The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 22, 1912
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(tKff! f 4 4rV Ti.t9 e. If EVERYBODY 12 PAGES NEEDS IT LAS EDITION. MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, i KANSAS. JANUARY 1912 MONDAY EVENING. Cm nl br nwbw t TWO CtNTg "n trlnj and ntwutawU FIVE CENTH MELCHERIS KILLED Vice Fresident of Kock Island Loses Life in Wreck. HE WILL NOT TALK GUESTSJF REIDS. Duke of Connaught, Uncle to the Jung of England, HELD flOTMILT Y. Dr. Wiley Is Exonerated From Charge of Conspiracy A JOKE ON THE OLD GENTLEMAN. By John T. McCutcheon. Ward Speelntan Still Refuses to Discuss His Troubles. Copyrig-ht: 1312: Br John T. McCutcheon. 1 General Solicitor Peirce Is Also Among Dead. Declines to Deny Stories of His Visits New York With His Wife and Daughter. To Evade the Law, in lleport of the Committee. Wife's Extravagance. NOT FURNISHED BOND. TO STAY FOUK DAYS. UARAHAN A VICTIM IT IS SIGNED BY ALL EVERYBODY 12 PAGES j READ IT vril IT Former President Illinois Cen tral Killed in the Crash. Fast Train Strikes the Melcher Special Car. Rock Island Official Was Hurt in McFarland Wreck. Centralia, Jan. 22. Four prominent railroad men were killed at Klnmundy, 23 miles north of here, early today when an official private car, attached to the rear end of th Illinois Cen- '.V i 4 1 O. Mrk-Iicr, Vice President of Koek Island Lines. Who Was Killed in I. Wreck. Mr. Melclicr Was WeU Known In Topeka. trial train No. 25, known as the New Orleans Kxpress, was crushed between the steel coach ahead and the engine of train Xo. 3, the Panama Limited, traveling at a high rate of speed. Tlie Dead Are. .T.YMKS T. IIAIiAHAX, SR., former president of the Illinois Central. UtAXK O. MELCHKK, second vice president of the Koek Island. K. It. PEIRCK. general solicitor of the Rock Island. KI.DIUDGE K. WRKiHT, vice president or a Rock Island bridge rompany. son of Luke E. Wright, for mer secretary of war. The bodies were found near the berths they had occupied. Four other E. It. Peirce, Oeneral Solicitor of Koek Island Lines. AVho Was Killed In Illinois Central Wreck. occupants of the private ear escaped death or injury. Three Trainmen Injured. Three trainmen were injured and the passengers in the coach were badly shaken and bruised. Train No. 25 known as the New Or leans express was taking water at Klnmundy at 1 o'clock when train No! J. T. Harahan. Kormer President of Illinois Central, Killed in Wreck This Morning. S, the Panama limited, ran into the rtar ofNo. 25. Continued on Page 2.) -i ait m Jag Yw'ir? Hi f v -i,. V.V.v V.: Father in Law Returns to "Wake field Without Action. Relatives Do Not Call on Him in County Jail. For four days Topeka society has racked and scraped Ward Speelman's trouble and after being- duly sworn, the jurors in the social realm, point to Mrs. Speelman's fancy clothes as the place where much of the bank Clark's $9,000 steal really landed. To be sure Speelman himself shed money lavishly, but the gentle sex at the card clubs still carry visions of the wife's shop ing expeditions that boosted the day's sa'.e.s at the department stores. It was on these trips to the shopping dif-trict. it is paid, that Mrs. Speelman reached her pinacle of glory and made happy the girls at the dress good3 counters. Added to these were visits to the florists, the hair dressers and manicurists. Then to the theatre. Lat?r to supper. Here the ambitious waiters carried trays of the best the provided. That's the gossip of the gos sips. They tell of other days when Mrs. Speelman visited the clubs, where she mingled with wom;n whose hus band's annual income was equal to Speelman, plus two ciphers. Probably two-thirds of the stories heard on the streets are idle gossip. His wife was no doubt extravagant but not to the ex tent reported. Usually Mrs. Speelman paid cash for all of her purchases. Few monthly bills were ever s?nt by the big stores to the young bank teller and no one except Speelman and his fashionable young wife had even the faintest idea of the size of his big expense accounts. Where Speelman himself ppent his money has been told and retold. Some provision must be made for his wife. And none of Speelman's inti mate acquaintances denv he made them. His friends will" also testify that he told the truth when he told the bank officials that he "just lived the money up." But Speelman is making no apolo gies. When visited at the county jail this morning by a State Journal reDre- sentative, Speelman was sitting in his ceii. tie leaned heavily against the narrow cot in his cell as he looked tnrough the bars at a visitor. He seemed more cheerful and confident than at any time since his arrest. Tet he was not making statements for the newspapers. "There's nothing for me o tell," said Speelman to his visitor. "and nothing that I care to say to the news papers. And if I did make a state ment," intimated the young bank clerk, "you wouldn't print it the wav I gave it." Speelman was assured that this was not true and that any statement would be handled with care. Then he was told of some of the wild .stories that floated along the streets and reports of the high living of himself and his wife. "Did you find them all true." asked the young man. The visitor said he supposed many of them were false, but urg-d that Speelman should tell the story him self. "Well, I don't think I will do it. There are always a lot of Ptories; and of course the papers will print them. But I have nothing to say." A little later a waiter came from the Elks club. He carried a tray loaded with things to eat that have seldom been passed to prisoners in a Shawnee county jail. Then came visiter after visitor until it was necessary to re move the bank teller to the parlor cell on the first floor of the building. Tet in the long lines of visiters, none of Speelman's Topeka relatives have appeared. Not since his arrest have the members of the Mileham fam ilies called on the prisoner. Neither have Speelman's parents come to To peka and it is intimated that Mrs. Speelman will not come here until her husband is arraigned in April. It has been intimated that an effort is being made by members of the Elks and Country club to secure bond for Speelman. He is not a member of the Topeka club as was it first re ported and never was a member of the Topeka club. This afternoon Speelman was still without lmr.d, but some of his friends insist that he will secure his release in a few days. Dr. Andrew Pearson has returned to his home in Wakefield. LOOKS FOR STATEMENT Senator Plinn Says Koosevelt Will Is sue One Soon. Pittsburg. Jan. 22. Theodore Roosevelt Is about lo issue a statement declaring that he will become a candidate for the presidency of the United States if the nomination is offered to him, according to former State Senator Flinn, who, sev eral days ago, had a lengthy interview with tlie colonel. Senator Flinn at his Pittsburg office was in conference with several of his po litical allies. Asked regarding the de velopment of his conference with Colonel Roosevelt he said: "If the nmination is offered to Colonel Roosvelt he will accept and campaign for the office." Asked if Colonel Roosevelt had author ized a statement relative to his position. Senator Flinn said: "Mr. Roosevelt will issue a statement for himself in the near future anent his position. This will be to the effect that he will not seek the nomination but that if it is shown that he is wanted and the honor is offered to him he will feel it in cumbent upon himself to accept." Senator Flinn. asked if this wd riinnoi Roosevelt's declaration, would not assert mat be was quoting Roosevelt but reit erated his declaration that the colonel would issue his own bulletin outlining his position in the near future. "I am certain the colonel will accept the nomination, but, maybe," said the senator, "you had better wait for his own statement." The Pennsylvania organization, accord ing to Senator Flinn, will not wait for the formal declaration, but will open its cam paign for Roosevelt for nresident lm- mediately. 'Uncle has quite a bad case of play a little joke on him with this old newspaper." celt refuses to allow his name to go before the Pres idential convention." "Don't you believe it for a minute! He may say he won't run, but you mark my words ley kWg 0 "Why, he runs!" I'd bet a million dollars PRISONJOR LIFE. Sentence Is Passed on Dr. Web ster, the Wife Slayer. The Court Reviews the History of the Crime. Oregon, 111., Jan. 2 2. Dr. Harry E. Webster of Chicago today was sen tenced to life imprisonment by Judge Richard Farrand for the murder of Bessie Kent Webster last October. In pronouncing sentence the court reviewed the crime and declared that "No greater continuing punishment could be inflicted on a young, intelli gent man than to imprison him for life." The court said: "Harry E. Webster, on the twelfth day of this month, the anniversary of your bigamous marriage with Bessie Kent, you entered a plea of guilty to the charge of murder. It then be came the duty of the court to hear and consider such testimony as might be offered in mitigation or aggravation of the crime committed. None was of fered that would in the least mitigate the offense. Your attorneys have spok en their last words in your behaJf and it only remains for the court to im pose your sentence. "During the progress of your hearing two mothers sat before you, the heart of one was bleeding as memory recalled the suffering and death of her daugh ter. The heart of the other was wrung in agony because of the acts of her living son. Which of the two was suf fering the greater grief only mothers that have been down in the dark valley of gloom and despair can answer. "All this has come because of your cruel act. Surely it causes ont to think deeply of the tragedy of life and ti-.e mystery and sorrow of death. Cruel and Cowardly Crime. "The crime to which you pleaded guilty was a cruel and cowardly one. Under the name of husband you be guiled Bessie Kent to a lonely spot where In childhood days you had pass ed hours of pleasure and there in t.ne quietude you took her life. The brain that conceived and the hand that in flicted that mortal wound was trained and skilled in the use of the knife. With one blow the weapon penetra ted a vital part, and almost in an in stant her lite went out; and I believe that while the warm blood was still flowing from the gaping wound you denuded her person and nllowed her body to lie on the cold ground and the fall rains to beat on it during the long days and lonely nights for two weeks until by accident the body was found in a desoluate ravine her bed of death which you selected fcr her. "In your bill of divorce which was dismissed as a fraud and imposition on the court you sought to blacken the character of the dead. "Aside from the language in the bill so filed there is not a scintilla of evidence in the record justifying the conclusion that Bessie Kent was other than a sweet, pure girl up to the time you put your debauching hands on her. "It is the sentence of this court that you be imprisoned in the penitentiary at Joliet for and during your natural life, the first day of that imprison- Teddyphobia. We'll "By the way, "At the last minute he'll decide to accept the nomination in spite of his promise not to run. He can't fool me!" to a cent that 'You loose. ment to be in solitary confinement, the balance of the time at hard labor and that you pay the costs of prosecution." LORIMER CASE HELD UP Because of the Illness of Judge Han ecy the Senator's Counsel. Washington, Jan. 22. The Lorimer case is being held up indefinitely be cause of the illness of Judge Hanecy, Senator Lorimer's counsel. The evidence of alleged bribery of a witness which Detective W. J. Burns, claimed to have discovered will not be presented until Senator Lori mer finishes his testimony. This evi dence relates to the testimony of Charlea McGowan, a contractor of Regina, Can., concerning a conver sation which C. F. Wiehe, a brother-in-law of Edward Hines, is said to have had with William M. Burgess of Duluth about a jackpot fund being used to elect Lorimer. McGowan will be present when the committee listens to the Burns dis closures and McGowan will have an opportunity to testify again if he wishes. McGowan's father is now in Washington. Burns also is here wait ing for the hearing to resume. Ed ward Hines is expected from Chicago today. The hearings probably will not go on for several days, as Senator Lori mer is unwilling to continue without his counsel. W. J. Burns to Testify. Announcing that his evidence is now complete and that he is ready to pre sent it, Detective William .1. Burns, employed to investigate the allega tions that witnesses who appeared for the defense before the Lorimer sena torial committee were bribed, is in Washington ready to take the stand in the Lorimer investigation. "Manifestly it would be improper for me to make known any of the de tails of the evidence I am to give or the names of witnesses until I am called before the committee," said Mr. Burns. Mr. Burns was willing to go into more details as to his attack on Sam uel Gompers, president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, made in New Tork last night. "I am not through with my investi gation of the McNamara dynamite outrage." said Burns, and I will not be until I have brought to the bar of justice every man who had a hand in it." TWO SALT LAKE CASES Taken TTp by Grand Jury Investigating Dynamite Cases. Indianapolis. Jan. 22. Attempts to blow up a hotel in Salt Lake City in 19C9 and 1910 were described before the fedtral grand jury today in its investi gation of the dynamite conspiracy. The witnesses included two police officials of Salt Lake City, who were on duty when the attempts were made, a former guard at the Utah state prison, and a tailor who r-old clothins to one of tha McXaraaras. Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. 22. Forecast for Kansas Fair tonight and Tuesday; warmer in west portion tonight. Uncle, I see by this paper that Roose- Uncle. He didn't run." HE'LL STUDY FOODS Prof. Bailey to Go to Europe for Kansas. Will Try to Learn How Food Is Adulterated. Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 22. At the meeting of the board of regents held here Saturday, Professor E. H. S. Bailey, head of the department of chemistry of the University of Kansas, was granted a semester's leave of ab sence. Professor Bailey will be sent abroad to ascertain the cunning pro cesses of food adulteration which have been devised by crafty exporters of foreign fruits, oils, spices, beverages and other foods. Doctor Bailey has had almost com plete control and direction of the en forcement of the pure food laws in Kansas. All analyses of foods and sus pected eatables in Kansas have been made in the laboratories of Bailey. Early in the investigations of adultera tions it was found that the dealers of the state could not always be prosecut ed for violation of the food laws. Cer tain adulterations were found among many classes of foods which were not injected in the foods of American deal ers. Carefully traced from the whole saler to importer it was found that adulterations, preservatives, and poison coloring matter were injected into many classes of imported foods before they left the continental plantations and fisheries. Practically every imported food was found to violate the American pure food laws in some respect. Coffee and tea from the Orient were artifically treated to conceal inferior flavor or colored to hide defects. Olive oils and tropical fruits were similarly adulter ated. The dried fish from the Norwe gian fisheries were chemically pre served. Other classes of foreign foods were also treated in a like manner. To ascertain the nature of these adul terants and the method of their in troduction into the food supply. Dr. Bailey determined to make a special visit to the countries from whence the food came. DEFENSE is "BEGUN In Missouri's Ouster Suit Against the Lumber Trust. Kansas City, Jan. 22. Taking of tes timony in the suit brought by the state to oust 26 lumber companies, charged with violating the anti-trust law by forming a combination to restrain trade was resumed before Commissioner R. M. Reynolds of St. Louis here today All the state's direct evidence has been introduced and the hearing of witnesses for tne defense was begun today. Assistant Attorney General J. M. At kinson represented the state. Commis sioner Reynolds previously has taken evidence In the suit in thi3 city, St. Louis and Jefferson City. The Trip Is Said to He Purely a Social Affair. First Royal Callers Since Prince Henry of Prussia. New York, Jan. 22. The Duke of Con naught, uncle of King. George of Eng land; the Duchess of Conaught and their daughter, Princess Patricia, and their suite, reached here from Ottawa today for a social visit of four days in New Tork city. The vice regal party are the guests of Ambassador and Mrs. hitelaw Reld. The visit marks the first c of royalty to this country since the tour nearly ten years ago of Prince Henry of Prus sia. The dike and Ambassador Reid have let it become known that the visit is a purely personal one and thre is nothing even semi-official about it. The Journey of the viceregal party was made on two special cars, tho Cornwall and the York and was with out incident. The governor general and family were welcomed at the Grand Central station by Ambassador and Mrs. Reid, after which the party mo tored to tlie home of Mr. Reid on Madi son avenue Princess Patricia was the first to alight from the train and escorted on either side by Col. Lowther. military secretary to the duke and another gen tleman of the party with a lady in waiting, they hurried to an auto on Forty-second street. A minute or so Who lias Arrived in New York for a Social Visit. later tho Duchess of Connaught with a member of her party and two rail road officials stepped from the train and went to a rrotor in front of the sta tion. In the meantime the duke step ped from Vie other side of the private car and escorted by Ambassador Reid walked unobserved to an obscure en trance leading to Madison avenue where they took an automobile. Colonel Lowther said the visit of his royal highness was purely social in character and the governor general had no idea what would be done in the way of entertaining. The colonel re marked that the duke had long ago promised Ambassador Reid that he would be his guest in Xew York as soon as his government engagements permitted. He added that the return to Ottawa would be made next Thurs day afternoon. The first of the social engagements for the duke and his party was a luncheon today at the home of Ambas sador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, fol lowing which a sightseeing tour of the city in automobiles may be taken. To night there will be a dinner at the Reid house, at which Cardinal Farley, Bishop and Mrs. David H. Greer. