The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 14, 1912

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I EVERYBODY 16 PAGES EVERYBODY 16 PAGES READ IT. NEEDS IT. LAST' EDITION. THURSDAY EVENING. TOPEKA KANSAS. MARCH 14, 1912; THURSDAY EVENING. On mmlm by nvwibor t TWO CENTS Of ttmiaa aatf MWMtaiada FIVE CENTS BRIGHT JOR TAFT President's Friends Apparently in Control Here. SING HOUN' SONG Wilson Democrats Admit Clark Victory, but Fight On. ENDS IN A FARCE SHOT ATTI1E KING An Italian Anarchist in Rome Fired Three Times THE LAW OFFICE OF THE NEAR FUTURE. By John T. McCutcheon, Piatt Murder Arrest Due Over Zealous Detectives. to Copyright 1912: By John T McCctcheon. lay urgent s Make Bitter light in State Committee. Initiative and Referendum Fa vored in Clark Resolutions. Confession Forced From Boyle by Offers of Clemency. At Victor Emmanuel, Failed to Hit Him. but WANT A STATE CONVENTION JACKSON URGES INSTRUCTION IMMlWITV BATUs HE IS GIVEN HIS LIBERTY (iC5lt it w-nw HSU jf; v 'i

i) Date Will Probably Be Fixed for May 7. Dolley Primary Plan Is on the Rocks. When tlie Republican state com mittee met at 3 o'clock this after noon the indications were that the Taft men were in control of the meet ing. They claimed 56 votes more than enough for a working majority. Their program was to caU a state con vention at Topeka May 7 and to pass resolutions endorsing the Taft admin istration and favoring the president's renomination. It is almost certain that this program will go through without a hitch. The Taft men have the votes. The Roosevelt supporters admitted at noon today that their only chance was to keep proxies from voting and they did not believe they had the votes to do that. All trains from the west into To peka were late last night on account of snowdrifts and western members of the state committee did not arrive until today. Sentiment expressed early today in regard to the probable action of the committee this evening was strongly in favor of the conven firm over the nrimarv plan. In fact, a poll of the committeemen presen developed the fact that fifty four were for the convention. This is over half of the 105 members, and a majority even if all should be present at the m pet in S". The Taft men have been active for eeveral days and have secured a large number of Droxies trom commuiec men who cannot come to Topeka to nftond the meeting. Taft men are claimine the committee for the presi dent and declare that the primary clan will not have a chance at the regular meeting. District Action Has Influence. The action of the First, Second Third and Seventh congressional com mittees in calling conventions will also have its effect on the deliberations of the committee today. But the chief obstacle in the way of the primary plan without a law behind it is the cost. The county chairmen have no funds with which to print the ballots and rent polling places and pay the scores of incidental expense bills at tendant upon the holding of a pri mary. With this fact staring them In the face the committeemen hesi tate to call a primary on general prin ciples and trust to providence to pay the bills. In spite of snow storms and bad train service the attendance today at the committee meeting was large. Republican leaders from every con gressional district are here in num bers to promote the interests of their candidate for the presidency. For ev ery committeeman present there are two Republican leaders. The Na tional hotel was a hive of political in dustry all day. The lines between the Roosevelt and Taft men were more sharply drawn today than ever be fore The regulars are full of fight and confidence. With four congres Aommittpps out of eight behind them they are claiming insurgent Kansas, the home of one of the orig inal Roosevelt governors, for Taft. They declare that while Stubbs was in trie east and north making Roosevelt speeches and promising Kansas to the colonel his own state was wheeling Into the Taft column. The fight today between the in surgents and regulars was bitter and was not one-sided by any means. The Roosevelt men made open charges that the Taft men had secured proxies bv the wholesale, using both fair .vCoana nnd foul. They charge post masters and federal office holders with resorting to old machine methods to muzzle public sentiment. Governor Stubbs was very indignant. The gov ernor expressed himself forcibly in denouncing the methods of the men who run the congressional conventions yesterday. The governor -named the following postmasters and federal ap pointees who had formed a lobby to eliminate the primary nlan: John Weltmer of Hiawatha. W. D. Casey of Atchison. Guv Swallow of Leaven worth. H. H. Tucker of Holton, W. I. Biddle of Leavenworth and A. B. Burdick of Nortonville. Stubbs Wires Protest to Taft. The governor sent the following message of protest to President Taft. "Topeka, Kan., March 13, 1912. "Hon. Wm. H. Taft, "President of the United States, Washington, D. C. "Your representatives and political managers in Kansas are using every means in their power to prevent pres idential primaries being held in this state. The caucus and convention sys tem which they propose to use to se cure delegates for you at the national convention at Chicago will disfran chise fully 90 per cent of the Repub lican voters of Kansas. 'Federal patronage is being dangled before the eyes of committeemen and thoroughly disreputable methods are being used to influence the election of delegates favorable to you. The state central committee meets in- Topeka tomorrow for the purpose of calling a direct primary election for the state. In order to discredit this movement, which, in my opinion, is favored by 95 out of every 100 Republicans in Kan sas, four congressional district com mittees, whose chairmen are under the control of your political managers, call ed meetings today to arrange for dis trict conventions without primaries. At the First district committee meeting a lobby consisting of the following fed eral appointees, to-wit: Casey. Biddle, Swallow. Tucker, Burdick and Weltmer, were present advocating the elimination of primaries. In the Second congres sional district the Kansas City, Kan. and Paola postoffices are being used to Frank Thomas Loses Place Sought as Delegate. Currency Reform, Primaries and Recall Demanded. Hutchinson, Kan., March 14. A3 State Chairman H. S. Martin called the Democratic convention to order at noon today a great hound dog, owned by Koon C. Beck, sheriff of Reno county. was sent scurrying across the platform by the boot of some enthusiastic Dcm ocrat and while the dog emitted howls the convention band struck up the Ozark dog song adopted by Clark men and the delegates, bubbling over with enthusiasm, launched into the homely strains of "You've Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around." Ex-Congressman A. 51. Jackson of Winfield, Chairman of the Demo cratic State Convention. (Continued on Page Two.) After A. M. Jackson, temporary chairman, had delivered an address urging that either Clark or Wilson in structions be given the delegates-at large, and the appointment of the usual committee, adjournment was taken until 3 o'clock. It was apparent the Clark men were safely in control and while the Wilson men had not yet given up the fight, they were admitting that the Clark men would control the con vention by a few votes. The eight congressional district dele gations held their caucuses today, the following delegates being chosen: First J. W. Orr, Atchison; W. D. Kuhn, Holton, instructed for tjlark. Second C. C. Greene, Wyandotte John Caldwell, Fort Scott, instructed for Clark. Third Frank Comisky, Pittsburg Isaac Hines, Labette county, no in structions. Fourth R. D. Carpenter, Marion; M A. Lindbacker, Burlington, no instruc tions. Fifth Jacob Hostettler. Belleville Michael Fry, Junction City, instructed for vv llson. Sixth Meets this afternoon. Seventh To come. Eighth Jerry Fitzpatrick. Wichita; Robert Bradford, Eldorado, no instruc tions. Presidential electors: First Dr. I. H. McGill, Nemaha county. Second S. C. Bybee, Anderson county Third Alfred Q. Wooster, Erie. Fourth Charles Gantz, Mervern. Fifth H. R. Fulton, Hanover. Seventh district John Kelly. Hugo- ton; David Ely, Larned; instructed for Clark. Eighth Andra Sorrenson, McPherson. Presidential elector. James W. Clark, Great Bend. J ne temporary organization was made permanent. If the convention adopts a plank in dorsing Clark the sixteen congressional delegates will follow the instructions given the delegates at large and Kan sas' twenty votes at Baltimore will go to Clark. If there are no instructions the congressional delegates will follow their caucus instructions or if none were given they will cast their vote at Baltimore as they see fit. Two sets of resolutions may be pre sented to the convention, one drawn by the Clark men and the other by the Wilson adherents. The Clark men pre pared theirs this morning. As read to the convention this afternoon they will declare: "Recognizing in the present speaker of the National house of representa tives the legislative and executive abil ity which helped the country to secure a Democratic majority in congress, we declare that the honorable Champ Clark of Missouri, is our choice for president and we hereby instruct the 20 delegates from Kansas to the Balti more convention to vote for him as long as three-fifths of the delegation believe his nomination to be possible. And the 20 delegates are further in structed that in all matters coming be fore the National Democratic conven tion of 1912, they shall vote as a unit, as the three-fifths majority of the said delegates may direct." Demand Primary and Recall. The resolutions demand a reduction of the tariff and an increase of the free list: a fellow servant law that will ef fectively "safeguard the interests of workmen employed by individuals or corporations and protect their fami lies." An income tax, retrenchment in government expenses and a reduction of the standing army; the election of United States senators, federal judges and the interstate commerce commis sioners by the direct vote of the people. The resolution further states: "We also demand primary election, for the nomination of all candidates for elective offices; the initiative and refer endum in all lawmaking and the recall of public officials when they have be come derelict in duty; the reform of HBmsVf KISPTVnAkiA FAS BOfKUAfis LrMEtTT INSANITY. TtHPdMftr tNSANirr somntffr to PLAIN fitfP FAHCi ItrSAfftTV. tGO MANIA E5o MANIA PLAIN OR (ZARDVf VARIETIES TSV OOR GCNBAIOGUAL EXPWT5 0, CHARUW"'7 "1 A our coNSTrrvTitwAi law center J MEWT 15 PmtOAAKCi CAtm,Vt HftvesreoAusTS mo CAN PRort Arf TMWS ONCONSTITUTtONA L OOR KEASA ONAttJt tcosrs Pen wurea) ta coNfose AU- Turves most wctxf&sJ CASES A S PecvAlTY. vrtl I our financial system that will insure the business interests against disastrous panics such as those of 1904 and 1907; the passage of the Sherwood pension bill. "Also we demand liberal appropria tions to keep the Missouri river nav igable to the end that freight rates may be reduced on all products of the farms, factories and mines; we demand liberal appropriations to construct and maintain better post roads throughout the country. The United States gov ernment should bear at least one-half the expense of maintaining the high ways for rural mail delivery. Opposed to Aldrich Plan. "We are opposed to the Aldrich cur rency plan and demand in its stead an enactment that will leave the power of regulating the volume of currency with the senate and the house of representa tives instead of with the money trust. "We believe in and demand a pro gressive Democratic administration, legislative, executive and judicial. We instruct our delegates to support no platform and no man opposed to the measures that we have declared for to day. We congratulate the country upon tne faithful work of the present Demo cratic congress which has established needed reforms in legislation, brought back the government nearer to the peo ple ana made it possible to elect a Democratic president." Jackson Declares for Clark. A. M. Jackson, of Winfield. in hia address as temporary chairman of the Democratic state convention, here today announced his personal support of Speaker Clark for the Democratic nom ination for president. It is now up to the Kansas Democ racy to declare our choice for presi dent," said Chairman Jackson. "The support of two prominent and worthy Democrats, Speaker Clark and Gover nor Wilson, have been made the issue in the selection of delegates and we are to declare whom Kansas wants. It is well known where I stand and it is not for me here to take up the time of this convention telling you why am for Mr. Clark. But that it is expected by the Democrats in this state as well as outside of it that we will make our choice known goes with- j outiook, out saying. oucu a uuuimj win ueip and strengthen the Democracy rather than hurt and weaken it, for our con test is a friendly one, each delega'e voting for what he truly believes is for the best of all. Majority Must Rule Minority. Should it turn out that this con vention sends a delegation to Balti more for Mr. Clark we confidently rely upon those who now have another choice to heartily ratify the conven tion's action. If the majority should decide that Mr. Wilson is the man whom Kansas shall support, you gen tlemen of the winning side may con fidently rely upon the supporters of Mr. Clark to support enthusiastically the choice made. We are for best that can be done; first for the Democratic party of the nation and next for the Democratic party of Kansas. Let us meet the issue squarely, in spirit, of fairness, giving every delegate his rights and his lust dues." After the test i'i last night's commit tee the scenes shifted somewhat. The Wilson men were still claiming that the HITS BROKEN RAIL Wreck on the Chicago Great Western in Iowa. the east. At 1:36 it shifted to the north east, and by 2 o'clock was blowing from the north at the rate of ten miles an hour. The hourly readings: 7 o'clock... 33 11 o'clock... ...35, 8 o'clock ....34 12 o'clock 35 9 o'clock 35 1 o'clock 36 10 o'clock 35 2 o'clock 38 County Attorney Says There's No Evidence to Hold Him. Issues Statement Telling Why He Declines to Act. Refusing to rely on the confession forced from William D. Boyle, while the plumber was drunk. County Attor ney Simon today ordered the release of the man arrested in St. Joseph io jonnection with the Benjaman Piatt murder. In the county jail today Boyle declared that he had been threatened and drugged by rrivate dtectives who forced him to make a statement; and signed the confession after the men had promised leniency at the hands of the county attorney and governor. Still declaring his innocence of the murder .of the North Topeka merchant. Boyle underwent a final interview this morning at the hands of the county attorney and his assistant. An hour la ter the man was released. H. C. Er ricsson and H. C Mediock. together with a reporter for a morning paper worked the case against tne plumber and secured his admission of crime. They did not hesitate to express their indignation when Boyle was released. AN OFFICER OF THE GUARD Was Dangerously Wounded by One of the Bullets. Assassin Is Arrested and Nar rowly Escapes Lynching. Three Coaches Leave Track; 25 Persons Injured. Dunkerton, Iowa, March 14. Twenty-five persons were injured, thirteen seriously and one probably fatally, in a wreck on the Chicago Great Western railway, three miles east of here, early this morning. The train which was passenger train No. 1, en route from St. Paul to Kansas City, struck a broken rail on a curve. Fourteen passengers were taken to a hospital in Waterloo. Three Pullmans and a day coach left the track. The train was due at Des Moines at 6:30 this morning and was nearing Dunkerton at 2:45 a. m. when the wreck occurred. The train was in charge of Conductor H. M. Peck, of Kansas City, who was among the less seriously injured. Among those most seriously hurt are: Seriously Hurt. James Larsbn, -.St. Joseph, Mo. Timothy Eoleyj."bes Moines. George Hall,"3tfevada, Iowa. Mrs. Edward Mclntire, St. Paul. E. L. Jones, Minneapolis. J. E. Landholt, New York. John Youngblood, Amarillo, Tex. H. E. Singerhouse, St. Paul. Brakeman L. E. Pallmeter, Kansas City. TRAINS TIED UP Another Snow Storm Over Kansas. Sweeps Affects Northeastern of the State. Section MORE BAD WEATHER. Prospect Is Not Encouraging Accord ing to Forecaster. It will be the same old thing but more of it. The prediction of the weather prophet is not encouraging. Snow with a cold wave tonight is the Friday may be cloudy with warmer temperatures in the north and west portions of the state. "This will be a month that will long be remembered," remarked "Sunny" Flora, the Topeka government weath er observer. "It will go down as the worst March on record from the standpoint of those who see good only in fair weather. The farmer should have no reason to grumble as crop conditions are favorable. "The minimum temperature tonight will probably be about 15 degrees. There was an area of low pressure over Salt Lake City Wednesday, and it is coming this way. The center of the storm is due to reach here tonight. We will probably feel the drop In tempera ture before night, and with it we are likely to have snow. The barometer is falling." This morning at 4 o'clock a light snow began falling, which was gradu ally transformed into a heavy mist which had terminated by 6 o'clock. The precipitation was .11 of an inch. The minimum temperature this morning was 32 degrees recorded at 5 o'clock. The reading at 10 o'clock was 3 co vention would not be sufficiently river Wednesday, the maximum stage pro-Clark to force through instructions being 7.1 feet. At 8 o'clock today the n iavor ui me spranei, uui must ot stage was 7 leet even, snowing a ten dency fos tne waters to recede. The shippers' forecast: "Protect 36 hour shipments north and west against temperatures of from 10 to 15 degrees; east and west against 20 to 25 degrees." This is the warmest weather experi enced in 18 daya, but at that the temper atures are averaging 5 degrees below nor mal for this date. To be normal the maximum for the day should reach tha SO point. All morning the wind was from i them had. temporarily at least, aban doned efforts to get instructions for Wilson and were centering their fight for an uninstructed delegation to Balti more. H. S. Martin, chairman of the Democratic state committee, who has been one of the Wilson leaders said: Fight to Beat Clark. "No one can say this morning what Continued on Page Two.). a snow storm that swept over northwestern Kansas, northeastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska early today followed by a stiff wind this afternoon, has demoralized traf fic on the Rock Island, the Union Pa cific and Missouri Pacific roads. Rock Island officials stated in To peka this afternoon that every rotary and wedge plow in service in this district had been rushed to the blocked cuts. The road had practical ly discontinued traffic to Colorado un til the storm abates. Trains are tied up at Phillipsburg, Selden and Brew ster. The engines on all these trains are Kept -anve and an trains are provided with dining cars. The road is making every effort to keep pas- seniors in comrort. The Colorado and Nebraska divisions of tne roaa are tied up and many trains will be annulled before the snow drifts are penetrated. The Union Pacific reports a number of trains tied up near the Kansas-Colorado state line. For the time beinsr all east- bound Union Pacific trains out of Denver nave been annulled. Westbound train No. 109, due to leave Topeka for Denver at 7:35 p. m. has been annulled. No. 105 will run as far as Junction City only. A 12 to 15 inch snow is reported from Ellis west, with a high wind. The follow ing branches are closed: McPherson Salina, Junction City-Concordia, Man-hattan-Marysville, Salina-Oakley and Solomon-Beloit. The Missouri Pacific is choked by the early morning storm. Officials of that road have sent an appeal to the Rock Island for snow plows. But the Rock Island is having troubles of its own and probably will not be able to spare a plow from any of its divisions. Th Santa Fe is fortunate in the last storm. Their tracks were kept open on the main line. On the Superior branch the cuts were filled with snow between Manchester, Kan., and Superior, Neb.. In the Superior yards eight feet of snow covers the rails and switches. No promises are given by Rock Island and Union Pacific officials. If the wind continues, the road will not attempt to clear their cuts. It would be useless. THEY ENDORSE TAFT, Third District Republicans Win Hold Convention. Rome, March 14. An attempt was made to assassinate King Victor Em manuel this morning. Several shots were fired at the king but all missed their target and his majesty escaped unhurt His assailant was arrested. I Cherry vale, Kan., March 14. The Third district Republican committee In session here called a convention to be held in Independence, May 14 to elect two delegates to the national convention. The vote for the conven tion was unanimous. Resolutions indorsing the Taft ad ministration were adopted. (From a sketch made at the county jail by Parsons.) William iV. Boyle, Piatt Murder Sus pect, Who Was Released Today. At the jail today, Boyle told of meeting Mediock and Charles Russell, a carpenter. They urged him not 'o work Monday and Boyle was in their company that day and until late at night. He spent the entire day Tues day with them and after his arrest that night was the victim of third degree tactics that continued until i o'clock Wednesday morning, when the man signed a statement admitting the mur der of Piatt. It was snowing Monday," Boyie said, as he told his story at the Jail, and when I met Mediock and the car penter, they invited me to go to a sa loon. We took several drinks. men they told me not to work that day. We have plenty or money ana win have a good time," Mediock told me. So we visited a number of saloons an. after supper I met the men at t.ie Savoy hotel. I must have taken 40 or 50 drinks during the day and night," continued Boyle, as he rubbed his head in a dazed sort of way. "We began to play pitch and that's the last thing I remember. They say I admitted killing- old man Piatt. God knows if I did I don't remember it now and it's not so." Shows Effects of Spree. j Boyle showed the effects cf his drunk- I en spree. His face was flushed and swollen and the man's hands shook at one with palsy. As he talked to a visi tor!, Boyle leaned his head on hia hands, but looked his questioner square ly in the eyes and continued to repudi tte any statement that he was guilty cf murder. "All night Tuesday they kept after me to admit that I had killed Piatt," continued Boyle, "and I told them I didn't do It. You know that," said Boyle as he looked at James McClure, on assistant county attorney. "Once I asked for a drink. I seemed to be burning up. They wouldn't let me get it myself, but brought me some thing in a cup. It had a milky look and I don't know what was in it. I guess I drank about half of the stuff. Then they started in on me again. They said my friends had left me, that they would convict me of first degree murder if I man t conress. I wasn t guilty and I told tnera so. but If they were going to cause me trouble, I wanted it just as light as possible. I signed something, but didn't read it. Mediock and Erricsson said it was a promise to come here without getting papere from the gov ernor. Then Mediock said they would get me off with a year or -two. He said Erricsson had lots of Influence with the governor and county attorney and would find me a good place. "Still I told them I wan't guilty, but they said they were my friends and promised to send some money to my family. Once when I refused to sign the paper. Mediock leaned over me and said, 'If you don't admit you killed the Jew, I will knock your head off.' They had been with me all Weather Forecast. Cblcaaro. March 14. Forecast Kansas: Snow and cold wave tonight. Fair and slightly warmer ITridaj'. 1 night and I had been awful drunk. I told them that I would sign the paper, but that I wasn't guilty and could for t didn't know lust what I was doine- (Continued on as Two, Who Was Shot at by an Anarchist Today. The king was Just leaving the palace on his way to the Par '.eon to attend the annual memorial service in honor of his father. King Humbert. A young man fired several shots from behind the crowd in the streets. One of the offi cers of the king's body guard fell dan gerously wounded, but the king was un touched. The. crowd attempted to lynch the youth. The police finally rescued him. The king was unruffled. He con tinued on his way after only a brief stop and sat through the Pantheon ser vices without a sign of emotion. The assassin gave his name as An tonio Dalba, and declared that he was an individualist anarchist. Three Shots Rang Out. The attempt on the king's life was made as his majesty with Queen Helena was going from the palace to the Pantheon to take part in the annual memorial service in honor of the late King Humbert. The royal carriage was preceded and followed by an escort of cuirassers. The procession was passing along the Via Lata, when three shots rang out from amid the crowd. The soldiers fol lowing the carriage immediately dashed forward and as they did so their com mander fell from his horse. The wound ed officer was moved to one side by some of his men while the others dash ed up to the royal carriage where they found the king and queen sitting calm and unmoved. Meanwhile the crowd seized the man who had fired the shots and attempted to lynch him. He was so badlv handled that he was scarcely able to answer questions when he was handed over to the police. The royal procession was scarcely inter rupted, but proceeded towara tne Pantheon, where the mass for King Humbert was completed without fur ther Incident, and after the conclu sion the king and queen returned to the Quirinal along the same rout. On their arrival at the palace ths king learned for the first time that the commander of his escort. Major Lang, had been seriously wounded, and his majesty at once started for the hospital, where the major was lying. He traveled in an open auto mobile and showed no signs of hav ing passed through an ordeal. An Individualist Anarchist. The man who had fired the shots had in the meantime been taken to the police station, the policemen hav ing great difficulty in passing through the crowds, which showed anger and desired to wreak vengeance. At the police station, in spite of the man's condition, he was subject ed to keen interrogation. He said his name was Antonio Dalba, that he was 21 years of age. and that he was a stone mason. .He described himself as an "individualist anarch ist" and he said he made the attempt as a protest against the organization of society. He had, he said, taken up a position In the crowd near the Odescalchi palace and waited for the king's coming from the Quirinal. When the royal carriage arrived op posite the palace where he was standing he fired three shots at the king. All the circumstances lead to the belief that the assailant of 'his ma jesty was not concerned In any plot of an organization, but that his deed was the outcome of his individual ab erration. In all quarters of Rome demon strations have been prepared to pro test against the outrage, whose ef fect has been to increase Victor Em manuel's popularity among all classes. People who were present in the Pantheon say that despite the nar row escape he had just had the king went through the service without a tremor, the queen likewise showing no signs of emotion. (Continued on Page TwcsJ

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2 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MARCH 14, 1912 BRIGHT FOR TAFT. Contii.ued from Page One.) prevent the people having chance to vote for the nomination of a president If it Is disreputable and dishonest 10 xmm money to elect a United States sen ator In Illinois, why is it not equally dishonest to use federal patronage to nominate a president of the United States T While a vast number of Re publicans do not agree with some of your policies, you have been given credit with good "motives and high standards and I do not wish to in any way even insinuate that you are per sonally responsible for these methods but you are the benenclary, ana aitar the facts are presented to you, if you do not publicly condemn them, you must necessarily share the responsi bility. Are you in favor of disfranchis ing a vast majority of the Republi cans of this state by using the caucus and convention system where not one Republican out of 20 will have any choice whatever in expressing their preference for president? Do you ap prove the use of federal patronage tJ control the election of delegates to a national convention? Do you not know that federal offices represent, the same value as money as an influence in electing delegates to a convention? "W. R. STUBBS. "Governor." Anthony Replies to Stubbs. Congressman Anthony sent the fol lowing telegram to the president last night: "Hon. W. H. Taft. "Washington. D. C. -a----,-, "I trust you will pay no attention to the telegram of Governor Stubbs charg ing nnrticlDatlon of postmasters In First district ommittee meeting today. No postmaster participated, except that the resignation of William I. Biddle as chairman of the committee was read and hla successor elected because he was a federal office holder. The only office holders In Kansas that I know of who are guilty of pernicious political activity are state office holders ap pointed by Governor Stubbs who has been waging war on the national ad ministration for many months. "Governor Stubbs himself has neg lected his official duties as governor to leave this state most of the time for the last sixty days to talk politics in other states, and J. N. Dolley, the gov ernor's state bank commissioner, is the present state chairman and is manag ing the forces opposed to your renom ination. The First district committee today unanimously endorsed you for renomlnation and re-election and the Third and Seventh districts have since done likewise and every Indication to night points to a defeat of the governor and his state office holders in their ef forts to control 'the state committee against you at the meeting tomorrow. "D. R. ANTHONY." Faxon Also Sends Telegram. Ralph Faxon, the Seventh district editor, sent the president the follow ing telegram today setting forth who the "pernicious officeholder-workers" really were in the affairs of the Sev enth district congressional committee meeting: "William H. Taft, Washington. D. C: "It is with a feeling of sorrow and regret that you are informed of the peculiar situation that confronted us yesterday in the Seventh district com mittee meeting at Hutchinson. "It is quite apparent to the discern ing that Governor W. R. Stubbs is not for you. Moreover, he is using state patronage against you: No postmas ters' displayed any pernicious activity in the deliberations of the meeting, but most violent opposition to your friends who constituted an over whelming majority of the committee, was manifested. This pjyisition was led by Rodney A. Elward, an ap pointee of Governor Stubbs, a regent of the university. "Sitting by Mr. Elward's side and directing his movements was Lienten ant Governor Richard J. Hopkins, who takes orders from the governor and twice has been an appointee of his. "Stationed conveniently across the hallwas Howard S. Lewis, attorney fo1" the Missouri Pacific railroad, who grew almost apoplectic with rage and feeling as he denounced you. your friends and the day's proceedings. "The governor has all his friends and appointees at work against you while he goes abroad denouncing the pernicious activity of federal office holders in your behalf! His executive clerk spent nearly all his time the past week in a long-distance telephone booth calling in the faithful for to day's meeting here. At the same time, his able secretary Is busy preparing messages to you and T. R. inter views for the newspapers, and speeches to be made in the anti-Taft movement in other states. "The governor's most famous utter ance Is that he believes no state officer or clerk should loaf on the Job, but that there should be a dollar's worth of work for "a dollor's worth of pay,' yet they say a clerk in the governor's office who entered it several months ago had to be Introduced to his chief the other day when the latter came into hla office for an hour or so. "In short, Mr. President, about the only brand of 'pernicious activity' to be found in Kansas today is that dis played by Governor Stubbs and his horde of state appointees." All the early arrivals, with very few exceptions, were for Taft and the con vention plan. They Are for Taft. Sid Knapp of Clyde, who held a proxy for the Cloud county committeeman, was for the convention plan and could not see the primary idea at all. "Our committeeman is an insurgent," said Kaapp, "but he knows how I stand in regard to a primary. I believe the com mittee will give a good majority for the convention plan of selecting presi dential delegates. I have yet to hear of any plan whereby the money can be raised to defray the expenses of a pri mary." Dell Travis of Pratt Is here with a proxy from his county committeeman. Travis is for Taft and the convention. "Taft is the only man who can win at the election," said Travis. "I am for him all the time and all the way. The Idea of a free-for-all primary without restrictions of law behind It does not appeal to me. I shall vote for a con vention." Clarence Funk of Marion county, for mer executive clerk In the offices of Governor Hoch, Is for Taft for renom lnation and re-election. "I think that any effort to take, the nomination away from Taft is but shabby treatment of a great and good president," said Mr. Funk. "Our county committee chair man Is a Roosevelt man and I believe that my county is for Rooaevelt, but for my part, I am for Taft all the time." Dr. J. B. Dykes of Lebanon, Smith county, is a strong and Influential Taft man. "Our county committee voted twenty to three for a conven tion," said Dr. Dykes, "and I believe they would have voted the same way for Taft on a presidential proposition. I ara a real Republican and therefore i am for Taft for a second term. I cannot for the life of me understand why there should be opposition to him In his own party. He has made good. What more could be asked?" Dan Dyer, that old timer from Smith Center, Is here. Dan Is for Taft and the convention plan. "I think Taft has made the best president in recent years," said Dyer, "and I am for him for renomination. My coun ty to for him and I believe he will win in Chicago on the first ballot and he will win in November by a tremendous majority. The committee will declare for a convention," Taft and Good Roads. H. G. James of Independence, editor of the Reporter and president of the State Good Roads association, is for Taft and good roads: One as strong as the other, and believes that both are equally beneficial. "I think Mr. Taft has made a good president," said Mr. James, "and I cannot conceive of his party repudiating him. The men op posing him are office seekers, mis called reformers. I am here to boost for Independence for the state con vention. We have one of the' best towns in the state and the best hotel accommodations in the state. Don't forget the big good roads convention in December." Charlie Toe, the Montgomery coun ty editor of the old school, is for Taft. "I believe he is stronger now in this state than he was before Roosevelt an nounced his candidacy," said Mr. Toe. "I am for Taft because I am a good Republican and proud of my party achievement." Roosevelt Losing Ground. Ralph Faxon, of Garden City, who ia president of more organizations than any man in the world, can see nothing to It but Taft, all the way. "Even in tne western country Roosevelt is los ing ground." said Faxon. "The Seventh district will send Taft delegates to Chi -cago. If the Democrats pass their cut In the sugar tariff they will put the beet sugar refineries out of business. That will be a calamity for us. Do you know that the beet sugar Industry pays out 30 million of dollars to farmers in 16 states? That there are 65 sugar mills In this country with an Invest ment of mary millions? The Demo cratic tariff will put them all out of business and play into the hands of the sugar trust.'". J. M. Kinkle, the man who called the Seventh district congressional commit tee together and who has been denounc ed as a fixer and driver of the steam roller by the insurgent Republican pa pers, came to town today to defend himself. He does dot look like an ogre or an octopus. He is a big man, it s true, but his face is clean cut and his eyes frank and kindly. Kinkle laughed when told about how he had been ac cused of running rough shod over pub lic sentiment in the Seventh district. "Why, the committee voted unanimous ly for a convention." said Kinkle. "There was not a shadow of sentiment for a primary. It was impossible and im practical. The only division was