The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 11, 1913

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EVERYBODY 10 PAGES READ IT v 10 PAGE3 MHEDS IT LAST EDITION. THURSDAY EVENING- TOPEKA. KANSAS- DEC ER lb 1913. THURSDAY EVENING ATTACinraco Rebels Are Hammering Away at the Port City. They Appear to Be Having Bet ter of the Fight. FR0GBESS OF THE BATTLE Is Described in Dispatches From Admiral Fletcher. The Federals Are Preparing to Defend Ojlnaga. Hamburg, Dec 11. Captain Rant zas of tbe Hamburg American liner, Krons Prinzessln Cecllie, cabled to the head office of the company here today that his vessel was taking refugees on board at the Mexican seaport of Tampico, where fighting between the rebels and the federals has begun. For .Defense of Ojlnaga. Presidio, Texas, Dec. 11. The tak ing of civilian refugees across the riv er into United States territory and building of defenses in anticipation of a rebel attack at Ojlnaga today pro ceeded actively In the Mexican village opposite Presidio, where the bulk of the Huerta government troops in the north have concentrated. That the next move will be forced by the rebels is conceded, for. General Salvador Mercado, commander of the federals, has taken a waiting position, mean time reprovisioning his troops, while the rebel forces under General Her rera are moving toward the city as rapidly as possible. It is the rebels' plan to precipitate a criEis without allowing a delay which would be of immense advantage to the federals in their efforts to rest and feed their exhausted soldiers. Time means a more elaborate system of bar ricades and forts for the federals. Wagon- loads of provisions are being brought from Marfa, Texas, the near est railroad station to the border. Luis Terraza, who Owns millions of acres of Mexican land and- is one of the richest men in the republic, crossed the river with his family and went to Marfa. He practically had been held a prisoner at Chihuahua and it was not until the whole federal, army ac companied him that he m was able to leave the country where' his" life had been threatened by the rebels. It is said that Terrasa's cattle served to teed both federals and rebels in this and the Madero revolutions. -Senor Terra za was met by a delegation from Oklaho ma City, Ok., where he was Invited to make his future home.-- Progress of tbe Fight, Vera Crux, Dec ll.-Fighting between the rebels and federals for possession of the city of Tampico was in progress all day yesterday and last night, ac cording to reports received here today from Rear Admiral Fletcher, com mander of the American warships off that pdK. A dispatch filed at 11 o'clock last night and received here today said that the federal outposts had been driven in and that insurgents had taken possession of the left bank of the river from its mouth to Tampico. No foreigners have been injured, the admiral says. Nor has any property been destroyed. A number of refugees were taken on board the United States scout cruiser Chester and the cruiser Tampico. Oth er refugees were in buildings near the water front. Another dispatch from the admiral filed early today said: "General Castro attacked Tampico this morning. Reports Indicate that the rebel band is pushing back the federal advance guard. I am taking all pos sible measures to protect and care for Americans and other foreigners except British and German subjects, who are being looked after by their own repre sentatives. "The rebels are reported to be re specting Americans and- American property." Under date of noon on Wednesday Admiral Fletcher telegraphed: "The federal forces at Tampico have been reinforced and now number 2,000 men. The Tampico and Chester are in the river with ISO marines from the American battleships aboard. The place of safety for Americans and other foreigners has been assigned under the guns of the warships.' "The steamer Logician, which has been chartered by the British admiral and manned by a crew from the Brit ish cruiser Suffolk, has all the British residents of the town on board. All the Germans are aboard the steamer Kron Printzessin Cecllie. "I have warned the leaders of both ides that fighting will' not be allowed near the neutral territory assigned to non-combatants, nor near valuable for eign property. No steamer is available for American refugees. "Fighting continues in the suburbs. I have hoisted my flag on the Tacoma." Federals Forced Back. Mexico City, Dec. 11. Unofficial advices received here state that heavy fighting occurred at Tampico last night. The rebels at one time forced the federal troops back .into the heart of the city. The rebels are said to be in possession of the "suburb of Dona Cecilia, located between Tampico and the coast and containing many oil tanks and a refinery, and also of Arbol Grande, a suburb. The federal war department ad vices, however, continue to indicate the government troops are successful ly resisting the rebel attack. It is an nounced at the war office that the fed eral officers in command of the gar rison are to be promoted for gallantry. No Compromise. Hermosillo, Dec. 10. Via Nogales. Dec 11. "No compromises,' was 'Gen eral Carranza's declaration today re garding the proposals of an armistice In Mexico for the holding of election as urged by an element in Mexico City. Advisors of the constitutionalist leader consider the plan impossible under ex isting considerations. Taking oh Refugees. Washington, Dec 1L Official reports from Rear Admiral Fletcher to the navy department today said the con stitutionalists were making progress in their attack on Tampico and thai Americans and all other foreigner, had bean removed to a neutral sone for protection of American guns. Thus far no foreigners have been injured. The dispatches say the noncombat ants have been concentrated at a point near the waterfront where they are under the protection of the guns of the scout cruiser Chester and the gun boats Wheeling and Tacoma. The bat tleships Rhode Island and Michigan are further out. A request of the con stitutionalist general that Americans leave was acted upon at once. The American naval officers, ip their re port, indicate that foreigners proba bly will -e safe in the neutral zone, but If not will be taken aboard the American war vessels. The rebels have had the best of the fighting, according to navy officials who have watched the battle since yes terday. The Federal Side. Mexico City, Dec. 11. The federal war department claims today to have received Information that the rebels retired out of range of the federal guns at Tampico after making several fruitless attempts to take part of the city, but believes the rebel attack will be resumed today. The capital, how ever, Is without accurate information, as means of communication are lack ing. The Are of tbe rebel attacking force did little damage to Tampico, it is stated at the war department, but It is admitted that several shells explod ed within the city and its suburbs. The rebel troops before Tampico are estimated at six to eight thousand. They, are said to be the same rebels who took Victoria recently and they are armed with the artillery taken from the federal troops there. In a fight at Coco, sixty miles to the west of Tampico on the San Luis Potosi line, the federal troops succeeded In driving the rebels off after a brisk combat, according to reports from railroad sources. AN ALL HAIL TRAIN Santa Fe May Be Asked to Pat on New Coast Service. Government Would Make Fast er Time to N. T. The general officials of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroad in To peka have been notified of a confer ence of Uncle Sam's postoffice officers concerning the installation of a fast all-mail train from Kansas City to Los Angeles. In an attempt to Improve the transportation of the United States mails it is believed that the Santa Fe will operate an exclusive fast train from the Missouri river, thereby cutting down materially the time from the Atlantic to the Pacific East of Kansas City it has been pro posed that a mail train be operated from NewXork by the -way of Fort Wayne over "the Pennsylvania and thence by the Wabash direct to Kan sas City. In this manner it is believed that mail could be sent from New York to Kansas City In 30 hours. At this time the Rock Island has the mail contracts to Los Angeles and Southern California from Kansas City. The Union Pacific has a big contract to San Francisco along the northern route. If the Santa Fe will give the government an all-mail train of excess speed, it is hinted by post office officials in conference in Wash ington that the Santa Fe will be given the prize. The fight for the eastern mail has caused an eruption in transcontinent al schedules and every effort is being made by the government to furnish better service to both coasts. WILSON STAYS III. President Will Remain in Bed Until He Gets "Well. Washington, Dec 11. President Wil son Btayed in his room today fighting a cold and cancelled all his engage ments by order of his physician. The president was to have been presented by the British ambassador with an em bossed copy of an address delivered at Carlyle, Eng., and had several' engage ments with congressmen. The president's indisposition really began a week ago. It started with a cold in the head and nose and extend ed to hia throat. He improved by stay ing in bed several days last week, but during the last day or two took a little more cold which affected his voice. He I intends now to remain in bed until he gets rid of the cold. No engagement will be made for the president for earlier than Monday and those which be has already made will be cancelled. While the president was reported not at all uncomfortable his physician has detennlned to guard against any exposure for the next few days. LOSS OF $6,000,000. Latest Estimate of Property Destroyed by Texas Flood. Houston, Dec 11. One hundred and sixty-five persons perished, 20,000' per sons were driven from home and- pro perty was damaged to the extent of 36.000,000 by floods that have torn through several sections of Texas dur ing the last ten days. This was the es timate compiled from reports received from the afflicted territory today. The crest of the flood today slowly was passing through the Brasos river delta into the gulf. DHEAK ItJ MAINS. And Many Water Consumers Out Off Few Hours Today. On account of a break in the water mains on Jackson street between Sixth and Seventh streets, all consumers from the west side of Kansas avenue to the east side of Van Buren and from the south side of Sixth to .the north side of "L't "fT "Stt'ZS, "n"LV!e be about 6 o'clock this evening. v TO AIDJUCKERS Insurance Against Get Rich Quick Concerns Suggested By the President of the Trav elers at Convention. RELIC SAVE U? S77.CC3.GD0 During the Past Tear, Accord ing to Government Report. Probably Ten Times as Much Never Was Reported. New York, Dec. 11. Fifteen billion dollars of life insurance protection was reported today at the seventh annual meeting the Association of Life 1 surance Presidents. Ex-President Taft was the chief speaker at the afternoon session. A problem considered was the in creasing practice of policy holders of mortgaging their life Insurance. In- billion of the three and one half billion dollars held by the companies as a re- ,..m1 fioa 1-MMkn InnnAd tA OOliCV holders. Arthur T. Childs of Boston urged the members to warn the public of the danger of reducing the protection of beneficiaries. New York, Dec 11. Insurance against get rich quick promoters and ignorant or designing friends and the need for conserving policy proceeds after they have been paid over to widows, orphans and other benenc- iaries were urged by President Syl vester C. Dunham of the Travelers Insurance company, Hartford, Conn., in an address today at the annual convention here of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. "Beneficiaries of life policies usual' ly are persons of limited financial ex perience and the investment of money by an Inexperienced person ana in deed by some not so inexperienced is not always a simple and successful task," said Mr. Dunham. "How to make investments that will with the greatest certainty and security meet the designs of the insurer in provid ing for the continued support of those dependent upon him is the next im portant step in life- insurance. One of the most useful of several recent plans is one by which the company becomes bound to pay a monthly sum to the beneficiary for a stated term or for life. "The hazard of inexperience has not been regarded as an insurable one and it was only as the exposure to waste became greater that the urgent necessity for- protection arose. The activity or the Irresponsible promoter fa lucre asm ply persistent and the vat ue of his wares has declined in a de gree that bears more or less definite ratio to the expansion of his market and his means for reaching it. Cheap Postage. "The advantages of cheap postage are not to be under valued, but cheap postage is one of the -motions that en ables these adventurers to operate with economy and upon a large scale. The get rich quick business has been so systematized that no more ingen ious plans are displayed than those used in the sale of gold bricks. 'Sucker lists' are common articles of merchandise and exchange and are subject, I suppose, of current quota tions among the fraternity. It is by their use that millions of persons are daily tempted by well phrased books and circulars to invest in land enter prises In the desert or under water; oil wells and mines in regions where there is neither oil nor minerals and in water powers in a dry and thirsty land. "There may be no simple way to abate the nuisance by excluding from the mails a vast amount of this con traband freight but it would seem to be the plain duty of the postal author itles to search diligently for such a (Continued un Pace Two.) MRS. YOUNG IS OUT. Falls to Obtain Re-election as Head of Chicago Schools. Chicago, Dec 1L Action by women's organizations which are strongly op posed to the supplanting of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young as superintendent of schools was promised today by the heads of women's clubs and school teachers" organizations and parents' and teachers' associations. Mrs. George W. Bass, r resident of the Chicago Woman's club, the largest organization of its kind in the state, declared that unless Mayor Harrison took steps to in quire into the reasons for Mrs. Young's want of support, in the school board the women of Chicago would find means' to reopen the affair. John D. Shoop, former assistant -superintendent, who replaces Mrs. Young, assumed office today. Those opposed to the change anxiously awaited word from the mayor's office. Mayor Har rison declared that the ballot by the school board was controlled by under--; hand methods. "I am sorry -that men I appointed," he said, "would resort to underhand methods to bring about an action that they, knew was contrary to the wishes of the administration. If I had known such a move was contemplated I could and would have stopped it." "The effect of this action is to turn the education of Chicago children over to politicians," said Miss Margaret Haley, business representative of the teachers federation. Dean Walter T. Sumner, who resigned as chairman of the school management committee immediately on Mrs. Young's retirement, declared that the change meant the end of the merit sys tem. "The schools are tossed back into the cesspool of politics, he said. "There was no Issue of creed, race, administration' or anything else. The 4 UCBUUU wad yvuw-. How It Was Done. Chicago, Dec 11. Lack of undi vided support from the board of edu cation was given by Mrs. Ella Flagg roung as the reason why she with drew her name aa a candidate for re election to the superintendency of the public schools at last night's session of the board of education. After ai vote, which 'failed to elect her, MrsA Young withdrew and John D. Shout, assistant superintendent, was selected on the second ballot to succeed her. She explained her action in the following words: "I think every one here believes the duties of the superintendent of schools if properly administered need all the strength and support of the board. That superintendent who needs more than one ballot to elect her would not have the support required In the su perintendent' work. Therefore, I withdraw im name as a candidate. I took the action "of the board last July In good faith. I find I misunderstood that action. When one finds a mistake has been made the thing to do is to rectify it. Nothing now could make me permit my name to be used for the superintendency." Last July when Mrs. Young failed to receive the unanimous support of the board of education she presented her resignation; a few days later she with drew it Milwaukee TOants Her. Milwaukee. Dec 11. A movement was begun .here toddjy by citizens and members ofthe city sthool board to get Mrs. Ella Flagg Yovjhg,' former super intendents schools 4 n Chicago to as sume the. same position in Milwaukee. There has been a. vacancy in the po sition here for some mime owing to the resignation of Carroll G. Pearse. and Inability of the school hoard to decide on a successor. V 17M0PKI IS DEAD End Came Sudd ly to Garden CityAI Irney. Was in Hotel ai C Father of Dk opUns. Kansas City, Dee. 1. W. R. Hop- kins, an attorney f Garden City. Kan., died in Kani City Wednesday. A porter at a hi .el Here climbed i through a transom and found him dead In his bed. f Mr. Hopkins was about 60 years old. The indications were that he died from heart disease. Mr. Hopkins was 'a member of a law firm at Garden City and. was at torney for a railway in his home town. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Hundreds of Kansas- lawyers and politicians knew and admired Colonel Hopkins. He visited Topeka often, was always active in Seventh district politics and was a staunch Republican. He was the father of Richard J. Hop kins, elected lieutenant governor in 1910. With his son. Colonel Hopkins 1S1U. wno nis son, woionei nopuos had been engaged in the practice of law in Garde-n City since the death of A. J. Hopkinson, who years ago form ed with Colonel Hopkins the law firm of Hopkins ts. Hopkinson. Judge Hopkins- WW one of the early settlers of Finney coesuy- He went to the western -miction of the- state, when there were no -Inducements to go into that country- But in later years his faith -proved well founded and he was one of the men most active in the up building of Finney county. He was the first county attorney elected by Finney county voters. Later he served three terms in the state legislature. was a frequent delegate to state ana national conventions and was once an unsuccessful candidate for district judge. In 1306 he sought the state and while he senatorial nomination received the support of his own coun ty, was defeated in the convention. The Finney county lawyer was' a na tive of Missouri and served as a Union soldier durine the Civil war. At the close of the war. Colonel Hopkins re enlisted and spent several years as an Indian fighter on the western plana He was the father of eleven children. Mrs. Hopkins died two years ago. HE IS SHOT TWICE. Sir Lionel Phillips Narrowly Escapes Death at Assassin's Hands. Johannesburg, South Africa, Dec 11. An attempt was made today to as sassinate Sir Lionel Phillips, the lead ing gold mining magnate of South Af rica. Three shots were fired at him. One bullet lodged in his neck and an other In one of his thighs. His con dition is declared to be not grave. The assassin was arrested. The attempt was made while he was walking on Commissioner street. I. is supposed to have -been an .out come of the bitterners aroused against the mine owners owing to the dissatis faction of the miners in connection with the condition of the strike move- ment. A series of riots occurred In wViirh ohnnt miun uiuj a manv woimdd. Th. r ,h men were, chiefly concerned with the great mortality in the mines and the refusal of the mine owners to recog nize the unions. They were eventually forced to- accept the owners' terms. Sir Lionel Phillips was closely Identi fied with the late Cecil Rhodes and Al fred Beit, and he Is a partner in the firm of Werneher, Beit A. Co. He has nved In Johannesburg since 1889. In 1896 Sir Lionel was sentenced to death ar Pretoria for participation in hi Jameson raid, together with John Hays Hammond, George P. Farrar and CoL rawt Rhodes. The sentence was later commuted to a fine of $125,000 and ban- liumenL BARBARA HART DIES. Second Victim of Gas Asnhvxlatinn Was Fair Heir. Columbus, O., Dec 11. Miss Bar bara Hart of Caruthersville, Mo., died today as a result of gas asphyxiation. Her death occurred almost simulta neously with the funeral of her grand mother, Mrs. L. B. Hart of Worthing ton. O., who was found dead in her home. Miss Rachael Hart, Miss Bar bara's sister. -who was overcome, is be lieved to be recovering. Her marriage to Edgar Allen of this city, announced to take place on Dec 27, probably will be postponed, mi Barbara Hart was to have been mar ried soon to Calvin Howe of Duluth. .ZX. JrT oniy re- ..i. 2. i. ZZ naii .1. d" L, ox we muutwrn caw v& nnHl, 9 i PURE LOVE r.iATc;i Parties to the Eugenie Marriage Consummated at Iola Preparing to Settle Down to Ordinary Wedded Ufe.' accrued ft.::.. c::ix: Courtship Was Carried on Mostly by Correspondence. The Ceremony Was One Their Own Preparation. of Washington. D. C. Dec XL Bringing with him a wife, a wedding ring all his own, and the knowledge that his mar riage in Iola. Kan.. Tuesday of last week was approved by the government. Homer B. Terrill, a treasury depart ment clerk, has returned to Washing ton. He hopes to prove that because he and -his wife-are eugenists, they need not. of necessity, be merely sci entific In their view of wedded life Mr.;-Terrill, In applying to the pub lic health service for a physical exami nation, caused government recognition of eugenics, lie went to Iola, married Miss Belle Reed of that town, with a special ceremony prepared by him and Miss Reed the evening before the wed ding and returned to work here a few days ago. Mrs. Terrill, master of ceremonies at their home at 1750 Park Road north west, doesn't look as if she formed half of a scientific marriage She in sists that it was purely a love affair, and that she has known Mr. Terrill since their school days in Iola. She admitted having decided views regard- mg eugenics, but saia tnat was mere- Iy a necessity to a happy marriage. Mrs. Terrill. who is a petite blond, with light brown hair and dark brown eyes, says she became a eugenist of a sort five years ago. She has found, she said, that girls take more interest than do men in eugenics, and that if they were not so timid, they would be leaders. To start with a "this is the house that Jack built" basis, there is publish ed here for the first time the certificate of -health given Mr. Terrill and the marriage ceremony he and his wife composed. Here Is the certificate: "To whom It may concern This will certify that we have this day comple

