The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
May 15, 1916

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BOL"T the n;ly thing that many men (1 axat'tly on time Is to quit work. W1 EAI'HiR FORECAST for Kansas: Fair and continued cool, with a light frost tonight; Tuesday fair and warmer. ho:- v edition TOPEKA, KANSAS, MONDAY EVENING; MAY 15, 1916 -TEN PAGES THIS EDITION 2 CENTS Che.it Justice After Jury Finds Him Guilty. Confesses to Assault and Mur der of Woman. 9BTHI?XSHOTSS TOO GOOD Suspend Him on Tree Limb and Bu:Id Fire Beneath. 15,000 Witness Kerenge in Weeo, Tex., Public Square. Waco, Texas, May 15. With 15,000 persons at witnesses, in cluding women and children, Jesse Washington, negro youth, who confessed to the criminal attacking and murder of Mrs. Lucy Fryar, seven miles south of here, last Monday, was taken from the fifth district court room today and burned on the public square. The burning came immediately aft er the negro's trial had ended ant? aft er the jury had returned a verdict of jruilty, fcivins him the death penalty. Some one nut far from the negro started the cry of "Get the negro." It was taken up by all of those from that part of the country where Mrs. Fryar was killed, and Washington was then seized and removed from the court room. H'Uiin Too Good. The crowd at first seemed willing to hanpr the nrgry from the suspen sion britipe, but a suggestion that he be burned on the plaza met with in stant response, and he was dragged to the city hall yard, where the chain already around his neck was thrown over the limb of a tree, wood hastily secured and the fire started. When the flames had suosided somewhat, uuite a number in tie crowd cut off the negro's fire blistered fingers and other parts of his body. Couldn't Stop Rush. After the verdict had been re turned, the negro said in a half audible whimper. "I'm sorry I done it." No demonstration was made, until oft1!- the jury's verdict had been re ccivt?d and preparations were being made to remove the prisoner to the jail. The rush came with such sud denness that officers, lawyers and newspaper men were swept off their feet, and the negro secured before any could stop the proceedings. While the crowd that took Wash ington from the courtroom is said to have been composed of people from the country, they were joined by many citizens of Waco, and in some in stiipcs, it is said, people left their places of business to view the burning of the ppgro, whose body was burned to a criso. lrr$rrcd Body ni Street. Aft?r the fire had burned itself out, the remains were viewed by the coro ner whose verdict has not yet been announced. About 1 o'clock some members of the mob returned to the scene of the burning, put the charred body in a sack, and with a man on horseback, dryged the body through the prin cipal streets. The horseman headed i nthe direction of Robinson, where Mrs. Fryar was murdered, and it is thought to be the intention to carry the body back to the scene of the crime. If! D U-BOAT fx Sussex Destroyer's Captain Se verely Dealt With. Germany Incensed Over His Fictitious Report. The TTrr-rnc. May 15.- Severe pun ishment wis ineeted out to the com mander of the 'Jerman submarine which attacked the Sussex, it is gen erally believed in well informed cir cles in Terlin, though no official re port of the" nature of the punishment has been made public. This belief is based largely on the Indignation lelt in Berlin and through out Ciermany over the U-boat com ma nrter's act. His report was im plicity believed until the American government presented conclusive evi dence showing that the channel pac ket was torpedoed. In view of the evidence, Germans feel that they were put in a rather humiliating position. It is not misstating- the case to say that the submarine commander's de ception caused as much indignation in Berlin a3 it did in "Washington. BIRTH CONTROL ON POULTRY IN TEXAS CAMPAIGN Sherman, Tex., May 15 Birth con trol was forced upon Texas hens today when hundreds of farmers armed with axes and hatchets chopped the heads off all but the most eugenic roosters. The farmers have been getting so many eggs that prices have slumped; so todny they put through their Ne roesqne program of deliberate rooster murder, keeping only enough of the gentlemen fowl to assure tutu re chicken families. -dont fire t -W MOST Zun) hjk (till you see J agree not w r-. XdSSHr THE WHITES OP TO MAKE A STEAM I fJ J J KEEP UPJIRING Germans Found Away ill Va'P on Verdun Forts. In Champagne French Take Corps Prisoners. Paris, May 15. The bombardment in the region of the Avocourt wood and Hill 304, in the Verdun section still continues, according to an official statement issued today by the French war office. In a small engagement west of Mount Tetu in the Champagne, the French captured 15 prisoners. Calm is reported on the rest of the front. Repulse Italian Attack. Berlin, May 15. By wireless to Say- ville The following is the official Austrian report of May 13: "Italian front Our trdops repulsed several attacks on the northern slope of Mont- scan Mlchele. The Italians suffered heavy losses. "Russian and Balkan fronts: the situation is unchanged." The statement follows: "South of the Somme near Verm nadovillers we delivered coup de main which permitted us to clear the enemy from a first line trench. In Champagne, there was great ar tillery activity on both sides in the sectors of Maisons de Champagne and the Butte d'Mesnil. An invasion of a German work, west of Mount Tetu, permitted us to capture fifteen pris oners. "In Verdun region there were bom bardments in the sector of the woods of Avocourt and Hill 34." British "Come Back." Berlin, May 15. The British have been attacking the German lines near Hulluck in northern France in an ef fort to recapture the trenches recently taken by the Germans there, but all their attempts have been repulsed, according to today's statement by the war office. In the Verdun region the French failed in attacks near Dead man Hill and near the Caillette wood. The statement follows: "Western The artillery and patrols on both sides have been active in many sections. "The enemy attempted to recapture the positions taken by the Germans near Hulluch. All his attempts either broke down under the German artillery fire or was repulsed in hand to hand fighting. "French attacks in the Meuse dis trict on. the west Uope of Deadman's Hill and near the Cailette wood were easily repulsed." steamboatf6rhotel Chicago Delegation Charters Floating Homes for St. Louis Convention. Chicago. May 15. Three of the largest steamboats on the Mississinni river have been chartered by the Cook county Democratic central committee as sleeping quarters for Chicago Democrats who will go to St. Louis during the Democratic national con vention, it' was announced today by D. C. Egan, in charge of arranre ments for the convention trip. It Is said that at least 1,000 Chicagoans will go to St. Louis to present the name of Roger C. Sullivan for consid eration as a candidate for the vice presidency before the national con vention. Hotel accommodation could (not bs secured for the large delegation Mr. Egan said.' GETTING TOGETHER rOotiyrtctit: 1916: By Jofcn T- MoOotehcon.l KANSAS IS SOAKED Weather Forecast Indicates That the Ruin Over. Hourly temperature readings fur mshed by the weather bureau: 7 o'clock .....46111 o'clock 8 o'clock 50112 o'clock 9 o'clock 5l 1 o'clock 10 o'clock 52 2 o'clock ..54 ..56 ..59 .SO Temperatures today averaged 13 de grees below normal. The wind blew at the rate of 20 miles an hour from the northwest. At 2 o'clock the Kaw river stage was 15.8 feet. General rains along the valley of the Kaw river and streams tributary to it have sent the streams booming. This morning the river had reached a stage of 15.7 feet and a further slight rise is expected today. The river has about reached the highest point, ac cording to S. D. Flora, local weather man, and with fair weather forecast there is no reason to apprehend trou ble. The stage today is 8.4 feet higher than on Saturday. The rains were general over Kansas Saturday night and Sunday and the southwestern part (Contlnoed od Page 2.1 T. R. QUARTERS Non-Partisan League Opens Office in Chicago. G. 0. P. Appoints Chaplains for Convention Week. Chicago, May 15. Western hea quarters of the Roosevelt Non-parti san league were opened here today, with H. Bettinghaus, Chicago, In charge. William F. Stone, sergeant-at-arms of the Republican national committee, lias appointed four prominent Chi cago church men as chaplains at the national convention which opens June 7. They are:. Wednesday, June 7, the Rev. J. T. Stone, pastor Fourth Presbyterian church. Thursday, June 8, the Right Rev. F. C. Kelly, president of the Catholic Church Extension society. Friday, June 9, Bishop W. F. Mc Dowell, of the Methodist Episcopal church. Saturday, June 10, the Rev. W. O. Waters, pastor of the Grace Episcopal church. Secretary James B. Reynolds, of the Republican national committee with his assistants were to arrive in Chi cago today from Washington. TROOPS GO TO BORDER Three Special Trains From Plattsburg Pass Through Kansas City. Kansas City, May 15. Three special trains carrying 38 officers and 850 men of the Thirtieth United States In fantry passed through here today en route from Plattsburg, X. T., for San Fordyce, Texas. Forty-six cars were necessary to carry the men and their equipment. They remained in Kansas City several hours. The regiment left Plattsburg last Friday and will reach its destina tion Wednesday. Go to Supreme Court. Washington, May 15. The East man Kodak company today appealed to the supreme court from the decree of the New York federal district court which held it was imposing restraint I on interstate trade in photographic t supplies ana ordered a division of its 1 property into separate corporations of distinct ownership. GOES TOJILLARD County Deposits $5,000 With Little Country Bank. Pay Half Per Cent More Than Offered in Topeka. Although Topeka banks admit they are unable to pay more than two per cent on the county's daily b .lances, the little bank at Willard has offered to pay the county two and one-half per cent on an open checking ac count. The county commissioners to day authorized the county treasurer to deposit $5,000 .with the Willard bank. The money will be subject to the same fluctuation it would be in the Vis Topeka banks but the Willard bank can afford to pay one-:ialf of one per cent more than the Topeka banks. t The county now has $20,000 in each of the two banks at Rossville, $10,000 in the Silver Lake bank and has au thorized the placing of $5,000 in the Willard bank. There are still several banks in the county outside of Topeka. There is one at Richland, one at Do ver and one. at Wakarusa. They have not bid for county funds so far. THREW COIN Ail Kansan Started Sensation in Illinois Town. Arrives in Automobile; Lights Cigar With Bill. Chicago, May 13. J. N. Ryan, who says he is from St. John. Kansas, is in jail at Lemont, 111., today charged with parsing worthless checks. His arrest followed .a month's stay in the Illinois town where he posed as a banker and the owner of large tracts of land in Kansas. Ryan happened into Lemont in an automobile and lost no time in im pressing the people of that town with his supposed wealth. As he stepped from his car. he lit a cigar with a paper bill and then started to give the people around town a good time. Most of this was done with money obtained on cheeks which he cashed, it is charged. Saturday the checks began coming back marked "No funds," and Ry.in was arrested. On the way to the jail in his automobile he jumped from the machine and made a dash for free dom, but three shots from an officer's pistol halted him. BWEI'LL TODAY American Icane. Chicago at Boston Game postpon ed; wet grounds. American Association. Columbus at St. Paul Game post poned wet 3 rounds. Toledo at Minneapolis game post poned; wet grounds and cold. THE BANKERS' "COMBINE" County Should Receive 50 More on Daily Balances Than the Uniform Bid of All the Topeka Banks. Action Loses Much Money to County. State Journal To Be Humiliated. About the mirirt to rtt A nr-il tilnP banks and two trust companies of the city of Topeka, each and all in one as to rate uniformity .and date of ef fect and alleged reason for their- ac tion, served notice on the board of county commissioners of Shawnee county that on and after May 1st they, each and severally and any and all of them, would pay only, two per cent on daily balances. Several of these banks had already established the rate by bidding for and securing city school board money or money from the state of Kansas at the rate of three per cent or UP- wards on rillv bnlnce. inis uniiorm action on me part or each and all the banks herewith nam- ed was for the purpose of depriving the county of its just rate of interest on daily balances and for the other further purpose of humiliating the To peka State Journal before this com munity and warning the paper that hereafter it should not undertake to meddle in financial affairs. By reason of the uniform action on the part of each and every bank in the city of Topkea, the county was appar ently at the mercy of these banks and would hereafter be obliged to fail to I served in Detroit, fhe business corn receive fifty per cent more in interest I munity, and particularly that part of vu uaiiy- uaiunces, uecause me proper rale as fixed by the banks themselves was three per cent. The rate named in the letters herewith was fixed by the banks at 2 per cent. In other words, if the county got its just dues from the banks for interest on daily deposits running through the year, the county-would receive three per cent or fifty per cent more than the two per cent offered. The State Journal had undertaken in good, faith to defend the interests of the city of Topeka and the county of Shawnee, and it still means to de fend those interests. It means to keep up this agitation until the county se cures three per cent on its daily bal ances and until the city secures the same. The order went forth to all the bankers to write the uniform letter, and thereby the county would fail to receive fifty per cent more than the new and uniform offer recently made by each and all of the banks; that is to say, instead of the three per cent which the bankers had themselves fixed as a fair rate, as above noted, the county would have to take the two per cent they offered, three per cent being fifty per cent more than the two per cent. At the same time the State Journal would be taught a lesson once and for all not to interfere in financial affairs affecting the city and county's welfare. The idea being to humiliate the State Journal before this community wnere tne paper has been published under the same management for over thirty years; to let this paper know that if in laboring for the welfare of Topeka and Shawnee county any pre rogatives of the bankers are touched or reduced, the State Journal must l"ese "fiows; oe sam. iney are seI A flotilla of destrovers was pur beware; the county clerk made the j iPe Presidents of two of our biggest j 9uing tne Zeppelin, which evidently statement a few days ago in substance ""anc'a1 institutions. In 1912 they i had been aaTOaEed by a shell. as follows- I were great Taft men, personal friends "Now that the State Journal has as well as political supporters. Until IM 1 1 ft fl !ft fiYeT T interfered in this matter, the county a few weeks ago they were bitter RE jj II V hHSiI"I instead of receiving three per cent on I agV"st... RooscveJt for what they1 Qf f fJj county funds which the paper under- I called his party treachery. But they, took to promote, the countv must now have 3u3t been assuring me that he accept two per cent, or less than it i wo.ula be nominated and that in ex got before j istmg conditions they considered him Here is the list of the banks and i the mst fit man for Presidency." trr.st companies who have combined I In tn newspapers of these western for the above two purposes as set i clties tna.t 1 have been visiting there forth- The "Combine." The Central National bank, E. E. Ames, vice president. The Centra! Trust company, J. R. Burrow, president. The Farmers' National bank, H. G. West, cashier. The Bank of Topeka. S. E. Cobb, vice president. The PrudentiaJ Trust Scott Hopkins, presvlent. company, The Merchants National bank. F. ivi. soneoraKe. cashier. The State Savings bank, Wm. Mac- a-'"ry,P'V'JePa to nominate states can no longer countenance seiz ferran, president. i Contlnucil on Page 2.) j ure and detention of mails to and from The Topeka State bank. C. W. Snv-!B r p m 4 iaiiv! the United States, particularly those der. president. t?l P' VS "Is I TV T I Si M i concerning neutrals. The German American State bank, i fi B fA I RsBE I is'. r!'?R I 'i Tne reply recently received from Roy L. Bone, vice president. j""' BtaifaEsa djti'll I I Great Britain to. the last American The Shawnee State bank. F. P. El- note protesting against interference more, cashier. Citizens State bank, E. S. Gresser, shier. cas AO oank is misintr. I The Klr-vcn "Alike" Ix-ttors. Here are copies of the eleven letters written last month to the board of county commissioners. The reader may draw his own con clusions. The Central National Bank. Topckn. K:in.. April 1. l!lrt. In? Hoard of Couuty Oomuiissiouers, To- nan. Irer t-em. except thofte which e havevcou ira-reu i a inpher rate. We will therefore Uepriu on thnt date to rniupnte liilerert on d.iily bahinces of the Cnuuty Treasurer at that rate. Trust! uir that you will see the justice of our iwtsi- the money market ami the low rates of It- 1 company near here. Among the dead terest preTt-ntiug. we will, on May 1st. IMIti, ;-r- iHfu-Pd to ho th nin.printpnriont reduce the rate of interest paid oh all imbli--! Ve 1 auperintenuent 1 umiievH n ifMMrir m. ti.i. and his assistant. non. nn that we may have your approval utactured. Dynamite and other ex of thia action, we rem i in. Yours very truly, j plosives, used for commercial nur fc. K. AM10S. ice President. j poses, are manufactured at the plant. Toiwka. Kau.. April 14. l!Ho. The County '.miuitssiouers. Shawnee Coun ty. rtekii, Kn. Gentlemen Owing to the present condi tion of the money market and our inabil ity to linndle our funds profitable, we are com Hnl to reduce the rate of interest on AVVlLA"eV?Ilts.t? ou d" balances ou and after May 1st. We repret to take this action but are i compelled to no so in justice to ourselre: anil sound banking principles. Your? verv trulv. J. U. BURROW. President. The Bank c.f Topeka. Toieka. Kan April 14. liPi. O. K. SwvTR?. County Clerk. Tiek.i. K-m. IHir Air, Suayw? u ct-tiut of tli- finiiiK-i.-il -fiHlifioiis nw lu the Luiteii Cununued iium page Two. SENTIMENT HAS SPRUNG UP '-IN FEW MONTHS Public Opinion Swings Rapidly to Colonel Roosevelt. Majority of Minnesota Repub licans Are for Him. INSTRUCTED. FOR CUMINS Many Experience Change of Heart in Few Weeks. Result of Calm Consideration of Existing Conditions. BY WILLIS J. ABBOT. Minneapolis, Minn., May 15. Nomi- nally, Minnesota has 24 delegates in- structed for Cummins. Practically, j the delegation is not for Cummins at

I all. The instructions are not held j binding by the delegates, nor, for that f matter, judging from conversations I have heard, by the average citizen with political interests. The areat majority of the delegates are for Roosevelt, four or five are said to be for Hughes. A well informed observer of politics said that not more than two or three would oe for Cum mins to the end. In this city 1 find Roosevelt senti ment strong and continually growing. It parallels the condition which I ob- j n- wini-ii naa iiimuwoi cidnvi..-, the east, is mostly for him. I am told that this situation is one of recent growth. Four months ago there was little Roosevelt sentiment. Among the old line Republicans the resentment of 112 still burns brightly. The Pro- gressives were asieep. wniie iney iian but a gubernatorial ticket in the field in 1914, they had polled a beggarly vote only 3,553 in a total vote of! nearly 350,000. The Socialist candidate polled five times as many. In the primaries of this year the Progressives, as a party, took no part, though as individuals they succeeded in putting many Roosevelt men on a nominally Cum mins delegation, but up to the begin ning of last month Roosevelt senti ment if not negligible, was almost in audible. Changed In Few Weeks. About that time the owner of one of the most influential Republican newspapers of the northwest,, on leav ing his office for a somewhat pro tracted stay, said to his managing ed itor: "Be careful not to get the pa per into too hostile. a position toward Wilson. If the party is idiotic nough to allow itself to be bulldozed into nominating Roosevelt, we may. have to support the Democrats.

hi. ii.,7tn; "i h 1 of the sist Persons aboard are known said to his lieutenant, I see you have t h perished and their bodies have been criticising Wilson pretty sharply been recovered. The fate of -he re on his Mexican and European policies, j mainin two i3 unknown, but it was It's all right; I think we are going to feared thev also were lost. nominate Roosevelt. He is the one, man to correct the situation Wilson has created. C- course, we'll support "im. The other day a gentleman left two others and came to join me. "See i appear almost dally dispatches f rom Washington to the effect that both nave ueeu i eliminated. The people here dismiss J- r "s com-, ment that Washington is a notoriously il u "l lne temper oi tne coun iry. congressman Oeorge K Smith, who represents this district, gravely informed the editor of local paper the other day that "Jim" Mann had I ,that Rooseve.t, Hughes and Root "j?,1;!1""1 each othfcr off like the cats of Kilkenney and that the convention I i Dupont Powder Plant Is De- i stroyed by Explosion. Five Build'BffS Of IN'llHlino j 1 Plant Razed. Gibbstown. Nj J., May 15. Eight mn nr r.tinrtrl L- HI1 nnrl u H injured in an explosion today at the Five buildings were demolished by the explosion which was felt a dis- tance of manv mile J earned the bias ,e 'darned tne ma les. So far as can tit occurred in a i ""tiding where nitrate was beins nian- LAND MM. MARINES

Reinforce American Command to Sup m-e-s santo Duniinso Revolt. i more AmSn marine aT s7nr- mingo City to deal with the revolu 1 .ir. h i i ri. mmistor r,f i war. against former President Jimine' jtras reported today to the navy de-; uartment by Rear -Admiral Capert'HiJ i commanding the American force o J hostilities hare been reported. OBREGON GAVE WORD TO HELP CATCHBANDITS Scott Says War Minister Prom ised Co-operation. Delivers Report Today to War and Staie Departments. FGU3D INTERVENTION POPULAR El Paso Believes Housecleaning by II. S. Seeded. -Carranza Offers Help as Long j as Troops Are Lojcl. I Washington, May 15. Information. helpful to the administration guiding its future course toward Mexico, was presented todi'.y to Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of State Lan-ing by Chief of Staff Scott. He informed them that, while Gen- eral Obregon at El Paso had refused to put down Mexico cooperation I terms in black and white, 'he offered J assistance that will be helpful, iro-1 viding there were no outbreaks among f detached Carranzita garrisons. j .His report tended to confirm the optimism of the past few days, though he included in it the opinion of many EI Pasoans that a general house cleaning by the. United States within Mexico will b2 ncccary ultimately. The war department today had a report from Oeneral Pershing saying the new concentration of troops or dered by General Funston after the El Paso conference, was being conducted j satisfactorily. This was interpreted as meaning the supply lines already are being shortened. FRENCH ZEP FALLS Probably All Six Men of Dirig ible Crew Are Lost. Four Bodies Found on Floating Wreckage in Sea. Parl9,' 'May IS. The dirigible bal loon which is reported from Toulon to have fallen into the sea off the Sar dinian coast belonged to the French navy. An official statement issued to day said that the balloon caught fire i from an. unexplained cause wniie fly I ui.r over the Mediterranean last Fri i day. The remains of the envelope have r uccn i been towed ashore at Toulon. Four roiwrbnn Alav 15 A Zt-nne!in j ajrsmip. badly' damaged, passed over the isiand of Fedge early Friday, set- 1 1 ,r clnivlv tnwnnj tViA wt- nnri ,1 u apPearing in a bank of fog. according i ,u .i,i0- rijni.h f,.hinr "Very Vigorous" This Time to Notify Great Britain. i j Again Demand' British War ships Let Mail Alone. Washington. May 15. The Ameri- pan irmirnmpiit nrpnarlnir a nrotewt characterized by officials as "Very vigorous" agai. st the Interference J with mails to and from the United states bv Great Britain. A note to be sent forward in the near future, will v. v. ,hA t-4,.i with American mails is considered un i satisfactory. .Protests have been made to the govcrment by many imlividualf and firms who heve been iniured by the frequent long delays to which mails between Europe and the United States have beep subjected, The subjevt is under detail study at the state, department and President Wilson has decided to .make repre sentation to Great Britain a quickly as a note can he completed. The Briti;?h will lie informed that the 1 ,.nite1d stuteB considers it imperative iiiai t i rrrrr-iiv 1UU17 HIUUI11CU, Patch X p Oreece Hucture. London. May 15. The foreign office announced today that the outstund.ng dfitcrcncca between Kircrce and the entente powers had been settled r.micaby with the result that there would be no violation of neutrality of Greece. HZhVV ?Jnwt fn i Xortiiwcsd Part of S'.ate and Ncigli boring Stale Having Winter.

Ellsworth. Neb., Mav 15. A hcaxy I snow fell here and throughout north- I western Nebraska durine the niht. J Similar weather condition- in portions Wyoming and -South Dakota f""""? c,anV: .a? Vl""5 as ,ne I lie mois- ,ure badly needed Two Feel of smiw in South lakta. Deadw-ood. S. L.. May 15. Snow is rirly iwo fet deep u a result of a T two-day enow Etorm which ended to J day. SIR ROGER 'CASEMENT-'' REB PLOT WEALED Irishman on Preliminary Trial for Treason. Tried to Enlist Irish Prisoner! in Germany. A C0-G0N3PM0R U COURT Bailey Turns State's ETidence on Royal Leader. Tells Inside Workings of Case ment's Rebel Plot. London, May 15. Sir Roger Case ment, who only a few year3 ago achieve'd international fame for the services he rendered his government in the exposure of the Putumayo rub ber atrocities, today faced the bar in .in ordinary police court for a prelim inary examination to determine whether he should be held for trial on the charge of high treason against the same government in connection with the rebellion. in Ireland. Beside Casement stood Daniel Julian Bailey, who faced a similar charge. Not in many years has so much popular interest been manifested in a case before the courts. This is duo not only to the prominence of Case ment and to speculation as to his ulti mate fate but also becaur.e it has been expected evidence would be produced which would lay bare a widespread plot resulting in the revolt. Jjong be fore the hour set for the hearing crowds began to gather outside the Bow street court. Casement's Relatives There. There was an unexpected number of applications for seats in the littlj courtroom, but admission was restrict ed to about 100 persons, including rep resentatives of the press. Among th earliest arrivals in the couit was Sir Horace Plunkett of the department of agriculture in Ireland. He t-iok'a seut near the magistrate! It was under stood Sir Horace was merely a spectator.- A number of relatives and friends of Casement, including feven handsomely gowned women. ajrt reached court at an earlier hour and were provided with seats well to the front. The stage was all set when the prin cipal was led into the court. Sir John Dickinson, who pretided, the lawyers and the witnesses all having taken neir places hefoie Casement arrived and entered the dock. There was a hush of expectancy as he entered the room and every face was turned in his direction. Far from appearing deeply disturbed at his position. Sir Roger maintained much of his characteristic complaiance. He smiled and nodded as he saw friends in the courtroom. Associate on Trial Also. With Sir Roger was Daniel Bailey, an Irish soldier captuird by the tier.' mans early in the wcr. He went from Germany to Ireland in the submarine with Sir Roger and was taken pris oner at Trnlee. As the examination proceeded Sir Roger showed in his movement soma slight indication of the nervous strain under which he was laboring. H paid strict attention, to the proceed ings, however, and occasionally took notes which he handed to his counsel Spwtutors Sun-el. Iondon, May 15. Sir Itoger Case ment, the supposed head and prim instigator or ine Binn rein rencnion in Ireland, was arraigned today charged with high treason. The few spectators who were per mitted to enter the famous old i;ow street police court were considerably surprised when a second prisoner waa placed beside Casement in the dock. This man was Daniel Julian Bailey, a private soloier. Bailey was arrested near Trnlee, Ire., on April 21. He was jointly charged with Casement vwlth high treason but his. exact connection with the Sinn Feiners has not so far been made public. In the formal charge Casement 1 f'CEcribed as of no occupation and no fixed abode. The police court hear r Is merely a preliminary to the real tConflmicH on i'aea 2.1 rT WILSOil BACK TO WG.l iro.Mfcnt and Wife Return I Ym Weekend Cruise Karly Today. Wafdiingrtont May l.V- President and Mrs. Wilson returned early today from their weekend cruife aboard the naval yacht Mayflower. The home ward trip was without special incident. Immediately upon his return, to the White Houe the president read sev i eral dispatches on Mexico received since his departure Friday which Gen oral Bliss, acting: chief of staff. thought were not inportant enough to aend him by wireless. He had en i Kagements with, a larpe number of J senators and representatives to discus Irslslative matters, and iaw'CJuvernor t Dunne of Illinois. "BOYS IN GRAY" MEET AT 26TH i ANNUAL REUNION Birmingham. Ala., May IS. ThiB e:ty is thronged with confederate vet eran and visitors here to participate i in the twenty-sixth annual confed- eate reunion which begins tomorrow. The vanguard of the old soldiers and visitors nesan to arrive yesceraay una j tram, today brought thousands others.

