The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 25, 1915

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J rf EVERYBODY lO PAGES EVERYBODY lO PAGES NEEDS IT READ IT HOME IJDITION WEDNESDAY EVENING- TO PEKA, KA NSAS-: AUUUST 2o, WEDNESDAY EVENING- THIS EDITION 2 CENTS J4 I it it V f KAISER STRIVES TO AVOID BREAK y WITH THE U. S. "Sext Communication From Berlin to lie Satisfactory. Reassuring Word From Sources Close to Bernstorff. PLUNGER CRISISJS PASSING Telegram Answers Arabic In quiry Sent to Gerard. Lansing1 Silent, But Tension Is Visibly Eased. Washington, Aug. 2. Hie ad ministration today' was said to feel so sure of a satisfactory set tlement with Germany, that it was deemed likely President Wil son will he able to return to fornish the last of this week or the first of next. Washington, Aug. 25. President Wilson has been informed unofficial ly from sources close to Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, that the next communication from .Berlin on the sinking- of the White Star liner Arabic will be of a charac ter satisfactory to the T inted States. Coming close on the telegram which the ambassador forwarded to the state department yesterday by di rection of his government declaring it was not Ihe intention of Germany that any American lives should be sacri ficed in the sinking- of the ship, this development was regarded as indicat ing that Germany would make a pro posal satisfactory to the United States respecting; submarine attacks on vessels purely of a passenger car rying nature. Officials Are Guessing. Officials are at a los?5 to conjecture what the German government will propose buf the assurance that there is every desire in Berlin to avoid a break with the United f'tates has re lieved the situation much. Officials were eager to know what position Germany would now take without surrendering her contended right to submarine warfare against enemy commerce. j Administration officials did not ac cept Count Von Bernstcrff's message as a disavowal, but were hopeful that it indicated th it a disavowal will be! foi thooming. Berlin Answers For Gerard. I Secretary Lansing would not com- inent on the ambassador's telegram. The message, however, was regarded as answering the inquiry which the I stale department directed to Ambas- j t-a ior Gerard, on whether he had re- j ceived any report, because it showed j tiiat the German government itself was lacking information necessary for i an explanation. Chairman Simmons of the senate j finance committee, who saw President j Wilson today, said he believed the sil- j uatiun looked much better as a result ft 'he message from Count Von Born- Horff. i "I do not believe the telearam would have been sent unless the German government intended to meet the po- Fitton of the United States." said Sen- ator Simmons. "1 think the message I shows that Germany does not want to weak with the United States." Von Bernstorff to Washington New York. Aug. 25. Count Von BernstortT. the German ambassador j to the United States, remained in se- elusion here today with his plans for the next few days' undeveloped. He j had received no further advices from Berlin bearing on the sinking of the Arabic, he said, and did not know j when such would be received. j It is within the range of possi- bilities, the ambassador said, that he would go to Washington to confer with Secretary Lansing before reeeiv- ing further word from Berlin, but this would be, if at all. upon Secretary j Lr rising's invitation. j Gerard Sees Von Jagoiv. Berlin, Aug. 25 (Via London). The American armbassador, Jatnes W. j Gerard, called on Foreign Minister Von Jagow last evening and asked for I information concerning the sinking of j the steamship Arabic. Mr. Gerard i learned that the government had no official news whatever on this subject, j The only information which the government has is that contained in newsp.mer .".Ispatchos from abroad i which throw little light on the cir- cumstancef. attending the destruction of Ihe steamer. It is not even clear i whether the disaster was due to a tor- pedo or a mine and whether, in case the vessel was torpedoed, there were special circumstances vhich impelled I the commander of the submarine to j attack the Arabic. j Until official advices have been re- ceived definitely clearing up these points, the foreign office will hardly be in a position to discuss the case or make any declaration of policy concerning the incident. j Officials of the foreign office make it clear that they have no intention of flouting the United States or seeking to bring about a situation such as that dealt with hypothetically in the last i Amprii'jin note. i IT BREAKS A RECORD;

Coolest August 25 in History of the Weather Bureau. This is the coolest August 25 in the twenty-nine years that local covern ment records have been kept. The minimum temperature of 52 degrees was 13 degrees below normal for this date. The previous low tempera ure for this date was 54 in 1887. The minimum for the state was 4 8 degrees at Manhattan. There was fog this morning in the northeast and northwest sections of Kansas. The fog at Topeka early this morning was dense. There was sunshine in a large section of the state today. Rain was falling at Scott City at 7 o'clock. The hourly roarings 7 o'clock 54 8 o'clock 57 9 o'clock ,60 10 o'clock 65 11 o'clock 69 12 o'clock. .72 1 o'clock. 72 2 o'clock. 74 AUSTRIAN PRESS BREAKS SILENCE ON ARABIC; U. S. POLIGY AGAIN IS BLAMED Zurich, Switzerland. Aug. 25. (Via Iondon) The silence hither to observed by the pe-ess of Austria Hungary regarding; the sin kins of the steamer Arabic has litt-n broken. The cue Freie Presse of Vienna, whose relations with the German embassy are of the closest, declared that "one thins; is certain; the American government lias every ground to consider the grave perils to peace which its policy Involves. "It is absurd that the accidents of two or three Americans being injured in the war zone should de cide the question of peace between two great nations. (Germany has made reasonabe proiosals which absolutely would exclude such threatening incidents. "If the Arabic affair should de velop further difficulties, the dual monarchy would deeply deplore it. Perhaps the affair, after it is cleared up, may lead America to revise her policy." RAID ONJAPITAL Kuss Air Fleet Drops Bombs on Constantinople. Forty-one Dedd or Injured; People Panic Stricken. London, Aug. 25. Bombardment of the outskirts of Constantinople by a Russian aeroplane squadron, resulting in the death or injury of 41 persons is announced in a dispatch from Ath ens to the Central News agency. According to these advices the at tack was made on Monday on the Asiatic suburbs of Constantinople. A number of bombs were drooped, throwing the people into panic. Thirty Turks, three Greeks and three Armenians were killed or wounded Bombs on German Civilians. Berlin. Aug. 25. (Via wireless to London) An official statement says that an hostile aviator last night dropped bombs on the town of Offen burg. which is situated outside the zone of warlike operations. The ma terial damage was insignificant. Twelve civilians were injured, several seriously. Offenburg is a manufacturing town or about 14,000 people in Baden, situ ated on the Kinsig river, 110 miles southwest of Karlsruhe. NEWOILjARIFFS Readjustment of Mid-Continent Rates Is Ordered. Realignment Invaders In creases and Decreases. Washington. Aug. 2 5. Realign ment of rates on petroleum oil and its products in carloads frcm the Mid Continent field, which includes pro ducing and refining i oir'ts in Kan sas and Oklahoma, was ordered to day by the interstate cemmerce com mission. Numerous railroads were ordered to establish new rates by Novem ber 1. The readjustment involves in creases as well as decreases. The commission holds that the present rate of 7 cents a hundred pounl3 from the Mid-continent field to St. Louis is too low and fixed 20 cents as a reasonable maximum, in cluding all Mississippi river points north of St. Louis and south of Keokuk- Other new rotes flxecl are: Twenty-one cents to Keokuk and 22 cents to all Missis Msippi river crossins north of Keokuk: 25 cents to Chicago and territory taking the Chicago rate and to territory in western Indiana and eastern Illinois, but 30 cents to points north of Chicago to which Chicago rates on traffic generally from west of the Missouri river now apply, in cluding Milwaukee and La Crosse; St. Paul territory, 31 cents; to Winnipeg, 13 cents added to the rate to St. Paul; lies Moines. Ia.. 20 cents from Kan sas, and 22 onts from Oklahoma: Omaha. 21 cents from Kansas, and 23 cents frcm Oklahoma; Sioux City, 28 cents from Oklahoma and 25 cents from Kansas. The commission reaffirmed its ap proval of increased rates from Kan sas refining points to New Orleans and otner gulf territory. The decision dismisses all the nu merous formal comply irts involving the mid-continent rates without prej udice and denies all reparation, but the complaints may be brought again if the railroads fail to establish the re-adjustment all along the line. WAS HE LOVING?

Sued for Divorce. Questions Husband's Fondlings. On November 4, 1914. William Ba con, claiming that he had always been a faithful and loving husband and i that his wife stayed out nights until i late hours, filed suit for divorce in j the Shawnee county district court i against Lulu M. Bacon. Todav answer and cross petition was filed by the defendant. She questions j his claims as to being a loving hus I band by alleging, among other things, that Bacon "abandoned her. refuses to 1 support her, that he knocked her down, split her lip and knocked three j teeth out." In her cross petition, Mrs. Bacon i prays for a divorce. j Weather Forecast for Kansas j Chicago. Aug. 25. Forecast for Kansas Partly cloudy and warmer in least; showers in west portion to I night; Thursday probably show era. GIRL CHARGES HIM II. A. Wineland of Belle ville, Son of Mayor, Arrested Today. Topekan Says He Is Father of Her Little Boy Baby. PEARL HOLMES, LONELY LASS Took Youngster to Train as He Passed Through. Plans for Release on $10 a Month Supporting Fee. On a warrant charging him with being the father of the child of Pearl Holmes, an unwed girl, Harold A. Wineland, son of the mayor of Belle ville, was today arrested at the Union Pacific station in North Topeka by Charles Lytle, assistant marshal of the court of Topeka. Here's the Baby Known as "Billy." Young Wineland was arrested as he was accompanying the national guard company of Belleville, of which he is a member, home after the Leaven worth encampment, when the train stopped for a few minutes in North Topeka. Pearl Holmes, the com plaining witness, is a Texas girl, who has been making her home in North Topeka following her alleged betrayal by the Belleville young man. Imme diately following his arrest, Wineland was arraigned in the court of Topeka before Judge Hugh Fisher. Talk of Release. The Holmes girl appeared at the county attorney's office this- morning in company with Douglas Mote, her attorney. The law firm of Mete R6oney will represent the girl. Immediately after the arraign ment of Wineland it was ascertained that attorneys for the Belleville man had obtained a release from the girl in favor of Wineland. The terms of the release, so far as could be ascer tained, are that the girl was to release Wineland from all responsibility, pro viding she was paid $10 a month for the support of the child. M. O. Locke is representing the defendant. So far as could be learned the at torney has been employed by Wine land since the birth of the child at the local Crittenton home. Girl Was Weeping- When brought into the court of To peka this afternoon Wineland did not appear to be greatly troubled by the charge against him. The girl, who swore to the complaint, was weeping in Judge Fisher's private room as Wineland called his father over the long distance at Belleville. Late this afternoon the county of ficials ware anxiously awaiting the ar rival of the youth's attorney to ascer tain whether or not the release signed by the girl would stop the prosecution here. There was some talk of remov ing the prosecution to Belleville by of ficials and attorneys this afternoon. Recently the girl appeared before the alleged father of the child as he was on his way to Leavenworth and asked that he give the child a name, according to Ed. Ransom, a police of ficer, who accompanied the girl. Ran som claims that the Belleville man re fused both assistance and the girl's request. Voung Man a Plumber. F. L. Wineland. the father of the man arretted today, is mayor of Belle ville. Young Wineland is a plumber and is employed by his father, accord ing to information given out by the attorneys in the case. According to the story told by the girl her alleged "betrayal" by Wine land took place whn she was staying in Belleville, part of the time at the Wineland home. Her home is in Texas. TOTAL OF TAX LEVIES It Is 1.79 Mills Above That of Last Year. Figures compiled by Oscar Swayze, county clerk, show that the tax levies for the year of 1915 for state, county, citv and board of education are all higher than in 1914. Combined, the city and board of education levy is considerably more than three times as large as the combined state and county levy. Following are the com parisons: 1915. 1914. State l."-25 mills l.'-o mills County 2.7S mills "J.-"J mills City mills t.75 mills Board of education. 7.01 mills 7. mills Total 19.04 mills 17.25 mills The city valuation is $55,015,362. The county valuation. $86,505,613. Kate Decision Postponed. Washington. Aug. 25. The inter state commerce commission has post poned until December 24 the propos ed withdrawal by the St. Louis San Francisco railroad of the joint through commodity rates on grain in carloads from Fort Scott, Kan., and other points to Little Rock and other Ark ansas destinations or. the Chicago.Rock Island Pacific railway, which are appliable by way of Bridge Junction. Ark., or Wister, Okla. The commis sion proposes to investigate the effect of a change.. BOTKIN JlfT STAND The Deposed .Warden Testifies in His Own Defense. Makes General Denial of Charges Filed Against Him. PROBABLY CASE CLOSE TODAY Arguments Will Be Held Up for Two Weeks. One Witness Tells About Kill ing of Jack Thomas. Lansing, Kan., Aug. 25. Warden J. D. Botkin of the state penitentiary, to day went to the witness stand to tes tify in his own behalf concerning the charges filed against him toy Governor Capper. Botkin's testimony will close the case for the defense. Unless re buttal evidence is offered by the prosecution, the case will close iate today. Arguments will be suspended for perhaps two weeks, pending the completion of the transcript of the testimony. The warden's story before the com mission today was chiefly a general denial of the charges against his rec ord. He denied emphatically that em ployees of the prison had been dis charged for political reasons and stat ed that in every instance an employee who had been discharged was dropped from the service for cause. He de clared that he was willing that a com parison of his r-dmimstrative record be offerd with that of any of his predecessors and stated that a high standard of efficiency had been main tained since he succeeded J. K. nod ding July 1, 1913. Every phase of the charges against nis record was dis cussed by Botkin during both his di rect and cross-examination. "I want to declare before God that I never authorized or permitted the use of the straight jacket or gag upon any convict," declared Warden Bot kin. "No one gave me information as to the use of gags or straight jackets while Jones was an employee in the prison. When I came back from Wyoming in January, 1914, I heard of the use of straight jackets and order ed an investigation. .Six gags and ten straight jackets were found and they were locked up and never used again." Botkin pointed out that there were now thirty-five Republican and forty Democrats on the prison payroll. T-hat he had discharged nineteen Demo crats and twenty-five Republicans and that ten Democrats and fiftteen Re publicans had resigned. Most of the I Con tin tied on Page TwoTj CITY WON'T AUDIT Mayor House Isn't Excited Over Edison Scare. Poor Business Policy for City He Declares. That the books of the Topeka Edi son company and the Topeka Street Railway company will be examined by the city in search of a surplus of profits in excess of 10 per cent of the investment, 1-10 of which would go to the city under the terms of the franchises of the company, is improb able. "Unless there is a change of front on the part of some members of the city commission, there will be no in vestigation," said Mayor Jay E. House. "Because I believe that even if the city should succeed in finding any money due, the cost of getting it would be greater than the amount to be recovered. The work would call for more than a mere investigation of the books. Experts would have to be employed to determine the actual value of the' investments- They also would have to decide whether legitimate profits were being covered by, excessive salaries or in any other way. Not only the investment and the gross income, but the entire busi ness management would have to be investigated and the wcrk would have to be done by experts whose testi mony would stand the tests of the courts. "In the meantime the companies would have equally competent experts at work and, of course, the findings of ths two sets of experts would not like ly agree. A lawsuit would be the result and in the end, if the city re covered anything at all, it would probably find it had paid more than it got back. It would cost probably $5,000 for the examination alone. I think it would be poor business for the city to risk this amount of money on a proposition the outcome of which would be so doubtful." WILSON SEES VISITORS President Keeps "Open House" for Hour to Meet Callers. Washington. Aug. 25. President Wilson kept "open house" at the ex ecutive ofOces for an hour at noon today and met all callers. .Senator Simmons. Representative Garner of Texas, and visitors from other states, shook hands with the president, who told inquirers his health was excellent. Several times the German situation was brought up. but the president made only general comment. ELECTRIC LIGHTS ON" BABY BIGGY Cleveland, Aug. 25. When Rob ert Sheldon Mathews, jr., two, goes out for an airing at night he rides in what is probably the only elec trically lighted baby carriage in the world. In the top of the canopy is an eight candle power electric light. A red and green light are on either side of the footpiece and in the center is n brilliant stream of light. Baby Robert never enjoyed rid ing in the dark. His cries dis turbed his fond parents. So Rob ert's father conceived the idea of wiring the perambulator. ARMY OF ARMOR British of 1916 Will Be Pro tected by All Steel. Appalling Injuries of Late Have Aroused Nation. BACK TO DAYS OF OLD ROME Shields on Wheels Have Been Suggested in England. Protect Vital Spots Forehead, Breast and Abdomen. London, Aug. 25. The 1916 British army may be an armored army. The great casualty list that filters through the war office every day from the front; the convalescent wounded and battered soldiers that are always on the streets- and the overflowing hospitals are beginning to have their effect. Many ask: "Isn't there a way to minimize this appalling situation?" Somebody has answered: "Armor." And it's beginning to look like armor for the British soldiers of 1916. While, the British war office is con sidering whether it shall slip back to medieval methods of warfare so far as the protection of the soldier is con cerned, well known Britishers are telling the war office through the press that armor is a natural neces sity in these days of machine guns and high-powered rifles. Is Armor Practical? Scores of suggestions for modern 1916 armor emanating from scien tists have narrowed down to the prac ticability of a three-piece suit of tem pered steel that would protect the forehead, breast and abdomen the three vital spots of the body. The favored headpiece will, if authorized by the war office, take the form of the highly tempered steel skull cap like protector now worn by the French to minimize the. danger of shrapnel. The breastplate would be a thin leather covered hardened plate of steel carved to fit over the chest and held by straps that go over the shoulders and around the waist. The abdominal protector is suggested in the form of another curved sheet of steel ftting over the lower ribs and extending down to the bones of the hips. The British war office four years ago experimented with a bullet proof breastplate at Aldershot where the de vice shed all the rifle and machine gun bullets that were fired against it at ranges of one foot to five hundred yards. The breastplate was rejected on the ground that it added too much weight to the equipment of the soldier and reduced- his marching efficiency. With a war of great proportions that will probably last many more months or perhaps years and with the thousands of dead and the tens of thousands of wounded, the war office is believed to be reconsidering its ob jection to armor. The men of the trenches at least probably will be thus equipped, ac cording to information today. Armor "on Wheels. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle suggests three-piece suits of steel plates for the soldiers, but goes further in ad vocating a modern "testudo" a cover used by the Roman soldiers in attack ing a. wall, formed by overlapping their oblong shields above their heads. Sir Arthur's modern testudo, he would put on wheels to cover the men as they charge the German trenches. BARS FRANK FILMS Attorney General of Kansas Takes Movie Precaution. Lynching of Georgia Jew Must Sot Be Shown. No motion pictures of the lynching of Leo Frank by the Georgia mob or any of the appalling scenes in connec tion with the repulsive crime will be allowed in Kansas for the present at least. This order came this morn ing from the office of S. M. Brewster, attorney general. Back of this expulsion of the pic ture is a story of unprecedented action on the part of the state film censors. This morning two "weekly review" pictures came into Topeka for inspec tion and they both contained pictures of the Frank hanging. While Miss Carrie Simpson was using the shears to good advantage on her picture, tak ing out all of the Frank scenes Festus Foster, the other censor, in another picture house was also reviewing a picture of ihe Frank case and allow ing the picture to stay as it was pre sented. Miss Simpson appealed to S. N. Hawkes, assistant attorney general, who said that no Frank pictures would be shown until W. D. Ross, state sup erintendent of instruction who is the official state film censor, passed upon the film. Ross is now in California but is expected to return to Topeka in a few days. This is the first time in the history of the film censorship law that the attorney general has had to be a censor. "So long as I have anything to say there will bo no Frank pictures shown in the state." declased Miss Simpson, today. "I will cut out every reference I see made to the Frank hanging. I can see no merit in such pictures." "The picture which I passed did not show a rope, corpse, funeral or any thing of the sort," stated P'estus Fos ter, in defense of his action. "The picture simply showed the crowd at the lynching of Frank. I could see nothing objectioi.able to it." NAME A POSTMASTER Charles Seewlr Appointed to Fill Va cancy at Lawrence. Washington, D. C, Aug. 25. Presi dent Wilson today appointed Charles C. Seewir, postmaster at Lawrence, Kan. Since the resignation of Post master Mitchell several months ago the office has been filled by an assistant- BILLY ATE HER TIGHTS, AHD-SH-HH, ET CETERAS Cincinnati. Aug. 25. "Billy" fs an honorable Roat when sober, but he devoured 1.000 new Hilarity hall tickets. Then "Hogan," vaude ville monkey, untethered him at the Chester Park theater. Miss Marie Chapron. actress, lias sued Shirley Alvarade, the Roafs owner, for $551 damages. Here's what Billy ate: One set of $8 pink tights, a lovely pair of $6 silk stockings. $28 worth of et cetera. Ml Chapron's Injured feelings are estimated at $500. ENGLAND KNEW IT Britishers Realize France Isn't Satisfied With Her. London Must Be Fortified First Is Her Excuse. London, Aug. 26. England knows France is not satisfied with her. The showing Great Britain has made with" her land forces has not been all that France has had a right to expect. Britishers admit, with sincere re gret, that France has had some ground for her complaints. But they predict that in the very near future the allies will have no basis for crit icism. Britishers do not deny the French charge that the Britons are fortifying London with a double row of defense. The Britishers are looking square in the face the remote possibility that the British Isles may be invaded by Germany. London has been prepar ing for invasion for a long time. Great Britain will do her best to keep the possible invaders away from Calais and the French criticism that the British are thoughtlessly worrying more about London than they are about Calais is not well received in London. Calais may be on French soil but the British realize that it is the German gateway to London and that it must be defended to England's utmost. However, if the British fail at Calais, they must be prepared to make their last stand at London. FRIEND OF HAITI United States Only Desire Is to Help Republic. Seeks to Save People From Ir- responsible Rebels. Washington, Aug. 25. Secretary Lansing said today that: the treaty the United States has submitted to Haiti proposing ten years' American control of the island government's finances, has for its sole purpose the establishment of a stable government which can be entirely turned over to the Haitiens themselves. The American charge at Port .u Prince has asked the Haitien govern ment for an answer to the American proposals today. Secretary Lansing said "We have only one purpose that is to help the Haitien people and prevent them from being exploited by irresponsible revolutionists." More Marines to Haiti. Philadelphia, Aug. 25. The t'nited States armored cruiser Tennessee will arrive at the Philadelphia navy yard today and after taking on stores will proceed to Haiti to join the fleet under command of Rear Admiral Caperton. In addition to its regular crew, the Tennessee carries 350 marines taken aboard at Annapolis. The cruiser has 12 three inch landing guns. A com pany or two of marines from the lo cal navy yard will also leave on the Tennessee, it was said today. The battleships Kansas and Minne sota are being refitted at the Phila delphia navy yard, but no orders have come for them. Bobo Still Deriant. Cape Haitien, Hani. Aug. 2 5.' The adherents of Dr. Kosolo Bobo. the revolutionary leader, who left Haiti following his recent Jtefeat for the presidency, are still in arms. Col. Eli K. Cole of the United States marine corps, who has been conducting ne gotiations with them, has made no progress. Dr. Bobo's supporters say they will not disarm so long as their leader is denied the presidency. The American gunboat Nashville has left for Port-a-Paix to debark 100 marines. POOR MARRIED MAN! Perfect Husband Haled to Court by His Better Half. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 25. Although lie never drank, chewed, smoked or swore in his life, always obeyed every command of his wife, gave her all his money, helped her to do the housework and did all he could to make her existence blissful, Frank Bethingor was haled into desertion court by his better half on a charge of desertion. When asked by the court why "he caused her husband's arrest. Mrs. Bathinger said that he had failed to keep her in spending money for sev eral months. "Yet he gave you his pay envelope, unopened?" said the court. "Yes," said Mrs. Bethinger, "but I used that in the house." She admitted tnat Bethinger had no vices. He was discharged. Bulgaria's 'Diplomatic Triumph." 'Cologne, Germay, Aug.. 25. (Via London) A dispatch to the Cologne Gazette from Sofia says: "Bulgaria has assured the Athens government that no hostile intentions against Greece are entertained by Bul garia. "Evidence is at hand that Rumania has not yet abandoned her efforts to induce Bulgaria to join in united ac tion against Turkey in aid "of the quadruple entente powers. "The conclusion of the Turko-Bul-garian agreement is" regarded as a great success for Bulgarian diplo macy." ENTENTE ALLIES HURL TURK BACK IN DARDANELLES British Left Wing Occupies S00 Yards of Trenches. Big Transport of Sultan's Sunk by French Aviator. TEUTONIC LEGIONS DRIVE ON Smash Rnss Advance Positions Xear Brest-LItovsk. Germans Claim Recapture of Ground in Vosges. London, Aug. 25. Further ad vances by the forces of the entente allies in the Dardanelles are reported by the French war department, th British left wing having occupied 800 yards of Turkish trenches. A large Turkish transport was sunk by a French aviator on August 20, the offi cial report eays. German troops have broken through the Russian advanced positions south west of the fortress of Brest-Litovsk. according to today's official state ment. German's Break Through. A movement of parts of General Von Llnsingsn's army northward along the eastward bank of the Bug toward the fortress also is reported. The armies of Prince Leopold of Ba varia coming from the east, are meet ing stiff opposition, but are pressing on through the Bialeskow forest re gion. The army groups further to the north also are making progress. The Germans claim the recapture of the trench sections in the Vosges, near Sondernach, that were taken by the French last week. Balkans a Guess. The Balkan states are unquestion ably nearer determination of their fu ture relations with the warring pow ers, but so far as has been announced officially, no definite step has been taken in the di rection of the Balkan league and its adhesion to the cause of the entento allies- Theie was no confirmation to day of various rumors which excited Continued on Page 2.) DRUMMERS TODAY Savages Begin Last Series With Josies This Afternoon. Dashner and Monroe Form the Local Battery. The St. Joseph Nicholson, If. Grodick, 2b. Helmer, cf. Enz. lb. Boultes. 3b. Williams, rf Oroeling, sh. Connelly, c. Wideman or Vance, p. Lineup. Topeka Bostick, gn. Cochran. 3b. Brown. If. Tyde nan, rf. Iattimore. 2b. Jackson, cf. Fisher, lb. Monroe, c Dashner. p The St. Joe Drummers, minus Jack Holland, arrived In the city this morn ing and this afternoon began their last series with the Savages. Holland, who Is said to be in the dumps over the showing his team made, is not making the last trip. The Savages spent Tuesday fishing and report that their luck was work ing fine. More than 40 fish were en ticed from their watery homes. Grover is alleged to have made the biggest catch and Dashner to have caught the largest number. Manager Jackson was confident hi warriors would take this afternoon's gdnie and said that he thought Den Moines would be given a good stiff battle when the Ir.zios come after St. Joe leaves. GARRANZA STILL SILENT X Itcply Vet to Pan-American Note; To Speak for Garza. Washington. Aug. 23. General Reynaldo Garza. Carranza commander at Lampazos, Mexico, responding to day to the Pan-American peace ap peal, joined with his military associ ates in declaring the proposal couid be answered only by General Carrnnz himself. State department officials said General Carranza'c response had not been received. His representa tives here say he has prepared It. A personal message from General Carranj-a denied reports that Villa troops had captured Durango. MORE RAIDING BANDS Sherirf of Jim Hogg County, Tea, Appeals For Troopn. Laredo, Tex., Aug. 2f. Sheriff Os car Thompson of Hebronville, Jim Hogg county, Texas, has requested Captain Ransom, comnanding United States troops Jt Harlingen to send soldiers into Jim Hogg county for protection against roving bands of Mexicans, who, according to the sher iff, are stealing horses and threaten ing citizens in the eastern end of the county. There are two bands of Mexicans, the sheriff says, one composed of four and the other of sixteen members, with which the small force of depu ties cannot cope. Veteran "Katy" Knglneor Dead. Sedalia, Mo.. Aug. 24. George Workman, 71 years old. employed for more than thirty years as a locomo tive engineer on the M. K. T. rail road, died here early today. He wa a veteran of the Civil war.