The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 21, 1914

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SATURDAY EVENING- TOPEKA, KANSAS- FEBRUARY 21,11)14. SATURDAY EVENING. FIVE CENTO. VILLA'SJEFENSE Rebel Chieftain Says Benton Drew a Chin on Him. GOES TO L'EET T. R. ALL ARE RATIFIED POLITICAL GOSSIP Theodore Douglas Robinson, Nephew of the Colonel, Sails for Europe to Confer With His Uncle. Arbitration Treaties With Eight Big Nations Adopted 1 Democrats Feel the Need of Born February 22, 1732. Died December 14, 17Sa Organlxatloi An Official Report of the Exe cution Reaches Washington. By a Vote of More Than Two Thirds of Senate. So They WI3 Start Into Work by Counties. the THREE KOBE ARE OSSD One American and Two En glishman Have Disappeared. Villi cg:.:e together i:ispai:i a:.:e:c:.:ents are defeated Efforts to Exempt Panama Tolls From Arbitration Fall. kctses cee:es stct CEa Charles Scott Holds Out for Roosevelt Expects' to Be There the Last of April. Convention. LAST EDITION. GEORGE WASHINGTON All Thought to Hate Met a Similar Fate. Washington, Feb. 21. White House officials stated today that official re ports from General Villa and his friends declared William S. Benton, the British ranchman, was executed because he entered the camp of Villa, armed, and threatened the life of the constitutionalist commander. In view of this latest report there was a disposition at the White House to await a full investigation of the hafnM -rrRinir anv ODinlon. It was also stated that Great Britain was holding in abeyance any repre sentations, pending the completion of a report on the affair by the Ameri can government. Late official dis- nanhn thA tltntf fT ft TTlPTlt COI1- taining Villa's version of the affair were brought to the wnue House, dui a complete account of the killing, as personally explained to Consul Ed wards. Is on its way by mail. Official dispatches from the Ameri can consul and representatives say further that Villa claims that Benton came to him armed and that during the course of a long argument and quarrel Benton raised a gun to shoot, but was disarmed, and a trial by a military court followed. Villa takes the position that a foreigner who threatened the life of a military offi cer is subject to no immunity or the rights ordinarily extended to non combatants. Public Feeling Is Intense. El Paso, Feb. 21. The official an nouncement that William S. Benton, a British subject, had been executed by Mexican rebels at Juarez. Tuesday night, the adoption of resolutions con demning the United States government for its handling of Mexican affairs at a mass meeting here, exchange of shots between members of the Thir teenth United States cavalry and a score or more of Mexicans and uncer tainty as to the fate of Gusta Bauch. (Continued cn Page Two.) WILL DECK IS HERE. Progressives Hope to Get Hoi ton Editor in Congress Race. Txru.i sub' tiia vinttnn Progressive editor, is in Topeka today and Is hopeful of the future of the new' par ty in Kansas. Accompanied to To peka by Mrs. Beck, also an ardent Progressive, Beck talked enthusias tically to his friends regarding the prospects of the Bull Moose cause. It is regarded as possible, even probable, that Beck may be forced into the race as a Bull Moose congressional can didate in the First district. But Beck did not discuss his own candidacy. He would be the strongest man the Pro gressives could name for the congres sional fight in this district. "The Henry Allen announcement has put new hope in the breasts of Kansas Progressive," declared Beck, who believes the new party will have a strong organization in the First dis trict. "There is no question, even in the ranks of the opposition, but that the Murdock-Allen-Ingalls combina tion is strong and will poll a big vote. That combination knocked out all chances of harmony with the old line Republicans, and we will make a great fight in the state." Beck did not discuss his own can didacy for congress. He believes that many counties win oner i-rogressive county tickets this fall and It is quite probable that Jackson county will be included in tne list. DOG IS MOVING. Panic Stricken Irish Are Fleeing from Treacherous Mass. Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, Feb. 21. A quaking mass of bog, several square miles in area, is on the move in the neighborhood of Carrick and the panic stricken inhabitants of the countryside are fleeing before the threatening disaster. The bog slide has been brought about by abnormal rains. Many thousands of acres in the counties of Leitrim and Roscom mon are submerged and the roads are impassable except in boats. The people in many instances have been isolated from their neighbors ow ing to the Shannon breaking its banks. The flooded stream is carrying many carcasses of cattle and other live stock while hay stacks and outhouses as well as farm implements have been -washed away. The shifting bog bears the appear ance of a treacherous morass, broken 'P by huge Assures filled with water. Desperate efforts are being made to drain away enough water to check the advance of the mass. JOINS RANK OF KINGS Prince William Formally Accepts the Throne of Albania. NeUWeid. nunrnnv V.v. m rince William nf Wla .a .i an MS or KurnnAnn mvamIm.- mummy acceptea the throne VJ Albania, tendered to him by Essad r?fa; a the head of a deputation of Albanian notables. Essad Pasha, who defended Scutari !"th2 Iurk8' S"t the Montene grins, during the Balkan war. and the ftner delegates, saluted Prince Wll iwE1 "Wns" "your majesty," although the European powers had contemplated according htm only the title of prince. Conference Will Relate to Pro- hlbltlon as Party Principle. New Tork, Feb. 21. Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of Theo dore Roosevelt and chairman of the New Tork Progressive state commit tee, sailed for Kurope today where he will meet the colonel during the lat ter part of April. Colonel Roosevelt, now in South America, intends to ar rive in Spain during that month. It was said by friends of Mr. Robin son that he would talk over with his uncle, the liquor question, with refer ence to the optional prohibition bill, now before the legislature. Western Prnrrualvu hovs advocating prohibition. Mr. Robinson cared to make no prophecies as to whether Roosevelt would be the nomi nee fo governor next fall. "There's no telling, I'm sure," he said. "You know the colonel is usual ly guided by the will of the people. As it now stands, he plans to aid con gressional candidates in Maine and possibly in Pennsylvania. No doubt he will be in the thick of the fight for Progressive principles.") CONVICT MULLINS Jury Returns Verdict of Guilty In First Degree. Deliberated 14 Hours Before Agreement. Alma, Feb. 21. Walter Mullins, was today convicted by the Jury of murder in the first degree as an ac complice of Tony Roberts, who was charged with shooting Anthony King in the letter's restaurant at Alta Vista during the night of Sept. 13 1912. The Jury retired at 9:30 o'clock Fri day night and returned the verdict at 11:15 o'clock today. Anthony King was killed by two charges of buckshot which lodged In his body. Sixteen shot were picked out of his flesh during the post mor tem examination. Tony Roberts was convicted during the May, 1913, term of firing the shot. King was shot while in the rear end of his restaur ant. Upon receiving the verdict, the at torneys for Mullins notified the court that they Would file a motion for a new trial. WILL HAVE HEW TRIAL Han Convicted of Quadruple Murder Wins on Writ of Error. Springfield. III., Feb. 21. Ray Pfan schmidt, convicted in the Adams coun ty circuit court of a quadruple mur der, won in the supreme court today when the lower court's finding was re versed on a writ of error. He will have a new trial. One of the points which won a new trial for the defendant was the de cision by the superior court that the conclusions of bloodhounds were too unreliable to be accepted as evidence. Bloodhounds taken to the scene of the crime were said to have followed a trail to Pfanschmidt's home. The trial court admitted evidence of the trailing by the dogs. The admission of this testimony was held by the upper court to be error. History of the Crime. Quincy, 111., Feb. 21. The crime with which Ray Pfanschmidt is charged was one of the most gruesome ever commit ted in Illinois. Four persons, Charles Pfanschmidt. father of the accused. Mathilda Pfanschmidt, his mother, Blanche Pfanschmidt, a sister, and Miss Emma. Kaempen. a school teacher, boarding in the Pfanschmidt home, near here, were the victims. The bodies although badly burned by the fire which destroyed the house, September 29, 1912, showed signs of having been beaten and chopped. Ray Pfanschmidt, then not 21 years old, and the only surviving member of the family, was accused of the crime. Bloodhounds had followed a trail to the camp where he made his headquarters. Owing to the wealth and prominence of his family and the high intelligence of the accus ed, who was a former rtudent at the University of Illinois, the trial attract ed widespread attention. The state attempted to prove that Pfanschmidt, heavily in debt and en gaged to marry Esther Reeder, killed his father, mother, and sister In or der to Inherit the Pfanschmidt estate and be the beneficiary of insurance car ried by his father and mother. The Jury on the first ballot unani mously voted Pfanschmidt guilty. At first eleven Jurors favored the death penalty and one life imprisonment. Fi nally all voted for the death penalty. Pfanschmidt always has maintained his innocence and his courage never has failed. The family of Miss Reeder now resides In California. THE DAY IN COtlGRESS Urgent Deficiency BUI Is Taken Up la the House. Washington, Feb. 21. Senate met at noon. Senator Oliver offered amend ment to the trade commission bill, to exempt certain small corporations. Conference on the Alaska railway biU was postponed to Monday.'' Telegrams on the killing of William Benton at Juares were read at the request of Senator Fall. House met at noon.' Urgent defi ciency bill taken up. v Trust bill hear ings were continued. Also Question of Public Educa tion and Immigration. Washington. Feb. 21. Without any amendment whatever to limit their scope, the senate by more than a two thirds vote today, ratified general ar bitration treaties between the United States and Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal and Switzerland. Attempts to exempt the Panama ca nal tolls questions or questions of immigration and public education, which were related to the treaties with Great Britain and Japan, were defeat ed, and the conventions go into force in the same general terms as existed before they expired. The vote while an evidence of the senate's support of President Wilson's treaty policy, was interpreted by those backing the presi dent's proposal for a repeal of the Panama tolls exemption, as an indica tion that the president will have prac tically the same support on that sit uation. Ratification of the convention clears the diplomatic atmosphere, which has been charged and surcharged for months, with complexities relating to the Japanese protests against tolls ex emption at Panama. Opposition Was Exhausted. Sjenators of the foreign relations committee had been confident that the general arbitration treaties with Great Britain, Japan and six other nations would be ratified today. Adiministra tion leaders asserted- that further argument seemed useless. Those who opposed arbitration as a national policy, they said, had exhausted their field for argument in the debate of the last two days, while others who sought to amend the treaty had made their fight and lost by a decisive vote. When the senate began work it was believed no amendments would be pressed. As an argument against fur ther delay, champions of the treaties pointed out that to amend any of the conventions at this time would be. dis criminatory, inasmuch as a similar treaty with France was ratified by the senate last summer and renewed. To adopt general amendments to a. treaty with Great Britain, Japan,. Italy. Spain, Norway. Sweden. Portugal or Switzerland, it was contended, would necessitate abrogation of the French treaty. The decisive vote yesterday against any amendments was also pointed to as an indication 01 tne futility of press ing further changes. III 'SUNNY CALIFORNIA Storms Continue to Sweep the State From End to End. San Francisco, Feb. 21. Rain and a south wind which generally brings more rain were promised today for southern California, already storm swept. Losses to ornage and lemon groves and to property in general have been heavy. J. C. Rockwell, a rural mail carrier. from Santa Barbara, was drowned while seeking to deliver faithfully the government mails as he had done for 12 years. .He is survived by 11 children. The death off Santa Barbara, of Reuben Hamlin, son of a millionaire, who was drowned from a launch, in creased to five the number of fatalities by a storm reported from the winter home of many easterners. The private car of Lord and Lady Decies (formerly Vivian Gould), which was marooned in the town two days ago was dragged out yesterday but advices early today re ported them stalled again not far from Los Angelps. They are trying to tour the west. Much rain and wind swept over the north central part of the state. At Le land Stanford university, the wind broke in the library windows. Fearing that the great stained glass dome would follow, students of the university fled. Parts of the campus were flooded Efforts were made to reach the steamer Eureka, reported in distress off San Luis Obispo. Five lives Lost. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 21. Three days of unprecedented rainfall brought six southern California counties to a condition of complete prostration today. There were no street car or railroad lines in service. High winds off the ocean prostrated wires, and for hours today Los Ang eles and surrounding territory within a radius of 200 miles was without power or telephone and telegraph service. Five men and women have lost their lives in the floods since Wednes day. Great damage has been done by the storm waters, which were the most menacing in the recorded his tory of the southern end of the state. THAI' HEARING ENDS. Each Side Allowed Ten Days to File Supplementary Briefs. Concord, Feb. 21. The last hearing in the United States court, for the dis trict of New Hampshire, in the matter of Harry K. Thaw, was concluded to day. William T. Jerome spoke for an hour and a half in opposition to Thaw's peti tion for a writ of habeas corpus and for admission to ball. Mr. Jerome asked for permission to file supple mentary briefs and was given ten days to do so. Thaw's counsel will reply ten days thereafter. Judge Aldrich then will render his decision and an ap peal will be taken immediately by one side or the other to the supreme court of the United States. t- Weatber Forecast for Kansas. Fair with a moderate temperature tonight and Sunday. Capper Postpones as Often as Paderewskl. Organization meetings will be held this spring in every county in Kansa according to Democratic leaders who have already outlined plans of s number of county meetings. Several organization meetings held within the last week have drawn large crowds and resulted in plans for county- and township organizations in the coming1 campaign. With their plans for holding county meetings this spring, the Democrats win not wait until after the primaries to make preparation for the pre election fight. Their oresent nlui calls for the listing of the faithful in every ward, township and voting pre cinct in the state. This information win oe turned over to tne state com mittee, card indexed and catalogued. Long before the election camoaim opens, the state leaders will be in toucn witn their precinct workers and will be able to keep cards and cases on every Democrat in the state who threatens to backslide and will tabu late names of new converts to their cause. i "Our plan means that we will have a complete poll of the state before the primaries," said a Democratic leader in Topeka. "Through our sys tem we will have the name of every Democrat who is weak in the faith, every voter who will do missionary work and the name of every new con vert to the faith. It will be the most thorough organization ever attempted by the Democrats in Kansas and will (Continued on Page Two.) P0LL0CKT0 co:.:e He Will Ascertain Why Bad ders Wont Testify, To Try the Bankruptcy Him self March 2. Judge John C. Pollock today in structed Morton Albaugh, clerk of the United States district court, to. call a special Jury for Monday, March 2. to hear evidence in the George S. Bad ders company bankruptcy case. Judge Pollock announced that he would him self come to Topeka to hear the case and would tolerate no further delays in tne controversy regarding the To peka merchant's financial affairs. The order of Judge Pollock followed the action of Badders in refusing to testify before Special Master Slonecker in the involuntary bankruptcy case. A citation in contempt was presented by Judge Slonecker, but Judge Pollock de cided that the quickest method was to set the case for immedate hearing and to determine whether Badders is in solvent or has committed any act of bankruptcy. D. R. Hite, Badders lawyer, insists mat nis client, is solvent and has com mitted no act In violation of the bank ruptcy laws. On this ground he re fused to testify before a SDecial mas ter and demanded a Jury trial on the merits or tne case, in the ordinary course of events' Badders' case would I not be brought to trial before ADril. j But Judge Pollock declared that he I was not pleased with the technical ob- ji.u.o iwacu jy uuiiuci a -counsel and would bring the case to a speedy termination. A special Jury will be summoned to appear in Topeka March 2 and evi dence regarding Badders' business transactions and financial affairs will be introduced at that time. At this hearing, it is probable that Badders himself will go to the stand to defend his actions without another excuse or a plea for more delay. SHOPS CLOSED MONDAY Three Days Vacation for the Santa Fe Employees in This City. A three days vacation beginning to day is the program for the 2,400 em ployees of the Santa Fe railroad shops in Topeka. Saturday has been on off day since the retrenchment policy this winter, Sunday always is a day of rest and Monday is to be construed as Washington's birthday. Holidays are a Welcome feature of this winter with the Santa Fe. In an attempt to cut down expenses the road has adopted every means of economy Without endangering operation and maintenance. The pay of 2,400 men amounts to no little amount of money in eight hours. No promise for better times i- made by officials of the road in Topeka. Un til the earnings begin to warrant addi tional expenditures the shops will be operated on the 40 hour a week sched ule. BIG FILE OF GOLD. The United States Treasury Is in Pos- of $1,250,000,000. Washington. Feb. 21. There was $1,866,619,157 in gold coin and bullion in the United States at the close of the last fiscal year, a report by Geo. E. Roberts, director of the mint. says. Of this amount about 11,250,000,000 was" in the possession of the govern ment and the remainder in banks. The stock of gold reported by the bank and treasuries of the world, Mr. Roberts said, is greater by $240,000. 000 than in the preceding year, al though the production of gold in the last five years has not been great. 1

iJM. ix--' i It ft.' -r 3ffi k No nobler figure ever stood in the forefront of a nation's life. Washington was grave and courteous in address. His manners were simple and unpretending; his silence and, the serene calmness of his temper spoke of a perfect self mastery. But there was little in his outer bear-. ing to reveal the grandeur of soul which lifts his figure with all 1 the simple majesty.: of an ancient statue out of the. smaller passions, the meaner impulses, of the world around him. 1 John Richard reen, English Historian. Th en One hundred and thirty years R: I., celebrated Washington's birthday with the ringing of church bells, firing, of cannon and decoration of houses and ships. So far as known' this was the first civic celebration of the. 22nd as -Washington's birthday. He was born, ac cording to the old calendar, Feb.' 11, 1732, and he himself observed that date, until his death in 1799. WASHINGTON'S DEATH As Chronicled in Ulster Gazette of Jan. 4. 18O0. t C. M. Randall of 198 Emmett street, when looking over some- old papers which had. been stored. away by his mother, came across what is either a copy or a reproduction of the Ulster County Gazette of Saturday, Jan. 4. 1800. J Among other things it gives an ac count of the funeral of George Wash ington, the anniversary of whose birth is tomorrow.- The account follows: "George Town. Dec 20. "On Wednesday last, the mortal part of Washington the" Great the Father of his Country and the Friend of man was consigned to the tomb, with solemn honors and funeral pomp. "A multitude of persons1 assembled, from many miles around, at Mount Vernon. the choice abode, and last residence" of the illustrious- chief. There were the groves spacious avenues, the beautiful and sublime scenes, the noble mansion but alas! the august inhabitant was now no more. That great soul was gone. His mortal part was there indeed; but-ah! how affecting; how awful the spec tacle of such worth and greatness, thus to mortal eyes fallen! Tea! fallen! fallen! "In the long and lofty Portico. where oft the Hen walked in all his glory, now lay the shrouded corpse. The countenance still composed and serene, seemed to depress the nub ility of the spirit which had dwelt in that lifeless form. There those who paid the last sad honors to the benefactor of his country, took an im pressive a farewell view. "Un tne ornament at tne neaa of the coffin was inscribed. Surge ad Judicium about the middle of the coffin. Gloria Deo and on the silver plate. General George Washington. -an ago Newport, Departed this. life, on the 14th De cember, 1799, AET. 68. Sorrow Walked Afresh. "Between three and four o'clock, the sound of artillery from' a 'vessel in the river, firing minute guns, awoke afresh our solemn sorrow the corpse was -moved a band, of music with mournful melody melted the soul into all the tenderness of woe. "The procession was formed, and moved on in the following order: t "Cavalry, Infantry, Guards, with arms reversed; Music, Clergy, the general's horse with, his saddle, hos sters and pistols. Cols. Simms, Ram say, Payne, Gilpin, Marsteller, Little, ballbearers; Mourners, Masonia Brethren, Citizens. "When the procession had" arrived at the bottom of the elevated lawn, on' the bank of the Potomac where the family vault Is placed,, the 'cav alry halted, the infantry marched to ward the Mount and formed their lines the Clergy, the Masonic Broth ers, and the Citizens, descended .to the Vault, and the funeral service of the Church was performed Tile-. firing was. repeated from the vessel in the river and the sounds echoed from the woods and hills around. "Three general discharges by the infantry the cavalry, and 1 1 pieces of artillery, which lined the banks of the Potomac back of the Vault, paid the hurt tribute to the entombed Com mander in Chief of the Armies of the United States and to the departed Hero. "The sun was not setting. Alas! the son of glory was set forever. No the name of Washington the American President and General will triumph over Death! The unclouded bright ness of his glory will illuminate the future ages!" John Adams' Message. The message of President John Adams to congress, and resolutions adopted in. both the senate and the house, on the death of Washington, are also printed. An account of Bonaparte's return to France from his Egyptian cam Ml V.T 1NO w Today every state in the .Union, is foltowinff the recommendation of Congress at the time' of Washington's death that his' countrymen'meet oh February 22nd and' do honor to: his memory with fitting ceremonies. Washington is, the only American whose birthday is recognized as a legal holiday in all of the states and the" Dis trict of Columbia, Porto Rico and. Alaska. paign, explaining that he landed' at Frejus instead of Toulon... because hs feared the English would capture him at the latter place, together with three columns of European -war news is given.- Among .the advertising carried, John Schoonmaker of Rochester,. N, Y.. offers for. nk -A r in active negro wench." IS HAIV SOUTH IViuD. Bat the Tcmperatare Is Above Normal 'for February ti. Although the temperature is several degrees above normal today, an 18 mile wind from the south is chilly and penetrating. The temperature is not expected to go much below freezing at Topeka tonight. The forecast calls for "generally" fair weather. "Sunny Flora, the local observer, looks for an overcast sky Sunday. He says there is Just a remote chance that there will be rain or snow. The highest temperature on Feb ruary 21 in the last 27 years was 4 degrees In 106; the lowest tempera ture was five above zero. With the exception of February 14 this is the first date since January 6 on -which zero weather has not been recorded some time in 27 years. The shippers' forecast: "Protect 28 hour shipments north against tem perature of 20 degrees; east 26 de grees; south and west 30." The hourly readings: 7 o'clock 30 8 o'clock .31 9 o'clock 34 10 o'clock .....86 11 o'clock .....SS 12 o'clock .....38 1 o'clock 38 2 o'clock .....48 8 o'clock .....42 Life Savers Drown. Queenstown, Ireland, Feb. 21- Fourteen life savers were drowned when they went out from Fethard to rescue the crew of tie Norwegian bark Mexico, driven on tie jocks near the Saltee Islands. Wax- iwra, ui nisiu. au ue srsw oi us i tear saveo-

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Mil SIDE NEWS North Topeka Outing Held a Meeting. Club Provided for Improvement of Camp at Maple H11L A meeting of the North Topeka Out ing club Was held Thursday evening and plans were made for next sum mer's outings at the camp which Is lo cated at Maple Hill. Some Improve merits will be provided for at the camp. A new cabin will be erected near the site of the present one. A number of other small Improvements will tm made. At the meeting It was decided that each member would take charge of the camp for ten days at a time. It was arranged that each man who be longed to the club would be entitled to the use of the camp during his ten days' vacation, which he will spend at that place. The camp will be opened May 20. The club has thirteen mem bers and this means that the camp will be open for a period of 130 days. The members are: Charles Stewart, Ralph Baer, D. T. Gabriel, George Curlier, Vet Workman, T. M. Forbes, Fred Morns, John Knoll, W. O. Ander son. L R. Manley. Beda Rodeen, C. H. Dyal and R. W. Truelove. At the meeting the last year's of ficers were re-elected for the coming year. Charles Stewart la president and Ralph Baer is secretary and treas urer. The members of the club will meet at the camp during the first part of next week and erect the new cabin. It Is expected that it will take the thir teen men about a day to erect the building.. As It is the intention of the club to enlarge the camp every year another cabin or addition will be erect ed next year. Ever since the club was organised it has been a success and the members are planning to make the outings a big ger success this year than last. For the largest fish that is caught this year with a hook and line the club will of fer a prise. This will cause no little rivalry among the members of the club. Little-Funk Wedding. A wedding which will be of Interest to many people living in North Topeka and vicinity Is that of Miss May Lit tle of Shorey and John A. Funk of Holslngton, Kan. The wedding will take place tc orrow afternoon at 2:30 clock at the home of Miss Little's par ents who live In Shorey. Both of the young people are well known In North Topeka and vicinity. Immediately after the wedding the young couple will leave for Butler, Mo., on a short wedding trip. They will make their home at Holslngton, Kan. Civic Club Interested. It is thought by many people in North Topeka and a number of members of the North Topeka Civic club that the Civic club will take up the matter of getting the Union Pacific to move the switch which is located a few feet west of the Union Pacific crossing on North Kansas avenue. It waa stated in Fri day's issue of the State Journal that a petition would be circulated. This will not be done, according to reliable Information, but It Is expected that the Civic club will take the mat ter up and put It before the public utilities commission. Are Removing Poles. Real work has commenced remov ing the wooden poles on North Kan sas avenue. A few of the poles were removed Friday and It Is expected that the remainder will be removed before the end of the week. The poles belong to the telephone company. Church Notices. Tomorrow will be patriotic day at the Second Presbyterian church. Preaching at 11 o'clock in the morn ing. Theme. "Washington, the Ideal American." The Sunday evening ser mon will be on, "The United States, the Ideal Nation." Special music by the Grant school orchestra and Junior choir at the evening services. The orchestra Is under the direction of Clay Morrow, principal of Grant school. At the North Topeka Baptist church, Sunday school at 9:30. Morning wor ship at 11 o'clock. Theme: "Chrls tlon Influence as a Factor in Educa tion." Evening service at .7:30. Theme: "The First Step Toward Social Re form." Junior B. Y. P. U. meets at 3 o'clock. Intermediate and senior at :0. Regular services will be held at the North Congregational church Sunday. Sunday school at 10 o'clock. Preach ing at 11 o'clock in the morning. At the Central avenue Christian church, David Owen, state Bible school superintendent, will speak at 11 o'clock in the morning. Miss Alma E. Moore, state secretary of the C. W. B. M. will speak at the evening service at 7:45. Bible school at 9:45 in the morning. Y. P. S. C E. at 6:30 o'clock in the evening. Kansas avenue Methodist church. 1025 North Kansas avenue, J. E. Scheer, pastor. Theme of the morn-. i,r Jmffl: "Believer's Bank." Theme inr sermon of the evening sermon, "Eternity in the Heart." Epworth League at 6:15 o'clock. Topic, "God's Gift of Great Men and How to Develop Them." Prayer meeting Thursday evening and choir rehearsal Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Personal Mention. J. H. Engle, secretary of the State Sunday schools, spoke Friday at the' Prairie Home church. A number of others addresses were made by promi nent Sunday school workers. Dinner was served at noon by the women of the church. Earl Banta has left for Corwith, la., where he will spend several weeks on business. F. A. Barney has returned to his home in Silver Lake after a short busi ness trip to the North side. R. Snyder ha-; taken a position with the Union Pacific as night ticket agent He formerly was with the American Express company. C. E. Houghton, who formerly was night ticket agent for the Union Pacific, was promoted to cashier in the freight depot. F. N. Westerman, assistant passen ger agent for the Southern railway, is spending a short time in North Topeka on business. His headquarters are at St Louia. Buster Volland, who has been 111 at his home for some time. Is improving rapidly. Mr. and Mrs. W. E.Taggart of Rock Creek, are in North Topeka visiting relatives. W. F. George has returned to his home in Silver Lake after a short busi ness trip to the North side. G. 8. Hoover, of Rossville, Is spend ing a hort time in North Topeka. J. Dlckerson. of Wakarusa, has re turned to his home after a brief busi ness trip to the North side. Bay Hall has returned to his home in Grantville after spending a short time In North Topeka on business. A M. Petro. orugglst Adv. Samuel Martin has left for Kansas Cltx where he will spend a short time visiting hi mother who recently un derwent an operation at that place. H. C. Bummer, of Elmont Is pend ing a brief time in Nortl Topeka on business. Boyd E. Pollom, candidate for coun ty commissioner First district, aubject to Republican primary in August. Adv. J. M. Riley and R. M. Rocky, both of Silver Lake, have returned to their home atorTshort busiMsn to tn i Nrthside h btt"lne" 10 WEATHER HURTS TRADE Sentiment In Commercial and Indus trial Channels la Optimistic. New Tork. Feb. 21. Dun's Review says: Weather conditions were an import ant factor in the business situation this week. Recent storms Impeded railroad traffic and retarded the dis tribution of merchandise, yet certain lines of trade benefited by the heavy snow fall and zero temperatures. There was a notable increase in the move ment of footwear and heavy weight apparel while fuel waa In greater de mand. Sentiment in commerce and indus trial channels remains optimistic and evidences of improving conditions ac cumulate. This la particularly true of wool, sales of which continue large at ad vancing prices. A material reduction has taken place in supplies at all sea board markets since the opening of the year and In some instances stocks are now scarce. Both cotton and wool en mills are well employed, as a rule, and prospects are considered satis factory. POLITICAL GOSSIP. (Continued from Page One. be able to keep In touch with voters in every precinct through the activities of our township and ward workers." County meetinga were held recently by Lyon, Wyandotte, Jefferson and Johnson county Democrats. Demo cratic state officials and appointees attended the meetings and large crowds attended all of the meetings. Bartlett Will Run. Samuel Bartlett, county attorney of Ellsworth county, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomina tion for attorney general. In Topeka this week Bartlett told his friends of his plans to seek the nomination on the state ticket and declared that he would be a candidate. At present Barlett Is serving a sec ond term aa county attorney of Ells worth county. He Is a graduate of Kansas University and was admitted to the bar in 1908. He was elected county attorney of his home county in 1910 and two years ago was elected to a second term without opposition. Hodges Denies It Governor Hodges denies the reports from Osage county to the effect that there was a deal between state offi cials and Henry C. Sticher which would result in Stlcher's conversion to the Democratic cause in exchange for Osage City postotfice. So far as he knows. Governor Hodges says, Stlcher's switch from Republican to Bull Mooser to Democrat was in good faith and was so accepted by him. "T did not know that Sticher had joined us until I went to Emporia to th Ttemoeratic luncheon last Satur day." said Governor Hodges. "Sticher had n nerfect right to loin us and was welcomed In good faith. We welcome everv convert and a convert with a newspaper is thrice welcome. But the nnnrta whfoh have been printed charging a deal have been malicious and untrue and so far as I know are without the slightest rounaanon, Scott Will Not Yield. Charles F. Scott refuses to yield in his fight for a tentative state piaworm o,h Hh v devotes a column or two Af fma.ee in his Iola Register to the cause which he advocates. In his Is sue of Friday, Scott answers the in terviews of J. M. Simpson. Fred Du mont Smith and Ewlng Herbert, all whom came to Topeka to say that a pre-primary convention waa a use less and unnecessary luxury. "Does anybody Imagine?" asks Scott, "that Mr Stubbs or Mr. Capper would have come within a mile of being nom inated two years ago if they had an nounced before the primary that they would bolt the Republican nominee for president after the primary? Why run the risk of repeating the mistake?" And then speaking of the Brlstow Capper combination in another edi torial, Scott says mp, DWVL i And the strange part of it is that there are some officials in the state house at Topeka who actually thought i that if they would only promise to nom- I inate Capper and Bristow and endorse the Progressive platform, the Progres-, Blvee party would jut no ticket .t neld.PThe reason a man who has no ncer,tion of politics except as a fight f tC m,irrel' gets into so much tor .the "2UL ""JS.S". else has as little concern for principle as he has." Capper Announcement Soon. Arthur Capper's announcement which was promised at varied and sundry times, may come nex. week. That is j V SJEr ...Mh?. Si it P f 1"' Jpeku PU"lh',P wno,aef1,re" to w, Uu,iuu.uuu uu aume euri ul a water nwi narmony program. The Capper announcement was to have been made this week in fact it has been postponed more often than the aderewski piano concert but now it is pushed ahead on the cal endar until sometime next week. Pos- Blbly next week sometime Capper will i maKe a statement as to his plana. Pos sibly. BIRTHS REPORTED. The following births were reported the office of the citv clerk nA- to the office of the city clerk today Floyd Thompson and wife, 616 East First street Feb. 18, girl. Charles Stoves De Motte and wife, 1636 East Third street boy. Edward A. Stader and wife, 1138 West street. Feb. 16. girl. Chester Earl Joss and wife. 1907 Lincoln street Feb. 20. boy. James C. Martin and wife. 1235 North Western avenue. Feb. 18, boy. Conrad F. Heere, 1605 South Kan sas avenue, Feb. 18. girt A. O. U. W. Notice. Members- of Upchurch Lodge No. 244 A. O. U. W. are requested to at tend the funeral of Bro. J. M. Dume nil Sunday, Feb. 22, at 3:30 o'clock. Services held from Penwell's chapeL J. C RICKMAN, Master Workman. H. G. THOMPSON, Recorder- Adv. Reserve This Date. Admission 25 cents, First Congre gational church. Concert Quartet Adv. SCHOOL GAnSEIiS. Preparations Niw for Good Showtnc Next Last summer waa the end of two sue- iceasful years of school garden work. The Drtn of 1913 w the fir8t time that Prise, were offered tor gardens of definite else. The gardens were ai- m. ii cnurenejs in Di vided into two classes; class J, gardens ifjf andf Goldilocks. The lit-ling conducted under auspices of the 25x&0 feet or an eaulvalent of 1,250 iL?f "brary l8a"-eA 20'500 be Kansas Public Welfare league, of square feet Class 2 were gardens 20x25 feet or an equivalent of BOO square feet Out of 1,200 student, in the To- peka schools GO enrolled in class 1. Out of this number 42 took care of their