on the manner of selecting delegates and we left that to the county committees. Each county will decide on its own manner of choosing delegates, primary, mass meeting or caucus. I think that it is fair, don't you? "We took the position that the con gressional committee had the right to do as It thought best without regard to dictation from the state committee. We met a day ahead of the state com mittee in order that our boys might be able to kill two birds with one stone. We could come on to Topeka from Hutchinson and cover both meet ings on one trip. "I tell you that the primary law is ruining the party organization. At our committee meeting yesterday we had the smalest personal, attendance we have had in years. I am for Taft, but I do not like to speak for my section of the state. It is hard to telL I be lieve that Taft sentiment is growing stronger." Capt .R. M. Painter, county commit teeman from Meade county, is for Taft and believes the Taft sentiment is growing in his part of the state. "Roosevelt hurt himself In my section by getting into the race. He is not s strong there as he was before he an nounced," said Capt. Painter. "This third term, under any guise or condi tions, is undesirable. The Stubbs ic terference is not relished either." Mulvane Is Surprised. D. W. Mulvane, national committee man, said today: "I am astounded at the growth of Taft sentiment in Kan sas in the past few weeks. I believe that right now, here in Topeka, that a majority of the Republicans favor Taft over Roosevelt." Cyrus Anderson, committeeman from Rawlins county, is for Taft. When asked why he was for the president, he said "Because he has been a gocd j president." That was all, but it was a volume and a speech in one. minus i the rhetoric but strong on logic. An derson said that he thought his county was for Roosevelt, but that the colonel is not so strong there as he was before he announced for president. Mr. An derson used to be secretary of the old board of railroad commissioners some six years ago. Tom Thompson, of the Howard Cour- ant, is for Taft. He has reasons. "I am for the president because ho has made good," said Editor Thompson. "Because it is the right thing to do. There is no earthly reason for a Re publican being against him. Just be cause Roosevelt changed his mind in regard to the man he recommended for president is no reason that Repub licans should switch on him after he has made good." Mr. Thompson re ported that the Third district congres sional committee voted for Taft at the meeting at Cherryvale solid with the exception of one vote from Chautau qua, and that was for LaFollette. BOTH SIDES DEFIANT. President of Miners Sees Xo Escape From a Stirke. New York. March 14. "The United Mine Workers of America will not com promise a single demand that they have made of the anthracite operators," de clared John P. White, president of the mine workers, this afternoon. "I look for a general suspension of work in the anthracite field on April 1," he added. "The operators have notified us that their reply is final. When we meet them tom-rrow we will file merely a formal reply, reiterating our demands. It will then be up xo the operators. If they make no concession, every union hard coal miner in Pennsylvania wi!l lay down his tools on the night of March 3i Gift $2,500,000. Boston, March 14. A gift of two and a half million dollars to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been announced to the board of trustees by President Richard C. Mac Laurin. The identity of the donor will remain secret for the present. ENDS IN A FARCE. (Continued from Page One. when that paper was signed, but it is isn't true." After being brought to Topeka last night, Boyle reaffirmed his innocence. we tola tn county attorney s rorce ne could give no reason for signing the confession, and begged them not to question him aoout tne matter. "When we left St. Joe," said Boyle, "Erricsson sent $5 to my family. Med lock gave them some money earlier in thm week." Attorney Bolinger and Patrolman Boyle a brother of the plumber, visit th. farmer TnndV ri at thA 1a.il thj. innmlnf. following- the interview of the county attorney. After considering the method oy wnicn xne jsoyie couics sion" was secured, Simon declined to issue a complaint for the man's arrest and ordered him released. It was ad mitted that there is no evidence on which, to base a conviction aside from Via harA RtntTnAn of the ROVle. An investigation showed that Boyle work ed on West Tenth avenue tne oaj tho killing and was not in North To peka that day. Detectives Are Wrathy. When it was announced that Boyle had been released. Detectives Erica son and Medlock were wroth. "We had a good case against Boyle, said Erricsson. "Medlock had been with the man several days and was in hi. nnnfiHAnnA Mi i-i of mv informa tion was secured from Mr. Sloan, a reporter, who was also wonting on ms case." Medlock, who is a Topeka man and lives at 610 West Fifth street, denied that he had intimidated Boyle or got him drunk in securing a statement of his guilt. "We took a drink of whisky early in the morning," said Medlock, "but after that drank only pale beer. Boyle didn't drink the amount he claimed and I was careful not to permit him to become intoxicated. Neither did we promise Boyle clemency if he confess ed, although both Erricsson and myself sympathized with the man and prom ised to do what we could for him. I told him Erricsson was a gocd friend of the governor and would do what he could for him." Members of the police and sheriff's force consider the Boyle incident a huge Joke. Not since the man's arrest have they given any credence to the story of the plumber's guilt and are of the opinion that there was never suffi cient evidence to warrant bringing the man to Topeka. A year ago Boyle was suspected of the murder. At the time the plumber was working for the Henry Hardware company, one door south of the Piatt store. After an investigation by Pink erton detectives and police officers, it was conceded that Boyle could not have been in the neighborhood of the Piatt store at the time of the murder. When Former Spotter Erricsson open ed a private detective agency in Topeka the Erricsson-Medlick-Sloan trio took up the Piatt mystery. The Boyle the ory was lying loose and easily acces sible. On this they based a still hunt, which resulted in the plumber's detec tion this week. Mr. Simon Makes Statement. The manner in which the William Boyle confession was secured, is ex plained today in a statement made by County Attorney Simon. In this state ment Simon states his reasons for re fusing a warrant in the case and de clares that the alleged confession would be worthless in a court of justice. Simon says: "No man in Shawnee couiity has ever been more anxious than I to see the murderer of Benjamin Piatt convicted and punished. At the same time I have never issued a criminal complaint against any person unless I believed there was a reasonable ground of his guilt. "Shortly after the murder of Benja min Piatt, William D. Boyle was sus pected and all clues tending to show his guilt were run down and found to h groundless. A couple of months ago Mr. Ericcson came to me and said that he believed that Boyle was guilty. I informed him of the investigation which had been made concerning Boyla. Mr. Ericcson then proceeded on -wn responsibility to investigate the murder and located Boyle In St. Jos eph. Mo. "Last Tuesday morning when I was sick at home, Mr. Ericcson came to my house and wanted me to issue a complaint fcr Boyle's arrest, saying that on Monday night, while under the influence of liquor, Boylo had made certain incriminating statements to one of Ericcson's men in St. Joseph. I told Mr. Ericcson that considering Boyle's intoxicated condition, that those statements would be of little or no weight as evidence and refused to is sue a complaint. I told Mr. Ericcson also, that if Boyle would make a writ ten confession cf guilt, that there would then be evidence or grounds on which to issue a complaint. Mr. Ericcson said he would return to St. Joseph and have Boyle picked up and 'sweat him out' and said he wished I could g' along. As I was sick and could not go. but desiring to be advised as to -the circumstances under which a con fession was made, if one wasr made. I had my assistant, James A. McClure. go to St. Joseph with Mr. Ericcson. "Boyle was picked up that evening in St. Joe by the police, and while Mr. McClure was present at the sweating, Boyle made no admissions of guilt and denied that he had made any state ments incriminating himself, to anyone the night before, and said that if he did make any, he was drunk and did not know what he had said. Mr. McClure was present until about 2 or 3 o'clock In the morning and then retired. About 5 o'clock Mr. Ericsson came to the hotel and waked Mr. McClure and said that Boyle had 'come through and would plead guilty. Boyle was brought over to the hotel and said he was will iffe to plead, as that was the easiest way out, but said he was not guilty. Mr. McClure stated that he was not asking for a plea of guilty, but if Boyle was guilty, he wanted him to make a statement of the facts. Mr. McClure made no offer or suggestion of any benefit or leniency to Boyle if he would make a statement. Boyle protested his innocence, and continued to do so until Mr. McClure left St. Joe, about 7 o'clock that morning. "Last night Mr. Ericcson said about half an hour after Mr. McClure left St. Joe, that Boyle signed the written statement which was published in the morning paper, in which he admitted his guilt. Mr. Ericcson brought Boyle to Topeka and to my office at the court house last night about 8 o'clock, at which time Boyle stated that he was willing to plead guilty, if he could get off easy, but that he was innocent of the crime. Mr. Ericcson told me last night the circumstances under which the confession was made and what he had said to Boyle at the time Boyle signed this purported written confession, which, was largely cor roborated by Boyle's own statements to me. "After talking with Mr. Ericcson and with Boyle I am thoroughly con vinced that Mr. Ericcson, very prob ably Inadvertently and unintentional ly, led Boyle to believe that if he would sign the written statement he would get off with a light sentence, whereas, If he stood trial he would be convicted and receive a life sen tence. That being true, the written statement signed by Boyle would not be admissible in evidence and would not be binding on Boyle. "Being convinced that this state ment which Mr. Ericcson obtained would not be admissible in evidence, the circumstantial evidence which the state could produce would not be sufficient to warrant the Court of Topeka in binding Boyle over at the preliminary examination. "Entertaing this opinion, I told Mr. Ericcson that a complaint would not be issued and phoned the sheriff to release Boyle. In taking this action l conscientiously believe I have ful ly and fairly performed my duty as a pudjic prosecutor. The Boyle Confession. Following is the written confession made by Boyle which he now re pudiates: "I, William D. Bovle. of mv own free will and accord, do hereby state that on February 22, 1911, I entered the store of Benjamin Piatt in North Topeka, Kansas, in the daytime, about tne hour of 1:30 p. m. of the said day, for the purpose of getting a drink of whisky, having been drinking. I be came angry at Mr. Piatt and struck him with a gas pipe which I had with me, as stated to Medlock and Ericsson I must have struck him several times, Put l didn't rob his person of any money or take any goods from the store. "I further waive extradition from the state of Missouri, or other process. and will accompany H. C. Ericsson back to Topeka, Kansas. (Signed) "WILLIAM D. BOYLE. "Witnessed by "H. C. Ericsson. "H. C. Medlock." SING HOUN' SONG. (Continued from Page One.) the result of the convention will be. We will fight against a Clark instruct ed delegation to Baltimore and when the Clark fellows get through they will kmw they have been in a contest." On the other hand B. J. Sheridan, Clark's manager, had raised his claim on the convention standing. "We'll beat them by ninety votes In the convention," said Sheridan.' "There is no doubt of it. The Kansas delega tion, twenty strong, will go to Balti more instructed for Speaker Clark." The desire on the part of Wilson men to have the convention send the four delegates-at-large to Baltimore without instructions is due to the fact that Wilson men control four of the eight congressional districts. If the conven tion does not instruct the delegates-at-large, the eight congressional delegates elected from these four districts will go to Baltimore instructed for Wilson. If, however, the convention instructs the delegate3-at-large for Clark, the congressional delegates, following a precedent, will be forced to cast their votes with the "big four" and Clark will get Kansas's twenty votes the sixteen from congressional districts and the four delegates-at-large. Only One Hope Left. The Wilson men held out one hope this morning, that was that the snow bound districts of northwestern Kan sas would be able to get here before tne convention convened. The Wilson men declare a majority of these del egates are Wilson men and If they can get here m time the tide may be turned. In any event it is certain that the fight in the convention will be close. The probable lineup this morn ing for delegates-at-large was: A. M. Jackson, Winfield; B. J. Sher idan, Paola; W. L. Brown, Kingman, and Tom Gresham, Cottonwood Falls. Clark Men Get First Blood. Clark supporters won the first fight indicating the relative strength of the Clark and Wilson forces when Judge A. M. Jackson of Winfield, was telected temporary chairman of convention over F. M. Pearl, of Hiawatha. The vote on the com mittee stood: Jackson, 52; Pearl, 34. Jackson was a staunch Clark man, while Pearl had the concentrated strength of the Wilson forces. Nineteen members of the state com mittee were absent from the meeting. The Clark forces were Jubilant over the victory, declaring it "forecasted a Clark instructed delegation in the con vention. W. H. L. Pepperell was named tem porary secretary. Jackson and Pepperell probably also will be the permanent officers of the convention. "If it is Wilson, why it is all right. I'll be the first man to throw my hat In the air for the governor," said B. J. Sheridan. "But the Issue must be met on the convention floor and I'm con fident of the result." Wilson May Win If Taylor Riddle of Marion, who 1b leading the fight for Governor Wilson, issued the following statement: "With all counties but six in the ex treme western portion of the state heard from, the contest between the Clark and the Wilson forces will be very close. If those unreported should break over, it would give the Wilson forces sufficient majority to elect the four delegates at large. "Our reports on congressional dis tricts give Wilson five and Clark three. This then would make the net results in delegates fourteen for Wil son, six for Clark. That Is the honest opinion of those who know the situa tion." The Clark managers discredit Mr. Riddle's claim through a Democratic rule in the past, and point to the fact the congressional delegations have always followed the instructions given to the delegates at large. Clark's friends can see nothing but twenty Kansas votes for the speaker. SHOT AT THE KING. (Continued from Page One.) When the king and queen left the Pantheon in their closed carriage, the news of the attack on his majesty had spread, and immense crowds gathered in the great open space in front. The king's appearance gave the sig nal for an overwhelming outburst of cheering from the crowd and excite ment almost reached frenzy by the time their majesties had attained the Corso, near where the attempt had been made a short time before. Throughout the return Journey the people along the streets and standing at the windows and balconies waved their handkerchiefs and cried en thusiastically "Long live the king." He Told His Mother. The Impression made throughout the HEAVY SELLING Bears Soon Wipe Ont Early Advance in Wheat. Dae to Expected Firmness in Liyerpool Market. j CORN FEELS THE EFFECT Firmness Due to Soft Weather Prospects Is Overcome. Bally Comes Later and Both Grains Close Firm. Chicago, March 14. WHEAT Heavy selling of wheat today more than wiped out an early advance due to unexpected firmness at Liverpool. A prominent southwestern speculator was credited with making sales which aggregated a large total. The opening was o to Wse higher. May started at $1.03 to $1.03. a gain of g.-c to c and after some wavering to $1.02. Covering by shorts led to a complete recovery. The amount of wheat on ocean passage was said to be the smallest in nine years. Closing figures were firm with May g-c net higher at $1-03. CORN Prospects of soft weather lent firmness to corn but the market felt the effect of the setback In wheat. May opened c higher at 71c to 7114c and re acted at 70c. Reports of a blizzard in Kansas brought about an upturn. The close was steady at 71c for May, c over last night. OATS There was a rush to buy oats at the outset. The demand was -soon sat isfied though and longs turned sellers. May started c to c up at 53o to 63c and later descended to 531,453c. PROVISIONS Hog products averaged about steady despite a decline at the yards. Absence of selling pressure fur nished the explanation. Initial transac tions were 236c lower to 7c up with July delivery $16.25 to $16.30 for pork, $9.60 to $9.62 for lard and $9.00 for ribs. RYE No. 2, 92c. BARLEY 80c $1.34. Timothy seed $ii.oo14.50. clover seed $16.0022.25. Chicago Grain Market. Chicago, March 14. Close Open High Low Today ye WHEAT May ..103- 103 1024 103 102- July 99- 99 98 99 99 Sept ..96 96, 95- 96- 96- CO UN May 71- 71 70- 71 70T4 July 71- 72 71 71 71- Sept 71-72 72-72 71 72 71 OATS- May 53- 63 53 63 63 July 50 50-50 49 50 49 Sept 42- 42- 42- 42 42 POTIK May ..16.00 16.05 15.95 16.05 16.97 July ..16.30 16.35 16.22 16.32 16.25 Sept ..16.60 16.60 16.52 16.60 16.52 LA RD May 9.42 9.42 9.40 9.42 9.42 July 9.62 9.62 9.57 9.60 9.62 Sept 9.85 9.85 9.75 9.80 .82 RIBS May 8.97 8.97 8.92 8.95 8.92 city by the attempt on the king's life Is one of the deepest concern. The news of the affair struck the Romans the more keenly because it occurred on the anniversary of the birth of the- late King Humbert and in the midst of the solemn services In his memory. The spot near the Corso where the attempt was made has been surrounded all day by excited crowds waving Italian Sags and shouting "long live the king." A large number of people also pro ceeded to the Quirinal where they made another demonstration. A most touching scene occurred be tween King Victor Emmanuel and his mother, the dowager queen Margarita. She had arrived at the Pantheon and was waiting for the coming of their majesties. When King Victor Emman uel and Queen Helena came In they gave no hint of what had occurred. All as sisted at the mass and when it was over the king himself announced to his mother that an attempt had been made on his life. Queen Margarita appeared almost stunned. She stood still and looked over the king as though to make sure that he was unharmed. Then she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him on both cheeks. Many of those present wished to con gratulate the king, but he left the Pan theon without waiting. Dalba rode a bicycle to the spot irom wnicn ne naa planned the as sassination. He left the wheel in the doorway of the Salviati palace. He waited as the royal procession ad vanced and when the king's carriage was near drew a revolver and with a trembling hand pulled the trigger four times. Only three of the cart ridges exploded. The queen was seated on the side of the carriage nearest to the assas sin. As the shots ran? out she naled but threw her arms around the king as though to protect him. The king tried to comfort her by saying, "Be tranquu; it is nothing." Seemingly reassured Queen Helena sat back as the procession went on to the Pantheon. PEFFER IS BETTER. Aged Ex-Senator May Recover From the Operation. Barring complications which sometimes overcome the skill of physicians, Senator W. F. Peffer is holding his own at Christ hospital and hope for his recovery is en tertained. Owing to his old age the re covery of the aged statesman is doubtful, but his physician. Dr. G-. J. Mulvane, is doing everything possible for the patient. Senator Peffer is reported to have rest ed well last night and today. He Is hold ing his own and doing remarkably well lor one ol his age. His physician will not make any forecast but asserts that pverv. thing possible Is being done to prevent complications and if this can be prevent ed there Is some chance for him to re cover. SHE GETS AN ANNUITY Edwin Hawley's Ward Will Receive $25,000 a Year. New York. March 14. A settlement ha been made by the heirs of the late Ed win Hawley upon Miss Margaret Cam eron, whose real name is Emma Sturges, by which the railroad man's ward will receive an annual income of $25,000 a year xrom tne Jfciawiey estate ror the rest of her life, whether she marries or not. Ef fingham Towers, the financier's magnifi cent country estate at Babylon, N. Y., and his city residence at 19 East Sixtieth street. New York, valued conservatively at $1,000,000, already have been deeded by the heirs to her with the contents of both houses. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourselves Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Lfre Stock Commission Merchants. Stock Yards. Kan. City we Also Have Oar Own Offices at ha, IXmrer Sioux City. So. St. Fori Worth. July Sept 9.02 9.25 9.07 9.25 9.00 9.20 9.06 .02 9.22 9.22 Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, March 14. WHEAT Cash Market c higher. Ko, Z hard, $1.05l.09; No. 3, $1.031.08; No. 2 red, $1.021.03; No. 3, $LO0(&1.01. CORN Market unchanged. No. 2 mixed, 68&3c; No. 3, 67c; No. 2 white, 69!&70c; No. 3, 67c. OATS Market unchanged to c higher. No. 2 white, 63?j64c; No. 2 mixed, 62 53c. RYE 9092c. HAY Market firm. Choice timothy, $20.X)4j21.00; choice prairie, $16.60a17.00. BUTTER Creamery, 28c; firsts, 26c; seconds, 24c; packing stock, 21c. EGOS Extras, 21c; firsts, 19c. WHEAT Receipts, 6 cars. CLOSE: WHEAT May, $1.01(81.01; July, 92c bid; September, 90c. CORN May, 71c sellers; July, 70c; September, 69i4(g6yc sellers. Chicago ProducM Market. Chicago, March 14. B UTTER Market steady. .Creameries, 26&-29c; dairlee, 23S 27c. EGOS Market firm. Receipts, 7,829 cases; at mark, cases included, 19319c; ordinary firsts, 19c; firsts, 20c CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 17 18c; Twins, 17(&17c; Young Americas, 17(18c; Long Horns, 1718c. POTATOES Market easier. Receipts, 92 cars. Wisconsin, $1.181.22; Michigan, $1.201.22. POULTRY Market steady. Turkeys, live, 14c; chickens, live, 16c; dressed, 16c; springs, live, 15c; dressed, 15. VEAL Market steady, 7Sllc. Now York Protluco Market. New York, March 14. BUTTER Mar ket steady. Creamery specials, 30c. CHEESE Market firm. EGGS Market firmer. Fresh gathered extras, 2223c; western gathered white, 2t-24c. POULTRY Alive, steady; chickens, 13c; fowls, 16Cdl7c; turkeys. 1520c. Dressed poultry, tiuiet; capons, 21ft28c; fowls, west ern, ll16c; turkeys, 12&21c. New York Stock Market. "Wall St., New York, March 14. STOCKS Heaviness of stock market leaders In the first hour today may have been due to selling under cover of a diversion in the specialties. Of the active stocks Le high Valley and Union Pacific were heav iest, while the Coppers were fairly strong. A further rise in American Telephone was credited to buying by Paris where some activity in that issue is reported. American Tobacco moved up 5 and there were gains of 1 to 3 points in other high priced Industrials. Bonds were steady. The specialties were again prominent at the opening of today's stock market. International Harvester and American Sugar made one point advance. Strength was shown also by American Smelting, the Copper shares and United States Steel preferred. Of the active issues Union Pacific made an initial decline of half point. International Harvester and other spec ialties made gains in the first hour, but the market leaders were distinctly heavy. United States Steel and Union Pacific selling slightly below yesterday's lowest. Lehigh Valley lost a point. American SmeltinK and allied shares were helped by the statement of the attorney general intimating that no proceedings against them are contemplated. The market closed strong. In the last hour the list advanced generally under the lead of the speculative favorites, some of which including United States Steel and Union Paciflo sold at top prices for the movement, while Amalgamated Cop per went above Its high figure of last year. Most of the representative stocks closed 1. to 2 points higher. New Trk Money Market. New York, March 14. MONEY Money on call steady, 2Vi2 per cent; ruling rate, 2 per cent; closing bid 2 per cent; ottered 2 per cent. Time loans, steady; 60 days, 3 per cent; 90 days, 3 per cent; 6 months, 3 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 $4.87.25 for demand. Com mercial bills. $4.83. SILVER Bar silver, 58c; Mexican dol lars 47c. BONDS Government bonds, firm; rail road bonds, steady. New Vork Sugar Market. New York, March 14. SUGAR Rajy, nominal; Muscovado, 89 test, $4.024.05; centrifugal, 96 test, $4.624.65 molasses sugar, 89 test, $3.77(&3.80. Refined, easy." Cotton Market. Galveston, Tex., March 14. COTTON Market unchanged, 11 l-16c. Kansas City Live Stock Sales. tTh following sales wer. ina3 tBU morning at the Stock Yarat. Kansaa City, and reported over long distance telephone direct to the State Journal by Clay, Robinson c Co.. live stock com mission merchants, with offices at ail markets. Kansas City, March 14. CATTLE Re ceipts 4,000 head. Market steady to strong. HOGS Receipts 10,000 head. Market 6c to 10c lower. Bulk of sales, $6.66(36.80; top, $6.82. SHEEP Receipts 6,000 head. Market slow and weak. KILLING STEERS. No. 11... 19... 1... 20... 20... Wt. Price. No. Wt ..1017 ..1120 900 $6.60 7.00 4.25 7.60 9... 44... 20... 49... 10... 970 1148 1205 9S1 932 $6.60 7.30 7.60 6.80 6.85 5.35 6.75 6.60 6.70 3.00 6.25 .1280 .1065 6.80 COWS A ND HKIFKB 1. 1. 1. 1. 15. 1. 4. 1. 4.

1. 54. 1. 7., 500 650 844 634 713 760 5.40 1. 830 4.00 4.75 4.35 6.70 6.26 1... 16... 1... 1... 2... ..1280 82 800 900 670 676 6.25 BTOCKERS AND FEEDFR1 500 5.00 2. 640 6fV0 710 K.25 6.00 6.2S 4.50 602 445 65 6.25 6.26 6.00 6.25 20. 9. 1. E70 CALVES. 8.00 I 2... 6.60 I BULLS. 6.25 1... 180 120 280 6.00 .1610 810 248 222 112 6.00 6.80 6.72 6.75 HOOS. 64 261 6.82 72.... 24 341 6.75 I 62.... 86 196 6.60 I 12.... 7 102 6.40 1 St. Joe Lire Stock Marteet. St. Joe, March 14. CATTLE! Receipts 1,800. Market steady. Steers, $5.0H8.OO: cows and heifers, $3.25.50; calves, $4.00 8.00. HOGS Receipts 10.000. Market S-glOc lower.- Top, $6.85; bulk of sales, $6.65'&6.80. SHEEP Receipts 3,000. Market strong. Lambs, $5.00(3.10. Kansas City Live stock Market. Kansas City, March 14. CATTLE Re ceipts 4,000, including 400 southerns. Mar ket strong. Native steers, $6.00(88.40; southern steers, 6. 60-37.35; southern cows and heifers, $3.255.75; native cows and heifers. 13.007.00: stoekers and feeders. St. 25-36.25; bulls, J4.006.50; calves, $1. 50-81 Chicago, So. 8. Joseph. So. Om- B Paul, E. Buffalo. E. St. Louis and f SaeaajanjnisaSW SPECIAL TOMORROW 1,000 Pounds Strictly Fresh Catfish, per lb. 13c Get your order in the night be fore and be cure of early delivery. 531 0 WM. GREEN V &SON 8.25; western steers, $5.7S7.50; western cows, $3.50(S6.75. HOGS Receipts 10,000. Market le lower. Bulk of sales, $6.50Cc6.75; heavy, $6.706.80; packers and butchers, $6.60(36.80; lights, $6.406.65; pigs, $5.00fe5.60. SHEEP Receipts 6,000. Market 10a higher. Muttons, $3.7566.50; lambs, $5.76 7.25; fed wethers and yearlings, $4.5O&6.0o; fed ewes, $3.0O5.15. Chicago Live Stock Market. Chicago, March 14. CATTLE Receipts 6,500. Market steady. Beeves, $5.0O'tf8.8O; Texas steers, $4.70&.00: western steers, $5.10(7.00: stoekers and feeders, $4.0O"a.16; cows and heifers, $2.30(g6.66; calves, $5.7519 8.25. HOGS Receipts 29.000. Market lc to 15o lower. Light, $6.60(&,6.S7; mixed, $S.60 6.90; heavy, $6.606.92; rough, $6.6Off6.70; pigs, $4.906.35; bulk of aalea, $6.75g.0. SHEEP Receipts 17,000. Market Kteady. Native, $3.90i6.60; western, $4.26'46.5; yearlings, $5.0066.25; lambs, native, $5.25-a 7.40; western, $5.76'S7.50. Topeka Markets, ffurntsbed by the Cbas. Welti recklns Co., yards close st noon Saturday, we cannot use pigs, thin sows r hoc weighing less than 170 lbs. Do not mar ket hoes unless same are well rinlabeS as we cannot use half fat stuff. We give below prices effective at oaca. unUl ux ther notice. Topeka, Kan., March 14. HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS t3.M HEAVY i.26j6.40 LIGHT (Can't use thin hogs or those uuati u pounds. STEERS: (Light Weights.) Prime corn fed $6.fl696.5 Good to choice corn fed S.66r6.m Fair to good 4 (a W Common to fair killers 4.0Cd4.75 COWS. Prime $4 B6-fJ6.25 Good to choice 4.064.50 Fair to good .5F,"N.0O Common to fair $.00(33.50 HEIFERS. Prime $8.5BT.0 Good to choice .yrt6.&e Fair to good .3fKcf4.75 Common to fair S.502'4.25 BULLS. Prime fat $tVf?4.75 Fleshy $.804.25 Mediums $.0033.T5 VEAL. Heavy $t6'94.00 Good to choice 4-0f.5-4.7S Fair to good $.004.00 VEAL (200 lbs. and under.) Good to choice $$.30 0 Fair to good 4.aVtr6.25 (Cattle must be good. Cannot use taiJ tuff. Market price paid Tor (try lot cattle. If you will favor us with your inquiries advising number of head, quality, ese and length of time on feed, we wilt make you an offer or arrange for our uyere to call en you. Topeka Hotter. Eggs nd Poultry. (Furnlsaed fey the Topeka Packing CI Topeka. Kan., March 14. EGGS Fresh country, 17c. POULTRY Hens, all sizes, lie; springs, 10c- old cocks, 6c; ducks, 10c; geeee, ic; fat young turkeys, 14c; old turkeys, 12c. BUTTER Packing stock. 11a. Butter and Cggs. fFurnlshed by The Continental Creamery Co., Topeka, Kan. Topeka. Kan., March 14. NEW YORK EGGS 21c. CHICAGO EGGS 20c. CREAMERY BUTTER Chicago, 80e; N. Y.. 29c; Elgin, 30c; Topeka wholesale. 30c Topeka Fruit and Produce Market. Furnished by Sara'l E. Lux, Wholesale Fruits and Produce. Topeka. Kan., March 14. COCOANUTS Per doz.. 66c; per sack. $4.60 OYSTERS Per gal., bulk, $l.0t.8S. BANANAS Medium ilwd buncnea. pet bunch. 1 .501.76; large bunches, per bunch. $2.0042.o0; per lb.. 2c. NAVEL ORANES-Per box, $2.76., omnKL APPLES Jonathan.. bbl., $5 75; Ben Davis, per bbl.. $4.00. Oano, per bbl.. $4-&; Missouri Pippins, bbf., $4.28 Winesaps, bbl., Lawvers. per bbl.. CRANBERRIES Per bbl., $U.oo; m. Eer lb., 11c. POTATOES Per bu., $1 .SOflil.tS. SWEET POTATOES-Bu., $1.6. Topeka Hay Market. Furnished Dy T. A. Beck, z-tl4 B. t.J Toppka, Kan., March 14 PRARIE HAY No. 1, $16.00; alfalfa. Choice. $16.0017.00NO. I. $16.08. Topeka Grain Market. (Furnished by J. B Billard, corner am, aas ave. and C'urui at-J Topeka, Kan., March 14. WHEAT-95c1.00. I4 KAFFIR CORN Per cwt, $1.131.1$. OATS-46S60C. CORN 670. Topeka Hide Market, (Quotations furnished by James C. Smite Hide C lu -asi Tblrd st-i Topeka, Kan., March 14 GREEN CURED HIDES Natives. N L 12c; No. 2, 11c; Side Brands, loaiic: Bulls and Stags, 8c; Home Hldea! No. 1. $3,004(4.60; No. 2. $2.002.60. TALLOW-4-&5C DRY HIDES Butchers heavy, ic. ary salt, lmUa. Mink No. 1 large, $4.50 to $7.0$; No, 1 medium. $3.60 to $5.50; No. 1 small. $2 00 to $3-60; raccoon No. 1 large, $1.25 to $75 No. 1 medium, $1.00 to $1.75; No. 1 small 66c to $1-25; skunk, black, $2.50 to I J 60 short stripe, $1.60.00; narrow stripe' $1.001.40; broad stripe, 25(0c; O'Poasum No. 1 large, 40o to 75c: No. 1 medium, 25o to Due; no. x mm, mu io ooc; mvntrtt. No. 1 large, 3045c; No. 1 medium, 2530o: No. 1 small, 10S20c; Clvlt No. 1 large, 25c to 66c; No. 1 medium, 2&o te k; No, 1 small. 15o to 80c

