The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 2, 1912

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J i. f 1 EVERYBODY 20 PAGES EVERYBODY 20 PAGES NEEDS IT. READ IT. LAST EDITION. SATURDAY EVENING. TOPE K A, KANSAS. MARCH 2, 1912 SATURDAY EVENING. FIVE CENTS. NOT FO CANT COME BACK DOCKS ARE TIED UP r him I J 1 The Press With Remarkable Unanimity Treats Colonel Roosevelt's Candidacy as Grave Error. FROM ANY STANDPOINT Whether Personal, Political or Party. Many Comments Are Severe, Some Too Much So. The following are editorial com ments taken from various Influential papers to show the reception given Colonel Roosevelt's announcement this week that he would run for a third term, notwithstanding his previous an nouncements which have been Inter preted to mean the contrary, and in opposition to the man, his friend, who has carried out the policies written in the platform at the convention domi nated by Roosevelt himself. The State Journal prints these that they may be read in sorrow, not in anger, and omits some comment that is so adverse as to be ugly: Can Koosevelt Win? (E. E. Kelley in Toronto Republican.) This article is not a knock on Mr. Roosevelt. It is merely a discussion of th probability of Mr. Roosevelt being able to land the nomination. A cat may look at a king and a plug country editor who takes roasting ears on subscription and prints a card thanks for the mess of spare-ribs brought in by a charitable subscriber may have an opinion about the candi dacy of Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt said, on November 8, 1904: i "On the 4th of March next I shall have served three and a half years, and this three and a half years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits tine president to two terms regards the substance and not the form. And under no circumstances will I be a can didate for or accept another nomination."' But on Monday, February 26, 1912, Mr. Roosevelt said: "I will accept the nomination for presi dent if it Is tendered to me." As is well known, Mr. Taft was the choice of Mr. Roosevelt for president tour years ago. His personal influence and political influence was given to nominating and electing Mr. Taft. After Mr. Taft became president a coolness was reported between them. Its cause no one knew. Monday's Kansas City Star, a radical Roosevelt paper, explains the break In this friendship. Mr. Roosevelt asked Mr. Taft to give his friend, Mr. Loeb, a place in the cabinet. Mr. Taft refused the request. In other words, Mr. Roosevelt was against Mr. Taft from the day Mr. Taft declined to allow Mr. Roosevelt to dictate his aDDOlntments. (Continued from Page Four.) WOROf SUNDAY City Will Place 200 Men Street Crossings. on All Snow Will Be Removed From Streets. Starting early in the morning the city will work between 2 00 and 300 men on the streets of Topeka shovel ing snow from the crossings, cleaning and clearing the gutters and opening the streets for Monday traffic. All day Sunday these men will be kept busv under the personal supervision of City Commissioner Tandy and his street commissioner and foremen. By night Mr. Tandy will try to have ev ery crossing cleared. Commissioner Tandy doesn't know what the state labor commissioner will have to say about the city work ing men on Sunday. Furthermore. Mr. Tandy doesn't care. He says the streets must be cleaned even if it is necessary to give the excuse that the people should have open crossings that they might get to church on time. The men will be paid the regular city scale of two dollars a day. Com missioner Tandy says this isn't a char ity affair. Good able bodied men worth the money will be hired. The two dollar scale is about the highest rmid in the city for unskilled labor. The cleaning of the streets will give work to manv idle men in the city. Mr Tandy asks that they report for duty in the morning at the city yard, corner Crane and Jackson streets. Here they will be assigned to their work. All day they will throw snow from the crossings. The Topeka streets are in bad condition following the snow storm of last Sunday. All week the street force has attempted to open the crossings but the snow piled hljrh on either side has been thrown onto the paving bv teamsters and motor cars. The city officials feel that a good clean ing tomorrow will keep the streets open for the week. The city ordinances requiring all prop erty owners and occupants of houses to olean their sidewalks will be enforced to the letter beginning the first of next week. There are hundreds of idle men in the city ready to do the work. TODAY INCONGRESS. Bristow Scheduled for Second Install ment of Stephenson Speech Washington, March 2. .nmeW consideration of -House re agricultural onnrnnriation bill. Rules committee hears witnesses to determine whether congress shall investigate strike con ditions at Lawrence, Mass. senate met at 2 p. m. Senator Bris tow was expected to conclude his sneech on the Stephenson election case Interstate commerce committee resumed hearing on uniform bill of lading legislation. Wentlwr lndlcatlon. Chicago, March 2. Forecast: Kansas: Snow -or rain tonight and Sunday; slowly rising temperature. That Is Opinion Concerning Colonel Roosevelt. Topeka, Men Say He Has Had His Day. OPPOSE THIRD TERM IDEA Believe He Should Be Satisfied With His Service. One Man Compares Him James J. Jeffries. to Everyone is talking about the Rooae velt candidacy for president and specu lating on his chances against Taft, who is a candidate for renomination. In fact, the rivalry of these former friends for the highest place in the gift of the people is the absorbing topic of conver sation among politicians and is dis cussed not a little among men in every walk of life. Can Roosevelt come back? That is the question. Yet the Taft men are a3 active and aggressive as though they had already cast the otate's vote for Taft. They claim that Roosevelt is not so strong as he was before he made his announce ment that he was in the race and added the inference that he would be an ac tive rather than receptive candidate. They claim further that the colonel's strength lies west of the Mississippi river and that he has not a ghost of a Continued on Pase Two.) ORDEREDTO PEKIN Strong Detachment of U. S. Troops to Leave Tien Tsin And Proceed at Once to the Chinese Capital. London, March 2. A strong de tachment of United States troops has been ordered to proceed to Peking from Tien Tsin immediately accord ing to a despatch received here from that city today. Set lire to Palace. Peking, March 2. A serious re crudescence of disorder bccurred to day when a detachment of artillery headed by a band marched to the pal ace of Duke Kuei-Ksian, father of the empres dowager, and shelled down the gate. They looted much 'prop erty and burned a portion of the pal ace. Although parties of soldiers belong ing to the army commanded by Chang Huai Chih last night were engaged themselves in looting, today they fought the looters in the outskirts of the city. Prisoners they took were summarily decapitated and headless bodies are lying in the streets. In the distant part of the west city con siderate trouble occurred. Whole streets of shops were looted and many houses were set on fire. The civilian population has armed and fortified private premises, while barricades were erected in the streets. The mutineers who left Pe king for Pao Ting Fu yesterday and whom Yuan Shi Kai ordered to be ar rested or killed have been joined by many of the soldiers there. They have looted a great part of Rao Ting Fu and burned large areas. Feng Tai, 22 miles from Peking, on tne railroad to Hen Tsin was looted by another gang of mutineers. British troops guarding the railroad there protected the women and children. but the mutineers burned the railway station and held up a train, robbing many of the Chinese passengers. Yung Ping Fu where the American troops are guarding the railroad to Chin Wang Tao, also was looted. The foreign ministers have decided to bring into Peking all the available foreign troops stationed in adjacent ports in China. A force of 1,000 troops of various nationalities will ar rive here tomorrow. BRYAN ATTACKS T. R. Says He Is Opposed to Third Term, .Constructive or Otherwise. Tacoma, Wash., March 2. In an ad dress at the Tacoma theater, packed to capacity, William Jennings Bryan attacked Colonel Roosevelt, declared his opposition to a third term, consec utive or otherwise, recommended Sen ator LaFollette to his Republican hear ers, if it was a "progressive" they de sired, and declared the Taft admin istration unparalleled for "great re forms in which the president had nc part." The Nebraskan contended Roose velt's statement that he would not at tack the Taft administration could not be harmonized with the announcement of his candidacy. "He cannot excuse his candidacy," the speaker said, "except on the theory that Mr. Taft's administration has been a failure." HE FAVORS KIMMEL. "Disasters in Life" Might Change Ap pearance, Court Says. St. Louis, March 2. The KJmmel mys tery and insurance case went to the Jury shortly before noon today after United States District Judge Charles F. Amidon had delivered his verbal instructions. Judge Amidon talked for more than an hour and one of the most important and vital of his instructions was "That cer tain disasters in life" might so change a persons that his friends of earlier days would not recognize him. This was a reference to the testimony hat if the claimant, Andrew J. White, i3 George A. Kimmel, he has undergone re markable physical changes since his dis appearance in 1893. Tfce burden of proof, according to Judge Amidon, rested on the plaintiff, the re ceiver of a defunct bank of Niles. Mich., who had to prove that Kimmel is dead. The defendant did not have to prove that Kimmel is alive. A PICTORIAL SERMONETTE On the Imaginative Man Who Work Himself into a Passion Because He Thinks Some One May Intuit Him. By John T. McCutcheon. 'I wonder if he will remember me will pretend to forget the old jtorrnte-gxw) "Well, if he tries the haughty act with me there'll be trouble, be an outrageous way to treat an old friend." ROOM 'And I'm too proud to stand for it good as he is, even if he is rich. that way?" As a matter of fact Mr. Scadsworth WILL 11 PASS? Democrat Income Tax Bill Sub ject of Much Discussion. It Will Find a Bocky Road Through Senate. Washington, March 2. House and Benate leaders of all shades of polit ical belief gave themselves over today to a discussion of the sensational ac tion of the house Democratic caucus last night in indorsing what is in effect an income tax on all net incomes, in cluding salaries, above $6,000 a year. That the house will pass the measure by a party vote within the next ten days or two weeks was taken for granted. Discussion turned largely on the reception the bill wculd get in the senate. Its fate there seems doubtful. The plans of the house leaders had not been wholly disclosed today, but it was apparent that the bill to ex tend the excise tax law now relating to corporations so as to include co partnership and individuals was to be urged upon the house ahead of the bill to put sugar on the free list. The lat ter bill, will of course, share in the debate on the so-called income tax. for it was to make up a deficit of more than $50,000,000 to be lost in customs revenue on sugar that the new taxing measure was devised. The Dem ocratic leaders want to be sure the deficit will be provided for before the duty is removed. Republicans Surprised. The new plan of the Democrats took their Republican colleagues en tirely by surprise. Many of them had not recovered sufficiently to be willing to talk for publication. Everybody agreed that the debates in the house and senate on so radical, a change in the method of raising government revenues would be the stormiest of recent years. The constitutionality of the new plan, it was said, would be at tacked by some representatives and senators although the Democratic leaders in the house claim the meas ure had been so drawn as to comply with the supreme court decision up holding the corporation tax law. That decision, it was pointed out held that the corporation tax was not a tax on a franchise, but on the priv ilege of doing business. The new hill holds that working for a salary Is ius as much a manner of doing busi-; ness as investing money in an enter- prise. In the senate it is said that in all nrobabilitv party aliemment will be broken, although partv leaders make no such concessions publicly. Sena- J ICopyrtiht: 1912: By Jobs T. McCutcheon. after all these years. Maybe his prosperity has changed him so that he school days." I won't allow a minute. I'll mop up the floor with Confound him, I'll leave this beastly was delighted to see his old (riend. tor Smoot of Utah, a member of the senate finance committee which will deal with the bill declared there was no possibility of the measure's passing the senate. Smoot Calls It Unconstitutional. "I do not believe," he said, "that any Republican senator regular or in surgent, or that many Democrats will stand for this measure that would de stroy a great industry! The income tax proposition is absolutely uncon stitutional. To call it an excise tax instead of an income tax that has al ready been declared unconstitutional is simply quibbling on words. It is an income tax pure and simple." Senator Kern, of Indiana, who was Democrat candidate for vice presi dent in the last campaign said the measure was a good one. "I am and always have been in fa vor of an income tax," he said. "I also am in favor of free sugar." "The measure is eminently wise and ought to pass," said Senator Martin of Virginia, Democratic leader in the senate. "There is no doubt in my mind as to its constitutionality." Senator Poindexter of Washington, progressive Republican said: "I am very much in favor of an, income tax. I have been favoring it for years." Senator McCumber (N. T.) a mem ber of the senate finance committee expressed doubt of any change. Senator McCflmber expressed doubt if any change in the tariff on sugar would make any difference to the consumer. He said the Income tax proposition was lost in the supreme court of the United States by "very much of a divided court," and that the constitutionality of an Income tax was a different matter to determine. "Personally," he added, "I am inclin ed to think that congress has the power to levy such a tax." Senator Bacon of Georgia who did not attmpt to speak for his party as he had no opportunity to talk with any senators regarding the bill predicted if the bill passed the house it would find "sufficient support in the senate." HE LOVED WHITE GIRL So Negro Shot Hep Himself. and Killed Portland, Ore., March 2. Infatu ated with a white woman, with whom he had no acquaintance and to whom he had never spoken, Stewart Cole man, colored, today shot and serious ly injured Mrs. Nettie Whetstone, said to be the daughter of N. M. Dulley, former treasurer of Cook county, Oregon, as she was entering a store in this city. Believing tint he had killed the woman, Coleman shot himself to death. Coleman's motive was explained in a letter found on his body. TITANfC any man to insult me. It would him! I'll show him that I'm as hole rather than be humiliated

GAFFORDJN SUIT State Accountant Asked for $67,000 Damages to Child. Baby Falls Down Stairs, Per manently Injuring Himself. Leavenworth, Kan., March 2. J. C. Gafford, state accountant, and one of the wealthiest men in Kansas, is the defendant in a suit filed here for $67,000 damages. The suit grows out of In juries received by the son of W. G. Duncan, tenant in one of the Gafford apartment houses, here, known as the Planter's Flats. There are two suits, o brought in the name of the son, who is an infant, and another in Dun can's own name. Gafford was in Leavenworth where he and his agent were served with notice of the suit. Child Falls Twenty Feet. Duncan's child, 16 months old, fell from a window near a stair landing to the cement floor 20 feet below. The skull was crushed, the brains of the child oozing out upon the cement floor before its terrified parents could reach it. For a time its life was despaired o but physicians prevented death. Now they say the child will be paral yzed on the right side throughout its life. Negligence in not providing some manner of safety which would make such a fall impossible is charged in the is declared the owner and agent of the flats knew of the condition of the stair landing and window. The amount of damages asked includes physicians' bills, remuneration for the loss of the child's services, money with which to provide for the child in his life time, and punitive damages. STORM IS GENERAL. It Extends Over All the Valley States. Missouri Kansas City, March 2. A heavy snow storm prevailed oyer Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Da kota and South Dakota today. The storm struck here before daylight and at 10 a. m. the snow was more than three Inches deep. In Nebraska and northern Kansas the fall of snow was twice as heavy. In Oklahoma and northern Texas heavy rains fell. The local forecaster predicted that the snow storm would continue in the southwest throughout the day. ?fo Vessels Arriving at Ports of Great Britain. Crowds of Dockers and Work men Stand About Idle. ONLY TWO MINES WORKING The Tin Plate Plants Are Clos ing Down Rapidly. Soon 40,000 3Iore Men Will Be Out of Employment. London, March 2. The great ports of the United Kingdom particularly those situated in Wales from which coal is shipped to every part of the world and the centers of the iron and steel industries have naturally been the first to feel the effect of the strike of more than one million coal miners in England, Scotland and Wales. Many iron works in various districts were closed today and at Swansea and elsewhere the docks practically have come to a stand still. No vessels are arriving and the dockers and workmen employed in the local industries have been thrown out of work. Great crowds of these men gathered in the strets discussing the dispute. Thus far there have been no dis turbances anywhere. In south Wales however, the mine owners are preparing for emergencies. They have had walls built around the mines and have laid in great stores of provisions in anticipation of a long siege. The railroad and street car service in many cities was runn er curtailed today. Only two small nonunion mines in the entire country are still at work. One of these is in North Wales and the other near Berwick on the Scot tish border. The tin plate works of Wales are closing down rapidly owing to lack of coal. Six hundred mills will be idle within a few days and forty thousand men will be thrown out of employ ment. John Williams, labor member of par liament for the Gower district of Glamorganshire, South Wales, and general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of South Wales Colliery Work ers, told the Welsh miners at a meet ing today that he expected a settle ment of the strike by Thursday next on lines satisfactory- to both the men and the employers. The prices of food are rising rapidly everywhere. HIS HOME BURNED A Fort Worth Pastor Is Indict ed for Perjury. He Is Also Charged With Writ ing Letters to Himself. Fort Worth, Texas, March 2. A few hours after Rev. Frank J. Norris, pastor of the First Baptist church had been indicted on a charge of perjury his home burned down last night. It came as a mysterious sequel to an equally mysterious chain of events in which the saloon fighting minister has figured. The most startling develop ment came last night when, accused of perjury, Norris was charged with hav ing written letters to himself in which he was threatened with death if he did not leave town. Norris first -attracted attention here by campaigns for enforcement of pro hibition laws. Then Norris declared in attempt had been made to assassinate him. This was followed by the destruc tion of the First Baptist church by fire. Norris reported a second attempt had been made on his life after this and he traveled with a body guard. Then he exhibited the warning letters which last night the grand jury declared Nor ris wrote himself. Norris' charges at tracted a great deal of attention to hia church work. SHOOTING IS RESUMED Yuan Shi Kai Seems to Have Lost Control in Pekin. Pekin, March 2. At half past seven last night desultory shooting again be gan in the city. It is believed Yuan Shi Kai has lost control. None of the troops expect the Manchus are to be depended on and they evidently care only to defend the imperial and for bidden cities. The smoldering fires in many dis tricts of the city are tonight being raked over by throngs of the poor. No fresh fires have occurred, but there have been some in remote quar ters of the city. Detachments of the old style turbaned troops have been brought here and it is reliably re ported that Yuan Shi Kai is bringing back also the Manchu troops who were ousted recently because it was believed they were a dangerous ele ment. Yuan Shi Kai, it is alleged, has been endeavoring to retain the sup port of the soldiers here by permitting his body guard to do as they pleased, but only a small body of men now remain loyal to him. The delegates from Nanking escaped yesterday from the burning residences where they were guests of the city. They are now staying at a hotel in the legation quarter. The streets have been thronged all day but all shops are closed. Long lines of carts continue to bring val uables into the legation quarter. Space being limited in the legation quarters, only a few of the better class Chinese are permitted to take refuge there. Many Christians, however, are being harbored in the missionary com pounds. The tains departing for Tien pounds. The trains departing for Tien The number of killed during last night's disturbance probably is un der 100. The obiect of the rioters evi dently was loot and not slaughter, I and the continued firing apparently! was designed to intimidate the people. I HEAVY SNOW HERE Another Big Storm Is Raging Again Throughout Kansas. Railroads Put Snowplows Into Service. STREET CARS IN TROUBLE Men Work Like Beavers to Clear Tracks. Little Suffering as Temperature Is "ot Low. Topeka and all Kansas is exper iencing a blinding snow storm, ag gravated by a damp east wind, that is blowing at the rate of 20 miles an hour. The precipitation began at an extremely early hour this morning and by 8 o'clock the street railway company was having difficulty in maintaining schedules on the various lines, although the sweepers and oth er devices for keeping the tracks clear were put into service. At 2 o'clock this atternoon all traf fic was impossible except on the West eixth. Went Eighth street, Santa Fa and the Highland Park lines, and the indications were that the latter wouid be- in such a condition before night that the cars would not be able to make headway. ThU is the heaviest snowfall in hours that has been recorded in the month of March in the past quarter 3t a century. The depth of snow at 2 o'clock was 7.7 inches, the melted snow measuring .77 hundredths of an inch. There has teen only one year when in the entire month of March there wa more snow than this, and that was in March, 1906, when the total depth f-.r the month was 10.8 Inches. There was 6.6 inches of snow left on the ground from the previous snow, so at 2 o'clock there was a total depth of the soft substance of 14.3 inches. Only three occasions lias there been a greater depth of snow on the ground in Topeka at one time. The last day of February, 1900, there was a depth of 18.6 inches. According- to the local weather man there may be slight let ups In the storm, but there will nrobahlv be nr. cipitation off and on all nisrht end throughout Sunday. Then late Sun, in v the mercury will probably take a sud den drop. The worst is yet to come." said Sunny" Flora, the local government weather observer, and almost in th. next breath he remarked: "The storm is maKing money ror the people of Kansas. Conditions able for crops. The ground la being put in fine shaDe for nlnua-hlri ami the temperature has been held down lately by the storms keeping the buds from maturing prematurelv. Let ber fall!" This is the snow storm that was predicted at Washington last Sunriav and it has come almost on schedule time. The center of the storm area will not be here until tomorrow morn ing, and in the meantime may be ex pected a heavy precination of annw and rain. The forecast reads: "Snow or rain tonight and Sunday; slowly rising temperatures." The temperature at 7. 8 and 9 o'clock this morning was 22 degrees. out according to the weatherman, hv night the mercury will probably be close to the freezine noint. and that is the dividing line between snow and rain. If the storm ends up in rain a lot of the snow will probably be taken off. In any case Topekans can prepare themselves for wad in r through slush. domes From the South. The storm began In Texas Friday with a precipitation or rain, and there was also n outbreak in the Dakotas where the moisture came down in thi form of snow. Out In Los Angeles in the. past 24 hours more than an inch of rain has fallen. Today the storm area stretches from Texas to Canai'ft and from Missouri to the Pacific coadl. All Kansas is enveloped in a clean white coating of the flaky stuff. By 10 o'clock this morning thrcs inches of snow had fallen, and th.. crews on the street cars were having a difficult time to make progress. The cars had to back up frequently to get sufficient impetus to carrying them over the snow laden rails. In many places they were stopped entirely. It seems to be the general opinion in Topeka that records have been bro ken in respect to the amount of snow fall, and also frigid temperatures, but this is not the case. Four other win ters have had more snow, and five have been colder in the past quarter of century. The winters that were colder were those of '87-'88, '92-'93, '98-'99. 19VJ '05, and '09-'10. All records for precipation for March 2. however, have been broken. The pre vious record was .07 of an inch on March 2, 190fi. While the gas pressure Is not whs it should be, no great amount of suf fering is expected due to the storm The temperature is not low, and there is not the amount of shivering that there was In the cold snap in January, by any means. Scores of men who were out of work have been able to find work today. The Provident association has had a great many calls for men to shovel off snow from walks. The storm, according to the govern ment forecaster, will end up with a de cided drop in the temperature which is due late Sunday. The shippers' forecast reads: "Pro tect 36 hour shipments north and west against temperature of 5 by Sunday night; south, 15 degrees; east 20." Railroads in Trouble. With the tracks hardly cleared of the recent snow storm that tied up their traffic for Ihreq and four days, the railroads in Kansas once more are ordering out their rotary and wedge plows and are preparing ror the worst. All over Kansas, Nebraska. Colo rado, northwestern Oklahoma. Texas and In northeast New Mexico the snow has fallen to a depth of from five to eight inches at 10 o'clock this morning. Only through heavy traffic have the railroads been able to keep their lines open. At noon today thi (Continued on Pag Two.) i I

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUTRNAIi MARCH ,2, 1912 TO ENDSOUP LINE Ilnndreds of Hungry Persons Fed by Police Matron. Even Groceryinen Helped As sist Destitute Families. MEALS ARE SERVED IN JAIL Matron Gives Up Private Of fice to Help Needy. Mayor Billard's Plan Brings Help to Unfortunates. The municipal soup line, conducted under the direction of Mayor J. B. Bil lard and Mrs. Delia Sare, has cost $179.77 and an additional sum of $72.13 has been used in buying groceries and a few articles of clothing which have laeen necessary to relieve the suffering of the destitute people, of the city. In addition to this amount the various bakeries, grocery stores, commission houses, clothing stores and dry goods houses have made donations of articles of food or wearing apparel 'hich has been distributed. Mrs. Delia Sare, the police matron, has had charge of this work in addi tion to her regularly assigned duties as police matron, and with the assistance ot Mayor J. B. Billard and the mem bers of the police force, she has been as successful in relieving the suffering of the destitute of Topeka during the past two months as has any person or charitable organization in the city. Mayor J. B. Billard was the first person to mention the establishment of the soup line. Mrs. Sare, realizing the good that could be accomplished and the amount of suffering it would relieve or prevent, offered to take charge of and conduct the charitable venture. This met with the approval of the mayor and he agreed to pay the ex penses of conducting the soup line for the first week. With this offer from the mayor, the people of the city came to the relief of the needy and made donations which made it possible to continue the soup line for seven weeks and five days. The business men and private citizens have donated liberally. A number of large donations have been received from people who live outside the city, and with these it has been possible to maintain the soup line since January 9. Soup Line Boon to Many. Mayor Billard gave Mrs. Sare, the police matron, J 40 to pay the ex penses of the soup line for the first week. The experiences of the mayor and Mrs. Sare have been unusual dur ing the time that the soup line has been maintained. Cases of destitu tion were revealed which probably would not have become known under any other condition. The soup line from its' beginning has been a haven of relief for the un employed of Topeka. Men and wo men, unable to find employment have found food there. The drouth through out this section of the country last summer reduced the amount of work In practically every industry In the eection, thus increasing the number of unemployed to such, numbers that the country has been flooded with them. Topeka is not the only city that has been required to feed an army of unemployed. A soup line was maintained In Kansas City and other cities in the surrounding states. Grocers Gave Good Measure. The money which was used in buy- i ing groceries to send to destitute fam ilies was distributed Judiciously. A bill of groceries which was made up according to the size of the families, was purchased and in practically ev ery instance, the dealers, upon being informed the nature of the mission, filled the basket at practically cost price or at least at a great reduction from the regular retail price. These reductions have made It possible for Mrs. Sare to offer relief to a greater i number of families and more relief than would have been possible oth erwise. In addition to these reduc tions, she has been able to purchase material for making soup at prices less than the regular retail price. The advance notices, that the soup line would be started at the police station under the direction of Mayor J. B. Billard and Mrs. Sare, the police matron, brought out a large crowd the first day that soup was served. This was on January 9, and the crowds have continued ever since. Of course these crowds have been reduced rap idly until the number of applicants for soup has maintained a daily average of about twenty-five or thirty during the last two weeks. Days when bad weather prevailed probably caused a greater number to take advantage of the offerings than did so during nor mal weather conditions. Fed 100 First Iay. More than 100 persons took advan tage of the offerings of the soup line the first day and the crowd showed a gradual increase for more than ten clays. Then the crowd began to show a decline and this has continued. The soup will be discontinued after today unless the present storm causes its continuance. The soup line was not maintained solely for destitute people. Mrs. Sare established a table in her private room for the accommodation of persons throughout the city who were able to pay for the service. No exact price was set or charge made but those who took advantage of the offerings of this table were permitted to drop a coin in a pot, which was found in the cen ter of the table, as pay for the service Such persons were allowed to drop a large or small coin in this pot and through this medium the sum of $38.24 was collected. County Officials Help Out. This table has been popular. City and county officials and a number of state officials' took advantage of the oc casion by eating at this table and do nating to the pot as they desired. The amount collected indicates that many contributed liberally. A large number of persons able to pay the rates charged at the restau rants took advantage of this Special table and contributed according ,yo their means. Mrs. Sare has been' on duty con stantly since the soup line was started. Soup was served every day in the week including Sunday and from noon until 7 o'clock in the evening. By adopting this system it was possible for the destitute to satisfy their hun ger at least two times each day. None were limited to one bowl of soup, either, as eve-y applicant was served as often as he desired. Some of them have been known to eat as many as three bowls of soup with bread and crackersi and on rare 'occasions some were served the fourth time. A total of $256.90 has been correct- ed for the soup line. This-Includes the donation of Mayor Billard, the police department, the citizens of To peka and the amount that was col i lected in the soup pot in the private quarters of the matron. The expense of maintaining the soup line, sending: groceries to destitute lamuies and tne purchase of clothing which wes neces sary on a few rare occasions cost a l total or increoy icavins a ance of $5 in the possession of the po lice matron, airs. Sare will use this money in charitable work of some character. Of!. if CLARY TO SPEAK Irish Orator Will Discuss "Man With the Hoe" Sunday. win "speak Sunday 'afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Novelty theater under the auspices of the Men and Religion movement. His subject will be "The Man With the Hoe." 1 i i Dr. Thomas McClary, Who Will Speak at the Novelty Sunday Afternoon. With a personality strangely min gled with the logic of a philosopher, the humor of a comedian, and the art of an actor, yet the simpleness of a countryman, Dr McClary carries his hearers from the sublime to the pathetic. D. H.-Brannamen will preside over the meeting, and Kjlon S. ,Clark will have charge of the music. FredW. Bowman will give a saxaphone solo. There will be an orchestra under the leadership of Dr. C. F. Menninger Prof. D. H. Seymour will preside at the piano. HEAVY SNOW HERE. Continued from Paire l- trains were running only slightly be hind scjhedule and no blockades were reported. The weather man says the storm will, continue: all day and part of tomorrow.' The 'railroads are get ting ready, for It. Throughout Kansas the railroads are running their trains through mam moth canyons of snow banks. The snow today has slid from, the top of these huge banks and dropped on the tracks without hindrance. It is light and with a wind .behind.it is drifting, filling the cuts. Officials of the Santa' Fe and Rock Island in Topeka today report snow all over their -central western districts. The hourly readings: 7 o'clock 221 o'clock 21 8 o'clock 22 9 o'clock 22 10 o'clock 22 12 o'clock 21 1 o'clock 20 2 o'clock 19 MSSOCRI PACIFIC BLOCKED. Snow Stops Trains West of Hoislngton Fear Tie Up. Council Grove, Kan., March 2. After receiving mail two days this week this town is again shut off except by wire. The rural mail carriers haven't been over their routes since last Saturday. Two days this week they got part of the way but immense drifts compelled them to turn back. At 1 o'clock this morning snow began falling here and at daylight the fall measured 6 inches on the level. The snow is not accompanied by as hard wind as blew here last Sunday but the moisture is lighter and the little wind there is drifts it fully as badly as was the case with last Sunday's storm. All Missouri Pacific trains west of Hoislngton were reported blocked by snow at 8 o'clock this morniag. Stub trains were started east from that point but the train dispatcher warned the op rators that these trains would likely be unable to complete the trip. The Katy's north and south line has been open most of the time, but ft is feared this snow will block this line and the city will be .entirely -cut oft" ex cept by wire. If the wind increases this means of Communication may fall, although the wire companies are hope ful as the snow is not as wet as that of last week. On only two days have the Missouri Pacific trains brought mail here this week. The storm at noon showed no signs of abating. Weekly Bank Statement. New Tork, March 2. The statement of clearing house banks for the week shows that the banks hold $25,146,200 reserve in excess of legal requirements. This is a decrease of $4,227,150 In the proportionate cash reserve as compared with last week. The statement follows: Daily average: Decrease. Loans $2,025,225,000 139,000 Specie 370,543,030 6,550,000 Legal tender 86,100,000 221,0O Net deposits 1,892,220,000 5,833,000 Circulation 51,143,000 isanKS casn reserve in vault 1393.898 flllO sss'oon Trust companies cash reserve in vault 62.745.000 Aggregate cash reserve 456.643,w Excess lavT reserve 25,146,200 i,227j0! Trust companies reserve with clearing house members carrying 25 per cent cash reserve, $60,495,000. Actual condition lxans $2,831,740,000 $io,oio,000 Specie 371, 207,000 2,318,000 Legal tender 84,776,000 1,807,000 Net deposits 1,898,620,000 5,732,000 Circulation 61,511,000 357,000 Banks cash reserve In vaults $393,942,000 Trust companies cash reserve in vaults 62,041,000 Aggregate cash reserve.: 455.983 00O Excess lawful reserve 22.810,000 6,388.900 TrUSt Cnmnaniflfi PftRBrVA nHth .