gardens during the hot months of July port to the citv commission once a frn T1" hold at the Presby and August, coming up in the fall k. j year. Eah annual rePo tests wiw nne exnioiia. ju qucnuuu is asked "What became of the other .volumes. eight r Three dropped out on account": owing to the growth in nonularltv of poor seeds which failed to germ! nate. One Planted no garden on ac count of outside work and two moved back to. the country. More figures show that 16 per cent of those enrolled did not finish Is It right to hold them re sponsible for- poor seeds purchased? Class 2 was credited with 62 students. Out of this number 49 finished with great results, one did not plant a gar den, one student had poor seeds and the other did not have his separate from the family garden and his parents did not think it prudent to count him in the contest with the others. Who Had Beat Warden? Another Question is asked: Who had the best garden? That is a very hard question to answer. Many of the stu dents as a whole did fine work. In class 1 the honor lies between Russell Wheeley of Quincy school and William McElrov of McKinley. In claas 2 Ells worth Adams of Quincy had perhaps the best garden. George Gillman or Lowman Hill had the best small fam ily garden and his vegetables surpassed those of any In the exhibit. During the summer months many gardens of older people were visited and it waa encouraging to see how the school home gardens as a rule sur passed and outranked the other gardens in various ways. A number of pupils kept itemized bills of expenses and time put on their gardens. The profits run all the way from 33.45 to 350.20. Joe Griffin's account book has everything in detail:' His sales were 331.05. A to tal of 21.5 hours was spent in his gar den, vhich means that he received $1.44 an hour for each hour spent at his work. The exhibits last fall were very satisfactory considering the adverse conditions. Merchants Take Interest The merchants and various business men and the Commercial club. Real Estate Dealers' association have taken a great interest in the school garden work and last year turned over to C H. Withington, supervisor in agriculture, 3254.37. Of this amount $123.75 were distributed as prizes. This leaves a to tal of $130.62. To this the Real Estate Dealers' association gave $100. which makes $230.62. Dr. Harriet Adams has started this year with a check for $5. The garden list of money for 1913: Women Commercial club 4 17.37 L. T. Gage 10.00 Arthur .Capper 5.00 W. W. Mills 6.00 Miss Capper 3.00 Mr. Bonebrake 6.00 Avalon Bakery..... 5.00 Dr. Todd 2.00 Mrs. Morrison 1.00 Chas. Lock wood.... 1.0 Garlinghouse Realty Co 60.00 Commercial club 100.00 Topeka Real Estate Dealers Ass'n.. 50.00 Total $254.57 Amount given out for prises 1913 $123.75 Balance Dr. Harriet Adams V3 1 6.00 Balance on hand 3135.62 ROBBER KILLS THREE In Hand to Hand Fight fat a Passenger Coach. Bellingham, Wash., Feb. 21. A trail, leading along the water front to a boat landing, was the clue followed today by posses from two counties seeking the three bandits who shot three passen gers to death on a north bound Great Northern train near here last night The bodies of the dead were taken to their homes. They were: THOMAS S. WADSWORTH, Van couver, B. C, Canadian Pacific rail road conductor. R. L. LEE, Bremerton, Wash., time clerk, Puget Sound navy yards. His parents live In Ackerland, Kan. H. R. ADKINSON, Vancouver. B. C traveling salesman. The version of the robbery ODtaraea tndflv dlaclnmd that bullet after bullet v had been sent into Lee's body after he fell. A bullet apiece finished the other men f T1?? bandits boarded the train at ournnBion, a Mw mws "P,u" m r" J J? Sm 5? "ThkJngnrdi" JSSlJtSk 55 5?- ESn dav "oJJ iL"0..? .t?.da' V0.. v"" X:vtr Z. walked the length of the car. As one robber started to lock the door the three passengers sprang at him. While he shot them down the robber at the other end of the car began shooting out the lights. His companion emptied an automatic pistol into Lee's body and then ran the length of the car snatch- Ing as he ran purses offered by fright- laaK CUB ID tau UUI passengers. The train slowed down In response to a puU at the bell cord ana tne three disappeared. CITY LIBRARY SHOWING Report Shows It Is Growing Larger Tear by Year. When March blows in, like a lamb or a lion, the busy season begins for the public library. Ever since Its or- ganization. the library has Issued its largest number of books in the windy ?th- book, ahead of Sep- ownh slowly Mdrteadily It 2own8T' wow. ana. nea.i1i -Ai ueo 2.500 more books in 1913. than ini 1912. Two thousand visitors, irre spective of card holders, call at the! stone building in a month. On the second floor of the library la th Anlv vttihlflM art 0 1 l.rv in that city. Most of the treasures and curios were procured by the late Edward Wilder, always alert for the beat In terests of the Institution. Pictures line the wails in the long room. Several were purchased from an art fund, now exhausted. The last one selected. The Old Red Barn," is by Paul Oonnoyer, a celebrated artist The A. s. Johnson collection includes some valuable paintings "Great Ex pectations," a quaint child at a atone well, and "The Horse Fair," by H. Delorme. In the same room is the magazine and reference department Eighty current magazines are on file. Period icals on educational, engineering, scientific, economic, musical and in dustrial subjects are available. Refer ence books are kept for college and high school students. The room la open from 10 In that morning until at night. The juvenile department is an insti tution in itself. Here troop primary youngsters to read of Polly and Joel and Phronsie in the "Little Pepper" book; high school girls who are still reading "Little Women; small boys with dirty hands and tousled hair who 'want "Soldier and Indian books. po lairjr tales, please;" and oerufflea babies who perch in a chair, with t"?; t5V' "STX-- Tth-Th InatituUon It nrlti hrim 'funds art S3Su BrectoraT Mlsaiine Mdfo? n .Jrf.. -JiJSlV rmimnAfi vaIs.m i- ski 9 lncrnnjia in vl. tr n4 kiii.n onH of the library, and the fact that To peaa is a book-loving town, a new assistant Miss Birdie Chandler, has been added to the force. Miss Medll oott is also assisted by Miss Lydla Bol mar, Miss Louise McClellan, Miss Hen rietta Alexander and Miss .Louise Mc NeaL HE WANTED A PASS. Somebody Tried to Blackmail Burlington Railroad. the Washington. Feb. 21. Correspondence between John T. Denvir, who repre sented himself a member of the Illi nois legislature, and the Chicago, Bur lington Quincy railroad, in which Denvir demanded from the railway a personal pass and threatened legisla tive action because it was not supplied, was disclosed by the I. C. C. today in a supplemental report on the inquiry made by the commission into the issue of free transportation by western rail ways. There waa a John T. Denvir in the Illinois legislature. He informed the commission he did not sign the let ter and that It was not sent by his authority. Denvir requested an annual pass for himself owing to the legislative public utilities commission. The Burlington road declined. A let ter subsequently was received by the general counsel of the road, written on the official letterhead of the committee and signed "John T. Denvir." It said In part: "As chairman of the public utilities commission you can look for legislation that will work hardship to your com pany and I wish to assure you that when our commission gets through with you that you will find your road in the hands of a receiver for you cer tainly are violating the laws of the state in a great many respects and we know it, but have gone along and been friendly to you, but inasmuch as you declined to be so diplomatic in your statement that you would not 'like to violate the custom you have indulged,' I feel Inclined to think that a little res olution with respect to a committee for a thorough investigation of your gross negligence with regard to your methods of procedure will be well to adopt at the next meeting of the senate." The report of the commission says: "Although opportunity for a full ex planation was afforded Mr. n.ntHi- it was not forthcoming, and we deem it our duty to make thia record of the matter. It is well to add, that our In vestigations of the records of other carriers at Chicago, show that many reaueata hava lun i. f fT0rh'rt transportation, for the use of John T. Denvir." A COSTLY STREAM. Shunganunga Drainage District Re port on Money Spent One-fifth of the money collected in the Shunganunga drainage district was expended for salaries, attorney fees, engineering and treasurer's bond. The trl-annual report of the district has been compiled and filed with the county clerk. The officers of the district who give place to a new board March 9, will hand over a clean record and $687. Elections will be held in two weeka An entirely new board will be elected. ine retiring officers are: T. J. Hurley, president; C. H. Bowman, secretary; J. C. Shimer. treasurer; Schuyler Har- CORN Spot steady; American mixed, ris and Frank Eff Inger. 69 tRa- The biggest expense Item, exclusive K. vj,' of salaries, has been paid out for work T Produce Market in clearing the stream. Keeping the 1 mKanlas Clty' Ff- J1. WHEAT-Cash: bed of the Shunganunga in ood or! rtVaSte-No. t rei "SiJW der is the biggest problem confronting e9o.- mt90c- No- thThIaidlthn Topeka. CORN-Market unchanged to 2c lower. The report which includes the No. 2 mixed. 644c; No. 3. 6062c No. levies of 1911. 1912. and 1918, shows 2 white, 6c NoTT 623c uuvnx' that $846.71 was expended from the OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white. general fund for clearing the stream. ine Doara nas been obliged to pay only $165 in damages in three years. Collections in a general and special levy since March, 1911. have totalled $6,756.38; disbursements from the j general fund, $1,786,62; disbursements l V"u' an collected tax, $523.83. This makes a totaJ ",u,r.e of '068-74. leaving i 1?and, 68 7-64- The Shunganunga drainage district covers the territory from Seventeenth from Topeka avenue to the city limits on the east. Weekly Bank Statement New York, Feb. 21. The statement of the actual condition of clearing house hunVa .nA trua ramnanlM fnr Y w..lr horn tX4.614.7GO reserve In exeem nf lsJ requirement. This is a decrease of S3,- 365.700 from last week. The statement follows Actuaf condition Loans Specie Legal tenders..... Net deposits....... Increase. .82,040,231,000 86,700.000 4:M 1.924.817.000 7,180.000 AO CCA AAA SkfJP AAA Banks' cash freaervein vault.'... $41283.000 Trust companies cash reserve tjaults....,.... 2,Wo circulation Tnia eammniea' reserve with etemrlnr house members carrying 26 per cent re- serve, $84,918,000. Summary of state banks and trust com- panies In Greater New York not included in clearing house statement Loans 3 531.889,100 $1,765,900 ?5?l',e. pecie 9s.ib4.juu DJv,auu Legal tenders 8,201,500 33.300 Total deposits... 619.787,600 234,300 Decrease. It Is Not Discrimination. Washington, Feb. 21. Failure of the Santa Fa, the Burlington, the Chi cago and Alton, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Illinois Central and the Wabash railroad to absorb In their rates on grain to Chicago the switching charges, when the ship ments are delivered to industries off their lines, was held by the I. C C. to day to be not discriminatory. Plies Cared In to 34 Days Druggists refund money if Paso Ointment falls to cure Itching. Blind. Bleeding or rTDinwing rues. ira application gives reuei. wms FZcriE u::ite Chare Forces Join in PnhUc Welfare The chnrchea at OaVlani have joined in the nubile welfare paign and will hold union services "ZSL1'1-. V1 i z IX. J T former warden ot 1 Penitentiary, is president A mass meeting of all Oakland F?l2S..wlu held Sunday night at the Christian church. A meeting Tor i """S wi m nna 2:30 O'clock Tueadav at th Ifxtho. dist church, and a general mass meet ing will be held at the same plac Tuesday night Another mass meeting will be held in the auditorium of the Highland j x-wa acnooi xnursday night HONEYMOON TO ALASKA. Kansas Girl Marries John Konaa of Fairbanks Make Trip on Sled. Kansas City, Feb. 2L A honeymoon trip In a sled will be taken by the Kansas girl bride of John Konan. Konan arrived here Friday from Fairbanks, Alaska, and ob tained a license to marry Miss Margaret E. Kelly, of Baschor. Kan. They will l5Bveunm"d,,lte,y after the wedding for the Pacific coast They go by boat to Nome and then by sled to Fairbanks. Mr. Konan has been a .miner In Alaska for years. Reserve This Date. February twenty-fourth. First Con gregational church. Concert Onartct Adv. TODAY'S QRXET REPORTS. Chicago. Feb. 21. WHEAT Wheat prices went higher today as a result of buying due to a continued strength at Liverpool. Crop prospects in Hungary were said to be very unsatisfactory and there were advices of Insufficient snow covering In parts of Russia, where the weather was alternately freezing nri thawing. In addition Kansas City sent wwu u. BiBua uiai iume export Dustness was under way. The market here opened at c to c advance and seemed in clined to hold all the grain. CORN Sympathy with whti corn up grade. Opening prices which were a enaae to W8yc nigner, were succeeded by a further rise. OATS Oats hardened, pit transactions, however, lacked volume. PROVISIONS Unloading by longs made the provision market weak. First sales were unchanged to He higher, but prices Chicago Grain Market The range of prices for grain futures on The Chicago Board of Trade as reported byThos. J. Myers, Broker, Columbian Chicago, Feb. 21. Close m.-0""1 mgh Low Today Yes. WHEAT May 94 94 94 94H 94 July ..89 89 89 89 8 CORN May ..66 66 S 66- g July 5- 66 65 65 65. Sept 65 65 65 65 66 OATS May 40- 40 40 40 40 July 40 40 39 39- 39. PORK May ..21.65 21.65 21.55 21.65 21.62 Knnsaw City Grain Market The range of prices for grain futures on the Kansas City Board of Trade aa re ported by Thos. J. Myers Broker, Co- lumoian may. Close Open' High Low Today Tea. WHEAT 88 88- 83- 83- 66 67 6C- 67 65- 65 Chicago Grain Market Chicago, Feb. 21. WHEAT Close May. w-p i v CORN May. 66e; July, 65c OATS May. 40c; July, 39c. PORK May. 821.65; July, $10.95. SHORT RIBS May. 311.60; July, 811.6X. Liverpool Grain Market Liverpool, Feb. 21 WHEAT Spot firm; no. x rea western winter, 7a 5d; No. 1 Manitoba, 7s 6d; No. 2, 7s 6d; No. 3, 7s 4d. 40c; No. 2 mixed, 39c. RYE Market unchanged. HAT Market unchanged. BUTTER Market unchanged. EOGS Firsts. 25c; Seconds. 20c. POULTRY Market unchanged. WHEAT Receipts 60 ears. CLOSE: WHEAT May. 88 c; July. CORN May. 6666c; July. 6667c OATS May. 40c. New Tork Produce Market New York. Feb. 2L BUTTER Market steady. CHEESE Market Irregular; unchanged. EGOS Market firm. Fresh gathered extras, 30c; extra firsts. 29c POULTRY Market quiet; unchanged. Chicaeo Prodnce MaikeL Chicago. Feb. 2t BUTTER Market un- Changed. I EGOS Market lower. At mark, eases included, 2425c: ordinary firsts. 2424c; firsts. 24S8Bc CHEESE Market unchanged. POTATOES Market unchanged. fo0uYS,T"Allve-lower: 'prUlg-

I w. sVlsiS'iat, ajJocvg. xiiVi il. oTL ..;v- fjSSSSJSSS ta,ine Mexlcan ?tuat,f selling movement Reading. Union Pacific. 1 Lehigh Valley and Western Union feU about a point each. American Ice drop- Ped 2 points. Central .Leather- 1. and Mexican Petroleum 1. Denver and Rio Grande opened 1 higher. The market closed steady. Quotations ruled virtually unchanged after the early decline.' Collapse of pool operations in various specialties and uncertainty as to develop ments In the Mexican situation discour aged speculative operations for the long account Paris unexpectedly engaged $2,000,000 more goM for export bring'ng up the total on thia movement to 314.000,009. Bonds were easier. New Tork Money Market New York, Feb. 2L MONEY Can money nominal. No loans; time loans, steady; 60 days, 24f3 per cent; 90 days, 2g3 per cent; 6 months, 8e6 per cent; mercantile paper. S94 per cent CLOSE: Sterling exchange, steady: 69 day bills. $4.83.76; for demand. 84.95.W; commercial tails. 64.83. SILVER Bar silver. 67e; Mexioan dol lars. 45c. BONDS Government bonds ateady. rall- roaa oonas May ..88 88 88 July ..83 83 83 CORN May 67- 67 66 July 67 67 66 Sept 65 65 65 STOCK Lhrc Stsck Cs!ss&ra tZxrtZxOs, Stock Yards, C&aCr Hew Tork ICIose ef pnees for the leading stocks n Ui NOT TflTK beock jucaun mm rw ported by Thos. J. Myers. Broker, Colum bian Blag. CIo Today Yea New York, Feb. Am. Beet Sugar. Am. Can, c Am. Car and Foundry. 80 51 84 106 120 86 99' 92 Atnai. Copper Am. loco., c Am. Sugar Ref 106 Am. Tol. and T Anaconda Mining 96 98 92 93 214 32 64 103 136 42 33 30 A. T. and H. jr., c Baltimore and Ohio... Brooklyn R. T Canadian Pacific ...Z14 Central Leather 81 Chesapeake and Ohio 64 C. M. and St P., c .'...102 Chicago and Northwestern 136 Chino Copper 41 Colorado Fuel and iron Erie, c 29 General Electric 149 149 129 Great Northern, p 129 11. Central 110 Inspiration 17 17 Inter Harvester 106 107 K. C. Southern. C 26 K. C. Southern, p 61 Lehigh Valley 151 151 Louisville and Nashville 137 Missouri Pacific 26 26 M. K. and T.. c 21 Nev. Con Copper 16 16 N. Y. Central 90 90 N. Y., N. H. and H 68 69 Norfolk and Western 104 104 Northern Pacific 115 116 Penn. Railroad 112 Ray Con Copper 20 20 Reading, c 167 Rock Island, c 6 Rock Island, p 7 Southern Pacific 96 Southern Railway, c 26 Tenn Copper.. 35 Union Pacific, c 161 U. S. Steel, e 65 U. S. Steel, p 110 Utah Copper 54 Western Union 64 Westlnghouse Electric 71 167 6 9 96 26 36 162 65 65 71 New Tork Sugar Market New York, Feb. 21. SUGAR Holiday. St Joseph Live Stock Market. St Joseph, Feb. 21. HOGS Receipts 8.600. Market steady. Top, $8.60 bulk ot sales, 88.3008.55. CATTLE Receipts I06t Market steady. Steers, $7.008.90; cows and heifers, $4.09 8.60; calves, $5.5010.2& Wichita lave Stock Market Wichita, Feb. 21. HOGS Receipts 300. Market higher. Top. $8.65; bulk of sales. $8.356.50. C ATT LIS Receipts ou. Native steers. $6.X8.50; cows and heifers. 35.00(58.00; stockers and feeders, 86.S0tpT.6B. stock cows and heifers, $5.006.75; bulls. $5.506.76; calves, $7.60(99.60. Kansas City Live Stock Market Kansas City, Feb. 21. HOGS Receipts S8.408.65; heavy. -60.70; Pikers and butchers. $8.608.66; light fS.40S8.60; pigs. CATTLE Receipts 100. No BOUtll!rnJ; Market steady. Prime teA "tefrs, $8.40, 9.25; dressed beef steers, $7.258.35; west- ern steers. 37.008.40; southern "teersTS 7.75; cows. 84.407J0: heifers. .769.00; stockers and feeders. $60007.60; bulls, $6.00, 7.50; calves. $6.5010.50. SHEEP Receipts none. Market steady. Thumbs 87.257.76; yearnngs, fe.uuwo.io; wtrters. $VfS.90ewes. $6.006.65; stock ers and feeders. $3.50e6.60. Chicago Live Stock Market Chicago, Feb. 2L HOGS Receipts 11,000. Market strong. 5c above yesterday a aver ag Bulk of Mies. $8.608.75; light 8.76- mixed, 38.55w8.75; heavy, 18. 35ft 8. 75; oeiSa1iR rtl rm 7 7StftjR.fiR. CATTLE Receipts 200. Market steady. Beeves $7J09.66; Texas steers. $6.908.00; western steers, $6.607.85; stockers and feeders, $5.507.90; cows and heifers, $3.70 8.50: calves. 87.6010.75. SHEEP Receipts 2.500. Market weak. Native. S4.60S6.28; western. 84.906.25; yearlings, 5.807.25; naUve lambs, $6.90 7.85; western. $6.906)7.90. Topeka Market. rurnlshr" by the Caaa. Wolff packiag Co. raids close at noun Saturday. W aannot use Pisa thin sows or hogs weixhlng less than 176 lbs. Do not mar ket hogs unless same are Veil finished aa we cannot use half fat stuff. We giva below prices effective at once, until fur tbei notice- Topeka, Kan., Feb. 21. HOO&. MIXED AND BUTCHERS $8.108.36 HEAVY 38.158.30 SSvtWh HEAVY 8.00S8.0S TJGHT 8.0088.20 Prima 86.30w7.25 Oood to choice (corn fed) .5fr'a6.2 Sair to good... 6J6w5-59 air vi COWS. Prime $S.656.S0 Good to choice (corn fed) .80S.G0 tsss Prime v.v 9 SW7 0 OooA to choiee tcorn rea Fair to god---:- Common to falr........ prime fat (corn fed) Fleshy Mediums "Vi: CALVEfi: 6.0506.2 4.90W5.06 8.7604.26 ..$6.669)6.09 4.3Vf?5.0 3.60O4-25 Prime fat $6.6008.09 Medium ood 6.009C69 xrmir C9O06.O9 F4Ur SHEEP AND LAMBS. pat wethers s2f!2 Fat ewes.... -4 M Fat lambs 606.69 (positively cannot use sheep or Iambs UIDtrtT' t'afnd In rough, thin, unfinished hoes or plga aa we cannot use them for uacklng purposes and will have to buy at stock hoc prleea and low enough to en able as so reshlp to the River market aa It to your advantage as well aa ours, te keen them back until finlahad. Cannot use armas cattle unless strictly good. Market price paid for dry lot cattle. ff you will favor us with your inquiries advising number of head, quality, age and length of time on feed, we will make you aa offer or arrango tor our buyers to call en roa. TtaaeTsn Fraff and Produce T4f arket iBeUlBg prlees by Semi SC. Lux, w holer sale Fruit and Prod oca. Topeka, Kan.. Feb. 21. APPLES Extra Fancy Roman Beauties. $2.36; Fancy Roman Beauties, $2.26; Wine- Salt cured Hides. No. 1 ..IB Salt cured Hides, No. S ....14o Horse Hides. No. 1 M.0O Horse Hides, No. 1.... $S.M HIGHEST CASH PRICES FOR FURS T. J. BROWN 12S North KarMat Areaae, Tapeka, Karms 31 I Pf Cy?j Hi.,...., MaV i. 1 1 61 I 1 Wt6tt4-Sl.jl Honot weights. alsfMM srleaa aad cemmlaBlaavYear check Mat aata.dax ahlpm.at arrtvas. This lurkn fclshMt la (aver for 49 ytsarm. rial .team? er writ far fras prtoe list aa ta us 0. srsn r.rz tzz?zzt 2 TTUBD R,IORrU, Ma St. JisisKesMn. Om DEAD HORSES AND COWS removed free within IS mile of Topeka $1.60 paid for worthless live horses delivered. TOPEKA RENDERING CO. Phone Sal saps, $2.25; choice, $2.00; Genoa Extra, 82.25; Fancy, 62.00; Ben Davis, tl.76w2.25. CRANBERRIES Per box bbU 6406. $3.re.iDA KAPE FRUITl.Por, oaT DATES Per lb.. 6c ORANGES Per box. $2.35. COLOR no HONEY-Per case. 83.86. LEMONS Per box. $3.6094.50 COCOANUTS-P., doaOo?" PerT.VidLET 8WEET TATO4- CABBAGE Holland, per Ih u. crateRNIA UiSfloW. p, fJneVlt: RED AND YELLOW RTysn Per bu.. BLOBB ONIONS SPANISH ONIONS Per cr- nRED RIVER EARLTSPba. RURAL POTATOES-Per h.. BURBANK POTATVer .U 80c uci;-Per iZ. BOTTLED Honcran TaTM lirtiinn. a tr mi ut 10c. '-"wiSH-per CARROTS Per bu.. 81 on u rcr UU.. 7SO RUTABAGAS Per lb., lit CHEESE 18w21c. TEXAS RADISHES per dofc $1.60; Plain Selecta, per aJj ierfl-I Selects, per gal.. $2.1A tUb- Extra CHEESE 1821cJ ttnffer and vRm. IF'irnlshed by The Continental Co.. Tooeka, Xan 1 i CHICAGO EGGS-ttc1' Kn- Feo' NEW YORK EGOS-Sc CREAMERY BUTTER Chaice, 2c, le.Y3bcf' El"a' ""-V TM WhSS aopeaa urain Market. (FurnUhed by J. B. BHIard. corn-, saa iv. andcurti; VtJ NEW CORN.Sf' Kn' OATS-40C WHEAT-75w80a, OLD CORN 75a Topeka Batter. Rfcgs and TPbcdtr. ir urnisned by the Topeka Packing POULTRY-HeioJfi0;- f; L under 3. lbs., Uc: sprrngsTove!? j ft?' HJ brolls Ibm. Ln.UctJi to young toms. 16c; old torn turkVSa ducka Uc; geese. 9c; staga lOciSlluJSk EGGS Fresh country, 22c. BUTTER Packing stook. 14o. Topeka nay Marker, 'Furnlsbea by T. A. Beck, BL 6f.J PRAIRIE HAyI' NW ALFALFA Cnolce. 117.69; Ke. J, Topeka Hide Market. QuotaUons tuimUea oy Jaiuea e slide Ca, 101 em Inird gtj Mt till CTOD m&ft,,J.. no. j. uiss; sail cured ..T.. and tW.No. L U. J No. I. Uc; aidebrSStt under 40 to. fUtNa, I. Uc; aide 6ra2SS! No, t 14c: Ko. 3. ue; salt cuS same grade cured; green half cured hir c less than same grade cured. SsSt bides No. 1. 83.vOJH.50; horse hides NoT9 I2.5U; pony hides and glue horse, 75cTi 5. 8. hog skins. UwaOc; sheep prftaTaTi 2SC01.W; dry. accord inc to ooL ti n? JwlOc; tallow No. I 5eo; tallow Na. C 404e: bees wax. Ufrate. T5rY HIDES Dry flint butcher hea lie to Be; dry flint fallen heav. 22c; dry flint under 16 lb., ltc to faeatfS Hint culls flat, lie; dry salt havy2 U a, 17o t 18c; dry salt Ught 14c to Ma? over 40 lb. flat t 17c; side branch KANSAS. NEBRASKA AND OKLA? HOMA-Bright medium. lBte" daft medium. 13wl6e: Want fine. ll12c; heavr tine. 9wl0c. COLORADO. NEW MEXICO, tTTAM (VP TWXAS Light medium i2ailet ka ftna HUe: heavy fine. um ouna o. me; salt glue hldra flat No. 1. 7cj salt deacons, c to 60c; salt cured .hinka.? to 25c: aren uncured hides. ni i-I!.1"

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TOR OAR KEjS Norman R Wear and many other well known Topeka people -were there. Were la Evening Dress. AHAcr iiTTrrr-v Kansas City AntO SHOW At- tended by Many Topekans. Local Dealers There In Force Show a Saccess. i.:orasi:D.7i;Er.Ei:EXTYE.n That Is a Question That Is Be ing Asked. Hotorists Are Watching for Groundhog to Reappear. A large number of Topeka motor ists. Including a majority of the auto dealers of the city, attended the Kan sas City automobile show this week. Because the dealers here staged no local show this winter the event at Kansas City was quite the most im portant affair of the season for To peka automobile enthusiasts. A State Journal reporter attended the show Thursday. He met many Topekans and heard of others who had been in attendance in the course of the week. There were doubtless many others there, however, aside from those he was able to put on his list. Nearly every make of motor cars sold in Topeka was on display in the big convention hall at Kansas City. s There was an especially large and festive crowd at the show Thursday night society night. Kansas City men appeared in full dress; the women in expensive and beautiful garments of Ka la tarn o ,hlnna "Mnnv Tnnelrft. men could be seen in the crowd who wore silk hats. Hundreds of dollars worth of flowers were placed on the different machines. Topeka automobile men could be seen here and there in the hall, near their respective machines. J. R. John son and Dale Burdick of the Oakland agency in Topeka spent the entire week at the show. They reported that every day many of their friends could be seen entering the main door, near the Oakland display. The latest model of the Oakland "Big Six" was one of the features of the motor show. Topekans at the Show. Frank Short, manager of the J. A. Tt. Auto comoanv In Toneka. was i present at the Jackson display. Mr. Short was busy showing his local friends the latest styles of his ma chines. Kurtz Kellam of the Anderson Electric company In Topeka, was at the Detroit electric exhibition most of the week. W. H. Imes of the Chal mers Paige agency was at the show until Thursday night. A green racing model Paige attracted great attention at the show. Fred Langley, manager of the Stu debaker agency here, could be seen .demonstrating the Studebaker Six to visitors. Langley says that the show this year is the "best ever." J. F. Billings, Stafford-Reo agent in Topeka, was at the Stafford display. Mr. BlUings went through the Staf ford factory in Kansas City. He is a great friend of Mr. Stafford, having been sales manager of the Smith company when Stafford lived here. Otto Anderson, owner of the New Fashion Auto Livery and former po lice detective; was present at 1 the Chow. Fred Robertson, United States dls- frtft attornev and owner of a Havnea trici attorney ana owner or a naynes rar, was present ana saia me snow rivaiea tnose or unicago ana ivew X OTK. O. S. Perkins, manager of the Hup mobile agency here, attended the d is- play of his machines there. Mrs. Perkins accompanied him. Other dealer-- attended during the week. Topeka Doctors Were There. Many Topeka physicians were at the show. A few of them were: Dr. W. E. McVey, Dr. Alkire, Dr. Karl McGrew, Dr. J. D. Freeman, Dr. L. V. Kama to n m r I it n ft Lrane, presiaem Ul ne and Company, was present. F. 1. 1 Bonebrake and Fred Bonebrake, for- merly of Topeka but now of Osage !BU1 ciymer of the Buffalo team of -'ty- a"ended the show. 'the International League was in Other Kansas towns sent large del- Oklahoma recently to sign Pitcher egations to the show. Among those ..chtck" Brandom of Oklahoma City, from Salina were: Geo. Weisgarver. Brandom was wlth the Jersey City Geo. Watson. Joe Ollinger. Frank team of tnat duPing 1913, but Adams and J. L. Cleveland. From naB ben tPaded to Buffalo for Pitcher Norton ville came P. A. Hart. Mr. wullam Frill and $700 in cash, and n0,U W1S2lJ?f: rTeV.anHH- addition Brandom gets a salary in-.Budk- oJ""' J c-How" crease from Buffalo. Evidently Man ard Z Enos B. McPhcrson and sev- clymeP learned that the Fed- ZIVEL fmtaBUe wir? flirting with Brandom and the show with Mrs. Reid. Mr. and B. F. Akers, soliciting freight agent of the Santa Fe. was one of the local auto enthusiasts who surveyed the million dollar collection of machines, Mrs. William Gordon and Mrs. J. R. Johnson spent the greater part of the week in Kansas Citv Rnhert Plnrre url wninfrt p, and Willard Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Forbes, George Whittaker, Mr. Smlth. W. T. Dawson Ram Wrliriat and Tom Dana could be observed in- BDectins- th latent 1914 mntol. pT lf. l.m I!. i ti. i v.. Ed Kellam, one of the best known friends of the automobile in Toneka. attended Convention hall this week and was much pleased with the dis play. Ivan Dibble, the two Misses McGoff, Special Sunday Dinne Sic at the ARBOR 823 Kansas Ave. RELISHES Celery Queen Olives SOUPS Chicken a la Sevighe Fish Finnan Haddie Maitre IXHotel ENTREE Sweet Breads braised a la Rothchild ROASTS Chicken Stuffed Glace. Pig Ham Champagne Sauce VEGETABLES Mashed Potatoes Sifted Peas Little Main Corn SALAD Lobster DESSERTS Apple Pie Cocoanut Cream Pie Hot Rolls Graham Bread White Bread CAFE NOIR Aim a la Carte Service to 1 P.M. the test in full drew. High silk hats. "UIt ua tuxedos are not as common In Topeka as in some other out those who wore them ap peared to be "at home." Several To woman had some of the newest w n creu" In evening dress, rae motor show at Kansas City has always attracted visitors from cities in the west, as it is regarded as the oest exhibition west of Chicago. This tf' nowevr, there were more out own Patrons of the show than-ever Before. The hotels and incoming trains were crowded. After "eeln the show at Kansas J-Jty, dealer and auto owners believe that next year Topeka should have their j second show. Last year the Auditorium I was used and an excellent display of cans was made. This year interest was not aroused for a show but it is hoped lopexa win attract .crow Worn Kansas towns as Kansas City did this week, J- R- Johnson and Dale Burdick, of the Oakland Motor company, rendered valuable assistance to the State Journal reporter in givjng names of Topeka People at the show. Death of George Puis. Motorcycle enthusiasts, especially those of the western part of the state, will miss George Puis when the season opens. Pols, who was prominently identified with the organization of the Short Grass Motorcycle club, and who captained some of their squads on their long tours, died in Fond du Lac Wis.. January 31. For some time he was traveling representative for Kan sas of the Harley Davidson Motorcycla company. A few months before his death he was transferred to a better position in Wisconsin. He had an ex tremely wide and favorable acquaint ance among the motorcyclists of Kan sas. Watching for the Groundhog-. The autolsts, motorists and especial ly the dealers in machines and supplies, are all watching for the groundhog to come out of his hole for the summer, "u every aay cneca on one more day of the 42, or six weeks, of weather supposed to be bad because the sun, February 2, cast a shadow. There were a few weeks of fairly good roads before the groundhog spoiled things, but groundhog day put a check to what had promised to be an early motoring season. That City Ordinance. Monday morning what motorists style the "grabage" ordinance comes up for discussing before the citv commission. It is called the "grabage" ordinance be cause motoriBts claim private individ uals grab all the money the city charges for drivers' licenses. They think the city should receive the money wnicn It forces the drivers to nay. City Attorney Ralston has been working over the ordinance, making changes. and it will probably be presented for nrst reading by the city commission Monday. The annual meeting and election of officers of the Topeka Motor club, will j be held the evening of April 8. j There seems to be quite a strong sentiment in favor of holding another auto show in Topeka next season. DECIDE MURPhTSFATE National Leaguers Meet to Hear John son's Charges. Cincinnati, O., Feb. 2L Presidents and direc org of the National League club to gether with many others interested in or ganized baseball are here today to attend the meeting called by President John T. Teller. The only oresident of a league club ab sent was Charles W. Murohv of Chicago. wno 'B 111 with lumbago. His interest will BrobmM looked after by Vice Presi- dent Harry Ackerland of Pittsburg. It was enerally understood by the baseball magnates the meeting was to pass upon President Tener s verdict in the lsvers Jf-?! JXL Kc," ference with the board of directors of the National League. Following this meeting ere will he a areneral meetlnar of the league presidents. Besides the Evers case the magnates to- I day said the Federal League situation would be taken up. "CHICK" BRANDOM SIGNS. IVuImI tn Rnffaln hv JnKT Citv of

international. Guthrie, Ok., Feb. 21. Manager school and Oklahoma university Practice In Charlotte, N. C. March 29. pjEW YORK GIANTS GO SOUTH, i j on to Marlin Springs Hempstead to' Cincinnati.