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING ATTCtTIST 25, 1915. SEE POM WAR Governors View Erolntfons of Great Battleships. Fleet Beview Big Event at Bos ton Conference. HYDRA-HEADED STATE FLAYED Hammond of Minnesota, Op poses Board Control. Holds Divided Authority 3IHI tates Against Efficiency. Boston. Aur. 25. A review of the North Atlantic fleet off Boston light was the principal event arranged for today's entertainment of the present or former executives of nearly thirty states, who are here attending the an nual governors' conference. From the deck of the flagship Wyoming the visitors were to watch the evolutions of nine great battleships and a large flotilla of torpedo craft. Governors Charles S. Whitman of New York and Winfield S. Hammond vt Minnesota, and former Governor Cole S. Blease of youth Carolina, were the speakers at the forenoon business session. Too Many Governors. Governor Hammond, addressing the conference on "Kfficiency and Econ omy in State Government," said that one reason for the present lack of efficiency was that, in effect, most states have several governors instead of one. Enumerating the various state commissions and boards which have come into being as a part of the executive department of a state ad ministration, he said: "All this has resulted in giving tha state not one governor but a number of governors, one of whom is elected, the others appointed by various boards and commissions. The gov ernor of the state bears about the same relationship to many of these boards as he bears to the courts, and it is fundamental that the executive and the judicial departments shall be independent of each other. If a judge resigns, the governor may appoint his successor, so if one of these members should resign, the governor could ap point his successor, but he has about as much to do with the policies and the work of these boards as he has with the hearing and determination of cases of law. No Co-ordination Between Branches. "There is little or no co-ordination between these various bod: jS. Inspec tors, examiners, investigators, and employees of these various governing bodies, busy in the performance of their duties, are traveling over the state, sometimes several of them de scending at the same time upon a lit tle hamlet of two or three hundred inhabitants, where all examinations and investigations for all of the state departments could be done by an able bodied man in half a day. Salaries and traveling expenses are continual ly increasing, while in political cam paigns the cry for economy goes mer rily on. "In Minnesota for some time there has been a feeling that there should le a thorough reorganization of these various offices, that they should be Included in the executive department, and should be under the control and lirection of the executive himself or department officers selected by him. My predecessor In office appointed a commission of thirty citizens of the state, known as the 'efficiency and economy commission." They were nsked to make a study of our system of state government and to suggest changes, if needed, to make that gov ernment an efficient one and an eco nomical one. "The members of this body made a report to the last legislature and presented a proposed bill for enact ment into law." KILL unneutral cleric AsasMiis Strike Down Gary Minister of I'ro-ticrman Tendencies. Gary. Intl., Aug. 25. Gary's whole police f'jrce worked throughout the right to apprehend the murderers of the Kev. Kdmund Kayser, pastor of St. James Kvangelistical church, in Tollston, a suburb. No progress has lten made, but developments which will aid in determining the cause of tho assa-ilt are expected today. The attack is said to have followed threats on the life of the minister be cause of his pro-German utterances. The Kev. Mr. Kayser s body was found in a lot adjoining his home last night. He had bled to death from a builet wound in th? throat, but there was an other bullet in his shoulder and win dow cords were wrapped around his neck. The R Mr. Kayser, whose home is in a community of Slav steel work ers, a month ago appealed to Chief of Police Heintz for permission to car ry a revolver, alleging threats has beer, made against him. NAVY YARD GRIEVANCES Metal Trades Men Discuss Labor Trouble With V. S. Official. Washington, Aug. 25. Executive officers of the metal trades division of the American Federation of Labor today presented grievances of machin ist employees at the Norfolk navy yard to Assistant Secretary Roosevelt and urged readjustment of working schedules. Grievances of the men are based primarily upon supervision of work by an industrial manager. The sys tem, it is claimed, results in scientific SEE Before You 'Buy a VVriSa If You FACTORY BRANCH am 822 KANSAS AVE. shop management similar to the bonus system, which organized labor opposes in other government plants. Objections also have been made to the scientific management system at the government arsenal in Watertown, Mass. The metal trades council today con tinued consideration of plans for con ferences with financiers and indus trial employees in control of large munition plants of the country, hoping to obtain shorter working hours and increased wages without resort to ptrikes, if possible. NEW JEWELRY STYLES Retail Dealers Plan to Make Their Business More Prosperous. New York, Aug. 25. Jewels are to change with the seasons. Henceforth it will be as unfashion able to wear last year's style laval licrs as to drive last year's automo bile; next year's earrings will dangle differently from this year's; neck laces will shift their size and fchape, and in the ring department long en gagements will lake on a fresh em barrassment all of which is calcu lated to make for the prosperity of the American National I:etail Jewel ers' association, which has Just opened its ienth annual convention in Grand Central Palace. It is the first time that the jewelers got together like makers of wovnen's clothing to decide the fashions tor the coming season. QUITS K. U. POSITION II. Harrington Will Be Illinois V. Professor of Journalism. Lawrence, Kan., Aug. 215. Profes sor K. H. Harrington who taught clas ses in journalism last year at Kan sas University, is not coming back this year. Professor Harrington has ac cepted a position as head of the de partment of journalism at the Univer sity of Illinois. Last year was Professor Harring ton's firt year at K. U. but in that time he had become very popular with the students. He was assistant pro fessor of journalism. He has had practical work in the newspaper field and during the past summer has been on the editorial desk of the Columbus, Ohio. Dispatch. His resignation was received at the university Monday morning. THIEVES LOCKIN BANKER Bold Thieves at Amity, Ark., Away With $1,200. Get Amity, Ark., Aug. 25. Two un masked men held up Assistant Cashier E. W. Fincher, who was alone in the Bank of Amity, and forced him to put $1,200, all the cash on hand, in a grain sack that they held open. Then they locked Fincher in the bank vault and rode out of town. From the vault Fincher aroused citizens by means of a burglar alarm. The townspeople exchanged several shots with the bandits, hut none took effect and the men rode away in safety toward the Oklahoma line. The bandits had been here since yesterday morning and frequently visited stores in the town. They said they were cowboys from Oklahoma. CUT CLERICAL WORK w. V". Deacon, State Registrar, KUminatcs Work. W. J. V. Deacon, state registrar of vital statistics, is attempting to elimi nate a vast amount of the clerical work in his department occasioned by carelessness in filling out death certificates. To this end he is sending to the physicians of the state instructions on the making of such reports. Observ ance of these instructions, he asserts, will save the state about $1,000 a year. THIS WEATHER RECORD. Following are observations of the United States weather bureau for the twenty-four bourn ending at 7 o'clock this morning: Stations Id Kansas. Stations Hlrrh. Low. Rain. AmUouy 78 54 .0 Coldwater 50 .0 Concordia 74 5? .0 Dodge City 7S 00 .0 Dresden 74 56 .02 Kmporia 74 52 .0 Eureka 76 52 .0 Port Scott 7S 52 .0 Ooodland 74 56 .0 Hanover 72 5 .0 Hays ."..74 54 .01 Horton 72 52 .0 lola 715 52 .O libera' 82 i2 .11 Macksville 78 5)1 At MePlierson 78 54 'o Manhattan so 48 .0 Phillipsburg 74 58 .0 S.-ott City 76 58 .26 Sedan SO 54 TOPEKA 74 52 .0 Wichita 76 58 .0 Reports From Other States. Am.-irtllo, Tex SO 64 .0 Hostou. Mass 84 68 22 Buffalo, Y 7(S 58 .40 Calgary, Alb 70 52 .0 Chicago. Ill 72 58 .0 Cinclunati, Ohio SO 50 .24 Corpus Cliristi, Tex... SO 70 .0.8 Denver. Colo 70 54 .10 Ies Moines. Ia 6S 48 .o Ki I'aso. Tex 02 60 .10 Enid. Okla...- S2 58 .o tialveston. Tex st so .40 Havre. Mont. S2- 52 .o Huron. S. D 70 4i .0 Jacksonville, Fla 04 5(5 .o Kansas Citv, Mo 74 51; .0 Little Itock. Ark S2 68 .02 Los Angeles, Cal 78 58 .0 Moorehead. Minu 70 45 .0 New Orleans. La i2 7(5 .0 New York. N. Y S2 68 .22 North Platte. Neb.... 74 no .0 Oklahoma. Okla S2 04 .0 Omaha, Neb TO 54 .0 Phoenix, Ariz 102 SO .16 Pittsburg. Pa 78 56 .0 St. Joseph, Mo 70 52 .0 St. Louis, Mo 78 5(5 .0 Salt Lake. Vtah ss cts .0 San Francisco, Cal.... 68 5(5 .0 Seattle. Wash 76 56 .0 Sheridan. Wyo 76 52 .0 Springfield, 111 74 54 .0 Swift Current, Sas 82 44 .0 Toledo, Ohio SO 56 .01 Washington. D. C 00 08 .02 Winnipeg, Man 74 42 .0 THE LZ3 LT3 Piano Not After Cannot Call r.r.wHrmoRE MANAGER KODAK FIRM TRUST Eastman Gets Time to Correct Its Methods. Court Fails to Order Dissolu tion of Camera Concern. Buffalo, N. T., Aug. 25. The East man Kodak company of Rochester is a monopoly in restraint of trade in vio lation of the Sherman anti-trust law, according to a decision handed down here late yesterday by Judge John R. Hazel, of the United States district, court. The decision grants the de fendant company an opportunity to present a plan "for the abrogation of the illegal monopoly" on the first day of the November term. Judge Hazel, in his opinion, stated that while it appeared that no ir remediable hardship would result from a separation of the present business in two or more separate companies, it was not at this time in tended to indicate either a dissolution, division or re-organization. It no doubt is, possible, he said, that an adequate measure of relief might result from enjoining the un fair practices of the terms of sale agreement from a separation business side, but the defendant should have until November to present to the court a plan for the abrogation of the illegal monopoly. The bill was filed June 9, 1913, against the Eastmen Kodak Company of New Jersey, the Eastman Kodak Company of New York. George East man, Henry A. Strong, Walter S. Hub bell and Frank S. Noble, all of Rochester. The bill alleged, among other things, that from 1902 to 1906 the Eastman company of New York in tentionally monopolized the business of selling cameras, plates, photo graphic paper and film in the United States by acquiring control of twenty competing concerns which were aft erward dissolved, the plants disman tled and their business removed to Rochester. Stock Houses Acquired. That the Eastman Company of New Jersey acquired many stock houses engaged in different states in selling photographic supplies manufactured by the defendants and their compet itors. That the defendants, with the in tention of monopolizing the importa tion acquired the exclusive right to sell in the United States and Canada, raw paper stock from European pa per mills -a necessity in the manu facture of 'photographic papers. That from 1899 to 1908 all East man products were sold by dealers under restrictions and with discounts which stifled competition. Movie Contention Thrown Out. Judge Hazel dismissed the govern ment's claim that contracts for the manufacture of motion picture film entered into by the defendants and the motion picture patents committee were violations of the statute. The court quoted the great gains and profits of the company for the year, which amounted to $15,633, 551.33, or about 171 per cent on total sales of $24,763,407.65 as showing the largo disproportion between the cost of manufacture and the price paid by the consumers. It is undisputed, the court held, that the Eastman com pany controlled approximately 75 per cent or 80. per cent of the entire trade and had, accordingly, obtained a monopoly. BOTKIN ON STAND (Continued from Page One) resignations were due to difference in pay checks, Botkin stated. The war den told the commission that Jones was dismissed because he wasn't in accord with the system of prison management. Jones was a Republican and Botkin appointed a Republican to take his place. J. G. Davis, coroner of Leavenworth county, was called to the stand this morning by the prosecution to refute the testimony of Frank Schenck, who told about the killing of an insane negro in a straight jacket. Coroner Davis, who directed the autopsy over the negro, testified that the negro's death was due to heart failure. Discipline Up to Standard. Preceding the offering of the war den's testimony, the defense had of fered the evidence of numerous wit nesses to prove that the discipline in the prison had been well up to the standard. These witnesses had con tradicted many important charges made by witnesses for the prosecution. The defense asserted time after time that the prison was in better physical condition than ever before. J. L. Brown, pioneer prison employee, was one of the star witnesses for the de fense and compared the Botkin ad ministration with general records of the past. Brown, however, was not permitted to discuss former individual wardens. Eye Witness to Killing:. Frank Schneek. a life term convict, was one of the last witnesses called for the defense. He testified that he was an eye witness to the killing of Jack Thomas, a convict in the insane ward. According to the story which Schneek related from the witness stated. Thomas was killed several years ago following the application of th i gag and straight jacket in the in sane ward under direction of B. D. Jones, a prison employee. It was Jones who made the charges against Botkin on which the warden was sus pended by Governor Capper. "I saw it all," said Schneek. "I tried to get Jones to stop. But he wouldn't. He said he would make an example of that nigger." It is claimed by Botkin that at the time Jones was dropped from prison service that he did not know of the killing of Thomas. Ir. his examina tion in Topeka last week, Jones de nied he was responsible for the killing of the negro convict. He declared that he placed the man in restraint under direction of the prison ohysi cian. The straight Jacket and gag used at the prison, he said, were pat terned from models used in the Osa watomie state hospital. This statement was contradicted by the defense. They offered the testi mony of John McMahon, at present a state prison emploee and a former employee at the Osawatomie hospi tal. McMahon said that he had never known of the use of the gag or straightjacket at the hospital and such instruments could net have been used without his knowledge. Xo Politics. "Were any employees of this insti tution ever discharged for political reasons?" Botkin was asked on direct examination. "No sir," replied the democratic prison official with feeling. "I deny most emphatically that such a condi tion existed or was permitted to ex ist." Then Botkin explained that persons who had been discharged and were given letters of recommendation were favored mainly at their personal re quest. Botkin stated that he wanted to be as easy as possible in the dis charge of former employees and that if a letter of recommendation would help a man to get a .good position, he did not want to stand in his way. "At the time I gave Jones his let ter of recommendation, many of the things which have since come to my knowledge were not known by me," said Botkin. Duped oy Convict. Botkin laughed and admitted that he had been "duped" by B. J. Gifford, former convict. The warden said that he, like many men outside the prison including shrewd- bankers had been led to believe the suave, soft spoken, plausible convict. "Gifford was with me one day when he told me of depositing a draft for $17,000 in a Kansas City bank," tes tified Botkin. "He wanted me to go with him to the bank to transfer the money." -t" The warden went with Gifford. Not only did Gifford fail to show a deposit in the Kansas City bank, but he po litely walked away from Botkin and escaped. Later Gifford was captured and returned to- the prison. His pre vious good timo was taken away from him and he was required to serve his maximum sentence. He was released a few weeks ago, after having been extended 35 days extra time for work ing long hours In the prison twine plant. That was the story of the Gif ford incident. Botkin did not try to conpeal the fact that the smooth con vict had "worked" him. Minister's Siren Song. With the Gifford matter, Botkin also took up the Stalnaker case. J. G. Stalnaker was a former Methodist minister and was sent to the prison for a crime against his niece. One day a telegram came to the prison stating that Stalnaker's mother was dying. The prisoner was granted a temporary parole and permitted to go to West Virginia to return on a certain date. Stalnaker returned as far as Kansas City. There the prisoner talked to a lawyer who told him of the benefits of habeas corpus proceedings. So Stal naker called the warden over the tele phone and urged him to come to Kan sas City. Botkin went. When he ar rived he was met by the prisoner and his lawyer. There summons in a habeas corpus proceeding was served. "Were you in any manner a party to the suit, or did you agree or con sent to go to Kansas City to accept service?" was asked of Botkin. "I never did." replied the warden. "I didn't have the slightest knowledge of the plan when I went there at Stal naker's request." Botkin denied that the giving of special privileges in the dining room was under his direction or at his sug gestion. Statements to Samuel Clark that the warden had personally direct ed the giving of special dining room privileges, were again denied by the warden. It was during a brief ex amination of Botkin on this subject early in the week that the lie was passed between the warden and the former prison employee. Xjonc Wolf $120 Loan. The Lone Wolf loan of $120 was taken up by Botkin in his direct ex amination. He stated that he was custodian of the convict fund uder the state law and that he had the use of the fund, just as former wardens had been entrusted with the money. Instead of using it without paying in terest, he said that he gave Lone Wolf a note bearing 10 per cent interest. The loan, he said, was repaid with in terest in full. Improvements at prison. Details of improvements and better ments under his administration were discussed. Botkin itemized many bet terments to the prison plant since he succeeded Codding. He stated that the physical condition of the peniten tiary had been improved and that in his judgment the standard of dis cipline among prisoners was good. The factional troubles among em ployees was also reviewed by the war den. He said that when Deputy War den Fitzgibbons came to the prison as mine superintendent in 1913, he was regarded as a valuable official. In fact, Fitzgibbons was advanced to the deputy wardenship, and held that position until in December, 1914. Then he was discharged. Fitzgibbons was a Catholic. In the prison arose a bitter feeling among the Catholics and Protestants. Jeal ousy was also in evidence among em ployees and Botkin stated that Fitz gibbons was dismissed from the serv ice in an effort to promote harmony. Since Fitzgibbons left, he said, condi tions had improved. No Gags Allowed. Rebuilding of the twine plant, bet terments in the mine, purchase of new machinery and other details were told of by the warden. "When did you first know of the use of the gag and straight jacket in the prison?" was asked. "When I returned from a trip to Wyoming in 1913," said Botkin. "Fitz gibbons told me about it. I was in dignant because such inhuman treat ment of prisoners had been permitted. I called every man connected with the incident before me and reprimanded them severely. Then I ordered the prison searched and every gag and straight jacket gathered and locked up. They have never since been used." As a result of the gag and straight jacket incident, Botkin testified, sev eral prison employees had been dis charged. GAIN ON TURKS (Continued from Page One.) London yesterday, chief of which were reports thct Bulgaria had de clared war against Turkey and would assist in the attempt to force the Dar danelles. The situation brought about by the sinking of the Arabic is still eliciting comment fiom the English press, which chaiacterizcs unofficial expla nations as inadequate, but interprets efforts to explain .the disaster as evi dence of Germany's realization that her relations with the United States have reached a e.erious phase. Berlin Denies Dreadnought's Loss. Berlin, 'Aug. 25. No German dreadnoughts or cruisers were sunk in the recent action in the Gulf of Riga, it is semi-officially stated in-Berlin. Neither did the Germans attempt to land troops near Pernau, it is de clared. PASSING OF OSSOWETZ. Cutting off of Great Fortress by Ger mans Made it Worthless. Petrograd, Aug. 25 (Via London) In accordance with orders received from the authorities, the garrison of Osswoetz joined the Russian field army on August 22, evacuating the fortress after blowing up the perma nent fortificatiors, burning the wood en structures and removing or crip pling the guns, thus ending a year of gallant defense of the principal cross ing of the Bobr r.ver. War office officials in commenting on the surrender of the fortress point ed that it was especially adapted for defense because of the marshes that surrounded it, but that this fact would be one working, to its disadvantage when the fortress was cut off from the army, the marshy ground being unsuitable for maneuvers and sorties. After the abandonment of the line of the Bobr, Ossowetz ceased to have importance in the view of the army officials and it was regarded as the part of wisdom to withdraw from it. Bailystok is said to be still in Russian hands, but a large part of the railway from the north and west is now in the hands of the Germans and it is ex pected nhat they will make every ef fort to extend their lines toward Grodno, the next fortress of impor tance in this region. Meanwhile the Austro-Germans continue to press upon the flanks of the fortress of Brest-Litovsk from the north and south, and serious battles are developing in the vicinity of Pischca and Kovel. The Russian extreme southern flank is inactive. But in the far north, on the other end of the line, there' were minor battles on August 23, in the direction of Jacobstadt and Dvinsk, with alter nating successes. The reception by the emperor of Michael Vladimirovitch Radzianko, president of the duma, and repeated sessions of the council of ministers have elicited- lively discussions in the corridors of the duma regarding the possibility of the formation of a min istry of national defense, including representatives of several parties in the duma. Bandits Elude Persners. Little Rock. Ark., Aug. 25. After being surrounded by a posse, the two bandits who yesterday looted the Bank of Amity at Amity, Clark county, eluded their pursuers and now are headed for Oklahoma. They ex changed shots with the posse when surrounded near the banks of the Little Missouri river. TODAY'S MARKETrFP0RT. Chicago." Aug. 25. WHEAT Wheat took an upward turn today In a nervous mar ket after opening irregular, c lower to Skc higher, with September at 99c to and December at 87V-C to 98c. The dominating influence in the bulge was fear that the frost again reported from the Canadian northwest would make itself felt in Minnesota and the Dakotas. With slight fluctuations September soon rose to $1.00 and December to 98V4c The bulk of trad ing seemed to b in the latter month. Low er iLverpool cables were ignored by the bulls. Later the market eased off on reports that the frost had done no damage in the northwest because high winds had kept it from settling. Unconfirmed rumors that the British had gone through the Dardanelles also made for lower values. The close was irregular, c lower to V4c higher, Septeni, 9Jc: December, 97 c. CORN Corn followed the upward trend of wheat. Opening prices were unchanged to e higher, with September at 74c to 7414c and December at 63c to 63i4c. Both made quick gains. September soon touching 74c and December, which at tracted most of the trading, reaching 63vie. Corn followed the break in wheat. De mand fell off and country offerings were light. The market closed quiet, i-fcc lower to i?e higher, with September at 73c anil December o3(803e. OATS Oats, which opened unchanged to 1: lower, soon registered a substantial gain in sympathy with other grain. PROVISIONS Pork and ribs in good demand, were higher, the strength of hogs being the main cause of the rise. Chicago Grain Market. ITho range of prices for grain futnres on The Chicago Board of Trade as reported by Thos. J. Myers. Broker. Columbian Bids. Chicago, Aug. 25. Open High Low Today WHEAT Sept. 09 100 nS1 99'i Dee. 97 98V'. 964 87 May 101 Vj 10:!4 100 101 CORN Sept. 74Vi 74 73?i 7R4 Dec. 64 ?M 6:1- May 64-)s 65 04lJ 64 OATS Sept. T.7YX 37 "7'i 37 Dec. 3G.i- 36 30 36 PORK Sept. ..l.l.fio- 13.70 13.55 13.55 Oct. ..13.70 13.82 13.70 13.70 99 7Vi 64 J8 37 Vi 30 Kansas City Grain iLarhet. fTtie range of prices for grain futures on The Kansas City Board Trade as re ported by Thos. J. Myers. Broker. Colum bian Bldg. Kansas City, Aug. 25. Close Open HIgb Low Today fea. WHEAT Sept. 97 Dec. 94 Mar 98 CORN Sept. 69 Dec. 591,4 May 61 OS 96 07- 95H 94 94 94 99is 97 JtS Svg 69'i S 69ti 091,4 59 59H 59- f.9- 62 61 62 1- Liverpool Grain Market. Liverpool, Aug. 25. WHEAT Spot No. 2 Manitoba, lis .d No. 3, lis 4id No. 1 Northern Duluth. lis 5d. CORN Spot, American mixed, new, Ss lid. Clilcaro Grain Market. Chicago. Aug. 25. September, 99VjC; De cember, 97e: May. 51.01. OOUN September. 73c; December, 63&;S3c: May, S4e. OATS September, 37c; December, 3c; Mav, 39fti.'S9c. PORK September, $13.55 -.October, $13.70. LARD September. $.8.07; October, $S.20. SHORT K1BS September, $8.47; October, $S.60. Grain Ooanin. (By special wire to T. J. Myers, Columbian Building. Elevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City increased 10,808 bushels yesterday and corn stocks decreased 10.501 bushels. Exports from the United States an J Can ada yesterday were 506.000 bushels of Wheat. 10,000 barrels of flour, 2,000 bushels of corn and 208.000 bushels of oats; wheat and flour combined, 551.0O0 bushels. Officials estimates of this year's wheat crops in the United States. United King dom, European Russia, Spain, Italy. Swit zerland, India, Japan, Tunis and Canada (winter wheat), make a total 2,583 million bushels. 393 million bushels a year ago. A revised official Italian report makes the yield of wheat 161 million bushels, com pared with 168 million bushels a year ago. Reserves are 32 million bushels. Last year at this period reserves were 56 million bushels and there was imported during the season (X) million bushels. Stocks of wheat in Chicago elevators in creased 184,000 bnshels last week and now amount to 1.084,000 bushels; corn, 569.000 bushels, decrease 380.000 bushels: oats, 1.211.000 bushels, increase 782.000 bushels A year ago stocks were 6,716,000 bushels of wheat. 730.000 bushels of corn and 10, 534,000 bushels of oats. A weekly foreign crop summary contain ed the following: "United Kingdom Wheat yield and quality will be under ex pectations. France Yield and quality will be disappointing. Germany Official re ports state that wheat crop is a good aver age. Reserves are liberal. Yield of po tatoes is 50 million tons. Apsin Private reports say yield Is disappointing, but officials reiterate that crop will be 24 million bushels larger than last year. Hungary An official report makes the wheat yield 50 million bushels larger than last year. It is claimed that this is ex cessive. Large quantities have been se verely against harvesting and therefore quality is larger. Out turn of winter wheat is good, while spring crops have improved, except in the corn region, where prospects are greatly lower. India Weather con-, tinnes dry and there is practically no wheat offered for export." Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas" City, Mo.. Aug. 25. WHEAT Cash: Market unchanged to lc lower. No. 2 hard. l.llil.i7: No. 3. $1.08 1.25; No. 2 red. $1.1161.12: No. 3. $1.02&l.uVa. CORN Market unchanged to le lower. No. 2 mixed, Tiia.T-c; No. 3, 72c; No. 2 white. 7273c; No. 3, 72c; No. 2 yellow, 7373H,c; No. 3, 72V.g73c. OATS Market unchanged to 'S lower.' No. 2 white. 3840c; No. 2 mixed; 394Qc RYE 93 95c. HAY' Market steady. Choice timothy, $12.0013.00: choice prairie, $9.009.50; choice alfalfa, $13.0013.50. WHEAT Receipts 149 cars. BUTTER Market unchanged. EGGS Market unchanged. POULTRY Market unchanged. CLOSE WHEAT September. 9797c December, 94c; May, Wkc; CORN September. 6vic: December, 59fe59c; May. 62c. Chicago Chicago, Aug. Produea Market. 25. EGGS Market cnangeu. SSSE'J818- 2222Hc; tone higher. POULTRY Market unchanged. POTATOES Market unchanged. CHEESE Market higher. Daisies, 1314 li7C-:.Amerluas' 13&S4l3Vac; LoI)g Horns, llfel4c. New York fro dec Market. New York, Aug. 25. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery extras. 92 score, 2c. EGGS Market firm. Fresh gathered ex tras. 26fi27c. CHEESE Market steadier. State whole" milk, fresh flats, white and colored specials, 13.13i4c. POULTRY Market unsettled. Western chickens, broilers. 20c acked fowls, 17c asked dressed, dull prices unchanged. New York Sorar Market. New York, Aug. 25. SUGAR Raw, dull: centrifugal, $4.70; molasses, $3.93. Refined sugar, quiet. New fork Stock Market. Wall St., New York, Aug. 25. STOCKS A considerable profit taking followed the buoyaut operation, especially in some issues which have scored greatest gains, but the market lost little of its breadth or strength. Steel was again the most ac tive feature of the first hour, with the total overturn approaching 400,000 shares. Ita best price of the morning was 76, thereby wiping out all but-a point of the 10 point loss which followed the sinking of the Arabic. Bethlehem Steel was again relatively inactive, but rose 6 to 285. Most of the important railways joined the rise later, transcontinental adding fractionallv to early advances, while truuk lines anil coalers seem improved also. Bonds steady. Sensational gains in war shnres were re corded at the opening of today's trading. New iork Air Brake advanced 5j to 150y,, Studebaker following with a rise of 6 to 111. later adding anoother six points. Willys-Overland was the real feature of the Motor group, advancing Vi'. to 188. Cruci ble Steel, Allis Chalmers, Sloss-Sheffied Steele.Kepublic Steel and Lackawanna Steel advanced 2 to 3 points, the latter to the new high record of 66. United States Steel's opening was 10.000 shares at 75 to 10, compared with yesterday's close of 74. Westlnghouse also changed hands in large amounts, the first sale of 4.500- shares at 110 to 116, show-Ing a maximum gain of 2- Among the railways, the Pacifies and Baltimore and Ohio advanced one to two points. New Tork Stock Market. (Close of prices for the leading stocks on The New York Stock Exchange as re ported by Thos. J. Myers, broker. Colum bian Bldg. New York, Aug. 25. Close- I Am. Beet Sugar Today Yea 64 631 Am. ran, c 61 Am. Car Fndy 68 Am. Locomotive, c 54 Am. S. R., c.i 79'i Am. S. R., p 105'g Am. Sugar Ref 110 Am. Tel. T 122V6 Anaconda Mining 69',g A. T. S. F., c 101 A. T. S. F., p 98 Baltimore Ohio 824 Betbdlehem Steel 283 Brooklyn R. T 84i,i Canadian Pacific 151 "i Central Leather 43 Chesapeake Ohio 46 59 V 78 105 109 69 U, 101 si" 275 84 149 43 44 81 45" 39 27' 117 102 V4 33 26 141 3 61 14 89 62 105 KKIMs 17 8-81,4 15 52 128 74" 111 654 70 113 C. M. St. P.. c 82?i Chicago Northwestern. 126 Chlno Copper 45V4 Colorado Fuel Iron... 41 i Erie, c Great Northern, p Illinois Central Inspiration K. C. Southern, c Lehigh Valley Missouri Pacific........ M. K. T.. c National Lead Nev. Con Copper N. Y. Central N. Y.. N. H. H Norfolk Western Northern Pacific Penn. Railroad Ray Con Copper Reading, c Rock Island Southern Pacific Southern Railway, c... Tenn. Copper Union PacifV, c Union Pacific, p IT. S. Steel, c U. S. Steel, p Utah Copper. Westernn Union Westlnghouse Electric. 28 ...117 ...10:pj 3414 27 ...142 4 S!4 3 14 90 64V3 !."l07 109 22 ...1481. 22 89 15T 53 ...130 81V. 63 70 ..110 Kansas City Live Stock Sales. (The f"H- 'ing sales were made t?ils morn ing at the Stock Yards. Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone di rect to tb State Journal y Clav. liobin bod Co., live stoc commission rner Kausas City. Aug. 25. CATTLE Ke ceipts 8.000. Market steady. HOGS Receipts 5,000 head, to 10c higher. Bulk of sales, top. $7.70. SHEEP Receipts 8,000 head, to 15e higher. Market 5e $6.85(6.7.45; Market 10c No. Wt Price.lNo. Wt Price 20 1125 $9.25 64 1138 $8.30 81 1242 8.60 I 81 1002 7.80 10 900 7.50 I COWS AND HEIFEKS. 1 1010 5.00 I 1 620 7.10 1 576 4.25 16 841 S.25 3 1110 7.00 I 2 1260 5.75 STOCKEKS AND FEEDKIcS. 24 960 7.75 I 3 831 7.65 14 680 7.00 I 5 104 6.75 CALVES 1 170 10.50 I 7 183' 10.25 1 180 10.00 I 4 231 9.25 BULLS. 1 1110 5.00 I 4 1260 5.50 7 933 4.75 I HOGS. 89 200 7.45 I 93 186 7.50 68 254 7.15 83 220 7.30 57 222 7.35 Wichita Live Stock Market. Wichita. Kan., Aug. 25. HOGS Receipts 500. Market higher. Top, $7.25; bulk of j sales. $6.75&7.10. 1 CATTLE Receipts 300. Market steady. I Native steers, $8.00ftt9.50 cows and heifers. 1 $5.008.25: stockers and feeders. SO.OOCo) 7.50 stock cows and heifers. $4.50ftj,7.25 1 bulls, $4.750.O-; calves, $6.009.25. St. Joseph Live Stock Market. St. Joseph. Mo., Aug. 25. HOGS Re ceipts 2,5O0. Market 5Cn 10c higher. Top, $7.50: bulk of sales. $!.H0fa7.45. CATTLE: Receipts 1.500. Market steady to strong. Steers, $7.00is9.7o cows and heifers. $4.00i 9.00 calves, $6.00rti 10.25. SHEEP Receipts 1,000. Market strong. Lambs, $8.00a8.75. Kanxa Cltv Live Stock Mnrkot Kansas City. Mo., Aug. 25. HOGS Re- 1 ceipts 5,000. Market 5c higher. Bulk of sales, $6.80(37.45; heavy. $6.50ft7.10 pack- 1 ers and butchers. $6.80(7.45; light, $7.10(3 7.50: pigs. $6.75tt7.40. CATTLE Receipts 8.00O. Market steady. Prime fed steers. $9.5Wa9.85; dressed beef steers, 8.O0&9.4O; western steers, i.ou'fii STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stocks Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Oir Own Offices at Chicago. So. St. Joseph, So. Omaha, Denver, Sioux City, So. St, Pant, E. Buffalo. E. St. Louts and Fort Worth. Q T". n.Wharn itM-rfl Si 85(ff 8.50: COWS. $4.5oVi7.50 heifers, $.75fi9.50 stockers and feeders, $(1,258.50; buUa, $5.256.75; calves. S6.0Oftiiu.oO. SflEEI- Receipts s.ouo. MarKet neauj. f.nmhfl SS.'iVfiSill! veHrlin&rs. JOSftl'GO wethers, $5.50fti 0.25 ;ewes, $55Q5.75; stock era and feeders, $5.0U&8.20. Chicago Live Stock Market. Chicago. Aug. 25. HOGS Receipts 19.- 000. Market 0c higher than yesterday a averasre. Bulk of sales. $6.55lfi7.45 light. $7.20ftj7.90: mixed. $6.45g.7.85; heavy. $6.25 i.-Hi rougn, u.i)io.u pigo, CATTLE Receipts 17.000.. Market slow: steady. Beeves; $ti.00(g 10.00; cows ami heif ers, $3.10(r8.75 Texas steers, $6.40(Sj7.50 western steers, u.ooas.oo; caives, c5.ov-m 12.25. SHEEP Receipts 18,000. Market steady. Native, $5.65f6.25 western, $5.85C(6.35; yearlings, $.30i7.:!5: lambs, native, $ti.70U) 8.80; western, $6.85 9.00. Topeka by Cbaa. IFurclshed Woiif Packing Co.l Topeka, Kau.. Aug. 25. CATTLE AND v HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS $6.456.0u HEAVY LIGHT STEERS. Good to choice Fair to good 6.35M 6.75 6.55ti7.00 ..$0.75a7.75 5.7543.6.00 COWS. Good to choice ....$fl.000."50 Fair to good 5.25(3.5.75 Common to fair 4.00a4.50 HEIFERS. Choice to good $6.50(87.25 Fair to good 5.75(6.25 Common 4.00.5.00 BULLS. m Fleshy ...$5.00(85.75 Medium 4.50B,3.00 VEAL CALVES. Prime fat $8.00 Medium good $6.007.O'J SHEEP AND LAMBS. Fat wethers $4.005.00 Fat ewes 4.0O(d4.50 Fat lambs 6.50(7.00 (Positively cannot use sheep or lambs unless fat-l WE CANNOT ACCEPT THIN BOGS OR PIGS. Poultry, Egss and Butter. (Furnished by the Topeka Packing Cow paoy, corner Laurent and Madison. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 25. PODLTItf Hens, all sizes, loc; broil ers, 2 lbs. and under, 15c: ducks, 8c; geese, 7c; young Tom turkeys. 13c: old Tom tur kevs. 11c: springs over 2 lbs.. lSc. EGGS 17c. PACKING STOCK BUTTER 18c. Bntter and Eggs. Furnished by The Continental Creamery Co., Topeka. Kan. Topeka. Ksn.. Aug. 25. NEW YORK EGOS 226(23ac. CHICAGO EGUS 20i4(S21c. CREAMERY.. BUTTER Chicago, 24c; New York, 26c; Elgin, 24c; Topeka whole sale, 26c. Topeka Grain Market. (Furnished by J. B. Blllard, corner Kan sas Are. and Curtis St. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 25. OATS 3S40c. CORN 70c. WHEAT 90c$1.10. TVlit-at Vlarkrv IFurnlsbed by Shawnee Milling Co. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 23. WHEAT No. 2 old, $1.20. WHEAT No. 3 old. $1.15. WHEAT No. 2 new, $1.10. WHEAT No. 3 new. $1.08. Topeka Hay Market. Topeka, Kau., Aug. PRAIRIE HAY $9.00. ALFALFA $9.00. Wholesale Fruit and Produce. Furnished by S. E. Lux. I Topeka, Kan., Aug. 25. ITALIAN PRUNES Per crate, $1.25. BARTLETT PEARS Per box. $2.00; In 5 box lots, per box. $1.90. BARTLETT PEARS Per box. $2.00. VALENCIA ORANGES Per box. $3.75(3 5.00. ELBERTA PEACHES '-Fancy, s per bus. basket. $1.10; in lots of 25 baskets, per bu. basket. $1.05. MALAGA GRAPES Per crate. $1.75. Thompson's Seedings, per crate, $1.50. BANANAS Extra fancy, per lb.. 3c. LEMONS Per box, $4.25. APPLES Per bbl.. $4.50. LIMES Per box. $l.a5. CALIFORNIA CANTALOUPES Western stock, per crate, $2.75: Arkansas and Mis souri stock, per crate, $2.00. WATERMELONS Per nit, $1.40: rcr thousand weight. $1.25. HOME GROWN TOMATOES Per bskt.. 75c. CUCUMBERS Per basket. $1.25. GREEN CORN Per doz.. 12c: in 10 or more doz. lots, per doz., 10c. it HUB A U B Per lb.. 2c DIAMOND BASKETS n. bu. baskets, per doz.. 45c: 2-5 bu. baskets, iter dos. 12c; sweet corn, per doz., 15c. NEW CABBAGE Best grudd. per lb. le MANGO PEPPERS Per basket. 00c. NEW BEETS Per bu. basket. 65c. Ti; I! NIPS Per bu.. 60c. ONIONS Red. per bu..85c: yellow. per uu.. 10c; wuiie, per dii., ijc. I'HBFSK Per lh 17c. HORSERADISH Per .W bottles. 90c. BEANS Pr basket, $1.25. CARROTS Per bu.. iloe. NEW POTATOES Per bu.. Hoc. SWEET POTATOES Per hamper. $1.65. POP CORN Per lb.. 3c MAKE YOUR MONEY EARN A good perfectly the same return. investment is one that is safe and reliable and at time affords a reasonable Kansas First Mortgage Loans are Investments possessing both these essential features. To the In dividual investor large or small demanding security above all else, farm mortgages stand first and foremost. Conservative Investors consider them especially desirable. Officials of our company are backed by over twenty years of ex perience. Our booklet. "Safety and Profit." contains much Information of value u the investor. Ask for it. The Farm Mortgage Company Dept. J. Crawford Bldg. Topeka. Kan. 7