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3 I a Last Call on All Broken Lines of the Middaugh Stock and Gibbs Clothing Company's Entire Stock THE TOPEKA. DAILY STATE JOTTRNAIi MARCH 14, 1912 BARGAIN DAYS THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY PRICES WE GUARANTEE THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY iVI en s Doits Ten Broken Lines of Medium-weight Suits Peck's $15. 00 and $25. 00 Suits, Miller's $18.00 Suits-choice: Extra Pants $2.00 Wool Pants QC Pair $3.00 Wool Pants jj J $3. 50 and $4. 00 Wool d QC Pants Pair P l.ZJU $4.50 and $5.00 Wool $9 QC Pants Pair p..J $6.00 and $7.00 Wool Eo QC Pants Pair P.i70 Hats! Hats! Look at our Window Dis play. 1,500 Sample Hats, all new styles, get one while you can $2.50 values, 95c $3.50 values, $1.95 OVERALLS $1.00 Headlight, for 3 days, pair. OC 50c Work Shirts.... 33c 15c Linen Collars, 10c 10c 25c Paris Garters Pair $1.50 Dress Shirts, 69c Shoes! Shoes! $2.50 Shoes, several AO broken lines, choice C $3. 50 Shoes, all styles 1 A r in dress and work, pID King Quality $p (ThC $6 $7 Shoes THREE GREAT DAYS OPEN UNTIL lO O'CLOCK Tonight, Friday Night, Saturday Night S CLOTHING COMPANY 433 KANSAS AVENUE OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE THREE GREAT DAYS OPEN UNTIL lO O'CLOCK Tonight, Friday Night, Saturday Night RAILR0AD NEWS Buck's Successor Will Be One of Two Good Men. John Purcell of Topeka or E. Posson of Chicago. HUMOR OF ROCK ISLAND MAN C. 3T. Taylor of Third District Has a Chance. Other Items of General Interest In Traffic World. The announcement of the appoint ment of a superintendent of motive power of the Santa Fe to succeed the late W. F. Buck is expected in To peka soon. H. TV. Jacobs, assistant superintendent of motive power of the road with headquarters In Topeka. is In Chicago now conferring with W. B. Storey, Jr., vice president, in charge of operation and the mechanical de partment of the road. Before Mr. Jacobs returns or im mediately after his return it is said that the announcement will be made. In Topeka railroad circles the gos sip is that the appointment has nar rowed down to two men John Pur cell, superintendent of shops in this city, and E. Posson, engineer of car construction in Chicago. It is stated on every hand that if Vice President Storey makes an appointment of a "system" man It will be either Pur cell or Posson. H. W. Jacobs is not in the race for superintendent of motive power. In the first place it is known that Mr. Jacobs does not want the office and In the second place it is known that Mr. Jacobs will not be in railroad work very much longer. He has con templated doing other things, it is said, for some time. This is a rumor that will not be sustained by the as sistant superintendent of motive power. If the Santa Fe vice president de cides that he wants a superintendent from another road, it is rumored from the west, that he will choose C. M. Taylor, superintendent of motive pow er and equipment of the third district of the Rock Island Lines. Taylor is one of the best mechanical men on the Rock Island and has a good reputa tion all over the railroad world. In railroad circles in Topeka it is hoped that the Santa Fe will not go to another road for a superintendent of motive power. The Santa Fes repu tation to take care of Its own men hag given the road a magnificent staff of competent men who believe there is something ahead tor them. GROUNDHOG GOES SOT7TH. Christmas presents and medicine for his son who has tuberculosis. Terrell was arrested at Bloomfleld, Ky., where he lives, just as he ended his rur and was preparing to go home, and admitted his guilt when confronted with the fact that he had fallen into a trap by taking a marked bill from a registered letter. He was brought here and placed in Jail. There he told the officers that his son's illness had put him to great expense. Then his daughter became seriously ill. and he was compelled to tell the children they would receive no Christmas presents. They cried and he could not bear it. So he took $4 from a letter and bought them presents. Another time later he took $4 ftjm a letter to purchase medicine and then he made the fatal error of picking out the registered letter con taining the marked bill. RAILROAD PRESIDENT AT 34. O. I. Dickeson of Yukon Road Was Stenographer 15 Years Ago. Kansas City. Mo., March 14. Last fifteen years after he had accepted his first position in railroad work, O. L. Dickeson of Chicago was made presi dent of the Tukon "White Pass rail way. Today he is barely 34 years old and is the youngest of all railroad presidents. The story of his rise from a stenographer's position with the Chicago, Burlington Quincy railway is one of the most stirring in railroad annals. Within a week after he was made a stenographer, Dickeson was promoted to head of the car tracing department. He made good with a rush. A year later he was transferred to Omaha as assistant superintendent of transporta tion. Then for twelve years he rose steadily in the Burlington ranks. Three veara aso a new road, the Yukon White Pass, needed young men. Dicke son was made vice president. Now he has reached the chief executive posi tion. In addition to his railroad duties the Yukon White Pass owns sixteen steamships and conducts a coastwise service. assure the immediate completion of the road from Kansas City to the Pacific. FTVE KILLED OX SANTA FE. height and Work Train Collide in Blinding Snow Storm. Albuquerque, N. M., March 14. Three are dead, five missing and a score or more injured as a result of a rear end collision Wednesday afternoon between a westbound extra freight and a work train on the Santa Fe coast lines at McCartys, N. M., 60 miles west of here. The dead: W. J. WARD, section foreman. MRS. W. J. WARD, his wife. GEORGE CROWELL, assistant sec tion foreman. Five laborers are missing and their bodies are believed to be buried in the wreckage. The wreck occurred on a sharp curve a mile west of McCartys in a blinding snow storm which obscured the view of the engineers of the extra freight train. The work train was standing on the main line and because of the storm all the laborers were aboard at the time of the accident. Those killed were eating dinner in the rear car of the work train. Though Section Foreman Ward, his wife and the assistant foreman, were killed outright, the five children of the Wards, in the same car, were tossed a hundred feet into a field nearby, all be ing injured seriously. A score of Mex ican laborers in the bunk cars were buried in the wreckage. A special train brought the dead and injured, number ing 20, to this city. ROCK ISLAND LOVE FEAST. Found Beating His Way on Railroad Brake Beam. Salt Lake City, March 14. That the progressive movement has reached the groundhog was shown when one of the little animals was detected by a car inspector beating its way on the brake beam of a Western Pacific pas senger train. The tour of the marmot ended under a wastepaper basket in which it was caged by a baggageman. "Smart groundhog." commented the railroad men. "No back to the hole for it; it was going south for the rest of the winter." A RAILWAY MAIL THIEF. Kentucklan Took Money to Buy Medi cine for Dying Son. Louisville, Ky.. March 14. After serving 24 years in the railway mail service without a blemish on his rec ord. Arch B. Terrell, 53 years old, confessed to secret service officers in the Jail here that had stolen a total of $13 from registered letters to buy Union Men Form a Mass Meeting at Morton. Horton, Kan., March 14. The chairmen, or business agents, of five allied shop crafts on the Rock Island system were all in Horton Tuesday and that evening a meeting was held in the Carmen hall. The meeting was a sort of informal affair, open to all members of Rock Island crafts. There was no discussion of any grievance or trouble with the road or the officials. Good talks on trade unionism, its ob jects and benefits, were made by the various union chairmen. About 2 50 shopmen attended the meeting. The various chairmen happened to be in session in Kansas City and as some of them were corning over this way, they decided to all come over and have a sort of general mass meeting. Just for the good of the cause. All of the chairmen said that conditions were good on the system, and that both of ficials and men were satisfied with the present agreement. GOLD EX STATE INTO DITCH. Every Car Leaves Track. Tearing Up 700 Feet of It. Herington, Kan., March 14. Rock Island train No. 4, the eastbound Gol den State Flyer, was derailed near Tampa, fifteen miles west of here. None of the cars turned over and no one was injured in the accident. The train was a heavy one and was being drawn by two locomotives. A broken rail is supposed to have caused the accident. Every car but one left the track. The derailed cars ran for nearlv 700 feet on the ties, tearing up 700 feet of track, delaying traffic for several hours. LOOKS 1IKE FIND Gear Astonished at Playing1 of Infielder Ryan. THE SEASON PASS Annual Ticket to Be GiTen by State Journal. Get in Your Guess on Opening Day Attendance. ALSO $10 J00K0F TICKETS This Will Be on Standing of Raws July 4. Unusual Interest Being Taken in Team This Year. All Trains Carry Crowd to See Eaws Play. ORIENT HAS PLENTY CAPITAL English Capitalists Ready to Put $20,000,000 Into Road. Wichita. Kan., March 14. General Manager E. Dickinson of the Orient, stated in an interview here that he has the assurance of $20,000,000 in English capital for the road at once if it is needed. Such a sum would When You Think Of the pain which many women experience with every tenth it makes the gentleness and kindness always associ ated with womanhood seem to be almost a miracle. While in general no woman rebels against what she re gards as a natural necessity there is no woman who would not gladly e free from this recurring period ai pain. Dr. Pierce' a Favorite Prcmcrlption ma tea weak women strong and sick women well, and lves them freedom from pain. It establishes regularity, saoanes lauam matlon, heals ulceration and ceres te male weakness. Sick women are invited to consult ns by letter, fret. 11 .MinM ittrictlv Drivate and saoredlv con fidential. Write without fear and without fee to World's Dispensary Med ical Association, R. V. Pierce, M. D., President, Buffalo, N. Y. If you want a book that tells all about woman's diseases, and bow to cure giem at home, send 31 one-cent stamps to pay cost of wrapping and mailing euty, and we will aend you a free copy of Dr. Pierce's great thousand I-page frustrated Common Sense Medical Adviser revised, up-to-date edition, in handsome French cloth binding. Shreveport, La., March 14. About every railroad in this section will run excursions trains to this city Sunday so that the southern fans may see the Kaws and the Tigers in a death strug gle. Hughey Jennings is sending his first squad against the Topeka Indians. Three years ago, he says, the Kaws played him a nine inning tie game in Kansas just before the season open ed. Gear believes that his young players will make the northern terror go some to romp away with a victory. And the fans here who are for both Gear and the Tigers await the battle impatiently. More Kaws are dropping in. Fu gate, yes, the Hon. Jack, who threat ened to hold out, is in camp today. Fugate grew tired of waiting for a guard of honor and came in alone to join the command. Leak, the bean ball expert, is also here and because the fences are weakened by two years of unuse and the severe winter storms Gear has declined to let him show the rest of the recruits how hard he can throw. Ryan Astonishes Gear. Ryan, a utility man, astonished Gear today when he began work. Ryan seems to throw at third from any position, -gets 'em on either side and seems to know what to do with the ball when he gets it. Gear admit ted today that Ryan had the ear marks of a find. The Kaw manager is going to spend more time each day watching Ryan than he had intended to. Walsh, the second sacker who wants to take away Sammy Krepps' job. is on the ground. He looked mighty good in today's workout. Singleton, an outfielder, Merrill, an infield man and Tessie Alderman will join the team at Pans, Tex., where the Kaws play three games, begin ning March 23. Cy Young and Har bin will join the squad at Cleburne, March 26. Gear has arranged positively the following schedule: Detroit, at Shreveport, March 17. Rushton. at Rushton March 19. Paris', at Paris. March 23, 24. 25. Texarkana, at Texarkana, March 22. Longview, at Longview, March 26. Cleburne, two games, not dated. Fort Worth, at Fort Worth, March 27, April 9. Austin, at Austin, March 30, 31, April 3. Georgetown S. W, University, April 4, 5. Texas University, April 1. Waco, at .Waco. April 6, 7. Durant. at Durant, April 10. Ardmore, at Ardmore, April 11 one club. Muskogee, at Muskogee, April 11 second club. Oklahoma City, second club, April 12. Okmulgee, one club, April 12, 13. Additional games will likely be scheduled but the ones in the above list are sure. How would you like to have a pass good to all Western league baseball games played in Topeka this season? Somebody is going to get such a ticket and that lucky individual will be the one NWho guesses the nearest to the paidi tendance on the open ing day. Wiehita opens the season in Topeka on Friday, April 181 No guesses, however, will be considered after April II) So be sure to have your guesses in by that time. In case of tie the first one received gets the ticket. TTe closing of the guesses is set for Wednesday, April so that nobody will have an advantage on account of weather conditions. Be your own prophet, and guess on the weather too, for the kind of a day has lots to do with the attend ance. If anything prevents the open ing taking place on the scheduled date, of course the guesses will apply to whatever day is the opening. The name of the person winning the pass will be announced in the State Journal's baseball Postscript edition, which will be issued at the close-of the opening game. No matter where you live, Topeka or elsewhere, you are eligible to guess. Of course, you will be entitled to one guess only. Seal and address your guess "Baseball Editor, State Journal," and leave at this office or mail it. All guesses will be filed in the order in which they are re ceived. Everybody has the same chance, so get in your guess. Last year the weather on the opening day was hsroed and the paid attendance was 3,400, George Boeger of the Ema-hizer-Speilman store winning the valuable pasteboard by guess 3,402. Two years ago the weather "was cold and windy, which kept the paid at- tendaiKie-owB'TO 2,812, and a lady guessing. 2,819 won the ifllO pass. Three years ago tlie-weather was fine and the paiji atfendance was., about 4,000. Below is a convenient blank you might use, although it is not neces sary to use this form of coupon: Baseball Editor, State Journal: I guess the paid attendance at the opening game will be Name. Address The State Journal will also give a $10 book of admission tickets to the person guessing nearest to the standing of the Kaws on July 4, but not including the games played on that data, No guess-received after June 1 will be considered nor any received beforeAnrii 19, In other words, guess on the opening, day attendance- from now until April 17. and on the standing of the Kaws July 4 trom prtl 10 to June 16. s. HOG AN SAVES HIMSELF DEFEAT. One Rounder Disqualified for Hitting in Breakaway. New York, March 14. "One Round" Hogan of California was dis qualified in the first round of his first qualified in the first round of his fight weight, at the Madison Athletic club here by Referee Charley White, for hitting in the breakaways. Un to the time of Hogan's disqualification, which came after two minutes of fighting, Cross punished Hogan viciously. Cross was the first to offend by hit ting in the breakaway and Referee White cautioned him. Immediately afterward Hogan hit Cross over the referee's shoulder and was in turn cautioned. Then Hogan hit Cross five times in breakaways and the referee disqualified the westerner. Immediately on disqualification, Ho gan leaped from the ring. Referee White climbed back into the ring to announce: "Under the Frawley law, any person taking part in boxing bouts In the state must break clean. Hogan disre garded my caution five times and then I disqualified him." Fast Tins No Stops DoubU Ti-mi Lv. Topeka :19 AJtf 6:45 A.M. 74 A.M. trta r.M. 8:5 P.M. 7:55 P.M. :1BP.M. fl-S5 TP M Rt. Lv. K.C 7:55 A.M. 10:10 AJVt 10:50 A.M. 11:15 A.M. 6:10 P.M. 8:10 P.M. ii-mp.m! Phone 384 Kansas City m Rock Island s Narror too Busy to Aaswor Questions C EL Ba scorn. City Pass. Aft 3 Oh, How I Itched! What long nerve-racking days of constant torture what sleepless nights of terrible agony itch itch itch, constant itch, until it seemed that 1 must tear off my very skin then Instant relief my skin cooled, soothed and healed! The very first drops of D.D.D. Pre scription for Eczema stopped that aw ful itch instantly; yes, the very mo ment D.D.D. touched .the burning skin the torture, ceased. A 25c bot tle proves it. D.D.D. has been known for years Geo. W. Stansfleld, as the only absolutely reliable eczema remedy, for it washes away the dis ease germs and leaves the skin as clear and healthy as that of a child. All other druggists have D.D.D. Prescription go to them if you can't come to us but don't accept some big profit substitute. But if you come to our store, we are so certain of what D.D.D. will do for vou that we offer you a full sine bottle on this guarantee: If you do not find that it takes away the itch AT ONCE, it costs you not a cent. 632 Kansas Avenue. quarters here, was defeated, 5 to 3, by the University of Virginia, It was the big team's first day in the open. Score: R.H.E. Washington 3 7 1 Virginia 5 7 0 Batteries Cashion, Allen, Walker and Henry, Ainsmith; Goodhue, Rixey and Finlay. OKLAHOMA STATE MEN" WIN. Good-Bye to Midcontinent Baseball Circuit. McAlester, Ok., March 14. The Oklahoma State Baseball league was organized here and will include fran chises in the following cities: Okla homa City, Guthrie, McAlester, Mus- NEDRA Face Powder Pure, fragrant, clinging and invisible veiiwi complexion neauuiier. a tints. 50c box. PURSE SIZE 10o. MAIL OTTTY. JOSEPHINT3 LePEVUE COMPANY PH7LADELPHL Arnold Drug Co. Brunt Drug Co. kogee, Tulsa, Fort Smith, Okmulgee and Anadarko. Leo Meyers was elected president and a schedule committee was appointed. Try a State Journal Want. MAY DISRUPT BALL TEAM. "TIZ Reminds Me of My Barefoot Days "Mj Feet Never Get Sore, Tired or Chafed Now, Because I Use TIZ." "TIZ makes me feel like a bor again. Nothing would hurt my feet in those days, even when I d run around Dareiootea witn Rover, over rocks and pebbles and sticks. "WWYoa fftiilf Iff Tklnkin' Aba at f J Joe Jeanette Oatclasses Dewey. New York, March 14. Joe Jean nette. the colored heavyweight box er, so far outclassed Nat Dewey of Chattanooga here that the referee stopped the contest in the seventh round to prevent a knockout. "To be able now to have feet that never ache, never get tired, blistered, swollen or chafed, or have corns, cal louses or bunions, is a glorious recom pense for all the other aches and pains one suffers in the winter of life. TIZ makes the feet feel young, and young feet make you feel young all over. "I've tried many things for my poor Id tired feet, for those bunions of 20 years, and for those corn that have added wrinkles to my face. I've tried plasters, powders and salves and nothing has ever given the relief that TIZ has. My feet are now strong and vigorous, they never get tired or swol len, I have no corns, callouses or bun ions any more tney are boys feet cn an old manl" TIZ gives Instant relief and cure all foot troubles. It operates on a new principle, draws out all the poisonous exudations tnat cause toot miseries. Don't accept a substitute. An elder ly man especially, has a mind of his own; see that you get TIZ. TIZ, 25 cents a box, sold every where, or sent direct, on receipt of price, by Walter Luther Dodge Co.. Chicago, 111. Recommended by all drug stores, department and general stores. Sherwin Orders Players to Cut This Year's Prom. Lawrence, Kan., March 14. Ath letics is arrayed against society at the University of Kansas today. Whether it is more pleasant for students to prance jauntily over the baseball dia mond on McCook field, rapping out three baggers and scooping up smok ing grounders or to trip lightly over the waxen floor of the gymnasium with fair university co-eds is a prob lem which twenty-five K. U. students are trying to solve today. It is cer tain they can not do both this year, and registering a choice may mean either the sacrifice of a coveted "K!' or the loss of favor of some pretty and scrupulous co-ed. Coach Sher win issued an ultimatum today to the effect that baseball players would not be allowed to attend the Junior Prom enade this year and that each indi vidual must break his engagement for this function. This order from the coach may disrupt the baseball team. K. TT.-NEBRASKA GAME OFF. Basketball Championship Peacefully Reposes at Lincoln. Lincoln, Neb., March 14. There will be no series of basketball games between Nebraska and Kansas for the championship of the Missouri val ley, according to the announcement made by Athletic Director E. O. Stiehm of Nebraska. A tentative agreement had been reached by which Omaha had been selected as neutral grounds for the series of three games, but Director Stiehm re ceived word from Kansas that the only condition under which the team would play was the guaranteeing by Nebraska of all expenses, an inno vation, according to Stiehm, which he would not concede, and the series is canceled. Lemon and Lemon Meet. Windsor, Ont., March 14. Rudy Unholz, the Boer fighter, had a shade the better of "Kid" Graves of Mil waukee in an eight-round bout hera tonight. Unholz was the aggressor throughout, but both men finished strong. Athletics Get 17 Hits. San Antonio, Tex., March 14. The Philadelphia American league "reg ulars" piled up 17 hits in today's gameagainst the San Antonio (Texas league) team ana won, 12 to 3. Ba ker's fielding was the feature. Cubs Lose to New Orleans. New Orleans, La., March 14. The New Orleans Southern league club administered another defeat to the Chicago Nationals here, 5 to 1, Chi cago's only run being scored on a double steal. U. of V. Gets Game From Leaguers. Charlottesville. Va,, March 14. The Washington baseball team, in training asoii Pass Free Also $10 Book of Admission Tickets Wichita opens the Western Leamie season in Tnnpka m Friday, April 19th. To the person who guesses the nearest to the paid atten dance on that day the State Journal will give a season pass. If anything prevents the opening taking place on Friday, the guesses will apply on whatever day is the opening. No guesses received after April 17th will be considered, so get in your guess right away. In case of tie, the first one re ceived gets the ticket. The closing of guesses is set for April 17th, so that nobody will have an advantage on ac count of weather conditions. Be your own prophet and guess on, the weather, too, for the kind of a day has lots to do with, attendance. Everybody has the same chance, so get in your guess. Last year the weather on the opening day was good and the paid attendance was 3,400. The pass was won by George Boeger of the Emahizer-Spielman store who guessed 3,402. Two years ago the weather was cold and windy, which kept the paid attendance down to 2,812, and a lady guessing 2,819 won the 1910 pass. Three years ago the weather was fine and the paid attendance was about 4,000. Seal and leave your guess at this office, or mail it. No matter where you live, Topeka or elsewhere, you are eligible. The name of the person winning the pass will be an nounced in the State Journal's Baseball Postcript Edition which will be issued at close of opening game. Fill in the blank below, or one of your own. This form is printed only for your convenience, but get your guess in some time between now and April 17th. BASEBALL EDITOR, STATE JOURNAL: I guess the paid attendance at the opening game will be Name Address The State Journal will sftro give a $10 book of admission tickets to the person guessing nearest to the standing of the Kaws on July 4, but not including the games played on that date. No guess re ceived after June 16 will be considered, nor any received before April 19. In other words, guess on the opening day attendance from now until April 17, and on the standing of the Kaws July 4. from April 19 to June 16. n 2'

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THE TOPEKA" DAILY STATE JOTONAIi MARCH 14, 1912 By .VRANK P. MACLESNAN. Entered July 1. 1875, as cond-cls matter at the postofllce at Topeka, Kan., under the act of congress.! VOLUME XXXVIIII No. 64 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier, 10 eenta a week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where the paper has a sairier system. By mall one year ...$3.60 er mall, sue months.... l.su My mall, 100 days, trial order l.oo BELL. TELEPHONES. business Office WT HMporterr Koom .....in INDEPENDENT TELEPHONES. Private branch ex change. Call 107 and ask the State Journal operator for per son er department desired. Topeka State Journal building;, SO and PI Kansas avenue, corner Eighth. New York Office: 250 Fifth avenue. Paul Black, nanajrer. Chicago Office: Steger building. Paul Black, manajrsr. Boston Office: Tremont Building. Paul Block, manager. PULL TEASED WIRE REPORT OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day telea-ranh reoort of that great news or ganisation far the exclusive afternoon suitolicarion In Tooeka. The news Is received In The State Jour sal buUdinc over wires for this sole pur pose. Winter weather has been on the boards so Ions; that the Fourth of July will arrive before you are expecting it And almost immediately thereafter will come the advice to do your Christmas shopping early. No wor.der Attorney General Dawson sings the famous Missouri "houn dawg" song whenever he has a chance. His experiences of the last few months have been such as to put him in entire sympathy with its sentiments. One more rumor comes from Wash insrton that "Tama Jim" Wilson is about to resign as secretary of agri culture. There have been as many ru mors of this sort in the past few years as there are hairs in Mr. Wilson's head Kansas farmers usually have their oats planted by this time of year. Nor axe many of the potato growers in the state going to get their crop of spuds set out by St. Patrick's day, which is the extreme limit for potato planting among those inclined to be supersti tious. Forty-six-of-the labor-readers an.1 others, indicted at Indianapolis on charges connecting them with the ter rible dynamite conspiracy in which the McNamaras played such a leading part, pleaded not guilty the other day. Ani Sam Gompers has failed to pronounce them "innocent." Sam has either lo3t the power of speech or he is wisir.g up a bit. President Taft has laid out some thing of a difficult row for his cam paign managers to hoe. He Insists that they confine their attacks on the opposition to a discussion of the issues of the campaign. The difficulty in this lies in the insistence of the opposition to lay most of their stress on such state issues as the initiative, the refer endum and the recall. People who turn up their noses at the conquests of the North and South Poles .as being fruitless enterprises, seem to overlook the fact that as get-rich-quick schemes for the successful explorers, they are almost in a class by themselves. So enthusiastic are the people of Norway over Raold Amundsen's exploit that they are going to pay off an $18,000 debt that has been standing against him for aome time. A true primary provides the means for making nominations by a direct vote of the people. Has anybody in Kansas a sufficiently elastic Imagina tion to deem the plan for a preferential presidential primary suggested by Mr Dolley. or any of the other plans that have been put out, as providing the means for the selection of delegates to the Republican national convention by a direct vote of the Republicans of the state? As a matter of fact Mr. Dol ley's plan. Is about as complicated and indirect as it well could be. Henry Allen, the genial and versatile editor of tho Wichita Beacon, has been passing most of his time in Kansas of late. And yet, he goes up into North Dakota and tells the voters there that T. R. is the choice of the people over the whole United States for the Re publican presidential nomination. Nor does Mr. Allen gain his purported in formation on this score from the senti ment expressed by the great majority of the newspapers of the country. The preponderance of newspaper sentiment is Just the other way. So where did Mr. Allen get this information? A good guess would be that Governor Stubbs provided it. A number of Topekans have moved their Lares and Penates to San Diego, Cal. They have writien home frequently to friends that they had at last found a veritable Garden of Eden, where severe weather and climatic disturbances "so common" to Kansas were unknown. Not a few of these friends, undoubtedly, have looked with envious eyes in the direction of San Diego during the last few weeks when they have been up to their knees in snow most of the time. But San Diego was swept by a gale of ter rific force the other day.- Tachts in its harbors were tossed up on the land. In the city, itself, telephone, telegraph and lighting wires were blown down in all directions. Has Topeka suffered in like fashion even during the unusually heavy weather that ha prevailed this winter? Well, CHAPTER CUV. I Political Activity. Topeka is the scene today, as it has been many times in the past, of the as sembly of the prominent and repre sentative Republicans of Kansas, brouarht here bv the meeting of the Republican State Central Committee to adopt a method, fix a time and set a place for the selection of the four t larere to represent the state at the Republican National Con vention to be held in Chicago on the 18th of June, Th sentiment among the commit teemen and the Republicans here with them seems to be overwhelmingly fa vorable to the renomination of Prest dent Taft; there seems to be a very hoitef that he has made a good president and is entitled to re nomination: that if this should be re fused him. the party would stultify itself, repudiate its own policies and platform and give ammunition to the Democracy; the assembly here today shows a remarkable trend toward Taft and overwhelming opposition to a third term and an appreciation of the fact that the President of the United States has proven himself all that Roosevelt said of him when he was nominated for the presidency, namely; "I do not believe there can be found in the whole country a man so fitted to be nresident. He is not weu only absolutely fearless, absolutely disin- terested and upright, but he has tho widest acquaintance needs without and with the nations within, and the broadest sympathies with all our citi zens. He would be as emphatically a president of the plain people as Lin coln, yet not Lincoln himseir, wouiu be freer from the least taint or oema- cnirv. the least tendency lu &iuu, appeal to class hatred of any kind. In Mr. Taft we have a clean man who combines all these qualities to a degree which no other man in our pub lic life since the civil war has sur passed." There was a fixed determination among the committeemen present i.o decline to sanction, in the absence of a law, any state wide presidential pri mary, for which neither expense nor safeguards could be provided, but to favor the legal and customary proceed ing, alike fair to both factions, the con vention plan for electing delegates the plan promulgated by the national com mittee, where no primary law prevails. Whatever the political enemies may say or his excellency, our governor. that he lacks, no one can charge that he Is wanting in that fine trait which often gives accom plishment to desire, and described with that graphic word, nerve. The gover nor displayed this faculty to the fullest when he sent that presumptious tele gram to President xait last evening, mplying that federal office holders were controlling tne various congres sional committees which yesterday afternoon took action, looking toward the election of delegates to the Republi can National Convention. Let the reader not be misled in the first place when it comes to political activity, pernicious or otherwise, de pending upon whether you are friend ly to Taft or to the exponent of the third term. Our governor can gove his opponents cards and spades and beat them in taking part in this sort of a game. iri,.. nannnt ni-tnanv beat them in results is because his opponents insist upon a square deal, have the power to see that such is dealt, and the ability to win in a fair political game. Tho reader may gather the idea from our governor and his bank com missioner, who is chairman of the Re publican state central committee that federal office holders1 were in the ma pority at these congressional com mittee meetings where the conduct so angered Governor Stubbs, that he felt mpelled to take his pen in hand and write our president at length over the wire, charging him with being a bene ficiary of a deep, dark conspiracy of federal office holders. There Is one good thing about po litical activity in Kansas Just now. It has brought the governor back to the state from the Atlantic seaboard and intervening points where he managed national politics in assailing the na tion's chief and the national leader of the Republican party. This present state activity has also kept our governor from going up into North Dakota on affairs of the nation. Let us be thankful that the governor is here during this crisis, for although he has found no word of commenda tion to extend to President Taft, the committee, meeting this afternoon will formulate words which the governor may read for profit and for informa tion. In regard to this federal patronage which controlled the congressional committee yesterday, a careful investi gation of the membership of the First district congressional committee which met in Topeka in the afternoon dis closes the remarkable fact that out of the entire number there was only one little lone federal officeholder who participated in the work of the com mittee, Mr. Weltmer of Hiawatha. He is a federal officeholder, one of the newest in the state. He was appoint ed statistician for the forestry depart ment, to succeed the late Major T. J. Anderson of this city. All the rest of the committeemen who were using such "disreputable methods to Influ ence the election of delegates favor able to you, President Taft," were sim ply practical business men, profession al men and farmers. There was one other federal office holder of this committee, but he re signed last year, although he did r.ot succeed in getting himself off the offi cial list until during the last twenty four hours. This is Posaster Bitldle of Leavenworth. To succeed him was chosen Mr. E. E. Brewster, a business man of Leavenworth, but Mr. Biddle's name was still being carried on Chair man Dolley's list, so Brewster, a few hours ago, went up to Chairman Dol ley with his credentials, in order that be might be plated upon the list of state committeemen. Mr. Dolley ap parently was not happy to make this change. He evidently wanted to keep the federal officeholder on the commit tee, but the federal officeholder would not agree, and the chairman was oblig ed to write In rek ink the name of the new member. Let us look at the complexion of the congressional eommittee which met at Hutchinson yesterday after noon to take action, as Governor Stubbs put it In his telegram, "in favor of disfranchising a vast ma jority of the Republicans of this state." Well, after a careful inves tigation of the complexion of this committee, only one federal office holder can be singled out of the fif teen committeemen who were pres ent to carry out "these thoroughly disreputable methods to influence the election of delegates." Its lone fed era! office holder is Mr. Frank Mil liken of Dodge City, register of the United States land office. Indeed, at the meeting of the Sev enth district committee at Hutchin son yesterday the pernicious activity seemed to be confined to those who hold patronage from the governor rather than from the president. It was of so little effect, however, that so far as results are concerned, it might be classed as polftical inactiv ity, to the governor's evident disap pointment. Let us look at the Third District Congressional Committee which as sembled at Cherryvale yesterday after noon under the control of your, Mr. Taft, political managers," and on ac count of which Governor Stubbs hurl ed, this question over the heated wire to the president, "Do you approve the use of federal patronage to control the election of delegates to a national convention Well, there we see eighteen members of "che committee representing the Republicans of the Third district at the meeting. Do you think a majority of them were federal office holders before whom "patron age was dangled," to induce them to follow "thoroughly disreputable meth ods to Influence the election of dele gates?" No, not a majority, not even a respectable minority, only one lone man was a federal office holder at that important meeting, Mr. Booth, postmaster of Chetopa. Think of it! Here out of three committees there was a total of three men, and so far as this writer knows, none of them even, although they were all of suf ficient standing and integrity to be en trusted with important federal office, was in any conspiracy or league to use "thoroughly disreputable methods to influence the election of delegates favorable to you, President Taft." A review of the committeemen from other distiicts might be attended with like results. Under all the circumstances, was it not well that Representative D. L. Anthony was hce and sent President Taft a message, "I trust you will pay I no attention to the telegram of Gover nor Stubbs, charging participation of postmasters in First district comrhit I tee meeting today. No prsimastera I participated, etc.," at the same time I adding what Governor Stubbs ovcr- 'ooKea in ins telegram, a statement tnat three congressional district committees "unanimously endorsed you for renom ination and re-election." But why speak of the past? Why go into reminiscences when there is to much doing tcday in the present? Right at this moment the Republican state central committee is meeting, adiptins resolutions commending the fine ad ministration of President Taft, and endorsing him for renomination and re-electicn. As governor of the state, and as chairman of the Republican state cen tral committee, it is to be hoped Messrs. Stubbs and Dolley will send a joint wire to President Taft this evening to the effect that the good deeds of his administration have been recognized, and that the Kansas state committee endorses and favors him for renomination, and is taking the only reputable method under the cir cumstances to secure delegates which shall represent the real sentiment of Kansas at hicago in June. Sneaking of political activity, It certainly comes with poor grace from Governor Stubbs to criticise President Taft. for while the latter has been by action and word sowing the seeds of integrity, law and confidence, and at tending to his high official duties as president, our governor has been sow ing the seeds of distrust from the Missouri to the Atlantic. In wiring the president that there was a movement in Kansas against presidential primaries, why did not our governor let the country know that there was no law in Kansas pro viding for the holding of presidential primaries, the expense thereof, nor the safeguarding of time? That is the real reason the people who are assem bled here are opposed to primaries. Few of them are federal officeholders, but the majority of them are business men, and they know it is not a busi ness proposition to hold a state-wide presidential primary in Kansas at this time. Speaking of caucuses, what is known as the Insurgent .wing of the party was the first to hold a caucus on this presidential primary matter. It was held at a "time before the state committee had opportunity to act upon the question today. It was held last night in the state 'house. The caucus showed a shortage of votes fa vorable to a third. term for a presi dent. (Chapter XC next.) "Irish Flats" writes to the Meade Globe that when Mr. Dolley informed President Taft that a great majority of the people of Kansas are opposed to his nomination he was "talking through his hat." "He can't prove his statement," insists "Irish Flats," "for money, marbles or chalk." SY THE WAY BT HARVEY PARSONS. People will not go to the Auditorium to see a free show, and they balk at paying regular theater rates for the very highest class of Auditorium en tertainment; therefore, next week's high grade entertainment for the price of a cigar ought to prove the happy medium the people have been looking for. Charley Kerr, the Montgomery coun ty representative who favors abolishing the senate, has undoubtedly looked it over and found that he can't carry that senatorial district. The Mineola lawyer who remarked to T. R.; "Colonel, you are a busy man. and we will excuse you," may not pose as a starter of new fads, but there is a grim suspicion that an overwhelming majority cf the people will repeat that brief sentence during the next few months. On Tuesday last, a male resident of our be-yootiful little city was arrested for slapping his wife on the east side. The rights of a married man are be coming fewer and fewer. Oh, for theml good old days when a man could siap his wife even on the northwest corner, if he wanted to, and get away with it. The average rich man's idea of 'roughing it" is to have the butler serve the champagne in plain water glasses. and dispense with the finger bowls. A number of those who contributed funds to the cause of the Lawrence textile strike, seem to be peeved be cause said funds were used to pay the salaries of the leaders and hire law yers for them when they were pinched. They should have taken a second look and observed that the petition was in behalf of the "cause" of the strike. The word has more than one meaning. Patience isn't always a virtue; in some cases, tnere isn i any nuns but be patient. It would appear that Hon Bristow, in his opposition of Judge Hook, uicuyt reallv desire to have any hand in th appointment of a justice of the supreme court, but merely to prevent Kansas from getting a representative into that august body. Among those scrapping over the appointment of Judge Pitney of New Jersey we do not observe the name of the elongated senator from Salina. In a wild search for something de cent to say about a late spring, we can find nothing except that it gives tno hammocks and park benches a longer vacation. And, although it is a little early, we may as well get out our hammer and commence on the spring poets. It is one of the safest of diversions, as the spring poets have no union, and they don't amount to much in politics. Whether or not Abe Attell tried to make a deal with Tommy Murphy doesn't interest us in the least, and it isn't worth while getting any affidavits on our account. We can get up a little enthusiasm over a chicken fight, just because we feel confident that one of the bir s hasn't been instructed to "throw" the fight, but have never en tertained any such confidence in a pus. JOURNAL ENTRIES People lacking in self-control are in hot water most of the time. This has also been an ideal winter season for the man who likes to snov- el snow. And not a few brides are better Crossed on their wedding days than they are ever after. Nor would there be so many argu ment.