure. But it can be had. No matter how discouraging your experiences have been in the past, prom ise yourself to make another attempt at a cure. This time try IR. CAI.rVEIJj S SYItVP FEPSIX. There must be genuine merit to a rem edy that thousands endorse as a positive cure for constipation, and thou sands in all parts of the country are endorsing DR. CVU)VEIJ7S SYRIT PF.PSIX. -One gentleman as old as 87 asserts he has had no relief until he took this remedy. Buy a bottle of it yourself and see' what it will do for you. You know by this time that salts, cathartic pills or powders, waters whether manufactured or natural, will at best only do temporary good. So why not try a scientific preparation? IR. CALDWKLI-'S SYRIT PEPSIN is scientifically compounded. It is de signed to act mildly and gradually so that in time all medicines can be dispensed with and nature will again do its work. It is a tonic laxative and has a strengthening effect on the stomach and bowels. You will feel better in every way for taking it, and you will get the permanent relief that you have so long sought. This is not an idle assertion, but is based on the experiences of thousands of people who in the quarter of a cen tury that this remedy has been compounded, have voluntarily written the facts to Dr. Caldwell. It is the best remedy obtainable for constipation and all stomach, liver and bowel troubles. Because of its pleasant taste, mildness and freedom from griping it is also the laxative best suited to the needs of children. Dr. Caldwell: Your remedy does all you say for it it has helped me. My stomach is in a better condition than it has been for a year and I feel like a different person altogether. I have taken one 50c bottle and am going to get another today. I have recommended your rem edy to a lady and she says it is help ing her right along and I know it is doing the same for me. Mattie Little. 1588 La Fayette St., Kansas City, Kan. Dr. Caldwell: I have taken the sample bottle you sent me, and my husband and I have taken a 50c bottle and we are going to get another. I think it will help both of us. The more we think of Syrup Pepsin the more we think it is the very medicine for constipation or sick headache. It has a pleasant taste and is very easy to take. 1 praise Syrup Pepsin to my friends. A. K. Carrie Nichol, Ashland, Kan. Anyone wishing to make a trial of tliis remedy before buying it in the regular way of a druggist at fifty cents or one dollar a large botlle (fam ily size) can liave a sample bottle sent to the home free of charge by simply addressing Ir. W. B. Caldwell, 405 Washington St., Montitello, 111. Your name and address on a iostal card will do. X A. I MR. HIRAM SANDERS. Dr. Caldwell: I used the sample bottle of Syrup Pep sin you sent me and have used three 50c bottles and can truthfully say that it has done me more good than all the doctors in the country. I can lie down and sleep, and that is something I have not done for five years until I commenced using Syrup Pepsin. I have quit bloating after eating and I feel like a new man. I have taken about $100.00 worth of other medi cine and it did me no good. I am thank ful that I tried Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep sin. Hiram Sanders, Hazel ton, Kansas. Dr. Caldwell: I took the free sample of Dr. Cald well's Syrup Pepsin and have taken two 5 bottles and am on the third, an- when that is gone I expect to get more, as I think it is a grand medicine. Mrs. Ben McElroy, 426 Indiana Ave., Holton, Kan. Pants Sale 20 Reduction v Imported Hats 20 Discount 629-631 Kansas Avenue iKua! Cleae Up" Ay It's our policy to never carry over a single garment, that's the why of this sensational price cutting. Remember every suit and overcoat, black, blue, brown, gray and fancy is included. Regu.ar sizes, s.ims and stouts. para, 4 I It hi f I 's if i r "M- 1 I f i 2 t if vi t Here Are the Actual All $15.00 Suits All $20.00 Suits All $25.00 Suits All $27.50 Suits All $30.00 Suits All $35.00 Suits Reductions: and Overcoats and Overcoats and Overcoats and Overcoats and Overcoats and Overcoats 9.75 $14.75 $18.75 $19.75 $22.75 $24.75 We are exclusive agents in our three stores for the celebrated Hirsh, Wick wire Co. productions The finest clothing known in ready-to-wear. Big Reductions: Sweaters, Hosiery, Vests, Flannel Shirts, Etc Semi-Annuai Shoe Sale Nettleton's famous Shoes included. All $4.00 lines $2.95 All $5.00 lines $3.95 All $8.00 lines...'. 4.95 Sensational Shirt Sale All Earl Wilson fancy Shirts in regular grades up to $3.50; Cjl CC your unrestricted choice ijIiOJ Our Own Label Shirts and a few Manhattans; $1.50 and $2.00 grades; on sale 95c Men's Shirts Broken lines and sizes; regular prices $1.00 and $1.50; on sale 65c Read This! 1 at less than wholesale. All $1.50 grades All 2.00 grades All 2.50 grades All 3.00 grades All 3.50 grades All 4.00 grades All 5.fr0 grades assnr nlon Suits 5e ..$1.15 1.45 l.5 1.85 2.25 2.95 All 6.00 grades 3.45 All other Underwear at Cut Prices. ML. iDMiti; mst lb tell tilv wxp Tfelki 1 Yosi ieosi Vitality, Strength Fierce. If you are Weak, t Nerveless, Bloodless, your arms are bound. your energies paralyzed. iztimiaBucuGDim is the Vitalizer and your opportunity. AL.L ORUGQISTS 11-46 Oranges Cost No More The finest oranges in the world the prize crop of 5,000 California groves are "Sunkist." These are the perfect oranges with the valua ble wrappers. Your dealer will supply you with luscious "Sunkist" oranges that ripen on ihe tree a finer flavor than you have ever before tasted at no higher prices than you have paid for those of much less quality. Insist on each orancre commer to you in a wrapper marked Sua kist." For such are genuine. Most Healthful of All FAT IS KSlLlfJS HIM 1 SAYS PEOPLE FOR T. R. Man Weighing 385 Pounds Can Hardly Breatfie. Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 19. Frank Deakin, aged 27, weight 385 pounds, is in St. Vincent's hospital here dying, physicians say, from suffocation under immense folds of his own tat. Deakin. who is a trolley motorman, has gained 100 pounds within the last year and in six years has increased from 130 pounds to his present weight. He has never been a hearty eater nor has he drank to excess. When he scaled 285 pounds he began a rigorous diet and a systematic course of exer cise to reduce his weight. The more he fasted, apparently, the fatter he grew. A few days ago he had to quit work and take to his bed. He was re moved to the hospital today. Physicians who have been in consul tation on the case regard it as a most remarkable instance of obesity. Dea kin's lungs are so oppressed with his weight that he breathes with extreme difficulty and his heart action is so small in proportion to the bulk of his body that natural means are not suffi cient to keep his blood oxygenized. Most of the time his body is of a blu ish hue. due to his poor circulation and the vitiated condition of his blood. SOCIALISTS EXPEL HIM Governor Glasscock Vrges Election of a Roosevelt Delegation. One of Their Xnmher Aeeepts Office Vnder the Opposition. San Francisco, Jan. 19. William McDevitt, recently the Socialist nomi nee for mayor, was expelled from the Socialist party today for having ac cepted an election commissionership from Mayor Rolph. The Socialist cen tral committee directed his expulsion by a vote of 17 to 1. Le1 .g Maker is different it Pro duces results try it. Zimmerman Seed ocmpany. Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 19. Governor William E. Glasscock, of West Virginia, has issued a statement in which he de clares a careful canvass of the political situation in West Virginia has convinced him that the people of the state are over whelmingly for Theodore Roosevelt for the Republican presidential nomination, and he calls upon the people to elect delegates to the Chicago national conven tion who will vote for his nomination. Governor Glasscock says in part: "I believe it is generally understood that I have a very kindly feeling for .President Taft, but a careful canvas ot the situation has thoroughly convinced me that an overwhelming majority of the Republicans of West Virginia are for Roosevelt. 'I am certain Roosevelt will not seek the nomination or work for it in any way, directly or indirectly, and 1 believe he would not accept it if it came as tne result of intrigue for his personal benefit But if it comes to him as the result o a genuine popular movement because th people want him to do a job for the peo pie as a whole, because the people as whole believe that he is the best man to do that job, then I am sure he will ac cept." Endorsement In St. Louis. St. Louis, Jan. 19. The RepuDUcan ciu committee of St Lku1s adopted a hlgniy laudatory resolution indorsing Colonel ieodore Roosevelt for the candidacy for the presidency in 1912. The resolution recited the qualities of the man and tne statesman and referred to the former president as -the ''foremost citizen and greatest man of the known world." The resolution passed with a vote oi 15 to 10, the same vote tabling a reaolu tion to leave official indorsement to dis trict conventions. W. E. 9. Jarrett, chairman of the com mittee, telegraphed Governor Iladley after the meeting, announcing the en dorsement of Roosevelt and declaring "We now want you for vice president." When asked over the long distanc telephone about his position. Governo 1-iadley declared. "My position in that matter is too well known for me to make Vzf& ii i wi iu im E. X Iv.'f.y V t. -J- II MI m liii I I I I iOt i II I I V' A IT J I:" M fT- I' 133 i 1 1 1 i I I yf,,;illlV.."V it 'Ji'w- A I 1 -r I Children's "sweet tooth' by this wholesome fruit. Ilealt economical Sunkist oranges nowf-fe J. i take the place of sweets in many homes. r'.f J Ml Fruit l" is satisfied 5?4 :ealthfuUndO?'. Beantirul Oranae Sprjon Tours oave ic suniiisi orantro or .r p- i m-'w K ii lenjuu wrappers, UI iraucmarKS w km cut from wrappers, and send them to us, with 12c in stamps to help pay charges, packing, etc.and we will send you this genuine Rogers' silver orange spoon. For each ad ditional spoon send 12 wrappers or trademarks and 12c in stamps. Not responsible for cash sent through the mails. FruitKnifefor24Wrappers and 20c in stamps. Excellent uality genuine Rogers' silver. 14 "Sunkist" Premiums -j Economical Sunkist"Lemon Thin-skinned, extra juicy, and each comoK in a valaablo "Sunkist' wrapper. Insist on tlirm. a theygro farther than Table Knife Oystrr Fork Table Fork Child'. Fore Dessert Spoon Orange Snooa Child's Knife Fruit Knife Booilion Spooa Teaspoon Coffee Spoon Tablespoon Salad Fork Batter SoreaoVr Send for full description, number other lemons. They cost ot wrappers and amount of cash no more ana tne wtia. necessary to secure each article, pers are valuable. California Fruit Growers' Exchange 192 North Clark Street, Chicatfo. 111. 1 any statement." He said he had had no communication with Jarrett and that the chairman of the committee had no authority to make a statement for him. "It Is pretty well known." said the gov ernor, "that when I have any public statement to make I make it myself." Armour's Earnings Decline. Chicago, Jan. 19.