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2 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1916 ER ARB'S LIFE THREATENED BY I MANY GERMANS

S. Ambassador in Berlin Ke-t'-.u reives Score of Letters. t Accuse Him of Tipping Off Sinn Fein Revolt. l -8 OPPRESS ANTI-U. S. ACTS yi Germany Doing Utmost to -Overcome Strained Feeling. ;t;erard?s Forceful Diplomacy Highly Regarded 'Officially. BY A. W. ACKFRMAN. t Berlin, May 15. The German gov-: prnment, desiring to avoid a break iwlth America at all costs, has taken tsro important steps in the past fort- j iiasht to improve the relat ions be-: veen the two nations. A quiet move- fwvpnt to stop Teutonic plottinp and i Tutonic propaganda in the United j States and anti-American propaganda j Ofrmany has betn under way for nvcral days. The German concessions j irf the fcubmarinc matter is the other 'JAmbaKsador Gerard has received 1 s tores of letters with threat's against T.ts life in the past few days. The writers were inspired by newspaper in- -'Siuations that in some way he tipped I'.if the Sinn Feiners outbreaks in l3L'Min in advance to the British gov- i l.trnrnent. Some of the writers have j irff'?ntioned also facts alleged to have i 'been brought out trrough the arrest Sin, New York ot Wolf von IgI, former cretary to Captain von Fapen. Al W hough the- German government has Mfsclaimed all responsibility for the i-Cts of bomb plotters in the United Suites, Chancellor von Bethmann-Hol- j believes that some sort of dras- j 'Z-tlc action should be taken to convince ,'Ajiiericunn thut Germany has nothing 'td do with the plotters operations. Conferences on this subject have been ijgpinjr on at Berlin all this week. v Government Not Hack of Plots. t" h? ve heard, for instance, that j pftiaos Franz von Rimelen, alleged Ger man plotter, will be courtmartialed if i he ever returns to Germany. Though j officials refrain from expressing an J opinion as to the guilt of the accused f men. they declare emphatically that j I their acts t-re without the sanction of; the German government or the kaiser. I t Berlin is chiefly worried just now j tiver the possibility that some subma- rine commander may accidentally tor- pedo without warning a merchant ves sel in the belief that he is attaching a f transport, thus bringing on a new sub j marihe crisis with the United States. -The kaiser, Chancellor von Bethmann j IHolwegg and Admiral von Holtzen 4lorff are particularly anxious that the J submariners take no chances that may J involve Germany with the United States. If the new orders to subma f rihe commanders should be published, ih??y would convince the most skeptl J cail that Germany is as much con- (Corned as America in preventing ac- f?ier.ts in the future. II lAa an indication of Germany's sin SJcere desire to find a way to avoid a I -break with America, the government j .asked five departments what to do, Avhen Precedent Wilson's ultimatum j was received. The foreign office, the Jtreasury and the interior departments all answered: "Settle honorably, if I possible. I Gerard Wins Praise. U The war and navy departments an Jfcwored: "Settle without entirely sur eiadering eubmarine warfare." financial Secretary Helfferich, -rhacked by leading financiers, and Chancellor von Bethmann-Holwegg, backed by Boserman, formerly von LTirpitz's chief supporter, and General ..Falkenheim, chief of staff of the army, finally drew the note which closed the Incident. Count Reventlow, writing in the .Tages Zeitung, is now practically alone in crying for vengeance, though occa sional outbursts against President Wil son and America are expected for home consumption. Ambassador Gerard has won much praise in Berlin by his cool, forceful diplomacy. Throughout the negotia i tions he worked ceaselessly to con- vlnce officials that President Wilson did not want war with Germany but merely expected Germany to fulfill her promises. TO RATIFY ARMY BILL Agreed Defense Measure to Have President's Signature in Week. Washington, May 15. The compro mise army reorganization bill provid ing for a regular army of 206,000 men in times of peace, was beinsr whiDued into final shape today by the confer ence committee of the senate and house for the approval of congress. It probably will be laid before the house tomorrow and the senate soon thereafter. The measure is expected to be on President's Wilson's desk for his signature before the end of the week. With the army bill out of the way, congress then will be ready to take up the naval building progress meas ..ure. The house naval committee will take a final vote on the measure Thursday j.,and present; It to the house shortly afterward. MGERMANS IN PARADE t.'f ijrganizer IJenies Rumors That For f eigners Opposed Demonstration. J New York. May 15. Col. Charles H. i Sherrill, who organized the imposing f irade held Saturday to promote na V aonal preparedness, said that six jreeks of hard work by hundreds of en were required to organize the jreat demonstration. r' "Yet," he added, "we did not equip t rprovision- nor transport a single man. J iEhis prove that those who say that a citizen army of 1,000.000 men is available overnight are mistaken." "It is a patriotic pleasure," said Mr. Sherrill, "to be able to deny all rumor that our German-American fellow citizens were hostile to the parade. We had thousands of them in our col umns and the leading German lan guage newspapers in the city indorsed Ihe parade." FORECAST OF yflflUrf H J WILSON '5 7rS 'ILM fi THE TOOOCfiM BEFOe I OtMB F J 'II lrUJi wise (sLSjgv Jp d "frM 6i: LOHS- IF IT HAD NT BEEN (W I uLMl lauOQfl IDQOi A&MINlSTRATlOlfJ'm,. &v fil THE COuNTR,' "J se m i -ZZZ-flflDO 00001 HASCWEKYOtf I XtZTT II g THE- DEPTHS OF A frngmr-g MuSn3uufl ij PRCXSPERITY JMM I f I SSSKT fr" Ml I i I fcpiy-jrV GRAVEST DIFFICULTIES. J 4 it f HAD PEACE IF HE HADff HE WOULD MT J'Tl HJSMAIHTAINEO J&SlA 'I INSISTED UPOM THE If H6 HAD 04EICE CjCM 'I Rights of American? peac? if I VSHTPPING JIhADNT BEEN! j cosh. amo r PieesioEHT vmusoiA VwSk ai SffTi.T MmouT I6NORIHG TME OAMoR. J ?t Sjtm I r rt. DARE NOT GOME Clnb Women Consider "Skeery" Place. Cancel Hotel Reservations for Federation Meet. New York, May 15. Timid souls from the middle west who were to come here as delegates to the General Federation of Women's Clubs on May 22 have almost put the convention out of commission. These cautious women, in view of the "possibility of trouble between the United States and Germany,"" can celled their hotel reservations and just simply refused to enter the wild isle of Manhattan, especially in view of the fact that their imaginations pic tured the German fleet suddenly ap pearing off Sandy Hook or entering the Gowanus canal and dropping large numbers of high explosive shells on Broadway and Fifth avenue. Choosing the Brave Ones. News from the states affected today is to the effect that it was carefully pointed out to these adherents of the "safety first" doctrine that the Ger man fleet was not in the habit of venturing forth from its harbors these days. They had no effect, however, so new delegates have been elected, more daring individuals who are willing to take .a chance on a 42-centimeter shelL CHICAGO TO PARADE Want to Stage Mid-West Preparedness Demonstration There. Chicago, May 15. A call will be issued today by William M. Lewis, sec retary of the Illinois Naval league, to business and professional men, offi cials of commercial organizations and civil associations to formulate plans for a preparedness demonstration to be held in Chicago, similar to that in which 150,000 persons paraded in New York. Tentative dates suggested for the Chicago parade are June 10, dur ing the national convention week, and July 4. The Chicago rally, it is planned, will not be for Chicago alone but will be representative of the middle west. Word has been received from a num ber of cities, including St. Louis, Mil waukee. Cleveland and many other places that those cities are in favor of such a plan.- BELGIANS VICTORIOUS Capture German Provinces In East Africa Expedition. Pnri. Mnv K IT1,, w V for the Belgian expedition which has invaded German East Africa were an nounced in the official statement is sued today by the Belgian war depart ment at Havre. The statement says that Colonel column occupied Kigali, capital of the German province of Ruanda, on May o. ne .Belgian troops nave also cap tured the island of Kiviuivi, in Lake Kivu, which the Germans took by surprise at the beginning of the war. NEISWENDER TO RUN Legislative Member From North Side Out for Re-election. Announcement has been made by L. H. Neiswender of North Topeka, that he will be a candidate tor re nomination for tha legislature. He will be a candidate before the Repub lican primaries in August. Neiwender represented the North side district in the house during the 1915 session. A DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN SPEECH. ICBsyrisht: Jl: KANSAS IS SOAKED (Continued Prom Page One.) of the state recetved some badly need ed moisture. The total at Topeka for the period was 1.27 inches. The sky was clear over the entire state this morning but the mercury rose slowly during the day. The min imum at Topeka this morning was 44 degrees, and a frost was prevented only by the fresh wind that blew ail day and all night. In case there is no wind tonight a light frost is expected but it probably will do no damage. The forecast calls for fair and con tinued cold weather tonight with a light-frost; Tuesday fair and warmer. The highest temperature on record for this date is 88 degrees, established in 1911. On May 15, 1907, the mer cury dropped to 32 degrees, the last tijne with one exception that the mer cury went tofreezing in May. The wind blew this morning at the ra.te of 15 miles an hour from tfce west. DAILY WEATHER REPORT. Furnished by the Local Office of the Weather Bureau, Topeka. Kansas, for the 24 hours ending at 7 a. m. today. Stations m Kansas. Tbe heaviest rains fell Saturday night so the precipitation for the state of Kansas is given here for the forty-eight hours ending at 7 o'clock this morning. High Low Rain or Stations. Temp. Temp. Snow Anthony 74 44 .68 Coldwater fia 40 1.24 Concordia 62 42 .41 Dresden 48 3 .50 Kmporia 72 42 1.38 Kureka 78 44 .88 Ft. Scott 76 42 .59 Ooodland 46 38 .46 Hanover 72 40 2.78 Hays 56 38 .13 Horton 70 42 Iola 70 42 .16 Liberal 62 40 T. Macksville 58 36 .37 Mi l'herson 72 40 1.5S Manhattan 74 42 1.70 1'hillipsburg 52 38 .50 Scott City 58 34 .12 Sedan 76 40 .22 TOPEKA 72 44 1.27 Vtica .52 3H .16 Wichita 72 46 2.74 Kansas City 6s 44 .54 St Joseph 72 44 1.66 Reports From Other States. Boston, Mass 72 48 .14 Rain'g Buffalo, N. Y 56 52 .76 Cloudy Calgary, Alb 56 32 .02 Cloudy Chicago, 111 72 62 .62 Cloudy Cincinnati, 0 90 68 .01 Clondy Corpus Chrlsti, T..80 74 .0 Pt-Cldy Denver. Colo 44 30 .02 Clear Des Moines. la 72 44 .0 Cloudy Duluth, Minn 42 36 .68 Pain g El Paso. Tex .80 52 .0 Clear Ft. Worth, Tex 56 60 .0 Cloudy Galveston, Tex 82 74 .0 Clear Havre. Mont 56 30 .01 Pt.Cldy Jacksonville, FIa...78 70 r .52 Rain'g Little Rock, Ark... 86 72 T. Clear Los Angeles, Cal 70 52 .0 Clear Louisville, Ky 64 .04 Rain'g New Orleans. La 88 74 .0 Clear New York, N. Y 60 4H .02 Rain's N. Platte, Neb 44 38 .02 Clondy Oklahoma. Okla 82 44 .0 Cloudy Omaha, Neb 66 42 .18 Clondy Phoenix. Ariz 84 54 .0 Clear Pittsburg, Pa 7S 64 .18 Cloudy Portland, Ore. 72 48 .0 Clear St. Louis, Mo 84 60 .36 Cloudy St. Paul. Minn.... ..48 44 1.26 Rain'g Salt Lake. Utah 52 34 .0 Clear San Francisco, t'al.66 48 .0 Cloudy Sault St. Marie, Mi. 58 44 .26 Rain'g Seattle. Wash 68 48 .0 Clear Slieri'.an, Wyo.. ..38 36 .22 Cloudv Spokane, Wash 64 42 .0 PtX'ldy Swrift Current, Sas.58 28 .0 PtCldy Tampa. Fla S2 70 .50 Cloudy Toledo, 0 66 54 .80 PtCldy Washington, D. C..66 54 .0 Cloudy Winnipeg, Man 60 44 .0 Cloudy KILL BANDIT LEADER Pedro Ccdillo and Fifty Men Shot by Lopez Men, Torreon. Mex., May 15. The notor ious bandit leader .Pedro Cedillo, who has for a long time infested northern Vera Cruz, two officers and fifty of his men. have been killed in an en gagement with government forces under General Eugenio Lopez at Ciu dad Iel Maiz. Fifty of the outlaws surrendered. General Lopez captured Ciudad Del Maiz and in further sirmishing killed Pedro Cedillo's brother. Martin. The fifty captured bandits will be executed. The Carranza losses arefew. MOST OP TOE NATIONS MEAGER. PREfftEDMESS Wfr BEEN SUE TO 1 TftftY OMUKM tSSOtX. comres& rifts oour) tCLPtO 6UUmJT AND V ee&RUDcmfiuY, GOULD REDUCE HOURS Trainmen Convention Offers Solution to Get 10 Honrs Work in 8. Detroit, May 15. The proposed eight-hour day for train crews, was expected to be the roost important situation discussed at the national convention of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen which opened here today. The convention will not ad journ until June 1. The Ladies' Auxiliary also con vened. Many speakers are to discuss phases of the trainmen's fight for shorter hours. It has been claimed by members of the brotherhood that the work now accomplished in a train man's day of ten hours could be done in 8 hours by increasing the speed of transportation service from the pres ent rate of ten miles an hour to a 12 mile rate. Railroad officials here de clared the plan too costly to adopt. It is understood that a constitu tional amendment making Cleveland the permanent convention city of the brotherhood will be acted upon. WARfJ LOCO WEED State Board of. Health Inaugurates a Campaign Against It- Kansas towns and cities have been asked to adopt ordinances against the sale and use of the loco weed, accord ing to a bulletin sent from the office of the state board of health. A fight will be made to prevent the use of the loco weed in this state. Reports sent to Kansas from other states indicated the use of the loco weed and mescal buttons. Several complaints have been received that the drugs are used in Kansas. To block the sale or use of the drugs in Kansas, the board of health has asked for municipal ordinances. Next win ter, it is asserted, the legislature will be asked to enact a law covering the matter. T. R. SENTIMENT (Con tinned from Page One. I a man like Weeks, Burton or Sher man. "When you get back to Washing ton," responded the editor, "tell Mr- Mann that if his view is correct, the party might as well call off its conven tion; no nominee of that sort will get any support in this part of the country Perhaps Mann never made the statement; certainly it jars with his earlier aphorism: "We can't win the election with a two spot" The temper of so much of Minne sota aj reflected in this city is strong ly but quietly for Roosevelt. If at heart he means what it says it is the sort of support which he ought most to prize, for it is a support no longer springing from almost hysterical hero worship, but rather based upon calm consideration of existing conditions and reasoned conviction that he is the man best fitted to cope with them. Many a man will preface his declara tion of purpose to vote for Roosevelt, with a long statement of the reasons why he hates to do so. William Allen White pretty well expressed the senti ment of this agricultural tier of states when he described the voters as say ing: "Roosevelt? Well, the feller, but we're going to vote for him." There is literally no talk of candi dates other than Hughes and Roose velt here and the talk is becoming in creasingly unfavorable to the former. The evidence of an organized, money spending, promise making propaganda working for Hughes under the merce nary or intriguing management of old line professional politicians, is offend ing the public sense of political de cency. The remark is continually heard that Justice Hughes is less te nacious of the dignity of the supreme bench than he might be, and that the time is past when people believe that he is ignorant of these things done in his name simply because he ignores them. BANKERS' COMBINE Continnrn front Knsre One.i States, and because of the fact that we are not able to get more than two per cent on our balances, and in some cases not that much, and in view of the fact that some of our customers hare been able to secure Joans at a rate of 2. and some are of fered ou certain kinds of commercial paper a rate of 2 we have found it neces sary to give "notice that on and after May 1 the interest rate on the balance carried by Shawnee County with us will be figured at two per cent. Will you kindly advise the county commissioners of this notice. Your truly, S, E. COBB, Vice President.- The Prudential Trust Company. Topeka, Kan., April 15, 1916. Mr. O. K, Swayze, County Clerk, court house, Topeka, Kan. lear Sir: Owing to conditions of the money market, we do not feel justified in paying the county over 2 on balances maintained with us after May 1, lltlti, but will be pleased to have the county continue to carry its balance with us at the 2 rate following that date. Ve carry no state accounts. The banks that carry the state balances at the present 3 rate are not warranted in so doing, as they are finding from practical experience, and they will be obliged to reduce the rate. Kespectfully yours. SCOTT HOPKINS, President The Merchants National Bank. Topeka, Kan., April 13, 1916. Bonrd of County Commissioners, Topeka, Kansas. Gentlemen This bank bas been paying Shawnee county interest at the rate of 2 Ier cent per annum on daily balances. On account -of the low money rates prevailing over the country, we feel that this is great er than the rate which should be per mitted by conservative banking. There fore, on and after Mav 1 interest on any balances in this bant to the credit of Shawnee county will be calculated on the basis of J per cent per annum. Trusting that this change, under the circumstances, will meet with vour annroval and thut we may continue to serve you as in the past, i am, lours very truiy, F. M BONEBUAKE, Cashier. The Shawnee State Bank. Topeka, Kan., April 12, 1015. To the Board of County Commissioners, Shawnee County, Kansas. Gentlemen This will advise yon that on and after May 1, 1910, this bank can only pay you two per cent on daily balances ou such funds as you may have on deposit with us. We find this action necessary on account of the very low rates prevailing for money at this time, and also from the fact that our correspondents have reduced the rate ou daily balance to us. Yours very truly, F. P. ELMO BE, Cashier. The Topeka State Bank. Toireka, Kan., April 14, 1916. Hon. O. K. Swayze, County Clerk, To peka, Kansas. Dear Mr. Swayze We regret to say that since our approval of your request of some months ago to advance the rate of interest on daily balance of your account, we have experienced a material change in financial conditions that does not warrant the pay ment of 24 per cent rate. We therefore propose that after the pres- ent month of April the rate will be reduced to 2 per cent until the demand for money on high grade securities improve and con ditions justify a higher rate. Incidentally we might add the nature of your account brings surplus money during the spring and summer months when the demand is usually light and is exhausted in the fall and early wnter when demands for money are nearly always strong. Trusting you may be able to show the honorable board of county commissioners the fairness of our proposition and the account continued on a 2 per cent basis, we remain, with personal zegards. Yours very truly, i CW. SNYDER, President. The State Savings Bank. Topeka, Kan., April 13, 1916. Mr. F. B. Kipps, Chairman and the Board of County Commissioners, Topeka, Kan. Gentlemen For the last six months in terest rates on municipal bonds and com mercial paper have fallen from a half per cent n the former to three and over on the latter and Kansas City and other eastern banks have notified us that they can pay but two per cent Interest in the future on onr demand daily bank balances. We were not altogether taken by surprise, as rumors for the last three months have indicated this would happen. We think it is a condition produced by the war slow ing down so many large manufacturing es tablishments of staples for borne and for eign consumption, thus flooding the mar ket with idle money. We do not know whether it will be per manent but think the actidn of the eastern banks indicates that they have despaired of conditions returning to a normal money market any time soon. We are therefore compelled to reduce the interest on our demand daily balances to the same rate of interest we are receiving, namely two per cent, beginning May 1, 1916, thus paying the connty the same as paid it about a year ago, which action we hope will not meet with your disapproval. All bankers hope money will soon be in normal or better demand but as long as the war lasts can only guess when that will be. We sincertily hope that you will cooper ate with us and accept the conditions in the same spirit that we have been obliged to accept them until the money market changes. Assuring you of onr highest esteem, we have the honor to remain. Very truly yours, WM. MACFERRAN, President. The German American State Bank. Topeka, Kan., April 12, 1916. Mr. E. A. Campbell, County Treasurer, Topeka, Kansas. Dear Sir At the regular quarterly meeting ofthe Board of Directors of the German American State Bank, held Mon day afternoon, among other business, the matter of interest paid on county deposits came up for discussion. We feel that, in view of present conditions, we can hardly afford to pay more than 2 in terest on your daily balances, and I have been directed to advise you that on and after May 1st, 1916. interest on County Funds on deposit in this bank, will be computed at that rate instead of 2 as heretofore. At thp nresent time, owinsr to the light demand for money, we are carrying be tween 40 and 50 legal reserve and it Is on this account that we, feel called upon to readust the rate Just referred to. We fully appreciate the business you have given this bank in the past and I trust that you may see your way clear to continue your account with us in ac cordance with the terms outlined above. Very truly yours, HOY L. BONE, Vice President. The Farmers National Bank. Topeka, Kan., April 14, 1916. The Board of County Commissioners, To peka, Kan. Gentlemen: Financial conditions are such that we cannot see our way clear to continue to pay interest on the connty funds at the rate outlined in your letter under date of September S, 1913, and there fore beg to advise that dating from the first of May, we will return to the old rate of 2 per cent per annum and care for the account in the usual manner. Very truly yours, s H. G. WEST, Cashier. Citizens State Bank. Topeka; Kan.. April 13, 1916. County Clerk, Topeka, Kan. Dear Sir We wish to notify you that owing to the state of the money mrket at the present time, we find it unprofit able to pay you the rate of Interest we have been paying the connty, and that, commencing May 1st. 1916. interest ou the county's daily balance will be figured at the rate of 2. We wish to thank the county for the business they have entrust ed to us in the past and hope we will be able to serve you as well in the future. We also hope that conditions will soon change, so we can be able to pay you a higher rate on your account, but at this time conditions will not warrant us paying more than 2. Respectfully, E. S. GKESSER. Cashier. Monarch Paint at Forbes. Adv. SIR ROGER CASEMENT iOonr!mMo from I'age Olid trial, which will take place later before the high court of justice. -Addressed Irish In Germany. In onenine the case for the crown the attorney general charged that Casement had conducted a systematic campaign amcng the-Irish prisoners in Germany with the purpose of seducing them from their allegiance. Bailey, he said, had been seduced in, this manner and T had made a state ment explaining Casement's action. According t the attorney general. Bailey was born in Dublin and Joined the Royal Ish rifles Jn 1904. He served with his regiment in India and was honorably discharged. On the outbreak of the. European war Bailey was called out as a reservist and sailed with the original expeditionary force to France. He was taken prisoner in September, 1914. The attorney general said Bailey had related how a large number of Irish prisoners had been collected from various prisons In Germany and placed in a large camp at" Hamburg. There they heard addresses by Case ment, who tried to inflame their minds against theVBritish government and persuade them to break their oath of allegiance and support him in his pro jected expedition to Ireland. Casement Breaks Down. Sir John Dickenson presided. Short ly after Ihe magistrate had taken his seat. Casement and his fellow prison er? were shown into the dock. Casement's appearance was vastly different from that of tha man who gained fame in 1912 by his exposure of the cruelties practiced on natives in Futumayo by a British rubber com-1 pany. He sat in the dock resting his chin on his hand and occasionally looking toward the magistrate. When the attorney general, in opening the case for the prosecutibn, mentioned the conferring of the order of the knighthood on Casement, the prison er dropped his head.. The attorney general then outlined the prisoner's career. Outlines Revolt Plan. The attorney general said Casement described himself as the organizer of the Irish Volunteers and impressed upon the Irish prisoners in Germany that everything was to be gained for Ireland by Germany winning the war. Those prisoners who joined a brig ade he was attempting to form were promised by Casementi the attorney general asserted, that they would be sent to Berlin as guests of the Ger man government. In the event that Germany won a sea battle, he would land the brigade in Ireland to defend that country against Kngland, and if Germany lost the war, the German government would give each man 10 pounds to 20 pounds and free passage to America. "This is the plan conceived in 1915," said the attorney general, by the man who in 1911 was begging Sir Edward Grey to convey his deep appreciation to the king of the honor of knight hood which had Just been conferred on him." When the speaker added that Case ment's offer was treated with con tempt by a vast majority of the Irish prisoners. Casement smiled and glanced toward Bailey. Smiles at Green Flag. Sir Frederick Smith related the story of Casement's alleged machina tions in Berlin with details of his trip by submarine to Tralee, where he landed on Good Friday, with Bailey and a third man named Montieth, who is still at large. He also told of the sending of a ship with 20,000 rifles from Germany to Tralee and of how this ship was sunk at Tralee and the crew captured. The attorney general here introduced a dramatic touch by having brought into the court a green rebel flag which he said Casement had brought from Germany to Ireland. For a moment the prisoner sat with eyes fixed on the floor refusing to look at this emblem of the rebellion. Then he glanced up at the flag and smiled derisively. Most of the time during the attor ney general's address he sat with his elbow on his knee stroking his beard a characteristic pose of the prisoner ever since his incarceration in the tower of London. He appeared obliv ious of his surroundings, but occa sionally he glanced up quickly, show ing he was listening to the proceed ings, notwithstanding his apparent in attention. Witnesses Are Called. The calling of the witnesses for the crown began immediately after Sir Frederick concluded his address. Sir Roger began to take a more lively inr terest in the proceedings. He seized a pad of paper which had been pro vided for him and started to take notes of the testimony. Spurns Offer With Blow. In his effort to raise an Irish bri gade among prisoners in Germany to fight against England, the attorney general said the prisoner had met with little success. Such men as he won over were set free, provided with green uniforms and received rewards. When the attorney general declared one of the Irish prisoners had struck Case ment in the face on being asked to join the brigade, Casement smiled in evident amusement. Bailey was one of the prisoners seduced by Casement, the attorney general said, and was made an officer of the brigade. Exonerates Bailey. After the formal evidence had been given by the police as to the reading of the charge to Casement and Bailey in the town of London, Casement arose and said "Well, that man (pointing to Bai ley) is innocent. I think the indict ment is wrongly drawn against him." Casement then offered to procure counsel to defend Bailey, who said he was without means. The first witness was John Robin son of Belfast, formerly a corporal in the royal army medical corps, who was one of the prisoners taken to Ger many in the early stages if the war and recently was released. He said that of four thousand Irish prisoners gathered at Limburg to hear Case ment's exhortations, between fifty and sixty joined the Irish brigade. Bailey Confession Read A statement from Bailey was read by the attorney general. Bailey said he Joined the Irish brigade at the sug gestion of Casement to see whether it would be possible to get out of Ger many. After a visit to the German foreign offce, he said, he was told to make ready to depart and was taken on board the submarine, U-19. When they sighted Tralee he was told the visit was in connection with the volunteer movement. He was transferred to a collapsible boat as the submarine neared the coast. The boat overturned as it reached the surf. He had to wade ashore and then went back to the boat for arms. Bai ley said he and Casement reached Tralee and that Casement went into the shop of a news agent and inquired whether the commanding officer had arrived. He was answered in the negative. Bailey got into a motor car in which he was arretted. CONDENSED NEWS Bryan on Situation. Lincoln. Nebr., May 15. In a signed editorial that will appear in the May issne of his paper, William J. Bryan, says that the only source from which Democracy may gain enough recruits to win the presidency this year is the peace element. "From what source can we draw the number of recruits necessary to give the party a fight ing chance From one source and from one source alone, namely, the peace elemnt of the Republican party; we cannot draw votes from the war elemnt." Find Minister Guilty. Oroville, CaL. May 15. The Rev. Madison Slaughter, pastor of a Chico, Cal.,- church, was found guilty here today of assaulting 15-year-old Ger trude Lamson, also of- Chico.