V? ?y"" f HomeJ B. Terrill and find him free from or ganic disease. "W. G. STIMSON. M. D. .-Jv., "W C. RUCKER. M. ,D. "R- A. JEARNET. M. D." ordered the couple to clasp their right hands. He asked Mr. Terrill if he would "take this woman to be his law ful wedded wife, and promise to be true to her." Mr. Terrill responded promptly: "I do." Mrs. Terrill an swered the same- question. "Will you each endeavor to live your lives in a unity ana harmony oased on LVr-r""--. eveVehshin STVSyCj he in answer to answer to the question: "What tokens do you give in acknowledgment of these promises," they exchanged rings, and were pronounced man and wife. There followed a most uneugenlc embrace and a prayer. Mr. and Mrs. Terrill were at home when the State Journal correspondent (Continued on Pago Two.) t;0 DIVIDEND PASSED First Time In 40 Years for tbe New Haven Railroad. New York, Dec XL After an un broken record of forty years as a divi dend payer, the New York. New Haven A STavnM4 DoIIwm, MMmMiMW koa finally been forced to the necessity of diclary committee to report favorably suspending further disbursements on f Representative Hobson's resolution for its $157,000,000 of stock. la prohibition amendment. Mr. Hobson This decision was reached after a I made the opening argument outlining protracted meeting of the directors. the purpose of prohibitionists to sub The action of the board, while partly, j mit practical evidence to the commit foreshadowed by the recent acute weak- tee from time to time of the devaata ness of the stock, will' come as a shock tion in the country caused by the use to thousands of investors. It is estimated that not less than $40,000,000 of the New Haven stock and bonds, as well as securities of affiliated companies, are held by savings banks i ana. ouier nnanc i well as in estates. The action of the directors, most of whom were present, was unanimous. The formal statement of Chairman Howard Elliott, which gives the con clusions of the board in detail, says: "The New Haven, is a strong com pany, owning valuable property, real estate and securities worth many mil lions of, dollars. Some of this real es tate and the property' represented by the securities and the securities can. in time be marketed and thus strengthen the cash resources of the company. It is very difficult to sell property and securities at this time and the directors believe it is unwise to attempt to do so until general condi tions are better. "During the calendar year 1913, the road has already paid dividends of 5 per cent, amounting to $8,657,361.50. For' the four months of the fiscal year. July 1 to October 31, 1913. the in come- available from all .companies upon which the New Haven can draw is in round numbers $3,390,000, estimat Ing the net income for November and j December will be $500,000. makes at possible total income for six months of 33,890,000. Deducting from this the one ana ene-nair per cent, dividend nincent fight." said W. P. Feder sec $2,356,768 paid September 30, leaves i retary of the Kansas state ntnitv $1,533,231, aU of which is required for working capital. Regarding resumption of dividends. Mr. Elliott said: "We are letting the future take care of itself." A new low record for the stock was made on the local exchange- when it fell to 714. or less than one-third of it quoted price a few years ago. Stock of the New Haven broke to 63 Its lowest price on record at the open ing ox cne stock mantel toaay. in of-the dividend caused excited trading and on a block of five thou sand snares the price tell pouts. 1 A WTOWO OK the New Haven trading poet on the floor of the Stock Exchange long before the opening. When the gong sounded the beginning of business the rush to sell resulted in such confusion that it was several minutes before any record could be obtained of the first transac tion. Then the opening was an nounced as 6,000 shares at 69f69. The stock closed yesterday at 72. Not for years bad such a large block of New Haven appeared on the ticker tape, but trading was on a. smaller scale after the opening, transactions being chiefiv in blocks of 10A to 200 shares. An effort was made to support the stock on the break, and the next sale was at 68. Then it was bid up to 9H. but at the end of half an hour, trading had fallen back to 68. While suspension of the dividend had not been generally expected still its effect was partially discounted by a severe de cline early in the week. Tbe stock market was little affected by the vio lent decline in New Haven.' Selling of New Haven continued through the morning and the price fell to a new low record at 47. The trad ing then became quieter on a slightly higher level. START ADIG FORCE Twenty Men Employed to Be gin Valuation for Santa Fe. Topeka Headquarters Office Is Organised This Week. Twenty expert engineers from all over the country are being assembled at the office of R. A. Rutledge. chief engi neer of the Atchison, Topeka dc Santa Fe railway proper, today, for the be ginning of the five years task of tak ing the physical valuation of the road. These men will constitute the nucleus of a large force to be employed in To peka for the purpose of carrying out the government orders. The men ara under the direction of Chief Engineer Rutledge and the su pervision of E. W. Grants, assistant engineer in. charge of valuation mat ters. New offices have been fitted up for the men on the second floor of the Ninth street general office building, Most of the new employees are In To peka today and have been given their first instructions in the new duties. Others are on the way with their fami lies. The recent vacation of a part of the office force of C. F. W. Felt, chief en gineer of the system, 1 has given the valuation department- room along the main floor of the old office building. The force of 20 in all probability will oe increased to 50 in a short time. The Santa Fe has opened up field work .on the lines In Oklahoma under the direction of the Topeka offices. r THE DAY III COXISS Senator Burton Speaks in Central Bank. Favor of Washington, Dec. 11. Senate met at 10 a. m. Currency debate resumed with Senator Burton urging adoption of central bank plan. Resolution di recting the attorney general to report whether only white slave cases of an international character are being pros ecuted under the Mann law. House met at noon. Vocational edu cation bill taken up. National reser vation commission reported acquiring aggregate of 713,415 acres for protection of watersheds under Appalachian pro ject Speakers appeared before rural cred its committee in favor of protecting building and loan associations in any new legislation. Prohibitionists before judiciary committee urged constitution al prohibition amendment. Representa tive Steenerson of Minnesota, -before interstate commerce commission, urged legislation to prohibit postal transmis sion of newspapers and periodicals pub lishing advertisements of falsely, rep resented articles. Spokesmen for ths Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance union urged the house Ju- or alcohoL Representative Lloyd Introduced a bill to limit congressmen to $40 a year for official telegrams. The house debated without action senate resolution for a commission on national aid to vocational education. B. M. Law of Kansas City urged the good roads committee to favor nation al roads across the continent. D. A. R. authorized to hold $1,000,000 worth of property in a bill favorably report ed. Welfare secretaries and more chaplains urged for battleships by Rear Admiral Blue before the naval committee. FLEDGE ACTIVITY. Delegate at Irrigation Congress Want State and Federal Aid. Good land, Kan., Dec 11. After pledg ing themselves to renewed personal ef forts in their plan to make western Kansas the gar-en spot of the middle west, the delegates to the Kansas State irrigation conmn tndav rMnWi ask as their deserved right, state and federal aid commensurate with the j cause. j "Western Kansas has made a mission. "You have bravely met your dark days and paid every loan, state and federal; here-Is a land of unsur passed riches smoothed out by the hand or tne Almighty for easy irrigation and ngnc be low it is the water, which if nrtea an put on the land will vir tually make this section blossom as the rose. You need and ought to have a million dollars- or more from, the state to start the work and then perhaps you can sec xeaetal aid." LAW IS MTflKlED Income Tax Case Opens Before Judge S. HL Landls. Bourke Cockraa Pleads Cause of Elsie Be Wolfe. wTX-isTiTunrL, i:e &ts Beclares It Violates the Four teenth Amendment. Chicago Bank Appears in tiae Bole of Defendant. Chicago, Dec XL The salt to tea tbe Income tax law was thrown out of the United States district court nor today by Judge Landls. who decided Oat M had no Jurisdiction. The effect of this decision which doss not involve the constitutionality or un constitutionality of the law. is to send the case direct to the supreme court of the United States. Chicago, Dee, 11. Attack on the constitutionality of the income tax law was begun here today before Judge K. M. Landls In the United States district court for the northern district of Illinois. The medium w lected for the test is a suit at law 1m which Elsie De Wolfe, former aotreas, a citizen of New York, now a resident in Versailles, France, is nlalntlfl sal the Continental and Commercial nust and Savings bank of Chicago ts de lenaam. uourxe cockrmn of New York and Colin C H. FVSa of Galeae appeared for Miss De Wolfe and Levy jaayer or unicago zor tne hank. juiss ue Wolfe, owner of thlvtv of the Appalachian Power nunnuVa five per cent bonds, was refused pay ment of Interest due on the bonds Sec i last by tae bank because she had not filed the certificate of ovnmliii. which the bank claims Is required by w income lax law. Her SUlt IS for interest due and damages in the sum of 11,000. In the presentation of his case At norney Cockran asserted that the law taxes only 426.000 persona out of a population of 90.000,000, which tax he said was imposed on them without their consent by the untaxed remain der of the population. Even if con gress had the right to impose this tax, the lawyer said, it was graded accord ing to Incomes at such gross inequali ties aa to violate the constitution. His client's income, he said, was more than ttO. 00 a year, on which she iaj taxed job ver-cent om ail above. and an additional tax of 1 per cent on all in excess of tO.0O. He assert- ed if this ratio were equitably pur sued the income from the tax would be $750,000,000, a sum practically sufficient to defray all government ex penses. By Its present inequalities, he added, the Income would not- be much more than $80,000,000. Attorney Cockran Insisted that If all incomes were taxed in the same ratio as. .that of the plaintiff Incomes of more, than $250,000 would be subject to' a penalty of ten per cent Instead of five per cent; those of $500,000 or more to a penalty or 20 per cent In stead of six; Incomes of a million wouia De penalized 40 per cent in stead of seven. A man with an In come of $2,500,000 a year and the lawyer said there were several in the country would be assessed 100 per cent, or in other words would have to pay all Income in excess of $2,600,000 into the United States treasury. Thus he argued his client was not granted the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to the constitution. Mr. Mayer stated the position of the bank as that the law Is constitutional. In his demurrer filed previously he further contended that the bonds con stitute a civil contract In nowise in volving federal laws and that the fed eral court therefore had no Jurisdic tion. so:.:e fi::e iveio!. And It Win Be Says Topeka would have a great influx of population were the weather always as pleasant as today. There is aa abundance of sunshine and the tem perature is rJne degrees above normal for this date. The same thing over again is the prediction for Friday. The shippers' forecast: Protect 36 hour shipments east and south against temperature of 30 degrees; north and I West from 26 to $0 degrees. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the wind was blowing from the southeast at the mm ui eigm miies an nour. -xne nourry readings: 7 o clock .....80 8 o'clock 30 11 o'clock 12 o'clock ...41 ...48 ...63 ...63 ...68 8 o clock .84 1 o'clock 3 o'clock S o'clock 10 o'clock 88 SETII LOW OPPOSES IT Government Ownership W RaUroade He Considers n Bad Thing. New York, Dec 11. The oroJect of government railroad ownership in the United States was condemned by Pres ident Seth Low of the National Civic federation In his address today, open ing tne zourteentn annual meeting of that organisation. Mr. Low was chairman of the federal board of ar bitration which recently decided the controversy -ever wages between the eastern roads- and their comluctors and tmlnman "The consideration satisfies me." he said, "that the railroad employees are not only better off sow. under the private administration of railroads, than they would be likely to be under public administration, but. also, that under existing conditions they ears' hope for-a battel meat la pay and rales of service, which, it woull be vary harder to-reahaw from s UCmA ernmesH-ceusuuuoa iksav

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THE- TOPIZIA DAILY 8TAT2 JOUTT TUUCDAY LV'j;:JL0' BZZ1 VT7Sk Li I MM i J- SSSSSSSSBBSSSSSSSBSSSSSS) SSSSSSSSSSSSBSSSBSSMI aSBSSBBSSSSSaSS IBsiimikiMni Annd to EmiaMei the To Badoeirs Co. to !Esass (QrdktoiFs Jnstant Cash Belief or Calamity Stares the Badders Co. in the f Atethey are on the verge of bankruptcy: Owe $40,000 which creditors demand be paid on or before December 24th. To preclude the possibility of not raising the necessary amount to prevent bankruptcy, we l fe start tomorrow, Friday morning:, December 12th, the most terrific shattering of prices ever attempted in Topeka. Necessity knows no t i mercy. This is absolutely our most heroic effort to save the day; positively the last cut in price on this entire stock come what may. In Order to Better We Have Serve the Crowds of aged Plenty of Extra e This Exceptional Slaughter Will Attract eople for Your Convenience tilling Sale Starfc Men's Young Men's $15.00 Suits, Half Price $18.00 Suits, Half Price $20.00 Suits, Half Price $22.50 Suits, Half Price $25.00 Suits, Half Price $28.00 Suits, Half Price $30.00 Suits, Half Price $35.00 Suits, Half Price i Suite 7.50 9.00 10.00 11.25 12.50 14.00 15.00 17.50 Men's and Young Men's $15.00 Men's Overcoats, Half Price .$7.50 $18.00 Men's Overcoats, Half Price. 9.00' $20.00 Men's Overcoats, Half Price. 10.00 $22.50 Men's Overcoats, Half Price 11.25 Overcoats and Raincoats $25.00 Men's Overcoats, Half Price. .$12.50 $28.00 Men's Overcoats, Half Price. 14.00 $30.00 Men's Overcoats, Half Price. 15.00 $35.00 Men's Overcoats, Half Price. 17.50 Men's Coats and Raincoats $5.00 Raincoats, Half Price $2 50 I $7.50 Raincoats, Half Price $6.50 Raincoats, Half Price 3.25 J $8.50 Raincoats, Half Price. $10.00 Raincoats, Halt Price $5.00 ,......$3.75 $4.25 Men's Pants $2.50 Men's Pants, Half Price $3.00 Men's Pants, Half Price $3.50 Men's Pants, Half Price $4.00 Men's Pants, Half Price $4.50 Men's Pants, Half Price $5.00 Men's Pants, Half Price $6.00 Men's Pants, Half Price $7.50 Men's Pants,. Half Price $8.00 Men's Pants, Half Price .$1.25 1.50 1.75 $2.00 .2.25 $2.50 $3.00 3.75 4.00 Note Tnese The Half Price on our Entire CMdhreini's Depairtinnieinit Boys' K. E. Blouses 50c Blouses, Half Price .7.251 $1.00 Blouses, Half Price. .50 $1.50 Blouses, Half Price 75 Stockings 15c Stockings, Half Price .8 Boys' Gloves 25c Gloves, Half Price 35c Gloves, Half Price 50c Gloves, Half Price 75c Gloves, Half Price. $1.00 Gloves, Half Price $1.50 Gloves, Half Price $2.00 Gloves, Half Price $2.50 Gloves, Half Price 13 18 ....25 38 50 75 ...$1.00 ...$1.25 Boys' Hat 50c Boys' Hats, Half Price 25 $1.00 Boys' Hats, Half Price .50 $1.25 Boys' Hats, Half Price .63 $1.50 Boys' Hats, Half Price .75 $2.00 Boys' Hats, Half Price .$1.00 $2.50 Boys' Hats, Half Price .$1.25 $3.00 Boys' Hats, Half Price .$1.50 Children's Rompers :,J 50c K. E. Rompers, Half Price. 125 $1.00 K. E. Rompers, Half Price 50 $1.50 K. E. Rompers, Half Price 75 Boys' Ties 25c Ties, Half Price .13 35c Ties, Half Price IS 50c Ties, Half Price .25 75c Ties, Half Price 38 Sweater Coats A special heavy cotton Sweater Coat, in all sizes, original price 50c; Half Price. .....25 75c Sweater Coats, Half Price.. ..38 $1.00 Sweater Coats, Half Price. .50 $1.50 Sweater Coats, Half Price. .75 $2.00 Sweater Coats, Half Price. .$1.00 $2.50 Sweater Coats, Half Price. .$1.25 Nightwear 50c Night Shirts, Half Price .25 $1.00 Night Shirts, Half Price 50? 50c Pajamas, Half Price ..25 $1.00 Pajamas, Half Price 50 :;-BoysCaps.V v 25c Boys Caps, Half Price. 35c Boys' Caps, Half Price. ..V. 50c Boys Caps, Half Price. 75c Boys' Caps, Half Price. $1.00 Boys' Caps, Half Price:.. ...13 ...18 .25 ...38 .50 Suits and Overcoats $2.50 Garments, Half Price ....$1.25 $3.50 Garments, Half Price $1.75 $4.00 Garments, Half Price ....$2.00 $4.50 Garments, Half Price .$2.25 $5.00 Garments, Half Price .$2.50 $6.00 Garments, Half Price ....$3.00 $6.50 Garments, Half Price ....$3.25 $7.00 Garments, Half Price ....$3.50 $8.50 Garments, Half Price .$4.25 $10.00 Garments, Half Price .$5.00 $12.00 Garments, Half Price' ....$6.00 $15.00 Garments, Half Price .$7.50 Ladies' Shirts $1.50 Ladies' Shirts, Half Price .75 $2.00 Ladies' Shirts, Half Price $1.00 $2.50 Ladies' Shirts, Half Price $1.25 $3.00 Ladies' Shirts, Half Price $1.50 :,V '.Boys' Shirts 50c Shirts, Half Price 7. ,T. .v: 25 $1.00 Shirts, Half Price .50 $1.50 Shirts, Half Price .75 $2.00 Shirts, Half Price .$1.00 $3.00 Shirts, Half Price .$1.50 Stocking and Skating Caps 25c Caps, Half Price ...13 50c Caps, Half Price ....25 Boys' Pants 50c Pants, Half Price .25 75c Pants, Half Price .38 $1.00 Pants, Half Price .50 $1.25 Pants, Half Price .63 $1.50 Pants, Half Price ..75 $1.75 Pants, Half Price .88 $2.00 Pants, Half Price .$1.00 $2.25 Pants, Half Price $1.13 $2.50 Pants, Half Price .$1.25 Boys Underwear 50c Underwear, Half Price. .25 75c Underwear, Half Price. .38 $1.00 Underwear, Half Price. ...50 Wash Suits 50e Wash Suits, Half Price. .vvs -28r 75c Wash Suits, Half Price. i:; J .38 i $1.00 Wash Suits, Half Price 50 $1.25 Wash Suits, Half Price. .63 $1.50 Wash Suits, Half Price.. .75 $1.75 Wash Suits, Half Price. .88 $2.00 Wash Suits, Half Price. .$1.00 $2.25 Wash Suits, Half Price. .$1.13 $2.50 Wash Suits, Half Price. .$1.25 $3.00 Wash Suits, Half Price. .$1.50 $3.50 Wash Suits, Half Price. .$1.75 Cowboy, Indian, Scout Suits $1.00 Suits, Half Price .50 $1.25 Suits, Half Price ..63 $1.50 Suits, Half Price ..75 $1.75 Suits, Half Price ...88 $2.00 Suits, Half. Price .....$1.00 $2.50 Suits, Half Price .$1.25 $3.00 Suits, Half Price. .$1.50 $3.50 Suits, Half Price. $1.75 Boys' Suspenders and Belts 25c grades, Half Price ..13 35c grades, Half Price .18 50c grades, Half Price .25 Note These Merciless Reductions Oeh AM FmTnmsfiiings Men's Hats $3.00. Hats, now $3.50 Hats, now $4.00 Hats, now $5.00. Hats, now Shirt $1.00 Shirts, now $1.50 Shirts, now $2.00 Shirts, now $2.50 Shirts, now $3.00 Shirts, now $3.50 Shirts, now Men's Smoking $5.00 Garments, now $6.00 Garments, now $7.50 Garments, now $8.00 Garments, now $10.00 Garments, now.. $12.50 Garments, now. .$2.15 $2.45 ........$2.75 $3.00 65 95 .$1.35 .$1.65 $190 ........$2.50 Jackets ....$3.65 $4.35 ........$5.25 $5.65 $6.75 ...$7.S5 Underwear and Pajamas 50c Garments, now. v .35 75c Garments, now i $1.00 Garments, now $1.25 Garments, now $1.50 Garments, now $2.00 Garments, now $2.50 Garments, now $3.00 Garments, now $3.50 Garments, now $4.00 Union Suits, now. $4.50 .Union Suits, now. $5.00 Union Suits, now. $6.00 Union Suits, now.. Mufflers 50c Mufflers, now $1.00 Mufflers, now $1.50 Mufflers, now $2.00 Mufflers, now $3.00 Mufflers, now ..........45 ..........65 ...85 .....95 ...$1.35 ...$1.65 ...$2.15 .$2.65 ...$3.15 ...$3.45 ...$3.65 ...$4.65 .....35 .....65 .95 ...$1.35 2.15 Neckwear, 50c Neckwear, now 75c Neckwear, now $1.00 Neckwear, now $L25 Neckwear, now $1.50 Neckwear, now Men'c Half Hose 15c Half, Hose, now.. 25c Half Hose, now........... 50c Half Hose, now 75c Half Hose, now $1.00 Half Hose, now .35 .45 .65 .85 .95 ..9 .15 .35 .45 .65 Trunks, Suit Cases Dags $6.00 Trunks and Spit Cases, now $4.35 $8.00 Trunks and Suit Cases, now $5.65 $1.25 Suit Cases, now. .85 $1.50 Suit Cases, now........... .95 $2.00 Suit Cases, now .$1.35 $3.50 Suit Cases, now $2.65 $4.00 Suit Cases, now $3.15 $5.00 Suit Cases, now .$3.65 Men's Caps 50c Caps, now $1.00 Caps, now $1.50 Caps, now Garters 25c Garters, now 50c Garters, how Suspenders 50c Suspenders, now $1.00 Suspenders, now. Men's Swi 50c Sweaters, now $1.50 Sweaters, now $2.00 Sweaters, now. $2.50 Sweaters, now. $3.00 Sweaters, now. $4.50 Sweaters, now.. $5.00 Sweaters, now. $7.00 Sweaters, now. $8.50 Sweaters, now.. $10.00 Sweaters, now ters i .35 .65 .95 .15 .35. .35 .65 ....35 ....95 ..$15 .$1.65 ...$2.15 ...$3.45 ...$3.65 ...$55 ...$5.95 ...$6.75 Mackinaws $6.00 Mackinaws, now $6.50 Mackinaws, now......... $7.50 Mackinaws, now.......! $8.00 Mackinaws, now. $8.50 Mackinaws, now......!. $9.00 Mackinaws, now $9.50 Mackinaws, now........ $10.00 Mackinaws, now. .$4.35 ..$4.65 ..$SJ2S .$5.65 .$5.95 ..$6.35 ..$6.55 ..$6.75 Gloves Dress Gloves, Fur Gloves, Auto Gloves, Work Gloves $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 $5.00 $6.00 Gloves, now. Gloves, now. Gloves, now. Gloves, now Gloves, now Gloves, now Gloves, now Gloves, now Gloves, now mm: ....65 .95 ,..$1.35 ...$1.65 ...$2.15 ...$2.65 ...$3.15 ...$3.65 ...$4.35 The One-Half Price Clothing Sale Starts Friday at BtOO A. M. IIo Gocds Charged. TLJ7 .in Seventh ecd Kr.nv.a Ayc No Gccds 0a Approval J. LADLES C0 Criilt Akc No Tdephcss cr L!s3 Orders filled. sts b CcrtrcL Seventh &sd Kehsias Ave.

