The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 21, 1912

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EVERYBODY 12 PAGES NEEDS IT WEDNESDAY EVENING. On Bale by newsboys at TWO CENTS On train and newsstands FIVE CENTS LAST EDITION. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS. FEBRUARY 21, 1912 1 EVERYBODY i 12 PAGES READ IT As I HOUSTON IS FIRE SWEPT Conflagration Destroys 25 Blocks in Houston, Tex. Thousands of Teople Hare Been Rendered Homeless. PROPERTY LOSS SIX MILLION A Xinnher of Manufacturing: i Plants Burned. Starts Near Midnight and Is Driven by Fierce Wind. Houston, Feb. 21. Imiwlipci bv a ga'e that came in with one of the coldest nt rthers of the winter, flames swept through the eastern section of Houston early today, wiped out 25 blocks and cauted a kss estimated at J6.n00.000. Scores of cottages were destroyed, s well as many big manufacturing plants an 1 thousands of persons were made homeless. The greater part of the loss is con fined to the lumber and cotton indus tries. Forty-five thousand bales of cotton stoied in warehouses and compresses were burned. This item alone repre sents a loss of $2,000 000. The firo started in a cottage near th Southern Pacific railroad tracks soon after i. ..night. Its origin has not been definitely established. A heavy wind picked up the flames and hurled them to neignuormg cottages and boarding houses. In a flash these were ignited. The 40 mile gale carried sparks many blocks away and within half an hour a treat area of small residences was burn ing. The fire then spread to nearby manufacturing plants so rapidly that firemen abandoned attempts to check the flames and instead devoted their energies to warning householders. Pos sible loss of life thus was avoided. At the manufacturing plants and cotton compresses firemen and volun teers had organized to tight the flames. Walls and roofs were water soaked. This water was evaporated quickly by the advance guard of spark,- and when the flames reached the factories these succumbed as easily as the rows of cottages. Firemen Make a Stand. An hour after the flames began their advance the firemen organized for a linal stand at Buffalo bayou, a small stream that divides the eastern part of the city from the main section, and every piece of fire fighting ap paratus was stationed along the banks. If the fire leaped the bayou, it meant the destruction of the city. As the advancing flames began to reach the bayou banks thousands of streams of water were hurled onto them, checking little by little their progress. At some of the narrower portions of the stream the flames leaped across, but the more substantial buildings did not afford the tinderlike fuel heretofore encountered, and the spread of the fire was pre vented. Thousands of persons were driven from their homes. In the cold of the norther they suffered from exposure. Relief work was at once set under way, however, and food and clothing provided. Many persons were hurt during the fire, but so far as can be determined there were no casualties. The burned area is at least a mile and a half long and at points a quarter of a mile wide. It embraced the ashes of long rows of cottages and polid streets of manufacturing plants. It was swept clean. Two Hotels Burned. One of the first of the more preten tious buildings attacked was the brick Star and Crescent hotels. Inmates hid been warned and all escaped without injury. The flames' roar gave warning end hundreds of persons, giving no heed to the cold dashed from their homes clad n their night clothes. Wo men, carrying babies: women at whose ekirts small children clung, gathered iu homes of neighbors for refuge, only to be driven out a few minutes later by the oncoming fire. Firemen appointed leaders among the men of the flame-swept district and they, marshalling the refugees, led them out of danger. Homes quickly were provided in other residence sec tions of ti.e city. Clothing and food were furnished by a relief committee and there was little suffering. Factories destroyed. Among the mills, factories and plants either totally destroyed or se riously damaged by the fire are Mc Fadden Compress and Warehouse company, Dew Brothers' syrup mill, Houston and Liggett Lumber com pany. Rogers Paint Co.. Hudson Pencil factory, Houston Packing company. Slightly damaged: Ed H. Harrell lumber yards. Stone compress, the Co operative Manufacturing company. Acme mill. St. Patrick's Roman Cath olic church and a school operated in conjunction with the church. Cleveland Compress and Cotton ware house, McIIhenney Cotton pickery, Tex as Tinners' Supply company. Industrial Rice Milling compan's plant. South western Rice company's mill. Hoosier Vinegar company's plant and a number of lesser mills. Tk sides the 50,000 bales of cottcn de stroyed with the Standard compress. 36 Southern Pacific cars loaded with cotton bales were burned. The number of homes and stores burned Ls more than 250 The heaviest single classification of losses is involved in cotton. The es timate on cotton compresses and the stored staple reaches two million dol lars. Relief work is under way and there is no lack of food or shelter for the homeless. Lumbermen Suffer. When the flames veered out of the residence district they attacked sev eral manufacturing plants that afford ed tinder-like fuel. Ore of the first factories that burned was tue plant of the Houston Co-Operative Manufac turing com ny, a lumber cone. rn. Its Mock of buildings was quickly consum ed. Thin the life destroyed the Ed H. Harrell Lumber company covering three blocks. Both lumber plants were operated by Abel Brothers. ARE HEREIN FORCE One Thousand Masons Attend ing Grand Lodge. Grand Master Sharp Delivers Annual Address. More than 1,000 members of the Masonic fraternity are in Topeka to day to attend the fifty-sixth annual communication of the Grand lodge, A. r f J1hl1nSn'T.,a" i today are bringing visitors to the Ma sonic work Chas. A. tVinUling. Hutchinson, Grand Master Grand Council It. S. M. Today is the "big day" of the Ma- se-nic conclaves. From 9 o'clock this morning until 4 o'clock this afternoon the Masons have been holding sessions and meetings at the Representative hall in the state house and at the Ma sonic temple. Until late tonight they will carry on the secret work. Harry K. Best, Manhattan, Grand High Priest of Grand Chapter ltoyai Arch Mason. This morning Alex A. Sharp, grand master of the Grand lodge, gave his annual address to the communication at the state house. The galleries and floor were well filled with Topeka Masons and visitors from all over the state. Reports of the grand officers and committees and their reference to the nroper committees also were read. The meetings today are presided over by Mr. Sharp. Grand Master Sharp has piloted the Grand Lodge through its most successful year. His term of office expires today. Alexander A. Sharp, Topeka, Grand A. M. This afternoon at 4 o'clock the en tertainment committees served re freshments to the guests and from 4 o'clock until 6 o'clock there is music. Dana Bolivers Grand Lodsre Oration. The annual Grand Lodge oration was delivered today by Judge A. W. Dana of Siloam lodge No. 225 Topeka. This evening at 7:30 at representa tive hall under the direction of the grand master, Alex A. Sharp and the grand lecturer. William H. Harrison, assisted by a number of Masons, the third degree was exemplified. This is one of the most interesting degrees and one of the most beautiful in Ma sonry. The hall was crowded for the exemplification of the degree. This evening the grand master will hold a conference with the district deputy grand masters in the Masonic Temple. The Topeka committees handling the work of the communication are: Leroy M. Penwell, chairman execu tive committee. George W. Bainter, chairman hotel committee. headquarters National hotel. Theron C. Kirkpatrick, chairman reception committee. James Nelson, chairman entertain ment committee. Samuel L. Courtney. chairman committee on decoration and badges. Elmer F. Strain, chairman commit tee on place of meeting. 1 Mmff (''Wy (Continued on Page Two.) REPUBLICANS ARE UNITED Regulars and Insurgents Get Together on Tariff Bill. Present Solid Front on Revi sion of Chemical Schedule. IT PASSES BY' 178 TO 127 All Democrat Congressmen Vote for the Measure. Victor Murdock Declares It Is Revision Upward. Washington, Feb. 21. For the first time since the insurgent Republicans broke away from the regulars in the fight on the petroleum duty in the Payne tariff bill in 1909, the Republi cans of the house today presented practically a solid front against the passage of a tariff revision bill. All insurgents voted with the regu lar Republican forces against the Un derwood chemical tariff which was passed however, by a vote of 178 to 12 7. The insurgents opposed the measure on the ground that it was revision upward instead of downward. "This bill has no support from the independent voters in the house, be cause it is a rank case of upward re vision," said Representative Victor Murdock of Kansas. "It would take scores of articles from the free list and put duties on them. It is inde fensible." Representative Theron Akin of New Tork, who was elected to congress as an independent Repub lican voted for the measure as also aid Mr. Hanna of North Dakota, a regular Republican. P-epresentative Berger of Wisconsin, Socialist, voted against it. All Democratic members voted for the bill. With the passage of the chemical re vision bill by the house today another Democratic tariff measure was added to the senate calendar. The steel bill is pending in the senate where only a coalition of progressive Republicans and Democrats can pass it. The intention of the senate finance committee is to grant ample hearings to all parties interested in the tariff bills sent over from the house. The hearings on the steel bill probably will be concluded by the end of this month, being continued with the tes timony of representatives of lead in terests. The Republican members of the senate finance committee have had but one conference. They have not definitely outlined their tariff program, but it is believed the debate on the steel and other revision meas ures will be protracted. The illness of Senator LaFollette has interfered seriously with the formula tion of a policy by the progressive Re publican senators who hold the bal ance of power, and so far there have been no real overtures between them and the Democratic leaders. STONETO BE SPEAKER General Manager Associated Press to Address Kditors. University of Kansas, Feb. 21. Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Asso ciated Press, will address the Kansas State Editorial association at its annual meeting in Lawrence in April. This in formation was received in a telegram from Mr. Stone to Chancellor Strong to day. W. R. Nelson, of the Kansas City Star, and Frank P. MacLennan, of the Topeka State Journal, co-operated with the university in obtaining Mr. Stone. Melville E. Stone is the magician who transformed the Associated Press from a national news agency to a world girdling institution. To establish, news bureaus he has personally interviewed the president of ranee, the pope, the king of Italy, Emw.ror William of Germany, and the czar of Russia. Mr. Stones diplomacy in getting me censorship removed from the news of the Russian empire, which had existed ityo immpmnrial. is still a matter of comment in editorial circles. "The censorship is valueless," Mr. Stone told the czar, "because it has built a wall about your country. Men in T.nndnn mnlir ft 11 V- Y lenilit, oeiiin, ...w.. ing by peddling false and harmful news about Russia. If you let us send out the truth uncensored ana uniimuenceu. nua sia must be benefited." mv. nno w finallw uppenlfid hut asked for a mild and merely formal censorship. I m sorrv, youi c3n.cn1.-1n. j Stone "but if we are not absolutely free ,1 onv-thinp In Russia. Tf nur dispatches are not to pass untouched, we shall leave Kussia ana go on bcllius me news of Russia from other countries." Mr. Stone won out and the Russian censorship of news was abolished. parceLsTosTnext. Provision Will Be Incorporated in P. O. Appropriation Bill. Washington, Feb. 21. Democratic members of the house committee on postoffices and postroads have agreed to incorporate in the appropriation bill provisions for the establishment of a general parcels post system. They also have agreed upon a general ao mestic rate of 12 cents and a maxi mum package of 11 pounds. This is the present international parcels post rate. They would also provide for a rural parcels post, the rate to be five cents for one pound and two cents for each additional pound. The provisions will be incorporated in the bill to be reported to the house sometime next week, but the actual wording of the provisions has not been framed. Members of the com mittee expect to encounter some ob jection, on the ground that new legis lation is proposed in an appropriation bill. The parcels post fight has been on in congress for years. Secretary MacVeagh has sent to congress an estimate of the postmas ter general of $400,000 for operating the postal savings banks during the next fiscal year in addition to the un expended $500,000 appropriated last year. TOWN ISDESERTED Council Grove Fights to Pre vent Dread Epidemic. Billiard and Tool Halls, Schools and Churches Closed. Council Grove, Kan., Feb. 21. No longer does the busy mother send her son to the store after the forgotten articles for father's dinner. No longer does he stop on the way to play marbles. There are no gatherings of boys on the street corners. The cause of all th s change is the rigid enforcement of a closing and cur few order resulting from the dread of cerebro spinal meningitis. One death has already occurred, a child is ill with the disease and two more cases are sus pected but have not yet developed to the point where physicians can be sure in their diagnosis. Gatherings Forbidden. Churches and schools are closed. No lodge meetings are held. The click of ivory balls is heard no more for the billiard and pool halls are closed. Children are not allowed upon the streets. It is a case of stay at home for them thus spoiling the "holiday" which they are "enjoying." Business is hard hit by these meas ures. People in the country and in town are terror stricken by the pres ence of the disease and merchants whose places are the only ones not closed, report a decrease in trade. No one here has any idea where the disease came from, but it is hoped that the present energetic measures will pre vent an epidemic. iiiiifs a tin 01.1 mi E11U -HI1IJ OllUli Storm Does Immense Damage in the South. Much Property Destroyed and Many Cattle Killed. Dallas, Tex., Feb. 21. Heavy wind storms, accompanied in some sections of Texas by heavy snowfall, did thous ands of dollars damage by wrecking buildings and demoralizing telegraph and telephone service. In the Pan handle the storm, accompanied by four inches of snow, disarranged rail road schedules. San Antonio and Austin, where the damage appears greatest, report a .wind averaging 70 to 10ft miles an hour which unroofed, many residences, blowing -down chimtiej s and uprooting trees. At El Paso much damage is feared from frost as fruit trees were in blos som. At Stamps, near Texarkana, a wind and hailstorm demolished sev eral houses and killed many cattle. No loss of life has been reported. Many Cattle Killed. Meridian, Miss., Feb. 21. A de structive windstorm swept over this district last night destroying thous ands of dollars worth of property, killing herds of cattle and demolish ing homes in the surrourmling coun try. Telegraph wires were prostrated, communication not being restored till this afternoon. Rev. W. T. Carroll was seriously in jured when his home at Klondyke, ten miles north, was destroyed. A dozen other residences were blown down. At Baily, six houses and four J)axns were destroyed. At Antioch a church was demolished and two houses blown down. The store and home of D. J. Stinson 20 miles north were destroyed. At Bodga, a lumber mill and sev eral houses were wrecked. Reports from the storm area are slow in reach ing here owing to the almost para lyzed condition of the telegraph and telephone wires. Pensacola Cut Off. New Orleans, Feb. 21. Attempts to communicate with Pensacola where, it is known a severe storm raged last nfght were unsuccessful today. All wires are down. At points along the Florida coast near Pensacola, a 60 mile wind was registered. It was accompanied by a heavy rain. SNOW IN LITTLE ROCK. Railway Traffic Men Work to Ilestore Schedules. Kansas City, Feb. 21. With the clear ing of the skies in Kansas and Okla homa and northern Texas today rail way traffic impeded by heavy snows yesterday and last night assumed a semblance of regularity. Snow continued falling today in southern Missouri and northern Ar kansas. The local forecaster said the snow would cease today and the storm move northeastward. Two feet of snow has fallen at Springfield, Mo., and a foot at Little Rock, Ark., since yester day morning. Three Trains Are Snowbound. Wichita, Feb. 21. -Snow drifted in deep cuts hold three Missouri Pacific passenger trains captive, two neai Reece, Kan., and one between Hooser, Kan., and Dexter, Kan. Men have been sent from this city to dig them out. LIZZARD IN NORTH. Snow Belt Extends From Wisconsin to St. Louis. Chicago. Feb. 21. A snow storm blown by a 42 mile gale from the north visited Chicago and th central states today arid a sudden drop of the mercury accompanying it destroyed hopes of a long period of pleasant weather inspired by the spring like air of the three preceding days. The snow- belt reached south to St. Louis, west to central Iowa, north into Wisconsin and east into Ohio. Not more than an inch of snow has fallen in any section, according to the government report but it is coming down steadily. Street car traffic was affected. Delay in hog shipments caused the market to go up from 5 to 10 cents here at tha opening. IT WILL BE TIIEIRBIG DAY Democrats Will Be Here In Porce Tomorrow. t -WW 3 J T ....4 Aireaay oix nuuureu oiuniut i Tickets Have Been Sold. W00DR0W WILSON IS COMING Jiew Jersey Executive the Guest of Honor. Program of Toasts Is Short but High Class. Secretary J. H. Ulsh of the Kansas Democratic club said today that over six hundred tickets had been sold for the big banquet to be held at the Ma sonic temple tomorrow night. "We will have all the guests we can take care of," declared Mr. Ulsh. "The advance sale of tickets exceeds that of any banquet in past years. We can care for only about seven hundred and fifty diners with comfort in the big hall. Tiie interest taken in the Washington's birthday banquet this year by party men and leaders from all over the state makes it look to me like a Democratic year. "The banquet itself will be an elabor ate affair with six kinds of meat and all the fretwork and trimmings for a feast. The service will be fine. But wa have dispensed with the vocal music between courses and speeches this jfcar. I do not believ-a that the diners care for it. The program is shorter than heretofore, and I think that will prove popular with the g-uests. All in all, I am looking forward to a big success of the annual affair." Wilson Guest of Honor. The Democrats secured a topliner for their gueat of honor at the banquet this year in the person of Governor Wood row Wilson, of New Jersey, Democratic candidate for president. While Champ Clark of Missouri is strong in his own section of the country as a presidential candidate, yet Wilson is a national figure and has been in the public eye for more than a year past and in great demand for speeches all over the coun try. Governor Wilson has not spoken in Kansas before and has a host of ad mirers in the sunflower state. In fact, before Clark got into the Kansas con gressional campaigns Wilson was the favorite In this state for the Demo cratic nomination. 'Continued on Page 2.1 FIRE IN A TUNNEL, Prevents Wrecking Crew From Clear ing Out Debris. North Adams, Mass., Feb. 21. Fierce fire and heavy explosions in the debris made it impossible for wrecking crews to reach the scene of the collision of a passenger train and a freight on the Boston and Maine railroad inside the Hoosac tunnel. Attempts to get to the burned cars were abandoned until the fire has burned itself out which may be Saturday or Sunday. The dead will not exceed four, it is believed. M. E. Rath born, conductor of the freight train, who was thought to have been killed, is safe. The dead are members of the train crews. The cause of the accident has not been determined. BAD GANG SENTENCED Baldwins, lather and I-Xur Sons, to Serve Time. Walsenbiirg, Col.. Feb. 21. Six mem bers of the notorious Baldwin gang which has terrorized this district for months were sentenced to the state pen itentiary today by Judge Hunter of the district court. They were charged with robbery. Five of those sentenced are mem bers of one family. They are: John Baldwin, the father, sentenced from iix to ten years, and four sons, Con, four to ten years; Robert, three to ten years, and William and Harold, five to ten years. Harry Hill, a member of the gang, whose testimony largely was re sponsible for the conviction of the rest cf the gang, was given afive to ten year sentence. JUROR IS SNOWBOUND So There Is No Morning Session in Kimmel Case. St. Louis. Feb. 21. Because of a snow storm which prevented a juror in ths Kimmel case reaching the federal building today no session was held. Tha formal announcement that a recess would be taken until 2 o'clock was made shortly before noon. The Rev. Cordello Herrick, former chaplain at the Auburn, N. Y., prison, was in court to be cross-examined by attorneys for the plaintiff. OLSEN COUNSEL HERE Defense of Murder Case to Be Shown in Supreme Court. Council Grove. Kan.. Feb. 21. J. M. Miller and John Olsen, the former coun sel for and the latter the fathe- "Tony" Olsen, convicted of second de gree murder in connection with the death of Walter Newfarmer last Aug ust, are en route to Topeka today to present the defendant's side of the case to the supreme court. "Tony" Olsen did not accompany them. He is sick here Weather Indications. Chicago, Feb. 2L Forecast for Kansas: Unsettled tonight and Thursday. Colder in northeast portion tonight. ANARCIIYREIGNS Robber Bands Are Roaming at Will in Mexico. American Residents Complain Loudly of Their Treatment. Washington, Feb. 21. Advices from Mexico to the state department today, indicating widespread anarchy south of the Rio Grande, caused much un easiness in official circles. Several cities and towns are report ed to be in the hands of rebels, pro tests by Americans against robberks are multiplying and robber bands are operating without apparent in terruption throughout the republic. It is feared that all that is needed to again plunge Mexico into civil strife is a leader who can harmonize the factions and bring the rebellious elements1 together. Sinaloa, Oaxaca and Tucatan are said to be waging open warfare against the government while from all quarters of Mexico reports of raids by marauding bands continue to increase. Americans in the Culiacan valley. In south Mexico, have suffered to such an extent from robber bands that they have made lirgent appeal for aid to the United States government. The extent of the losses was not contained in the consul's report to the state de partment. The situation in which Americans find themselves is consid ered so serious by the department that its representatives have been instruct ed to make semi-weekly reports, in addition to their urgent communica tions. THEY LOSE BOOTY Train Robbers Foiled by Dar ing Engineer. Uses Left Arm to Work Throt tle Following Injury. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Feb. 21. With his right arm broken by a bandit's revolver bullet. Engineer V. Mansfield early this morning drove Northwest ern fast mail train No. 9 ten miles in to Cedar Rapids and fell fainting to the station platform, after defeating an attempted holdup by masked men near Bertram. As the bullets from the highway men sang about his head and buried themselves in the side of the cab, Mansfield jerked the throttle wide open and left his assailants standing beside the track. At Cedar Rapids a posse was or ganized and sent back to the scene of the attempted holdup and a man hunt was begun. The country in the neigh borhood of Bertram is heavily wooded and is believed that the highwaymen will seek shelter in the woods. A re volver battle is expected at any mo ment. The train left Chicago at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday night and was due to arrive at Cedar Rapids at 1:45 o'clock this morning. There is said to have been a large sum of currency carried in the forward express coach. At a lonely spot on the road about ten miles east of Cedar Rapids, the bandits planned to stop the train-, overpower the guards and dynamite the safe. The train was running at a rate of about 6 0 miles an hour when Mans field noticed a red light shown a half mile ahead. Sends Steam Into Their l-'aces. Applying his brakes, he brought his train almost to a stop when he no ticed a half dozen men standing near the track where the signal was shown. Their faces were masked and they covered the engineer with their re volvers. On the opposite side of the track two other men menaced the fireman with their weapons. Without attempting to get out of range of the desperadoes' weapons, Mansfield pulled open the throttle and released a cloud of hot steam from the valves. The bandits scrambled down the embankment to escape the scald ing steam and then opened fire. The engineer's arm was broken by almost the first bullet. Hastily shifting his left hand to the throttle, he held "the locomotive at top speed until Cedar Rapids was reached, with his broken right arm hanging by his side. He was carried unconscious to a hospital at Cedar Rapids and another engineer took the train westward to Omaha. It is believed that the high waymen are Chicago criminals who learned here of plans to send out a shipment of money on th fast mail and who went to Bertram on an ear lier train. TAFT HEARS GOOD NEWS Reports Come in of Support In Many Quarters. Washington, Feb. 2 1. President Taft is advised by his friends in Geor gia, Alabama and Wisconsin of the results of political conventions and conferences in those states. All the reports forwarded to the White House showed that the Taft forces had won. Messages were received from the eighth Georgia district convention in session at Athens; the eighth congres sional district committee of Alabama and Milwaukee conference of Wiscon sin Republicans. All said the Taft ad ministration was endorsed. The Wisconsin telegram read: "Seven hundred Wisconsin Repub licans, assembled in convention and representing every section of the state, give unqualified approval of vour administration and pledge you their earnest support in the approach ing- campaign. 1 his endorsement ex presses the political convictions of the Wisconsin i-cepu oncans w no sup nnrt vou in maintaining Republican principles and the policies you have so widely advocatea. TVie Union county, N. J.. Republican committee in a meeting at Elizabeth also endorsed the Taft administration. Socialists Klect a Mayor. Bemi'lji. Minn., Fee. 21. The so-ial-ists won a victory here, electing Frrd M. Malzahn mayor by 24 votes. Thero were two other candidates for the of fice. The socialists also elected one alu erman out ot four chosen. A OF DEMOCRACY Col. Theodore Roosevelt in a Speech at Columbus, O., Discusses Various Problems of Popular Government. ON THE RECALL OF JUDGES He Declares It Is a Question of Expediency. Does 'ot Favor It for Short Term Officers. Columbus. O., Feb. 21. "Big Business" the fitness of the Ameri can people for self-government, tha recall of judges, and praise for the progressive legislation in Wisconsin instituted and furthered by Senator Robert M. LaFollette when he was governor, were topics discussed by Theodore Roosevelt in an address to day before the Ohio constitutional convention here. Colonel Roosevelt chose as his subject, ".A Charter of Democracy." Of what he termed "Big Business." Colonel Roosevelt had this to say: "The anti-trust law does good inso far an it can be invoked against com binations which really are monopo lies or which restrict production or w-hich artificially raise prices. But in sofar as Its workings are uncertain or as It threatens corporations which have not been guilty of antl-soclal con duct it dots harm. There s-hould be a fixed governmental policy which shall clearly define and punish wrong doing and give in advance full infor mation to any man as to Just what he can and Just what he cannot legal ly and properly do." ltcoall of Judges. As to the fitness of the American people for self-government. Colonel Roosevelt said: "Many eminent lawyers believe that the American people are not fitted for popular government and ttiat it la neces:?ary to keep the judiciary 'inde pendent of the majority of the peo ple.' I take absolute isfuo with all those who hold such a position. "As to the recall. I do not b lieve that h rgis any great necessity for it as regards aTiort term election of- fleers." (Continued on Page Three.) MANY HEAR T. R. Politicians From All Over Ohio Jour ney to Columbus. Columbus, O.. Feb. 21. Politicians from all over Ohio came to Columbus today to hear Colonel Roosevelt .ex press his views on matters pending in the constitutional convention which have been -the subject of political de bate throughput the state. Interest in his speech was heightened by the fact that Governor Harmon a few days ago outlined his opinions to the same con vention. As the colonel's train paswed through Ohio people gathered at every station at which a stop was made. At Trinway, Lewis Adams, aged 90. a schoolmate of President Garfield, greeted Colonel Roosevelt. Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden of the First Con gregational church, an old friend of the former president, met him at the station. Colonpl Roosevelt went di rectly to Dr. Gladden's home for a short rest before proceeding to the state house where he made his ad dress. After finishing hin speech Colonel Roopevelt returned to Dr. Gladden' home for luncheon, to remain ther until his departure for New York. On his way from Columbus to New Tork this evening Colonel Roooervelt will make a ten minute stop in Cleve land and address a crowd that 13 ex pected to gHther to greet him. Upon entering the state house the former president was greeted by cheers from the crowd that filled the rotunda. As he entered the convention hall and took his place in tne speaKers cnair there was more applause. Introducing Mr. Roosevelt the president of the con stitutional convention Herbert Btgekw. of Cincinnati, referred to the former resident as a man wnose race is mora familiflr than the face of the mail ia the moon. Mr. Roosevelt s speecn was rrequent- ly interrupted by cheering. When he deeiareo ior jun mr nw, thA hie- cornorations and email dealer. there was but a scattered handclap-I'lns-

"I find ttiat pepie uo nm rr.-in like to applaud that kind of a state ment," said Mr. Roosevelt as he smitod The applause long ana inua, w num. diately forthcoming. After leaving the convention hall Col. Roosevelt made ft second address, a short talk to tha crowd in the rotunda. WEATHER UNSETTLED. .Mercury Below Freezing and Wind M Chilling. It i a raw and disagreeable day with a penetrating wind blowing at a 20-mi!e pace from the northwest. The tem peratures are averaging 6 degrees be low normal for the day. The fore caster predicts generally fair weather for tonight and tomorro will be slightly lower temperatures. The shippers' forecast reads: "Pro tect 3fi hour shipments north and west against temperature of 15; Kouth and east against 18 degrees." Thl afternoon the stage of the rivr was 13-4 feet, but had begun to go down. The ice is floating out in good shape between Topeka and Kansas City and no trouble; is expected. The hourly reaaings: 7 o'clock 24 11 o'clock... 12 o'clock... 8 o'clock 24 9 o'clock 25 10 o'clock 25 1 o'clock.. 2 o'clock Zi

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBRUARY 21, 1912 HER STORY IS SAD Mrs. Rickels Bares Her Life Tragedy Before Jury. Tells Facts Leading Up to Mur der of Daughter. HUSBAND PURSUED THE GIRL Threatened to Kill Her and Also Himself. Her Eridence Leaves No Doubt About the Crime. Between hysterical sobs and with tears running down her face, Mrs. Ida j Rickels late Tuesday evening eoniessea to the coroner's Jury her own part in the disgrace of Clara Belle Stickney, her 14 year old daughter. Within the narrow walls of the county attorney's office and away from the curious gaze of the crowded court room, the mother dramatically related the relations of fcer husband and daughter. Albert Stickney. Brother of Clara Belle Stickney. At times Mrs. Rickels was overcome with emotion and swayed in the wit ness chair. In the brief intervals be tween the questions and answers, there was a solemn quiet in the county attor ney's private office, broken only by the woman's emotional sobs. There were damp eyes among the jurors as the wife and mother bared the daughter's life to the world and hesitatingly told i of the step-father's forced attentions for the little girl in the country school district. The little room in the court house was crowded. Yet only six jurors, the court officers and a half dozen newspaper writers heard the story that was wrung from the woman's heart. It was late in the afternoon when the Jury was taken from the crowded court room to hear from the woman's lips the story of sickening experiences in the Rickels home. Leaning on the arms of her two lder sons, ilie svoinan -'as conducted to the county attorney's pri vate office. She had barely recovered from the sight of the gun that brought death to her husband and daughter and of bits of wearing apparel that wer; exhibited an hour before in the court room. In her weakened condition her voice was at times scarcely audible in the small room, but as the examination continued, her voice grew stronger and her power to portray the secrets of life in the modest country home seemed to increase. At times she became almost dramatic and persons In the stuffy lit tle room leaned forward fearful that they would miss some word of her tes timony. For ten minutes of the preliminary examination, the woman told of Rick els and his history. She told of his threats, his suicidal tendencies, of the death of his father by a grun shot, fired by his own hand. Then she told of her marriage to the man in Abilene eight years ago, of their financial reverses and Rickels disappointments and brood ing when unable to find employment. On these occasions Rickels threatened to kill himself. Once he tried It when he took chloroform while the family was living In Abilene. Threats to Kill. Then the examination narrowed to the year preceding the double tragedy. It had to do more with Rickels and his Insane infatuation for the step daughter and of the girl's hatred for the man. "Did ha threaten anyone else when he paid he would kill himself?" asked County Attorney Simon. "Yes," said the woman, as she hesi tated a moment, "he said. 'If I shoot myself, I will shoot someone else, too.' Ha seemed to be awful angry angry n t all of us." "Was it over his relations with Clara?" "Oh. yes. Yes, it was," sobbed the woman, as she hid her face in her hands for a brief minute and seemed to struggle to collect her thoughts. "Then tell the jury what it was," continued the lawyer. "It was about 4 o'clock one morn ing. "We had quarreled all night. He threatened to kill us ifif" It was some time before the woman could compose herself and continue. "He aaid he would kill someone if Clara didn't come to his room. I beg ged him to kill me, but to spare ray dear little girl. He was awful angry. I didn't know what he would do. So well, I consented. Somehow I thought I could protect my darling better if she was by my side. Then she stayed in bed with us the rest of the night." "Did anyone interfere?" was asked. "Well, my son Albert lighted the lamp and came to the door. He was in the other room. He came to pro- i tect Clara and as he entered the I room, he said, 'I won't have mv sister i ruined.' Oh. I didn't know what was going to happen. So I screamed to my i boy. 'Oh, Albert, thou shall not kill.'