St. Louis, Feb. 9. The first squad of the New York Nationals departed from tnis clty laMt nlght for Marlin Springs. 1 Tex., where the National League cham- ninna will ln tholr trainine. Dick Kin- sella, the clubs scout, is in charge of the squad, which, including baseball writers, trainers and secretaries, numbers twenty. president Hempstead, of the club, was in town t see his bovs start on their trip. The squad will be met at Marlin Springs several of the veterans who went to the training grounds direct from their homes. President Hemnatead. accompanied by Schuvler P. Brltton, president of the locaU K'siinnni Tt&true team, left for Cincinnati to attend the National League meeting in that city today. DIDN'T GKT JAKE STAILL. Money Consideration Said to Hold Vmt 91 The Rrooklvn club ot th- Federal League has failed in its effort to get Jake Stahl. the former Red Sox. leader, as manager. President Robert K. Ward left Chicago Friday night for Brooklyn, after a final telephone conver- satlon with Stahl, in which neither ward nor the manager made concessions which would remove the differences in the terms P u'ssaid Stahl' a terms still are being considered by the Brooklyn owner and tnat a deal may yet oe arrangaju.. Nebraska 15, Ames t. Des Moines, la.. Feb. 1. Nebraska beat Ames in a basketball game here last night, 15 to did Familiar Songs. Concert Quartet First Congrega tional church, Tuesday evening, Feb, X4. Reserve the date. Adv. Strengthened Clafan on Basketball Title by Defeating Normals. The Washburn basketball squad strengthened Its hold on the state championship title Friday night by de feating the State Normal squad. The final score was 7 to 26. The result of the contest was never In. doubt after the first five minutes of play, as the Washburn aggregation continu ously showed Its superiority. The Normals started off with a rush and looked good only during the first five minutes of play and then the Wash burn quintet took the lead and were never headed. Both teams started off with a rush and the Normals scored five points In the first five minutes of play. The Washburn squad did not appear able to get into the game with Its usual sest, but the team soon got going and It was all Washburn after that. Dwignt Ream made the first score for the Washburn squad with a free throw. He scored another and then the Normal scored one and then the Washburn players got In the game with field goals which gave them a good lead. Ream scored with two field goals and a free throw and Tro bert and Washburn each a field goal before the first half closed. The score at the end of the first half was Wash burn 15, Normals The Washburn squad started off with a rush in the last half and scored six points before the Normals had scored any. The Normals finally scored 10 points. This made the total score 22 to 19, but the Washburn squad continued its gait, the score at the end of the game being 37 to 26. Trobert and Dwight Ream were the star performers in the contest. Hen drickson and Frankenberger at guard were the star performers for the Nor mal squad. Washburn and M. Ream outplayed their opponents in the same positions. As a curtain raiser before the Washburn-Normal contest, a combi nation team from the T. M. C. A. and the church league played a game against the Washburn seconds. The latter won by the score of 40 to 14. The score: Washburn G. F. FT. D. iieara, If (c) 8 1 6 Washburn, rf. 6 0 0 Chaney, c 11 .0 Trobert. lg. 2 3 0 M. Ream, rg 0 1 0 Normal G. F. FT. White, if 1 0 8 Culter. rf 1 0 0 Hartwig, c 2 1 0 Hendrickson, lg 3 3 0 Frankenberger. rg. (c) 2 0 0 Referee Lamar Hoover, of Baker. Tim ers and scorers Erwin Keller, Washburn; George A Crispin, Springfield. Attend ance 400. JAKPSTUNK. Jack Holland, Pa Rourke and McGill wanted a schedule of 168 games In the Western League, thinking the hold outs would sign more readily. But in arranging the schedule, they slipped one over on the players by arranging doubleheaders so the season will be about ten days shorter than last year. The players may learn the facts and then the scheme may not work. Some of the major league teams are on their way to the southern training camps atfd practically all of them will be in camp or on the way by this time next week. This will cause the fans to quit playing in the Radiator League and give the germ a chance to start the spring fever. The small boys will be playing on the corner lots as soon as the weather will permit and then nothing can stop the leather lunged fan but a real contest. Richard R. Burke, former owner of the Denver team, does not think it ad visable to place a Western League club in Kansas City, at least under temporary arrangements. In an inter view In the Denver News he contends that five years would be necessary to build up patronage, and then he doubts if the venture would be success ful. As an example of what might re sult, he mentions Minneapolis and New Orleans, where continuous baseball has been attempted by placing teams of different classification in these two cities. These cities failed and there s nothing to cause one to believe that they are different from any other. Taking this in consideration would in dicate poor patronage for the Federals In practically every town on the circuit. Jack Holland has signed an outfielder named Wilcox, who played with Louis ville in the American Association in 1912. He hurt his leg while there and was dropped. He is said to be a great hitter and Holland is depending upon him to bat 'em around this summer. Late information from Denver in forms us that Catcher Block will be used as a utility man instead of catch ing or playing third base. McGill ex pects to get a man from the major league to take Lee Qulllen's place. The following is the first information con cerning the Denver lineup: Pitchera Remneas, Zamloch. Trekell, Gilbert, Schrelber, King; two more to be pur chased catchers Larry Spahr and new man not yet bought; first base Fisher or Anderson: second base French: shortstop Manager Coffey; third base major league player not yet bought: left field Gilmore or Faye; center field Butcher; right field Elston or Cassidy; Utility George Block. Ad Brennan signed a Federal league contract and got married the follow ing week. Some people are always anxious for real war, First Baseman Art Griggs has re- NO PAIN CENTAL WORK AT SPECIAL PRICES THAT SAVE YOU AT LEAST ONE HALF WHEN PATRONIZING THE DENTIST LOCATED AT 734 KANSAS AVENUE TOPEKA KANSAS Bridge Work tX.i White Crowns V Silver Filling and Cleaning. &0c (All work guaranteed.) Ton can afford to pay railroad fare for miles to patronise me and then save money. Arrangements can be made for easy payments. Oiliraj hours S to I Sunday, 1 U 11 a Saturday evening 7 to t. S7SS To To To To To To To We vish to notify you that now every "Nobby Tread" Tire in uco cn your automobiles or automobile equipments not only comes under cur regular warranty perfect woriannrtnbip and material BUT any cdject ments will be on a basis of The unxcual wear-resbting qjxality the quo quantity of fabric the methods of coiistnictioii ai7 liavc been rrly maintained in Nobby Tread anti-skid Tires, and maintained rcjerdleea of cost and regardless of price competition. Today Tread" Tires are the largest selling hiffk-f?racb anti-sldd tires in the vorld. "Nobby Tread,, Hres are REAL anti-sldd tires. 0 united States Twq EesinnicsaiTDy NOTE THIS: Dealer who seD UNITED STATES TIRES sell the best of eraTthins. turnad from Chicaco. where he has been holding a conference with Fed eral league officers. According to his own statement. Griggs hasn't signed, but negotiations are still pending. There is a continuous argument In baseball circles as to whether the sport exists for the fan. the manager or the player. The fan says that without his support the magnate goes broke, the magnate says that without his support the player could not make a living and the player says that without his efforts the fans would have no game. Settle the argument yourself. Hugh Jones of Lincoln, before going to Chicago, to attend the schedule meeting, did not think the Federals would start, but now he admits they will, but won't give an opinion as to the time they will finish. fJTtAb- l 'ma alvnaH tlfat UUA laiaa. uv. o.0u.w I contract with the Wichita club, but then he is supposed to be manager of the club and can wait. The pitching staff of the Wichita club, as doped out by the Wichita Beacon is Durham, Scott, Perry, Maddox. Lambert and Graham. All of these pitchers are known to the Wichita fans excepting Graham. He la a south paw who comes highly recommended. all Owners of Private AutcmoKIcc aU Fire DeKirtmento aD Express Companies all Taxicab Companies all Hospital Ambulance Drfverc all Police Patrol Wagon Operators all Department To all

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iijispuds Kansas Potato Brings Millions to Farmers AnnnaUj. Saw Valley Is the Rich Garden Strip of State. KciU CE1TERCF OSTRY From Capital City Train Loads Potatoes Are Shipped. Adoption of Scientific Methods Would Doable State Crop. Through the production and sale of potatoes In Kansas millions of dol lars go Into the hands of Kansas farmers annually and Incidentally mi&dlemen reap a profit. The Kaw valley is the rich strip which fur nishes a large percentage of the "spuds" for export. Topeka is the distributing center for this marvell ously productive section of land. The table above tells the story in brief. Kansas Great Potato State. Kansas is one of the twelve great est potato states of the country. The Kaw valley product is shipped as far cast as Ohio, and southeast as Ten nessee. In fact, Memphis is an im portant market for the Kansas spud. Kansas potato crop Is approxi mately five million bushels annual ly value $3,600,000. Value in 1909 reached $5,008, 739, when 7,016,89 bushels were produced. Even in drouth season of 191$ nearly three million bushels were raised, valued at $2,444,680. "Spud" crop Of the fertile Kaw valley furnishes large percentage of Kansas export tubers. More than one-fourth of entire crop for state is produced in Wyan dotte, Johnson. Leavenworth. Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee, Pot tawatomie and Wabaunsee coun ties. Yearly potato crop of Shawnee county aggregates $100,000, in round numbers 100,000 bushels. Topeka is great distributing cen ter shipments are sent far and WiIn the capital city 75,000,000 pounds of potatoes are handled in twelve months. Fifty big trainloads of the tubers are shipped from here annually. At an average price the value of these potatoes is a million dollars. Potatoes are imported in winter season from the north and west by local commission men from the south in the spring. ALL017S V, GHJTS'OSCC'JILETnflO:! School Fnnd Commission's Seml-Annnal Apportionment Amounts to (225,419 for 51V tSO Children. States department of agriculture says that the American growers may ob tain valuable seeds from Ger many, whose potato acreage Is more than double that of this country and whose crop is more than four times our total. "The great problem in this coun try," states the bulletin, "is how a surplus of potatoes might best be dis posed of once the. production has been IS 93 CEKTS FCI1 YEH OBBnmSBSSsni SN BBS 5 Shawnee County Schools Be eelre f 7,689. Smallest Cheek, $184.20, to Stanton County. Santa F Clgtrfbnttns; Ties From Kinsley to Dodge City; Callroad Activities Indicate Beginning of Work Soon. Entire Potato Plant, Showing Root System. East of here the Kaw valley pota toes are as well known aa are the Rocky Ford melons in Topeka. But the market for the tubers is not lim ited to the east. June and July are the busy months on the part of the Topeka shippers. About June 20 they begin to Ship out valley potatoes in carload lots. The heaviest shipments are generally made in July. In the winter months local com mission men Import potatoes from Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Oregon. Enormous Business In Topeka. One commission man estimates that approximately 2,500 carloads of pota toes are handled in Topeka In a single year, $7,060 tons. It would take fifty freight trains of fifty cars each to transport them, or if piled in one place they would fill a huge bin 400 feet long, 300 feet wide and 10 feet high. Increased, and if we look to Germany for our lesson we find that their sur plus potato crop is used as stock food, tor maKing starcn, tor tne manuzac ture of alcohol and for drying.: In Germany the potato-drying industry is the last development in the utiliza tion of surplus potatoes and in one year recently over twelve million bushels were dried in factories. This industry should particularly merit the consideration of our people. Dried potatoes have been fed with complete success, aa a substitute for corn, not only to cattle but to horses as well." Interesting Potato Tests. The Kansas State Agricultural col lege, through Albert Dickens, horti culturist, has just issued Bulletin No. 194 on "Potato Culture" which gives much valuable information relative to potato cultivation in Kansas. Kmphasia is placed on fall plowing, proper rota tion of crops, and frequent cultivation. Mr. Dickens says in the bulletin: "That Forty-four cents for every school child in Kansas, was the amount of the semi-annual apportionment of the state school fund today by the school fund commission. The apportionment of 44 'cents today, together with the distri bution of 49 cents per capita In August. 1913, makes an -apportionment of 93 cents for the year. The total apportion ment today was $225,412, to be distrib uted among the school districts of the state on the basis of 44 cents for each child enrolled. The state's school pop ulation, based on the report .of June, 1913. is 612,300. Wyandotte county, with her 31,123 school children, receives $13,694.12. Sedg wick county with. 13,350 school children will draw $8,074, and Shawnee wnn n. 475 school children will receive a check for i $7,689. Crawford county receives $7,402.12; Montgomery county. S6.047.so; Cnerokee, &,oii.zs, nena, a,iu.v. Leavenworth, $4,892.36. Stanton coun ty has a school population of 306 and receives $134120. the smallest check to any county In the state. The apportionment by the school fund commission of 44 cents per capita school tinn la aeainst an apportionment of 41 cents in February. 1913, and 47 cents in 1912. The school population of the various counties and the amount allowed each county are snown in tne following table: School Amount Counties census. Apportioned. Allen 7.i Anderson 4,080 Atchison 7,248 Barber 3,103 Barton 6,374 Bourbon 8.51 Brown Butler 6,807 Chase 2,607 Chautauqua 3,570 Cherokee 12,662 Cheyenne 1.308 Clark 1.44S Clay 6.001 Cloud 6,00 Coffey Comanche 1,306 Cowley 9.211 Crawford 16,823 Decatur 2,642 Dickinson 7,431 Doniphan 4.670 Douglas 7,174 Edwards 2.391 Elk 2,957 Ellis 4,511 Ellsworth 280 Finney i.... l,8t Ford 3,681 Fr .nklln 6,469 Geary 8.23J Gove 1.628 Graham 2,689 Grant 3 Gray 1,064 Greeley 327 Greenwood 6,010 Hamilton 898 Harper 4.447 Harvey 5. 70S Haskell 348 Hodgeman 924 Jackson 4,946 Jefferson 4,969 Jewell 6,586 Johnson 5,096 Kearny 728 Kingman 4,348 Kiowa 2.203 Labette 9.215 Lane m Leavenworth ...11419 Lincoln 3.463 Linn 4.477 Logan 1.045 Lyon 3,027 Marion 7.&W Marshall 6.938 McPherson 6.617 Meads 1,678 Miami 6,579 Mitchell 4,382 Montgomery 13,745 Podge City, Kan., Fen. 2L That the Santa Fe railroad is in earnest in Its announcement to double track Its main line from Newton to La Junta this spring Is Indicated by the fact the track from Kinsley to this point is lined with hundreds of piles of creo soted ties. With the exception of a few short gaps, one near Sibley, Mo., and one between Braddock and Walton, the Santa Fe now has double track fa cilities from Chicago to Newton.- It was feared the retrenchment policy an nounced In the construction department because of the road's low earnings last year would cause the road to rescind its Intention to doable track from New ton to La Junta. The constant ship ping in of supplies and unloading of ties a ions- tne line gives a different in dlcatlon. WANT MORE GOOD ROADS. Southwest Kansas Merchants Begin Campaign in Territory. Richfield. Kan., Feb. 21. That merchants in the southwest corner of Kansas are beginning to realize the value of rood roads as trade drawing cards is evidenced by the fact that Rolls. Elkhart and Richfield are all campaigning for good roads leading through their trade territory. The Morton county commissioners have shown their interest in the campaigns by ordering the purchase by County Clerk L. M. DeWeese or a set or roaa building machinery. WOMEN TO MANAGE PARK. Lyons City Officials Will Allow Them Fall Control. Lyons. Kan., Feb. 21. The proposal pf the Lyons Women's club to the city council on the city park matter was accepted at the meeting recently and arrangements are being made to turn over the details of the park manage ment to the ladies, under the pro oosal made the club agrees to use as 3,260.84 i mucn or its own money as win oe naii 3,189.12 i to supervise the planting and care of ,iN.ju nowers. laying out oi grounds, Deauu- Shjfj fying the park in general, hiring land- xal scape gardeners when needed to ad .oKna'vise with and being responsible for available. 1,151.48 1.570.80 6,571.28 675.52 63432 2,200.44 2,657.60 2.166.12 674.64 4,052.84 7,402.12 1.162.48 3.269.64 2,034.80 3,156.56 1.052.04 1.331.08 1,984.84 TEST INHERITANCE LAW. QWme pta PTfSHE public lias a right to eernethinsr mere than perfunctory service from those who supply its telephone needs. K There is something: more to a telephone service than merely placing at the disposal of the public ade quate telephone equipment. Courtesy, willingness to oblige and patience, under trying conditions on the part oi telephone employes,, promote friendly feeling and are essential to the best kind of telephone service. Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station

The fflissouri and Kansas Telcp&ono Co. John Dawson and Balls Waggener Will Contest on Seaton Estate. Atchison, Kan.. Feb. 21 Suit to collect an inheritance tax from the estate of the late John Seaton was filed in the district court Friday by Attorney General John Dawson, in the name-of the state. The tax charged the estate is $17,963.78 with in terest at 6 per cent per annum from June 24, 1912. The suit is a friendly one, agreed upon by the attorney general and B. P. Wag- 1,434.40 gener, attorney for the Seaton estate, to bo.u oetermme wnetner tne estate is iiaue ror an inheritance, since the inheritance tax law has been repealed. The petition recites that the estate was valued at $670,089.87 at the time of the death of Captain Beaton, and has since been distributed among the heirs, that the widow is liable for $11,661.78 and the other heirs are each liable for $1,260.26 of the tax. 1.624.04 2.841.96 1,421.20 672.32 1.183.16 i 143.44 las 2,204.40 395.12 1,956.68 2,509.32 153.12 406.56 2,176.24 2,186.36 2.457.8 2.241.80 Feel Miserable? Out of sorts, depressed, pain in the back Electric Bitters renews your health and strength. A guaranteed Liver and Kidney remedy. Money back if not satisfied. It completely cured Robert Madsen, of West Burlington, Iowa, who suffered from viru lent liver trouble for eight months. After four doctors gave him up, he took Electric Bitters and is now a well man. Get a bot tle today; It will do the same for you. Keep in the bouse for all liver and kidney complaints. Perfectly safe and depend able. Its results will surprise you. 60c and 81.00.. H. E. Bucklln r Co., Fhlla delphia or St. Louis. KAFIR FROM AFRICA. (C STARCH Composition of Potato: A, Fat; b. Crude Fiber and Other Carbohydrates Exclusive of Starch; c, Protein, d, Ash. Butler County Farmers Will Get Sup ply From Native Country. EIDorado, Kan., Feb. 21. Butler county farmers will have a chance to 220.9S t secure Kafir seed from South Africa 1,913.12 i tnis season in time lor planting, w. 968.88 J A. Beaumont. EIDorado feed and seed 4.0M.60 dealr, plans to ship about 600 bush 4fV& els of the South African seed to El TiWHZ Dorado, having it here soon. LsfflisS i Many farmers have been inquiring aooui securing me native Airic&n seea to better their yield this summer, and the dealers decided to take the mat ter up, then Mr. Beaumont arranged to order some. The bankers' associa tion also has been working to get some of the seed for Butler farmers. Were the most approved scientific I methods of farming adopted by every potato grower in Kansas the annual yield could be easily doubled, say the experts. The rich sandy loams of the former timbered river "bottoms" and the upland prairie limestone soils of Kartsas are admirably adapted to the cultivation of potatoes. It is conceded that there is no finer section of the state than the fertile Kaw valley which ranges In width from two to six or seven miles. The Early Ohio variety is by a long way the favorite of the Kansas farmers. What About the Surplus? Doubling the potato yield through Improved methods of cultivation would bring up the Important ques tion of what to do with the surplus crop. The price of spuds would be demoralized were not some method of handling the surplus adopted. A bul letin recently issued by the United fall plowing; Is one of the prime requis ites is shown by the unanimity of all the observations made; aside from the value of fall plowing as an aid in the control of Insects, the increased yield Is sufficient argument. On heavy soils the need of a second plowing in the spring has sometimes been indicated. On loamy soil the harrow and disk have been sufficient to put the soil in condition for planting. Shallow spring plowing has been better than deep plowing and immediate harrowing has been practiced. The increase in yield in the most favorable seasons indicated that the liberation of plant food in fall plowed land Is a most important fac tor in potato production." In a test at the K. S. A. C. experi ment station In 1912 an acre of ground plowed both In July and March pro duced 339 bushels of potatoes, while the same soil that was plowed only in March yielded but 258 acres. F. L. S. Morris 8,84 Morton 478 Nemaha 6.974 Neosho 7,274 Ness 1,896 Norton 3.531 Osage 6,393 Osborne 4,251 Ottawa 3.679 Pawnee 2.473 Phillips 4.423 Pottawatomie 6,619 Pratt 3,383 Rawlins 2,136 Reno 11.731 Republic 6,517 Rice 4,408 Riley 4.S25 Rooks 3.579 Rush 2,740 Russell 3.527 Saline 6,062 Scott 736 Sedgwick 18.350 Seward 1.367 Shawnee 17.475 Sheridan 1,636 Sherman 1,309 Smith 6.177 Stafford 3,693 Stanton 306 Stevens 900 Sumner 8,929 Thomas 1,147 Treo 1.671 Wabaunsee 4,030 Wallace 630 Washington 6,961 Wichita 545 Wilson 6,302 Woodson 3,063 Wyandotte 31.13 459. SO 3.531.88 3.300.00 3,052.72 2,911.43 738.32 2.464.76 1,928.08 I 6,047.80 I 1,693.66 RATE WAR FOR LIGHT PLANTS. 210412 CASCARETS TONIGHT! IF BILIOUS, HEADACHY, C0IITSIPATED 10 CENTS 3,628.12 3,200.66 83424 1.553.64 2,812.48 1.870.44 1,618.76 1.088.12 1,990.12 2,472.36 1.488.52 939.40 6,161.64 2,427.48 1.939.52 2,123.00 1,574.76 1,306.60 1,561.89 2,667.28 323.84 8,074.00 601.48 7,689.00 719.84 576.96 2,266.88 1,624.92 134.20 352.00 3,928.ri6 504.68 735.24 1,773.20 233.?.) 2,798.84 239.80 2,772.88 1,347.72 13,694.12 tis will co-operate in conducting a series of contests in raising farm pro duce throughout the county this year for the encouragement of exhibitions at the county and state fair. Each rural teacher will organize the contest in her district, the winners of which will compete at the county fair in October. County prizes will be dis played at the state fair. COAST TO COAST ROAD. Municipal Plant of Garden, city Cant Compete With Competitor. uaraen uity, Kan., Feb. 21. in a bitter rate war between the newly in stalled municipal electric light plant and the Garden City Light, Telephone A Ice company, the latter concern, by its latest reduction, has brought light rates so low the city council has de- cioea not to xoiiow. saying runner re duction would be suicidal to the mu nicipal plant. FIRE BELL FOR PAWNEE ROCK. Mayor Says Alarm System Doesnt Wake Firemen. Pawnee Rock, Kan., Feb. 21. To awaken the volunteer fire company in case of fire the city council has In stalled this city's first fire bell in the top of the city hall. It is of the old fashioned bell type, a new alarm clock gong variety having proven unsatisfac tory to the city dads. FAIR IN PAWNEE COUNTY. Farmers Will Raise Produce for Agri cultural Exhibit. Pawnee Rock. Kan., Feb. 21. The Pawnee county farmers institute and County Superintendent Miss Ida Cur- Santa Fe Trail Only Possible Route j jver jaoaniauu. oih, von v,k 1 That u.w Santa 'iTa tra.il and extensions. the pet road of the Arkansas valley, form the only nignway across me Rocky mountains is the burden of a MA.hr1 from Trinidad following an investigation of mountain

nlgnways to aeiernune weir riuvo passability during snowy weather. The MnA.- .o m wAlnnmAH tier flji indicat ing that the New Santa Fe Trail is the only feasible route for a govern ment road from coast-to-coast. DAIRY INDUSTRY GROWS. Syracuse Money Saved by bscvtnsT yoar teeth attended by Always up-to-date, painless, reliable and the largest dental concern in ropuiax prices. .B4e to 91.00 Beat set of teeth $.0O Good set of teeth t&AO Gold crpwn, 22K. $S.O0 Porcelain crowns .....$4.00 Bridge work, par tooth Goldfllllngs $1.00 and sip Silver fillings Cement fillings Extracting tooth, freezing gum process Extracting teeth without med clne DRS. LYON Cz HEATHERLY Office Established ever 33 years. Phono lilt. i Ave Topeka, Kaa. Over W. A. Lv. Thompson Hardware Co. Ships 404.532 Pounds Thirteen Months. in Total j. 612,300 $226,412.00 LIGHTS FOR QUENEMO. Cascarets make you feel bully; they immediately cleanse and sweeten the stomach, remove the sour, undi gested and fermenting food and foul gases; take the excess bile from the liver and carry off the constipated Mayor Contracts for Power From Ot tawa Plans, Ottawa. Kan., Feb. SI. It Is ex pected that the city council of Quene mo, Just across the Franklin county line in Osage county, will vote in a few days to enter into a contract with the Marais des Cygnes Power company to secure electricity from the Ottawa plant to light the town. Last week a referendum vote was held to deter mine the sentiment of the citizens be tween a proposition from the Ottawa company and one by a Lyndon con cern. Between the hours of 2 and 5 waste matter and poison from the bowels. A Cascaret tonight straight ens Vou nut bv marnlnra ILnmt dox xrom any druggist keeps your ow "cm cut, n oi Stomach remlatoA. vi-,a which favored the Ottawa proposition. It is understood that the city council will adopt tne Ottawa contract. It Stomach regulated. Head clear and Liver and Bowels in line condition for months. Don't forget the children. I PRICE 10 CENTSl CARETS WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP. expected -that in any farmers along the line from Ottawa to Quenemo win in stall electricity, and ultimately prob ably Pomona, between Ottawa and Quenemo. will hook on. Senator Owen to Wichita. Wichita, Kan.. Feb. XL Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma, one of the authors of the new currency law, has agreed to address the Kansas State Bankers' asso ciation at its meetlns: tn Wichita. Mav a and 23. Mr. Owen notified the committee of ais acceptance ef aa tnviaaos riwur. "HIT FOB COJS, rNTXiTJENZA, COUGHS. SORE THROAT IaiDIP If year bosses ache, year and yon have the bines, you've got the Grip. To get the best irsslts take Humph reys' 4Seventy-eeven" at the first esse or shiver. If' yon wait, nntn your bones begin to ache, nntU yom begin to cough and and she Cold beeos tt may cake longer to P.',:-' A assail vial of pleasant pellets, fits the vest pocket, S5&, at an Humphreys Hemeo. Medicine Cew. WSuam Street. New Tork.-Adv. Syracuse, Kan., Feb. 21. That cream is knocking the word "calam ity" out of the western Kansan's vocabulary is the belief of farmers in terested in the co-operative cream sta tion here. It has been demonstrated' by numerous patrons of this concern that a good dairyman can take a bunch of cows out into the sandhills near here and support a large xamliy from cream sales. The station has bought 404,532 pounds of butter fat during the past 13 months. Phone i if l TT TT Phone 11 lDl lu lLi 12L 618-620-622-624-626-628-630 JACKSON STREET EXCLUSIVE AGENCY 'JLT&e Jones Impxroed and The DeXnseLioose Heaf Hinders BEST IN CONSTRUCTION EASIEST IN OPERATION SPECIAL LOOSE LEAF TSTEMS and BLAXK BOOKS FOR EVERY USE CRANDALL TO FEDS. Joins St. Has Louis Team Brown Good Staff. Chicago. Feb. 21. Otis CrandalL pitcher, and Chick Hartley, catcher, have signed with the St. Louis Fed erals, it was learned today. With Crandall, Willett, Groom and himself. Manager Brown figures he will have a capable staff for. bis Mound City team. RUSH COURT PROCEEDINGS. Hold Night Sessions in Finney to Re duce Cost. Garden City, Kan- Feb. 21. Be cause it costs Finney county $100 a day to hold district court here Judge Downer, at the last term of court, in troduced an innovation by announcing that hereafter night sessions would be held whenever possible to expedite the court work. ST. JOHN WANTS LIGHT. People Talking Municipal Ice and Lighting Plant. St. John, Kan., Feb. 21. An agita tion is in progress here for the instal lation of a municipal ice and electric light plant and the defeat of a propo sition by the St. Johns Mills Co. to fur- nisn electric current ana ice at statea prices to the city and private consum ers for a period of years WOULD GO TO HOISINGTON. Farmers Ask Barton County for An other Highway. Hoisington. Kan.. Feb. 21. Farm ers living north of this place on the i Smoky HOI river are preparing to pe- 1 tition the county commissioners for a county road, leading to Hoisington. I They my they want to patronise the. trnm, mni1iuita hnt Mniutf Ha so during bad weather because roads are tmpsssshla. The Prudential Tiuat company loans money on city property,. Adv. 8 Daily Trains I-LSAS CITY DOUBLE TRACK NO STOPS Lv. Topeka Ar. Kan. City I J I Ilv. Kan CMjl Arr. Topeka 4:20 a. m. a. m. f a. m. a. m. $:45 am. a. m. I m. I 10:10 a. m. 11M p. sa, Btz sits -!scr Bis- .-fllS ills JSCS JiStJT tie? I Kh40p.ro. CTfbfafamin. Marked 11 J p. m. 10 s, w. 509 Jccliccn Street, Tcpe!ia Galvanized Irca, Sbte Th Vcrlx Pcerlccs Mazda' Lampo Are lamps of the highest efficiency. eo Watt Z4 100 Watt .04 25 Watt ..3S4 40 att ......33 V Phone U Tour Order: The r.acliixixctD Electric Co. 1C3 Wert Eriti Ci. TtzzC24

