The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
May 26, 1916

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JJALr Uic pleasure of warm weather is the anticipation or a cool spcil. W1 'BATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Generally fair tonight and Satur day; cooler tonight. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1916 TWELVE PAGES HOME EDITION THIS EDITION 2 CENTS TAFT URGES U. S. TO JOIN A WORLD COURT FOR PEACE Former President Explains More to League Today. Deals With Legal Questions and Avoids War Talk. NO AMENDMENT IS NECESSARY Present Constitution Permits Membership, Says Speaker. Would Not Curtail Power of President and Congress, Washington, May 26. The object of the League to Enforce Peace is not to urge President Wilson to take steps to stop the present war, former Presi dent Taft. president of the league, de clared today in opening its two day sessions. "We are not here," he said, "to urge upon President Wilt-on steps to stop the present war. Not that we are not hopeful that such steps may be taken and not that we do not look with the greatest satisfaction on any indications that the war is to come to an end, but we believe that a definite purpose, a purpose with limi tations for an association like this is much more likely to be realized than a general platform for the benefit of humanity." The league hoped, Mr. Taft said, for a world agreement on a method to make war less probable. "We are met," he continued, "to hear the various proposals. These pro posals are a working hypothesis which we wish to present to the people of the United States for their support, so that those who represent us in an in ternational conference may know that the good people of the United States, in a majority are back of them." Washington, May 26. Acceptance of mombprship by the United States in a world court In which the joint powers would use their armed and economic forces to enforce its decrees in the interest of international peace was urged today by former President Taft, before the League to Enforce Peace, of which he is president. While Mr. Taft urged the future formation of such a world court he refrained from discussing the causes of the present war or the part this nation may play in attaining peace. His address was closely confined to the technical legal Questions involved injoinder by the United States in such an international tribunal. He denied j that such action would curtail the i power and authority of either the i president or congress by limiting the constitutional discretion of the latter body to declare war. j Mr. Taft explained that the league's platform proposes compulsory sub mission to the world court of an in ternational dispute not settled by diplomatic negotiation and which are justifiable questions. Referring to the so-called Bryan peace treaties with England and Prance, Mr. Taft said it was argued that the arbitration stip ulation in them was a delegation of authority of the presiden and senate tContiiitien frm rage unci WANTS BABY BACK Acquitted, Mrs. Matters news Fight for Child. Re- Fail to Convict Trio of Foisting Heir on Estate. Chicago, May 26. The fight Miss Margaret Ryan of Ottawa, Ont., is making for the child she claims is hers, and which Mrs. Anna Dollie Ledgerwood Matters acquitted last night on charges of conspiracy to foist a spurious heir, on the probate court, declares is hers, will come up next Wednesday in the United States court. Judge Land is allowed a con tinuance when the case came up to day. The hearing today was under a writ of habeas corpus sought by Margaret Ryan, who claims that she and not Mrs. Matters gave birth to the baby in dispute. Upon application of the attorneys for the prosecution, the defendants must again face trial on charges of perjury and fraudulently producing an heir. This trial has been set for May 29. Tried to Get Husband's Estate. The trial of Mrs. Anna Dolly Ledger wood Matters. Charles T. Mellon and Harry Edwards arose from an effort to obtain control of the entire estate of the late husband of Mrs. Matters, Frederick Matters, a banker and mov ing picture theater owner, through the alleged imposition of a spurious posthumous heir on the probate court. There were two hearings in the po bate court. On the first occasion Dr. L. C. Emile Reroard and Miss Des Rosieres. obstetrician and nurse, re spectively, of the Misericordia hos pital. Ottawa, Ont., where the alleged posthumous heir was born, testified that Mrs. Matters had give birth to a child Ireane. Confessed to Perjury. James Matters, a brother of the de cedent, contested the claim and last December the doctor and the nurse confessed to Judge Horner, of the pro bate court that they perjured them selves when the swore that Mrs. Mat ters gave birth to h child in the Ot tawa hospital. They asserted the child in question was born to Jessie Bryan, whose real name is Margaret Ryan. She testified that she was told that her baby was dead. She said she believed the father of her baby had gone to the war. Indictments followed the confessions of perjury. Dr. Beroard and Miss Des Rosieres were jointy indicted with the defendants, but proved to be the state's chief witnesses and it is ex pected they will be given immunity. The trial began May 1 and the jury was o( m dieted May 10. KANSAS TRIAL ISSTARTED Testimony Opens in Archie Sweet Murder Case. Court Room Moxed to High School to Hold Crowd. Syracuse, Kan., May 26. Opening statements by both counsel for state and defense were made here late Thursday In the trial of Archie Sweet, charged with the murder of Miss Nel lie Byers, Grant county school teach er, on October 22 of last year. It was expected that the state would begin the introduction of evidence when court convenes today. The Sweet jury, which was taken in motor cars to the scene of the crime, arrived here late after a twenty-four hour trip. New testimony was expected to be introduced both by the state and the defense. Because of the intense in terest shown here in the case, court was adjourned today for a short time and the courtroom was moved to the auditorium of the high school with a seating capacity of eight hundred. ASK T. R. TO LAWRENCE Douglas County Would Hear Colonel Speak on Americanism. Lawrence. Kan., May 2 6. When Theodore Roosevelt comes west next week he will speak before city audiences on Americanism andpre paredness. He is scheduled to talk at Kansas City Memorial Day. Believing that Colonel Roosevelt would like also to give his views to an audience of country people, the Plain Citizen club. of Douglas county has invited the former president of the United States to speak at Lawrence the day following his Kansas City ad dress. If the invitation is accepted, it is planned to have the address in Wood land park, where there will be room enough for the whole county to gather. There is no question that a great j throng would gather in Lawrence to j welcome Mr. Roosevelt and to listen i to his address. Reprieve for Bulger. Denver, May 26. James C. Bulger, under sentence to be hanged this week for the killing of L. F. Xicodemua, has been granted a thirty day reprieve by Governor Carlson to the week be ginning June 18. AMERICAN FLIER BAGS FOKKER AT VERDUN BATTLE Paris, May 26. Lieut. William Thaw of the Franco-American avia tion corps shot down a Fokker aero plane in the region of Verdun yester day, it was learned here today. j Lieutenant Thaw has been decor l ated twice and twice cited in the or- ders of the day for daring exploits in the air. On April 11 he brought down his first German aeroplane at Verdun. On May 21, he was proposed for cita- tion for driving an enemy aeroplane across the German line and compell j ing it to descend. INVASION OF NEW NO CEREMONY HAD HE KNOWN BRIDE WAS EVELYN THAW Baltimore. May 26. "I had no idea I was marrying Evelyn Thaw and Jack Clifford," said the Rev. J. X. Edward Snyder, pastor of Empory Methodist Episcopal church, Ellicott City, when asked regarding the secret wedding. "If I had known who she was," Mr. Snyder intimated, "there would have been no ceremony. She gave her name as Florence Nesbit, which, I understand, is her real name, while the man said he was Virgil James Montani. "I was very much surprised on learning this morning that it was the former Mrs. Thaw and Clifford whom I had married." A TRIPLETRAGEDY Salesman Killed Wife and Shot the "Other Man." Skinner Can't Recoyer; Suicide Followed Double Murder. Battle Creek, Mich., May 26. A triple tragedy involving two. of the wealthiest families in the city occurred at 11 o'clock Thursday night. Douis Werstein, son of a wealthy wholesale liquor dealer, shot and fatally wound ed Will H. Skinner, son of B. T. Skin ner, a director of the Advance Rumely Thresher company. Werstein then went home and shot his wife, Margaret Duffy Werstein, as she lay in bed, and the nshot himself. Both the Wersteins are dead. Skin ner will -not recover. Werstein had lain in wait for Skin ner and shot him just after he had arrived from Chicago. Skinner and Mrs. Werstein had been seen much in each other's company recently. Mr. Werstein was an accom plished pianist, a pupil of the"- great Leschetizky. Skinner was also an amateur musician. TO SMOKE HUGHES OUT Wisconsin Delegates Have Plan They Hope Will Work. Milwaukee, Wis., May 26. -The I Wisconsin anti-LaFollette delegates to j the Republican national convention have taken a step which is expected to result in forcing a statement from j Justice Hughes on his attitude toward j the presidential nomination. The 11 conservative delegates voted I to cast their ballots for Hughes, if his position on national policies is i satisfactory-" j It is presumed that this action will be understood as a delicate a sugges tion to Hughes that he ought to de clare himself, that he make some kind of a statement through friends of his attitude toward various problems of the day. The Wisconsin delegates do not want to have their action taken as anything but the most friendly step toward his candidacy, but they be lieve the manner in which this sug gestion of a statement is phrased will make it possible for him to declare himself without being in. the position he so much fears of involving the su preme bench in politics. YORK T.R. TO COME OUT? Roosevelt May Declare Stand at Oyster Bay Saturday. IV Hughes Is Eliminated, Say Many Republican Adherents. Oyster Bay, May 26. Arrange ments are being made by the Repub lican pilgrims, expected here on Sat urday, to tell Colonel Roosevelt that there is a united movement through out the country for his nomination on the Republican ticket. It is believed that ihe delegation will be largo and the residents are preparing to make the visit a sort of pre-convention noti fication meeting. Colonel Roosevelt is to make an ad dress and it is expected that it will be one of his most important utterances. It is hinted that he will leave no doubt as to his attitude, now that Justice Charles E. Hughes has persisted in his refusal to talk about preparedness. Many Roosevelt adherents say that Hughes is eliminated and that the time for him to speak is past. Coming as it does a few hours before Colonel Roosevelt starts for Chicago. Kansas City and St. Louis Sunday afternoon, the rally at Sagamore Hill will mark the beginning of the battle. From that moment there will be "something do ing" every minute until convention time. The word "silence" will be de leted from the colonel's lexicon. Mr. Roosevelt worked Thursday on his addresses for the tour and talked preparedness with Mary Roberts Rinehart, the writer. Mrs. Rinehart said that "cyclonic" was a word she had put down in her notebook to be used later in a description of the way the colonel passed the day and treated the stream of visitors who sought in- t terviews. WAS ITSUICIDE? Kansan in 3fgvy Electrocuted in Power House. Commander of IT. S. Destroyer Grabs Live Wires. Sag Harbor, L. I., May 26. Lieut. Clarence Alvin Richards, cdmmander of the United States destroyer Fan ning, was instantly killed by an elec tric shock in the station of the Sag Harbor Light and Power company here early today. Harry D. Christian, nightwatchman at the station, said it appeared to him that the lieutenant deliberately committed suicide by tak ing hold of two heavily charged wires. Lieutenant Richards was ao- j pointed to the navy from Kansas and j was 34 years old. i The Fanning was one of a fleet of war vessels which has been maneuver ing ir. Gardiner's bay, making head quarters here, but the vessels were under orders to leave for Newport at 3 a. m. Why Lieutenant Richards j was ashore after the sailing time is unknown. Christian said the Lieutenant came to the power station two hours before the fleet was to sail and said he was a government inspector. He pushed Christian aside and, walking into the station, picked up two wires, receiving the shock that killed him Lieut. J. C. Jennings, commanding the shore station, who took charge of j the body, declined to give any ir.for i matien other than he would report to the navy department. FIVE HUNDRED KANSANS GOING TO CONVENTION Largest Jayhawker Delegation in History to Chicago. Erery Well Known Republican and Moose Leader Will Go. WOMEN WILL LOOK ON, TOO Fair Kansans Will Participate in the Big Parade. Committeeman Swamped With Demand for Tickets. Probably 500 Kansans will go to Chicago in June a majority of them with a-more or less vain hope that they will be able to land tickets from some imaginary or unknown sources and attend the Republican and Pro gressive national conventions. It will probably be the biggest crowd Kansas ever sent to a convention city. Al most every well known Republican and "Progressive leader in the state will go to' the convention and several hundred citizens and patriots from the ranks will add materially to the number of Kansans who will try to see the big show. j Beginning with the middle of next i week Kansas politicians will begin their pilgrimage to the scene of polit- ical activities. Nearly all of the po- litical leaders secured hotel reserva- tions weeks ago. The sight-eeing 1 crowd, however, was less thoughtful. Many of them will "wait until their ar rival in Chicago before they look for sleeping quarters. All of which will probably mean that Kansas will con tribute her share of pilgrims who will seek sleep and rest in chairs in the ho tel lobbies. Fred B. Stanley of Wichita, Repub lican national committeeman for this state, has been swamped with de- ma rids for tickets to the Republican national convention. He has recorded requests from several hundred Kan sas men and women who desire to see the big shrrw and it is probable that a majority tof them will be disappoint ed, as the demand fcr tickets is far in excess of the allotment. Interest in the presidential fight has attracted both men and women from every dis trict in the state. Many Women Gotng. The big suffrage demonstration In Chicago, during convention week is at tracting many suffrage workers from this state A majority of the women who expect to participate in the parade have also made demand on delegates or on the national com mitt e roan for tickets Demands for tickets is not confined to the Republican convention. William Allen White, Progressive national committeeman, is also having trouble. First the state increased her number of delegates from thirteen to thirty four. All of them have declared they will go to the convention. Most of the alternates are also going. They are assured tickets and there is no desire to miss the Bull Moose circus, when a faithful who has landed a delegate or alternate's job is assured a good seat. Nearly all of the members of the Republican delegation to Chicago will make their headquarters at the Grand Pacific hotel. Reservations for fifteen of the twenty delegates have been made at this hotel. The official head quarters of the Republican delegation from Kansas, however, will be main tained at the Auditorium hotel. Progressives will establish head quarters in the LaSalle hotel. Nearly the entire hotel was leased by George W. Perkins and will be the official headquarters of the Bull Moosers dur ing their convention. So intense us the interest in the na tional conventions, that almost every Kansas politician who can possibly arrange his affairs will attend. Fred J B. Stanley, present national commit teeman, and D. W. Mulvane of To peka, former national committeeman. will leave early next week for Chicago. Mulvane will stay at the Congress as will Governor Capper, who expects to leave for the convention a few days before the official opening June 7. A number of the state officials may accompany the Kansas crowd. W. E. Davis, state auditor, and Earl Akers, state treasurer, are planning to attend. J. T. Botkin, secretary of state may go. One of the men most widely known in Kansas politics is Morton Albaugh of Topeka. Albaugh is a recognized political wizard but in all his years of activity in the game, he has never seen a national convention. This year, however, he is finding it difficult to resist the temptation and Albaugh may be among the crowd at the big show. Nearly all of the political writers for Kansas newspapers will attend both the Progressive and Republican conventions and will go to St. Louis for the Democratic convention which opens June 14. In addition to the reservations at press tables for regu lar political writers, spaces will be reserved for William Allen White, Henry J. Allen and several other well known writers of the state who will "do" the presidential fight for syndi cates or publications which have di rectly engaged their services. SEEK RED CROSS RECOGNITION IN U. S. ARMY BILL Washington. May 26. Plans for the organization of a military relief de partment of the American Red Cross were discussed with President Wil son today by Miss Mabel Board man of the Red Cross. Shi- aske that he detail five army doctors to have charge of the work untler authority granted, in the' Hay Chamberlain army bill. FIGHT SOLDIERS IN A JOOD RIOT Frankfort-on-the-Main Scene of Wild Tprising. 350 Women Raid Shop When Told "So Meat." "DOWN WITH THE EMPEROR" Woman Shouting It Arrested; 18 Wonnded. Female Mob Carried Black Flags and Sang. London. May 26. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company says that 18 women were wounded in a fight between police and food rioters at Frankfort-on-the-Main Wednesday night according to a dis patch received at The Hague. The riot is said to have started1 ow ing to a shortage of meat in the local butcher shop. Three hundred and fifty women who had been told there was no meat for them marched through streets carrying black famine flags and singing socialistic songs. The women forced their way into one butchershop although it was guarded by soldiers and policemen. After a search they found some meat which they cut up and continued their march holding the pieces above their heads. Police attempted to take the meat from the women and a gen eral fight followed in which the offi cers used their swords. One woman was arrested for shout: ing "Down with the emperor." A local paper which referred to the af fair was ordered suspended for two months. KILL VILLA CHIEF Attacks IT. S. Road Engineers and Is Slain. One American Killed and Two Wonnded in Fray. Field Headquarters Near Kamiqui pa, Mexico, May 26. Candelario Cer vantes, the Villa bandit leader, was killed by American troops south of Cruces today. Cervantes' end came after he had made a surprise attack south of Cru ces on a detachment of engineers, re pairing the motor truck road. He was beaten back and pursued into the hills by the engineers who had been rein forced by a detachment of the Seventh infantry. One other Mexican, Jose Bencorne, and one American were killed. Two Americans were wounded. Ilulett Killed Both Bandits. Private George O. Hulett was the hero of the fighting. He brought down both of the bandits killed. Cervantes's home is at Namiquipa. He has been a thorn in the side of the army in northern Chihuahua ever since the expedition began. His death probably means the breaking up of the Villa bands in this section. Second to Villa. San Antonio, May 26. Mexico Candelario Cervantes, styled by Gen eral Funston today as "Second in im portance only to Villa," was killed yesterday in a skirmish near Cruces. The American loss was Corporal Davis Marksbury, killed, and Privates George F. Nicholson and George Hu lett, wounded. Jose Bencorne was another Mexican killed. The re mainder of the band was pursued and dispersed. General Pershing reported that sev en men of the machine gun company of the Seventeenth infantry, two en gineers and an employee of the quar termaster department were six miles southeast of Cruces, when attacked yesterday by 20 Mexicans under Cer vantes. The Americans had been looking for cattle and correcting road maps when the Mexicans appeared. The ten Americans fought the Mexi cans for 45 minutes. After their lead er fell, the Mexicans retreated and were followed into the hills by the de tachment of cavalry that arrived from Cruces. General Pershing appeared elated by the success of his men in disposing of Cervantes, who he said, was im plicated in the Columbus raid and had been an active bandit. PRESIDENT MAY SPEAK Wilson Will Attend Banquet of Peace League Saturday Night. Washington. May 26. President Wilson has confided to his advisers, it was learned today that he hopes to make an address before the League to Enforce Peace here tomorrow night. That will be of importance in con nection with peace. While he is ex pected to deal primarily with a dis cussion of methods of maintaining peace after the European war has ended, it is understood he will also touch upon the immediate situation abroad. The president will sit through the banquet of the league at which he will speak, instead of following his usual custom of arriving just in time for the speaking. He wants to learn as much as possible about the purpose of the organization as he agrees with its general object of forming a league of nations, backed y a common police force to maintain the peace of the world. Storm Kills Three. Philadelphia, Pa., May 26. Three lives were lost, many persons were in jured and much property was dam aged in a severe electrical and hail storm that swept over eastern Penn sylvania and southern New Jersey. ALL MINISTERS MUST GIVE UP TOBACCO HABIT Atlantic City, N. J., May 26. The general Presbyterian assembly has voted unanimously to prohibit the use of tobacco by ministerial candidates and members of the boards. Whether Presbyterian seminaries shall be per mitted to teach that Christ's birth was not a miracle, or that there was no resurrection, was laid over for an other year by the general assembly at an earlier session. NOW ISJHE TIME Roosevelt Republican Commit tee Sends Out an Appeal. Asks Every National Delegate to vote tor r. K. IT HAS MANY ASSURANCES Those From Favorite Son States for the Colonel After the Complimentary Vot ing1 Has Been Done- New York, May 26. The Roosevelt Republican committee has sent an ap peal to every delegate to the Chicago convention to support Colonel Roose velt for the presidency. Chairman George von L.. Meyer, in explaining why the appeal was made, said: "The work of our committee has been to bring home to each Republi can delegate the great opportunity that the Republican party has at this time to perioral a real service to the country by nominating Colonel Roose velt. A large number of delegates from favorite son states have assured me that they are ready to support Colonel Roosevelt as soon as they have cast a complimentary vote for their candidate. "These delegates realize the present critical situation calls for a national figure and are prepared to act on this at the proper time." NO PEACE MOVE Wilson Noncommittal to Call ers Urging Action.' Looks With Favor on Inviting Nations to Confer. Washington, May 26. President Wilson told callers today that the in tervention of a neutral in behalf of peace in Europe could rest only on a mutual understanding by the bellig erents, that terms to be arranged are to conserve the interests of all, and of the world at large, rather than those of a particular nation or group of na tions among the warring powers. Mr. Wilson did not disclose any dfinite plan of action he may have formulated in regard to peace, nor authorize a formal statement of his attitude. Mr. Wilson pointed out to his call ers that there are many elements in the situation in Europe all of which must be taken into account in con sideration of peace proposals. While he is eager to see the conflict ended as soon as possible the White House visitors were able to gather no im pression that a move by the United States to bring it about is at least in immediate prospect. Discusses Hr-nsloy Bill. Representative Hensley of Missouri, discussed with Mr. Wilson his amend ment to the naval bill adopted by the naval committee authorizing the president to invite other nations to participate In a conference at the close of the war with the object of setting up a court or other tribunal to settle international disputes. Mr. Hensley told the president he believed this amendment made the naval bill as assurance to foreign nations that the United States was arming for de fense only not for offensive I'Urpose and was ready to enter into an agree ment to settle international disputes amicably. The president did not commit him self definitely on the adoption but Hensley gained the impression hat he was favorable to the general prin ciples involved- GOOL WAVE COMING The Temperature Has Dropped in Western Part of Kansas. Hourly temperature readings fur- .84 .82 nisned ty tne weather bureau: 7 o'clock .74 8 o'clock .78 11 o'clock 12 o'clock 9 o'clock 81 10 o'clock .82 1 o'clock .79 2 o'clock 9 Temperatures today averaged 10 degrees above normal. The wind blew at the rate of 12 miles an hour from the northwest. The maximum velo city last night was 25 miles from the south. Warm weather prevailed over Kan sas last night and it was the warmest at Topeka this season. There is a pos sibility for a thunder shower before night, said S. D. Flora, local weather observer, but tonight and Saturday will be fair, and Cooler than todav. Tne cool weather was expected to ar rive Dy tnis evening as temperatures were lower in the western part of ifce state this morning. No rain has fail en anywhere in Kansas in the past -:4 hcurs. Today, according to the temperj ture readings, was not so warm as yes trrday, but the humidity was so reaf as to make the day uncomfortable. The lowest temperature this morning was 72 degrees at 6 o'clock. This is the average minimum for the middle of summer. The highest reading yes terday was 88 degrees or 5 degrees be low the record mark. The forecast calls for generally fair (Continued cb Page Two J WAITE DESTROYS OWN DEFENSE ON WITNESS STAND Is Not Pleading Insanity; Isn't Crazy, He Says. Women Excluded From Court Room on His Request. "I WANTED THEIR MONEY!" Arch Poisoner Confesses on Trial Without Tremor. His Plot Was to Murder Three, Including His Wife. New York, May 26. Dr. Arthur W. Waite told an alienist engaged for his defense in his trial for the murder of John E. Peck, the Grand Rapids mil lionaire, that he had intended to kin his wifei Clara Peck Waite, and that he married her only for her money, according to testimony given by the alienist. Dr. Morris J. Karpas, today. Dr. Karpas added that Waite said ha did not intend to stop at anything to gain his end. r. Previously, under cross examination, Waite has told the prosecutor he was not sure that he would not have killed his wife. Waite declared he did not think ha was crazy and denied that he had at any time pretended he was insane; denied that he had ever told the prosecutors that "the man front Egypt" had killed Mr. Peck and swore that he slept perfectly after the murder. He declared that he had wanted to kill himself and "made a pretty good attempt at it." Alienist Says He's Egoist. Accused of planning to leave the country with Mrs. Margaret Horton; he did not deny it, but said he "did not know that" they were going away. Dr. Waite declined to admit that he had made himself appear worse than he was in order to convince the jury that he was insane. The alienists for Waite testified that he did not appear to be mentally well and that he was abnormal in that all his interests were centered in himself. Women Excluded From Room Women were excluded from the court room when Dr. Arthur Waite re sumed the witness stand today. Hun dreds of persons in the corridors vain ly tried to gain admission to the court room. Waite appeared pale but seemed to have braced himself to face the ordeal. His counsel, Walter R. Deuel, told Justice Sheran that he had. only a few more questions to ask tha dentist before the cross-examination would begin. "Did you ever try to kill your wife?" asked Mr. Deuel. "No." replied Dr. Waite. "Did you ever plan to kill her? "No, never." "You never thought you might kUl her "I am not sure that I would not have killed her," said Waite. Assistant District Attorney Broth ers then beegan the cross-exam-ination of Dr. Waite. He fimt aiiWoH the prisoner: "Do you recall telling me that you did not want your wife to learn o your relations with Mrs. Horton?" j "No," replied Waite. Waite folded his arms and smiled at the prosecutor as he denied hav ing any conversation with Mr. Broth ers in Dr. Waite's apartment. The dentist said he was surprised to learn that he had given a ring t his nurse. Didn't Fake Insanity. "You were faking Insanity at Bert, vue, were you not?" asked Mr. Broth ers. "I did not fake insanity at any time," said Waite. "You faked insanity In the Tomb' said the prosecutor. Waite denied it and also denied that he deliberately planned a false defense or read books on nervous diseases. i uu im.r uurpiaji-u u. wuuuciiui memory for events back to your sixth birthday, but you have forgotten these recent incidents," said the prosecutor "I don't remember," said Waite. "You don't wish to remember even your letter to Margaret Horton V asked Brothers. Waite did not an swer. The smile gradually faded front his face and he seemed to become confused by the rapid fire of ques tions. He denied that he had been reading medical books but admitted reading a medical magazine. The wit ness declared he did not tell niariH Attorney Swann and Mr. Brothers (Continued from Pare Two.) GREEK SHIPS SUNK Persistent Romor of Submarine Dtsa ters Arou.es Ship Owners. Athens, May 26. The acrttatlotl throughout Greece caused by th& news that Teutonic submarines had torpedoed three Greek vessels contin ue to prow. Resolutions have been passed by the league of ship owners and the sailors' labor union demand ing? that the government take action to stop attacks on Greek merchant ves sel. OLD SOLDIER, OVER PAID, RETURNS SUM AFTER 50 Ylj Washington, May 26. A former Union soldier who was paid ISO too much when discharged at the close of the Civil war, today returned the money to the treasury with S10 interest. The contribution went into the conscience fund.

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i THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1916 ITALIANS HOLD IT Betreat on Trentino Front 'ot Worrying Romans. Much 4f Italy's Line Is Miles Into Austria. 15 OFFENSIVE ATSALONIKI SOON? Allies Officers Called Back From Athens Leave. Movements Indicate Drastic f Action by Franco-British. Roihe, May 26. The retreat of the Italians on a portion of the Trentino front has not caused any pessimism in the official circles here. It is pointed out that the entire line of bat tle is four hundred miles long and that there need be no surprise that there should be withdrawals at some .point tinder overwhelming pressure. The fact that the Austrians now hold a small mountainous section of Italian territory Is considered of small im portance ien compared with the 15 miles greater territory occupied by the Italians in Austria. It is also con tended that if the enemy continues to advance the conditions which have favored him hitherto will be reversed, th farther he gets from his base of operations, the more difficult it will fee to supply ammunition for his heavy artillery. On the other hand, Italians will enjoy the advantage of having good roads, four main railways and Inexhaustible reserves available at their immediate rear. Amrtrians Face Great Odds. These considerations are indepen dent of the natural obstacles which make the Austro-Hungarian front so Sifferent from that at veraun. An efficlal statement has been issued ex plaining that it is impossible to limit the war to trench fighting in a re gion like the Trentino, where large masses of troops can be easily trans ferred from one point to another with out weakening any section of the front A large number of refugees from Arsiero, Asiago and neighboring vil lages have arrived at Milan where they are being cared for in charitable institutions. The evacuation of their home towns was ordered by the Ital ian military authorities when the great Austrian offensive started. Forecast Offensive by Allies. Athens, May 26. Exceptional mili tary activity at Saloniki is believed here to portend developments of great importance. General Howell, chief of the British staff, and other officers of the allies who have been on leave in Athens, have been recalled suddenly. On May 13 Bulgaria was reported to b sending heavy reinforcements to the Salonikl front in anticipation of a general offensive by the allies. Since that time dispatches from various sources have reported activity on the Dart of the French and Britisn lorces, the most notable being the occupation of Fiorina, 18 miles south or Monatir, hv allied troops, on May 23. Signifi cance also was attached to the efforts of the entente to obtain the use or tne Greek railroad for the transportation of the re-organized Serbian army to the Balonikl front. Paris and London have been per sistently silent as to any developments in the Balkans. WAITE DESTROYS r (Continued from page 1J while in Bellevue that the "Man from Egypt" had Wiled Peck. Says He Is Not Crazy. He said he had asked Mrs. Horton If she had heard of the "Man from .Egypt," bnt he denied he had other wise spoken of such a character. "Are you crazy?" asked Mr. Brothers. "I think not." "After you took Mr. Peck's life you eould not sleep, could you?" "I slept perfectly," said Waite. "You wanted to kill yourself, did yoo?" "Tea." "Tou fixed the embalmer. What had you to fear." "Well, this trial." "Why did not you kill yourself V "1 made a pretty good attempt at it, replied waite. "You only obtained the culture in which the germs are grown," said Brothers. "If you wanted to kill the Peek- why did not you shoot them?' "1 don't know." High Stakes and liost. "Waite said he had never been pun- tsbed in any way for any crime. too began to believe you were above the law?" "No, I don't know anything about It." "You have never been anything but a. sneak thief, have you V asked the prosecutor. "That's all." "You were a gambler: you told per sons you played for high stakes and that you lost in the Peck case?" "!fo," said Waite. "You planned Peck's death to win 13,000,000, did not you?" "No, not that much." The prisoner denied that he schemed to kill Peck as early as last February. "You and Margaret Horton were go mg to leave the country, weren t you Where were you going?" "I don't know that we were going away. "Will you not tell the Jury that yes. irraay you pictured yourself worse than you were?" "No," said Waite. Has No Defense. "Isn't that your defense?" "No, I admitted my guilt" i. "Haven't you been informed that if you made yourself out a madman some one in this Jury would determine that you were crazy?" X "No." s Waite denied that while in the hos pital he pleaded with the district at' torney to be lenient with him. Waite aaid he did not know whether he told Dr. Karpas that every time he got into trouble he "bluffed his way out" -1 Justice Shearn, before whom Waite is being tried, then took up the ques tioning and asked him if he knew it was wrong to steal. Waite said he did. "Then I assume you knew, if it was wrong to steal, it was wrong to com mit murder?" "I don't remember." v Judge Questions Him. "A-d you were a member of the Christian Endeavor society. You learn ed it was wrong to take human life and against the laws of God?" "I don't remember." Mr. Ueuel then resumed re-direct examination. Waite said his memory was not perfect, he supposed, because of drugs. He declared that his mind is growing clearer. The prisoner identified several letters he wrote while in Bellevue and a poem, saying he had written peotry for several year. He said that when he wrote the poem he suspected be was cliarged with murder. "Waite told me,' 'testified Dr. M. K. Karpas, called as an alienist for the defense in the trial of Dr. A. W. Waite today, "that he intended to kill his wife. He said he had not intended to stop at anything to gain his ends." Catherine Peck Takes Stand. Waite was then excused and Miss Catherine Peck, sister of John E. Peck, was called. Waite testified yes terday that he placed ground glass and germs of