The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 9, 1916

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yEATIIER Forecast for Kansas Generally fair tonight and Thurs day; wanner tonight; cooler in the northwest Thursday. pHlS is the day that fond parents use iheir children as an alibi for -otiig to the circus. TWO CENTS HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1916 TEN PAGES RAILWAY STRIKE REAR PLATFORM AVERTED TODAY IS STUMP FOR MEDIATION PLAN HUGHES TODAY questions Before 11 Roads j Breakfast Crowd Greets Train win no Knight Out. at Winona, Minn. ALLIES BEATING BACK TEUTONS ON 3FR0NTS Slowly Squeezing; Austro-Ger-man-Tnrkish Forces. GAS COMPANIES ARE WILLING TO KNAPP IN LEAD FOR AUDITORSHIP TODAnCHANGE Spectacular Comeback GItcs Him Advance Orer Dyer. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AUSTRIAN CAPTIVES MARCH AWAY TO PRISON CAMPS AS RUSSIAN FORCES APPROACH LEMBERG COMPROMISE IF- If Public Utilities Commission Does Jfot Interfere. United States Board Will Ad iust the Differences. U. S. OFFICIALS ARE ON SCENE j Entire Board of Mediation in S. Y. Watch Every Move. Delegates of 400,000 Employes Delay Calling Strike. New York, Auk. 9. The threatened strike of the 400.000 railway employes of the T'nlted States was averted to day when the railroad brotherhoods acepted a proffer of the t'nlted Hates hoard of mediation and conciliation to mediate their differences with the railroads. Representatives of 400.000 train men employed on 225 railroads of the United States earlier today declared they would not arbitrate demands for an eight hour day and other conces sions. Armed with power to call a strike, tying up 250,000 miles of rail ways, they said they would discuss the questions Involved with railway offi cials, but will not consent to calling an an intermediary. Later, however, they accepted the mediation plan. This notice served upon the rail way managers today by A. B. Garret son, head i,f the conductors brother hood, brought the situation between the employes and employers to a deadlock within an hour after the first of '.heir scheduled conferences '.vas called. Ellsha Lee. spokesman for the railroad managers, declared the railroads would Insist upon medi ation. Board Offers Service. Members of the federal mediation and conciliation board are now here. With the conference deadlocked, the meeting broke up and the .-lilway managers set out in search of the gov ernment mediators. The brotherhood officials went Into executive session. Rlisha Lee formally invited the United States board to offer its good offices in reaching a settlement short ly before noon today. Members of the board, who are here: at President Wilson's request, met and framed a letter to the representatives of the employes, asking that the de mands be submitted to the board. Judge Martin Knapp, chairman of the board, said this afternoon a meet ing of the representatives of the em ployes and employers may be called this evening. Oarretson said the employes would meet with the board but are i.nwilllng to Join the employers in asking for the services of the mediators. Arbitration Only Way Out. Klisha Lee, chairman of the railroad conference, in proposing that their differences be mediated by the federal hoard, called attention to the fact that the brotherhoods had previously de clined arbitration under th-? N'ewlands act providing for six arbitrators, but that the railroads saw no other way out of their difficulties than through mediation. Mr. Garretson. reiterating the contention of the brotherhoods that In previous attempts to settle dif ferences with the railroad through the federal boards, the brotherhoods had failed to obtain satisfactory awards, said that the unions believed they could reach a settlement by dealing directly with the roads. "I believe," he said, "settlement of our differences can be much better at tained by dealing directly with you without the Interference of a third pnrty." The reply of the railroads was de livered by Ellsha G. Lee. of the Penn sylvania. On behalf of the employe A. B. Garretson. head of the conduc tors' brotherhood, declined to accept mediation, declaring the employes had found arbitration unsatisfactory in previous instances and furthermore, that the two sides were in position to confer directly without any inter mediary. Lee responded that regardless of the attitude taken by the employes, the representatives of the railways would artrmpt to enlist the services of the federal mediation board. Board Goo to New York. New York. Aug. 9. Determined to Bel their demands granted, and re luctant to consider arbitration, repre sentatives of more than 400,000 train employes on more than 250.000 miles of steam railways, met again todav with a committee representing the employers to learn what action would bo taken as a result of the over whelmingly strike vote announced yesterday. The determiner! stand of the em ployes has brought all the members of the Lnited States board of media tion and conciliation to New York watching every move. The board will meet today to consider the situation and will probably offer its services to the employers and representatives of the four brotherhoods oefore the ses sion adjourns. A. B. Oarretson. president of the Order of Railway Conductors, before the railroads' reply was made today said. "No sane man would refuse me diation," but his manner indicated plainly that the employes would in sist upon the original demands. Unions Hold Conference. Immediately following the reading of the decision of the employers and the reply of the employes, an execu tive meeting of representatives of the 400.000 train employes was called to consider the employers' stand. Representatives of the employers, headed by Elisha Lee, chairman of the national conference of the rail ways, started at once to find members of the United States board of media tion and conciliation and to present their request for help to them per sonally. At the close of the session today Mr. Lee said that the employers would seek mediation regardless of the decision of the employes. DeliTers Brief Speech With a Real Punch in It. REVIVAL OF AMERICANISM Republican Standard Bearer Sees It Everywhere. Speaks in St. Paul and 3Iinne apolis Late Today. BY PERRY ARNOLD. Winona, Minn., Aug. 9. Candidate Hughes had his first tryout as a rear platform campaigner in the presi dential race today. It happened here this morning when the Republican standard bearer told a crowd of nearly a thousand people that he looked for a revival of the American spirit. I The Minnesotans gave Hughes a I rousing reception. As the train i slowed up and came to a stop in the station, the governor and Mrs. Hugr.es. then Just finishing their breakfast, hurried out on the platform. Mrs, Hughes smiled and the governor waved his hand. The crowd yelled its approval. Then the governor spoke. Here is his first end of the train stump speech as a presidential candidate: "Good Morning!" "Good morning. I am very glad to have the opportunity of saying good morning to you. The fact that you are here at this hour shows the deep inter est taken in the work of thiB cam paign. I nave round, this Interest j prevalent wherever I have gone and j to me it is a very hopeful sign. It means that we want in this country a revival or the true spirit. It means that as we look to the future we want to safeguard all the Interests of this country by wise upbuilding policies. I represent here a re-united Republican party ready to meet these exigencies aa they arise. I look forward to an America tested as America has not been tested before, when she has to stand in the competitive strain that will come when a new Europe issues from this war. And I desire that north and south, east and west, every part of this country, shall be benefited by an administration that knows no more partisan politics for the purpose of paying political debts, but an ad ministration that is devoted solely to the upbuilding of this country and the conservation of its vast interests. I salute you." Voice Slightly Hoarse. When the governor concluded, for mer Representative Jim Tawney, whose home is In Winona, said he had been told by the candidate to tell the crowd that he was too tired to shake hands. Hughes smilingly interrupted:. "No," he interjected; "what I said was that my voice was a little tired, but I would be delighted to shake hands with everybody here. I'm com ing right down in the crowd now." But at that moment the train start ed and the governor had to hurry back aboard after grasping only the hands of a few of those nearest him. Mr .Hughes' voice today was notice- j ably hoarse, due to the effort of speaking to the vast crowd last night in Chicago. In Twin Cities Today. St. Paul. Aug. 9. Charles Evans Hughes. Republican nominee for president, is to deliver two addresses in the Twin Cities late today. Arriv ing here from Chicago shortly before noon, he conferred with the Republle- an state committee and left at 3: SO o clock for Minneapolis, there to de liver an address on the parade ground at 6 o'clock. He will return to St. Paul for din ner and at 8:30 p. m. will speak at the Auditorium here. He leaves for Grand Forks. N. D.. at 10:30 p. m. JUMP 10 GENTS HERE Wheat on Increase at Local Mills Today. P.laa nn nrhaot matt a n flnnrnxt. mate jump of 10 cents a bushel In Topeka today. Number 2 wheat was offered to the local milling companies for $1.43 a bushel, an increase of 11 cents over Tuesday. Prices all over the country, the mar ket reports show, are on the Incline. WHEAT SKYROCKET Up tt Cents a Bushel on Chicago Grain Market. Chicago, Auk. 9- At tip top prices of today's session of the board of trpde, wheat showed an advance of 1 1 cents a bushel over last night. The market thruout the session gave evidence of grreat tension owing to millions of bushels in domestic crop loKRes officially confirmed and because of disastrous further losses indicated in Canada. The market closed ex cited, 10Ui-c net higher, with September at $1.44 H 144 H and December at $1.48 1.48 Wildness of Buying Is Record. Wildness of buying by wheat trad ers today exceeded any similar display since the outbreak of the European war. The majority of speculators here had been decidedly incorrect regard ing what the government report would indicate and their belated efforts to acquire holdings were made difficult by like attempts on the part of for eigners and by shorts who were caught by the sudden upward whirl of the market. Despite lively profit taking the sup ply of offerings in the wheat pit con tinued inadequate to meet the demand. Alarming reports as to a further spread of black rust in Canada added to the strength due to the immense losses confirmed on this aide of the international border. Italy's Victory Most Striking; Since War Began. ADVANCE ON SOMME FRONT British Win Another Slice, Fonr Miles Long. Thiaumount Has, Changed Hands Eight Times. BY ED lu KEEN. London, Aug. 9. A triple offensive with several million men and thou sands of Runs engaged is slowly squeezing In the armies of the central empires on every front. Fighting stubbornly and In many in stances with rare bravery, the Austro-Oorman-Turktsh forces are giving ground In every theater of war save the Balkans, where recent skirmishes may herald the beginning of another great allied push. In the east the czar's troops, ex tending the advantage reported in aa early bulletin yesterday, have thrown back the Austro-Germans on a front of thirty miles, extending from Nad worna to Mlsnlof. Nadworna, a rail way city of 10,000, has been captured. The Russian center is now within a few hours march of the important city of Stanislau, whose capture will materially increase the danger in which General von Bothmer's army now finds itself. Gain From Turks. Even In the far away Caucasus, al lied troops are again marching vic toriously. Both the Russian and Turkish war offices report the begin ning or a new Russian offensive in which the Turks admit they have been forced to yield some ground. Opens Way to Trieste. The most striking victory by the Italians since the war began, has 'Continued on Page Two.) CAPTUREJORITZ Austrian Stronghold Falls After Three Days' Battle. Italian Cavalry Pursues After Capturing 10,000 Enemy. Rome, Aug. 9. Italian troops en tered the Austrian city Goritz this morning, the war office announced to day. Thus far 10,000 Austrians have been captured. Italian troops have crossed the Isonzo in the vicinity of Goritz and consolidated the further bank, the war office announced today. Occupa tion of the heights west of Goritz has been completed. Italian cavalry is pursuing the Austrians beyond the river. "We captured Goritz this morning, taking 10,000 prisoners," said an offi cial statement from the war office this afternoon. Three Days Battle. Paris. Aug. 9. A Havas dispatch from Rome says the Italian flag now flies over the defenses of Goritz. After three days of violent fighting in which the cavalry was finally brought up to reinforce the infantry, all the defensive works of the city which had resisted the advance of the Italians fell into their hand?. Reports show, the correspondent said, that the re treating Austrians are now being pur sued by Italian cavalry. City Strategic Stronghold. Goritz is the point of converged of Important railways, and the key to the whole plain opening up to the inva sion of Austria from the west. In earlier attacks upon the great Austrian stronghold the Italians had sacrificed many thousands of lives. The Austrians, too, have suffered enor mously in repelling Italian attacks. The city of Goritz has a population of about 30,000 and is the capital of a province. It lies on the east bank of the Isonzo, surrounded on three sides by mountains and peaks, which con stitute it a natural fortress. GUT SIZE OF PAPERS Paper Famine Forces Publishers to Reduce Number of Pages. Philadelphia, Aug. 9. As a result of a series of meetings of the news paper publishers of Philadelphia, call ed to consider the serious situation confronting them, caused by what are practically famine conditions in the news print, paper market, the follow ing agreement was unanimously reached: "Ail daily, evening and Sunday newspapers will immediately reduce the size of their issues to the extent of a total not in excess of eighty pages weekly. "That, beginning September 1, next, the accepting from wholesale purchas ers of unsold copies of all morning, evening and Sunday newspapers will be discontinued. Heretofore this privilege has been granted by seme papers to newsboys, news agents, news stands and carriers. At these meetings facts and figures were submitted showing that the mills have been unable to supply the enor mous Increased demand for white paper. The newspapers party to the fore going and which constitute the local press of recognized circulation, are the following: Evening Ledger. Public Ledger, the Evening Bulletin, the Evening Tele graph, the North American, the Phila delphia Enquirer, th Record, the Press. 