Coffee A few days and the -whole family will say buy more. Blend No. 3, per lb 45c Blend No. 10, per lb 50c Tea Coffee China 815 Kan. Ave. Phones 749 1ft and I begged and prayed with Rickels to kill me. He said, I don't want to shoot you,' and kept trying to make love to Clara." "Did he ever threaten to kill Clara?" Mrs. Rickels was asked. "Tes, he had threatened before to kill her and we watched him, fearing some harm would befall the girl." "Why did he propose to kill her" Simon asked. 7" Mrs. Ida Rickels and Five-Year-Old Herlcrt Rickels, as Tliey Appeared in the Court Room. "It was because she wouldn't obey him -Wouldn't do what he told her. She sometimes came crying to me and said her father did not talk right to her that he would kill her if she didn't obey. I told her to let him kill her first, but not to yield. And she said she would die first. Then I sent for Albert to come home. I told him we were afraid to stay alone with Rickels that everything was not right between Clara and her father." Then Mrs. Rickels told of the mad infatuation of her husband for the stepdaughter. She recalled the girl's taunts and the insane jealousy which he exhibited on these occasions. "At first I thought it was just a fatherly love," said the slain girl's mother. "I wasn't jealous. I thought it was all right, but as Clara grew older, I was worried and we grew to fear the man." Xo Indications of Trouble. In the presence of her stepfather, the girl was usually jovial and only when evading the man's forced atten tions, showed outbursts of temper. The night before the killing the family sat in the little dining room and joked and gossiped until bed time. The next morning, Clara Belle seemed as happy and cheerful as usual. "She kissed me goodby, just as she always did," related the mother, "and there was nothing to indicate trouble between Rickels and my little girl." Mrs. Rickels recalled that the same week of the shooting, her husband had renewed his advances toward her daughter. She also told of the visit of X. P. Wolpert to the home, when Rickels had threatened to kill some one. The day of the killing, Mrs. Rickels said she did not leave the house until after the return of her 7-year-old son from school. She also declared that Albert Stickney, her elder son, was sick all day and t-id not leave his bed until his halfbrother announced that Clara had not been to school that day. In the little cfHee with his mot-" Herbert Rickels, the 7-year-old son, was use- as a witness. His testimony contradictt. his former slory in sev eral important details. Whey, taken to the county attorney's office t week, the boy said he heard a shot" in the neighborhood of the kill ing shortly after he arrived at the Fairview school. This statement he de nied before the coroner's iury and s he could not remember hearing a shot after he reached the school house. Girl Hated Stepfather. The boy had earlier told of a whis pered conversation between Rickels and the Stickney girl the morning of the shooting. He said on the witness stand that he c'id not remember such a conversation and dtnied that his father visited Clara Belle's room the morning of the killing. Of one thing the boy was positive. His halfsister did not like his father. She hated him, the boy said, and often showed her hatre I in -conversations held in the home. As to his trip to school that morn ing, Herbert's memory was clear. Hi3 father took him through the alfalfa field as far as the culvert, a half mile south of Rickels home, se said. Here the father left him and the boy did not see where he went after that time. Then .he hearing was again trans ferred to the district court room. Miss Grace Wallace, teacher at the Sun beam school, told of meeting Clara Belie Stickney in the road neir the scene of the killing, while the two girls were on their way to different schools. They chatted a minute and each went their way. She was the last person, except Rickels, to see the girl alive. D. H. Wallace, brother of the Sun beam teachtr and himself teacher in the Fnitview school, snid Heroert Rirk els was the first pupil to arrive at school Thursday morning. He new nothing of the double tragedy until Mrs. Rick els told him her husband and daughter were missing. He then aided in the search and was a slnrl distance from N. P. Wolpert when the latter found the bodias in the lonely ravine. He cor roborated the testimony of former wit nesses when he described the position of the bodies as they lay at the bottom of the gulch. Court Rom Packed. The court room was packed almost to the point of suffocation by the crowd which began to assemble an hour before time for the hearing to begin. School was dismissed in the two districts near where the murder occurred and children and their par ents took the day off to attend the in quest. People stood on tiptoe and craned their necks to get a glimpse of Mrs. Rickels, the woman doubly bereaved by the recent tragedy. Herbert Rick els, the young son of the dead man was also an interesting personage to the crowd. Second to him and his mother, was Miss Wallace, the young school teacher, who Is believed to be the last person who saw the girl alive except Rickels. Mrs. Rickels was in tears most of the time. She has not yet recovered from the nervous shock she received, when her 8-year-old son told her Clara Belle had not been at school that day. She cried aloud several times during the afternoon, complete ly losin gcontrol of herself when the shotgun with which the double killing was committed was offered in evi dence. She was also similiarly de monstrative when Rickels' cap was made an exhibit. At a late hour it seemed that the hearing would hardly be concluded to night. The testimony dragged and there were 18 witnesses to be exam ined for the benefit of the men who are trying to sift the murder case to the bottom. According to the various officers who first visited the scene the body of Rickels was found lying across the girl's legs. The shotgun lay beneath him. The girl s lunch bucket was 20 feet from the bodies and tracks indi cated that both the man and girl had gone to where it lay and returned to where the bodies were found. The cap of Rickels lay 25 feet in another direction from where the bodies lay when found. Rickels Relieved Insane. Wolpert testified that five or six weeks ago on going to the Rickels home one morning he found Albert and Clara Belle Stickney in the yard. Both were crying. He inquired the cause of their tears and was told that there had been trouble in the Rickels home that night.. Rickels, he was told, had thertaened to kill the entire fam ily. On another occasion he said Mrs. Rickels had told him that Rickels was acting strangely and that she believed he was insane. There was some talk between the two as to the advisability of putting the man in charge of the sheriff. Later Wolpert testified that he was in the Rickels home one day and Clara Bell did something which dis pleased Rickels. He scolded her and declared that "some one ought to take a club to her." Mrs. Rickels Breaks Down. While N. P. Wolpert was testifying to the second trip he made to the Rickels home on the day of the trag edy Mrs. Rickels became hysterical and had to be taken fror the room, sedatives were administered and It was hoped that she would later be in con dition to tell her story when called upon. New evidence tending to bring out jealousy for the cause of the slaying of the girl was secured from Wolpert. He was at the Rockels home at 8 o'clock a. m. the day of the killing. While there he heard the girl tell her mother that if any mail came for her, the girl, not to open it. Wolpert says he joked with the girl about a young man with whom she corresponded in Kansas City. Rickels could have heard the conversation as he was pres ent, the witness said. Not long after this, according to the witness, the Rickels boy and his fath er left the house. Albert Stickney, Mrs. Rickels' 21 year old son, was in the house in bed, Wolpert said, when he arrived at the house and at 10 o'clock when he left Stickney had not left the bed. At a few minutes after 4 o'clock he was again at the Rickels house, he said, and heard the boy tell of the ab sence of his half sister from school. He heard Mrs. Rickels scream that she knew something terrible had hap pened to the girl. Wolpert says he or ganized a seaching party and took part in the hunt for the mis-sing man and girl. He later discovered the bodies himself. Finding Second Empty Shell. A. C. Sloan, a reporter, told of find ing the bodies when he went to the scene of the killing with the officers. He was recalled later and testified to the finding of the second empty shell within ten feet of where Richels lay. By some the existence of a second empty shell has been denied. Coroner Bombgardner testified to finding the loaded shell in the pockets of the clothes worn by Rickels. Mrs. C. B. Van Horn and O. P. Davis testified at the Rickels Inquest this afternoon that gunshot wounds caused the death of Clara Stickney and John J. Rickels, her step-father. They de clared "that Rickels' brain had been torn to pieces bv an explosion which occurred within the head. By this they meant, thev said, that the gun had been pressed tightly against the head when It was discharged. In the cas' if the girl indications were that the weapon was not held so closely to her head when the shot which caused her death was fired. ARE HERE III FORGE. (Continued from Pnee l- Election on Thursday. Tomorrow will be the election of of ficers of the grand lodge. Following out the order of promotion, it is prob able that Judge W. E. Hutchinson of Garden City will be made grand mas ter to succeed Alex A. Sharp of To peka. E. C. Cole of Great Bend, now grand senior warden, will be made deputy grand master. Charles H. Chandler of Topeka, grand junior warden, will be grand senior warden. THEY CAN'T GET LOOSE The Vpton Sinclairs Are Again Denied a Divorce. New York, Feb. 21. Supreme Court Justice Newberger has refused to confirm the report of Marshal S. Mar den, referee in the divorce brought by Upton Sinclair, the author, against Meta Fuller Sinclair. The referee rec ommended that a decre be granted, but Justice Newberger held that the evidence was insufficient for a decree in this state. This is the second time that a report of the referee in the case has been left unconfirmed. c. sTgleed .wins Will Be Elected President Missouri Kansas Telephone Co. Kansas City. Feb. 21. The defeat of the insurgents in the election of directors of the American Telegraph and Telephone company means that C. S. Gleed of Topeka, will be re-elected president of the Missouri-Kansas Tele phone company which owns the Bell exchanges in Kansas City, Topeka and numerous toil lines in Kansas. SCRANTQN IS OUT Tar Party Member Released to Pro vide for Family. Lincoln Center, Kan., February 21. Watson Scranton, convicted last No vember of participating in the attack On Miss Mary Chamberlain, a school teacher, was released on parole from the county jail here Tuesday. Judge Grover, who sentenced Scranton, an nounced the parole was given because his family was in want. Miss Chamberlain, a school teacher, was slured to a spot near here and her body coated with tar. SEIEED TRIAL HALTS Fort Worth, Feb. 21.' Adjournment of the trial of J. B. Sneed, accused of the murder of Captain A. G. Boyce, until today was taken Tuesday be cause of the death of a relative of an attorney for the defense. The state has only one more witness to be heard, the undertaker who took Captain Boyce to the hospital after he w-as shot. Card of Thanks. Mr. W. H. Tucker wishes to thank the friends and neighbors for their kind assistance, their expressions of sympathy, and the beautiful floral of ferings during his recent bereavement. Guaranteed Kentucky blue grass seed and whiteclover. New stock just in. Zimmerman Seed Co. GRAIN IS STRON Snow Pro yes a Help to Bulls in Cora Pit. Fire Million Bushels on Track In Chicago. THE BENEFIT TO FALL WHEAT Is Already Discounted by Yes terday's Decline. Packers' Buying Gives Firm ness to Hog Products. Chicago, Feb. 2L CORN With five mil lion bushels of corn on track here, snow today proved a help to the bulls in the grain pits. Attention of traders was di- j rected to the delay in railroad switching j which could not help but turn out a ser ious factor. As a result there was decided i firmness shown in the prpice of corn and the strength spread to other cereals, j May corn opened the same as last night to Vo higher at 67W,e to 67c and rose to OCJSC. Good demand southwest and at the sea board pushed the market still further up ward. The close was steady at 67!6sc for May, a gain of f ?ic net. WHEAT In the wheat crowd there was a disposition to regard the benefit WILL BE THEIR BIG DAY (Continued from Page One.) Wilson is the great progressive in his party and all the Kansas Democrats want to see and hear him. Hugh Farrelley of Chanute, candi date for the United States senate, is also a star number on the program. Farrelley is an orator of the old school. Burt Brown of Lawrence, president of the club, is a speaker. Thomas L. Bond of Salina is another orator of ability. A. W. Kopke is the young Democrat fresh from college awarded a place on the program. Judge W. H. Thompson of Garden City, also a candidate for the United States senate, is one of the speakers. Six in all. A short program. But a strong one. Governor Wilson will leave St. Louis tonight over the Rock Island, arriving in Kansas City at 7 o'clock I tomorrow morning; He will spend j two hours in Kansas City and leave for I Topeka on the Rock Island at 10:30, arriving here at 12:35 p. m. A num i ber of Kansas Democrats will go to Kansas City on the early morning j train to meet the distinguished guest and accompany him to Topeka on the noon train. The governor will spend 1 the day at the Throop hotel, holding a reception for prominent Democrats during the afternoon. Menu Is Elaborate. The bill of fare for the banquet is most elaborate. There will be thirty three numbers on the menu as fol lows: Blue Point Oyster Cocktail Wafers Hot House Radishes Spanish Olives Sweet Pickles Hearts of Celery (sliced Tomatoes alted Peanuts Salted Almonds Mountain Trout from Colorado California Sliced Peaches Sliced Oranges Roast Young Duck from Gage's park Roast Young Turkey, Cranberry Sauce Koast Young Chicken, Democratic Style Roast Prairie Chicken, Second District Style Roast Jackrabbit, Seventh District Style Jello Moulded in Forms. Cold Ox Tongue Cold Banquet Ham Saratoga Chips Shoestring Potatoes Cream Slaw Lobster Salad Fruit Salad Hot Finger Rolls Hot Purse Rolls Vanilla Ice Cream Assorted Cake Roquefort Cheese American Cheese Distilled Water Coffee Cigars Will Be Here Tomorrow. The Democrats will take the town tomorrow. They hope to win this year in "Kansas and they are coming to make plans and bury factions and at tend a love feast. Governor Wilson is expected to arrive in the city at noon and he will hold a levee at the hotel the rest of the day. The committee in charge of the ban quet ia composed of the following gentlemen: Burt E. Brown. Frank Simms, J. H. Ulsh, J. W. Kelley, George Hanley, Frank S. Thomas, Ed C. Arnold, H. C. Lindsey. As the Democratic Editorial associa tion will hold its annual meeting in Topeka tomorrow it is reasonably cer tain that there will be no dearth of Democratic editors at the banquet. State Chairman Henderson Martin registered at the Throop hotel this morning. Martin is one of the original Wilson men. He expects that the Kan sas delegation will be for Wilson at the Baltimore convention. "But," said Mr. Martin. "I want you to understand, young man, that the banquet is to be a love feast. Politics may creep in in cidentally, but we are here to eat and be merry. The fight will come off at Hutchinson next month. This is to be party day and not candidate day. Wil son and Clark men and Billard and Hodges men will fight it out and th majority will decide in each case. I look for this to be the best banquet in the history of the party in the state." W. P. Feder, the Great Bend edito-, came in today. Feder has not yet de cided whether he will make the race for lieutenant governor. Burt Brown, of Lawrence, president cf the banqtet committee, is here and is busy all the time. Brown is candi date for secretary of state. Sam Graybill of Hutchinson, E. A. Walker of Columbus. G. O. Dakin of Ashland, C. S. Kenney of Ashland, W. J. Lewis of Colby aure among the early morning arrivals. TIRE OF W. A, WHITE Boys Say They Want Something Else to Look: At. Kansas City, Feb. 21. Not even William Allen White was enough of an attraction in Emporia, Kansas, to keep Eddie Waterbury and Bryan Greer from running away from that town and coming to Kansas City in search of strange amusements and sights. "There's nothing in Emporia but William Allen White, and a feller gets tired of him when you see him every day," said Waterbury, who is 12 years old, in giving a policeman a reason why he ran away from home. Waterbury is 'the eon of Edward S. Waterbury, county attorney in Em poria. Greer, who ran away with Waterbury. is 15 years old. "We thought Emporia was a pretty dull place and that is why we came away," said Greer. of the snow in the fall sown fields as hav ing been discounted by yesterday's de cline. The market responded a little to weakness of foreign exchanges but then rallied later. Opening prices were ltHic down to c up. May started at 9isc to 99c a loss of a shade to I4!6?ic and then ascended to 1.00Vb- On the advance reaching il.WA demand fell off and offerings became more free. In consequence prices underwent a rapid set back. The close, however, was steady with May c net higher at $1.001.0tH- OATS Control of oats depended on corn. There was moderate activity but prices gradually hardened. May opened higher at 524c and advanced to 521:4'(i. 52c PROVISIONS Packers buying made hog products firm. Strength in prices at the yards also counted in favor of the bulls. Initial sales were a shade to 10 cents up, with May delivery $15.47; to $15.50 for pork, $S.35 to tS.'JTA for lard and $8.65, to $8.5714 for ribs. RYE No. 2, 91c. BARLE Y S0c(fi$1.30. TIMOTHY SEED $11,001? 14. 50. CLOVER SEED $16.00's 25.00. Chicago Grain Market. Chicago, Feb. 21. Close Open High Low Today Yes. WHEAT May 99',6- lOOVi 994 100-100' 899- July bo's-1 95Vs 95 SO' Sept 94 94i4 93 94 03 va May July Sept OATS May July Sept Pu UK May July Sept LARD May July Sept May July Sept 67 -i 68 67 'i 67-6n8 67- 67 67-67Vi 6712- 67 67T4-68 67'4 67- 66Ta 67fe 66 5214 62- 52-52 52 52 47 474 47 47 47- 404 -41 40 40-41 40-41 15.50 15.50 15.40 15.50 15.40 15.80 15.80 15.70 15.77 15.67 15.95 15.95 15.87 15.95 15.82 8.97 9.05 8.95 9.06 8.97 9.12 9.22 9.12 9.22 9.12 9.32 9.37 9.39 9.37 9.27 8.57 8.57 8.55 8.57 8.52 8.65 8.62 8.57 8.62 8.57 8.75 8.77 8.75 8.77 8.72 Kansas City Prodnee Market. Kansas City, Feb. 21. WHEAT Cash Market steady. No. 2 hard, 98ySc; No. 3, 97c$1.0o; No. 2 red, 96g97c; No. 3, 95W96C. CORN' Market unchanged. No. 2 mix ed, 65i&5c; No. 3, 63c; No. 2 white, 65 67c; No. 3, 63"83c. OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white, 53fi63c; No. 2 mixed, 62i52c. RYE 95c. HAY Market steady to $1 lower. Choice timothy, $20.01tf21.5O; choice prairie, $14.50 15.00. BUTTER Creamery, 26c; firsts, 24c; seconds, 22c; packing stock, 21c. EGOS Extras, 30c; firsts, 28c; seconds, 20c. WHEAT Receipts, 62 cars. CLOSE: WHEAT May, 99-g99C bid; July, 9091c. CORN May, 6Sc sellers; July, 67c bid. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, Feb. 21. BUTTER Market firm. Creameries, 24Q27c; dairies, 2125c. EGGS Market firm. Receipts, 4.806 cases; at mark, cases included, 262Sc; ordinary firsts, 28 29c; firsts, 32c. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 1714 17c; Twins, 164xl7c; Young Americas, 171441 17c; Long Horns, 17Vil'17c. POTATOES Market strong. Receipts, 37 cars. Wisconsin, $l.O5yl.08; Michigan and Minnesota, $1.03'51.10. POULTRY Market firm. Turkeys, live, 13c; dressed, 18c; chickens, live, 12c; dressed, 13c; springs, live, 13c; dressed, 13c. VEAL Market steady, 7SUc. New York Produce Market. New York, Feb. 21. BUTTER Market firm. Creamery specials, 29c; extras, 28c. CHEESE Market firm. EGGS Market firm. Fresh gathered extras, 373Sc; western gathered white, 36f?38c. POULTRY Alive, steady; western chick ens, 12!12c; fowls, 13&14c; turkeys, 155160; dressed, steady; western chickens, 1213c; fowls, 12Q1.6c; turkeys, 1221c. New York Stock Market. Wall St., New York, Feb. 21. STOCKS The entire morning session on the stock exchange was dominated by Reading which declined 2 points. Selling was more or less general but proceeded in large part from prominent traders who apparently based their operation on the unfavorable coal trade outlook. Union Pacific, South ern Pacific, United States Steel and the Hill stocks w-ere all weaker. Dealings otherwise were insignificant. Bonds were steady. Increased weakness in Reading was the most noteworthy feature of the first hour, that stock declining 1 points to 155, Steel and Union Pacific sold under yesterday's low level and the balance of the list on exceedingly light trading followed this trend in lesser degree. Business in the stock market at the open ing was almost lifeless with merely nom inal changes either way except in the case of Reading which opened off a quar ter point ajid later made a further decline. Trading was without the slightest anima tion and presaged another dull day. The successful attacks on special stocks induced liquidation of other issues and the whole market went lower after twelve o'clock. Reading sold at 1534 and Union Pacific at 1G3. Several specialties which have recently advanced in striking fashion were weak, including Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis and Phladelphla. Some Inquiry at the lower prices put a check to the general selling and the mar ket began to harden. Recoveries, however, only reached a slight fraction and buying soon ceased. The market closed heavy. Business was at a low ebb in the last hour and the list showed no material rallying power. Prices of the more active issues were only a fraction above the low level, while the rest of the list was altogether neglected. New Y'ork Money Market. New York, Feb. 21. MONEY Moip-y on call steady, 2'tj2'4 per cent; ruling rate, 24 per cent; closing bid 2 per cent; of fered at per cent. Time loans, firm; 60 days, 2 ,per cent; 90 days, 3 per cent; 6 months, 3l4W3 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 3 to 4 per cent. Sterling exchange firm with actual busi ness in bankers' bills at $4.84.50 for 60 days and at $4.87.45 for demand. Commercial bills, $4.S3?i. SILVER Bar silver, 58c; Mexican dol- BONDS Government bonds, irugerlar; railroad bonds, steady. New York Su;ar Market. New York, Feb. 21 SUGAR Raw, firm; Muscovado, 89 test, $4.30; centrifugal, 96 test, $4.80; molasses, 89 test, $4.05; refined, firm. New York Coffee Market. Calveston. Tex., Feb. 21. COTTON Market higher, 10 13-16c. 6t. .Top Lire Stock Market. St Joe, Feb. 21 .CATTLE Recei pts 1 2). Market steady. Hteers, $5.25-7.75: cows and heifers, $3.25'56.50; calves, $3.53 7.25. HOGS Receipts 6,100. Market 5c higher. Top, $6 30; bulk of sales, $6.00g.20. SHEEP Receipts 2.000. Market steady to strong. Lambs, $5.006.35. Kansas City Live. Stock Market. Kansas City, Febl 21. CATTLE Re ceipts 4,000, including 300 southerns. Mar ket steady to shade higher. Native steers, $5.5O'?t8.00; southern steers, $5.0ta6.25; southern cows and heifers, $3.00j5.00; na tive cows and heifers. $3.0O-g6.25; stockers and feeders, $4.5036.50; bulls, $4.XVff5 50; calves, $4.00'o7.25; western steers, $5.0iygi 7.25; western cows, $3CKSi6.25. HOGS Receipts 11,000. Market 5c high er. Bulk of sales, 5.5Kf6.30; heavy, S6.2(- 6.32; packers and butchers, pi.X'j.S.j; lights, $5.7(g'6.15; pigs, $4.50tiD.25. SHEEP Receipts 8,000. Market strong. ligh Cost leoisce Sugar, Best Fine Granulated,- 16 lbs. for $1.00 Tomatoes, Large No. 3 cans 2 cans for 25 Apples, No. 1 Gano, Nice Large ones, per box $1.25 Fig Bars or Newtons, extra nice, the 20c kind, special, lb. 101 FLOUR Pride of Topeki. the highest grade made 1 per sack ?A.c Flour A-l High Patent. CI Of Special, per sack ?A.OVf Toilet Soap Sweetheart brand. Seven 5c Of bars Ginger Snaps Fresh 1 FT.f baked; 2 lbs 1"t Crackers boxes, Qn per lb ov Graham Crackers Two "1 Flo 10c pkgs. for J-U4, Partaka Biscuits Three 1 Of 5c pkgs. for iut Baking Powder Calumet 2flf 25c can for Egg-O-See Wheat or Corn Flakes Two 10c pkgs I CC for Oatflake, Pancake Flour or Maca roni Three 10c pkgs. 25C We Undersell. Others More? Why Pay Cocoa Lowney's or W. H. Baker's A 25c can 20C Holland Rusk Three 9 10c pkgs. for Tru Fruit Jelly Extra "J Aj, nice, per glass. Catsup Snider's or Blue 20f Label; 25c size for 6U1, Pumpkin, Hominy and 2lP Kraut, 3 cans The Largest Grocery 1 1 t 1! STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourselves Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Oar Own Office at Chlm-go, Ro. St. Joseph, So. Oma ha, Denver, Sioux City. So. St. Pmul.. I;. Buffalo, E. Su Louis and Fort Worth. Muttons, $3.2ofE4.50: lambs, $5.25fi.30; fed wethers and yearlings, $3.75'&5.50; fed ewes, $2.75S3.90. Chicajro Live Stock Market. Chicago. Feb. 21. CATTLE Receipts 14,000. Market steady to a, shade higher. Beeves, S4.70&8.50; Texas steers. $1.50';(5.6o; western steers, $4.8O'a7.0O; stockers and feeders, $3.806.10; cows and hoiters, $2.00 Sr.40; calves, $5.5W7.75. HOGS Receipts 42,000. Market 5c higher. Light, $5.9076.27; mixed, $5.3V'(6.32; heavy, $5.95(&6.35; rough, $5.9Oi6.10; pigs. Si-Sfrfr 6.00;bu!k of sales, $6.1.Va6.30. SHEEP Receipts 20.000. Market a shade higher. Native, $3.30i4.75; western, $3.60f? 4.80; yearlings, $4.80-5.75; lambs, native, $4.30i.S5; western, $4.75'f6.90. Kansas Cll Live stock St-. :The following sales vren mac ttin morning at the Stock Yaras. n.-t City, and reported over ling distance telephone direct to th State Journal bt Clay, Robinson Co.. Uvo stock com mlEsion merchants, with offices at markets.j Kansas City, Feb. 21. CATTLE Re ceipts 4,000 head. Market steady. HOGS Receipts 11.000 head. Market 10c higher Bulk of saTea, $.WKa6::0; top, $6.3o. SHEEP Receipts 8,000 head. Market steady. TCTT.T.TNG STEERS. to Pr1r-.!Va W P- $6.55 6.25 42 1205 $6.60 21 1550 3 1250 1 1210 8 1020 1 1140 1 840 19 1S83 7.00 e.9 1120 6.45 COWS AND 1 940 10 640 76 1040 1 910 1 RT0 5.60 5.75 4.C0 3.60 43 4.90 3.00 3.50 BTO('KER J.N'n FEEDKKS 24 790 28 1030 E.75 6.15 10 860 1 14X0 1 1090 5 70 4.90 4.75 1 ,.1100 4.60 CAT. 7.00 E. 2.... 7.... 165 180 398 4.60 7.00 j HOGS. 6.30 6.25 6.00 4.90 6.17 6.22V 6.15 211 ...246 178 87 2"9 231 6.2214 6.321.2 5.90 4.75 6.2214 6.27'.., 78... 54... 228 19 98 196 194 1S8 22.. 8.. 82.. 51... 24... Topeka Marketa. Furnished By Chan, woirt facltin C.t yardfi clOBe at noon Saturday. W cannot use pigB. thin sows or hog weighing less than 170 lbs. Lo not mar kct hogs unless game are well rtnisne4 an we cannct use half tut stuff, We ewe below prices effectiv ai onco. until lor tber Dotica. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 21. H"OS MTXEO AND BUTCHERS $5.7f.!l 90 HEAVY 6.75U5.95 LIGHT 6-6"'o5 Can't ue this dokm or thaao unucr pouiuis. STEERS. Prime corn fed $5.ff5.7J Good to choice (corn fed) 4.7035.25 Fair to good (corn fed) 4.805 .23 Common to fair MW 3.54. Prime $4 55'55.00 Good to choice 4.0fg4.6 Fair to good 8 55-34. 00 Common to fair. S.0iXtf3.5 HEIFERS. Prime $4 5Sf?5 2S Good to choice 4 .'St4 .50 Fair to good S SofM.fXI Common to fair .00ft3 5 BULLS. Prime fat $4 3C-S4.75 Fleshy t 80-&4.25 Mediums J.0O83.7S VEAL Heavy. 205 to 400 Lbs. Good to choice -...$4.0694.75 Fair to good 3.00't(.4.0e VEAL 200 Lbs and under. Good to choice $3. 06 -0 5.78 Fair to good 4.2d'i5.0a (Cattle niuat be good. Cannot use in stuff. I Market price paid for dry lot cattle. If you will favor us with ynur tuquIrV advising: number of head, quality. k and length of time on feed, we will maki you an offer or arrange tor our buyer to sail on you. of Living Iowa Sweet Corn cans 13c; dozen -10c value. 2 80c Wax Beans.' Green String Beans, Red Kidney or Van Camp's Baked Beans, 3 cans OOC 2."o; dozen Beets No. 3 cans; nice IOC ones; per can Michigan Table Pears Per CI "IA can lOe; doten V1,lu California Peaches or Apricot 1 5c can ..$1.70 dozen. Imported Kippered Herring Special 9'a 2 cans J Maple Syrup Welch's Pure Ver- mont; it's absolutely $1.50 pure; 1 gallon cans. Salad Dressing Pure Food brand; 15c bottle 10c; 90f 2 5c bottle for iUt We tiive Ireininm Stamps. We Save You Money. Shoe Tolish Two-In-One or Shl nola; two 10c boxes "I Kn for. lbs. -Sultanas; seedless; 25c Preserves Pure Fruit Masnolia brand; full quart jars; Straw berry, Peach, Plum and Raspberry, per jar Plums No. 2 cans, 3 for tr m 25c Business in Kansas V TOMORROW High Grade Salmon 2 cans 35c o o o Smithfield Virginia Hamm a WM. GREEN o o 0 SON J 1; 0; an f .J- Topeka nutter, r.gx an. I Poultry. Fuiuibiicd t,y tL. lopek, Feclc.n k-z-c Topeka, Kan., Pet,. 21. r.orifs T rpph countrv, 21c POL'LTHY-IIens, 4 lbs. 'and over. )0c under 4 lbs 8c; spring. uc; ducks, Wc; rrese, gn; rst youn turl keys, 14c; old turkeys v uun" lur- BUTTKK-PackltiK stock,' 19c. Topeka f.rnin Market. Furnished by J. B. Billard. corner Ku aas ave. and uril at. Topeka, Kan.. Fh i KAFFIR CORN Per cwt., $1 OOfil 05 CORN tic Butter and r?re, Furnished y Cr,4m, Topekn, K:in.. Feb 1 NEW YORK KtlGS yj'-i'a-Wic CHICAHO KCK4K ?i CREAM KHV HmER-Chl,, SLiZ"s'"Ci KlH,n- "Ci Tvp who?.: Toiirka IVuit and Produce Market. 'Furnished by Sam'l F.. Lux" Wholesale Fruits nnd Produce.) Topeka. Kan i CorOANUTS-Per do.: 6c OYSTERS Per gal., bulk, II WS1 2n. UANANAK-M(iiu,n i-d bun'n'ea' bunch. $l.B'wSl.i6; large h"n"hel bunch, 2.-n2.o0; per lb. lntne P" NAVHI, ORANGES Per box. so BARREL APPLES Jonathan r.. bbl.. $5.25: Pen I a vi. per bt?) V3$ Oano per bbl., $3. 7a; Missouri Pippins, bbl M V- CRANBERRIES I'er bbl.. 1050- bo per lb., lu1. POTATOES Per tin., $1 3o. SWEET POTATOES flu., tl.et). Topeka Hay Market. If urniahed T. A. UeoK. 212-zn R. h Topeka. Kan" VS, 2, 1 PRARIE HAY No. 1. $14.; ra,f choice. lt.0Gn7.00; No. 1. i.uo. ,lalra. Topeka Hide Market. IQuotatlor.s furnished by James C Smite Hide Co.. lus Easf 'I hird ,t j Bm,, m,OT.T0W7.?i.".. Feb. U. "'li."" v u 1 1 1 1 ut.n .Native 1. 12-,c; No. 2. lie; tide Uranus. si.'ciTj:; Bull and Stags, c- Hor.ffi LRY llILl-Jb Butchera heavy it. dry salt. WUc 17oi llKY HIDES Butcher. K... dry aalt. luiaui mlnK No. 1 larce 14 sn $.50: No. 1 medium, $3.50 to $4 zfi Vfi? amall $2 00 to $3.0JI; raccoon N. fc? TP 0 M m "leuium, $1 on to no-. No. 1 email, 60c to Sex-; skunk, black 77.A to $4.00; short stripe, $2.0u to 'II ,4 09 stripe. $1.05 to i.5o; broad Kt n" p pnsum No. I large, 40c tlrLp'-'. 1 medium, 2oc to 4uc No. I i n.n ir. 20c; muskrat. No. J arge. SBco BOc- V" "medium. Pajc to 8Sc; No 1 ml) A' medium. JSc to 40c; No. 1 mall. y,c t