- A rec ommendation of mercy was made by the jury. The minister, with his wife and daughter werein court when the verdictwas returned. A previous trial, which continued more than a month, resulted In a disagreement of the jury men. Governor Fires Staff Officers. Denver, Colo., May 13. Adjutant General Harry P. tiamrble requested the resignations of all officers of the staff departments and of the field and stff in letters which stated that the resignations were requested in or der that "such action may be taken as will promote the welfare" of the Colorado national guard. About 15 officers are affected by the request, which was not addressed to the line orricers. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT Chicago. May 15. WHEAT Wheat to day fluctuated nervously, influenced on the one hand by good rains in the aouth west. but on the other hand by the Kansas reports that the fields were badly in fested with Hessian fly. The fact that Oklahoma received no moisture over Sun day tended, to handicap the bears, and so, too, did higher quotations from Liverpool. Opening prich which ranged from c decline to ci.4.- advance with ujly at J1.17 to tl.lTH and September at $1.1714 to $1.17 were followed by a moderate general upturn and then by a material setback. Later a decided setback took place, the suit of realizing by longs who appeared to believe that general rains had brought about substantial improvement in the crop ontlook as a whole. The market closed unsettled. 9df6!c to le net lower, with July, at $1.16 and September at $1.1614. COUN Corn hardened o wing to storms that delaved Dlantinfr Advance were checked though by the uncertain course of wheat. After opening a shade to 14 mgner, prices gainea a little more uud then underwent a slight reaction. Cora later turned down irrade when wheat prices weakened. The close was stead v at c to VtCiWe net decline. OATS Oats merely reflected the action or corn, 'trane was very ngnu PROVISIONS Higher prices on hogs brought about an advance in provisions. Commission houses were the chief buyers. Chleafto Grain Market. The range of prices for grain fntnrei on The Chicago Board of Trade as reported by Thos. J. Myers, Broker, Columbian Chicago, May 15. Close Low Today Yes, Open WHEAT May ..II614 July ..11714 Sept. ..117 CORN May 75 July 74 Sept 73 OATS July 43 Sept, 39 PORK July ..23.80 Sept. ..23.40 High 116 117TS 117 75 1 74-T4 73 43 4014 23.85 23.42 115 115- 116 116 116 117 116 116 1171s 74 74 68 73TV 74- "4 73 -73 I 73- 42 39 42-- 39 39- 23.75 23.75 23.65 23.35 23.35 Kansas City Grain Market. The range of prices for grain futures on The Kansas City Board of Trade as re ported by Thos. J. Myers, Broker, Colum bian Bldg. Kansas City, May 15. Close Open High Low Today Yes. WHEAT May ..107 107 106 1(16 10714 July -.108 100 108 111814 109 Sepfc ..109 110 109 109 109 CORN Mav 9 SOW 68 68 68 July 70 70 69 69 69 Sept. 69 .69 08 68 69 Chicago Grain Market. Chicago. May 15. WHEAT Close: May, $1.15(31.15; ujly, $1.16; September, L16. CORN May, 74c; July, 74&74c; Sep tember. 73c. OATS May, 46c; July, 42c; Septem- oer, jwc PORK May, $24.05: July. $23.75. LARD May. $12.87; Julv, $12.87. SHORT KIBS May, $12.80 July, $12.77. Liverpool Grain Market. Liverpool, May 15. .WHEAT Spot No. 1 Manitoba, 13s; No. 1 northern spring, 12s 5d No. 2 red western winter, lis 8d. CORN Spot, American mixed, new, lis 2d. FLOUR Winter patents, 47s. Grain Gossip. By special wire to T. J. Myera. Colombian Bldg.l Elevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City Increased 233,402 bushels last week and corn stocks decreased 261.000 bushela. Minneapolis wheat stocks Increased 30, 000 bushels Friday. Total stocks are 9. 239.000 bushels compared with 4,743,000 bushels a year ago. Shipments of wheat from Australia last week were 2,124,000 bushels, compared with L400.000 bushels last week and n"ne a year ago. Exports from the United States and Can ada Saturday were 1.148.000 bushels of wheat. 3U.UUU Darrels or iiour. li,uuo durd els of corn and 550.000 bushels of oats; wheat and flour combined, 1,283,000 bushels KamM CitT Prodoeo Marat. Kansas City. May 15. WHEAT Cash Market unchanged. No. 2 hard.1.0Bffl 1.17 No. 3, $1.0TSil.l6; No. 2 red, $1.08aL15; No. S, $1.046j 1.12. CORN Market unchanged. No. 2 mix ed. 70f,70c; No. 3. H9V,e; No. 2 white. 7Us71c: No. 3. 70fgJ70c; No. 2 yellow, 7214c: No. 3, 71c. OATS Market unchanged No. 2 ;wbite, 46&47c; No. 2 mixed, 40Sj42c. RYE wxanoe. HAY Market steady. Choice timothy, $14.5015.50 choice prairie. $11.00; choice alfalfa. $17.00&18.00; new alfalfa, tH.KKffl 14.50. KAFIR No. 3 white, $1.04. J RAN 90c. SHORTS $1.05. WHEAT Receipts 240 cars. BUTTER Creamery. 30c firsts, 28c; seconds. 26c; packing, 23c. KGOS Firsts. 21c. POULTRY Hena, 15c; turkeys, 20c; springs. 25c CLOSE: 'WHEAT May, $1.06 July, $1.08. CORN May, 68c; July, 69c. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. 4 Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own Offices a Cblcmgo. So. St. Joseph. 80. Oroalia.. Denver, Sioux City. So. St. Paul. E. Buffalo, E. St. Lottta, Fort Worth and o Paao. CbicHjro Produce Mnrket. Chicago, May 1.1. BUTTER Market Arm. Crenmery, 26a28i6c. KGOS Market siearty. Firsts. 20Vj( -21c; ordinary firsts. 19419e; at mark, cases included, lJK'iiOe. POTATOES Market lower. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iakota white. 8.V3c; Minnesota and Uakota Ohios, 82 ftrHKc. POULTRY Alive, lower; fowls, 1714c. 'New York Prodaee Market. New York. May 15. BUTTER Market firm. Creamerv extras, 92 score. 30e. RUGS Market firm. Fresh gathered ex tra s, '2AXii(o itx CHEESK Market firm. State, held spec ials, ls?i (q 19ic. POILTKV Alive, firm; dressed, quiet. New York Snrar Market. New York, May 15. SUGAR Raw.qnlet centrifugal. 0.3: molasses. 5.75; refined, firm; cut loaf, S.80; crushed. 8.5: Mould A. S.15; Cubes. 8.15; powdered. $7.80; pow dered. 7.75; fine granulated. 7.05; Diamond A, 7.65; Confectioners' A, 7.55; No. 1, 7.50. New Cork Stork Market. Wall St., New York, May 15. STOCKS extensive realizing made no impression upon prices In the stock market today, the list with few exceptions, mounting to higher levels on broader operations. Reading and United State Steel were especially active, the former adding t o Its new record with an extreme gain ot lis at 02. while Steel rose above 85 on the most substantial buving of recent week. Canadian Pacific and other dividend rails were in further demand and minor issues of the railroad division came into war and semi-war issues were 1 tq 3 points higher. Bonds were firm with a marked demand for Anglo-French 5's. levelopments over the week end Imparted further strength to the stock list, prices showing substantial thongb variable gains at today's opening. Two new maximums were soon established. Readinir rlstne a fraction over ita previous best at 11 while iijys-ovenano made a new record on Its rise of 8 points to 272. Studebnker which featured last Saturday's operations, made another rise of 3 at 144. with advances of a point or better for Maxwell shipping snares, estingnouse. Airbrake, united States Rubber and Mexican Petroleum, among rails Canadian Pacific and New uaveu were again strong. Kansas City Live Stock Sale. -The following sales were made this morn ing at the Stock Yarda, Kansas City, and reported over long diatauce telephone di rect to the State Journal by Clav, Robin son Co, live stock commission mer chants.! Kansas City. May 15. CATTLE Re ceipts 10,000 head. Market strong and 15c higher. HOGS Receipts 13.000 head. Market 10 ftloc higher. Bulk of sales, $.Urri,10.10; top. $10.05. SHEEP Receipts 10.000 head. Market lfKa -JOc blgber. Lambs, $12.10 ;clipped lambs. KlLLIilU STKEBS. No. 90. 27.. 33.. 22.. Wt Price) No. Wt Prtca. $s.sn 9.25 9.2T) 9.45 9.65 6.00 7.25 KS0 .1283 ..1134 ..1294 $9.00 25... 21... 41.., 44.., 900 ..12S4 ..1202 .1419 9.13 9.10 9.30 9.45 -.1402 45.. COWS AND HEIFERS. 13 1241 7.; 8 910 3 1046 4 ll:so 1 920 5.50 6.00 1 1120 6.50 8.50 7.90 8.15 8.15 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 36 833 741 5:18 8.50 19.. 26.. 903 10 12 mil": 7.70 7.50 8J5 8.35 713 801 656 801 1093 38 CALVES. 9.50 I 3... 10.00 I BULLS. 6.50 I 3. 113 .1280 377 253 203 230 1110 249 7.00 10.00 10.00 9.87 9.90 9.90 9.80 HOGS. 4..... 280 10.05 10.00 9. 45 284 66. 243 10.00 9.35 9.90 9.15 9.85 68 70 83 30 18... 67... 51... 94... 117 270 134 191 Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas City, May 15. HOGS Receipts 13,000. Market 10c higher. Bulk o f safes. $.75al0.00; heavy. $9.90(910.05: packers and butchers, $9.80ijlO.OO light, $9.65 9.90; pigs. $8.60Sj9.25. CATTLE Receipts 10,000. Market strong to 10c higher. Prime fed steers. $9.35i 9.75; dressed beef sVers, $8.00r9.:!6 west ern steers, $8.00(o9.5O; southern steers. $7.50(5 9.00; cows, 5.50t8.25: heifers. $7.25 ftt9.75; stockers and feeders. $7.009.00; bulls. $5.75d7.50: calves. $6.50(& 10.75. SHEEP Receipts 9.000. Market strong to 10c higher. Lambs. $.50,12.15 vear lings, S8.50roll.00: wethers. $7.754jfl.50 ewes. $7,504(9.25; stockers and feeders, $6.50 10.50. Chicago Live Stock Market. Chicago, May 15. HOGS Receipts 33.000. Market strong, 5c to 10c above Saturday's ojwrztnuv. duii oi .hps. io.otmo ut.u ngnr, $9.75(810.25; mixed. 9.8(X10.25 heavy .$9.75 10311 I-fin h Mnri(l.- ..i..- -R.f.,. CATTLE Receipts 14.000. Market strong. Native beef cattle, $8.003 10.15 western 1 1 sxocKcrs snri Teeners. WOtkaS-SS cows and heifers, $4.40(9.60; SHEEP Receipts 12.000. Market firm. Wethers, $7J0(1 9.70 lambs, $8.6012.30; springs, $11.00jsl3.SO. Topeka Grain Market. Furnished by J. B. Blllard, corner Kan sas Ave. and Corns St. Topeka, Kan., May 15. OATS 9038c. CORiV 68c. WHEAT S090e. Poultry. Err" and Butter. 1 Furnished by the Topeka Packing Com pany. corner Laurent and Madison. Topeka, Kan.. May 15. HENS All sizes. 14c: springs over lbs.. 13c; ducks, 9c; geese. 7c; broilers. 1 lbs. and higher. 25c; stags, lie. EtS 18c INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 8c Battar and Eggs. Furnished by the Beatrice Crear-err Co Topeka. Iian.1 Topeka, Kan May 15. CHICAGO EGGS 20lfg21e. NEW YORK EGGS lte222c CREAMERY BUTTEK Chicago 32e: New York. 3334c: Elgin. 32c; Topeka (Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co.! Tnnpka Kan M MIXED AND BUTCHERS. .T7.$8..rfa 950 LIGHT 8.00-ii9.4O PIGS (under 50 lr8.) 7.00(88.00 o 1 r. r, n n. Good to choice (corn fed)..' $7.BO(a8.2S Fair to good 6.004i7J COWS. Good to choice (corn fed).... -...$6 50(37 28 Fair to good B.SCxSe 59 Common to r. zM Good to choice coro ted) f7.00M.O0 Common aa&tiha RT7T T tt .R.soonao Medi am Prim. .11,0. ..$7.5Oas.0 Medium good O.WW7.50 4.00(6.00 vair r!.:mb...-:::'::':;:::::::::-s8 'Positively cannot ua sheep or la'm'aa Fat ewes 4 fUfcfrji so (Do not want thin hogs or pigs.! Toooka Hay Market. (Furnished by X. Beck. 212-14 B. ta.i PRARIB BAT-&'&.'"- KaD- M"y

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1916 KANSAS CITIANS BILLYSUNDAY Thousands Turned Away From the Crowded Tabernacle. Largest Meeting of Men in His tory of the City. HUNDREDS WERE CONVERTED 3Irs. Sunday Addressed Over flow Meeting of Women. Total of Converts for Two Weeks Is 3,532. Totnl number converted nt nil meet ings. a,5.".l. Total collection a. $17.27.". 15. Tot nl atetmlam-e at Sunday meet ins, Dy.7K. Urn ml total, 3S1.200. And straiphtwny many were put Je ered topether, innnmm-h that there win no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door; and he reached the word unto them. Mark, 1. 2. Kansas City, Kan., May 15. If a man were going to preach a sermon about the Billy Hunday meetings that would be a good text for it. Eighty thousand went out to hear Hilly Sun day and members of his party preach but "there was no room to receive them. and twenty thousand were turned away. At the Tabernacle were ten thousand in the forenoon, twenty thousand in the afternoon, twenty thousand at night, and at least seven teen thousand came and found no standing room, "not so much as about tho door," for there they stood ten de-ep. with umbrellas up, rain dripping down their necks, straining to hear even a word now and then. Mrs. Sunday Also. Mrs. Sunday had nine thousand women in Convention Halt, which had been cut in two by a curtain, no one expecting so many, but Louis Shouse, the manager, said three thousand wore turned t way. Seven hundred boys and girls were at the meeting in the Grand Avenue Temple, where Miss Gamlin spoke. The harvest of converts for the day was 477, making a total of 3,531 in the two weeks since Sunday began his campaign. "And he preached the word unto them;" speaking in the tabernacular, lie threw the harpoon into them good and proper at the great men's meeting in the afternoon. To use Billy's own words he knocked 'em down, skinned 'em and dragged 'em out. Uiftgcst Kvcr Held. It is a certainty that so many men never gathered together before in Kansas City to hear the gospel. Six or seven thousand of the twenty thousand stood up all through the term on, and the rain dripped on some of them, and it was sodden underfoot out there in the vestibule, but it was so quiet throughout that every word uttered by Sunday was heard by all. At the close of the sermon Sunday said he had never preached before to so quiet and attentive an audience. Mr. Sunday said the gathering in Convention hall was the largest audi ence of women the Sunday party has ever brought together. Mr. Sunday prayed one of his char acteristic prayers in the afternoon, as follows: "Our Father, we thank thee for the manhood of Kansas City and of Mis souri and of Kansas. We're thankiul for this great outpouring of men, Lord. Help them tonight. Lord, and tomorrow in the office, in the shop, in the store and in the factory. Help the lathers, the grandfathers and the sons. "Boys, live anew in Christ and quit I reaking your mothers' hearts. Boys, turn from the godless gang. Hus bands, don't break your wives hearts. Not Asking Too Much. "Thank you. Lord, lor what this meeting means. May it be the begin ning of the most remarkable spiritual awakening this country ever has seen. Lord, we're not asking too much. You can t ask too much of old Kansas City. She's in the front rank. She's got the financial ability that others envy. She's wot the punch. Here she is, sit ting in the hills, foremost in education al advantages, in riches, in commerce. She'll not fail. Lord, because she's not built that way. We want to win Kansas City for you because it's the most typical American city. "Make a record here. Lord, advanc ing Your cause through Christ until whnt Kansas City does will permeate the whole nouth and southwest, reach ing down into Oklahoma and Arkan sas and flowing back into Kansap and over the line into Colorado rind back to Iowa, and not stopping. Lord, until it breaks against the shores of the Rio Grande. "Help Us to Hate the Devi!.' "Bless us. Lord, and when each man goes home to his wife and tomorrow to his business, let him be able to say that he has shaken hands and prom ised to live anew in Jesus. "Help us, Lord, to hate the devil. Help us to stop cussing. Help us to cut out the booze and get on the wa ter wagon- Help us to cut out the old crowd. "Here us, Jesus, we pray, and we'll never forget You in the memory of the first great meeting for men in Kansas City. Amen! Goodby'" Crowd Stood Up. In his prayer last night he de nounced and defied the devil. He leaped upon a chair at the close of his sermon and shouted: "How many here have broken at lease some of the ten commandments? Stand up" Instantly the whole audience arose. Not a person remained sitting. Mr. Sunday closed his eyes and prayed: U. S. TROOPS ON GOOD TERMS WITH CARRANZA'S MEN IN MEXICO 1 ailt..'ff'-'-v'. ;,".,m,v;;, Wmmbm,. Top. Mexican army traveling in Mexico, American troops looking on. Bottom, mixed crowd of American troop and Carranzista soldiers at San Antonio, Mexico. The United States may be Hearing a break with Carranza, but there is very little bad feeling between Car ranza's soldiers in the field and the American troops in the punitive expedition. In the lower picture Mexican and American fighters are shown together a photo they posed for to disprove reports that there was ill feeling between Carranza's followeir.nd Pershing's men. THEY MKT AGAIN Field Marshal von Maekensen and Grand Duke Nicholas Are Pitted Against Each Other in Turkish Asia. CRACK GERMAN COMMANDER Is at the Head of Turkish Army of 200,000. Russians Resume the Offensive West of Trebizond. London, May 15. Two hundred thousand Turks under the great Ger man strategist. Field Marshal von Maekensen. are offering desperate re sistance to the Russians under Grand Duke Nicholas at Erzingan. In Asia Minor. The Germans have assumed the of fensive tai the Dvinsk and Jacobstadt regions in Russia and after a two days" fight have succeeded in blowing a village or two into fragments with their big guns. A dispatch from Copenhagen states that the German naval and military forces are preparing for a combined land and sea attack on the Baltic port of Riga. A Constantinople dispatch quotes Turkish war office as claiming the "Say, Lord, wait a minute! But I don't know that 1 need to ask you to wait. Lord. When you look over the battlements of heaven and look down and see fifteen thousand arise and say, 'I've broken God's commandments and I'm sorry,' you realize. Lord, what an awakening it is in Kansas City. There are thousands here, though, Lord, who have been forgiven. They've said, 'I'm sorry I did,' and have believed anew in Jesus Christ. "But there are hundreds here per haps thousands. Lord who are not Christians. vVon't you men and women come down here and take my hand so that your name may be written in the Lamb's Book of Lite? Won't you say, "I believe in God; I believe in Christ, and I accept the Gospel as the word of God!' EXPEDIHON HALTS Langhorne's Men Must Await Arrival of Supplies. Are 200 Miles From Base and Bandits Interfere. Marathon, Texas, May 15. The ex pedition in search of the bandits who raided Glenn Springs, has checked its dash into Mexico and is now await ing reinforcements before pushing on, according to reports received today. A message has been sent to General Funston by Colonel Sibley, command ing the Fourteenth cavalry it was learned here, asking for aid. Military observers here point out that Major Langhorne and his flying squadron of the Eighth cavalry are now perhaps 200 miles beyond their base without sufficient troops to pro tect their line of communication. Mar athon the base, is 90 miles from Bo quillas. Several instances have been reported the past few days of bandits cutting in behind the expedition with out meeting armed resistance. Sun- plies of every character for Sibley's expeaiuon are now being rushed from Marathon to Boauillas. The two Mexican prisoners brought mo iwaratnon by Sheriff Shoemaker from Boquillas last Saturday night mii oe sent to Alpine for trial. They will be charged with murder. MINES LOCK OUT 50,000 Close Down Tomorrow Due to Failnre to Rrcach Agreement With Union. SNAP SHOTS AT HOUl NEWS. Central City, Ky., May 15. The Western Kentucky Coal Operators' as sociation today issued a notice iecit ing that all coal mines in Western Kentucky under the control of its members would be closed tomorrow. The shut down is due to failure of operator ar.d miners in District No. 23 to agree upon working conditions inci dental to forming a wage scale for two years. Approximately 50,000 miners are affected. Tk. woadafoi "Siudij Heniiig Bath" TABLE TACK AT THt COMMERCIAL CLUB- C. B, Merriam, a heavily insured man in Topeka, will be the principal speaker tonight at a meeting of the Topeka Association of Life Under writers. The meeting will be held at the Commercial club rooms. "The Value of Life Insurance to the Busi ness Man" will be the Bubject of Mr. Merriam's talk. He is quoted as hold ing $200,000 worth of life insurance. H. O. Garvey will be another speaker. William T. Goffe. of Chicago, will speak at S o'clock this evening at the Commercial club to sales people. Everyone Interested in the work of selling and distributing goods is urged to be present. L. M. Penwell has returned from a visit to Excelsior Springs. Cardrn Green. Hoy K. Moulton of the Journal. Why complain of powers Eterual, 'Cause you cannot reap u crop from all you sow. Like as not you plant your seeds, Then go pnll 'em up for weeds. Which just proves that garden sass you do uot kuow. First be sure your ground is meller, Then invite some other feller To come show you how to plant and hoe your row.. Pon't find fault with Mother Nature, Like as not you are the Cratur, Who's to blame because your garden doesu't grow. NELS YINGLE. Several sidewalk petitions were pre sented for second reading at the com mission meeting this morning. The Topeka Bridge Iron company has a gang of men at work this morn ing on the Sixth street bridge. E. J. Covell, father of Miss Etta Covell, city clerk, is dangerously ill at his home, 513 West Tenth avenue. Mayor J. E. House will leave for Chicago on the night of June 4 to at tend the Republican national conven tion. C. W. Kimes, proprietor of the bar ber shop at 533 North Kansas ave nue, pleaded guilty today, in the dis trict court, to maintaining a nuisance. He pleaded guilty to one count. Mrs. R. H. Lane of Los Angeles, Cal., is visiting at the home of her mother, Mrs. H. C. Gruber, 1018 East Eighth avenue. Mrs. Lane, who for merly was Miss Anna Gruber, will be here until next fall. The Brotherhood class will give a father and son supper at the First Baptist church Wednesday at 6:30 p. m. Mr. E. L. Copeland and Mr. Charles E. Dillon will speak. The Jury in the damage caseof E. A. M. Smith against the Topeka Jitney company brought in a verdict Satur day afternoon, finding for the defend ant. The jury held that Smith was not entitled to any of the $10,000 dam ages for which he brought suit. An automobile belonging to C. A. Marker, 1425 Polk street, was slightly damaged Sunday afternoon when it was tivned into the curb to avoid col lision with another car. One front wheel was broken and a rear axle was bent. The accident occurred near Marker's home. Believing that he is insane, the sheriff's office picked up James Splevin at 1216 North Western avenue last night and placed him in the coun ty jail. Complaint was made by neigh bors who said Splevin insisted upon walking into their homes unan nounced. Members of the clerks' association were busy Sunday spotting various clothing stores who kept open and were selling goods. The names of seven firms were presented by the association to the city attorney this morning who states he will send them letters warning them that they are violating the Sunday closing ordinance. Mrs. P. D. Turner, who has been in St. Francis, hospital since she under went an operation for hernia, several weeks ago, expects to return to her home. 1318 Byron avenue, this week: Topeka lodge No. 2, Fraternal Aid Union, will hold a short business meeting Tuesday evening and devote the remainder of the evening to dan cing. Richland defeated a high school proposition at an election held a few weeks ago, but has not given up the light. Application was made to the county commissioners today for the holding of another election on the same proposition. The commissioners set the date for the election for June 12. The high school district proposed takes in parts of thre counties Shaw nee, Douglas and Osage. A good looking, well dressed young man walked into the office of the city clerk this morning and inquired, "Is this the place to get a marriage li cense?" Instantly the fact that a mar riagable man was in the outer office seeking a license was "wirelessed" to the six young lady clerks employed in the office and a rush was made to see the license seeker. He was informed that the court house was the place to go for the license. The man escaped. J. L. Speer, veteran forger, was taken to the state penitentiary to day by L. L. Kiene, sheriff. Spear's term has not been definitely rixed. He has served terms in half a dozen pen itentiaries for forgery but is unlikely to serve out his present one. He has a cancer which is rapidly killing him. He wants treatment and eirorts win be made to have him properly treat ed at the penitentiary. Miss Ruby R. Lamg, daugnter or Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Laing of 417 Jef ferson, and Jesse J. Gilliland of 427 Madison, were married Sunday after noon at the First United Brethren parsonage by the Rev. G. K. Hart man. The bride is a graduate of the Topeka high school class of 1914. The groom is employed at the Santa Fe shops. They will reside at 417 Jeffer son. The? Plus Ultra class of the Third Presbyterian church will meet Tues day evening at the home of Miss Ha zel" Robbins in Norton street. The Ladies' Aid society of the East Side M. E. church 'will meet Wednes day afternoon at the churcn. Mrs. Frank Hess will entertain the Golden Rod Card club next Wednes day afternoon at her home, 1025 Jef ferson street. PEACE IS AN ISSUE Democrat Leaders Are Working on Party Platform. Mixup of Speakers at St. Louis Convention. that the Russian troops are being pur sued eastward in the Mount Kop reg ion, just south of Kaiburt. A dispatch from Tiflis says the Turks, drawn up across the Erzingan line, are attacking i the Russians fiercely but are suffering heavy losses from the machine guns of the grand duke's troops. A Turkish offensive made in the direction of Bagdad has been repulsed and a war office communication de clares at Kasrishirin, on the Persian frontier, 100 miles northeast of Bag- uaa, among tne otner booty was an Austrian gun. ine Russian force in Persia, after 10 days of mountaineering- has driven the Turks upon their stronelv fortified uase or jvnaniKin, and now stands at the very threshold of Mesopotamia. The hasty retreat of the Turks in this quarter shows they have as yet been unable to transfer the force re leased by the surrender of Kut-El-Amara to assist their hard Dressed army north of Bagbad. ine Russian advance upon Khani kin, therefore, verv seriounlv thnut.n. the whole rear of the Turkish Bagdad army, conironung tnat army with the possibility of being entirely cut off from the city of Bagdad and the forces operating to the southward against the British. According to the opinion of Russian critics, the Turks are rearranging their forces to meet the Russian pressure from the north and northeast at the expense of their campaign south of Bagdad. The wholesale regrouping of forces now necessary is expected to entail tremendous difficulties on the Turks. .v.Afier a Ionar interval of inactivity, the Russian forces in the coast region have resumed their progress westward beyond Trebizond. JACK GOE NOT GUILTY Man Who Figured in Mony penny Collision Is Exonerated. Washington, May 15. President Wilson has asked John W. Westcott attorney general of N. J., who made the speech nominating him at the Bal timore convention to make the nomi nating speech at St. Louis. Mr. Wes- cott has accepted and conferred today with the president. When the presi dent asked Mr. Wescott to make the speech he did not know that the New Jersey delegates on the same day had selected Gov. Fielder. In view of the nresident's wish to have Mr. Wescott, it is expected the governor will with draw. Close advisers have begun mapping out the platform to be presented at the convention. Peace and prosperity are understood to have been settled upon as being among the principal is sues. DEATHS AND FUNERALS MART J. CAULK, 241 Arter avehue, died at 4:30 o'clock this morning at her home. Arrangements for the fu neral will be made later. NELS ANDERSON, age 71. died Sunday at his home. 2208 Buchanan street. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Pen well's chapel. Interment in Topeka cemetery. ALBERTA SCALES died Saturday at the home of her parents, 1418 Lake street. -The funeral was held this aft ernoon at the home. Interment in Ritchie cemetery. JAMES MOORE. The funeral will be held at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday after noon at Grace cathedral. Interment in Topeka cemetery. JOSEPH D. MASON, age 48, died Sunday at his home, 224 Lake street. Funeral will be held at 2:30 o'clock at Conwell's chapel. WALTER N. GRIFFITH, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Griffith, died Saturday at the home, 707 Buchanan street. The funeral was held this morning. Interment in Topeka ceme tery. MRS. SARAH J. MERRILL, who died Friday in a local hospital, will be taken to Rock Island, 111., for interment- Private services will be held this evening at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. G. E. Hawley, 718 Taylor street. Lawn Hose at Forl;ca. Adv. Jack Coe, known as Jack Roberts, was found not guilty of reckless and fast driving by a jury in the court of Topeka today. The warrant upon which he was arrested was sworn to by Kent Monypenny. A car Coe was driving collided with' a car Monypenny was driving on West Sixth avenue two weeks ago last Sun day night, turning both cars over and injuring two of the occupants of the Monypenny car. Both cars were bad ly damaged. C. W. Kouns, jr., riding in the Monypenny car, received inter nal injuries. The case was begun in the court of Topeka Friday afternoon but was con tinued until this morning. About the time the trial was begun a damage suit for 250 was also begun against Coe. Coe was defended by Ed Rooney and prosecuted by Rad Lee of the county attorney's office. The Jury was out only a short time. JUDGE TO FIX PRICE Appeal Court Leaves It to Lower Court to SeU Western Pacific. San Francisco, May 15. The Unit ed States circuit court of appeals to day virtually left it with Judge Will iam C. Vanfleet of the United States district court to fix the sale price of tne western racinc railway, by re fusing to -compel him to certify to the higher court, charges of disqualifi cation brought by the Equitable Trust company of New York. The trust company trustees of the defaulted $50,000,000 first mor age bonds of the Western Pacific some time ago charged Judge Fleet with bi-s and prejudice in Western Pacific matters and asked the appointment of another Judge. Over the protest of the Equitable company he himself considered the charges and found them baseless. I. C. H. TREASURER QUIT Harold McCormick Remains as Vice President and Director. Chicago. May 15. The resignation of Harold F. McCormick as treasurer of the International Harvester com pany and the International Harvester corporation was announced today by Cyrus H. McCormick. president of the company. Geo. A. Ranney, secretary of the company since 1913, succeeds him. Harold F. McCormick is now in Switzerland, where be has been for two years, much of which time he has devoted to the foreign interests of the company. The change will not di minish Mr. McCormick's participation in the management of the company as vice president and member of the board of directors, it was said today. Gas Men at Hot Air Meet. Pittsburg. Pa, May 15. The four teenth annual convention of the Na tional Gas Association of America and the Association of Natural Gas Supply men opened here today. Many dele gates from all parts of the United Men, you've had the high price of everything flaunt ed in your face for the past few months until YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AT But leave it to Dave August when it comes to keeping the cost of your wearing, apparel down. TOMORROW I AM GOING TO KEEP THE PRICE OF MEN'S SUITS DOWN TO $10.00 and I want yea to read this guarantee which goes with Every Suit I sell. 5 0.,r,..Moo We extend to any man who buys onr $10.00 Suits our; VJUr uuaramee unqualified assurance nt satisfaction: which means colors, all-wool fabrics, the quality or materials, the tailoring. the fit, the value at the price. And the money buck if you are not satisfied. "I Ladies' $6.50 Silk Sweater Coats, all new shades. $2.98 be worn In 7S l ailw nnrl Men's Gootlvoar Rain CoatsCoats that can chilly weather Coats that are worth $3.50 -now on O 9 sale Odds and ends Boys' of Linen Pants School Suits were $3.50 Extra pair Tuesday Collar Sale Men's Linen Collars 5c. for 25c to a Customer. .$1.98 AU sizes, all styles limit 6 Men's 50c Union suits Men's S1.00 Fancy Wash Dress Vests $1.00 Princess Ladies' Slips Ladies Braxlerf kind Ladies Muslin Drawers Children's Mache Dinner Carriers Ladies' Long 811k $1.50 Gloves 39c C9c 59c 10c 19c ...8c 39c Mrn'n Lisle Thread White Koot Hone Children' Wan Suite, Play Indian Suits Hate to match Ladlee' Wash Waists Valuee up to 91.00; choice Boys Summer ITnion Bulte Ladies' Aftcrtea Dresses value up to $5.00; choice only Ladles' $1.00 Muslin Nlmht Dresses Men's Cham bra r Band Shirt ..6c Suits 39c 50c 15c 98c 45c 29c Odds and Kends Men's Oxfords Mostly Small Sixes. Oxfords worth S5.00 a Pair Oreatest Value on Earth. Choice, a pair NOTICE About BOO High Shoes, Mostly Vict Patents, are Included In This Sale of Shoes, at Your Choice a Pair $1.50 $1.50 We FU1 Mail Orders in i i 1 iima i ii i IT DIAMOND Engagement Rings The saving we can show you in the selection of Diamonds of quality is of vital interest to you. Lower prices because we buy more successfully, buy direct from the cutter Sell in greater numbers and on Easy Payments. $2750 buys a fair sized, well cut stone of good color: Bold elsewhere at not less than $25; choice of 500 designs in ladies' or gentlemen's settings. You'll like this one sure. $35 oo buys an excellent blue white diamond of jrood sir-e. set in any one of the handsome ring designs in 14-k. gold tli at you may choose. Priced at other stores at $45 and up. $4g5o 7425 buys nn extra large sized gem of perfect cut and eolor, and of exceptional brilliance never sold by any other denier at less than $G2.50 mounted in 14-k. gold ladies or gentle man's Hug designed to suit you. buys an exquisitely exit stone of magnificent lustre, rich color nhtf ex-' traord inn ry size tunnnted to please your most exact ing taste pried bv others at not Jess than $100. A small deposit secures the Dia mond of your choice DIAMOND IMPORTERS OUR MAIL ORDER SERVICE is perfect in every detail. Out-of- town customers can be as well served as if they lived in Topeka. Ask for handsome diamond, watch and jewelry catalog with special prices and terms. Address Iept. J. BUY NOW PAY WHILE YOU WEAR 821 KANS. AVE. RED CROSS SERVICE. Red Cross Ball Blue gives to every housewife unequaled service. A large 5-cent package gives more real, gen uine merit than any other blue. Red Cross Ball Blue makes clothes whiter than snow. You will bo dsliEhted. At all good grocers. Adv KEEP LOOKING YOUNG It's Easy If Yon Know Ir. Ed wards Olive Tablets. The secret of keeping young is to feel young to do this you must watch your liver and bowels there's no need of having a sallow complexion dark rings under your eyes pimples a billions look in your face dull eyes with no sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety per cent of all sickness comes from inactive bowels and liver. Dr. Edwards, a wellknown physician in Ohio, perfected a vegetable compound mixed with olive oil to act on the liver and bowels, which he gave to his patients for years. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets, the substi tute for calomel, are gentle in their action, yet always effective. They bring about that exuberance of spirit, that natural buoyancy which should be enjoyed by everyone, by toning up the liver and clearing the system of impurities. You will known Dr. Edwards Olive Tab lets bv their olive color. 10c and 23c per box. All druggists. The Olive Tablet Company, Columbus, O. Avertispmcnt. detect IfctMe! AT STORES AND FOUNTAINS ASS FOR and GET HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Buy It in th Malod glass Jars. The Best is always the Cheapest Substitutes cost YOU same price States have already arrived and by to morrow it is expected the number will total 1,500. The regular business session will not convene until tomor row. The convention will close Thursday. DRIVES AWAY HEADACHE Rub Mustcrolc on Forehead and Temples.- Make Skin Smooth A headache remedy without -h dangers of headache medicine." Re lieves headache and that miserable feeling from cold or conrestion. And it acts at once! MUSTEROLE is a clean, white ointment made with oil of mustard. Better than a mustard plaster and does not bliste.-. Used only externally, and in no way can affect stomach and heart, as some internal medicines do. Best for Sore Throat, Bronchitis. Croup, Stiff Neck, Asthma, Neuralgia, Congestion, Pleurisy, Rheumatism. Lumbago, all Pains and Aches of the Back or Joints, Sprains, Sore Muscles, Bruises, Chilblains, Frosted Feet, Colds of the Chest (it often prevents Pneumonia). At your druggist's, in 25c and 50c Jars, and a special large hospital size for J2.60. Be sure you get the genuine MUS TEROLE. Refuse imitations get what you ask for. The Musterole Company, Cleveland, Ohio. There Is one aafe, dependable treatment that relieves itching torture Instantly atad that cleanses and soothes the skin. Ask any druggist for a 25c bottle' of zemo and apply it as directe'L Soon you will find that pimples, black beads, eczema, ringworm and similar skin troubles will disappear. "V'l! A tittle semo. the penetrating, satlsrVing liquid, is all that is needed, for It banishes all skin eruptions and makes the skin soft, smooth and healthy. Zemo. Cleveland. Advertisement. DISTILLED WATER ft-tano bMtto sna eosr tor sf rtcm. t-cslton feottls an costar for the hms. H-gatum right sn or cha tmr mum. TOPEKA PURE WATER CO. ITS YOUR KIDNEYS You have swollen feet and hands'. I Stiff, achy joints! Sharp-shooting. rheumatic pains torture you. You I have aching back, pain in the lower abdomen, "difficulty when urniating! Look out! These are danger signals. Trouble is with you kidneys. Uric acid poisoning, in one form or another, has set in. It may lead to dropsy or fatal Bright's disease if not checked. Get some GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules immediatley. They are an old preparation, used all over the world for centuries, combining natural i healing oil and herbs, well-known to physicians and used by thousands in 1 their daily practice. The Capsules are not an experimental, make-shift "pat tent medicine." or "salt." whose effect is only temporary. They are a stand ard remedy, and act naturally, gently and quickly. But when you go to the druggist. Insist on getting the pure, original Haarlem Oil in Capsules. Be sure the name GOLD MEDAL Is on the box, and thus protect yourself against counterfeits. Advertisement. A first mort-' gage on real estate is the simplest form of safe invest ment C THE FARM MORTGAGE CO., CnwferJ IU it! .irLl L. M. FEN WELL Funeral Director ROBERT STEELE. Assistant Phone 193 508-510 Qavyr St.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALSMONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 191b i f 1 tSTopelm $tntt 3Jotmutl An Independent Newspaper. By FRANK P. MAO LENNAN. TEntered Joly 1, 1S76. as second-Haas matter at die postoffice at Topeka. Kan. under the act of congress.) VOLUME XXXVIII No. 116 Office State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dully edition, delivered by carrier. 10 rent a week to any part of Topeka or auburhs or at the same orice in any Kan sas town where tbe paper bal a- carrier system By mail, one year .......$3.fK By mail, six months 1-80 By mail. 100 calendar days 1-00 TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call 3530 and ask the State Jonrnal operator for person or department desired. Topeka State Jcmir.nl bnlldlnp. 800. 802 BDd 804 Knnsas avenue, corner Eighth. New York Office. 250 Fifth avenue. Pant Block, manager. Cuicazo Office, Mailers building. Paul Block, manager. Detroit Office. Kresge building. Paul Bloc-fc. managec Boston Office, 201 Devonshire street Paul Block, manager. PIXL LEASED wire report OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Jonrnal Is a member of the AssociareU Press and receives the fall day teleprnph report of that great newa or aanl7.ati.jn. for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news la received in The State Joor sl building over wires for this sole pur pose. MEMBER: Associated Press. Audit Bureau of Circulations. American Newspaper Publishers' Association. You "old men"of forty, or there abouts, with your stiff Joints and lei surely strides, with a debility that shows promptly at the slightest un usual physical exertion, and with a pretty firm conviction that the heavy hard of ape has already descended upon you. take a slant at De Wolf Hopper's capers in the movies, at his vigorous sprints and remarkable all around agility. And De Wolf Hopper is fifty-eight years old. As- Colonel Roosevelt most perti nently n.-.jrgests, why should the United States have one policy for Haiti an 3 another for Mexico? England failed to reach Bagdad, but the Grand Duke Nicholas and his Rus sian hordes are less than one hundred miles away from it and are traveling strong. What the Entente Allies ap pear to need is a few commanders of the type and ability of the Grand Duke Nicholas. According to the Atchison Globe, a new form of sport consists In betting on whether the next crista will be Mexican or German. At least a few of the thirty volun teer American aviators who are doing service with the French army corps around Verdun might come In handy along the Mexican borders these day6 or with the Pershing command In Mexico. The United States army of itself is unusually poorly equipped with aeroplanes for military service, and most of the few that were avail able when the pursuit of Villa was un dertaken were so -worthless that they were used up long ago and scrapped. England is reported to be ready to prove that her blockade measures are strictly In accord with the principles of international law, but she'll never be able to do so to the satisfaction of Germany. It is beginning to look as if the Sav ages are not going to be favored with anything that has a semblance to good weather for any of their games at home. And the Topeka fans are so anxious to show the team thac they appreciate its class. From the number of Cinn Feiners England is executing, it is apparent she is determined that if there should ever be another revolution In Ireland it will have to be conducted by a brand new set of leaders. Idaho has finally become a compet itor of California at least in the mat ter of experiencing earthquakes. But old Mother Nature plays no favorites at that. Every state in the Union, or some of its localities, gets swatted more or less regularly with one sort or another of her convulsions. Washington has apparently re lapsed into its comatose condition of Watchful Waiting in respect to the Mexican situation. TARIFF PREPAREDNESS. Addressing the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers recently, Frank A. Vanderlip, of the National City Bank of New York, and one of the recognized business experts of the country, said: "We must buy abroad an increasing volume of things that we can never economically produce. We must pay for them in goods and it should be our ambition to pay for them in fin ished goods which represent the higher achievements of labor rather than In raw materials." This being so, then the mills turn ing out those finished goods must have protective tariff rates of duty or pay their workmen the European and Oriental rates of wages. The greater the development of our manufactur ing industries by the policy of protec tion, the larger will be the consump tion at home of the products of the American farm, and the greater will be the volume of our raw materials worked up at home. -Protection to native industries was the settled policy of Great Britain up to IS 4 6. By that time science and invention had made it possible for her to produce more cheaply than any other nation, the policy of pro jection was abandoned, and a world wide campaign was entered Into to discourage the adoption by other countries of the protective policy, in order that Great Britain might have free access to their markets. Germany was able to make but lit tle headway in manufacturing until Bismarck placed that Empire perma nently on a protective basis in 1879. The German Zollverein, which had operated for nearly half a century, had unified Germany. In 1865 the first successful attack was made on the tariff schedules of the Zollverein by German free traders, with the aid of the English Cobden, and poverty and depression were the portion of Germany for fourteen years there after. In May, 1879, addressing the German parliament, Bismarck said: "I see that the countries which pro tect themselves prosper, that the countries which are open are declining, and that great and powerful England, that strong com batant, who. after strengthening her muscles entered the market and said: 'Who will contest with me? I am ready for anyone,' is gradually going back to protective duties and will in a few years adopt them so far as is necessary to preserving at least the English market." On July 7, 1879, a bill passed the German Reichstag which marked the return of Germany to the protective policy to which she has firmly ad hered since that date. In his report made In 18.84 the British consul at Dusseldorf said: "These provinces not only now supply their own and the requirements of Germany with products and manufactures, which some few years ago were imported from England or elsewhere, but ex port these very products and manu factures not only to the markets of the world in competition with Eng land, but to England itself." Bismarck prophesied well. From 1875 to 1886 the exports of silk manu factures from Germany increased 884 per cent; woolen, 296 per cent; cot ton, 302 per cent; glass, 264 per cent; paper, 322 per cent; machinery, 260 per cent; all fully manufactured ar ticles, 157 per cent. Thus was the protective policy vindicated in Ger many, as it has been in the United States, and will be again. Today Eng land is in favor of returning to the policy of protection and protective schedules are now in course of preparation. THE RURAL CREDITS PLAX. In the American Review of Re views for May. Paul V. rniiin. interesting article entitled "Farming and a World Crisis," in which he ex plains some of the essential hihir.. of the rural credits legislation that nas Deen undertaken in congress Ex cerpts follow: Each District Federal t.oti hT,b will issue charters to local Farm Loan associations In its district; or, in the absence of such an association in any neighborhood, may appoint a local bank, or other agency, to fulfill the functions of such an association. The intent, however, is to encourage the organization of these local Farm Loan associations of the farmer-borrowers, themselves, in every neighborhood, which will make them independent of the local banks, and give the borrow ers, co-operatively, control of the financing of the farms in their neigh borhood. Any ten. or more, farmers wh want- to borrow on first mortgages on their lamis, may organize a local Farm Loan association, chartered by the Federal Land bank of the district. Only farmers, who want to borrow, can belong to a loan association, and, after such an association is organized, no one can join unless he is voted in by the existing members. It is the function of each Farm t.oot. association to appraise the land of its memDers, and recommend the charac ters of the applicants for loans; and, later, to see that the borrowed money is used only for the purchase or de velopment of land, or the purchase of machinery or live stock for the farm of the borrower. None of the borrow ed money can be used for any outside purposes, whatsoever; and, if a farmer undertakes to so misuse his loan, his mortgage will become due at once. Loans are made on first mortgages only, and may be equal to half the appraised value of the farm, and for not less than five years, nor more than thirty-six years. After the officers and loan commit tee of a local Farm Loan association shall have appraised a farm offered as security (and have agreed unanimous ly on the value), and have recom mended the character of the borrow er and the use he Intends to make of the funds borrowed, the application will be forwarded to the Federal Land bank of that district. The Federal Land bank then will send out an ap praiser from headquarters, who will investigate and appraise the security and pass on the loan. The Federal Land bank then will lend the money, not to the farmer, but to the local Farm Loan association of which the borrower Is a member, in exchange for the mnrtsrniyo mn. dorsed by the Farm Loan association, witn certain Federal Land bank stock to be bought by the Loan association, as additional collateral, to be here after described. The borrower then will receive the money through his local loan association, of which he and all other members are stockhold ers, subject to double (or sometimes unlimited) liability on their stock, ac cording to which plan (limited or un limited liability) the Loan association has adopted. Loans are made only to actual farmers who are farming their land they are not open to absentee landlords who farm by tenants. If you haven't the price to pay for what you eat these days at the res taurant at Gridley, you don't eat, as these notices or advertisements in the Gridley Light indicate: Hereafter terms will be cash at the Restaurant. We need your trade but we must have the cash. Owing to so many strangers during the hay season, we must treat all alike. Cash talks at the Restaurant. "TEXAS AXD CALIFORNIA." This morning's Capital publishes the following item about the editor of this paper. The compliment, of course, is appreciated: "Editor MacLennan's able editorial of a month or so ago on good roads and other attractions in California told one side of the story, and a tempting side, which impressed many people. Several eminent citizens com mended it to us as what was needed. Another side appears in the Los An gelas Times." Here is the comment this paper has to moke at this time: Just now the State Journal is engaged in an effort to secure three per cent interest on city and county balances. These bal ances are now running around $600, 0)0, which are on deposit in banks of this city. The State Journal is also being pros ecuted by J- B. Larimer, who is devot ing his time and energies in an effort to secure i 25,000 in cash for his client and discredit the State Journal be cause it published a statement, based on official reports of the labor com missioner, the city electrician and oth ers officials, to' the effect that the Grand opera house in this city is un safe. Mr. Larimer is an elder in the Presbyterian church. His action, of course, is worthy of our attention. He has compelled the editor of this paper to engage lawyers and devote, much time to defending himself at a time when the city and county need all the help and all the time the State Journal can give them to secure their just dues. If Mr. Larimer wants to stand be fore this community and his church as declaring the Grand Opera House safe for public entertainments when fire inspectors and the city electrician and Governor Capper's labor commissioner officially declared it unsafe for our women and children, it is all right with us. The responsibility is on Jeremiah B. Larimer's head, not ours. This paper is flso trying to awake the state to Preparedness, the one great issue before this country today. In regard to "Taxes in California" which is the heading in the Topeka Capital over the item above quoted, the State Journal will give that subject due attention as soon as some other matters are a little better in hand. Journal Entries It is often much easier to forgive than to forget. Another mere fiction of the imagi nation is the broken heart a girl may think she has. Most elopers would probably be for given more readily by their parents if they did not return home. Another disadvantage of the warm weather is that the open windows fail to confine the vocal and other musical efiorts of the neighbors to their own premises. J ay hawker Jots It should not be listed as casualty, thinks the Salina Journal, that the British lost four generals at Kut. About the only excitement experi enced in some towns, points out the Erie Record, is when the postoffice or depot is robbed. Some people who profess to dislike bagpipe music readily adopt a slogan, says John MacDonald, in his Western School Journal, an essential part of bagpipe melody. Related by the Great Bend Tribune: A little boy was told by his teacher to read something from a primer. The boy read as follows: "This is a worm doughnut. Step on it." The teacher looked at the book and this is what she found: "This is a worm. Do not step on it." "The hopper time has come and the red legs do appear," quotes the Gar den City Telegram, and it advises: And it is now that the up to date farmer will hunt the patches where the gang hoppers have hatched, and dope their ground with poison mix ture. As Paris green is higher than before the war, it will be a saving to do this. Kill the early hatch and there will be no later hatch. Musings of the Village Deacon in the Osborne County Farmer: It doesn't cut any figure in a financial report if they do write "Hon." before your name. No trick at all to get rich. AH you have to do is to dis cover the secret of how it is easier to save money than to spend it. Every husband fondly imagines that some day he will be able to tell a lie his wife will believe. When Mrs. Henry Jason is in a particularly good humor, she always compliments Henry on the meal he has just cooked and offers to wipe the dishes. A good rain at the right time is worth more to the country than any political victory. No office with a decent salary to It ever wore itself out chas ing a man. Globe Sights BY THE ATCHISON GI.OBE. Most of the resolutions are not only passed but forgotten. There is never so much going on as the rumors would indicate. When some men make a note about a matter that's the end of it. Most people talk about observing economy and let it go at that. Those backing the losing team do most of the kicking on the umpire. If procrastination was a real thief an Atch.son house would have been stolen a thousand times. If you are enjoying easy sailing some one is furnishing 'it, and very often that some one is your employer. People may agree on many topics, but the ins can always rely upon con siderable opposition from the outs. On the Spur of the Moment BY ROY K. MOtlTON. Commencement Time. I remember. I remember the day that I quit school, I got a nice diploma for minding every rule. I was the wisest mortal who ever left the lilnt-e: There was no person like me in all the human race. I bad old Homer faded and Solomon aa we I: The real reach of my knowledge would take too long to tell. And I was downright sorry; it really was a shame That I should have to go out and teach the world its game. For I was tender-hearted and could not bear to see The look of jealous anger when people ileum oi me. The teacher, to assure me, was kind enough to aav The other folks would manage to get along some way. I couldn't quite believe him. You see that w:is oerore I'd taken my first toddle outside the col lege door. Then I set forth to conquer the poor old easy world. With wind and weather charming and every sail unfurled. 