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TODD AliD T'EnCER. They Win Two Big Offices In Stock men's Association. All signs of a light for control of the stockmen's association disappear ed late Wednesday afternoon when W. J. Todd, of Maple Hill, was unanimous ly elected as president of the associa tion and J. H. Mercer of Chase county won the salaried office of secretary. The fighting spirit of the cattle men van ished when W. L- (Ironjaw) Brown of Kingman nominated Thomas Potter of Peabody as president, and George E. XTicxer 01 aureaa muiuicn r Mentlal candidate and nominated J. H. Todd as a compromise. Then Potter withdrew from the fight. Todd was unanimously elected president and Tucker was made vice president of the association with Mercer as secretary. That was the only fight on the pro gram for the Topeka meeting of the stockmen's association. Of course there was a scramble for location of the offices of the association, but To peka won over Wichita and the paid wMarr will maintain headauarters here. Another storm cloud on the horizon of the stock shippers was the elimina tion of commission men and bankers from membership to the state organi sation. A number of bankers and com mission house representatives wanted memberships In the association, but the new constitution prohibited their acceptance and a motion to amend the constitution was badly beaten. Over 160 stockmen attended the banquet at the Presbyterian church last night. Six stockmen responded to toasts and the principal address was given by President Henry J. Wa ters of the Kansas State Agricultural college. The banquet, which was served by the ladies of the rhurch shortly after o'clock, is an Lnnual affair with the stockmen. The mem bers of the association discussed stock problems at the banquet and all ap peared to have had a fairly prosper ous year. T. M. Potter of Peabody was the toastmaster. President Waters, in his address at the close of the program, said that the greatest meat shortage in the world was now facing the peo ple. He pointed out the blows that have been dealt the cattle business this year and how welt the stockmen had survived tt. The drouth last summer made the market idle this winter, but the Kansas cattle men have survived their troubles, he said. Waters spoke of the need of Insur ance to cattle men. The raising of stock is one of the few businesses that insurance has not been provided for. The silo, which has been grow- v ing in ravor during the past two years, has been the cause of good forage crops where it is used. i The first stockman who responded to a toast was Hays B. White of Man kato, whose subject was "The Kansas Hog." John A. Edwards of Eureka talked on "Why Our Organization?" Other, speakers were T. A. Borman, editor of the Kansas Farmer, Topeka; R. H. Haslett, Eldorado; Charles Dil lon, Capper farm papers, Topeka; G. C. Wheeler, secretary Improved Breeders' association; F. T. Ransom, president Union Stockyards National bank, Wichita, and Chester I. Long, Wichita. PURE LOVE MATCH. (Continued from Page One. called. They said they must devote the next several weeks to becoming ac quainted, as tney camea n meir courtship mostly by mall. They have advertised for a home, and expect to be listed among the cliff-dwellers In Washington apartment houses shortly. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ter rill, In spite of its unique character, was normal to a great extent. Mr. Terrill said beforehand that he wouldn't ask his wife to obey him. or to promise to do so. It developed that their mar- I- 4,ia lllrA nil successful IDftr- liao S riages: Mr. Terrill simply stands around and waits for a decision from the person whom he has maintained with a different idea, to be sure Is one-half of the marriage. He gave out an interview, after it naa oeen euneu by Mrs. Terrill, in which he recom a nottnnfil aiirvAv to determine liiruucu the best method to obtain healthy marriages. Mrs. xernii Diue-penciit all the rest. Here is a good story of how Vic UiiFinKi nf Kansas "cuts some ice In the house of representatives. The I Washington Star says: Every time the house of representa tives thinks it has witnessed the end of a long drawn out battle of wits be tween Oscar Underwood and "Jim" Man, Republican leader, or between any two of the giants on the oppos ing sides of the chamber, up Jumps a broad-shouldered, deep-chested per son with an expansive smile and with the cutest little set of auburn curls In congress, and, with a large volume under his left arm, he picks an Im aginary hair out of the atmosphere and holding it pointing directly at Champ Clark, starts the row all over uigain with "Now. Mister Speaker, If the gen tleman will yield for Just a mo ment Then the press gallery whispers In anticipation: "Vic Murdock's got something up his sleeve." For this same person with the law book or bound volume of the Con gressional Record, or one of Asher Hinds' enormous tomes on parliamen tary precedence tucked under his left wing is none other than the tawny haired leader of the Progressive par ty in the house the chief of the bull moose herd, who flopped while the flopping was good, and although elect ed a Republican, landed in this pres ent congress a Progressive. He is plain Victor Murdock, without a mid dle name, although if he has to have one It would be perfectly fitting to stick Argument in between the other two, because when it comes to argu ing Vic can talk nil around the house ?t representatives, stray into the cloak ooms, out into the corridors, back Thoro to Only Gno That to Always remember the fall name. te this sign store on every box. Look SBo. again and never stop for breath. Every one calls him Vic,' and up to and including the present. Vic and Victory have perched on the same platform. Vic is a newspaper man, one of the real kind, who made his living at the game when the living was hard and the paper struggling. He learned the trade of printing thirty years ago in Kansas, when he was ten years old and the spelling reform had not swept westward over the prairies from Boston. Consequently Vic's spelling is of the plain, unvarnished print-shop sort. So is his humor. He has a lot of it, -too. When he had stuck type until his hands were the color of mid night he thought he'd be a reporter, and he roamed the prairies around Wichita looking for news. There was so little of.lt that he had to go to Chicago to find some: ,,Vi:- thf Printer devil, soon became Mr. Murdock, the managing editor, and there s a paper In Wichita with Vic's name as such right up at the top of the editorial column.- But in Washington they forget that. AU they know about Vic is that he is the militant, rampag ing nightmare of the minority. He won't acquiesce to any sneering at the Progressives in the house, simply be cause they're less than twenty strong, and he has conducted fight after fight on tariff, income tax, currency and caucus rule as If he had an ax in one hand, a gun In the other and an army at his back. He has an uphill fight, but the best part about him is his abil ity to keep on smiling. They even say he smiles In his sleep. Arthur J. Watkins of Kansas was this week appointed a watchman in the pension bureau at an annual salary of $720. W. P. Hackney of Wtnfleld, Kan., has been a visitor in Washington for sev eral days. TO AID SUCKERS. (Continued from Page 'jnt.y way. It has been ascertained by the post office authorities that the propri etors of fraudulent schemes put out of business during the year, have ob tained from the public no less than $77,000,000. "But this covers only those cases that come to the attention of the de partment presumably on the com plaint of victims and of those, only such as presented evidence that fur nished hope of conviction. Many more were not detected, and a still greater number carry on their trade so adroitly and under such advice, pur chased from unscrupulous lawyers, that they escape the clutches of the law. It would be moderate I pre sume to multiply by ten the loss of $77,000,000 traced by the postoffice department." Group Insurance. Widespread adoption of group insur ance would reduce materially the number of women and children an nually forced into poverty, in the opinion of W. A. Day, president of the Equitable Insurance society of New York addressing the association. Describing this form of indemnity Mr. Day said: It has the double function of pro tecting families of the employed and rewarding efficient and persistent ser vice. The demands of living in these days leave most American families a margin between living conditions and poverty that is not over strong. In dividual insurance does its part well, but not adequately. Group Insur ance widens the margin and provides security against distressful poverty. Group insurance carries completely through the realm of the employer who presents for consideration a fa vorable group of risks. In such groups ability to hold a Job effects a selection aa to physical fitness that makes the group under one employer a superstandard group, so far as mor tality is concerned. Groups must be of sufficient size to present reasonable opportunity for the law of average to operate. Each group Is associated with other groups in a special class. Thus far experience has shown clear ly that the strong lives support the weaker ones in an average that gives a lower mortality than that obtained on individual Insurances through reg ular medical examinations. Advantages of System. "Sufficient time has not elapsed since the inauguration of group insur ance on which to predicate final Judg ment on all details, but it can be said that up to the present, the theory in dicated has been substantiated In prac tice; namely that the mortality in group Insurance is a superstandard mortality. "From the employers' standpoint group insurance Is the one way by which he can make sure that every man and woman in his employ is cov ered by life Insurance. Employers rightly regard it as an effective wel fare measure and an opportunity to prove In good faith their interest in those who collectively assure the suc cess of their enterprises. "Group life insurance insures the con tinuance of the pay envelope for a gen erous period and goes to the heart of the problem by protecting producing values. Usually the amount of insur ance is one year's wage and the em ployer generally supplies this much gratis, leaving to the employee the burden of carrying individual insur ance." Iioans on Policies. Arthur E. ChiMs of Boston, president of the Columbian National Life Insur ance company, urged the association to take prompt steps to educate the public not to borrow on its life insur ance. Such loans had increased from three and one-third per cent, of the reserve funds of American companies in 1888 to 16 per cent, in 1912, he said, and they probably would approach 18 per cent, this year. Of the three and one-half billion dollars held as reserve I funds at the end of 1912 by life insur I ance companies in the United States five hundred and fifty million dollars. he said, had been loaned to policy hold ers. "In subjecting the reserve fund to loans," said Mr. Childs. "life insurance companies have left it open to the whimsical desire of the insured. Too often these loans have been made with out the knowledge or consent of the family Interested. Our present .system of granting loans upon demand is ap parently incompatible with the other functions of life insurance." SWA Tor.iAi;iTAi;iLG:3Y. State Grange Will Watch Legislation Visit State Normal. Emporia, Dec. 11. General pros perity and activity is shown among the lodges of the state grange, whose delegates are holding the annual ses sion here. There are 170 lodges in. the state and everyone is represented by at least one delegate. The total mem bership In the state Is 13,000. Railroads, telephones, the Retail Dealers associations and other -organisations of this character are being discussed. The farmers have decided to follow the methods used by these organizations in maintaining a lobby during the legislature and will have representatives to look after desired legislation at Topeka in the future. These delegates are being given a royal reception in Emporia. These delegates were given an automobile ride over the -city this morning and then' shown through the State Normal buildings. The final session will be held tonight when the fifth and sixth degrees will be exemplified. These de grees are very impressive. INTEREST IN STRANG LINE. Ottawa Hopes to Get Extension from Olathe. Ottawa, Kan., Dec. 11. Interest in the proposed extension of the Strang electric interurban line from Olathe to Ottawa, via Baldwin City, runs high in this community. A delegation of fifty business men and prominent farmers from Franklin county, ac companied by a large number from Douglas county and Baldwin City, will go to Olathe today to be guests of W. B. Strang, head of the railroad, for the day. Mr. Strang will meet the electric road boosters at Olathe and take them over the line between Ola the and Kansas City in his private car. It Is planned to have a rousing meeting with the Kansas City, Kan., Commercial club in the evening, to be addressed by President Wilbur N. Mason of Baker university, Baldwin; President L. C. Jones of the Frank lin County Retail Merchants' associa tion, by members of the Baldwin City Community club and by Mr. Strang. NEMAHA FAIR ASSOCIATION. Holds Annnal Meeting and Elects Of Beers Broke Even. Seneca, Kan., Dec. 11. The Nema ha Fair association stockholders have elected thirteen new directors as fol lows: Edwin Buehler, R. M. Emery, J. P. Koelzer, J. J. Buser, Van B. Fisher, R. M. Connet, W. F. Thomp son, G. W. Williams, Thomas Burbery.i H. E. Jenkins, R. G. Johnson, W. H. Smith and H. D. Burger. The report of the finances as sent by Secretary Connet to the state board of agricul ture shows that the total receipts of the October, 1913, fair amounted to $5,164.50. Of this amount, a balance of $200 remains. A deficit of $8.08 ex isted from last year's fair and pre vious encumbrances bring the total of all Indebtedness up to $812.76. Cap ital stock paid up amounts to $7,100 and the grounds and improvements are valued at $10,655. W. H. Smith was elected a delegate to the state ag ricultural meeting at Topeka with power to appoint his own alternate. The directors' meeting; will be held on Tuesday of next week. i VAGGENER WONT RUN. BaUe's Son Says He Will Withdraw From Senatorial Race. Atchison, Kan., Dec. 11. That Balie Waggener will not be a candidate for United States senator seems a settled fact. His son, W. P. Waggener, is authority for the statement. "I am absolutely certain," W. P. Waggener said, "that father will not be a candidate for United States sen ator. His health is in better condition than it has been for the past ten years, and he is able to make the campaign, but the family is so opposed to his again entering politics that I am satis fied that when he returns from the east he will issue a definite statement that he is not a candidate." Recently B. P. Waggener asked Kansas Democrats for expressions as to whether they desired him to be a candidate for senator, and received hundreds of favorable and enthusiastic replies. When he withdraws it will leave Atchison without Democratic senatorial ambition, Jim Orr having virtually withdrawn when he an nounced himself ten days ago as a candidate for governor. WANT FARM DEMONSTRATOR. Jewell County Farmers and Bankers Will Pay Expenses. Jewell City, Dec. 11. The banks of Jewell county have put up a guar antee of $500 and are 'busy getting one hundred farmers who are guaran- teeing J5 each to employ a farm dem onstrator. Jewell county will prob ably have a demonstrator in 1914. A letter received yesterday from the Kansas State Agricultural college says they have put Jewell county down for a demonstrator next year. They are experiencing some difficul ty in securing serviceable men for this proposition, but think they have the men needed. PANAMA BUILDING. xiim Exposition Commission Adopts Plan Will Cost S20,0O0. Kansas Citv. Dec 11. The Kansas world's fair commission met at Kansas City. Kan., Wednesday and adopted a plan for the Kansas ounaing at tne San Francisco fair in 1915. The build in e. planned by C. E. Chandler, state architect, wi'.l be 60 by 100 feet, two stories high with porches at each end. A sort of stucco preparation in imitation of marble will cover the wooaen Mruciurc 11 win sum w,wvv. -p fold (Ift The commission Is composed of Al- ,ape 8 la 2jC y.r T T)iH TVitwVh- Henrv Dean. Compound.. i 1 1 1 a AAA Kansas Citv: J. F. Pettyjohn. Olathe; W. F. Benson, ElDorado, and W. P. Ennis, Wichita- Clark, Organ Builder, Is Dead. Reading. Mass., Dec. ll-Wllliam Ho ratio Clark, organist, organ builder and author, died today. He was bora in 1840. From 1856 to 1892 he served as organist in Boston. Indianapolis, To ronto and Rochester. He was the author of many books on organ playing and organ building. Driven Out by Fire, Macon, Ga.. Dec 11. Fire that de stroyed the Hotel Williams here early today drove more than fifty guests to the street in scanty attire. Two wom en on the second floor, cut -off by the flames, were taken from the windows by firemen. The hotel was built two years ago at a coat of OOO.OOO- AMERICA vs. FJGLAND PURSE $750 The Tornado Sport of the 20th century. Auspices Topeka Base Ball Club. 4 Fri., Sat, Sun., 3 P. M. Admission 50c. Tickets now on sale. AS E& ANY ONE IS A STROIIG LIST. Speakers for Progressive February 12. Banquet Planning for the attendance of Pro gressive leaders not only from Kansas but from surrounding states and with the assurance of speeches from Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, James R. Gar field of Ohio, Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington, Rev. Raymond Rob bins of Chicago and Victor Murdock. Henry J. Allen and W. R. Stubbs of Kansas, Progressive leaders nave leased the Auditorium for February 12 and plan to stage the biggest political ban quet in the history of Kansas. For weeks William Allen White, na tional committeeman for Kansas, has been working to secure speakers for the 1914 banquet. Sometime ago he stated that he expected to secure Gar field, Beveridge and Poindexter. Not until this week, though, was he assur ed that the well known Progressive leaders would come to Kansas for the Bull Moose dinner. White has also been assured that Congressman Vic tor Murdock will be In Topeka for the banquet and Henry J. Allen of Wichita and Walter Roscoe Stubbs of Lawrence have promised to participate in the love feast. There will be both afternoon and night meetings, with a -big dinner at nie-ht. In the afternoon Congressman Victor Murdock, of the' Eighth Kan sas district, will be the principal speak er and W. R StubbsV will preside at this meeting. At the fU ght. gathering. Henry J. Allen of Wichita will preside as toastmaster and the men and. wo men who came from ther states to attend the Kansas Progressive meet ing will carry home the news that the Kansas man Is the best toastmaster In the business. It will be a big meet ing. William Allen White assures the Progressives as much. There will be enough oratory to run well into the next campaign and enough to eat to answer the purpose of a first-class meal. At the Kansas banquet the question of a preprimary convention will proba bly be discussed. The Progressives will also discuss candidates, platform poli cies and war plans for the future. Other states Missouri, Nebraska, Il linois, Colorado and Oklahoma will send delegations to the Topeka meet ing, ana every progressive man and woman in Kansas will be urged to come to the annual gathering of the Bull Moose workers. PROUD OF HER SOU. Mother of A. H. Smith Rejoices Over His Success, r Cleveland, Dec. 11. "Son, I am proud of you; I knew you had it In you." This was the benediction breathed upon Alfred H. Smith of New York, newly elected president of the New York Cen tral Lines, by his 85-year-old mother, Mrs. Charlotte Smith, when the son paid her a surprise visit at ner nome Here today. 1 The greeting between Smith and his mother, who is an invalid, was most af fectionate. She placed her arms around his neck and kissed him again and again. It was the first meeting between the two since the elevation of Smith to the j he1ad. f he great railway corporation which he has served manv rears.- Smith stopped here for a short time today on his way west from New York. The next Topeka Bell telephone di rectory goes to press December 15. All subscribers wishing to make changes should send them in before this date. Call 40S3. Adv. Drugs and Toilet Goods The Modern Drug Store. "Happen you'd like to save a little money on drusrs?" How's this: Laxative Bromo 20c Peruna at. Pinkham's Compound op. -ii OtfCCa 84. 85c! Pierce's Golden Hill's Cascara Medical OF. OaC Qui nine. Weeks' 20c Discovery. Swamp Root. 45c Break- 20c 20c 45c up-a- Cold. Quln- aretm. Plnex at. Plnex Cold Tablets. and 85c Scott's AKp Emulsion.. rJV' and 85c Syrup of AKg Pepsin, and 85c Syrup of JCa Ftjpj. 20c Pierce's Favorite. Prescrip- QIU tlon. .OOC Castorla 20c CTJT-RATE TMleptioae 4S. THi phi siii We First Game for World's Championship HANKINSON'S ORIGINAL JVVV. HOUSTON MAKES REFLY Secretary of Agriculture- Answers Criticism of the Grangers. Washington, Dec. 11. Secretary Houston of the department of agricul ture today issued a formal reply to a. criticism that he did not receive the Ohio Corn club boys when they were here last week. The secretary de clares he was ready and willing to see the boys and that he was in office at the hour when, according to his un derstanding of the arrangement, they were to appear. In fact, about 100 of the boys did appear at his office and were received, he declares. In correspondence made public with his statement was a letter to the secre tary cancelling the engagement to re ceive the corn growers. The director of the party, T. P. Riddle of Lima, Ohio, wrote that as the boys and girls were footsore and lacking in sleep, he thought it advisable to lighten the program. After receiving the letter Secretary Houston replied expressing his regret at not having met all the Ohio boys anf girls in the party. TODAY'S MJtRXET REPORTS Chcago, Dec. 11. WHEAT Heavy rains interfering with the Argentine harvest caused the wheat market today to rally. Offerings here were smolL Prices opened unchanged to e off but afterward rose to above last night's level all around. The Argentine exportable surplus was estimated aa .low as 65,000,000 bushels. Unanimity of bullish sentiment, however, made buyers cautious and the market fell back. The close was easy at decline to a shade advance, compared o. m put strength into corn. Opening prices varied from a shade lower to c up and later scored on advance for all options. Strength then slackened, country sales to arrive being larger. The close was steady to a shade to c under last night. OATS Oats held steady. Business con sisted chiefly ot changing from December to May. PROVISIONS Provisions sagged at the outset but subsequently recovered with corn. First sales ranged from the same as last night to 7ttc decline. Chicago Grain Market. The rang of prices tor gratn futures oa the Chicago Board of Tiado as reported by Ttaos. J. Myers. Broker. Columbian Bldg. Chicago, Dec 11. Clow. Opea High Low Today Yes tVHKAT Dec. ..88 89 88 89 88 May 92 92 92 92- 92 July ..89 89 89 89 89 CORN Dec. 70 71 70 10- 70 May 70 70 69 9- 70 July C9 09 69 89 69 Dec. S9 89 39 S9 39- May 42 42 42 42 42 July ..41 41 41 41 41- PORK Jan.' 21.17 21.22 21.10 21.10 21.26 May ..21.20 21.27 21.10 21.12 21.27 Kansas City Grain Market. rrhe range of prices for grain futures oa the Kansas City Board of Trad as re ported by Taos. J. layers. Broker, Co lumbian Bldg. Kansas City, Dec U. Close Open High Low Today Yea IT IT AT Dec! 83 83 83 83 83 May 87 88 87 87- 87 July ..84- 85 84 84- 84- CDec. 67 7 7 7- 7 May ..71- 72 71 71 71 July 70- 71 70 70- 70- Chlcaaro Grain Market.' Chicago. Dec 11. WHEAT Close: De cember. 89c; May, wsc. CORN December, 70c; May, 69c OATS December, 39c; May, 42c PORK December, 821.10; May, 921.12. LARD December, 810.99; May, $11.10. SHORT RIBS December, $11.02; May, S1L25. tareroool Grain Market. TJvornool. Dec. 1L WHEAT-Spot, firm; No. 1 Manitoba, 7s Id; No. 2, 7s d; No. 3, 6s lld- M CORN spot. I inn; .American huko. sraa City Produce Market. Kansas Citv. Dec 10. WHEAT Cash: I Market unchanged to 2c higher. No. 3 hard, 84e9c; No. 3, 83S8c; Nc Z red, IWASatc: No. 3. 81090c CORN Market unchanged. No. 2 mixed. 6768c; No. 8, (8c; No. 1 white, 71c; No. 3, 69c OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white, 49M0e; No. 2 mixed. 40c RYE Market unchanged. HAY Market unchanged. BUTTER Market unchanged. EGGS Market unchanged. POULTRY .Market unchanged. WHEAT Receipts J6 cars. CLOSE: WHEAT December, 83c; May, 8787c CORN December, 767c: May. 71c OATS December. 8c; May, 43c 3Cew woett Produce Market. New York, Dec 11. BUTTER Market firm. Creamery extras, MQHc CHEESE Market firm; unchanged. EGGS Market firmer. Fresh gathered extras, 4042c; refrigerator, special marks, taney $8e.- v POULTRY Pn i a. steady: fresh km- ed western chickens, 12ac; fowls, 13"19c; turkeys, lt24c. CWcac- Produce ManceL Chicago. Dec. 11. BUTTER Market higher. Creameries, 2224c to 3434c EGGS Market lower. At mark,- cases Included, 2631c; ordinary firsts, 2829c; firsts, tie. POTATOES Market lower. Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, red, (365c; ditto white. 6370c. POULTRY Alive, lower; springs, 12c; fowls, 13c; turkeys. 16c; dressed, 22c. New York Stock Market. Wall St.. New York, Dec. 11. STOCKS Attempts to sustain stock quotations In the face of drastic liquidation of special issues were unavailing this morning and after an early improvement prices dropped sharply all around, passing m vuc Haven dividend increased in influence j rather than diminished, new nvra an extreme drop of 6 to 67. Pennsyl vania gave way 2 points and American Telephone 2, both issues falling under their low records for a number of years. Reports from Washington that the presi dent was considering the advisability of government ownership for telephone lines accounted for the weakness of the tele phone shares. Liquidation was in smaller volue toward the end of the morning ses sion but the market was forced to absorb a large amount of speculative holdings of long stock, and prices were depressed from a fraction to several points. Bonds were easy. With the exception of New Haven which broke 4 points to 8 at the opening the stock market was fairly steady. Passing of the New Haven dividend resulted in large trading In the stock wnleh opened with a block of 6,000 shares at 68 to 68 compared With yesterday's close of 72. Teh next sale was at 68 and then follow ed further recovery to 69. lrst prices through the list showed small and lrreg io. okantH with a stronger tone after ik. initial transactions. .Reading and Pacific and Amalgamted were quickly bid up a point and Union Pacific rhe market closed firm. Fall in can money per cent infused a better tone i into the nnai dealings, oui inero quickening of the demand. The earlier weak feature ciosea i to z points up nuui the lowest. New Tork Stocks. Close of prices for the leading stocks on the New York Stock Excaang as re ported by Thos. J. Myers, Wroker. Colum bian Bldg.j New York. Dec. 11. r Today Am. Beet Sugar Am. Can, c 27 Am. Car and Foundry...... 44 Amal. oCDDer 70 23 26 70 29 61 Am. Locomotive, c 28 Am. S. and R-, c 61 Am. S. and R., p 98 Am. Sugar Ref 102 Am. Tobbaco. c 243 Anaconda Mining 34 A. T. and S. F-. c 92 99 100 248 34 92 98 92 86 A. T. and S. F.. D Baltimore and bio 92 Brooklyn R T Canadian Pacific 224 Central Leather 24 Cheeapeake-and hlo 56 223 24 C. M. and Bt. J-., c i Erie, c 27 General Electric 138 Great Northern, p 124 98 27 138 Inspiration 14 Lehigh valley 148 Missouri pacinc zov M. K. and T.. c 25 20 National Biscuit.... 120 Nev. Con. Copper N. Y. Central..; 92 Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific 107 Penn. Railroad 107 Ray oCn Copper Reading, c 163 Rock Island, c 13 Rock Island, p 21 Southern pacific 886 Southern Railway, c... Tenn. Copper 29 TTnlon Pacific, c 152 14 92 103 108 18 163 13 20 87 22 29 152 TTninn Pacific D S3 U. S. Steel, c 66 56 U. S. Steel, p 105 Utah Copper 48 Western Union... 61 Westlnghouse Electric 4 104 48 2 4 New Vork Money Market. New York, Dec 1L MONEY Money on call firm, 6 per cent; ruling rate, 6 per cent; closing bid 22 per cent. Time loans, strong; 60 days, 5 per cent; 90 days, 5 per cent; months. 5 per cent; mercantile paper, 5ia per cent Sterling exchange steady ;8 0 days, 84.81; demand, 84.85.15; commercial bills, $4.80. SILVER Bar silver, 67c; Mexican dol lars, 44c BONDS Government bonds, firm; rail road bonds, irregular. Made to Order Please Men Because the sleeves are the right length because the neckbands set correctly and comfortably because they can al ways have their slse in the material they like. Phone us about Custom-made Shirts for gifts. They make Christmas Gifts Moat Appreciated. The finest of imported and domestic fabrics to choose from. Priced at $2.00 each. S for $5.90, and up. Women's Mannish Tailored Shirtwaists Ueu' XfUt Capitol Shirt Factory C24 Kansas Anaoe. Ticte2C3. UC Cla lYrp. TOMORRO W o o o o o u FRESH CATFISH 2 lb. for 25c WM. GREEN 5 iV SON J, New Tork Sugar Market. New York, Dec 11. SUOAR-Raw, nom inal: Muscovado. 2.96lti.1.04- Cntrifnnl 3.45; molasses, 2.70; retlned, quiet. Wichita Live Stock Market. Wichita, Dec 11. HOGS-Recelpts 8,000. Market steady. .Top, $76.6; bulk of sales.' t7.35ft7.55. CATTLE Receipts 200. Market steady, KatfVA RterA SR fitlffff.8 9fi 1r.u- om4 i ta.0&8.(0; blockers and feeders, f6.007.00; stock cows and heifers, 4.Q06.25; bulls, $4.25416.25; calves. -87.0010.00. St. Joe Live Stock Market. St. Joe. Dec IL-HOOS-Dnvlnta IS HM U.FA. C I MJE. 1 W. CATTLE Receipts 1,800. Market slow. Bieei-a, a.uu'ps.uu; cows ana hellers, S4.2MS .60; calves, t5.G0O10.6O. SHEEP Receipts 2.000. Market 10c low ers. Lambs, 86.007.90. Kansas City Live Stock Market. n8?? 9ty- 1c HHOGB-Recelpts-11,000. Market steady. Bulk of sales. 97.40 i7.i6; heavy, J7.7O&7.80; packers and buteh. era, $7.507.75; light, $7.357.70; pigs, $6,609' CATTLE Receipts 4,000, Including 409' southerni Ma.lr., n, steers, $8.259.50; dressed beef steers. $7.00 8.25; western steers. $6.007.76; southern fli J?"5070l: cows- $4-407.26; heifers. T.009.25; stockers and feeders. 85.5007.60: bulls, f5.O07.0O; calves, 86.6011.09. SHEP-Recelpts 7.000. Market steody. Lambs, 87.2SW8.05; yearlings. t5.G0es.75: wethers. 84.60e6.25; ewes. 4.00e.90: Vtock ers and feeders, f3.25tt.60. Chicaen Live Stock Market, Chicago. Dec 11. HOGS Receipts 36,009. Market slow, steady at yesterday's aver age. Bulk of sales, S7.667.80;. light, $7,800 7.75; mixed. $7.607.85;. heavy. $7.6067.99; rough. 87.607.60; pigs. f5.5O7.30. CATTLE Receipts 6.000. Market steady. Beeves, t6.S09.5O; Texas steers. 86.657.70; western steers, $5.907.75; stockers and feeders. $4.90&7.60; cows and heifers, $3,400 8.30; calves. 7.00(S.11.26. SHEEP Receipts 20,000. Market slow. Native. 94.256.50; western, t4.203.50; yearlings, $5.35$i7.65; native lambs. 87.263 7.90; western, $6.257.90. Kansas Clry Live Stock Salem, libs foliowlng -u.iles wars made this morning at tne Stock Yards. Kansas City, and reported over long distance 1 lelephanr direct to tne State Journal by Clay. Robinson A Co.. live stork com mission merchants, with offices at al t Kansas City. Dec. 11. CATTLE Re ceipts 4,00 head. Market slow, steady. HOGS Receipts 11,009 head. Market steady. Bulk of sales. 7.407.65; top, $7.71. SHEEP Receipts 7.000 head. Market steady. COWS AND HEIFERS. K'fc Wt. Price INo. Wt Pries. 1 1120 $4.30 I 930 $4.75 3 640 8.00 I S 741 7.76 10. 660 7.25 I S 698 6.35 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS, I..'. 840 7.10 22 (35 4.40 S 641 6.90 16 839 6.16 CALVKS. 2 3 .1..... 198 11.00 I t 231 810.60 298 9.00 4 1U 9.69 MB 8.76 I 4 828 7.60 BULLS. 1 1120 6.25 I S ..1110 5.10 1 1240 6.86 I HOGS. 50........ 310 7.75 I 64........ 208 7.57 CS Z31 I ZS... 1SS 7.4V 78 198 7.66 Shirts L (1 BBBBa'aB.iTSi r r mm iu.f