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lincoln, Major and Mrs. Frederick D. Grant and others are in vited. A musicale will follow. In the viceregal party besides the duke, the duchess and Princess Pa tricia, whom the English affectionate ly call Princess "Pat." are Miss Pel ley, lady in waiting; Colonel Lowther and Captain Beaupre, controller of the viceregal household. The vice regal party ate breakfast at the home of Ambassador Reid imme diately on their arrival. The only guest at the breakfast was Ogden Mills Reid, son of the ambassador. RATEMUST COMTdOWN The I. C. C. on the Tarirf Rctween Minneapolis and Denver. Washington, Jan. 22. In a decision of the interstate commerce commis sion of the case of the Minneapolis association against the C. B. Q. rail road and other lines, the class freight rates between Minneapolis and Den ver, Colorado, were held today to be unreasonable. The existing first clajss rate of $1.80 a hundred nounds was ordered reduced by the commission on other classes of freight. Advances of about 10 ner cent in the transcontinental freieht rates on baled hops from North Pacific coast terminals to Atlantic seaboard destin ation effective January 24, today were suspended until May 23. All of the transcontinental and intermediate railways are defendants. Would Leave It to Tlie Hague. Paris, Jan. 22. The Italian govern ment has proposed to the French gov ernment the submission to The Hague tribunal of all the questions relative to the recent seizure of the French steamers Carthage and Manouba. A special meeting of the cabinet has been called for this evening to discuss the proposition. V" X: f Both Democrat and Republican Members Approve Finding. Any Violation of the Law Was Merely Technical. Washington, Jan. 22. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley is held "not guilty" of conspir acy to evade the law in a report fllel with the house today by the commit tee that conducted an investigation lit August Inti the charges upon which President Taft was asked to dismisa OP HAI?VEY h. tVLE Y the nation's chief cheiniyt from th governments s-vlce. Not only does the committee absolve Dr. Wiley from criticism, for the tmployment of Dr. H. II. Busby of New York aa a govern ment expert at a technt. 1 rate of per day; but it attacks In moa.Mtire'1 terms the whole administration of tho pure foo-i law, and demands legiflnt lor. to change the method in the depart ment of .agriculture by which the luw is now applied. The so-called 'Wiley Investigation arose from the cha:(?i-ji mndo in the agricultural department that Dr. Wiley. Dr. W. I). IMglow and Dr. Kehler, all of the hurenu of ch-mlntry had secrit lv arranged with Dr. H. H. Rnsby of New York s.i that the lfitter need work onlv Si) deny s in the year for an n n nii.il salary of Sl.WKl. This was dec lared to be a delibpra' evask n of tne established limit of 9 per diy. (Continued on P.Tge Two.) LIKE A SPRING DAY Weather Is Pleasant and Most of Snow lias IMwappeared. If one were not wise to the con trary he might imagine that this wer a day in spring. It is bright and pleas ant, and the mow has dina ppea red with the exception of that which hap pened to lodge in drifts or In shady places. There Is no snow on the open fields. .Sunday the temperature wan R de grees above normal, the maximum temperature which was recorded at 4 o'clock in the afternoon being 4fi de gree. The 7 a, m. temperature, was 2 7 degreeK; today at 7:30 o'clock tha reading was 27 degreea and the mer cury has Hlnce been rising eteadily. "The coldest period in winter on the average In Topeka the last 25 years," said "Sunny" Flora today, "Hi from January 9 to 21. The tempera ture in February averages 4 deicreen above that of January, but we often have the coldeot days in February, However, there is not so much likeli hood of long continued cold weather. "The run now rlfes six minutes earlier and sets 30 minutes later than at Christmas time, so that means that 3fi minute:; have been added to th day. We'll probably have some mor cold weather before the winter 1 over, but the fact that we have al most completely got rid of the snow lessens th" chances for long continue'! cold weather." The forecast for tomorrow read: "Fair tonisht and Tuesday; warmer In the west portion of the siato tonight." The shippers' forecast: "Prelect 3 hour shipments north and west nicatnst temperature of 24 degrees; south and east against 32 degrees." It is expected that the minimum temperature tomorrow in Topeka will be about 30 degrees. "This Is the sort of weather they call In the east sugar making weath er." remarked the local weather man. This is the warmest day since De cember 13. The temperature Is aver aging 1 1 desrrees above normal for this date. The wind Is blowing 10 miles an hour from the west. "The weather ninp shows no had weather anywhere In the 1'niteil Ptates," stated the local observer. Th hourlv refidir'.as: 7 o'clock 2911 o'clock 40 8 o'clock 2912 o'clock 41 9 o'clock 32! 1 o'clock 44 10 o'clock 37' 2 o'clock 44 HE STOPS GAMBLING Governor Pothler Tkh Not Walt for Police to Act. Newport, R. I., Jan. 22. Under orders coming iMreMly from fl-jvernor Pothier all the gambling places of Newport have been closed. The announcement of the trovernor's action caused a Ftir here, as he went over the heads of the local police. Id action bfing similar to that which h took at Narragansett last year.
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 22, 1912 DIG SH0W1S OPEN Hidwinter Exposition Begins With Fair Attendance. Arrest of Workmen Does Not i Cause Delay. MORE OF LABOR ROW. Vaudeville Program Pleases the First Afternoon Crowd. Slore and Prettier Booths Than Last Year. The Kansas Midwinter exposition is now ope a. The booths are more elabor ate than before, and the vaudeville show is better than in 1911. There is the promise of a still better performance next week. Notwithstanding the fact that a num ber of electri. ians working at the Audi torium Sunday were arrested on a charge of violation of the Sunday la bor law, some strenuous efforts were put in on the part of E. P. Jordan and His men after midnight an- Dy M0 o'clock this morning the electrical in stallation was practicably completed. Those arrested included John V or ley, secretary of the Midwinter expo sition. ai.d JS. P. Jordan. H. B. Howard and jack Mercer, contractors, asiae from a number of electricians and ianitors of the Auditorium. Arrest "Just a Little Spice.' "It was Just a little spice to make things interesting," said Secretary YV or lov today. "The men started in to work at 12 o'clock last night .and the electrical work was completed by 50 o'clock this morning. We nave em lod counsel and the Judge postpon ed trial until February 6 after the fair iS-A toy vas sent over to the church at 11:20 o'clock Sunday morning I take it Dy the uMon men-to tell me that there was serious trouble on at the Auditorium," said H. B. Howard today-One of the police sergeants met me in the Auditorium office and told ml to go down to the police station with the rest of the bunch. The arrests were made on complaint of J J. Oarnahan a union man. "The electrical workers' union had nothing to do with the proceedings, said J. W. Keele, a member of the union "The men who pushed the ease are the men Mr. Howard discrim inated against. They are members of the union, but are acting as individ uals." Part of the Howard Fight, The whole difficulty arose from bit ter enmity of long standing between the union electricians and Howard, who refused to sign a contract which would compel him to discharge all non-union men in his employ. and hire only members of the union. The union men have told Howard that thev would fight him to a finish. But about the Midwinter. The head liner is an act by the Ernest Alvo trio. It is an aerial bar performance and the men who do stunts are experts in their line, having been connected with Ringling Bros, for 14 years. There is considerable comedy in the act. "When we finish this engagement We expect to go to Central and South America," said Ernest Alvo today. We want to go away from the cold weather We have been dom' this work all our lives, and we are now booked for two years ahead. The Vaudeville Program. Kronaman Brothers put on dfr act that caused much nieriment. ine two men within a huge woman s cos tume went through with performances rather out of the ordinary. Bartelli and Murphy gave their specialty "Bumps and Falls. The Luigi Picaro troupe, which is Just from New York, does whirlwind acro batic stunts. Casey and Swat Milligram In their pantomime "Play Ball, cause considerable mirth. Upon entrance to the auditorium one is attracted immediately to the booth of the Peet Bros Manufac turing Co.. of Kansas City. Mo., where there is a machine run and lighted iv. .loMriitv that makes mountains. fo to speak of soap bubbles. Other conspicuous booths in the central por tion of the building are those of Bour Coffee Co. or Kansas -uj i i f Omaha. There were a few of the booths that -were not absolutely in tact early this nffrnoon. so a general description of the booths will not be made until later. The International (.orressjuimcu school has had built an imitation school house that attracts notice, and the Knights and Ladies of Security booth is. in the form of an imitation stone building. The IT. T. C. organization is main taining four booths. One of them is a eh-?ck stand; and at another a light lunch and hot drinks may be had. All Manner of Samples. Post card pictures are being taken In one corner of the hall, and there are various other attractions arranged ry local firms. All manner of samples are being passed out and at many booths demonstrations are b-?lng made. The Davis Mercantile Co. is serving gelatine with cream, the Ridenour Baker Co. from their model kitchen are handing out coffee, and there ar-s other places where free refreshments may be had.. Macaroni, for example Is being served in various styles at the booth of tha Minnesota Macaroni Co. TV M. Barnes, at the head of the Chi cago firm that booked the amusement features Is in the city and seems to be taking a personal Interest in giving the people of Topeka good shows. Accord ing to Mr. Barnes he will go from here to San Francisco having the amuse ment contract for the 1915 exposition in that city. HELD HOT GUILTY. (Continued from Page l. "We find from the evidence that the charges of conspiracy have not been established," says the commute re port, "but cn the other hand that the accused official!' were actuated through out solely by a desire to procure for the bureau cf chemistry an able as sistant in the person of Dr. H. H. Rusby vnder terms and conditions which those officials believed to be in entire accord with the law. regulations and practice of the department of ag riculture. It Is Unanimous. The report of the committee on ex penditures in the agricultural depart ment !s signed by all of the members Democrats and Republicans alike. It declares that Dr. Wiley and his as sociates communicated th8 facts of Dr. B.Ufcby'8 employment fully to Secretary Wilson. It holds, however, that the contract for the employment of Dr. Rusby is technically illegal, and re commends that congress make specific provision for the employment of ex- perts in the agricultural department, i The administration or tne pure food law began with a policy of nego tiation and compromise between the secretary and the purveyors of our na tional food supplies," declares the committee in its report. "Your commltee does not question the motives or the sincerity of the se cretary of agriculture whose long ser vice at the head of the department of agriculture has been a signal service to the American people. From the be ginning, however, the honorable sec retary has apparently assumed that his duties in the proper enforcement of the pure food law are judicial in character, whereas in fact, they are wholly administrative and ministerial. "This misconstruction of the law is fundamental, and has resulted in a complex organization within the de partment of agriculture and in the creation of offices and boards to which have been given through execu tive orders, power to overrule or annul the findings of the bureau of chem istry." The committee makes a sweeping criticism of the methods of the depart ment. It recommends that the chief of the bureau be given the full power which the law supposes him to have, over all employees of the bureau, that the board of food and drug inspection be made up entirely from within the bureau of chemistry and that the pow er of the solicitor to pass upon the finding of the bureau of chemistry be withdrawn. The Reinsen Board. The Remsen referee board is said to be legally constituted, but its activities as supervising power over the bu reau of chemistry are declared to be outside the law. This board was cre ated by President Roosevelt and is composed of eminent chemists, to whom are referred debated questions arising under the pure food law. It reversed Dr. Wiley's findings on benzoate of soda and has before it other questions which the committee declares properly belong to the bureau of chemistry. "The secretary of agriculture seems to have regarded the findings of this board as conclusive In all cases over the opinions and findings of the bu reau of chemistry, the tribunal which by express terms of statute is vested with authority to determine the ques tion of adulteration and misbranding within the meaning of the act," says the report. The committee declares the board should not be continued under the simple authority of an executive order to exercise such control over the pure food law. "If such board he deemed necessary or advisable m tne proper adminis tration of pure food law, its authority should be expressly conferred, its scope and jurisdiction clearly defined and the effect of its decision declared by act of congress," says the com mittee. 