'Twaa several long yeara ago, how many. I foriret. But still I don't mind owning the world iuii z conquered yet. I remember, I remember the .day that I nnit school Since then I have been learning bow not to oe a xooi. Uncle Abner. If you have a gold watch that will not run you can easily make it do so by melting it. Amry Tibbs, who is out west, is not expected to live. The jury returned a verdict of "guilty." There is only one harder thing to listen to than a sopraner with a cold in the head, and that is a phonograph with sand in the grooves. There will never Te a shortage in the crop of funny looking derbies. There are still a few old-fashioned fellers who try to make both ends meet. A woman cares more about the price of lace curtains than she does about the price of beefsteak or coal. A convict out in Minnesota has be come a poet. In other words, he has gone from bad to verse. There is many a man called a mer chant prince when he is in reality a merchant quince. Whisky will never harm you if you don't swallow it. It begins to look as if the shiny Prince Albert coat has come to stay. Lem Higgins says he nearly died of strangulation once when he was a young man, but the governor's pardon arrived just in time. Signs of the Times. There is many a singer in concert who would make a bigger personal hit if she would appear exclusively as yell-mistress of a Vassar football crowd. It takes the English a long time to see a joke, and yet they see a good many American newly rich society people. A man with red hair, a wooden leg and a harelip is never much of a suc cess as a fugitive from justice. Even the detectives are apt to recognize him. An average of seven oil stoves that won't smell are invented in this coun try every day. Talking machine discs can he used as pie plates. This is about the most satisfactory use to which they can be put. But Troth Gets There Eventually. Scandal travels 1.000 yards per sec ond, according to Prof. Benjamin Snow, head of the University of Wis consin's physics department. Profes sor Snow bases his calculations upon observations made at the university. Flattery has the second greatest speed, the professor finds, traveling from 400 to BOO yards in the same time. Truth, however, he declares, is slowest of all, moving only about two and a half yards per second. The computations, he said, were based on the speed of the sound of an alarm clock, which is zero. Evening Chat BY RUTH CAMERON. That Little Jlember. We drifted into a talk the other night about mistakes and someone said, "If you could undo three mis takes in your whole life, what would they be?" That is what you might call a lead ing question, isn't it, one that most of us would hesitate to answer fully? But I was glad it was asked, because when I put it to myself I discovered a fact that interested me namely. that two out of the three mistakes I would give the most to undo were sins of the tongue. Ask yourself that same question and see if you do not find the tongue the greatest offender. "Of the unspoken word thou art master, but the spoken word is mas ter of thee." A class of high school girls asked me for a motto the other day, and suggested that. I do not know of any better reminder for a group of young people. To be sure I hate secretive folks, but so few err on that side. Most of us, when we are hesitating between making a confidence and withholding it, end by making it Don't! For, nine times out of ten, when the mood of self-revelation that made you so free spoken has passed, you will want to recall that confidence, and alas; all the king's horses and all the King's men cannot get that spoken word back again. On the other hand, if by any chance you should regret not speaking, you still nave it in your power to speak. Instead of an irrevocable past, you have an open future. The same is true of angry words and unkind accusations. We almost never regret not saying them, where as, over and over again, we regret having spoken them. Bitter words are hard to forget. Even when the quar rel has been made up, we still remem ber the harsh things our antagonist said in the heat of the moment and sometimes wopder "After alL is that what He reany tninKS oi me, ana is his friendliness merely a pretense?" If you can learn to shut your lips at the right moment, you have learned one of the biggest lessons in life And always remember that IE you don t speak you still have the future in which to change your mind and do otherwise, whereas if you do speak you create an irrevocable past. Give not tny tongue too mucn no ertv. A word unspoken is like the swords in the scabbard, thine. If spoken, thy sword is in anothers hand." (Protected by The Adams Newspaper Service.) WHY. "Why does a chicken croaa tbe road?" We read ou sundry pages. And certainly an answer's owed To all these questioning sages. Perhapa she likes (aa women do) To coyly play the traitor. And so she crosses, only to Double-cross it later. Now some may greet these views with taunts. And theories deride; They gay she crosses 'cause she wants To- reach the other aide. Yet this enigma, you'll agree. From woman's nature draws Its answer, for it seems to me She crosses just "Becsuse-." Princeton Tiger. The Evening Story The Lost Pin. (By Shirley Morris.) The girls, six of them, looked cau tiously up and down the squalid little street before venturing forth. The house they were leaving bore on a doorplate the portentous words "Mme. Cecile, Psychologist. Tour Future Foretold." "Come on, girls, it's all right," whis pered Lois Marlow. '"We don't know anyone in this part of town anyway." So with much giggling and subdued joking over the wonderful things they had just heard they made their way to Forty-second street. Then they breathed more freely. "Wasn't it a lark!" cried Catherine Barr. "I'm terribly anxious to know who the light-haired Adonis is I am to meet this summer, -and, Peggy, wasn't it wonderful what she told you about the pin you got for Easter, and how you'd lose it and have it returned by your future husband?" "Yes," shivered Peggy. "I can't get over it. While she was describing it I felt as though her eyes were looking clear though me. You see, I have it on, pinned to my waist. Girls, do you think she did see it through my coat?' "Let's see!" in chorus. But the plain little blue jacket revealed nothing and the mystery remained. "Well, I may as well meet him that way as any other, I suppose," sighed Peggy, resignedly. "One thing it's more romantic than just to be intro duced." The crowd separated. "Come along with me, Lois," begged Peggy. "I have to stop in Tukif's to see about a brass candlestick for mother." "I can't today, dear! I've got to dress and go to Graystone's to tea," "Goodbye, then." "Goodbye, dear." Tukif's seemed to be deserted, but finally an old man appeared, and after Peggy stated her errand, he retreated into the mysterious region in the rear of the store from which he had emerged. Peggy, still feeling uncanny from her recent experience, had a sensation of unreality among the assemblage of ancient and Oriental curios. Gods grinned at her, dragons threatened and silent old clocks with their eternal secrets, mocked. She wandered up and down the dim aisles, wishing something, any thing, would happen to break that dis quieting silence. She came to an old mirror and stopped, regarding herself intently. She saw a very pretty, flur- fy-haired girl with rather serious eyes and a mouth impressionable and ten der, with an upward curve at the cor ners. "You big goose!" she said to the reflection in the glass, "to believe in such nonsense as that old faker told you! Take a long walk before you go home and get it all out of your sys tem." She drew the pins out of her sailor hat and started to gather in some of the stray wisps of hair. "It you re go ing to walk you need a little groom ing, milady. Better stop in a shop and buy a veil, too. It s windy." The street door opened and a man came in. Looking around hurriedly for a salesman, he saw nobody at first, then, spying a girl in a recess patting her hair, he gave a curt order: "Please tell Mr. Tukif to deliver the lamp I ordered to this address." He held out a card and Peggy took it im passively. Of course he thought her a saleswoman, but what difference did it make. She didn't object to giving the card and message to the old man! So she said simply, "Certainly." The customer turned to leave, but whether his eyes were accustoming themselves to the store twilight or whether the mirror showed a profile that caught the unwary he hesitated and looked deep into the serious blue eyes. The eyes returned the look calmly and coolly, but all the while the impressionable little brain behind them was wondering. "What a re markably fine-looking man! I wish he'd go so I can look at his card and find out who he is!" There was no excuse for staying, so he went, but, passing, the chair in which Peggy had been sitting, he stop ped and picked up something. Again he stopped, hesitated and looked back, then put whatever it was into his pocket and continued on his way. Peggy looked at the card and read: "Mr. Cyrus Harding, Riverside Drive." The old man returned just then. Peggy delivered the card and message, completed the business upon which she had come and left the store. Out side, she slipped her hand under her jacket to reassure herself that her new diamond pin was safe. But to her dis may it was gone! She stopped and searched. It was not there. She went back into the store and looked into every corner. The pin was no where to be found! Then it popped into her head that the customer who gave her the mes sage had picked something up and put it into his pocket. She recalled his hesitation, his backward glance at her. The pin was very valuable and a temptation to any one. Besides, he would not associate the loss with a shopkeeper's assistant, for which he had evidently mistaken her. "Well, I don't dare tell daddy I've lost it! I've a notion to try to get it back myself. 'Cyrus Harding, Fiver side Drive.'." She hurried out and called a taxi. At the Riverside Drive house, a Jap anese servant answered her ring.' Mr. Harding had just returned. She was ushered into a sitting room, a wonderful combination of black, old gold and blue, and she sat down in one of the immense over-stuffed chairs. "This is bizarre enough to suit Leon Bakst himself! I think by-and-by I'll w-aken to find Mme. Cecile, the old curiosity shop and Mr. Harding a very entertaining dream, and my dia mond pm sale under my pillow." And then Mr. Harding pulled aside a portiere and stepped into the room. He recognized her instantly, but if he was surprised he gave no sign. "How do you do?" he said courte ously interrogatively, for her visit puzzled him. "Good afternoon!" choked Peggy. Then, with a feeling that the hu chair was smothering her, she sprang up. "I've I've come for the pin you found," with a little deprecating ges ture. "Pin?" "Yes. The pin you picked up in the shop." He frowned. "I don't seem to un derstand. I didn't find a pin!" "But you picked up something. Don't you remember right in front of that teakwood chair!" earnestly. "Right close to where I was standing." An odd look stole over his face and he smiled, then suddenly looked sober. "Yes, I see now. But I didn't know you wanted it so much or I should have returned it. I really didn't think it so very valuable and I wanted it. No matter why! I didn't know what you meant when you spoke of a pin. I would have given it another name. Here it is!" His hand went into his pocket and he held out a tiny tortoise shell comb, the mate of one in her hair. Peggy flushed furiously. "Is that what you found?" "Yes. Isn't it what you came for?" "No! You see I I lost a pin, a diamond pin today. I don't work in the store. You made a mistake. I was in seeing about a candlestick, and I lost my pin. Then I remember seeing you find something, and recalling your address, I came right away. I am very sorry and I beg your pardon. Good afternoon." She took a step to ward the door. "But," he intercepted hastily. "I'd like to help you find your pin! Have you any idea where you dropped it? You're sure it's gone." "Why, yes! I think I am," running an investigating hand over her waist. Then something dropped to the rug and Cyrus Harding picked it up. "The pin," cried Peggy, with de light. "What a goose I've been." "A very charming goose, whose mis fortune has been my gain." "But I've done you a dreadful in justice!' "Never mind that. It was a natural mistake, I'll penalize you by keeping the comb as a keepsake." And as it turned out the fortune teller was right, for Peggy did marry the man who returned her pin. (Copyright, 1916. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) QUAKER MEDITATIONS. fFrom the Philadelphia Record.! The devil always finds some work for idle knockers. Some people learn to do by doing, others by being done. Money talks, but it won't always re spond to an encore. A man doesn't have to be a high flyer to look down on his neighbor. The tinder dog realizes that even sympathy is apt to strike a man when he is down. Some men bite off more than they can chew, even to the extent of com mitting bigamy. Some people who marry in haste are kept so busy that they haven't any leisure to repent. The amateur gardener is apt to call a spade a spade, with a few profane adjectives thrown in. Wigg "That fellow Bjones is of no earthly use." Wagg "I suppose that's why the girls think he is just heavenly." "The love of money Is the root of all evil," quoted the Wise Guy. "Yes, there isn't anything much more crook ed than the dollar mark," added the Simple Mug." Cynicus "Why do you Intend to elope with her instead of having a wedding?" Sillicus "Oh, just be cause it's more fun." Cynicusi "Well, perhaps you are right. Get. all the fun out of it while you can." POIXTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. A woman's tongue is mightier than a man's fist. i Some men learn by doing and some learn by being done- Fortunate is the locomotive engi neer who leads a wreckless life. A man with a grouch never misses an opportunity to advertise it. A word to the unwise is also suffi cient if it be the right word. No, Alonzo. Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is not a treatise on chirop ody. The man who hands out free ad vice to others always goes elsewhere for his own. Fearing to break into a profession that's overcrowded, some men waste the best years of their lives looking for one that isn't. 'A SMALL HOT .BIRD." w'v iv" 1 Household Hints The Table. National Cake White part: Cream together one cup sugar and one-half cup butter, then add one-half cup sweet milk, whites of four eggs, one half cup cornstarch, one cup flour into which has been mixed one tea spoon cream of tartar, one-half tea spoon soda, flavor with lemon. For the blue and red parts use above recipe, using blue and red sugar; omit flavoring in the colored parts. Place the layers: First the red, then the white, last the blue. Bake in moderate oven. Emergency Fruit Pudding Ta!.e me cup mincemeat with one cup (less if you wish a richer pudding) of prepared pancake flour. Add cau tiously only enough milk to make a stiff drop batter, which should be put instantly into small greased aluminum cups and steamed twenty to fifty min utes the longer the better. Cream or any of the usual plum pudding sauces may be served with these little pud dings. More time, proportionate to size and thickness, would be needed for a larger pudding. Chocolate Bread Pudding Ingre dients: One cup bread crumbs, two cups scalded milk, one square choco late, one-third cup .sugar, one-fourth cup boiling water, one egg, one eighth teaspoon salt, one-half tea spoon vanilla. Add the bread crumbs to the scalded milk and allow them to soak until soft. Add the boiling wa ter to the chocolate, which has been cut in pieces, and gently cook until a smooth paste is formed. Add this to the bread mixture. Beat the egg, add the sugar and salt to it. Add the first mixture to the egg mixture, then add the vanilla and turn into a buttered pudding dish. Bake in a moderate oven about twenty minutes. Serve with plain or whipped cream. Filled Cookies One cup granulated sugar and one-half cup lard mixed well; one egg, one-half cup rweet milk (dissolve one teaspoon of soda in milk), 3Va cups flour sifted with two BILLY ROBIN'S Drip! Drip! Drip! Patter! Patter! Patter! How it did rain! All the morning all the noon and appar ently all the afternoon, too! Then suddenly and most unexpect edly, just when everybody had given up ever seeing the sun again, out he popped -s.nd down on the garden he shone. Five minutes before the sun came out the garden was deserted. Mr. Garden Toad was napping under some leaves and. twigs; Billy Robin and Mrs. Billy were snugged down into their nest in the apple tree; Mrs. Hen and all her family and neighbors were safely in the barn, and even Chirpy Sparrow was hiding in his nest under the eaves. But five minutes after the sun shone that is another story! Perhaps you yourself have watched a garden after a warm spring rain. If you have, you know just how quick ly the garden folk all come out to en joy the sun and to get a bit to eat. Wouldn't you think they would be hungry on days when the rain falls all day and all night too? A half a dozen little sunbeams wig gled their way through the leaves and twigs and landed squarely on Mr. uaraen loaas snut eyes. And nf course that waked him up. "well. well, well." said he. in sur prise, "look what's happened! I never even hoped for any sunshine today!" And he hopped right out from his shelter onto the garden walk. "Maybe the sunbeams will wake up a fly or two for me. Let's see." Some more sunbeams danced up under the eaves and told Chirpy Spar row there was plenty of time for some supper before sunset; some others beckoned to Mrs. Hen through the barn window and she and all her brood immediately appeared at the barn door- And just at that minute Billy Robin darted down into the middle of the flower bed. "Now what's he doing already, do ing already, already?" croaked Mr. teaspoons cream of tartar. Roll very thin, put filling between two cookies and bake. Filling: One and one fourth cups ground raisins, three fourths cup granulated sugar mixed with one tablespoon flour. Cook un til it begins to thicken, then cool. These are fine with afternoon teas. NERSpEST William J. Bryan was lecturing on temperance recently in a sma'.l Ne braska town: "My friends." said the ex-secretary of state, ''how can we stop the sale of liquor?" 'Give it away!" came from the rear of the hall. A small school girl has written the following essay on the duck: "The duck is a low heavy set bird. He is a mighty poor singer having a coarse voice caused by getting so many frogs in his neck and he likes the water and carries a toy balloon in his stomach to keep from sinking the Duck has only two legs and they are set so far back on his running gears by nature that they come pret ty near missing his body some ducks when they get big curls on their tails are called drakes an don't have to set or hatch, but just loaf and go swim ming and eat everything in sight if I were to be a duck I would rather be a drake they have a wide bill like they use it for a spade they walk like a drunk man they bounce and bump about from side to side if you scare them they will flap their wings and try to make a pass at singing." Mrs. Jones hung up the receiver after having finished using the phone and walked to the counter, where she placed a five-cent piece. She waited a few seconds, and the druggist, thinking she was waiting for change, said: 'That's the correct amount, madam." "I know it, but where are my trad ing stamps?" was the woman's response. SHARP EYES. Garden Toad in his most puzzled volc, "Anybody can see that the garden is soft and moist and that, after a while, there will be a lot of good worms there. But Billy's too soon, too soon.'" "What you doing down there?" ask ed Chirpy Sparrow curiously. "I don't see i.ny worms." "Well, well, well," said he. In surprise. "No worms there, no worms there!' cackled Mrs. Hen, from the barn door. "I guess I can see!" Billy Robin made no. answer. He merely braced himself for a long, hard pull, and then out from the ground pulled a fine, big earth-worm! "Humph!" said he, when he had eaten the worm and could talk. "You folks have no eyes! Why don't you look? Any robin could have told you Just where the worms in this good earth are. for any rob;n could sea them! Watch me!" And again Billy darted toward a particular spot and again he pulled out a fine worm. "Guess he lrnnwa whe l about." said Mr. Garden Toad. "Guess he knows!" Copyright Clara Ing ram Judson. MM

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1916 First Qual 1 1 y Gray Granite Cereal Cook ern 1 14 qt. size. A regular 60c item. At This 39c r the Grante-ware Store, week Wanti Banins, Poddlnir Pans, Dippers, Colanders. Preserve Kettles, Sauce Pans, etc., values up to 25c, all put together on one counter and priced at the Q Graulteware Store, choice OC Tulip Blue and White Enamelware, and Cream tlty .ray Ware All selected first quality, cheaper than ever. Ue su re a 11 d get Vtii r S t o re" p rices before purchasing Urauiteware. Stoneware Get your first quality Stouewure at the Fair Store. The variety HAIR GRAY? THEN APPLY Q-BAN It Darkens Gray Kair Evenly Dye Harmless. Actually does so you can see it with your own eyes turn every gray hair in your heard beautifully dark. If your hair is sray, streaked with gray, prematurely or just turning gray, or if your hair is dry, harsh, thin or failing, simply shampoo hair and scalp a few times with Q-Ban Hair Color Restor er. Every strand of hair (whether pray or not) then becomes evenly dark, soft, flossy, fluffy, full of life and health, full and heavy and fascinating, and so beautifully and evenly darken ed no one could suspect you had ap plied Q-Ban- It is absolutely harm less and no dye. Keady to use, noth ing to be added. Give it a trial. 00c for a big bottle at Brunt-Martin Drug Co., 729 Kansas Ave., Topeka. Out-of-town folks supplied by mail. Adver tisement. 0RPHEUM TRIAMi I,E PI.AY8 KEYSTON K COMKIUKS. 5c and 10c Todav-Toniffht. H. B. WAKNKK in The 0-Fart Drums '"thk bkggak of cawnpori:" It's a hfa- play lont MiM It. S-PAKT KEYSTONE COMEDY. CJOK CHGSTKA. Owing to the length of the drama and 2-part Key htnne comedy the vaude ville act has been elimi nated for Monday, Taes diiy and Wednesday. COM IN (i. BILLY BIRKG IX "PEOOY." Thursday One Iay Only. TOOAY AND TONIGHT Daniel Frohmaa Presents THE 1NNOCKNT LIE" By Loitt Zellner A Wtirrlne Drama ot Adventure. with VALKNTINE GKANT on the PARAMOUNT PROGRAM, Produced by the Famous Players Fi 1 nio Also 14th Episode "Strange Ca of .Mary Page." Tomorrow. "Blue Blood and Red STEINWAY STANDARD OF THE WORLD World Wide Recognition accords to the Stclmvay a rep utation above all other Pianos as the moet perfect instru ment for the interpretation of music. Its pure tonal quality, its flawless mechanism give support and inspiration to the pianist violinist, and all who feel the call to self-expression through music. This has a deep significance to those who place musical worth above every other considera tion in the purchase of a piano. Stc in ways cost no more than perfection is worth.' Call or write. IV1EMKMS J J SotisiOstcQs. W. C. KrVG. Mgr. 71-1 Kansas Ave. S1I MfW HI 1 is more and the prU-e is less. Dozens of kinds and sizes of Crocks and Jars. Br- riued, per gallon 9e9 and Jl Smaller Crocks, Batter Jars, Etc. Kach 3c Stone Churns In any size, 3 gallon on up to 6 gallon, with or without lid and dasher. At Fair Store Prices. Jugs Priced, special P each 10 and OK Ice Water Pitchers Gallon size. Taller than shown in pic ture. Extra select 20c values, priced 5c. Others are fn priced XVV Water Coolers Never Leak. Pretty Kino Hntori 111 ne nml white stoneware with stoneware lid and Ni. kel Plated Faucet. The 6-gallon is priced special, complete. S2.50. The 4 frullou. S1.9H. and the 3-gallon, fl- OQ complete, at pXOi7 75 Colonial Water Set Clear white glass. Large Pitcher and Six Glasses. rriceu special, l U complete j BIBLE For High School Credit By MRS. C. F. LESSON' 36. Reprinted from State Journal, Saturday, May Kith. Iteview for Passion Week and the Forty I lavs 1. To what part in thin study, does Pas i sion Week belong? The Forty Days? 2. How uun h time covered by the two? t 3. Name three leading events. 4. Make one statement for the "Upper I Room" experiences. j 5. Name oue event for each day of Pas 1 siou Week. 6. What was the result oi tne cleansing of the temple? T. What purpose bud Jesus enemies In asking him questions? 8. Why were they so long in bringing their real purpose to destroy Christ, to a climax What did Jesus call the scribes and Pharisees 10. What was Jesus' lament over Jeru salem, and where do we find it? 11. What incident occurred in the tem ple treasury 12. What great thought in connection with the tientiles peeking Jesus? 13. What occasfoned the discourse given on the Mount of Olives? 14. What attitude did Jesus urge upon his followers for all time and occasions? 1.1. What directions did Jesus give for keeping the Passover? Notes. This will he the last lesson for this year's work. Next week's Journal will contain the Roll of Honor, with an announcement for comtnpneeroenf. On Tuesday, May ISth, the day classes will united in a class reci tation at 11 o'clock, and then lunch to gether at 12:45. At half past five the evening class will lunch together and have their last lesson at 7 :30. Any one may come to either luncheon, if notice is given FLANS TO FREE POLAND Descendant of Ration's Last King I Starts Movement In California. Los Angeles, Cal., May 15. A movement which its sponsors hope will result in the freeing of Poland was under way here today as a result of a mass meeting held Sunday under the auspices of the Polish American War Sufferers Relief association. A resolution declaring that "Poland and the Polish nation shall be free and independent from allegiance, vas salage or obligation to any political or diplomatic power, doctrine, tradi tion, dictation or Influence," was adopted. It was addressed to "The Nations, Arbitrators and International Judges for Peace and Justice in the World," and will be sent to the peace tribunal which will draw up terms at the close of the European war, it was said. Colonel John Sobieski. of this city. who is said to be a descendant of I King John III, last king of Poland, j presided. Similar action by Poles elsewhere in the United States was expected, it was said. AT THE THEATERS At the Iris. "The Innocent Lie" a new Para mount release which shows Miss Val entine Grant as Nora O'Brien, the Irish lass, is the drama at the Iris today and tonight- The Paramount people use the Bermuda Island as the scene for many of their productions and in this Dicture this beautiful little plot of greenery is photographed in a marvelous manner. At the Orpbeam. "The Beggar of Cawnpore," a six part drama, is the Triangle play at the Orpheum for the beginning of this week. It is remarkably interesting and instructive, dealing as it does with customs, habits and characteristics of peoples of other lands, than those con trolled by English speaking inhabi tants. A two-part Keystone comedy has been arranged for the first half of the week. The vaudeville act has been cancelled for three days. Billie Burke in "Peggy" will be here Thursday for one day. fiow)ke BibkComeJo Mfr. a.d. I fflOLY JBIMJLJS Cef4ir I Inspired -j Revelation Family boaster First quality gray ware, 7;k values, at the Granite ware QQa Store, this week OIC The Japanned Coolers In choice ot colors, with extra heavy galvanized Jiniug In all sizes 12 -pa lion nt $4.75, ou down over the 6 sizes and 6 prices, to the 2-gallon QQ size at ipX.OH Tinware More variety than ever. You save on your tinware. Pans, PniU: Men au res. Oil Cans. Fun nels. Dippers. Cups, Etc. at The Fair Store V. to V. The regular 2 for 5c Cuits, li at These Busy Tinware Stores, each Lawn Mowers While be stock lasts the Fair Store Cut Prices coutiuue on Guaranteed Lawn Mowers. Robber Hose It's all guaranteed, every Inch, and we have it priced so you an save to on your Hose. Any kind, 3-ply up to the 7-ply. Dinner Ware Another big shipment just arrived. Our stock is now at its best and your choice of 1 patterns gives you the best tn the state from which to make your selection. Fair Store Prices on Dinner Ware mean a saving to you of 10 to STUDY MENNINGER. 