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBRUARY 21, 1912 3 A CHARTER k OF DEMOCRACY (Continued from Page One.) Of the recall of judges he said: "The question is one of expediency merely. Each community has the right to try the experiment for Itself in whatever shape it pleases. I do not believe in adopting the recall save as a last resort when it has become clear ly evident that no other course will iiehieve the desired result." Senator LaFoilette was mentioned hut once, as follows: "Following Senator LaFoilette a number of practical workers and thinkers in Wisconsin have turned that state into an experimental labora tory of wise governmental action in nid of social and industrial justice. They have Initiated that kind of pro gressive government which means not only the preservation of true democ racy but the extension of the princi ple of true democracy into industrial ism as well as into politics." His Speech in Full. Mr. President, and Members of the Ohio Constitutional Convention: I am profoundly sensible of the honor you have done me In asking me to address you. You are engaged In the fundamental work of self-government; you are engaged in framing a constitution under and in accord ance vrlth. which the people are to get and to do justice and absolutely to rule themselves. No representative body can have a higher task. To carry it through successfully there is need to combine practical common sense of most hard-headed kind with, a spirit of lofty idealism. Without Idealism your work will be bvt a sor did makeshift: and without the hard headed common sense the idealism will be either wasted or worse than wasted. I shall not try to speak to you of natters of detail. I cannot touch upon them all; the subject is too vast and the time too limited; if any one of you cares to know my views o these matters which I do not today discuss, I will gladly send him a copy of the speeches I made in 1910 which I think cover most of the ground. I believe in pura democracy. With Lincoln, I hold that "this country, with Its institutions, belongs to the people who Inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing' government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it." We progressives believe that the peo ple have the right, the power, and the duty to protect themselves and their wn welfare; that human rights are supreme over all other rights; that wealth should be the servant, not the master, of the people. We believe that unless representative govern ment does absolutely represent the people it is not representative govern ment at all. W test the worth of all men and all measures by asking how they contribute to the welfare of the men, women and children of whom this nation is composed. We are engaged in one of the great bat- ties of the age-long contest waged j against privilege on behalf of the common welfare. We hold it a prime duty of the people to free our gov ernment from the control of money !n politics. For this purpose we ad vocate, not as ends in themselves, but as weapons in the hands of the peo ple, all governmental devices which will make the representatives of the people more easily and certainly re sponsible to the people's will. Constitution and the People, I am emphatically a believer In constitutionalism, and bemuse of this fact I no less emphatically protest against any theory that would make of the Constitution a means of thwart ing instead, of securing the absolute right of the people to rule themselves and to provide for their own social and industrial well-being. All consti tutions, those or the states no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and admin istered, so as to fit human' rights. Lincoln so Interpreted and adminis tered the national Constitution. Bu chanan attempted to reverse, attempt ed to fit human rights to, and limit Ithem by, the Constitution. It was Buchanan who treated the courts as a Tetish, who protested against an 4 con demned all criticism of the Judges for unjust and unrighteous decisions, and npheld the Constitution as an In strument for the protection of priv ilege and of vested wrong. It was Lincoln who appealed to the people ega'net the Judges when the judges went wrong, who advocated and se cured what was practically the recall cf the Dred Scott decision, and who treated the Constitution as a living force for righteousness. We stand for applying the Constitution to the Issues of today as Lincoln applied It to the issues of his day. I "I hold it to be the duty of every public servant, and of every man who In public or in private life holds a position of leadership in thought or action, to endeavor honestly and fear- lessly to guide his fellow-country-: men to right decisions; but I emphat- 1 lcally dissent from the view that It is either wise or necessary to try to de- Shellabarger Son UNDERTAKERS Parlor 120-22 W. 5th St. Phone 373 ;1 vise methods which under tthe Consti tution will automatically prevent the people from deciding for themselves what governmental action they deem Just and proper. Constitution-makers should make It clear be yond shadow of doubt that the people in their legislative capacity have the power to enact into law any measure they deem necessary for the better ment of social and Industrial condi tions. The wisdom of framing any particular law of this kind is a proper subject of debate; but the power of the people to enact the law should not be subject to debate. To hold the contrary view Is to be false to the cause of the people, to the cause of American democracy. Aim of Good Government. The ends of good govern ment In our democracy are to secure by genuine popular rule a high aver age of moral and material well-being among our citizens. It has been well said that in the past we have paid attention only to the accumulation of prosperity, and that from henceforth, we must pay equal attention to the proper distribution of prosperity. This Is true. The only prosperity worth having is that which affects the mass of the people. I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consum er, shall get their fair Bhare of the benefit of business prosperity. But It either is or ought to be evident to every one that business has to pros per before anybody can get any bene fit from it. Therefore I hold that he :s the reel progressive, that he Is the genuine champion of the people, vrho endeavors to shape the policy alike of the nation and of the several states so as to encourage legitimate and honest business at the same time that he wars against all crookedness and Injustice and unfairness and tyranny in the busfness world (for of course we can only get business put on a basis of permanent prosperity when the element of injustice Is taken out of it) This Is the reason why I have for so many years insisted, as regards our national government, that It Is both futile and mischievous to en deavor to correct the evils of big bus iness by an attempt to restore busi ness conditions as they were In the middle of the last century, before rail ways and telegraphs had rendered larger business organizations both In evitable and desirable. What is needed la, first, the recog nition that modern business conditions have come to stay. In so far at least as these conditions mean that buslnes must be done in larger units, and then the cool-headed and resolute deter mination to introduce an effective method of regulating big corporations so as to hrlp legitimate business as an Incident to thoroughly und completely safeguarding the Interests of the peo ple as a whole. We are a business people. The tillers of the soil, the w&geworkers. the business men these are the three big and vitally Im portant divisions of our population. The welfare of each division is vitally necessary to the welfare of the people as a whole. The great mass of busi ness la either small or of moderate size. The middle-sized business men form an element of strength which Is of literally Incalculable value to the nation. Taken as a class, they are among our best citizens. They have not baen seekers after enormous for- tunes; they have been moderately and justly prosperous, by reason of dealing j fairly with their customers, competi tors, and employes. The average bus iness man of this type Is, as a rule, a leading citisen. of his community, fore most In everything that tells for Its betterment, a man whom his neighbors look up to and respect; he is in no sense dangerous to his community, juat because he is an Integral part of his community, bone of its bone and flesh of Its flesh. His life fibers are Intertwined with the life fibers of his fellow citizens. Yet nowadays many men of this kind, when they come to make necessary trade agreements with one another, find themselves in danger of becoming unwitting trans gressors of the law, and are at a loss to know what the law forbids and what It permits. This is all wrong. There shanild be a fixed governmental policy, a policy which shall clearly de fine and punish wrong-doing, and shall give in advance full Information to any man as to just what he can and Just what he cannot legally and properly do. Control of "Big Business." So much for the small business man and the middle-sized business man. Now for big business. It is Impera tive to ezercise over big business a coatrol and supervision which la un necessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act Justly. But a wicked i big interest Is necessarily more dan- j geroua to the community than wicked little interest. "Big business" In the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life. I do not believe In mak- leg mere sire of and by itself crimin al. The mere fact of size, however, does unquestionably carry the po- j tentlality of such grave wrong-doing that there should be by law provision made for the strict supervision and regulation of these great Industrial concerns doing an inter-state business, much as we now regulate the trans- porta. tiou agencies which are engaged 1 ia interstate business. The anti-trust law does good in so far as It can be Invoked against combinations which, really are monopolies or which restrict production or which artificially raise prices. But in so far as its workings are uncertain, or as it threatens cor porations which have been guilty of antl-aoclal conduct, it does harm. Moreover, It cannot by itself accom plish more than a trifling part of the governmental regulation of big busi ness whict U seeded, The nation and the states must co-operate in this mat ter. Among the states that have en tered this field Wisconsin has taken a leading place. Following Senator La Follette, a number of practical work ers and thinkers In Wisconsin have turned that state Into an experiment al laboratory of wlae governmental ac tion la aid of social and industrial Jus- tice. They have Initiated the kind of progressive government which means not merely the preservation of true i democracy, but the extension of the j principle of true democracy Into in- pustnauam as well as into politics. One prime reason why the state has been so successful In this policy Ilea In the fact that It has done Justice to corporations precisely as it has ex acted Justice from them. Not only as a matter of Justice, but la our own interest, we should scrupulously respect the rights of honest and de cent business and should encourage it where its activities make, as they often do make, for the common good. It is for the advantage of all of us when business prospers. Our demand Is that big business give the people a square deal and that the people give a square deal to any man engaged In big business who honestly endeavors to do what is right and proper. On the other hand, any corporation, big or little, which has gained Its po sition by unfair methods and by in terference with the rights of others, which has raised prices or limited output in improper fashion and been, guilty of demoralizing and corrupt practices, should not only be broken up, but it should be made the busi ness of some competent governmental body by constant supervision to see that it does not come together again, save under such strict control as to insure the community against all dan ger of a repetition of the bad conduct. The chief trouble with big business has arisen from the fact that big business has so often refused to abide by the principle of the square deal; the opposition which 1 personally have encountered from big business has In every case arisen not because did not give a square deal but be cause I did. Proper Governmental Control. All business into which the element of monopoly In any way or degree en tew, and where it proves In practice Impossible totally to eliminate this ele ment of monopoly, should be carefully supervised, regulated and controlled by governmental authority; and such control should be exercised by admin istrative, rathor than by judicial, offi cers. No effort should be made to de stroy a big corporation merely be cause It Is big, merely because It has shown Itself a peculiarly efficient business Instrument. But we should not fear. If necessary, to bring the regulation of big corporations to the point of controlling conditions so that the wage-worker shall have a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor not bo excessive as to wreck his strength by the strain of unending toil and leave him unfit to do his duty as a good citizen of the community. Where regulation by competition (which Is, of course, preferable) proves insuffi' cient, we should not shrink from i bringing governmental regulation to the point of control of monopoly prices if it should ever become necessary to do so, Just aB in exceptional cases railway rates are now regulated. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows. We have only praise for the business man whose business success comes as an inci dent to doing good work for his fel lows. But we should so shape condi tions that a fortune shall tie obtained only in honorable fashion, in such, fashion that Its gaining represents benefit to the community. In a word, then, our fundamental purpose must be to secure genuine equality of opportunity. No man should receive a dollar unless that dol lar has been fairly earned. Every dol lar received should represent a dol lar's worth of service rendered. No watering of stocks should be permit ted; and it can be prevented only by close governmental supervision of all stock issues, so as to prevent over capitalization. We stand for the rights of property, but we stand even more for tbe rights of man. We will protect the rights of the wealthy man, but we maintain that he holds his wealth subject to the general right of the community to regulate its business use as the publio welfare requires. We also maintain that the nation and the several states have the right to regulate the terms and conditions of labor, which Is the chief element of wealth, directly In the Interest of the common good. You, trainers of this constitution, be careful so to frame it that under it the people shall leave themselves free to do whatever Is necessary In order to help the farmers of the state to get for tnemselvss and their wives and children not only the benefits of better farming but also those of better business methods and better conditions of life on the farm. Moreover, shape your constitutional action so that the people will be able through their legislative bodies, or, failing that, by direot popular vote, to provide workmen's compensation acts,, to regulate the hours of labor for chil dren and for women, to provide for their safety while at work, and to pre vent overwork or work under hyglenlo or unsafe conditions. To Secure Best Results. So much for the ends of govern ment; and I have, of course, merely sketched in outline what the ends should be. Now for the machinery by which these ends are to be achieved; and here again remember I only sketch in outline and do not for a Do tnent pretend to work out In detail the methods of achieving your purposes. Let me at the outset urge upon yon to remember that, while machinery is important, it is easy to overestimate its importance; and, moreover, that each community has the absolute right to determine for Itself what that ma chinery shall be, subject only to the fundamental law of the nation as ex pressed in the Constitution of the Uni ted States. In the first place, t believe in the sHort ballot. You can not get good service from the public servant if you cannot see him, and there Is no more effective way of hid ing hint than by mixing him up with, a multitude of others so that they are none of them important enough to catch the eye of the average, worka day citisen. The professional politi cian and the professional lobbyist thrive most rankly under a system which provides a multitude of elec tive officers, of such divided responsi bility and of such obscurity that the public knows, and can know, bat little as to their duties and the way they perform them. The people have notic ing whatever to fear from giving any public servant power so long as they retain their own power to hold Mm accountable for his use of the power they have delegated to him. I believe in providing for direct nom inations by the people, including there in direct preferential primaries for the election of delegates to the national nominating conventions. I believe in the election of United States senators by direct vote. Just as actual experience convinced our people that presidents should be elected (as they now are in practice, although not in theory) by direct vote of the people instead of by direct vote through an untrammeled electoral coV lege4 so actual experience has con vinced us that senators should be elected by direct vote of tbe people Instead of indirectly through the vari ous legislatures. I believe in the initiative and the referendum, which should be used "hot to destroy representative government, but to correct It whenever It becomes misrepresentative. Here again I am concerned not with theories but with.' actual facts. If in any state the peo ple are themselves satisfied with thei: present representative system, then it is of course their right to keep that system unchanged; and it is nobody's business but theirs. But in actual practice It has been found In very many states that legislative bodies have not been responsive to the popu lar will. Therefore I believe that the state should provide for the possibility of direct popular action in order to make good such legislative failure. Wisconsin Method Praised. In a recent speech Governor MeOov ern of Wisconsin has described the plan which has been there adopted I ndf th.lB Plaa h eflort, to btei? the law is first to be made through aB far as It will go; so that the details of Uie proposed measure may be I threshed over in actual legislative de j bate. This gives opportunity to per fect it in form and invites publio j scrutiny. Then, if the legislature falls to enact It, It ean be enacted by the PPl0 oa their own initiative, taken, j at least tour montns oeiore election. Moreover, where possible, the question actually to be voted on by the people should be made as simple as possible, j In short, I believe that the initiative and referendum should be used net as substitutes for representative govern ment, but as methods of making suck government really representative. Give the legislature an entirely free hand; and then provide by the initia tive and referendum that the people shall have power to reverse or sup plement the work of the legislature should It ever become necessary. j As to the recall, I do not believe j that there Is any great necessity for it as regards short-term elective of ficers. On abstract grounds I was originally Inclined to be hostile to it. I know of one case where It was ac tually used with mischievous results. On the other hand. In three cases in municipalities on the Pacific coast which have come to my knowledge it was used with excellent results. I believe It should be generally pro vided, but with such restrictions as will make it available only when there is a widespread and genuine publio feeling among a majority of the voters. There remains the question of the recall of Judges. One of the ablest Jurists in the United States, a veteran In service to the people, recently wrote ne as follows on this subjeot "There are two causes of the agi tation for the recall as applied to Judges. First, the administration of Justice has withdrawn from life and become artificial and technical. The recall is not so much a recall of judges from office as It Is a recall of the ad ministration of Justice back to life, so that it shall become, as it ought to be, the most efficient of all agencies for making this earth a better plaoe to live In. Judges have set their rules above life. Like the Pharisees of old, they said, 'The people be accursed, they know not the law (that is ous rule). Courts have repeatedly defeat ed the aroused moral sentiment of a whole commonwealth. Take the ex ample of the St. Louis boodlers. Their guilt was plain, and in the main con fessed. The whole state was aroused and outraged. By an Instinct that goes to the very foundation of all so cial order they demanded that the guilty be punished. The boodlers were convicted, but the supreme court of Missouri, never questioning their guilt, set their conviction aside upon purely technical grounds. The same thing occurred In California. It Is to recall the administration of Ja sties back from such practices that the re cent asUatlon cas arisen. w "Second, by the abuse of the power to declare laws unconstitutional the courts have become a lawmaking, in stead of a law-enforcing, agency. Here again the settled will of so ciety to correct confessed evils baa been set at naught by those who place metaphysics above life. It is the courts, not the constitutions, that are at fault- It is only by the process which James Russell Lowell, when answering the critics of Lincoln, called 'pettifogging the constitution, that constitutions which were de signed to protect society can thus be made to defeat the common good.. Here again the recall is a recall ot the administration of justice back from academical refinements to social service." There is one kind of recall in which I very earnestly believe, and tbe Immediate adoption cf which t urge. There are sound reasons for being cautious about the recall cf a good Judge who has rendered an un wise and improper decision. Bvery publio servant, no matter how valua ble, and not omitting Washington or Lincoln or Marshall, at times makes mistakes. Therefore we should be cautious about recalling the Judge, and we should be cautious about in terfering In any way with the Judge In decisions which he makes In the oral nary course as between Individuals, But when a Judge decides a constitu tional question, when he decides what the people as a whole can or cannot do, the people should have the right to recall that decision If they thlnK a wrong. We should hold the Judiciary In all respect: but it is both absurd and degrading to make a fetish of a Judge or ef any one else. Lincoln actually applied In suc cessful fashion the principle of the recall in the Dred Scott case. He de nounced the S.upreme court for that Iniquitous decision In language muen stronger than 1 have ever used In criticizing any court, and appealed to the people to recall the decision the word "recall" In this connection was not then known, but the phrase ex actly describes what he advocated. He was successful, the people took his view, and the decision was practical ly recalled. It became a dead letter without the need of any constitutional amendment. The Law and the State. Under our federal system the rem edy for a wrong such as Abraham Lincoln described is difficult. But the remedy is not difficult in a state. What the Supreme court of the na tion decides to be law binds both the national and the state courts and all the people within the boundaries of the nation. But the decision of a state court on a constitutional ques tion should be subject to revision by the people of the state. Again and again in the past justice has been scandalously obstructed by state courts declaring state laws in con flict with the Federal Constitution, although the Supreme court of the na tion had even decided in a contrary sense. When the supreme court of the state declares a given statute un constitutional because In conflict with the state or the National Constitution, its opinion should be subject to re vision bv the people themselves. Such an opinion ought always to be treated with great respect by the peo ple, and unquestionably In the major ity of cases would be accepted and followed by them. But actual ex- i perience has shown the vital need of the people reserving to themselves the right to pa6s upon such opinion. If it Is sustained well and good. If not, then the popular verdict is to be accepted as final, the decision is to be treated as reversed, and the con struction of the Constitution definite ly decided subject only to aotion by the Supreme court of the United States. Many eminent lawyers who more or less frankly disbelieve in our entire American system of government for, by, and of the people violently an tagonize this proposal. They believe, and sometimes assert, that the Amer ican people are not fitted for popular government, and that it is necessary to keep the Judiciary "Independent of the majority or of all the people;" that there must be no appeal to the people from the decision of a court in any case; and that therefore the Judges are to be established as sover eign rulers over the people. I take absolute issue with all those who hold such a position. I regard it as a com plete negation of oar whole system of government; and If It became the dominant position In this country, It would mean the absolute upsetting of both the rights and the rule of the people. If the American people are not fit for popular government, and if they should of right be the servants and not the masters of the men whom they themselves put In office, then Lincoln's work was wasted and the whole system of government upon which this great democratic republlo rests is a failure. I believe, on the contrary, with all my heart that the American people are fit for complete self-government, and that, in spite of all our. fallings and shortcomings, we of this republic have more nearly real ized than any other people on earth the Ideal of Justice attained through genuine popular rule. People Fundamentally Right. I do not say that the people are In fallible. But I do say that our whole history shows that the American peo ple are more often sound in their de cisions than Is the case with any of the governmental bodies to whom, for their convenience, they have dele gated portions of their power. If this Is not so, then there Is no justification for the existence of our government; and If it is so, then there Is no justi fication for refusing to give the peo ple the reel, not merely the nominal, ultimate decision on questions of con stitutional law. A decision rendered but a few months ago by the court of appeals) of my own state, the state of New lYork, declared unconstitutional the Workmen's compensation act. In their 4edslon the judges admitted the rrong and the suffering caused by the practices against which the law was aimed. Tbey admitted that other c!v Ufzed nations had abolished these wrongs and practices. But they took the ground that the Constitution of the United States, Instead of being an Instrument to eecure Justice, had been Ingeniously devised absolutely to pre vent Justice. They insisted that the clause in the Constitution which for bade the taking of property without Sue process of law forbade the effort which had been made In the law to distribute among all the partners in an enterprise the effects of the in juries to Hfe or limb of a wage-worker. In ether worts, they Insisted that the Constitution bad permanently cursed ear people with Impotence to right wrong, and had perpetuated a cruel iniquity; for erael Iniquity Is not too harsh a term to use in describing the law which, in the event of such an accident, biuds the whole burden of .crippling disaster on the shoulders least ablo to bear it the shoulders of the crippled man himself, or the dead man's helpless wife and children. No anarchist orator, raving against tbe Constitution, ever framed an Indict ment to It so sovere as thase worthy and well-meaning judges must be held to have framed if their reasoning be accepted as true. But, as a matter of fact, their reasoning was unsound, and was as repugnant to every sound defender of the Constitution as to every believer In Justice and right eousness. In effect, their decision was that we could not remedy these wTongs unless we amended the Con stitution (not the constitution of tit state, but the Constitution of the na tion) by eaying that property could be taken without due process of law! It seems lnoredible that any one should be willing to take such a position. It Is a position that has been condemned over and over again by the wisest and most far-seeing courts. In its essence It was reversed by the decision of state courts in states Ilka Washington and Iowa, and by the Supreme court of the nation In a case but a few weeks old. According to one of the highest Judges than and now on the Supreme court of the nation, we had lived for a hundred years under a Constitution which permitted a national Income tax, until suddenly by one vote the Supreme court reversed its previous decisions for a century, and said that lor a century we had been living under a wrong Interpretation of the Constitu tion (that is, under a wrong Constitu tion), and therefore in effect estab lished a new Constitution which we ere now laboriously trying to amend eo as to get It back to the Constitu tion that for a hundred years every body, including the Supreme court, thought it to be. Whn I was presi dent, we passed a Natic-.al Workmen's Compensation act. Under It a rail way man named Howard, I think, waa killed In Tennessee, and his widow sued for damages. Congress had done all it could to provide the right, but tbe court stepped in and decreed that congress had failed. Three of the Judges took the extreme position that there was no way In which congress could seevre the helpless widow and children against suffering, and that the man's blood and the blood of all similar men when spilled should for ever cry aloud In vain for Justice. This seems a strong statement, but It Is far less strong than the actual facts; and I have difficulty In making the statement with any degree of modification. The nine Justices of the Supreme court on this question split into five fragments. One man, ex Justice Moody, in his opinion stated the case In Its broadest way and de manded justice for Howard, on grounds that would have meant that in all similar cases thereafter justice and not Injustice should be done. Yet the court, by a majority of one, de cided as I do not for one moment be lieve the court would now decide, and not only pe-pet'iated a lamentable In justice in the case ot the man himself. but set a standard of injustice for all similar cases. Here again I ask you not to think of the mere legal formal ism, but to think of the great Im mutable prinriples of Justice, the great iromuttble princ'ules of right and wrong, and to ponder what It means to men dependent for their live lihood, and to the women and chil dren dependent upon these men, when the courts of the land deny them the justice to which they are entitled. New, gentlemen. In closing, and In thanking you for your oourtesy, let me add one word. Keep clearly in view what are the fundamental ends ot government. I hope that not only you and I but all our people may ever remember that while good laws are necessary, while It Is necessary to have the right kind o2 governmental machinery, yet that tbe all-important matter Is to have the right kind of man behind the law. A good Consti tution, and good laws under the Con stitution, and tearlesB and upright of ficials to administer the laws all these ar necessary; but the prime re quisite In our national life Is, and must always be, the possession by the aver age citizen of the right kind of char acter. Our aim must be the moralize Hon of the Individual, of the govern ment, ot the people as a whole. We desire the morallzation not only ef political conditions but of industrial conditions, so that every force in the community. Individual and collective, may be directed toward securing tor the average man, and average woman, a higber and better and fuller life. In the things of the uody no less thaa those of the mind and the soul. RECOMMENDATIONS On Merits of New Preparation Are Received Daily. Few Understand Direct Cause of Their Distress. SYMPTOMS EXPLAINED. Samuel Smith Suffered From In digestion and Nervousness. Tried New Preparation and Ob tained Astonishing: Results. "To be happy you must be In good health.-' gald one of the specialists who are in Topeka for the purpose of introducing the remarkable new tonic, "Tona Vita," yesterday. "Yet," continued he, "there are hundreds ol people in the large cities like Topeks, who do not live, but simply exist. Leading the life of excitement that most people lead there is little wondci that the modern plague, nervous de bility, has not even more in its grasp. "Few understand the nature of ner vous debility. They just don't know what is wrong with them, l.'nmindful of result? many go carelessly along never taking time to realize just how serious their condition may be. "Chief among the symptoms of de bility are nervousness, sleeplessness, stomach and bowel troubles, imperfect digestion, poor circulation, cold feet, headache, backache, listlessness and despondency. "It is only during the past few years tl.::t there has ben apparent awaken ing to a. realization that mine means for lighting this drended disease must be found, but the effects of that awak ening are felt today. "During the past few days." contin ued the specialist, "wo have had hundreds of neople to como to us for the cole purpose of telling us how haupy they are since they liavo re gained their health through the u.e of tli is new tonic." Mr. Samuel Smith, residing at No. 501 Svvaggert Avenue, a well known butcher, made the following statement recently: "I have suffered from indigestion and nervous trouble for oyer a yesr. 1 c ildn't eat or sleep and felt tired and worn out all the time. I heard of 'Tona Vita' and thought I would try it. I have now taken one boltln and from the very first dose I began to improve. I can now eat anything and can sleep fine, in fact. I am feel ing better in every respect. I am go ing .o continue aking this tonic as I feel sure it will restove me to my former good health. I gladly recom mend this tonic to Ml who are trou bled as I was." Th" specialists who aro Introduc ing "Tona Vita" are located at the Arnold Drug Compan-- No. 52.1 Kan sas Avenue, where they ran be seen and consulted every day during their stay here from 9 a. m. to 8 p. ni. Kansas City Land Show February 26 to March 9 An eye-opener for the city man whose thoughts turn hack to the farm. An object lesson for the farmer looking for hints on up-to-date farming. Intense ly interesting and entertaining lectures on a variety of subjects. Moving pictures and other views of many sections of the Kouth west. Exhibits of improved ma chinery that lessens labor, eaves time and increases results. Better go. Take your family and friends with you. Free Lectures. Excellent Music. A liberal education along lines that -will Interest you and every member of your family Irrespec tive of age or sex. For further particulars call on City Passenger Agent Topeka. Kansas Reliable Dentistry 7$ Plates That T 1 Fit Gold Crown3, Bridges $3 tQ$5 Silver Filling fcOo Teeth Cleaned 7 Cold Filling SOe to Paliilee Extraction. All Work Gnarantewd. Office Hours 8 a., m. to p. m. Wednesday and Saturday until I p. m. Sunday, 9 to 12 a. m. New York Dental Co. 1S KANSAS AVESTR Independent Telephone ItSS. DH. W. 8. KICHAKDSOX, MT. DR. GEO. PORT ASHTON DENTIST Blt Pkn 1 1 8 J ln. til H. W. Csrner Eighth sss Ksnsst 1?W

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBRUARY 21, 1912 By FRAXK P. MACLEXXAX. Entered July 1, 1ST5. as second-class n. alter at the postofflce at Topeka. Kan., under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXVIIII No. 41 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cent a week to any part of Topeka. or uburba, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where the paper has a carrier Fystetm. By mail one year J3.6rt By mall, six months.. l.W Bv mall. 100 days, trial order l.w BELL, TELEPHONES. Business Office 197 Exporters' Room. 577 INDEPENDENT TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call 107 and ask the State Journal operator for per son or department desired. 'lopeka State Journal bul'dlngr. 800 and 8&S Kansas avenue, comer Eighth. New York Office: 50 Flfta avenue, Paul Block. manaer. Chicago Office: Steger building:. Paul Biock. manager. Boston Office: Treroont Buildlne, Paul Block, manager. ITU, LEASED WIRE REPORT OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal is a member of the Associated Press arid receives Vtf full day telegraph report of that great new or ganization for the exclusive afternoon publication in Topeka. The news is received in The State Jour nal building over wires for this sole pur pose. Dr. Gunsaulua declares that George .Washington was brave because he had red hair. If. Dr. Gunsaulus thinks that every red-headed person is brave, lie has another think coming. Prophecy is uncertain business. But it is reasonable to believe that the Chicago hair tonic expert, who has heen directed by a court there to grow hair on a man's bald head within a year, or go to jail, is up against an im possible proposition. Things are coming to such a pass that "southern gentlemen" will have no rights at all. A negress has sued a Kansas railroad because one such hit her on the head with his handbag when she would not give him a seat ehe was occupying in a train. Teddy Roosevelt, Jr is reported to te on the point of retiring from the car pet business for the purpose of taking out stack of chips in the 'Wall street game. This report has a reasonable rin: to it. There is something of ex citement among the "bulls'" and "bears" of finance. And speaking of generosity and solicitous regard for the whereabouts of a son, a Chicago widow who recent ly came into possession of in estate worth J2,0no,f00 has offered a reward of T5 for information that would put- her on the track of a son who has been missing for several years. An ex-chorus girl, Mrs. Claudia Wheeler, who has been the wife of a millionaire for several years. Is alto gether tco modest in her demands now that he has separated from her. She merely asks that he be compelled to provide her with a yearly income of $10,000. That .sum would scarcely keep a person in cigarettes. Coincident with the publication of a lot more rot about Mrs. Sinclair and Harry Kemp comes the announcement that he has a book of new poems and a play ready for the market. Nauseat ing notoriety, however, is not the kind that will help to sell such things, re gardless of the idea of Harry Kemp In the premises. According to President Murlin of Boston University, formerly of Kan sas, New England is not worked out, merely undeveloped. What it needs are western men to develop it. Still, why should western men trek to the east when there are just as good If not tetter opportunities right in their flooryards. Presumably Mr. Murlin is fretting lonesome. This is also the season of the year when many of the "tin bridges" in Kansas will be carried away by mov ing ice. At some more or less distant date the county commissioners in Kansas will awake to the fact that it's a certain waste of money to build anything but substantial bridges. And the most substantial bridges are made of concrete. August Herrmann, chairman of the national baseball commission, says that organized baseball is not hostile in any way to the newly formed Col umbian and United States leagues. Not in the slightest. These leagues, says Mr. Herrmann are perfectly welcome to any of the players for which the major leagues have no use. Now isn't that perfectly lovely of organized baseball? Something grave in the way of a diplomatic situation is said to have developed between the United States and Colombia, because of the thought less act of a representative of that country in writing to the state depart ment that a visit on the part of Sec-rett-y Knox to that country might be Inopportune. It sure does take the diplomatically inclined to make a mountain out of a molehill. Mayor Harrison has appointed a commission to find out why 125.000 men are idle in Chicago. This, it would seem, will be a waste of energy. A few thousand of them are probably among the flotsam and jetsam of hu manity who flock to big cities because panhandling is easy. They wouldn't work if they could. And the great majority of the rest are without work because there is no work for them. The United States supreme court has decided that it has no jurisdiction to pass upon the validity of the initia tive and referendum method of legis lation adopted by the states. The court says this is a political matter for congress to deal with. Thies doesn't look much like this court has usurped to itself the legislative functions of the government And that's a criticism that is repeatedly directed against this court. ROOSEVELT AT COLUMBUS Colonel Roosevelt's speech at Co lumbus, O., today shows that he is not the radical that many who have supported LaFollette thought that the ex-president might become, although he naturally praises much of the work that LaFollette has done in Wisconsin. It must be remembered many of the matters touched upon by Colonel Roosevelt in this speech have been previously discussed by him in editori als in the Outlook and in the speeches he has made during the last two years, and long before any one, with the pos sible exception of Governor Stubbs of Kansas, had any idea that an effort would be made to drag him into the presidential arena. And so it might just as well be argued that President Taft's New York speech was a dis tinct answer to the attitude that Col onel Roosevelt had already assumed in various articles written and speeches made by him. A glance at the speech would seem to indicate that Colonel Roosevelt had come out flatfooted for the initiative, the referendum and the recal", the tri umphant triplets of LaFolletteism. But Colonel Rooseve't, with natural shrewd ness, tics some good strong strings around his pttitude on these questions, and he may be looked upon with great disappointment among the sup porters of the recall, especially the re call of judges. As for the recall of short-term elective officers, he doesi.'t believe there is any great necessity for it. He believes that the application of the retail in any shape is one of ex pediency merely. Each community has a right to try the experiment for it self in whatever shape it pleases. And in the matter of the recall of judges he does not believe in applying it except as a last resort. He points out that a judge must not do anything wrong because there is a popular clamor for it. And that touches the soft spot of the recall. Who would determine whether the popular clamor for the recall of a judge was right or wrong? But while the colonel is not very strong lor the recall of judges and thinks the recall of short term elec tive officers is unnecessary, he reiter ates his views expressed some time ago that the people should have the power to recall the decisions of judges when they may be against popular will and when they touch on funda mental questions of government. He cites the decision of the court of ap peals of New Tork state declaring a workingman's compensation law un constitutional as an example. He considers that decision most flagrant in its defiance of right and justice. Even for such a flagrant decision as this one, he would not vote for the re call of the judges who made it. But he would vote to have the decision recalled, and thinks that the people should have this power. Colonel Roosevelt also makes it plain that he believes the initiative and the referendum should be used, not as sub stitutes for representative government, but as methods of making such govern ment really representative. Action by the initiative and referendum, he points out, ought not to be the normal way of legislation. In practice, though, this seems to be the way the initiative works out, for in Oregon at one election the people took the initiative on no less than thirty odd laws. As a matter of fact, there is nothing much in Colonel Roosevelt's Columbus speech over which the sans culottes of I week gave this country about the soak the Republican party can wax enthusi- iest wetting it has had for a long "time, astic. They will, though. They will i As a result we have mud, old tim-3 Cttelrxr rr.n A 1 twist it and turn it in an endeavor to show that the colonel has assumed their leadership. But. as stated, there is sareely anything-in the speech whica Mr. Roosevelt ha,s not advocated be- j fore, nor anything in it to show tha'. j he has changed his sane ideas on the i fundamentals for a representative gov ernment of the people, for the people and by the people. CLEAN-UP TIME COMIXG. Spring isn't here yet either officially or atmospherically. Perhaps the weather man has another cold wave which will send the shivers down the spines of the natural gas enthusiasts. But spring is on its way, all right. It will be here almost before you know it. And with the coming of spring there also arrives a civic duty for almost every householder or renter to perform. It concerns the cleaning up of their premises, and the alleys in their im mediate vicinity. During the winter season much trash and rubbish is thrown out of doors and windows in a promiscuous fashion. A snow comes along and covers it up. Or if there isn't much snow, the general dreariness of winter keeps such rubbish from standing out prominently. It isn't noticed so much in the winter time, and the weather is generally sufficient ly cold to keep all such stuff from hav ing contaminating influences. With the arrival of the thaws of spring, these conditions cease to con tinue. As soon as the grass begins to grow green and the trees begin to show their leaves, the trash and rubbish that has accumulated around a house, es pecially in the back yards and alleys, stand out like eyesores. They make fine breeding places for those little ter rors, the house-flies and other vermin. Therefore, with the approach of spring, a general cleaning up is in order- Topeka is a beautiful city, with its parkings and trees and the lawns about its houses. But most of the houses are so situated that a passer-by can see into the back yards. A pretty exterior does not count for much if the interior is unclean. Cluttered up alleys are not only unsightly. They also de velop a filthiness that is an excellent breeding place for disease. And to make Topeka even more beau tiful, and more healthful as well, it is incumbent on ever' one to see to it that the accumulated trash of winter in the back yards and the alleys is cleaned up and removed. This Is a duty that every family owes to Itself and its j neighbors. It may be a trifle unpleas- j ant one to perform. But it is decidedly worth the effort, nonetheless. JOURNAL ENTRIES As a rule most people are more tol erant than they should be. There is this advantage to false teeth. They can be left at the dentist's when they need fixing. You seldom come across any one who is not willing to take a chance of being spoiled by prosperity. At that, the man who says he leads a dogs life has consideraoie ror which to be thankful. It's always well to take with a grain of salt the hints of folk that they were used to better things when they lived elsewhere. JA YHA WKER JOTS If you come to bat often enough, ad vises the Marquette Tribune, you will finally get a hit. There must be a painful conflict of emotions, thinks the Jewell County Re publican when a tightwad falls in love. Advertising, says the Sherman Coun ty Record, is like courting a girl. You must have something good to offer and keep a calling. A school note in the Rexford News that offers a wide field for conjecture: Some of the scholars don't seem to care where they stick their gum. We heard a fellow on the streets the other day trying to engage harvest hands, reports the Rexford News, and it adds: He has the right kind of faith in this country. If it were not for the number of per sons who fall off the water wagon, points out the Kanopolis Journal, there wouldn't be room for others to get on. But there's always room. A man may be able to quote Shakes peare by the page and recite poetry by the yard, says the Yates Center News, but he will have to be able to do some thing else more substantial if he would satisfy the cravings of hunger. Nothing spoils a dog more than to win a fight or two, says Tom Thomp son in his Howard Courant. He might have added, thinks the Salina Journal, that dogs aren't much differ ent than men in this respect. Most of the Kansas weeklies of par tisan hue make it a point to state that candidates for primary nominations in other parties are not barred from mak ing announcements in their columns, provided, of course, they come across with the flva dollar announcement fee. While different states and localities are making records of the big eggs pro duced by the helpful hen, Mrs. C. J. Hahn, living east of Cassoday enters the contest with an egg laid by one of her leghorns which measures 8x7 inches in circumference. If those Ohio people don't let up, some of our Kan sas hens will become angry and leave an egg as big as a goose egg in her nest one of these days. Cassoday Times. Some men have better luck than others, says the Emporia Republican in a sarcastic vein. A stranger re cently moved to Emporia and an nounced that he wanted work and would take any old job that showed itself. People told him that there was little chance for him, as there were many idle men in town. He re plied that he never yet had any trou ble getting a job, and went hustling. He has been busy every day since. Of course it is nothing but luck. It is seldom you come across an en thusiastic optimist over mud. One such 1c thpic li.nM I, 1 1 is the PlanWiirL fio,U(" Z ?iz i",,. .u-n, rtO tilt? AUliOW- ing rrom its columns, indicates: The rain and snow storm of fho flrot nr tv, 1 ucei muu. And w-e ap- preciate it very much thank you. If hum wet ousmess keeps on we stand almost anyone for president. iari GLOBE SIGHTS BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. A lover is apt to He a good deal, ana sometimes he knows it. Politics consists too much of knocking the opposition. Most men need a large substantial desk to rest their feet on. An Eskimo must get awfully tired of the backbone of winter. A man's enemies are often quite a help in making him behave himself. While opposing the simplified form, an acrostic seems going too far to spell any thing. Probably your memory isn't as good as you expect other people's to be. If you can't keep the promises you make yourself, don't try them on other people. A good many youngsters pay for an education (with Father's money), who don't get it. A speaker at a banquet often fools him self into believing he is as important as the grub. Many a bride learns it isn't Such a long journey from' the cut glass counter to the ten cent store. Baseball isn't the only Big Business which has scouts on the lookout for promising bush leaguers. If a man's wife is a good church mem ber, he sometimes doubts that this is a land of religious liberty. We are inclined to suspect that the man who talks a good deal about the ethics of his profession is rather new in his line. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. You can't expect a blind man to see the error of his way. Even the "has been" never forgets the day he was "IT." It's easier to know what to do than it is to do what you know. A child can save its parents a lot of money by not being twins. Never offer a man advice until you find out just what kind he wants. Don't imagine that people are going to call you a liar every time they think it. Every time a woman changes her mind she thinks it is up to her to air her news. Don't be too modest. People never criticise an old. hen for cackling after she lays an egg. No matter what the future has in store for a woman, she will look for it on the bargain counter. Owing to the difference in weight, peo ple now invest in fake mining stock in stead of buying cumbersome gold bricks. If a man has a big family he can sel dom be induced to spend his money on anything else that may cause him more trouble. RY THE WAY BY HARVEY PARSONS. The alleged mission of the public school is to arm the youth of the land against the exigencies they may meet after reaching maturity. Theoretical ly, they are so equipped that they may, in after life, meet any sensible prob lem and slap it on the wrist. And to that end, our highly intelligent edu cators produce school books contain ing old moth-eaten jokes like this: "The head of a fish is six inches long; the tail is the length of the head plus one half of the body. How long is the fish?" You old timers, of course, remem ber this one; thirty or forty years ago it was popular, when rebuses, catch problems and the like passed as par lor time-kiilers and took the place of gossip. But would you have suspect ed that this hoary-headed old friend was incorporated in a modern school book, and served up to little children in short skirts or knee trousers? Of course it is an easy problem after you take a slant at this diagram BUT, for the Love of Mike, what is the use? No fish was ever shaped like that. Doesn't he look silly with tail "the length of the .head plus one-half of the body? AND, on the theory that the school is intended to teach something that may be prac tical in later years, we hereby offer a prize of two sticks of gum and a cigarette to any architect, civil en gineer or plain citizen who will sub mit a PRACTICAL proposition which contains the same method of deduc tion as this problem. Look it over; the fish is drawn to scale (the only way, of course, to draw a fish). See if you can think of any SENSIBLE problem that can be .vorked by the same method. Hobo Kemp wept when Meta told him it was All Off, and that she had Discovered Another. Upon receiving her report, Kemp merely wept, and told the reporters All About It. Any one who would blame Meta for quit ting a weeper is a worse chump than either of the principals. When the vacuum cleaner disnlaocs the broom, what is mere man going to do for a straw to clean his pipe? It is a crime to play poker if von can't win. Two Pennsylvania girls have been willed" to spinsterhood. Their fa ther's will chops them off at the first matrimonial crack. They will, of course, marry $60 per month dry goods clerks at the first opportunity. Because, telling a girl she must re main single is one of the surest wava of forcing her into matrimony. SAYS UNCLE GAV Don't think you've made good be- cause you ve got to the place where you can jss somebody. I've seen manv a good man ruined by a little brief authority. About thet best way to spoil a No. 2 man w ho is good, al- most, but not quite all the way tnrougn, is to give him a chance to make others stand around. Make most good section hands foremen of gangs and you'll make them good for nothing. Elevate the average clerk to the position of department man ager and he's lost his usefulness. Most Prlvate soldiers are unfit for commis sions; the best sailor aboard might be lost in command. I iked my friend, the owl car con ductor, why this is. Said he, "They swell up and bust." That seems to fit the situation. Certainly the average man, given authority, "swells up" and oh,,? nl 'J 'ei 5" h-6: busts. ine reason tor all this is that too many of us are wont to im agine that the moment we have reach ed the position in which we can give orders, we have not only demon strated our difference from men of ordinary clay, but have reached the cop 01 cue lauuer. jis a maLcer 01 lace, we are all made of the same kind of I top of the ladder. As a matter of fact, mud and that mud is pretty nearly divine. The man under you may le a little smarter or just a little less smart or just as smart as you are, but he measures up pretty close to you any way you take it. Also, there is no top to the ladder of achievement. If you are trying to reach the top, you keep on going until your strength fails and you fall off to make room for a stronger man. If you think you have reached the top when you get your first taste of au thority, your eyesight is as bad as judgment, and your judgment is hope lessly bad. You have planted your self on the first round, called it the top and stopped the procession. You won't stop it long. The man who gave you vour authority will take it away and you'll get a better look at the lad der. But you may never have another chance to climb it. (Copyright, 1912, bv W. E. Williams.) REFECTIOXS OF A BACHELOR, From the New York Press.l Politics lives as far as it can get from the Ten Commandments. A woman can endure witli fortitude any ordeal but out-of-door clothes. The next best thing to getting out of visiting somebody is getting out of hav ing somebody visit you. When a man won't let anybody but his wife cook certain dishes for him she knows he's a good husband. A girl can remember the time a man wanted to propose to her. even If they didn't know each other then. The way a girl hugs a baby before a man makes him want to go out and roll in a snowdrift to get it out of his mind. If a man didn't have any relatives and friends to borrow from him it appears like there wouldn't be much use of money in the world. DAFFYDILS BY TJ. NOALL. If the grizzly -bear can dance the bunnv hug can the turkey trot? (On with the dance! Let joy be unrefined! I If Dr. Mary Walker is a woman is Annette Kellerman? (Carelessly flinging a ba of gold to the servitor, he vaulted upon his steed and galloped away into the night.) If China is a republic is vaccination? (Hold him, pals, until I punch him in the other eye.) TO SUZAXXE AT TWELVE. Study your smile in the mirror. Study your twinkling eye. And don't let the cruel world steal them And leave in their pjace a sigh. Study your sweet disposition. And your generous, dear little way. And don't let the cruel world steal them Or sorrow drive them away. Keep them and treasure them always, For they are far greater than gold. Don't let the cruel world steal them 'Cause then you'll be wrinkled and old. William Hodge, in National Magazine. THE EVENING STORY Lady Pamela's Dishonorable Deed. By C. R. L. Falcy. I was staying with Lady Pamela at her lovely house in town. Lady Pamela and I had been at school together and later had spent two yeai-s "finishing" in .France and Germany. Then we had come home; and the next time I heard from her she was engaged to Lord Gerald Lumley. Six months later they were married, and after seemingly endless globe-trotting, had settled down at Lafley Court in Kent. That was 13 years ago, and since then Lady Pamela has never missed hav ing me with her 'for month or so during the Lonnon season. "Let us have a quiet evening to gether, Helen," she had said one af ternoon. And I had heartily agreed, for the bustle and fatigue of dinner parties, theaters and balls during the last three weeks had thoroughly tired me. We hud drifted into Lady Pamela's boudoir chatiing and laughing over the eld times, Lady Pamela languidly ex ploring an old and loiig forgotten trunk the while ai d bringing forth first one thing a. id then another which served to call up old memories and faces that night. Lady Pamela was in high spirits and the filled the room with her rip pling laughter as I told her of a serio con ic experienc e I had had in Italy a few months back. But suddenly I noticed that she was no longer attending. Instead, she was gating -with thoughtful eyes at a 1 l tle silver earket she held in her hand and which had evidently been brought to light from the depths of the trunk beside her. Slowly she opened the delicate sil ver box and took from it a visiting card. Then she put it back and closed the box with a tiny snap. "Pamela!" I said. "You look quite serious. There must be some tragic taie connected with that card." Lady Pamela started. Then she smiled. "There is a story. Helen, but it is, hardly tragic at least to the person most concerned." "Do tell it me." I begged, forgetting my own unfinished story. "Listen," said Lady Pamela. "I will tell vou the storv of how I once did a dishonorable deed no, cion 1 open your eyes like that. Wait until 1 have finished and then you shall pass judgment. "It happened eight years ago. Gerald and I were staying in this very house, and I was giving a dance one of the biggest of the season. "I had staving with me at the time a verv beautiful girl. Her name was Cynthia Carruthers. It was her first season ana Lonnon nau sum wild over her. On the night of the ball I Cvnthia came to me. I knew sue was tn trouble or diflicultv but had not asked her anything, knowing that it would all come out sooner or later. And it did that evening. "It appeared there wer tw-o men onlv two whom she really cared for. snth nerp to he at the hall, and both, t ahV exneeted. would propose to her. The nonr gil l was nearly distracted, She could not decide which to accept and came to me as helpless as a baby. "The two men were Major Bewsher onri T.tent Carstairs. BOtn were v,r,i,r.rr,0 farstairs was young, and 111111 "3 1 i T-irif kr Ft s a rat. Jriewsner nau in-Mirv. Of him I had my suspicions. Monte Carlo drink cards. Xothing serious, of course, but there all the same. "I liked the boy Carstairs, but Unew little about him. j 'Well, Cynthia.' I remember say I ing, 'you must take Major Bewsher j ro -crt n i rs 'Oh. nb. no. ana fiive oh T ij yi r cn nan crieu. muu v ii-h x .-o., said she would not give up uewsner and so on. "In fact the girl simply did not know her own mind, and begged me to decide for her. 'Very well.' I said, i win qo so or rather I shall help you to decide, u., ,,i,cf nrnrnitt for V?rsf1'- Ju 2. "iLon Tw I to abide bv whatever decision we come to." "She promised. 'You see this, box,' I explained, 'and you see these two cards. On them I have written the names of your two admirers. You will draw one from wel, then take Carstairs. you offered to the Democratic leaders on silly girl,' 'she burst into sobs and;the management of national affairs. the box and you must accept the man are the visions which Speaker CInrk'a whose name you draw.' correspondent says must be followed "She turned very pale: then with if the United States is to escape the an effort she reached for the box and doom of Sodom and Gomarrah. In with trembling fingers drew out one eluded in the revelations are instruc of the cards. tions for petrifying and drying ice, "'Well,' I said, 'and who is the so it will resemble popcorn; burn lucky man?" And she whispered ing water, making cheese out of straw. Carstairs.' I "That evening Carstairs proposed. Cynthia accepted and they were mar r.ed shortly afterward. Then his regi ment was ordered out to India and she went with him. Five years later, when Carstairs had come into money ana a.cnarges collect. Washington Post. title, and Bewsher naa, wen snoi himself in the Casino gardens, I met Cynthia. "From a beautiful girl she had grown into a beautiful woman. She had two darling boys and was as hap py as a woman can be. I invited her down to Lumley court. "One evening she showed me a visit ing card. It was one of my own, and on it was written the name 'Car stairs.' It was the card she had drawn on the evening of the ball. She told me she treasured it as her most priceless possession, and and this, Helen, is the other." "I see," I said, "the other on which you had written the name of Major Bewsher." "N'o," said Lady Pamela quietly, "on which I had also written the name of Lieut. Carstairs." (Copy righted 1912 by Associated Literary Press.) ADVERTISING TALKS BY WILLIAM C. FREEMAN Mr. Joseph Johnson, fire commissioner of New York, is an old time newspaper man. He has adopted a novel method of ad vertising in the city of New York with the idea of educating the people to be more careful as to where they throw lighted matches or cigars or cigarettes, trying to give them a practical illustration of the calamity that follows carelessness. It is a well known fact that the Equit able building was destroyed through the carelessness of one of the employees, wno threw a lighted match in the waste paper basket after having lighted his cigarette Mr. Johnson has no appropriation to do the kind of advertising he would like to do viz.. newspaper advertising so he is Going the best he can with the means at nis- command. He has decorated an automobile firo n gine with big placards on which are printed statistics showing the losses due to fire. This he staLions in different parts of the city in order that all might read these placards. Of course a fire engine going pell meit up and down any street always attracts attention because of the imoression it creates that there is a fire somewhere-, so when it stops in front of 91111:3 bis build ing, a crowd gathers at once and Mr. Johnson gets immediate effect from bis advertising. It is a great pity that there 'su't a fund in all municipalities that can be used for advertising. The people need to be cau tioned about many things that would help the authorities in managing cities. Good, straightforward advertising would help them to this end. Maybe this fire incident will arouse the city of New York to the nee! of ap propriating a fund for advertising. It would be a good idea for all munici palities to consider setting apart an ap propriation for advertising purposes, let ting the mayor and his associates .leotde how that appropriation shall be used. (To be continued.) EVENING CHAT BY RUTH CAMERON. A friend of mine, who had been bother ed by the return of an old trouble wilii her digestion, threatened to consult a. new doctor. "What's the matter with Dr. J.?" 1 asked. "Didn't he help you the last time you had those spells?" "Oh, yes, 1 suppose he did." she ad mitted. "But I know just what he'll say if I go to him. He'll ask if I am careful not to let myself get overtired, and he II want to know if I'm outdoors as much as he told me to be, and it I do my exercises and drink plenty of water and rest he fore eating. And then he'll tell me to go home and do all those things. Just as like as not he won't give mo any medi cine at all, or nothing but some meach ing little pills. I want a doctor who will give me some good strong medicine that will do me some good." If there are any doctors among my reader friends. I feel quite sure they must recosnizp this woman. I don't mean this particular woman, but the type. Fur she is an excellent example of that very common class of people who think they can disobey the laws of health ad libitum, and then go to a doctor and "get some good strong medicine" to make them well again. There was a time when doctors encour aged, or at least did not discmirage, peo ple in tne idea that they could do this, but the medical teaching of today says most emphatically that the man or wom an who hopes to arrive at health btt the short cut of drugs, instead of taking the broad highway of right living is doomed to disappointment. Everywhere there is springing up this new school of medicine, the principal idea of which is to teach the patient prin ciples of conservation, prevention and right living, instead of simply to cure him by drugs, after he has ignored all these principles. Drues are used, 01. I course, but only in combination with nat I ural forces. And everywhere sluggish hu 1 man nature is begging like a child for candy to be given back its drugs and ls faith in them as substitutes for right liv ing. -et me tell you what one doctor said about this new school of medicine. She has not been so busy of late, as she was five or ten years ago. and this is the rea son "It's just because of all this preven tion talk," she said. "Why. there Isn t anywhere near the sickness there used to j be. With all this talk ahout fresh air h'ulb huhui m ure schools, and all the health instructions In the magazines and newspapers, and the athletics and gymnastic classes, how could there be so much sickness? There isn't room for so many doctors now, as there used to be they aren't needed." Think what that means if it Is true. It means that the doctors themselves are teaching, preaching, and publishing doc j trines that in the end will hurt their own profession. And yet they are willing and many of them eager to do it. Doesn't It seem as 1 i uukiu iu ur w iiiiog 10 us-ieu 10 I these doctrines and try to absorb th t rr rwT l fm them, instead of childfshJy 7 turning our backs upon them? Sends "Visions" to Clark. The "Visions and Revelations of the Prophetess Irene," in eight big hand written books, the first of which reached the office of Speaker Champ Clark vesterdav. is the latest advice