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTTWAT, WEDNESDAY EVENITn AUGUST 25,1915. They Ought to Serve Jeff a Menu of Towns When He Buys a TicketDrawn for Zlxt aournal By Bud Fisher Vl .TffPr- THROW THESE THlKfcS IH Txe TRVNtC QUICK. uie-ee- gon to Europe to THe war. vwe'R-e g&hk,. wotcfc. our. uxvy oven. J 'GoTft cooped I ML "iv r NOW VOO CAR.R." THE TRUNK. J&OujN To THS BOftT AMO So BUT TH6 TCceTS WHU.e' I PACfc THIS. 6RlP. "THe purser v-l Repvoy our. fwoNet .s soom w!-r life Li Yxisr iiii 4ifiL IZZIES WON TWO les Moines Took Last of Series From Denver. St. Joe Drummers Split "With the Tigers. STANDING OF U CLUUSv. Denver. Colo., Ausr. 25. Des Moines won both games from Denver here Tuesday. Both games were bitterly contested and bunched hits gave the victories to the visitors. first same Score: R. H. E Des Moines 000 000 200 2 2 0 Denver 000 000 010 1 2 4 Batteries: Mogridge and Breen; Mitchell and Spahr. Summary Stolen base Hunter. Two bass hit Sawyer. Home run Shestak. Struck out By Mogridge, 5; by Mitchell. 3. Bases on balls Off Mitchell, 4. Double plays Hartford to Jones: CSalloway to Kelleher. Hit Batsman Galloway. Umpire Secrist. Second game Score: R. H. K Des Moines ...300 020 010 6 10 1 Denver 010 200 020 5 4 4 Batteries: Musser, Mogridge and Graham; Cantrell, Sterzer and Shestak. Summary: Two base hits Sawyer, Bills, Ewoldt, Sterzer. Three base hits Hunter, Jones. Home run Gallo way. Struck out By Musser, 4; by Sterzer, 7; by Mogridge, 1. Bases on balls Off Cantwell, 1; off Musser, 2: off Sterzer, 6. Double plays Kellehor to Galloway; McCormick to Shestak Kwoldt to Sawyer to Jones. Hits Off Cantwell, 2 in one-third inning; off Sterzer, 8 in eight and two-thirds in nings; off Musser, 4 in seven innings; off Mogridge. none in two innings. Umpire Secrist. Omaha 4; Wichita 3. Wichita, Kan., Aug. 2 5. Wichita lost the last game of the series to Omaha when Britton dropped an easy pop fly on the third out and permit ted two men to score. The score: R. H. E. Omaha 001 010 002 4 6 2 Wichita 001 200 000 3 1) 2 Batteries: Everdon, North and Wells; Riley and Gray. Summary: Left on bases Omaha 6; Wichita, 8. Earned runs! Omaha. 2; Wichita, 2. Sacrifice hits Tanne hill,. Hetling, Riley. Two base hits Kverdon, Gray (2). Stolen bases Smith (2). Wells, Hosp. Hits Off Everdon. 9 in eight and two-thirds in nings. Double play Everdon to Krug to Schliebner. Struck out By Ever don. 4; by Riley, 4. Bases on balls Everdon, 3; off Riley. 2. Hit by pitcher By Riley (Smith): by Ever don (Patterson, 2).. Umpire Van Syckle. Unpoln 6-3; St. Joe 4-4. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 25. Lincoln and St. Joseph divided a double-header to 4 and 3 to 4. each game showing some ragged fielding. First game Score: R. H. E Lincoln 000 000 00 6 9 0 St. Joseph 200 110 000 4 7 5 Batteries: Hoffman and McAllister: Loudermilk and Connelly. Summary: Home run H. Williams. Two base hits Helmer, Grodick. Hoff man. Stolen bases McGraffigan. Grodick. Sacrifice hits Grodick. Mc Graffigan, H. Williams. Loudermilk. Hoffman. Struck out By Hoffman. 4; by Loudermilk, 3. Bases on balls Off Hoffman, 5, off Loudermilk. 2. Hit bv pitched ball By Loudermilk. 1. Wild pitch Hoffman. Umpire Geisel. Second game Score R. H. E Lincoln 102 000 000 3 10 I, St. Joseph 013 000 000 4 10 1 Batteries: Morse and Yantz; Val and Connelly. Summary: Two base bit Enz Stolen bases McGaffigan. Nicholson. Sacrifice hits Boultes, Wolfe. Struck out Bv Morse, 4: by Val, 3. Bases on balis Off Morse, 2; off Val, 2. Umpire Geisel. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clubs Pes Moines 1 enver Sionx City l-jlU'oIll TOPEKA Omaha Wk-hita St. Joe National Clcbs Philadelphia Rrooklyu lioston Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati New York American Clubs Kostou Ietroit Chicago "Wushillfftou New York Cleveland Philadelphia St. Louis American A Clubs Minneapolis St. Paul Louisville Indianapolis Kansas City Milwaukee Cleveland St. Louis Letvrc. Won. M 70 01

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50 54 Kt 45 League. Won. 04 K V4 04 IK) 57 55 ;so Lost. P- 50 .5!)0 51 .5X3 57 .55 .59 .500 .454 .445 .378 5i 50 05 00 74 Lost. Pet 50 .502 50 .55S 5:! .547 Kt .547 55 .5-2 .409 .40- .339 IU5 04 70 AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Detroit Score: R. H. E. Boston 3 9 0 Detroit .1 8 3 Batteries: Shore and Cady; Cove leskie, Boland and Stallage and Baker. Summary: Two base hit Stanage. Three base hit Cobb. Bases on balls Off Shore, 2: off Coveleskie, 2 Struck out By Shore, 1 by Coveles- kic, 3: by Boland, 1. Umpires Hilde brand and O'Loughlin. At Cleveland Score: R. H. E. I Now York 0 1 0 Cleveland 6 13 1 Batteries: Caldwell and Alexander: Mortc.i and O'Neill. Summary: Tvo base hit Wambs ganss. Stolen bases Graney, Chap man. Bases on bells Off Caldwell, 3. Struck out By Morton, 7; by Caldwell, 1. Umpires! Wallace and Connolly. At Chicago (13 innings.) Score: R. H. E. Washington 5 12 5 Chicago 6 10 5 Batteries Boehling, Ayres and Henry; Scott. Wolfgang, Faber and Schalk and Daly. Summary: Two base hits Acosta, Schalk, Shanks, Foster. Three base hits Gandil (2), Murphy, Moeller. Stolen bases Milan. Murphy, Shanks. Bases on balls Off Boehling, 2; off Ayres, 4; off Wolfgang, 2; off Faber, 1. Struck out By Ayres. 6; by Wolf gang, 3; by Faber, 3. Umpires Nallin and Dineen. At St. Louis Score: Philadelphia St. Louis Batteries Nabors, First game. R. IT. E. 7 12 S 10 11 2 Wyckoff, Bus- At Minneapolis Score: R. JT. E. Louisville 1 4 3 Minneapolis 7 9 1 Batteries Middleton and demons: M. Williams and Gharrity. At Milwaukee Score: R. IT. E. Columbus 1 3 0 Milwaukee 2 6 3 Batteries Curtis and Cole-man; Shackelford and Brannan. No other games scheduled. sler and Lapp; East, Koob, Sisler and Agnew. Summary: Two base hits Kopf, Lajoie, Pratt. Three base hit Jacob son. Stolen bases J. Walsh, Pratt, Austin, Howard, Lavan. Basea on balls Off Nabors, 3: off Wyckoff, 1; off Bressler, 2; off East, 2; off Sis- 1m 4 Struck mit Rv WvrVnff 1 j by Bresler, 1 by East, 1 by Sisler, 5. Umpries Chill and Evans. Second game Score: R. !T. E. Philadelphia 2 3 1 St. Louis 6 10 2 Batteries Fillingin and McAvoy; Hoff and O'Brien. Summary: Two basa hits Walsh, Walker, Jacobson. Stolen bases Old ring (2), Shotton. Pratt, Walker. Bases on balls Off Fillingin. S; off Hoff, 6. Struck out By Fillingin. 4: by Hoff, 5. Umpires Chill and Evans. SIMPSON BEAT MAXKATO. Loans on Rea.Iesta.te Repayable Monthly Some people ask If they pay Interest on the whole loan until it is paid off. NO With each payment the interest reduces and any additional payment made the interest stops on that amount. Capitol Enilding Loan Ass'n 534 Kanaa Avenue Grabcr Pitched a Two-Hit. No-Run Game for Jubilee Victors. i I Simpson. Kan., Aug. 25. After winning three games from the Illi inois Red Sox at Simpson during the I Jubilee last week the Simpson lea t guers went to Mankato, Monday and defeated the same team by a score of 10 to 0. Graber pitched a two hit, no run game for Simpson. Battery for Simpson Graber and Rigsby. Tuesday the team played the Ben nington, Ottawa county, league team at Bennington. vc, B. IS ANXIOUS Feds' Ten Cent Ball Is a Dis turhing Factor. rhpanpr Admissions irnn T.pss r Profits for Somebody. Otis Crandall. Otis Crandall, former Giant bow with the St. Louis Feds, has invented a new delivery known as the "snake ball." According to the reports ol opposing batsmen, the sphere floats up to the plate in a series of eccen tric circles that give hickory swing ers the staggers trying to follow it ours. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At New York Score: St. Louis New York Batteries: Meadows R. H. E. 12 15 0 15 7 and Snyder; Tosreau, Schupp and Dooin and Wen dell. Summary: Two base hit Betzel. Three base hits Long. Dolan- Stolen bases Bescher 2, Miller, Long, Mey ers. Bases on balls Off Tesreau, 4; off Schupp, 1; off Meadows, 3. Struck out By Tesreau, 6; by Schupp, 4; by Meadows, 4. Umpires i O'Day and Stockdale. At Brooklyn Score: R. H. E. Cincinnati 5 11 0 Brooklyn 0 3 1 Batteries- Toney and Clarke; Dell, Appleton, Douglas, Rieker and Mc carty. Three base hits Herzog, Griffith. Bases on balls Off Dell, 3 off Toney 2. Struck out By Appleton, 1; by Toney, 2. Umpires Klem and Emslie. At Boston Score: R. H. E. Boston 6 10 2 Pittsburg 0 5 1 Batteries: Ragan and Gowdy: Ccoper, Hill and Gibson. Summary: Two base hits Ragan, Snodgrass, Fitzpatrick, Wagner. Three base hit Fitzpatrick. Stolen bases Evers. Fitzpatrick, Viox. Bases on balls Off Cooper, 1; off Hill, 3; orr Ragan, 4. Struck out By Ragan, 3; by Hill, 2. Umpires Byron and Eason. At Philadclhia Score: R. H. E. Chicago 6 10 2 Philadelphia 1 7 1 Batteries: Lavender and Archer; Rixey, Chalmers, Bavmgartner and Killifer and A'b.ms and Burns. Summary: Two base hits Good, Zimmerman, Williams, Stock. Home run Fisher. Bass on balls Off Lavender, 3: off Rixey, 1; off Chal mers, 1 off Baumgartner, 3. Struck out By Lavender, 4; by Rixey, 2; by Chalmers, 1: by Baump-artner, 2. Um pires Rigler and Cockill. New York, Aug. 25. Organized baseball has its eye glued to the knot hole. The knothole is about the size of a dime and in the Federal's fence. O. B. is mightily interested in know ing how many ten-cent DaseDaii tans there are in these United States. The season is apparent O. B. has come to the realization that something is the matter with baseball, and there are enough good business heads in O. B.'s ranks to want to find out what it is. So it's going to see if Dr. Gilmore has properly diagnosed the case. Dr. Gilmore's diagosis being that the dear old public is tired of paying big prices to see games. That, however, raises a question in the minds of a lot of baseball men as to what the Johnson-Tener combine will do if it ultimately finds that the Feds are right. Close to one thousand fans would have to crowd into the Detroit park every day at 10 cents a head to pay Tyrus Cobb's salary for that day, be cause Tyrus gets paid at the rate of nearly one hundred dollars per diem. And Sam Crawford, Bobby Veach, Jean Dubue, George Dauss. Ownie Bush and a dozen other players are getting good salaries. On the same'bas!s, 300,000 fans would have to pass through the turn stiles at the Polo grounds in a season to pay the yearly salary of John Mo Graw. Mr. McGraw is popularly sup i posed to be drawing down $30,000 for his labors with the Giants. And Christy Mathewson, Larry Doyle. Fred Merkle and Hans Lobert are not working for their health. The Feds have practically the same I payroll, taking all the players into consideration. Cy Falkenberg is pulling $7,500 yearly. Bennie Kauff is getting about the same, Joe Tinker gets a lot more than either of them, and so do Hal Chase. Leo Magee and a score of other big men in the third league outfit. FEDERAL LEAGUE. At Pittsburg First game R. H. E. Kansas City 0 J Pittsburg 8 1 Batteries: Cullop, Adams and East erly; Knetzer and Berry. Second game Score: R. H. E. Kansas City 3 3 3 Pittsburg 10 1 Batteries Packard and Brown; Barger, Comstock and O'Conner. At Baltimore Score: R. H. E. Brooklyn 14 12 3 Baltimore 6 H 6 Batteries Frank Smith, TJpham and Land; Johnson, Bailey and Jacklitsch. At Chicago Score: R. It. E. St. Louis 3 11 0 Chicago 0 9 Batteries Plank, Groom, Daven port and Hartley; McConnell and Fischer. At Newark Score: R. H. E. Buffalo ,..3 6 1 Newark 0 5 3 Batteries Schultz and Allen; Sea ton and Rariden. BASEBALL TODAY. Revival of Races at Dubuque. Dubuque, la., Aug. 25. Despite the overcast weather and a strong north wind, 8,000 persons witnessed the re vival of harness racing here Tuesday afternoon at the opening of the Great Western meet. The track was fast. 'Lefty" James to Louisville. Louisville, Ky.. Aug. 25. President O. H. Wat hen announced that L. J. "Lefty" James, of the Cleveland Americans, "had been added to the pitching iitaff of the Louisville Ameri can association team. Furnaces at Forbes. Adv- Western meet. The track was fast. I j Free Tire Changes i t- We wi" get you any 3 I I f? I kind of tires. We Want j "I f'"" 3 Your Repair Business. I TTj y-v The Tire Shop J t -V 832 Kansas Axe.jF f Western Ieague. Sioux City at Lincoln, clear, 2 games. St. Joseph at Topeka, clear. Des Moines at Wichita, clear. Omaha at Denver, clear. National League. Chicago at Boston, rain. Cincinnati at Philadelphia, (2), clear. Pittsburg at New York. (2). clear. St. Louis at Brooklyn, (2), clear. American League. J Washington at Chicago, clear, 3 p. .m. New York at Cleveland, clear. I Boston at Detroit, cloudy. Philadelphia at St. Louis, cloudy. Federal League. St. Louis at Chicago, clear, 3 p. m. Kansas City at Pittsburg, cloudy. Buffalo at Newark, clear. Brooklyn at Baltimore, clear. American Association. Cleveland at Kansas City, (2), clear. Columbus at Milwaukee, (2), cloudy. Louisville at Minneapolis, clear, 3 p. m. Indianapolis at St. Paul, clear, 3 P- m. SPORT WHEEZES Belnr Purloined Io; Bfaat, Ploa, Lemon Sandwiches. (By Clug.) Prai Kt. Jealousy in the Twin Cities. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 25. With the jealousy between Minneapolis and St. Paul at a red heat because Minneapo lis was occupying second place, and St. Paul first place, in the American association baseball standing, William F. Buckley stood at a street corner in St. Paul, praising the Minneapolis j team. St. Paul police took him to Central station, "for safe keeping." Topeka. has an archer entered in the Chicago tournament. A Springfield, Mo., pitcher broke his arm in delivering a ball to a batter. Some people gain fame so easily! Tuesday the Savages fished for fishes. Grover is said to have a bet ter hook than any player cn the team, but the Animal claims to be the cham pion angler. Charles Brickley, ex-captain of of Harvard's football team, will be an assistant coach at Penn. State this fall, according to a report from New York. A number of local trap shooters are counting the hours until C. N. Wray who made such a good record at the G. A. H. returns to the city. Several shooters spent Tuesday afternoon at the traps practicing to meet him. A year ago Monday the Boston Braves finished their wild dash that placed them neck and neck with the Giants in the pennant race. However, the Braves did not actually take the lead until September 7. It might be interesting to watch where they are next Tuesday week. It is likely that the National league club that wins 85 games this season will win the pennant. The Cincinnati Reds recently won 11 out of 14 games, and they have something like 38 games yet to play. For a tail end team Cincinnati has the best pennant chance any tailender ever had. The Savages have been quite a dis appointment to local fans and their most loyal supporters since they re turned home. However, if they suc ceed in finishing in the first division that will be as good as most people expected when they began the race. From now to the end of the West ern league season is a good time for club owners and managers to keep an eye on players. Those who think only of the pay check will show it, and those who do show it are the kind of players a club is better off without. Home Run Baker is alleged to have stated in Chicago this week that he would jump at a chance to play ball with the White Sox but that he would never wear one of Connie Mack's uni forms again. Baker says Mack made him sore by calling him a "contract jumper." After commenting on the sale of Catcher Krueger Of Omaha to the Yankees, the Lincoln News says: "The one best catching bet in this league was overlooked by the brainy gents who do the scouting for the majors. We refer to General Monroe of the Topeka Savages. Monroe can catch and hit in a pinch. Best of all, he pumps a lot of pepper into tfie ball game, keeping his pitchers and teammates upon their Hoes. John Savage couldn't get much more than a nibble at Monroe the big leagues plan to grab him off for the cheap draft price of $1,5 00." One of the most important changes in the football rules for the coming season has to do with the forward pass. A forward pass going out of bounds, whether hitting a player or not. will be ruled aa incompleted. Substituting the forward pass for the final punt will be eliminated. The old rule, prohibiting the resubstitution of players except at the beginning of a period has been returned to. Un necessary running into opponents after the whistle has been blown will be punished by a 10 yard penalty. The use of four officials is made manda tory this year. Swinging the legs against an opponent will cost the of fending side 15 yards. The position in which a lineman may stand is also changed. and the rules committee recommended the numbering of all players. More than $80,000 was literally shot away during the week at the Chicago trap gun tournament. The money represents the amount spent by the shooters for the fun of feeling the kick of a gun, smelling gunpowder and hearing the yell of the scorer calling out "dead" after each "bird" is shattered in bits. A total of $12,000 was spent solely for ammunition. Shells cost $30 per thousand and about 400,000 were used during the tourna ment. Trapshooting is an amateur sport pure and simple. EAST AGAINST THE WEST. A Doctor's Prescription for Cough An Effective Cough Treatment One-fonrth to one teaspoonful of Dr. King's New IMscovery, taken as needed, will soothe and check Coughs. Colds and the more dangerous Bronchial and Lung Ailments. Yon can't afford to take the risk of serious illness, when so cheap and simple a remedy as Ir. King's New Discovery Is obtainable. Go to your Drue gist today, get a bottle of Dr. Kind's New Discovery, start the treatment at once. You will be gratified for the relief and cure obtained. Adv. Big Team Match Will Be Played by Golf Champions. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 25. An inter sectional team match between the east and west is to precede all play in the national golf championship on tho links of the Country club of De troit next Thursday. W. C. Fownes, Jr., has been interesting himself in such a contest and has written to a number of players asking them to take part. Fownes will captain the eastern team and hopes to have the following players to draw from: Je rome D. Travers, Francis Ouimet, Max H. Marston, George Ormiston, E. H. Byers, J. G. Anderson, Max H. Behr, Walter J. Travis, Oswald Kirk by, Roy W. Webb, Jess Guildford, Philip Carter and R. R. Gorton. The western team will be made of from "Chick" Evans, D. E. Sawyer, H. K. D. Davis, "Jack" Neville, Nel son Whitney, C. G. Waldo, Jr., J. D. Standish, Jr., Paul Hunter, Donald, Edwards, J. K. Bole, Howard Lee and J. B. Schlottmp.n. The composition of the two sides, however, will prob ably not be known definitely until the day of the match. Each team will consist of about ten players. TRAINING CAMP FOR IT. S. Football Warriors Will Condition Themselves at IJndsborjr. Captain Ed Kennedy of the Topeka high school football team, announced that all the letter men of the team and some of last year's subs will have a pre-senson camp at Lindsborg be ginning Monday, -September 6. This course was decided upon as the best way to get the team into shape and to get the men- together before the opening of school which will not be until September 20. The team has a game scheduled a few days after school opens. Teebau's Case Postponed. Kansas City. Mo.. Aug. 25. The second injunction suit brought by George Tebeau, owner of the Kansas City American association team to re strain certain Federal league agents from making offers to his players, was continued in the circuit court today. Attorneys for Tebeau were unable to be present at the hearing and the case was set for next Thursday. The Fed eral atto.-neys filed a motion today to have Tebeau bring his contracts, day books, ledgers and journals into court. This motion will be heard tomorrow.. Sioux City Gets Geo. Watson. Sioux City, la., Aug. 25. Outfielder ueorge vvaisun, oi trie m. jowpn Western league club, has been re leased to the Sioux City club. He will Join the champions at Lincoln tomorrow. What Is the Best Remedy For j Constipation? This is a question asked us many times each day. The answer is We guarantee them to be satisfactory to you. Sold onlv bv us, 10 cents. tclly-mcfakLant DRUG CO, Bexall Store, ttb and Kaa. Are. flTME 0000 JUDGE FINDS THAT THE FIREMAN 18 AUWAVS PREPARED J Iheres a first aid JPACKA6E THAT YOU CAN HAVE f THANKS FOR YOUR OFFER JUDGE, BUT THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW MY FIRST rFER 1 -AL ICW IS I AIO I 7 MAN, just a small chew of the Real Tobacco Chew so small that no body can notice it, gives you comfort and enjoyment that you never get from the old kind of tobacco. It is the Real Tobacco Chew gives you all the good of the satisfying taste. A little chew of pure, rich, mellow tobacco seasoned and sweetened just enough cuts out so much of the grinding and spitting. THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW IS NOW CUT TWO WAYSIf W-B CUT IS LONG SHRED. RIGHT-CUT IS SHORT SHRED. Take leas than one-quarter the old lize chew. It will be more satisfying than a mouthful of ordinary tobacco. Just take a nibble of it until you find tho strength chew that suit you, then Bee how eaiily and evenly the real tobacco taste comes, how it satisfies, how much less you have to spit, how few chews you take to be tobacco satisfied. That's why it is Th Real Tobacco Chew. That's why it costs less in the end. The taste of pure, rich tobacco does not need to be covered up. Aa excess of licorice and sweetening makes you spit too much. One small chew takes the place of two big chews of the old kind. C (Notice bow tbe salt brings out tbe rlcb tobacco taste.) WEYMAN-BRUTON COMPANY, 50 Union Square, New York City (BUY FROM DEALER 0R.SEND IOtSTAMPSTPUs) 8 Daily Trains TO KANSAS CITY DOTTBTjE track Ijw. Tspaaa A. Kaa. City 4:15 a. as. S:XS a. m. :Ma.aa, f-.Ma.sa. 1:40a.aa. m. tlOSp. aa. S:BJ. m. S:tS p. wi. S:8S p. m. S:IS.sa. t:15 p. m. 7:46. am. :SSp. m. l:ep.a. C. NO STOPS E. Bt9COM, C. P. A. Phon Mats Pollmao 81eepera Only X.T. Kaa. City T :8S a. as. a. aa 11:00 a.m. 11:35 a. m. 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THE TOPEKA PAIT.Y STATE .TOTTmq1 A T. WEDNESDAY EVENING AUGUST 25, 1915. Copefea tate JJmrrttiri Independent Newspaper. By FRANK. P. MAC LBSNAN. Entered July 1. 1ST5. as second-clasa tnaU at the postoflice at Tope Kan, under the act of congress.! VOLt MIO XXXVII .NoJ19 9 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topek. TERMS OF" SUBSCRIPTION. tally edition, delivered by carrier. cents a week to any part of Topeka r suburbs, or at the flame price In any Kan. as town where tha paper haa a carrier ystem. By mall, one year... J-JJ? By mail, six months By mail. 100 calendar aays TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call S30 an ask the State Journal operator for perron r department desired. (vv. Topeka State Journal building. iOO. n and 804 Kansas avenue corner Eighth. New York Office. 250 Fifth svenuo Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office, Waller bulla! ng. Paul Block manager. Detroit Office, Kresge building. Paul Block, manager. wl Boston Office. 201 Devonshire street. Paul Block, manager. rtJlIi LEASED WIRE REPORT OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal la a member of the Associated press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganization, for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka, The newa la received In The State Jour nal buUdlnc over wires for this sole pur- MEMBER: Associated pres. Anrilt Rnrean of Clrcnlatlona. American Newspape Publish" Aasodation. UUME KEWS WHILE AWAY. Subscribers of the State .Journal away from home daring the summer may have tbe paper mailed rerolarly each day to any address at the rate ef ten rents a week or thirty rants a month (by mail only). Ad dress changed as often as desired. While eat of town tbe State .Journal will be to yon like a daily letter from home. Advance payment Is requested on these short time subscriptions, to save bookkeep ing expenses. Probably it is a good thing: for To peka that the dove of peace hasn't a roost any longer in the city com mission's chamber; that entire har mony does not prevail among the members of the commission. Complete harmony among the members of such a. public board is more than likely to lead to negligence on the part of one or all of them. In one particular, at least, the in vestigation of the management of the state's prison under Warden Botkin, has finally achieved the distinction that modernism seems to demand. Some of the principals concerned in it have directly passed the lie to each other. And playing true to our pres ent mollycoddle type of humanity, there were no resulting black eyes or bloody noses. Has everybody noticed that the robins are getting fewer and farther between in these parts. What does this mean? An early fall. Recent reports from the City of Mexico are to the effect that tho peo ple are "still starving." And inas much as similar reports, have been coming from the same source for a couple of months and longer, it is evi dent that it takes a Mexican an un commonly long time in which to starve to death. Berlin is hinting at a "theory" that a mine may have sunk the Arabic. Let us hope that this is so. But on his proposition Berlin will find that Uncle Sam is from Missouri. Berlin will have to show us in unmistakable fashion that it was a mine. Russia's supply of fortresses for the Germans to take also seem inexhaust ible. And this calls to mind another marked difference between America and Europe. Outside of coast de fenses, there isn't a fortress, or a fortified town or place in our ..-ntire land. Anyhow. th3 promulgators of fem inine fashion couldn't have selected a more suitable year in which to spring the summer furs. Nothing is heard these days about the passing out of Iron Crosses by Kaiser Wilhelm. Maybe the supply is exhausted, or the metal that went into them is more needed for shells or other munitions of war. While Kaiser Wilhelm was praising God far the victory that has come to his army in the eastern arena of the war, it is almost certain that Czar Nicholas was thanking the same God for the big achievement won by his naval forces over the Germans in the recent sea-fight in the Baltic. General Rain toured Kansas again for a change on Sunday. The annual dry spell which is usual with Kansas Is going to be a short one this year. It will be snowing before long. About this Bulgaria-Turkish pact which Berlin insists has been con summated and which will keep Bul garia neutral if the allies eventually win the war, will Turkey be able to deliver the goods to Bulgaria. Prob ably not, and Bulgaria is wise enough to know this, or should be. TRUTH IV ADVERTISING. The Advertising Club movement, which Is embodied jn the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, is really a sincere endeavor on the part of business men who are engaged in publishing and advertising, to trans late business ideals into business methods, writes Herbert S. Houston in the World's Work. The emblem of the order is the word "Truth," su perimposed on a map of the world. In a serious, thorough-going way the effort is being made to put that em blem into concrete commercial prac tice. There is no noisy or spectacu lar commotion about it. Instead there is the earnestness born of con viction. Occasionally, a foolish pub lication parades its virtue, a thing which most honest people are willing to take for granted, but in the main everything about this movement has been sane and strong and reasonable. The result has been that honest and believable advertising today repre sents the great bulk of advertising; the kind that is dishonest is small, and what there is left of it is surely doomed. The foolish Greeks. They are cheer ing the induction to office of a war premier. CAPITAL and labor. So numerous, voluminous and di verse are the reports of the members of the United State commission on in dustrial relations that it would seem to require the services of a Philadel phia lawyer or two to unravel them and join their heads and tails togeth er. Capital, of course, comes in for the severest swat from the commis-' sion. But this was a foregone conclu sion. The commission, or its chair man, the voluble Mr. Walsh, showed its prejudice in this direction from the very inception of the investigation. And while capital is assuredly open to criticism for some of its dealings with labor, it is also true that labor as it Is organized and managed is also far from being perfect. This is only nat ural as both capital and labor are hu man. It is an important fact, though. and established by statistics compiled by the Civic Federation, that ap proximately two-thirds of the gross revenue of capital goes to labor, and that out of the other, one-third, capi tal must pay its fixed charges, includ ing taxes, before it takes its own profit. And there is considerable cap ital that worries along for a shorter or longer period without being able to tako any profit at all. The passing of dividends is in no sense a rare activity in the citadel of capital. The passing of wages, or labor's share, is. Italy claims she went to war against Turkey because the Ottoman empire tried to double-cross her. And this, by the way, has been Turkey's favorite sport ever since Turkey was Turkey. Xll BETTER CONTAINERS. Among the agencies that are ac tive in urging upon American manu facturers and shippers the importance of the better packing of goods the National Association of Box Manufac turers is conspicuous in having pub lished an illustrated pamphlet contain ing specific instructions' as to the "wrong way" and the "right way" to nail the boxes in which merchandise is shipped. The association says that reform in this respect means protec tion for customers, for the railroads, and for the shippers themselves. It declares that, as a result of false economy, there has been an increase of more than than 300 per cent in the loss and damage claims account of the railroads in the past ten years and that shipments are not being delivered to customers in good condition. The pamphlet states that the number of nails to be used for a given box i determined by adhering to the rule of spacing nails approximately 2 inches apart, except when nailing up boxes where sides, tops, and bottoms consist of more than one piece. In such cases the shipper should make sure the narrow pieces have at least two nails in each nailing edge and more if necessary to comply with the rule of 2-inch spacing. Cement-coated nails are required for all except hardwood boxes of V inch thickness, for which special large 3-penny or regular cement-coated 4-penny nails are pre scribed. For other thicknesses the in structions are: Soft wood i inch, 4-penny; 5-penny; 7-16 or V, 6- penny; 9-16 or 7-penny; 8 penny; hardwood 4-penny; 7-16 or 'i, 5-penny; 9-16 or 6-penny; 7-penny. Villa is now being characterized as a guerrilla, which is not only an ex ceedingly euphoneous designation but one that is also probably nothing more nor less than the plain truth. TOO MUCH OPTIMISM, MAYBE. "In one form or another, the war continues to dominate financial af fairs here," writes Henry Clews, the New York banker, in his current weekly financial review, and he goes on: "Although we have succeeded in being strictly neutral in our actions, our foreign and do mestic trade, our foreign exchange and security markets as well as our banking arrangements have all been deranged more seriously and more fundamentally than at any time since the Civil war if not even more than during that great crisis. If the disor ganization has been extraordinary, so, too. have been the energy and ability with which it has been met and over come. This country has exhibited in dustrial strength and financial ca pacity far beyond all expectations. The consequence is we are facing a future in which the chief danger lies in an excess of optimism. We are far more likely to suffer from too much ac tivity, too much confidence and too much speculation than too little. Evi dently we' are liable to run into a period of excessive inflation, the dan ger of which I hope is fully recognized by those w ho control our banking sys tem. We are now the only first class Is steadily augmenting its resources are not being wasted by war, and, while all other great trading and in dustrial nations are rushing madly in to losses which it will require years to overcome, and some of which never will be recovered, the United States is Eteadily augmenting its ersources and preparing itself for a new era of expansion in both domestic and for eign trade. When the war is over, it will be found that the relative eco nomic positions of the various nations will have vastly changed. Germany will require years for recuperation. So, too, will Belgium and parts of France. Russia and Italy may feel the conse quence less seriously than the coun- tries just mentioned, while Great Bri tain will feel the. injuries least of all the belligerents. But the United States remains the only great power in the world that will, or even can, benefit from this tragic struggle. In esti mating our business future this is the central fact that should not be for gotten. On the Stock Exchange the activity has been remarkable and million share days are no longer a novelty. Since the first of the year transactions on the Stock Exchange have aggregated about 87,t00,000 shares, compared with 46,000,000 shares at the same time a year ago. The Exchange did not close until the end of July in 1914, so that in com parison less than three weeks last year are omitted. Nevertheless, the transactions are nearly double those of the same period of last year. This shows a sudden and remarkable re vival of the speculative spirit which has been confined almost entirely to the war group and steel shares. Gen eral trade was quiet, but a satisfac tory degree of confidence prevails in nearly every direction, based as ex plained in our previous advices, upon the fine harvest and activity in the steel industry. Railroad shares are attracting more attention since it is believed that they will benefit during the last quarter of the year from the effects of the good harvest and re newed industrial activity. The future of the market will of course be largely governed by the progress of the war. At present no genuine peace indications are in sight, although ef forts to bring the struggle to an end are being made In various directions." Journal Entries Were novels true to life they'd be disappointing. Only a few ambitions come anyJ where near being satisfied. The practical joker is never very suecessrui at anything else. For such a potent thing, monev hasn't much in