The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 23, 1915

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WEATHER forecast for Kuau: Partly cloudy tonight; unsettled Friday, with no Important change In temperature. JOVT forsrct the thousands of little kiddies hu will be overlooked b the real Santa Claus. POSTSCRIPT THIS EDITION 2 CENTS TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1915- TWELVE PAGE? SOLDIERS, QUIT YOUR TRENCHES! (ftristmas Manifesto Issued by German Humanity League. 1Var to Satisfy Saage Greed of Conspirators, Is Declaration. GERMAN EMBLEM OF DISGRACE "apo1eon Failed the Kaiser Must Fail," Is the Cry. Call to Stop Shedding the Blood of the Fatherland, Rotterdam, roc. 23. A Christmas manifesto calling upon every German soldier to quit the trenches and dp pnee the kaiser "from the throne he has fouled- was issued today by an organization called "The German Hu manity Leapue." It was signed by Krl Bernstein p.nd nine others. 'On the eve of Christmas, when the Mood-stained monarehs are ex-ch.inp-intc nru-ssacros cf peace and pood will wit'i the sovereign pontiff at Rome," read the manifesto, "our l.nivo soldiers are still shedding their life's hlood at the demands of ruth less conspirators who are shedding the blood of the fatherland. Our homes ar still being- desolated. "This campaign is not waged in awful defense of German territory but to satisfy the insatiable and savage greed of Prussian conspirators. "Today the German emblem is be coming an emblem of disgrace. We are loathed by all honest men. "Napoleon failed. The kaiser must fail. There can be no peace until he is deposed from the throne he ha3 fouled and his fellow conspirators have met thoir fate at the hands of the executioner." STILL LIKE SPRING The Temierature Heading: Is 18 De-irrt-es Above Normal for This Date. Spring weather was on tap in To peka today. The lowest temperature last night was 37 degrees, which is Just the normal temperature for the first part of April. The reading is IS de grees above normal for this date. On December 23. 1914, the mercury was down to 6 degrees below zero. Noth ing like that is in prospect for Christ mas week this year. The forecast calls for partly cloudy weather tonight: unsettled Friday, with no important change in tempera ture. The shippers' forecast says to protect 3t-hour shipments in all direc tions against temperatures of from 25 to 30 degrees. This indicates that the temperature here will be about freez ing. The highest temperature on record for this date was 66 degrees in 1893. The low mark was 6 below, last year. The Kaw river is stationary at 6 feet. The wind was in the northwest to day and temperatures did not go near the high mark of yesterday. The after noon reading, however, was nine de crees above the normal for this date. The wind blew at the rate of eight miles an hour. Hourly temperature readingings: 7 o'clock 3711 o'clock 45 8 o'clock 39;12 o'clock 47 9 o'clock 4 2 1 1 o'clock 47 10 o'clock 44! 2 o'clock 48 BIG BRITISH LOSS Nearly 115.OO0 Officers and Men Has Been Cost of Dardanelles Cam paign to December II. London. Dec. 23. Great Britain's lops of officers and men at the Dar danelles up to Decern her 11 was 112, 921. This is the grand total of officers and men. including the naval lists of killed. wovnded and missing. The number killed was 25,279. In addition to the total of casualties the number of sick admitted to hospitals was 96, 683. The losses were distributed as fol low Killed Officers, 1.609, men 23,670. Wounded Officers, 2.969; men, 72,222. Missing Officers. 337; men, 12,114. New German Coinage. Berlin. Dec. 23. The federal coun cil has decided on the coinage of iron ten pfennig pieces. Save Your Newspapers Is Advice In Germany Amsterdam, Dec. 23. "Don't bum your old newspapers; save them," urires Prof. Hugo Mchner in the Ham burg Xahrichten. The professor explains that he is perfecting a scheme for turning paper waste into a substitute for straw, which is largely used as fodder, not only in the ordinary way as chaff, but also in fresh ways after treatment by chemical processes. "So we come to this," adds Prof. Mehner. "that the masses of old news papers which have alreadv fed men's minds in town and country will then feed cattle, and old brown paper and cardboard boxes will yield milk and iwef steak." Chicago Doctor Is In Clear Chicago, Dec. 23. Attorney General Kueey will take no furth er steps to question the action or Ir. Harry J. Haiseldcn who dec-lined to perform an operation on the Rollinjier baby on the ground that it was hopelessly de fective. Sprinirfietd. III., Iec. 23. There is no law in the state of Illinois whereby Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, the Chicago physician who refused to save or pro long the life of the Bollinger baby in that city November 17, can be indicted by a grand jury. Such was the in formation received by Attorney Gen eral Luecey in a letter from States At torney Maclay Hoyne, of Cook county, today. The letter was in reply to a request of the attorney genera! for an investi gation of the case by the Chicago of ficials. UNRESTIN ATHENS Proclamation of Martial Law Is Regarded as Imminent. Possibility of Bnlgarian Troops' Crossing the Border. SINKING OF THE YASAKA MARU Property Loss the Heaviest Since the War Began. The atnre of Her Cargo Still Remains a Secret. London, Dec. 2 3. Proclamation of martial law In Greece is reported un officially to be imminent. Although no confirmation of this report Is avail able there is evidence of growing un easiness at Athens over the possibility that Bulgarian troops will cross the border. The only thing which has occurred to relieve the situation is the an nouncement that the Bulgarian offi cer in command of the force which clashed with the Greeks in Epirus has been punished and that the incident is considered closed. Recrudescence of submarine activ ity in the near east is signalized in a etartHnsc. jranner by the sinking of the Japanese tiner t'asaka ivlaru. Appar ently there was no loss of life but ac cording to marine insurance men. the property loss -was the heaviest in curred In any paritime disaster of the war. The nature of the valu able cargo remains undisclosed. Bombardment of Varna. The mystery of the bombardment f Continued on Page Two.l NO HORSE LAUGH In This Case French Claim Their Animals Wept. Soldiers Laughed So Hard They Couldn't Fight. Paris, Dec. 23. Weeping shells used by the Germans to blind the en emy with his own tears, precipitated in at least one instance what comes near being the most ludicrous inci dent of the war. In a weeping shell bombardment by the Germans today a regiment of French cavalry dismounted back of the line of fire. A gust of wind caught the sorrowful tumes and wafted them gently to where the horses and cav alrymen were at their ease- Suddenly without apparent reason, every caval ryman beheld his horse burst into tears as though the price of oats had suddenly risen to a figure beyond equine financial possibilities. Then, as if In sudden sympathy the cavalry men also burst into tears. If Germans Had Attacked. The situation is declared by the of ficers to have been incredibly ludi crous. The cavalrymen were impelled to such gales of laughter at the sight of the crying horses that if the Ger mans had attacked at that moment the entire regiment would easily have been wiped out. So far as could be ascer tained, horses and men suffered no serious consequence from having availed themselves of a woman's privi lege. The distance the fumes had been carried by the wind reduced their strength. CALL SPAIN ELECTION Ring Alfonso Signs Decrees Dissolving Cortes Selection to Be Made In March. Madrid. Dec. 23. King Alfonso to day signed decrees dissolving the cortes. New elections will be held before March. WOMEN TO SHOW MORE HOSIERY, COMES DECREE Chicago, Dec. 23. Skirts that will clear the ground from 6 to 12 inches will predominate the spring style In gowns and street dresses according to advanced models exhibited by Uie Chicago Garment Manufacturers' associa tion. Colors also will be much gayer. It was announced today, and the skirts will be much fuller and draped. Gowns for both women and misses are cut along youthful lines. CAPPEITSPEN GIFT Three Prisoners in Penitentiary Are Granted Paroles. Two Murderers and a Whisky Thief on List. ALL WILL BE "DRESSED OUT" And Sent to Their Respective Homes by Saturday. One Will Be Given Reception by His Home Town. Three men in the state penitentiary at Lansing will so home Friday with Christmas paroles. Two of the men, Ben Cook, of Cowley county, and Louis Gregory, of Wyandotte county were serving sentences for murder. LeRoy Everett stole a quart of whisky. Governor Capper announced today that all of the men to whom clemency was shown would be 4'dressed out" for Christmas. He will issue: but three Christmas paroles, he said. The Greg ory parole left the governor's office late AVednefcday evening, while paroles to Cook and Everett vere forwarded to Warden Codding today. It is the bit of Christmas cheer from the gov ernor's office to the men behind the prison walls at Lanting. When Ben Cook goes back to his home in Atlanta, Cowley county, most KANSAS BOY TO THE FRONT C. A. Castle, Formerly a State University Student Becomes Ambulance Driver in Army of the Allies. HE WAS A RHODES SCHOLAR Left TT When He Was Ap- pointed CSTcrd. Americans Fnrnished Christmas Dinners by James H. Hyde. Paris, Dec. 23. One hundred volun teer American ambulance drivers are having this week their first Christmas at the front. The Americana have no longer leaves than the French, and no special holiday furlough have been granted. Turkey, cranberry sauce and plum pudding for eacn of the drivers, provided by James H. Hyde, was sent to the front today in military trans ports. Thirteen Rhodes scholars from Ox ford university have arrived to replace Americans who are leaving, their terms having expired. Among the new men is C. A. Castle of Kansas. Castle was a Kansas university stud ent before his appointment to Oxford in 1913. He has been a student in the school since September, 1914, and is well known by state university stud ents. His home is In St. Joseph, Mo. Recently Castle sent a letter to W. D. Ross, state superintendent of public instruction, in which he indicated his plan to go to the front. Seventy-five per cent of the stu dents have gone to war or are aiding in the care of the wounded and suf fering, Castle stated in his letter to Ross. It was that he might help re lieve the distress and suffering that the Kansas man indicated that he would himself go to the front. When the call came for volunteer ambulance drivers, Castle responded. Castle is at this time the only Kan san in Oxford. C. H. Keys, a Beloit boy, is at the home of his parents. He stated recently that he would not re turn to school this year becouse of war conditions. Philip Whitcomb of To peka has completed his scholarship and is now manager of a broom fac tory in London. HAS DISEASE OF BONE Bernhardt Is Not Seriously 111 Has Incurable Malady but Can Appear Sitting in Choir. Paris, Dec. 23. Sarah Bernhardt, a report of whose dangerous illness was denied yesterday, is now said to be aflicted with a malady of the bones, which is perhaps incurable. It does not prevent her from giving occasion al public recitations while sitting in a chair. Madame Bernhard talks of her American tour and is going ahead with the arrangements. LAST MINUTE NEWS. Thankful for Small Favors! Chicago saloons must close their doors promptly one hour after mid night New rears morning, restau rants wholly detached from bar rooms may remain open all night. This supplemental ruling from the cor poration counsel today lifted the gloom from those who were saddened by the one o'clock closing order yes terday. iweiimiurs t.ec Aieaais. Washington, Dec. 23. Designing of three gold medals to be presented by the United States to Ambassador Naon of Argentina, Dagama of Brazil and Suarez of Chile, popularly known (Continued on Page 2.) POSTSCRIPT Can't Bake Fancy Rolls In Austria Vienna, Dec. 23. A ministerial de cree has been issued forbidding the baking of rolls, biscuits and other fancy breads and permitting only the making of loaves of ordinary bread. The- order does not apply to house holds. A further order requires persons possessing raw oils, benzol and tar oil to report the quantity on hand on the first and fifteenth of every month. This order authorizes the expropria tion of mineral oils if such a stepris necessary. PUDDING SPECIAL Three Million Pounds Leave England for Trenches. Every Fighting "Tommy" Will Have Feast on Xmas. AFTER THE PLUMS. DEATH! Tin Containers Will Be Used for Hand Grenades. Some Steamers Carry Food on to "Garden of Eden." BY WILBUR S. FORREST. London, Dec. 23. Having taxed John Bull's postoffice workers to the utmost. "Tommy's three million pound Christmas pudding" is on Its way today. In half a dozen war the aters, the British army, collectively known as "'Tommy" will, on Christ j mas day, put teeth into England's famous yule tide concoction, "ye olde plume pudding1." I If a single Tommy falls of his Christmas cheer this year, the post office wants to know it. Over $150, 000 has been spent to see that he is I well nourished at merry Christmas. I Early today a naval vessel, "the pudding special" crcssed the channel for France. Several trains this after j noon were hurrying the cargo toward i the British base. Tomorrow tons of puddings and Christmas gifts will leave in automobiles for the trenches. Turn Into Hand Grenades. Two weeks ago a big cargo boat pulled out of the Thames bound for the Dardanelles, carrying thousands of puddings, each one neatly packed in a strong tin box. The manntacr. turers suggested that, after the pud ding is extracted, the tin can be flltad j with explosives and' made into a .hand grenade. This will be England's i Christmas present to the un-Christian Turks. Other steamers are carrying the pudding to the "Garden of Eden," where the Mesopotamian forces are fighting; to Africa, to India, to the Balkans, and to the British warships wherever they are stationed, puddings i will go. j Various organizations, helped by the newspapers, raised many thou sands of dollars which was spent ex clusively in seeing that "Tommy" gets his pudding. U. S. NOTE AT VIENNA State Department Receives Word That Ancona Communication Reached Destination on Tuesday Evening. Washington, Dec 23. The second American Ancona note was received at Vienna at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening, the state department learned today. Steal a Firing Sight. New York, Dec. 23. A reversible telescopic indirect firing sight, the property of the United States army, the design of which has been careful ly guarded by the government, has dis appeared from a three-inch field gun in the armory of the Second field ar 1 tillery of the national guard, it was j stated tonight. Its intrinsic value was j small. The supposed theft has been reported to the police. I as the A. B. C. mediators was award ed today by Secretary Lansing to Miss Jeanette Scudder, of New York. The j medals are to bear inscriptions stat ing tnat tney are presented to tne am bassadors fur their generous services as mediators in the controversy be tween the government of the United States and the leaders of the warring parties of the republic of Mexico." Carranza Fines Oil Company. Galveston, Dec. 23. The Aguila Pe troleum company, which operates sev eral steamers out of Tampico and is owned by the Lord Cowdry interests, has been fined the sum of $2,500 gold by the Carranza government because of failure to comply with the order requiring oil companies to submit to detailed reports of their operations I in Mexico. The Oil Field company of jMexico and the Continental Petroleum i company have been fined similar amounts on the same charges, says the dispatch. Missouri Politician Dies. Holden, Mo., Dec. 23. William Steele, 6 3 years old. prominent in Missouri politics, died here today. He came here in 1870 and since had en gaged in the mercantile business. He was a delegate to the Democratic con vention In 1892. Mighty Allied Host at Saloniki. Paris, Dec. 23. General Bonnal, a French military expert examining in the Intransigeant the situation at Sa loniki, mentions the German state ment that the French and British forces at the Greek port now number 172,000 officers and men and are in creasing and says: "The joint army soon will reach 200,000 they are oc cupying a semi-circle around Salo niki." on Khnlro ntmai. Guatemala City, Guatemala, Dec. 23. There have ben 20 severe earth- auakes in Guatemala in the last two da vs. No serious damaen hu bn i reooT-t-j I DOCTOR ERNEST TELLS OF WIFE'S THREATS TO KILL Topeka Physician Testifies in His Own Behalf Today. Says Mrs. Ernest Made Him 111 With Her Criticism. DEPICTS WILD NIGHT IN OFFICE Alleges She Explained How She Could Poison His Coffee. Threat to Run Him Out of Pro fession Recited on Stand That his wife threatened to shoot him, poison him, poison herself and kill Miss Knox, threatened and tried to ruin his practice, and in all succeed-, ed In making his life so unbearable that one time, when she pulled a gun on him, in accordance with the alleged former threat, he didn't care whether she shot or not, were statements made on the witness stand this morning by Dr. F J. Ernest, prominent Topeka physician, in his own behalf. Dr. Er nest is replying to his wife's suit for separate maintenance. Dr. Ernest's testimony consumed the entire morning's proceedings in the second division of the Shawnee county district court before Judge Whitcomb. His testimony was not completed. At noon today Judge Whit comb adjourned the case until next Wednesday on account of the fact that tomorrow is motion day in lieu of Saturday which is a holiday and the fact that the high school "sorority" case comes up Monday. Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock Ernest will again go on the stand for completion of di rect examination and for cross-examination. Mrs. Ernest's alleged threat to shoot him took place on the night of Novem ber 23, 1913, according to Dr. Ernest. It was at the office at 826 Kansas avenue," the doctor testified. "We had had some disagreement. The phone rang. I answered and a patient want ed me to, make a call. I started to go. A Uvely Session. "She said: Where are you going?' I told her I was going to make a call. When I got to the head of the stairs she asked the question again. I made the same answer. She said: I II have you followed.' I came back in about (Continued on Page 11.) AliSTRIAJJKES IT Tew American Xote on An cona Is Well Received. Work on an Early Answer Has Began Already. Vienna, Dec 23. The new Ameri can note regarding the Ancona has made a good impression here. An early answer may be expected. Work on it has been begun already. RUSH NOW IS OVER Wednesday Was the Biggest Day for Topeka Postoffice. Business From 25 to 50 Per Cent Above Last Year's. Robert Caldwell, assistant postmas ter, said today that the parcel post business in Topeka this year is from 25 to 50 per cent heavier than it was a year ago. Another thing he has noted is that the heavy business came early this year. Yesterday was the biggest day at the postoffice. Today's business has been lighter. December 23, that's today, is re ferred to at the postoffice as "Derby day-Kansas day" for the reason that people having packages for delivery to points in Kansas usually hold them until December 23, thinking that they will arrive at their destinations the night before or on Christmas morning. But Derby day appears to have been put forward one day this year. The heavy Kansas business went through the postoffice yesterday. One way to account tor tne unusu ally heavy business in the parcel post department is tne ract tnat since last Christmas the weight limit has been raised from twenty to fifty pounds. Twenty pounds was the maximum for a parcel post package a year ago. This year one may ship a fifty pound pack age through the mail and many peo ple are doing it. Gunboat Has Returned. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 23. The gunboat Sacramento arrived here Wednesday from Port Au Prince, Haiti, bringing a number of sick marines who were a part of the American expeditionary force in Haiti. The Sacramento also brought the body of Captain F. E. Ro berd, U. S. NT., who was killed by a fall from hi horse from Port Au Prince. MAYBE THE SPY GOT ONE OF THEM London. Dec. 23. An instance of the thoroughness of the Ger man spy system at the front is shown in the following from the Belgian trenches: A regiment of Belgian chaus seurs was ordered to leave the tranches one night at dark to re ceive new khaki uniforms. An hour after the order was issued a sign was hoisted from a German trench across the way: "Good bye, brave Chauuseurs. Run along and get your new uniforms at twenty franca aBieo"-" TOPEKA MUST AVOID THIS! Let there be no empty stocking Christmas tragedy in Topeka this year. In the midst of the last holiday buying, Topekans should not forget that no one must be forgotten. The Confidential Exchange, an association of all the worthy charities in Topeka, is looking forward to the season of cheer with an idea of visiting the homes of every poor family in the city. Every one may help. Telephone your subscription or your offering to No. 665. There is no time to lose. Get busy today. GAVE NO WARNING Japanese Liner Tasaka Was Sent to Bottom Quickly. Jiearly 300 Persons, Including One American, Saved. London, Dec. 28. The new Japan ese liner Yasaka Maru, which was sunk in the eastern Mediterranean Tuesday by a submarine while the steamer was on her way from London to Japan with 120 passengers and a crew of 160 aboard, was sent to the botton without warning, according to a report received from Port Said from the agents of the owners. AH of those on board the ship, in cluding one American passenger, W. J. Leigh, were saved. The nationality of the submarine Is not mentioned by the agents and pre vious reports describe the sinking of the ship as done by either alt Austrian or a German submarine. The Ya saka Maru was sunk Tuesday after noon. A French gunboat picked up the passengers and crew at midnight anl (Tontlmied on Page 2. RATES TO GO UP Western Railroads Given Fat Freight Advances. Second Decision by Interstate Commerce Body. Washington, Dec 2 3. Railroads west of the Mississippi river were giv en material increases in freight rates today by the interstate commerce com mission in a second decision in the so called western advance rate case. Important increases granted in cluded carload rates on agricultural implements except to points in Louis iana carload rates on canned goods and carload rates on boots and shoes and leather betwen Missouri manu- facturing points and points west. In- creases on many miscellaneous items! were allowed, but some others were j held to be unjustified. The record in j the case does not disclose how much additional revenue the carriers will obtain. Among other increases granted were in rates on flue lining on dried and evaporated fruits in portions of the west and on furniture in carloads from Kansas City and other points to points in Oklahoma. Increases weieallowed also in certain cases in the charges for switching grain and in the iransit charge on fruits and vegetables in the territory beyond the Alissouri river. Increases were denied in carload rates on eggs from points in Kansas to the southwest, as were increases from points through the west on cider and vinegar to points in Kansas and Missouri. Increases on Bauxite ore, used in the manufacture of aluminum were denied in some cases and granted in others. Kansas utilities commissioners were vitally interested in the case which was decided this afternoon by the fed eral commission. Arguments in the case were made several weeks ago while attorneys for the state commis sion were in Washington. The suit in volved increases in numerous freight classifications and the demand by the raiiroads meant increases of thou sands of dollars annually to Kansas shippers. At the offices of the utilities com mission this afternoon, it was stated that no notice of the federal decision had been received. It is impossible to determine the extent of the railroad's victory until a classification of the in creases is received. This record will not be received in Topeka until early next week. HEAVIEST XMAS MAIL Postoffice Department Reports, Also, That It is Being Handled Without Delay. Washington. Dec. 23. The postof fice department received reports today from every section or the United States that the Christmas mail is heavier than ever before and ia be ing moved without delaje- L-U CAUGHTJNBIG NET Germans Charged With Con spiracy in This Country. Military Information and Canal Plot Is Uncovered. BLOW UP FACTORIES AND MILLS Wholesale Plan for Sure De struction of Munition Plants. One Man Admits He Bought 350 Pounds of Potash. New Tork, Dec. 23. Indictments WTere returned today charging Paul Koenig, chief detective of the Hamburg-American line, and Richard Emil Ly en decker, an. antique dealer, with conspiring to dynamite .the Wel land canal. Edmund Justice, a Hamburg-American line watchman, also was indicted with Koenig on charges of conspiring to obtain military infor mation for the German government. Max Breitung, under Indictment with Robert Fay, Dr. Herbert Kienzle, Walter Scholz and Paul Daeche on charges of conspiring to blow up munitions ships leaving this country, today admitted through his attorney, John B. Stanchfiela, that he bought 350 pounds of chlorate of potash for Fay. The admission was made when Mr. Stanchfield moved for a separate trial for Breitung. Breitung pur chased the potash, one of the principal components of some forms of ex plosives, at Fay's request, Mr. Stanch field said, and in so doing acted In good faith and was entirely innocent of any plan to destroy ships. Decision on the motion was put over until January 3, when decisions on similar motions by two of the other defendants will be rendered. William McCulley, whose name was first given as Robert McCauley and who was taken to police headquarters at the request of tne department of i (Continued on Page Two.) I GUILTY OF KILLING CHIEF Illinois Negro Bootlegger to Prison for Life Shot Police Head In Raid. an indeterminate sentence with a Galesburg, 111., Dec. 23. Henry maximum of five years in the penl Hopkins, colored, was found eullty to- I tentlary. day of the murder of Oalesburg's chief of police, T. L. Mathews. The jury after nineteen hours deliberation fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. Hopkins, known as "Lottie" was suspected of operating gambling house and of selling liquor illegally. Chief Mathews with three policemen raided the place the night of October 17 and Mathews was shot through the heart while leading the way into the house. A GREEN CHRISTMAS i other candidate in the field is Mrs. Weather Bureau at Washington Says Mary Chapin, now employed in th. There Will Be No Snow and Tern- office of the probate judge. perature Will Be Moderate. Kx.Itement In Chinatown. I San Francisco, Cat., Dec. 2J. Washington, Dec. 23. It's going to I Copies of advices said to have been be a sunshiny Christmas, with mild received from China, announcing temperatures. There is no use getting i growing opposition to change of gov the sieighbells down from the barn j ernment from a republic to a mop. loft, and Willie's new sled will prob- archy were posted throughout China ably be unused for some days. town here and aroused the quarter to There may be a little fall of snow over the Great Lakes according to the weather bureau today. There will be no storms or even areas of unusually cold weather elsewhere. GERMANS RETAKE A HILL War Office Announces That Positions LoHt to French Earlier In Week Are Captured Again. Berlin, Dec 23. The war office an nounced today that the summit of Hartman-Weilerkopf. captured earlier in the week by the French, had been regained by the German HERE. OH. WHERE IS MR. FORD Whereabouts of I)oe Feeder Is a Mystery to Delegates. He Was Missing When Party Left for Stockholm Today. DOCTOR SAYS HE NEEDS REST He May ot Be Able to Partici pate Actively ow. orwegian Delegates Would ot Accompany Americans. HV CHARLES r. STEWART. (Written for the State Journal.) Christiunia, Dec. 23. Henry Ford was missing when the Ford peace party left for Stockholm today to re cruit delegates for the neutral peace conference. Ford and Dean Marquis of Detroit, one of his closest friends, disappeared a few hours before time for departure and their whereabouts were unknown. Ford's physician said it was neces sary that he detach himself from th party to obtain some rest. Whether Ford has preceded the party to Stock holm or intends to follow immediately, could not be learned. It is not known when Ford will be able to participate actively in the peace enterprise, it was stated. So Published List. The Norwegian peace delegates did not accompany the party on Its trip to Stockholm today. Ford's secretary, Louis P. Lockner, said they objected to a separate announcement of their names. It was therefore decided to publish no list of neutral peace dele gates until delegations have been ob tained from all the European neutrals. One of the highest Norwegian offi cials and member of the cabinet, told American correspondents that the time is not ripe for peace efforts and that any sort of a conference, official or unofficial, may work harm at this time. BRIEF INJPPEAL Van Sickle Case To Be Argued in the Supreme Court. Attorneys for Former Mayor of OIpe Allege Error. Appeal in the case of the star, against William Van Sickle, charged with a statutory crime against Alma Stephenson, a country girl. living near OIpe, Kan., will be argued In the Kansas supreme court January Brief in the case has ben submitted by Van Sickle's attorneys and a copy served on W. K. Atchison, county at torney, and Robert Uarver, assistant county attorney. Van Sickle's case was one of th most sensational criminal cases that ever invaded the Shawnee county dis trict cout. Last winter he waa arrest ed in Topeka on a charge of a statu tory crime against the girl at the Iteg hotel, where it was shown at the trial, he had taken her. When arrested. Van Sickle was the mayor of Olpa, In their brief, attornevn Sickle raise the question of Van Sickle's being married to the girl. They claim that the state In the proa- t-cunon iHiien 10 snow that the girl and Van Sickle were not married, and claim that the court did not Instruct the jury on this point. Van Sickle Is a married man and has several children. In a motion for a new trial in the district court th I Van Sickle attorneys raised practically the same contentions but Judge Dan overrules them and gave Van Sickle VY. W. HARRIS IN RACE Santa Fe Man Announces Candidacy for Clerk of District Court In Shawnee. William W. Harris, an employee la the Santa Fe accounting department, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for cleric of the district court. I Harris has been in the employ of the Santa Fe for 22 years. The onl a high pitch of excitement. The flag of the republic was displayed and crowds gathered for animated discus sions. HIGH LIGHTS IN EUROPE'S WAR ONE YEAR AGO TODAY A victorious check of th Ger man drive was claimed by Russia, along the entire front. Germany had 4 million troop, concentrated to crush Russia. A Belgian civil population upris ing against German officers was predicted. isi