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 Uie lowest point recorded last night: Stations High. LOW. 32 22 24 20 28 36 Amarillu. Tex 64 Boise, Idaho 36 Boston, Mass o4 Buffalo, N. Y 22 Calgary, Alb 40 Charleston. S. C 68 Chicago 111 S3 Concordia, Kan Corpus Christi, Tex. 56 Denver, Col 60 Des Moines la. 36 Dodge City, Kan 3S Duluth, Minn 14 Durango, Col 4S Edmonton, Alb Fort Worth, Tex 62 Galveston, Tex 52 Havre, Mont. 40 Helena, Mont 46 Jacksonville, Fla. 60 Kamloops, B. C Kansas City, Mo 44 Little Rock. Ark 56 Louisville, Ky T. 40 Modena, Utah 46 New Orleans, La. 56 New York, N. Y 34 North Platte, Neb 3S Oklahoma Okla. 52 Omaha, Neb 40 Phoenix, Ariz 74 Pittsburg, Pa 28 Portland. Ore 52 Prince Albert, Sas Rapid City, S. D 50 Roswell, N. M 58 St. Joseph, Mo 44 St- Louis, Mo 60 St. Paul. Minn Pi Salt Lake, Utah 46 San Diego, Cal 82 San Francisco, Cal 64 Seattle. Wash 5S 5o 32 IS 12 0 IS 36 42 46 26 26 42 20 33 36 36 IS 40 28 18 36 30 42 26 40 fi 32 20 2S 3S 12 30 54 60 44 16 2s 52 24 29 26 30 22 Sheridan. Wyo. 44 32 62 26 46 42 44 2S 54 Swift Current, Assin. Tampa, Fla Toledo, Ohio Topeka Kan Washington, D. C. Wichita, Kan Williston, N. D Winnemucca, Nev. Winnipeg, Man Sign minus Indicates below zero. T. B. JENNINGS, Sectional Director. HOW TOPEKA BOY "ACTED." He Describes His Experience as "Supe" at Majestic. A Topeka man who "acted" Satur day night for the first time in his life in the garden scene in "The Pit," pre sented by North Bros, at the Majestic last week, describes his experience as follows: "Having relatives in the theatrical profession and having mixed consider ably with stage people, I have always been just dying to go on the stage, but was too bashful to let on. All last week I hung around the Majestic try ing to get up courage to ask Harry North to let me take part, but not until Saturday night could I get up my nerve sufficiently. "Then I said that I would like to see how the audience looked from be hind the footlights. I hadn't been be hind the F. L. since I graduated from the high school in a small town, when I delivered an oration on "The Crying Needs of the Nation in These Strenu ous Times.' Well, Mr. North told me to be one of the guests at the garden party in the second act of the play. I was so badly scared as I stood In the wings with the rest of the 'extras' or 'stipes' (doesn't that sound profes sional?) that my knees shook. Then, before I knew it, some one had shoved me c.i the stage. I was nearly blind ed by the footlights and the audience was just one blur of faces. I couldn't find a vacant chair, so sat down on the step of the little canvas house until Mr. North came up as naturally as in real life and said: "Glad to have you here." Then he shook hands ana pointed me to an unoccup'ed seat. I tried to act natural and looked at the audience, but do you know I couldn't recognize any of my friends. But it's great to be an actor. I had no idea It took so much talent before. SHESUESLAVYERS North Topeka Attorneys May Be Disbarred. Mrs. Hylt Brings Action to Re cover Her Home. SHE SIGNED A DEED Says She Thought It Was Only a Contract to Sell. J. J. KinjT. One Of Accused, SayS l. v. -w ,i It's All a Mistake. Disbarment proceedings may follow an investigation by the Shawsee Coun ty Bar association of the alleged un professional dealings of King Lein bach, North Topeka attorneys. Charges against the lawyers were made today m a suit in the district court by Anna Hylt, who alleges that the men induc ed her to sign a warranty deed to her home at Jelterson and Fairchild streets under tho representation that she was signing a ccntract to sell the property. These charges are to be laid before the investigating committee of bar association. If they are proven to the satisfaction of the committee, disbar ment proceedings may be fl ed against both J. J. King and C. A. Leinbach, the members of the law firm. It is charged by Mrs. Hylt that Lein bach visited her in October and in duced her to list her property f or fate. The woman asked $1,300 for the place. After examining the woman s abstract-, Leinbach took C. S. Johnso.i to visit the woman ai.d terms of the sale were agreed on. Mrs. Hylt was told to come to King Leinbach's omce Octooer 23. She visited the office and was told to return two cays later, which she did. and Took Half Her Money. On that day, the woman signed cer tain papers, which she says she believ ed were contracts for the sate of her home. Then $100 was paid her and she gave Leinbach $50, which was the com mission for the sale of the PrPertj-. Mrs. Hylt is 65 years old. She is un familiar with business methods and knew nothing of legal d jcuments. buch papers as were given, her were signed and she believed she had closed the deal. Then she left the office. Later she met C. D. Myers, to whom she exhibited her 'contract." Myers re formed her that instead of a contract with Johnszm, she held a second mort gage to her own property for $1,400 Then Mvers recalled that he Mmsell had loaned $400 on the property to which Mrs. Hylt had unknowingly giv en Johnson a warranty deed. Myors was given a first mortgage on the pro perty and Johnson had been paid the $400 Th" deed and mortgage were re corded at the register of deeds office and the Myers' lien stood against the aged woman s home. When an effort was made to Tm, ho could not be found locate Lein- bach told the woman that the man was a stranger and tnat ine but a few times. Johnson Leinbach's Partner. Since that time, Mrs. Hylt avers, she has learned that Johnson was a partner wtth Leinbach in the real estate business in McAlester, Okla., before the latter came to Topeka. Now, it is that Johnson and the members of the lesal firm schemed to defraud the wo man of her property and that after se S.g the o loan on the deed, the money was divided among the three men. The woman now asks the court to set aside the deed and mortgage and restore her home. When asked today concerning the af fair J J King denied that he had been I party to the8 transaction. He declared that he knew nothing of the man John son, did not known that his partner was once in business with the man, or where Johnson can now be found. Johnson's Arrest I rged. King admitted that Mrs. Hylt came to his office with her troubles some me aso It is also admitted by King that he save the woman his personal note for $luu and that he took a receipt from her which released him from any further obligation in the matter He says tha. Leinbach gave Mrs. Hylt his note for $3 and subsequent to this transaction the counv attorney's office was urged to t. 'rorrTit for Johnson's arrest. "Rather than have my name mixed up in the affair," said King in explaining his position in the matter. "I gave Mrs. Hy t mv note for $100 and am ready to pay it today or any time. I had nothing to da with the. transaction and the people wno know me have faith in my honesty and business dealing." Now He'll "Investigate." Then King Insisted that if the transac tion with the Hylt woman had been ir regular, that he would Investigate the af- fa"Just as soon as a car can take me," said King, as he left the office of H?-zen Gaw. who filed the suit for Mrs. Hylt, "iust that soon Leinbach leaves my of fice. We have never really been partners anyhow," declared the North Topeka man "and Leinbach has worked on a commission. He came here as a sort or curb stone real estate agent and I took him because he seemed to be a clever young fellow and straight.' King was asked why he had given ttse woman the $100 note when he was not a party to the transaction. To this ques tion, he only stated that he did not want to become a party to any scandal and gave her the money rather than be mixed up in future trouble. The firm of King Leinbach was etablishied several months ago. Tnoy have dabbled in real estate, loans and in surance and practiced law. King at terded the Topeka schools and several years ago established the business in North Topeka. Since Leinbach came here from' Oklahoma, several months ago, manv of their legul actions have been handled under the rirm name. MELCHER IS KILLED. (Continued from Page One.) The killed were In the private car of Mr. Melcher. Their bodies were found the berths they h.od occupied. Four occupants of the private car of Mr. Melcher, escaped death or Injury. These are Byron B. Curry, private, sec retary of Vice President Melcher, Thomas B. Busbee. attorney for the Rock Island for the states of Arkan sas and Louisiana, and two nego por- tr! The engine of No. 3 plowed its way through the private car which was at tached to No. 25 and was stopped by thn steel coaches immediately preceding. The impact shoved the standing train for a distance aown tne tracks, al though its brakes were locked. Trainmen Silently Injured. The engineer and fireman of the lim ited were slightly injured but were able to take the train south as soon as the wreckage was cleared away. Relief trains left here soon after the wreck intending to fetch the injured and dead to Centralia. The limited carried sleeping cars only and withstood the terrific smash. The express was composed cf coaches, built of steel. The trains were due to pass south of Centralia but because of No. 25 being late, No. 3 met it at Kin mundy. It is said no flagman went back from No. 25. Harahan recently retired from the presidency of the Illinois Central road on a. pension. Melcher lived at- Win netka, 111., and Peirce in -.-.ghland Park, III., a suburb of Chicago. Mr. Wright resided in Memphis. Residents of Kinmundy, a town of 1,500 inhabit ants, opened their doors to succor the injured soon after the news spread of the wreck. The crashing of the en gine into the private car was heard for several blocks. Engineer Robert Stuart and Fire man Vert of the limited were the two tralnmene Injured. Both are from Champaign and were taken to their homes. Stuart was cut and bruised and Vert's leg was broken. The bodies of the dead were taken through there this morning to Chicago. Grant Seathering, deputy coroner of Marion rauntv. will nrps rto at ttie inauest. The cause of the wreck is ascribed to scarcity of water along the road. A special order makes it necessary for all trains to take water at Kinmundy and a freight train that took water before the express, held the express longer than customary. Stuart and Vert were a freight crew lately put on a passenger train. It is believed they forgot the order for all trains to take water. The flagman of No. 25 did not have time to flag the limited. Tower Man Is Blamed. Th-2 accident occurred half a block north of the Kinmundy depot. The engine of the limited went half way through the private car, splintering it. The four men who escaped were in the front of the car and crawled through th-s openings made by the engine. The bodies of the four dead were mutilated. The top of the head of Mr. Harahan was torn off. The arms of most of the victims were torn off and a doctor re ported the legs are held on by shreds. Mr. Harahan's body was perhaps mu tilated more than the others. The responsibility for the wreck was placed on the tower man at Edgewood by Henry J. Broecker, flagman of train No. 25 at the inquest which began here shortly before noon. He testified the towerman should have blocked No. 3. for ten minutes. The inquest probably will be continued to allow the injured trainmen who were taken to Cham paign to testify. The fireman of No. 25, Jesse Gilbert, who was standing on the tender, was thrown to the ground and suffered internal injuries. The two trains were combined after the wreckage was cleared away and proceeded south. Brocker testified at the Inquest that he left his car and went to flag the other train. "I ran back with my white and red lantern." he testified, "and gave En gineer Stuart the signals. He answered by whistling showing that he caught the signals but it seemed to be too late for him to stop his engine." The responsibility for the wreck, ac cording to the deputy coroner lies be tween Broecker and the engineer of the limited. Bodies Horribly Mutilated. The bodies of the dead were horri bly mutilated, the top of Mr. Hara han's head being torn off. Most of the victims lost their arms. The bodies of three victims were taken to Chicago, where they lived. Mr. Wright's body was forwarded to Memphis. At a coroner's inquest the flagman, Henry Broecker of Chicago, f fv,o ovnrpss. testified Ire went back and flagged the limited and received an answer that his signal had been observed. A minute later the train crashed into the express, which was takiVig water. The flagman also testified that in his opinion the towerman at Edgewood failed to hold No. 3 a sufficient length of time. All trains are under orders to stop a"t Kinmundy for water. Three trainmen. Engineer Robert Stuart and Fireman C. V. Bert of the limited, and Fireman Jesse Gilbert of the -express, were Injured. The engine of No. 3 ploughed its way through the private car, which it de molished. Sketch of Mr. Peirce. Chicago, Jan. 22. E. B. Peirce wa3 born in Mississippi 40 yaars ago. He received his education in his native state and began the practice of law In Little Rock, Ark. For several years he was assistant to the general counsel for the Choctaw, Oklahoma Gulf railroad which in 1902 was taken ovr by the Rock Island system. Mr. Peirce immediately entered the law depart ment of the Rock Island system being made commerce counsel In 1907. Two y?ars ago he became general solicitor. He was a memher of the University and TTnion league clubs. His home was in Winnetka. He is survived by a widow, one son and a daughter. From Water Boy to President. James T. Harahan was born at Low ell, Mass., in 1843. He worked his way in the railroad world from water boy to president. His first employment was with the Orange Alexandria railroad at Alexandria. Va. Subsequently ne was with the Nashville Decatur rail road at Nashville, Tenn.. with which he held various positions. He then became superintendent of the Louisiana Northern railroad, with headquarters at New Orleans. For many years he was general man ager of the Illinois Central railroad, being made its president in November, 1906. after the late E. H. Harriman had secured control, succeeding Stuyvesant Fish. He was retired by the Illinois Central on a pension a few months ago. He was succeeded as president by C. H. Markham. E. B. Feirc-a was general solicitor of the Rock Island, with offices In the Rock Island station In this city. His home was in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago. Mr. Melcher's Career. Frank Otis Melcher, who was bom In Maine In 1S64 and graduated from Tuft's college in 1887 entered the rail way service as an assistant In th- en gineers corps of the Pittsburg railway. He was successively instrument man, assistant engineer, chief engineer, divi sion superintendent and general super intendent of this line.He entered the ser vice of the Rock Island system in 1900. first as superintendent of the Illinois division and then as general superin tendent of the Choctaw district and later as general manasrer of the central and northern districts. He was made vice president several years ago. His home in recent years has been at Win netka, 111. The Harahan 'Family. Chicago, Jan. 22. James T. Harahan, Jr., whose father wbs ki"e "t Cntra. lia, is confined in St. Luke's hospital h-sre. His arm was broken recently. Acting under orders of his physician authorities have not notified him of his father's death. W. J- Harahan, an other son. who is vice -resident of the ETie with offices in New York was notified and he is now on his way to Chicago. Mrs. Harahan Is at the family home here. Her maiden name was Miss Marv Mallory and her home was In Mem phis. Mr. Harahan was married twife. Two daughters, Mrs. Mary NIcol and Mrs. A. N. Dale, both of whom are widows, now are in Paris. The Hairlman-Flsh Fight. New York, Jan. 22. James T. Har- WHEAT EASES UP. Weather in theArgentine Favors the Late Harvest. i World Shipments Large and Free Selling in Australia. A DECLINE 15 C01i. Follows Lively Marketing by the 1 Commission Houses. Big Hun of Hogs Sends Packers to Bear Side. Chicago, Jan. 22. WHEAT Hot, dry weather in the Argentine favoring the late harvest and the crop movement had a bearish effect today on the price of Wheat. World shinmpnta wpr lurtrer: there were reports of free offerings from Australia ana lioeral domestic receipts were reported. Initial transactions were c to c lower. May started at $1.00 to $1.0u, a 1-JS of c to ?c, touched $1.00 and reacted to $1.00fti 1.00. After some further dip a stronger tone developed owing to the decrease in the visible supply being larger than expected, but the influence did not last. Closing prices were nervous with May c net higher at $3.00. CORN Lively selling by commission houses eased off the corn market. May opened c down to c up at 66c to 66c, and declined to 66',4c. The market rallied with wheat but weak ened on account of a big gain in primary receipts. Closing figures were steady with May c net lower at 66c. OATS Oats siiowed a rather stubborn undertone. May started a sixteenth off to a shade advance at 49?i4ac to 49 50c and held around 49T4c. PROVISIONS A big run of hogs sent packers to the bear side of provisions. First sales were a shade to 10c lower with May at $16.00 to $16.05 for pork, $9.30 to $9.32 for lard and $8.60 for ribs. RYK No. 2, 95c. BARLEY 90cft$1.37. TIMOTHY $12.00S-15.C0. CLOVER $15. 00S 22.00. Cliicago Grain Market. Chicago, Jan. 22. Close Open High Low Today Sat. WHEAT Jan. 96 9614 May ..100- 101 '4 100i-100 1004 July ..94- 95 94 94-95 95V Sept 93Mi 93M. SZ' 93Vi CORN' Jan 62 63 ahan came to the presidency of the Illi nois Central railroad in 1906 through the influence of E. H. Herriman, who had, after a long- fight, succeeded in ousting Stuyvesant Fish from the presidency. That fight had its beginning late In 1903, according to the late E. H. Har riman, who, testifying before the in terstate commerce commission, alleged Fish had been using his position as president of the Illinois Central "to further his own personal interests." Mr. Fish succeeded in retaining the offics of the presidency of the Illinois Central for a time, but Mr. Harriman continued his warfare against him. In 1906 Mr. Fish was superseded by Mr. Harahan as head of the Illinois Cen tra, but the fight continued when Mr. Fish sought through the courts to en join the Harriman Interests from vot ing Illinois Central stock held by the Uni .i Pacific, the Railway Securities company and the Mutual Life Insur ance company. Judge Ball In Chicago later dissolved a temporary Injunction granted Mr. Fish and that ended the Harriman-Fish war. MEIiCHER AND PEIKCE HERE. Former Was Hurt Last Summer in Mc Fiirlniid Wreck. The death of F. O. Melcher, vice president of the Rock Island Lines, and E. B. Peirce, general solicitor, came as a shock to railroad men In Topeka. Both Mr. Peirce and Mr. Melcher had been in this city scores of titles In connection with their duties witl- the general second district head quarters of the Rock Island in Topeka. They were known intimately by sev eral Santa Fe officials and by Topeka business men. In their death the Rock Island Lines recoiva a blow ip two of the leading departments the operating and the legal. As head of the operating de partment. Vice President Melcher had built up a wonderful organization. He had worked out the three-district plan, giving the road three general head quarters in different parts of the coun try with Topeka as one of them. He discovered that the way to run a rail road was to put men in charge at the grass roots and not try to lead the operation from the mahogany desks at Chicago. It was a little less than a year ago that Mr. Melcher placed this organi zation in working order. Since that time the road has progressed by strides and the operating department never was in better shape. The super vision has been rigid and the opera tion has been economical. The Rock Island was feeling so elated over the excellent management that many mil lions in bonds have been sold and next year was to have been a banner sea son In improvements and betterments. Until a few years ago Mr. Peirce was commerce counsel of the road. He was appointed general solicitor and as head of the legal work has followed the success of Mr. Melcher In making a close formation of his department heads. At the head of Mr. Melcher's work in Topeka is A. E. Sweet, general man ager of the second district. Mr. Sweet heads the second district of the road In this city and is one of the right hand men of the operating department who has assisted in building up the line. In the law department M. A. Low, general attorney of Topeka, car ries out the policies and the sruccess of the Peirce administration. Melcher Hurt in McFarland Wreck. Vice President Melcher has been unfortunate in a number of railway accidents in the last few years. A number of times he has been in a wreck or near wreck and has escaped miraculously. Only last summer his private car jumped the track near Mc Farland and a number of officials were scratched and bruised. Mr. Melcher was In the same car this morning his private business car that seems to have carried a hoodoo with it. Mr. Melcher was popular with of ficials and men as head of the operat ing department. He was a diplomat in his dealings with railroad business and has been considered one of the strong railroad heads In the country. He was written many Interesting arti cles on railway operation. Naturally, railway officials decline to discuss a probable successor to Mr. Melcher and Mr. Peirce. Whether the new vice president will be taken from the assistant rank or from the general manager trio or from another source, no one knowsr or pretends to know at thla time. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourselves Best Result Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own Office, at Chicago, So. St. Jeprv Ro On. ha. Denrer. Sioux City. So. St. Paul.. E. Buffalo. E. faU Louts and Fort Worth. May 66- 66 66 66 66 Julv 66- 66 65 65-66 6- Sept 66- 66 66 66 66 OATS Jan 49 49 May 49- 49-50 49 49 49 July 451js 45 45- 45- 458 Sept 40- 40- 408 40 40H PORK Jan. ..15.52 15.50 15.50 May ..16.05 16.05 16.00 16.05 16.10 July ..16.20 16.25 16.17 16.20 16.25 LARD Jan. 9.07 9.07 9.05 9.05 9.07 Slay 9.32 9.32 9.30 9.32 9.33 July 9.45 9.45 9.45 9.42 9.47 Sept 9.55 9.60 RIBS Jan 8.40 8.42 May 8.60 8.65 8.60 8.62 8.65 July 8.67 8.70 8.67 8.67 8.70 Katiav. Citj I'ronuic Market. Kansas City, Jan. 22. WH EAT Cash Market steady. No. 2 hard, $l.V3t(1.08; No. is, $1.01ijjl.0b; No. 2 red, 99'&99e: No. 3, 97&9SC. CORN Market unchanged to c higher. No. 2 mixed, 6!at⁣ No. 3, 66&to6c; No. 2 white, W&Uvjc; No. 3. 674i67ic. OATS Market steady. No. 2 white, 51 &52c; No. 2 mixed, 4a&6lc. RYK 9597c. HAY Market steady to 50c lower. Choice timothy, $21.0022.00; choice prairie, $14.003'14.50. BUTTER Creamery, 40c; firsts, 38c; seconds, 36c; packing stock, 24Vc EGrGS Extras, 33c; firsts, 3ic; seconds, 22 c. CLOSE: WHEAT May, $1.00& 1.00 bid; July, 93i(393c bid. CORN May, 6t66c bid; July, 66c sellers. Clilcaffo l'ronuiv Mnrltp? Chicago, Jan. 22. BUTTER Market easier. Creameries, 3037e; dairies, 26 34c. EGGS Market steady. Receipts, 3,431 cases; at mark, cases included, 19&2bc; ordinary firsts, 27(&2ac; firsts, 31S'32c. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 16 E'17c; Twins, ltiS16c; Young America. 16rg'17c; Long Horns, 16;Val7c. POTATOES Market weak. Receipts, 240 cars. Fair to good, 95c!6$1.00. POULTRY Market firm. Turkeys, 13 18c; chickens, ll(ji12c; springs, 11 c. VliAL Market steady. 7120. XeV York Produce Market. New York, Jan. 22. BUTTER Market unsettled. Creamery specials, 38c. CHEESE Market firm. EGGS Market steady. Fresh gathered extras, 3637; western gathered white, 35 38c. POULTRY Dressed, quiet and easy; western chickens, 13!&19c; fowls, 13Via 17c; turkeys, 12!a,21c. Live market badly demoralized; prices weak. Chickens, 11 &12c; fowls, 1213c; turkeys, lS16c Xew York Stock Market. Wall St., New York, Jan. 22. STOCKS The combined effects of realizing sale and of low prices of Americans in London were sufficient, during the morning trad ing on the stock market to force stocks to a lower level the bidding up of Reading and the strength of a few minor stocks exerted no apparent lnfluenca although the list held steadier as the day ad vanced. Prices weakened and the lowest figures 01 the morning were regarded in the speculative favorites. United States Ste- 1 gave way a point and declines of a similar amount were made In some other issues. Reading broke to fractionally be low Saturday's closing and there was a decided reaction also in some of the earlier strong stocks, including the Hill group and the local tractions. A majority of the active stocks opened lower today. Union Pacific, Amalgamat ed Copper and General Electric which lost were the heaviest. American Smelting and Lehigh Valley lost American Steel Foundry rose 1 and Denver and Rio Grande preferred Reading was marked up in a brisk man ner to 159 but the movement had only a temporary steadying effect on the mar ket. Traders contented that selling or ders were being executed elsewhere un der coveh of the movement in Reading and these offerings Eoon became abundant enough to weaken the whole list material ly. Union Pacific and Lehigh Valley de clined a point under Saturday's closing and various other stocks lost large frac tions. Reading reacted a point. Union Pacific was again under notis able pressure and Lehigh Valley showed the effects of realizing after its extended rise. The undertone became better after 11 o'clock and activity Increased as prices advanced. Reading and the Hill stocks showed strength but the remainder of the active list ruled generally slightly below last week's closing figures. The market showed little life. Stocks in which speculation is never active fell sharply 011 small sales. Aside from the Hill issues most of the leaders were quot ed well under Saturday's final prices with the price averages about a point. Union Pacific, Lehigh Valley, United States Steel, Copper and American Smelting. .Vpw York Moncj Market. New York, Jan. 22. MONEY Money on call steady, 2&2 per cent; ruling rate, 2 per cent; closing bid 2 per cent; of fered at 2 per cent. Time loans, Bteady; 60 days, 22 per cent; 90 days, 2 per cent; 6 months, 3 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 334 per cent. Sterling exchange firm with actual busi ness in bankers' bills at $4.84 for rijty day bills and ai $4.87.25 for demand. Com nnroial bills. SILVER Bar silver, 57c; Mexican dol lars, 47c. BOJsJfl Government bonds, easy; rail road bonds, firm. New York Sugar Market. New York, Jan. 22. SUGAR Raw, firm; Muscovado, 89 test, $3.95; centrifugal, 96 test, $4.45; molasses, 89 test, $3.70. Refined, steady. St. Joe Live Stock Market. St. Joe, Jan. 22. CATTLE Receipt 3,000. Market steady to 10c lower. Steers, $4.50-33.00; cows and heifers, $3.25fe7.0u; calves, $4.50S8.5O. HOGS Receipts 14.000. Market lower. Top, $6.20; bulk of sales, $5.86.10. SHEEP Receipts 1,800. Market slow. Lambs, $5.0C36.75. Kansas City Live stock Sale. The following sales wers mam ttu morning at the Stock Yara. Kansm City, and reported over long distance telephone direct to th& State Journal by Clay, Robinson Co., Uvo stock com mission merchants, with offices at all markets-i Kansas City, Jan. 22. Receipts 12,000 head. Market 10c lower. HOGS Receipts 16,000 head. Market 10o lower. Bulk of sales, $5.76'8.10; top, $6.15. SHEEP Reecipts 7,000 head. Market 10c to 15c higher. Lambs, $6.55; ewes, $3-90. KILU.NU STKi-RS. No. Wv Price.! No. Wi 40 1333 $7.30 16 998 $5.16 13 1178 6.70 14 972 6.50 COWS AND KIFER.- 19... 20... 4... 62... 26... 48... 670 8.80 2 810 38 962 3.10 5.25 1068 4.80 640 6.25 BTOCKEHS XD FEEDFRi 798 8nl 400 5.05 1 40 698 4.90 J 1 810 4.60 I CALVES. 8.00 I 1 330 4.75 5.50 100 4.00 TOMORROW i u Q 0 o Of o o Q o o .8 Pork and Beans Van Cmp regular 15c six 1 lc Can 31.30 Doz. 100 lbs. Topeka Club Cof fee goes out of our store every day at 30c pound. No better coffee can be bought at any price. WM. GREEN &SON 3 10 376 4.00 I 2 150 6.50 BULLS. 3 1260 4.50 I 3 1620 5.00 1 790 4.00 I HOGS. 38 190 6.90 I 47 254 6 10 68 2S3 6.15 I 16 72 4.50 Knnsn City Live Stork MnrUet Kansas City, Jan. 22 CATTLE Receipts 12,000, including 700 southerns. Market steady to 10c lower. Native steers, JS.SfrW 8.00; southern steers, $1.75,46.30; southern cows and heifers. $.i.0iyi'6.00; native cons and heifers, $3.006.50; mockers and feed ers, $4.0u'g6.00; hulls, $3.6"V5.60; calve. $4.5Vf;8.50; western steers, $4.75 jj7 00; west ern cows, $3.00i?j6.25. HOGS Receipts 16,X0. Market 10c lower. Bulk of sales, $5.8Ku6.15; heavy, 6.HVf 20; packers and butchers, $5.906.15; lights. $5.6K,i.0O: pigs, $4.00-114.25. SHEEP Receipts 7.0io. Market steady to strong. Muttons, $;.5(Ki4.50; lambs, $.r io fi.60; fed wethers and yearlings, $3,750 5.60; fed ewes, $2.50Q4.u). Chicaeo Live Stork Mnrkel. Chicago, Jan. 22. CATTLE Receipt estimated st 29,000. Market steady to Irtc lower. Beeves. $4.80'S.4O: Texas steer. $4.40-55.85; western steers. $4.8'Ku7.25; apnek ers and feeders, $3.7616.00; rows and heif ers, $2.25-06.70: calves, $6.239.50. HOGS Receipts 55,000. Market slow to generally 10c lower. Light, $5.50(16.10; mixed, $5.bMt6.25; heavy, $o.&5'(t.25; rough, $5.85ir6.00; pigs, $4.25-56.50; bulk of sales, $6.05-u.20. SHEEP-Receipts 80.000. Market steady to a sahde lower. Native, $3. 251; 4 70; west ern, $3.604.76; yearlings, $4.90'(j 5.85; lamb, native, $4.&Otf6.SO; western, $j.aKc6.8i. Topeka Mark eta, fF"urni"tiea Djr tha Chaa. Wolff Packing Co., yards close at noon 8t turd ay. w cannot ue pigs, thin aowa or hoc weighing less than 170 Iba. Do not mar ket boss unless earn are well rtnlsbed a we cannot use half fat stun. We gw below prices erlectlv at one, until fur ther cotice.J Topeka, Kan., Jan. 22. HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS $S .505 .70 HEAVY 6.5"na.75 LIGHT 6.35-06.60 (Can't um thla hoga or tnoa unaei pounds.) STEERS. Prime corn fed $5 WVff6 76 Good to choice (corn fed) 4.70-6.25 Fair to good (corn fed) 4 R0',,fi.25 Common to fair killers 3.5(4 .25 COWS. Prime 14.65-55 00 Good to choice 4.05-44.64 Fair to good t 5f -j4 Common to fair l.Ooa.iO HElFERb. Prime $4 B6ti5 Good to choice IHjtM Fair to good 8Sr'n4')0 Common to fair 6.00-3.50 BULLS. Prime fat $4 60 Fleshy a 60 a 4 00 Mediums J -WrttZ 60 (Cattle must be good. Cannot us tola etuff. Market price paid for rtrjr lot cattle. If you will favor u with your qu!rle advising number of head, quality, and length of time on feed, w will mak you an offer or arrang lor our buyar to call on you, Topeka Butter. Kg(r and Poultry. U'unilsued by the lopeka Packing Co.) Topeka. Kan.. Jan. 22. EGGS Freeh country, 27c. POULTRY Hens. 4 lbs. and over, 10c; under 4 lbs., 8c; sprpings, 10c; stags. 7o; old cocks. 5c; ducks, 10c; geese, 8c; tat young turkeys, 14c; old turkeys, 12a. Butter and F.ggu. CFurnlshed by The Continental Creamery Co.. Topeka, Kan. Topeka. Kan., Jn. 12. NEW YORK EGGS 33'y3c, CHICAGO EGGS 31c. CREAMERY BUTTER Chicago, 86c: N. Y., 6"q3!c; Elgin. 4"c. Topeka Hay Market. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 21 Furnished by T. A. Beck, 21-214 K. 6th 1 PRARIE HAY No. L $14.00: alfalfa, choice, $16,00417.00; No. 1, $15.00. Topeka I-Vult and Produce Market. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 22. COCOANUTS Per doz., 800. OYSTERS Per gal., bulk, $1.6(tfl M. BANAN AS Medium aized uunenea, per bunch, $1.50-81.76; large bunches, ner bunch, $2.00-12.50; per lb., 2c. NAVEL ORANGES Per box, 12.0092 15 BARREL APPLES Jonathans, per bbl., $4.75; Ben Davis, per bbl., $3.50; Gano per bll., $3.75; Missouri Pippin, bbl.. 13 75 Wlnesaps, bbl., $4.50. CRANBERRIES Per bbl., $10.78; box. $3.66. POTATOES Per bit., $1.38. SWEET POTATOES Bu., $1.25. Topeka Grain Market. Furnished by J. H. Ulliard, corner Kaa a av. and Curua slj Topeka, Kan., Jan. 22 VHEAT-904?95c M KAFFIR CORN Per cwt., 95cfc$100 OATS 1550C. CORN 60c. Topeka Hide Market. (Quotation lurolaned by James c. 6ml ta Hide Co.. lu T turd at-J Topeka, Kan., Jan 22 GREEN CUKEU MluEb-.MaUve. 1, 12c; No. 2, 11c; Side Brands. yl0c Bulla and Stags, ku'jc; Horse liiuea! No. 1, $3.O4t3.50; No. 2, $2.0Oii2.6O. MALLOW b- 4 c. JjRX HIDES Butcher heavy. i70. dry Bait. li'KUc. DRY HIDES Butcher heavy. 17. dry Bait, uiaoi mluk No. 1 11KB 14.50 to $6.o0; No. 1 medium, $3.50 to $4 ai- No 1 binajl, $2 00 to 3.0U; raccoon No. 1 lar $1.25 to $2.00; No. 1 medium, $1.00 to 1 12' No. 1 small, 66c to uc; skunk, black I- M to $3.50; short stripe, $1.50 to 2.(w? narrow stripe. $1.25 to 9oc; broad etripe. &0c; O'Possum No. 1 larKe. 40c to 6(H M.f 1 medium, 25o to 4c No. 1 small i'r. 20c; muskrat. No. 1 large, 35o 10 6ocT No 1 medium, 3c to 28c; No. I mal I jfm 25c; Clvit No. 1 lar.. 860 to 0 t medium. 25o to 40c; No. I .mail. 25c to 40a,
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATS JOURNAL JANUARY 22; 1912 ONE RECORD MADE Kaw Management Had Fewllome Postponed Games. How Maglll Came to Kaws' Aid Last Spring. WILL TJIEKE BE WAR? Holland and Hendricks Will Train at Excelsior Springs. This Year's Race to Be a Dress Affair. In addition to his other accomplish ments, Mr. Lee stole 45 bases last year. This is about as many as the entire Kaw team pilfered during tb five and a half months the players drew salary. Des Moines, as evidence of her re juvenation as a baseball center, points With prid to the money made there by Mike- and Joe Cantillon. And the two brothers did pick up a bunch of lucre there. So much so, in fact, that they are now among the wealthier class of baseball magnates. Bill Dwyer has come In for a pood deal of friendly comment eince Holland nam-ed him as the first baseman for his 20 greatest players In the Western league. Dwyer is a good player. He knows the game. He can think quickly ;nd acts as rapidly as he thinks. He i a. grood first sacker and swings on the ball in a manner that brings de spair to th-9 hearts of the opposing pitchers. And what counts a great fieal in a circuit this size he has one of the best Irish dispositions on the O'Neil roster. This !s the season of laudatory ar ticles. Th-s baseball scribe uses as many pleasing adjectives as the society reporter on a country paper. .The- man agement trying to build up a winning team is boosted as much as possible. The phenom secured from Bingyille and Mudtown Is praised i- glowing terms. The fans are complimented for the way they supported last year's team and promised a better one. Everyone com-es in for a share of praise, except the sport writer hlm- nc:i nnu la uuuuc"j- more "dope" on this and that. But it Is the boosting season. And while say ing good things for others sport writers In Topeka should not miss the oppor tunitv of saying good things for Magill and Hendricks of Janver. Magill gave the Denver fans a winning team, which they wanted and -which they sup ported wel'. He put his money into ball players at a rate which caused some of the managers around the cir cuit to wonder what next. And Magill w as one of the best sports In the West ern league. At no time did he raise his voice and howl. Magill got the worst of it a number of times last year as well as some of the r?st of the man agers and owners. And when an at tempt was made one year ago to slip Topeka the worst of it in the schedule proposition it was Jimmy Magill who was Robert at the Rat hole in defense of the Kaws. As a result his team was one of the brst drawing ones which vis ited here. But that wasn't why Magill did it. He was on the square, natur ally, just the same as some fellows are crooked, and he was shrewd enough to know that the stronger towns could take care of themselves without aid while the weaker ones, such as Kaw town was last spring, need-ed all of the encouragement they could get. Both Holland and Hendricks will train at Excelsior Springs. Remember some of the yowls that came from the Joe town boss about his treatment in Denver last year? Jack always clever at that sort of thing. The abuse he end Cooley used to heap upon each other's heads brought the money to them In large quantities. When Hol land returned from Denver last ysar with his stories of being mobbed and mistreated the fans flocked out in large droves to show their sympathy by de livering 25 cent pieces. And when th-9 Denver team came to town there was some crowd at the ball park. All of which pleased Manager Jr-ck Im mensely. Among the holdouts in the Western league are Johnny Beall of Denver. The outfielder was sent up to Boston but has been turned back to the Griz zlies. Beall wants part of the $2,500 for 'Which it was eaid that he was sold. Magill says that as Beall failed to etlck he was compelled to return the money. But Beall will be in all right. A little warm weather will bring in his signed contract. Rourke has traded Shortstop Kneaves and some money for "Wild" Jack Ryan. Ryan was one of the de pendable twiners or the Lincoln team in years gone by and finished the spa wn with Mobile last year, landing near the top of the pitcher's records. It is to be hoped that the Lincoln club soon gets its difficulties settled. Lincoln is too good a ball town to be involved in such a turmoil. Last year's record is not to be blamed upon the Lincoln fans. Something like nine Sunday games were lost by the Ante lope management on account of rainy weather. This will put a hole in the finances of any club. There Is one way in which the local club made a record last year. It did n't lose more than a couple of Sunday fco tso HHEUMJl Hhettmatism is in reality an