7 V ,i' 'l II I vsr xsr,,ssJ. j i Endless line of Austrian prisoners WORDS OR DEEDS GREATEST ISSUE ASSERTSHUGHES 10,000 Jam Coliseum to Hear Presidential Candidate. Opens Kew Line of Attack Hits Pork Barrels. CAN'T GET PROTECTIVE TARIFF Ridicules Democrats in Brist ling Humorous Vein. MulTane and Stanley of Kansas, Confer With Hughes. BY WIIUAM HOSTER. Chicago, Aug. 9. About 10,000 peo ple, crowded into the Coliseum here last night, cheered for a full minute this definition by Charles E. Hughus of the paramount issue of the campaign: "If anything in the campaign is real," he declared, "it is that we are now facing the question whether we want words, or whether we want deeds; whether we want that which is writ ten or spoken or whether we want American action in the interests of the American people, worthy of the American name, maintaining the American honor and buttressing the prosperity of the United States." Hughes, after another smashing campaign day, mounted last night the same platform from which he was nominated for the presidency, fifty eight days ago, and repeated his De troit triumph of Monday night. Once more he struck out with force, scorn and derision at the per sonal policies of President Wilson. Tho a bit husky of voice, he held the attention of the vast audienca for a full hour, moving them first to cheers and again to laughter by his epigrammatic sallies. Renews Mexico Assault. He repeated his Mexican assault and, in addition last night, opened a new attack on the administration for extravagance, pork barrel methods, rejection of the budget system, raid of the civil service law and using diplomatic appointments to pay po litical debts. His speech bristled with epigrams revealing Hughes in an entirely new light Ridiculing the Democratic tariff policy, he cried: "You could no more get a protective tariff out of a Demo cratic congress, sectionaliy organized, than-a revival sermon out of a disor derly house." He referred to Villa as "that emi nent Sunday school scholar. "I don't want any hot air in mine." he declared in another place. "We got into an ignominious war." he said of the Vera Cruz affair, "and we backed out ignominiously." Promises Business Administration. He promised a business like admin istration if elected. "We have somehow convinced the world that our talk is cheap and meaningless." he said. "Let us have a new birth of Amer ican purpose and courage.' Mr. Hughes left here at 10:45 (Continued on Pago Two. captured by Russians; Archduke Karl and principal street of Lemberg. Same old weather Fair With Rising Temperature All "Over the State."" Hourly temperature readings fur- nisheoX by he weather bweau: 7 o'clock.-. .73 1 11 o'clock. 1. .91 8 o'clock. .81; 12 o'clock. .92 o'clock. .T. .86 1 o'clock. .94 o'clock 88 1 2 o'clock 95 10 3 o'clock 96 Temperatures today averaged 5 de grees above normal. The wind is blowing at the rate of 15 miles an hour from the southeast. Clouds formed sh rtly before noon today and for a time the appearance of the sky was threatening. Last night was the coolest night since July 25 with a minimum reading of 69 degrees, but early this morning the mercury started on Its upward spurt. It was expected to come close to the century mark before the day was over. A southeast wind was the principal cause of the rapid rise. The same brand of weather prevails In all parts of the state. The highest read ing Tuesday was 90 degrees. At 9 o'clock this morning the temperature was 87 degrees, while that mark was not reached yesterday until 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The forecast calls for generally fair weather tonight and Thursday: warm er tonight. Lower temperatures will prevail Thursday in the northwestern part of the state, but that does not in clude Topeka. Tonight probably will be an uncomfortable one, though a good breeze will do much to mitigate the high temperature. The highest temperature on record for this date is 100 degrees, estab lished last year. The low record, 52 degrees, occurred in 1888. It will be noticed that the record temperatures are becoming lower now, and some cool weather ought to be arriving in a short time. The Kaw river remains stationary at five feet, the lowest mark in nearly two years. DAILY WKATHKK REPORT. Furnished by the W eather Bureau Of for the 24 hours flee, Topeka. Kansas, ending- 7 a. m. today. stations In High Stations. Teinp. Anthony &t Old water 94 Cnnrnrilla R8 Poilue City 90 Dresden 92 Emporia 92 Eureka- 90 Kt Scott 94 (Woodland 92 Hanover 92 Horton SS lola 90 Liberal 90 Maeksvllle 90 Mi-Fherson 90 Manhattan iH PhlHipsburg 92 Scott City !W TOPEKA 90 t"tl-a 90 Low Rain or Wca Temp. Snow tlser 7 .18 Cloudy OK .22 Pt.t'lcly .0 Pt.Cl.lv .20 Clear 62 70 70 8 62 62 fiS 70 x 6S 72 04 rtt 64 09 m 74 .0 Clear .0 Clear .0 Pt.t'l.iy .0 Clear .0 Clear .0 Clear .0 "Jear .0 pt-Clrty T Clear .06 Pt.CI.ly .22 Cloudy .0 Pt.Cldy .0 Clear .0 Clear .0 Clear .0 Clear .0 Cloudy i Wichita 88 Kansas City SS St. Joseph 90 Clear .0 Clear RAIDED GERMAN TOWN French Air Squadron Flew 2O0 Miles In 205 Minutes. Paris, Aug. 9. Flying in the dark ness at the rate of nearly a mile a minute, a French air squadron crossed the Vosges mountains and the Black Forest of Germany and bombarded the German town of Rothwei! on the Neckar river, it was officially an nounced today. The distance of 200 miles was covered in 205 minutes. Th e bombardment caused a great fire and intense explosions. Many oth er successful air bombing enterprises were carried out by the French last night. Jk -iir n if m Francis Joseph; partUment boildimga

RUSS TAKE TOWN Seven Thousand Austrians and Germans Taken Prisoner. Berlin Reports Repulse of Rus sians fn Volhynia. Petrograd, Aug. 9. The Galician town of Tysmienica, seven miles' east of the city of Stanislau, was capturad by Russian troops under General Lechitchy last night, it was officially announced this afternoon. The Rus sians took 7,400 prisoners, including 8,500 Germans. South of the Dniester, Leichitchy pursued and drove the enemy from a series of heights and villages, captur ing the ridgre northeast of Tysmienia to the River Dniester and also the right bank of the River Vorona as far as Stokovchiea. Of the prisoners cap tured by Leichitchy, 2.000 were men tioned in yesterday's official report. Russians Driven Back. Berlin, Aug. 9. Repulse of strong and repeated Russian attacks in Stockod river front In Volhynia was announced by the war office this afternoon In fighting in the region of Stobychva and north of. Kisielln (thirty miles southeast of Kovel) the Russians' attack rolled back. NAMES MEX. CONFEREE Secretary Lane and Justice Brandeis Will Officiate on Board. Washington, Aug. 9. Formal an nouncement was made today by Acting Secretary Polk of the acceptance of General Carranza's proposal for a joint International commission to seek a solution of border disputes and to discuss other matters which may help clarify relations between the United States and Mexico. Only the time and place for the conference reamin to be decided. Secretary Lane of the interior depart ment will head the American commis sion supported by Associate Justice Brandeis of the supreme court and a third commissioner whose name will be announced -later. A telegram asking the third man to serve was sent today by President Wilson. The Mexican commissioners were named some days ago, Luis Ca brera, minister of finance in the Car ranza. government, heading the dele gation. This made necessary the ap pointment of a member of President Wilsons cabinet in the American membership. Today's announcement followed a brief conference between Mr. Polk and Eliseo Arredondo, Car ranza's ambassador designate. Assur ances were given by Mr. Arredondo that General Carranza was in com plete accord with suggestions of the Washington government that the dis cussion of the commisioners be given the broadest possible scope. The ambassador said that his gov ernment regarded its recent note as a full answer of acceptance of Secre tary Polk's suggestions that the scope be broadened. As it begins its task, the commission will be required first to reach conclusions on the specific points outlined by General Carranza in his original proposal. The first subject treated under this view would be the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico, to be followed by negotiations of a protocol covering future military operations along the border Faulty More on State's Part Would Be Fatal Now. REDUCE MINIMUM TO 50 CENTS Ready to Hake Decrease for the Cause of Peace. Conference With Attorney Gen eral Failed in Its Mission. Too much interference on the part of Joseph L. Bristow and the public utilities commission is blocking a com promise in the gas rate case, according to rumors in the state house. If Bris tow and the commission will agree to Quit playing football with the gas rate case, the minimum charge will be re duced to 60 cents, according to re ports. In short, the 100 per cent increase in the gas minimum is the pawn which the gas company is willing to sacrifice for peace. For five years the gas company has been almost constantly before the public utilities commission. With the coming of Joseph L. Bristow to the chairmanship of the commis sion and his probable desire to return to the United States senate, it is the belief of gas company officials that their troubles have multiplied. To be sure gas rates have gone up, but the gas rate case and the passenger rate case have been the two prize punch ing bags in the Bristow gymnasium. Willing to Compromise. Reports In Topeka this week are to the effect that the Kansas Natural Gas company will compromise for the sake of peace. But if forced to fight, they will stand on the ruling of the federal court and insist on the (t minimum and the 36-cent flat rate. In short if Bristow and the utilities commission insist on trouble, the Gas company will accommodate them. And while the battle is before Bristow and the commission the public will pay the bill In increased rates. There is a report in Topeka todav to the effect that the proposition of an agreement in the gas caan was checked up to Bristow biU .without success. The commission chairman is said to have refused to compromise except on his own. terms. The conference this week between S. M. Brewster, attorney general, and representatives of the Gas company failed to result in a decision. Another conference is to be held. There is a growing impression that the Gas com pany may consent to return to the 50-cer.t minimum and might go so far as to reduce its flat rate on gas. But no agreement will be made, it is reported, unless Bristow and the util ities commission approve the action. And in the freely expressed opinion of the Gas company officials and rep resentatives, this approval Is being withheld J. M. THURSTON DEAD FTormer U. S. Senator From Nebraska Dies Following Heat Prostration. Omaha, Neb., Aug. 9. John M. Thurston, former senator from Ne braska, died here at 4 o'clock this morning. He had been ill for four weeks, following a heat prostration, and death had been expected for sev eral days. Thrombo phlebitis was the immediate cause of death, according to a statement by the attending physi cians. From Plowboy to Senator. Thurston was in the senate from 1S95 to 1901 and was one of tho foremost orators In that body. His famous speech in 1898, was largely influential in bringirg about the Spanish-American war. He arose from plowboy and driver of a delivery wagon, to a prominent position among the leading lawyers of the country. Family at Bedside. His wife and two daughters were at the bedside when Senator Thurston died. Thurston was born at Mont pelier, Vt., August 11, 1847. He was one of President McKin ley's closest advisers and was regarded ny Mr. McKinley as one of the country's ablest men. During his service in congress Thurston won national fame as an orator. A speech he made in the sen ate precipitated the Spanish-American war, it is said. After finishing his term in the senate Thurston practiced law in Washington until 1915. He re turned to Omaha and resumed the practice of law but his failing health handicapped him greatly. Mr. Thurs ton was elected to the senate in 1894. He was at one time solicitor general of the Union Pacific railroad. In 1872 Thurston was married to Miss Martha Poland of Omaha. She died in 1898 and the next year he was married to Lola Purman of Florida, who survives him. KILL GIRL'S ASSAILANT Jvcgro Dragged From Jail and Hanged by Mob. Stuttgart, Ark., Aug. 9. After be ing dragged from the Jail at Dev.itt, where he had been taken secretly to avoid a mob formed at Stuttgart, an unidentified negro about 20 years old, was brought here at an early hour this morning and hanged. His body was riddled with bullets and !ft hang ing until 9 o'clock this morning, when it was cut down. The negro was arrested Monday for an attack on the 16-year-old daughter of a farmer near Stuttgart. The girl was taken to Dewitt yesterday anj de clared the negro was the man who at tacked her. Only 10 Votes Between the Two Leaders in Race. TAKE LAST OFFICIAL RETURNS They Will Be Necessary to De cide State's Closest Fight. 1 Knapp Carries Wyandotte by 500 May Mean Victory. KKTHED PRIMARY RKTI'RN'S. State Auditor. Fred W. Knapp :ifi ea Dan B. Dyer -...36.629 rranK urgan 34,264 Knapji'i plurality i Tremendous changes tortnv in th. official returns from Franklin. Jf- ferson.. Lyon, Nemaha, Haskell. Pot tawatomie and Wyandotte counties threw Fred W. Knapp ten votes In the lead of Dan B. Dyer for state auditor. It was the first time Knapp had taken tne lead since last Friday morning. Knapp's big come-back wnH -to .....i In Wyandotte county, which revised its figures giving him an even 600 gain over Dyer. The county added 497 votes to the Knapp string and took three away from Dyer. Franklin. Jef ferson. Jewell. Lyon. Haskell and Pot tWo,.tomie added to Dyer's former lead .o, ui me xotal rell ten short of the a-ain vrhlph xrnBn a- muue in vvyan- dotte Jefferson, Lyon. Nemaha, Pratt and Pottawatomie counties. Final Returns Friday. At no time since the first primary returns came to Topeka has the stand ing of the candidates been so cIom H?Ji.1,pi0 t,he ,ast of the official re turns Final returns may not be re ceived until Friday cr Saturday. The ?niL,.Cttnvs?ns bcard m"'t next Tuesday. Returns have been received at the secretary of state's office from fifty-two counties. Franklin county today added 14 votea to the Dyer string and took 61 one rrom Organ. Jefferson added 39 toorg&TC I? to Knapp and 86 to Dyer. Jewell county added 18 te Elver and s to organ and reduced the Knapp vote 10. Lvon countv Bitflag 1a LU 1JgBH, I to Knapp and 177 to Dyer. Marlon count vtnnlr in Mvm vrgan ana an equal number from Dyer. Nemaha irom organ, from Dyer, and added 77 to Knapp. Pratt reduced Organ 1, increased Knapp and Dyer 8. Republic reduced Organ 30. Wilson reduced Knapp 1. Has kell county Increased Dyer 60. The big change of the day was In Wyandotte county. That county. In a private report to the State Journal by the county clerk. Increased the Organ gained 18 in the county. Total xinapp were six, as against 318 for Dyer and 163 for Organ. CROPS FADING FAST Kansas One of States Hit Hardest, Says Government Report. Washington. Aug. Continuation of the damage to crops from weather conditions and plant disease, which during July caused a loss of more than a hundred million bushels in the prospective production of wheat and 8.000,000 bushels in corn, as Indicated yesterday In the August crop report of the department of agriculture, was re ported today In the national weather and crop bulletin of the weather bu reau. Corn has deteriorated steadily in most sections of the Imnortant growing states of Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas since Aurust first. Local showers caused some Im provement In corn In parts of Iowa. Illinois and Tennessee during the week which ended yesterday, according to the weather bureau's weekly an. nouncement made today. Wheat Rust Terrible Menace The crop, however, now la reported In very poor condition in most sections of the four first mentioned states. Damage by rust and blight continued in the spring wheat areas, today's re port said, although the spread of black rust was checked to some extent In Minnesota by slightly cooler weather. Rust and blight damage in North and South Dakota are very extensive and there are many fields that will not be harvested. The ats crop was unfa vorably affected by high terr.per.tt urea In the extreme northern districts dur ing the week. White potatoes were damaged by the hot, dry weather In nearly all cen tral districts and by high temperatures in the northern part of the country. UP PIKE'S PEAK IN 45 MINUTES IS AUTO RECORD Colorado Springs, Col., Aug. A new Pikes Peak run record wai held here today by Hujsrhie Hushes., as result of his sensational drive yester day from here to the summit of Pike's Peak, a distance of thirty-one and a half miles in forty-five minutes. Facilities for handling; a crowd of 26,090 at the Penrose Cup races her later this week were being rushed to day. Barney Oldfleld and Eddie Rtck enbacher wired today they would en ter the contest. Each whale mniea about half a tM of whalebone about witn alio-