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBEB 23, 1915 ROW OVER JEWS Germany Wrought Up Over Anti-Semitic Feeling. Competition in Trade Brings About Sew Trouble. Berlin. rec. -2 8. Anti-Semitism, an issue which has been almost dead since the beginning of the war, has been revived this week by the Tages Zeitung and other newspapers. In eonsequer.ee a controversy which .'may be described as almost bitter has broken out between papers of the Tages Sleitung stamp on the one hand and those like the Tageblatt. which adopt a liberal attitude in regard to the Jewish question on the other. The more liberal papers resent intensely every anti-Jewish movement, partic ularly as It is asserted German Jews have borne their share of the war's burdens liberally and are doing theii utmost for the fatherland in both a military and an economic sense. The present revival of the anti Semitic movement began with a sav age attack in the Tafjes Zeltung against Eugen Dietrich of Jena, who -'had accused "a Berlin morning news- paper" inferenttally the Tages Zei 'tung of being anti-Jewish. The lat ter denied It was the newspaper at tacked and further roused Jewish feel ing by putting the hlaine or. still an other Berlin Journal. The Tageblatt entere.l the contro versy calling the Tages Zemins utter ances "base defamation of German Jews, many of whom died for the fatherland after voluniarily Joining the army In which they were notably different from certain anti-Semitic na tionalist typewriter heroes who have not "lived up to the war propaganda they preached for years." FwHjir on the Wane. Theodore Wolff of the Tageblatt, who is perhaps the most prominent editor ot Germany, declares that not withstanding the recent revival of anti-fem'tiam, the feeling against Jews In Germany is gradually on the wanes existing nowhere to a great extent ex cept possibly among the minor nobility. JUST ASA FEELER Roosevelt Boom Has Been Sent Out Oyer Country To See How It Will Take, Say Party Leaders. n New York, Dec. 23. The Roose Telt boom for the Republican presi dential nomination has been shot out through the country by ardent admir ers of the colonel to see how it would "take in the opinion of several Re publican national committeemen and party leaders here to meet with Na tional Chaliman Charles E. Hilles to day. Committeeman Charles A. Spies, of New Mexico, who conferred with Hilles, said flatly that he does not believe the colonel has any thought of i trying to secure the Republican nomt- nation- committeeman itaipn t. Cameron, of Arizona, said he believes some of the colonel's friends are try in? to convince him against his will that the country Is demanding that he return. They think the colonel will throw his hat Into the ring if the country warms up to the talk of his can didacy," said Cameron. There are other gentlemen who think the coun try's response to the Roosevelt feelers will convince his closest friends that the sentiment is not for the colonel. Among the six national commit teemen from the west, gathered here, it was plain tna.t there was no sen timent favoring the colonel. They all expressed the belief that the Repub lican party could win with Roosevelt, but according to one western leader: "We are not going to win with Roosevelt. Neither Taft nor Roose velt will be able to swing the next convention." Deny Important Conference. Republican chieftains at the Wal dorf denied today that any important conference had brought them to New York. The westerners declared they had dropped off in New York on the way home from the national commit tee meeting at Washington. They said they had "paid their respects" to Hilles, but denied Roosevelt's candi dacy was under discussion. They did not think it significant that incoming I trains brought only Republicans hos- Gllbbs Clothiin g Cos CI Open Every Nieht Until Christmas Just 3 More Busy Bargain Days Before Christmas All departments closing out entire stocks at clearance prices. Stocks must be reduced by January 1. Attend this great December Clearance Sale while doing your Christmas shopping. Entire Suit and Overcoat Stock at Clearance Prices Railroad Fares Rebated All Men's Winter Suits and Overcoats, values up to $12.50; all wool; 17 r choice p f U AD Men's Winter Suits and Overcoats, values up to $15.00; all wool; choice $9.97 All Men's Winter Suits and Overcoats, values up to $18.00; all wool J "I f f choice plU.)U All Men's Winter Suits and Overcoats, values up to $22.00 -19 Cfl choice pl.e3U FURNISHING GOODS Men's Large White Handkerchiefs. .20 Men's Heavy Rockford Sox .7 Men's $1.50 Sweater Coats. 98 50c All-Wool Golf Gloves 390 Ladies' Extra Quality 15c Hose 110 Men's 25c Wool Sox 150 Men's Cotton Gloves ..50 Men's Gray Sox 50 Men's 50c Woolen Shirts 250 Men's $1.50 Fleece Union Suits. .980 Men's Heavy 75c Mitts 470 Bargains for Christmas Shoppers 50 dz. Men's Silk Neckties, :in Christmas boxes, values up to 50c, for 250 Ladies' a m p le Handbags, all newest styles, at HALF PRICE. SHOES Men's Button and Lace Shoes ?1.98 Men's Newest Style Shoes, all leathers .$2.45 Ladies' Latest Style Cloth Top Shoes $2.45 Ladies' Latest Style Gunmetal Shoes $1.98 One Lot Ladies' Shoes 980 Ladies' Felt Lined Shoes $1.25 and $1.45 Boys' All Leather Shoes, button and lace $1.39 Bovs' Solid Leather Button and Lace Shoes $1.69 Girls' School Shoes $1.69 500 Pairs Men's Button and Lace Shoes, all styles and leath ers, values up to $3.50. Clearance price $2.15 Bargains for Christmas Shoppers Ladies' Motor Sets, all colors, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 Ladies Felt House Slippers. Fur trimmed, all colors 980 FURNISHING GOODS Men's Heavy Arctics 980 Men's $2.00 Wool Underwear 970 Boys' 50c Union Suits 390 Men's $1.00 Union Suits 580 Boys' Warm Caps 250 Men's 75c Sweaters 470 Men's 50c Heavy Shirts 290 Men's 50c Shirts and Drawers 39 f Men's $3.00 Corduroy Pants. .$1.97 Men's $1.25 Kid Gloves $1.00 Men's Heavy Wool Caps .470 "i an: t.1.. j tile to Roosevelt to town, including is absolute !y no anti-.Tewisn movement Murray Crane of Massachusetts. Vie. In government cir. les or in the high tor HoseWater of Omaha, and Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania. The Arizona national committeeman nobi'ify." Mr. Wolff said Kqual Rights in Army. "The Jew now has equal rights in the army and may become an officer along with a Christian. 'It is only among the minor nobil ity that the Jew is still unwelcome, on account of the fact that he is able to outstrip his competitors, who are jeal ous of him. But do not forget there are notable exceptions in this class. A few Oerman newspapers which repre sent this class of the minor nobility, such as the Taes Zeitung, and the Taegliche Rundschau, are naturally anti-Jewish, but their agitation is be coming less effective each month. I look for eventual liberty for Jews in Germany such as exists in America to day." UNREST IN ATHENS of Varna which was at first depicted as a formidable Russian attack on the i chief Bulgarian port has stirred Lon V don, but according to reports from I both sides it was nothing more than I a minor naval action amnns torpedo boats, in which the shore batteries participated. However, a larpe Rus sian fleet 13 said to be in the vicinity of Varna and the action may be mere ly preliminary to a serious Russian attack. Hartmanns-Weilerkopf is once more a subject of contention. Possession of the summit of this mountain has been disputed so closely by military forces, as well as by those who officially re- cord their movements that an Asso dated Pres correspondent was called upon last April to decide the relative positions of the opposing sides. In the present Instance the French assert they have expelled the Germans from their highest trenches. The Germans admit retirement from the summit which they assert they had occupied since April. The French claim they have not only advanced their positions sub stantially, notwithstanding the fact that the Germans succeeded in re-occupying some of the lost trenchea, but have forestalled In a measure an offensive which the Germans Had been preparing in the Vosges. Sinking of the Yasaka Mara. The Japanese liner. Yasaka Maru, was sunk by a submarine without warning, according to reports from her agents. The vessel went down in the Mediterranean while bound from London to Japan with 120 passengers, one of them an American, all of whom were saved. The Dardanelles expedi tion has cost the British 112.921 men, these being the official figures of casualties up to December 11. Of this number 1.609 officers and 23,670 men were killed. Petrograd advices contradict the re ports of the landing of Russian troops at Varna on the Bulgarian Black sea coast. There was only a brush with the coast batteries there by warships pursuing a Bulgarian torpedo boat, it is declared The Germans are contin ulng their counter attacks at Hartmanns-Weilerkopf. in the Vosges, the summit of which was taken by the French on Tuesday. French official Statement. Paris, Dec. 2 J. The following com munication was given out at the war office this afternoon: The night was relatively calm over the whole front. South of Arras in the vicinity of Beaudralns our artillery kept up its destructive fire. In Cham paign there was hand grenade fight ing east of Navarin farm and in the sector of Hill 193. "In the Vosges. at Hartmans-Weil-erkopf. the situation is unchanged on our left, where the counter attacks of the enemy are proceeding. Our right continued to make progress yesterday." suggested that a "dark horse" may run away with the Republican conven tion. The others fought shyly away from expressing personal preferences among the field of candidates. "Out in Nevada," said Colonel Max son, national committeeman from that state, "we play poker with our cards close to our belts until it's time for a showdown. That is a good game to play when looking for a presidential candidate." Maxson lunched with Chairman Hilles today. It was understood that Penrose would see the national chair man later In the day. CAUGHT IN BIG NET (Continued from Page One.) justice officials investigating the plot to dynamite the We land canal, was released today after having? been ques tioned by federal officials. The indictments against Koenig and Lyendecker charged mem with con spiring- to "set on foot in the United States a military enterprise against the Dominion of Cranada." The in dictment set forth that a part of this alleged conspiracy was to destroy with dynamite or other means, the Welland canal leading from Port Colborne. on Lake Erie, to Port Dalhousi on Lake Ontario. Employment in Mills. As a part of the plot to destroy the canal the indictment alleged Koeniff and Lyendecker planned to secure employment for their agents in vari ous factories and mills adjacent to the canal. The military force which the indict ment charges Koenig and Lyendecker planned to send from this country was also intended to destroy "various plants and properties in Canada other than the Welland canal Monition Information. Koenig and Justice are charged in the indictment with having conspired in the United States to secure for the German government information re garding the character and quantity of munition and other war materials be ing sent from Canada to Great Britain. In this connection it is charged that Justice made trips to Portland, Me., Burlington, Vt., and Quebec, Canada, in September, 1914, and that aU of these trips were a part of the conspir acy to secure military information for the German government. Koenig, in his various activities, is alleged to have been known under the aliases of Wagner, Wegenkamp, Kel ley. Winter and Perkins, while Lyen decker was known as Z. I. Decker and R. Decker. The indictments which were drawn by Assistant United States Attorneys Roger Wood and Benjamin Matthews charge that on several of his trips Justice was accompanied by Freder ick Metzler, Koenig's stenographer, who was recently arrested and ap peared before the federal grand Jury which returned the indictments to day. 3 Years and $3,000 Fine. The maximum penalty for the charges is three years' Imprisonment and $3,000 fine. findTvhisky stills 4 BACKEDBY BERLIN German GoTernment Financed Rubber Smuggling Scheme. Even United States Malls Were Used by Smugglers. Charleston. W. Va., Dec. 2S. Fed eral revenue officers returned to Charleston today after a raid in the moonshine district of Nicholas coun ty. They brought with them Robert and George Thomas, accused of oper ating illicit whisky stills in the moun tains. The officers took a complete distill ing outfit which gave evidence of having been in recent use, and a lot of materials. Iff Before You Buy SEE THE a Piano Not After rcTowr KXA8CH Wrila If You Cannot Call 822 KANSAS AVE. f.r.WHTTNOM tUllafitl New Tork, Dec. 28. Federal offi cials are prepared to show that the plot to smuggle rubber out of New York for Germany, exposed, had the direct backing of the German govern ment. It was learned today that Dr. Hein rich Albert, whose activity in the Ger man propaganda resulted in his re turn to Berlin, was at the head of the scheme. Doctor Albert gave the in structions to Max Jaeger on which Miss Anna Dekkers was engaged to tarry she 500 pounds of crude rub ber found in her persona .-uggage. Doctor Albert supplied the funds for the plot fiom the Deutsches bank, with which he is connected as head of the rubber department. Doctor Al bert also secured thai release from the German army of man who was se lected bv Jaeger to meet agtnts at Rotterdam and take care of their baggage containing the rubber. The value that is attached to rub ber in Germany Just now is illustrat ed t y the scale of prices which were to be paid the big corps of agents who were to travel back and forth between New York and Rotterdam. On each trip they were to carry in trunks, bags and packages not less than 1,500 pounds of rubber each. Rubber is selling in New Pork today at 78 cents per pound. It is worth $15 per pound in Berlin. For this service each agent was to have the choice of first or second cabin passage on the ships, as desired, an allowance of $60 for tips, $75 for baggagemen and $175 for expenses in Rotterdam and New York between voyages. In addition, compensation of $150 per trip was to be paid each agent. COL. VILLA ARRESTED Charge of Swindling Placed Against Mexican Outlaw's Brother by EI Paso Chief of Police. father was a Californian. Mr. Leigh has spent most of his life in China, but recently has lived in England. He was returning" to China on the Yasaka Maru to take a position with a busi ness house. His family is in London. Mrs. Leigh has received a cable mes sage saying her husband is safe. GO DOWN IN HISTORY Kaiser Sends Message of Praise In Condolence to widow of General -von Enumlch. DASHEDTO DEATH Otto Anderson Is Killed in an Automobile Accident. Lost Control of His Car and Turned Oyer Twice. Because he was unable to control the loose steering gear of his automo- Berlin. Dec. 2 3. Emperor William I Nrw Fa.hloned ,',to liverv. 112-14 has sent a telegram of condolence to west Fifth street, was dashed to death the widow of General von Emmich. i on the road west of Kingville, fourteen whose death was announced yesterday miles west of Topeka, last night at at Hanover. 9:30 o'clock. Elmer Jones, of 216 Kan sas avenue, who was in the ear with 'r.'JK.1?; Pe-d. escapeTunhurt. A fracture at the base of the brain caused Ander son's death, according to Dr. J. H. Rinehart, coroner, who brought the body back to Topeka. The two men, in a Park and Palmer can were driving west on their way to St. Marys on business and had just passed Kingville when, according to Jones, the car slipped to one side of the high graded roadbed. Anderson tried to turn the car quickly and it The ruler's message follows: ly esteem as a paragon of fidelity and devotion, as a soldier and man, and when history describes the most glo rious achievements of this war, Liege, St. Quentin, Galicla and Poland his name will occupy one of the first places." KILL AUTO MOONSHINER Load of Liquor Was Too Much for Alabama Man and His Famous Machine. San Antonio, Dec. 28. To forestall habeas corpus proceedings by which Col. Hipollto Villa might have ob tained his liberty before documentary proof could have been obtained from El Paso, Colonel Villa, accompanied by a detective, was started for El Paso early today. He was arrested last night in the drawing room of the Southern Pacific from the west, the arrest being based on a message from the El Paso chief of police charging Villa with swindling. Villa agreed to return and face the charge without formal court order and even consented to pay his and the de tective's fare. Local officers were ln formed that Villa will be met by the El Paso chief some distance east of El Paso and taken to Jail to await the fix ing of bond on the part of a court. GAVE NO WARNING (Continued from Page One.) Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 23. M. J, Ram bo, known as the "automobile moonshiner," was shot and killed by deputy sheriffs in Covington county early today. The deputies- came upon Ram bo in the road where his car had broken down under a ioad or liquor. Kam bo immediately opened fire and in the fusillade of shots which followed he was killed. One of the officers was wounded. FIRE AT KANSAS MINE Top Workings of Black Diamond, Owned by Topekan, Destroyed; Second Incendiary Fire. promised to make good and care for the kiddies. That is the reason Gov ernor Capper Is sending the man home for Christmas. He Was Only 16 Tears Old. Louis Gregory is a Wyandotte coun ty negro. He was convicted of the murder of Roy Martin in 1904. Greg ory was 16 years old at the time the crime was committed. He has made an excellent prison record and will be given a new chance outside the walls of the state penitentiary. HOUnOANirARC Pope Decides That Canonization of This Time Would Be Contrary to Neutrality. STOCK SHIPPERS 1 T Insur Yourself Beat Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Lire Stocks Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own Offices as CtUcjuro. So. Sc. Jonenb. tax unuua, Denver, wnnl uty, bo. m. raw. n. mnaiv, s vs. Fort Wortlt. Paris, Dec. 23. Monsinor Touch ett, bishop of Orleans, asked the pope during a visit to Home to nasxen me canonization or. joan or Arc, says me Rome correspondent of the Petit Journal. The pontiff, however, pointed out the significance attached to such a step at the present time when Joan of Arc, more than ever, is a symbol of the military valor and heroism of France. He said that to avoid the ap pearance of hastening the canonization which could be considered contrary to the neutrality, that the Vatican de turned over twice. Jones was cata- sired to maintain toward all the bellig erents, he had decided to postpone the canonization until after the war. todaWmabket report. Chicago Dec. 23. WHEAT Wheat de veloped fresa strength today Influenced by Liverpool reports of continued urgent European demand. Bealdea. predictions pulted to the side of the road and Anderson was pinned under the car. "I was dazed," explained Jones in telling of the accident, "but when I came out of the stupor I saw the car on the other side of the road. I went over to ft and found the engine run ning. I called to Otto to tell me how to shut it off and he did not answer. narpntlv had rrawlprf out fmm unHr- were that world shipments this week other parentiy naa crawiea out rrom under tnan from America would be light. Ex- the car for I round him at the side of porters appeared to have raised their bids the road. I felt his pulse and it was as compared with yesterday and offerings beating. I went back to turn off the f futures were readily absorbed. After engine and when I returned Otto was 0Pe,ilJ1c V,0 lcfcnPj wlt Geen,ber dead I called Tooeka. and askprl for- at 1-21 n May at 91.2ft to $1.24, the r-V.. ifiTai asKed for market underwent a moderate sag but then Coroner Rinehart. rose all around above yesterday's level. Dr. Rinehart and O. S. Perkins, of Assertions that New York .nrr-rt. with the Perkins livery company went to French connections were good buyers led the scene of the accident in Ir. Rine- to a further upturn, the market touching a new high prie level Tr the 1915 cron. It waa said export sales todnv would aggregate one million bushels. tbe close was nervons 2V to 3 cents net higher, with December at $1.24 and May at $1.25. CORN Corn hardened with wheat. The fact that the weather waa favorable was offset by continued small ness of receipts. v wv Mine as yesteraay s rimsn to Hi "4 mgn- found that rlpnth hnrl hean neon k- a. Qr. Ann,i k .hk JiZt J7- Burlingame, Kan., Dec. 23. For the a fractUre at the base of the brain 1 later a general rain. Desp 1 te heavy sel 1 n g the market wen t hart s car ana Bert Miller, an em ployee of Anderson, Art Shinn, Vern Welch, and Art Scott went along in a Ford. The men returned with Ander- son's body about 1 o'clock this morn ing and Dr. Rinehart made an exami nation of the dead man at Shella- thls week and corn stocks Increased 171,321 bushels. Exports from the United States and Can ada yesterday were 581,000 bushels of wheat, 60,000 barrels of flour, 95.000 bushels of corn and 2.000 bnabels of oats; wheat and flour combined, 851,000 bushels. A weekly foreign crop summary con tained the following: "United Kingdom Weather is unseasonably cold, with snow. Native wheat movement Is slow. France Weather is seasonable, and wheat outlook is favorable. Russia An official report says wheat seeding is finished on a re duced acreage. This growth la reported. Rumania An official revised estimate makes the wheat crop 89,000,000 bushels, compared with 46,400,000 bushels last year and an average of 85 million bushels. Heavy exports have been made and hold ings are large. Anstrin-Hungary Wheat J'ield was ver- disappointing, and large rn port purchases are necessary. Balkan states contributed heavily. Supplies are still scarce. Italy Wheat condition la reported as being unfavorable on a re duced area. India Rain In the PnnJaub ereatlv benefited wheat and nermftted additional seeding. More general moisture Is wanted. Australia Weather Is favor able for harvesting and arrivals of wheat at ports are large. Merchants at Sydney annere 10 tne estimate or XU million sur plus. Argentina New wheat Is not offer ed free) y Weather has been against Harvesting. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackaga Droves it. 25cat all druggists. rd. 1.12(9 ed, LITIS second time within a year an lncen diary fire Wednesday morning de stroyed all the top workings at the Black Diamond coal shaft. The fires are believed to have been set by per sons opposed to the use of coal dig ging machines. Several Atchison, To peka Santa Fe cars also burned. The loss is 18,000. insurance $2,400. The mine is owned by J. C. Gafford of Topeka. The Quinine That Doe Not Affect the Read Because of its tonic and laxative effect LAXATIVE BKOMO QUININE can be tok en by anyone without cauBing nerrouiDesa nor ringing in the head. There ia only one "Bromo Quinine." E. W. UHOVE'S signa tnre on box. 25c. Adv. The hndv ota mnvoH tn t.,.. ......li' governed chiefly by Trade was light and (i bv hid wife .t -infl son, J-.yle Anderson, who live at OATS Oats were si west Thirteenth street. The fun eral arrangements have not yet been made. landed them at Port Said Wednesday morning. The company provided ho tel accommodations for them and is arranging to forward them to their destinations. On the passenger list were 61 men, 64 women and 16 chil dren, most of whom were British sub jects. The agents in their report say fur ther: "The passengers express great ad miration for the skill of the captain and officer- and for the discipline of the crew. Perfect order was main tained during the embarkation which was carried out with the greatest promptitude.' Excitement In Tokio. j Tokio. Dec 23. News of the slnk- ing of the Yasaka Maru reached To. I kio today and caused great exclte ment. The advices received here say the steamship was sunk by a subma- rine near Port Said. Advices received by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha state that the Yasaka Maru was torpedoed without warning and that she sank in 49 minutes. This occurred in the afternoon of Tuesday and it was midnight when the passen gers and crew were rescued by the French gunboat. He Was Born in China. London. Dec. 23. W. J. Leigh is an American citizen born in China. His THE FAIR TOY STORE OF TOPEKA UIM Km Ave. all N. Eu. Ave. urn IS THE SHE ISN'T CURED YET But Woman Who Wrote Threatening Letters to T. It. Has Been Re leased From Asylum. New York, N. Y., Dec. 23. After being confined in institutions for the insane since November, 1914, Mrs. Ida von Claussen, writer of threatening letters to Theodore Roosevelt and others is to be released from the state hospital for the insane at Middletown and placed in the custody of her brother, Matthews Claussen, of New York city. The court says she is not entirely cured. the action of corn. fluctuations narrow. PROVISIONS Scattered buying on the part of commission bouses gave firmness to provisions. Weakness in the hog mar ket was largely ignored. Chicago firaia Markat. tThe range of prices for grata furores -a Hoard or Trade aa reported Myers. Broker.. Columbian The Chicago oy mot. j. Bldg.) Chicago, Dee. 23. Cloas High low Today Yes. 1244 110H 121 122 113 124 1255? llflts CAPPER'S PEN GIFT tContlnaiMl from Page One.j LESS PRICE More Variety V-k a The only merchants between Kansas City and Denver buy jror Tovs in ear lots Wsn Variety Keigas Ssrsae Open Pec. ..121 May ..124 July ..114 COKN Dec. 70 May 74$ July 74-jw OATS Dec. 42 May 40?s PORK Jan. ..18.27 May ..18.25 Kaaaas City Oral Market. fThe r-rig of prices for grain futures a The Kansas City Board of Trade as re ported oy l nos. J. layers, ttroaer. .oiuia- Kansas City Prodaea Market. Kanana City. Dec. 23. WHEAT Caah Market unchanged. No. 2 bard. 1.16; No. 3. fl.OT01.16: No. 2 1 Oil KA 4 1 Obj1 17 COKN Market unchanged to c up. No. 2 mixed. 67c: No. 3. 85i (atVtlc No. S white, 00c; No. 3. 6514c: No. 2 yellow, 6714 feBSc: No. 3. 66ic. OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white. -Mr-tc: nK z mixea, ytf-oo. RYE RTc. HAY Market weak. Choice timoth 11.0012.00: choiee prairie. $9.00(810.00; cnoice auaua, sao.wn iw.uu. KAFIR -No. 3 white. 94c. WHEAT Receipts 19S cars. BUTTER Msrket unchanged. EliOS Market unchanged POrtTRY Mnrket unchanged CLOSE: WHEAT May, f 1.16 Jnly. COI1N May, 67c; July, 70c. Chicago Praitnee Marfcet. Chicago, Dec 23. BUTTER Market un changed. EGGS Market nnsettled. Firsts. 2Sl 2H4c; ordinary firsts. 2(H427c. At mark. cases ineinaea. z-'imMiC. POTATOES Market higher. Michigan and Wisconsin white. OKftTHc; Minnesota and Dakota white, 70'S75c; Minnesota and uakotn omos, rc'a3c. POULTRY Alive, lower; fowls, llc; springs, i.ci luraeys, inc. New Tork Hogar Market. New York, Dec. 23. SUGAR Raw, ensy centrifugal, 4.89; molasses, 4.12; re fined, qulec 1218 123 113 71 70 71 70 75V4 74 75 74 75 74 14 75. 744 42 42V4 42 42 46 40 45i 45 IS. 37 18.27 18. SO 18.12 18.52 18.23 18.D0 18.35 of the people in the little town will be at the depot to meet him. Ben Cook was tow.i marshal in the town before he was sent to prison for killing; John Schaffer, regarded as a local bad man. Cook has been in prison nine months. He was convicted of man slaughter in the third degree. He re ceived a three-year sentence. Figbt With Marshal. Prior to the crime for which Cook j was convicted, Schaffer boasted that Cook would never arrest him. The news readied the town marshal and he started to take Schaffer to jail. A fight ensued and Schaffer was shot and killed. With but two or three ex ceptions, every home in Atlanta is rep resented on the petition asking for Cook's parole. Le Roy Everett is serving a sentence of one year for stealing a quart of whisky. He was sent to prison from Montgomery county. When Everett returns to independ ence, he can thank his four children for his freedom. It was their help lessness and need of care that gave the man a prison release. At this time the children are being cared for by relatives, the expenses being paid by the city and county. Everett bas bias Bldg.) open WHEAT Dec May ..114 July ..107 CORN Dec. fUSV. May uJly 70& High Low Kansas City, Dee. 23. Clcae Today Yea. 1124 1114 116- 114 109- 100- 110 10 07 70 71 113 100 60 on? 69 07 701 71- 6 70- Chicago Grain Market. Chicago. Dec. 23. WHEAT Close: De cember. 1.24: May, $1.25: July. $1.16. COKN December, 71 c; May, 75s; July, '""oATS December, 42 l-3c; May, 45c. PORK January. $1.35: May. $18.50. LARD January, $9.57; May. S.K739.90. KIB8 January, $9.80; May, $10.15. Liverpool Grain Market, Liverpool, Dee. 23. WHEAT Spot No. 1 Manitoba. 13s; No. 2, not quoted: No. 3, 12s 7ii; No. 2 hard winter, new. 12s Id. CORN Spot, American mixed, new, Ss 4d. Grain Goaslp. IIJv sieclal wire to T. J. Myers. Coluruutan Building. I Minneapolis wheat stocks have increased L160.000 bushels thus far this week. Elevator stocks of wheat in Kanaaa City have increased 217,512 bnsheia thus far New fork Produce Market. New York. Dec. 23. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery extras, 92 score, 34s EGGS Market weak. Fresh gathered extra fine. .'!5U36e. CHEKSE Market firm. State whole milk, fiata. held apeclals. 17)17e. POULTRY Dressed, steady. lew York Cotton Marks. New York. Dec. 23. COTTON Spot, quiet; middling uplands. 12.05. No sales. fie. Orleans Cottoa Market New Orleans. Dec. 23. COTTON Spot, steady; unchanged. Middling, 11.69. !ew rark Stock Market. (Close of prices for the leading stocks oa The New York Stock Exchange as re- Eorted by Thos. J. Myers, broker, Colusa, lau Bldg.) New York, Dec. 23. Close f oda r V fs Am. Beet Sugar ft Ott Am. Can. c OO4 60 Am. Car a: Fndy 7i 77 Am. Locomotive 0M4 Am. S. II. c 1".". 10t Am. S. ic R.. n 112 111 Am. Hugar Iter. 11T 115- Am. Tel. ac T 12X VJU't Am. TobafO. c 200 200 j AI1L-UUI1 dllJJUg nn:j A. T. S. V.. C Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore Ac Ohio.... Bethlehem Steel Brooklyn R. T Canadian Pacific Central eLatber Chesapeake Jc Ohio. C. M. i St. Chlno Conner 55 Colorado Fuel c Iron......... 51 Crucible Steel 7:1 Erie, c 4 General lertrte E 173 Great Northern, p 1211 Great Northern Ore 49 Illinois Central... 107 Inspiration 45 K. C. Southern, c 31 Lackawanna Steel 81 200" 108 117 87 181 53 a M. i St. p., c 94 Lehigh alley fcji Maxwell Motors 75 M. K. T., c Aissouii Pacific 4 Natloual Lead 00 Nev. Con Copper. 15 N. Y. Central 107 N. Y., N. II. 4 H 75 Norfolk Western 122 Northern Pacific 117 Penn. Railroad 59 Ray Con Copper 25 Reading, e 82 Southern Pacific 10-' Southern Hallway, c l;t Union Pacific, p.............. 83 V. 8. Steel, c 80 IT. S. Steel, p 116 1'tah Copper no Western Union 87 Westlngbouse lectrlc 69 81 79 7 4 65 15 ior. 7J 1-J Hit 584 21 81 Kit i:h;4 86" 116

87 Mew rark Htaek Mar e. man hi., ivew ion, Dec. zs. STOCKS rrorn axing exerclaed the usual effect out recoveries were prompt. Mexican Pe- ciicumiig it. Kitiu 10 ai.uo. Willie Smelting rose almost a point to 106. Steel was offered in large blocks, one five thousand share lot selling st 80. New York Central denoted further accumula tion, advancing 3-5 to 106. Its top price In two yenrs. Unusual activity wns shown by Lske Erie and Western common and preferred and New York. Chicago and St. Louis at substautlsl gains, but Eries were distinctly heavy. General Motors fell 19 to 47 and Bethlehem Steel 50 to 405. Bonds were Irregulnr with diminished dealings in Anglo-French Bs. Coppers and Oils were again the leaders at the oatnet of today's moderately active market, with the nsual neglect of more seasoned issues. Initial gains of substan tial fractloua to a full point were recorded by Amerir n Smelting. Utah. Anaconda and Tennessee Coppers, while Mexican Petroleum rose a point to the new record of 10.1. United States Steel scored a fractional advance at the opening, soon adding to its gain. Such apeclnltlea as Crucible Steel. Htudehnker and Americas Car also were slightly higher, with a fur ther demand for Mercantile Marines. Kansas City Livestock Kales Today. fThe following sales were made this mora Ing at the Stock Ysrds. Kr.nsaa city, and reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal by Clay. Robin son Co.. live stock romn-lsalou mer-chaota. -Ro- Kanans Cltv. Dec on cittiv. LP'" 700 head. Market ateadv. hogs Receipts 6.000 head. Market 10c lower. Bulk of aales. Of I4i 0 35 ir, i j.t SHEEP Recelnta 4 nrl k.i 'ul.ij strong. No. 38.., 21... 13... 5... ..1175 ..12:!7 ..12X3 890 KILLING STEERS. Prl.-ej $7.15 7.75 7.35 i.50 No. 21. 32. 21.. 2... COWS AND UK ..1057 880 -.1310 810 796 6 DO 4.25 5.00 4.00 4.25 25... ..1017 i 11.11 8. 1., 1.. 12.. Wt ...l.vn ...i..i 898 .1140 IFEKH ...1150 860 6XO 850 Price $7 35 7.35 7l 6.25 TOO 3. 85 6.50 5.00 8TOCKKHS AND FEEDERS. b.iO 860 810 68 277 78 20T. 8 156 6.55 6.75 BULLS. 5.00 I 1.. 5.00 I HOGS. 0.40 I 77 tt.WO I 91. U.13 1!I3 154 5.10 Ki5 l $4.00fi Kansas City Llie stork Market. ,?."u"l! 23 HOGS Receipts OOO. Mnrket 5c to Me Inn-., u..ti, sales. $l.li(Wfl 45: hew. $6.304( 0 50 packers eud butcher. ti: iA,ft a.-. u... .-,nojii;.25; pig,, frMSNW5.hr.. .A1 TLB Receipts Hi'.). Market stronr 1-rh-e re.l steers. $9.f( 0.75 dressed beef steers. $(..258.80: western steers. o.oo lltlieril steers. $5 0tlfM 7r con 116 4T52 88 170 52 1

lid feeders. &5.5061 77r. calves, ali.iKKW SMJO. heifers. 0.00(tf9.ui: stockers ouiis. f4.iOft.a.75; V'i",'- 7'r""g- M.75O7J50 MIKEP Receipts 2.200. Market steadv wethers. R 7.it .in r.Tw'LJ.. .fY .P.T. 5.206.uo; 1 W.MUI.&t. biraro ttr. 8nek m i. Chicago. Dec 23 HOGS Receipts 51000. Market dull lnc uuder yeat rdiiy Bulk of sales. 5.!int0.4O: light. $5.5015 a 2& mlx ed. 5.90$! 0.45 neavy, Sfl 05.-fi0.50- rough, f6.fV-ai5: pigs. $4.25f5.25. rougu, CATTLE Receipts 3.0OO. Market firm. Nstire bef steers. $."i.8)41 10.2.-, we. tern 45 i fTveafaiU.-" "U I ,sr,EKf Receipts o.oon. Market firam. 8114 Wethers, $8. 100.80; Iambs, 82a 174! 125L, 48

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THE TOPEKA -DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1915 MUTT JEFF Of course, Jeff couldn't vouch for the General's honesty Drawn for the Topeka State Journal (Copj-riffht. lfllo. by H. C. Fisher. Trade Murk Heg. V. S. rat. Off.) By BUD FISHER dence in Chicago. He was joined by his wife and four children who cam from Los Angeles. FIXYI COX HIGH MAX. First Official Shoot of Topeka Klfle Team Held Wednesday Night. The first real shoot of the Topeka, Rifle club team in the national tourna ment was held Wednesday night at the club s indoor range at .716 Kansas avenue. Floyd C. Cox led the team with a score of 96 out of a possible 100. William Pettit was second with 95. The unofficial scores that have been sent to the war department at Wash ington for the official O. K. were as follows: 1st T. 2nd T. Floyd C. Cox 11 IVttit Pettit True M. Ithkell.. A. K earns. ,!M Itouilnpo .W lth-kiiell True I 1' 11 ..in i i i.i M A ii i m L (yrrrjit t 5 S B-- -1. F",Mf. i TM0ai, Up to Ihe Minute lltfe SportingNews From Everywhere. Baseball Peace Pact Signed By Magnates NATIONALS WILL BOYCOTT FEDERAL LEAGUE PLAYERS? St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 23. Schuyler B. Britton, owner of the St. Louis Nationals, when told of the con summation of peace between the Federal league and organized base ball said he would "not touch a single Federal league player,' and that it was his belief no National league club would accept a player formerly of the Federal league. Sport Wheezes -BY CLUG in Jf WAR IS NO KOBE All Federal Leaerue Clubs Are To lie Disbanded. The Outlaw 3ra2rnates Will Buy Into Other Leasrues. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 23. Prcbahly the most disas trous war that the baseball game has ever experienced came to a close here Wed nesday niq:ht, when a treaty of peace between the Fed eral league and both parties to the national baseball agreement, better known as organized baseball, was signed. The agreement gives im munity to all men who have jumped their contracts from both the major and minor leagues of organized base ball, as well as all other Federal league players. AH of them have been reinstat ed or made eligible to organ ized baseball. That there will be a wild scramble for some few of the best of the Federal league players was clearly indicated by a provision in the treaty that the Federal league, as a league, and which, insofar, as actual baseball playing is concern ed, ceased to exist, will as sume all of the contracts of Federal league players. 15. Makes Plans. Organized basrball today bepan to ma k1 plans for the 1916 season fol lowing the successful termination of the two years' war which was effected j Wednesday night by the signing of j agreement by representatives of the two major leagues and the Federal f League. j After the signing of the agreement last night a telegram was received from Baltimore saying that Federal club officials in that city would try to upset the peace plans by requesting Federal Judge Lanais not to dissolve the anti-trust suit which the Federal officials brought against organized baseball. Members of the national commission and club owners of the major league teams did not appear to think that the action of the Baltimore owners would have any effect in blocking the end of the baseball war. President Tener, of the National League, who acted as spokesman for the peace conferees, said they would go ahead with their plans and ask per mission of Judge Land is to withdraw the suit. Two propositions concerning the In ternational League were left open for settlement by the conferees. One of these was a request by the Buffalo Federal League club that it be con solidated with the Buffalo Interna tional League club. This was strenu ously objected to by the International League. The other question related to the Baltimore Federal League ark. Dunn Wants Park. Jack Dunn, for the Richmond, Va., team, contended that Tie had a legiti mate right to an International League franchise In Baltimore in tho event that peace was declared and he sought the right to use the Federal League grounds for his International team. However, his figures for the grounds and those of the Federal League were so wide apart that no agreement could be reported. It was finally decided to leave these matters to a committee for settlement. This committee will meet here on January 3, next, the same time as the national commission holds its annual meeting. By the terms of the peace pact, Charles Weeghman, who was president of the Chicago Federal league club, is j expected to become chief owner of the Chicago National league team through the purchase of stock in that club from Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati. The agreement further provides for the disposal of the St. Louis Ameri cans to Phil Ball and his associates in the St. Louis Federal league club. All of the players of the Federal league including those who Jumped their contracts with the two major and the minor leagues, were given an immunity bath and are now eligible to organized baseball. No general dis- A Peaceful Smoke Be Neutral livery nation including imagi-nation is satisfied when they get to the drawing end of a State Sfawstsl 5C CIGAR and the cooling and invigorating smo soothes and smoothes the troubled spirit. Smoke up, friend, and watch the dove peace settle down over your abode. Chas. F. Pusch, Cigar Manufacturer Marjsvill., Kansas ke of tribution of players will be made but the Federal league which is to as sume all of the contracts of players of that organization will probably sell the desirable men to the highest bid der. Cliieago Made Feds. Chicago, 111., Eec. 2 3. Numerous lawsuits over the claims of players, financial tangles, tempting offers to the stars of organized baseball and a maze of bewildering developments are written on the pages or history of the I Federal league which today has passed i out of existence. i Chicago men. Chicago capital and j two of the best known players that j ever wore a Chicago uniform are chiefly responsible for making the I Federal league. James A. Gilmore, president of the organization, and C. H. Weeghman, president of the Chi cago club, developed the organization. Joseph B. Tinker and Mordecai Brown, veterans of the Chicago "Cubs," were the first stars to go to the Federals and their example brought other play ers from the forces of organized base ball. The league was formed In 1913 by John T. Powers of Chicago. Six clubs composed the circuit Chicago, St Louis. Pittsburg. Cleveland, Indianap olis and Covington. When President Gilmore succeeded Powers the Covington, Ky., club was transferred to Kansas City and the six clubs which wound up the 1913 sea son furnished the nucleus of the or ganization which waged war against organized baseball for two years. The biggest surprise of the Federals was sprung In December. 1913, when Pres ident Gilmore announced the signing of Tinker as manager of the Chicago club and Brown as manager of St. Louis. Leajrae Expanded. The league was expanded to include eight cities. Alluring salaries were offered the stars of organized baseball and scores of them joined the In vaders. Men of wealth in Pittsburg, St. Louis, Brooklyn and other cities were interested in the league and cost ly ball parks were constructed early in the season of 1914. The season ended with a series for the champion ship between Indianapolis and Chi cago, Indianapolis winnings Before the start of 1915 season the Indian apolis franchise was switched to Newark and Kansas City, after a bit ter court fight retained its club which league officials had threatened to place in the east. Early last January the league attacked organized base ball as a violator of the Sherman anti-trust law- Suit was filed before Judge Landis in the United States dis trict court In Chicago and the proceed ings dragged for nearly a week. Judge Landis deferred his decision and has not handed down an opinion. The suit, according to plans, will be with drawn. Overtures for peace started In 1914 but did not progress until the close of last season which was disastrous to ball clubs in every port of the country. Bad weather was partly responsible for the heavy losses to club owners. The peace proposals reached a cli max only recently when the Federal league announced its plan to build a park in New York city and launch a team there next spring. Roy Allen contributes the following peace poem, but don't tell Henry Ford: Who Pay the Price: Some years ago war was declared. The Majors laughed, the Outlaws snared; The Keds sent spies into O. H.'s rauka. The Feds got stars, the Majors "thanks." This gave the outlaw league a start, It also broke Ban Johnson's heart. The Majors wore expressions blank They even lost their Kddie Plank. They now say they think war ain't nice. They beg for peace at any price. No more will big league owners wall, "I have to spend all of my kale To keep my men with stubborn beads From jumping over to the Feds. No more I'll need this ten day clause To fight against these outlaws. I'll boss my players, now you'll see. Instead of them a-bosslng me From each man's cheek I'll cut a slice, I'm strong for peace at any price." The players hate to see this peace. For then their root of dough will cease. No more will owners on their knees Ueg them to stay and "not jump please. No more can they go out at nights And be in crap games, barB and fights; No more can they when it is hot Play sick and get to leave the lot; They now must swear in words precise They're strong for peace at any price. The Hawk will fly away In shame, And the dove will coo o'er the baseball game There will be no place for the guy who jumps. Unless he leaps upon the "TJmps." The Player will play, or he'll get the can,, And the owner '11 get the dough from the fan. Who wins the nennant. Braves or Reds. They then won't have to play the Feds. And those who won't get their world's series slice Will say, "you bet, we have paid the price." Matty Mclntyre, who piloted the Lincoln Tigers last season is reported to be one of the latest applicants for the job of managing the Savages next season. Savage says he has not heard from Matty. Matty also is said to be keeping a close touch on the Denver situation, with the idea that he may land Cof fey's old job. Again "Pinky" Beals reiterates- that he probably will not play basketball after the holidays. "Pinky" explains that he was only out for the class games. "Cy" Sherman, of the Lincoln Star, doubts that Coach Olcott, of K. IT., discovered a second Chamberlain in the recent class games at the Jayhaw ker school. Cy says: "A second Chamberlain, eh? We don't believe it. Candidly, there is no such animal in the football menagerie as the counterpart of the wonderful Nebraskan." Can it be possible that George Te beau is contemplating a swap that will give him the St. Joe Drummers and Jack Holland the K. C. Blues? A movement is on foot at New Tork university to put athletics on the most advanced scale that can be found in any university in the east. The plan la to give men credit towards gradua tion for work done in athletics. Such a move undoubtedly would i have a tendency to induce men to de vote more time to athletic endeavors. But is proficiency in some athletic line really an indication of an educated man? It is said that some of the greatest football stars of a few years back could hardly read or write. Harry Vardon says that golf proves a more searching test of nerve and temperament than any other game in the world. Probably Vardon never played seven and a half, flinch or blind man's buck. Washeda university, of Japan, is planning to send a baseball team to the United States next summer. The Feds might at least keep one team to gether to play them. Authorities at Syracuse university are endeavoring to establish the three year rule. A committee has been ap pointed to revise the eligibility rules, and this is one of the principal revi sions contemplated. And now they are trying to play indoor football in Chicago. They will be playing it on the ice next Ring Lardner, writing in the Chica go Tribune, takes a healthy crack at the faculty members of the big nine who insist that football is not played with the idea of winning games, but with the idea of giving exercise to students and of building them up physically. Says Ring: "One team has a player named Peach. The team is inferior in strength, but owing to the efforts of Peach manages to hold the other team even during the first three pe riods. Peach is very tired to con tinue to play will- not benefit him physically. But Peach, very tired, is a more valuable man in the game than Prunes or Lemon, his substitutes. Prunes and Lemon are kept on the sidelines, though they are full of pep and aching for exercise. Moreover, to send them into the game for a little while would increase the athletic in terest of both." But, continues Ring, to remove I Peach would almost certainly mean I eleventh hour defeat. Peach is allow i ed to remain in to the end. And a few weeks later the sporting writer learns j that the coach, who left Peach in to j escape defeat, disregarding the real iuncuon or atnietics, has been engag ed for another year. All of which Is intended to show that if the faculty authorities of the universities and colleges do not want their teams to play to win they should employ coaches who would not strive for this end and who would get as many men out for the teams as possi ble and give all a chance to get into the games, regardless of their ability. Pennsy Sohi'dule Announced. Philadelphia. Dec. 23. The Univer sity of Pennsylvania football schedule for 1916 calls for nine games, the smallest number in years. The only changes are dropping of Albright col lege and the substitution of Swarth more college for Annapolis Naval academy. The schedule includes: October 21, Pennsylvania State at Philadelphia. November 11, Michigan at Ann Ar bor. November 30, Cornell at Philadelphia. V. r. Trimmer s Frlisson ...-H7 si; -HI f7! C. Ericsson N'J Reams 1 Domingo M Co S. V. Mason 71 Trl miner Ju. liell M sou The oiticial score of the team will be posted at the rifle club indoor range in the basement at 716 Kansas avenue, where practice shoots will be held Thursday and Friday night of this week. Next Wednesday night the team will hold another official shoot. Savago Will Meet Welnm. New York, Dec. 23. New articles have been signed for a fight between Charlie Weinert and Jim Savage. Ths Pioneer A. C. will stage the go on De cember 30. Savage and Weinert were matched to box at the Pioneer A. C. last Friday night, but Weinert claimed he was ill and asked for a postpone ment three days before the date et for the battle. To Defend Title With $10,000. New York, Dec. 23. Bobby Mc Lean, Chicago's professional skater, will invade New York soon after Christmas, backed by a bank roll of $10,000, to defend his five world's records on the ice, according to a let ter received here. MONRO GOES TO FRANCE General Murray Keplaoes Commande at Dardanelles; Monro Snoofieda Ilaig With British Army. Willard to Live In tliiiix. Chicago, Dec. 23. Jess Willard, heavyweight champion pugilist, decid ed today to establish permanent resi- London, Dec- 28. Lieutenant Gen eral Sir Archibald Murray has been appointed to succeed Sir Charles Mon ro, as British commander at tho Dar danelles. Sir Charles Monro has been ap pointed in command of the first Brit ish army in France, in succession to Sir Douglas Haig. The official announcement follows: General Sir Douglas Halg having as sumed command of the British forces in France a nd Flanders, General Sir Charles Monro will succeed him in command of the First army. Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Murray, chief of the imperial general staff, will succeed Sir Charles Monro. Lieutenant General Sir William Robertson, new chief of the general staff in France will become chief of the imperial general staff, with the temporary rank of general with Major General R. Whfgham as his deputy. Major General L. Kirgdl, now as sistant to the chief of the imperial general staff, will become chief of the general staff of Sir Douglas Haig." THE MILLS STORES COMPANY Order by mail THE MOST FOR YOUR MONEY Order by phone THE MILLS STORES COMPANY OPEN TONIGHT TOPCKA'S BEST STORE, K M. PELLET1ER. PftEST r OPEN TONIGHT Hungrate Iefeats F. Soott. In the second block of the pocket billiard tournament at the Stag, played Wednesday nisrht, F. Scott was de feated by Hungate by the score of 50 to -23. Tonight C. Cloud and A. Hen dricks will punch the ivories against each other. THE RULES OF THE RING ARE QUAINT, QUEER THINGS Those prize fighting rules surely are quaint young things, to wit: First Kid Williams was disqual ified for fouling Johnny Ertle and technically lost the championship yet he continued to hold it. Frankie Burns fought Williams to a twenty-round draw a week or so ago, demonstrating that he is as good as Williams but Williams re mains the champion. Second Willie Ritchie, Charlie White and others have clearly out pointed Freddie Welsh, but Welsh retains the championship because those fights occurred in no-decision states. Third Jim Coffey knocked out Gunboat Smith and Smith won on points from Jess Willard in twenty rounds. Coffey wants to fight Wil lard, but Willard urges him to "get a reputation." Big Darsfains in Christmas things In keeping with the policy of "The Big Store" we shall not carry over a single strictly Christmas item if a radically reduced price will sell it every thing bought especially for the Holiday business must be sold tonight or tomorrow. If you have Christmas things yet to buy come to the "Big Store" and save! This applies particularly to toys and gift. things. Bargain tables on the main floor and in the Basement are loaded down with all kinds of Holiday items some of them at -price and less, for instance: Table No. 1 up to 10c values Table No. 2 up to 25c values Toys and dolls 5c Table No. 5 up to 75c values 9 Table No. 3 up to 35c values Table No. 4 up to 50c values 10c 19c 25c Table No. 6 up to $1.00 values Table No. 7 up to $1.25 values Table No. 8 up to $1.50 values 39c 49c 79c 98c Table No. 1 up to 10c values Table No. 5 up to 50c values Table No. 2 up to 15c values Table No. 3 up to 19c values. Table No. 4 up to 35c values Gift things 5c 7c 10c 19c Table No. 6 up to 75c values Table No. 7 up to ;$1.00 values Table No. 8 up to $2.00 values 25c 39c 49c 98c