-4 house members carrying 25 per cent cash raMx& reserve, bi,i,w)o. Summary of state banks and trust com' panies in Greater New York not report ing to tne .ew ior clearing house Loans ...$W1.416,200 $5,348,500 Specie Legal tender.... Total deposits.. 63,525,000 11,154,200 712,262,400 232.400 92,200 4.769.700 Increase. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days. Tour druggist will refund money if Paso Ointment fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in S to 14 days. SOc STRIKE JXHIBIT A Children of Textile OperatlYes at Lawrence, Mass., Appear Before a Committee of the National House.' pose for their pictures Congressman Berger Demands Investigation of Conditions 1 Surrounding the Labor Trou- hies at the Textile Mills. Washington, March 2. Representa tive Wilson of Pennsylvania, told the house committee on rules today that the action of the Massachusetts sol uiers in stopping the removal of strik. ers' children from Lawrence was the beginning of the passport system in the United States. Mr. Wilson argued that the federal government had the power to iterfere when the power o the state was being used against the citizen s. A delegation of strikers and children from Lawrence attracted much atten tion. Nearly all of the first hour cf the hearing was devoted to posing the children for pictures. Samuel Gompers, president American Federation of La bor, was present aa was John Golden, president of the Textile Workers' un ion. Representative Berger, of Wis consin, the socialist member of con gress, explained his reasons for ask ing a federal investigation. 'It is not an investigation of the conditions in Lawrence on the consti tutional point of the brutal interfer ence with women and children at the place. What my bill proposes to in vestigate now is the relations of the American Woolen company to the strike of its operatives at Lawrence, Mass. "The American Woolen company has for years been the recipient of a gov ernment subsidy-in the form of a high tariff. It has been claimed that this is levied to protect labor. Yet in spite of this claim it is generally conceded that these cperatives are among tho lowest paid of those of any industry in America. This strike took place aa a revolt against a reduction of about 50 cents per week out of a wage averag ing 4ess than $8 per week. "An investigation of the American Woolen company properly is within the jurisdiction of the house. It is surely justified at least as much as the investigation of the steel trust, the sugar trust or the money trust." Mr. Berger charged that the work ing communities where wages are least and conditions hardest, are the recruiting places for the victims of the "white slave" traffic. The first witness called by Repre sentative Berger was Samuel Lipson, a weaver. He said he was classed as a skilled workman and earned from $9 to $10 a week on which he sup ported a wife and four children. He told the committee of times when he earned less and his family had lived on bread and water. The days we eat meat are considered as holidays by the children, the witness said. CAN'T GOME BACK. (Continued from Page One.) chance of capturing the big delegations from the Atlantic states. The Kansas men who are for Taft have had word from many sources that reassure them as to his certain nomination at Chi cago. After the Roosevelt announce ment the administration supporters hastened to take stock of the damage done. They now 3eclare that the col onel is not so strong as he was before he followed his hat into the ring. They declare that his Columbus speech hurt him. They assert that his determina tion to get in the fight hurt still more. He would have done better, they de clare, had he remained silent or merely agreed to accept the nomination if it was offered to him. And not only Taft men make this assertion, but Roosevelt men as well. It is a great mixup with a campaign ahead that has not been equalled since the good old days of Blaine and Conk ling. One man's guess is as good as an other's prediction. Interviews secured today from politicians and business men of Topeka of all parties and all factions regarding the Roosevelt fac tion make interesting reading. Here are a few opinions of men who are sup posed to be in touch with a good many people or who have influence in their party: East Is for Taft. J. D. M. Hamilton, claim agent for the Santa Fe, has just returned from a trip east. He visited in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington "I talked to a great many people," he said, "after the Roosevelt announce ment. I was in Boston the day the news was made public. I found the" sentiment strong throughout the east, even among friends of Roosevelt, for Taft for president- They denounce the Columbus speech in strong terms as an assault upon the constitution and the courts. They do not approve of Roose velt being a candidate. Further, the papers of the eastern cities are not supporting him. I really believe that Taft will receive a large majority of the vote cast at the Chicago convention. I found one man who did not believe that Roosevelt's name would even go V- U .-.mron lnn T KaIIava that Taft will be the strongest candidate the Republicans nominate to go before Li DeODle in November.' J. C. Holland, of Topeka, who travels a good deal, has just returned from a trip through western Kansas. He found sentiment out there strongly in favor of Taft. "People that I heard 1 express themselves," ho said, "seemed to believe tnat Roosevelt tmould not have come out for a third term. The sentiment is for Taft for renomination. I found -this true on the trains. Ail things considered I think that Taft ought to be renominated. I believe that after Roosevelt declared himself L. V, r... ia ,1 ,uru L o 1 L 1 111 L 11 1.1 UD J n iUUg T-u II Hi- i iliif, iiwn. The people generally are against a third term proposition, E. B. Merriam of Topeka, well known in business and real estate cir cles, said: "I have not yet made up my mind what effect the colonel's an nouncement will have oh the political situation this year. I have felt that we have pretty good times under I President Taft. He is a good, safe man. However, Roosevelt has a tre mendous following with the people." Oppose Third Term Idea. Several other Toneka men who trav- I el around over the state a good deal for mercantile and Insurance firms were Interviewed on the Roosevelt an nouncement. They did not want to be j quoted. An Insurance man said: "I am opposed to the third term idea. I think Taft is all right and I find senti ment generally over the state to that effect." i Among the. .politicians there was a still greater tendency to avoid public expression oh the presidency. J. N. IDolley, state chairman, is "looking for a big fight ahead, ".and did not care to express an opinion as to the outcome. W T! t-., il i sr 'T tVilnlj- I Roosevelt's position-would be stronger If he had merelv said he. would accept the nomination and not have come out as an open candidate." John-Dawson, attorney general: "I don't know what to say about it. I don't feel very strong one way or the other. It looks like things were get ting in shape for a schism in the party tnat will not heal by November." Jke Lewis, superintendent of insure ance: "It looks like a big scrap ahead. I talked today with two men from f nuaaeiphia. One was a German merchant who mixed In politics. He thought Taft ought to win and would win. The other was a lawyer and politician. He was for Roosevelt and thought Teddy would win sure. And so there you are. Widely different opinions from men from the same city. One guess is as good as an other." State Officers Reticent. Charles Sessions, secretary of state, when asked how he felt about the Roosevelt announcement called upon his assistant to bring a club. The re porter naturally thought it was to be used to chase him away and he left without getting the sentiments of his former reporter friend. Ex-newspaper men are harder to interview than other men. Among the state official! who do not mix in politics it was next to im possible to get an expression. Dr. Crumbine of the board of health talk ed about his tuberculosis campaign when asked about the colonel. Sec retary Coburn replied that Roosevelt, as an American citizen, out of jail, had a perfect right to announce for the presidency. "I may announce myself some day," concluded the sec retary with his accustomed gravity. S. T. Howe and Judge Burnett of the tax commission were equally non committal. Judge Burnett thought the Roosevelt entrance added variety to the campaign." Mr. Howe had not thought much about the matter. He believed, however, that Taft had made a good president. In talking with Republicans about Topeka generally of the rank and file variety it is surprising how many are for Taft and how few are for Roose velt since the colonel made his an nouncement. The straw votes and polls had Indicated an overwhelming majority for the colonel, but in meet ing and talking with men here and there about whose politics the inter viewer knows nothing one is led to be lieve that in a primary Shawnee coun ty would vote for Taft over Roosevelt. Roosevelt Like Jeffries. A pool hall man whom the reporter thought was for Teddy expressed his and his steady patrons' sentiments, he said, when he put it this way: "I lost my money on Jeffries in the big fight at Reno. The sports kept after Jeff until they made him believe he was as good as he ever was. So he tried to come back. He didn't. These governors and a lot of other fool friends of Roosevelt have made him believe he is still all to the good. But he ain't so good as he was. I pick Taft to beat the colonel. I am strong for the colonel, too, but it looks like the Jeffries fight over again to me." CLAIM ALL IN SIGHT. Plan of Roosevelt Campaign Is Out lined by His Manager. Washington, March 2. The acquis ition of former Senator Beveridse of Indiana by the Roosevelt forces was announced here today. The colonels headquarters were moved into a large suite of offices occupying the entire front of a downtown office building. Senator Dixon signalized his advent as manager by securing enough space for the full expansion of the campaign force. Conom. 1 1 i v 1 1 r i announced he would take charge of the campaign Mon day. "There is no question in any man's mind," he said today, "inai an napnriaiminir nrnonderance of the Republican voters of the nation are for the nomination of Roosevelt. They believe that if Roosevelt is nomi nated he will be triumpnanny elect ed In November and they are fearful of a political calamity to the Repub lican party should Mr. Taft be nomi nated. Thi Republican party owes the nomination for president to no man. If this overwhelming prepon derance is given expression ."o election of delegates to the national convention Roosevelt certainly will be the nominee. "The only hope of those Republican who are against Mr. Roosevelt Is to secure by the use of federal patronage In the south the control of delegates from skeleton political organizations in these states and the suffocation of the real sentiment of the Republican vot ers in certain northern states in the matter oi the election of delegates. "I have not yet had time to thorough ly Investigate conditions in the far eastern states, but detailed Informa tion of every congressional district in the great states of the Mississippi valley, like Ohio, Illinois and Michigan gives every possible assurance of solid Roosevelt delegations, while from the states lying west of the Mississippi with scarcely a single exception the Roose velt sentiment is irresistible. "I cannot believe there .is any ques tion as to the ultimate result at Chi cago." DIES WITHOUT MONEY Sirs. Clark's Husband Donated Leav enworth Court House Site. Leavenworth, Kan., March 2. News of the death of Mrs. Florinda Clark, at Little River, has reached here. Mrs. Clark was the widow of the man who gave Leavenworth coun ty the ground upon which the court house was built. The structure burn ed a year ago and is being rebuilt. An effort was made to have the coun ty return to her the land upon which the court house stood as she was prac tically penniless but it was to no avail. She died at the home of her son. Mrs. Clark was declared to be the first white woman who made her home in Leavenworth. She was in her 80th year. With her husband she settled on what became a busy section of this city. The court house site was given with the understanding that if the county ever used the property for oth er purposes the land should return to him or" his heirs. Before his death Clark lest heavily and his widow was left without means. It was then that she went to Little River to make her home with her son- PRICES JRE FIRM A General Decline at the Open ing:, Then a Rally. Commission House Buying Steadies Wheat Market. A GOOD DEMAND FOB CORN Brings an Advance After an Early Turn Down. The Bullish Sentiment Extends to Hog Products. Chicago, March 2. WHEAT Liberal re ceipts northwest and unresponsive cables depressed wheat today but commission houses were buyers on the dip and brought about a rally. The relative weakness in European markets was said to be due to expectation of larger world shipment. Opening prices were c to S-o lower. May started at $1.03 to $1.03, the same change from last night as the market taken altogether and then recov ered to $1.03ig,1.03T4. Reports that wheat supplies In the three northwestern states were only 50 per cent of normal led afterward to an advance. The close was strong with May V6c net higher at $1.04. CORN Though corn at first turned downward in sympathy with wheat an advance soon followed as a result of an active general demand. May opened a shade to gc off at 7W4c to 70c and rose to 70c. There was additional gain later and the market closed strong at 71V4c for May, an advance of lc net. OATS Oats were helped by the upturn In corn. May started unchanged to He lower at E3Hc to 63!4c and reacted to 63 53c. PROVISIONS The bearish exhibit made by the monthly statement of stocks of provisions here lowered hog products to begin with, but the effect disappeared in view of the bullish action of corn. Initial sales were 5c lower to a like amount up, with May delivery $15.40 to $16.50 for pork, $9.27 for lard and $8.66 for ribs. RYE No. 2, 90c. BARLEY 75c$l. 30. TIMOTHY SEED $11.0014.60. CLOVER SEED $16.00S22.00. Chicago Grain Market. Chicago, March 2. OlORB upen iiign low WHEAT Today Yes. May ..103- 104 103 104 103T4-104 98 97- July 97 97 Sept 95VA COK.M May 704-i July 70- Sept 70- OATS May 63-i4 July 4914 Sept 4174-42 PORK May ..15.60 July .16.77 Sept ..16.05 98 951,4 71- 70 71 70 71 70 6!4- 95 71 70- 71- 70 71 70 53 63 4S 49 42 41 63 49 42ii 63 49 41 15.85 15.40 15.85 15.45 16.12 15.77 16.12 15.72 16.42 16.05 16.42 16.00 LARD May 9.32 9.42 9.65 8.65 8.67 8.87 9.45 9.67 9.75 8.80 8.90 9.07 9.27 9.42 9.52 8.65 8.67 8.87 9.42 9.67 9.75 8.80 8.90 8.07 9.30 9.47 9.65 8.62 8.70 8.87 July Sept. RIBS May July Sept Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, March 2. WHEAT Cash Market lc higher. No. 2 hard, $L02 1.08; No. 3, $1.011.07; No. 2 red, $L0O i-ui: jno. 3, 9ayc. CORN Market lc higher. No. 2 mix, ed, 6869c; No. 3, 68c; No. 2 white, OATS Market unchanged to c higher. No. 2 white, 6364c; No. 2 mixed, 62 !3C. RYE 92g94c. HAY Market nominally steady. Choice timothy, $20.0O21.0O; choice prairie, $14.50 16.00. BUTTER Creamery, 27c; firsts, 24c packing stock, 22g23c EGGS Extras, 23c; firsts, 21c; sec onds, 16c. WHEAT Receipts, 11 cars. CLOSE: WHEAT May, $1.02; July, 9393c. CORN May, 72c; July, 70T4c Chicaco Produc Market. Chicago, March 2. BUTTER Market steady. Creameries, 2528c; dairies, 2226c KX(ih5 Mar net firm. Receipts. 5.92S cases; at mark, cases Included, 2122c; ordinary firsts, 22c; firsts, 23c. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 17 &17Mc; Twins, 16T?c: Young Americas, 1717c; Long Horns, 17V417c. POTATOES Market steady. Receipts, 56 cars. Wisconsin, $1.051.10; Michigan and Minnesota, $1.081.10. POULTRY Market irregular. Turkeys, live, 14c; dressed, 18c; chickens, live, 14c; dressed, 15c; springs, live, 14c; dressed, 15c. VEAL Market steady, 7gllc. pr York Prod nee Market. New York, March 2. BUTTER Market CHESE Market firm. EGGS Market unsettled. Fresh gath ered extras, 2526c; western gathered whites, Zm-2Bc. POULTRY Alive, steady; western chickens, 13o; fowls, 1516c; turkeys, 18c. dressed, quiet; western chickens, 13 15c; fowls, 1416c; turkeys, 1221c. Vew Tork Stock Market. Wall St., New York, March 2 STOCKS Gains far excxeeded losses in the early trading on the stock market today. St. Paul, Reading, United States Steel and Chesapeake and Ohio were up substantial fractions and the market displayed more than the usual degree of activity. Among the few declines were Canadian Pacific and Northern Pacific and American Smelting The market closed steady. Some de mand for Erie,- which rose a point, was the most striking feature of the final hour. Reading was again under pressure and Union Pacific and United States Steel were shaded fractionally. Prices stiffened again in the final dealings. A substantial reaction in Reading soon after the opening caused some recessions elsewhere but prices again advanced and before the end of the first hour Union Pacific, United States Steel and Amalga mated Copper -were selling- above the previous best for the day. Early prom ises of increased activity were not ful filled, however," there being frequent periods of dullness. THREE MEN RELEASED Smelter ISnployee Led Officers a Long Chase. Leavenworth,. Kan., March 2.- Or ders were received at the federal pris on here today for the release on parole 'of Charles W. Dekain, Denver, Colo.; Henry Harris, Paris, Texas, and Max C. Sleh, Danville, 111. Dekain was convicted of stealing gold dust while employed at the government smelter in Denver. After a long chase he was captured in Los Angeles and received at the prison here in December, 1909. Harris was received last October on a one year sentence for violation of the Internal revenue law. Si eh came last September on a one year sentence for embezzlement through postomce money orders. Hides and Furs Ship your hides and furs as fast as accumu lated. The market is still high on furs. You should ship now, aa prices will soon go lower. If you have cow or horse' hides ship them to us. Watch the daily papers for our quotations. We will give-you a square deal and prompt returns. JAS. C. SMITH HIDE CO. TOPEKA, KANSAS, St. Joe, Mo, Wichita, Kan, Grand Island, Neb., Joplin, Mo. We Are Still Buying Hides and Furs 3C T. J. BROWN, Sliearson, Hammill Co. BANKERS AND BROKERS new york stocks Kansas city grain-chicago MEMBERS N. Y. STOCK AND COTTON EXCHANGES; CHICAGO BOARD OF Member. Kansas City Board of Trade. W. W MANAGER. 807-308 BOAH1) OP TRADE Private wires. Both phones, Main STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourselves Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Hare Our Own Offices ha, Denver, Sioux City, so. fct. Port Worth. New Tork Stock Use Last Sale. New York, March 2. Amalgamated Copper 68 American Beet Sugar 55 American Car and foundry 63 American Cotton Oil 60 American Locomotive 33 American Smelting and Ref ng 73 Amer. Smelting and Refining pfd...l03 American Sugar Refining 118 Anaconda Mining Co. 36 Atchison 104;s Atlantic Coast Line 138 Baltimore and Ohio t ,...102 Brooklyn Rapid Transit 79 Canadian Pacific 228 Chesapeake and Ohio 72 Chicago and Northwestern 140 Chicago, Mil. and St. Paul .107 Colorado Euel and -Iron 26 Colorado and Sathern 43 Delaware and Hudson 168 Denver and Rio Grande 21 Denver and Rio Grande pfd 41 Erie v 31 Great Northern pfd 131 Great Northern Ore Ctfs 37 Illinois Central 139 Interborough-Met. 18 Interborough-Met. pfd 68 Louisville and Nashville 166 Missouri Pacific 39 Missouri, Kansas and Texas 27 National Lead 147 National Biscuit 147 New York Central 111 Norfolk and Western 109 Northern Pacific 118 Pacific Mall 31 Pennsylvania 123 People's Gas 106 Pullman Palace Car 159 Reading 154 Rock Island Co. 23 Rock Island Co. pfd 49 Southern Pacific 109 Southern Railway 28 Union Pacific 166 United States Steel 61 United States Steel pfd 10S Wabash 7 Wabash pfd Wi Western Union 84 Lehigh Valley 169 International Harvester 107 General Electric 162 New Tork Money Market. New York, March 3 MONEY Money on call nominal. Time loans firm; 60 days, 23 per cent; 90 days, S3 per cent; 6 months, 3i3 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 4 to 4 per cent. Sterling exchange steady with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.84.25 for 60 day bills and at $4.87.15 for demand. Commercial bills, $4-83. S1LV1SK tsar sliver, o'c; Mexican aoi lars 47c BONDS Government and railroad bonds steady. New Tork Sugar Market. New York. March 2. SUGAR Raw. nominal; Muscovado, 89 test, $4.17; centri fugal, 99 test, $4.67; molasses sugar, 89 test, $3.92. Refined, steady; cubes, $6.06; fine granulated, $5.80; powdered, $5.90. New Tork Coffee Market. New York,- March 2. COFFEE Rio No. 7, 14c May, 12.20; July, 13.27. Cotton Market. Galveston, Tex., March 2. COTTON Market unchanged, 10c. St. Jof Lire Stork Market. St Joe, March CATTLE Receipts 100. head. Market steady. -,Cows and heifers, $6.50; calves, (4.75(7.50. HOGS Receipts 6,000.. Market .higher. Top,' $6.45; bulk of sales, $6.30a.40. SHEEP Receipts none. Market un changed. Lambs, $5.756.4S. Chicago J4ve Stork Market. Chicago, March 2. CATTLE-Reeeipts 79JU. Aiaricet slow. rseev.es, .4.9tKU8.60; Texas steers, $4.80C.90; Western steers, $5.00f7.00; stockers and feeders, $4.80ft6.20- I cows ana neiiers, fz.uo-.t&; calves. $5.76 8.60. HOGS Receipts 15,600.- Market strong Light, $S.25'&.47; mixed, $6.2&60; heavy. 1 6.30; bulk of sales, $6.403.6.45. SHEEP Receipts .000. Market steady to strong. Native. $3.25.4.85; western, $3.75 &4.90; yearlings, $4.905.75; lambs, native $4.5OS7.00; western, $5.0067.10. Kansn- City Ute Stock Market Kansas City. March 2. CATTLE Re ceipts 600, Including no southerns. Market steady. -Native steers, $5.50&8.40; south ern steers, $5-25g.75; southern cows and heifers, $3.25(6.25; native cows and heifers, $3.266.60; stockers and feeders, $4.25(&.40 bulls, $3.75a5.60; calves, $4.60&8.00; western steers, $5.0O7.25; western cows, $3.6065.25. HOGS Receipts 3,000. Market strong to 5c higher. Bulk of sales, $6.20.4O; heavy, $6.40&6.45; packers and butchers, $6.25gi6.40 lights, $6.0016.35; pigs, $4.5015.50. SHEEP Receipts 500. Market steady. Muttons, $3.50ig4.75; lambs, $5.0O.g.6O; fed wethers and yearlings, $4.006.76; fed ewes. $3.00(34.40. At the same location In Topeka. We have a new house In Kansas City where an exclu sive fur business is conducted. We pay the following pricea for next week: Q. S. Hides No. 1 12c G. S. Hides Xo. 3.... 1 lo All other grades of hides accordingly. Ship ns your furs, the market Is strong;. Topeka, Kansas CO WEN Establish Kansas City. U7. BU)G KANSAS CITY MO 1975. Market letters on application. at Chicago, S. St. Joseph, So. Oma Jfaul., e. Buffalo, K. St. Louis and Topeka .Markets. (Furnished by thm Chas. Wolrr racKiss Co., yards close at noon Saturday, vr cannot u pigs, thin sows or hoes weighing less than 170 lbs. Do not mar. fcet hogs unless aara are well rinlaosd ss we cannot uss half fat stuff. W sits bslow prices sSsctlvs at oaca. unui t ux (her notice. Topeka, Kan., March 1 HOGS MTXED AND BUTCHERS $5 8OS6 94 HEAVY 6 H5 9.5 LIGHT 6.65S5 .84 (Can't ums thin bugs or those ucuer 4.' pounds. STEERS. Prime corn fed $5 M9 Tl Good to choice (corn fed) 4 T(yrj 2 Fair to good (corn fed) 4.80ft 2S Common to fair killers..... J.60ii4.2i COWS. Prime $4.S5fl6.(W Good to choice 4 06i 6 Fair to a-ood.... 8 65tf4 so Common to fal.. Prims $4 55S5 2$ Good to choice 4 054 5 Fair to good. $6634 0 Common to fair. I.0o3 l Prime fat $4 WK?4.7 Fleshy 44 Mediums svfc??7c M VEAL-Heavy, 206 to 4W Lbs. Good to choice $4 OBIM .75 Fair to good K I 00(2)4 OS VA.1'-200 U" na under. Good to choice $5.05 W7 Fair to good jkksm (Cattle must bs cood. :nm ,h lust bs good. Cannot 'uss Uiis stuff. Market price paid for rtry lot esttts. If VOM Wtll favn. and length of time on feed', ws wnl'mske m it orrr or arrases for our buyer uj en you. Topeks Batter. Frr- snrl Poultry. IFuruisaed by the Topeks Packing Co-1 Topeka, Kan., March t. EGGS Fresh country, lc. POULTRY-Hena, 4 lbs. and over. Jfle; under 4 lbs., 8c; springs, 10c; old cocks 6c; ducks, 10c; geese. 8c; fat youns tur keys. 14c; old turkeys. 13c. BUTTER Packing stock, ISo. Topeka ?raln Market. Furnished by J. B. Billard. corner Kss. sas ave. and Curtis st-i Topeka, Kan., March WHEAT 95cS$1.00. KAFFIR COKN-Per cwt., $1.008108. OATS 45&60O. CORN 60&S2c r Topeka Hay Market. Furnished by T. A. Beck. 212-214 B. ta. Topeka, Kan., March 2. PRARIE HAY No. i. $14.00; alfalfa, choice, $1.0017.H; No. 1. $16.00, lIalr Butter and Frcs. (Furnished by I'm Continent! Crsaniara Co.. Topeks, Itan.J Topeka, Kan., March 1. NEW YORK EGGS29c. CHICAGO EGGS 30c. CREAMERY BUTTER-Chlcsso Mr NY.. 30c; Elgin. 28c; Toka whoe." Topeka Fruit and Produce Markot. CFurnished by Sam l E. Lux, W "olellj. Fruits and Produce. rw-n a TvTT-nu T.pek,a- K" March I. OYSTERS Per gal., bulk. i av BANANAS Medium slued bunSn bunch. $1.60&1.J6; iarge bunches! bunch, $2.00'tf2.30; per Jb., 2c. .N A V tsU utA.-iih. -er box, $3.00 BARREL APPLES Jonathans.' dm KhL. S5.25: Ben Da via, per bbl.. 13 n7, per bbl., $3.75; Missouri Pippins, bbl., $3.7'. Winesapa, bbl., Lawyers, per but' $4 50 CRANBERRIES Per bbl., $11.00; box, per lb., lie. POTATOES Per bu., $1.3061.35. SWEET POTATOES Bu $1.60. Topeka Hide Market. IWuotatloua iurulshed by Jamas c. Smlta Hlda Co.. lus fc.iu,i '1 bird sLJ Topeka, Kan., March 2. GREEN CURED HtUi!.s Natlvea. .N. 1, lic; No. 2, lie; Side Brands, ?floe; Bulls and Stags. sa9c; Horn Hides. No. 1. $3,005-3.50; No. 2, $2.uuz.6a. T ALLU VV 64c. UHX H ID tS Butchers heavy. 170; diy salt, li'ulic. ulty HIDES Butchers heavy, Ho my suit, 12U13c; mink No. 1 lance $4.60 to $6.60; No. 1 medium. $3.60 to $4.i; No. I atnull, $2.00 to $3.00; raccoon No. 1 largm. il.25 to $2.00; No. 1 medium, $1.00 to $1 2o; No. 1 small, 65c to 90c; skunk, black, $3.(4 to $4.00; short stripe, $2.00 to $2.50; narrow stripe, $1.36 to $1.60; broad stripe, 75c; O' Possum No. 1 large, 40c to 60c; No. 1 medium, 26o to 40c; No. 1 small. 16c- to 10c; muskrat. No. 1 largo. 85o to 60c; No. 1 medium, SOc to S8c; No. 1 small, 20o ta 26c; Clvit No. 1 larsa. 25o to 46o; No. 1 sncdlum. 25c to 40c; No. 1 small, 25a ta 49s

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r THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MARCH ,2, 1912 3 NEWS STUBBS OPENS IT Boosts Roosevelt Candidacy in His Newark Speech. Things Are In an Awful Shape, He Intimates. SAYS PEOPLENEED LEADER structive ability and statesmanship with a world grasp of industrial, com mercial and financial conditions. The crisis that we are confronting. al though of a different type, is no less important than that of the sixties. It will not lead to bloodshed, for the program of the progressives is based whollv upon the principles of patriot ism and reason but it is nevertheless a crisis that calls for the highest qualities of personal devotion and self sacrifice. "Roosevelt has been tested and I found true to every duty. His fitness is established beyond question. His experience in the office of president for seven years the best and most prosperous seven year period in our I history has since been supplemented and broadened, not only by coming in closer contact to the American peo ple, but by having met the governing and constructive forces of the great foreign nations of the world as well. "The American people do not forget that he, after Lincoln, was our great est president, because he was the greatest friend of the common people and the public interests or this coun try. Roosevelt's Every Act Praised. "The nation will not soon forget the settlement by him of the anthracite i arriba 1 n ft P thu CrrtCl t L dt i T r! IT ot Y 1 a 1 by Governor W. R. Stubbs, of Kansas, I disturbances in modern times with- Ex-President Greatest Lincoln's Time. Since "Crisis" Seen by Kansas Exec utive in the East. Newark, N. J., March 2. Roosevelt supporters in New Jersey held the first mass meeting of their campaign here when an audience listened to speeches RAILROAD Santa Fe Given Clean Bill of Health by Auditors. Government Examiners Finish Work in Topeka. UNCLE SAM KEEPS THE BOOKS Says What Shall Be Done With All Accounts. Other Items of General Interest in Traffic World. and ex-Governor J. Franklin Fort, of New Jersey. Governor Stubbs talked progres3lve ness in politics. Kansas had tried out the idea of progressiveness in making sound, decent business laws, he said, and it was the same kind of methods that the progressives meant to apply to the national government under the leadership of Roosevelt. The people, he was convinced, are beginning to learn that there is something better than dollars and cents. "It Is because Teddy Roosevelt is one of the kind that has learned it," con tinued Governor Stubbs, "that I like him. He has a place in history that Is eecure against the world and when the grass is green above us all, the histori an will write one of the greatest things In history when he writes about that Columbus speech of Roosevelt's. The speech did not please Pierpont Morgan and others, but it did please the man who has to work for a living, borne people have called that speech crazy and denounced it as anarchy, dui tney might just as well say the same thing of expressions of Lincoln." Former Governor Fort, in a brief speech, lauded Colonel Roosevelt as the greatest leader of the day and the man iwho could unite the party and put it where it once was. Stubbs Sees a "Crisis." Governor Stubbs said in part: "My friends, there have been three great crises in our political history. The first, when through revolutionary war, we gained our independence of Great Britain, the second, when through civil war, Abraham Lincoln wrote in letters of light, the doctrine of human liberty; the third, in which we are involved to day, and through which I firmly believe we will achieve the real purpose of that Independence and that human liberty, the economic freedom of the citizen. Behind these three great movements lie the same undying principle which has ever been the human goal. Behind the separation of the colonies from the British crown was the purpose to se cure freedom from exploitation. Be hind the struggle for the preservation of the Union was the purpose to end slavery the exploitation of members of the human family by other members. Behind the present day movement is the purpose to prevent the exploitation of the American people by privilege. "Let it be understood here, that no one, least of all these identified with the progressive movement, is seeking to deprive the honest business man of anything that is rightfully his. Graft Eliminated in Kansas. "We in the great middle west have watched you sympathetically for we. too, have been and are engaged in a like battle. I bring you a message from the plains of Kansas, a message out employing a single soldier or shed ding a single drop of blood. It can not soon forget the magical influence he wielded in securing peace between Russia and Japan. It has not yet ceased to admire the courage he ex hibited in his efforts to compel crimi nal big business to come to time and yield obedience to the laws of the American people. "It is not forgotten that it was he who secured the canal zone and or ganized with energy and skill, unsur passed in the history of big enter prises a force to cut a continent in two. "People who have children ready to face the problems of life, have not forgotten that it was he who stopped the robberv of the national domain and conserved the resources of the country for the coming generation. "The progress of our republic in the direction of a government of, by and for the people under the leadership nf this marvelous man. who is yet in the very prime of his strength and manhood, has no parallel in history. His achievements, if properly sum marized, would read more like a work of a century than the result of one man's energy and influence in the af fairs of the nation. "In every instance in tne course 01 his public career he has snown a naei ity to public interest, and in the hearts nf the American people today, the oof nsamo Tie-xt to that of Wash imrtnn anA Lincoln, is the name of Theodore Roosevelt." OFFICERS MrST WEAR. TTNTFORMS Dress Sweeping Changes Made in Habits of Army. Leavenworth. Kan., March 2. Offi cers are prohibited from wearing civilian evenine dress in garrison, by an order posted at the army service schools of Fort Leavenwortn. Radical changes in habits of dressing among army men are provided. Officers will not be allowed to wear the olive drab uniform outside the limits of the post except when it is prescribed for special duty, or when taking exercises. Enlisted men will be required to wear the dress uniform after retreat when on pas3 and cam paign hats will not be allowed except when prescribed for. Heretofore offi cers seldom have been seen outside the fort save in the olive drab uniform. ALL STARS 151 2 AT HIGH SCHOOL. for of good cheer from comrades who have become veterans in the strife. We prac tically have ended railroad domination of our politics. To a large extent we have ended the political influence of corporations. We have eliminated graft from our public offices; and what we have done and are doing, you, the peo ple of New Jersey are doing. God speed you on your way. "The experience of New Jersey and Kansas is that of every state in the Union. New England is feeling the quickening of the public conscience and giving it expression. The Pacific coast etates are removing the fetters which bound them in political bondage. "And that movement, gentlemen, ris ing from the people is not directed mere. ly for the reform of the government of the states but for the reform of the government of the nation. It is a couh try wide movement, which is designed to suppress privilege, to destroy mon opoly harmful to the public good. You have been shoclted, as we of the west have been shocked, by the evidence of corruption in our national government. You have read the appalling details of the election of Lonmer by the corrupt ed legislature of Illinois. You have been informed of the statement of Sen ator Stephens that his election to the eeat he occupies cost him $113,000. You are now being dragged through the sewer of Delaware politics, whicn spewed into the senate Du Pont of the powder trust rame. He Sees Xeed of Leader. "The American people today are standing face to face with problems that are so far-reaching in their ul timate consequence to the nation and of as vital a character as the issues which were solved in the days of Washington or Lincoln. There is im perative need at this time of a great leader wno possesses genuine con Humphreys Seventy-Seven Breaks up Colds and Aching bones, racking pains, fever, influenza, cough and sore throat are unmistakable signs of Grip. "Seventy-seven" taken early breaks ft up promptly. "Seventy-seven" taken during ltsl prevalence preoccupies the system and prevents its invasion. A small vial of pleasant pellets, fits tlio "vest pocket. At Drug Stores 25c ot mailed. Humphreys" Horneo. Medicine Co.. Cor. William and Ann Streets. New York. Former High Players Too Fast Present Iay Team. One of the most warmly contested basketball games of the season was played Friday night in the gymnasium of the Central Y. M. C. A. It was be tween the High school and the All j Stars the final score being 28 to 25 in ravor or the the latter team. At the end of the first half the score was 18 to 12 in favor of the vic tors, but towards the close of the game the high school five almost tied their opponents. The officiating of O. C. Huber was excellent. The All Stars were the offenders 38 times and the high school boys 27 times. Holt play ed the best game for the high school. The game was of special interest to the large crowd of high school stu dents present for the reason that the members of the All Star team were former high school players. The high school aggregation put up a plucky game, but the All Stars show ed that they were veterans at the game. The All Star team: Heil and Bol tcn, forwards; Anderson, center; Woodford and Trobart, guards; Wash burn, substitute for Heil. The High school lineup: Lane and Drum, forwards'; Holt, center; Malone and Johnson, guards. "What is your idea of Socialism?" ask ed one statesman. 