"I will send you seven or eight more of these records containing the full copy of all the word intrusted to my care just as fast as I can get it all copied, says the prophetess. "I want you to allow Wr. .1. Bryan, Mr. Taft. Teddy Roosevelt. Secretary' Cor- i. j 1. tely.t?u' ch!ff u' th ret service, ana an statesmen to unow and have copies of this and all the eight books you will have sent to you. home day i will see you and may talk to you if you need any interpre tation, of this work." In the 404 pages of manuscript shoes out of dog-salmon skins, meat of the bark of trees, and window panes or frozen air. The first of the books of the new revelation was returned to the sender at Trenton. X. .1.. with exi.rexa QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. "It s never too late to blend," says the rectifier. A good rule In auction Is don't cross your bridge till you come to It. Also don't lose sight of the fact that the early worm catches the fish. Half the flattery is expended on wom en; the other half on tombstones. It is better to begin at the bottom of the ladder than to tumble from the top. It isn t always a sign a woman Is losing her memory when she forgets her age." Ewi marriage may be a trades union when a girl exchanges her monev for a title. Some people always lock ashamed of themselves when they are caught telling the truth. Clothes may not make the man. but the lack of them would, to say the least, be embarrassing. If any man In the world is in a position to give his wife a free foot, it's the manu facturer of artificial limhs. Hoax "Why do women paint?" Joax "With the Idea of making themselves pretty." Hoax "I suppose that's the plain, unvarnished truth about it." "i.isease always attacks the weakest spot," remarked the Wise Guy. I sup pose that's why so many people get cold in tne head," suggested the Simple! Mu. Nell "Your uncle, the retired se cap tain, just tried to kiss me." Belle 'Oh, you mustn't mind 1'ncle George; he's an old salt, you know." Nell "He may be an old salt, but he's too fresh." "We shouldn't be discouraged." re marked the sociologist: 'even t tie home less wanderer, the tramp, the hobo, whatever you choose to call him, is gain ing ground." "Ves. every time i doesn't wash himself," replied the mere man. j KANSAS COMMENT B A it KING CP THE WRONG TREE. There are crimes in Kansas and com mitments to the penitentiary, but the crimes for which prisoners are sent from other states to the federal penitentiary at Ieavenworlh have nothing to do wttli Kansas crimen. Therefore. whe,i the liquor interests of the country prcparo statements that Kansas ranks second in point of commitments for felonies, they simplv set the average Kanstis Intellect to work to show the error in the figures. Bv eliminating the federal commitment Kansas. Instead of being next to the highest In the ratio of felonious crime t third from tho lowest. Plain distortion of plain facts Is a confession of weakness. Kansas City. Kan.. Gazette-Globe. THE TOWN ROW. A row is to a town what a heavy frost is to vegetation. It distracts, disinte grates, destrovs. It 'undermine tin foundation of things. Its scats heal slow ly. Better have a cyclone or an rarlh ouake or most any destructive visitation than to have a town row for when these calamities are over they are over, att,i the people cemented together in -inter fellowship bv the common calamity begin at once unitedly and bravely to repair waste places. Such people under such conditions are invincible and absolute masters of destiny. Latham Mirror. BUSINESS MENS COURT. The New York chamber of com merce is undertaking an experiment which will be watched with Interest by business men everywhere, but it I too soon to form any idea of its suc cess. It is the establishment of an ar bitration hoard, "or a business men u court of honor, for the settlement nf disputes promptly and by men famil iar witli the matter at issue. Such a court has exi.fted before, and for -l years the slate paid a liberal salary i the official arbitrator. When the state discontinued this payment. 17 years ago. the system lapsed. It has been re-established under the sanction of the state, and is a part of the judicial system. But appeals to this court of honor must be voluntary. That Is the dif ference between arbitration and litiga tion. If two disputants desired to have their controversy settled quickly they could easily refer it to one or three impartial persons. Hut it hap pens that one of the two litiganto does not wisli any proceedings. He is In possession of a property or a right w-hlch the other man claims. lie goes into court only because he has to. The court of honor will succeed If men against whom claims are made shall consent to go into an arbitration instead of standing pat, and leaving It to the man who makes the claim against them to press his case In the courts. Prompt and Inexpensive de cisions by men of business. Instead of juries, can be ohtalned if both parties to a controversy desire them. The man against whom a claim Is made has not usually shown alacrity in thi direction. He usually stands on hi righis. Philadelphia Record. GBTTIVrt RID OF MR. BRVAV. A great deal of prominence Is ,;ust now being given to difference in the Demo cratic party centering around Mr. Wil liam J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan In one respect is the most eminent member of the Dem ocratic party, because he has been thre times its candidate for president. In a great, many things Mr. Bryan fights for principle.. He certainly fought for prin ciple at the meeting of the Democratic national committee, In Washington. In January, when he opposed the retention of Colonel J. M. Guft'ey. of Pennsylvania, In the committee. He professes to have been fighting for principle over the ques tion as to how the Investigation of finan cial Institutions In this country Rnould b conducted by the house of representa tives. Those vtho are against Mr. Bryan pro fess to be opposing him for the purpose of weakening his Influence In the party and running It without him. Do these gentlemen ever stop to thnk that per haps more Individuals in the Democratic party relieve. In Mr. Bryan than In any other member of that organization New York Herald. HVM0R OF THE DAY Nell Why arn you so angry with Jack T Belle I told him never to attempt to ktm me again. Nell And he did? Belle No, he didn't. Philadelphia Record. "Can you paint me a gallery of ances tors from this old tintype?" "I can, but they will all look much alike." "Well, a, family resemblance won't hurt none." Washington Herald. Crafty. Foozle Doc Woozle wants ter sell his auter. Biff What's the. reason? Foozle He flggers that the one that buys It will be a steady patient ever after. Pathfinder. "Beauty Is only skin deep." quoted th Wise Guy. "yes," assented the Simple Mug, "a girl may have teeth like perils and still be as dumb aa an oyster." Philadelphia Record. "Ivan, things were better In the ol 1 country. Even the meat tasted sweeter." "Well, in America we have meat evtiy day. In the old country we had meat once a month. No wonder It tasted sweet er." Kansas City Journal. "You say your Jewels were stolen u hilts the family was at dinner?" "No, no. This is an important robbery", officer. Our dinner was stolen while we were putting on our jewels." Louisville Courle r-Joui -nal. "I hope you young men realize your re sponsibilities." "We do, indeed, profes sor," said the spokesman for the fresh man class. "It's up to ua to invent a brand-new class yell." Kansas City Jour nal. "Five hundred marks for this Parrot? That's a lot of money.'' "He talks well sir." "Very well, I'll have him as soon .i you have taught him to say, 1 cost it) marks.' 1-iiegende Blaetter. Mrs. ball? Highupp How was the charitv Mrs. Blase All right, but lf wonder they made anything when sr... consider the small amount they spent" on It. Their expenses were actually- l-38 than their receipts. Puck. Husband (studying his wife accounts! a.Tr uriiin you ttiiveni en- i..-,e, line, cuius up tne lurnllure, y o u r i o-.i, lri u instance. Wife Oh. those all r. a. lor repairs. Fliegende Blaetter. mc under 'The railroad business Is prettv compll. efa1- W r"r'l'"i ,he tvVJinB mln I don t suppose I will be Hbi understand why two towns that look so close together on a railway map Ket fur injn i. I e f'l o measure tin ii- ",i-,","e miu a mile ::8e-bouk." n astnmgion jstar. j FROM OTHER PENS 1 Lth? ment and was smoking a lr -hat -tmoked hke the 12

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL" FEBRUARY 21, 1912 TALK ABOUT ADS Big Men in Easiness World at LeaTenworth. Honesty in Advertisements Urged hj All Speakers. TOPEKA CROWD IS LARGEST Local Advertisers Are Initiated Into "Yellow Dogs." tubls Gets Laugh hj Telling of Political Ignorance. Among the puests at the "Gover nors" banquet" tencKred Tuesday riieht ty the Leavenworth Ad club to the delegates to the fourth annual convention of the Associated Advertis ing clubs of America at the National liotel in Leavenworth, Topeka had the iareest representation nearly 7 5. A number of the Topekans remain ed over to attend today's sessions of the meeting; but the majority of thorn left by the special" over the Santa I'e immediately aftei the banquet, erriving in Topeka at 2:15 o'clock. Although the Leavenworth papers In describing the arrival of the To leka delegation spoke of a band that I'layed gray music, the wearers of the "Topeka baclfre were able to make more or less of an impression "with out the music." At the station they lined up in double file and marched vp to the Xational hotel where regis tration took place. They attracted a lot of attention. 8 Registration beini? completed the J delegation immediately reported at the Elks' club where the convention was being held. They listened to ad dresses by Julius1 Schneider, advertis ing counselor. Chicago Tribune; E. F. Trefz, advertising counselor The t'us faok Co., Chicago, and Dean Walter Williams of the Missouri State uni versity. E. W. Rankin presided over the meeting in the absence of t. X. !Spott?s, president of the A. A. C. of A. S. W. 1'iv., who is ill in Kansas City. Advertisers Get tlje Busine. "The two great forward steps need ed today," said Julius Schneider in speaking on "Retail Store Advertis ing, are 10 squeeze me waier out of advertising. The watered stock, to my mind, is one of the causes of the present high prices. "Advertising has been one of the marvelous revolutions of the present generation. It has developed into a wonderful force for spreading indus tries. The advertising clubs are mak ing honest advertising their slogan and their watchword, "The newspaper is more and more becoming the medium in advertising retail stores for producing direct re sults. Advertising is for the ambitious and unafraid. The satisfied will find that there will come a time when the other fellows will be doing the busi ness. It is up to the best newspapers to show- the merchants the way. The copy of the retail merchant Fhould be designed to accomplish a definite end, and every ad should be so worded or j ff t feat aos Ts.ali i 1 VdgVA Don't W After Thirty Years' Experience I Have Produced an Appliance for Men, Women and Children That Actually Cures Rupture If you have tried most everything else, come to me. Where others fail is where I have my greatest success. Send at tached coupon today and I will tend yon free my illustrated book on Rupture and its cure, showing my Appliance and giv-ing- you prices and names of many people who have tried it and were cured. It is insrant relief when all others fail. Re member, I use no salves, no harness, no lies. I send on trial to prove what I say 1 true. You are the Judge and once having sprn my illustrated book and read it yon will be as enthusiastic as my hundreds of patients whose letters you can also read. Fill out free coupon below and mail to lay. It's well worth your time whether you try my Appliance or not. 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Yours verv sincerely, JAMES A. BRITTOX. SO Spring St., Bethlehem, Pa. Recommend From T" r- icxas rarmer Brooks Rupture Appliance CO., Marshall, Mich. Gentlemen: I feel it my duty to let you, and also all other people afflicted as I wa, know what your Appliance has done for me. I have been ruptHred for many yearn atd have worn many different trusses, but never got any relief until I got your Appliance. I put it on last November, but had very little faith in it, but must say I am now cured. I have laid it away have had it off for two wesfas and doing- all kinds of farm work displayed as to bring about the re sults desired. He Mnst Be Behind Ad. "The advertiser must be larger than any ad he writes," said E. F. Trefz. "He must be original. Don't watch your competitor, but study the field, and blaze the way for business. Open up new fields." Mr. Trefz is a pleas ing speaker, telling stories which keep his hearers in a constant state of good humor. "Advertising as I understand it," said Dean Walter Williams in speaking on "Advertising as a Public Service," "Is inducing acquaintanceship. "Advertising that is worth while Is news, none the less valuable to its readers because it is paid for and placed in the newspaper columns. The newspaper proprietor has no more right to lie with pay than without pay. Xo fake advertising such as question able medical ads should be tolerated." Rememlier Sick President. The Leavenworth Ad club proved to be roval entertainers. The banquet at the National hotel in the evening was a great success. However, it was with deep regret that those present could not greet in person S. X. Spotts, who should have been presiding officer of the convention. However, the ad men presented him with a loving cup, and immediately prior to sitting down to the banquet table he was reached be long distance telephone, the Missouri Kansas Telephone company having connected an instrument to his bedside. He listened to a short presentation speech, and words of regret that he could not be present. The only governor present at the banquet was Governor W. R. Stubbs, who was greeted enthusiastically. Governor Herbert Hadley of Missouri was represented by M. V. Carroll of Pedalia. Mo., chairman of the state immigration bureau of Missouri. "I presume I'm addressing some of the most intelligent and useful men the country has produced," said Gov ernor Stubbs. Aside from speaking of the resources of Kansas, the speaker told of some of the reforms he con sidered should be accomplished in the state. He told how the people through recent legislation are now protected by state law from being robbed by per sons selling fake stocks. "Out of 600 corporations that have applied to sell stocks." he said, "Mr. Dolley has turn ed down all but about fifty. The peo ple are protected by the state, but still these fakers are allowed to use the Vnited States mails and the people are still being swindled. "In addition to the pure food law." continued the governor, "there should be a pure shoe leather law, and a pure clothing law." Tlion, They Lauslietl. The banqueters smiled when Gover nor Stubbs said: "1 don't know the little game of politics I'm simply a business man." Warden R. W. McClaughry of the federal prison presided. Warren K. Comstock of Ka.nsas City read an original poem on "The Great Southwest." The closing vers went in this manner: "The Tadpole-Man and Dodo of the Past, Upon the world that was, their shad ows cast. Mid conquest and mid triumph of Today, The Ad Man and the Eagle lead the way!" The interesting feature of the visit of the Topeka Ad club to Leaven worth was the initiation into the order of "Yellow Dog." Three at a time candidates for initiation were taken I 11 ear a truss mm w The above ia C. E. Brooks, inventor of the Appliance, who cured himself and who lias been curing others for over 30 years. If ruptured, write him today. with ease. While I was wearing it, I had lagrippe and coughed a great deal but it held all right. Words cannot express my gratitude towards you and your Ap pliance. Will recommend it to all rup tured people. Yours sincerelv. Bald Prairie, Texas. J. E. LONG. Others Failed But The Appliance Cured C. E. Brooks. Marshall, Mich. Dear Sir: Your Appliance did all you claim for the little boy and more, for it cured him sound and well. We let him wear it fox about a year in all, although it cured him 3 months after he had begun to wear it. We had triea several other remedies and got no relief, and I shall certainly recom mend it to friends, for we surely owe it to you. Yours respectfully. WM. PATTERSON. No. 71 S. Main St., Akron, O- into the torture chamber. They were sworn to secrecy, and the thing that then transpired made a "hit" with the men. Yellow dog songs were sung at the banquet. Nearly 200 of the ad men visited the federal prison in the morning before the sessions began, partaking of "prison fare." The sessions continued throughout today. The principal speakers were E. St. Elmo Lewis of Detroit. George McKenney of Kansas City, J. H. Craig ot Kansas City and John I. Romer, editor of Printers Ink. Xew York. Many Tojiekaiis I'resent. Among the Topekans represented at the convention were: C. G. McCleery, Clyde Lawrence, I. V. Garlinghctise, Charles Lagerstrom, Robert T. Eiilard, Ray P. Locke, Chao. Studevant, David J. August, A. Gor don, G. E. Lindemuth, Charles Elkins, P. F. Lowers, G. Hathaway, B. J. Long, Tom Powell, L. hseakcy. Bernard Crosby, H. J. Brockman, George L. Dow, L. R. Booth. J. L. Vincent, W. M. Temple, George S. Badders. H. A. Spielman, George Godfrey Moore. E. L. Overton. Col. J. W. F. Hughes, Miss Viola Reynolds, Mrs. John E. Lord, Otto Barth, McClaskey, J. E. Spalding, E.. W. Kankin, Albert T. Reid. Frank L. Snow, J. C. Wolectt. W. J. Rickenbacher. J. Will Kelley, Col. F. S. Savage, Tom King. H. O. Garvey, Arthur BnTf, F. L. Carswell, W. C. Caxswell, C. L. Williams, F. E. Ferris, Charles J. Shellhorn. ROBBED CHILD'S GRAVE Is C'harfre Brought by Iowa Man Against His Neighbors. Council Bluffs, la., Feb. 21. Charging that they stole an evergreen tree from his child's grave in the cemetery at Silver Creek. Ia.. near here, for a church Christ mas festivity last December, Henry Reiher. a farmer, has filed suit in the district court here for $2,000 damages against Henry Brandes, former member of the Iowa legislature and four farmers, Oscar Leaders, Frank Heckman, Henry Leaders and Bernard Eichenberger. Oscar Leaders and Heckman, the peti tion alleges, cut down the tree at the di rection of the three other defendants. Plaintiff alleges that he planted the tree, "a small but valuable evergreen tree of good variety," over the grave of his child in lSfo and its removal caused him great humiliation and mental anguish. MUSEMEHTS. With not one dull moment, and full of wit and humor, sparkling musical num bers, with gorgeous costumes and won derful scenic effects, "Miss Nobody From Starland" should prove a more than agreeable offering at the Grand. This musical comedy is one of the best and most popular of the many notable produc tions placed before the public by Mort H. Singer. The book and lyrics are by Ad ams. Hough and Mitchell, all of whom have had a part in previous Singer suc cesses, and the music is the work of pro lific Joseph E. Howell, whose agreeable songs are heard all over the world. Olive Vail, the clever delineator of the title role, and a widely known favorite, will head a large cast of well known princi pals. On Friday and Saturday with a matinee on Saturday "The Mystery of the Maine" will be offered to the patrons of the Grand. By special permission from the Cnited States these pictures were taksn and are said to be a marvel to the mov ing picture world. Cured at the Arc of 76 Mr. C. E. Brooks, Marshall, Mich. Dear Sir: I began using your Appliance for the cure of rupture (I had a pretty bad case) I think in May, 1906. On November 20, 19VS, I quit using it. Since that time I have not needed or used it. I am well of rupture and rank myself among those cured by the Brooks Discovery, which, considering my age 76 years, I regard remarkable. Very sincerely yours. Jamestown, N. C. SAM A. HOOVER. Child Cured in Four Months 21 Jansen St., Dubuque, Iowa. Brooks Rupture Appliance Co. Gentlemen: The baby's rupture is al together cured, thanks to your appliance, and we are so thankful to you. If we could only have known of it sooner out little boy would not have had to suffer near as much as he did. He wore your brace a little over four months and has not worn is now for six weeks. Yours very truly. Andrew Eggenberger, insife Quire I to Prove It Any LENT FOOD Fish, Vegetables, Fruit and Canned Goods on Menu. Meat Is Tabooed Until Easter, March 31. WE EAT MORE "MACARONI People Learn That It Is Good Cheap Food. Canned Mushrooms Grow in Popularity. Beginning today, and continuing until March SI Easter thousands of To pekans will live on a vegetarian diet. Twice as much fish will be consumed as at any other time of the year. Not only, will the Catholics and Episcopa lians who observe Lent with strict rigor, substitute fish for meat, but others not evsn for religious reasons will eat much of the food that comes from the ocean and the streams. In other words fish season began today. Eggs, macaroni and sphag-etti, mush rooms, canned goods of various kind.5, fresh vegetables and fruits will also be In demand. The consumption of macaroni and like products has doubled in the last year in Topeka according to a local grocer, and a heavy trade is expected in these goods in Lent. The people have dis covered that macaroni is a cheap ar ticle of food and are using it in place of potatoes and meat. The grocers are handling big line of canned mushrooms this season. They are becoming more and more popular, and may be purchased from 22 to SO cents a can. The goods put up in this country are more expensive than the imported brands, as the natural flavor is retained to a greater extent. Some of the mushrooms that come from France are stuffad with truffles, which are vegetables that grow entirely underground, and are gathered through a novel method by the peas ants of the country. Hogs are turned loose in a field, and detecting the w hereabouts of the vegetables through their strong sense of smell they !egin to root for them. Then when the brutes are on the point of devouring the dainty morsels they are snatched away, so that the mouths of the hogs water to no purpose. There is a large fish supply on hand and the variety is great. Prices also are reasonable. Watch the Price of Kgg-s. Eggs will be. in great demand locally, and those that will be Consumed will be absolutely fresh as the cold storage supply has been exhausted. While the hens have been doing a good job of lay ing lately the demand for the eggs is strong, and it is not probable, accord ing to local grocers, that the prices will go much lower in the near future. The best fresh eggs are now selling at 25 cents a dozen. There is not as great a variety of Ten Reasons Why You Should Send for Brooks Rupture Appliance 1. It is absolutely the only Appliance of the kind on the market today, and ill it are embodied the principles that in ventors have sought after for years. 2. The Appliance for retaining the rup ture cannot be thrown out of position. 3. Being an air cushion of soft rubber it clings closely to the body, yet never blisters or causes irritation. 4. Unlike the ordinary so-called pads, used in other trusses, it is not dumber tome or ungainly. 5. It is small, soft and pliable, and positively cannot be detected through tile clothing. 6. The soft, pliable bands holding the Appliance do not give one the unpleasant sensation of Wearing a harness. 7. There is nothing about it to get foul, and when it becomes soiled it can be washed without injuring it in the least. S. There are ho metal springs in the Appliance to torture one by cutting and bruising the fiesh. 9. All of the material of which the Ap pliances are made is of the very best that money can buy, making it a durable and safe Appliance to wear. 10. My reputation for honesty and fair dealing i3 so thoroughly established by an experience of over thirty years of dealing with the public, and my prices are so rea sonable, my terms so fair, that there cer tainly should be no hesitancy in sending free coupon today. Remember I send my Appliance on trial to prove what I say is true. You are to be the judge. Fill out free coupon below and mail today. Free' Information Coupon C. E. Brooks 631B State St. Marshall, Mich. Please send me by mail in plain wrapper your illustrated book and full information about your Appliance for the cure of rupture. Name City R.F.D State... fresh vegetables in stock locally as was the case at Christmas time. Lettuce, cauliflower, radishes, tomatoes, celery and green peppers are shipped in from California and elsewhere. New beets, turnips, and carrots have Just begun to come in from Texas. Cucumbers hothouse grown are coming in from Chicago. There is a plentiful supply of good bananas and the prices are reas onable. The oranges being received are of better quality, but the prices are higher. SEEK MAN IN BLACK. Will of Benefactor to Be Read for Murder Clue. Hutchinson, Kan., Feb. 21. With tho arrival here of a son and three daugh ters of the iate Dr. E. E. Richardson, a wealthy physician, whose adopted daughtfi, Miss Edna Alelson, 25 years old, was found shot to death in her room here Sunday, the will left by the father will be opened. It is hoped the document may throw some light on the death of his ward. It is said by friends of Dr. Richard son that Miss Melson is the largest heir to the estate and it is believed that she also left a will which has not been found. Miss Melson was found lying on a bed dying, by her sister. She had been shot with an old revolver belonging to the physician and which had been kept in a drawer in his room. The shots could not have been fired by the girl, say physicians who examined the course taken by the bullets. Search is being made by the officers for a man of medium height, dressed in black, whom Will Patterson, who lives nerr Richardson's home, says he saw about the house last Saturday where Miss Nelson died a few hours later. Dr. Richardson, with whom the two girls lived, died three weeks ago. The dead girl's sister. Erne Melson, still clings to the suicide theory. "It was grief over the doctor's death that caused my sister to kill herself," eaid Effie tcday. Many people say Dr. Richardson kej,t large sums of money about his home and that the dead girl had money ir. the house. Effie says her sister had money loaned out, but denies that con- fciderable amounts were kept in the house. Proves Suicide Is Impossible. To prove that it would have been im possible for Miss Melson to have shot herself without inflicting powder burns, Dr. W. H. Williamson, county coroner, todav hung urr a ham and fired revel ver bullets at it from different dis tances and angles. "The test satisfies me that the bul iet which killed the girl could not have been fired even from a. distance of fov.r feet without leaving powder marks,' Dr. Williamson said. Miss iflelson was found dying from a. shot in the head in the house of her late guardian last Saturday, 'mere were no -powder burns. Her sister, ti fie. who found her, insists the case is suicide. Both girls were wards of the wealthy Dr. Richardson. SHE SHOT AT HUSBAND Then Family Trouble Was Forgotten on Sheriff's Advice. Boulder. Holo" Feb. 21. After a fight in which Mrs. Geo. Kenser shot and. wounded her husband at their home 16 miles west of here, the two drove to Bouider together, drew their team up in front of the court house here, and hurried into the sheriff's of fice, each to swear out a warrant atrainst the other. Kenser is alleged to have slanned his wife and left the house early today. He returned a short time later and the woman wait in-.- In a dark hallway, fired at him. Kenser claims, the bullet grazing his forehead. In the sheriffs office here the two ronr.,,ntod their Fenarate versions of tha trouble. Sheriff Cap finally succeeded in get ting the couple to go back home and try to settle their difficulties between themselves, but without resorting to nhvsical violence or to weapons. a fow minutes later the two were driving toward their mountain home, .inino- oirie hv side and apparently as amicable as "if no domestic troubles ever occurred in their household. POLICE JOTTINGS. L. A. and R. J. Crenshaw, solicitors of the McCIure Publishing company, and who have been soliciting for the Toxica- World in Topeka. are being held on the charge of burglary at the police station. The two boys were liv ing in a room in the home of Mrs. W. F. Joslin at 313 West Seventh street. They moved away but left some ar ticles of clothing. R. J. Crenshaw re turned to the room Tuesday to get his belongings but Mrs. Joslin had cleaned up the room and put the articles in her private room. He ransacked the house and turned things upside down and then left it is charged with a new suitcase which belonged to Mrs. Joslin. He turned the suitcase over to his i. i anlil it tn n nawnhrnkpr between Fourth and Fifth streets on Kansas avenue. Mrs. Joslin discovered her loss and reported to the police about 2 o'clock Tuesday and the boys were arrested by Sergeant Sauls about 6 o'clock. The suitcase ha3 been located and the police are holding the boy Mrs. Delia Sare. the police matron, left for Bloit with Hazel Kstis this morning. The girl has been disorderly on numerous occasions and has been associated with the negroes in the vi cinity of Crane and First streets. Shs also attends their dances afifl dances with the negro men. She has been ordered taken to the Girls' Industrial school at Beloit by the juvenile court. Forest Richardson was arrested by Officer Hicks last night and is charged with larceny. It is charged that lie stole some hides from F. J. Brown at 128 N. Kansas avenue and sold them to the T. J. Smith Hide company on Kast Third street. Myrtle "Wilson, alias Shields, was ar rested by Officers Frazier and Brown Tuesday night on the charge of street walking. The officers found her on lower Kansas avenue. Myrtle didn't think that she was walking tha street. when confronted by Judge Arnold in police court this morning and .pleaded not guilty. She will be required to ap pear in court again this afternoon and the officers will be called in to explain her conduct. Time to sow Kentucky blue -rasa and white clover. Wo have tew stock. Zimmerman Seed Co. Lewis' Single Binder, extra quality to bacco. costs more than other Ba ulaar Knox Hats A'Jerbadl. for Spring $5 See Our Windows They Tell the Story It's the Final Clearance and the Most Im portant Sales Event Ever Inaug urated in Topeka. $25 to $30 Suits f All Hart, Schaffner Marx make- You Know the Rest q AA buys Fine Trousers now $5, $6 ipO.iJKJ and $7 kinds all new designs and all sizes. I- c? for finest 1 0 au very Get enough. $o OC for STETSON finest $5, $5.50, O.OO $6 winter shoes. 5 for Boys' Sam Peck $10, $8.50, $8, $7.50 finest winter suits. Winter surf-bafhinj? in whereDecember is like May. Other ocean sports, too fishing for tuna, motor-boating, beach drives and the tang of salt air. Acres of hotels and acres of roses. All in a semi-tropic environment. Try a California winter of delight. It's a thousand times better than staying housed up in the frigid East. A Santa Fe train will take you there. Fred Harvey dining-car, dining-room and station-hotel service. On the way visit Grand Canyon of Arizona. The California Limited king of the limited exclusively (or firit class travel mii every day sleeper for Grand Canyon. Santa Fe de-Luxe extra-fare train, Chicago and Ram-is City Los Angeles runs once a week America's finest train. California Fast Mail also Los Angeles Express and San Franciieo Express three daily trains standard Pullmans, tourist sleepers end chair cars all classes of ticke honored. Say which train you prefer. Will mail booklets. T. U K!ne City Paspener Apt.. Money Saved By Having Yonr Teeth Attended By Us Always up-to-date, painless, raliabla and tha large t dental concern in Kan aaa. Popular Price Best set of teeth ....18 00 Good set of teeth 6.09 Oold crown. I2K 1.09 Porcelain crown 4.04 Bridge work, per tooth...... I.00 Oold fillinga $1.04 and up DES. XjYON HEATHEBLY Office Etetb!lha over II year. Infl. Phona 111. all Ksuism Atc. Topeka. Kan. Ot Everybody Read Guattel Stetson Hats for Spring $3.50 z3 QjJ 1911 $2, $2.50 Shirts best makes we sell. Topeka, Kan. RHvr fllllnars iOo t 11.0A Oemant fllllnrs .....IOo Extracting teeth, free Inn rum process 0a n i. wuiiuui IUQQ1. etna Z rr V A. Ij. Tmompaoa Hstw. cv. the State Journal 111 li n