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1915 Turks' religion will not allow them to l!y I'KANK I'. MAC LfcLXNA.N. (Entered July L 1KT5. ss second-class tnstttr at th postofflre at Topeka. Kan., under the act of congress.) VOLUME XXXVII No. 302 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. 1.80 1.00 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TIIy edlti n. delivered by carrier. 10 rents a week to any part of Topeka or sirbnrba. or at the aame price In any Kan aka town where the paper has a carrier system. By mail, one yrnr By mail, six montlia By t ail. 1110 calen.lar days T TELEPHONES. Private brnprh exchange. Call 3530 and MtSt the State Journal operator for person or department desired. Topeka State Journal bntMtng X. "02 am! 04 Kan.na nvenne. corner Eighth. Jew Tork Office. 2S0 Fifth avenue. Pani-Blo-k. manager. Oih-ago Office. Mallera bonding. Panl Bf-k. mantfr. letroit om.-e Kresge bnilding. Panl P.fi k mannsrer. Boton fiffice. 2"1 Devonahire street. Paul Block, manager. I'T I.I, I KASFT) W1RK REPORT OF THE ASSOtTATED PRESS. The State Journal la a member of the AisnHsted Preaa and receivca the full day o-Iegrsph report of that great news or ganization, for the exclusive afternoon publication in Topeka. The news la received In The State Jour nnl building oyer wires for this aole purpose. MEMBER: Associated press. .iuiit Bureau of Circulations. American Newspaper Publishers' Association. Senator Curtis forecasts that the present session of congress will be the inns-oat one Rut whether or not It established a record in this respect. tbre is little doubt but it will be the meat expensive one. How Kansas-like: Weather of the October variety is on the boards dur Ing the closing days of December. i Nor will a white Christmas be very ratisfactory to the old-fashioned folk, anil especially to those among them who believed in "signs" and are rea Fonably certain that a green Christ iti&R portends a f.tt graveyard.

'Thus sounds reasonable and is in line with the humane decision of the gov ernment that whisky is whisky. The federal authorities have just ruled that coffee sold in this country as Java" must be coffee that comes from the island of Java. Social Washington must be on the -ers-e of nervous prostration. It Is horrified again because the formal wedding announcement of President Wilson and the erstwhile Mrs. Gait Is net according to the demands of etl oiiette. It should have been made. If you please, by the bride s mother. The Tirst thing you know, and the presi dent and his bride will be social out casts in the nation's capital, and that would probably please them im mensely. 'Another Kansan, this time a young ntBn living at SaJina, is suspected of having the foot and mouth disease. But wait until the next campaign warms up, and there'll be a well defined epidemic among the politi cians of the state of a disease that might be described by the same name. Unfortunately, though. Its chief an noyance will be felt by the voters. And the fact that many of Topeka's street railway employees are down and out with the grip doesn't Jibe very well with the suggestions that this nuisance confines its attentions to those who work indoors. A navy as large as any other na tion's by 1925 is the dictum of the navy general board of which Admiral Dewey is the head. This means a navy as big as England's. And It is said that the strength of the British naval force has been Increased almost a third since the Kuropes.n war began, t'-ortunately. however, the program of the navy general board has to run the congressional gauntlet, and it appears to have been trimmed already to a considerable extent by Secretary of the Navy Ianiels. Serious business was responsible for a. recent all-night session of the house of commons. An all-night legislative session in this country Is usually de- Toted to a filibuster or horse-play. They're old-fashioned folk in Mex ico In not a few respects. Carranza's followers are seeking Villa "dead or Jive." But Villa seems to have no less Coming to him. 1 Spain's unusual military activities, including the Immense orders she has placed In this country for munitions of war, certainly seem to indicate that she will plunge into the European Conflict if it runs on long enough. But the experts, of course, diametrically disagree as to which side she would Oght on. Some insist that she would Jkin the Allies while others are equally positive that she would cast lots with he Teutons, grab Gibraltar from Eng land and annex Portugal as well. i END OF THE TI RKISH EMPIRE, f John Heed, in the January Metro politan, quotes a rich Armenian who lived at Buyukdere on the Bosphorous, as saying: "I agree thoroughly with the Turks. If I were a Turk I should nste the Christians. Turkey is not, cannot be a political state: it is a the ocracy, and the only organic law Is the Mohammedan religion. Therefore all Turkish subjects who are not Moslems avro necessarily outside the law, and a source of constant trouble. The Turk k absolutely honest in business deal ings his religion makes him so; but we Christians lie and cheat with a clear conscience. No Moslem can ex act interest the Koran forbids it. So a natural consequence, all trade, banking: li? fact, economic power of compete. From the Turkish point of view, there is only one solution all people except Mohammedans must be driven from the empire. I my self would be deported if I didn't mind my own business and play fair with the Turks. I only cheat foreigners. And yet they are so simple, so childlike in this mature world of cut-throats and adventurers, that they think they will get rid of the Germans, too, after the war! Tou and I know better it is the end of the Turkish empire. Yes, it is the end whichever side wins." SIGNIFICANT ADMISSIONS. The Democratic national convention was awarded to St. Louis because Mis souri is looked upon as being very shaky as to its Democracy and as needing a party stimulant if Bourbon ism is to be maintained in its ancient stronghold. Champ Clark championed the cause of Missouri and frankly ad mitted that Missouri is debatable pol itical territory. Senator Jim Ham Lewis used much the same kind of an argument for Chicago, which is, he said, "the hub of such doubtful states as Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, as well as Illinois itself." To which Speaker Clark replied that these states "are about as reliably Re publican as Vermont." These are rather significant admissions to come from Democratic leaders. The Re publican ticket iost out In 1912 in every one of those states. The Demo crats carried all but one of them. Now, Missouri Is doubtful and the others are "as reliably Republican as Vermont" If such a change has oc curred in the political conditions in the states named, it is entirely rea sonable to suppose that a like condi tion exists in other parts of the country. "gentleman" and still more an English "lady" could not do without losing so cial caste was so prodigious as to form almost a schedule of forbidden indus tries. There were some trades and professions and occupations that were respectable and others which were not. Only an Englishman knew which was which; and he knew it by an instinct which was born in him. which he nev er examined and so could not define. These fictitious and conventional gra dations exist, of course, to some ex tent everywhere, but nowhere were they so stereotyped, nowhere did they strike so deeply, as in ante-bellum England. There was not a single Englishman who had not the social privilege of despising some other Eng lishman, and the lower one penetrat ed in the social scale the more com plex and mysterious and the more rigidly drawn did these lines of de marcation become. On the Spur of the Moment BT ROY K. MOLLTON. Journal Entries A man's best friend is seldom him self. 1" Folk who are easily pleased never have-very much. r sr The longest day with many Is the day before pay day. f T f Not a few humans are accorded far more generous treatment than they deserve. f The rjeonle who haven't it are pret- tv certain that large wads of money are all they need to chase away their troubles. But the people wno nave n know differently. Jayhawker Jots GREECE. Territorially speaking, Greece, whose uncertain attitude in respect to the war has caused so much excite ment and concern In the capitals of the European belligerents, Is pretty much of a pigmy of a nation. In square miles, the Greece of today is only a little more than 'half as largo as Kansas. Prior to the outbreak of the two recent Balkan wars that Greece participated in, the second of which ended in August, 1913, the area, of the Hellenic kingdom was some 25,010 square miles, with an estimat ed population of 2,670,000. Tho ter ritory acquired as the result of those wars added 19,690 square miles to its area, and 2,130,000 to Its population. The area of the kingdom at present therefore about 44,700 square miles or slightly larger than the state of Virginia and as stated a lltthe more than half as big as Kansas with a population of approximately 4,800,000. In the new parts of Greece there are nine towns with a popula tion of more than 10,000 each, Sa lonlki, which is figuring; so extensively these days in the Balkan end of the war news, leading with 175,000 in habitants. And in old Greece there are 15 towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants each, Athens and its sis ter city and port, Piraeus, forming the metropolis of the nation. with a popu lation of about 275.000. EXKMyn'S AMATEUR RCLiERS. In an old and stable land, governed by a monarchy, and with social stand ards as fixed as the social foundations. the conventions played an enormous part; and the conventions in England were all against hard work, writes Sydney Brooks, in the North American Review. It was the leisured class that ruled, that made up society, that held all the positions men naturally covet. Time and again have I been assured by Americans, Canadians and Austral ians that what most impressed them In that England which has been killed by the war was the prevalence of the caste system. They were quite right The caste system was beyond doubt the outstanding feature of the British structure. It was the caste system that made the West End of London the governing center of. the Empire. It was the caste system that In every British ministry reserved an excessive number of places for the aristocracy. whose title to them was based plainly on the non-essentials of birth, man ners and social position. Nobody pre tended that they were the best men for the offices they filled or that the country received from them anything like full value for Its money. They were there chiefly because they were born in the purple and could not be got rid of. Hence politics in England remained an affair of friends, and the national business, as the war has shown but too clearly, was too often entrusted to a set of charming, wealthy, and condescending amateurs. But it was socially and industrially rather than politically that the caste system worked its gravest harm. What was at the bottom that made the. Eng lish atmosphere before the war so dif ficult for an American to breathe it freely? It was, I believe, that he felt himself In a country where the dignity of life was lower than in his own: a country where a man born in ordinary circumstances expected, and was ex pected to die in ordinary circum stances; where the scope of his efforts was traced beforehand by the accident of position; where he was handicapped in all cases and crushed In most by the superincumbent weight of conven tion, "good form," and the deadening artificialities and traditions of an old society. That unconquerable buoy ance which infects the American air like a sting and challenge, and braces every American with the inspiration that he has a chance in life; that here are open opportunities, unreserved possibilities, no battering at locked doors, no floundering down blind al leys: that here, in chortv it is the man himself who makes his career is something which England before the war had so disastrously lost as to be hardly capable of realizing it. The number of things that an English It's all right to keep up appear ances, thirks the Meado Globe, pro vided the operation does not keep you down. When the corn-husking season is over there will be one public nuisance abated, says the Council Grove Guard. The newspapers won't have to tell each champion liar's champion lie of the number of bushels shucked. Something novel in the way of news paper enterprise is the three or more pages of "Favorite Christmas Recipes of Home Ladles" that was printed in last week's issue of the Sedan Times Star. The attitude of many newspapers which continually find fault with everything done by the party in power reminds the Newton Journal of the woman who called her little girl to her side and said: "Mary, you go and find Willie and whatever Willie's doing tell him not to do it." One of the bright children of a Clif ton family was telling his fond daddy that "congregate" and "collect" meant the same thing, relates the Clifton News. The F. 1 replied that theoret ically the B. C. might be correct, but there is usually a whole lot of differ ence between the congregation and the collection. Ask any minister, adds the News, and he will verify this one. j- A lady in the southeast part ""of town was greatly worried last Sunday be cause she feared that some one in her neighbor's family was very ill, tells the Jamestown Optimist. Several men vteted the place during the day and came away wiping their eyes and their mouths. It developed later that they wiped their mouths because of the delicious seven-yeax-old taste of a certain well known beverage, and they wiped their eyes because there j was only a gallon instead of five. From the Hickeyrille Clarion.' Doc Hanks has invented a medicine that will cure anything from fever and ague to appendicitis. Uncle Am Wilkins, who had suffered from rheu matism, took one dose and now he hasn't gat an ache or pain. They bur ied him day before yesterday. Miss Amy Pringle. our popular and congenial milliner, has gone down to the city to get a message on her face by an expert messenger and chiropo dist. An old sayln' is, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." By ginger, an onion a day will keep everybody away. No matter how bad off our for estry gets, there will always he plenty of presidential timber left. timer Spink of our midst has gone to accept a lucrative position in the West Hickeyville flour and feed mill, and the millinery store seems quite lonesome at this writing. The new trimmer says our blessings brighten as they take their flight. Go as Far as You Like. Now proposed to recruit a red headed regiment in this country. "This country," says one of the sponsors for the idea, "needs regi ments that will earn a definite posi tion through their own distinctive- qualities. Consider the Black Watch of Scotland, the Death's Head Hus sars of Germany and the other bodies of men now engaged in the European war." Go as far as you like. Get a bald head brigade, a hare-lip legion, a few squadrons of men who have had their appendices removed, a phalanx of those prematurely gray and a di vision of a dark-eyed men, an army corps of whiskered warriors, and why not a regiment of circus freaks? Every little bit helps. "Johnny," said the teacher, "if coal is selling for $6 a ton, and you pay your dealer $2 5, how many tons will he bring you?" "A little over three tons, ma'am," returned Johnny promptly. "Why. Johnny, that isn't right," corrected the teacher. "No, ma'am, I know it ain't," said Johnny, "but they all do it." The modern girl's idea of a "real hero" is getting to be just a plain, every-day man, who pays his rent, keeps his -hair cut, does his work and loves his wife. THE INSUFFICIENT LAY. We love to pralae The genial waya Of those who laughs at sorrow And sing a aong When things go wrong And trust unto the morrow. But be who clings To hope and slugs To hypnotize his grieving Hia woea may find Too much inclined To listen without leaving. A aong may chear The moment'a fear. With gentle recreation. But when it's through. The thing that's due Is grim determination. Washington Star. The Evening Story Globe Sights BY THE ATCHISON ixLOBE. Evening Chat BY RUTH CAMERON. How She Hurt Her Mother. "I saw Gretchen at her table at the bazaar the other day," said one of my neighbors to another, speaking of the latter's married daughter. I saw Gretchen's mother look up quickly and then compose herself with an evident effort. "Did you?" she said quietly enough, but there was a pink flush on her cheeks. "Tes," said the first woman. "Tou know she made fudge at the candy table. She had on that rose-color dress ani the cutest apron. She told me they had. made twenty-five dollarsl aireauy ana nopea to maKO lirty. uo you know if they did?" "Why, no, I don't think she told me Just what they finally made," said Gretchen's mother, and then grace fully but quickly changed the subject. A casual observer might have thought she was strangely uninter ested In her daughter's activities. He would have been wrong. The pathos of the thing is that she is so daeply Interested. The start, the flush and the quick change of subject meant just one thing that her neighbor was giving her news of her daughter's doings that the daugh- t .1 YtotH foiloil r H,rA n i) that aha If you have opinions you also have prejudices. Business has no harsher critic than a person who never earned a dollar. Too much devilment is excused on the ground that tTie devil involved was tight. One trouble with a side line is the tendency to let it interfere with one's regular work. Tact is what enables a woman to select a suitable audience before knocking the neighbors. The average man regards as good advice the kind he wants to accept or give, as the case may be. On the other hand, some men are a good deal more generous at home than they are down town. Some regard wrestling aa sport, but the catch-as-catch-can styles of danc ing have a larger following. A girl doesn't mind freezing to death so much, if the garb penetrated by the wintry blasts Is fashionable. If you are referred to as a game man that probably means that every once in a while you get terribly whip ped. Sometimes the man who is saving his salary for the family is regarded as a Cheap Skate at home and abroad. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. With Twenty-Six Letters. (By Jane Osborn-) "May I sit in your nice patch of shade, Mr. Farmer?" The girl, pink clad, delightfully tanned and laden with magazines and fluttering papers, had already spread herself under the shade of the lone apple tree that was alowed to grow unmolested in the middle of the newly-mown hayfield. "It's not my tree and it's not my shade, tne man in overalls drawled, with the unwillingness to answer question directly that was character istic of that section of the country. "But if it were mine I'd give you a deed tor lire on that particular spot of shade. Tou see, Mr. Owens owns the farm. I'm Just- "Of course, Mr. Owens doesn't ob jeet," the girl laughed, gathering neat collection of stones from the ground where she was sitting. "Tou are Mr. Owens' new help, aren't you? And your name is Tom Fenn," said the girl pleasantly, opening a port folio that was part of her equipment. "Tes, and you're Miss Betty Brown and you are visiting your aunt at the next farm, i heard the Owens folks talking about you this morning. But may I ask what you are going to do with those stones?" "Certainly," the girl smiled, "and I'll tell you. I am about to begin my morning's writing out here under this tree and I want the stones to keep down the capers. The chief trouble with writing outdoors .4s that the pa pers blow about, but I simply can't even read in there. Tho farmer had dropped the bucket that he was carrying and had stooped to pick up the book that lay at the girl s feet. "Tou wouldn't care much for that she explained. "I don't Imagine Ridgeway Norris is read much in this part of the country. In fact, I couldn't understand nim myseir at rirsi. nut ne is all the rage with real writers. try to read a little before I start to write. He is so stimulating. "What did you say his name was?" The farmer had dropped the book and stood looking eagerly at the girl. No, I guess we don't go in for anything like that up here. He's wnat you a call a highbrow, isn't he 7" "Oh. decidedly," smiled the girl, be ginning the morning's operations by putting long, tapering points on the collection of pencils she had brought with her. "The Owens folks didn't say that vou were a writer. The girl laughed. "They don't know it. I never sold anything that is, anything to brag about and 1 don't talk much tf my ambitions. But I'm crazy about it." The girl pressed the book bv Rideewav Norris to her and gave a delightful little laugh of hap piness. "Just think or wnat a won derful thing it is! Just think what a man- like Norris can do with Just those twenty-six little letters of the alphabet makes you laugh or cry, fillB you with dread, suspicion, joy or remorse to suit his whim, and all with those funny little twenty-six let ters. Tis queer," said the farmer me ditatively. "I never thought of writ ing that way before. I have some times thought" he was cautious in the suggestion "that I might do a lit tle writing myself. There is one story I could tell that I think would make folks sit up and take notice. If I only had some one to help me. Say, could not bear that her neighbor 2UJldJlnOW that r UP83 hW hurthe added with a smile thai fascinat'ed Betty, "maybe you d help me? Tou From the Philadelphia Record. No man is so lazy that he wouldn't rather work than be worked. Dame Rumor la almost as busy as her spinster sister, Misfortutie. Ambition has led almost as many men into trouble as has the lack of It. No matter how Jolly a fellow is, he is pretty apt to stack up against a Jol lier. The only time some people get a Rait on is when they run to meet trou ble. On the principle that good wine needs no bush, bad wine probably nev er had any. Some people are satisfied to take things as they come because they are afraid to take chances. Don't count yourself a poor marks man just because you don't happen to hit the mark every time. It does a man pood to gret out and rub up against the world, provided he doesn't rub it the wrong way. The Bachelor "Oh, love is blind." The Married Man "Only before mar riage, my boy; not afterward." There isn't a whole lot of dif ference between trying to flatter an egotist, and carrying coals to New castle. Tommy "Poo. what is eenius?" s friends accuse him of having. Tommy's Pop "A genius, my son, Is The man who Is too lazy to make p. person who would rather acquire hay while the sun snines neany always fame than make a living." has to borrow an umorena wnen it "We should never let the left hand j rains, know what the right hand is doing," I The misguided young man with a admonished the good deacon. "No; it salary of J9 a week who marries a might be very mortifying to the left sriri that cannot cook hands himself hand." replied the backslider- j an extra large and Juicy lemon. she was. N"o, there is nothing In her bazaar work that Gretchen wants to hide, nor are mother and daughter at odds. Gretchen is Just one of the big army of sons and daughters who do rot realize how much their doings inter est their mothers and fathers, espe cially the former. Gretchen "has a telephone and so has her mother. Tet sometimes two or three days will pass without Gretchen's calling her mother up and when the latter takes the Initiative Gretchen is sometimes too busy to talk. "If they'd only tell me where' they're going," I heard another mother say of her grown sons and daughters. "It's not that I'm curious, but when they all go out and leave me alone In the evening. It would b so much more Interesting if I knew what they were all doing." A modest request, surely. The Call of the World. Still another woman who is a wid ow and who has given her whole life to bringing1 up and educating her son and daughter Is alone. They have both answered the call of the world and left her for bigger opportunities than the home- city offered. To be sure young people must be quick to seize opportunities, but I j sometimes wonder when I see this woman living from letter to letter, if the opportunity Is always worth what; it costs. Of course there are old people who are selfish in their demands on the young, but I think there are many more young folks who are thoughtless in their way of planning their lives without reference to the old. (Pro tected by The Adams Newspaper Service. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. And a word to the otherwise is wasted. All that glitters can't be measured by the golden rule. A quail on toast is worth a dozen in the other fellow's game bag. Never judge a hen by the cold stor age eggs you have for breakfast. There are many men of many minds, some of whom even mind their own business. A good man who goes wrong is in reality a bad man who has Just been found out. If all women were compelled to dress alike there would be more va cant pews in fashionable churches. Even if a man acknowledges that he has faults he seldom owns up to those are a beginner, too. Well, suppose we begin together. I can t get much time off, but I'll ask Mr. Owens about giv ine me two or three hours every morn ing.- Work is a little slack anyway. I eruess he'll let me." Betty knit her brows ever so slight ly and then something in the keen young face of the farmer reassured her. "I am sure I Bhould enjoy it," she said. "Even if we don't get very far, it will at least give me a new point of view. The next morning at the appointed hour Betty found her farmer collabor ator seated under the tree in the shade. He was neatly putting points on the assortment or pencils that he explained they let him have cheap at the general store. "You see," he told Betty, as she spread her cushion down on the grass and arranged the folds of her dainty frock about her. "I have got the stones collected." He pointed to a pile of the most symmetrical stones he been able to gather In the field. "So far, I think I am learning well. Now, what is the next thing to do? Have you got that highbrow book that you were telling me about?" Betty explained that she had de cided Ridgeway Norris ought to be left at home. "We must forget that any one ever wrote a story before we did. We must fill our minds so full of the characters and the plot we are writing about that we'll Just have to tell our story well. If we sell It we are to go fifty-fifty aren't we? Now you tell me that plot of yours." The farmer man -was reticent. He told Betty that it was the first time in his life that he had ever spoken to any one of the strange stories that came into his thoughts. Ana as he told it a story weird in its combina tion of commonplace events of a coun try neighborhood and tense emotional situations, simple in the actual events it related and in the characters it handled, yet makng a whole that was tensely dramatic Betty forgot about the apple tree and the meadow. She even forgot that she was Betty, pink clad and pretty, and that she was listening to the faltering voice of a poor country laborer. "If we can only get it Into the story as you have told it to me she ex claimed, when the man had finished. "But that's where the art comes in. That is where experience and training count. If a man like Norris could only handle it." A shadow of disappointment came over the young man's face. "I thought you were going to forget those high brows. I thought you and I were go ing to do something original. Going to beat them at their own game. Now here goes. I don't know how to be gin stories or how to end them like those regular writers, so don't let's have a beginning. Just let's start right in at the places where you be gin to catch your breath and wonder what's going to happen next. Here, j A SOFT PLACE TO LAND j 0, iisfe Ilk H, 8e2s2r? -AVrav-.r.--. smut. t.ti I've got it The young man's eyes flashed with excitement. His manner of diffidence and reticence had van ished. "Get the paper and write what I tell you. We can do the polishing later. You can show me how to do that." Every morning Betty Brown and her farmer sat under the apple tree. Some days the farmer would be all anima tion, ail ideas, as he had been the day they began. Other days he would be dull and discouraged. He would be in a murderous frame of mind, when he wished to go back over the fabric of the story and weed out the charac ters he had created. Then Bettv would be at her best. Then she would take the thread of the storv where the man had left off, adding touches here and there and bringing order and plausibility out of the chaos in which the man had left the tale. It was small wonder that Bettv and the farmer man, sitting day after day me snacie or the solitary aonle tree, working together over the thing In all the world that interested them most, dreaming and planning together, and groping away to bring to a real ization their dearest dream it was small wonder that Betty, wno was very pretty in spite of the fact that ne wore pnnce-nez and had ambi tions, and Tom Fenn, who in spite of his overalls and his swarthy skin pos sessed a pair of frank brown eyes and a deal of rugged charm, should have got to the point where the dear est treasure in life seemed to be the enjoyment of each other's society. iut now snail we manage." Betty sked one day after the usual nre- liminariee always more or less the same and yet always a little different irom anything else since the world began "how shall we manage? I'd share your life with you anywhere, Tom, but I would be too much of a burden at present. If you had a lit tle farm of your own it might be different." "We can buy a farm with the money e get from the story." Betty explained how hopeless It was Household Hints Suggestions for the Holidays. A Little Roast Pig for Holiday Din ner A pig for this purpose should not be over a month old, as the skin of a larger pig will not develop the savory "crackle" which Charles Lamb has so graphically described. To be at its best it should not have been kept more than a day or two after th killing. While the pig comes from1 the mar ket all dressed, it requires a thorough washing in cold water, taking care that the eye sockets, throat and other portions are thoroughly cleansed. Then rinse in plenty of cold water and wipe dry. Season the inside with salt, pep per and a suspicion of powdered sage and press full of any stuffing desired. Fasten the dressing in by taking a few stitches with a long needle and coarse thread, drawing the skin together. Roll the ears and fore legs in but tered paper to protect them. Bend the fors feet under the body and pree:i the hind feet out backward and skewer ir place. Some cooks prefer lo bring btth forward. Fasten the mouth open with a bit of hardwood or corncob, that it may afterward ad mit the traditional apple. Rub the skin of the pig with butter, sprinkle with salt, dredge with flour, and place the roasting pan in a hot oven. Cook In moderate heat three hours or more, basting often. i Unless there are dirppings in the pan i brush frequently with butter or olive oil, using a flat brush or piece of soft cloth tied on a stick. A quarter of an hour before removing the pig from the oven take the covers from ears and legs, that they may brown. When the pig is roasted, lift onto a large platter on which has been ar ranged a bed of watercress and cel- Kemove tne sKewers, tatce erv tops1. to expect a sale from their first storv i the wood from the mouth and put In or to expect, even if it were sold, a rosv-cheeked apple. Garland his enough to make a first payment on a j neck with a necklace of cranberries or rarm. 10m s optimism would permit parsley, ana serve no aoubting. And so It was agreed And so it that if the story were sold, even at a very low figure, Betty would consent to wed the farmer man and trust to good fortune for the rest. So the story was finished and Betty typed it on her little portable machine at the farmhouse and, handing the precious manuscript to Tom to carry o the nostoffice. she resigned her lot to the decision of the publisher's read- j ers. And Betty knew by experience that when publishers return manu script they are not very prompt. muz witnin ten days Torn flourished an envelope from the publishers glee fully before Betty's face as they sat at the oid trysting place under the ap ple tree. You see, I had the audacity to open the manuscript before I posted it and As to the stuffing: Each to his taste. Often a rich stuffing flavored with parmesan cheese is used, though the majority of cooks prefer a bread dressing, seasoned with any combina tion of herbs desired. Roast pig. like roast goose, is served with tart apple sauce. Chrysanthemum Salad for Holiday Six small oranges, four tablespoons olive oil, eight tablespoons minced pimentoes1, eight tablespoons minced celery, two tablespoons powdered mint or parsley leaves, one tablespoon lem on Juice; mayonnaise; lettuce; dash of salt. This orange salad, which is not sweet, combines well with pig, duck, goose or lamb. Peel oranges and scrape off outside membrane. Cut through sections to the center, sepa rating them from the tough Hkin, but cutting only to within one inch of the bottom, so that the sections will hang together. Cut out the separated mem brane with the scissors and let the oranges stand twenty minutes in a dressing made of olive oil, lemon Juice and salt. Then drain and fill centers with the minced celery and pimentoes. slightly mixed with mayonnaise. Ar range Individually on lettuce, and strew the mint or parsley sparingly over the center and out into the petals. Wild Row Cake. Use any good white cake recipe, bake in loaf or in layers. Put to gether with marshmallow filling. Ice the top and sides with any good plain white icing. Have ready mar.h mal lows which have been cut in shapes to represent wild rose petals. Dip these in a cup of water, to which has been added enough red fruit coloring to make the marshmailows when dipped a beautiful pink. The pink tablets in gelatin park ages are nice to use for coloring. Spread petals on paper to dry. Now cut marshmallows to represent leaves, and others into long thin strips for stems. Prepare a cup of water tinted green and dip leaves and stems an you did the petals; spread out to dry. It Is best to prepare marshmallows before icing cake, as they need to be almost dry before placing in position. While icing is still moist arrange the petals in wild roses, allowing five petals to each rose. In the center of each place a dot of yellow icing. A little sugar mixed with yolk of egg will do nicely. Now arrange th leaves and stems In any artistic man ner. If the work is carefully done ft beautiful cake will be the result. erne l9T Pisa ra A STRANGE CHRISTMAS HELPUl mother," said Sue, as she "There, slip in a little note for myself. That's tied up the last package and wound up why they sent it to me instead of to you. But Betty was reading: "In our opinion, it is quite the best thing you have done. You have got more of the real smack of the soil, more of real flesh and blood, Into this than ever before. It Is Just what was needed to make your stories as suc cessful with the average reader as they already are with the critical. Please accept our humble congratulations." Then, as Betty's eyes dropped to the lower left-hand side of the page, she read the name that told the story "Mr. Ridgeway Norris." "They are right, too. dead right," the man in farmer's garb was saying. "What you said about my other stuff being hard to understand was right. That's why I left the crowd and got into these jeans and followed the plow But that wouldn't have helped at all. dearest little collaborator in all the world. What I wanted was a real flesh-and-blood woman to show me the way. And we'll sign the book Betty and Ridgeway Norris" ('Copy right, 1915. by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) "Ion"t yon find it ratupr lonely Fln'e yotir bey .Tosh went bnk to s'-hwil "Yes." replied Farmer 'orntofsW ,"'hnt It's kin'l o restful. Josh has eeii f J- catin' me an' mother so mirh that we need our turn fit tafeln' a vacation. anie as he did." Washington Star. the last bit of left-over ribbon, "my Christmas presents are all finished. And in plenty of time, too, for I don't have to take them around until Christ mas. Don't you think they are pretty?" Mother stopped ner own wor to "You won't have much time for run ning back and forth Christmas And It will take three or four trips from home to carry all that load." Sue looked at her mother doubt fully. Yes, there was much to do Christmas. You know yourself how busy everybody always is Just bffora Christmas! Sue had promised to help string the popcorn for the tree; to say utmuiy, i.iww neip orotner ied with the birds' tre I'm proud that my little girl I could ana 8he aid want to crumb Ul) th make such pretty things all by herself. bread for the turkey dressing- that 1.,. .r. J nan Bue'Il lun. "I don't know hew I'll do it all. mother." she said smllinKly. "But maybe If I Bet up extra early and get a goad st irt, I'll have time tor all be!" Sue smiled appreciatively and then fingered her parcels attain. Such fun as It had been to make presents. Really more fun than to Ret them, ahe decided thoughtfully. There was the crock of freeaias that phe had grown for grandma those she had started Ions ago. And the glass of grape marmalade for Aunt Nell nhe had picked the grapes and made the jam -Maybe you will." replied mother. 'But I do wish somebody could help you carry all those things!" momer!" exclaimed Sue and. denly. "I know nomebody that will Let Rover go with me! I help me! u" men can put all the things in a big basket, there were baskets of shelled nuts; Then he can carry the banket .nrt rn quaint little stockings filled with pop- i hand the present out at the doors'" corn balls; and a dainty little scrap-! Mother thought that a fine schem book for a sick cous.n everything So Christmas morning all the ?t?i was made bv her own hands, that wan 1 7 trie girt. i t 1 .-j in a imk oasKet and me jony pdi-L. wijuut-r nue teit and Hover set out nn ,Ai- proud and happy as she looked them i How proud Rover was? AnTTS all over. In their gay wrappings they i caref,,li v be e-VL-, VL-. And how i seemed very attractive and Christ- basket Anybody could ,i .S !mas-y no doubt of that! Hi ed belne rL.? ?e that h "But how are you going to deliver meant to dof" ,i?lpc.r and them all?" asked mother suddenly, i right Clara Ingram Judson.)