-! if more people always Knew what they were talking about. Why criticize the miser for his pe niirinusnsss? He is happy in it. Hap piness is the goal every one strives to reach. J A YHA WKER JOTS A anft answer was never known to turn away a book agent, says the Atchison Champion. r,, nnAnio mav not like this rooi.r snvs th Coldwater Talisman but when you mention wheat it never fails to bring a smile. Tho Kpwirm Journal says if some im-oii thoir neighbors as them selves, thev would want everybody's hide kept full of booze all the time. Tim Fnmev. who lives near Pratt, has some hens that are helpful for a fact. He sold no less than $58 worth of etres during the month or eDruar, Whv is it. inquires the Marquette Tribune, that the dinkiest, dirtiest, riinHost huildine-s in a town are al ways located along the railroad tracks where the tourists all get a full view of them? A prominent and successful physi cian said to the Pratt Union recently, when discussing the impassable condi tion of the roads: "That gives folks who get sick a chance to get well be fore the doctor gets there." What's the fun of eating, the Law rence Journal-World wants to know, if von have to dose yourself with medicine to make it digest? The taste on the tongue is good, but the taste in the stomach is better. That considerable progress is being made by the students at the Olathe high school is evidenced by the fol lowing note appearing in the Olathe Mirror: Several new yells have been added to the school's already classical collection. A boy or young man who works for eight dollars a week and knows what to do with his money is far better off, rightly argues the Flor ence Bulletin, than the one who gets eighteen or twenty and gives it to some bootlegger or professional gam bler. 4n observation by Sinful Peck of the Hiawatha News-Democrat: If the girls must smoke cigarettes, let 'em smoke out on the street like the rest of the sports. At the present rate they are likely to burn down half the barns in town before they acquire the habit. As the weather man on the Lyons Republican has figured it out: There have been only sixteen colder Febru arys In 39 years than the one just passed. The month was one of the wettest in years, only 11 clear days during the month and they didn't want to be. LITTLK-WOOLLX-DOG. Little-Woolly-Dog, With hair so curly, Up with the sun even so early. Living your life in the world's hurly burly. Little-Woolly-Dog. Little-Woolly-Dog, With tongue so pink. Eyes that softly shine and blink, Of this great game, what do you think? Little-Woolly-Dog. Little-Woolly-Dog, Who can say. The meaning of our little day When we grope our best to find the way, Little-AV'oolly-Dog? Little- Woolly-Dog You show us how To be content with what Is now. Tour philosophy is good we must allow-Little-Woolly-Dog. Rob. M. Campbell. Topeka, Kan. THE EVENING STORY "Then "STou'll Remember Me." (By Dorothy Douglas.) Alice Lange arose half Impatiently from her desk and took up a position by the window. She gazed with un seeing eyes into the great court at the rear of the apartment building and nib bled the end of her pen thoughtfully. "I want to marry him and I don't want to," she told herself with un smiling eyes. "If only he could learn to love music I believe no I am posi tive I would marry him. Music is the greater half of my life and Jimmy is unutterably bored if any one save Harry Lauder is singing." Alice heaved a sigh and turned again toward her desk. A spotless bit of monogram paper lay ready for her an swer to Jimmy Blake. She dipped her pen in the ink and again nibbled the end of it. Suddenly her head turned and she listened. A voice of wonderful baritone grandeur had burst into song. The pen in Alice's hand dropped in differently and she stole into her room by the open court in a desire to draw nearer the man's voice. Fortunately her window was partly open and Alice sank down on her couch in an abandonment of exquisite enjoy ment. In the recess of her mind was the thought that a new tenant had moved into the apartment and that she would have the pleasure, If stolen, of hearing him sing often. Her critical ear told her that the voice, though of warm, rich timber, was lacking in the minor technicalities and finish that would have put him on a level with the great Caruso. "He is no doubt studying night and day," Alice decided, "and I will hear him practicing." Then over her enjoyment of the music came the certain knowledge that win dows mre being opened in many of the apartments on the court. It flashed upon her suddenly. The man was a 3treet singer and those peo ple were throwing him money. Alice jumped up and thrust her head far out of the window. Yes! There he is. and I can see only the top of his head." The man had been singing the more popular arias from the oporas and wnen ne nad finished the Flower Song irom Faust Alice watched him stoop to pick, up tne many little white packages that had been thrown to him. In a panic lest she be too late she rushed to her desk and took the first bi' of paper she found. Into the en velope she thrust a bill with a yellow back and threw it hastily out of the window. The man would have been gone a second later, but he heard the girl's voice calling. "Here!" He turned back, picked up the envelope, and when he saw the denomination he looked quick ly up at the window and for a moment Alice Lange looked Into his sensitive, emotional face. With his hat still In his hand then ho sang the most beautiful of the "Bo hemian Girl" arias, "Then You'll Re member Me." There were tears in the girl's eyes and an ache in her throat when his voice so poignantly sweet sobbed its last appealing line, "Then you'll re member me." After he had gone Alice did not re turn to her desk. Instead, she lav for a long time dreaming of the street singer's voice. "No," she decided finally, T cannot marry Jimmy Blake. I want to roam the Elysian fields and pluck the flowers of greatest fragrance, and Jimmy Alice smiled wistfully, "Jimmy would only tell me I am moonstruck and take me to a vaudeville performance." And when Jimmy received the note that Alice sent him he went out to the race track and came back through Elysian fields that swayed fantastically and had a tendency to rise up and make his great gray racer turn turtle as he careened madly over the roads. Two. three years slipped by. Alice Lange's thoughts were not untinged with regrets that she had dismissed Jimmy Blake from her trail of follow ers. Perhaps, after all Elysian fields i were only possible to roam in when there was ore other to share them. She had spent many vain hours in an effort to locate the man whose voice had seemed to change the entire course of her life, but he had disappeared ap parently and no search could find him. Alice even went so far as to follow the example of a London society and had organized a great concert, at which all the street musicians had an oppor tunity to perform before a critical and philanthropic audience. But she came home from the venture tired and disheartened. There had been no voice with even a tenth portion of the sweetness of the one she sought. For a time she sat back and wished she had married Jimmy Blake. Then one morning in her mail she re ceived a ticket for the opera. There was no message with the orchestra seat well toward the stage. Alice pondered over the mysterious gift, but not deeply for she had often been the recipient of seats from some of the singers. But later in the after noon when a box of violets arrived in the same anonymous way she felt strangely curious. A well-known bari tone had expressed his love for her, yet be was not in the habit of sending gifts without his card. However, Alice dressed with unusual taste and pinned on the bouquets of ex quisite English violets and ordered her limousine for the evening opera. She took her seat with a strange and unusual excitement stirring within her. She scanned the program and found only one familiar name. Gordon Trevor," mused Alice, "and I have longed for a new voice." He had not sung his first aria and with eyes looking down into hers before she knew him. And with her recogni tion came the certain knowledge that he had sent both the ticket and the flowers. Aside from the wonder of his voice. to which all the great audience was responding, and aside from her love of any good music, Ailco round herself growing warm and feeling joyous thrills that never before had been hers. She knew also that the color had crept stealthily into her cheeks and that the man on the stage must be seeing it. Not untfl the end of the second act, when he knew that he had succeeded even beyond his own hopes, did Gordon Trevor send a note to the girl who had accepted his flowers. "If it does not seem like presump tion." he had written, "I would like to take you to supper tonight." And when the curtain had gone down with a storm of applause and New York had welcomed a great baritone, Alice Lange waited with quickly beat ing heart for the man who had sung In the streets. The scent of flowers from the elysian fields was in her nostrils and Alice drew a great breath when she stood face to face with Gordon Trevor. His face was as sensitive as when she had looked down from her apartment window, but now there was a certain sense of happiness radiating from it. He was very much the conqueror when he took Alice's hand within his own and the girl was peculiarly glad that the charm his voice had for her was duplicated in the man himself. "I of course remember von." sho said quickly and a trifle nervously. "You de serve an tne praise Gordon Trevor stopped her with deprecatory gesture. wua you Wno tlnn V maHa -v study on the continent possible your senciuBiiy sent me ahead just when I needed it most." Trevor was piloting uiiu ms own automobile, and when she was comfortably wrapped In furs he sank down beside her." "I am curious," Alice asked a little breathlessly because his mastery was beginning to fnake itself felt, "how you happened to remember me?" "That was not difficult ho ou low voice. "Your face, as It appeared framed in the window above me has al ways remained in my vision. As for jour name it haDDened to ho n tho envelope which you thrust Alice stopped him quickly." I remem berit was the envelope from a letter I was preparing to answer." Suddenly she looked into his eyes and leaned confidingly nearer him "r i m ,uu AUUVV, Mr. Trevor that im, voice'"11 wro"s man by your "Then you'll remember m Tu.. sang softly. "Will you not?" (Copy Press.) 2 ,by Assclted Literary EVENING CHAT BT RUTH CAMERON. Most of us are rnnlinnaii.. something in our nt t' actually suffering from remorse, but si-n- f, ;B"z,ns mat we might have acted much more wisely. It is strange that we mUnt mre ften reflect that we are ng,a new Pft8t- even at the very mo ment of our regrets, and probably mak- fofe "10re wisely than we d'd be- By your leave, I'll take my own case for an instance. My besetting sin is hur rying I have always hurred too much, tried to crowd too much into my davs I look back over my past and I say: "How foolish I was: how much better off I should have been if I had not tried to d so much. How much happier and healthier I should be todav if I had nu hurried so. And so few of the things I did were vital I might have left out half of them and not affected my happiness or welfare at all." And yet, when I stop to think, I realize that I am hurrying today. This year, this month, this very day I am making a past of which I shall prob ably say much the same thing ten years from now. I look over all my activities and sav: "But all these are vital. I could not spare any of them." I remember ten years ago I said the same thing when anyone warned me that I was trying io do too much. That is my personal experience. I tell you about that because it is the one with which I am the most familiar. But does It not find a parallel in your own life? Perhaps your besetting mistake is not planning far enough ahead. You look back and say: "If I had onlv planned my life wisely and methodically five years ago. how much farther ahead might be today." True, my friend, but very unimportant as compared with the lact that if you plan your life wisely and methodically today, you will be much farther ahead five years from now. r ernapps the weakest point m vour character is procrastination. "Ah." yon bewail, as you look back five or ten years, "if I only hadn't put off taking that course In advertising, I might have as good a position as C today. I know have just as much brains as he." Come back, my friend. Come back to the pres ent past, and look Into your life, and see what you are procrastinating now. Experience is a good teacher, but we are all poor scholars. The past of five years ago is unimportant compared with tne past you are maKing now. if we could only look at this present past with the unprejudiced, clear-sighted eyes which we turn on the buried past how differ ently we should live. Perhaps such detachment Is Impossible, but surely we might take more interest In this vital past which we are making now and which we have a chance to in fluence than In that unimportant dead past, which no regrets can change. GLOBE SIGHTS BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. One sure rule of health Is that you can't buy It In bottles. There are several ways of spoiling t child, including a club. Calling a guess a prophecy doesn't great ly Increase its accuracy. Not as many people do their best as say they do, and not the same ones. It is an unusual man who doesn't blame his blunders on a Cruel Fate. Be good natured, but not enough so to make everyone Impose on you. Lafe Dolittle's idea of a statesman Is a delegate who gets all of his expenses paid. Next to his hunting coat, a man's night shirt is the worst looking garment in his wardrobe. A grouch is another contagion which should be subject to the general rules of quarantine. The mere fact that a man needs exer cise is no sign he will feel friendly toward a snow shovel. It sometimes occurs to a renter that he pays too much for the privilege of fussing with the landlord. Only a few people are sufficiently bull headed to warrant risking a long con versation witn an agent. VAFFYDILS BY XI. NOAIX. If an Ingenue made a hit would a star shoot? (Be a little more liberal with your ap plause, boys, the actors will work harder.) If the dog drinks does the catsup? (Ding, dong, dell, pussy's in the well.) If Horace Greeley's hen got loose would Peter Cooper? (Handle that man gently. He's full of prunes.) KANSAS COMMENT DISGRACING A GOcfo CAUSE. iVi pit,y that a cause so good and i. i. ,quai suffrage should be disgraced ?rn!L Enland- 3unt now that gov- i? th hav" no'-hing to do with suf T omen choose this as a flt- .V?", to nmke another of their dis graceful demonstration. Mrs. Pankhuret. who was wisely kept out of Kansas has been sent to Jail. It Is the place for her. She lacks that refinement that carries success with it. These women leaders mean well but they have been sadly in efficient in leadership. They are unsafe. There Is some danger that it will drive tiair-hearted supporters of equal suffrage to the other side In Kansas but it should not do so. Suffrage is a principle, not condition of government. The leaders are women of the highest character and finest tact. Lawrence Journal-World. FROM OTHER PENS ENGLAND'S NEXT PLUNGE? The failure of the government to avert the national strike nr tho rii min... gloomily predicted in England. Sixty per cent of the owners have agreed to the principle of a minimum wage for a stipu lated day s work, but this is only a frac tion of the battle. The real conflict Is over the interpretation and application of this principle. It is further complicated by necessary differentials in various dis tricts. According to opinion in the lobbies of parliament, "the next step will be a re sort to legislative enforcement of the minimum wage." This effort to establish legal wages, if attempted, will be a fur ther plunge into state socialism bv th ministry. Granted that, as the govern ment intimates and public opinion ap pears to hold, the British coal miners are underpaid is this the only way out? Are the mineowners' so absolutely persistent In their indifference to popular opinion and governmental argument that they are ready to Invite remedial legislation so radical? It Is possible some of them may, because If a minimum wage were established by law, labor would very soon find it was also the maximum Pittsburg Dispatch. ADVERTISING TALKS BT WILLIAM C. FHSEMAN John H. Pray Sons Co., Boston, print ed an advertisement in the Boston Herald of February 25, occupying a space of 9'4 inches by three columns, which read as follows: "My hat is in the ring." This is a declaration of conviction, courage and red blood. There is a fight on against untrue and misleading advertising. Every merchant is either a progressive or a standpat advertiser. The consumer, as the chap who always pays, is vitally interested in the outcome. The standpat platform: Let us alone. It seems almost useless to include prtes and comparison of value in any advertis ing law that would be enforceable. The progressive platform: Misleading advertising is Illuminated lying. Knowingly untrue or misleading adver tising of price, worth or value, is a mis demeanor subject to penalty. Every newspaper in Boston and Massa chusetts is also either a progressive or a standpatter. The standpat newspaper platform: Everything is "grist that comes to our mill." The progressive newspaper platform: Loss of public confidence in the state ments made lessens the value of advertis ing space. Cut out the bait of misleading torn parisons of values, and the advertiser must describe the goods and give a rea son. True advertising requires more sace, not less. Some states have drastic laws against the "Jack Rabbit promotor" who adver tises a hole in the ground as a producing mine. A broadening of this law to Includo un true statements regarding the worth and value of merchandise is demanded. We stand squarely on the prorressive advertising platform. The above is a sermon by itself and In dicates what is going through th minds of merchants throughout the country who stand on a platform of plain, old fashion ed honesty in the matter of their adver tising and the conduct of their business. (To be continued.) SAYS UNCLE GAV Hold on. young man; hold on! If you let that fellow with the rattle trap tongue, and the legs that are a ways working on the high speed clutch, fool you into adopting his methous. you're done for, so far as ever amount ing to anything la concerned. True, by sedulously Imitating his methods, you may be able to make a few tbjj sand dollars a year a very few. If you keeping on bluffing as hard as ho does you'll not be in great dinger -f starving. You'll always be in demand with people who need bluffers, and there are a good many who need blu: fers In their business. You can o through life a noisy, loud-mouthed, gliu tongued, slap-him-on-the-back-in-thc-barroom, $2,000-a-year sort of a suc- And if you have really mad- up your mind that you want to be Just that much of a success, and to associate with people of Just that cast of min i, go ahead. If you nave tne Kinu oi a. mental makeup that goes most fittingly with that kind of ideals, you'll proba bly be happy, and you'll find plenty of your chatterbox, feather-brained kind of bluffers to share your Joy. But before you aeciae to go in ior noise rather tnan suDsxance, iiiinu. a minute. The loud mouth la always in the limelight. He generally monop olizes the conversation, and usually ef fects that result by turning it to Ma OWn UOingS. Jiicie acw jwuyio always who will take his word for It that he is a great man ana a success, but over at the edse of. the group you will invariably find the quiet-voiced. smooth-spoken chap with the air of the thinker, who, if he pays any attention whatsoever to the little fellow does it merely for the latter's undoing. Sin -e he doesn't have to spend most of his time talking, your quiet man usually has time to think; and brain power, rt wind power, rules the world. The yap- per does the more dignified and substan tial man a great service Dy Keeping ttt attention of the crowd away from l.lm while he accomplishes his personal de signs with a minimum amount of hin drance. It is for you to choose whether you will be among the noisy mob .or among the quiet workers the parrots or the real doers of deeds. I sometimes think that the Creator made the human unit In two parts a man and his voice; that if the voice be large the man must be small fn or der that the two may dwell together. At any rate, many a man has lt his voice crowd him Into lnt.lgulfi cance. (Copyright, 1912, by W. ti. Wi liama.)

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MARCH J.4, 1912 7m v 1 POOLER Absolutely Pure The only Baking: Powder made from Royal Grape Cream ofTartar NO ALUiy NO LIME PHOSPHATE SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. And then it snowed. The AI G. Field minstrels played to a capacity house at the Grand last night. The streets of Topeka are now in the worst condition of the Eeason as regards fUth. Capital lodge Xo. 3, A. O. 1". TV., at the meetlnir last ntcrht subscribed f9 toward the fund to bury JT. B. Dickenson. About $25 has been subscribed. Speakin of fire loss in Topeka one little fire in Kansas Cily recently caused a larger loss than the city of Topeka sus tained in the entire twelve months of 1911. Many of the merchants whose places of business were inspected by the committee of the Kansas Fire Prevention associa tion have already corrected defects that were pointed out. Judge J. D. "Wood will speak on "Edi fon on Humanity" in Gemmell hall Sun day afternoon. "The address will be in the nature of a reply to the recet article by Thomas A. Kdlson. Tho city hall is deserted today. The mayor is away. Commissioner Stotts is with him. Other city officials are taking advantage of the lull and have been at tending to private business. The city in attempting to drain the slush and water from the streets has employed a gang of men to keep the gutters clear ed. Today much of the dirt was washed from the streets with fire hose. Ten thousand housewives in Topeka are praying for a chance to clean house and ten thousand husbands are planning to have urgent business out of the city when the house cleaning convention convenes. "The only place the wiring in the audi torium is dancerous is around the foot lights." said the city electrical inspector, O J. Stewart. "The other wires in the building either are in good condition or they are 'dead. This evening the members of the First Concretrational church will listen to report of the board of trustees which will recommend that extensive improvements be made in connection with the ehurcn building. A free supper will be served at o'clock. "It is to be hoped." said a business man today, 'that the Commercial club or some other organization will take immediate Meps to procure a site ror ballooning. Tlie fact that the balloon flights are a splendid and cheap means of advertising Topeka seems to have been overlooked. Reports have it that the tickets for the series of motion picture shows in the Auditorium which will commence next Tuesday evening are selling well. The Commercial club is sending out 10 tick ets to each of the 1.1T5 members, request ing them to be responsible for the sale thereof. "Drive your business do not let it drive vnu." is aii old one and the late K. ti. ltarriman once said, I am not a slave to the telephone: it is a slave to me TOU can enlarge your present restricted business transactions by using the en larged and now universal toll service. Spread out. The students of the Clay school have a "city commission." with mayor and com missioners, and they are very enthusiastic over the organization. The commissioner of entertainment is a live one. A fund has been started for the purchase or a piano. Entertainments are arranged for afternoons and free-will offerings are taken. The cut of a bicycle that appeared in Wednesday's issue of the State Journal relative to the ticket selling contest pre paratory to the holding of the series of moving picture shows in the Auditorium, brought numerous boys in a hurry to the Commercial club. They wanted to get on the job immediately for fear that some one might get ahead of them. count of it being pay day. Tiev. John Waldron of the North Topeka Methodist church conducted the services in the machine shops this noon. Mrs. L. Bergman, wife of Traveling Auditor Bergman, is spending the winter In New York. Mrs. Ellis Hughes of Dallas, Texas, was a caller recently. Mrs. Hughes was known in the offices as Miss May Hawley. Burr Willard who has been in the treas urer's office for some time past has gone to Amarillo, Texas, to take a position un der General Manager Fox. Wesley Miller, secretary to General Manager Kouns, spent his vacation In New York. A. O. Wellman, assistant treasurer, who has been suffering with inflammatory rheumatism for several weeks, is still de tained at his home. J. S. Jarrell. publicity agent, gave a very interesting talk on the educational work of the Santa Fe at the meeting Tuesday evening of the Dougherty Suc cess club. Harry Athens will leave tomorrow for Kansas City where he has accepted position with the Santa Fe. Miss Nora Bischoff of the pay master' office expects to leave soon for Call f ornia where she will remain permanently. Mr. and Mrs. White of Pueblo. Colo. who have been here attending the B. of R. T. grievance committee meeting re turned to their home today. The engineers' wives will be entertained tomorrow afternoon by Mrs. w ti. Jones Mrs. J. W. Morton and Mrs. Frank Tamblyn, at the homo of Mrs. Tamblyn 126 Tyler street. THEY FIND FAULT State Fire Prevention Men Criticise City of Topeka. Auditorium Xot Properly Safe guarded, They Say. STATE LAWS ARE NOT OBEYED Some One Swore in City Hall During Inspection. Fire Department Too Small and Without Authority. lures has exceeded his budget, and this might be considered as one reason that the Auditorium is not in better physical condition. He believed, however, that the defects should be remedied. Scott Hopkins, x. P. Nielsen, Wilbur Gardner, Juy Morris, O. C. Black, S. C. Anson, E. C. Fox, secretary of the association, C. G. Whippke, chairman of the committee who presided, and others spoke. One hundred business men atteided the meeting. THE BOOK OF JOHN. CHAPTER XIV. SANTA FE NOTES. Mr. J. A. Staples, foreman of the print ing shop, will leave the last of this month for Los Angeles, Cala., where he will make his future home. The switchmen's wives held their regular meeting this afternoon at the K. P. hall, Sixth and Quincy streets. Peter Reynolds of Streator, 111., who has been here attending the B. of R. T. grievance committee meeting for the last week will return to his home today. There will be no meeting in the water service of the new mill tomororw on ac- POLICE JOTTINGS. Mose Wilson, alias Enochs, was ar rested by the police late Wednesday afternoon and is suspected of entering the home of Oscar Nelson at 419 East Fairchild street with an intent of bur; lary. Enochs was seen entering the front door of the house about 1:30 o'clock during the afternoon by Mrs John Crawford, who lives next door. She notified police department head quarters and Officers Walker and Haney were sent to make an investiga tion. The intruder left through a rear door. Oscar Nelson and hi3 sister. Miss Mary Nelson, live in the house but both are employed during the day and are not at home excepting: at night ajd on Sundays. This is supposed to have been known by Enochs and supposed to have been his reason for wanting to ransack the house at this time. Mr. Nelson is employed at the Wolff Packing Plant and his sister is employed by Charles S. Eagle the cigar manufacturer. From information that could be se cured by the police. Enochs was In the house but about five minutes but dur ing that time he searched drawers, up set pieces of furniture and practically everything in the house that he might find money or articles of value. Miss Nelson had a small amount of money secreted in the house but he failed to find it. Nothing of any value is miss ing. The police believe that they have sufficient information to convince the court that Enochs is the man who was in the house and will ask Mr. Nelson to file a complaint that the negro be turn ed over to the sheriff on a state war rant and be required to answer to the charges in the district court. O. Williams, alias Joe Finlay, was ar rested by Officer Trimble and Officer Bell of the Rock Island, Wednesday night while drunk and in the yards of the Rock Island. The officers saw the man in the yards and thought he was trying to break into some cars when they arrested him. Carl and William Thompson the two negro boys who were arrested in North Topeka on the charge of stealing chick ens are being held. Up to. the present time the officers have failed to find anybody that could identify them. The officers are hunting for one or two other persons who it is believed can identify the boys and if they fail, the boys will be released. PIcasantfefreshinBencficial Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna appeals to the cultured and the well-informed and the healthy because its component parts are simple and whole some and because it acts with out disturbing the natural func tions, as it is wholly free from every objectionable quality or substance. In its production a pleasant and refreshing syrup of the Figs of California is united with the laxative and carminative properties of certain plants known to act most bene ficially, on the human system, when its gentle cleansing is desired. To get its beneficial effects, always buy the genuine, for sale by all reputable drug gists; one size only, price fifty cents a bottle. The name of the company California Fig Syrup Co. is always plainly printed upon the front of every package of the genuine. f'S StV. LOUISVILLE, KY. ifornia F Syrup SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. NEW YORK, N. Y. The Auditorium and city hall are not as well guarded against fire as tney should be, according to W. W, Van Valkenburg of Kansas City. Mr. Van Valkenburg is a member of the Fire, Prevention association committee of inspection. Also some one. he said, swore while he was at the Au ditorium. The condition of the city offices was made public in a report made at the Commerlcal club room. 'The city has a twelve year orphan on its? hands, continued the speaker, The Auditorium seems to have no father or mother. I went to see the custodian and all he did was to 'cuss. so I took it for granted that he was the custodian. The wiring is in very bad condition, and the water was streaming down the walls. Why? Because there is so much indifference that the snow was not cleared off the roof. The water was coming down within two feet of your organ. I do not know whether any was coming down behind it. "You have attacked the Audito rium. and I have charge of it," said Charles Overmeyer. "I never swore at Mr. Van Valkenburg. I was glad to meet him. "I have changed the seating ca pacity to conform to the laws and the house can now be emptied quickly. City Should Be Ashamed. Van Valkenburg: "I met Mr. Over meyer we agree on that part. Mr. Overmeyer requested if I saw any thing out of the way to let him know. A rag that was found in the wash room was an old shirt saturated with liquid veneer, a combustible sub stance. I left the shirt with the tire marshal. The custodian who 'cussed was not Mr. Overmeyer. We went with Mr. Stotts and found boxes of trash in the store room on his floor. Mr. Stotts agreed to have the trash taken immediately and deposited In a box outside of the building. The city of Topeka should be ashamed of the physical condition of the Auditorium which is due to the neglect of someone. Ask the citizens to go and inspect for themselves: Un der the stage is a big wad of unin sulated wiring that comes in through the wall and goes under the stage. There are other wires fastened with wood cleats, and the Auditorium and pipe organ are endangered." Seats Not Kastened Down. j C. F. Hardy: "Mr. Overmeyer, you say that the state laws have been complied with. Is it not true that only the seats in the gallery are fas tened down? Overmeyer: "That is true. Hardy: "Then have you complied with the law?" Overmeyer: "No. W. W. Webb: "In view of the fact that we are going to have an enter tainment in the Auditorium I wish the president of the Commercial club would take the matter in hand and appoint a committee of five to call on the mayor and ask to have these things attended to at once. Then we can tell the people that it has been at tended to, and that the Auditorium is afe." President S. J. Hodgins of the Com mercial club: "We'll see that the com mittee is appointed tomorrow. 'I want to congratulate the city of Topeka because you have more and better fire protection ordinances tnan other cities we have visited," said Mr. Van Valkenburg In the course of his introductory remarks. "I'd suggest two more ordinances. One concerning the installation of rubber tubes piping gas and another requiring metalic trash cans. I do not know of what alue an ordinance is unless it is en forced. lire Department Too Small. When vour fire marshal makes in spections he draws on the force of men that should be on duty to fight fires. Tou all know that he is short handed. How far the department came from reaching all the risks you see from the report tonight. "The business men of Topeka must wake up to the actual condition of af fairs before the conditions will be remedied. Vou can't expect good In spection without an adequate force. "This is one of the worst wired cities in the state about on a par with Wichita both were for the most part wired vears ago. and the early install ations have outgrown themselves. Tou should have in the fire department at least one man to do nothing but in spect. The chief of the department should not be called upon to call on the regular force for this work. The Commercial club should take up the matter. Pumping Plant is Baa. "There are conditions at the city pumping station that should not exist. The engineer I Deiieve it is lives on the second floor over the pumps. There is a gasoline stove that is used for cooking, and I presume some gaso line is kept in the building. Your whole water supply may be shut off by an accident in case of fire." According to C. F. Hardy the com mittee Inspected 854 risks, finding 509 defects as follows: Defects from elec tric wiring, 195: rubbish, 102; lack of woodwork protection under and around stairs and near flues. 