pneumonia, typhoid, diphtheria and influenza in her food in an attempt to kill her. Miss yeck said she' accepted Waite as what he appeared to be and told of entrusting her business matters to him. She smiled as she recalled her narrow es capes from death. "I ate some of the marmalade." she said. "When I opened the Jar again I found it full of something like sand. I took it back to the store and the pro prietor apologized." Waite laughed until his shoulders shook when Abraham Bass Ford, Jr., a tennis player with whom the de fendant had played, testified that Waite had "blown up" in his game and had merely smiled when "called down" for errors. Unparalleled In Crime Annals. New York, May 26. Could a sane man commit the series of crimes con fessed by Dr. Arthur Warren Waite? This question confronted the Jury today in the Peck murder case. The young dentist left the witness1 stand last night after five hours and forty five minutes crowded with horrors un paralleled in the histroy of New York criminal trials. Every detail of his story was noted by the alienists en gaged by the defense for use in fram in gthe hypothetical question they will be called to answer before Waite's at torneys ask the Jury to decide whether ne was mentally responsible when he killed his father-in-law, John E. Peck. wanes testimony left the Droseeu- tion's attorneys today nothing more to do toward proving that he commited murder. Their problem was to show that a monster of crime such as the aeiendant confessed himself might have been mentally normal and there- rore a rit subject for the electric chair. Admitted Plot to Kill Three. Counsel for the defense said tnfla- that they had few if any more ques tions 10 asK tneir client It was ex. pected that the alienists would take tne stand soon after the state finished cross examinnng the defendant. The supreme moment of Waite's tale came last mgnt when the yonni witnaaa da. ciarea in caim conversational tones Why, I wanted those bacteria, to Kill tnose three persons Mr. Peck Mrs. Peck and Miss Peck.. I wanted tneir money. waite told of a long career of crime. Without a change of voice or expres sion to maicate that he recognized the enormity of his confession, he de scribed minutely how. he gave his vic tims arsenic, powdered glass, ehloro form, disease germs and overdoses of medicine; how he burned fly paper ana gave the residue which he had read contained arsenic to Mr. Peck how he generated chlorine gas in the father-in-law's room to make his hroat more sensitive to the germ cul tures; how he dampened the sheets in his bed and raised the windows of his room in midwinter in an unsuccessful effort to give him pneumonia Thief While in College. Waite admitted thefts from fellow students while at Michigan university ana aescriDea taem in detail. I heard the depositions about mv inert oi piaies ana or zioo Trom stu dents and they were all true." he said Waite's narrative virtually became a story of thievery. He admitted that (luring his freshman vacation, which he spent working at Ann Arbor, his thefts amounted to S500, resulting in his expulsion from his fraternity al though he was reinstated in his senior year. Waite detailed virtually his entire life history. He admitted that while in Canada he made his living by play ing pool and cheated. He admitted taking a course at Edinburgh uni versity, Scotland. gaining admission through his graduation papers at Ann ArDor, Dut wmcn ne said be "doctor ed" for the purpose. Stole From Employers. From ScofTand Waite said he went to South Africa and worked for a firm of dentists. He said he stole $1,500 from the concern the first year and Increased the amount each year for the next four years. HOSTILITTCROWS Mexicans Harass TJ. S. Army Supply Trains. Build Wire Entanglements Across Roads in Mexico. Columbus. N. M., May 26. A grow ing hostility to Americans has been reported from along General Per- shmgrs line of communication in Mex ico. Truck drivers handling commun ication trains have so far been the chief sufferers hut there is a growing fear among army men at the Colum bus base that the tension will result in conflict between the troops. The Carranzista soldiers at the gar rison of Nuevo Caeas Grandes, near the American base at Colonia Dublan, have been reported as strikingly hos tile. Several times recently the army motor trains have encountered barbed wire obstacles in the roadway near that town. The train Just arriving reported having run into the barrier in the darknesa While removing the wire the Americans were Jeered by a crowd of Mexicans, among whom were uniformed men. The jeers were fol lowed by a shower of stones. .Several Americans were struck. The driver of the leading truck was painfully hurt. Captain Harper, in command of the train, prevented the Americana from using their guns and the incident passed without bloodshed. Withdraw More Troops. The American force is straightening its tine into Mexico and in consequence the Amncan troops are about to be withdrawn from Boco Grandes, Espia and Ojo Fredrico. The new trail runs directly to Ascension, 70 miles distant The officers of the quartermaster s corps, who have been working out plans for caring for the troops during the approaching wet season, say their plans are in such shape that the American column will be cared for even if the roads become impassable. IMPROVE GAS SERVICE? Indications 'mat Kansas Natural De cision W01 Be Given in a Week. St. Paul. May 26. Argrument in the Kansas Natural Gas suit in the United States district court here, it was in dicated this afternoon, may be com pleted late today, in -which case t decision of the court may be handed down within a week. Interrogation of Judge Walter A. Sanborn of St. Paul and replies by Attorney John U. Atwood of Kansas City, of counsel for the receivers, sug gested to those who have been fol lowing the proceedings closely that the trend or the case was toward result that would bring about com plete rehabilitation of the properties involved and improvement of service to the public; Attorney Atwood asked permission to read a telegram from Judge Thomas J. Flannelly of the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, in which Judge Flannelly. stated that he had arranged with large banking interests to provide whatever financial back ing was necessary to carry out exten sion and betterment of operations. "Will you agree to give bond as an evidence of good intent in that offer?" Judge Sanborn asked Attorney At wood when the telegram had been read. "Yes, we stand ready to give any necessary bond," replied Atwood. The case, which involves gas prop erties in Oklahoma, Kansas and western Missouri under receivership, is being threshed out before Judges Walter A. Sanborn of St. Paul, Wil bur F. Booth of Minneapolis and R. E. Campbell of Oklahoma, BLACK LIST UPHELD Attorney General Pronounces Ciwenf Agreement Within the Law. the discretion of congresa I venture to think that this view is wholly with out foundation. If the war is a for eign war it could not be begun under the constitution until congress had de clared war. To impose in a constitu tional way by treaty an obligation on congress does not take away its power to discharge it or to refuse to dis charge it." Must Defend Panama. Referring to this nation's treaty with Panama guaranteeing Panama independence. Mr. Taft Mated that it meant that the United States is under obligation to make war to defend Panama. "If this duty can only be discharged through the action of congress in de claring war," -he asked, "does that de prive congress of its power to declare war? It seems to me that the ques tion answers itself. "With Cuba a similar problem is presented," said the former president. REFUSED TO SERVE U.S. President Will Appoint Court Martial to Try 116 Militiamen. Washington. May 26. President Wilson personally will appoint the members of a court martial which will 116 members of the Texas national guard for refusal to present them selves to be mustered into the federal service. Secretary Baker made this announcement late today, adding that it had been determined that the presi dent, rather than General Funston, should convene th court, as it was the president who gave the order which the Texas militiamen are accused of disregarding. General Funston has been instructed to recommend officers for appointment as the court will be composed mainly of members of the Texas guard. If the men present themselves to the proper officials be fore the court convenes, Mr. Baker said, the cases will be dropped. CONDENSED NEWS Had "Dope" Agency. Kansas City. May 26. Dr. C. L. Katz of Wichita, arrested here last night on allegations of violating the anti-narcotic act, was arraigned today before Federal Commissioner Arnold on a complaint charging four counts. lie pleaded not guilty and was held under $10,000 bond. His preliminary hearing was set for June 1. Pershinc Replaces Troops to Dend. Columbus, N. M., May 26. A new movement of American troops along General J. J. Pershing's line of com munication was reported today. The movements made within the last 48 hours were said to offset" tho re distribution of certain Car ran za com mands, but no details were available at military headquarters, and it v pointed out that any movements un der way were minor and do not affect the general expeditionary policy. Heat Prostrations Already; Peoria, May 26. Richard Lloyd, 50. was found dead here today. The coroner pronounced him a victim of heat. Jake "Wade, a laborer, was prostrated by the heat. The highest temperature today was 88 degrees. Exports to Reach 5 Billion: Washington. May 26. -Export traie of the United States promises to reach five billion dollars by the end of the fiscal year. June 30. Statsucs an nounced today by the department of commerce places exports for the ten months ending with April at $3,401, 000,000. This is 1, 175,000,000 more than was sent abroad in the same period last year. The trade balance in favor of the Unitd States may reach two billion dollars by the end of the year, the balance for the ten months being $1,679,000,000. or almost double what it was last year. COOL WAVE COMING 160 NEW MECHANICS Santa Fe Apprentice School Turned Out That Many .Last -car. SENT DOPE TO TOPEKA Officers Found Original Orders In Of fice of Wichita Physician. Persons who are slow in paying their bills, need not be extended cred it, according to a ruling by the attor ney general's office. For mutual pro tection, merchants may enter into an agreement for the exchange of names of indivicuais whose credit is or a questionable nature. xne ruling was maae ror tne j opeita Retail Grocers association. Forty members of the association entered into an agreement not to extend credit to persons who were slow In paying their bills. They submitted their agreement to S. M. Brewster, attorney general, and it was approved. Brew ster held that the agreement not to extend credit was not in violation of the laws of the state. TAFT URGES U. S. Consideration of problems involved in instruction of bollermaker appren tices came up this morning at the an-' nual meeting of Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railway apprentice instruc tors. Discussion of these problems probably will continue throughout the day. The annual meeting or tne appren tice instructors opened in the motive power building Thursday, following an address of wecome by M. J. Drury, superintendent of the local shops. Op portunities anoroeo tne instructors to mould the lives of the young men who would be the future mechanics of the road were emphasised by Mr. Drury. A review of last year's work and plans for the future were outlined by F. W. Thomas, supervisor of appren tices, in his annual address at the opening session. He pointed out that during the last year the apprentice schools .have graduated 160 mechanics for the road. Of that number 152 are in the service of the system and are receiving good salaries, while twelve of last year's graduates already have been promoted to positions oi respon sibility. At present 982 apprentices are employed in the various shops on the system, according to Mr. Thomaa He also called attention to the neces sity of care in selecting young men for promotion. Speciay features or ireignt car car penter apprenticeship were discussed by C. N. Swanson, superintendent of the car shops. Other problems con nected with that branch of the school took up the remainder of the open ing session. SHOULD BE AIRED Premier Asquith Urges That Irish Trouble Be Kept from Debate. London. May 26. Premier Asquith took the house of commons by sur-1 prise this afternoon in making his ex pected statement on Irish affairs. He devoted his speech not so much to the rebellion and the manner in which the government dealt with it, as it was thought he would do as to mak ing an appeal for settlement of the Irish problem by agreement among the Irish leaders. In this connection the premier an nounced that David Lloyd George, minister of munitions, had undertaken at the request of the cabinet, to ne gotiate between the contending Irish parties. He asked that, in the mean time the matter should not be debated in the house. After the premier had concluded Johh Redmond said his solemn ap peal for silence even on military af fairs in Ireland was a very severe test for him and his colleagues. He as- serted things were going on in Ire- i land which in ordinary circumstances ought to be discussed. Nevertheless i he regarded the premier's appeal as a test of the grenuinesa of their de- sire for a settlement and he could j take the responsibility of not respond- ing to it. j AGED FARMER IS DEAD Slayer of Daughter and Neighbor Suc cumbs to Bullet Wound. (Continued From Page One.) Wichita, Kan., May 26. Federal of ficers raided the office of Dr. C. I Katz, arrested in Kansas City Wed nesday, on a charge of selling habit forming drugs- The raid was led by Dr. Albert Brown, of the internal rev enue office, and Sam Hill, a deputy united states marshal, who were armed with a warrant issued by Paul J. Wall, United States commissioner. The offioers report that they found original orders for dozens of bottles of morphine and opium. Records they seized led them to believe that Dr. Katz has received, since April 1, more tnan duo eight-ounce bottles of mor phine and two and a half pounds of opium. None of these drugs were found. The office was strewn with broken packages and empty morphine bottles. Towns from which orders have said to come were Topeka, Kan sas City, Newton, Wellington and Ar kansas city. Dr. Katz is under a federal indict ment returned here by a grand jury last autumn. He is under four bonds of a thousand dollars each. The indictment contains four counts charging sales of habit-forming drugs. COURT MARTIAL BOARD Five of Regular Army and Eight of Militia Sent by Funston weather tonight and Saturday, with lower temperatures tonight. "This weather is fine for growing croDB." -aid Mr. Flora, "and it probably will continue for a few daya" The high est temperature on record for this date is 91 degrees, established in 191?. The low record, 40 degrees, occurred in ii. on this date last year, weather bureau records show. 2.17 inches of rain fell, beginning the high water season, rne stag? or the river today is 10.9 feet. The wind this morning was b.owine at the rate of 20 miles an hour from tr.e southwest. Continued on Page Two.) Iola, Kan., May 26. The finale of the tragedy started Wednesday night heie was written when George Beck er aged Allen county farmer who killed his daughter, Lena Becker, and fatally shot a neighbor, died from wounds received in a fight with a pc see. Miles, the neighbor, died early Thursday. Becker, 88 years of age, became en ra?red whop he learned that action had bfcon started t' have a guardian up pointed for him. He found his daugh ter in the garage on his farm and after shooting her he set fire to the garage. The other buildings on the farm were fired and Miles was shot when he arrived, attracted by the flames. Becker, fleeing from a band of farmers, opened fire on them and was shot by a member of the band. GREECE FLOATS LOAN National Bank to Issue Bonds at 3 Per Cent for 115 Million Drachmae, DAILY WEATHER REPORT. San Antonio, May 25. The names of five officers of the regular army and eight officers of the militia have been forwarded to Washington by General Funston for the approval of President Wilson as members of court martial board before which members of the Texas militia who did not sign the muster roll will be tried. The court martial will be held here. over our foreign relations, but upon reason and authority this objection is untenable, said Mr. Taft. Since the Jay treaty of 1794. Mr. Taft stated, some American had been a party to 84 international treaties of which the United States was involved in two-thirds. Tfo Power to Agent. "Tn ten of these which were boun dary treaties," Mr. Taft continued, "it was never suggested that the govern ment was delegating any power at all to the tribunal. A submission of judicial question is not a delegation of power to an agent it is a submission or an issue to a juuee uu jl i i- i nomer to call such a submission a delegation. "A question whether a court has join is notning but a question of law. The senate has consented from time to time to arbitrations on issues both arising and defined by language of the treaty of submission. The last notable instance, the one which involves a really permanent court, is the advice and consent by our senate to The Hague international prize court con vention in which a permanent inter national prize court was established." No Amendment Needed. Turning to the question of duty of a nation belonging to a proposed world court to use its army and navy in enforcing its decrees upon other members that should go to war in I defiance of the court's decrees, Mr. Taft took issue with former Secretary of State Bryan regarding Mr. Bryan's contention that constitutional amend ment would be nebessary before the United States eould obligate itself in this respect. "Mr. Bryan declared that in order to carry out the provision we must have a joint council of the powers to determine when the time had arrived for military action and war," said Mr. Taft. "and that this would sub stitute the action of the council for Furnished by the Weather Bureau' Of fice, Toneka, Kansas, (or the 24 hours end ing at 7 a. m. today. Stations in Kansas. High Low Rain or Con iem. 'iem. snow ...92 ...90 ...wo ...4 ...OS ...S8 82 StarJona Antbony Coldwater Concordia Dodge City Dresden Emporia Eureka Ft. Scott Goodland .....96 Hanover Hays Horton Iola Liberal Mackavlue McPherson Pbilllpsharg Scott City Sedan TOPEKA TJtica Wichita Kansas City St. Joseph 70 AO r So ri 70 8 70 4S 64 '52 54 50 4 56 50 72 72 72 38 58 70 7S 46 72 :tx 64 72 70 :u 68 70 48 70 74 58 48 74 66 48 60 50 70 62 40 50 46 52 :vt 48