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMP77"1" 23. 1915 5 TEDDY WILL RUN? CIoe Personal Friend Says He Will Sot'k Presidency Again. His Hat Will Be Thrown In the King About 3Iarch 1. FORCES ARENQW AT WORK Gary Dinner Had a Stronsr Po litical Significance. VVcr, tV-rrr.r-r KepnM.caa Hopefuls'- Alarm ed by Colonel's Attitude. New York. Dec. 23. Former Presi dent R (;-ve It wiil a sain "throw his rat in the ring:' about March 1. Un- I id that t.me he witi remain passive. This u tmer.C was made by a close person;! I a r, I political friend of the farmer president. Here is the manner :n which the situation will likely shape I up: Colore I Rr-o?eve:t will er.df-avcr to j ke-p ?.!fr.t p 'l.uci-lly until after New Year's day. -n January he win issue a. buirle call to the rVnr.sylvsnia Progressives h hnvf sto. J o r.obiy y him, in I n la ifIp h:a. t. KerT'iarv 1- ho will talk to the i:iir.o;s Bull Mosers in Chicago. F i'- .w r. that. lonel K osvtl: w.ii e.j -o the Ve.t Indies, where he w; II rt-main f- r thrt-e wet-ks or a m T.:h. r-.-'Tin up for the battle that is to f- -Ho w. Admit andiday. h.s r'.urn. it is declared the .r;d-nt w 11 c p r. I y admit I is a .Mr.d:d.i'o. i M-'Har,-. who tok a promi- i ren; pirt i.'or-d Roosevelt s cam- j r-:i :n I'M:!, sa:d Tuesday r.icrht: kr.'Av that ridunel Roosevelt i plans to heC' n:e t. candidate for the j K-:tnM:rar. ..--Ob-ntial nomination in r.:,.-.'r.y t s Y--u will !ind him ficht- .r. ;n r -"n :n the Minnesota pri mary r .V ir-h 14. He will he.it v. -k- ir. M i.-arh vi -setts. Sherman in -Ti: m:fh :n Michigan, and Cum- r:i r in low1.. rdi". r.-l has ciu-ed to he puh- i ftj the r int-s of certain Rpuh- n candidates he m:ht suppurt. '.t.-. wr-T th .t i'.ipv either will not run o k r.ockd down "H--1 kr.i'Ts, for instance, that If ;cr'- wutd not rtsiirn from the s i r-"m" ci urt ir."h and run the risk .-:-r dfer-d by Wilson. That Gary Dinner. "Th'1 Oiry dinner was merely aj r'.V' r par f the rame to rally the sr- l cr- wd around Roosevelt a;ain. "The But'. M-se nationn conven- 1 r:n is t,j :i Jure 7 in ChirMeo. at tr." --arre :mie as tr.e icepunucan na- rid! c- nv- nti. n. This arrangement is t" r the purpos of driving- a b"tter -t-a-.-nin f;r R. osf-velt. that's all." n-I Roosevelt airain declined personally tinhy to comment upon the r; ir dinner, or to outline his political t '..r.s. H curtly refused to discuss ri utrmor.t of National Chairman Co1 r-" W. tVrkins. of the rro-eres-1 t s. hat "I am afraid we shall have ti. d.-;ft Rocs'-veit." A sp :kesman for rvdonel Roosevelt, however, made thi.3 statement: "Cidon--! Roosevelt will w -t enter e:h"r the liepahhcan or I'roressive j pr-. .ont:aI primaries. But if no mi- n hy either or both conventions, i ht- n-i-ht accepts." i M -anwhile. despite the statement of Hi-hs that h-1 i- not a candidate p.nd wd r. 't accept if nominated, his cam-1 l-u:? is b-ip; prosecuted. Murray; W. Crane, of Massachusetts, who was ir r .wn t'ohy. :s puldio;y working for V-;-j t h Bay fare native son. I'ri-' v..-- I- h-'Wv-r. he frankly declared Ku- o-? is 'h1 man to h--at Wilson." Hit !MtM"k for Iluirlies. j Formor National Chairman Frank. H HifhC'-rk is .-,u: fr-r Huirhes. as is i rr.i.r Whitman if Elusrhes i.s a can- df! i.t tth-rvx ise, Vv'human hopes to 1 cp. r.'! idate himself. J 'i n;o f I u -hs will speak before th Pi,-.r a.-s--ciation in this city on j J ir. irv I At that time, it is x-P-. hi will be forc.-d to dt-fme his I l.'nless h- expects to be u'-- t accept the n.minaton. he v.i'.l pr l .iidi have to cancel hij en- $1 Will Buy Gift or Glove Bonds for KSpJ your employes make Xmas Giving easy I ctJj pt 11 -f 111 IX Check eX-tAAv"K' Quito 0 y This List for Convenience Bring it Along Here! A Big Day for Xmas Clothing Buyers Here! ,50 $2 Will Buy Leather collar bar. Playing cards and case. Combination cIothc-3 and hat brush. Leather bill fold. Clothes brush leather back, 4 coat hanarera in leather case. Nickel drinking cup in case. Leather pocket book, Lare French ivory comb, French ivory perfumery bottle, French ivory tray. French ivory manicur.' pieces. Men s Scotch wool gloves. Men's lined kid and Mocha ir loves. Ladies" dress and street gloves. 2 pairs ladies Phoenix sk hosiery, 4 pairs la-dit-s lis It- hosiery. Men s pure silk h.se. Men's pure silk hose, two in box. Men's fi'-re hose, three in box. Men's lisle hose. 4 in box. Fancy lisle suspenders in holiday boxes. Fin-' b.-arher In itial b-!t. Silver and gdd buckle In holiday box. Elastic "Live" belt. Initial handkerchiefs, in box. Initial pure liren h 1 n Iker f.hiefs, 4 in box, Initial very fine handkerchiefs thre in box. four Ladies' Embroidered Swiss linen handkerchiefs. one la dies tino emi ro id -red linen handkerchiefs. Ladies' fine wool Si a r f Fa n cy C r yst al C loth sc ft shirt. Fancy percale shirt laun dered our't?. White plaito J and plain dr-s shirt. One fine im ported silk four-in-hand in hol ly box. 2 lare all siik four-in-hands in holly box. White or fancy silk muffler in holly box. Fast black taffeta umbrella. Handsome walking stick. Fine sold plate scarf pin. Fine old plate cuff links, F ne sold plate stud set. Fine old tie holders, Imrial vestogram for he watch, S E-i r 1 W i I so n or Arro w col lars in box. Liffht whrht per;aie pajamas. Dome: flannel. Fine muslin nierht robes. Domt ilan nel nisrht robe. Union suit, white, eoru or natural wool. Shirt an drawers, wool and cotton. and natural wool. Warm winter cap with fur in band. Fine leather collar bag-. Leath er back clothes brush. Leather bill fold. fine leather pocket book. Fine leather cig"ir case, Mark Cross English gloves, Per rin's Imported gloves. Mens fin est accordion ribbed, all silk hose. Ladies drop stitch silk hose. Men's silver mounted walking stic k, Man's umbrella, pliLn or silver trimmed hand le, Ladies' foidimr suit case umbrel la. Heavy irold piated cuff links. Heavy told plated scarf pin. Roll plate chain and knife. Fin--pi'iue full dress shirt. Gold rcarf pins. Very fine white- plaited shirt, Manhattan shirts, negligee or laundered. N'ickle pla:ed va cuum bottle, F.ne imported silk four-in-hand. Pajamas in mad ras, soisette. or outing flannel, t'nion suit in the best makes. Silk reefer muffler. Half d zen fine handkerchiefs. Men's Jer sey sweater, any color. Terry cloth bath robe. Blanket cloth lounging robe. Xear seal fur cap. Fur gloves. Knitted silk easy-slip neckwear. side sleeping garment, very com fortable. Union suit lrom the bt-st makers in fine cotton, yarns wool and wool mixtures. Finest imported neckwear in the new, big English squares, also pure silk knitted. Electric seal cap. Fur glomes. Full dress sets. $5 WU Buy $3 Will Buy Fine leather collar bag. silk lined. Lady's fine bar, Travel ing clock in leather case, French ivory harrd mirror, French ivory brush. Manicure set, dozen ladies' imported Swiss embroid ered hand k ere hiet's linen. Silk knitted reefer muffler, Man's large, silk, full dress rr.Ui.fler. Fine gold cuff buttons in silk velvet case. Gold scarf pin in in dividual box. Ladirs" fins sulk umbrella, twill fit :n suit rae Man's silk umbrella. Imported frame. Lined Automobile gaunt let, black Turkish leather. Tan reindeer Angora lined gloves. dozen all silk half hose. 3 col ors to choose from. Siik mixed pajamas, one suit in box, Out- Man's or Lady's all leather trav eling bag. leather lined, Man's suit case, double straps and shirt fold. Man's fine golf cloth smok ing jacket, Man's heavy blanket robe, silk girdle, piped seams and pockets, Very heavy Rope Knit sweater, any color. Shaker Knit sweater, double shawl col lar, Fine Heather mixed wool golf jacket. Very fine silk pa jamas, plain and figured, indiv idual boxes. Heavy silk mixed Union suit, Manhattan fine Pus sy Willow silk s h i r t Fine silk umbrella, tight roll. silver mounted handle. Silver trim med Malacca walking stick. Fur lined Reindeer sloves. All fur gauntlets. Leather traveling set. Lady's fine hand bag, silk lin ed with mirror and engagement cards, Oiiiette safety razor set, 2 pint, fine- nickle plated va cuum bottle. Genuine sealskin car. Ladies1 manicure and toilet sets. Knox hats. Stetson spec ;al hats, men's dancing pumps. La dies" satin even ing slippers. All silk men s nisrht robes. Ladies silk fibre sweaters. Men's and women's fine shoes. Full dress sets, Full dr-ss white vest- For Hart Schaffner Marx finest $22.50, $25 and better Suits and Overcoats So Hurry! For the offer is of such tremend ous importance that the man who fails to participate in it viil certainlv regret th los. The clothes are duplicates of the very styles, patterns and weaves that we ourselves sold at higher prices a few wef ks ago they're Hart. Schaffner Marx present season stocks they gave us a concession to "clear the decks." The styles include famous Varsity fifty-five suit mode!3 every right style. Plaids, stripes, plain colors, mixtures everything worth while. Overcoat styles are Icrm-ntted, semi-fitted, box back, Ulster and Auto styles Kersey, Meltons, Vieunns, Cheviots, rough Scotch mixtures. Best values in good clothes that t V. A. J UUi ttLLV-liLiUll, Never greater values in Overcoats than now at YOU save a full $5 on every coat and every coat you buy is fine enough for even the men who are accustomed to pav very high prices. Popular Balmacaans and Auto Ulster styles satin yoke3 and satin piped piaia uacK, an wool overcoatings, sell or velvet collars, all sizes 34 to oO. If you haven't bought your winter overcoat yet you'd better do it here and now for the sake of purse and appearance JsgT" Ask for Our Fine Silk Lined Blue Serge Suits at $15 Big $5 Sale of Boys' Clothes Here Now! i s50 I Copyright Hart ScZuJTaer Un seams. $15 Patrick I ninth Marklnawx for Boy JT'ST art-bred by express, ta the big. new. Tartan plaids, now so popular; all ages from the little fellow to the boy of 1; thrse are also sold exclusively ff in Topefea by Palace, at pH.KJKJ Little Tots "ovlty Salts A new line just in by express: the latest New York novelty for the little hapa tin tin Bilk velvets, 8 years, including at $5.00 Boyg' Ft newt Norfolk Suit (Like Cut Above) With Extra Pants, $5 The Suits in'In.lfd In this offer are speWal purchases f the xurplus stix ks f well known m.-ikers. Huudre.l to tli-HWf from, inWiniin pnr"1 all-wool "tibie Sr fires. "Kngiisli 'nri!urnys." Suirs mailt" of hnvy "'ovriafiMs-' fnr boys win. wont Troar ov-r-o:its. Tvtr Norfolk rao.ieis. to Is je..r. nnl KVK V- Y Sf IT HAS AN KXTUA PAIU OF TUOT'SKUrf T Jl.Vi' H. The boat values ev?r offered at Auerbach Guettel Smart Ovtr'int9 for boys of 6 to 17 vear sir or v!vet rollnrs. in ulnirle or doub! brastfd srvles nrnl Ion (f. full rut. convertible oM:ir styles. Maib of flur- anle, practical, warm. all. -wool overfoutius, plain suaaes or ian"y enww, uumatcnaiiDie values, at Oi $5.00 Eoys Xmas Furnishing Here Cheap! 50c clothing CO. EN TONIGHT Boys' nnfl Oirls Knitted Toous Boya' and Girls' fur jrannt lefs and leather tr rJ grloTPs toJ-U Boys' and Girls' plcsh ha ti with earbands gray, brow a, blue and cJlora $1-00 lere Cheap! y'v stra fine, extra ''f f 1 nfflitfee shirt.-, ihA i Boys ex! Yalirca. St'O-i.-d Dovs rnii iJrH. qu.T cowboy, cowgrt ri. polii-e-uuin nri fn'liiin suls. A wonilerful new assort ment, from CI f)A down to 1.UV op it $5.0C SHARE WITH EMPLOYEES International Harvester Company An nounces Plan to Allow Workmen to Liiiy Stot.-k liclovr Market. A" di'.'.n-'-r at the Waldorf in April. I'l2. Jus'icp Kuhvs declared that he l:d n r-- th'1 presi'lenrv ani he ha rvj. a:-dly r.-itr. rated this state-rr.-r.r. .--r. i r IVr.r e. wha r?- elt-c:. -n C- r i Roosevelt so t ;ttrly f :.t. h :r; i--diy a r rived Tuesday nh- and .it T Waldorf Ator:a. It ur.(l- rst 1 h.ir he was sum- rr.--r.-d hr ly Wdham Barnes and ..ther v-It leaders, who are s r- jiarrrio j bv th c- donei's Re-pir-li-'na l:'"rri. It is d'-clared Barnesi itn.l i'T.r- ?e would f-ven be w-illinEj to -r'-p down the cardidacy of Kusrhes T'Tvent th--- ri- nur.ati- n sroins to K j-w:t. liiirton Artu.'ol. T'x. Theodor- E. tlurtr.. Ohio's favor-nt-1- son. is comir as fast as an ex prtss train can l.rir. him and is due t arrive today. In addition to h.Ls alarm .ar the shadow that C- Ionel K".vel: is castir.c "n the wad. he uar.ti t- ask a tvr questions of (ow. err-T Whitman. Whitman is ail-;rd t. have promi -ed his support to Bur t n Thn he s:idilor.Ey withdrew it in f iv -.r of Hughes with the hope that he rrv.ht swir.e under the wire himself as a irl ii-rse. Chicago. Dec. 23. The Internation al Harvester company announced a .dan to assist its 3 3.00 0 employees to become stock hoi dors and sharers in the company's profits. I'nder the plan, which becomes ef-feciv.-1 tomorrow, all employees, will have an opportunity to purchase prof it sharing certificates in the company, p n nv n t s for which will be ma d e in monthly installments from their sal aries. These certificates, it is provided, may be convened into stock at a rate below market value. To every empb yee who takes ad vantage of the offer before March 1. 1 J 1 ri. the company will add to hi? payments one per cent of hia earnings annually. Interest will b paid at the rate of five per cent per annum on all em ployees pa: mr.ts. and credits on the profit sharing certificates. Provision i- made f r postponement of payments in case of illness or unavoidable lay off. Certificates can bo turned into cash at the will nf the employee. The plan will terminate in Januarv, 1921. MANY BIO BILL TOTERS DO IT Every day of YOUR life you will get happier dividends if you give a good Piano to HER this Christmas DO IT 1 0 Will Secure You a New Piaoo risonas $5 or So a Month Will Pay for It Come in Now StrrM Car Conductors Complain of the Number of 510 Xotcs Presented in Payment of Fares. GREGORY ISJ.ET OUT Kana ity Xesrro C'onTk-ted of Mur dor is iraatei! a Parole, by (lovomor apprr. Oc.vTr.nr "a;.per has ranrad a pa role ro Louis "ir? ry. Wyandotte cou r. t y near", sen t to the pe ri: ten tia ry for niu r-er .n 1 t ir--rory was ser t pr;s n for 'he murder of Roy Mart.r. cr ,pr.i-n of the Kansas City, Kan :r-"k arr. As ,t rsuir of th1 Mart:n killing a r.er ri'e rir.t faced the Kansas s:de tow. n r.r.il n t i:. n til t-pa rate schools w- r- prvid-d f-.r the r.esroes did the tr'1:! subside. Martin was killed in n par'c Th'-r" he was working with (.orre fe members of the high sch 'I tra'-k r-am. Ore-ory and other yjr.z men thr-w clods ani stones at .o- ,v r: i'n ana wn-n iart:n pro- t- 1 T'l thr'terei t., pur t-ne nesro out rh- p;.rk. Orcnrv drew a re- r .n l f-r-d. The 'bulift pene- i trnre.i Martin's heart. p:;noe s-nnc to the r-enitentiary. Grerv hps made an excellent reenrri Tie an office trusty under the ad- rr.:nUr-U: r. of both rnddine and Bot- kin and because of his good prison record, was given a parole. 1 Several conductors of the cars of the Topeka Railway company are com-pla.nina- that there is an epidemic of ten dollar bill "torers" in Topeka. The old e.i? of eettinc on the street car and flashing a "ten" on the conductor f"T a free ride is being- worked over time these days, it is claimed. "The men who do this are usually younsr fellows." explained one conduc tor. -They are of the ro'iarh-neck type and think they are pulling off a f:r.e stunt. The -ther day one of the m-n on the takland l.ne. where the practice is overdeveloped, went on his run prepared. He had nine rolls nf nickels in his pockets and when the yoims man with the ten dollar bill frt on the car he proceeded to charee the bill much to the chagrin of the ynunsr man. If we can ""ad a few more of "em up with nickels we will be able to stop this practice." Netrroes Were Insulted." St. Louis. M-.. Dec. 23. The St. Louis Symphony orchestra of 75 pieces last r.isrht rave it-- Christmas present to th people of St. Louis a free concur: in the coliseum. Esti mates of the attendance vary between 5.000 and 7. "00. Several hundred ne croes. feelinsr c ff nded because they were asked to sit V- one section, in stead of scattered throughout the buildinsr. departed in a body before the concert began. Kloman Nord WiS' Other Pianos STEIN WAY S509 $750 for a New Upright for a New Grand Ii VOSE, $360 KURTir.!ANN, $325 and these well known, de pendable pianos: Weber, Ludwig. Strich Zeidier, Estey, Harwood. Schaefler. Barmore, and 0 1 1 and Many Others pl2Ui P PIANOLA Player-Pianos We carryall the Pianolas. Steinway Pianola. Weber Pianola, Steck Pianola, Wheelock Pianola, Stuy vesant Pianola, Stroad Pianola. All on easy terms. $550 Prices as Low as ELBURN CSQC Player Piano... ijLJ3 HARWOOD tf97C Player Piano... I D 10 a Month 1,000 New and Used Pianos We Can Certainly Please You! We have more Pianos end more well known makes than can be found in any one store in the United States Give Us an Hour of Your Time, or Write Us sfl r- P&SS Erik li Pi it m wk. Mtmj& SohfsfWsicCo. 714 KAXSAS AVOTE, TOPEJi.V. KAXSAS. Our Store Open Tonight 1 Flowers for Xmas The Spirit of Christmrj reaches the highest expres sion of love in Flowers as gift3. Here you will find all that is best in Cut Flowers, Plants, Corsages, Baskets and Wreathes. ra3 to mM, Roso-f. Arariran Beauties. Carr.aLions. Kaster Lilipa. yellow and white Xarciasis. Hyacinths and Sweet Peas. Blooming Plants Azaleas. Poinaettlafl. Begonias. Cyclamen. Easter Lilies. Hra cinths. Primroses and I'rimulaa. Leave your orders early with your Cards and we will care for and deliver at the proper time. Prices Always Reasonable. HUBBARD'S Wreaths Window wreaths, auto wreaths, and cemetery wreaths In a, win's variety of combinations from S5c to S5.C0. Xmas Trees Blocked and 50c to S3.00. Phcrc 10. 529 Kansas Ave. ri 7 r s rzii n f?:r sm.s Vacuum Cleaner -1 I 9i Electric Washer 3 The Christmas Spirit Shines in ELECTRICAL GIFTS Such presents as a sewinjr or talkino; machine motor. El Grilstovo, toaster, egg boiier, coffee percolator, iron heat er, heating pad express most fittingly your desire to give REAL help and LASTING pleasure in the home. Have your house wired for electricity, and en joy its benefits. Telephone 4080 for an Illum ination engineer to cau ana give you plans and f estimate. The Topeka Edison Co. y SOS Kansas Ave. Telephone 4080

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6 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1915 PLAYERSGO FAST Bids for 40 of S4 Fed Stars Al ready Have Been 3Iade. 3IInors "Will Be Given a Chance at Some of Them. Chicago, II!.. Hoc. 23. There are M players under contract to clubs tvhirh were members of the Federal lengup and already bids for 40 of them have n mad by American and Na tional loacrne club., according to James A. Oilmore and Charles Weeghman, who returned today from Cincinnati. Th FVdtraI league owners? expect to have to carry comparatively fpw con tracts :ia it is almost certain, Mr. Oil more .nid, that the high salaried, bet ter known players will be taken over hy their hit. r.va!?. Minor Kiqne clubs which have claims on players who left their ranks for the federals, will be given oppor tunity to buy the- mn who fail to find I' faces in tne majors, accordine to S Oilmore. Dea for the players will t oini? on an wmter, it is said, so ana nad absorbed enough moisture by j church on I'nlk street will take pot far as known nona hag been arranged (the time they reached the postof fice 3f.Msion ew Year's The Bethel con Mr wu p ,?Pr he limit- There was no j regatiun will temporarily hold their" vr-ti uiu.iv iiihl he would lmy tlie Cubs and move them i to the north side, despite stories here nu eisewni re that th.-re was a hitch I in the df-a! He confirmed a storv i mm ms a?rt f-uifnt with fhar a P i Taft. providing for his purchase of the major portion of the stock, extended j iiiuviuiufi :r until peace was agreed to. It was likely. Mr. Weeehman said, that thf nickname, "Cubs," would be retained. Manager Tinker, who is in a hos pital h.e, was informed over the telephone cf the successful termina tion of the peace meeting and of the nnounciment that he would be man ager of the combined Whnles and Cuhs. He was not permitted, however, to dtsci:ss his plans. Taft Not Worrying. Corpus t'hristi, Texas. Dec. 23 Charles p. Taft, who said last night that the Chicago National 1-ague baseball team is not for sab-, was on a hunting trip today and not avail able for futther questioning about the expected pace sale. Sinclair hi St. Louis. St. Louis. Dec. 13. Phil Ball, chief' owm r of tne -t. Louis Federals and j Hxrry Sinelilr, came to St. Louis to- ilay from Cincinnati nnd at once went j Gardner Pardee 824 Kansas Avenue Where Ycu Formerly Paid Your Gas Bill Ladies' $2.50 ?Q Dresses These dresses are positively as we say, $2.50, and will be sold by us at 69c. They come in white with embroidered trim Pinks, Blues, Ecrus, Tans, Palm Beach positively the only chance ladies will have to purchase a neat afternoon dress, for the house Per cales, Chambrays, Linen Finish with very neat trim. You are aware we have but one object in view with this stock we are giving up our store sell we must. Come and see these O vf dresses your choice LADIES' MILLINERY Almost as a gift. No cost of make no cost of material. We have got to get rid of this stock. Come down town right away and don't stop until you reach Gardner Pardee 824 Kansas Avenue The Gift of Gifts umim you io secure terms: ictrola. Style IV S1S.OO, with J3.00 worth of Records. $18.00. Payments $4.00 cash. $4.00 a month. Vlftmla. Style VI S2r,.00. with $5.t0 worth of Records. S30.00. Payments S5.00 cash. $4.00 a month. Victrola, Stvle III SIO.OO. with $5.uo worth of Records, $45.00. Payments $3.00 cash. $4.00 a month. Victrola. Style IX Sr.0.00. with $5.00 worth of Records. J55.00. Payments $5.00 cash, $4 00 a month. GIVE VICTOR KECOROS. What more appropriate trift to the owner than new Victor Records for Christmas? They will add to the enjoy ment of the Instrument and make it practically new a?air.. CB.G uiid. M Cm 7gg,Kan3.AvaJbpBKaKari5 Into conference with Otto Stifel. an other large stockholder in the St. Lojis Federals- Humor continued to circulate that Sinclair will be inter ested financially in the St. Louis Americans. GETS QUICK RETURN Business Man Sends Out Christmas Card Bearing an Iiumffietcnt Amount of Postage. Because the weather turned damp the patrons of a Topeka business man are paying1 excels post ago on Christ mas cards he mailed out to them, tie is squaring: himself as best he can but it is a difficult process when it is con sidered that he mailed out five hun dred of th cards. The business man received the cards from a firm he represents and that firm had Wfughrd them. Each card weighed the maximum to be carried by a Riven amount of postage. The firm notified the business man that this amount of postage would carry the cards and he took the firm's word for it. f.ut he had overlooked the freakish nature of Kansas weather. They were mailed out on a clamp day ifiurii piuueu on ine envelope s-o the postoffice people had to charm, the extra uostace up to the recipient. It wasn't more than an hour after the first doliverv before the hiiir.ev man t, h,.,r t o h. n c w trying to square things by telephone ever since. WON'T NAME OFFICERS Vnder Secretary for War Kef uses lie veal Identify of Commanders Removed at CallipoII. to London, Dec. 2?.. In the house commons this afternoon Baroid of J. Tennant, parliamentary undersecre tary for war. declined publicly to give the names of the officers relieved from commands in connection with the landing of Uritish troops at Suvla bay on the Gallipoli peninsula. It was suggested that the names were public property. Mr. Tennant replied that if this were son an an nouncement would be more punitive than informative. He denied a report that one officer had been cashiered. Plated Ware at Forbes. Adv. A VICTR0LA Put One in Your Home This Christmas Through Our Easy Payment Plan IT yon love music there should he one in yonr iii.me. for a Victrola has no limitations you 'ran hear practically all the music or the world, suns; and Played by the greatest artists, bands and orchestras. Its superb music Is elevating and inspiring as well as entertaining. Our Easy Payment Plan will en- a victrola on the follouln easy Victrola. Style X ST5.00, with $7.50 worth of Records, $82.50. Payments $7. B0 ca: h, $3.00 a month. Victrola, Style XI $100.00. with $7.50 worth of Records, $107.50. Payments S7.50 cash, $5.00 a month. Victrola. Style XIV $150.00. with $10.00 worth cf Records. JU69.00. Payments $15.00 cah. $7.00 a month. Victrola Style XVI S20O.0O. with $10.00 worth of Records, $lH0.0o. Payments $1:5.00 cah, $10.00 a month. WORK ON CHURCH Swedish Bethel Mission Struc ture Ready This Spring. lVell Known 31 ea on Kailding Committee Push Construction. The construction work on the new -Swedish Bethel Mission church has reached the point where persons in charge predict that the basement will be completed by the first of the year. The edifice, one of the finest in the city and one of the largest of this con gregation in the west, will be ready for occupancy in May. J3eth.fi .Mission church was founded in IS 72. The present church was built in 1S85. August 2. lf15, the site fr the new church which is under construction at the corner of fcSixth a mi Harrison streets was secured. The work on the new church edifice began October 10. The Christ church congregation, which purchased the old Bethel meetings in the old church which wil be placed on the new foundation. When the basement is completed the old building will partly be torn down and partly consolidated with the new building, and while the auditorium is being erected the services will be heid in the basement. Well Known Men on Committee. The building committee is compos ed of the following men: Krie Hanson, C. K. ulunder, W. Charlson, Otto Kastberg, Claus Carlson and C. O. Johnson. The iiev. Adolph Liljengren, who has done much to secure a new church, took charge of the Bethel con gregation A pril 19. 1 1 4. Tlie church will cost a onroximatelv $15,000, but owing to the low pur chase price cf the present site the new chun h will represent a much higher value. ROOSEVELT ON TICKET Kclloning If oofs liofusal, Xcmp of the Colonrl May Appear on Primary Ballot in Minnesota. Minneapolis, Dec. 23. The name of Theodore Koosevelt may appear on the Republican presidential primary i ranot m .Mi nnesota, a. D. Kohn. per sonal friend of the colonel, eald to- day there is a stront; likelihood. The j colonel's friends have started a move j ment to annex his name following the refusal of Elihu Root to permit his i name being used. Root said in a let- tcr directed to Charles E. Eliott, for mer member of the Phillipine com i mission: I "I am not a candidate for the nom- ination in any sense," said that por tion of Root's letter made public. "T am not willing to have my name u?ed ns a candidate. I do not wish my name to be put on the ballot and if I it is put there, I wish to decline and j insist upon its being withdrawn. Cnder the municipal law, the voter must vote for delegates who have ex pressed themselves for a candidate whose name appears on a ballot. MONEY FROM HOME Christmas Presents for Itesitlents Alonjr Kansas Avenue South or Eighteenth Street. Persons living down on South Kan 1 sas avenue between Eighteenth and I Twenty-first streets have a Christmas present coming to them but they must 1 not blame the mails if they do not re ceive it for a few days after Christ- mas. The Topeka Street Railway com pany has paid into the city treasury a total of $2,006.66 to be refunded to property owners in the locality men tioned. The payment is made because of the extension of the street car line from Eighteenth to Twenty-first. It i pays for the eight foot strip of street the company will use as its right-of-i way and the money will be ready for the distribution within a few days. I The property owners must first take i their deeds or abstracts to the city clerk to prove up their ownership. The moment that is done the warrants on j the city treasury will be issued. The amounts due to property owners in the different blocks are as follows: To property owners from Eighteenth street to .Nineteenth street $52 3.55; to owners from Nineteenth to Twentieth, $".09.23; from Twentieth to Beacon, j $392.94; from Beacon to Twenty-first, $640.34. HE FLAYED THE MARKET One of the Things Charged Against Her Hushand in Mrs. McCoun's Petition for Divorce. J Amended petition for divorce was filed this morning in the district court t by Cornelia V. H. McCoun against Richard McCoun of New York City. Mrs. McCoun for the past year has been living In Topeka. In her amended petition Mrs. Mc i Coun says that her husband t?peculaf- ed on the board of trade and didn't j properly support her. She says her husband, in 1911. threatened her with a gun and choked her. She asks a divorce, restoration of her maiden name and possession of 1 considerable property which she says she owns in Ovster Bay. New York. CHRISTMAS AT LANSING Warden Codding Has Irepared a Rer.l Celebration With Special Bivak fast, Dinner and Hand Concert. Convicts at the state penitentiary. i Lansing, wil! be given a specinl Christ mas breakfast and dinner and enter, tained at a band concert, according to announcement made today by War den J. K. Codding. Roast p;gtwUh oyster dressing will be the special meat order on the prison dinner menu this year. Plans have been made for a real Christmas celebration at the peniten tiary this year and work in all depart ments will be suspended for the day. In the afternoon, a band concert will be given in the prison chapel and all of the convicts and prison officials will attend. It will be a real high class band concert, too. Selections from "The Chocolate Soldier," "The Spring I Maid,' and "The Yankee Consul" and bits of Hemick s hits are some of the choice selections on the musical pro gram. 'i here will be plenty to eat at both the Christmas breakfast and dinner. Rolled oats, hot biscuits, bread, but ter, syrup, coffee, cream and sugar are on the breakfast bill. For dinner, the menu includes: Oyster soup, crackers, celery, sour pickles, roast pig and oyster dressing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, creamed corn, cocoanut layer cake, jelly, apple pie. cheese, lemon cookies, oranges, bananas, milk, coffee, sugar. OHM STAT Hospital Heads and Staffs Will 3!eet in Topeka. New Organization Announced by H. C. Bowman. Hospital heads and members of hos pital staft.s are to have a state organi zation of thctr own. According to an nouncement made today by H. C. Bow man, of the state of board of control, hospital officials will meet in Topeka December 30 to perfect a permanent organization. The new organization is the result of a plan orig;nated by the state med ical society and invitations to attend the meeting have been sent to repre sentatives of all of the hospitals in Kansas. It is probable that nearly 100 men and women, representing about 60 public and private hospitals, will attend the meeting in the offices of the state board of control. Dr. J. T. Axtell ol Xewton, head of the Axtell hospital, is chairman of the committee which plans the organ ization of a new state wide society. Under the call which Dr. Axtell has issued, the membership will include superintendents, assistant superinten dents, superintendents of nurses, members of hospital staffs, and chari table associations, hospital physicians, surgeons and pathologists. A program for the meeting is ncv being prepared and will be announced in a few days. Some of the most prom inent physicians in Kansas will come to Topeka for the meeting, it is assert ed, and all of the big state hospitals, as well as public and private institu tions, will be represented at the meet ing. LKS ARE PREPARED Ready to Take Core of AH tlie Poor or Neglected hiltlren That Apply at tlie Club Christmas Morning. Between eleven and twelve hundred children are expected by the Elks Christmas morning when the curtain is pulled away from the big Christmas tree at the Etk club house. n;acn child will receive a present and re freshments. There will also be mu sic and something in the nature of a program but the children will not be wearied by anything long-drawn-out. The price of presents h&s gone up in the last year and the Elks have had to dig down considerably in order to provide for all the children they ex--pect. But they have done it and they" want every child m the city.wtio isn t provided for in some other way, .to-" visit the Christmas tree and get his present Christmas morning. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Joseph Baype, for thirty years a resident of Topeka, died -Wednesday nifrht at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Margraret linger, in Shorey. He is survived by his daughter and three sons, Frtnk E. Bayse, Edward Bayse and Jess Bayse. The funeral will he held at 2:30 o'clock Saturday after noon at the Central Avenue Chris tian church. Interment in Rochester cemetery. J. P. H. Luttjohann, age 65, died last .night tt his home, a mile and a ha!f northwest of the Industrial school. The funeral will be held at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the home. The funeral of Otto Anderson, 210 West Thirteenth street, will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Pen well's chapel. Interment in Topeka cemetery. Barnard W. Trainer, age 66, died last nieht at a local hospital. The body will be taken to Lawrence for interment. The funeral of Joseph Roe will be held at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the homo of his son, T. C Itoe, S31 Clay street Interment in Topeka cemetery. The funeral of Sirs. Elizabeth Mure ney will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afterroon at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. Harry Hopper, 431 Shaw nee avenue. interment in Topeka cemetery. The funeral of G. W. Carey, who died in Los Angeles, will be held at 9 o'clock Friday morning at Shella barger's chapel. Interment in Roch ester cemetery. The body of W. S. Fox. who com mitted suicide in the county jail Wed nesday morning, will he held at Shell abarger's chapel until arrangements for the funeral are made. The Mason ic lodge will have charge. Tlie body will not lie in the potter s 1ield as was erroneously announced before. The funeral of Carl Schramm, who died Wednesday, will be held Satur day st the rei iU nee. 215 North Lo cur.t street. Interment in Topeka cemetery. PLAGE OIL FIFE LINE Ftghty-seven Mile Route to Xeodcsha From Xewly Opened Oil FieU at Augusta, Kansas. Aufrnsta, Kan., Dpc. 2 3. The Stand ard Oil company today bepran placing: a pipe line from here to Xeodeaha. a distance of IS 7 miles. Pumping sta tions will be located at both ends and in tlie middle of the line. The exten sion will connect up a new field. New York Money M:irliet. New York. Iec. St. MONEY Mercantile paier. "ftti per -t ul. Sterling, 6o .biy bills, -t.ti'" dcui;:nl, 4.t",!t4 cRh-ea, -V?.".". i Fr.'ines, U,Tra:id, o.Mi; cnbles. fi.So. Mark 4. demand, .fi1- cables, T -lfj. Guilders, j demand. cables. 4.Vv. I-ires, demand. ."T: caiiits. G.-i. litibies. demand, rabies, y-. Par silver. ;"VI-; Mexican dollars. 41;-ic. tinveiTinidit bmids, steady; railroad bou-'s. irregular. Time loaps. weak; davs, 'l-iu 10 days, G moatlis, 2, X fall money, steady high. 2 low, 1 milng rate. last loan, closing bid 1 offered at 2. JUAREZ IS QUIET "o Disturbances in Town Since Carranza Rule Began. i Gen. Villa Reported on His Way t to Xew Orleans. El Paso. Dec. 23. first night under peacefully. Juarez passed its Carranza control There was less evidence of the cus- tomary night life, gambling had j ceased and the disorderly resorts were j closed. Costitutionalist currency is j sued to the troops was accented in stores and its value established, j General Alvaro Obregon, command ing all the Carranza forces which ar- rived late last night from Nogales, Sonora, to take charge of the surren dered Villa territory and troops, was i closeted this forenoon with Mexican Consul Andrean Garcia, answering 1 telegrams. He will be unable to cross the border until late this afternoon. it was sajd. Villa to New Orleans. New Orleans, La., Dec. 2 3.- Mrs. Luz D. Villa, wife of General Francis co Villa, accompanied by General Villa's sister-in-law. Mrs. Hipolito Vil la, and ten other persons arrived here last night from Juarez, Mexico. Mrs. Villa said she expected to spend Christmas holidays hero with her hus tand. It is understood here that Villa will confer with United States army otlicers next week. Bank Ieorce Snsiended. Washington, Dec. 23. In the face of oflicial foreign protests General Carranza has temporarily suspended his decree, requiring banks in Mexico City to redeem their notes in gold, ac cording to advices received today by the department. Embassy officials here recently urged Secretary Lansing to recpiest Carranza to modify the de cree, asserting that its enforcement probably would lead to international complications. BIRTHS REPORTED Six boys to one girl is the ratio on birth certificates filed with the city clerk today. Tho births are recorded as follows: Herman E. Wege and wife, 431 Ohio avenue, December In, a boy. Nick Adkins and wife. Twenty-fifth and Jefferson, December 18, a boy. Elmo Wisegarver and wife, 1304 North Kansas avenue, December 18, a boy! Ooorgp L Whitlock and wife, 913 West Sixth street, Dtcember 14, a boy. Georgo Beier and wife, 122 Quincy street. December 18, a boy. Clay A. Sanders and wife, R. D. No. L8, December 19, a girl. John Spillman and wife. Soldier township, December 6, a boy. William A. Morris and wife, 368 Shawnee, December 22, a girl. George C. Cobbe and wife, Topeka, December 21, a girl. German General Dead. Amsterdam. Dec. 23. The death of the German General Carl Jung. at Thiancourt, France, is announced by the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin. Death was due to apoplexy. General Jung for a time was governor of East Flan ders. Subsequently he was comman der of a brigade of infantry reserves. i Its beauty will never grow less; its value will increase year after year. As a gift it is unexcelled. Our judgment of many years in buying and importing diamonds is your assurance of a good selection. Our Christmas display of Diamonds and Diamond jewelry is of great interest, and priced remarkably low. We would be pleased indeed to have you inspect our display. Make This a Diamond Christmas Only the Best Is Good Enough to Give Diamond Lavallieres, $7.50 up A beautiful little sparkler, genuine ClQ OC (Genuine cut stones, not chips) perfect cut diamond, gentleman's ring pl Diamond Lavallieres, $35 values for $27.50 The same sized diamond, Tiffany setting. .$17.50 (An exceptional value, exquisite design in lavalliere An extra good diamond value is the Cf and heavy, durable chain) stone we are offering at )JI DU Diamond Rings, $10.00 up, Tiffany setting Set in gentleman's ring for only $39.25 Gentleman's Diamond Ring, good heavy rfQ Of And a favorite with every one is our splendid JCf gold ring, Diamond, snappy white stone !ptD diamond at. vOvl Ladies' ring, same Diamond, only $7.50 Any setting desirad may be arranged. Let Us Suggest Diamond set Diamond set Diamond set Diamond set Ir SNAP SHOTS T HOME NKWR New coin at State Savings bank for Christmas presents. Adv. The Itev. M. L. Robey will speak In the Santa Fe new mill Friday noon. The finance committee of the Bob Johnson revival will meet this evening at the Third Presbyterian church. A gospel meeting was held in the Santa Fe machine shops today, an ad dress being made by A. E. Peterson. Xotice has been received that the advance man for the Bob Johnson re vival will arrive some time next wefk i to prepare for the evangelist's com pany. "The Little Swedish Church on the Hill," new book of short stories. Post paid 35 cents. Benefit new church. Address Bethel Building Fund, Lock Box 46, Topeka. Adv. The senior class of the Topeka high school will give a Christmas tree party this evening at the home of one of the members at 1238 Polk, street. The party will commence at S o'clock. A union prayer meeting will be held this evening at the Third Presbyterian church at 8 o'clock. The Itev. J. Youngman, pastor of the East Side Methodist church, win be in charge. "Lutfisk" will be on sale at the Christmas food sale which will he con ducted by the women of the Swedish Bethel church Friday at the store of C. O. Johnson. 1123 West Sixth street. George H. Hoyea gave an old-fashioned popcorn party for the men in thv- dormitory last night. The guests were transported from the 'Y" in an automubile belonging to Charles Wie renga, Clarence H. Ream arrived in To peka Wednesday for a few days' visit before going to Hiawatha, Kan., where his parents now live. He is principal of the Anthony high school at An. thony, Kan. Bob Johnson will come from Red Bank. N. J., to Toj. ,ka next week to commence his revival services. Dur ing his four weeks stay in that city he secured 1,080 conversions, accord ing to the Red Bank Journal. Frank Newland, commissioner of light and water, was authorized by the city commission today to put in a sprinkling system at the pumping plant west of the city. Mr. Newland stated that the installation of the sys tem would cost about $1,600. A boy in the window winding toys and keeping things going at the Mills store has been keeping a fascinated circle of toddling youngsters about the windows. The infantile envy of that boy's job is apparently as great as the desire to work in a candy store. Morning rervices at 5:30 o'clock will be held at the Swedish Bethel church Christmas. Special music arid a ser mon by the Rev. A. Liljengren will compose the early morning worship. The children's program will be given in the evening under the direction of the Sunday school. Nick Chiles, publisher of the To peka Plnindealer, who suffered an at tack of pneumonia last week, is im proving slightly according to Dr. O. A. Taylor, his physician. Yellow jaun dice set in this week and has ser iously threatened the patient but Dr. Taylor hopes for his recovery. Moving pictures of "The Good Sa- maritan" will be shown at the Railroad Y. M. C. A. Sunday aftrnoon at 3 o'clock illustrating a lecture by the Diam The Diamond Imparts the Real Christmas Spirit Pocket Knife Cigar Cutter Match Safe Watch Charms Easy Payments soc or$i.coecNow 821 Kansas Avenue. Toneka Rev. J. H. Crockett. The moving picture machine to be used is the only one of its kind in the city using pic tures 12 times smaller than the stand ard size or ten to the inch. The city commission today instruct ed George P. Hayden to prepare an amendment to the city plumbing ordi nance and the amendment was later drafted in the rough. As it stands at present it makes it possible for anyone who will put up a bond with the city and take out a license, to connect j vaults with the main sewer, j Morton Albaugh, clerk of the United States district court, has received the j printed trial docket for the Kansas City term of court which will begin I January 10. Most of the cases on the j criminal docket are due to sales of liquor without a government license and none of them is calculated to make a particularly interesting ses I sion. I Five teachers are out of the Topeka i high school, sick. The supply of sub- stitutes has run out and Principal A. J. i Stout has been employing visitors from Other schools to keep things running. Calling cards, engraved and printed, j are being ordered by Topeka high school seniors to send out with their commencement invitations next Jan uary. The c!ty license department, pre sided over by George Mattingly, is go ing to show an increase of about $2. 000 over last year's business. Perhaps when all of December's license money is applied the total increase may ex ceed that. Mr. Mattingly has a lot of lags on hand for taxi cab drivers and transfer men and there is still $300 to come in this month. The Topeka postoffice will remain open until noon Christmas day and one delivery cf the regular mail will be made during the morning. Parcel post deliveries will be made all day. The department has kept ahead of the rush since it began last Sunday and is in excellent shape. PostoiViee officials do not believe there will be any rush from now on that will cause a ddny in the deliveries. Relatives of Henry Claar of 400 East Seventh street, who has been r-erious!y ill for the past two weeks, have been called to his bedside. Five sons. Earl. Zarl, Sam and Herman of Rexford, Kan., and Arthur of Phil lipsburg: and two daughters, Mrs. Lola Cullison and Mrs. Mary Barons of Council Bluffs, la., are here. Lnrlc Claar of Council Bluffs. la., another son is expected here today. The Central Y. M. C. A. will hold a Christmas tree party tonight at 6 o'clock. The children will assemble at Redden chappel at 6 this evening and will be returned to the chapel as near 8 as possible in order that their mothers will not worry. A bag of cand, a ball of popcorn and a toy will be given to each child. The men liv ing in the "Y" dormitory are backing the party. Blinded by the glare of the sun reflected by the mica curtains of Dr. T. R. Hyatt's automobile, C. G. Carl son drove his car into the doctor's machine. Dr. Hyatt was attempting to cross in front of the approaching automobile at the corner of Clay and Third streets. In his ctr were Cath erine Rossiter, Ella Fitzgibbons and Hedouin? Hyatt. No one was injured. The rear of Dr. Hyatt's car was struck, bending both ihe front and rear axles and knocking off a wheel. Powder Mill Explosion. Wilmington, Delaware, Dec. 23. A black powder rolling mill of the Du Pont company at Hagley Yard, ex ploded this afternoon. According to officials of the company, no on was killed or injured- Diamond set Signet Rings Diamond set Cameo Rings Diamond set Ear Screws In fact, hundreds of diamond set jewelry pieces. Ail You Need Is RAIL MENADJOURN Shorter Hour Schedule Will Be Demanded From Roads. Chieagro Conference in Session Since 15th of December. Chicago, 111., Dec. 23. Their con sideration of demands to he made of j all the railroads in the country for i shorter hours having been completed, I the representatives of the four great railroad brotherhoods left here today for their homes. The demands which are to be presented to the railway 1 heads before the expiration of- the j present contracts with the employees next April mark the first time in tho history of the several organizations in which they have acted as a unit in 1 their effort for fewer hours or higher i wa etcs. On the conference of labor chief! which began December 15. the heads I of the Brotherhood of locomotive cn glneerr, the Brotherhood of Locomo j tivft Firemen and Enginemen. the i Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors took part. j In substance the demand which is t t be presented to the railroad officials is for the installation of a uniform working day of eight hour through i out the railroad service in place of th present ten-hour any. BULGARS' SIDE GF IT Russian Attack Reported on Black Sea Coast Is Not Confirmed From Sofia. Berlin, Dec. 23. What is apparent ly the Bulgarian version of the recent naval encounter on the Black sea coast j which was followed by reports that the Russians were landing troop there is contained in a Sofia dispatch given out by tho Overseas News i agency as follows: "Four Russian torpedo boat destroy ers approacht'd a Bulgarian torpedo i boat and attacked hr. The torpedo boat answered tho Russian fire and Bulgarian coast batteries also took j part in the engagement. The destroy ers shortly withdrew. The torpedo boat was not damaged. SEIZED MAIL SACKS British Take 18 From Berlin, 11 I-Vom Constantinople and 10 From Sofia for Censorship. New York, Dec. 23. The steamer Rotterdam, arriving at New York to day, from Rotterdam and Falmouth, rptinrtp.l that while detained at Fal- mouth for two days the British au thorities took 39 saeks or mail ashore. 18 sacks from Berlin. 11 from Con stantinople and 10 from Sofia. Captain Baron in vain protested that the seizure was illegal and was obliged to accept a receipt for the mail. He was assured, however, that after the mail had been censored, it would be sent by another steamer. Carving Sets at Forbes. Adv. Mr "n A 5 1 V