'Socialism," replied the other, "is a grab-bag full of novel ideas of government into which a man dives whenever he wants to start a new party." Washington Star. The twenty-three special examiners of the interstate commerce commis sion who have been in Topeka for six weeks checking up the accounts of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe rail way have returned to Washington. It is reported at the general offices of the railway company that the government experts found the Santa Fe books in excellent condition and a "clean bill of health" was given the road. In speaking of the disposal of the dollar in railroad work, J. F. Jarrell, publicity agent of the Santa Fe. says: "Less than 3 per cent of every dol lar taken in by the railroads of the United States goes into the surplus ac count. No other successful business carries so small a per cent of surplus. The records of the interstate com merce commission show where the money paid to the railroads of th country comes from and where it goes, to the fraction of a cent. "Of every dollar received, 67.3 cents come from freight traffic, 22.6 cents from passenger traffic, 2 cents from mail, 2.4 cents from express, 2.2 cents from miscellaneous sources, and half a cent from milk and excess baggage, leaving 3 cents clear income from in vestment. "Of every dollar expended, 2.7 cents go for traffic expenses, 32 cents for transportation expenses, 15.6 cents for interest, 14.6 cents for maintenance of equipment, 12.4 cents for maintenance of way and structure. 9.5 cents for net dividends, 3.6 cents for taxes, 3.1 cents for miscellaneous items, 2.6 cents for general expenses, and one cent for additions and betterments, leaving 2.9 cents for surplus. "The average rate of dividend paid on dividend paying stock for the last fiscal year was 6.53 per cent; the aver age rate on all stock, 4.18 per cent. "The figures I give are from the re ports of the railraods as-submitted to the interstate commerce" commission, and the reports are taken from the uniform series of books which the commission requires the railroads to keep.. The commission says how the railroads shall keep their books, and it sends out inspectors and examiners to see that the rulings are enforced. "No railroad company pretends to keep its books in any manner except as provided by the interstate com merce commission." TWO PROMINENT WOMEN LAWYERS. ill Vv o First Mortgages On Improved Oklahoma Farms The following Is a partial list ot those we have on band. subject to NEW "RED BALL" MAKES A HIT. Santa Fe Industrial Feature Tells of Kansas Prosperity. The first issue of the "Red Ball," the publication of the Santa Fe publicity department, appearing under the new industrial section feature, will make a hit over the country. Four columns of space tell of the growth and prosperi ty of the industrial plants along the ;ines of the Santa Fe. Each item bris tles with good live news pushing the interests of the community. The Kansas towns and cities men tioned are: Topeka, Wichita, Salina, Abilene, Hutchinson, Molme, Lamed. Garden City, Harper, Great Bend Dodge City, Cranute, Coffeyville, Leav enworth, Wellington, Atchison, Em poria, Courtland, Concordia, WinfielJ Pratt and Rock. This new idea of J. F. Jarrell, edi tor of the Red Ball and general pub licity agent, will be greeted at Kansas points. From Topeka the following it errs were printed: The Topeka State Journal will have a new home this year one of the finest newspaper buildings in the country. F. P. MacLennan lately let the contract for a three-story addition to the Jour nal's present quarters. The old build ing will be remodeled, and the plant, when completed, will be about 75 feet square, three stories high, with base ment. There will be an assembly room on the too floor for the use of small associations that hold their sessions in Topeka. The Royal bakery is putting up building of concrete and brick, 75x130 feet, three stories and a basement. It will be the largest building in Kansas devoted exclusively to the bakery busi r.esa. The Atchison, Topeka Santa le Railway company has arranged for the JS3 EMMA. Two prominent women lawyers who are actively engaged in the suf frage movement in Washington, D. C, are Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey and Miss Emma M. Gillette. Miss Emma M. Gillette, LL.D., has been practicing law before the United States supreme court in Washington for over ten years. Mrs. Mussey has been practicing law in Washington for over 20 years, is MiS. 'ELLEN 'SFENCER.. counsel for several national patriotic and labor organizations, is one of the founders of the American National Red Cross; past president of the Le gion of Loyal Women; dean and founder of Washington college. She secured from congress bill giving mothers in the District of Columbia the same right to their children as the fathers, also giving married women the right to do business and control their own earnings. construction of a $75,000 building in Topeka for the use of the water ser vice department. A. Zahner has planned to build a three-story business house, 50x150 feet, on the west side of Kansas avenue, between Ninth and Tenth streets. COUNTRY IS IN FINE SHAPE. HE RUNS DOWN WIFE DESERTERS. (r A -tm--'. U -ffiHb-r KDNROt ft OOLEaTfUN Monroe M. Goldstein maintains one of the most unique business enter prises ever known in connection with detective work. His business is to capture run-away husbands who have deserted wives and families. His bureau is worked in connection with the Domestic Relations Court, recent ly inaugurated here, by means of an extensive secret service agency he is able to capture fully 70 per cent of the men whom he starts trailing. He has the full co-operation of foreign countries, and whenever he can prove that the man has abandoned his chil dren, he has no trouble in securing ex tradition papers. This picture shftws Mr. Goldstein listening to one of the many sad stories of deserted wives. Santa Fe Publicity Organ Says Indus trial Conditions Are Good. The most optimistic railroad report of conditions in the west was sent out from Topeka through the columns of the "Red Ball," the official publication cf the publicity department of the Atch ison, Topeka Santa Fe in this city. The Red Ball in speaking of crop and industrial conditions, says: "Reports from 100 localities on the Atchison, Tcpeka Santa Fe Railway company's lines received the last week of February show a most favorable industrial condition. The prospects for big crops in all the agricultural states in which the Santa Fe operates have caused a general revival of droopii.g industrial spirits, as it were, and mer chants and manufacturers are making preparations to handle the increased business which is sure to come with a satisfactory crop year. Abundant cap ital is found for needed improvements, and the substantial buildings under way, or planned, in many clues prove that business men are looking into the future with confidence. Conservative men of affairs in the localities from which the Red Ball reports come ex press the belief that the west is about to enter into an era of steady growtn and development, which will mean prosperity for all lines of industrial activity." FREE MEALS FROM RAILROAD. People at Pratt Took Advantage of R. I.'s Hospitality. Pratt, Kan., March 2. After being snowbound here for six days, Rock Island train No. 1, has proceeded west. Passengers on the blockaded train were serenaded by the city band of 50 pieces. The first train to enter Pratt since the blizzard began, a week ago, ar rived Thursday morning from the east. Communication with the west has not yet been established with Dal hart and Texas points. During the storm, while trains were tied up, passengers were fed free of charge by the railroad company, and a number of people taking advan tage of the situation, purchased tick ets to points a few miles from this city and enjoyed the free meals, se curing a week's board for the price of a short trip ticket. The blizzard was the worst this sec tion of Kansas has seen in ten years, the drifts running from fifteen to twenty-five feet high, and averaging on the level twelve to twenty inches. The big rotary snow plow sent out to clear the track, proceeded at a very slow speed, making only 30 miles in 18 hours. RAILWAY NOTES. vised to facilitate the passage of teams coming and going with loads. A tower is lighted from within by electricity, and each alleyway through the freightsheds is given a number. As quickly as a passageway is clear its number shows red in the illuminated box-like top of the pole. Thus confusion of traffic is avoided. That regular stenographers on Southern Pacific trains between New Orleans and San Francisco may act as personal sources of California in formation for travellers the company has sent three of them all over Cali fornia to the points of tourist and his toric interest, with a guide to explain and impress them. Yuma Indians guarding the South ern Pacific railroad bridge at Yuma, Calif., objected to being paid only $2 a day and went on strike for ?3, be cause white men were paid $80 a month and board. But the Indian strike is still striking. TRADE IS HELD BACK. The Severe Winter Has Been a Check on Business. b: County Amount No. Acres location Exrafi Vnl $3fO.00 80 Woodward 0U 300.00 160 Woodward 144).i. 325.00 10 Beaver lJ0.i 400.00 82 Beaver lW.W 500.00 160 Beaver 8-.1I0.U) 6O0.U 160 Woodward lMJO.uo 6-30.00 10 Harper 10M5.00 675 1 Woodward SK).W 700.00 160 Ellis r-'l'MW 750.00 0 Ellis 2K0.W T50.r 100 Ellis 191Z.IM 800.00 160 Ellis ZMO.W) S0O.OO 160 Harper SJX.0i 900.00 fX Harmon S 1000.00 SO Jefferson 3JO().00 1000.00 SO Harmon '"t.00 1000.00 160 Harper 4700.00 1000.00 00 Craig S7j0.no Imj.OO 160 Jackson 4rtO.0O ISO- Comanche 4o.uo 1400.00 SM Harper 49WK0O 1400.00 110 Jefferson SW.OO 1500.00 322 Harper 4010.00 1600.00 160 Woodward 4675.00 1600.00 ISO Comanche 44.00 IwJO.OO 160 Comanche 4H0O.OO 1600.00 156 Harmon 4TO.0O 1S0U.00 160 Comanche 4700.U1 3800.00 lo Jackson SOOO.OO 1800.00 160 Comanche 00 ISOO.OO 160 Comanche 47.00 1800.00 160 Harmon B).00 1S00.OO 160 Comanche fit.oi 1S50.0O 160 Comanche &1OO.00 2000.00 160 Jackson 64IW.W) 2100.00 160 Comanche f.4").00 iauO.OO 160 Comanche eoflO.wt 2200.OI) 160 Tillman 6S"W. 2200.00 160 Jackson 6SH0.OT 2.160.00 160 Harmon 6600.00 2500.00 160 Kiowa 6000.00 2500.00 160 Harmon 64W.0O 2500.00 160 Comanche 7000.09 2600.00 160 Tillman 710.00 2600.00 320 Jackson 7700.00 2SOu.0O 160 Jackson 7600.00 3000.00 160 Tillman WMMM 3000.00 160 Comanche 12i. 4J0.00 2S5 Jefferson 13ono.on 6000.00 320 Jackson 16500.00 Futher lists and full particulars upon request. The Pioneer Mortgage Co- Mulvan Putting Be Progressive and Up-to-Date Railway officials in Topeka are ex hibiting photographs of the snow blockade on their Kansas lines. The pictures reveal the reason trains were not able to proceed. A. E. Sweet, general manager of the Rock Island Lines in Topeka, left Friday afternoon for a trip to California. In Germany a railway freight-shed indicator has been successfully de- New York, March 2. R. G. Dun Co.'s "Weekly Review of Trade says: In view of the fact that the severe winter weather has served to hold trade distribution in check, the near approach of spring constitutes the most favoring feature of the business situation. The iron trade is shaking off the depression of winter. The leading in terest is operating to about 85 per cent of capacity. In finished lines concessions are granted although no official revision in prices has been made. The minimum for plain struc tural material and plates is $1.15 and tin plate which is nominally $3.40 for loo-pound cakes, is shaded. Some additional advances are noted in the dry goods markets. Ginghams are in better request for later deliv ery. Fine printed goods for summer distribution are moving freely and there is moderate improvement in fine cotton yarn goods. In woolens some lines are active while others are quiet. Cotton yarns hold firm and spot stocks are light, while worsted yarns are steady. In some varieties of leath er trade is only fair and many lines are decidedly dull. Prices are firm. Bank Clearings. j Bradstreet's bank clearings report for the week ending February 29 shows an aggregate of $3,110,522,000 as against $2,706, 039,000 last week and $3,275,586,000 in the corresponding week last year. The fol lowing is a list of the cities: Pet. Pet. Cities Amount. inc. dec. New York $1,735,575,000 10.2 I T. F. Sproul, the author of the prosy romance, "A Stand for Capital ism," asks you to read the book and help solve important questions. Price 60 cents by mail, 311 East 8th St. Topeka, Kan. The causes of the present, social, economic, political and religious tur moils, are 'done-up" In The Prosy Romance. r T A HEALTHY, HAPPY OLD AGE May be promoted by those who gently cleanse the system, now and then, when in need of a laxative remedy, by taking the ever refresh ing, wholesome and truly beneficial Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, which is the only family laxative generally approved by the most eminent physicians, because it acts in a natural, strengthening way, and warms and tones up the in ternal organs without weakening them. It is equally beneficial for the very young and the middle aged, as it is always efficient and free from all harmful ingredients. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine, bearing the name of the company California Fig Syrup Co. plainly printed on the front of every package. Chicago Boston Philadelphia St. Louis Kansas City Pittsburg San Francisco i... New Orleans Detroit Omaha Milwaukee Louisville St. Paul Denver Washington, D. C. Oklahoma Chattanooga Little Rock Lincoln TOPEKA Memphis St. Joseph Salt Lake City Fort Worth. Des Moines Duluth Macon Wichita Grand Rapids Sioux City M-uskogee, Ok la... 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The students who will represent Kansas in debates this year were selected by the university debating council. Milton Minor and Allen Wilbur will oppose the Missouri representatives; Cale Corson, Harvey Heller and Worth Rodebush will meet the Colorado team, while Milton Minor, Roy Davis and Frank McClelland will contest with the Oklahoma debaters. Kansas, according to present plans, also will have a team at the Missouri valley conference debate in Dea Moines in April "Now, caddy," said the clergyman about to start ofT with his golf game, "I'm very particular when on the link, and don't want you to open your mouth during the game." "Then I takes it, sir,' replied the boy, "that you intends doin' your own swearm', sir!" Tonkers States man. YOU DO NOT NEED a large sum of money to start saving with us, simply the DESIRE AND AMBITION to make the start. Call or send for booklet. Assets $1,600,000. Capitol Building Loan Association 534 Kansas Ave. Clover Seed WITHOUT BUCKHORN D. O. 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J THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MARCH 2, 1912 NOT FOR II 111 C mth.ued from Page One.) But Mr. Roosevelt is now an avow ed candidate, aner mo mand being maae oy me Kansas. Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, -r-r v.i c.tvi rwi-ntfl. AVest rsew xiampauii civf. Virginia ana wyomins. .iwoto,- popular in these states. The governors of these states are hoping for further political preference and are politicians enough to try to ride into office on the coat-tails of Mr. Roosevelt Minor J, 14- x? -rctf-vlt cannot do nominated oui m.v Roosevelt because it is PWJi1" and i v.Am land nffinfts tne oldoriPdependtni on their own ,,v, is the kingdom personality. of politics. These eight states have a total of 68 i .,i Rut Mr. Taft has equal assurance from nnaylvanla Maryland, uniu -x V iAfnral states have 6 8 electoral lutac ..---J that Roose ..-,4. .ni v,av anme delegates from the last named states. True, but it i v v. t Tnft will na iome delegates from the eight states named: end wr. iai- ?o have all the delegates from the four s?ates named as is Mr Koosevelt to have all the delegates from the eight states i n-.,ft will have all n v... Hip'sitps from trie or nearly an, v, th ho rpHson that in T"l"from the "southern states wlll be largely named by fe deral office- oi-innin tPPfi OI Jlr Taft. Our' eastern exchanges lead us is in favor of Taft. Collier s Weekly is the only big New York paper support ing Roosevllt. The press of the New England states seems to be entirely wU Taft. The North American is the only big paper in Pennsylvania snip ping V--?! Only -one daily in v.q con timf HL in i "c cav Trr Tt" owrdeclaxid Monday for Taft On Tuesday the gov emu Minnesota declared for Taft. The Texas Progressive Republican league, which was for LaFollette until his break down has declared for Taft At this time it looks like Roosevelt will S hard sledding. Getting down to figures. Roosevelt could have every delegate from the Mississippi to trie Pacific and from Canada to Mexico and yet have a little less than 300 votes in the convention. And 3D0 votes is little more than a third. But the Roosevelt enthusiasts count on the LaFollette influence going tc Roosevelt, which is trusting to a rope of sand. When Roosevelt was presi- dent he openly showed contempt for LaFollette. While the LaFollette men were counting on the support of Roose velt and his friends, on the sole bond of progressiveism. Mr. Roosevelt be came first a tentative and then an act ual candidate. They look upon It as being robbed in the house of their friends. How keenly the LaFollette men feel this is shown by the action of the Texas Progressive League and by the governor of Minnesota avowing for Taft. In our own state ex-Lieutenant Governor Troutman has declared for Taft. And for six years Troutman has been a progressive leader and r warm LaFollette man. The chances are that the big end of the LaFollettf delegates will be for Taft In the finish The inevitable conclusion, taking all these things together, is that Mr Roosevelt will not? be nominated will not come as near to' it as did Grant, who had more than 300 delegates who stood by him to the end. The forego ing conclusions, we think, are fair, and unbiasted by personal preference. In Ananias Club. Thus Theodore Roosevelt, on the evening of November 8, 1904, upon being elected to a second term: "The wise custom which limits presidents to two terms regards the substance and not the form. Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination." Thus Theodore Roosevelt, on De cember 11. 1307, when the "second elective termers" had become over enthusiastic: "I have not changed and shall not change that decision thus announced." And thus Theodore Roosevelt, in letter dated February 24, 1912, and addressed to seven governors: "I will accept the nomination for president if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to the decision until the convention has expressed its prefer ence." That's all! Baltimore Star. Roosevelt's Candidacy. The Tribune regrets that Colonel Roosevelt is again seeking the Repub lican nomination for the presidency. His candidacy, because of personal 7 relations formerly existing, can hardly fail to engender unusual political bit t terness and create a breach among Republicans wider than rival candl- dacies ordinarily produce, and in a 3 year when the party will need its full strength to win. Colonel Roosevelt would have served best the party that ihaa often honored him generously by remaining in the background. No public exigency drags him into the arena. There are no principles whose service requires this candidacy. President Taft is denied the title of Progressive only with a monstrous disregard of the facts. The difference between him and Colonel Roosevelt Ss one of temperament and methods rather than one of ends. And Mr. Taft's -methods have the justification of success. He has put upon the statute books an unprecedented amount of progressive legislation and has carried forward extraordinarily the ideal of equal rights for all. Nor is there any halt in the work. The latest act of the administration, rec ommending to congress a workmen's compensation bill of a drastic char acter, is that of a courageous Pro--gressive. This bill, which Sa expected to pass congress is as thoroughgoing and progressive a measure as the New York law in behalf of which Mr. -Roosevelt makes his sweeping con demnation of our court of appeals. It is a tremendous advance upon any labor legislation secured in the seven years of Colonel Roosevelt's own in cumbency and it measures the real ity, of progress under Mr. Taft. Social justice is as much Mr. Taft's aim as it is Colonel Roosevelt's. The president is sanely Progressive, unless to be Progressive one must be willing to abandon the safeguards of a writ ten constitution. As a candidate for renomination he has no- reason to fear the issue raised by Colonel R-oosevelt's scheme for the recall of judicial de cisions in the name of progress. New York Tribune. The Mask Is Off. Theodore Roosevelt has betrayed him self, his friend and his party. He has betrayed himself, for he pledged his honor the night of the elec V n in 1904 that he would under no cir cumstances again be a candidate for president. Although his first term was not one to which he had been elected, yet ha declared on his honor that he had regard for the substance and not the form, and,' having had two terms, he would not entertain the thought of a third. He has sacrificed his honor o hts ambition. He has betrayed his friend, because it was at his earnest and continued solici tation that Mr. Taft gave up the ju dicial ambition of a lifetime and sought the presidency. It was Mr. Roosevelt who used the presidential patronage to procure the nomination of the man he had selected for his political heir. The long-established political practice entitles Mr. Taft to a renomination at the hands of his party, and all the ob ligations of honor and friendship forbid Theodore Roosevelt from seeking to de prive the president of the renomination. He has sacrificed his friend to his am bition. He has betrayed his party, for no party can refuse to give its president a second nomination without creating a division in it that must imperil its suc cess at the polls. He is deliberately creating a dissension that must greatly affect the party's prospects. Mr. Roose velt says he will adhere to his present decision until the convention has ex pressed its preference. Medill McCor miek indicates plainly enough what will happen after that if the preference shall not be for Mr. Roosevelt. This man McCorrr.lck. who betrayed Senator LaFollette, is the fit manager of the headquarters of the man who has betrayed himself, his friend and his party. WTe learn from McCormick's statement that the proposition has been made to Mr. Roosevelt that in the event of his failure to get the Republican nomination he should form a third cr People's party. Mr. McCormick says "From an authoritative source it was learned today that Colonel Roosevelt did not look upon the proposition with favor, and in effect stated that such a proceeding was out of the question. Did Caesar put away the offer of the crown upon the Lupercal more lan guidly than that? How does this lan guage compare with that in which he declared he would not be a candidate for a third term? And yet that declara tion has gone to the waste basket. Nothing in political action is move treacherous than to go into a conven tion and seek its nomination with the purpose, in the event of failure, of seeking a nomination elsewhere and undertaking to defeat the selection of the convention. This is a fit program of duplicity and turpitude for Theodore Roosevelt and Medill McCormick, who used Senator LaFollette as a blind until the time came for opening Roosevelt headquarters. Philadelphia Record. Roosevelt's Candidacy. When we ventured as a possible explanation of Roosevelt's mystify ing conduct the statement that the seeming encouragement he was giv ing to some political soreheads was killing off the LaFollette and all other booms, and when the field was whol ly cleared would declare himself un reservedly for Taft, we realized that we were flying in the face of over whelming evidence to the cortrary Because of a sincere appreciation or Mr. Roosevelt's past public service and because we still wished to believe in him we were unwilling to take his actions at their face value. We there fore evolved a theory that would square his performance with what his admirers might rightly expect of him. The positive announcement of his candidacy completely shatters that theory. "His hat is in the ring," just as his clamorous friends and no less clamorous enemies hoped it would be. The excuse for Mr. Roosevelt's can didacy exists only in the imagination. There is no failure of the Taft ad ministration that justifies it. That administration has been characterized by great good sense, resolute courage, infinite patience and substantial achievement. It has been consistently and sanely progressive. Yet, from the very beginning it has been misunder stood and misrepresented. That Roosevelt believes a genuine call exists for him we do not doubt, nor can we question his courage, when we consider all he has to lose. His defeat for the nomination would be humiliating, for the election a ter rible blow to his vanity. He can add nothing to his prestige whatever the outcome, and he may easily dim the luster that attaches to his name if he has not done that already with the mere announcement of his can didacy. He could not have given better proof of his greatness than by telling the western governors that he was true to his pledge of 1904 and 1907 "Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomi nation and true to the man he per sonally selected to succeed him, which man has abundantly demon strated all the greatness of farseeing statesmanship then ascribed to him. The immediate and growing effect of Mr. Roosevelt's unwise candidacy will be to strengthen Mr. Taft's position and the regard in which he is held by the vast majority of his countrymen. Springfield (Mass.) Union. Gravity of the Issue. The issue of the day is that of the preservation of the no-third-term principle, the salvation of the nation from personal government. Should Roosevelt, by any conceivable ma neuvers, be named as the candidate of the Republicans, that party would thereby set aside the time-honored principle of American stability; should he be elected, the American people would have thereby given him a commission to retain the office as long as he might care to. The imperial acts of Roosevelt when president are as nothing to the im perial ambitions of Roosevelt seeking a third term. The American people are not ready to prostitute themselves before the vaunting ambitions of one who breaks his troth with his party and with the nation the greatest re pudiator that the country has ever produced. The issue of the present is as mighty as that prior to the Civil war. The issue then was that of states' rights; it is now that of per sonal government. Roosevelt says he will adhere to his willingness to accept the nomination until the convention has expressed its choice. "For tomorrow and after wards no one knows what is in store." It is the tomorrow and.-afterwards that concerns the nation when a would-be dictator rises. Baltimore American. No Stampede. As a piece of Napoleonic politics Mr. Roosevelt's third-term proclamation missed fire. The Little Corporal returns from Elba, but the populace refuses to re spond. No stampede has followed Mr. Roose velt's announcement of his candidacy. There is no break in the Taft forces. There is no terror among the Demo- c. rt fur o a Tha TX I J l- ui im i ascer tain, no new voices have been added to the chorus that has been chanting Mr. Roosevelt's praises since the day of his return from Africa. Our own judgment is that his third-term statement has weakened him rather than strengthen ed him. As a candidate under cover he was a mysterious and incalculable force. As a candidate in the open it is easy to take his measure. All Republicans are not sordid office seekers or corporation opponents of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. Neither are they fools. Most of them are genuinely devoted to the principles of their party. They are loyal to the administration in power. They may not admire Mr. Taft greatly, but they respect him, and they cannot reconcile Mr. Roosevelt's con duct with their own notion of fair play and a'square deal. They resent the fact that Mr. Roose velt is splitting the Republican party. They resent his treachery to Mr. Taft. They resent the noisy and vociferous and Popullstic elements of which he has made himself the leader. They do not feel that he is playing the game ac cording to rule. The blackest page in the record is Mr. Roosevelt's treatment of Mr. Taft. Mr. Taft was not nominated by the Repub lican party. He was forced upon the convention Dy Mr. Roosevelt, who con trolled the Republican machine. The country took him on Mr. Roosevelt's guarantee. It was Mr. Roosevelt's duty to stand by him and help make the Taft administration successful. He owed that to the Republican party and to the country. Grant was a receptive candidate for a third term; but Grant betrayed no friend, Grant sought to destroy no Re publican principles, Grant made no at tempt to climb back to power over the ruins of his party. New York World. Roosevelt in the Field. For the second time in the history of the United States a man who has held tha office of president for two terms has become tn avowed candidate for a third. Colonel Roosevelt's reply to the: western governors bears out the predic tions of his most hostile critics, who have insisted that the various stages of development of the Roosevelt boom bore evidence of careful nursing which would have been impossible without the approval of the man chiefly con cerned. Mr. Roosevelt has himself placed in the hands of his enemies the most effective weapon they could pos sibly have with which to destroy his influence in public affairs henceforth, if he should be defeated, and to assail and wreck his administration if he should be nominated and elected. All great rven have their weak sides, Mr. Roosevelt's particular weakness, a.3 those familiar with his career have long known, is his proneness to listen to the voice of flattery. He has owed it more to good luck than to, wisdom that this has not hitherto led him far astray. But those who have besieged him persistently on the question of a third term well knew where his armor was vulnerable and they have pene trated it. He has chosen his position. There might be a better excuse for Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy if he had any issue to represent aside from that of his own personality. But- there is no such issue. He announces none in his letter to the governors and neither he nor his friends have made any during the preliminary agitation which led to yesterday's declaratio, for it can hardly be suposed that the fan tastic idea advanced in his Ohio speech for a popular referendum on the de cisions of the highest courts ever will be dignified into an issue. LaFollette had certain definite propositions to stand on, but Roosevelt cannot run on the LaFollette platform. All that was best in his two administrations has been taken up and carried forward by the Taft administration and is now a part of the Taft record. Moreover, it stands, not as academic theory, but as accomplished fact. To a great exteut the opposition to Taft's renomination represents reaction from the doctrines which Roosevelt taught a repudiation in practice of what appeared very at tractive in public discussion. This makes Mr. Roosevelt's course in join ing and ieadmg the opposition to Taft the harder, to understand, and it will add greatly to the difficulty of his friends in having his candidacy ac cepted by the people. Thirty-two years ago he considered this issue o important that he mo.da his first plunge into politics in an at tempt to organize an insurgent move ment against the third-term candidacy of General Grant. The importance of the issue has not been lessened by the substitution of Roosevelt for Grant as the third-term aspirant. The breaking of the two-term precedent would re move all limitations on the re-election of a president. Even admitting that in Roosevelt's case there would be nc danger in a third, a fourth or a fif:h term, his successors for as long as the republic should last would need to be very strong men to resist the pressure to become candidates for third and fourth terms also. Perhaps, as the Outlook argues, that is no more to be dreaded than is the indefinite continu ance in power of a British premier. But there are a lot of Americans who don't like it, who think it is safer to keep the door closed against too great extension of personal ambition, to per mit no further temptations to dema gogy than now exist in the nation's highest executive office. They learned in their school histories that it was iy the process of continual re-election that Augustus established a family dynas ty on the ruins of the last great re public which existed before our owr. was organized. This is the feeling and this is the issue which Mr. Roosevelt wll have to fight. With what and for what is he going to fight it? Buffalo Express. Colonel Roosevelt's Announcement. To us it is wholly inconceivable that Colonel Roosevelt, if nominated, can be elected. He has played the Ameri can people false by making a. solemn pledge that he would not again be a candidate, and then repudiating it when the lust of power and glory again took possession of him. In one form or another this pledge has fre quently been repeated.. If it had been adhered to the people would have be lieved that honor was more to Mr. Roosevelt than the highest office in the world. They would have given him credit for good faith, for stability of character. In the conditions cre ated by his candidacy for another term we cannot see how he can retain the respect of any who have regard for political morals. .The colonel has free ly called other men liars. It is now plainly demonstrated that his own word is worthless. For the present the grave menace of the Roosevelt candidacy need not be discussed. That he is a dangerous man goes without saying. The coun try will watch the progress of his cam paign for the nomination with no small interest. Rochester Union and Advertiser. Not a Republican. While Roosevelt is strong in his party and strong in certain sections of the country generally, there are some things that will weaken him- in the No vember election. He will have the hos tility of the Taft men to reckon with for one thing; and, in all probability, the hostility of the Simonpure progres sives of the LaFollette type also, for the latter think that Roosevelt betrayed them in the fall of 1910. Such factors as these, in themselves, would not ordi narily hurt a candidate, for the per sonal hostility of one man is usually compensated for by the personal friend ship of another. But there is at least one fundamental weakness in Roose velt s candidacy. It is that, ludcine by his latest pronouncements, he is not a Republican. He has discarded all the historic doctrines of the party and has taken a position that encroaches on the Democratic border where it does not lap into Populism. Baltimore-Evening sun. 