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AN ACTIVE 17EEIC P. A. D. VIDHIER PAID $709,(13 FOil TKS r.:::.2 c:ii3 Great Showing Made in Build ing Permits. They Aggregate More Than Thirty Thousand Dollars. cu;ld;::g outloqx is rosy Topeka Architects Are Sovr Busy Drawing Flans. Realty Men Expect Lively Spring and Summer Season. There was a spurt In Topeka build' lng permits this week. The record for the single week more than $30,000 would be a fair showing for an entire month of February. January showed a marked increase in permits over the same period of 1913, and the record for this month will be above normal although there was a slump the fore part of the month. The permits in the last week call for the erection of seven new dwellings, five of which will be erected by the Shawnee Agency. The most preten tious of the homes is that which A. Is. Stone will build at 601 Taylor street. It will be a two-story structure em bracing many novel iseas. The big item in the permit list for the week is that which gave authority to remodel the S. S. Kresge property at 619-621 Kansas avenue, formerly occupied by the Crockett company and the Western Union Telegraph com pany. These stores were mere shells and it has been necessary to tear tnem half down. The actual work of re modeling began Friday. The remodel ed building will have a frontage of fifty feet, and will be a decided im provement on the avenue. borne Building Gossip. There is much building talk mak ing the rounds. It is probable there will be no skyscrapers started in To peka this season, but it Is certain that 1914 will be a period of activity in home building, and there are several new business structures being planned. Among the latter is the office building of the Kansas Children's Home socie ty in the 900 block on Kansas avenue. Topeka architects are busy now preparing plans. They have told the reporters of some of the homes and buildings they are designing but they possess some construction "secrets" that will not be made public for the time being. The local realty men are looking forward to a busy spring and summer season. Much property is expected to change hands in the- next few months. Fred B. Cooper has the following to say in The Construction News rela tive to the building situation: Building Situation in Kansas. "Roam around a little, converse with the architects of the state, rub shoulders with your friends, the con tractors, the engineers and the finan ciers of the country and hear what they have to say. The pessimist is quiet; the optimist exuberant. -The architects are designing, the contract ors figuring. And best of all the plans and specifications for many large jobs to come up this summer have already been prepared and will soon be ready for figures. Ask any competent con tractor about the immediate future. "Bonds are being voted for the erec tion of new school houses in every part of the state. Many lodge build ings and churches, as well as hun dreds of store buildings and resi dences are on the budget for 1914 and, in fact, contracts are being awarded, daily, for the work. Build ing in Kansas, at present, Is much better than it was last August. Larger buildings but not so many of them are being erected, and there are ten times as many plans underway as there were at that time." Building Permits. Following Is a list of building permits issued this week: 8. S. Kresge remodel business build ings. 619-621 Kansas avenue $17,000 Shawnee Agency, one-story dwell ing, 1173 West street 2,000 Shawnee Aisency, one-story dwell ing, 1723 Qulncy street 1,400 Shawnee Agency, one-story dwell ing 414 West Sixteenth street 2,000 Shawnee Agency, one and three fourths 'story building, 418 West Sixteenth! street 2,000 Shawnee Agency, two-story dwell ing MOO Tyler street 2,000 A. L. Stone, two-story dwelling, 601 It O-- f i I Vv "V I "Small Cowper Madpnna." Philadelphia, Feb. 21. The "Small Cowper Madonna" by Raphael, bought tfcf other day by P. A. B.' Wldener of this city for the modest sum of $700,000, Is the most expensive canvas ever brought into this country. The previous record was Mr Widener's purchase of the "Mill" by RembranJt for $500,000. The "Small Cowper Mvlo.ina" is but 24 ly 17 inches. It was bought by the I'uveet Brothers of New York c:ty last fall in London for $500,000. Art experts consider it one of the finest works of the famous painter. It is one of the three which was painted in 1505 in Florence, during the height of Raphael's enthusiasm for new masters. It is also called the .."Panshanger Raphael" because it hung in the Cowper collection at Panshanger, England, the family seat of its former owner. The painting is famous for its easy and graceful execution, and the drawing of the hands, especially those of the Virgin, is of an elegance seldom seen in the other works of Raphael. The color is beautiful. The Madonna is seen seated on a stone seat near a bank overlooking an open landscape. She holds the naked child In her left arm. She is dressed in red, with a blue mantle lined with green loosely thrown round her waist and over her knees. The background is a beautiful feature of the picture. It shows on the left a winding river flowing between wooded banks to the hills. To the right is seen, with its dome and campanile, the Church of San Bernardino, near Urbino, standing in bright sunshine under an almost cloud less sky of exquisite graduating blue. v (3 fzcoi the No on can folly appreciate the Joy of life who is sub ject to colds. To bo free from colds is a blessing which comparatively tow people enjoy. Feruna la an old id tried remedy for those who are subject to colds. Peruna fortifta system against taking; cold, it ulates the bowels and tones up the whole nervous system. THE COLD TOWEL BATH, as described on page three of the new "Ills of Life," should be used In every home. Sent free. Peruna used with the cold towel bath protects against cold. If you prefer to take Peruna in tab let form you can now procure them by writing to the Peruna Co., Colum bus. Ohio. xdv. Taylor street 3,600 Mrs. Anna Sherwood, remodel dwell ing. 1835 Lincoln street 1,000 F. B. Whitefield, one-story dwell ing, 631 Lake street 800 Total $31,700 SPRING MEETING. Of Missionary Federation Will Be Held Thursday. The spring meeting of the Missionary Federation of Topeka will be held at the Central Congregational church next Thursday. There will be. both morn ing and afternoon sessions with lunch eon at the church at 12:30 o'clock. The meeting will begin at 10 o'clock with devotionals led by Mrs. E. E. Urner. This will be followed with a business session at the close of which a solo will be sung by Mrs. J. M. Gurley." At 11:30 o'clock Mrs. Helen M. Eacher of Lawrence will give an ad dress. "Why Should Women Study Immigration?'.' The closing number of the morning session will be a solo by Miss Selma Foberg. The afternoon session will be opened by Mrs. W. H. Bowlby, who will play several pipe organ selections. Devo tionals will be led by Mrs. H. L. Nel son. There will be roll call at 2 o'clock, after which Mrs. Ida Maltbie will sing. The Rev. Bruce Kinney will speak at 2:30 o'clock. This address will be fol lowed by a solo by Mrs. M. F. Lay cock. Mrs. Roy B. Guild will give the closing address, "What Love Will Ac complish Old familiar Songs. Cpncert Quartet First Congrega tional church, Tuesday evening, Feb. 24. Reserve, the date. Adv. BEST IfTYEARS. Laughlin Praises Federal Cur rency Act. New- Law Safeguard Against Future Panics. The new rnrnnxv Mil ized by P. E. Laughlin, deputy bank wiiiuussiuoer, as me best piece of commercial legislation enacted by coneress in Kn vn m t n.,wn wueuiiu VSJL- pects great results from the new fed- eiai iaw. tie declares that a repeti tion of the 1907 panic Is impossible. that thp hflnlrinv Innotv A .1 wi nits na tion will be placed on a firmer foun- umiun mm mat unaer tne new law the country can stand a financial strin gency better than ever before. Laughlin's faith in the new law was shown when his bank was the first to elect to participate under the re serve system. The Citizen's State bank of Marysville, of which Laugh lin is president, was the first, state bank in Kansas to apply for member ship under the federal reserve act. Discussing the new currency law, Laughlin in a recent statement said: Best Law In 50 Tears. "I believe the new currency bill the best law passed within fifty years, with relation to our commercial life. Tn tflA naat tho hunltlnv hiiainata our country has run as a giant engine niuiuui niin: .y vaivt? or governor, and all of our commercial activity is intarnrnvan mira At 1 ikDn nrlt. n.. banking interests. While the track THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY TO CONQUER AUSTRALIA; TOMMY BURNS LEADS PUGS TO ANTIPODES, WHERE THEY'LL FIGHT FOR HONORS Q Left to right: Lee Johnson. Tommy Burns, Willi an j. Howe. Frits Holland and Arthur Pelkey. The three American fighters, Arthur Pelkey, heavyweight: Frits Holland, middleweight, and Lee John ion, lightweight, sailed away from San Francisco for Australia a few days ago to conquer all comers on the other side of the Pacific. Tommy Barns, former heavyweight champion of the world, is the manager and guiding spirit of the party. Tne trio was signed up by William J. Howe, Sydney promotex- was clear and no obstacles, real or imaginary in sight, the engine sped! along noiselessly and smoothly, but when the pressure was too strong, there was no governor and the danger of an explosion filled everyone with fear we missed the safety valve; panic began to spread, and the banker knowing as the engineer should know the lack of safety without a governor, was usually the first one frightened. "In the past the banking has re sembled a game of ten pins and the banks jumbled against each other as the pins do, knocking each other down, when the ball hits the first one in the right place. Thus, the small country bank in the Interior of Kan sas, In time of strain leaned upon its Kansas City correspondent bank, and Kansas City in turn upon Chicago, and Chicago In turn upon New York, and New York, the last pin left with no place to turn, save to collect her call loans, and the country never felt sat- isfied knowing the call loans to be in sufficient with no provision for elas ticity, and conservative bankers have never felt secure about it. "We checked it all up to New Tork and expected them to do the impos sible, when no provision had ever been made by law for relief. New York banks and Kansas banks might all have been filled with gilt edge bonds, loans and mortgages, but no means were at hand for realising upon, or against them in a crisis. We bumped the last pin, in a dangerous and unsat isfactory system, and were always un easy. Not so now, for at last common sense has caught up with the banking and commercial interests of the coun try, safety is now available to every prudent bank and prudent business institution. Each bank can now use its own sound collateral, for the relief of its community, eliminating all dan ger of the pins knocking each other down, because a disturbance hits one or the other. The 107 Panic. "tn 190? it was the bankers, not the people, who were frightened, and the entire business of the nation was para lized for weeks. Kansas was full of corn, wheat, hogs and cattle, but even the markets were stopped, and while the commonwealth was teeming full of the best security, the most liquid as sets in all the world, a republic had forgotten to provide a safety valve. There was no provision making it pos sible for advances to be secured on this unquestioned collateral and a lid went on in twenty-three thousand banks and the wheels of commerce ceased to run. True, this only lasted a short time, but it was long enough to send thousands to ruin. Suicides, financial wrecks and despair were the monuments to this over-sight, and the scars remain to this day and time will not restore to the guiltless who suffer ed what they lost In that crisis. "This new law will make impossible the closing of every avenue of hope to the industrious citizen. He can buy a farm with much greater confidence of being able to pay for it, and not be crushed because of some panic started In a distant state. Under this -system, no one with plenty of the proper kind of security can be ruined. Under the old system, the borrower was con stantly in danger, for there was no place to which his banker could feel certain he could turn In emergency for temporary assistance. Under this sys tem, the banker can turn the key, unlocking the door of commercial sal vation for the man with sound credit, while the borrower with poor credit will secure less consideration than ever before. No Inflated Securities. "There will be no inflation, as a closer supervision than ever will follow as to banks and securities. The banking system will now have a safety valve, a head, and the ba ks handling the deposits of the public will not be played againet each other by inflators and speculators, no destructive blind anni hilating competition, but healthy co operation under the guidance of the government, with chances for losses and mistakes ten times -less than ever before. Already the steadying effect, the moral Influence, of the new system is felt throughout the country. A stiffening of values is already ap parent in all good investments and also in real estate.- We are no longer in peril because of one man's blunder, one banker's mistakes. We have in terwoven the people and the Interests of the entire nation into a system of co-operation that meets every possible emergency of the future. We will have no more raids on prosperity, because the people of the nation will not raid themselves. We may have depressions, crop failures and dull spells, but no wholesale crumbling of business can follow. In the future there will al ways be help for the man with good security, all he should have is reason, but no getting something for nothing, and no inflation for a marked distinc tion will be made as between good and questionable assets. Promise of Wonderful Future. "This means a new era of prosperity to the country.and Kansas will be benefited as much as any state. Our produc tive farm land will keep on increasing in value with the increasing population of the nation that now consumes all it can produce, and within 90 years Kansas soil will sell as high as the lands of the German empire, which range from two to five times our pres ent values. This means smaller farms, more homes, scientific farming, and we will have gardens instead of ranches. "In IMS Kansas will be the home of ten millions of the happiest and most industrious people in the world. The new currency system means much to Kansas, the plan is sound necessity Is the mother of invention. The govern ment not private interests, should have its hand on the throttle of su preme control of the federal reserve system the heart of our commercialae- Notice the Public I ARE INFORMED that a few at nnr nntrrma Havst critidam against the system of paying: a bonus to savin? coal that not enon?h cm ia heiner ihmmI in them sufficiently. advanced the motomen for can to heat We wish to say to our patrons that cars are warmed with magazine-fed heaters. The fires are automatically controlled and a motorman cannot re tard his fire to any extent without its going out and as motor-men lose their right to participate in the bonus if they lose their fire, or if they retard fires sufficiently to make a difference in the temperature of the car, there is little likelihood that they would follow such practice. The bonus was designed to stimulate a desire on the part of the motormen to save coal through proper firing and attention to heaters, as it was very evident that a considerable saving could be made and just as many' heai units de livered to the car. v We have paid closer attention this winter than ever before to the thor ough ventilation of cars and require that at least one deck ventilator be open continuously (unless it is snowing or raining), and an additional number of ventilators whenever the weather is not extremely cold. This has reduced the temperature of cars a few degrees below that of previous seasons. Patrons will realize that some passengers prefer temperature in cars as high as 70 degrees, while others would prefer to have every ven tilator open and a temperature in the car very little above that outside. It is our desire to strike a happy medium and keep the cars at a comfortable temperature, bearing in mind that pasengers do not remove wraps and that a prime requisite to proper service is well ventilated cars. The Topeka Railway Company HAMS Quality Guaranteed Fresh from the pure clean wood smoke. U. S. Government inspected and passed. Cheaper per pound, net weight than chickens or turkeys. The cheapest food product on the mar ket, value considered. Hams are always mild cured. Ask your dealer for BANQUET HAM. I Clias. Wolff Padaiiig Co. lopeka, Kansas tivityi The selected, seasoned finan ciers of the country will be called in to counsel with the federal reserve. board, which should be satisfactory to all broad minded citizens. "Our banking and commercial in terests are now placed upon the high est and safest plane in the world, com bining the experience and wisdom, and profiting by the mistakes of all other countries mark the ushering in of an epoch making forward stride in our prosperity, and the banishment of pes simism from the country." MAS 'OLD HAH' PltlCHED So He Can Visit the Daughter Undisturbed. Chicago, Feb. 21. Samuel Weimess had his prospective 'father-in-law ar rested so he could visit undisturbed his sweetheart. When he attempted to see his girl the previous night her father, Elmer Jansen, attacked him with a potato masher. The father admitted the at tack and threatened more violence should Weimess enter his home again. Weimess swore out a warrant for Jansen's arrest. While the father was occupying a cell in a precinct po lice station last night, his daughter was entertaining Weimess in the Jan sen home. It was several hours after his arrest that Jansen succeeded in getting his release on bonds signed by a friend. $3.50 Recipe Free, For Weak Kidneys. Relieves Urinary and Kidney Troubles, Backache, Straining, Swelling, Etc. Stops Pain In the Bladder, Kidneys and Back. Wouldn't it be nice within a week or so to begin to say goodbye forever to the scalding, dribbling, straining, or too fre quent passage of urine; the forehead and the back-of-the-nead aches; the stitches and pains in the back; the growing mus cle weakness; spots before the eyes; yel low skin; sluggish bowels; swollen eye lids' or ankles; leg cramps; unnatural short breath; sleeplessness and the de spondency? We have a recipe for these troubles that you can depend on. and If you want to make a QUICK RECOVERY, you ought to write and get a copy of it- Many a doctor would charge you $3J0 just for writing this prescription, but we have it and w..l be glad to send it to you entirely free. Just drop us a line like this: In terstate Remedy Co., K-944 Goodyear Bldg.. Detroit. Mich., and we will send it by return mall In a plain envelope. Aa you will see when you get It, this recipe contains only pure, harmless remedies, but it has great healing and pain-con-quertng power. It will quickly show Its power once you use it, so we think you had better see what it is without delay. We will send you a copy free you can use it and cues yourself at home. id It's Values You Want The best way to get full value in merchandise or the greatest bargains for your money is To Watch the .Advertising Columns of this Newspaper and go where those values and those bargains ere. X:1. The money you save and the values you get will make insignifiicant any premiums that may be thrown in. The State Journal frequently gives publicity to special sales where, for good reasons, the discounts given are ten, twenty-five and even fifty per cent. The wise buyer will look at the goods and prices regardless of trading stamps. Going to Cter ?Tlien ride on one of the daily Santa Fe O trains leaving Topeka 4:40 A. M. 1:25 P. M. 6:00 A. M. 7:40 A. M. 3:05 P. M. 5:00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Breakfast or dine at the Harvey House that's a good way to start out. And Santa Fe service completes your satisfaction. T. X KING, City Passenger Agent, Topeka, Read the State Journal CeaJ tie Cta It VI 17

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VIILA'S ESTKiSL (Continued from Page One.) aa American, and John Lawrence and a man named Curtis. Englishmen, were the developmenu of the last 24 hours. Following in rapid succession, these Incidents served to bring public feel tag to a high pitch and today every of ficial agency was engaged in bringing to light further details., v The official report of Benton's death came through Thomas D. Edwards, .'American consul at Juarez, and was telegraphed to the state department at "Washington. Almost immediately after the announcement. General Francisco Villa and staff hurriedly left Juares, for Chihuahua. Consul Edwards watched closely at the station hoping to catch a glimpse of Benton or any American prisoner, but saw none but Mexicans board the train. That theTe was a real court martial in the Benton rase none on this side of the border pretend to believe. It was known that Benton started for Villa's headquarters to voice a protest against the repeated raiding on his ranch in Chihuahua by the Mexican rebels. Here, at- least, the killing of Benton has wiped out what ever confidence was felt in Villa's promises. The resolutions adopted at the mass meeting characterised as "cold blood ed and heartless" the assassination of Benton and charged that the state de partment at Washington had "per sistently suppressed facts concerning true conditions in Mexico." The clash between cavalrymen and Mexicans occurred last night shortly after Captain Harry M. Cootes had re ceived word that filibusters might, at tempt to rush his barracks. After ex- cnanging a rew snots in which iwu Mexicans were wounded, the other in truders escaped in the darkness. Other Men Missing. El Paso, Feb. 21. El Paso, after a day and a night thrilling with excite ment of news of the execution of Wil liam S. Benton and the Indignation meeting which ensued, awakened today to anxiety and conjecture as to the fate of Gustav Bauch, an American, ac cused by the rebels at Juares. of being a spy, and of two Englishmen who dis appeared in Juares last Wednesday. Bauch disappeared from his cell last evening. This was discovered by rela tives who reported the fact to Thomas D. Edwards, American consul at Juares. He Is believed to have been shot. Of the two Englishmen, one named Curtis is said to be from New Mexico and the other, John Lawrence, chief engineer of the California Development comnanv at Yuma. Aria Samuel Stew art, known as Thompson, an English soldier of fortune, reported their dis appearance. He said they went to Juares Wednesday to aid in the search for Benton, a schoolmate of Lawrence, and were seen no more by himself or other friends. Lawrence and Curtis. Stewart said, registered here Tuesday under assum ed names and they came on business of a nature which for financial reasons re quired secrecy. He did not know what names they used. Stewart told a cir cumstantial story of his search for the two friends yesterday but his tale was received with reservations. All Eves on Washington. Yr..t.i... vh 91 Attention of nnaiuuHu, all the world powers interested in the Mexican situation was iumu on the Investigation into the killing of William S. Benton, the British ranch man, by General Villa at Juares. Secretary Bryan and Sir Cecil Strong Rice, the British ambassador, were awaiting official reports with details and pending that development the sit uation apparently was unchanged. Great Britain's usual attitude to ward the treatment of -her subjects in foreign lands surrounded the Benton case with more than ordinary interest. Intimations in El Paso that other Englishmen, friends of Benton, were unheard of. Increased the tensity of .the situation. While every disposition has been shown by the British em bassy here and by the foreign office at London, to be guided by whatever an official investigation develops, diplo matic circles were prepared for a thorough inquiry into Benton's kill ing. One outcome of the situation, which was thought more than proba ble, was expected to be a warning by Great Britain to her subjects in Mexico to leave isolated places and retreat to localities where they could place themselves under the protection Of the British flag. England Walts on Uncle Sam. London, Feb. 21.' The British govern ment up to noon today had not taken any action in regard to the execution at Juares of William S. Benton, the Scottish ranchman, beyond Instructing Sir Cecil Spring Rice. British ambas sador at Washington, to obtain from Secretary Bryan all possible informa tion on the affair. Although the tragedy has created a sensation throughout the British isles it has not aroused any disposition on the part of the responsible members of the British government to change their policy in regard to Mexico. There is no concealment of the fact, however, that the murder of British subjects In Mexico unless followed by punishment of the murderers and the payment of Indemnity Is likely to aruuav i'u'juv v. where It will demand that the British government take a more aggressive at titude. This fact had been impressed upon the state department at Washington by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice before any Brit ish lives had been lost in Mexico. In its official attitude. Great Britain is looking to the United States to protect British subjects and has no doubt the United States will do its best. The state department at Washington has al ready Informed the British government tliat where there are no British con suls In Mexico, the consuls of the United States will look after British in terests. The British government has no communication with the Mexican constitutionalists through diplomatic or consular channels. The members of the British govern ment consider that the recognition of the constitutionalists as belligerents would be a mistake. The Evening Standard says: "The execution of Benton emphasises the fact that some kind of .international compulsion soon will be, necessary to mm THREE FEET OF SHOW RED HAIR SHE'LL s:-f Diane Oete. On the first day of May Miss Diane Oste, show girl, famous for her lone, abundant red hair, will surrender three feet of ito same to a New York wigmaker and receive for it the sum of $5,000 in cash. stop Mexico from wallowing in this sty of corruption and cruelty." The Globe, after asking what is go ing to happen in case investigation proves the guilt of Villa, says: "The United States has not only the responsibility involved in its assertion of the Monroe doctrine, but the re sponsibility of having supplied Villa and the rebels with arms, thereby promoting the lawlessness which has had such grievous results for British lives and interests. President Wilson has gone too far to shrink from going farther." Rebel Official Version. Washington, Feb. 21. Roberto V. Pesquiera, constltutlonliat agent here, made public the following telegram from constitutionalist headquarters at Juarez; 1 "1 ton entered Villa's apartment very ..nexpectedly, demanding protec tion tor his interest, and bitterly in sulting Villa and the constitutionalist army. General Villa told him that he considered him an enemy to the con stitutionalist cause and that in order that he might not continue to work against it. he Villa was going to pay mm tne value of his property, (Ben ton's) in the state of Chihuahua. "Benton became very exasperated at this, and drew his revolver intend ing to kill the general, but the latter immediately knocked him, down, dis armed him and sent him to jail. Ben ton was afterward tried .by a special military tribunal, sentenced to death, and duly executed, all in accordance with the laws and usages of war." Announcement that Benton met death in Juarez after a court martial ordered by Villa, was made today by Secretary Bryan, who said he had no further details. His confirmation came In a dispatch from Consul Eld wards at Juarez, who said he had read the court martial proceedings which were forwarded by mail to Washing ton. Secretary Bryan communicated Consul Edward's latest message to Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambas sador, and instructed Consul Ed wards to demand adequate protection and a fair hearing for Gustave Bauch, and American citizen for whose safe ty in Juarez, grave apprehension has been felt. Friends of Bauch In El Paso have telegraped- Representative Smith of Texas, he had been shot as a spy. No report has been received at the state department today on the re norted disappearance of two other Englishmen, Lawrence and Curtis. who were said to have gone to Juares to search for Benton. "Murdered Like 8 Dog." Washington. Feb. 21. A telegram from R. N. Dudley of El Paso, Texas, to Senator Fall, declaring Benton was "murdered like a dog," was read in the senate today at the request of Sen ator Fall. He also had read a telegram from the EI Paso mass meeting. "I am almost certain Villa did it in person," said the telegram from Dud ley. The News in Mexico City. Mexico City. Feb. 21. The story' of the execution of William S. Benton by the rebel Villa Is displayed today under large type headlines in all the Spanish and English newspapers. El Imparclal labels K "the new assassina tion, which has horrified even the dupes captured by the execrable ban dit." It declares Villa killed Benton in cold blood, afterward ordering, a ficti tious court martial in order to cover nis act of murder. El Pals predicts that the affair will provoke a conflict between the chan- cellories of London and Washington. El Indepentaiente refers to thu nrmJ having been committed with all the refinements of cruelty. The leaders of the British colony here are contemplating calling a mass meet ing of British residents, to make rep resentation on the subject and to de mand from their government more ad equate protection for their country men, residing in rebel territory. The affair is widely discussed in the 2rJt w Mup.h the sanitary conditions of a laundry has to do with the cleanlt- 3 e5" your 5 A8H "d you'll have It done here. Our plant Is all on one Moor open on all four sides and thor oughly ventilated with exhaust fins Our SOFT WATER way" nuetrS soap and natural methods are further assurances of perfect sanitation. We ?!"ch very Piece requiring starch and ihJUi ef at ..pleces, without extra charge. Our price only 6c the pound. IngalTO you Dry Cleaning and Press- MUTUAL The "Soft Water" phone 519 LAUNDRY GIRL'S LOVELY SELL FOR $5,000 CASH federal capital and has caused expres sions of indignation on all sides. POLICY IS CONDEMNED. Mass Meeting at El Paso Severely Criticises the Government. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 21 Resolutions condemning the government for its handling of Mexican affairs were adopt ed at a mass meeting held in a thea ter here to protest against the execu tion of Behton by General Villa at Juarez. The meeting came as the cli max of a day of excitement caused by news of the death of Benton. The meeting was first called for Cleveland square, but Mayor Kelly, in a letter to George Curry, former governor of New Mexico, asked him to rent a hall, as he regarded an open meeting danger ous. The mayor said he would sup press any attempt to hold the meeting in the open. Richard Dudley, head of the contract ing firm which built several hundred miles of the Mexican Northwestern rail road and one of the most wealthy and influential refugees from Mexico, promptly paid $160 for the use of the 'theater. The resolutions follow: "Whereas. Mr. William S. Benton, a highly respected and honored citizen of the state of Chihuahua and a sub ject of Great Britain, was brutally murdered and assassinated at Ciudad Juarez. Mex.. by -OPrancisco- villa,, we, the citizens of EI Paso and refugees from Mexico, at an indignation meet ing held in El Paso, February 20, 1914, wishing to protest most emphatically against the cruel and violent treatment which has been accorded foreigners during the past three years of revolu tions in that country, beg to submit to the world and the American people the following brief statement of facts: Hundreds of Crimes. "The cold-blooded and heartless as sassination of William S. Benton, with out any cause whatever other than the fact that he went to Juarez to pro test against the confiscation of his property. Los Remedios ranch, in northern Mexico, which had been re peatedly looted, is but another crime to be added to. the hundreds that have already been committed against all foreigners living in Mexico who have been driven from their homes, their property destroyed, women outraged and foreigners murdered in cold blood and for no other reason than because of their nationality. "We believe the state department at Washington has persistently suppress' ed facts concerning the true conditions in Mexico, and endeavored, through inspired newspaper articles and by other means, to mislead the American people and form public opinion for political purposes in support of a policy that is ruinous to all foreign in terests in Mexico and to the Mexican people themselves. In support of this statement we would call attention to a recent article in the New York World which purported to be a semi official Interview coming from the secretary of state's office, and which stated that while a great many Ameri cans had lost their lives in Mexico, not one had been murdered solely on ac count of his nationality. "Some months ago the state depart ment officially declared in one of its messages to Mexico that it would hold the Mexican leaders personally re sponsible for outrages committed against American citizens. At the present moment our government is harboring General Tnez Salazar, who has an unbroken record ever since he I took the fleld ln Mexico of outrages I committed against our citizens. There are many f these c"ies were cruelly and brutally treated by this man, many of whom have been held for ransom and at least one, Mr. Fountain, was shot by his order, and thus far he has been immune from all punishment by our government. "At the present moment Maximo Castillo, who for many months has been at the head of an outlaw band in Mexico, holding our citizens for ransom and perpetrating all kinds of outrages,' whose band recently burned alive between fifty and sixty passen gers in the Cumbre tunnel on the Northwestern railroad, is being given asylum and protection by our govern ment. "We submit these facts as evidence that our government is. through a weak and vacillating policy, encour aging these lawless leaders to commit I all kinds of outrages against foreign ers and doing a great injustice to our own people that is resulting in a loss l of hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign capital, the murder of many of our citizens, the attacking of American women, and ruination of Mexico itself. Villa Worst of AIL "Francisco Villa, a man who has been an outlaw and murderer for many years, and who la now '"'"r aa ar- bltrary and despotic reign of terror over northern Mexico, is more cruel and barbarous n his methods than any tyrant in the world's history. It is a ract that he has treated with con tempt' the representatives of all na tions, mad that he does .not hesitate to put a man to death. for the slightest cause and for any way incurring his displeasure. We believe it a disgrace to our gov ernment and the American people to tolerate ruch a man much less to give him moral support; therefore, be It Resolved. That this message be sent to the president of the United States, the British amoassador at Washington and to our senators with a request that It be read into the congressional rec ord, and we appeal to them and to all our representatives in both branches of ?f!".dpt a.I1.U"0n.t0 COmI pel the state department to transmit to congress its records Dertaininar to the outrages committed against Amer icana and foreigners in Mexico, and to take such action as well give our people the protection guaranteed them unaer their constitutional rights and to maintain the honor and prestige of our country in the eyes of the world. We appeal to you to make known the facts to the American people and to see that our citizens who- are living in Mexico and have invested their -money there in good faith are given the pro- tection that is justly due them." JOHN D. MAY SLIP OUT Can't Be Taxed Under New Law Just Passed at Columbus. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 21. Tax Commissioners John D. Fackler and William Agner, who have been trying to list $900,000,000 of John I). Rocke feller's stocks and bonds on the per sonal property duplicate of Cuyahoga county, discovered today that the amendment by the legislature of the tax law this week at Columbus, prob ably has exempted the oil king's mil lions from the Ohio law. The amended statute makes April l tax day instead of February 1. It pro vides that a taxpayer must have re sided the greater portion of previous 12 months in this state. Rockefeller had been in Cleveland more than six of the 12 months preceding February 1. but with his departure two weeks ago for New York, he will not have been in Cleveland during six months prior to April L The tax commissioners will urge Governor Cox to hurry home from Flor ida, where he has gone on a vacation. and veto the amended tax law. LOCH KEKOT. gnr t v razor blades sharpened better tnan new. 25c-35c doz Brunt Dru Co. AOV. The Kansas avenue department Y. M. C. A. basketball team defeated a team from Lawrence Thursday night In Metropolitan hall by the score of 25 to 6. A return frame will be played at Lawrence next Thurs-oa-' night. Gabriel s Cniropractic 'Aajusiery, i Kansas avenue. Adv. The members of the Sons and Daughters o- Justice are requested to be present at the meeting Monday evening. The Na tional Council has granted a new dispen sation and a member-getting campaign is to be launched. Refreshments will be served and will be somthlng different. Roy Hoover. Pres. Irene Mills, Sec. Adv. Packages delivered all parts of the city 10 cents. Trunks hauled 25c and up. Phone 3408. Quick Messenger Express. Adv. Miu Ynumhitm Hundlv entertained a number of her friends at her home. 163 Strong avenue. tTiaay aiternoon. ine in vited guests were: Miss Hepsy White. Miss Kmma Zinn. Miss Bernlce Boggs, M1s Rnce Kersev. Miss Grace Phillips, Miss Elizabeth Lacey, Miss Laura Mae Gates. Miss Edith Pax ham. Miss Esther Grandon. Miss Anna Neal. Miss Clarabel Banta. Miss Ruth Martain and Miss Lu cretia HastinK. Notice, Sons of the American Revo lution: Tickets for the supper. First Methodist church, Monday evening. Feb. 23. to celebrate Washington's birthday, for sale by D. W. Nellis, sec retary. Fifty cents per plate. Adv, W. S. Miller, a druggist, was burned this morning by a small gas explosion at his home, 709 Tyler street.- His hands were Injured painfully, but not seriously. Go to the Arbor for Sunday dinner. Menu on Dace three. Adv. Rocnester school, which was closed this week because of chickenpox, will open Monday. .Dr. C. C. Lull, county physician, has nerroltted It to open on condition that the pupils and teachers are vaccinated. INDIAN GIRLS ARE NEW MEMBERS OF WASHINGTON'S OFFICIAL SOCIETY Searaia Parker Cleft) and Lucille Parker. When Gabe Parker went to Washington ft few months ace to enter upon his new duties aa one of the "wampum chiefs' of the gov ernment and as register, of the treasury to sign all of Uncle Sam's neper money, he Drought his wife with him, not only hie wife, bat two at tractive daughters as welL These yoanjr ladies, whose pietarea appear above, are part Choctaw and trace their ancestry back to the leaders of the tribe when it was sovereign ia that part of the United States which ia now Georgia, A la hems and Mississippi. .The girls are both prettj and are fast becoming vopaJa members of official society at the capita Quartette wm Sins; outline Tuesday Night. Along with all the announcements) of all the x Italian, French. German, Polish and other high opera and grand opera music for Topeka this winter, past, present and future, comes the pleasant, simple, homely news that there is to be an evening of old songs at the First Congregational church next Tuesday night. The quartette that will sing these songs is composed of Mrs. nharlM Rmnni r?roabv. aonrano: airs. Arthur S. Henderson, contralto; Hamp- ton L. Shirer, tenor, and Darwin Brad ley, baritone. This is probably as good quartette as Kansas can muster from its ranks of high class singers. The program calls for two selections from, the quartette and one solo for part one. And three quartette selec tions and two solos for the second half. Among the songs to be sung are, "Speed Away," "Annie Laurie," "Blue Bells of Scotland," "Juanita," "Sweet and Low," "Old Kentucky Home," "Nel lie Gray." "Massa's In the Cold Ground." "Auld Lang Syne." A program of these songs, sung by such singers as the members of this quartette, should appeal to the simple, ordinary citizen like a breath of spring in winter or a wood violet in a hot house of gorgeous flowers. It is so sel dom nowadays that any one conde scends to sing from stage or platform anything that does not bear the mark of Berlin or Paris or Florence. Now the average man who works to live and lives to die cannot properly appre ciate all these foreign operas that do not operate according, to his lights and understanding, and these arias that "ariate" clear above him. And as there are more average mortals than mortals above the average, the Con gregational church announcement ought to All the church next Tuesday night. And the audience will doubt less vote thanks and a medal o the benefactor who arranged this program. THE WEATHER RECORD Following are observations of the United States weather bureau for the twenty four hours ending at 7 o'clock this morn ing: Rain or f?.?ons-L. High. Low. anow. Abilene. Tex 52 40 .0 Amarillo, Tex......... 62 34 .0 Boise, Idaho 52 6 .0 Boston, Mass 28 12 T Buffalo. N. Y 14 6 .0 Calgary, Alb 42 4 .0 Charleston, 8. C 60 34 .48 -Chicago, 111 24 20 .10 Cincinnati, O 30 12 ,46 Columbus, Ohio 8 .0 Concordia, Kan 38 34 .0 Corpus Chiisti, Tex.. 80 52 ..0 Denver, Colo.' 68 34 .0 Des Moines. Ia 30 20- .01 Dodge City, Kan 4 32 .0 Duluth, Minn 14 .0 Edmonton, Ala. 22 6 T El Paso, Tex......... 66 42 .0 Galveston, Tex 58 48 .0 Havre, Mont........... 20 0 Helena, Mont 36 Huron, 8. D. 18 8 .0 Jacksonville, Mont... 70 48 .02 Kamioops, B. C 34 22 .0 Kansas City, Mo 34 26 .0 Little Rock, Ark 52 '34 -.20 Los Angeles, Calif... 60 54 1.44 Modena, Utah 46 40 .10 Moore head, Minn 20 6 .0 New Orleans, La.... 54 44 .0 New York, N. Y 28 10 .0 North Platte, Neb 42 24 .0 Oklahoma, OMa.. 46 38 .0 Omaha, Neb.......... 32 30 .0' Phoenix, Ariz.... 76 56 .0 Pittsburg, Pa 26 12 .0 'Portland, Ore......... 62 46 .14 Prince Albert. Sas... 18 20 .0 Rapid City, S. D 38 28 .0 Roswell. N. M. 72 38 .0 St. Joseph, Mo 34 26 .02 St. Louis, Mo 34 20 .0 St. Paul, Minn 20 18 .0 Salt Lake. Utah 50 46 T San Francisco, Cala. 60 48 1.42 Seattle,' Wash........ 60 44 .34 Sheridan, Wyo 44 24 .0 Springfield, 111........ 28 16 .0 Swift Current, Sas.. 26 10 .0 Toledo, Ohio 18 10" .0 TOPEKA, KAN...... 36 29 .0 Washington, D. C 28 16 .0 Wichita, Kan 42 32 .0 Williston, N. D....... 28 2 .0 Wlnnemucca. Nev... 62 36 .26 Wlnnepeg, Man 14 '10 .02 Extra Good Special -WtiltU3iifr-T!ii3..i and many displays of -beautiful new mer- chandise showing- styles and fabrics, and fashions that have just come out for spring. Three Very Unusual Specials in Toilet Goods After Supper Mam IToor Seine cf Ocr Best 50c Pcrfszics, 35c 02. Select from the following; and some other favorite odors in extracts of superior quality at the regular price, 50c. After Supper, only at 351 ozv" Willow Heliotrope White Rose Violet Wistaria Jockey Club Wbtte Ulac Sweet Pea Carnation Colgate's Tcilet Vater Bcttls, 50c large bottles of exceptionally, good quality delicately per fumed toilet water. Our special price 59c After Supper only at 501 a bottle. Isi France Caprice CewSlUlfcCl8 Dactylie Those Fine 50c Face Powders, 35c priced for this evening only at 35" Violet's (Ve-o-lays) adine Women's and Children's Fine Silk Lisle Hose After Supper Main This is the first time 'hew hose of these fine, beautiful, and service able qualities have been priced as low as 19c They are all of the best regular 25c quality, a specially purchased lot in which we secured a full line of women's regular sizes, and children's sises from 6 to 10 years. This is the only time to buy at such a saving After Sapper this evening. Women's fine, light weight silk lisle hose with high spliced heel, double sole and toe, and wide garter hem; black, tan or white 19c. Child's fine ribbed silk lisle hose with reinforced foot, black, tan, or white; sizes 5 to 10 pr. 19c Beautiful New Plaid Girdle Ribbons, 35c regularly Main A small, but very choice line of new all silk ribbons, ln the newest plaid patterns, very stylish for girdles and hair bows. Our regular SSc quality at a price that's really sensational. After Supper, yd. 15c. 50c Delft Initial Writing Paper and Correspondence Cards One table of this fine stationery, both writing paper and correspon dence cards with the new long-letter Delft initials. 60c jralue. After Supper, either style, box 25c Saturday Candy Specials Fresh Wafers, pepper mint, winter green, and chocolate flavors, lb. !20c $1.50 Bolt Longcloth at $1.15 Second Floor. You can buy plenty of fine material for underwear at a saving worth coming for. After Supper tbis evening for we will sell 10 yds. bolts of regular 15c longcloth at $1.15 bolt. Mills' Special $1.00 Corsets, 79c Fourth Floor. These corsets are so good in style and material that we sell them as "Mills' Special." Made from figured coutil, a material seldom found in $1.00 corsets, with very long skirt, two hooka 4 heavy supporters and embroidery top. Medium bust. After Supper, 79c. In the Bagain Basement MEX'S SHIRTS laundered, all sizes from 14 to 17. A Bft good variety of desirable patterns. Special After Supper 0C MEN'S COTTOX HOSE of good quality in black and a line f" of colors. Very unusual value. After Supper, pair OC MEX'S BLACK HOSE of excellent quality, serviceable cot- A ton, good weight, good fitting. Special After Supper, pr. OygC WOMEN'S OUTSIZE HOSE in black cotton with elastic ribbed top. Very special value. After Supper, pair a JIC New Line Children's Wash Dresses, Special AU fresh and new, taken from the shipping cases only this morn ing a very special purchase made by our buyer now in New York, and hurried on by expresa Styles, materials and making all wonderfully good, the best values you ever found in the Basement at 49c. Fine percales in neat stripes and checks, with pretty trimmings. Fine plain colored chambray ginghams in navy, Dutch blue and tan, made with the new drop shoulder. Dutch neck, and belt of the material. Sizes 2 to 8 years. A tube of Colgate's Dental Cream, toothbrush, both After Supper, for 10c Roman Talcum Powder After Supper 4 or. bottles Genuine Peroxide 4 dozen assorted Safety Pins for' PbT.-jills iiizsf amMm. $i:.:fi sraie. thern Kansas Teachers' Associa tion Follows Action of Others. Wichita, Feb. 2 1. The Southern Kansas Teachers'., association in its annual meeting- here today adopted a resolution favoring simplified spelling. The vote was 100 to S. The same resolution has been adopted by the Wichita board of education, the Sedgwick County Teachers', associa tion and the Cacnlty of the Wichita high school. ...v. Sandalwood Locust Blossom Dorothy Vernon Uly of the Valley Violet Istblacho 19c Floor 15. Floor. Preserved Figs, J 1 25c canaiea, ires and delicious, 49c and a "Goodnense" 15c 5c .8c Postofflce Hoars for Monday. The Topeka postonee will not be open Monday after M o'clock In the moraltuT One delivery of mail will be made ln 3u city, but the rural mail will not be ant until Tuesday. Owing to the fact that Washington's birthday comes on BundaV the postal department at Wasungtoalhaa issued a senersl order making MondT. a holiday. The United States naval and rec'iultlm. offices in Topeka win be closed. The others will be open at least a part Admission 35 cents. First Congre gational eharch. Conoart f"rtt Adv..