1. What events distinguish the meet ing in the upper room? 17. What memorial was instituted at the close of the Paschal meal? 1H. What startling statement did Jesus make concerning one of the disciples? 19. What treason had already been com mitted 20. Where did Jesus go a f te r lea vin g the upper room? 21. What was the substance of Jesus prayer in Gethsemane? 22. How was the arrest of Jesus ac complished 2:1. What became of the disciples when Jesus was arrested? 24. Before whom did Jesus appear in the trial for death? 25. Why waj be finally cot detuned to be crucified 2tt Name three events in connection with the crucifixion. 27. Iy whom and where was he buried? 2X. Name two. incidents for the .Resur rection. 20. How many times was Jesus seen between the Resurrection and the Ascen sion :m. What duty did he set for his fol lowers 31. Where did the ascension occur? 32. Name two incidents for the ascen sion. in advance. Plates wit! be 35 cents. Com I mencement exercises will be held on Tnes i day evening. May 23rd at the First Pres I byteriau church, when all our friends are invited. Examination for high school credit will be held 011 Thursday afternoon, June I 1st in tne High Mchool building at two i o'clock. Reports to be in by Saturday, i June 3rd. With this arrangement our Bible study will be closed with the reg i 1 !ar school year. SHORT SKIRT POPULAR Style Youthful and Will Be Retained by Fall Fashions. Cincinnati., Ohio, May 1 5. The short skirt will continue to be worn next fall, according to the report of the style committee of the National Cloak, buit and Skirt Manufacturers association, adopted at the annual convention here. In connection with the short skirt, the report says: "Its smartness and youthful appear ance makes its popularity universal." According to the report the fall suits will consist of three varieties, the plain tailored type, short type and the more dressy variety. The plain type will be either single or double breasted with some flare to the skirt cf the coat. It will be of finger tip length or slightly longer. The sport type will be varied by pleats and shirrings at the waist line, held in by belts, and high collars and simple sleeves. The length of the coat will range between finger tip to a point half way between finger tips and knee length. The dress suits will have large col lar with shoulder cape effects, when opened and laid back, high suffsand fancy cuffs of bell variety. Some will have vest fronts. Trimmings will be diversified. Fur edgings, fur collars, velvets, tailor braids and embroideries will be most prominently used. FORT FIRES INCENDIARY Two Fires Hoar Apart Destroy Fort Bliss Army Buildings. San Antonio, May 15. The two fires which started at widely separated points on the Fort Bliss military res ervation at El Paso Saturday night and did considerable damage, were probably of incendiary origin. General Funston announced today after receiv ing the official reports. The fires broke out more than an hour- apart and destroyed three stables and a store house. Tents and several machine guns were lost in the store house fire and in the other four horses were burned. General Bell reported. Civil ians aided the soldiers in fighting the fires. lc One of the events of Washburn col lege commencement will be the pres ident's reception to be held at the "White House" on the coilege'campus Tuesday evening, June 6, at S:30 o'clock. President and Mrs. P. P. Womer will receive the students and faculty and alumni. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Freeman have returned from a two months' trip to the South seas. They sailed from San Francisco in March on the Great Northern, and crossed the Pacific to Hawaii. They landed at Diamond Head, the famous port where the in coming steamers are welcomed by bands playing the Hawaiian song, and the natives who hang wreaths about the necks of the tourists. They visited the plantations on Oahu, the Island on which Honolulu is situated, and spent some time in Honolulu, They visited Waikiki beach, said to be the finest bathing beach known to trav elers, and they saw the mountains of Halexwa, the Nuuanu valley and tne Nuuanu Pali cliff, one of the scenic wonders of the wrorld. v Mrs. Charles Gaunt, of Chicago, for merly of Topeka, is visiting Mrs. T. J. Myers. She is being informally enter tained bv her Topeka friends at small affairs during her stay in the city. She will be a guest of the Tuesday Bridge- Luncheon club which will meet Wed nesday of this week. Mrs. Gaunt and Mr. and Mrs. Myers were dinner guests of Dr. and Mrs. George Port Ashton last week. A small tea which Mrs. Myers had planned before Mrs. Gaunt's arrival was not given on ac count of conflicting arrangements and a report that she was entertaining Sunday afternoon was incorrect. The Topeka Chapter of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution had a meeting Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. A. B. Jeftrey. At the business meeting the following offi cers were chosen: Mrs. G. G. Moore, regent; Mrs. H. L. Peppmyer, vice re gent; Mrs. W. D. Ross, secretary; Mrs. John R. Shelton, registrar; Mrs. Al brecht Marburg, treasurer; Mrs. A. M. Petro, auditor; Mrs. M. W. Labauch, historian. Mrs. A. H. Horton is hon orary regent for life. The chapter en dorsed Mrs. Effie Van Tuyl, of Leav enworth as regent for the state chap ter. to succeed Mrs. George Thatcher-HJou Guernsey, wno isa canamaie lor tne office of president general of the na tional order. The program for the afternoon in cluded a paper on Old Quilts, by Mrs. C. G. Blakely. A number of quilts that are heirlooms in the families of members of the D. A. R., were dis played. One of the quilts .belonging to Mrs. M. C. Hammatt, was made af ter a Marsailles pattern, and was about 105 years old. Miss Liillian Val entine showed an oici patch work quilt made with trailing vines over it. Mrs. Katherine Lindsay Perkins had in the collection" a handsome embroidered piece about 150 years old. Along with some of the quilts were portraits of the women who made them. Mrs. Jno. Shelton showed a very old quilt that was made by Harriet Seymour, a New York woman of many accomplish ments, the granddaughter of Major General Patterson, and a great grand daughter of Captain Lee of the French and Indian war. descended from the first Iuke of Somerset, who traced his ancestry directly to Alfred the Great. The maker of the quilt was an aunt of Mrs. N. F. Handy, Mrs. Shelton's mother. Mrs. Fisk had in the display a handsome quilt made in a basket pattern. Mrs. Blakely showed a table cloth spun and woven by her grand mother. Some very old woolen robes were contributed to the exhibit by Mrs. J. P. Raster and Mrs. John Brunt. Mrs. T. W. Allen displayed a rare old quilt. Mrs. Slael showed eleven stars from a Colonial flag of 13 stars. The flag was given to her great grand father. General Dousrlass. of the Revo lutionary war, by George Washington. The woolen coverlet lent to the dis--play by Mrs. Raster was made in Pennsylvania, and woven in the border was the name of Mrs. Raster's father, J. Miller. The piece was especially admired for its rare and beautiful colors. Other woolen coverlets rang ing in age from 75 to 150 years, were shown by Mrs. Saxon, Mrs. Root, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Reilly. Miss Valen tine's quilt was of applique work. Mrs. Fisk's quilt was made by Harriet Goodlow, the wife of Colonel Good- low, and a second quilt which she dis played was applique work done by Sarah Hicks, the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Hicks, of LMnwiddie, Virginia. 'Miss Ward had in the exhibit some samples of linsey worn by the slaves before the war. She also showed some hanks of flax and cotton which came from an ancient loom in Virginia. A few years ago Miss Ward visited her ancestral home in Virginia and saw the old looms in which was still some material that had been left there when the looms stopped many years ago. Mrs. Blakely described the quilts in her paper, and told of their makers, and something of their history. Some articles that were given a good deal of attention in the exhibit be longed to Mrs. M. C. Hammatt. Among them was an invitation to a dinner at the White House in Washington issued in 1795 to Justice dishing, one of the first justices of the supreme court of the United States, who was a great great uncle of Mrs. Hammatt. A document bearing the signature of George Washington was a commission to Justice Cushing. There was in the collection some paper money of Miss Koly Wblteker and Mr. Horace of interest last week. Looking Backward In State Journal Society Column TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY The largest trolley car party of the season was given last evening. While the party was a select, invitation af fair, it was also a benefit, the pro ceeds above expenses going to the Bethany Guild. Miss Arnold, the pre ceptress of liethuny. was cliiefiy in strumental in managing the details of the party. Iean Bodley and others assisted MiR Arnold. There were ix ojn cars vrhirh were filled and started from the He t ha ut grounds. The cars were decorated with streams of cheese cloth and shades over the electric 1 igh ts of tissue pa per. Oak leaves were also used effectively in the dec orations. The Aeolian Mandolin club furnished music. The six cars were made into three trains, going to Oak land and return, then to Garfield Park, where refreshments were served in trays by colored maiters. It was a leap year party and chaperons were Iean ISodley and the Itetbany teach ers. Beside the college girls and their friends, there were a number of the Oxford crowd and nearly all of the Fin de Steele High Five club. Mrs. John E. Moon returned today from Mundey, Indiana, Milwaukee, and other eastern and northern points. Mrs. Ed J. Keller, of Buffalo. N. J., is the guest of Mr. W. J. Burgess. A crowd of young people who ex pected to dance at Vinewood this eve ning, will have their party at Hudson's instead. They will dance at Vinewood next Thursday night, on which occa sion there will be a full moon. Mrs. E. Id. 1'pson, of Lake Crystal, Minn., has arrived to visit during the summer with her daughter, Mrs, W. 1. Begnier. Colonial times in the sum of about eight dollars. An antique coverlet was displayed by Mrs. H. Ward Page. The piece was done in stripes, and was given to Mrs. Page's grandmother, by her mother. It is now in the possession of Mrs. Page's mother, Mrs. Benson.

The Monday Tourist club closed its sessions for the season with a lunch eon today at 1:30 o'clock at the Swal low. Mrs. W. D. Ross was toast mis tress, and responses were made as fol lows: Preparedness, Mrs. A. J. Jar- Mr8. fc. Y. Martin: The year's Review. Mrs. Year's Review, Mrs. R. N. McEntire. A small boy of the town is quaran tined with measles. All the suffer ings and inconveniences of his malady are as nothing to the thought that by the time he is permitted to leave his room and make an excursion to the front porch, the measles sign will be taken down, and he will never know how the card that heralded his illness, looked against the front wall of his house. The boys of Grace Cathedral parish and their fathers will be entertained at a dinner Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock. The afterdinner speaker for the occasion is Governor Arthur Cap per. The dinner is given by Canon George M. GeiseL Dr. and Mrs. C E. Bergson of Leav enworth expect to leave in the middle of June for Buenos Ayres, Argentina, and will perhaps make their home in that city. Mrs. Bergson is a sister of Mrs. T. R. Paxton of Topeka, and she has many friends in this city. Oppor tunities for Americans in Buenos Ayres are said to-be great, and Dr. and Mrs. Bergson are among the Ransas people who are arranging to join the American colony of that place. The marriage of Miss Mignonette Yerkes of Hutchinson and Mr. William Burnett of Topeka took place Satur day evening at the home of the bride's mother. Mrs. J. T. Yerkes. The fol lowing is from a Hutchinson paper: Immediately before the ceremony. Miss Erma Parks sang "A May Morn ing." and "Beautiful Night," and to the strains of the wedding march played by Miss Lucile Yerkes at the piano and Miss Grace Burnett playing the violin, the bridal party took their place in a bower of white lilies, palms and ferns, where the double ring cere mony was read by the Rev. J. W. Abel of the First Methodist church. The bride was attended by her sister. Miss Beulah Yerkes, as bridesmaid, and her little niece, Beulah Pauline Rinney, as ring bearer, and Mr. Roy Cope of Topeka was best man. Her gown was of white taffeta with a net overdress and pearl trimmings. She wore a wreath of valley lilies and carried a bouquet of white roses and valley lilies. The bridal couple left last night for Topeka, where they will make their home. Mr. Burnett is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pryor Burnett and is a sen ior in the law school of Washburn col lege, Topeka. The Saturday club of Leavenworth celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary at a' one o'clock luncheon Saturday, given by Mrs. J. A. Codding at Lans ing. Honor guests were Mrs. John P. St. John of Olathe. wife of former Governor St. John, Mrs. De Witte C. Neilis of Topeka, who once lived in Leavenworth, and Mrs. F. D. Webster of San Antonio. Texas. Mrs. Codding was the toastmistress at the party, and responses were made as follows: "What Help Kansas Wo men Were to Governor St. John'? Ad ministration," Mrs. St. John; "Early Work of Ransas Clubs." Mrs. Neilis; "How Women Can Help in Reeping Up Prohibition, Miss Clara Mailory, Wilkie, vbo marriage was an event and toasts on the Saturday club by j Mrs. C M Hirtnnrh mil Mis Tll.a i Mayo. The junior class of the Colleee of the Sisters of Bethany gave a dan cing party Saturday night in the as sembly hall of the school. The hall was transformed into a big arbor en closed with white lattice twined with l'iiik roses and vines, and palms lined the walls. Cages of song birds hung from the overhead lattice work. Down the hall to the library were white pil lars supporting the flower twined lat tice. In the supper room quartet ta bles were set decorated with sprays of bridal wreath and bouquets of snow balls. In the favor dances, small baskets of flowers tied with ribbon were giv en to the dancers, and for one of the dances, the lights were turned out, and the girls carried little electric sparklers. Mrs. Alice Worswick, the principal cf the school, wore a lace embroid ered gown. Miss Gertrude Mutton wore lavender satin, trimmed with purple drapery. Miss Nora Hardesty, president of the class, wore a blue ac- 1 cordion pleated crepe de chine gown, j Miss Helen Lucas wore white taffeta draped with rainbow colors of tulle. Miss Mary Paxton was gowned tfn bright red taffeta. Miss Doris Diought, of Ransas City, wore a gown i of white organdie. Miss Doris Rosser I wore a white gown made entirely of narrow ruffles, from the hem to the I short bodice. An attractive visitor was j Miss Peggy Whitney, of Ransas City. She wore a gown of white and pink. The members of the senior class are Miss Helen Silver, Miss Clfj-a Watson, i Miss Virginia Leach, Miss Dorothy Hunley, Miss Lucile Kersey, Miss Gretchen Voiland, Miss Helen Lucas, Miss Georgia Neese and Miss Mildred Lusk. "The Suffragist," a magazine pub lished In Washington, D. C, in the in terests of the enfranchisement of women, in a recent number, publishes a picture of Mrs. Lilla Day Monroe, of Topeka, a member of the advisory counsel of the Congressional Union, and gives also an account of the trip of the Suffrage Flying Squadron through Topeka. Maurice Dean gave a dan.e at the Country club Saturday nigi't. His guests were: Freda Hursh, D?rothy Harrington, Eva Miller, Mary Rodgers, Sally Hamilton, Frances Hammatt, Ruth Switzer. Betty Bonebrake, Bar bara Jarrell, Marguerite Stewart, Isa bel Crawford, Belle Barton, Jane Bone, Philip Fable, Jack Merriam, Brewer, Abram Hammatt, Charles Dames, warren ran, lea rxussy, iwy mond Coolidge. The Junior Atlantean club will meet Tuesday for Miss Carolyn Thomas. The girls of the College Alumnae club had a luncheon Saturday at the i Y. W. C. A. At the business meeting following they elected the following j officers: Mrs. Maurice Lock, presi- j dent; Miss Helen Brigham, vice presi- dent; Miss Lulu McCabe, secretary; j Miss Maud Bishop, treasurer. The re- j tiring officers are Miss Annetta Nicoll, i Miss Ethel Grant, Miss Gladys Dough- J erty, and Miss Irene Troreil. The club will give a May fete next saiuraay arternoon lor tne oenent or the club's scholarship fund. A danc ing exhibition will be given under the direction of Miss Marguerite Koontz. The program will be as follows: l'onipadour Tlrigo mree roup. ihi lnclia V lotrsti, Laureea Breisford, Millicant Dillon, tktavia O'Neil. (b) Jean Koontz, Babhy Gault, Marian Ueid, Kdua Peppinyer. (c) lionise Doling, Cath erine Mullio. Katherine Kav. Liiebesfeud Kreisler Miss Elizabeth Hopkins. Schon Kosmarin ...Kreisler Mia Katherine ltax. Summer Challis Jean Koontz. Romance La Forge MiH Mariruerite Koontz. Forest Spirits Grelg The marriage of Miss Ruby Long and Mr. Louis H. Keightley took place Sunday evening at 6:30 o clock, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Long. Mr. Clem Jones j sang before the ceremony. The wed- i ding music was played by Mrs. James Boyd. The marriage service was read j by the Rev. George Geisel, canon of Grace cathedral. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Keightley left for Montana, where they will make their home. Xotcs and Personal Mention. Mrs. Edward E. Epps and Mrs. Roy Allen, of New York, were guests of Mrs. Chester Woodward last weekend. They have gone to Lawrence to visit Mrs. A. D. Weaver, and Mrs. Allen will j return Wednesday to spend two days j with Mrs. Woodward, and will then j go on to Wichita to viMt friends. j Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Evans, of valley Falls, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mra T. R. Paxton. Miss Helen Crawford and Miss Marie Porter returned today from Berkeley, Cal. They were students this year In the University of Cali fornia. Mrs. J. E. Ingham has gone to St. Paul to be with her mother who is seriously ill. Mr. and Mra Robert Kerr have moved frotr. Lehigh to Ardmore, Okla., where Mr. Kerr is interested in the Coline Oil company. Mrs. Rerr was formerly Miss Mildred Newell, of To peka. Miss Cornelia Abrahams, of Balti more, Md., is spending two weeks in Topeka with her brothers, Mr. John V. Abrahams and Mr. J. Newell Abrahams. Mies Julia Paige Norton of Toledo, Ohio, who is a prominent member of the Daughters of the American Revo lution, is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Norton, 618 West Eighth avenue. Mrs. J. E. Morris of Philadelphia, Pa., is visiting her sister, Mrs. James j Sproat. Mrs. Morris formerly lived in I Topeka and has a wide circle of j friends here, many of whom knew her before her marriage, when she was Miss Nannie Hopkins. j Mrs. Tod Matthews is spending two or three weekd visiting friends in Omaha, Neb. Mr. Will Jenness of Chicago is vis- j iting his Bister, Mrs. F. D. Luther. j Mrs. Charles Ashton of Silver City, i N. M., will arrive tonight to visit Mr. Ashton's brother. Dr. George Port Ashton, and Mrs. Ashton for a few days. Mrs. Charles W. Kouns is expected to return this week from Memphis, Tenn., and New York. She was called to Memphis by the illness of her mother, who has been in the south the past few months. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Owen have gone to Beloit, Kan., to attend a Sun day school convention. Ar Kith to Beirast. Dublin, lay 15. Premier Asquith, who had been in Dublin for several days, departed today for Belfast to I confer with prominent men in the north. Qervice is a definite feature of this store Not a mere talking point but a policy. Service Raincoats of all kinds $5.00 to $25 S Corset Instruction Week Correct corseting is an art and is well worth culti vating. It is no easy thing to select the corset which will make you appear at your best and therefore Madame Galbraith an instructor from New York, who will be in our Corset De partment this week (Hay 15th to 20th), may be of assistance to you. Mme. Galbraith comes to us from The Frolaset Cor set Company and is a recognized authority on corsets and corset fitting. She may be in a position to advise you with reference to the model you should wear. May we have the pleasure of your visit to our Corset De partment during the stay of Madame Galbraith, who wUl be with us all week demonstrating Frolaset Front Lacing Corset. tferrenM.GosW! FURNITURE PRICES Beginning Today and During the Week Golden Oak Dressers, see them at. 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Rest service we can render you is to suggest your purchasing a Hart Schaffner Marx suit at $25 if you follow the suggestion youH be the owner of a suit that fits well, looks well and wears well the suit will be as fine as any man needs or wants. We've put our earnest ef forts and attention to this line our efforts have been backed by those of the mak ers the result is to your advantage. For Decoration Day wear, many men will want silk lined, satin finish blue serge suits our Hart Schaffner Marx displays ai 4 some very fine ones we suggest -we suggest $25 your seeing them at your earliest con venience AuerbacS i$ Guette! 7) iCLCrrHING CC $9.00 $4.75 $4.75 $6.75 $1.45 best on the chains and $2.75 any length you need for your carts. Baby Carriages. Hammocks, Vudor Shades in brown or green, for the porch, to keep out the hot sun; Porch Curtains for your sleeping porch. Tea Waeons, Beds, Mat tresses. Springs, etc. Let us hang your window draperies and shades. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1916 ORDERS OUT CAMP MAY PAY EXTRA Summer Training Schools Not Holders of Life Policies in Case YBLQOKED IT MUST BE OOOD iN A GOHSPiRACY?jFAiLED TO GO OFF ORPET TO TRIAL Alleged Slayer of Marian Lam REUNION UP TUESDAY i I

Allowed in Kansas. War Department Says They Must Be Abandoned. NEED OFFICERS 13 MEXICO Army Cannot Spare 3Ien to Care for State Guardsmen. Several Thousand From Other States Were to Come. Military camps and training schools, planned by the government for the summer months, are to be abandoned according to a telegram received to day from the war department by Chas. I. Martin, adjutant general. The order cancels instructions for an entire se ries of training schools to be held in Kansas this summer and )t is prob able that the order will be supple mented with directions to abandon the encampment for cavalrymen and artil lerymen to have been held at Fort Riley. Conditions along the Mexican bor der are probably responsible for the unexpected move on the part of the war department. Assembling of na tional and state troops in Mexico and on the border have meant a tremen dous drain on the supply of army of ficers, available for instruction work in the military schools. These men ere now needed by the government in the handling of the Mexican situation and cannot be sent to the interior to take charge of the troops in the train ing schools. All government training schools for militiamen are to be closed at once, according to reports that have reach ed the adjutant general s office in To peka. Not until the present situation is well in hand, it is believed, will an effort be made to restore tie camps and training service. Coming From Other States. Arrangements had been made by Kansas national guardsmen for the camps and training schools to be held this year at Fort Riley and Fort Leav enworth. Never in the history of th state had such a large number of im portant military maneuvers been scheduled for this state. Under orders of the government sent to Topeka several weeks ago, sev eral thousand militiamen from other states were to have come to Kansas for training and instruction during the summer months. Troops from Mis souri, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and possibly other states were to have been sent to Kansas. The order to day, however, disposes of all former plans for the schools. Training schools for cavalrymen from several states had been arranged for the months of June, July and Au gust. These maneuvers were sched uled for Fort Riley. While no order directly affecting this branch of the work has been received, it is probable that the summer work for cavalrymen will also be abandoned. General Martin today declined to discuss the order from the government, further than, to admit that instructions had been received. He assigned as a probable reason, the need of higher army men in the handling of the Mex ican situation. "All training schools have been or dered closed," General Martin stated. "The order will affect a large amount of the work outlined for guardsmen of this and other states during the next few months." CALLSTTTfiCINE Alcohol in Wine of Cardui Negligible Says Dr. Funck. Chicago, May 15. Wine of Cardui I as a useful medicine found a cham- pion today in Dr. George W. Funck, professor of therapeutics in the Chi cago college of medicine and surgery and a member of the American Medi- i cal association who testified in the suit of 55. C. Patten against the Ameri can Medical association for heavy damages on the charge that the asso ciation branded Wine of Cardui as a noxious drug. Dr. Funck told of the therapeutic value of Carduus benedictus and vi burnum prunlfolium, two distinctive ingredients of .Wine of Cardui. "What can you say of a solution containing these two drugs in a solution of twen- ty per cent alcohol," the witness was asked. "The alcohol is a negligible quality," replied the physician, "and I can say that the combination of the two drugs would be useful in the treatment of some conditions which did not involve malformation and did not demand surgical treatment." "In what way would it be useful?" "Kadi of these drugs taken sep "erately," said the physician, "has a -atonic effect and their combination is more patent." Ml Wto theaters r Methodists Will Remove Ban on Shows and Dancing. aj Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 15. Announcement has been made that the committee on state of the church, to which was referred the much dis- cussed question of amusements, will report in favor of eliminating from ..the discipline the prohibition against rames of chance, theater attendance and dancing. The campaign in the committee to strike out of the prohibition against these specified diversions was con ducted, it was said, by two college ex ecutives. Chancellor James R. Day, of Syracuse university, and President Samuel Plantz, of Lawrence univer sity. Appleton,. Wis., who maintained t that the ban on these amusements t tended to keep young people out of ""the church. One of the most important subjects to be acted on during the coming "week is the general statement of the attitude of the church on the ..ues tion of temperance and prohibition. The temperance committee has agreed ,.pon a report which goes further than the Methodist Episcopal church has ;,ever gone before. A Oil Cook Stoves at Forbes. Adv. They Enlist. Probably Can Obtain Permit by Paying Additional Premium. Service permits by insurance com panies, in event the United States should engage in war with a foreign nation, are a probable result of the present life insurance situation ac cording to Carey J. Wilson, state sup erintendent of insurance. An extra, premium for policy holders who en listed would doubtless be required both by old line, and fraternal com panies. During the Spanish-American war a similar course v. as pursued by insur ance companies of this country. Su perintendent Wilson believes policy holders at the time of a declaration of war would be issued a permit for army service, while special permits would be attached to new policies. An extra hazard premium would doubt less be required by the companies, but it is not probable that an effort would be made to invalidate existing poli cies or to restrict the sale of life in surance to non-enlisted- persons. Extra premiums of from $30 to $50 would probably be required by the in surance companies, Wilson believes. These premiums would cover the per iod of enlistment of the term of war. They .Might Cict Together. "In event this country