internal inflammation a diseased condition oi the blood cells which supply the nourishment and strength necessary to sus tain our bodies. Uric acid, an irritating, inflammatory accumulation, get3 into the circulation because of physical irreamlarities, and then instead of nourishing and invigorating the body, the blood irritates and inflames the different nerves, tissues, muscles and joints, because of its impure, acrid condition. The pains and aches and other disagreeable and dangerous symp toms of Rheumatism can never be permanently cured until every particle of the cause is driven from the blood. S. S. S. does this because it is a perfect blood purifier. It goes down to the very bottom of the trouble, purifies and cleanses the circulation, invigorates the blood, and completely drives Rheu matism from the system. Plasters, liniments, soothing lotions, etc., may be used for the temporary relief and comfort they bring, but a cure cannot be effected until S. S. S. has removed the cause. It frees the blood of every impurity and makes it a rich, health sustaining fluid, to bring permanent relief and comfort to those who suffer with Rheumatism Book on Rheuma tiiua and ftny CjedicaJ a.dvice free to all who write. JHE.SWIIXJSPECIFIC CO., ATLAXTTA G& dates here on account of rain. The management this year, or any other year for that matter can hardly hope to miss as few at home games on ac count of moisture. The drouth which hit Kansas last year extended to the ball lot and while other teams were lying idle on account of the weather the Kaws were battling away, losing game after game, but preventing them from being piled up for double head ers later in the season. So there was a little luck along with the rest of it. Dos Moines fans are talking of doing something in the matter of securing a new down town park to show their appreciation of the promises made by Fairweather and Isbell. It certainly will be worth something to the fans to have such men at the head of the club. The Western league race next year promises to be a dress affair. fct. Jo seph, Sioux City, Omaha and Denver have announced a uniform for the players which would make the plug fan scratch his head in study before he can imagine what they will look like. Anyhow it's an indication of prosperity. In hard times a ball play er can worry along with a very ordin ary looking uniform. The following players were trans ferred to Fairweather and Isbell at Des Moines: Pitchers Plympton, Northup, Huston, Owens, Herche, Mitchell, Kogge, Douglas, Thompson, Sweet, Schneiberg. Catchers Ulatowskl, McGraw, Lynch, Bachant, Allen. Infielders Colligan, Graham, Kores, Smith. Dwyer, Meyer, Williams. Outfielders Curtis, Hayes, Kelly, Gilmore, Choinard. Gear will be in Topeka Friday ac cording to the last announcement of the Baseball association directors. A jollification will be held at the Com mercial club rooms and an effort will be made to have all of the fans who can get out see him. PLAYERS SMOLTJ) 11CX 'EM OUT. Last Year 1,196 Jteaelied Eirst Base on Error. New York, Jan. 2 2. Official records of bases on balls, strike outs and first base on errors by teams in the Na tional league during the season of 1911, with individual figures in some cases, have been made public by Sec retary Heydler. National league pitchers, these sta tistics show gave 4,2 7 9 bases on balls. The St. Louis club led with 592; Chi cago was second, with 5 So, and Cincin nati third, with 5 78. Brooklyn was last, with 4 25. Sheckard, of Chicago, led the league, having received 14 7 passes in 15 6 games. Bates and Bescher, of Cin cinnati followed with 103 and 102, respectively. Sweeney led Boston with 7 7, Devore had 81; Knabe 9 4; Wa ita and Byrne 6 7 each, and Huggins 96. I mere were 4,i8 strike outs divided among eight clubs as follows: Brook lyn, 683; St. Louis, 6 50; Chicago, 617; Cincinnati, 594; Philadelphia, 5S8; Pittsburg. 583; Boston, 577; New York 506. Coulson, of Brooklyn and Besch er, of Cincinnati, led in this respect, with S7 strike outs each. Lnderus struck out 76 times; Carev 75; Devore 69; Sehtilte 68; Ingerton 6S, and Haus er 67. Those who played in 130 games or over and had a low average of strikeouts were: Sweeney 26; Tinker 31; Mitchell 34; Larry Doyle 39; Mur ray 37; Meyers 33; Knabe 35; Wagner 34 and Oakes 35. A new departure was the keeping of records showing the number of men reaching first base on errors. Those figures showed 1,198 runners to profit in this way. Boston was favored 171 times: Philadelphia 164; Pittsburg 154; Cincinnati 151; St. Louis 14 1; Brooklyn 141; New York 139; Chi cago 129. Sweeney of Boston, led the individ ual players, reaching first 35 times on errors. The other club leaders were Mitchell 25; Lobert 23; Daubert 23; Wilson of Pittsburg. 21: Evans 19; Merkle 18, and Hofman 16. HOPE FOR. TOPEKA'S HELP. McGlll May Try to Keep Team in Pueblo. Pueblo, Jan. 22. Jimmy McGill of Denver and his influence in the West ern league is now Pueblo's only hope of keeping its baseball team here. The $5,000 cash bonus and $4,000 more in profits distributed during the latter part of last season are as good as gone unless McGill can convince the other magnates that the league is making a mistake in permitting the return of the team to Wichita. It is the general opinion, however, that Pueblo has no grounds upon which to base legal action as no writ ten contract was exacted from Isbell. He merely gave his word that he would carry out his end of the con tract. Denver and Topeka, it is believed, will oppose the transfer of the fran chise to Wichita. Figures were produced which went to show that Isbell had cleared $4,000 above expenses and probably much more above that amount after he brought the team to Pueblo. It was the general opinion that the removal of the team was against the best in terests of the league as Pueblo was one of the three paying cities last year. Unless something can be done to save the team. Pueblo will never forget the sting. The trick has made it impos sible ever to raise bonus money for a baseball team in this city. XEW LEAGUE OWNERS MEET. Eighth Town on Xew Circuit Has Not Been Chosen. New York, Jan. 2 2. At a meeting of the United States Baseball league just ended, by-laws were adopted and a new board of directors were elected. A committee was appointed to address a communication to the national com mission stating the new league's posi tion, declaring that it will respect na tional agreement contracts if its own are recognized. The eighth city in the circuit was ansM not selected, the matter being left open until the next meeting in about ten days. Propositions by A. Brobrick, of Cleveland and Alfred H. Wolf, of Chicago, were most favored, it was said. The new directorate consists of President William A. Witman, Read ing, chairman; W. T. McCullough and Hugh MacKinnon, Washington. HAS GOOD TRACK TEAM. Sclierer Hopes to Improve Good Show ing Made Last Year. Baldwin, Kan., Jan. 22. With the exception of Tommy Dunstan, who ran the low hurdles and who held the state record in that event. Coach Scherer of Baker university, will have every one of his 1911 state track champions on the track again this spring. The men are out now on the indoor track and are training hard for the meets which will be held this spring. Coach Scherer expects to land the state meet again this year. The first meet will be held with Kansas university at Lawrence in February and soon after this meet Baker will go to Manhattan to help the Aggies cele brate the opening of the new gym nasium at the Aggie school in an in door meet. Other outdoor meets will be held with the State Normal at Em poria; William Jewell at Liberty; Washburn at Baldwin. The team will also take part in the relay carnival which is to be held at Topeka in March and the team will take part in the state meet at Emporia. Scherer has a number of freshmen who will strengthen the team. Among them are Taylor and DeFrees on the weight events and Sawyer and Palmer on the pole vault. Taylor played tackle of the football team last fall and before coming to Baker was the winner in several high school state meets in the weight events. The old men of the team who back and their events are: J 00 yards Parker, Redman. 220 yards Parker. 4 10 yards Martin, Redman. Half mile- Horn, Redman. Mile Merry. Two miles Osterhaut, Fike. High hurdles Martin. are Low hurdles Parker. Redman Broad jump and high jump- -All- derdice, McMillan, Prichett. The weight events and the pole vault will be open to new men. STOKIES VNTUUE, SAYS STIE1IM. Xo "Fair Play" Organization at Lin coln, He Declares. Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 22. "The stories concerning the organization of a 'fair play' club at the University of Nebraska for the purpose of investi gating the eiigibilitv of baseball play ers among the conference schools of the Missouri valley is entirely false.' said Coach Stiehm, who is here with the Nebraska basketball team. "We have never questioned the eligibility nf Kaneas hnphaH rtlai'prs flnrl when tne board of control of any conference school sends a ratified list of players we take it for granted that they are eligible. There is absolutely nothing to the story that Nebraska students have formed a club called the 'fair play' club to investigate the baseball players composing conference teams. "I am in favor of organizing a base ball team at the University of Ne braska this spring and am now work ing on a tentative schedule. MAY USE SIIKI1MAN LA,V. John T. Powers Says Anti-Trust Leg islation Will Help League. St. Louis, Jan. 22. John T. Pow ers, president of the New Columbian "outlaw" baseball league which in cludes Billy Nelson's Gunther team in Chicago, has sprung a new one on the organized baseball magnates. Powers says his league has a right to exist ence under the Sherman anti-trust law and that he will invoke its aid if a fight is waged on his organization. "We have the statutory right to ex ist and compete with the baseball trust," said Powers, "and we will take advantage of that right. The Sherman anti-trust law is at our disposal if at tacked. We are not fighting capital with capital and seek no war with any person or combination. "Most of our players already are lined up for the coming season and we will be i na position in April to furnish high class ball all over the circuit." BEGIN" BALL PARK TODAY. Wichita Players Will Report About March 15. Wichita, Jan. 22. Work on the new Wichita ball park begins today. Plans for the park have been completed and the work must be rushed to have the park ready for spring training. The Wichita players will be ordered to report about March 15. There will be no spring training trip, according to present plans, although a short jaunt through northern Oklahoma may be scheduled later. Fairmount college has asked for a series of games early in the training season and a number of big league games will be played, in cluding the White Sox on April 4 and 5. HOLMES' OPTION HAS EXPIRED. GuntJiorpe Ditl Not Furnish Financial Aid Expected. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 2 2. The option of "Ducky" Holmes, former manager of the Lincoln "Antelopes" upon the Lincoln baseball club expired last night. Holmes was unable to secure finan cial backing and unless the option is renewed, the proposed sale for $18,000 will not take place. John Gunthorpe, of Denver, has been depended upon as a financial aid for Holmes but he has not responded. With bankruptcy proceedings pend ing, and the time limit for signing plavers expiring February 1. the sit uation of the Lincoln club is serious. ALEXANDER GETS BIG SALARY". Pitcher Receives Largest Salary in National League. Philadelphia, Jan. 2 2. It is an nounced by the Philadelphia National league club that Grover Alexander, the pitcher, will get the largest salary ever paid to a player for a second season's service in a big league. He was a star in the National league last year, but this year he demanded a big increase and got it. liARNED LOSES TWO GAMES. Kinsley and DotlRO City V. in and Dotlgo City at Basketball. Lamed, Kan., Jan. 22. Larned !ost both ends of a basketball double header staged at the rink here. The tirst, a girl's game, resulted in a score of 19 to 25 in favor of the Dodge City girls. The second game ended 7 to 15 in favor of the Kinsley boys. f KLING WAIT'S SOME PITCHERS. With Tliem, He Says. Boston Can Do Fairly Well. Boston, Jan. 22. Johnny Kling, the former Chicago National league star, is in this city for the first time since lie became manager of the newiy re organized Boston Nationals. Kling is optimistic about the team's chances. "What we wan." he said. "are a few good pitchers to help out. That's our greatest weakness. As we stand now, I am sure that we will beat out at least five clubs this year and we are apt to teat out a few more of them. Just a couple of good pitchers to bolster up the staff and we won't be afraid to meet any of them." CXHT.OX AN I FORBES MEET. Featherweights Battle for Champion ship of AVorld. Chicago, Jan. 22. Johnny Coulon, the bantam weight champion of the world and Harry Forbes, former hold er of the title, will fight ten rounds at Kenosha, Wis., tonight. Both men left for the scene of the battle today. They will weigh in at 116 pounds at 6 o'clock. Coulon now is below this weight and Forbes who weighed 117 when he finished hard training yester day expected to "dry out" the last pound without serious difficulty. Eddie Santry, former featherweight champion, will referee. FXTZ ENTERS BASEBALL. Rnby Robert May Own Cleveland Out law Franchise. New York, Jan. 22. Bob Fitzslm mons is about to blossom forth as a baseball magnate. Ruby Robert is mingling with the promoters of the United States "outlaw" league at the Imperial hotel and is a conspicuous figure in the lobby. It is understood Fitz will head the Cleveland team if that city secures a franchise. The movements of the embryo mag nates are shrouded in mystery. JAS. WERTS IS DEAD Pioneer Topeka Merchant, Who Was IYozen, Dies. James Werts, aged SO years of age, who was found frozen in the cellar of a house ai 716 Lime street about three weeks ago by a State Journal reporter, died Sunday night a.t St. Francis hos pital. Mr. Werts was an old resident of Topeka and come here in the early days. He was engaged in the grocery busi ness at Sixtli and Topeka avenues for a number of years. He retired from this and operated a feed store next door to the grocery store about seven years. He sold this about three weeks ago and moved to 716 Lime street to live a retired life. The next day after moving to this location, he was reported to have dis appeared and a State Journal repor ter, while making an investigation, found him in the cellar of the house. His legs were frozen to the knees and his hands also were frozen. was unable to talk coherently and was then considered to be in a serious condi tion. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. T. Calvin, of 414 East Seventh street. Students Favor Suffrage. Emporia. Kan., Jan. 22. At a poll taken of the young women students of the Col lege of Emporia, sixty-six votes were cast, forty favoring suffrage for women and twenty-stx opposed to it. Meningitis in Kansas. Atchison, Kan., Jan. 22. Edmund Hast ings, the 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hastings, is dangerously ill with spinal meningitis. It is the first case of the disease which has appeared in Atchi- HUNDREDS TESTIFY Merits of New Discovery Are Being Demonstrated. John Atkinson Comes Out as a Strong Indorser. WIFE LIKEWISE HELPED. Thousands of Half-Sick People Ignorant of Cause. Energy and Ambition Can Be Quickly Restored. Among the hundreds of statements being made in connectjon with the re markable new tonic, "Tona Vita," none are more interesting than that given out by John O. Atkinson of 1359 Nortli Kmporia avenue, Wichita, also well knovvn in Topeka. Mr. Atkinson said: "For some time I have not enjoyed good health. I was all run down, intensely nervous and had stomach trouble. I felt tired all day; my body seemed benumbed at times, and could net sleep at nights. As soon as I ate anything my stomach wouiJ till with gas and I would be distressel for some time alter ward. I tested vari ous remedies without results. "A short time ago I talked with one of the sepecialists at the Arnold Drug company. 