- Armour Com- pany's annual statement gives the net I earnings for the year ending Xovem I ber 4, 1911, as $2,510,053, or about 12 per cent on the net capital invest ed, which is listed as $94,493,366. This is about half the earnings given In the 1910 report. A dividend of $2,000,000 was paid out of 1910 earnings, saj the report. ISig Ixss to Horry Io1ts. Madison, Wis., Jan. 19. A loss of about $25,000 faces the retailers of berry crates in Wisconsin if Ihn "short measure" berry box law passed by the last legislature be strictly en forced. If this be done, their crae and boxes boueht before the law wai passed will have to be thrown away or will be confiscated by the slate. r zzj) HEALS OLD SORES Before any sore can heal, the cause which produces it must be removed. As long as the blood, from which our systems receive their necessary nout ishment and strength, remains impure and contaminated with disease germs, any old sore on the body will remain ojen, and resist every effort made to heal it- The nerves and tissues of the flesh around the places are continu ally fed with unhealthy matter and nature is simply disposing of the poison by draining it from the systed through the sore. The only cure for an old. sore is a thorough cleansing of the blood, entirely ridding the sj'Stem of the cause. S. S. S. heals old sores by removing every particle of impurity front the circulation. It goes down to the very bottom of the trouble and so com pletely cleanses the circulation that there is no longer any impurity to drain through the sore, but the place is once more nourished with rich, health ful blood. S. S. S. heals the sore from the bottom, the place soon fills m with healthy, firm flesh, the tenderness leaves, all discharge ceases, the skin regains its natural color and when S. S. S. has thoroughly cleansed and purified the blood the place is permanently healed. Book on Sores and Ulcers and any medical advice free to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. CA.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE J OUBlfAL JAITXT AHY: 19, 1912 II0BGINS AT HEAD POLITICAL GOSSIP. FACSIMILE OF A FAMOUS POLITICAL LETTER GOV. FOSS UNDER GUARD J"p" DEAD 10 Central Topeka Paper Man Leads Commercial Club. White Way Webb Is Elected Vice President. TO BOOST BUSINESS. Publicity Campaign, Already Started, to Be Kept Up. Plan Is for 1,500 Members With in a Year. President S. J. Hoderins. Vice President W. W. Webb. Secretary J. Will Kelley. Treasurers Roy L. Bone and Scott Hopkins. These are the men who will head the Commercial club this year. S. J. Hodgins commonly known as "Sad" is the president and treasurer of the Central Topeka Paper Co. He is popular among the business men and has been a hustler in the Com mercial club. Sadlier J. Hodgins, Elected President 4X the Commercial Club. W. W. "Webb of the firm of Steph enson Co., is now frequently spoken of as "White Way" Webb, on account of his energy in pushing to comple tion the white way project. Mr. Webb is chairman of the lighting committee of the club and is a man who does thing. "It is my opinion," said President elect Hodgins, "that the Commercial club will be a bigger factor than ever in the next year towards building up the city of Topeka. I expect to work Jn the interests of Topeka and in building up the club which should be made in every respect the 'hub' of the business interests of the city. "The publicity campaign started by the Commercial club will be kept lip, and it is my opinion that the mem bership will reach the mark that was set recently l,:0u within a short time. If the men of the club pull to gether the membership should reach 1.500 within another year or so." Secretary J. Will Kelley. who has made a success of his work in ihe past few months, was unanimously re elected, as were the two treasurers. Line Party Tonight. The 11 membership committees of the Commercial club that pledged them selves to bring in 10 new mme'oers each by tonight will report at the club rooms tit 7 o'clock this evening. Later a procession will be formed and the men will m.-.rch to the Novelty the ater where the members of the Fight ing Twenty" team will be the guests of the losing team in the recent ton test, the "Heavyweights." The victors claim to have get the goat of the losers, and a real live goat will march in the parade tonight according to George Godfrey Moore, captain of the "Fight ing Twenty" aggregun n. The performers at the Novelty have been tipped off to get off some jokes n the camr.iiv;..e!-. MEW GOriSTiTUTIOfl Is Proposed for the United Mine Work--t-rs of America. Indianapolis, Jan. 19. No member Of the National Civic federation shall be a delegate to the convention of the United Mine Workers of America, ac cording to the provisions of a new constitution for the organization which was submitted to the miners' conven tion here today by the constitution committee. The proposed new consti tution also provides that the election of officers and national convention shall be held every two years instead of each year, as under the present con stitution. During the convention of the miners in Columbus. O.. last year, a resolu tion aimed directly at John Mitchell, a former president of the organization, was adopted, declaring members of the "National Civic federation ineligible as delegates to the miners' convention. Mitchell then withdrew from the civic federation, but since has charged that the convention was packed against him. A telegram was received today from Mitchell, stating that he would be here Tuesd to explain his action in the last convention of the American Fed eration of Labor at Atlanta, Ga., where, as a delegate from the miners' organization, he refused to support a movement to condemn the National Civic federation. FOUR-FIFTHS DONE Excavation of tlie Panama Canal Is. X earing Completion. Washington, Jan. 19. New Year's day, 1912. marked the completion of four-fifths of the excavation for the Panama canal. According to the canal record, the American engineers since beginning their work in May, 1904, have taken 158,010,964 cubic yards of dirt and stone out of the canal bed. The French engineers who preceded them had already removed 78.146.960 yards, but only 29,908,080 yards of this work was of value in the construction of the canal as rerouted by the Ameri cans. On January 1 there remained to be excavated 27.230.439 cubic yards. The last construction is also going on rapidly and at the beginning of the ear T5 per cent of the concrete for tlie canal locks was in place. J. J. Yeatch Will Try for the State Senate. State Senator Price Believes Taft Will Be Nominated. MURDOCH CAUSES STIR Leader of Kansas Insurgents in House Causes Worry. About to Have Regular Named Postmaster at Wichita. State Senator Francis Price of Ash land, a leader in the state senate the past two sessions, is for Taft for presi dent. He is for Taft clear to the finish and would die in the last ditch with him. He believes he will be nominated and elected. The senator takes a pes simistic vfrew of the Seventh district election and Democratic victory. He is inclined to regard it as an indication of weakness in high places in the party. But nevertheless he is for Taft above all others. Sink or swim, survive or perish. Senator Pries declared ffiat he left Ashland on the first train out of that town for nearly two weeks. The snow is piled high out there on the level and it has been bitter cold- The live stock is suffering from exposure and hunger. The senator is here on supreme court business. With two ante-election victories in congressional districts to bolster them up with pride and circumstance, the Democrats of Kansas are looking for ward to an even chance for victory for state candidates next fall. This is indicated by the scramble for places on the ticket. There will be a fight in the Democratic primary for the first time in many years. The following is a partial list of the announced or prob able Democratic candidates: Cnited States senator-Hugh P. Far relley of Chanute. William H. Thomp son of Garden City, T. L. Bond of Sa lina. Governor J. B. Billard of Topeka, George t. Hodges of Olathe. Lieutenant governor W. L. Brown of Kingman, W. P. r eder of Great Bend. Secretary of state Burt Brown of Lawrence. Attorney general Fred Robertson of Atwood. Thomas Morrison of Neosho, C. E. Pile of Parsons. Treasurer F. H. Cron of ElDorado, J. D. Watres of Bonner Springs, B. M. Dreiling of Hays City. Auditor J. G. Miller. Mulberry. Superintendent of public instructions D. it. Bo wen of Pittsburg. Justices of the supreme court J. D. Reeves of Dodge City, W. H. Carpen ter of Malion. Samuel Clarke, editor of the Wash ington Paladium, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomina tion for the state senate. His plat form is unique. He pledges himself to vote for the repeal of every law passed in the last five years that has added to the burden of taxation. J. J. Veatch, of Morrowville, Wash ington county, announces this week as a candidate for the Republican nomin ation for the state senate from his dis trict. Mr. Veatch served in the hous-2 the last two sessions with distinguished credit for his county. He was a hard worker and kept close tab on all busi ness of the session. He made many friends hera by his fairness and fear lessness in his stand on all public issues. It was no trouble at all to find where Veatch stood on a measure. He did especially effective work in behalf of advanced school legislation. His two opponents for the nomination are Messrs. Hood and Wilson, both bank ers. Mr. Veatch argues that his dis trict has had a banker senator for many years ami that as there were ten bankers in the last senate, a few farm ers would not hurt anything on the senate roll call. Veatch, in his plat form stands for a board of managers to control the educational institutions of the state, and he is opposed to a tax levy of more than a dollar on the thousand valuation. It is reported that Victor Murdock will appoint James McPherson, a regu lar, to be postmaster at Wichita. Name of a name! Can this be true? Murdock, an insurgent among insurgents. One of the original iron-jawed. brass mounted pioneers in the movement, and now turning square around to give aid and comfort to the enemies of his fac tion. It sounds like a slander, but it comes too straight to be doubted. Mc Pherson is slated for the job and the progressives in Wichita are calling to high heaven to witness the perfidy of their champion. Murdock, after raging through the national house like Satan in the book of Job, seeking for czrs and kings and standpatters whom hs might devour, now gives his fattest appointment to a regular politician. He will have to speak with the tongue of men and angels to tell his progressive supporters why he does this thing. Murdock is pretty sure to be renom inated without much trouble whether he has opposition or not. but he will carry the McPherson appointment around his neck like a millstone. The Damoerats will try to get Henry Roet zell. the well known city commissioner, to make the congressional race. RoetT zell is one of the strongest opponents to be found in the Eighth district. He would give