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FAR'.1SEEDS. Huch Interest la Rock Island Announcements. Agricultural College Experts Add Important Word. Not only farmers, but seed dealers, are taking interest in the warning is sued by the Rock Island Lines and the International Harvester company against the indiscriminate use of Kan sas farm seeds of the 191 crop. The statement is made that much of this seed will not germinate, and that much of that which does will be of low vitality. The drouth of 113 is held, responsible. Eugene Hayes of the Hayes seed house of North Topeka thinks that some injustice may be done to local corn growers and seed dealers as a resultof the warnings. He says: "Th'e newspapers are giving infor mation from the Rock Island Railway company about seed corn. I wish to take exception to it, for the reason that we have in Shawnee coutny some of the best corn growers in the United States, and we have many thousands of bushels of corn held here that is of first class quality, testing out 94 to 88 per cent germination, and in some cases as high as 100 per cent." The Kansas agricultural experi ment station published today a circu lar dealing with the question of seed corn for Kansas and says among other things: 1912 Seeds Good. "Probably the best source of seed for any given locaUty Is the home grown 1912 crop." The circular says in part: "Kansas plants, on the average, over one million bushels of seed corn an nually. Because of the large increase in the amount of wheat seeded last fall, the acreage of corn in 1914 will probably be below normal. The quan tity of seed required will probably be between 800,000 and 900,000 bushels. "Kansas produced in 1913 about 18,000,000 bushels of corn, which is only 12 per cent of the normal crop. Very little of this corn is fit for seed. Because of the drouth and heat it did not mature properly, and even where yields of from five to ten bushels to the acre were obtained- the corn pro ducted is, as a rule, inferior in quality and vitality. While much of it may germinate, it lacks the vigor and vital ity necessary to obtain a good stand of strong, vigorous plants. "A large per cent of the seed corn for next year's planting must come from sources other than the Kansas 1913 crop. Probably the best source of seed for any given locality is the home grown 1912 crop. This crop! was above normal in quality, and! where the corn has been kept under i proper conditions it will make good seed. If the corn is of good vitality, it will undoubtedly be superior to seed introduced from other states, or from uiaiaiiL iwaiiiicB wimin ine state. An all probability enough good seed can be selected from the 1912 crop, togeth er with a little good seed obtained in 1913, to supply the needs of the state, but to do this the seed must be select ed at once and put on the market and properly distributed. "In northeastern Kansas there is sufficient home-grown corn of the 1912 and 1913 crops to more than supply the local demand, and in this part of the state it is not necesary to import seeds from other sources. "In southeastern Kansas the situa tion Is not so fortunate, since both the 1912 and 1913 crops were short. In a few favored localities of this part of the state fairly good seed corn was produced in 1913. This and the 1912 corn should be the first choice of seed. The next best source is seed corn from Missouri that was grown directly east of the locality in which it is to be planted. Counties That Have Seed. "In north central Kansas, especial ly in Smith, Jewell, Republic and a few adjoining counties, there is suf ficient old corn to more than supply the local demand and this should be obtained for seed, if possible. If home-grown seed is not available, corn from east central and eastern Nebraska should be secured. "The same thing applies to central and southeastern Kansas with the ex ception that corn from northeast Kansas is to be preferred to that from more distant sources to the northeast. "For south central Kansas, early varieties from central and eastern Oklahoma will be better than those obtained several hundred miles north and east. In bringing corn north there is danger of obtaining varieties that will not mature, and care should be taken that suitable varieties are secured. Where There Is Danger. "For the western one-third of the state corn from central and southern Nebraska and southern Dakota Is perhaps the best source of seed, in that the varieties ob tained will mature under western Kansas conditions. There Is danger in obtaining northern grown seed for any locality in Kansas that the varieties obtained will ma ture too early to take advantage of the long growing season and are, therefore, not capable of producing maximum yields. "A large quantity of shelled corn is be ing shipped into Kansas this winter for feeding purposes. As a rule It is a mixed lot from unknown sources. Many farmers will be tempted to use this corn for plant ing Tather than to obtain good seed of varieties known to be adapted to their conditions. No one can afford to take this risk. The risk involved Is far too great and more than offsets tha trouble and ex panse of obtaining good seed. This corn may be a poor variety unaulted to Kansas Just as a matter of find ing out for yourself which service you like best, let a wagon from the White Star Laundry Call for your next bundle. Put our service to a personal test. That is really the only way for you to find the difference. Take shirts for Instance. They will be starched only where starch is needed. There wiU be no stretching, or straining, or bulging of bands or pleats. In fact there will be all 'round satisfaction returned with your bundle. conditions and the vitality of the corn la likely to be low. Such corn should not be planted until every possible Sort baa been made to obtain batter seed. "Corn used for seed next year should be tested for germination regardless of the source of the seed. If It doe not germi nate 90 per cent or better. It is unfit for seed. No fanner can afford to plant corn ftA"rte.Pop0on of which will net grow. A little thne and effort spent In making- a germination test will often save replanting scpfiekt or a reduced yield due to poor ILO'iV DEALT TO ZIOil. Courts Holds Dowie'a Anti-Tobacco Uw Unconstitutional. Springfield, 111., Feb. 21. John Alexander Dowie's -dictum against tobacco, which has been the law of the faithful in Zion City, HL, was overthrown by the Illinois supreme court today. The city ordinance for bidding the use of tobacco within the city limits was declared unconstitu tional. Attempts to enforce the ordi nance have kept Zion City- in the throes of intermittent rioting for sev eral years. Since the electrical ap paratus factory, one of the Zionist en terprises, was taken over by an out side concern, and numerous Zionists moved in, the faithful have been out raged daily by the spectacle of men smoking tobacco. Under the direction of Wilburn Glenn Voliva, successor to Dowie, the Zionists were not slow to retaliate by building a cement chapel' next to the electrical factory and preaching and singing energetic denunciations of all who defile the air with tobacco smoke. The result was war and many an evening the factory men and the el ders and members of the Zion church surged up the main street of Zion City, clubs, fists and epithets going and black eyes, broken heads and an overflowing city lockup attesting the genuineness of the strife. Both sides appealed to the courts. SETTLE BASEBALL CASE Collins Gets the Suits for Rock Island Team. Having deliberated two months, the court of Topeka has awarded eight gray flannel baseball suits, valued at 340, to L. L. Collins, original manager of the Rock Island baseball team. The "baseball case," which caused much amusement in the court house, is settled at last. The suit was over the ownership of the eight trousers, belts and blouses. Collins claimed them. So did A. L. Hudson. It was up to Judge Robert Garver to decide who was the man ager of the team. According to the rulings of the court, Collins is the manager. Collins, according to testimony, or ganized the team, directed several games, and allowed interest to lag. Hudson reorganized the nine. The suits, by common consent, belonged to the manager. Both boys claimed the office, and replevin suit was filed. STILL III JAIL. G rover Metzger Has Not Been Re leased on Bond. The report that Grover Metsger, wife beater, had been released on bond, caused consternation at the court house. His wife is 4n a dangerous state from his last attack while on parole. Metzger is under lock and key at the county jail. He was arraigned in the court of Tooeka and pleaded not guilty. His bond was placed at 31.000. There is small probability of its being signed or accepted by the court. Metzger was paroled from the city jail, hastened home, and carved his wife with a razor. If the knife had glanced aside an inch, he would have been charged with murder in the first degree. Sheriff Kiene imparted this news to the big man. who shrugged his shoulders, and observed that would suit him. He was arrested for assault with in tent to kill. His preliminary hearing will take place next week in the city court. Judged by his past actions and his present frame of mind. Metzger would be a menace It released on bond. HOLLAND TRADES OCIIS Inflelder Goes to Wichita for Yankee Davis. St. Joseph, Feb. 21. Manager Hol land of the St. Joseph Western league club announced that he has traded Second Baseman Fred Ochs to the Wichita club for Outfielder Davis. Wants Credit for Charles Lytic In a letter to the State Journal Sheriff Kiene asks that public acknowledgment be made of the services of Charles Lytle. city detective, whose able assistance help ed secure the conviction of "Forty" Bryant, charged with murder in the first degree. The letter follows: To the Editor of the State Journal: "Will you please In justice to Detective Charles Lytle of the police fol-ce say for me that whatever credit Is due the officers who worked up the evidence in the "Forty' Bryant murder case. Detec tive Lytle Is entitled to a large share. He was untiring In his efforts and assisted materially in bringing about the result attained. I L, KIENE, Sheriff." Phone 142 213-15 West Fifth SHOTS Th convention of shoe retailers that high school. A new front Is being put in at 412 Kansas avenue. A large number of out of town shoppers were In Topeka today. Dr. F. X Lioveland will leave the first of next week for Portland. Ore. The Topeka Boys' clnb will meet this evening at the Provident building. A dozen transients were given lodg ing at the Provident association Fri day night. The next regular meeting of the board of education will be held Mon day evening. March 2. Many Topeka people are now buying grass seed which they intend to sow as soon as the next snow arrives. C. E. Seal of Rock Creek is build ing a frame dwelling for A. E. Seal at Quincy and Independence streets. J. 7. Billings, who has been In at tendance at the Kansas City auto show this week has returned to Topeka. The dental dispensary was held at the Provident association building this afternoon instead of this morn ing. Dr. S. 8. Estey will speak Sunday morning at the First Presbyterian church on "George Washington and His country. The address that Br. F. J. Ernest will give tonight at the Central T. M. C. A. on first aid to the injured is open to all men of the city. J. B. Lautx, assistant to the general manager of the Santa Fe in Topeka, has returned to his office after a trip over the lines in Texas. Mrs. S. A. Chappell, of Abilene, state Sunday superintendent of elemen tary work, will speak at the First Bap tist church at 3 o'clock Sunday after noon. will be held in Topeka next week will be something different in conventions. It will be the biggest congregation of shoe men ever held in Kansas. The "pure shoe" law will be the main topic for discussion. Miss Maude Price, in charge of the missionary work of the Kansas State Sunday School association, will speak at the Redden Mission at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. A male quartette will sing. Several of the officials of the Kan sas State Sunday School association have been in Shawnee county all of this week holding conference with of ficers and workers in various Sunday schools of Topeka and the county. They include J. H. Engle. state super intendent, Mrs. 8. A. Chappell, ana Miss Maude Price. A full attendance of the member ship committee of the Commercial club is desired at the meeting that will be held Monday noon to map out a plan for the campaign that will be held the fore part of March. The Topeka Training School Dor Sunday school workers will be held at the First Presbyterian church Mon day night instead of at the First Methodist church. Dr. Harry Coe Culbertson, president of the College of Emporia, will deliver a lecture at 7:30 o clock. The older juniors and the young employed boys of the Central T. M. C. A. will indulge in a basketball con test tonight at eight o'clock in the T. M. C. A. gymnasium. A. J. Stout, principal of the high school, spoke before one hundred and fifty of the older girls of the school late Friday in the assembly room on Educational Equipment and Specific Preparation." This was the day for the kiddles at the Central T. M. C. A. There were scores of them in the "gym" this morning, and they were all shouting at the top of their voices. The social which was to take place tonight at the Walnut Grove Metho dist church under the auspices ot tne Epworth League, has been postponed until next Wednesday night. A new Delta bulletin board has been put in place at the First Congregation al church. It was given by the class of men under Dr. Arthur S. Hender son. It is different from anything of the kind yet seen in Topeka. Mrs. George H. Whitcomb will speak on "The Laving Temple" at the Y. W. C. A. vesper services at 4:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The value of gymnasium work will be emphasized. The Vawter evangelistic meetings at the First Christian church have been well attended all the week. Friday night seventy-five members of the Central Park Christian church attend ed in a body. The Commercial club campaign that will be held the forepart of March and which will have as its object the in creasing of the membership of the or ganization to 1,600, will probably be continued over a period of at least ten days. The Shawnee County Taxpayers' league will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday evening at the coun ty clerk's office. It is probable that dog owners will endeavor to have the league champion their opposition to the new dog taxing law. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway has filed .motion for a new trial in the Harley Harper case, giving eleven reasons why the case. In its opinion, should be heard again. By a jury in the second division Harper was yesterday awarded $4,383 for the loss of a toe. "Jump" Williams, colored, fined $100 for vagrancy in police court, ap pealed his case. Judge Huron's fine was sustained. Judge Dana adding 30 day sentence, and classing the case as "another appeal with no merit." The county commissioners have filed a demurrer against Tecumseh township, alleging that the township has no legal capacity' to sue. The township recently filed suit to compel the commissioners to macadam" the stretch of road on West Sixth between Tecumseh and Topeka. The state, through W. E., Atchison, county attorney, today filed man-, damua proceedings against John I Troutman, trustee of Topeka township, to compel the opening of the Bohnar road as ordered by the board of coun ty commlssloneray and for Judgment against the defendant for costs. Jhm J. S. West will speak Sunday afternoon at the Central T. M. C. A., following a song service at o cioca led by Eton S. Clark. At the close of the meeting a fellowship lunch will be held. All men ot tne city are in vited to attend. Arthur Bolton, physical director of the T. M. C. A. at AbUene and for merly assistant physical director of the Topeka Central association, is spending the weekend In Topeka. A. J. Stout,, principal of the nigh school, will give a talk on psychology before a group of Sunday school work ers at the First Presbyterian church Monday night. Washington's birthday will be cele brated at the Third Presbyterian SHIP ATHDSfJ church Sunday morning at 10:46 o'clock. There wiH be a celebration of the Lord's supper and reception of new members.- AU high school boys who want to learn something about wireless teleg- rmpoy are invuea to room No. 24 in the manual training building at 7:10 o'clock tonight. W. H. Wlthlngton. instructor in physics and agriculture, will give a demonstration of how a wireless system ts worked. C. W. Kouns, general manager of the Santa Fe in Toneka la in h.ttr condition than he has been since his urai attack ot rneumatism several weeks ago. Physicians say today that he will be able to return to his office in a week. Residents in the vicinitv of th hlarh school manual training building say that the sputtering of the wireless at night fills the neighborhood with welrdness and mystery. They aav it sounds like squeaking doors and escaping gas. George KnoU and W. T. Williams have asked that a receiver be appoint ed to take charge of the property of Charles Hecht, fugitive from justice, whose $2,000 bond is forfeit to the state. Hecht's property consists of a pool hall at 813 North Kansas avenue. His bondsmen have petitioned that the amount of his bond be deducted from his estate. The city engineer's office was a busy place today and probably will be until Thursday of next week. Contractors are there going over' plans and specifi cations for the 45 blocks of street pav ing. Bids for this work will be opened by the city commission Thursday morning and the contracts will proba bly be awarded immediately after con sidering the bids. Several hundred dollars is already as sured for the home garden contests among tne city scnooi cnuaren ton year. The Topeka Real Estate Dealers' association which has been backing the movement the last two years, ex pects tq give liberally this year. The Bank of Topeka has given a subscrip tion of $26. The movement is under the general direction of C. H. Wlthlng ton, instructor in agriculture at the The Men's Bible class of the First Methodist church will have a special program at 9:30 o'clock on Sunday morning. Professor W. E. Connelley will address the class on "Washing ton." Mr. G. D. Westman will speak on the subject of "Fear." The class lesson will be studied under the direc tion of the teacher. Dr. E. S. Petty john. Regular services will be held by the class at the city and county jails Sunday afternoon. The Kansas Public Welfare league will wage a campaign of "publicity and education" in and about Topeka, beginning: Sunday. At 3 o'clock Sun day afternoon a mass meeting will be held at the Kansas Avenue Methodist church; Sunday evening a mass meet ing will be held in the Oakland Meth odist church. Monday evening a par ents' meeting will be held in the Oak land Presbyterian church. Tuesday afternoon there will be a mothers meeting in the Oakland Methodist church, and on the evening of the same day a general community meet ing will be held at the same place. Thursday evening a mass meeting will take place in the Highland Park school house. E- C. Jerman, a chemist, will erect a handsome residence on a five-acre tract of land at the southeast corner of Sixth and Highland avenues, ac cording to The Construction News. Many-novel ideas in construction will be worked out. The house will be a two-story brick veneer structure. There will be a game room in the basement finished in typical log cabin style. Logs will be imported from Colorado. There will be a rustic eight-foot fireplace. A two-story brick and tile garage with a machine room and chemical laboratory will be built on the site. There will be a brick re taining wall around the grounds 200 feet long and six feet high. Thomas W. Williamson is drawing the plans. Following is a list of the churches connected with the Topeka training school for Sunday school workers and the number of members from each church: First Presbyterian, 49; First Methodist, 37: Central Park Christian, 29; First Baptist. 24; Walnut Grove Methodist, 24; Central Congregational, 22; Westminster Presbyterian. 18: Eu clid Avenue Methodist, 18; Third rTesbyterlan, 17; First Congregational, 14; First Christian. 14: East Side Meth odist. 14; First United Presbyterian. 13; Central Avenue Christian, 10; Second United Presbyterian. 9; Seward Avenue Baptist. 9; Oakland Methodist, 7; Quin ton Heights Baptist, 6; Swedish Baptist, 5; Third Christian, 4; North Topeka Baptist, 4; Potwin Presbyterian, 4; Second Presbyterian, 4; Calvary Pres byiterian, 3; North TopekaCongregation aL 2; Aubumdale Christian, 2; Oakland Christian,-1; miscellaneous (Methodist), 29; miscellaneous (12 churches) 30, and eight officers. t l A George Washington party was given Friday night by the Auburndale Christian church 'Christian Endeavor society and their friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C F. Shimeall. The "Blues," the losers In a recent con test, were the hosts. The house was decorated with the national colors in honor of George Washington, and ap propriate prizes were given to the best hunter in the "hatchet hunt," the winner In "chopping down the cherry tree," and the composer of the best rhyme about George Washington. Those present were Misses Lyn Car son, Blanche Kelly, Hazel Green, Marie Haynes, Marie Cooper, Leva Hills. Anna Skibbe, Anna Gleason, Daisy Summers. Madlyn McCoy, Elsie Rlck etts, Ruth Havens, Mrs. Iserman, Mrs. Guarding Against Painful Dentistry Is one of the reasons we have given such satisfaction in our clean, white offices at 809 Kansas Ave. By advertising we get In touch with patients quicker than In any other way and get more of them. So we have more prac tice do better work. And all acknowledge that our methods '-are painless. WHITE DENTAL CO. sBa3a.svatts.sk SaBBe12 714 DK.LYNCAR "A 0 Ricketta, sirs. Shimeall, Ivan Elliott. Clarence Price. Charles Shrake. Clyde Warren. Russel Iserman. Lester Brain. Franz Rahberg, Fred Rah berg. Henry Renbarger, Elvln Reabarger, Archie Bright. Edward Skibbe and Donald Shimeall. S'.:3T HIS SCTGLTT Man Had Two Wives and Was Trying; to Get Philadelphia, Feb. SL-r Becoming sudden ly frenzied through- jealousy, the pohee say. Carl Klnlock, at years-old, an -automobile salesman, today smashed dishes In a restaurant and then shot up the place, killing one waitress and seriously injuring another with whom he had been Infatuat ed. Then he turned the revolver- on him self with probable fatal effect. The restaurant Is In the heart of he re tail shopping district. Klnlock suddenly rose from a table and began shooting at Ora Griffin, 30, with whom he had been infatuated. A bullet struck her In th side but Klnlock kept on shooting at her as other natrons of the place and waitresses rushed for the doors or dodged -behind tables. When Anna Phillips. 66. fell with a wild bullet through the back, Klnlock exclaimed: "She got an I have and I might as well Jro to hell," and shot himself through the ung. The PhilHps woman, who did not know Klnlock, died In a few minutes. Klnlock made this statement to the police: "I am a divorced man. I met this Griffin woman last summer. I saw her last night with another man. I asked her this morn ing to explain. She refused.' She even re fused to wait on me. "I told her I would shoot her If she did not explain. I became crasy, I' guess, when -he flouted me before everybody." Klnlock's aunt, who lives in Brooklyn, said he had two wives living In New York state, one in Albany and the other in Troy. THE VAWTER i'EETIuGS Nearly to Om versions at Christian Church Revival. The attendance at the Vawter evan gelistic meeting, which are being held at the First Christian church, is heavy and a total of nearly 90 conversions have been recorded. There was a big crowd at the church Friday night to hear the revivalist speak on the sub ject: "Who Will Go to Heaven." There will be a service tonight at 7:30 o'clock to which the general public is invited. There will be a baptismal service Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock and an other similar service Tuesday night. The other services Sunday will be at the usual hours. The music is a big feature of the meetings. There is ex cellent talent in the Vawter company. The services will continue through the remainder of February. COIIXLIIIG W0I1 IT. Washburn Freshmen Law School Prize Debate Results. The preliminary to the freshman prize debate was held at the Wash burn law school Friday. This prelim inary was held for the purpose ot eliminating the large number of try outs to a team of four who will de bate for the prize in the near future. The ranking of the judges for the first four was, G. S. Conkling, Roy Painter, R. B. Ewers, P. O. Sanborn, who will make up the teams for the finals. The prize offered is a volume of Black's Law Dictionary, offered by Dean W. R. Arthur, and is a prize well worth working for. UNFAIR COMPETITION, Topeka Good Enough for Us; We To Uncle Sam Oil Customers: Do not be misled by reports being circu lated that we are soon going to close our Topeka station. Such reports are maliciously false and absolutely untrue. These reports originate from competi tors who expect in this way to steal our business. Every red blooded man will agree that this is unfair competition and should warrant retaliation, but surely the service and quality demonstrated by -our Lily White Gasoline. Arklight Kerosene and Capitol Brand Lubricants speak for themselves and you will not be misled by such reports. 'Phone your needs to Main 73 for service. THE UNCLE SAM OIL CO. OF KANSAS. L. E. THOMASON, Sales Mgr. Adv. A. O. U. W. Notice Members of Unchurch lodge No. 244 are requested to attend the funeral of Bro. John Hoveland Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services from Penwell's Chapel. J. D. RICKMAN, Master Workman. H. G. THOMPSON. Recorder. Adv. DEATHS O FIMLS. The funeral of John Hoveland, who died Friday at the Santa Fe hospital, will be held at 2 o'clock Monday at Penwell's chapel. Interment will be in the Topeka cemetery. Catherine Lane, aged 64, died Fri day night at her home at 220 Madi son street. The funeral will be held at 8:30 o'clock Monday morning at the Church of the Assumption. In terment in Mt- Calvary. John McGee, aged 52, died about noon today at the Topeka hotel. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Tues day in Penwell's chapel. The funeral of Clyde Homer Miller, who died at his heme at 1421 Central avenue, will be held at the residence at 2 o'clock Sunday. Interment in Rochester. The funeral of David D. Stitt, who died at 404 Monroe street, will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday at the Wesleyan Methodist church. Interment In the Topeka cemetery. The funeral of Martin Weisser will be held at 1503 Van Buren street at 2:30 o'clock Sunday. Interment in the Topeka cemetery. The funeral of James M. Dumenil, who died at 222 Buchanan street, will be held at 3:30 o'clock Sunday in Penwell's chapeL Interment will be In the Topeka cemetery. Peter Anderson, aged 70, died Thursday in Woodward. Okla. His body was brought to Topeka. and the funeral was held thin afternoon In Bethel church and interment was In Bethel cemetery. Agnes X. Drake, aged 58. died last night at her home at 31 Monroe street. The funeral will be announced later. Harter LIsrcantOo Co. Sictli ;This splendid department store stock of over $25,000.00 sold by the adminstrator of the estate of the late D. H. Clement last Tues day at public aution for $9,500.00 To be sold at retail beginning Wedne February 25th Jakavs!igr TaEafferiro m and If yon suffer from Rheumatism or Lumbago, rub the aching parts with Omega Oil, then soak a piece of flan nel with the Oil, lay it on the place that hurts and cover with dry flannel. This simple treatment has brought nights of peaceful rest to people who have suffered agonies. Trial bottle toe. The National Rat KOer Sicarco' Eloclrlo Ready for use, economical, reliable. Directions la 18 Unsnarl Ja i TamtaMtatiBiiu HIGHLAND PARK KOTES litems for this column mav be D honed to 2S53-K 2 or the State Journal office. Mrs. A. P. Ahlstrom entertained the Dorcas society of the Swedish Lutheran church Thursday afternoon with a large attendance. The meeting was led by Rev. Geo. Anderson. Miss Ruth Thomas and Miss Mitchell of Carbondale. Kan., spent Saturday of last week In Topeaa. xney report mat tne high school students that are to graduate next June are -very busy arranging for a play to be given the 29th. The Granra Meetinc next Tuesdav night will be addressed by State Lecturer L. B. Fry. John fcCormlck of Colorado Borings. Colo., Is visiting at the home of J. W. Ferguson. Thn Ladles' Aid society met at the home of Misses Arli'na and Sadie Buell Thurs day afternoon- Mrs. Jennie Morris and son Lawrence left today for their home at Watertown, S. D.. after a three months' visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McCarter. The Highland Park Art club were enter tained at the home of Mrs. E. J. Cava naugh Friday afternoon. Those present were: Miss Vida Bush, MTs. J. A. Swan, Mrs. Ahlstrom, Mrs. A. B. Smith, Mrs. E. C. Cavanaugh, Mrs. J. Tompkins, Miss Arlia and Miss Sadie Buell. Mrs. B. J. Cavanaueh. Mrs. Win. Lyman was a guest of the club. A parent-teacners meenng was neia a tb) school house Friday afternoon for the nuTDose of furthering the Dubllc welfare movement of Highland Park. Mrs. Rosene was elected president: Mrs. tsumey vice president, and Mrs. Waggoner secretary. Regular meetings are to be held on the last Wednesday of each month at 3:30 p. m. On next Thursday evening at 7:30 a mass meeting will be held at the school house auditorium and the Rev. Theo. Hanson, state superintendent of the Wel fare league, will speak. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Boast had as miests last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bridly. Mr. and Mrs. John Keller of Lowman Hill. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Roblson and Miss Carrie Robinson of Virginia avenue. One of the best meetings of the K. K. K.'s was held at the home of Miss Kate Thompson Friday evening. The charac ters for the next play were assigned, and they are ready to proceed with the play, "Home Ties." Those present: Elsie Case, Ida Rains. Kate Thompson. Peal Shaul. Jessie Parrish, Jennie Banta. Mabel Cromwell, Esther Roller, Madge Madison. Irma Ferguson. Helen Eberhart. Ruby Edgar; Messrs. Davidson. Watson. Blsy bautrh, Desn. Butts. Parrish. Styles. Ferguson. Ahlstrom brothers, Banta, and Charlie Case. Heavy Fines for Liquor Sellers. Two heavy fines were assessed by Po lice Judge George A. Huron within the past 24 hours. The first case was that of Arnie Mitchell. He was convicted on six counts in court, five on sales of liquor and the last on keping and maintaining a nuisance. Huron save Mitchell GO davs in Jail and 3200 on each count, totalling up a fine of tl.200 and 380 days in JalL If he serves out his sentence, he will not be released until June, 1918. That is one of the heaviest fines given by the Judge for several months. Mltchel appealed his case to the district court and has been released on $1,500 bond. He was tried In police court Friday afternoon. Another sentence that was rather heavy was given to Joe Dwigglns, convicted this morning tor bootlegging and selling liquor. Dwigglns. was fined S8W and given 2S0 days in Jail. Be will serve his time in the city prison until April, 1917, unless re leased before then. Dwiggma will appeal, it Is said, although he was not released this moraing. Old Familiar Concert Quartet, First Congrega tional church, Tuesday evening, Feb. 24. Reserve the date. Adv. LiliLwiilili i Firct T.lort(jacc3 on Improved Oklahocna Farm FOR SALE No. S637 3800.00-Beaver County. Appraised by our Examiner at 400.00. Security in this loan Is 140 acres of upland 115 acres in culti vation. Property is assssssd tor f2.S00.00, and is six miles from date. Oklahoma, with population of M0. Farm is occupied by the owner. 40 acres are In growing wheat. This is an exceptionally choice loan. Loan Is due January 1, 1919; Interest pay able semi-annually January and July. r... No. atM-VM.o9- Woods County. Appraised by our Examiner at 3X 220.00. Security in this loan Is M9 acres 80 acres In cultivation, pur chased hi 1907 for .-.000.00. Occu pied by owner. 99 acres are in grow ing wheat. Buthr'ngs are valued at mo.oo. Loan is due July 1st., 191 S, with Interest payable semi-annually January and July. Mo. 8479 3800.00 Woodward Coun ty. Appraised by our Examiner at -32.MO.O0l Security in this loan ts 1H acres 90 acres in cultivation. Prop erty is occupied by owner. Farm is nine miles north of Sharon. Okla homa 40 acres were in corn, CO acres in Kafir corn, and 40 acres In broom corn. Loan is due September 1. 1913, with Interest payable semi annually March and September. Write for further Okia homa and Kansas lists and full particulars. The Pioneer Mortgage Co. Muhrane Eld., Topelca Have Exact Change by Vritbj Check Tour personal funds are at your instant command to the odd pennies when you write a check. Mot only that,, but the cheek Is. a permanent record of .each amount yon pay out. It is by watching expendi tures that you can best see where to save. oh time r-orrrl Our Qocolatcs at 25c lb. are unusually good and you'll And them better and more toothsome than so and so's at 29c, or even a higher nrna H7a e sew ww v aaaeasw luciu vuttVlfVab TrtF SB kAV fife awWShnwlsS J IJI nakeryand lU&U DelicateMtsii 121 Wet ft!. St. f .iiifl I Q O The skinral Watek teg Service In the eur. -'-A fun and eeweletolts ade Watches, I'isiifiia, nepamng a reenuty. Xtj stat