23 Kansas avenue, and ho explained my trouble and advised me to try his preparation. I did it and am glad I did, for 'Tona Vita' proved a wonder in my case. "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 and get up in the morning feeling cheerful and ready for work. "My wife was also run down and in poor health. She started taking the medicine when it began to help me. Her improvement has been fine and she is now in good health." People who are nervous and irritable, have imperfect digestion and stomaci disorder, lack energy and ambition, feel melancholy and discouraged, suf fer with headaches, backaches, poor memory, unsound sleep, irregular cir culation, pallid complexion and who are susceptible to coughs and colds, are unquestionably suifering with this modern plague, nervous debility, say the "Tona Vita" specialists. "There are hundreds of such half sick men and women in Topeka- who really do not know just what is wrong with them," said one of these specialists Saturday afternoon. "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 pos itively remove this trouble and restore the organs of the body to their healthy, normal condition." The "Tona Vita" specialists are at the Arnold Drug company between the hours of 9 a. m. and 8 p. m. during their stay in Topeka. The General Manager of the Arnold Drug store says: "We did not know much about this tonic a few weeks ago except that reliable people were putting it out and that leading drug gists in the United States were getting the agency for it. The preparation has opened our eyes since the specialists ar rived to introduce it. We have never seen such a tremendous sale of medi cine before and the reports we get from those who have used the Tonic are very flattering." RAILR0AD NEWS Santa Fe Makes Known Its Pol Icy on Good Roads Question. Announcement That Road Will Co-operate With Teople. ADMITS ITS REASON Says It Will Assist in Building Up Territory. Other Items of General Interest in Traffic World. A frank statement on the good roads matter is made by the Santa Fe railroad from Topeka. The announce ment follows: "The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway company will co-operate with good roads associations in any feasible plan for the improvement of the high ways in the territory through which its lines are operated. The Santa Fe always has been ready to respond to every organized movement for good roads, because good roads are next to good crops in the railroad traffic man's calculations. "Good roads mean bigger and bet ter crops, for the farmer who hauls his produce to market over good roads has more time to devote to his crops than he would have if the roads were bad. The bigger the crops, the heav ier the railroad traffic. Transporta tion being all that the railroad has to sell, the Santa Fe looks with favor upon any movement that tends to in crease traffic, as a business proposi tion pure and simple. The Santa Fe, therefore, is friendly to the good roads movement, viewing the situation from the standpoint of the dollar. "But there is another viewpoint from which the Santa Fe sees the case. The system of railroad owned by the Santa Fe operates in 12 states, embracing a great empire from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico on the south and the Pacific ocean on the west. It is an agricultural territory, generally, most of the states being in the course of development. "The Santa Fe is for anything that builds up and beautifies the lands traversed by its lines, and no commun ity can turn out a better advertise ment of its progressiveness and civic pride than a system of good roads. "A good road in front of a farm means good fences, well cultivated fields, high grade stock, nice house and barn, orchard, etc. These things go together. Good roads everywhere mean good farms everywhere, and that spells increased prosperity and happiness for the farmer and his fam ily, and increased prosperity for the country at large." SMALL GAIN IN DECEMBER. An Increase or O.S Per Cent in Gross Earnings for All Koads. Gross earnings of all United States railroads reporting for December, as prepared by Dun's .Review, aggregate $38,643,087, a gain of 0.3 per cent as compared with the earnings of the same roads for the corresponding pe riod a year ago. This is a more in different comparison than has been made for a considerable period and is due mainly to a general falling off in the returns reported for the fourth week of the month, very few roads in cluded in the statement showing a gain. In the south, where most of the leading systems have for a long time constantly reported more or lss in crease, most roads probably will make a fairly satisfactory exhibit for the en tire month owing to larger earnir gs of the preceding three weeks, but on practically every one there was some falling off in the last week.. Similar conditions prevail in the southwest and west, but in those sections the loss is less noticeable, as many roads in that territory have been reporting smaller earnings than last year for some time past. In the following ta ble are given the earnings of all United States roads reporting to date for the four weeks of December and the gain as compared with the earnings of the same roads for the corresponding pe riod a year ago; also for practically the same roads In the two preceding months, together with the percentages of gain or loss as compared with last year: tan. Gain. l"ct. Dec, 4 weeks JC8.643.0S7 J 10.033 0.8 Nov., 4 weeks 163.829 246.8-i0 0.6 Oct., 4 weeks 39,326,613 815,622 2.2 Loss. BEGIX W ORK OX D. 11. ti. SOOX President Bush Says Road AVIU Be Placet! in Good C Xmuition. Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 22. Plenty of money will be forthcoming for the purpose and the Denver Rio Grande railway will be made as nearly perfect as conditions will per mit. This statement was made by Beniamin F. Bush, the new president of the Rio Grande. He is inspecting the lines committed to his care. Presi dent Bush left Sunday evening for the east. The physical rehabilitation of the Rio Grande will begin, he says, early next summer. WAIT FOK WARMER WEATHER Survey for Xew Santa Fe Dine Will Begin boon. Dodge City, Kan., Jan. Ti. Just as soon as the weather shall permit, tlis survey by the Santa Fe of its proposed line from Santa Fe Junction westward through Grant and Stanton counties will begin. This is the line that will start at tne south. Haskell county town, now certain to be Santa Fe Junction, on the l-'oimar cutoff southwest Irom Oodge City, ana work westward through Kansas into Col orado and probably to Trinidad and tne coal fields. There Is no longer any doubt of this west branch, and the surveyors would have been put in the field before this, hstd it not been for the severe weather. RAILWAY NOTES. Every Topeka railway oftiolal wno fought the snow drifts in southwestern Kansas has a jackrabbit story to tell. All-steel equipment ordered by the Chi cago Northwestern road includes forty passenger coaches, six diners tour parlor cai-s and two observation parlor cars. The Chicago. St. Paul, Minneapolis fc Omaha road, a subsidiary of the Northwestern, has awarded contracts Tot ten passenger coaches, four baggage cars and two com bination passenger and baggage cars, all steel. A report issued by the Canadian Jr-acirtc railway shows that during 1911 473 miles of new branch lines between the great lakes and the Rooky mountains were graded by the company in conrormtty with Its policy to provide railroad facili ties for newly settled districts. Through out the territory mentioned the com pany now has 5.S43 miles of track. In a communication to the Muskogee rrpHE BELL TELEPHONE J 1 as an important factor for the promotion of the public good to day is a recognized fact. Since the infancy of Bell Service every improvement possible has been added to make it perfect. Your failure of yesterday does not pre clude your success of today. Order a Bell Telephone. ONE in your home is worth TWO AT YOUR NEIGHBOR'S Missouri ss. j fey lelermone Lo. i out Galveston fronts the Gulf of Mexico, "Way down South" in Texas. Where roses and olean ders and palms grow outdoors in January is a good place to winter in that's self-evident. Galveston, too, has Hotel Galvez a new million dollar edifice, located near the beach and 6eawall. ,You will like Hotel Galvez, once you enter its doors. A charming southern hospitality i9 supple mented by all the luxuries of Fifth Avenue. Go to Galveston this winter on the Santa Fe. The train service is convenient. The excursion fares are low. For booklet and full information, ask T. Xi. KING, City Passenger Agent, Topeka, "ford 3 Trains to .3 misfit 1-v. Topeka 4:10 A.M 5:45 A.M. 7:4(t A.M. 2-25 P.M. S:2.- P.M. 7:55 P.M. fi:15 P.M. u -sr. r-M Rt. Lv. K.C. 7:55 A.M. J0:10 A.M. 10:50 A.M. 11:15 A.M. :1 P.M. :10 P.M. USE THE Never i':snp.u Phone 384 ...il... .I. i r1""" 1 r t A- I:;: T. -its, BcAti- LASSiCf ffPT Pi Q--W-ffiii r t".i DR. D. A. COOKINHAM, 106 Ea.t Seventh St, OFFICE HOURS 9 to 12. 2 to 6, 7 to 8. Monday. Tuesday, Thumday and frlday Evenings. (Sunday, 3:tJ to 10:3y a. in. Commercial club. W. P. St. Georpe, gen eral passenger agent for the Missouri, Kansas Texas railroad, announced that No. 7. known as the rast mall, and No. 4, a northbound accommodation, would be discontinued Sunday, January 21. The rfasmi given is not sufficient passenger patronage. C. M. Bryant, formerly assistant gen eral manager of the Missouri Kansas Texas, wno was granted a leave or ab sence on account of illness about three months ago. has been appointed superin tendent, with office at Oreenville, Tex., succeeding F. S. James assigned to other duties. The Rock Island will ope.rn.tft an agri cultural demonstration and lecture tram between St. Louis and Kansas City, Jan uary 23-27. lectures on dairying and poultrv raising will be given by protes pors from the University of Missouri, and so-rre of the best dairy cattle and poultry in Missouri will be ehown on the train. The Illinois Central has organized a subsidiary company, the Central Krult Iitspatch, to haJidle Its fruit and veget able traffic, which has been showing a continuing increase. The compay was THE Kansas yew vyWiiy Kansas. 1 j("4T' W v.; 'y J 1 tn r ansas City Ft Tim No Stop Doublo Trace qgEc island p:ext too Busy to Answer Question C. E. Bascom, City Pas. Asrt If You Are in Poor Health make me a visit. IT 'WILT, COST YOU NO'J'llIMl TO CONSULT ME. 1 am confident my treatment can cure you, lor 1 have cured n undrpda of others. Successful treatment of all diseases without (urftlc,! opera tion: no prescriptions to have fihed. Kllt-UAlAXiSM, In all Its forms, permanently cured by mv system of treatment. Fh.Clf"lC BLOOD POISONING permanently cured with out the aid of mercury or potash. UCZEMA, flmples, KryMplaa or any eruptive dlsessea of the skin permanently cured by me. DR. GEO. PORT ASHTON DENTIST 811 Phans 1183 In. 32S N. W. Corner Eighth and Kan Incorporated In Illinois la?t week wim Si.&o.i'jo capital stocK. K. y. .Mci'iKo. who has been refrigerator service n;cut of the Illinois Central, will be fcenriat manager of the dispatch. The PennsylvanlH railroad, ncourael by the reduction in tne number of tio passers killed along lis lines, ,l a. result of the persistent efforts of 1's ortlcers during the past four year, intends to re double lis efTorts durtnr Wll'. New wrn Ing notices will tx put up mid the author ities will be requested to etisct ttkji stringent lairm. OeneraJ Mt H. Long has Issued a circular to officers) and employees and has called upon all em ployees to assist in d.ecj-eaing the deata roll.
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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 22, 1912 xrpefea S'tatp Stromal By FRiN'K P. MAC UEXNAX. tEntered July 1, 1875, as second-class attar at the postoffice at Topeka, Kan., under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXV1III.. No. 19 Official state Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS HI- ST'RSrRTPTlON. Dally edition, delivered bv carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka; or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where the paper has a carrier system. By mall, one year By mail, six months -J" BV mail lOnlovd riol nrfltr I-1" BF1,L TELEPHONES. Business Office IZL Reporters Room 5l' 1XDEPEXDKXT TEI.ICPHON'KS. Private branch exchange. Call 107 and ask The State Journal operator for per son or department desired. Topeka State Journal building. SOO and 82 Kansas avenue, corner Eighth. New York Office: 250 Fifth avenue, Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Sieger building. Paul Block, manaeer. Boston Office: Tremont Building, Paul Block, manaeer. FULL I.EASFD WIRK HFPORT OF THE ASSOHATET) PRESS. The State Journal Is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day tsleeraph report of that great news or ganization for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news Is received In The State Jour nal building over wires for this sole purpose. Italy seems to be further than over from concluding a victorious cam paign in Tripoli. Might doesn't always make for right. Betting is about at the odds of 10 to l that the waters of the famous Carlsbad springs will work an almost miraculous cure on Banker Morse. And when his favorite horses see Colonel Roosevelt whirling by .with his hand on the steering gear of an automobile, they likely sigh: "Kt tu, Brute." Resistance on the part of the Man chus to the Chinese revolutionists will soon be utterly useless. An American girl is about to take command of a company of rebel imon?. According to the Galveston News, the average man is a person who can remember that you owe him $5 a Rood while after he has forgotten that you named one of your children for him. And isn't it about tim that the Comptroller of the Currency was see ing to it that all of the national banks oho., the law. and particularly in re spect to maintaining their legal reserves Xews from China is to the effect that the reheis are getting ready to march on Peking. Why don't they march against Nankins again? They have only taken this place ten or dozen times. CHAPTER LXXX. "Friendly to" or "not unfriendly to."J In some of the papers one of the objections listed against Judge Hook was that his decisions' had been favor able to the Santa Fe and other rail roads. Well, of course, a judge must decide one way or the other. The writer has no doubt but that 1 y going through Judge Hook's deeisiins some of them would be found to bo unfav orable to the contentions of the Santa Fe and other railways. Certain Insur gents, and others as well, aTe often times prone to assume thit because f judge's decision is favorable to a rail road, or other corporation, that that judge is accordingly under the in fluence or domination of ;hose partic ular corporations. Fair-minded people should not take this view, neither should fair-minded newspapers. One of the piinciples that Governor Stubbs, Willium Allen White, and other Insurgent leaders in Kansas have annunciated over and over again is the desire tor a square deal." This has been used particular lv in connection with the people. These speakers and writers have said that the people ought to have "square deal." Such a statement is absolutely unas sailable. The people ought to have a square deal," but so should the rail roads and corporations. There is no more reason why a corporation should not have a "square d?al" than an dividual. It ought not to be a crime. political or otherwise, in Kansas to be fricndlv to the Santa Fe. But, of course, if the Santa re is snown to have done things which are illegal the decision of the court or the people hould be averse to that same Santa Fe. But where a case is brought against the company, and it is shown that the contention of the prosecution was not sustained, a judge, a court, or the public should be permitted to agree with the company's contention without being charged in a critical sense, with being "friendly to the company;" or to put it Governor Stubbs' way "not un friendly to the company;" that is to say, politicians are prone to us-3 this sort of expression when they mean to infer the company or corporation can count upon friendly decisions or opin ions, regardless of the merits, or facts or the law of the case. There are cer tain statesmen who have made these charges, and there are cases where such charges were unwarranted, and should have been left to the dema gogue, or other unprincipled politicians. There will be many to mourn the death of Uncle Alf Hale, who served Shawnee county for twenty years as Its poor commissioner. His was a heart that had a warm spot in it for friend and stranger alike. No person, says the constitution of the United States, shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. And yet men are locked up on juries, as in trial of the beef barons, for months at a time. Isn't it peculiar that when promi nent personages in the political arena have any dealings with each other, no two stories of the affair are in agree ment? This is shown once again in the mixup between Colonel Harvey and Woodrow Wilson. Wood row Wilson was hoping a few years ago that something could be done "at once dignified and effective to knock Mr. Bryan once for all into a cocked hat." He seems to have been unusually successful lately in placing himself in the same undesir able position. Like the love letters that crop up with such force in every breach of promise suit, the past epistolary ef forts of the politicians rise up to haunt them. A loose tongue is bad enough, but when its ramblings are set down on paper the inevitable re sult is trouble. More ways than one exist to get a little space in the newspapers, espe cially if you're a politician with ambi tions to reach the top of the ladder. Governor Foss of Massachusetts is now accompanied around Boston with a heavy bodyguard to keep Black Hand era away from him. Delaware Democrats are going to Instruct their delegates to the national convention to vote for the presidential nomination of Alton B. .Parker. Evi dently the Delaware Democrats are omg to get in a position where they can trade their votes for the vice presidential nomination or some other party plum. Champ Clark undoubtedly figured that he was playing safe in his agree ment to abide by the decision of the Democrats of Missouri as to whether he or Joe Folk should be the presidental candidate from that state. Outside of Missouri not much is heard of the Folk candidacy, and if Clark wasn't sure of Missouri he would not be so willing to toss his strength in other states into the waste-paper bas ket. No corruption or bribery attended the election of Vncle Ike Stephenson to the United States senate, according to the unanimous report of the sena torial committee which has been in vestigating the charges to this effect. In other words, the $100,000 and more which it cost Uncle Ike to pluck a Wisconsin senatorial plum was ex pended in a perfectly legitimate fash Ion. Political preferment is certainly expensive In progressive Wisconsin. Even the Emporia Gazette, which at times is supposed to "eat railroads up," has this in its issue of Saturday even ing: "The railrtad was said to have con fiscated commercial coal, a charge it denies. The officials say their com pany did not use a single car of coal, not its own, and besides it turned over thirty cars of its coal for the use of citizens in towns and communi ties where they were short of coal. In Arkansas City, last week, the its terurban system running out of that place, eot out of coal and the Santa Fe furnished it e al to keep its dyna mos going. The power plant in Okla homa ty experienced a like difficul ty, and there the Santa Fe arranged to furnish coal, which kept going the cars, lights and business enterprises de pending on electricity. In Topeka the Santa Fe '.t-rned over twelve cars of coal to the local dealers because the city was out of coal. It is easy to make the railroad company the 'goat,' but when a con pany laboring under con ditions such as the Santa Fe experi enced last v.