66 GO 64 46 dltlon Clear rt.Oldy Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Pt-Cldy ion ay Clear Clear l't.Cldy vjiear Clear l't-Cldy t:iear 0 Pt-CMy .0 Clesr .0 Pt-OMy -O ciouiiy ,...4 ....86 86 9S ....92 ....90 96 as 84 88 ...100 ....SB 86 86 Report from other States. Boston, Mass 84 58 .0 Clear Buffalo. K. Y... 68 Calgary, Alb 50 Chicago, 111 76 Cincinnati, O 88 Corpus Christ!, T..84 Denver, Col 74 Des Moines, la 86 Dnlath, Minn 52 Ei Paso, Tex...' 70 Ft. Worth, Tex 88 Galveston, Tex 84 Havre, Mont Jacksonville, Fla. .78 Little Rock. Ark... 90 Los Angeles, Cal 64 Lonlsville, Ky New Orleans, La... 90 New York, N. Y 76 N. Platte. Neb 86 Oklahoma. Okla 84 Omaha, Neb 90 Phoenix, Arts Pittsburg, Pa SO Portland. Ore 60 St. Louis, Mo 90 St. Paul. Minn 82 Salt Lake, Utah 60 San Francisco, Cal. 60 Sault St. Marie, Ml. 60 Seattle, Wash 64 Sheridan, Wyo 64 Spokane. Wash 62 Sift Current, Sas :t6 Tampa, Fla 88 Toledo, O 82 Washington. D. C. .88 Winnipeg, Man 64 Athens, May 26. The minister of finance, D. G. Rhallis signed a con tract with the National Bank of Greece under which the bank is to float an interior loan of 115,000,000 drachmae. The loan will be issued at 88 with interest at five per cent. The national bank will subscribe 75, 000,000 drachmae. PRAIRIE OIL RAISES PAY Increase of Ten Per Cent for Ail Em ployees in Kan. and Okla. Saturday and Monday BARGAINS Great Special Purchase Men's Spring Suits Save4 in this Sale Thousands of New Style Pumps and Shoes Sacrificed for Saturday Selling Rtue Serge Stilts and fancy Casstmeres. guaranteed to be all wool; made In nice convervative modcH. Some stores sell these suits for $15.00 SI 6.50 Bine Serge and Fancy Worsted Suits. Many stores get as high as $18 for these Suits. Conservative and fancy styles I 25c 50c Genuine Men's Be Rubber Sample President Hdbfs. Collars Belts Suspenders (limit S to 10c j 25c 25c lc 500 Sample Straw Hats Are offered at Special reductions. Included are Panamas. Sailor-, ITT horns, Madagascar, Palm Beach, Japanese and Italian Panamas, all the very late Novelties in shapes and braids. $1.00 Straw Hat values. .50 $1.50 Straw Hat values i98 $2.50 Straw Hat values $1.48 $5.00 Genuine Panamas $3.48 $3.00 Porto Ricans $1.98 Men's Shirts 50c Men's 75c Dress Shirts Men's 75c Sport Shirts 48c Extra 50c Work Shirts 39c Boys' 35c Blouses. 25c Men's Pants Men's Hand-Tailored ffO QQ $4.00 Pants. ?.0 Men's Worsted Jg One lot Men's Pants; values QQ np to 2.00 UOK, Underwear 35c Balbiiggan Shirts OQ and rrawers rOC 50c Ribbed Union OQ Suits OJl. Boys' 85c Q Union Suits -LUC Women's Children's Bargain Dept. ims smt EVERY HEEL $2.4S Men's gunnM-titl Oxfords, button or lce, new rousii toe ASl last, vslues up to $4.00 ip-i.-O New syle black and tan Oxforils, all stars, all popular models, values up to o.oo, for $2.98 1 Jb fVtRVMCBI. Over 500 pniri ladies' sample p v m p s to choose from. All sizes, all tylPS, values up to $3.u0 $4.00 for $1.98 Ladles' Patent Blutcher Oxforda, gun metal foxinft. medium beel, McKay, all sties. A regulur jj.oo value .$1.48 Children's Giltfrham DreHses Values up QQf to 73c t7 Ladies' 25c Knit In- 1 Q ion Suits. .A7V' Indies' 3oc Silk .23c Toadies' 23c and S5c Corset Cov ers and I Q Drawers. UK' Men's 10c Hose 5c 25c Paris Garters 15c aoltos "fCo. Ciolhli Mimes' Patent Mary Jane (1 A Pnmps .....$.U9 Vlri kid Juliet, turn sole, no buttons or laoe to fool with, no seams, cannot possibly hurt foot. $1 rrn A 2.so value i....;.k.'..;..$X.4;7 M..09T4; July. Jlltel.U; September. COk'n" May. ui;; July, 70Hfe7014e; September. (Kvo. OATS May, 41"; July. 40!c; Septem ber. ;whc- POKK May, July, 22.55. I.AKU Miv, $12.47; July. $12.47. SHORT K115S May, $12.40; July, $12.45. Chicago Grain Market. ITbe range of prices for grrain futures on rue unieago isoara or xrnae as revit Myers. tsroKer. toiumuuui .0 Clear .01 Pt.Cidy u clear .0 Clear .0 PtCldy .u t lear .0 PtCldy .22 ttalu'g .0 Clear O PtCldy PtCldy Haln'g Clear Clear Clear Clear PtCldy Clear Clear Cloudy rt.Cldy Clear Pt-Cldy Cloudy Clear ,70 Itain'z .01 Clondy. .0 Clear .0 Ciear .0 Cloudy .0 ItCldy .0 Itain'g .56 Cloudy .0 ItCldy T- Clear .0 Pt-CIdy .36 Uain'g. by Tbos. Ultlg.J Open WHEAT May ..110 July ..110 Sept. -.111 IJOKH May Julv Sept. OATS July Sept. PORK July ..22.S5 Sept. ..22.65 Chicago, May 26. Close Blgb bow Tod hi a 7H4 701-4 684 40 38 11014 112H 113 71 71 70 22.00 22.67 10! 110 111 70'V 70 63 40 38 22.55 22.30 109 108 111- 110 112 lllVi 704 70 014- 70i 70V 69 40 39 09 22.55 22.92 22.30 22.65 Kansas City Grain Market. (The range of prices for gram futures 00 Tbe Kansas City Board of Trade as re ported by Tboa J. Myera. Broker. Colum bian Bldg.l Kansas City, May 26. jiose Open WHEAT May ..102U Julv ..103V. Sept. ..104 COKN May 6H July Sept. 64 Higli Low Today Vea 103 inn 106 67 i 66 102 103 U. 104 fittu. 0KV4 64 103 .101 104 103 105- 104 66 65 6U- 66 65 4- .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 T. .0 Tulsa, Okla.. May 26. 'The board of directors of the Prairie Oil and Gas company, in session at Independence, Kan., today announced an increase of ten per cent in the salaries of all field employees throughout Kansas and Oklahoma. The raise was made asj of May 1. An eight-hour work day is to be inaugurated by the company short ly. Hundreds of workmen are affected. TODAY'S mmi REPORT Chicago. May 26 WHEAT Wheat prices ran up today Influenced by reports that the western third of Kansas, where hereto fore tbe crop outlook has been excellent, was showing rapid deterioration. In KUis county tbe cause of damage was said to be Hessian ny, nut in rive otner counties tbe trouble was ascribed to lack of rain. Bullish crop advices were also received from southern Kansas, Oklahoma and In diana. The opening which ranged from a shade to lc higher with July at S1.10H to $1.10 and September at $1.11 to $1.11. was followed by a decided further advance. North I'aciric coast reports tnat cron conditions had been retrograding tended to favor tne onus to an additional extent. The close we steady at 1&14c to lc net advance. CORN Corn responded to the strength of wheat. Ideal weather for growth was virtuaily ignored. After opening off to 14c up the market scored a substiuitial gain all around. Subsequently, predictions that receipts would materially increase next week led to a reaction. The close was weak, c lower to c higher as compared with yes terday's finish. OATS Damage reports from the south west lifted oats. The Oklahoma crop was reported to be nearly, a complete failure. PROVISIONS Provisions gave way ow ing to a decline in the hog market. On the break, however, demand sprang up for lard and ribs. Liverpool Grain Marhet. Liverpool, May U WHEAT Spot No. 1 Manitoba, lis lid: No. 2. lis i No. 3, lis 7d No. 1 northern spring, lis lOd No. 2 red western winter, lis 5d. CORN Spot, American mixed, new, 10s lUd. Grain Oostn. I it y sper-.ai wire to f. Myers. Colo rob ta RuildiniM Minneapolis wheat stocks have Increased 90,000 bushels thus far this week. Stocks of wheat and flour In the United Kingdom aggregate 17.Gft4.000 bushels, compared with 12,776,000 bushels a year ago. Elevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City have increased 271,230 bushels. Kxports fmm the United States snd Can ada yesterdav were 057,000 bushels of wheat, 18,000 barrels of flour, 7,uO0 bush els of corn and 4W.0O0 bushels of oats; wheat and flour combined, 1,038,000 bush els. Estimated shipments of wheat from Argentina this week are 2 million bushels, compared with 3.088,000 bushels actually exported last week and 4.015.000 bushels a vear ago. Estimated corn shipments are 1,125,000 bushels. Kanmaj. Cttv Produce Market. Kansas City, May Jk WHEAT--Cash Market lg2c higher. No. 2 hard, $1.00iT 1.11; No. a, $1.O01.OO; No. 2 red, $1.0j, 1.08; No. 3. 91-00fal.06. 'O R N M a rket lc higher. No. 2 mixed. S& c No. 3, 7$zOTM.c; No. 2 white. 61f(770t!-. No. 3. HjC; No. 2 yel low, 70t-; No. 3, irtlG9'. OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white, 44'(7 4!x; No. 2 mixed, 4041c. HYK S7(-tSSc. HAY Market steady; unchanged. KAFIR No. 3 white, $1.05. BKAN 90c. SHOUTS $1.04 1.10. WHEAT Receipts 115 cars. 1U TTKK Market unchanged. I'OI'LT R Y Ma rket u uchanged. Ei;s Firsts. 21Vjc CLOSE: WHEAT May, $1.03; July, $1.04. CORN May, GOc; July, 006Gc STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Ive Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Hsm Oar Own Of fro s at CMeaca, So. St. iUmt i Bo. Omaha. IenTcr, Sloox Otty. So. St. Paal. K. B-tfato, B. Su Loula, Fort Worth and E3 Paso. Creamery extras. 95 score, 3t steady. JV,C. EGGS Market lrreirulsr. rd extra fine. 2y,-JSV,y. CHKBSB Market unsettled. specials. 17J174c. I'OILTKI Alive, firm; dressed, Fresb gathee- State fresh firm. Chieg-o rrednee Market. ClilcaBO, May 28. BUTTE11 Market un cbacped. Kr;S Market lower. Klrsls, H4i 21i.c: ordinary firsts. 18fe20c: at mark, casvs im-lntied. 20&21c. PTATol-;s M:irket unchanged. POULTRV-AlWe. higher. New York SuK-r Market. New York, May 2fi. SUGAR Raw. firm eentrifiijral. 6.&.1: molasses, 5.62; refined, firm fine granulated, 7.00. Nw York Stock Market. Wall St. New York, May 26. STOCKS Trading quickened toward noon on the stock market today, dealings shifting tn the Rubber group with a gain of almost 2 points for United States itubber. Indus trial Alcohol also resumed its activity, ris ing over 2 points, with as much for Con tineatal Can and a further gain for Ameri can Con! Products. Reading adding an other point to its opening advance, but other mils were dull and mostly heavy. United States Steel contlnned its narrow groove. Operations dwindled again after midday with greater price irregularity. Bonds were steady. Further irregular tendencies were manifest ed at the opening of today's market. In ternational issues and shipping shares, as well as some specialties recording lower E rices. These were partly counter balanced y gains of a point or more for Heading. American Smelting. Chandler Motors and some of the inactive stocks. Studebaker opened with a slight gain but promptly reacted almost two points. Raldwin was lower on disappointment In connection with the deferred dividend. Trading was light and circumscribed. Lambs. $10.rffi 2.00 -.yearlings, $R WSll.no wethers, R.0ur9.5O; ewes. X7.a0(g.9.00; stockers and feeders, $6.0010.50. Chicago I.lve Stock Market. Chicago, Msy 26. HOGS Receipts 21.000. Market alow. 5c to 10c under yesterday's average. Bulk of sales. $S.65.85; fight. !.20a9.80: mixed. ag.B0; heaw. $0.35 2.5: rough. 9.35rS.50 pigs, f7.309.20. CATTLE Rei-eipts 1.000. Market weak. Native beef cattle. $S.4Orl0.75 western steers. x.75&.i0: stockers and feeders. i.Va9M: cows and heifers, M-75fetS; calves. SH.5Tiaill.7S. SHEEP Receipts 11.000. Market weak. Wethers, 7.aoii.30; lambs, X8.406il2.35: springs. $10.0O12.4O. Kaona Cltv l.tve Hfork saws. The following sales were made this morn ing at the Stock Yards. Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal by Clay. Robin on Co, live stock commission ur ctisnts.l Kansas City, May 2d. CATTLE Re ceipts 00 head. Market strong. HO3S Receipts O.0OO head. Market 5c to 10c lower. Bulk of sales, H.50aS' "5 top. S!t.S5. SHEEP Receipts 5,000 bead slow. KILLING STKER8. No. Wt- PrlcelNo. Wr. 40 1145 10.25 I 3 1156 COWS AND HEIFKUH Market f rice. 18.23 1 1 1 R20 lOTH 7!0 4.23 ;.riO 0.30 2... 2B. 1. 1. 1. 645 20 .1010 i-:io ll.V) STOCKERS ASH FEl-UEUS. fiOO u.no 5.0O 4.30 S.23 1 1.... ss 10 V run llKI 150 115 1JS S.13 CALVK8. 8.00 I 2 9.30 I 1 10XO I 2 IIOCS 9.M) I 73 9.15 10 9.00 I 170 IMi 145 212 193 10.75 11 00 10.00 9.70 9.35 Chicago Grain Market. I Chicago, May 2B. WHEAT Close May, New Tork Produce Market. New York. May 2U- BUTTER Market Kansas City l-v Ktock Market. Kansas City, May 2S. him;k Receipts fi.0OO. Market 5c to 10c lower. Bulk of sales. $9.utKa9.70; heavy. $9.7041 9.H0 pack ers and butchers. $9.5541.9.75; light, S0.45ti 9.70: pigs. $v.75to 9.25. CATTLE Receipts Xl. Market strong. Prime fed Fteers. $10.00Cn 10.4O dressed beef steers. K.23v f:J western steers .s.5s 10.25: southern steers. 87. 730 9.75: cows $t.006i S.75 heifers. 7.734 10.00 stockers and feeders. 7.2.xg'.uu; bulls. $.008.25: calves. 7.00a 11.00. SHEEP Receipts 3,500. Market weak. i Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Cowl Topeka, Kan., May 2(1 MIXED AND BUTCHERS .8.oWs 40 ?th& -8.60COJ9.45 kii'PT -v -v 8.00f(7,9.ao PIGS (under uO lbs.) 7.00.8.u STEERS. Good to cbolco (corn fed) t7.snoW(.23 fair to good OjOOiilJM Good to choice (corn fed......X(l,RJV?i7 ?3 Fair to good-. Common to falr. 3.00 Good to choice (corn fed) 7.noa.no Common iaaA( BULX-a. Pla-hv mm Medium ::-:r---::::::::::"izi2 TEAL CALVES. Medium good":::::::::;::::::;::vis;;3 Fat wethera iA tat Iambs 7.00S 10 nn Minrn iambs and sheep 3e under above pDcfl, (Do not want thin hogs or pigs.) attar and T.rtK. Furnished by the Beatrice Craar-ar Topeka, Kas. Topeka, Ran., May 28. Toneka. Kan.. Mav 2A NEW YORK KGGfS 22423t CREAMERY BUTTER Chicago. 2Se, 'w 5k 31c: Elein- S; Xopaka whc&i "oltrr. and Batter. IKu.mabed by ilia Topeka Packing Com. corner loreot and MadisonTj HBN li vJFH .Sig. ibs lie; duck.. c: geese. 7"rolle7 2 lbs. and higher. 2fc; staga Ue, 1 EGGS 18c ue. INDIAN RUNNER POCKS-ag. Topeka Uila Ifc'uruuUied by S. B. BUlard, coil sas Are. ana Curtis St) Topeka, Kan OATS Wctft-. ffHB.IT-MOt&gne. Tonesca Hay Market. (Furnished by "1. A 8eck7?i2.14 B. rAlE HAi-oka- M May 2a

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL-- FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 26, 1916 A FEW EXCURSION FARES For 1916 Limit Oct. 31 Chicago and return $21.32 St. Louis and return. .$14.52 Washington and return $51.65 Portland, Me., and return .$60.52 $54.52 $40.82 42.32 $37.47 39.02 $32.32 $37.82 42.32 Montreal and return Buffalo and return Pittsburg and return j Detroit and return Mackinac and return St. Paul and Minneapolis and

$21.32 $37.50 $34.50 return. Glacier Park and return Yellowstone and return to Both Parks and return .$47.50 Denver, Colo. Spgs. and Pueblo and return. $1 7.50 Salt and Lake return $32.50 Pac. Coast and return. .$60.00 60 Day Limit $51.82 Boston and return., -j 54 $51.52 New York and return 54.52 Montreal and return $42.42 Detroit and return $30.82 Portland, Me., and return $50.12 Buffalo and return $37.32 Toronto and return. $37.32 Circuit Tours New York Boston $55.27 up Peru, So. America $661.85 SsTSSTJ. T. Steel Equipped Trains to Chicago, St. Louis St. Paul, Colorado and California via Rock Island Lines Ask about Fares to points not quoted There are Scores of them C. E. Bascom C. P. A. Phone 4036 Hot Water for Sick Headaches Tells why everyone 'hould drink hot water with phoephate in It before breakfast. Headache of any kind Is caused toy auto-intoxication which means seif poisoning. Liver and bowel poisons called toxins, sucked into the blood, through the lymph ducts, eacclte the heart, which pumps the blood so fast that it congests in the smaller arteries and wins of the head producing vio lent, throbbing pain and distress, called headache. You become nerv ous, despondent, sick, feverish and miserable, your meals sour and al most nauseate you. Then you resort to acetanihde, aspirin or the bro mides, which temporarily relieve but do not rid the blood of these irritat ing toxins. A glass of hot water with a tea spoonful of limestone phosphate in it, drink before breakfast for awhile, will not only wash these poisons from your system and cure you of headache, but will cleanse, purfiy and freshen the entire alimentary canal. Ask your pharmacist for a quarter pound of Smestone phosphate. It is inexpensive, harmless as sugar, and al most tasteless, except for a sourish twinge, which is not unpleasant. If you aren't feeling your best, if tongue is coated or you wake up with bad taste, foul breath or have colds, indigestion, biliousness, constipation or sour, acid stomach, begin the phos phated hot water cure to rid your system of toxins and poisons. Results are quick and it is claimed that those who continue to flush out the stomach, liver and bowels every morning never have any headache or know a miserable moment. Adv. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. I Others have been Cared of Rapture with an S&T Truss Why not You? Don't Tear Your RUPTURE Larger cncEitfl- Draw the lips of the Bnsture tobeal by using an S&T Truss WBaMslraas-mk IssUv mdjwtc to itt- STAH9HZLD, Hanr-Tiiusaa. r DesnoneftrasttosR. TUB S TTUOT CO. Early Summer Clothes as full of life as a college freshman Handsome models some full lined some quarter lined some unlined. All of the finest woven fabrics and most beauti ful patterns. All correct styles nothing else. $15, $20, $25 We're pleasing hundreds. Why not yon? STRAW HATS Showing the newest shapes in Straws and Panamas Bankoks, Leg horns and Milans. A wonderful assortment to select from $2.00 to $7.50 Fancy Puggaree Hat Bands 500 Wilson Phoenix Hosiery Men and -Women TAKING JHE LEAD United States Rapidly Is Be coming Foremost Nation Declares Judge Gary in Speech to Iron Men. GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS They Should Work in Harmony, the Speaker Declares. Should Fight to Enforce Peace if Necessary. New York, May 26. Declaring that the United States is rapidly becoming the leader among the nations of the wcrid and that it is "high time for every one to understand that a large majority of the people of the United States will insist upon the utilization of every facility to protect and further honorably the interests of their own country," Judge Elbert H. Gary spoke here today at the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel institute on what he considered "Momentous Questions." "There are now confronting the people," he said, "certain momentous questions. They involve life, liberty and happiness. It is likely opportunity will be given voters to express their views in the near future on some of these questions. The large majority have a frienHlv futinv ,1 i -i -wmcuu i uni- ness success, so long as it is decently and fairly conducted. "The government and the business men should work in harmony with referense to these matters. "The markets of the world are mul tiplying in number and increasing in importance. We are hoping for open ports in every country. We have not heretofore had our proportionate share of this trade. One reason is found in, the lack of ships owned, con troJi2.d and operated by Americans. TVhen the present war is ended, these conditions will be even worse unless there are adopted laws or amendments that will place our mer chant marine practically on an equal ity with that of other nations. "We are in favor of peace for our nation; not at any price, but we would if necessary pay liberally for it. We would fight any other nation but only defensively. However, we do not wish for war. "The United States must be pre pared to protect her commerce on the seas. She must be ready to support other nations in the insistence that the ports of all foreign friendly nations shall remain free and open to all. And even more important to consider we should be able to exert a powerful in fluence in aiding and even compelling international peace." FIVE NURSES GRADUATE Class Prom St. Francis Hospital Given XHplomas. Is Graduation exercises for five nurses at St. Francis hospital were held Thursday evening at Elks hall. Gov ernor Capper delivered an address and the Rev. Mr. Mclnerney of the Church of the Assumption, told of the history and achievements of the Sisters of Charity. Degrees were conferred by the Very Rev. F. M. Hayden. The graduates are: Miss Katherine Han na, Arkansas City; Miss Alice Roche, Montana; Miss Lois Brewer, Paxico: Mix, Ella Nagel, Alton; Miss Ro6e Downey, Alma. Lux's orchestra furnished musr? A salutatory was given by the pupil nurses. An address was delivered by Dr. M. C. Porter, followed by a vocal solo by R. N. Lattner. Manhattan Shirts In finely woven madras and silks You know Manhattans $1.50 to $5.00 Early Summer Neckwear The largest variety in the city. 50c to $2.00 Brothers' Athletic Underwear Oddities Culled u From Day's News Chicago If William Woodheft did not have such big feet he would have escaped. Police searching for him on an embezzlement charge were about to quit when they saw his number twelves protruding from under the bed. Chicago Jim Larkin, who organ ized the Irish Citizen army, threw Matthew Newman out of a meeting here when the latter expressed his ap proval of the "Englieh executions of the Irish rebels." Chicago A small boy eating an ap ple in the middle of a street sent Mrs. Barbara Kold's auto crashing through a display window when she tried to miss hitting the boy. Chicago Neighborhood gossips, saying Aldrich Kudema was a loafer instead of "just out of work," caused Kudema to commit suicide by shoot ing himself, his family said today. Milwaukee Miss Florence Deakin. freshman at Downer college,- would rather be an honest-to-goodness. sleep-in-the-haystack trampette than anything else in the world, she writes in the student publication. PENNSYJFOR T. R. It's Roosevelt Against Whole Field in That State. Senator Penrose May Throw Support From Hughes. Philadelphia, May 26. It's Roose velt against the field in Pennsylvania. There is a pronounced, emphatic sentiment in this state for the nomina tion of the colonel at Chicago. This sentiment is as strong with the Re publican voters, down in the rank and file, as it is with the Progressive or Washington party voters. There iB no outstanding sentiment for any other man now seriously considered as pos sible as a nominee of the Chicago con vention. That is a fair characterization of hew the Pennsylvania voters feel about the approaching conventions at Chicago gained from talking with men who supported Roosevelt in 1912 and with men who opposed him. How this sentiment will be trans lated into votes when the seventy-six delegates chosen at the recent primary cast their ballots in Chicago, no one not even the leaders can even pre dict at this time. There nave been many stories and many rumors as to how Senator Pen rose feels about the situation. Senator Penrose will tell you himself he does not know whom he is for; that he is going to canvass the situation after he gets to Chicago and decide then where his influence will be turned. Close friends of the Pennsylvania sen ator, who is having the fight of his life to retain the party leadership, say he is for this man; another bunch of close friends will say he is for that, man. The real facts of the situation, -are these. Senator Penrose is goinf!;t2 clare himself for the winner at Chi cago if he can find out in time who that winner is. He got enough of bucking popular sentiment in 1912. Furthermore, he will need the support of the federal patronage, if the Re publicans should win, to retain com mand of the organization in Penn sylvania. There is no "stand at the last ditch" in his system this time to beat any man or any faction. Hughes Is Not His Choice. Personally his choice is Fairbanks, but he isn't going to press that choice, knowing that as a presidential candi date Fairbanks is a "dead one." Be tween Roosevelt and Hughes, Penrose is emphatically for Roosevelt, and that in spite of the fact that the colonel entered Pennsylvania just two years ago and made a bitter personal campaign against him. Wilson Bros. Fancy Hosiery IN NORTHTOPEKA New Dairy and Cream Station To Be Built. More Russians Are Expected From Old Country. Work will be started the first of next week on the new dairy and cream station that will he built by Frank Kpller, proprietor of the Kaw Valley dairy. The building will be a frame structure, with fixtures up to date. It will be built at 1200 Kansas avenue. It will replace the old tabernacle. Death of Ed Graft. j-Ed Graft.' age 66, died at his home, 1109 Central avenue, on Thursday aft ernoon. He is survived by his wife and one son, Fred Graft, Mr. Graft has been a resident of the North side for more than thirty years. He was a member of the Red Men lodge, Wara panoa No. 93, and the Modern Wood men lodge. Funeral announcements will be made later. More Russians Coming. An increase in the population of Little Russia will soon be made, fill ing the places of those families who have left and are leaving for the beet sugar fields of Colorado and the west. Next Sunday another trainload of families will go to Sterling, Colo., to work for the Great Western Sugar factory.-- The increase will come with the opening of the port at Archangel, and the installing of a sailing line of vessels. Several families of men now in Topeka are on their way to this city, and will take the places of those who have left for the west. Party in the Country. The following young people of Ly man school district were entertained Thursday evening at the Lee Carr home on R' R. No. 4 by Miss Mildred Carr; Virginia Reed, Frances Tow ler, Lucile Fisher, Olive Fisher, Eva Ghear, Ruth See, Helen Wheaten, Ad- die Knight. Virginia McMurphy, Frances Rogers, Iva Rogers, Dorothy Cloudy, Alta Walkley, Charles Rogers, Frank Walkley, Earl Huston, Glenn Pyle, Jewell Pyle. Victor Price, Hub bard Fritz, .Harry Fritz, Aurel Reed, Mcrl Carr, Dale Reed. A musical program was given as entertainment during the evening. Notes and Personals. Mrs. C. C. Millburne is very ill at her home, 1113 Van Buren street! She is suffering from a severe nervous stroke, and the doctors give relatives little hope for her recovery. Mrs. L D. Ketchum of Silver Lake is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Saunders. Miss Lucile Smith of Denver, Col., arrived today as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Van Ness of 1709 Kansas avenue. Why not buy your clothing of S. R. Graham Clothing Co. The prices are cheaper. They are out of the high rent district. Adv. Miss Mary Knauer of 22 Blaine street has returned to her home after a ten days' visit to Seymour, Iowa, with friends. A meeting of the Wampanoa lodge No. 93 Red Men will be held this evening. Nomination of officers will be made at this meeting, to be elected at the meeting next week- See the bargains In Millinery at Courtney's, 603 Kansas Ave. Adv. All members of North Topeka amp No. 1243 Modem Woodmen of Amer ica are requested to meet at the hall at 1:30 p. m. on Sunday to attend the funeral of Neighbor E. J. Graft. Adv. BETHANY SENIOR PLAY The Graduating Class Will Present "As You Like It." The senior class of Bethany college will present "As Tou Like It" next Saturday evening. The play is to be an outdoor performance on the cam pus in front of Wolfe hall. All parts, whether masculine or feminine, are to be taken by the girls. Following is the cast of characters: The Duke Louise Klersred Doke Frederic Harriet Hill Orlando w n i v.hh Oliver Irene Toliver Jje Bean Bveleen White Adam Ollie Kjhir! Touchstone Helen Silver Jaqnes ...Eveleen White wniiam oille Rehbera Corin .....Louise Kiersted Charles Harriet Hill Rosalind Jessie Burnetts Celia Marlorie Baxter Audrey Neva ReUberg A small admission will he charged. WHY THEY FAINTED Militiamen's Knees Weakened When Vaccinated for Typhoid. San Antonio, Texas, May 26. Mili tiamen in large numbers fainted while waiting in line to be innoculated with anti-typhus virus here. But this weakness is not exclusive with the militiamen. Army physicians say it often happens in the regular army. The true cause has not been learned. They use the blanket explanation of "psychological phenomenon." There is no pain, neither an ugly spilling of blood. But typhoid fever is danger ous, often causing death. The thought acts on the emotions. AT THE THEATERS At the Orpheum. Douglas Fairbanks, who stars in the Griffith production, "The Good Bad Man." at the Orpheum this week, is given credit as being the most accom plished comedian before the cameras tonay. The picture which is to be shown tonight and tomorrow is a western play and a whirlwind of action ai.d comtdy from' start to finish. The film program is completel virh a good Keystone comedy. The Orpheum management will jjfva a special matinee tor the children Sat urday afternoon from 1 until 2. At the Iris. Hamilton Revelle and Marguerite Snow are presented today and tonight at the Iris in the dashing mystery pic ture, "The Half Million Bribe." From tragedy to reformation of the leading baa character is the moral nrinciDle of William Hamilton Osborne's novel just filmed and released. Burton Holmes's travelogues will also be shown today and tonight at the Iris. Yes. and the same charming music will be rendered to fit the play. Tomorrow the Iris will show "Sins of Men" in which Stuart Holmes and Dorcthy Bernard play the roles. LADIES AND GENTS DRESS WELL! KEEP COOL! LOWEST PRICES, EASY TERMS No money down, 1 a week H ARRIS 5 X YEAR W Case- Ik y (300111(3 To Washington Baltimore, NewYork, Boston, Phaadelphia, Atlantic City? Other Resorts on the Jersey Coast or the Playgrounds of New England? GO The Scenic and Historic Route through the Alieghanies, up the world famed Potomac Valley, stopover at any pant or point, proceed as desired, return as you elect by way of Great Lakes and Northern Summer Resorts. Go Via America's FIRST Railroad. "OO.DOO,OOttOO worth of improvement in the last fear years makes it 111. FINEST, and K toe luui. Baltimore Look for fhefe rVir P. D. Q. PJ Look for the deriTs head on every package of Pesky BevU' Quitaa (F. D. Q.K made in Indiana, then you wUl have the chemical cora Douod that exctuaTlT rtds the worst infested house of Bed i Fteaa. F 1 XxxmoasfblA for them to ex- F 1st with its proper use. 25c k pac lc age makes one Quart. W At drug' stores, or sent post- Fi- paid 2$c stamps or coin, by SV-, Owl Chemical Co. Terre h Haute. Ind. Sold by George Stansfield. sei GOULD Storage Batteries AH Makes of Batteries Recharged Is Electric Co. i 108 W. 8th Phone 834 1 SYSTEM Call or write for "See America and 1 broaeh FAst 7Zj. the Mountain to the Sea" Booklet that answer ytjA ft ,Vr iSav every tuitstiun oi eatem travel picture and f. V i i .Tfflf fc f 15; fc describes the East. Ijijdfsi RT J. P. Rogerman. Western Pass. Act, I wtwSsV V 91 1 Walnut Su Kansas Crtr. E i V Tlk IN 1 BeVBI A STORE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE BE GENTS PALM BEACH SUITS $5.00 AND UP. Men and Young Men's light weight Suits Blue Serge, English Serge $14 Up Pinch Back Suits, all styles grey, stripes, fancy or plain. Hand tailored and just the kind you want. Raincoats, the good kind $3 Up Hats Right kind and quality. $2 Up Ladies' Palm Beach Suits. $5 Up Silk Dresses, Silk Coats, Silk Skirts Latest styles and colors $3.50 Up GO AR'S, 104 E. 50weiBuys This 17 iriVFl ri riM w-un, HUEil 1UUIU 1 U1J L 1 1 WEEK AND SAVE $U.0 This is a beautiful 12 -size, thin model gold watch, -fancy or plain case 17 fine ruby and sap phire jewels. A dandy Elgin watch, made to split. the seconds. Look today. Bring this ad and save $5.25. Let the Elgin be your watch. The easy payment way It is easy. HARRIS-GOAR'S 104 East 6th Street LOW FARE TICKETS Throughout The Summer Ohio Geo. Brown Phone 1202 903 W. 6th St. Specials for Tomorrow: 12 lbs. Sugar. $1.00 Little Quaker Peas, can 15 Tomatoes, large can 10 dozen $1.10 F. F. O. G. Corn, can. .llfA dozen .$1.25 25c can Calumet or Rum ford Baking Powder ZOf 25c bottle Moar 20f Sour Pickles, doz 5 Pure Cider Vinegar,gal.22 Fancy Head Lettuce, bunch 5 Pineapples, large size. .10 Asparagus, 8 bunches. 10f Mustard, peck 10 Radishes, bunch 1 Spinach, peck 10 Shredded Cocoanut, lb. 25 Fresh Meat, Squabs, Poul try and Vegetables at Reasonable Prices CONVINCED. 6TH. nrvwass. hi -f. tismmn KSTBB Crtl 1 1 fSB3.0f-E!tlS? MtMlalt J fi aa Oiiv (pAmnAfifAve PI Mere Statement III tig Isn't Proof-Positive? jl Neither is Ours? ill Find out for Yourself! If ill That is the Proof Iff fi Saturday HI We have a nice list ill of money-savers. P Dandy fresh Country f I Butter, lb 27 f 13 Fresh Country Eggs, i No. i iBr si Pure Cane -Granulated III Eg Sugar, 12.1bs. $lJ0O f S Fresh white-Icicle Rad- j BS ishes, 6 bunches 50 ill Fresh round. Red Rad- 2; ishes, n ew patch, slf SIS 6 bunches .5s S? iff Green Onions, fine, 4 jf S bunches 5C U Fine,- sweet Turnips, sll 3 bunch le, iff HI 4 lbs. Pie Plant... 5J f H Small new home grown slf 3 Beets, 3 bunch. 10c S Extra fancy Bananas, Zti if. very reasonable. f ffj Fine 20c Lemons, doz. flf III for ..15? flf H 12yc lbs. fine Granu- I'm g: lated Sugar Sl.OO H White House Flour, I CS5 (none better no mat- SSI ter what you pay), lis a 48 lb. sack $1.48 Large box Matches 3? SUS OK ona orfra fino SSJ Tuna Fish 20f Sfl fit Bayles Summer Horse Slf f Radish, 10c bot. 8- fi Our Fine Bread, 3 for SSS 10(, 4 and 80 f Finest Cider Vinegar, s il gal. ..250 i p 25c bottle best Grape lit. la Juice 200 p 15 40c pail Table Syrup, 8? If for 350 g Large can Solid Ap- pies, called gal. 2O0 S fi Large can Peaches, siH 5; called gallon .280 We expect to have 3 fine home grown jj H Strawberries very pi cheap. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAC FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1916 An Innnondeni Newspaper. By FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. 'Entered July I. 1875. as second-class matter at the poatoffice at Topeka. Kan tinder the act of eongreai.J VOLUME XXXVIII .No. 126 Office State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DsltY edition. delivered by carrier. 10 rents a week to any part or 'lopeau or suburbs or at the same price In any Kan sas town where the paper has a carrier system Bt mall, one year ""V2J By mall, six months J-JJJ By mall. 100 calendar days 1UU TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call 3530 and ask the State Journal operator tor person or department desired. Topeka State Journal building. WW. soz and R04 Kansas avenue, corner Eighth. New York Office. 250 Fifth avenue, Paul Block, manager. Chlcaeo Office. Mailers building. Panl Block, manager. Detroit Office. Kresg building. Panl ftlnr-k. manager. Boston Office. 201 Devonablre street. Panl Block, manager. 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That's the -day when a special election will be Jield to vote on bonds for the recon struction and enlargement of the audi torium. It has been many years since a more important proposition has been presented to the people of this city. One of the largest of the city's assets is 'the reputation it has as a convention city, and that it is already the favored 1 meeting place of some of the lcrgest conventions that assemble in this sec tion of the country. It caunot con tinue in possession of this asset unless it has a larger convention hall, one that will accommodate all the people that have been coming here to these big conventions; and the place that they meet in must be absolutely as safe as it is possible to make it. That's the reason for the proposal to recon struct and enlarge the auditorium and j. make It nearly fireproof as a build ing can be. made- More evidence that war Is terribly worse than the characterization given it by General Sherman. Another re sult of the European conflict has been to force the entire German nation to what is practically an exclusive vege tarian diet. was there ever an instance of a woman being arrested or mixed up in any kind of a court case whom the chivalrous reporters for newspaper did not describe as "pretty" or "attrae tive?" Another fine thing about pleasant weather is that it so Quickly brushes out of the mind all memorial of the distressing or distasteful weather that may have preceded it. Under the national guard provisions of the new army law, each state will have a complement of militia on the basis of 800 men for each of its con gressional districts. This will increase the numerical strength of the Kansas National Guard to about 6,500 men. It now approximates 4,000 men. Neither has the Sphinx anything on Justice Hughes in the matter of main taining silnce. But the Sphinx has the easier time of it at that. The Sphinx couldn't talk if it wanted to. Evidently the Entente Allies are pretty well satisfied that they are get ting the Central Powers on the hip. else Sir Edward Grey, the British for eign minister, would not have been so emphatic with his recent announce ment that peace proposals are impos sible now. Suppose the Kansas wheat crop for this year doesn't exceed the 90,000, 000 bushels that some of the experts in the premises are now forecasting. That will be better than the ten-year average for wheat crops in Kansas, t ana in tnis average is figured the monster crop of 1914, the one that i rolled up 177,000.000 bushels. So isn't a 90,000.000 bushel wheat crop good enough for Kansas, good enough for an off year? Or must Kansas, in order to maintain her wheat reputa- tion and satisfy every one at home :-or abroad, produce a crop each year that bumps the bumper crop of the year before, or the record crop, out of the limelight? Now that the Germans have taken Fort Douaumont again, it will be