'Progressing Backward. The best way of testing the doc trines of Mr. Roosevelt's Columbus ad dress is to compare them with the constitution, which their acceptance and application would destroy. The simplest, wisest otatement-of the pur poses and functions of a constitution is contained in the preamble to that 01 our republic. "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domes tic tranquility, provide for the com mon defense, promote the general wel- tare, ana secure the blessings or iid erty to ourselves and our posterity. do rdain and establish this consti tution or the United States of Amer ica." The principles here so plainly and briefly stated are essentially those of every state constitution. One thing stands out from them. The framers of the constitution thought more of duties than of rights or privileges. They wrought a charter of self-government. First, they sought a more perfect union among jealous, conten tious, restless communities, whose quarrels with each other and reckless ness of common obligations haa brought them to the verge of civic chaos. Then thev sought to estaplisii Justice, which was at the mercy of the passion and the greed of these com munities. Then they sought to insure domestic tranquility in place of the disorder and confusion tnat prevailed. Then they sought to knead the states into an organized union equal to the task of common defense. Finally thev sought to Dromote the general welfare by forging a vital chain of common allegiance between all the citizens of all the states. And thus they aspired to secure the blessings of liberty, menaced as they were by weak state governments and by the lawless ness which weak governments pro duce. to themselves and their poster ity-. These were the high aims of the framers of the constitution, acting un der commission from their state legis latures in the name and by the author ity of the peoDle. subject to ratinca tion by the people, also through their legislatures. Thus the constitution was a striking and splendid example of representative democracy acting upon a lofty plane for- purposes of great and lasting importance. The framers of the constitution with the full assent and authority of the plople meant that the interpretation of the constitution should not be left to the wayward disposition of mo mentary majorities influenced Dy pass in waves of excitement and, possibly passion or prejudice. Because they meant this they estaDlisnea tne ieaerai iudiciary. They knew the need of it, the sore and urgent need, arising from the terrible conditions wnicn fnrr-Rfl ths adoDtion or the constitu tion. How completely they expressed the conviction of the people is shown by the fact that every one of the thir-tv-five states that have since entered the union has made like provision for the interpretation of its constitution. Now It is proposed to change all this. A former president or tne ijnit erl states. asDirlng to further honors has Invented a new device for consti tutional interpretation. For the mo ment he confines it to the states, put if it is fit for them it is equally so for the nation. He would submit all unpopular decisions as to cases arising under the constitution for revision at a. e-eneral or SDeclal election, we snail not argue in detail such a wild scheme. Tn state it is to invite for it amazed contempt. We suggest only one point. He calls this crazy plan "progressive." In reality it is a leap backward to ward chaos and black night. New York Times. The "Heavy Responsibility.'' Mr. Roosevelt declares that he real izes "to the full" the "heavy responsi bility" which he assumes in announc ing that he will be a candidate for the presidency. But does he? Can he be entirely aware of the full weight or tne grievous burden which he is binding on hi3 own back? We doubt it. We should hate to think, for example, that he had deliberately considered and coolly dis regarded the fact that he was about to shatter the ideal of Roosevelt which has been admiringly, however mis takenly, cherished all over the country. For in that ideal one element has been the conception of him as a man fit to stand on the holy hill because he sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not. But now he is seen to be false to his plighted faith. What he had volun tarily and solemnly assured the people that he would do under no circum stances, he now proposes to do without explanation or a glimmer of remorse. Thousands of his truest friends have been vehemently asserting for three years past that Theodore Roosevelt was incapable of doing this thing. Whatever else he might be, he was a man of his word. But this trust in him he has now dashed to the ground. First, he was not a candidate and would not be. He wrote last year that any movement to win the nomination for him wTould be a "genuine calamity." He asserted that no friend of his could possibly countenance anything of the kind. Then came the time of his stand ing on his dignity. He would not do a thing or say a word. After that came the period of contingencies. Roosevelt would not lift his hand, but, of course, if the united voice of a mighty people summoned him as the "one man in sight," he could not refuse. But pres ently even those professed hesitations and scruples were abandoned: the Col umbus address was an open bid for the presidency; and now comes his accept ance of the first formal proposal that he be a candidate for the nomination an acceptance tantamount to a frank avowel that he wants the presidency consumedly and will move heaven and earth to get it. What a light all this throws upon the long and despicable in trigue in which this frankest and most generous of men has for months been up to his neck! Another aspect of the heavy responsi bility which Mr. Roosevelt light-heartedly assumes is that of splitting asun der the party which has showered honors upon him and to which he has professed gratitude and devotion. New York Evening Post No More Roosevelt. It is a relief to the country and to the Republican party to know just where Roosevelt stands, for now he can be dealt with as he deserves. This mm who has prated much about the square deal in politics has for months been conducting an underhand fight against the administration, seeking In every way to embarrass it, even going so far as to repudiate his own work in the White House in the hope of furthering his personal ambitions. That Columbus speech, a tirade against the Constitution, holding up to ridicule the supreme court of the land. proved that Roosevelt is no longer a Republican. He has read himself out of the party, and the strong men of tne party will rejoice at it. They know now where Roosevelt stands, know what manner of man he is, know that he cannot be trusted. Roosevelt's announcement will add to the strength of Taft. The people are afraid of this reckless agitator, this irresponsible trouble-maker, and will take this opportunity of administering to him a well-deserved rebuke. It should be such a rebuks as will elimi nate him from American politics lor all time. In his letter to the governors ne declares his firm belief in the doc trine that the people should decide. The people win decide. They will de cide that they want no more Roose velt. They will decide that they have no use for such demagogy as he stands ior. xney will decide that they want a safe and sane administration at Washington. They will decide that they want William Howard Taft for president for four years more. Balti more American. Roosevelt's Candidacy. There are more than 7,500,000 Repub lican voters in the United States. Theodore Roosevelt cannot be nomi nated for president by the Republican national convention next June unless a majority of these Republicans favor his nomination. If nominated, he cannot be elected next November unless fully 7,500,000 American citizens vote to make him president again. It is not Theodore Roosevelt but the American people who are on trial. The issue at stake is not his qualifications for a third term in the White House but their fitness for popular self gov ernment under constitutional re straints. Mr. Roosevelt has torn up his sol emn promise of November 8, 1904, that "under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomi nation." But the promise remains as valid as it was on the day it was writ ten. Mr. Roosevelt cannot nullify it. Only the American, people can nullif;' it. In an article printed in the North American Review for June, 1910, a few weeks before Mr. Roosevelt returned from Africa, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise gave the following account of an extra ordinary interview: "Not long ago it fell to the writer to discuss the inexhaustible theme of Rooseveltism with two men, one ff whom had been in Roosevelt's cabinet: the other being a Wall street mag nate. Each unwittingly indulged in prophecy. "His former lieutenant unhesitating ly predicted the re-election of Roose velt and a subsequent change in the constitution which would enable him to retain offlfce while he lived. Nor was this spoken in jest, for the speak er was in grim, almost panicky earn est. 'But," he added significantly, Roosevelt will do this not in tha in terests of his own fortune, but to save his country!' We reproduce this statement not be cause we believe that Mr. Roosevelt is plotting to become president for life, but because it reveals the characteris tic attitude of mind of his most enthusi astic supporters. As a class they are the weak and unstable and emotional elements of American politics who have mistaken their own hysteria for a na tional crisis. Allied with them is a cold, selfish, calculating element in American poli tics which concerns itself with spoils rather than principles, and which be lieves that Mr. Roosevelt's nomination would keep more Republicans in office than would Mr. Taft's nomination. Back of them is a group of financiers and corporation managers who know that Mr. Roosevelt is a "practical man,' who have done business with him ii: the past, and who find in his candidacy their only hope of breaking down the Sherman anti-trust law, which Mr. Taft is so effectively enforcing. Together these elements make up the third term army whose adulation has turned Mr. Roosevelt's head, inflamed his reckless ambition and fashioned him into the instrument of another crusade against a constitutional gov ernment of checks and balances. New York World. The Voice of a Remnant. In trying to measure the strength of the demand for Colonel Roosevelt's nomination, voiced in the letter sent him by seven Republican governors, it is well to consider what proportion of the vote in the electoral college Is represented by these states for which those governors assumed to speak. In the electoral college of 1912 there will be 531 members. The states of West Virginia, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri will have sixty-six members a little more than one-eighth of the whole. The seven governors, there fore, assuming that they really repre sent their own people, are entitled to speak with authority for the voters of only one-eighth of the Union, and they go far beyond the sphere of their own official observation and into the realm of mere conjecture when they declare their belief that "a large majority of the Republican vot ers of the country favor your (Col onel Roosevelt's) nomination and a large majority of the people favor your election as the next president of the United States." The seven governors may be firm ly convinced that it was confided to them to read the hearts of the voters and to unravel the secrets of the fu ture. But to the cautious observer it must seem as if they had over worked the gift of divination. New York Tribune. Col. Roosevelt's Candidacy. In conversation with friends months ago Colonel Roosevelt indicated that as far as honor waa concerned the presidency had no attractions for him. It was this fact, as much aa any other that persuaded his admirers to be lieve that he would not again become a candidate. He had behind him an exceptional public record, had volun tarily given up a great office, and had received both at home and abroad all the honor that a man can reasonably desire or claim. Why, it was asked, under these circumstances, should Mr.l Roosevelt again plunge into the heat and bitterness of a po litical campaign, exposing himself to merciless attacks by bin foes, and come out possibly, not the conqueror, but the vanquished? Those who reasoned this way failed to take into account Mr. Roosevelt's nature. The same question was asked on his return from his trip abroad. But a few weeks after his landing. he was In a political fight, giving and receiving blows, fighting members of hia own party who got his planks in the New York state convention, and then going out against the common enemy to be finally beaten, and ap parently discredited. To stay ont of a contest in the issues of which he is interested is not Mr. Roosevelt's war. Other men who like to achieve success dislike the light which is necessary to 1 bring it Mr. Roosevelt loves the fight as well as he does the achieve ment. He has taken into account the pos sible estrangement of many who may have felt that he has violated his third-term pledge. All these things he has doubtless considered before making his choice. If the nomination goes to Mr. Taft, Col. Roosevelt probably can be trust ed to support the president with all the energy and enthusiasm that he supported him and his administration in the 1910 campaign. In the contest that follows the selection of a stand ard bearer for the party he will re veal whether he or Mr. Taft is the standard bearer. A third party move ment evidently is farthest from his mind, and he will remain with the party which has honored him, which he has honored and the principles of which he endorses. Even if he is beaten, Colonel Roose velt will not be discredited. In pri vate life, as in public, he will continue to be the most interesting man in America. Decatur Herald. Roosevelt's South American Theory. As its readers well know. The Trib une has not been able to see any real danger of President Taft's loss of re nomination. But there is a greater danger, of remoter impendence, in the fact that so many of our people look with any degree of approval on a man who is capable of such revolu tionary talk as Mr. Roosevelt indulged i in his Columbus speech. It is not Republicanism of any shade that this unconflned madman is now preaching; it is not Americanism. It is the ex tremist of radicalism, borrowed from the turbulent peoples of the south of us, and it is disquieting indeed to con template the future of a land where any considerable number of Inhabi tants hear such talk with favor. Mr. Roosevelt has burned all his bridges; he has wholly abandoned the principles of the Republican party, and if he could be nominated on a Repub lican ticket it would mean that the party had surrendered its birthright and totally changed Its character. His stand is now for a pure democracy the direct rule of the people without restraint, making their own laws, elect ing all officers by direct vote and with out intermediate agencies exercising full control ia governmental affairs. His "Charter of Democracy" is really a charter of demagogy. "The power of the people to enact the law should not be subject to debate;" which is saying that the power of the people ought always to be absolute and that the minority has no rights which the majority is bound to respect. If any elected official displeases for the mo ment, throw him out Immediately and unceremoniously; if a decision of the court is irksome; abrogate it by popu lar vote at once. What manner of man is it that de liberately expresses such lunatic views as these? What will be the last state of those who can listen to him with patience, to say nothing of hearing him with applause? Mr. Roosevelt repudiates frankly the very principles on which our institutions were found ed. He is inviting us to revolution and anarchy. He is trying to transplant to the United States the theory upon which the falsely called republics of South America administer their af fairs. Providence Evening Tribune. The Colonel's Straw Votes. If the Colonel had paid more at tention to the straw votes that are be ing taken all over the country, he would have seen that there was no need at all for throwing his hat into the ring. There will be no fight to a finish. The battle Is as good as over. Mr. Roosevelt stands today virtual president of the United States by the votes (straw) of his admiring coun trymen. For, consider this latest straw vote from Ohio: 11,437 for Roosevelt, 1,784 for LaFollette, 1,184 for Taft, this in 85 out of 88 coun ties of the state. In 1908 there were cast in Ohio for president, 672,312 Republican votes, and now one out of every 60 of these Republican voters has spoken, and his cry is "Roose velt!" Is there any reason to doubt that the remaining fifty-nine-sixtieths of Ohio Republicans would have an swered the same way if they had been consulted? This indeed is a remark able Roosevelt showing, but we fail to see why it should "amaze his most demonstrative admirers." The true blood Roosevelt man would have only wondered where the 1,184 Taft votes came from. New York Evenlna Post. A Serious Risk. Colonel Roosevelt has had all the po litical honor any man could desire. He must know that he is running a serious risk in again consenting to become a candidate for president. He accepts the chance of being repudiated by his own party; if not, of being repudiated by the people in the general election, in the light of all of the facts, it is impos sible to doubt, that, in permitting the use of his name he is answering a call to what he believes to be a high public duty. Baltimore News. The Roosevelt Candidacy. In Boston last night Mr. Roosevelt's response to appeals for some word in regard to his statement in the letter was, "I have no plans beyond this night. For tomorrow and afterwards no one knows what is in store." "No one knows what is in store!" That's what the country feared for seven years and will most fear In the event of a return of Roosevelt, who admits that he has no plans beyond those of a night. Unpopular policies and inefficient leadership are charged against the Taft administration by the leaders of the movement to renominate Roose vel. The expressed willingness of Roosevelt to run again is countenance of the charge against the president whose nomination Roosevelt forced upon his party at whose hands he would seek further honors and trust. Roosevelt picked his secretary of war to be his successor, forced the nomina tion on the party and the administra tion of Taft upon the country, and he gloried in it that with Taft the opposi tion had been "beaten to a frazzle," which well describes the Republican perty of today. Roosevelt must accept responsibility for the Taft administration which an element in his party repudiates, or in repudiating it he must go before the country with the admission that he was deceived, an admission which would support the charge in the gov ernment's case that in the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron inter ests Roosevelt was deceived into giv ing his sanction. Thus is seen that "vaulting ambi tion which o'erleaps itself." Youngs town Vindicator. Tho Campaign Opens. Mr. Roosevelt has followed his hat Into the ring. He is now an avowed candidate for the Republican presi dential nomination. "I will accept the presidential nom ination if it is tendered me," are the words of his reply to the eight gov ernors, "and 1 will adhere to this de cision until the convention has ex pressed its preference." convention haa expressed Its prefer- ence. The assurance here contained; is addressed pointedly to the gentle men who have persuaded Mr. Roose velt to make the race. It gives them a bond that the candidacy will go through to the nd. They need not fear that any efforts they mav make in Its behalf will come to naught. Bui delegates must be got, unless the Roosevelt boom is to degenerate into a farce. Are the men who father ed that boom ready to take up tho herculean task of getting for Roose velt more votes in the convention than may reasonably be expected to go to Mr. Taft? Chicago Post. Roosevelt. If the majority of the voters of the United States want Theodore Roose velt to be the next president, they can have him. He is a dangerous man far more dangerous than ever before in his public life but let the major ity rule. Mr. Roosevelt Is now an avowed and aggressive candidate for the Re publican nomination. "I will accept." he announces In his answer to tho seven Republican governors. That Is to say, he will fight for it. The ques tion is thus put squarely up to tho.-o voters who maintain an allegiance to the Republican party. Their decision will come first. If they repudiato President Taft and his administration and nake Mr. Roosevelt their candi date, then the question will b put be fore the entire electorate. It is well to remember that the Republican party Is not the American people. Nor does Mr. Roosevelt appeal to the people regardless of party linos. His decision to accept the nomination will be adhered to. he says, "until the convention has expressed Its prefer ence;" and simultaneously comes tii announcement from the Rooseve.t headquarters in Washington that, in case he should be defeated in the Re publican convention, he would refuse to head any independent ticket. It is. of course. Impossible to place any faith whatever In any political promise he may make now or in the future. In view of his repudiation of his anti third term pledge. With that solemn pledge now cava lierly laughed aside as of no more consequence than a refusal to accept coffee three times at breakfast, how can we ever trust his pledges again? If Mr. Roosevelt Bhould not be nomi nated by the Republican party, no one can be sure that he would not then be inspired to head a "people's movement." But, meanwhile and now, he emerges from the dignified and honorable retirement in response to the call of a mere fraction of a party. That is what the seven governors represent. Behind them is a mere fraction of a fraction of the Ameri can people and Mr. Roosevel thinks that speaking through them Is the voice of God. How he came to that conclusion we can not understand, un less being a spoiled darling of fortune finally turns a man's head. Mr. Roosevelt should be congratu lated upon the commendable brevity of his letter announcing his candi dacy, and nothing else in connection with so fateful an act. A period of bitter and ugly turmoil has been opened in our politics. Passions will run high before this new Caesar gains control of the government again. Un necessary Is his performance, if un dertaken in the interest of democracy, and tragic In some way the end of the reckless adventure may prove to be. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. He is seeking to overthrow the pre cedent of his party by denying a presi dent a renomination as a partisan vote of confidence. The man hi is willing thus to humiliate is the same man whom Col. Roosevelt, by his own might, made president. And even if he suc ceeds in taking the nomination away from Mr. Taft Col. Roosevelt must know that his election is far from as sured. On the other hand Roosevelt tho op portunist is admirably depicted In the time and manner of acceptance. First, the Chicago conference and the theatri cal demand of the seven governors. Then the Columbus speech, with Its declaration of radical principles and Its outlining of the Roosevelt platform. And finally the formal announcement of the Roosevelt candidacy at a time when it might be expected to fall with most dramatic effect. From now on the political struggle of 1912 will be the most interesting since the civil war. Certain it is that Col. Roosevelt will have the fight of his life to snatch the nomination; and it is equally certain that If he wins this victory he will have no less strenu ous a fight ahead of him. Cleveland Plain Dealer, In the Ring. Well, Mr. Roosevelt has followed his hat Into the ring. Now we shall see whether he is in his old fighting form and can come back. He has al ready trimmed and used up his Insur gent sparring partner. Senator La Follette. But he will have to put up a fierce and furious fight to regain the presidential belt. First of all, he must knock Georg Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson over tho ropes and punch a hole through their precedent against a third term. At the same time he will have, to smash his own indorsement of the rule which he an nounced election night In 1904. Next, he will have to face President Taft. Mr. Taft is not much of a sprinter and sldestepper. and his footwork generally is poor, but he has plenty of grit and ia built from the ground up like a brick house. If the ex president should down the president, he would have to meet the Great Un known which the Great Unterrified will bring against him. O, yes, Mr. Roosevelt Is In for a perfectly corking time, and so are all the rest of us! Mr. Roosevelt's announcement Is sur prisingly brief and contains nothing that had not been discounted. He do-s not so much as allude to the third term and his change of attitude toward It. But he never has lost much time in holding joint debates with himself and polishing the Jewel of consistency. The definite announcement of his candidlcy will no doubt call many lo his standard with a rush. It will be the signal, too, for an uprising against him and the third term. It may even im part some warmth to the sentiment for Mr. Taft and excite real human sym pathy with our much-admired, highly respected and well-liked but uninspir ing chief magistrate. What will be left of the Republican nomination after these two forces have finished their fight over it we do not venture to say. Boston Globe. "Ichabod Is Fallen.-' The way this last announcement has been received by the chief organs of his tiarty must be as great a Bhock to Mr. Roosevelt as the announcement itself, as the climax of his recent con duct has been to sober-minded men of the party and to all who have clung to a faith in his Integrity of charac ter which made such a thing seem impossible. It ia clear that if he is to accept the nomination for president it must be from some other power than the national convention of tn" (Continued en Page M

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i THE TOPESA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MARCH ,2, 1912 5 NOT FOR (Continued from Page Four.) Republican party. February 24. 1912 was a fatal date tka i honorable fame of Theodore Koose- said for Taft as a trust buster- There's 1 enough to hold together some clever Politicians whom it may be wise for Taft to placate. Besides, the colonel may at any time whipsaw his support ers as he seems to have whipsawed La Kollette. When Taft's friends get to work It win be found that there is much to be CUPID FINDS HER Farmer's Daughter Weds While Visiting With Sister. ONLY WOMAN JUDGE IN AMERICA. velt. "'Tis true, 'tis nitv nitv -ti tho Prosecution of the Steel trust. Us true." there is the prosecution of the pack What has haDDene.l rhn th I ers- There Is the vindication of the attitude of the ex-president toward the corporation tax There is the reor "wisa c-nsfnm ki-.v, .ganization of Steel and Tobacco and dent to two terms vhlh i-t,h. the disbandment of half a dozen other Khed by Washineton and resnertert I !rus,!!-. There is the law as to corpora- vy me aanerenl down to General SveVihrspof "his gret't'lnil- l J" instructive uary tame and the "tumult of ac- T-,'V" "''tUBJ"r l l veil, riix if I 1 1 ill if n a Tft m-r l -nts of everv President tion ,iabilit- for Injury to workmen. ra Grant and whtck his Tnere is tne pIea for reciprocity with jVpSS d.m-w-!c"M.da- T.here 1" arbitration. There the who U i .nw. to Crane, as to the debar a trinmnhn. Vu JrmS qt insurgent senators and gxess from spoils, as to con- tariff vetoes, Ills ai'iin .1 tiiT-m 1 I" f accented RnossovPlf, .imat7,VTaft' 1 are Dad' but they are not worse than rJ"IlTfoT StSeof ilf n th- Wun, of t he Harrima n letters a"L a ''y ".w monopolize the iron and steel indus- 1 ini me spt'tmi encomium liicil rv iinrit 1 V- 1 Ui raking magazines r..5unr ana fnaidL-i, Vax; tain extent, soft- J "r i withdrawal of sp "i"s ior cnamoionine me riKnis ui championing the rish tho people as a whole, to be presi dent!" His administration has not been without defects and shortcom ings. It has not escaped fault-finding any more than that of his predeces sor, or that of. Lincoln or even Wash ington, the great exemplars of wis dom and virtue: but he has done nothing to forfeit his reputation fur uprightness and character or or "fearless and aggressive honesty.' j That can no longer be said of his! Taft Moreover, the most of the muck- have been to a cer- pedaied of late. The ecial mail privileges silenced them somewhat, and then. too, they have been crimped financial ly into consolidations dominated D3 men opposed to agitation. There has been a big falling off in the lambasting of Taft. And besides, the lack of re sponse to LaFollette's campaign which finally broke even his own egomania, tends to prevent the focuss ing of dissatisfaction into effective anti-Taft organization. President Taft cannot now be beat en for renomination. There is no co- Takes on Husband Well Experi enced in Matrimony. GIVES GIRL'S AGE FALSELY Dora Murty Only 16, Angry Parent Declares. He Will Take Daughter Home if He Finds Her. has lost nothing of his personal qual- I sibly, such as may send it all over to ities and he lias fulfilled all reason able expectations in pressing forward the policies which he inherited. If he has lost favor with some, it is where he has seemed to be too insist ent in his consistency. It is well that Koosevelt has come out into the open and avowed his can didacy. It will clear the atmosphere and allow the hysteria to subside, and when tlie summer months arrive tho nervous shock will be ova;-. The ar tificial strain cannot be kept up. Taft will be renominated, there will be no third movement of formidable propor tions, and in the autumn the two main parties will face each other with their candidates and their platforms for the people's choice; but Roosevelt's prestige will have suffered irreparable damage from tho error into which infatuation has led him. New York Journal of Commerce. a progressive Democrat on election day. Only a Democrat can beat Taft now. Albany Times-Union. Koosevelt Kilters tlic Fight. For Colonel Koosevelt himself, as well as for his party, the answer is unfortunate. It will precipitate a conflict which is needless, lor it is not likely to accomplish its object. Unless a vast and altogether unex ampled change in the temper of the Republican party takes place between now and the opening of the national convention on June 18, the .colonel will be beaten. He has already re ceived unparalleled honors from his party. He is the only vice president who, going to the presidency through the death of the incumbent of that office, ever succeeded in getting it afterward by election. In his elec tion he polled a plurality of the pop ular vote three times as great as that of any previous occupant of the White House. These achievements ought to satisfy any man s ambition. Many old-time Republican admirers of Col Roosevelt will look upon his act as unfair to an old friend, and a; something closely resembling bad faitu to his party. As a member of the cabi net Mr. Taft helped to create the pop ularity for the Roosevelt administra tion which enabled its head to ro'.l up his great majority in 1904, and he was that president's favorite for the nomination in 190S to succeed himself. The third-term tradition and !us promise of 1904 not to he a candidate again under any circumstances would be brought up against him and im pede the party if he should be nomi nated. His nomination would prooi biy create a feud in the party which would deprive it of many votes in the election, and might defeat it. The Re publican party has great admiration for Col. Roosevelt, but his truest friends will be inclined to believe that his en -trance into the canvass gives more comfort to his Democratic enemies than it does to his Republican compatriots. St. Loufs Globe-Democrat. A Political Kesiuiie. The political pendulum has swung for Taft. He is growing stronger; he is regaining his popularity. A few months ago toe Republican" party was split wide open in the nation and the Dem ocratic party was as solidified as a brick. Now the Democrats are fisslper tt:ng and the Republicans are an chylosing. High sounding words these, but start ling situations are sometimes best pic tured by startling words. IaKollette's collapse has weakened Insurgency to this extent, that insurg ents generally are not third-termers, however they may admire a man for whom a third term is sought. The gen tlemen who favor the nomination of Roosevelt mean well. They are within the truth when they say that there :s no law against a third ferra. They may even say there is no reason against a third term: but this is not quite true. They say the opposition to a third term is only sentiment; but sentiment fo widespread is a sort of higher reason. "The heart hath reasons that Reason does not know." Therefore, the Roose velt boom may be expected to die down, especially as Col. Roosevelt is too wise to commit himself to the possibility of defeat. Furthermore, insurgency on the large will not go to Roosevelt now because of his defense of Morgan in the grabbing of Tennessee Coal and Iron and because of a certain agreement be tween himself and Wall street forces inimical to Taft. Col. Roosevelt is not so strong as he was. though he is strong The Man Above tlie "Principle." The abandonment of Senator La Follette by the "progressives" is a complete confession on their part that their "principles" could not win be fore the people. Garfield, Pinchot, Cummins, Johnson and Rowell have more than tacitly acknowledged that wiin L.a.t ollette as the leader of their movement absolute and utter defeat would have been the portion of "the great reform." They have accorded their erstwhile "leader" the hollow mockery of their "admiration" and "appreciation" for his "splendid abil ity," his "earnest work on behalf of tho great cause" and his "self sacri fice;" but in the same breath they nave admitted that he was not strong enough to bear the burden of the kind of politics that had been thrust upon him and the kind that he had thrust upon himself. It was William Jennings Bryan who coined the phrase "the dollar above the man." It is now for Johnson, Rowell. Cummins, Garfield and Pin chot to paraphrase this epigram with "the man above the principle." Let them argue, as they will, that a presi dential candidate must be bigger than the principles he embodies, or at least as big; for that is what is implied in the abandonment of LaFollette and the adoption of Roosevelt as the "pro gressive standard bearer." Tet Mr. Roosevelt himself in one of his speeches has declared that Wisconsin was "the laboratory" of "progressive reform," where all, this political ex perimentation was accomplished, and he gives Senator LaFollette passing credit for conducting the "experiment" successfully. If the man that invented the "pro gressive'' movement and applied its principles successfully within the jur isdiction of his parish and province is unable to represent them in his own person beyond the borders of the "lab oratory" in which the "experimented,' it must be the fault of the principled The inventor cannot be blamed. In the last analysis of the declsio i of the "progressive" leaders to reject LaFollette as their leader it is clear enough that these politicans are mt seeking to inculcate their "reforms except so far as they may be used as a means to an end a selfish, sordid end. The "platform" was not strong enough to hold LaFollette, so they have chosen Mr. Roosevelt to bear up the platform. The world was not big enough for Atlas, so he took it upon his shouders and carried it about with him as a porter in a wholesale com mission house carries a sack of pota toes. Mr. Roosevelt has accepted the "progressive" candidacy