-eek and does all it can to supply .he mines with cars, and move the loaded cars to points where coal is nee-led. and turns over coal it may need badly before the winter is over, to communities out of coal. should have the credit due it and not be censured for not doing more." This, of course, is sensible and fair. Now if William Allen White in the Emporia Gazette would be as fair to William Howard Taft, our president. as- lo peems inclined to be to others in the pubfic eye, readers would have a fair and more sensible understanding of the presidential situation. We regret to say it, but Taft has been shamelessly abused and misrepre sented by the Gazette, which claims- to be a fair paper, but which certainly has not been fair to President Taft. Perhaps the Gazette and some other papers will reform in this respect. They ought to at any rate. Perhaps when the Gazette thinks it over care fully, and should perchance see a list of the many fine things President Taft has done, it will consider, under all the circumstances, inasmuch as Roosevelt is not a candidate and docs not want to be, and was the man to recommend Taft, that perhaps, after all, the Re publican, party could go further and fare worse, if they did renominate Taft. The fact of the matter is that Kan sas is full of newspapers and people who are appreciating the high char acter of the excellent service President Taft is giving to this country. They are writing and saying and printing hundreds of expressions of all this sort; but these expressions do not get into the Kansas City Star, Topeka Capital, Emporia Gazette, Wichita Beacon, the Salina Journal, and some other Insur gent organs. Why should these papers not re member that their first duty is to the public, not to the politicians? Let the public know the truth, and the politi cians will then come to know it. Many of them know it already, but they think that perhaps it can be kept from the public, in which case they -will continue to play politics;. Chapter LXXXI Tomorrow. Fiction Factories. There is a monthly magazine of "popular" fiction published in New York a magazine of wide circulation whose editor not only "assigns" writers to the task of supplying his publication with fiction, but also "as signs" these writers to the "plots It might be more accurate, possibly, to reverse the order and say that he as signs the plots to the writers, but the fact remains that the fiction for this particular magazine is "assigned" for all the world like a newspaper story of a fire in a shirtwaist factory in Broome street. New York, or Fifth avenue. Chicago. Although not direct ly relevant to the present chronicle, it may be said for the benefit of skeptics that the assignment idea in point haa j been found to fill the magazine with i greater effectiveness and satisfaction j than had been the case before the sys- I tern had been introduced into the edl-1 torial room. There is a monthlv mae- azine that calls into its offices at inter vals members of a group of writers who have been on its contributing list for many years and asks them "what they have got on their minds," or, in other words, what ideas they may have that may be turned into the form of articles and stories for the publica tion's use. Numerous other methods that the magazines pursue in taking the initial steps toward filling them selves might be cited, but a further intimate elaboration of illustration seems unnecessary. A survey of the situation in its entirety -reveals the summarizing facts that magazines to day are being filled more and more as newspapers are filled by "assign ments more ajia more by the members of regularly employed staffs or. if not starts, by groups of associated free lance contributors, more and more through direct business contracts or friendly affiliations with writers pos sessed of reputation or gradually mounung ability and less and less tnrough the propitious accidents of the United States mail. George Jean Nathan, in the Bookman. BY THE WAY BY HARVEY PARSONS. JOURNAL ENTRIES It is far easier to conceal riches than it is to hide poverty. Did anybody ever have anv hetter luck by picking up the pins he comes across No matter how bad the weather may be, it s a poor memory that can't recall worse. The saying that men of brains live long can only be of satisfaction to a very few. Fellows in the habit of sendinc bon bons to their girls might make more of a nit these days with their sweet hearts' families by substituting car tons filled with real butter. A musician who fails to get an en core never suspects that his playing may be poor, he always feels that the audience has no Soul for Music. The name of a recently-Invented machine for catching people in a lie, is "Sphygmomanometer." But a clev er newspaper reporter will answer the purpose just as well and Is easier to spell. The Boston chief of detectives ad vocates the garter purse for women as a protection against pickpockets, but has neglected to balance the re commendation by advocating dark, glasses or blinders for the men-clerks in department stores. rhe Topeka youth who frisked a j bank and was caught at it, is charged witn Having lived beyond his means. From which one might gather that the police had found proof that his gas bill was paid. THE COWBOYS AND THE PROS PECTOR. The Two-Bar camp has entertained A minin' feller as a gTiest; He drifted in one night It rained A prospector who needed rest. He bunked with us and talked a string About the gold he hoped to get; If we had let him run, by jing! He sure would be a-talkin' yet. He'd scratched and dug in hills untold, A-huntin' for the mother lode, But didn't need such heaps of gold No more 'n the burro that he rode. He couldn't understand why we Was punchin' cows for ten a week. With not a thought that gold might be In every rock or hill or creek. And we plum failed to make him out His greed for what he couldn't spend; He might be right, but I misdoubt If such a chap could be a friend. Arthur Chapman, in the Denver Republican. JAYHAWKER JOTS The true Kansan is much like a cu cumber, insists the Marquette Tribune makes his hardest fight after he is down. The better a man becomes acauaint- ed with himself, the more charitably he judges others, thinks the Pratt Union. Most people are probably willing to agree with the Pratt Union in its opin- on that a chicken show is different from a circus. The government is talking or coining 2Va cent piece, notes the Sabetha Star, and it adds: You can just smell the cigar that would go with it. Strange, remarks the Rose Hill cor respondent of the Douglass Tribune, how many people date their sickness from some time when they attended church. Sam Ream, of Holton. told the Sig nal that it got so cola at his house the other night and the mercury went down so far that it pulled out the nail on which the thermometer hung. 'Croaker," one of the contributors to the Holton Recorder, notifies the sut tragists that while he may vote for woman suffrage, he declines to take off his coat in the cause until the tem perature gets above zero. High school note in the Alma Sig nal: Quite a number of pupils with ome of the teachers went skating Monday. When you ask one of them what kind of a time he had he says: "Just fine; I only got my feet wet and sprained my ankle." Adam Shick, who is a farmer near Lawrence, is said to be the only man in Kansas who can set type in Greek, notes the Holton Recorder, and it adds: We don't know about that, but we do know that the editorials set up by some of the editors are Greek to us. An excellent suggestion from Mrs. Kelley in her part of the Toronto Re publican: The papers say that jackrab bits and antelopes are robbing cattle in western Kansas so that they are starving! Seems as though the state ought to provide for its wild wards better than that. The farmer finds him self rather in a hole when he has to protect things without receiving pro tection from them in return. We would suggest that Prof. Dyche start a relief train at once. When some men assert that no women ever made a fool of me" it looks like a direct charge against their lathers. Everyone likes a man who says just what he thinks about someone else. Hon. J. J. "Veatch of Washington county, is going to run for the senate. Hon. Veatch is an exponent of the chest-warmer type of whisker, but outside of that he is all right, and the voters of his district ehould not hold it against him. Hon. Stubbs' reply to Hon. House took almost a column, but it could be boiled down to a couple of lines. Why didn't he save time and space by saying: "Pooh pooh, no one will suspect ME of playing politics." Aviators who have gathered at Los Onglaze for their annual flitterfest ob ject to the presence of Red Cross crews on the grounds. And at that they are right. A Red Cross outfit is calculated to give aid to the in jured; few aviators are "injured." A vacuum cleaner on the grounds would be more appropriate. Hon. Stubbs' distinction between a J. P. "not unfriendly" and one "friendly" is much like a spot that is not damp and a dry spot. And in the contest between Jack Johnson, Ed O'Neil and Gov. Stubbs to see who can score the most inter views in one week, the result seems to be a draw. Each scored every day of the past week. Any girl who thinks of bleaching her hair should keep it dark. THE EVENING STORY SAYS UNCLE GAV GLOBE SIGHTS BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. From the Atchison Globe. When a man admits he is a Regular Devil, he isn't. There is some difference in being en titled to relief, and getting it. If three years don't seem long to you, it's a sign you aren't in the army. You may not be able to use your friends as successfully as a barkeeper can. As an actress grows older, she doesn't have her pictures revised so often. If a boy is too lazy to work at it. It won't help him much to learn a trade. Don't tell the women, but very few men want to be known as Model husbands. Sometimes a fancy can well sell a pret ty fierce brand of smoking tobacco. No wonder an Atchison man is rich. He can't have a good time unless he is working. When a robber gets the "drop" on a man. he makes money look cheap to the victim. An Atchison youth is such a sissy there is a rumor that he wears lace on his lingerie. Some men are so optimistic they can make sitting up with a corpse a joyous occasion. Probably the owner of the largest auto mobile hopes to have an extension built on it. It doesn't always follow that the "Wel come on the doormat is a standing Invitation. A man's winter underwear usually needs an early spring almost as much as the dairy farmers. If some of us should insist upon trav eling according to the principle upon which we plan our careers we would refuse to ride in street cars because we cannot soar in aeroplanes. We try to fly high when we can't earn carfare. The result is experiences that enable us to see the sorry side of the joke about Darius Green and his flying n:i chine. Highly developed talent and sound judgment are two of ihe absolutely necessary rsquirements of real success and that combination never disdained simple, fundamental tasks. No man has ever found the way to greatness except by building his magnificent su perstructure upon a foundation of lit tie things cemented by industry. By no other means can any man, no mat ter how gifted he may be, gain the skill and breadth and grasp necessary to deal with large affairs. This is na ture's immutable law, and none has prospered who has ignored it. It lays its hand upon the babe who must creep before he can walk; it brings ruin and confusior tc the man v. ho. having de spised little things, would be master of great ones. "Begin at the bottom and work up,' was the trite but true advice of our hard-headed forefathers who conquer ed the land and gave it solid business ideals. In that homely sentence is the sum total of human wisdom on the subject of career building. These men know the value of training, discipline and minut. knowledge ot their tasks. The business theorist has been able to suggest an idea or two, but has never been able to improve on the system as a whole, while the get-rich-quick graf ter, in sowing the seed of discontent with sound methods, has succeeded only in driving home the point of this old fashioned advice by the force of an un happy example. (Copyright, li,iz, by W. E. Williams.) POINTED PARAGRAPHS.. rFrom the Chicago News. Trouble hunters never come home emptyhanded. And all men are alike except those who are different. He who would achieve fame must pay the press agent It takes a financial artist to draw a satisfactory check. A hammer sometimes misses its mark, but a bouquet, never. No. Cordelia, you can't keep a secret by putting it on ice. A woman's intuition enables her to get along without Judgment. Some women seem to think a painted face should go with a picture hat. It takes a cheerful man to fool himself Into believing that he is contented. When a married woman is well dressed it's a sign that her husband's credit is good. And many a homely- girl's popularity with the male contingent Is due to the fact that she has a rich father- QUAKER. MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. All used up Ceiling decorations. All things come to him who waits, even the weatherman's predictions. Some girls go to church because of the hymns, and others because or the hlms. There seems to be no reason why a light sleeper shouldn't sleep just as well in the dark. You can generally tell how fond a man is of cabbage from the brand of cigars he smokes. The difference between a sinner and a saint is that one Is known by his deeds, the other by his creeds. It Isn't until after he has been sued for breach of promise that many a fellow learns to think twice before he speaks. The trouble with the young man who begins at the foot of the ladder is that he immediately wants to turn it upside down. "And so you found the western cow boys disappointing," remarked the stay-at-home. "Terribly so," replied the girl who reads all the magazine stories. "They don t even know enough to speak their own dialect'." "What struck you most forcibly during your visit to the city. Uncle Hiram?" ask ed the villlage oracle. "Wall," ruminated Uncle Hiram, "when I cum to in the hospital I'll be gosh dinged if I could ree'lect whether it was a trolley car or one o' them derned ottymobiles." Tlie Stone Gods. By Temple Bailey. ihe Garden of the Stone Gods was set in the midst of a big city, but so high were the walls that surrounded it that it was cut off from the sight of outsiders, and the noise of traffic came faintly to the ears of Rosamond, as she sat day after day by the foun tain, working fairy webs of lace on a cushion, as she had been taught in a convent tar across the seas So many years had she dwelt in the convent that she seemed less an Amer ican gin tnan a ioreigner, and now that she was buried here in this strange old garden, she seemed to live a dreai lie far removed from that of the girls wno, on the other side of the walls went back and forth on gay modern quests of shopping and motoring, golf ng and riding. Once an airship had whizzed over head, and the beat of its motors had come down to them faintly, Rosamond s uncle had looked ur Into the stries and had said, fiercely, "Ccn we never get away from modern hor rors But Rosamond had looked up at the big airship, sailing over their heads like a huge silver dragonfly, and then down at the impassive stone gods which surrounded the fountain, and had sigh ed. Rosamond hated the stone gods, and she yearned inexpressibly for the life that otier girls led. One day vutside the walls she heard a voice singing, it was a man s voice. strong and sweet, and the song was a love song. In her quiet garden Rosamond had heard little of love. Her uncle had never married; he hated women. The song as it floated out on the spring air, seemed a call to Rosa mond to come out and be free. So she left her lace pillow, and ran to the end of the garden, and climbed from the stone bench to the low branches of an old apple tree, and thence to the broad top of the wall, and peeped over. Beneath her was the man who sang. His hat was off, and he was down on his knees behind a big red motor car. Rosamond watched him eagerly. Sit ting on the top of the wall she sighed for the things which were forbidden her. Though the sigh was low, the man beneath looked up. It was as if her desire had drawn his eyes toward her. His bright smile shone out a.s he saw her. Beg pardon," he said as he rose to his feet; "I'm in an awful fix. Do you think there's any one in there who can help me out? I'm a doctor, and I've got to get to a pa tient as soon as possible." "Oh," said Rosamond, quickly, "I'll see." She ran at once to her uncle's study. There she told her breathless story. "There's a doctor outside, and his motor car has broken down and and he wants help to fix it "How," her uncle demanded, "did you know But Rosamond went on, unheeding. "It would be cruel to keep him wait ing when he is needed at. a sick bed, wouldn't it. "He might have one of the horses. The young doctor, mounted on one of the bis blacks, was a gallant figure. Rosamond pever forgot how he look ed as he rode that morning out of the big gateway and into the sunshine. When he came back, Rosamond was in the garden, bending over her lace work. He took it out of her hands and looked at her keenly. "You ought to be riding the. big black horse," he said abruptly. "You will be a perfect shad ow maiden if you shut yourself up in this dark old garden." The color came into Rosamond's pale face until she was as vivid as a flame. 