the way of staying power. There'd also be more fighting among humans were not so many of them atraid of being licked. J ay hawker Jots This has been a fine summer for the complexion, says the Harper Sentinel, but a hard one for makers of porous knit undergarments. A daffydillious question from the Hail Ridge correspondent for the Linn County Democrat: If the cowslips does the butterfly 7 The Linn County Democrat has no objection to a man criticising a news paper, providing the man reads the newspaper and pays for it. Excellent advice from the Logan County News: Don't lick your fingers to turn book leaves. Don t suck lead pencils, unless sure of no predecessors. Have you ever figured this out? queries the Minneapolis Better Way: Men who mind their own business succeed because they have so little opposition. Related by the Oswego Democrat: A negro mammy had a family of boys so well behaved that one day her mis tress asked: "Sally, how did you raise your boys so well?" "Ah'll tell yo missus, answered Jsally. "Ah raise' dem boys with a barrel stave an' ah raise' 'em frequent." "Uncle Bob" Gaston tells the Coun cil Grove Guard that he was com pelled to kill a dog in February that would have been 20 years old had he lived until the following December. Uncle Bob" says this dog could catch a jackrabbit up until the time he reached the age of 15 years. The Bloomer Girls baseball team is doing southern Kansas just now, re ports the Concordia Kansan, and it continues: They played once in Con cordia. One of the local fans got stuck on the girl playing second base, but after the game he was disillusion ed by the discovery that the one on second base was sadly in need of a shave. If some one doesn't get busy and slay a lot of weeds in and around town, urges the Grainfield Cap Sheaf, tourists will soon be passing through our town without even see ing it for the dense growth of weeds. You see enough of human nature every day to amuse you and some times to disgjjst, says the Colby Free ir'ress, ana il goes on: a lenow was out of Colby with an auto one day last week while the roads were bad, he got his auto stuck in the mud twice and was pulled out by a farmer each time. The first farmor refused to take pay. The second farmer demanded a dollar and a half for not more than five minutes' work. The auto driver came back to town convinced that he could name the kindest gentleman and the biggest hog in the county. Globe Sights BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. Fast men, slow pay. Every night Jude Johnson looks un der his bed for a German spy. A good many people are decent only when their mouths are shut. Some j en arrange to celebrate somebody's birthday with a keg every week. Short Jenks is so alarmed over the submarines that he is refusing to take a bath. Moving pictures may also be enjoy able because only the fools in the audience talk. One nice thing about a postal card is that a man always knowa it doesn't contain a dun. The jitney car may eventually sink into oblivion, but there always will be jitney men. As .a rule, the breach of promise suit hinges on the theory that the defendant has the money. Another splendid thing about the great institution of work is that it sometimes makes one forget his chigre bites. Net night gowns are coming into style for the women folks, and sooner or later similar fabric will be worn on the main streets of all thriving communities. A city man receives a dun and ac cepts it as a matter of course. A country town man receives a dun and accepts it as a direct insult and a mat ter for cursing. On the Spur of the Moment BY ROY K. MOTJ LTON. Most Time for 'Em Now. A canvas barn, a painted tree, A slow New England drawl: A large square room with two or three Worked mottoes on the wall; A hint of wicked city life By someone in the cast, Who plays an honest farmer's wife With something of a past. A man from town whose shirt is clean And has at least two suits, To brighten up the rural scene Of overalls and boots. A cow, if one can be secured, A soft nosed mare, named Bess; A dog or two and you're assured Unqualified success. Just take these few ingredients And mix them as you may. And keep them free from common sense, You'll have a rural play. Uncle Abner. Did you ever receive a picture post card in your life from a friend who was traveling which did not bear this message: "Having a lovely time Wish you were here?" Elmer Spink hasn't had a new suit of clothes since he bought his second hand Tin Lizzie two years ago. Demosthenes Hicks, who graduated from our high school last spring and gave an oration on "Conquering the Unconquerable," and immediately set out to find fame, has returned home. He says there ain't no such animal. Hod Peters and Hank Tumms have had three fights over the war this week. Hod claimed that Serbia would whip Italy and Hank claimed that Italy would whip Serbia. Consistency. A man who goes into a field and steals a watermelon Is sent to jail if he Is caught, and folks call him a felon. A gink who swipes a loaf of bread; that he may feed his face, Is called a thief, and people say the jail is just his place: A magnate who wrecks companies and lays up wads of dough. And beats the poor stockholders, though everyone may know About his speculations and his graft both far and near. They don't call him a thief. Oh, no He's one great financier. Doesn't Want a Rational Wife. The following matrimonial ad has been sent in by a young man. we never publish matrimonial ads, so here goes (spelling uncensored): "WANTED: By a well-to-do younge batchlor, a young woman of some means to corrlspond to with the view of matrimony must be Prodistant (Methodist preferred) kind hearted true, moderate in all matters, not ra tional, must be of good character rat ing, no spurious characters need an swer, correspondence will be strictly confidential small photo is requested with first letter, no joke or white slave catch, but eincereist of sincere. Easy to Find Out. State zoologist of Pennsylvania says: The hoop snake does not exist. Guess he never drank any squirrel whisky. Never. Golf is advocated as a cure for in sanity, but not as a cure for pro fanit?. Evening Chat BY RUTH CAMERON. The Faults We Hate. "She's the most obstinate woman, said my neighbor. "I can't bear her. I don t se how her husband ever gets along with her. He must be tieher very wishy-washy or very saintly." In her fervor she laid down her knitting and gazed at me as severely as it 1 were in some way to blame. I m not, for I don t even know th woman except by hearsay. So I squeezed down a desire to laugh and turned the subject by ad miring my neighbor's poppies. They are the petted darlings of her heart, so the severity at once melted. You may wonder why I had to this way. Obstinacy is the particular squeeze, down o laugh. You see, it's fault for which my neighbor is noted She is a dear woman, but even those who love her best know that that is her prime fault. And here she was with evident un consciousness telling me how she dis liked her prototypt in the fault of obstinacy. Do you know I think there is a ten dency in all of us to especiall dislike our own peculiar faults when they ap pear in other people, and quite with out recognizing them as our own. This is not the first time I havt heard any one express a dislike for some one whose character resembled his own. The woman who cannot sem to help trying-to dominate her home, her hus band, her children and everything and everybody with which she comes into contact, confided to me the other day that she could not overcome her dis like for a certain woman. And lo and behold, that woman is so like her in temperament that other people often speak of the resem. blance. Again an otherwise charming girl who is inclined to be a wee bit in sincere is always ready to say a sharp word almost the only words of crit icism she ever speaks about any one who is insincere. So t goes. Myself, I have a haunting suspi cion that the people I feel antagonis tic to are not as unlike me as I could wish. The moral? When you find yourself intensely disliking any one, look out. Or rath er look in. If you have a friend who will be frank with you make him tell you if you are like that. And if you find yourself guilty then let your own abhorrence help you overcome the fault. QUESTION A great many "young people marry when but few facts of life have come before them; they therefore have few opinions, because they have little knowledge. Such marriages are based on amorous sen timentalities. When the one ceases to love on account of having outgrown the other intellectually is it not an outrage that they should remain thus united? Or do you think it better for them to try and make a working suc cess of such unions? -A Subscriber. ANSWER You ask a question to which it is dangerous to give a gen eral answer. The best thing to do de pends on many factors, one of which is whether there are children, another the feeling which has taken the place of love: is it passive indifference or active hate? You can't preserve the home where hate rules, because It isn't a home but a prison. I MY LIGHT. Thou art as light unto my life, O thou dear friend -The ray that falls upon my pathway and doth send Ever into the darkest spot I know Is thine. Even as now my friendship doth to thee incline. It comes to fall like petals soft npon my bead, O let that light shine on, and mine own feet be led In paths more lovely than I yet have dreamedor seen. Because thy presence comes the dark and me between Marinn Longfellow, in National Maga zine for August. The Evening Story Crossed Wires. By Ellis Tower. "Dear Jack: "Your note came today. It made me feel anew how much I miss you. Five short weeks you were here. Sev en long days you've been gone. The first morning I went alone up to An gler's Rock all our old haunts cried out for you so that I hurried from them, unspeakably lonely. Every even ing, when the dances on the hotel piazza begin, I steal down by the lake and live over again cur hours together there. Not until to-night, though, could I fully realize that you have gone out of my life forever. Dearest one in all the world, when you know that I love you why should I not speak of my love? Why should I let conven tionality hold me back when I am starving with heart hunger? "It isn't what the world thinks, but what you think that I care about, and you will not misunderstand me. There isn't an ounce of the cad in you, but there are tons of true nobility. Be sides, I know that you love me, a little, at least. I can never be wholly un happy, for I shall always have the memory of that wonderful night when your dear eyes looked into mine and your strong hands held mine tightly. as you told me how I had helped you get back to sane pleasures. "I do not forget how impossible it is for anything to come of our love, I remember perfectly that I must sup port my mother and sick sister and care for them in other ways. I re member that your father has only partially forgiven your college scrapes and I know how he would regard any love affair now with a woman five years your senior. I remember every cruel circumstance, and yet I dare to tell you that I love you. I defy con ventionality, for you have waked up my dormant heart. You ve made cold, hard, practical woman thrill with the intensity of love's pleasure and quiver with the cruelty of its pain And still I can say good-by. I can say it without even asking that you love me as I love you, or praying that the future may in some miraculous way bring us together. I only pray that my love for you may carry with it some blessing. Good-by. "JILL." Miss Curzon finished this letter and read it carefully through. Then she laid both arms on the table, dropped her head between them and sobbed heavily. The telephone rang and the sudden noise startled her. She an swered in a weak, trembling voice xne operator apoligized; it was an error; the wires were crossed, and somebody else was wanted. Ah, yes," she moaned, "it is some one else who is wanted all the time, Love does not call me; success does not call me. Just then she remembered that success had that day signaled her in the form of a letter from her literary agent asking whethtr she could sup ply a seria, for a publication to be started soon. But how c-uld she write of love when her own hopeless love was crushing her ehart? She sat down and wrote a curt note to the agent stating that it would be impos sible to send the story for several weeks The telephone rang again. Another apology the wires were crossed again. She hung up the receiver with a jerk and burst into nervous sobbing. Hearing her sister s voice in the hall she hurried the two letters into envel opes and concealed them.. After good nignts naa Deen said and she was alone again, she dropped the letters down the chute and went to her room to sit by the open window until far into the night. During the nif.ht a storm came and the next day was so cold and rainy tnat ail the hotel guest3 were kept in doors. Miss Curzon was the most rest less person there. Her sister's health was not improving. In fact, this damp morning showed, her colorless and frail. "Oh, I've been blind to everything but my own helpless love! Miss Curzon left her breakfast untasted, as remorseful thoughts rushed into her mind. "I've been selfish and idle when it was so necessary for me to be busy. I should never have sent either of those letters last night. Jack will despise me for a foolish, for ward woman, and Barnaby will use some other writer's serial. AVill I never learn to be rational?" To crowd these thoughts from her mind she plunged into work. b or the next few days she worked hard, but all that she wrote was un satisfactory. Fighting remorse and smothering regret did not aid in good work. The letters from New York came to her on the fourth day. One was in Jack's irregular, boyish hand writing and the other had Barnaby's address in the upper corner. She tried to ignore her trembling hands and pounding heart as she opened Jack s letter. On one page of per fectly correct crested notepaper she read just this: My Dear Jill: "First let me congratulate you upon naving arrivea in your 'authoring where you can hold off the publishers while they clamor lor serials. I opened this letter expecting to find a nice, chummy letter like the talks we used to have at the lake. Instead I found this brief note to Mr. S. Barna by, evidently some publisher. I'm returning it, as the street address is not given and I failed to find him in the city directory. The wires must be crossed, and the publishers got my message. So send me another one, won't you I shall not forget our good times together and shall hope to hear from you often. Sincerely, "JACK." The letter dropped at Miss Curzon's feet. She was chalky white and her voice was a hoarse whisper. vv hat have I done How can I ever explain to Barnaby?" Almost holding her breath, she resolutely opened his letter. As she read it she ropped into a chair, spent with re lief. This was his letter: My Dear Miss Curzon: You failed, to inclose a letter of explanation, and I think you also failed to inclose part of the manu script for the first installment of your Jack and Jill story. I take it that you want my opinion, though, so here it is: Your plot will have to be a corkins good one if you make a serial j in the form of letters. Let me know just what you idea is about this. "I remember that you told me type writers were an unknown quantity up there where you've been resting, bllt I am returning your manuscript herewith and hope to receive your regular copy for this and the re mainder of the serial as soon as you can get it to me. Yours truly, "B. BARNABY." The afternoon mail carried out this note: "My Dear Jack: "I'm afraid you wonder how one so stupid as to send the wrong letter to a publisher ever manages to get into print. The note I wrote you has been returned by the publisher, but it's stale now, so I'm writing another to repeat my col-dial wishes that the In closed kodak pictures may be pleasant reminders of our good times at the lake. I've missed you dreadfully, and was delighted to have your note last week. Pleasantly, JILL" A messenger boy at the hotel turned in this message late that night: "B. Barnaby, 'Care Authors' Club, New York: "Serial started on different plan. Have sent for typewriter. Will send manuscript in one week. "JILLAH CURZON." (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) QUAKER 3IEDITATIONS. TFrom the Philadelphia Record.! People who live in glass houses shouldn't go into politics. The thin man can either wear pad ded shoulders, or dress in broadcloth. You never can tell. Many a spotless reputation may be merely white washed. Some fellows are harum-scarum. In fact it would take more than a harem to 6care 'em. Every woman should remember that a husband in the hand is worth two in a suit for bigamy. WTe are all affected by colors. The redder we paint things the night be fore, the bluer we feel the morning after. "Money is the root of all evil," quoted the Wise Guy. "From whence springs many a family tree," added the Simple Mug. The henpecked husband will tell you that a woman not only wants the last word, but she wants it first, last and all the time. First Small Boy "What is your idea of a perfect mother?" Second Small Boy "One that never cuts a pie in more than four pieces." Hubbubs "I suppose you raise your own vegetables." Subbubs "No, I buy them now, but I think by next year I shall be able to afford to raise my own." POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Every failure is a step toward suc cess. A stingy man flatters himself that he's an economist. Lots of men secretly envy the tramp's independent life. The woman who has taste invaria bly knows what not to do. A dollar dinner is an irritation to the man with a 50 cent limit. Most men are considered easy marks by the wise women of the world. Many a man who is not ashamed of his own faults is ashamed of his wife's. Tastes differ. Some women can see beauty in a looking glass, and some can't. Women grow old for the want of somebody to tell them thejr look as young as ever. Many a man who humbly speaks of his own insignificance gets mad if other people allude to it. It requires a good deal of diplomacy to enable a man to back down with dignity after going too far. Before marriage most women worry because they are single, and after marriage they worry because they are not. But the man who is always com plaining about his hard luck is usually too lazy to move in time to keep trou ble from troubling him. "I believe that man would do anything for money." "I am rather inclined to think that you misjudge him." "He has the appearance of one who would stop at nothing." '-Still I think you would be perfectly safe in offering him a job." Houston I'ost. Liverpool has nearly 3,000 dwellings under direct municipal control. THE MOON VINES Once upon a time a moon vine lived on the side of a great big house. So big was the house that, although the moon vine had tried for two months, it had not as yet been able to cover even one side! "Oh, dear!" said the moon vine to itself one evening, "if only I could grow big enough to ccver this whole house with my rrreenness! How very pretty that would be!" I don t see why you care so much about that,"-said the dainty little fairy near by. "I myself think the house looks prettier when it is only partly covered. I wouldn't try to cover it all up." But I want tc do something big! cried the moon vine. "Something bigger and finer than any flower has ever done before!" "It's well to be ambitious, said the fairy in reply, "but don't try too hard. Maybe if you think carefully, you will find there is something you can do besides covering up a house try and see if thtre isn't." So the moon vine thought and thought, and finally the said: "I might bloom if I tried." And the fairy said that would be a fine thing to do, much better than covering a house. All the night long, all the next day, and for many days thereafter, the moon vine worked at its blossom. It was to be big and white and more dazzingly beautiful than any flower that bloomed. The fairy was eo in terested that she stayed close 'round to watch it .Trow watching flower buds is much more interesting than work, even fairy work, sometimes, as you know! At last the moon vine cieciarea tnat the flower was ready. 'First thing in the morning," she said as the went to sleep, "I'm going to open my bloom. And you will find it much more beautiful than the bud too," she assured the fairy. So the fairy stayed tp all night so she would be there in plenty of time in the morning. Just at dawn the moon vine whis pered "Now everything is ready, the Kansas Comment "PLAN OF SAN DIEGO." The "San Diego Plan," of the Mex icans, is an ambitious one, anyway. It is proof that when men want to go to "war, they don't care much what they do or what they try to do. There is always an enemy, or there wouldn't be any war. The plan is always to "do" the enemy and do him first. The "Plan of San Diego" was to kill as many Americans, at the start, as could be possible, then place the others un der arrest and run up the Mexican flag. But it was too big for the amount of powder and shot on hand across and along the Rio Grande. The "San Diego Plan" was to take Texas and about all f the country west and so-.thwest of Kansas, and make it Mexican land. And some of the poor, ignorant Mexicans in Southwest Texas, believed it could be easily done, too. Therefore the war, started to make certain the "Freedom of Texas." Ig norance is at the bottom of much of the wars and rumors of wars, over the world. If ignorance was entirely eliminated in our Intercourse with other nations, it would be difficult to find a reason for a war. The same thing could apply to Europe. Too little knowledge of what the other country intends to do, purposely kept that, way by diplomats, and which lack of knowledge bred suspicion, brought on the war in Europe. The ignorance was the reason for the "Plan of San Diego," which is mak ing some Mexicans who formed the plan, and others who allowed them selves to be taken in by it, a great deal of trouble. Hutchinson New3. CRIMINAL WORSHIP. There seems to be an inherent de fect in the nature of a graat, many people which causes them to make a hero out of any criminal condemned to die. Women who would nat bestow a thought or a look on a poor hut hon est worker on the streets, will carry flowers and write letters to some de generate condemned to die for mur dering his mother or sister. And this, we believe, is one of the strong arguments against capit:il pun ishment. Let some Frank or Becker be condemned to die, and a wave of sentimentalism in its worst form sweeps over a large portion of the country. On these same men con demned to penal servitude the coun try would hardly bestow a second thought, and there would be none of the piffle we hear about Becker. Our people seem to endure with consider able equanimity the thought of Harry Thaw confined in jail, but If he had been sentenced to die, a most sicken ing exhibition of sentimentalism would have resulted. The abolition of any thing on earth would almost be better than such foolishness as would have followed his sentence to capital pun ishment. This tendency to criminal worship minimizes the deterrent effect on the commission of crime which punishment is supposed to have. And so we say, let capital punishment be abolished in all cases. Manhattan Mercury. From Other Pens THE FIGHTING IRISH. Within the first ten months f the war 120,741 young Irishmen have vol unteered for service with the British armies. This number is in addition to th3 Irish enrolled in the regular army which went into active service at the begining of the war. Estimates basod on census reports indicate that at least one out of every eight men of military age and fitness in Ireland has volun tarily gone to the front. There are, of course, no better fighters than the Irish, and no race more willing to fight in a cause which they consider just. This, however will not account for the large enrolment. Until very recently the Irish have been the vic tims of British misgovernment and oppression. Only within the last few years ha? it become apparent that tha great nation is ready to deal fairly with the lesser. A clear appreciation of this new spirit of generosity, and a convictioi that Ireland's future prog ress is dependent on the British suc cess hav-i inspired the Irish to give their best to the cause of the empire. Clevelxnd Plain Dealer. 53Sy&! FRAGRANCE. soft white petals, the dainty stam ens, the sheltering green cclax it's all ready to bloom." "But the fragrance!" cried the fairy, "you don't speak of the fra grance! Have you no fragrance ready? "Fragrance!" vine in dismay, fragrance!" exclaimed the moon "I never thought of At last the fairy came back, and sprinkled over the opening bud the frairrance of sunbeams. "Wait!" raid the fairy hastily, "I'll get you some. Wait 1111 I come back! and she hurried away. All day long the moon vine waited. Passed the glorious noontime whn she had hoped to be blooming passed the afternoon with its length ening Bhadows; waited till the evening. At last the fairy came back, and sprinkled over the opening bud the fragrance of sunbeams and moon beams and dew. So that is why ihe moon vines still bloom in the eve nl"Sffd why their fragrance is so fairyhke and tweet So Si

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THE TOPEKA: TsATLY STXTE JOUKFAL WeDKEsDav WENIjn g. ATTttrt 25,1915. trd ii9 JlL i Ik? Jul S JV. i I $10.00 PER TON NET When you use Acme Cement Plaster you get the best the market contains. No other Cement Plaster gives the universal satisfaction Acme does. Owners who use it are always glad to recommend it. Architects are always pleased with the results and the plasterers can do more work with less material than any other Cement Plaster on the market. B. iPiv L w 213 East 6th Street. BIG HORSE SHOW WITHOUTA RIVAL Free Fair Entries Coining From Many States. Solid Train Load of Fine Ani mals Is Promised. Phone No. 204 TO CUT DOWN COST Plan to Concentrate the County's Charity lVork. Has Backing of Commercial Club and Club Women. In view of cutting down the cost of charity in Shawnee county which last year was more than $25,986.46. not including the salaries of county chari ty officers and employees, there is a possibility that the county farm north of the city may he sold, and a special election held for the purpose of erect ing a combination home for the poor, detention home and county hospital, probably at or near the fair grounds. The scheme has been talked of by the county commissioners, according to a statement made by Fred Nipps, chairman of the board today. The proposition is being backed by the welfare committee of the commercial club and prominent club women of the city. The matter, however, has noz been formally placed before the commissioners, Fred Nipps, chairman, in a telephone conversation today, did not express himself as being against the scheme. Xot a few county officials and cha-i-ty officers maintain that the county farm costs too much for the amount of good it does, despite its excellent m.-inasement by Paddy Betts, superin tendent. A statute making the establishment of uch a home pcssil le for the concen tration of charity work was passed by the 1915 legislature. Mrs. Charles Thomas, one of .the club women be hind the scheme, today declared ;t was tho intention of club women and welfare workers to circulate the pe tition necessary to obtain 500 signers, taxpayers of the county, and then pre sent them formally to the board of commissioners. Then the commission ers will be authorized to call a special election to vote $50,000 bonds for the establishment of the home for the poor, hospital and detention home for juveniles. The establishment of such a place would solve the problem of the seoarately maintained detention home now the subject of much fric tion, between the juvenile officers and county commissioners. The 'charity problem is practically the largest and most difficult one that the county has to deal with. Follow ing is the cost "of charity to the coun ty during the fiscal year of 1914-15: Poor farm 6.75 5.3 3 Indigent poor 14,422.81 Insane poor 695.5 Special poor fund 2,700.00 I'ctention home 502.75 Total $25.86.46 The above figures do not include the salaries of the poor commissioner, superintendent of the poor farm and other officials and employees. James Larimer, county auditor, is also a backer of the plan. Larimer points out that the suggested building would practically care for all the ob jects of charity and could be main tained at as low cost if not lower ihan the present expense of charity to the county. EMAND IS GREAT 3IohIer's "Great Wheat Way" Travels Far From Home. Rainsbarger brothers, the testimony in the case showed, held insurance on Johnson's life to the amount of J 16,500 when the man suddenly dis appeared, his mangled body being found later. A statement of Mrs. Fr-ink Rainsbarger caused the arrest of th2 men. HE SUES THE BELL jZVearly 50,000 Copies Have I Been Circulated to Bate. CJrocer Claims Company Cut Off His 'Phone Service. Because, he claims, the telephone company cut off his service between 4:30 o'clock Thursday evening and 9:15 o'clock Friday morning. Thomas Horsfield. a local groceryman, lias filed suit in the district court for $2,800 damages against the Missouri Kansas Telephone company. The telephone company. according to Horsfield's petition, cut off. his teleT phone service because it claimed he was in arrears in payment. Horsfield operates grocery stores at 209 Kansas avenue and 300-306 Kast Second street and lives at 235 Har rison street with telephone service at all three places. The groceryman says that he was notified of the discontinuance of his service Thursday afternoon and called the office to learn the reason, to be told that the company had not re ceived payment for the August ren tals. Horsfield claims that he as sured the company that his check for the amount would reach the office the next day. Because of the discontinued service the groceryman claims that he lost heavily on his goods and or ders from customers. Hazen Page, a local law firm, are representing the plaintiff in the action. ONE GHURCHrONETAlTH Serbian Minister Proposes Merger For Promulgation of Culture. The great wheat way of Kansas has i i cast its yellow glow into the eyes of i nearly 50,000 business and profes sional men of other states as a result i of the activity of two iocal printing I companies. This "great wheat way" I is a booklet recently issued by J. C. Mohler. secretary of the state board i of agriculture and it tells the wheat i history of Kansas, showing that in twenty years 1,4 37,259,000 bushels have been raised, bringing an income !of $1,017,503,000. The small pam- phlet has been in so much demand as I an advertising medium by bankers, I business men, real estate dealers, and I mortgage men in the state that the lot of 5.000 which Mr. Mohler had punt ed was soon exhausted. Local print ing concerns reproduced the booklet and have sold 40.000 to be used for advertising purposes. E. F. Mclntyre, general manager of the International Wheat show, which will be held in Wichita October 4 to 14. has written to Mr. Mohler askinp; about the book and plans to use it in advertising the big wheat show. Through the activity of the people of the state the wheat message of Kansas is well known in every state of the union. Kansas ranks first in wheat and everyone knows it. AVIATOR NEW WAR HE Five Ciemian Aeroplanes His Prey Before Motor Failed. Chicago, Aug. 25. Dr. Nikoleaj Velimirovich, :i Serbian minister, who is louring the United States in the in terest of the Slav cause, at a meeting of Slavic clergymen, proposed a world union of churches to be merged in one faith. "This could be acconrplished grad ually," he said today, "fc'.uch a union for promulgating practical culture can oily be achieved in America, the home of great optimism." AGED CONVICTS FREED Brothers, Sent Vp in Iowa in 1884 For Murder, Pardoned. Paris, Aug. 25. Kugene Gilbert, The French aviator, brought down five German aeroplanes before he was compelled by an accident to his motor to land on Swiss territory last June. Since his escape from Switzerland and his arrival in Paris on Sunday night, he has been treated as a popular hero. When first interned in Switzerland, Gilbert gave his word not to attempt to escape. The enforced idleness preyed on his mind, however, and he took back his promise and seized the first opportunity to get away. With the assistance of a friend, who provided a disguise, he made his way to Lucerne and Geneva, and thence to Annemasse. in France. TOPEKANS ARE NAMED Colored Musoiis Honor Local Members In State Organization. MISS LOULDA LONG TO BE HERE Will Bring "Katharine Grigs by," Her $15,000 Mare. E. D. Mooers Will Show String of Fine Animals. Horses that cost $10,000 and $15, 000 each will be exhibited at the horse show at the big free fair at To peka September 13-17, which will un questionably be the best display of fine horse ilesh ever shown in Kansas. Last year the horse show was one of the greatest features of the fair. This year it will be the big feature among many ether great features. It will far- surpass last year's show, which everybody praised so highly. The number of horses will be greater, entries coming from many states. Some of the finest horses in the United States animals that have won blue ribbons at the great horse shows in Madison Square Garden, New York, Chicago. Detroit, St. Louis and other cities, will be seen at Topeka. Piano at a Bargain. Customer near Topeka is unable to linish payments t,n piano contract. We will turn piano over to first satisfac tory party who will pay balance. Write Sehmollef Mueller Piano Co., Omaha. Xeb. Adv. Anamcsa, la., Aug. 25. After hav ing .spent nearly thirty years in the state penitentiary here, Frank and Nathan Rainsbarger, long known as Iowa's oldest convicts, walked forth to liberty today. The conditional pardon, granted by Gov rnor Cla rke yesterday, directed Warden Mc Loughry to release vhe brothers, now old men. I The liberation of the rrtn convicted j of flaying Enoch Johnson, the father j in-law oi Frank Rainsbaiger, in Har I din county, in 1884, is the culmina l tion of practically continuous efforts since 1905 to obtain their release. Nathan Rainsbarger is 2 years old and Frank is 55. Tiie paidon will be I come absolute after three years, if i the men are law abiding. Johnson's body was lour.d on a i public highivay in Hardin county, one morning in November, 1884. The Wichita. Kan., Aug. 25. Prince Hall Grand Chapter Royal Arch Matibns, colored met in their' thirty-seventh an nual communication in the tabernacle of Mt. Zion chapter, 615 North Main street Tuesday with C. A. Long. Kan sas City, Kan., most excellent compan ion, officiating. At the morning ses sion reports of officers were given. In the afternoon the following of ficers were elected: C. A. Long, Kan sas City, Kan., grand high priest; R. E. Brown, Lawrence, deputy grand high priest; C. E. Left, Emporia, grand king; A. J. Bishop, Kansas City, grand scribe; I. M. Stonestreet. Topeka, grand treasurer; B. F. Payne, Topeka. grand secretary; Charlie Porter, Atch inson, master third veil; D. F Mallory, Topeka, master second veil; J. R Ross, Iola. master first veil; Tom Brown, Atchison, principal sojourner; S. W. High. Topeka. royal arch captain; L W. W. Whitehead. Franklin, chap lain; W. C. Brown, Lawrence, lectur er; B. E. Crawford, Emporia, captain of host; H. I. Monroe. Topeka, senti nel; and chairman of committee on foreign correspondence. The session closed with an exem plification of work at an evening session. Food for tiie Business Trenches It takes the highest type of nerve and endurance to stand the strain at the battle front of modern business. the cause improper Many fail. And often is rrimarilv a physical one food malnutrition. It is a fact that much of the ordinary food is lacking in certain elements the mineral salts which are essential to right building of muscle, brain and nerve tissue. Graue-Nuts FOOD made of whole wheat and barley, contains these priceless nerve- and brain-building elements in highest degree. Grape-Nuts food is easy to digest nourishing economical delicious, and as a part of the menu of modern business men and women helps wonderfully in building up the system for strenuous demands and keeping it there. "There's a Reason" for GRAPE-NUTS Sold by Gim.sjt eve; where. MING PLUNGERS SAFE Edison's Nickel Batteries Installed to Combat Deadly Gas. New York, Aug. 2 5. The installa tion of the new nickel batteries, in vented by Thomas A. Edison, by which it is hoped to prevent the es cape of chlorine gas in submarines, was in progress today on board the submarine K-l at the New York navy yard. The batteries were being installed by art agent of Mr. Edison, who was carefu'ly guarded by em ployees i-f the yrrd. Chlorine gas is one of the greatest dangers of undersea beats, and many officers familiar with them believe it caused the loss of the F-4 at Honolulu several months ago. The nickel batteries wtre designed by Mr. Edison to save the crews of the submarines from suffocating by gas, and if the batteries are as ef fective, as is hoped, the Cnited States navy will possess the first under water craft in which the danger of chlorine is eliminated. It will require two v t eks to install the batteries. K SS f i. AW AV V, HIGH COST OF LOVING From Steel Magnate to Bartender; Wife Loved Him Too Much. Chicago, Aug. 2 5. "?he loved me so much I couldn't hold a job," said Charles Grimme when he was arrested on a charge of abandoning his wife and three children. "I'm nothing but a bartender," he continued, "and I used to be manager of a big steel company in Cleveland. But my wife would come to the office every night to take me home. "s-he was an office nuisance and finally I was fired on her account. I lost other jobs the same way. She loved me too much. She wouldn't leave me alone. I had to quit her." Grimme la now on his way back to Cleveland. Woodmen, Take Notice. Members of State camp No. 75, W. i O. W., are requested to attend a meet- Dig tomorrow evening, as matters of great importance will come up. Don't i fail. By order of G. E. HERRING, C. C. j N. H. WOFFV Clerk. 