for the nom ination, and he will revise and modify those "principles" to suit the Roose velt idea. They will no longer be "pro gressive" principles; they will be Roose velt principles: he will bestride the "progressive" faction as Cassius said Caesar bestrode the world; and the Johnsons, Rowells, Garfields. Pinchota and Cumminses, small men, will "peep about" between the legs of the colos sus. It is no longer a "progressive" movement; it is a Roosevelt movement. The faction now has a leader that will lead, not a support responding to the whims and caprices of little men of the Johnson, Rowell. Garfield, Cummins and Pinchot caliber. San Diego (Cal.) Union. According to her father, a prosperous farmer residing near Osage City, Dora Murty, pretty and aged 16 years, was care free, unkissed, whole hearted and unloved by man when she left her home two weeks ago to come to To peka for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Goff, who resides on -Sast Sixth ave nue. She hadn't been here long until she met Antony Krnest. And shortly afterward Murty had a son-in-law. Murty lived along in blissful ignor ance of the new member of the fami.y for some time. But the girl and her husband didn't stay with airs. Goff and at last word reached Osage City that Dora was a now lawfully wedded wife, having married a man who had made two, perhaps three trips of adventure into matrimony, and who had, for some time, it Is declared, done little else. From a quiet homestead the Murty farm was changed into a rather lively locality for some time. Murty has all the temper that goes with the name and it works on a hair trigger. He came to Topeka Friday and the warrant for the arrest of his son-in-law was the result. Murty charges that Ernest swore the girl was 18 years of age, thus advancing the family records by a cou ple of years. The angry father an nounced that he would take hiss3augh ter home with him. But he will find her first. This has not yet been accomplished. CLARK WILL WORK ON The Speaker Refuses Invitations to Go Out and Speak. ag j-jj lr !i ri:- J r; JL JUDGE MABEL uM DYKE BELL Covington, Ky., March 2. Judge Mabel VanDyke Bell, newly appointed United States commissioner here, is the only woman judge in the United States. Several days ago she held court in the Federal court of Coving ton, and for the first time in the his tory of the United States a woman presided on the bench of a federal court. Mrs. Bell is married and has two children attending school. DROPS FROM A PLANE First Parachute Leap Ftom a Heavier Than Air Machine. SENATE CALLS ON TAFT For All the Correspondence Relating to the Panama Canal. TckccD thhli Easished Dr. Elder's Tobacco Boon Banishes All Forms of Tobacco Habit in 72 to 120 Hour. "What Tobacco Boon Will Do." A positive and quirk relief. A Home Treatment easy to take. S.E.Addlnffton.oBethel.Okla.,writea: "Your robaece Boon baa cured ma after using tobacco t years." B. 8. ru, of sler.dlao. Miss., writes: "1 bad been a heavy cbewar for 4 years. After taklna; your treatment 8 days I was completely cared." Adotph Krliren. ef rlireon Falls, Wis., writes: "I would not take 91 0O0 for what irood your Tobacco Boon did me." Hun dreds of similar letters from satisncd patients. EMEMBER We frtve a tarsi binUine; Guarantee of results In every case or money refunded, rartl'r Booklet on tlie Tobacco HaMt and Its J r- Reniea.y, a,iso fun Inf orsiatloc aboa t my UomeTreatment will be mailed free In plain packaore to any one. Po not wait send name and address TODAY. CI BJEB'S SAXITAS1UM, Oept 369. St Jssepft. Us, Washington, March 2. The senate has adopted a resolution calling on President Taft to submit to it all the correspondence with Colombia dealing with the acquisition of the Panama canal zone by the United States. The resolution was offered by Sen ator Hitchcock of Isebraska. who urged its adoption in a speech in which he charged former President Roosevelt with participation in a con spiracy to foment the revolution by which Panama was lost to Colombia and the canal zone became the prop erty of this country. There was no division on the vote of adoption. FAILSTO GET M'CABE "Washington, March 2. While the Taft headquarters were announcing the approaching speaking tour of Vice President Sherman in Oklahoma and the southwest. Speaker Champ Clark's managers were issuing an emphatic statement that Mr. Clark would not accept outside speaking engagements because he did not believe a presid ing officer should leave congress while it was in session. The refusal of the speaker to ac cept invitations from Boston and else where to make political speeches was made the basis for a statement from Mr. Clark about "absenteeism." "The vice of congress is absentee ism, said the speaker. i am trying my everlasting best to keep a quorum here for the transaction of public business and I cannot, with a straight face and a clear conscience, insist up on other members staying here unless I set them a good example. The speaker's only public appear ances outside of Washington before the adjournment of congress will be before the Maryland legislature at Annapolis on March 7. The Maryland capital will be the scene of a presi dential "free-for-all next week. Gov ernor Harmon is scheduled to speak before the legislature on Wednesday, March 6. and Governor Wilson will appear during the week. The projected campaign trip of Vice President Sherman into the southwest is made in response to re quests from various organizations there. Dates for his speeches in Ok lahoma have not been fixed, but he will go before congress adjourns. He expects to visit Guthrie, the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, McAlester and Muskogee. The national Taft headquarters claims many former supporters of Governor Johnson, in California, have turned toward the Taft camp. Tele grams received indicated that mem bers of the state central committee were organizing Taft campaign or ganizations in the state that promises to be an early battle ground for the Republican campaign. MAY CAUSE DELAY. Some Indicted Men Refuse to Go to Indianapolis for Trial. St. Louis, March 2. For the first time in the history of heavier than air flying, a man has leaped from an aeroplane at Jefferson barracks and descended to the earth in a parachute. The man was Captain Albert Berry. The spectacular parachute leap was witnessed hy hundreds of soldiers. When the aeronaut landed the sol diers cheered wildly and, surronding the man, lifted him from the ground and half carried him to the office of Colonel Wood, the commanding officer, who congratulated him. Berry and Pilot Jannus left the Kin loch aviation field about 2 o'clock in the afternoon in a two passenger bi plane. Beneath the machine, in a specially constructed case, was a large parachute, similar to those with which aeronauts leap. The trip to the barracks was made without a stop. The first the soldiers knew anything unusual was going on was when they heard the buzzing of the propeller and saw the plane, which was flying high and swiftly. The soldiers were astonished to see Berry slip down under the aeroplane. It took them several seconds to decide that he had climbed to a trapeze bar and that the thing was attached to a parachute. With practiced hand, Jannus stead ied the machine. Berry gave a quick jerk of a rope, a knife flashed. Man and parachute plunged downward while the aeroplane, bouncing up like a cork, suddenly poised and steadied itself. The hundreds of watchers held their breath as the man shot toward the earth, the parachute trailing after him in a long, snaky line. Suddenly the parachute popped open, the rapid ity of the descent was checked, and, amid cheers, the first aviator to make such an attempt reached the ground in safety. T. R. WILLING TO TALK Ixng Standing; Embargo of lias Been liaised. Silence MAY BE GENERAL RAISE Action of American Woolen Co., Will Have Far Reaching Effect. Congressman Clark Attempts to Abol ish His Office. Washington. March 2. The attempt of Representative Frank Clark of Florida to abolish the office of solicitor of the department of agriculture and thrust oust George P McCabe failed.to day after an hour's fight in the house. Mr. Clark contended that the appro priation for the salary of the solicitor in. the agricultural supply bill was "covert" legislation and made a point of order against it. His point of order was overruled. Sloan to Be Judge. Washington, March 2. The presi dent has sent to the senate the nomi r.aiton of Richard Sloan to be United States district judge for Arizona. Sloan was territorial governor of Ari zona. The office to which he is ap pointed is a new one. Washington. March 2. The resistance of a few of the men arrested on the indictments returned at Indianapolis in the alleged dynamite conspiracy will result according to the department of justice officials in preventing their re moval to Indianapolis tor tr.e hearing set for March 12. The government has instituted re moval proceedings in several cases. Five or six of the defendants admit their names are the same as those mentioned in the indictment but claim they are not the persons wanted. It is incumbent upon the government to prove their identity and this is caus ing delay. Xew York. March 2. Patrick F. Far rell and Frank C. Webb, union labor leaders indicted at Indianapolis in con nection with the alleged dynamite con spiracy will have to appear in court there March 12. This wtts decided here today. ECZEMA YIELDS READILY 'To TMi Sneeessful Treatment. When a remedy has demonstrated its worth in thousands of cases ot Eczema, Salt Rheum, Scabies and other afflictions of the skin, that remedy must have un usual healing and curative powers. When that remedy has been In use for eight years and obtained a wide sale simply by being recommended by one cured suf ferer to an afflicted friend, the confidecne In the remedy must be very great. BRIXKLET'S "SANADOR" is the rem edy which, by virtue of its demonstrated curative powers In all afflictions of the skin, has forced recognition to itself as the alleviator of the most distressing skin diseases. Its action is pleasant, soothing, positive and almost instantaneous. It is not greasy and will not stain the skin. The first application of "SANADOR" re lieves the smarting. Itching, distressing condition of the skin. Because of ita won derful penetrating powers, it attacks the parasite causing the diseased condition, kills It and then builds up thf tissues to their normal state. For dandruff, pimples and plant poisoning BRIXKLET'S "SAX ADOB" is without equal. For sale and guaranteed by Rex Phar tnacy, 1000 Kansas ave. Boston, March 2. The action of the American Woolen company is ex pected to have far-reaching effect in the woolen industry of the country. It is expected by mill men that many of the independent mills also will de cide to advance wages. There also is a stron gfeeling in Boston textile circles that the action of the American Woolen company, Ar lington mills and Uswoco mills in Lawrence in posting notices of a wage advance will contribute materially to a speedy ending of the strike. Extends to Haverhill. Havreill, Mass., March 1. An advance in wages in the woolen mills here at Xorth Andover and Frank lin, X. H., owned by the M. T. Stev ens Sons Co., was announced today. The amount of the increase was not specified. The company employs about 2,000 hands. Pacific Mills Post Advance. Lawrence, March 1. Xotices of an advance in wages March 4 were posted in all the cotton mills of the Pacific corporation today. The Pacific mills in Lawrence employ more than 5.000 operatives and with the plant at Dover, is one of the largest cotton concerns in the country.- The amount of the advance was not given. Oyster Bay, N. T.. March 2. The siege of Sagamore Hill began when Colonel Roosevelt made his first ap pearance in his home town since his de claration of willingness to accept the presidential nomination. A full fledged battalion of correspondents and tele graph operators came down from New Tork with the colonel, ready for the campaign from now until the Republi can national convention meets. For months the colonel has declined to be interviewed while at Sagamore Hill, but today he signalized his en trance into the campaign by lifting the embargo. He was willing to talk, but said there was not a thing to say just now. The impression gathered was that he would do some plain talking before the fight ends. Colonel Roosevelt was pressed for an explanation of opinion concerning the statement given out by Senator Dixon, his campaign manager, in which Presi dent Taft's administration was criti cized sharply. He said he had not read the senator's statement and was not t qualified to express an opinion. He had heard, however, that coercion of fed eral officeholders in the i;outh was charged and said when he was presi dent he had never used his influence with officeholders for his own advant age. The impression was general that the lines of battle would be drawn more sharply as a result of the oroadsids fired by the Roosevelt forces at Presi dent Taft. Colonel Roosevelt made it clear, however, that he intended to do everything in his power to avoid the appearance of attacking the president and to prevent the issue from becoming a personal one. Colonel Roosevelt said he expected to spend the next fortnight largely at Sag amore Hill. His movements after that will depend on how the campaign shapes itself. It Is Colonel Roosevelt's desire to avoid long speaking trips, if possible, but he intends to make short trips for single speeches from time to time. He is being deluged with re quests to visit the West before the Re publican national convention and may decide to do so. Several of the colonel's old friends came down from New Tork with him to spend the night at Sagamore Hill. Ir the party were William Allen White, the Kansas editor; Regis H. Post, for mer governor of Porto Rico; Judge Leonard Hand, of Xew York, and John Bass, brother of the governor of New Hampshire. SANDOW IS UNHURT. Wrestler Says He Merely Lost Wind in Fall. His STRIKERS STAND PAT Refuse to Budge From Their Original Demands. Lawrence, Mass., March 2. The general strike committee of the indus trial workers voted to insist on their original demands, namely a wage in crease of 15 per cent, double pay for overtime work, the abolition of the premium system and no discrimination against strikers. The committee also voted to insist that J. J. Ettor and Giovannitti, strike leaders now in jail awaiting action on charges of being accessories to murder, be released. A committee of the strikers went to Boston to meet the mill owners. OUSTER WRIT IS DENIED Missouri Supreme Conrt Holds Against State in It. It. Case. Wichita, March 2. Sandow, the Chicago wrestler, reported injured last night by falling from the mat to the cement floor, is around town to day unhurt. "I lost my wind for a few minutes, that was all." said the wrestler. X. Y. Americans Start South. Xew York, March 2. A squad of players of the Xew York American league team leaves here today for At lanta, where Manager Harry Wolver ton will get his team into condition for the season. Other players will join the party at Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washington. Manager Wolverton is already in Atlanta. "Why are you sobbing, my little mann?" "My pa's a millionaire philanthropist." "Well, well, that's nothing to cry about." "It ain't, ain't it? He's just promised to give me $6 to spend at Christmas, pro vided I raise a similar amount." Life. Jefferson City, Mo., March 2. The Missouri supreme court today denied 1 the writ of ouster asked by the state J against the Missouri Pacific, Iron I Mountain and Wabash railroads.- the) Pacific Express company and the Refrigerator Transit company. Heavy Snotv at Wichita. Wichita, March 2. Two inches of snow fell in southern Kansas this morning. The temperature is 28 above zero and indications are that the snow will be followed by rain. Doubly Checked Prescriptions Are Safe Every prescription brought here is filled by an expert then another expert careful ly checks it a second time. Only by employing: four ex pert registered pharmacists can we keep two of them, constantly on duty. Thus we have gained the name of The Prescription Drug Store The store most physicians recommend. No un reasonable charges. STANSFIELDS DRUG STORE 632 Kansas Avenua Model 35 Price $1,000. With Top, Glass Front, Prest-O-Litc Tank, $1,060 17 O Motor Cars Power and Silence The Buick has always been known as a car of great power. This power, or, to be more exact, economy of power, has been for seven years the central idea in the construction of Buick Cars. During that time stability of frame and parts, to support this power with steadiness and silence, has been' the object of endeavor at the great Buick Plant. This has been accomplished the Buick today, besides be ing a car of giant power, operates as smoothly and silently as it is possible for a motor to run. To bring about the perfect workmanship and adjustment that make this possible all parts except magnetos. carburetors, colla. lamps and tires are manufactured at the Buick Plant. Xo essential parts of running gear or motor, chassis or body are entrusted to out side makers. Every Buick ist a harmonious piece of machinery from rear axle to radiator, designed and built under one engineering and construc tive supervision. Five Models, priced according to power and size $850. $1,000, $1,075, $1,250, $1,800. One-ton Buick Truck, $1,000. Catalogue showing the various models Bent on request. THE CAPITAL AUTO AND SUPPLY CO. 119-123 East Seventh Street SUPPLIES STORAGE-REPAIRS LIVERY rtr ymn niiiiiiifc w iininUi1 1 mmm-'' -tin ti 7s) SAFETY the six tows of heavy rubber studs positively prevent skidding:. SERVICE with the extra thickness of the studs Republic Stzgeztd Tread Tires present a riding surface equal to two ordinary smooth tread tires, and wear twice as long. ECONOMY eliminate the cost of chains and other non-skidding devices and because of their extreme thickness are seldom punctured. Send for our free book "The Tire Perfect" TOPEKA AUTO TIRE fti 916 Kansas Ave. is-'.H HIIUliu III 1.1 II III Vulcanizing Works DISTRIBUTERS PHona 985 Topska. Kansas. 'IU'fc.. ihiiiiiiiwpwsi .im.l I. CHiiuc CTs.bca.no Teo rAT.3tPT.ia-as -a mm Electrical Power Equipments Direct and alternating current motors for every service. Numerous motors in stock for immediate delivery. The Machinists Electric Co. 108 W. Sth St. Phone 634 HEADLEE BASS PRACTICAL PLUMBERS Located 60 1 Topeka Ave. Eipht in the heart of the of residence district. Jay L. Headlee properly done. Prompt service, W. M. Baas Phone Ind. S29 in fitiSsislM J. L. EDO Y.CONTRACTOR 110 East 9th Street, Ind: Phone 1625. Repairing and Jobbing Some things xnav be put oB until tomorrow, but the news you must bava todar. The r State Journal publishes today' -s i.ewa today. MM1H1 I MM I 1 I 1 I IM C. C SMITH Merchant Police Ind. Tel. 2371 Red. 1017 Monroe St. Try a State Journal Want. Journal Ads Get Results. J

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THE TOPEKA. DAILY STATE JOURNAL MARCH ,2, 1912 V HOLLAND IS READY Drummers Fit to Start Season Today, Boss Believes. St. Joe Magnate Has 14 !New Players This Tear. HE WAITS ON TWO STARS Fans Will Not Know Till April TVho They Are. Comiskey Is to Furnish Two Good Men. St. Joseph, Mo., March 3. When the Chicago White Sox come to st. .losrinh April 6 and 7 for their exhibi tion games the Drummer lineup will ho completed, but not until then will the names of the two players pur rhssed bv Holland be known. Boss Jack is depending on the Sox to fill two important positions lor mm first base and one of the outfield spots. It may be that Borton and cither Powell or Kelly will be turned hack to the Drummers, in which event Holland will be perfectly satisfied, but it is by no means certain. Tex Jones will probably never wear a Drummer uniform again. The big Kansan is in demand elsewhere and in case he fails to make good with the Sox he will be grabbed by some other major league club or one of the American associa tion teams. The Drummers, as they stand to day, look fit to enter the 1912 mara thon for the rag. Holland believes that he has lined up a strong combi nation and will be able to turn out a winner. With. Doctor Jay Andrews as field captain and assistant manager, plenty of new talent and the promise of two good men from the Sox, there is no reason for his thinking other wise. The Drummer Iiineup. The Drummer roster is as follows: Pitchers Errett, Hill, Freeman, Johnson, Chellette, Wheatley, Crutch- er. Dull and McDonnell. Catchers Gossett, Castle, Clare and Phelps. Infielders Wintz, Meinke, Soffel, Coppes, Liowthers, Newman, McClel lard and Doc Andrews. Outfielders Zwilling, Watson and Sam Powell. The players have been ordered to report for the spring training be tween March 10 and 15 and Holland will send out transportation shortly after the first of the month. It was his intention to take the players to Excelsior Springs to train, but on ac count of poor accommodations' the plan was abandoned. Dick Gossett is the only holdout in the Drummer sqtiad and he is expect ed to come into the fold by the first of next week. The contracts of all of the other players have arrived at headquarters. Holland Has Fourteen New Men. A perusal of the Drummer lineup shows the names of fourteen new men. Three of them are pitchers, thne are catchers, six are infielders and two are outfielders. With all of the last year's pitching staff back with the exception of Jimmy Durham, and the addition of Errett' and Dull, the twirling department looks O. K. Errett is a Mink league star. He was with Humboldt last year. He is a southpaw. Dull is a young pitcher from Ohio, recommended by Jimmy Hamilton, who says he has the class for Western league company. Castle, who was with the Drum mers a short time last summer, is a likely young backstop and ought to make a good running mate for Gos sett. Joe Wintz and Gus Soffell, two of the new infielders, come highly rec ommended. Holland expects Soffel to cover second base and Wintz will be placed at third. Lowthers and Andrews are both third basemen, while Newman and McCellard can play any of the infield places except first base. Paying Season Is Expected. In Watson, the outfielder purchased from the Burlington club of the Cen tral association. Boss Jack believes he has a star. Watson led the C. A. in extra base hits, runs scored and stol en bases last year. He is fast, hits the ball hard and always has a good fielding record. Sam Powell is a brother of Rabbit Powell. He played with the Trinidad club for a time last year. The prospects for a successful year in baseball here are exceptionally bright. All Holland needs is a club that can play good ball and stick around somewhere in the first divi sion to play to big crowds here all summer. The Boosters" club is plan ning a monster celebration in con nection with the opening of the base ball season and is raising $1,000 to make It a success. Manager Gear left last night for Hot Springs, where he will boil out for a few days before going to Shreveport to prepare for the coming of the team. The players will report March 12. Five days later they will play Detroit. Gear is pleased with the prospects. The manager denies that he is without a catcher. He says he knows Schmidt has the goods. And he promised to pick out five good pitchers from the squad before he aid goodbye. Emory has kicked in with his con tract. His signature ends the Kaw holdouts. Fugate still refuses to sign, but his holding out is not re garded as serious by the manager, even if he continues it. In ease he comes in now he will face a penalty BOXING AT ITS HEIGHT. vA jx l:l fi CARL MOT2I2tS KNOCKOUT 1RQWK New York, March 2. This month will see the ring game at its height. Many fights of real import ance are to be held over the world. In New York alone thirty-five boxing clubs are now bidding for popu lar favor and staging the best men possible to secure. K. O. Brown o New York, Carl Morris, Packey McFar land are only three of the many who will appear. t V, .1 1 i. it ,t 4-Vi r 1 T 1 CT er ne wans ine larger trie aiuuuui. be. Fugate has a lot of friends here who will be for him if he behaves lliinseiL. JDUL iney are :iul I 1 I 1 T 1 I III. II W1IU 1 1 1 J 1 1 show for holding out than the south- siue lowan. inis is auvuu nh"' i r V. II iaL cnance. jaci m iiedims mark. If he does not get up this t i i r vtA year ix s no majors iur un. Ai- 1 I 1 1 1 KiliaVACI l A I.'" ItiLV ill L VI' HI i n. could send the erratic and ease-loving one nigner. nowever, tuata cumc ly up to Jack. Latest report sends Cri.Tp to the Beaneaters. Goodbye, Joe. Hope you stick. The start of the training season at hand means something new in local baseball circles. Never before has such an effort been made to get the local team into winning shape before the o pening of the season. Trips to Kansas City and St. Marys have previously been the extent of tne training trip. The management is nothinor if not deserving of commen dation for this effort to bring TopeKa into ohamoionshio baseball class. Not another club in the league is operat ing on as large a scale as the local one during the training period. Tvannrnrth a Tid AtnVlisOTl A r a f ter the Lawrence franchise in the In ter City league. iawrence ians arc ripe for baseball, but the manage- park established last year. NEW LEAGUES MAY BE LEGAL. Herrmann Has Plan to Make Friends or Them. Cincinnati, March 2. A new deal in baseball whereby the new Columbian and possibly the United States leagues will come under the protection of the national agreement is intimated in a story published here today. The story, said to be semi-official, states that Chairman Herrmann of the national baseball commission, will present the matter to that body for official con sideration. It follows in part: "A new deal in baseball whereby the men who have been trying to break into baseball limelight will come in as auxiliaries and warm friends of the old magnates is under way and under fair discussion. "The angles are: Utilization of the ball parks in the one-club cities of the major leagues for the younger league games during the absence of the senior teams; acceptance of a club on the north side of Chicago balanced by the withdrawal of the junior league from St. Louis. "The new league to have a chance at the extra players who are now turned back by the majors. "The new league to be run and managed wholly by its own promoters." JOE WOOD VISITS IN KANSAS. series against the Philadelphia Ath letics last fall. Joe Wood will report to the Boston American training camp at Hot Springs, Ark.,, on March 10. Wood is now regarded as the best of the Red Sox pitchers. He has participated in the opening games each year. SAXDOW HURT IN FALL. Delivuk's Opponent Thrown Out of liing Onto Chair. Wichita, Kan., March 1. Chicago Sandow, light weight wrestler, was seriously injured in a fall from the ring in a wrestling match at the Wichita Forum. Sandow was wrest ling Charles Delivuk of this city. The men fell through the ropes locked to gether, into the chairs around a re porters table and onto the cement floor. Delivuk was not injured but Sandow struck a chair across his back and spine and was picked-up unconscious. He was taken to a lo cal hospital where he is reported con scious, but in a critical condition. De livuk refused to claim the match. Neither man had gained a fall when the accident occurred, the match hav ing gone 45 minutes. FERNS WHIPS DESHUER AGAIN. Former Salt Packer Calls on Friends in Hutcliinson. Hutchinson, Kan., March 2. Joe Wood, former Salt Packer, and Hutch inson's star pitching contribution to the big leagues, is in the city, meeting old friends and recalling old times when he played with Bill Zink and others in the old Western association. Joe is bigger and stronger than ever, and, say girls he isn't married. That was all a mistake about Joe being caught out at home by a Phila delphia maid. "It was as much of a surprise to me as it was to you when I heard that I was married," said Wood. "I was out on the farm in Pennsylvania at the time. The Boston papers came out with a picture of the girl and myself on the front page. But there was nothing to that." "How about Tj- Cobb?" some fan asked Wood at a fanning: bee in ses sion at the Brunswick smoker. "Is he as good as they say he is?" "Well, I don't seem to be able to throw anything past him," said the ex-Salt Packer modestly. "He must bat about .3o0 off of my dpliverey." One of the things which Joe ex hibited with pride is a handsome dia mond watch fob with a two carat stone presented to him for being one of the All-Stars who played in the Wildcat Too Much for Bostonian in Second Fight. Kansas City, Mo., March 2. Clarence (Wildcat) Ferns, of Kansas City, won from Dave Deshler, of Boston, here after ten rounds of fast fighting. Ferns led throughout the fight and his in-fighting excelled that of the Boston, man. In the fifth round Desh ler sent a right to Ferns' lip which drew blood. This seemed to bother the Kansas City fighter for two rounds but he met his opponent at every angle. The decision giving Ferns the bout was met with cheers from the spectators. HE FAVORS CLEAN SPORT. But Carter H. Harrison Is Against "Fake" Affairs. Chicago, March 2. Mayor Carter H. Harrison has authorized a state ment that he 1 In fat.n, sumption of boxing in Chicago if it uo accompnsnea in such a way that the public will be safeguarded from "fake fights" onH nth. ploitation by unscrupulous promoters. NELSON IN "DRAW" CLASS NOW. Goes Fifteen Even Rounds With Sammy Trott. Davton. O.. Ma Nelson and Sammv TVntt -t r tj tuugut iu rounds to a draw here. Jack Leppner of Milwaukee, and Joe Grimm of Pittsburg, also had a draw in fifteen rounds. BASKETBALL RESULTS Lincoln, Neb., March 2. The Kan sas Jayhawkers were outmatched and decisively defeated at basketball by the Cornhuskers at the Nebraska armory, the proteges of Jumbo Stiehm running away from the Kan sans and winning the opening contest of a two-game series by a score of 49 to 21. Lindsborg. Kan., March 2. "The Ter rible Swedes" met and defeated the famous William Jewell college team of Liberty, Mo., here in a basketball game by the score of 22-23. This game was intensely interesting but a great deal of "rough play" pre vailed. Losing this game was a hard blow to the Jewells, as it was their first defeat this season. BROWN SIGNS THAT CONTRACT. Three Fingered Artist Will Play With Cubs This Year. Chicago, March 2. Mordecai Brown, a pitcher, signed a three-year contract with President Murphy, of the Chicago National league baseball team late today. BILL FOR FREE SUGAR. And a Tax on Individual Incomes Will Go Before the House, Washington, March 2. A bill to put sugar on the free list, eliminating $58,000,000 in customs revenues, and another to extend the present corpora tion tax to include individuals and co partnerships having an income of $5, 000 a year or over, has been ratified by the Democratic caucus of the house. The excise tax, so-called by the ways and means committee, is in effect an income tax. The bill is so drawn that it is expected to comply with the su preme court's decision against the con stitutionality of an income tax. Its effect would be to tax every person who earns more than $5,000 a year In excess of $5,000 at the rate of 1 per cent. The estimate of Chairman Under wood and members of the ways and means committee is that the proposed excise tax would bring in a revenue of between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000 a year. Placing sugar on the free list, the Democratic leaders estimate, will re duce the price to the consumer about a cent and a half a pound. The secret that the members of the ways and means committee had been so closely guarding for several days was the provision to extend the cor poration tax. j In the caucus that bill was not ser- 1 iously opposed. The free sugar bill, however, was bitterly assailed by rep resentatives from Louisiana, the cane sugar state, and representatives from sugar beet growing states. Majority Leader Underwood an nounced that the bills would be re ported to the house in few days. "We simply took the corporation tax law and rewrote it to include indi viduals and co-partnerships," said Mr. Underwood. The president of the United States, should the proposed bill become a law, would pay 1 per cent of $70,000 or $700, his salary being $75,000. ABE RUEF BACK IN FRISCO. THEY LEAD HERE Ewing Herbert Says: "All Roads Lead to Topeka." rKansans Will Always Look to You With Pride." MANY BUSINESS CHANGES Many Topeka Institutions Have Changed Hands. N"ews of General Interest in Real Estate Circles. No Man is Stronger Than His Stomach A strong man is strong all over. No man can be trong who is suffering from weak stomach with its consequent indigestion, or from some other disease of the stomach and its associated organs, which im pairs digection and nutrition. For when the stomach is weak or diseased there is a loss of the nutrition contained in food, which is the source of ail physical strength. When a man "doesn't feel just right," when he doesn't sleep well, has an uncomfortable ieeling in the stomach after eating,-is languid, nervous, irritable and despond cat, be is. losing the nutrition needed to make strength. Socft m man should use Dr. ft erce Golden Medical Di9cwery. it cares diseases of the stomach and other mrtans t diiestlon and nmtrttiaa. It enriches the blood, Inviiorates the liver, strengthens the kidneys, nourishes the nerves, and so GIVES HEALTH 21XO STRENGTH TO THE WHOLE BODY. Yon can't afford to accept a secret nostrum as a substitute for this noti aSeoholio medicine os known courosmoN, not even though the urgent dealer may thereby make a little bigger profit. Ingredients printed oa wrapper. 