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6 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBRUARY 21, 1912 RAILR0AD NEWS Union Pacific to Gain Entrance Into St. Louis. May Acquire Jforthern Division of Wabash. JOIN THE ILLIIOiS CENTRAL Make Complete Route Portland 3few Orleans. making the service better liked by the public because of the higher plane of in telligence on which study has placed you. You can not reach this without the 'study habit," and this is what the educational bureau costs you. Free air is aa free as sunshine, yet to enjoy its full benefits you must make the physical effort of breathing-. HAS BEEX A HARD WINTER. Other Items of General Interest In Traffic World. St. Louis, Feb. 21. What are believ ed to be significant actions on the part of the Union Pacific to gain an en trance into St. Louis through the ac quirement of the nortr-ern division of the Wabash in the forthcoming reor ganization, have been rutively discuss ed in local railways circles during the last week. It is believed that in the roflnancins of the Wabash, properties during the next 18 months in an uttempt to take the property out of the hands of thi receivers, the union jmciiit- found active and that the R-Keleller interests will be well represented. It (Will be a big piece 01 nnancmss, Recording to local students of railway finance. It would not be surprising to ee tie entire Wabash situation han dled by these interests. t c nn(Titc out that with the Ion Pacific entering St. Louis from the iKorthu-Prt making connection here -i-v. f,a minnta Central of the Harn man system of railroads and with trie Southern Pacifies .fortianu-ew leans system at Portland, an enorrro" advantage In the western traffic situ .(inn would be obtained. Word was received In St. Louis yes terday that the Union Pacific new has a corps of engineers qmeuj "'i""-'" aroinic over the northern division of tne nrrw,tV. nnrth ami WeSt Of fet. Jrf)Ulb. These engineers are making a thorough motion into every physical t. tall of the, property in preparation of a report to the union racmo according to the information. tv. nKtjix.riate this belief, it 1s point ed oat that at least two of the mem ben of the Wabash reorganization mTnittoe. under which the present receivership is being managed, are di rectors in the Harriman lines, and that J. C. Stubbs, employed by this committee to report on the traffic values of the Wabash, resigned his po sition as traffic director of tne Lmon Pacific to enter the employ of the com mittee. TJnder the present financial arrange ment of the Wabash properties, the mortgage bonds are a Hen on the en tire system, and some disposition would have to be made to handle these is sues before any division could be sold for the benefit of the remaining lines. PliAX OF ERIE FEXSTOX SYSTEM. Minimum Term of Service of Ten Years Is Required. The new pension plan of the Erie rail road becomes effective in April, next. There will be five classes of pensioners, as follows: in class A will be all em ployees whose montMy pay is $50, or less: In class B will be those receiving from $oO to $75: in class C, those receiving from J75 to $100: in class D, those whose stipend ranges from $103 to $150, and in class E all whose monthly pay is in excess of J1B0. The minimum term of service for WHICH penmuu will ire ouuncu x.-s iv 5Bars, tue luriiia iiiguig ihmii iu l"j uv years and over. For 10 years' service in classes A C, E and E, the pension will be at the rate of $15 per month, and in class B, $20. The maximum pension in class A will be $25 and in class E $100. For ser vice from 10 to 15 years the rate will not be graded, but after 16 years there will be an appreciation in amount of pensions of B0 cents per month in all classes. And no member of the association may re ceive a pension if receiving pay from the Erie railroad. The board of directors, acting in conjunction with the officers of the Erie railroad, will compile the pen sion lists. Crippling of Railway Service Has Been Worse This Year. Railroad men say that never In their experience have so many of the railroads of the country been so severely crippled ry tne weatner in one season as has been the case this year. Some of them say that the winter has been the worst in forty years, while others are inclined to think that things have never before been quite so bad. New York Central officers say that while the movement of traffic on the main line is about normal at cres ent, they are, nevertheless, behind at all important Junction points; that is, there is still more or less tonnage awaiting movement at each such point. Railroad men west and southwest say that while the weather has undoubtedly had a serious effect upon January and February earnings in most sections of the country, the larger portion of the loss will eventually be made up. Only the comparatively small movement of lux uries is a real and permanent loss of traffic In passenger business however, a much larger proportion of the loss in earnings will not be recorded. Western lines felt the effects of the heavy weather in January, principally in .Kansas, rvebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. Considerable detouring was necessary and branch lines in some localities were completely tied up for a time. Freip-ht was moved with difficulty on the main lines, but operating efficials prevented anything like a complete paralysis of traffic. Snow has made the crop outlook excellent and the ground is in better con dition now than in years. RAILWAY NOTES. RAIL MEN BTTKX MIDNIGHT OIL. Illinois Central Starts "Get the Study Habit" Slogan. Chicago. Feb. ZL The latest watchword among the employees of the Illinois Cen tral railroad and its allied lines is "set the study habit." It was sent forth from tlse office of W. L. Park, vice president and general manager, who has installed an educational bureau on the Illinois Central system. It is the belief of Mr. Park that any one who seeks success in tbe railroad field must burn the midnight Ml with the same persistence aa one who aims to climb to the top in medicine or in the law. The current bulletin of the educational bureau comments on the sub ject as follows: "You can not get any thing for nothing in any walk of life. Yon are paying the company for what it In gviiig you in better service to the com pany and" to the public- You are making yourself better liked by the company through your Increased ability. You are Delegates representing the shop trades on all the railways west of Chicago will meet at Kansas City on March 4 for the purpose of organizing a federation to in clude all mechanical department em ployees. Statistics compiled by eastern roads snow that during the fiscal years ended June 30, from 1902 to 1911. S.456.040 immi grants arrived at Atlantic ports. The lowest number for these ten vears was Ki,459 in 1902. and the highest i.208.343, In 19CT. since which time there has been a decrease, with a temporary increase in 1911. -hen the total was 7S3.714. Although the Missouri Pacific still has $'",W.Ono cash on hand available for im provements and betterments the program mapped out for the current calendar year will require more expenditures than" the above cash will cover. The company still has unsold $5,000,000 of the S35.0O0.0OO notes authorized last spring. Present plans call for the sale of this balance In the not distant future. The interstate commerce commission. In compliance with the demands of ship pers and a number of state railway com missions, has suspended for 120 days the new issue of the Western Classification, Xo. 51, which embodies the recommenda tions of the uniform classification com mittee. J. W. Cline. president of the Interna tional Association of Blacksmiths and Helpers, estimates that the strike last autumn on the Harriman Lines, exclusive of the Illinois Central, cost the men who struck about Sn.OOO.ooo in wages. The San Antonio Aransas Pass has heen sued in the district court at Austin, Tex., by the attorney general of the state for ?..ooo penalties for failure to keen its passenger waning room in Lincoln, Tex. heated for a period of 70 days this win ter. Each day constituted a separate of' fense. The Mexican government has put into torce a new arrane-ement for the inspec tion of roadbed and rolling stock on the -National Lines, which it is thought will be a benefit to both tbe traveling public and tne management ot trie lines. Ac cording to the new arrangement the road will be divided into 35 sections of seven zones each. It will be the duty of the in spector of each zone to go over it at least once every 30 days. The new plan was put in force and within a week resulted in the. retiring of some 25 cars and en gines which were no longer in a service able condition. warnMtoleave HE QUITSJilS JOB Prison Guard Disappears, Tak ing Woman With Him. phos; J. G. MeKee of Columbus and H. G. Reeder of Osborne. President Maurice McAuliffe stated i that there would be absolutely no poli tics allowed in the convention. Writes Out Resignation When Shown Wife's Letter. SHE TELLS STORY OF WANT Wife Asks for Portion of Her Husband's Wages. THIHI' BOOSTS AX OFFICER. He Has Long Sought Society of Other Women. Night Riders Tx-ave a Xote at Colo rado Man's Door. Colorado Springs. Col., Feb. 21.--"Tou murdered your wife. You've got to get out of this country in thirty days." Printed on a scrap of white paper and unsigned, the foregoing warning was left in a tin bucket near the gate in front of the home of Chas. Fterndt. 50 miles east of Colorado Springs. February 15, by a band of night riders after they had set fire to the gate post and fired a volley of snots into tne air. Berndt today appealed to the sheriff office and district attorney's office for protection. Berndt was tried in the district court February 8. on a charge of mansiaugnter. convicted of simple assault and fined $100. He quarreled with his wife last December. She died a few minutes later of heart failure and some of the neighbors claim he muraerea ner. Fix up the lawn for spring. Tims row to sow Kentucky blue grass and white clover. Zimmerman Seed Co Leavenworth, Kan.. Feb. 21. B. F. Thorn, a guard at the federal prison since August 5, 1910, resigned sudden ly when confronted with a letter from a woman in Elmira, N. Y.. who claims to be his wife, and has left his board ing house, taking along the woman who has been passing as his wife since his arrival at Leavenworth. Thorn came to the prison from De troit, Mich., his appointment as guard being made by the civil service com mission, and he formerly was a guard at the New York state reformatory at Elmira. It Is said that he somewhat resembled former rveputy Warden Lemon, in appearance, and that he has never been popular among his as sociates or officers, at the prison. The cause of his resignation was the receipt by Warden McClaughry of a letter from a woman in Elmira, who says she is Thorn's wife, gives the names of a number of persons, even the superintendent of the reformatory, to bear out her statements. When confronted with this letter, Thorn im mediately wrote his resignation, to take effect the same evening, at the earliest convenience. He left the of fice of Deputy Warden Mackey in an apparent ill humor. He went then to the boarding house, opposite the main entrance of the prison, and shortly after left the house with the woman he said was Mrs. Thorn. Tells Pitiful Tale. The Elmira Mrs. Thorn's letter to the warden is a. pitiful one and tells of suffering from illness, in which she was compelleed to undergo operations a hosDital. without the care ana support of the man who had vowed o cherish and protect her as long as life should last. She told of how she hal been left without money and with no provisions in the house and that their young son, now 17 years old, helped to support her by carrying a paper route tor one of the home pa pers. After sjomewnat recovering, sne worked herself at whatever she could And to do and. lately, has been nurs ing an old sick man, in efforts to help keep the wolt from tne aoor. She asked the warden if she could not send her part of her husband's monthly pay, as she is crippled up with rheumatism and unable to do much work. She also told of her husband's infatuation with a woman in Elmira, who lived within a few doors of their home and stated that he often would go away and remain with this woman, even registering with her as man and wife. Then Husband Ijeft. x Finally the husband of the woman became aware of his wife's escapade, went to the superintendent of the re formatory and demanded that Thorn be discharged, but upon her plea that she did not want her husband to lose his place, he was not let out. Later, she said, he went to Detroit, where he heard that he was living with an other woman. During ait tnis time, she savs, he never sent ner any money and left her to get along the best way she could. 't she wrote the warden that she un derstood that her husband was getting po a month here, and askea ir ne could not send her $40 of this each month, as she was taking care of his son, and tnougni uii ssne uu"i be assisted. She wanted the warden to stend it to her himself, ana not to accept any promise from rnorn mat he would send the money, as she said he would not do so. She also told the warden that she did not want mm to lose his place here, hut oniy wanteu him to help her out. Tells Ottawans Lawrence Officer Is Candidate for Sheriff. Ottawa, Kan., Feb. 21. "I wish you lived over in Douglas county so you could vote for JoeDailey for sheriff," said a stranger to James Kerr at Ot tawa Saturday. Just after he had sold him a horse. He showed Mr. Kerr a bunch of "vote for Joe Dailey" cards, and said he lived In Douglas county and knew him well. It developed that the horse had been stolen from Lawrence, and when the man drove teh team out of the livery barn, Joe Dailey, a poilceman, offered his campaign card to the stranger. "Sure, I know about you," replied teh man, who was about to drive away wit hteh team, "you are a good officer and if you give me a bunch of your cards I will distribute them ior you. as I am going on quite a long trip in the counry. The trip ended at Ottawa, where one of the horses was sold and the other left in the feed barn. He was brought to this city three weeks ago and his death has been only a matter of time since his arrival here. PLAN GOOD ROADS SOON. Farmers Will Be Paid for Putting Highways Into Shape. McPherson, Kan., Feb. 21. Mc- Pherson county will have the best roads in Kansas if the plans of the county commissioners are successfully carried out. The county has been di vided into districts, each commission er having direct charge of the roads in his district. Contracts will be made with teh farmers in each district for the workng oif the roads after each ran. Each conractor is to have charge of six miles of road. He will receive 75 cents a mile for each time the road is worked after a rain, not to exceed $10 a mile for the total. Special con tracts are being made with the con tractors for the Meridian road, run ning from Salina to Wichita, and on the old Santa Fe road from Marion to Lyons. HE LET OATMEAL BURN. So Wife, Half His Size, Gives Boyd Wessel Beating. Kansas City, Feb. 21.As a protection rrom a promised chastisement by his wife, hardly more than half his size. y eSEel of Kansas City, Kan., was locked in a cell at police headquarters of that city at his own request. A police man went with him to his home to see wiat the wife did not attack him. A neighbor called the police on the tele phone. "A man is being killed out here," the informant said. "His wife is giving him a beating." Henry Zlmmer, chief of police, and three detectives hurried to the house in an automobile. Crouching in one corner was Wessel. Tears ran down his face as he begged his wife to permit him to rise. Mrs. Wessel stood over him with a broomstick. "The clumsy thing let the oatmeal Burn, she said, in reply to questions of the police. "He even let the pan burn, so-1 Just gave him a thrashing for it." Th wife, a frail little woman, continued to face her big husband. FURNISH DRAGS FOR ROADS. Farmers Given Free Use of Them and Credit for Work. tJT' Kan" Feb- 21.-PIeasant Ridge township, southwest of this place, has adopted a means of nhtninin. U to0- solve the good j roads nroh am i i 1 1 ne township board has purchased thirty six King road drags for the use of the farmers living in the township. The farmers may use the drags free of charge and the board will give them credit on their road tax for the work done. The roads of the township will be gone over after each rain and it Is expected that good results will ensue. THEY DON'T LIKE LAW. Grain Men Tell Faults of Grain In spection Statute. Kansas City, Feb. 21. A great deal of dissatisfaction exists among Kan sas grain dealers in regard to the law for grain inspection. Much of the discussion in the meeting of the asso ciation at the Coates house was on this subject. A case is pending in the supreme court to decide the constitu tionality of the law. The law will not allow me to sell a car of grain to another man on his own judgment and inspection," said K. J. Smiley, "even though he would have more confidence in himself than in the judgment of many of the dep uty grain inspectors. A meeting of the association which was to have been held Tuesday night was postponed until this morning. STICHER BITS PUBLIC OPINION u n i i a Ill lilkm tit) 1 H iLijl Is a protection and guarantee against alum which is found in the low priced baking powders. To be oa the safe side when buying baking powder, examine the label and take only a brand shown to be made from Cream of Tartar. THOUSANDS OF FISH DIE. Brandy Lake Thaws Showing They Were Frozen. Hutchinson, Kan., Feb. 21. Thous ands of dead fish line the shores of Brandy lake. Quite likely the big ma jority of the fish in those waters lost their lives during the recent cold spell, being frozen to death. The beach is strewn with fish from as long as your finger to eighteen and twenty inches in length, dead and de caying. Catfish, perch, bass and carp form the largest number of the dead fish and it is probable that there are few other kinds in that body of water. The water froze solid in the recent cold spell in January. With the thaw ing of the ice came the dead fish and the stench that arises from the de caying matter reaches for a long dis tance. It is the first time ever known, or at least for a good many years, that the water has formed a sold cake of ice. This was because the low tem peratures lasted for such a long time. And the water is extremely low In the lake. Well Known Kansas Newspaper Man Goes to Osage City. Osage City, Kan., Feb. 21. Maurice L. Crowther has sold the Osage City Public Opinion to H. C. Sticher and Mr. Sticher will take charge of the paper March 1. He was formerly a joint owner of the' Belleville Telescope with A. Q. Miller and previous to that he owned the Alma Signal. Mr. Crowther was a Topeka hew paper man before he came to Osage City about three years ago. The paper has been strongly progressive Repub lican under his ownership. SENATOR SIMONS IS DEAD. Former Member of Legislature Suc cumbs to Cancer of Stomach. Wichita, Kan., Feb. 21. Senator R. T. Simons of Caldwell, Kan., prominent in Kansas politics for many years past and a veteran newspaper man, died in a local sanitarium of cancer of the stomach. Senator Simons has been" failing in health for several years past. A Reasonable Plea For the Stomach If Your Stomach Is lacking in Di gestive Power, Why Not Help the Stomach Do Its Work? Especially When It Costs Nothing to Try. DOCTOR TO BLAME FOR DEATHS. "His Attentions Made Young Wife Dis satisfied With Home. Atchison, Kan., Feb. 21. Although a coroner's jury was inclined to pro nounce the death of Mrs. Walter Carl son, near Vliets, due to heart failure, it is the belief of neighbors that the young wife died from strychnine pois oning by her own hand. Mrs. Carlson was 24 years old. Several years ago while a sister of Walter Carlson's first wife was seriously ill she was nursed by Belle Hill, then a pretty nurse in St. Joe, and a year or two later after the death of Mr. Carlson's wife he went to St. Joe and claimed the young nurse as his wife. But it is said there was another man paying her atten tions at the time, a prominent sur geon. The theory is that by continu ing his attentions the doctor made the ex-nurse weary of rural life, and that suicide resulted. FARMERS' UNION MEN MEET. No Politics Will Be Allowed in Con vention, President Says. Salina, Kan., Feb. 21. Fifty or more delegates to the state convention of the Farmers' union which meets here today, including officials of the order, are on hand. The accounts of the secretary and the treasurer are being checked by the executive com mittee composed of Thomas White of Great Bend; Daniel Thurston of Del- Not with drugs, but with a reinforce ment of digestive agents, such as are naturally at work in the stomach? Scientific analysis shows that digestion remiires nprjain. nitrogenous ferments. and the secretion of hydrochloric acid. When your food fails to digest, it is proof positive that some of thes3 agents are lacking in your digestive aparatus. Stewart's Dyspepsia Tablets contain nothing but these natural elements necessary to digestion and when placed at work in th-3 weak stomach and small intestines, supply what these organs need. They stimulate the gastric glands and gradually bring the digestive or gans back to their normal condition. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets have been subject-ed to critical chemical tests at home and abroad and are found to con tain nothing but natural digestives. Chemical Laboratory. Telegraphic address, "Diffindo," London. Telephone No. 11029 Central. 20 Cullum St., Fenchurch St., E. C. London. 9th Aug., 1905. I have analyzed most carefully a box of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets (which I bought myself at a city chemist's shop for the purpose), manufactured by the F. A. Stuart Co.. 86 Clerkenwell j Road, London, E. C and have to re port that I cannot find any trace of vegetable or mineral poisons. Knowing the ingredients of the tablets. I am of opinion that they are admirably ad aptable for the purpose for which they are intended. (Signed) John- R. Brooke, F. I. C, F. C. S. There is no secret in the preparation of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Their composition is commonly known among physicians, as is shown by the recom mendations of 40.000 licensed physicians in the United States and Canada. They are the most popular of all remeaes for indigestion, dyspepsia, water brash, insomnia, loss of appetite, melancholia, constipation, dysentery and kindred diseases originating from improper dis solution and assimilation of foods, be cause they are thoroughly reliable and harmless to man or child. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are at once a safe and a powerful remedy, one grain of the active principle in these tablets being strong enough by test) to digest 3.000 grains of steak, eggs and other foods. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will digest your" food for you when yonr stomach can't. Ask your druggist for a fifty cent box, or send to us direct for a free trial sample package and you will be sur prised at the result. F. A. Stuart Co., 150 Stuart Bids., Marshall, Mich. INSTRUCT FOR BILL SAPT A. B. Carney Indorsed for Congress man by Democrats. Concordia, Kan., Feb. 21. The Demo crats of Cloud county met in convention here and elected the following delegates to the state convention: W. H. L. Pennerill A. R H. Dameburger, William Bennett, W. B. Beach, W. E. Jordan, Dr. Farr. The convention instructed for W. H. L Pepperill for chairman of the state com mittee; A. B. Carney for congressman of the Fifth congressional district, and Sapp for national committeeman. MISSING HORSEMAN IS CAUGHT. J. B. McGinn Is Said to Have Kept Employer's Money. Salina, Kan., Feb. 21. J. B. Mc Ginn, according to a telegram re ceived by Sheriff Howard Burke, is under arrest at Fort Worth, Texas, and the sheriff has gone after him. McGinn was a horse buyer for Charles Hortung of Rochester, N. Y., and spent the winter here working. It is charged that he embezzled $10, BOO in all. MRS. ALBRIGHT DIES. Widow of Prominent Atchison Pioneer Unable to Tell of Fall. Atchison, Kan., Feb. 21. Mrs. Martha Chess Albright, aged eighty seven, is dead at her home here as a result of a fall last week. She fell in her home and was badly bruised and rendered unconscious. She was alone at tne time. She had been a resident of Atchison since 1S70, and was the widow of Charles Albright. She never iuiiy rained after the accident. KIDS TO STUDY SUFFRAGE. Women Offer Prize for Best Essay on Subject.. Kansas City, Feb. 21. Knnxn children are to be encouraged to thinb- aoout tne woman suffrage question at an early age. Every pupil in the schools of Wyandotte county is to be asKea to write an essay on the mih, jectand an award of $15 will go for the best, the Wyandottee County "'i""' ouiirage association decided at a. meeting nere. Shooting Suspect Is Released. Salina, Kan., Feb. 31. John K"inth who was under arrest at Ellis for shooting R. E. Wines, a strike breaker. monaay morning, has been released. Kluth claimed from the first ho an alibi. There is now no clew what ever as to the identity of Wines' assailant. WHY WE HESITATE Arbitration of Colombia's Claim Might Entail Enormous Indemnity. Washington. Feb. 21. Whether it would be dangerous from the stand point of facing an enormous Indemnity verdict, for the United States to submit to the Hague tribunal the claims of the republic of Colombia for the Pan ama canal strip is a question which the house committe on foreign affairs will consider before making a report to congress of Its investigation of Co lombia's claims. The hearings on the Rainey resolu tion urging submission of the dispute to the Hague continued today. Henry D. Hall of the New York World sum med up the evidence in the case, which he said, tended to prove that former President Roosevelt took the isthmus in violation of treaty obligations, that the Panama revolution was fomented by this country and that Coloumbia was entitiea to reparation. President Taft and the members of his cabinet today discussed the Colum bian situation at some length, but no statement was given out as to any phase of the matter. Neither the state department nor the Colombian minister had received any advices today from Bogota, as to whether a visit by Secretary Knox to Cartagena would be welcomed by the Columbian people. The impression pre vails that the reply will be a substan tiation of the attitude of Minister Os pina and that Colombia will bs omitted from the Knox itinarary. SHE FOUND HIM SANE Amelia Rives Testifies as to Sanity of Her First Husband. New York, Feb. 21. A deposition of the Princess Troubetzkoy, formerly Amelie Rives and once the wife of John Armstrong Chaloner, will be in troduced in Chaloner's suit for the control of personal property in this state, according to a declaration by his counsel at the beginning of the trial today. Chaloner has ben adjudged in sane in New York and will not be present- In his petition he says he is a resident of Virginia. Chaloner esti mates the value of his estate at ap-J Droxmateiy 3OU.00O. Princess Troubetzkoy declares that in all the time she lived with him he was perfectly sane and rational and never threatened her violence. I THIS BEAUTIFUL PILLOW tinted on m j iv Linen Crash, vl; All we ask is that you buy 6 skeins of Richardson's Grand Prizo Grecian Floss with which to embroider it and a 0- i specially written diagram lesson for COfltj and we will give you the Pillow Top and Back Absolutely Free. We have five other equally artistic Designs A Full Line or Package Goods The "Aitamo" line including some new Punch embroidery pat terns, stamped on Hand Bags, Collars, Centers, Paby Pillows, etc. The stamped pieces and enough O. M. C. cotton to entirely finish the needle work: also Kichardson's Pillow and Table liunner Chit fits. Prices 25c to $1.50. ii IM l ull A 1EA Needs Has Invariably No Colorinsf Pure by Nature Uncoerced by legislation. ONE TEASPOONFUL MAKES TWO CUPS. 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Exchangeable for other pieces of silverware if desired. MINNEAPOLIS CEREAL CO., foe, IWipob, Mini. V'V i'-J-"" r V r v i I x w-. JLI t -ti" -e.jo. ,rT---i-' Ih III Onion Pacific The Standard Road of the West $25 to Pacific Coast California Oregon Washington Through Tourist Sleepers Tickets at $25 on Sale Daily from March First to April 15 Liberal Stopovers Go via Denver, "The Rockies," Salt Lake GUY GARDNER, Pawenger Agent E. W. JETTE, Agent, Depot. Phone. 34 F. A LEWIS, C T. A., 525 Kan.a. Ave. rnones 53 ill Everybody Read tlic State Journal