Murdock a merry chase for the Wichita vote and might make him trouble elsewhere in the district. Mur-? dock's Republican progressive friends say he cannot afford to appoint a regu, lar to be postmaster in Wichita in the face of the Democratic strength shown in the special congressional elections. Lieutenant Governor Richard J. Hopkins, the insurgent candidate for congress who was defeated for the nomination also seems to have lost faith in insurgent leaders and wants Roosevelt to help pull a ticket through. He says: "An aroused public sentiment, fav oring Theodore Roosevelt for presi dent, is abroad, in the land. It had no starting point but seems to spring from everywhere. It is not heralded by politicians, neither can they con trol nor stop it. "He is recognized above all other living Americans as the successful champion of human rights. This pub lic sentiment is the strongest factor in American polities today; before it every political leader must give way. "As a Republican, wishing for Re publican success, I believe we ought to nominate Colonel Roosevelt for president because the candidate, can not be named, who could defeat him. As a citizen, wishing for the continued prosperity of the nation, I am for him r PRESIDENT'S ROOM- My dear Mr. Joline:- Thank you very rauch for sending me your address at Parsons, Kansas, before the Board of Directors of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. I have read it with relish and entiles agreement. Would that we could do something at once dignified and effective to Knock Mr Bryan once for all into a cocked hat Cordially and sincerely yours, Ur. Adrian H. Joline. Frank S. Thomas, tha dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, opposed to Woodrow Wilson, favoring Clark, is displaying the above facsimile letter to Democrats today. He says in commenting on the letter: 'Knock Mr. Bryan into a cocked hat." Indeed! And by whom? A school teacher! The Democrats of th-a West and South have always been in tensely loyal to Mr. Bryan. They have, by choice, stood for what he stood for, and if Bryan deserves to be 'knocked into a cocked hat,' according to Mr. Wilson, than the Democracy of the. South and West deserves the same treatment; in fact, while Mr. 'ilsou s about it, he might knock the 6,500,009 Democrats that voted for Mr. Bryan 'into a cocked hat.' Upon what does our Caesar Wilson feed that he has grown so great as to sit in judgment because the mere assurance that he is to be a candidate for the presidency, would, I think, be sufficient to re establishconfidence in business and promote the prosperity we have en joyed for the past dozen years." Judge Stuart of Troy, who is the In surgent candidate for the Republican nomination for congress tor the Ktrst district, is in Topeka today. He says: "I am for Roosevelt. Why? Well, Roosevelt has been tried and the coun try knows that while he is progressiva and stands for the people's rights as against the interests, he Is safe and sound and has the courage to stand for the right against the unjust contention of either side on any question. Besides, the people are for him. There is no doubt in my mind but that two-thirds or more of the Republican voters in the First con gressional district, and for that matter throughout Kansas and the eountry at large, are for ham. The sentiment is al most universal that with Roosevelt as the Republican candidate we can un doubtedly win at the election. "Then, why should we take any chance? A large percentage of the Democrats, not only admit that Roosevelt can be elected as against any Democratic candidate, but express their intention of voting for him in November If he is on the ticket. "Aside from Roosevelt's availability as a candidate I am for him, because he stands for all the things that the pro gressive wing of the party demands, and as president we know that he would, as in the past, have the ability and knack of getting out of congress the kind of legis lation the people demand. The Interests and big politicians of the east could not fool him. Roosevelt is closer to the peo ple than any public man ever was in all American history, with the possible ex ception of Lincoln. The great body or the American people regardless of party, creed or color have confidence in and trust Roosevelt. If he is nominated, and I think he will be. nothing but death would prevent his election." WILL DIVIDE EVEN One St. Louis Ward Will Not Choose Between Folk and Clark. St. Louis. Jan. 19. A new angle to the Speaker Clark and former Governor J. W. Folk contest for the endorsement Qf Missouri Democrats for the presi dential lomination developed today by the adoption of a resolution by the Democrats of the Twenty-eighth ward to divide their delegation equally be tween the rival candidates. Folk and Clark have pledged them selves to abide by the decision of the Democratic state convention which will be held at Joplin February 20. IT CARRIED $16,009,000 Omnibus Public Buildings Bill Agreed Upon in Committee. Washington, Jan. 19. The house committee on public buildings and grounds today decided to report an omnibus public building bill carrying $16,000,000. Democratic Leader Un derwood advised against thia action. "Went to bed at 8 o'clock last night." "Why so early?" "My shoe came untied and I thought I'd save the trouble of tying it again." Pittsburg Post. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON. N. J. April over 6,500,000 Democrats who voted for and believe in what Mr. Bryan, advo cates, is it the 'hand out' that Mr. Wil son asked Mr. Carnegie for in the shape of money that many people consider 'tainted- or is it his all-consuming an Ity and egotism? "Does it occur to Mr. Wilson that 'knocking into a cocked hat' is a game that two or more can play at and if he advocates knocking Mr. Bryan into a 'cocked hat' what would be the ob jection to Mr. Bryan returning the compliment at this most opportune time, assisted by 6,500,000 Democrats who did not desert the party in the midst of the battle in 189 6. as Mr. Wil son did, when he supported the Palmer and Buckner ticket that was financed and run by Republican money to com-, pass the defeat of the regular Demo cratic nominee, Mr. Bryan? "Upon what grounds can Mr. Wil STUBBS HOT READY Will Reply to Dawson Mouse Letter Later. Governor Stubbs has returned from the good roads convention at Emporia, but has not yet deeided what reply he will make to the last Dawson letter asking him for instructions in regard to the justice of the peace before whom House shall be summoned. The governor will doubtless make up his mind tonight or tomorrow on the question and give the attorney general further instructions in the premises. Dawson has his papers ready and will issue the summons as soon as he hears from the governor. "I have diligently in quired regarding the personality and preju dices of the three Justices of the peace for Topeka," said Dawson today, "but have learned nothing concerning tnem that throws any light on the situation. I feel like Diogenes looking for an honest man. I will get a lantern and live In a barrel if necessary to find him." When it was decided by the governor to have House summoned before a To peka J. P. to answer the questions re garding violations of the law or go to jail for contempt, the governor wrote Dawson telling him to bring the proceed ings before a justice "not unfriendly to the prohibitory law." Dawson checked the matter back to the governor and call ed on his excellency to name the J. P. who was O. K. Card of Thanks. We desire to thank our many friends and neighbors for their kind ness and beautiful floral offerings dur ing the illness and death of our be loved wife and mother. MR. JOHN F1NNIE, MR. AND MRS. G. L. SAUNDERS, MR. AND MRS H. M. FIX-NIB. LOCAL HEKT105. Capt. B. B. Smyth, state curator of the state museum, has been seriously ill from a severe cold, fever and erysipelas tor the past two weeks, confined to his bed, at his home, 106 East Twelfth street, under the treatment of Dr. S. G. Stewart, who now reports htm better and convalescing and it is expected he will soon be out. Mrs. Smyth has also been in bad condi tion from severe injuries from a fall. Fannie Gray is on trial in the district court today eharged with eight violations of the prohibitory law. She is facing the same array of gentlemen spotters who have made life miserable for other al leged violators of the law. Charles Wallace and Mattie Johnson each entered pleas of guilty to nuisance eounta today in the district court and the state dropped tha sales numbers. The case against James White was continued until some time next week. Ray Hall's orchestra will play for Sun day dinner at the National heteL Rav Hall's orchestra will play for Sun day dinner at the National hotel. Mrs. Adelaide Wallace of West Union, Iowa, who has been the guest of Mrs. David Palmer, has gone fop a trip to California. That violin marvel, Jan Kubelik, who rose from the plaee of a gardener's son to the position of first musician of his kind in the werld, will be heard in concert at the First Baptist church on Saturday evening. 29th, 1907. son Esk for political preferment of the Democratic party? Certainly not on liis record! The day has not yet ar rived in this world when political treachery and betrayal shall be re warded at the ex-pense of fidelity and devotion. "Speaker Clark campaigned in 16 states for Mr. Bryan and the Demo cratic party. He has never faltered or weakened when the interests of De mocracy were at stake. One of the great papers of Massachusetts, the Bos ton Herald, says, 'Ke would be thor oughly iccer-table to Bryan, having gone to the full length of silver radi calism in 1S94. His denunciation of the golu standard as the "worst crime against humanity since the crucifixion" may be recalled. He is the sort of a man whom party leaders like. He is exceptionally effective on the fetump. He is a man whom people Tike.' LAUD THREE MORE County Clerks, Registers of Deeds and Commissioners to Meet Here. Three state-wide conventions were landed for Topeka Thursday at the an nual meetings of the county clerks, registers of deeds and county commis sioners, held in Manhattan. It is prob able that all three organizations will meet jointly in Topeka December 10-11. The conventions were brought to Topeka after a stubborn fight with the Wichita delegation, which offered inducements for the conventions of county officials. Five Shawnee county officials at tended the Manhattan meetings and secured the next conventions. The county clerks and county commission ers conventions were taken from Wich ita without a serious struggle. Then the Beerless Princess demanded recog nition and insisted it should have the session of the registers of deeds. With the vote tied, Robert Tasker, register for Shawnee county, made overtures to one of three lady registrars at the con vention and swung her vote to Topeka. Shawnee county was represented at the conventions by Robert Tasker, register of deeds; Samuel G. Zimmer man, county clerk, and Edwin L. O'Neil, F. B. Slmms and James Shini er, county commissioners. It is estimated that the three con ventions will bring nearly 400 visiting county officials to Topeka next winter and extensive plans will be made to show them a good time. Recently the annual meeting of the probate judges was secured for Topeka. With the coming of the other officials, it is probable that an effort will be made to combine all four conventions, which would practically mean the closing of the Kansas court houses for two days. DEATHS AND FUNERALS Edward Semon, aged 3 years and ten months, died at the home of his mother, Mrs. Eva Semon at 221 North Chandler street, from diphtheria this morning. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday and the body will be burled In the Topeka cemetery. The funeral and burial will be private. Grenadine Fay Wilson, the 5-montr.-old daughter of Mr. nd Mrs. Aaron Wil son of 113 East Twentieth street, died last night at the family home. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Satur-, day and the body will be buried in Mount Auburn cemetery. Daniel Samms. aired 74. died last night at his home at "IS Stella street. The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday in Penwell undertaking chapel and the body will be buried in the Topeka cem etery. Airs. Mary Franklin, aged 62 years, 6 months and 25 days, died Thursday at her home at 1803 Seward avenue. The funeral will be held in Penwell's under taking chapel at 3 o'clock this afternoon and the body will be buried in the To peka eemetery. The funeral of Mrs. Maud Varney ef 439 Poplar street, who died Wednesday night, will be held at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the family heme and the body will be buried la the Topeka cemetery. The Governor Is Apprehensive of a "Black Hand" Attack. Boston, Jan. 19. When Governor Foss came to the state house here from nis home in Jamaica Plains he was guard ed by detectives and plain clothes men watched the corridor during the c?ay for the possible appearance of Black Hand agents said to have designs on the gov ernor's life. Dudley M. Holman, c.io governor's secretary, said: "We received from sources which we considered trustworthy and from six widely different points that at a secret meeting held at night certain interests had sent to New York to have two Black Hand bomb throwers come over here and attack Governor Foss and oth er officials and give atteniion to their residences. One confirmatory report came from Lawrence. "It was our information that the feel ing against the governor was due to his action In sending the militia to Lawrence as well as because he had signed the 64 hour bill which is an is sue in the strike. As a precaution the police were asked to guard the gover nor." FIGHT ORGET OUT. Chinese Republic Sends Ultima tum to Yuan Shi Kai. Surrender of Sovereign Power Demanded Before Jan. 28. Nanking, China, Jan. It appears now to be absolutely certain that fight ing between the revolutionists and the imperials will be resumed on the morn ing of January 28, unless Premier Yuan Shi Kai concedes th-s demands of the republican government. These demands, which were tele graphed today to Premier Yuan Shi Kai at Peking, are very drastic and substantially as follows: 1. The abdication of the throne and the surrender of the sovereign pow-srs are demanded. 2. No Maiichu may participate !n the provisional government of China. 3. The capital of the provisional government cannot be established at Peking. 4. Premier Yuan Shi Kai cannot par ticipate in the provisional government of China until the republic has been recognized by the foreign powers and the country has been restored to peace and harmony. Today's decided action by the repub lican government is due to Premier Yuan Shi Kai's demand that Dr. Sun Tat Sen resign the presidency permit ting Yuan Shi Kai to exercise sovereign powers until the national convention which is to be called to decide on the form of government of China, shall have reached a conclusion. In the meantime Premier Yuan Shi Kai de sires the court to retire, temporarily transferring its powers to him. The court however, objected to leaving Pek ing until the national convention had reached a decision. Behead Their Idols. Victoria, Jan. 1&. News of a blood less massacre at Canton was brought by the steamer Kamakura Maru. A large force of the Dae-To-Die brigade of the revolutionaries proceeded to the "temple of horrors" and beheaded the idols. Throngs of Chinese cheered the "idol slayers," as they marehel through the streets earn ing the headless josses and shouting to the pjople that their gods were useless. They smashed be tween three and four hundred Josses. Th': joss stick sellers and a large num ber of worshippers were driven from the temple. The "temple of horrors" brought in considerable revenue to the late authori ties. COMPLAIN OF RATES Hearing Being: Held Before Kxaminer Mackiey Today. Examiner A. R. Mackiey Is today hearing arguments in the federal building concerning alleged discrim inating freight rates to Missouri river points. Mackiey is representing the interstate commerce commission in the hearing which is expected to oc cupy several days. The action which is aimed at nearly two score western railroads was filed before the commerce commission by John Marshall, as attorney for the Kansas public utilities commission. It is charged in the complaint that the existing rates from Kansas City to Topeka, Salina, Hutchinson, Wichita, Dodge City and Goodland are ex orbitant and excessive and that the commission should order a reduction in the present schedules. The revised classification of rates Is also asked on shipments from St. Louis territory to Kansas points. Much evidence and no small amount of oratory will be injected into the present hearing. It may require three or four days to try the case, which i of vital importance to Kansas whole salers and retailers. Several attorneys representing defendant railway com panies are in Topeka to take part in the freight rate battle and are loaded to the guards with statistics and fig ures. Oi the other hand, tttorneys for the utilities commission, insist that the rates should be lowered and they will produce their share of facte anil figures to show that Kansas merchants are not getting a fair ohake in the classifi cation jf -ates from Missouri river points. DO HOT BE DUPED By Books or Men, Says Governor Woodrow Wilson. Detroit. Jan. 19. Governor Wood row Wilson spoke today at the board of commerce luncheon on the "Patri otic Function of Commerce," but fail ed to comment on the stateemot made last night by Henry Watterson. The principal thought in Governor Wilson's address revolved around a declara tion "That the patriotic function of business is vision; w can't have any trustee for the prosperity of a big nation. Do not be duped by books and men. No individual can interpret life to you. He may know a great many people but not all the people." Wilson League Ibrmed. Madison, Wis., Jan. 19. The "Wood row Wi'son Leagus of Wisconsin" was launched today at a conference of prominent Democrats of the state meeting in the law office of John A. Aylward and National Committeeman Joseph K. Dav'.es, The organization of Wilson clubs in Various districts of the stata and the appointment ot district leaders to further the Wllaon boom were endorsed in a set of resolutions. Shawnee County Pioneer Suc cumbs After Long Illness. lie Was Boor Commissioner Here for 20 Years. CUT DOWN EXPENSE In 1903 He Overworked Uimseli Helping Sufferers. Relief Work Followed by Break in Health. A. C. Hale the first and only commis sioner of the poor of Shawnee county, excepting C. N. Bacon the present In cumbent, died at his home at 1103 N. Van Buren street early this morning. He died after having been sick for at least eight months from heart failurs and dropsy. 1 I lit. Y rm 4-' 'Mv'?- A. C. Hale. Who Died Today. Mr. Hale moved to Topeka In 1ST and has been a continuous resident of the city since that time. Ha was born In 1838 in Clarksville, O. He was not a veteran of the civil war but remained at home to care for his "aged parents while his brothers enlisted in the ser vice. Mr. Hale was appointed poor com missioner of Shawnee county in 1SK8, when the office of poor commlsionrr was created. He continued in this work until July, 1910, when he was retired by the present board of county commis sioners and C. N. Bacon was appointed in his plaee. As poor commissioner of Shawnee county, he became 'acquainted with the condition of the people and with U county affairs. His office when it was first established, was located in a building on lower l ansus avenue. He continued in that location until the present court house was completed. Previous to his appointment, the ior of the city was given attention and re lief only in the winter time when a man would be appointed for temporary work. During his long administration. Mr. Hale greatly reduced the charitable ex penses of the county by hl economical metnoas, Dut never neglected miv iein. His greatest work was done in"l:tt. fol lowing the flood. He worked ho hiird mid such long hours on this occuMion that he never fully recovered from Its effect. As poor commiwiioner. Mr. Hale was assisting the second generation of a num ber of families in Topeka and the third generation on one or two occasions. He was taken sick about nine months ago and his condition has continued to grow more grave from time to time. He has been confined to hla bed' for more than six months. Mr. Hale la survived by his wife, Marv B. Hale: one son, F. i. Hale, who lives on a farm near Merlderi, and a daughter, Mrs. Charles Sand who lives In Topeka. He was a brother of M. M. Hale, who re tired as city treasurer about two years ago. He has two Bisters living in Ohio. The funeral arrangements will be an nounced later. MUST LEARN TO WRESTLE New Vork Folk-emen Will Have Pro fCNokmal Teacher. New York, Jan. 19. New York policemen must learn to wrestle. Carrying out Mayor Oaynor's idea thut the night stick must not be used except when absolutely necessary, Commissioner Waldo announced today he had engaged Tom Jenkins, iho Cleveland wrestler, to teach members of the force how to grapple with a criminal without calling the billy into play. Jn kins has been physical instructor of Wni Point ani comes to New York with the sanction of the war department. KILLERS ARE CAUGHT Two L'i-Convlcts Who MurdcreJ St. Joo lfermer. St. Joseph, Jan. 19. William Steffens and Knos Stoner, ex-con vlcts, were ar rested here charged with th- murder of Lykins. Steffens, who confessed, said Stoner fired the fatal ehoL Ktw York Stork ilt Last Sala. New York, Jan. 19. American Smelting and Refining Tli Amer. Smelting and Hefinlng pfd..,.Kw4i American Sugar Heflning ilia1 Anaconda Miinng Co s6-" Atchiaon ...V Atlantic Coast IJne Baltimore and Ohio JW. Brooklyn Rapid Transit 7 Canadian Pacific 22 Chesapeake and Ohio til Chicago and Northwestern 141V Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul.!.!. 1(4 Colorado Fuel and Iron jo Colorado and Southern t-'eiaware ana nuaaon 171 Denver and Rio 'Jrande jjiii Denver and PJo CTrande pfd t-xt Erie v Great Northern pfd lttMt Great Northern Ore Ctf uj, Illinois Central "l:flTm Interborough-Met 17J Interborough-Met. pfd 56 Iouisville and Nashville !!!!""ii4'i Mfss-ourl Paciftc r Missouri, Kannas arid Texas National Blucult J4X7 New York Central !I!!!!lKSV Norfolk and Western "lnn' Northern Paciftc !!!!!!!!!m.4 Pennsylvania V't People's Gaa !!!!!!!!"l"'i Pullman Palace Car 1 Reading !!!!!!l5fiT' Rock bnland Co Rock Island C"- Pfd fto. Southern aoiftc !!!"lloi Southern Railway jii Union Pacific !!!!!!"ir,s United States Steel United States Steel pfd !!.!!!!.llt Wabash 7 Wabash pfd m',i Wewtern lHUm k.'W Lehigh Valley !"!!lt- is