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DUOITIC fJEl'JS KOVELTY. NOVELTY NOVELTY TOPCKA'S JOY SPOT HasimoTA Attraction at Grand Kansas Shoe Retailers to noli Convention Next Week. 3 p. m. March 9. 2 Exrmt Vtry 70:15 10,20,20c Great Emotional Actress Play, "Bella Donna." in Prominent Mem From the East Are on the Program. VWevZe wittbe on Every Act Si J( "W then cc:.:es eva touay Alma Glnck and John McCor mack in Concerts. "Plain Clothes Man" Feature Play at Majestic. At the Grand. Feb. 27 Alma Gluck, soprano, RadclifTe aeries. March 6 John, McCormack. tenor, Parkhurst series. March 9 Alia Nazlmova in "Bella Donna." March 10 Eva Tanguay. March 11 The Newlyweda. March 14 Washburn play. March 28 The Candy Shop. March 28 Shepherd of the Hills. At the Majestic North Bros. In Myra Williams Jar rell's play, "The Plain Clothes Man." At the Novelty. Vaudeville and musical comedy. It the Orpheum. Vaudeville. After the Gluck concert, the Grand is booked to remain dark until next month, when John McCormack bright ens the gloom with his big Irish tenor. McCormack was scheduled to appear last season, but was delayed by the Dayton flood. His voice is well known to Topekans through phonograph rec- Mmm, Tempts amenta! Russian Actress, Who Orand March In "Belle Donna." orda. He is one of the moat popular tenors in the country, and sings at the opera house March 5. Charles Frohman la to present Madame Nazlmova in her latest suc cess, "Bella Donna," which has been adapted from Robert Hlchens' novel by James Bernard Fagan. The play wright Is said to have done exceeding ly well with his dramatization and as the play has scored an unqualified hit both In England end this country. It would seem that "Bella Donna" is not a play of yesterday or today, but one that will stand the test of years. There will always be "Ruby Chep stows." When the character is por trayed by an artiste as clever and re sourceful as Madame Nazimova added Interest is given. Charles Frohman has made an elaborate production for "Bella Donna." The scenery fills to the full what the most captious could dream of Egypt and the Nile, in which region three of the acta are placed. The deck of the dahabeeyah, Uoulla," with the two sphinxes rising from the Nile is one of the most ar tistic pictures. The company to be seen in the support of Nazlmova is made up of members of Charles Froh man's English and American forces. Charles Bryant plays Doctor Isaacson. Nazlmova in "Bella Donna" comes to the Grand on March 9. Eva Tanguay of "I Don't Care" fame comes to the Grand the day aft er Nazimova's appearance comes with a company of fun-makers, a lot of new songs, and a trunkful of cos tumes. She spent last week In Chi cago, and made her usual hit with pa trons of the lake city's big theaters. anev!eve Russell, leading woman with the Majestic Stock company, de- of "The Plain ciotnes Man. Mrs. Myra Williams Jarrell's play, to K nresented next week: "It is a good bill. The play that Mrs. Fiske made famous, Leah Kreschna, deals wltn the same class of people, and is not as good." "There is nothing amateurish about the play, except the copying of the script," asserted Lyman White, the iatin man. "I haven't as much to do as I might' have wished, but h.f. nnt the fault of the play." MlUiara. wno ohm um roio .vi The Five Salt Sea Sailors Joe Graham, the crook, says it Is the best and strongest part he has played this season. "I'm crazy about my part." chirped Miss McNutt; "it's exactly the kind of work I enjoy." Neal Anderson grins cheerfully. "I chose my part."- he announced. "No. I wished it on you," laughed Mrs. Jarrell. Rose Winchester and Mrs. White are both pleased. Mr. Stutzman, staage director, who plays the part of Max. is ironing out the difficulties that mar a smooth performance, and considers the bill "fine." Rehearsals are progressing. and a record breaking week is predicted. Appears at the Mrs. Jarrell attended the dress re hearsal this afternoon, and expressed her pleasure at the actors' interpreta tion of her lines. A show of sterling quality is as sured Novelty patrons by the manage ment. The first act to be presented for the vaudeville on Monday, Tues day and Wednesday will be the Trav iolas, a clever man and woman Europ ean Juggling stunt. Leo Beers, has a unique and amus ing act Mr. Beers is known in the big play houses of two continents as a great entertainer. As his assistants he uses a piano, popular airs and a good line of talk.. The Mimic Four without any at tempt at a plot, but with a full intent merely to amuse, will present a lot of airy nothingness Just to make people laugh. They offer a delightful com edy specialty entitled. "The Day After." The Dohertys are billed to present a comedy singing, dancine and talk ing act. They have the latest material in their offering and will not be a bit stale to the regular vaudeville fans. Perhaps the funniest of acrobatic novelties to be offered this season In Topeka will be the "Rose Troop," pre senting rne .Rising Generation." There is a lot of knockabout stuff, and their finale is said to be a scream. They present an army of stars, headed oy a three-root midget, with the fifteen-foot drummer bringing up the rear This farce band consists of eight musicians, all in uniform, and usually the audiences roar with laughter. For the last half of the week a tab loid which comes highly recommend ed to the management will be offered in "Going Up." At the Orpheum. Starting with the Monday matinee, the Orpheum will offer a well bal anced and high class bill of vaudeville throughout the entire five acta. The offerings for the first three days are as rouows: rne Merry Love Trio are three musical comedy favorites, two girls and one man, who have won their audiences wherever they have been seen. They use their own scenery. Martin Valeries have a singing, talking and dancing act that is lively, catchy and entertaining. The Georgia Miller company, one man and two girls, number among them a prima iSV Who Furnish Musical Act This Week at the Orpheum. donna of real ability, and are Instru mentalists of the first order. Sterling, Rose Sterling have a sensational gymnastic stunt with good humor throughout. Miss Nancy Neville, in a pianologue, introduces a unique musi cal feature. A new movie reel and the Orpheum orchestra complete the bill. Manager Nathanson of the Orpheum puts his personal guarantee upon the quality of his theater's offering in this bill. Through a better booking ar rangement, he is now able to offer bills direct from the big Hippodrome circuit, and while the Orpheum un der his management has been secur ing good bills, he has been anxious to improve his offerings In every way possible. WOMAN A CAPTAIN Commands a Vessel Plying Be tween Russia and England. Is About to Be Transferred to American Service. Copenhagen. Feb. 21. Promotion to a steamer in the American service has been promised to Mrs. von Bauditz, Denmark's only woman sea captain who is now commanding a vessel run ning between Russia and England. Mrs. von Bauditz, who is the wife of a physician, was for a long time inter ested in yachting as a sport and after passing an examination for a master's license she took up the sea as a profes sion. So adept did she prove herself that a local shipping company soon gave her command of one of Its largest steamers. Captain von Bauditz wears a ratty uniform with square cut coat and skirt of the same material. She is the first female captain in Denmark and claims to be the only real feminine master mariner in the world. Several American teachers are here, studying the old Danish folk dances with the idea of substituting them for gymnastics in girls' schools In Amer ica. In this city a big society has been formed for the. preservation and pro motion of Danish national dances. The movement was so widespread that it attracted the attention of Americans visiting here and resulted in the visit of the American teachers, who express themselves as delighted with the quaint dances. The teachers complain that gymnastics become very tiresome and boring to girls, and they believe that the dances will confer all of the bene fits of the gymnastics and at the same be a great source of pleasure to the students. Anton Rosen, a local architect, has finished plans for the building which will be erected at the San Francisco ex position from a fund collected by Dan ish Americans. The building will be modeled on the famous castle of Ham let's town, Elsinore, and, like its his torical prototype, will be situated on the sea. The house will not be used to house exhibits, which will be placed in another structure erected by the Dan ish government, but will be used as a headquarters for Danish Americans and their friends visiting the exposition. The structure will contain a big recital hall, reception rooms and offices. For the official Danish exhibition a splendid site has been procured and it is planned to make the exhibit small but typical of the very best of Danish art and in dustry. Dr. Carl Jacobsen, Denmark's ereat art patron. Just before his death con fided to a friend that he intended to create a Danish Versailles, and the publication of the plan has led to the determination to carry out his ideas as a memorial or nis services to the na tion. The large sum to make the plan a success will be available from the Carlsberg fund, which was instituted by Jacobsen and to which he donated M Girl r IL if f many millions for the encouragement and promotion of art in Denmark. The Versailles, as planned by Dr. Jacobsen. will be erected in FTederiks borg, where the beautiful castle of that name with its extensive gallery of art and national historical treasures is al ready located. In connection with the castle all of the skill of the landscape artist and sculptor will be called upon to create a Versailles Park. An English company Is planning to harness Dettifoss, one of the t largest waterfalls in Iceland, with the plan of turning its estimated 410.000 horse pow er into an agency to extract fertilizer from the atmosphere. The engineers estimate that the falls will develop more power than the works at Hardangerford and Odda In Norway. The enelneera sav th.v will have no difficulty in producing calcare ous sanpeter lertiuzer from the air. The 'electric power will be transmitted to a nearby port, where splendid ship ping facilities exist, and where factories for the production of the fertilizer will be built. MENU FOR MONDAY. BT MRS. FLORENCE RAT. Practical "low cost of living" menu, by the consistent use of "left-overs," all waste is eliminated. Breakfast. Baked Apples Poached Eggs in Milk Waffles Coffee Luncheon. Re-Heated Baked Beans Toast Pickles Stewed Prunes Tea Dinner. Cream of Carrot Soup Re-Heated Roast Turkey Southern Sweet Potatoes Creamed Turnips N Cabbage Salad Peach Whip BREAKFAST Poached eggs in milk Place in a frying pan a cup and a half of milk. When boiling add the re quired number of eggs and boil one minute or until the yolks are sei. Have ready thin slices of toast, place an egg on each piece and pour over the hot milk. LUNCHEON Reheated beans place in a pan with a tablespoon of chili sauce, a little dry mustard, and a tea spoon of vinegar. Let the beans boil up once and serve at once. DINNER Cream of carrot soup Boil enough carrots to make three cups and mash until free from lumps. Add two cupa of milk, a quarter of a cup of water, a tablespoon each of butter and flour, and the seasoning. Boil un til thick. Southern sweet potatoes Pare the potatoes and cut in strips. Place a layer In a baking dish, sprinkle with two teaspoons each of butter, and brown sugar, a little salt and cinnamon. Continue until the dish Is full. 'Cover and bake in two hours in a slow oven. Baste often with the butter and sugar. Creamed turnips Pare the turnips and cut in dice. Boil until tender, drain, add milk to cover, and a table spoon of flour that has been blended with the same of butter. Boil one minute and add a teaspoon of minced parsley. Peach whip Drain half a can of peaches and mash with a quarter of a cup of powdered sugar. Whip a cup of cream as stiff as possible, add the peach pulp and a teaspoon of sherry. Serve cold in small glasses. Snake a Weather Prophet. Pawnee Rock, Kan., Feb. 21. That the winter is mild in this section and will so remain is the belief of local weather prophets since Ed Deckert, a farmer living near here, found and killed a snake during a recent rabbit hunt. Deckert says the snake was as lively as in summer Borrow money on your city proper ty. The Prudential Trust Co. Adv. A M

'Masses Tab" Half CmlSE ti:e fee fc:d lgj It Is Bumored That Test Case Will Be Made. Retailers Not Against Legisla tion Say Law Is Bad. 'The pure shoe law will be given a "black eye" by some of the most prominent shoe men of the country next Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day, in Representative hall, on the oc casion of the convention of the Kansas Shoe Retailers' association the big gest meeting of the kind ever held in Kansas. The shoe men say they are not op posed to shoe legislation; in fact, they hold that It Is a good thing. But they feel that the new law that will be ef fective April 1, and which prohibits the sale of shoes that are not manu factured entirely of leather. Is incon sistent. It does not stipulate relative to the quality of leather that shall be used in the shoes, and the shoe men claim that good substitute leather is far better than inferior leather. w v.. Rrelsford. oresldent of the organization, said today: "Instead of preventing the use of substitute leath er laws should be made with a view to encouraging the perfection of substi tutes that would enable the manufac turers to keep down tne price ox anoea. Statistics show that the leather supply of the United States has decreased nineteen and a fraction per cent in the last three or four years. The shoe dealer is Just a distributer. He will make his profit no matter what kind of shoes are sold. If good shoes are wanted at a medium price, substitute leather is preferable to cheap leath." No Benefit to Consumer. A. M. Leach, a member of the local committee on arrangements and a prominent shoe man, said today. I don't think the pure shoe law will benefit the consumers at all. Some of the cheapest shoes made are all leather. -All the reliable dealers sell shoes on their merits." W A. Ayers of Wichita, attorney for the association, will be present at the meeting and will have something to say relative to the law. It is rumored that a test case will be filed soon after April 1 Invitations have been sent to 8,700 retail shoe men of the state to be pres ent at the meeting. The majority of Kansas citizens do not realize that there are that many dealers In foot wear In the state. It Is impossible to estimate accurately what the attend ance will be as the organisation is a new one, but the officials confidently expect that there will be several hun dred persons here in the course of the three day meeting. Among the speakers will be A. C. Mc Gowan. president National Shoe Re tailers' association; B. W. Campbell of Chicago, secretary National Shoe Wholesalers' association, and James H. Stone of Boston, editor Shoe Retailer. The Convention Program. The convention will be convened at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Dr. F. L. Loveland has been asked to pro nounce the invocation. An address of welcome will be given by George H. Hodges, governor of Kansas, in behalf of the state. R. L. Cofran, mayor of Topeka. will represent the capital city. The response will be made by Schuyler Jones of Wichita, vice president Kan sas Shoe Retailers' association. W. E. Brelsford of Topeka, the president, will speak on "Our Aim." Subsequent to the reading of the miri utes of the previous meeting by O. Morgan, this gentleman will have some thing to say of "What Has Been Done." Otto A. Fischer of Lawrence, treasurer of the association, will then make his report. A. A. Ayers, of Wichita, will speak on "What Shall We Do With the 'Pure Shoe Lawr John A. Bush, of the Brown Shoe company of St. Louis, will speak on "Leather." R. A. Wilson, manager of the Merchant Under writers' company, will have something to say about "Inter-Insurance." W. H. Hutchins, of Chicago, representative of the Scholl Manufacturing company, will speak on "Don't Let If Block You." Of Interest to Retailers. Thursday Arthur L. Evans, of Bos ton, editor of The Shoeman, will give an address entitled, "What s the Mat ter with the Shoe Trade?" Otto Fischer, of Lawrence, will discuss the subject, "System." W. H. Griffith of St. Jos eph. Mo., will speak on "Findings.' Harry Vinsonhaler. of St. Louis, will give "The Style Forecast for 1914." W. C. Root, of Winfleld, will speak on "What Can be Done to Assist Shoe Merchants in Small Towns?" M. Muehl berger, of Wellington, will tell "How an Exclusive Shoe Store Can Succeed in a Small Town." "Store Fronts that Pay Profits" is the subject which W. S. -4. VS t 14: of ads Week at the Kovesty. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY LAUGH ftf WITH US Ve The Traviolas 2 European Comedy Jugglers Alumac Fear 4 In m lot of Airy Nothingness. Just to make people langh. A headline feature, The Day After." LE WeH known in the big theaters of two continents as BEERS the greatest cf entertainers Some boy on the piano Taesae ft 7 People ft BIG I The Rose J Festare Troupe Coming THE TAB I fftmf I ID I ANOTHER Thursday SHOW I IwlPllj UjT t SUNSSAN A Topeka Play 66' THE I PLAIN CLOTHES MAN" By MYRA WILLIAM JARRELL of Topeka, Kansas I By a Topeka Woman p GRAND OPERA HOUSE Friday Afternoon, Feb, 27th, at 4cOO ALMA GLUCEC MOST POPULAR AMERICAN SOPRANO RADCLIFFE CONCERT SERIES Seat Sale Roehr's Music Store, beginning Wednesday, Feb. 25 Prices; $2.50. $2-00, $1.50, $1.00, 75c and 50c Mail Orders with check, and self -addressed envelope will receive prompt attention. MYRTLE RADCLIFFE, Haaigcr. Phone 2S87 White 804 Use Street EMPRESS B IG SPECIAL JUS, MOVIE I 5 Bid PARTS 5 "linbtn" presents the Photoplay Masterpiece of the Hudson The ater, Xcw York, Success THE THIRD DEGREE Chas. Klein Magnificently produced by a ncll known cast of players. Children, 5 Cents French of Nlles, Mich., will discuss. Marco Morrow, of the Capper Publica tions, will have something to say about "Advertising." Friday will be devoted largely to the transaction of business and the discus sion of various subjects of interest to the shoe men. Banquet Thursday Night. A banquet will be eriven for the visi tors Thursday night at the Mills Tea room. O. M. Babcock will preside. The Washburn Male quartette will sing sev 1 4" -V Topeka Steam Boiler Worl to JOSEPH DXIOMICH, Prop. 113-12 Jefferson Street. Topeka. Kan. Bavs on band at all timer full line of black and galvanize I e, steam and water pipe, pie zntlngs. steam and gas valves, steam h. packing oil cups, glasses, etc. Pipe cut and threaded to your order Oar prices ar right. Work dene while ror wait. CALL DausSiertys a A pair of Nonsense Dealers, with a clev er bit of singing dancimr talking. Insometh f f 15 SS In something new and ludkrously see the rising generation, ail the way from -3 feet to in height -laugh Yes! I MAJESTIC STARTING K0NDAY NIGHT USUAL HATS. l lOcand 2Sc Continuous, 1 to 11 p. m. 10 CENTS ONLY eral selections and Miss Ceora Lan ham will entertain the guests with read ings. Talks will be made by the fol lowing shoe men and others: A. C. McGowin, president National Shoe Re tailers' association; Roy E. Tillies, St. Louis; Jay House, Topeka; James H. Stone, editor of The Shoe Retailer; R. O. Green, Fort Dodge, la.; H. Vinson--haler, St. Louis; Schuyler Jones, vice president Kansas Retailers' associa tion; Mrs. C. E. Quigly, Kansas City, Mo.; J. M. Robinson, Kansas City. Mo. Aim SEE VSj Ben Phone At.

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4 tJBCiua Go::i;:s. AT EE DYES. A 1 I Famous Irish Tenor Will Sing Here at Grand March 5. R-E-A-L V-A-U-P-E-V-I-L-Ijb: f Spcml NatiMW Monday, Tuesday I Special lateen 3 P. M, 10c 1 and Wednesday 3 P. tJL, 10c trim Tt4-t:IS. Offic O UJt D,. IwnEity Murray, Love Co. Musical Comedy "Some Tab Show" Entertainers Special Scenery noma- I steru::g I koy ROSE SEVILLE MERIE STERLING roFbUE Singing a M j GrI Talking So Ivory Dancing Sensational Tickling by a I Comedy Charming Utile I Classy Comedians Gymnasts Miss. I Miss Cleora Miller Trio The Prima Dona and Instrumentalists in Songs, Stories and Music They sing a little, talk a Utile, play a little, dance a little ind on- the whole do a mighty fine act," The Morning Tele graph, New York. TONIGHT the last chance to hear THE FIVE MUSICAL MARINES and sec. Felsman Arthur, the Premier Tricksters I lANP THREE OTHER GOOD ONESoan All people and especially American citizens of Irish birth, and there are millions of them, are clamoring to hear the silver voiced tenor, John McCor mack. The debut of this peerless sing j er was one of the golden chapters of the Manhattan Opera company, which Oscar Hammersteln organized and con ducted in New York for four years. It takes from five to ten years for the majority of opera singers to win fame; McCormack became famous over night. His first appearance proved a great triumph and the whole country, that is the part Interested in music, expressed a wish to hear this young Hibernian with the voice euave honey like tones. McCormack was trained for opera in Italy and today he sings the Italian arias with the perfection of bel canto and something more, since he infuses his singing with a soulful quality that is rarely found In the theatric Latin The Crystal. The headline attraction at this house for Monday and Tuesday. 1 a dramatization of the old English emotional novel,, "Jane Byre)" featur ing the dainty Ethei Grandon and Irving Cummlngs;- 5Mab -Who Slept," a tale of the sea,. with beau tiful natural shore. and aea settings; and the Powers comedy. "Almost a White Hope," are also on the bill. For Wednesday, .and: Thursday this house offers the feature, "The Law of His Kind.' in two reels, featuring the old Sells favorite; Herbert Raw linson; "Fires of Conscience." featur ing Wallace Reid and Dorothy Daven port, and "Slim to the Rescue,' a frontier comedy, complete this pro gram.' For Friday and Saturday, the Gold Seal special feature, "Captain Jenny, 8. A.," .a strong three-reel drama, is the feature attraction, with the "Box Couch," with King Baggott an d Ethel Grandon to complete this bill. The attractions at this house as v 'nnMI OF r a KANSAS AVINUI COMING MONDAY TUESDAY Most Stupendous, Sublime Spectacle Ever Filmed A Cinematograph Triumph, recording throughout perpetuity the glories of French, English and German armies at history's great est struggle. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO Kt..-aced on the spot where a century ago waged that fateful contest that changed the map of the world. 8000 MEN 500 CANNON 6000 HORSES Historically Correct in Detail A colossal undertaking consumated In a reverential spirit worthy of so sublime a subject. Continuous 1 1 A. M. to 11 P. M. I 1 1 5f'ii7 i I r Hi tat ,'fs V v.' 1 i. a si-K y aJ$k. H HANQ ODAY FIGUI3 IE3 TEAII AIIONG PCNNAtf C0HTZ:iDrJ i f 1 I- s j lyin. Left to right:' Scbnlte. VDay, Sweeney ad Archer. Hank. OTJay, the new manager of the Chicago Cubs, figures hie team among the pennant contenders this Tear. He has announced that Heinle Zimmerman will succeed Johnny Evers as second baseman, and that Art Phelon will play at first. He still hopes to get Second Baseman Sweeney and Pitcher Perdue from-Boston. Other old standbys who will play an important part in Cab affairs this season are Outfielder Frank Schulte and Catcher Archer. McCormack, the Tenor, Who Became Famous In a Night. WIS THEATER "The Vicar of Wakefield" and Wifey'a Birthday Present" A Kinemecolor Comedy Several loyal patrons have writ en the Iris asking that David Cop perfield. Caprice, Leah Kleshna and In the Bishop's Carrigae be re booked. Being anxious to please our patrons we shall undertake to comply a little later. We have been besieged by 'phone and by letter to book something sensational, and in response to several special re quests to secure the Kinemacolor extravaganze, we have done so. While we hesitate to bill a subject even bordering on sensationalism, we yield to the demand, and Monday and Tuesday will pre sent this much vaunted pictorial melodrama, with its moral lesson never to be forgotten. It is referred to by critics as a "thriller with double-action, six cylinder, compound adgita tors," which set New York crazy when shown in that city. It is in four parts, with Kinemacolor at its best, and the Iris hopes that its exhibition will entertain and satisfy the most exacting in the matter of unusual and extraordinary sensa tionalism. It was run seven weeks in the New York Kine macolor house, and at regular intervals riot calls for the po lice to stem the crush for admittance to the Theatre were the daily routine. It will be some show, believe us! singers. The Irish-American simply claim John McCormack for their own and no concert artist of the present day sells out a house so rapidly, and nowhere does one find audiences more demon strative than those turning out to hear him. McCormack Is destined to make a million with that precious voice of his, and he will do it before he is 40 years old. He fills a Parkhurst concert engage ment at Topeka March ft. fllE. GLUCK CONCERT She Is Grand Opera Singer American Through and Through. There is an old saying that there is an exception to every rule it has been proved again. Miss Gluck of the Metropolitan opera company is a most notable exception to the rule that is supposed to bind all grand opera singers. Why? .si"" Prima Donna. SANTA FE MAN'S SON. The Railroad Magazine Praises His Show, House. The last issue of the Santa Fe Magazine has the following about a Topeka man and his enterprise: rne iris theater now is under the management of Grady Montgomery, 'on of the Santa Fe general watch in spector. The Iris is one of the best hunt 10-cent theaters west of Chicago, being well ventilated and -absolutely fireproof no chance for a holocaust there. Contracts have been made lth the leading moving picture con cerns which will insure the production Jn Topeka of the finest and most cost ly films ever produced. The Iris ap peals particularly to the intelligent class of our clUzens with interesting and instructive films, enacted by the finest actors In the business. Kinema color is an exclusive feature of the Iris, as is also the production, of the All Star films. That the people of To peka have been educated up to the high standard of productions present ed st the Iris la .evidenced by -the growing popularity of this theater, and we predict nothing short of a phe nomenal success for it." Reserve This Date. February twenty-fourth. First Con gregational church. Concert Quartet. Adv. Reserve This Date. February twenty-fourth. First Con gregational church. Concert Quartet. AAr. j i Madame Gluck has no foreign ac cent, natural or acquired. She believes that foreign training, is not necessary as a requisite to becoming a great singer. .And Miss Gluck has none of that quienly condescension,- that haughtiness which It. is accepted gen erally are the attributes and the heaven-born rights of a superior artistic temperament in short she is typical American, with the American friend liness of a happy enthusiasm girlish ness of the- ordinary American girl whom honors cannot spoil.. A visitor who knocked at Miss Gluck's door on tour recently a re porter was a little bit nervous. This approaching one of the greatest- of songsters,-commanding one of the highest fees of the world of singers, is not an easy task to contemplate. The answer to the knock brought a surprise. It was an invitation' to en ter, in a sweet girlish voice without a trace of condescension. And the visitors was greeted by an enthusiasti cally strikingly girlish -young -woman with beauty and magnetism, and -the most experienced would find it hard to realise that he had Intruded upon a grand opera singer." She sings here at the Grand Feb. 27th at 4 p. m. as a Radcliffe Concert attraction. will be seen are very strong for the coming week. The Gem. For Monday and Tuesday, Florence Lawrence appears In a two-reel fea ture, "The Law's Decree." Edwin August is starred in a powerful drama, "Withered Hands." The program will be completed by a comedy, ''His Roy al Pants." For the midweek bill, a strong two-part western drama, "Cross of the Cacti," will be featured. This is said to be a strong picture, it will be followed by "Flash in the Dark," a one-reel drama featuring Wallace Reid and Dorothy Daven port. To round out the program, "KUxer of Love," a comedy, will be presented. For Friday and Saturday, "Her Father's Quiet," a two-reel Bi son film, will be featured. "An Old Locker," with Lois Weber, and a comedy, "Tender Hearted Sheriff," will finish the biU for the week. Big War Feature at Cosy. "The Battle of Waterloo" will be presented at the Cozy theater Monday and Tuesday. This is said to be a massive production, reproduced by the British and Colonial company. The picture Is taken at Waterloo, Bel gium, and has been presented all over Europe. Eight thousand men take part, the leads, Napoleon, Wellington, Nev and others being taken by fin ished European actors. Taken right on the field of the battle and planned for months before, the picture is a finished production. It shows the last charge of the Old Guard, Napoleon's flight after the battle, hand to hand struggles between the English and the French, the approach of Wellington's allies and depicts graphically all of the details of the battle that "changed the face of the earth." The Empress. "The Third Degree will be present ed for the last time today. This play, taken from the drama by the same name, is one of the most powerful pic tures ever shown at the theater. It is the story of a man, unjustly ac-el cused of murder, who confesses by means of the "third degree.'- The work of a great lawyer in working lp the case for the defendant is ex client. The acting- of the principals n the film Is finished.- This is a trong plea-against -the, "third degree" methods of police departments used still in some cities. For next week the. Empress has booked strong; pro grams. The Mfc "The Vicar of Wakefield." a 'four part drama, is the feature film at the Iris Friday and today. This is one of the most Interesting films shown for4 some time. It is complete in every detail as portrayed -by Goldsmith In his famous novel by the same name. The play portrays the romance-, of Olivia, the -vicar's daughter, with Richard Thornhill and th subsequent desertion after: what he believes to be faker marriage.. An accomplice of Thornhill, who becomes enraged at the former, produces evidence of the validity of the wedding,; thus saving the girl's character. v 5 "My i Wife's Birthday Present" a comedy In Kinemacolor in one reel, completes the program. The Kinemacolor program for- Mon day and Tuesday of next week is the strongest that ever has been shown ra Topeka. The management of the pop ular movie house has succeeded in getting the celebrated film "Sin." This is the first really big Kinemacolor feature to be shown here which por trays the great; stage successes, This Sun enjoyed a continuous run for sational and It -is believed that it wiu prove to be one of the most popular programs ever shown at the Iris. "Over the Niagara Falls" will be the attraction Wednesday and Thurs day of next week and Laura Sawyer In "The Daughter of the Hills" wiU be shown Friday and Saturday. The film, "Daughter of the Hills," has been produced by the same company which produced the Mary Plckford film, which created so much com ment a few weeks ago. 1 The Best. For Monday and Tuesday, the Best will present "A Romance of the Sea," a Broncho picture in two parts. This will be followed by a Keystone com edy, "A Robust Romeo," and a fourth reel. "The Arrow Maker's Daughter, a two-reel Indian picture, will be the feature for Wednesday and Thursday. "Fate's Decree," a Majestic drama. will also be on the program. For Friday and Saturday, the big feature of the week will be presented by the Thanhauser company. "The Dancer," in two parts, Is the headliner. Fol lowing this will be "Pat Flannigan's Family." a Reliance in one reel. A fourth reel will also be shown. OAKLAND nOTES. The ladies of the Oakland Presby terian church are planning for a sup per and entertainment Tuesday even ing, February 24, at the church. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Kelsey and sons, Chester and Scott, Jr., will be guests Sunday of Mrs. Kelsey s sister, Mrs. F. W. Watson, and family. I J. G. Huey of Chester avenue will return today from St. Marys and Wa mego, where he has been the past few i days. Mrs. Minnie Pugh has returned from Rock Creek, where she visited Mrs. Grant Baxter and Mr. Baxter. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Groves and little daughter Ruth, recently from Call- Winfield avenue. Mrs. M. T. Kelsey entertained the following members of the Priscilla Embroidery club Friday afternoon at her home on Arter avenue: Mrs. Reese VanSant,' Mrs. L. Brisco, Mrs. Nannie Miller, Mrs. Henry Shuler. Mrs. Oscar Neal, Mrs. W. F. Amos, Mrs. Freeman Bell, Mrs. George Steen, Mrs. Charles Suit, Mrs. W. G. Shaw,. Mrs. Frank Jordan, Mrs. Howard A. Oli phant, Mrs. W. F. Shaw, Mrs.. A. E. Finnie. Mrs. C. A. Christensen, Mrs. E. S. Ash, Mra Will Swearengen .and Mrs. Kelsey. Guests of the club were Mrs. Minnie Pugh, Mrs. A. R. Wil liams, Mrs. Jasper Cole. A two course luncheon carried out in the George Washington colors was served. The club will have a line party next Wed nesday afternoon at the Majestic for Mrs. C. A. Christensen who. leaves soon for Long Beach, CaL, to make her home. R. M. Williams, who has been visit ing relatives and friends here the past two weeks, has gone to Denver to at tend to some -business before going to Omaha to remain permanently. j The S. O. D. H. Embroidery, -club which was to have met last wednes day night postponed the meeting for one week on account of the inclement weather. The meeting will be held next Wednesday with Miss Alice Linn on Scotland avenue. Scott Kelsey, sr.. Reese VanSant and M T. Kelsey went to Kansas City Fri day to attend the automobile show. Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Copeland of East Belmont avenue, who are spending the winter in the south, are now at St Petersburg, Florida. They will -return about March l Mrs. J. C. Cole entertained at dinner last Sunday the following little friends in celebration of her son Estal's birth day anniversary: Master Chester Kel sey, Master Charles Crowe,- Miss Mary Jessop, Master Wayne jessop and Master William jessop. The members of the Oakland For estry club will give a social evening; next Thursday, February 26, at the W. A. Oliver' home on Arter avenue. The ladies of the Oakland Christian church will give an oyster supper Tuesday evening at the church. Mrs.- Henry Smith of Spring Borough, Pa., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Flora Baldwin. Mrs. Smith ex pects to remain several months and may locate here. Comrade. L. F. Bradley entertained the Oakland Veteran club and a few additional guests Friday evening at the home of his daughter. Mrs. George Denham, 398 Forest avenue. In cele bration of his birthday anniversary. The evening was spent in singing pat riotic songs and a, general good time was enjoyed. Those- present: Com rade and Mrs. H. V. Woodworth. Comrade: and Mrs. George Ralstln. Comrade and Mrs. Thomas Busby, Comrade 'and Mrs. B. P. Williams, Comrade and Mra J, N. Graft, Com radeistad Mrs. Charles McCarty, Com rade and Mrs. Thomas Potter, Com rade and Mrs. John Reaugh, Comrade and Mrs. J. W. Harris, Comrade and Mrs. .C. -W. Banks, Comrade and Mra Bradley, ."Comrade H. H. Lonthan of Leavenworth, Comrade W. Warbrit ton of Garnett,: Comrade D. R. Ward, Comrade Scott Kelsey, Comrade G. Bomgardner,-Rev. I. H. Fuller, Mrs. Minnie Doletrom, Mrs. C. C. Vandeven ter, Mra Werst. -Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Peters, Mra C. J. Anderson of Meti den. Mr. and Mra Charles Bradley of Topeka, Mr..-and-Mrs. Denham, Miss Audrey .Anderson, Misses Grace, Olive and. Bessie Read, Miss Mildred Brad ley, Misses Marguerite and Evelyn Bowers, Miss Bernice and Dessa Den ham, Masters Lloyd and. Bradley Den ham. A number of short talks were given" d urine the evening. Mr. Brad ley was born in Medina, Ohio, Feb ruary 20. 1844, and served in the Twelfth Indiana infantry. Mra J. O.- Massey has sold her nrooerty at 314 Green street to Mr. 1 Carl Hedatrom of Topeka. UNCLE SAM IS GETTING READY TO FORTIFY THE PANAMA CANAL mmMm Tsfv ssrssjpsisst sf srtnisry saca at Corezal; bottosm, sew ef the 13-tsck dlBssaseriag- gwaa ts k ssjatsJ si the eatraaee af tlM Pssiat caaal. protestations ef eertsm peace advocates, uncle Sam Is fast preparing to form tts Pansansi Despite the ArtiUery rtsia nesce advocates, uncle Sam Is fast preparing to form tts porarfly encamped at Corosal, Panama, until the big guns souch are ts to as part ex vcm saraaeaaoas ot cm wucrviA