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V 1 1 2 ITALY SOLDIERS UNDER FIRE SING WAY TO VICTORY 2,000.000 Men Battling Fiercely on Isonzo Front. -Souring Across Hirer to Attack Anstro Stronghold. FALL OF GORITZ IS NEAR jlomfc Gay With Flags Cele brates Great Victory. Believe Decisive Blow Has Been Dealt to Austria. K BY JOHS tt HEARIEY. Rome, Aug. 9. Two million men are battling fiercely along the Isonzo front In a great struggle, centering about Goritz, that may prove the turn ing point of the war. v'-- With the Goritz bridgehead and "surrounding heights- strongly in Ital j'ian hands, Italian troops are pouring l:'croas the river for the assault upon S Goritz itself, singing gaily as they ad-'.-vance under hot fire, their helmets decorated with flowers Scores of weat guns already are pounding the "-Austrian stronghold. It is believed ''-certain here that Goritz will fall be "fore a storming attack within a few -hours if it Is not already in Italian hands. 15,000 Prisoners Taken. The battle Is spreading along the Isonzo." In the first two days of the ra-eat offensive more than 15.000 Aus trian prisoners were captured. The -Austrians resisted with the greatest (Stubbornness and suffered frightful losses. Rome was swept with a tre- mendous wave of enthusiasm today, as fresh dispatches from the front brought fragmentary details of the .fighting around Goritz. The whole city was instantly beflagged when .an nouncement of the capture of the 'iinritz bridgehead was made. A huge crowd gathered In Piazzi Colonna and cheered me army, rving viuiui iman riuel and General Cadorna. Similar -jemonstrations occurred in the the- liters and cafes. :Z. In other Italian cities, Milan, Bo i logna, Leghorn and Florence, great crowds gathered in patriotic demon 'strations that lasted all night. The 5 general conviction is that the war ..ffif-c Ktntii inpn t was most conserva tive and that Italy Is on the brink of a. great and decisive victory tnai win send Italian armies marching on Trieste. Only Beginning of Italy Drive. it "This is only the beginning of op erations promising great develop--.ments." said the newspaper Corriere D'ltalia. "Indisputably the enemy's front has been broken." -he censor is now permitting pub lication vt some dispatches relating to the beginning of the Isonzo offensive. 'The drive began shortly after day break Sunday and with a steady hail of Italian, shells for a period of nine hours along a twenty mile rront ex tending down the Isonzo to the Adri atic Italian warships In the upper Adriatic supported the land artillery with a bombardment ol tne Austrian left win? "No such awe-inspiring cascade of ..fire ever before has been witnessed on the Italian front," wired one Italian correspondent. "So violent were the jnrpHWLnt earthauake-like phenom .ena produced by the big shells that nouses in tne liorltz plain were biihl .tred or collapsed solely thru force -;of the seismic waves. The mouths of 'vast caverns on the Carso plateau in .'which thousands of Austrian troops had'-srmght refuge, were choked by -tons of debris and converted into liv ing tombs. Then Infantry Charges. "At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the ""order was given for the infantry to leave the trenches. The spectacle of these hardy warriors as they bounded forth to the fray recalled the heroes of Legenda, thousands of their front ranks wore round their helmets a floral garland, specially woven by the women of Thiene, Schio, Vorastlca and J Vicenza. With the stirring war cry of 'Great Italy forever they bounded across the dales at the bridgehead and further down scaled the lines of Carso plateau, engaging in hand to hand struggles. At the head of the main forces ran men bearing aloft big white discs mounted on slender gray green poles so aa to guide the gunners in lifting their range as the infantry -advanced." 'Would rrotest High Gas. Kansas City, Kan., Aug. s. a big mass -meeting to protest the action of receivers and federal courts in the Kansas gas rate case Is advocated by X' H. Chapman, local commissioner of c r water and light, if there is no relief in I the courts. All gas users of Missouri and Kansas, affected by the rate, he K said, should, be Invited. "Then if the i consumers really are in earnest." Mr. Chapman said, "we can ask state and i municipal governments to back us in 1 refusing to pay our gas bills. There should be a way of enjoining the gas company it it tries to turn orr the gas. Anyway, it would be a bis Job and a serious proposition to shut off the fuel from every consumer In large cities." STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Tarda, Kan. City ffn Alas Kare Our Own Offices mt Cfatcaca. 8a. at. iownh. Rn. Oman. Denver, worn uir, as, Fort Worth and G3 Paso. PERFECT AS A PIANO Kimball TOPEKA FACTORY ff A vrr" arxosuc TOTS HEALTHIER. IF PERMITTED TO RUN ABOUT NUDE New York, Aug. 9. The death rate of Infants under 6 years old would be greatly reduced If children were per mitted to go nude in their homes dur ing the hot weather, according to Dr. S. Josephine Baker of the bureau of child hygiene. Commenting on a let ter complaining that a mother of the lower east side allowed her children, respectively aged 1 and 3, to run around naked in the house. Doctor Baker declared that was the natural way for them to live and that more mothers should be sensible In this re spect. PERONNE IN FLAMES French Artillery Fast Reducing His toric City to Ruins. German Great Headquarters, via Berlin, Tuesday, Aug. 8, and London, Aug. 9, 1:20 p. m. Since yesterday the famous old French city of Peronne has been under French artillery fire, resulting in a great conflagration which threatens to wipe It out. Al ready the fine collection of paintings, of Italian and Flemish masters has been destroyed by shells which landed squarely in the city hall, where the most valuable art objects from the museum had been housed for protec tion. In addition to the paintings, which were torn to shreds, the shells destroyed unrepiaceable collection? of medieval Germanic silver and semi precious stone work, Celtic coins dating from the time of the Roman invasion and medallions. Houses in some streets have been reduced to ashes. It is considered doubtful whether Peronne's celebrated wood houses in the late Gothic style and the Cathdral of St. John can be saved from the flames. BAN ON RED CROSS Germany Blames British Blockade Order and Will Seize Supplies. Amsterdam, Aug. 9. Via London The Nord Deutsche Allegemlne Zei tung of Berlin publishes a memoran dum issued by the German govern ment which states that owing to British treatment of Red Cross sup plies Germany will not longer allow free passage for such supplies. Ger man naval forces will receive orders to take such articles for their own use when they come within their reach. The British government has refused to permit the forwarding of Red Cross Bupplies through the blockade line of the allies into Germany and Austria. In a recent memorandum submitted to the American government Great Britain said this practice had been for bidden in all blockades established in the past. DOWN TO TEN CARS Potato Shipments Decline and Prices Advance at K. C. Prices made a big Jump Tuesday morning after only ten cars of pota toes were shipped from the Kaw val ley Monday. The Kansas City Jobbers' prices ranged between 85 and 90 cents a bushel. The market was strong and the demand gqod. Twenty-one hundred bushels were hauled into Kansas City by wagon load. There were no shipments .from the Orrick district. ..i HOLD UMPIRE INQUEST National League officials Meet to Hear Charges Against Arbiters. New York, Aug. 9. Moguls of the National league met with President Tener today to listen to charges, chief ly from the Boston club, that the um pires of the Tener circuit are incapable and partial. Incidentally, the meeting is certain to develop counter-charges against the Braves. A monster petition which has been in circulation at Braves field for a few 'days will be presented at the meeting. It charges unfairness by the National league umpires against the Boston club. Several other club owners, peeved at tne recent statements of the Boston management, are reported to be anx ious to get a chance to force Btallings euner to prove nis statements or keep quiet for the rest of the season. STRIKE COST $600,000 unions now Hustling Members on Subway and Elevated Lines. New York. Aug. 9 AH the street car strikes in this city were over to day and thee ustomary service was re sumed on tne lines in all boroughs. Organizers of the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Street and Electric Railway Employes hastened their efforts to in duce all the employes of the subway lines, the elevated and the Brooklyn rapid transit system to loin the union. Union officials refused to. say what plans they have made to present de mands to these companies but said they did not expect to have to call an other strike. It was estimated today that the strikes on the various lines had cost the operating companies ouu.uuu. sc. mi, is. tmiiajn. k. 8t PERFECT AS A PLAYER Pfls Player THETOPEKA DAILY STATE. JOURNAL- 1 TUNING UP 1 'Vl Pen.. '1 i-. WORDS OR DEEDS GREATEST ISSUE (Continued from page 1.) o'clock at night for St. Paul, where he will speak tonight. at ops probably will be made in Wis consin during the day tor brief speeches. without put tin tf so severe a tax upon him as Detroit, Chicago enthu siastically welcomed Hughes. He was cheered by a small crowd at the station upon his arrival shortly after 8 o'clock In the morning. Five thousand people greeted him at the public reception tendered him at noon in the Conway building, where nation al headquarters- for the west are lo cated. He received and conferred with a score of leaders Republican and Progressive during the day, had a ride thru the park system, posed for the movies on the roof of the Blackstone, talked a section cf his Detroit speech into a phonograph for campaign purposes and bought him self a new Panama hat and a black alpaca suit for use in the west. The old hat went to Mrs. Fred Up- ham, wife of the western financial agent of the national committee. She is collecting the discarded hats of famous men. Mulvane and Stanley There. The dominant note of the day was the quiet confidence in Republican circles of victory in November. A ma jority of 300,000 for Hughes is the least the leaders will predict. Coupled with this is to be noted the apparent final ironing out of the dif ferences between the Progressives and the regular Republicans. Hughes saw today among others, Alvln T. Hert of Kentucky, who has been named as western manager of the campaign. With the two were National Chairman Willcox, Raymond Robins, Fred Stan ley of Kansas, Dave Mulvane of the same state, James R. Garfield of Ohio, James A. Heminway of Indiana, Con gressman McKinley of Illinois, Medill McCormick and Joseph Kealing of In diana. This group of Progressives and 'Republicans had a love feast togethcz and as final evidence that peace has been restored, it was pointed out that John G. Schafer, a dyed-in-the-wool Progressive, was chairman of the com mittee which welcomed Hughes to Chicago and entertained him during his stay here. All of these leaders joined in saying that peace has been restored and the reunited party will work together to carry the state for Hughes. Next to these political outcroppings, what has brought most cheer to the hearts of the party men Is the man ner in which Hughes himself has risen to the situation. He went through the onerous program in Detroit like a tried campaigner and was ready for more today, v He is rapidly learning the tricks of the trade. He can ride standing op in a machine and waving his hat almost as well as- T. R., he mixes like a regular,, his smile is most infectious, and best of all, from the standpoint of the party men. he is de livering savage blows at the enemy. Wins Laboring Men. The Mexican speech of last night and the day spepthes. in which he dwelt on the rights of the laboring men, have won him the praise of the middle western newspapers and he is in receipt of scores of congratulatory telegrams. Frank Tyree, former secret service guard of Colonel Roosevelt, when the latter was president, joined the party today to assist Sylvester Brlarton In guarding the -candidate for the re mainder of the western trip. Accord ing to rumor, the actions of r. stranger in Detroit yesterday who said he had a message for the governor, aroused the fears of his staff and additional protection was determined upon. This story is denied by those close to Hughes, who say it was originally in tended that Tyree should leave New York with, the pary, but he was de tained by a business engagement. At all events, Tyree will follow on with the party from this point. A special detail of police attended the nominee wherever he went. Clearwater Farmer Killecfc Clearwater. Kan., Aug. 9. Charles Hall, a wealthy farmer, was instantly killed when aa ensilage cutter burst. pj vMaw""jvr i fca. "I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU" SUCCEEDS "DEE-LIGHTED? Chicago, Aug. 9. T. R.'s famous greeting "Dee-lighted has been supplanted In the popular favor here by a new one pulled yesterday by Candidate Charles E. Hughes. 'Tm-glad .to see you,", was the remark Hughes made as lie met new comers. Now everybody's say ing it. WILLIS AND HERRICK; Win G. O. P. Nominations for Govi ernor and Senator In-Ohio. Columbus. Q., Aug. 9. Myron T, Herrick of Cleveland, former ambassai dor to France, .for United States sen ator, and Frank B. Willis, Incumbent, for governor on the Republican ticket; Atlee Pomerene, Incumbent, for sena tor, and former Governor James M. Cox for governor on the Democratic ticket will be the rival party standard bearers in the Ohio fall campaign as a result of the statewide primaries yes terday. All four were nominated by ma jorities so decisive as to leave no doubt. In addition to the leaders, full state tickets and candidates for con gress in the various districts were named by both parties. An abnormally light vote was cast. PLAGUElKILLS 57 Toll of Children Greatest Since Xew York Epidemic Began. New York, Aug. 9. The epidemic of infantile paralysis broke all pre vious death records here today. The plague killed fifty-seven chil dren during the twenty-our hour period ending at 10 a. m. One hun dred and eighty-three new cases were reported to the health department. French Captured Bremen? Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 8. That1 the German merchant submarine Bremen Js in the possession of the French navy is the information received by Lieut. J. G. McElrcy, United States army officer from a relative :n the British army.' Lieutenant McElroy, who is stationed here with the Ohio National Guard, has just received a letter from his relative, who is now at Folkestone. The letter .declares that the Bremen was captured on its outward trip to the United States. SUPPLIES AERIVING AT AMERICAN CAMP IN MEXICO TLA. --."iv smc- 4 "l aii 5V- This piciAiic ms taken at the tefiffi tbs border. The aupnie aj X AMI'S, WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 9, 1916 ALLIES BEATING BACK TEUTONS (CoptlDOed from Page One.) partly opened the way to Trieste, the exeat objective or the Italian isonzo campaign, The Austrians may offer deanerate resistance at Goritz but the apparent ease with which the Italians look me iuj liiicu uunu miumco convinces military men here that the -lustrians have been forced to strip their' lines to the danger point to meet the Russian menace in Qallcia. Oh "the wresterrf frdnt the allies have won another slice of the German line, advancing on a front of nearly four miles north of the Somme. Gorman counter attacks caused the French to yield ground only slightly In this re gion last night. Only on the Verdun front, where the Germans again re occupicd the Thiaumont work in heavy fighting last night are the Teutonic armies still on the defensive. The po sition has changed hands vight t:mes since the Verdun campaign began. Turks Surfer tn Desert. London, Aug. 9. The Turkish army which was routed by the British at Romanl, east of the Suez canal, suf fered terrible hardships, according to a Reuters' dispatch quoting stories of Turkish prisoners. The dispatch says that batches of prisoners continue to arrive at Cairo. Lack of water was one of the principal causes of the suf fering. In some cases the Turks suf fered so frightfully from thirst that they killed their camels and drank the blood. The prisoners say the Turkish losses were exceedingly heavy as they at tacked in mass formation In ignorance of the British defenses before them. Killed German Leader. Devastating machine gun fire with which the assault was met was the first Indication the privates had of the task that confronted them. Ac cording to one of the troopers, a Turk ish detachment which surrendered first killed their German officers. Osanatomle Boy Tries Suicide. Ottawatomie, Kan., Aug. 9. Be cause he could not go to his grand parents on a vacation, Morrell Miller, 13, son' of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Miller, of this city, attempted suicide by hanglnm himself. He fastened a rope to the rafters of a shed, placed the noose around his neck and jumped from a box. He was found in an un conscious condition and the use of a lung motor was necessary to resusitate him. Asbestos fiber now brings $500 a ton in United States markets. -1 rr-rf SSpmipfr-fji American camp at Colonia Uublan, lltxito. on Lbs aiiivai of a jdiuucao bait dtrlbutad from best t" Itf tglftj'TT Tlirt" WOMEN VICTIMS Zeppelins Pay Another Visit to British" Coast.' Three Women and Child Killed, 14 Persons Wounded. London,- Auk. 9. Zeppelins raided the east coast of England early this morning and another Zeppelin raided Southeast Scotland without penetrat ing far from the coast, the war office announced today. Three women and one child were killed and fourteen persons injured. The Zeppelins drop ped a number of bombs on certain localities.' They were engaged' by coast guards and driven away from their objectives without doing any damage or military importance, tne statement said. The statement follows: "A hostile airship crossed the east coast of England at an early hour this mominc Another alrsnip is re ported to have visited the southeast coast of Scotland.- The raiders did i hot penetrate far Inland but dropped bombs at various localities near the coast. "At several places tne atrsnips were engaged by antl-alroraft guns and idriven off. Reports show that three women and one child were killed and fourteen persons injured. No damage of military Importance reponea. KILIj 200 SOLDIERS. Allied Air Raiders Throw Bombs on German Barracks at Meta. The Hague, Aug. 9. Two hundred German soldiers were killed, or in jured In the recent allied air raid on Metz, capital of Lorraine, according to word received here today. The sta tion and barracks were seriously dam aged. The German war office stated that some damage" was done In the raid on Metis. HARDEST MATCH TODAY Dawson and Byford Meet for Singles Championship In West. Lake Forest. 111.. Aug.; 9. Ward Dawson, .San Francisco, and Heath Byford. Chicago, favorites for men's singles honors in the western tennis championship tournament nere, will clash today In what Is believed will be the hardest fought match of the meet. Both men, who have not been beaten this year, eliminated two strong eon tenders yesterday. Dawson, who shares the Pacific coast doubles championship with Maurice McLoughlln, defeated Al Green, jr., Chicago, while Byford beat George Northrup, of Minneapolis. Byford holds the Illinois, North west and Great Plains singles Cham' pionship. Former National Cham pion McLoughlln and Kenneth Hawkes of Los Angeles, still have today to get into tne meet. STRONG FOR GOV. JOHNSON With California Executive In Senate Race, Bordwell Withdraws. Los Angelee, Aug. 9. .By announc ing last night his withdrawal from the race for the Republican nomina tion for United States senator trom California, former Judge Walter Bard well of Los Angeles, has dissipated a situation which state Republican lead ers believe 1 would result in the nomi nation of Gov. Hiram Johnson, who also seeks the senatorship at the hands of the Republicans. Several weeks ago, Mr. Bordwell was request ed to withdraw his candidacy by offi cers of the Republican state central committee who declared that with two candidates in the field for the Repub lican vote Governor Johnson would be returned a winner. GERMAN DYES $70 POUND Deutschland Cargo Brings Fancy Price in New York. New Tork, Aug. 9. A circular is sued today by a dye importing firm quoting prices on dyestuffs brought to this country by the German submar ine Deutschland shows that some grades of the product are valued at $70 a pound. These are the rarer colors not yet manufactured in the United States. Local dye importers exDected to re. ceive their first shipments today -from the cargo of the undersea merchant man. None of these colors would be placed In the open market they Indi cated, but would be supplied at once to regular customers, largely to meet mo neean or mills INSTRUCTORS TRADE JOBS Aggies' Athletic Instructor Goes to University of Tennessee. -Manhattan, Kan.. Aug. 8. --John R. Bender, who for the last year was the athletic director of the Kansas State Agricultural college, will exchange po sitions with Z. G. Clevenger, athletic neaa or tne university of Tennessee Knoxville. Tenn. The exchange will take place September 1, it- was an nounced today. IS GIVEN PLACE ON FARM LOAN BOARD Capt. W. a A. Smith. Capt W. S. A. Smitl of Sioux ,v!ity, Iowa, is probably ths best known farmer on. ths newly appoint-1 ted farm loan board. While still a (young man be quit the sea for the; (farm and has since become well: known to farmers as a writer on farm finance and farm management t M. P. Train In Ditch. Elmo, Kan., Aug. 9. Four coaches of the westbound Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 4 were overturned near here. None of the passengers was Injured. The baggage car was derailed when It passed over a de fective rail and the other cars follow ed It into a ditch. The train was Just pulling into the station. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS. Thlcairn Anir. 9. WHEAT Excited trading and advances of more than 8 cents a bushel in the value of wheat -resulted to day from the United States government re- fiori snowing mai me nuge ci-vy ibbt. y. ate had been generally underestimated. Dealers gave chief attention to the fact that the vield this season would be but little abov? domestic requirements and that Knrmvoan fiMuin frreji?fr tnnn ever oeiurw would have to be mainly supplied by the surplus carried over in tnis country iroia last Mnnt nt the cnnfUnuent strain on the market came at the opening of busi ness, but the swirt gams in prices men vbm nnr ninth rilmfniaheri later and in some cases were even enlarged. Opening quotations which varied from 4c to He higher with September at $1.38V4 to $1.41 and December at $1.42 to $1.45, were fol lowed by temporary setbacks from the top side of ths range but In some Instances c finHfHnnsl nntiirnn followed. Advices that the weather In Canada was muggy, and that black rust damage tnere fore would be likely to Increase led after warn tn hicher and hlirher orlcea. For eigners were said to be active buyers both for Immediate shipment and future de livery. The close was excited at 10c to 11C net advaacei with September at tl.444 to $1.44i4 and December at $1.48 to 1 CORN Corn developed Independent strength owing to the Dniusn nature 01 tne government report as to the corn crop. The renort- however, was not necessary so much of a surprise regarding corn as wheat. After opening to 2g2c higher the corn market easea on 10 a sngui ex tent Damage -reports from Iowa tended later tn lift the market hlsrber than before. The close was strong at 11C to 22iic net advance. OATS Oats mounted with other grain. Advances though were not of unusual ex tent. PROVISIONS In provisions, the bullish effect of hieher nrlces on grain and hogs was the chief factor. Nevertheless,, the market kept within normal limits. Chicago Grain Market. The range of prices for grain futures on The Chicago Board of Trads aa reported Py Tnoa. J. Myers. Broker, Columbia! B'd l Chicago, Aug. 9. Clone High Low Today Yea 14444 139 1444 lSS1 148 142 148 M7 153 140 153 141 85 84U R5 8.114 73 71 72tt- 70 76 75 78 74 45 44 44 43 47 47 47- 4'S, 50 50 50 49 2(1.00 25.80 26.00 25.80 25.70 25.00 25.00 Open WFTRAT Sept. ..139 Dec. ..137 May .149 CORN Sept. 85 Dec. 724 May 75 OATS Sept. 45 Dec 47 Mav 50 PORK Sept. ..25.80 Oct .25.00 Kansas City drain Market. fTbe range of prices for grain fntnree OS The Kansaa City Board of Trade as re ported by Tnoa. J. Myers. Broker, Colum bian Bldg.J Kansas City, Aug. 9. Close- Open WHEAT Sept. ..135 Dec. ..137 May ..145 CORS SepL 82 lec. 72 May 75 High Low Today Yas. 130. 128 130 135 Chicago Grain Market, Chicago. Aug. 9. WHEAT Close: Sep tember. $1.42; December. $L48ai.4S May, $1.53. CORN September. 85c; December, 72fd73c; May, 7e. OATS September. 44(gi44c; Decem ber 47 c: May. 50e. PORK September. $28.00; December, $23.05: October, $25.00. LARD September. $13.20; October, $13.20: December, $12.95. SHORT lilBS September, $14.00; Oc tober, $13.72. Uverpoo! Grain Market. Liverpool Aug. 9. WHEAT Spot No. 1 Manitoba. 13s yd No. 2 red western win ter. 13s 6d. COKN Spot. American mixed, 10s 4d. jrais isaln. (By special wire to T .1. Myers. Columbian Bulldlng.J Minneapolis wheat stocks Increased 100.- 000 bushels in the past three days. Elevator fttm of wheat In Kansas City increased 212.314 bushels Monday and corn stocks decreased 24.425 bnsnels. Exports from the I nited States and Can da yesterday were 730.000 bnshels of wheat. 22.000 barrels of flour, 223.0U0 bush els of corn and 1,098.000 bushels of oats; wheat aud flour combined. 838,000 bush els. It was officially estimated August 1 that Argentina had available for export 44 mil lion bushela of wheat. 64 million bushels of com and 28 million bushels of oats. At the aame period last Tear the siirnlnaea were 6S million bushels of wheat, 90 million bushels of corn and 42 million bushels of oats. Stocks of wheat in Chicaa-o elevators in creased 670.000 bnshels last week and now amount to C.8H6.0OO bushels, corn 2.003,0(10 ousneis, increase mvi.uoo bnshels; nsts. 3, 4&5.OO0 bushels. Increase 496.0O0 bushels. A year ago stocks were 686.000 bushels of wbest. 438.000 bushels of com and 158.000 bushels of oats. It is reported that the Australian crop would be fully 35 per cent Jess Uiau last 157 135 142 137 42 147 143 147 S3 82 R3 81 72 71 72 70'Z 7i 74 70 x 79 year nd that any unfavorable t'' .old dd 5 per cent more to the damafraj There Is a great shortage of tonnage, and stocks of old wheat are plied up on ths ground. Kaunas City Prodnee Market. Kansas City, Aog. 9.-VHEAT-1: Market 78c higher. No. a hard, fj-.i' 1.41; No. 3. $1.35ai.40; No. 2 red, tlaut 1.45; No. 3t Jl.33ta l.37. CORN-Market l2c higher. No. 2 mrx d. 8385c; No. 3, 82S4c; No. 2 wnltft 8485V!iC; No. 3, 83c; No. 2 yellow, 840 86c; No. S. K384c. OATS Market lc higher. No. X whits, 4545c; No. 2 mixed, 42H8H5c- KYfi-S1.121.15. HAY Market steady. Choice timothy, S10.SOQ11.00; choice prairie, 98.804i9.00; choice alfalfa. $14.5Gi5.jo. KAFIR No. 3 white, $1.50. BRAN $1.00. SHORTS 1.151.25. WHEAT Receipts 282 csrs. BI TTER Market unchanged. POITLTHT Market unchanged. EUGS Firsts. CLOSE WHEATSeDtember. 91.39UC 1.3!); December, Sl.42; May. $1.40!, (j, 1.47. CORN-September, 83c; December, 72Mc; May, 7Gc. Chfteage Produce Market. Chicago, Aug. 9. BUTTER Market higher. Creamery, 2529c. EGGS Market unchanged. POTATOES Market uuchanged. POULTRY Alive, unchanged. IVew York Prodoee Market, New firmer. York. Aug. Bl'TTER Market Creamery extras, 92 score, 3Sc EGGS Market Irregular. r resn gamer- ed extra fine. 32(33c. CHEESE Mnrket strong. State fresh specials. io4(BiiMiC. POULTRY Alive, weak; dressed, firm. Mew Terr Ssgar Market. New York, Aug. 9. SUGAR Baw, steady; centrifugal, 5.95; molasses, 5.1S; refined, steady fine granulated. 7.257.o5 New Tork Stack Market. Wall St.. New York, Aug. 9. 8TOCK8 Marines led all other speculative favorites during the forenoon trading In the pre ferred stock, winch was suDiect to mncn nroflt taking, fnr exceeding the combined dealings in half s dozen other active Is sues. Marine preferred made an extreme rain of 1 with only a small fraction for the common but Atlantic Gulf and Waat Indies rose to a new high record, unltea States 8teel which was unnsnally dull and a trifle heavy at the outset made some headway later but rails were Inclined to yield, the Harriman, Atchison and aBltt- more ana umo inning unuer yesiernar final prices. Extreme dullness prevailed at midday. Bonds were irregular. Far from being adversely affected by yes. terday's unfavorable crop report the mar ket opened today with a general show of firmness foMowed by a pronounced strength. Munitions equipments. Motors and Mexlcana were materially oecter witn rurtber gains in snipping issnes. inter national Paper preferred added another substantial gain to Its recent advances In connection with tllvidenri prospects, and United Cigar stores ndvanretl 4 polnta on reports of increased disbursement. Indus trial Alcohol rose two points and rails. In cluding Grangers and Pacifies, were meas urably signer. Kansas City Un Stack Salsa. The following sales were made this mora Ing at the Stock Yards Kansas City and reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin son ti Co. Uvs stock co mm last oa mer chants. Kansas City. Aug. cetpts 13.000 bead. Ma 9. CATTLE He- rket: Beat, steady; others weak. H HIS Receipts 14,000 head. Market 10a 15c higher. Bulk of sales, $9.55(310.00; top, smnfi SHEEP Receipts 10,000 head, steady and weak. Market No. Wt. Prlcs.lNe. Wt Mrs, $9.75 985 9.75 8.90 ton 5.50 8.50 18 1518 1 1310 17 .1416 $10.00 17 1402 B.70 9.40 9.40 S3. ,...1199 62 1209 14.... 1248 1 1400 COWS AND HKIFKHS 4.:..' 5 2.,.. 2 .1230 ,100 910 .1175 .1130 6.75 6.65 -4.50 6.00 1: 1120 21 OtiS 1 1180- 6.00 6.00 6.83 1. 