engaged in warfare with another nation, it is probable that the big insurance com panies would get together on a plan for the handling of life insurance," said Wilson. "The plan would not, however, restrict the rights of the in sured, although an extra premium of $30 to $50 might be required covering the period of service. Persons who did not desire to pay this extra pre mim mijrht deliver their policies back to the companies for the cash surren der value. A special permit, however, would doubtless be issued to every person who desired the protection of life insurance during the period of en listment and the permit would run until the mustering out date or end of war." The question of validity of Jife in surance in case- of war has recently occasioned much discussion. A ma jority of old line and fraternal com panies restrict rights of policyholders to the point where policies lose their force in case of enlistment. Other companies have restricted enlistment clauses. To cover general cases, how ever, it is probable that special per mits would be issued insured, with extra premiums for period of enlist ment. WHAT HEDID SAY Judge TVhitcomb Says His De cision Was Misinterpreted. Did 'ot Hold Against Exemp tion of Laborer's Wages. The interpretation placed upon Judge G. H. Whitcomb's decision in a garnishment proceedings Saturday, by several attorneys and others is incor rect, Judge Whitcomb sta'ted today. He did not hold, he says in a state ment, that a working man was entitled to no exemption on his wages, after judgment had been secured. He pointed out today that the ten per cent feature applies before judgment and that the general exemption applies after that; that the working man, aft er judgment has been secured by a creditor, is entitled to hold whatever amount it can be shown he must have for the support of his family. Cn order to set forth his position clearly Judge Whitcomb made the fol lowing statement today: "The statement published as to the holding of this court under Chapter 232, of the Laws of 1913, relating to the exemption of wages from garnish ment, to the effect that there now is no law allowing any exemption, to wage earners is erroneous. The de cision of the court made on Saturday was exactly to the contrary. The law in question was construed to mean that prior to any judgment rendered against the debtor in an action in which the debtor's wages were garn isheed, only ten per cent of the wages, and four dollars on account of costs, ciJ. no more, could be deducted to ap ply on the debt. "The second section of the law in question contains a proviso that no more than the amount named shall be held to pay a debt until after judg ment may be obtained against the debtor, and that after judgment the taking of the earnings of any debtor shall be governed by the laws on the statute book at the time of the enact ment of the 1913 statute. It is the lat ter provision of the law which it has been suggested leaves the debtor with out an exemption after judgment for the reason that this statute of 1913 ex pressly repeals the sections of the old law applying to the exemption of wages from garnishment. "But this suggestion is without any force for the reason that the legisla ture of 1913, in section 2 of the law in question, expressly re-enacted Section 6126, of the General Statutes of 1909. This section provides that the earn ings of the debtor for his personal services at any time within three months next preceding the order to apply them to the debt, cannot be so applied when it is made to appear by the debtor's affidavit or otherwise, that such earnings are necessary for the use of a family, supported, wholly or partly, by the labor of such debtor, except as provided in the next section of the act. The next section, however, contains nothing that can be held, under any reasonable construction, to destroy the general exemption of the wages of the debtor necessary for the support of his family, at least as to the portion of the wages above 10 per cent and $4 for costs. "Whether a greater amount can be taken after Judgment depends upon wneuier or not sucn excess is neces- sarv fnr t "n t ,,a f 1 v. .1 1 Hy. In the case decided Saturday, one-half month's salary, $75, had been garnisheed, and the court held that two-thirds of this amount was ex empt." KiiRineer Becomes Juilse. Jefferson City, May 15. Allen C. southern, Jackson county highway engineer, was appointed a judge of the Jackson county circuit court today to succeed Judge Frank G. Johnson, who died recently. Governor Major, who made the appointment also ap pointed Major E. M. Stavtor of Inde pendence, to succeed Southern as highway engineer. Major Stayton lo cated the roadbed of the Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joe electric line. Great Britain's "Steel King" Is Xearly Absolute. Mail Is Entirely Cut Off; Tele graph Almost. 700 AMERICANS IN BEM Letters From IT. Three Months Beaching Them, Americans Protest Lest In comes Fail to Arrive. BY CAUL V. ACKEBMAX. Berlin, April 15, by mail, England today is maintaining an absolute mail blockade of Germany. Fewer letters and newspapers are reaching Berlin today than at any time since the be ginning of the war. England's con trol of the cable censorship is becom ing so severe that Germany is gradual ly being cut off from communication with the United States and all other overseas countries. For several months Americans in Berlin have been receiving their mail marked "Opened by Censor, No. Blank." The letters had been taken from neutral steamers and held in England for examination. Some Amer icans had been receiving mail through Holland and Norway, but lately the English have been taking this mail from the steamers. This is producing a critical situation among the Amer icans in Berlin and other parts of Ger many who number in all over 700. During the last few days, letters posted in America between January 6 and 13 arrived, all examined by the censor, and were three months on the way- Tighten Up on Cablegrams. The English control on News cable grams from American correspondents is also growing more strict. For in stance, in March, the Berlin bureau of the United Press filed a cable for New York containing an interview with the editor of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger on the Japanese situation. This interview did not reach New York, apparently having been held up by the British censor. The latest order of the British gov erment declared paper money and checks absolute contraband and is working a hardship on Americans here. Formerly, these people received their allowances and income by draft from New York. Under the new order, these drafts will be confiscated. Most of the Americans here receive a good part of their incomes from the United States but under the new arrangement this will be impossible. It will not be feasible to wireless money because the banks cannot send receipt or checks by mail. American Worry. This condition of a.rfairs has aroused Americans who are in business here and today the following notice ap peared in the "weekly, report" of the American Chamber of Commerce and Trade: "Since last Christmas. Americans in Germany have been put to no end of trouble by seizure and detention of mail to and flora Europe by the Brit ish authorities. As a case in point, the writer received only the other day a letter from the United States dated January 8. 1916, which had been cen sored in England and evidently had been lying there for two months." iSS WEARY Patience ?fear Exhaustion on Mexico Policy. May Take Hand Demanding Wilson Do Something. Washington, May 15. While con gress has been silent in the Mexican Kituation during the difficult negotia tions between General Scott and Gen eral Obregon. it is freely predicted today that congress may this week voice a demand for more definite and positive action than President Wilson is displaying. A senator in close touch with the situation, admitted in dis cussing the whole problem that the sentiment of congress was overwhelm ing that it was time for the United States to be firm and act firm and meet the problem squarely of restor ing order in Mexico not merely po licing our own border. Sentiment Stronjr. This particular senator even admit ted congress was losing patience with the attitude displayed by the president and predicted that if a resolution went before the senate, with any consider able backing behind it. authorizing the president to use the army and navy in restoring peace and order to Mexico, it could not be stopped. The sentiment is so strong, it was admitted, it would eo through despite the opposition of the president or administration. The administration is still undecided as to what course to pursue in Mexico and clinging to the hope that some thing may come out of the negotia tions with f'arranza. FROM GULF TO LAKES Illinois Statesmen Want Inland Water, way Project Approved. Washington, May 15. Governor Dunne and several Illinois congress men asked Secretary Baker today to approve the plans for an inland water way to connect Lake Michigan with I Secretary Baker indicated that the project should await congressional leg islation regulating waterways and iwiter projects. LEAVE IT TO SENATE Committee Still at deadlock on Bran dels Appointment. Washington, May 15. Louis D. Brandeiss nomination to the supreme court was discussed again today by the senate Judiciary committee in executive session and the senators present were bound to secrecy. The report was current and generally cred ited that the committee had decided to report the nomination without a recommendation and let the senate deal with it entirely. C. E. LaVigne of Chicago Talks to Commercial Club. Shows Why "Fair Trade" Should Be Encouraged. Ever go by a store and see a stand- ard article, say an alarm clock, listed at a bargain price and then a dozen otner clocks of inferior workmanship piaceu Desiae it Thousands have done this in the city and returned to their country homes satisfied by the advertisement that articles are cheaper in a city than in the country. Yet, those who have gone inside most generally dis covered that one pretext or another was set forth to the effect that the standard clocks were exhausted and they were obliged to purchase one of those with inferior workmanship. It is to remedy such evils that the Stephens-Ashurst bill was introduced before the house and senate, C. E. LaVigne of the Fair Trade League of C. K. La Vlpne, who spoke at the Com mercial Club today. Chicago told members of the Com mercial club this noon. The address, although hurried on account of Mr. LaVigne's anxiety to catch a train, met with considerable applause. Mr. LaVigne described the Stephens Ashurst bill as one confined to mer chandise sold under trade mark of special brand. Its sole purpose, he declared, is to deprive dishonest ad vertisers, who do not possess or who are not to do business on their own good will and reputation, of the power to use standard articles, of which the consumers know the value and which he calls for by name, as bait to lure the crowd and to Injure their smaller competitors. WILSON'S WEAKNESS Former Secietary w. J. Bryan Points It Out. Lincoln, May 15. In a signed arti cle, William J. Bryan declared the Democratic party must, in order tc win the coming campaign, "move to ward peace," and thereby capture the peace element in the Republican party. He begins his article by quot ing from a Chicago newspaper edi torial, in which Mr. Wilson is called a minority president, in that he re ceived fewer votes than Roosevelt and Taft combined and says that Demo crats must face the fact that a united Republican party will enter the cam paign with a popular majority of 1, 300,000 votes. -Ir. Bryan's Statement. The following is part of Mr. Bryan's statement: "The Chicago Tribune, the most in fluential F.epublican paper west of New York, begins a leading editorial in its issue of May 7. as follows: "The meeting of the RepuHican national convention, which will be in session in Chicago a month from to day, will be the most important meet ing of the Republican delegates since the party was founded. WilMm a Minority President. 'The issues confronting the coun try today are fully as great as those which faced our forefathers in 1SC0, while the influence of the Republican delegates will be greater this year than it was at that time. In 1860 it was the division of their opponents which gave the control of the nation to the Republicans. This year it will be only a division of Republicans which will permit the government of the United States to remain in the hands of the Democrats. 'Mr. Wilson is a minority presi dent. He deceived a trifle under 6, 300,000 votes as compared to 7.600, 000 and more cast for Roosevelt and Taft together. Thus the Progressive Republican vote was more than 1, 300,000 greater than the Democratic vote, while it is probable that in their factional bitterness both Republicans and Progressives voted for Wilson in order to assure the defeat of their pet aversion. Wilson's Great Weakness. 'If only one candidate is chosen to represent Progressives and Republi cans, Wilson will need to hold his en tire 1912 vote and approximately 700, 000 votes from his opponents. "It is just as well to look the facts in the face. The Republican party, if united, can enter the campaign with a popular majority of 1,300,000 votes on its side. As a portion of this majority is made up of large majorities in a few Republican states, our party's handi cap is not quite as great as it appears, but it is still enough to compel serious consideration. mm was oooo White Goods Importing Firm Files Bankruptcy PctitJon. New York, May 15. An Involun tary petition in bankruptcy wa3 filed by creditors in the federal court to day against Mills and Gibb, one of the largest white goods importing and jobbing firms in the country. The liabilities are stated as upward of $2, 000.000. The assets are not given. It was asserted in "the complaint that the company was solvent but fi nancially embarrassed and that the current business was "extremely good." The company has branches in many American and foreign cities. Caldwell Mowers at Forbes Adv. Formulate Plan to Resume Raids Across Border. Fnnston Immediately Takes Means to Crush It. INVOLVES CABP.MA OFFICIALS Evidence Is Dug Up by United States Detectives. Agitators Solicit Bandits Jfear Brownsville, Tex. San Antonio, May 15. Information indicating a plan for the resumption of raids across the international line r.ear Brownsville, Texas, has reached army headquarters here, and will, it is expected cause a considerable strengthening of the force now patrol ling that district. General Funston and his staff will study in detail today the proposed re organization of the entire border pa trol and It was indicated that the Thirtieth infantry, coming from New York state would be sent to Rio Grande City for service between there and Brownsville, the district so fre quently raided a year ago. See Armed Mexicans. Official reports from the officer commanding gave no additional news of the activities of armed Mexicans opposite Progreso, Texas, but their presence there was in line with re ports made by both agents of the de partment of justice and agents of the state department. These agents have been investigat ing for several days reports that agi tators were trying to incite to fresh activity those who participated in the raids of last year, and that they had secured tentative promises of co-operation or at least passive support, of certain minor Carranza officials lo cated in that quarter of Mexico. Vindicate Army Mule. Field Headquarters, by Army Mo tor Truck to Columbus, N. M., May 15. The value of the army mule, which wavered momentarily when au tomobile trucks in the Villa chase demonstrated their adaptability for mountain transportation, has been vindicated in the results of this cam paign. In transporting supplies overland to the main bases, through a country without railroads, the automobile trucks have proven much superior to the old fashioned mule wagon teams, the reliance when Geronimo was pur sued through this same territory. Meanwhile the mules, as pack ani mals, have gone beyond the new truck lines into country where no wheeled vehicle yet invented can move, cross ing chasms and climbing through mountain forests where it has been necessary to trample paths through the brush. These mules proved more hardy than horses in the hard bandit chase. They were better able to live off the country without loss of strength. They ate almost everything except rocks and one kind of rope. The one rope which they would not eat was the Mexican lariat made of horse hair. LOCAL MT10N Call 1377, Howard, for proper mow er sharpening. Adv. The May fete to have been given by the high school girls last Friday is scheduled for this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Judge A. W. Dana adjourned court in the second division of the district court this morning: because the room was too cold for comfort. The ad journment was until 1:30 o'clock this afrernoon. Judge G. H. Whitcomb in the second division and the jurors were somewhat alarmed for a time by the strong odor of g.s In the court room, but no adjournment was taken. Social dance at Moose hall Wednes day evening. Prizes will be given the tackiest dressed couple. Admission 25c. Adv. The annual report of the Topeka Public Health Nursing association, dealing with tubercular cases hundled from April of 1915 to April of 1916, was filed with the ccunty commission ers tcday. It ?hows a total of 9,549 visits mado to patients during tfye year. There wore 01 tubercular pa tients. The total cost for the year was $1,702 and the county contributed $1,800. Visit the Arbor. Adv. 604 Kan. Ave. "Quality Band made up c-f teach ers at the Central Park school, made a hit at the annual May party given by the Topeka Grade. Teachers club Saturday evening at Central Congre gational church. Miss June Chapman is leader of the bend. A Teamsters' and Chauffeurs union was organized Sunday morning at In dustrial hall. The following officers were elected: K. S- McGrew, presi dent; J. W. Pasley, vice president; re cording secretary, J. C. Hummer; G. O. Howard, secretary-treasurer. The union will meet Thursday morning in Industrial hall and at that time will set the date for the meeting to be held for the acceptance of the charter. For Sewer Pipe. Phone 865. Whelan Co. Adv. J. B. A petition will be circulated among the merchants of the city asking that all stores be closed at six o'clock five days of the week. Several merchants have announced that coinmor.cini,' this evening they will close at six o'clock anticipating the petition. Empty linseed oil barrels, 50c eadh. Miller Gillespie, 33 Kansas Ave. Adv. The Women's society of the First Congregational church, will meet Wednesday afternocq at 2:30 with Mrs. J. S, Freeman. Miss Mary Anton, a Russian Jewess, lecturer and author, will speak to the Kansas teachers at their next conven tion, in Topeka. Other speakers will be: Dr. J. I'arkes Cadman of Brook lyn, pastor of the biggest church in the country; Superintendent, J. H. Francis of Los Angeles; Dr. J. M. Coul ter of the University of Chicago; Miss Georgia Alexander, superintendent of elementary schools at Indianapolis; I Murder Jfarrowly Averted in Topeka Last Sight. Poor Shells All That Saved the Lives of Three. Mm WAS STABBED 3 TIMES This Angered Dave Chesler and He Went After Gun. When Cartridge Didn't Explode No Triple Crime. Good foot work and two bum shells are all that stood between Dave Ches ler and three murders last night, ac cording to Joe Holman, deputy sheriff. Chesler did his part but Levi Gibbs and Bess Toots were too fast for him and when he attempted to unload both barrels of his shotgun into an inter fering relative, both shells failed to explode. Chesler and Levi Glbbs got into trouble at Gibbs house over Bess Toots. Both men were drinking, ac cording to officers, and temporarily Gibbs had an advantage through the possesion of a pocket knife. Chester's anatomy indicates that Gibbs plunged tho knife blade into him about three times, once puncturing a lung and twice making holes in his back. The stabbing ruffled Cheslers tem per and he left t'.e house. He went to his own abode, loaded up his doulble- barrl shotgun, placed two extra shells in his pocket and returned to the Gibbs house. "Come on out here and I'll lick you on less ground than you can stand on," he shouted at the window through which a light showed. Gibbs didn't venture out but Chesler could see some one moving about in side. He walked up to a window. He knew there was a table in front of the window at which Gibbs. and Toots might be sitting. He knew there was a bed directly in line with, the window at the other side of the room. He aimed low and pulled both barrels. The charge tor out the first window. clipped the top half off the lamp chimey, put out the light, riddled the clothes on the bed and went out through another window. Both Fail to Kxplode. A relative rushed up to stop .the trouble but before he could reach the scene Chesler had put two more, shells in his shotgun. He aimed at the pro testing relative and pulled both trig gers. Both shells failed to explode. They show the marks of the hammer and Holman says he never before knew both shells to fail to discharge. Officer Gaines of the Union Pacific had heard the shooting and hurried to the scene. Chesler also pulled the shotgun on him but Gaines calmly knocked him down and took the gun away from him. He called Joe Hol man and Holman took Chesler to the county jail where his knife wounds were treated. A search was made for Gibbs and the woman. No trace of them was found. The house was deserted. All their haunts have been searched but they are not in any of them. "That fellow Gibbs must have left that house in nothing flat when the shotgun went off," commented Hol man. The gun and shells are at the sher iffs office. All of the parties con cerned are white. Chesler was arrest ed a year ago in connection with an alleged incendiary fire at Rossville. Gibbs is a police character. The Gibbs house is at 1203 West Laurent street. irobtraii Seven Killed by Explosion Which Wrecks Engine. Get Carranza Soldiers' Payroll in JTew Currency. Laredo, May 15. A train attached to which was the private car of Charles A. Douglas, President Car ranza's representative in Washington, was derailed by an explosion between Quer taro and Palma Gonzales, Mex ico, last Friday and I he passengers, in cluding a. Carranza paymaster, were robbed, according to a report brought here today by passangers of the train, who arrived from Mexico City. They said the private car of Mr. Dcuglas was riot molested. The engineer and fireman and five persons riding on the tender were Instantly killed by the de rail ment. The paymaster was carrying new currency to pay soldiers, it was stated. American passengers also are said to have been robbed of $3,000 in gold. The bandits, according to the ar rivals here, were Zapata followers who, while robbing the passengers, cried "Viva Villa." Dr. George D. Strayer of Columbia university. New York. Applications for writs of habeas corpus to secure the release of James Casper and Oscar E. Clark from the Leavenworth county jail were filed this afternoon in the supreme court. The two men have been in Jail since February and are wanted by the state as witnesses in a murder case. Under the court order, they have been held without baiL Wall Paper Cleaner. Miller Gilles pie. S33 Kan. ave. Phone 955. Adv. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Pribble and Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Hemus left Saturday for New York, Atlantic City and Wash ington to be gone some time. While in New York they will visit Mr. Hemus's brother, Mr. Percy Hemus, the emi nent New York baritone. Framing nd silvering. Coe. 82s Kansas Ave. Adv. J. D. Miller will attend the encamp ment of the G. A- K. at Kirksville, Mo., which is in session May 17 and 18. The clean-up squad .reports 1,726 loads nf trash collected in their pres ent campaign, with about three days' more work to complete the job. Monroe school was fumigated last nisht by officials of the city health de partmert. Willie Cooley, colored. 1435 Monroe street, attended school last Tuesday. Sunday, the doctors at tending nim pronounced his sickness smallpox, hsncs the fumigation. bert Faces Justice Today. He's Accused of Giving Her Poison After Betraying Her. HER FATHER WANTS JUSTICE Orpet .Himself Remains In Jaunty and Defiant Mood. Tragedy Occurred Last Febru ary; Body Fonnd in Snow. Waukegan, 111., May 15. Blind jus tice began today to place in her scales the bits of truth that go to make up the tragedy of Helms woods at Lake Forest, where Marion Lambert, a high school girl, came to her death and for which Will H. Orpet, a student at the University of Wisconsin, is on trial for his life. The state charges that Orpet, having won the girl's love and be trayed her, and believing that she had even a stronger claim on his protec tion, gave her cyanide and so killed her to hide his duplicity. The de fense claims that the girl, despondent because Orpet was paying court to another girl, killed herself. All the pitiful tragedy that has gone before and much of that which is to follow, centers about the three oaks in Helm's woods, where the girl dropped in the snow that day in Feb ruary last and died at the feet of the boy she loved. It was there they used to meet when he was making love to her. It was there he won her heart and betrayed her trust in him. And it was there he summoned her to meet him under the promise to "make everything all right" when she wrote him at Madison that she was in need of his protection. Her Body Found. They met there on February 9. Only Orpet knows all that was said and done, but next day searchers found the girl's body lying by the three oaks and Orpet's tracks leading away. The state and the defense have measured and staked and platted and photographed Helm's woods and three oaks, and all over the tract are film pack covers showing that amateurs have photographed the place almost daily. And the jury, which the lawyers will select will be marched over Helm's woods and will see the three oaks and see re-enacted the tragedy of that win ter day. The tragedy has not stopped at the Geath of Marion Lambert. Her moth er has just returned home from f sanitarium where she was sent to save her from a total collapse, and her father, Frank Lambert, is perceptibly more gray and stooped and silent than he was. He is very bitter toward Will Orpet Father Wants Justice. "I want to see justice done and I don't see how they can clear him," said the father this morning. Orpet himself .is very Jaunty and de fiant. When newspaper men asked to talk with him Sunday there was burst of profanity and instructions were issued not to let any one, even his relatives, see him. And none of his relatives called on him. State's Attorney Ralph Dady would not say today that he will demand that Orpet be hanged but he did say this: "I shall choose jurors who are not opposed to capital punishment." Orpet's own father has been called as a witness by the state. He will tell whether, he kept cyanide where his son could have got it. Girl Chief Witness. But the chief witnesses will be Jose phine Davis, the best loved and trusted iriena of Marian Lambert the one to whom she confided all griefs; and Miss Celeste Youker, to whom Orpet paid court alter he had discarded Marion Lambert. The trial opens at 1:30 today in the Lake county court hduse before Judge Charles Donnelly. It is expected that at least a week will be consumed in choosing a jury. 12 American Soldiers Fired on by Mexican Snipers. Army Men in Autos Alighted and Battle Ensued. Lake Itascate. Mexico, May 14. (By wireless to Columbus, N. M.,) May 15. Three bandits, including Julio Cardenas, a Villa leader were killed in a skirmish with an American detach ment near Kubio ranch, 20 miles est of here today. The Americans. 12 strong under the command of Lieutenant George S. Patton, comprised an automobile de tachment sent to purchase forage. The bandits fired on Lieutenant Patton and his guide after they had alighted from the machines and were ap proaching the ranch house. The American deployed to prevent the escape of the snipers and Lieuten ant Patton returned the fire, wound ing the bandits, who meanwhile fled through the rear of the house. Over taken later, the Mexicans engaged the Americans in a rifle duel in which the three Mexicans were killed. There wa3 no American casualty. The bodies of the Mexicans were brought here and buried. Papers in their pockets revealed their identity. 