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 19, 1915 11 FIRST GUNIS FIRED Attack on Three Commissioners Opening City Campaign. Effort to Show They Have Not Managed Well. STOTTS MAKES A POINT Expenses Incident to Smallpox Epidemic Concealed. Mayor Uillard, Commissioner Miller Also Make Replies. fhe fight between the city political fSeti factions behind Miller and Tandy for mayor was opened with renewed vigor by a statement given out last night from the Tandy supporters to the ef- feet that Miller had overdrawn his city budget account to the amount of J2.500. In making the statement etronger it was given out also that Mayor Billard was behind in his esti mates and Commissioner Stotts had cost the city StJ.uuu more than set aside for him. The statement made public this partment deficit on Commissioners without explaining that each shortage was caused by an unforeseen expense that was met by the commissioners as a whole and not by the, head of any one department. Commissioner Tandy and Commis sioner Miller are candidates for mayor at the city election one year from this pprinir. They have nut made their an nouncements and they refuse to admit they are in the race, but they have a Strong backing and the factions have organized. In every' discussion at the rity hall the two commissioners pre lined up against each other. The fact that the annual budget report for 3911 showed Miller behind in his esti mates made great "meat" for the Tandy backers and they made public the story through their official organ. Tlie Deficit Fijrurcs. The statement showed that Commis i ioner Stotts? had gone over his de partment budget for 1911 by S6.000. It thowtd that Commissioner Miller was r ehind $2,501. It pointed out that Mayor ""iii'.ard had spent JoOO mere than iu-i t imares called for. But the statement did not say that the budget of the Stotts departments v.as nia Je by another commissioner was made before Stotts came into ofn?e. Jt did not refer to the smallpox epi demic of last summer. It did not point out that the great white way pushed through by the Commercial club in creased tiie cxn-.msos of the Miller de partment. Xothing was said of the mistake of the former sunerintendent of the electric light plant in making his estimates t'.o low. The fact that nearly 200 additional street lights were placed on the street corners had noth ing to do with the statement. And v hen the street railway company cost the city SOW in a collision with a fire truck ani the railway promised to pay the costs which will give the mayor's epartment a surplus of $'00, it was i:ot mentiored. Commissioner Miller stated this af ternoon that the entire proceedings was ;i piece of politics. Mayor Biiiard said the statement was "misleading." Com missioner Stotts said it wa.s "mislead ing political buncombe." Here is what the mayor said: Mayor Billard's Kxplanatioii. "The statement is misleading. As far ns my department is concerned there is very little to worry over. In an acci dent the street railway company did J.,i0 damage to fire apparatus. Of course we did not figure that in our budget. JL M kmJs V V h 4 Is the TT" 1 1 r isunamo me nome you ve Uif Wppu Dlnnnind Yes sir! Right NOW. The sun is shining brightly. There is every indication that the recent cold weather is broken. Carpenters are more than anxious to begin work on that new house you've been planning. So why delay this matter any longer. Your dollar will buy you more lumber more labor, and more of every article required. This is not mere talk but it is an absolute fact one that you can easily verify by talking to any contractor or material man in Topeka. The railroads and other large buyers of building ma terial are now placing orders for lumber and other building materials in larger quantities than at any time since 1907. This shows that there IS A PRICE AD VANTAGE NOW. Why don't you profit by it too CEMENT NOTE EFFECTIVE TODAY, OUR PRICE ON PORTLAND CEMENT IS 35c per Sack Net Cement is sure to go higher. We would strongly ad vise that you take advantage of any low price that may be offered you on cement. 5- 5? ?sZ5 35a f"H iff f .J?flfl LU U LLJ 4 it f I v. V 23 1 Ps I I But the railway company will pay this expense this leaves my department with a balance instead of a deficit. "The superintendent of the electric light plant did not estimate the ex penses in Mr. Miller's department cor rectly last year and the extra lights in the city brought out his shortage. The great white way was anotlier expense unforeseen by the commissioners in making the budget. "The Stotts' deficit is still more mis leading. He wa.s not a city commis sioner when the budget was made. He did not have anything to do with the estimates. The city crematory was new and no one knew what to figure on maintenance and receipts. Stotts en tered office with only $50 in his fund. It was a ease of either closing down the crematory or calling for additional funds. The commissioners in a body decided to keep it in operation. In the Stotts sanitary department the epi demic of smallpox was unforeseen and unexpected. The city hired physicians, nurses, guards and in a prompt ener getic manner put down the disease. A number of years ago the city suffered an epidemic not half as serious and it cost several times the amount expend ed this summer. Stotts is not to be blamed." Miller Calls It Politics. Commissioner Aliller said: "The ar ticle is so misleading and its political intent so clear that it hardly deserves an answer. Speaking tor myself I wiil say that I can show that the lierht department could not be operated within the budget for the following seasons: "First The eight hour law com pelled me to employ an extra fireman. "Second The new superintendent found that many poles had to be re placed in order to avoid serious acci dent and protect the city. "Third It was absolutely necessary to overhaul the line wires by soldering all joints because we were losing pow er and could not have added to the number of lamps without doing so. "I defy anyone to show any extrava gance or carelessness in expending the money used to operate the plpjt. As to the expenses incurred in maintain ing the white way and the cost of connecting it with the plant the com missioners as a body voted to grant the petition and the indirect way in charging that against me is at once small and contemptible. "There is only one question that the taxpayers ought to consider and that is, was it necessary to do the things that caused the additional expendi tures and did the city get value re ceived. As far as my department is concerned, I can answer 'yes' and in vite inspection." A Slap at Tandy. Here Commissioner Miller spoke of the loss of S8.00U to the city when the Fillmore street bridge fell down, due to the carelessness of the engineering department under Commissioner Tandy. Miller continued: "It seems to me that the writer of the article was very careful not to mention the fact that in the depart ment reported ahead of the game, ex panses incurred that cost the taxpayers $8,0 00, for which the city received no return. Again I invite the closest in spection of the management of the city's business under my charge." What Stotts Has to Say. Commissioner Stotts said: "Charity prompts me to refer to the story published in the morjiing paper, inasmuch as it referred to me, as mis leading, but the expression is too mild to suit the occasion. In the first place, the budget under which I have worked was prepared by my predecessor and a large amount of it spent before I was elected. The largest deficit occurred in the operation of the crematory and my predecessor was in no w ay to blame for this, for the plant had just been completed and there was no way to estimate the cost of operation. The plant might have been closed, of course, but that would have exposed the city to an epidemic of diseases of all kinds resulting from the accumu lations of refuse and filth. "Every resident of Topoka will re member an epidemic of smallpox which might have resulted in a fed eral quarantine and the complete de- Time to Begin w If "IT 4&Jsckscn Mr J SHORT PANTS n With Extra Pair of Knickerbocker Pants. Notice 2 pair pants with these suits to morrow CHOICE moralization of busines of all kinds had it prevailed. Twenty-three people died during this scourge, the severest the city has ever known, although it was confined to one small section of the city and at no time were more than two guards employed, against 48 employed in 1900. "The smallpox epidemic last summer was unlooked for and. cost the city about $4,000 as against $20,000 ten years ago when the death rate was but 13 I do not believe the taxpayers be grudge this money taking into consid eration the work accomplished, for to day there is net a case ot smallpox in Topeka. rolitical Buncombe. He Says. "All I ask is an honest statement o. facts and despite misrepresentation I shall contirue to do my duty regard less of misleading political buncombe. It seems to me that the voters of To peka have often enough resented this, class of writing to call the attention of the owner of the publication to its ineffectiveness. The misrepresentation is on a par with the story published of an inmate of the detention hospital escaping during last summer and run ning at large: Or the slaying of an in nocent buffo lo, or the running of the city without the services of a city physician and numerous other untrue stories all the figments of an inflam ed in magination of the same repor ter." PRESS COMMENT. Newspapers Assail Wilson's Ingrati tude Toward Col. Harvey. The Philadelphia Public Ledger says regarding the break with Harvey: Colonel Harvey, who discovered Governor Wilson as a presidential pos sibility and pushed him tirelessly anil perhaps tiresomely in Harper's Weekly for the Democratic nomination, has elected himself to membership in Gov ernor Wilson's cocked hat club. The serious aspect of the episode is the coldly deliberative assertion by Mr. Wilson that there was no breach when there was a breach;, and after making due allowances for various sophisticat ed explanations as to possible defini tions of "breach," it must be admitted that if Colonel Roosevelt were involved in this controversy, Governor Wilson would find it a different matter to es cape election to a famous club. Omy brutal nature would suggest so coarse an organization as the Ananias club for one so gentle as the governor; but the suffragette annex, or the Sapphira sorority might be considered. Vrom the Baltimore Kvening Sun. Woodrow Wilson's version of the "break" with Colonel Harvey of Har per's Weekly will be awaited with in terest. All