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By FRANK P. MAO IiKKICAW. IhtM Tulv 1 1SBL AJI Mttw at the postofflee at Toseks, K a.. asar we sat 01 consraas.j ivolumb xxxv. No. 274 Official Stat Paper. Official Paper City of Ttopeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily edition, delivered by earlr. acts a iraek to any serf of Topek or abort. r at tha aama prb to any Kan as town what the papar has eavrlar System. By mail ana yaw... 5 By msll six month !W By man MO days, trial order ia TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call at and ask tha State Journal operator for per son or department desired. Topaka State Journal building. BBS, SB ad Im Kansas avenue, corner fiiigbth. Mew York Office: SO Fifth avenue. Faal Block manager. Chicago Offioa: Mail era bunding. Paul awecs. manager. Boa ton Office: Tremont Building. awock, manager. N eJLL LEASED H IKE report OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Tha State Journal Is a member of the .Associated Pre and receives the full day al seraph report of that great new -sjmalaadon for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topaka. Tha new la received tat Tha Stat Jour nal building ever wtree for Uiia ado par- I And the suggestion that a public golf links be laid out in Gage's park la an excellent one. Over in Mew York, "punching the bagman" has become the popular form of Indoor exercise. While the artistic temperament may tear its hair occasionally, it never tears vp Its meal ticket. Perhaps the senate fears to be ab rupt in passing the currency measure because it Is the Glass MIL- Mailing Christmas presents early may also help to give the overworked post office robbers a better chance. A house of mirth, points out the Chi cago News, is one in which the wife laughs at all her husband's stale jokes. In France there Is one saloon to 82 Inhabitants. And it is not uncommon there to see 82 Inhabitants In one sa loon. The dove of peace, having been crowded off the roost by the hen, has a fine chance to retaliate by laying a few eggs. Friendly word of advice always con sidered apropos at this time of year: Be sure to have your cotton whiskers fireproof ed. s What a shock it would be to Eng land K a building were to burn and no "naatlty of literature reviling the government" be found! As was to have been expected, the report of the lobby Investigating com mittee of the house of representatives is made up In the main of piffle. If the London suffragists want to know what real trouble is, let them go over to Berlin and smash the win dows ot Kaiser Wilhelm's palace. A Poughkeepsle woman offers $35 re ward for the return of her husband, dead or alive. Probably it is modesty alone that prevents her from stating her preference. Anyway, wireless telephone service across the sea is likely to be postponed long enough to give us time to learn how to say "Hullo" in the various European styles. A Chicago woman has been sent to prison for five months for throwing hot water on her husband. But merely throwing hot water on him was better than keeping him in It. Cheerfulness Is the recipe for longev ity that is given by a New Tork worn' an who has attained the age of 116 years. And it is one of the few that has a reasonable ring to It Old man Carransa also appears to be somewhat of an adept in the art of letter-writing. But he is evidently not a believer in the theory that the pen Is mightier than the sword. Our idea, says the Galveston News, Is that there ought to be at least three children in every family, so that if one of them should become a genius the other two could support hims -35 "J !"S-BS" That was a discriminating burglar who worked out recently in northeast ern Kansas. Instead of tapping a bank, or a postofflce, or an express car, he visited a farmer's cellar and got away with six doxen eggs. Presumably the United States sena tors who are being held so rigidly to their tasks by the president would like to meet on a dark night whoever was responsible for putting the "would" in Woodrow and the "will" In Wilson. This Christmas will witness another example of the inequitable distribu tion of wealth, says the Galveston News. In soma places they are unable to buy eggs for their nog and in some places they can't buy nog for their eggs. No man has a cleaner or finer sense of propriety than William Howard Tart. He denied himself tha pleasure of prac ticing law, and the large profits that would certainly have accrued to him thereby, because he would have occa sionally been forced to plead before the United States supreme court, the ma jority of whoae Justices h appointed THE NEWSPAPER'S GROTJGH. -When William Allan White takes) a day oil from the discussion of politics and tooting on the Bull Moose horn he is more than likely to write something for his Emporia Gasette that tells the whole truth, and is thereby as full of human Interest as a good nut is of meat. He did this the other day under the caption. "Our Annual Grouch," and while what he had to say is woven around the Gasette and its experiences, and also the feelings of Its editor, the same might be written in full truth of every newspaper and its editor. It is peep behind the newspaper scenes, and la as follows: "The text for the following brief and more or less sensible remarks is found In the Lincoln Sentinel in the issue of October 30, MIS. It runs thusly: "The local paper never gets credit for what it does, but it gets abun dantly blamed for every little thing it omits to do. There is not another bus iness in any town that gets so little credit for its efforts toward the up building of the town as does the local paper. And worst of It is that the big gest share of the criticism comes from people who contribute least toward the support, of the paper.'' Now every man is entitled to one drink a year if he wants it, and every editor is entitled to one annual grouch. We haven't had our grouch for two years, and if s kind of Ingrown and bitter, and this text rather aggravates It. Moreover, this screed is written on cloudy, drippy, measly, miserable, sloppy day that would make the Angel Gabriel bite his horn, so probably we are entitled to our grouch good and hard. "Our grouch does not concern the Gasette: It is no better than most newspapers and not so good as some, but the business, the newspaper bust le what an everlasting joke it is! A man was in the Gasette office this morning big advertiser In a neigh boring city. He said he wrote around to a doxen newspapers in nearby towns offering them advertising for his bus iness, and he said, 'Do you know, Just because my business was competing with their local merchants, not a one of the doxen newspapers would take it at any price.' Then he added that the bankers and merchants with whom he wished to compete were sending their printing to be printed the statements,' deposit slips, envelopes and what not, to the very city in which he lived. You're in a fool business,' quoth the merchant. "For years the Gasette has refused to take the advertising of quack doc tors and of patent medicines which claim to cure the ills of the flesh, and the answer is that we haven't had a bit of Job printing from but three home doctors since we began this policy and we owed one of them a bill. More over, the Lyon County Medical society. as a delicate tribute of gratitude to the Gasette, passed some sort of a resolu tion or had some sort of an understand ing that advertising was unethical and do you think there has been an Inch card of any kind In the paper from any Emporia doctor since? More than that. Just to show that we like to crawl on our tummy, when tne society ae cided that It was unethical to print the names of doctors in connection with any case we crawled. Tou haven't seen any doctor's name since. The subscribers are denied the news, the business office is denied the simoleons, and the paper generally is used as a doormat, for the further glory ot tne Lord probably: "That, however. Is a small matter. Every paper has corked up in it bitter, burning wrongs, which it never airs. Some day, when the time comes, we promise to get out a special edition, ana for once in a long and useless career. tell the truth about grafting churcn workers who think that in the adver tising of their entertainments to Steal and cheat and graft for tne -ora is a pious act: in that edition we propose to tell how many dollars the various busted fair associations owe us for ad vertising which never was paid for; how many men the Gazette has sup ported for office who went around de claring that the Gasette did them more harm than good; how many times we have got behind the town-booming propositions, wasted our time and space and good black ink and white paper and in the end had a lot of ivory handled chumps hold a lodge of sorrow over a typographical error, and moan about the fact that the Gazette never does get anything right. "Some day, 'some blessed day,' when the mists are cleared away, we hope to be able to print a paper that will tell the truth about quack preachers and all the gorgeous hypocrisy of the in fernal, mechanical clap-trap done In the name of the Lord. Heaven knows the Gazette is ashamed of its various piano contests, and we hope we'll have the moral courage to turn down the aV luring temptation the next time it comes around. But we do hate to see a piano contest run in the name of re ligion, and some time we're going to take a day off and say so. And while we're saying we're going to print the truth about at least one phase of the woman question. The people are get ting tired of the use of the phrase, white slave, as applied to some shame less old hen who gets caught in a com mercial liason with a man. We're sending a lot of men to Jail, and es tablishing a kind of double standard In favor of the women. A woman now can do a lot of things for which a man has to go to JalL The weemln In some of the white slave cases that have come up recently should go to Jail also that is. If anyone should go to Jail, which is a debatable question. The Gasette is pretty nearly ready to cut out the use of the words, "white slave.' altogether. "That is about all; ifs at least enough. Otherwise, this is a pretty decent universe. Most men. pay their debts, love their wives, are fair with their neighbors and serve the Lord in a reasonaby acceptable fashion. Most Institutions are as good as the. people that live under them. This is a I here. 12,344 are good citizens and the other one Isn't always so grouchy. "So 'with these few remarks, and hoping this will find you the same, we remain yours truly until death do us part, and by way of postscript will say this, that having it out of our system we feel a let better." JOURNAL ENTRIES Most of the midnight oil that's burned nowadays is gasoline. He who laughs last is also often slow at grasping the point of a Joke. Too many people try to look pleas ant only when they have their pic tures taken. Almost everybody has a different idea as to what constitutes a good time. 4 .A good deal of pessimism abroad in this old world is due probably to indigestion. JAYNAWKER JOTS Now for the Christmas trot! ex claims the El Dorado Republican. Procrastination is -seldom applied to spending money, points out the McPherson Republican. As the Atchison Champion says: The man who does his best each day seldom is asked to explain why he failed. If you will take notice, the Cherry vale Republican says, the "four-flusher" very often has a hard time get ting by. President Wilson, explains the Ot tawa Republic gently snubbed the "suff," but he didn't quite eliminate the "rage." There is nothing hypocritical, re marks the Leavenworth Times, about the frank admiration some men have for themselves. Water is the best "kidney medicine" the Lord or any one else ever made, advises the Kansas state board of health bulletin. Tou probably think you are a moral and upright man, says the Independ ence Reporter, but if you should mys teriously disappear this evening peo ple would advance a dozen scandalous reasons. A California Judge has rendered a decision that the people need not dodge autos, notes the Winfleld Cour ier, and it adds: Of course it's not compulsory to do so, but it shows wisdom and discretion. Troubles for the poor farmer never cease, says the Stanton County Jour nal. Now Lon Elwood, who sowed a nice field of wheat this fall, which looks fine and since the rain will look finer still. Is having sleepless nights and days full of gloomy forebodings that he will be unable to get men to help him harvest his wheat crop. Wouldn't that Jar you? A Sabetha merchant sent a bill for $13 to a customer in a nearby town, relates the Sabetha Herald. The man sent back a check for $30.1(5 and a letter, saying that he thought there had been a mistake made and all his purchases had not been rhr ok A anil that he wanted to pay for everything u oougni. -rais unusual man has recently lost one child from diph theria and had others ill with the same disease, nas sent three of his cnuaren to tne school for the deaf In Chicago and had a crop failure. GLOBE SIGHTS BT THE ATCHISON GLOBE. Don't overwork your protest. Ambition and enmlti era ntni mmmn. elates. There im aIwavr nms nroaM the floor. A girl la ant tn rr steady unless he tries to get away. In the cost of high living; are medicine bills that Bhort rations would wipe out. A few men who specialize in making an nouncements through a megaphone can be understood. A dUtiful Wif IS AIM wtlA ajrfll hallawa her husband when he tells her a cork screw is a screw driver. 'Mr education isn't nil that It iIumiM be, but I am married and know enough not to argue with a woman." Rufe Hoa kins. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Your VOlinsr nfivfrinfa.n vonr nu.Jii- quires a wise look. A POOr movement set nn fnn suit In a lame excuse. More than a watch dog Is needed to keep the wolf from the door. No man succeeds unless he takes chances; neither does he fall. Some people act as if thnv hi a .a on the earthly saint business- The good will of a business is generally appraised at more than It is worth. When love at first sight leads to mar riage second sight is apt to lead to di vorce. There's a lot of credit mmlni tn a a- woman in the next world that she failed to get In this. All the world's a stage ana noma nt ,,a can't even get a chance to look at the play from the gallery. Although a -woman may be afraid of a little mouse, she never forgives her hus- oana ior not neing a Carnegie medal hero. Now that naner la belner mnria from cornstalks, let some genius proceed to convert yesterday's newspapers Into cattle 1UUU. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. Hoax "Are Scribbler's books read?" Joax "No, but his hair Is." A broken promise may be repaired, but it can never be made aa good as new. A fellow must be quite taken with a girl when they are photographed together. Many a man is such an enthusiast that you can't even dampen his ardor with a drink. It's a poor rule that won't work both ways, and a poorer one that won't work our way. The average man hates to break in -new ahoes almost as much as to have old ones broke out. Many a man spends a lot of time -in talking that might better be used in sawing wood. The novelty has worn off smokeless powder, but we have yet to hear of the smokeless cigarette. The pessimist may believe tn heaven, but he is apt to have his suspicions that It Is paved with gold bricks. TtlnhHw "Tin tou believe that absence makes the heart grow fonder?" Blobbs "Yes, of bores and other people wo don't like." 81111CUS "Conversation is becoming lost art." Cynlcus "Huh! I guess you never attended a woman's afternoon bridge party." Blobbs "Tour suffragette friend Is rather masculine, isn't she?" Blobbs "Oh, I don't know. She always looks around for some fallow's seat in s erowd- Jack Sunn wants It distinctly under- stood that his red nose and bleared eyes are not 'the result of weeping over Mr. Sulzer's mistreatment by Tammany. His bleared appearance Is due to a case of the ding-donged, dad-burned, blinkety-blanked grippe. The New Standard dictionary does not contain the word "ornery," which bars the New Standard for general utility purposes. The word Is an ab solute necessity in describing some people who are not quits worth cuss ing. i Comes now a lady with a recipe for making fruit cake without eggs. And if she will follow her popular leaa with a recipe for eggless omelette, her fame will be established. Conditions In Mexico seem to be sort mixed. Huerta has his congress trained so it will eat out of his hand, while the north end of his bailiwick still shows a rabid desire to bite him somewhere else. President Wilson liked Henderson Martin's face. So do we, comma, so do we. But it is a good thing for Hon. Martin the president saw his face before he saw some of the news paper cuts of our distinguished citi zen. TYii word was nassed that carrots were good for the complexion, and a lot of women went arter tne earn like rabbits. Why wouldn't It be a good idea for the state to get some doctor to spread the word that dande lion greens, beat everything as a beau tifler, and then give the complexion seekers full run of the state house lawn? t Willum Allen White is going to cut ou- the use of tne woras wimo lave." It Is a silly expression as generally used, and almost comic when applied, as It was in a case uus summer, to a Senegambian dame about the color ot a ton of Osage City Shaft. Chicago Is going to do away with the bread line and "free flop" and substitute therefor the five-cent lodg ing house and meaL This will be glad tidings to the unemployed who lack about $2.89 of having the necessary dime. It is reported that a Bennington, Kan., woman has put up 2,000 Jars of fruit. "Putting up" things is a favorite form of suicide among the women in any rural community, but this lady seems to hold the record for having taken the longest Jump toward the ultimate finish. Congressman 'R. P. Hobson wants to prohibit the sale of liquor except for sacramental and medicinal pur poses. A bill such as he proposes might not increase the church attend ance, but It would establish "Invalid Clubs'' all over the country. The experiment" of selling It for "medicinal purposes" was tried In this state, and as a result the; record -of cases of seriousr illness, was out of all proportions to the number of fatali ties, and, according to sworn state ments filed with the probate Judge, our own be-yootiful little village was little more than .a large hospital filled with chronic invalids who prescribed for themselves. ON TOE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BT ROT K. MODLTON. Tfae Ubiquitous Mike. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Is the way the old saw goes. If the germs don't kill us, the microbes must. And when we're gone who knows? There's microbes In the things we eat, And microbes in the air. And microbes in the telephone; There's microbes everywhere. There's microbes on the greenbacks And it scares some folks a lot. But we defy 'em one and all That's on the bills we've got. There ain't no use. so we have found. Of making any fuss About the microbe and his clan, We just forget the cuss. Afterthoughts. The Income tax collector should hang around the meat markets and find out who are buying porterhouse steaks.' Great Britain believes that whoso ever shair dig a Panama canal shall fall Into it The real currency question is whether the salary will last until next pay day. It is easy enough to be pleasant when life goes along gay and pert, but the. guy who's worth while Is the one who can smile when wearing a new nannel shirt. New Tork woman is granted 3.000. in "spite of the fact that she dvea poker parties." But if she gives poker parties, will $3,000 a year be enough? josn Billings would be right In his element if he were here now in the midst of the simplified spelling; cam paign. France has admitted Jack Johnson to citizenship. France has alwava been a friend to this country In tlnut of need. Vests are' to be worn by women this winter and, in some families, another weu xnown l.iaie garment. The Hen. The hen, a mighty bird Is she; Her eggs are choice as gold; They sell for forty cents a doz.. -At least so we are told. The best ones in the grocery store Are always labeled "Sold." Now listen while we ten to thee A tale that's mighty sad. We placed a mortgage on our horns And bought one egg, egad. And when we tried to eat the same The gol dum thing was "bad." a -fi iw (News item: The peppermint crop Is short Oh, baby with your tummy ache. Tou'll yell the whole night through. No peppermint for you to take. And dad wUlIke with you. Oh. midnight eons, alack, alas, Tour chiefest Joy has fled; The Juleo you will have to pass And take straight stuff instead. OK lady of the chewing gum. Nomare your lawswlll THE STARR'S' NIGHT. I mind myself a little ehUd. Maybe that ragweed's height. When first I lifted up my eyes And saw the stars at night. I saw them caught among the leavi Uke fishes In a net: The wonder of the child X was Comes back upon me yet. Old Shan he took me by the hand And pointed overhead, Where every great big star I saw Biased green and blue and red. Above the haggard the Great Bear Went prowling through the sky. I saw the Pole. Star Cash Its lamp For ships to journey by. Shan pointed where the lady sits Inside her shining chair. And told me thim that travels takes The Milky Way up there. Above the mountains Venus hung. Above the sea blazed Mars. Ah! God the wonder of that night When first I saw the stars! W. M. Letts, in the Westminster Taming Hetwn. (By Dorothy Douglas.) If Helen Croy had been less of a social leader she might havs married George Dillon and settled down to a luxurious life among her Idle rich friends. But Helen had always more or less ruled the coterie in which she traveled and she wanted to rule Dil lon. Dillon was sufficiently in love wita the imperious beauty to listen quietly to his fiancee's tirade against his man ner of life. "Tou are so dreadfully idle," she con tinued, after having finally broached the subject that had been in her mind for some time. "I dislike the idea of marrying a man who spends his morn ings in bed, his afternoons at teas or sports, and his evenings at clubs or theaters." "I find it a very pleasant life," he suggested with the slight drawl that, in moments of Irritation, added fuel to flame in Helen's temper. Helen's temner was rather a precarious one and not to be trifled with. Dillon him self was aware of it. "I have not as yet felt any great lack in my mode of living," he added. "That's Just the point." retorted Helen, "you are perfectly content to do nothing. You would no doubt be about the house all day after we are married and in consequence we would grow weary of each other." Dillon's voice was suddenly grave. "Love is not worth the having it it tires with constant association. I will not grow tired of you, Helen." But Helen's feathers were ruffled. She longed to shape the life of George Dillon, and In so doing triumph in her power. "We have not tried life together yet and if we are to be constantly under one another's feet I must take back my promise to marry you." She saw the sudden start on Dil lon's part and felt certain of his giv ing in to her whim. For whim it was. Had it not been for her sense of power and a desire to gratify it she might have considered Dillon the one man in the world who could make her happy, idleness, drawl and all. "You are very foolish to break our engagement on so slight a provoca tion," Dillon put slowly, v f'l do not call it, alight.!f Helen, af firmed hotly. .'"You have iever mdde a dollar in your life!" ''Nor had I when you promised to marry me,'' DiUon's drawling voice had taken on a cool defiance. "We will consider our engagement at an end!" Helen said, quite beside her self with the sudden appearance of mastery in the erstwhile phlegmatic Dillon. "Very well. Helen," he agreed as vm tne ring she handed him in his pocket. "I never intend to ask you to wear this ring again. If by any chance you desire it back you will have to ask for it. Goodby." He had gone before Helen Croy real ized it. Her absolute .-"...i.llldl fc 1W tT K overpowered the fear that away tne one man whom her proud heart could na t,.Atf?J"JJ"!?TH eely knew, aa uwijr away xrom ner door step, whether he might not have been happier in acceding to Helen's wishes, than in losing the bcautif" wiman" captured his first love. However. Dillon waa to fly back and yield the moment hand- "'y capable -"miui io increase the distance between himself However, the alrl'a u-, tmnKlng. It was" moretta vl m Shin.jEw.t. 0 ?n" d'eeS m JS In quletlv on one .k T3- weep- He stODDed in front peer-d through the semi-gloom Ma J.SS gave a quick twine- Wr -?J' Si" "Jl" wnanUnh"PPJr 7 thatf""; "Can I Is thra BnirthU. -r &g. ZTSsrT AttJeTf dl?courageinent was upon her. ii is omy iimx i am out of work sha JKfl'.T't. the.t.facS me with all the terror rxvertv hnirt. t r.Te "'el for three weeks to get a posi tion such as I want." Dillon sat down on th hanoi, i n.. can you dor' he asked. naI?n stenographer In a eommls glrl told htm years," the An inspiration seuuvi tmii m. it-. nine swiftness. t .w..S?oufth of business to help an absurdly ignorant man who has nlentv or mananr tn i z. business?;' he asked quickly, and waited more or less excitedly for her answer. couia run a Dusmexs alone If I had the capital. I am familiar with the big houses In Africa, Australia, South Amer ica and London, and with the manufac turers from whom they buy. Tell me?" she asked with a glow of hope in her eyes, "do you know of any one who needs me needs my work?" "I need you very, very badly." Dillon Informed her, waxing enthusiastic. "I have lots ot money, of which I never made a cent. I have Just been scorned bv a woman because, of my idleness. Now," he told her. "I want you to teach me how to make money. I want you to drill me tn the-brokerage business And be my partner In the firm, ta that a go?' me girl had half risen from her aeat and the Hght shone full on her face and on that of Dillon. Tbev araaeri at ana an other for a long moment, neither seeming capable of speaking.' Whether It was the oddity of the situation or merely the fact that two persona destined to tread the oath of Bfe together had. met. neither KB It was the mast who broke the silence. Hm had taVen her answer for arantad. "You will even have to tell me where the most convenient office building is. where to go fo roll top desks and. to fact. aaaiUilia. If von do this for maw' In i km aaid w- a aarloss ayaS a4 a vae i the business of Dillon and" He waited for her name. "Drew" she told him, "Anne Draw." "I Will see that the business of Dillon and Drew -will succeed." "Tea." Anna mused slowly, "I think you win." She held out a hand. "I will land you every assistance In my power. Tell me where to report tomorrow." When her warm,' capable hand bad slipped away from his and her trim furore disappeared in the -loom Dillon drew a long breath. "There goes the gh-1," he told -himself, "who will not tire of me morning, noon or night, and who is going to be loved more than any girl In this wonderful world was ever loved. I feel It tn my bones," be told himself, with an inward sense of elation. (Copyright, UU. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) EVENING CHAT BT RUTH CAMERON. Essentials sad N How much unhastf ness. how waste of energy, what needless friction is caused by. the average human being's failure to separate essentials from non essentials! Acoording to the opinion of a prominent doctor, every human being has a certain definite amount of energy. As he draws upon it, rest and the recuperative powers of nature OU up the depleted reservoirs; but at the best there is never any too much for the demands of our strenuous modern life, and whenever we use energy in an unnecessary or futile way we take away from our supply of energy to deal with essentials. The nagging woman is an excellent ex ample of energy wasted through failure to distinguish between essentials and non essentials. Her husband has certain habits which disturb her. He smokes to such a degree as to injure his health; he frequently for gets to post her letters; he spends more money that she thinks necessary on mag sines. Now the first of these habits is a serious thing, something that ought to be stopped, while the other two are mere annoyances. It she distinguished thus be tween them, separated essentials from non-essentials, concentrated her power of protest upon that harmful habit and made up her mind to say nothing about the less essential things, she might make some im pression upon her husband. But she doesn't. Instead she nags him fretfully about one thing after another, diffusing her power of protest over essentials and non-essentials, tiring herself, irritating him, arousing friction, and accomplishing nothing! A friend of mine Is fairly wearlnr her self out in the effort to exact obedience from her two email children. Another friend who has three little ones seems to manage them quite well without any un due use of energy. And the difference is this. The first woman la constantly say ing. "Do this," or "Don't do that." to her babies, and then exhausting herself In trying to enforce obedience to aU these n anna manv of which are in regard to quite unessential matters. The second mother never gives a command unless It is in regard to something distinctly Im portant. In that case, she always en forces It, but in all unessential matters she lets her children alone. And because .v.- i. Mnhit of distinjruishing between essentials and non-essentials and acting accordingly, she can manage three babies with far less outlay of energy than the other woman requires for two. Again, a great many women wear them selves out before their time, and some. I nt mvm lav down their lives, be cause they cannot distinguish between the .ntiuia and non-essentials in house- And I think one big reason why many fail r Tnamilneaa in life is Simply because they were not intelligent enough to distinguish between what was essential and what was non-essential before they set forth on tneir quest ox au Aathe, reaper wsanow Ml the WJaff so the-a 'manon.lofrls to. winnow the essential, from the non-essential in every relation of life. Puts Out Fire by Singing. .dnninia In oxtinarulshUMT firs has presented itself. Briefly it is this: if you sing uw '6"' flame you can put It out. The principle Is based on the scien tific production of sound waves. It has not yet reached a point where Fire Commissioner Johnson wUl put male quartets in the fire houses ready to dash to a fire and render a popu lar ballad. M But Charles Kellogg, described as a California naturalist and "nature singer," demonstrated to a large au dience on the stage of the Palace the ater on Monday night after the regu lar show that he can put out a gas flame by singing at it,' or even by drawing a bow similar to a vloldn bow across pieces of metal. In the audience were Deputy Fire Chiefs John Howe and Ohrany. KrtieBt Thompson-Seton. the naturalist; members of the Camp Fire club and the Arctic club, several physicists and newspaper men. Among the scientists invited to the private per formance were Prof. William Fox, Prof. Parmelee. Prof. Charles Bas kerville. Dr. William McAndrew of Washington xrving niau ihn nanhla-h of Morris high school and C. B. W. Wlnslow. Mr. Kellogg can mase wuuumi i lib. tha alnorfno of A bird. He UVIIBO HWLV says he does not whistle this noise, but sings it in the same manner that a bird sings, it is raw sons; wn;i af fected tne name. ti. a atiAtt aharn noise and the flame bobbed down as if some one had blown down on it. n btoou. ibq or twelve feet away and made this t.-. -..i-i, anaaaajrinn. Thai flame bobbed down each time in accom paniment wltn nis song, -men no ut tered a long cry and the flame short- i a., fiira inaKaa aufvered uvu w avMK there for a moment and then died out. Then he took his how and a piece of ih TTa, atnnil BO feet awav from the flame, and drawing the bow a -1 m- i i.1 a across tne metai ana eihsuib i uuu song the flame acted in the same way. nnauy.goinaj out ills version oz tne causes w ini. "PI. Human vnlM nnnt nroduce more than 4,000 sound vibrations a awHi Thla la not MIAnffh to affect a flame. These different pieces of metal I nave arrangea to proauce uu- lerent numoers or Timuaiu. um w i 4.W t aaa vttivatlnna a lUilEU V. second, another 14,000 vibrations, an- aa aaa otner zi.uuu ana nuuinar ,vv vi brations. That last one makes the air pulse Just eight times as rapidly as any human voice can. "A whistle cannot proauce a targe on Ka- nt vibrations a violin Dro- duces fewer than 14.000 vibrations. My Dira voice nas o !n mriiurau, and at its top pitch produces 4t,60 One of the guests wss successful in affecting tne name oy arawing hi Kellogg's bow across one of the plecsi of metaL tuned to give $1,000 vlbra- tlnna. Mr. Kellogg exnlbited a divining fork with which, be said, he has lo Mtad wnter In IE different D laces on his ranch in California. The fork was cut from a prune tree sad each prong is about SO inches long. He 1 jl.MMiaMifa1 tha Ta ff la a Ta.ta1 a ti hw VIj, inn ftti hvn Uieces oi raowwa. -ntw inrs duo. aM.a MMaa He "I tike to hear a man say what ha tluaks." ahe "Hut paooa woo amy ww they lni aewarauT vu a PONT QUARR-L. Two Italians who bad long worked side by side and were good friends quarreled over 1 cent last week at Lugano and at last accounts on ot than, aa In tha tha IUW lies were searching for ta murderer. It is a well recognised truth that some of the world's worst tragedies havs been brought about by disputes over inconsequential matters. Bat these tragedies, hiss worst, are ass all by any means. Fanners spstsd thousands in the courts eartabllsbinaj the ownership of a five-dollar csJt. Women bring disgrace upon them- selves and their families by ansaglng in fierce neighborhood quarrels that -start when Mrs. Jones tells Mrs. Green that Mrs. Brown's husband treats her like a dog. Girls leave boms and ultimately choose "the easiest way because their fathers Criticise Asm for coins: out too many evening m week. A murder over 1 cent is ony an exasgeratedcase tnat empnaaiae w There really Is never any necessity f os quarreiing It is tavarUbly an avi dence of ill breeding, ill ture and lack of mental and -oral Every quarrel, whether in PrtvaU public, in tne omoe a t against -J3 opinion ara m- "T h,t tbev and arguments murt result, SSrt nerTlly -peTkingn ment become.. VscS the participants ii per. That is the danger 'J crucial moment 7 ".tTdllt-xenoS stops tongues and P""" atXrayT-Dont Noreven wWTyour wtf.-0-" Herald. 1: BREAKING IT TO VO Jg At a recent convenUon of tte Am wunm the next ten years. Of courts It. concern doe. not same ground as ina "7. ir who win havs to Paj e doiuws. W will not be so Ps-sn -J i ..HiAate to the gentle soul wnv believe, that hi. Uw men are word ing shoulder to snoui iCr .v- aoirian rule may be universal ly apSued to modern life. No, ths meek person who gives is a"-" the butcher Because -way he know, to get the food his fam ily needs can scarcely appreciate the deep concern felt for him -y the pack i. na-timilar sUrnl- ers. i m e flcance In this cry of dollar pound it is that the way is being hlazed for another boost to meat prices, whicn win arouse less protest because it does not st one leap attain the dollar mark. Ottawa Republic FROM OTHER PENS NO CALL FOR THE DEMAGOGUE. Tt I. atnta easv for the demagogues to attack the- exlsUaaj .erSer of WnW, ana KfffOmt ss essyrs ;th SallMoal party which Is. out oi power wi-" --w which the parxy in iwww -v.. twenw yearathe Democratic party has been finding fault. It has declared that the rich were growing richer and the poor were rjr iT.ari JJUsBallfSf- mo sj w s slated that the tolling maae. were being robbed and plundered ght and IJtNow It has come into office, and it proposes to reduce the power of the American manu- facturer oy 'kI:. manulacturea in Jrr.l- h..lT labor Is upon an entirely different baals, and It is going to rush through a currency bill to meet the emergency if tha reduced tariff proves a serious blow to our In dVLitries; possibly all ot this may prove a Messing to the country. Perhaps every thmgs going to be better than It was brfofe. although the Indications all point the other way. But whatever comes it to be hoped the iV??? will be less rampant. It Is about time for a haU to be called on the general abuse of the great eofporaUon. onbi. hurt- ness enterprise l this country by the railroads and great industrial plants u have made the territory between the At- .T J -D-altl- aaaana the mOBt DfO- ductive of any in the world. When a traveler uses one oi ma "re trains he should give some credit to the .kill and Ingenuity which have made his comfort possible, and the same thing should b. '.-'"M ,2? ventlon and business grit have made pos- sible. It is noi a j traduce those who have madethemaelvee aUCCeSSXUL wo vma. vwua, reforms by reason better than by appeal ing to envy and hatred. Rochester Dem ocrat and Chronicle. EQUIPPING THE SONS. ma,a. Mtlt flf the frBShmSB rnt-uT V at -Princeton are sons of fathers wns did not attend college. A similar pro portion might be found In almost any university, were the trouble taken to collect statistics. m anw wisnes to iuu tia batter than he was himself equipped. Whether this ambition II, -I.. I, lfiuureuw doubtedly exists. A father looks back at his own struggles and vows he will help his son over tne naru be in his power. It betokens fatTtST i feeling, but should be sxercissd with caution. Paternal consideration. unless controuea oy wn, i mw namnerins. which is about ss bad as absolute neglect. Colleges contain a good many young men who would out a braver ngure in wur.u uvt would desert class room for work bench, and some of them are Just these sons ox iatners wno never naa the advantages of college education. Much denends on ths fathers and more on the sons. Unfortunately, ths ordinary father is poor juage oz tne capabilities of his heir and experience ia -.bout the only teacher he will ac knowledge. On the whole it Is prob- abls that if tne per cent oz mce- i a. ata. ahaja analr as SB a nSJ. SSwaaV aMSS-.' (OU UCWIUIVU Hisiiw wa-gt sjwta awaev ewaa, a4wl-BnaB. BB T lawslSH anSSSSdh. tmthmrm tbmy will 1m lucky-3nrlsMul PUin .De-Oftr. Teacher "Henry, can yes define hypocrite?" Henry "Yassnm. If. a kid wot comes to school wld smile on his BWS'Wa 4 ..,v "Gee. but dat's a short stomp yer smok Tap. -1 Uk a 'em beUar dt way Ter don't havs to draw de amoks ss far." Puck. Ordered your winter coal yet, old manT" "Ordered R? I'sa W pot- a- while president. town, and of th 1246 people who live antes sm xjs araw -a tu