131; rub ber tube gas connections, 171. "In a general way the theaters have been found to be in excellent condi tion," said Mr. Hardy, "hut in one or i two cases rubbisn was round under the stage. The places that are main tained for the amusement of the pub lic should be kept in perfect condi tion. We don't want the people to rise up and correct the defects after there has been a fearful calamity." By Mr. A. D. Gray, Cashier Santa Fe Railway Company, Topeka. (Questions on the chapters read this week will be answered at the First Baptist church Sunday night by the pastor, Rev. Robert Gordon.) The fourteenth chapter or jonn, to gether with the thirteenth and fif teenth, may be called the upper room chapters and record the final utterances of Jesus to his disciples before his arrest and crucifixion. No doubt Jesus had held many intimate interviews with them during the three years in which they had been together. But on this occasion his words are characterized by an un usual tenderness and solicitude to meet their special need. The dis ciples were sorrowful, and it was not strange, for they have just been told that one of their number would be tray their loved Master and one should deny him. Jesus sought to prepare their minds for his impend ing separation. Although he was al ready in the shadow of imminent death, it is noticeable that Jesus is wholly unmindful of himself. All his thought is fixed on his disciples and their future. "Let not your heart be troubled." He seeks to show them that though he is about to leave them. yet the separation will not be final that after His death He will still be with them in a more vital relation snip than when in the ilesh. It was needful that He go away, but He would come again and be with them and in them -with a spiritual presence and power that should lead them to nigner achievements and a more exalted service. "Greater works" would be performed by them when they had received the full endow ment of his spirit. The beginnings of the Kingdom of God on earth, the marvelous extension of the influence of the Gospel through all the ages, the story of the Acts, will show how this far reaching program was inaugurat ed. Many high thoughts and great ideas are foreshadowed in this chap ter as Jesus spoke comfort and direc tion to his sorrowing friends in that quiet upper room. As the scene is recalled, notice the personal aspect of the occasion. How deeply personal and sympathetic was the relation ex- sting between Jesus and those men who had been his associates, whom he railed his friends, and into whose hands He was about to commit His great spiritual enterprise. The dis ciples on their part had a strong per sonal love and loyalty to Jesus. His appeal to them had been purely a personal one. Their "follow me" had come to them individually. And so must the appeal come to men to day. The world is learning anew the significance of the personality of Jesus. Wrhile ecclesiastical dogmas and systems of theology have large ly lost their meaning to the modern man, the personality of Jesus as por trayed in the Gospels is acquiring a fresh loyalty and homage. This is a vital fact: If Christianity means any thing it means a personal relationship to a personal Christ. Just to the extent that this is realized will our religion be effective. As Jesus called his disciples friends, so men today may become His friends and even His intimate associates. In our chapter He says to His dis ciples, "If a man love Me he will keep My words and My Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him." If we are willing, it is possible to ac tualize this blessed condition. Dr. Bushnell experienced its realization when he said that he was better ac quainted with Jesus Christ than with any man in Hartford. Only in the enjoyment of this fellowship does hu man life find its true interpretation- its highest rewards. (Read the entire chapter today.) STRIKE IS FAR AWAY. Dispute Between Miners and Opera tors Reaches the Discussion Stage New York, March 14. While the members of the miners committee, meeting today to consider the com plete refusal by the operators of their demands for a 20 per cent increase in wages, recognition of the union and eight hour work day and other con ditions at the mines, were uncommun icative, they expressed the opinion that the counter proposition made by the operators yesterday to continue the present working agreement fcr three years was made for the purpose of paving the way for a compromise agreement. The present agreement is objection able to the miners but the counter pro posal of the operators gives an oppor tunity for the miners to debate the matter with the operators which may lead to a compromise. There also were reports today that the hard coal miners committee would ask when they met with the operators tomorrow for a further extension of time In order to await the result of the conferences be tween the bituminous operators and their miners in the west next week. Should neither side yield the question of strike would be taken up by what is known as the policy committee at a meeting to be called later. Thi3 com mittee made up of anthracite and bi tuminous miners, has the power to re commend a strike but following such recommendation the question has to be put to a vote of the miners. Reason For It When Topeka Citizens Show the Way. There can be no just reason why any reader of this will continue to suf fer the tortures of an aching back, the annoyance of urinary disorders, the dangers of serious kidney ills when re lief is so near at hand and the most positive proof given that these ills can be cured. Read what a Topeka citizen says Charles Botham. 612 Lake street, Topeka, Kan., says: "A severe attack of typhoid fever left my kidneys badly disordered and after that my back was constantly racked with pain. The passages of the kidney secretions were irregular and my ccnditlon was so serious that I was alarmed. An ad vertisement about Doan's Kidney Pills induced me to get this remedy at Rowley's drug store, and begin its UGe. In a short time X, was able to get about with the aid of crutches and I grad ually improved until I could walk alone. I am in much better health since taking Doan's Kidney Pills and in view of my experience, I feel justi fied in advising their use to other per sons afflicted with kidney complaint." For sale by all dealers, .trice 60 cents. Foster-Milburn uo., Burraio. Xew York, sole agents ror tne united States. Remember the name uoani ana take no other. Ten Cents for Persil will prove to you that the old wash day dread belongs to past ages. TO THE JURY TODAY. Fate of Bath Tub Trust Soon Will Be Known. Detroit, March 14. The fate of the twelve individuals and eleven cor porations composing the socalled "bath tub trust" will in all probability be decided today by a jury in the United States district court. Judge Angell was expected to read his charge to the jury at the opening session to day, the closing arguments having been made yesterday. FREE PILE REMEDY Sent to Demonstrate the Merits of Pyramid Pile Remedy. What It Has Done ror Others, It Can Do for You. Firemen Have Xo Power. It was pointed out by Capt. Joseph Hanlon, of the fire department, that iiie business men do not give him the co operation in his work of inspection that he should have, and that it is diffi cult to enforce orders. It was the sense of a number of those present that the fire marshal should be clothed with the powers of a police officer in order thai the laws may be enforced. Jesse Si-.aw. in speaking for the mayor and commissioners w ho were nol pr33 ent, said that Commissioner Sto:.t who has charge of the Auditorium, had been threatened with arrest on ac count of the fact that his expendi We have testimonials by the hun dreds, showing all stages, kinds and degrees of piles which have been cured by Pyramid Pile Remedy. If you could read these unsolicited letters you would no doubt go to the nearest drug store and buy a box of Pyramid Pile Remedy at once, price fifty cents. We do not ask you to do this. Send us your name and address and we w ill send you a trial package by mail, free. We know what the trial package will do. In many cases it has cured piles without further treatment. If it proves its value to you, order more from your druggist, at 50c a box. This is fair, is it not? Simply cut out free coupon below and mail today, with your name and address on a slip of paper. Free Pile Remedy Cut out this coupon and mail to the PYRAMID DRUG CO, 426 Pyramid Bldg., Marshall, Mich, with Your full name and address on a slip of paper. A samale of the great Pyramid Pile Remedy will then be sent you mt once by mail, FREE, in plain wrapper. Will wash your Clothes without strong soaps, and without rubbing. Stains and yellow tinges are not neces sary evils. Heavy overalls and dainty laces are alike to Persil. One dime spent for Persil will save a dollar in backache and time. Your Grocer Has Persil Today lO cents S j,:'

L. AiicrbachS Guettel "5 CLOfTHiNG CC ring a Dozen Dollars and Fifty Cents here Friday or Friday night until ten and select a fine $20, $22.50 or $25 winter suit or overcoat. Did You Get It? BBHssasBHBBBBsiriBBaMSBnBsanasnaBasxa l Lb Pants! Pants! Cheap! 500 pairs fine cassimeres in hairline3, also hard worsteds; easily $2.75 values $1.95 Dress the Boys Good, But Cheap! ig Bargains Here Friday New Spring Suits with two pair knickers y1 Fresh from the tailor shop, madn up in the smart Norfolk and nobby double-breasted mod els, for boys from 5 to 17. Every suit has two pairs of knlckerbocker pants. They are made of stout wearing casiiimerea and blue cheviots. The most astonishing values ever shown by tis, and as for patterns or colors well, you would not expect to ever find anything more beautiful for less than M. The suit alone is worth $4, the extra knickers alone IL"? are worth Jl. No mother can pfford to Qlnf miss buying one of these suits Friday., j Of. Friday for Boys' 75c grade Knlckerbock ers. made of etaunch wearing Cassimeres and Corduroys, full cut and every seam taped. Sizes 3 to 17 years. OC Friday 50c and 76c neck band Aj3G blouses, made of fine madras and percales, in white and all colors; sizes 6 to 16 years. tiflg, Friday J1.00 neck band shirts, light and dark colors; pleated or plain; made of madras and per cales; sizes 12,2 to 14 Vi. Friday for Boys Golf Caps, odds and ends of 50c grades. All colors. Friday for Boys' and Girls' heavy ribbed Hose, 15c quality. Sizes 0 to 8 Manhattan and E. W. Shirts Tomorrow for choice of the regular $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 grades AND MORE THAN 100 DOZEN TO PICK FROM! This croes on record as the greatest high-class shirt sale ever conducted in the West. Besides the famous Manhattan and E. W. brands there are three other renowned brands in the sale, and the patterns and styles are squarely up to the minute the very kind you smart dressers want. Buy one or two or six tomorrow, at apiece Pay-Day and Bargain Friday Shoe Sale. We have utterly lost sight of shoe cost in this final cut of men's and women's shoes. JVIen's Shoes Washburn and Stetson $5.50, $5.00 f Hst-m an( $4-00 at tn'3 final Q C.(T Cllcap cut clearance price pO.Ov Women's Shoes AL lay Washburns $4 and $3.50 fin pi estfallshoes at this final f0 CA Vneap cut clearance price pi3U I i m -1-i ii i,i -im in Lm L. .Beginning to and what a disappointment it it to find that though you are young, your hair is beginning to turn gray that you are surely going to look old before your time. Don't wait for any more gray hairt to come get a bottle of HAY'S HAIR HEALTH today. Start ia now and use it regularly. Those gray hairs will toon disappear be restored to their natural color and stay so. HAY'S HAIR HEALTH will keep you looking young. S1.00 and 50c at Drnt Store or direct npoa receipt of price and dealer! name. Send 10c (or trial bottle. Pbilo Hay Spec Co., Newark, N. J. Arnold Drug Co., Campbell Drug Co., A. C. Klingaman, J. P. Rowley. Brunt Drug Co., G. W. Siansfield. Campbell, 704 Ks. aw. GRAND $2.00 TO 25 Cents Next Wednesday, March 20 MAKG.VTi.13T ANGLIN In the New Comedy "GKKKV STOCKIXGS" Direct from Xew York City MAJESTIC SEAT 25c North Bros. Present MY FRIEND FROM INDIA Next Week, Little Johnnie Jones Advance In Prices. Scats Now. WANTED Three boys to sell State Journal on streets at noon from 11:15 a. m. until 2 p. m. Apply State Jour nal office tomorrow morning. NOVELTY Sf -LIS 5 Brandon Kddie Voyr Iioe and Kill Cora Simpson Motidane Phillips Pictures Nineteen Miles a Seoonl without a jnr, hook or disturbance, is the awful speed of our rartli throun space. We wonder at nuch hho of na ture's movement, ami ho do those who take nr. Kinar'a New Life pills. No r! pinpr, no distress, lust thorough work thiit brings rood health and fins fwaJljMra, Ha, Camobell Drus Co.

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6 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAE MARCH 14, 1912 COST OF LIVING President Taft Sends Special Message to Congress. Regarding Co-Operation Erery-Day Expenses. and FACTS GATHERED ABROAD Figure Largely in the Commu nication Submitted. Food Has Adyanced More Kap- idly Than Wages. Washington. March 14. The president Wednesday.in a special message to con gress, transmitted the first installment of the Information collected by the depart ment of state in regard to co-operation and the cost of living in various Euro riean countries. The department, by direction of the president, instructed the consular officers to make the in vestlgation. The results of the inquiry are summed up in a letter from Acting Secretary of State Huntington Wilson which Is submitted -with the consular reports and with a summary of their contents. The president in his message says 'nai tne popular demand for informa tion of this character apparently was based on the belief that some remedy might be found for the high cost of liv ing, ine immediate result of the in iuiries instituted by the department of stale tnrougn the consular officers was to accentuate the fact that the increase in the prices of the common necessities or nie is world-wide, and that it is an RDsorDing question with the rn-onera tive associi- ions. Intelligence present ed by the co-operative societies shows that even when there has been an ad vance in wages the percentage has not kept pace with the rise in the cost of food supplies. The president says that me information collected by the depart ment of state is a permanent contribu tion to the history of the efforts of pro Queers ana consumers to solv for themselves the economic problems of production, distribution, and consumn tion. If the co-operative associations which have been in existence for half a century nave not been able to de termine the fundamental causes of the increased cost of living or to retard the advance, the student of social pro gress may at least derive instruction from the account of the associations tneir influence on the well-beint of their members. The president also calls attention to nia message of February 2, in which he recommended an international commission to look into the cause lor the high prices of the necesities of ure ana the possible remedies. Should such a commission be authorized by congress, he says, the relation of the co-operative societies to this subject ue or great interest. It Is Universal. Acting Secretary Wilson in the lot trr to the president describing the ac tivities of the department of state .in carrying out the president's instruc tions says tnat while the consular offi cers were engaged in their invst.lra tions their attention was drawn to the Tacts given Dy the co-operative socie ties concerning the advance in the prices or the most necessary articles of food. The reports on this phase of ine suDjeci were unitorm in showing that the members of the co-operative associations were feeling the universal increase In the cost of staple com modities. The consul general at Lon don forwarded a table prepared by tne co-operative wholesale societies which exhibited the increased cost of certain articles in the United King dom since 1898. From a summary of rates of wages it was developed that the per cent of increase in certain trades from 1896 to 1910 was 11.1 and in food prices 19.5. The wages of rail way employees during this period had increased only 7.3 per cent. The con sul at Southampton reported that dur ing the past five years there had been an advance of 20 per cent in the pur chase price of fresh beef, mutton, bacon, hams, butter, eggs, fruits, tea, dried fruits, sugar, coffee, fuel, tin goods, women's apparel, footwear, clothing, cotton goods, bedding, furni ture, and underwear. A series of fig ures relating to general groceries com piled by the Co-operative Wholesale Society of Manchester gave an in structive example of what the rise in the cost of provisions meant to an ordinary family. Taking the table as a whole It appeared that as compared with 1898 the Increased cost of living in 1910 was 13.36 per cent Few Exceptions. The counsul at Havre, France, re ported food prices in November, 1900, and in November, 1911. All these, with the exception of sugar, showed heavy increases. The consul at Lyons transmitted a table prepared by the Workangman's Exchange giving the average prices of various food com modities in 1900 and in 1911. Fish was the only food commodity that had not soared in price. With reference to Germany. the consul-general at Berlin reported that living conditions were seriously af fected by the continued rise in the price of food products, many of the commodities having advanced far above alt previous records. The average retail prices prevailing in s of the principal cities of Germany were given. In Holland the consul at Amster dam quoted an official agricultural report covering such articles as beef, pork. eggs, butter, ham, and wheat, which showed that the increase in prices had ranged from 16 to 55 per cent in the 12 years following 1898. Reports from consular offices in other countries showed similar advances. Referring to the general subject matter of the consular reports the Act ing Secretary of State says that much interest attaches to the co-operative Associations in the United Kingdom be cause England may be said to be the nursery of these societies. The con sular officers describe the inception and growth and the organization and operation of the co-operative associa tions, both distributive and productive. The collective growth of co-operative societies in the United Kingdom as a whole is shown by a statistical sum mary. In 1S62 there were 400 so cieties, with P0.000 members. The value of the sales was 2,333,000 pounds sterling and the net profits 165.000 pounds sterling. In 1908 the number of societies was slightly in excess of 3,000, with a membership of J. 701,000. The value of sales was 113,000.000 pounds sterling and the net profits were 10,997,000 pounds sterling. Co-operative Societies. It is noted that the increased reg istration of co-operative societies in recent years is probably due to the impetus given to the organization of co-operative agricultural societies Engine of a Rock Islam! Passenger ter Uollowing a Two Days' Battle The average person in reading the newspapers does not realize the stiff fight the railroads of Kansas have been making in an attempt to keep their tracks open after the series of snow storms in this state. The accompanying photograph is sent by Editor Nelson of the Smith County Pioneer from Smith Center. It is a picture of the front engine of the first train that reached Smith Center Tuesday after a two days fight in the drifts between that place and Belleville. The train is on the Rock through the parent Agricultural Or ganization Society. The co-operative agricultural societies are aided by the parent society in negotiations witn railway companies, government de partments, and business houses. They are organized in much the same man ner as distributive societies. Supplies of all kinds are purchased jointly at wholesale. Farm produce is graded and distributed through means of de pots maintained in neighboring towns or through selling agents. Markets are visited by agents who inform the members as to the quality ana price of produce. The Co-operative Union located at Manchester has contributed greatly to the formation and growth of co-operative societies generally. The objects of the union are a diffusion of information in regard to the movement and the as sistance of individual societies. It maintains committees on education, joint propaganda, legislation, exhibi tions, trades-unionism, credit training, and legal defense. The development of co-operation in the United Kingdom is continuing at a fair rate, although not so rapidly as In the earlier years. The growth thus far has been confined to the wage laboring classes. A study of the movement by localities shows that co-operation has flourished mainly in the industrial and manufacturing- districts. An example of the growth of individual societies and the manner in which their activi ties have expanded is found in the ac count given of a co-operative society located at Leeds which was founded in 1847 for the primary purpose of secur ing cheaper flour. British co-operation is affiliated with the International Co-operative Alliance, which comprises the leading co-operative organizations in" the continental countries of Europe, and holds inter national congresses triennially. Opposition on the Wane. Opposition on the part of nonco-oper- ative tradesmen is now decidedly less ntense than in the earlier stages of the movement, the consular officers re port, but a widespread antagonism still exists among British shopkeepers and criticism is constant and searching. The claim is made by opposing interests that co-operative trading can not com pete with legitimate retail trading and n support of this contention figures are given of grocers' prices and of co-operative society prices of various food pro ducts in which the grocers' figures are ess than those of the co-operative so cieties. It is noted in reference to cri ticism of this character that the co operative societies do not undertake to sell at lower than current prices, their im being to give the purchaser the benefit claimed for co-operative pur- hasers by returning it in the form of dividend. The estimate is made that for the United Kingdom as a. whole the lvidends would average not far from 9 per cent of the purchase price paid by the co-operative purchasers. The critics of t-e co-operative movement allege that these dividends are obtained by sacrificing the purity and excellence of the merchandise furnished or by an ac tual raising of prices to compensate for the amount of the dividends. The ma- ority of the consular reDorts seem te infer that the dividends paid to pur chasing members do measure roughly a real reduction in the prices of the com modities bought.- Insurance I'eature. An analysis of the reports of the consular officers on co-operative socle ties and similar associations in the nited Kingdom was made bv the Bureau of Trade Relations of the de partment of state and is transmitted with the full text of the reports. This reviews the movement as a whole and gives many interesting details. Among other activities, many of the societies undertake to insure either their cor porate property or the property or lives of tneir members against various contingencies. In other instances they simply act as agents for established insurance organizations. Some organ izations have a plan whereby mem bers are insured automatically to the amount of their average annual pur chases during the three years preced ing death, thus setting up an addition al inducement for trading at the socie ties' stores. A reserve fund is main tained by nearly all the societies. This fund is provided for by the segrega tion of a low percentage of the surplus profits which may be drawn upon in emergencies at the discretion of the directors. Most societies provide in struction in accountancy. the prin ciples of co-operation, economics with i reference to, betterment problems, in Train After It Reached Smith Ccn YVith Snow Drifts. Island Lines. The Rock Island and Union Pacific have been breaking blockades in the northwestern part of the state for the last six days. The snow is wet and is almost impossible to remove from the cuts. It is too heavy and sticky for the rotary plows and is too deep for the wedge plows. In many places it was necessary for the railroads to send out locomotives after the snow plows to clear the track of the snow that had dropped in behind the plows. dustrial history, administrative science and cognate subjects. Lectures and1 other entertainments are frequently provided and circulating libraries and reading rooms are maintained. Many of the associations provide an annual outing for their members. These out ings are paid for out of the reserve funds. Various co-operative societies have arrangements with doctors, dentists, and artisans by which members se cure dividend checks when patroniz ing them. In other words, a commis sion is allowed to the societies bv the parties with whom the arrangements are made in consideration of the patronage afforded. Labor Unions. Many co-operators are members of labor unions and there has been a pos sibility that the two movements would to some extent coalesce. Up to the present time, however, although the Co operative Union has a committee on labor unionism and the two movements send representatives to each other's conventions there has been no active aid or official co-operation between them. A Women's Co-operative Guild organ izes the women members of co-operative societies for social and similar pur poses. It has a representative on the educational committee of the Co-operative Union. "Various weekly and monthly publica tions are supported by the co-operative societies, and there are also local so ciety records published with circula tions ranging from 1.000 upward. The circulation of most of the general pub lications varies from 12,000 to 25,000, but there is one with 78,000 subscribers. The publication of largest circulation, how ever, has nearly 400,000 subscribers and is the organ of 500 societies. It is is sued by most of them as their own re cord, with from 1 to 16 pages printed especially for themselves. A number of the consular reports de scribe the semiprivate co-operation concerns which are patterned to a greater or less degree after the Roch dale and allied systems. The most im portant of these is the Civil Service Supply Association, which originated among employees of the Post Office Department who clubbebd otgether to secure wholesale rates on the more common household supplies. The ex periment was an immediate success and other governmental employees joined the movement. The Civil Service Sup ply Association established the first de partment stores in London which after many years were opened to the gen eral public. Its sales now approxi mate $10,000,000 annually. No 'dividends are paid. The Army and Navy Store3 are operated on the same general lines as the Civil Service Supply Association. Consumers coal associations have recently succeeded in a number of British cities. A representative or ganization of this type in London op erates by securing competitive tenders from leading collieries each summer and, when prices have thus been ascertained, furnishing order blanks to members upon which the latter contract for the next winter's supply. The amounts of these orders are total ed and arrangements are concluded with the successful bidders. The coal is delivered and paid for from time to time during the following winter upon orders from the purchasing member. Each member is liable only for the amount of his contract order. Membership is secured by purchasing a share of the concern's stock at $5 or by taking a life ticket at $2.55. The saving of coal has varied recently from 80 cents to $1.30 per ton, ac cording to the grade and other cir cumstances. HE SUBS FOR STb'SBS. Henry Allen Fills a Speaking Date for the Governor. Grand Forks, N. D.. March 14. LaFolIette and Roosevelt, in the opin ion of H. J. Allen of Wichita, Kansas, who spoke here in the interest of Roosevelt, stand for the same thing, but Roosevelt alone has the oppor tunity of beating President Taffs nomination. LaFolIette, he contend ed, was without any such hope. "Attempts to secure LaFolIette votes in this state will be used by Taft men against Roosevelt and also will be used by Democrats," he said. Mr. Allen substituted here for Gov ernor Stubbs who was unable to fill his speaking dates in this stake. 7 LIKE U. S. Mexicans Feel Their Peril Comes From 3forth. Scientific Party Finds No An archy in Mexico. BUILD MORE BATTLESHIPS Russia Gives U. S. "Builders Part of Contract. How Americans Get Business From English Firms. New York, March 14. Private and yet authoritative information was re ceived today from Mexico which is of somewhat different character from the published reports which have come from the Republic and which intimate that turmoil and chaos prevail from th3 Rio Grande to the southernmost bound ary. The private report received in tlv. city today comes from Americans wfcc have been for some time in Mexico oc cupied exclusively with scientific work. They have traveled through much of the interior of the republic. Their sci entific persuits have made it necessary for them to come in contact with all classes of the Mexican population. For obvious reasons, it would not be ex pedient to quote by name those who have sent this information to friends in this city, but the news which they have communicated differs so great'y from some of the published accounts and is so impartial that it may serve to lessen some of the apprehension which now prevails in Washington. The communication states that it has been difficult for these men of science to understand how the published ac counts of the troubles in Mexico have originated. For instance, all these published re ports speak of very great unrest through much of the country through which these men of science have pass ed and yet they found scarcely any signs of real or alarming unrest. They rtiri hoar some criticism of the admir iratinn of some of the Mexican stated and of ,ne national government, but that is nothing new. The party has recently been traveling with guides tvrr.iisrh a lMi-e-e rart of Oaxaca and found there nothing to suggest unrest, Vote Is Not Important- J. A paragraph from the commumca tion received this morning may be wuilu wniiu iu o.,iv,c serve to explain the reason for some of the disturbances which now exist in Mexico. The writer says: "One thing that struck us forcibly in all the places ...1 1 V H I.. V- I I T t ,Hn th. That lack of appreciation of the fact that the right to vote carries with it tne duty to stand by one's vote until an other election. As it now is, if the suc cessful candidate does not at once meet the expectation of the people they want to make an instant change. They do nJt remember that they put men into power whom a little later they try to over throw. Wre have been to many con ventions held in small Mexican towns and we are satisfied that such uneasi ness as does prevail will not be eradi cated until the people of Mexico real ize what their political responsibilities are, especially with regard to the suf rage. We are inclined to think that personal ambitions are the real cause for such disturbances as do exist." Hostility to the United States. This party of scientists did discover that throughout many parts of Mexico there prevails a deep seated hatred against the United States. Several times they heard1 Mexicans say to lit tle groups: "In the north you can see a great black winged bird spread ing its wings and getting its claws ready to tear up our beloved country. That bird's shadows are falling now over our southern coast. Let that bird try to swoop down upon us from the north and it will find a united people." These little assemblages, this scientific party reports, are held here and there in the country, but the party felt assured that many of the disturbances reported publicly are duo to boasting and especially to the appearance occasionally of two or three men with rifles somewhat un der the influence of liquor, who pre tend that they are about to "take" the village. It seemed to the party that many of the disturbances were simply the outcome of this kind of silly, rough play. Quoting again from the report: The bitterness of feeling at Puebla and Guerrero is genuine and is due to the grievances which the poorer classes are really suffering from. These grievances can only be reme died very slowly. Yet tne one prayer in all the households that we nave been in at Zacatecas, Jalisco, Sonora and Oaxaca is 'Oh. let us have peace ful times again!' This communica tion has been received by the officers of one of the great American assocla tions for the promotion of science. The Dreadnaughts for Russia. From Philadelphia Iras come au thoritative report that at the Cramps' shipyard are to be buijf immediately two warsnips lor tussia wmcn in tonnage and armament, when com pleted, will surpass even the greatest of the dreadnaugnts or ureal uniam, The news is regarded as authentic here because unless the Cramps felt assured of the contract absolute se crecy would have been maintainel re specting negotiations in progress with thf. "FiiijwaflTi pni'prnment Approximately, each one of these ships will cost about twelve million dollars and the preliminary work in constructing the hull and preparing the ships for launching will entail at least three million dollars. The report also tells of the proba bility that at the shipyards of Wickers Sons Maxim, near Liverpool, two other dreadnaughts will be built for Russia, these four serving as tne nu cleus for the new navy Russia expects to establish to take the place of the navv she lost in the war with Japan. Should Charles M. Schwab perfect negotiations with the new republic of China whlcn have been ior some time pending, then other dreadnaughts than those Russia will build in the United States and those which Argen tina has already built will be con structed at the American shipyard within the next four or five years. How the English Lost. An interesting inside story has now been for some days told by men whe profess to be familiar with the negoti ations which terminated when Argen tina contracted with the Fore River shipyard, near Boston, and with the New York Shipbuilding company, whoae shipyard is at Camden. N. J., for the construction of two battleships, one in each shipyard, for Argentina's navy. It was announced by the Argentine government that the bids for the pro posed new battleships would be opened in London and the general expectation was that the Wickers-Maxim company which had been so successful in con structing English battleships woui-J receive the contract with Argentina. Some things indicated that Argentina herself expected that the Wickers Maxim bid would be the one which the government would be compelled to ac cept. The American shipbuilders learned, as they thought, that if there was com petition with the Wickers-Maxim com pany then that company would not dare to bid at a price which represented u much smaller cost for the construction of the Argentina dreadnaughts than was paid for building the new English dreadnaughts. Therefore the American shipbuilders made careful computations for the purpose of getting at figures which would be considerably less than the great English shipbuilders had ask ed for the construction of English dreadnaughts. The Americans did not believe that the English shipbuildeiS would care to put in bids at a much smaller figure than those upon which they obtained the English contracts. When the bids were opened it was found that the American shipbuilders hrd made prices so much less than the English had done that Argentina was compelled to give the contract to the Fore River and the Camden ship yards. Yet, notwithstanding the low American bids, these battleships are understood to have been built at a handsome profit for the shipbuilding companies. In the case of the contem plated Russian dreadnaughts, that government has evidently thought it the better part to award contracts for two of these gigantic dreadnaughts to the American shipbuilders and to place with the Wickers-Maxim com pany the contract for the construction of the other two. The four Russian dreadnaughts will cost approximately 60 million dollars, and France has been appealed to to lend the money needed upon the security of Russian bonds. Eric Canal in 1915. When the agitation began for im provement or enlargement of the Erie canal it was not known whether the United States would decide to con struct a canal across Nicaragua or across the isthmus of Panama. In fact, it was very doubtful whether our gov ernment would undertake a national work of that kind at all. Curiously enough, the greatly enlarged and prac tically rebuilt Erie canal will be rea J.y for navigation by barges in the year 1915 and a part of the canal system known as the Champlain section, which is to connect Lake Champlain with the navigable waters of the Hudson, will be ready for use in the year 1914. The barges which are to be used upon the s Champlain canal, a section of the en- wnlch lg t be s0 m long, m draw 12 feet of water at-l ann fet lnntr These barges will be chiefly used for the transportation of ore from the lare iron mining districts which skirt Lake Champlain to New York harbor. If this happens, therefore, unless some i unforeseen calamity prevent, then the internal, artificial water- greatest of internal, artificial water ways, which will furnish water trans--portation for large boats from the great lakes to New York harbor, will be m operation only a little later than the Panama canal will be opened to naviga tion. HOLLAND. POWERS OF PILLAGE. Is What Beveridge Calls the Oppo sition to Roosevelt. Indianapolis, Ind.. March 14. "The powers of pillage do not in tend to let Republican voters nomi nate Theodore Roosevelt. These forces are not partisan. They are for any man of any party as against Roosevelt." With this declaration. former United States Senator Albert J. Bev eridge denounced antagonists of the candidacy of Colonel Roosevelt for the Republican nomination for the presidency and praised his public policies in an address at a meeting in the interest of Roosevelt's candi dacy. "The instinctive judgment of the masses is never wrong," said Mr. Bev eridge, "and the decree of the su preme court of American public opin ion is that the man who today best represents that well being and uplift wiiicri ine American people want is he who nas so bravely worked their will and achieved their purpose in the past, Theodore Roosevelt." HE MAKES AIR SAFER, Kansan's Invention Will Prevent In jury of Aviators. Kansas City, March 14. The Stad lilasator is the latest invention for steadying aircrafts. T. D. Greer of Norton, Kan., is the inventor of an attachment said to be more simple and less expensive than the gyro scope. The death of Aviator Frisbie at Norton last September brought the stadlilasator into existence. Mr. Greer saw the accident and de cided to invent something that would prevent a similar one in the future. The stadlilasator was the result. This balancer consists in a windlass, a cable and a weight fastened under the ma chine. When in the air the weight is suspended ten feet under the airship. CONVWONloY 2ND Manner of Selecting Delegates to It Ijeft to Committee. Kansas City, Mo., March 14. At the meeting of the Second Kansas dis trict Republican committee at Kansas City, Kan., last night, a convention was called to be held at that place to elect delegates to the national con vention. The date will be named lat er. The manner of selecting dele gates was left to the county commit tees and a resolution favoring county primaries was adopted. Rates to Conventions. Chicago, March 14. Fares to the Democratic national convention in Baltimore and the Republican na tional convention here were fixed at two cents a mile at a meeting of the Central Passenger association. Instructed for Taft. Nashville, Tenn., March 14. -Kighth district delegates to the Republican national convention: W. A. Smith of Lafayette and George T. Renfro of Crossville. Instructed for Taft. BURIAL OF MAINE Hulk of the Old Battleship Will Be Sunk In the Gulf of Mexico Next Saturday Afternoon WITH ELABORATE CEREMONIES The Bodies of the Dead Will Lie in State. History of the Ship and the Havana Tragedy. Havana, March 14. Burial at sea of the old battleship Maine next Satur day will be accomplished after cere monies announced here as follows: Thursday, March 14 Bodies of the Maine's dead removed from Cabanas to citv hall. Friday, March 15 Maine dead will lie in state from S p. m. till 10 a. m. Saturday. Saturday, March IS Under full hon ors, bodies will bs escorted to wharf and taken aboard armored cruiser North Carolina, At 2 p. m. bulk of Maine will leave harbor under tow. escorted by North Carolina and scout cruiser Birming ham, four Cuban gunboats and flotilla of steamers carrying cabinet officers, diplomats, societies, etc. Outside maritime limits escort w;ll stand by and Maine's sea valves will be opened. With 16 men of war as an escort of honor the wreck of the Maine will oe towed from Havana harbor and given the most Impressive sea burial in the history of nations. A torpedo boat destroyer will tow the Maine to the sea. The old ship will fix its ensign and commission pennant as in its useful days. The Cuban foits will salute as the Maine leaves port. Outside the harbor at a place selected in the Gulf of Mexico the 16 battle ships comprising the United States Atlantic fleet. Rear Admiral Hugo Os terhaus commanding, will be aligned in two squadrons -of eight ships each. The torpedo boat and its historic tow will pass in review between these lines As each ship is passed the crew will man the rails, the ship's guard will come to attention, the officers in speo ial full dress uniform will draw their swords on the quarter deck, the na tional ensign will be half masted, and the ship's band will play a requiem On each of the 16 ships this unusual honor will be repeated. Salute of Twenty-One Guns. When the towing ship reaches the end of the line the flagship of Rea Admiral Osterhaus will fire the first gun of the national salute. Then fDi 21 minutes, at one minute intervals, the guns will be fired. On each ship the funeral ruffle will be played on drums, three volleys will be fired by a ma rine guard, and a buglar will play taps. At a safe distance from the escort ing ships men from the torpedo boat will place explosives on the Maine, and upon signal from the commanding officer the Maine will be returned to the waves that have held it for 14 years. Only a few relics will be saved. These will go to cities, patriotic soci eties, and relatives of the Maine's dead, This impressive ceremony of burial for the Maine has been arranged as s fitting end for a ship that played such an important part in latter day his tory. Launched in 1890. The Maine was launched in 1830, a sister ship of the old Texas. Viewed from a 1912 standpoint they are puny little battleships, but at that time thny held a world's respcet. On January 24, 1898, the Maine steamed into Havana harbor. Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee, its commander, had orders to stay a month But shortly before 10 o'clock on the evening of February 16 an explosion wrecked the Maine and was the direct cause of the Spanish-American wai Two hundred and 60 men lost their live in that explosion. Only 9 escaped and all except 16 of these were in- lured. It was one of the most terrible disasters of peace. Blown Up Just After Taps. The bugler had barely sounded taps, the last for many of the Maine's sailor- men, when the explosion came. Capt. Sigsbee was writing in his cabin. The ship buckled in the center at the first report. Then a magazine Dlew up and the Maine settled quickly to the bot tom. "It was a bursting, rending, and crashing sound of immense volume, largely metallic in character," writes Capt- (now Rear Admiral Sigsbee.) "It was followed by a succession of heavy, ominous, metallic sounds." There was no chance to save many of the injured men. A few were hus tled into small boats. Capt. Sigsbee wa. the last to leave. In 20 minutes the Maine had been transformed from a trim looking craft into a tangled mass of debris in the harbor mud. New Ve&t in Engineering. The raising of the wreck marks an epoch in marine engineering. The plan of building a coffer dam around the sunken ship and pumping out the wate' was devised by the officers of the Uni ted States army. Wrecking contractors the world over pooh-poohed the meth od and said it could not possibly suc ceed. Even army officers feared the dam would break and cause disaster before the work was finished. It was carried out, however, without mishap and without interruption, except for lack of money when the first appropri ation was exhausted. The uncovering of the wreck failed to disclose definitely the cause of the explosion. The theory that it was caused by a mine placed under the snip and the idea that the first explosion was internal both still have adher ent. J GOES AFTER RECORD. J. II. Wade Ascends From San An tonia In Balloon "Buckeye San Antonio, Tex., March 14. J. H. WTade of Cleveland left here at 7:25 o'cleci last night in his balloon, "The Buckeye," in an effort to break the world's long distance record. The balloon took a northerly course. Tom Cooke of San Antonio accom nanied as Wada u aid C T0PEKA GROWING I Why Shouldn't It? Prettiest Inland City in America No Better Place on Earth in Which to Rear a Family Topeka in Brief Population, BM. No aaloona. Area. 8 mraar mtla. Commission, business, form of government. hospitals, annual rmni II.- oeo.eoo. 9 public parka, including a wo. Telephones, S.OO0. 78 mflea of paving. 400 miles brick and cement walks. 116 miles of sewerage system. 70 miles of water mains, city owns plant. 9 banks, capital and orplue 11,414,000. 6 flouring mills, daily capacity 3,600 barrels. Number of buildings construct ed 1911, 400. 47 miles electric street railway, 7 miles surburban. 72 churches. 4 Y. M. C. A. or ganizations with 2 bulldinKs, 1 Y. W. C. A. building. 4 lines of steam railways. 65 passenger trains dally. Wholesale and Jobbing houses. 41. 876 manufacturing plants. 28 public schools, 240 teachers, 78S5 pupils. WSashburn colleire and Bethany college, 1.300 students. 6 business colleges. About 8 25 automobiles, Assessed valuation, Topeka 153,000,000. Employees Santa Fe general of fices. 1,200. Employees Santa Fe shops, largest railway repair shops In the world. 8,600. Employees Rock Island offices, 150. Toneka hns lareest creamery rn the world. Manufacture! 8, 000,000 pounds of butter and ships 50.000,000 eggs annually Topeka has greatest pipe ran west of the Atlantic coast. In the Auditorium which seats 4,000 people. Topeka has the largest pension bureau in the United States. 100,000 pensioners on lists. $18,000,000 distributed an nually. Natural gas, 25 cent per 1,000 feet. 150 miles natural gas mains. Municipal lighting plant. Cheap natural gas and electric power. Electric Light. Heat Power Plant furnishes current for operation of the Topeka Street Railway and 2.800 horsepower in motors and all commercial lighting in city; heat for business houses, low priced economical power for factories. Topeka has 8 8,000,000 state capltol building and many other state institutions. State hospital for the insane; cost one million dollars. State printing and heating plant; oost one hundred and six thousand dollars. State rnform school for boys. Memorial building (now build ing); cost three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Topeka hae a live Commercial club of 1,060 members. Topeka Kan, Topeka Will Be Greater Address Secretary Commercial Club, Topeka Kansas 100 DAYS' JRIAL ORDER SI A Proposition to Those Visiting Topeka. The Topeka State Journal is the first and only newspaper to run a page in colors every day. Popular and exclusive features make it one of the most interesting and entertaining dailies published, and of interest in the offices, stores and homes of every section of Kansas and the country. A Page Daily in Colors. The State Journal is now printing what are generally considered the best features available, including the inim itable Mctuicneon, tne irresistible Mutt and Jeff, the wholesome and "side bursting" Lena and Lout, and the en joyable Sambo, etc.. and the very best. et any woman rea a it ana see. House hold IJepartment by Marion Harland. famous for her work. The famous Holland newsnaDer tet ter daily; Uncle Gav. the philosopher. n. o. r.. eic. Topeka Sally State Journal. By carrier 10 cents a week: bv mail $3.60 a year. Think of it: "Pennv Day." Why not subscribe for your family or send it as a present an n. daily letter from Topeka and Kansas to irienas eisewnere. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTJRHAIi MARCH 14, 1912 6117. A. TO FIGHT Kepresentatives of 200 Lodges In Kansas Hold Meeting. junction and Secession Are Measures Discussed. Kansas City. March 14. Delegates representing 200 lodges of the Modern Woodmen of America in Kansas, me In Kansas City, Kan., today to consid er the plans to secure relief from the action taken recently by the parent lodge in Chicago in raising the insur ance rates of the order. Two sugges tions were submitted. One wag 10 secede from the parent organization and form an independent order in Kan sas and ;he other was to secure an Injunction against the operation of the higher rates. The sentiment of the delegates seemed to be against seces sion. The meeting adjourned after a com mittee on resolution was appointed to decide upon a plan of action. OPENS TAFT OFFICES. President's Xew England Headquar ters in Xew York. New York, March 14. Eastern campaign headquarters for President Taft's presi dential boom will be opened at 334 Fifth avenue before the end of the present week. The offices will be in charge of John W. liutchinson, jr., who has been head of the speaker's bureau at the Republican state committee in this city for several years. The headquarters will be a branch of the main Taft headquarters in Washington which is presided over by Congressman McKlnley, and it will take -charge of the work in New York, New Jersey and New England. "A campaign of education"' is Hutchinson's object, he says. "We shall tret into no controversy, our efforts being solely to teach the people along the lines of the problems which Colonel Roosevelt Bet forth in his Columbus speech. The Initiative, referendum and recall, the re call of judicial decisions and other in teresting up to date problems will be ex plained." Teddy Vses Eleven Kooms. The Taft forces, it was said today, have been deliberating for some time the plan of establishing headquarters in this city. The activity of the Roosevelt committee which has eleven rooms in the Metropoli tan tower, has alarmed the Taft people. men advised the president to let his Jrlends get into the field and do a little campaigning. Most of the important presidential can didates now have headquarters in this, city. The list includes Judge Harmon, Ctovernor "Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt, President Taft and Oscar W. Underwood. TO REWARD NERVE. Tronsdale to Get $600 and Gold Watch for Bravery. Houston, Tex., March 14. David A. Trousdale, express messenger, who killed two men, when they attempted to rob. Southern. Pacific passenger train No. 3. near Sanderson, Tex., yesterday, will be' paid a reward of $800, and in addition, will be presented with; a gold watch suit ably inscribed, if the recommendation of Superintendent Taft of the Wells Fargo Express company is followed. Mr. Taft tald he would recommend that the stand ing reward given for the arrest and con viction of train robbers be awarded to Trousdale: The usual reward is $300 for each conviction. REBELS ARE SHUT OUT Can Import No More Arms From Vnlted States to Mexico. Washington, March 14. The house today after a brief discussion adopted the concurrent resolution passed by the senate yesterday authorizing the president to prohibit the exportation of war supplies to any American coun try where domestic violence exists. In signing the resolution President Taft will issue a proclamation specifically forbidding the shipment of arms to Mexican revolutionists. Teacher (disgustedly) My boy, my boy, where Is your intuition? Boy I ain't got any. I'm only here a few days, and I didn't know what I had to git. Judge. vVbU ELECT Tr-re t ccrfgrnxmou will LUAJS ebL iJBs fifteen MANY GOHUNGRY More Than Four Million Af fected by Coal Strike. Industrial Life of England Is Almost Paralyzed. London, March 14. The pangs of hunger as a result of the coal strike today are affecting many thousands dependent directly or indirectly on the mines for sustenance. The strike has affected in a direct way, counting only the miners and the oth'e'r men thrown out of work with their families more than four mil lion persons. It has paralyzed practically the whole life of the nation. Prices of food have gone up, fuel Is virtually unobtainable, railroads have curtailed their service, shipping has been held up and every brancn oi industry stop ped to some extent. The striking coal miners number a million and there are more than a million men out of employment be cause the factories and mills can not lie run without fuel. Th efamilies of these men have to rely on their sav ings or on the small out of work pay provided by the trades unions. There are, however, many men not connect ed with the coal trade who do not be long to any trade union from which to draw benefits and these with their families are among the greatest suf ferers. Even the wealthy trades union are now beginning to feel the pinch caus ed by the demands on their resources bv the army of the idle. "The delegates of the coal owners ana the striking miners assembled again to day under the presidency of Premier Asquith who was supported by members of the cabinet on what must be the de ciding joint conference between the mas ters and the men who are trying to reach a settlement of the coal dispute. The period of general discussion has ended and unless the disputants axe in a position to give replies to Premier As quith's proposals which will furnish a basis for the continuance of negotiations with prospects of a settlement by mutual consent compulsory legislation is bound to follow swiftly. T. R. OFF THE JURY. The Court Excuses the Colonel From Further Duty. Mineola, March 14 Theodore Roosevelt's jury duty is over. Supreme Court Justice Putman told him today he could be ex cused. Counsel had confided in the court that Mr. Roosevelt's presence in the box might distract his fellow jurors' minds from any case and for that reason they would challenge him. The colonel appeared at court as usual today and when a court officer touched him on the shoulder he stepped to the bar. "I understand," said the court, "that there is little likelihood of your services being required, Colonel Roosevelt, and on account of your other engagements I will gladly consider any request you wish to make. "Your honor," said the colonel, "as I have been here two weeks I shall make a request to be excused if that is- a proper request. The court granted the request and shook hands with the colonel, who then depart ed for Oyster Bay to remain all day. TODAY IN CONGRESS. Senate Committee Reports Adversely on Steel Tariff Bill. Washington, March 14. Senate in session 2 p. m. Eulogies on late Sena tor Fry of Maine were delivered. Fi nance committee by 8 to 6 ordered ad verse report on house steel tariff revis ion bill. Democrats will present house bill in minority report. s House pas:;ed the seriate joint reso lution prohibiting shipments of arms to Mexico. Bitter split among Demo crats appeared when "free sugar" bill debate began with Democrats from cane and beet sugar producing states against measures. Chairman Under wood of ways and means committee presented majority report favoring pro posed excise tax bill, Representative Longworth presenting minority report opposing it. Pnymasttr General Snif fen (retired) told Helm committee that Major Ray had worked for presidential candidate other than President Vaffc. MY FRIENDS, eYeRV; Votte FbQ -TVe DEM i A WML IM -Tkr CofpfAJ be OR NKTlpHAL iS-TABlU WTO ;Sr-OOTER 'AVWFUL ,Mo WARDENJS KILLED Three Deputies and Another Employee Wounded. By Mutinous Convicts at Ne braska State Penitentiary. Lincoln, March 14. Warden James Delahunty, Deputy Warden Charles Wagoner and Guard A. G. Heilman, of the state penitentiary, were killed by convicts in a riot today. Keeper Doody was slightly wounded. The convicts overpowered a guaru. seized his revolver and with it attack ed 1 the prison officers. Delahunty. Wagoner and Heilman were fatally shot and died within half an hour fol lowing the outbreak. When news of the murders reached the state capitol a call was immediately sent to police headquarters and squad of po lice departed at once for the penitentiary. Company P of the national guard was ordered out. The insurrection started about 2 o'clock. The riot was quelled at 3 p. m. State, county and city officers started at once for the prison upon learning of the massacre. Word was received early at the sheriff's office and Sheriff Hyers and assistant left immediately for the prison in a sleigh. TAFT MEN WIN. In Contest for Seat3 in the Oklahoma Convention. Guthrie, March 14. Thirteen Taft delegations, numbering 86 delegates, were seated -when the state Republi can convention met here today, eith er through -winning contests with Roosevelt delegations or where ex pected Roosevelt contests failed to materialize. Although this did not affect the Roosevelt-Taft situation, which the Roosevelt workers claim to dominate. State Republican Chairman James A. Harris, a Taft man, claimed it did give him sufficient control to suc ceed in his candidacy as national committeeman. ONE CASE QUASHED. The Government Needs Harned as Witness in Sugar Case. New York, March 14. Judge Hand in the United States district court to day quashed the indictment against Thomas B. Harned, the Philadelphia lawver, on trial -with other American Sugar Refining company officials charged with violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The government quashed so that Mr. Harneii could be called as a -witness. Out of the Mouths of Babes. "How old is your grandpa, Har old?" asked a visitor of a bright 5- vear-old. 'Bout a thousand. I guess," was the reply. "He's been around here ever since I can 'member.". "Mamma, is everybody made of dust?" -"So -we are taught,, dear." "Well, I was born in January, and there ain't no dust then." Willie's mother had been telling his father about the little boy's misbe havior during the day. "Mamma," said Willie, "you have the baddest memory I ever saw." "Why do you think so?" she asked. 'Cause," was the reply, "you al ways remember the bad things I do." Lola, aged 4, was present at din ner one evening when a number of guests were being entertained by her parents, and during a lull in the con versation she began t otalk very earn estly. "Why do you talk so much, Lola?" asked her father. 'Cause I've got somethin' to say," was the innocent reply. Chicago News. DEADLIEST OP SNAKES. With the receipt of a consignment of Indian spectacled cobras a few days ago the reptile house at the Bronx zoo now contains more deadly snakes, according to Curator Raymond L. Dit- TtiB POLITICAL SCARBCRO WS.-By Goldberg. if You eLercrr -XVt pasioM You TAtce- rrne" tools' OUT OF? Trfe OUT OpTV& CCLr VUlbOlAJS A73S TH'rs i -PAfNTS' U3H TO CH VM tA USfCt AJsf FRlGHTeN jfer 1 ROOM-MAKING SALE8: All the departments of this big store are now -overflowing with showy Spring Housewares. We are overcrowded and must sell at least 1-3 of this stock at once. Read the list below carefully and then be here Friday or Saturday. Whisk Brooms One basket full 10c and 15c values; your choice Shoe Brushes, 15c values, on sale Stove Brushes, 15c values, on sale.... 8c 8c 9c Galvanized Tubs that are worth 50c to 95c, are priced (four sizes) during this sale, 59c down to OtC Galvanized Pails at sensational prices; 14-quart 30c pails are on sale. 21c 17c 12c 10c 50c 12-quart 25c pails are specially priced 10-quart, regular 20c pails on sale 8-quart, are now. or 15c pails 75c Galvanized Wash Boiler. mars, than any other zoological gar den in the world. There are now' 750 snakes gathered under one roof. There is enough poison in the glass-fronted lnclosures, if properly applied, Mr. Ditmars said, to kill thousands. Recent arrivals at the reptile house include two Madagascar big-nose snaKes, tnree .Egyptian vipers, and some members of the rattlesnake fam ily. The most deadly perhaps are the cobras. Their bite is sure death, bring ing first paralysis of the muscles and suffocation. So deadly is this family ot snaKes that both Mr. Ditmars and Charley Snyder, the keeper, have suf fered local attacks of the poison in as sisting the snakes to shed their skins. There are in the reptile house the black and the spectacled cobra from India, the latter named because be hind the head is a mark not unlike a pair of spectacles, which plainly show when the hood is expanded; their cou sins, the king cobra from Malay; the Sumatra cobra, and the black mamba from Africa. "The bite of a cobra brings death in from eight to twenty minutes," said Mr. Ditmars. "Unlike the others of the snake family which strike and jump away, the cobra bites and holds on, strikingagain and again with his fangs. Some idea of their deadly work can be gathered from India, where they kill each year from 20,000 to 28,000 persons." Statistics just gathered show that 22,478 deaths occurred in India from snake bites last year. The deaths caused by them in the province of Burma amounted to 1,273. Only 30 were killed by wild animals. The num ber of cattle killed in India in 1910 amounted to 93,074 by wild beasts and 10,909 by snakes. Of the deaths of cattle in Burma, 7,851 were by wild animals and 6,588 by snakes. Rewards amounting to $47,725 were paid by the government for the destruction in India of 91,104 snakes. The men at the zoo have little dif ficulty in handling the cobras, but even in opening their cages they are ever on the alert. Mr. Ditmars has made the discovery that the cobra is deathly afraid of either a broom or a shovel, and these are used to subdue them. The fer de lance, another poison bearer, came from Martinique. It is 6 foot of death and replaces the other Copyright. 1911. by R. L. Ooldbcrc ;mCs besxo en on' ANb "THfe. VJi Ni bv- J A t-n Nl ER, UiM-JAMS' ANb Our Galvanized Ware is guar anteed, every piece of-it, and is as near "indestructible as' Can "be made. a 40c Never Break Steel Skillets are on sale to make 22tf room. 8c Granite Mixing Spoons are priced for fast Af selling Tiger Bnand Toilet Paper 5c rolls for this Room Making OKn sale, 7 rolls KING OF If 1 UNliLUMXffl nUNtlOcWOOD The above photograph shows King Alfonso, of Spain, driving through flooded Seville, where houses and fac tories were swept away, and many thousands thrown out of work, homeless. Many were drowned, entire vil lages were wiped out in other sections, and communication by rail, watsr, and horse was Interrupted. fer de lance which died some time ago. Its poison has medicinal properties, and it is gathered by allowing the snake to strike a tightly drawn cloth fastened over the top of a glass. The rattlesnake family is represent ed by the big diamond-back rattler from Texas, the horned snake, the Mitchell's rattler from lower Califor nia, the Wyoming or prairie, the dwarf, the bandit from the northeastern States, and the desert rattler from the southwest. In one inclosure is the horned viper, the common European kind and the horned viper from the 4? ck eLecTTON, we ARe fsLe to SMILE ANb HAve ou TRouse s RecSULPsR FooCk'' AMt.CARS( AL (CsOLti W(TCH fHfc Look ACT BUJLblNGS 'ANIi GT SHAVeti So va hat's the i 25c Tea or Coffee Pot But we need the room. First 6 dozen "1 A 1 Clothes Pins- J 00 gross to sell. quick. 'We need the room. 72 (nr. Mrs. TP-Ats Sad Irons -First quality; fiill nickel plated;. 3 irons, handle and stand; $1.25 value; for Room .Mi. Icing, set, r7Qf complete: 1 SPAIN VISITING INUNDATED DISTRICTS. y i y CAY J 3:3v 'KING ALTON 3D OT DPAIN ii j a iryii BRlVIlstQ THROUGH. TL00KD SLYILLE, desert country. From our own coun try has been gathered the water snake, copperheads, and the coral snake from the southern states. The latter is first cousin to the Indian cobra, and Is sometimes called the American cobra. There is also the jararaca. a family of harmless-looking Argentine visitors, which feed on mice and lizards. Be cause of their deadly qualities they are known as the South American lancehead. The gray death adder looks like a harmless blacksnake until it spreads its hood and gets ready for business. A tLEPHONIES SEN t MG OVE,THc StffUT WAS. SIMPLY i Ironing; Tables $1.10 value; but we are making; room, so they are on sale, each Clothe. Wringers Iron frames, $3.00 values; for this sale, C1 QS priced special ?A.0 Wash Boards Guaranteed lor 5 years; brass; regular 60c value; Room Making Sale OAn Price Clothes Baskets Best whole wicker at a saving of 1-3 to 1-2; extra large size sells regular QQr at $1.25; for this sale OJU Large size or $1.00 value CQs is on sale Medium size, 80c value, marked special 59c Small Slewed Baskets, worth 75c, are on ACkg sale One lot of small size Cloth Bas kets, 65c values; for this 1Q Room Making sale JifK, Paints The painting season is here. You will find many cor ners which ought to be brightened up a little to keep In harmony with the spring time which will soon be here In its new dress. Paint at about Half Price. Every can of It is guaranteed. During this Room Making Sale, the 46o quart cans are on 9Q sale AUK, The 25c pint cans are on sale The 15c half-pint cans are on sale One lot of common, not anteed paint, 10c pint cans. Is on sale, per can 16c ..9c guar- 5c nearby case Is th3 home of a pair ol Australian tiger snakes. The green headed tree viper is dainty, and mnvei with grace. It cornea from Colombia and has a long and slender body. J I feeds upon lizards. "We have no apprehension In han dling the deadly snakes," Haid Mr. Dit mars. "They are not always angry or always seeking an opening to strike. Snakes have a much worse name than they deserve. Like animals, the come to know you, and they come to know when you are bringing them a meal." New York Times. A rt

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THE TOPEKA, DAILY STATE JOTJRHAE MAECH 14, 1912 B00STSJANSAS To Properly Treat Obstinite Wrinkles r Vhen shown positive and reliable proof that a certain remedy had cured many cases of female ills, wouldn't any sensible woman conclude that the same remedy would also benefit her if suffering with the same trouble Here are five letters from southern women which prove the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. LETTER FROM VIRGINIA. Ellis ton, Vav I feel it my duty to express my thanks to you and your grreat medicine. I was a sufferer from female troubles and had been con fined in bed over one third of my time for ten months. I could not do my housework and had fainting spells so that my husband could not leave me alone for five minutes at a time. Now I owe, my health to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. Whenever I see a suffering- woman I want to tell her what these medicines hare done for me and I will always speak a good word for them." Mrs. Robeet Bt.axkbubhip, Elliston, Montgomery Co., Va, LETTER FROM LOUISIANA. Kew Orleans. Ia. "I was passing through the Change of Infe and be fore I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I was troubled with hot flashes, weak and dizzy feelings, backache and irregularities. I would get up in the morning feeling tired out and not fit to do anything. Since I have been taking your Compound and Blood Purifier I feel all right. Your medicines are worth their weight in gold." Mrs. Gabtoit BloxdeAU, 1541 Polyrania St., New Orleans, La. LETTER FROM FLORIDA. Wauchula, Fla. Some time ago I wrote to you giving you my symp toms, headache, backache, bearing-down, and discomfort in walking, caused by female troubles. I got two bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and a package of Sanative Wash and that was all I used to make me a well woman. "I am satisfied that if I had done like a good many women, and had not taken your remedies, I would have been a great sufferer. But I started in time with the right medicine and got welL It did not cost very much either. I feel that you are a friend to all women and I would rather use your remedies than have a doctor." Mrs. Mattie Hodnot, Box 406, Wau chula, Florida. LETTER FROM "WEST "VIRGINIA. Martinsburjf W. Va. I am glad to say that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound has done wonders for my mother, daughter and myself. I have told dozens of people about it and my daughter says that when he hears a girl complaining with cramps, she tells her to take your Com pound." Mrs. Mast A. Hockeitbebbt, 713 N. 3rd St., Martinsburg, W. Va. ANOTHER LETTER FROM VIRGINIA. Newport NewsVa. "About five years ago I was troubled with such pains and bloating every month that I would have to go to bed. "A friend told me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I soon found relief. The medicine strengthened me in every way and my doctor approved of my taking it. "I will be glad if my testimony will help some one who is suffering from female weakness." Mrs. W. J. Blayton, 1029 Hampton Ave., Newport News, Va. Why don't you try this reliable remedy? HEADACHY, BILIOUS, CONSTIPATED, TONGUE COATED? CASCARETS SURE Turn the roseate out th headache, the biliousness, the indigestion, the i Blck, sour stomach and foul gases turn them out tonight and keep them out with Caacareta. Ion"t put In another day of distress. Let Cascarets cleanse and rege late your stomach; remove the sour, undigested and fermenting food and that misery-making gas; take the excess bile from your liver and carry off the decomposed waste matter and poison from the Intestines and bowels. Then you will tool great. A Caacarert tonight will straighten you out by morning a 10-cent box means a clear head and cheerfulness for months. Don't forget the children. 10 CCIltS. Never gripe or sicken. "CASCARETS WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP.' I Stops Falling Hair and Destroys Dandruff Makes the Hair Grow Long, Heavy and Luxuriant and We Can Quickly Prove It If You Wish to Double the Beauty of Your Hair at Once, Just Get a 25 Cent Bottle and Try This Surely try a Danderine Hair Cleanse if you wish to immediately double the beauty of your hair with little trouble and at a cost not worth mentioning just moisten a cloth with a little Danderine and draw it carefully through your hair, taking one small strand at a time, this will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or any excessive oil In a few moments you will be amazed. Your hair will be wavy, fluffy and abundant and possess an incomparable softness, lustre and luxuriance, the beauty and shimmer of true hair health. Besides beautifying the hair, one application of Danderine dissolves every particle of Dandruff; cleanses, purifies and invigorates the scalp, forever stopping itching and falling hair. Danderine is to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine are to vegetation. It goes right to the roots, invigorates and strengthens them. It's exhilarating, stimulating and life-producing proper ties cause the hair to grow abundantly long, strong and beautiful. It at once imparts a sparkling bril liancy and velvety softness to the hair, and a few weeks use will cause new. hair to sprout all over the scalp. Use it every day for a short time, after which two or three times a week will be sufficient to complete whatever growth you desire. You can surely have pretty, soft, lustrous hair, and lots of it, if you will just get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter and try it as directed. v i J ,f 4 1 1 w if immd I f M L. EI. PENWELL Undertaker and Embalmer.' BoUl Phones 192. 