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ADVERTISE IN THZ CUGLE cc.rr a k Pay up ytjurjsack H 1 to U me avast? Do awe wmm i to Mr aaayntoBr inan mi a Advei Using rates fars4seea wits great cbssr. Strcalaiklon books open to nobody. YOULL HAFT TO TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT Bone a cans ii a wn-rc wa,.i pail We Cssrt K. K-: b I lot A2r mm CoiJ I iLy 1L A.J VUJ V ii 1LJ 1LJ U-d ILL VL MJJ ILJ Ld f aa.a i m a I i I. -,1 ltEIIJ 77 V UPiFi r, I 1 LWLiV. il VY f TOSJfc V A THE BLNGY1LLE BDGLi Tho I aadrng Papar of Ilia County Bright. Bra v. BalKcoaa, gutling How tath ba bar Htfle tat Imprare ttd aslalnc boar B ratberlsc boner all tka q coantr. f aa bdlara la coaM aad aae aa. For further lafonaal rail on or artrtrM the dltor. la tka Choked Tfczt's Xkxt K:;;:s. to Stiis Petershy Csriss Ct:rc!i Ser viscs!Scii5 Still JUive ti Tell t.s Ttlt! EDDYTORIUL PARRYGRAFTS Being as we be behindhand with getting out this ishue of the Bugle also owink to the fackt that we've bean so all rammed up with one thing another follering each other in quick succeshion, as you might say, we ain't had time to give our undivided attenshion to think ing up a appropriate subjeckt for a eddytoriul whitch as a result here it is almost time to go to press and we ain't thort up no subjeckt, and for this reason instid of dashing off a reglar eddytoriul on some deep subjeckt for this wks. Boogie, sup pose for a change we offer for the eddyhcashion of our subscribers what we might call a few Eddytor iul Parrygrafts on various sub jeckts, viz., to-wit, as f oilers A bird in the hand is wuth half a dozzen of em loose in a 10-acre lot. It's a, long lane that ain't got a pr. of bars at one end or t other of it. The mill will newer grind after the crick has went dry. You never miss the worter in the well perviding you happen to have a bar! of hard cider on hands. A rolling stone don't gather no moss, but it lives a fast life while it keeps movin. Every doe has his day, but we persoom the nights is reserved for the cats. A watched pot newer biles, but you dassent turn your head or it will bile over. Where there's a will there is gen erally more or less dissatisfackshion amongst the relertives. A new broom sweeps dean, but it soon wears out. Drusilla Went Has Miss Drusilla Ornuby, of Haxdscrab- ble, was the gest of her sister, Mrs. Lem Brown, of this town several days of last wk. would of stayed longer if she haddent went home so suddint. It seems that Mrs. Lem happend to go oat into the kitchen suddint and there was Lem. her husband, braiding Drusilla' s hair for her talking in a gentle cooing voice to the girl when Mrs. B. thort Lem was out to the barn doing the chores instid. Lem's wife kicked up a turrible row and Drusilla went home mad. Lem says he diddent know it was sich a awful sin to braid his sisternlaw's hair for her. Person ally we dont blame Lem a bit Drusilla is handsomera all the rest oi her sisters pat together. Snide Petersby, one of our most re- speckted cittizens of BingvHle, had a turrible experients last Sabbath 'morn ing, the recolleckshion of whitch will forever remain green in his memrywe persoom, being as Snide for a few nun nits or less time perhaps,. was linger ing on the threshold of deth's door, as you might say. Last Satterday Snide's wife give him a turible dressin down cus he haddent been to church with her for nearly two months. She told Snide that he ort to be ashamed of hisself, and we calkilate that by the time she got through with hhn he was. As a result of what his wife said to him Snide made up his mind that he would go to church the follering morning or bust. As a rule Snide lays late Sabbath morning. Snide's wife called him at 8 o'clock, but he went to sleep agin and diddent git puten bed until she throwd a wash basin full of cold worter on him a hour later, whereupon Snide bounced right outen bed. Being as he had to start with his wife for the church at 10 he only had a hour to shave' his fase A dress and git breakfast, so he was obliged to hur ry like everything. Snide while shaving as quick as possible had the edge of the razor to nick the lower porshion of his left ear until it bled like everything. Snide says that he calkilates if the razor had been as sharp as ushual it would of took off his ear Snide diddent have time to snatch moren a bite of breakfast, but jest as he left the house he slipped three or four Baldwin aopels which was in a dishpan on the setting room table, where they had been ever sinst the night be fore, into his pockets, thinking that he would eat same on the sly during the sermon. When Sary Jane (that Snide's wife's name) and Snide reached the church Snide told Sary Jane that he guessed he'd take a seat over in the amen corner with the Deacons where it was more private so he done so and after Rev. Moore our beloved paster had got under wag with bis sermon Snide snuk one of the Balwins outen his pocket and begin to munch on it on the sly. Bye and bye Snide had et all of the appel ezsept the core and being as Snide is very economikal he alius eats the cores of his appels also so he tried to swaller the core of this Baldwin but the blamed core stuck right in his throat. Snide gulped and gulped a couple of times then he stood up in his seat with his eyes bugged out and begin to make a gurglia) noise like aa if he desired to say somethink important but couldn't He then begin to git black in the fase and seemed to be suffering much pain. Rev Moore stopped right in the mid dle of his sermon and the entire con gregashion cased at Snide in const erna shion. "What is the matter with' our beloved Brother Petersbyr" says Rev. Moore. "He has went and choked on a appel core!" says Deacon Butterworth who set next to Snide and had saw the whole performance. Soon as Rev. Moore learnt this he left the pulpit and hurried down to Snide who he begin- to hit in the back right betwixt the shoulder blades as hard as he could wallop. Rev Moore hit Snide the third time when all of a suddint the appel core whitch Snide had choked on flew outen his mouth and haff way acrost the church strid ing Granny Peebles on the ear and walking her up awful. suddint outen a sound sleep. Rev. Moore however diddent know that Snide had got relief and continued to pummel him in the back until finally Snide whirled round and hauled off with his fist and jest missed hitting our beloved paster a awful belt on the nose whitch he would of did if Rev Moore haddent dodged jest in tune. "Wot do. you mean by as salting 8t battering me like this?" hisses Snide to the pastor. "My dear brother,' says Rev. Moore, "I was under the hn preshion you was choking and I thumpd you to save your life i" "Well, I don't mind you saving my life for me," says Snide, "but after you have went and did that I don't tike to have you rub it in and continue to pound me jest to show your authorhty. If you think) .your a better man than 1 be jest step outside a minnit and weTl see about it. Rev. Moore told Snide he ought to be ashamed of hisself to show sich a mean spirrit as that after whitch he re- j turned to the pulpit 8c begin preaching where he left off. As for Snide he picked up his hat and snuk outen the church and went home. Snide's wife snuk out after him being as she was so mortifide with shame to have sich husband that she couldn't bear to stay and look the congregashion in the fase. We Snide got another dres sin down when she got home. Snide says that the first time hers been to church for several months and that he calkilates it will be longer than that be fore he goes agin. tatry Correspcndsnce HAPPY VALLEY Widow Jordan visitted her haff -sister a haff -day the haff of last wlo' Benj. Gibbs' wife took 4 doc eggs to market in Bingville last wk, disposing of same at Hen Weathersbys store ft bringing back groceries in exchange for same. Eggs is jest as good at money, aint they? Mary Ann Green has a turrible sore foot that makes her limp. It aint no i wonder her foot is sore she dropped a flat-iron on it, not on purpose but acc idental. Eph Poster had Ms store teeth to freeze up in a glass of water tother night It took Eph a considerable spell to thaw em out and as a result he couldn't eat breakfast until Mar'y C a. m. Snide Emmons, one of our most re speckted townsmen, says he wouldn't stop 2 cts. and subscribe for the Bugle, being as Lafe Hobbs, from who Snide has borried it for the past several yrs., has stopped takin it Postmaster Wilkins says he sold more stamps than ushual last Satterday. This is important if true. Uncalled for Letters RszJ Ttis List cf Mzil zt tfcs Einzvilfe P. 0.Prz?s Ycsr Year Nst Is Ksre! Sosslety Jottings Miss Matilda Jones give ja seleckt party to several friends,- both male and female, at her home tother evg. Au- I thors was played until almost 9 p. m., whereupon the invited gests hurriedly put on their wraps ft dispersed to .their various homes conschious of -a evg. spent very enjoyable. i Mrs. Cy Hoskins ain't took part on sossiety of late, being as she says she i ain't got nothink fit to wear in publick. This seems almost ridicklus in the ex- treme when her husband, Cy Hoskins, is regarded as the richest man in Bing vHle. Miss Amelia Tucker, Bingvflles raining sossiety queen ft leader of our lokal 400," as you might say, says that the Bingville soshial whirl ain't as bizzy ft seething as it was last season. Amelia says the for this is that several of BingviHe's aleet are on the sick list NOTISE This is to notify you farm ers that I have jest received a shipment of bone fertilizer at my general store. Now is the time to buy your spring fer tilizer before the pecooliar odor whitch "tr has drives all my trade away. Please come ft buy this fertilizer "often me price no objeckt HEN WEATHERS BY, Prop. Gcnl Store. (Advertise- Eph Higgins, our accommodating P. M., informs us that the follering let ters remains in the Bingville P. O. un called for ft that unless they be called for soon Eph will in his offishial capa citty as P M. open said letters ft read same and then burn em up in the stove: Marcus Rawlins, Shedrach Dobbs, Sarah Hawkins and Rufe SprowL By consulting the Bugle files we find that Shedrach Dobbs left Bingville very suddintly on the run about 13 yrs. ago when his wife happend to discuwer that she wassent the only wife Shedrach had ft aint been seen nor heerd from sinst. As for Mark Rawlins, we sposed that everybuddy round these parts knowd that Mark had passed on about 4 yrs. ago, ft Eph dont know where to forrerd letter to. Sarah Hawkins, who everybuddy thort was cut out for a old maid, up and married Felix St Pierre, a French man over to the co. seat nine yrs. ago ft has a large family ft can talk French real well. As for Rufe Sprowl. he moved to Sorrow Hollow last spring a yr. ago. Personal Mentctiion Eph Higgins, our accommodating P. M., reports that the back door of the P. O. still remanes froze up tightern a bung to sich a extent that it is impos sible to open same, and as a result he has to go out to the woodoile back of the P. O. via the front door, whitch makes it a awful long walk to lug wood. Eph says one of these days he'll git mad and bust that door to splinters. Lem Brown, our expert carpenter, says being as ifs too cold for outside nr1r h wihn to evKwlness he could I git enuff inside work to keep him bizzy SlCn as puiTing. scaxa in pcuiiico umiis for instants, repairing furniture, etc., too numerous to mentchion. We wish he could. Mrs. Amri Haines went ft give her kitchen stove a turrible bright polishing up last wk. until it jest shined like everythink. Mrs. Amri is a turrible tidy woman about the house. They say a person could eat often her kitchen floor. Hod Slocomb's wife went and made a mess of clam chowder for supper tother night from canned clams and she says that they tasted real hot- Hod et hearty of the chowder after it got cooled off suffishent for him to do so. He et about 4 qts., but he says the only thing he's got agin clam chowder is it don't stick to your ribs, and that by 9 p. m. he was so hungry agin that he had to ete a hole mince pie before he went to bed. Abe Thomas, our well-known stone mason, says he hopes he wont git a job of plastering this bitter cold wether when the plaster would freeze stiff afore a person could lay it on. If you shouldn't git your copy of the Bugle this wk. you will know it's be cause we diddent have enuff to go round ft gowern yourself according. v LISSEN TO THIS ADVERTISE IN THE BUGLE IT BRINGS RESULTS TRY IT ONCT1 the donor, Jerushy Perkins, bless her heart In our haste to begin on the pie we axidentally tipped over the contents of the paste pot onto the pie, whitch we scraped offen the pie as best we could before consuming same. The taste of the paste diddent take the edge offen our appetite any. Sio Went Horns Mad Sim Wilkins dropped into the Bugle offis one day last wk and ast us if we could let him have a few back copies of the Bugle whit was not too fur back, being as tl -is good things to start fires with o morning. When we told Sim we diddent have i Li t inuusnion on inai oasis, ne seema to ue a good eal surprised and he seemd to be a good eal surpriseder when we told him we knowd for a fackt that the sev eral copies of the Bugle whitch we had gave him a wk or so ago he had went j and sold for two cents per eoppy. per- tending to them he sold em to that they was last wks ishue, whereas they was Bugle coppies five yrs old. That's a nise thing, for Sim Wilkins to do, ain't it? We should think he would be ashamed to be saw in publirk after that Instid of being humbeld Sim got mad and went home saying he would do all in his power to injure the Bugle. Pr. of Boots Went Hen Smiley greased his boots tother day and placed em very keerful in the baker of the kitchen stove so as they would dry out quicker and then blamed if his wife didnt go and come along and bilt up a hot fire in the stove and even shet the baker, doors. When Hen went to look at his boots a cupple of hours later he found era almost cornsommed ft shriweld up to nothing as you might say, and the lang widge he used was sich that Mrs. Smi ley was afeard that the nabers might hear it and begged Hen not to talk so loud. Hen says he paid $4 in cash at Hen Weathersby's store for them boots and now they're a total loss ft no insurance. Don1 1 Forgit! I That we do' all kinds of job work at 'the Bugle offis with great art is i tickneaa by skilled workmen oth j ers in a workmanship manner. Why I is it you forgit this? Why is it that J we haft to keep reminding you of this fackt every little while? W get turrible sick of it we per soom you do too. If you need anythink in the job work line call on us when we are not bizzy and we will see about K. Letter-heads, bill-heads, cards, sail-bills, dodger everythiiik like that struck off Tfcsnks Jercshy When we reached our offis from down town tother day tired ft weary after a scrimmage for news items we sighted thankfully when we found on our desk a mince pie and a note from When you come to this offis to git some, job work did, why jest subscribe for the Bugle also and thus kill 2 birds with one stone, as we might say. SPESHIAL NOTISE If you happen to already be a reglar sub scriber to the Bugle when you ar rive at this offis, why pay up tiko a man or a woman either, as the case may be. Bugle Offis Job Works. Main SL, Ciacville. A

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fH3 TOFZZA. DAILY CTATS JOUHNAI OATDHDAT Li V 111. 0. FZZZ.UARY 21, IC14 ETTLJEE p IhM' l -j YOU NEVER CAN TELL. "Do you believe that story about George Washington's hatchet founded on fact?" "It might have been; you never can tell. Perhaps little George knew all the time that his father had been watching around the corner of the woodshed." That Extra Dinner TWAS in a Michigan village on Washington's birthday," said the drummer, "and as no one In town seemed to be aware that any particu lar event had arrived, I said to the landlord of the inn: "You people here don't seem to keep up with the times.' 'As to how?" he asked. '"Why this is Washington's birth day.' '"Is that so? Well, so it is. We are pretty busy here, you know!' 'But Washington should be re membered.' 'He certainly should, and. he shall be!' "An hour later," said the drum mer, "he hung out a sign reading that it was Washington's birthday, and that the inn would give an extra din ner on account of it. The sign seemed to stir the people up a bit. but no flags were displayed. I had my mouth fixed for a good dinner, but when I got seated at the table I found It a very poor one. The landlord came in after a bit, rubbing his hands and smiling, and asked ma how I liked things. "Nothing to brag of.' I replied. 'But it's an extra dinner, man extra on account of Washington.' "Where is the extra?' Why, we have tomato soup for the first time since last 4th of July.' An Interesting Anecdote aEORGE WASHINGTON, the fa ther of his country, came home early one morning from the lodge of which he was a member. Several initiations had been the order of the evening., and a large bowl of cherry bounce had been provided to assuage the burning thirst occasioned by the trips across the hot sands with the novitiates. It was long after 2 a, m. by the sundial in the front yard when Mr. Washington let himself In at the front door. He was sitting on the bottom step of the stairs, softly removing his gilt-buckled shoes. when a white-robed form appeared at tne landing, and a calm female voice inquired: "Is that you. George?" "Yes, my dear Martha," he replied politely. "How did you open the door? I didn't hear you-" "Martha. I cannot tell a lie.' I did it with my little latchkey." POOR MART. Mary had a little shape. Correct from tip to toe; And everywhere that Fashion went. That shape was sure to go. HAS NO DRAWBACKS. "Why do you declare that Washing ton's Birthday Is the beat of all our holidays." "Well, you don't have to buy a tur key like at Thanksgiving, presents like at Christmas or fire-crackers like on the Fourth." Johnny On Washiagtca 0- LTR teacher says we ought to love Washington. I do, because every time his birthday comes we have holiday. "Whenever I am in a fight and think of .Washington crossing the Delaware I can lick the. other boy. "Washington wouldn't tell a lie when he was a kid of a boy. Neither would I. "Washington was a gentle son! In private life. So am I- When there Is a ton of coal to bring if a wonderful how gently I can slip around the corner. "I love Washington for the way he starved at Valley Forge. Father eats the meat and gives me the bones, and rm half -starved all the time. "Washington was willing to lay down his life' that we might be free. So am I, but I hope the offer won't be accepted until I am about ninety years old." "This la all about Washington this time, and as I have got to lick the British I will close by hoping to be like him." Pop Knew Just How Geo. Washington's Dad Felt vl KNOW AWL A BOOT I THAT rCOR-GE J 1 k VtfA&HINOTON r- i. oSlTO HEA-,T-)I-J &SKlNt V III TlTf5"33 f NOVICE HAVE NO )CHETfc?A TREE ON iTfrVE PLftfF rov poo CFSN COT OOVJN AS BEECH TREE nD THEN rvu show fOO JOST WHAT HAP- rtrnwD TO Gr.VJ. UIMCim HP C l IV rinvj f-v V. 1 T-"rl 1. l. ill. Y'SoRE Cot tpb CylMME CREDIT. MV lOtfc lb TrlftT I'M OLD BEECH COT FOR. tioTH IN AND THERE'S rnooqh Fire wood NI T TO UAjT HAUP Tnfc VJINYk r. D'YP CxVT ME? (klE?! I'LL rrr 60Y Ar4 PP wrW Tr'BOVS GITTIIM' OF A MFAN OfM HIM. SOT Hk MOST W7Sfccf T'KNOW. r VlWftT'fr YH'MrVTTtfrO V V 1 PoP? I COT DOWN I f 7V I W PEACH TREE- C-fo V ME" TO t ME TO I 5Alt l8EFCH" Hey! CowE BACK BkK4 V4HWE" I TPkW You TH POOR OEORQB1 Bay. Dad. rm clad ye didnt Uve in the time boy. -Why not. WHlieT Why. bis dad didnt wear a plus; hat for him to JOB CALLED OFF. O. W. Here's where I quit! History or no History! I ain't go in to tackle that cherry tree with this dinky five-cent hatchet I got Christmas! His Patriotic Exctioe TBS he appeared to be in a rather tV Jovial mood ahe looked him over J I suspiciously. "John." she said, sternly, "you have taken a drink. Now own up to it like a man. "Well. Marie," he replied, sheepish ly, "I did take a oocktalL Tou drank a cocktail! What ever tempted you to drink that abominable concoction?" "Well, you see. it was this way, my dear. I remembered it was O surge Washington's birthday and as I thought of the great man I wished I had something to recall htm more vividly than the mere remembrance of his name. So I thought of the story about the cherry tree and then I went In and ordered a cocktail just to see the cherry. That la the honest truth. Marie." After telling him It was a great pity he was not as truthful as George ahe excused him through patriotism. PUZZLED. "Pa. was Washington a Boy Scout?" "No. my son; the organization was not In existence in his time." "Well, I don't see how he could do all he did if he lacked the training that we get every week NO LASTING DAMAGE. St. Valentine's day Has flitted away, With sentiments now on the wane: Tho' Cupid's fleet dart Jabbed many a heart The punctures are mended again. No One Doubted CHERE were Just 23 passengers in the trolley car when the big man with the fighting jaw got on. Tnere was a seat for him at the front end of the car, but instead of sitting down he took off his overcoat, pushed up his sleeves and glared around the car and announced: "There was a boy named George Washington!" Every one looked at him In sur prise, and after half a minute he con tinued: "His father had a favorite cherry tree!" Several of the passengers nodded their heads. "Young George had a hatchet 1" "Right you are!" whispered a fat "And he cut down that cherry tree!" "Right you are. b'gosh!" whispered the fat man. "And when his father asked him about it he didn't Ue!" "No, he didn't!" was whispered. "Any one of us would have lied like a son of a gun, but George didn't!" All kept their eyes on the speaker, but no one said anything. WISDOM OP FATHER "My dad knows more'n George Washington did." "How's that?" "Las' night, when X told dad I hadn't been akatln' he sed he knowd better, an' gimme a licktn' fer lyln.' George Washington couldn't tell a lie, hut dad kin teU one th' rtlnalt he htars R." "la there any one here that doubts this little story?" There wasn't a doubter, and after the big man had glared around him again he put on his overcoat and left the car, saying: "And that's the kind of a patriot I am! They've got to believe in George or take a thumping! BORN TOO SOON. GEORGE WASHINGTON, know, 'tis said. Could never tell a lie. To you I'll give a little tip And tell the reason why, Twas 'cause he ran for President Before so many tricks Had been injected Into all Our brands of politics. you SKEPTICISM. Mr. Farmer I kind of agree with the folks who say that story about George Washington and the cherry tree is a myth. Mrs. Farmer For what reason? Mr. Farmer Well, human nature is purty much the same la all ceo erationa. And if I had a boy who picked up an ax. an' voluntarily west out to chop wood, I wouldn't chide him. I'd hand him a medal. TROUBLES. Parker Dobbs asked me to forget my troubles this morning. Harper What for? Parker He wanted me to listen to his Foxy George." THE TURKEY'S THANKSGIVING DAY. I always feel that Washington's Birthday is our Thanksgiving Day. Why so? Because, although the hatchet la prominently before the pie. then we turkeys suffer no bloodshed. GEORGE'S PREDICAMENT. Do, you believe that George Wash ington never told a lie? Of course I do. Why not? I was just thinking how he most have squirmed about in rr the subject to the weather when the widow asked him if she was the girl he had ever loved.