mankind is divided into t .vo class es those who place personalities above principles and those who place princi ples above personalities. To vary slight ly the lines of a minor poet, the first are those. Whose fickle creed may change from day to day. And yet be faithful to a friend in need. The second are ever, faithful in de voti' i to their creeds, but sometimes seems coldblooded in their personal rela tions. The former are unquestionably the mor; delightful individuals to live with. The latter make the better pub lic officials. lYom Cincinnati Times-Star. Dr. Wilson has net been having much fun lately. It is bad to be a presi dential candidate whom the people are con ing to believe is primarily a hypo crite and self-seeker. As to Col. Har vey's unexpectedly frank and candid explanat'on of h' break with Wilson, it is one of the most embarrassing things that have yet occurred to the Wilson boom. There is something in human nature that rebels at the idea of a man climb ing to eminence on another man s shoulders and then reaching down to kick his former helper in the face. lYom Brooklyn COitizen. The case of Governor Wilson dis charging one of his friends is not ex actly iike that of candidates who ask certain of their supporters to keep un der cover. Of course every party man ager has to have contributions; and of course no candidate must have "Wall street." But there is seldom any diffi culty about that. The left hand does not know what the right hand doeth. Mr. Wilson's act is arousing critical comment among people who have been friendly heretofore. This is quite nat ural, for none of them knows when his turn will come next. As a rule a man needs all the friends he can get, and usuallv the older the better. HUE HOTEL IS OPENED llooth Hostelry One of Finest in the State. Independence. Kan.. Ja.n. 19. The Booth hotel, built by T. J. Booth at a cost of 100,000, was partially opened to the pub lic for the convention of the State Bot tlers' association. The formal opening will occur next week. The hotel is the finest in southeast Kansas. It Is fire proof throughout. The walls are of re enforced concrete, the floors of hollow .ile, concrete and steel, the stairways ot steel and concrete and the roof of fire proof material. Every room is equipped with running water, hot and cold, and the majority have baths. The house has an individual telephone system and elec tric elevator. The stairways are of mar ble, the floors are tile. The kitchen is i..,4rvr,.i -ir all tVie latest labor savimr devices and refrigerating plant. The roof I is equipped for a roof garden. TUeJie axe J 110 giiest rooms in the hotel. f3 SS H 71 T1 1 I f I "A V. C i V I Ladies' Sweater Coats 25c Ladies' $3.50 Shoes $1.00 Men's 75c and 50c Negligee Shirts 25c Ladies' Flannel Shirts 50c Men's $2.00 Brown Worsted Pants a I 75c Men's 25c Wool Hose 12c Old Ladies' Warm Lined Bals t -9 90o Men's Wool Shirts or Drawers 50c 1 Boys' Heavy Ribbed Stocking's Men's 75c and 50c Suspenders 25c WERE IN CLOSE TOUCH. Members of Packers' Combine Ex changed laily Keports. Chicago. Jan. la. JJirect testimony that the representatives of the alleged pack ers' combine exchanged daily and weekly reports of shipments and margins togetli er with the detailed operations of the business transacted by each branch house was given to the jury today in the trial of the ten Chicago packers charged with criminal violation of tlie Sherman law. Everett" B. Li!l. former manager Cor the Xational Packing company in Boston and a.-istant manager for the same com pany in New York, gave damaging testi mony against the packers. He declared that the managers tor Armour, Svvltt, Morris and the National Packing corn puny in Boston, who were in charge ot" the New England territory met daily and were on terms of the closest business in timacy. He said they exchanged by tele phone' the daily shipments and margins of each company and that weekly sum maries from each house were sent to the ALL PLEASANT JOBS COME ONLY AFTER YEARS OF HARD WORK. By John T. McCutcheon. "Her am I, tlaving along at $15 a week, and there it Baxter, working only half am hard at I do, and getting ten timet the salary I get. I with I had a tnap like hit. EXTRA!! Saturday, Men's $25.00 Blue as as serge that ever went into a suit -Special Saturday. Hanan's Shoes, Bostonian Shoes--$7, $6 and $5 Leather Lined Shoes for Men Saturday CHOICE Children's 5 Toe $2.50 Shoes, Saturday THIS IS THE GREATEST VALUE WE EVER OFFERED 622 Kansas Ave. Boston representatives. The witness de clared that ttiis system was in use up to the time he severed bis connection with the National Packing L-ompany in 19i to become Boston manager for an independ ent company. RICKART If HEARING. Called to Sliow Promoter Acted in Good l'aitli. Xew York. Jan. 19. "Tex" Kickart, the Nevada miner and prize fight pro moter, was the first witness called to day by George Graham Rice, on trial with B. 11. Schet'tels and others, charged with using the mails to de fraud. Acting as his own attorney, Rice questioned the witness with a view to showing that, as a practical miner, Rickart believed the mining stock3 the defendants were advertising were as valuable as Rice's market let ters claimed. Rice succeeded in getting into the record much testimony in his favor. fCfpyrlgfhf l(H2: Bj-John T. Mr7Utcheoiul How Baxter Got His Snap any $1 Jio HIGH SCHOOL NEWS. The Forensic club had trie weekly meet ing this afternoon at high school. The principal feature on the program was a debate on the subject: "Itesolved, That party allegiance is preferable to inde pendent action in polities." Tne an nouncements of the meetings of the Forensic club are very clever posters, and the one this week was drawn by Charles Lyon. The girls' debating club will hold the first meeting this afternoon at t!ie high school. The girls debated on the ques tion, "Resolved, That four years or Eng lish should be required in the Topeka high school." Tr'is being the llrst meet ing, it was largely attended. The senior class is rehearsing dally for class day next Thursday. They will put on a farce which they claim will be real farce, and also sing some class day songs that have been composed for the occasion. The students of the high school have been required to take an examination 9P $1 v' f Men's Flannel Night Shirts I 25c Children's $3 Overcoats S1.0Q Ladies or Men's $1.00 j Silk Hose and Stockings f 25c Mens Fleeced Underwear j 25c j $1.50 Sheep Lined Gloves 50c $5 and $4 Sweater Coats I $1.00 75c Knickerbocker Pants 25c $3.50 Corduroy Pants $1.25 Men's $5.00 Hand Welt Shoes $2.25 Men's Plain Toe $3.00 Shoes $1.50 covering one hundred words, and ir they fail to come up to the Kpedfled percent--age they will bo required to taku the new study of word analysis next term. The Kans. the girls' organization of th senior class, will have their last party at the Y. W. C. A. on Saturday night. Th party will be In the nature of a nrwl. and only the girls of the organization will attend. Xew Y'ork t'ol'fee Market Xew York, Jan. 19. COI--FHH Vo. T Rio. 14c. Futures closed Mteadv, March 12.51: May, 12.49. The Buyer for any family in Shawnee County, who can pay cash and take his goods at the store, (delivery 5 cents) can save money at any one of the Owl Stores. Special Saturday 40c Ben Davis Apples, pk..:iOe .Stalk Jumbo Celery Sn Malaga Grapes, lb, Kood oneslUe .Small Oranges, navels (not tha smallest) doz .13j Tiig Oranges 176 Bizes, doz.. 17c 8 cans 5c Milk 5a Pure Pork Homc-mado .Sausage, it-. ni2o Regular Owl Prices White House Flour, 4 8 lbs.$I.S5 12 lb. sack very bot Flour 3H 16'2 lbs. fine Gran. Sugar $1.00 25c full fream Cheese, lb 22c 3 large Carnation Milk....25o 3 large Van Camp's Milk...2;tc Can 15c Maine Corn lie Can 18c Peas 1 lo Can Early June Peas' 12ci 12c pkg. Seeded Raisins, .ttc Homemade Kraut, lb 4c Solid Cabbage. Rc quality, lb. Split Sweet Pickles, qt 15c 4 large Dill Pickles 5c Small Sour Pickles, doz 1c HoneIcs3 Cod, very finest, brick for 1 7c Xew Dates, lb 'to- F.nglLsh Walnuts, large, lb. 17 '4c Fresh Country Kges, doz... 31c 2 cans Corn 15c Can Tomatoes lie Dipton'9 Tea. 'j potinfl ,.an lb. of very best Japan Tea. Finest 50e Broom l:c Very best Northern Potato-, peck S.V' Best iirass Wash Hoard ma.i", for 2:$c Refugee Beans, (cut, melt in your mouth), can Be 25c can Baking Powder 15c 15c can Van Camp Beans... 12c 4 pounds Pink Beans 25c 4V6 lb. best White Beans.. 25c InsLst on getting your turn when we are rushed. (ur desir is to serve you in regular order, but you can help u.-t by insisting. ten.lli rm r ir...f .art.............. fS Fiir 2nd and MatliJii tt, if 200 K. IouriIi. BUSY 5U5 V. Tentli. C 1125 KaiiMK Ave. OlOreS 535 ToiH-kn Ave. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. NOTICF.. For sale all kinds of store fi if lures, kx show cases, 2 wall ca(i, ems lamps. 2 outside plate, glass show c.is s, -IC. fait at once at K a ti.-h a WANTKi" Oood solicitor. In'-ratlve posi tion. I10O required. Call at M. C. A. i this evening- '1

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12 IHE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTH1TAL JA2IUAHY 19, 1912 CIFT1 time Mamie race I f! The Kansas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution will hold their annual meeting for th-2 election of of- January Clearance Sale Brings Forth Greater Bargains Than Ever For Tomorrow 2 in real value now yours for 3 fleers Saturday afternoon In the office of Mr. D. W. Nellis. At this meeting arrangements will be made to celebrate Washington's birthday with a banquet. The present officers of the order are: Mr. J. M. Meade, president; Mr. A. K. Rodger, vice president; Mr. D. W. Nellis, secretary and historian; Judge J. L. Eldridge, registrar, and Mr. J. D. Norton, treasurer. A pretty gown of velour de laine in a rather bright shade of 'green is Suits worth up to $25 Suits worth up to $29. This includes a large proportion of the suits that remain. There are nobby mix tures, serges, novelty cloths, boucles, broadcloths, etc.; mostly plain tailored models. These prices mean an entire suit that will be good for now and spring too, at a little more than a skirt alone is worth. shown today. This haa the extension shoulder, the sleeve below being formed of three shaped ruffles or caps, having no fullness and edged with self-tone silk fringe. The front is You If C A 1 1 Jrnn I If u Can Buy NOW NOW Any of these $3.50 Shoes tomorrow For ffldTl 1 Fi We've made this extreme low price on twenty-five styles of $3 to $4 Shoes. All very best of season's models and includes Patents, Dull Calf, Suede, Velvet and Kid Leathers. Tops of cravenette or dull mat kid tip or plain toe. Walking weight, welt sewed soles. See Styles Displayed in Front Show Case. in F. B. PICKREL TALKS Gives Public Full Account of Recent Experience. Noticeable Change Quickly Pro duced in Condition. FULLY REJUVENATED Debility Victims Struggle Aim lessly Along. Hundreds of People Fail Realize True Cause. to Among the hundreds of statements being made in connection with tliL' re markable new tonic, "Tona Vita'" none are more interesting than that given out recently by Mr. F". K. -Pickerel, theater manager, residing at No. 230 .South Estella street, Wichita, also well known in Topeka. Mr. Pickerel said: "For some time past I have been in a run down con dition, suffering from stomach trouble iind nervousness. 