1 i J 1 r,v -.ra r t- -4 r EX BOSS San Francisco. Feb. 29. Abe Ruef has been brought back here as a wit ness after exactly eleven months in the state penitentiary at San Quentin, where he is serving 'a fourteen year sentence for bribery. The reason of his coming was that the State of Cal ifornia wants him as a witness against his former political ally, former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz. The camera man snapped him at the telephone just as he was telephon- KLEEF ing to his sister and this is one of the most remarkable pictures of the one time political dictator of San Fran cisco. His testimony on the stand is the result of a new law in the nature of an amendment which provides that "hereafter a person offending against the laws of this state is. a competent witness against any other person so offending and may be compelled to at tend and testify upon any trial in the same manner as any other person." "It does seem that' all roads lead to Topeka," said Ewing Herbert, edi tor of the Hiawatha World, in speak ing this week before the members ot the Topeka Advertising club. This statement is true in more ways than one, and wiil be more, than ever true when the branch of the ocean to ocean road leading through the capital city is improved. Topeka is the city of most interest in Kansas to tourists, and it is antici pated that in the summer of 1915 when the world's fairs are in progress os: the Pacific coast thousands of eastern automobilists will come through this city. Topeka is one of the most accessible cities in Kansas, and this together with the fact that it is the seat of govern ment for the state are two reasons why Kansans like to come here, and why the city has become to be recog nized as the "convention city" of the state. There is the old saying that "He that tooteth not his own horn, etc.," but it will not apply to Topeka fr every time a convention is held in the city praises are sounded on every hand, and Topeka is known as the city "beau tiful." Dcatli Rate Is Low. But to quote again from Ewing Her bert there are some qualities which the city possesses that it takes the outsiders to see: "I notice by the bulle tins that your death rate i3 very low 10 per cent and this is a very satis factory thing with which to go before the people. "I have never known anyone wno would not like to come here and enjoy your hospitality. It does seem that all roads lead to Topeka, and that any excuse to come for a Sunday school convention or the legislative assembly is eagerly taken advantage of. The people say this is their duty. I think you have men here who understand advertising. "This country that surrounds 'lo- peka after awhile will be divided up into smaller farms. We will have two million people in the state, and the farmers will be yielding far richer than now. The farmers dig out of the groui'd more money, figuratively speaking, tnan all of the gold and silver mined in the United States and Alaska, 'inis is bound to have its effect not only on this city, but other cities. Look to City Wltn raae. "We will always look to you wiih pride and think of you as our capital city. People looking ror nomes win drift here." "Not built through 'booms' or un natural attractions, Topeka has been able at all times to withstand hard times," is a comment in the current issue of the Commercial Club Bulle tin." It is true that the severe winter nas put a great many men out of employ ment locally, but this nas oeen m case in every city. There are many indications, however, of prosperity in business circles, and the outlook is en couraging. The fact that each month shows an increase in the postal sales at th Toneka postofflce over corres ponding months of former years is sig nificant. New homes are being erected in large numbers for a busy season In the spring and summer months. Are Getting the Habit. The merchants through the Topeka Rebate association are getting me people who reside in the outlying towns in the habit of purchasing their goods in Topeka by offering special inducements. The campaign which the Commercial club started a short time ago in the direction of inducing the citizens of the capital city to buy "Topeka made goods" has already brought results. The campaign is be ing continued, and the last issue of the Commercial Club Bulletin has the fol lowing on the subject: "This sentiment in favor of buying Topeka made goods is taking the city by storm. And it should. It should not stop. It should be an everlasting storm a storm that the city will 1 1 j n tn like. "A Topeka manufacturer said re cently that if Topeka purchasers had patronized his plant as they should in the last tnree years ne em ploying today 500 men instead of 150 men. "Can you beat that? It is simply an every day case. If Topekans wish to shovel coal into the fire boxes of out of town manufactories, they can for get to ask for Topeka made products. But if they wish Topeka smoke stacks to throw a shadow over the Kaw, they have but one thing to do. "Every cent yon spend for home mad a products you increase the value of your property, lessen your taxes, improve the conditions of your city and encourage prosperity. Money spent in Topeka finds its way back to your pocket again. "Try it. and see." Store loyalty Wanted. "Loyalty to Topeka institutions" should be the slogan of every true To pekan. A leading manufacturer in Topeka recently said that within the last three years there had been enough goods which he manufactured and which he could have sold to the buy ers in this city as cheap as anyone could have sold them, purchased out side of the city of Topeka, to have enabled him to increase his working force from 150 to 500, had he been given the contracts for the goods. Do the people of Toptka realize what this means? It keeps the smoke from curling from the stacks of our fac tories and builds up large institutions for other cities. To Help the Factories. Within the next month it ia likely that the Commercial club will have worked out a definite plan whereby it will be possible to raise a large sum of money for the purpose of assisting industries in this city. Secretary J Will Kelley will submit a report of his recent trip through manufacturing cities, to the board of directors in a very few davs. There have been many business changes in Topeka in the past three months. Some business men have moved away from the city, while a great many outsiders have moved to the capital city, having sufficient confidence in the future of the town to cast their lot here. The usual number of retired farmers have moved to the city, some of them with the intention of retiring from active work altogether and others with the intention of using their sur plus capital to get a start in some busi ness. To the latter class undoubtedly belong a number of the 23 men who have taken charge of grocery stores in the city. Many Business Changes. It is a fact that in the past 90 days 23 grocery stores in the city have changed hands. HeYe is the list of changes as recorded in the Merchants' Journal: Miller, Auburndale, sold to Kempton; Beck, 1240 Clay, to Sproul Grocery Co.; T. Kirkpatrick, 1700 Clay, to Jones Grocery Co.; Hill, 1001 Eist Eighth, to Bancroft; Tone Jordon, 226 East Fifth, to A. Shre-ssler; Parsons, S00 West Gordon, to Robins Andei son; Yockey, 1150 Grand, to W. II. Houeer; Vance, Highland Park, .Elinor Chubb; C. E. White, 233 Jefferson. to J. C. Dichlow; Malmburg Oak, 431 Kansas avenue, to Berger Co.; Wil liams, 1135 Kansas avenue, to William Wegele; Hill Echom, 1215 Kansas evenue, to Shumway Son; Willett. 1405 Kansas avenue, to W. I... Osborne: W. L. Osborne. 1633 Kansas avenue, to J. A. Wilson; M. W. Walker, 700 Lane. to M. T. Holt; Roose Bros., Fifteentj and Lane, to Perlne; Patterson, 1319 East Sixth, to J. C. Stewart: Taylor, 400 East Laurent, to Jesse Mace; W. L. Blair, Tenth and Monroe, to C. E, White; A. C. Ticehurst, 501 Faramori:, to L. F. Fraser; C. R. Jones, 1101 Ea.-t Sixth, to S. Butler; Maze Middaugh, 1336 North Topeka avenue, to Al Mid daugh; Morns Myers, 501 West, .l W. E. Alton. In February there were many changes in insurance circles. L. L. Williams, formerly of Chicago, has moved to To peka and has opened an office. He is with the Equitable Life of Iowa. Thera ere other changes too numerous ta mention. Outlook Is Rosy. The snow has teen a drawback in realty circles this week, but several firms report having done good busi ness notwithstanding this fact. Farm property, especially, is in demand. Building rermit3 issued from the of fice of the city fire chief in February totaled $27,072, calling for th erection of 13 houses at an average cost of $1, 500 in round numbers. The aggrcgat: in permits in the past week was over $8,000. Tlie Building Permits. Following sre the permits I!U'ed in the past week: Mrs. Hayes, two story dwelling, 909- 911 King Btreet $.".,D90 Frank G. Swanson, History dwelling, 611 West Third street 1.500 M. Jeffries, one story dwelling, 143-145 Logan street 1,100 F. G. W. Travis, one story dwelling, 1827 Laurel avenue ,ooo D. R. Thompson, one story dwelling, 76-78 The .Drive Small item 'J3 Total i8.-3 RATS in fhs C8.br LUCE Psnfry ROACHES Kitchen Nothing is more disagreeable than a home infested with vermin. Destroy them with Stearns' Electric Rat and Roach Paste, the standard exterminator for more than thirty years. It kills off rats, mice or cockroaches in a single night. Does not blow away like powders; ready for use; nothing to mix. The only exterminator sold nnder an absolute guarantee of money back if it fails. Sold by druggists everywhere. Be sure to get the genuine; 25c and $1.00. Stearns' Electric Paste Co, Chicago, 111. CONSTIPATION, BILL0USNESS, COATED TONGUE, HEADACHE OR BAD STOMACH. Furred Tongue, Bad Taate, Indigastlon, Sallow Skin and Miserable Headaches come from a torpid liver and clogged bowels, which cause your stomach to become filled with undigested food, which sours and ferments like garbage in a swill barrel. That'a the first step to untold misery in- digestion, foul gases, bad breath, yellow skin, mental fears, everything that ;ls horrible and nauseating. A Cascaret tonight will straighten you out by Ixnornlng a 10-cent box will keep you feeling good for months. Millions of men and women take a Cascaret now and then m jiecp tneir siomacn, iiver ana bowels regu lated and never know a miserable moment. Don't forget the children their little Insldea need a good, gentle, cleansing, too, occasionally. liSv EEEUUTE STCrUCfl,UVEn sB370S 7 ltfllll'. .Ifllllki. Vtllt 11lZImW 1 He Mr AlsozSeana 0o kaaaa 0ntf7tar II Horse and Mule Sale Saturday, March 9, 1912 C 100 head of broke Horses, Mares and Mules, con sisting: of brood mares, wagon horses, matched teams of draft and farm chunks, and team mules. Also one black mammoth Jack, 7 years old; also buggies, wag ons and harness. We have on hand at our barns at all times from 50 to 100 head of horses, mares and mules, for sale at private sale. Either cash or time sales. Call and see us. Don't forget our big sale March 9th. Sales made six days in the week. No sales made on Sunday. M. A. FISHER 916 North Kansas Avenue North Topeka Horse and Mule Market s3sishMsstBSssMaK irket L j PAINLESS m ROMIM E NO 5W ...IF m4 a. m n1 -734- KANSAS AVENUE TOPEKA KANSAS Does the Best Dental Work at the Most Reasonable Prices. AH Work Performed PAINLESSLY Tou can afford to pay railroad fare hundreds of miles to have me jrour dental work and still save mont For advertising purposes I am ing the following reduced pricei for ten dava onlr est bet or Teeth, Rubber Base mra uoia t Towns Bridge Work Enameled Crowns TEETH WITHOUT PLATES SOMETHING NEW BUT A PHOVEN SUCCESS T have a method of replacing teetn without resorting to the old raise plates or ordinary bridge work. They do not cover the roof of the mouth, you can taste what you eat. Look and feel as natural as nature's teeth. A solid an a rock. Just the kind of teeth for public singers or speakers. The kind to wear, the best in the world. Come and Investi gate. The cost is nothing. do nxak- ::::j)4 Best Silver HUlnea Best Porcelain Ml lings Loibim J-illlncs -:-:50c A written guarantee for 20 years with all work X .7 e y you caJ1 or 11 7u ve out of the city I can save you many a long, tiresome trip, location. Be sure you are in the offices of PAIN-LESS ROMINE, 734 Kansas Ave. Office Honrs S to C; Sundays 10 to 12; Evenings 7 to 8. BeU Phone 1508. Cleaning Teeth My office facilities enable me to complete your dental work Remembar my

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUENAIi MARCH X 1912 7 i i How I Dress WelL on a Small Allowance "I found out a long time ago that the secret of be ing attractively dressed is not solved by spending per fectly enormous amounts on new clothes. When I buy carments I pet good materials, reasonably con servative styles and then I am alway careful to see that what clothes I DO have are always in the very best condition. This was always a great problem with me, until one day when I got off the car at Ninth street to do some' shopping at Mills, I noticed the sign of the Enterprise Cleaning Co. The place looked good, and I'd heard of it before, but never real ly knew where it Was. "I decided to send tbem an old suit of mine which I knew would be a good test. That suit was dirty, spot ted, wrinkled and worn, but when it came home I hardly knew it. I got three months of good wear out of it, which saved me frcm buying a new one. "At last I have found a really a good cleaner. I find that I can manage to keep quite attractively dressed, even though my allowance is small. JUST STRAW VOTE Effect of Presidential Primary in Kansas. Xo Law to Enforce the Plan Proposed. ARE NOT DF ONE MIND Regular Leaders Think Dolley Scheme Unfair. May Cause Clash With the Con gressional Committees. "I advise YOU to the try Enterprise Cleaning Co. Phones 173 Opposite Mills Store Ahoutfti!?iFolks Mr. Ralph P. Birrell, Advertising: Manager of the "Warren II. Crosby Co., will give an advertising talk at the Success Club meeting Tuesday evening, March 5. Mr. Birrell recent ly came to Topeka from the East, where he was employed with the As sociated Press. The remainder of the program will consist of music and dramatics by the young men. J Ts5s Si. V.t-.:-;..-' The insurgents are sure to make very effort to hold a presidential primary in Kansas this year. State Chairman Dolley is committed to the plan, and so is Governor Stubbs and every Roosevelt supporter in the state. Many Taft men favor the pri mary in the interest or narmony ana on the proposition that a hard fought Drimarv with its majority rule re sult will clear the atmosphere a little In the party. A plan has been evolved that may be labeled the Uoiiey-jacKson- vv nite- Marshall clan, Many of the regulars oppose the plan as impractical, uncertain and out of line with the instructions of the national committee and without any law behind it. Manv people have written the State Journal to inquire about the workings of the plan and its difference from tlie old convention method. The best way to explain the plan clearly and simply is to compare it with the cott vention plan, step by step. The Convention Plan. The convention plan provides that caucuses shall be held in city wards and country precincts on a certain date and at a certain hour. Every Republican voter in that ward or pre cinct may gather at a certain place at the hour designated and out of this mass meeting officers are electee. The mucus resolves itself into a min iature convention and delegates to the county convention are nominated and the allotted number receiving the most vnfps arn elected. The county con vention selects the delegates to the congressional and state conventions, The caucus gives instructions to these delegates if a majority favor any cer tain instructions for any candidate. Tf thp delegate does not like the in structions he can resign and another man can be elected in his stead. Presidential Primary Plan The presidential primary plan for Kansas this year "provides that on a certain date to be agreed upon by the state committee the wards and pre cincts of the state are to select dele gates to the state and congressional i-onventions. Instead of a caucus a polling place is to be provided which is to be open from noon to seven o'clock in the evening. The county chairman has charge of the affair. He orders tne Dauois printed and has them distributed. The precinct or ward committeeman Is to act as one judge and the voters who are assembled when the polls open se lect the other -:$udge; The ballots contain the" names of the candidates for president and vice president and delegates. They are voted for just as an ordinary election ballot is cast, which is to say a cross is made in the square opposite the name of the person preferred by" the voter. The candidate for president receiv ing the most votes of that precinct is to be the choice of that precinct for president and this majority is in it self an instruction to the delegates at the congressional and state conven tions that will be favorable to this candidate. To get the names of the candidates for president and delegates on the pre cinct ballot it is necessary to resort to the petition system, just as in the case of the regular primary. The presidential candidates must have 500 names on their petitions1 from ten counties, and the candidates for dele- snto most have one per cent of tne party's county vote. Now Comes the Rub. The national committee, in its call for the national convention, declared that delegates should be fleeted by conven tion, except in states where there is a presidential primary law. It may be taken from this that the national con vention will not recognize delegates elected by primary from states having presidential primary law. So the appoint any one he wants to take charge of the county primary in case the county committeeman refuses or fails to act. This gives too much power to the state chairman, argue the regu lars: But the progressives argue that the county chairman ought to accept his responsibilities. If he is a progres sive and fails to respond the progres sives gain nothing. If he is a regular he shirks his duty to his faction if he fails to act. Each of the eight congressional dis tricts of the state is entitled to two delegates to the national convention These-will be selected at the congres sional conventions. Then four dele gates at large will be selected by the state convention, making twenty in all. It is said that a majority Of the state committee favor the primary plan and will adopt it at the committee meeting the middle or last of this month. But on the other hand the regulars de clare that there will be a merry wax in the committee meeting before the pian gets through with the O. K. of the majority. From this distance it looks like some kind of a primary wiu D6 tnea out, out the Dolley- JacK- son-White-Marshall plan may be mod ified and the list of its progenitors in creased by a regular or two. May Cause a Clash. Another serious obstacle to the pri mary plan is the fact that its adou tion by the state committee may bring aoout a clash with the congressional committees of the state. The congres sional committees may prefer the old convention plan and refuse to recog nize the authority of the state commit tee to provide for primary delegates to congressional conventions. The congressional committees could go ahead and hold their regular conven tions in defiance of the primary con ventions provided for and then de pend upon the natioal conventions to seat the regular convention delegates. II the congressional committees balk, and some of them are sure to balk, the presidential primary will only result in electing four delegates to the Chicago convention out of twenty. No Law Behind It. Another and vital objection to the plan is that it has no law behind it. No weight of authority or precedent. It is voluntary and not binding. It is irregular and apt to be of no more accuracy or certainty in recording party preference than a straw vote or street poll. It is not at all certain that the national convention will ac cept primary delegates having no pri mary law. A primary without a pri mary law behind it and rigid and law ful regulations and restrictions is noth ing more than a big straw vote or poll conducted by certain members of the state and county committees instead of by private individuals. REPORTJS FILED Special Anditors Say District Clerk Owes, County $21,692. This Due for Fees Collected hy Him." THOMAS SAYS IT'S WRONG Beady to Pay "What Is Justly Due. Sflf You 6(S Question That the Courts Must Decide. can irrigation, plant a crop TWO MONTHS IN JAIL. Sentence Dealt Out to Mrs. Pank hurst and Two Other "Women. MU. IIAT.PH P. BIRREI.Ti. Advertising Manager of the Warren M. Crosby Co. Mrs. Wood, formerly Miss Miller, whose home is now in Idaho, gave the practical talk at the school Wednes day afternoon. Mrs. Wood started with Crane Co. as a stenographer and the last year she was in their em ploy made $2,100. This, is an in stance of what, a woman can do in business. Miss Maude Ward, who has been taking the stenographic course in the night school, has taken a position with Headlee Bass, plumbers. Mrs. Effie M. Lohrman has taken a position as stenographer with Mr. Jjuther of the Capper Publications. Also Mr. Fred W. Begeman. has been employed as stenographer in the same department. Miss Eva Johnson Is doing steno ETraohie work for Mr. W. M. Shaver, Secretary of the Scottish Rite Masons, Masonic Building, and Miss Francis Clare for the Kansas Farmer. EE Our New Photo Mounts and Folders for Spring The ewellest line that ever came to Topeka. BOEGER'S STUDIO 707 Kansas Ave. Kansas primary plan proposes to meet the national committee requirements by electing instructed delegsftes to the state convention and the congressional conventions by the primary plan in stead of the. old caucus plan. These delegates once elected the rest of the proceedings in relation to selecting del egates to the national convention are exactly the same as by the old conven tion methods, in fact, they are selected by regular conventions. However, these delegates are primary delegates and not caucus delegates. The, argument in favor of the former is that it means that a larger number of the rank and file of the party takes part in their selection, each voter re cording his preference without undue influence. The above is the whole plan in a nut shell and made as plain and simple us possible. The judges must serve with out pay. So must the county commit teemen and state committeemen. The primary ballots from the precincts are sent to the state committee chairman for the official count just as the regu-la- primary ballots are sent to the sec retary of state. The cost of the ballots and their dis tribution will form the principal ex pense of the primary. The plan pro vides that this cost be borne by each county committee the" money to be raised the same as other money in the usual primary campaign way. Power or State Chairman. A serious exception to the plan ss taken by the regulars is that provision that empowers the state chairman to Ask Your Doctor You could not please us better than to ask your doctor about AVer's Cherry Pectoral for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis. Thousands of families always keep it in the house. The ap proval of their physician and the experience of many years have given them great confidence in this cough medicine. 3.C. Aw Co.. Lowell. Mus. London, March 2. Mrs. Pankhurst, Mrs. Tukes and Mrs. Marshall, the three leaders of last evening's window smashing campaign by which the suf fragettes succeeded in terrorizing the London tradesmen were today sen tenced each to two months impris onment. They were the first three of the 124 women who were arrested in the course of the street demonstra tions and who are to be arraigned at the Bow street court chiefly on charges of causing willful damage to stores in Bond street. Piccadilly, Re gent street, Oxford street, the Hay- market and the Strand as well as other busy shopping streets. The attorney for the prosecution announced in court today that the to tal damage done by the suffragettes in their stone throwing manifestation was estimated at $25,000 and on be half of the government he stated that the time had now arrived when the consideration which had been hither to shown in connection with suffrag ette raids could no longer be allowed. The friendly audience that has heretofore been present in the police court at suffragette prosecutions was absent. The benches were occupied bv sympathizers with the storekeep ers whose premises had suffered dam age. The sentences of the three lead ers were received with applause. On the delivery of the sentence by the magistrate Mr?. Pankhurst declar ed that she intended to go farther when she came out of prison and that the suffragettes were prepared to go to the fullest iimit, to show the gov ernment that women were going to secure the vote. Sentences ranging from a fortnight to two months were pronounced on several prisoners but most of the women were committed for trial at the London sessions as the damage com mitted by each of them exceeded $25. About thirty cases were dealt with to day, the remainder being -adjourned. GUTTING DIES ON TRAIN His Rate Witli Death Ends at Rock Island, HI. New Tork, March 2. Willipna Bay ard Cutting, the well known lawyer, director of many corporations and leader in social and civic movements in this city, died on a train while be ing brought home from the west, ac cording to a private telegram received by his brother, Robert Fulton Cutting. The telegram was sent from Rock Island, 111., by Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting and her daughter, Olivia, who hur riedly left here last Sunday upon hearing that Mr. Cutting was serious ly sick with acute indigestion at Tu cumcari, N". M. They found him in a serious condition and started east with him on a special train, hoping, to reach home before he died. Mr. Cutting was 72 years old. He was a multi-millionaire and held di rectorship in numerous large corpora tions. He was a member of many well known clubs and prominent in civic affairs. As chairman of the com mittee -of 70,. he led the successful campaign for' the election ,0f Seth; Low as mayor and William T. Je rome as district attorney in-1901. GET INSURANCE MONEY Chance Meeting Leads to Discovery of Death1 of Relative. St. Joseph, Mo., March 2.- An ac cidental meeting between his wife and a woman friend led relatives of Jerry TT Arnold in St. Xoseph to learn that he had been drowned in El Paso, Tex., last September. Mrs. Arnold was sur prised when the friend tried to extend her sympathy and was informed her husband, who had been missing for year, was dead. She wrote to Ar nold's mother here and a brother was sent to El Paso, where the body was eshumed and identified. A large amount of insurance will now be collected. After working Just four days less than six months on the job, the special ac countants employed by Shawnee county. have filed their report on one office. This report covers the office of clerk of the district court and charges that Richard L. Thomas owes to Shawnee county $21,692.71 from the earnings of his office from January 1, 1907, to Au ust 31,-1911. The report from the accountants went to, the county board at 5 o'clock Friday evening. Clerk Thomas and his attorneys were, not notified that the report had been filed. The first inti mation which Thomas received that the report was completed, was when he was asked for a newspaper interview concerning the figures contained in the statement. After looking over the re port and taking no official action, the board placed the document on file. With the county clerk they gave the bulky document to a morning paper for publication, without themselves going on record or electing to stand on the claims of the accountants. Similar action was taken by the board when the Koening report was filed, in Aug ust. After causing its publication, the board held a special session and repudi ated the report. In arriving at the conclusion that Shawnee county's share of the earn ings in the clerk's office is more thaa $21,000, the auditing firm presents a bulky document burdened with figures and notations and conclusions of law. These figures were reached after the accountants had spent weeks in the clerk's office, had sent their findings to experts for compilation and by these men were compelled to verify and alter many items. Less than two months was spent by Thomas and two auditors employed at his personal expense in covering the same period of business in the office. On the findings made in this report. Thomas will stand. This report shows, there is due the county about $4,000. If the county board concludes to ac cept the report of their auditors, issues will be drawn and the question of a division of fees in the clerk's office will be settled in the courts. Report of Special Auditors. The report gives the total collections in the clerk's office in the four years and eight months at $41,250.98. Litiga tion costs are given at $34,937.87, with fees for copying documents at $2,952.63. Then the report claims for the county $3,360.43 in unclaimed and lapsed fees. Judgments and bonds for costs in the clerk's hands are given at $11,342.J5. The auditors claim a deficit of $10, 942.43 in bank deposits, but hold only a technical question of one day in re cording the deposit. Their figures shew 3-22,092.66 in the banks to cover a net liability of $33,035.06. But the alleged deficit of August 31, is admittedly off set by a deposit by Thomas on Sep tember 1, of $10,046.25. Following a long recitation of find ings in the office,, the report criticises the methods in use in the clerk's ofPce End suggests an established system of bookkeeping. It also raises a quest:-on concerning the payment of $40 in feea to County Auditor Larimer. Then the regular auditor is taken to task. He is criticised for not enforcing the sub mission by the clerk of quarterly re ports to the board. No reference is made in the report to the law requir ing the board to insist on these re ports at the risk of a heavy penalty or forfeiture of their jobs. Some idea is given the public con cerning the volume of business han dled in the clerk's office, in the state ment contained in the report, which shows that 3,912 cases were canvassed' in the audit. In this statement, the board is advised that the figures shown on the fee books in 1,763 cases do not correspond with the amounts collected by the clerk. It is charged that Thomas collected more in these cases than his fee book calls for. After criticising him for this action, the auditors take the amounts collected and apportion to the county their full share of the "illegal fees"- under a very broad- and uncertain construction of the statutes. Action will probably be taken on the report at the Monday session of the board. It is generally agreed by both the rrn-mbers of the board and attorneys for Thomas that the question of a division of the fees must be set tled in the courts. "We have taken no action at all as yet," said F. B. Simms, chairman of the board today in discussing the re port, "and have merely placed it on file. No, we did not notify Mr. Thomas that the report was received and have said nothing to him about it." Commissioner Shimer was of the opinion that the report had been for mally accepted. This theory: is not borne out in the commissioners', rec ords and is denied by Simms: "Thomas got his notice of the- re-: port through the papers and that ought to be enough," said Shimer to day. "He can now come before the board and say what he wants to do buy a 10-acre farm under to plow, ready to s vear about six Mexico ready hi miles from Las Vegas, New -along side the Santa Fe R UNDER THE TEN LAKES IRRIGATION SYSTEM I recently purchased 1400 acres of land under the irrigation system of the Ten Lake Land Company and have been appointed agent for the State of Kan sas for the sale of 30,000 acres of their land, which has just been put under irrigation and is now ready for settlement. There are already 5000 acres owned by this com pany under a high state of cultivation, producing alfalfa, oats, barley, and wheat equal to any irrigat ed lands in the United States. Our terms for the purchase of the first 5000 acres with perpetual water right, are $60.00 per acre, $6.67 cash, $6.66 in one year, $6.66 in two years, and $40.00 due in ten years, deferred payments to draw six per cent interest. This is a proposition of unusual merit, and we stand ready to make good our assertion, that is if locatibn of the land, fertility of soil and abundant water is what you want in an ideal climate. We want you to examine our numerous storage reservoirs, the soil, compare our prices with those of less favored districts, and be your own judge. After you have personally inspected this property and do not find everything as represented we will refund your expenses incurred in making the examination For Further Information, Address .OHIREK 504- New England Building Topeka, Kansas Relieves Sloan's Liniment is a great rem edy for backache. It penetrates and relieves the pain instantly. SIOAM'S IIMMENT is also good for sciatica. Mr. Fletcher Koiumur, of whluier, Cslif., writes 44 1 had mr back lort In th Boer war. I triad all "kinds of dope without sneeesa. Two weeks ajro I pot a bottle of Slnsn's Liniment to trr. The first application earned instant relief." SoU by n uniiws. MMlSe.nt.tii.ot. Dr. Earl S. Sloan Boston, Mass. about It. I do not think the board was duty bound to tell him that the report was on file. As to future ac tion, that has not been settled, but a. formal demand will be made on the clerk for the money claimed under the report." Edwin Xj. O'Neil was busy this morning. "The report ha3 been placed on file," said the commissioner. "Has it been accepted?" was asked. There was a buzzing: sound- in the telephone receiver. Mr. O'Neil had ended the Interview and returned to his law books. Not until last night at 9 o'clock, Clerk Thomas said, did he know that the report had been received by the county board. He has not yet been furnished with a copy of the report or seen the original document, al though it was turned over to a news paper for publication without bearing any note of official action by the men who gave it. Will Stand by Court Decision. "It would be impossible to make a definite statement until I have seen the report," said Thomas, "and I was given no notice by the board that the report was to be filed. The first inti mation I received concerning the mat ter-was when I was asked for an in terview concerning the items in the report. "So far as the fees are concerned I have already turned over to the county more money than any of my predecessors. Ir I owe the county one penny, I will certainly pay 1t. People who have followed this matter,, know something of the circumstances of the audit. All I have asked has been a fair, square deal, There has been no effort on my part to-fool the people and .1- want them to know the facts. But there is a .difference of opinion concerning the construction of the law and on this matter even our best lawyers differ. It is an honest differ ence.' The courts must settle this mat ter and I am perfectly willing to abide by their decision. '-'In the effort to discredit my office, I believe the men who have tried this method have failed.-. Attorneys and litigantsovho have daily business with my. office, know, something of my methods and their opinion, --1 think, will carry some weight. "Following my own private audit, I paid to the county the amount my report-showed to be due under the con struction of the statutes given by my attorneys. I realize that the final de cision rests with the courts and I cheerfully abide by their decree." FIND AM HONEST COP Pays for Every Drink and Cigar In Twenty-Three Years. Chicago. March 2. Policeman Chri3 DTessel, said" to be a model for honesty in the department, resigned last night after completing 23 years' service. He declares that during the time he was a policeman he never took a drink or a cigar from a saloonkeeper without pay ing for it. Chief of Police McWeeny, who has known him all of this time and who worked with him for several years, vouches for the statement. "The day I joined the force," said Dressel, "I made a vow that I would never accept a favor from a saloonkeeper. Many times they have pushed my money back to me but I always made them take it. "The trouble with most policemen Is they start out wrong. When they get a star and a uniform they imagine they are privileged to drink and omoke at the expense of saloonkeepers. That has been tne downfall of scores of them." Dressel will receive a pension of $50 a month. TAKES BRIBE MONEY. Court Fines Franklin $1,000 for Tam pering With Jurors. Don't Worry About Monday wsl59 AND Los Angeles, March 2. Bert H Franklin, the former McNamara de tective who pleaded guilty to a charge or Having anempiea to influence a juror in the trial of James B. McNa mara, was fined $4,000 by Judge George H. Cabaniss, who pronounced Franklin's conduct "damnable." The $4,000 is the sum now in the hands of the district attorney, "which was al leged to have been taken from Frank lin when he was arrested charged with having attempted to bribe Venireman George M. Lockwood three days be fore the McNamara brothers con fessed. W. Joseph Ford, assistant district attorney, urged leniency. Ford stated that there was another case pending in the court and that the state needed Franklin's co-operation and testimony. Franklin could have demanded com plete immunity.; Ford said, because of the Importance, of his evidence in the pending Darrow case. He asked the court to fine Franklin $4,000 and im pose r.o other punishment. It w-as said that the fine was not to be paid; immediately. The state de sired to use the detective's $4,000 as evidence in the trial of Darrow. FIGHT FOR CUPID COW Magistrate Knocked Down by Asso ciate Who Wanted Fee. Jeffersonville, Ind.. March 2. Keen competition between local magistrates who employ runners to meet elonimr couples from Kentucky, caused an alter cation which resulted in the arrest of Magistrate Oscar L. Hay yesterdav. Hay- admitted he knocked Thomas Mccormick down when McCormiok, runner for a rival magistrate, used Hay's telephone to arrange for a weddirwr. Hav was fined $00 in the mayor's court. WASHING In The Snow Home Washing in the best of weather is a poor econ omy, but in such a blizzard it's pure folly. Why not just settle down in your cozy home and for jret the disagreeable thought that wash day suggests Step to the 'Phone and call for one of our wagons. We'll do that family wash so thoroughly and carefully it will delight you. Washings called for, laun dered, flat pieces ironed and the whole of it delivered "5c lib. THE Topeka Laundry COMPANY PHONES 153 OFFICIAL 'Watch Inspector OF THE Santa Fe Railroad The most skillful Watch Adjust ing Service In the city. A full and complete line of High grade Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry. Repairing a Specialty. R. H. MOREHOUSE Holiday Place. Opposite bants I'o Depot.