6.00 1 9S0 BTOCKEK8 AND FEEDRRR 19. 17. 876 910 TOO 7.35 10. 0 42.. 655 CALVES. 1 2 130 116 10.50 9.00 128 234 10.75 8.50 BOO 4.50 10.C1 9.9S BULLS. ...1410 ...1030 B.75 4.85 .1180 .1006 HOGS. 10.05 I 87 10.00 I 83 9.80 I 83 194 6fl..... 212 07 243 301 168 Kansas City Lies Stork Marks. Kansas City. Aug. 9. HOGS Receipts 14,000 Market 10c to 15c higher. Bulk of sales, $9.75(310.00; heavy. 19 OOto 10.00 pack era and butchers. $9.65l6.00 light, $9.75(9 10.05: pigs. $8.50$i,9.25. CATTLE Receipts 13,000, Including 400 southerns. Market steady. Prime fed steers. fl.004jlo.25: dressed beef steers. $7.fiOCn.o; western steers, ei.oua23; southern steers. $0.00(38.75; cows, $4.7" a 7.50; heifers. 6.0009.50; stockers and feed ers. 6.25(38.00; bulls, $5.2536.75; calves, $0.50(!?11 00. SHEEP Receipts B.OOO. Market 10 higher. Lambs, $1.5002 11.50 yearlings. $'.75i8.50; wethera. $7 .500 8.00: ewea. 17. DO (27.75; stockers aud feeders. $C.0u90O. Chlcase U ntoek Market. Chicago, Aug. 9 HOGS Receipts 26.000. Market atrong. Bulk of sales. 00&10 25; light, $9.80(910.30; mixed, $9 40falo.40; heavy, $9.20010.35; rough, $g.259.45 pigs. $8.0009.00. CATTLE Receipts 17.000. Market steady. Native beef cattle. 0.900,10.45; western steers. $0.0508.00; stockers and feeders, $5 000:7.85: cows and heifers. $3.5019.26: calves. $9.00012.50. SHEEP Receipts 17,000. Mnrket weak. Wethers. $6.7568.25; lambs, $7-500,11.40. TOPKKA MARKET. Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co. I Topeka, Kan., Ang. 8. Steers MIXED AND BUTCHERS $8.50S!45 HEAVY 8.500.9.40 LIGHT 8.0008 45 CATTLE AND HOGS. Good to choice. .$6.50 to 725 Fair to good 6.50 to 6.00 Cows Good to choice $5.(50 to 6 no Fair to good 4.50 to -5 0O Common -to fair. 3,50 to 4.25 Heifers Good to choice $6.00 to 7 00 Fair to rood K m hum Common 4.00 to 4I50 Bulla r."!,y to 6 50 "'"."V; 4.00 to 4.75 Veal Calves Prime fat $7 51) to g o. Medium good a.sn to 7 50 Fa'E VV-L- 4.00 to 6.00 Sheep and Lambs- rat wethers Fat ewes $6 00 to 7 00 5 00 to 6.00 1 nit a n. Fat lambs Shoru lambs snd sheep 2c under above orlccs. (Positively cannot use sheep or lamb an less fat) Butter aS Eggs. Famished by the Beatrice Creamery C. s opeks Kan.) 1 Topeka. Kan Aug S. rmcAnn eggs zSentt" NEW YORK EGGS 20'28e CREAMERY Bt.'TTER-;hlcago 38Ui New York, 30c; Elgin. 28c: Topeka whole. Tepeka Grata Market. Furnished by J. B. Blllnrd. corner Kaa. sas Ave. and Cnrtls St-J OATS340e. K"n- A- CORN 78c. WHEAT $1.12(31.16. Topeka Bay Market, (Varnished by T. A Beck. 212-14 R. etk.1 PRARIE BAT"' Au- Fenltry, Eggs ajisl Itattev Furnished by the Topeka Packing Cost pauy. comer Laurent and Madison I Topeka, Kan.. Aug. 8. HENS 3 lbs and over, lc- under s.. 12c: springs, over I iba.. 18c: dicka gsese. 7c; broilers. X u aa umo.Z i X

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THE TOPKKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 9, 191o RAILROAD NEWS R. R. BUILDER DIES A. B. Stlckney, Founder Chicago-Great Western, Stricken. Was Interested In Many Other Northwestern Roads. TO BUILD SHOPS IN LAS VEGAS C. A. Fellows Given Contract of $150,000 by Santa Fe. Car Shortage Eastern Lines Hold 150,000 Western Cars. St. Paul. Minn.. Aug. 9. A. B Stlckney, founder of the Chicago Great Western railroad, and interested In several other northweertern railroads, died in his home here today. Stlck ney built several of the lines that were later consolidated as branches of trunk line.. Stlckney's son. Samuel G. Stlckney, assistant general manager of the Erie lines; was rushing here today. Another son, Charles A. Stlckney of Chicago, arrived Tuesday. Mr. Stlck ney has lived here since the early six ties. Intestinal trouble caused his death. Mr. Stlckney was born In Wilton, Maine. June 27, 1840. He obtained a common school and academic educa tion In New Hampshire and Maine. He began his career as a school teacher but was admitted to the bar In 1862. From that date until 1869 he prac ticed law. In 1869 he became Inter ested in railroad work and engaged In building and operating railways. In 1871 he organized and built the first section of the Northern Wiscon sin railway, which Is now a part of the Chicago, St. Paul, M. and O. rail way. Between 1879 and 1881 he was su perintendent of construction of about BOO miles of the Great Northern and Canadian Pacific railways. In 1881 he built the first section of the Wis consin, Minneapolis and Pacific rail way and In 1883 organized and began construction of the Chicago Great Western railway. He was president of that road from 1884 to 1909. He was receiver for the same road from 1908 until 1909. Besides his railroad activities he also organized and built the St. Paul Union stock yards and packing houses In 1882. SANTA FE TO SPEND $3"0.000 150,000 Worth Santa Fe Improve ments Awarded C. A. Fellows. Las Vegas, Aug. The Santa Fe railroad today awarded the contract for building a 34-stall roundhouse and shop facilities here to C. A. Fellows, contractor In Los Angeles. Mr. Fel lows' bid was $150,000. Awarding the contract is the first step of the Santa Fe toward building improvements of a mechanical nature here costinar between $300,000 and 1360.000.- The roundhouse, plans and specifications show, will be a model one. It will be built of reinforced concrete. The shops to be erected will be of a terminal nature and will be the largest between Raton and Albuquer que, which are division plants. They will include a machine shop, a black smith shop and power house, besides several smaller improvements, includ lng coal chutes and a turntable. The lob of making all the improve ments will be an expensive one. They will be located on the site of the old roundhouse, and it will be necessary to move the channel of the Gallinas river. This will necessitate a concrete wall 2.000 feet long. F. M. Bisbee is the engineer in charpe of the work Mr. Fellows, the contractor, is well known as a railroad contractor, hav lng done work all over the west. He is a former mayor of Topeka. EASTERN LINKS HOLDING CARS, One Reason Why Western Shippers Face Car Shortage. The American Railways associa tion monthly statement of idle cars, due tomorrow, will, it is said, show rapid development of a car shortage Thi is Holds a soluble powder for making about 50 cups of a delicious beverage that is fast taking the place of coffee in thousands of homes "There's a Reason" Postum, made of wheat, roasted with a bit of wholesome molasses, is a pure food-drink, brimful of the goodness of the grain, and entirely free from the troubles that often attend coffee drinking. If coffee don't agree, use POSTUM It comes in two forms: The original Postum Cereal, which has to be boiled; and Instant Pos tum soluble made in the cup instantly. Made right, both are equally delightful, and the cost per cup is about the same. Grocers everywhere sell WHAT DO CONSERVATION PLANKS MEAN fa s- I hr4J r VANCE w-vi V T 1 iL---------'syMi l lAM Mccormick (MZA ts aiia Just what is meant in the con servation planks of both Repub lican and Democratic platforms will be the subject of Inquiry at a gathering held in Niagara Falls, Au gust 19, 20 and 21. An invitation has been issued to Chairmen William L. Wilcox and Vance McCormick of the Republican and Democratic national committees, asking each to be repre sented by a speaker who can reduce the glittering phrases of the 'plat form makers to a cold recital of methods. The invitation has been issued by Daniel Kiefer of Cincinnati, chair man of the Fels Fund Commission. Conservation planks of the two Jcxty platforms are similar. Repub icans declare for "careful husbandry of natural resources, development Without wste, use without abuse." which will become unusually severo despite crop losses unless eastern linen release western cars more promptly. They have now about 150,000 western cars in excess of eastern cars on west ern lines. RAISE FOR RAILROAD WORKERS. Missouri Pacific Grants Clerks and Stcnos Big Pay Inc rease. An average pay increase of 6 per cent has been put into effect by the Missouri Pacific-St. Louis, Iron Moun tain and Southern railroads in the sal aries of 20,000 clerks, stenographers and others who have been earning less than $100 a month. The wages of section hands have also been increased on the roads. The latter includes sec tion foremen. SHIPPERS MAKE A PROTEST. Want Higher Transcontinental Rates Tabled for a Time. New York shippers are planning to ask the Interstate Commerce Com mission to defer for four months the date when the proposed higher trans continental tariffs, filed by the rail roads, go' into effect. The date now fixed is September 1. The commis sion will hold a hearing in Washing ton August 14, to cor aider protests against the tariffs which would be operative between Pacific coast points and intermediate points on one hand and eastern points on the other. It is said more than 600 protests have been filed. 4-0 ence NX. Daniel Kiefer Democrats ask 'conservation en and development couraging their use and preventing PASS CHILD LABOR BILL Senate Passes Measure by a Vote of 52 to 12. Washington. Aus. 9. The child la bor bill has passed in the senate by a vote of 52 to 12. Prior to this, every amendment was voted down. The most important amendment by Senator Overman, of North Carolina, extended to two years the time when the law should become operative. It was rejected by a vote of 42 to 14. Two Republicans and ten Democrats voted against the administration bill: They were: I Republicans Oliver and Penrose, of Pennsylvania. Democrats Bankhead, Alabama: Bryan and Fletcher, Florida; Hard wick and Smith of Georgia; Overman and Simmons of North Carolina; Smith and Tillman. South Carolina; Williams. Massachusetts. The bill prohibits the shipment in interstate and foreign commerce of the product of the proscribed child labor. Children under 16 are prohibited from working in quarries and mines. Chil dren under 14 are not permitted to work in canneries, factories or mills of any kind. Children between 14 and IS may work only eight hours a day ami only six days a week. POSTUM for PARTIES ASKED R.WlLLCOX both waste and monopoly." "I concur heartily in both planks," says Kiefer, "but what the confer ence would like to know is how the successful party proposes to go about its task. "Our program would be to make the user of natural resources pay the government in full for the value of the opportunity which ihese re sources represent. This would pre vent speculative ownership. In lieu of this payment, we would leave un taxed all mine, mill and farm equip ment, and all product of labor This would encourage development." Kiefer's letter asks each chairman how the objects of his party platform can be accomplished better than by such a course as this. The Fels Fund Commission was founded by the late Joseph Fels. to work for experimental single tax .in America. hIEXICOJEVIVING Shepherd Hears Optimistic Re ports From the -Interior. Natives Rallying to Carranza; Finances Better. BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD. San Antonio, Tex., Aup. 9. Mexico is coming back. It's not a dead rub ber nation; it's got a bounce in It. A summary of the news from the heart of Mexico, gathered during the past three weeks along the border from Americans incoming from Mexi co, shows beyond doubt that condi tions are Improving, confidence in Carranza is growing, the situation is gaining buoyancy, Carranza money Is gaining in value and business is pick ing up. J. P. French, head of the Mexican Sewerpipe company, dis played a telegram in San Antonio to day from his Mexico City office say ing: "Come back. Things going well. Trains running regularly between here nd border." On a Gold Basis. Robert J. Phillippi, American head of the Mexican Asphalt company, has signed a contract for repairing pave ments of '.he capital and work :s go ing on rapidly -He is finding diffi culty in getting enough labor. The payments made to the company by the government are regular and on a gold basis. Alameda park, with its score cf fountains, more beautiful in the United States, is being kept in tip-top shape. Paso De La Reforma boule vard, as beautiful as any in the world, is flowered, mowed and watered as usual. The stores are all open. On a gold basis, Americans eat at the American club, paying the equiva lent of fiiteen cents a meal. Laborers are receiving advanced wages in every line, though prices are not rising. Mines Reopening. "Mexico always starts to bounce back if you let her alone." said an experienced American. "She's doing it now." Punitive expeditions caught Mexico as she was bouncing upward. E. S. Westerup of Monterey, in a let ter, says: "There was less difficulty in the circulation of money, but with news of the raid a chill ran through busi ness." Villa raids, however, with the puni tive expeditions, have been outlived and offset. With mines reopening, with unpre cedented rains assisting crops; with money rising and a presidential elec tion in sight, the outlook for Mexicans in Mexico is better than it has been for several years. TO FLOAT TWO BIG LOAN Three Hundred Millions May Go to AlUes from V. S. Philadelphia, Aug. 9. Further huge American credits are being arranged to provide means to pay in this coun- try for great additional purchases of munitons and other products of the United States, which European na tions are making in tremendous vol ume. There is to be a loa nof from $20, 000.000 to $250,000,000 to Great Brit ain and another of t5O.00O.U00 to Rus- I sia. The prospective big international financing already has passed the pre- liminary stages of negotiations. Vari ous- banking houses today had the I matter broached to them in general terms by J. P. Morgan Co. PREACHERS FIGHT Lead Revivalists to Close Street Against Autos. Meet Police With Bricks, Fists, Clubs, Etc. Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 9. South Main street possessed a serenity today that was little in keeping with the riotous scenes of last night when preachers and policemen punched each oth'er's features and heaved Irish confetti" with an abandon taat took on all the aspects of a successful "Donnybrook fair." Haif a dozen persons, including one policeman, were nursing broken heads today, while another rjoliceman was out of a job, having resigned rather than mix up in the- rough house. William J. Ramsey of Mississippi and M. F. Ham of Kentucky, revivalists, opened a meeting in a tabernacle on South Main street two weeks ago. Police Commissioner Hurdleston, at the instigation of members of the lo cal clergy, ordered that part of South Main street closed to traffic while the meetings were uner way. It Broke Vp the Meeting. Police Commissioner Jamieson, who recently succeeded Hurdleston. last night ordered the street reopened. A squad of policemen carried out his or ders. Shortly afterward, persons at tending the revival complained that passing motorists interrupted the speakers with unnecessary noise. Dr. J. Frank Norris, pastor of the First Baptist church, called for volunteers to close the street again. At the hpad of a score of husky preachers and lay men, he replaced the barricades. Apprised of this violation of his or ders. Jamieson ordered out the re serves to open the street again. Nor ris's little army put up a noble defense but finally succumbed to superior enemy forces after half a dozen per sonsmostly innocent bystanders had been injured by flying bricks and fists and clubs. The meeting was broken up. 0. K. MEXICAN POLICY Texas Democrats Endorse Wilson's Border Management. Houston, Aug. 9. The platform cf the Democratic party as reported by the committee on platform and re solutions provides for the general en dorsement of the national Democratic administration and a specific endorse ment of President Wilson's Mexican policy. Governor Ferguson also was given both g-ineral and special en dorsement. Submission or prohibition was not mentioned. The plank rela tive to the Mexican policy is as fol lows: "In order that thow living in states remote from Texas may know the real feelings of the citizens of Texas upon whose ears the tocsin of war has sounded; upon whose ears the hoof beat of the cavalry horse has fallen; in whose ears the crack of the rifle and the shout of the American soldier has rung in the controversies with Mexico; we the Democrats of Texas are glad of an opportunity to npejily and unanimously endorse the Mexican policy of President Wilson and we sincerely approve the caution, the wisdom and the patriotism which he has exercised in dealing with tin trying and troublesome conditions that have sorely taxed his patience in the conduct of our international and domestic relations wilh Mexico.'" TWO PROMOTIONS. J. L. Robinson and George II. Mini hin Are Moved L'p. J. L. Robinson, secretary to R. J. Parker general superintendent of the Santa Fe system, has been promoted to transportation inspector of the Illi nois division of the road, effective August 7, It was announced today from the general superintendent's of fice. Mr. Robinson's headquarters will be in Chillicothe. George H. Minchin, predecessor to Mr. Robinson, has been appointed train and station inspector, a promo tion, it was also announced. Mr. Minchin's position is a new one, made necessary by the heavy volume of busines?? moving at this time. Minch in's headquarters will be in Topeka and he will report to the office of the general superintendent. Robinson has been in the service of the road about three years. Minchin has been in service about twelve years. VICTORY FOR CARRANZA Three Famous Bandit Leaders Slain In Battle at Jalisco. Mexico City. Aug. 9. Colonel Die guez, governor and military com mander of the state of Jalisco, has reported to the war department that the constitutionalist forces under Gen eral Albanez defeated a body of Vil listas under General Hueso in the Re alito district of Jalisco. General Hueso, General Garcia and one of the Zamora brothers, noted bandit leaders, were slain. The victory is regarded here as a notable one as the Zamora brothers headed what was believed to be the largest remaining body of bandits. The constitutionalist forces are pursuing the remnants of the scattered band. CHARMS BOSSIES WITH RAGGY AIR; GETS MORE MILK Denver, Aug. 9. Ragtime music at milking time is an innovation on 'the dairy farm of W. W. Wilcox, east of Denver. He says the herd shows its appreciation by yielding an increased amount of lacteal fluid. He recei.tly installed a phonograph In one end of the barn. "It serves two purposes," explained Wilcox, a former Chicago man. "It keeps the cows quiet, for the cow has an esthetic, musical temperament; it keeps the men from talking and for getting their work. This constant in terruption from talking anions the men interferes with the flow of milk and lessens the quantity the cow would yield otherwise. "Tho music charms and soothes the bovine soul as nothing else can, and under such conditions she will allow even an ordinary milker a greatly in creased quantity. "1 know she pays for the m-.sic,' SHE IS FOR OLD FASHIONED WIFE AND MANY BABIES Chicago, Aug. 9. Mrs. Charles E. Hughes Is very decidedly interested In suffrage. So is her husband, she says. But would she discuss it? Did she believe in a suffrage amendment to the constitution? Did she plan to Join any suffrage organization Ah. that was different! These are questions which Mrs. Hughes is very sorry she couldn't answer when Interviewed dur ing her stay in Chicago. She smiled, and when Mrs. Hughes smiles it means "no." Still, there are a few things which are safe enough for even Mrs. Hughes to believe in, and she does. Some of them are: Marriage. Babies lots of 'em. Old fashioned, home making wives. Grandchildren. Christmas trees. The Hughes fam ily has one every year. These and other things. Among the other things Mrs. Hughes is en thusiastic about the Republican party. "I am a Republican," she said. "You can quote me on that." LIGHTNINGJS QUICKER Movie Men Foiled In Attempt to Blow Up Old House.. Kew Tork, Aug. 9. A bolt of light ning took its place unannounced on the list of "props" during the making of a motion picture in Westchester county, with the result that Arthur Morvil, an actor, is suffering a broken leg and a retake' has been ordered in the dynamiting scene of "The Crim son Stain." An old farm house In Scarsdale township had been mined by the villain. The hero, whose destruction they sought, had arrived unsuspecting ly on the premises and all hands await ed the director's word, "Camera." The command was given and the villain was discovered lighting the time fuse. Just then a chain of light ning tumbled from the sky and beat the dynamite to It. by ripping out a whola side of the house. CAUGHT THEM ASLEEP Hubby Took nashllizht Picture of Wife and Other Man. Connellsville. Pa.. Aujp. 9. Elmer T. Hart man, after obtaining witnesses, pulled a blind from an open window and surprised his pretty wife and Dr. B. F. Spencer in a house at Dunbar early this morn lng by taking a flash light photograph of the couple as they slept on a couch. "My God, doctor," the wife its al leged to have screamed when she was awakened by the flash. Justice Foltx, aroused from n'.s bed. issued a warrant and Doctor Spencer as arrested on a, statutory cnarge. Today In court he was held in $300 bail. Doctor Spencer is proprietor of a med-cine show which was at Dun bar a few weeks ago. HALE FOR WILSON Progressive Leader Says Hitches Stands for Nothing. New lork, Aug. 9. Acting Chair man Matthew Hale, of the Progres sive national committee, assailed Charles E. Hughes Wednesday and practically declared for the re-election of President Wilson. He said: "Personally, I shall support the Progressive electors in states which they will be on the ballot. Everywhere I shall do all I can to help re-elect President Wilson. He has shown great sympathy for the Progressive move ment. "Mr. Hughes does not impress one as in real sympathy with the under lying economic ideals of the party. He needs the support of Boise Penrose as well as George W. Perkins. His speeches reflect this. "Hughes is not Roosevelt. His lack of tact in dealing with political bosses, his almost brutal way of saying things are peculiarly bad. His experience in handling international problems is an absolute blank. His speeches are filled with denunciations but contain no constructive statesmanship. He does not know what he would, have done or what he would do. "He has to have the support of such extremes as the German-American al liance and Colonel Roosevelt to win. With a constructive policy he cannot beat President Wilson, because the Republican party is so hopelessly split that the only rallying cry that Hughes can use is 'Down with Wilson.' Firelcsss Cookers at Forbes". Adv. SIGNS OF THE TIMES Are the Bright and Attractive Electric Signs That Bespeak Your Up-to-Dateness Our Special Proposition on si?na will interest vou. We sell you an Electric Sign, install it, maintain and operate, provide inspection and lamp renewals for a period of 18 to 24 months at a cost that is prorated on the time of the contract. Our Experts Will Submit a Design for Your Sign Call 4080 and ask for an Expert Electric Sign Artist to call and explain our contract plan and prepare a design f or a sign for your business. THE TOPEKA EDISON CO 808 Kansas Ave. CHIEF F0R PEACE Carranza Would Aid U. S. in Ending World War. Already Has Arbitration Job Waiting at Home. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 9. Don Venus tiano Carranza Is preparing to. nepo tlate with the American government for international peace, with three re volutions on his han-la..' To date, the two most serious are those headed by the bandit. Villa, and Colonel Mariano Tames. General Medina Barron, with 20U followers, is ravaging the Guerrero district, according to reports, but has given the de facto first chief no other trouble so far. From reports received by General George Bell, Jr., here today, it was strongly indicated that "Paneho" Vlllia would soon capture Torreon. He has mobilised his varied bands south of Maplmi, it was declared, and is now moving towards that city. No Carranza troops are opposing the bandit, and Torreon, practically the entire population of which is Vil !ista In sympathy, is eager to receive him. In command of this important itrategic point, Vill:i would prove a -'actor almost strong enough to over throw the de facto government alone. A close watch is being kept by state "epartmnt agents in El Paso on Colonel Tames' movements. While as vet his revolt at -he head of the luarez garrison last week has been the only outward sign of the fresh revolution, it is persistently reported that Tames' movement, tho perhaps premature, in fact, heralded a much more powerful uprising In Mexico which even now is preparing to bral:. Information forwarded by state department officials to Washington tonight placed Tames no more than 50 miles southeast of Juarez with 400 men. He has not been attacked by Carranza troops, according to reports. Ramon Soils, one of Villa's band in the Santa Ysabel massacre, has been captured by Carranza troops near Minaca, according to Andreas Garcia, Mexican consul here, and sentenced to death. Clear Skin Comes From Within. It is foolish to think yon ran gain good clear completion by the use-r' fi.ee powder. Get at the root of the trouble nd thoroughly cleanse thp system with s tspatment of Dr. King's New Life Fills. Gentle and mild in action, do not gripe, yet they relieve the lver by their action on the bowels. Good for young, adults and aged. Go after a clear complexion today. 2.V at ronr druggist. Aflv. Service Station ALL MAKES OF BATTERIES RECHARGED Machinists Electric Co. 108 W. 8th Phone 634 Shellabarger Son UNDERTAKERS Parlors 120-Zt W. 5th St. Phone S71 3D Farm Mortgage Iioans take the worry ont of vaca tions. Try them and see. Invest your sav ings in them we have them In almost an size. THE Ml IUWTCaCE CO- Crawford Bias storage battery 1 Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package oroves it 25c at all druggists. IF3 1 1 1 Habit! f' m 12 S The downfall of f the best, get out -J! of the credit I j habit Pay cash i s at a cash store t 3 and save from $2 f 2 to $5 a month on i -it mm your grocery dim. g it BARGAINS FOR i il TOMORROW Sweet Potatoes, fancy home crown, 4 lbs I for 250 J 1 Watermelons, lb 11,4 White House Flour, 48 f "f lbs ..$1.69 I j Pride Pantry Flour, 48 i lbs $1.59 j I 13 lbs best Granulated Sugar $1.00 6 bars Naphtha Soap I for 25 I I Best White Laundry S j Soap, 8 bars .25$ Best heavy white Jar i Rubbers, doz. .5 :;s Tin Dans, doz xitc 2 Quart Mason Jars, 5 tit doz 47 j f Very best Cider Vine- gls gar, gal. 25 Ft f ;f Our Bread is the best ff 3 you can not bake as S.S j;i cheap as we can 4, 8 and 3 for 10 S S St: Phone your order to j jjjS the nearest Owl. $B W.mm jrxrx mmim Why Not r be paylna; that money into a. home of your own? Pay yourself rent instead of the other fellow. Money to Loan on Hpmes. Repayable Monthly. 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4 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEpNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1916 CTirpeka $tnte 3J normal An Independent Newspaper. By FIIANK P. MAC LENHAN. Entered Joly 1. 1878. aa second-class matter at the postofflce at Topeka. Kan under tlx act of congress. VOLUME XXXVIII .No. 190 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or 'suburbs o- a the aame price in any Kan p:8 town wher. tlie paper baa a carrier svatem Ry mnll. one year VS My. mall, all months J-J By mail. 100 calendar daya -uu TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call S30 and k the State Journal operator for peraon or 'depnrtrrK-it desired. Topeka Stat Journal bnllrtln-. BOO. B01 -and (KM Kr.fiana avenue, comer Eighth. Kew York Office. 250 Fifth avenue. Pan I ftlork. manager. Chleae-o Office. Mailers bolldln. Paul Elvk. manager. Detroit Office. Kreege building. Panl Block, tnanne-er. Boston Office. 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There is no accounting for tastes, but the reputation of th9 people of France for having palates that require the most delicate of viands to tickle surely goes a-glimmering tinder the tlow of the report that they are show ing great partiality these C-.y-i for clewing gum, and the made-ln-Am erica kind, too. Of course, Ameri can chewing gum is as good as any, probably the best in the -world, hut that isn't much to recommend it, at least to the tobacco-chewers. Still If the sweet young girls and the sour old er ones have to chew, perhaps it is just as well that they use sum as a mbstitute for tobacco. Imagine, if 3 -bit please, a peaches and cream com plexion decorated from the ends of the mouth down with stripes of tobacco juice. 1 All seems well with the Deutschland f By far, but the world stands a poor chance of learning of her fate or luck unless she arrives in due time at a home port; Her possible destruction by warships of the Allies might be covered up for publie consumption only at some date In the distant fu ture. Rain would be most acceptable hereabouts but a fairly brisk breeze -such as has been blowing lately from 'the northern points of the compass helps a whole lot. Italy is rejoicing greatly oecause of some recent successes of apparently material proportions that her soldiers have staged in their difficult bouts ylth the Austrians. But it may turn cut that the rejoicing of the Italians is as premature as have been several similar celebrations among the Ger man populaee, notably the one Inci dent to the official announcement In Germany, of now some months ago. that the army of the crown prince had captured Verdun and that the road to J'aris was open again; and also the one that was Incident to the official Announcement in Germany of a vic tory in the sea fight off Jutland that had. wrested the control of the seas from the navy of England. Richard T. Crane, Jr., the Chicago manufacturer and philanthropist, has t-ffered a prize of $25,000 in cash to the physician or scientist who can f tiffer the best cure or preventive for Infantile paralysis within the next year. And the parents of the country are no doubt in a mood to contribute their mites in sufficient quantities to I make the reward a round milltoi, of dollars. Such a cure, or preventive. would be easily worth such a bonus, and then some. Governor Hughes is also showing himself to be as strenuous .a presiden tial candidate as they make em. And there is the fire of a real enthusiasm in his words that bespeaks sincerity. Governor Hughes also has the advan tage of having an administrative rec crd behind him that is as remarkably strong in aeeas as it is in fine words. STANDARDIZING THE FLAG. The American flag is among the old est of national flags, although an or der to standardize it, due to the use of some sixty-odd sizes and shapes of the national emblem in the govern merit departments, was issued as late as last May, writes Kathleen Hills in Leslie's. The American flag is older than .the present British Union Jack, the tricolor of France, and the flags of Spain, Germany and Italy. While the Stars and Stripes have been used since 1777, it was not until October ZS. 1912. that definite specifications ..were drawn up. Further specifics tions were found necessary this year, According to an executive order dated May 29. 