in order for France to announce that the position is of no strategic value or consequence, and notwithstanding the fact that the soldiers of France were sacrificed and slaughtered a Tew days figo to wrest this point from the Ger Aans, who captured it for the first time at the beginning of the Battle of Verdun." But this struggle around Verdun seems to be more than a mere battle. It's a whole war by itself. WHO SPLIT THE G. O. P.? Who was responsible for thai split in the Republican party in 1912 that re sulted in such a disastrous division of the party at the polls? The blame has been pretty generally placed in divers quarters on Colonel Roosevelt and it is on this score that so many of the old-line Republicans have been so unwilling for so long to consider him again as a presidential candidate. They charge him with the destruction of the party four years ago. They have been reluctant to for give him. And did not this feeling prevail among not a few Republicans, Colonel Roosevelt's name would probably be the only one for the pres idential nomination to be presented to the soon -to-assemble Republican na tional convention. But, as a matter of fact, was Colo nel Roosevelt responsible for the schism of four years ago that tempor arily wrecked the Republican party? A searching analysis of the facts surrounding the activities that were incident to the conduct of the Repub lican national convention of 1912 does not so seem to indicate. Certainly such an analysis does not show that Colonel Roosevelt was wholly to blame; and there would appear to be good grounds for the as sertion that the entire blame belongs elsewhere. Whether Colonel Roosevelt's efforts to obtain the Republican presidential nomination in 1912 was well-advised Is not a part of the question at Issue. He had bis rights in the conven tion, though. He had been a member of the party all his life and had serv ed it with distinction. It had honored him generously, it is true. Whether it had honored him enough is also a question that should not have been much of a factor In the situation; nor was It. There was a considerable sentiment in the Republican party that was or the opinion it hadn't. How consider able It was was not disclosed to the doubters until the votes were counted on' election day. This count showed that 4.100,000 of the voters in the Republican party had left it to vote for Roosevelt, while only 3,400,000 of the members of the party stuck to the presidential choice of their national convention ana fol lowed their party into the Jltch. It is also a fact that the sentiment in the party for Roosevelt for presi dent was represented in the Repub lican convention by a number of delegates regularly chosen by the voters of the party, either at pri maries or in local conventiona So it will sorely be conceded that Roosevelt had rights in this conven tion. When It appeared that there was danger of a deadlock in the conven tion and a fracture of the party some of the wiser heads among the party- leaders on both sides suggested that party harmony might be preserved if the names of both Colonel Roosevelt and President Taft were withdrawn from the convention and a compro mise candidate named. How did Colonel Roosevelt meet this suggestion? Did he decline it? He did not. He agreed to have his name with drawn from the convention provided Taft's name was withdrawn; and pro vided further that the rolls of the convention should be "purged" and that only delegates with proper cre dentials be permitted to sit In the convention and name a presidential candidate other than himself or Mr. Taft. Was this an unreasonable request? Think it over! It is true that some of the contests for delegates that were made by Colonel Roosevelt and his friends were of a flimsy variety. But not a few of them were based on reason and Justice. And the steam roller that ironed out the affairs of the conven tion treated the latter contests with the same lack of consideration that it properly did the former. Was It unreasonable to ask the Republican national convention to un do some of the work that may have been improperly done by Its commit tee on credentials, for the sake, not only of party harmony, but also in order that the party might go be fore the people of the country with hands, against the cleanliness of which there could be no suspicion; and with a candidate, a compromise candidate in place of either Roosevelt or Taft, who had received his nomination only from delegates who had a right to sit in the convention. Instead of being an unreasonable request, it had the smack of being a fair and decent one, didn't it? But this, and this alone, was the proposition on which those in control of the convention balked. They were reluctant, it is true, to ask Mr. Taft to permit his name to be withdrawn, even in the interests of party harmony, because they knew that Mr. Taft had his heart set on the renomination to which he thought he was entitled, and which it seemed that he was. But they probably would have brought this about had they been willing to revamp, the rolls of the con vention. This they were unwilling to do, re gardless of the justice of Mr. Roose velt's suggestion that it be done. Per haps they believed that such an act would have been a confession on their part that the committee on credentials had not been entirely square in, the discharge of its duties; and that the convention Itself erred and committed a wrong when it accepted the report of this committee. However, the committee on creden tials was only a fraction of the mem bership of the convention. For the convention, as a whole, to say that this committee had made mistakes would have been no very serious reflection on the few delegates who served on the committee, or the majority of them that controlled it. Nor would it have been any stigma on the con vention had it reversed its action in accepting Use credential committee's report. Such procedures are rather common In air deliberative bodies, even in both houses of congress and they carry no reproach for the mis takes made, for the errors confessed. But those who were in control of this convention were adamant, and against the wiser counsels even of some of their numbers. t They refused to accept the terms for a compromise that were suggested by Colonel Roosevelt, and one that would have eliminated him from the presidential situation and permitted the party to go into the presidential campaign with a clean convention rec ord and with a united front against the common enemy. Under all of these circumstances, does the blame for the split of 1912 in the Republican party actually belong wholly or even In part on the shoulders of Colonel Roosevelt? Mustn't it rather be shared or shoul dered by the leaders of the Republi can party who would not meet Colonel Roosevelt and his friends within the party even halfway In an effort to compose the differences In the party that had developed at that fatal con vention. A majority of the voters of the Re publican party seemed to think that this was where the blame belonged. More than 4,000,000 of them left the Republican party to vote for Theodore Roosevelt as the presidential candidate of the Progressive party. These 4,100,000 erstwhile Republi can voters were a full 700,000 more voters than those who remained with the Republican party and accepted the verdict of those who controlled its na tional convention. Now who was it that was actually responsible for tha split in the Repub lican party in 1912? Was it Roosevelt? It doesn't so appear. Journal Entries Charity is a fine thing but too much of it is misdirected. Men may be difficult to please but it would appear that women are more so. Too many folk think that they should be unusually rewarded merely for doing their duty. Music may have charms to soothe the savage breast but a good deal of the so-called stuff works oppositely with civilized beings. Jayhawker Jots A young Missourian named Peach married a Barton county one at Great Bend the other day. This consolation is projected by the lola Register: "If the price of gaso line goes up high enough and stays up long enough, a substitute is mighty sure to be found for it." A rather discouraging but neverthe less consolatory observation 'by the McPherson Republican: No man solves all of life's problems and few leave the world with all their heart's desires fulfilled. Nev R. Was is quoted by the Hia- watha world as protesting: rm agin this here idea of setting the clocks an hour ahead. Such action would make it time for me to go home to dinner before I get up to go down town. A rowing fisherman gathers no moss, maxims Carl Brown of the Atchison Globe, and he contributes this testimony to give it substance As far as the Atchison lakes are con cerned, the fishermen who do. their best never move their boats. A Greenleaf surgeon recently recov ered a fine' pair of surgical scissors that he had lost in a cistern, notes the Beloit Gazette, and it adds: Usually when a surgeon loses a pair of sur gical scissors, it is found that the scis sors were sewed up In a patient. The Erie Sentinel also seems to be a Safety First enthusiast. It -prints a report of what the weather was dur ing the day and the night before on its own responsibility, 'nut it is particular to label the weather predictions it publishes as a Government Forecast. This is the time of the year when the graduate gets an armful of books and several carloads of advice, ob served the Independence Reporter re cently, and the Independence Free Press added: And it's the time in life when the graduate gets a whole lot of good advice that it will take from five to ten years to begin to soak in right good. Globe Sights BY TUB ATCHISON GLOBB. AH men are evil, but necessary evils. So much of the energy is wasted energy. Your carelessness probably is your hoodoo. There's always a reason, but the hammer is deaf and blind. The census taker counts, but many of the rest of us merely estimate. Sometimes the reactionary is only guilty of the crime of common sense. What has become of the old-fashioned vocalist who had to be coaxed to sing? There are a lot of people who like to be urged to do what they intend to do anyhow. The science of mechanics is old, for there nave always been men who could hit automatically. There is snch a thing as being too modest, but it rarely affects prize fighters or press agents. Ab. Adklns says he has an uncle who is so stingy that the only lunch he really enjoys in a free lunch. You are apt to be tried in the court of public opinion, and the constitu tion can't guarantee justice in that court. In time the pacifists may demand that the navy use the Chautauqua sa lute instead of firing big guns. If there is a family skeleton, the children can be relied upon to rattle it a bit when there is company pres ent. One of the first lessons a woman should learn is that it is more im portant for her to be neat than for her bouse to be neat. Tennis is regarded as a sissy sort of game by those who never tried play ing it, and prejudice is responsible for a number of .other opinions of this somewhat human race. International Sunday School Lesson BY W. T. ILU3. For May 28 Is "The Council at Jerusalem." Acts .15:1-35. Liberalism's Great Victory. M Mav is the month of eccleslasttea4 conventions, and Dy tne ume tnese words are read most of them will be in full swine or already adjourned. Among ministers and church workers these gatherings are a principal subv ject of present interest. A striking parallel may be round Between mesa pf them and the first council of the Christian church, which was held in Jerusalem about the year 50, andj which is the theme of-the present InJ ternational Lesson. It was the first of the great church councils themselves an -illuminating line of -study to pursue, in this connect tion. It would be interesting to com pare the greatness of the topics de bated in the early church councils with the littleness of some of the -themes that have engrossed the meetings this month. A broad, sweeping ana serious indictment to be brought against the ecclesiastical assemblies of May of the present year is that there has been apparent in their deliberations less of the spiritual crisis created by the world cataclysm than there has been of ecclesiastical politics and minor matters of administration. In larger aspect, there is the same struggle under way this month as was witnessed In the first Church Council the endless strife between. formalism, tradition, prescription and proscription on the one -hand, and on the other the growing, ex panding life of the Church. The literalists are still with us, caring more for a precedent than for a prin ciple. The struggle for adherence to formal practices is perhaps best illus trated by the debate over amuse ments. The w-rld is used to a dis cussion of whether Christians may smoke, or ero to the theater or ride m automobiles- whicn was actually tne subject of legislation at a recent con vention of one of the minor denomina tions or wear hooks and eyes in stead of buttons, or ride in street cars on Sundav. or belong to social organ izations which do not conform to me usaares and convictions of certain bodies of cnnstians. nerc we nave the reappearance of the Judaizmg Christians of the anostolic Church, who insisted that all believe, s should conform to the practices which they themselves favored. It is not generally Known tnat one of the great problems of foreign mis sions- is the frequent appearance on the field of emissaries who want to win the converts to their special views of .Christian practice. Many a mis sionary could tell of his heartburnin; experiences with these "nonness ana other representatives, who shun the work of winning converts to Christ from heathendom, but give themselves to converting native Christians to their particular tenets. The struggle between cnristian iid erty and Church restrictions is old and continuous, wnat is toe iiDerty ot to day may be the restraint of tomorrow, Probably it is inevitable that the is sue first joined in the Jerusalem Council should continue through all other ecclesiastical gatherings to the end of time. At least, it is steadying to read the reports of present-dav ec clesiastical meetings in- the ligUt of fit. Luke's narrative of this 'vfirst Church Council, and Paul's own tnn ment upon it. as found in the Second Chapter of Galatians. Some of us extract comfort from the observation that even in the apostolic Church the Christians were not angels. Mischief Makers in Antioch. Some Christians from Judea the historian does not think them worth di,jnifying by name had gone down to Antioch and had troubled the new Church there by trying to correct its procedure. They accused the An tioch Christians of not being thor oughly orthodox. Imagine it! These nobodys, who had themselves not been on the firing line of missionary work, were taking to task that great throbbing, outreaching, vital Church at Antioch! The capacity of petty persons for making trouble in a con gregation has been noted by all ob servers of church life. Men and women who carry not a straw's weight in business, or social or com munity life, are capable of disturbing the peace of an entire church. Most of us have seen the harmony of con gregations marred by some poor little mischief makers who in all other spheres are entirely inconsiderable. Still, they give the church a chance to prove its religion. Such were the meddlesome saints who went down to. Antioch, and trou bled the serenity and unity of that great company of disciples; for these Antioch Christians wanted to do right. The most conscientious persons on earth are church members. This group of men and women who werei eager to follow tne luiiest trutn tney knew, whatever the cost to them selves, are a noble spectacle. The world cannot do without this leaven of conscientious folk who are ready to follow truth anywhere. Christians are often called narrow-minded, but it is really the open-mmdedness of the disciples of Christ which makes pos sible all the new sects and schisms and cults, which build on the estab lished foundation of Christian loyalty to truth. Down in Antioch the church had wise shepherds who were not willing to let their flock be continually wor ried by the new issues raised. They decided to appeal to the mother church at Jerusalem. They knew the wisdom of getting a decision. Why wrangle and squabble forever over a point that should be decided once and for all? So Paul and Barnabas were sent to Jerusalem to confer with the apostles and the elders and tbe home church. A Journey Over the Land. There are few perso-is of any im agination who have not at some time, or other desired to take this trip. which was made by Paul and Barna bas. Every newspaper correspondent in the world would rather go over their route today than go anywhere else on the map. What light is would shed on the present world war, in the strategic centers of Turkey, could one follow the Paul and Bar nabas route, down from Antioch past tne mountain wnere tne 4,000 Chris tian Armenians successfully withstood the Turks: down past Tripoli, in Syria; through Beirut, where an American warship rides at anchor: and through romantic old Sidon, with its vaulted streets; and to Haifa, at the upper end of Mt Carmel. where the German colony is, and where the railroad strikes inland through Galilee. There we could learn all about the new rail way system, and we could even take train for Damascus and Aleppo, there to gather war news for whic any newspaper In the land which any high prices. At rvablus we would find the headquarters of the Turkish army, and a new railway center; for now tie very route that Paul and Barnabas took we may follow by rail to the city of Jerusalem. The first man in after Turkey's gates arc open will write a story that will have the ears of the whole world. It was not by raiL but aboard pa tient donkeys, or else afoot, that Paul and Barnabas made their way down through Phoenicia and Samaria, preaching as tney went. Catch that point? The great missionaries had not been diverted from their main work by the church controversy. When doctrinal or administrative dis agreements hinder the work of the Church, then God may pity us. The denomination that turns aside from its first work in order to -debate and dis cuss, has been sorely misled. Panl and Barnabas were first of all and last of all preachers, and only incidentally controversalists. A good plumbline to apply to every man who thinks him self a contender for the faith is this: Is he to be found in the forefront of evangelism, and in the rescue missions. and in the teaching; work of the Church? The men from Antioch were wel comed by tbe Church at Jerusalem. The differences of opinion did not dis turb their cordial relationships. And those Jerusalem Christians were more eager to hear of the Gospel's triumphs in Syria and in Asia Minor than they were to talk about the controversy that had brought Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem. The Great Debate. I talked the other day with a man who had heard the famous Lincoln- Douglas debates, and I do not wonder that this privilege had been with him a lifetime pride. Wise persons go far to attend the great debates in con gress and parliament and ecclesias tical assemblies. It Is pathetic when these lofty discussions are marred by petty partisanship and strife for polit ical advantage. I have heard strong men struggling over great principles at church meetings, and I thank God that there are still mighty men to contend for the truth as they see it. The last mention in the Inspired History that we have of Peter occurs in this discussion at the first Church Council, when he stood up as the champion of Christian liberty. Three points no made. The first was tnat the Spirit had borne witness to the validity of the Gentile converts. This was the argument that had prevailed when he himself was answering to the Church for his experience with the house or Cornelius. The second point was that the yoke which Judaism was trying to lay on the neck of the new Christians was one which even their fathers had not been able to bear. As the golden text says, "For freedom did Christ set us free." Then the third point, and the climax of Peter's argument, was that the cross of Christ alone is sufficient for salvation. It is not rites, nor ordi nances, but Christ Himself who saves the believer. The' Law ot. Liberty. xn mosi meetings there is some one man who makes tbe motion that shows the way out James, the Lord's Drotner, was that sort of bard-headed, practical man, as-bis epistle shows. He suggested the procedure which was 'adopted; a letter of greeting to the new Christians.