5-STATE WAGE KEET Delegates of Miners anrl Operators Convene in Kansas City Today. Kansas City, Mo., May 15. Nego tiations for new wage contracts be tween representatives of the United Mine Workers tf America, from the three southwest districts, comprising Missouri. Kansas, Oklahoma, Ar kansas and Texas and conferees ap pointed by the Southwest Coal Opera tors association were expected to start here today. It is understood the contracts will be for a period of two years. It was said that the negotiations would not i cover all branches of the mining in- dustry as there were but certain con- tracts over which there has been any I controversy. I Porch Screen Wire at Forbes. Adv. Methodist Church May Form Separate Conference for Negroes. Saratoga Springs. May 15. The proposal to reunite the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church, South, which have been separated since 1S45. will be made the order of special business at tomorrow's session of the Methodist general conference. The report of the special committee on federation, pre sented today, endorsed the proposal in the belief that such union would "hasten the development of a truly world church." The report recommends that the general conference be the supreme governing body of the reunited church and that the plan of unification be extended to any other Methodist bodies that may desire it. The report favors the organization of special con ferences for the negro membership of the church, such negro conference to be represented in the general confer- HEW K1ND TRUST John D- Jr- Would Organize Christianity Monopoly. Raps Preachers and War Order Bank Accounts. Cleveland, May 15. John D. P.ocke feller, Jr., Major General Leonard Wood and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Frank D. Roosevelt were speak ers at today's session of the Interna tional Y. M. C. A. convention here. Rockefeller spoke this forenoon on. "Every Christian at Work for His Fellowmen; How Shall This Be Ac complished?" He told of welfare work being done In the mines of Colorado which are owned by the Rockefeller interests. He will also speak at the industrial section this afternoon. General Wood and Secretary Roosevelt will speak this afternoon before the army and navy section.. Ministers Come In Laic. Rockefeller in his morning's ad dress told the delegates how to organ ize a "Christianity trust" which he declared would sweep the forces of evil out of competition. He scored ministers who preach "flowery beds of ease" religions, rapped partisan de nominationalism and stepped outside his subject to take a fling at business men who are fattening their bank ac counts on the war in Europe, declar ing "The selfish materialism of our country stands in marked contrast to the spirit of the men and women in Europe pouring out their all on the altar of devotion." The City Ministers' association ad journed their regular meeting to hear Rockefeller, whose speech was stopped as the ministers filed Into the hall. Rockefeller twitted the ministers for coming late. "Evidently the ministers had a copy of my speech and timed their coming to get in after I had finished talking about them," he said. The convention roared. Hew Ifork Stock Market. Close of prices for the leailiug stocks on Tbe New York Stwk Kxeliunge us re ported by Tkua. J. Myers, Broker, Coiuui biuu UlOg.J New York, May 13. Cioae Am. Beet Sugar Am. n, c Am. Cnr A Fudy Am. Locomotive Am. S. e Am. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1916 are a most nourishing flour food f Uneeda Biscuit are the most nourishincf of soda crackers. Use them at meals for their food value jP Eat them between meals because r u IP M2 BISCUIT ?L M&SZ W COMPANY i ELEVENJiNSWER Capital Guards Meet First Time in 36 Years. They Will Attend Funeral f Comrade James Moore. For the first time in thirty-six years, the old Capital Guards met this morn ing for roll call. Kleven members re sponded in person or by proxy. The guards will attend the funeral of James Moore, who died Saturday. Mr. Moore was a second lieutenant in the original organization and continued active in the company until his work with the Santa Fe railway kept him from turning out. The guards will meet at 3:10 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the high schooi building. Kis?hth and Harrison streets, and will march to Grace Cathedral, where the services will be held at 3:30 o'clock. The interment will take place in Topeka cemetery. Several members of the Capital Guards from out of town are expected tomorrow. Del Valentine, now clerk of the Kansas supreme court, went to Kansas City today, and it is expected that he will bring C. V. Moore, first captain of the company, to Topeka to attend the funer-ii. Captain Moore is one of the best known members of the guard. He has been president of the Kansas City Stockyards company for many years. Other members from other towns who may attend are Frank t'atrick and H. C. Flowers of Kansas City; Frank Mileham and Hen ry W. Sharp, both of Newton, Kan. The meeting this morning was held at the office of J. A. Troutman and the roll was called by Sergeant A. E. Jones. Those who responded are: A. E. Jones. J A. Troutman, D. A. Val entine, Robert Fierce. Walter Bates, Geo. W. Veale, Peter Smith, D. D. Knox, J. M. Meade, V. H. Jenkins and C. A. Skinner. The Capital Guards were organized in 1878 under the name "Morse Rifles," primarily to protect the prop erty of the Santa Fe from damage Dy strikers. After the strike was over the. company reverted to a standard military company. The last meeting and roll call was in the month of Sep tember, 1880. OPERATORS GET RAISE! Telcsraphors for Western Vnloii and I on Pennsylvania. Lines Notified. Pittsburg, May 15. It became known here today that all telegrraph operators on the Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburg had been notified of a wage increase. The advance, it was stated, was individual and made ac cording to the merit of the men and their length of service. Many of the 300 Western Union operators whose wages were increased from 8 to 33 per cent were notified when they reported for work that the new rates were effective today. For others the increase was effective May 1. NORTONI FOR SENATE Prosrerve Leader Files Candidacy; Wayland for State Auditor. Jefferson City. May 15. Judge Al bert D. Norton! of St. Louis today filed hU official aaelnration with the secre tary of fltat a Progressive candidate for the United States senate. John T, wayiand of Kansas City filed as a Democratic candidate for state auditor. Aching Feet fton iPv. Contested Nerre Ik' .Surface C Houses -N t Si Infltwrd B kms' nd Cal-o-cide GIVES INSTANT RELIEF i cry t&msMPT PLOT, LIAISONCONFESSIONAL, GOLD AND WRONGED GIRL FIGURE IN CHICAGO SUIT r?sr. 4 Jr v Mrs. Anna L. Matters Mysteries, alleged liaisons, betrayed innocence, fake operations an- 1 explained sudden death, the powerful force of the confessional, perjury, entity conscience, foondline babies all this is woven in the testimony at a suit in Chicago at which an attempt Anna L Matters is not the mother of which she had hoped would help her dead husband. STORM WHIPS LAKES Shipping Suspended as 50 Mile Wind Piles Up Monster Waves. Duluth, Minn., May 15. Shipping 1 was at a standstill from the American head of the lakes this morning, northeast storm with a 48 to 55 mile wind whipping Lake Superior into the roughest sea of the navigation season. The government piers excepting the light house were out of sight under waves. Incoming captains reported the storm as extending only 100 miles east of Duluth, but unusuallly heavy. SOFTS ONJHE JOB Advance Guard In Chicago Planning Women's Party Campaign. Chicago. May 15. Early arrivals for the Woman's party convention, which will be held here at the same time as the F.epubiican and Progressive party national conventions, are in the city preparing to launch a campaign of -French-beel Strain Excess Swestiag and Bad Odor It acts through the pores and removes the cause by restoring the tissues to nor-1 mill the results are truly remarkable. Get a 25e package from any druggist;" be is authorized to refund muney to anyone not fully satisfied. r9teMn Cora. V Berwcea Toe "..ill lT (sketched in conrt). H is being made to show that Mrs. the baby which she calls hers, and j get possession of the property of her publicity and to complete the organi zation work for the convention. Miss Doris Stevens of Salt Lake City will head the organization work and will be assisted by a number of ether western women who have already ar rived. The suffragists say they will hold street meetings daily in Chicago until- the date of the convention. In adcition woman orators will make ad dresses at women's meetings, clubs, luncheons and even -at dances in an ef fort to bring the Susan B. Anthony amendment strongly before the women of the city. ARREST SOMN-LAW Grocer Held on Charge of Choking Couple to Ita til in Their Home. Murphysboro, 111., May 15. Paul Ferrandelle, a wholesale grocer of St. Louis, was arrested here today, to be held for investigation in connection with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ficorsiro here last Wednesday. The murdered couple were found in their home choked to death. The wife of Ferrandelle was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Picoraro. TO LET MORIARITY GO White Sox Will Send Veteran Infielder to Memphis, Report Says. Chicago, 111., May 15. George Mortality, veteran third baseman, is to be released to the Memphis South ern association club by the Chicago Americans and is slated to manage the Turtles according to a story printed here today. Moriarity's release will make room on the White Sox roster for Fred Mollwitz, Cincinnati first baseman. SILOAM LODGE NO. 225 Members requested to meet at Ma sonic Temple tomorrow 3 p. m. to at tend funeral of Brother James Moore. All Master Masons invited. VICTOR S. BOCTWELL, Adv. Master. ANTHONY FINDS KANSAS STRONG FORJIG ARMY Puts Ear to "Grass Roots" With 5,000 Inquiries by Mail. Of 3,500 Replies, 85 Per Cent Are Pro-Preparedness. FAVOR MILITARY TRAINING Nearly All in Fayor of Military Instruction for Youths. About 10 Per Cent Against Any Defense Measure at AIL Washington. May 15. Word from the "grass roots" back in Kansas dur ing the last week has astounded the delegation in congress from that state on the sentiment "back home" on the big issue of national preparedness. With Kansas held up constantly by the "peace-at-any-price" propagan dists as an example of a state stub bornly and solidly opposed to any form of defense legislation, and with its members of congress voting solidly for the small army plan of Chairman Hay, Representative Anthony of the Kirst Kansas district recently sent out five thousand letters through the state to ascertain Just how the people felt on the pending legislation. At Liest, Army of 175,000. The replies from those five thousand letters are still coming in. But a tab ulation of more than 3,500 replies al ready has set the Kansas delegation to thinking and wondering if they haven't sadly misjudged the true feeling and temper of the people of Kansas. Briefly, what the 3,500 answers showed is this: More than 85 per cent of the replies expressed a desire for an army of at least 175.000 men. More than 85 per cent said they favored some form of universal train ing so that the young men between the ages of 18 and 21 would have at least six months' training with the colors. They are against straightout compulsory service as existed in Ger many, but are outspoken for a modi fied form of universal training. Want Action on Mexico. While no question was asked about the Mexican situation, and it was not alluded to, the impatience of the peo ple of the middle west "at the uncer tain Mexican policy of the adminis tration was shown by probably 20 per cent of those answering the letters, who wrote across them or added at the bottom: "We think the United States ought to be doing something about Mexico." Many were even more outspoken in their expression that the present pol icy wasn't getting results and that it was time the United States did some thing and exhibited more firmness. About 10 per cent of the answers were against any preparedness pro gram at all. Anti-Preparedness Propaganda. When congress met, as a result of an organized propaganda, the mem bers from Kansas were deluged with letters opposing the preparedness pro gram. Some of the members were nearly "scared out of their boots" at the thought of voting for even the moderate programs for the army and navy proposed. That was several months ago. After seeing some of the hundreds of re plies Representative Anthony is re ceiving and realizing the character of men they are from and how truly the letters are reflecting the real senti ment of Kansas, the delegation here, or some of the members at least, are looking upon the preparedness bills in a different light. Representative Anthony, himself, has opposed the small army of 14- 000 men. He has also opposed the army of 250,000 men. But in stand ing for the 175,000 men finally agreed upon in conference, he has been away ahead of some of the other members of the delegation and has been criti cized for his course. $20,000 FIRE AT LILLIS Only Three Business Buildings Left In Little Kansas Town. Lillis. Kan., May 15. Fire which. early Sunday morning, swept through Commercial street practically wiped out the business district here. The building occupied bv the John Murphy general merchandise and hardware store; the Brady building occupied by Fred Seimer's harness shop and the Snyder building occupied, by the fam ily of J. P. Redmond, cashier of the Lallis State bank, are practically a to tal loss. The three structures adjoined each other and were the largest in the town. The damage is estimated at 920,000. A barber shop, a general store and the bank are the only business build ings remaining In the city. Three years ago, fire destroyed all the build ings on the south side of the street. They were not rebuilt. TAFT IS A WITNESS Called to Testify as to the Good Char, actor of C. C. Glover. Washington, May 15. Former President Taft was first today on the witness list in the perjury trial of three officers of the Higgs National bank called as a character witness to testify in behalf of the bank's presi dent, C. C. Glover, one of the Indicted men. The case of the prosecution has not been made but it agreed to a request by counsel for the defense to allow one witness to- testify at this time. HIS LOVFTGREVi COLD Nellie I.. Blazier Asks for a Iivorce From Iler Husband. Because he is alleged to have failed to show any real love and affection and on the contrary abused and threatened to strike her. Nellie L. Blazier brought suit for divorce in the district court today from Harry Blazier. She states In her petition that they were married July 12. 1906, and live in Highland Park. She states that Blazier has failed and refused to show her any affection; that he abused her and threatened to strike her and on one occasion threatened to kill her; that he has left home on more than one occasion and remained away for several days without giving any good excuse. Mrs. Blazier lists the property the couple own and asks for an equal di vision of all the real estate and all of the household goods and other per sonal property. She also asks for a restraining order that will keep Bla zier away from her home and for an absolute divorce. $10 HOMRRIVES Breaks All May Records When Tops Sell for $10.08. Steers at $9.50 and Lambs at $12 Also Records. Kansas City, May 1 5. The best hogs sold for $10.05 or. the local market to day, which is the highest ever paid here in the month of May and the highest this year, with light hogs, reg istering J 9. 9 5, also establshng a new record for the month of May. In the cattle pens, Colorado steers brought $9.50, wheh is the highest price-for' the year 191 at the local yards. New records in sheep quotations were established when western winter fed lambs sold for $12.10 and western winter fed clipped lambs brought $10.25. The goat market also was ac tive, fat Texas goats bringing $6.10, which is a record price, and "brusher" goats sold at $5.65, also a record. MUTUAL SUES GLUFF In Endeavor to Prevent His Working for Another laundry. Lester Cluff quit work for the Mu tual Laundry company and went to work for the College Hill laundry to day. The Mutual has brought suit in the district court to enjoin him from working for the College Hill or any other laundry in Topeka for a period of one year. The plaintiff asks for a temporary injunction to operate until the case can come to trial on the re quest for a permanent injunction. If the temporary order is granted Cluff will have a job at which he can not work. If the permanent injunc tion is granted he cannot work at the laundry business in Topeka for a year, unless he works for the Mutual, and the filing of the suit indicates that the terms between him and the Mu tual are not such as to make that probable. The suit is based upon an alleged contract entered into between Cluff and the laundry. The petition states that because of the stiff competition between laundries in Topeka the Mu tual some time ago required all of its employees to sign agreements or con tracts binding both the laundry and the employees. A copy of the Cluff-Mutual contract is made a part of the petition. In it, it is set forth that for a period of one year Cluff is not to enter the employ of any other laundry in Topeka or to go into the laundry business for him self. He is not to do either of those things within a year after he leaves the employ of the Mutual. But, says the petition, Cluff did leave its employ and did go to work for the College Hill laundry at once, taking a route that covered part of his old route. It states it would be use less to bring a civil suit for damages for the season that he has no prop erty and that in lieu of a civil suit the only recourse the Mutual laundry has is through an injunction that will pre vent Cluff from working for the com petitor. SUES A. 0. U, W. LODGE Widow Claims Insurance Should tie Paid Her, Not Sister. The A. O. U. W. lodge is being sued for $2,000 by Mrs. Letitia Maddern in a case on trial today in the second division of the district court. The deceased husband of Mrs. Mad dern had an insurance policy in the lodge, of which she was the benefi ciary. A short time before his death he transferred the policy to a sister. When he died the amount due was paid to the sister. Mrs. Maddern is suing the order for the whole amount on the ground that her husband was insane at the time of the transfer and was not competent to make it. NEW PLAN FOR FRISCO Stockholders Will Try Hard at Reor ganization. Jefferson City, May 15. The state public service commission was notified today that a new plan for reorganiz ing the St. Louis San Francisco rail way would be submitted to it for ap proval the latter part of this month. The notification was served by Sam Laze r us of St. Louis, a largo stock holder in the road. The commission gave him the tentative date of May 29, for the hearing. It is understood his plan will be one prepared by the stockholders, a proposal by the bond holders having recently been rejected by the commission. OPENED FOREST LAND Half Million Acres in Arizona May Be Homesteaded. Washington, May 15. President Wilson today made available to entry of homesteaders, more than half a million acres of land in the Dixie Na tional forest in Arizona. About one fourth of the area already has been filed on by forest homesteaders. The land withdrawn is in Mojave county and described as valuable for grazing purposes. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the i Signature of BIG TIMEJOMIfIG Ho One Attempts Prediction on G. O. P. Convention. Democrats and Progresses One-Candidate Parties. 18 POSSIBILITIES LOOM UP Await Oregon Primary to Show Hughes Strength. Expect Old-Fashioned, Rip Roaring Battle at Chicago. BY PERRY ARNOLD. New York, May 15. In less than one month will come the cheers, the blare of bands, the tumult of shout ing, the scheming of leaders heralding the opening of that quadrennial talk fest the national conventions. The Republican and Progressives conclave will come to- order on Wed nesday, June 7, in Chicago the for mer at the Coliseum, the latter at the Auditorium. A week later will come the remocratic meet at St. Louis. In the Republican and Progressive camp not a leader is making any thirty day predictions as to what may happen. The Progressives are practically a unit for Roosevelt but they are standing pat awaiting developments before making any admissions as to their re turn to the Republican fold. The Re publicans are hopeful of "smoking out" Justice Hughes when the Oregon primaries of May 19 shall have estab lished a line on his strength. His name will be before primary voters in that state because of a court ruling and de spite the justice's own protest. In the meantime eighteen candidates, recep tive or not, are looking, conscious when the presidential nomination is mentioned in their presence the eigh teen include: 18 Candidates. Hughes, Roosevelt, Burton, Weeks, Cummins, Borah. Ford, Fairbanks, Estabrook, General Dupont, General Leonard Wood, Governor Brumbaugh of Pennsylvania, ex-Governor Had ley of Missouri, Governor Johnson of Cal ifornia, P. C. Knox, Senator Sherman and Senator Harding. National Chairman Hilles expects to call the sub-committee on arrange ments of the national committee to gether about June 3. This committee will discuss perma nent chairman as will a meeting of the full national committee to be held probably June 6. No contests really amounting to anything are expected in the delegations so there will be an utter absence of the bitterness and strife which marked the pre-conven-tion days of 1 9 12. But judging from gossip of political leaders here, the convention itself will develop a first class, old-time, free- for-all, anybody's fight sort of a bat tle of the ballots. The very fact that there is almost an unprecedented number of "those mentioned" for the nomination, indicates the politicians here say, considerable Jockeying and probably several ballots. Big Contest Thursday. In all probability all the Republi can convention will do on June 7, is to meet, organfze and listen to the opening speech by National Chairman Hilles. Then adjournment will be taken until Thursday, when Senator Hardin of Ohio, temporary chairman, will deliver his "keynote address." This will take up the greater part of the day and it is probable the con vention will adjourn until Friday. The resolutions committee, however, may be ready to report its draft of a plat form Thursday afternoon, in which case the convention will probably im mediately get down to the work of approving it. From all indications, the convention will adopt a platform be fore choosing a candidate. On Friday will come the battle of the votes for the standard bearers. Probably it will be a long session and the general belief here is that a brief session Saturday will be required to round up the convention proceedings by naming of a vice presidential nom inee. White to Meet Mitchell. Milwaukee, Wis., May 15. Charlie White, of Chicago, and Richie Mitch ell, of Milwaukee, lightweight boxers, today signed articles to meet in Mil waukee in a ten-round, no decision contest May 29, the weight to be 135 pounds at 5 p. m. A New Cap, Sir? Pick your style and choose your color from the extensive showing I have. Tou will find Just the shape and style that you are looking for. And you know how satisfactory it is to get a cap you'll like, and one that you'll look good in, too. I have The Season's Newest Styles and Shades and selection is easy when you come here. So if you need a new cap. Sir, come to Galitzky's and find one you'll like. 50c and $1 L S. GALJTZKY BARGAIN SQUARE (Annex Bridge) Today and tomorrow the domestic department will offer un usual bargains. Do not miss them. 10c Bleached Muslin. 36 inch, a yard 8 Ho 10c Unbleached Muslin, 40 inch, a yard .i,......8!SCi 12 c Bleached Muslin, 36 inch, a yard ....10c 124c Bleached Pillow Cases, 42x36, .each. ...10c Two specials in Bed Spreads, each ..'..$1.19 and $1.38 As Befits Such a Proud Occasion We Announce "BABY DAYS" of Spring, 1916 ,,v From Monday, May 15th, to Saturday, May 20th, tnclOHlre with confidence that it will prove the helpful and enjoyable event that it was planned to be. We are almost as proud of this "Baby-wear" Store as mothers are of their own babies and, Just as mothers think about their little onea, we think there is nothing too pood, and no work too much trouble to make this "Baby-wear" Store the most wonder- ful place of its kind in all Kansas. s From simple little baby bands to most elaborate layettes, fit for any little prince or princess that was ever born, this Baby wear Store shows evidence of its Spring Readiness to help moth ers plan Spring Outfits in any part or complete for the finest baby in all the world.' Balloons Free to the Kiddies Hundreds of them in bright colors, are waiting to delight the little folks of 6 years and under who visit our store with mother or some adult escort during "Baby Days." Come and Join in the Jubilee of laughter that these balloons make for the "lit tle ones." Free to Mothers Booklet "Save the Babies" Given on request: also ask for the Kansas State Board of Health pamphlets on baby care and pro tection. mEdith Lacy I Cosyrichted 1014 'V SZ The Saving on a $5 Grocery Order Shows for itself. Take ad vantage of this big opportun ity to save. Free delivery. Mall orders riven prompt attention. 16 lbs. Cane Sugar $1 (with $4.00 order of other roods) 48-lb. Sack Flour $1.35 (with $4.00 order of other good.) Banquet. Perfection, Big 4 White lrfMf. Tuesday Specials NEW POTATOES Fancy large southern, peck, 55c lb. 4e STRAWBERRIES Choire Arkansas, full quarts 10e CHEESE White Wisconsin fine lb.. tic SALMON Fancy lied, 20c value can SALMON Fancy Pink, 13c value can MILK 3c cans, 7 for 25c, dozen 43c C'OFFKE Fresh roasted, a real 30c value, lb RADISH KK 6 bunches e: Aspara- gus. :i bunches loc ROASTS Pork Loin, fresh, lb lse EGGS Fresh t'onntry, dozen... i2e ORANGES Fancy upland, Stiekist, dozen see PIE PLANT i lbs. for CORNFLAKES Monarch, special. a pkga. CATSUP Good quality. 3 bottles. .23c CHIC rr.r.o "Just risht for the little chicken." 88-lb. sack. a value so: TABLE SYRCP 10-lb. cans S5c COMPOtXD Special price In 10 lb. lota HAMS Wolff's finest cure. bar- gain, about 10 lb. average. Ib SOe SOAP Lenox, a good laundry soap. 10 large bars zst LEMONS 20c size, dozen le MATCHES 5c pkgs., 5 pkga 15e CIDER VINEGAR al!on t3c COFFEE Fresh roasted. 20e value lb SPRING ONIONS 3 bunchea e BEEF HEARTS Fresh, lb. BACON BRISKETS Fine cure. extra good value, at. lb... ...2e WIENERwrRSTS and FKANKFECBTEKS, ib 1ZH PEANL'T BUTTER Fresh, Ib lt BOILING BEEF Plate, choice quality beef, lb 10c BREAKFAST BACON Squares. lb He WHITE SOAP for the laundry. special, 8 bars torn FLOl'R The Kecal (our own brand), 48-lb. aack SUM IraserBros llL, l---lgajPoaL''iy Phono as Southeast Corner Sixth and Jackson Read the State Journal of The Topeka Public Health Nursing Association, will be the Infants' Department every afternoon during the week from 3 to 5 o'clock, and will tell the mothers Just how to care for their babies (all about dressing, feeding, sleep and exercise.) Miss Lacy will gladly answer questions from the mothers rela tive to the care of babies and demonstrate the proper clothing, etc. Why Not Save More Babies In Kansas than in any Other State? Wic'come to "Baby Day" with itt many hmlpM and economic II A Few Specials For Tomorrow of Special Interest to .You Fresh Country Eggs, dozen. 20c 2 lbs. Fine Gran ulated Sugar. 4 lbs. Fine New Evap. Peaches. Fancy Carpet Broom; 65c value. 25c 49c Very fine White Cheese, 25c to 30c oa value ,-UC Our Fine Bread 3 for 10c, 4c and. Fine Bright Ba nanas dozen. 8c 12 c 1 25c value Fresh Choco jlate Wafers; special all jthisweek, Ifir pound. .1"C i IRed River Potatoes, ta ble quality, j bushel $1.20 j Most every item in the store at cut prices every ;day in the week. I Phone Orders 4198 206 V.. 4th. 1111 Kaiuas Ave. 9XiSrf 10t)4 N. Kansas Ave. 'o S05 West 10th. BllSy 101S West Bth St. c 1414 West lStlii aiores a tvabsKh. 1401 East 6th. 17th nd Clay. EJ

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