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL-THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1915 h 'if m hn JVt?V o V Pi I I XXX. ml SANTA'S SECRET OUT To the Public: Some time asro I discovered something' that has proven very valuable to me. At first I was a bit selfish and decided to keep my great secret to my self but of late my conscience has troubled me so much that I have decided to tell all. If your hands and face are chap ped, your skin roug-h or if you are ashamed of your complex ion on account of blotches and eruptions use Monarch Face Lotion. There is nothing that equals it 23 and -"0 Cents Scld Everywhere Manufactured by uler Chemical Co. 114 Kansas Ave. Not merely something you ray ir.cney for and exchange to settle gift debts but Why Eat at Home? rv IL A Chicken or Turkey Dinner 25c There will be no work at home, therefore you can attend the matinee or visit friends and really enjoy yourself. The Royal Cafe 427 Kansas Ave. Regular Meals 20? $5.00 Tickets ?4.50 3.30 Tickets $3.G0 Gifts- Gilts the Other Fellow Can Use The Kind You Can Select at the 1818 End of the Telephone High grade Stationery. Cards for all occasions. Hundreds of "Useful" articles for both men and women. Fountain Pens, (real ones.) Memorandum Eooks. Pocket Diaries. Ever-Sharp Pencils. aper Baskets. ml cpc Our Store I3 Open Evenings Office Supply DeWit Hagar, Mgr. 509 Kansas Ave. Tcpeka. XMAS SPECIALS TPTICTfl ox structural and mechanical parts, I 5 UV IVJ gears, pulleys, sprockets, shafting, steel beam?, etc. Made to gauge and are absolutely interchangeable. Celling until Christmas at a 20 per cent dis ounr. HIKE A motor free with each No. 3 or larg-er set of irtructo. ELECTRIC LAMPS A large variety to se lect from at prices from $3.50 to $35.00. Miladies' Reading Lights, $4.00 Wallace Suction Lights, $2.00 and $2.50. Children's Soldier. Cowboy. Broncho Girl. Indian, Boy Scouts, Leath r and Anpora Chaps- all moderately priced. Hand sewed Indian Mocrasins for every member of the Prices range from 85c to $2.00 a pair. STRIKING BAGS Fifty different s-y'.es to wlect from at to per cent to 30 per cent off the regu lar prk'f!. This offer until Christmaa only. A complete stock of athletic and iportsman's supplies and equipment. H. B. HOWARD CO. 716 Kaasas Ave. Ijjreest ami Most Complete Sporting Goods Hon. in Topeka 4S Three More Bargain Days 41 373 If a hiijh grade Piano, or Player Piano at half price will interest you, come to the last three days of our closing out sale. Easy terms. We are too busy to say more. Bell Bros. Music Co. That Afford a Lifetime of Pleasure Diamonds assl Watches A DIAMOND Gift Means More Than Words Can Express They carry a message of penuine affctlon and regard, clearer and plainer than printed charac ters or spoken superlatives. The impression has been made with many peo ple that they "can do better" in selecting Dia monds from the Morehouse s-tock than elsewhere. We are trying, heart and soul, to live up to that reputation. As evidence we quote a few specials in pure white, snappy Diamonds. 3 karat .$125.00 U karat $35.00 i2 karat $S5.00 y8 karat $18.00 3 8 karat $65.00 Hamilton Watches The last word in watch manufacture is the product of the Hamilton Factory- Dependable excellence and time keep ing qualities are in the Hamilton at $20.00 20 Year Gold Case 16 Size The New "992" Hamilton Movement 21 jewels, fully adjusted. A movement that will "fill the bill" in any railroad $32.50 Ali Diamond Prices Quoted Here Inc'udes Mounting in Any Form of Jewelry Desired MOREHOUSE, Hi Watch Inspector If yotTre hurried and worried about what to get. come to this store and we'll help you set tle the gift question speedily and satisfac torily. Our displays are not so large as to be distracting and make than ever, but you can readily choose a suit able remembrance for anyone you wish one that will please them and you, at whatever price you want to pay. Gift Suggestions Xeat Manicure Sets, in pearl and bone, at ....$3.50 to S9.0O Handsome Toilet Sets. in ebony. set ....$3.50 to $6.50 Military Brushes in ebony, set .$2.0O to $5.00 Hat, Clothes and Hair Brushes, Combs and Parisian to $3.50 Mirrors, Ivory.. $2 Infant Sefcs ..$1.00 to $2.50 Tobacco and Ciar Jars ..$1.25 to S3.50 Playing Cards, in leath er cases. 50c to $1.50 Themios Bottles, all sizt's. for ...SI. 00 to $5.00 No. 1 Folding Pocket KodaK, takes pictures 2 X3 i price No. 1-A Folding Pocket Kodak, takes pictures price Xo. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak, takes pictures 314x4. price Xo. 3-A Folding Pocket Kodak, takes pictures 3 "aiXD price Xo. 3-A Special, fitted with special lens, price $10 .$12 "ockot courea $17.50 Pocket ctures $20 fitted $65 thrtifinaa fe $6 VFST POCKET KO DAKS small and con venient; accurately re cording any event; pic ture l-x.:. price We have just re ceived a choice new line or kodaks and sup plies. We do expert print i n g and developing speedily and satis fac tor! II y. Geo. W. Stansfield 632 Kanas Ave. un-iiji'iiijijijiiiiigjiiijiijijijiunjuti Any of These Would Make An Excellent Gift Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Lamps that Celerette La Floor Lamp, were $4.75. now ONLY were JS.OO. now ONLY were J7.5 0, now OXLY were $8.00, now OXLY were $S.25. now ONLY were 59.00, now ONLY were $10.00, now ONLY were $12.00, now OXLY were $13.00, now ONLY... were $15. "0. now OXLY were 116. CO. now ONLY were $18.00, now OXLY were $19.S0, now OXLY... were $23. 09. now OXLY... mp. was $12.00, now ONLY. was $18.00. now ONLY .S :i.80 4.0 6.00 fi 4f 6.6O 7.20 S.00 9.60 10.83 12.00 12.80 14.43 15.60 20.00 y.tio 14.40 Telephone 768 The Topeka Electric Co. "Quality First 81 6 Kansas Avenue 8 1 6 Opposite Santa Fe Depot, Topeka, Kansas Bring Your GIFT TROUBLES to This Store Kodaks Make Practical and Appreciated Gifts Everyone enjoys pic tures a nd more espe cially those showing the likeness of some friend or loved one or any in teresting event in which they or their friends have had a part. A Kodak is convenient and will instantly record the replica of any scene or occasion you wish to preserve. It is the source of never ending and continuous pleas ure and gratification. Our line of kodaks, films and supplies is complete in every de tail. Kodak prices ransje from $L up. We quote herewith prices on some of the popular sizes. Lamps of Every Description at Sacrifice Prices Lamps of every description and lamps at every price. Roman Geld finish, Antique Brass, Vene tian Bronze, Bras Lamps with Glass and Metal Shades. Wocdcn Lamps with Art Glass Shades, Verde Finish Lamps, Ivory Finish Lamps, Mis sion Lamps, Floor Lamps, Celerette Lamps, etc tc -V FYesli For Christmas This vear a usual the IDEAL'S candy will "reien supreme." Rep resenting as they do the highest achievements of the candy maker's art, and being made in one of the cleanest and airy candy kitchens to be found anywhere, it is winning an enviable reputation among lovers of good candy. In our Chocolates the center of each piece of candy is made with the greatest of care and the best selected, wholesome ingredients that it is possible to buy. The result is the luscious, palatable morsel that has become so popular here. Always Fresh Always in the "pink" of condition. THE PRICE Is very reasonable and especially will you find this true when you com pare these candies with others. THE VARIETY is practically anything one could wish for the best way to make your selection is to look it over. ICE CREAM FOR CHRISTMAS We will have an excellent line of Brick and other ice cream for Christmas. IDEAL BAKERY 121 WEST SIXTH ST. in' Plant Your Christmas Tree Now. Join Our Christmas Savings Club. An Unusually Attractive Way of Saving Is Pre sented Through Our Christmas Savings Club SOME OF THE PLANS OF THIS CLUB RUN FIFTY WEEKS Class 2 A Deposit 2c; increase each week 2c; total $25.50 Class 5 A Deposit 5c; increase each week 5c; total 63.75 Class 5B Deposit $2.50; decrease each week 5c; total 63.75 Class 2B Deposit $1.00; decrease each week 2c; total Class C Deposit 10c each week; total 5.00 Class D Deposit 25c each week; total 12.50 Class E Deposit 50c each week; total 25.00 Class F Deposit $1.00 each week; total 50.00 T ie ab-ve plan made many a home in Topeka a Truly Merry Cnristmas th year. Btnn now and see the truits it will bear Caristmas 1916. Teach your children to Save. Our Christmas Savings Cub makes it easy. For further information and expla nation of other plans, call on our savings department. 1 C T BaiiK oi i opeica Phcne 180 fi 1 II f it .Wi.

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THE TOPEKA -DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23. 191f NO APPEAL iS LEFT I. C. C. Ruling on Interstate Kates 3Inst Be Accepted. The Conference at Omaha "Was Barren of Results. VQRSE IS YET TO FOLLOW Application for Hike of Intra- state Rates Expected. It Granted Again There Could Be 'o Appeal. roads desire to conttat a ruling, how ever, they may appeal to the courts under the plea that a decision Is con fiscatory. ihat is the situation which faces the states affected by the recent ruling in the western passenger rates case. Had the states won before the commission, the railroads might have enjoyed the right of appeal and a rehearing of the case. But the hearing before the fed eral commission was the last call to the dining car, so far as the states af fected by the rate hike were con cerned. The Worst Is Yet to Come. Xow there is an even more grave and serious situation to be confronted. All of the western states face the fil ing of petitions reciting discrimina tion in the establishment of the new interstate rates. That means applica tion of the Shreveport decision and an almost certain increase in state rates. The matter of determining discrim ination between state and interstate rates will also come before the inter state commerce commission. By the same token which denies to the states the right of appeal in the interstate rates case, they will be denied appeals under the petitions to apply the Shreveport decision to state rates. Just at this time, though, Helm will not predict the results. But there is a lack of confidence and hope and fight i The railroads are coming hack in their own. There is apparently no appeal from the interstate commerce commission's tulinc. increasing interstate passenger "rates and the new order may be ac-t among Kansas utilities commission at--epted by western states without a taches and and Kansas must apparent Contest. That is the report wnich A. y st back and await both the ap K. Helm, rate counsc: for the Kansas preaching- increasing interstate rates utilities commission, brought to theun trie new state rates which seem Htate commissioners Today, following certain to follow. a conference of western utilities com-i The new interstate rates are effect mission representatives in Omaha. I jve January 15. Shortly after they are With tm increase in interstate pas- made effective, it is reported, petitions senger rates, the state commissions will le filed with the commerce com now view with dread the apparently j mission alleging discrimination. It is approaching increase in intrastate then the states must fino" a source of rates. That the application of the j relief or yield to a second passenger Shreveport rate decision to the passen- rate increase. ger rate case will be made at an early date, is the judgment of every western authority on the rate question. nil Helm todav declinec to forecast th situation or to make a statement of the probable results, he admitted that I "the matter was discussed informally" Railroad Employee Convicted of Miir- and that action looking to an increase in state rates is anticipated. The apparent helplessness of the state commissions is said to have been admitted at the Omaha conference. A committee was iippoj n ieu iu i n tfn j gate th opportunities for opposition to the federal commission s rulings. Yet 1 none of the representatives in the Xe-j bra ska conference was able to offer a solution. j Xo Chance for Appeal. j "I am not ready at this time to say what steps will be taken.' said Helm, who returned today from Omaha. "That is a matter for the committee to work out. As ;.et, though, no method of appeal from the commerce commission's decision has been sug gested." It is impossible for the various states to take their troubles to the supreme court of the United States. No appeal fr.m the srates is provided under the law creating the commis sion. The law assumes that the ship per or the passenger will be protected by the commission. Should the rail- SI SERVE LIFE SENTENCE drr of Follow Workman In Sec ond Trial at Glenwood Springs. IT WILL BE PAVED Resolution Covering Garfield Street From Eighth to Ainth Is Passed Unanimously by th? City Commission. The fact that William Kerl, who doesn't live on Garfield street, was protesting against paving that street from Kighth to Xinth brought a big delegation of property owners from that locality before the city commission this morning. The street will be paved. The resolution providing for it was adopted by a unanimous vote. The street referred: to is just west of the grounds of Christ's hospital and as the hospital is opposed to the paving it would be impossible to get a petition through signed by a majority of the property owners. Kvery prop erty owner residing in the block signed a petition for the paving while owners of vacant lots and nonresident owners I filed a protest. Mr. Kerl represented a daughter who owns one and one- half lots in the block. j When the matter came up for dis- I cussion before the city commission, E. J W. Xellis, representing Christ's hos- j pital, asked for permission to speak. I He stated that the hospital had paid j municipal taxes ranging from $1,200 a, i year down and that it was an imposi tion on the institution to load it up with taxes again when they had been brought down to a reasonable amount, i He stated that the hospital asked for ence," says the Westminster Gazette, j a little breathing spell. ..B a, ordinary precedents, Austria! A X. Goodman, who lives m the is left b t om; u t concession to block, spoke for the resident property the American demands, and that la. i commissioner. It wouid be impae- bible to secure a. majority of the prop- t erty owners at any ume With the hos- pital opposed to the paving. The law gives the commission auiiiurity to pave by resolution when it deems it to be to the best interests of the city." "Well, if I'd known that," replied Mr. Kerl, "I woulon t have wasted my J time working up a protest and seeing j a lawyer. Good-bye." And he left the hall. j There was also a protest on file i against the paving of Fourth street from Clay to Buchanan, signed by j eight property owners. But there were no protestants present while there was one woman present favor- ing the paving. The resolution pro- j viding for that paving was adopted. j The commission also adopted reso- j lutions providing for the paving of Fifth from Buchanan to Lincoln, of Eleventh from Lane to West and of Xinth from Madison to Monroe. j Resolutions were read for the first time calling for the paving of Xinth from Lane to West and Eighth from Morris to Summit. A petition, prop erly signed, calling for the paving of Madison from Eleventh to Twelfth j was granted. j CAN NOT EVADE ISSUE Austria Will Yield to Demands Rather Than Sever Relations, Thinks West m ins tor G a zette. So 77 fa ff 1T sreresuons ror Late covers If you're in doubt, you'll sure'y find something from the many attractive gifts that we can suggest London, Dec. 23. "America clear ly has made up her mind there shall be no repetition of the evasion which attended the Lusitania correspond- owners. i "Everyone living in the block has j built a good home and is spending i his money in Topeka," he said. "We are all heartily in ravor of this pav i ing. We endorse anything in the way of civic improvement.'' I John Dolman, who owns property on Garfield, tavored the pavin Glenwood Springs, la., Dec. I he 1 dprlnrprl that the block referred to second trial of Francisco Guidice alias! was a swamp in bad weather and that Henry Wiley, a Greek railway em- the fire department was mired there j ployee for the murder of Howard i once for half a day I Jones, a railway fireman, at Council ..lf we had known we were going to j Hluffs. Iowa. May 27. 1913 resulted in i have so much trouble getting that I a second conviction, the jury -return- street paved-" he said, "we might as' ing a verdict late last nignt Guidice s weH haye turnert the houses the other! breaking off diplomatic relations. The Gazette believes it probable Austria will conciliate the United States rather than take an extreme step, as recall of the American am bassador would be an injury to the central powers, whose present dispo- eition, it says, is to keep on as good terms as poEsime witn America. punishment onment. was fixed at life iiupns- way and facc( them on the alley. They face on an alley the way it is any- former Territorial Governor Teal. wa. WILL WAIT FOR REPORT France Won't Answer Vnited States Xote Vntil Commander of Ship Issues Official Statement. Long Beach. Calif.. Dec. 23. Judge t j Washington. Dec. 23. Ambassador A. J. Seav. formerly territorial gov- i he commission gave everyone an t-T.arp, at fans, today notified the ernor of Oklahoma, died at his home opportunity to speak but few took ad- state department that France would not reply to the American note pro late last night. He was 83. Judge vantage ot it. just as tne motion was Seay was appointed territorial gov- put to adopt the resolution Mr. Kerl ernor of Oklahoma in lSi2 and served j secured the floor. a term of two years. During the pre-! "Is it a fact." he asked, "that the ceding two years he was supreme commission can force that paving judge of the territory of Oklahoma, j through even though the petition is Judge Heay served a term as judge of! not signed by a majority of the prop the circuit court of appeals of the j erty owners and even though part of eastern district of Missouri, beginning j them are protesting against it?" his duties in 1SSS. "It is a fact," replied W. G. Tandy, esting against removal of German? and Austrians from American vcfS'Mp from high Fear by the French cruiser Descartes until the commander of the warship had reported. The French government is endeavoring to secure a report from the commander. "Daisy" Air Rifles With Pump Action The boy will be immensely tickled with one of these. They work like a "22" and look like one besides. Twcniy-five shots Q Afl without reloading. Price pU.VU "Daisy" Single Shot Rifles The old favorite air gun. Nickel-plated barrel 75tf and walnut stock. Price "Daisy" Thousand-Shot Rifles Here's a lover action repeater that shoots 2 PvO etrong and far. Price p.L.JJ Sturdy Wagons $lto$3 We've just ten oof these nice looking red wagons. One of them will surely please the active, out-of-doors boy. They have nicly decorated sides and strong wheels. Sizes 22 inches to 36 inches long. Prices.. $1 to $3 Coaster Wagons Oval Oak" Roasters Here's a heavy steel larpe roaster that will brown your roast to perfection. It's self -basting and self- a p browning, too for fr)C asters The self-basting and self-browning "Savory" makes de licious gravy none of the flavor can escape. Carving These substantial wooden coasters have removable siclos, running gear and strong iron mounted wheels. QO f( Price, 32-inch bed, $3; 36-inch bed an heavy d $4.00 Hand-Car Racers Just the thing for the alert, wide-awake boy. It'll givei him the finest kind of exer cise out in the fresh air. Price Lunch Boxes One of these would be a boon to the man who carries his lunch. He'll enjoy steaming hot coffee from the vacuum bottle in winter and ice cold drinks in the summer. JP Price pioiJ rine uut'ry at r oroes. aciv. Ill Mswrisn WE 1 mmJJW MlESi With Trays of aluminum H AT X M ICS. II .rsSKS--- lOOO a foot treadle jamm a oosimas surprise vmmffl Gtitm TT PSfe The W. A. L. Thompson H n Here at the Last Minute! T m 61 w, 3 Kansas Ave. ...c,. HI !J ntiiri.R o. pB lj S S3 Todny and Tonight yS M M Tli i s You'll like our handsome Carvers with buffalo horn or antique ivory handles. We've fifty patterns to choose from. Prices $1.75 to $8.00 Use a Flashlight fT5i??st;' t swi 2i DON'T GROPE IN THE DARK The boy always delights in an "Ever-Ready" flashlight the older ones like them too. They're always usefuL Vices 75 c to $3 Ante mobiles Even the girls like these rubber tired automobile wagons. They have loud ratchet alarm steering wheel and are driven with P 1 AA V Price We Have Secured a Tremendous Sliipmei HIGH-GRADE CUT GLASS We Bought This at 66c of the ReguW Standard Prices, and In Order That Our Patrons May Share Mutua ly With Us, ardware Co. 511-513 Kansas Ave. 7 T T M 1 1 Piece at 33lA Less A big manufacturer of Cut Glass had a large quantity on hand now when the biggest part of the Christmas pur chasing has been done. This concern was anxious to dis pose of it in a lump sale and for cash. WE MADE THEM .AN OFFER so low that we hardly expected they would ac cept it but THEY DID This beautiful Cut Glass is now Than Wholesale! in our store and this morning goes on sale at prices so low that you would hardly believe us if we told you the exact price of every piece in advance. But come early today and see for yourself. Pieces of every size and description. Just the thing to fill in the last items on your Christmas gift list. This Store Vill Be Open Tonight and Tomorrow Night and through All the Rush our prices remain Uniformly Lower Everything the market af fords is here for your selec tion and extra help to serve you promptly n "I lbs Best Granu- C 1 lated Sugar (With S4.00 order ot other f-rocciics or Moats) in p ii inimiiii mi i i imiiiiMii -n,T in H'V r- III llll 11.11 II M ft SS$f Geese, live lb. 15c; picked, lb. 18c Ducks, live. lb. 15c; picked lb. 18c Mistletoe, lb. 20c; Holly, lb.... 15c Christmas Trees, each 50c and 25c Wreaths Holly and Arbcrvitae, each 20c Fresh Oysters, fancy Connecti cut, pint 2 jc; quart -15c Fresh Oysters, Selects, pt SOe quart 55c Yonns Hens, nice and fat, picked, lb 16c Choice Veal, this veal is the very best milk fed, just rif-'ht. Steak 25c; roast 18c; stew 12 54c Apples, best quality and assortment on this market, peck 30c to 00c Today and Tonight Ltihin Feature lIioto-Play of William Yaughan MiMidy's Great American T'lay The Great Divide In Five Big Acts with Ethel Clayton and House Peters Produced at Grand Canyon Floor 10c, Children 5c. Tomorrow "TABLKS Tl'KXED" JOIN THE kisimas Savings Club For 1916 at e State Savings Bank 601 Kansas Ave. Ycu will need money for next Christmas and Taxes This is the easy way to have it. I,FGAfj. First pub)ifiliel in The Topeka State Journal, Thursday, lec. i, lyiS.J riionc 6C0 Miulheasl Corner Sixth and Jack-on Tully Marshall and Thos. Jef ferson in "The Sable Lorcha" ritrih Triangle and Kaymond Hitchcock with Ma-1 bcl Norman (I and Mack I .Sennctt, in I StoIen Majfic" j MOTION TO DISMISS A Hearing? on the Government's Ac tion in the Badders Case Will Be Held Some Time Next Month. Washington, Dec. 23. Motion for dismissal of the appeal in the Oeorye Badders case has been filed by tn government. A hearing on the motion will be hld some time next month. If sustiined by the coirt the Toneka man mu:st immetliately begin serving hia sentence. Firelesn Cookers at. Forh Ad XOTICK OF SAI-K V VNCLAIMED FUKMIHT. Notiw is bereby jrivea that I'nion Pa- eific Kailroatl 'ompany will on Kriday, 1 .Iii nun ry 14. lUlu. a t tn o'clock A. M.. noil the following flos-ribel property at its frelpht depot in tlie city of Topeka, Sliawnoe Comity, Kansas, at public auctiuu 1 to the Iiifriiest bidder: 9 pailH of stork food, 1 barrel paint, 1 j case advertising matter, cobbler's sew- I ing machinca, 1 barrel earthenware, 1 box groceries, 1 box household goods, 1 r-aak earthenware, ladders. 4 j bundles an to parts. 1 2-row lister, I 1' chairs, burlap. 1 wood s. tongue. 1 can j varnish, 1 barrel tumblers. 1 metal sign, 1 biirrel lubricating oil. 1 bundle gnl- rnnized pipe. 1 culf crate, 1 pail stock food. 1- cast s fertilizer, 1 bar. 1 crate paper I pads. 1 rolls rfg. papers. 1 empty oil barrel, j 1 bundle base, boxes cement, i 1 empty egg case, 1 box handles. 1 drum swwping compound, 1 Itfble stand. 1 wood sign, 1 box bolts. household gods, 2 boxes freezers. 1 piece timber. 1 roll wall paper. 1 can lubri cating oil. 1 box auto lamps, 1 piece pipe. 1 barrel stock powder. 1 c;iRk clothing. 1 basket asphalt. H barrois lubricating oil, 1 barrel vinejrnr. 1 cuse paint. Notice is further given that Tnion Pa- j jn wages, according to a report which rifle liailroad Company has a Hen upon wag verified thia morning by M. J. the above described property for charges n th ariPntnHriit and that the me has remained unclaimed D"?J the superintendent. In its possession for more than six (0)1 he wages are to increase Id cents months a. day every six months. The new UNION PACIFIC KAIL. ROAD COMPANY, schedule goes into effect January 1. ORPHEUM Today j Matinee 2:00 Hal. Nicht 7:i:-9:lo 5c 30 minutes of vaudeville J More than you can sfe in New York for a dollar TUP I If r SIAKTINa rill XMAS DAY OLIVER PLAYERS in HELP WANTED KIIIST TIMR 1IF.RE AT JLI3SS TIIA.V 1.50 PRK'ES l((-20-:t(i-; few at ROe. Mat. SHO wnts lOe: tew at 20e. liriHtniHH Mat. prices, 10-20-30C. Snle Suturtlny. NOVELTY SOUTHERN PORCH PARTY Musical Comedy Other Christmas A PHONE 1085 p. ni. Other Christmas Ac-Is PATHE NEWS 7:4.-.-i:i5 lo-2i-:i(., II. HANCOCK. Freight Claim Agrent. INCREASE IN WAGES After an apprentice has been employed The reason the boilermakers are given this hike is because their work is con j gidered heavier than some other forms j of Fhop employment. j No other general salary increases are i he i n r- nnrt.m n a rro r nreRonr nhiru The Systemof Automatic Advance- 0n Der mhf.r :5 the ment I'ut Into fcliect .monjr iio:i- onrt pinpi-s in th email ermaker ApprenUces at Shops. Mx townB a, we!1 as teleKraph opcra The boilermaker apprentices of the j tors and section foremen, were iven Santa Fa MhonM aj-a to be fiven a raise i increaiterL 1'lionc 617 ma MatXIght I GRAND x 1 DADDY mMG LEGS .A I'KKKS -Mat. -xtRiit se to s i.rn l'5f to 8I..-.0 He (nt 11 Ml V. M.i "Well, mlnry lor rwHi.aii.T. J-..M k:i..n.- Slie (xlfllna a vbwi.T Not t this hour, 1 tMi.iC'-l&.tia