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THE DAILY CTAT2 JGTJZnAIr- IU2ZDAT EVESTTa BZCI 1L 1:1c 1 ifciy roar Faro at (Cft -lA Guarantee Their Fan Useful and Lasting Xmas Gifts 'Make your Christmas gift a lasting one, by giving something useful buy it' at Crockett's. You'll buy it for less than you can get the same quality else where. Allow us to suggest: A Set of Furs which we are selling this week at a special discount, in- fL eluding everything in our large showing at 4 JTT A Silk Petticoat or Silk Slip We have them in all colors and sizes; and all specially priced for Christmas selling. v. A Tailored Ladies9 Suit Which we are selling this week for less than they can be made for. $15.00 Ladies' Tailored Suits for this week for. .$7.30 $25.00 Ladies' Tailored Suits for this week for. .$12.50 $50.00 and $45.00 Ladies' Tailored Suits for this week for. $20.00 A Coat Which we are selling this week at ridiculously low prices. 3r $12. 50 and $ia 50 Ladies' and Misses' Coats, all late models for $6.85 j $10.00 Ladies' and Misses' Coats, the very newest styles for. .$4.65 H A Handsome Silk Dress p Choice of any Silk Dress this week at exactly. 14 Off 3 A Pretty Kimono g Special this week of a lot of $1.25 quality for..... ....p5c 5 Hundreds of other articles, useful and ornamental, too numerous to mention. 3b 35 We kindly a&k you to call if you find something that appeals to you. You'll SE 35 find the prices much less than elsewhere. "Si The Next Topeka M T eleplkome Pirecftoiry Goes to Press December 15 All prospective telephone subscribers should make ar rangements for service be fore this date in order to secure a listing in the New Book. For particulars as to rates and service call 4063 The Missouri Kansas Teleohoiie Go. The city commission will meet on Saturday to diacuaa plans (or No. 1 Are station. The bond of the Topeka Coal com pany for 11.000 was approved this morning by the city commissioners. The December Issue of the Commer cial Club Bulletin is due to be off the press a few days before Christmas. Among the bargains in pianos at Emahiser-Sptelman Furniture Co.'s is a famous 1600 Baldwin piano zor $S8. Adv. The report of the city electrical In spector. $110.05 collected during No vember, was approved by the city commissioners today. The civic improvement committee of the Commercial club under W. J. Rlck enbacher has raised $500 to pay for the making of th "city plan.". The Brotherhood of the Third Pres byterian church met Wednesday even ing. A special program had been ar ranged. Refreshments were served. "Art Hargis reports that forty men have enlisted in the Kansas Militia company that he is forming. There is still room fo- twenty more members. The county commissioners. Regis ter of Deeds Robert Tasker and Coun ty Clerk O. K. Swayze are In Sallna attending a meeting of county officials. The Men's Bible class of the First Congregational church will give a din ner next Wednesday c evening. One hundred and fifty pounds of turkey have been purchased for this repast. Lawman MacLain and a boy named Dean are charged with disturbing the peace in the city court, uotn are col ored and they will be arraigned in the court this week. A gold handled umbrella and a black fur muff have been- left in the city water office. Owners will receive their property upon application to Frank Stevens. An appropriation of $13.75 for the Firemen's Relief association during the month of November, presented by Fire Chief Wilmarth today, was al lowed by the city board. The managemant of the Midwinter exposition will probably offer some prizes for visitors. However, as yet no particulars as to how one may procure one of the prizes has been announced. A humorous lecture will be delivered Friday night at the T. W. C. A. as the last number of the T. W.-T. M. C. A. entertainment series. This lecture was postponed from last Friday on account of the rain. George Hungate, well known auc tioneer, formerly of Topeka, has re turned to the city to take up his old trade. Mr. -Hungate has been in Ok lahoma City and Chanute for the past eight years. Hundreds of children of the city schools are working hard in preparation for special exercises that will be -held at their respective schools a week from Friday the day before the Christmas holidays. A "midwinter indoor picnic" will be held Friday at the Central Congrega tional church for the primary, junior and intermediate departments. The affair will mart at 5:0 o'clock and will close: at 8. ':Sr-n j, a.; r D. R. OriggSi president of the South Side Booster club announces that the club will celebrate the opening of the Van Buren school building as a social center at the!) regular ,monthly meet ing Friday evening, December 12. The Central T. M. C. A. is planning to have an evening of games on New Year's. There will be demonstrations of all the games played in the gymna sium and the checker board and bil liard and pool table will be kept busy. The new ocard of directors of the Kansas State Fair association will meet next Tuesday evening in the rooms of the Commercial club to choose officers. The queston of a secretary will probably come up for discussion. Central Park school Invites all who are Interested to attend the flag rais ing at the school house Friday after noon at 3:30 o'clock. Robert Tasker presented the school with a flag, and the board of education erected a flag1 staff last week. Joseph S. Ulsh, a prominent farm er and stockman of Russell, Kan., died at Stormont hospital today. Ulsh was poisoned by a hedge fence while working on his farm. The wound affected his eye and he died after an operation. J. B. Smalley, assistant general manager of the Rock Island in, To peka, and C. G. Adams, his trans portation head, are out on the west ern lines of the road supervising the work of the snow plows in cutting through the snow and ice near Col orado Springs. The Topeka Industrial Council and the newly organized Union Label League will hold a Joint meeting and entertainment Friday evening which is open to the public. A number of short talks will be made on the importance of the label, a musical program will be given and refreshments will be served. Communication from C. W. Kouns I to the city commission asking that the cny pay ior me lenginening OI me railway company's footbridge over the mute which saw to having a consti tutional amendment for national pro hibition put in the proper hands in both branches of congress Thursday. The charter members of the Letter Carriers' association have presented Joaiah Ross, chief of police, with a large bouquet of flowers: Rosa was one of the original members of the association. The chief has been ill for several weeks and said today that ho appreciated the kindness of the mail men. The students of the high school made out cards today showing what studies they car to pursue the second term of school. A. J. Stout, principal of the school, will bo busy in the Christmas holidays making out the course of study. His office door will bo looked and he will possibly hang out a "not at home" sign. The charities welfare committee of the Commercial club which under takes the work of supervising charity work In the city will be the same com mittee that made a report a few days ago before the directors of the club. The members of the committee are: A. A. Godard, Judge W. F. Schoch, Judge Q. H, Whltcomb, Dr. F. L, Loyeland and Horace L. HalL The Rock Island railway has Issued a profusely illustrated folder which la being circulated In England for the purpose of persuading ambitious Eng lishmen to attend the State Agricul tural college at Manhattan. Several good photographs of. the college build ings and surroundings are shown. On the back is a map of North America in which Topeka stands out prominently. The events this week at the Central Congregational church in connection with the celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of the church have been well attended. This evening at 7 o'clock a "family" supper will be held by the .thurch members. At 0:15 there will be a reception for the char ter members of the church. The an nual election of officers will be held at 8 o'clock, and the business meeting will be followed by a social hour. There will be no rehearsal tonight .of the Commercial club tango min strels, but the regular rehearsals will be resumed Friday 'night and there will be a dress rehearsal Sunday after noon. Those who have attended the rehearsals ay that the show will be the most entertaining minstrel affair that has been held In Topeka for years. There will be many a local "hit" A wild man Imported direct from Africa will give a dance in aboriginal style. Complaint has been made in the city court against Sampson Porter, charging him with assault with intent to kill. Porter was said to have shot Frank Bayless last week. Bayless re ceived a serious wound but it is be lieved that he will recover. Porter disappeared and has not been arrested yet. The sheriff, police and marshal of court of Topeka are all looking for the colored man. He was said to have been in McFarland last week. The Santa Fe railway has adopted a plan of placing transparent "Get the Safety Habit" signs In the windows of the general offices. The trademarks, in colors, make a neat appearance. The representatives of the various railroads entering the Wichita termi nal met in Topeka today and trans acted business connected with the erection of the union station in that city. The -meeting was held in the of fice of General Manager Kouns of the Santa Fe who Is president of the ter minal company. Those who have purchased Christmas Red Cross seals will be interested to know that in the. last five years nearly $1,500,000 has been raised through the saie or tne seals. TDe Idea is not a new one. Some of your grandmothers played 'po3tofflce" with stickers simi lar to Red Cross seals way back In 1862. when they conceived the idea of aell- lng 8 tamps at fairs for the benefit of me reuer xunds for the soldiers' hospi tals In Brooklyn. Boston nr1 l Nearly $1,000,000 was raised in this way ueiore ises. Friday MOTHERS! HorcVa ttrbthss Sab cf 'MM.Eia&Si S n& Erfra Pests, Friday 07 02.CO 1 M Our Now Tork buyer closed. Out from N Tnrv 800 boys suits, with extra- pants, that are broken lines of Just the thing Cor boys' Christmas gifts. The; are this season's newest patterns In tana, browns and gray effects; also some plain blues. The fabrics are heavy weight, staunch waarma cassimeres and cheviots. Kvery suit is extra weM tailored and perfect fitting; made In double breasted and Norfolk models for boys f to 17 years. EVERT ONE! OF THESE SUITS HAS. TWO PAIRS OF FULL CUT KNICKBRBOCK. krs TO MATCH. Not a suit tn the lot worth less than $3, the extra knickerbockers are worth every v we Dougm tnese suits at. sucn a ridiculously low price that offer yon choice tomorrow .of suits. wuc uie extra Kmcaers, ror only. Extra Snectel Offer of IMt Tutf IVmm ti Chinchilla Overcoats Friday 9 Made in the rich shade of gray, button to chin style, double breast- eu, him dock.- very stunning little coats for boys and girls; sizes to 19 years. Special Friday..... e wku every

orrwn 02 Boys' $5 Blue Serge Suits $&05 t EAST SIDE NOTES. ntems for this column mav ho la. phoned to 3915 or the State Journal office. J. .ours, tujoeri juiccneii ana son itaipn have returned from a month's visit In Oklahoma and Texas. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Morgan, 516 Monroe street, entertained the Friendship club at their home Wednesday evening. Prizes were won by Mr. R. Hughes and Mr. L. Wllkergon. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. -Willis Webb. Mr. and Mrs. T. Bax ter, Mr. and Mrs. A. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. L. Wilk erson, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bowers and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Morgan. Mrs. Merrianu 213 Kline 'Street, enter tained Tuesday evening the following friends: Mrs. -Margaret Allen, Miss Leah Curomings, Miss Flo Higgins, Miss Bstella Merriam. Mr. feterson Mr. uralg, Mrs. Davis. Mr. Rarrick. Mr. Leigh. Mr. Hind- man, Mr. Allen. Games and music were enjoyed by all and Miss Flo Higgins and Mr. Allen won tne prizes. Mrs. Robert Mitchell, 1123 Lawrence street, has returned from Coffeyvlle, Kan after spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lingo, who have re cently moved there. The teachers', and parents' meeting of the State Street school was held Tuesday evening in tne school house and the elec tion or omcers ior tne year was neia. Mr James Mullin was elected president: Rev. J. S. Umberger. vice president; Miss Taggert. secretary; Mr. iSd Kernes, treas urer. The social committee consists of Kansas river according to the terms of I Mr. "waswieller. Mr. Dealey. Mr. Wett- Torn to Your Phone and tell as your office wants if yon wish prompt delivery 1 Call 113 Red CRANE CO. Commercial Stationers Printers 110-iaEast Sth Ave, DR. W. S. HUNTER Office and Residence, 828 Kansas Ave. riUSTEROLE A Magic Oistment for Neuralgia Ease that throbbing pain, that splitting headache in a twinkling with a little MUSTER OLE. Try this clean, white ointment (made with oil of mustard), today. Millions have found It a marvelous relief. Millions use It now In stead of the old-time mustard plaster. For they know MUSTEROLE does not blister 'as old time mustard plasters did. Best for Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Croup, Stiff Neck Asthma, Neuralgia, Congestion. Pleurisy, Rheumatism, Lumbago, all Pains and Aches of the Back 'or Joints, Sprains, Sore Muscles, Bruises; Chilblains, Frosted Feet, Colds of the Chest (it prevents Pneu monia). At your druggist's In 25c and 60c jars, and a special large hospital siae for $2.50. Accept no substitute. If your druggist cannot supply you, send 15c or 50c to the MUSTER OLE Company, Cleve land, Ohio, and we will mail you a Jar, post age prepaid. Rush A. Webster. Is K. IStth 8V. New Tork City, says: "I can highly recommend Musterole to any one suffering from Neuralgia or cold la the head. Tornado Fatal to Hundreds. Freetown, Sierra Leone. West Africa, Dec 11. More than 250 natives per ished today when a terrific tornado blew twenty canoes with some 400 na tives on board but to sea. The cable ship Sentinel rescued ISC of them but no trace of the remainder was found. The storm swept the town and the port and did much damage. Baby Born in Erie, Pa.. Dec 1L While firemen were trying to aave the residence of Guy T. Juastice, superintendent of the Erie Associated Charities today a baby was born In a part of the house not af fected by the flames, The firemen knew nothing of the Incident until the announcement was made by the father as they were about to leave. the original agreement was referred this morning to Commissioner Tandy and the city attorney. Dr. F. L. Loveiand and P. I. Bone- brake were two Topekans who were asked by the Anti-Saloon League of America to be members of the com- "CASCARETS" FOR BILIOUS LIVER No Sick Headache, Indigestion, Slug gish Liver, Constipated Bowels or Sour Stomach by morning. Get a 10-cent box now. No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your bead aches, how miserable and uncomfortable you are from constipation, indigestion, bil iousness and sluggish bowels you al ways get the desired results with Cas carets. Don't let your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets tonight; put an end to the headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv ousness, 'sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; cleanse your inside organs of aU the bile, gases and constipated matter which is pro ducing the misery. A. 10-cent box means health, happi ness and a clear head for months. No more days of gloom and distress If you will take a Cascaret now and then. All druggists sell Cascarets. Don't forget the ciuldren their little gentle rleanslng. too. Adv. ling. Miss Ridings, Miss Johnson and Miss Jones. The meetings will be held the first Monday evening or eacn monu in roe school house. Th Ladies of the Maccabees of Hive No. 14 will have their installation of of ficers followed by a banquet at their next regular meeting. Capital Lodge No. 7 IX of H met viwMiv kvmiIiw in the K- P. hall ana i.ti m fnilnwlnar officers for the com ing term: MISS 'uune ORmn, cuwi v& honor- Mrs. OUle Blene, iaay or nonor, -MM t wi)i,H. nhifef at ceremonies: fr I. line Moseiy. recoraer: Mrs. uotm. T.a..ki financier: Mr.- John Kuttpie. celver; Miss Edith Livingston, usher; Miss Sophia Thurllng. inner watch; Mrs. Bay lor, outer watch; Mrs. Olive Burdett, musician. A class Initiation will be held before the Installation of the new officers. Mr. and' Mrs. Andrew Losb, C30 Lake .nt-ain ttnndav at dinner Mrs. K. 8. JBUene OI vieua Hall of Lincoln street. The W. C. T. V. will hold an all day meetfnc at the home of Mrs- L H. Mears. 502 Chandler street. Friday. Devotional .,imm 1 m It, mr M o r.inc,. biht vnicn the institute work. The pledge and other very interesting subjects will be taken under consideration. At noon a picnic lunch will be served, after which ad dresses will DO given "y lln. Case and otner prommenx speaaera. Miss Oussie Leah of Lake street enter tnineri Wednesday Mrs. Julia M. Gordon of Lebanon. Kan and Mrs. Clara Coven. Thai todies of Lincoln Sewing -society metln Lincoln Post hall Tuesday after noon and held tneir annual election ox officers- President. Mrs. Emma Harris; vice president. Mrs. Clara Co veil; secretary. Miss Gussle Loan; treasurer, Mrs. Mary Peterson. v The next Topeka Bell telephone di rectory goes to press December 15. All subscribers wishing to make changes she u id send them fa before thie date. Call Adr. rxJlL, of. Toke Norfolk Suits, 6 to 17 yean; made of pare "l1:!??1 ,htSJ VOTlne 8tge: extra u tailored anTtrtmmed! pants fuU peg and full lined; you can't equal them anywhere tPO OCT for less than 5.00. Choice tomorrow, Friday. .771. .7. .P00 Yobs9 Mmi'i 110 aitfl SI 2 50 VUJ.. ft en m -r-- wwsm ta wimW fa Young Men. come see theee fine wool suits made V in Norfolk and sack tnt mw -w Tt brown, and fancv mivttiM ni.,.t. ?Tf 1 lng pure all wool blue serges; fast color; splendidly tailored; sizes 31 to 38 chest measure. Friday special. $7.50 1 ftmg Kea's A3 Wel Ortf f cm, regakr $18 qn&e Fit J sonveraoie or $7.50 These overcoats are worth every cent of $10 and cannot be duplicated for that price anywhere; pot for Fri day we will sell them special at IIM, They are made with convertible or military collars and belt; extra long; in grays ana aaric Drown, our special price Friday. $15 Hen's Suits Friday $10 HERE Is a genuine Christmas bargain sale of? men's suits. They consist of an, elegant assort ment of finely tailored men's sack suits made of pure wool black Clay worsteds, Venetian lined; blue serges; handsome browns and dark blue neat striped worsteds in all sises. Including stouts. xnese suits are nign-ciass garments not the cheap, ordinary suits you get at this price. They are in every sense of tne word sis suits for. g stouts. $10 OIU Friday for' Boys' Blouse cm. Waists, collar attached in light and dark colors; all sizes. V AKg Friday for Children's uv Handkerchiefs (7 In a box); fancy borders; for boys and girls 3 to 10 years.' KKg Friday for' Boys white Pleated Blouses; $1.00 quality; all sizes. fiW Friday for Boys' Heavy wv Knickerbockers; 9 5c quality; all Wool worsteds In cluded; full lined; sizes 6 to 16 years. 0 If You Do Not Get a Piano NOW It's Your Own Fault Entertainment M rJUstmSURBofl we nave maae prices so low ana terms so easy mat it seems aa though no home need be without the refining influence of music Brand New Haines Bros. Pianos Reduced, $85 Only a Few Left. These pianos are the. product of the Haines Broa, and have been on the market since 1851. Our sole reason for offering brand new pianos at a reduction in price is, this style does not. appear In the new catalogue. Do not fail to see our new 88-note player, $385 Your Old Piano Taken in Exchange Used Pianos and Player Pianos We have almost any make you might want in any style case, wood or price. SSO and up. You can select a piano now and make a small cash deposit have the use of the piano during Christmas time and begin the monthly payments next February, 1914. Victor Victrolas and Records. IV JO Jeweler in Topeka is going to make lower prices than Sam Freidbsrg Sam's Jewelery is Good 625 Kansas Ave. Berne, Dec. 11. Colonel Dr. Arthur Hoffmann of St. Gall, a radical Demo crat, was today elected president of the Swiss Confederation for 1914, the constitutional term being one year. He. received 130 of the 194 votes of the federal aesemMy. dent, who takes office on Jan. 1, Is years old and la now vice president of the republic and chief of the military department. The new vice president. Dr. Gulseppe Motta, was elected unan imoualy. Aiffc r:

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THE TCPEHA DAILY JOUSITAITUODA? UTTi; PAY JtIL FIDE 1 I Thece Priceo Tomorrow1 Only a. .aT r w Any State or Hatlon Can Hare Are roaiuveiy ior Panlfe Health, 1500 Ladies' $1850 Suits Tomorrow Says Sargeon General Blue, if It Is Desired. Ladies, It moat seem Impossible to you that; I can sell yon strictly fan,' ltlS, stylish, handsomely tailored $18.50 Salts for 9M Tomorrow, bat that is what I win positively do tomorrow. Salts that are guaranteed silk lined, salts that are' tailored' la the very latest r;:::EY a sfeit dt let When It Is Paid Oat for Sanl- k tation,He Says. fall ltll styles, Salts that are made from the very best materials and selected 1500 of them Just received win go on sale T .-morrow morning for $4.50. Ladies i our WW 1 HAVE JUST BEGUN Tronbles of H.T.PInnkett, Com ing From Frisco for Bride. There's No Miss Ruth Forrestt to Be Found in This City.: San Francisco, Dec 11. Harry T. Plunkett, civil engineer, is on his way to Topeka, Kansas, today to claim a Driae, wnose letter or acceianc wm written fourteen months ago and was only received by him an hour before the departure of an overland train for the east yesterday. Two years ago Plunkett met Miss Ruth Forrestt at Topeka and fell in love with her. Soon afteward the young woman left for a tour of the world. Having delayed asking Miss Forrestt to be his wife, Plunkett final ly proposed by letter. He afterwards went to the Orient, where he inspect ed oil properties in Korea and Man churia. Meanwhile Miss Forrestt continued her trip. The letter of proposal fol lowed her from one country to an other, but did not reach her until she had returned home. When she finally received the letter the envelope had been addressed, in sixteen different languages. Miss Forrestt replied, accepting. This letter crossed the Pacific six times and made numerous trips up and down the Pacific coast. Plunkett arrived here yesterday and received Miss Forrestt's letter, the en velope of which was almost covered with notations in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other languages. Plun kett had an hour to catch a fast east bound train. Before starting, how ever, he telegraphed the young woman that he was on his way. If the foregoing is correct, and Plunkett is on his way to Topeka to claim Miss Ruth Forrestt as his bride. his difficulties have probably not yet ended, for a diligent search indicates fairly conclusively that there is no person by that name in the city of Topeka, nor can anyone be found who ever knew anyone by that name in Topeka. N'cither could anyone be found acquainted with any person by the name of Plunkett. If Plunkett telegraphed to Miss Ruth Forrestt at Topeka, his message must be meeting with a fate similar to Miss Fonestt's reported letter of acceptance, for the telegraph message has not arrived in Topeka, and if Plunkett should decide to write, the postoffice people would not know what to do with the letter unless a street addren were given and in that evtnt it would be the first one to be delivered to her by carrier. And no one is asking at the general delivery window for mail addressed to Miss Ruth Forrestt. E. H. Hciuus Has His Troubles. x An application for a writ of habeas corpus was filed this morning in the district court by E. H. Hemus. Hemus is in the employ of the Santa Fe and the writ is issued against C. A. Naylor. a special constable. According to the petition, Hemus was asked to testify in the case of Jacinto Parez vs. the A. T. S. F. railway. He charges that SAGE TEA EPS YOURJAIR DARK It's Grandmother's Recipe to Bring Back Color and Lustre to Hair. That beautiful, even shade of dark, glossy hair can only be had by brew ing a mixture of Sage Tea and Sul phur. Your .hair is your charm. It makes or mar's the face. When it fades, turns gray, streaked and looks dry, wispy and scraggly. Just ah" applica tion or two of Sage and Sulphur en hances its appearance a hundredfold. Don't bother to prepare -the tonic; you can get from any drug store a (0 cent bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sul phur Hair Remedy," ready to use. This can always be depended upon to bring back the natural color, thickness and lustre of your hair and remove dandruff, stop scalp itching and fall ing hair. Everybody uses "Wyeth's" Sage and Sulphur because it darkens so natural ly and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. You simply. damp en a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through the hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair has disappeared, and after another application it becomes beautifully dark and appears glossy, lustrous and abundant. lAdv.,: LmAUm' Ribbed $1.00 Union Salts RW Tomorrow. Ladles, for your little girls, 75 Coats worth to 5.00. Your cbotoe jl OIJ Ladles Heather Bloom Underskirts, regular $$.50 value, ClU tomorrow. uw Ladles' 80k MessaUne Charmense Underskirts for tomorrow's 01 KA selling. 3x.tHJ ladles' Silk, Wool and Flannel Skirts, also accordion pleat skirts, worth ap to 910.00, ior tomorrow's ..$1.98 ladles' $20 Flash Coats, silk fined, tomorrow. $7.50 ladles' Beautiful Silk Waists, 1 AA In aU colors. Tomorrow. V1,ww DAVID J. the subpoena was left at his house when he was -at work and that 'later he called up M. F. Laycock, a Justice of the peace who had issued the sum mons. The Justice ordered him. to ap pear on the following morning at 10 o'clock. Hemus said he appeared and was commanded to serve as witness without pay. Hemus refused and was ordered to the county Jail for contempt. He was committed to the charge of the deputy constable on December 10 and today filed the habeas corpus petition. Mo action bas yet been taken by the courts, but his attorneys believe that he will be released from custody soon. He lives at 1114 Huntoon. He was not placed in the county Jail. ALL THE MERCHANTS. Or Nearly All of Them Will Adopt Profit Sharing Coupons. At a meeting of practically all the retail merchants of Topeka held at Commercial club quarters last even ing, it was decided to enter into an agreement to issue "Profit Sharing Coupons" to all patrons. The plan, as outlined and agreed upon; -will be far reaching In its 'benefits to the buying public and promises to meet with, the approval of those who are wanting stamps with their purchases. The printing of the coupons will delay the issuance Just a short time: INDIANA MADE MONEY Receipts from Football Was $13,028 Record Amount. Bloomington, Ind Dec 11; In diana university's football team made nearly $14,000 during the last season, according to the report of the treas urer of the athletic association, which was made public today. The report shows the actual receipts were $13, 926, which is more than- has been made in previous years. Omaha Bank Run Ends. Omaha. Dec. 11. The run which threatened the City National bank of Omaha the first part of this week, apT parently was over when the bank opened for business this morning. Only normal transactions occupied the offi cials and employees. AT THE THEATERS. Tomorrow night will be a gala night at the Grand, when John Hyams and Leila Mclntyre present their new mu sical play, "When Love Is Young." The story moves on to a mili tary camp on the Hudson river, where the New York Greys have pitched their tents and here it is where Tony Allen, the happy-go-lucky man about town with nothing on his mind but the winning of Eileen McLane, in the face of her mother's opposition, leads his wealthy uncle. Col. Allen, and his fellow soldiers into all kinds of ludi crous entanglements. The musical score is said to be full of sparkling melodies, several of which are sure to become "hits," as Mr. Hyams and Miss Mclntyre sing songs and dance dances in their own inimitable style. The James P. Lee Musical Com edy, company opened at the Novelty this afternoon for the last three days. Mr. Lee will be remembered in To peka as introducing the "Tabloid" show in Topeka when at the Majestic last season. His one idea Is to give lots of comedy and an especially good chorus of pretty girls. Iiove Is r ft j" Jj T ,1 1, Lodiea' SX.OO AH Wool Sweater Coats. t ladies' $1.00 Iaundred Waists Tomorrow. ladles' $S.50 Extra long Bain- Coats. Tomorrow. ladies' $1.50 Kid Gloves. Tomorrow. Shoes for ladies 5,000 ladies' Shoes, worth up to S3 .50 a pair. C"I fifl Choice tomorrow. .eJAaW ONE SAMPLE S25.00 CHIFFON PARTY DRESS, with Satin Slippers $1 O Kf to match. Tomorrow 16rtW ladies Fancy Box, three Linen 9(W Handkerchiefs. Tomorrow only 2,000 Boxes Men's Silk Hose and CA. Silk Four-in-Hands to match AUGUST POULTRY DESTROYED. Warm Weather Causes Loss of $100, 0O hi New York. Washington. Dec. 11. Reports by the department of agriculture from all over the country tell of an unprecedented spoilage' of dressed poultry during the unseasonably warm weather preceding Thanksgiving Day. In view of the scarcity and high prices of meat foods the depart ment experts regard Such a universal waste as almost a calamity. It is stated that not a single pound of this poultry would have been wasted should shippers and handlers followed proper methods of chilling, dressing, stor ing and handling of poultry. Poultry deal ers are urged to follow suggestions of the department in the handling of their goods In order to prevent a repetition of this waste at Christmas time. "The value of poultry destroyed in New York city by the board of health around Thanksgiving amounted to more than $100,000." says a statement issued today, "and this is but little when compared with the quantities which dealers refused of their own initiative. Many tons of those products went to the fertilizer or crematory." DIVORCE FOR "BAT." '"-!:,i'S". Joins'-!- Cartoonist's Wife Win Have 3f one of His Money or Jewels;?.. Portland, Ore., Dec. 11. Bat Nelson's "dream of love is over:' In a short time he win apply for a divorce from his wife. Fay King Nelson, daughter of Jack King. 'athletic trainer of Port land. Mrs. Nelson on her arrival here announced it was "off for good and always'- with Battling Nelson. "The famous ex-llghtweight cham pion Is a fine boy," said Mrs. Nelson, "but he wooes like he fights, with a dogged persistency that distracts. It was a mismatch,", continued, the pens ive bride. She also announced she will not have any of Bat's money or Jewels. Mrs. Nelson will return: to Denver and continue work as a cartoonist, DROPS $1,500 BROOCH It Lies AU Night on Floor of an Opera House. Chicago, Dec. 11. Mrs. Francis John son of Lake Forest, a fashionable sub urb, dropped a $1,500 diamond brooch in the' grand opera lobby last night. It lay there all this forenoon unnoticed by sweepers, messengers or custodians until the glitter caught the eye of a young man who was buying tickets for tonight. He took it to the office of the opera company but refused to give his name. The brooch was returned to Mrs. Johnson. DEATHS O FOULS. Margaret A. Hoagland, aged 78, disd this morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles M. Fisher, at 506 East Eighth -street. The funeral will be held Friday at 2 o'clock at the res idence. Interment in Topeka ceme tery. Bailey M. V. Price, aged 71, died Wednesday at his home at 1125 North Monroe street. The funeral will be held at the residence at 10:30 o'clock Friday. Interment in Rochester. Lv C. Betz died Wednesday at his home at 118 Holman street. He is survived by four children, Orville Betz of California, -Mrs. W. K. Scotten, Mrs. T. N. Davis and Mrs. P.- B. Koontz of Topeka. The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock Friday at the res idence. The body will be taken to Prairie Home church for a short serv ice, which will be held at S o'clock. Interment in Prairie Home cemetery. $1.00 25c 01 CQ 50c 620-622 Kansas Avenue local vmm. Safety razor blades sharpened better than new, Kc-Ssc dos Brunt Drug Co. Adv. The end men participating In the Com mercial club tango minstrel show will meet tonight for rehearsal. The four-reel World Special Feature "Jack." at the Iris today and tonight is a high-class show. Adv. Try Illinois nut coal for cooking; it's washed. Call J1S8. J. F. Spohn. Adv. Elizabeth j. Matney filed suit for- di vorce In the. district court this afternoon charging that her husband, G. C. Mat ney, neglected her. The couple have three children. K-. Beautiful photography, -handsome set tings and a brilliant play, make "Jack," at the Iris, an unusually fine exhibition. Today and tonight; only. Adv. Surely, madam, you will try Golden Egg Machine Dried Macaroni or Spaghetti. Once, Just ask your grocer. Adv. Joanna' Adams,' who appealed her con viction from police court for. assaulting an officer, was fmd guilty In the. second division of the I triet court this- after noon, -The easeuegsn Wednesday and the Jury,, was Out on It from Xt o'clock until 2 o'clock. -Sentence was deferred. This to onefP7 f- few cases: appealed' from police-cout(hls year that the de, cision haa net bee reversed.' The-Knights and Ladies, of Security band will give a dance at Steinberg's hall Thursday, evening, Dec. 11. All members and friends of the K. tk L. of 8. are in vited. Adv. y J It will not be -lse to ilss the World's Special j Feature t photoplay, "Jack," at the Iris today and tonight. This big pro ducing company does not present medi ocre plays. Adv. The executive committee of the general committee, which is pushing the social survey In Topeka, decided at a meeting held today at the Commercial club quar ters to hold an exhibit at the Auditorium after the survey is completed, showing the findings of the "experts" of the Rus sell Sage foundation. The "details of the exhibit will be announced later. It is likely that lantern slides will be made so that illustrated lectures on the survey may be delivered at Topeka churches. Today and tonight, "Jack," at the Iris Adv. The Moose will give a dance Friday evening at their hall. Adv. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Mlkesell entertained at cards Wednesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. A. Beard. Besides the guests of honor, the party Included Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Llndemuth, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Donaldson, Mr. and Mrs. Seaman. Miss Maysel Siegler, Airs. Chas. Iden and Mr. D. Delaney. Orders taken for crochetted luncheon sets and collars. 819 Qulncy. Tel. 429. Adv. W. E. Jeffrey, Dentist, 70S Kansas ave. Adv. i The Court of Honor No. 515 will give an entertainment and a dance tomorrow night at the Security hall. Entertain ment at 8 o'clock and dance at 9. Every body welcome. Adv. Chief Justice White HI. Washington, Dec. 11. Chief Justice White is confined to his home today with a cold. For two days he has had difficulty in making himself heard from the bench- owing to hoarseness. Justice Lurton is also absent from the court, suffering from a cold. Neither is seriously ill. PHONE or 866 3598 McCIeery Lumber Co. 517 Jackson Street WHERE EVERYBODY GOES ORPHEUM FOLLOW THE CROWD 10c FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Doiiiel In The 06x10 Den DONT MISS IT Tha graataat This Is a magnificent reproduction of Biblical History, introducing- two most miraculous and thrilling- avents. The Children of Israel in the Fiery Fur- naca and Daniel in the Uon's Den. Bring your children Saturday matinee, All Depends Upon the Interest of the Citizens. New Tork, Dee. 11- "Public health is a public utility. A dollar laid out in sanitation is not an expenditure, but a loan, which will be .returned an hundred fold," declared Surgeon Gen eral Rupert Blue of the United States public health service here today, in an "address before the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. "Any municipality, state or nation can have public health If it will but pay the price," continued the surgeon general. "The most needed reforms In public health administration are greater cooperation among public of ficials, the employment of full time workers, establishment of labora tories, accurate collection of vital sta tistics and the setting aside of suffi cient funds to accomplish those things. "The future, of sanitary administra tion in this country depends upon the interest which the citizens take- in its development. There is no better in dex of the state of civilization of a community than the manner in which it approaches its public health prob lems. There is still much room for reform in the sanitary administration Of many. states and municipalities. in. our country, and not the least impor tant duty devolving upon the health of officials of this nation is the educa tion of the general public to the end that sanitary reforms will not only be accepted but will -also, -be earnestly sought for. Take Long Chances. "The- feverish energy in 'sanitary matters which characterizes the-general public in time of epidemic soon gives way to lethargy, and indiffer ence to public health matters. -The average Individual Is willing to take a chance of contracting a disease when it seems a long way off, and it is only when it is close upon him and in spectacular, form that he .appre ciates its danger. A single case of leprosy in a city will create wide spread excitement, while a thousand case of measles, which in their final results are infinitely more dangerous, are permitted to occur without re mark. "Results of the past decade of sani tary activity have been to prove that the prolongation of life is entirely practicable, and this prolongation has been largely brought about by Im provement in sanitary administration. The time -Is' not long alpoe passed when the public health official w4io boldly pointed out the needs for sani tary improvement in the factories of a wealthy corporation endangered his position. Today, such criticisms are gladly received and promptly acted upon. The efficiency of human ma chinery is quite as important as the efficiency of the other machinery of the factories, and the realization of this fact has resulted in an extension of the powers and duties of the pub lic health authorities. The Sanitary Machine. The sanitary machine of this coun try is a vast organization, reaching from the White House to the hum blest cottage in the United States. The day has passed when by individual brilliancy a battle against disease foes may be won without regard to the en gagements which are going on all about us. We live in an age in which efficiency is the slogan. We have learned from oft-repeated failure and sore disappointment that in sanitary work as in all the other efforts of the human race, the greatest good can be accomplished in the shortest space of time and with a minimum expenditure of funds and labor by a concentrated, co-operative effort. "It is the great glory of the period in which we live that we have recog nized our responsibility as our broth ers' keeper. That public official who brings physicial salvation to his fel low man has gone a long way toward the promotion of the moral welfare and general happiness of the com munity. The worker in the field of sanitation does more for the moral uplift of the nation than any other official agency." DENSE FOG AT WICHITA Delays Traffic Minor Collisions fat Business District. Wichita, Dec 11. Traffic was delayed two hours this morning by a fog that limited vision to sixty feet. Minor col lisions occurred on downtown streets. The fog was the densest on record here. It extended only fifty feet above the surface of the earth. The Grandest Motion Pic tore Ever Exhibited in Topeka 1- o.wv lew m r 11m mnun m under the very shadow of Mt. Vesuvius. picture ever i i in a Photo Play. gtCTOPmji. pays s Great Slaughter of Priceo On Boolic Here is another opportunity for you to save on your Christmas buying. This is only one more item in our large assortment of staple merchandise in our Bargain Basement. These are Good, New Books. We mention only a few of the Popular Names; but we have so large list of titles and such a variety of Child's Story Books, Child's A. B. C. Books, Books about Birds and Animals, as well as fancy books of Poems by Milton, Burns, Scott, etc. All these are underpriced. The following are some of our 15c to 25c Books priced now at Black Beauty Andy Gordon Alice Through The following 25c to 200 different titles, Jack's Word Bob Burton Captain Tip Top True to the Old Flag Two Boys and a Dog .Boy Scouts, etc. The following 35c to 50c Books OO 250 to 475 pages, our price -OC The First Capture The Count of Monte Cristo The Rover Boys His Mother's Letter Chums in Dixie, etc. v The following 40c to All go at V Roosevelt Among the PeopleRector of St. Marks The School Favorite Macavia The Wolf's Long Howl Vendetta, etc. The Following 50c and 75c Books Only r Bill Nye's Comic History Peck's Bad Boy The Garden of Allah The Memoirs of. a Baby. Come and get all you can read all winter. Select 50 Books including 10 of each kind for $10.00. Our Bargain Basement Prices on first class Toys, Games, Pictures and Household goods is what pleases the people. Floor Balcony 6 Cents 10 Cents Today and Tomorrow. "Jack" From Daudett's Famous Novel, In Four Reels. This is the first time this pro duction has been run. This is a splendid show, fine photo graphy and is sure to please. Friday and Saturday: THOMAS W. ROSS, in "CHECKERS" As Topeka people are well ac quainted with this celebrated actor, and also the play,: "Checkers," it Is sure to please. Coming! Coming!! KINEMACOLOR, in all its great beauty, Dec 17 and 18. Filial Showing Tonight GEO. KLEINES "The Last Days or rompeu First Game 3 P- M. Tomorrow1 Auiio Polo America vs. England STATE FAIR' OTOUNDS Auspices Of The Topeka Dane Call Cub 9c Miss McDonald Treasure Island, etc. the Liking Glass 35c Books our price only- 19c 65c Books