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATS JOURNAL FEBRUARY 21, 1912 7 A DAY 0F FIGHTS Tomorrow to See Three Bouts on Pacific Coast. j Attell and Kilbane Will Put on Ileadliner. San Francisco, Feb. 21. This" com ing Washington's birthday, so far as Uie Pacific coast is concerned, will b nuuiBle for the number of pugilistic events that will t:ike place. San Fran cisco. Los Angeles and Sacramento will all have boxing events and it it had not been for the mild form ot catalepsy that attacked Freddie Walsh. Daily City. too. would have had a place on the pugilistic map. In Los Angeles, Abe Attell and Johnny Kilbane are to box for the featherweight championship. As ever when Attell is to ply hi3 trade, there is sneculation as to what kind of an exhibition he will furnish. Gifted with rare boxing talent the little Hebrew rarely performs twice alike. At times he acts in such a. manner as to suggest that he is in different to public opinion and news paper criticism alike but even at that he seems to operate on a principle thai averages up to his own satisfac tion. Very often after being clouted for a wretched showing he will fol low with a display of fisticufts that brings him praises from every quarter on account of the way he sandwiches good fights and bad ones he is never sent entirely to Coventry. tntil the day he Is licked decisively he will al ways remain a card. As Abe is In disgrace over his last engagement banished from the New York rings for six months. In fact it is more than likely he will box tooth and nail when he faces jviioaii. If he does not he will depart from his usual custom. Klaus Old Kins Man. Frank Klaus and Sailor Petroskey particular contest is supposed to haye some bearing on the middleweight j ai-ii trt rtnv in :-ari r .viT-icViir TTi consensus of ex- nert ODinion in the east is that Klaus and Kddie McGoorty are the headiin- ers of the 158 pouna aivismu f-- cnt and it is expected tnat me named will dispute the title some where in the west before the year is much older. Petroskey is a fighter of promise, but it is hardly on the cards for him tn rlisnose of Klaus. tie lacur. fessional experience to begin with It irobable that any attributes he pos ses are also possessed by Klaus ami that Klaus has the experience to top Billy Papke. vlio probably holds the record for shortest time in retirement, will tackle Frank Mantell at Sacra mento on the birthday. In his day Papke put up some slashing fights but for a vear or two there Has neeii a 4 falling awav in the excellence of his work. Some of Papke's friends claim that increasing weight made the Illi nois Thunderbolt" loggy, but whatev er the cause he has boxed wretchedly on occasions and has lost his grip on the public favor. Billy Papke Too Heavy. one time spoken of as the man best entitled to claim and defend the mid dleweight crown left open with the death of Stanley Ketchel, Papke s name is no more coupled with the names of those who are thought to potfpsa championship calibre. Eyeri If he shows one of his periodical flashes of form and whips Mantell de cisively, it is doubtful if he will be regarded as a middleweight champion ship candidate, for unless rumor Is extremely unreliable, Billy Is now a huskv heavyweight. The fact that Papke has placed himself under the management of Tom Jones again Is water on the wheel of those who contend that a fighter can never meet with full measure or success unless he is handled by a skillful fighter. Papke. while in his tantrums after being defeated by Ketchel at Colma, broke awav from Jones. Recently Papke made overtures for a resump tion of business relations, stating frankly that he had never had a days luck since he parted from "Cherokee Tom t first Jones declined to have anything to do with the Thunderbolt, but when Ad Wolgast, who is also un der Jones direction. pleaded for Papke, Jones took hold again. .s Jones is a shrewd, resourceful fellow, he may be able to send Papke to the front gain, but scarcely as a middleweight if what they say about Billv's poundage is true. Perhaps Tones will plan to have Papke become; heavier still and exploit him as a white "as otherssee it. Baseball Jottings by Writers Around the Circuit. '-t Joseph News-Press: Outfielder Haves last year with the Salina club of the Centra! Kansas League, has been purchased bv Jock Holland. Hayes is a likely youngster who has speed and hitting ability to back him up and al though he may need further seasoning, Ho1 land believes he has landed a future v estern League star. ayes uu in the Central Kansas circuit. Third Ba-e:nan Kois ind Pitcher Bjreh, last year members of the Oiarinda club of the Mink League, have been released to Holland. While he intends to keep a string on both players he will pro- bably not ask either to report. Jack Kusate, southpaw twiiler for the? To peka Kaw-s. is spending a few days in St. Joseph. Fugate is a holdout and Bays that he is not thinking of signing up at the terms offered. Ke is soing south and may play independent ball. Joe Levine. the local boy who burned up the Texas League in 1910 and who is owned by the Houston club, has been offered a contract by the new Col umbian outlaw league. Frank Rock. man ager of the Apex Amusement company, has been selected .secretary of the St Joseph baseball club by Jack Holland, to succeed Garner W. Taylor, who has engaged in newspaper work. Ralph Woldring, the pitcher who reported here last spring and returned to his home m Holland. Mich., shortly after ward to play in the Southern Michigan T.(.aeii( has been turned over to the Drummers by Corriskey of the Chicago 1 Sox. W oldng is a comer ana j-iouanu expects him to make a good showing. Lincoln News: The tale that the Western League may be permitted to plant a club in Chicago may be some thing more than mere rumor. In case the Columbian League, an outla-w or ganization, goes ahead with its plans to bre&k into the Windy City, it should occasion no surprise if the major league moguls grant the right of invasion to the Tip O'Neill league as a step toward fighting the outlaws. The American Association has been clamoring for first recognition, but the Western, by rea son of the close personal friendship be tween Comiskey and O'Neill, would seem to stand the better chance. The Western has had experience in fighting outlaws and If granted the privilege to plant a. club in Chicago, the situation. would party Illustrate that it pays to be regular in baseball. If the rumor ed invasion comes to pass, me Western would either enlarge to ten clubs, tak ing in Chicago and planting the tenth team in Oklahoma City, Pueblo or Col orado Springs, or transfer the fran chise from Denver and give McGill even a more flattering field in the Windy City. Denver evidently fears that some thing tangible may cone out of the invasion rumors. The minute the story was flashed over the wires Saturday afternoon, one of the Denver papers got busy and wired to every club own er in the league, soliciting information is to how fai ihe negotiations had pro greised. JEvery magnate profesied ig norance, while Tip O'Neill, at the helm in Chicago, positively refused to chirp one way or the other. It seems unlikely, however, thnt the Western would drop as good a ball town as Denver has oeen under the McGill regime and if there are any definite developments, the Irgical policy would be for Tip to hook a franchise in Chicago, while grabbing t'le Oklahoma metropolis as the tenth team. Lincoln News: This is the season when the holdout ball player waxes ft on newspaper publicity but not so far as t! is department is concerned. The average player is rather prone to harp on the slavery" or organized baseball. whereas he has small cause to com- plain. Whenever he has ability, there is no power on earth able to keep hin-. out of select circles in the big leagues, whtre he draws a salary sufficient tc make him comfortably rich after a short term of years. Even in the mi rors his salary is greater than the skilled artisan can make In an entire year of labor. And the national pas timers has one caitiron cinch his mcviev must be paid on time, or he is a free agent, able to go wherever he pleases and land a better job. Water wagon note from the Denver News: Here's news for the fans. Lea Quillcn. Denver's crack third baseman, whose one fault has been his devotion to Bacchus, has not fuced a bar for more than six weeks, nor has he as much as touched a cigar. The fastest third baseman in the -western League is 1912 b(? his Dest is determined that year, and to that end he is sparing no efforts. writing from Lincoln, where he is putting in his winter, he says that for the past six weeks he has been doing dauy roart work wnenever weatner umu permit, and that he expects to con tinue it until the season opens. As a result he has dropped off pounds of surplus flesh, his wind has strength ened until he can lap off 10 or 12 miles witnout hurting himself, and his speed has shown a great Improvement. Last year Lee batted over .ouu and was one of the most dangerous men on the Grizzly squad in every depart ment of the game, being a unanimous choice of the circuit critics for third base position on the All-Star team. Frank Isbell believes that the train ing trip is a great help in getting the holdouts to sign up. Here s the Des Moines News story on his troubles, for which he s lggests the trip as a reme dy: 'T don't believe it's any harder to put up a first division ciud in me running than this battle with the holdouts every spring, especially in the minor leagues,'' said Frank Isbell. "The Bald Eagle'" is having his trou bles this spring and has had a touch of almost every excuse used in the --S leagues for a raise in salary. Heres' one fellow- who has an interest in some mine and it won't pay him to leave the mines and play baseball for such a low salary. Ulatowski. the main stem of the back stopping department, is practicing law somewhere in .Illinois and is doing so much business that it will require his personal attention all summer. Chouinard writes that he is doing a vaudeville turn and there is no chance for him to play with Des Moines. "Red'' Faber is managing his "dad's" hotel somewhere in Iowa and that business is going so good that he will soon be on easy street and won't need to play baseball. Colligan is holding down a position in a billard parlor and can't leave. Gil more carrying mail. Hueston ought to stay in Echool. So it goes. And it gets on the nerves of the man ager until he is flirting with nervous prostration, cr something like that. Wichita Beacon: Arrangements have been completed for couple of spring training games with the Omaha team at Joplin, Mo., April 6 and 7. "Pa' Rourke will do l is spring training in Joplin this year. The Joplin fans have been hoping for a Western League berth for several years and they wi l have an opportunity this year to show how they would support a class A bal team. The two games with the Omaha team falls on Saturday and Sunday and a big crowd should witness the games. While no other games have been scheduled for the Jonlin trip, at present, in ali probability dates w ill be made with or.e of the clubs in the Mid Continert League fcr the name trip. The Chicago White Sox play in Wichita April 4 and 5. The work on tne new grandstand cn Ackerman island is be ing rushed as fast as possible. The foundation work for the stand will soon be finished and as soon as it settles the work will be rushed right along. Wichita Kagle: "Nig" Shaner, well re membered here, will again manage a Nebraska st:ite league te-m this year. Shaner seems to be making good as a manager, w hich is i.o big surprise to his host of frenids here. There are few nitehers who have more "stuff" than this same "Nig." or are more willing to work in turn and out of turn to make their team a success. St. Joseph News-Press: In Frank Mc Mullen, the Wichita club, has a secre tary who surely knows the hooks and crooks of the game both the business and the actual workings of a team day by day. He got his training under Jack Holland and Frank Isbell, train ing that is invaluable to him, for he Is well versed in baseball and knows ihe ins and outs of player traffic. He has been pulling side by side with George Hughes to build up a winner for 'Taw" this year. Mac and Hughes ought to make a great working pair. Wichita Eagle: Dale Gear says he will spring a surprise on the Western League fans in the work of First Base man Gardner, who comes to the Kaws frcm the Austin club in the Texas Ici)e. Goar wants to be sure the change to a northern climate doesn't work the same r suits on this player as it did on Pitcher Peaster, who was imported to Pueblo last season. Sioux City Tribune: The Wichita scribes bav-? begun selling players to the big leagues already and it is doubt ful if they will have enough men left to finish the season with. Emporia Athlete Is III. Emporia. Kan., Feb. 21. The State Normal's chance in the basketball game for the state championship hon ors with the College of Emporia Thursday was weakened when Woos ter, right guard, was taken sick with tonsilitis. Wooster is a veteran of four years' service, was captain last tear and is a. sterling performer. BASKETBALL RESULTS. At Tarkio. Mo. Tarkio college. 69; Tabor college, of Iowa, 22. Holton, Kan., Feb. 21. The Camp bell college academy basketball five won a decisive victory over the Soldier high school team by a score of 36 to 17. At the end of the first half the outcome was doubtful, the score being 14 to 12 with the home team in the lead. But the academy team out classed their opponents in the second half being 19 points in the lead when the final whistle was blown. START BALL PRACTICE EARLY. Dickinson County Highs Expect Good Team. Chapman, Kan., Feb. 21. Baseball w ork at Dickinson county high school will start March 2 under the direction of Coach Troxell. The early workouts w'ill be held in the school ervmnasium. Five of last year's team are in school aij win De candidates ior tne team this year, while there will be at least twenty new candidates. Clarence Taylor, the big southpaw, will do most of the hurling, while Barrett, a player in the Marion city league, will be a candidate for catcher. Pattin. the fast left fielder, will captain the team. Coach Detwiler will have his track team candidates working next week Most of the squad will be composed of new material. TO BOOST EARLY FOOTBALL. Dartmouth Plans Field Day for Grid iron Aspirants. Hanover. N. H.. Feb. 21. In an ef fort to stimulate early season Interest in football, Dartmouth will hold a football field day during the spring training season. Six prizes will be given for distance and form in punt ing, for accuracy in punting, for dis tance and form in forward passing, for accuracy in forward passing, for gen eral all around improvement in foot ball. Most novel is a prize for the best suggestion offered by an under graduate applicable either to playing, training or coaching. MORE ''COME BACK-' STUFF. Wolgast Says He Is in Fine Condition and Wants to Fight. Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 21. Lmerson W. Dickerson. a sporting writer of this city and friend of Ad Wolgast. has received a letter from the lightweight champion stating that it is no dream that Jim Jeffries is again in line condition and desires another fight w"ith Johnson. Wolgast nas been with Jeffries for several weeks in California tramping in the mountains and doing other condition ing stunts, and ought to know what he is talking about. He says Jeff still believes he can win back the title. JOE MANDOT GETS DECISIOX. Southern Fighter Forced to Extend Himself Against Moore. New Orleans, Feb. 21. -Joe Mando or tnia city, was given an unanimous newspaper decision after a ten round fight here with Pal Moore, of Phila delphia. Mandot was forced to extend him self in the last round to win, Moore having slowed up after a fast spurt in the ninth. Both were under 13 3 pounds. IOYLE SIGJVS WITH WITCHES. Hughes Gets Star From Iamed State I .league Tea m. Wichita, Kan., Feb. 21. Louis C. Doyle, a left handed twirler from Kingman, Kan., has signed a contract with the Wichita club. Doyle pitched for Larned in the Kansas State league last year and later was with the Kan sas City city league club. He is doped as a comer and had been offered a contract by Topeka and by several clubs in other leagues. VERNON BUYS "DOLLY" .GRAY. Well Known Player Disposed of by Rochester Club. Los Angeles, Feb. 21. "Dolly' Gray, one of the best known ball play ers ever working on the Pacific coast has been purchased by the Vernon club of the Pacific coast league from Rochester and will be seen in a village uniform during the 1912 league season. IS HURT. Had Flown Across Lake Erie Started to Return. and Erie, Pa., Feb. 21. Earl Sandt, a youth ful aviator, the first birdman to fly over the Great Lakes from the United States to Canada, came to grief ten miles out on the lake from Northeast, Pa., while at tempting a return flight to the American shore. While high In the air and twenty miles east of his course, the engine of his bi plane stopped. For a time he glided to ward the ice-covered lake, but suddenly the machine turned over and he was buried unconscious in the wreckage. How long he remained in this condition Sandt does not know. When he recovered he was literally saturated with blood from many cuts. Aided by a pocket compass, Sandt walked ten miles to the American shore, landing at Northeast. He w3 found staggering along the shore by boys who were skating, and later carried to a hotel and word telephoned to this' city. Sandt is not injured seriously. He was brought here from Northeast in a special car. Thousands of persons, a brass band and loud blasts from shop whistles greet ed him. Speaking of his trip, Sandt said: "I made the trip over in fine shape, and started back from the Canadian shore. I got along fine for about fifteen minutes, and then my engine began to miss. A minute later it stopped. I was 2,000 feet in the air at that time, and started to glide toward the ice below me. I remem ber striking the ice and from that time everything was a blank. When I came to I was in the wreckage and found the ma chine hopelessly broken." BLOWS OUT MUD HOLES Kansas Farmer Converts Impassable Road to Good One. St. John. Kan., Feb. 21. Samuel Newell, trustee of Falrview township, has solved the problem of mudholes in county roads. He blows them out with dynamite, quick Iv and cheaply. In one of the roads in his township was a mudhole a quarter of a mile long, practically Impassable even for light buggies. Motor cars couldn't get through it at all. Mr. Newell drilled holes every hundred feet through that stretch of mud and put a blast of one stick of dynamite in each 1 hole and blew up the whole roadway. These explosives DroKe up tne narapan under the road and permitted the water to drain into the subsoil. Newell then put his road graders at work and graded the road so it could be used. All winter long that road has been about the best in Stafford county. Other bad mudholes in Stafford county are to be blown up this spring as the road workers there consider the plan a success in every way. OUR CAPITAL IDLE Seeks Place Where cn Income Can Be Earned. Our Financial Market Great and Easy. Both WEALTH LEAVES GREAT BRITAIN Political Conditions in England Similar to Those Here! No Difficulty About Negotiating Securities, Holland Says. New Tork. Feb. 21. Otto Kahn, whose intimate relation with one of the larg est of national banking houses qualifies him to speak on financial subjects, is the first banker who has ventured to say for publication what he believes the investment of American capital in Ger man and Prussian loans now amounts to. Mr. Kahn is careful not to fix a maximum amount, but he did say shortly after his arrival from Europe that he felt certain that more than a hundred millions of American money had recently found investment in Ger man loans. In December various estimates were made of the amounts of American money which went to Germany. One or two fixed the amount as high as a hun dred and fifty millions. The estimate most frequently heard was seventy-five millions. As presumably Mr. Kahn has had unusually good facilities for learn ing what the investment has been his statement of a minimum amount of a hundred millions is accepted in financial districts as accurate. There are many surmises as to the manner In which this money has been Invested. A part of It, although pre sumably not a very large portion, hag gone into some long time investments in the Prussian and Imperial German loans. Three million dollars is spoken of as the aggregate amount of invest ment of that kind. Some of the American banking houses are investing large amounts of money In Germany upon call. There have also been heavy discounts of what are called finance bills. A majority of the loans made last summer were of this char acter. Some of our bankers say that it is rather unusual to lend money to for eign banking institutions upon call; that is a method usually reserved for loans which brokers and speculators make. Other bankers are persuaded that loans of this kind have been made in the past. The magnitude oi the credits which we have established in Europe has made it possible to negotiate loans of this kind with Germany without in any serious manner interfering with our own money markets. Some have thought that this unusual, even unpre cedented, business of American capital in great amount in Germany is a trans action which should be carefully studied by an investigating committee which is animated by a sincere purpose to ob tain good information respecting pre vailing financial and monetary condi tions. The Flow of. Capital. Two reasons are given for this movement of American money capital to the continent of Eurone. One which naturally suggests itself is the magnitude of idle capital which is now carried in the United States. It is frequently said that we have become, temporarily at least, the easiest and the greatest money market in the world. That is due to our great ac cumulation of capital. So the bank ers say that this capital is seeking some Investment which will make some return in the way of income. Another interpretation which is based upon fundamental financial economics is that American capital is somewhat timid. Mr. Kahn seems to have hint ed at that when he spoke of an in vestment of more than a hundred millions of American money in Ger man loans at this time. He is quoted as having said that "capital won't fight; capital can't fight: but it can run away faster than any sprinting thing." This definition sounds exactly like Mr. Kahn. He frequently expresses sound financial ideas in epigrams that have a half humorous twist and, as he thus spoke of capital almost in the same breath in which he spoke of the movement of a hundred millions of American money to Germany, it has been a fair inference that he has thought that this feature of our finan cial activity reflects something of the timidity of American capital so far aa investments in large amounts in Amer ican undertakings are concerned. Timid English Capital. Many reports are received in this city to the effect that English capital, by reason of political conditions in Great Britain and the prevailing dis position very heavily to tax wealth, is departing from Great Britain in currents of unprecedented size. This testimony comes from so many sources which are considered good that in this city it is believed to be justified. Therefore, if Mr. Kahn's intimations be correct that American capital is departing to Germany because of pre vailing timidity and if those who have testified that British capital is depart ing from Great Britain for a like rea son are not mistaken, then the world is having an unusual object lesson which teaches the real timidity of cap ital; or, as Mr. Kahn says, the ability to run away faster than any other sprinting thing. Not So Very Timid. Yet, after all, recent developments show that American capital is not so very timid. Constructive propositions' requiring very heavy Investment of money are undoubtedly holding hack. but this is probably due quite as much to the uncertainty of the promoters of large undertakings respecting the course of business as it is to any abil ity to tempt capital in large amounts. As, for instance, if the Lake Shore one year notes for twelve million dol lars which last week were negotiated in Paris for the purpose of taking up notes sold in Paris a year ago had been offered in the United States the belief is general that they would have been quickly snapped up. And since the first of the year there has been no difficulty about marketing large blocks of securities. Apparently there s less disposition on the part of busi ness men to seek great capital than there is unwillingness on the part of great capital to make investment in safe propositions. The trouble here is not with the money market, speaking generally, but with that timidity of business men themselves. And. if it be true, as Mr. Kahn says, that cap ital is one of the most timid things in the world it is. also certain that capi tal is not the only activity that finds itself tainted with this quality of tim idity. The New Vanderbilts. Not the least impressive of finan cial activities now in progress are those of which some hints are almost daily coming from the Grand Central terminal in this city. It used to be said by the late Cecil Clarke, who was long vice president of the New Tork Central system in charge of the finan cial department, who was the intimate friend of Commodore Vanderbilt and the confidential associate .of- William H. Vanderbilt, that William H. Van derbilt was convinced that his son, W'illiam K., had inherited much of the I ability that distinguished the founder of the Vanderbilt family. In that view Mr. Clarke coincided. He had him self trained William K. Vanderbilt, teaching him the mysteries of railroad finance when Vanderbilt was a young i man. He discovered in him a sort of intuitive judgment which was a characteristic of the old commodore. In that respect Wrilliam K. Vander bilt differed from his older brother, Cornelius, who was a man of great patience, capable of plodding industry, not wearied with the drudgery of de tails, but seeming to be fond of them. His mind worked slowly and along conscious reasoning lines. W'illiam K. Vanderbilt did not take the active management of the Vander bilt property until his brother Corne lius was incapacitateed by illness. When William K. made the agreement with Cornelius by which he was to take j over the management, he insisted as the one condition by which he should attempt the task that he should have the authority to reorganize the man agement from the president down. He wanted a thoroughly-trained railroad man who had demonstrated his abil ity by work to take the presidency, expecting that the staff under the president should consist of men also well trained in railway operation and management. This was the begin ning of William K. Vanderbilt's ac tive direction of the Vanderbilt prop erties. The meteoric and dazzling ad vent of E. H. Harriman into the great er world of railway affairs seemed for a time to have caused Mr. Vander bilt to have delayed the working out of plans he had in mind. But with the death of Mr. Harriman Mr. Vander bilt apparently has taken up purposes which prior to 1905 he had formulat ed. At the present time he is much occupied with the perfection of plans for very thorough financial reorgan ization of the entire Vanderbilt sys tem. And if it is true, as has recently been said, that with the exception of James J. Hill all the leading railway managers of the United States are mere servants of the men who have financial power, that cannot be said of William K. Vanderbilt. For, with the possible exception of Mr. Hill and Mr. Morgan. Mr. Vanderbilt's personal financial power is greater than that of any other authority now engaged in railway operation. HOLLAND. GOL. BURGESS GONE. Well Known Pioneer Citizen of Topeka Passes Away. Col. James Burgess, one of the pioneers of Shawnee county, who has been active in political life, who has held a number of important positions of trust, died at his home at 216 Tyler street about 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. His death was due to old age and resulted after having been confined to his bed but a few days although he has been failing rapidly for several months. Colonel James Burgess, Who Died Last Evening. Col. Burgess has lived in or about To peka since He was born in Ohio, August 1, 1826. He was living with his parents In the vicinity of Danville, Ind., when the civil war started. He enlisted in the Seventh Indiana volunteer infantry and served his country four years. He began as a private but was promoted from time to time and eventually became lieutenant colonel under Col. Benjamin Harrison, who was later president, in the Seventieth. Indiana regiment. He was colonel of the Twenty-fourth Indiana volunteer Infantry when he was dis charged at the end of hostilities. Col. Rure-ftss come to Shawnee countv in and settled on a farm in Soldier township, where he lived about twenty years and then moved to Topeka where he became prominent in public life. He was a member of the city council for twelve years and was a member of the legislature one term. He was connected with the postoffire department for several years, during which he had charge of the West side station for two years and had charge of the station In. North Topeka from 1S81 to 18S5. This was during the administration of MaJ. T. J. Anderson as postmaster. He was the first superintendent of the mall carriers' district in North Topeka. He was elected register of deeds in 1SS6 and served two terms. He was married to Elizabeth M. Irons in May, 1S-46, and is survived by hds widow, and two daughters, Mrs. John Van Vechten and Mrs. Sadler J. Hodgins. He has been a member of the Odd Fel lows and Masonic bodies for more than fifty years. The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the home of the family. The funeral will be private. DR. ESTEY IS NAMED. Topeka Preacher Made Member Text Hook Board. Governor Stubbs has appointed the following three new members of the State Text Book commission to fill va cancies: Dr. S. S. Estey of Topeka, Rev. John Maher of Salina. and Prof. D. C. Porter of Caldwell. Some of these va cancies in the commission have existed for a long time, but the commission lets book contracts only once every flv-3 years. The state text book letting will be held this year. Prof. Porter is superintendent of schools at Caldwell. Dr. Estey is pastor of the Presbyterian church in Topeka and Rev. Maher is a school man. ALMOST DEAD HAS SAVED MY LIFE.' Mr. S. S. Johnson, Greenville, 111., writes: "I was for five years troubled with catarrh. Two years afro I had one foot in the grave. I had tried seven doctors and also went to a catarrh specialist in St. Louis, and took several kinds of medicine a day. I could not walk more than a hundred yards without resting. "My friends told me to take Peruna, and I did so. I now feel thst Peruna has saved my life. It is the best medicine on earth, and I would not be without it." A Heavy Cold. Samuel McKinley, 1215 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo., member of the So ciety of the United States Jewelry Auctioneers, writes: "I can honestly say that I owe my life to Peruna. After some of the best doctors in the country gave me up and told me I could not live another month, Peruna saved me. "Traveling from town to town throughout the country, and having to go into all kinds of badly heated stores and buildings, sometimes stand ing up for hours at a time while ply ing my trade as auctioneer, it is only natural that I had colds frequently; so when this would occur I paid little attention to it, until last December, when I contracted a severe case, which through neglect on my part, settled on my lungs. ON EVERY BALLOT. Missouri Delegation to Baltimore structed to Vote for (.'lark. In. Joplin, Mo.. Feb. 21. After an all afternoon fights on the floor of the convention caused by the effort of Da vid A. Ball, of Rowling Green, former Democratic candidate lor governor, to oppose the convention slate agreed on by party leaders, the Democratic state convention elected eight delegates at large to the Baltimore convention, each with one-half a vote. Ball's fight to stop what he termed "gag rule and Cannonism" was unsuc cessful and the pre-arranged program went through. The make-up of the delegation at large is as follows: United State-? Senator William J. Stone, United States Senator Jas. A. Reed, former Governors A. M. Dock ery, of Gallatin; Lon V Stephens, of St. Louis: David R. Francis. St. Louis; Wrilliam T. Kemper, Kansas City, Gil bert S. Barbee, Joplin, and Judge Vir gil Rule, of St. Louis. The delegation was instructed by the convention to vote for Champ Clark, speaker of the house, for pres ident on every ballot taken before the Baltimore convention. The platform adopted says In part: We commend and endorse the splendid work done by the Democrats of the house and senate. We particularly express our admir ation for the leadership of Speaker Clark, whose wisdom, patience, forti tude and patriotism united our party in congress and made possible the vic tories achieved. The interests of our state demand that our great waterways should be improved so that commerce may be restored to our rivers. We insist that these improvements should be made so as to protect the rich bottom lands contiguous to those navigable streams from the ravages of destructive floods and we favor early action by our gov ernment looking to the reclamation of the millions of acres of swamps and nn.rf ir,-e1 lMrid in this country. In presenting the name of the great and progressive Democrat, ram Clark, we hereby direct and sneotficallv instruct the delegates aiaMaH hv this convention to the na tional Democratic convention io held In Baltimore to work and vote for Champ Clark as a unit continuous ly for him as the nominee at said Democratic national convention for the president of the United States, and to use all proper and honorable means to secure his nomination. THREE MORE RELEASED Frank Perkins. Archie Smith and Ed ward Hayes Are Free. Iavenworth. Kan.. Feb. 21. Frank Perkins of Philadelphia and Archie Smith of Washington, D. C, were re leased on parole from the federal pris on here Tuesday. Perkins was serving a two years sentence for sending im proper matter through the mails and Smith two years and a half for lar- CEdward Hayes of Guthrie. Ok., was released upon payment of a $25 fine in lieu of serving the final 30 days of a four years sentence for robbery. GO lllfOTHE RECORD. Private Telegrams of Packers Are Ad mitted in Evidence. Chicago. February 21. A point wa3 gained by the government Tuesday ia the packers' trial when Judge Carpen ter permitted the reading to the jury of several hundred private telegrams sent by Morris Company to eastern representatives urging salesmen to ob tain the test cost for dressed beef. Borders, representing the Morris group of defendants, made a determined attempt to have the messages exclud ed because they bore the typewritten signature of D. M. Knights, head of WITH CATAFJfJi f. CaarHforTve'Yea -r-" "When almost too late, I began doc toring, but without avail. until I heard of Peruna. It cured me, so I cannot praise It too highly." Nasal t'alarrh, Coughs. Emil Pickart, 463 150th Mr. St.. Hammond. Ind., writes: "I am entirely cured of catarrh of the nose, and my stomach is in good condition also. I only used about five bottles of your great medicine. al though I had catarrh so bad and for so many years that I thought I would not live much longer. I had to con sult doctors right along. Now all my friends say I never looked as well a.-t I do now. "I can also sny that It Is a great remedy for coughs, because I gav It to my children. I never will be with out it. T used enough other medicine to know how valuable Peruna Is. "You are af liberty to use my name in spreading the merits of Peruna." Morris Company's margin depart ment, and could not properly bn identified. The messages were sent over Morris Company's private wires and were dated in July and August, 1910. William K. Eplert. margin clerk for Morris Company, identitied the tele grams. The witn-ess said I. M. Knights was an assistant to Iyouis H. Htvman. manager of the beef depart ment and one of the defendants in the case. A pnrobar of similar telegrams with the typewritten signature of Louis H. Heyman. one of the defend ants, was read. REBELS DRIVEN OUT. Attacked by Federal Sup)rted hj Machine Guns. Mexico City, Feb. 21. Atere a hattls whlc!i lasted all forenoon ypHt.rday Santa Maria, nine miles north of Cuer navaca, which has been the scene of half a dozen recent encounters, was taken by the federal troops. A force of Zapatistas had entrenched to await th attack by the federals, who adHn ed in two columns supported by machlnn guns and mountain artillery. The rebels held to their position but finally w ?rr driven out. The federal commander rrports that a captain was killed and seven of his men wounded. The rebel loss is not known. Situation Is Iniprnird, W'ashinetoii. Feb. 21. Both the stato and war department regard th?, situa tion in Mexico us having improved. Reports to the state department havn been meager and the war department has received nothing from the officers along the border line for a day or two. At Salinas Cruz, in Oaxaea, It Is re ported that while some unrest in ap parent, there have been no outbreaks of a serious nature. Quirt prevails st Knsenada. Americans who arrived st Nogales on Sunday said their train vim delayed 29 hours because of a burned bridge below Guaymas, Sonora. THUNDERS AND SHOWS Lightning and Snow Flakes Unusual in Kansns. CofTeyvillo. Kan. Feb. 21. Coffsyvllls was the center of a frak eturm sre.fi that brought with, It a heavy snowfall, combined with thunder and lightDlng. Similar atmospheric conditions ar not within the memory of the oldnFt In habitant. The large negro ettlt-m!nt here has been thrown Into a etate of foar by the phenomenon that bordTM on frenzy. Many of the negroes are afraid to leavs their homes and from the street can he heard In fervent prayer. Others ran from their homes with th firfct flash of lightning and rrah of thunder and threw themtflves on thir knees, their faces bared to the falllnif snow and their arms stretched haven ward. Independence. Kan Feb. 21. A snow storm and high wind from the tiorthi struck this section Tuesday, it moder ated for several hours and then cam down with renewed vigor, and turned Into a driving snow storm. The storm wan accompanied by thunder and linhtnirig. The oldest residents fall to remember having witnessed a thunder and ll-ht-nfns; and snow storm combined. The farmers say the storm was nerted to save the winter wheat. PANIC IS THREATENED Washington, Feb. 21. Krrrcseriiatlv Lindbergh of Minnesota, today ald be had been approached by a "represent a tive of Wall street" who warned him that a "record-breaking panic" would be brought on if the money trust In quiry were pressed. He said Indignant ly that the emissary' directed his atten tion to the "immense responsibility" h was taking In pressing his resolution. Discussing of the propose,, investiga tion will be taken up in the house Sat urday it was decided.

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8 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBRUARY 21, 1912 MIIXS' STORE NEWS New Tourist Silks HAVE JUST ARRIVED Second Floor. Silks of a new 1912 weave called Tourist silks because they have all the qualities most desirable in silks to wear for traveling they are light, soft and meilow to the touch, and do not crush all pure silk, pure dye, twilled silks, notable for strength and durability. Shown in plain colors gray tones, dull, soft blue, and green, also brown 26 inches wide, $1.25. YCITY UP IN ARMS Would Make County Turn Over $40,000 in Taxes. Ferrin's New Long Gloves Have Arrived For Spring The vogue of the three-quarter sleeves for 1912 creates the need for long gloves. We are now ready with a com plete stock of Perrin's fine French gloves, the choice of every woman who wishes to be perfectly gloved on all oc casions. This season, gloves of white, champagne, mode, tan or black will be selected to wear with gowns of colored materials, instead of shades to match. The popularity of the champagne tint is well assured as it harmonizes with all colors. Perrin 16-button gloves $3.50 Perrin 12-button gloves $3.00 Perrin 2-clasp $1.75 and $2.25 REGULA t Ea A. Y HAD STOMACH No Indigestion, Gas, Sourness or Dyspepsia Firo Minntes Later. Money Levied In City but Jfot Spent Here. of French gTand opera in San Francisco, -Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake and Kansas City. It was then arranged tnat AX. G-razi ortmt Amr-fo i take up the idea, investigate operatic re suits throughout this section, and, if pos- uie, establish events In this section. n1 SO the Grazi rnrtin 'j n w -i u r i t If VHIir mtfalfi nn't fit Mmfnrt.htv Eighty vocalists and instrumentalists, or you feel bloated after eating: and Wards Of thf V,-. vafnmant 1 ..mi Klf...,,. t i 1 a L. i i f i 11 tiwiviliumill, CJ UIjOiL- i UClliTVC j operas ol their composers and under the Influence and protection of the Academic de Beaux-Arts and recog- as capaoie artists, many wearing both the purple and the rct ribbons, dec orations, given onlv for merit, were given permission to come to this country and it is the food which fills you; if what little you eat liea like a lump of lead on your stomach; if there is difficulty in breathing after eating, eructations of sour, undigested food and acid, heartburn, brash of a belch ing of gas, you can make ud vour mind CiV ITJP llUnin TO TlVniUmP s m the beauties of French i T f 27 Sill N ILiTfc H 111 TflXrflYrH.N Pera- San Francisco took very kindly to fermentation and cure Indigestion. Urtl II U Ultl rill I IU IHAI filLJIU: the Grazi forces nrt in To make every bite of food you eat Believe Part of Road Money Should Stay in Topeka. Test Case of Interest to All Kansas Cities. me. same splendid efforts were received uy entnusiastic auditors. The company will onn hsra irviflnu- evening, March 1, in Massenet's beautiful pelibe's tuneful little opera, "Lakme," will be the second opera presented here on Saturday night. White Doeskin Gloves j" Tow Zwn here at $1.50, 1-clasp style. Doeskin is much finer than chamois, and washes better. Newest Ear Rings The quaint fashion of wearing earrings hav ing returned after many years of retirement, we are showing the patterns that will be correctly worn Single and Pendant Pearls baroque and others from 50 and 75 to $1.50. Pearls and Brilliants from 50 to $4.00. Gold Rings, gold and jet pendants, from $2 to $4. ftiE BfiH&flKy Cam, BRADY TO WOMEN. Vse "Justice to Women" as Argument for Votes, He Says. Letters are being sent out from the Suffrage headquarters to U county presidents, asking: them, among other things, to give an account of the work, they are doing for the encouragement of others. In answer many letters of Interest are being received. The fol lowing letter Is from Mary O. Cooper corresponding secretary of the Doug las County Equal Franchise league, Lawrence. Kan.: Mrs. W. A. Johnston. President State Equal Suffrage League. "Our meeting today was held in the ,Y. W. C. A. building which has been offered free of charge. Professor Gal loo presided. SenaUr J. L. Brady made an address on 'Campaigning for Suffrage,' advising us to use as our argument first, last, and always, jus tice; that any man with, common sense will admit that women are not 'on a pedestal.' and he stated positively that the ballot for women could not ruin the homes. "On account of the inclement weather the past month, not a very large amount of work has been accomplish ed, but about 200 families have been visited and many sympathizers and members added to the list. Canvassing toy blocks is being carried on. The chairman of the education committee gives an encouraging report. Definite plans are being put into effect for prize essays for the schools. The county euperintendent of schools is doing ev erything in his power to assist in this work. Mrs. rj Chalk!.- report of the recent banquet in Kan sas City, and Miss Corbin talked of Kansas Day and the executive board meeting held In Topeka. A committee was appointed to con sider the rtv'-editing, for a day, one of our newspapers. The out look is encouraging." Old Indian Woman Dies. Santa Clara, Cal., Feb. 21. Mrs. Josephine Candialaso, believed to have been the last member of the once numerous tribe of Tule Indians, died at the county hospital today, aged 92. KIDNAPED IN INFANCY Dearer Girl Learns Her Father Is a Millionaire. Denver, Feb. a. Miss Essie May Fos ter, who says she was kidnaped from her home when a few months old and supposed she was the blood kin daughter of Mrs. Hannah. Foster, has learned, ac cording to her claim, that her real name is Inez Axelheimer, and that her father who is reputed to be a millionaire is liv ing in Rochester. y. Miss Foster said she has enlisted the aid of her father, and declares she will institute legal proceedings for possession of property left by Mrs. Foster who died .f-J." APrU- 1M- leaving an estate of According to Miss Foster it was not un til shortly before the death of an old negro woman that she learned what she claims is her true identity. "This negro woman, whose name was Ellen Monroe, picked me up in my fath er's yard in Rochester one day" said Miss Foster. "I was taken from the city and as I was too young to remember the incident, I always thought Mrs. Foster was my mothers." Miss Foster said that for two or three years after she was taken from her father's home, she wore boy's clothing and that a dermatologist changed the shape of her nose so that she could not be recognized. She was educated in the Denver schools and in an eastern convent. LITTLE ONES READY. Odds Favor McFarland Over Johnny Kilbaiie, 10 to 7. Los Angeles, Feb. 21. Abe Attell of San Francisco, featherweight champion and Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland. Ohio, aspirant for championship honors, have finished training for their 20-round bout at Vernon Arena Thursday afternoon. Both of the little men are said to be in perfect condition and enthusiasts hail the bout as the mo important that has been scheduled in Los Angeles for years. The betting favors the champion, the odds varying from 2 to 1 to 10 to 7 (3 BEHOVES THE CAUSE The board of city commissioners may take steps soon to demand upwards to 4 0,000 from Shawnee county. It Is charged by the city that the county received in taxes $40,000 from the city for road and bridge maintenance. Not one cent of this amount has been spent inside the city limits. Further more the county does not intend to spend any of this amount inside To peka's gates. The city commissioners are not blaming the county commissioners al together. They believe that the state law has something to do with the tardy expenditure of the city's taxes to the county. But the city cannot figure out why it donates $40,000 in taxes for roads and bridges and not a penny is spent to maintain Topeka's streets. H. P. Miller, city commissioner, who is at the head of the movement be lieves that Topeka should make a test case of the law. He says other first class cities in the state are having similar trouble. Commissioner Miller believes Topeka is having more than her share of discrimination. High Levy for Topeka. The levy in Shawnee county for road and bridge purposes is eight tenths of a milL The total valuation in Topeka is $51,000,000. The valua tion in the county including the city is $82,000,000. On a basis of an eight tenth mill tax the city pays $41,000 and the county $24,000 toward the maintenance of roads and bridges. In j other words the city pays more than twice the amount paid by the outside I county for the upbuilding of highways that are not included inside the city limits. This is considered unfair. It is be lieved at the city hall that the levy should be regulated that the city of Topeka would receive a part of this tax for the building of bridges inside the city limits. Topeka is on the verge of calling a $150,000 bond issue I for the rebuilding ot bridges, assis j tance from the county would be ap predated greatly by the city tax pay ers and officials. "I believe the city should have a right to levy on the county if the county has the right to levy on the city," Commissioner Miller said this afternoon. "I do not think it fair for the tax payers of Topeka to pay $40, 000 for work outside the city limits. We are only too glad to pay for the support of the county officers and for county assessments that prove of some benefit to the city but I feel that we should split up on the immense levy for roads and bridges outside the city limits. "Now is a good time to make a test case of this matter. I am sure a num ber of cities in Kansas would watch the case with interest and it might mean a relief to the tax payers of the city." j The city of Emporia through City Attorney E. S. Waterbury has already 1 filed a mandamus suit in the supreme court to compel the county to turn j the road money over to that city. j WANTS COOPER'S CASH This Time Attorney Seeks Old John's Shekels. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. Husband's Hair How About it Madam, is it Fall, ing Out or Growing Thin? Don't Lose It. Most husbands are careless regard ing their hair many are skeptical re- Secretary J. Will Kelley's formal report garding hair tonics, restorers and the It in only when i, their hair come aut in combe full Another of the suits against John O. Cooper Topeka's matrimonial cham pionis being aired today before a Jury in Judge Whitcomb's court. But this time. Cooper is not defendant in a di vorce suit nor an action for breach of promise. It is only a case in which a mere lawyer wants to collect from Cooper real money for advice rendered in Cooper's recent matrimonial -tangle. Henry Euler, a Topeka lawyer, is plaintiff in the action and asks $200 for information given Cooper in an effort to dodge a permanent alimony judgment. He said that Cooper all but ate and slept in- his office a year ago when Mrs. Cooper brought suit for a divorce. Euler has not the slightest idea as to the number of running yards of advice he sold Cooper. Taken as :i single contract, the lawyer thought a $200 claim was quite reasonable. As for Cooper, he says he never con sulted Euler concerning his family af fairs and objects to a payment of the claim. Cooper admited the lawyer pre pared a general denial in the divorce case, but said he made no charges for this service. A. H. T. A, MEN DEPUTIES Norton Encourages Organization to Stop Thieving. Occasional snow flakes were flying through the air all morning. What is home without an Independent telephone? There was no gas on the West side to day but the break in the main has been repaired. This is the first day of Lent. Fish will be a popular article of diet for some weeks. Work has started on the foundation for the stack which the Topeka Edison Co. will have installed. The Commercial Club Bulletin has gone to press, and will probably be ready for distribution Thursday. The city force Is gradually getting the streets in better condition from the standpoint of cleanliness. Scores of "sunflower" Topeka advertis ing folders were distributed among the advertising men at Leavenworth by the Topekans present at the convention of ad men. "I believe there will be a great deal of building this year in Topeka," said one of the real estate men who attended the meeting of advertising men in Leaven worth. A meeting of the board of directors of the Commercial club was held this noon on the recent trip to 16 industrial cities will be made later. The same old story hundreds of per sons took out their coal and started to burn gas again, feeling that the winter weather was over. Put this in your hat winter never is over In the middle of February. The gas was low last night and this morning on account of a break in one of the field lines near Independence. Gen eral Manager McBeth reports today that the pressure will be normal again soon. The break has been repaired. The next meeting of the Topeka Real Estate Dealers' association will be held a week from today. Several persons who wanted to attend thought the meeting was to have been held this noon. "Topeka is pretty healthy," Dr. James Stewart, city physician, said this after noon. "We have a little diphtheria, a few cases of chdekenpox and scarlet fever, which is very natural and we do not have a case of spinal meningitis in town." j When the Ad club men who went to Leavenworth returned at 2:30 o'clock this morning one of the pool halls was still open and a half dozen young men were so engrossed In the game that they had evidently forgotten about the necessity for sleep. The city took one more brave plunge at the Western Union Telegraph company but the poles still remain in Kansas ave nue. Now that the poles are in the street and not inside the curb line it would be legal for the city tree trimming gangs to cut them down. A number of local ministers including Drs. S. S. Estey, F. L. Doveland, A. S. Henderson and C. M. Sheldon will tell of the rough experiences they have had in the course of their ministries at the even ing session of the Kansas Bible Institute at the Central Congregational church this evening. The members of the Topeka Ad club are still talking of combining their or ganization with the Commercial club that is having the Ad club simply a de partment of the Commercial club with no extra dues. The question was not brought up at the last meeting of the club on account of lack of time. It was a jolly crowd of fellows on the train coming back from the meeting of ad men in Leavenworth early this morn ing. All of those who had not been in itiated into the order of "Yellow Dog" in Leavenworth were made members of the order on the train much to the amuse ment of the Topeka ad men. Among the victims was Col. J. W. F. Hughes, who is usually a "good fellow," but who was in clined to be refractory this morning. Topeka had no band Tuesday in Leav enworth but in writing his story in ad vance a reporter for the Leavenworth Post had this to say about the Topeka delegatonr "The delegation from Topeka, about 76 in all, did not arrive in their special Santa Fe train until 2:15 o'clock this afternoon, but their enthusiasm was not dampened the littlest bit. With them came a band and such a band. It played aid in the nourishment and strength or your body, you must rid your Stom ach of poisons, excessive acid and stomach gas which sours your entire meal interferes with digestion and causes so many sufferers of Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Biliousness, Con stipation, Griping, etc. Your case Is no different you are a stomach suf ferer, though you may call it by some other tame; your real and only trouble is that which you eat does not digest, but quickly ferments and sours, pro ducing almost any unhealthy condi tion. A case of Pape's Diapepsin will cost fifty cents at any Pharmacy here, and will convince any stomach sufferer five minutes after taking a single dose that Fermentation and Sour Stomach Is causing the misery of Indigestion. No matter if you call your trouble Catarrh of the Stomach, Nervousness or Gastritis, or by any other name always remember that a certain cure is waiting at any drugstore the moment you decide to begin its use. Pape's Diapepsin will regulate any out of order Stomach within five min utes, and digest promptly, without any fuss or discomfort all of any kind of food you eat. !,EsT.L.,rB .88. t.ilt3UM3tAt$:.m like. The New Colored Wash Goods Are attracting much attention and many are making: se lections from our beautiful lines of Tissues, Ginghams, Linens, Fancy Voiles, etc. We invite you to make an early visit to this department and see the new stock while assortments are complete. Following; are a few cf the many selections that can be made at this time. Natural Dress Linens in many new weaves in crash also in smooth finish. They promise to be very popular for wo men's suits and coats already they are selling freely yard 194 up to 75 New Egyptian Tissues in a very complete assortment of new designs in all the colors a yard 25 Chiffon Tissues', per yard 15 Nub Suitings are new this season, they come in plain and stripe effects and will take the place of linens, per yd. 25 Mercerized Poplins and Zibalene Cloths in all plain shades per yard 25l and 29? OtHer New Wash Goods 36 inch Percales ,at yard 10, 12VW. IS1 Zephyr Ginghams, yard... 17S 2S, 30 Fancy Dress Ginghams 10, 2Vzit 15 Printed and Woven Madras Cloths up to 39 Special Silk Mulls 15c Yard In all the desirable colors very appropriate for women's afternoon dresses also for children's i r dresses while they last, a yard 1 3C fX that they really Hit 1,T nn(1 ta L; o notice. j If your hus- band's hair is falling; if he has dandruff or, scalp itch, don't j let it make a baldhead of him, get a 60 cent bottle of PARISIAN SAGE today, rub it on his hair every night until dandruff goes, hair stops falling and the new growth appears. Then uee it every other night until the hair is thick and abundant. PARISIAN SAGE is a de lightful, refreshing hair dressing for men, women and children. It will do as advertised, or your money back. Girl with Auburn hair on every car ton and bottle. Sold by Geo. W. Stans- field, DruggiBt, 632 Kansas Ave., To peka, and dealers everywhere. Embroidered Swisses, domestic and imported cloths, priced a yard 25 up to 50 New Cotton and Silk Voiles in plain colors in stripes and checks, many excellent values, yard 12VW up to 50 Imp. Dress Patterns of bordered silk and cotton fabrics, exclusive designs some of these are displayed in our show window priced per pattern $5.00 up to $17.50 A complete line of New Serpentine Crepes at yard. .18 Wash Silks in plain weaves, all colors, yard 25 and 35 f In a beautiful assortment of fancy weaves and designs, all the new colors, a yard 25 up to 50 Nice assortments of Printed Batiste, Dimities ,also print ed Swisses Ideal ideas on atabl IB GRAND THURS., FEB. 22 Mort H. Singer Presents OLIVE VAIL in MISS NOBODY FROM STARLAND Prices: Mat. 25-5rt-76e-M .0(1. Night I5-50-7re-51.'0-1.f. No remedy that does not entirely remove the cause of Catarrh from the blood will ever make a permanent cure of the trouble. Just as long as the circulation remains contaminated with the impurities and catarrhal matters which produce the trouble, the mucous membranes or inner linings of the body will be kept in a state of irritation and disease. Sprays, lotions and other local applications will sometimes temporarily relieve the tight, full feeling in the head, buzzing noises in the ears, uncomfortable, stuffy feeling of the nostrils, and helrj to loosen the mucus in the throat: hut Catarrh is constitutional blood disorder and until it has been entirely driven from the j system there can be no permanent cure. fc. s. fc. cures Catarrh by removing the cause from the blood. It attacks the disease at its head and by thor oughly purifying and cleansing the circulation, and ridding it of everv rar- ticle of impurity, and at the same time enriching the blood, allows the I inn anted and irritated membranes to heal, improves the general health, and stops every disagreeable symptom. S. S. S. reaches down to the very bottom and leaves no trace of the disease in the system. Book on Catarrh and any medical advice free to all who write. JHE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA. GA. Sheriff Norton today appointed six deputy sheriffs in the Elmont district at the request of officers of the newly organized Anti-Horse Thief associa tion. The new deputies are Jacob schafer, B. Debacker, L. L. Locke, Frank Rude, J. D. Berger and John McNoun. Recently farmers in the Elmont dis trict have reported much petty thiev ing in the locality. Some one per sistently stole the farmers' fodder, hay and corn and no one was ever haled before the courts to pay the penalty. Then the farmers organized a branch horse thief association and requested the appointment of deputy sheriffs from among their members. GRAND OPERA SEASON Grazi French Company Will Be Here for Two Nights. It is now a settled fact that the Paris Grand Opera forces will play an engage ment at the Grand theater March 1st and 2nd. Over a year ago. after repeated suc cesses in Algeria, Tripoli and Alexandria, impresario Grazi approached the minister of public instruction in Paris and called his attention to the fact that for years requests had come from the French resi dents on the Pacific Coast for a season Above Ail Things Keep Health No matter how much hard luck one may have he can always "come back" if he has the snap and ginger f good health. Right food is the most essential factor of health. Grape-Nuts FOOD is made of wheat and bar ley and furnishes in the right proportions the ele ments Nature needs for keeping body and brain at their best. Look for "The Road to Wellville" in packages of Grape-Nuts. This famous little book and Grape-Nuts have helped thousands and may help you. "There's a Reason" Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. MEAIi SIZE AXGEL 1XK)1) CAKES 10c Tou probably know about these dainty, little angel foods, but really they are so nice that they are worthy of calling your attention to again. These cakes are made just as we would make our most expensive angel food; just as rich, just as snowy white and light and just as richly iced. They are simply made in smaller size for your convenience. One cake will cut eight or ten good sized slices; plenty for one meal in any ordinary size family. We also make the 10c size in choc-! olate angel food, plain nut and sev- j eral other varieties. MANY DAINTY PASTRIES. You'll find the freshest, nicest and most tempting cream puffs, cream horns, Charlotte Russe, Orthellos, lady fingers, chocolate e'claires, macaroons, fig newtons, peanut bars, etc., besides more than a dozen different varieties of cookies and wafers. They're fresh from the oven daily. You'll like them. Fri., Sat. Feb. 23-24 2 SHOWS EACH NIGHT. Mat Sat. The Mystery of the Maine The Most Spectacular Motion Picture Ever Produced PRICES, 10c, 20c. SAT. MAT. 10c l Mat. Ved., Sat.. 10-20C lVlEljeStIC Every NiKht 26c ALL THIS WE UK ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN Special Matinee Thurs. PEGGY NOVELTY 2 Show. Nisluly 2:30 7:45 9:15 VAUDEVILLE IDEAL BAKERY The Place That's Different. 121 West Sixth St. Phones 190 all the time apparently, and even then the musicians did not want to stop. One would have thought they, too, were ad men, and in a sense they were." brht for gill. MISS DOTTY 1E StTIEI.L CO. A1.I5EHTO DEI, NO lIlOITi; DAVE VINE BYRON. T.EE&MARY CRANSTON He Receives Nearly 10,000 Plurality at the Primary. Seattle Jeb .21. Former Mavor Hiram C. Gill, removed from office in disgrace a year ago by a recall elec tion, was given an overwhelming plu rality over his rivals for nomination for office at the municipal primaries. Gill received nearly ten thousand more votes than his nearest competitor, George F. Cotterill. single tax candi date, who will oppose him at the elec tion in March. Thomas A. Parris. business men's candidate, ran a close third, and Hu- lett M. Wells, socialist, polled nearly ten thousand out of the total vote which was in the neighborhood of 55,000. Gill campaigned under an "open town" slogan and the result is said to indicate his probable election o'er Cotterill in March. Full municipal tickets were nomin ated yesterday, the Socialist party naming men for comptroller, corpora tion counsel and treasurer, and also two nominees for councilmen. The other nominees were not selected un der party alignment. With 221 out of 281 precincts counted, the vote for mayor stood: Gill. IS. 997; Cotterill. 10.SS2; Parris, 9,913: Wells, 7,780. About 40 per cent of the 74,602 registered voters in Seattle are women and observers of the primary estimate that women voted in about the same proportion. In the recall election of last year the women voted almost solidly against Gill. Baltimore Ohio Railroad Win ter tours to Florida points and Ha vana. Cuba, via Washington, T. C, or Baltimore. Md., Liberal stopovers. Variable route tickets via rail and water or all rail, p.t reduced fares. t Send for illustrated booklet. W. A. Preston, T. P. A., or B. X. Austin, j a. v. A.:. Chicao-- We Have Moved From 816 Kansas Ave. To 106 W. Eighth f. CENTRAL CYCLE CO. F. M. Welton, Prop. means more than a fat baby. It means laying the foundation of a strong, sturdy constitution. Fat alone is not enough; there must be bone, muscle, brain and nerves. Scott's Emulsion I im the Acme of perfection for Mother and Child. all Dttuceim Some Red Hot Specials at the Owl For Tomorrow. Special Thursday Very best Creamery Butter (plain wrapper) S2o 4 Jumbo cans Peerless Milk. 1 "c cans 2 Ho 9 cans Sc Peerless M ilk 23c Better ftock up. 2 pkfcs. &c Matches, (large Be hn-xex R 5c pke. Yeust Foam So Nice Fresh Cocoamrt. each. .5c Regular Owl Prices 40c Potatoes, very fine, pk..35c 'i lb. pkg. .Cigar Clippings I Bo Small Glass good JHly 4o Can 15c Corn i c 2 cans soak Peas 15C 10c pkg. best Rird Seed c 10c roll best Toilet Paper.... Bit IS Hi. sack Good Kbuir. .$1.2.-, Purity Onts, round pkg San Mario Coffee. 35c seller 30c Finest Pure Spices 4t. 16 lbs. fine Gran. Sugar.. $1.00 Fresh Roasted I'eanuts, ll..10c Fresh Stb k Cundy, lb 10c 10c pkg. Gelatin (In FherbrL Blss 5o Finest little criitp Saltv Crack 8c 3 loaves our fine Broad 10c -'00 K. Fourth. liUSy w. Tentli. Stnmci 1,23 Kansa, Ave. alreS 533 Topck.i Ave. IT-"" -71 inn. I. ,f ..iii-iii lg(Qj!L Don't Forget We have Semf-Anthracit Briquettes the finest coal out. We can make prompt deliveries. Phones 390 GILLETTE NICHOLSON 100 Kansas Avenue LM. PEN WELL Undertaker nd Eokalaer 1X H$41 Qwtacu