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THE .TQPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 23, 1915 -It x --'Vjnrt'iltnriiiwi'-iai Sri Mnai hi mwti THE INSTRUMENTOF QUAMTY CLEAR AS A BELU yaffil mi agency for the Sonora Phonograph has been a matter of both pride and profit with us, and the exquisite Tone Qualities of this instrument are appreciated by all who have purchased from us pWWSf I ml Wflf iti i I IP Sonora $150 $10 dow n. $2 a Vwk. Definite official recognition has now been given by the Panama-Pacific Exposition to the superiority of the Sonora in Tone Quality, the Sonora having- been award ed not only the highest score for this feature, but they were the only phono graphs to be given special recognition for it. A Few Sonora Features fc- Tone and Tone Modifier. Lon?-running;, silent Motor. Marvellous construction of the Sound Box. Beautiful flowing lines of the Cabinets. Wonderful qualities of the Son ora Multi-Playing Jewel Needle. These features anil many oth ers combine to produce an un rivalled instrument. We hae an excellent stock of Sonora Phonographs to choose from, ranging in price from $35.00 to J300.00. i all and we will gladly demonstrate the superiority of Sonora Phon ographs, and when you are ready to purchase you will buy the best. NOTE The SONORA took FIRST PREMIUM at the World's Fair in San Francisco, 1915 one hun dred points PERFECT TONE. Will play any record Victor, Columbia, Edison or Pathe phone. Some agent3 selling other machines claim that the SONORA did not take FIRST PREMIUM at San Francisco over ALL other machines, and also claim the SONORA ma chine wears out the records faster than their own machines. We Will Give $50 To Any Charitable Institution If They Will Prove Either of These Statements A.A.HURDFUNERAL Services at the First 31. E. Church Largely Attended. Dr. Young Pays Tribute to Memory of the Departed. The funeral of A. A. Hurd. who died Monday morning of this week, was held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the First Methodist church. The service was attended by many friends of the deceased, and by an especially large representation from the Bar association, to which he be longed, "and by numbers of Santa Fe officials. Mr. Hurd was special coun sel for the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway company, and the legai department of that company at Chi cago was represented at the funeral by T. J. Norton, general attorney. Vv w w i i v j H l Small Monthly Payments Will Buv One! Ijet Us Send One of These In struments to Your Home for Christmas. nn Buying Slippers? 1 JtWr Ycu're Making No Mistake They're a splendidly acceptable gift and the large assortment offers you an op portunity to exercise a most discriminat ing taste. There are so many different designs, materials and trimmings that we feel cer tain we can please you. Ladies' Slippers $1.00 to $1.75 Gentlemen's Slippers 1.25 to 2.50 ALL THATS CORRECT IN FOOTWEAR jos Kansas A.vmnum 1 1 LOOK AT THIS! J. C. Wolcott's Adv. Friday You Can Buy Any Framed Picture in the House .OO TODAY and TOMORROW 25 will put a Box Camera in your home. 50 will put a Folding Camera in your home. These Cameras Are Guaran- TL 1 t if teed to Take Good Pictures.. 1 HUlK Of It Mr. A. A. Hurd, Whose Funeral Was Held Wdnesday Afternoon. The service was conducted by Dr. Benjamin F. Younc. who read the Methodist funeral service and deliv ered the funeral oration. He read a newspaper account of Mr- Hurd's death, which grave a brief review of his life. "The numbers of friends that are here totiay," he said, "are evidence of the respect and love with which Mr. Hurd wls regarded in his community. Ha; was a man of useful ness in his day, serving faithfully in the office he held, keeping before him a lofty ideal of loyal devotion to duty. That sense of duty and that high ideal were taught to him in his' early youth by his parents who were de voutly religious people. He was In tensely devoted to his home, and found it always the loveliest place in the world. "The mysteries of life and death appall us, when w-e see a man in the midst of the duties of a useful life, cut off from the world, but we refuse to believe that a mound of earth on the hilltop is the end of this man of affairs, this man of wide sweeping I intellect, of firm grasp on problems of the times, of generosity and ability. The deepest -instinct of the 'human "race is its fiiith in a higher life in an other world. "We have a sure hope that out yonder we will know the ex planation of theso mysteries." Er. Young quoted from the words of Cato, of the ancient Greek philosophers, of modern thinkers, and from the He brew scriptures, to make clear the universality of th&.t hope. The music for the service was fur nished by a quartette of singers. Miss Sara ivouns. Miss iSeiie Kouns, Mr. Darwin Bradley, and Mr. Waldo Hey wood and by Mrs. K. "H- Anderson, organist. The hymns rendered by the quartette were. "Lead Kindly Light,"-' "Rock of Ages" and "Abide With Me." The pallbearers were Judge W. R. Smith, O. J. Wood, A. A- Scott, Cieorge Holmes, Harlow TTurlov and Wesley Wills. Mr. George Willis Hurd. a brother of the dtcoascd and his two sons, Arthur Hurd and Bruce Hurd, all of Abilene. Mike Sutton, of Dodge City, an old time friend of Mr. Hurd, and Captain and Mrs. Dorsey Cullen, of Norfolk, Virginia, came to Topeka to attend the funeral. Burial .was in Topeka cemetery- Immense quanti ties of flowers surrounded the casket and banked the pulpit at the church." Mr. Hurd was buried on the thir tieth anniversary of his wedding day. He came to Kansas to practice law when he was a young man, after nrs graduation from Northwestern univer sity and the Iowa State university. He was regarded as one of the leading lawyers of the state, and was known over the country a-n authority on corporation legal procedure. He ts survived by his wife and one brother. FOXY GRANDPA IS DEAD Venice, California, Pays Tribute to Man Who Ixrved the City's "Kiddies" Best. Los Anireles, Cal., Dec. 23. Venice is a city of sorrow. All business was to be suspended this afternoon while the first funeral that ever passed through the streets of the beach re sort is held there. "Foxy Grandpa" is dead. The lovable old character of the beach, who has not been called by the name of Alexander Douglas for years, succumbed to the ravages of time at St. Catharine's hospital at Santa Mon ica, at the asre of 80 years. He was the fostor father of a thousand or more beach babies. Annually he held "birthday parties" at the Auditorium for the tots. The city trustees, on motion of Mayor Gerety. adopted a resolution to attend the funeral in a body. Douglas, who was for years a min istrel with Christy, Carncross, Dixey, Hooley and Haverly, is survived by a widow and daughter at Grand Rapids, Mich. INTO DRY RANKS SOON Prohibition Law Will Go Into Effect In Colorado When New Year Is Csliered In. I Denver, Colo., Dec 23. A week I from tomorrow Colorado will go dry. IThe prohibition amendment approved i by the people last year goes into ef fect as the New 1 ear is ushered in. Eleven breweries employing over a thousand men will either go out of business or enter the manufacture of near beer or other products. Sixteen hundred saloons employing at least 6.0U0 men will close. Over 40,000 persons, declare the liquor in terests, will be adversely affected in some direct financial way by the clos ing of the saloons. Evidence of the coming change was emblazoned on every saloon and liquor dealer's shop today. Signs advertised "Going Out of Business' sales of wet roods at half prices. Authorities promised that by next Friday practically everything would bs sold. 8,000 MURDERS IN U. S. Memphis, Tens., the Greatest Crime City In Nation; Reading, Pa., Safest Place to Live. New York, Dee. 23. Eight thou sand persons were murdered in the United States last year, 80 per cent of the victims being men. Memphis, Tenn., was the most dangerous of American, cities, from the homicide viewpoint, with a murder rate of 72.2 for every 100,000 of population. Reading, Ps, with a corresponding rate of one for 100,000, was the safest; New York had a murder rate of 6.1 for 100,000; Chicago's rate was 9.1. These and many other interesting facts are recounted in an article on "The Homicide Record of American Cities for 1914 which appears in to day's Issue of The Spectator, an in surance journal. ACCUSESA CUBAN U. S. Inspector Charges Island Consul With Stealing Wife, Both Admit That Woman Lived in Chicago Consulate. Chicago, 111., Dec. 23. S. M. Wilder, United States immigration inspector stationed at Buffalo, N. Y., Wednesday tioned at Buffalo N. Y.. Wednesday night caused the arrest of his wife and Calixto Garcia, the Cuban consul in Chicago. It is allegxl that the Cuban dilomat has introduced Mrs. Wilder as his wife, and that the two have lived together in the consulate. In accordance with international law. which prohibits the arrest of a foreign consular agent under munici al ordinances. Consul Garcia was re leased soon after ho had been taken into custody. He rofessed the deepest indignation and intimated that he will demand a public apology for his ar rest. The charges made in the war rants against both the consul and Mrs. Wilder were disorderly conduct. After his release, the consul gave a cash bond for Mrs. Wilder and es- j coned her back to the consulate. Mrs. j Wilder will.be given a hearing today; in police court. Mrs. Wilder protested that she was innocent. i"I left my husband, she said, "be- j cause he asked me to do things that 1 no good woman could do. Afterward j Mr. Garcia protected me. AH I fear now is mat my menus may misunaer- stand me and think I am a bad j woman." i Consul Garcia admitted that Mrs. Wilder had been a member of his I household, but denied that she or he j had been guilty of improper conduct, i I grave her shelter, he said, "be- j cause I wanted to protect her from S her husband. If she had used her j legal name in my home there would j have been gossip e.nd that is why I introduced her as my wife." Mrs. Wilder, it is said, formerly was a prominent society girl in Hamburg, Germany. Garcia is said to have divorced- his first wife. St. Joe Citizen Is Dead. St. Joseph. Dec. 23. Clayton D. Radford, forty-one years old, and a member of the city council, died today after an illness of st-veral weeks. He was a prominent Elk and was a lead er in politics as a Democrat. 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Mil VK VJLT II Jifm Ji WWW yG Buy Now Pay Later Save 10 to 30 Per Cent Buy All Your Gifts on One Bill 50c Down or $1 a Week Will Do J. te Great Christmas Reduction Sale NOW IN PROGRESS Belts for men. $3. Chains, vest, $2 to $8. 1 jivallieres. $2.50 to $:SOO. Cameo Pins, $10 to $25. Carving: Sets, $2 to SI 5. Chains, coat, $1.25 to S2.50. Chains, Waldemar, 92 to ST. Chains, solid (Told, S3 to $25. Bracelet Watches. $10 to $50. Beads, pearl and gold. $8 to $20. Baby lockets and Chains, $2 to $5, Baby Bracelets, $1.50 to $2.50. Chain and Knife Sets, $2 to $3. Chain and Pencil Sets, $2 to $4. h r. Gift Watches of Quality Gift Suggestions That May Appeal To You Chains, ladles', solid gold, $2 to $25. Cuff Buttons, solid gold, $1.50 to $20. Cameo Rings, $6.50 to $15.00. Chatelaine Pins, $2.50 to $5. Crosses, solid gold, $2 to $15. Cloth Brushes, $1.15 to $4. Cameras, Seneca. $6 to $18. Chests, Silverware, $4 to $50. Diamond Rings. $10 to $500. Diamond Set Watches, $15 to $20. Diamond Set Scurf Pins, $4 to $25. Diamond Set Cuff Links. $10 to $50. Diamond Emblem Rings, $13 to $125. Diamond Brooches, $5 to $300. I mbrcllas. gold. $3.50 to $13. KniMem Charms. $3 to $25. Emblem Buttons, 50c to $5. Kmblem Rings, $4 to $125. Kobs, silk and gold, $2.50 to $7.50. Fruit Knives, $2 to $5.50. Fountain Pens, $1.50 to $3. French Ivory Toilet Sets. $2 to $25. Knives, solid gold, $4 to $8. Knives and Forks, sets, $4 to $30. Indies' Watches. $10 to $70. Manicure Sets, $1.50 to $15. Military Sets, S3.50 to S3. Neck Chains, $1.50 to $10. 17-Jewel Elgin, $16.50 25-Year Gold Case Here is a watch for men that is without an equal at the price. 17 genuine Ruby Jewels. Regularly this watch sells for J25. Thin model. Just the kind you have been looking for. Guaranteed to run within 30 seconds a week. 50c Down and 50c a Week 21-Jewel Elgin, $25.00 20-Year Gold Case A watch any man would be pleased to own. 21 Daimond. Ruby and Sapphire Jewels, in gold settings, finely adjusted and one of the best in the Elgin factory. Get one today. $1.00 Down, $1.00 a Week M Save You u IV 10 to 30 jj Per Cent J 3SO DIAMOND RINGS FOR CHRISTMAS We place on sale about one hundred Fancy Diamond Rings for women. These Dia monds are pure white, perfectly cut, exceptionally brilliant, and mounted in hand made 14-kt. solid gold mountings. When you see these Rings you'll wonder how you have gone so long without a Diamond Ring when you can get such a wonderful bar gain as this for so little money, and that, too, on easy payments. It is a gift that any lady would be proud to wear. Come to Harris- Goar's and make your selection cf either plain, engraved or fancy mounting. Easy Payments, $1 Down, $1 a Week Gome Where Prices Are Down c cciar ss- 1 t i i 1 wlj n 1 i L 2 h i n 5 i tii Shaving Set. $.1 to $7.50. Suit Cuses. $S to $IH.P0. Watches. $3.50 to $110. Rings, set, $1.50 to $15. Guns, rifle, to $20. Platinum Broochen. $117 to $279. IVtirto, Necklaces, $5 to $12. Rings, signet, $2 to $15. Rings, plain band. $3 to $10. Rings, diamond. $10 to $50O. Silverware, complete linen in 1847 and Community. Toilet SetH, $3 to $25. Travelers' Sets, $2.50 to $13.50. Elgin Waltham Hamilton Hampden and Illinois Watches $17 Elgin, $9.95 Here is "everyman's" watch. Thoroughly guaranteed a Thin Model, Genuine Elgin, fit ted in 25-year Gold case. At such bedrock prices, on Kasy Terms, therms no reason why every person should not carry an accurate timepiece. 50c Down, 50c a Week to i i v m l i HARRIS OA 10 4 o E6th R. E. MARLING, Manager, Topeka Store YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD HERE OPEN EVENINGS R CO o c: 3 i j- i i