1 did not sleep well and my appetite was not godd. "A short time ago 'Tona Vita' was recommended to me and I decided to give it a trial. It has helped me won derfully although I have only taken it a short time. I now feel like I have a new lease of life. My ambition has returned, as well as my strength and energy. I now sleep well at night and get up in the morning feeling tine and do not suffer pain any more. I believe it to be one of the best tonics I have ever used." "People who are nervous and irri table, have imperfect digestion, stom ach disorder, lack of energy and ambi tion, feel melancholy and discouraged, suffer with headaches, backaches, poor memory, unsound sleep, irregular cir culation, pallid complexions and who are susceptible to colds and coughs, are unquestionably suffering with that modern plague, nervous debility say the specialists. "There are hundreds of such half tick men and women in Topeka. who reallv do not know just what is wrong with them," said one of these special ists yesterday morning. "They struggle aimlessly along until they become totally debilitated, and often times" they come to us suffering with this dreaded condition in its most aggravated form." continued he. "We have a preparation that will positively remove this trouble and re store the organs to their healthy, nor mal condition." The "Tona Vita" specialists are at the Arnold Drug Company, No. 523 Kansas Avenue, between the hours of H a. m. and S p. m. daily during stay here. Our preparation acts like a true spe cific in all cases of denility. repairing all organic weakness, whether man or woman and proves a lasting source of benefit and relief. When buoyant spirits return and depression gives away to cheerfulness, it is hard to rec ognize some of the former sufferers. EAST SIDE. NOTES. Mr. Fred Dawdy spent Thursday in the country on a hunting trip. Miss Julia Wells of Carbondale came here tody to spend two weeks visiting relatives and friends. Miss Kdith Johnson of Ewkridge is here, spending a few clays on a business trip. Mrs. Roy Taylor will leave Sunday for points in Oklahoma to make an extended ttay oil business. Mrs. J. Brizendine entertained the Dor cas society at her home on liberty street Thursday afternoon. This was guest day for the society, a large number were present, refreshments were served and all enjoyed a fine time. Miss Blanche Clarke is off trom worK for a few days on account of illness. Sire is suffering with an attack of bronchitis. Miss Anna Thomas is improving ftcr being quite sick for the past three weeks with an attack of rheumatism. Mrs. Ueorge Furman entertained the Westminster Guild of the Presbyterian church at her homo on 5ranner street Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Joe Kingman of Obe.rlin. Kan., is here, spending two weeks visiting rela tives and friends. Mr. Rus.-'ell Porter is improving after beinir uuite sick for the past two weeks at l is home on Lawrence street with an attack of tonsilitis. Mis.s Carrie Kastman has returned to her home in western Kansas after spend ing a week here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ceorge. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Saylor and son were guests of Mr. and Mi's. Roy Peter son at ainner Wednesday night at their home on Fast Third street. The funeral of Daniel Sams, who drop ped dead at his home. 713 Stella street, Thursday afternoon, will be held Sunday a 3 p. ni. from the Penwell chapel. Rev. W. 11. Se-rivner will return next week from Girard. Kan., where he has spent several weeks conducting revival services. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Parker and daugh ters will leave Wednesday noon for Winslow. Ariz., where they will make their future home. Mr. Parker has been transferred there in the employ of the Santa Fe eonmany. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. McCIure left today for Kansas City after spending a week here with friends. They will visit i:i Kansas City before going to Missouri, where they will remain permanently. The Ladies' Aid society of the Second F. R. church met this afternoon in the church. Mr. Harvey Fuller of California has come liere to spend some time with his mother, Mrs. Fa Fuller, of Kmtnett steet. A surprise party was given in honor ot" Mrs. S. M. Fvans at her home, 627 Madi son street. Wednesday evening in cele bration of her fifty-first birthday anniversary-. An oyster suber was served and 1he following guests enjoyed a fine time: Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Evans. Mr. and Mrs. Arth'Tf Frown. Mr. Will Evans. Miss An nie AA'arlley. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mad den. Marion Thompson. Margaret Mad dr Margaret and r.ucile Brown. Mrs. fj. A. Baxter of 124 North Lake street spent the day in Oakland with relatives. Too Grateful. After O'Connell had ob tained the acquittal of a horse stealer, the thief, in the eestacy of his gratitude, cried out. "Ooh. counsellor. T've no way here to thank your honor, but I wish't I saw you knoel;ed down in me own parish wouldn't T bring a faction to the rescue?" Life. fulled to the shoulder portion and crossed in surplice style. It jhas a lit tle crossed vest of dark green velvet with silk buttons. Yoke and deep cuffs are of lace. The skirt has a double tunic cut high on the left side and fringed. The underskirt, only a small portion of which is visible, is banded around the bottom with the dark green velvet. An interesting fact in connection with the visit of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell who lectured on Labrador at the First Presbyterian church last night, is that in the Fisherman's Institute at St. John's, Newfoundland, one cf the great est of Dr. Gienf ell's achievements, there is a Charles M. Sheldon room, the gift of the young people of the C E. soci ety of the Central Congregational etr.Tch. and the result of the enthusi asm aroused by Dr. OrenfeH's visit to Kansas City about four years ago. Today there appears a pretty school dress for a child of eight which would be pretty made up in either two plain materials of contrasting color or a plaid combined with plain. In the Men's i Vs Notic Shoes $3.45 the Shows In Our Window Worthmore Shoes, good Winter weight Calf, Single or Double Soles You never saw better values for Women's Shoes $2tl We will give better value, style, comfort, service and sat isfaction for $2.45 than you'll find elsewhere. iris 5 r re (FT iHQMSf Good Shoes Ulford SHOE $3.45 sketch the dress as shown is fashioned of navy blue cheviot combined with dark red taffeta. It is cut with long waist, girdled with a flat stitched belt and side-pleated skirt. On either side of the front is an inset of the silk dec orated with red buttons and blue silk cords. The red buttons are set on the I blue cheviot, the blue loops are out lined against the red silk. Wide red silk cuffs decorated with, buttons and cord finish the short sleeves. m Sorosis club will meet Saturday, Jan uary 27, with Mrs. F. W. Watson, at her home on Tcpeka avenue. It is to be guest day, and each members is entitled to invite two guests. The rage for plush this season ex tends to all branches of outer wear ing apparel. Gowns, coats, muffs and hats are made from it. and irresistibly t V I, becoming and charming they are, too. Also it is found in hats, frocks and eots for all ages, from the small boy butante sister. A delicately beautiful Another Big Cut on Our Entire Stock of Furs! Chiffon, Net and Silk Dresses Now $9.95 New Cut Prices on all Coats Every remaining coat goes broadcloths, serges, plushes, fur, velours, velvets, etc., as well as mixtures, reversibles, cheviots, etc. to XA Off 37 Coats worth up to $16.50 choice now Petticoats m Rich silk messaline petticoats in plain colors and floral patterns, choice $1.95 Former prices were up to $19.95. Choice of a wide variety of charming gowns, irocKs and dresses; beautitul mod els and rich materials priced now at $9.95 70? Kansas jfvenue mm W 1 1 Morion Har land's Helping Hand. Marion Harland is recognized by ihe editors of every woman's magazine in the country as the greatest authority on all matters concerning housekeeping and homemamg. This great authority is to be absolutely at the service of this paper s readers in helping them solve any problem of housekeeping. If you don't hnoio ichal to do in regard to any household problem write to Marion Harland, in care of this paper, and she will gladly help you. The Practical Housewife. Will yon kindly send me a recipe for making pretzels? Jossth L." Referred to our German housemothers. I do not recollect ever weeing a recipe few the well known ca&e. Fruit Salad Recipes. The other day I attended a luncheon where a aiad was served which seemed to be composed of apples, na ts, oranges, and marsh mallows. It seemed to hare some kind -of a cream dressing. It was by far the most delicious salad I ever tasted and I am wondering if you con tall me how to make it. Will you not publish some dainty salads suit able for ligrht refreshments? Mrs. G. H. N." It Is not practicable to publish all the recipes I have for good salads. I must trust to slipping one in now and then, as I can make room. Here is one of the beet I have: FRUIT SALAD. Put Into individual glasses such as are used for cocktails, for each glass, three strawberries, canned or fresh; a scant teaspoon ful each of grated pineapple and orange pulp; the same quantity of grape fruit; a half teaspoonful of the sirup of preserved ginger, and the like quan tity of lemon Juice; a little powdered sugar, and u-pon the top of the glass foar maraschino cher ries. The salad you liked so much as to beg for the recipe was probably more like this: FRUIT STALtAD (NO. t). Arrange in the dish in which the salad is to be nerved a copful of orange pulp cut into bits without crushing; a cupful of Bnglish walnut meats, skinned and cut email (not chopped); half a cupful of tart apples, pared and cut into dice; as much grape fruit prepared in the same way, and a dozen marsh mallows cut small. Mix the Ingredients thoroughly and strew fine sugar be tween the layers. Drop a maraschino cherry here and there. Just before sending to the table pour in a glass of sherry. All the materials Bhould be very cold and the dish chilled. Jf Recif-e- IW .ffiWBi, "W1H you kindly telJ me bow to make turn overs, the kind our grandmothers used to make. C. L." Make a good pie paste and cut Into pieces about five inches each way. Lay in the center of each a greet spoonful of frufrt apple sauce, marmalade. Jam, or preserves; or if you prefer, raw supples sliced thin and sugar. Canned peaches make nice turnovers. FVjld the corners over upon the fruit into a triangular shape and with a jagging iron crimp down the pastry jl around to prevent the escape of Jwice. Bake to a golden brown. The famous Banbury tarts are turnovers fried Instead of baked. I well recollect eating them cooked In this way when I was a child. They are very rich, but less