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THE TOPEKA DAILY ST4TE JOURI7AE FEBRUARY 21, 1912 TO GIVE PIGEON SHOW Topeka Fanciers Will Have Exhibi tion o.t AYeck. The annual show of the Topeka Pigeon association will be held in the Arnold building. 523 Jackson street, next week, the doors opening at 1) o'clock Monday morning. The capacity of the building is" for between 500 and H00 birds, and there will probably he that number of en tries, according: to the management. George Burg hart "ill have some of his Pouters on exhibit the birds that were exhibited in London in 190'J or their offspring. It is remembered by the local fanciers that Mr. Purghart purchased some pigeons in Dundee, Scotland, in 1 i 0 7 In 1910 the offspring rf these birds were exhibited at the .'"rvstal Palace show, and it was stat ed by a London paper that the lord mavor of that city made a special trip to the show to see them, as they hail ed from the longest distance of any of the birds entered. Henry Testier will b" the judge at the shov. The management has not yet decided what admission price to chars" or whether to charge any at nil. The show 'will run all the week nr.d the doors will be open evenings. "Topeka lias the reputation of being the best pigeon town west of Chi cago.'" said Roy Payne, secretary of the association, this afternoon. "While the show thtrs season will be more or less a local affair, there will be as good birds in certain classes as will he seen anywhere in the country." W illiam Holmgren is president oi the association. H aL IO Ili-IIS-i Now a State Senator in New Mexico and May tio Higher. Senator B. P. Pankey of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is visiting old friends in Topeka todav. Mr. Pankey is a state senator in the new state and his friends are grooming him as a candi date for United .States senator. How ever, Mr. Pankev says that he is not kii active candidate for the higher honor, but he admitted that if things ante his way he would not siae-step the honor. Mr Pankey is the man who iuuihv. Independent Telephone company th i n ii t opeKa ana u m business abilitv made it one ot me most successful institutions in tne state He came to Kansas m isl and made a success of the cattle busi-n.-s before he became interested m telephones. He now owns thousands of acres of land in New Mexico and still has a way of getting what he goes after. It is likely that if he goes af ter the U. S. senator plum, the other candidates Avill have to step lively to keep it out of his reach. LIGHT PLANTJS SOLO Sheriffs sale May Bring. Council Grove Better Service. ouiK-il Grove. Kan.. Feb. 21. T. Vi dian the new manager of tne touii; panv, has placed $10,000 in the bank used in making improvements in service here.- All he asks is that, a com to 1 1 "lc suir.bb- franchise be granted nun i,w M-rin" He is at present running the vlant for W. H. White, of this city, president o the Farmers and Drovers bank. Vortgages on the plant were ioiecio- n 1 r-ivlrl .it O c;r CP- ed iff and tne piam nsrii. i "--ale a few days ago. Mr. White nronertv and engaged Mr. b i,.,,t'after it for him. The service has been increased from a 1. to a 24 hour run. BARRED FROM JURIES. 0urt Passes Sentence on Men Aho Refused to Indict. Lexington. Ky Feb. 21. Because Ave members of a grand jury refused to vote to indict several citizens lor alleged election frauds at Georgetown. Ky.. Circuit Judge Stout today ordered that none of them ever be allowed to serve again as a juror in Scott county while he presided. The frauds were alleged to have been committed in central and eastern Kentucky in the state Democratic pri marv last July. ELKSMIOJoE BURNED. Independence Men Hail Dedicated It Only Nine Months Ago. Independence, Kan.. Feb. 21. The FJks lodge, one of the finest struc tures in independence, was threatened liseifMiic are quickly relieved by an appplication of Sloan's Liniment. It's very penetrating, goes straight to the sore spot. HERE'S PROOF Miss EtsiE Masthit, 4229 Talman Ate., Chicago, 111., writes: "About two years ago my mother broke down with rheumatism. The doctors didn't do any good. My mother was per suaded to try Sloan's Liniment, and in three weeks was entirely well and I believe she is cured forever." Mrs. A.Weidmas, of 403 E. Thomp son St.. Maryville, Mo., writes: "Tho nerve in my leg was destroyed five years ago, and left me with a jerking as nig so last i coma not sleep. A. friend told me to try your liniment and now I could not do without it. I find, alter its use I can go to sleep." w rat W- L'- 9 mmm, Hi UI! I Mil iivH dF VfcSV is an excellent remedy for sprains, bruises, sore throat, asthma, neuralgia, lumbago, lame muscles and stiff joints. At all tUW. Price 25c.. 50e. and 91 .00. DR. EARL S. SLOAN. BOSTON. MASS. with destruction by fire at 2 o"clock this morning. Leaking gas started the fire and the interior was gutted before the firemen could get to work. The extension probably can be saved. The lodge was dedicated about nine months ago. It cost $50,000 and the furnishings $25.000. RAISE OF 40 PER CENT 'ollowcd the Organization of the IWtli Tub Trust. Detroit. Feb. 21. The government lost a point today ill its criminal case against the alleged "bath tub trust" when Judge Angell decided that Fran cis J. Torrance, vice president of the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing company, one of the principal defen dants cannot be compelled to produce in court as evidence price contracts that his firm is said to have made with jobbers. The evidence was ex cluded because it did not directly bear on the conspiracy as charged. J Frauenlieim. president of the Ker'ner Manufacturing company, one or the defendants, testified that after the allege,! price agreement went into effect he raised the prices of lavator ies and sinks which his firm manu factured, forty per cent. OSFllAjfOfPCK. Knox Intended to Take Up the In demnity Mattec on Visit. Washington, Feb. 21. President Taft took up the Colombian situation with bis cabinet and later discussed it with Huntington Wilson, the acting secre tary of state. Xo official announcement was made of what action had been taken by this government. It was declared authori tatively that the United States did not contemplate asking for the recall of Senor Ospina, the Colombian minister. A report was current that a full ex planation of the attitude of the United States in the present controversy had been cabled to American Minister Du Bois at Bogota so that he might in formally advise Colombia. It is believed that the Colombian gov ernment now will learn from Mr. Du Bois that Secretary Knox did intend the initiation of negotiations which might terminate the troubled relations. Whether, in view of such information, Colombia might issue a special invita tion to Mr. Knox is said to be based on the character of the negotiations which he would begin. GALLED FROM PRISON. Life Termer Will Testify Before the Grand Jury. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 21. Harry Heath, serving a life sentence in the prison for the murder of Charles Sellers, a ranchman, will be taken to Valentine. Xeb., this afternoon to tell the grand jury in session here what he knows about the crime. Heath, with his cousin. Kenneth Murphy, and two men named Weed, pleaded guilty to hanging Sellers and drew life terms in prison. Public sentiment in Cherry county has been inclined to connect Eunice Murphy, Heath's cousin, and the gir! whom Sellers loved, with the crime and Heath's testimony is showed to be wanted on this phase of the case. IT WAS HIS FATHER. Chancellor Pitney Denies Accusation of Labor Ix-aders. Morristown. X". J., Feb. 21. Mahlon Pitney, named for justice of the su preme court of the United States by President Taft. has taken notice of opposition to his confirmation coining from a labor organization in the west. "I wish to deny." he said, "that I m an enemy of labor. The decision in controversy was not mine, but was delivered orally and on the spur of the moment by my late father, Vice Chancellor Pitney, in 1903.'' Boveridge Coming West. Kansas City. Feb. 21. Senator A. J. Beveridge. of Indiana, will be among the speakers at a banquet of the Kan sas City Bar association here February l9. according to an announcement to day, .forge Vera Espanol. formerly a member of the cabinet of President Diaz, of Mexico, also will speak. Made Captain by Lincoln. Los Angeles. Feb. 21. William M Lewis. TS years old, paymaster of tire "Ram'- fleet during the civil war and who because of personal bravery was given the rank of captain by President Lincoln, died here yesterday after an illness of two weeks. He was a mem ber of the Indiana commander" of the Loyal Legion. Pains tow i5 j TXT7 n JJfJlXLlL TQf SHORT PANTS With Extra Pair of Knickerbocker Pants. Notice 2 pair pants with these suits to morrow CHOICE 1 f t -v" PREPARE FOR DEFENSE Indicted. Iron Workers Are Holding Conferences ally. Indianapolis, Feb. 21. Frank K. Painter, "former business agent of the iron workers' union at Omaha, Xeb., who has been in custody for almost a week, after consulting with other de fendants in the dynamite conspiracy cases today prepared to give bond for his appearance for arraignment "March 12. Painter was arrested at Prairie City, 111., after government agents had traced him through various cities. In dicted officials of the iron workers' in ternational union are holding daily conferences with attorneys to prepare tor the defense of the 54 defendants. Kansas City, Feb. 21. At the re quest of W. J. McCain and Albert Brown, structural iron workers arrest ed on Indianapolis indictment, who appeared for a preliminary hearing before a United States commissioner here todav the hearing was postponed to next Tuesday. It is understood both will contest removal to Indianap olis for trial. URGED HIGHERTRIGES Telegrams of Packers to Agents Read in Court. Chicago. Feb. 21. Scores of telegrams alleged to- have been sent by Ixmis H. Heyman. manager of dressed beef depart ment of Morris Co., urging eastern rep resentatives to obtain higher prices were read to the iury in the packers' trial to day. The object of the government In introducing them was to show that the test cost was the basis used by the pack ers in fixing the selling price. The messages were identified by Wm. K Khlert, margin clerk in the Morris Jfe Co.'s dressed beef departinent, who was recalled to the witness stand. In one message sent to Boston, Heyman asked: What are vou trying to do: put us out of business with your low selling prices? One telegram addressed to a New York representative read: "This is awful and we can't stand for it. Hold beef for bet ter prices if you don't sell another car cass this week." Another message to a New Tork agent read "If vou don't get prices up we will have to reduce your shipments." REVOLUTION SPREADS Communication In Parts of San IJo mingo Is Totally Suspended. Cape Haitien. Haiti. Feb. 21. The San Domingo revolution is extendi!- dailv, especially near the frontier, where communication between Adaba jon and Monte Christi is totally sus pended. A San Domingo coast defense ves sel lert here today for Liberte, car rying the mail for Adabajon, which was reached over Haitien territory. The mail was landed and sent on, but soon was brought back and returned on board the warship. Enrique Jimize, the special dele gate of the San Domingo government in the province of Monte Christi, also was unable to travel by road. He therefore crossed into Haiti and em barked at Fort Liberte for the port of Monte Christi. HITS ROBBER ON JAW Girl"s Uoxing Lessons Are Jt'ootpad's Vndoing. Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 21. Gym nasium boxing lessons came in good stead last night for Miss Georgia Mc Manus, a Whitman college freshman, uho -as on ber wav to a Christian En deavor meeting, when a man stepped from behind a tree and seized her by ihi, lft arm. Miss McManus promptly swung a heavy right to the man's jaw, which completely knocked him out. Th3 girl fled. A search later for the man prdoved unsuccessful. 1ATGH WHITE HOPES. Palzer and Bombardier AYells to Meet July 4. San Francisco, Feb. 21. Al Palzer, the young heavyweight who announc ed himself as an aspirant for Jack Johnson's title, and Bombardier Wells, the English champion, are to fight here in an open air arena on July 4, according to an announcement made todav by Promoter Eddie Gracy. Pal zer "has signed the articles already and "Wells has accepted by cable. WANT MONEY BACK. Spokane Shippers Demand $2,000,000 From Railroads. Washington. Feb. 21.- As a sequel to the interstate commerce commis sion's decision in the famous "Spokane rate case" that freight charges to and from Spokane were unreasonable and exorbitant, the shippers of that city today made a demand on various northwestern and transcontinental lines for $2,000,000 reparation. SUM'S; Si) Jl o0 ii Ladies' Sweater Coats 25c Ladies' $3.50 Shoes $1.00 Men's 75c and 50c Negligee Shirts 25c Ladies' Flannel Shirts 50c Men's $2.00 Brown Worsted Pants 75 Men's 25c Wool Hose 12c Old Ladies' Warm Lined Bals 90c Men's Wool Shirts or Drawers 50c Boys' Heavy Ribbed Stockings Gc Men's 75c and 50c Suspenders 25c BREAK IN GAS LINE. Pressure Ijow in Topeka on Account of Field Line Accident. The gas pressure was low today and nearly out of commission last night on account of a break in the pipe line below Independence Tuesday. This morning it was almost impossible for tho housewives to cook breakfast. At noon the pressure had gained slightly and this afternoon Manager Treleaven ef the gas company states that the pressure will be back to normal be fore evening. "By normal I mean the normal pressure in this kind of weather," commented the gas manager. "In a dav of this kind the pressure natural ly would be lower consumers do not epect an excessive gas supply cold days like today. But I mean we are catching up with the supply again after the break in the line." The Topeka company received word from General Manager A. D. McBeth of the Kansas Natural Gas company at Independence that an eighteen inch field line was broken Tuesday, requir ing the company to shut off the field all that day. The break has been re paired and the gas is coming this way again. DIRTY WATER TODAY. City lleverses Current in Mains With Sandy Results. Today has been a day of troubles for the merry housekeeper. With the gas pressure at low ebb, the cold wind whistling around the corners of the house, and meals lingering in their heat, the city waterworks has added another worry for the day, by forcing cloudy water through the mains. On account of a cross-over construc tion in Potwin this morning the water department was forced to reverse their pumping apparatus and the en tire city water supply was flowing in an opposite direction to the natural flow. Tiiis stirred up sand and gravel that bad been in the mains for months. As the consumer drank from the house faucet today he could feel the sand tickle his paiate. But the water department insists that it is perfectly clean sand It is good for the stom ach a little sand and gravel once in HE TAKES BENZ SOUTH Callahan Gives Former Western League "Blitzen" Early Start. Chicago, Feb. 21.- Manager Jim mie Callahan, of the White Sox and Pitchers Ralph Mogridge and Joe Benz will depart for the training grounds at Waco, Texas, tomorrow. The three will form an advance guard at the camp and will have the advan tage of a week's training before the main detachment reaches there. President Charles Comiskey will hold a final conference with his manager today before the training starts. Tornado at Shrereport. Shreveport, La., Feb. 21. Eight per sons are dead and about 50 injured as the result of a tornado which swept through the western outskirts of Shreveport. The dead are negroes, with the exception of the 2-months-old baby of A. J. Manheim, whose home was demolished. CASTOR 1 A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Kays Always BangM Bears the Signature of Tr A pi m lLajt. Slack or i All Wool Cravenette Over coats with convertible collars. Special for Tomorrow ONLY 622 Kansas Avenue ODDS FAVOR KLAUS. Sailor Petroskey's Friends Fear His Ring- Experience. San Francisco, Feb. 21. Odcls on Frank Klaus over "Sailor" Petroskey, whom the Pittsburg champion is to meet in a 20-round match Thursday, are almost prohibitive. They opened today at 2 to 1 with little money in sight from the admirers of the blue jacket. The far greater ring experience" of Klaus appears to have weighed with sport followers. Petroskay is reported to be in the pink of condition and Klaus could not be in better shape, according to his trainers. BOYCE WAS UNARMED Testimony in the Sneed Case Ends and Argument Begins. Fort Worth, Feb. 21. Captain A. G. Boyce was unarmed when shot by J. B. Sneed on January 13. according to Fred Mueller, the undertaker, who took Boyce to the hospital before he died. He undressed Captain Boyce. Mueller was the last witness for the prosecution and arguments in the case were begun. SHORTAGE IS TRIPLED Experts OTnd Bookkeeper Embezzled $119,000 Instead of $50,000. Pomona, Cal., Veh. 21. Experts working on the books of Uip American National bank here finished thir work today and it is announced by the officials of the bank that. Bookkeeper Earl Standard's Fhortae amounts to $149,V0 instead of $50,000, as at first announced. The directors and stockholder p of the bank have made good the nhnrtage and have increased the capitalization of the bank. Standard's -whereabouts ia not known. GET WIRELESS NEWS. Every Saturday Massdalen Islanders Will iet ltcport. Ottawa, Feb. 21. The postmaster gen eral nas completed arrangements to send a news summary of 1.000 words to the ir. habitants o the Magdalen islands by wireless every Saturday, to be read i:i the churches of the islands on Sundays. The Magdalen islands are an isolated group near the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ut miles west of Cape Breton and 100 miles southwest of Xewfoundland. The popu lation is less than 4.000. Blizzard Extends to Pittsburg:. Pittsburg. Feb. 21. After three days' fMr-ttinn witli hfllmv snrinsr tenmera- ture Pittsburg struggled with a bliz zard and high wmas tnat reacneu ou miles an hour. Snow and sleet with fast falling temperature swept in from the southwest but soon turned to driv ing rain. Telegraphic communication is im peded while from many sections come reports of toppling chimneys, un roofed building and shattered windows. In the business section here several large plate windows were blown out, endangering pedestrians. The storm moved eastward. To Probe Ainsworth Case. Washington, Feb. 21. An investi gation of the charge that led to the sensational removal of Adjutant Gen eral Ainsworth was authorized today bv the house committee on military affairs in favorably reporting the "W'atkins resolution requiring the sec retary of war to submit to congress all documents bearing on the alleged insubordination. Chairman Hay of the committee, first opposed to an in quiry, changed his view and the Dem ocratic members of the military com mittee were unanimous in favoring action. aa l..iaj so v LOCAL MENTION. Don't fail to get our estimate on that lumber bill. J. K. Wheelan Co Fourth and Santa Fe tracks. I'hones S5. Capt. IT. K. Knight of Kansas City, who is the United States recruiting "i ficer for the district which includes T peka. says that the report that the sol dier in charge of the Topeka office ,has been intoxicated while here is a mistake. Big Moose Leap Year dance for mem bers and their families and lady friends only, Friday, Feb. 23. Admission free. Fire frolw a r defecMve -f hie caused slight damage to the one and a half story frame dwelling at 0,J.r .Monroe street at 8: tins morning. The fire department did not learn the name of the owner of the hoii.-e today. Negro Jliint Is Fruitless. Nashville. Feb. 21. A mob seeking a negro murderer and his companion near Brentwood, failed to catch the blacks today. One of the fleeing ne groes shot and fatally wounded Mack Voit. superintendent of a railroad camp, when Voit ordered him to go to work. cw Vorfc Stock Usl. Iast Sale. New York, Feb. 21. American Smelting and Refining 71', Amer. tSrneltingand Kefining pfd lu, American Sugar Itefining H8:.'8 Anaconda Mining Co Atchison P:r-s Atlantic Coast Une 1 i.v Baltimore and Ohio Brooklyn Rapid Transit In Canadian Pacific 22;:4 Chesapeake and Ohio Tl- Chicago and .Northwestern 41' Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 104TH ("dorado Fuel and Iron 24'i; Colorado and Southern 42 Delaware and Hudson 170 Itenver and Rio Crando. 21 Denver and Rio Orande pfd 41';. Erie rtl Great Northern pfd 32M'. Great Northern Ore C'afs "7:; Illinois Central i:-:r,'4 Jnterborough-Met IS Interbnrough-Met. pfd .VT liOui.svlilo and Nashville 1r-i Missouri Pacific Missouri, Kansas and Texas l'fi-"9 National Biscuit 145 National lead .W"- New York Central 110'., Norfolk and Western 110'. Northern Pacific 11K"'4 Pacific Mail Pennsylvania 1i-" People's (las 10fi:;4 Pullman Palace Car ir. Reading ir:::14 Rock Island Co 2:;,a Uock Island Co. pfd 4! -Southern Pacific P'7' Southern Railway 27 Union Pacific lf:;4 United States Steel 5 United States Steel pfd 10? Wabash 7 Wabash pfd 1 Western Union M7i Lehigh Valley 157'2 International Harvester General Electric 159 U New York Coffee Market. New York, Feb. 21. COFFEE No. 7 Rio. 14ic. Futures closed steady. March, 13.S7; May, 13.35. SIIl of Cti; The careful mother, who watches close lv the physical peculiarities of her chil dren, will soon discover that the moet Im portant thing In connection with a child's constant good healthr is to keep the bowels regularly open. Sluggish bowels will h followed bv loss of appetite, reat- 1 lessnesa during eleep, Irrl'.abllty and a aoz?n ana one Eimimr mcnvoo 01 jiujio cal disorder. At the first sign of such disorder give the ehiM a teasnoonful of Dr. Caldwell's Eyrup Pepsin at night on retiring and repeat the ooes tne rouowing nignt u necessarv more than that will (scarcely be needed. You will find that the child will recover its accustomed good spirit at once and will eat and sleep normally. This Temedy Is a vast Improvement over salts, cathartics, laxative waters and similar things, which are altogether Men's Flannel Night Shirts Children's $3 Overcoats $1.00 Ladies' or Men's $1.00 f Silk Hose and Stockings I 25c Mens Fleeced Underwear 25c

$1.50 Sheep Lined Gloves W 4 QUO $5 and $4 Sweater Coats $1.00 75c Knickerbocker Pants 25 c $3.50 Corduroy Pants 31.25 Men's $5.00 Hand Welt Shoes $2.25 Men's Plain Toe $3.00 Comfort Shoes S1.50 t i La Ls J w' -J mas cz Inflammation The Oil goes in through the pore ttops the pain, and reduces the well ing and inflammation. Trial bottla ioc.; large bottles 25c. 50c. KILL YOUR RATS and PICE 5 1 -s uslngr Th Genuln Stearns' Electric MRoachPasio a. stirs xtermintor ef ti rnlvm. cockroaches and U fermm. Cat U k genuine. Money Back if it Fails. 25c and 91.09. SoW by Drug gUta Eerywlw. SUarn.'Bectrlc Fastf Ct,C?ica:o,l3. Lkt DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The funeral of Colonel James llur gess, who died at his home at 21 Tyler street yesterday, will be held a the home at 3 o'clock Thursday and will be private. Interment In the To peka cemetery. Addle Johnston, aged 37. died at the home of her father, John Holt, seven and one-half miles northeast 'if the cltv Tuesday night. The funeral will be held at 12 o'clock Thursday. Interment In the Grantville. ci metery. The funeral of 1j. YV. pryan who died in Colorado Springs, waa held 'it 2 o'clock in the parlors of the KhHlH barger Undertaking company on Fifth and Jackson streets today. Tho body was buried in the Rochester cemetery. q ISeisis ild Mealiih ton powerful for a child. Thi home ot Mra. E. B. Jackson, Burr Oak, Km., a ill Mrs J. H. Walters. Mulberry, K ara always supplied wt'h Lr Caldwell Syrup Pepsin, and with them, aa wit a thousands of others, there la no substi tute for this grand laxative. It la really more than a laxative, for it containa u perior tonic properties which help to tona and strengthen the stomach, liver anl boweis bo tha-t after a brief use of It alt laxatives can be dispensed with and. na ture will do Its own work. Anyone wishing- to make a trial of tills remedy before buying" it In the regular way of a druseiM at fifty cents or ena dollar a large bottle (family size) can have a sample bottle sent to the noma fTee of charge by simply addressing; JDr YV. B. Caldwell. J6 YVasninuton Pt., Montice'.lo. 111. Tour name and addrtaa on a postal card will da. 0 r- for Swell