1 Advertisement. I Miss Loula Long and One of Her l-'avorite Mounts. A solid train load of fine horses and equipment, including fancy turn-outs of all kinds, which will later go to the big horse show at the world's fair at San Francisco, which begins the 1st of October, will be at the Topeka horse show. Miss Loula Long of Kansas City, probably the most celebrated horse woman in the United States, will be at Topeka with some of her fine show horses. Miss Long is a daughter of R. A. Long, the well known multi millionaire of Kansas City, who is the proprietor of one of the finest farms in the United States at Lee's Summit. Mo., about 21 miles from Kansas City. It is called "Longview," and contains 1.600 acres. Miss Long is an expert rider and driver and herself holds the reins on her horses when they are ex hibiting in the show rings. She was at the horse show at Topeka last year and attracted great attention. She is coming again this year and will be accompanied by her father. From Topeka the Long horses will go direct to San Francisco, where Miss Long expects to capture the $6,000 cham pionship prize with her beautiful mare, "Katherine Grigsby," which was recently bought at a cost of $15,000. Another noted horseman who will have a string of his celebrated horses at the Topeka horse show will be E. D. Mooers of Columbia, Mo. Mr. Mooers has. it is said, one of the finest stables in the west or in the entire country. His horses are fa mous and favorites at all the big horse shows. Lovers of horses will certainly en joy the great horse show at Topeka's big free fair. It will be given every night of fair week, in a brilliantly lighted arena in front of the grand stand. Where comfortable seats will be furnished the public. The program for the horse show will last two hours each night, and band concerts will be additional feat ures of each evening's entertainment. Gas Ranges at Forbes. Adv. Jealousy Leads to Three UealliM. Perry, Iowa, Aug. 25. Harry Cris pin, 24 years old, a farm hand, resid ing five miles south of here, shot and killed his wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Emma Stiner, and then took his own life with a shotgun. Jealousy of his wife which led to a quarrel in which all three participated, is said to have been the cause. y EXHAUSTED Nerves and Brain show a debilitated condition, due to prolonged physical and mental strain, which has consumed the phosphatic elements indispensable to nerve and brain. Strengthen nerve and brain cells, invigorate the whole system by supplying the necessary phosphates, com bined in a convenient and agree able form in HGHSFQRD'S Acid Phosphate (Non-Alcoholic) S AVF '1 ON YOUR ijtf-a. V JLi 2 Underwear! E'RE not going1 to carry any over, so you men who wear it all winter can save 14 on any style and size in this lot if you BUY NOW. Only Ath letics in this sale. $2.00 Union Suit. .$1.00 $2.50 Union Suit $1.25 $3.00 Union Suit $1.50 M3w $1.00 Union Suit 50t $1.50 Union Suit 75? New Fall Clothes Are Here! "Advanced winter styles are beautiful. Come look them over. Lay aside the garments you like. New Hats In! Here's one of 50 new ideas and styles it's a new Stetson "event," cleverly matched in trimming suit able for you. Auerbadi Guettd Choice of Any Straw Hat $1 i Does your door check work right We repair door checks of all kinds. Call us. We give special atten tion to repair and job work, also weather stripping. Cook Sons Contractors and Builder. 110 West th Ave. Shop Phone 823. Res. Pb. 2957-Ki This Week's On Sale To-day Making War Movies MY Heath Robison OF London The most talked-of series of humorous pic tures now running in this country. Read what Puuk tay3 about the Pro-German propaganda. ALL NEWS-STANDS TEN CENTS HE Price on most ev ery item in our stock, is a special Sale Price, and most al ways good every day in the week! Are you aware of it? Special mention FOR THURSDAY m PURE DISTILLED WATER 5-gaJlon bottle and oooler for the office. 2-trallon bottle a ad cooler for th home. -gallon bottle. Just the right alz for the re frigerator. TOPEKA PURE WATER CO. Pbone 8S7 Fine Blue Plums for Canning-4-lasket crate Fine Granulated Sugar 10 Splendid Jar Ilublicr Duzrn Mason's Jars at 5c ior do. present cost. Fine Idirste Prunes Pound Iarse Funcy L.einoiis loxeii 8 Mars White Laundry Soup Bushel Flue Potatoes 18e Can Fnllwclfclit Cove Oysters White; House Coffee 41e lb White House Flour (excelled by none) 48 lbs Fancy White Means Pound Wlilte Sulmoii 10c can 1. are Solid Cabbage Head Sapollo or Hon Anil Package 2. V- Pk. Gold IMist 2 Boxes 5c .MatclieH for 93c $1.00 6c abme 10c 14c 25c 55c 14c 33c $1.69 6c "8c 4c 8c 19c ....3c We Are Still Selling Wolff Pure I-caf O. K. Lard ib. Wolff's l'ure C. C. Iard Compound Pound Hulk or Link Sausage 1 'on nd Kxtra Sizo Diamond Crystal Table Suit 50-11). MaK No. 1 Salt Streaked Salt Pork Best lb Reeular 10c Macaroni or Snaehetti 4 Pksft Scores of Items Not Mentioned Here at a Big Saving. Phone Orders 4108. lie 10c 9c 10c 5c 29c i2V2c ,27c Neuralgia Pains Stopped Yon don't need to suffer those agonizing oerve pains in the face, bead, arm, shoul ders, chest and hnk. Just apply a few drops of soothing Sloan's Liniment; lie quietly a few minutes. You will ret stn-li ellef and comfort! Life and the world will look brighter, (jet a bottle todsy. 3 ounces for e.. at all Druggists. Pene trates without rubbing. AdY. wmmmmm 7 -Big Busy Stores 806 E. 4 th. 1111 Kansas Ave. 1004 N. Kansas Ave.i 505 West 10 til. 1013 West 6th St. 1414 West 15UU 80S Wabash. L. f. PENVELL Undertaker and Embalnier TTTOMA3 E. JONES. Assistant Pbone 192. 608-31 Qaincf St.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING AWTT3T 25, 1915. WANT J0 KNOW Count j Officials Ask the Attor ney General's Office. A Surprise avid J. August EAPIES of New essage TO TOP 1'or an Opinion Action of Board of Commissioners. KSS3522EE3ES 0 M from D York EKA T H E 'hiiiii msMiam The filing of requests by various Shawnee county officials -with the at torney general, for opinions as to the authority of the- county commission ers to order the county surveyor to keep his oflice open only three days in the week and limit his compensa tion accordingly, and as to the com pensation legally due the commis sioners, will not await the return of W. E. Atchison, county attorney, from a vacation trip. Robert D. Garver, assistant county attorney, today made formal application for the opinions in a letter to S. X. Hawkes, assistant at- j turney general. I The request for the opinions, which j is made bv Garver at the requests of Hugh MacFarland, probate judge, and I .1 A. t'anipbell. county surveyor, is I regarded as a back explosion from the bombshell which the commission ers hurled into the court house a week ago Monday when they decided upon sweeping economy moves to cover a sil.on" deficit in county finances. Garner's Ix-Uer. OarviT'a letter follows: Mr. S. N. Hawkes. Assistant At torney General: This office as been asked for opinions construing section 21, chap ter 17. of the fee and salary law of li)13. concerning compensation of the county commissioner? of this county, and lias also been asked for an opin ion as to the authority of the board of county commissioners, in the face of section 26. chapter 1H7, of the laws of 1913, to order the county surveyor to keep his office open only three days in the week and to limit his compen sation to the per diem allowed by the statute for three days. 'Inasmuch as this oflice is also af fected by orders of the county com missioners, and the compensation of the co'inty attorney and his assistants materially reduced, we feel some hes itancy in giving an opinion in regard to these matters, fearing the charge may be made that our opinion is not quest your office, which is entirely disinterested in the matter, to give us an opinion covering the noints re- ferred to u.s."' ISigned) "Ht'BERT U. GAR VEIL" Aloni: with- his ov.-n request for an opinion, ilarvcr is enclosing in bis letter to Hawke.i letters from Camp bell :ind MacFarland These letters request opinion. that Garver furnish the WANTED QUICK DIVORCE New York Woman Hail Xew Husband Already in Tow. Xew York. Aug. 25. Mrs. Andrew Thompson entered the office of the county clei k in Manhattan today with two men and said to William Schober, an attache: :"My husband and I want a divorce and we want it quick. "That's my husband." said she. pointing to one man. "And here," sie added, "is the man I'm going to mar ry. Now do I get a divorce?" "Well," said Schober. thoughtfully, 'to get a divorce you first get a law yer and pay him a fee. After that you wait. Your husband also hires a lawyer, pays him a fee and also waits. After you've waited a couple of years the judge may grant you a divorce or he may not. Or. if he does, he may refuse to let you marry again." "Goodness!" said she. "All that? But I'm just sick and tired of this man and I just can t stand him any longer. Thank you. Good day." POOR OLD COTTONWOOD Former Pride of Kansas Now on "Not Wanted" List. Large cottonwood trees are not i demand for lumber or wood. A half i dozen very large cottonwoods, grow ing in the iarking of a street in the east part of the city must be removed to make way for a sidewalk. Frank Synder. street commissioner, has offered to give them to anyone who will remove them, but has found no one to accept the proposition. Cot tonwoods are used at a local box fac tory and also for making excelsior, hut trees which may contain nails and tacks used in posting signs are not "wanted a thev damage machinery. BUYS BANK INTERESTS J. S. Corley or Wichita, Into German American of Toieka. J. S. Corley, formerly of Wichita, tias Just purchased the controlling in terest in the German-American State bank of Topeka. He bought the stock from many of the shareholders. Cor ley is interested in banks in AVichita, Cleburne. Tex. and Oklahoma City. According to Mr. Corley and Theo dore C. Mueller, president of the in stitution, there will be no change in the policy or tire management of the bank. Both Mr. Mueller and George P. Benson, cashier, will retain their positions and no change will be made in the directorate. PAGE GETS COTTON BAN v. s. Now to File Protest Against British Proclamation. Washington, Aug. 25. From Am bassador Page at London, the state department today received the text of the proclamation placing cotton and cotton products on the list of absolute contraband. Th? state department now will pro ceed to prepare a note to the British government holding that, because cot ton has many extensive uses other than the manufacture of explosives, it cannot lawfully be regarded as ab- Federals After Ty Cobb? olutc contraband. Detroit. Mich.. Aug. 25. Ty Cobb today branded as a fake the storv from New York that he was consider ing a Federal league offer. The storv asserted that Cobb has been offered 100,ui0 for a three year contract, ;0.0tirt to be paid at once and that the full amount was promised regard less of any court action. Cobb said U.dTv that he knew of no such offer. i imMa Ladies Ladies House Dresses, assorted patterns Ijidics' 75c Maiish Waists Special .Men's Black, tan, icai-l Hose Men's $1.00 Sport Shirts in plain blues and colors. 25c 15c 5c 45c .Men's $7.50 Guaranteed Palm Beach Suits $3.89 Ladies I-ace Trimmed Envelope Chemise. Regular 69C Men's Khaki Punts .Mark Cross Safety Razor 39c 5c Tan and Black Boys Oxfords values "p $1.00 to $.5..0 SI 7.50 Ladies' Suits. serges, silks and Fancy CQ QQ weaves. Choice i?O.UO FOOD TONEWPORT Aid by Rail and Boat to Arkan sas Flood Victims. People Still Kept Oil St'COIRl Floors ly High Water. Little Rock. Ark., Aug. 25. Food and money will be sent from Little Ruck to aid the flood refugees at New- i port who still are living on the second floors of their homes as the result of the recent rise in White river. A car loud of canned goods and bread left Little Rock yesterdey afternoon. Iron Mountain officials said the train could proceed only to Bradford where it is expected Newport citizens will meet the train with boats and transport the food the remainder of the distance. Reports from Newport today indi cate conditions are unchanged. Resi dents of Newport fear floods in the upper White river near Springfield, may cause a further rise at Newport within the next two days. The streets of Newport are covered with water, varying in depth from three to twelvefeet. The- sewerage system has been destroyed, the water, electric 'ight and gas plants are out of commission, and railroad commu nication with -the outside world still is cut off. Reports at noon from Newport stat ed that train service with points north had been resumed. Fifteen hundred rations from Little Rock reached Newport today. A statewide appeal for aid has been issued. Governor George W. Hays today de tailed two squads of state militia to report to Newport officials at once with large quantities of tents and blankets for the use of the sufferers. CITY WATER AT GALVESTON. Temporary Mains in Service Reports of Seawall Break False. Galveston. Tex., Aug. 25. Water from the city's wells at Alta Loma was turned into the city mains today for the first time since the mains across the bay were troken by the tropical storm. This water is coming through a temporary main laid across the bay and completed late yesterday. Considerable resentment has devel oped because of outside newspaper reports which told of great breaches in the seawall. The seawall was not broken in a single place- POSTOFFICE DESTROYED. Government Surfers Heavily in Storm Zone in Texas. Houston, Tex.. Aug. 25. Reports from postoffic;? inspectors touring the storm zone of Texas indicate that the government offices at Glen Winfree, Lynchburg, Kemah, Wallisville. Tom Ball, Chocolate Bayou, Sabine and Quintana were destroyed, with all contents. Four of these offices are near Houston, and near Quintana there was a heavy loss of life, accord ing to the reports. In every case postmasters who stayed on the job had narrow escapes. IT DIDN'T WORK Movie Company Tried to If'ast Kan sas Censor System. A mution picture company recently went to the trouble to attach several J'ardS of films to one of its pictures in which the Kansas state board of censorship and tl.e legislature of the state were severely criticised. In strong language the company gave the state a "roasting." This morning a local picture house J snowed the reel, with the attached criticism. Miss Carrie Simpson, a member of the board of censorship, saw the picture and barred the unde sirable part from appearing iu the reel. COURT IS OBDURATE Refuses to Rescind Its Order ill Val ley Falls Case. Two supreme court justices, several attorneys, members of the Vallev j Falls Mercantile company, and many citizens of Valley Falls have been seriously inconvenienced just because H. Mott, a justice of the peace, had a peculiar idea about an appeal bond which was offered in a recent suit by the Davis Mercantile company of Topeka. The "J. P." had an idea that a bank president couldn't sign an ap peal bond so he refused to have any tning to do with the perfectly good I pitals at Monterey are filled to ca bond offered by Fred S. Jackson, at- j pacity with the wounded. preparations for you. "So come to my store ICE $5.00 Dress Skirts, Shep herd Plaids and Worsteds. :55c Ladies' Silk Hose. 2 pair for S.I.OO Indies' White Dresses. Closing; Sale Pice $3.50 Mary Jaue and Pumps all leathers $1.69 25c Lingerie ..98c Colonial $1.98 Children's White Ilt-esses, and embroidery trimmed. Regular $1.50 values lace 50c Ladies' Bronze Pumps and Side Ijiee Oxfords. Ladies' $1.00 Muslin Night Gowns Mens $l.O0 Sport Shirts Ladies' $7.50 Silk Sweater Coats Boys $2.50 Worsted Knickerbocker Suits $1.39 50c ..39c $3.98 $1.00 torney foil the Topeka. firm. A. writ of mandamus was issued by Justices Silas Porter and John R. Marshall of the supreme court, to compel Mott to accept the bond and restore the goods to the building from which they had been taken by the constable. This morning attorneys for Eliza beth L. Hauck and her husband, John Hauck, appeared in the supreme court and asked for a modification of the court's writ but the court refused to modify its decision. The Hauclc peo ple want possession of the building occupied by the Davis Mercantile company and succeeded in getting the justice of the peace to render judg ment for them. This judgment will be set aside, however, until the case is tried in the district court. EMERGENCY KIT The City Has Purchased One L'olice Headquarters. for Owing to the present lack of such facilities, a medical and surgery emer gency kit will be installed at the city jail. The emergency kit, consisting of instruments, medicine and numerous other articles, was purchased under the supervision of Dr. C. C. Lull, county physician, by the city. The kit will be placed under the care of the jailer. "The move will add to the efficiency in treating emer gency cases a great deal," says Dr. Lull. "Every time a call is turned in from the station it means quick work and many times in the past the physi cian called has arrived on the scene without proper equipment. In the absence of a city physician 10 uo ine wot k at me station, ur. iuii continues to give his services, gratis. so far as has been ascertained. At I any rate he has received no payment from either county or city for his time. However, the city is paying for the emergency equipment. MARSHALL'S CONCERT State Journal" March a Feature at Klein's Grove. The following concert will be given by Marshall's band at Klein's grove tonight: March Topeka State Journal Marshall Overture Neptune's Carnival Stimson Euphonium Solo Beneath Thy Window Di Capua Mr. Chas. W. Spreng Selection The Serenade Herbert Sketch Country Life Laurendeau Waltz Wedding of the Winds Hall Mazurka La Czarine Ganna March The Royal Trumpeters.... Seltzer SPEAKING OF SNAKES Topckau Tells or Reptile That Swal lowed Pan of Milk. Dr. Leslie Rowles, city milk inspec tor, has a snake story. "It was a big moccasin," says tiia doctor, "the biggest I had ever seen. He was out on a log over some water, I shot him. The bullet cut a large sec tion out of his under side. The snake dropped into the water, leaving the severed section on the log. A half hour later I returned and found the snake had crawled back on the log and had curled up over the section which had been severed, placing his wound so that the disconnected piece could grow back where it belonged." "That's nothing.' replied Prof. Frank Snow, instructor in "industrious" journalism at the Kansas State Agri cultural college. "I saw a hoop snake swallow a pan of condensed milk Rhodesia. South Africa. The snake then stuck his tail in his mouth and rolled like a hoop down the main street. He struck an incline so steep he skidden against a white way pole and had a 'blow out,' and there on the walk beside the punctured re mains we picked up a pan of butter." VILLA" IN BIG VICTORY Forces of Northern Leader Over, whelm Carranza Men; 1,000 Dead. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 25. Villa's forces numbering nearly 10,000 have inflicted a severe loss on the Carranza forces near Monterey, driving them from Garcia back to Nuevo Leon, Mexican advices today stated. The Carranza forces are reported to have lost more heavily in this battle than in any for several months. More than 1.000 men were killed, and the hos- I want you to be at my store Thursday. Its the last Ladies' Day in August, and I sincerely regret I won't be in Topeka for this day. But I want it to be a day of Great Celebration So through Quick manipulation of the Wires between Topeka and New York I have made all CREAM AND DAINTIES SERVE Ladies' Linen Suits, reg uar $7.50 values Men's $5.00 Tub Silk Shirts $2.39 $1.45 Ladies Stirling Black Silk Hose, 1 lose, 25c 10c 5c 19c 50c values, 2 pair for Ladies' 50c Brassiers Ladies Fancy White Handkerchiefs 50c Men's Si.spcnders Any White Can vas or Buckskin Shoe. Oxford or Pump, in House ..$100 Any Man's Straw Hal in our House Panamas Excepted) 45c 620-622 Kansas Avenue A PHTHISIS 'CURE' Plague .Treated by Chemical Means, Xot Serums. French Physician's Announce ment Stirs Paris Doctors. Paris, Aug. 2 5. Dr. Louis Renon, a physician connected with the Necker hospital and a memoer of the medical faculty of the University of Paris, has announced to the Therapeutic society that he is ready to prove that tuber culosis, contrary to the generally ac cepted theory, rhust be treated by chemical means and not by serums. His paper caused considerable stir in medical circles, where it is claimed he has opened a new path in the cure of the white plague. Dr. Renon says his endeavors have been directed toward finding a sub stance which will kill bacilli in an animal without injuring the elements of that organization, as a beginning he established a list of antiseptics which arrest the development of bacilli in cultures. He also found substances with which bacilli cannot develop. These, he said, are potas sium, sulphur, phosphates, iron and magnesium. Thus he claims therapeutic action can be obtained by adding certain substances to an animal organism and also by withdrawing by means of die i tary other substances necessary to the growth of bacilli. JUST PLAYING INDIAN County Jail Visitor Alarmed by Yells of Boys. Help! Murder! Leggo! Take him off! A visitor at the county jail stiffened in his chair and prepared to be a wit ness to a bloodcurdling crime this morning. The visitor started for the window through which juvenile howls and calls for help sounded, noticed that Mitch Bundy was smiling, and stopped. "What's going on out there?" in terrogated the visitor, as he noticed I mat. me iji isoners Sim uozeu III tnen ceils ana Bundy s grin widened. Summoning his courage at the lack of attention given the cries, the visitor looked through the window. A half dozen small boys playing Indian were engaged in the occupation of scalping a paleface. BIBLE CAUSES FOR WAR Topeka Salvation Army Conference Settled World War Liability. The Salvation Army ball was full last night at the "Prophetic confer ence." The subject was "Bible Causes for the War." The causes of the war. according to the sermon rendered at the meeting, was due to the sins of the nations engaged, which were in terpreted as follows: Belgium For atrocities in the Con go Free state. Eneland-For forcing opium traffic in China. Russia Because they oppressed the Jews. France For turning to infidelity. Germany Because they have led in destructive criticism of God's word. Turkey Because they persecuted the Armenian Christians. The subject for tonight will be "Has Christianity Failed." TO ENTER TOPEKA GAR Victor De Mulzan Will Drive In Free Fair Auto Races. Victor De Mulzan. at one time chauffeur for Harry K. Thaw, will drive a car in the races at the state fair. He has driven in many road races and may- well be considered an expert. He will drive a Velie ma chine owned by M. F. Trent, man ager of the Walkover Shoe company in xopeKa. This .will be the only To peka car in the race. De Mulzan has a good record as a. driver. He drove a Fiat in a road race between Philadelphia and New York city and in race between St. Louis and Kansas City he made the distance in 11 hours and 10 minutes with a Lozier six. He has been work ing for the Cole Motor Car company here for some time. The car he will drive has shown class in several road tests. It will 1 develop eignty miles per hour. On J Tomorrow. T Vill be a Ladies' Boudoir House Slippers. $1.50 value Ladies' $2.00 Silk I'nderskirts Ladies' $1.25 Cotton Crepe Waists, all colors Ladies' $1.50 Country Club Middies 75c ...98c 39c 69c $1.00 25c Men'j $3.50 Panama Hats values Men's Porosknit or Bal briggan Union Suits. a test trip today De Mulzan drove the car at a rate of over sixty miles an hour on second speed on the Silver Lake road. The road was in poor shape and it was impossible to open the machine up to its full speed. Both Trent and De Mulzan are en thusiastic over the performance of the machine and are optimistic as to the outcome of the races. The To peka man probably will have to com pete with some of the famous racers from the east in the contests at the fair. LAZIEST MAN FOUND A Case Where Everybody Works But Father. Frank Snyder, city commissioner of streets, claims to have encountered the champion lazy man. "He came along wlren a large tree, which had blown down, was being re moved from the street," Snyder re lates. "With him was an under-sized twelve-year-old boy." "Mister, can I have that tree?" he inquired. "Sure, you can have it for getting it out of the way," Snyder informed him. Instead of getting a saw and divid ing the trunk into pieces which could be split, he began carrying away the small branches which had broken loose when the tree fell, and he had his little son carry the big, heavy ends of the Limbs, while he carried the lighter ends. "I told him he should be ashamed to make the little boy do the heavy work, and he told me the boy should be glad he had a father who would help him," says Snyder. "The fellow told me he did not want the trunk of the tree at all. "If I take the small limbs home, my wife can chop tnem into stove wood, Dut 1 have no use for the big trunk. It's too big. I can't carry it home, and my wife can not saw it in two, and I will not do it." TO PROTEGT MERCHANT State Schools Will Identify Students to Prevent Fraud. With the opening of the school term only a few weeks off, arrangements have been made at the University of Kansas, the Kansas State Agricultural college and other of the state higher educational institutions to identify new students for the protection of the mer chants of the various cities against fraud. In the past numbers of business men in the college towns have been victims of-persons representing themselves to be students, who cashed fraudulent checks or obtained goods on credit for which they never paid. The system to be adopted this year provides for identification cards to be attached to the regular student en rollment blanks. Each of these will bear the st-imp of the registrar of the school. NEW STRIKE IN WALES Four Thousand Men Already Out; General Walkout Threatened. Cardiff, Aug. 2 5. For the second time within a few weeks. Great Brit ain is threatened with a strike of 200, 000 Wales coal miners, which would cripple the making of war munitions and tie up a large portion of British shipping. Four thousand miners quit work today. RATE BOOST IS DENIED r oiiiriierr-o Board Permits Vn Clim.i-e in Peddler Car Conduct. Washington, Aug. 25. The inter state commerce commission today disapproved increases in the freight rates and changes in the rules govern ing shipments of packing house prod ucts, fresh meats and other articles in socalled peddler cars in southwestern territory. A peddler car is an iced car, loaded by the packers, which stops at several unloading points for removal of por tions of its contents, on- its- way to final destination. Latest Neutrality Proclamation. Washington, Augi 25. President Wilson today signed a proclamation giving notice of the neutrality of the Cnited States between Italy and Tur- key. The proclamation followed thi lines of the others already issued. Gala Day. Children's Black Kid and Patent Lace Oxford:. Ladies' $2.50 Sj.ort Coats ladies' SI. 00 Dressing Saoqties 39c $1.00 25c Ladies' Satin Evening Slip- SI 95 iipru All enlftrs T All colors V 1 $1.00 value 5iP!i'. Mesh; Balhrig gan and Nainsook Shirts -?Q and Drawers. A Suit for.. Men's Plain Blue Strie and Black Sateeu Siiirts Men's 50c Silk Hose Indies' Matting B.tgs. SI. 50 values .39c 25c 25c Ladies' Fawn and frpy top Q1 A f? 111 nips and Oxford. Ladies' Knit Union Suits, $1.00 value 50c IT LEADS THE STAT L Mankato Has More Registered hies Than Any Other Town. Ba- Mankato, Kan., leads the state in registered babies. Today forty cer tificates of health were sent to as many babies in Mankato by tho di vision of child hygiene of the state board of health. The babies were ex amined and rated according to the score card of the American Medical association. There are 40,000 babies born every year in Kansas and it is the plan of the child hygiene depart ment to have tvery one of these bnbies registered if it is possible. The babies will not be able to col lect any insurance upon their certfi- cates but those who keep up with the nroccssiun and have their certificates renewed each year will know where they stand in a health way. The Jewell Wr. C. T. U. held a meet ing last week at Mankato and started the babies on the proper health ca reer. It does not cost the parents anything to have the babies registered. 58 GERMAN PLUNGERS Neutral Authority Gives Report of Kaiser's Undersea Strength. Copenhagen, Aug. Zo. (Via. Lon don) The German undersea fleet at present comprises fifty-eight sub marines, according to a neutral au thority who has just returned to Den mark from Germany. Germany's fleet, according to the same authority, con sists of thirty-eight warships. Six thousand marines from Kiel have been sent to the eastern fighting front to reinforce the pioneer service of the army, it is said. GREY TO MAKE ANSWER Foieign Minister to Reply Bctlimann-llollweg. to Von London, Aug. 25. Sir Edward Grey will issue tonight a statement which he has prepared in reply to the speech before the reichstag last week of the German chancellor, Dr. Von Beth man n-Hollweg. The German chancellor was quoted as having told the reichstag that Sir Edward said to the German ambassa dor in London when the latter was about to depart at the beginning of the war. that it might be possible for England at the conclusion of peace, to render more valuable services to Germany than would have been tho case had England remained neutral. The chancellor inferred that Eng land desired the friendship of a beat en and weakened Germany as a coun ter influence against powerful Russia. SMITH SELLS PAPER

SUUe Printer Transfers Columbus Ad- vocatc to v. iiiise'ii. W. R. Smith, state printer, an nounces the sale of his paper, the Columbus Advocate, to N. W. Huston, former editor of the Manhattan Na tionalist. As a reason for the sale Mr. Smith makes the statement that he wishes to give all his time to his state office. NEW SHELL KILLS-TWO Premature Kxplosion at Steel Plant Proving Grounds, Fatal. Allentown. Pa., Aug. 25. Two men were killed and several probably fa- I tallv injured late today when a hell supposed to have contained a eompo- j position of powder and nitroglycerin exploded while ueing carried to tne nroving grounas or tne etn;enem Steel plant at Indian Head, Reding- ton. Pa. Germans Release V. S. Ship. Washington. Aug. 25. Germany has released the Amtrican ship Dunsyr,-. Ambassador Gerard so reported today. Gerard did not --ay what disposition has been made of the Dunsyre's food- stuff cargo, of Balmaha One other ship, the Pass now is detained in Ger- many. French Air.-mcn Blast Station. Paris, Aug. 25. In an air attack on German line of communication, a French aviator dropped bombs on the railroad station at lorrach, southwest i of Friborg, the Paris war office says-Jl; 50c Children's Gingham Dresses, 25 $I.O0 values Ladies Kid Gloves. All colors. $1.25 values Men's $3.50 Worsted Trousers ...50c $1,00 $2.00 Men's Soft Shirts, with Tfn attached collar. Choice.... $0.50 Men's Shoes and Oxfords $2.45 Ladies beautiful ecru Net 7f Waisis, $1.50 values 1 ox Ladies' and Men's Bathing Knits 39c Indies' Lisle Hose in lied and Green. A pair SPKCIAL Ladies Black and Tan Button and Bluclier Oxfords. Values up to $1.00. 45f Ladies' Day i MANHATTAN P.USIM'SS COLLI-::.! I-: litis helpeil iii:myiiiit -an help you through college. For infor mation ndiln-ss 1.. W. Nutler. l'resiilent. iiox Z. MaiiliiiLtuii. hull. TOO LAT E T 0 CL ASSi FY hOST Bi iniMc ami white bulldog. Call local mm. Ml: K;.rl tire" will go to Fort morning. and Mr. Hert Da via Leavenworth r riday Women Police Service, by Miss Kv;i Corning, for sale at Zcrcher's book store, 2 5c. Adv. C. G. Adams of the Rock Island general offices has been called to wasnington, u. on account ui me illness of his mother. Suits dry cleaned 75c. Topeka Laundry Co. Phone 360o. Adv. Dr. J. M. Wester-"ld, formerly of this city, but now living in San Diego, Cal is here visiting Frank Snyder, city commissioner of streets. Dr. Westerfield has large interests in tho Kansas oil fields and extensive real estate holdings in California. Jackson's Military band will give a concert tonight in the Buchanan school yard. A. J. Johnson. a former Topeka printer, but foreman of the Wichita Beacon for the past twenty years, is in the city looking over the Topeka printing offices and renewing ac quaintances with his former associates j and friends. The following births were reported at the office of the city clerk today: Carl Snapp and wife. 1314 North Ty ler street. August 16, girl: J. Meirs and wife. K. 11. No 6. August 2 2, boy: John G. McEntyre and wife, 1222 Monroe street, August 8, girl; John Blattner and wife, 1107 North Jefferson tstrcet. August 22, boy: Robert King and wife, 135 North Madison streef, August 23. girl, T. J. Jones and wife. 1200 North Madison street, August 2 3, boy. Fraternal Aid U'nion lodges No. 2 and No. 757 have arranged for a pic nic at Wakarusa August 29. leaving in a special car at 10 o'clock from the Santa Fe depot. It will pay you to get ourestimate on that lumber bill. Phone J. B. Whelan Co., 711 E. 4th. Adv. Payment of $10,473 of the 1VU 'ax was made to the state treasurer today by Matt Weightman, county treasurer. F. Bowen. deputy county t-eas-urer, who has been on a vacation for the laft two weeks, will return to his desk in the treasurer's office tomor row. I Have your piano tuned and repaired j by Jenkins' factory expert All work i guarnatecd. 1'hone 1448. Adv. I 'fficar cwayze, county notified all security and clerk, has trust corn- Pnies that bids for the j win Campbell, who assu bond of Kd- mes the office of county treasurer. Octooer 1. are open. Any security company, whether notified or not, is entitled to bid for the bond which is placed at $50,000. The bond covers the three years' term. DEATHS AND FUNERALS The funeral of Mrs. Lottie N. Mil burn, who died Monday, will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the home, 519 Tyler street. Interment in Topeka cemetery. Joseph T. LtVore. age 24 days, died Sunday at the home of his mother. Mrs. Emma LeVore, in Kansas City. The funeral will be held in Topeka. Arrangements have not yet been made. Please for Governor. Colum'oip. S. C, Aug. 25. Former Governor Cole L. Blease, in a letter made public here tooay, announced he would be a candidate for governor again next year. w Vorh Cotton Market. New ork. Aug. 25. (ViT'loX-Hpn, nnlet; middling nplandx. !i.:;o. saieS jiju biilt-s. New York Money Market. I hr, I'l $4.r,1.25; demand. 4.(i5: cobles $4 07 i Francs, deniund, $5.U1 c:bu-s. .".IX). Murks. leniaiul. -.-ibles, Nlti. Lfres. deinund. '44: cul-lcs, ?i.j-'. Itubles, .leinainl. .",4; ables. .J'-j. V.r silver. 441'(,t-: M.-xi-:iu i uounrff. .nr. eminent linnils. ntendr: rmlroad bonds, strong. Time logins, easy W days, avi per -ent: !H days. a:i per j cent 1 month. jer cent. 1 Call money, steady; tiigu. 'J low, I'J ruling rale. I i t'-t loan closiuK 1 1 i I offered at 2 pvr cent.-. Men's Jersey Sweaters, $1.00 value