'Oh, I hate it here." she said, with her little hands clenched; "I hate it." 'Then why do you stay?" he asked. gently. 'Uncle had his heart broken wnen he was a young man." she said, sim ply. "He loved a woman who mar ried another man. My father brcke my mother's heart so my uncle does not believe in marriage. He kept me in a convent until I was 18, and two years ago we came nere. tie nas always her in his arms as she whispered, "You "I can't carry you off like a thief in the night," he said after a raptur ous moment. "I shall have to beard the lion in his den, dear." "He'll never consent," she said, fearfully. "Wait here for me, my Rose," and he kissed her and went away. Ten minutes later in the dim study two angry men faced each other. "If you do not give your consent I shall run away with her," the doctor said steadily. "You are killing her u not physically, at least mentally and spiritually no girl can live constantly with your old gods and survive." "Tomorrow she goes back to India with me," said the raging guardian, "you cannot take her away from me. I love her too well to have her hurt." "Yet you are hurting her. There la no ache like a heartache. Surely you know that, sir." The old man started as if he had been stung, then covered his face, "I want to save her," he said. "Then let her love and be loved." The younger man came over and put his hand on the bent shoulders. "All that you would have been to the woman you loved, I will be to Rosa mond. Can I say more than that?" The face that was raised to his had m it renunciation, combined with hope. "Make her happy," quavered the old man. (Copyrighted 1912, by Associated Literary Press.) KANSAS COMMENT EVENING CHAT BY RUTH CAMERON. "To be truly happy is a question ot how we begin and not of how we end, or what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy forever, a posses sion as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us, year by year, a revenue of pleasurable activity." Robert Louis Stev enson. The daughter of one of the wealthiest men in our town has recently been mar ried. Her father's wedding gift to her was a house completely furnished. The house stands on the edge of a. fine lawn. It is a beautiful big building with wide verandas, open fireplaces, and a splendid vista. It is finished in rich natural woods and it is furnished complete, even to the minutest detail. Hangings, rugs, orna ments, all the little minutiae of utility and service that most people acquire gradually through years of married life, were absolutely complete in that house, the day the owner stepped into it as a bride. By most of the young girls in the neigh borhood this bride is considered quite the most fortunate girl who ever was mar ried. From this opinion I roost respect fully, but none the less firmly, beg to differ. Why, I think the poor little gir is positively pathetic. And I think h father, though undoubtedly he meant be the kindest and most generous of par ents, has really robbed her of vast pos slbilitios of happiness. Don t you pity her. you people who have known all the joy of gradual home building, all the Interest of planning and waiting and contriving, and all the sat lsfaction of acquisition made a hundred told keener by the delay? Why, just think, she'll never have the unequalled delight that you knew when after waiting and longing for it for years, you bought that beautiful mahogany bookcase. To be sure that bookcase didn't cost as much as one of the arm chairs In her library. And yet It proii ably brought you more pleasure than her whole library gives her. And how can she ever experience the excitement and elation which possessed you. when you found that th particular Oriental rug you had admired for years, had actually been marked down within vour means. To be sure every room In her house is lavishly strewn with far more costly rugs, but what of that.' Do thev bring her half the joy the acquis: lion of that one brouglut to you? indeed no. What chance will she ever get to feel as happy as you did the Christmas that all vour family clubbed together and bought you a good table for your living room and made it possible for you to get rid of the cheap and ugly makeshift you had used so long? Hunger, they say. Is the very best of sauces. Who has never tasted iooci tnus seasoned does not know what a real least Is. Now. planning and longing and contriv ing are equally good sauces for the meal of acquisition. Tn my mind, the young people who start out with the necessities and a Tew of the luxuries, are far better off than the voung folks who have almost everything the heart could desire right off at the be ginning. Every little thing they acquire will be beautified and glorified by longing and waiting, and perhaps by the sacrifices made to obtain it. Every humble piece of household furniture will have a meaning and a history. Thought and love wilj be the interior decorations of such a bouse, and will gradually make it that wonder ful thing which is as different from a mere house as from a city hall a home. Poor little, rich girl who has been rob bed of all the joys of home building. Aren't you sorry for her? I am. A BOY'S COST. Somebody has figured out that tn average boy who Is dependent upon nil parents for a livelihood until he reaches the age of 21 years costs them four thou sand dollars. On this basin of calv-ulattol a brood, for Instance of six boys wouKl represent an outlay of twenty-tour thou sand dollars by the time they get away from the home root. The question arises, does it pay to raise boys and are there r other crops that would prove moiT ITofitable? If a boy turns out to be street loafer with an untramnieled and unconquerable desire to avoid work, it la safe to say that bis parents might nava invested their four thousand dollars at a much better advantuse. Hut if the boy grows up to manhood with the lesson, well learned that wealth and micce grow only on hushes watered by the sweat of ones brow. tli parents need not begrudge whatever thev sp'nt on h1ni, for he will be a source of inereaslnif rride and joy to their hearts, and when they grow old and their hands trenibl and their legs wabble and their step 1 -slow and faltering they have two strop, arms to lean vipon and help them over sli the rough places that lie In their twilight path. Enterprise Push. LOYA LrYr-A VS. Be loyal to your employer, friend. nl do your work us near as possible in tt manner be wishes it done. If he asli you to paint the office cat green and blue, do so cheerfully. If you cannot conscien tiously carry out your boss's wishes. It Is time for you to hunt another Job. Sometime your employer will more than likely be In a position to help you help yourself. He will soon forget the Httln blunders you have made. He blunders himself sometimes. But If you work for him ten years, and are disloyal to him once, that one disloyal moment will spoil your ten years' work so far as he is con cerned. If you cannot be loyal to your employer, friend, quit him on the spot. Sedgwick Tantagraph. IT FHOtl OTHER PENS ADVERTISING TALKS BY WILLIAM C FREEMAN Mr. H. B. Tremalne, of tne Aeolian Co., has been a persistent advertiser lor over twenty years. Every year he spends more money than the year before and al- lived In India, and he loves the stone j ways with greater results. ods which he brought from there, a -id His oft-repeated instructions to nis aa- MODERN WAR PREPARATIONS. That congress has at last awakened to the importance of aerial navigation as a part of modern warfare is indicated by the report that the bill introduced by Rep resentative Hardwick, of Georgia, where by the efficiency of the aviation servhn of the army will be Inrreaed, is likely to be passed without opposition. France, Great Britain, Germany tnl Russia are all ahead of the I'nited State in the aviation phase of military prepara tions. The foreign nations long hro re alized that success or failure of a Kreat engagement might depend upon the aerial equipment of the contending armies. Foreign countries not only work to hripqr their aerial fleets up to h high point of efficiency, but lecognlze the value of th services of the men engaged In the work of perfecting the science for army pur- poses. This country should not remain in the rear of progress any longer. It I time for the United States to enlMrcs It service, and give more adequate compensa tion to the men who are risking their live for the government iti these times of peace that the country may be safeguard ed In time of war. The Hardwick bill doubles the pay and allowance ssslgned to the dangerous duly of a-alion and gives the science s definite stntus for mil itary purposes. Washington Post. o CUBA'S ANSWER The first effect of Secretary Knox n friendly warning to th government nt Havana has lxvn salutary. Btckr-rlnts have censed, following the reminder from Washington that factional trjr In Cui-a cannot be carried beyond cerlain Hinds laid down in the Piatt amendment, cd most of the factions opposod to President Gomez have admitted the folly of risk ing national inocpcnoence for tne suKa or party or personal advantage. That is the part of wisdom. Bv no other course can Cuba hope to avoid In tervention, much as thnt would be dis tasteful to the United Slates. W nn re sponsible for good government in 1h island and we cannot avoid our resjonsl- bllHy. Wrhnt is more, the Cubnns themselves do not wish us to avoid it. and hsv promptly given evidence of Ihe grst If h-s.-tion over the fact tliHt we Mnnd rendv lr save them from the type of polltb-ians that bold sway In less favored Ian-! washed by the blue Caribbean. All who have a slake 1n the industry and pros perity of the Island nnd thev constitute the vast majority of Ms Inhabitants ask for nothing moTe than freedom from tur moil and leaver to go alout their business in peace. Philadelphia Press. he has put them around the fountain, i verttsing and sales departments are: and I have to look at them every "Don't dv!f",e ways n.d man.s "lit j down advertising: anybody can do that- Trusted Sailor Desfrts. Jay, the brlndle bulldog mascot of the battleship Delaware, now lying t the Brooklyn navy yard, has deserted. and the 900 men who man thn crack superdreadnought of the I'nited States navy are wretched in consequence. It is a mighty serious thing to desert or even overstay your leave on the Dela ware, which has a record for a high standard of discipline and efficiency, and the men keep pretty close to the regulations. Jay, however, apparent- y haa not absorbed the spirit of his environment, for the other evening, when permitted to go ashore for u romp, he deserted and nothing lias been seen or heard of him Pince. Return and all will b forgiven." s the message the men of the Dela ware have sent out to Jay, but It ap parently hasn't reached him yet. for he hasn't reported, and there is no that he means to come VAFFYDILS BY U. NO ALL. If the stove was a fiddle would the poker-player? (No. Agnes. Pruning fruit trees does not necessarily help produce a crop of prunes.) If the dew kissed a peach would the lemon-squeezer (Sure. And there'd be plenty to give the lemonade.) If the drug clerk was in debt would the bromo? (Not so much froth in that soda water, if you please.) day He took her little trembling hands in his strong grasp. 'Look at me, he commanded, and she raised her eyes and met his steady glance. "Listen I am going to set the fairy princess free from the enchanted garden. But she must ".et me do it in my own way and trust me will she "Oh, yes," she breathed. Everv day after that he came. Rosa mond did not know what power he used to charm I. er uncle, but the older man grew eager for talks and argu ments with the young doctor. They unched together and dined together, and every day Rosamond sat at the table content to listen, and meet the glance of the steady eyes which seemed to say, always. "Trust me." And she did trust him. even when one day he went by her with averted head as he passed through the garden on his way to his motor. At lunch she had the key to the situ ation. "I have thought sometimes. her uncle said, restlessly, "that the doctor looks at you as if he loved you it would be a calamity if he should learn to care for you, Rosa mond." Rosamond's own heart beat furious ly, but she said carelessly. "He scarce ly notices me at all, uncle." The next day the doctor came early to the garden. "I must speak to you before your uncle comes," he said to Rosarpond, who had arisen at his ap proach. "I love you I want you for t my wife but I don't want you to marry me in order to escape from bondage. You must know love, child, before you leave your garden." Rosamond's eyes drooped before the adoration in his. "There there is one man with whom I could live al ways in my garden," she whispered. He bent to hear her. "Tell me his name' he commanded, then caught indication back. I wu uifir ai.uuD-mni! trip between .April and September last the men of even the office boy. What I want to I'cmvmie collected a lot of mas- know is how we can Increase our adver- i cots, hut Jay put all rivals out of buwi tising to the advantage of the business." I nesa six weeks ago when he came in October, November and leceinber, aboard ship. He Is about n year and 1911 the Aeolian Compajiy spread Itself In a half old, and was presented to rv r,t naries A. dove by a woman who thought that the crack battleship of the navy ought to have something a humnn interest, instructive advertising campaign with magnificent results. Never did the company do a greater busi ness. There was a pessimistic feeling in busi ness circles during the latter part of mil. so many advertisers retrenched used less space tried to save. Usually when peo ple get it into their heads that business is slow the first thing they do it to glvfc their best friend advertising a black eye. It is therefore very refreshing as well as inspiring to have a tnan like Mr. Tre maine jump into the breach open up a more rapid fire than ever and do a won derful business In spite of the pessimists who claimed that everything was going to the "demnition bow wows." In a long experience and making care ful observations I have learned that the man who retrenches in advertising at any period loses more than he saves. W hen he opens up to the throttle again It takes him a great deal longer to get under full headway to get results be cause the business that does not con stantly remind the people of its existence is soon forgotten. Advertise all of the time not extrava gantly, not wastefully but don't give anybody a chance to forget you. (To be continued.) REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. Real brains never stop to tell you they are. A man who can have the bathroom pipes freeze without swearing is as good as in heaven. When a man falls overboard he has a chance to get fished out, but when he gets married there he is. When anybody In the family is afraid to say how old some aunt is. It's a sign she has plenty of money. better in the wav of a mnncot thun a lot ot Boats and parrots. (.'apt. Gove turned Jay over to the men. and his qualities as a maacot were put to the test the. very next day when the bootball team of the Dela ware locked horns with the team from another battleship. T e men of Ihe Delaware won. They won three mora games with Jay barking up and down the Hide lines, unci after that the other mascots had to take a back scat. So popular did Jay become with the men that they made a hammock for him and taught him how to curl up com fortably in it at night. They also bought him a collar with his name and the name of the bnttleship en graved on it. and they fed him tin choicest morsels from the mess. For four weeks Jay behaved admir ably. Two weeks aro he developed a wanderlust, which the men attributed to the excessive petting he got from shore folk In the course of the recent naval review In the Hudson river He was indulged to the extent of being permitted to go ashore and run around a bit each evening, but he al ways came back. In spite of his defec tion, a warm welcome awaits the mascot on board the Delaware, and anybody who find him and brings him back will win the everlasting gratitude of 900 sailors of the United States navy. New VnrV Herald. orK lommy What Is poetic justice' p. When the woman whose bov never broki a window meeis the woman whon dm never bltes.-New York Bun. Bnoae
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