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10 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1915 A number of the Topeka young peo- j family will bo held Christmas in Hast ple attended a dancin? party in LiLW- in.tcs, Nebraska. Dr. and Mrs. Coston rence VodnpUiy niht, jriven by the 1 left for Hastings to be guests of their Crescent club at Kcke -s hail. The ball douarhter, Mrs. Frank Theis. Their room was decorated with mistletoe f other daughter, Mrs Walter Or. Shipe and holly and Christmas prreen, and j and Mr. Shipe, of Kansas City, will me party was onapemnea dv ito- also go to Hastings to spend the holi- fessor and Mrs Arthur Mac Murray and Chancellor and Mrs. Frank Strong". AmonK the Topeka people who were guests were: !iss Dorothy Crane, Mr. An h MeKeever, Mr. George Bailey and Mr. John Elliott. A reunion of 1 he Willis A. Coston In Topeka avenue. The party is an annual affair, attended by the same group of friends from year to year, and is lonked forward to by, the mem bers of the company as one of the pleasantest of the small, informal parties of the holiday time. The marria e;e of Miss Lail Bailey and Mr. Phillip Gray, both of Cha nute, took place Wednesday evening The Rev. E. A. Edwards, of Lawrence, went to Chanute to officiate at the marriage. Mr. Gray and his bride were both students in the State uni versity, Lawrence. Mr. Gray, who is a Beta Theta Pi fraternity man, was one of the football stars at K. IT. last winter. Mrs. Gray is a Kappa Alpha Theta sorority member. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gray have friends In Topeka. A fashionable wedding in Wichita the I Wednesday evening was that of Mto Katherine Brooks, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs- Charles H. Brooks, and Mr. Go to KARL AN'S With Your List NOW it's getting to the point whpre vnn atp sfinnnfra will be worrying not only about your buying but about the delivery of your purchases. We have made every possible preparation to help you; the goods are grouped to make selection easy; the prices are plainly marked, and the ery department is working rapidly and smoothly. ?K?U &&L deliv Solid Mahogany Candle Sticks 9 In. hich. rrtlucod to. pair. SI. 35 19 in. hih, rtMjuctMl to. pair. S2. 75 21 in. hif-'h, reduced to. pair. SS. 50 ASH TRAYS purse. Gitt for a be had as low as only All finishes and rices to suit your Gift for a man; can Ladies9 Writing Desks $6.95 Quartered Oak, only.. $4.98 $12. SO Mission Oak, only...SS.50 $22.50 Quartered Oak, only $10.25 Over 400 patterns to ROCKERS ranpre from 75c to $75. (4 Q!t $8.45 Leather Rocker.only Morris Chairs at Reduced Prices Into shipment Just arriving will be put on sale at iij reductions. See our bargains. A fl?d Morris chair for only V" Here are some Suggestions and Prices -WKfc Smoklnc SlnnrtH. Humidors. St.SO to lft.75 irtinK Tahlt-t Sfi.". to S12.VOO C hifrionier HPrtrnliM $18.75 to JR48.50 Hall and I'm lor Mirrors $5.95 to $38.73 days. Dr. and Mrs. Coston, Mr. and Mrs. Shipe and Mr. and Mrs. Theis and their baby, will make up family Christmas party. Miss Helen SDielman will entertain Throck Morton Davidson, which took very Informally tonight at a supper I place at eight o'clock at St. Paul's and Christmas tree party at ner home j Methodist church. .air. josepn cronneii, or l opeka, wno is now living in Kansas City, went to Wichita to attend the wedding and serve as an usher at the ceremony. Mr. Davidson is a graduate of Kan sas university, ard is now connected with the Guarantee Title Trust com pany, of Wichita. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Mis3 Florence Geddes, of Toledo, Ohio, and Mr. John U. Loomis. formerly of Topeka, which I took place last Saturday In Toledo, i The Loomis family lived in Topeka I for yars, when the elder Mr. Loomis i was connected with the legal depart I ment of the Union Pacific Railway I company. Mr. John Loomis attended the Topeita schools. After the family moved to Omaha, Mr. Loomis at i tended the high school in that city, and later was a student in Dartmouth I college. The bride is a graduato of I Smith college. j Mr- and Mrs. Loomis will spend I their honeymoon at the Geddes win i ter home in Glcnwood, Florida, and i the rest of the winter they will be in New York. Mr. and Mrs. H. lf. Loomis and their son, Alexander, of Oklahoma City, went to Toledo to attend the marriage. Mrs. Cyrus Monroe invited a few friends for an Informal tea Wednes day afternoon, complimentary to Miss Daisy Monroe. The guests were lim ited to a few of Miss Monroe's inti mate friends. Miss Monroe is taking special work in Columbia university. New York, and is in Topeka for a hnliHav vfit- to hr nftrpnts. -Tudsre and Mrs. Lee Monroe. They Bay it is next to impossible for any set of society people to give a par ty Just now, even if everyone were not busy finishing up the last Christmas presents. So many are falling by the wayside in the clutches of the grip. Every doctor is tired to death, and the druggists are dizzy counting the quinine pellets they have had to hand out. Some of the patients have been wise enough to surrender and allow themselves to be tucked In bed and doped with hot lemonade and other curative beverages, while the rest of the population drags itself about with utter weariness of spirit, driven to des peration by the thought of those last minute gifts that have to be hustled Mis? Isabelle Sweet, who came from Wednesday afternoon at the German Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mar where Lutheran parsonage, by the Rev. P. D. she is taking a finishing course, to Miller. The double ring ceremony spend the holidays with her parents, was read. The bride wore a tailored inr. ana .Mrs. a. h. sweet; Miss Lucile suit of blue cloth, with a corsage Dooley and Mis9 Ruth Scott, students bouquet of white and pink roses. A at the Slate Normal school at Em poria; Miss Ethel Chase, who is at tending wells college, Aurora, N. Y wedding supper was served at five o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Lutz, of Clay street. Mr. and Miss Lucile Rosen, who has been Mrs- Sutcerlin will be at home after spending the winter with friends in Arizona; Miss Sarah Bowles, who is attending the Pittsburg Normal school. January 1. in Alta "Vista. Mr. Charles Boon, who is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Boon, The officers for the A. R. O. S. are cm Pill-noi effort will return to Miss Genevieve McMillan, president; Albuquerque, N. M. Miss Elsie Saville, vice president; Miss Miss Rose Geiser, who has been Bess Cuddy, secretary, and Miss Sarah taking a course in elocution in Kansas Bowles, treasurer. city la visiting her parents, Mr. and v Mrs. J. Geiser, of Taylor street. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heil will cele- air. and Mrs. Fred Siegel will spend brate their golden wedding anniver- Christmas with relatives in Leaven- sary Christmas day. Their friends worth. are invited to call at their home. 127 J Mr. and Mn. F. J. Dreyer will go to Garfield avenue, during the afternoon Leavenworth for a visit to Mrs. and evening. Drcyer's sister, Mrs. John Struh, Fri- i day. Notes and Personal Mention. i Miss Ida Meyer, of Olathe, is visit Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lange of Den- ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William ver, Colo., arrived today for a holiday F. Meyer, 1734 Fillmore street. visit to their daughter, Mrs. Carl W. Mr. T. J. Norton of Chicago, general Xellis, and Mr. Nellis. attorney for the A. T. S. F. Rail- Miss Ruth Bauer, who teaches in way company, came to Topeka the high school at Great Bend, has Wednesday to tttend the funeral of arrived in Topeka to spend the Christ- A. A. Hurd. mas vacation with her parents, Mr. I Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kouns returned and Mrs. J. G. Bauer. home today from a trip to Chicago. Mrs. Robert Fullerton is visiting After Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Kouns, friends In Lawrence, Kan. Miss Nelle Kouns and Miss Sara Mrs. J. S. Collins of Los Angeles, Kouns and Charles Kouns will leave Cal., formerly of Topeka, left today for a trip to San Antonio, Texas. The after a visit to relatives in this city. Misses Kouns will stop in Dallas to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bunger will go vjsit relatives to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to spend M, George L. Jones, who attends will spend the holidays with her son Ferd Watts and family. Henry Carothers of Winfield avenue is confined to his home, suffering with an attack of the grip. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Benton of Green street will spend the weekend with Mrs. Benton's relatives in Wichita. Practice for the Christmas pageant will be held tonight at the Oakland Presbyterian church. Mrs. C. S. Ash and Mrs. George Caruthers are in charge. The meeting of the S. O. D. H. club which was to have been held this week has been postponed. C. R. Roberts is spending a few days this week with relatives and friends in Meriden, Kan. The annual Christmas exchange and social evening for the members of the Oakland W. C. T. TJ. was held last Tuesday night at the George Leery home in Green street. A 7 o'clock cafeteria luncheon was served by the ladies which was followed by a literary and musical program arranged by the program chairman, Mrs. Dora Shiner. Thirty people were In attendance. HER HAIR WASN'T RED Failure to Get Wife AVith Glowing Locks Wrecks Matrimonial Life of N. Y. Doctor. New York, Iec. 23. Failure to ob tain a wife who had red hair, a flat chest and lonsf fing:er3 is said to be responsible for the marital troubles of Dr. Lee Shoninger of this city. Mrs. Shoniner, who has none of these qualifications, made many ac cusations of cruelty against her hus band and was awarded a decree of separation bv Justice Goff- FRENCH BUY OUR BONDS Kulm, I.oob Succeed In Completing Negotiations In Paris for Cen. tral Pacific Paper. New York. Dec. 23. Kuhn, Loeb and Company announced today the completion of negotiations in Paris for the purchase of bonds of the Central Pacific Railway company which M controlled by the Southern Pacific company. The bonds are a 4 per cent issue and were sold in 1911 to French bunking interests principal and interest being guaranteed by the Southern Pacific The total amount of the issue is 250, 000,000 francs. Boys' Coasters nt Forbfs. Adv. Christmas with relatives. Mr. Ohio, will arrive Friday to Join Mrs. H V. M,i;t.. onhnnl Wont. Sii H'JVhllir.n, f. Zf?esU"e' worth. Mo., stopped in Topeka to vis it friends on his way to his home in Ahlborn and their little daughter v,iin Rpttv in a -wleit Mr. lhlhn,'. I ADliene. Morris Chairs "iockers. Kavenports. Parlor Suites S4 00 to SSS.75 75c to $75.00 .$14.75 to S12S.OO .$16.50 to $175.00 Library Tables SI. (15 to $05.00 Parlor Tables $1.75 to $58.75 Writing Desks $3.95 to $71.50 .-."n-iiis Tables and Cabinets. .$1.85 to $46.50 Piano BrnchM (8.75 to S35.25 Music Cabinet! 4).75 to 48.25 Readinic Lamps... S2.50 to S8.?5 Ollarettes $18.75 to $48.50 ipfess& U $2.95 SI 2.50 Music Cabinets, $6.75 Complete showing in Oak, Mahog any and Walnut, at all prices. One like cut, in Ma- ahnT 36.75 Oak and Mahogany Tea Wagons Also in Heed and Antique Mahogany. A handsome gift and very useful for the lady who entertains. A sptendid one, in Mahogany, fl1 O Kft for only tJ.A.UU mm ill $6.75 Open Tonight and Tomorrow Night Till 9:30 O'clock. Betty, in a visit to Mrs. Ahlborn's par ents, jvir. ana Mrs. vv. J Koehr. Miss Stacey Burgess of El Paso, Mr Warren Chaney of Sansas City w -P th- hoH-a with will be a guest at Christmas time of Dr. F. A. Koester left Wednesday ror t. iouis, mo., to join his family Miss Lottie Kelley and Miss Lulu Kel- i ley of East Sixth avenue. Mr. Alexander Squibb, wno is re turning from a. visit to the Panama- in a visit to relatives. They expect to Pacific exposition in San Francisco, return the latter part of next week Dr. and Mrs. J for a trip south. at. Louis, Mo. stopped in Topeka for a visit at the C. L. Work have left w- founs home, on his way east to They are now ini" Xork and Canada. Mr. ana mrs. sorter cs. look ox oui- Mr. Safford Chamberlain will leave phur Springs, Ark., will arrive tonight tonight to join his family In Chilli- to spend a month with their son. Dr. cothe. 111., to remain during the holi- J. O. Cook, and their daughter, Mrs. days. He has been visiting his par- James Cottrell. Mr. and Mrs. Cook ents. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Chamberlain, formerly lived in Topeka, and Mr. After the first of the year he will re- Cook was at one time sheriff of Shaw turn to Topeka, stopping on his way to nee county. Texas. Mr. Ernest Chamberlain, who Miss Mary MacLennan, who under, is taking a college and law course in went an operation, following a severe the George Washington university, attack of tonsilitis, in a San Francisco Washington, D. c, will remain in hospital some time ago, is sufficient Washington during the vacation sea- i iy recoverd to be taken to the Mac son; Lennan apartments in the Palace ho- r f.""11 .Springer and Mr. tei san Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Mac Ralph Holland will leave Friday night Lennan and Miss MacLennan have for Chicago. Mr. Holland will visit his been m the west since the first of No mother, and Mr. Springer will join b Finish Your Shopping Tonight Our Store Will Be Open Mrs. Springer, who is now in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Springer and Mr. Hol land will return in about a week. Miss May Gardner of Lawrence will spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Gardner. Miss Margaret Suydam, who is a student in Washburn college, has gone Mrs. S. Li. Courtney has returned from Fort Worth, Texas, accompanied by her niece. Miss Helen Burgen, who will spend the holidays at the Court ney home. Mrs. Emma Sells Marshall will leave Friday morning for St. Joseph, Mo., her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Suy dam. Mr. David Gray of Manhattan will arrive Friday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Gray. Dr. and Mrs. George Esterly and their son, George Robert, Mrs. C. E. out after the receipt of an unexpected fteI'y ,T motner- Mrs. A H to Leavenworth for a holiday visit to Lhert. BJewlll vlsit heJ, aa"ehters, Mrs. B. G. Voorhees and Mrs. Dorothy Hall. package. Ever so many sufferers who thought they had worn out their bad colds are "playing a return engage ment" with this leading character of the season, the grip. One woman who was to entertain her bridge club, received notice at the last minute that two-thirds of the i members would not be able to play, i and the available substitutes were in much the same situation. The case was almost as precarious as the one, now become historic in society annals, when a certain woman was invited to a bridge party and was ready to go, her place at the tables waiting for her, when she heard that her most cherish ed enemy was also a guest at the par ty. Immediately the fat was in the fire, and friend hostess had about the liveliest time of her career as an en tertainer in getting that place at the table taken on a five-minute invita tion. I- The meeting of Western Sorosls for December 29, to have been held at the home of Mrs. A. A. Godard, will be omitted. The next regular meeting of the club will be held January 22 in Memorial Hall. The members of the A. R. O. S., a high school class organization, will have a reunion Thursday, December 30, at the home of Miss Ruth Switzer. Among the out-of-town guests will be Hayden, all of Lawrence, will spend Christmas in Topeka with Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Esterly. Mrs. W. G. Colwell and Mr. O. G. Colwell of Lawrence will be Christ mas guests of the Clyde Miller family. Mrs. Colwell is Mrs. Miller's mother, and Mr. Colwell Is her brother. Mr. and Mrs. Hulbert A. Yerkes and EAST SIDE NOTES Items for this department may be phoned to 3915 or State Journal office. J The Christmas exercises at the Third Presbyterian church will be held Saturday night. Fred Borst of Poplar street is spending this week with his brother, Henry Borst, at Salina, Kan. Miss Marie Wortz is spending the their son. Marburg, will arrive Friday "oliaff B ner sisier mrs. tn vt.it vT-kw r.ar,- Ur Franklin, and family in East Euclid to visit Mrs. Yerkes' parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Marburg. Miss Verna Worley, who teaches in Dodge City, is visiting her parents, M r. an d M rs. G. F. Worley. Mr- and Mrs. Frank Snow and their little daughter, of Manhattan, are vis iting Mrs. Snow's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brown, of Lincoln street. They will go to Lawrence Friday to spend Christmas with Mr. Snow's mother and sister. avenue. The Loyal Women's class of the Third Christian church held their reg ular monthly business and social meet ing last Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. S. A. Sawyer, 708 Lake street. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Charles Yewell; vice president, Mrs. Frank Newland; secretary, Mrs. J. C. Russell; treasurer, Mrs. X. E. Morford; teach- Mr. and Mr3. Cyrus Monroe will go er, Mrs. S. A. Bradfield. Those in at- to McPherson to spend Christmas with tendance were: Mrs. Mary Voight, Mrs. Monroe's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Sawyer. Dr. and Mrs. Otto Kiene and their children, of Concordia, arrived today for a visit to Dr- Kiene's brother, Mr. L. L. Kiene and his family. Kansas City, are holiday guests of Mrs Lininger's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B, Larimer. I Miss Caroline K. Havenstein and Mr. W. A. Sutterlin, both of Alta Vista. Kansas, weie married at three o'clock Don't Forget Those SHpp For Father and Mother There Are No Gifts That You Could Buy at so Small a Cost that Would Bring Such Pleasure and Comfort to Those You Love as SLIPPERS. You Can Buy 00 For JL Prettiest Fur Bound Felt Slippers and Daintiest all Felt Cozy Slippers in all the wanted shades and Father's S ippers costs you only $1.25 up Choose a pair of warm Felt3, or those soft kid Slippers so restful, so delightfully easy to His tired feet. rf.fTJy sarnie s?fw& c. THE BIG SHOE. STORE 7 IS KANSAS AVE When You Were a Small ChUd Didn't You Dearly Love Pretty Shoes? it is no different today all children in all walks of life like Pretty Shoes best 60 why don't you let "Santa" fit yonr child at Payne's today? There yon will find the prettiest of chil dren's ahoes. Tou ean set tnm with tops of red. whlt, brown: vamp of shiny eolt-akln or of all white buckskin, drossy, durable, easy, smart broad to, with cute tassels at top. Baby's 50c to $1.00 Infants' $1.00 and $1.25 Child's $1.25 and $1-50 If yon prefer Extra High Cut Boots. youTl And in colored tops- leathers of dull osJf, patent eolt and kid. Prices $2.00 to $3.00 according to alas. Little Red Top Rubber Boots St. Nick's Newest Gifts for the small child Lined inside with feece for warmth $2.00 a pair. or a pair Red Felt Slippers that keep their feet snugly warm. 17 IT ck tef a daniy box of candy to rC P.r be given each child fitted here. THE BfG&HOZ STORE TtS KANSAS AVE. Mrs. Sarah Altman, Mrs. Charles Sheafor, Mrs. N. E. Morford, Mrs. C. A. Bradley, Mrs. Frank Newland, Mrs. S. A. Bradfield, Mrs. C. A. Horn. Mrs. C. E. Yewell, Mrs. J. C. Russell and TVTio fia wvfir Tho novt maoHTiir will Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lininger, of be held Tuesdav. January 11. Mrs. Hazel Morford will leave Fri day for her home in Arkansas City after a week's visit with her mother, Mrs. E. B. Jolley, and family. Mrs. Charles Cathers is reported se riously ill at her home in Lime street. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Stevens will en tertain with a family dinner Saturday at their home, 510 East ISinth street. Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Brown of Wich ita are spending the holidays here i with relatives and friends. j The annual Christmas exchange for the members of the Lotus club will be j held next Tuesday afternoon. j Mrs. C. A. Mattingly and son Ken- neth of Republican avenue have re- turned from a short visit with relatives in Kansas City. f Mrs. Mabel Lyons of Kansas City ar- j rived here today to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller. A house party for the members of the George Villee family will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Villee home in East Seventeenth street. Christmas exercises will be held Fri day afternoon at Lincoln school. The school closes Friday night for one week vacation. The members of the lota Gamma club will have their annual Christmas party and exchange next Sunday aft ernoon and evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hoover in East Ninth street. OAKLAND NOTES Items for tnls department mny be phoned to 3915 or State Journal office. Miss Belle Vanorsdol of Silver Lake I is spending a few days this week at the Karl Hummell home. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Pringle of Chey enne, Wyo., are spending the holidays with their daughter, Mrs. E. Kemp ton and family in Michigan avenue. Guests at the Frank Smith homu in Wabash avenue Christmas day will be Mr. and Mrs. Frank Erennan of To peka. Mrs. J J. Caton and three daugh ters, Gladys, Hazel and Florence, will leave within a short time for Chicago to spend the holidays with relatives. Professor P. D. Roose, principal of the Ashland school, was a visitor Tuesday at the Oakland school. The following Christmas carols will be sung at the open air concert Friday afternoon by the pupils of the seventh and eighth grades under the direction of Miss Myrtle Hodge: Santa Claus son sr. Jov to the World. Merry Christ mas Bells, Silent Night, While Shep- j herds Watch Their Flocks by Night, T ittle Trtwn rt Fit Vi lVfm It fa mf L'pon the Midnight Clear. Christmas j i-ti r ah sr fa JtVinl l Mrs. William Watt of Arter Avenue left today for Knsas Citv. where a he rty-.if TW Store DiorflU 5lSS-f Tk. St.re 'or Prmctiul Shop by Mau FAULTS Everybody tins faults. Pride and van ity are the most common, a writer tells us that owinp: to them ever lieing spoken of sido hy side, many people suppose them to he different shades of the same. feeling. Vet, so far are they from being akin, they ean hardly find room in the same mind. The comparison drawn is that, "a proud man will not stoop to be vain and a vain man is so busy bowing and wrig&liiig to catch fair words from others, that he can never lift up his head into pride." However, a certain amount of self pride Is commendable. As for vanity, we hope it liasn't become manifest here. VVe want to know our faults. Perhaps you have faulted us for some thing that to this day we are not aware of, and have never been given an opportunity to "make good." If you have had occasion to find fault with our service or business dealings in any particular, don't hesitate to make It known. We will be glad to right anything in which we're wrong. U 59c Pearl Beads 50c Whlto filled beads in graduated sizes: fasten with tiny irold snap. Kach strand in handsome dark green case with satin lin ing. An Appealing Gift Suggestion Handsome Fur-trimmed Corduroy Coats Go On Sale Friday for the First Time at Reduced Prices They are fashioned out of plain corduroys, snow-flake corduroys, frosted corduroys and two toned corduroys in the desirable belted models with fur collars or fur trimmed collars of natural Racoon, natural opossum, natural Fitch and black dyed opossum. All are lined throughout with plain, brocaded or printed satin. The colors are tan, Copen hagen, navy, green, brown, grey and black. LOT No. 1 Consists of corduroy coats, all new this sea son. Formerly selling up to $22.50 DIVIDED INTO TWO LOTS LOT No. 2 Consists of corduroy $14.85 coats, all new this sea son. Formerly selling up to $29.50 $19.50 Reduced Prices On Some of Our Fine Coats $50.00 Rencontre Coats, the new fabric fur $29.50 39.50 Rencontre Coats, the new fabric fur 24.75 35.00 Rencontre Coats, the new fabric fur 24.75 35.00 Imported Zibeline Coats 27.50 32.50 Broadcloth Coats, fur collars 25.00 24.75 Plush Coats with fitch collar, satin lined 19.50 The White Coats Are Also Reduced White Coats formerly selling at $9.85, now $5.00 White Coats formerly selling at $8.75, now 6.50 White Coats formerly selling at $12.50, now 7.50 White Coat3 formerly selling at $16.50, now 12.50 White Coats formerly selling at $19.50, now. 14.85 BATH ROBES At Reduced Prices A bathrobe makes an ideal Christmas gift. It is something that is always appreciated by both old and young, because of its utility. You will find a splendid assortment here in rich, warm colors and varied styles. We have made the fol lowing reductions in order to reduce our stock. $7.50 All 1 Bathrobes formerly j2J.tJU $7.50 and $10.00 J $8.50 J We also have excellent assortments of child ren's and misses' robes at $2.50, $2.75 and $3.50 Bathrobes') formerlv c f Cn $7.50 and fD.UU Reductions in the Christmas Store Last day Christmas shoppers can fill out their lists at substantial reductions on the third floor where reductions of 10 per cent and 25 per cent have been made to close out certain lines. At 10 OFF All Dolls, Sheffield Silverware, Novelty Metal Goods, and other articles. At 25 OFF All Framed Pictures, Gas and Elec tric Portables, Art Statuary and Vases All Cut Glass. All Books at 25 OFF (This includes everything except the books by Kansas Authors.) The Book Store Main Floor Center Aisle.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2 1915 11 IN NORTH TOPEKA Prompt Erection of Aew Post office Building Assured. Site In Middle of the 900 Block Is Favored. With the return to Washington last night of F. L. Clampitt, special inves tigator for the supervising architects of the federal government, business men of North Topeka are confident that action will be taken toward erect ing the proposed new postoffice in North Topeka at once. Mr. Clampitt spent Wednesday on the North Side and, i. company with Capt. A. M. Ful ler, Inspected the various sites that are on the market. Mr. Clampitfs visit to North To peka was an emergency call and con sequently lends strength to the ru mor that the way ia being cleared for the final selection of a location for the new federal building and an im mediate start on its construction. Dopesters on the North Side sift the location for the new building down to two sites. They are the Adams' prop erty on the southwest corner of Gor don and Kansas avenue and a site just north of the Morns and Myers grocery More, which is on the northeast cor ner of North Kansas avenue and Laurent streets. The latter property is an inside location, but according to dope artists, its chances for becoming the sit j for the new North Side sta tion are better than any of the others that are being considered. The site north of the Morns and Myer.s property would give the gov ernment A frontnee. of 12a feet. The proposed building will be 40 feet by 60 feet, it is said. The building would then be more than 42 feet removed from anv other structure. Specifications for the new office call for a basement extending half a story a'iove street level and a main tloor. The irround is to be raised and atten tion given to beautifying the lawns that will surround the building. J. IJajie Is lJead. Josephus Bayze, 80 years of age, died at 11 o'clock Wednesday night, at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Eu- f;tiie Singer, of Shorey. Death fol lowed a siroke of paralysis which Mr. Havze suffered earlier in the night. Following the stroke of paralysis Mr. Havze did not regain consciousness. '.r. r.ayze is a pioneer North Topekan and is well known nere. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Carey Funeral Friday. The body of George W. Carey, who died December 1 8 in Los Angeles, Cal., will arrive in Topeka today and will be taken to the Shellabarge under taking parlors, where it will lie In rtate until 10 o'clock Friday morning. Kurial will b- in Rochester cemetery at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon. A short service will be held at the grave. Notes and Personals. Orville Bannering, of 522 Park street. s taken to a local hospital Wednesday afternoon and immedi atelv underwent an operation for aj pemlicitis. He suffered a serious at tack and his chances for recovery are slight, it is said. I Miss Lillian Todd, or .ansaa uij, will be the guest tuday of Miss Bess Shetz. of 1232 North Quincy street. Miss Todd is on her way to Cawker City. I.an., where she will spend the holidays with her parents. Dick Elmore, of the Shawnee State bank, was able to be at his desk again this morning. Grip kept him conlinea to his home for several days. v Cowdrev of 1313 North Jack son street spent Wednesday in Holton vis.iting friends. Mr. Cowdrey. who Is a special officer for the kock isiana railwav recentlv left a local hospital where he was treated for a gunshot wound that he received when he at tempted to arrest a Mexican five Job Warrock. of 1203 North Polk street, went to Perry this morning on business.' He expects to return this evening Mrs. Grace Taylor, of Kallspel, -vir.nt tnrf Mrs. Eiisir Winans and c-hil,lren of Los Angeles, Cal., will ap-nd the hoiidavs with their par m.t. Mr. ar.d Mrs. H. C. McKinley. officers of Masonic lodge No. 90 will bo elected this evening following a n-r,nn-t- This afternoon the third deerce will be conferred on several ca 'iilidatv-s. L. K. Anler?on and Leo Stanley are sp. nling the day hunting Vvun me 11 u miner brothers on the county line. :.l Wimt, of Kiro, and B. F. Grin ili.i, of Crantville, were in North To-...:.- TVe.ln, srirw on business. The Christmas entertainment of the North Congregational church will tw. ..resented at the church this eve- nine;. Children from the various Sun day school classes will participate in the program and a Christmas tree ha1-, been set up for them. Mrs. John Kemp, of Elmont. spent Welnesday in. Notth Topeka with fri-mcs. A. M. Petro, Druggist. Adv. J. M. McConnell, of Kiro, was in the North side Wednesday on business. M -morial services of Blue Post No. 2,r." and Relief Corps No. 5 will be held Sunday at the North Congre gational church. Mr. and Mrs. .1. C. Snediker, of 924 North Jackeon street -will entertain at dinner Saturday evening: Major and Mrs. K. C. Baugher, ot St. Louis, Mo.; Mr and Mrs. R. B. Mitchell, Miss Louise Mitchell and Henry Mitchell of lne!enend?nce. Mo., Mr. and Mrs. D. C. St.ivtc.n. of Blue Springs. Mo.: Mr. and" Mr. Frank Hahn, George Hahn, Miss Mary Hahn, Jonathan Hahn, Mrs Warren Kay and Clifton Kay. of Kansas Citv. Mo.: Mrs. Anna Mitchell, Miss Georgia Mitchell, Mr- and Mrs. C. P M tchell and Walter Anderson of Topeka. The out of town guests will remain over Sunday. TWO INJURED BY HORSE Outlaw Animal Attacks Men in In spection Room at St. Louis Pres ident Slwk Co. Seriously Hurt. East St. Louis, III., Dec. 23. A big bay "outlaw" horse, fresh from the west, attacked the president of a firm which has sold SO. 000 "war horses" during the last year, and sixteen other men in the inspection room of the company at the stockyards here Wednesday. T. H. Holland, president of the company, was the most seriously injured, suffering a deep scalp wound and several broken ribs. C. S. Clark, an employee of the company, was trampled into unconsciousness by the enraged horse. The fifteen other men suffered chiefly from shock. The at tack occurred in a small brick room. Just big enough to hold the horse and a score of men. The horse finally was lassoed and thrown by a cowboy in I baseball team, had an injured wrist the room. .'and was not working. X was going to DR. ERNEST TRIAL Continual from Pnjre One.) an hour and started to go bed. The session continued. Dr. Ernest stated that he spoke of the affairs as sessions and inferred that his wife always did most of the talking.) "Mrs. Ernest got up. She was ex cited and accused me of being out to meet Miss Knox. I didn't as usual say much. She picked up the gun. a .22-long and said she would shoot me. She took the gun in both hands. I was on a box partially undressed. I didn't think she would hit me but I didn't care much whether she did or not. Th3n she threw the gun on the floor and walked to the window. I said something unkind about her not having nerve enough to shoot and she ran back across the floor to pick it up. I made a dash for the gun at the same time and got it. Later I took it to Dr. Lindsay's office. It is still In the Lindsay safe." "What occurred after you took the pistol away?" "I tried to get her to go to bed. She finally did. I think she had her mind made up to take something poison herself. She tried after she got up again to get into the office to the chemicals. I tried to Bret her out but sho finally got in and bolted the door. I pushed open the door breaking the bolt off. She was at the medicine drawer trying to get something but didn t succeed. I picked her up a.id carried her back to bed They Began Karly. Then the session continued. These sessions began at the beginning of our married life ana led up to the present. She would prove things by saying: you admitted It, didn't you?" "She would pull herself up at the head of the bed while she was talking. Along toward morr.ing she got up, dressed and went out. I debated whether or not to go along as I was afraid she would do something. I was expecting any minuto to hear the tele phone call that something had gone wrong. Then I made up my mind that if anything did go wrong I couldn't help it. I stayed around the office and after a while she carrte back I was glad to see her." "You heard her testify that you taunted her about Miss Knox. Is that true?" "No." "Did Mrs. Ernest ever tell you that she would poison you?" "On various occasions she threat ened to kill me and herself. I asked her how. Her reply was that she could poison my coffee or use other methods that I would not suspect." "Did she threaten more than once?' "Yes." "Remember the first time?" It Was years Ago. "Tears ago at 826 Kansas avenue." "Ever think she might?" "Nobody knew and I didn't know what she would do." "Do you mean that Mrs. Ernest was demented?" "I mean that in these times of ex citement she didn't kirow what she was "She nretended to." "Did she ever threaten the life of anv other Derson "Yes, she said that If Miss Knox didn't cease her calls she would kill her." 'Did Mrs. Ernest ever have any trouble or quarrels with her mother? "Yes." Tell what haonened." "Mrs. Wilson, my wife's mother, had been at pur place, I came home and she was gone. I "went to the Union Pacific depot after I found that they had quarreled. I Drougnt Mrs. nu ann bnelr home." Dr. Ernest testified that his wife, he believed, was being advised how she was to act toward him and tnat sne told him she was keeping tab on mm "During the latter part of these troubles what was her attitude toward vonr telenhone calls? "Sometimes she would tell me about them and sometimes she would ten people that called what she thought about me. Threatened to Ruin Illm, "Did Mrs. Ernest ever tell you that she would ruin you and your pra tice?" "Yes." "Did she tell you she would run you out of the profession?" "Yes." "What did you say?" "I told her she couldn't do It.' "Did you ever have any dispute over bills?" "When I moved to the T. M. C. A. I went around to the stores to settle up her bills and found that there were some things on them that I had no knowledge of her needing. I believed she was trying to make my expenses too big according to my income ana notified owners of the stores that I would not be responsible after that." Dr. Ernest testified that when he and Mrs. Ernest were first married Mrs. Ernest received in all J300 from home. When we were first married," He said in answer to questions asked by Captain Hamilton and H. W. Page, his attorneys, "T walked to make calls. When we could afford it I bought a $19 bicycle. My next conveyance was a horse and buggy and when we were able I bought an auto. Did you want Mrs. Ernest to work?" No, I wouldn't be married to a woman who had to work for support." Did she ever criticise the way in which you handled your practice?" 'Yes, during the rirst year or our married life." "WThat was the nature?" Too Much Attention to Ladls. "To much attention to the ladies." "More than one?" "Practically all of them." "Mrs. Ernest was highly educated?" "Yes." "Placed a great stress on dignity?" "Yes. Said I was too undignified and free and easy." Did you ever do anything im proper?" "No did not. 'Ever have any such thought?" "No." "Since the beginning In 1905 how many times have you been criticised?" "Continuously." Dr. Ernest, under questioning, told of alleged disagreements he and his wife had over Mrs. Walter Boles, wife of a former Washburn football star. Mrs. Boles was one of his patients. Ernest stated, and his wife objected because she claimed he was too fa miliar with her. "What reasons did she give?" "I was courteous to Mrs. Boles. She didn't know hardly anyone here and was m poor health. I took her out with me once in a while when I went to make calls." "Ever do anything wrong?" "No." "Ever tell you wife that?" "Wife knew that." Trip to Marysvllle. 'State what occurred when Mr. and Mrs. Boles went to Marys ville with you once to visit your wife and wife's folks." 'Boles, who was a pitcher on Marysville on a visit to my wife and they thought they ought to get out of town as they had a chance and I invited them to go with me. They ac cepted and 1 called my wite and told her they were coming- She told me not to oring them. Well, I had in vited them and couldn't very well tell them they couian t go. Naturally they went an-i weren't very well received. Atter they iett for home because they were not wanted, we held a session in the living room. They berated- me for my inhuman conduct in imposing people upon them and for walking around over the farm with Mrs. Boles instead of my wife. I was enter' taining the people I had brought." Dr. Ernest also testified that Mrs. Ernest objected to Airs. George Er nest, his nephew's wife, while he was treating her fcr illness. That lie said was five or six years ago. "What was Mrs. Ernest's object ion "I was too familiar." "Do anything improper?" "No." Ernest also stated that there were other women but he did not wish to name them. The women, the doctor claimed, were patients. She Made Him Sick. "Mrs. Ernest often told me," the doctor testified, "that I was not giv ing her a fair show. She said I was doing all the work and getting all the credit. She said I didn't appreciate her and implied that she honored me when she married me. "What did you say to that?" "Well, she had honored me." "You heard a good many unfavor able truths about yourself? "Yes." "Did she ever neglect to tell you about them. "Never did." "Ever lose any patients on account or your wife? 'Later on many." "Was your health impaired by crit icism?" "With the kind of work I was doing and being kept awake nights I got to a place where I was sick in mind and body. "Then we took a trip to California, Ernest told the court. On that trip my wife and I had a disagreement over a bunch of school teachers while we were on a coast boat. It was then that I realized that I and my wife could never get along." 'In the bedroom that you occupied at 826 Kansas avenue was there a light over your bed?" l es. Mrs. Ernest ever turn it on while you were in bed and trying to sleep?" She would turn it on so she could have light while talking to me." "In terms of reproof?" "Yes, before and arter the trip." "What did you say?" "I tried first to reassure her that her suspicions -were unfounded; that she was my wife and as long as she was other women had no possible way of taking her place." "Led Two Live-s." 'A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." was the way Mrs. Elvenor Ann Ernest described her husband In a conversa tion with the witness, according to testimony given on the witness stand in the Ernest ca3e by Mies Alice Clinger, 1531 Topeka avenue, em ployed in the Santa Fe offices. Sev eral witnesses have been put on the stand to show that Mrs. Ernest had I a "way of talking to all her friends J about her husband. In cross-examination W. A. S. Bird and Jude 2. T. Hazen, attorneys for Mrs. Ernest, attempted to bring out that the only talking done by Mrs. Ernest was about the- unhappiness made her by Miss Edith Knox. They attempted to show that Mrs. Ernest tried to win back her husband's af fection. The Ernest family servants fur nished no end of comedy for the court-room spectators. Mrs. Tennessee Skeers, the old col ored washerwoman, testified that she never saw Mrs. Ernest ask for money but what she got it. Sometimes five, ten and twenty dollar amounts. In qualifying Mrs. Skeers as a wit ness the attorneys in the case asked her how long she had been working. She replied: "I got married twenty-seven years ago and wnt to work the following Monday. I've been workin' ever since." Cuma Smith, colored, who worked for the Ernests in the summer of 1914, stated she once told Mrs. Ernest that if sho had a husband who didn't be have himself she would get a divorce. Mrs. Ernest's reply, according to the witness, was: "That would please him only too well." SANTA FE NOTES Items for this department rony be phoned to 3915 or State Journal office. Edward R. Franks, clerk In the ticket auditor's office, and Mrs. Franks will spend Christmas day with relatives in Chiilicothe, 111. Mrs. Eckert and daughters, Eleanor and Margaret, will spend Christmas with Engineer William Eckert in Ar gentine. Switch Engineer w. A. Wilson is off duty this wek spending the holidays with relatives. A. A. Graham, of the ticket auditing department, and Mrs. Graham will leave Friday for Richmond, Va., where they will spend the holidays with rela tives. George Hopkins, depot baggage master, and Mrs. Hopkins will spend the weekend with relativea in Opie, Kan. George Villee. Missouri Pacific en gineer, is off duty a few days this week attending a family reunion. P. E. Lehman, or the ticketing de partment, will spend the holidays with relatives in Green Valley, Mich. Engineer Tom Moran, who runs the Santa Fe motor car between St. Joseph and Kansas City, is off duty this week enjoying the Christmas vacation with relatives. Glen F. Dreisbaeh, recently appoint ed, holds the distinction of being the youngest pass clerk employed by the Santa Fe. Tre infant son of Mr. and Mrs. cnas. Laird is reported seriously ill. Chas. Schramn, for many years ele vator operator in the motive power building, died yesterday after a year's linens. W. E. Benton, of the store depart ment. Mrs. Benton and children will spend the holidays with relatives in Faye Cook, of Kansas City, will arrive Friday to spend the holidays with her uncle, Switchman John Feld ner, and other relatives here. Attention, Eagles! Topeka Aerie No. 58 Fraternal Or cer of Eagles will give the tenth (10) annual Christmas tree and entertain ment for members and families, es pecially the children, on Saturday, Christmas night, December 25th at the hall. No. fl5 Van Buren street. Come one and all and enjoy yourselves. By order of Entertainment Com mittee. Adv. Batteries and Forbes. Adv. Flash lights at AMI AKD I&I5CEIJLANEG03 ABB ADVEKTISING RATKS: The rate for Inserting Want Ads in The Topeka State Journal is one cent a word each insertion, minimum 10 cents by the week 5 ceata a word, minimum 50 4-ents. COUNT THE YVOKDS of your Ad. In cluding four words for State Journal ad dress when aucb address is used count each "initial" letter and each number or combination of figures as one word. OUT tip TOWN advertisements must be accompanied wit., casa or check In full payment for the same. Note the forego ing instructions about counting the words and the rates per word for The Topeka State Journal. CLOSING HOUR Want Ads to b classified properly in The State Jonrna office before 12:4o o'clock. Want Ads re ceived after that hour will be inserted un der the heading "To Lata to Classify." or next day as desired. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Shawnee Investment Co. to S. Hack ett and wife, tract on Jefferson at., Boa Ton add $2,S50 J. F. Onffney to E. E. Gaffney, lots 23T-25S Quincy St.. Lakewood Park 175 M. A. Tinsley and husband to J. K. Mnyberry, lot 424 a. y 22 Sum ner St., J. Norton's 2nd add 1 J. F. Norton to J. Mildner, lots 62 to 84 Oakland ave., and 61 to 71 Winfield ave., Oakland 300 B. K. Stephens and wife to W. M. Amos, lots 5-57 Jewell ave.. Col lege Place 1 H. V. Smith and husband to L. B. Fenimore, lots 202 Adams st 800 To U. A. Graham, lots 487-89 Reed St., Reed sub t-OST White and b tin die female bulldog with collar and lock. Fnone 451. Ke ward. LOST Mink muff between 7tb and Tyler and 11th and Morris. Phone BloO y-ia. LOST Saturday evening on West 6th at., Jitney J up mink uiutr. z&ou ifiue. LOST Gold cuff link. Phone 5504-W. WANTED MAIE HELP. iVAXTKIi Mitn rr Ion rn twtrber trade All the Intent methods used. All work onder com Detent instructors. 70018 inr n I shed free while learning. Write today. ro pet a Sanitary liaroer college, am ivw ib ave.. To peKa. tv.an. BE A DETECTIVE: earn biir nlarles and rewards: travel extensively. Address Hartley Bloodhound Oetective Agency. ton ire lie American iiuecinc oiojc. ot Joseph, Mo. WANTED Young man of some experience in Joan and insurance nusiness. per manent position to rifrht party. Answer in own handwriting. care Journal. WANTED Office Boy over 10 yra. old with wheel. Steady position. Hall Litlio. LOCAL MENTION. A Christmas treet will be given to the bovs at the Railroad Y. M. C. A. Saturday morning at 9 o clock by John Boegs. The Rev. J. H. Fatel will speak. Glass. Glazing and Paint. Miller Gillespie. 833 K.A. Phone 955. Adv. A 200-pound man walked out of the Provident association this morning after spending a night, and left a $5 bill lying on his bed. The officials are unabte to discover whether it Is a loss or Christmas presents- Glass and glazing, call 949. Jones Paint Co. Adv. J. K- Xmas Framing. Coe'a, 828 Kansas Ave. Adv. Miss Genevieve Uerrick, who is teaching in the high school at Atchi son returned home today to spend the holidays with her mother, Airs. Rob ert Uerrick. Dr. J. W. Howard, Dentist, 809 Kan sas Ave., Phone 714. Adv. H. H Raymond, Foot Specialist. Painless. 524 Madison. Phone 3960. Adv. Brigham Young, the red-headed son of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Young of 500 Topeka avenue, has been an nounced in the eastern papers as mak ing tire all New England football team. This team is selected from the smaller colleges in the section. Brig- ham Young Is attending Wesleyan college. For a popular priced stilt or over coat, made to measure, see Olof Ek berg, 70S Kansas Ave., 2nd floor. Adv. The Snook Bros, grocery and feed store, 515 Grant street, was burglar ized late Wednesday evening or early this morning and J3.00 in money was taken from the cash drawer. The robbery has been reported to the po lice and Is being investigated. Mirror Work. Ave. Adv. Coe's, 828 Kansas Painless dental work at moderate prices at the hite Dental Parlors. 809 Kansas Ave., Phone 714. Adv. An ldoal Christmas gift, "Impres sions of Early Kansas," by Eliza Johnston Wiggin. A series of sketches from life as seen by a Kan sas girl in the seventies. For sale at book stores. Adv. Dr. Charles JLyngar. dentist, 80S Kansas Ave., phone 714. Adv. Suits and overcoats dry cleaned 75c. Topeka Laundry Co. Phone 3653. Adv. Twenty-five 'dollars was taken in at the production of "The Birds' Christ mas Carol" at the Topeka high school Wednesday afternoon. Prize Masquerade Ball at Kellam hall, Monday, Dec 2 7. Adv. School closed today at 2:30 o'clock for the holidays. Nearly all of the grades had programs. See Mr. and Mrs. S. E. McFarland if you are needing glasses. 805 Kansas ave. Atlv. F. A. Koester. D. D. S., 710 Milis Sldg. Special attention ven to pyor rhea and oral proiihyliTi Adv. Miss Faith Young is ill of grip at her home nt 500 Topeka avenue. Safety razor blades sharpened better than lew. 25.- Sne doz. ISrunt Drug Co. Adv Petitions ara being circulated by the lawyers of the city tsking the county commissioners to chanee the location of the office of the clerk of the court of Topeka. The petitions ask that the clerk and marshal of the court be moved into the rooms now used by the county superintendent. The lawyers hold that the clerk's office is now too hard to find. The petitions will be filed with the commissioners soon. 1-OIt SAlR Men', market; only one iu town of 000. All the pop. bread and lee trade. lee house, ISO tons. Must sell at ou.-e; other business. This Is a bargain. C. Walter. Lecolnptou, Kan. IU liKNT 3-room house, 127 Viuiucy St.: city and cistern water at sink. 5-rooin honse, 121) Quiney at.: citv witer at sink. 3-room house, 715 E. Kigtath St.; gaa for Itelit Mnd be;-,t. j-rooia bouse, IKJl Harrison St.: gas fori Hprht mul he: t. 4-room lim.se, 414 Branner st; cas for light ;md beat. iu:t7a:u kealtt loan ro. New EiiKinml Hldff. l'hon. 544. FOR KENT 1313 Toiieka ave.. 8-room bouse. Now hMnir rmn.!nia.i n.,.. north, furring oictr-if. f,i--w.t, "rv-.i nJ painted throughout. Good cistern ihoneltl. ltvii Lincoln 5 room. E. 3rd, 0 rooms 1C l?hqne 173a Jlfi E. Fth. M01ERN four room cottage, fifi.oa. No EIGHT room strietiy modern tionse. hot j)n'tieiectriciiE!it. Faone 5.KW J KOK KK.NT rooms and bath, 1313 To- pe ka are. Phone HiOl. S::o. 5-KOUM house, water, gas, newir papered and painted 323East Eighth. 2228 Red. FOR KKNT 5-room house. $1000. In- SU!.. 1220 Monroe. Tel. 4090 Ulue. FOU KENT 5 room house. 301 Trier at. Phone 2177 Red. F9S ,UJ"'r room cottage in Oakland. mine IV -.1. SEVEN room modern, cement basement. FIVE room modern house, 306 Jefferson. Phone islack. COTTAUE home furnished, Inrloding piano and sewing machine. West Ule. er.st front, barn, cistern. Phone S183 or loll. FOU RENT One furnished double room with u beds; 1 unfurnished room, man or married couple. Steam, light. Janitor fur nished. Orpueiim Theater Bldg.. Inquire (.onion Bros.. 400 Kansas sve. ST.ilCTLV modern furnished front roomT 314 Huntoon. Phone 1974af ter8 p. m. PRIVATE furnished room for gentlemen only, Tift WfRtern. tof-i settled for the winter. One suite and one room left In the Office Block. r, i "ilte and one room In the Veale oieam neat, electric light, bath, hot and cold -u mi- fnmi.iii KcaJtnndLoauJwEji?lami Bldg. SK15 KAN. AVE., unfurnished front corner rifoms; Bingie room, ."yo Blue. TWO modern rooms, $1.50 and $2 week. 701 Jefferson. POBRKST OFFICK ROOMS. FOR RENT All or part of fine suite of office rooms, N. E. Bldg. Phona 2053 Black or call room 20. BOARD AND ROOMS. Modern rooms with board. $1.25 per dy. v Kii.i i ii w in. MODERN furnlsbeil room with board. $o 414 West 7th. Phone 2784 Blue. FOR RVVT FTiATR. FOR RENT 6 room flat. 1225 Monroe. $14. 3 rooms modern, 627 Tyler. $12.50. Geo. E. Seybold. Phone 513 or 2372 Black. FOU RENT Modern apartments in the Delmar, 512-514 Harrison st. Beteer Realty and Loan Co.. New England Bldg. FOR RENT STORE ROOMS FOR RENT Store room, suitable for gar age or any kind of business. Inquire Gordon. 400 Kansas aye. FOR RFNT BrSIXESS BTTITjDIXGS 515 QTJINOY ST. 26x150, one story. Carrey. F()R S.1I,E MI SORI.r.A VEOT7S. FOR SALE $100 Victrola almost new records $45 all for $S0. Tel. 4507 Blue. Call evenings 1024 Van Buren. FOR SALK Beautiful imported German canariea. fine singers and females: also cages. I'hooe 2102 Ked. FOR SALE French bull pups, $5. 617 FOR SALE Christmas books, new books, ArTOMOttTT K. SEE on: bargains in second hnnd cam. We wid make terms to suit customers. Cadil lac Sales Co., 514 Jackson, Topeka, Kan. FOU RAT.F. T,rVK STOCK. FOR SALE A beautiful 4 year old driving or work horse rentle ami w11 h rnla Call 514 Jackson st. FOR SAI,K REALi ESTATE. TAB OP 11 i 53 KANSAS AVENUE. OE A TIP C'ISvGcq-n AMID) BEAF AIlL&IfiD) BARGAIN OWELl COMPELLED TO MCVE S-room frame. 2-storv honw npwit r. pered and finished Inside, etwtric HjrU.s, cas. eellnr. welt 14 lots, shade. 1 hi, biockn to car, sj Mock to clitircli. i blocks Stnte street scuooi, easy wait Santa e shop. invtiiiMnrauc uu at 4 per cent interest. AKE 700 SCIKS TO SOT LAm If 9' firat et a V7 of the best ren estate journal in America. It will sari you nriotiev. Send 10 cents for 4 month' trlsl subscription. Form Ileal Kstate J Journal, Dept. lti. Trner. loww. CLOSE TO WASMMBSi! Almost ww 6 room house, entirely mod eru. oak finish and floors, decorated, fron nnd back stairs, sieeniuer norch. full ce ment baBement, east front, imved. choice r I neighborhood, terms, very cheap at $o.lO, COTTKELL CO. 107 13. 7th. Tel. KWi, .HOS. Five acre suburban, nice location: want the money. If you want a bargain here 1b jour i-iiauce. x-none CLOSE m SMAP 7 rooms, complete bath, gas, electric, city and cistern water, rented for $18. Kednced to $2,200. Make us an offer. COTTREL.L CO., 107 E. 7th. Tel. Kju, 340S FOR SALE OK TRADE for auto, equity tn suburban home, over an acre, 4 room ed cottage, floored attic, 40 young fruit trees, large chicken corral, near good aciiooi oil Kimei roau. 1'llone W. FOU SALE 11 Y mtNKH S room cottage. lVi lots. 21S Rnchnnun t. -See O. I Hahn at State Journal or hi Lnannwr sc. FOR SALE 5-room modern homei with acre of ground, good for chicken ranch. Monroe sc. xel. tuti Blue. FOR KXCHAXGE. HIGHLY Improved poultry and dairy So acre arm. 4 miles irom ArMnicrort. Mar shall county, want modern West side resi dence for $4,500. and will carrv hahinee nt m ii. a. ouuuiwh;, ou lopeKE, ave. $2,000 IMPIiOVED Logan county land for lopehtt or oaKianu property; also level 240 acres clenr iu Wallace Co. for rental. Phone 20SS Red. TWO lots on Fillmore.. Rllh-k roadster to trade for grocery store, residence, 1015 Kasr wn. jrnone irj4j White. $4..'W0 no ACRE creek bottomfarm in jerrerson Co. Want Topeka residence. r none jms itea. FOR SALE COAL, CAS1HI COAL Pennsylvania Anthracite. 8ultn No. 4 ulta Grate or Lamp........... Semi-Anthracite 3emiAnthracite Brlqneta........ Illinois Lump Southern Kanaaa Lump. Southern Kansas Nut... Osape Lump.......... moo 830 7.00 U5 .2.t 4.W 4.00 4.40 inversion uc 4.0(1 We sell coaI od the thenrr that It la better for ererybody to pay caatu CAPITAL COAL CO. Phone 10SS. Railroad and Quincy. E. G. COFFMAN COAL Southern Kansas Lump....... f 4.50 Southern Kansas Nut.. S4.25 Osage Lump "si -"0 Spm! Anthracite $7.50 Weights Guaranteed All coal screened. 513 Eaat 4 th. Tel. :tti7;:. OSAGE. Burlingame and Weir City coal delivered. H. A. Moege, 23rd and Un co in. Phone 979. FOR SALE PIANOS. PXNOnPLXvKRTi20 rolU npTdate pieces can be attached to any piano. Snap at $75. Phone 2102 Red. FOR SALF POtXTRT. C?RNiDl5AP0 2300 K-l. EGAJj First published in The Topeka State journal, Jjecember 22. lttlD.J RESOLVED, That the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, deem It neces sary for the best interests of said city that Eighth Avenue from the west Hue of Gar field Avenue to ihe east line of Morris Avenue, Jn said city, be graded and curbed with combined curb and gutter, and paved thirty :i0 feet wide with twenty per cent 20,o) vitrified blocks on a five (5J inch concrete base wth asphalt filler. W. G. TA.iV, Commissioner. I. Etta Covell. City Clerk of the Citv of Topeka. Shawnee County. Kansas, do here by certify that the above and foregoing resol u tion is a true and correct c-o 1 1 y of the original now on file in my office. Seal. ETTA M. COVELL, City Clerk. FOR SAIjE REATj estattc. Twostory house, 4 large rooms, gas, well, cistern, 2 full lots, old shade. small stable, on East 6th near shops Comfortable home of 5 rooms gas cis tern, 40x150 feet ground, in Potwin school district. Just reduced from $1,800.00. Easy terms on eith er of the above, PAY TEEEfi CUT all? PHONIC 6050. rF l. I First published in The Topeka State Journal. December 8. V.H5.J NOTICE XV EXAMINATION. The St;ite Civil Service Commission will hold nn fxamiuntion on Frhlav. leenibpr 31. imo. beginning at 0: U o'clock A. M. at Representative Uuil. State House. To peka. This examination will be held for the purpose of creating an eligible list from which names tmv be certified to appoint ing officer to fill vaciin.-lcs ns thev may occur in the following posiTions:- PKl'T'TY RANK COMM I SSIONEU. Examination will be oien to applicants j uter jf;ir in age. Applicants will be graded on the follow ing bnsis: (n) Training and experience to eoutit CO. lb) Written examination to count 40l In gradiug on the h:;sis of training and exi?rience. t-onsideratim. will Ih gutm to: (IpO lrntic:il experience along the lines of employment sought by app'hant (2nd) I'erS'Kinlity and grtir-ntl f.tiiess ns determined by oral examination or other wise. Written examination will Include practi cal questions covering the essential points in the duties devolving upon tlie bolder of tLe position. In addition to ttie writ tew examination a!l cjinlli'.:ites will be re quired to meet with the board of exam iners for oral interview. INSTRUCTIONS. Applications it.upt be on file In civil service office before eiffh o'clock a. xnH Wednesdnv, December CO. 1015. Examinations ure onen outy to residents of Kansas. No iittnlf-.'fttton for this examination will be mailed from the offke of the Commis sion after Mmid:iy. IHceinber 27. 1015. A fee of 1.00 must accompany each ap plication. All applications must h made on forms prescribed 'y the CommiMiou, which will be Fupplied on application therefor, and which must he returned to the Secretary of said CoimulFMon. Answers to ail questions nnn applica tion blanks must be nlaiuly filled out by the fppl'.r-niit in his owu handwriting and verified by affidavit. Applicaiions v.ili remain on file In the office of the CoinirirRlon and under no irciimstanccs. except for correction, will they be returned to applicant. Applicants must nring wun mem iok. pens, pencils and erasers, but all examina tion paper, scratch pufer. etc., will be fur nished by the Commission. Kir further information nertalnlutT to examination see rules and regulations fur nished by the Civil service commission upon request. J. E. CATON. Secretary. Published in The Topeka Stnte Journal. jjecemucr io, jwio.j NOTICR OF EXAM I NATION. The State Civil Service Commission will liold examinations on Tuesilny, January 11. lOlti. hc-'innlni at 9 o'clock A. M. at the following places: Mare I'eimenunrv. ijansinir. State Industrial Jieforiuatory, Hutchin son. State Orphans Home, At'-hison. School for the Deaf. Olnthe. Osawatoraie State HoinH:il. Osawntomie. State Sanatorium for Tuherculoeis, Nor ton. Hospital ror Kpnepties, fsrs-ons. Lamed State Hospital. La rued. School for the lilind, Kiins.-is City. State Home for Feehle-mlnded, Winfield. Uiris Industrial School, Ite!dt, Itovs Industrial Kehool. Tnpeka. Topeka State Hospital. Topeka. Thin examination will be held for the mirnose of creatine an eligible list from which names may be certified to appointing oriicer to mi vacancn-s as mey may ol- ur iu the following positions Cuards at the Stale Prison at Lnnslnjr nd at the Industrial lief ovulatory at lutchinson. board not included. Salaries 50.ti6 to $;G.G0t .Examination to be prac tice i. Attenrl.mtB nt Topefcs. Osnwatomie. rar- sons nnd Lnrned state hoHpitnIs and at Winfield. Stute Home for Pi-chle-miimed. Sainrivs mui" from $1S.00 to :;r.H per uitiiiiu ii ii uofirii, l n 1 1 1 j uuu m 11 iiii r j Family managers and sniervif!or3 at Stafe OrphaiiH' Home at Atdiifrm and the school for the blind at Kansas City, school for the deaf at Olathe. Oirls Industrial school at He-loit nnd Hoys Industrial school nt Toppka. Salaries rnnpinjc froin JjlHi.tMi to ;:iimhi per moutu, with ix:iraf room aim laundry. Amount of sul.-iry depending pon nature of work and experience in service. A'-oilcftnta will he s-rnderi nn the follow. ing hr.Kia: (a iraininpr and experience .TO. (b Oral and written ..XHiiiinntions on the practical duties of guard and simple record keepii.g, 70. Kxaminatiou open to females over 1 years of nee and to males over 21 venra of afre. StorekeeDers. Ricwards nt nl! ntnto in stitutions. Salarv :.hi to s.(. Anoli- cants will be jrraded n ttie foilowlna' basis: ia lminin ana eKirt-nence to count -Ah (b) Writ fen ex:imliiaticni to count TiO. In grndiiijr on the basis of traintnc and extn-ricn'. ef consid-ration vtill be jriven to: ill I'rncticnl exnerience nlonir the Hues of employment sought by nppllennt. 2 Personality and pencrnl fitness, nn determined by oral examination or other wise. W..U ten examination will include prac tical questions coverinjr the ordering and economical use of food Tn huge Institutions anil the supervision of kitchen and dining rooms. INSTRUCTIONS. Applications must be on file In civil ser vice "ice before five o'clock I. M.. Sut- 1 urdoy, January i, lUKi, Kxamin;iti'ns are open oniv to perrons having resided Id Kansas at least six i months. No application for this examination will he mailed from the office of t:ie Commis sion after Thursday, Jai tinry t. l'Jld. A fee of $1 must accompany each appli cation. Ail applications must be made on forms prescribed by the Communion, which will be supplied on application therefor, and wlii. li must he rt-iurued to the KL-cretary ot sat'l CommiFsioii. i fcr frosh flower, wedrllne and ftm.i. Answora to nil iiui'stlons upon nppl,rn- epwlnlly. Onr stork T -I. tlon blanks must bo plninly (lllf.l out by Oicwn In onr own rreeniioi.... Jio HI? the nptll.-ant In Ills own handwriting ami I ana r'hon. ffaf verified by nffidnrit. M i.- ti. l.r, Applications will remain on file In -hejfiorai fl,.iBV im Ki mthln. ?Z'3' office of the Commission, nnd under f-ircuuiniu inTs. eniTu i(r correction, win i tiirv im rprnmpn ro noniiennr. I Applicants must brittf; with them Ink. pens, pencils anil erasers. ut nil exnmil tion miner, scratch nafer. etc- will be fnrnlslied by the Cominlrsfon. In addition to the written examination II c.inilhintes mny be ronulred to meet the lionrd of Kxominers for oral Interrlew. For further Information nertaiiiliia: to exnniinat'oii. see rnics and regulations fur nlsbeu by tne civil Service commission npoa reciueet. J. l. lvi!N. t'resinent. J. F..CAT(1N, Reuretary. First pnbllehcd In the Topeka State journal, ueceniner is. TJESOLVED. That the Mnvor and Rnnrri of Commissioners of the Citv of Toneka. Shawnee County. Kansas, deem It liecessarv for the best Interests of snll city that the .Kiev between I'olk Street nnd Tevlor Street from Third Street to Fourth Street. In sal. I city, be (traded nnd. paved twenty i'Jt)t fet wide with twenty rer cent tatlTtl vltlifle.l bl.M-ks on a five t5) Inch concrete base with I usDh. lt filler. i. tamiki:. commissioner. 1. Ktta M. Covell. Citv Clerk of the Citv of Topeka. Kansas, do hereby certify that til- above and foreftolntt resolution Is a true end correct coply of the oriinnl now on file In m office. IFIrst published In the Topeka Bwte JouruaU Liecember 18. 1!1..J KESnLTr:!). That the Mayor nnd Bear. of CommieHioners of the Citv of Tonekn. Shawnee :oilnty. Kansas, deem It ne-es- I rary for the In-st interests of said City tlxat v nciuui ntjrci iu nr MtiiiH iiiim ,,i rt,uiitr. ,11 nnio ii.,, inr );r i lino -irin-'? witn comoinen cttrn nn'l itufTf-r. nnd paveii twenty-six C5d feet wide with twenty p"r cent. (LtrI vitrified blocks on a five u ibcll corete base with nsphalt filh-r. W. i. TANHV Commissioner. I, Etta M. Covell. City CM'rk of the City of Topefca. K-inpas. do hereby certify that the above rtnd fcireolnr rernlurlo:i Is a tro.? arul correct copy of the or!a;liial now on file !n luv office. Seal. E1T1 M COVKI U City Clerk. ff r-l rt f IRAEuViCciidlrjmrTtniaUlfisr. ru-umt-tn- done by J. 1. Sullivan. 1S-12I W 8th. PTIIXTS I. A, KOSC.V. I'SU' it llUiwj, 4i lu WAXTEl FEMALE HFI.P WANTED Voung lady bookkeeier of some experience for permanent position In a loan and Insurance office. Answer in own handwriting. F care Journal. WANTED Middle aged woman for jfn ei at house work. 4K per week. No washing: white preferred references. Mrs, Waiter Rromich,l."4 Jefferson. WANTED Two waitresses some exper ience necessary, llarvey House at Santa Fe depot. LADIES mate shields ot home, $10 for 100; work sent prepaid; no canvassing; send stamp. Ivanhoe Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo. WANTED Woman for "weekly cleaning. 20W Lncolu st. UKLiXltLE "girl forTiouse wort! Call or write 371 Kellam ave. CAVTFTi TO RfY. to liny a iroon SO or 1W) mm farm within ?t niflfs nf Toprka liftve the cash and r.nnt to bny worth the luonpy: no trade, l'lioiie 112. 433 Kansas Ave. WA.i'i'KU To buy n-:tffO!i. Must he Uootior M. 8. to. a H or 3 H loon tn troori: conditio. Phnua 1 3 WANTKD MISCELLANEOUS. wrc PAY highest cash price for 2nil hnn clothing, shoes. lints anil overcoat, Drop n card or call KU0. K. Scrluopskl Son. 40S Knnsns :ive. VK I'AY the bljrhcst rush price for cast otf clothintr. shovs. lints nnl orercontav Prop us n curd or call liordon Bros. loaa. office. 4(10 KnnsMs no. 1'hone 1071 liodb milk cows. f:it cattle anj'Vwl calves. W. C. A. Leltiow. Tel. 28T. CAKIKT jind nip weaving;. "ioGO GnrfielcC I'hone r.lue. IVSAVIMl CAi:l'i;f S7rtiffSetc; Oooi, work, l-.-l Lake. 1'holie SKIN White. want:-- I'om.ry. ruo:i M-.n. First published In The Tnpoka State' Journal, lect-iuter 22, 1U15.J i:r-;S(LVi;i. That tlM Mnvar nml Hiurri of Comini.aioiiern of the City f ToiH-kn. Slia wneo 'otintv. KaiiM:is. ilein if n.f-M s;:ry for the best interests or nu-I citv that Twenty-first street from the west line of the A. T. A: S. F. Uy. lUght of Wav to tint" ej'st line of Topeka Avenue, in sjiid citv. be (Traded and cliriMd wit Ii combined Vtirl and putter, and paved ;v,entv-nlx fJU fe-r wide wfrh twenty r cent 4-rV. vitrlfte.fc-Idn.-ks on a five im h concrete base wiiu,. uHpnaii iiiier. W. a. TAXPV. ComniIss!one;-. I. Kttn 'ovell. (ty Clerk of the ity of Topeka. Shawnee Couutv. Kausns, do here- by certify that the itbove and forevojuir resolution Is a true and correct copy of (lie original now on file Im my off ls;:il. KTTA M. COVKLL. City Clerk.. First published In"" The Topeka" Statr Journal, Thursday, I tec- ISt, JP15.J I the Probate Court of Shawne County. K mien:. In the Matter of the Rstate of Carrie E. A atson. I tpceascd. NtiTK'M CF FINAL SKTTLEMKNT. Crelitors ami nil other persons interest- el in the aforesaid estate, are hereby' notlfl. .1 that on the 2ft Iv of Jai.UHry. liH. 1 sha II applv to the Probate Court pitting nt the Court House in the City of Topeka. Shawnee 'nnntv. Kansas, for sv full snd final scttlcimuit of said estate and f o r a n order of the i 'o u rt f 1 n d I n g snd. ad.fmuring who are the heirs of Carrie K Watson. i)foensed. HKItltFliT n. JORLTN. Administrator.: TKAXSFER AND KTflTt 7R. I TOPEKA TLffsffia STOHIAGIE CO. MOVING r-ACKIXB STORAOK. FiKEraOOif warehouse: Ecjiarate Joctea room Phorp XVA. ,ad" tor bousebol4" Atlnma St. FAKM LOANS. B sad pr cent, ftlrk" TO LOAN .s0o on renl rstnt. aornrltV coinrniHslim. Alirss I,., cure Journal STAfE SAVINGS EAKS -r v. Cot. cm am Kid. Am i nomas, .-sin rt. a i-i THK UMITKir STATICS MoIITGAUK Till ST CO. Mi,r?p I"'1 ""Tiopi. W.nnn.nnn. Makes loans n very low rntrs n ImnrnM' TniVrkr nT.-.J"'"1"'- .""""y tKan o,V JJM ka. ltcprt'S4'ntalive "i- j mm. HinnunL low interMr is? sr. "fef' S.VKI.IKIO.II0 (1ST monn toWii. on Impn.ml farms, FT.ORIRm. il. I TO fclfi OjjiOfl- WO( K. AND BOXDS. TiSCS. -J. MYEES, COI.I.MIWAN Ilf.L'H. Owrn.ient anil railroad bonis. ud copper sto-k. n. mortgaitt. bought, sold and p:ac4. CNn E Rf A K I N J,A)VT rr PTKKlla i nncrnl directors and embalmers. 113 East r.i"v'- of? lio,,t- Mteele. a.slstsnt. JJ1 J'mrrm director ervic".aXi Rnte'lg SZll. i ..r.7 "nd-nanrt carom and pocket billiard tables and bawllni alleys. We lead ttie x-...l,1 In h.. ei nilevs le.Vi .1 V! j Jures- eKy nnvme-tta. Send for catrTorne. C lCT-31