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7 BEAT THE BRUSH! i Democrats Hunting a Candi-j date for Governor. HERE ARE THE YOUNGSTERS! AID RIFLE CLUBS Congress to Be Asked to Tro ide Outdoor, Ranges. THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTJRNAI WEDNESDAY EVENING AUGUST 25,1915. TRY AN ELECTRIC IRON or TOASTER FREE IN YOUR OWN HOME A Call Is Going Up for Hender-; All Americans Should Learn to Handle Fire Arms. son Martin. 3 a'mt ssmmi A HARMONIZER IS NEEDED: Viee-Governor of Philippines 3Ian for the Job. Judge Ituppenthal of Russell Is Being 3Ientioned. Kansas Democrats are beginning to cast their eyes around for a guber natorial car.diilate to make the race next year. Henderson Martin, vice governor of the Philippines, and Judge J. C. Ruppenthal. of Russell, have both been spoken of as available men by influential members of the parry. Many state workers in the party have written to Martin urging him to resign his post and return to Kansas. Martin is known to have written to numerous friends in Kansas, saying that he did not like to live in Manila and that his family were quite anxious to return to their T.iarion home. He likes the work that falls to his lot as vice governor, but other conditions j cause the desire to return to Kansas. The Democrats believe that Martin j could do more to line up the warring: factions of the Kansas Democracy than any other man. He was state chairman when Thompson and Hodges were elected. The factional fight broke j out soon after the election and there hs been a row in the party ever since, j Martin left Kansas before the row be came very bitter and he was not mixed up in it as much as sofne of the other prospective candidates. Thompson-Hodges I'orccs. j The Hodges supporters already have pushed John E. Wagner of Lamed into the race and he is campaigning to some extent- The Thompson forces I are attempting to sec George Xeeley. 1 who was defeated for the senate last j year, into the ra:e tor governor against Waner. and the Thompson followers assert that they will have a man in the race if Wagner continues 1 and the old strife in the party would continue. j It is asserted that if Martin would i return next year that Wagner would withdraw and that the Thompson fol- lowers would not attempt to get a can didate for their faction. leaving Mar-1 tin a clear field for the nomination. Ruppenthal Is Mentioned. Th? Lincoln S-.Titi.iet prints the fol lowing about Judge Ruppenthal: ""If the Kansas Democrats are looking for a man who can win the j governorship next year they can do no better than to persuade Judge J. i C. Ruppenzhal of Iiuisell to accept I the nomination. The people of his district re-elected him almost unan- i imju&ly l:st year. But as governor i he could serve his district in another i way. "His record as district judge will' be his strongest asset in his candidacy for governor ard that is saying a f gr.'at d"al, as besides his splendid record on the bench he has many struns points In his favor. He is a thorough Kansan, is thoroughly ac- i iuainttl with the needs of the state. he fully realizes the weakness of our system of administerir g justice, he stands next to the people and has al- ways fought their battles. he has never Ken mixed up in any kind of political rows, he i clean, both po- liticaliy and morally, he is honest ;ind has proven fry his decisions that i his judgmert is unqueslit nably sound, his decisions for pure justice are quoted far and wide, in fact he is so i well fitted for the governorship and j is so well known to the people all over the state that lis election, if nominat ed, would be certain." Who wus Shylock. Aunt Ethel?" 'My de? r! And you go to fcrimday school and don't know that!" Life, i Even competitors admit SHONINGER quality Musicians everywhere ad mit Shoninger quality. You will find among pianists and music lovers in general and even by those who sell other pianos, frank recog nition of Shoninger artistic quality. They all admit that the Shoninger is a good piano. You who are about to buy a piano should hear the sympathetic tone, rich in musical quality. The piano that no competitor can find fault with must ba more than a good piano worth while investigating. The Reliable Kansas Piano House W. F. REHI MUSI6 6Q 630 KANS.AVE. c!fSlf Forty-Five Boys starting for the Y. M. C. A. (amp at Maple Hill This Week. IN NORTHJOPEKA George Young Clears Up the Drainage Situation. Huge Fish Are Being Taken Out of the Kaw River. A complete topographical survey of Soldier and Indian creeks was never made or parts of an old survey were lost before the present drainage board came into office, according to a state ment by George Toung. member of the board. It is impossible, say mem bers of the doard. to make any kind i of an estimate of the improvements t necessary in the two streams witiiout j more definite information than the board now has. Mr. Young's state ment was made to clear away the i doubt that several farmers living in i the drainage district seem to have re garding the necessity of the proposed survey of the creeks. i Th-? only survey of the two streams 1 in the district was made by John Rog ers under the direction of the orig'nal I North Topeka drainage board, says Mr. Young. The only actual benefit that can be derived from it. he says, is to get the general direction of the creeks. A number of stations are not i included in the maps while informa i tion on many are meager, j Members of the board recently con sulted H. B. Walker, state drainage engineer. Mr. Walker is considered the leading authority in the state on 'dra'nage engineering and now has I charge of drainage improvement work in the state amounting to more than JSS00.000. Members of the local drain age board were influenced, therefore, to a large extent by Mr. Walker's j recommendations. From the survey made by Mr. Rogers, Mr. Walker i could make no estimate of improve ments necessary on Soldier or Indian creeks, according to Toung. Mr. Young would not say when the survey of the two streams will be started. That depends altogether on i the weather and the condition of the j streams, he says. While the ground along the; greater length .of the i ftreanw is dry. some spots still hold considerable water, he declared, f Mill Creek Has "othina on Kaw. Mill Creek has nothing on the Kaw river as the habitat for huge fish. From t Maple Hill have come reports of the monster fish caught by campers. Come now fishermen from Xorth Topeka with exhibits from the river, i This morning George Smith of 947 North Fillmore street was showing friends on the North Side a catch of comparatively small yellow catfish. I Several of these small fish weighed from eight to ten pounds. The record catch this season appears to have been made by Jack Rollins re I cently. Rollins brought a yellow cat j out of the Kaw that weighed 42 pounds. 1 Grior for HonscwUcs and Reporters. i Housewives who failed to have on hand todiy a sufficient amount of groceries and meats to carry them through until tomoirow morning and j reporters who are working in North Topeka came to grief this morning. The grocers and butchers of the North Side in common with their brethren on the South Side of the river are taking a day off and all grocery and meat shops are closed. Grocery stores are excellent sources of news for here the farmers and townsmen meet and compare notes on the occurrences of the day. Observing cashiers "take" all of this information in to be 'ater turned over to the "item rustler" who stirs up the dust on the North Side. Notes and Personals. A reunion of the former young people of Fairview and Indianola was neld Tuesday at Garfield park. The persons who attended were residents of the villages and farms nearby forty years ago. street car service was t'elayed near j Garfield park for a short time Tues day afternoon, when a trolley broke. I An ice cream social will be held Thursday right on the J. D. Pratt lawn,. 833 North Jjickson street, for the members of the Second Presbyte rian church. The T. B. B. class of the Shorey Sunday school will give an ice cream social tonight on the O- S. Deitrich lawn. Mr. and Mrs. Will Deppe are in North Topeka to be with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Deppe, 1235 North Taylor street, who pre ill at their home. Isaac De Moss and 1 nomas Holt have returned from Spring Hill. Mo., where they attended the Methodist co iference. Mr. and Mr. Peter Kraus left Tues day night for a westt rr. trip. They i wiii visit friends in Oregon ana Washington. Mrs. Adam Ray or, 1501 North I Quincy street, has returned from i Tulsa, Okla., where she visited w ith friends and relatives. W- K. Brogue has moved to North Madison street from the South Side. Mr. Brogtie is in charge of the work of improving the tracks and roadbed i in front of the I'nion I"acific fetation, i Mr. and Mrs. Milt Crov ell have re turned Irom New York where they 1 visited relatives. Mr. and Mrs, I. Fenjamin have 1 returned from New York where they 1 visited relatives. Mr. and Mrs. W. E- Vatter have re i turned from California where they i spent their vacation. Miss Tira Cunningham of Holton is I expected in North Topeka today to be j the guest of Miss Ethel McClure. E. Roseworm is building a new barn on his farm, three Quarters of a mile north of the city on the Roches- ter road. Petrograd will install a new sewer age sysrem at a cost of t0,0d0,000. i Tin. shop at Forbes. GREAT CORN CROP Kansas Fields Never Were Bet ter Than at Present. AH Forage Crops Are Making a Rapid Growth. Kansas corn, where the fields have been cultivated is the equal of any -that has been grown in the state, ac cording to the summary of crop and weather conditions- issued today from the local office of the United States weather bureau, and covering the week ending August 24. The weather has been cool and wet. heavy showers having been general on the ISth. 19th and 23rd. More sun shine would be desirable especially in the eastern counties. The report reads: Corn where clean and cultivated is considered the equal of any ever raised in tho state. The early corn has reached the roasting ear stage in the north and is reported nearly ripe enough to feed to hogs in the south ern counties; the late corn has made rapid growth, and. in the northern counties is tasseling. Wheat Is Injured. The damp weather is proving injuri ous to much of the wheat in the shock. Threshing lias been much retarded b the damo conditions in some por tions of the state no threshing done. The yield ij light. Third Cutting Alfalfa. The third cutting of alfalfa is well along in the southern portion of the state and is beginning in the northern and is a heavy crop. One report in cates too much crab grass in the alfal fa. In some of the eastern counties ground is being prepared for sowing alfalfa and much will be sown later. Hay, Oats and Barley. Prairie hay is being cut and put up and is proving one of the finest hay crops ever raised in the state. Oats have not done as well as the wheat, and much of tne crop will not b? threshed. Barley made a fine growth and is now being threshed, yielding as high as 45 bushels to the acre. Forace Crops Doing Well. Kafir. Milo ard Feterita have made a fine growth this week, and if frost keeps off. will yield heavy ci ops. Early apples are about gone. Peach es are b-?ing picked and generally arc abundant. Tomatoes are plentiful, some centril and western counties re porting them a drug on the market. It has generally been too wet to dig potatoes but where dry enough they are abundant and of good quality Plowing has progressed where possi ble but much is yet to be done. Conditions in I'nitcd States. Washington, Aug. 25. In much of the winter wheat belt the week was again showery and threshing and stacking was further delayed. and damage from sprouting and mould ing continues. Plowing is progressing but in some portions the soil is too wet and the work is delayed. In the spring wheat belt the week was favorable and harvest is well ad vanced and threshing is progressing with large yields and is of good quali ty. Despite continued cool weather corn made a good growth except in the more northern districts but owing to the backward condition early frost would be destructive. Late planted corn in the southern states was bene fited by rains and the outlook has improved. Tobacco, truck, pastures and minor crops are in a satisfactory condition. DICTlWARiESALL BOSH Chicago Cniversity Professor Says There Is No English I-anguaee. Chicago. III.. Aug. 2 a. "Professor Knott vs. English Dictionaries." That was the main event at the Uni versity of Chicago today, and the dic tionaries were all submarined and sunk by the time Professor Thomas A. Knott finished. "It is ridiculous." said the pro fessor, "to worship the dictionaries as guides to English pronunciation. Dic tionaries are not inspired works. They are written by Scotchmen and Irish- j men who have no authority. Further more, there is no such thing as the English language. It is an assort j ment of languages, spoken in one way j here. n another way elsewhere." The Original CAUTION S K ltcwj,r,s,u.s i ii i Take a package home RIFLE ASSOCIATION ACTIVE The War Department lias Equipped 165 Clubs. 3Iilitarj Writers Urge the Adoption of Swiss System. Washington. Aug. 23. It is ex pected that the army estimates, when submitted to the next congress, will contain provisions for a general plan i of range construction throughout the country as the preliminary steps to ward the training of the male citi- zens oi tne country in military ritie shooting. High military authorities are in accord as to the necessity of such training for those who are available as volunteers and that any scheme for a reserve must provide also for the rifle training of its mem bers. Provision will probably be con tained also for the proper super vision and training of rifle clubs and the issue to- them of ammunition and target supplies. Congress at the last session authoiized the chief of ord nance to issue free to rifle clubs the Krag rifles in storage at the arsenals as well as ammunition to be used with the same. This ammunition was left over from the Spanish-American war and it has deteriorated greatly. The supply will soon be exhausted, how ever, and provision must be made for the further manufacture of Krag am munition at the Frankford arsenal if the rifle club movement is to be en couraged. X. 11. A. or A. Organized. When the new law went into effect, the organization of these clubs was put in the hands of the National Rifle Association of America, which had al leady done considerable work in the promotioin of rifle training among the citizens of the country, and the war department since that time has equip ped 167 clubs with 1.01S rifles and is sued to them for practice 643.580 rounds of ammunition. In addition to this there has been 915 rifles and 470 carbines, besides 86.840 cartridges is sued to school cadet corps, the same law having authorized such issue. Rifle training of citizens in this country had become almost an un known factor up to about ten years ago. when the National Rifle Associa tion of America began a serious propa ganda for a revival of the sport, hav ing in view the benefit which would be derived from the standpoint of national defense. The association ap pealed to prominent men of the lane for co-operation and received very material assistance from Ex-Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Ex-Senator Root. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Meyer, Colon-el Robert M. Thompson. Ex-Secretaries of War Dickinson and Wright, Robert Bacon. Setta Low. Herbert S. Handley. John R.'" Drexel. George Westinghouse, Judge E. H. Geary, and many other prominent men of the country- In view of the present al most universal demand for a better state of preparation, the association is again appealing for aid to expand its work, especially among the schools and colleges. Its Dlaji includes a modified Swiss system of rifle train- ing for the young men of the coun- try. The Swiss System.. j There has been considerable discus sion in the newspapers regarding the Swiss system of training for national defense and some of our foremost militray writers have advocated the adoption of this system, overlooking the fact that the conditions in the United States are far different from i those in the little old republic arnc-n the Alps. In Switzerland, every male from 16 years of age to 45 is issued an army j rifle. ammunition. and equipment which he takes to his home and keeps subject to a call fom his country to reporc to the colors. Practice shooting is principally done on Sunday. No doubt a modified Swiss system could be very effectively put into operation in the United States. With the ten millions of available young men in this country to select from, there is no reason why rifle clubs should not be organized with selected applicants. The National Rifle Association of America has demonstrated what can be done with very little funds avail able for the work along such lines. It has under its jurisdiction nearly five hundred clubs now with an esti mated membership of about twenty five thousand. Could Have o.OOO Hubs. With proper governmental support, inspection, supervision and training, these 500 clubs could be increased to 5.000 with at least 300.000 members and in time this easily could be in creased to a million. We then would be getting all the benefits of the best features of the Swiss system without running any danger from the free is sue of rifles. Before this should be done, how ever, the way should be paved for the successful carrying out of the scheme by the building of rifle ranges by the government throughout the country where rifle club members could shoot. This is another feature of the Swi--s system which we might well pattern after. In that country, nearly every canton, which might for comparison's sake be called a miniature state, has 1 1 a fine, large, well equipped range and in addition there are thousands of rifle clubs which have their own ranges. i Rifle shooting as a sport will never be popular like baseball as it lacks the element of the spectacular but it can be made interesting by competi i tions interclub. interstate and na- tionaL !?uch competitions as the na tional matches do more than anything else to popularize the game. FRATERNAL AIO UNION NOTICE AH members are requested to at tend Wednesday evening. August 25. when Suprem-e Treasurer T. J. Swee ney and others will be present to dis cuss questions of importance. Hall 1000-02 North Kansas avenue. Adv. Adv. EDNA ANDREW. Secretary. Powder Mm Blown Up: One Dead. Cornish. Ark A ag. 23. The mill of the Equitable Powder company here was destroyed by an explosion from an unknown cause. One man waa badly hurt, the absence of work men during the noon hour preventing further loss of life. Telephone the Edison office, 4080, today and ask that a demonstrator call at your home to demonstrate the convenience, comfort and economy of Electric Irons, Toasters, Coffee Percolators, Vacuum Cleaners and Sewing Machine Motors. YOU WILL NEVER REALIZE THE FULLEST ENJOYMENT OF AN ELECTRIFIED HOME UNTIL YOU HAVE USED THESE SILENT SERVANTS Our demonstrators will place 1,000 Electric Toasters and 1,000 Electric Irons in To peka homes free for fifteen days' trial. Telephone your request for a free trial today. THE TOPEKA EDISON CO. 808 KANSAS AVENUE SNAP SHOTS AT HOJlTE news. Buy your window shades of the Conners Furniture Co. Adv. Will Hobart was arrested Tuesday evening by Officer Crummer on a charge of assault. Buy Johnson's prepared wax to pol ish your cars with. Southwick's. S25 Kansas avenue. Adv. The grocery- stores and meat shops were closed today. The employees en joyed th-'ir annual holiday. "Rus in urbe," quoted the Classical Mug, as he pointed to the large and numerous haycocks on the state house lawn. The jitneys are gradually giving up the ghost in St. Joe, comes the report from the Missouri river town. No such ghost in Topeka. Gen. J. W. F. Hughes left this after noon for Chicago, where he will at tend the meeting of the Hundred Thousand Dollar club Friday and Saturday.- The theft of a bicycle from A. Weiskirch. 123 Greenwood avenue was reported to the police this morn ing. The theft took plt.ee Tuesday evening. J. W. Howe, secretary of the state board of control, went to Lindsborg, Kan., this afternoon to make a speech tonight before the merchants' asso ciation of that place Tuesday evening was a hoodoo night for speed fiends. H. Alexander and H. Jones are booked at the police station on a charge of speeding. The former was arrested by Police Driver Richardson and the latter by Motor cop Richards. Final action relative to the reorgan ization of the Mills Dry Goods com pany will be taken at a special meet ing of the stockholders next Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The plan that was discussed at a meeting of the stockholders lite Tuesday called for an Increase of the capital stock from $300,000 to $400,000 or $450,000. The death of J. R. McCluggard. who was probate judge of Butler county has flooded Governor Arthur Capper's office wi:h application.? for the place. This morning eight applications were received. The men who want to be appointed probate judge are: V. P. Moonev, Dr. C. E. Hunt. C. L. Aikman, J. B. Carlile, W. F. McGinnis. C. Harvey. Earl J. Sharpe and R. L. Barr. "The Order of the Blue Rag" has been established at the "Big Broth er" cairn at Buffalo Mound near Ma ple Hill. Those boys who make a record for good conduct and who do the nec?ssary camp work without rumblin are eligible to membership. Roland W. Seibert. who has charge of the camp telephoned today from Maple Hill that the youngsters are having a great time. j Dear State Journal: I am a girl 17 rears old. I have been going with a j boy friend 21 yesrs old. My parents thought a great deal of the boy until a short time ago. So they don't allow me to go with him. What would you do? Bright Eyes. Do what you please. Bright Eyes, do what you please! The world is going to wag right along despite your "puppy love" .'.ffairs. A New Tork Sun reporter who spent a month in Kansas making an investi gation of prohibition, reports that it is a failure because he bought drinks of hotel porters in Topeka. Leaven worth, Wichita and Emporia. "And if he had wanted to." says the Law rence' Journal-World. "he could have gone out and stolen a horse, and per haps landed it in Oklahoma and sold it without detection, and he wouldn't have had to be any more of a sneak than the porter was." SANTA FE NOTES, Items for thl department mil he I phoned to 8S15 or Stata Journal office 1 I G. F. Wettling of the store depart ment has returned to Pittsburg, Kan., after a short business trip here. L. M. Jones, superintendent of the telegTaph department,- will return the last of the week from Galveston, Tex., where he went the first of this week on rompany business. Robert Robinson, ticket clerk at the Santa Fe depot, returned to work Monday after a two weeks' vacation spent in Detroit. Mich. J. B. Crowe, chief clerk in the elec trical department, is spending a. few days this week in Chicago on business. Miss Josephine Cramer, telephone operator at the shop exchange, has returned from a short vipit with friends in Peabody, Kan. Mrs. Fred Oberer an4 children have returned from Wyoming, where they have been visiting relatives the past month. Mr. Oberer went to Denver, Colo., to accompany them home. A. A. Graham of the ticket auditor's office and Mrs. Graham have gone to Lovell. Mich., to spend a few weeks vacation. Mrs. J. E- O'Xeill is spending this week with friends in Wichita. C. B- Hoover of the freight depart ment with the Union Pacific at been visiting relatives here the past BASEBALL I st. Joe tomorrow Topeka Our boys are coming back with lots of pep. Go out tomorrow and wat ch a snappy battle. League Park Game 3:30 THE IRIS THEATER CO. TODAY AND TOXIGHT The Beantifnl, Adorable Marguerite Clark in "Uelene of the North" ?:15. S:43, 7:13. S:45, 10:00 TOMORROW VIOLA ALLKN. la "The White Sister" SmtorooTeKoMrjr We now have a few loads of cobs to sell, $1.25 per load delivered, if close in, while they last. D. O. COE 119 East Sixth St. Shellabarger Son UNDERTAKERS Parlora 1 2022 W. 3 th St. PboM STS Yes Many People hare told us the same story distress after eating, (rases, heartburn. A before and after each meal will relieve you. Sold only by us 2oc. rnxT-McrAiiLAxn drug co, BcxmU Store. tb sad Ku. Aw. week left today for Enid. Okla., for a short visit with relatives. H. 31. Orr of the ticketing depart ment has returned from a short busi ness trip to Kansas City. W. F. Amos of the bonus deport ment and Mrs. Amos, who left a few weeks ago for the Pacific coast, are now in San Francisco attending the fair. I E. Smith has gone to Chicago to spend a few weeks vacation with rela tives. Fireman Roy Hoover has work as an extra switch engineer at Argentine. Mrs. M. Campbell of Long Beach. Cat, who has been visiting relaties here the past three months, will leave within a short time for Knoxville, Tenn., to visit relatives. 1,000 SUITS. In the lon run the store that is the most successful is the one whose pricemarks stand for value rather than for mere cost. That is the kind of a store this store is. Buy that suit here. Olof Ekberg, 708 Kansas ave., second floor. Adv. CASTOR! A For Infants aad OiiWfca In Use For Over 3 Yesr3 Always bears isumm; n TELEPHONE 4080 TODAY World Filtn Corp. presents Clara Kimball Young, in DEEP PURPLE from the play by Paul Armstrong TOMORROW World Film Corp. prenoat ALICE BRADY, in "AS YE SOW" A prettier mtttry was er written Jut five rent that all we ask for the finest photo plays in the world. SpeHat reserratioas for llo parties before t p. m. -WUTUAl MASTER PICTURES c o z THEATRE 718 Kansas Ave. 5c 5c Today and Tomorrow STRATHM0RE From tho immortal romance by "Otiida." A -tart llnzly thrilline play in four iiiix-rb. reel. 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THE TOPEKA tiatt.v STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING a TmTTgrn 25,1915. QJOCIETY Amons the social affairs of the young people for the musicians who are visiting in Topeka. members of the Ohio University nuartet. was a dinner party given by Mr. Paul Nowers and Miss Polly Nowers, at their home in Potwin Place. Covers were laid for: Mr. K. B. Hindman, Mr. H. M. Pick ering. Mr. P. V. Austin. Mr. K. K. Monson, the guests of honor. Miss Mildred Fuller. Miss Lucille Fuller, Miss Alice Hughes, Miss Xowers, Mr. Phillip Nowers, Mr and Mrs. J. V. Kowers, and Mr. Paul Nowers. Mrs. Allen Sells, of Topeka, who was a Columbus. Ohio, girl, was a schoolmate of Mr. Pickering, of the quartet, and at the time the men of the quartet stopped in Topeka on their way west, they met Mr. and Mrs. Sells, who introduced them to the young people of their set. A number of parties were given for them when they were in Topeka on their way to the coast, and they are being enter tained at a good many affairs during their present stay in Topeka, on their return east. The following Topeka people motor ed to Leavenworth in a party: Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Quinton. Mr. and Mrs. Albert T. Keid. Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Akers. Miss Kate Clough. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barnes, and their house guest. Mrs. Browne Loverin, of Chicago, and j Mr. C. B. Merriam.

Miss Koita L'pdegraff has asked a few friends to play bridge Thursday at her home, with Mrs. Edwin Davis, of Leavenworth, who is the house guest of her brother. Mr. J. A. Camp- bell, jr., and who has been visiting her i parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Camp- j bell, sr. i The members of the Impromptu club and their families had their an nual picnic party this afternoon in Central park. Mrs. J. M. Connell and Mrs. Silas Porter were hostesses at a luncheon at the Country club today, compli- mentary to Mrs. James Hurley, of "Washington. D. C. The table was j decorated with bouquets of salvia, and fifteen guests were invited. Mrs. George Staebler and Mrs. Monte Kistler entertained about four teen guests this afternoon at a line, party to one of the local theaters, in j compliment to Mrs. Joseph White and j Miss Grace hite. of Boston, guests ot Mr. and Mrs. Arthur White. Mr. and Mrs. White have rather recently come to Topeka to live, and are making their home at 1627 Clay street. Mr. White has the position left vacant by Mr. C. W. Hanchette. former manager of the Woolworth store. Mrs. W. B. Flagler has returned from Ashland, Kan., wnere she visited Judge and Mrs. Francis C. Price. Judge Price is state senator, and has been coming to Topeka for many years to sit in the legislature. Mrs. Price accompanies him at each ses sion, and she has made many friends in Topeka. She was a prominent fig ure in the social life of the town dur ing the affairs of the session last winter. Miss Frances Price, who is a stud ent in the College or the Sisters of Bethany, expects to return to Topeka In the fall to continue her college course. Miss Carrit !ay Price, the other daughter of Judge and Mrs. Price, is a student in Oberlin. and will resume her worK in that institu tion in the autumn. Among the Topeka people who ex pect to go to Seattle in September to attend the convention of the American Bankers' association are: Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Guild, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Cobb. Mr. W. W. Miller, Mr. W. J. Miller, and Mr. P. E. Laughlin. Mr Bowman is secretary of the state bankers' association. Judge C. E. Lob dell, of Great Bend, president of the state association, former Governor W. J. Bailey, of Atchison, and Mr. P. W. Goebel, of Kansas City, will also go from Kansas to attend the convention to be held from the 6th to the 10th of September. When bright colored silk sweaters begin to pall, with the cooler days of autumn, the smart sport coat of dark er muteriai wiil come into its own. Here is a very good looking coat of 1, 1 -5.4 f 5 turn i mini-wiv rv Tirf-awim il l-M. r greenish tan covert cloth in the ultra ripple effect, with exaggerated pock ets and a collar that may be buttoned closely around the throat in the chok er style so fashionable now. Mrs. H. H. Hazlett will entertain her bridge club Thursday, with guest tables for Mrs. Browne Loverin, ofChi cage, the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barnes. A Topeka man returned from Cali fornia brought back as his most vivid impression of the sights, the swarms of school teachers who are in San Francisco attending the fair. It is supposed that no occupation so pro claims itself as teaching school, and the man, having the reputation of be ing an accurate and obser'ing judge of womankind, was asked what he thought of them. He thought they were the best looking women he saw in San Francisco; that they wore good clothes and powered their faces if they thought it improved them to do so. His opinion is in line with that of Helen Dare, of the San Francisco Chronicle, who writes: Perhaps it's only natural with all this agitation in favor of the pretty school teacher as a sort of constitu tional right of the American school child that the lay members of society should be acutely interested in the looks of the schoolmarms, now so nu merously "in our midst." Especially can they be so interested now without being accused of frivol ity, in light of the fact that the teach er's looks have come up as a proper subject for discussion at the teachers' institutes, conventions and the like. Therefore Well! The honest-to-gawd truth is that everyone of us is as much inter ested in what the thousands attending the N. E. A. convention look like as in what they do and say. Anyhow, whatever's the cause, the women at the X. E. A. convention (yes: and the men, too) are better dressed and better groomed, are alto gether smarter in appearance than it was considered moral for the school teacher to be in days gone by. They present an agreeable, attrac tive, comfortably worldly appearance ate u.uite as good looking as the lucky irresponsibles who do not have to set a good example to the children and impress the community with their propriety. Yet. it's not impossible to spot the schoolmarm in a crowd. Should some enterprising person make a composite photograph of the j schoolmarms at this convention it j would give us a definite type, with jaw Ja little firmer, mouth a little -more set, eyes a uttie more seurciiiiig slightly grimmer, more resolute, more capable. more care-burdened, and more conscientious type than flour ishes frivolously outside The school: a type that you'd involuntarily address as "Teacher," because of the mildly managerial, gently disciplinary cast of countenance. Mrs. .T. W. F. Whitney entertained the following guests at luncheon Tuesday: Mrs. j. A. Campbell, Mrs. Edwin Davis, of Leavenworth, Mrs. Bayard Whitney, and Miss Elizabeth Smith.