39c Nancy Stair The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary The Bishop of Cottontown Z, i tmt M GRAND OPERA HOUSE Friday, December 12 SKATS SELUNG. Jos. M. Gaites Presents those always popular artists HYAMS and LTclNTYRE to WHEN IX) VE IS TOCNG $1.50, $1.00,. 75c, 60c 95c. Boxes, $2.00 MONDAY, DEC IS S O'clock Prompt. SOTHERN A MARLOWE EV i t THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Sue Gallery Tickets Will Be' Placed on Sale at 7: SO Man. Ere. (Unreserved.) mild TV TOPEKA'S liUILLI I JOY SPOT Jas. P. Lee Musical Comedy Co. "FUNNY MOON" IOC MATINEES lOc 2 Shows Every Night, 7:450:15. MAJESTIC SSg? 2C0 SeaUEvery irht lCc ALL OTHERS 25c The Pleasing Musical Play THE GIRL QUESTION Reg. Wed. and Sat. Mat, Floor a 5c Entire BaL 19c

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RAILROAD tIEUS Begalatioa of Tmberodosls Travel Has BeeB Suggested. m a! .ft n Interstate Transportation Un der Federal Bales. VSI WYE SFECiXL CHS Segregate Victims From the Healthy Passengers. Other Items of General Inter est In Traffic World. Kansas railroad men and health of ficials are greatly interested in a movement undertaken by the federal health service which will have, as a possible effect, drastic regulation of the transportation of victims of tu berculosis from state to state. In such an event, it will affect princi pally the migration of tuberculosis patients to the west and southwest over the lines of the Santa Fe and Rock Island. The demand for this investigation came- originally from Kansas, Cali fornia. Arizona. New Mexico. Colo rado and other western states which have been endeavoring for years to curtail tubercular immigration. It is suggested that regulations might be put in 'force to prohibit a consump tive from going far from his home un less he could give satisfactory assur ance that he would not become a pub lic charge. But the main point the investiga tion will disclose is that it ia unnec essary for consumptives to seek the arid region in order to be cured. The national health officers take the po sition that such a migration furnishes the patient no treatment that cannot be procured at home. The recommendation that the rail roads run special cars for consump tives has been made to officials of the roads in Topeka. DECREASE IX GROSS EARNINGS. loss of 0.1 Per Cent in November Compared With Last Year. Gross earnings of all United States rail roads thus far reporting for November amount to $20,637,114, a decrease of 0.1 per cent, as compared with the same month last year, but a gain over the correspond ing period of 1911 of 7. per cent. As for some time past, most of the contraction appears in the returns of the roads In the west and southwest, and while, as a rule, the losses are not so large as formerly, the Improvement in this respect la offset to some extent by the fact that the gains reported by many of the leading systems In the south are somewhat less pro nounced. However, the more important roads, such as Southern, Louisville and Nashville and Seaboard Air Line, still re port considerable increase, indicating fair ly well-maintained activity throughout the territory they serve. In the following ta ble, compiled by Dunn's Review, are given the gross earnings of all United States railroads so far reporting for November and the loss as compared with the earn ings of the same roads for the corre sponding month a year ago. also for the rbads that reported for the two preceding months, together with the percentage of gain or loss eompared wit last year: Per 1913 Loss cent. November $29,687,118 85.0S 0.8 October ,M0,W6 763.064 i September 42,399,510 68M04 1.1 Gain. ADDITION TO MeKINLKY LINE. Fulton Division of Alton Railroad to Traction Company. Fulton, Mo., Dee. 11. The visit of Presi dent Worthington of the Chicago and Al ton Railroad to the Fulton division of the road has led to reports that the McKlnley System of Illinois is negotiating for the purchase of that division. President Worthington passed through Fulton in his private car and proceeded to Jefferson City, where he conferred with members of the" Missouri Pacific Utilities Commission. A representative of the McKlnley System is said to have been with him. The Mc Klnley people recently bought the Jeffer son City electric lines, which includes the bridge across the Missouri River, and an extension Into Callaway county, and rep resentatives of that company announced that the bridge would be strengthened to accommodate heavier traffic. A pur chase of the Fulton division of the Alton would enable the McKlnley company to operate its cars from the business section of the state capital to Fulton and Mexico direct. The Columbia branch in 'that event would likely be built from a point below Fulton near New Bloomfteld. The proposition is entirely feasible and would give the McKlnley System a fairly good track from Jefferson City to Mexico, and the line could be electrified quickly and cheaply. No Change In Tourist Rates. At a meeting of the Western Pas senger association in Chicago recently it was decided to offer the same sum tn 1 en be mer tourist fares on western lines in 114 as were in force during the pres ent year. Summer tourist tickets will be on sale octween June 1 and Sep tember 30. Action on the question of requiring rsons to Durchase sleeping car tick ets before reservations are made for them was deferred until the next meeting of th association. It was de cided also to defer action on the ques tion of aboltRhing the practice of sell ing prepaid baggage permits. All of the retiring members of the executive committee were re-elected. IRRIGATION AT GOODLAND. The Congresw Is Holding Success fal Meeting There. Goodland. Kan., Dec. 11- Despite the unfavorable weather conditions the first day's session of the State Irrigation congress which opened here today, was well attended. Over 150 people repre senting 14 different counties of Kansas and four different states were present at the session. The Kansas underflow and pumping for irrigation were the (rincipat topics. The delegates were entertained last night at a banquet given in "their honor by the Good land Commercial club. W. H. PWIer. rep resenting Governor Hodges, wss the leading speaker of the evening. It is likely that Scott City will be the next place of meeting. Must Report Monthly.' Washington. Dec 11. Monthly Itemised list3 of coupons and interest payments on which the normal Income tax of one per cent has been withheld must be returned to the commissioner of internal rt venue by all persons and corporation withholding the tax, ac cording to a new treasury ruling. An nual reports which are also required need not ue itemised, but ust in clude the monthly total. Christmas The finest qualities of fresh candies sure the only kind you can buy in our Candy Department. We have all the best kinds, and are selling many of them at spe cial prices. MILL 8 SPECIAL pound boxes of fresh chocolates the aneat yow ew bay at the price OUR 50c BOXES ly decorated with seals and ribbons, for gifts. AMONG OUR SPECIALTIES: Best assorted chocolates, He Also fresh chocolates, 8b 25c. Fresh caramels every day, Sc. -Crease Wafer tn peppermint, wintergreen, lemon and maple flavors, lb., Z5c Peanut chanter, S5c lb. stick, after-dinner mints, pure sugar sticks, salted peanuts, etc 8 $1.00 Dress Silks 75c Any woman on your list would be' glad to receive a dress or waist length of silk and you can buy excellent quality silk that Sells regu larly for $1.00, in our Main Aisle tomorrow, 75c yd. The patterns are easy to choose from because all are new, and mostly In dark, hand some colors that anyone can wear. Designs are small stripes, all-over self-toned pin dots and small futurist patterns. You can order Christmas isfactorily as you can bay at FOR A IRY SEWER. Commissioner Tandy Recommends It for West Side. Commissioner W. O. Tandy this morning recommended the granting of the West side sewer petition, which will be built in the next year at an ap proximate cost of $100,000. The new sewer district will include Melrose, Lowman Hill, the west end of Klmhurst and College Hill addition. Unless ac tion is taken at once, Washburn Place addition, comprising the four blocks between Munson and Huntoon, west of Washburn avenue, will not be included in the district. The city attorney wiH be instructed to draw up a resolution excluding It. Washburn Place addition can't decide whether it wants a sewer. The first part of the commission meeting this morning settled into an altercation be tween' J. W. Woodford and Josiah Barnes. Petition for the paving of the addition was killed by a protest with ten times as many signatures. Mr. Barnes, who represents the faction un able to afford the sewer, accused Mr. Woodford, who ia working hotly for the improvement, of conducting a "gum shoe" canvass. One of Mr. Woodford's supporters objected to the length of Mr. Barnes address. Twenty men. representing both sides of the question, discussed the pros and cons. Mr. Tandy explained that aa amendment could be added to his reso lution in case residents on two blocks in the addition were able to secure suf ficient number of signatures to their petition. Otherwise, Washburn Place addition will have no sewer until one is built in Pinehurst. MAY RETAIll TEAM. McMullan Interests Outsiders Nego tiations Pending. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 11. Wichita will probably remain a member of the Western League and should turn out a winning team next season. A deal under consideration at yesterday's toward a successful termination. Sec retary McMullan, while at Columbus, succeeded in interesting a well known player in the Wichita situation, with the result that circumstances now ap pear favorable for his taking an in terest in tho franchise and assuming the managership of the team. Until the completion of the deal or until further developments, little ad ditional information is being given out. The prospective manager has had considerable experience in this role and is also well able to play his part as a member of the team. More definite word or the arrival of the party in question is expected today or at least tomorrow. CARRIERS WEAR THEM Use of Roller Skates in Distribution of Mail Is Spreading. Chicago. Dec 11. Roller skates may be put in general use by the postoffice department delivering mall In Chicago. Testerday eight clerks In the main postoffice were equipped with rollers. Today the innovation was extended to the carriers. This morning a carrier donned the rollers and with a sack of mall over each shoulder skated from the main postoffice to a sub-station at Twenty second street. It Is said by postal of cials other mail carriers will be .equip ped with roller skates if the plan proves successful. CIIAt!I!ElL TO YAtlXEES Denver Oatfielder Bold to Prank Chance of Hew York. Dee. 11- Lester Cbnanen. star outfielder of the Denver club and leading home hitter 01 tae western 1 sagae. ass been sold to the Mew Tork American League club. His release was' purchased by New Tork on the advice of Manager Frank Chance, who- has ssea the young man but a few times but has received numerous favorable reports concerning hie ability. The purchase prise has not been announced. The sale was ai here today. Candies 29c Box Glove Bonds When you are in doubt what size and color of gloves to give present our Glove Bonds," which enable the re cipient to make the selec tion. Tou can give any num ber of pairs or any quality desired in this way, the amount paid r does not ap pear on the bond. Such White Jockey Violet 50c gifts by mail the counters. sat- (I t. Ira Carroll and John Hankinso TEAMS ARE READY. And Weather Favorable for Auto Polo Game Tomorrow. Interest In the auto polo games to be played here on Friday, Saturday and Sunday is Intense. Every sporting fan in Topeka and others who want to see the new and exciting game ex pects to be present at one or more of the games at the fair grounds. The street car company will accommodate those attending the contests with extra "cars. "Cold weather," Ralph Hankinson, manager of the game said today, "does not affect either the teams or the audience. We cannot play in rainy weather but clear, cold days are suited to the game. The players do not feel any cold because they have to play so hard. Those attending the game find the sport so thrilling that they have not the time to get chilled. The ten minute periods go so fast for the spectator that cold waves are not felt." The two teams have arrived, the 'American team Wednesday and the English team today. The American players are Ira Carroll, driver, and John Hankinson, malletman. These two played in the original game of auto polo in Wichita, May, 1912. The four American substitutes arrived in Topeka Wednesday. The English team came from Chicago today. John John son is the driver and Ray Claypooi, malletman. Out of the seventy-five games played between the two teams, the Americana have totaled fifty vic tories. They are the favorites of the three games this month. The games begin at 3 p. m. Tickets fo. the three games are on sale at the following places: Rowley's drug store, Stansfleld's drug store, Campbell's drug store, Arnold's drug store. Palace Clothing company. Chas. Joslin's drug store. Tromp's Annex, Burghart's cigar store. Eagle's cigar store, Throop hotel, German-American bank, Fred Voiland's, North Topeka; North Shawnee Chief, North Topeka; National hotel. It is expected that many out of town people will be present. The tickets for each game are 50 cents. The press of the country has in dorsed the same and Duncan Curry, sporting editor of the New Tork American, has the following to say of the sport which was played at Madi son Square garden: "Auto poI the Iaterst middle west idea of sport, made its debut at Madi son Square garden yesterday. The' di version is remarkably exciting; in fact, enough so that it made blase New Torkers sit up and take notice. It was evident that the men who take part in this new pastime place no value upon the future usefulness of the machine or life and limb. After the two machines meet almost head on at the center of the field, one may rest assured that it would not be an appropriate place to hold a Sunday school picnic aa the drivers and cars perform stunts never dreamed of in a VanderbUt cup race, and which no one who baa not seen a game believes possible." The next Topeka Bell telephone di rectory goes to press December IS. All subscribers wishing to make changes should send them in before this data, Call 400$. Adv. The Greatest $10.00 Sirit Sals Not a few,; bat all our popular $25.00 Tailored Suits Women and Misses are now on sale here at Q10.00. It goes without saying that these are the greatest values that have been offered at $10.00. Give Good Pcrftmss and Toilet Waters Ton will find some very good perfumes and toilet waters very inexpensively priced here, and if you prefer to buy the very fine qua 11 ties the very: best are at your disposal also. These include! Colgate's Package" Perfume 50c and 25c j odors Caprice Dactylls i Cashmere Bowquet Lily-of-the-Valley Cmb Packages Melba, Laxalle's and some Hudnut perfumes. Our Finest Perfmnes and Toilet Waters VIOLET'S (Ve-o-lay's) exquisite odors Am ber Royale, Amorosa, Bouquet Farnese, Ra mea Fleuri from $2.00 bottle, to the large leather cases at $15.00, containing perfume, toilet water, face powder, sachet, and soap. Tito Wilis 1 .-1" i n of the Yankee Auto-Polo Team. SHELVE FRATERNITY. Governor Tener Will Tarn Demands Over to National Commission. New Tork," Dec 1L Governor Tener, new president of the National League, ridiculed the idea that the game was con trolled by a trust In a statement issued today incident to a business meeting of the league. "There is no such thing as a baseball trust," he said. "Organised baseball is a natural outgrowth of an endeavor to build up tbe business and put the game on the highest plane. There has been no The governor repeated that he was go ing to be president in fact as well as In name. He had Insisted on this, he said, before he assumed office. Routine affairs only faced the club owners at today's session. The demands of tbe players' "fraternity," it was announced, would not be considered, having been referred instead to President Tener, who will in turn place tbem before the National com mission at a meeting to be held in Cin cinnati on January S. The governor said, however, that he was in favor of retaining the reserve clause on contracts to which the players' ob jected. KHIEMACOLOR MACHIKE The Iris Theater Receives the First One.' The new Kinemacolor Simplex ma chine for the Iris was received direct from New Tork by express yesterday afternoon, 'ibis is the first machine to be shipped west of Chicago. Kine macolor exhibitions will begin in To pekt and Kansas City simultaneously, but the Iris was the first theater on the list of western cities to secure a Kinemacolor machine. The Iris is justly proud of the distinction. The people have really a very slight con ception of the magnificent, gorgeous new motion pictures which the Iris will present, beginning next Wednes day and Thursday. Adjectives for de scription have not yet been coined. When it is understood that this new invention reproduces all the colon, ex actly as in the original, even to the sparkling gems worn by those on the stage, a faint idea of the wonder of Kinemacolor will be had. When To peka people see Niagara Falls on the screen at the Iris next Wednesday there will be gaspings for breath and murmurs of delight uncontrollable for very amazement at the magnificent spectacle. Adv. CIIALLEL'GED FEECLES. Topeka Professional Will Play "Jim" Watson of Progress Club. J Bob Peebles, professional at the To peka Country club, will go to Ktttss City Saturday morning to meet Jim Watson in a challenge golf on the links of the JProareaa dub. The match will be played Sunday and will have more than passing interest. Both players are high in the ranks of professionals and the match will be for "blood." Intense rivalry be tween these two men exists and the mr to t Parisian Ivory Toilet Articles are the dainty woman's choice. Of course yon want the very beat grade for gifts, and as this is the only quality wo carry, yon will naturally purchase in our Toilet Goods Department. We have all the articles for the well-appointed toilet table, including Hi aunts Trays Gosdsi Hat Clothes Hatpin Holders -scam nazes Manicure Sets and separate pieces Clocks Calendars Railroad Fare Refunded According to Purchase RAID Oil STRIKERS. Sheriff's Posse Arrests Thirty-Nine in South Range District, Calumet. Mich., Dec. 11. Guerrilla war fare which raged In the South Range dis- -trict of the copper miners' strike sone was ended today when a force of deputy sheriffs Invaded several towns and made 3 arrests. Tbe only person injured was Timothy Driscoll, a deputy sheriff, who was shot and seriously wounded when he and other officers attempted to force an entrance Into a union hall. The trouble this morning centered around the hall of the Western Federation of Miners in the town of South Mange. Here Driscoll was shot and several of tbe arrests were. made. Henry Lepskl, a striker was specifically charged with wounding the officer and he is said by a confession to have implicated two other members 1 of the union. Twenty-three ritles and- JBO rounds of ammunition were found In. the hall and confiscated. On two prisoners taken in another neighbor hood of the range 240 rounds of ammuni tion were found. t. The district quieted rapidly when a big force of deputies, reinforced by volunteers from the Cltlsens' Aldance. was rushed to the ranter On two special trains and in automobiles. Three hundred Houghton cltlsens responded to the sheriff's call. The deputies took the prisoners back to the county jail at Houghton, the volun teers remaining at South Range on picket duty. The dispatch of the big posse from Houghton led to an early report that a pitched battle was In progress between tbe union and nonunion forces, but this was found to be exaggerated. TiLL GET KER HAT. Little Girl Writes to Washington tor One for Her Papa. Washington, Dec 11. Lottie Les ter, the little Seattle school girl who sought to buy a Panama hat from the government for her father's Christ mas present, will soon receive a brand new hat from Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin. Lottie recently wrote the treasury that she had saved fil cents for a new Panama hat. be cause a "Belgian hare bunny" had made a nest out of her lather's 01a one. "Uncle Sara wishes me to tell you that he received your letter and was very much pleased with it." wrote Mr. Hamlin to Lottie today. "He told me to go right out and buy a Panama hat for you. as he did not want to send you one of those he took from the naugnty men wno tnea 10 onng inem into the United States without pay ment of full duty. I found a hat this morning and am sending it to you "by parcel post. v;o:.:eii HAVE A FLAIL Believe They Can Induce Lopes to Sur render If They Ask Him. Bingham, Dec 11. The capture of Ralph Lopes in tne u tan -Apex mine seemed as remote today as when he took to the hills on November 21. A dosen plans to force the slayer of six men from the mine, where he turned at bar on November 27. either have failed or were given up before fully put into effect. A plan to cut him off from water tn the workings was aban doned today as im practicable. It was considered hardly probable that the sheriff would consent to a plan for his capture by a sentimental appeal which was suggested by Miss Arrida O. Carls and Mrs. W. Cole. The women, who live at the house where Lopes board ed, sought permission to enter the Andy tunnel and ask the desperado to surrender himself so they might re ceive the $1,000 reward. While this proposition 'seems pre posterous to the sheriff, those who know Lopes best declare that his pro nounced gallantry and cynical humor would make it the moat likely thing in the world if be realised there was small chance to escape that he would agree to dla in-order that a woman might ejoy th Wood money. 'Ko W. L Jamison i's application for at parole for William iggs reeetvea- no hands of the cMp ageawnt at tho issilllllll III Ills I Si I III 1 It la tomary for lesolutXuu to be ptstuld only The imulsllua that Briggs be pardoned or parolsd was accompanied by letters signed by W. O. Anderson, M. K. Thomp son and A. C Hashes, taotlfylmg to the ion tats morning, r xse mayor tsuasa mended that a acaest be taken on -the matter. Attorney Jsmlsfi departed some- sn trem ise usnai rnstum m si for

Good Gifts Ecr Men Ton will find dosena of good 'selections ia the Men's Furnishing Department, but we emphasise these par ticular articles of apparel aa being just. what many men would choose for themselves. RATH HOURS B of th most sensible men's XWIM gift, you can find: not costing over $5.00 If you wish to pay no more, but of thor oughly good quality, and new design. Then you can-be more luxurious tn your giving if yon wish to, and gat a very fine one for I IS. 00. The' price range: to.ee. a., ST.sa, km, S4o, Sio.oa, lx.0O, $l&a. Bay Jamas the mak ers name them Cosy Dosy" made in sotsetM, tennis flannel, and silk IM to S3.. Shirts Sara to please, for they are sure to fit S1.M to tttjM. Ties he les be choose I stylo I w Ctern at' would for are here every and pattern at Bed Spreads Are Practical Gifts large sine, cut corner or fringed crocheted spread of spe- cial quality, 91.M. Satin BboJshcd, large sixe. plain hemmed spreads, $XMt, Extra large crocheted spreads, fringed or cut corner, fine quality. S3.7&.. Fine Satin Spreads with cut corners, fringe or scalloped edge, large sixe, $5.0. Matched Spread and Sham Bets fine satin, exceptional -qualities at a.O, I4JS, sa.75, 97 M, 38.75 9imjf. Dainty dimity spreads with shams to match, pink or blue stripes, set Si.OO. We pay parcels post anywhere in the United States. Express anywhere in Kpwg. a liquor sentence of six months in the county jail and was fined $200 and costs. Later he was convicted on a felony liquor sentence, and sscmi destined- to spend a year in the state penitentiary. "I recommend that Briggs stay where he Is," said the mayor, unofficially, fol lowing the reading of Jamison's communi cation. "Make that official, and I'U second it," suggested Commissioner Roy Bone. Recommendation that no action be ta ken toward Briggs' release was unan imously adopted. OPPOSED TO ViLSOn. Civil Service Reformers Doot Agree With the President. Boston, Dec 11. The report of the council to the thirty-third annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform league today took Issue squarely with President Wilson on his statement that deputy collectors of in ternal revenue and deputy marshals were never Intended to be included under the ordinary provisions of the civil service law. The president's state ment was contained in a memoran dum issued when he signed the urgent deficiency appropriation bllL "The president's statement of his op position to the spoils system," says the report, "may have some wholesome effect on congress. In spite of his failure to negative the vicious attack of congress on the integrity of the civil service law, his civil service rec ord in most other respects has been that of a sincere friend of the re form." The report adds that the course of the president with reference to ap pointments and promotions in the con sular service and in the diplomatic service up t3 and including the rank of secretary of embassy deserves the league's warm approval. SKUuK FARMS H03DED The Animals Are Slain and Skinned by the Thieves. Warrensburg, Mo., Dec 11. Johnson county had produced the last word in theft. It is the plundering of skunk farms. Since the fur of this animal has grown valuable, many farmers are rearing them. Mason Stirk. living near Knobnoster had a corral which contained a hundred of the little animals. He went hunting and when he returned at dawn today he found that his corral had been vis ited and the entire crop was -gone. He found the carcasses of the animals near by denuded of their skins. Jim Huff aker who resides near War rensburg. found his corral in which he had CO of the animals, empty. He found the carcasses in the underbrush near by minus their skins. The hides were said to be worth several hundred dol lars. FEDERALS fOSTFoa Hold Meeting Later Players Contracts. Chicago.' Dec 11. Because two of the club owners would be unable to attend, the meeting of the Federal league which was to have been held next Saturday at St. Louis was post poned one week by President Gilmore. After Jhe meeting it is probable that some announcement will be made as to how many major league-players have been signed for the 1014 season by the Independent league. s Seven paring petitions were considered this morning by the board of dry commis si oners. TWO were allowed, two were re jected, and three were referred to tbe commissioner of streets. Petition for the paving of Sixteenth stmt, from Clay to Lane, filed December 4. was granted. The street will be saved with asphattie concrete feet wide. Peti tion for the paving of. the alley between Taylor.. Waal liV-oFnrth.and Fifth, filed Dscessber L Waa allow Ml petitions were not signed by resl- hanTof the real sstatSswusd tv Stephens street froaV Park to Warwick. and Warwick stieet from Stephens to The Drive, will not be paved. The following petitions were received BsornisMC and loterred to W. Q. Tandy se i7i to 910.M "Born" Some rf Cravats of fan A'choaVSkl0 lino of new. J $2.00 pat TOUYING Groceries at bed rock prices like these is just like finding; money. All table supplies guaranteed satis factory or vour mnnpv rpiimoH Free Delivery to all parts of the city. l Friday Specials Oranges, California Sunkist fancy, medium size, doz. 12 Shreaded Cocoanut, in bulk, lb. 17 Evaporated Peaches, fine large bright, 15c quality, lb. ..10 Fancy Colorado Potatoes, per bushel ....,SS Rice (cracked), 7 lbs. .231 Navy Beans, new choice hand picked, 6 lbs. .23 Smoked Hams, Wolff Packing o. s cure, id. 16 Tomatoes, large cans, good quality ..10 White Cherries, fancy pack, jsoc quality, can.. 19 Regular Items Breakfast Bacon, sugar cured, hick ory smoked, per lb. ana Grape Fruit, new Florida, 4 for. .XSo Cider, sweet and fresh, gallon.... SOo Flour, straight patent, 48-lb. sk. $1.00) Bice, fflnrv vlinl. c ik. m a Cabbage, fancy Northern. lb....i0 Bw-io. ioia mr Seeded Raisins, 10c quality, pkg. .So Beef Rousts, choice shoulder cuts. lb. Oatflakes, in bulk. lbs." for! "I. .Sfte v-uriimeai, zresn. wmte or yellow. lb. ...SHc Pure Pork Sausage (our own make). lb. i Pop Corn. lb. 6c; or lbs. for Uc Stick Chill (Wolffs) lb. ...ISe English Walnuts, new, lb....:.ISe Sugar Corn, good quality, 2 cans. .ISe dozen .Sod Buckwheat Flour, new. 0 Um..'.''.'.ase Sugar Corn. White Horse brand, 16c quality; can 11c; dosen $1.33 Mince Meat, fancy quality, lb le or 3 lbs. for .....Sao Butterine. Armour's' East lake, "our leaner, z-ib. brick for ZOc MAIL ORDERS GIVE PROMPT A.YD CAREFUL ATTESTIOjr Butterine. best brands, lb. ISUe. 15e. SUGAR Best Granulated, IS lbs. SOe (With an order for 12.60 other goods) Ivory Soap. 10c bars. .3 for lftc creamery Butter, best quality, plain wrappers, lb. adc Flour, The Regal or Queen of Tampa brands. 4s-Ih. aab California Hams, smoked "shoulders.! mo 26 lb. S3r $1X3 Best Granulated, when you buy $4 worth of other groceries or meats. 8. K. Corner Sth and PHONE CS3 from Fillmore to Central Park; paving rT Lincoln street from Sixteenth street W Euclid avenue. Craig. Men., Dec 11. Louis Hoffman of Topeka defeated Ed Brunts of Lin coln in straight falls here last night. Hoffman won the first fall with a body scissor m one hour and three mhrataa and tae second fan with a toe bold in three minutes. Both men made aa r a t:

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(JOCIETY Hie Steve of letfcachStGuettel ICUOTTHING cc Bargain: Friday Specials MEN'S SWEAT ERS. Fine wool sweater coats In Oxford gray, with large roll collar. Biuucer knit, pearl but tons ;god fitting. Regular 13.50 val ue, spe cial at $2.35 Christmas Neckwear 25c Pure Silk Neck w e a r in solid colors diagonal striped effects and beautiful Persian patterns. Each, tie In a handsome Xmas box,OC special at &DC Christmas Gloves $1.15 SIX hundred pairs of gen uine "Perrin" kid 'or cape skin gloves in three shades of tan. Fine new stock; regular price is JLsO; all sizes 7 to 10. tl 1C Special Christmas Hose $1 Box SPECIAL.: Six pairs o f Wilson Bros, fine lisle hose; neatly boxed in solid or assorted colors a good 25c hose, special per dox 01 6 pairs Warm Under wear 65c SPECIAL.: Gen uine Lamsdown fleece lined shirts and draw ers, silver gray color; made of fine' combed yarns; finished with grosgrain silk' and pearl buttons. Regu lar price g p" (1. Spe-KSf Bracelet Watches Though the bracelet watch has been considered a fad It is now recognized as a necessity, and anticipating the great de mand for them we are showing a large line priced from $10 up. LA VALUERES Several styles of La Vallieres to choose from at $4. The neck chains are of dainty gold link and the colorings of the stones will suit any complexion. Pearls, garnets, topazes, etc. Tou will appreciate the quality of these ornaments, and the price is un usually low, $4.00. La Vallieres are exceedingly popular and fashionable this Beason and our showing com prises pieces at every price. The designs are varied and all the different stones, both pre cious and semi-precious, are utilized. Up to 9300. THEN YOU KNOW Our general jewelry line is overflowing with good things that, while denoting the better qualities, are priced most rea sonably. Whether you have in mind the purchase of a large diamond or some simple little novelty, you will find here ex actly what you wish at the price you expect to pay. Twenty-four years of fair dealing in the jewelry business RalpKlR.Pet exsozv JEIWELER V.ptf Eighth. Street I just orrosm! the tkarsfex station PLEASE HELP Tou cart help the poor and needy by giving your old clothes, coats, shoes, papers, magazines, furniture, stoves, holdehold goods, etc. Call Phone 2701 Vhlte. and the man will call for what you have to offer,. The Kazarene Headquarters, 21 1-2 IS fast 4th St., Topeka, Kan. Ma, $1.00 Vj 1 si CJ USB PblS!aWKMwtleh clow latamcliis (set attest taa sweat Oumnaua tall wh to do nr pais. s -f i r 1 f r. tifn lUissjii Mrs. Charles Barnes save a bridge party this afternoon for Mrs. Alfred Frost, who has lately come from the City of Mexico. The party today is the second at which Mrs. Barnes has entertained for Mrs. Frost this week. Christmas decorations were used to trim the rooms open to the guests. A crowd of the young men have ar ranged a dance .which they will give Friday night at McRae's hall. The young people who have been diligently practicing the tango since early, last fall will have a chance to try the ac complishment at a real dance; for the tango is to be one of the dances. Among the holiday dances wm oe Mi- Delta Omicron Omicron fraternity party, a masquerade, Christmas eve at Kellam halL The alumni Kappa Apha PI will dance the evening of December 26. The Tlvoli club will dance Christ mas night at Kellam hall, and the date for the alumnae Lambda Alpha Lamb da will be December 29 at the new Kel lam hall; the alumnae Owls will dance the evening of December 30, and the Heiianthus ball will be held New Tear's eve. both parties to be given at Kellam halt Him iranafns will remember with pleasure Mr. Frank Presbrey, formerly of Topeka, and his wife, formerly Miss Stella Spaldinc of Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Presbrey have long resiaea m New York, where Mr. Presbrey was once in business with Walter H. Page, the present ambassador to Great. Brit ain. Mr. Presbrey was a classmate of President Wilson at Princeton ana ran always i emained on. most cordial terms with the president. The New Tork papers have Just noticed the wedding of Mr. Charles Presbrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Presbrey, to Miss Mar ion Shaw. The Sun says: The wedding of Miss Marion Shaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mar tin Shaw, to Charles Spalding Presbrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Presbrey, took place at 4 o'clock yesterday after noon In St. Bartholomew's church In the presence of many relatives and friends. The Rev. Dr. Ernest M. S tires, rector of St. Thomas' church, was the officiating clergyman. The bride entered the church with her father, who gave her away. She wore a gown of soft white satin made with a long train of pearl embroidered satin and chiffon. Her veil of tulle was held by a wreath of green leaves and entirely covered the gown and she car ried a bouquet of lilies of the valley. Her attendants were Mrs. Hamilton Abert, Mrs. Henderson M. Green and the Misses Marguerite Presbrey, sister of the bridegroom, and Gertrude Tower of Boston. They dressed alike in cos tumes of yellow satin covered with lace and flnished with applers of pale yellow silk trimmed with pale pink satin girdles. They wore brown velvet hats trimmed with tulle and carried red and yellow chrysanthemums. Tobias C. Fogel was the best man. The ushers included Howard Sayre and Jehiel Shlpman of this city. Frank Rollins of Columbia, Mo., Clark Mat thai of Baltimore, Felix Doubleday and Henderson M. Green. After the ceremony there was a re ception in the ball room of the St Regis. Mr. and Mrs. Presbrey left later on their wedding trip. Lawrence Jour nai-World. Mrs. C. H. Searle will entertain In formally at tea next Tuesday afternoon In honor of her niece. Miss Beulah Searle of Oberlln. Ohio, and Mrs. Carl Searle. The hours of the party are from 4 to 8, and the guests will be a few of the friends of the guests or honor. Miss Searle Is a student in Washburn college this winter, and is living at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Searle.. She will leave soon for Oberlln to spend the Christmas hol idays with her neoDle. Mrs. Carl Searle is a bride of the autumn. Before her marriage to Mr. Searle, the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Searle, which took place October 15, she was Miss Beulah Botham. Mrs. D. H. Forbes gave a luncheon weanesaay afternoon for her niece. Mrs. Mary Green Griffin, who is visit ing her on her way to Chamnaiim. 111.. from Japan. The guests were members of the Forbes families in ToDeka. Mrs. Griffin has lived in Japan all her life. She is the daughter of the late Dr. D. C. Green, who was a well known educator in Japan and one of the translators of the Bible into Japan ese. He .was decorated by the em peror. Mrs. Griffin has a brother who is American consul in Hong Kong, China. For the past few years she has had charge of the education of two Japanese princesses. Mrs. Griffin will make her home in Champaign, where she has a brother who is dean at the University of Illinois.

The regular meeting of the N. H. S. club was held Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Samuel Lux, 1207 West ern avenue. Reports of special Thanks giving work were given. Baskets con taining Thanksgiving dinners, with candy and nuts, were sent to the four families In which the club is taking a special Interest, Shut-in was remem bered with food, and calls were made by the committee. The members voted unanimously to send $5 to the Shanks family to help them on the trip to Ore gon. They also voted to send Christ mas baskets of food and gifts to those they had remembered at Thanksgiving time. The total amount of money voted for immediate use for charities was $20. After the business meeting there was a social hour. The regular musicale at Washburn college Friday afternoon will be a song recital. About a dozen pupils will sing, and the recital will be held at 4 o'clock in the college chape 1. The Golden Rule club will meet Fri day afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. E. B. Johnson. 1325 Lincoln street. The Wednesday Bridge club was en tertained yesterday by Mrs. H. H. Haz lett. There was a guest table for Mrs. Elma Lucas of Kansas City, who is visiting Mrs. Haxlett. and the other guests were: Mrs. L. P. Robinson. Mrs. Clyde Sillier and Mrs. Arch Catlln. The Friday Bridge-Luncheon club will meet Friday with Mrs. F. C. Beck, at her home in Topeka avenue. 4 Mrs. C." W. Wetherton will entertain her bridge club Tuesday afternoon at the Virginia.

The executive board of the Daugh ters of Founders and Patriots will meet Saturday mornlrur at the home of Mrs. Scott Hopkins. Those who will come from out of town for the meeting are: Mrs. A. B. Wilcox of Abilene, Mrs. David. Hill at Salina, Mrs. K. B. $3.50 to $20 u Oriental Oriental grace, combined with French chic, is the keynote In women's dress. In a word, the natural figure is correct. Madame Lyra and American Lady Corsets can produce for you the faultless foundation for the season's gowns. i ,:ri-' At your early convenience, may we show you? 'these exclusive corsets and fit you to "just the right model for your -individual re quirements"? Everything depends upon a perfect fitting. Our expert corsetieres are at your service at all times to help you choose the right model for your needs. -"n "J The Store of Dependable Merchandiser; i SOAP ON HAIR CAUSES DANDRUFF SCALP GETS DRY, HAIR FALLS OUT Girls! Boys! Get a 25 cent bottle and try a "Danderine Hair Cleanse" Save your hair! After washing your hair with soap al ways apply a little Danderine to the scalp to invigorate the hair and pre vent dryness. Better still, use soap as sparingly as possible, and instead have a "Danderine Hair Cleanse." Just moisten a cloth with Danderine and draw it carefully through your hair, taking one strand at a time. This will remove dust, dirt and excessive OIL In a few moments you will be amazed, your hair will not' only be clean, but it will be wavy, fluffy and abundant, and Purcell of Manhattan. The Kansas chapter of the society was lately or ganized at a luncheon party given at the home of Mrs. John Shelton. Class Three in the domestic science department of the high school gave a party Wednesday afternoon at the high school for Superintendent H. B. Wilson of 'the city schools. Some of the high school teachers and friends of the members of the class were guests. The party was given in the art studio Money Saved by Making Your Cough Syrup at Home Takes Bat a Few Stesaemts, asilMpisBarlCastk la a Urr Cough medicines, as a rule, contain a large quantity of plain syrup. If you take one pint of granulated sugar, add pint of warm water and stir about 2 minutes, you have as good syrup as money could buv. If you will then put 2)& ounces of Pinex (fifty cents' worth) in a pint bottle, and fill it up with the Sugar Syrup, yon will have as much cough syrup asyou could buy ready made for $2.50. Take a teaspoon ful every one, two or three hours. It keeps perfectly. You will find it one of the best cough syrups you ever used even in whooping cough. You can feel it' take hold usually conquers aa ordinary cough in 24 hours. It is just laxative enough, has a good tonic effect, and the taste is pleasant. It is a splendid remedy, too, for whooping cough, spasmodic croup, hoarseness and bronchial .asthma. Pinex is a most vaulable concentra ted compound of Norway white pine extract, rich in guaiacol and other healing, pine elements. No other prepa ration will work in this formula. This plan for making cough remedy with Pinex and Sugar Syrup is now used- in more homes- than-any other cough remedy. The plan has often been imitated but never successfully. A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, or money promptly refunded, goes with this preparation. Your druggist has Pinex, or will get' it for you. If not, a to xae jnaex ua, n. wayae, lad. American Lady CORSETS $1 to $25 f litoiir Grace" possess an incomparable softness and luster. Besides cleansing; and beautifying the hair, one application of Danderine dis solves every particle of dandruff; stimulates the scalp, 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. Its exhilarating and life-producing properties cause the hair to grow long, strong and beautiful. Men! Ladies! Tou can surely have lots of charming hair. Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter and try It. Adv. of the manual training building. Miss Caroline Morton, domestic science teacher. Professor and Mrs. Wilson, Professor and Mrs. A. J. Stout and Mrs. C. J. Evans received the guests. Miss Laura Kwlng and Miss Rebecca Pas son poured tea. The table was decor ated with a Japanese basket of yellow chrysanthemums.

Notes and Personal Mention.. Mrs. Lunde Souther will leave next week for Boston, Mass.. and will spend the Christmas holidays with her sis ter. Miss Mildred Fuller, wha is attaint ing the Madams of the Sacred Heart! convent. St. Louis, will arrive next week to spend '(he holidays with her parents, Major and Mrs. Alvarado M. Fuller. Mr. James Moore and his daughter. Miss Elizabeth Moore, will leave Dee. 1 to visit relatives during the holi days. Have you a "Grandma?"- Ask at Mills', Hall's, Zercher's, Peterson's, Crosby Brothers, 50c Adv. Mr. and Mrs.'. D. W. Uulvane. who are traveling in the east, are expected to return home soon after the middle of the month. Mrs. J. P. Root of Emporia, who is visiting Mrs. C- B. Reed, will remain to see Sothern and Marlowe at the Grand Monday night, and will leave for her home Wednesday of next week. Mrs. John S. Hopkins of Holton Is visiting Mrs. Scott Hopkins. Mr. and Mrs. H. W, Wilson of Abi lene will visit Mrs. Wilson's sister, Mrs. O. Hmn at Oiritm n Mr. George "H. Fair has gone for a 1 ten davs trln tr Wmafifnartnn Tk C I Mrs. Z. T. Hasen and her daughter. Miss Marian Williams, have returned from a short visit in Kansas City. Mrs. A. M. Petro left today for a short visit to friends in Ksnsas City. Judge Lee Monroe returned today from a business trip to Dodge City. Little Mary Hayden. who has been ill with a severe cold, is improving. Anybody, wtietoves a dear old-fashioned Grandma will delight la the gift of a "Grandma", book. At local book departments. SOc Adv. Mrs. Lee Monroe went to McPb ar son, Kan., today to speak before the j Men's club of the town on '"The Com- oz uovemment. ONLY ELEVEN SHOPPING DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS Some Friday Bargaino for Christmas Shopprs Yotmg People Would Appreciate Pennants and Similar Gifts Bright colored pennants and pillows of felt and leather do much to make the young per son's room cheerful. We are showing' school, college, city and state pennants of good felt in the correct colors, some with letters sewed on, others with stamped designs. Pen nants for T. H. S., Washburn, Bethany and other schools and colleges. Also lodge pen nants. Priced at 25f to $1.75 Also felt pillow tops and backs with or without fringed edge, to match pennants. Priced at .$1.00 to $2.25 Stamped leather pillows, ta ble covers, runners, etc, in a wide variety of choice. Priced at .$3.25 to $4.50 See the display on Annex Bridge.. Beautiful Beaded and German Silver Mesh Bags BEADED BAGS The showing; of Beaded Bags offers many sift suggestions in itself. Some of them are entirely of black Jet beads, others with steel and black or white beads, also gold and white, and many colored designs. Frames are of gunmetal, gilt or German silver, with chain handles. See them at the Jewelry Sec tion. While there are many 01 OK fn Cfi prices between, the price range is P1'"' w fv Some Specials for Friday Only On the Third Floor SAUCE DISHES One table filled with fancy China Sauce Dishes in various designs and patterns. Scarcely any two of them alike. Sell regularly at 10c each. Special for Friday, each 7 SAUCE DISHES One table filled with fancy decorated Sauce Dishes, very fine quality china, many designs to choose from. Sell regularly at 16c. Choice Friday, eaeh 10 CHOCOLATE POTS One lot consisting of just eighteen; Will hold from 2 to 3 pints each. Fine quality of china dec orated in floral and conventional designs. Sold regularly at $1.00 and $1.25. Your choice tomorrow, each 75 CHOCOLATE CUPS AND SAUCERS Also After Din ner Coffees. The very best imported china, thin quality and beautifully decorated in many designs. All shapes and sizes. Dozens to choose fromT Regular 25c and 35c values, special for tomorrow, each 10 and 15 "HOLD FAST" BABY PLATES Have patent attach ment to hold the plate to table or high chair. Price each 50, CAEMENTUM A new form of stone cement like liquid porcelain. Will mend all articles of china, glass or crockery and the action of time, heat or water will not affect it. A liberal sized jar for .25 BE SURE TO SEE THE DOLLS AND BOOKS A, f ITI? J7IT Every woman who calls at our Peerless Pattern counter will be pre- KOpy sented with a copy of "Every Woman Her Own Dressmaker," for Winter 1913-1 A, a magazine full of useful helps and information which usually sells at Sc. While she is in McPherson she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Saw yer. Miss Jessie Strong of Paxico will come to Topeka Friday to visit Miss Capps and to see Sothern and Mar lowe Monday night. The Arts and Crafts Embroidery club will meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. A. M. Goodman, 921 Garfield avenue.: Mrs. Fred Zerpz of Leavenworth is visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kellam, 1001 Arch street China sale at Marie Witwer's studio Friday and Saturday, 25c up. 1125 Western Ave. Adv. Mrs. Harry Brown and Mrs. Eliza beth Slavely of Kansas City spent the day with Mrs. Franklin A. Lewis, 510 West Seventh street. Miss Julia Whitmer entertained her card club last evening at her home, 1010, West Sixth avenue. Thomas W. Ross at the Iris. Thomas W. Ross, the favorite Amer ican actor, comes to the Iris Friday and Saturday in that brilliant, classy production, Checkers. Not since Ari zona, or In the Bishop's Carriage, has the Iris had a photoplay of this char acter, although each program has been of exceptionally high order. Four thousand people saw Mary Pickford in In the Bisk op's Carriage, and as Checkers is 1 topliner, too, a play of keen, thrillin interest all through the four reels, there may be an "S.R.O." sign necessary at times during the .en gagement. 1 he soft, beautiful tones of the phototrraphy will be a pleasure to the eye, and the stirring spirit of the play will arouse the mind to the fullest enjoyment. Adv. Just One Application And the Hairs Vanish (Helps to Beauty.) Here Is a very simple and effective way to banish objectionable hairs or fuss: Mix into a stiff paste enough powdered delatone and water to cover the nnderslrable hairs, apply and after about tort minutes remove the paste, wash the skin and every trace of hair will have vanished. This method is quite harmless and leaves the skin soft and spotless. Be sure; however, to get the delaatone in an original package, otherwise It may not be of the desired Each day now sees an increase in the size of Christmas shopping crowds and we would like to suggest, as a matter of advantage to you, that you use the morning hours for shopping when you can do so. Gifts of Perfume Always Good We have just received a new supply of Fiver Le Jrefle and Azurea Perfumes, two odors that are much in demand. Price per ounce Sl.oo Payen's triple French ex tracts in violet, white lilac and crab apple odors. Put up in one-ounce crystal glass bottles with cut glass stoppers all in neat box ready for gift presentation. Regular $1 value now 50 Colgate's Half -ounce Bot tles, good selection of odors, each bottle boxed, special .each .....25 $3.00 Long Kid These are 16-button length have them in all sizes. They are regular $3.00 values, and we will put them in. Christmas box, together with sachet bag, at per pair .$2.25 Warm Mittens for Babies and Children Infants' and Children's wool mittens in black, white, red, navy, brown and gray. Made of good yarns. Your choice, per pair .25 MESH BAGS patterns in both to 7 inches wide. Some lined with Dresden silk. Ball clasps. Chain handles. Some Jewel settings. One lot in up to $6.00 values fljo no choice, each..... AfO MESH BAGS German silver mesh In differ ent patterns. Straight and shaped frames; chain handles; bau clasps; some kid limed; regular $2.60 values each. TAKE A GLASS OF SALTS TO FLUSH THE KIDNEYS IF YOUR BACK HURTS Advises folks to overcome Kidney and Bladder trouble while it is only trouble. Eating meat regularly eventually pro duces kidney trouble in some form or other, says a well-known authority, be cause of uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked; get sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of distress, particularly backache and mis ery in the kidney region; rheumatic twinges, severe headaches, acid stom ach, constipation, torpid liver, sleepless ness, bladder and urinary irritation. The moment your back hurts or kid neys aren't acting right, or if bladder 8 Daily Trains KANSAS CITY DOUBLE TRACK Lv. Topeka AT. Kan. City 4:ju a. av iso a. m. 7:40 a. m. 1:S p. m. 1 -3S n m. l:B a. m. T:X a. m. t:2S a. m. 4 :K p. m. i:W p. n. 7:3 p. m. t:4t p. m. KaO p. m. E3 Ball s Slssswhlf risks EVESrWHESE c. e. asscs.c.r.A Pfcaaa 40M yi:4u p. m. g5 p. m. VITALITY r i Hums to la, a so so ...ma ifnnHar. IWadsT. tej Eventesa. Atomizers, cut and pressed glass, in various shapes and sizes, with net covered bulbs. Separates alcohol from odor by evaporation. Choice each 75 to $3X0 Colgate's Packages Minia ture extracts, 5 odors to box; young people's perfumes, 4 bottles to box; Week-End packages, consisting of cold cream, dental cream, talcum and soap. Each, per box 25 Gloves Box With $2.25 Sachet Baa white glace kid stoves, and we German sliver mesh in. straight and shaped frames 4U $1.98 7 Handkerchiefs Men's long initial handker chiefs, hemstitched edge, packed six in box for .60 Men's initial handkerchiefs, packed six in a box for. .40 Four-in-Hand Ties Men's straight endBarSF thea and poplin silk four-in-hand ties in black, white and all shades in plain colors. Full size. Each packed in holiday dox at 17 or. 3 for 50c $1 Beaded Scarfs 48c Beaded and spangled scarfs of all silk chiffon in black, white, lavender, pink, blue and maize. Regular $1.00 values on special sale tomor- jtn row, each. 4vC bothers you, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good pharmacy: take a tablespoon! ul in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and emon Juice, combined with lithla, and has been used for genera-' tions to flush clogged kidneys and stim ulate them to normal activity; also to neutralise the acids In the urine so it no longer Irritates, thus ending bladder disorder. Jad Salts cannot injure anyone; makes a delightful effervescent lithli water drink which mlliona of men an women take now and then to keep the kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease. Adv.' NO STOPS Lv. Kan Clt Ait. Tepsaa a. m. U.i p. m. U:Sv a, m. 13S p, SB. 7:56 p. ax p. m. 12:1 a. m. l:os a. m. 7:Bt a. m. 10: a. m. ll:0i a. m. n -M a. m. :10 p. m. M p. m. 10M p. m. 11:1 v- m. THE SECRET 0? SUCCESS If! TO 17 Blood Poison, Vital Debility, lafao l(JlvE tioua XMsorders, and all Pelvis All.. menis ox mm. Ton should call without delay. Consultation is invited, and free. ,-i Authorised by the state to treat all Chronic. Nervous and Prtvite Diseases. Special treatment for Cancers. nil. Dl A. cooraKHAr.i Bat Seventh St.

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