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BkM Mil sLdrf MklhC Tk" 300k laned over ker MR. HENNESSY was much disturbed over a recent visit of members of a royal fam ily to New York. Who's this Jook iv Connaught, anny how?" he demanded. "Who ilicted him?" I'll niver tell ye," said Mr. Dooley. I lived th' betther part iv me life, th' first ten years, within a stone's throw iv Connaught an' often threw it an' I niver heerd tell iv him. But jook he is whether Connaught knows iv it or not. Ye see, Hinnissy, 'tis this way: I undherstand be th' pa-apers that he's a brother iv th' late king iv England. So whin he come to be baptized 'twas up to him to pick out some part iv th' king's realms to rule over. I don't know why this is so, but 'tis so. Well, not bein'.very ma chure at th' time he thought Connaught was part iv th' king's realms, th' poor, misguided in fant, an' he picked it out f'r himsilf. Whin he grew up he lamed diff'rent, but thin it was too late to correct th' mistake. But he don't live in Connaught. Life manes too much to him. He ain't a member iv th' Connaught man's assocya tion. If ye're thinkin' iv writin' him askin' per mission to go back 'twill do ye no good. A letther addhressed to him in his rile dukedom wud be returned be th' postmasther marked 'No such party known here.' "Well, th poor man found th' time hangin' heavy on his hands, so his nephew that's king iv England now sint him out to govern Canada. Whin th' jook got there he found Canada was so thurly governed already be th' Canajien Passyfic railroad that there was hardly anny governin' left f'r him to do. All th' governin' th' gov'nor gin'ral iv Canada does is Iarnin' to skate an' goin' to his wife's parties. Th' jook is a smart man an active, an' whin he cud stand it no long er he up an' wrote to his nephew an' says he: Ye must find me a job. I have a large family an' I need wurruk. I can't stay around th' house all day.' "Th' king was in Indya at th' time lettin' his Ifle subjicks see him. 'Tis an idee iv kings that they have to be seen be their subjicks to keep thim lile. I think 'tis a mistake. If I was a king th' on'y way wan iv me subjicks cud see me wud be to peek through th' blinds an' thin I'd have him kilt to keep him fr'm tellin' th' others what he saw. But, annyhow, th' king was enthusyastically rayceived. Wan pa-aper says Th' silence as his majesty proceeded through th' gr-reat throngs iv dark-hued natives was far, far more impressive thin mere cheerin'.' On'y wan thing marred th' visit. This was whin th' Gookwar iv Barooma, a fellow with no more manners thin a throlley car conductor, was in throjooced. Instead iv doin' th' customary Whitelaw Reid in th' rile prisince this here steve dore was heerd to say, 'What name?' an' afther sthrikin' a match on th' sole iv his shoe walked off smokin' a cigareet. There was th' diwle to pay over this break. Th' Indyan governmint sint a letther to th' Gookwar demandin' an apology. I don't know what they were goin' to do to him if he didn't crawl maybe they cud put him in jail or p'raps rayjooce him to th' ranks an' sind him out to pound th' pavemint. Annyhow he took no chances. He wrote a letter sayin' he meant no disrespict, but he was thinkin' iv some thing else. Where was I O, yes. Well, whin th' king got th' jook's demand f'r wurruk he says to him silf: 4 1 must do something f'r Uncle Arthur, THE TOPEKA DAILY If an ske took a pitcker iv kim. f'r he was good to me whin I was a boy,' an' he sits down an' writes to him: I'm sorry there's so little left. Ye shud've spoke arlier. But I'll tell ye what ye might do. Th' on'y wan iv me "provinces that I haven't paid much attintion to is th' City iv New York, an' I've been so sure iv the lilety iv ivrybody there that has anny loose change in his pants pocket an' they're all that count that I haven't thought 'twas nicissry. But do ye jump on a thrain ar' go down an' look thim over an' if ye like th' place ye can have it.' So th' jook he wint to New York. I'll say this about th' methropolis iv this counthry: it sizes people up right. Ye can guess a man's worth within a dollar be th' way New York rayceives him. Whin th' prisidint iv th' United States goes there to break his silence in public Officer O'Callyhan iv th' Thraffic Squad is always sint, if he ain't too busy, to meet him an' escoort him to wheriver he wants to go. Some times th' chief iv polis f'rgits or O'Callyhan is in court to prosecute a dhrayman, an' thin Archey Butts on'y has to tillyphone down to headquarthers f'r a polisman to keep away th' crowds. Whin he comes th' pro-cissyon pro ceeds up Fifth avnoo. Th ordher iv th' p'rade is as follows: Polisman (on horseback). Th' prisidint (in carredges). Up th' sthreet sweeps th' martial array. Th' sidewalks are thronged with pathriotic Amer icans goin' to an' fro, an' beautiful American "Wkin tk rale article arrives we ll skow kim wkat a young an active people can STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1912. On Paying Homage to Royalty BY PINTLE Y PETER DUNNE "Wkmtk'G ookwar iv Barooma was lntkrojooced ke asked, name: ladies ladin' little dogs. Flags fly in th' breeze in front iv a hotel showin' that th' Crown Prince iv Pattygonya is stoppin' there. Th' pro-cissyon is niver interrupted but wanst, an' thin it is held up at a crossin'. But th' escoort has on'y to raise his hand an' say It's all r-right, Mike, it's Taft,' an' they go on, an' th' crossin' copper is so overwhelmed that he lets a pie wagon go through, too. But whin th' jook iv Connaught wint to New York it took most iv th' polis foorce to keep th' crowd away fr'm th' depot. Assimbled on th platform was th' American ambassadure to Lon don an' manny iv th' most richly veiled ladies iv our old nobility. Th' thrain was two minyits late, an' th' American ambassadure cud not stand the sthrain but fell in a faint an' was removed to his home in an ambulance. As th' rile fam'ly stipped onto th' platform th' assimbled ladies fell to their knees an' remained in this graceful pos ture till th' jook an' his party were smuggled into a freight ilivator to avoid th' photygrafters. Th' ilivator stopped half way up to th' street flu re. What's th' matther says th' jook. I am a photygrafter fr'm th' Avnin' Fluff,' says th' ilivator man. Stand just as ye ar-re. No, move a little to wan side. There ye ar-re. That's all finished. Goin' up,' he says. Escoorted be th' sthrong ar-rm squad th' rile fam'ly got to th' ambassadure's autymobile. Whin they were seated th' shover turned, hauled out a camera, an' fired. 'Who ar-re ye?' demanded th' jook. I am th' officyal photygrafter iv th' Wur-rkin' Ladies' Advocate,' says th' young fellow. An' I must get down to th' office in a hurry. Ye'U find th' rig'lar shover bound an' gagged in th' cellar in th' depot,' he says, an' hurrid away. An' so it wint. Fifty thousan' lile cameras were livilled at thim as they rode up th' splendid avnoo. A lady fell in front iv th' autymobile an' whin th' jook laned over her to ask her if she was hurted she took a pitcher iv him, an' wan entherprisin' fellow concaled himsilf in a hearse till they came by, whin he snapped thim. An' f'r th' nex' three days riawthin' was printed in th' pa-apers but th' pitchers, an' if th' prisi dint had wanted to get a proclymation iv war with Germany published he'd 've had to pay a dollar a line f'r it. How did I larn all this Frim me favrite journal, iv course, a pa-aper devoted to th' in thrests iv th' wurrukin' people iv this counthry, be hivens. Why, th' iditor iv this pa-aper wud cut off th' heads iv ivry king or potintate iv th' wurruld with wan blow iv his shears if he had th' chanct. But he feels it's his jooty to iddy cate his readers so that if th' czar iv Rooshya shud dhrop in f'r a saucer iv tay in th' back flat iv twinty-siven hundhred an' ilivin B. Kusiusko sthreet th' people wud know how to act right. Ye ought to read this palojeem iv our liberties. Now what wud ye do if a mimber iv th' rile fam'ly shud call on me, as he pretty surely wud if he come to Chicago?, Like as not whin him do. an" me had give ache other th' high sign iv two men in akel station iv life, ye'd stick out ye er fist at him an' say, Plazed to meet ye. If ye did I'd have to throw ye into th' sthreet. I wud so. Whin a free born American citizen meets a king or anny iv his fam'ly th' idee is he must duck as deep as he can without losin' his bal ance an' buttin' th' rile personage in th' stomach. How far he'll go over depinds on his build. A man iv my shape wud be required to do no more thin sink his chin into his collar till it hurt. But a little, thin fellow like ye'ersilf must bend over till his back is all but broke. An' ye mustn't open ye'er mouth, mind ye, or ye'll be thrun out, onless th' king asks ye to. If he taps ye on th' shouldher an' says, Say somethin', me man,' ye can cut loose till he shoves ye away. Th' exercise with American ladies is more severe. Whin an American lady is up against rilety 'tis entirely proper f'r her to swoon away. Manny have done so, but 'tis not often prac tised because iv its inconvenence. Th' r-right an' consarvitive thing f'r her to do is to pretind to suddenly lose her left leg an' sink as near to th' flure as possible without fallin'. She can't have anny outside assistance. If she grabs holt iv a chair she's out. It's up to her to detarmine what her strenth will stand. If her lilety is gr-reater thin' her agility she's in f'r a bump. On th' other hand, if she don't go down as deep as she can without breakin' somethin' she need niver come ar-round again. I see that wan New York lady has practiced this manoover in a gym nasyum till she can dhrop th' left knee to th' flure wan hundhred an' forty-five times without losin' a button. Iv course it won' stop here. Th' king iv England himsilf is comin' to this counthry next year, an' us Americans ar-re too devoted to th' throne to niglict anny exertion, no matther how dangerous, to show how we feel. A mere ginuflexion may be good enough f'r a jook, but whin th' rale article arrives we'll show him what a young an' active people can do in these here gymnastics. I expict to r-read in th' pa-apers this spring: 'Mrs. Solder-Jint, wife iv th' well known (wholesale) plumber, is practising a hand spring which she will do whin presinted to his majesty. Mrs. Lottson will rely on her cilly brated crouch an' spring. Mrs. Van Rhinestone will do a head-spin.' But th' ladies iv th' older arrystocracy will prob'bly stick to th' simple cus toms iv their ancestors an' go by his majesty 0:1 their hands an' knees. I wondher how it's all goin' to come out. Hinnissy. Since th' news got around iv how weV we threat kings in this counthry" ivry potintats in th' wurruld is gettin' r-ready to come over here on a spree. Suppose th' king iv Beloochys tan shud take it into his head to pay us a visit. If Hogan is tellin' me th' thruth th' on'y way ye can approach this here monarch is be wrig glin' up on ye'er stomach. An' we'd have to do it or maybe he'd niver come back." They ought to be ashamed iv thimsilve, said Mr. Hennessy. Sure, what difference does it make," said Mr. Dooley. Doc Larkin says it's good f'r thim. Says he 'If they do it often enough 'twill rayjooce th' weight an' 'tis fine f'r th' ab domidal muscles.' If as manny kings comes here as their press agents promise these here nobly bor-rn ladies will get almost as much exercise as if they did th fam'ly washin'." Vv hat wud ye do if ye were a king an ccme to this counthrv?" asked Mr. Hennessy. Well," said" Mr. Dooley, there's wan thing I wudden't do. I wudden't r-read th' Declaration iv Independence. I'd be afraid I'd die laughin'." (Copyright: 1912: By Finley Peter Dunua.

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TUB TOFSSA DAILY STATE JQUBITAE MABCH ,2, 1912 VQL1EH, AVOID OPERATIONS Many Unsuccessful And Worse buffering Often Fol lows. Mrs. Rock's Case A Warning. The f cJIowing letter from Mrs. Orville Rock will show how unwise it is for wo men to submit to the dangers of a sureric&l operation when often it may be avoided y taxing Lydia E. Pmlcham'a Vegetable Compound. She was four weeks in xne hospital and came home suf' feting worse than before. Here is her own statement. Paw Paw. Wioh rw t A jrcaiO f suffered very severely with a displace ment. I could not be on my feet for a long time. My phy sician treated me for several months with out much relief and at last sent me to Ann Arbor for an op eration. I was there four weeks and earns home suff eringworse than before. My mother advised me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and I did. Today I am well and strong and do all my own housework. I owe my health to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and advise my friends who are afflicted with any female complaint to try it." Mrs. Orville Rock, R. R. No. 5, Paw Paw, Michigan. If you are ill do not drag along until an operation is necessary, but at once take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. For thirty years it has been the stan dard remedy for women's ills, and has restored the health of thousands of suf fering women. Why don't you try it TOPEKA SOTE BANK What a Good Bank Ioes A Bank ac count estab lishes a man's credit, pro vides a safe place for his cash and sys tematizes his business deal ings. We want your business. 8'-fr&KANS. AVEll 1 3 INTEREST RAID o ON TIME DEPOSITS WHEN STARS TALK Interviewing Greater and Less er Theatrical Lights. Thomas Jefferson Was Best of Subjects. LIKEWISE HENRY WOODRUFF Stage People Generally Employ Flattery. This Especially Applies to For eign Artists. for Sore Feet If your feet ache, burn, itch or are swollen, rob them with Omega OiL It strengthens and soothes the mus cles and ligaments in a wonderful way. Trial bottle ioc large bottles 25c, 50c i As at mc Kansas cny LAND SI10W convention mall rc&26 mar-9 PRODUCTS or THE SOIL hansas irrigated mnwdel KITTITAS VALLHUCWKAnA J wwer wmms creavons SOUTHERN CAUWRNIA DISPLAY (VLLWommumG DQtwrr GRDTCIKCV5 Sc VAUDEVILLE ACT3, HUNGARIAN ORCHESTRA rl 50PIZCL CONCERT PANDW rREEUCniRE&riOWiG TTCTURi A2QS snow CENTS A. Wm Reliable Dentistry Plates That 3 'A h Fit. 4 VjrUlU W UWHS, Bridges ?3to$5 Silver Filling SOo Teeth Cleaned Gold Filling BOo to $a Painless lit traction. All Work Guaranteed. Office Hours S a. m. to 6 p. m. Wednesday and Saturday until 8 p. m. Sunday, 9 to 12 a. m. New York Dental Co. 818 KANSAS AVENUE. Independent Telephone It 85. UK. "W. 8. RICHARDSON, Mgr. "Are you decent?" "Who is it, please?" (the "please" is seldom omitted.) "A newspaper man." "In a minute I will talk to you." "Hello, is this Miss Footlights of the 'Gilt Elephant company?' A voice like a cathedral chime says, "Yes." "This is a State Journal reporter. J would like to talk with you," "Where are you, at the hotel? If you are, just wait in the ladies' par lor and I'll be down in a moment. You see I am resting-- man i get mucn sleep last night, but I'll be dressed and be down soon." The above are typical descriptions of how arrangements are made for in terviews with stars and near-stars who pass through Topeka. If a vaude ville "artist" in her act at the Novelty Monday afternoon seems to give out the impression tht she has an inter esting story in her mind, the first in- formal method is used. The reporter knocks on the dressing room door (or maybe Dale Jones, stage manager at the Novelty, knocks for him), and the question, "Are you decent?" has no reference to morals, only to whether the actor or actress is presentable. And theatrical people are more particular about these little niceties than many imagine. Generally for the benefit of the reporter the interviewee summons up the most gracious of manners. Stars and Near-Stars Much Alike. This is true both of the compara tively obscure vaudeville people or of the well known stars. With the lat ter an interview is expected by the city editor as a matter of course. And usually the Interviewing, is done at the hotel, although a hard train ride has worn out the star until on account of need of sleep the interviewer is sometimes asked, "To please come to the dressing room before the show. Interviews with several of the prin cipals in the "Girl of the Golden West" opera company here recently were ob tained between the acts, rapid fire interviews. However, time, place, and person even, notwithstanding, it is much the same. With rare exceptions, from least to greatest, the people behind of the footlights want publicity and the public wants to read the interviews. And there you are. Or rather there the reporter is a go-between. Foreigners, Especially, Hatter. It is graciousness for publicity. With foreigners, the graciousness is often effusive and develops into the most ap parent flattery. If not too much it amuses you, even if it does not wholly please you. You almost believe that newspaper people in general and your self in particular possess more than ordinary good looks and cleverness, by the time some siren-voiced French or Hungarian singer has told you between answers to your questions how smart she (or he) thinks "reportaiers" are the (or he) thinks "reporters" are and One P. r. with the "Girl of the Golden West" company offered a reporter a fabulous sum to be her press agent and private "sacretairy" when she should form her own "companee," which should be "small but all arteests, yes." Perhaps, she thought he was green enoush to believe her. but as she also told him how well she could cook the Hungarian goulash, which made a good 'story'' he gave her considerable isace. Often it is most interesting and in structive to talk to theater folk. Henry Woodruff, here last Augdst in "The Prince of Tonight" talked like an old friend. You forgot you were meeting purely on business. Thomas Jefferson, here in Rip Van Winkle last Decem ber, gave more interesting "press dope" in the shortest time than the majority of stars, but then he is so used to be ing interviewed that his information was at his tongue's end. Likewise Frank MeEntyre. here recently in "Snobs." But he was formerly a news paper man. He was as genial as a fat man at a German picnic He apologized for keeping the interviewer waiting and also like many others, for the ap pearance of the dressing room. Like all the other truly great near ly all of the truly great in the theat rical world are comparatively modest, and appear to give out information about themselves because it is your re. quest and that they really do not care about it. But it all helps. It is the small time vaudeville "art ist" who gets the smallest salary who brags about how many European en gagements he or she turns down, and shoves his press clippings at you, mean while butchering English as he tells you how well educated he is even out side of bis profession. Vera Berliner Notable Exception. A notable exception to this was Vera Berliner, violinist. who will be remem bered by her solo. "Meet Mo Tonight in Dreamland." at the Novelty last May. She has played the best time in the country and is now in New -York, but she was almost reticent in speak ing of her career and all she said had the ring of absolute truth. North Bros. People Also Modest. Of course interviewing the members or tne jMorth Broa, the local stock company, is much like talking to old friends. And none of them give you the "Gee, I am it" impression when you talk to them, for publicity or otherwise. CLERKS WELL SEE SHOW. Crosby Bros. Give 152 Majestic Tickets to Employees. Tuesday night will be Crosby Bros, night at the Majestic theater. The firm has bought 152 tickets for that night and these were presented to the employees of the store. This was in the nature of a present to the clerks from the heads of the store. The bill will be "Merely Mary Ann." ACTRESSES SHOVEL SNOW. May Result of Bet Made by Majestic People. According to Jack Truitt, the man ager of the Majestic theater, when the next snow comes the women mem bers of North Bros., company will be shoveling snow off of., the sidewalks and thus obey the ordinance of Mayor Billard. EARNEDJjER WAY How Miss Bronaugh Attended Dramatic School. Clerer. Woman Majestic Lead ing Lady. WON SCHOLARSHIP IN CHICAGO Went on Stage for. Lore of Profession. Actress Was Born and Reared in Kentucky. The girl had returned home from college. Her folk had willingly paid her way through this school at Ox ford. O., for their daughter was ex ceptionally bright and talented. And her talents among other lines ran to dramatic. Now her parents were wllline and proud that their pret ty young daughter should take part in the amateur plays in the home town but they did not like the idea of her studvine for the professional stage and would not advance funds for a course tt the dramatic depaartment of a Chicago musical college which had been the Mecca of the young girl's dreams. But the future actress did not give Miss Ann Bionaugh, New L eading Lady at Majestic This will also be in the nature of paying off a bet. Mr. Truitt bet that Roosevelt would accept the nomination for a. third term as president. The women of the company in a body bet that he would not and lost the bet. If Mr. Truitt lost he was to have made a curtain speech the first night after the snow and while talking raise both feet off of the ground ana re main thus until he finished. But he will not have to do tnis tea.'- Instead the first snow tan win be shoveled off of the sidewalk in front of the Majestic theater by the women of the company. And another clause of the bet is that pink ribbons must be tied to the shovel nanaiea. TO QUIT NICKEL FIRSTS Sunny Tells of Changes Planned for Chicago. Chicago, March 2. President B. El Sunny of the Chicago Telephone com pany notified the members of the gas, oil and electric light committee of the pity council that the new device for the "nickel first" telephones would be ready by March 13. The new arrangement consists of a push button which will enable sub scribers to get the attention of the operator in case of emergency with out first dropping a nickel in the slot. A list of 100 subscribers who pro tested against the nickel first ma chines was asked for by the company. The principal objection' to the, "tick tick" telephones was that in case of fire or police calls much time was wnated if there did not happen to be a nickel handy. up. She saw that this school offered a scholarship. She won it. Thus she earned the greater part of her train ing. Such was the beginning of the career of Miss Anna Bronaugh, who opens as the new leading lady for the North Bros, at the Majestic in "Merely Mary Ann." Miss Bronaugh is a Kentucky girl. And "There's the sunshine of the coun try in her face and manner, too." Her personality is a blending of the cordiality of the south with the vim and energy of the north. This is her first appearance in Kan sas. She has been with Maxlne El liott her first professional engsege ment. Later "she was with James K. Hackett. Lately she has been at the Bush temple and College theaters at Chicago. much to ingratiate the production In the good will of the theater public, the show is still good. Miss Gertrude Hutcheson and George Ebner so nearly fill the places formerly occupied in the east by the old favorites that it is hard to make any distinction now from former appearances. "The 'Three Twins' la a laughing musical comedy with lots of both In gredients. There Is enough of music to catch the musically inclined and just enough comedy to make the show wholesomely enjoyable. At no time does it become heavy with monotony or wearisome with dullness that so fre quently characterize similar produc tions." The "Three Twins" will appear at the Grand on Saturday, March 9. At the Majestic "Merely Mary Ann" Is the bin -chosen to introduce the new leading lady of North Brothers at the Majestic next week. The chief charm of the well written play lies to Its simplicity. The story deals with a London slavey Merely Mary Ann who unexpectedly falls an heiress to millions. She is befriended by a musician, who determines to take her away almost at the time she re ceives her legacy. The money, of course, raises a barrier, between them and they drift apart, to meet years later.. Special interest will center around the appearance of MiS3 Anna Bronaugh, the new leading lady, who takes the place of Miss Virginia Goodwin. Miss Bronaugh comes here highly recom mended, having played with Jas. K. Hackett, Sidney Drew, besides all the best stock companies In Chicago. Aside from being an actress of exceptional ability. Miss Bronaugh Is a graduate of the Chicago Conservatory of Music. She possesses anable singing voice and that will stand in her good stead .when the company plays "Little Johnnie Jones" the week of March 18th, when she will, of course sing the leading female role. Novelty. That the offering the past week at the Novelty has been one of the best vaudeville bills presented at that house in a number of weeks has been con cedejl by those who have witnessed the different performances. It is stated by the management that as good a bill, if not better, will be offered .the coming week when they will present for the approval Of the public, Norton "Rus sell, character impersonators. For the first time here, Paul Gordon, cycling genius. Three Astellas, American Knockabouts. Ward Weber, singing and dancing. Leonard Drake, cm edy imitations. A new series of photo plays will be offered. Crystal. Mr. Klingaman, the proprietor of this house, gave out in these columns a straight tip that his Monday and Tues day show would be a hummer. The tip was well played and he does not believe any one went away disap pointed. The tip is out again for next Monday and Tuesday in a we'l bal anced program of comedy, drama and western showing some nice scenic effects. The show tonight is also a pleaser, consisting of a drama dealing with stage folks, a fine western and two rollicking Biograph comedies. THE ATR-I CALS GRAND Last Time TONIGHT The Grazi Paris Grand Opera Co, of Paris, France RICO LET TO CHILD HAD ECZEMA ITCHED TERRIBLY Small Sores All Over Face, Scratched, Which Made Them Worse. Could Not Sleep. Cuticura Soap and Ointment Cured Her. GRAND Matinee Night MAR. Seats Thursday at Majestic Back Again The Record Breaker! JOS. M. GAITES The Greatest of All Musical Comedies With the Brilliant Comedian Geo. Ebner supgorted Miss Gertrude Hutcheson And a Company of PEOPLE MOSTLY HANDSOME GIRLS THE ELECTRIC SWING THE ENCHANTED YACHT THE FACE IN THE CLOUDS SEE THE FAMOUS YAMA YAMA GIRLS D fle. Mat. Floor $1.00, 75c. Bal. 50c. GaL 25c T riLC 5. Night Floor $1.50, $1. Bal. 75-50c. GaL 25c FIRST TIME AT LESS THAN ONE DOLLAR AND HALF SOME COMEDY -TOO MERELY MARY ANN INTRODUCING Miss Ann Bronaugh and Orval Spurrier As Leading People Produced under the personal direction of HARRY NORTH All Week March 4th MAJESTIC COMING ATTRACTIONS. and Tonight Grazi Paris Grand Opera Company in Rig-oletto. Saturday, March 9 Matinee Nig-ht The Three Twins. March 13 Field's Minstrels. March 20 Margaret Anglin. March 28 Local Colored Minstrels. March 29 Washburn College Dram atic Club. The Grazi Paris Grand Opera Com pany will close their engagement at the Grand Opera House tonight, present ing Rigoletto. A criticism of this com pany appears on another page of this issue of their last night's performance. The following is copied from the Pueblo Chieftain: "Despite the fact that the 'Three Twins' company is this year deprived of the able services of IHisa Bessie Clifford and Victor Morley, -who did 1711 W. 20th St., Chicago, 111. "t -hild suffared greatly with eczema. First mall sore began in a few places on her faca and then an over her faca, becoming large. The child scratched them, which mad them worse. They itched terribly and aha could sot sleep. The itching made her cry often, but medicine did not seem to help any. This bad lasted three weeks when I sent for Cuti cura Soap and Ointment. The result was great. Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured her and we highly recommend them.'! (Signed) Mis. Krai, November, 1911. FACE FREED FROM PIMPLES Through Cuticura Soap and Ointment. 417 Cherry St., New York, N. Y. "About two years ago there suddenly appeared on my face and forehead pimples and blackheads. The pimples were scattered over my face. They were sore and caused plenty of pain. I suffered much from them. I tried several different remedies. I declared it was hope less to remove those pimples from soy face. "About four months ago a friend recom mended to me the Cuticura Soap and Oint ment. I used them nightly and almost imme diately I found the desired results. First I would smear the affected parts with Cuticura Ointment and leave same on say face for five minutes. Then I would wash my face thor oughly with Cuticura Soap and warm water. After doing this for three weeks I found my face free from pimples and my sufferings at an end. I always use the Cuticura Soap now." (Signed) Sydney Unger, Nov. 22, 1911. Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold everywhere. Sample of each mailed free, with 32-p. book. Address, "Cuticura," Dept. T, Boston. Tender-faced men should share with Cuticura Soap Shaving Stick. Any Seat 25 Cents NOVELTY 3 Shows DaUy 2r30 7:459:15 10-20-30 CENTS Daily Matinee 10 cts. FIRST TIME HERE NORTON and RUSSELL Character Impersonators LEONARD and DRAKE Comedy Imitations WARD and WEBER Singing and Dancing SPECIAL FEATURE PAUL GORDON CYCLINQ CENIDS 3 ASTELLAS 3 American Impersonators PHOTO PLAYS Good Photos and Post Cards 75 Cents Per Dozen POPULAR STUDIO 511 Kansas Avenue LM. PEN WELL Undertaker and Embalmer tax sos-si stncs 5 "A a Jil WK: .'SB "v r -J Scene From the Three Twins at the Grand Next Saturday. Kansas City Land Show February 26 to March 9 An eye-openr for tht cfty man whose thoughts Urn bank to the farm. An object 1i nsiin for the farmer looking; for hints; on up-to-date farmlnc Intense ly Interesting- and entertatalnc lectures on a yarlety of subjects. Moving pictures and other views of many sections of the South west. Kxhlblts of improved ma chinery that lessens labor, saves time and increases results. Better go. Take your family and friends with you. Free Lecture j Excellent Music. A liberal education along lines thai will Interest you and every member of yoar family .irrespec tive of age or sex. For further particulars call on T. L. KING, City Passenger Agent Topeka, Kansas -CASTINGS Gray Iron, Brass and Aluminum. Castings made to order. Oet our prices. The Clipper Windmill Pasna Cat Cor. 10th and Adams St. Topeka. Everybody read the State Journal Si

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 19ia JFUTf C 4 IM.GE "-4.. lifen s 1 1 ft C -,"'1?&c'ii v""":!? a- Sil? X. "Say, pa, what is vulgar ostenta- 5 '5-' J, ft n "Vulgar ostentation, my son, Is the !-,r23 aiJOkV) display, made by people who have V Hi'rimiV' -msg55 'pgSTlGj( more money to make It with than we i a&mi hv. i PREPARING HIM. Evelyn Did you see the new moon over your left shoulder? Gorge Tea. Breljii Then, yot course, you must expect bad luck. George What do you mean? Evelyn Why, when you ask me to marry you. as you mean to do very I will say "no." wing. TOO QUICK FOR HIM. Skeemer. Is awfully unlucky. "What's the trouble? Why, he has invented a military gun for shooting s. viators on the Well? They always tumble and get killed before he gets 'a shot at them. The Spring Poet. The poet sees old winter skipping And spring come down the landscape tripping And blithely pass, A merry lass, Just like a colt turned out to grass; He sees her, most divinely fair. Come floating in without a care, Serenely grand; So, pen in hand, He grabs a sheet of paper, and He don't do a thing to spring, sweet Sweet spring He don't do a thing to spring. He notes the hillsides fairly blushing, The brooklets to the river rushing. The sun's warm flood, The tender bud, But oh, ha never sees the mud! The while the merry, farmer's boy Jumps all of seven feet high for Joy; On every hand The leaves expand, And so he grasps' his pencil, and He don't do a thing to spring, Sweet spring He don't do a thing to spring. THE SPRING CROP. '"What's fresh In spring hats?" "Well, the milliners have Invented two or three new vegetables, I believe." s (you're-wrong!'. j T) f r yy IV I lYOO HAVE-IT IN I J( 1 f.l HAVE GOOD TA5TE- sxfl 'IVE-R HAND. K V f K y A TOO.THI5.COATON ,Y1A v--?) i y "Y TONG-UE TASTES KAIvOT '""N y v L PAR brown. y W fiFz fli n Tl"R PIt.t. UAPi QUlTfr A DOC rLt'D WALK RIGHT IN i'iNU NE.V2.RN0t AN IL.L WIND.ONt riARCH DAV D lb BLOW AND nADfc; rifc; AMPBWt; ,YOU KNOW. A MIRACLE. Percy I was so vexed I gave every one there a piece of my mind. Belle How did you' ever manage to make it go around? By Analysis. TSEE you are reading one of Sher lock Holmes' books," he said to the man sitting opposite in the Pullman. "Tea, sir." Orat detective writer!" -yes." 1 1 mm "But do you notice he works every thing out by analysis?" "Mostly that way." "I think I would do the same." "So? Let me put a. hypothetical case to you. A convict escapes from Sing-Sing." "I see." "No trace of him is found for two years. The case is then given to you. How would you analyze it?" "Easy as rolling off a log. I should look for and find him a member of the Legislature!" JOE KERR. ONE DRAWBACK. Rodd Don't you ever have a long ing to go fishing? Nodd Tes: I've had a longin' to go flshln' a few times, but I never longin to dig bait, yet. fTAKE N1N& S W, QUIIVMNEt PILLS VnjY' IF I 8 M V, t IPILL& AT 1.01,1 -(fee- l S I'D DIE-. 1 nUS1? TAKfe Sonfe ritDICINE; OR Dlfrr AND, AS I DIDN'T WANT THEr t,ATTErRl, I SAID TO DOC "DOG.WHAfcXfcrrATTSR?' rOU5T BECAUSE- I M A LITTLE- HOARSE", 1 DON'T WANT A .W LITTLE- HORSE- V DOCTOR. NEIGH IF ALL MY PATIENTS WERE- AS IMPATIENT AS YOU ARE:. I'D HAVE NO PATIENCE WITH MY PATIENTS THEN THET MOVED. Mr. "Browne What do you want to move for? Wre everything mod ern here. Mrs. Browne B butHoward, over there they have a bathroom for the canary. Probably a Mistake. gy ENTLEMEN, what can we say of the moral conditions in this country when a gang of men hold up and rob a New York newspaper In broad daylight?" asked the sad-faced man. "Such a thing happened, did It? was asked. "Of course It happened. Didn't you read of It?" "I believe I did, but I passed It along as a mistake on the part .of the robbers." "Mistake how? When a man with a gun goes in to hold up a place how can there be any mistake about It?" "Why, in this Instance, if I remem ber right, they thought, they were In the quick-lunch shop next door. It's a good case for a plea of Insanity, If they really planned to rob the news paper." "Why, sir, they got some seventeen dollars!" exclaimed the sad-faced man. "Tou don't say! Then one of the gang will certainly plead that he car ried it In his -own-pocket!" JOE KERR, NO SUCH THING. The Sophomore "I wish ybu'd ex plain this line: "They kept the noise less tenor of their way." What la meant by 'noiseless tenor?" Prof. Grouchmore, the Muslo Hater "A noiseless tenor is a fatuous dream." i WHKT DO VOU THINK THAT DOCTOR. DID Hfe SHIFTED MIS TOBACCO QUID, AND SAID "COUCi-K. UP A DOLLAR BILL, AMD I'LL OIVfi VOU A QUININE? PILU? nv COFFE.R.S.WERt EMPTY. SAID Ht "TfiM'S rAt,L .If YOU ARErBROKfi TO HAVE, ME CALL! "BUT I'LL RETURN V'OUFl CALL" SAID T, "WHEN I AIT BEiTTEiR-eYEr AND BY Err A Few "Whys. viraHT does the young man plow his Ci way through the deep snow?" "Why does he jump fences?" "Why does he seize the bucksaw and saw a half-cord of wood?" "Why does he love to clean a thou sand feet of sidewalk after a bliz zard?" "Why does he run a mile or more and back?" "Why does he pick up grindstones and hurl them about?" "Why does he encourage the youth of the land to peg at him with brick bats?" "Why does he turn from the foamy mug and say it's water for him?" "Why has he ceased to go court ng o'nights?" "Why does he turn from the Jolly doughnut and the festive fried oyster and pass his bowl for more oatmeal?" Nothing at all mysterious about it. He has simply begun his training for the spring season of baseball. That's all. JOE KERR. THE FAMILY ROGUES GALLERY. "You know Mrs. Van Gilder's family portrait gallery that she started last year?" "Yes." "Well, that great criminal detective officer who guarded the wedding pres ents when Frostie Van Gilder mar ried the oldest De Graft boy, told me that he recognized seven of the por traits, and they had all done time whatever that means." LUCKY PUBLIC! Full many a verse. Of purest ray serene, Is written for the public, But is never seen. OTHER HELLS. Satan I don't like this talk about war being hell. Imp Why not? Satan It gives people the idea that we haven't a monopoly. Bobby Yep! -It's me, all right, but It was taken when I was a girL Ode to March. MORTIFIED. "Why, Percy! What "Don't mention It, old chap. I'm tewibly mortified as it is, but the motor has bwoken down and I'd catch t my death of cold, 'pon honor, if I went without my wind-shield." PREPARED. How about Grimy? He read In de paper we wus goin' to have a late spring, so he ast de judge to give him three months 'stead of one an' he's in yet. OH, blow ye winds of March, and blow. And give us scrumptious weather; Mix up your snow and hall and slush, And hand it out together. Oh, blow the horns from off the cows. The tops from off the trees; Oh, blow the shivers up our backs. And doBe us with the sneezes. Some blizzards from the West let loose, To set the coal men singing; Make spring one day and winter next. And hear our curses ringing. Frost-bite the 'taters in the bin Freeze up the milk and butter; Next day bring forth the violet. To hurt our feelings utter. In brief, old March, we look to you E'er many days are over; To' show the country you can make j Yourself an ass in clover. JOE KERR. IT WAS A FAI .URE RE picked out his pedestrian and halted him, and then taking an ear-trumpet from hi3 own pocket he held it to his ear and asked: "Will you have the kindness to di rect me to Bridge street?" "Two blocks down!" was shouted into the trumpet. "Four blocks up, eh? Much obliged." "No! Two blocks down!" "Did you say three blocks side ways?" "I said two blocks down! "I almost get you, but not quite. If you would be so kind The other repeated that Bridge street was two blocks down. "It's singular," said the man with the trumpet. One more repeat. The man took the trumpet from his ear and shook his head and ruefully said: "I guess I'll have to give up going to Bridge street. You might try once more and then we'll let it go." It was once more shouted that Bridge street was two blocks down. "It is evidently a failure," said the deaf party as. he rent or ed the trumpet to his pocket. "I don't see what he got it for." "Isn't it your trumpet?" "Bless you, no!" "And you aren't deaf?" "Not In the slightest." "Then then "Just trying it for a friend who is deaf, but the thing Is a failure a flat failure. Thanks. So long!" JOE KERR.