- setting- forth the mind of the Church at Jerusalem. He put tne conviction of the whole church, apostles, elders and laitv. into Lwntten form, freeing the Gentile cnristians from the yoke of bondage. They were enioined to ahaln fnm all connection with idolatry, and to t?nrtltf immorality bt- heathendom, ate? they were also bidden to abstain from meat that had not been properly killed, i To us this last point seems but a confusion-of the lesser with the greater, but we can understand how it bulked large in the thinking of these jewisn unnsuans, to whom the Levit ical law was part of their dailv llf Thus was issued the Magna Charta of Christian liberty. Christianity is nui an emargea Judaism; it is a new life and a new liberty, applicable to every nation ''and condition. The Gospel is not a code, but a confes sion; not a program, but a principle not laws, but a Life. New Light for This Old World. Terse Comments on the Uniform Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young reopies societies christian En deavor, etc for May 28: "How Missions Are Blessing the World." HizeK. 47:1-12. The advent of Christ's truth means to a nation the advent of new ideas. more liberal thought, loftier national ideals, more healthful modes of liv ing, and, in a word, all of progress and advancement that are wrapped up in the word civilization. For civiliza tion's light is only a reflection of the Light of the world. The morning brings joy, hope, cour age, cheer, peace, and work. After the unrest and fears of the night, the coming of day is hailed as the sun of all blessings. In like manner the dawning of the missionary morning means to the world all that it has ever hoped for and needed. Missions bring light to homes. Dark and miserable are tbe homes into which Christ has not shined. His coming means new love in.the family, new trurt in one another, new unsel fishness, new service, new and larger interests, new hopes, new blessings shared by all, new purposes, and new life. What a transformation tne gos pel works In homes! Verily, its com ing is the dawning of -the eternal morning. Missions bring light to the individ ual. The advance of the missionary cause means the breaking of day millions of human hearts that are sick of the night. When Christ comes to a soul, with Him comes the radiance of new hope, new faith, new happiness, new desires, new tastes, -new life al together. If you want to serve your race, go where no one else will go, and do what no one else will do. Mary Lyon. Missionaries to a barbarous people deserve a vote of thanks from the commercial world. Robert Moffat. Missions bring light to nations. Japan, for instance, is called "the sun rise kingdom," yet she knew no spirit ual sunlight until the light of the gos pel shone upon her. The chief blessing of foreign mis sions is tbe knowledge of the Infinite Father which they bring.- taking the place of demons and insensate images and foul rates. Amos R. Wells. The kingdom grows one soul at a time. The false lights of other religions darken the world. Christ alone can bring light. In God's day there is no sunset. When the Sun of Righteousness rises He never goes down. Light forever and increasing follows His dawn. Christ's victories over darkness are eternal. When He drives it away it can never return. The missionary cause is a steady advance; it never loses ground, Thus the daybreak is spreading and soon -the perfect -day will come, when the light of Christ will envelop all the world. O'er the gloomy bills of darkness. Cheered by no celestial ray, Sun of Righteousness, arising, r. Bring the bright, the glorious day; Send the goapel To the earth's remotest bounds. Kingdoms wide that alt In darkness. Grant them. Lord, the glorious light; And from eastern coast to western. May the morning chase the night. And redemption. Freely purchased, win the day. Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel. Win and conquer never cease; May thy lasting, wide dominiona Multiply and still increase; Sway Thy scepter. Saviour, all the world around. Rev. William William a. On the Spur of the Moment BT ROY K. MOCLTON. Lnek. With determination grim I've followed superstition's whim. I ve picked up horseshoes by the score And hung them up above my door. And, though you may call it a joke, I've never dared to kill a cat; I've never spilled salt on a mat; Beneath a ladder I ne'er walk; Of fiendish dreams I never talk. I gaze at each new moon, sublime. O'er my right shoulder every time. But without sign of an excuse. Luck s turned me down so, wnat s the use?' Bad luck with me is now acut The moths have got my old spring suit. Uncle Abner. Hank Purdy is certainly one of our rising young business men. tie rises at 4 o clock every morning ana nur- ries over to the creamery. Elihu Hieeins says the more you do for some people the more you kin. Last week he gave his wife 10 cents to buy some lace and this week sne struck him for 45 cents to buy dress goods to go on it. A feller never knows until tne time comes whether he is going, to be daredevil or a coward, and you can t tell much by the looks of a feller, either. The Hardshell congregation of our village is thinkin some of cuttm down expenses by dispensing with the sermons and the music. There is only one thing that worries a woman more than the high cost of living, and that is her back hair. The only thing in the world that will stick tighter than a mustard plaster is a life insurance agent. The price of strawberries may be lower some day. but the bottoms of the boxes will never be. They are getting higher evry year. Since Anse Frisby took the green blinds offn his front winders his house is cross-eyed. Elmer Jones is lettin' his hair grow long and is almost ready to start out with a wagon and a gasoline torch in- troducin a tapeworm remedy. About the Size of It. On the back of an envelope found on the ground, after a gathering in South Carolina these fragments were jotted, surmised by the Columbia State to be the topical outline of a spell binders speech as penciled by rum be forehand:. Breathes there a man The fair women The great state The old veterans- God knows Familiar faces Joke Deep gratitude Prohibition Sandwich. Tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock mass meeting. Evangelist's topic, "Hell." Booze in the afternoon and hell in the evening. The East Palestine (O.) Leader. Evening Chat BY RUTH CAMERON. Domesticating the Recording Angel. Could anything be more astonish ing that the completeness with which some women let themselves go in front of their household em ployees? A woman who has recently hired a new helper told me this little in cident: "I broke a vase that belongs to my sister Phoebe, and you should have seen Ellen. Her eyes actually stood right out of her head. 'Oh, dear!' she said, 'ain't that awful Your sister'll be terrible mad with you.' 'Why, Ellen,' I said, 'of course she won't. It was only an accident Ladies don't get mad over such things. "'Oh, yes, they -do, ma'am,' she said. 'They get terrible mad You .ought to see some of the ladies I worked for fighting with each other-' "'Right before you?' 'Lord, yes,' she said. 'Some of them fine ladies don't mind me any more than if I was a doorknob.' Again, in a roundabout way this incident came to my ears. An acquaintance of mine has a children's maid. She was horrified the other day to hear her telling the children to shut up, and at once cen sured her. To which the maid promptly and pertinently replied, "But that's what you say to them." And it was. "To marry," says Stevenson, "is to domesticate the recording angel." The same thing can be said of hir ing a domestic helper. No one is in a better position to study human nature without its best clothes on than the household helper. "Employers I Have Known," what a book many a household helper could write on that subject! Of course there are a good many employers who shiver at the very thought of such a book. Their shivers betray them. The woman who is afraid of what her servant could say about her needs to turn over a new leaf. One of the most beautiful tributes I ever heard was an unconscious trib ute paid a woman by her chauffeur. She was riding in her machine with friends and one of them jestingly ac cused her of doing something unkind. To everyone's astonishment, the chauffeur, evidently greatly excited, leaped the barriers of convention and broke in with, "Oh,, no, you mustn't say that! The Madame would, never do anything like that." What would tbe helper in your home, the washerwoman who works for you, or your seamstress, say about you? It Is a suggestive-thought, isn't it? (Protected by the Adams Newspa per Service.) The Evening Story She Went Sailing. (By Oren McNeil.) At 4 o'clock in the afternoon Miss Blythe Winters finished her book. No matter what the title was, she was not to remember it an hour. No one girl in ten ever does. At 4:05 Miss Blythe rose languidly from her seat. At 4:08 she yawned. At 4:08 she took down an old skirt from a hook in the closet and proceeaea to get into it. At 4:15 she had changed her slippers for a pair oi stout warn ing shoes. At 4:18 she had hunted up her old hat. At exactly 4:zu sne ap peared before her mother down stairs and said: I am going sailing for about an hour." "But your brother Fred has gone to town." That makes no difference. I can sail a boat as well as he can." "Whv. Blvthe. vou haven t been out with him more than three times!" But wasn't I watching an tne time to see how it was done? Poof! AH you've got to do is to watch the wind." "But I wish you wouldn't go. Neither Fred nor your father may be hom before midnight. While I shall be back witnin two hours. There's a fine breeze, and it will blow the cobwebs away.' So lone, mother! Don't worry about von T-a tnilv It looks as easy as pie ro sui boat. In the first place, you want tne uirir-H riot too much HOf tOO llXT-ie. If the wind isn't right to sail up or down the lake, then sail across it. Don't think the breezes r ust be made You stumble into tne ooai anu nii xt Hnean't make buch a great difference about the stumble, but it is imperative about the sail. When it is up you make the halyards fast and go to the stern and take the tiller. Attached to the bottom of the sail is a boom, and attached to this boom is a rone called a sheet. It is no more sheet than you are, but the sailor who first called it must have grown tired of calling everything a rppe, and so made a change. The boatman holds the free end of this sheet in his hand. so that in case of a sudden gust he can slack away and spill the wind and pre vent an upset. This was one of the several things that Miss Blythe had not taken notice of when she went sailing with her brother. With charming assurance she went sailing away, and she chuckled with glee at the thought of how she would crow over Fred. Off Tiger Island, young Mr. Walter Dayton was fishing from an open boat. He had come down from the city for the late fall sport and had not tbe slightest suspicion that Cupid was going to spread a net for him. There are no halyards or ropes or sheets or sails about fishing. All you have to do is to throw a baited hook over and by and by a foolish bass comes along and gulps it down and you pull him in. Mr. Dayton was fishing away, and his thoughts were not even remotely on the feminine sex when he was aroused by a woman's vpioe calling out: "Oh, oh. Please get out of my way!" He looked np to see a sailboat bear ing down on him and a girl twist tbe helm one way and the other. Her craft was so close at hand that all he could do was to seize an oar and pre pare to fend her off. -.His craft was struck a glancing blow, the best he could do, and as the other drifted away he called out: "They shouldn't -hava let you come out with that boat!" "And they shouldn't have- let you!" was the spirited reply. "Don't you know that the wind is rising and becoming rusty?" "What of it?" "Your sheet has been made fast, and the first heavy gust will upset your boat!" She did not even look bis way. "There goes a girl who needs a strong hand!" muttered the young man, as he kept down the bay. "There is a young man who thinks he is very clever," was the comment of the girl as she left him behind. It was true that the wind was rising and becoming gusty, and therefore sailing was unsafe for a novice, but Miss Blythe wanted that young man to understand that she could manage things without his advice. Providence looks after foolish girls, as well as foolish men. It looked after this one as her boat yawed this way and that, and it clouded up and the sun got lower and lower. She would have cut her voyage short, but for the action of Mr. Dayton. His was a motor boat, and after awhile he said to himself: "That girl is going to get in trouble, sure enough. I'll pull up the anchor and drift down, so I'll be closer at hand when I am needed." The girl looked back after a while and saw what he was up to and said to herself: "Oh-ho! He is getting ready to KITTY LOU'S DRINK Kitty Lou. the pretty little house cat. looked at her clean white drinking cup with disdain. "I'm so tired of drinking out of you all the time," she said, as she pushed the cup with her paw. "Other kit tens don't have to drink out of a freshly-washed white cupthey can drink out of anything they find. And I wish I could, too." Now anybody would have supposed that a dainty little gray kitten such as Kitty Lou was would have much preferred to drink out of a nice, clean cup. In fact she looked like a kitten who would touch water from nothing else. That simply shows how deceiving looks are! Kitty Lou, with everything heart could wish for, aspired for a drink out of 'a puddle! But. dearie me! With the careful watching she received she had no chance to run and hunt for dirty pud dles or clean ones either', for that matter' But one morning Kitty Lou's mis tress went to visit her grandmother and that left Kitty Lou free for the day, for all the grown folks of the house were too busy cleaning house to. pay any attention to a mere kitten. So Kitty Lou, with a delightful sense of adventure, wandered out into the garden to see if something wonldn't happen- to her.' Mr. Garden' Tdad was out taking his morning hop and he 'kplumped right in front -of Kitty Lou as she stepped into the garden path. "Good morning! Good morning! Good morning. Miss Cat," said he, in his most mannerly style. 9 play the rescuer ana tne nero, Well, I shall disappoint him. u., k. m she was ready to turn back the wind had increased 'hree- fold. She had seen ner orouiei the boat about, but had not mastered the trick herself. She must try it. however. With a prayer tnaj be a success, she movea mu over, and the next moment the erart was keeling over and she was scream ing for help. The man in the motor boat was not far away, auu minutes he was pulling a very wet and much-bedraggled form to a urai. v. n tw,i- lTnv tv,f next five minutes he was busy righting her boat and making It fast for a tow, and then he turned to her to be greeted with: I suppose you are glad it nap- pened?" "It was a silly tning tor you id to knowing nothing of the management of a sailboat!" he slowly answered. But you know all about it: was fired at him. 'I have run a sailboat for years. Did you begin as soon as yon wen weaned?" It was a long time before he spoKe again, and then he said: "There is a shooting jacket on tne seat beside you. If you feel chilly pur it on. I will get you home as soon as possible." She opened her line to say some thing, but just then the engine of the motor boat went "dead. Mr. Dayton gave expression to his feelings of astonishment, and thereby gave away the fact he wasn't much acquainted with motor boats and their way of stopping to rest every few minutes.'