heavy than one might suppose. They are cooked in hot fat as one would fry doughnuts and drained Instantly in a kot oolander to rid them of enperBuous grease. Mustard Pickles. I wish to take advantage of your kind asetat ance and ask you to help me. I wish to make unutard pickles and nave them taste like those we buy in Oie stores. Will you kindly give roe directions for preparing the mustard and the kind of mustard to nee? Would you give ma a good recipe for making green tomato pickteir? M. K. I do not quite comprehend what is meant b mustard pickles unless you refer to chow-chow, India relish, and the like which contain English ground mustard. Some correspondent may make up for my ignorance. GREEN TOMATO PICKLE. Slice a gallon of unpeeled green tomatoes and six large onions and mix them together well. Then add stirring each ingredient in without breaking the tomatoes too much a cupful of brown sugar, a tablespoonful each of salt, pep per, and mustardseed, and a half tablespoonful each of ground allspice and cloves. Stew all gently until the tomatoes are clear and tender; seal in glass Jars (hot) and when the pickle is ooH wrap each Jar In thick paper to retain tLe color. Apple Strudel Recipe. I saw in the Housewife's Comer an inquiry as to apple strudel. I take pleasure in sending a recipe. APPLE STRUDEL. "One quart of flour, sift twice, make hole in center; add one-half teaspoon of salt, yolk of one egg, two teaspoons of lard or butter, and a little water. Knead well, add more water, con tinuing thus until all the flour is taken up. Knead thoroughly for at least half an hour, using a little more flour if the dough sticks; cover well and let it stand thirty minutes. Now roll ont about one-half inch thick on a lightly floured table cloth, which is spread out on a gocd sized kitchen table. Take up the strudel, pull ing it out until it is almost as thin as paper; be careful not to tear it. Always have your hands well floured. Sprinkle some melted lard or butter over it. the cut up apples with raisins, a little sugar, cinnamon, and Juice and the rind of one lemon. Catch up om end of the cloth and with a deft movement fold the edge of the strudel over; continue to roll by lifting the cloth until all is rolled up. Lift carefully into a well larded baking pan, forming it into a large S. being careful not to break; wash lightly with beaten egg or milk. Bake for thirty to forty minutes in a moderate oven. Mrs. E. H." Never having eaten apple strudel the recipe you write out so well for us seems a bit odd to roe. But it hangs together easily and is. no doubt. Just what our querist wanted. Thank you for letting us have it. Formula Sought For. I see some one asks how to make a sviske tart. X. too, would be pleased to see a recipe for the same, as I think I have eaten it. I know it Is deitoioas. It is a kind of colTee cake. Ailed with mashed prunes and whipped cream. The name, as given, must be Norwegian, meaning. I think. prunetart.' Mrs p. a." Too tantalise us by the suggestion of the delicacy! Why didn't you capture the recipe and iaciose ft In your letter? Got It won't you? Or win somebody else who knows ail about It oblige us wtm the formula? Warn Against Dyed Carpet. I was Just on the point of asking your read ers how to keep powdered sugar from getting lumpy when it appeared by the thougbrtfulness of S. B.' In return for this I would tell Mrs. E. F. G.' of my experience with dyed carpet. Don by herself or the best dyehooee it wUl be a disappointment. It will look well, bat O, the dust that sticks to It (as It does to most dyed goods) It will break yonr heart as well as your back to sweep it. Let her rrmke a rug of her carpet send it out to be dyed. It will coma back in natural colors (some bright ooler may be added) will be reversible and probably cost at z.h ratt Jl per square yard. My dyed carpet (green) la snr put down with wrong side out and still the dust adheres. Ruth W." asks about grape Juice. I made mine this fall, according to the recipe given by you. Every bottle has a large quantity of sedi ment, bitter yet sugary. Why? C. A. G." 1. Tour advice anent dyed carpets reads to me like sound sense. Dyed articled always gather dust and grrme more readily than they did In tr.e original form. i. Did you strain the grape juice throne'' dooble cheesecloth bag? Or better still, thrcuv:. flannel? That would have bold back the flr.e de posit which is now thick in the bottom of your bottles. Strain it out as yes. open each bottle, How to Sour Milk. Is there any satisfactory way of sourinf milk to use in gingerbread, cornbread, etc.? Many recipes call for sour milk and it is seldom that one has sour milk on hand. E. D. F." Stir in a teaspoonful of lemon Juice for each pint and set it in a warm place. It will soon sour and lopper." Hints Worth Remembering. "A reliable recipe for seasoning sausage: One mine of pepper and two ounces of salt for ten pounds of meat. Sprinkle the pepper and salt over the meat before grinding, and the meat will not need so much mixing after it is ground. "At this season of the year, when many hav a small quantity of cream, an easy way to churn it Is to put the cream in a half gallon fruit jar. Seal and wrap a cloth around the Jar to keep from breaking and tie to the sewing machine treadle. While doing some necessary sewing you will alo churn the cream, thereby saving time and labor. "To prevent scalloped oysters from sticking to the baking dish, grease the dish well with butter before purring In the oyster. A good way to keep the dnst from flying over the house while lifting the ashes is to place a folded newspaper over the ash pan. In sickneFs, when a hot water bottle is neces sary, a good substitute may be had in a very short time by heating two large lamp flues al ternately. When one is oool the other will be ready for instant use, thus saving the person from heating water. Esttbija R. M." Tour caption to your contribution "Hints worth remembering" is absolutely correct. Each is a desirable acquisition for our practical housewife. To Clean White Corduroy. Would you kindly publish the best way ts wash a baby's white corduroy velvot coat? It is soiled and I am afraid of spoiling It by soap and water. I hope I may some time rerurn t him 'avor. Ikxxpbhtswcsj." Fill a big pan with fine corn meal you hay heated In the oven, then mixed with salt a ta blespoonful to the quart. Put the coat into this and go through the motions of washing it as with suds. Rub every part between your hands until yon have treated all. Then shake out the coat and cover with 'res supply of meal. Leave it In this, barl4 out of sight, for two days. Then heat out th meal. Or yon may clean the corduroy with th rst quality of block magneeia, rubbing It intst every thread aod leaving it sJone tn a closed saaj for two days before beating out the powder. chapeau on the tricorne shape and fashioned of white plush is shown In todav's drawing. In its marked sim plicity lies its chief charm. Trimming it has none save the novelty aigrette of black against the indented brim on the left side. In point of numbers, there has not been a larger tea this season than the one at which Mrs. E. E. Ames and her daughter. Miss Helen Ames, were hostesses Thursday afternoon. The party was given at the Ames house on Woodlawn avenue, and those who re ceived with Mrs. Ames and h?r daugh ter, were: Mrs. Ames' sister, Mrs. Charles Manville Sawyer, of Norton, Kansas, and Mr. Ames' sister, Mrs. Steven A. Coldren, of Kansas City. Mrs. Ames' eldest daughter, Mrs. Byron Vincent Curry, of Chicago, was ex pected to attend the tea and to stand in the receiving line, but on account of a business trip her husband was obliged to take, her plans were changed, and she will not arrive to visit her people until a little later. Thja party was a debutante tea at which Miss Helen Ames was introduced to her mother's friends. She is an attractive young woman and in the few years she has lived here has become quite popu lar in the younger set. She is a gradu ate of the State University, anc a sor ority girl. Last year she graduated from Smith College. She wore, yester day, a dress of coral colored satin with a trimming of white lace on the bodice, and on the skirt the lace forming a short tunic. Around the edge of the low neck and short sleeves were bands of silver beads. Mrs. Ames, who stood first in Hn?, wore white satin with an overdress of embroidered chiffon. Mrs. Silas Porter presented the guests to the receiving line. She was gowned in green satin veil-ed In white chiffon. Mrs. Sawyer wore white satin with a drap ery of black lace, and Mrs. Coldren was dressed In pink satin with a lace'em broidered tunic. The decorations of the rooms were pretty, though there is little that can add to the attractiveness of a house finished and furnished as the Ames house is. The building is placed in large roomy grounds that are Inviting even in their coating of snow. The piazza which surrounds the house on thre? sides gives it a good deal of dignity, and inside the walls are tastefully done in soft tones of tan. brown, and green. The reception room has a handsome stairway of mahogany and white en amel. Palms and bouquets of rose were used in the payors, and in the dining room a large basket of yellow roses tied with yellow ribbon, stood in the center of the table. Miss Mary Sawyer, the daughter of Mrs. Charles Sawyer, was one of the pretty assist ing girls. She was dressed in pink satin with a lace and embroidery bolero. Miss Gertrude McClintock, who is also a Smith College graduate, was one of the helpers, and was handsomely attired in a graceful satin and chiffon gown. Mrs. T. J. Kimbrough assisted in th-9 dining room. She wore a flow ered pink silk trimmed in white lace. A guest at the party who was the center of lots of interest was Mrs. Wil fred Grenfell, the wife of Dr. Granfell, medical missionary to Labrador. Mrs. Grenfell came with Mrs. S. S. Estey. at whose home she and her husband were guests. Dr. Grenfell's work as a mis sionary, lecturer, and writer is so well known, that some curiosity was natural concerning his wife. She is a person of rather stat-sly bearing, and speaks with a pronounced English accent. She and her husband will go from here to Den ver, then to San Francisco, later to Canada, and will visit England before returning to their work in Labrador. The hours of the reception were from three to six. and several hundred guests called during that time. The Ames family came to Topeka from Holton a few yeHrs ago, and Mr. Ames is casliHr of the Central Natlonnl bank. Mrs. Ames has been active tn club work and has become well known and well liked since coming to maVe her home here. The' party yesterday was the first large social affair at which slvs has entertained her Topeka friends. An orchestra, Rtationed In the hall furnished music for the guest throughout the afternoon. Continued on next page. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S OAST" ORI A Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CAST O R I A Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C A 3 T O R I A

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