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10 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBItTJARY 21, 1912 Trying Times for Women's Beauty ("Parisienne" in Woman's Journal.) "February, and March are trying: months. Wind and weather play havoc with complexions. The truest aid to beauty these days is made by dissolving an original package of may atone in half a pint of witch hazel. Rub over face neck and arms in the morning, and your skin will be smooth soft and satin-like all day. L'se this regularly and enlarged pores, stray hairs, blotches and blemishes will be banished never to return. 'Chaps, cold sores, pimples, eczema and skin affictions disappear if you rub Mother's Salve into affected sur faces before retiring. It quickly heals sores, cuts, burns, scalds, etc. It is antiseptic as well as healing amd les sens danger of blood poisoning. "Don't risk catching cold washing your head. Anyhow, soap and water dull and deaden hair. Use a dry sham poo, made by mixing a cupful of corn meal and an original package of the rox. Sift a teaspoonful over the head and brush out thoroughly. This treat ment gives new life and makes the hair grow long and abundant. Tour hair becomes bright, wavy and beau tifully lustrous." CHRONIC ECZEMA DISAPPEARS WITH THE TREATMENT Sufferers from Eczema of many years' standing have good reason to renew hopes f a permanent and satisfactory cure. They may have tried many remedies with out noticeable results, but that should not keep them from using a remedy for Eciema which has borne the public's test lor eight years and has thousands of enrad cases of Eczema to its credit. It doasn't matter what past experiences may have been, sufferers from chronic Eczema and ether skin diseases are invited to give BMNKLET'S "SAXADOR" a thorough test. This wonderful skin remedy is known and used from coast to coast. It is earnestly recommended by many people of prominence who have had occasion to test its curative powers. Brtnkley..S2 taoln taoin taonl taolln and allays the terrible itching; then it penetrates to where the parasite is lodged and by its germicidal powers, destroys nd removes the cause of the affliction. More than that, after the cause of the disease has been dislodged. BRl.N'KLET'a 'SANADOR'' nourishes the skin and re-1 stores It to Its normal condition. BRIKKLET'S "SAN'ADOR" has also provmn to be without an equal for the treatment of Iandruff, Pimples, Prickly Heat, Salt Rheum, Scabies, Plant Poison ing, etc. F"or sale and guaranteed by Res Phar macy. 10th and Kansas ava. Are You Sure? This store guarantees ab solute satisfaction or your money refunded. ARB TOU SURE! that what you buy for wool is wool that what you buy for linen is pure flax linen? ARB TOU SURE that the sheets and blankets you buy do not have an inch or two clipped off the length or width so as to cut down cost a bit? ARE TOU SURE that the ppool of thread you get is full length and of evenly good qual ity? ARE YOU SURE that in ap parel and home furnishings you get unfailing quality as well as low price? MAKE SURE of these things by trading with a store that GUARANTEES satisfaction. The genuine is always better than the imitation. Not once in over 4 8 years has this store sacrificed quality for a price. Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. The West's Greatest, Merohan diserf. Kansas City, Mo. New crop Kentucky blue grass just In. Prices right. Zimmerman Seed Co. ORTH SIDE NEWS Key. II. II. Baker Tells of Tibet at Christian Church. Where People Pray With Small "Prayer Machines." SHAKES AND TOADS MEDICINE Describes Many Customs of Little Known Country. Second Meeting of Bible School at Baptist Church. A missionary tour around the world was conducted by Rev. H. H. Baker at the Central Avenue church, where a missionary rally was held last night. Rev. Mr. Baker expects to accompany Dr. Shelton upon the latter's return to Tibet as a missionary and spoke on missionary work in general. As to Tibet, talking from facts gained from Dr. Shelton, Rev. Mr. Baker de scribed some of the customs of the little known land. It appears that the Tibetans think that the worse the disease afflicting a person, the worse the remedy needed. Accordingly a Tibetan doctor will often give his patient a pill made from entrails of toads, snakes and scorpions. Then if this prescription fails to cure, the doctor will pretend to believe that some person, usually a personal enemy, is causing the disease and the object of such suspicion will often be put to death by horrible torture. Such methods were in practice in the provinces in which Dr. Shelton, a physician as well as a missionary, was stationed. He was the only white doc tor within 700 miles. However, some of his cures gained him reputation. He was often sent for to cure an ill chieftain of some tribe. In this way, althoue-h he was stationed at Ban- tang on the Chinese Tibetan border, he acquired considerable knowledge of the interior, where people pray by turning a wheel, and kill strangers by dragging them behind wild horses. Dr. Shelton. it will be remembered, formerly lived at Anthony, Kan., and recently returned from Tibet. He was delayed going back by the Chinese trouble. It will also berecalled that he met the Rijnharts, among the first missionaries to enter the interior of Tibet. Dr. Rijnhart was killed by the natives. His wife was forced to re turn to civilization through a country strange and heathen. A revolver was her only protection. A leap year social was held at the Kansas Avenue Methodist church last evening, about ninety peopla being present. A short program as follows was given: Selection Quartette Messrs. Mays. Smith, McXoun and Holman. Piano solo Trene Winner Vocal solo Bernard McNoun Violin solo Hugh Smith Selection Quartette Sidney S. Smith acted as toastmaster and the following toasts were responded to: "The Door and the Knocker." Miss Miriam Withers. "Who I Am with Tonight, and Why." Dr. Western L. Johnson. "Is Leap Year Worth While?" Miss Evelyn Holman. "What Will the Harvest Be?" Miss Pansy Antrim. "Taking the Bull by the Horns." Rev. J. W. Waldron. With thirty students present the sec- Notice to Fat Women Presumably you know, ladies, that the proper caper nowadays is lines. Curves are passe. You have got to take off your fat. This must be done in one of three ways. By dieting, by exercise, or by means of Marmola Prescription Tablets. The two form er will keep you busy for months and punish you pretty severely, the latter will cost you 75 cents at the drug gist's. The tablets will not make any alteration in your diet necessary, and yet in all probability, before you have used up one case, you will be losing from 12 to IS ounces of fa.t a day. Which method do you like the best? If you fancy this pleasant method of getting off the fat, see your drug gist instantly, or else, write the Mar mola Co., 395 Farmer Bldg., Detroit, Mich., to send you a case by mail. These cases contain so generous a quantity of tablets that the treatment is very economical. It is, also, quite harmless, for the tablets are made ex actly in accordance with the famous Marmola Prescription. REMOVAL SALE We are putting in new furnishings and completely re modeling our store. We must close out the winter stock immediately. Ladies', Misses' and Children's Hats that vail be splen did for another season will go at less than cost. Ladies' Trimmed Hats Worth $8.00 to $12.00 Now $4.75 One lot of Misses' Trimmed Hats 75?1 to $2.00 Best Velour Shapes, regular $10.00 for $4.75 Velvet Shapes in all styles l$i to $1.50 Velvet and Plush Hoods up to $6.00 values $1.00 All Felt Shapes, 50 Children's Trimmed Hats all styles and sizes 25c to $1.00 One lot of Assorted Hats at to Thursday, Friday and Saturday MRS. C. H. MORRISON 603 Kansas Ave. ond meeting of the North Topeka Baptist church Bible class, organized a week ago, was held at the church last night. The number is half of what has been set for the goal. The class will meet regularly at the church once a week. Last night the class was divided into men's, women's, girl", and boys' divisions. T. M. Forbes will teach the men, Miss .Minnie McCall the women, Mrs. Ira Williams the girls and L. P. Frazler the boys. The wedding of Miss Grace D. Hoff meister to Mr. Edward P. Moore was solemnized Tuesday at the Methodist rarsonaee at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. John W. Waldron read the beautiful and impressive ring ceremony or. tne Episcopal church. The bride was attended by Miss Ethel Boyd. Mr. Richard Hoffmeister was the best man. The wedding party in cluded Mr. and Mrs. William Moore, Mr. and Mrs. F. Moore, Miss Ethel Boyd and Mr. Richard Hoffmeister. Mrs. Moore is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoffmeister, liv ing southwest of Topeka, she is loved by all who know her because of her quiet unassuming nature and cheerful disposition. Mr. Moore is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Moore and is one of the most industrious young men in the neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Moore will live on the farm directly east of the Bethel M. E. church. The wedding dinner was served at the home of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Hoffmeister. The immediate relatives only being invited. Notes and Iersonals. Mrs. J. W. Hardy, of Chicago, is visiting her sister, Mrs. O. A. McClure. Miss Bertha Metz, of St. Marys, has returned home after a visit at the home of Mrs. William Fluke. Miss Marjorie Stroud, who has been visiting relatives in Salina, is expeeteu to return to Topeka the last of this month. Miss Ida De Backer has rcturnea home north of Topeka after bein ill in Topeka with a severe cold. Ash Wednesday services will be held at the Church of the Good Shephtrl this evening. On Friday evening, February -o. a humorous program will be given at the Indian Creek Grange hall by the pu pils of the Indian Creek school. Miss Georgia Coates will give some read ings. At the close of the program, a box supper will be held," the proceeds to go to the school library. No tickets for points between Man hattan and Marysville on the Blue Val ley branch of the Union Pacific are bping sold at the Union Pacific atpot. Back water in the Blue river, caused by the rise in the Kaw, into whicr. ti e Blue Hows, has covered the branch line in places and made travel uncertain. The North Topeka postoffice will close at 10 a. m. tomorrow on account ot Washington's birthday. Miss Edith Middaugh has returned from a visit with relatives in McFar- lajd N. Stewart spent Tuesday in Sil ver Lake on business. OAKLAND NOTES. Mis Alice Thompson is improving Irom two weeks' illness with an attack of the SMrs J H. Griffin of Concordia. Kan., is here spending two weeks visiting rela tives and friends. Mr Fred Wilson is improving and win scin'to able to return to work after be ing off two weeks on account of illness. He was suffering from an attack of rheu matism. Mr. Frank Campbell is improving after being quite sick for the past two weeks with an attack of the grip. The regular meeting of the Ladies Aid societv of the Christian church will be held Thursdav afternoon in the church. Rev. Mr. Scholes. who has been ill for some time with an attack of the grip, is reported to be slowly improving. Miss Mary Lee has returned to her home in Scranton after spending two weeks here visiting relatives and friends. Miss Neita Hill is spending this week with, friends in Linwood, Kan. JIrs H. Bannon is here from Solomon to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Rake. L. Tut tie and little grandson Homer Harris of Rilev. Kan., are here visiting Mr and Mrs. John Harris of Arter ave nue. Mr. Tuttle is in the city to attend the Masonic meeting. Mr. and Mrs. L. Bradley entertained at their home on Forest avenue Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. Bradley's birth day anniversary. Their guests were mem bers of the Oakland club of old soldiers and their wives. Mr. Bradley was born February 20. 1S44. and served in Company B, Twelfth Indiana infantry. Mrs. Brad ley served a delicious lunch and the fol lowing guests en joyed a fine time: Mr. and Mrs. Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Vandeventer. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Busby, Mr. and Mrs. John Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mo Cartv. Mr. and Mrs. John Reaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Goodin. Mr. and Mrs. P. S-melser. Rev. Mr. Glendening. Mr. T. Potter, Mr. W. D. Woodworth. Mr. Scott Kelsey. Mr. Wm. Swain. Mr. Dave Ward, Mr. Aaron Ward, Mr. Balem Fox, Mrs. Geo. Rake. Mrs. C. R. Cole. Mrs. Vic torain Bannon, Mrs. Chas. Schuler, Mrs. M. Peebler, Miss Allie Thornburg, Mrs. M. Dolstrom, Mr. and Mrs. John Stamm, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fox. Mrs. Chas. Brad ley and two children. Miss Gladys Fox, Miss Mildred Morgan, Mrs. George Den ham and two children, and Master Homer Harris of Riley, Kan. if OCIETY The most conspicuous feature of so cial life today ia the fact that it is Ash Wednesday. It is the beginning of society's hibernation which will con tinue until Easter with only occasion al brief awakenings. It marks the be ginning of the imaginary bridge par ties that are supposed to be in ses sion behind bolted doors, as though the only way to escape hanging tor the offense was to escape detection, and all other fictions in connection with the observance of the Lenten season. The real fact seems to be, unexciting though it is, that the cnurcn party which is in any way bound by Lenten customs, keena the obligation with a very fair degree of consistency, possibly "with various mo tives, and the other society people wno are quiet during Lent are so be cause they have on their invitation lists so large a number of friends who are keening the fast. Besides, it erives mem a rest that is sometimes- needed, though goodness knows there was no pre-Lenten social swirl for anybody to recover from this year, and it gives time to go down to sewing school, read up on the new spring styles and make some Easter clothes. The Wednesday Bridge club met this afternoon with Mrs. Creighton Miller. Guests, besides1 the members, were: Miss Bess Resseguie of Chica go, who has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. J. E. Morgan. Mrs. Joseph Bow ers, who will return Thursday to her home in Philadelphia, after an extend ed visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lytle, Mrs. Marlin Poindexter of Kansas City, the guest of her mother. Mrs. A. S. Andrews, Mrs. Frank Griggs and Miss Margaret Garvey. The list of guests at the Assembly dance Tuesday night at the Elks hall included: Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Barnes of Osage City, Miss Bess Resseguie of Chicago, Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Bowen, Dr. and Mrs. Otto Kiene, Mr. and Mrs. Earle Williams, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. McClintock. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Gault, Mr. and Mrs. Don Mulvane. Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Work. Mr. and Mrs. Hor ace Humphrey, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Mulro'- Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Munn, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Barber, Dr. and Mrs. Willis Coston, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mor gan, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Jay E. House, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mohler, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Guilford Dudley, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wikidal, Mr. and Mrs. Marco Morrow, Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Edson, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Davis. Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Garvey, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hurd, Mrs. Josephine Webb, Miss Helen McClintock, Miss Mary Thompson. Miss Kate Clough, Miss Eva Smith, Mr. John Waters, Mr. Joe Wilson, Mr. Ed Curry, Mr. Glenwood Jones, Mr. Bert Reid and Mr. L. M. Baker. Mrs. Stephen Poulterer Morris of Denver, Colo., is visiting Mrs. A. A. Hurd, a few days. She is on her way to New York where she will spend two weeks. Mrs. Hurd gave a bridge luncheon Tuesdav at the Topeka club for the Elwell Bridge club, and Mrs. Morris was one of the substitutes. Others who played for absent mem bers were Mrs. R- J. Parker and Mrs. Frank Hobart. The alumnae Sigma Delts will have a meeting Thursday night at the home of Miss Grace Koontz. Sorosis club will meet Saturday, February 24, with Mrs. A. A. Rodgers, 1119 Tyler street. The annual elec tion of officers will be held. Miss Bess Renwick. Miss Marjorie Whitney and Miss Leah Roark will go to Manhattan Friday to attend some sorority parties the last of the week. Miss Eva Reese of Omaha, Neb., who was formerly a student at the State Agricultural college, will be in Man hattan for the parties, and expects to come to Topeka to be Miss Whitney's guest for a short visit. The Kansas Authors club, which has larger membership than -any other state authors' club in the country, will have their annual banquet next Thursday night. The officers extend an invitation to all who are interested good literature and in the state's literary progress to attend. Arrange ments for reservations may be made with Dr. H. W. Roby. Mr. G. P. More house, Mr. Luther Bailey or Prof. B. B. Smythe. Some of the members of the club have written some widely- .-4 i read books, some are interested in newspaper and magazine writing an others in scientific work. The Lexington, Ky" Leader has printed an account of a concert given by some of the teachers of Sayre col lege. Miss Metta Legler, who is in charge of the department of vocal n-.usic, was on the program, and the account of her part is as follows: Miss Legler is a favorite in Lexing ton and has a voice of beauty and power. Her opera numbers were mag nificently rendered and her synopsis of the Romansa was an added in terest. She is also a musical com poser, and gave as a final song charming "Good Night." It is one of her latest compositions as yet unpub lished and was heard with delight by the audience. Six of her new songs will be sent this week by Miss Legler to the publisher, including this little good night peace. Miss Legler is a sister of Mrs. T. R. Paxton of Topeka and has many inenas nere. The Thursday Study club will give a musieaie tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. Layton, 1242 Western av enue. The Cosmos club has postponed its meeting tor Wednesday, February 28. -ine meeting will be held Thursday 29, at the home of Mrs. H. G. Shore, 616 Monroe street. The wedding of Miss Georgia Lambert ana Mr. Fred Jones was celebrated Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock by Rev Charles Finch at the parson-age of the First Christian church. Mr. and Mrs. Jones will live at 1645 Western ave nue. Notes and Personal Mention, Dean Horace Whitehouse returned to day from Omaha, where he gave a con cert Tuesday night, dedicating a new pipe organ. Mrs. Carl Trapp returned today from Leavenworth, where she has been vis iting Mrs. George Russell. Mr. E. W. Poindexter, of Kansas City is in Topeka to attend the Masonic meeting. Mr. H. C. Mayer, of Ellsworth, is in Topeka today on business. Miss Melijra Hambleton is recovering from a short illness at Christ s hospt tal. The Mysotis club will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Frank Blanch, 1010 West Fifth street. Judge and Mrs. W. H. Thompson, of Garden City, will arrive tonight and will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. I Kiene for several days. Mr. Grovtr Taylor of Alton. Kan., a graduate of Washburn college and a member of the Phi Delta Theta fra ternity, is isiting friends at the chap ter house. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cartlidgo will leave the first of next week for a short visit in Chicago. Later they expect to go to Chicago to live. Mr. Fred Wilson, of Chicago, is in Topeka for the Masonic meeting, and is with his father. Mr. A. K. Wilson Mrs. A. K. Wilson is in Chicago on account of the illness of her little granddaughter, Dorothy Wilson. Mr. W. W. Whitney will leave Satur day for a business trip to New York. Mr. A. J. Carruth. sr., of Herington is visiting his son, Mr. A. J. Carruth, jr., and his family. Mr. L. M. Crawford left today for St. Louis to visit his son, Mr. O. T. Crawford. Miss Bess Resseguie of Chicago re turned to her home today after a visit to her cousin, Mrs. J. E. Morgan. Miss Frances Mitchell has returned from Joplin, Mo., where she visited relatives. Miss Helen Mitchell, who is visiting Miss Georgia Potter of St. Joseph, will return the last of the week. Mr. Dana Parkhurst went to Kan sas City today to sing at the services in St. George's church. Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Hogeboom are moving this week to 801 West Sixth avenue. Mr. Galen Nichols of Oklahoma is visiting his brother. Mr. Harry Nichols. Miss Helen Pendleton of Lawrence was the guest of Miss Lenora Stubbs 1 uesday. Mrs. M. J. McMahon, who has been visiting her daughters in Topeka. re turned Tuesday to her home in Kan sas City. Miss Edith Heeney of Severance, Kansas, will arrive Friday to attend an anniversary dinner to be given by Mr. and Mrs. E. Ulamperl. The Taka Art Embroidery club will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. G. W. Burroughs. 1446 Fillmore street. EAST SIDE NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Norton of Wichita are here spending two weeks visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Fred Miller is spending this week with relatives and friends in Burlingame on a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Stuart and son Jialph have returned to their home In Grantville after spending two weeks here visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cross returned to their home in Newton today after spend ing several days here on a business trip. They will return the first of March to make their future home. Miss Mabel Collins of Arlington, Kan.. came here yesterday to spend several weeks visiting relatives and friends, i Mrs. James Sumey is improving after being quite sick for the past few weeks at her home on Chestnut street, i Rev. Mr. Corwin of Eldon, Mo., is here spending a few days on a business trip. Mrs. Charles Hart Is Improving after being quite sick for the past few days at her home on Boswell avenue. I Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thompson have re turned from a week's business trip spent in Kansas City. Mrs. Arthur Smith has returned to her home in Mexico, Mo., after spending a short time here visiting relatives and friends. Miss Helen Weir is spending this week with friends and relatives in Abilene, Kan. The Ladies' Aid society of the Presby terian church will give a pie supper In the church this evening. An experience i social will be held in connection with the supper. Mrs. Robert Young is improving after being quite sick for the past two weeks with an attack of the grip, i Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lane are spending two weeks with friends and relatives in Atchison. Mrs. W. J. Haggard and Mrs. James Haggard and son were guests Monday of Mrs. J. E. Bono of West Topeka. Mrs. J. B. Norman will entertain the Dorcas society at her home on Logan avenue Thursday afternoon. The C. W. B. M. of the Christian church will entertain Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. C. E. Tewell on Jefferson street in honor of Mrs. W. H. Scrlvner who leaves soon for Kansas City. Miss Eva White of East Fourth street is Improving from an attack of the grip. Miss Henrietta Oberer of North Locust street is improving from a few days' ill ness. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Frantz are spending thi week with relatives in Ottawa. Mrs. E. B. Jolley and two children went to Newton today to visit Mr. and Mrs. Dee Alexander over Sunday. Direct Primary In Rhode Island. Providence. R. I., Feb. 21. At a meeting of the Democratic state com mittee it wa3 decided to choose the Rhode Island delegates to the Balti more convention by a direct primary. The primary will be held May 31. Until a short time ago, scarcely one person in a thousand had ever tasted a really good soda cracker as it came fresh and crisp from the oven. Now every man, woman and child in these United States can know and en joy the crisp goodness of fresh baked soda crackers without going to the baker's oven. Uneeda Biscuit bring the bakery to you. A food to live on. Stamina for workers. Strength for the delicate. Bone and flesh for little folks. It will cost you just 5 cents to try Uneeda Biscuit. NATIONAL BISCUIT, COMPANY. 8 Trains to Kansas Lv. Topeka Rt. Lv. K.C. 7:55 A.M. 10:10 A.M. 10:50 A.M. 11:15 A.M. 6:lo P.M. 8:10 P.M. 11:15 P.M. 11 :30 P.M. 4:10 A.M 5:45 A.M. 7:40 A.M. 2:25 P.M. 8:25 P.M. 7:55 P.M. :J5 P.M. USE THE 11-85 P M AKS3) mELLAKEG!U3 ADS ADVERTISING RATES: Th. rat. Tor Inserting Want Ads in Th. Topeka Btat. JournaJ is one cent a word each insertion, minimum 10 cents: by th. week 6 cent a, wora, minimum 60 cents. COUNT THE WORDS of your Afl. n Cludlnsr four wort... rnr RtatA Jnumal mA- dress wten such address Is used: count eacn "Inltlcl" letter and eac-h mimeer ot combination of fl euros ha on. word. OUT-OF-TOWN advertisements most n. ecompanied with cash or check in full Payment for th. same. Not. th. foreco- ng instruction!! about counting: the words and the rates per word lor Tn. Topeka tate Journal. fTLOSIWO nonn- Wn' Ads. to Ti classified nronorlv In Th. ToDka fltnt. Journal, must oe in in state .Journal orrioe nefore 1 o'clock. Want Ads recelvea after the noon hour will b. Inserted under the heading. "Too Lata to Classify." or rtav s. floored. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The Board of Trustees of Obrrlin Col lege to K. K. Uppert, lots 188-H9 Mel rose sub W. Banta and wife to F". R. Brill, lot 2S5 and e. S3 Kast 8th ave.. 290 Metsker a 3rd add 2,100 r. B. Lippert and wife to K. T). Blaine, lots 188-S9 Melrose sub The Western I,und Lot Co. to L. C. Kothweiler, Tr., lots 330-2-4 Division St., Western Land Ixit "o. add.. 150 The Board of Trustees of Oberlin Col lege to H. Ruppel, lots 354-6 Melrose sub Oilpin and wife to A. W. May and 360 wife, e. M- s. e. U 31-13-14 4,000, May and wile to f Unpin, e. V s. e. V, 9-11-16 800 T. Wood and husband to J. W. Moore id wife, n. e. Vi n. e. -5; also s. e. '4 n. e. ti 5-13-15 4,500 O. S. Morrow and wife to J. A. Lor- tie, lot 384 and a. 82 Tyler st 1 H. A. Mayberry and wife to I. B. Hayes, pt. lots 358-60 W. W. Brooks, Jr.. add 3,250 A. W. May and wife to F. Gilpin, tract In sec. 9-11-ie z,4io The Board of Trustees of Oberlin Col lege to L. M. Williams, lot 352-3 Mel rose sub F. A. Brigham to L. W. Silven, lota 149-51-3-5 Arter ave., Brigham Rice's add Tax deeds to R. V. Blaine lot 219-21 Story St., S. Cross add. Same to same, lot 161 Emmett St., Heery's sub 350 TO ARMY AND NAVY. Most Largely Attended Reception Taft Administration. Washingrt n, Feb. 21. Wearing a tra-n six feet long to her gown of American beauty satin brocaded in pold Mrs. Taft assisted the president in receiving 5,XK) gueits at the army and navy reception at the White House. So heavy was Mrs. Taft's train that she could hardly drag it along;. The reception was the largest In 1 oint of attendance during the present administration. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C A S TO R 1 A Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S O ASTO R I A Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S O A S T O R. I A WAITS City Fart Tim No Stop Double Tru' Rock Island fiEXT TIME Nr to Bnr to Aamt Qaertioa Phones 384 C E. Baicom, City Paaa. As?t LOOK AHEAD Start an investment with THE CAPITOL BUILDING LOAN ASSOCIATION IS 34 KtnMi Artnu IOSLAMIPIIaO LOST Bunch of keys on Kansas a.v. between 1st. and 10th streets. Return to Tavfs M-rcHnttl Cn. LA DT wishes position as housekeeper. Can grtve best of referenc. Address R. P. I. car. Journal. WANTED Position in pletur. show by young man. Q. B., car. Journal. WANTED Position hy experienced ml9 nographer. Call 2518 Whlto. WANTKD Position hy stenographer hav ing some experience; reasonable emJ&rys reference furnished. Bell "124. IjADY stenographer wants position: lomo experience; reliable reference. E. M. d., care Journal. J. H. RINFHART, M. D.. candidate coroner, Shawnee Co., subject to pri maries. SHERIFF JONATHAN 15. NORTON Is i candidate for a second and lMst term. WANTED Aged man to look sfter 6 acr lor nome ana salary, ina. YiZz Red. WANTED 2 young men with some exper ience in the magazine business. Road advancement to those qualifying. Call Thursday between 2 and 6. Oxford hoteL room Mr. Oisen. WANTED-An experienced grocery clerW with some meat cutting exuerieno: civ. references. Address 1. C-.ca.ra Journa 1. WANTED A man to run mlllc rmtt.. must be hustler and unafraid of nrii' references required. Phone ltoZ Ind. WANTED RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS fnr.wi jnonm. iso layons. Topeka ex aminations May 4th. Thousands of an- polntments coming. Common k1ii.-i.iu. sufficient. "Pull" unnecessary. Candi dates fiepaieu iree. f ranKUs Institute. Dep t IZfcM. Rochester. N. Y. WANTKI 500 men and boya dally to m z a. i bcowa ttirner v.oiieKe, in rase ma. cbave R- bir cut 10c. Id ths sbosw VA5'T.,;12rIaIry rn'"n- farrn hands, l-0 an and i)00 per month, board and room Employment Offlo- 8n Kansas ave MEN WANTED to learn the barber trade. An important announcement lust now We teach by free work and save years of apprenticeship. Tools given. Wages in finish department. No better work Jobs always waiting. Bee our offer Molw Barber College, Kansas fity mq er I MADE S0.0O0 m five years with a irm.n mall order business: began with tiJ for free booklet. Tell. b ul"1 H8 Lockport. N. Y. Heacock. MEN WANTED to know that the T-i, Doctors cure all the special dia?,, men, cheaply, surely and oulclTlv 5 floor, 610 Kansas ave. Quickly. 2n

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AHE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTRXTAIj FEBRUARY 21, 1912 11 Jeff Takes No Chances When Mutt Is jfround 0 ICopyright. 191. by National News Service.! By "Bud" Fisher ssTLi l- f jr t YOU WcfXM., SSjf? 1UP VT Ti BT' C i i a w.vu. L j irrffi J r 1 F,MO iwttwo I fl Sr i i I rzz r8-1 h? opeNiT j 2j&5t i W- v c t (ftR tTr g s Bvr 1 vY NWi VI-fO 4 I tIJ- J v 0 sf$j?....t.. 1 so you "iDmt That S Sill (Vhy. Or OP6N6O AS SJfJtJ UftS IT etqUIR.ii fAV ("ancv tmmw CMILO COULD HM6 oPSNCO f r,u I cou.TTN JV TV t&tw 'T' PSKfvv- X rr Ace mJ hs I fe5g" 1 Li WANTED Women cook for Arizona. Kmployment Office. 811 Kansas ave. WANTED Chambermaid, Fifth Avenue hotel. r WASTED-White girl for house work. ;no Kansas jivp. WANTED Competent white woman for working housekeeper. Phone 31ft7. WANTED A younpr lady for cashier at Mrs. C H. forrison's. iy'H Kansas ave. WANTED LADIES .to know taht the United Doctors cure the special diseases of women without surgery. Charges very reasonable, 2nd floor. 610 Kansas ave. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED To buy a good cow. W. O., Care State Journal. Address WANTED Three room furnished apart ment for two adults; must be modern or housekeeping rooms with private fam ily; reference given. J. i care Journal. WANTED A two or tiree horse power Jlarine engine, suitable for a motor boat. Address Guy Kiene, Valencia, Kan. WANTED To buy old house near ball park. Will pay cash for right building. Call F. P. Metager, German American bank. WANTED Thoroughbred Buff Orping ton cockerel. Address M-, care of Journal. WANTED Setting hens. Ind. 20S3 Rlni R. WE PAT tho Highest cash price for cast off clothing, shoes, hats and overcoats. Drop us a card or call Gordon Bros. loan office, 400 Kansas ave. Ind. 1079. GOOD milk cows, fat cattle and veal Calves. W. C. A. Lettzow. Ind. 1S7. WANTED FOraiTOEIE We pay highest cash price for second hand furniture. Exchange new goodB for old. W. H. Stalons Furniture Co., 413 Kansas Ava Ind. Phone 1724. FOR RENT-ROOMS. THREE modern furnished rooms, first floor. 100 East 12th. 1262 West. 6-room cottage, barn 1 5.0ft. 62S W. Sth, five room, modern, Steam heated, living rooms, ocucea ana store rooms. CYRUS GUTHERIE CO.. 116 E. Sth St. Ind. I7S. FOR RENT 7 room modern house, 1014 Tyler. Ind. 2788 Black. SEVEN ROOM house with 6 lots, 046 Fillmore st. Phone Ind. 871. FOR RENT Six roomed house, gas heat and light; electric lieht also; modern five roomed house. Bl Tyler. FOR RENT New modern, house, all the up-to-date wrinkles, 13 -blocks west of P. O., $25. SMITH AGENCY, 523 Kansas Ave. MODERN' house, 220 East 10th. Inquire 115 West 6th. FOR RENT 1 room cottage, 519 Fillmore. Inquire at 919 W. 6th. FOR RENT 1226 Clay, 5 rooms, gas, wa ter, $12.50; 1415 W. 6th, 5 room cottage, all modern, $25; 1195 Garfield, Elmhurst, new 7 rooms, strictly modern, $27.50; 8 rooms, barn, 6 lots, on car. Highland Park, $16 to $18. COTTRELL, 107 E. 7th. Ind. 556, 41D3. FOR RENT 1134 Harrison, 9 rooms, mod ern. Call .112 Huntoon. Phone 1974. FOR RENT. 1204 Clay, 4 rooms, gas, city water, $13. 179 Clay, 5 rooms, gas, well, $12. 1731 Clay, i rooms, gas, well, $10. All on car line and in good repair. Ind. 159. FOR RENT 1800 Buchanan St., seven rooms, modern and in fine condition, $22. Ind. 159. FOR RENT 4 rooms, hall and bath, 1006 West 6th street, or call E. J. Olander, 431 Kansas ave. Both phones 469. FOR RENT House of 7 rooms, bath, city water, well and cistern, gas, shade, front and back stairs. On The Drive, $15. Phone 2653-2. FOR RENT 213 Klein ave., seven rooms, bath, pantry and wash house. FOR RENT 6 room house, 323 Lake, gaa and city water. Phones 761. FOR RENT Modern furnished rooms, 113 East 9th. 2017 Red. NEWLY furnished modern rooms, Ind floor. 118 E. 7th. FOR RENT 1 modern furnished front room. 306 W. 8th st. Ind. 11792. FOR RENT 2 modern furnished front rooms. 3"6 Wr. 8th st. Ind. 11792. FOR RENT Two rooms, light house keeping, over Owl store, on 6th and To peka ave., $8. Gas and water. LIGHT housekeeping, 2 rooms, nicely fur nished, extremely pleasant and reason able. Call at 301 JV;12 th st. FOR RENT 3 unfurnished rooms, 307 W. 7th, modern. FOR RENT Rooms, $1.00 and $1.50 up. House new and modern, 308 E. 7th. 2 UNFURNISHED front rooms, 308 Kan sas ave. Gas. city water. Inquire 5:36 Kansas ave. FOR RENT Modern rooms, newly fur nished. Every convenience. Ind. phone 230 Black. 524 West 10th ave. J29 KANSAS AVE., 2 large front rooms, unfurnished. Ind. 16. FOR RENT-FLATS. FOR RENT 8 room modern apartment, Sth and Clay et. 6 ROOM flat, gas. city water, $13.50. 1227V4 Monroe. Inquire 931 Kansas ave. FOR RENT First floor Lenox flats, 4 rooms, modern. 1242 Topeka ave. Ind. S420 White- 30 ACRE Improved farm northwest of To peka. 136 Adams. WE MAVIS ALL the leading varieties of poultry listed with us from the best breeders. A great many birds now on hand at our store. Custom hatching. Eggs for hatching. Baby chicks for sale. Write, phone us or call at store before buying. KANSAS CO-OPERATIVE POULTRY SUPPLY CO. Both Phones 379. 1005 Kansas Ave. ASK ABOUT Incubators and Brooders. "Old Trusty" more than 100 eggs for less than $10. Topeka Warehouse Co., 127 N. Kansas ave. Both phones. FOR SALE HORSES, COWS. FOR SALE FRESH MILK COWS. E. J. Dickinson. Bell phone 3723 3 FOR SALE A mare, buggy and harness, or trade on cow. See about 5 o'clock. 315 Branner st. PAIR young sound Percheron mares, weightJ600.hone Bell 2620. FOR SALE Two heavy work horses, one three year old colt. Ind. phone 2647 Ring 1, Bell2447. FOR SALE Driving horse, buggy and h am ess. 208 Klein st. FCK SALE 1 milch cows, at 1719 Van Bin-en. FOR SALE 10 head of fresh dairy cows. F. B. Crocker, one miie south of city limits on Kansas ave. Bell phone 3S13 R. 3. Ind, phone 2780 R. L. SET heavy teamsters harness, one three inch wagon, one good work horse. 133 Wlnfield ave., Oakland. FOR SALE Twin 6-Ai horse power Excel sior motor cycle. Call 3116 Black or 1810 West 6th St. FOR SALE 5 passenger auto, good tires, top and curtains. Price $400, at Kansas ga ra ge. 526 Quincy. FOR SALE Rubber tire cut under run about. Call W. A. Eaton, Ind. phone 2501 Rin a 1. UNREDEEMED Elgin and Waltham watches $3 to $10, worth $10 to $30. Cen tral LoanOffici,;1 Jvansasave. Private or Business 100 sheets with en- STATOKEKY LetsT finish, with printed matter desired, all for $1.00. Up-to-date printing of all kinds at lowest prices. Queen Printing: Co., 1U E. Sth. Topeka. FOR SALE 4 H. P. gasoline engine, Kerrihardt trip hammer and other blacksmith tools. Harry lieist, Mayetta, Kan. FOR SALE Bedroom suite, $10, large gas heater $9, center table $1 and buffet. 1806 West 10th. I'OR SALE 3 National coal and wood steel ranges, all new. We have one 6 hole with reservoir, one without, one with cast iron base, heat register, reservoir and warming closet. If it's bargains you are looking for call and see these stoves. GRESSER GATLIN. 115 E. 5th St. Ind. 1175. FOR SALE Windows and doors belong. Ins to the four one story buildings just south of the State Journal. Please apply at once to Henry Bennett, 1173 Clay st. ELEGANT new furniture for sale reason able, 120 East 8th, over Novelty. JHYSICIAf DR. LYDIA S. HUMA. 1105 East 6th St. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Office, both phones 535. Res. 3047 Bell. T. B. ARMSTRONG, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office over Marshall's drug store, 135 K. A. OJ,jyiLLAgJB FOR SALE New and second-hand carom a&d pocket billiard tables and bowline alleys. We lead the world in cheap fix tures; ea$y payments. Send for catalogue. Brunswlck-Balks-Collender Co., 1323-iJ Main street, Kansas City, Mo. GLEAHERS AID DYERS. 0 JMSTSHCTLY SOPE1IIOIE DEY OXANmG PESESSIN INTRODUCTORY PRICES ALL OF THIS WEEK. Skirts and waists .50 Gent's suits 1.00 Ladies' jacket suits 1.25 We Clean Everything Cleanable. Dye Everything Dyeable. SHIFJEE20E CLIEAKSMS KANSAS AVE. AT TENTH. "RIGHT ON THE CORNER." Either Phone 1071. Call Us Up. FRAMING, regilding, mat maklns.mount lng done by J. D. Sullivan. 122 W. Eight tret. Packing, shipping-, eto. MACHINE SHOPS. GUNS repaired and cleaned by experts, li. B. Howard Supply Co., 710 Kan. ava. FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE. ACMES near the city, new improvements, good barn, lots of small fruit,. 2 wells, some al falfa, spring water year round, eight acres blue grass pasture, eight acres hog pas ture; very best of garden soil. Price $5,000. $2,000 mortgage. SEAWKEE ASENCY FOR SALE REAL ESTATE, HYE ACMES for $1,250, small payment down, balance long time; no improvement but fenced; in wild hay. You should see this. It's fine for chickens. .;...AWKE IEfC LEGAL.. First published in The Topeka State Journal Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1912 3 PHONES 505. 631 KANSAS AVE. WANT QHJECH SALE Lincoln, near 13th, 1V4 lots, nearly new handsomely finished modern house 6 rooms and reception hall, cemented cellar, furnace, gas electric light, big porches, barn, paved street, fine shade, car close. Sale bargain price less than $3,600. J E. TORRINGTON. 109 W. 6th St. Bell 1362. Ind. 228. HEX! 6 rooms, 1 lot. barn, bath, gas, city wa ter, paved street. Price $2,500. Easy terms. PHONES 505. 534 KANSAS AVE. 1MAME TWO NICE COTTAGES, TWO LOTS EACH, CEMENT WALKS, CELLAR, WELL, OUTBUILDINGS, CONVENIENT TO SCHOOL, CHURCH, CAR LINE AND SANTA FE SHOPS. PAYMENTS. LET US SHOW YOU. 1EISWAH(S!EE PHONE 948. Ill WEST 6TH ST. for choice five acre tract southwest of Topeka, new house, five rooms, barn, well, lays fine. Only $1,000 cash, balance long time. A fine place for poultry rais ing. SHAWNEE AGENCY PHONES 505. 53,4 KANSAS AVE. FOR SALE. MEW MOPIEEN HOUSE- All the up-to-date wrinkles, 13 blocks N. W. of P. O., $3,700. SMITH AGENCY, 523 Kansas Ave. COTTAGES COTTAGES For sale by owner, 50 foot east front, modern, five room. Hale Ritchie, 111S Madison. FOR SALE Modem houses, cottages, bungalows, east front lots. Hale Ritchie, owner, 1118 Madison st. Ind. phone 1718. FOR SALE 6 room modern house at MOD West 10th) St. Owner moving to Cali fornia and wants to sell by March 1st. Look at this house and call for price. BETZER REALTY LOAN CO., First Floor New England Building. HOUSE Seven rooms, sleeping porch, modern except furnace; splendid loca tion; paving paid. $2,750.00. Address X. X-. Journal. NOTICE To All Real Estate Agents: Please take my property off the market. Chas. Quant. FOR SALE New, well hullt, six room house, and two lots, on The Drive, $1,4). Small payment down, balance like rent. Tel. 26532 Ind. CHOICE: 10 and 20 acre tracts by owner. Ind. 21S0 Ritg L. PHONES 505. 634 KANSAS AVE. COTTEELL EEAL EST. CO. 107 E. 7TH. IND. 556, or 4193. $3,160 S rooms, all modern, 10 blocks west. $3,600 New 7 room, modern, east front, Elmhurst. $1,600 New 4 room cottage, 2 corner lots, barn. $1,5004 room cottage, 2 lots, barn. Lime street. $2,800 5 rooms, oak finish, bath, combina tion lights, sleeping porch, decorat ed, cemented basement, 30 ft., near Central Park. $1, 8906 room cottage. 2 lots, take $390 lots as first payment, balance $1,600 easy terms. EVERYTHING IN LOTS AND HOUSES. "IBACH TO TEE FAEM" This fine 6 acre tract, large 6 room cot tafje, large barn, chicken house, 1 acre fruit, 2 acres alfalfa, all fine soil, lays high and sightly, ideal country home, near the Country club. Price $5,000. Take a good residence In southwest part of city as part pay, balance easy. KAW VALLEY LAND CO. Bell 415. Ind. 357. West side, near car, room house, gas, water, sewer, east front. GARLING HOUBE REALTY CO., 608 Kansas ave. lOlJXCHGL FOR EUCIBIAMQE Good 6 room home near Bethany college, $3,000, clear. Want something further out. EATON BOWERS. Ind. 403, Bell 1620. 623 Kansas Ave. NICE 5 room cottage and cash for house on Madison or Monroe. 821 Monroe. WILL TRADE clear western Kansas land for first class home in Topeka. Must be close In. Will assume small in cumbrance. S.. care Journal. MERCHANTS' Transfer and Storage Co, furnish expert packers; also look after freight. Phones 186. Skinner A Gayhart. PATENTS. 3. A. ROSEN, patent attorney. 411 Kan sas ave.. Topeka. Kan. PERSONAL FREE DEMONSTRATIONS. In Your Home The OXYPATHOR has established its value by CURING THOUSANDS of the most HOPELESS and stubborn cases of disease. OXYGEN is the ONLY element that will VITALIZE the BLOOD. By in creased OXYGEN INFUSION, diseased tissue is DESTROYED, and REPLACED with new. The BLOOD is cleansed of all its impurities NUTRITION is promoted and weakness gives way to STRENGTH, ENERGY and BUOYANT HEALTH. OXYPATHY is the CROWNING GLORY of man's CONQUEST over DISEASE. KANSAS OXYPATHOR COMPANY, Topeka, Kansas. Both Phones, Ind. 462. Bell 340s. In the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. In the Matter of the Estate of Henry Art emus Willis, deceased. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. All creditors and all others interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby noti fied that on the 1st day of April, 1912, said day being the first Monday of s;id month and the first day of the April. ini2 term, I shall apply to the Probate Court sitting at the Court House in the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, fur a full and final settlement of said estnte and for an order of the Court finding and adjudging who are the heirs of Henry Artemus Willis, deceased. You are further notified that my claim for compensation as administrator and for attorney fees and other expenses necessarily incurred in the administration of said estate has been filed and, as or dered by the court, will be heard on the said first day of April. 1912. at 10 o'clock a. m. CYRUS GUTHRIE. Administrator. First published in The Topeka State Journal Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1912 In the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. In the Mutter of the Estate of Winney or Winnie Preble, Deceased. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. AH creditors and all others Interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby nntfied that on the 4th day of March. 1912. snld day being the first Monday of snid month and the first day of the March, 1912 term. I shall apply to the Probate Court sitting at the Court House in the City of Topeka. Shawnee County, Kansas, for a full and final settlement of said estate and for an order of the Court finding and adjudging who are the heirs of Winney or Winnie Preble, deceased. You are further notified that my claim for compensation as executor and for at torney fees and other expenses neces sarily incurred In the administration of said estate has been filed and, as ordered by the court, will be heard on the said 4th day of March. 1912, at 10 o'clock a, m, GLEN WOOD L. PREBLE, Executor. First published in The Topeka State Journal Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1912. In the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. In the Matter of the Estate of Walter S. Griffee, Deceased. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. All creditors and all' others interested In the aforesaid estate, are hereby notfied that on the 4th day of March. 1912, said day being the first Monday of said month and the first day of the March, 1912 term, I shall apply to the Probate Court sitting at the Court House in the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, for a full and final settlement of said estate and for an order of ten Court finding and adjudging who are the heirs of Walter S. Griffee, deceased. You are further notified that my claim for compensation as administrator and for attorney fees and other expenses neces sarily incurred in the administration of said estate has been filed and, as ordered by the court, will be heard on the said 4th day of March, 1912, at 10 o'clock a. m. HELEN G. ZIMMERMAN, Administrator. First published in The Topeka State Journal Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1912. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. In the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. In the matter of Mary A. Krelpe, a per son adjudged to be insane. State- of Kansas, County of Shawnee, ss. Creditors and all other persons Interest ed are hereby notified that the under signed was, on the 12th day of February. A 1912, duly appointed guardian of the. person and estate of Mary A. Krelpe, who was, on the 30th day of January, 1S12, in the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kanyas, ad.udged to be Insane; that I hava cxiahf'f-d as such guardian and am now n-anaglng the estate and affairs of the said Mary A. Krelpe. W. T. KRF.IPE, Guardian. Dated at Topeka, Kansas, this 11th day of February. A. P. 1912. First published in The Topeka State Journal vveanesaay, n eo. it, xi-.j State of Kansas, Shawnee County, ss. In the Matter of the Estate of John Imgrund. late of Shawnee county, Kansas. NOTICE OK APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby given that on the 12th day of February, A. D. 1912, the under signed was, by the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, duly appointed .dininistrator of the estate of John LEGAL. Imgrund, liite of Shawnee County, de ceased. All parties interested la said estate will take notice and govern them selves accordingly. JOSEPHINE IMGIU'N'P. Administrator. First published in The Topeka State Journal Monday, Feb. 19, 1912 Office of the City clerk. Topeka, Kansas, February 19 1M2 I'Ki l'OSAlS. Scab-d proposals will be received at Hie office of the city cho. Topeka. Kansas, for the grading, curbing and paving with brick, of various ptreeis. avenues and alleys in snid city; fai.J bids to be im fil in the office of the city clerk. Topeka, Kansas, by 2:00 o'clock p. ni., February 29, 1912. All of said work to be completed by No vember IS. 1912. A certified check of Seven Thousand Dollars ($7,000.00) must accompany each proposal. The Hoard of Commissioners reserve the ripht to reject any or all bids, or parts of bids. ISeal-J C B. BI'RGE. City 'lirk. First published in The T..peka State Journal Monday, Feb. 19, 19i2. Office of the City Clerk. Topeka, Kansas. February 19, J912. I'i'.OPOSAUS. Sealed proposals will be received st ths office of the city clerk, Topeka, Kaunas, for the grading, curbing and paving with brick, of West Curtis street from Kansas Avenue to the C. R. I. A p. right-of-way; said bids to be on file in the office of th city clerk. Topeka, Ksnsas, by 2:00 o'elocK p. m., February 29, 1912. All of said work to be completed by No vember 15, 1912. A certified check of Five Hundred Dol lars ($5X.00; must accompany each pro posal. The Board of Commissioners reserve, the right to reject any or all bids, or parts of bids. Seal. c. B. Brnir, City clerk. FLORISTS. HATES' GROWS THEIR OVN flowers. Funeral designs a specialty. 107 W. It. MONEY to loan on live stock, pianos. funs, typewriters, household ioods 2 DjQonaiii!l 5 AND 6 PER CENT MONKV to 1oa 5 farms and inside Topeka proper?" favorable terms and in any amount gluv to $100,000. Prompt service L0S Advanced on buildings under coni,.?",y BETZER UEALTV LAJAS ru a tstFi"r' New England hm. MONEY TO LOAN on personal troD.. and collateral security, on as g!h. Fltntham. E. 4tbst PROMPT Realty Loans. Ella N P.. vjzmr.i Nat i Bk. ims. y- MONEY TO LOAN on pianos and housZ hold goods. Newest methods, lowest rates. American Loan company. Room tot Mulvsne Bldg. Both phon US. $3,000 TO LOAN on -ood real estate, se curity at t per cent plus small commis sion. Squire A Bishop. 107 West 7th. MONEY TO LOAN on watches, diamond. clothing snd musical Instruments. Cen tral losn office, 526 Kansas av. UNDERTAKING. M. PEN WELL, funeral dlrsotor sd1 embalmer. First class service. $0t-.$ Quincy et. Both puonaa. Both Phones 287 Day and NlXBt. HtWLST PTE ELK. Funeral directors snd embalmors, 11$ Eas ltt ava. Mrs. Robt. Steele, assistant. ART. TOPEKA SCHOOL OF' ART. Max Hag -dorn, director, 114 West Sth. Ind. 1 Blue. Drawing, painting, denlgnlng, china painting; firing of china. Day and night classes.

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