The active chapter of the Beta so rority will meet Thursday afternoon with Miss Emilie Seery. Miss Edith Ingham and Miss Helen Ingham will entertain at bridge Thurs day for Miss Marguerite Lovewell, who will leave soon for Xew York. The guests will be a. few of Miss Love well's close friends. An effort is being made in the east to prove that it is not sissy for a man to wear a wrist watch. The jewelers of the United States held a convention in Xew York, and they talked down the theory that it is girlie to wear a small watch strapped onto the wrist. They showed pictures of Christy Mathewson pitching a game while wearing a wrist watch, and Richard Harding Davis, Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and some other Xew York ama teur soldiers now in camp were shown wrist-watched In the Plattsburg trenches. The correctness of the style for men is now established, and the jewelers ought to be able to sell countless wrist watches, after their demonstration. Kay Laurell, of the Ziegfeld Follies, was at the show. It is not her purpose to let the men catch up with her and steal feminine perogatives in the matter of carrying their jewelry; so she wore her watch strapped to her ankle. A dispatch from New Tork says that about 2,000 persons oh the East Side watched Miss Peggy O'Neil, the actress, repair her electric coupe with a hairpin after it had quit out right and refused to budge for more than an hour. Miss O'Neil got out and got under, pushed all the levers, pulled all the knobs and finally tooted the horn. The automobile was ob durate. Finally she drew three hair pins from her hair and, getting under the machine, deposited them some where. There was a rumble and the motor began to hum. In a moment the car was on its way and it was not a flivver. Bosh! Topeka women thought of that scheme a long while ago, and some of them carry an extra hairpin along with them for just that use. But no 2,000 of the sophisticated townspeople gather about to watch the operation. In one case, the elec tric carried, the fair driver and one man. They both descended to make repairs in the machinery, and when the hairpin proved Inadequate, the man produced a jack knife that got the results, and became the unpatent ed improvement on the more primi tive hairpin method. Unless all signs fail, the Princess gown will return to tavor this autumn. This should be good news for those of stout figure, for of all our varying styles there has been none which has Some More Bargains In Oar Final Clearance Sale of Ready-to-wear Garments Junior Wash Dresses Clearance of 30 junior wash dresses, carried over White SllVf WaistS from last season. Formerly priced fa. j M f ji.25 to 5.95. Your choice at J? J t Our regular stock new and desirable at the following reductions carrr ovef romX fQC ?1-50 WiStS 100 Former prices $2.r,0 to 57.50. Your fj J J Regular $1.95 Waists for $1.50 choite at EACH Regular $2.95 and $3.50 Waists. !$2.50 15 junior, misses' and children' fit IT l Regular $3.95 Waists for $2.95 prk'es' 2.oYu! You rhok-e .Q25 Regular $5.00 Waists for $3.75 at each Regular $5.95 Waists for $4.95 See the new arrivals in White Coats and Corduroy Coats Clearance of Finest White Wash Dresses 29 white dresses, all white and "white with colored embroidery in voiles. Swiss and ratine. Formerly priced at $S.50 to J14.S5. Your choice at $495 EACH Clearance of Dainty Wash Dresses Our entire stock of this season's Wash Skirts reduced as follows $1.25 Skirts. .75c Clearance of All Colored Wash Dresses $1.95 Skirts $1.00 $2.25 Skirts $1.25 $2.50 Skirts $1.50 $2.95 Skirts $1.75 $3.75 Skirts $1.95 48 colored wash dresses in voiles, linens, crepes, etc.. in coin spots, awning stripes and printed lice voiles. Former prices $5.i5 to $6.15. Your choice 4 8 colored wash dresses in voiles, linen ginghams, tissues and seco silk in black and white stripes, awning stripes, 4.te. Former prices $3.93 to $6.50. Your choice 250 Clearance of EACH $195 EACH Cool Lawn House Dresses The $1.25 House Dresses 95f The $1.50 House Dresses $1.19 The $1.95 House Dresses $1.50 One Rack of Odd Garments Consisting of children's wash coats. misses' Norfolk dresses, women's linen suits, women's wash coats and wo men's wool skirts. These are gar ments carried over from other sea sons, your choice at......' We Sell tTZ Under muslin P IjOO p Each THK STORK OK DEPENDABLE MKRCILWDISE One Rack of House Dresses including the popular Electric r Brand of Simplicity dresses, for- r yf merly $1.25 to $1.50.. Eachv w We Sell Wirthmore Waists quite equalled the Princess gown in its kindness to stout figures. In the drawing is shown one of the prettiest of these new models which is made of military blue tafteta and trimmed in embroidered bands in Persian colors. White organdy is used for the collar and narrow vest which is closed with white buttons. The black satin vest in girdle form, which is shirred at the center and drawn across the front above the girdle proper, is a distinct novelty. Little touches of hand em broidery appear on bodice and skirt. Mrs. Harry Hobson will give a bridge party Thursday afternoon, in compliment to Miss Bessie Lager strom, whose marriage to Mr. Frank Scott will take place September 7. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnson will give a din ner party Saturday night for Miss Lagerstrom and Mr. Scott. The marriage will take place at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening, September 7. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Campbell had guests Tuesday evening In honor of the members of the Ohio String quar tet, who are stopping a few days in Topeka on their return to Ohio from California. The members of the quartet are: Mrs. R. B. Hindman, Mr. H. M. Pickering, Mr. P. W. Aus tin and Mr. R. E. Monson. Xotes and Personal Mention. Miss Emilie Seery will go to Chi cago in September to take a course in Kindergarten work. Miss Sery has been in Washburn college, and is a member of the Beta sorority. Mrs. J. M. Brown and her daughter, Miss Juliette Brown, of Potwin Place, returned today from a trip to Chicago. Professor W. C. Wheeler, of Wash burn college, has returned from a va cation trip to Colorado. Mrs. Wheeler Is spending the summer in California, and will return home later. Mrs. Robert Gordon and her mother, Mrs. Toms, have returned from an extended trip to California. Mrs. Toms is visiting her daughter in Topeka. Mrs. Edwin Davis and her daughter, Isabel,' of Leavenworth, who are vis iting their people in Topeka, expect to remain over the week-end, and Mr. Davis will come to join them in a visit Sunday. Mrs. D. L. McEachron is in Man hattan visiting her sister. Mrs. Pseutze. Dean and Mrs. McEachron have moved from the "White House" on the Washburn college campus, to their own home, 1615 Boswell avenue. President Womer. of .Washburn is having his goods moved into the president's house on the campus. Miss Mary Reding, of Lawrencei who taught swimming at the Topeka Y. W. C. A. last spring and summer, is substituting at the association during the absence of the regular director. Mrs. Festus Foster has returned from Valley Falls, wlrere she attended a house party given by Mrs. K. F. Wettig. Mr. William McCarter, the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. McCarter, will leave in September to enter Dart mouth college, in New Hampshire. Miss Helen Stevenson, who taught last year in Humbolt, Kansas, will teach in the high school at Baldwin the coming year. She attended the University summer school at Law rence this eummer. Miss Mildred Hill, of Oklahoma City, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hill. Mr. Cyrus Monroe has left for Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, to join Mrs. Monroe, who has been spending part of the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Sawyer, of McPherson, who went north for the summer. j Mrs. T. R. Paxton has returned home, after visiting her sisters, Mrs. C .H. Hall, of Kansas City, and Mrs. j C. E Bergson, of Leavenworth Her son, Legler Paxton, who has been with Dr. and Mrs. Bergson some weeks, will return home next week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blood Smith i returned today from Salt Lake City, where Mr. Smith attended the meet ing of the Xational Bar association, j Mrs. Guy R. Gillette and her i daughters, Xava and Xita, of Ana- J darko, Oklahoma, will arrive in a few j days to visit Mrs. Gillette's sister, Mrs. Festus Foster. Mrs. J. J. Peake. of Topeka avenue, i and her grandmother. Mrs. Margaret Scheloske, of St. Marys, have left for j California to attend the fairs and to j visit relatives In Los Angeles. j Miss Marian Wind has returned i from a two months' trip to the Pa- cific coast. She visited Los Angelee, San Francisco and Portland. Mr. Nathaniel Horner of Xew j York, who is visiting at the A. F. j Horner home In Tyler street, will re- j turn home Friday. Mr. Horner's I tie G neatest Midsummer Sale of Pianos the Southwest has ever known is now in full swing at the J. W. Jenkins Sons' Music Co. 's 14 Stores You cannot realize the great values offered in this sale until you have seen them. If you are. considering1 the purchase of a piano now or later it will pay you to investigate this sale, and remember Jenkins Service and Jenkins Guarantee goes with each piano. Come now and save yourself $50 to $200 on your purchase. T64 Used J. B. Cook Co., large size, oak case; a good COflfl bargain pUvl T71 Used Kurtzmann, oak case; A 1 condi- C7QA tion pU T69 Used Vose Sons, mahogany case, latest case, a great flJOfIA bargain pjUU T72 Used Vose Sons, large size, fumed oak case, good QQA as new J)J3U T74 Used Kurtzmann Grand; COd rented short while pDD T75 Used Steinway upright, ebony case, used in our sheet music department short JCI C while pDlD T60 Used Lyon-Healy, small size, ebony case, good Cfi condition. J)OD T61 Used Hallet Cumston, large size, walnut case; a good dQC bargain for T63 Used J. M. Starr Co. cabinet grand, ebony case I)1mD T68 Used Clough Warren, QIC A best style, oak case. plDU T66 Used Schiller, best style, j jr walnut case, fine condition v A I D T76 Used Clough Warren, 7C large size, ebony case J) X I D T62 Used Harwood, walnut 01A case, fine condition..'.. plU T76 Used Vose Sons grand, tfCA could not be told from newJDUU SAVE $50 to $200 Sure $1 ft Brings 1 V Pi'ann 1 a 2r a Month Will Piano Home Pay for It. COME OR WRITE, TODAY Iff 99 V So&flOsicCc. 714 Kansas Avenue Topeka, Kansas W. C. KING, Manager. myosin daughter. Sister Philothea, and Sis ter Wencelaus of Austin, Texas, who are visiting Mr. Horner and Miss Irene Horner, will remain until Sun day. Mrs. Browne Loverin of Chicago, who is visiting Mrs. Charles Barnes, expets to remain in Topeka until the end of next week. Prof. C. F. Loper of the civil en gineering department of Washburn college, has returned from the east. He spent the past few months study ing in the Harvard university sum mer school. Mrs. Fred Robertson, who is vteit ing relatives in Atwood, Kan., her for mer home, will return to Topeka about the first of September. Miss Agnes Walsh and Miss Frances Walsh, who have been at tending the. fairs in California, and visiting their sister in San Francisco, will return home next week. They will stop in Ashfork, Ariz., for a short visit to Mrs. A. B. C. Dutcher. Mrs. Grove Dolman of Ray, Ariz., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Willard. 'Mrs. I. N. Grandon has returned from a two months' trip to California. Miss Ruth Grandon, who accompan ied her west, stopped on her return in Boulder, Col. Miss Ruth Kingman of Topeka is with Miss Grandon in Boulder. A national fraternal convention is being held in Minneapolis, Minn., and representatives at the convention from the Topeka branch of the K. L. of S. are Mr. J. V. Abrahams, Mr. W. B. Kirkpatrick and Dr. E. S. Pet tyjohn. Dr. Pettyjohn left last week to attend the medical section of the convention. Miss Lillian Kirkpatrick accompanied Mr. Kirkpatrick. Miss Eloise Stevenson of Kansas City has been the guest of Miss Mar garet Pettyjohn, and Miss Pettyjohn accompanied her on her return home Tuesday. The two young women were school friends at the Kansas State university. Mr. Vernon Bair, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Bair, will leave in Sep tember to enter Kemper Military school. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haines and peka, will arrive Thursday to visit Mrs. L. K. Bowers. Mr. Eugene L. Bowers, auditor of disbursements for the Santa Fe, will return Thursday from a vacation trip to Manitou, Col. EAST SIDE NOTES. Items to phoned to 3913 or State Journal ofi tblf department mar be nc.j Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Eggleston en tertained at a family dinner Sunday for their mother. Mrs. M. A. Donley's sixty-third birthday anniversary and their son Herbert's tenth birthday an niversary; covers were laid for Mrs. Donley, Master Herbert Eggleston, Miss Alic-5 Eggleston, Miss Bess Stuart, Richard Eggleston, Miss Clara Eggle ston, and Mr. George Eggleston. Marshall's band will give a concert tonight at the East Side park. Mrs. George Gordon and daughter Marguerite will return to their home in Springfield, Mo., Thursday, after a few weeks visit with' relatives. Mrs. Claude Ashton and daughter Dorothy, Mrs Chas. Clerice and son LcRoy will accompany them heme for a short visit. Rev. Dr. Cleveland, former pastor of the Third Presbyterian church, will have charge of the morning service next Sunday at the Third Presbyterian church. Dr. Cleveland and family are from Joolin, Mo., visiting friends. J. P. Hutchinson, general secretary of the Mid-western District of Lord's Day Alliance, will have charge of the even ing service. Mrs. A. M. Donley has returned to her home, 412 East Fifth street, after, an extended visit with her son, G. W. Eggleston and family. A tea for the members and former members of the Westminster Guild of the Third Presbyterian church will be given at the home of Mrs. W. S. Gentry, 310 Chandler street, Thursday afternoon.. Mrs. Roy Bunds entertained the members of the Goldenrod club this afternoon at her home in Larsh street. The members of the Busy Bee club OoGfiroocEios Befsandulioo Nothinsj is wore disagreeable than a home Infested with vermin. Destroy them with Steams Electric Rat and Roach Paste, the standard exterminator for thirty-five years. It kills off rats, mice and cockroaches jn a single night. Ready for use; no mixing. Does not blow away like powders. Directions in 16 languages in every package. Two sizes 21 o and f 1.00. Sold by druggists everywhere. their son, Richard, of Kansas City, j were ent?rtained this afternoon at the will be week-end guests at the W. B Kirkpatrick home. Miss Ona May Miiier will return the last of the week from a trip to Salina. The Highland Park Art club will home of Mr?. Joseph Bower. Mrs. Horatio Burns and daughter Ruth, of Sheridan, Wyoming, arrived Tuesday to visit relatives and friends I here a few weeks. 1 1 1 1 t i r i m i y ai in iiuvhi n ilii ami a. q i returned Mr. and Airs. Oscar Buchacher, Mr, Mrs. Frank Maguson, Mr. and ii. witneran oi maryiana aienue. Hvf.r T..iia ,,t Mrs. B. M. Sutton has from a two months' visit in western Kansas. Mrs. C. O. Burgen and Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Courtney will spend Thursday Mrs. L. K. Bowers will give a lawn I the Third Christian church Thurs party tonight for Miss Creola Cristy, and Mr. Lmil Anderson were guests Tuesday evening of Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Baird. Mr. Walter Sanford will entertain j the members of the Dorcas society will be answe.-ed by How to Keep the Houee Cool." Special music has been arranged. The Helping Hand society of the Oakland Christian church met Tues day afternoon with Mrs. O. M. Keats in Arter avenue. The guests were Mrs. Clara Johnson and Mrs. J. L. Huek. The members present were: Mrs. .-3. S. Wallace, Mrs. J. Wilson, Mrs. Sarah Lemley, Mrs. John Har mon, Mrs. B. A. Starr, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. John Hester and Mrs. Keats. Mis. Kests was assisted by Miss Mabel Kea'.s and Miss Planch Starr. Prizes were won by Mrs. Wallace. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Starr Mb. C. M. Reaugh end Mrs. Will iam Earl have returned from Fort Leavenworth where they spent a few days with rflativs. Chas. Hooper has returned to his home in Holton, aftr a short visit at the Jas. AlcCall home. Mrs. M. Rosier has returned to her home in Kansas City, after a short visit with her son V.. A Stuckey. Mrs. I. C. Gardner has gone to Bowe City, la., to visit her mother and other relatives a few weeks. B. H. Hamilton and children have returned from an overland trip to western Kansas and Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. P-nursaw and Mr. Fred Miller of T(cbmseh and Mr. John Millei of Delia were guests Sunday at the O. M. Keats home in Arter avenue. Myrtle Ralstin of Chanute is here for a few weeks' visit with her grand parents, Mr. and Airs. G. W. Ralstin, in Winficld avenue. Miss Verna King will entertain the members of the Oaklar d Jolly Crowd Thursdav evening. e Motor Washers at Forbes. Adv. in honor of her birthday anniversary. Mrs. Minnie Blake of Seattle. Wash., formerly Miss Minnie DeFrane of To- w aist dale at 50c 161 pretty cotton Waists that were 98c have been re duced for quick clearance to OvfC All sizes from 36 to 44. dav afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Butcher. Mr and Mrs. Frank Bernard. Mrs. Harry Cook and Miss Kathryn Basham were guests Tuesday night at the W. E. Bower home in East Xinth street. 707 Kansas Ave. OAKLAND NOTES. fltems for this department roejr b BtMsned to 3915 or State Journal off ice.) Miss Bessie Lewis has returned to i her home in Strong City, after a short visit with Mbs Mabel Keats in j Arter avenue. j Mrs. Chas. S- Ash will entertain the members of the Priscilla club and i their families at a lawn party next Friday evening at her home in Arter I avenue.- Mrs. Frank Dawson will entertain I the members of the Ladies' Aid noci ety of the Oakland Presbyterian church Thursday afternoon at her home in Michigan aver-ue. The Oakland Forettry club will have their regular meeting Friday i afternoon, August 27 with Mrs. John Stamn m Arter avenue. A paper: "Trees and Flowers of Japan," will be read by Miss Augusta Warte. Kcll call Don't Take An Expensive Watch on Your Vacation Trip Get a cheaper one to use while "roughing it" in the mountains or on the lakes. Then if it is stolen, lost or injured in any way the loss will not be great We have good watches at $1 00 and up. They will keep excellent time for a year. Turn the high priced timepiece over to us to keep while you are away. We will clean and regulate it at a small cost. 24 years of fair dealing; in the Jewelry Bu.4ine.! 106 W. 8th lust Opposite tlie TraiiNfer Station s J

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BRINGING UP FATHER OKiq-o-ct-D boy- HOW AvRH. VOO IT'S -TEN "YEAR'S lriCE I'VE SEEN VoOSE! RED BOXESJO STAY Tliere Will He No C'luuiRe In the Eire Alarm System. Topeka's Gamewell fire alarm sys tem is to be retained. A few weeks ago Jay E. House, mayor, said that if he found ly an investigation that the little red boxes and' the network of wires and poles maintained over the city for the purpose of sending alarms to the fire department were not worth what they cost, he would recommend their aholishment. He found that all alarms covering a period of twelve month? had been de livered either by telephone or orally except eleven. The Gamewell system viaa used just eleven times in the year and at no time between the hours of 11 p. m. and 5 a. m. It was installed before telephones were popular. A suggestion was made that telephones be installed where the boxes are lo cated and that they be connected with the telephone system, thereby doing away with the Gamewell pole-line, but no such change will be made. "The insurance companies insist upon two separate fire alarm systems" said Mayor House. "I made an investi gation and also talked with Chief Hanlon, of the fire department. I know the Gamewell system is of little l i i 1 v JldCllLill UUL JL Will UC ICldlUCU. "If the city tries to do away with the Gamewell system, it will have the fire insurance companies to fight.' said Chief Hanlon. Chief Hanlon does not admit the uselessness of the sys tem in notifying the department of fire. He maintains that it is really useful. WHAT 'PREXY' MUST BE College-Head Must Have Talents Other Than Scholarflilp, Says Jordan. Oakland, Cal., Aug. 25. College presidents, if they are to be successful must have talents other than scholar ship, according to David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Stanford university, who last night outlined the requirements of a college president in an address before the National Education associa tion. Some of the requirements for them he stated: "He must not tell all he knows among those around him. "He must not do anything he can Aire someone else to do. m -1 1 i t nur t in. i -1 1 1 r i r v.- nnr- t ti-.-l,,l "He must be a scholar to the extent that he knows truth from untruth. "He must 'fix if so that his board of trustees can only indorse or reject his recommendations. "He must not 'pass the buck to the trustees. "He must not smoke." Among the speakers was Henry J. Waters, president of the Kansas State Agricultural college, who spoke on "Agricultural Education." KANSAS FAIRS IN 1915 Following Is a list of fairs to be held in Kansas in 1915, their Cates (whera they have been decided on), locations and secretaries, as reported to the state board of agriculture and com piled by J. C. Mohler: Kansas State Fair A. L. Sponsler, secretary. Hutchinson; September 18-25. Kansas State Fair Association S. TJ2. Lux. president. Topeka: September 13-17. Allen County Agricultural Society Dr. F. S. Beattie. secretary. Tola. August 31 -September 3. Allen County Moran Agricultural Fair Association E. N. McCormack. secretary. Moran; September. Barton County Fair Association Porter Young, secretary. Great Bend: October 5-7. Brown County The Hiawatna v air Association J. D. Weltmer secre tary, Hiawatha; August ji-scpiem- Butler County Douglass Asricu. tural Society J. A. Clav, secretary. Douglass; September 15-18. Clay County Fair Association W. F. Miller, secretary. Clay Center; dates not set. Clay County Wakefield Agricultur al Association Eugene Elklns. sec retary. Wakefield; October 8-9. Meade County Fair It. W. Camp bell, secretary. Meade; September 20-24. Mitchell County Fair Association Fred W. Knapp. secretary, Beloit: dates not set. Montgomery County Fair Associa tion C. D Lockard, secretary. Cof feyville; September 28-October 2. Morris County Fair Association H.. A. Clyborne, secretary. Council Grovo. Nemaha Fair Association M. R. Connet. secretary. Seneca; September k7-ie. Neosho County The Four-County District Agricultural Society George K. Bideau. secretary, Ccanute; Octo ber 4-9. Ness County Agricultural Associa tion J. A. Cason, secretary. Ness City; September 1-3. Norton County Agricultural Associa tion Fred L. Strohwig, secretary, Norton; August 23-2 7. Ottawa County Fair Association J. E. Johnston, secretary. Minneapolis: September 7-10. Pawnee County Agricultural Assu- Jrri i i oHtz-L THObE VU2.THE OOD OLD nY. IP JT IH'T V.iATEt-M OLD Pal. in THE DO YOO "-iv.rs. nwn M WAvRD! AN MISCELLANEOUS APS ADVERTISING KATES: The rate for inserting Want Ada lu The Topeka State Journal is oue cent a word each insectlon, minimum lu cents: by tbe week 0 eeuts a word, minimum 50 rents. COUNT THE WORDS of your Ad. In cluding four words for State Journal ad dress when such address Is used; munt each "initial" letter and each number or combination of figures as one word. OUT OF TOWN advertisements must be accompanied with cash or check In fall payment for the snme. Note the forego ing instructions about conntltig the words and the rates per word for The Topeka State Journal. CLOSING HOUR: Want Ads to be classified properly In The State Journal office before 12:45 o'clock. Want Ads re ceived after that hour will be Inserted un der the bonding: "Too Leto to Classify." or next day as desired. REAL EST AT 3 TRANSFERS. M. L. McCrea to M. M. Wharton, lota 10-12 California ave., Bedwell's sub.$ L. I.. Johnson and wife to W. G. Nutting, lots 8 to l:;, inc., blk. L, Ellin wood add G. II. Biuger and wife to M. Ford, lots 14-16-18 Mtinson ave.. lots 13-15-17 Dora Court. Cranel's sub.... 50 M. F. Hand, pt. lots 47-445 Garfield ave., Elmhurst .500 LOST Cameo brooch, Kansas ave.. be tween 5th and feth sts. Finder please phoue 2708 K-3. SITUATION WANTED MALE. A NUMBER of young people attending school desire opportunity to work in exchange for rt'Om nnii'buaril. fall J.3S2. or write Striekler's Topeka Business Col lege, 111 E. Sth, city. WAXTKil Positfou as night watchman can give best of references. AddreBS 802 Wood St.. Topeka. Kan. SIT L'ATION WA N TED FEMALE. A NUMBER of young people attending school desire opportunity to work in exchange for room and board. Call i:!82. or write Striekler's Topeka Business Col lege, 111 E. Stb, city. ciation Harry H. Wolcott, secretary, Lamed; September 28-Otober 1. Phillips County Kour-Couniy Fair Association Abram Troup, secretary. Logan; September 21-24. Pottawatomie County Agricultural Society J. A. Lister, secretary, Wa mego; date3 not set. Pratt County Fair Association J. M. Lticas, secretary. Pratt. Rawlins County Fair and Agricul tural Association M. H. Baird, secretary-, Atwood. Republic County Agricultural Asso ciation Dr. V. R. Barnard, secretary. Belleville; August 24-27. Rice County Fair Association L. C. Needham. assistant secretary. Lyons: September 7-10. Rooks County Fair Association J. C. Foster, secretary, Stockton; Sep tember 7-10. Rush County Agricultural and Fair Association C. H. Lyman, secretary. Rush Center: August 24-26. Russell County Fair Association J. B. Funk, secretary, Russell; October 5-8. Russell County- Mid-County Fair H. U. Brookhart. secretary. Bunker hill: September 29-October 1. Saline County Agricultural. Horti cultural and Mechanical Association C. R. Cravens, secretary, Salina; Sep tember 13'18. The Sheridan County Fair and Baseball Tournament E. A. Mon teith, secretary, Hoxie; September lfi 18. Sherman County Agricultural and Racing Association E. S. Bower, sec retary, Goodland. Smith County Fair Association C. A. Garrison, secretary. Smith Center: August 31-September 3. Stafford County Fair Vssociatlon R. B. McKay, secretary. St. John; September 7-10. Trego County Fair Association S. J. Straw, secretary, Wakeeney; Sep tember 8-10. Cloud County Fair Association w. L. McCarty, secretary, Concordia: August 31-SeptemCer 3. Coffey County Agricultural Fair As sociation S. D. Weaver, secretary. Burlington; September 21-25. Cowlev County Eastern Cov.-ley Fair and Agricultural Society How ard Collins, secretary. Burden; Sep tember 22-24. Cowley County Agricultural and Live Stock Association Frank W. Sidle, secretary. Winfield; September 7-10. Decatur County Fair Association J R. Correll, secretary. Oberlin; Sep tember 22-24. Dickinson County Fair Association C. R- Baer, secretary, Abilene; Sep tember 21-24. Douglas County Fair and Agricul tural Society C. W. Murphy, secre tary, Lawrence; September 21-24. Elk County Agricultural Fair Asso ciation Fred R. Lanter, secretary. Grenola; August 30-Sept.?mber 2. Franklin County Agricultural Society j. R. Finley, secretary. Ottawa- September 7-10. Ellsworth County Wilson Inter County Co-operative Fair Asociation T?At7 T TV?? GTrxl fTl wanted male help. j for rent houses. Ifor sale HOUSEHOLD goods for sale HODSKHOLD GOODS. LEGAL. THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE CopyrlghU OHJ I USED DO I REMEMQeq DEwE( H!Ocf THAT Bk; IROM HEAD HIT n,e AND WITH A -SHOVEL once: THE WANTED Men to learn the barber trade. The world is constantly neding more barbers. Our graduates earn good wages. Short term completes- with us. Prepare now for coming season's rush. Write Moler Barber College, Kansas City. Mo. $20 TO $.'S5 per mouth extra money to any employed person without interfering with regular work. No selling, no can vassing. Positively no Investment. Un employed need not apply. Address The Silver Mirror Co.. Inc., 123 W. Madison St.. Chicago. 111. WANTED 50 laborers, $1.75 and J2 day, 8 hours: 25 farm hands; dairy hands hay hands: farm couples: quarry men; car carpenters; hotel and restaurant help. Fjirman Employment Office, 811 Kan.Ave. WANTED 12 carpenters. 71.'l Kansas ave., tomorrow morning. J. M. Leeper, con tractor. VANTEI A good finisher. 1182 Fillmore. S20 TO $'!5 per month extra money to any employed person without interfering with regular work. No selling, no can vassing. Positively no investment. Un employed need not apply. Address The Silver Mirror Co., Inc., 123 Madison St., Chicago. I Ml. WANTED A young lady, residing in To peka, with good education, to accept a position in our Vietrola department. Call personally at this store. W. F. Rober Music t'o. O-'tO Kansas ave. WANTED A good girl for general house work; no washing: good wages. S. S. Hughes, HanKot lopeKa. AVANTED A housekeeper at once: elderly lady preferred state age. James E. Adams. I'alco. Kansas. Rooks Co. WANTED Milliner." first class maker. Address Maker, care Journal. WHITE experienced' cook. 1209 Topeka ave. Phone 1290. w antk!) nsrrr i jm nrs. WE I'AY hignest cash price for 2nd hand clothing, shoes. Bats and overcoats. Drop a card or call 1045. B Scrinopskt Son. j08 Kansas ave. GOOD milk cows, fat cattle otid veal calves. W. C. A. Lelttow. Tel. 257. CARPET and rug weaving. 1030 Garfield Phone 25SS Blue. WEAVING CARPETS. rurs. etc. Good work. 221 Lake. Phone 2044 White. BUSINESS CHANCES. PERSONAL. INFORMATION WANTED. Gustave Pharoah was doorkeeper Kansas legislature lstKi-07. Married Miss Missouri A. Allen in Topeka. February 29, 1SUS. They lived on a homestead in Pottawatomie county about, a year and then went over land to California. Anyone kn.iwiug any thing of them or their relatives please write L. W. Hubbell, Springfield, Mo. MLSICESSON.-; I WILL TEACH you piano, violin or Ger man lessons at your home. Hotzer. Phone 2387 White. JlNTED-OBJJY WANTED I'iano: must be in good con dition and cheap for cash. Write description and price. Address K., 121 East 14th. JWAgrTCD JOJRENT ROOM WANTED By a gentleman: must be near the business section, supplied with heat in winter. Positively state price. No consideration given otherwise. Address V.. care Journal. FOR RENT- FLATS. SIX room modern flat. $15. Phone 013. 527 Tyler. FURNISHED apartment, 2 rooms, bath kitchenette, for ladies. 2001 Red. P 1 1 I NT STO R1-: ROOMS F 1 1: RENT Store room at 129 Kansas ave. All modern. Vine ectiic fixtures- Call phone 610. TWO story building for shop or garage, 414 Jackson. Phone 441U Itlue. FOR RENT OFFICE ROOMS. FOR RENT Desk room, first floor, front room. Shawnee Fire building. 701 Jack ion b O. Laserstrom. Pbone 1490. OFFICES with vaults In Office Block, just east of Postoffice. I. L. Betzer BOARD AND ROOMS. Modern rooms with board. 1 25 per daj. TOPEKA HOTEL 122 VP. CtS. W. E. Schermerhorn. secretary. Wil son; October 5-8. Ellsworth County Agricultural and Fair Association G. C. Gebhardt, secretary, Ellsworth; September 28 October 1. Franklin County Lane Agricultu ral Fair Association F. B. Martin, secretary. Lane; September 3-4. Gray County Agricultural Society O. Whiteside, secretary, Cimarron; first part of September. Greenwood County Fair Association C. H. Weiser. secretary, Eureka; August 24-27. Johnson County Spring Hill Grange Fair Association W. F. Wll kerson, secretary. Spring Hill; Sep tember 7-10. Labette County Fair Clarence Montgomery, secretary, Oswego; Sep tember 15-18. Linn County Fair Association C. A McMullen, secretary. Aiound City; September 21-244. Logan County Inter-County Fair Association C- A Spencer, secretary. Oakley; October 13-15. Lincoln County Sylvet: Grove Fair and Agricultural Association R. W. Wohler. secretary. Sylvan Grove; Sep tember 22-24. 1 i nKirc I I T I JOURNAL WEDNESDAY 1915. International News t: T KNOW! HE TO LICK Ou excuse ME -WiLu YOU I'rv) iOlN' TO EVERN DAT BUT HE'S ALL IN NOW HE'S IN CEMETARY CALL ON HIM 1175 Clay. flat. 5 rooms, all modern. 1124 Jackson, flats. 4 and 5 rooms. 31. E Tyler. 0 rooms, biith. 220 Fillmore, cottage, 4 rooms, bath. 22 Frankiu ave.. 0 lots. 5 r., barn. J. E. TORRINGTON. 100 W. 0th. Tel. 22S. 309 Qtilncy. 8 rooms 10.0(1 414 Madison, 0 rooms 12.00 4203 E. 4th. small store room 0.00 Barn at 417 Madison. cyrus -ji litnit: co. Pbone J730 llfl E. Btb FOR RENT 330 Klein ave., 4 rooms aiid bath. 217 Klein ave., 4 rooms, city water. NEW 0 room house. West side, good con ditiou, $10. Nichols Realty Co., 529 Kansas ave. Phone 440. FOR RENT 6roomhouse. baTnTweilaiid cistern, 23rd and Adams. Phona 1179 It. 1 FOR RENT 5 room bouse, 2nd and Jack son. Inquire Old Home Bakery, 810'i N. Kansas ave. FOR RENT 1128 Polk, G roomhouse7 bath, barn, cistern, modern. 2299 Blue. 1421 HARRISON, modern 0 room house. newly decorated. Phone 1320. FOR RENT 5 rooms of a 7 room houseT 1301 J4arfield. EIGHT room" modern house. 1618 West 6th, t-obloeksof8chool. Phone 300. FOR KENT room modern house, 122G Monroe Phone 1775 Red. .3 AND" 4 room cottages, good repair In quire 301Kllne. FIVE room modern house, 418 Polk, $20. Phoue 4619BJue. "MODERN 8 room house, 308 West 6th. Phone350before lla.jn- 426 Harrlsoru FOR RENT Nice 7 room house by owner. 519 Lane. FOR RENT House, 1004 EasfSthTSTarge rooms, $7.00. FOR RENT Six room house, 313"Tyierit Inquire 412 West 3rd st. FOR RENT 5 room cottage in good re pair; 1332 College ave. Phoue 986 Ring 2 FOUR room cottage for rent. 710 Lime. TMInEJCTRoo ROOMS In Office Block, 116 E. 5th. bath. Suite with bath in Veale Block. 625 Quiney. I. L. Better .New EruTlaDdBlrter. FOR RENT 933 Kansas ave., newly pa pered unfurnished rooms; single room. 2299 Blue. FURNISHED housekeeping rooms; gas range; close In; $2.50 per week. 107 East Thirteenth. 2 HOUSEKEEPING rooms, modern, with sleeping porch. 721 Quincy street. Phone 2718 Blue. TWO or three modern furnished downstairs housekeeping rooms, bath, electric lights, gas :no children. 1217 West 5th. TWO furnished light housekeping rooms, $2 per week gas range and city water. 118 Harrison. MODERN furnished room tor gentleman. 504.?"??tJ0tn- TWO furnished rooms for light house- keeping at 1215 Kansas ave. 1630. DESIRABLE housekeeping rooms, first floor, modern. 2073 Black. 212 E. 9TH. suite of connecting-roomsT private door; ruuningwater. FOR ltENX 2" roonTsuites forTight housed keeping. Call 2438 Black. FOR KENT One modern furnished room. 306 West 8th. FOR RENT 2 modern furnished rooms; uurses preferred. 1700 Buchanan, evenings. FtMJJENT -FTFtNL FOR RENT Furnished eight room house In beautiful Potwln. (iarage, Sept. 1st. for one year. Going to California. Ref erences. 4309 Blue. FOR RENT Furnished cottage, 1121 West ern ave. Phone 4016 Blue. FOR KENT FCRNISTIED ROOMS. TO 5 modern rooms. Phone 4344 Black. car line; adults. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. Foil"" SALE to highest bifdera'"few "coS federate treasury notes of $1(H. $20, So specimens, uncirculated and in fine con dition. An opportunity for souvenirs of 1864 dates. Lillian Forrest, Jewell, Kansas. JELLY (BMAFES Get your order In early. Phone 2150 N-L CLAYTON: Saves you 10 per cent on all 50c and $1,00 patent medici nes. 1019 East 6th. GOOD driving or work horse for sale. In quire 410 Quincy. Phone 189. FOR SALE COAL. OLD GLORY $5.00 FRANKLIN CO. ILLINOIS LUMP. .$ii.O0 SEMI ANTHRACITE $0.50 SEMI ANTHRACITE BR1QUETTS. .S6.2S I COLORADO LUMP $8.50 i FA ANTHRACITE 1L73 We specialize on the better grades of coal. TEE MCLEEEY1UDLEY LHJMBEE CO. Phones 3598, 866, 983. 517 Jackson Street. AUTOMOBILES. BATTERIES repaired and recharged. Keele Electric Co., 700 Jackson. Phone 3970, "Wlllard Service Station." FOR SALE POULTRY. FOR SALE White Leghorn laying hens. 300 Lawrence. Pbone 2273 White. FOREXCjHANGE New modern bungalow near Washburn college, in good shape with 2 lots; will take vacant lots, small rental or small farm for pa it. W. J. RICKENBACHER. 