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A Fashion That Is Folly. The International Sunday School Les son for February 22 is "Faith De stroying Fear." Luke 12:1-12. BT WILLIAM T. ELLIS.) Looking out ttae window Mrs. Jones sees a enlghbor approaching and ex claims, "There comet .that tiresome Mrs. Smith. I simply can't endure hex." A moment later, at the door, she ays, with effusive smiles, "My dear Mrs. Smith. I am so glad to see you; and it is so good of you to come." And that is a picture of what is fundamentally the matter with a large part of the world today. It lacks common, ordinary, straightforward sincerity. The wisest of social physi cians once put a label on this 'disease so deadly to souls. He called It "the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy." Rottenness in the bones of character, functional disintegration of the soul, palsy of the motor nerves of the will all this and more is the essential insincerity which the com plexity of our social life fosters, and which Jesus excoriated in the Phari sees. White lies" reveal black spots in character. The reason the Judgment of mankind condemns a liar is not because or tne lie lisen, or -cular consequences, but because it denotes fundamental unsoundness. To be Insincere is to be wrong clear through to the center of things. A hypocrite is worse than an open and shameless drunkard or gambler; for his offense Is not one of appetite or peculiar weakness; it is structural, affecting the stability of the whole life. What Our Stenographers Trunk. The business men's stenographer Is. if one but stop to think of it, like a piece of the day of Judgment to him. She knows all his artifices and pretenses and double-dealings, if he be not wholly straightforward. Our children, too, see the difference be tween what we really are or believe. In the frankness of the family circle, and what we pretend in the presence of company. More important yet, as Jesus pointed 'out. we are known through and through to God. There are no suc cessful hypocrites in dealing with him. We may for a time fool a few persons, but not for a minute can we deceive Ood. What is more, as Jesus said. "There Is nothing covered up that shall not be revealed. Hypocrisy is a vain as it is vicious. The whole world one day comes to know the truth about us. Whether that pros pect fills us with Joy or with dread is a fairly good symptom of the sort of person we are. When the lid Is lifted from our life, as it some day will be, shall we be glad or terrified The stern utter ance of the Master is a powerful ser mon upon living In the open sunlight. "Walk in the light," and you will nev er fear a policeman's tread or a gos sip's tongue. A clean life Is Invulner able armor. Graft Investigations hold no threat for the honest man. Judg ment days are the vindication of the righteous. "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy, and you will welcome every ray of sunlight. No truth needs to be more strongly impressed upon youth than this; the dying words of John B. Gough were "Young man, keep your record clean." The "Iare-To-Iie" Chinese. What a person fears most tells what he is. Now these old Pharisees were ,v. nnViiin wnntil .nnt think well of them. Had they lived In our day the richest of them would nave employed press agents to secure fa- vi. HMtinn fm thm In the news- vurauio iiiriiLi. papers. They were afraid for their reputations, forgetting tnat. in mo long run reputation is but an emana tion of character. Some persons are scared of dying. Our artificial day has multiplied this terror. Do you recall how summer cottagers fled from the Atlantic coast when tne approacn oi mo fleet was rumored? Without being cynical it may be said that we are at taching an entirely undue importance to the mere matter of living. We have come to overvalue physical safe ty and comfort. An inspiration dur ing the Chinese revolution were the "Dare-to-die" bands of young men, i.. a,..lAk whn vnliintarai1 fnr mUBiljr DL UU1 extra hazardous service. They rightly perceived that their own lives were of relative unimportance as compared i with the freedom of their nation. This! same reckless oravery, wnicn pui me assurance of Paradise above all con cerns of life or safety, was what led the followers of Mohammed to sweep onward in an irresistible conquest of a large part of the known world. If we feared God more, we would fear dying less. There Is no warrant In the words of Jesus Christ for pur chasing' life at the price of loyalty and truth. Why the Korean Pastor Resigned. A man from Korea told me this story a few days ago, as we were talk ing of the socalled "conspiracy trial," of Korean Christians by the Japanese. As Is well known, the Japanese tor tured the prisoners most fiendishly, in order to get them to confess that the against the Japanese government were true. Wild with the agonies of tor ture, some of the men said "yes" to anything they were asked. The senti ment of civilization forced Japan to liberate one hundred and nineteen of the Christian men against whom these preposterous charges had been con- COCtGCl Among those freed, after more than a year in prison, was the pastor of the Syen Chun church. He arrived home on Saturday. On Sunday he resigned his pulpit. His explanation was sim ple: "I lied. I said that which was not so, and I am therefore not fit to' be a minister of the Gospel." Friends remonstrated that the untruth had been spoken in the agony of unendur able torture. He sturdily maintained his position. "I could have died though the trouble was that they would not let me really die but I need not have lied. Jesus died for the truth. Paul would not have lied. I thereby denied my Lord, and I cannot stay in the pulpit." And the resigna tion was accepted, a thrilling example to the church everywhere. Could there have been a more perfect lllus- very lesson about fearing not those who can axil me uuuy auiu concern ing confession of his name before Perkins Stetson can scarcely be quoted low viieu. "A man must live." We Justify Low shift and trick to treason high. But Is it so? pray tell me why Life at such cost you have to buy? in what religion were you told "A man must live?" "There are times when a man must die. Imagine, for a battle cry From soldiers, with a sword to hold From soldiers, with the flag unrolled The coward's whine, this liar's lie. "A man must live!' The Sparrow and the Saint. Some truths are so bed-rocked that they suffice for sage and children. They outlast all philosophies. Like the love of a mother which can never be outgrown, they serve from infancy to the grave. ..They are always the "truth for the time." Such was the message of Jesus con cerning the care of God: "Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? and not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many spar rows." God's power is only equalled by his love. His majesty is matched by his fatherhood. His loving kind ness is made effective by his almight lness. As James C Wallace sings: "There Is an Eye that never sleeps Beneath the wing -of night; There is an Ear that never shuts When sinks the beams of light. "There is an Arm that never tires There is a Love that never, fails When earuuy loves aacay. The Unpardonable Sin. ing crowds Jesus uttered a sentence which has troubled thousands of sen sitive saints: "Unto him that blas phemeth against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven." Probably this point will create more discussion In the Sunday school classes than all the rest of the lesson. nave i commiueu the unpardonable sin, cry worried spirits? Nobody who is worrying aooui re v,aa flnmmittail iho imnArdonable sin. The very spiritual solicitude itself Is proof of lire, xne spiritually ueau, who give no reaction to the concerns a th. nnpfl who Ul fcuvj. should be affrighted. If it were pos sible to interest mem ai au. Over In Japan I noticed, especially fen- en Vim- snrinara of Kusat- su, that the lepers were marked with polka dots, blackened oy me suipnur. Faces and legs and arms all showed these strange marks. Inquiry reveal ed that the doomed ones had burnt themselves with the moksa plant, in an effort to secure sensation. It was the deadness of their Iiesn tnat mey dreaded. Any sign of life, even pain, would be welcome. So, It Is with the spiritually dead. They have lost their feel of life. No concern about their n fiitur ntA.te affects them. They are almost dead in soul, even as the lepers gradually Decome ueaa in body. To be alert to the state of one's spirit is the first sign of the presence of God's Spirit in the heart. First Steps to Success. Terse Comments for February 22 "Rules for Young Business Men and Women." Prov. 22:1-29. (BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.) Whatever be a person's calling, whether housework or banking, per sonal efficiency Is the first quality de manded. This does not necessarily mean expertness In a special Held. Efficiency Is made up of certain basic qualities, which should be taught to all children. It Includes reliability: the dependable person is of more worth than the brilliant one. The boy who can be counted upon to do his task and toot come snivelling with excuses, is wanted everywhere. Next, and allied to reliability, is thorough ness; the doing with one's might what one undertakes, so that there are no loose ends for anybody else to look after. Then, underlying aU else, and crowning every other quality, is sheer industry. Work works wonders. "It's dogged as does It." Simple, steady la bor conquers all things. Given a youth who knows how to work with his own hands and hea", and who is dependa ble and thorough-going and all the ills of adversity cannot hinder him from success. Business is more than the barter of commodities, or the exchange of labor for money; it is, first of all, the means through which a person expresses his life. That storied Irishman was right who put a wheelbarrow on his family crest. By the barrow he had served the world; it was his sign of conquest. Mere busyness is always good bus iness. The putterer Is as unproductive as the putter-off. To achieve a life of Integrity and usefulness is the world's biggest busi ness. The size of the bank account is entirely a secondary consideration. This is -the day of the vindication of the honest man. The business men who have tried to pry open pathways to prosperity between the Ten Com mandments and the civil statutes are being called sharply to book. Some have made vast fortunes, only to find themselves gibbeted by the public Judgment. The men who have stood fast by true principles have once more proved that "honesty Is the best of policy." There are men alive today who would gladly give millions if only they could thereby purchase the respect of their fellow men. So the counsel will not today be scoffed at if we admonish young people to write integrity at the basis of their business careers. Honest work honest output, honest dealings. and high principles beyond all pur chase these are the bedrock founda tions of commercial success. Amos R. Wells once gave a recipe for signal success in literature, which applies to all other callings: "Be born with brains, and use them." A sound and far-sighted business policy is to cultivate friends; for friends are rungs in the ladder of success. Before the world owes anybody a living, he owes the world a life. Broad intentions and minute atten tion vision and painstaking are the twin screws of the ship of success. Cicero said, great revenue.' "Economy is itself a There is a great deal of unreality and cant talked in connection with success. A habit of weighing advice before taking is needed. The very ability to look upon both sides of a proposition and to test its reasonable- nesa la In itself a quality of success. Sanity and sagacity are partly ac- ffliirol tnitai and nartlv natural en. I dowment I Monev in. the hands of a. nruaent person can always make money; but money alone cannot make manhood. And it is better to win character than cash. British wares are famously reliable. This national distinction has been worth millions of pounds to British business in all markets.. One who has shopped around the world can tell of the relief and delight of doing busi-! ness in London, where there Is a sin-1 K"3 b ioquiuu f chandise is as represented. The busi- nesa man of today is building success fuel a las. hllAan'e swPal IflMtl Wltall It A vwu,u makes his output synonymous with first quality. He who can see beyond the mere dollar, soon discovers many dollars. The motto of the most aggressive and notable commercial organization of recent years. The Associated Ad vertising Clubs of America,' la simply 'Truth." The83 shrewd men have seen that truth is at. the basis of all aood business. Hence we have the reforms which one sees being written j into the civil law, with respect to i pure foods, honest advertising, ana false pretense in corporation show ings. "Truth in the inward parts" works out into prosperity in outward affairs. v' Learn well, earn well." In all the frankness of business ex perience and as counsel of- the most practical sort, it may Blncerely be said that there is no rule for business suc cess like the resolution to have God for a senior partner in every under taking. That fixes a permanent standard. It affords both an inspira tion and a test. And the verdict of the many during the long stretches of time is that God prospers those who honor Him. SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. Barking dogs seldom bite. Anon.

There are no bad herbs or bad men; there are only bad cultivators. Hugo. He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free And all are slaves besides. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. Rev. 2:10. The greater our dread of crosses the more necessary they are for us. Fenelon. Speech Is but the brokan light upon the depth Of the unspoken. v George Ellot. It Is not much business that dis tracts any man; but the want of pur ity, constancy, and tendency toward God. Jeremy Taylor. BROOXLYN HEEaCLE. GOOD CONFESSION VS. BAD CON- FESSION. 'Luke 12:1-12 Feb. 22. "Whosoever shall confess Me before men. him shall the Son of Man also confess before the angele of God." V. 8. A large crowd surrounded the Sa vior, anxious to hear Him who "spake as never man spake." Jesus addressed His disciples, saying, "Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which Is hypocrisy." Here, as elsewhere ln His teachings. Jesus used leaven as a sym bol of an evil influence. We know not of one Instance in which leaven is used to represent anything good or pure. Jesus declared that the hypocrisies practiced by the Pharisees the learned people of that time were leaven, impurity, sin, contaminating in its influence. His disciples should be honest, sincere, pure, free from cant and deception. Jesus declared that ultimately aU hypocrisies and sins will be uncovered. Undoubtedly He meant that during His Kingdom all the hidden things of darkness will be abolished, the secrets of mankind will be exposed. No doubt this will con stitute the basis of the shame and contempt which will be the punish ment of many, as foretold. Fear Not Persecution. Jesus Intimated that honesty of life would bring His followers perse cution from the hypocrites; but that they should not fear, even though the j persecution resulted in their death. I The life worth considering Is the everlasting one which may eventual ly be attained through the merit of Jesus' sacrifice. They should have no fear of what man could do to them, but rather should be fearful of any thing that would separate them from God. "Fear Him who after He hath killed hath power to cast into helL" The word Hell here is Gehenna in the Greek. Primarily, this is the name of the valley outside Jerusalem into which offal was cast for utter destruction, and into which the vilest criminals were cast after execution not to torment them, but to imply sym bolically that there was no future for them. Jesus used Gehenna as a type of the Second Death, which will be the portion of all who intelligent ly, deliberately, sin against knowl edge. The fear of God is the beginning of -wisdom, and reverential fear is al ways proper. But as God's people oecome intimately acquainted with Him, learning of His -Justice, His Wisdom. His Love and His Power and realize that He is- the Friend of au who love righteousness, thev come to love God; and, as the Apos tle declares, "Perfect love casteth out fear.". The Lord's disciples were to realize that aa their Heavenly Fa ther forgets not the sparrows, so He will not forget them; and that not even a hair of their heads could be injured- without His knowledge and .permission; that everything. He per mits to come to His children. wiH work, out for them some blessing. "Confess Me Before Men." Jesus' words were addressed to the disciples, not to the mssess. None could deny Him who had never ac- I knowledged Him. He is to be eon- ot ?erey by baptism, nor by any outward term, but in the life, the conduct, me words of His followers. Whoever makes a profession of be ing a. disciple, and then ignore the Master's teachings, misrepresents Him, slanders Him, denies Him, and will not share In the glorious pre sentation of the Bride, in the end of this Age. The masses, of mh-hl wm doubt. Some even derided Jeaua. aav. J?- that He had a devil and was mad. i The Master declared that such mis- understanding of mm and ih ders were quite forgivable it done lg- norantly. But when somo wMtit k. a inia. and declared that wui 1 works were accomplished through the rvc ui statan, tsetsebub, they were committing inexcusable sins, which would not be passed over. Such sin must be wilful; for their .accusa tions had no basis whatever. The Masters taachfnn u..u His conduct. His sayings and His miracles were aU good works. Only a wilful perversity could attribute these to Satan. aute The fact that they would never be usien aoes not signify, however thai the viUfliV.- JS ilti' They would suffer punishment propor-l rlntlQ a a a. s iui uiw wuiuinesa. ir uw punishments bring reformation, well buuu; out u not, tney will eventu ate in utter destruction the Second Death. Few subjects are less understood i?a,n ih.ls. one the sin against the Holy Spirit. The word spirit In such a case as this stands for power, or in fluence. For instance, the spirit of Satan is the power, or influence ad verse to God and to righteousness. The spirit of error is the power, or influ ence, of falsehood. Contrariwise, the i"F f ,iTuln' tne Bpmi., God' tne Holy Spirit, represents Divine influ- ence and power. The responsibility of each individual is proportionate to his enlightenment. The mentally and moraiiy Diina nave comparatively lit tle responsibility, because they do not appreciate clearly the distinction be tween the spirit of Truth and the spirit of error, the Spirit of God and the spirit of Satan. Man was not created in this condi tion of inability to discern right and wrong, good and evil. Sin has wrought death, not merely to man's body, but also to his mind, his conscience. The ability to discern between right and wrong varies therefore. Additionally, some have opportunities for instruc tion more than others, and thus their responsibility is increased. The world in general knows not God, and hence could not sin against the Holy Spirit in that full degree punishable with the Second Death. Some knowledge Is necessary to bring us to an appreciation of Christ as the Sent of God. Then if we be. come His consecrated followers, we receive the begetting of the Holy Spirit. This brings us to a vantage point where -our eyes of understanding open more widely in proportion as we are filled with the Holy Spirit. Our responsibility increases with our joy in the Lord and our. preparation for the Heavenly glories to which we have been called. Every Christian should press on toward perfection of holiness) the filling with the Spirit. "The Holy Spirit Shall Teach." The Lord's faithful followers were to expect that amongst their tribula tions would be false accusations which would bring them before magistrates. For the most part the disciples were unlearned, and would feel great trepi dation in the presence of educated of ficials. They were to know, however, that the Lord's blessing would be upon them;, and that they would have wis dom superior to that which was nat urally tnelra They need not anxiously -premeditate what their answers would be, but commit all to the Lord, ex pecting Divine assistance. Nothing in this Implies that the ministers of Christ either in the pul pit or the class meeting should at tempt to represent the Lord without studying their subject. On the con trary, each should accept to himself St. Paul's words to Timothy: "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth." (1 Timothy 2:15.) There is a difference between standing before God's people as a mouthpiece of His Word and being called before magis trates. EVERYBODY'S EEELE BOX. Q. What will be the nature of the time of trouble of Matthew 24:21? (U. 8.) Answer. "The day of vengeance Is m mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come." "It is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and' the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion" (Isaiah 63:4; 84:8). Thus the prophet Isaiah refers fr) that period which Daniel (12:1) describes as "a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation;" of which Malachi says, "Behold, the day Cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble;" wherein the Apostle James (6:34) says the rich men shall weep and nowl lor the miseries that shall come upon them; the day which Joel (2:2) de scribes as a dav of clouds and thick dark ness; which Amos (5:20) says is "darkness and not light, even very dark and no brightness ln it;" and to which the Lord refers (Matthew 24:11, 22) as a time of "great tribulation," so ruinous In its char acter that, if it were not cut short, no flestv would survive its ravages. That the dark and gloomy day thus described by the nrODhets la a dav of 1udannnt umn mankind socially and nationally a day of "lv itojuiiiwots is cwax irora many scriptures. The time of individual Judg ment will Immediately follow this na tional one. Tne Judgment of nations is a Judgment of men ln their collective (re ligions and civil) capacities. The institu tions of the world have had a long lease of power, and, as the "Times of the Gen tiles" come to a close, they must render up their accounts. Q- Kindly explain the following: "The child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed" (Isaiah flkSD). Wnnld this imply that each Individual will get a uuiituw y ir4 ib co uve aunng tne millen nial Age whether they comply with the conditions or not? (Nameless.) Answer. As with the Gospel Church at the present time, the nearing of the voice of the Son of God is a gradual matter, line upon line, precept upon precept, so 11 win os wim me worm auring tne Millennial Age. The obedient will grad- p ually come to clearer and clearer apprec- e, M' ,h iation of the lengths and breadths and st- Mark A. M. E. church. North heights and depths of divine love and Harrison street; H. H. Dent. pastor Justice and provision. But those who Sunday will be our quarterly meeting, obey that great Teacher's commands will Preaching at 11 a. m. by presiding not then receive persecutions and opposi-. elder. Rev. J. W. Wilson. Preaching tlons. as do those who seek to follow Hla 7-nri n m it a w m Tfov T f j Word now, for then Satan will be bound, and the laws of the Kingdom will be in iorce, ana inose wno are in accord with righteousness will be blessed and uplifted. and those who would fight against the Kingdom and oppose its rule in any par- ucuiar wiu. alter reasoname trial, be esteemed despisers of the grace of God, and will be cut from amongst the people in the "second death." And should any one, uurms uuu. aa ui iruu, unaer its run blase of light, spurn the offered furor. and make no progress toward perfection for a hundred years; he will be reckoned unworthy of life and will be "cut off." though at a hundred years he would be ln the period of comparative childhood. "There shall no more come thence (in death) an Infant of few days, nor- an old man that shall not have the full length of his days; as a lad shall one die a hundred years old; and as a sinner shall be accursed he who diet at a hundred years old'' Osalah Thus T .""STIaT tor-1 fuse, to make nrocresn. it will continue throughout the entire day of Christ, reaching a culmination only at its close, i ---I-.- ii Q. You say "the earth abldeth forever.- I JJ?1 .Blw "SLL1 i irata.i 5? taSoftXi ""wi!. lde? Q rf BlWe poor Ariswer.-Thronsi.out the flcrlntures dearth" when used symbolically represents society,' and "fire" represents the destrnc- Uon or whatever la burned. The passage 1 mted' PeteU!''?; 'Z?? j worl wt was. being overflowed with I water, perished." I It was not the literal earth that DerlSh-1 ed thm-A hut th. rilnnmntfAM nt. ni-r-ttniri- m i.. flood. "But the present heavens sureiy not the literal heavens in which Ood dwells) and the earth which are now (the present dispensation by the same word are kept in store, are reserved unto fire." The fact that the water was literal leads some to believe that the -fire also must be literal, but this by no means follows. The temple of God once wss of literal stones, but that does not set aside the fact that the Church, which is the true temple, Stt" S,tbUiWln;h.l,T 1ti'tion for confirmation, 4:30 p. m. of the Lord will come as a thief in the night (unobservedly). In which the heavens irl" J3?e2.1. Iowei" 5? Jr' f ..wnl line present powers or the air, or vueoi away with a great noise, and the elements

nun meit wiin xervent neatr tne eartn (social organization) jn) also, and the works S kShSi that are therein we, according to His promise, look for new heavens (not a new place for Je- hovah's throne, but Christ's Kingdom shall drive out the usurper Satan and his minions) and we look for a new earth (a reorganization of ancietv on a buk nf love). e::le STUDY XYil. Numbers, Chapters 26-3A. 1. Which tribe had the most men? 2. Where was the second census taken? The first? 5. How many, years between the two numberings? 4. What three rebels are recalled, who perished in an earthquake? 6. How. many were left that had en rolled at Sinai? 6. What women brought about the making of. a law in favor of women? T. From where did Moses view the land? 8. What was to come to Moses after he had looked at the land? 9. Why -was Moses forbidden to go into Canaan? 10. Who was appointed to be the suc cessor of Moses? 11. Who made the appointment of Joshua? 12. What was to be the daily burnt offering? tt. Who only might be exempt from a vow after it was once made? 14. Who slew Balaam, the false prophet? 15. What six metals are mentioned in the war with the Midianltes? 18. Which tribes chose to stay on the east side of the Jordan? 17. What nation moved 42 times and arrived at nowhere? 18. At what age did Aaron die? 19. What Psalm is associated with the Wilderness life? 20. Where was the land God gave to the Israelites? 21. Which tribes never entered the Promised Land? 22. How was the land divided? 23. What two men lead in the- di vision of the land? 24. For whom were the Cities of Refuge? 25. How many and where were they located? 28. How many witnesses must there be to condemn a man? 27. Who was Phlneas and what did he do? 28. To whom did Israel bring their spoils after the war with Midian? 29. What was done with the gold that was taken from the Midianltes? SO. What tribe is the last to be men tioned in the book of Numbers? The fellowship lunch last Tuesday evening was a great success, so much so that we agreed to repeat the same sort of thing for a few nights to see what comes of it. If you have the time and can, we would like to have you come with us next Tuesday evening. No difference to what year you belong. We will group about the tables at the north end of the dinning room, and there will be some "special" to help us learn to know each other. We were 82 last week. I wish we might be 50 next Tuesday. MRS. C. F. MENNINGER. BE CHEERFUL. Why let the sad of other days Drive happiness away? Why let the clouds that have gone past Shut sunshine out, today? It seems to me there's plenty now To claim our notice here. But if you use blue spectacles The best will not appear. What's past is past no use to cry. Or worry out our life. For fear the future's going to be Filled up with storm, and strife; 9n mlrhtMi nnt th&t worried face. And chase a smile or two Around tne corners 01 your mouin. And try and get your due. The present and the future are Just what He wills for us; v Let's show that we appreciate. And not His ways discuss;' Tot want of something better, try To give a word of cheer To some poor soul that needs it, and Your blues will disappear. M. N. BAKER. cramcES. Third Presbyterian. East Fourth and Branner streets; Rev. E. Irwin Gil more. M. A., pastor Washington's birthday will be celebrated by the serv ice of holy communion, special music, reception of new members, and an ad dress at the 10:45 a. in. service. Young woman's quartet at morning service, male chorus ln the evening. Services j 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Lowman Methodist church, 1101 Mor ris avenue; W. M. Balch, D. D., pastor At y. a. m. sermon by the pastor, "The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes." At 7:30 p. m. sermon by the ichi.c.. Nicholson will preach for us. i 7rt Mlil.iS Harrison street. Rev. Millard Troxell. pastor Catechism instruction i u i o'clock; sermon. Circumference and Center of a Right Life." Evening at 7:30 o'clock. Illustrated sermon, "Wash- in ir ton and Wesley, I Redden Chapel Mission Sabbath school at 3 p. m. A male quartet com posed of Don Wellman, Sidney Smith. Harold Rankin and Frank Wright, will sing several number. Miss Maude Price of Wellington, state lecturer for the Sunday School association, will deliver a short address also. At 7:30 p. m. the Re. Job B. Paael win preach on "The Wonderful Power of a Touch." St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church Ersoona, ahd Van Buren streets. P. D. Mueller, pastor. German services 10:10 o'clock. English services 7:30 o'rlorlr.

Grace cathedral. Eighth and Tay kr streets; the Rev. J. P. de B. Kay Holy communion, at 7:10 o'clock. Sunday, school at :0 o'clock. Morn- ing service at 11 o'clock by Dean Kaye. Evening service at 4:10 o'clock. Service at Christ hospital at P- LENTEV BERVICEH. LENTEN SERVICES. v.

Wednesday Penitential office ana SO rmon, 10 a. m.; litany and eon- nrmation service. 4:10 n. m ing service and address, S p. m. Tuesdays Holy communion. It a. mv Wednesdays Litany and address, 4:10 p. m. v. V" Thursdays' Holy communion, 10 a. m. Fridays Children's service, 4: St p. m. litany and address, 8 p. m. Wednesdays and Fridays Prepara- CALENDAR. OF LENTEN SEASON. February 26. Ash Wednesday; uraiit. V.', 7- r" k 4. and 7. Ember days; March 8, sec- 9 h una Efunaav m xent: innn is uiirn Sunday in Lent; March 32, fourth Sun. day ln 1-ent; March 25. the annunci- A'- r .pT S' Sunday (Palm) before Easter; April 9, -Maundy Thursday; April 10, Good Friday; April 11, Easter Even. Second United Presbyterian church, Huntoon and Fillmore; Rev.-William M. Jackson, minister Sabbath sohool at :46. Juniors at 3. Y. P. C. TJ. at 6:3IK ftevnfiM a 11 ."nv. r-1 Commission." Evening subject, at' 7:80, "The Real Greatness f Wash ington." Potwin Presbyterian church. cor ner Fifth and West streets; the Rev. Harry L. Nelson, pastor Morning church service at 11. Junior En deavor and L. T. L., 8 p. m. Senior Endeavor, 6:30 p. m. Evening preach ing service at 7:30. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7:80. The, Church of Christ meets at chapel at corner Fifth and Western avenues at 10 o'clock for Bible study; also at 11 o'clock for communion ser vices. Preaching at the 11 o'clock services as well aa at 7:30 p. m. by Evangelist Clayton Gatl. Central Park Christian church. Six- wentrai faric avenue. Ralph C. Harding, naator 1 1 communion and regular church serv lce. 2i? V- m- evangelistic services by the Vawter Evangelistic comnanv. J?- sermon. "Glorying in the "x me pastor. First Methodist Sixth and Harrison streeta. Rev. Frank L. Loveland, D. D.. will preach morn lnaildr evening. These sermons will Tn,P"ia' heive" Monday evening '"ju, urejou. morning wor- TirS. o-ciock. Theme. "God's t..a fT80" awning service at 7:80 o'clock. Subject, "The Bonnie J3uu, oy. request. seewfr Awnue BaPtlst church. Seward and G rattan streets. Rev. J. S. umberger, pastor. The morning wor 8? at 11 a. m. The evening worship at 7:30, a special missionary service. An address on "The Land of Noah and theArk." Rev. N. E. Badaf. a native Persian, illustrating his lecture by na tive costumes, pictures, etc The Latter Day Saints "Reorganised" church, near the corner of Seward ave nue and Norton street. Elder Edward Lucas, pastor. Morning service at 11 o'clock, subject, "The Sin Against the Holy Ghost or the Unpardonable Sin," by the pastor. Evening service at 8 o'clock, by Elder James Bart he, of Scranton. Baptism at 2 p. m. at R. R. Y. M. C. A. pool. VVealeyan Methodist church. East Third and Jefferson, Rev. E. H. Cook, pastor. Preaching at U a. m. The fun eral services of David D. Stltts will be held at o'clock in the afternoon. Evangelist J. B. McBrlde will preach at Xol and a8"aln n the evening at 7:30. Prayer and song service will be gin at 7 p. m. The revival meetings will continue at the church all of next week. Afternoon services at 2:30 each day except Saturday and preaching each night including Saturday. .h?h rStmln8ter Presbyterian 21? UeSe avenue and Huntoon Ra,Dh Ward, pastor. The rilS'1 010 niorning service will be The Presbyterian United Movement." A. J? !?e?in8 Bervlce the second of the illustrated travel sermons will be HornV'n "From panama to Cape Oakland Methodist Episcopal church, Chester and Sardou avenues, A. R. Williams, pastor. Preaching at "ic xvev. jj. jr. tr ariett, a retired minister of the Kansas con ference. There will be a union meeting at the Christian church and the reg ular evening service has been cancel ed. Rev. Theodore Hanson will ad dress the union meeting in the in terest of the public welfare campaign. New Thought society of practical Christianity, 1300 West Tenth street, Sunday school 3 o'clock. Address 4 o'clock by A. B. Smith. Subject: "The Prayer." Walnut Grove Methodist Episcopal, Sixteenth and Harrison, K. E. Urner, pastor. Public worship 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Preaching at each service by pastor. Morning theme: "Recon ciling the World." Evening theme: "Reaching Jesus Over Difficultlea" First Church of Christ, Scientist, corner Huntoon and Polk streets. Sun day services 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sub ject of lesson sermon: "Mind." Read ing room in church edifice open after noons from 2 to 5 o'clock, except Sun days and holidays. Testimony meet ing, Wednesday evening at .8 o'clock. Central Congregational church, Bu chanan and Huntoon. At 11 o clock. The Place of Education ln Evange- i using ine worm. ai i:iv p. m. six laymen will speak. Special music. Organ selections. Dean Horace White house. Pastor, Roy B. Guild. The Euclid Avenue Methodist Epis copal church. Seventeenth and Lane 'street. Rev. Edwin Locke, D. D-. the pastor, will preach in the morning on some unuKwrsuca ui a unnsuan," and at night on "The Greatest Man England Ever Produced George Washington." German Evangelical St. Paul's church. Third and Hancock streets. Rev. H. Becker, pastor, will have English services on Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. East Side Methodist Episcopal cfTczzha The Bank of Tcpclia Oldest and Largest Baak tn Topek Capital aad Swrptas fMMM Does a General Banking Bus In sag The Central Nctbivd Bank- Safe, Conservative V. 8. DEPOSIT Capital aad Sarplaa MTe,CveV J. P. :.j Mr. A. Smith, V. P. The Farm Mortffasd Company for vlduals on The Davis-Wellccme Mortgage Co. FARM LOANS Bid. COAL Best Osage City Shaft, ton. .MJM -Best Burllngame, ton HM 400 lba 91.00 WOOD-HDry. ln stove lengths, per rick. $S.M KIXDLING 5 bundles $1.0 Wilson's Cash Coal Co. Phone 3642 421 Holiday St. Money to Loan ?HE SHAWNEE BUILDINd AND LOAN ASSOCIATION offers an easy way to buy a plees of property or build a house and pay for It monthly, just like paying rent. When you are down town call at 115 West Sixth Street and ask them to explain their plan. It is simple -as a one-word primer. L. M. PENUELL Undertaker and Embalmer THOMAS Phone Its. E. JONES. Assistant. 808-S10 Quincy St. church. Seventh and Lime streets, D. A. Shutt, pastor. Morning worship, 11. o'clock. Evening worship, 7:30 o'clock. Sermons by the pastor. First Congregational church. Har rison and Seventh streeta, Rev. Arthur S. Henderson, D. D., minister. Morn ing worship at 11 o'clock; subject of sermon, "The' Glory of God." Even ing service at 7:30 o'clock; sermon, "Belted Minds." The chorus choir will sing at both services. St. John A. M. E. church, corner Seventh and Topeka avenue. Preaching 11 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock by the pas tor, J. M. Brown. Morning subject. "A Higher Type of Christianity." Evening subject. "Opportunity and Responsibili ty of Young People." Prayer meeting Tuesday evening; class meeting and church conference, Friday evening. First Pentecostal churoh of the Nazarene, between Fifth and Sixth on Lake street. Preaching at 11 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock, by the Rev. D. H. Gott sholk. Prayer meeting Wednesday ev ening at 7:30 o'clock. Second Church of Christ. Scientist, Harrison street and Sixth avenue. Ser vices at 11 o'clock, subject. "Mind." Reading room, sixth floor Mills building, open from 9 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock in the evening; also Sunday afternoon. Third Christian church. Third and Lake street, James Cornish, pastor. Sermon and Lord's supper 11 o'clock. Sermon 7:45 o'clock. Seward Avenue Methodist Episco pal church, Seward and Scotland ave nues. Amon S. Clark, pastor. The pastor will preach at Highland Park ln the morning; subject, "The Call of Abraham." Mr. C. H. Buck will preach at Seward avenue In the morn ing. Prayer meeting and election of trustees Thursday evening. Second United Brethren church. Fifth and Leland streets, M. L. Robey, pastor. Rev. J. M. Porter will speak at 11 o'clock. Apprentice quartet will sing at the Y. P. S. C. E. meeting at 6:30 o'clock. Public service at 7:30 by the pastor; First United Presbyterian church, corner Eighth and Topeka avenues. Rev. J. A. Renwick, D. D., pastor. Preaching at 11 o'clock and 7:80 o'clock by the pastor.. Evangelical association.' Fourth and Monroe streets. Morning worship by the pastor; theme, "The Standard of Manhood." Evening service at 7:80 o'clock, at which time we Will show stereopticon pictures upon the Life of Christ. J. K. Young, pastor. First German Methodist Episcopal church, A. J. Rubs, pastor. Sermon at 10:45 o'clock;, theme, "The Great est Duty." At 7:45 the pastor will speak on "A Man Sent of Ood in the Eighteenth Century." First Presbyterian church. Harrl.' son street, opposite state house. Rev.' Stephen S. Estey. D. D.. nutn. Church service at 11 o'clock, sermon oy tne pastor; xneme. "Washington and His Country." A national ser mon. Evening service at 7:30 o'clock subject. "Effort and Its Reward." Sermon by the pastor. Redden chapel. First and Monro. nev. j. n. nuei in cnarge. sabbath school at 8 o'clock. Evening serrieat at 7:30. w Church of the Good Shepherd. Episcopal, corner of Laurent and Quincy streets. North Topeka, the Rev. Albert P. Mack, minister in charge. Services for Qulnquagesirna Sunday will be Sunday school at is o cioca; morning prayer and at 11 o'clock; evening prayer and mon ai a o cioca.

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