1916, the flags and union jacks of all government departments, with certain exceptions in the army and navy, must now conform to these specifications: Taking the hoist, or width, as 1, the fly or length is 1.9, the hoist of the union, 7-l: the fly of the union. .76, and the width of each stripe 1-1 1. There are twelve pre scribed sizes from l.tl feet to 20 feet hoist, but the 19 -foot flag is'to be the standard. The history of our flag in dicates that the army never carried it in battle until the Mexican war In 1S47, though there 1b record of its use cs a garrison flag from about 1787 to 1834. Not until 1884 was the artillery given the right to carry the Stars and Stripes. The cavalry did not obtain this permission until 1887. The Con tinental Congress adopted the Btars and Stripes as a national emblem on June 14, 1777. SPRING VS. FALL PIOWIXG. During the four years out of seven under study at the North Platte ex perimental substation by the experts of the Nebraska College of Agricul ture, there lias been more moisture at seeding time in the first three feet. of spring-plowed land than in the same depth of fall-plowed land. During the three years that the spring-plowed land contained less moisture than fall-plowed land, the difference was practically negligible. The amount of water that can be stored in the soil, according to the Nebraska agricultural scientists, from the harvest period of one crop to the seeding time of the next crop is com paratively small except in very favor able years when the amount of rain or snow during this period is about normal and of such character that there is but little run-off. Under the conditions that, have pre vailed during the last five years in Nebraska, and they are naturally sim ilar to the conditions In Kansas for the same period, it has been found that this stored moisture is ,-aptdly used by weeds and the growing crop in the spring. And so, its is the case with almost everything else, there seems to be two Important sides to the question as to when it is the better for the farmers in this section of the country to do their plowing. GOOD CITIZENSHIP. One of the State Journal's Thomas ccunty friends, E. R. Werner of Brew ster, recently favored this paper with a few general observations on this important subject, which is the basic and vital problem that confronts every free people, and a discussion of which. or an appreciation of Its significance I Is particularly pertinent these days' when the campaigns are on that are 1 incident to the selection of the public servants for the future in the counties, the states and also the nation. Mr. Werner writes: "Would It not he well if we Amerl-; can citizens would Just for one short space of time take a look at ourselves, to see what the fundamental require ments of a good citizen are. Let us acknowledge that we never have over burdened ourselves with too much deep study along these lines, or we surely would not have mado such sad blunders in the selection of our repre sentatives and taw makers. Think of the folly of us selecting men to make laws for us who by their past lives and acts have proven themselves not law abiding but law-defying citizens! 'Bad laws on our statute books are the inevitable outcome of our poor judgment of what constitutes a good citizen. And yet how easy to discern a good citizen, if you just have the key to It- We are ready to give it, and are willing to stand by It and defend it against any and all who may feel dis posed to oppose our position. "The law given to the people of Israel still stands: in addition to It we have received a higher law given to us in the Sermon on the Mount. Can any one doubt that the ones liv ing up to the laws of God constitute the most loyal citizens of any country, by the fact that their citizenship is in heaven, and such being the case will at all times respect the laws of the land they are living in. Buch men and women are the only ones we ought to trust to make 'laws for us, the only ones we ought to trust with any pub- lie trust. They constitute the highest type of citizenship." One doesn't even have to be a Christian, or to believe in the reality ft a heaven to recognize the reason ableness of the mandates set forth in the Decalogue that was passed on to posterity by Moses, or to distinguish the merits of the social laws that were presented by Jesus of Nazareth In His Sermon on the" Mount. They are the fundamentals of all that is rational and equitable In law and order. And there can be no doubt about the qual ity of the citizenship of the people who accept them and endeavor to apply them, as they play their part in the development of the' civilization of today. EFFECTS OF THRIFT HABIT. Thrift is the foundation of charac ter, as R. F. Corry declares in Ameri can Industries for July, and Mr. Corry continues: The employe who learns to manage his personal affairs so that he may save some part of his earnings, win use, alter the habit is once formed, the same care in caving his employer's time and material. As his savings account grows, he becomes in tf rested in his town. The that he has a few dollars in th" bank nnrtn gives him a feeling of security, which in turn makes him a safe man. As his mind is on his work, tbe work im proves and accidents diminish. The man with a bank account is able to stay with a concern during a period of depression, or when the shop has a dull season and ia working only part time. According to statistics, 98 per cent of wage, earners spend t very cent they make between pay nays. As soon as they have sickness or slack time they cannot pay their bills, and as soon as they use up what little credit they have many Jump to a new town, often just when the tide turns and the shop is getting busy. The ar gument is that they owe so much money it will take all their wages for some time to come to pay eld bills. It Is to steady this class of labor that saving should be made easy. If an employer, by the expenditure of a little time for clerical work of some Member of his office force, can In duce and help a percentage of his em ployes to save, is he not securing the nucleus' of a steady class of help men and women who csn be depended cn to stick? The larger their bank account grows, the surer he may be tit their services. If you liad an im portant place to fill and two appli cants for the job, of equal ability, one that you knew had a savings account, and one that you knew had nothing ahead, which would you employ? Would it not be wise to make an ef fort to lift all your employes to the level of your choice? JOUEHAL EMOTES There's also a lot of '"watchful wait ing" for guests to take their depar ture. If time were really money think of the fortunes the loafers would pos sess. The man who won't take "no" for an answer generally wins out either in love or business. A girl is seldom in a hurry to ac cept a man unless she happens to know that some other girl wants him. There are spring postal and fall poets but no human is nutty enough to rave in rhyme over the "delights" of the summer that is 100 plus in the shade. WifHAUE!& JOTS -It occurs to the Holyrood Banner that the dove of peace is a-Weary of crumbs. According to the Lebo Star, few people who amount to much speak every time they think. There may be food for reflection, suggests the Atchison Champion, in swallowing your pride. If the war is responsible for this heat, the Anthony Bulletin is ready to consider peace proposals. Can anybody enlighten the Geneseo Journal? It is anxious to know who has been trying to frighten the God dess of Liberty. As the Galena Republican sizes up tho Mexican situation, or the troubles below the Rio Grande: One thing the matter with Mexico is its leaders, and another thing is its people. Otherwise it is all -ight. Safety first, is probably the local slogan among those present at Rock land, Chase county. At any rate, the Chase County Leader's correspondent there reports: Croquet is the main sport in this neighborhood these days. Comment and advice from the Can ton Pilot: Speaking a good word is like kissing a pretty girl. You want to do it again. Carrying a rab bit's foot in your pocket may bring you good luck, but perseverance and hard work get the mon. The man with a mind of his- own invariably judges correctly the mind of others. He succeeds in his undertakings and time records him as a resourceful man. Think for yourself. An Emporia man, wearing a light palm beach suit with the bold stripe of a sport shirt peeping coyly through the cloth of the second section of the suit, namely the pants, was seen on Commercial street yesterday, reports the Emporia Gazette, and it adds: The false bojom shirt had its day. Now a sport shirt with broad stripes or ongnt stars, Dut with a natural tail. warranted not to shine through a pair of thin trousers, in the perilous light. is neeaea io nil a iong-jreit Want. From the Atchison Globe. During hot weather about nine men out of ten believe they have the hard est job. Regardless of the sympathy directed Its way, the under dog usually gets whipped. Sometimes a man is a good mixer, without being good for anvthinz else in particular. Neither would having time amount to much if you couldn't waste a little of it occasionally. There are different ideas of heaven, but to satisfy a boy there must be plenty to eat Over There. A man who writes so that no one can understand him Is likely to have a large and enthusiastic following. It is all right for a man to go into business for himself, but it isn't any sign he is going to be his own boss. Twenty minutes is a long time to wait for a train, but a very short time in which to get ready to catch one. Quite a number of farmers labor under the delusion that laws are made to give town people the best of it. Mother sometimes does most of the work, because that course is easier than inducing Daughter to assist her. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. IFrom the Philadelphia Record. Pride, going before a fall, doesn't seem to soften the bumps any. Hard work is really the magnetism that gets things coming our way. Joy isn't damaged if you crack a smile, or even If you burst into laugh ter. The people who are at war with themselves don't always respect a flag of truce. We can generally choose our friends. but every man must bow to the in evitable. An expert Is merely one of those unpleasant persons who impress us witn now little we Know. On the sear of matrimony the hand that rocks the cradle shouldn't be the one that rocks the boat- Most of us suffer from financial astigmatism. The size of the dollar deoenda uoon bnw .many we have. 1 SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY EOT K. MOtn.T01f. Some Climate Thla. When T get up 1 dally don My suit of porosknlt; Tbe morning sun is very not, Tbe thin stuff ia quite fit. At 10 o'clock I hurry home Aud do tbe fleece-lined staff Tbe mercury has dropped like lead. The weather's very rough. At noon. I'm sweltering once more, I plainly see tbe cause; Tbe summer aun is out again, I hurry home to gauze.. At 3 o'clock, I'm shivering, I think it'a going tos now; Tbe wind has shifted to the north; Back to tbe fleece I go. I let the furnace fire go out Three times a day, aud then Each time 1 have -to hurry back Aud start tbe thing again. Why Worry. Leave it to the bewhiskered old boys of science, they of the square spectacles and ear muffs, and this world will be pulled through its rather precarious existence. Some time ago somebody who needed the money wrote an alarmist arucie ior a magazine, stating that in a very short time, in fact, within eight or nine million years, the earth's food supply would be entirely exhausted. That set all the scientists going like gyroscopes, and in the dizzy whirl of investigation some very Interesting things came to light. It was up to the scientists to find something for the people to eat eight or nine mil lion years hence, it was not wnony a new problem. Scientists long ago evolved the scheme of sawing up timber into breakfast food and said that a man could go forth with a bucksaw and get enough sawdust out of a fence ra.il to keep himself and his family supplied for some tlme. one learned scientist minus tnat ne has solved the problem for all time. He says that the nut trees could, in a pinch, supply food for the entire world. This knotty question has become a nutty question, and one which he has apparently solved. Those who are on earth now should be of good cheer; they will not have to starve eight mil lion years hence. Very Good, Andy. Notice Mrs. Mehlek, my wife, left me and I don't stand for no credit. If anybody sees her, please let me knew. Mr. Andy Mehlek Pueblo (Colo.) Star-Journal. Consented. 1 I'm glad I'm not in politics: Nobody beaves the festive bricks At me. I go where'er I -want to go Nobody seems to want to know Or see. I say whatever I may like That's wbat I do, ao beip me, Mike. And no one seema to give a bang. Nobody seema to care a dang. They do not twist wbat I may ssy Until it reads the other way. My past life is an open book. But uo one takea the time to look And see what they can find. I am not held up to rebuke; I can make good, or I can fluke, Juat as I have s mind. I've got a job that is immense, I am not burdened with expense Upon election daya. Folks do not yell, "I knew him when I am a private citizen, I have the job that pays. BIBE TALES BY BT7TH CAMSRON. Roderick's Unselfishness. Mrs. Martin came into the room where' Roderick was reading, with a match safe in one hand, the telephone, book in the other, and a much mussed pair of Roderick's trousers over her arm. "Roderick, didn't you say yesterday when Rose wouldn't lend you her ten nis racket that you thought selfish ness was the very worst fault?" she asked. "Yes, I did, and I meant it too." "Do you think you're selfish?" Roderick looked up at his mother incredulously. "Didn't I just save up my money for weeks to buy Rose that toilet set for her birthday?" His voice showed hurt and resentment. His mother laid her hand on his. "Tea, I know, son; you're not a bit stingy, but stinginess is only one form of selfishness, and it was selfish ness Nthat you said was the worst iauit. "This' is the match safe from the bathroom. It isn't a bit like the safe for burnt matches, is it? And yet you keep putting the burnt matches In it. Your father can t see in the dark as well as you and several times he has had to grope his way back into our room because he has tried severe.! matches and found them all burnt. I've told you about this again and again, and you just said you didn't think, and went on doing it." Mrs. Martin took up the telephone book. "I had just a few minutes left after I finished my sewing yesterday to take a walk before dark. I had to make two calls on the telephone first and I spent the whole of that time looking for the telephone book. It was up in your room, where you left It the night before." The trousers came last. "I pressed these a few days ago," Bald Roderick's mother,! "and look at them! Instead of putting them on a hanger, you threw them over a chair when you came in that wet day and now they need pressing again. "If you look in the dictionary, Ro derick, you'll find that the definition of selfishness is 'preferring your ad vantage or convenience before an other's.' When you make Father and the rest of us all that trouble about burnt matches rather than bother yourself to put them in the right place, isn't that preferring your convenience to