5OS-S10 Quincy St. ASTINCS Gray Iron, Brass and Aluminum. Castings made to order. Get our prices. The Clipper Windmill Pump Co. dor. 10th and Adams St. Topeka. Judge Thompson of Garden City Tells of State. Democrats to Win Here This Year, He Says. MAY LOSE RIDING SCHOOL Fort Riley Too Far West for It, Officers Say. Vo Interest in Horsemanship in This Section. Washington, March 14. Judge William H. Thompson of Garden City, Kansas, Democratic candidate for the United States senate, who is at the Ebbitt house, is a great advocate of his state, politically and otherwise. He said: "I have lived in Kansas nearly all my life, and if I had had anything to do with it, would have been born there. Kansas raises enough to feed the en tire United States. "We have led all other states in the production of corn wheat and live stock for the last decade. We have 9,000,000 acres of wheat planted this year, which will produce over 100,000,000 bushels. The Arkansas valley where I live is the ir rigated section of the state, and al falfa and sugar beets are raised in great abundance. The Garden City district this year expects to produce over 100,000 tons of beets, which will bring the farmers more than $500,000. Garden City is the principal alfalfa seed shipment point in the United States, seed being shipped out by the carloads all over the world. Plenty of Clark Sentiment. "Besides raising crops, we have plenty of time for politics, and are blessed with every brand known to the political world. The Democrats will carry the state this year, not only be cause they are right in the issues, but are united and the Republicans are hopelessly divided. "We who live together on the great western plains pay little attention to imaginary state lines. We are all friends and neighbors, and work to each other's interest. We are natural ly for Champ Clark for president, be cause, first, he is our friend and neighbor, and answered our call when in need. And also because we believe him to be one of the greatest living Americans, of the plain people, and possessing the ability and practical characteristics of the immortal Lin coln." May I,ose TUdinp; School.' The war department is now consid ering the suggestion that the army school, known as the Mounted Service school, now located at Fort Riley, Kansas, be moved to some place in the east. Several places have been men tioned as suitable for the school, among them Belvoir, Va., near Mount Vernon, and the remount depot at Front Royal, Va., where a large tract of government land is available. Some cavalry officers are desirous that the change be made, believing that it would be in the interest of the army to have the student officers in a section of a country where there is much interest and participation in riding, and where they would be near er the competitions in which it is de sirable to have the army represented. Kansans in Washington: J. T. Con nor, Paola; Benjamin L. Manning, Osage City; L. L. Dyche, Topeka. MOST K. IT. MEN PASS. Only Twenty-Six in 2,000 Fail in Their Examinations. University of Kansas, March 14. A report from Registrar Foster to Chancellor Strong today shows a re markable record of scholarship for University of Kansas students in 1911 1912. Only twenty-six students out of a possible 2,000 failed in their year's work. Of the twenty-six failures, six of these were fraternity men, while twen ty were not members of Greek letter societies. Xot a sorority lost a mem ber during the year by" poor scholar ship. The records show little difference in scholarship between fraternity and non fraternity students. The young wom en in clubs outstripped the non-sorority women, while the non-fraternity men have a trifle the advantage of their Greek classmates, a fraction of 1 per cent. A survey of the "vital statistics" of twenty other universities shows that the average per cent of failures is four times that at Kansas last year. "The excellent showing." says Chancellor Strong, "is due mainly to the fact that the new system worked out by the deans checks up the stu dent's work week by week instead of leaving him tc take his medicine at the end of the semester when the final examinations comt." "Particularly where wrinkles are long i and deep, the massage devotee Is apt to j ruu too nara ana too frequently, says Dr. Limoges. "This loosens the skin, causes muscles to sag, aggravates the wrinkled condition Just the opposite result from that sought. "Better than massage, or anything else, for the most obstinate wrinkles as well as the finest lines, is a formula well known in France, which you may readily avail yourself of, as you will have no difficulty procuring the con stituents from your druggists. It Is this: One ounce powdered saxolite dis solved In one-half pint witch hazel. Bathe face, neck and hands In this. The effect is really marvelous, not only as to wrinkles, but also in cases of baggy cheeks and chin. The application is cooling, soothing, tending to relieve fatigue and Insomnia." INDORSEMENT GIVEN Mrs. A. D. Jones Suffered From Nervous Prostration. Treated With Large Number of Doctors Without Results. TESTED NEW METHOD. Now Feels Like She Has a New Lease on Life. Cheerfully Recommends Method to Those Likewise Affected. Among the hundreds of statements being made in connection with the re markable new tonic, "Tona Vita," none is more interesting than that given out recently by Mrs. A. D. Jones, who resides at No. 1301 Jackson street, Topeka. Mrs. Jones said: "I have been trou bled with nervous prostration, heart trouble, and a terrible run down con dition for some time past. I scarce ly ever got a good night's rest, my vi tality was low, and I suffered intense ly with headaches. "I tried any number of doctors and all seemed to fail to produce any no ticeable improvement, I also tried numerous kinds of medicines without any results. "A short time ago I heard of the good results being accomplished by the new tonic Tona Vita' and decided to give it a trial. While I have only taken one bottle It has surely helped me wonderfully and I intend to keep on using this medicine as 1 feel con fident it will produce a complete cure I gladly recommend the use of 'Tona Vita to any one suffering as 1 was. People who are nervous and irri table, have imperfect digestion, stom ach disorder, lack energy and ambi tion, feel melancholy and discouraged, suffer with headaches, backaches, poor memory, unsound sleep. Irregu lar circulation, pallid complexions, and who are susceptible to coughs and colds, are unquestionably suffering with that modern plague, nervous de bility, say the specialists. "There are thousands of such half sick, men and women in Topeka who really do not know just what is wrong with them," said one of these special ists yesterday morning. "They struggle aimlessly along un til they become totally debilitated and often times they come to us suffering with this dreaded condition in its most aggravated form," continued he. "We have a preparation that will positively remove this trouble and re store the organs of the body to their nealthy, normal condition. The "Tona Vita" specialists are at the Arnold Drug Company, 523 Kan sas Avenue, between the hours of 9 a, m. and 8 p. m., daily during their stay in Topeka. This preparation acts like a true specific in all cases of debility, repair ing all organic weaknesses, whether man or woman, and proves a lasting source of benefit and relief. When buoyant spirits return and depression gives way to cheerfulness, it is hard to recognize some of the former vic tim!!. 'BOYS' HXIt EACH OTHER. Casual Conversation Loads to Discov ery of Identity. Peabody, Kan., March 14. Thomas and William Oilman, brothers, who had not seen each other since they were children forty years ago, met in the Rock Island depot. Sitting in the station waiting for a train they cas ually engaged in conversation about the storm, delayed trains and other matters. Finally William, who is a farmer living in western Nebraska, asked the other his name. When told he replied, "Why, my name is Gil man, and I had a brother named Thomas, but we were separated when he was 8 years old and I was 6." Tears came to the eyes of the mid dle aged man as he grasped William's hand. Then the men compared notes and became satisfied i-hat they were brothers. Thomas Gilman is a New York traveling salesman, and for the past fifteen years has been making Nebraska, where ijliam lives, but each had given up all hopes of meet ing the other. Each brother has a family. They were together between here and Herington, where they were to separate, but arrangements were made before they left Peabody for a family jubilee at William's horn within a month. ASK W I l.SOX'S ENDORSEMENT. K. IT. Wilson Club "Wants Kansas Democrats to Boost Professor. Lawrence, Kan., March 14. The Woodrow Wilson club at the Univer sity of Kansas, which has taken an active part in the Democratic cam paign, held a very enthusiatic meeting here last night. The most important step taken was the drafting of the following petition which was sent to the chairman of the Democratic con vention -which will meet, at Hutchin son today: "Believing that the- success of the Democratic party both in Kansas and the nation depends upon the nomina tion of a man who combines the quali ties of intelligence, progress and re sponsible leadership and who has the power to maKe votes as wn a rcuam them, we, the five hundrefl members of the University of Kansas Wood row Wilson club, respectfully petition the convention to endorse the name of Governor Wilson." There are more than 500 members of the club and regular meetings have been held since September. SANDERS TELLS OF PRINCIPLES Topekan Has Prominent Place In Education Meetings. St. Louis. March 14. Fifteen dif ferent meetings were held as part of the program of the ninth annual con vention of the Religious Education association. The biggest meeting was the second general session, at which the field of religious leadership was reviewed. Frank K. Sanders, president of Washburn college, Topeka, Kan., pre sented the declaration of principles and Francis G. Peabody of Harvard university spoke on "The Church as a Field of Religious Leadership." KEEP FLOWERS AND CABS. "Up to Hoys," Girls Say, in Planning for Junior Prom. Lawrence, Kan.. March 14. The co eds at the University of Kansas just can not give up flowers and cabs. At a meeting of the junior girls of the university held here today the ques tion of a corsage bouquet and a cab for the Junior Prom, which is the big gest society event in university social activities, was discussed and it was Ask Your Doctor AVer's Sarsaparilla is a tonic It does not stimulate. It does not make you feel better one day, then as bad as ever the next There is not a drop of alcohol in it. You have the steady, even gain that comes from a strong tonic. Ask your doctor all about this. Trust him fully. J. O. Aw Co., Hawaii. M Desirable Furniture Esctensive Variety; Great Red uctions Characterize the Greatest March Furniture Sale This Store Has Ever Conducted EP1 I THE success of this March Sale of Furniture which is daily eclipsing all previous records, is due more than anyone thing to the desirableness of pieces from which selections are possible. This is not a round-up of slow sellers, artistically indifferent designs, poorly finished woods marked down at the time when people buy most of their furniture. No indeed, on the contrary its a sale that includes every piece of furniture in our entire stocks (Sectional Bookcases, Bed Springs and Mattresses, upon which there are restricted prices being the only items excepted.) It is simply a semi-annual event when we reap the benefit of increased sales and YOU reap the benefit of the GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. If you have Furniture to buy now or later it will be to your benefit to investigate and see how helpful this sale can be. Just for Example We Mention These REGULAR SALE Wicker Rocking Chairs, natural finish 3.50 8 2.10 Golden Oak Cobbler seat Rockers. 3.25 1.98 Golden Oak Morris Chair velour cushions 12.50 7.50 Golden Oak Library Tables 9.00 5.95 Early English Library Table 18.50 12.95 Golden Oak China Closet 21.50 15.00 Golden Oak Buffet, was 23.50 12.50 One Golden Oak, round Dining Table, was.. 13.50 9.95 Golden Oak Dining Chairs, were 2.00 1.43 Early English China Closet, was 35.00 19. 50 Early English Buffet, was 13.50 9.98 Early English, square Dining Table, was 16.50 12.50 Early English, leather seat Dining Chairs, were 3.75 1.95 Golden Oak Combination China Closet and Buffet 40.00 25.00 White Iron Bed; full size. A special value at 1.50 Vernis Martin Bed full size, was 15.00 8.95 Golden Oak Chiffonieres, were 8.50 5.49 Golden Oak Dresses, were 11.50 7.45 Pillows, filled with curled hen feathers 1.50 .95 Cotton Felt Mattress; best value ever offered at 4.95 Mission Tabourets Well made, solid oak Tabourets, Mission finish; splendid for porch or indoor use. Regular 50c value; just 60 of them Ctfif, to offer as long as they last at each. Oak Foot Stools Solid Oak Foot Stools; very substan tially constructed; tops covered with green eilk plush, genuine and im- '7t5 itation leather, J1.50 values for... OC We Refund Railroad Fare Either Whole or in Part to Out-of-Town Customers According to Amount Purchased i -v J YOU DO NOT NEED a large sum of money to start savins with us, simply the DESIRE AND AMBITION to mak the start. Call or send for booklet. Assets $l,C0O,0O. Capitol Building Loan Association 534 Kansas Ave. Repels Attack of Death. "Five years ago two doctors told me I had only two years to live. This start ling statement was made by Stillman Green, Malachite, Col. 'They told me I would die with consumption. It was up to me then to try the best lung med icine and I began to use Dr. King's New Discovery. It was well I did, for today I am working and believe I owe my life to this great throat and lung cure that has cheated the grave of another victim." Its folly to suffer with coughs, colds or other throat and lung troubles now. Take the cure that's safest. Price 50 cents and $1.00. Trial bottle free at Campbell Drug Co. decided to leave the problem to the boys. Last year the girls decided not to accept flowers or ride in cabs. SXOW BLOCKADE IS SERIOUS. Western Towns Cut Off by Mountains of Snow. Hill City, Kan., March 14. At no time in the recent blockade has the situation along the Lincoln branch ben so serious as it is now. The storm blocked a passenger train and snow plow at Hoxie and Colby and a freight train was completely buried in a cut near Colby. Men employed to dig freight out were compelled to dig down from the top to find it. The plow is trying to break through to Oakley tonight and if it succeeds it will come back and try to clear the track from the west. Hill City is in need of supplies of coal, grocer ies ajid feed for stock instead of flour and sugar that was so badly needed. One grocery received a barrel of" floor oil and a consignment of glass turn- CUTICURA 0!, HEALED BAD SORE Scraped Flesh Off Bone Below Knee. Suffered So Sh Couldn't Sleep. Also Says: "I Bdieve Cuticura Soap is tlte Best Soap Made." 805 Lafayette St., Wichita, Kan. Soma tim age I waa coming up some atepa wbsn the board crushed under me like an egg shell. and my nght limb went through to the knee and scraped the flesh off the bone just inaide and below the knee. I neglected it for a day or two, then it began te hurt me pretty badly. I put balsam fir on to draw out the poison, but when I had used it a week, it hurt 'so badly that I changed to ointment. That made it smart and burn so badly that I could not use it any more, and that was the fourth week after I was hurt. "Then I began to use Cuticura Ointment for the sore. It stopped hurting immediately and began healing right away. It was a bad looking sore before Cuticura Ointment healed It. and I suffered so I couldn't sleep from two days after I fell until I began using Cuticura Ointment. "Cuticura Soap is the best soap I ever aw. I have used all kinds of soap for wash ing my face, and always it would leave my face smarting. I had to keep a lotion to atop the smart, no matter how expensive a soap I used. I find at last in Cuticura Soap a seap that will clean my face and leave no smarting, and I do not have to use any lotion or anything else to ease it. I believe Cuticura Heap is the best soap made." (Signed) Mrs. M. E. Fairchiid, May 8, 1911. Cuticura Soap (2Sc.) and Cuticura Oint-. Bent (50c.) are sold by druggists and dealers everywhere. A single set is often sufficient. Liberal sample of each matted free, with 33-p. book on skin and sealp treatment. Address, Cuticura," Dept. T. Boston. Tender-faced men should use Cuticura Soap Shaving Stick. WE TRUST YOU As We Have Trusted All the lest! A DIAMOND or a fine Elgin Watch is your best introduction. They are a Rood investment and In a quiet, subtle way, lend to you m refined pree tige that can be gained in no other way. The Harris-Goar Easy Payment Plan is the safe and economfcal way adopted by thrifty buyers la all parts of the country. Wo Sell Your rrienis. We should sell you. Send for our bis; Freo Catalog or see oar Topeka representative, MR. R.B. MARLING, at 11 Kansas Ave.. 2nd floor, or if you wish him to call, phone him at 1126 Indp. You will find Mr. Marling a quiet, reliable, sensible young man, always clad to accommo date you in any way possible. HARRIS -CO API JEWELRY CO Kansas City, Mo. biers Sunday when the special relief train came through. There is no more coal on the market and the When nothing else will start dirt You KNOW SAPOLIO WILL DO IT Works Without Waste CLEANS-SCOURS-POLISHES school will be stopped soon If mors cannot be shipped. The weather threatens more snow.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MARCH 14, 1912 GOOD WINGS JO EAT Some Specials for Friday and Saturday A suggestion from the woman who puts in twelve out of twenty-four hours fixing something delightful to eat. "A woman's work is reduced materially by the use of good, clean, wholesome products in preparing the family food"- svtafe 3 v ins wilt; vvuru 'iJWJ 11 SURE J sums up the advan- sNv v tages of ordering i f 1 it is tne Joest creamery fl Butter Made 0 f Makes No Difference Where You Live West Side East Side North Side South End I You can find a grocer who is i willing to sell you this loaf II The yfk V Taste ft Made Clean Baked Clean Sold Clean We put the best of everything we use into COLLEGE HILL BREAD College Hill Bakery G. L. JORDAN, Proprietor. PASSED OUT ORANGES One Man Among; the Commission Men Knows He Has Good Fruit. Spent a couple of hours this morn ing among the provision men down in the wholesale district on Kansas ave nue in search of something- good to eat and write about. None of dealers had anything spec ial or extra fancy that they care to give publicity until W. O. Anderson was reached. "What's good to eat W. O.?" asked the reporter. For reply Billy just passed out a couple of PURE GOLD ORAXGES about 150 size and in cred it to the oranges and Anderson it must be said those Pure Gold's were the sweetest, juiciest, best flavored oranges this individual has eaten this winter or any time for that matter. They were free from effects of frost, have reasonably thin skin and the meat is of exceptional texture. For the benefit of those whose mouths are watering for such fruit the wrap per in which this orange is wrapped is reproduced below. That will help some when you ask your grocer for oranges. Anderson says he is in a position to supply the grocers with Pure Gold Oranges in any size desired. VC Sold i wt npnPVAf1 n.11 ii --s I II COLLLGE HILL BREAD I A WWH II V y or extra fancy that they care to I All Grocers kSk H V eive publicity until W. O. Anderson You're sure of its quality- Sure of its flavor r Sure of its cleanliness and freshness MEADOW GOLD BUTTER is churned from pure pasteurized cream and is market ed only in our patented sealed, odor-proof and dust-proof package which insures the delivery of its goodness to you. Your Grocer Sells MEADOW GOLD The Continental Creamery Co, Topeka, Kansas If I was a woman and cooked all day, I'd love the man who would take me away From the kitchen and pantry, the pots and the range, And treat me to cooking that is clean and a change. That's right I Take her to BURT'S CAFE 107 East Eighth Street 107 Need Ma v whenever you must have a smooth, creamy dressing for a dainty salad whenever you have to prepare a salad hurriedly; whenever you haven't the time to take chances on an experiment then you should have handy a bottle of Otto Kuehne's "Silver Leaf Brand All Grocers Have It No, Good Butter Doesn't go as far as poor butter But it's because it's better and you eat more. It's deliciouness that counts, not distance. If you haven't tried Gilt Edge Butter ask for a trial pound today. Your grocer keeps it. Topeka. Pure Milk Co. Quality is Wolff's Hobby There's just this about it Animals must be closely in spected, carefully slaughtered, scientifically dressed, cleaned and packed to insure the best meats THIS IS WOLFF'S WAY. You secure the choicest BANQUET BREAKFAST BA CON, O. K. LARD, BANQUET HAMS, DRESSED BEEF and all other meat products. Now the Way to Be Sure of Securing the BEST Is to Specify WOLFF'S You're getting them then, Kansas stock, Kansas fed, dress ed and prepared in a Topeka packing plant, where Topeka men, skiled in curing and caring for meats, have been working and studying years to develop and maintain the QUALITY OF WOLFF'S PRODUCTS the best. Chas. Wolff Packing Co. Topeka "Products Properly Prepared" IF YOUR PRESENT Grocer is not giving satisfac tion, send us your next order. We aim to please, we aim to give you the worth of your money. What more could you ask? Call us up on either phone 168..' BERGER CO. ("We treat you right.") 431 Kan. Aye. 31 Kan. Ave. d D: FSS1F! The Dressing Without Olive Oil Give the Ladies a Chance with The BEST IT'S ECONOMY Here's the Best Grocery Offer We Have Made a 'recently and we want' you to consider it item by item ana re ceive your next order, if you think favorably of it. We receive pure granulated cane sugar right from Louisi ana in 25-lb. sacks. With a $5 order of other groceries we will let you have this 25-lb. sack of sugar for $1.25 VS. Wr't vr. W0 IN UKtriANA f.-tS LB5.NET t Special For Friday and Saturday Fresh Pork Shoulders, lb 7Jc Fresh Side Pork, lb llo Hams, "Wolff's Sunflower Brand," lb 13c Dry Salt Pork, lb c Steaks cut from young cornfed cattle, Sirloin, 18c; Por terhouse .20c Steaks cut from medium quality beef. Sirloin and Por terhouse 13n Sliouldep Steaks, out from fancy young: cattle, lb.. 9c Rib I oasts of Beef, the quality kind, lb lie Iaf Lard, unrendered, lb 1 1 n Pure Lard, choice rendered. Ib. loo Breakfast Bacon, good quality, lb. 12 Ho GROCERIES Hand picked Navy Beans, 4 lb ..25c Soda Crackers, fancy qual ity, about 20 lbs. to the box, per box $1.25 American Eagle Flour, un questionably the best flour on the market, ev ery sack guaranteed, $1.50 Buy Oatflake in the bulk, clean, fine gTain and you will find it much more economical, 6 lbs for. .25c Nectar Corn Syrup, No. 10 pall 35c Small sized Prunes, meaty fruit, 3 lbs 25c Lee's Java Mocha Coffee, lb 40c Rio Coffee, fresh roasted, lb 22c Salmon, Punch brand, can 25c Yes, we know the price is high but we can't help that, the supply is short, the goods, however, are the best quality. Savoy Coffee the Best that 'J 7! BRAND 1 H M. I I Money 1 Can Buy COFFEt lb. 40c Imported cans Oil Sardines, 2 250 Knglish Walnuts, quality first class, 2 lbs 35c Gilt Edge Butter, as good as any made anywhere Slo Pepper, pure and fresh ground, lb., bulk 20c FRUITS CXSTiED S. B. S. Brand Blackber ries, ripe fruit. No. 10 can 65c Gooseberries, S.B.S. brand, fine selected fruit, pack ed in heavy Juice, deli ciously fresh 80c Apricots, No. 10 cans, that is can contains about 1 gal. 45c Blackberries in heavy syr up, almost preserves. White House brand. No. 2 can 25c Pineapple, F. F. O. G. brand, this is delicately flavored fruit, syrup is heavy and rich, No. 2 can i 20c FRESH Nice fresh yellow Bananas, doz 15c Gano Apples, the finest fruit we can secure, pk. 85c Jonathan Apples, these will soon be gone, not many left in Topeka, pk 75c Oranges, Navels, sml. size, doz 9c Grape Fruit, nice size, ea. 9c Oranges, Navels, fair size, 14 oranges, actual count, no guess work about It 18o 20 pounds SUGAR $1 Best Cane Granulated, where you leave an order amounting to 15. Both Phones 660. Southeast Corner 6th and Jackson. IraserBrq TV f.U.MA.UH J r ""J 1

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10 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAIi MARCH- 14, 1912 MH'SOWN The Explorer and Four Companions With Fifty two Dogs Climb Over Ice Mountains to the'. Pole. New Range of Mountains Located. BY ROALO AMUNDSEN. Copyright, 1912, by the Nsw York Time Company. IA11 rights reserved. ITTT OBABT, Tasmania, March 8, 11 20 a, m. On the 10th of February, 1911. we commenc ed to work our way toward the south, from that day to the 11th f April establishing three depots, which la all contained a quantity of provisions of about 3,000 kilos. One jtbocsand Biz hundred kilos, Including 1.100 kilos of seal meat, were cached In 80 degrees, TOO kilos In 81 degrees land 800 kilos la 82 degrees south lati Irude. As no landmarks were to be seen, these depots were marked with flags Keren kilometers on each side .In the jeasterly and westerly directions. The ground and the state of the bar tier were of the best and specially well kdapted to driving with dogs. On Feb. X5 we had thus traveled about a hun dred kilometers. The weight of the pledges was 300 kilos, and the number (bC dogs was six for each sledge. The Captain Roald Amundsen, First Man to Reach the South Pole. i Tf -Hill I f -'.X v- c v!FillM- m i' il Photo by American Free Association. Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the south pole, is a bachelor, forty yeare eld, and a native of Norway. His first taste of exploration was in 1897, when he sailed as first officer of Gerlach's Belgian south polar expe dition. He is the first man to accomplish the long attempted feat of tak ing a ship from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean by way of the Northwest passage. This he accomplished in 1903 and 1905. surface of the barrier was smooth and Bne, with no sastrugL The crevices were very local and were found dan gerous la only two places. For the rest long, smooth undulations. The weather was excellent calm or a light breeze. The lowest temperature on these depot trips was minus 45 Cel sius or centigrade (49 degrees below sero F.). On the 4th of March, on our return .from the first trip beginning on ths 15th of February, we found out that the Fram had already left us. Wtth pride and daHght we beard that her smart captain bad succeeded in sailing her farthest south and there hoisting the colors of his country. A glorious moment for him and his com radesthe farthest north and the far-thflCt-Boath gocd old Fr&m,- The high- STOHY OF-BIS.S00ffl.ra il ft 3' i "GOOD OLD FRAM1" est south latitude attained was 78 de grees 41 minutes. Before the arrival of winter we had 6,000 kilos of seal meat in the depots, enough for ourselves and 110 dogs. Eight dog houses, a combination of tents and snow huts were built. Winter on the Ice Barrier. Having cared for the dogs, the turn came to use our solid little hut It was almost entirely covered with snow by the middle of 'April. First we had to get light and air. The Lux lamp, which had a power of 200 standard candles, gave us a brilliant light and kept the temperature up to 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees F.) throughout the winter, and our excellent ventilation system gave us all the air we wanted. In direct communication with the hut and dugout on the barrier were workshops, packing rooms, cellars for provisions, coal, wood and oil, a plain bath, a steam bath and observatories. Thus we had everything within doors if the weather should be too cold and stormy. The sun left us on the 23d of April and did not return until four months later. The winter was spent m chang ing our whole outfit, which on the de pot trips was found to be too clumsy and solid for the smooth surface of the barrier. Besides this, as much t III The Pole Surrounded by a k Vast Plateau Named In King Haakon's Honor. Three Days Spent at Point Farthest South. "Devil's Dancing Room." scientific work as possible was done, and some astonishing meteorological observations were taken. Open Water All Winter. There was very little snow, and there was open water close by through out the winter. For the same reason higher temperature had been expected, but it remained very low. In five months there were observed temperatures between minus 50 and 60 degrees Celsius (58 and 76 degrees below zero F.), the lowest tempera ture, on the 13th of August, being minus 59 degrees Celsius. It was then calm. On Aug. 1 the temperature was minus 58 degrees Celsius, and there were six meters of wind. The mean temperature for the year was minus 28 degrees Celsius (14.8 below zero F.). I had expected hurricane after hur ricane, but I observed only two mod erate storms and many excellent auro ra australis in all directions. The sanitary conditions were of the best all the winter, and when the sun returned on Aug. 24 we met the men sound in mind and body, ready to set about the task that had to be solved. Already, the day before, we had brought our sledges to the starting place for our march toward the south. Only in the beginning of September did the temperature rise to such an extent that there was any question of setting out. First Start For the Pole. On Sept 8 eight men, with seveu sledges, ninety dogs and provisions for four months, started. The ground was perfect. The temperature was not bad. The next day it appeared that we had started too early, as the temperature of the following days fell and was kept steady between minus 50 and 60 Cel sius (58 degrees and 76 degrees below zero F.). Personally, we did not suf fer at all from this cold. Our good furs protected us. But with our dogs it was a different matter. It would easily be seen that they shrunk from day to day, and we understood pretty soon that they could not stand the long run to our depot at 80 degrees south. We agreed on returning and to wait for the arrival of spring. The provi sions were cached, and off we went for the hut. With the exception of the loss of a few dogs and a couple of froien heels everything was all right. Only in the middle of October spring came In earnest. Seals and birds ap peared. The temperature was steady between 20 and 30 Celsius (68 degrees and 86 degrees F.). The original plan that all of us should go toward the south had been changed. Five men had to do this work, while j the other three were to start for the east and visit King Edward VII. land. I This last mentioned trip was not in eluded in our program, but owing to the fact thnt the English had not reach ed it at least this summer, as was their intention, we agreed that the best thing to do was also to make this trip. On Oct. 20 the southern party started five men, four sledges, fifty-two dogs and provisions for four months every thing in excellent order. The Jonrney to the Pole. We had made up our minds to take the first part of the trip as easily as possible in order to give ourselves and the dogs a rational training, and on the 23d we made our depot in 80 de grees south. We went right ahead. In spite of the dense fog an error of two to three kilometers happened once in awhile, and we were caught by the flag marks and found these on our way without difficulty. Having rested and fed the dogs on all the seal meat they were able to eat, we started again on the 26th, with the temperature steadily between minus 20 and 30 Celsius (4 degrees and 22 de grees below zero F.). From the start it was the Intention not to drive more than thirty kilo meters a day, but it appeared that this was too little for our strong, willing animals. At 80 degrees south we began to buDd snow cairns of a man's height, in order to have marks on our return trip. On the 31st we reached the depot at 81 degrees and stopped there one day and fed the dogs on as much pem miean as they wanted. We reached the depot at 82 degrees on the 5th of November, where the dogs for the last time got all they wanted to at. On the 8th, southward again, with a dally march of 50 kilometers. In order to lighten our heavy sledges we established depots at each degree of south latitnjde. like a Pleasure Trip. The trip from 82 degrees to 85 de grees became a pleasure trip excellent ground, fine sledging and an even temperature. Everything went like a dance. On the 9th we 6lghted South' Vic toria land and the continuation of the mountain range which Sir Ernest Shackleton mentioned in his chart as running toward the southeast from the Beardmore glacier, and on the same day we reached 83 degrees and estab lished here depot Ko. 4. On tha 11th we made the Interesting discovery that the Ross barrier terminated in a bight toward the southeast at 86 degrees south latitude and 163 degrees west longitude, formed between the south east mountain range running from South Victoria .land and a range on the opposite side running in a south westerly direction probably a continu ation of King Edward VII. land. On the 13th we reached 84 degrees, where we established a depot; on the 16th we were at 85 degrees, where also we made a depot From our winter quarters, "Fram- heim," 78 degrees 38 minutes south lat Itnde, we had been marching due south. On the 17th of November, at 85 degrees, we arrived at a place where the land and barrier were connected. This was done without any great dif ficulty. The barrier here rises in un dulations to about 300 feet Some few big crevices indicated the limited boundary. Here we made our head depot, tak lng provisions for sixty days on sledges and leaving thirty days' pro visions on the spot A Difficult Climb. The land under which we lay and which we now had to attack looked quite Imposing. The nearest summits along the barrier had a height of from 2,000 to 10.000 feet, but several others further south were 15,000 feet or more. The next day we began the climb. The first part of It was an easy task- light stops and well filled mountain sides. It did not take a long time, for our willing dogs worked their way up. Further up we met with some small but very steep glaciers. Here we had to harness twenty dogs to each sledge and take the four sledges In two turns, In some places It was so steep that it was difficult enough to use our skis. Some big crevices forced U3 from time to time to make detours. The first day we climbed 2,000 feet, the next day mostly up some small glaciers, camping at a height of 4,500 feet. The third day we were obliged to go down on a mighty glacier, "Axel Heiberg's glacier," which divided the coast mountains and the mountains further south. The next day began the longest part of our climb. Many detours had to be made in order to avoid broad cracks and open crevices. These were appar ently mostly filled up, as the glaciers In all probability had long ago stopped moving, but we had to be very care ful, never knowing for certain how thick was the layer that covered them. Our camp that night lay In very pic turesque surroundings at a height of 5,000 feet The glacier here was nar rowed in between the two 15,000 feet high mountains, the "Fridtjof Nansen" and the "Don Pedro Christophersen." From the bottom of the glacier rose Mount "Ole Englstad," a big snow cone 13,500 feet high. Day's Splendid Work. The glacier was very much broken In this comparatively narrow pass. The mighty crevices seemed to stop ns from going farther, but it was not so serious as it appeared. Our dogs, which up to this time had covered a distance of about 700 kilometers, the last day's Pboto by American Press Association. CAPTAIN KOBEI'.T N. SCOTT, AMTTNDSBR'S BRITISH RIVAL. very hard work, ran this day thirty five kilometers, the ascent being -5,600 feet, an almost Incredible record. It took us only four days from the barrier to get up on the vast inland plateau. We camped that night at a height of 10,600 feet Here we had to kill twenty-four of our brave companions and keep eighteen, six for each of onr three sledges. We stopped here four days on ac count of bad weather. Tired of this, we set out on the 28th of November. On the 26th, in a furious bliizard and In a dense snowdrift, absolutely noth- is to be at the pole on Dec. 14 in the aft ernoon. The Pole Attained. That day was a beautiful one a light breeze from southeast the temperature minus 28 Celsius (9.4 degrees below zero F.), and the ground and sledging; were perfect The day went along as usual, and at 3 p. m. we made a halt According to our reckoning, we had reached our destination. All of us gathered around the coVors a beauti ful silk flag all hands taking bold of it and planting It. The vast plateau on which the pole Is standing got the name of the "King Haakon VII. plateau." It Is a vast plain, alike In all directions. Mile aft er mile during the night we circled around the camp. In the fine weather we spent the fol lowing day taking a series of observa tions from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. The re sult gave us 89 degrees 55 minutes. In order to observe the pole as close as possible we traveled as near south map SHOWING AMTJin) SEN'S 86.21 degrees south latitude. The hyp someter indicated 8,000 feet above sea level. A Splendid Mountain View. On Nov. 30 we began to climb the glacier. The lower part of it was very much broken and dangerous. More over, the snow bridges very often burst From our camp that night we had a splendid view over the mountain to the east There was "Helmar Han sen's summit' the most remarkable of them all. It was 12,000 feet high and covered with such broken glaciers that in all probability no foothold was to be found. "Oscar Wistmg's" Sverre Hassel's" and "Olav Hjan land's" mountains also lay here, beau tifully Illuminated in the rays of the bright sun. In the distance, and only alternately to be viewed in the fog, appeared from time to time "Mount Nielsen," with its summits and peaks about 15,000 feet high. We only saw the nearest sur roundings. It took us three days to surmount the Devil's glacier, always in misty weather. On the 1st of December we left this broken glacier,, with holes and crevices without number, with Its height of 9,100 feet Before us, looking In the mist and snowdrift like a frosen sea, appeared a light, sloping ice plateau filled with small hummocks. The walk over this frozen sea was not pleasant The ground under us was quite hollow, and it sounded as though we were walking on the bottoms of empty barrels. As it was, a man fell through, then a couple of dogs. We could not use our skis on this pol ished ice. Sledges had the best of It. The place got the name the "Devil's Dancing Room." This part of our march was the most unpleasant On Dec. 6 we got our greatest height, ac cording to the hypsometer and ane roid, 10,750 feet, at 87 degrees 40 min utes south. On Dec 8 we came out of the bad weather. Once again the sun smiled down on us. Once again we could get an observation. Dead reckoning and observation were exactly alike 88 de grees 88 minutes 16.6 seconds south. Before us lay an absolutely plain plateau, only here and there marked with a tiny sastrugL In the afternoon we passed 88 de grees 23 minutes (Shackleton's farthest south was 88 degrees 25 minutes). We camped and established our last depot, depot No. 10. From 80 degrees 25 min utes the plateau began to slope down very gently and smoothly toward the other side. On the 9th of December we reached 83 degrees 39 minutes; on Dec. 10, 88 degrees 56 minutes; Dec. 11, 89 degrees 15 minutes; Dec. 12, 89 degrees 30 min utes; Dec. 13, 89 degrees 45 minutes. Up to this time the observations and dead reckoning agreed remarkably well and we made out that we ought i tug was to be seen, but we felt that, contrary to expectations, we were go ing fast down hill. The hypsometer gave us that day a descent of 600 feet. We continued our march the next day to a gale, and a dense snowdrift got our faces badly frosen. 