MOTIXtt, AND SrOBAfiK! ..m0"" tl no mnt!t inra;e van load: atorac." oerr one .rii f'hone 4:uv KStRAffCE. FITtB and auto Insurance. Nlctiole A" Crouch. wl V. lCnnsss ave. Phone 2fSl 1.SI ',X( T-F r and tornado ft n Mulvnne P.Idir. hl.ij ?MMr for sate or rent. Best CB&i4ceI werartmcr.t In tha coiu.ty. Cr.ANP CO. To-". Kan. V, Veers te ltn.le. nriiiiiERS. JfinjTITrtZTr.lCKr'the ontv practical furrier In Kansas 127 V. 7th. To-eka. jf irmxir Miopd. vVAN'fKI- Your lawn mower to""overhflI nnd grind, factory process, gLOa. 11 Uoward. 1377. "re delivery. Mu.NfcvjhjTTnAN otmi.t kiscaroy riKKONAI, 1-KOIKItTV. Horses, cattle ilnos, .llamomls. kornw." Pl-. I

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THE TQPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1915 IlPi Holiday Blouses In Christmas Boxes Featuring The Newest Ideas and Authentic Models for Spring 1916 in Georgette Crepe Crepe de Chine Lace Combinations Soiree Silk Tub Silk Do You Cleanse Your Mouth Before You Eat? Bad breath, sore month, decayed teeth. an3 cute arxlotninal trouble are in a majority of cases due to the passage of food through a mouth tuat is not chemically clean. Every person living; in communities with dust. dirt, and smoke in the air should at least cleanse the mouth thoroughly once a day. Kin sin? the mouth thoroughly with Kam-E-Thol wiil prevent acid mouth, decay of teeth. nd absolutely prevent any infection through internal abrasions. Kam-E-Thol is an antiseptic astringent composed of menthol, camphor, and other prophylactic medicinal ingredients. It works into inflamed membranes, and soothes, cleans.?- and heals. For this reason it is an ef fective relief for sore throat.cold in the head cuts, bruises, burns. chapped skin, chilblains, insect bites. This is how one user indorses iU N.oHfrift, Knn., Oct. XI. 19Ti Tbe Hamethol T,ahoratrne Co.. No'ihn. Kan. intlemeii: My Piperienoe with Kam-K-Thot M t mi)U' h wn-h ha bri n mmt f aionhls. It is ti safe m) f-fTff-ti vts niiTiwinic and if usfti r(cnlitrly it baa m trvnten.!em'j u prevent dfi'jty of teeth and to lut-p the (smi in irooit oon iition. I ae Kam-& Thai wrj dmr, both personally and in nr pra tioe. Witk bet regards. I am vr truly yours, J. F. KXMBALU U. S. Kam-E-Thol Is for sale by most druggists. If yours is unable to supply yon. send us 25o nd we will send you a large bottle postpaid The Kamethol Laboratories Co Neodesha, Kan. (11) I SYSTEMATICALLY It will come In good nw or these times. Call for our booklet. Capitol Building Loan Assn. 534 Kansas Ave. PI TP17V m PURE DISTILLED WATER -asBea aottto ma Mihr tor tmm flko. I-rmltaa kttr ul aoaaai for tb, nam. H-mrnOn tha rlrht mm tor tb ra ti lama toe. TOPEKA PURE WATER CO. financial Institutions of Topeka I, P. Slaognirr, President W. A. Smith. V. P. and Trata. The Farm Mortgage Company oner for banks and todS- vftdwnla on Kansas farms. FILES HIS REPLY W. W. aiills 3Iakes Answer to Petition of C. E. Hulett. Denies Erery Allegation Set Forth in Complaint. Denial that he dominated the board of directors of the Mills Dry Goods company, and further absolute denial that he defrauded stockholders of the company by issuing 589 1-10 shares of stock valued at $58,910 to himself, is made in the answf r of W. W. Mills, pioneer dry goods merchant of To peka, to the complaint of C. E. Hulett. The answer is filed in the Shawnee county district court. Miller's answer is in the action of C. E. Hulett against W. W. Mills. David Bowie, Thomas Page, A. D. Kendall, George J. Cros man, W. L Trump and L. C. Thorpe, president and directors of the Mills Dry Goods company. Hulett's prayer is for an injunction restraining the directors from recognizing the alleged 689 1-10 shares of stock. The petition states that Mr. Mills became sole manager of the Mills Dry Goods company in 1904 for a period of three years. Ho denies that he dominated the board of directors. That accompanying his resignation was an assignment of all stock he owned to the Prudential Trust com Danv "for the benefit and use of all stockholders thereof to be applied on any and all indebtness due from me to the Mills Dry Goods company, is stated in the answer. Paid for at Par. Mr. Mills declares that all certifi cates enumerated were fully paid for at par, except one which is not in cluded in Mr. Hulett's list, and which the defendant believes was paid for although not shown on the books and the issue of 250 shares for which a $25,000 note was given. All stock mentioned in Mr. Hulett's petition, Mr. Mills states, was issued with full knowledge of the board of directors and paid for. Mr. Mills states that a part of the certificates were delivered to him. Mr. Mills states that a part or nis salary a.j president of the concern at $10,000 a year is still unpaid. In answer to Hulett's allegation that if the validity of the stock is recognized he and other shareholders will be in jured is replied to in verbal state ment by Mr. Mills attorneys wno claim that Hulett has realized 120 per cent in dividends on his invest ment in the Mills Dry Goods company which they say was made eleven years ago. It Is ciaimea mat air. iwma even went so far as to borrow money on his individual note and use it for the benefit of the corporation. NEEDED THE MONEY Old Spanish and French Coins of Value Will Be Transformed Into Current Cash. ly that the steamer was barely able to make her way through it. At first the pumice choked the pipes of the engine, and later became so thick that the blades of the propellers could be heard smashing against it at every revolution. The obstruction ex tended north and south as far as the eye could see, although east and west it was confined to a path of about five miles wide. On the edges it was more in the nature of floating dust, but in the center there were iumps as large as four feet in diameter. In parts the pumice was so closely packed that the surface of the water was quite dry. and a native was able to stand on a small plank which was thrown out ou the top of it. BLAME STATE OFFICE SaUna Officers Can't Enforce Speed Law Because of Automobile De partment Delay Sending Data. Salina, Kan., Dec. 23. Delays In Tie office of the state automobile de partment at Topeka is causing tne ssa lina police force all sorts of trouble in their efforts to enforce the speed laws. Six weeks ago Marshal Burke sent a request for a list of automobile numbers and owners for feaiine coun ty. The cash accompanied the order hut the list has never shown up. Sev eral times the officers have had im mediate need of it. "We are probably being blamed right now for not enforcing the law when citizens stand ready to testily, said Policeman A. F. Gibson this morning, "and unless they know the situation you can't blame them mucn On two or three occasions citizens have telephoned the numbers of cer tain cars with the information that If we will arrest the drivers that they will appear in police court and fur nish the eveidence of excessive speed ing. We have no list and have not been able to find tne cars. We had thrown out the challenge for the pub lice to furnish the evidence and that we would do the rest. Tou see where the delay at Topeka is placing us. If the thing ever arrives It will give us a chance to take them up. BAKING CONTESTS AT K. S. A. C. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 23. Old Spanish and French coins to the value of $1,250,000 arrived at tne united States mint here today to be trans formed into current money for the re public of Cuba. The coins were pacKed m twenty two kegs and came here from Cuba by express. Some of the coins are said to be more than one hundred years old and to be of considerable value to numismatists. VAST SEA OF PUMICE South Seas Covered With Volcanic Material Great Menace to Navigation. Prizes to Girls for Best Bread, Biscuit, Muffins and Cake. Manhattan, Kan.. Dec. 23. Here is a chance for Kansas girls to win a little cash and much honor through cleverness in mixing and baking dough. Forty dollars will be divided among twelve girls who receive first. second, and third prizes in bread, bis cuit, muffin, and cake baking contests. All the work must be done in the do mestic science building at the Kansas State Agricultural college Wednesday, December 29. Entries will close Tues day evening, December 28. Full particulars for each contest will be announced at the boys' and girls' special meeing Tuesday afternoon, December 28. All supplies required for the work will be provided by the institute officers without cost to the girls who enter the contests. Last year a sewing club girl carried away one of the best prizes in the bread baking contest. The contest will be under the direction and super vision of the home economics depart ment of the division of extension. After the baking is all done and prizes awarded, specialists in this de partment will tell Just why the baked products were awarded first prize, sec ond prize, and third prize, respectively. WAS ONLY MILLIONAIRE. Suva. Fiji Islands, Dec. 2S. Tho South seas, in the vicinity of the New Hebrides, was lately filled so densely with volcanic pumice as to be a men ace to navigation. A small steamer which arrived here after a voyage of 400 miles from the Tonga Group re ported that the volcanic disturbance on Ambrim island had scattered pum. Ice over the neighboring seas so dense- Rich Rooks County Man Started With $300 and an Old Team. Stockton, Kan., Dec. 23. The fun eral services of W. R. Griffin, the only millionaire in Rooks county, was held here recently. Mr. Griffin is an example of what may be accomplished by an energetic man In Kansas. Coming to Stockton in 1889 at the age of 25 years with $300 in cash and an old team and wagon, he opened a racket store In a room 18x20 feet. He was a born mer chant and his business grew regard less of the hard times of the early nineties. In 1909 when he closed out his general merchandise business he had a rating with commercial agen cies of half a million. From that time he devoted his energies to overseeing Hot Water Each Morning Puts Roses in Your Cheeks the various enterprises in which he was interested. As Griffin Beck ley, he acted as agent for the Ford auto in this county and conducted an extensive auto livery and machine business. As Griffin Ives, he oper ated a large ranch near here dealing extensively in horses and cattle. Be sides owning numerous farms in this and adjoining counties he had a 4,000 acre wheat farm near Oaksdale, Wash. Death was caused by paralysis brought on by exposure while over seeing the roofing of a $20,uuu gar age he had under construction. TO LTIIJZli: STRIP PITS. Pittsburg Normal Would Solve Prob lem of jturmxng Coal Laud. Pittsburg, Ivan., Iec. 23. The rap idly growing neius oi wonted-out strip pit land present a proolem to soutn castern lumaia whicn the State Man ual Training .Normal s department ot agriculture has been asked to solve. orty-three bis steam snoveis are un covering the vein of coal nearest the surface in the eastern part of Craw ford county and just over the Mis souri line. They strip about an acre a month each. When a shovel gets through with a lease the field looks like a huge plow had been at work. The earth for a depth ranging from 30 feet down to half that much is completely torn up. The problem is to devise some way lor using the torn up land from un der which the coal has been removed. How to get the land leveled down so that it can be cultivated at a rea sonable cost is the first obstacle con fronting those who would reclaim the strip land. However, there would be small need for the leveling down of the strip fields unless the soil as mix ed and torn up will produce profit ably. A test of the soil will be made. RAILROADS NEW STREET GARS Topeka Railway Company Is Building One-Man Vehicles. SUES CITY OF HOISTNGTON. Chicago Septic Tank Company Alleges Infringement on Patent. Hoisington, Kan., Dec. 23. The city of Hoisington has been notified that the Cameron Septic Tank company of Chicago has instructed attorneys here to take up a claim against the city of Hoisington for alleged In fringement of their patent of sewage disposal plant. According to the claim of the Chi cago firm, they had a patent on sew age disposal plants but the validity of same was not determined until Sep tember of this year when they re ceived a favorable verdict in the Uni ted States court of appeals which al lowed them to collect 4 per cent of the cost price on all such tanks construct ed for a period of six years. Said ver dict was rendered at Richmond, Ky., Sept. 18 of this year. The Hoisington sewage disposal plant was constructed three years ago by Burns McDonald, engineers of Kansas City, at a cost of about $4,000 and in case the city is liable for the 4 per cent iniringements. the amount due the company would be about $480. CHRISTMAS AT THE PEN. Kansas Convicts to See Movies, Hear Music, and Have Big Dinner. Lansing, Kan.. Dec. 23. Warden J. K. Codding and the officers of the Kansas penitentiary are planning tc make Christmas as pleasant as pos sible for the prisoners. There will be no work in the shops or mine, and there will be a moving picture show and a play entitled "The Broken Coin." The Christmas dinner will be the feature of the day. The menu will consist of turkey, rolled oats, hot bis cuit, bread, butter, coffee, cream, su gar, oyster soup, celery, sour pickles, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, creamed corn, cocoanut layer cake. jelly, apple pie, cheese, lemon cookies. bananas, oranges and nuts. The pris on orchestra will render a program of popular music during the meal. 15-YEAR-OLD MOTHER? x y 4 Jfe L To look one's best and feel one's best is to enjoy an inside bath each morning to flush from the system the previous day's waste, sour fermenta tions1 and poisonous toxins before it is absorbed into the blood. Just as coal, when it burns, leaves behind a certain amount of incombustible ma terial in the form of ashes, so the food and drink taken each day leave in the alimentary organs a certain amount of Indigestible material, which if not eliminated, form toxins and poisons which are then sucked into the blood through the very ducts which are in tended to suck in only nourishment to sustain the body. If you want to see the glow of healthy bloom in your cheeks, to see your skin get clearer and clearer, you are told to drink every morning upon arising, a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it, which is a harmless means of wash ing the waste material and toxins from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels, thus cleansing, sweetening and puri fying the entire alimentary tract, be fore putting more food into the stomach. Girls and women with sallow skins, liver spots, pimples or pallid complex ion, also those who wake up with a coated tongue, bad taste, nasty breath, others who are bothered with head aches, billious spells, acid stomach or constipation should begin this phos phated hot water drinking and are as sured of very pronounced results in one or two weeks. A quarter pound of limestone phos phate costs very little at the drug store but is sufficent to demonstrate that just as soap and hot water cleanses, purifies and freshens the skin on the outside, so hot water and limestone phosphate act on the inside organs. We must always consider that internal sanitation is vastly more im portant than outside cleanliness, be cause the skin pores do not absorb im purities into the blood, while the bowel pores do. Women who desire to enhance the beauty of their complexion should just try this for a week and notice results. Advertisement. Columbus Judge Must Decide Peculiar Question in Abandonment Case. Columbus, Kan., Dec. 23. Can a 15- year-old wife properly care for two small children? This is a question which J. II. Ellis, probate judge, may decide today when the case of Ed Cheveliar, charged with contributing to the delinquency of his children, comes before him for a hearing. This is the charge against Cheveliar at present, but Frank W. Boss, prose cuting attorney, said today the charge may be changed to abandonment. Chevalier is now in the county jail having been arrested at Alba, Mo., yesterday, by James Marshall, con stable. His detention has been sought by relatives for several months, in fact some of his relatives supposed him dead. CRACKED AN EMPTY SAFE. Yeggs Haul Box a Half Mile and Blast It Open. Augusta, Kan., rec. 23. Burglars broke into J. J. Manions feed office near the Frisco depot Tuesday night and carted his safe a half mile from town on the Kellogg road, west, where they opened it with nitroglycerin. The safe contained nothing but checks and these the burglars left, threw the safe into the weeds and left in the di rection of Wichita, The officers found the safe, the checks and the trail today. Other Items of General Interest In the Traffic World. The Topeka Railway company is building some one-man street cars to be used on the Country club-Loop line. According to A. M. Patten, assistant general manager of the Illinois Trac tion company, one of these cars will be ready for service early in January. Since the railway company first put on the one-man system on the Coun try club line, it has been operating regular cars with the rear doors locked. This has proved rather incon venient. The new cars will have a large platform in front, sliding doors operated from the motorman's com partment and will be otherwise in- line with one-man cars used elsewhere. The company promises that the new ones will be a great deal better than those used now. ICE OX GALVESTON BAY. Judge Smith Recounts Wonders of Gulf Port Winter. W. R. Smith, Santa Fe solicitor for Kansas, has just returned from a trip to Texas and he says that Galveston bay is frozen over. That is remark able for the gulf port. "Tho most wonderful feature of this," Judge Smith told a visitor to day, "is the fatalities it causes among pelicans. A pelican, as everyone knows, is a bird which hovers over the water until he spies a fish. Then he dives down into the water and gets the fish. "Most of the birds had never seen ice before. When the pelicans gazed down through the transparent ice, they spied fish and dived for them. But the heads of the birds struck the hard ;ce and necks were broken." Judge Smith says that the muni cipality and the county appropriated money to hire a large force of men to carry away the dead pelicans and bury them. When Smith was there thousands could be seen as far as the human eye could reach- touch at ports along the South Amer ican west coast from Punta Arenas to Panama regularly are getting all the freight they can handle, and so much is being transshipped over the Panama railroad across the Isthmus that every car the company has is in constant use and there is need of more rolling stock. The Peruvian ports are said to be stacked mountain high with sacks of sugar, while in Ecuador it is reported that there are 750,000 bales of cotton waiting to be moved, and the harvest of cocoa is so great that it will have to be destroyed if not handled soon. NOT IN GOOD SHAPE Investigation by Insurance Depart ment Indicates That Affairs Some Topeka Concerns Need Adjustment. FREIGHT HOLDING CP. Rock Island Reports Are Satisfactory Show 12 Per Cent Increase. The Rock Island reports all classes of freight holding up well, with the exception of grain, which is 12 per cent lighter. llvestocK aenveries snow an increase of 28 per cent, coal 24 per cent and lumber, 29 per cent. Weather conditions have favored the movement of all classes of building materials, tonnage in sand, cement and stone being larger by 60 per cent. Merchandise is 3 per cent heavier and miscellaneous business 20 per cent. Operations in general are 12 per cent above last year and 42 per cent in excess of 1913. Merrick Tells This One. When R. G. Merrick, of Topeka, assistant general freight agent of the Santa Fe railway, was in the Ozark country last summer, he tried an ex periment with a fish ho had caught. Mr. Merrick conceived the idea of training the fresh water animal so ho would not need to be in water all of the time. Twice a day the railroad man took the fish out of the water and laid him on the grass, increas ing the amount of this exercise dailv until finally the fish didn't need any water at all. Then Mr. Merrick brought his treas ure to his Topeka home and he was made a household pet. The fish would be put on the carpet and would wrig gle around through the house with great delight. One day a catastrophe happened to Freddie, the fish. Fred die was placed out in the yard and was enjoying himself in great fashion. A hose had been running on the lawn and at one place it made a small pool of water. Freddie wandered into the pool and was drowned. SEND GALL FOR SHIPS Entire West Coast of South America Has Much Freight for Shipment. Special reports concerning the con dition of three Topeka insurance com panies, are being gathered by the state insurance department. The companies include the Topeka Mutual Livestock, the Topeka National Live stock and the Central National Hail Insurance company. Reports which havo been in the hands of the insurance department for several months have indicated that some of the affairs of the companies wore not in the best of condition. On several occasions within the last year, the state department has called on representatives of one or more of the companies for statements of financial condition. Recently, a number of hail Insurance companies in the state failed to pay dollar for dollar on their crop losses. Included in the list were several of the. insurance com panies now involved in the trouble with the state department. All of the three companies are con trolled by J. H. White, of Kansas City, Mo. Recently M. A. Isaacs, representing the Topeka National Livestock company, left Topeka. It was reported that he had gone to New York. Now it is stated that he is in Oklahoma. His testimony is wanted by i he state department- Not until reporcs are filed by the special accountants, will the state insurance commissioner be able to make a state ment as to the exact condition of the companies under White's control. Peace Painting Is Gone. New York, Dec. 23. Albert Bes nard's famous painting symbolizing "Peace," the property of the French government, has mysteriously disap peared from the French line pier in this city, where it was received last Thursday from the steamship Es pagne. It was insured for $20,000. Ends Dry, Hoarse or J Painful Coughs Quickly A Stxnp1ev Home-MtfJe ltemedT. Inexpensive bat Unequaled The prompt and positive results given by this pleasant tasting, home-made cough syrup has caused it to be used in more homes than any other remedv. It gives almost instant relief and will usual ly overcome the average cough, in 24 Hours. Get 2y ounces Pinex 50 cpnta wn-rfri from any drug store, pour it into a pint ooctie ana mi cue oottie witn plain granu lated sugar syrup. This makes a full nint a familv minnlv of th tnnat ef fective cough remedy at a cost of only 54 cenis or jess, xou couian t duv as mucn readv-made eoui?h medicine fnr 9 HO Easily prepared and never spoils. Full The promptness, certainty and ease with which this Pinex Syrup overcomes a bad couch, chest or throat cold is truly remariiaoie. quicKiy loosens a drv. hoarse or tiffht coueh and heals arid soothes a painful couh in a hurry. With a persistent loose cough it stops the for mation of phlegm in the throat and bron chial tubes, thus ending the annoying Pinex is a hichlv concentrated com pound of genuine Norway pine extract, rich in piiaiacol and is famous the world over- for its snlendid effect in bronchitis. whooping cough, bronchial asthma and winter cous-hs. To avoid disappointment in making tnis, ask your druggist tor 52 ounces of Pinex," and don't accept anything else. A Gmarantee of absolute satisfac tion, or money promptly refunded, goes witn tins preparation. J.ne jrinex jo, ft. vvayne, ind. C Adrertisement I COW1CT FREED BY DEATH. Texas Counterfeiter Succumbs to Pneumonia at Federal Prison. Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 23. Chan. W. Hartley, 75 years old, died in the hospital at the federal prison Tuesday morning. The aged man was sent up from Gonzales. Texas., for coun terfeiting. His relatives were notified of his death, but no word has been re ceived as to what disposition shall be made of the body. KIDDIES DONATE PENNIES. Playmates of Little Manhattan Crip ple Will Pay for Operation. Manhattan, Kan., Dec. 23. In or der that Augusta Westfall. aged 13 years, one of their playmates who has been disabled from birth might have a straight back and take part in their games, the children of one of the Manhattan schools have contributed their pennies and nickels to a fund to pay for a needed operation. American in China Resigns. Shanghai, Dec. 23. C. M. Bishop, American vice consul and senior American assessor in the mixed court at Shanghai, has resigned from the consular service, and will return to his home at Baltimore to practice law. Cecil Rhodes Adviser Dead. London, Dec. 23. B. A. Hawksley. a close friend and adviser of the late Cecil Rhodes, died in London Tuesday, it is announced. Mr. Hawksley was a trustee of the will of Mr. Rhodes. Roller Skates at Forbes. Adv. J Panama, Dec. 23. The entire wes coast of South America is asking for ships to move the vast amount o freight that is piling up at the variou oorts awaitine: shioment to other coun tries, according to information in ship ping circles here. The closing of th Panama Canal, together with new con ditions brought about by the European war are the principal causes for th- present congestion. All the ships that L B. HIGGINB0TT0M Wall Paper Painter and Decorator 219 W. Sixth St Phone 4478 Blue State Journal Chrilmas Offer It you want to give something of daily value, why not send the State Journal by mail to some friend or relative at our low rate of J1.00 for 100 days. Only a penny i day; seems practically nothing doesn't it? This offer is for subscriptions by mail only, but the paper will be sent daily, post paid, to any address In the United States, and we can arrange to have the first Issue reach "him" or "her" on Christmas day. A card will also be mailed, if you wish, an nouncing from whom the gift comes. Leave your order at business office, or simply enclose $1.00 and mall to TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. Topeka, Kan. Small Gift Books Bible and Testaments Give Your Wife a Vacuum Cleaner Buy her a Hoover Sucton Sweeper the only elctrlcally operated vacuum cleaner and suction sweeper combined. It will save her all the hard work of sweeping and dusting. Hoover's are sold only at this store. mm- This Mario Smoking Stand. $1.39 We have just twenty-five of them to offer at this special price. If good looks and good value count for anything they should be gone within an hour after the store opens. We don't know of a finer thing that you might select as a gift for a man. The picture is an exact illustra tion of the stand. Mahogany fin ish with smoking tray and glass in set. As long as they last at $1.39 Inspect the many other pieces toe are showing in Gift Furniture all are extra values. Give Your Wife a McDougall Cabinet A McDougall Cabinet in your kitchen will save the wife thousands of steps every year. It will enable her to do her kitchen work in less than half the time now required. We are showing a special model at $19.85. This Store Will Be Open Evenings Until Christmas r 1 -TT-rv. rf. i. MiTiir..i Tbe California Limited The Missionary The Overland The Navajo Take you thru the pre historic Southwest to CALIFORNIA T. L.. KING, C. P. T. A. Topeka. Kan. Phone 3ffft2. HKkWsmmtsmmmsmatsssssssmmmmmssmsmmmsmaBmmmmmmsmwmsss 8 Daily Trains To KANSAS CITY DOUBLE TRACK NO STOPS It. TOPEKA At. KAW. CITY VfJor fS U. KAN. CITT Ar. TOPEKA 4:15 a-m. 6:25 a-m. I f AliJSUirf f 7:55 a-m. 9:35 a.m. 5:45 un. 7:35 a.m. I j (73 BSfri 1 1 I 10:20 a.m. 12:15 p m. 7:40 a-m. 9:25 a.m. I KUlAlilJ I 10:50 a.m. 12:50 p.m. 3:15p.m. 5:10p.m. l 1 1:00 a.m. 1:00 p m. 3:30 p.m. 5:25 p.m. r T 1 6:30 p.m. 8:15 p.m. 5:20p.m 7:10 p.m. C.E. BASCQM.C. P.A. 7:45 p.m. 9:40 p.m. 7:45 p.m. 9:35 p.m. Phon. 4036 lOiOOp.m. 11:55 p.m. 8:50pm. 10:40 p.m. Pollman sieepcra Only 11:40pm. 1:40 a m. L. M. PENWELL Undertaker and mbaliner THOMAS E. JONES. Assistant Phone 192 608-810 Qulncy St. buiueoue watuu lliul tviiJea Jon do not. A iinall id la the State Jonrndl want columns satlsfi both-