ours? And when you made me miss my walk because you wouldn't bother to put things back in their places- what was that?" There was a deep red color in Ro derick's face as he bent over his book with a half audible murmur that sounded like, "I don't know." But the next day when Ro derick's mother came in from a walk, she found him in the kitchen bending over the ironing board. "Look here. Mother," he asked, with an elaborate affectation of careless ness, "do you press the cuff, or not?" Too wise to admit that she read any significance into his act, or to offer to helt him. Mn. Martin casualty an swered that it wasn't good form to press the cuff. But that night she did venture to put her arms around his neck and give him a specially tender hug when Roderick came to kiss her good-night. And Roderick understood. (Copy right by George Matthew Adams- THE SPARROW Little bird of dusty brown. Why do yon atay here in town. In tbe BoiMr and dirt and beat Hopping; in tbe dnaty street? Other aotTffatera choose to go Where tbe g-rasa and doTera stow, Where tbe dew la on tbe bill And the abady woods are still Wbere the baby rirera skip. And tbe cool green mosses drip. There tomorrow I shall be! Sparrow, do yon envy me Y Saucy bird, alert and quick. Lingering on atone and brick Little children linger too. Who perhaps are food of you Pale and pitiful to see. Sick and sorry too. maybe. They can dream but never go w oere cjje reros ana aaisies grow. All tbe sultry summer through They will hear no bird but von. Cheap and common, sharp and shrill. Chirping, chirping, chirping still. Picking bogs and crumbs and things. let you uavfs iu jfiit ox wings. They can see yon dart and fly Free and hitrh to tree and akr Only little comrade given wao can.onng mem news or nearenK Sparrow, when I go away. Is that why you choose to stajTT Abbie Farweil Brown, in St. Nicholas, EVENING With Mother Away. (By Louise Oliver.) John Kingsley, fatherly and jovial, sat at one end of the long table; Sophia Kingsley, motherly and com petent, at the other. In between were Mary and the twins on one side and on the other were Philip, Margery and Bob. This story 1, about Margery, Papa Kingsley carved the steak. Said he, putting a large helping of gravy into Bob's mashed potatoes, "Mamma, how would you like to take a vacation?" This unique suggestion produced varying effects upon the family. There were even protests. "A vacation, John! Are you in earnest?" "Certainly I am. You haven't had a real one in ten years nor have I. Grenoline has declared a fifty per cent dividend got my check today and it Just happens I've got things at the office in pretty good shape to leave for three or four weeks. What say?" "Can we go 7" piped the twins. "But, John, we need began mother. "Oh, rats!" John was going to say, but stopped in time to modify it into, "Oh, ciicky! We need a new this and a new that and a million things, but if you keep on killing yourself through hot weather with no rest I'll need a new wife. What say, mamma?" "But," here interposed Margery In consternation, "how can we get along 7 We can't manage without mother!" "Can't? How old are 'you. Mar'' gery "Twenty." "Then I just guess you can manage witnout motner. When you get mar ried .you'll have to manage without her." "But but that's different." And she added indignantly to herself: "And if mother goes away I never, never will get married, for so much depends now on her being here. If I have to pitch in now and work, David Winter will never look at me again." "Mamma, you get ready. I'm going to run off with you day after tomor row for four weeks. Margery can take your place." And as usual, when father uttered an ultimatum, the family had to abide by it. And. mother went! To go back a little, David Winter was recently from Cambridge, a Har vard graduate and already holding a responsible position with an eastern firm of engineering contractor Ha was very different from the native product of Harwich and, needless to say, he had achieved an amazing de gree of popularity. As for the girls, there had- been a regular bombardment of Invitations from them to all kinds of things, and Harwich had suddenly found itself in a mad social whirl that had kept seamstresses and the town caterer de pendent on black coffee In lieu of sleep for weeks past. David had been attentive to Margery trom the first also to Priscilla Hart. who lived Just over the way and was pretty and agreeable. Margery looked after the taxi cab that was bearing her parents to the station with dismay. "Be sure to help Ellen out with the ironing on Tues day" was ringing In her ears. "Don't let Ellen bake the cake on Saturday. She can't get the icing right." and "You'll have to make the beds and get luncheon Monday while Ellen Is helping Mra Doyle in the laundry. "The darning mustn't get behind, dear," and "See that the twins keep their ears clean and don't get thoir feet wet," and so on. How waa she to look her best now at any hour of the day that David might take it into his head to stop his roadster at the curb and run in for a chat? He had come twice In the morning and found her both times in cool, fresh linen, once, writing let ters in the library, another time snip ping roses in the garden. Afternoon always found her dainty and sweet, ready to serve him a cup of tea on the shady veranda or to fling on a lotor coat and go with him for a BPin along the river road. Evening had found her rested and eager for any diversion. She had. in fact, never failed to be at her very best when David had wanted her. But now! Ironing, baking, cooking, darning! She looked across the street at Priscilla Hart embroidering placidly on the front veranda and, as luck would have it, that very moment David stopped his car on the other side and went and sat on Priscilla's stepa "Oh, mother, why did you go Margery half sobbed, as she stepped back hastily from view." Then suddenly the house seemed empty, desolate and barren without the one on whom they all depended, and she realised that she was lonely and ashamed. "I'll do the best I can, mother. You did look tired today," she insisted bravely. And so the next morning found Margery In her working regalia. David rang the bell at 10 and Mar gery, seeing him from a window, an swered his ring In person, without even removing the unbecoming dust cap she wore. "I may as well get It over," she thought. "He's sure to catch me some time, so it may as well be now." David was too well bred to show his astonishment. But she had known that. She also divined that he would take an early leave. He did. "You're busy," he said, rising, "and I must not take your time. Besides. I was Just on my way to the viaduct more trouble with the cement work so I must get along." That afternoon, Margery, weary and pale over a basketful of darning, saw him take Priscilla for a drive. Then she pitched in with a ven geance and worked to forget. She re i solved to have the house spotless when AN UNDESIRABLE CITIZEN I F -vfe4 jiSffe lift 'Pwl ssiisairwrtWiTirririr iri nn .simniiinni f her mother returned. She took down 1 curtains and did them up nerseir, painted shabby floors, made chair cov ers, polished the furniture, cooked de lectable meals and kept the children happy. David came twice in the evening, but she was too tired to talk to him. parties she Lad given up. Then one humiliating day when Mrs. Doyle couldn't come she and Ellen had tackled the washing by themselves. She was out in the yard hanging towels when David came around the corner of the house. "I saw you from the street," he said. "Can't you chuck that and come for a drive "No," she answered, the blood sud denly flaming into her face. Why couldn't he stay away? He did not need to feel under obligations to keep up the friendship. "What's wrong, Margery?" "Nothing. I wish you'd go." "Certainly, if you wish. I wanted to tell you something, though." He lifted his hat and turned away. Margery rushed to her room and sobbed her heart out on her bed. and when the phone rang and Mary Por ter told her excitedly that she had Just heard that David Winter and Pris cilla were engaged, her heart skipped two beats, but she managed to answer honestly enough that she wasn't sur prised. That night, the twins bathed and asleep. Bob, Mary and Philip tucked in and Ellen out with her beau, Mar gery put on a eool white dress, brushed her hair back plainly tnd slipped out to her bench among the rosea Suddenly David was beside her. "May I tell you now?" he asked. "I know it," she whispered. 'What?' "That you are engaged to Priscilla." "But I'm not. The Harts have been very kind to me, but I never thought of Priscilla In that way. It's you. dear, that I want. I am going west in a month and I am going to ask you to go with me. Won't you go with, me, Margery?" Ho did not hear the answer, but he knew he had won. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syn- j dicate. DINNER STORIES Robbie walking across the fields with father, saw a cow for the first time. "What' is that, father?" he asked. "That is a cow," was the response. "And what are those things on her head "Horns," replied his father. The two walked on. Presently the cow mooed. Robbie was surprised. "Which horn did she blow, father?" he asked. Katherine and Margaret found themselves seated next each other at a dinner party and Immediately be came confidential. "Molly told me that you told her that secret I told you not to tell her," whispered Margaret. "Oh, isn't she the mean thing!" gasped Katherine. "Why. I told her not to tell you!" "Well." returned Margaret, "I told her I wouldn't tell you she told me so don't tell her I did." Once there waa a lary servant who wished she was rich. So a fairy appeared and gave her a lamp. "Rub that lamp," explained the fariy, "and you can have what you want' r- But the lazy servant was not Im pressed. "It's Just a scheme to get the brass work polished," she yawned. And so her fortunes remained aa they were.- HOUSEHOLD HINTS Gooseberry Ji-m. To five pounds of granulated sugar add one quart of currant juice. Boil and skim, then add eight pounds of ripe gooseberries; simmer gently for three-quarters of an hour, remove from the stove and put the fruit in a cool place for two daya Bring again quickly to the boiling point and cook until berries are transparent, then pour in glasses and seal. Half the quantities given are sufficient for the ordinary family. The Table. Pressed Beef Leaf Grind two pounds lean beef and five cent3' worth of suet. Crush one-half pound soda crackers, mince one small onion, add piece of butter size of ei?g, one teaspoon salt, one-fourth tea spoon black pepper; to all add two well-beaten eggs. Mold to baking dish and cover with sweet milk; bake one and one-half hours in moderate oven. Cover baking dish. Serve cold or hot. Vanilla Cookies Two cups brown sugar, one cup lard, two eggs, one fourth teaspoon salt, four tablespoons vanilla, one teaspoon soda, flour to make very stiff dough. The more these cookies are kneaded the better they will be- Bohemian Peach Dumplings (boil ed) Take four cups of flour and one teaspoon salt; sift, add one egg, beat in flour, add water to mix dough same as biscuit. Roll out, cut in squares. Put on each tightly together so they don't break open. Boil in salt water twenty minutes. When done take out and cut in half. Take two tablespoons butter, melt, put peach dumplings in this. Very good. This takes the place of meat and po tatoes. You can use plums instead of peaches. When plums are used. id Time Tali B? CLAEA MIS. GARDEN Mr. Garden Toad sat by the puddle the three days' rain had left and primped quite shamelessly. Why should he mind? Wasn't a puddle the very nicest kind of a lookingglass any body could find? And after staying in his shelter near the log for three whole days didn't he need primping? I should sayy he did And he got it, too! And then, be cause Mr. Garden Toad was a tidy lit tle creature, he felt much better. "There now," he said as he settled himself in his green and black coat and looked himself over carefully, "I guess that will have to do for today. And now I'll see after breakfast." As a matter of fact, it was the mid dle of the afternoon, but Mr. Garden Toad always called the first meal of the day breakfast, no matter when he took It. With the hard rain falling all the time, he hadn't had a chance to eat a bite before and he was hungry now, you may be sure. He looked around and up and down but never a sign of a fly did he see. You must re member that the rain had only Just then stopped, and likely the Tiles hadn't started their trips around the garden as yet. "Well, well, well." said Mr. Garden Toad to himself, "this doesn't look like eating to me. I think I'll try somewhere else." And he turned around and hopped up toward the porch. Oftentimes he could find a fine meal near the back steps, for that was where the children always ate their "between meal" sandwiches, and "be tween meal" sandwiches mean crumbs nd crumbs mean flies Mr. Garden Toad had it all figured out He hopped and hopped and hopped till ,he found himself close by the back stepa Then he stopped arid looked carefully around to see what was going on. It was all just as he had hoped it would be. Ned and Mary Jane were sitting there eating bread and sugar sandwiches and a half a dozen great fat flies were sitting on the still damp grate gingercake and sprinkle over them; or cream cheese is good. Flannel Straining Bag Cut a square of flannel, fold it diagonally through the center and sew up one side with a short, strong stitch. Be fore using, dip in hot water and wring out lightly. A Peculiar Well In Florida. In their investigation of the wells and underground waters of Florida the geologists of the United States Geological survey have noted many in teresting things. Among these is a well at Welaka, on St. Johns river, from whieh two kinds of water are ob tained This well is SO feet deep. The length of the casing is 110 feet. The well was first drilled to ISO feet, and from this depth ordinary "sulphur" water was obtained. The drill waa then carried to a depth of S0 feet, where it encountered a strong min eral water, having a disagreeable, salty taste. In order to use both kinds of water an Inner tubing was run nearly to the bottom of the well. Both this and the outer casing were connected with pumps, se that ordi nary water and mineral water can) be pumped at the same time. A favorite joke played on visitors is te give them a drink of the weaker water in the first glass and to replace It with the brine in the second. Not more than half a dosen wells of this kind are known In the coun try, but there is no reason why similar wells can net be obtained In regions where the waters In the upper strata differ from those lying deeper. Reader "Have yon any modern fiction Librarian "No, madam eur books-hsyer bai beep on a six months' trip." Judge. Cuatom in China discourages the photeA graphing of women. TOAD'S MEAL steps waiting for their ihare of tha feast. He hoppol and IxmfKxl and ir.n.t till he found WmZclf V."? bock steps. "Lazy things!" thought Mr. Garden Toad scornfully. "Imasrtne m. sleepy that they .It Tnd wait- TU A'nSVi" a""y h, never fear!" And he hopped nearer. "tol"?; f flew the want to see if it was any ann there and snap! he was gon X! other flew In a circle r Mr a"r. den Toad and snap! he waV on too! Another-well, that's Tjust ?h1 way It waa with every one or .hi..! lazy flies! No sooner did thev than Mr. Garden Toad ate Zm An.?T nTK "rr hihm.m UPk thatnt'e .frtl'. at we?.' ar T th Clara Ingram EiC?- HIS J

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