'We could see nothing. We reached that day 86 degrees, dead reckoning. The hyp someter Indicated a fall of 800 feet The next day was similar. The weather cleared a little et dinner time and exposed to our view a mighty mountain range to the cast and not far off only for a moment, and then it dis appeared In the dense snowdrift On the 29th it calmed down and the nn shone, though It was not the only pleasant surprise he gave. In our course stretched a big glacier running toward the south. At Its eastern end was the mountain range going In a southeasterly direction. Of the west ern part of It no view was to be had, it being hidden In the dense fog. At the foot of this glacier, the Devil's glacier, a depot for six days was established, at ROUTE TO THE SOUTH POLE. as possible the remaining nine kilome ters. On Dec. 16 there we camped. It was an excellent opportunity. There was a brilliant sun. Four of us took obser vations every hour of the day's twen ty-four hours. The exact result will be the matter ef a professional private report This much is certain that we ob served the pole as close as it is In hu man power to do It with the Instru ments we had, a sextant and an artifi cial horizon. On Dec. 17 everything was in order en the spot We fastened to the ground a little tent we had brought along, a Norwegian flag and the Fram pendant on the top of it The Norwegian home at the south pole was called "Polhelm." The distance from our winter quar ters to the pole was about 1,400 kilo meters. The average march a day was twenty-five kilometers. The "Return Jonrney. We started on the return trip on the 17th of December. Unusually favor able weather made onr way home corn side rably easier than the journey to the pole. We arrived at our winter quarters, "Framhelm," on the 25th of January, 1912, witn two sieages ana eleven dogs, all well. The dally average speed on the re turn trip was thirty-six kilometers. The lowest temperature was minus 31 Celsius (23.8 degrees below zero T. the highest minus S Celsius (23 degrees above zero F.). Among the results are the determina tion of the extent and character of the Boss barrier and the discovery of the connection of South Victoria land and probably King Edward VII. land, with their continuation in the mighty moun tains running toward the southeast, which were observed as far as 88 de grees south, but which in all probabil ity continue across the antarctic conti nent The entire length of the newly dis covered mountains is about 850 kilo meters. They have been named "Queen Maud's range." The expedition to King Edward VIL land, under the command of Lieuten ant Prestud. has given excellent re sults. Scott's discoveries have been confirmed, and the survey of the Bay of Whales and of the barrier dome by the Prestud party are of great Interest A good geological collection from King Edward VII. and South Victoria land is being brought home. The Fram arrived at the Bay of Whales on the 9th of January. She bad been delayed by the "Roaring Forties" on account of the easterly winds. On Jan. 16 the Japanese expedition arrived at the Bay of Whales and land ed on the barrier near our winter quar ters. We left the Bay of Whales on Jan. 30. It was a long voyage, with contrary winds. All are welL ROALD AMUNDSEN. Famous "Pint of Cough Syrup" Receipt "So Better Kesaear at Asy Price. Fally Guaranteed. Make a plain syrup by mixing one pint of granulated sugar and pint oi warm water and stir for two minutes. Put 2a ounces of pure Pinex (fiitj cents' worth) in a pint bottle, and fill it up with the Sugar Syrup. This givoi you a family supplv of the best cough syrup at a saving of" $2. It never spoils. Take a teaspooniul every one, two oi three hours. The effectiveness of this simple remedj is surprising. It seems to take hold in stantly, and will usually stop the mosl obstinate cough in 24 hours. 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Advice in confidence. Cookinham Md. Hours 9 to 11 0 to 5. 7 to Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Thursday, ITiday And Upward 0 Bargains tor r rid ay ti St. Patrick Buttons Free Saturday 1912. say in regard to the matter and any edi torial comment by the Clarion would be superfluous. Hod Peters' youngest kid planted some bird seed last fall and expects to raise a flock of canaries this coming season. Hank Purdy says it seems durn strange that althoug-hi congress keeps adding more states, the map of this country don't get no bigger. Dipped From tile Stream. A Missouri man has been lodged in jail for hitting his wife with a pound of but ter. It would seem as though our mil lionaires would find something better to do. Mr. LaFollette says he is not a stalking horse, a balking horse or a dark horse. As he is neither a clothes horse or a saw horse, what kind of a horse is he? Now that the first robin has been vouched for by several more or less truthful persons, it seems almost time for the first home-grown strawberry. A Detroit woman is the mother of twenty-four children. Even if he must remain silent on all other subjects, T. R. ought to be able to say a few words about her. It is claimed that a perfectly honest man has been found in Chicago. But the dispatches do not state that he Is a resi dent there. A bomb has been thrown at Premier juan Shi Kai of China. But the Mc Kamara brothers can prove an alibi this time. Tf Mr. Morgan brings the sphinx back with him. an appropriate place to put the esteemed lady would be Oyster Bay. A Wyoming young woman killed a coyote with a stone. What a militant suffraget that girl would make. Luther Burbank has produced a seed less lemon. No circus should be without one of these. Turkey's new naval appropriation should be called a sinking fund. "I had to let that new maid go. I dis covered that she was neglecting the chil dren when I was attending my club meet ings." "That so?" "Yes. Positively, she couldn't think less of them if they were her own." Detroit Free Press. Hobbs (to prospective chauffeur) Under no circumstances must you run over twenty miles an hour. The Chauffeur You don't want an auto: you want a man to take you out in a baby carriage. Life. Everybody read the State Journal. f "vl L iLr-i3 J J FRTLT"ERICK DU013 Three Democrat presidential boost respective candidates, are rcoDeri u. up headquarters in the interests of Ja the national headquarters of Osoar U from Idaho, who is in charge of the Republican fight has settled down to of prominent men of whom the above TALK FOR SUFFRAGE. Speakers at Manhattan Urge Right to Vote. Three prominent speakers who recently made addresses before the students and faculty of the State Ag ricultural college, Manhattan, have spoken strongly in favor of votes for women. Elbert Hubbard, in his ad dress, "The March of the Century," gave special emphasis to the justice and the need of the enfranchisement of women. Mrs. Cora W. Bullard, president of the First District Suf frage league, was lately invited to speak to the students during the chapel hour, and made equal suf frage the subject or tier address. x Governor St. John later made an ad dress on the same subject, reiterat ing his prophecy that the amend ment would carry by a majority of 40,000. Mrs. E. H. Bowen is taking a poll of the voters of Riley county and finds among the professional and business men of Manhattan that 80 per cent are in favor of the amend ment and will vote for it, and the remaining 20 per cent are divided among the indifferent and those op posed. Mrs. Catherine Hoffman, state chairman of press work, has en gaged Mrs. A. C. Zehner for one week's work in Dickinson county as a speaker. Miss Helen Eacher, state secretary, was called to Abilene to assist her. She and Mrs. Zehner ad dressed meetings of the Columbian club at the Commercial club rooms and at the church. Later the work ers had a conference, and calls were made on the newspaper people. The county had previously been organ ized, but the meetings added enthu siasm for the work. The representative people of Man hattan are planning to have the greatest woman's gathering March 20 that has ever been held in the Fifth district. They will have a meet ing at the college to interest the stu dents, numbering 2,000 men and women, followed by a luncheon and speeches. The luncheon will be at tended by prominent women from all over the state, representing the interests of the home, church, club, business and society circles. The work of Mrs. Charles Park of Bos ton, who is being sent to Kansas by the College Equal Suffrage league, will be combined with these meetings. Mrs. Matie Kimball, president of the Fifth district, will have charge. Dr. Helen Brewster Owen of Ith aca, N. Y., is now organizing suf frage leagues in the Fourth district. A picture of Susan B. 'Anthony has been received at headquarters, a gift from the Hon. D. R. Anthony of Washington, D. C. EXCISE BILL REPORTED Chairman Underwood Submits Kew Tax Jleasure With" Explanations. Washington, March 14. Maintain ing the constitutionality of the pro posed excise tax bill, extending pro visions of the corporation tax law to individuals and co-partnerships sub mitted as a revenue measure to re place customs duties on sugar. Repre sentative Underwood; chairman ways and means committee, made a report to the house today urging the passage of the bill. After arguing the consti tutionality of the proposed law, pro claiming It in absolute conformity with supreme court decisions relating to the income tax, the report explains the provisions and scope of the meas ure as it would affect individuals. "While the bill," says the report, embodies a new application of taxes. it carries all the modern philosophy of taxation. It proposes to oblige the citizen to contribute annually a fair and just portion of his net gains to the maintenance of the government. As already stated this bill, if enacted into law, will accomplish in the main all the purposes of a general income tax law and at the same time escape the disapproval of the supreme court, as it keeps well within the principle laid down by that court in sustaining the constitutionality of the corpora tion tax law. i "To illustrate the equitable adjust ment of the excise tax recommended a person having an income of less than S5.000 per year would pay nothing, while a person whose business earns $10,000 net would pay no tax on the first $5,000 and on the second $5,000 would pay only $50 a year." Continuing, the report asserts that the burden of our present indirect taxation falls upon people having In comes of less than $2,000. The report calls the proposed bill a combination of the excise tax of 1S9S and the corporation tax law of -909. both of which "have been held valid in all respects by the supreme court." DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL BOOSTERS. i 1 1 i i iii ii pKt- lin v"Ro:ErR.T D. GORixa ers. who are workine night and day Gordon, former congressman from the Fourth district of Ohio, who has taken dson Harmon; Senator J. H. Bankhead, of Alabama, who is in charge of nderwood boomers, and Frederick DuBois. former United States senator national campaign headquarters of the Champ Clark boomers. While the two candidates, Taft and Roosevelt, the Democrat field is open to a host three national representatives are only a small part. TRAIN CHANGES TRACK Jumps From Grand Island to Burling ton at Troy. Troy, Kan., March 14. The strange spectacle of a railway train jumping from one track to that of another system was seen here when two Grand Island loco motives and a way car, "dead-heading" to Hanover from St. Joseph jumped from the Grand Island track at Troy Junction to the track of the Burlington railway. There is a simple crossing frog at the junction but no switches, so the two loco motives were detoured to Atchison and back to St. Joseph on the Burlington and Missouri Pacific tracks. The way car was torn from its truck in making the jump at Troy Junction but was easily remount ed and was not seriously damaged. The crossing of the two roads makes an acute angle into which westbound Grand Island trains run, but the queer accident is the first of its kind ever experienced at the crossing. The front locomotive jumped from the Grand Island track and pulled the second with it. The two loco motives jumped squarely upon the other track. WHOLE A KM IKS WILL FXiY. Hudson Maxim spoke at the Hudson Theater yesterday under the auspices of the League for Political Education on aviation in peace and war. He said that the light, swift aeroplane carrying two men will play a great part in scout ing and strong, staunch machines car rying six men with arms and explosives will be wonderfully effective as raiders. "An army of 100,00ft men could readily be transported several hundred miles in a day by means of 20.000 aeroplanes," he said. "Easily could such a fleet fly from the -continent to London." Such transportation would not cost anything like as many lives as oversea transpor tation, Mr. Maxim thought. The speaker pictured how an army o? 100.000 aerial Canadian raiders could fly over the boundary line in the event of a war with Great Britain, capture Buf falo and move on to Cleveland before we could touch them if not supplied with aeroplanes. In the next great war in this country the whole land will thus be on the firing line, he said. "There is a wide popular misconcep tion about the possible destructiveness of dynamite bombs dropped from aero planes." said Mr. Maxim. "Dynamite Canthrox Makes Lovely Hair Mrs. Mae Martyn, the prominent au thority on beauty topics, says: "At present beauty seekers are per haps most concerned about their hair. Increasing baldness among women, pre ceded by thinning locks and falling hair, is largely responsible for this un usual interest. The biggest mistake so many women make is in washing their hair with soap, the alkali in which dulls and streaks the hair, making it coarse and brittle. "To shampoo properly use a teaspoon ful of canthrox dissolved in a cup of hot water. This mixture will cleanse the scalp perfectly of dirt and dandruff and leave the hair lustrous, fluffy and easy to do up. It makes the hair dry quickly, evenly and simplifies shampoo ing greatly. Canthrox cannot be re commended too highly for putting the hair and scalp in a healthy condition and keeping It so." New York Express. COXSUIT US ABOUT XOVEXi PAS TRIES FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTIES. If you are planning a St. Patrick's day party or social affair, consult us about making something different and novel in the way of pastries. We have an expert pastry baker who delights in creating clever nov elties for such occasions. We'll be glad to help you make your party "different-" FRESH DELICATESSEN'S WITH SOMETHING NEW ALMOST EVERY DAY Our big glass case is fairly brimming with good, wholesome tempting eat able, ready prepared. Genuine Boston style baked beans, spagetti. Pimento cheese. Gelatin tomato salad, bread pudding, tapioca pudding, Russian salad, cottage cheese, etc., besides bulk pickles and olives of a fancy quality, cheeses and bottled goods. Meats, too, In good variety help make this a popu lar department in this store. IDEAL BAKERY The Place That's Different. 121 West Sixth St. Phones 180 Ideal Ideas onEatabksV SENATOR TA-NK.rtT.KP trying to line up delegates for their requires confinement to do much dam age." Large steel projectiles that could do damage are out of the question, he considered, because of their weight and the difficulty of hitting a target from the machine. By bringing war and its moves under the eyes of the world the war aeroplane will prove a veritable dove of peace, the speaker said. Automatic equilibri um, making flight more the fruition of the machine and les3 that of the avi ator, is what is most needed In aviation he said. New York Sun. Pimples? No They've All Gone! Xo More Humiliation; the Wonderful Stuart's Calcium Wafers "Get Right After" Those Pimples, Boils and Skin Eruptions. Trial Package Sent Free to Prove It. No need for anyone to go about any longer with a face covered with pim ples, blotches, eruptions, blackheads, and liver-spots. These are all due to impurities in the blood. Cleanse the blood thoroughly and the blemishes will disappear. That's what Stuart's Calcium Wafers. are intended to accomplish and do ac complish. Their principal ingredient is Calcium Sulphide," the quickest and most thorough blood cleanser known. These wonderful little wafers get right into the blood, and destroy erup j tive substances present in it. In some j cases a few days is sufficient to make I a marked improvement. And when i the blood is pure the whole system is a Don't fret any longer about those blackheads, pimples, boils, tetter, eczema, spots or skin eruptions; they all go and "go quick" if you use Stuart's Calcium Wafers. You can have a trial package of Stuart's Calcium Wafters, simply by sending your name and address to F. A. Stuart Co., 175 Stuart Bldg., Mar shall, Mich. Then, when you have proved their value, you can get the regular size package for 50 cents, at any drug store. TOMORROW FISH FRESH HALIBUT Per Pound 10c A full line of other varieties at low prices. RADISHES SOUTHERN GROWN Nice green tops, large bunches Three Bunches 10c CHERRIES California White or Black Cherries in No. 2M-lb. cans. Good syrup a regular 30c can. Per Can 20c MORNS MYERS mmmmmmmmm m.nmmmMmjgi 900 N. Kansas Ave. Ini 4190 Bell 428 11 Shoe Buyers Attention See what Augusts are going to sell shoes for Friday, Tomorrow Women's Tan Tiny Vamp Button Boots; short vamp, higher Cubai heels; regular prlc $4; in the big Sale. $1.75 Women's Vici Kid Patent Tip lace Boots, low heels, regular price J3.00; in the Big Sale, $1.00 Men's Gun metal Lace or Button Academy Steppers; regular price $3.50; in the Big Sale, $1:50 Women's White Buck Stage Vamp Button Boots, dressy wing toe; regular price $6.00; In the Big Sale, $2.00 Boys' Velour and Calf Blucher School Shoes (1 to 6). regular price $2.00; In the Big Sale $1.00 Boys' Patent and Gunmetal Shoes, 1 to BH). 'regular price $3.00; In the Big Sale $1.50 Women's Vamp Gunmetal Button Boots, hl Cuban heels, regu lar price $3.50, In Big Sale, $1.98 Little GenU' Gunmetal Blucher School Shoes (9 to 13 Vi regular price $2.04; in the Big Sale 90c Men's Gunmetal Blucher, and Button Shoes; bl toes: regular prioa $4.00; In the Big Sale, $1.25 Men's High Cut Shoes $1.98 Child's Patent Leather, Button Five Toe Shoes.Muo, brown or red tops (sizes 4 to 8); regu lar price $1.75; In tho Big Sale. $1.00 Women's Cloth Top Patent Leather "New York er" Button Boots regular price $3.00 in the Sale, $1.25 AM

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12 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MARCH 14, 1912 qJociftf A dance will be given Thursday night, March 21, at Steinberg's Hall by the men of the Tivoli and some of the other dancing clubs. The party will be quite an important affair with a large list of guests. Miss Lenora Stubbs will give an in formal tea Friday afternoon. Out-of-town guests will be Miss Lucile KHet, of Kansas City, Miss Ruth Ewing, of El Dorado. Miss Laura Pendleton and Miss Helen Pendleton, of Lawrence. The wedding of Miss Letha Blanch and Mr. Homer Bonebrake, of Pasa dena, California, will be solemnized to night at 8:30 o'clock by Rev. Charles Finch, of the First Christian church, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blanch, 1010 West Fifth street. Miss Ethel Everingham will play the Mendelssohn wedding march, and during the ceremony she will play "Nocturne" from Midsummer Kight's Dream. The bride will wear a white gown trimmed in cluney lace and will have a wreath of orange blossoms in her hair. She will carry a shower bouquet. The decorations for the house will be pink and white flowers and palm-3 and ferns. The bride's going away dress is a tailored suit of tan -loth, and she will have hat and gloves to match. Out-of-town guests to the wedding are: Mr. and Mrs. Bart Bone brake, of Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. E. F. JV: rton, of Kansas City, Miss Irene Frank, of Bartlesville. Oklahoma, Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Purcell. of Wakeeney, and Miss Elizabeth Warning, of Holton. Mr. Bonebrake and his bride will leave Friday for Des Moines, Iowa, where they will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bart Bonebrake, who will return with them. Later they will go to Oklahoma to visit friends, and from there to Pasa dena, where Mr. Bonebrake is engaged In the automobile business, and where they will make their home. A beautiful afternoon costume of old rose broadcloth is given in the accompanying drawing. Jhe peasant mouse is cut double breasted, cross ing at the bust line. The trimming of feilk embroidered banding which out lines the neck is crossed and shaped to form the outline of a little em- ARE YOU A BURKE? v- GOV. JOHNBUXKfc Fargo, N. D., March 14. Governor John Burke of North Dakota is a dark horse being groomed for presidential honors. In his campaign he is seeking the support of all other Burkes in the country. Among those upon whom he is relying for support is, of course, Billie Burke, the stage favorite who is incidentally an enthusiastic suffragette and who, in spite of the lack of franchise among members' of her own sex, will wield a strong influence among her many admirers and will bring many votes to the North Dakota governor. 1 Xyra broidercMl vest. Tin gown closes on the left with large buttons. The line of trimming continues almost to the skirt bottom, giving a semi-princess effect which is very charming. The sleeves and bottom of the skirt are trimmed with skunk. The neck is filled with bands of lace and finished with gilt. Mrs. J. F. Leach, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is visiting her brother, Mr. iW. F. HaysJip, and Mrs. Hayslip. Mr. and Mrs. HaysHp entertained their bridge club "Wednesday evening, and Mrs. Leach wa.s a guest. Others who jlaye3 were Mr. and Mrs. J. Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. D. Paine, Mr. and Mrs. Don Osborn, Mr. and Mrs. J. Austin, nd Mr. and Mrs. Johns. The story of "The Scientific Mrs. Smith," written by Miss Katherine iDolman, of Lawrence., is the truth about a Topeka. family with another name: Mrs. Smith, and her three children, clean almost to unhealthiness. ap proached the counter where the ladies of the Presbyterian churoh were sell ing homemade candy. "You say this is made of the pure fondant and choco late?" she asked the clerk. "Yes, indeed," promptly replied that lad v. "Well, if you are sure it was the Mrs. Jones in Westlawn who made it I will take a half-pound box. No, James, it isn't good for ybu to have more than a half a pound at one time." Mrs. Smith prided herself on being an enlightened mother. Did she not belong to the Mothers' clubs and fol low carefully all tho directions in th3 "Care of the Child'' Magazine? Was it not something to be proud of that Jane, her eldest, had not once in the six years of her life tasted anything but ooiled water? Having received the candy and her change she grasped a hand of eacn of the younger children and made her way toward the street. It seemed like a very long time be fore a car bound for their part of town appeared. W hen at last she had net' little flock on the car and quieted with their perfectly pure candy, she felt that she could rest for a moment and forget the children. After a while however, she began to wonder about Mary, the youngest. She had seen her take only one piece of candy and yet she appeared to e chewing as hard now as when she fir3t put the candy into her mouth. The mother thought about this vaguely at first, then suddenly became alert. "Mary what have you got in your mouth?" she dema.ndedquickly. "Gum," said Siary sweetly between chews. "James, did you give your sister gum?" demanded his mother. "Naw," replied James as he leaned back to toss a big piece of candy into his widely opened mouth. "Jane, did you?" asked the mother, of her eldest daughter who was dainti ly biting a chocolate in two. "No, mama," politely responded Jane. "Where did you get it?'' demanded Mrs. Smith, now completely alarmed. "Where did you get it," she asked again es she extracted a huge wad of gum from the baby's mouth and drop ped it on the floor as though it were a hot coal. "Right der," cheerfully replied Mary, as she pointed to the one clean spot on the dusty window sill. And Mrs. Smith well, she almost evacorated.

The Washburn Girls' Literary soci ety had a spread Tuesday night at the home of Miss Marjorie Rodgers. 1 Mrs. HaroH Chase will entertain the Duplicate Whist c'u'o Friday at her home on Polk street. Mr. and Mrs. John Dadisman and their little daughter, Virginia Eliza beth, who have gone to Shanghai, Shopping at the Big Shoe Store of More i ban momentary Importance Not alone for the greater variety of styles, but for the sure satisfaction of comfort; durability and appearance. You will be per fectly fitted here by a corps of courteous, efficient salesforce. Get any width, any size m every lasnionable leather and fabric. This Is the Style Shop of Topeka We offer splendid Tan Button Boots with snort vamp, nign toe; welt AA sewed, walking weight soles pOAii White Nu Buck Button Boots $4.00 China, stopped in Japan on their way, and Mrs. Dadisman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Griggs, have received an interesting letter from her, and a package of curios. With the articles she Eent was one of the new Chinese flags that are out in all the towns where there are any number of Chi nese people. The Mag is made of live wide bars of red, yellow, blue, white and black, signifying the union of all peoples represented in the empire, un der the new republic. The red is the sign of the ancient Chinese, the yel low is for the Manehus, the blue for the Mongolians, white stands for Tibet, and the black is for the Mohamme dans. The new flag was put out first on the birthday anniversary of Abra ham Lincoln. The package contained also a pa of Japanese shoes and stockings. The shoes are oblong blocks of wood set up from the ground on two strips of wood, one across the ball of the foot r 1 the other supporting the heel. It it; kept on the foot by a heavy cord running from the toe of the shoe to the instep on each side. The stocking is of heavy canvas, and cord on the shoe divides the large toe from the other toes, holding it out straight, and so far is an improvement on the foot wear of civilization, which deforms what it is designed to protect, raising a bumper corn crop and making the suffering member look more like an assassin's knotted cudgel than a hu man foot. Mr. Dadisman has taken service in China for six years as Y. M. C. A. secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Dadisman are both graduates of Washburn col lege, and both are quite well known in Topeka and throughout the state. Mrs. Dadisman was district secretary of the Y. W. C. A. for Kansas and Oklahoma before her marriage. Miss Maud Mary Kline has ar ranged the following program to be given Friday night at the K. R. Y. M. C. A.: A Little Dog Barks at the Big Round Moon Camant The Little Papoose Sherwood Washburn Ladies' Quartette. Original Sketch A Quiet Evening at Home. Mrs. Isabel McArthur and Miss Kline. Vocal Solo From the Land of the Sky Blue Water Cadman Shena Ban Mrs. Beach Miss Irene McNanee. Violin Solo Traumme Shumann Miss Juliet Hughes. Vocal You Are the Idol of My Dreams Ingraham Mr. Thomas. Reading Sam Stories Mrs. McArthur. Vocal Chanson Travencole Dell 'Acqua Miss Caroline Lovewell. Violin Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana Mascagni Miss Juliet Hughes. Reading Serenade Mrs. McArthur. Vocal Thora Adams Mr. Thomas. The Young Married People's Bible class of the Westminster Presbyterian church had a study meeting and social Wednesday evening at the home of the leader, Mr. L. W. Wilson, on Boswell avenue. Forty guests attended a banquet of the Bachelor's club Tuesday night at the Virginia. Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Billings enter tained their evening club at dinner Wednesday night. Dr. H. W. Put nam and Dr. Billings furnished vocal numbers for the program following the dinner. Announcement is made of the en gagement of Miss Ruth Brooks Har rison to Dr. O. Beattie of Wichita, Kan. Miss Harrison is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Harrison of 1318 Mulvane street. Mrs. A. F. Phillips entertained about twenty guests at an informal party this afternoon. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. W. A. Johnston has gone for a trip to Osawatomie and Parsons in the interest of the board of chari ties. Mrs. T. F. Doran has returned from Manhattan, where she visited her daughter, Miss Josephine Doran, who was ill for a few days with ton silitis. Miss Doran is a. student at the agricultural college. Miss Clyde Bonebrake will return Saturday from Kansas City, where she has been visiting her cousin, Miss Louise Spencer. Miss Spencer will accompany her home to be her guest. Judge Lee Monroe has gone for a business trip to Junction City. Mrs. J. M. Dillon of Xenia, O., is in Topeka to spend a month visiting her uncle. Dr. G. J. Mulvane, and Mrs. Mulvane. Mrs. J. F. Merrick and her daugh ter, Martha, of the City of Mexico are guests of Mrs. Merrick's mother, Mrs. D. M. Valentine. Mr. and Mrs. J. Newell Abrahams were in Wichita the first of the week, and Monday Mr. Owen Cope gave a luncheon for them at the Old Eng lish inn, and in the evening he had guests for a bowling party compli mentary to them. Mrs. H. O. Warren will entertain the S. T. club Friday afternoon at her home, 1 269 Buchanan street. Continued on next page.1 dissolution Sale Starts Tomorrow TO THE PUBLIC: The firm of Shapiro and Endlish, having dissolved partnership, I will hereafter continue to run this business myself under the same name The Outlook Cloak and Suit Co. Many years experience in both manufacturing and retailing Women's Ready-to-Wear Apparel, and recent connections with Eastern manufacturers, I will in the future be enabled to sell BETTER merchandise at LOWER prices than Topeka has ever known. Every garment shown will be manu factured exclusively for this store. I have been well pleased with the patronage accorded the store in the past and in appre ciation will strive the harder to please you even better in the future. H. ENDLICH. Sacrifice Prices On All Spring Garments Purchased Before Dissolution In order to make room for incoming merchandise exclusively manufactured for this store, all our present stock will be sold out at big sacrifices. Think of it Spring just Duaamg ana cut prices on the finest of ready to. wear. Read the prices below then come for your Easter attire. Afternoon and Street Gowns Handsome Silk Messaline and Silk Fou lard Dresses all colors worth rjr up to $15.50. JJ)0. I O Jaunty Tailored Little Serge Dresses In white and black and white stripes; well worth up to $20, specially to f priced in this sale at bO0U Dainty Wash Dressess Neat Tor house wear; made with high girdle and button down the front; ging hams, percales, linens and piques really a $6.50 dress; priced for this sale $3.50 SUITS AND COATS Here are strictly high class tailored suits and coats, made in the new materials such as whipcords, serges, homespuns and novelty weaves most desirable shades and styles for Spring. Suits and Coats worth up to $18 at Suits and Coats worth up to $25.00 $12.50 $17.50 Suits and Coats worth up to Suits and Coats worth up to $35, choice at suits and Coats worth up T f $22.50 pl).UU $24.00 The above are only examples of the exceptional bargains in Spring garments we offer for Friday and Saturday only. Everything in the store will be substantially reduced. One Group of 23 Odds and Ends Winter Suits and Coats will go At $7.50 and $5 StSKAPnMt Jt LENDUCH. J ft M NO C O. D. NO APPROVALS Z33 Kahsas AaJfoMmJUN. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE (or What Wife Will Wear for Dinner) By TOM POWERS ECopyrightj 1912, by International News Service. f MR a- Mm Johes want' us) TmZkxvxt IifmqottsaskYouw f ruh ovek To ma JonEs MWTHS OFFtCt Bol IS HERE AND SS MRS &T JomFS TfctS Mt1 f HurR-, up HEliO finKS (altZl) (TTr",i MRS 6M1TH WANTS To KNOW WnATfbu Tfeu. Voo THAT Jk JoHtJ SAS THAT AMD qET ARf Vt lATEJ ff A A VI- J )MOWESir E CrSToVr-relSHj MRS JbNES IS qi4STa WEAR. HCR THRouCK -y' KMj5 CAME J paar--N QREEN- BUft PRESS WtTft UC feUW WITH THAT T .if V" f lUr-s WELL 1 WA5ST QOIW 'Rl WAtST AW THE BROWN CRAPE t lriJ RoT f CfcO J Va-TV CAiX- YOU UP ABOUT THAT, IF CHrT0N S JSf ZTTS A I f SHE WEAR5 MET, QREEM CWPFOH Y I rtffjBJS jf f If 1 WtTH THE K.OE KE AMB PR roj V rjrffa. J I 1 I jAt? A -5 LACE, IU. WEAR AW YCU.OW t&Til ,K If 01j-r' CRAPB MME Marion Harlands Helping Hand. Marion Harland is recognized ly the editors of every Woman's magazine in the country as the greatest authoritg on all matters concerning housekeeping and homemaing. This great authority is to he absolutely at the service of this paper's readers in helping them sobe any problem of housekeeping. If you don't knoto what to do in regard to any household problem write to Marian Harland, in care of this paper, and she will gladly help you. The Letter Box. In Quest of Song. Can yon or some one of your readers let me have or tell me where I can gret the song, Father, I Am Tired?' I think It Is one of the Moody and Sankey hymns. I have failed to 8nd It at the book stores. I BhouVd be obliged If I could get it, as I know of some one who wishes It. Mrs. W. A. D." More Taking Up Esperanto. Referring to your mention of esperanto, I believe you are mistaken In thinking there is a lull in the enthusiasm for the study of the universal language. Esperantists are, as a rule, enthusiastic and their number increases stead ily. There never was much enthusiasm in Den ver, Colo., but we hope to see more shortly. I can't answer 'Anna F.,' as I am a 'mere man,' but I am pleased to know that some one Is Interested in esperanto. J. M. K." Tonic for Canaries. "Referring to 'Canary lever's inquiry re garding loss of voice, a long, red, slender pep per pod hung In a btrd cage is invaluable for keeping canaries in good health. It Is a fine tonic B. S." Society Aids the Poor. "Cripple has no wheel chair. I should like to ask if any one of your many readers has a wheel chair for which he or she has no more further use. I should like to get one for my niece, who has never taken a step in her life. She is 29 years old and has always been obliged to walk on her knees. She fcas often expressed a destre to have a chair, which would be of much help to her mother, who is getting old and who is not able to purchase one. Mrs. C. P." Having seen the above clipping in the paper. I hasten to answer, as I feel a chair may be got from the New Tork Association for Improv ing the Condition of the Poor, Twenty-second street and Fourth avenue. New Tork City. If you will notify Mrs. O. P.' I am sure some thing will be done for her niece, as this asso ciation has done much good. I should like to hear if she is successful and I pray that she will be. Mart S. Q." To Split Aspadistra. I think 'A. D.' refers to the plant called aspadistra. I have two fine specimens. To split them I immerse the pot in water until it is thoroughly soaked, then lift the plant from the pot and cut down from top to bottom. C. A." Cut Plant Apart. I have several plants called aspadistra. I could not find it in any encyclopedia, but In the last unabridged dictionary I found -it. Some of the leaves are quite independent, having a bulb each. Others are Joined fey a continuous. root near the surface. I find the best way to divide the plant la to take it up. cut it apart, then replant it. I have both the variegated and plain green. A. E. B." Brought from China. "I notice In your Corner that one of your readers wishes to know how to pot an aspa distra. It was introduced into Britain from China. Its apeolea being 'A. Lorida. It is also commonly called the 'parlor palm, on account of Its broad robust foliage. The plant houl4 be taken from the pot. It will be noticed that the roots are cordlike and knotted. These should be broken off In crown or clusters where several sturdy roots develop from a stronger cord and then repotted. Some varieties show creamy lines running lengthwise through the leaf, but this streaklness disappears when the soil is enriched. Small purple flowers appear on the top of the soil in early summer and these should be removed if vigorous foliage is de sired. After the flower is removed a new leaf will spring up. Tour correspondent should have no difficulty in parting the roots, as the plants are as a rule easy to propagate. IS. C" Title of Song Book. "I note a request for a song bodK, the title over the signature being Mrs. J. F. H.' I waa born in the first year of the war and the songs mentioned and roamy war songs were In a book in my home town. It is the Kltver Lute.' I purchased one In recent years. S. B. W. Sweet Salad Recipe. "I think I have the fruit salad recipe Mm. G. II. N.' wants from the way she describes it. It is called sweet salad.' Use one banana, one orange, one can of shredded pineapple, twelve marshmallows clipped with the scissors, one cup of apples curt Into dice, one-half pound ef Eng lish walnuts. When ready to serve mix one cup of cream which has been whipped and thick ened with, powdered sugar. Mas. A, A." Reading Matter for Prwooen, I should be glad to have magazines to dis tribute among 00 prisoners in the New Tork City prison. I know ef no place where they would be mere usefuL W. W. W.

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