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1 T I. 'i wish AOOUT FOUR l--U4Tl?ATtOMt TO THEJS LlWEIS, TS CHARACTER. BftOVED PAtfENTj, eip THEH ACT TUt RESPECTIVE Pft i y v UU rri'" J i bct h rxs UNO GREAT pOETER.'- vjOT loY J Ht ISS em? i 6 3l ;SN To i?e SURE STOMEFENCE JACKSON VA-S MY FAVOf? HEKO I FRj&iD AWT SO MUCH TOO J "SUPERS MATERlAi) puOT. j r WOW 10O SHOULD! t$TCn.'. PASA.Yoa ISS WAlcS Tone JAXSOM UNP MAMA ISS BAR6RY FH.t3.Xl.es!' A Ok JR VIOUMTAIMJ VIMDiMCt 3- 1?5ES HoOFJ INTO MS' A FINE BEL JolcK "HERE PER JOUCHERi ComEJ-, So Come cuo5E unp 37on't 5-ot iTEFrep om tooi? Toe. It 1 77? iHl-ITAKy Lire i YAlT Ticu BRRSERi Pip&ETS CUIKAQ5 IN Htf Garret YET FOUR. YEARi 1 UMD TEN TiKE I MEFFEK SAVJH MORE PERFECTER. AS PABA ISS- 7. Om n 7J u SHOODT MlT YOUR. 3fABB8. i OutT 6-KEY HCA3T BUT SpARERhSS DlS i.oFLY m f I "Ahu NOW 7 4- t VOU Trt SHOOTS.' I "who Touch A MAiR, ON YON'D CAL.P HEAEr DlCJ t.m VON JACtTAi1. MA(?C s ON HE JAiDTl" r 11 Aw DftTC I lnlw n: '0 7 I if 1 SJ cv -uv Xwlv't-t tk ("UNB jer Voucher rides on PThave ojT" much, BUT l 1 'YJt lT4X VSTS rue name or I :sz if i r VuVw Ta!rJv nY AmcES To n Bv l-f ff XS "-SMSi SO J VQU SEE YoU 5HOUZ.PT MIT MORS f?rPECT 5HPA off Iot Jackass hUNDEvER J STAR J ABO v JOWN .OM I o. ihii r or hi -vME!!l .v-CS, I" So vou SEE! Yoa iH0uttT I -VU'V1 abof ioac t6R BtLOw Town PAINO US ALL FUOOl

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12 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE J JOURNAI. -iMABCH 2, 1912 V DREAMSJJF GAGE Filled Widow Filbert's Sleep, Postcard Verse Says. She Sent It Fire Days After DriTing Him Away. GET FAT AND COME BACK Such Was Her Inyitation Writ ten to Him, She Admits. Stayed in Same Room With Him at Sight. A REVERIE. "I drifted last night on an inland sea. Headed in by the hills of years And while none of the scenes of my dreams were new Each claimed for itself as it came to view In smiles and sigh and tears. "The shores of the sea were lined with those I had known when life was new. But through all the changes that time had wrought Was one face with unaltered friendship fraught. For the sea I was on, was the sea or Thought And the friend of my dreams was you. That was the postcard Susan Fil bert sent to William Gage five days after she had shooed him from her Strong street home.. Excerpts from letters written to the farmer were also introduced in evidence, but the defen dant in the $5,000 alienation suit, said they conveyed' no sentiment from her soul. Most of Friday afternoon and all morning. Mrs. Filbert was on the wit ness stand in her own defense. To the jury she declared that Gage was just a hired man, but admitted fre- quent buggy riaes. currespui"uu: Christmas presents to the man whose love she is said to have stolen. The grass widow denied that her farmer affinity sent her silk stockings for Christmas or that she ever hugged and kissed him or sat on his lap. She also denied any improper relations with the agriculturist, but admitted they spent the first night in the Strong street home alone under the same roof and in the same room. A Postcard in Five Iays. It was In April, the defendant tes tified, that she drove Gage away. He went to Kewanee, I1L, April 22. Five days later, she sent him the "Reverie" postcard. Gage was gone five weeks. In that time the grass widow wrote him twice, she said. "You and Charlie must come back and visit us," the widow wrote in one letter, after having sent Gage away for keeps. "We don't have modern conveniences here, but will make it just as pleasant for you as we can." Charlie, referred to in the letter is Gage's son. "Are you accustomed to writing those kind of letters to your hired men?" asked Attorney Standley on cross examination. "Xo, I am not," responded the wit ness. "Then, if you drove Gage away, why did you invite, him back?" She Was "So loaesome Today." "Well, it was just a friendship let ter. I meant for all of them to come io see us." "What do you mean in this letter where you say, 'Oh, I am so lonesome today?' Who were you lonesome for?" "No one in particular. It was just gloomy day." Then the lawyer read excerpts from another letter in which Mrs. Filbert told Gage, "You must get some medl in and get fat like Charley and come back to Kansas this fall." .New Bed in "His" Room. Again the grass widow's attention was called to her letter to which she wrote "When you come back you won't know where to sleep. The bed you slept in was hardly worth fixing so bought a new brass bed and will put the blue iron bed in your room. In the face of these expressions Mrs. Filbert had a hard time explaining to the jury about driving Gage from her home. "Why did you write this woman's husband these things, if you really wanted him to stay away, as you told the jury?" "Well, I was telling him the general news and didn't think about anything else," was the explanation which the witness gave. Asked about the sentimental post card, the grass widow said she never noticed the verse on the back of the card and paid not the least attention to the expressions of friendship. "How many times have you been married and divorced asked the law yer. "Twice," snapped the witness,' as she puckered her lips. Denies Drinking With Gage. "Tou know Gage drank excessive ly?" "Tes, I knew he did at times." "Tou drank considerably, too, didn't you "No sir. I didn't." "How many times have you ever drank whisky?" "I took some whisky about four years ago when a snake bit me. Doc tor told me to get it. I came to town and bought a pint." "Gage drank some with you, didn't he?" "No, he didn't." Witness then told the court she made frequent trips to Topeka with Gage "Just to See that he didn't get drunk" and that Mrs. Gage had asked her to look after him. Once when she was sick, the witness said Gage stayed all night with her, but her daughter was present. This was before the Strong street Incident and when the woman lived in the Pig Springs dis trict. She admitted having received a letter shortly before the filing of the damage suit in which Gage said in re ferring to financial matters. I would give more for your love and friend ship than anything you can' give me." "How long did Gage stay at your home after he came home from Ke wanee?" Told Him to "Fix" Scandal. "I don't know. Abou two weeke, I gness." "What was the scandal you told him he would have to fix up?" "I had heard some gossip and told him he would have to have It stop ped." "What was tt about?" "About Mrs-. Gage going to sue me." "After that Gage kept right on stay ing at your home, did he?" "Tea, he stayed until about June 19. Then he went away, but came back again about the 12th of July." j He TJsed a lot of Tobacco. Accounts showing that Gage had arrkcd for Mrs. Filbert were fierad i in evidence, as were also several checks which the svidow gave the farmer. In 1907, the widow charged Gage witli "tobacco and other presents $2b." Tiiere was (15 more on the account for to bacco, (50 for feed and hay, $65 in cash items, J22.50 which the widow gave Gage to buy two suits of clothes, (3.50 .7.? i JT th Filbert farm heloed the widow Mve Sweint Dan ""den are not receiv Filbert farm, "f'Pea e wiaowne j f just now b t treated t00Sek.t bL?WJZL h Jus like ordinary folks. Officer Chas. painted the buggy, house and barn. Llnasay for the la8t ew daya nas been W bile thus employed, Gage usually aie busy servlnK notices to people who his meals with the widow and slept haV6 failed to clean the snow and ice at her home. I off the sidewalks. Governor Stubbs Mrs. Filbert denied spending the and sergeant Carden are no exceptions Fourth with Gage at Vinewood park ani are numbered among the distin and insisted he had repeatedly tried to guished citizens who have received get the man to leave her place. Be- thse notices. fore he started for Kewanee, the wo- i A complaint was received at the po man said she gave him work under an lice station from people who live near agreement that he was to leave and the Governor's mansion that the said novcr onmo hark Five weeks later governor, while boosting for Teddy, 1 Gage was a regular boarder at the widow's Lome in West Topeka. Try Case Before Eleven Jurors. In the trial of the case today, H. M. Starr, a. juror, became sick. He was unable to continue work for the day and by an agreement of the attorneys, the case will be completed with 11 jurors. it is nroba.hle that the case will not go to the jury until sometime Monday thought that he who was the tempo afternoon. The defense will occupy the rary ruler of the commonwealth remainder of the afternoon and the should set a better example for the niainriff will call several witnesses in remittal. Attendance in the court

room has taxed the seated and stand ing capacity until the arrival of to day's storm. Among the people in the Big Springs district, the case is oi heart interest to practically every farm-e- in a radius of 10 miles. They haven't missed a word of the testimony, With their wives and sons and daugh- ters, they came to Topeka when the jury was impanelled and intend to stay here until the action ?s semea. CHILDREN IN CONGRESS Appear as Witnesses in the Strike In vestigation. The factory boy and the factory girj had their Hrst innings in congress to day when they appeared as witnesses before the rules committee or tne nouse which Is considering the necessity for an investigation of the Lawrence strike. Ten boys and three girls, a part of the striking army of woolen mill workmen. appeared to tell the committee the in i in i. L hardships of life under the working conditions imposed by the mill owners. The committee seeking full information called the children as witnesses. Car mella Teoloi an Italian girl of 16 years, pretty and shy, was one of the "exhi bits." Two years ago she was caught in a loom and frightfully injured. Her scalp was torn from her head but no legal proceedings were instituted against the company. She still works in a woolen mill and with her father is the support of a family of seven. The aggregate pay of the father and daughter is $7 a week. The little boys who work in the mills enjoyed their strange situation and took more interest in marveling at the luxuriance of the fittings of the com mittee room than they did in the pro fundity of the examination by the: at torneys who represented them. Moving picture men and other photo graphers took in their every move. WED AFTER ALL, Bride Who Left Man Waiting Church Changes Mind. at London, March 2. Gabrlelle Ray, Eng land's favorite musical comedy actress, very suddenly recovered today the indis position which caused a sensational post ponement of her marriage yesterday and motored to Windsor, where she became Mrs. Eric Loder. The ceremony took place in St. Edward's Roman Catholic church, where Loder had waited in vain not many hours previous. Miss Ray was radiant in a canary col ored costume. She looked as if she had never been 111 in her life. The correspond ent asked her companion for an explana tion of the mysterious fiasco of yesterday and she replied: "Gaby was so ill she could not get out." Reminded of Gaby's remarkably quick recovery, she said: "Miss Ray was suffering from a break down due to the hurry necessary to get her trousseau together. She was most distressed at not being able to get mar ried yesterday but she had not been well in a long time and had stood for hours the previous day trying on costumes." Asked why Loder was not notified of this state of affairs so he need not have waited at the church, she replied: "I decline to be cross-questioned. She was ill and that Is all I will say." THEY ARETORTAFT. Progressive Republicans Decline to Enter Roosevelt Ranks. Concord, N. H.. March 2. Thirty-eight leading associates of Governor Robert P. Bass In the campaign of the progressive Republicans that resulted in the over turning of the politics of the state last year, have decided not to follow the gov ernor Into the Roosevelt movement. They have organized themselves as the Taft Progressives, their platform is stated in a series of resolutions favoring the re nomination of President Taft. A letter of endorsement from Dr. Wil liam J. Tucker, president emeritus of Dartmouth college, was read at the nnnn. i ing conference of the new organization, i NEW STORE ON FOURTH Gordon Brothers Will Erect Fine Structure Zalmer to Build Soon. The work of excavating for a new two story business building which is being erected by Gordon Brothers at 105 East Fourth street is in progress. It will be a brick structure, and modern In every purt-icuiar. The first floor will be used for business purposes and the second floor will he di vided into two apartments including six rooms and bath. Vitrified brick will be used In the construction of the front. This is one of several store buildings that will be erected this soring. Another building that will be put up soon will be tat wnicn a. manner will erect in the 900 block on Kansas avenue. What Makes Hay High. Kansas City, March 2. The hay re ceipts in Kansas City during February were 3,439 cars. The largest previous t mount leceived was 3.136 cars in De cember, 1911. The receipts for the year ending March 1. 1912, amounted to 28. 000 cars. It was said at the hay ex change today that the unusual heavy demand from the east for western hay. the east being unable to supply its home demand, was responsible lor the present high prices. x HIS WALK UNGLEANED Governor Stubbs' Family Notified JLaw Is Violated. Governor W. R. Stubbs and Police j had failed to comply with the city or- dinances. They demanded that he be required to shoulder the shovel and clean off the sidewalk along the north side of his residence In Topeka. The persons who complained assert ed that the walk along the north side of the governor's home was used by voune- neoolA who Attended hieh school, and inasmuch as it was the governor's residence the complainants Bwmrauun. a a result, .aura. Stubbs received the notice in the ab sence of the governor and she prom ised to have the snow removed. Sergeant Dan Carden has a kick to make, or he thinks he has. He re ceived notice- to clean off his side walks while he was enjoying a vaca tion for two days. On account of this was reaulred to devota his leisure time to cleaning off the walks which surround his home in the Second ward. But then It is snowing again and the son of Erin will probably re ceive the next notice when he is not enjoying a vacation. two drunks, one plain and one dead, is the total of the results of the efforts of the police up to the present. The arrest of these two men represent the total of the work of the police for tne month of March. Officer Wilt ar rested Frank Duncan who drew a fine of five, and Officer Anderson arrested Bush Carper who was too drunk to appear in court until this afternoon Steve Israel, who was arrested by Officer J. Anderson Thursday night while disturbing a dance on East Sixth street, drew a fine of $10 in po lice court Friday afternoon. Steve I-n i-i-... v, II.,. 1 j 'L,r Xi:i"v'VVJ court to hear the officer testify. WARNING TO STAY OUT President Will Urge Americans Avoid Mexican Trouble. to Washington, March 2. At a cabinet conference today It was deemed ex pedient that President Taft issue a proclamation urging citizens of the United States to comply strictly with the neutrality laws in all matters af fecting Mexico. .In effect, the procla mation is a warning to Americans to stay out of Mexico. A note will be sent to American Am bassador Wilson at the City of Mexico, directing him to inform Americans located in Mexico to watch conditions closely and if the situation grows alarming to quit the country.- The conference was attended by President Taft, Secretary Stimson, Acting Secretary of State Huntington Wilson, Secretary Nagel and Mr. Hitchcock. Reports received at the state de partment today were meager and con sisted only of confirmatory advices on press reports telling of the killing of forty revolutionists at Torreon by the federals. Quiet Is said to continue at Ensenada and the situation at Vera Cruz seems unchanged. JOKE WEDDING VALID. So Both Participants Agree to Divorce Suit. Bridgeport, Conn., March 2. A mock marriage that after 12 years has turned out to be real is the caus. of the suit for divorce brought here by Dr. Howard P. Mansfield, of Rldgefleld, and Miss Clara Georgia, of Zionville. In November, 1899, Miss Georgia was visiting friends in Georgetown, Conn., when she met Dr. Mansfield. They stopped at the home of one of the townsmen, who was a justice of the peace, and Dr. Mansfield jokingly pro posed that they go through a marriage ceremony. They have not seen each other since that time. Recently the physician learned that the ceremony is binding, and both agreed to divorce proceedings. CONCORDIA CLUB DINES Banquet at Tliroop to Be This Year's Celebration. The Concordia club will hold their sec ond semiannual banquet at the Tluroop hotel next Friday night. About 100 form er Concordlans are expected to attend the feed and talkfest. Last summer the former residents .if Concordia in Topeka held an all day pie- Tl I T Vl( thAir will I -r-i. v.. rir j iiivi'i). I (inn Lauguiei v, ll 1 1 I.I I XHO proprietors of the Throoo. Is oresident of the club. E. V. King is secretary. The feed Is scheduled to start at 6:30 o'clock. COLONEL IS RESTING. Spends Time Riding Horseback and Chopping Trees. Oyster Bay, March 2. Theodore Roosevelt dropped politics today and took a rest in preparation for the cani- Paign before him. He said he hoped to spend most of the next fortnight at home with a few trips to New York. He took a long horseback ride and put In a few hours at chopping trees which, next to riding is his favorite form of exercise. Mr. Roosevelt said no change I had occurred in the political situatlcn so rar as ne Knew. LIKE FIRE NEXT DOOR. Senator Lodge Says, Speaking of Sit uation In Mexico. Washington. March 2. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts said at the White House today that the situation in Mexico was about as bad as it could possibly be. "Our interests in Mexico continue to protest against conaitions there," said Mr. Lodge. 'There is no use shutting our eyes to the fact that a state of anarchy exists mere. 1 am against interven tion and .will oppose it, but still it is just like having a house afire next aoor. WILL SELL TICKETS, Louise M. Smith Concert Promises to Draw Big Crowd. Plans were worked out for the sale of tickets for the Louise M. Smith concert at an informal meeting- of members of the Topeka Ad club this noon. Subsequently Ad club mem bers started out to canvass the busi ness district of the city for the pur pose of disposing of tickets. At the meeting It was decided to employ a iorce .or .pernaps a dozen young ladies to make a house-to-house canvass and Sunday morning announcement of the coming event will be made in all the churches. All the Proceeds of the rnnpprt which will be held in the Auditorium next Thursday night, will go towards maintaining free daily pipe organ con certs lor a year. Mm T,nii(.o TW Smith last year was with the Red path Lyceum bureau and her voice is con sidered to be unusually good. She win oe assisted by Madame Josephine Meadows, a pianist of ability, and rlul- .u. ji. Seymour of this city. GLEED'S NEW TITLE. Becomes Chairman of Board of South western Telephone Company. St Louis, March 2. F. J. Petten gill of Dallas. Texas, was elected Dresl dent of the Bell Telephone company of Missouri at a meeting of the offi cers and directors at the offices of the company, to succeed Charles S. Gleed of Kansas City. Gleed was chosen to succeed T. N. Vail as chairman of the board of the Southwestern Telephone Telegraph company. Pettengill is now president of the Southwestern company. He will be come president of other divisions and will be located in St. Louis. Ben S. Reed of New Orleans, who has been in the Bell service for more than twenty years, was made general manager of the St. Louis division, to succeed F. R. Mott. Other general officers will be E. D. Nims, vice president and treasurer; E. S. Bloom, second vice president, and James K. Wass, general auditor. HE BOOSTS BONYNGE. Abilene Man Heard Him Speak at Chicago Last Week. Secretary J. Will Kelley of the Com mercial club has received a letter from Arthur Hurd of Abilene, secretary of the Citizens' league, who predicts that the lecture on "Monetary Reform" by R. W. Bonynge, which will be given In the rooms of the Commercial club next Tues day evening, will be well worth hearing. The letter reads: "I heard Mr. Bonynge speak In Chicago last weeK. Me is a splendid speaker and a big man In every way. Tou cannot talk him up too highly. We trust that your meeting will be a success and feel confi dent that It will be." Mr. Bonynge will speak at Iola Monday evening, March 4, and will go direct from there to Topeka, WASHBURN MAN WINS Benjamin Franklin Gets First Place in Oratorical Contest. Manhattan, Kan., March 2. Ben jamin Franklin of Washburn won first place in the state prohibition oratori cal contest held here last night. His subject was "The Home Defender." Second place was awarded to C. J. Boddy, of the Kansas Wesleyan Uni versity at Salina whose subject was The Ultimate Solution." The third prize went to J. Fuller Groom, of the Southwestern college, who spoke on "Kansas, the Nation's Hope." Flies 101 Miles an Hour. Pau, March 2. Jules Vedrines, driving a 140 horse power monoplane, has established a new world's speed record for an hour by flying 101 2-3 miles. The best previous record was 88 1-3 miles madea by Vedrines Jan. 13, last. ITALIAN GIRL FRIEND OF HELEN TAFT. 'SIGNOICTTA CUSAJJI- CONFALChEEKl The debutante daughter of the Italian Ambassador at Washington, Is one of the few who enjoy the most Intimate friendship with President Taft's charming daughter, Helen. This favored daughter of Italy is Signorita WILL PATROL CITY, Powers Will See Tljat Foreigners Are Protected In China. Peking, March 2. The action of the minister in calling in foreign troops to Peking was decided on at a meeting convened partly" as a result of a communication from Tang Shao Tl asking the powers to take measures to prevent further bloodshed and loss of property here. Tang Shao Ti's communication is. regarded as unof ficial but the foreign ministers were satisfied that the action was neces sary. The foreign troops will be mounted and will patrol the city dur ing the day time. A Japanese battle ship has been ordered to Taku at the mouth of the river Pei Ho in the pro vince of Chi Li to establish wireless communication with the Italian sta tion In Peking. A train load of mutinous soldiers belonging to the garrison of Pao Ting Fu started for Peking today but the railroad authorities blew up the bridges and stopped traffic. Chang Huan Chi's soldiers have kill ed many innocent persona passing along the streets of Peking carrying parcels. They were mostly panio stricken people fleeing from the city with their own effects. Uncle Sam Ready to Help. Washington, March 2. There are now 10,000 foreign troops of various nation alities in that part of China bordering the gulf of Pechili and lying between Peking and Chin Wang Tao. The great er part of this force is disposed along the line of railway that connects Peking with the sea, the majority being neat Tien Tsin in three hours by rail of th'. capital. If the international force in China is to be strengthened as a re sult of events in Peking, probably the first reinforcement must come from Japan aud from the Russian garrison in Northern Manchuria. The war de partment stands ready to see that the United States is fairly represented In any augmented force. The American troops like the last reinforcement for China, must come from the Philippines. The big army transport Sheridan now is lying at Manila, about to embark -the Fourteenth cavalry for home. Eith er this regiment or one of infantry could be dispatched to Chin Wang Taj at 4 hours' notice. The transport Sherman outward bound from San Francisco also is due to Manila next Monday. TIED UP AT DODGE. Santa Fe Trains Again Stopped Western City. at The first effects of the snow storm over the southwest today were reported to the general offices of the Santa Fe this afternoon when word was received that all eastbound trains from California and the west are tied up at Dodge City await ing the breaking of the blockade. West bound California trains are held at New ton awaiting the opening of the line by the rotary snow plows. Santa Fe of ficials report from six to ten inches of snow in southwestern Kansas lemiuiy. The Rock Island late this afternoon was successful hi keeping an trams in opera tion. They report deep snow but have been able to breaK tnrougn me umu. BIRTH RATE NEARLYDOUBLE. Almost Twice as Many Arrivals as De partures In Kansas. The vital statistics department of the atata hoard of health has compnea tne birth and death report for the state for January. It shows 1,739 deaths from all nanaes nnd 3.235 births. Organic heart trouble lead tne aeatn ust with 175. Earlv Infant mortality came no-rt witv. 139 deaths. There were 137 Hoathfl fi-nn-i nneumonla and 87 from bron chial pneumonia. Scarlet fever claimed seven victims, whooping cough seven and measles three. Bryan Favors Income Tax. Seattle, March 2. William Bryan expressed vigorously his entire approval of the income tax and free sugar bills Indorsed by the house Democrat caucus. "Pa, what Is a pillory?" "A what?" A pillory. Teacher asked me yesterday and l man t Know." "Why, that s facetious term sometimes applied to drug store. What won't these schools put into your neaa nextf Washington Her ald. Shortleiglv My Uncle Frank is a verit able Klondike. Longlelgh Why, how'3 that? Shortlelgh Plenty of wealth), but cold and distant. Smart Set. Beatrice Cusani-Gonfalonieri. and is acknowledged to be one of the most charming additions to diplomatic society. She speaks French, German and her own language very fluently, but English is still rather difficult for her. THOROUGHLY RELIABLE Tha best results are obtained by using 1 V CMOCOILATID (Blu Carton. "Yello-w Lb.l) in making Cakes, Pies, Puddings, Frosting, Ice Cream, Sauces, Fudges, Hot and Cold Drinks THE STANDARD FOB 131 YEARS 33 Highest Awards in Europe nd America S.FM.O& WALTER BAKER CO. Limited E.tablUH.d 17&0 THE BOOK OF JOHN. CHAPTER TWO. By Prof. Edwin P. Brown, Principal Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis consin. This is the second In the series of articles by prominent business and pro fessional men on the book of John. These articles were written at the request of Rev. Robert Gordon of the First Baptist church and will appear daily In the State Journal. Questions on these chapters will be answered by Mr. Gordon at the First Baptist church, Sunday night.l The biographer of Napoleon, Living stone, Tennyson, or any other great man requires a thousand pages for his narrative. All we know of Jesus, the master life of the world. Is recorded in a hundred pages, which give but glimpses of the dominating personality of the centuries. In this chapter two passing pictures are given Jesus glori fying a common event of life, and Jesus battling in moral lndignatidb at the profanation of sacred things and the commercializing of the higher im pulses in man. Not in a religious service but in a festive gathering in a common social situation -f life did Jesus first mani fest his glory, the glory of irradiating every part of human experience. Jesus came that we might have abounding life more of the pleasuves, more of the work, more of the satisfactions. In the wedding feast, in the fisherman's la bor, in the simple joys of the family gathering. Jesus has a Bhare. He is not a spectator or censor of human affairs, but is Himself a man implicated in every human experience. He wrought this miracle as He wrought all others to do good, to show goodwil" to men, to be a "sign" of- the Father's heart, a pledge that His interest reach es to every duty or relationship .of life. This man, so generously concerned for tha continued joy of the banquet ing hour, shows soon afterward the blazing indignation of a righteous soul at the sight of gross irreverence and selfishness. Like Ethan Allen thun dering at the door of the Ticonderoga commandant in the name of the great Jehovah and the continental .congress, Jesus under the authority of inherent righteousness cleanses the sacred place where man is supposed to meet God In the quiet of meditation and worship. Two great thoughts stand out; Jesus would have a place in our common ex periences; some abuses now as then call for the fiery vehemence of out raged and wronged manhood. Read the second chapter of John to day. CHAPTER THREE. By Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, Chair of Political Economy and Politics, Cornell University. This is the third in the series of articles on John written by eminent au thorities at the request of Rev. Robert Gordon of the First Baptist church. To citizenship In Jesus' kingdom were to be admitted only those who recognized their responsibility toward God and toward man, for the better ment of life and thus for the regener ation of the world. Into a civil state one is born; but entrance Into Jesus' kinedom must be voluntary ana open- eyed choice of the better way. And Jesus prociaimea nimseu tu uc the way. To be aamittea a citizen oi his kingdom one must recognize nis teaching as a profound Insight into and n revelation of the spirit of God, and must take Jesus' character as the ideal of beauty, truth ana ngnteous- ness. Conversion (by derivation, a turn-ini- about, conversio) means the con scious change of purpose from that nf unalcins- the gratification of one's own selfish desires to that of doing the will of the Father as shown by nr of devoting one's self de liberately to the service of others. Of course, this fundamental change of purpose Implies repentance, L e., the recognition of the evil of the former course and the "life-giving change of the inner man but the essence oi conversion is the surrender of God's will, as shown by belief, purpose, act. The surrender brings, of course, the joy of citizenship in the kingdom when the happiness of the new life becomes manifest. The whole-hearted recognition or this ideal of a pure and helpful ilfe. vitalized by love of God and man, and the deliberate determination to tol low him. Jesus seems to have taught as the necessary condition of admit tance into the kingdom. The intense earnestness of Jesus' appeal to a high er life leaves little doubt as to the in dividual's responsibility in securing his admittance into that life, or the life-giving happiness of the new rela tionship. "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John X, 10). "My disciples may have my Joy fulfilled in themselves" (John XVII, 13). From "SoclaJ Significance of the Teachings of Jesus," by permission of the author. fAl loll ffiVKE PREMIUM NO. 1 DORCHESTER. MASS. FOR SALE By owner at a bargain. splendid room house, modern except furnace; lhi lots, payment down. Ind 3811 White. FOR RENT 9 room house, modern, 613 W. 8th. Enquire at 619 W. 8th sU STICK TO CIVIL WAR. Yale Committee Does Not Fall In With Taffs Suggestion. New Haven, March I. That Mr. Taft favors "the war between the states" In stead of 'the civil war" aa part of an Inscription of a soldier's memorial at Yala was brought out today by the details of the plans of the Yale soldier memorial committee. The title, "The Civil War probably will be chosen by the commit tee. The plan favored by the committee Is a series of tablets with artistic adornment at the inner entrance of Memorial hail. All military titles of the fallen Yale sol diers will be rejected and the full name and address of the men who fell on both sides used. Deaths before 1 will limit the names on the tablets. The committee will report to the Yale corporation next June. In the war llo Yale men died in the Union artny and 4'J In the Confederate army. tafTtohhvyork. The President WU1 Bo the Guest of Colonel Harvey at a Dinner. Washington, March 2. President Tsft left Washington today for New York where tonight he will be the guest of Col. George Harvr-y at a small din ner given in honor of William Dean Howells, the author. The president will return to Wash ington early Sunday morning. DECLARE $7 DIVIDEND Prairie Oil Gas Company Seems to Be Prosperous. Independence, Kan., March 2. The Prairie Oil and Gas company todav declared a dividend of $7 a share tlrs first since the dissolution of the Stand ard Oil company. LOCAL JENTIOH. Don't fail to get our estimate on that lumber bill. J. B. Wheelan Co., Fourth and Santa Fe tracks. Phones 863. H. G. Larimer will address the mem bers of the Young Men's Baraca class at the First Baptist church Sunday. If.'s subject, "Cycology of Making a Choioe." Mr. B. H. Pugh will return to Topeka from Sanford, Fla., Wednesday, March 8. Mrs. Pugh and son Paul will remain In Sanford until Mr. Pugh's return in May. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Morse, 1110 Madison street, this morning. Talk to W. help you. J. Rickenbacher. He can The Ramblers' club will meet Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Ella Smith 716 Tyler street. C. A. O'Meara and W. C. Glenn are go ing to Louisiana on a business trip of ten days. Sunday evening 6 o'clock dinner, Throop Hall's orchestra. For loans on buildings under eonstruc- tibn see I. L. Betzer at New England building. Sunday evening 8 o'clock Throop. Hall's orchestra. dinner. E. V. King seems to have made some very popular snow pictures. He is seiltn. a lot of them. Word has been received here of tho marriage of Miss Leota Newell, of Esk rllge, Kan., to Mr. Frank Duling of that place. The marriage took place about a week ago. Mrs. Duling Ras many friends here. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Mrs. Clara Ramsdell, wife of T. f Ramsdell, died at her home five miles west of Topeka Friday. She la survived by her husband and four children. 8ho was the daughter of the late David Thompson. The funeral will be an nounced later. Stephen Clark Starr, son of William Starr, died Friday at the home of his father at 1021 Qulncy street. The funeral will be keld at 2 o'clock Sunday at the home. SNOWY, Blustery days as well -as pleasant weather, and our work is just the same the best possible laundry work that modern equipment and expert workmen can produce. Try our way with the next bundle of family wash. THE MUTUAL Topeka' Soft Water LAUNDRY More than 50 employers. C. H. MATl'HEWS, 6 wagons Founder and Ksr. Phones 519

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