116 AVest 0th. WILL EXCHANGE good six hole range for chickens. Phoue 2111 Black. 12&4 Garfield. EVp" AUGUST 25.1915. DRAWN FOR THE HELLO HtCrCY N OLD PAL V ATE TOLO ME TOO ARE NEARLY ALL N- HFS RKJKT- i couldn't LICK A KITTEN NOW! W1EM1E YOUJ CMEAP M If not. pprbapn you tliink flooond-hnnd stores are all Junk shops. Come in and we will ronviiife yon tliey are not. We have a clean, up-to-date scond-hand store, and do as lunch business as any new store our size you ever knew. When you want a bargain iu furniture or stoves, remember this is headquarter! for bargains. IL 109 East Sixth. FOR SAI.F REAL ESTATE. Almost new, 5 room east front home on corner lot. 9 blocks south of transfer sta tion, lias 3 piece bath, electric lijrhts, cemented cellar, small garage. Small cash payment and easy monthly terms. SHAWNEE INVESTMENT CO. 534 Kansas Ave. Phone 5050. If you have been waiting for long odds on your money, we have it. One of tbe very best modern homes, well located on the West side, can be bought for approx imately 57 per cent of proven lot values and construction account. Owner leaving city, must dose out bv September 1. BAILEY BROS. CO. Office Tel. mtO. Res. 293. Ttrand new, all modern bungalow on corner location. West side. 5 rooms, sleep ing porch, full cemented cellar. Small cash payment and easy monthly terms. SHAWNEE INVESTMENT CO 534 Kansas Ave. Phone 5050. 905 Topeka avenue, 37 M. feet front. An expensive location. A good 7-room resi dence besides bath, sleeping porch and plenty of closets. Two fireplaces, splendid hot water heating plant, street and alley paved. Good garage on rear. Fine old shade front and rear. For further particu lars see WHLSON NEHSWANGEK 111 West Cth St Pbone 048. NEAE WASlBraN. MODERN, 2m Almost new. 6 room entirely modern house, full cement basement. Hi lots, close to Central Park school and Washburn col lege, reduced from $3,000 to $2,500. COTTDIELL CO. 107 E. 7tb. Tel. 550, 3408. f PE1A AV! S room fully modern home, just remod eled and beautifully decorated, exclusive neighborhood. Just south of Huntoon. Will be sold at a bargain on very easy terms. SHAWNEE MVESTM1NT CO. 634 Kansas Ave. Pbone 5050. BOSHNESS PICKING UP! W'e have recently made a number of real estate deals and the outlook for future business Is better. We have on our list a large number of properties, both farm and city, to exchange, which we are un able to match. We also have a few cash customers that we have not yet satisfied and we would like to have you list your farms and city property with ns, either for sale or exchange. Phone Wickman, 112. TOPEKA REALTY CO. 433 Kansas Ave. BELOW COST Six room modern house, balls, bath room, 3 large closets, pantry, large sleeping porch, cemented cellar, cistern, combination fur nace, lots, good location. 7 blocks Wash burn college. Unlit by present owner. The prie is right on this. If interested call 44tt Black or see property at 10114 College SPECIAL SALE OK RENT. 5 r. house, l deep lots, shade, opposite fia-fr residence. N. Quincy St.. on paving, near brick school house, one block Kansas Ave: cars. Pri-e now $0u. Terms '-i cash. SMITH AGENCY, 523 Kansas Ave. $1,000 CASE and a Topeka residence worth $5,500, clear for a good farm near Topeka. C. L. SyUIRE. Kansas Ave. FOR SALE At bargain. 5 room modern house. 4 blocks east of postoffice. Call owner. Phone 4426 White or 2048 White. FOR SALl-" 7 room bouse within 5 blocks of Washburn college, modern except fur- na.-e. 1301 Garfield. IMPROVED 3 acre tract with all kinds of fruit andr this year's crop. Will sell cheap. Phone 2tw)s iteq. MODERN house, beautiful east front cor ner at 1601 Polk St., for sale at sacrifice. Call and see It. CLOSE in, modern, east front. West side, 7 room residence. Price reasonable. Bet er Realty Loan Co. CLOSE W E0MALW STATE JOURNAL BY GEORGE M'MANUS TB ST01E? FOEMEflj Phone 3749. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. BUNGALOW, 100 DOWN A beautiful little home at a bargain priife. 5 rooms aud bath. Glassed-in sleep, ing porch, can be nsed the year round, making a third bedroom available. Oak finish in living room, library and dining room. Bedrooms in white enamel with mahogany doors. Oak floors throughout. First class furnace and-laundry privileges iu a light airy basement. Ready for occu pancy in a week. $100 down, $30.00 per month. Location 1811 Huntoon Street. WILSON NEISWANGEE J11 AVestSixth St b9n 948. HOME BARGAINS W. SUBURBS FOR SALE. 6 room, 2 story house, 3 lots, barn, shade, garden, cistern. Price $1,500. Terms' 1-3 cash, balance 6 per cent. Can buy or rent adjoining lots. SMITH AGENCY, 523 KansqB Ave. FOR SALE Ten acres, 12 miles from To peka, mile to Grover station. No im provements; all timber: good fruit land, only $300 cash. By P. C. Moore, office 351 Wabashave. FOR SALE 10 acres adjoining Topeka will sell cheap if taken at once. F. M. Ph ill ips. 520 E. 5t h St.. Topeka. TWO lots on Western, cheap. "inquire7i6 Jefferson. Phone 090.. FOR SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS. FOR SALE Rug, Ice box, stove and var ious household goods, reasonable prices; moving away. Phone 4791 Blue. 1010 Bu chanan. JPIANOS AT EHMBALLS Always the most in protection and values in whatever your wants may be in the piano line. Here are some big special bar gains in used pianos that we are willing to sacrifice to get out. of the way before September 1st, to make room for new goods. Square piano Tbe best we have seen in years 25.00 Story Camp upright OO.Oo New England upright 75.(K) Chase eabiuet grand 125.00 A. B. Chase Burl walnut 175.00 Bungalow Kimball 175 0O Ludwig fiue condition 195.00 Arion New sample 210.00 Whitney New wholesale sample 225.00 Large oak Colonial Kimball 270.00 Knabe Grand fine condition S75.nn $560 Oak Player piano, almost new 390 $6I0 Mahogany Kimball player, demonstrator 400.00 Full purchase price on any of above will be allowed on a new Kimball at any time witbln two years. W. W. MMBALL CO. MA NU FACTU REUS. Established 1857. 822 Kansas Ave. F. P. Whitmore, Mgr. Phone 3108. J.EGAL. Published In Tbe Topeka State Journal August 20, 1913. ORDINANCE NO. 4560. AN ORDINANCE Amending section 8 of Ordinance No. 4229, approved May 16, 1913, relating to Motor vehicles in the city of Topeka, and repealing original section 8 of said ordinance. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF TOPEKA: Section 1. That section 8 of Ordinance No. 4229. approved Mar 16. 1913. relating to motor vehicles in the city of Topeka. be, and the said section is, hereby amended to read ss follows: Sec. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person under fourteen years of age. or for any person without a driver's certificate, or for any intoxicated person, to operate s motor vehicle upon any highway in tbe City of Topeka and any owner, denier or manufacturer of a motor vehicle who shall permit any person under fourteen years of age or any person with out a driver's certificate or any Intoxicated person to operate such motor vehicle i.pon any highway witbln tbe City of Topeka shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as hereinafter pro vided for the violation of the provisions of this ordiuance. Sec. 2. Original section 8 of Ordinance No. 4229, approved May 16. 1913. relating to motor vehicles In tbe City of Topeka, is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publica tion in the official city paper. Passed the Board- of Commissioners August 23. 1915. Approved August 23, 1015. Seal. JAY E. HOUSE. Mayor. Attest: ETTA M. COVELL. City Clerk. First published in Tbe Topeka State Journal, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1915. State of Kansas, Shawnee County, ss. In the Matter of the Estate of James H. Devlin. late of Shawnee County. Kansas. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby given that on the 10th dav of August, A. D. 1913, ,the undersigned was, by the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, duly appointed Executor of tbe estate of James IL Devlin, late of Shawnee County, deceased. All parties In terested in said estate will take notice aud govern themselves accordingly. HANNAH DEVLIN". Executor.. 9 THAT'S JUST 'TO REMIND "TOO OF THE: DAXS WHEN TOO USED ME FOR A PUNCHIN' f5Ajt r First (.nO.lslied m The Topeka State Journal, August 25, 1915.1 RESOLUTION. RESOLVED by the Board of Commis sioners of the City of T'oiekn. Sbawne County. Kanaaft. tlint the stagnant water standing on lots Nn. 163. lt5 and 167 tjuintou Boulevard, Kenwood Addition to the City of Topeka, Shawnee County. Kan sas, owned by Edwin Minor, is a nuisance, and is dangerous to the health of the neigh borhood, and that It is necessary for the best interests of said city to abate said nuisance by filling or draining said lots, so as to prevent water from standing there on. And be It further RESOLVED, that the owner of said lots be and he is hereby given until September 4th. 1915, as provided by Section 0, of Ordi nance No. 25M of said city, to abate anld nuisance by filling or draining said lots so as to prevent water from standing there on and If said nuisance be not nbtited within tbe time sieclfied herein, as pro vided by said Ordinance, then the Super intendent of Streets is hereby directed to fill or drain said lots in such manner ss to permanently abate saiil nuisance, and report the cost of said work to the Board of Commissioners, which said cost shall be levied and assessed against said lots as provided by law. W. L. POUTER. Commissioner. I. Etta M. Covell, City Clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing resolution Is a true and correct copy of the original resolution now on file In my office. Seal. ETTA M. COVELL. City Clerk. MONET.. FARM LOANS, 5 and 6 per cent. Nichols RealtyCo.,829 Kani. ave.JTel. 440. MONEY TO LOAN on real estate, city and farm. Rates low. STATE SAVINGS BANE S. W. Cor. 6th nnl Kan. Ave. 5 AND S PEE CENT Money to loan on farms and Topeka rest estate. Loans on homes or for biikMIng homes. If you wish a new loan or have a maturing loan or wish to change your loan, either farm or city, write or call BETZER REALTY LOAN COMPANY. NewEng.Bl5g-. Established 1886. MONEY TO LOAN ON ALL KINDS Of PBRBONAL PROPERTY. Horses, cattle, pianos, diamonds, bona. bold goods, libraries, typewriter, autos. carriages, machinery, and to salaried peo- ple. F. 8. Thomas. 519 Kan. Ave. Tel. 29. "MONEY TO LOAN on city and farm property, any amount, low Interest rates and most liberal terms. Call or write for our plan. W. M. Forbes J. C-. STOCKS AND BONDS. TECS. X MYEES, COLUMBIAN BLDQ. Government and railroad bonds, a-rata and copper stocks. First end eocoad mortgage! bought, sold and placed. MAYES FLO WEE SHOP for fresh flowers, wedding and funerals a specialty. Everything grown in our ma greenhouses not shipped In. 810 Kansas are. Phone 377. MRS. M. E. HOTCRAFT Cut fiowersT floral designs. 807 Kan. are. Pbona 176-W. TRANSFER AND STORAGE. TOPEKA raAMSFEES .STORAGE CO. MOVING PACKING STORAOS. FIEEFEOOF WAEEHOUSE Separata locked oms for bouseheld goods. Pnona KM. tzt Adams St. INSURANCE Fire, tornado, casualty, plate glass and all other kinds of insurance written In the best companies. C. J. PETERSON. 403-4 Mtllvane Jluildlng. FIKE and Tornado Insurance. Nichols' Realty Co.. C29 Kansas ave. Tel. 440. UNDERTAKING. HAWI.EY it STEEL! Funeral directors and embalmers, 113 Bast 8th ave. Mrs. Iiobu Steele, assistant. Phons 287 Day and Night. L. M. PEN WELL, f uneral director sod" embaliner. T. E. Jones. Ass t. First elssa service 003-510 Quincy st. Telephone l!ti BTLLIARD AND JfJCK ETTABI E.'t, FOR SALE New and second-hand etiroca and pocket billiard tables and bowling alleys. We lead the world In cheap fix tures: essy payments. Send for cataloa-oe, Rrrnawlck-Balke-Callendar Co, 13j-il Main street. Kansas City. Mo. TITEWRrTERS. ALL MAKER for sale or rent. Best ma ensnical department In the country. CRANE CO. Topeka. Kan. 46 Years to Baalneea. MOVING. FENIMORE MOVING AND STORAGB Co. Household goods, $2 00 per larva van load. Expert furniture packer. Pben S41. WANTED Your lawn mower to overhaul and A-rlod. factory process. $1.00. Tl Howard. 1377 Free deliver. PICTTRE FRAMING. FRAMING, reglldlng. mat making. Donat ing done bv J. D. Sullivan. 122 W. 8th. PATENTS. J. A. ROSEN, patent attorney, 41S Kan sas ave- Topeka. Kan.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTPAT AT. WEDNESDAY EVENTxr?. jiTTTTc.'r 25, 1915. RAILROADS STAY OPEN LATE Colorado Resorts Not Looking for Early Fall Closing. California Traffic Adds Pros perity to Summer Points. COMMISSION MAKES REPORT Canadian Government Line Constructed at Big Expense. Other Items of General Interest in the Traffic World. The railroads that operate in Colo rado are looking forward to a heavy passenger business this fall, which will necessitate keeping open the re sort towns and hotels longer than usual. As a general thing, the re sorts close down along in September on account of the dwindling number of tourists, whose ranks become thin ner and thinner toward the end of the month and early in October. The California expositions will ac count for this lively autumn that the railroads and hotel and restaturant owners, to sav nothing of the scenic railways, caves and other attractions, are expecting. Local passenger agents say that a good majority of all exposition rate tickets sold call for stop-overs in Colorado on the going or return trip. As practically every one takes a circle tour of some kind or other, tne Salt Lake City-Ienver roads do a big share of this business. The fair return traffic will continue until winter, according to all indi cations. Those who travel one way on the Union Pacific, Denver and Rio Grande or Colorado Midland always take in Denver, the Fikes Peak re gion. Estes Park, Glenwood Springs or other well known points. The only difficulty that may be raised will be for the Pullman com pany. The Pullmans, as a rule are used in resort business in the summer and are sent to the southern watering places in the winter, thus affording an even distribution. However, the outlook now is that Falm Beach, bt. Augustine, Asheville and other Dixie resorts will not get their full quota of sleeping cars until rather late this season. GOVEI1XMEXT AS BUILDER. Report Shows That Dominion Line Was Extravagantly Constructed. The climax of the failure of the Canadian government as a railroad :ii i-.. T-t h in the re- fusal of the Grand Trunk Pacific to lease the line built by the government from Moncton, New Brunswick, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1,804 miles, ac cording to a report from a special provincial commission appointed to investigate. The report shows that the government construction of this Canadian line has been so unthrifty that the Grand Trunk railway could not afford to take over and operate the road at a rental of 3 per cent. The Canadian government was able, as advocates of government ownership. to raise capital more cheaply than a corporation, but it spent so much more time in building than a private corporation would have spent, that the total interest charges that must be paid are greater than they would have been had the line been built by a private concern, says the report. When it was decided to build the Moncton-Winnipeg line the minister of finance presented an estimate of its cost, which would be $55,000 a mile for the 1.344 miles from Quebec to Winnipeg ($47,040,000) and $31, 250 a mile for the 460 miles from Moncton to Quebec ($14,375,000), a total of $61,415,000 or $34,083 a mile. By the end of 1914 there had been Spent on the line a total of $173,000, 000 without any interest during con struction. This was $98,985 a mile, or almost three times the original es timate, it was pointed out. New Coast Kates. Because of competition on traffic between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts through the Panama canal, the interstate commerce commission has authorized the Santa Fe railway and the Mai lory Steamship company to make rates between California coast points. This order meets the rates already authorized for the Southern Pacific. It leaves some intermediate points in the west with rates 30 or 35 cents a hundred pounds higher than rates for the full distance from Cali fornia to Atlantic coast lines. Like Father. Like Son. Official circulars have just been re ceived in Topeka announcing the ap pointment of E. M. Wrenne acting superintendent of transportation of the Nashville. Chattanooga St. Louis railway, vice M. J. C. Wrenne. decensed. Mr.' Wrenne. who is a son of M. J. C. Wrenne. entered the rail road service in 1889 as yard messen ger and worked his way up until he Thin Men and Women DO YOU WANT TO GCT FAT AND BE STRONG? The trouble with most thin folks who Wish to gain weight Is that they insist on drugging their stomach or stuffing it with greasy foods: rubbing on useless "flesh creams." or following some foolish phys ical culture stunt, while the real cause of thinness goes untouched. You cannot get fat until your digestive tract assimilates the food you eat. Thanks to a remarkable new scientific discovery. It is now possible to combine Into simple form the very elements needed by the digestive organs to help them con vert food into rich, fat-laden blood. This master-stroke of modern chemistry is called Sargol and has been termed the greatest of flesh-builders. Sargul aims through its re-generation, re-constrnotive powers to coax the stomach and Intestines to literally soak up the fattening elements of your food and pass them into the bloo1, where they are carried to every starved, broken-down cell and tlisue of your body. You can readily pictnre the result when this amazing transformation has taken place and you notice how your cheeks fill out, hollows about your neck, shoulders and bust disappear and vou take on from 10 to 20 pounds of solid, heathly flesh. Sargol is absolutely harmless. ineTpensive, efficient. Arnold Drug Co. and other lead iug druggists of Topeka and vicinity have It and will refund vour money if yon are not satisfied, as per the guarantee found in every package. Caution: While Sargol has giv n ex cellent results in overcoming nervous dys pepsia and general stomach troubles it should not be taken by those who do not wish to gain ten pounds or more. Adv. t was made assistant superintendent of transportation in 1914. He was well known and popular among the offi cials and employees. He was for three terms a member of the Nashville city council before the commission form of government was Introduced. TOURISTS FLOCK NORTH. Many Distinguished People Registered in Canadian Hotels. Chateau Lake Louise, Alberta, Aug. 25. American tourists are still pour ing into Canada, spending many de lightful days in the Canadian .Rockies. Among the most prominent registered at the Canadian Pacific hotel at Lake Louise are Mrs. W. H. Taft, wife of former President Taft of the united States, accompanied by Miss Helen Taft and Miss Heron. The party spent much time taking in the various "side trips," subsequent to leaving for Victoria. Mr. W. B. H. Dose, a Boston justice, accompanied by his wife and daughter; Mrs. Manning, New York: Rev. Dr. Gardner with wife and daughter, Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. Otis Skinner, and daughter, Philadelphia, are also registered. TEACHING A POOR JOB Firemen and Policemen Receive Bet ter" Pay Than Average Teacher. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 25- De claring it now possible to get "a real picture" of teachers' salary conditions in the United States, the committee on teachers' salaries and cost of living made a report to the session of Na tional Education association in Oakland. The report is an exhaustive com parison of teachers' salaries in various typical sections of the country with the wages paid to laborers and with the general economic conditions oi the localities. Following are some of the most pertinent findings of the committee: In every one of 58 cities selected at random, policemen and firemen are paid higher salaries than teachers often nearly twice as much. Salaries compare much more favor ably for the heads of school depart ments than for teachers. In Baltimore where individual po licemen and firemen receive several hundred dollars a year more than teachers, the superintendent of schools receives $5,000 a year while the po lice chief receives only $2,750 and the fire chief $3,400. The average annual wage of farm laborers throughout the country in 1913 was $257. That for rural school teachers appears to range only slight ly higher than that; the exact figures are not obtainable. The rural counties in Connecticut pay an average teachers salary of $449 not quite half the pay of the rural mail carrier. WILSON'SJCOUSIN HELD Even President's Dublin Kin Must Obey Uncle Sam's Orders. Stories of Kansans Major W. L. (Ironjaw) Brown was known as one of the most rapid dress ers of Kansas politicians. While the average political war horse was spend ing an hour in- preparing for break fast. Brown dressed, ate his meal and was out in the campaign. One day a party of Democrats were campaigning in the Sixth district. Brown was at thattime amemberof the board of corrections and was a can didate for the United States senatorial nomination. Governor Hodges was in the party and the night had been spent at the girls' industrial school. It was necessary to catch an early morning train and even Brown was rushed for time in preparing his toilet. About twenty miles out of Beloit, a members of the party looked at Brown and exclaimed: "Where's your tie, major?" Brown felt for his tie. But it wasn't there. "Guess I must have lost it in bed," was Brown's modest reply. ENCAMPMENT IS OVER Soldiers Depart and Make Room For State Rifle Shoot. Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. 25. Maneuvers of the Kansas National guard, which have been held on the military reservation at Fort Leaven worth, were brought to a close here todav when the two regiments in the encampment entrained and left for their homes. Preparations for striking camp were begun last night and it was as serted that by nightfall ell traces of the encampment would have been re moved from the reservation. Following the departure of the troops a state rifle competition was begun on the Fort Leavenworth rifle range, a small arms competition hav ing been held between members of the various companies end the two regiments of the guard during the maneuvers. Winners in the compe tition will shoot in company team match and individual competition for the purpose of selection of a team to represent tne state ac me ivaiionai Rifle match to be held next month at Jacksonville, Fla. START COMMERCIAL CLUB. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 25. Uncle Sam's red tape knows no stretching. This was evident to Mrs. Joseph Johnston, cousin of President Wilson, and her husband, a fellow in Trinity college of Dublin university when they were denied landii g by immigration officials upon their arrival aboard the Shinyo Maru until after they had sub mitted to medical examination at the Angel Island immigration station. Accordingly, the couple was taken to the island and were returned to this city late Tuesday. The action of the immigration offi cials was taken in accordance with a new rule requiring all foreigners reaching here from the orient to sub mit to medical examination at Angel Island before they can land. Johnston and his wife are touring the world under the Alfred Kahn scholarship, which Johnston won at college. Mrs. Johnston is a native of Done gal, Ireland, where a number of rela tives of the president reside. Her na tive name was Wilson. HIGHER HARNESS COST Increase in .Prices Declared Only Guard Against Makers' Bankruptcy. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 25. The popularity of motor cars which has re duced the demand of harness to draft and delivery models; the doubling in the price of leather in the last few years and the material increase in the cost of labor, are the contributary elements which confront harness deal ers today, according to Charles P. Shipley, of Kansas City, president of the Western harness manufacturers' association, who addressed the annual convention of the National Harness Manufacturing association. In session here. He said: "Dealers have been selling goods far below the price they are legitimately entitled to because of lack of moral courage. Prices will have to be ad vanced or bankruptcy will he an in evitable result." PARSONS IS MODEST Police Chief Returns Mayor's Com pliment With Interest. Harvey G. Parsons, chief of police, does not agree with Mayor House's statement that a chief of police is more valuable and harder to find than a mayor, Parsons is inclined to be modest as to his achievements as kaiser of the cops. Said the police chief this morning: "What- the police, department has ac complished is mostly due to the atti tude of the mayor the head of the department. We are working for a man who appreciates what we do and does not try to use the department for an alibi for his political sins. "This can not be said about some other administrations. The police de partment has been given a pretty free rein and has not been hindered by political rules." Clothes Parade at Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor, Me-, Aug. 25. Sum mering society folk gave a benefit for simmering city folk today. It took the form of a fashion show at the Swim ming club, new models in summer and fall wear being displayed by matrons and debutantes. Merchants Eat Beeves. Birmingham, Ala.. Aug. 25. The annual meeting of the Alabama Mer chants" association opened here today with a barbecue at East Lake. To morrow night W. P. G. Harding of the federal reserve board will speak. Furnace Repairs at Forbes. Adv. Business Men at Ionian Meet and Organize Association. Inman. Kan., Aug. 25. A dozen or more of the business men of Inman met at the D. Enns furniture store for the purpose of organizing a com mercial club. Bert Moore was chosen as temporary chairman and Henry Enns acted as secretary of the meet ing. A committee was appointed by the chairman which is composed of W. E. Stone, Dr. J. H. Enns and G. W. Haydon to solicit members and draw up the resolutions. There were eigh teen that put their names on the mem bership roll at the meeting. A mem bership fee of $2 will be required and dues will be decided on at the next regular meeting. AGGIE GRADUATES TEACH. Will Draw Aggregate Salary of Over Forty Thousand Dollars. Manhattan, Kan., August 2 5. Forty-one thousand dollars in salaries will be drawn this year by graduates of the Agricultural college who were helped to secure positions as teachers by the department of education. This does not include the large number of graduates who secure their positions without the assistance of the depart ment. The largest number of these positions were secured for graduates last June. A large per cent of the graduates of the Agricultural college do not en ter teaching fields. Of the 250 gradu ates from the institution the past year, fewer than fifty are engaged in teaching. COURTLAND WILL CELEBRATE, Two Days' Picnic Next Month Marks Twenty-Eighth Anniversary. Courtland, Kan., Aug. 25. Court land will celebrate its twenty-eighth anniversary by having a two days' pic nic, September 3-4. The home band of 25 pieces will furnish the music. The bandmen will make their first ap pearance in their new uniforms on that date. STUDENTS REGISTER EARLY. Big Enrollment Expected at the Agri cultural College. Manhattan, Kan., Aug. 25 Al though it is almost a month until the opening of the Kansas State Agricul tural college, nearly 300 new students have sent their advanced credits to the college registrar. From 50 to 75 copies of the catalogue are being mail ed 1o prospective students every day. Because of the prosperous condition When Women Suffer No remedy gives greater relief than Anti-kamnia (A-K) Tablets in all condi tions generally known as "Women's Aches and Ills." One trial will satisfy any woman that Bbe has at last found the remedy she has so long been look ing lor. Indigestion Dyspepsia Are you distressed after eating? Do you have nausea when riding in the cars or on the train or boat? Take A-K Tab lets and get instant relief. Genuine A-K Tablet bear the K monogram. At all Druggist. (Advertisement.) 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Grape juice at diplomatic dinners given by the premier of the Wilson administration is a thing of the past. Robert Lansing, the new secretary of state, entertained the other night in honor of Senor Cardoza. the Brazilian minister to Mexico. Grape juice was not in evidence despite the precedent set by William J. Bryan. The wines usually served at official dinners were provided for the guests. "Wine will be served at all diplo matic banquets where the secretary of state is host," said Mrs.. Lansing when questioned as to her plans. "Mr. Lansing and I are not extremists in the advocacy of temperance." GARBAGE FOR FUEL Plan Under Consideration to Save Money for City. City garbage and rubbish may be used as fuel for generating current at the city -electric plant. Although there is no hope of working out such a plan in the near future, yet the matter is being considered by W. L. Porter, city commissioner of parks, and Dr. Harold B. Wood, city physi cian and expert on municipal sani tation. The city of Topeka spends several thousand dollars every year in burn ing garbage and other refuse matter at 'the city crematory. Much of it is i sufficiently combustible to burn with out additional- fuel, but for much of rit coal is necessary. All of it gener I ates heat in burnins and under the J present arrangement all this heat is wasted. "The plan is being successfully fol lowed in several cities," said Dr. Wood, "and I can see no reason why it can not be done in Topeka." To work out the plan in Topeka would necessitate combining the light plant and the crematory. Rube Benton to New York. New York, Aug. 24. The national baseball commission today decided that Rube Benton, formerly of the Cincinnati club, is legally the prop erty of the Is'ew York club. DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT ITCHING SCALP Don't worry any more about that itching skin-trouble. Just spread a little resinol ointment over the sick skin and the itching disappears as if you had simply wiped it away! And even more important this soothing, healing ointment gets right to the source of the trouble and rare ly fails to clear away every trace of the unsightly, tormenting eruption. Doctors have prescribed resinol ointment for over twenty years, and thousands owe their clear, healthy skins to its use. It contains nothing that could injure or irritate the ten derest skin. Sold by all druggists. Sample free. Dept. 29-R, Resinol, Bal timore, Md. Adv. Iillllliiin s IHlllljllililliniHiiniiiiiiiniirfimnimmnmi lee Colorado Enroute to Expositions jj It costs no mora for railroad fare, and is worth a stay of as many days or weeks as you can spare. 5 sOa9 ''0 both Expositions and return, SS (m includes stopover in Denver with rrz free aids trips to Colorado Springs. Low Round Trip Fares to Colorado 5 Ask Union Pacific agent for fare from your station Cplorado's Rockies are considered to be equal, if not superior, to the Alps of Switzerland. S Colorado's climate is a tonic for worn-ont nerves and depleted energy. All out of doors invites you. Enjoy yonr trip from the very start by traveling via the UfflloitPcifie Cool, Comfortable, Northern Route Direct to Both Expositions Three daily trains leave Kansas City Union Station; the California Mail 10:40 a. m., Denver Limited 6 p. m., St. Louis-Colorado Limited 10:15 p. m. Observation sleeper, compartment drawing room sleeper and tourist sleeper throngh to San Francisco withont change. Connects -nroute with standard and tourist sleepers for Los Angeles and Portland. Chair cars, dining car service Write today for beautifully illustrated "Colorado for the Tourist" containing 64 pages of interesting 1 information on Colorado's scenic attractions. di T IT A rrwwrcn A r ii. rt. 1 1 ft it i r..- rassensrer Asrenr t Phones 3K36 1095 .Vs3V-v TOPEKA p s ll 4J. FnMilinm J Tnln,. JF. fJk butbe.ur.to... 5- -TUa. p '5 l g. Exhn.r.tN. f V Tempered A Altitudes i0r.: TemDerattrres 6 I The Santa Fe is tLe most comfortable 6ummer route to Cali fornia. All roads cross tke -western desert country, but tlie Santa Fe crosses it at its narrowest point. Annoyance of dust and smoke is prevented by oil-sprinkled road-bed and o3-burnind; engines. Sleepers and cnair cars on tLrougk California trains are equipped witn patent ventilators. ilwoBifer gives you Keaiou. I T. L. KING. City Passenger Agent. Topeka, Kan. KANSAS STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION SAM'L E. LUX, PRESIDENT AND MANAGER TOPEKA, SEPT. 13-14-15-16-17 THE BIG FAIR AT TOPEKA IS FREE The pates of the Kansas State Fair Association at Topeka will stand ouen C ,oJ,e and 17, 1915, for the first Big Free Fair held in the United States. The beautiful eighty-six acre fair pround, all of the twenty-four per manent DuilUings, and every exhibit will be open free to the public day and night. The citizens of Topeka and Shawnee County voted a special tax to pay the premiums of the Big Free Fair. The Kansas Legisla ture made a direct appropriation. PREMIUMS PAID BY THE CITY, COUNTY AND STATE Topeka bids every Kan san welcome to the Cap ital City. Rooms in pri vate homes will be listed. Information bureaus, rest, rooms, nurseries and play grounds provided. 'A- -'-JSLi,:w-a L J- Ly,-.r- lt(fmr"'try'-t $45,000 IN PREMIUMS, PURSES AND PRIZES Barns and pens for 2,100 head of show stock. Entire building devoted to auto show. Forty thousand square feet of displays in Agricultural Hall. Individual, Grange and County agricultural exhibits. Beautiful art and tex tile displays. Big culinary section. Model kitchen. Domestic Science, Child Hygiene and Home Handicraft demonstrations daily. Model nursery and play ground. Sunday School exhibit. 400 Entries In Trotting and Pacing Running Races Daily Four days racing. Monday. Tues day. Wednesday and Thursday, on the fastest half-mile track in the West. Twelfth Kansas Derby Tues day. Thousand dollar trottini? and pacing: stakes. Largest number of entries of any race meet In the West. Thrilling Automobile Races Daring Monoplane Flights Professional Fpeed klnK and their famous world record breaking racing cars will compete for S3, 000 purses at the Biff Free Fair Friday after noon. Military monoplane flights over fair grounds In full view of the crowds daily. Demonstration of aer ial scouting. Exciting Polo Played on Ponies Beautiful Horse Show Harness and high school horses, fancy hitches. elaborate turnouts, coaches, four-in-hands from the fin est private stables that win at Bos ton, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, F horse championship. Mammoth Live Stock Exhibits Fifteen Acres of Machinery Tractor Demonstrations Actual Plowing of 100 Acres BIG DAIRY SHOW BUTTER FAT CONTEST THE 100 PER CENT DAIRY HERD THE GREAT LIVE STOCK, AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION FAIR GROUNDS 7 BLOCKS FROM STATE CAPITOL Every day a big day. Three Concert Bands. Big Wild West Show. Original Georgia Minstrels. Motordrome. Special Shetland Pony Show. Giant Carousel. High-class Vaudeville and Big Feature Acts. Grounds and buildings brilliantly illuminated by electricity. SPECIAL SERVICE ON ALL RAILROADS The First Big Free Fair To Be Held in the United States CARPETS and RUGS Have you carpets that need cleaning? Have you carpets that are worn out? Don't throw them away. Call MeCormlck. W Clean. Refit. Sew, Size, Scour, Lay Them, or male Them Into RUGS. It isn't expensive and it's better done by and Carpet Cleaning Works 522 Van Buren St. McCormick Rug Factory Phone 421. 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