. "What is it?" asked Miss Blythe.: "Engine out of order!" "It was very silly of you to coma out in this boat!" They were running In close to Cat Island and unheeding tbe taunt, he got out an oar and brought the craft to land and began an inspection. When he had worked in vain for half an hour he rose to ease his aching back and said: "I'm not electrician enough to re pair it." "Then there are men smarter than you," chuckled the girl. "Plenty of them!" "I though there couldn't be. Well, what are we going to do?" "Will anybody come after you?" "Father or Fred may come about midnight, but I am not sure of it." "We can't use either to get away in. The motor is disabled, and your boat has lost its mast and sail." "And we must sit here till help comes?" "Do you see any other way?" -"If I were a young man, rd take a few lessons in a few things, and I'd begin on motor boats. We've got a hired man at home who doesn't know enough to pound sand, and yet I'll wager he can fix this boat in ten min utes." "If I'd have let you drown out there- "But nobody asked your help. I had the. boat to cling to, and was all right." "I'll know better next time!" was sulky reply as the young man turned away. From then on, for a long half t our, there was silence between them. Then It was broken by Miss Blythe saying: "Did you ever go over Niagara Falls In a barrel?" "Were you ever fired from a can non?" he replied. Then there followed another long silence. Of course, these venturesome young persons were- rescned long before they had experienced any serious hardship. When they separated, it is certain that neither had the faintest premonition of what the outcome of their unpro pitious introduction would be, and it is equally probable that either would have disclaimed any intention to pur sue the acquaintance- It is a fact, however, that they were married less than a fortnight ago. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syn dicate.) QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. You never can tell. A man may have a long face because he is short. The wolf In sheep's clothing doesn't always masquerade as a black sheep. The next best thing to getting rid of our burdens is to make light of them. To realize that the right will tri umph, it is necessary to be on the winning side. It isn't every man who can tteer a straight course between the devil and the deep sea. Hunting for a needle in a haystack is one of the most needle-less occupa tions in the world. Tommy "Pop, what is a pessi mist?" Tommy's Pop "A pessimist, my son, is a man who expects to, get the worst of it sooner than the rest of us." "Alas!" sighed the lovelorn youth. "I have been engaged six times, and I am not married yet." "Better look out," warned the Cynical Bachelor "You'll get engaged once too often." "Good morning," exclaimed Kitty Lou breathlessly (for she had no idea what sort of a creature this might be). "Only, if you please, my nam is not Miss Cat." "So?" said Mr. Garden Toad. "And what may it be. may it be, it be? "Kitty Lou, if you please," replied the little kitten. "May you have everything you want in the world, Kitty Lou, Kitty Lou, Lou," said Mr. Garden Toad, trying gallantly to make up for his first mis take. "Thank you," answered Kitty Loo. who by this time had lost her first fear of the toad and had decided he must be a very nice creature. "Then, if you want m 5 to have everything I wish for, perhaps you. will tell me where to find a drink." an the alley, in the alley, in th alley behind the garbage pail." said Mr. Garden Toad promptly. "I thank you, kind sir," replied Kitty Lou and. without waiting for further pleasant conversation, she darted back to the alley. And sure enough, there was soma water, in a delightfully dirty tin can. Some water dropped in there by the rain of two days before just as Kitty Lou had heped she would find! Such a drink as Kitty Lou did have! And such a frolic in the- alley mud! When her mistress came home, she found neat, tidy little Kitty Lou so dirty and muddy she hardly knew her but so contented and happy look ing she hadn't the heart to scold (Copyright Cla a Ingram Judson)' 6

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 26, 1916 Porch, Cottage and Lawn Furniture The Good Old Summer Time weather is here to stay and we've provided for your comfort splendidly. Visit our cool basement try some of the comfortable rockers or swings all priced lower than you had expected to pay. Couch Hammock $6.50 Indestructible fabric springs. Ends and b:k of lii-onnee dou ble filled khuki colored army duck. Loose, reversible mattress contains 14 lbs. of picked cotton. None so good at the price; uoue better at twice the price. Comfortable Porch Rocker On!y $2.75 COST ONLY 1 0 GTS. ew Auditorium and City Jailj Will Be Reasonable. KARLAN Perfect 1 Couch Hammock 1 fi Only $6.5Q Taxpayer Pays a Dime a Thou sand on Valuation. WILL BE 'CHEAP AT ANY PRICE' $2.75 We show a full line ot Porch Rockers from 98c up to S16.75. This comfortable Mapl- Rocker, in natural fin ish hoaw flat reed seat and back, closely woven: the arms broad and the back shaped, is an exceptional value at only World'sllHITE MOUNTAIN BEST REFRIGERATORS If you're wanting to see the Best Refriserator now S2"S j' (ko World see our showing of WHITE MOUNTAIN, wonderful construc tion. Consumes less ice, is easier to clean than others. This two door style, 65 lb. ice capacity; bak ed on White Enamel. P"7 C Special, only 1 .DD Regular $8 Size, Special only $6.75 tA?me cr jiBigFLAG BARGAIN S jf r Prepare for Decoration Day. Flag mmt it People of Topeka Cannot Af ford to Pass Up Chance. And the Results Will Be Felt by Both Rich and Poor. cue Or Onlv QRr i 6 ft. by 4 rt.. or nest quality Buii dott Bunting;; absolutely mothproof; colors guaranteed FAST to mua and rain; with 7-ft. pole, rope and iron pole bolder; $1.75 value. QQn for "OC Mission Porch Swinjr Made of Hardwood, Mission finish. Htrongr chains; two-passenger, roomy shaped beat, lor only Rubber Hose sXmy. long wearing, reliable hose, fully guaranteed. In 50-ft. lengths, com plete with nozzle; regular $5.75 outrit--special for gi Qt this we-k only p-WJ Strong; Lawn Swing $4.95 $1.65 Lawn Mowers A" stvles and prices. Splendid easy running, 1 6 -inch lieKsemer steel, oil tempered blade lawn mcwer; $4.J5 value, (JO for only 969V3 I'oMlmj I awn Settee 65c RUG BARGAINS SPECIALLY PRICED for TOMORROW Sxl3-ft. Velvet Rujrs S14.S9 9xl2-ft. Axminter Kufi 19.45 6x9-ft. Brussels Rock 6.. Ho 9.x 1:2 -ft. (eamietts firusbels Rugs. 14.75 Marquisette Certain Material Manufacturer's short lengths. Mer cerized finish: pieces can be match ed up into good lengths. Yard 50O Cretonne Porch Pillowy Made from our short lengths of cretonne remnants. To- E? morrow at two tor OOC 54x27-!noh Axminster Rues $1.87 3f-inrh elTet Kugs 2.K3 fi.9-ft. Velvet Rue .f5 &-3xlO-t-it. elvet Ru Ut.45 300 prs. Curtains V2 Price We have 300 pairs of Odd Lots of Srrim. Marquisette and Lace Curtains. All 1. 1 and '2 prs. of a kind, specially priced to close out One Half Price 15c Get the Round Package Vted for Century. Z Caution '-"riVAvoid Substitute?, Ask For and GET COoy&n no vrt vffit& S MALTED Mil-" HATi... ak THE QRimU&L n Mace from clean, rich milk with the ex tract of select malted grain, malted in our own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. Infant and children thrive on it. Agree with the weakest tomach cT the invalid or the aged Meeds no cooking nor addition of milk. Nourishes and sustains more than tea, coffee, etc Should be kept at home or when traveling. A nu tritious food-drink may be prepared in a moment. A glassful hot before retiring induces refreshing sleep. Also in lunch tablet form for business men. Substitutes Cost YOU Same Pric u ske a Package Homo The statements have been made by those who are advocating: the voting of the bonds for the new Auditorium and city jail that the $100,000 bond issue for thirty years will mean a tax of not over 10 cents a year on a thou sand dollars of assessed valuation and also that the bonds for the present Auditorium are not due' until 1920 and cannot be paid off until then but that they will be paid off in 1920 and with out increasing the present tax levy. P. J. Monaghan is an interested taxpayer who wished to have these statements verified. He wrote the fol lowing letter for the purpose of secur ing first hand and authertic informa tion: May 25, 1916. Mr. W. H. Wasson, Commissioner of Finance. Topeka, Kansas. Dear Sir: I am interested as a tax- i payer in learning the facts regarding the amount of taxes to be levied and the costs to the taxpayers of the new Auditorium and city jail. The statement has been made that j the proposed one hundred thousand dollar thirty-year bonds for the new Auditorium and city jail will cost the taxpayers only ten cents per year on each one thousand dollars of assessed j valuation, and that this will pay all I interest charges and pay off the bonds in thirty years or less. Another statement that has been made is that the bonds for the present Auditorium have not been paid off for the reason that they are due until 1920. but that they will be paid off when due and that the present tax levy, without any increase, will pay off these bonds when they are due. I am writing to ask you if these i statements are true, as I am an inter I ested taxpayer who is willing to vote for the bonds if these statements are correct. I will be obliged to you if you will provide me with this information. j Very truly yours. j (Signed) P. J MOXAGEA X. i Correct, Says Wasson. Commissioner Wasson, who has charge of the financial transaction of the city and who is the authority at the city hall to give such information, sent the following letter in reply to j Mr. Monaffhan's questions: Mr. P. J. Monaghan. Topeka, Kan.: I Dear Sir Replying to your letter, asking for information regarding the proposed $100,000 thirty-year bonds for the new auditorium and city jail, at hand, and in reply will say i that L as city commissioner, am not taking any hand for or against the issuance of these bonds. That mat ter is up to the people themselves and whatever the verdict is I. as com missioner, will be glad to follow their instructions. The commission law. under which Topeka is governed, makes it obli gatory that when a bond issue is made that a sinking fund be pro vided for the retirement of the bonds. If these bonds are voted, a tax of ten cents upon each $1,000 of valua tion, in my judgment, will be suffi cient to meot the interest charges and to create the sinking fund for the re- tirement of the bonds probably before J the expiration of the 30-year period. j Therefore, the statement made to you that these bonds will not increase taxes more than ten cents upon each j $1,000 of assessed valuation is, in my i judgment, correct. The bonds issued for the building of the present Auditorium are due in 1920. They cannot be paid off until I due. The commission has provided j for a sinking fund to pav off these j bonds in 1920 and this sinking fund j will make the payment without in- creasing the present tax levy. j Therefore, the statement made to i you that the bonds for the present j Auditorium will be paid off in 1920 j without increasing the present rax, I veribly believe is correct. Yours Pin- cerelv, (Signed.) W. H. WASSON, Commissioner of Finance. JENKINS The House of Service An Ideal Graduation Gift That Plays an Important Part in Social Advancement A GRAND PIANO The Real Graduation comes in later years, after high school and college are but pleasant memories. And music, with its power to draw choice friends together in the home and social circle, makes a happy and practical post-graduate course more valued as time passes. We offer at lowest prices the following makes' latest style Grand Pianos Steinway Steck Vose Kurtzman Ludwig Estey Harwood B ram bach Nelson and the world renowned Chickering Priced $390 and up. Terms if desired. Come in or write. Care ful, efficient service by mail. SSo&idsicOx f lC7 Willi W. C. KlXfJ. Mgr. 714 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kan. P. Auerbach Guettel repare Palace-Kenilworth Suits are, without doubt, America's very greatest values at $15 guaranteed saving on any Palace-Kenil- wortn suit you may cnoose is $5 that saving is named on the basis of the low prices which this store always quotes other stores would quite like ly ask more than $20 for suits of the Kenilworth quality standard. We sell thousands of these suits each season you can see from these figures that our opera tions in this line are carried on a great scale. The buying vol ume produces a natural saving that goes to you it makes us know that these are $20 clothes Many of these Kenilworth suits are full silk lined oth ers are on 14 silk lined some have fancy sleeve lin ings. The season's best styles are included in these extra value Palace-Kenilworth suits at The Palace Clothing Co. Hart Schaffner Marx College Store Clothes 3rd Floor YOUNG men who want new clothes for uation Wear will certainly take a keen interest in the new arrivals of the College Store. You know the skill of Hart Schaffner Marx in providing fine clothes for young men and that skill is certainly developed to its greatest extent in these smart clothes. Not only are these fine styles to be found in regular sizes, but in "slims" and "shorts." They're extra values in Blue Serge, fine worst eds and fine rough effects at $20 $25 for D -r M'- flt fill: II f ll llMafiff 0 1111 1 lift! ml hi mH I'm I pi I if im Home ot Hart Schaffner Marx Clothes 0 TT ecoraoom oay Preparedness" is in the air. Don't be caught nap ping. Buy your new suit here tomorrow a blue serge, a gray or fancy. You'll find us prepared to a T," with most wonderful stocks of wearing ap parel for Decoration Day and still more wonder ful values. Special good things for tomorrow's picking. Wonderfully Ready With Blue Serge Suits ALL this week, we've outlined our blue serge suit prepar ednessadvertised our readiness with extra values in all our price ranges we're going to review the condition again i now. Men who want the finest blue serges that money can buv will want these Hart Schaffner Marx Blue Serges at $20, $25, $30 men who want extra values at mod erate prices will be interested in our offer of Wonder value silk and Alapacca lined blue serge suits in Kenilworths at A Special Decoration Day Collection of Hart Schaffner Marx Suits at $25 UR readiness with special values in Hart Schaffner Marx suits at $25 is very marked our total displays at this one price are vast most stores show less at ALL prices than we show in this one range. There are a lot of new styles for Decoration Day that have just been received mid-season ideas that are standardized along the lines of popular favor they're the kind of clothes that most men want. We've told you often that we be lieve $25 the proper price to pay for your clothes we can't re peat the statement too often because every man who becomes converted to the price is more than ordinarily happy with his decision. The displays include sizes for men of all builds and Summer styles and patterns for men of all tastes H. S. M. TROUSERS YOU can't buy them at any other store Hart Schaffner Marx make them specially for us. There's a character to them you can't get in any others made of suit pat terns, beautiful patterns in all sizes; also blue serges you canto Q O probably match your suit exactly )0V QZ. f0 Palm Beach and Other Cool Clothes for Decoration Day Genuine Palm Beach suits; tans and grays, also blues and blacks with Ay rr neat stripes tb.oU Hart Schaffner Marx Palm Beach suits, light and dark colors, plain rfQ and stripes $10 pU Mohair suits, in neat strip ed patterns, cool and dressy, specially priced at. $10 Hart Schaffner Marx "Kool Kloth" suits, Silk yoke, taffeta rj sleeve lining. -Jp A f a3U Hart Schaffner Marx mohair suits, lighUand dark colors, silk yoke, 01 C silk sleeve lining.. .pl9 Hart Schaffner Marx suits made of the new "Dixie" weave fabrics. smart, comfortable $15 Graduation Blue Serge in High School Jr. Suits fellows are about to them are probably anxious I OTS of younj graduate all 01 to be well dressed for the occasion the young fellow who wears a High School Jr., suit hasn't any doubt of his good appearance. Though they re long trouser suits, their pro portions are scientifi cally determined and fit developing bodies properly.' $7.50, $11, $15 Boys' Blue Serge Suits for Graduation Day at $10, $7.50, $5 EVERY boy who will have a Norfolk suit Jn any size from 6 to IS for Graduation Day wear will look well in these special blue serges. They're all big values and the values are made all the more remarkable by the fact that there are extra trousers with every suit. They're finely styled and finely tailored suits that you'd think should cost more than our prices of $10, $7.50, $5 New Lot of Defi 2 Pant Suits at $3 D ENFORCEMENTS to an already Irresistible Une.the only reii&bte 2-pant suits for boys ever offered at such a sensationaUy low price. Staunch fabrics, tailored carefully to give service. Defi 2 pant suits look well, wear well, last well and are the most unusual val ues you've ever bought. Fancy and plain patterns P5 Decoration Day Straw Hats Ctocks very large and very com plete and the Palace reputation for big val ues has been stead- f a s 1 1 y maintained Anything that's new and correct is here. $2 $3 $5 EXTRA QUALITY FIXE WATERPROOF STRAWS Those new wide brims with air-cdshion bands, won't blow off. Sennit t and split braids, plain and fancy bands. Cool soft neplipee shapes, white and unbleached in two tone effects. Compare these with those sold else where for $2.50 and $3. Our price 92.00 CHELSON QUALITY fine New York hand-made hats made especially to oar order extra fine iow crowned Sennitt the popular New York shape also gnaranteed Palm fiber, high crown, pencil curled brim, shaded fancy bands in brown or green. Truly a swell hat and guaranteed to last the whole season through $3UW PANAMA SAIvE The Big Store features tomor row roost unusual values in guaranteed pure white, indestructable. genuine Ecuadorian Pana ma hats, in negligee shapes, new high crown with rope edge brim Special values at $5. Auerbach Guettel l A ft CL lajynusGcSZf Summer Union Suits NO underwear store In the South west as complete as this one &U the standard kinds all extra, and reg ular frizes every kind that means real comfort. Superior, Vassar. Rocking- chair. Munsins; and dozen others. Every style, kind, weight why ro elsewhere we fit every size and every purse? Come to Cn headquarters vC lO pD Star and Manhattan Shirt Novelties BEYOND question, the highest qual ity shirts made in America are Stars and Manhattans. Tou pay the same prices for them you pay for oth er shirts the extra quality you get la your Dest reason lor buying them. i.au to ineres an especially fine line of silk shirts at SMART neckwear for Decoration Day n e w blues and grays stripes, flowered effects, solid tones 50c and l.oo $5 Washburn Oxfords $4.50 KEEPING up the good values we're famous for is our never changing plan we've done that in Washburn shoes despit price increases all along the line as a matter of fact, the very styles youH find in $6 and $7 shoes are in Wash burns at $4.50 :r r !l 4.

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